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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-24

REPORT CONCLUSIVE
Admiral Sicard Says No Further In
vestigation Will Be Required.
COURT OF INQUIRY TO Be DISSOLVED
Rumor That WeyIer is to Be Sent
Back to Havana.
WORK AMONG THE STAPUJNf.
WORK AMONG THE STARVING

KEY WEST. March 24-Rear Admiral
Sicard said to a correspondent last night
that the United States naval court OF in
qIiry into the loss of the battle ship Maine
was not yet dissolved. He added:
Il expect to dissolve II in a few days.
am almost certain that the Washing
ton authorities will not require any fur
tier investigation"
Commander McCalla of the United States
cruiser Marblchead left his ship in the har-
hor yesterday and sailed last night on the
ohvette for Tampa il is presumed his
visit is in connection with the investga-
ion conducted there and here by Capt.
Barker.
Lieut.. Mark Keeps silent.
AT Jackso nville last night Lieut. Marks
attention was called to a published dis
patch, in which he was quoted as say
ing: 1t looks like war; 1t certainly does"
Before the words had been read to him
he exclaimed: 1t is utterly false. 1 have
said nothing of the kind. 4 don't talk
about this matter"
All efforts 10 get him to make any ex-
preston Of opinion were equally futile,
so far as the present crisis or his rela-
tions TO IL ale concerned.
One officer of the police remarked 10 one
member of the party that Florida was
ready to send J0.uo0 men to Cuba when
they should be wanted.
.All right, maybe they will be wanted
down there before lorg" was the reply.
Beyond this expression not word was
uttered that could be construed as an
expression of opinion that war was pos
sibe or imminent Lieut.. Mark was ask
ed if the two officers of the Maine who
passed through Jacksonville Sunday night
carried part of the Maine report. TO
which he replied very significantly that he
could not say, but admitted that two cffi-
GERS were sent from Key West to Wash
ington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-24
RED CROSS WORK.
Miss barton Amrms That II f. Doing
Great Good.


Great Good.
KEY WEST, March 24.-Miss Clara Bar
ton, president of the Red Cross Society Of
the United States. who has just returned
from Havana, was seen last evening in
her cabin IN board the Olivette. She said:
Il wish to say to the whole world through
the Associated Press that the published
statements regarding internal dissensions
in the Red Cross Society. tardiness in sup
plying relief after its arrival in Cuba and
the stories of my own feeble health are
utterly without foundation. Provisions are
reaching the suffering Cubans with COM
mendable promptness. The statements
that my health or mental powers are i'm
paired is cruelty false. The eissenson
emanates from outside and not from in
side the Red Cross
Miss Barton was intensely indignant On
this subject and spoke with considerable
warmth. 1t was the first time in her life,
she declared, that ''derogatory statements"
had been published about her WORK. Con-
tinuing, she said: During the six weeks /
have been in Cuba the condition of the
starving thousands has much improved,
thanks to the generosity OF the American
people. Still, much more remains TO be
done, and it seems hard that work Of this
description is hampered by external criti-
cism and Interference. Spaniar,is, Cubans
and American officials have done all in
their power to help, taking much needed
relief to the sufferers. The impression tl.at
the Spaniards do anything to retard the
distribution of provisions is erroneous /
am returning to my home in Washington
and expect 10 return to Cuba shortly
Another Burial.
KEY WEST, Fla, March 24.-An uniden-
titled body from the wreck of the Maine
which was brought here from Havana On
the Olivette last night, was inferred this
morning. The remains were followed to
the grave by squad of blue Jackets from
the Detroit. Chaplain Royce of the flag
ship New York read the burial service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-24
BLANCO REFUSED.
Sigsbee's Request to Blow Up the
Maine Wreck Failed.

Sfgsbee's Request to Blow Up the
Maine Wreck Failed.
MADRID, March PA seri-official note
just issued says:
AT the cabinet meeting yesterday Senor
Sagasta uhe premier) read a telegram from
Captain General Blanco saying that the
captain of the Maine had requested permis-
sion to blow up the wreck with dynamite,
and that permission to do SO had been re-
fused him.
1.-The cabinet empowered the minister for
foreign affairs (Senor CULLEN to watch the
situation with the view of seeing Justice
done and defending the rights of Spain.
THE minister of finance (Senor Puigcer-
yor) declared the resources were sufficient
for all war expenses until the new cham
bers meet"
The note is absolutely reserved in regard
to the Spanish commissions report on the
loss of the Maine.
LONDON, March 24.-A spec;al dispatch
from Madrid says the Spanish cabinet de-
c.ded yesterday evening to create treasury
bonds to the amount of 200.C00.VD0 pesetas
upon the guarantee of the Bank of Spain
The London agents of the Bank of Spain
say they have heard nothing to confirm
this statement, and they add they would
undoubtedly have heard Of IT had 1t been
effected.
London Stock Market Uneasy.
LONDON. March 24.-The stock ex-
change was uneasy today. The Cuban
crisis arrests business, and the alleged ner-
vcusness in the United States is regarded
as serious. Foreign securities were at a
standstili. easier and closed better.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-24
REGISTER OF THE TREASURY.

Judson w. LyOns of Georgia Selected
by the President.
The President today sent these nomina-
tions to the Senate:
Judson w. Lyons of Georgia, to be regis
ter Of the treasury.
Mahlon N. Garland. surveyor of customs,
port Of Pitteourg. Pa.
Leslie Combs, pension agent at Louis
viii, Ky.
James H Baxter. register of the land
Office at Del Norte, Col.
Arthur Elwood Gregory of New York
to be q civil engineer IN the navy.
War-Ffrst lieutenants to be captains-
Robert c. Van Vliet. 10th Infantry; Eaton
A Edwards. 25th Infantry.
Second heutenants to be first lieutenants
Harry A. Smith. LIST Infantry: Hollis q.
Clark. I'D Infantry: George C. saffarrans.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-24
SITE OF FORT YATES.
bismarck, N. D., Will Present Suft-
able Land to the Government,

nAsHHrck, N. d., VIII Present Suit
able Land to the Government.
senator Ha'isbrough Of North Dakota
was at the War Department today and in
troduced to the officials State Senator Lit
tie and Capt. I. P. Baker Of Bismarck. who
compose the local committee appointed to
come to Washington to urge a change in
the location of the site of Fort Yates. This
post is sixty-ffve miles south of Bismarck
and the citizens of the latter city are anx-
lous to have 1t removed to a size of about
$40 acres within mile or so from Bis
marck.
This site has been purchased by the CITY
ana VIII pc presented to the government
If the War Department will establish th,.
TORT there. Senator Hansbrough says thai
by changing the posi- as proposed the gov
ernment Will save annually $4,000 now ex-
pended for freight, transportation etc
The officials Of the department promised
to give the matter their early attention
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-24
SUMMONED HERE.

An Omcer I'm the British Engfneers
Called Prom Halifax.
HALIFAX, n. s.. March 24-Capt. Ken.
o! the royal engireers. who for years has
been at the head OF submarine mining
operations In Halifax harbor, left for
Washington this riorEing, having been
summoned thither by tele grams from Gen
Montgomery Moore. commander OF the
forces In British North America. who Is
visiting Sir julien Psuncefote the British
ambassador at Warrington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-24
High Water I'm Maryland,
LETTER FROM LIEUT.. JENKINS.
He Said There Was a Mine and Ex
pected Disaster.

special Dispatch to The Evening Star
CLEVELAND, March 24-Mrs. w. H.
Jones of Lima has received a letter from
Lieutenant Jenkins, who went down on
the Inflated Maine in Havana harbor. The
oead officer was a cousin of Mrs Jones
and the letter was written the day before
the explosion. Jenkins said he had lust
made the discovery of a mine and had
notified Captain Sigsbee. He then wrote
to his relatives, telling them of the danger
the boat was in and that he would not
be surprised if the boat was blown up at
any minute. Jenkins body was never
ceived by the family few days ago. The
family decline to give anything else out
regarding the contents of the letter. They
say 1t will all be brought out probably in
the report of the board
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-24

Mrs. Mckinley. accompanied by Mrs
Gary and several ether ladies' went to Bal
timore this morning. She will return this
afternoon. This Is the first trip she has
made away from the city without President
Mckinley.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-24

The Evening Star is the only
afternoon paper in Washington
that receives the dispatches of
the Associated Press. Il is
therefore the only one in which
the reader can find the complete
news of the world, directly trans
mitted by telegraph, up to the
moment of going to press.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-24
Local Pensions.

Pensions were granted today to the fol-
lowing residents OF the District of colum-
bia: William Riley increase from s. to s12;
John Bond. increase from s. to SO; Alice
II. Carr foriginai widow. g: Rachael Edifn
{re-issue)s $8; minor OF Wflfiam Henson, $40
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-24
BOUND FOR KEY WEST.
The Cincinnati ind Wilmington Have
Left Kingston.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, March 2.-The
United States cruiser Cincinnati and the
United States gunboat Wilmington, without
the United States gunboat Castine, return
ed to Port Antonio late last night and sail-
ed an hour later. 1t is thought the war;
ships have gone 10 Key West.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-24
Mr.. WIGHT EXPLAINS
Detailed Statement Showing Necessity for
Proposed Appropriation.

Commissioner Wight today had q confer
ence with Chairman Cannon of the House
committee on appropriations and Mr. Say
ers of the committee. relative to the esti-
mates sent in by the District Commission
eIs yesterday for extending and equipping
the District fire alarm system. AS stated in
The Star, the Commissioners recently and
Unexpectedly became aware that the system
Is neither up to date nor properly equipped
sulnclently to protect In an effective manner
either lille or property, and they therefore
asked Tor an appropriation of $4,000 for the
extension and equipment of the fire alarm
system and 5000 for adding another story
TO the engine house now in course of erec-
ton on Sth street between D and e. for a
permanent fire alarm Headquarters.
Mr. Wight explained to Chairman Cam
non and Mr. Sayers the absolute necessity
nstr,at iUr dne appropriations. stating that the
Dlstrlct Is one OF the poorest equipped
places in the country in the matter of
modern fire-alarm appliances. He assured
the members of the committee that not
until few days ago did the Commission
ers become aware of the inadeuuacy of thu,
system, and submitted the following de-
taileu statement as to the proposed dis
pursement OF the sum of $4,000 asked for:
for the complete equipment of the CEN
tral station system, including provision for
thirty box circuits and ten alarm circuits
equipped with all modern appliances, to
,ake "a tne place OF the present system, which
is incomplete and inadequate, s21, 800.
For the necessary cabinet work for
mounting the same, $1,000. q
Fer ste rage battery system, to take the
place OF . the ne, gravity battery system now
For replacing sixty old fire alarm boxes.
Wnleh nave Dcen worn out, with sixty new,
modern boxes, 5000.
For placing In eighty boxes standard cut
cuts, to prevent their being destroyed by
lightning, or other electrical disturhan ances
81 600.
For one hundred boxes for use In the
9ntiy,ng ts,a,g sub suburbs. which have secently been
eHicky u cxy punt up and in unprotected parts
Gators TO be placed in the engine houses.
- lor recording usually alarms received, to
J., p,soeht s.e any errors In responding to fires,
During last year, hegssaid,. $1,000 was
s.royed ~ ny lightning, and wAich expense
twouid wouid nave been saved had the boxes had
these cut-outs in them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-24
Down the Ohio.

STEUBENVILLE, March 24-The river
has reached forty feet and five feet more II
expected. Fully fifty families along Water
street have moved to higher ground. The
Cleveland and Pittsburg and the Lake Erie
and New Cumberland branch railroads are
covered with from two to five feet Of wa
ter. At Beaver Falls the food in the
Beaver river is within foot of the flood
mark In 1884 and the water is still rising at
the rate of two inches an hour. All fac
tories along the river banks are shut down.
At Sharpsburg the mills are stopped. gener-
ally shut down. At least 800 men will be
thrown out Of employment At Freeport
all the lower part of the town il under, wa.
ter from two to twelve feet. At Tarentum
the town Is badly flooded The Tarentum
and Creighton factories of the plate glass
trust have been entirely submerged and the
damage will be enormous At New Castle
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Continued on Second Page.)
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1898-04-30
the following:

the 1olIowlng:
If stable manure is to be used on the
tomato field, let it be thoroughly rot
ted. Do not, under any circumstances,
use coarse, green manure. I would pre-
fer none at all. Whenever stable manure
is used it should be plowed under in
the fall. It is the practice Of great
many people to dig hole and put in a
shovelful or two of stable manure, throw
on little dirt and set the plant on top
of it. If rank growth of vine and a lot
of green tomatoes are wanted, this
method will be sure to give perfect sat
isfaotion.
cannot recommend too highly the
use Of nitrate of soda in growing tona-
toes, especially where early ripening is
desired. When used at the rate of $50
to 175 pounds per acre and in connection
with wood ashes, the total yield of
early tomatoes will be very largely in
creased. A larger quantity of nitrate
will increase the yield of fruit, but at
the expense of the net profit on the crop.
However, great care must be exercised
in the application of nitrate Of soda to
any plants and especially to the tomato.
It should not come in direct contact
with either the stalk or roots.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1898-04-30

ration Tor the TOBACCO crop. neanalys1s
of perfect tobacco fertilizer should be
10 to IL per cent potash, 8 per cent
phosphoric acid and 4 per cent nitrogen.
1t is quite an impossibility to get this
analysis outside of mineral fertilizer.
Some of my hearers will raise the OBJ
lection to the use of commercial ferti
lizers on tobacco that it will be thereby
spoiled in quality and more particular
ly cigar leaf, tobacco. 1t is said to ruin
it's aroma, make it's burning qualities
inferior and give it IA poor texture, all
of which l hold to be entirely erroneous,
but with this qualification-if you
apply the mineral fertilizer today and
tomorrow go to set out the plants the
result will in that case be disastrous,
and good quality cannot be produced
under the circumstances. want to en-
phasize the necessity of having all min
eral fertilizers applied to the soil six to
eight weeks before planting time.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1898-04-30
Growing Tomatoes.

''If good crops of any kind are to be
secured, begin with the plow. If you
have only two days in which to prepare
your ground and put in a crop of toma-
toes, by all means use q day and n half
in preparing the soil. Make it fine; pull
verize it. Keep the harrow going as
long as your conscience will let you.
and then harrow some more. II the
dirt is lumpy, roll it, then harrow and
just before setting out the plants go
over the land with weeder-one of the
most valuable machines yet invented.
1t leaves the land smooth and fine. OF
course in garden the hand rake an
swers the same purpose as the weeder."
With this preface writer in The
Orange Judd Farmer presents some
isleas ON growing tomatoes, among them
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1898-04-30
Bees and Peaches.

The Florida experiment station iso-
lated two peach tres-s. exposing one to a
colony of bees during Towering time
and preventing all access by bees to the
other. Both trees set their fruit prop
erly, but the one to which bees had no
access dropped it's fruit when the stone
was forming, while the other retained
and matured it. Score another one for
the bees. American Bee Journal.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1898-04-30
Fertilizers For Tobacco.

The following ideas, differing from
accepted standards, are from a paper
read before a Florida convention and
reported by The Florida Farmer:
Some of our prominent tobacco grow
ers believe implicitly in Peruvian guano,
cottonseed meal or barnyard compost
for this crop. Now, while 1 should hest
tate in calling in question what has
been and is being largely used as gen.
eral fertilizer among a good many of
our oldest growers, we cannot get around
the fact that none of these mentioned
can supply PERFECTLY balanced plant
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1898-04-30
Peas and Oats.

Canada peas and oats are frequently
sown together for hay, but cowpeas and
oats never. It would be perfectly i'm
practicable to do SO. These southern
peas are really a very tender bean and
should not be sown till the ground is
hot in June. Then, if the oats are sown
afterward, the result would be no oats
at ALL for the cowpeas would simply
smother whatever weak growth they
would make at that time. We are so
often asked about sowing cowpeas and
oats together by those who have heard
of peas and oats for forage that we want
to call attention to this fact. We have
grown a great many acres of cowpeas
and have seen many thousands of acres
growing and have never yet seen cow
peas and oats mixed, though we have
grown the Canada field peas and oats
successfully mixed, both being hardy
plants that can be sown at the same
time. If the cowpeas are sown at the
time when the oats would thrive, they
would simply rot in the ground, and if
sown when they should be there would,
as I have said not be the slightest
chance for the oats sown after them.
There is no hay easier to cure than
that of the cowpea, if properly done, by
partly curing in the windrow and cock
for day, and then putting in tight
NOW and keeping shut up tight till the
curing is completed. This method of
curing by storing when still green and
limp is becoming more and more COM
mon in the south. and it saves all the
leaves in the best manner, if the farmer
does not get scared when the mass
heats for heat they will very hot, but
if let alone they will cure perfectly,
while if turned to cool they will mold
badly. Sow Canada peas and oats to-
gether, but do not waste time trying to
get a hot weather plant and cool
weather plant to grow together, for they
will not do it, writes w. f. Massey in
Country Gentleman.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1898-04-30
Smut In Oats.

The annual loss from smut in the oats
crop of the United States is estimated
at from to 10 pcv cent, and yet the
disease and the loss it causes are easily
prevented. The Jensen hot water treat
ment, which consists in immersing the
seed oats in water at a temperature of
1873 degrees (not lower than 1872 and
not higher than 1850 for ten minutes,
gives clean seed that will produce a
clean crop When the disease can be so
easily and cheaply prevented, it seems
very unwise to SOW seed that contains
it, remarks an exchange
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1898-04-30
LATE COTTON PLANTING.

Preparing Beds and Working the Crop.
"On poor land cotton grows more
slowly than on rich and necessitates
earlier planting to insure full maturity
Of the plant. On very rich or highly
MANFRED land the crop may be planted
later, rapidity of growth making up for
delay in planting AS evidence of this
The Southern Cultivator mentions the
good crops made on the overfowed land
of the Mississippi bottoms, also the high
yields obtained some years ago by the
late Mr.. Furman near Milledgeville,
Ga, by high manuring and late plant
ing, sometimes in fields from which
oats had been harvested. One advantage
of such late planting is it practically
saves one working. With a rich, warm
soil and hot sun the plant springs up SO
rapidly that dirt can soon be thrown to
it and grass destroyed without using the
hoe to any extent.
The Cultivator further says: It is
best that cotton be planted on low beds
beds just high enough to allow good
drainage in heavy rains and to allow
dirt to fall away from the plants in the
first working. High beds by increasing
surface increase evaporation and cause
land to lose moisture too rapidly. But
as it is very desirable to have a fresh.
clean surface when seed is planted it
is good practice to throw up somewhat
high beds and drag them down with a
harrow just before planting. This kills
young grass and weeds on top of beds
and covers up such as may be in the
middle
When late planting is adopted and
the land has been we'll broken and not
impacted again by heavy rains, rows
may be run off and low bed quickly
made by long, wide heel scrapes One
furrow with such pillow on each side of
drill furrow will complete bed. It is
always important to economic labor,
and on light soils or those we'll broken
this scrape bedding is quite saving Of
labor as compared with bedding with
shovel or turn pillow, as was the general
practice some years ago.