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Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02

The German government wants the
250. 0000.00 marks which are 10 be
spent in the next few years in enlarg
ing the fleet to be voted early enough
to complete all the new vessels.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02
Japanese Fiocl.ing Into Hawaii.

An official report from United
States Inspector at Honolulu asserts
that - coo Japanese have arrived since
the islands were annexed To the United
af
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02
DUBOIS SPEAKS FOR SILVER.
Denio, That the Free Coinage Question
l. Dead Issue.

Senator DGboiS. chairman Of the sill
yer republican executive committee.
says his party will meet in national
convention at the same time as The
democrats, and he denies that 1G to 1
is dead issue.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02

Atty.-Gen. Hicks of Wisconsin has
given an opinion on the anti-pasa
law. in which he holds that no state
officer can accept free transportation
from any railroad outside the state.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02
synod Of Reformed Church.

At the meeting Of the general synod
of the Reformed church the Doard of
foreign missions reported having liq
Undated all debts and the board of
home missions reported liquidation
of $4,000 debts.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02
Don Emilio CasteIar Dead.

Senior Don Emilio CASTELAR,, the dis
tinguished Spanish republican orator
and statesman. who has been suffering
from an attack of pulmonary catarrh
contracted last winter, Is dead.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02
To Discourage Horse Thieves.

Horse thieves in southern Michigan
and northern Indiana counties have
become so daring that movement is
on foot to organize an anti-horse-thief
GERS of the law
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02

Think Further Parleying Useless.
President Mckinley is said TO be con-
WINGED that further parleyng with the
,';lipinos is useless, and that they
must be whipped into submission.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02
Russia Shows Her Ierth.

Russia has refused TO accept the Chi
nese refusal of a railroad concession
survey line TO connect the Russian
Manchurian railroad with Pekin.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02
Flaw i'm Antitrust Law.

The Texas antitrust law. which was
so carefully drawn to avoid flaws, is
now said to be in violation OF the fed
eral patent law.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02
WILL Vote for henderson.

Congressman Henderson of Iowa
will get the vote Ct re united WiscOn
sin delegation for speaker. 1t Is as
serted that Minnesota, Michigan and
Ohio will follow suit.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02
VIII Senaratr in Iune.

The delegates To the peace confer
eEce will separate about the middle c.
June. TO enable them to receive fresh
instructions from their governments,
and will meet again in September.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02

1t is asserted that the American line
steamboat Paris. wrecked on the south
coast of England like the Mohe-
gan. was drawn o2t CT her course 10y
magnetic influence.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02
pro,os.d Monument 70 Dewey.

movement is on foot at san Fran
cisco TO erect a 500 000 monument to
commemora deeds of the American
navy. especially the victory of Admiral
DpwpV
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02
Severe Drought In Roumania.

The continued drought throughout
ROumania has seriously affected crops
and unless rain comes quick; farmers
viii hardly save more than seed by the
labor OF spring and summer.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02
Loss win Reach ST. 900. 900

COney Island, New York. suffered a
81 900 600 fire May 81 Eight blocks
of buildings were destroyed and foul
persons were injured
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02
ReDorts of Friction Denied.

The reported quarrels between the
peace commissioners and Gen. Otis,
and the threatened return of Gen. OTIS
10 this country because of President
Schurman's interference with his plans,
are HnTrrP
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02
Does Not Wanf in.

Secretary of Agriculture Wilson de-
MES a report that he will be a candi-
date to succeed J. H. Gear as United
States senator from Iowa
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02
Knsl ISOnLcur Is Dcad.

Rosa Bonheur. the famous French
animal painter. who has been suffering
from an attack of congestion OF the
lungs. died. aged II years.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02

The combined strike and lockout in
Denmark has developed into the most
serious labor trouble ever known in
the peninsula. Forty thousand men
are ont Of work
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02

Gen. Otis says the campaign asainst
the Filipino insurgents will be prose-
cuted with the utmost aggressiveness
during the rainy season.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02

The Rev Nj Francis, pastor Of The
Bri'ish-American church in St. Peters
burg writes that c2000 900 IS requi-
site to keep the starving people alive
during TIE three months to the next
harvest.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02
Session Of Womeu's Climbs.

The big biennial convention of the
General Federation of WOmen's Clubs
will be held in Milwaukee June 4 to 8
inclusive, next year.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02
Penrose Eulogi,es tie President.

United States Senator Penrose OF
PENNSYLVANIA expresses himself as
approving the administration Of Pres
ident Mckinley. and thinks he should
be renOminated.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02
Novak's Sentence Is Confirmed

The Iowa Supreme court decided that
Frank A. Novak must remain in the
penitentiary for the rest of his life as
eXpiation for the sensational murder
of Edward Murray.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02
Recruis Sail June :,

Two thousand recruits now at San
Francisco for regular regiments in the
Philippines will sail on the transport
Sheridan, June Z, for Manila.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02
SIX THOUSAND DEATHS.
Adjt.-Gen. Corbin Tells the Cost of Qua
War with Spain.

Adjt.-Gen. Corbin gives out this
statement Of the deaths which have oc-
CURED in the army since the begin
ming of the war With Spain: In Cuba
1899; in Porto Rico. 2S7: At Honolulu
40; in the Philippines. &c: in the
United States. 3.S72: total. G2j9.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02
SAY LARGER ARMY is NEEDED.
Additional Hcinforccments Must he Sent
to Gen. Otis.

The events OF the past week have
emphasized the need of a much larger
army in the Philippines. withou; which.
according to the best authorities in
Manila. it would be attempting the
impossible to expect to establish Amer
lean supremacy in the islands.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02

Gov. Sayers of Texas signed the
antitrust bill passed by the present
session of the legislature. The meas
ure will probably be enacted into a
law tv all the southern states.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02
RumOr Of AguinaldO's Death.

The Spanish newspapers at Manila
publish report, which is impossible
of confirmation, to the effect that Az
uinaldO Is dead.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02

The bridge supplied to the British
government by an american firm for
crossing the wide mouth of the Atbara.
in the Sudsn. is rapidly being con-
structed and will be we'll under way
before the Atbara floods come down in
toric as an important link in the long
chain OF communication between Cairo
and the Cape the most extensive rail-
way in the world The plan to give the
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02

Notwithstanding all precautions.
physicians predict an unusual preva-
lence of typhoid in Dawson City this
summer. owing to the accumulated
filth of winter.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02
President VIII visit Minnesota

President Mckinley has positively
decided to go as far west this sum-
mer as St Paul and Minneapolis The
date of his visit is not decided upon.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02

bridge a special and appropriate de-
sign had TO be abandoned when Eng
lish firms wanted months to complete
such a structure. while American firms
offered to turn out one of their own
pattern in many weeks. 1t was neces-
sary that the piers be laid at once.
These piers are now ready for the SUI
rerstructure, and seven spans, each $50
feet in length, have been already
landed in Egypt and sent up the Nile.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02
HEAVY FIRE LOSS.

Half Million Dollars Worth of
Property Consumed at 81. John. y. Is
Fire at ST. John, ~ b.. did enor<
nous damage A leading underwater
estimates the loss at $500. 600 and the
insurance at 100000. The area
burned over comprises fifteen blocks.
or portions Of blocks. and the buildings
destroyed number $50. Two lives lost.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02

Volunteer regiments are gradually
being withdrawn TO Manila, leaving
regiments of regulars to guard the
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02
German Exporters Are Protesting.

German exporters are insisting that
a rev tariff agreement more favOrablo
to German exports be arranged with
the IT tied States alone.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02

Gen. Reyes. leader of the late Mica
effects of an attempted assassination.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02

Annual Assembly Will Meet Next Year

at ST. Louis.
The 111th annual assembly of the
PRESBYTERIAN church adjourned May -,
to meet next year in St. Louis.
The accounts of the trustees of the
church showed $Sl0,ti7.i2 in their
hands, an increase of s126, % since
n year ago.
The world., 1899-01-04
THE MIDDLEMAN'S PROFIT ON
COFFEE

(F'rom the Country Gentleman
Our people pay too heavy tax to
the middlemen. Coffee is very much
cheaper than formerly, as imported,
but not to the consumer The import
er, jobber and retail dealer take too
much toll. Families buying the finest
grades roasted have paid 95 to 9S
cents, in some cases 40 cents, for 20
years past. Some dealers sell cheap"
coffee, and it is generally adulterated.
Others sell manufactured swindle,
nodded in the form of coffee berries
and mixed with the genuine What
gall is required for such rascally i'm
position, when opportunities for ex-
tortion in high prices are so readily
submitted to by easy-going consum-
ers Do people know that the 61,-
552,576 pounds imported in Septem
ber cost only $3,135, ,493, or a little
more than cents per pound? In
September of last year it was only
about cents, and not many years
since more than twice as much. For
nine months our imports lave been
GIL, 1898 pounds. In 1899 coffee i'm
ports may cost $60,000,000, but con-
sumers may pay a hundred million
more. The time will come when some
plan of effective cooperation to save
the exorbitant charges of middlemen
will be forced upon the consumers.
The world., 1899-01-04
ABOUT DIVERSIFIED FARMING.

Anent the discussion of diversified
farming, which is at present agitating
the newspaper world in the wheat
growing sections of this state, we
wish to call attention to the moral
side of the question. For the sake of
illustration, let us suppose that hop
growing were universal in weste, n
Washington. At a certain season of
the year, this industry calls for a vast
army of laborers. In order to secure
them, prices above ordinary wages
must be paid. This attracts the float
ing population from every contiguous
district, including an army of vagrants
many of whom are criminals. When
the hop season is over, this army is
turned loose upon the community,
with no means of support. The small
sum saved from the short seasons
work is not sufficient to support them
through the winters idleness even if
they were frugal, which they are not,
as a class. The winter season, and N
fact most of the year until hop picking
begins again, is spent in idleness,
which breeds all forms of vice. Such
a system of farming does not make a
community in which it is desirable to
five. Even the farmers themselves
are little more than spectators, and
very often have the feeling that their
present abode is only temporary. On
the other hand, where live stock is
kept and a variety of crops is grown,
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months, and the roads in winter ar"
not navigable. The slush in them is
not quite deep enough or thin enough
to permit of navigation by boats But
it is ample to prevent ordinary travel
by wagon. Hence it is absolutely
necessary that the farmer haul his
grain to market before the winter sea-
son sets in 1t is not necessary, how
ever, that he should sell it at that
time, as every railroad station in the
grain producing sections is provided
with warehouse room for the grain
grown in it's immediate vicinity 1t
would be desirable for farmers to own
these warehouses, and in some cases
they do. But too often farmers can
not hang together sufficiently to Sc
cure the advantages of ownership If
their own warehouses. When the Pa
cific coast states are threaded by a sys-
tenn of roads capable of carrying
travel at all seasons of the year, it will
then pay farmers TO provide means of
storing their grain at home until they
are ready to sell.-Ranch and Range.
The world., 1899-01-04
HOLDING THEIR WHEAT.

A large proportion of the wheat
raised in the Inland Empire still re-
mains in the hands of the farmers, or
rather is stored by them in local ware
houses, awaiting a rise in prices. In
reporting a small sale of wheat at Pen
dleton a newspaper correspondent
calls attention to this and gives the ex-
PLANTATION for present low prices. He
says:
Eleven thousand bushels of wheat
sold in Weston constitutes the only
movement of grain in this county for
many weeks past. With several mil
lion bushels held in the warehouses,
or shipped to the seaboard and held
subject to future selling orders from
here, week after week has slipped
away with absolute stagnation in all
local markets. Quotations have been
merely nominal, and meant nothing
more than the local price figured IN
the basis of export valuation, which,
in turn, owing to lack of business, is
merely nominal.
The small lots sold at Weston be-
longed to numerous farmers VINO
wanted q few dollars with which to
make current purchases during the
holiday season. They received 40
cents per bushel. Fifty cents for No.
1 Club, standard Se,,t (5S to SO lbs), is
the figure the farmers demand and
have demanded throughout the season.
Wheat men here learn from the sea-
board that ocean freights have again
advanced, this time jumping to As
shillings pence, the highest charter
mark yet reached. Such ocean carry
ing rates work as absolute prohibition
on the movement of wheat Liverpool
remains statioary, or nearly so, while
freights move upward, each upward
movement cutting off just so much
from the valuation of the grain on tAe
Pacific coast. Prevailing ocean rates
are at the very least II cents bushel
higher than the average of former
years. This was figured out in plain
manner by one of the best posted
wheat men on the coast today. To
day wheat is worth only SO cents in
PendletOn based upon that export val
uation.
The world., 1899-01-04

land, Canada, Egypt, Cape Colony,
China, and many other sections of the
earth, she buys from the producer at
first cost and sells the great surplus
manufactures of her furnaces, mills
and factories. The Philippines will be
our great center of distribution. we
are nearer them now, from our west
ern coast, than Europe. When canal
across the Isthmus is completed, we
will be several days nearer than Eng
land.
The dawn of a new civilization is
just now breaking in the East, and IN
the near future the demands for our
manufactures will be manifold great
er. If we do not hold on to what is
now within our grasp, other nations
will take them, and our producers and
workers will be the sufferers there
by.
Our colonial trade will stimulate
ship building, railroad building and
car building; and this, in turn, VIII
call for immense supplies of raw ana
manufactured materials, from steel
plates and rails down to the finest RAD
RIGS. When the sources of supply are
in full operation, then our farmers
have their day of prosperity; since
the United States, when prosperous,
furnishes the farmer his nearest ana
best market.
The addition of so many dark ana
mixed races to our populatein, VIII
enlarge the scope of our usefulness
and enhance our opportunities for at
tanning to spheres of usefulness, hon
or and wealth, along commercial, ar
tistic, scientific, political and literary
lines. expect to live to see the day
great generals, merchan princes
bankers, railway magnates and others
belonging to our race will be evidence
in our new possessions. White peo-
ple go out into the world in quest OF
land, money and honorable places;
they get them and hold them; why
canno. we do likewise? 1t will give
employment to many of our young
men as soldiers, also, and create de-
mand for commissioned officers, now
only in it's inception.
We own Pureto Rico by conquest
Hawaii by peaceful annexation; Guam
by conquest; the Sulu Islands py
The world., 1899-01-04

treaty; and the Philippines by both
conquest and purchs Sc. Their present
state of CIVILIZATION is low. Our inten-
tions toward them are good; and, in
asmuch as ignorant and half civilized
people (like some children) do not al
ways know what is for their welfare,
we must, constrain lem, for their
own good.
by any question of state rights, in her
Territories, can and will intervene for
the protection of personal and prop
erty rights.
The war now being waged in the
Philippines is of the Filipinos' own
seeking, and the olive branch is now
and has been from the first, extended
to them. They can except peace and
live in peace and happiness or con-
tinue to fight and die.
There are worse things than war.
Gen. Sherman says: War is hell.
This is no fiction, II is true; but, there
are things worse even than war. | re-
fer to physical, intellectual and moral
slavery. We will give the Filipinos,
for peace, physical, intellectual and
moral regeneration. We will give
them that light whic-- men in dark
ness most need.
JOHN P. GREEN.
The world., 1899-01-04
BIG GUNS FOR SOUND FORTS.

Five 12-inch moTtars have arrived
in Seattle consigned to the officer in
charge of the Notifications at Fort Ca
sey, Admiralty Head. The guns are
of the latest pattern. They were first
tested at the government proving
ground at Sandy Hook. The freight
on the shipment was over $21 900 On
their arrival here capt. Robinson, Jr.,
assistant quartermaster, forwarded
them to the officer in charge at Fort
Casey Capt. E. E. Caine was award
ed the contract for taking the gund
down the sound and his steamer the
Rapid Transit, with barges, conveyed
the big destroyers to their destination.
Eight carloads of mortars and their
carriages anr en- route to Fort Wilson,
and will arrive about Jan. 1st. The
Notifications at Fort Wilson when
completed, will make a chain of forts
at the entrance of of Puget sound
Forts Flagler, Fort Casey and Fort
Wilson-the three forming a triangle
of impregnable defenses in the opinion
of the government engineers.
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provided with proper shelter and
yards; the laying hens being separ-
ated from the younger chickens, and
every other Gay one lot is turned out
to forage while the other is kept in
it's enclosure Not only does these
chickens supply the table with meat
and eggs but they are a material help
toward paying the grocery bill. Two
pens of blooded hogs are kept and the
animals are principally fattened on
unstable fruit-that which otherwise
would be left to rot. Hogs being fed
for immediate killing are kept on KAT
fir corn a few weeks which puts them
in fine condition for the smokehouse;
artichokes are also fed, which like the
corn is also raised on the premises,
so that nothing is bought for the hogs.
A portion of ground is devoted to to-
matoes, asparagus and general family
vegetables, and one or two milk cows
are kept. 1t can easily be seen that
on such ranch everything is not de-
pendent on the yield of the orchard
or price of fruit Besides everything
is systematized and careful accounts
kept of all receipts and expenses"
There is nothing that livens up soil
quicker than a clover crop. We would
rather have one good clover crop prop
erly managed than a dressing OF
barnyard manure to give life and pro-
ductiveness to the SOIL says the agri-
cultural journal. And its effects will
be more enduring as we'll. Too few
of us properly appreciate clover as
soil renovator.
The world., 1899-01-04
CROP ROTATION IN PALoUsE.

In a recent interview with q Spo-
kane newspaper man E. A. Mcdonald,
state dairy and food commissioner
discussed matters OF interest to the
Palouse section and placed himself
on record as strongly in favor of the
system of rotation of crops, which
practically necessitates the raising
of cattle for the disposition of the fod-
der crop grown alternately with the
wheat. Touching upon the dairy in
dustry in this connection he said:
"The Palouse country is undoubt-
edly not so good for dairying as the
Kittitas and Yakima valleys, and the
region west of the Cascades, as these
sections have longer time for graz
ing and a greater rainfall. The diff
Guilty with the Palouse is that it is
not a natural grass country, so that in
stead of feeding the COWS timothy,
clover and alfalfa, they have wheat
and oat straw. Nevertheless the only
salvation of the PalOuse country is di-
versified farming. The question is
far more serious than many of the
farmers realize, as they will find to
their cost before many years unless
they stop the impoverishment of the
soil by continual wheat crops By
judicious rotation of crops the fertil-
ity can not only be kept up, but in
creased; but as it is now the farmers
are planting wheat year after year
until very soon the grain will be found
to be deteriorating and the soil will
eventually give out altogether.
Some most successful and import.
ant experiments have been made for
some years with Russian forage grass
| (BrOmus Inermus) by a Mr.. Amos of
Colfax and these experiments have
demonstrated that the new grass can
be used with the greatest success for
this purpose, and also that it will
grow with little moisture and on pla-
ces where wheat will not, such as the
scab lands of the Palouse, large areas
of which can thus be made of use.
Thus l believe that dairy farming
| can be successfully combined with
wheat farming by practical farmers
| all through the Palouse, and that it
will improve the country and estab-
| lish feeling of greater security
among the farmers and merchants"
Ranch and Range.