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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-08-23

Well-tO-dO, are now rich. All last fall
sales were brisk. Then came lull
of two or three months when the grass
was poor and stock lost weight. With
the coming of the spring the market
reOpened and has been lively ever
since For four months or so sales
and shipments have been regular, I'M
til last week one hundred thousand
dollars worth were marketed in few
days. The climax was reached this
week when the sales reached the eX-
traOrdinary total of over sixteen thou
sand head of stock and beef cattle,
aggregating in value the large sum of
nearly two hundred thousand dollars,
making over a quarter of a million dol
lars worth in a fortnight, and this af
ter years steady sales. 1t is not far
from the truth to say that about half
a million dollars worth of cattle and
hogs have been sold off this range
Turing the past year. And there are
plenty of cattle left.
No wonder the county is prosperous.
No wonder the stock industry is at
tracing eager attention. No wonder
the Kissimmee Valley vies with the
most fourishing parts of the State in
the brilliancy of it's future. With such
profitable cash product we can we'll
afford to accept the blows of treach
erous climate philosophically. Beef is
safe from Freezes Valley
Gazette.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-08-23

will control the whole industry. Inc
law does not prevent a person from
manufacturing in Japan or from I'M
porting American or foreign tobaccos,
manufactured OF otherwise; but with
the 100 per cent. duty it would be
impossible for him % dispose OF MS
goods in competition with the Reggie.
The change in the laws will probably
have a depressing effect on the con-
sumption of tObaccOs at first, but this
will be only temporary. Then the de-
mand for goods made from American
tobacco will continue to increase. Mr..
Sasaki and myself will probably re-
main in this country a month or two,
and then will continue our investiga-
tons in Europe While in America we
will spend the most of our time in
Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina
and the other tobacco growing Sec
TONS"
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Japan to Control Her Tobacco Trade.


Japan has sent two of her govern
ment officers to this country to study
the tobacco business of the United
States. After August 18th, 1899, the
new tariff law goes into effect, which
practically takes the tobacco business
cut of the hands of the individual
firms. 1t is the governments inten-
ton to keep it up as a source of reve-
nue..
The New York Tobacco Leaf says:
''In conversation with Leaf rep.
resentative, Mr.. Hashimoto said: '"rhe
outlook for the marketing OF American
tobacco in Japan is very bright Our
people prefer your tobacco to any 9TH
er in the world, and the taste for it
is growing more pronounced every
day. Last year we used 100000
worth of your prOduct-mOre than ever
before. The new rate of taxation will
go into effect on August Is. The i'm
port tax on manufactured tobacco will
be 100 per cent. ad valorem, which
it is intended, will be prohibitive one.
The internal tax for manufacturing is
likewise increased and is also prohibit
tive. The importation of leaf tobac-
co, after 18th, will be exclusively iii
the hands of the government. AS a
mater of fact, you see, the government
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-08-23
Tobacco Crop Harvested.
Florida Agriculturist.

Editor Florida AgriculturiSt.
The tobacco crop is now safely
housed and is nice one, the acreage
in this county being about 100 and the
average yield about 800 pounds per
acre. The growers are anxious to sell
pole-cured, and will make good wages
if they sell as low as 80 cents per
pound. ..e .
A good part of the corn crop was
cribbed last week and some hay saved.
The beggar-weed grows more in ia
vor each year. There will be lots of
Strawberries and cassava planted this
fall. The velvet bean acreage is large
and the crop fine. w. q. Embry.
Thirty cents pound for pole cured
tobacco would indeed be a good price,
especially when sun "cured' tobacco
is being sold for less. If that price is
obtained we would like to know it
Ed.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-08-23
WEDNESDAY, AUG. %, 1899.
Cattle Raising in Florida.

Ever since the United States has
taken control of affairs in Cuba. there
has been a good demand fOr cattle.
and Florida has been the first to feel
the benefit of this condition. Cattle
that were roaming the pastures and
considered high at IS per head, have
become worth two and three times as
much, consequently cattle owners have
found themselves worth TO small for
tune and at the head of q very rromiS.
ing business. The scrub cattle have al
ways paid with the exception of the
time their export to Cuba was cut Off,
and many a cattle owner can count his
thousands made from the sale Of this
kind of cattle, which required but lit
tie attention and expense, except to
drive up and brand and to again drive
up and send to market.
1t has always been the case that
there is more money in improved stock
than in the scrub. This being the case
there certainly is great field open in
Florida for the cattleman, who will
devote his time and talent to raising
the better grades of beef cattle. There
are ample pasture lands that are good
in their present state, but that can be
made vastly better by being cleared
up and new grasses imported. There
are sections in st. Johns county that
would make excellent pasture land.
The land is low so that such grasses
as st. Lucie, Bermuda and the Peru
could be grown without trouble. Ar
tesian wells can be had so that drouths
would not prove drawback. Our eli
mate is such that all the shelter that
is required can be given by shade
trees and windbreaks. The land lies,
in most cases, so that either natural or
artificial drainage can be had without
much outlay. 1t seems to us that no
country offers more inducements Tor
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The Golden Cow.

The Cuban cattle and hog market
has been a bonanza to the Kissimmee
Valley For the past year the product
of our grand ranges has been sold at
steadily rising prices until now both
stock and beef cattle are as good as
gold at double the value they had a
year ago. Stockmen, who then were
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California Frog Ranches.


In California there is said to be
more women who are engaged in mas
culine occupations than in any other
section of the United States.
1t is at Siege, little station about
twenty miles from San Francisco, that
a frog ranch is located, named after
the first owner of the land roundabout.
The Siege ranch extends from the bay
shore up to the ridge of the Coast
Range of mountains, which encloses
both shores of San Francisco bay. In
the lower portions of the ranch Il great
number of springs gush out of the soil
in cOpiOus volumes. 1t was the springs
that determined the first location of
the ranch. The site, overlooking an
was capable of vast improvement. A
dozen acres, inclosing the springs,
were surrounded with hedge Ct cy-
press. The grounds were laid out
with taste, and soon preSente.: the
rare beauty incident to the profuse
Vegetation of a semi-trOpical climate.
Three ponds were formed by contin-
ing the waters of the flowing springs,
some acres in extent, and stocked with
frogs. A fence high enough to pre-
vent the escape of the inmates, sur
cd with aquatic plants and MOSES.
Then hundreds of frogs were placed in
the ponds, and from the original stock
the increase has been so great that,
though thousands are sent to market
yearly, the Withdrawals have no sensi-
bic effect upon the vast numbers re-
naming. Frog ranching is not unlike
cattle raising. There are one. two,
three or fOur-year- Odds, though the sue
cessful frog raiser will always keep
the young ones separate and apart
from the full grown, which are canni-
balls of the first rank, and eat all
which are not able to protect them
selves. The four year-Olds are c0nsid-
cred ripe for the market, though the
are a year or two younger. A frogs
life is twelve years. There are some
of that age at Siege. They ave of
monstrous growth, being fourteen in
ches in length and weighing as much
as four pounds.
In California, as in colder climates,
frogs hibernate in winter, and in the
spring emerge after their long sleep
emaciated to the last degree Then
they are fed with mixture of oat-
meal and blood, and again at the
spawning season. but only for a short
time They are, most of the time. self
sustaining, feeding upon the insects
which they cleverly catch
Like most creatures of the animal
world, frogs are capable of affection
for their keeper, and demonstrate II
! by coming at call and allowing them
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not be responsible in case of loss. When
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We now have an office in Jacksonville,
Room 4, Robinson Block, Viaduct, where
Mr.. Painter will be pleased to see any of
our subscribers. Any time we can be of
service in Jacksonville, drop us line to
..uuVe address.
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of dressed beef shipped into Jackson
vile every day from the west and we
see no reason why this same beef can
not be raised in this State. OF course
we cannot expect to offer our scrul
beef in the same market along witt
the heavy weight and well fed cattle
of the west, but by importing i'm
proved beef cattle and properly feeding
them before butchering the home
grown beef could hold it's own in com
petition with the western beef.
There is very little known generally
of what our cattle interests really are
but the following item from the Kis
simmee Valley Gazette will give some
idea of the magnitude of the business
in that section:
Last week we reported cattle sales
aggregating total price of one hun
dred thousand dollars made in one
week on a Kissimmee Valley range
This week we have to report the lars-
est aggregate sales ever made in the
State of Florida, one deal alone be
ing the largest single deal on record in
the State.
"E. O. Morgan, OsceOla's cattle king,
sold out, lock, stock and barrel,
to Jose Hernandez, the representative
of the wealthiest syndicate in Cuba.
The deal covers the remnant of the
Morgan stocks ranging in the Kissim-
NEE Valley, which amount to fifteen
thousand head of cattle, besides the
w. H. Towles. The purchase price is
not less than one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars. The cattle will be
gathered and shipped as soon as pos
sible, some this fall and the balance
next spring. 1t is Mr.. Morgan's inten-
ton to ship by the East Coast railroad
to Miami as this route offers cheaper
rates.
''The entire purchase price is to be
placed in bank at Tampa before ship
ment. With this clean sweep Mr..
Morgan bids farewell to the stock in
dustry, at which he has amassed for
tune in the past twenty years. He in
tends to settle down on his Cow Greek
orange hammock in Brevard, where he
will set out a two hundred acre or
ange grove. The grove at present con
sists of about ten acres, and is in
splendid condition. Thus will end the
prosperous career of one of South
FlOrida's cattle kings.
In addition to the above we are au-
thOrized to report the sale of eight
hundred of cattle, consisting Of 15C
bulls and steers, $50 COWS and heifers
and 500 mixed stock, by a syndicate
composed of Rull Bass, Mann Bass, j
f. O'Berry, JnO. M. Lee, j. S. Bronson
1. M. Lanier, J. w. Miller and Ed
Whaley to Jose Hernandez, for imme
date delivery at a high price, it is
said over fifteen dollars per head.
"Also the w. B. Makinson Co., solo
to the same party for immediate deliv
cry five hundred head of heavy first
class beef cattle at a top price.
All these cattle are for the Cuban
market, and represent a total pur
chase price of not less than one hun
dred and seventy thousand dollars
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The Saint Paul globe., 1899-07-07

refrained from eating for eleven days
while IN the Toledo wcrkhouse, where
food was finally forced into the stonach
On several occasions while In the courts
at Cincinnati the woman, fought like d
tigress.
The young woman left Indianapolis, it
IS said, under the name of Marie Wilson.
c. E. Henderson, freight auditor of the
l., B. Il w, says the girl is from good
family and at one time moved in the
best society in Indianapolis. Her uncle
]. Il. Wilson, formerly superintendent Of
the l., B. & w road, was killed in a
wreck few years ago.
Peter Burroughs says '',Fhe women
evidently thought I was an easy mark
and had a little money. / have had to
invoke the aid of the authorities for pro-
lection against them in CincinI Gu, San
Jose, Los Angeles, Omaha and elsewhere.
In Omaha they broke up a theater one
, night and nearly cleaned out couple
of restaurants. They have worried me
with breach-Of-promise suits, threatened
and tried to kill me, made fools of many
people. l think they are the most 0an-
gerOus women In America today. They
make their boasts that they can get away
with any court. judge, jury man that
ever lived, and they have usually sue
ceeded in doing So"
The women appear to have abundance
of money, and wear Partisan and London
outfits
The Saint Paul globe., 1899-07-07
NEWS OF A DAY IN BRIEF.

Cincinnati-The Disciples of Christ will
hold their jubilee missionary convention
in Cincinnati Oct. 1919; and 10000 dele
gates are expected.
New York-The United States Rubber
company has declared a dividend of l
per cent on it's common stock, also the
regular quarterly dividend of per cent
on its preferred stock
Trenton, N. 1.-THE New England Cot
capital of 1850, 900. filed papers OF in
corporation with the secretary of state
today.
Carthage, Mo.-James McAfee was
hanged here today for the murder of
Eben Brewer, a merchant of Joplin two
years ago.
New York-The Brooklyn Eagle re-
ceived letter from Gov. Roosevelt to-
day enclosing a check for $25 for the
Dewey fund.
Washington = The war department
has been advised of the death
al Santiago de Cuba of Lieut. McLaugh-
lin. volunteer signal corps. Lieut. Nc
Laughlin was a victim of yellow fever
Boston-Fire today in a six-story brick
building at 81 to 73 Sudbury street and 1
to Hawkins street, occupied mainly by
tobacco manufacturers, caused $4,000
loss.
New York-Controller Golfer awarded
the entire issue of $40, ,025, 600 31h gold
bonds of the city of New York to Far
son. Leach & Co. who bid s1O,S72, ,SG3. rs
The Saint Paul globe., 1899-07-07
LAUGHS AT INSANITY.

Her lawyer, thinking there was no pos
sibility of acquittal on normal grounds
made the plea of insanity. Marie laugh
much to her chagrin. She had to be
carried by main strength into court sew
eral times. kicking snd screaming, but
she went to the asylum peacefully She
had scarcely arrived there before she be-
gan to cause Superintendent Tobey all
sorts of trouble, refusing to obey the
rules, because she was not a resident
of Ohio.
Recently she kept the city council and
fourteen nights, in an attempt to oust
Workhouse Superintendent Beckwith and
WIFE who she declared attempted to muir
der, and did rob her while she and her
mother were confined there as a result of
a little trouble in Fremont, o. She lost
the case after examining many witnesses
and pitting herself against some of To-
ledo's best attorneys. Then she sued the
city of Toledo and many officials for
damages in the sum of S450 900. She
brought similar suits against the city of
Fremont and its citizens and officials. She
drew all the papers herself and they were
practically without flaw. In these cases
she also failed.
The identity of these women is some
what in doubt. AS near as can be ascer-
tained, their family name is Wilson and
they are natives of Indianapolis, Ind.
They passed here at first as Nine. Will
son and daughter. Some of their aliases
under which they are said to have operat-
ed are Mary Dough, Marie CicOtte VIII
The Saint Paul globe., 1899-07-07
COLONELS AND MAJORS.
President Names Officers for the
New Regiments.


WASHINGTON, July 6-The president
has appointed the following colonels of
the volunteer regiments:
Mai. James, NJ, Bell, First cavalry;
Capt James S. Petit, First infantry
better known as colonel of the Fourth
immunes; Capt Edward E Harding, who
was colonel of the Second New York vol
unteers in the war with Spain; Capt l..
A. Craig, Sixth cavalry; Capt. Luther r.
Hare, Seventh cavalry; Maj. William A.
Kobbe, Capt Cornelius Gardner Nine
teenth infantry.
The assignment of the volunteer colo
nels to regiments will be as follows:
Twenty-sixth, Rice; Twenty-seventh,
Bell; Twenty-eighth, Petit; Twenty
ninth. Hardin Thirtieth, Gardner; Thir-
ty-seconi Craig; Thirty-third, Hare;
Thirty-eighth, Kobbe.
The man designated for lieutenant colo
mel Of the Thirty-fifth regiment will or
ganize 1t and take 1t to the Philippines,
when Col. Kobbe will assume command.
The following officers have been Sc
lected for majors in the new regiments:
First Lieutenant Harry L. Hawthorne,
Sixth artillery; First Lieutenant Walter
C. Short. Tenth cavalry; First Lieu
tenant E p Anderson, Tenth cavalry;
Capt. F. NJ. Steele, Eighth cavalry; First
Lieutenant Albert Laws, Twenty-fourth
infantry; First Lieutenant George l..
Byram. First cavalry; Second Lieutenant
Joseph Wheeler Jr., Fourth artillery.
The Saint Paul globe., 1899-07-07
JEFFRIES AT HOME.
Big Boxer Is Given a Hearty Re-
ceptiOn.

SAN FRANCISCO. July 6.-Jim Jeffries,
champion pugilist of the world, arrived in
this city from the East, this evening. He
was met at the depot by a large crowd Of
admirers, who welcomed him amidst the
strains of brass band, hired for the oc-
casion. After the first formalities were
over the pugilist was escorted to his
apartments in the Palace hotel, where an
other reception awaited him.
Among those who welcomed the re-
turned pugilist was Mr.. Jeffries Sr., who
has been conducting revival services in
this state and praying for his sons de-
feat in the hope that a defeat would tend
to make him better in his mode of life.
Paternal feeling cast aside this prayer.
and the old gentleman seemed extremely
happy when he clasped the champion s
right hand in his, and patted him on the
shoulder in joy.
Tonight there was big reception to the
pugilist at Woodward'$ pavilion. The
event of the evening was Of course the
four-round go between Jeffries and his
partner, Jim Daily, and showed better
than anything else the wonderful i'm
provement made by Jeffries since his de-
parture from the coast, when he went
east to fight Fitzsimmons.
The Saint Paul globe., 1899-07-07
PRESIDENT THANKFUL.
Appreciates the Self-Sacrtace of
Volunteers in Philippines.

WASHINGTON, July 6-The president
today found ian opportunity, in connection
with the visit to the White house of a
Pennsylvania committee, to express in a
semi-publc manner his appreciation of
the volunteer forces in the Philippine
archipela go. rs The delegation, which was
headed by Gov Stone, called in connec-
ton with the Homecoming of the Tenth
Pennsylvania; regiment, now on its way
across the Pacific, and also to prefer a
request -thatTsCpl. Hawkins be promoted
to a brigadier 7generalship.
Replying, the president said that no
citizens of then country could have a
higher appreciation than he Of the ex-
ceptional services and patriotic self-sacri-
fee of the state troops in the Pacific ISL
ands. 'I SHOULD" he said, like to have
an opportunity TO take by the hand and
thank every individual member of the
volunteer forces for remaining in the
Philippines and assisting in the work
there beyond the time required of them
by the terms of their enlistment"
He added that he would make an eff
fort during his Western trip to be in
Pittsburg at the time of the arrival Of
the Pennsylvania boys, and take part in
the reception to be rendered them.
The Saint Paul globe., 1899-07-07
LAURELS WILL RECEIVE.
Social Side of Cycling Is Not to He
Neglected.

a social feature will be one of the
drawing attractions of the L. A. w. ma
tlonal circuit meet. which is to be given
at Lexington park, July %. under the au-
spices Of the Northwestern Cycle COM
pany. Several of the clubs are planning
to give a reception on the evening of the
meet for the L. A. w. riders who partici.
pate in the contests
The Laurels are the first to take the
matter in hand, and will give a reception
at the club rooms during the evening. he
sides making run OH the afternoon Of
the race from the clubhouse to the
grounds.
The Windsor has been designated as
the official hotel
George Sudheimer returned yesterday
from Des Moines, To-, where he partici-
1ated In race meet on the Fourth that
The Saint Paul globe., 1899-07-07
ADVENTURES In Hoo
MARIE CICOTTE WILSON PLACED,
IN AN INSANE ASYLUM At
TOLEDO h9s f@A<
WAS ACQUITTED OF PERJURY

On the Ground That She Was Mem
tally IrrespOnsibIe She Lauxb.
at the PIea-Says She Is Not a
Resident of That State and Cam
not Therefore BE Legally Held
Known In Western Cities.
TOLEDO, o., July 6.-Marie Cicotte Will
son, adventures, with many aliases,
known to the police of Chicago, Gin
cinnati, Omaha, San Francisco and a
score of other cities, has been sent to the
state asylum for the insane at Toledo.
Even that does not solve the problem
for the people of Toledo, who have been
trying for a year to discover some way
to get rid of this troublesome person and
her mother, who is equally troublesome.
She refuses to obey any of the rules Of
the institution, claiming that she is not
q resident of the state and therefore can
not be legally confined IN an Ohio asylum.
Many attorneys declare she is right in
this. She was adjudged to be of sound
mind by court which examined her as
to her sanity, but was later acquitted
by jury on a criminal charge, on the
ground that she was Insane. She was
then conveyed to the asylum.
Her criminal trial was brought about
by reason of an indictment by the grand
jury on the charge of perjury. She re-
fused to have an attorney, or to have
anything to do with Ashton H. Goldman,
after the common pleas judge had ap-
pointed him to defend her. She simply
declared the proceedings illegal, and rest
ed, she said, on her constitutional rights.
She is we'll read in law and claims to
have been admitted to practice in CAL