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Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-08-05
IDAHO NOTES.

| ADAhO NOTES.
The Moscow saw mill has resumed
operations, the necessary repairs hav.
ing been made.
A new incorporation has been formed
at Houston. 1t is called the Houston
Ditch Company.
The amount of harvesting machinery
sold in the Clearwater valley this year
is unprecedented
The Weiser Milling Co. has begun
operations, having secured a supply of
Idaho Falls hard wheat.
Moscow is arranging to give royal
| reception to the Idaho soldier boys
when they return from the Philippines
Owyhee county's assessment roll for
1899 shows a property valuation of
/ about $1,500,000. Last year the valua-
tion was less than one million.
r. W. Sweet, the creamery expert of
Nampa, has just completed the Star
creamery and started it. 1t is doing a
good business. The delivery of milk
at Nampa is increasing daily.
Contractor Smith, now at work on
the o. r. & N. line up Snake river, says
that within two weeks the company
and the various contractors will have
5000 men at work along the line.
The pay rolls have been completed
and forwarded to the interior depart
ment at Washington whereby $4,000
will be shortly paid to the Occur
d'Alene Indians. There are four pay
ments due.
| Judge Mayhem has appointed S. P.
Donnelly receiver of all property form
erly owned by the Occur d'Alene Rail-
way & Navigation Company, but now
under control of the Northern Pacific
Company.
The Lewiston city council by a
unanimous vote decided to issue a Ii
cense to any and all gambling games
to be run within the city limits, taking
the ground that their special charter
gives them the right.
| They have some very tough people in
Lewiston, Idaho. Recently a 2-year-old
boy fell from a two-story window,
struck some telephone wires, turned
over, then landed on its back on the
sidewalk and came up smiling.
A building boom has taken posses
sion of Harrison, no less than ten new
residences and business houses being in
course of construction at present. Bust
ness in all lines is good and the mills
can not supply the demand for lumber.
B. G. Peters, with headquarters at
Kendrick, has contracted for 1900
acres of flax in this county. He has
carefully canvassed the county, and
thinks that the fax crop will average
! II bushels to the acre, and that his
firm will handle something like 100000
bushels.
Fred Ebbley, a young man of about
10 years, was drowned in the Occur
d'Alene river at Medimont the other
day. His home was in Wallace, and he
was down at Medimont for an outing
While in bathing he plunged from a
rowboat and never rose. The body was
recovered, an inquest held and the re.
mains shipped to Wallace for burial.
An explosion of acetylene gas last
week at Wallace, seriously burned DR..
c. V. Genoway and Henry A. Steinke.
Genoway had his eyes badly burned
being blind in one, although this is not
! considered permanent. Steinke lost his
moustache, eyebrows an considerable
hair from his head. The men were
examining tank of gas with candles
when the explosion occurred.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-08-05
Spread of Plague Throughout India

Bombay, Aug l.-At Poonah there have
been 80 cases OF plague and Sc deaths
from disease in So hours. At the can
torment in this city $40 cases, POI deaths
are reported.
Several new cases are reported among
Europeans. Meteorological conditions in
dictate the close of the monsoon and the
prospects are ominous.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-08-05
Grain Destroyed by Hail.

Crookston, MINI, Aug. Fifty square
miles of crops were destroyed in Polk
county by last nights hailstorm. The
storm followed Red Lake river from Mallor
to Crookston. At Garry, S. D., strip OF
grain land II miles long and four miles
wide was devastated. At Stephens, Mimi,
the storm destroyed 1000 acres of grain.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-08-05
Three Noted Passenger..

Liverpool, July Ex-senator Wolcott Of
Colorado, Israel Zangwell, critic and nov
elist, and Tod Sloan, jockey, have sailed
for New York on the Cunard line steamer.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-08-05
Sir Julian Is HonOred.

London, Aug. lit is officially an
nounced that Sir Julian Pauncefote, Brit
ish ambassador to the United States, who
was the head of the British delegation TO
the international peace conference at The
Hague, has been elevated to the peerage.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-08-05

Sardou's plays are written and re-
written until the original manuscript.
illegible even to himself, can be de-
ciphered only by his secretary.
The wasp is quiet little fellow, but
he has a way of making himself felt.
The portrait artists work Is easily
done.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-08-05

New York, Aug. 2.-The ironworkers
employed in f. p. Morse's shipyard,
Brooklyn, numbering 300 men, struck to-
day. The hospital ship Missouri and the
transports Wright and Logan are at this
yard undergoing repairs. At Berlee's ship
yards, Staten Island, 600 men struck, de-
manding shorter hours and more pay.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-08-05
Patched Up Again.

Kansas City, Aug. 2.-For the second
time in two weeks Schwartzenchild &
Sulzberg packing plant officials have prac-
tically settled the differences with their
1000 employees, and today work was re-
sumed in all departments. A few men
who caused the trouble have not been re-
employed. Their differences will likely be
arbitrated.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-08-05

completed. The shaft on the Gem is
Just getting through the Gaping of
the lead and is coming into ore identi.
cal in appearance with that of the Sui.
Ivan.
Sinking on the winze from the lower
tunnel of the Evening Star, at Ross.
land, continues. The winze has now
reached a depth of Is feet below the
lower tunnel. The winze is in ore all
the way down.
On the Tamarac. near Ymir, very
nice strike of ore has been made at the
150-foot level.
On the property called Society Girl
near Moyie East Kootenai, there is a
tunnel being driven to crosscut the
lead at depth of so feet, on which
three shifts of eight hours each are
working. In the st. Eugene there are
s men at work on the eight-hour shifts
30 men engaged in building the con.
centrator and Is on the flume 1t is ex.
pected that the concentration will be
ready to run by September Is.
1t is rumored that deal is pending
for the sale of the Trail smelter to the
War Eagle people.
The work Of erecting the stone found
atoms for the new compressor plant oil
the Center Star at Rossland is nearly
completed.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-08-05
STAND FOR HOLDING BICYCLES

WheeTmen Arc : hown How to EcOno..
mize on Space.
Many are the efforts that have been
made to build Il bicycle stand, but ne
long as the bike" is suffered to rest
on both its wheels 1t necessarily Occu.
of persons living in moderate-sized
houses. An effort to deal with this
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-08-05
TROUBLE OF THE LABORERS.
Cleveland Car Strike No Nearer Set
Element Than at Beginning.

Cleveland, Aug. 2.-This is the 10th day
of the street car strike in this city and APP
parently it is no nearer a settlement than
when it began. As has been the case dur
ing the past few days, the cars seem to be
running regularly, but are carrying few
passengers. The boycott movement con-
tinues and has reached some large depart
ment stores down town.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-08-05

Enterprise is a policeman that keeps
us always on the move.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-08-05

1Ai'N9 "de oelhB -iStdlleu ana rlSlu quar-
antine regulations enforced. He does not
think the disease will spread beyond the
home.
An Alarming Outlook.
Washington, August Sturgeon Cen
eral Sternberg received the following from
Lieutenant Colonel Dewitt:
Fort Monroe, Va.-Surgeon Pettus,
United States marine hospital service,
quarantine officer, officially stated that
yellow fever was at the National Soldiers
home at Hampton. There were "a cases
with six deaths. The commanding officer
took immediate measures for quarantine. y
General COrbin says the conditions are
serious and there is no telling how far the
infection may have reached. Excursion
parties have been coming to Old Point,
Newport News and the soldiers home.
Many of the excursionists have mingled
with the soldiers.
Corbin says one theory of the way the
fever might have been brought to the
home is that one of the soldiers recently
visited Santiago. He returned some time
since, suffering with what the physicians
thought to be dengue. 1t seems it was
not until the inmates of the home began
to die that the disease was discovered to
be yellow fever.
Officials of the war department are very
much concerned about the situation. Cor
bin and Sternberg had conference early
this morning and it was decided to hold
everything in readiness to take care of
the yellow fever should it appear among
the troops.
Orders have been issued by the depart
ment removing the garrison at Fort Mon
roe to some point on the northern coast
to be selected by General Merritt. A few
officers and enlisted men will remain at
Fort Monroe as guards.
Surgeon General Van Ruypen of the
navy department said he did not believe
it would be necessary to suspend opera
tons at Norfolk. The navy yard, however,
would be quarantined.
How Did 1t Get There.
Newport News, Va, Aug. 1.-The Off.
GERS of the Soldiers Home at Hampton
have no idea how the yellow fever worked
its way into the place where over 1000 old
union veterans are quarantined.
This city is completely cut off from
Hampton, Old Point. and Soldiers Home
except by wire Reports telephoned from
the last named place today show the fever
situation there is we'll in hand. Only one
new case has developed since yesterday
afternoon and no other deaths have been
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-08-05
YELLOW FEVER At THE HOME
STRICT QUARANTINE THERE
Large Number of Inmates stricken
Several Deaths Have Occured-Thous-
ands Have Been Exposed Government
Surgeons Ordered There.

Norfolk, Va, August IA message
from Governor Woodfn of the Soldiers
home at Hampton, says there have been
three deaths from yellow fever in the last
"a hours, and 30 cases are now under
treatment Expert surgeons and immune
nurses are being Installed and rigid quar-
antine regulations enforced. He does not
think the disease will spread beyond the
home.
New-York tribune., 1899-06-13
SOME CROPS ESCAPE.
EFFECT OF THE DRY SEASON IN PENNsYL-
WANNA AND SOUTH JERSEY.

EFFECT OF THE DRY SEASON IN PENNsYL-
vANIA AND SOUTH JERSEY.
PHILADELPHIA June IL (SpeciaD D.-Pennsyl-
yania's crops and those of adjoining States have
felt the effect Of the dry weather. Greatest loss
will be experienced by the fruit growers and
possibly by the farmers in hay and corn.
Strawberries are an utter failure. 1t Is feared,
and unless rains come within the next ten days
or fortnight a similar fate will overtake the
huckleberries and raspberres. The loss sus-
tained in New-Jersey in the strawberry crop
alone will amount to many thousands Of dollars
One Jersey berry grower said to-day that he eX-
pected at the early part of the season to pick
10000 quarts To date he has gathered not
quite one-quarter Of that amount, and has no
hope OF picking any more. The green berries
are drying up on the stalks, and the leaves have
begun to turn brown. which means the plants
are about TO cease bearing.
The drouth has not affected the cherries
which are plentiful They are large and juicy.
Tomatoes are fairly plentiful thus far. but
scarcity is feared The canneries have many
Government orders to i'll. Thus far neither
tomatoes watermelons nor potatoes have been
effected by the dry weather, but 1t Is feared that
IL the drouth keeps up these crops will also be
involved
Among the early vegetables peas have been
the most seriously affected. The crop is almost
in as bad a condition as strawberries. Peas
which ordinarily would be considered high-priced
at % cents a basket. few days ago brought
40 and 90 cents a basket. Caulifowers have
been slightly affected by the dry weather An
other crop on which the farmers are almost sure
TO lose heavily is hay. For more than the last
two weeks it has been slowly drying up and
many farmers have already begun to cut 1t, be-
ing afraid 10 take the chance or losing the en-
tire crop by permitting II to stand longer In the
fields. AS yet there no fears OF hay fam
inc In this city. but the supply has been running
rather short for the last two weeks. feed
man said to-day that he had many orders on
hand for hay which he was unable TO fill. Hay
which in ordinary times sells at S12 and Sl3 a
ton is now bring SIS and SIG,
The scarcity Of hay has sent up the price OF
straw in proportion.
Corn has also begun to feel the dry weather
Wheat and oats are also sufferers.
New-York tribune., 1899-06-13

are still coming from the South. Inis 10 "'''
for the South. but not for Newcomers
Grass" as all green srocers seem 10 oa''
asparagus. has almost reached the end Oh i's
season without once touching low enough hs
ure to make It anything except ra'her eA
pensive luxury for the housewife oi
means. -. -. canta n
strawberries are hard to get at o., cen,s nav
quart and are dried up at that. ,,,, This
thousands who are forced TO wait tiii .ns @
fruit touches 3 cents a quart before ines oa,, al
eat them without counting them are nkey ,so ~ so
unsatisfied this season. The fruit is snrlVeii'he
before reaching maturity in local gardens
Blackberres are generally relied on TO @ III .ne ie
place left vacant when the strawperry eIop 30 20
ended. This year there will be none eNcept az
high prices Tomatoes give promise OF d sno,s
crop and as always happens when tne pans 80
become weak from any cause, the ,.iI. ,.is "a "A
various kinds which attack them multiply ana
ravage with renewed avldity. Melons plesent p,e,
the one bright spot in this desoiate ou'uJn, ,e;,
They are not hurt yet, and are thriving III sp''e
oft 2
New-York tribune., 1899-06-13
WATER NOT YET SCARCE.
MANHATTAN AND THE BRoNA HAVE
rNo1-cJ To LAST FOR MONTHS

Although there has been no rain in this Guy OF
in the districts from which Its water supply !"
drawn sufficient to make any appreclaoIe uhieie
in the supply the officials of the Department Vi
Water Supply declare that there Is sun an "ou.'
dance OF water and that there is no immeoiate heu
for economv in the use Of water. The amount Vi
water consumed every day In the ci:y Is aDout 4"'
100000 gallons, and OF that amount tns "ot''e'S
OF Manhattan and The Bronx consume H'ai'S
200 10000 gallons every day. Recently there mas
been an enormous increase OF the Consumption "
water on account OF the long continued drouth'
,Uo.ar "a baine used In enormous quantities In
snrinkling the Park lawns TO keep the grass ho"
diving and burning up. All the old hose oil tho fire
Department is being used for the purpose Oh con
yeypg the water from street Migrants INTO 'iie
parks and the draft upon the water mains Is
equal to that Of fire engines working at several
large fires
water is being wasted in large quantities every
dav also. Commissioner Dalton and Chief En-
gineer Birdsa said yesterday that the attention oi
the Department was being called frequehuy 70
cases in which tanks on the roofs oil ouidinss were
allowed overflow Every such tank bs Is waer from
oyerfowing but those valves will get out OF order
occasionally When tanks 9yerGT dss ssaa vester
day that complaints about overhowlng iahKs we1e
investigated promptly ana owners ascovered were
taken to task. The owners OF the hlgnest % onco
nie Sss a to be pumped into the tanks such
buildings and sefinterest will prevent the use OF
mower 10 pump water aIter the tanks are lull
The stored supply of water for Manhattan anu
The Bronx amounted to i5cDoGO gallons on ,nn MAY
/ and there has been drawn from that supppy
about s0O 900 coo gallons in month II the drafts
upon the stored supply continued at the same fdc, &
there would be large supply LETT al 'he emu VI sN
months .,.r ,a,,,,ra IN
While there is danger OF water iamine MN fnr IN
economv in the use of water in otner boroughs II
the present drouth continues much longer o I brToR
iyn IS using water the rate of 1S@oVo gallons
a day and is drawing on its stored supply OF water
at the rate OF about 100000 gallons DAY ~ no
thirty DAYS there will have to be decideu ue-
crease OF water pressure in Brookyn, ana oraeLs 1
for economy in the use OF water Will be needed.
Queens and Richmond still get most OF their wafer
from wells or from water companies wnlch own si
ertesian wells and the long-contnued drouth VIII
soon affect the wells and make water scarce.
New-York tribune., 1899-06-13
KREISER FOUND NOT GUILTY.
THE CHARGE THAT THE AUCTlONEER EN-
PLOYED FALSE BIDDERS Is NOT
SUSTAINED IN COURT.

The case OF Samuel Kreiser, auctoneer' OF NO
West Twenty -eghth-st, charged with conspiracy
in conducting public auctions. was taken up by
Judge Blanchard In General Sessions yesterday at
ternoon Krelser was accused OF employing pun
ers a" or false bidders at auctions He was on the
stand in his own defence Friday. when he said
that the only explanation he could make OF tho
presence OF buffers In his auction rooms was
that they had been employed by the men whose
goods he sold. motion made by his couhsei 10
dismiss the case was denied. The lawyers then
summed up and Judge Blanchard charged the
jury, which returned verdict OF not guilty. after
two minutes deliberaton.
Kreisers case has been In and out of the courts
for three years. In March. 1895. an association
of firms engaged in the retail rug trade, including
W. e. J. Sloane, Nantine e. Co.. Arnold, Constable
g. Co. Lord and Taylor. Van Gaasbeek Arkell
and John Wild. first proceeded against him before
Mayor Strong. Magistrate Crane and In the Su-
preme Court to have imposed on him penalty OF
81 00 for alleged Irregularities Kreser was tried
before the Mayor and acqutted also before Magis-
trate Crane. with similar result. Tho association
then discontinued its suit in the Supreme Court of
Its own accord.
In March. 1891 the association presented charges
before the Grand Jury which were not entertained.
II then went before the April Grand Jury. which
found an indictment against kTelser. II. Kasa-
ban and others who had been employed by Kasa-
ban to attend a sale OF rugs held for Kasablan at
Kreisers auction rooms. No. 232 Fifth-ave. Kasa-
ban and those who had been employed by him
turned States evidence and It was established on
the trial that conspiracy existed but the prose-
cution failed completely TO connect Kreiser with
the wrong doing.
Kreiser produced on the trial which began last
Tuesday. almost twenty prominent business and
professional Of this city testify 10 their hav-
cent less than they would have had TO pay in any
OF the large retail stores.
the people: and Civil Justice Wa1hope Lynn for
the defendant. Kreiser.
New-York tribune., 1899-06-13
IN THE CONNECTICUT VALLEY.
THE DROUTH FELT sEVERELY-HAY AID
~ ppICE

VANCES IN PRICE.
Hartford. Conn, June II (SpeciaD.-The pre-
vailing drouth has been serious throughout the
Connecticut Valley. There has been little rain
in the last six weeks. the record for the month
of May and early June being the smallest Tor
some years. The grass crop, except in the Dot
tom lands nearest the river, will be light, farm-
ers estimating that it will be little more than
one-thrd Of last year. Hay las advanced IN
price from $12-to $40 a ton.
The fruit trees are suffering great deal ana
apples peaches and cherries are dropping from
the trees The tobacco is in poor condition, the
plants hardly being able to keep alive. Con"
tinual watering has to be resorted to and this
is an expensive measure, taking OF largely from
the profits of the crop
Corn is far behind. and potatoes on high land
are at a standstl The small fruit and truck
garden crops are suffering. and the yield OF
berries is less than one-half the usual quantity;
Farmers are complaining bitterly and travel
throughout the section is like going through an
ash heap.
In the city lawns are drying up, and a measure
was introduced in the city government to-night
to make provision for watering the streets win
water from the Connecticut River rather than
to draw upon the city water supply.
New-York tribune., 1899-06-13

a.. driving I'D and becoming burned ana yer
,ow from the sun, despite sprinkling' Am0ns
these are tie lawns of John D. and wi,'a,m ~
,,oc.sfeller and Mrs Elliott r. Shepard !"
rarrytown: the Park place. in Rye ana o.neis
The roads are deep with dust anu ~ -
verized into fine powder, which the passane
"a yeh,cles raises into great clouds GOVERNS
The occupants with dust. .,, uu, he
The early hay crops In the coums ar ara dis
comma aratiyely small and the farmers o,,siv are
heartened over the prospect. They anH,oaI am reaIy
watch every cloud. and have seen se'e,ad dron ~
overcast days come ana go "i'"oo'
rain falling. -, ..o,,sh the county
are low several of them mere '.os tnlsau ~ sunny
"a AZ some Of them are the sources vi suPp,SS nS
Of villages shortage in the reservoirs is ieafeu
unless rain falls soon ,oo6v oeking
.s n.onis not &c waste the water. as there 10
no telling when the supply W viii IL be Sesterday and
.xo..arad rain hut IL did not arrive. ana auueu
another disappointment to those of the past
New-York tribune., 1899-06-13
ARMY AND NAVY ORDERS.
Washington. June l2-The following Army ana
Navy orders have been Issued

Navy orders have been issued
ARMY
n. retirement OF Colonel CHARLES z. COMPTON. tth
cavalry. having attained the age OF s1ty-two years.
IS announced. ., -
Second Lieutenant WATTS c. vALENTINE 10Th In In
ton 70: promotion.
First Lieutenant HAROLD l. JAcKsoN 22d infan9 i,o fof
will report at Governors Island Tor e'a"''"A'''" ~
The following officers the infantry arm Teeeny p,O
S e9E69T lsh 1s In,snt42 ntaTy eaSian caSan
son A. LEWIS ism Infantry Captain pEhERIc s5MHEL B
sN0KE ,sS sS nsn Gnny fst fsp'iR hsusnsht
FsKE lsh IItantT Fst t LfSsHens lieutenant BRYAN
CoNRAD lsh Infantry First Lieutenant ,;YI2} M19s 4
TKbR T1ttS LA "a Infantry Infantry fsf
the 18TH Infantry Lieutenant wAknER s VIII ~. Php IsTfIn
Nne. Tn 'Hs When sS' he vail Join the 90
f'r'v viii repeT al Cleveland Ohio, for recruiting service
The following second recently appointed 1 are
caysy ARES SG4Es MekUsE t6 ;ss s asd d in ine
sntry Lieutensnts FITCH and NoYFs win proceed
%SITRB viii proceed Governors Island for tenn
porary duty. . III,
Acting Assistant Surgeon WILLIAM c. BERLIN viii
proceed TO Camp Meade to accompany the 18th IN
Ac'fs From the 10Th infantry and viii proceed to Bridge
port Conn. for annulnent OF contract
Acute from ,he 10Th infantry and viii NewYok
City for annulment Of contract
Acting Assistant Surgeon E W. AMES relieved al he
General Hospital. Savannah. and Will proceed 70 san
Francisco.
NAVY.
Lieutenant E. r wrTHERSPOON is detached from the
Alliance and ordered duty as steel inspector Nun
hall Penn.
Lieutenant NJ /. MILLER is ordered to Torpedo Station
Newport .
Lieutenant j. A. BELL. detached from League lsland
NAVY Yard and ordered the solace for passage 10
Asiatic station.
Naval cadets F. c KEENAN, G. VAN ORDER.
ordered 10 Norfolk June 2i with draft OF men TOT
Mare Island then Solace and temporary duty
a. Asiatic station.
Lieutenant T p. MAGRUDER ordered to the Naval
Academy.
Lieutenant F. SWIFT ordered to Washington ior ex-
amnation for retirement home and await orders