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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-12-09
-A'IaAlENC; THE C'Ao.. MATT Ejs.

EjAI'r- TOWN. Wednesday. December
lit IS announced that Major Elicit
| commanding in the ma 1--WE territo14"
os GIilulanl East is armiiig the natives
by imperial authority With Il View III
assisting the defensive forces
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-12-09
CaIand. r for This Day.
" Gather Fore cart.

W1ASH!lNNGTCiN. December S. Fore
cast for Virginia-Fair saturday.
warmer in western portion. Sunday
cluuuy probably showers variable
WINDS. becOn1eing fresh Nastecly.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-12-09
No Changes Made in State Of
fees by Legislature.
FISHERIES REPORT IS IN
Date for Election Of Senator Martin is F,x
ed. Committee Clerks for the
House of Delegates
Are Appointed.
oSpe ial to The Daily Press

i,,,.,,,,,,,>.,,, -,
.:o !, Nv, " ~. ~, lr.,e''lps: S
| l-."' VI. lhe senate ana 'fiouse bal
ltsl,s sep'i;'telS' elected the fo1!oWll :
I"s..ee,s.
1 'ce.,e'a ~ "i me comm 2nWealrh, N.Y..
'o.ein l. i-aWleSS.
Auditor Of Public Accounts. Colonel
Morton Marye :
: Tesoi!u Auo,toF. Alr: JOSIAH kyland.
| i!tsisures, MI y. W: Hartman
1,i4.,. - ~ 81 9. en- Pen'tenuarS,
'' ~, H., ~ ~ rft!i'.s;
u i,:'!";iN commissioners General ]. &.
-,
IL. ''tte' ~ ol Public PrlntnS.
E'l'''''' J. NJ - f'ahno!.
! Al-'s.E a.i.-l rms
senator ",laEtor Introduced u bill to
amend ',he ode in relation to penalty
| ~ treasurers 'tnr false lists. also for
return az Delinquent where sufficient
i;f1.'eiiy is liable 70 distress. lii
,aans" i!'pnosed is that The treasurer.
:sha!! forte;, i've times the amount 5:
| SAID taxes and leNieS One-half Of which
snail - 70 tie COMMUNICATIVE and tt.e
&ls's:' '1ltf g the person Charged with
suGn iAxss and fevisS
| iaa report Of the Boal;i ot Fisheries
MS offered by senator k"ezeil. and 200
| copies We're ordered 70 be printed to-
yirIalation
| .M!. NarttWeil, mem,'&r Of the Housa
iNi I.ilSa;eS, Will offer i bill providing
t iUf fae samlIiinS OF the laws relative
| tf, tiNalil2n ! his subject is BADLY NIX
a. ana an effort will be n.a.v 10
Slfa!Shttn II out at this session.
i Alit MANN : APPOINT ML-ETS.
| i.trk w !iEa!n II. Mstln, of the HOUSE,
| mas appointed Mr.. I non-G4 Bigger as
| Hn!st clerk. and the foil .ng co nTit
itec ti.!NS:
J@HH II. N!l!lalAS, Giles county:
! : {. IN ! loving. l'uiasA! county; J. n.
!-i'S!li'' l.,in 7nenanunah county:
/ cares - Mann. PetsIs5u'g; Geo1 -.
IlHGSaN fSftsnroutn; john W. Burger,
i@lk ana ". III. Woods, Pittsyivania.
several Of these are old clerks ana
are talnili;i, Wlya the routine work.
siE- Mai IN 5 ELECTION.
1as resolution was PASSED provldlies,
| iS. she elecllon 81 L United states Sen
atot On 'ecSnIoer l9th- MS date IS
| NAed pE me nlteu states laws.
| l:A-\.D ti5IAl'BE.itS EllL.
senator Jeifl4es offered two bills dc
slshel 70 correct CERTAIN features OF the
| !a.Ns fvsaralnS iae purchase OF de!ln-
uuei.s l1liu7- ohe measure PROVIDES LII
psrsohai hotice TO be served upon =
| d person residing m the county where
| lhe lanuS STANDS IN his name. If the
w l!sl y! l!le ,a!ld lEes outslde me
,sr-l X snail re loklea oE news
| i'<tHel ltupl. itioii as no" provided.
= nc ~ ue.iti nlll IS Ihe more lnportahS
49, ne 80 'iiol seehs 70 lt"Nlue every
| ~, 80 81" .eaa.llsiole iE,otect'oh -:
,tI1 - *! : - pIoperts. IN me nrSc
! i'.s'eS ii'N lHioil - 'l'tue loI al ue!iH-
! ~ t.'eH san pe 'Dousnt bI private
iS,ltles. - REDUCES the penalty 70 IL
VS.! SCI W Wy amount OF the purchase
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-12-09
' es .e;!a Arrived.

schooner X. Wolf. Philadelphia
Schooner cornelia Saule Annapolis
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-12-09

FIG HITTING AIT NlOD DER RIVER
i NL1-'R.A. Wednesday. December {
Fighting commenced near Modd~.
river at 6 O'Clock this morning
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-12-09
E. aela sailed.

steamer S. j. Murphy. Boston.
steamer Avala CK!D. I.angworthy.
MOI folk.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-12-09

\ 5v TRAINS AGAIN IsI7NNu NC.
t FREE CAMP 'DecorlDer S-Tha tres
re bridge is finished ana the trains
a. e now traVersinGa it
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-12-09
BLOCKADE RUNNER CAUGHT.

lCNEt3E, December H.--A special dis
lJaich from Cage Town }pnouncv.s that
the British Gunboau Partridge has cap
tuEed tl1e British steamer NaShpn:t
captain J12nSt0ne, Which left M
York, November 81 via St Nince,.:.
November 10th. for -AlSaa bay laden
With -four for the Transvas!. The car
go Will fbe lan%ied at Cape Town and The
shin relAa sod
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-12-09
G.ttCsA1AII 1N,IllATiC..I RF,Cpt, NED

IGsNDCN de e&n1bar 8 General F.,r
eSuer-tWaiHer IA Sscnt this dis patcn
tu-Gay ut O'Clock last (r'rida*) even
ing 70 the War Office from Cape Town:
Telegraph ard railway communion
tion to Modder river has been reopensd
* battery OF field artillery am! a battal-
ION OF infantry wrrr dispatched fror,
NJ @ddti river asains: CJ,nmanda nj
Prins i.oos force Of 1000 Beers with orc
sun, Wno mad destroyed the railwa;
Our losses Were fourteen in wounGed.
Belmont has been strengthened ~
infantry and two guns ana IL cavalry
regiment and troops .rom -Naauwport
occupied .Arudt.al Thursday. The enc
my's forces near General Cratacre ar.
reEUrtssl as follows:
~ Do, dre,ht 500: Marching from
jamestown to Dordrecht, 700 with six
guns; at Stormour",. 300 at Water
fall. large force. strength unknoWn,
at Molteno. about 100
Lord heun reports casualties d.
cenlber 9th on patrol duty as follows:
Missn" "n'.w-M schrd cmcmFw1n hts
Missing, Lieutenant Tristan ana
four men Of the Twelfth Lancers;
wounded, four meen'
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-12-09
NO NEWS or AIETHEa7S

NO NEWS OF Mi;.TIIEITN.
LCNDCJN. December S.--6:52 p. M
The War Office has just issued the fol-
lowing:
mo further news has arrived from
General Nethcun to-day. but the fol
lowing has been received from the
Orange river station:
IA railroad culvert was blown ,p
near Glas Pan this morning The tc, )
STaFh was also cut. The guides repol.t
heavy firing CT guns toward the north. :
ne foregoing implies that the Beers
nave cut the line OF communication be-
mind Generan Methern. who apparent
~ is now lighting.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-12-09

There is little other ;news of impor-
tance. Reports continue to come from,
Lady smith that Gissension cXis; IS anocc
the Beers and especially that ife
Crang" Frec state troops are ,!issoE-
tented There are also al kinds ut III :
n;ors OF ct.nlnnndoes from place To
Irlace. bat iii" fact is that little is
known mere regarding the actual post
ton Of the i;oer forces. Moreover. Ill.
lEmorS II 4 collapse of Beer spirit hav,.
; been heard 50 c'sten as not to ral,s,.
much SatiStac ;ion nov.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-12-09

commissioners Pointz has prepared 4
minority opinion in which ne declares
his belief that the Democratic candi-
dates We're legally elected and that ~.
use Of tissue ballots should have rem
dered Void the election in several coun-
ties He denounces the use Of the mill
TIA on lection day as responsible ami
|intnlerable in an Anglo Saxon commits
nifty.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-12-09
Activity of Beers lmpefiIs Posi-
ton o. His Troops.
FIGHTING AT MODDER RIVER
Hoers Again Engaged BritIsh.EarIy Wed
nesday Morning. British Force from
Naanwport Occupies Arundel
War n. WIS Alarms London
lBv TeIeg1a;i.l.)

1+IEDCLN. iD"ccrAoer al 80 A. ~
Lord Metauen'S restoration III the. rail
way. "4li!t relieving a load Of unxit.l,
here accentuateS the dangers still
Ihf"atennS his forces. 1t is gathered,
from the brief official dispatch ;hut
sSGmmarlani l'rins Loos conting.n,
was taken between for2@s acting from.
belmont and southwark Srom NodLer
river II is quite possible. however
tnat re.nfGrctHllcntA Were. sent to Bel
m7At merely as Il ecau,ionary meas
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-12-09

what OF u tangie. tn seme cases it -
quires much time and Work for a per-
son To ascertain just What the law is
III re4atlon 70 4 particular feature CT
taxation. Mr.. Cardwell is giving to this
subject mulh Thought, and he hopes 20
be able 10 introduce a measure that viii
DE Of service to the Off &iGils OF the com
nionwealth and benefit to the tax pay
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1899-10-13
HERE AND THERE.

"A healthy fowl always picks up its
food quickly and seems to relish it. 1t
is q good indicator to health.
All that is needed to keep hogs in
health is good food in healthy variety,
clean water to drink, sufficient range
without or within, for plenty or eXer-
else, and close quarantine against in
lection.
Those who have tried it recon-
mend that bulls be made to do mod
crate amount of work. They are easi-
ly taught to work in single harness,
and may be made quite serviceable in
hauling around on the farm.
DO not condemn SOW If she far
rows a small litter the first time; often
the second will be decided improve
ment, especially if she be descended
from good parent.
Let every one who raises beef for
market have the export trade always
in his minds eye. The cattle sold for
the foreign market are a principal
factor in determining the price for all
Classe.
Use no ram but thoroughbred,
and successive rams should be of the
same breed, for when trying to inn
prove there is no advantage in crosses.
A flock thus renovated will be as good
for all practical purposes as full
bloods.
breeding to yearling bulls is a bad
custom. If the calf is to be made into
veal the matter is not a serious one,
but il heifer, TO be reared as dam
for future stock, no better method of
depreciating the breed could be de-
sired
Even in winter feeding the sue
culent silage has more influence upon
the milk flow than the grain ration,
showing that while grain has its func-
ton to perform in the food economy,
it does not by any means make com
plete ration.
Vicious bulls should be abolished
They are not only dangerous as long
as they live, but their sins crop out in
their progeny for generations. The
only sure cure for the unruly, pug1a-
cious bull is bullet just where lines
cross from each horn to the eye of the
opposite side.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1899-10-13
THE TIME TO DO 1T.
Now In the Time to Remove Weeds
From Land From Which Crops
Have Been Taken.

IT is the part of wisdom to pre-
pare for the evil when it may come.
while the soldiers slept the enemy
took the city" The farmer not only
has to fight everyday battles with the
powers of natural evils on the farm,
but if he should lessen his labors for
the future year he must now in this
year commence the work. 1t is said
that "a pound of preventive is worth
a ton of cure" This is on the rule
that "a stitch in time saves nine a
shovel of dirt or n cart load of sod
used in time will prevent ''crevasse"
in the lower Mississippi delta, that
when not prevented, destroys millions
of dollars worth of property. "A
stitch in time save nine" This is
mighty true, and is an object lesson
that the world should not be slow to
learn.
But what thought of when | took
pencil and tablet in hand was the
weeds in garden and field that now
cumber the ground in the place where
useful crops grow. The summer will
soon be passed, and autumn leaves
will fall; the cabbage rows are still
there, but are ragged and rotting;
the butter beans still hold doubtful
ground, contested by the "keerless
weeds" and crab-grass.' If you want
clean fields next year, now is good
time TO cut up sprouts and dig up
docks and all evil ''cumbers" of
ground that have lifetime of more
than one year. About the meanest
thing that is seen is a garden on the
farm, or in city lot, filed with
"kecrless" weeds and "crabgrass" in
the place where stood the rows of
peas and bunch beans, and lettuce
and turnip greens. These weeds are
bad ones, and one good, healthy "keer-
less" weed will produce enough seed
to plant five acres with full crop.
As soon rs your early vegetables
are off the ground, prepare the ground
and plant a second crop or SOW tur-
nips. You can raise two crops Of a
number of vegetables the same year
from the seed of the first crop; you
can raise second crop of beans and
lettuce and some other vegetables
from seed of the first crop.
About the meanest thing that
mean housekeeper and farmer in town
or country can show you is garden
filed with a growth of ripe weeds
when 0ctober's frost comes, with
enough seed to fill thousand-acre
farm. One way not to have weeds is
to have no weed seed to grow; an
other way is to kill them by hoe and
pow while young, and the poorest
way is TO gather and burn them. Keep
ground clear of weeds this ye: and
you will have less weeds and work
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1899-10-13
HOW TO MAKE CATTLE PAY.
Willing That Others should
Profit by Ii.

| have been raising beef cattle for
the last three years and have found it
more profitable than dairying, Dairy
ing is all right if farmers are fixed for
it If you have dairy cows and cream
cries close by and boy to take the
milk to the creamery, then stay in the
business. But nineteen out of every 30
farmers have half-bloJd Durhams or
other beef cattle. | have tried it with
poor success. 1t is like attempting to
get trotting horses from draft mares.
1t is very true that there are some
good mixers among the Durhams and
other beef cows, but how many farm
ers sell off their poor mixers and buy
good ones? Not one out of 90. Why?
Because a good mixer is too high in
price, and how many Of us have testers
to find out if the COW is worth buying
or not? Furthermore, if we had a
tester and started out to buy cows and
drove into farmers yard, would we
ask him his price on the COW first or
would we ask him to let MS test her
first? He will put price on her all
right hut don't show your tester un-
less you have good team.
Now | think my plan good one for
the average farmer. My herd consists
of half-blocd Durhams and half ma
tive, ms we call them. have 12 cows.
Out of the ~ ! find ] have six good
! butter cows. / take Galloway or
Polled Angus bull and put him with
the l2 COWS. | have them come in
April if ! can take the calves from
my six good mixers and put them on
the other six poor mixers along with
their own. Each COW then has two
calves. | then milk my six good cows
and make q nice lot OF butter.
| keep my calves in the barn from
the time they are born until they are
sold, never letting them out. They run
in the basement for exercise. only
let them suck in the morning and
evening. Before milking / run them in
box stall, shut them in there until
| milk my six cows. | then let the
cows ] have milled out. The calves
are turned out of the box stall and
| in less than one week the strange
calves will run to their foster mothers
without any bother. When they ore
done sucking, drive them into the
box stall again and turn all the cows
out on pasture. Give the calves all the
oats and corn meal they will eat. Have
it in a box where they can get it at
all times Give them u little hay and
corn fodder and they will be ready
for the butcher at any time.
One advantage in using a Galloway
bull is that their calves mature quick
er than those of any other breed, and
by selling them when they are eight
or nine months old we get rid of them
before winter sets in. Last fell ] sold
eight months old for $4.15 per 100.
This is more than some two-year-olds
are worth. A black hornless calf OF
either of these breeds always tops the
| iSt
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1899-10-13
FARMER AND PLANTER.
FARMERS AND CREDIT.
crcasing Weight About the
Neck of the Farmer.

While the present financial condl-
tion of this southern country is any
thing but satisfactory, and the crop
outlook is not very encouraging, there
is one point that stands out in bold re-
lief, We may differ on many of the
causes and remedies for our troubles
hut we can all agree upon this one
1T is easier to borrow money than it
is TO pay it,
by borrowing money we wish to in
ciude all debt-making. If you buy on
time il is only another way of borrow
ing, 1t is easier TO buy on a credit than
it is to pay as you so,
Necessity may have much to do with
farmers making purchases on time.
But necessity does not always drive
us TO make these contracts.
We are apt to try to reason our
selves into believing That we must do
so That we can not do without the ar
ticles purchased on time. But we very
often deceive ourselves. If perchance
we are refused the credit we desire,
we very often find that we get along
about as well without the things we
thought necessary. And when payday
comes around and we have the money
and no debt to pay, we are better off.
Many time we could do just as well
without the guano we buy on time un-
til we are able to pay for it. The same
is true about one-half we buy on time.
We could do without it.
These guano notes, lien notes, mort
cages and open accounts, hang like a
weight around the neck of our ener-
gies,
There is great difference in the
spirit of the man who is toiling To
pay off u debt and the man who is
working to get money TO enjoy it when
he gets it.
The debts we make have depressed
MS until we hardly respect ourselves,
and hardly feel worthy of the respect
of others.
We do not wish to be misunderstood.
We recognize that credit is or ought to
be the market value of character.
When placed upon this basis and used
with care it is the very life-blood of
commerce.
To buy real estate or some perma-
ncnt tangible property on time at a
fair value and at reasonable interest is
all right, but the indiscriminate pur-
chase of all kinds of farm supplies,
dry goods and notions is all wrong.
II is suicidal for a farmer to buy
corn flour, meat and such like on time,
lie should grow these to use and to
sell. 'Tis folly for farmer to buy
dry goods, made of cotton at enormous
percentages, on time and devote all
his energies to growing cotton to sell
at less than cost.
This would never be the case if the
farmers paid cash and owned the crops
they made
The farmers who make n living at
home and sell surplus are always in
comfortable circumstances
| Cultivator.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1899-10-13
sheen breeding I'm the South.

The Introduction of the improved
breeds of sheep is creating a new in
terest in the southern states. Farmers
are organizing local sheep breeders
associations, and raising sheep for
both mutton and wool. With grass oil
the year round sheep are indispensa-
bic in the south, and will add millCls
to the diversified agricultural prosper
ity of the south.-DiXie Farmer
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1899-10-13
SAVANNAH, TENNESSEE, FRIDAY OCTOBER 13, 1899

next year. There is no man who has
garden patch or corn patch but can
prevent wilderness of ripe weeds in
his patch; without it, maybe, the man
who is poor enough not to have horse
or COW, but rich enough to half half
dozen children and quarter-dozen
dogs.-Cor. Farmers Home journal.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1899-10-13

Bramble-Dobbs thinks be is good
poker player, doesn't he?
Thorne-Yes, but it costs him good
deal of money 10 think So. N. Y. Jour
nal
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-05-20
g n. - TT @ II a.
Bears the n The Kind You Fave Always Bought
signature of E<XZzzzI

Mrs. T. J. Dryden returned
yesterday from a weeks visit to
Spokane and Rathdrum.
Mr.. Smith Field passed
through this morning on Ibis way
from. Iowa to Lewiston. Mrs. NJ.
W Crane, his daughter, was not
aware of his coming and was dis
appointed in not getting to see
him.
Mr. Timothy Callahan, father
of Mr. J. e. Callahan. is dangerous
ly i'll, and his recovery is not ex-
pected, Mr.. Callahan has been
quite i'll since last Novem bel, but
recently took relapse with Ia,
gripp, and owing to his advanced
age his recovery is despaired of.
Richard Turner, tie maker,
committed suicide last Wednesday
by taking an overdose of morphine.
He had been drinking heavily and
threatened self destruction on sew
eral occasions. He was too far
gone when the nature of his case
was discovered to revive him. He
WIS a man about 40 years Of age
and has been working in the tie
camps along the Great Northern
since the road was constructed,
making his headquarters at Sand
point much of the time. He was
addicted to the use of the dug
and is supposed to have ended his
career in a fit of DIES pondency.
Nothing is known of his people by
any one residing here.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-05-20
Public Schools OF Idaho and Kootenai
County.

Public Schools OF Idaho and Kootenai
County.
CHANGING over the last state re-
port of the superintendent of edu-
cation the following interesting
facts are noticed. In 1898 there
were 739 school districts in the
state and 64S school houses. To
teach the 29,735 children enrolled
there were S4S teachers, who were
paid S2O6, lO1 SO. The average
monthly wages was $47,47 and the
average cosC per pupil for instruc-
ton was Sc 45. Nearly S411,OOO
was receiveved for school purposes
and upwards of 1929 600 was ex-
pended. The bonded Indebtedness
of the schools of the state is a little
more than 100000 and the value
ofall school property is 1897, us 26.
KOoTENAI COUNTY.
Kootenai county, in educational
as we'll as other features, is
cracker jack" There are 81 school
districts, 81 school houses, 21S9
children between the ages of 8 and
21, of which 1861 are males and
1l2S are females. Seventy teach
ers, % male and AZ femaie, are en-
pl"yed and are paid an average
monthly wage of S49.73, the former
receiving %2.47 more per month
than the latter. The average daily
attendance is 1924 There was
paid teachers for the year 1898
%1S,57S 80, and $663,96 Was paid
paid for text books. being an aver
age cost per pupil of IS cents for text
books. 1t cost just $40 80 for instruc
tion per pupil. There was received
for school purposes from all sources
1876, $50 % and there WAS expended
$50, 1913 SO. The estimated value
of school property is S44, 5O7 80.
There were If male and % female
applicants for certificates; 7 first
grade certificates were issued, Is
second grade and II thild grade
certificates and Z permits were is
sued.