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Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1899-05-10


Farmers Loan & Trust Company, y years
OF age was shot and killed Wednesday by
James Neal Plumb, in New York.
The japanese steamship Sakura Maru
has arrived from Callao, Peru, where she
landed 800 japanese emigrants from
Yokohama.
The government has decided to establish
a military post at Pyramid harbor in
alaska.
General Charles P. Eagan, prominent
in the army beef scandal, has sailed for
Honolulu.
The final organization of the Rubber
Goods Manufacturing Company has been
completed.
A terrific explosion took place Thurs
day in the mixing house OF the California
Powder works.
Mrs. Augustus Styles shot and killed
her mother, Mrs Catherine Schultz Thurs.
day in Chicago.
Hall Adali, the Turkish wrestler, met
| defeat Thursday at the hands of Jack
Carrick, of Wisconsin, champion of the
world.
with heavy rain storm Sunday.
A violent windstorm swept through
the western part of st. Louis early
Sunday.
John r. Lochhead, of San Francisco,
one of the best known physicians of
the orient. is dead.
w. E. Brinckley was shot and in
EiIlaJ hXy IVilIia,, NN;alapd
Bayfield, Col, Sunday.
General Otis has returned the Span
ish artillery and money captured in
Manila by the Americans.
The nitro glycerine house of the
California Powder Works exploded,
two killed, several wounded.
Edward Goodfellow, for many years
connected with the United States coast
and geodetic survey, is dead.
The powder mill plant of the Potts
vile, Pa, Water Company blew up, de-
| stroying IS tons of powder.
Rudyard Kipling has been offered
and has agreed to accept the degree of
LII. d. from McGill university.
DR.. William Lambert Russell is dead
at Barre, Mass. of mumps, aged 80.
He was the oldest Harvard graduate.
Hugh Cavanaugh, aged 25, was killed
by a basket ball at the New Jersey
Athletic club last week in New York
city.
A fire destroyed the Odd Fellows
building In Santa Cruz, Cal, causing a
loss of about $4,000. covered by insur-
ance.
Professor E. Benjamin Andrews, for
mer president of Brown university
will be elected president of the Color
ado state agricultural college.
Articles of incorporation OF the Cen
eral Carriage Company with an au-
thorized capital of $20,O00,O0O have
been filed in New Jersey.
Cyrus Dolph, of Portland, has been
recommended by the examining board
at the Preside for a second lieuten-
ancy in the regular army.
Ex-Internal Revenue Collector Wei.
born remains in the county Jail at San
Francisco, having been unable to Sc
cure bondsmen.
a mob of 1000 strikers and sympa-
thizers made 1t practically impossible
to operate street cars with safety in
west Duluth and they are abandoned.
The navy department has made an
allotment OF the appropriation fund of
$5o,ooo Tor the assistance OF the naval
militia OF the states supporting such
organizations.
Jim Murphy, the comedian, is alarm
ingiy SICK In Wisconsin. The temper
ature Is 1O2 and his lungs are much
sorer. A Chicago physician has been
telegraphed for.
Captain Sir Herbert Scarisbrick
Naylor-Leyland, Bart, who had repre-
sented the Southport division OF south
mons In the liberal interests since last
husus., 10 ueau'
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1899-05-10
officer and MaIefactor Dend.

Mount Vernon, KY, May deputy
Sheriff Morrison was shot dead by Ike
Bird while trying to arrest him. After
the murder Bird sent bullet through his
own heart, expiring instantly.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1899-05-10

Los Angeles, CAL, May "a well which
spouts large column of water from 200
to 400 feet high has been opened near
Whittier in this county. The well was
Icing drilled in the hofe of striking oil.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1899-05-10

New York, May 5.-Paul Lawrence
Dunbar, the negro poet. is seriously III
with pneumonia in this city.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1899-05-10
PugiIist Norton Dead.

New York, May 5.-Charles Norton,
once a famous pugilist is dead at his
home in Newark, N. j., aged Al years.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-04
REVIEW OF THE MARKETS.
CONDITION OF GENERAL TRADE
DURING THE PAST WEEK.

A Light Business Done in the lead
ing Departments of Trade-Prices
Held Fairly Steady and i'm Some
Items Were Administration I'm
chnnged-Spirits and ROsin High
er-Other Markets Steady.
Savannah, March S.-The bank cleariugs
for the past week show a decrease as
compared with the corresponding week
last year. Business, as a rule, was quiet
The cotton market remained quiet and
steady, with no change in the quotations
Spirits turpentine was advanced 15c, bat
the offerings and sales were small. Rosin
was the most prominent, the prices ad-
vancing on nearly all grades, with a fair
demand for the offerings. The wholesale
markets were fairly active. Eggs took a
flight and advanced to So cents for a
day or two, but declined to normal price
late in the week. Other markets showed
no material changes. The following re-
sumo of the different markets will show
the tone and the quotations at the close
to-day:
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-04

New Orleans. March 3.-Secretary Hes
ters weekly New Orleans Cotton Elk
change statement shows a decrease in the
movement into sight compared with the
seven days ending this date last year, 81 =
600, an increase over the same period year
before last of $4,000 For the 1874 days of
the season that have elapsed the aggre-
gate is behind the 1874 days of last year
212,0O0, and ahead of the same days year
before last 1.7s9 600.
The total movement for the 1874 days from
Sept. 1, to date is 94549 1853, against 1857, :
03S last year. The movement since Sept
! shows at all United States ports 1885, -
$40, against 7514.593 last year. Interior
stocks in excess of those held at the close
of the commercial year, 1882, against
Az, 307 last year Foreign exports for the
week have been 170S21, against 240,35 last
year. making the total thus far for the
season, 5.914369, against 5,544.575 last year.
The total taxings of American mills, North
and South and Canada thus far for the
Asa last year.
These include 1888 by Northern spin
ners, against /, S32,2 99.
Stocks at the seaboard and the twenty
nine leading Southern interior centers have
decreased during the week 60,027 bales,
against a decrease during the correspond
ing period last season Of 1929, and are
now 42l ,562 smaller than at this date IN
1885,
Including stocks left ovdr at ports and
interior towns from the last crop and the
number of bales brought into sight thus
far, the new crop the supply to date is
9,722, So against 9,7S3,5S7 for the same Ier-
iod last year.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-04
NAVAL STORES.

Spirits Turpentinc-An advance OF Nc to
44c for regulars was the feature in this
market during the past week. The offer
ings and sales were light, however and
the business presented quiet appearance
To-day, at the Board of Trade, the market
was bulletned firm at 44c, with sales of "a
casks. The receipts were l05 casks.
Rosin-There was a general advance
throughout the lines during the past week
There was a good demand for the offer
ings, and, In this line, there was more
activity than in any other leading depart
ment. To-day the market was buletined
Arm at the Board OF Trade at yesterdays
outside prices. The receipts were 2,S7s bar
rels. The sales were 6lS barrels.
Quotations-At the close OF the market
to-day the following quotations were bull
Ietined at the Board OF Trade;
Spirits Turpentine-I'irm, Hc.
Toqfn-Firrn
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-04
worlds visible supply.

New Orleans, March S.-Secretary Hes
ter's statement Of the worlds visible sup
ply of cotton shows a decrease for the
week just closed of 74,SSS bales, against a
decrease of 81, 313 last year. The total visI-
BILE Is 4,644l3l. against 4,7190l9 last week.
and 4.331 SOL last year.
OF this the total of American cotton Is
s11 ,131, against 4iO1,O19 last week, and
4,071, 901 last year, and of all other kinds,
including Egypt, Brazil, India, etc, $685.
600, against 31S000 last week, and 10000
last year.
The face of the figures as shown above
indicates a normal decrease for the week
of 1855 American, and a decrease of IA,
Ss8 of all kinds. These, however, include
plus corrections at Norfolk most II not
all of which occurred prior to this week.
Therefore the actual reduction for the
week would be without the Norfolk plus
correction 122,6S7 American, and 107,037 of
all kinds.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-04
FLORIDA.

mere Is considerable activity ar,or.st
phosphate men in Polk county ana 80.
500 sooa indications that there win go, =,
'0'e mines in operation in this countv 'e
ne Barlow Courier-Informant hoe
0uSeu such an interest among tho esrn,
~ r Ul Folk county that they have oeraod
conseI, an enormous acreage of rice ana
eDl' quently II has Induced narttes NV ~
W d rice mill TO clean the product
al al ane early hour Monday mornine tna
o .po' OF the Plant System Railroad a.
te Ina eight miles north OF Clear W.
tho "as totally destroyed by fire win I'll
~, contents; and also a boy ca ioas o.,
~. oranges which stohl on H. 1917, 800.
con, T,egraph lines were also burned ana
m Se1ariunication with the North NV t enc
Tan "a'er In the Hllsboro river above
pa Is now very high. There Is a lar,ar
coi, qne rushing down from the nnTer
O. now than was ever seen t upper
cors...ue night after the breolstn. - ~
eas.i,.il iers Dam. This is caused hv ~ e.e
fs,. rams which have fallen ~ ~. 1ue e1
ana weeks The water wines o,,t ~. .ne Iast
''er entirely oueh OF the
"eappfe growers around st. Peters
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-04
GETTING READY TO BUILD.
The Recent Freeze Believed TO Have
Killed Many Pine Trees.

Killed Many Pine Trees.
Thomasvile, Ga, March S-The Triton.
brownsville and Gulf Railroad people
who are about to build from Triton 10
brownsville, are crowding matters. I'm
less at least fifteen miles of the road are
completed by July l next their charter
will expire, and the new charter grant
ed last week to the Geor-
gia Northern and will take
precedence. Work Will begin
within the next thirty days.
Surveyors are in the field running lines
now, presumably to locate the best one.
The belief Is growing that the late cold
has really killed or blighted many pine
trees. The straws are turning yellow. and
will drop. A. NJ. Watson, the big turpen-
tine operator told the Morning News COR
RESPONDENT that he had cut down one of
these trees that was six inches in diane
ter and that the wood showed that the
tree was dead. A great danger is that the
worms may get into these dead trees and
spread to the surrounding green ones. 1t
is well known fact that
sometimes this will occur and
several acres of trees are some
times killed in that way, however, the in
tense cold may have destroyed the eggs
of the fly which breed these worms. and
loss from that source may be escaped
The Kieffer pear trees in many instan-
ces. now promise to bloom and some BIOS
SONS are coming out even on the lie Coute
trees. Very few pears, however, can be
reasonably expected. The plums bid fair
to do alktle better. Much of the oat land
has been plowed up and put in melons
and that crop will be large.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-04
Has Been Drunk Fifty Years.
From the Chicago Chronicle.

Vanceburg, KY, Feb. 2S.-Capt Arch
Horner. who Is widely known as one of
Kentucky's most picturesque characters, is
dying. He claims to have been drunk fifty
years. and is now 10. His house, double
one, is on the line between Lewis and
Greenup counties He has sold whisky for
many years. and when indicted in Green
up he walks to the opposite end of the
house, and is in Lewis county. Indicted
in Lewis county, he goes to his bedroom
and Is In Greenup county
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-04

Liverpool March S-Followlng are the
weekly cotton statistics: Sales, 81 900
bales; sales, American, 5000. Trade taxi
ings, 1900; actual exports, 17000 import,
total, 1900; import. American, 10000;
stocks, total, 1,7S5,O00; stock, Amer
lean, 166S.0O0; afloat, total, 174,-
600; ahoat. American. 10000: sales for
speculation. 400; purchases for export, A.
100.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-04
DRY GOODS.

New York. March S.-The demand for
all descriptions of cotton goods keeps up
we'll Business is checked by short sup-
plies and reserve Of sellers on forward con
tracts. Tone is strong throughout and
prices tend upwards. Print cloths quiet,
but no good offerings al present prices.
Wooden goods quiet and without change.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-04

Charleston, $. C. March S-Turpentine
market firm at 4ic; sales none. Rosin
steady, unchanged; sales none.
Wilmington, N. c.. March 3.-Sprts tur-
pentine firm, 4444ihc; receipts Il casks.
Rosin firm, voc and 95c; receipts 52s. Crude
turpentine firm, 81 IS and So 10; receipts. 81
Tar firm, $.O0; receipts, 252.
New York. March S.-Rosin steady at
$.SO. Turpentine, steady at 46Ac.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-04
ono WAY Out.-sunday School Teacher

One Way Out.-Sunday School Teacher
(wishing 10 show how easily George Wash
ington might have falsihed)-Now, chill
dren. little George didn't know but that
he'd be severely whipped by confessing
that he chopped down the cherry-tree
What might he have done In order to keep
peace with his father?
fatsy-Buried the Ratchet, mum.-Judge.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-04
COTTON.

The local market during the past week
was duh and uninteresting. There was
very little doing. and the quotations were
unchanged. To-day the market opened
and closed unchanged with no sales.
The following were the official spot quo
tatons at the close of the market, at the
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-04
wEEKLY COTTON pEPoRrs.

Comparative cotton statement for the
week ending March g. 1899, and March T.
1895:
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-04

Comparative statement of net receipts
at all the ports from Sept. l. 1895 TO Fri
day evening, March g. 1899 and from Sept.
l, 1897, TO Friday March T. 1899:
Receints since Sent l. 1890 1905
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-04

1899. 1898.
Net receipts OF all u. S.
ports for this week $50. 9s,5sf 14s 100
Total receipts .............7 1872 SOB 7429,6il
Exports for the week ...... 1891 225, SO8
Total exports TO date ......5,S43,144 5A0,7gf
Stocks at Y. s. ports $50. 76I .9l5 ]. 1Sg. $50
Stocks at interior towns -. 1873 Oes l79 Oo4
Stocks at Liverpool .......1,7s5,O 900 1.2O3,OO0
Stocks OF American afioat
for Great Britain ......... 10000 2O0O00
Comparative statement of net receipts
at all ports during the week ending Fri
day evening, March 3. 1S99 and during
the same week last year:
1899 1893,
Galveston ...... 49,. .......l l8i02 2s. 5s7
New Orleans ............ ...... 2S72il 57,O92
Mobile .....~... .".... ...... s,47o 4.si5
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-04

turpenune, firm at S7lSc Rosin. firm,
A, Il. c, $25; d. SIPS; e, Sl.3O; +, $40;
G, H.i5Gl.50; II. Sl65; I, si.65; X. Sl.75:
NJ. N.So; NJ $3.50; w G. $2O5: w w. $3.50.
Receipts and Exports-The total receipts
for the past week were SSs casks spirits
turpentine and 1888 barrels rosin. The
exports were $50 casks spirits turpentine
and 1852 barrels rosn, moving as follows:
To New York. Ss5 casks spirits mrpentine
and S,S2 barrels rosn; 10 Philadelphia, 162
casks spirits turpentine and Az barrels
rosln; 10 Boston, JOG casks spirits turpen-
tine and S96 barrels rosn; to Baltimore
casks spirits turpentine and S,Ol9 barrels
rosin; to Rotterdam, 200 casks spirits tur-
pentine and Clio barrels rosin: to Odessa,
$3.50 barrels rosn; to Genoa, $3.50 barrels
rosin; TO Hamburg 500 casks spirits tur-
pentine and 6,756 barrels rosin; to Gutu-
jewski, $500 barrels rosin; to the interior
265 casks spirits turpentine and 1,lG0 bar
rels rosin
Receipts, shipments and stocks from
April l, 1893, to date, and to the corre-
spending date last year:
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-04

Stock of cotton at all ports, March 3,
1899 and on the same day of the week last
vaars
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-07-05
Florida Beggarweed.

Floridians have heard much of beg
garweed. but the United States De-
partment of Agriculture has just is
sued a bulletin on this now popular
forage plant, and we reproduce por-
ton of it herewith:
Florida beggar weed is an erect annual,
a native of he West Indies, and perhaps
also Of southern Florida. 1t is a legumi-
nous plant with rather woody stalks from
three to or ten feet high, bearing an
abundant LEAKAGE above and when in
flower tipped with much-branched erect
pancles, the ascending lateral branches
often eight ito twelve inches long. The
seeds are borne in many-jointed prickly
pods which break apart at maturity and
are carried about by sticking to The bod
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-07-05
VOL XVI, No. 27. Whole No. 1379 Dc

why we should not duplicate the pro-
duct of Sumatra, with the added adj
vantage that the Florida grown Su-
ma ira tobacco acquires delightful
flavor that is more agreeable to the
average smoker than the partly rotten
aroma Of Havana tobacco. | say rot
ten aroma, because much of the
stronger Havana tobacco is fermented
to a degree approaching decay to get
rid of the nicotine.
The second degree of north latitude
district. There ''transplanting begins
begins about the last of March and is
continued until the beginning of June. -
Therefore, counting from the Dist of
March. the sun strikes the district
with an angle of three degrees; in
April of five; in May of thirteen; in
June of twenty-one; in July of thir-
teen, and in August of five, that being
the growing season there. The sur. OF
these solar obliquities for these six
months is sixty, an average solar in
tensity of ten degrees.
In Florida the growing season for
Sumatra tobacco begins in May and
ends with July. For latitude twenty
nine the suns rays strike with an OBJ
liquity of thirteen degrees for May;
five degrees for June; thirteen for
July. The sum of these is thirty one,
With a practical average of ten de-
grees. just as in Sumatra
Before tobacco was cultivated in
Sumatra Florida produced the finest
wrappers in the world, the seed of
which the Dutch carried to Sumatla
where they initiated the Florida pro-
duct. This statement is sometimes ac-
cepted with considerable incredulity,
but the fact is as above stated, and
ought to be enough to satisfy the rank
est Thomas in the bunch that when
we have favorable rains in May and
June, or with irrigation until the rainy
season begins, the average solar con-
ditions of Florida and Sumatra are
Identical Otto @. Butterweck.
Brooksville, Fla.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-07-05

For Florida Agriculturist:
Florida's Climate Duplicated in
Eumatra
1T is we'll known that the quality
and prosperity of vegetation is de
pendent upon the intensity of the suns
rays Taking this as cue let us COM
pare the latitude of Florida with those
of Cuba and Sumatra and see what is
revealed thereby.
The Pinar del Rio tobacco district of
Cuba lies in about twenty-five degrees
north latitude. In that district tObac
co is planted in December. For ap-
proXimate calculation we will count
from December 21st when the sun be-
gins it's northward journey of nearly
eight degrees per month on the aver
age At that time the sun is forty-fve
degrees south of the Cuba tobacco dis
trict; thirty seven in January; twenty
nine degrees in February; twentX;One
degrees Ill March, and rs degrees i'll
april This allows four full months
for the principal tobacco growing that
is done there Adding these items and
dividing by five gives Twenty-Five de-
grees as the average distance Of the
sun during the tobacco growing season
of Cuba
To obtain the same average solar IN
fiuence ON tobacco in Florida it should
be planted during the month of Jan
uary, as far north as township six
south. This is practically impossible
on account of the late frosts, and to-
bacco as planted generally receives the
suns rays with a greater intensity
than in Cuba and ought to be relative
ly better than Cuba tobacco.
Take the twenty ninth degree of
north latitude, from New Smyrna, De-
Land, Lake Wier, ETC., as representing
a medium line for the state, and the
tobacco growing season for the state
from March to July, and we receive
the suns rays with an intensity of
twenty-nine degrees for March; TWEEN
UN-Ol1c 1OT n lulICCCu IOl NAdy hN Z
for June, and thirteen for July. These
figures give us a total of eighty-one de-
grees or an average Of sixteen degrees
so that, as matter of fact, Florida
grown tobacco receives double the
amount of intense sunshine that Cuba
tobacco receives; and, as before stated,
it ought to be, and will be found, rela-
lively better than Cuba tobacco Of the
same age and after curing.
SO much for Cuba tobacco as COM
pared with Florida tobacco. What
does a further investigation reveal
when we compare Florida and Su-
matra.
Startling as it will strike you, Flor
ida can duplicate the solar ray average
of Sumatra with nice perfection emo,
with irrigation during May and part
of June, there appears to be no reason
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-01-11

IL Is difficult To understand why there
should be so persistent an opposition in
Washington TO the proposed civil gov
eminent changes In Alaska IL Alaska
we're an Indian territory, which IL is
not: II II were populated for the greater
part b. men incapable Of seif-govern-
rnent. which II Is not: il IL were not
likely 10 become a ,hickly and perrna~
nently settled community. the question
Of extending the privilege 81 liquor IT.
esnse would be altogether more serious.
Certainly "a district inhabited by
American clt1zens with an Indian con-
tingent already 80 far subordinated as
20 have become indispasabiy second
AIRY. in entitled 10 ask and receive Of
congress the liberty of local govern
raent. the liberty IF determining prompt
~ and withou; reference 40 remote and
confusing sources II authority the ques-
tons which constantly arise for ADJUST
ment wherever men gather together in
large numbers.
The Alaska residents have asked for
the repeal q the uquor exclusion act.
They have had sufficient sxpertmsylt
with hts operation 70 know whether or
not II works 20 the disadvantage Of thu
territory Their conclusions ere worthy
If congressional consideration
The mining ear1rs - the territory. me
ashing districts and all sections have
PASSED the period when disorder ard
ypiyers and belts ard dead sseu for
breakfast 10 mare tine tbs streets ~
Skagway. Juneau. Dyea and eIssw here
than they ia the streets 81 Seattle n
q New York or ~ the national capital
Local officers have enforced order Men
d. not consresase In The FALCONS and
Shoas out the lights for the san % the
noise ara tha intexicataou q the Wits
NY. Surs~skinw and con men are nf, tse
masters e TIE towns on the can~
trAry. ;ae inhabitants arr busy. fhriftx.
Araeriesn-l.te. engaged in Tire honest
p'srSnt, IF weslsh. seeking peace aud
hos1a 3eyeia seyssent
TT'hgtrs Is not s9es a migratory popuia-
tszn ss 80 warrant = fear that a. an ear
~ Period esere VIII ~ an exo3as apt
q reTers{on - snssYAn domination The
'nlres are 800 laexs Ard weu establish
80. thgsv atos so-s uae xplereyt - Yergg.gt
sAe belief ,Ast ;eey Wit seoa D. az
hAvssed- The resources eeher thau min.
crAt sr~ nugaevoes ara couis >uprsrs
larse nanstess q white peogle eatirely
snssnSeasns 81 the mines & ragAnsn
70 former conditions is unhelsevatsse ana
unlikefv.
AZ the eettogn ~ sne matter Mss x
aserw question ~ tusssce - Americas
e4sAssGs- Essend 10 tsera tas privilege