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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-08-14
VISITING AT BANrr.
Lieut.. COmmnnder st. John Furious
Over the Fake Interview.

BANFF. n. w. T.. Aug 13.-The friends
OF Senator Beveridge. OF Indiana. who IL
taking the waters in the Canadian ma
tional park. are crowding him with dis
patches OF inquiry concerning his health
10 all Of which the senator has answered
that he is well.
Lieut.. Commander Percy ST. John. Of II.
VI. s. Peacock. Is also here and can scarce
~ contain himself with indignation on ac-
count of his repu:ed criticism OF Gen. Otis
and the Filipino campaign. American pa
pers to hand. containing the reported in
ierview at Victoria have made the COM
mander furious. He denies the correctness
Of his interviews and has. through his at
torneys, demanded TO be righted.
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ae.ss1 tscsesse over 1885 the shipments
s.Sher for the frst half Of 1883 ex-
..;s.e those OF the previous year by
~ rssa white the shingie shipments
- = increase OF l.S3S cars. or. COM
~ both lumber and shingles. the In
~111s stvee total OF z.6oa cars Tor lsvs
- - 10 put the comparison In ssiil
Gssh1r say, the increased rail- shipments
~ ~ void. II coupled together as one
~ srnin. pfesent IN unbroken line OF
Ss a6ouf dirty miIes In length.
81 eSnnSrotive statement Of lumber ship
80 p 1oet u Ghown by the following:
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OLYMPIA. Aug. Estate Auditor
Cheetham has certified to the school ap-
portionment fund for August. This appor-
Torment is &2s3. 400 for the state being
$sss 900 more than for the last quarter. Tho
certificates will be Issued each county next
Monday. As several new districts have
been organized especially in Eastern
Washington counties, changes have been
made in the basis OF apportionment
The appcrtionment for this quarter ~
made upon last years reports OF attend
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-08-14

BOISE. Idaho. Aug i3-The rapid devel-
opmen. OF he god mining industry Is re-
fsrtesi In the increased deposits OF gold at
the United States assay ONCE here. These
have this year been running far above the
record OF any previous season. For the
week ending Angus. IL the amount was
81 4s4 the total for the cores bonding week
last year having beer s1 go.
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ESstv men wanted Immediately ~ our
ratrNaven canmeriss at h.x wages ard
steady employment Rsrnrt immediately
90 Pactac American FISHERIES Company
Yairhaysn.
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Daring the absence 90 Mr. and Mrs
Morton Atkinson froni their residence -
fGAa SIXTEENTH avenue yesterday morning
IRE csugh; IN a kinil3rg wool box an;
worked through into she wall A Siif,
alarm was ser: ~ ars tss apparatus re-
sDan1c8 promptly. The damage wac
atsssf rs
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IN able giving the rail- shipments Ia
esese, but the cargo table 10 rot. ow-
% delay In receipt OF returns from
~ mills. which are. however. small and
Sceld not materially alter the totals.
~ = follows.
.ss.v.- ssls Nielsen Min Co. con SIS fee. lumber.
.esSsssals -tian Haraor Commercial, Co., i.as. IA
- -Scrshwussrn Lumber Co. i.sss. oe
.sS, re West sid. NH Co. S.so feet lumser.
s1l's- sssssca Post Mil Ca. Ia sas fee, ,am-
- - ~. rockingham Hay Improvement Co,
sisss asia~a NH Co. $500 feet mm,4r
nsHssh " saAinssea Mn Co. 81 yss feet
e n.ls.s, -rars R,.kelsy NH Co. T.cs. xs
- se - iaeons NH Co. tAssss feet iamner.
-. y Paul nco<aa Lumber Co. SIN. 20
49, 49,, e Z. .na.,ssa Middleton sr,.ss fee.
II. y weett. ~ .ea hath: Ameriesa Lumber Co
- S,sd,s.- Puget MN Co. s.s.su fee. iam.
~ - s -: Puget Mil Co. ssa $50 fee. lumber
- e Northwestern Lumber Co. f.a7 ss fee,
II; M 49, sn Weed Lumber Co. ASA
A.
sssAad-fAcses Exrc.t Ga as xrx IT,, ,
q - 49, y :. of,-N North Bend Mn Co. ar .ao
- - y c.-vsctosia Lumber Mspufae-
E@, ~ - sset sumhsf
4 gsnls. n C-Ma<x,sy,l,s Lana. 4 s..r,
- net iasss>s. i.s.e.s lx.h
Cress-Arm Trade.
sa.Hs-arm trade IS assuming large
In the Pacific. Nor,hxss,
Ellis IN this city alone are ,nakius
q ~ ~ the material ard are crowd
~, 1 .asss tIr has been found TO
49, anees wood Tor telegraph ard .s,s
srmh ewing 10 rs-nh,n,t,o, -,
aurahslits and ilghtnsss The
4 ~ - pct large. but the stsct;sra,,ans
. 80 ss.ssasaiiy clear lumber and fhs
- n..ss are not any too heavy
& Rs ~ however. iies in the fac, that
g. MAJ sha a good deal OF ths.
uS g De worked 30 afvantax. in
~ srsss-arms. when o,h,rw,ss ,ha
'S'a es consigned To the burner
sites Csss Toe N.rh.
49, . 49, sites Ter mills ard factories
6Ims-y reach ef this city are ,n..cN
Asssrsc~ 30 less than fouY large rnant..
eessp 49, s..sshs having easlesesred n
- n ;hsse inten!.rg srx.,s.1'.' st .va
Ns.sars..s'e 70 secure io.atis,ns "a .hstr
VsaA - sas establishment, ~ u,st.h
~ Srvat deal 10 ;i,s .,,,...,,
~ saes 80 nf instances the price axk.s
~ ia -Ina%fty sas been r,r0aihgttve
- arr sr,S.. y that fa'end.ns parchas
q .sssnaa he pasd Assen-
tsss ana aFsns nanussctuesuy -
eAxa particularly al us 80.
Ma 'ss ard the .rttyss ~
MsFscsIaS So usucs, f.ynrshi.,
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British Columbia sawmill men In the
Kootenay and SLOGAN lake districts are
said TO be perfecting organizations for
mutual benefit and protection and TO se-
cure better prices for their output The
plans Of tho association include the es-
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Charles Nelson Sails for the Mouth
OF the Yukon.

Steam schooner Charles Nelson sailed
for ST. Michael, by way Of Vancouver.
last evening. She will have. when she
leaves the latter port. about twenty-five
passengers and LOO tons of freight Five
hundred tons of cargo and twenty pas
sengers we're taken from this port.
Among the Seattle passengers are Will
liam Walsh. chief engineer of the En-
pire transportation Company. and John
Ducey. a representative. OF the Frye
Bruhn Company. Walsh is en- route
north to inspect the Empire lines fleet
Of river steamers. which will. with the
close OF navigation. 60 into winter quar-
ters at ST. Michael. They include the
Victoria, Alaska. ST. Michael Seattle and
Empire. Ducey Is taking twenty head
of beef cattle TO Cape Nome.
Or. Marsh. a. United States army sur
geon, O. Burkhart. w Youert and G..
". Hicks go by the Nelson to Nome
City. where they will Join the United
States army hospital service.
Miss Selma Peterson. missionary. Is
also bound for Cape Nome. Gus Saifert.
another Nelson passenger. IL taking a
stock of general merchandise TO Cape
Nome. He will probably remain In the
district during the winter.
n The following first-ciass passengers
sailed from Seattle on the Nelson:
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xtnNEnrk Frs FAvnRlTE LINE

rNy Ns-t hesn ractffc and burlington
route VIA fsl1Isrgs - :ae only Asae orerat-
fnx through tours; ears between Puget
sound ard ths Missouri river through
xtssr~r< ssave Seattle Mondays ard FRI
DAYS Fer rates and reservations inquire
ag los ysslcr way.
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SAILING OF THE HUMBOLDT.
Takes q Herd of Kansas City Beef
Cattle for KI0ndike.

Steamship Humboldt. Capt. Bonifeid.
sailed for Lynn canal last night with fifty
passengers and cargo OF 600 tons. includ-
ing 10 heao Of beef cattle. which III. I.
Miller of this city. is shipping to Daw-
son. From Skagway the cattle will be
transferred to the White Pass railroad
and taken across to Bennett City and
thence 20 Dawson on river steamers.
All cattle intended for the kionaike mar
ket the Yukon officials have ordered. must
be slaughtered at Dawson under govern
ment supervision. The meat lie then m
spected and II found suitable a certificate
setting forth its wf1oesomeness Is issued.
The cattle Miller ia taking IN are tho
choicest that have been shipped TO the
Kioniike They average about 1880
pounds In weight and were purchased at
Kansas City Inc train on which the
cattle were shipped across the country
vr,3a =, .s said almost passenger time
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CRAWFORD & CoNOvER,
1a1 and 20 New York Block.


attention from capitalists and investors
from the East and foreign countries.
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Enlistment OF central selling office
at Nelson. through which the entire out
put Of the mills Is to be sold, the associa-
ton contributing 10 the necessary eN-
penses of maintenance. etc. upon a basis
OF the individual product of each MILL
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fAiu ehows IN Increase OF l466o003 feet
- r. and also an increase for each
Gsst6. except April, when 1898 shipments
$3.50 those % 1859 by 930. 900 feet.
- most remarkable increase has been
= IA cedar shingles. The table follow
ksakowe the number Of pieces shipped
- a. pes5o6 named for 1855 and 1899,
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ye1 can have the r-I mailed 20 yeur
CAMP address at the tame price II ID de-
lvsysd IN re city.
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d VII b noticed that the increase ag-
nuAtes ~ 900 pieces. or. as already
6Dled, ISe cars. Considering all, 1892 has
~ 4 record breaker In the lumber and
ln0ie business OF this state, and the
41BWtng at the close OF the year will no
64Ae b highly gratifying to those inter-
~. and promises to largely exceed 1898.
The Cargo Trade.
- cargo trade 10 also in a healthy
- satisfactory condition. as the follow
\ II aAtement will show The increase in
0Aents for the first six months Of this
1yef tho year previous aggregates
HAM feet This table shows the ship
qoS e lumber by months. with COM
DNgl1yo statement for 1888:
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Exports OF lumber from San Francisco
for the first six months OF this year ag-
gregated II go feet valued at 1884 245
against s,es4 90 feet at $i5Ss40 for the
same period In 1895
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OLYMPIA. Aug IRISH Commissioner
Little Il in the city calling upon Gov. Ror-
ers and other state officers. Mr. Little a
en- his way 30 tnsrec: the Skokorilsh fish
hatchery.
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ODD Fellows excursion 20 Victoria
August 1871. Round trip. s.
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rRy Hssss stoves rev dialax ssaA
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-06-07
Curing Peavines.

"A contributor to the Epitomist after
referring to the common method of
scattering the peavines after Wetting
on barn floors and lofts and under
sheds or in layers with rails between,
gives the following for open air stack
ing.
Where there is neither barn nor
shed, peavines can be cured in hollow
stacks. The way to construct hol-
low stack is, first lay down two or
three big rails or poles, cross lay with
rails so as to have the vines six inches
to one foot from the ground. Get sew
eral small poles and set them up so
they will stand out at the base and
come together at the top, cone-shaped;
tie the tops together. Stack the pea
vines round the poles about two feet
thick, leaving the center open, so you
have air space under and through the
center Of the stack. Do not make the
stack too thick around the poles, else
it may heat. The vines should be cut
and cured in the sun until they are
we'll wilted before stacking. If it
should turn wet cover the stack with
canvas. Let stand in the stack until
cured, when it should be hauled into
shelter. Pea hay will not keep stand
ing out in the weather. The hollow
stack is only intended to cure, not to
keep standing out. Pea hay can be
baled and sold at fair price, and Is
fast coming to the front as first
class feed for horses.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-06-07

Ohio Station with Strawberries. One
blot was hoed just enough to keep
down the weeds, and another was
treated in the same manner, except
That a cultivator was used instead of a
hoe In either case no regard was had
for weather conditions, but the work
was done when necessary to prevent
the weeds from getting a start. An
other plot was cultivated twice Il week
when the weather permitted, and in
every case Immediately after every
rainfall In the case of very light
showers the ground WAS cultivated at
once before the sun and wind could
disSipate the moisture.
Soil samples were taken from all
the pilots at intervals during the sea-
son, and the amount of moisture de-
termined. There we're times when
There was enough moisture in all Of the
plots, but the hOed plot always be-
came dry sooner than the others. The
plot which was given thorough culture
held more moisture during the entire
season than either of the others, the
excess at times amounting to five hun
dred barrels of waiter more per acre
than the hoed plot contained. The diff
ference in the growth of the plants
was plainly discernible. The hoed plot
showed the least growth the cui1vat-
ed plot made a good growth.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-06-07
Treatment Of Peach Trees.

G. w. Morrill,, in Southern Cultiva-
tor, urges the removal Of all dead wood
from peach trees, and forcing of new
growth for next years crop. The
method he proposes is by planting cow
peas, heavily fertilized by broadcast
ing on each acre in the fall two pounds
of ground bone and 300 pounds of
phosphoric acid, the former to give the
color and the latter the flavor. The MI
trogen for growth will come from
the air through the peavines and roots.
He also recommends cutting back
the last years growth and in the case
of old trees, saving Of the limbs to
within two feet of the trunk, to force
out new bearing wood. Constant watch
should be kept on the borers and thin
ming of the fruit to get desirable size.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-06-07
What a Half Acre Garden Will Do.

If there is on the farm a good gar
den; says Farmers Voice, filed with
all the varieties of vegetables that may
be grown in the locality there is an
immense saving in the consumption of
meat, flour, and potatoes, these being
substituted by the vegetables, which
are easily produced, but not so easily
turned into cash. "A half acre garden
will produce enough vegetables for the
largest family and for at least five
months in the year some of these are
available every day in supplying the
table with wholesome food that is both
appt tizing and nutritious please
observe that wholesome, appetizing
and nutritious and are not terms that
are interchangeable. An article Of
food may combine all three or any one
or two Of them without the others.
This garden produce is invariably
wholesome, appetizing and nutritious,
and may be produced at less actual
cost for the amount Of food value than
almost any other food products. This
being true, the garden is a money saw
ing institution as we'll as a promoter
of good health. No farm is we'll equip
ped that has not ON it a vegetable gar
den of ample size and in high state
of fertility.
One Of the greatest distinctions be-
tween a Northern and Southern home
is the lack of the family garden in the
latter. The Ruralist intends to keep
before the Southern farmer what he
can make by having a complete vege-
table garden or what he is losing by
not having one, until the discredit of
not having one is wiped out.
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Beggar Weed.

Replying to many inquiries concern
ing beggar weed, the editor of the Ru-
ralist wri tes:
Of the value of beggar weed as a
hay crop and soil improver there lis no
question. The hay, when properly
made, is superior, not only to cowpea
hay but to the northern hay, either
from clover or timothy, and costs, af-
ter the ground is once seeded down,
only one-third to oneIfourth as much
per ton.
1t is admirably adapted to sandy and
light clay soils in the South. Cleaned
or hulled seed sown in June is ready
for first cutting in August, and should
be cut as soon as the plant shows signs
of blooming If left till the plant
blooms the leaves will drop off the
stalks in curing and makes the hay of
less value. In cutting leave three to
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-06-07
Potato Bug Destroyers.

f. A. Green, Waynaka, Okla, writes
Farmers Voice a description Of the
destroyer:
"They lay their eggs on the potato
leaf sometimes right among the pota-
to bug eggs AS SOON as the little in
sects hatch they begin to prey upon
the eggs, and as they grow larger they
stick their beaks Into the potato bugs.
extract their juices and cast away
their dead bodies. They even tackle
full-grown bugs. They almost totally
destroyed the potato bugs i'm this
neighborhood last season. Their eggs
are about the size of the potato bug
eggs, but they are black in color.''
1t is to be hoped this benefactor to
the potato grower will extend rapidly.
Entomologists should secure and dis
tribute it widely.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-06-07
Coffee Raising in Puerto Rico.

Coffee raising, although the leading
industry of Puerto Rico, is still carried
on in a most primitive fashion. When
the beam is planted, slips of quick
growing plants are set out to furnish
shade the first year, and small trees
are planted to afford a more perhna-
nent shelter for the future. The cof-
fee PLAINS come into bearing the Sec
ond year, but are not in their prime
until the fifth. The pickers come in
Odtober-w1lole families, from father
and mother to the youngest children
and work from early dawn until
dusk. The earnings, even of the head
of the family are seldom more than
fifty cents day.
The outer pulp is removed from the
coffee berry by "a ROLLER studded with
hObnails, revolving in a case just large
enough to allow the kernel to- pass
while the pulp is scraped off.
The process of drying is still extern
sively performed by the heat of the
sum- large cement floors being laid, on
which the coffee is spread in shallow
heaps. In one town the entire public
square is leased every week day to a
single dryer. A hundred men file out
every morning to spread the coffee,
and the approach of a shower precip-
itates a scramble THAT could be dupH-
Gated only on New England farm in
haying time.
The skin or hull, which envelopes
the kernel, is removed by machinery
as simple as the 'pulping MILL" The
coffee is then rotated in great cylin-
ders With a little blued water, which
imparts the color and polish de-
manded by the French markets,
where most of the Puerto Rican pro-
duct is handled.
Picking over by hand, and sorting
according to grade, make the coffee
ready for the shippers, to whom it is
brought on pack mules, over almost
impossible roads.
The advent of American enterprise
will doubtless stimulate the coffee in
Puerto Rico, and will certainly intro
duce the product for consumption in
the United States. In quality it is
said to be equal to the best mixture
of Java and Mocha, and its price IS
much 1ower.-Youth's Companion.
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE Z, 1899.
Cultivating and Irrigating strawoer-

In a recent bulletin issued by che
OHIO Experiment Station we find the
following:
Strawberries require Am abundalce
off water in all stages Of growth, but
this is most easily accomplished dur
ING the first season by proper atten-
ton to the preparation of the ground
and by cultivation.
EARLY and continuous cultivation
saves the moisture to a greater OK
tent than is usually supposed. 1t has
been found that the loss of moisture
from unplowed soil may be in excess
on that from cultivated soil to AN
amount equal to an inch and half of
rainfall in a week. A man and team
with a sprinkling cart could not re-
place the water on an acre as fast as
it escapes by evapora tfOn from the soil
when it goes off at that rate, if ne had
to haul the water One-fOurth Of a mile.
The Importance off cultivation after
rains is we'll known, but in practice
cultivat ion af ter light showers is gen
orally neglected. This is because the
SOIL does not become compact and no
crust forms a&ter Slight showers, and
THE necessity of cultivation does not
at once become apparent.
A slight wetting of dry soil, how
ever increases the upward flow OF the
water in the SOIL hence there is more
water added to the surface soil at such
times than comes from the rain. The
sun and wind soon dissipate the slight
RAINFALL and along with it much of the
waiter which came from below, l@aV-
inc the soil drier than it was before.
AS the two are generally used the
cultivation is a better machine for irri-
cation than the sprinkling cart. The
cultivat tor, if RIGHTLY used, saves mOis-
ture, while the sprinkling cart is more
Iikely to be the means of wasting it.
Working on The basis of the above
rules, an experiment was tried at the
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-06-07
Save Your Trees.

The late freeze, although causing
great destruction to orange trees and
growing vegetable crops was not an
unmiXed evil. Among the items that
MAY be placed to it's credit was the
destruction of the Spanish moss that
ruins so many of our fine forest trees
by smOthering the foliage 1t is true
this moss will grow again and that
the dead moss, Eif permitted to hang
upon the branches, will he almost as
injurious as the living plant, but the
growth is for time checked and the
dead moss will be much easier re-
moved than the tough, growing
strands.
The present moss Will not again
grow, but new plants will start. 1t
will require the new growth several
years, however, to attain the length
and mass of the moss destroyed and
lin the meantime if the dead matter
is removed, the foliage and branches
of the trees will acquire new vigor
and be better prepared to- withstand
the renewed attacks of their enemy in
it's insidious but fatal progress.
THE old claim that the funereal
sprays of moss add beauty to the trees
can scarcely be urged in favor of the
lifeless and brown masses, so we hope
Those who see beauty in the living de-
stroyer of our trees Will be enabled to
sacrifice it's ugly REMAINS in the inter
est OF the beautiful foliage THAT is the
browning glory of our mobile forest
trees.
The only resultant loss from the
destruction of the moss will beI in
shortening it's supply for several years
as an ARTICLE of commerce. and this
will not OCCUR the present year, as the
dead moss for IA time will be just as
Valuable for the uses to which it is de-
voted as the living article, but in time
it will decay and become brittle and
make hay while the sun Shines and
they can recoup themselves for the
shortage in supply that will prevail
the next two or three years unless
such freezes as that of February, 1899,
should occur again. Let us, in the
fnterest of the fruit and vegetable
in MOSS hope that such temperatures
will not again prevail.-Daytona Jour
nal.