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the establishment of an independent form

the establishment Of an independent form
Of government
Attention Is called to the fact that the
census will not be completed until Dec.
i and as the Spaniards have. under
the treaty, until April next to decide
whether they will become citizensd of
the island. it will not be possible until
that time to. hold general elections to
determine upon the future government
of the island. The question of annexa-
ton is, therefore, left open.
Great stress is laid upon the improve
ment in the island during the wear. not
only commercially and agriculturalIy, but
also In the sanitary condition of the
cities and towns
President Mckinley recommends that
civil government Immediately replaces the
military in Porto Rico-a civil governor
10 be appointed and a council or legisla-
ture to be elected by the people, prop
erty and educational qualifications to be
prescribed for voters
AS to Hawaii, the president suggests
immediate legislation to put in effect a
territorial form of government and the
modification Of the pending bills to COR
respond more nearly with the present
government Of the island.
The Hague conference is to be pointed
TO with satisfaction, and a statement
made that the treaty agreed to at this
conference will be submitted at once to
the senate. Qualification is expressed
over the final settlement of the Vene-
zuelan boundary controversy.
Samoa comes in for a large share of
attention, the exciting events Of the
year are reviewed and the statement
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TEXAS CATTLE AT 1915.

A load of nineteen steers, averaging
1,846 pounds, bred and fed in Texas, sold
at the Chicago stock yards last week at
$6.35 per 100 pounds. They were three
quarter Shorthorns. Another lot, the
SAMSON Shorthorn steers from the San
Antonio show, brought $6.75 on Mondays
Chicago market.
This statement serves to bring forward
again in a somewhat startling manner
the fact that Texas cattle growers have
been making astounding progress during
the past few years in the Improvement
of their herds. 1t has not yet dawned
upon the average farmer and breeder
Of the central West that Texas has for
ever discarded the old-fashioned Long
horn. By persistent use of well-bred
bulls the he' ds of the Lone Star state
have been brought to a degree of ex-
cellence not yet fully comprehended in
the North. While the farmers of the
corn belt have been allowing their cattle
stocks to deteriorate in quality the far
sighted owners of the ranches Of the
Southwest have been making giant
strides in the direction of Improvement
Indeed, 1t was only with difficulty that
typical specimens of the old Longhorns
could be obtained for exhibition pur-
poses at the late international show at
San Antonio.
If the owners of the cheap grazing
lands of the far West can afford to grade
up their cattle to the market-topping
point, what shall be said of those who are
still seeking to make the farm pay in the
upper Mississippi valley without any
effort to increase the weight and feeding
quality Of their stock? The time has
come when no farmer can count him
self rich enough to support the luxury of
scrub cattle Indifference as to the
quality of farm animals must give way
to active and intelligent effort to raise
the average standard at least to the level
Of the best herds of the Western range
Any owner of good corn and blue grass
land failing to improve the type of his
cattle from this time forward is indeed
blind to his own interests. The men of
the range are showing the way. Their
opposition in leading markets can only
be met by free and intelligent use of
the same weapons-In Breeding Gazette.
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FIELD, FIRM HND HOUSEHOLD.
CREAMERY NOTES.

Canadian Cheese Markets-Sales at the
few boards opened were at II to 11ac.
The boards Will generally close by the
end of the month.
Montreal, Can.-The cheese market is
easier. Eastern cheese is being held at
lie, but any forced sales would not real
lie, 1t Is said, any more than 10%c; West
ern cheese is nominal at 10Ac for white
and 11$sc for colored
st. Nicholas Mnn.-B Enderle will
erect a creamery here He comes from
Eden Valley, MINI.
Adrian, Wis.-The Jacksonville skim
ming station receives about 5000 pounds
of milk daily. A year ago, when it start
ed, the receipts were 500 pounds.
Elkader, Io.-J. F. Zahrndt was the
owner Of the creamery that was burned
last week
Grantsburg, Wis.-Butter shipments
last week we've: Atlas creamery, 26;
Trade Lake. 16; Wood River, IS; Grants
burg, Is; Falun, 6; West Sweden g.;
Trade River, tubs, a total Of SO tubs
Voss, N. D.-The cheese factory has
closed down after a successful run Of
six months and a half The company
has put in new boiler and has its feed
mill running
Parker, S. D.-A company has been or
ganfzed and the stock all subscribed for a
$4,000 creamery here. Work will be be-
gun at once on the building. F. c.
Danford is chairman Of the building COM
mittee.
Appleton, Wis.-Owing to the high
prices which cheese has commanded all
summer, there is comparatively little
cheese on hand now.
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semer ores Of their prices for the season
Of 19O0-1901. The figure decided upon was
$o50 at lower lake ports, for the Norrie
grade, compared with $3.50 last year, which
represents an advance rather larger than
was expected. This Is equal to about 81
cents per unit, against a shade under As
cents last year. thus representing an ad-
vance in the cost of Bessemer pig iron
of about s$5,25 per ton for, ore alone To
this must be added the Increased cost
of coke, at least 81 per ton, Of iron, of
labor and Of rail freights on raw ma
terials, from receiving ports and from
coke ovens Thus the coke freights have
been just advanced Is cents per ton, and
a rise in rail ore freights is also i'm
minent This will, of course, mean that
costs will be considerably higher, al
though the full effect will not be felt un-
til the new ore begins to appear in the
mixtures. 1t Is figured roughly that the
cost of making Bessemer pig in the val
leyS Will next year not be less than $14
to SIS per ton for those who must pur
chase all theiI raw materials In the open
market
"Of general interest is the announce
ment that non-Bessemer ores are selling
on the basis of $4.25, lower lake ports, or
say, cents per unit. To makers Of basic
and foundry grades this means an ad
vance very close to that of the producers
Ing minimum for the second half of 1900
and the first half of 1901. These prices
for lake ores open excellent opportunities
for active mining for the deposits east of
the Allegheny mountains, and 1t seems
probable that, for instance, Lake Cham
plain ores will go in very considerable
quantities into the Pittsburg and Cleve-
land districts. -.s
Foreign ores, 1t would SEEM will also
have much better opportunities. Thus we
learn that Billing & Crane, of Philadel-
phia, have during the past week sold for
spring delivery between 5000 and 100000
tons of Newfoundland ore to nine differ
ent concerns in the Eastern Pennsylvania
districts at 71kc per unit f. O. b. Philadel-
phia.
ITO the makers Of pig iron in Vir-
ginia, Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama
the establishment of the prices for lake
ore and coke holds out the promise of a
year of good profits, because the ma
jority Of them control their own supplies.
In the past they have suffered In compe-
tition with the Central West from the
fact that prices of lake ores We're down
to a low level, and all other costs were
on a starvation basis. To them, relative
ly, a much larger margin is opened, since
the offset to them is only the increased
cost of labor and the advance in rates
of freight on product to market
'Ihe Lake superior ore mining interests
did not this year in the least share in
the prosperity of the iron trade. They
have determined to participate in the
profits of the season of 1900-1901, and are
sure to succeed.
The blowing out of furnace is ex-
pected to bring a large interest in the
Central West into the Bessemer pig iron
market.
I'm steel the only feature of interest
is the appearance of a number of large
inquiries in the Eastern markets.
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even lower, while the demand has not
been of the best. Veal calves are sell
Ing at steady prices. Mixers and spring
ers arc lower and only the best are in
good demand.
HOGS-Pr1ces have been on the down
grade all this week until today, when
the market held steady, with a very
light run in. From 219 to 5 cents has
been taken off each day, with the result
that prices are about 10 cents lower than
at the opening of the week Today good
butchers and good to prime light hogs
sold at $455 to $4.60, while the bulk of the
heavy ends brought $3.50. Pigs are SELL
ing at $6.25 to $3.50 and stays and boars
at $500 to $3.10, with dockage off.
SHEEP-There has been a good demand
this week for feeding sheep, with prices
little higher for the best quality. Re-
ceipts Of all kinds have been fairly heavy,
but the bulk has been consigned to feed
ers. Stock lambs have been selling about
steady. Fat sheep and lambs have been
selling about 10 cents higher and have
been in fair demand
Very truly,
c. L. HAAS COM. co.
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NEED COL. BRIGHT.
Senate sergeant-at-Arms ExtOlIed
for His Efficiency.

Senate sergeant-at-Arms ExtOIIed
for His Efficiency.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 29.-The Star this
evening, discussing the subject of the SEN
ate's reorganization at the approaching
session Of congress, says:
There is considerable talk about the
senate reorganization early in the COM
ing session Of congress. 1t is generally
conceded that Gen. Clarkson, of Iowa,
will be secretary Of the senate. The Ques-
ton Of a change in the office of sergeant
alarms Is difficult to determine Col.
Bright, present sergeant-at-arms, has
made such a record for efficiency that,
regardless Of party aff1liation, there is
general feeling that the senate would
lose more than a partisan appointment
could possibly gain by a change. During
his term of Office Col. Bright has brought
abont many changes In the senate end Of
the capitol, so that 1t Is considered the
Building was never In quite so satisfac-
tory condition it Is in at present. Not
only has the building itself been kept in
a fine condition, but the manner in which
the various employees under the sergeant
alarms are attending to their duties is
cry one. The senate depends upon the
Sergeant-at- for a great deal of work
that requires Judgment and constant Wig
ilance, and many senators are loath to
permit politics to interfere with their COM
fort and with the conduct of the senate
in a satisfactory way
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LIFE-SAVING SERVICE.
Annual Report of the Superintend-
ent on Disasters and Losses

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.-The annual
report of the general superintendent Of
the life saving service states that at the
close of the year the establishment en-
braced 265 stations, 1913 being on the At
lantic and Gulf coasts, fifty-six on the
Great Lakes, fifteen on the Pacific and
one at the falls of the Ohio, Louisville
Ky.
The number of disasters to documentei
vessels within the field of the operations
Of the service during the year was 42S
There were on board these vessels 1903
persons, of whom 3S47 were saved and
f1fty-siX lost The estimated value of the
vessels involved was $6,072, ,635 and that of
their cargoes 5000, ,005, making a total
value of property imperiled $S,104,64 @
this amount $6,261 800 was saved and ST.
S42 740 lost.
Seven hundred and ffty-one shipwreck-
ed persons received succor at the sta
uons, to whom 1460 days relief in the
aggregate was afforded.
The number of vessels totally lost was
seventy-two.
In addition to the foregoing there were
during the year 294 casualties to small
craft, such as small yachts, sail boats,
row boats, etc, on board of which there
were GIL persons, 664 or whom were saved
and seven lost The property involved in
these instances is estimated at $120. .536
of which $127,2S5 was saved and $11,251
lost
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sheep and lamb market. with no change

sheep and lamb market, with no change
ST. LOUIS, Nov. O-Cattle.-Receipts.
port steers, $8.SGq6.4O; stockers and feed
Hogs Receipts, 5000. Market strong.
Pigs and lights and packers. $3.75G3.S5;
butchers and best bee9st hogs. $3SOqS-SE215'
Sheep-Receipts, 7Q0 Market strong. Ma
SOUTH OMAHA. Nov. 3O-Cattle-Re-
ceipts LOO. Market stronger. Native
and heifers, $3.25Q4.00. Hogs-Receipts,
200. Market shade to DC higher Bulk
100. Steady. Native muttons, A25G4 4,5oi
Western muttons, S4.0oQ425; lambs, $400
KANSAS CITY. Nov. SO.-Cattle.-Re-
Native steers. $4.5Oq6.OO; Texas steers,
$2.5OQ50O; cows and heifers, 81. 2.00Q !. 40;
sstockerss and feeders, SSg5; 25; bulls,
strong to 212c, higher. Bulk of sales.
So. .7212Q3 10. Sheep-Receipts. Loco Mar
ket 5q1Oc higher. Lambs A.00q5.S5i NUT
SIOUX CITY, To-. Nov. 3O-Cattle-Re-
ceipts, 200; Wednesday, 1865; shipments,
S62; market steady Sales: cows, av $50
lbs, S2 so; cows, av $40 lbs, So. 25; stock
av 400 lbs, So so; 2 bulls, av $50 lbs. $3.50:
8 bulls, av 535 lbs, 49, 2 bulls, av 190 lbs.
$3.25; stockers and feeders, av $50 lbs,
$3.50; Is stockers and feeders, av $50 lbs,
81; calves, -av S24 lbs, $3.50; 8 calves,
av S22 lbs $3.50; 4 yearlings, av SOP lbs,
$50; 5 yearlings, av 592 lbs, $4.15. Hogs
ments, 1,469; market 252Q5c higher; SELL
ing, $3.65Q3.75; bulk of sales, $3.67I2.
CHICAGO, Nov 30.-Cattle.-Fat cat
tie steady to firm; others quiet; rangers
strong; butchers, Stockers and Gamers
active; good to choice, $5-50Q7.0O; poor to
medium, a.4O05. 40; mixed stockers, 5000
3;75; selected. feeders, $4.25Q475; good to
Gamers $2.0OQ3.0O; bulls, $2.5Oq5.00; calves,
s4.OOQ700; fed Texas beeyes. -, S5q4 425;
grass Texas steers: s. 25qq42 Is; Western
choice lots 5Q10 cents higher than yester-
days close; others shade higher; butch
ers and mixed; m 22s; S. 7OQS.96: good to choies
40: light. So 7OQ3. .s71h; bulk of sales $S.7
@S.S71a. Sheep and lambs active and 100
20 cents higher; good clearance; native
Weathers. AoSq476; lambs; %r1oQ54O;
lambs, s5.O0Q5.5O Receipts-Cattle. $500;
hogs. $1,000: sheep. 5000 November Re-
ceipts-Cattle, 223564: calves, S.643: hogs,
loads of live stock. 24,242.
FOREIGN BANK STATEMENTS
Paris, Nov. 50.-The weekly statement OF
the Bank of France shows the following
changes: Notes In circulation. increased,
152, ,S75, 900 francs; treasury accounts cur
rent increas sed 10 100000 francs; gold in
hand. decreased. 4.425. 600 francs; bills dis
counted. increased, 1s4,275,0 600 francs; sill
Yer in hand decreased. 1900, 900 francs.
London. Nov. S0.-The weekly statement
of the Bank of England shows the fol-
lowing changes: Total reserve. decrease.
41, OF, 600; circulation, increased. 8294. 900;
bullion. decreased. eTS2. SAG; other securi-
ties, increased. 9762 900; other deposits, in
creased, 9317,0 public deposits. de-
creased. 100000; notes reserve. decreased.
G1, ,075, 900; government securities, un-
changed The proportion of the Bank of
England's reserve to liability is 412O per
cent: last week 1T WAS 4319 per cent.
LIVERPOOL Nov. 30-Closing: Wheat
Spot steady. Corn-Spot steady; Amer
lean mixed, old and new, IS 434d.
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WILL GET TOGETHER.
Senate and House Republicans on n
CURRENCY Bill.

WASHINGTON, Nov Ex-senator AL
lison, chairman of the committee on ap-
preparations, reached Washington to-
night. The senator is also a member of
the finance committee which has been
engaged during the recess in the con-
sideration of a currency bill to be report
ed to the senate at the coming session.
The measure, however, has not yet been
completed, but work on it will be pushed
and a report made to the senate at an
early day.
Senator Allison IS of the opinion that
financial legislation in some form will be
enacted at the coming session. He thinks
the bill to be framed by the senate COM
mittee in all essential respects will be
very similar to that agreed upon by the
Republican caucus committee of the
house, although there may be differences
In the phraseology which can be adjust
ed In conference. The object of the leg
islation proposed, he says is the perfec-
tion of the law fixing gold as the standard
OF value in the United States.
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WHEN TO BREED A HEIFER

A farmer at Owatonna, Mimi, writes
to his country paper as follows: 90 a.
How soon would it doy,to. breed. a Jer-
sey heifer to get largest milk returns
throughout her existence? There IS a To-
cal breeder Of Jerseys here who breeds
his heifers from nine to thirteen months
of age and seems to get good feturns.
II he wishes to give them rest he does
1t after their first calf. He claims it
spoils a cow for milk to become over a
year and half old before being BRED
What Is the best method of storing
cabbages to be fed to poultry during WIN
ter?
Any rather cold, moderately moist
place will keep cabbages we'll Usually
cellars are too warm. temporary
shallow cave rooted with boards upon
which little straw and earth are placed,
one end having a door leading to the
level ground. could be used. Such a
cave can be kept cool by opening the
door, or warm by closing It, If some
skill Is shown, they may be ricked up
and covered with straw and earth The
danger always Is, that those at the bot
tom of the rick will become too warm,
and those at the top will freeze If
r1cked in the open ground and covered,
such covering should be very light at
first and increased by adding straw or
even manure as the cold increases. 1t
rather improves cabbage to freeze a
little; so it is better to defer the extra
covering rather than put it on so soon
that the cabbages will start to grow
Country Gentleman.
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South ST. PauI

South st. Paul, Nov. 80, 1899
CATTLE-Conditons in the cattle mar
ket are but little changed over last week.
Receipts have been very liberal, in spite
of the fact that the week is broken UP
with a holiday and that the season is
growing late There has been no quota
BILE change in butcher cattle prices. The
offerings have consisted mostly of fair
to good fat cows and heifers that have
been ready sale. The butcher steers in
have been on the common order and have
sold exceptionally low. Gcot fat steers
would find ready sale at good prices
Thin and Gamer cows have been active
at fully steady prices and the better
ones have sold little higher in some In
stances. In the stock cattle alleys there
has been considerable activity. Buyers
have been plentiful for the good cattle of
all kinds Stockers and feeders have sold
fully steady and stock heifers from 10 to
Is cents higher where the quality has
been of the best. The common stock cat
tie have been even slower sale than last
week and prices have been lower. Stock
and feeding bulls have not improved any
In price, and in some cases have sold
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PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
Features of Document Outlined by "a
Cabinet Member.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.-President
McKinley's third annual message to con-
gress is now practically completed. The
most important features Of the message
relate to the new dependencies and to the
financial question. The essential features
on these topics were thus outlined to me
today by a member of the cabinet:
Sovereignty is to be established
throughout all the Philippine islands and
to be permanently maintained Civil gov
ernment is to be extended throughout
the islands as rapidly as possible on lines
somewhat similar to the arrangements
effected for the government of the Island
of Negros. Attention is invited to the
report of the Philippine commission as
to why 1t is impossible for theUnited
States to part with. the islands, and as
to the great commercial advantages. in
holding them. gnz8s
Civil government In Cuba under mill
tary control is recoYnmended until some
substantial progress has been made
through the medium of suffrage towards
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BOND PURCHASES.
Secretary Gage Extends the Date to
Dec. %.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29-The secretary
of the treasury today announced that he
would continue until the close of business
on Dec. % next to purchase any United
States bonds offered, known as 4 Der
cents of 1907 and per cents of 1904, at the
prices heretofore paid. namely, $11275 for
the fours and $111 for the flves, with ac-
crued interest to date of purchase, unless
before such date the amount of $1,000 900
approximately, which is the amount
necessary to complete the $25 000, 900 here
tofore announced. shall have been re-
ceived, Of which fact. when it occurs.
public notice will be given.
The purchases reported today amount
to a little over s1.9OO.OOO. making the to-
tai to date approximately $1SOOO.O00.
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GAVE HIM A MONTH.
Frenchman Who Interrupted Guerin
Trial Punished.

PARIS, Nov. 29.-In the high court (sen-
ate) today the iron gratings and shutters
Of Fort Chabrol," headquarters of the
anti-Semite league, where M. Guerin was
besieged were introduced as evidence. M
Guerin declared that they could not be re-
garded as a serious fortifcation. A po-
lice officer deposed that while on duty at
Fort Chabrol NJ. Guerin threatened to
shoot him with a carbine
The testimony evoked violent Interrupt
uons from the public galleries and the
president of the court, M. Fallieres, order
ed them to be cleared A prisoner. NJ.
Barillier, thereupon shouted "It is shame
full" and the public prosecutor asked
that M. Barillier be punished The court,
after deliberation, sentenced him to a
months Imprisonment
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SAMOAN SETTLEMENT.
British and German Ambassadors
Call at State Department..

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.-Both the
British and the German ambassadors
called at the state department today and
had conferences with Secretary Hay.
Although the matters of difference re-
specting Samoa between the three pow
ers are of minor Importance, the negotia
tions have not yet been concluded and
only the treaty between Great Britain
and Germany has as yet been signed.
They confidently expect, however, that the
assent of the two governments to the
last proposition of the United States
will be soon forthcoming, and the three
powers will be enabled to finally approve
the convention.
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made that new treaty will soon be sent
to the senate for the partition of the
Islands.
The president refers to the trade stu
alton in China, and the verbal assurances
received by this government from powers
having spheres Of influence In that en-
p1re that American trade rights will be
respected. He will also announce that he
has requested that these verbal assur-
ances be placed in writing, but beyond
stating that favorable answers are ex-
pected, he will be unable to inform con-
gress that he has received the formal
communications desired.
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NO PEDIGREE NEEDED.

The practical market man cares moth
ing about pedigrees, and recognizes the
fact that a lot Of animals may have the
longest pedigrees, and yet be far from
what will be required when 1t comes to
the butchers block. Generally speaking
stock yard buyers have a preference for
high-grade rather than pure bred steers,
but they all recognize the important fact
that you cannot have high grades with
out pure breeds.
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CHANGE OF TIME.
St. Paul & duluth RAILROAD.

On and after Sunday, December Sd. the
night train to Duluth and Superior will
leave ST. Paul at 11:15 o. m. instead nF
11:25 p. m. The other trains via the 'SDu-
luth Short Line" will leave St Paul at
$3.50 a. m. and the Limited" at 225 D. m.
The Limited" is still the fastest and
best train to the Head of the Lakes
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LIVE STOCK MARKETS.

SOUTH ST. PAUL, Nov. SO--The re
ceipts at the Union stock yards today
(estimated) were: Cattle, 80; calves, 90;
hogs 400; sheep, 10; horses, none; cars. Z.
The official receipts Wednesday We're:
Cattle, 1,O96: calves, IFS; hogs, 1,2S9; sheep,
664S; horses, 80; cars, St.
The following table shows the roads
over which Wednesdays receipts game
in and the number of loads hauled by
each:
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&usG@s&71r

THE American Porter"-is made es-
pecially to supply an American need, by
other American brew is like it.
Orders addressed to Robt H. Seng,
manager St Paul branch, 3G0 and 362
chestnut street, will be promptly exc