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Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-03-20
KRUGER DISPIRlTED.
Apparent if Rumor Is True oil
Speech -e Made.
GAVE BoERs ONE MONTH LONGER.

This Was Before British Entered i,loem-
fpltein Report That Mafeking is Re-
iieyed said by wyndham to BE Proba-
bly, True.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-03-20
For Sale

Eighty bushels of choice seed pota-
toes. Cannon No. and Sir Walter
Raleigh. Price $l00 per bushel
w. G. WATSON,
Opekiska, w. Va.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-03-20

FINEST thing in town French and
home made bread at st. Clair's bakery
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-02-09

The New York Herald on Sunday pub
lished remarkable story purporting to
be detailed history of the destruction
of the battlesbip Maine, in the harbor of
Havana. The story was furnished by a
Spaniard named Martinez, who had been
employed in the Spanish secret service,
but who after the destruction of the
Maine returned to this country, where
he has since been living with his Ameri-
can wife. Martinez says he was one of
those detailed tn prepare the torpedoes
for mining tho harbor, which was en-
trusted to an expert engineer, an elec-
trician and an Italian diver. The de-
tails of the preparations, the special
mechanism for generating the current,
and exploding the torpedo under the
ship are giving with the minutest detail,
and illustrated with sketches drawn by
Martinez himself The Navy Depart
ment and other Washington officials
throw doubt on the authenticity of this
story, but if it is not true it is one of the
most ingeniously constructed narratives
ever given to the public. 1t seems almost
that SO much detail should be
the product of the narrator's magma
tion.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-02-09
New YORK, Feb. 3, 1900.

The market continues to be active and
animated. Sales are being made in
goodly quantities, though not in extra
ordinarily large lots, the preference be-
ing for filler and binder leaf '9S Penn
sylvania, Zimmer's, Onondaga and Wis
consin are all in steady demand, the sales
of these types running up to about 5000
boxes during the week. The force
sweated '99 Connecticut is also in the
market and selling freely, but in limited
quantities.
Trading in Sumatra seems to be per-
fectly satisfactory to the holder of stock,
of which there are but few with an
eligible assortment. Sales for the week
about 300 bales.
The Havana market, however, is
strongest of all. The demand Is extra
ordinary, and cannot be immediately
supplied on account of the detention of
the goods in the Appraiser Department.
Sales for the week 1900 bales of all kinds.
r-Jo rnal.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-02-09
Patents Granted

List of Patents granted to citizens of
Wisconsin for the week ending Feb. 4th,
reported expressly for The Reporter
through the patent and law office of 0.
E. Duffy, 707 G. ST., N. w. Washington,
D. c., from whom copies can be had for
twenty-five cents each:
John Baemile, Milwaukee, telescope
tube clamp; Albert G. Bierbach, Mil
waukee, adjustable door hanger; John
L. Bucher, Milwaukee, automatic win
dow screeo; David Crocker, Spooner,
cabinet; Henry @. Fehrlin, Milwaukee,
making salol; Solomon J. Fletcher, Ced-
ar Falls, stump puller: Charles L. Hall,
Oconto, tooth brush; Charles M. Hor-
ton, West Superior, rolling mill; Murray
M. Hunter, Milwaukee, safety device for
elevators; Cyrus e. Morehouse, tempo
rary binder; George s. Parker, James
vile, fountain pen; George Redford and
E. Campbell, Sussex, wrench. Charles
G. Southwell, Milwaukee, combined den
tai engine and chair: John p Wehrer
Lacrosse, automatic feeder and auto
matic feeder for mills,
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-02-09
Connecticut. Valley.

We have no sales of tobacco to report
SO far this week, The hum of the to-
bacco sorters and packers is heard in all
of our towns, and the force e-sweated leaf
reaches market at once. 1t is rather
hard to get hold of the prices that it.
goes for, and the placing of those two
letters at the end, "p. t." is not at all
what we all want to know. 1t seems as
though the trade papers delighted to-
tantalize the grower with keeping from
US the real truth as to prices. It is,
however, quite certain that it is at once
gobbled up and passed out of the mar
ket. But if a dark lot goes on sale, we
can very easily get the figures. Well,
perhaps it is all for the best for us to be
kept in the dark. We shall keep down
to legitimate business rather than to
entertain vague dreams about enormous
prices realized. AS it is, the outlook for
the coming crop WIS never better. The
cost of the next crop will be greater on
account of the high prices prevailing, for
fertilizer, and probably for labor 1t ap-
pears to us that it will cost considerable
more to raise ton of leaf than it has
for some years past. AS everything the
farmer has to buy has advanced in price
wonderfully. Cultivator.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-02-09

prices, on the ground that the figures
realized are no guide to the general
value of the crop.
Sumatra- Business continues active,
and although no large sales were report
ed the total transactions of the week foot
up to very satisfactory figure.
Havana-This market continues in
very active condition, and first capaduras
are being looked for in large lots. Re.
ceipts from Cuba continue large, but the
cry is still for more. The demand read
lily absorbs everything that can be classi-
fed as good or better.
Among the reported sales were 130
bales 1898 Remedies, I'd caps, at 70c; 100
bales 1899 Remedies, 1st caps, at SSc; $50
ditto at 90c; 70 ditto at SOC; rs bales 1898
Vuelta at 95c; 140 bales ditto at CSC; $50
bales 1899 Partido at p. tall in bond.
Leaf.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-02-09
JANEsvILLE, Wis, Feb. z, 1900.

With the murcury flirting with zero,
from Sunday until Friday, the tobacco
business was pretty much at a standstill
all the week. None of the buyers cared
to face the frigid blast and no buying
was done. A few farmers delivered their
crops, but they were few indeed.
In old leaf this has been very dull
week also and no large transactions are
reported. Business around the asserting
rooms is very active.
The large, new Jeffris warehouse,
leased by Julius Marquissee of New
York, opened this week, with Charles
Wright as foreman.
r. G. Rumrill has leased the Samuel
Grundy warehouse on Pleasant street
and will put up good sized packing
Farm and Home.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-02-09
WISCONSIN TOBACCO MARKET
EDGERToN, WIS, February 8, 1900.

E4DGERTON, WIS.,, r0Drudry y, ISUU.
There is apparently a marked decline
in the movement of the new leaf. But
few buyers are riding and even these are
taking very quiet methods and buying
only on favorable terms. Dealers are too
busily engaged in receiving the new crop
to spend much time increasing their
holdings at present. An occasional crop
is sold at about former quotations but
the bulk of sales are made at prices less
than prevailed a few weeks ago. The
only transactions coming to notice are:
Nels Ellingson, Ia at S&3c
j. Sampson 1Oa at 7&2c.
Ole Wixmoen, Ia at 634&2c.
Aufin Esse, 5a at S&3c.
@. E. Smith, 5a at 615&2c.
VIM. PetersCn n, 3a 614&2c.
Z. Noggle, 3a at 615&2c.
Wileman & Hanson, 8a at sc.
Geo Crandall, 215a at 594c.
NJ M. Moffett, IA at 5&2c.
Old stock is steadily sought after and
the country districts are pretty we'll
cleaned now of this line of goods. The
Warner Cigar Co., of Chicago, has re-
ceived several lots of old leaf in this
market during the week. Wileman &
Hanson also sold 30cs of '9S at 1O&5c.
L. B. Carle & Son have purchased nearly
a 1000 cases of late, including 500 cases
Of '97 of Owen & Pepper, Footville pack
ers, and 247 cases of Leny & Putnam of
Brodhead, G.. L. Culton disposed OF
several hundred cases during the week.
The new crop is coming in freely at
the packing houses and msst OF them
are crowded to their capacity of bundle
tobacco.
The shipments out of storage reach
As carloads, 2244 cases to all points from
this station for the week past. 43 car
loads were also received from outside
points for handling in this market
About 600 cases of cigar leaf were ex-
ported from New York since last report
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-02-09
DEERFIELD, Wis, Feb. 2, 1900.

The tobacco market continues active.
All our buyers are in the field for goods.
Klinefelter is buying all the time and
has shipped in car loads from other
points besides what he has received di-
rect from the farmers here. 90. Brict-
son has received several car loads of
bundle goods, N. L. Resland one car
load and S. E. Simonsen some. Yester-
day Martin largo received car load for
Culton which was shipped to Ft. Atkin-
son. The sorting gangs are being in
creased by transient workers. News.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-02-09
SToUGHToN, Wis, Feb. 2, 1900.

Tobacco continues to come to town in
great quantities, some being received for
sorting here, the rest principally going
to Edgerton, about 25 car loads having
been shipped there this week. Tobacco
men report that little or no buying is
being done now, most of them being kept
busy receiving and looking after their
warehouses.
Will Parish sold this week his packing
of 122cs of '98 tobacco to Louis Bremer's s
Sons of Philadelphia, Pa.
Andnew Norgarden of Pleasant
Spaings sold his % acre crop of '99 to-
bacco to O. Ell. Hemsing for ~ and &c.
Courier.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-02-09
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LaLICsLsCSr.>
LANCASTER New ERA. Jan. 30, 1900.

A week of quiet has come upon the
local market, and Unexpectedly. During
the previous week there was an influx o f
buyers who made things lively, but they
went away, and their place was not taken
by an equal number of others. The only
sales of which we have been informed
were 2l1 cases by NJ. G. Musser, Of
MountvilIe, and 1874 cases sold by Messrs,
Gable & Pennypacker OF the same place.
For the corresponding week of last year
the sales were 195cs.
The operations in last years leaf still
continues on minor scale.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-02-09
New York.

Sales of Seed Leaf Tobacco reported
for The Wisconsin Tobacco Reporter by
j. S. Cans Son, Tobacco Broker, No. 12e
Water Street New York, for the week
ending, Feb. 5, 1900:
15Ocs 80 n. e. Hay. forced sweat at &c
to SOC.
5Ocs '98 n. E. Hav, IS to 45c.
70Ocs '98 Zimmers at 8 to 144c.
400cs '98 Wis. Hav. at 81 to 13c
200cs '97 Wis. Hav. at 10 to 1014c.
200cs '90 Pen Hav. at IL to 111sc.
309cs '98 Pen. seedleaf at liz to BE.
200cs '96-'97 Pen seed at y to 12ac.
130cs '98 State Hav at Y to 14c
100cs SO Gebhardt at 1880.
Total 2430cs.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-02-09
New York.
NEW YORK Jan. 81. 1900.
Total 2430cS

If the first month of 1900 may be taken
as criterion, the year will be a busy
one for the cigar-leaf trade. January
closes today with an active business in
all kinds of leaf, with the possible ex-
ception of Little Dutch and Pennsyl-
yania Havana Seed. The market as
whole, however, is in sound and healthy
condition. Among local houses there
are but few who fail to report a very
satisfactory month.
The 1899 force-sweated Connecticut is
not being received in large quantities,
but it moves off as fast as samples arrive.
About 160 cases were sold during the
week. Packers are reluctant to quote
The daily sentinel., 1900-12-27
DISEASE BREEDERS.

To great extent Grand Junction has been immune from
disease during the That such
don has existed due the vigilance of the authorities
maintaining degree Of Cleanliness which would insure freedom
disease but for the fact that enjoy climate condt
ions of health enjoyed by few cities i'll the
On all sides Of contagious disease has been Epidemic but
outside scarlet fever and mild
of typhoid there has been nothing whatever alarming
However, had climatic conditions been different had
been season. damp dull pherc condition.
things might have been different with
Because have fortunate the present year
whatever why should abae carry forward
work for better sanitary conditions Back yards and lots
reekng with filth various of the In the heart
of the business section there enough filth epi
should be cleaned up. The city should
that the alleys ntersecng the main business portions Of
the city be thoroughly cleaned and he should stand by and
that is done.
1t much the duty OF the marshal and the
that such conditions the of
health observed provided by the ordinances for
the city physician 1t has been done this city in
the last months and the people commencing demand
that be taken Some of the yards open
lots night time smell dank and that great
wonder that the foul odors do not breed disease.
With the pleasant weather there abundant oppor
tnty make grand cleaning When the the
ground and the filth lays till spring. then suffer for
present neglect.
The daily sentinel., 1900-12-27
CANAL ENTERPRISE.

The High Line canal enterprise
in the Grand valley is being reviv>
ed, and by Utah and California cap-
italists. The surveys of this route,
a few years ago, when the state
made an attempt to construct it.,
showed that upwards of half mil-
lion acres of fine agricultural and
horticultural land about Grand
Junction could be brought under
cultivation by taking the water
from the canon of Grand river. An
extension of the canal beyond the
western border Of the state would
also bring thousands of acres in
Utah under irrigation. Hence the
interests that that state has in its
construction. The Grand river
carries all the year round a volume
OF water ample for the needs of
such canal, and several others be-
sides. The construction of this
canal will take considerable capital,
but its results in western Colorado
would be beyond calculation. The
addition Of 100000 acres of land to
the productive area OF that portion
OF the state would give its growth
an impetus such as nothing else
could do. 1t would increase the
population, quicken every industry,
stimulate trade, build many villag>
es and make Grand Junction a city
of many times its present size and
importance. II any Legislation is
needed to promote this enterprise
as the state cannot build it Itself
it should be fourthcoming at the
hands Of the approaching general
ass emily. The Grand river has
the water, the land is there awaiting
irrigation and cultivation only the
canal is needed. Let every effort
be made to secure its constructin.
Rocky Mountain News.
The daily sentinel., 1900-12-27
Horse Flesh for Hogs.

Deadwood, Dec. 2o-Over tho line in
Wyoming a rancher and farmer has
made brilliant discovery. There are q
great many wild horses on the range,
which have no especial value. They are
small and of inferior breed. The hides
are worth about 80 and the Indians
sometimes catch them and kill them for
their skins.
This farmer commenced buying all the
horses he could get for $1.75 each. He
sold the hide for 80 and fed the CARCASS
to his hogs. He has bought in the past
three years 800 Of these horses. which
have all been fed to his increasing herd
of swine.
The daily sentinel., 1900-12-27
Rocky Mountain News.

If what the Rocky Mountain
News says about A. l.. New, the
candidate for appointment as dis
trict clerk Of Arapahoe county, by
the judges Of the Arapahoe courts
be true, his candidacy should have
no consideration whatever. In our
judgment his name should not be
considered for SO important place
anyhow, when he has contributed
nothing whatever to the success. OF
the fusion ticket, either in Arapahoe
county or in the state. On these
grounds alone he should have no
consideration at the hands of the
Aragahoe judges. Too many men
hold back in an election and then
secure the best plums, and demo.
Gratis who work are becoming very
weary of that kind of thing
The daily sentinel., 1900-12-27
ROMANTIC REALISM.

The other evening a love>sick
Brooklyn swain took up his lutte
and hied him beneath his lady S
chamber window. His fingers ca>
ressed the strings and wooed from
them a soft throbbing prelude.
Then he lifted his voice in song.
Simultaneously the young woman's S
parents lifted a window sash and
yelled, "git!" But the young man
was not to be moved. He remains
ed and sang on, and when he had
finished his serenade, pulled out a
pistol and shot himself.
Here is a sad but beautiful op>
portunity for William Dean How
ellis, who, since his incumbency in
the Easy Chair has been busy turn
ing the tide against the mods
ern romantic school Of novelists.
Now he can say, Il told you So"
1t will be easy to show how this
suicide was brought about by the
modern romance with their fifteen>
candle power loves and frequent
killings. He can harangue on how
the romance writer's of these deca>
dent days are turning the heads OF
the young people until the coal>
dotted back yards Of our native land
will be strewn with corpses and
smashed mandolins.
He can easily show that this
would never have happened under
the reign OF his school of realists.
In the first place, there wouldn't
have been any lutte or any serenade.
The young man would have occu>
pied whole chapter in adjusting a
necktie and collar preparatory to
making an ordinary everyday call
in an ordinary every day manner.
1t would have taken another chap
ter to get him to the house and
seat him in the parlor under the
Home, Sweet Home" motto.
Then, if things did not come his
way he would have gone away
very detected but not suicidal. He
would feel better in the morning
and about six chapters along we
would find him making love to a
girl in the next block.
That's the way the world used
to wag when Mr.. Howels was
wagging it, but now it seems that
real life ia becoming romantic and
it may not be long before the ro>
mancer and the ,realiat become one
and the same person. Salt Lake
Herald.
The daily sentinel., 1900-12-27

The supper given by the Baptist
church Christmas night, was well attend
I'd. Ths ladies did excellent work in
providing bountifnl spread. The pro-
gran, though short, was quite original
and enjoyed BY all.
The daily sentinel., 1900-12-27

There is soon to b q big double we'd
ding at FruitA. The brides-to bs are
sisters and are two Of Fruita's best
known young people.
The daily sentinel., 1900-12-27

Have you seen our pretty wool waists
at S2.5OP They are the correct things
for winter. At The Fashion.
The daily sentinel., 1900-12-27
Demands of the Powers.

Pekin, Dec. 26-The ministers assem-
bled at the residence Of Senor B. j. De
Cologan (the Spanish minister and the
doyen Of the diplomatic corps), and re-
ceived Prince Ching, to whom the Span
ish minister handed the note Of the
powers. Lii Hung Chang, who is still ill.,
asked to be excused.
Prince Ching said:
II have the honor to accept the nots
concerning the rs-establishment OF good
relations and will transmit it immediate
ly to the emperor and communicate to
you his reply as sooa as reserved"
, 1900-05-16

Among Westerns the French and
among O~rientals the Chinese are the
most stay-at-home nations of the
world. Frenchmen are met with in all
parts of the world. but their thoughts
are always turning toward the happy
days when they can once more return
to La Belle France and breathe the air
of the ~boulevards. The Freuchman
never willingly expatriates himself for
life. The Chinaman, on the other
hand, is a stay-at-home by religion.
He thinks that his hope of salvation
depends upon ending his days in the
Celestial Empire, and he is careful to
provide that If he dies in a foreign
land, his coffin, with his remains, shall
be SEM back to China. The frightful
over-population of the Chinese empire
has driven Cinnamon into all quarters
of the world, especially to Australia.
but they always hope to return to
their own land. The Hindu loses caste
If he leaves his native country, but
he is a member of a religion rather
than of a race. and as a set-off the
Mohammedans, who form a very large
proportion of the Indian empire, are
the most persistent pilgrims on the
face Of the earth.
, 1900-05-16
ORIENTAL "FIRE-WALkiNO.
Bare Feet wholly Unframed by White
Hot Stones.

Andrew Lang, who has written eX-
tensively on myths, rituals and strange
human practices, has recently made Il
collection of stories that remind II
Of the experiences of Shadrach, Mes
bach and Abednego. In India, Japan
and a number of the South Sea islands
a custom still survives which is known
prefaced with incantations, and it IS
usually followed by a feast. The relig-
ious part of the ceremony Is conducted
by priests. The origin of the custom,
both in respect to time and place, is
apparently unknown. but it Is possible
carrier significance and detail. The es-
sential feature of the performance. at
least from the point of view Of The
uninitiated. is walking barefoot over
a bed of stones that have been rem
dered red or white hot by fire. The
stones are laid at the bottom of an
excavation like that prepared in New
England for a Rhodc Island clambake.
Logs are cut into suitable lei gths AMI
piled over the rocky foundation. and
these are Their ignited. From four
or five hours to a day are consumed
in this part of the preparation, which
has been preceded, of course, by the
work of digging the pit Or oven and
arranging its rocky foundation. The
embers having been hastily raked of
n a red hot or white hot surface hav-
ing been exposed, several men de-
scend into the oven and walk more
or less leisurely across the stones. In
most cases they suffer no apparent
harm. An Englishman who tried the
experiment himself. and was accom-
panied in his undertaking by three of
his fellow-countrymen, furnishes Mr..
Lang with a short account. He Is Col.
Gudgeon, a British resident on one OF
the Society islands, Raiatea. The
glowing stones on this occasion afford
ed a path twelve feet long. The act
of walking over them preceded the
ceremony of cooking the ii plant, and
was first performed by 4 priest and his
attendant. They wen down into the
o'Sh, pcdiihS DidIeueS VI lhe u pto.
On leaving the pit the priest offered a
bifurcated branch to Colonel Gudgeon,
saying, Il hand my power over 10
you" The attendant did the same to
n of the other whites. The remain
ing two Englishmen held no Ii
branches. but merely walked behind
Col. Gudgeon. Three Of them escaped
without harm. The fourth, who, by
the way, looked backward after start
ing, was somewhat burned.
, 1900-05-16

City boys and girls who never have
seen growing cabbages, pumpkins,
corn, potatoes, spinach and other gar
den produce soon may have an oppor-
tunity to supply the deficiency in their
education. The School Teachers club
OF Chicago asked the west park board
to set aside three or four acres In one
Of the parks where vegetables may be
raised by the school children. Frank
E. Tremain is at the head of the move
ment. The teachers think this will be
a great advantage for young children,
who think that grasshoppers make
grass and hat butterflies make butter.
There are many children, they say.
who believe hat potatoes grow on
bushes and who do not know whether
watermelons come from the water
works or grow on trees. Yet these
same children can find the common de-
nominator of things and recite the
multiplication table up to seven times
seven.