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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-12-14
Notice to Contractors.

Sealed proposals for the hauling and
placing of about 400 cubic yards (more
or less) of sandstone rip rap for Laurel
wagon bridge, according to the plans,
specifications and instructions of the
county surveyor of Yellowstone county,
Montana, will be received at the office Of
the county surveyor of said county up
to 6 p. m. Dec. %, 1900. For futher
particulars call on or address A. A.
Morris, Don II, Belknap block, Billings,
Mont. The right is reserved to reject
any or all bids.
By order of the Board of County Com
m~issioners. Nat. G. Carwile,
County Clerk.
Dated at Billings, Montana, Dec. 10,
1900. 67-3 :
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-12-14
$3.50 Reward.

For evidence that will convict u
person or persons for breaking down
my fences. leaving gates open and let
ting stock out or or driving any of my
stock from any of my fields. stock
branded GP connected.
lO4.tf George Firrie.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-12-14
Special Rate to Hunter Hot Spring

Special Rate to Hunter Hot Springs
The Northern Pacific railway offers
the people of Montana special round
trip rates to Hunters Hot Springs to
enable them to enjoy the fine mineral,
hot water baths at that point. These
springs are situated at Springdale,
nineteen miles east of Livingston.
The site is a beautiful one and the
medicinal properties of the waters are
equal to those found anywhere.
A special eight-day ticket, good for
roud trip fare to Springdale and for
twenty-one meals, seven nights lodging
and bathing privileges at the springs.
will be sold as follows: ;
Hamilton, $27.
Missoula, $25.
Phi%lipsburg, 1914.
Marysville, $21. ......
Deer Lodge, $22.
Pony, $40.
Norris, $19.
Winston, $40.
Townsend, $40.
Lombard, $1S.
Custer, $40.
Forsyth, $22.
Miles City, 1914.
Glendive, $27.
A three-day ticket, including fare to
Springdale and return, six meals, two
lodging and bathing privileges
will be sold from points and at rates
named below
Butte. $40.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-12-14
Notice to Contractors.

NUtICe 10 COnCTaCtOTS.
Sealed proposals for constructing
plank sidewalks in the City of Billings
for one year from the letting of contract
will be received by the undersigned up
to 8 p. m. on Tuesday, December Is,
1900.
Specifications may be had at the office
of the city clerk or of the street CON-
missioner.
The council reserves the right to re-
ject any or all bids.
By order of the city council.
Dated, Billings, Montana, December
ID, 1900. j. B. Herford,
67-2 City Clerk.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-12-14
Paid Dear for His Leg.

B. u. Blanton of Thackerville, Tex,
in two years paid over $4,000 to doc
tors to cure a running sore on his leg.
Then they wanted to cut it off, but he
cured it with one box of Bucklenis Ar
MICA Salve. Guaranteed cure for Piles. Is
cts a box. Sold by Chabple Drug Co..
druggists.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-12-14
FIFTH DAY.

Billings, Mont, Dec. 7, 1900.
The board met pursuant to adjourn
ment at 10 o'clock a. m. There were
present T. S. Linton, chairman, j. B.
Amin and Pat Lavelle.
s-The minutes of the last meeting
were read and approved.
The morning session was taken up
with the cancellation and checking
of all warrants paid up to and includ-
ing November 80.
The board adjourned until 2 O'Clock
p. m.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The board met pursuant to adjourn
ment at 2 O'Clock p. m. There were
present T. S. Linton. chairman, J. B.
Amin and Pat Lavelle.
The following bills were allowed
and warrants ordered drawn:
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-07-26

meat that will please the palates of
the m~eat-eating public. The English
and Canadians are excellent judges of
all kinds of meat, and especial atten-
ton seems to be given to the pro-
duction of fine bacon and hams, and
well do they profit by it. This ques-
ton is certainly a problem for the
American people to solve, and especial
ly our own state and the Dakotas, for
these states are natural bacon and ham
producers. On investigation, / learned
that in the production of the fine
bacon and hams found in Canada, that
breed was necessary first and then
feed. Yorkshires and Tamworths
seemed to be the breeds for this pur-
pose, and the feeds consisted of oats,
barley and peas. Pea-fed bacon was
the best.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-07-26
AND GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO
AGRICULTURISTS.
Some Up-to-Date Hints About Gull
t~ivation of the Soil and Yields
Observation-Disclosures, viticulture and
Horticulture.


Probably no forage crop has attract
ed more attention in recent years than
the COW pea. 1t was slow in getting a
foothold in public esteem, but when
that position was once obtained it adj
vanced very rapidly in public favor.
This is largely due to the fact that the
experiment stations took up the COW
pea and investigated it. They found
1t to be a very good plant for the col
lection of nitrogen and its introduce
ton into the soil. The farmers are now
in close touch with the experiment sta
tions and the value of the COW pea was
pressed on the notice Of the farmers
wherever the pea can be successfully
and safely grown. We do not hesitate
to say that if we had no experiment
stations the COW pea would be still
struggling for recognition. Without
doubt the cow pea is destined to play
a much larger part in u agriculture
than at present. There is no reason
why the farmers that have ground in
the early crops in the spring and first
part of the summer should not plant
COW peas afterward. OF course the pea
vines will not in such case mature
seed, but the vines and roots will
greatly improve the soil.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-07-26
subsoiline for Root Crops.

Subsoiling for root crops frequently
pays largely, for the reason that the
ground is put in a shape that permits
the roots to develop without resist
ance in all directions. In addition most
of the root crops have tap roots that
strike downward for moisture and ad-
Nitional nourishment. Experiments,
even in the arid and semi-arid regions,
have shown great advantage in subsotl-
ing for such crops. Not only are the
root crops benefited, but the potato
crop is also benefited. The subsoil-
ing helps through times of drouth, and
thus prevents a check to the develop
ment of half-formed tubers.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-07-26

avoid new 4E9ACUu0ntT u HUGS
Bulletin 63, Indiana Experiment Sta
ton: Several years ago, when lectur-
ing before Indiana farmers Institutes,
Mr.. S. H. Todd of Ohio advocated the
feeding of meat from hogs that had
died of cholera to healthy pigs. The
claim was that feeding this diseased
flesh produced a mild form of the dis
ease, and the pigs fed the same there
after would be free Of cholera. This
view advanced by Mr.. Todd caused
considerable comment. Apparently,
however, the method Of treatment
adopted by him was not entirely a sue
cess, for in March, 1899, he wrote the
undersigned that his hogs took sick
and died so easy. l say it was not
cholera. 1t was much worse. / lost
forty head of hogs. This, however,
was perhaps just as much a case of
cholera as many swine breeders re-
port on.
At the present time an attempt is
being made by Indiana parties to sell
on the market much such a method OF
treatment as that. adopted by Mr..
Todd. The claim is made that preg-
nant sow fed flesh from cholera-dis-
eased swine will have the malady in
a mild form, and that the unborn pigs
will also be affected, SO that thereafter
they will be free from cholera and be
immune" as it is termed. While no
experiments have been conducted by
disinterested parties to prove the eff
f~ectiveness of this method, reasoning
from comparison, as shown by expert
ence with other diseases, both with hui
mans and animals, it is entirely I'M
likely that this method will prove a
preventive. Further, this station is in
possession of facts proving that pigs
born from sows affected with cholera
while pregnant have died from the dis
ease long after.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-07-26
The Buck Moth.

The scientific name Is hemilenca
maia. The caterpillar is very poison
GUS. A report Of the Minnesota Agri-
cultural College says: 1t is very COM
mon in Minnesota, and feeds on b
wild cherry and apple, but chiefly on
the red oak and willow, where it can
cause considerable damage, as 1t is
a voracious feeder. The caterpillar is
brownish black, with six spined tu-
bercles on each segment, except on the
eleventh, where there is only n DOR
sal tubercle; an additional n is found
on segments n to five, and also on
segments ten to twelve. When full
grown the caterpillar measures a lictle
we two inches in length. The sting
of these caterpillars is really quite
severe, and it is not easy to hanoie
them with IMMUNITY. When mature
all the caterpillars enter the ground,
and there, in a simple. oval cell. each
one sheds the prickly skin and assumes
the pupal state. The pupa is of a deep,
brownish black color.
The moths, which appear in the
north in September and October, are
elegant insects, and fly in midday.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-07-26
Pure Seed.

Low priced seed, especially of grasses
and c~lovers, is to be avoided unless the
buyer knows for a certainty that it con
tains no inferior seed and no seeds
of injurious and Objectionable plants.
Glover and grass seed containing weed
seeds is not worth the sowing and
should not be taken as a gift. JUS
now this warning may be of value, as
it is reported that there is a strong
tendency of the market to advance.
In such cases the farmers may be led
to purchase seed at the same price
they formerly paid, which in this case
will mean a cheaper seed. When prices
for seeds advance and the purchasers
make a fuss about it, the seller IS
tempted to even up matters by taking
old seed and mixing with the new or
else taxing seed that Is impure with
weed seeds and mixing it with the
pest; this makes a grade that is very
deceptive. A man will sometimes save
a dollar on a bushel of seed and after
ward pay $25 in the work of eradlcaJ-
ing the weeds from his land.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-07-26
Canadian Bacon.

A word about Canadian bacon and
ham, for nowhere have / found such
beautifully marbled pork, and most
certainly I have never tasted such lus-
cious meat, says ]. C. Mills in the
Farmer. Much as l dislike to admit it
(for the farmers of the United States
ought to be able to produce the best
of everything), the facts are, we have
forgotten entirely that the ultimate
end to be reached in producing pork
is the meat. We have thrown aside
the prime end to be sought and are
breeding the lard pig, and have for
gotten what our Canadian friends
know as the true end to be sought, a
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-07-26

Corn that is to be grown for fodder
should not be planted too close. The
old idea used to be to SOW 1t very
close under the impression that the
closer it was planted the more would
be produced on an acre. The opposite
is the fact to a certain limit. It
should be planted far enough apart to
permit each stalk to get a good
growth. This well developed stalk
will be able to make strong roots and
draw nourishment from soil further
down. When the corn is sown close
each stalk makes a very meager
growth and the roots are small. The
feeding depth is curtailed at the ex-
pense of the total yield. The thick
ness of planting cannot be fixed by
an arbitrary rule, but must depend
on the strength of the soil and the
variety of corn grown. But the fact
should not be lost sight of that the
stalks should be permitted to get
about their full development to be good
fodder.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-07-26
If You Have a Cold.

Drinking cold water when one has a
cold coming on is one of the best rem
edies, because it stimulates the sys-
tenn and helps to wash out poisons
formed in the body. Living on fruit
for two or three days and drinking hot
or cold water freely, with milk, for
nourishment, will often cure an ordi-
nary cold if taken in time, says the
Indianapolis Journal. The old prov
erb, Stuff a cold and starve a fever"
is a contradictory one, for a cold is a
fever. People suffering from a cold
and continuing to eat heartily of beef
steak, mutton chop, roast pork and
similar foods, are simply adding fuel
to the flames as surely as one pours oil
on a fire. Such heating food stimu-
lates the morbid processes at work in
the body, and far from curing the di-
sease, makes it worse.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-07-26

with scales that they are semi-trans-
parent, and look like delicate black
rape. The bands across them are
creamy white, and broadcast on the
hind wings. The female moth de-
posits her eggs in naked belts of from
100 to 200 eggs; these are only fas-
tened together by a little glue, and are
not deposited in perfect order.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-07-26
THE PRETTY PAN HAT.

AS in every other line of the seasons
modes there is positively no end to
the diversion in hats. The latest APP
plicant for fashions appreciation is the
pan hat, an odd but beautiful design
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-07-26
Horticultural observations.

There is to be a big crop Of fruit
this year, as the trees and vines are
setting very full with few exceptions.
If all the fruit on the trees is left to
grow, the harvest will show a large
amount of very small fruit that will
bring almost nothing in the market.
The well-formed fruit of good size
will get the prices that pay the profit.
This is the time for reading and cal
culating orchardists to consider If 1t
will not pay them to thin their fruit.
If one-fourth the number OF apples,
peaches or pears be grown on a tree
that blooms full the weight of fruit
produced will be the same, and it will
sell in the market for more money.
Some of our enterprising orchardists
have been thinning their tree fruits
for many years, and have made that
operation a part Of their system.
What they have found profitable
others may initiate with hopes of like
success.
1t is to be hoped that the time is not
far off when the producers OF fruit Will
find some way of controlling the a
of it by the middlemen to the extent
of seeing that the fruit reaches the
consumer in as good condition as 1t
leaves the hands of the grower. 1t is
exceedingly discouraging to the m
bilious grower to know that IL he
sends beautiful fruit to the Chicago
market it is more than likely to be
repacked and used for facing poorer
fruit. It is one of the problems that
will have to be settled by the collec-
tive action of fruit producers. The
consumers in the great cities will hail
the advent of such a day with glad
ness. At the present time Chicago
buyers have become almost hardened
to being swindled in fruit purchases.
One of the great reasons for the ex-
traordinary development of the ba-
ANA trade is that people are able to
purchase them without trusting to
luck. If a man gets swindled when
he buys bananas, it is his own stupid
ity that is at fault, as he can see every
banana before he buys it. But with
AOSI vi JUL AdLlfS 4AuAt1 AhC Liz
peach, a man must view it through
red netting. If he pulls off the netting
and finds ~fine-looking fruit, when he
gets home he is likely to find inedible
green fruit making up the bulk of the
basket. One day last summer the
writer desired to secure a basket O.
the best peaches on the market. He
found a dealer with a large quantity
Of fairly good fruit. and with a few
baskets of fancy peaches marked vi
fancy price. He vas assured tina.
the price was high because all thu
peaches in the basket were as goo(
as the ones on top. When the baskets
were opened at the home of the buye
it was found that the bulk of thu
fruit consisted Of green peaches thu
size of walnuts, with just enough fin
peaches over them to conceal them
The result was in this case a lessenet
purchase of peaches, the preference
being given to fruit that could no
be dishonesty packed.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-07-26

pink taffeta. The color combination
was very pretty. The bandeau formed
the foundation for two rosettes Of the
velvet and taffeta.
The pan hat bids fair to be more
than a passing fancy, for its wide brim
makes it generally becoming, and,
better still, protects the complexion
against the ravages Of the summers
sun. HELEN GREY-PAGE.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-04-25
personal MENTION.


John Hackforth of sealy is at the Bristol.
W. Y, Ballew OF Detroit is stopping at the
Bristol.
Mr. 0. NJ Bosworth is guest of thc
Latham. 4al9W
H. Koskoky of New orleans is stopping at
the Bristol. tW
George T. Holman OF weimar has apart
ments al the Bristol
John wahrenberger OF conroe registered at
the Bristol yesterday,
Mr.. " Weiss and wife are registered at the
Lawlor from beaumont
w e Harris was registered at the, Lawlor
yesterday from Bryan.
Mr.. s. H schoolheld came in last night
and stopped at the Latham.
Thomas Taylor of Lake Charles, La. was In
the city yesterday at the Lawlor,
E. ]. Baker was visitor to the city yes.
terday and was registered at the Latham.
James Earnest, a well known citizen OF Gal
weston. is among the arrivals at the Latham.
Messrs Robert Caldwell Of Forreston and
S. P. Sadler Of Gainesville We're guests yes
terdey at tho Bristol
Messrs, George Martin, st. Louis: Henry
Shilton, Fort Worth: j. NJ Tyler. Dallas. aud
A. II, Cotton, Palestine, who are here at
tending the rate clerks meeting, are guests
at the Bristol,
As far as known Mr. John Latreyte is the
only citizen of Houston who has thus far EN-
barked for the Paris exposition. Mr. La
treyte left early and expects to remain
throughout tho entire exposition.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-04-25
NOTHING WAS ACCOMPLISHED
AT TEE CONFERENCE on NoRrA
TEXAS RATE SITUATION.
The Plan Proposed to the Commits
sion Would, IL Adopted. Only
CompIicntc Matters.

Austin, Texas. April PA number az
traffic managers and general and assistant
general freight agents of State and inter
state lines met here today in compliance
with an invitation from the railroad COM
mission a FEW days ago to get together
and agree upon and suggest some plan Tor
an equalization of Texas rates that would
remove tho ground for the numerous
complaints being received against the
present Southwestern adjustment The
meeting was held behind closed doors and
lasted until nearly 6 o'clock this evening,
but resulted In little of moment When
the idea Of holding 1t was first advanced
at a recent hearing called for the purpo;e
of considering complaints from Paris that
1t was being Disseminated against in favor
OF Tcxarkana in the matter OF interstate
rates, the hope was raised that plan Tor
general bettering of the rate situation
could be developed thereat. The contrary
was the case, however. Every PROPOSE
tion involving change in existing tariff
schemes was passed up and the final oet-
come was proposed equalization OF COM
binations to and from Paris and TeSar-
kama to meet what traffic men are pleased
to term the unusual conditions obtaining
at the former point. In other words, 1t
was decided to, with the commissions APP
prevail, take care OF the local and through
Fort Smith and Texarkana on bus ness
north and east OF Paris, which means that
Paris is to be protected on the reconsign-
ment principle against Fort Smith AID
Texarkapa in the territory indicated.
Should the plan be approved (which Is not
likely, as there Is no authority for the
commission to commit itself to any
proposition of this characterl Greenvi lie,
Bonham, Sherman and other towns woild
in no time be clamoring for the same KIND
of protection against Paris ana L1ngv ew
and Taylor would be laying claims to a
similar equalization with re alton to
Shreveport, and so on down the line.
To maks the matter short, the meeting
did nothing practically but kill time With
out litting upon anything like solution
of the question at issue.
The lines represented thereat were the
Katy OF Texas the Santa Fe, the Hun ing
ton lines, the international and eat
Northern and the Texas and Pacific For
the Interstate Inns there were present
Ira Manager Dodge Of the st Lol's
Southwestern, Traffic Manager Haze OF
the Missouri Kansas and Texas and Gem
eral Freight Agent Hale OF the Frisco
The Iron Mountain, the Rock Island nd
the Kansas City Southern were not rep e.
scented, the first and last of these te'ng
the lines most concerned In the Texarkanl
rates complained Of by Paris and mainly
responsible for the disturbances that
brought about the pending trouble.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-04-25
Galveston Notes.

Galveston, Texas, April 24.--F. NJ. Tut
tie, commercial agent of the San Antonio
and Arkansas Pass at Houston. is in the
city.
Manager j. H. Hill of the Galveston,
Houston and Henderson, is expected to re-
turn from Marlin tonight.
D. p. Bsuwn, chief rate clerk in the gen
eral passenger agents office of the Santa
Fe. Is in Houston today attending the
meeting of the rate clerks.
Chief Clerk A. f. Adams of the general
passenger agents office is spending the
day In Clear Lake experimenting the
clearing up Of the picnic grounds.
w. T. Hancock, commercial agent OF
the Houston East and West Texas Kali
Way company at Houston, is in town.
John Kilkenny, assistant general pas
senger agent OF the Louisville and Nash
Vile at New Orleans, is IN the city,
D. B. Keller. traffic manager of the Fort
Worth and Denver City, arrived in the
city last evening, leaving at 1870 this az
ternoon
c. Hiehtower, city passenger agent OF
the International and Great Northern
Railway company. left last night for Pal
estinc.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-04-25
MEETING or RATE CLERKS.
Reduction of Rates Expected-Msy
Continue Until sunday.


A meeting of the rate clerks of Texas
lines is being held in this city, the ees-
sions taking place at the Bristol Hotel.
The object of the meeting is to revise the
Texas rate sheet. The first session was
held yesterday. when the preiminaries
were arranged and things gotten in readi-
ness for the work of the succeeding ses-
slons. Mr. George Morton, chief clerk in
the general passenger office OF the Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas, with headquar-
tiers at st. Louis, is compiling the sheet.
While the proceedings of yeste' days sos
sion we're not made public, a Post repre-
sentative was informed that reduction
of rates is expected. The following gem
tlemen are attending the meeting: George
Morton. Missouri, Kansas and Texas, ST
Louis; ]. NJ. Tyler, Texas and Pacific,
Dallas: H. Shilton, Fort Worth and Den-
YER, Fort Worth; Milton Brown, San An
tonic and Arkansas Pass, San Antonio; A..
H. Cotton, International and Great North
ern, Palestine; Percy Brown, Gulf, Col
orado and Santa Fe, Galveston; James
Lawrence, Cotton Belt Tyler; w. w.
Woodbridge, Houston East and West
Texas. Houston; c. d. Wayne. New Or
leans and Northeastern, New orlesns; 7.
II. Lawrence, Houston and Texas Central,
Houston; ]. w. Wilkinson. Southern Pa
cifc, Houston; E. NJ. Williams, Houston
and Texas Central, Houston r. Daniels.
Missouri, Kansas and Texas. Dallas.