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The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-01-24

lnal seEments OF male d, same OF female;
q, twice natural size. b., d. slightly more
enlarged loriginaD..
bug. The destructiveness of this bug
Is not believed to be great. 1t Is a
large-sized insect, and for this reason
is charged with much OF the injury
that is done by other insects. This
squash bug, particularly the adult, Is
unusually resistant to insecticides. A
wash strong enough to kill the ma
ture insect will at the same time de-
stroy the vines. This renders 1t neces-
sary to employ hand and cultural
methods. There are many methods OF
controlling this insect. Among them
are: Protection of young plants with
plaster and gypsum saturated with
kerosene or turpentine; planting an
excess of seed to distribute attack;
stimulating the growth Of the plants
by manure or other fertilizers, and,
lastly, clean cultural practice. II the
precaution be observed of gathering
the vines as soon as the crop is har-
vested and burning them, many bugs
in the different stages will be de-
stroyed and the crop of insects be re-
duced for the following year.
OF other methods in general use
against this species are hand picking
early In the season and the trapping
Of the bugs by means OF boards, pieces
Of harl 0r cimi1ar material nlaapl
about on the ground in the garden.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-01-24

An original Device for evading the
prohibitory law was recently un-
earthed by plumbers in a house in Rut-
land, VT. The liquor, stored in a secret
nook, was conveyed by hidden pipes
to a radiator in one Of the principal
rooms of the house. A small faucet
attached to the radiator was the
means by which the liquid was drawn
OF for use.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-01-24

The Siberian railway will cross alto
gether thirty miles Of bridges, and of
these the line OF Irtusk required a
large number, including such import
ant ones as those over the Irtysh, at
Omsk, 700 yards; over the OBJ. at
Krivashekovo. $40 yards; over the
Yenissei at Krasnoyarsk, $50 yards,
and ove the IDA. at Mimi Udinsk.
3Y9 yards.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-01-24
horticultural obssrvations.


AT some Of our agricultural colleges
there are now being held annually
courses in horticulture. Where posi-
BILE these should be taken advantage
OF by the young men that expect to
make a part Of their money in farm
ing out of horticultural products. The
work generally consists of lectures
and demonstrations. The topics COW
cred include setting of trees and
shrubs, pruning, care OF orchards.
small fruit productions and the care
of the vegetable garden. Much of the
expense of fruit raising consists of
losses due to ignorance, and these
losses can, to a large extent. be avoid
ed by proper instruction. The cost of
a course in horticulture Is small. and
The time devoted to 1t need not be
more than three months in the win
ter.
Every orchardist should study prun-
ing. as 1t has much to do with the
success of his orchard. One kind oil
pruning may increase the fruit and In
other kind decrease it. Some men that
have v studied the matter imagine
hat any kind Of pruning will increase
fruit production, and SO every few
years they have a spell" OF pruning.
When a tree has started to bear the
pruning should be so conducted that
the bearing habit the tree has formed
will not be changed. II the top IL
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-01-24
DastardIy Tacttcs

I'm sorry" said the rural chairman
to the speaker. that they amt no
more people here tonight, but
what does those deiestable hounds on
the other side do bit go an organize
a toll gate burnin' FOR the very night
We had you advertised to come!"-In,
dianapolis Press.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-01-24

A shipment Of 1901 900 young peach
trees from Georgia nurseries, bound
for Cape Colony and Natal, South At
RIGA. will be made next week. They
90 largely into Natal, and q large num-
Der Of the trees going to that country
are consigned to Ladysmith. Cape
Colony fruit growers get less than half
Of the shipment.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-01-24
Boom for Oklahoma.

The Territory OF Oklahoma is on the
verge of a new boom. Within a few
months President Mckinley will throw
open to settlers a former Indian reser-
walton, embracing no less than two
and a half million acres OF land in the
extreme southern part of the ter
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-01-24

Regulations were adopted last Feb
ruary by the government OF Cape Col
ony, Africa, %forbidding the importa-
ton of all trees. plants, fruits, tubers.
roots. bulbs, etc. until the same hao
been examined by the proper officials
to determine the absence of noxioas
insects and plant diseases; and the i'm
portation of any stone fruit tree q,
fruit graft cutting. scion. root, seed or
produce thereof from the United State,
or Canada; but the authorities are
considering the ~advisability Of re a
ing the prohibition of such importa-
tons from parts Of the United States
free from the diseases of peach yellows
or peach rosettes.
The Merino was brought to Michi-
-ar IN oorlu nm 1000
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-01-24
Mrs. .Sfcvens Cbosen Again.

Mrs. Lillian Nj. n. Stevens, VINO has
Just been reelected president OF the
Women's Christian Temperance Union,
is a native OF Dover, Me-, and began
her work as a teacher in her own
state. +. At 81 she married Mr.. Stevens
and went with her husband to his
home near Portland. Mrs. Stevens first
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-01-24

Salt water Is held to be much moro
effective than fresh water in putting
out fires. A system of piping is now
being placed in the Brooklyn navy
yard, by which water from the harbor
will be carried by gravity through a
large main to an electric power house.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-01-24

IDAHO

The trades unions Of San Francisco
have raised nearly $4,000 by assess
'ments and donations to maintain the
strikes of the planning mills in their
effort to gain an e%ight-hour working
day In California.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-01-24
In the Public Gve

Cbfcaso's Municipal Compa9o.
Chicago is getting ready for another
municipal election. The present Nav.
or Carter II. Harrison. who has been
twice elected. will again be the candi-
date of the Democrats. Graeme Slew
art, Illinois member of the Republican
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-01-24

ritory. bordered on
the south by Texas
and on the east by
the ~Chlckasaw Ma
tion reservation.
the land In the
territory 10 be
opened $4,000 acres
will be reserved as
a government res
err a lying
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-01-24
rs LIKE A ROMANCE.
STRANGE LIFE STORY OF REV.
J. NJ. GRiFFiS.
Stolen by Indians When q Child, He
Grew Up with Them and Had an Ex-
citing Career-A Minister and Then .
Missionary.
Especial Correspondence.)

Especial Correspondenee.)
Romantic in the extreme and replete
with startling incidents has been the
life OF Rev. Joseph N. Griffis, for the
past five years pastor of an influential
church In Buffalo. N. Y. Mr.. Grifis Is
now in Anadarko. Ok, where he has
gone for the double purpose of proving
his claim to 800 acres OF land. to which
he Is entitled as an adopted son of a
Eiowa chief, and to do missionary work
under a synodical appointment.
Rev. Mr.. Griffis was born In q from
tier settlement where the town Of
Gainesville. Tex, now stands in 1854.
One day when most of the men were
away a band of Kiowas, headed by
Chief Big Bow, made a raid on the
town. The mother of Joseph ran into
her frail house. taking the child with
her, and barred the doors and win
dows. The Indians battered down the
doors, killed the mother and took the
boy prisoner. When they left the
scene of their depreciation nearly all
the women and children lay dead
about their huts, and their scalps Ian
gled at the belts of the Indians. The
survivors were prisoners. but all ex-
eept the boy either escaped or rel
killed.
Joseph was taken to the camp Of the
Kiowas and adopted by Big Bow. He
grew up with never a hint that there
was white blood in his veins. He took
part in the sports Of the Indian chill
dren, and when he grew old enough
became a brave and went with his
people or the warpath.
Restored to Civilization.
Wher IA years Of age he learned
that he was a white boy. The Kiowas
were on the warpath and Gen. Custer
was after them. He caught the band.
killed many of the braves and took
the chief, the white boy and several
sQuaws prisoners. The general saw
that the young captive was not an In
dian, and finally by threats induced
Big Bow to tell where he had been
captured. Joseph was then sent to an
uncle, his father having been killed
while trying to avenge the slaughter
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-01-24
MRS. LILLIAN M. N. STEVENS.

MRS. LILLIAN NJ. N. STEVENS.
met Miss Willard at Old Orchard in
the summer OF 1875, and there assisted
in the organization OF the Maine w. G..
T. U. Her first Office IA that of treas
urer Of the state union. She next be-
came president and under her guild
ance the Maine organization soon be-
came conspicuous in the national un-
ion and its president no less con-
spicuous among the ladies at work In
the temperance cause. Mrs. Stevens
advance in the union was rapid. She
was elected vice president during tho
life of Miss Willard and succeeded that
great reformer as president when Miss
Willard died.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-01-24
REV. JOSEPH N. F

Of his wife and neighbors. But even
such civilization as then existed in
the frontier of Texas was unbearable
to the boy, and it was not long before
he stole his uncle's best horse, a rifle
and revolver and started to find the
Kiowas. Eventually he found them,
and was received with open arms. He
joined with the Indians in their massa-
ores, their tribal fights and in every
respect was one of them.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-01-24

To clean hair brushes rub them In
dry Indian meal until the oil and dust
are extracted.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-01-24
warfare With tho Indians.


respect was n of them.
Warfare with tho indians
The constant warfare waged by the
United States troops upon the Kiowas
eventually reduced them to a condi-
ton of helplessness as a warrior band.
and they had to surrender. Most Of
them went to reservations, but the boy
longed for excitement, and to find it
Joined the United States army. The
warfare being waged against the
Apaches by the army was pleasant
work to the white youth who had been
taught to hate them, but when the
Cheyennes were attacked he deserted
from the army and Joined the Indians.
In the course of time he was captured,
was recognized as a deserter and SEN
fenced to be shot. The lad was taken
to a blacksmith shop to have shackles
placed upon him. In the blacksmith
he recognized a man whom he had
once b~efriended, and he asked him to
make the shackles large, so they might
be slipped off. The blacksmith did so,
and when he was placed in the guard
house he was prepared to escape. Gut
ting a hole in the roof. he eluded the
sentry stationed outside and reached
the woods. For several years there
after he drifted about the western
country. and about. 1890 went to Can
ada.
Joined Salvation Army.
In the early winer of 1891 he was at
tracted to a Salvation army barracks
and became converted. He began to
study for the ministry, and in 1895 be-
came pastor of the South Presbyte-
rian church of Buffalo. Soon after
President Cleveland, by a pardon.
quashed the charge of desertion
against him. When Mr.. Crifis became
pastor of the South Presbyterian
church it was merely a mission in the
outskirts of Buffalo. Mr.. Grifls has
made 1t one of the largest and most
influential churches of the city. He Is
an eloquent preacher and a hard
worker. AS he is held in great favor
by the remnant of his old tribe. 1t is
expected that Mr.. Grifis will be high
ly successful In his missionary work
among them.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-01-24

The Merino was brought to Michi.
gan as early as 1928.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-01-24
Tho Common squash bug.

The accompanying illustration Is OF
the adult form of the common squash
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-01-24

-AnGsa tristisl a, mature female; b, side
view Of bead, showing haustellum; c, abdom-
inal segments of male d, same of female;
q, twice natural size; b. G. d. slightly moro
enlarged (orjgiuaD.
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rpatcorpnh and Cable Notes

Ithaca. N. Y. March 4.--The daring rescue of four skaters from floating ice on Lake Cayuga, was effected last night. George F.. Foote manager of Sage college; Wallace M. Brown of Brooklyn, H. F. Leonard of New Britain, Conn.,, the latter two Cornell stu dents, and F. A Leonard of Ithaca, had been skating most of the afternoon, when suddenly they found themselves on an ice cake drifting down the lake,
 New York, March Alt is announced to- day that Former Police Commissioner Der nard J. York has been appointed second dep uty police commissioner Dy Police Commls- sioner Murphy, and put In charge of the borough of Brooklyn, which borough Is talk en out of the jurisdiction of First Deputy Commissioner Devery.
 New York, March 1.-The Seawanhaka ho- tel at Oyster bay one of the oldest and best known on the north shore of Long Island, was burned this morning With It's contents. The guests, about fifteen In number, lost all their property. The loss on the hotel Is as- tiulated at $lJ,OOO
 Havana, March 4-The new Spanish base ball court was opened to-day. General Wood and number of government officials attended the ceremony. Mgr. Sbarretti bishop of Havana, blessed the structure, which is the largest of the kind in the world and cost $100,000.
 Kansas City, Mo-, March 4.-"Bud' Tay- Tor, the baseball player who on Saturday kiSd Ruth NOlard, shooting her with q In the county jail. He was saved by d cell mate.
 Louisville, Ky, March 4.-Tommy Ryan of Syracuse tonight was given the decision over Tommy West of Brooklyn after seven- teen rounds of q twenty-round contest Vests seconds throwing up the sponge.
 Pittsburg, Pa. March 1.-The Wehring block a large brick structure, was destroy7 ed by fire to-day. Loss. SS0,000, fully coy cred by insurance.
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Rig Rnce for S60, 600.

Hartford, March 4,-Messrs. Welch 6 Jones, in behalf of the management of the Charter Oak Trotting Park. have accepted the suggestion made by Thomas W. Lawson, of Boston, in a Boston newspaper of March 3, that a sweepstake race be arranged between MT. Lawson,s horse Boralma, Cresus, The Abbot and Charlie Herr for a purse aggregating $6o,000, and tonight make the following announcement: "In reply to a suggestion made by Thomas w. Lawson that a sweepstake race be arranged for a purse of S600 between Boralma, Cresus, The Abbot and Charlie Herr, under the arrange ment that each owner put up $10,000, and some trotting park $20,0O0, Messrs. Welch and Jones, of the Charter Oak Park. announce that they accept the proposition on the terms stated for race between the horses named the race to take place on Labor day of the pres- ent year, that being the first day of the Grand Circuit meeting at the Charter Oak Park"
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RUSSIA BACKS DOWN 4 LITTLE.
Said to Have Withdrawn Pnrt of Russo-
 Chinese Agreement.

 Pekin, March 4.--Russia has with drawn portion of the Russo-Chinese agreement regarding Manchuria, and China has appealed to the powers in the matter. The empress dowager it Is reported, expresses reluctance to return to Pekin.
 London, March 5.--Russia having de- manded promised ratification of the Manchurian agreement by Emperor Kwang Su, the Chinese government wired it's ministers abroad asking for interpretation, says the Pekin corre- spondent of the Morning Post. Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Austria-Hun gary and Japan have threatened to take action against China if she permits Russia's dictation.
 "The Washington government, which is most friendly to Russia, may per suade her to forego a protectorate over Manchuria as preventive of encroach- ments by other powers leading to the disintegration of China"
 Berlin, March 4-Ambassador Whites conferences with the German foreign office continued during last week. The correspondent of the Associated Press learns upon excellent authority that these conferences are due to fuller and more definite instructions just received by Mir. White from Washington con- cerning the threatened land-grabbing in China. Germany agrees fully with the United States that all concessions should be strictly confined to grants for diplomatic and ordinary commercial purposes and made above board and through treaty signed by all the pow CTS. It Is believed in German official circles that Russia will not insist upon China's signing secret treaty, since the other powers have so vigorously pro- tested against such action.
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GEN. DE WET KEPT MOVING
BRI7ISH PREVENT HIM DESCEND
 ING ON PHILTPPOLIS.
Compelled to Divergeund Is Now March, ing on Fauresmtt ttil-Gen. Bablngton
 Unearths Two Guns and Gen. Dartneil
 Captures u HOtchkiss-Other Captures
and Surreiiders.

London, March "A dispatch from General Kitchener, dated Pretoria, March 4. says:
 "DeWet is moving on Philippolis (Or- ange River colony), but was headed by OUT troops and is now marching on Fauresnlith (about forty miles north of Philippolis).
 Babington has dug up a Krupp, a pompom and some ammunition at Landfontein
 Sixteen men of the Victorian Rifles have captured thirty-three Boers and fifty horses at Seacow river.
 General Dartnell has captured a Hotchkiss near Pieterrieff. Surrenders continue in that district Over fifty men with a eommandant came in March g."
 Colesburg, March 1.-The blame for General De Vets escape is placed on the system rather than on the com manders pursuing him. It has been impossible to direct the operations by telegraph, and the feeling is that great CT discretion should be allowed com manders in the field. General De Wet marched five miles a day faster than the swiftest British column. Although the Boers are now demoralized it is be- lieved they will luickly recover if they are allowed a few days rest.
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Howe & Stetson.
ARRESTED FOR FORGERY.
Edwin E. Apgnr, Manager for R. E.
 Grover &c Co.

9EOVef cE COs
 Edwin E. Apgar. manager and travelling salesman for R. B. Grover & Co.,, the Chapel street shoe dealers, was arrested lass even. ing by Detective Daly on the charge of for gery. It is alleged that on February 13 he gave to Wellman & Bailey, Spring street grocers, q check for S45, drawn upon the Home National bank of Meriden, and 10 which the signature of R. E. Grover & Co. was forged.
 Apgar, it is said, owed the grocery firm a bill amounting to some twenty dollars ana when they pressed him for payment ten dered the check, receiving back in cash the balance over his bill.
 Welman & Bailey learned from R. E. Grover & Co. that the company had never issued the check and then made complaint to Captain Cowles of the detective bureau. Detective Daly was detailed on the case and last evening arrested Apgar as he alighted from train from Hartford. He was taken to the detectives room in the central police station and there his clothing was searched. Several blank checks on the Home Savings bank were found In his pockets and the de tectives found that he had evidently while ou the way to the police station torn hole in one of his trousers pockets and then with his hand in his pockets torn to bits q check contained therein and thrust the pieces through the hole to the inside of his trousers. Apgar is married and has one child
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as faithfully as it might have been. The noble lord had failed to appreciate the immense importance of the special duties assigned to him.
 "The Marquis of Lansdowne, upon the eve of his departure from the war office, had considered a military note Lord WolseIey had addressed, he be- lieved to Lord Salisbury, upon this subject; he found to his intense surprise that Wolseley in enumerating his du- ties, had omitted all ground that he was responsible for the mobilization of the army, that the intelligence depart ment was under his special control or that he was charged with the prepara- ton of plans of offense and defence" The debate will be resumed tomorrow.
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PENNSYLVANIA RAfLROAD.
The Annual Report Increase of Capital
 Stock to he Asked

Philadelphia, March 1.-The Pennsyl-
 vania railroad annual report for 1900
 announces that at the approaching
 shareholders meeting on March 12 they
 will be asked to increase the issue of capital stock, accept the state constitu tion of 1874 and the classification of the board of directors. The amount of in- crease in capital is not yet stated. The report gives the gross earnings of all the Pennsylvania lines east and west of Pittsburg for the year at $172,924, ,738, operating expenses $11S,S49,1S2, and net earnings $54,O75,556. Compared with 1899 the gross increased S20,525, $50 and the net $S.399,s44. The report describes at length the detailed expenditures for improvements, the changes in various issues of funded debt, the purchase of control of the Western New York and Pennsylvania railroad and of the Long Island railoard (the latter being about passing into the possession of the com pany) It states that part of the lat ter is to be used to form more con- venient connection between the Penn- sylvania and the New York, New Ha- ven and Hartford railroad, over which a large traffic passes to and from New
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At 76c-Black mercerized sateen Petticoat, umbrella style. finished with a 5-inch hemmed ruffle. Value $l.25. Sale price 75c At 98c-Mercerized sateen, um- brella style, finished with 4 in. knife plating and six rows of cording above. Another with six inch ac- cordion plating finished with inch hemmed rufle, black and colors. Value $l. 50. Sale price 98c At I.25-Petticoat of mercer ized sateen, made with umbrella Aounce finished with two 4 in. hem- med rufles, black only. Would sell regularly at Sl.75.
 Sale price $I.25 At $l39-Petticoat of mercer ized sateen umbrella style. finish three 2 in. hemmed rufles, black only. Worth $2.O0.
 Sale price $l39 At Elegant petticoat of mercerized sateen made with um- bre,la rufle, finished with two 4 in. knif C plaitings, black only. Would be good value at S2.25.
 Special price $I. AS
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Fell Dead i'm n Saloon.

New Britain, March 4.-Dennis Rior- dan, thirty-five years of age, fell dead in theNutmeg saloon this afternoon. Riordan had just entered the place with a number of companions, and according to the statement of the proprietor, had not taken any liquor Death is thought to have resulted from heart disease. Riordan was an employe of the Peck, Stowe & Wilcox company at East Ber- lin and leaves wife and two children.