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Brown Rot of Stone Fruits

This disease will soon make itself manifest, and if proper measures are not taken and followed, serious loss will result not only from this years crop, but succeeding years. It is gen. erally supposed that it is reproduced from spores which pass the winter in crevices of the bark or other places of lodgment, but it is pretty we'll demon- strated that the chief source of supply of spores lies in the dried and refuse fruit which is often found in the crotches of limbs and trunks of trees. One or two fruits so left will harbor millions of spores which will be in prime condition for the following sea son, even though the "mummies," as they are called, are wet with Bordeaux mixture. The centers of them are even then loaded with spores in prime con- dition, and they will find their way out in due time. A thorough cleaning up of the "mummies," or better still, the removal of all traces of fruit as fast as the crop is off, is the best way. Where convenient, few hogs turned into the orchard after clinging fruit has been knocked off, will prove bene- ficial. It will pay to keep one or more pigs, according to the size of the orch ard, to eatsup refuse fruit. This given along with the regular feed will be profitable in more ways than one.
 Some growers claim that they can raise good crops of apples by having pigs running in the orchard, in con junction with spraying, and that with out the swine, it is almost impossible to grow fine apples. While this is not necessarily so, the constant and regu- lar cleaning up of fallen apples or other fruit, will add much to the fine quality of the product. It was thought at one time that it was more beneficial than otherwise to have the cull oranges returned to the groves and applied as fertilizers, but recent developments show that such practice is disastrous.- California Cultivator.
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THE MEAT INDUSTRY
In California There Is a Normal and
 Steady Growth

In census bulletin issued at Wash ington in the slaughtering and packing industry, California is shown to have advanced from the thirteenth to the eleventh state in the value of these products. The state has fifty-eight establishments, as against fifty in 1890, with capital of $3,913, ,0S1 as against $2 ,220, ,536 ten years previously. The value of its products turned out in the year of 1900 was $15, ,717, TIP; value at tn previous census, $9, 76S. .S5S. It em- ploys 9l5 wage earners. This industry in California grew 60.9 per cent while in Oregon it fell off from $1,97S,6 1925 to $l, ,63S, ,4S0. The bulletin says "The gain in California indicates normal and steady growth, due to increase in population and the export demand"
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A Cure In the Failure,

Did you ever notice that, as a rule, the persons who seek death and are rescued from the grave never court the society of the dark angel againw
 The propounder of the question was hospital physician. and he proceeded to explain
 What mean is that of all the per. sons who attempt suicide and are foil. ed but few try self murder a second time. Probably one-half, if not more, of all those who try to kill themselves are frustrated. The percentage of those who leap into the dark river a second time is exceedingly small. have tried to discover the reason for this from the lips of those who have gone through the terrible experience, but have not met with success.
 Tt is queer that persons, after devot. ing weeks and months to a considera. tion of so momentous question and deciding to end their existence, should, when foiled. declare that they were fools and swear never to do the Ike again. Yet this is what is done in a large majority of instances. Those who have stared at death seem to live life anew. The past is effaced; new light seems to have dawned. The sunshine is dearer. the air is purer. It is the convalescent taking great drafts of the outdoor air with d keenness of relish that was unknown before."
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Early Alaska Vegetables

News comes via Tacoma from Alaska that at the Baptist mission at Kadiak, in the western part, "spring vege- tables and grain were planted early in April, and on May 10 lettuce and radishes were eaten which were grown out of doors. It is also reported that barley, oats, wheat and hemp, as we'll as vegetables were fourishing in the latter part of May" At Sitka similar conditions are reported as common occurrence. Further away from the shore line the season is month later.
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Must Sell to Consumers

E. c. Henry is reported by the San Jose Mercury as saying that while "meats of all kinds are selling at higher prices than ever before in the history of the state, poultry is as cheap, if not cheaper, than ever. !" "Grain of all kinds for chicks is higher than usual," he says, land it is not strange that numerous growers of poultry are quitting the business in disgust.
 ''Let me give you case in point put several hundred eggs into incu- bators last November when they were worth 40 cents a dozen. There is always large percentage of loss be- cause of unfertile eggs, and some chicks will necessarily die.
 "I had fine broilers on the market by the middle of February. I offered them about San Jose, and the best price l had quoted to me was $3.50 a dozen. One popular restaurant offered me only $2.75 dozen. To sell at this price would have meant an actual loss.
 "I eventually sold several dozen to a leading hotel at $5 dozen. There was very little profit in this.
 "When 1 was seeking a market-for my output the same chicks were retail ing by the local dealers at from 50 to 75 cents apiece. In San Francisco they were retailing for 65 to S5 cents each.
 "It seems to me that the poultry raisers should organize and find some method by which they can reach the
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TO OBSERVERS
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS ARE ADDED
 TO THE ROLLS
Two Women Arrested in Brooklyn-British Ship ping Statement Earthquake Shock ioes Much Damage-Fire Destroys Great Deal of Timber in Colorado

M. Delinera has been elected first deputy for Port Au Prince, Hayti, by plurality of 800 out of l2,000 votes cast.
 The sub-treasury at New York, the other day telegraphed $500, ,000 in cur rency to Chicago, presumably on &C., count of the crop movement.
 The steamer Northland, ,enroute from Buffalo, has proceeded on her voyage after having been delayed twenty-four hours at Petosky, Mich., by strike of her crew.
 The entire town of Cotebo, a small place on the Rock Island system in Kiowa county, Oklahoma was destroyed by fire Saturday. Loss about $25, ,000 insurance light.
 Brooklyn police who have been att tempting to run down gang of thieves operating on an extensive scale in apartment buildings recently, have ar rested two women with property valued at $5000 in their possession
 Thousands of banana trees have been blown down by heavy gales, cables the Port Antonio correspondent of the New York Herald. Torrential rains are causing much damage rivers are rising above their blanks and flooding plan tations.
 A dispatch to the Exchange Tele- graph company, of London, from Vienna says severe earthquake shock was felt at Salonica, European Turkey, Satur- day afternoon. According to the dis patch many houses were wrecked, and there was much loss of life.
 The official annual statement of Brit ish shipping just completed, shows that more ships were built in Great Britain and more sold to foreigners in the year 1901, than in any previous year ,and that the total tonnage Of the British merchant shipping was 9,524 ,496 tons, or l3O,OOO tons above the total of 1900.
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HOODS PILLS are the best cathartic
"DOgwOOd Winter"

A man from North Carolina who was visiting in Philadelphia in the course of conversation used the expression "dogwood winter"
 What do you mean by dOgwood winter?" asked his host.
 Don't you really know what dog wood winter is?" demanded the man from Hickory, N. c. "rhere is always a spell of it in May when the dogwood tree is in bloom. For several days there is cold, disagreeable, cloudy weather and often q touch of frost. Down our way it never fails, and we call it dogwood winter. thought the phrase was general"
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Pensions to DeSerters

Among the bills rushed through iE the closing hours of congress was one introduced by Senator Prichard of North Carolina, providing that those Confederate veterans who enlisted and served in the Federal army prior to January l, 1865, shall be eligible to receive pensions from the United States government.
 When this matter was brought up before Commissioner of Pensions Evans, several years ago, he ruled that the men in this class were not pen sionable. By the passage of this bill, about $3, ,000, 900 in pensions will be disbursed in North Carolina and Tennessee. At the time of the war there were many northern sympa- thizers who were forced into the Con- federate ranks, but who afterward deserted and joined the Union army.
 There is another clause in the bill which is also likely to be far-reaching in it's effects. This clause provides that where a soldier has deserted from tlie United States army and has sub sequently re-enlisted, and been granted an honorable discharge, his former desertion shall not initiate against his eligibility to receive pension. By this clause man may have deserted any number of times, yet if he suc- ceeds in getting into the service and out of it again with an honorable dis charge, the slate is wiped clean, and he is eligible to be placed on the pension rolls.
 There were 107 1000 assertions during the Civil War, and it is estimated that Senator Pritchard's bill will add $1 ,000,0 900 yearly to the pension ac- count.
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 A record of nearly fifty years of successful cures is a record to be proud of. s. s. s. is more popular today thaA ever. It numbers its friends by the thousands. Our medical corres- pondence is larger than ever ill the history of the medicine. Many write to thank us for the great good s. s. s. has done them, while others are seek ing advice about their cases. All letters receive prompt and careful attention. Our physicians have made a lifelong studyof Blood and Skin Dis eases, and better understand such cases than the ordinary practitioner who makes speciality of no one disease. >~> We are doing great O0N good to su if ering \\\ humanity through our consulting de- )~O partment, and invite you to write us if you have any blood or skin trouble. We make no charge whatever for this service.
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Mothers will find Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup the best remedy to use for their children during the teething period.
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"Do you mean to say, colonel, that you ran for congress before you were of age?"
 "Yes, sir. Before was 16, in fact. I was page in the House.-Philadel- phia Press.
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Cruelty.

Bill hear a man in town was ar- rested today for cruelty to animals. .Jill-Is that so?
 "Yes; the fellow had a tapeworm, and he refused to feed it."-Yonkers Statesman.
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Light mortals, how ye walk your life minuet over bottomless abysses, di. vided from you by a film!-Carlyle.
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consumer. They cannot but fail if they sell at the low prices offered. It is not the consumers fault, as the consumer IS paying handsome price. "
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Parke--I see you playing poker every night at the club.
 Lane-Yes. I find it cheaper than staying home playing bridge whist with the women. n.-Detroit Free Press.
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ETC Permanently Cured No fits or nervousness
 THO after first day of Dr. Klines Great Nerve Restorer Send for FREE trial bottle and treat iss. R. H. KLINE Ltd s3l Arch St.. Philadelphia Pa
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Naggsby-My How the size of that fish has grown since Roddenreel first told us about it. It's jumped from eighty to POO pounds.
 Waggsby-Perhaps that's why they're called "leaping tuna"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1902-12-10
LADY W00DMEN.

The Beta circle of the Women
of Woodcraft will give an enter
tainment tomorrow evening for the
benefit of the friends and members
of the lodge.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1902-12-10
FACTS ABOUT A STRANGE PEOPLE.

Up Manitoba the little band of
religious believe
They hardshps finally
their
That condensed episode the lives the
Dukhobors the strangest settled in Canadian
province
Most of the stories
eastern
full lying much
statement about these people.
tire of the world
all the nerverackng grassy
praires of Assinboa-ou of the world
There 10 villages sprung up
ants peaceful intensely ignorant
doubtedly
None of them
Justice in each a village
chosen by reason of his knowledge and managing ability
common purse exists and wealth.
They literally the little they
call themselves.
One could almost hope that
competition and the swifter living
peace-this abode
The Doukhobors Already schoolmaster has
reached them the ambitious settler building
grant, who has breath of city still nosrs, wife
of peaceful.
The end of sight Education ambition and
the mngng of the blood put
the stamp of modern times this Tosoyan
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1902-12-10
EBERT n. GARY'S JOKE.

Every H. you
Gary a citizen, money pockets
chairman the executive committee the United States Steel
poration
the time tremendous competition between mills
making Roadway in this
country"
to be presumed that Mr. but the whole thing
Charles Schwab
from the wings and Gary nasty with the tmehon
ored weapon of the stage-the sapstck.
The lake 1t the
its vessels but for all
the fixed the low that modern
fellowship who owned
2Uv0ten boats-were forced quit the trade.
of steel iron limestone,
its docks railroad frcm Ptsbug Lake Erie
dictates freight and dock charges.
makes the product do these things be-
the things that
its business.
is monopolythe greatest that the world has known
Times good, IS a passive monopoly. yet
compelled to show its teeth.
this organization CAPT
tai is than the
the meantime safely his highly
scientific competition
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1902-12-10

LONDON, Dec. lot is hard to
say whether the most remarkable
thing about the trial of Mrs. Pen
ruddocke for cruelty to her 7-year-
old child, which just ended, was the
unique series of tortures which
were inflicted upon the little girl,
or the fact that the mother who de-
vised them was woman of high
social position and not a vixen of
the slums. At any rate, the affair
will rank as one of the most ex-
traordinary cases of ill-treatment of
a child that ever have been re-
corded.
Testifying in court before a jury,
little Connie Penruddocke declared
that Mummy" had systematically
tortured her by thrashing her with
nettles, by making her stand on one
leg in tree for hours at time, by
forcing her to eat mustard and pep
per and by obliging her to run
about out of doors when it was rain
ing, scantily clothed.
Mrs. Annie E. Penruddocke,
whom her little daughter accused
of ill-treating her in this way, Is the
wife of a rich Wiltshire landowner
and magistrate, who was formerly
member of parliament. She Is 80
and appeared in court stylishly
dressed. Mrs. Penruddocke has six
children, but her daughter Connie,
aged 7, is the only one whom she
ever has ill-used. The charge
against her was brought by the So
ciety for Prevention of Cruelty to
Children.
Mrs. Penruddocke says that she
punished her little girl in the hope
of breaking her of a habit caused
by physical weakness. Her counsel,
Sir Edward Clarke, pointed out that
French expert, DR.. Chavasse, had
indicated in one of his works a
course such as Mrs. Penruddocke
had followed as the only one likely
to cure the weakness from which
Connie suffered. But no attempt
was made to prove that the treat.
ment" had done any good.
There was, however, no lack of
evidence to show that Mrs. Penrud-
docke hated the child, whether that
feeling was the result of the little
girls malady or not One of the
many nurses formerly in the Wilt
shire Gladys" service stated that
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1902-12-10

another of the children who had
measles. When she replied that
there would be danger of Comics
catching the disease. the mother re-
piled: $50 much the better. She
will be done with, then"
The witnesses stated that not
satisfied with cutting off most of
her child's hair when a chance wis.,
itor had praised it, she tied "a string
around what was left of it and fas-
tened it to the girls shoulder in
such a way that her head was held
in painful position. 7
She once put a wasp down her
child's back. She rubbed her face
with nettles. She beat her. A doc
tor, called as witness, reported
that he had examined Connie and
found Is large weals, besides nu-
merous evidences of severe pinch
ing, on her flesh. Sometimes Connie
had nothing but one potato for din
ner. One day, half-starved, she ate
the food that had been left for the
dog.
The trial has aroused intense
feeling and the courtroom has been
crowded with fashionable people.
The appearance of Connie Penrud-
docke herself to testify against her
mother made a great sensation. The
little, golden-haired girl was quiet
and sad faced. She volunteered no
information, but answered the ques-
tiOns put to her carefully, and the
cross-examination of Sir Edward
Glare, one of the sharpest lawyers
in the country, could not shake her
testimony.
The jury's verdict convicted Mrs
Penruddocke of ill-treatment, but
not with neglect. She was SEN
fenced to pay fine of $3.50 and or
dered to place Connie in other
hands, where she VIII be sure of
kind treatment. Magistrate Pen
ruddocke, the father, was censured
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1902-12-10
RAILROADS,

Construction work has commenc-
ed on the Kansas City, Mexico &
Orient railway.
General Superintendent II. A.
Kennedy is expected to return to
Spokane Friday.
The Great Northern is handling
from two to three cars of silk in
bon on the eastbound limited.
The Pacific Coast Lumbermen's
association has secured reduction
in the matter of rates for shingles,
3 cents per 100 pounds.
The shortage of certain iron and
steel goods in proportion to the de-
mand is chiefly due to great pros
perity of the railroads.
The line of 0. r. & N. boats be-
tween San Francisco and Portland
started yesterday and will leave
every five days hereafter.
The head-on collision at Peach
Springs, Cal, On the Santa Fe,
which resulted in the death of En-
gineer Peter Peterson, was due to
an oversight in train orders.
Superintendent Gilbert of the
Northern Pacific issues another cir
cular, calling the attention of the
men to certain precautions which
are considered an auxiliary to
safety.
Four trainmen were killed and
five others severely injured on the
Erie at Talmage, o., in a head-on
collision, due to a mistake in train
orders. The accident took place on
very sharp curve.
The Frisco system is actively en-
gagged in the building of the line
between Brady and San Antonio.
Tex, which will connect with the
Mexican Central railway. A union
station will be erected.
The Spokane schools are max
ing an effort to secure half rate
for more students, and it is posi-
BILE that the Washington Street
Railway system will grant their
demands for special car rate,
The passengers on the through
trains of the Northern Pacific will
not be disturbed from their sleep
on account of the changing of con-
ductors. A receipt will be taken
and one conductor will transfer to
another, the same as Is done by the
Southein Pacific lines.
The Pennsylvania railway has
ordered from the Baldwin Loco
motive works $50 high-class freight
locomotives, an item Of $3,250, 900.
This is the largest order. ever given
to a single concern by railroad
company and it is equally marvel
Gus in view of the fact that the
Pennsylvania railroad has always
made it's own engines. All of the
engines must be delivered withiD
| the first six months in 1903.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1902-12-10
KNIGHTS ELECT
NEW OFFICERS

At the regular meeting of the
Knights of Columbus the following
officers were elected for the COM
ing year:
Grand knight, John F. Sullivan;
deputy grand knight, w. r. Orn-
dorff; chancellor, l.. M. Patton;
warden, Phil McArdle; recorder,
James Stewart; financial secretary,
j. e. Moran. treasurer, J. H. Nc
Cabe; inside guard, J. J. King; out
side guard, d. J. Sweeney; trustee,
Thomas Conlon; lecturer DR.. II. B.
Luhn; advocate, James Geraghty.
These officers will be installed
with impressive ceremonies at the
meeting held on the first Monday
in January.
The Knights of Columbus were
organized June 20 and already have
a membership of $50.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1902-12-10
INTERPRETs HIS DUTY,

Mr.. Green, the former Stockholm
officer, takes exception to the term
spite work" in a mention of his
attitude to. Mr.. Lilienthal, who is
quoted as wondering why Mr.. Green
did not complain of the Stockholm
and other gambling.
He is adverse to extended talk.
ing with reporters, but says that
the reason he did not complain dur
ing his incumbency as special Of
ficer was that he was then in the
employ and receiving his salary
from gambling house where he
had been specially appointed by the
city.
He says that his Interpretation
of his duty was that he was to pro-
tect the patrons and the house from
crime and disorder and this he en-
deavored to do faithfully.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1902-12-10

Except Sunday.
Short line to California, San Fran
CISCO Portland route. Steamers sail
from Ainsworth dock. Portland. at =
D. m, every five days.
GEO. J. MOHLER. Gen. Agt..
430 Riverside Ave, Spokane. Wash.
Telephone Main 162.
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severely for allowing such cruelty
to be practiced in his house.
In vivid contrast to this Cen
sure" of the affluent. magistrate
comes the sentence which London
Judge pronounced on the same day
upon two poor men, small con-
tractor and one of his drivers, for
working a horse with wounded
foot. They got months and a
fortnight's hard labor, respectiv ely.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1902-12-10
FORESTERS.

The Joan of Arc court of the
Catholic Order of Foresters will
hold election of officers this eve
ming. At that meeting Mrs. Felici-
tas Schmidt, who has been a dele
gate to the national convention at
Chicago, will make her report.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1902-12-10
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