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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-04-22
WAR sEcRETARY,s PLANS LIKE.
w TO be CARRIED OUT.
APPROPRIATION PROMISED
Governors island to Be Enlarged to
Nearly Double It's Pres
i. ent Capacity.

WashingtcnyApril 18.-In the heart
of the city Of New York the United
States is to have one Of the finest mil.
itary stations In the world Announce
ment was made yesterday Of the per-
lection of the plans for charging
Governors Island, and the sundry
civil bill will carry an appropriation
for finishing the work.
Secretary Root has been working
on this plan for a long time, and it
looks now as if his labors would be
crowned with success. Governors Is
land is to be enlarged by a break
water, and reclamation Of shoal
ground, SO that its area will be in
creased from the present IS acres to
about $50. Docks and berths will be
built, so that the largest ships and
transports can lie alongside the ware
houses and receive or discharge car
goes by electrical appliances.
The entire terminal facilities OF
the New York Central will be avail
able for the handling of the freight,
loaded cars being fioated directly to
the slips. Secretary Root says that
when his plans are perfected the gov
eminent will have a station from
which an expedition of $4,000 men
can be dispatched on transports, fully
equipped with artillery, camp outfits,
horses, tentage, ETC., in three days.
There will be room in the island for
the barracks and tents of that number
of men, and the transportation facil-
tiles of the metropolis are SO great
that the addition Of 10000 or 10000
men to the ordinary traffic would new
er be noticed. All this right in the
heart of the greatest city and great
est seaport o nthe continent.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-04-22
New Kind Of ship. Propeller.

A Danish engineer, 81. G. Vogt Of Co
p%enhagen, has invented a propeller for
ships that attempts to initiate the ac-
ton Of a fish's tail and combines driv-
ing with steering power. Experiments
are said to have shown that the new
apparatus, which is called the 'pen-
dulum propeller" gives a greater driv-
ing thrust than does the screw propel-
Ter, while its steering ability exceeds
that attainable with twin screws and
helm together. The great difficulty is
with the engine, for, with the present
forms of engines, the weight of the
driving mechanism is too great to be
practicable for steamships. The oscil-
lating blade Of the pendulum propeller
is placed at the stern Of the ship in the
position of the ordinary. rudder. with
its longest axis vertical.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-04-22
Texc. Bred Hereford,.

Among the valuable items given in
the t~hirty-sixth annual report Of the
Chicago Union stockyards appears the
following: 1T may be a matter Of sur
prise to those who have not kept in
touch with the marked advancement in
the breeding Of cattle now roaming the
ranges that the sweepstakes prize for
the best carload was carried of by
Texas bred Hereford cattle. The excel
lence Of the breeding and feeding Of
these animals was further attested by
the result of the carcass competition,
when the award of the judges on the
hoof was fully sustained"
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-04-22

manure as Don as spread or spreading
1t owe the surface Of the ground and
letting it lie two months during the
winter the former method proved a
saver Of plant food. We never doubt
ed that 1t would be SO on certain soils
and do not feel sure that it would
prove SO on all, but we think the lesser
labor OF drawing out in winter and the
gain Of having so much work done be-
fore the spring planting begins more
than equals the loss where the winter
manure is not washed away by spring
thaws or rains.-American Cultivator.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-04-22
DESIRE a PLACE IN RoosEvELT's
CABINET,
FOR POLITICAL REASONS
Southern Senators Urging t!.e 7resi.
dent to Recognize That
Section.

Chicago, April 18.-A Washington
special to the Chronicle says: South.
ern republicans in congress have unit
ed in a request to President Roose.
welt to make a southern man a mem
Der of his cabinet for the moral and
political effect which such recognition
would have on the politics of the
south, and especially on the state of
North Carolina.
Senator Pritchard believes if the
president accedes to the request
North Carolina will return him to
the senate. Representatives Brown
low and Gibson, of Tennessee, have
assured the president that recognition
of the south in the name urged by
Pritchard will be of Unreasonable
benefit to the republican party.
Senator Pritchard had a long inter-
view with the president today on the
subject, in company with Representa-.
tives Blackburn and Moody, of his
own state, and left the white house in
a very pleasant frame OF mind. The
president had given him cause to feel
encouraged. He believes that sooner
or later a southern republican, or pos
sibly a democrat of the McLaurin
stamp, who is in sympathy with the
policies of the republican party, will
enter the cabinet.
McLaurin still claims to be a demo-
crat, but his associations and SYM
pathies are distinctly republican. He
would be acceptable to Pritchard.
The president is understood to have
suggested to the senator from North
Carolina advisability of his becoming
a candidate for a cabinet place. but
Pritchard prefers to remain in the
senate. President Mckinley on three
different occasions rendered him a
cabinent portfolio, but he declined to
accept.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-04-22
Like a Crest Feudal Lord.

Lord Rosebery, according to T. p.
O'Connor. lives the life Of a great
feudal lord on his estates. He has a
host of r%etainers. splendid equipages,
and everywhere his coronet is in evil
dence. He tr4vels from one of his
great houses to another with positions
as II railways had not been invented.
The Liberal leader is a great noble.
and the people like him all the better
for being apart from them in the pomp
and circumstance Of his private life.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-04-22
HINTS g FARMERS

GO~sd ResuI{Yw with Peas and Corn,
At the Tennessee experiment station.
Professor A. M. Soule has found it
very satisfactory to SOW cowpeas and
corn together. This is contrary to the
practice of many farmers, but it has
always been noted that when the peas
were put in considerably later than the
corn they never made the same growth
as when given an equal chance with it.
Professor Soule says that in spite of
the views Of many he has never seen
peas grow SO vigorously as to detract
in any way from the corn crop. In ex-
periments where the peas have been
sown later than the corn they have
never amounted to much. Some may
urge that peas planted as early as
corn in the spring will often be lost
by reason Of frost. This may happen
occasionally, but results show conclu-
sively that it would be better to take
the risk Of loss than to diminish the
pea crop by late sowing. In any event,
il the peas r destroyed by the first
planting they can be easily replanted
by running a single horse drill by the
corn row IN either side.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-04-22
Illuminated Club.

Very different from the ordinary In.
! club is one which has just been
invented. says the New York Herald.
Its body is hollow and perforated, and
Its handle is detachable and has one
end threaded SO that it can be firmly
fastened to the body. Furthermore,
attached to the threaded end Of the
handle is an electric lamp, and from it
wires run up into the handle. Appar-
emily all the wires enter at one OPEN
ing, and the handle is hollow as the
body. The motions Of the exercise are
made quite spectacular by this device.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-04-22
ghe Culture Of Rhubarb.

Rhubarb seeds may he sown as carly
as the ground can be worked. The soil
should be well fined and i'll good con-
dition as regards fertility. The seed is
rather light and should he th;nly sown
and well trodden down after covering
an inch deep. The rows need not be
% than n foot apart. The seeds are
always somewhat slow to terminate.
and 1t is essential to keep the soil clear
of weeds. which would soon strange.
the little plants. Clean and careful
cultivation should be given the Seeding
throughout the whole growing season.
The roots may be t~ransplanted to per-
manent bed either in fall or spring, set
ting them about four feet apart each
way. The soil should be heavily ma
nured and plowed or spaded as deeply
as possible. The same thorough Guilt
walton should be kept up during
growth. No stalks should be pulled the
first eason after planting, SO that no
return should be expected until the
third year from seeds.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-04-22
h Sen OF Aral.

Russian reports say that the sea of
Aral has been steadily rising since
1891. The e level is now four feet
above that Of 1874. The line Of rail-
road from Ovenburg to Tashkend had
to be changed In order to avoid being
overlooked. Instead Of sinking three
inches a year. as German g%eographers
had computed, the sea has been rising
Mt the rate Of four inches a year for
the last ten years.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-04-22
GOTHAM's MONEY LENDERS.
Capital Turned Over Rapidly at the
Stock Exchange.

Capital Turned Over Rapidly at the
Stock Exchange.
At the extreme south side OF the
New York Stock Exchange is a bat
tered post with the word Loans
painted on it in big letters. Around
Its base on stormy market days bro
kers howl and shout themselves hoarse
of voice and red as to face in their eff
forts to borrow money or to lend 1t ut
the best prevailing rates.
Every day around the loan post from
$$335, 100000 to $5O,OOO,O 600 Is loaned to
needy stockholders to tide over their
deals or to complete big transactions
already under way. On a very busy
day or at a panicky season the scram-
BILE about the loan post takes on the
appearance Of an active Irish fair. Ev-
cry dollar thus loaned on the floor of
the exchange is secured by collateral
security considered gilt edged by the
nan with the money.
These money lenders of the exchange
turn capital over rapidly. Most Of the
money is loaned on 'call." says a cor
ACOpOA1ACAAe*Ol Suc AlIoOulS
which means that the lender may call
It in at any time, and seldom is 1t
loaned In this way for longer than thir-
ty to sixty days. The rate Of interest
changes often, but 1t is usually OH an
ascending scale. In panic times it has
been known to go as high as 80 s:n5 60
per cent. Russell Sage. who has been
lending money for sixty years, is the
largest private money lender in the
United States. Mr.. Sage for his mon-
ey asks only the ruling rate.
J. p. Morgan's idea of lending money
in Wall street is to lend it when the
other. money brokers are pinching and
squeezing and threatening collapse to
the market. Frequently he sends one
of his partners to the floor of the ex-
change when either bulls or bears are
in a demoralized condition with the
announcement that he has $1O,OOO.OOO
or $15,O0O,00O to lend at the legal rate.
AS the illegal rate" is frequently from
3 to 10 per cent below the rate the 9th
er private lenders are charging, the
effect of his partners appearance on
the floor Of the exchange with a state
ment of that tenor is electrical. and the
rate comes tumbling down.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-04-22
Lost River. D,.cox.-.a

Subterranean lakes have recently
been discovered in the Eucla district,
Australia. They lie about thirty feet
below the surface and contain an abun-
dant provision of potable water. This
discovery is of great practical impor-
lance to this especially arid district. 1t
10 Of scientific value also, as it affords
an explanation Of the disappearance Of
certain rivers.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-04-22
Healthy Tramps.

Professor John ]. McCook Of Trinity
college. who, like Josiah Flynt, is an
expert on the ways and habits of
tramps, has lately called attention to
the interesting fact that the health of
the average hobo is better than that of
the average citizen of conventional re-
spectability and that he lives to a
greater age in spite OF his irregula,
habits and not infrequent hardships,
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-04-22
Jests Turned Fact.

Sometimes the jokes Of one genera
ton become the sober facts Of the
next. Years ago Bret Harte satirixed
an attempt to buy st. Thomas, and
Thomas Mast made pictures Of Uncle
sam on board a warship shooting the
Spanfard on the island Of Cuba. Both
Jokes hs7e materialixed,
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-04-22
Nominations Are Confirmed.

Washington, April 1.-THE senate
has confirmed the nominations of
James A. Garfield Of Ohio to be Unit
ed States civil service commissioner.
and William Williams of Ohio to be
commissioners Of immigration for the
port of New York.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-04-22
Where Kruger Lives.

Mr.. Kruger's new abode is called
oranjelust. It is separated from the
highroad by an iron trellis, and It
stands in a small garden planted with
bushes and with a piece Of rockwork
IN the center. All around tulips have
been planted in such a way that their
blooms will reproduce the '-%vierkleur,"
or Transvaal Gag. just under Dom
Paul's window.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-04-22
Draft Mare. For the Farm.

There is no more profitable animals
on a farm than a good pair Of draft
mares. A mare will do the work Of q
horse and furnish a good colt for the
market each year. Moderate work, the
only sort that should be required, will
at no time. except for a few weeks be-
fore and a shorter period after foaling,
injnre the mare.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-04-22
wheat Prospects,.

The wheat seems to have wintered
fairly well thus far. serious injury be-
ing reported in only a few states. The
Ohio crop is probably in the worst con
dition. But the trying period for the
crop is between this time and spring.
when the alternate thawing and freez-,
ing may result in serious injury.
Therefore during the next few weeks
the market is likely to be much af-
fected by crop news. Aside from some
damage to the crop there seems to be
no reason to expect materially higher
prices for wheat. Supplies are suffi-
cient to last until another harvest, and
when another crop il assured it is
thought that holders will part with
their grain q little more freely.-Na-
tional Stockman and Farmer.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-04-22

Spreadlng Manure In Winter.
The agricultural department reports
that in experiments with fodder beets
followed By. wheat In ploXing under
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-04-22
Do YOU
KNOW
THAT-
h Gazette
Job Department.

Turns out a better class Of
work than any other printing
establishment in the Yellow
stone valley.
We are prepared to do any
class of printing on short
notice.
We employ only frst.class
workmen, and consequently
can guarantee
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-10-18
PUT out DOORS.
Big Row on Bergen Avenue
When Pa Finds the Young
Man Calling on His
Daughter.

Fashionable Bergen was startled
Thursday evening shortly after ten
o'clock by an unearthly noise in a hand
some house in Bergen avenue near
Academy street. Residents who peered
from windows and doors, saw an elderly
man bodily throw younger one from
the house.
The young man got up and hatless and
coatless ran in the direction of Academy
street, the curses of the elder following
in his wake. The youth disappeared
around the corner.
The elder man, after expressing him
self freely, went indoors, and the noise
of strife again broke forth from the
house. In fifteen minutes he reappear-
cd at his door and slamming it behind
him went to cafe a few blocks away
threatening to shoot them both.''
The man is well known in Bergen.
From what could be learned from the
neighboring gossips, the younger man had
been paying attentions to the only daugh-
ter, aided and abetted by her mother, but
against the wishes of her father. He
entered his home unexpectedly Thursday
evening and found the young folk togeth-
er. A scene followed, in which the wife
and daughter sided with the young man.
1t ended in the youths flying departure.
Afterwards the father left the house in
an ugly mood. an1 made the threat to
'sshoot them both"
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-10-18
TWENTY -EIGHTH'S OPENING
City Officials and Progressive
Citizens Will Participate in
Mondays Exercises.

The dedicatory exercises of Public
School No. 2S, Hancock avenue and
Bowers street, will take place Monday
evening in the school building. This pro-
gramme will be carried OUT
Music, "Schuetzmann's March" Uune),
Valencia Orchestra; Prayer, Rev. q. A.
Merry; Opening Address, James G. Egg
bert, Jr.; Music, Overture, Pandora"
&C. Puerner), Valencia Orchestra; Ad-
dress, Mayor Mark M. Pagan; Address,
Hon. George L. Record; Music, Inter
nlezzo "Salome" CIV. Lorraine), Valencia
Orchestral Address John HI. Ward,
President Board of Education; Address,
Henry Snyder, City Superintendent of
Schools; Music, Quintette, Sweet and
Low" Ca. Sullivan), Valencia Orchestra /;
Address, Director Julius Berger; Ad-
dress, Robert Troll, Representative Hud-
son City Business Mems Association;
Music, Selection, "F'lorodora" Ueslie
Stuart, Valencia Orchestra; Presenta-
tion of Flag, Twelfth Ward Improve
ment Association, Frederick Bugasch;
Presentation of Bible and Book Mark,
Hudson Council No. 175, Junior Order
o. q. A. NJ, and Perseverance Council
No. 80, Daughters of America, Mr.. Gus
fave A. Pfngsten and Miss Ida d.
Blake; Music, America Valencia Or
chestrs:: DIR. julius Peters, conductor of
orchestra.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-10-18
WARRANTS
FOR The BOARD
Judge Blair Orders the Ar
rest Of a Batch Of Bayonne
Election Officers.
ILLEGAL REGISTRATION
Said to Have Put on Sixty
Names Indications of a
Republican Plot.
ILLEGAL REGISTRATION

Bench warrants for the arrest Of the
members of the election board of the
First district, Second ward, Bayonne,
We're issued by Judge Blair yesterday
afternoon at the request of Prosecutor
Erwin. The warrants were placed in
the hands of Detective Graham, and the
men will be arraigned in the General
Sessions Court on Monday morning on
charge of violating the election law by
placing ON the registry list about sixty
names of voters who had not appeared
in person and for whom it is alleged no
affidavits were made.
The accused election officers are
Henry Goodman, % West Twentieth
street and Alfred Botken, AGO Avenue
G, Republicans, and Paul Halpern, All
Avenue c, and Lawrence r. Loughlin,
AL Avenue d, Democrats.
1t is stated that information of the al
legged Illegal registration was conveyed to
the Prosecutor by one of the accused
men, who said that when he returned
from dinner on September 80 list of
names was handed to him by his asso-
ciates to place ON the registry list. He
says that he demurred at first but that
on the representations of the other three
officers that it was the usual custom and
strictly legal, he did as requestde.
Republican politicians are believed to
be the instigators of the prosecution. The
Board of Registry was arrested just be-
fore the general election in another pre-
cinct of this ward one year ago, although
the members were not reappaointed this
year.
Democrats understand that the com
plant is made for the real purpose of
frightening naturalized citizens, whom
the Republicans can only hope to prevent
voting the Democratic ticket by intimi-
dation.
The arrests made one year ago did not
result in a single conviction and were
abandoned, plainly indicating the, object
of the prosecution.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-10-18
ACCUSED OF EMDEzzLEMENT
Son of a Member of the Cana
dian Parliament Held for
Extradition.

Stephen McMullen, twenty-nine years
old son of Robert McMullen, member
of the Canadian Parliament. was arrest
ed last night on a charge of embezzle-
ment by Inspector Archibold and Pa
trolman William e. Robinson. McMul-
len, it is charged, embezzled $1,000 last
March from f. H. ST. Charles & Co., of
No. 257 ST. Lawrence street, Montreal.
Mr.. St. Charles went to police headquer-
ters last evening and said he had been
informed that McMullen was employed
in freight Office on Henderson street.
Inspector Archibold and Robinson
went with st. Charles and watched the
clerks leave the freight office of the p.
Z. r. at Second and Henderson streets at
6 o'clock last night. st. Charles pointed
out Mcmillan, who was arrested at once.
He admitted his identity and said flle was
glad he had been caught as the fear of
arrest had been a great burden.
United States Commissioner Lindsay
Rowe remanded Mcmillan for extradi-
ton.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-10-18
FOR The MINERS
Programme for the Sacred
Concert Of the Davis Boys
Tomorrow Evening.

The sacred concert which win be Civ
en- at the Bijou Theatre tomorrow even
ing under the auspices of the Robert
Davis Association, for the benefit Of the
striking coal miners, promises to attract
a big audience. Ane sale Of tickets has
been brisk.
George III. Donaldson, chairman of the
entertainment committee, and Register
James Clarke, chairman of the executive
committee, today announced the follow
ing program for the interesting event
Overture: ..-...... .orehestf
ff0f. 1onis Dittmar, Leader.
The al Hills,
in their original comedy sketch.
Markey and Stewart,
The Hebrew and the Celt."
Jennie Yeamanns'
Coincidence
Georgia Gardner and Joe Madden,
nj their comedy sketch,
Too -4any Darlingsr
h. Wilbur Hill and Willett Whitaker,
Vocalists. Banjoists, Entertainers.
McNath and Horste,
Novelty Song Illustrators.
May Evans,
Premier Whistling Soloist and Imitator
The Hobo Zobo Band.
John Philip Sousa. ...... John Cuparo
Leader.
And his staff of Artists.
George Rubacky, Leo E. Duff. Louis I'm
ger, Jacob Singer, Herman Kleinhaus,
VIM. Higgins, Richard Duff. Leo Me-
Cormack. Vincent Doyle, Louis Gold
stein, Ed; Stucky, Geo. Vogt, Dave
LieberfeId.
George Fuller Golden,
That's All"
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-10-18
BAD, BAD BOY.
Truant Cave DweIIer of West
New York Incorrigible.

Emil Minckhardt, ten years old,
member of the bad-boy cave dwellers of
West New York, was arrested yester-
day by Sergeant Bickard of West New
York. The boy was found in the cave at
the foot Jefferson street playing cards
with companion, whittier he had es-
capped from school. He was taken to the
station house and his father sent for.
Mr.. Muckhardt told Recorder Murphy
that his boy was incorrigible. That
morning he had discovered his son was
stealing money from him, whereupon he
took him down in the cellar and gave
him whaling until he cried for mercy.
Then he tied him to a post, telling him
to remain there till he (the father re-
turned from work. When Mr.. Muck
hardt got back he found the boy had
broken loose, stolen 81 from his mothers
pockethook, broken open dime savings
bank and stolen $2.6G and taken his
fathers gold watch, which he sold to a
playmate, the son of Louis Bergman, of
jackson avenue. for fifty cents.
The father, however, told Recorder
Murphy if he would let the boy go free
he thought he could make man of him.
The Recorder released the boy, and as
father and son left the court room the
former broke an umbrella which he was
carrying, to splinters over the boys back
in the FIRST man-making effort.