Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-13


heat and drouth. have not been ill such
misery for thirty years as at present.
Missouri is felicitating itself over the
statement of Professor w. A. Taylor
pomolosist in charge of the field inves-
tigation of the United States depart
ment of agriculture that it leads all
other states now in the growing of APP
pies, the nations apple bin having
shifted west of the Aleghennies. Mis-
souri, has 2o,0oo,000 trees as against 49,
100000 in New York.
The peach harvest in the Ozark dis
trict is now on in full force. over TO-
600 persons are picking and packing
peaches in South Missouri.
Robert Cline of Linwood. Kansas.
picked and sacked 1903 sacks of potatoes
in one day last week. The sacks hold
ing 400 bushels to the acre. and. while
the price is low the pickess are making
good wages at cents sack.
Farmers say these showers are devel-
Cping the ears of corn in good shape.
Perhaps the surplus dog question
may be settled by the automobile In
Kansas City there was collision be-
tween a canine and an auto. Now there
is a pile of scrap iron ana a dead dog.
According to the Ohio State Journal
Frank Wells, machinist, and another
workman, both of Columbus, have in
vented a device for refining oils The
Standard Oil Company has offered ST.
100000 for the exclusive use of the pa
tent, and the offer has been declined
MIR. Wells is experimenting in the use
of oils and has long thought that in the
refinement of the crude product much
valuable material was lost. BY his
the crude material is wasted, and most
of that previously of no use is reclaim
ed The process is simple. 1t consists
of system of rectors in which the oil
is placed and subjected to a great heat.
The oil which results is good for all
most all commercial purposes and of a
much finer grade than any yet pro-
duced. The heat used is derived from
steam and not directly from fuel, and
thus takes away any chance of an ex-
plosion.
1t is announced from the anthracite
region that the mine operators are
every preparation for the re-
of business this week openly
Walter Wellman quotes cabinet
member on the perils of agitating re-
vision of the tariff a a time when it is
held to be practically impossible. Well
man does not disclose his name.
A firm of lawyers at Fairfield this
state. have asked the police of New
York city to look up Elizabeth Dwelley
The lawyers say that the woman is an
heiress of Lafayette Matsler. She is
to have gone to New York
some years ago.
1t would seem that summer had had
its back broken before it was able to
muster up real hot weather.
Orders have been given by the Santa
l'e railroad for 10000 tons of new steel
rails, to be delivered before the end of
the present year. The cost will be
about $2,,200,000, and the steel will relay
about $50 miles of track. 1t is the pur-
pose of the company to lay eighty five
pound rails over the entire distance be-
tween Kansas City and Albuquerque,
335 miles. The remainder of the order
will be used in relaying track on the
Gulf branch for 100 miles north of Fort
Worth.
A dozen Kansas towns report an cpl
demic of heas Millions of these pests
infest the homes and lawns of Topeka
The usual remedies do not disturb
them. There the wicked flea, when no
man pursueth but the righteous, is bold
as lion.
The government statistician reports
a gain in the condition of the corn crop
in the principal northern states and a
loss in the south, where the effect will
not be so perceptible on the total.
The Chicago health department. bull
letin declares that. in view of the
alarming increase of typhoid and ma
larial fever in that city last week, the
present SIS no time for squeamishness
in the use of language" Then. with the
of arousng the public to al
of the danger that menaces