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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1903-05-20
NOta del dfa

va apareci6, por I'm, el infor-
me de la comision que fue 4
investigar los asuatoS del Pre-
sidio.
Hecho con hsnevolencia q ma.
die acuSa. Es 10 misno que
dscfamos nosotros a raiz del cri-
men de la Marina, E igual al in
formc del sei1or Luzunaris.
Els decir, que Sc agrava la
question, que no sc limita q Ia
destituci6n de un jefe compla-
ciente 6algunos empleados inep-
tos. Es asunto mas delicado Y
trascendental Ell sistema pc
nitenciario esta pidiendo a vo-
ces una reforma tan amplia, tan
completa que resulte absolute
mente nuevo.
para que ha de extremarse
la nota rigorista contra un jefe
del Preside. porque Sc escape
un preso, 81 todo es ALI defcien-
ter La rcsponsabilidad del jete
del Preside alcanza hasta el
momento de la fuga del preso,
despues es el fugitive quien tie
ne que responder de sus actos y
a quien Sc deben pedir respon-
sabilidades.
Pero Ell informe de la comi.
sion investigadora Sc queda
corto en- algunOs puntos.
Limitase a pedir ventilacion
y luz en- las galeras- y unos
cuantos policfas y empleados ci-
viles que hacen falta para qui.
tar de manos de los presos, ve-
nenos y navajas de afeitar con
los que Sc puede Originar otro
cOnf1icto el mejor dfa.
NADIA ha descubierto que sea
nuevo csa comisi6n inv est1ga-
dora, que por 10 visto no ha in
vestigado la mas leve cosa.
A rafz del crimen de la Mari
ma, estuvimos conference.-the
con el sefior Guillot, segundo
jefe del Presidio, y Sc lamenta-
ba de que sc hubiese Suprimido
la asignacion que tenia ell bar.
bero del penal, para que uno de
los confnados desempenara este
Ohcio en- Ia penitenciaria.
Esta era una de las famosas
economfas que la Camara de De.
legados 50 atrevio a hacer. El
chocolate del loro, del popula.
risinno cusnto.
Tambien el seflor Guillot, nos
hablo de la falta de policia en-
el penal. Nosotros habiamos
advertido esta deficiencia y asi
SO 10 manifestamos.
NADIA nuevo nos dice, por con.
siguiente, la comision investi
gadora. Y 81 nos lisonjea que
rep1ta 10 dicho por nosotros ha-
cc algunos meses, nos gustaria
mas que compartiese nuestras
opinioncs en- TN todo Y pusiera
de manifesto la necesidad inc,
luctable que existe de edifca1
una penitenciaria nueva, leios
de San Juan y de todas las DO.
blaciones de la Isla. No es un
capricho. Es una necesidad do
lorosa. Es muy cierto que los
confnados necesitan aire y ne
cesitan luz, pero tambien 10 es
que Ia sociedad necesita estar q
cubierto de las agresiones de los
delincuentes.
Aire y luz pueden tener los
presidiarios cuanto mas leios de
la ciudad, en- cantidades mayo
res, vamos q concederles este '
muchas cosas mas que Ia CO.
mission no advierte construyen-
do una penitenciaria moderns
lejos de Ia que ahora existe.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1903-05-20
Fiesta cristiana

Maffana es el dia de Ia Ascension
Seflor, fiesta que el mundo cristiano q.
Zebra con profundo respeto ' emoe
gsande.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1903-12-15

lime-sulphur wash for the San Jose scale, which
l suppose requires attention in your vicinity,
how many medium sized peach trees are you able
to spray in ten hours? I have known of several
cases where gasoline engines have been used
and they did not prove entirely satisfactory be-
cause they have often failed to work properly at
the time when it was necessary to do the spray
ing. This may perhaps, be due to the particular
kind of engine that used.
Another point which would like to know about
is concerning the weight of your engine. 1t Is
sometimes necessary in this state to treat trees
when the ground is soft, hence it is often impos-
sible to use a heavy sprayer at such time. l
trust it will not inconvenience you to give me this
information. A. F. BURGESS,
Chief Inspector
The foregoing letter was answered by
mail, but some Of the questions asked by
Prof. Burgess are likely to come up with
any one who contemplates using power
sprayer. Hence the substance of the answers
is given here. Our engine, pump, tank, agl-
tating fixtures, cooling tank-in short, the
entire outfit as it stands on the wagon
weighs, as I now remember, about eight hun
dred pounds. The tank holds about $50 gal
Ions of water or something over three bar
rels The wagon we use is low, metal
wheeled wagon. When the tank is full the
entire outfit, not, of course including the
wagon, weighs about $500 pounds. Two
good, average sized horses draw the outfit
readily The load gets lighter as the mate
rial in the tank is sprayed out. Where there
are steep hills third horse would become
necessary. It would not be proper to say
that our engine gave us no trouble. My sons
were inexperienced with gasoline engines
and when any trouble came up they had to
study the matter. But they soon learned to
know the engine and had but little delay.
We did not have to spray our peach trees,
and what little spraying we did for the San
Jose scale was so scattered about that the
question of how many trees we could spray
in ten hours, I cannot answer. We sprayed
five times for the codling moth. We could
spray about five hundred apple trees in a
day of ten hours We figured up at the close
of the season and found that it cost us about
eight cents tree for the five sprayings.
This includes cost of material, labor and
everything. AS to the ground being soft,
as mentioned by Prof. Burgess, I would say
that if metal-wheeled wagon is used with
tire five inches wide, the wagon will go
wherever the horses can 60 and no danger
of miring.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1903-12-15
Horticultural Notes
By F. WALDEN.


sionally some person who seems to be many
years behind the times, may ask the ques-
ton, "Will it pay to spray?" But the up
to-date fruit grower has settled that ques-
ton long ago. The question with which ne
is concerned is how to spray. And this how
NAV not have reference so much to the man
ner of applying the spray material as to the
kind of machinery to be used in doing the
work. Some men asked me recently II L
used the knapsack sprayer or the bucket
sprayer in my orchard work We passed
that period in our spraying experience many
years ago Think of carrying knapsack to
spray sixty acres of bearing orchard where
not less than ten thousand gallons OF liquid
would be required for each spraying ana
we sprayed five times last year! That would
be somewhat like trying to tunnel through
a mountain with tea spoon. We got along
fairly well for time with barrel sprayers
worked by hand, but we outgrew that In
moving on from the hand-worked sprayer
to the power sprayer much investigation was
given the matter I correspondent with some
of the leading fruit growers in the North
west relative to this matter. personally IN
terviewed a number Of large orchardists on
the subject. Prof G. M. Higgins of Port
land, Ore who has forty-acre ebaring or
chard in the Boise valley and was using
power sprayer, put me on to the track OF the
one he uses Tt was made under the super
vision of the dwell Bros. of Ore, and is put
up by the Fairbanks Morse Co. The power
is a gasoline engine known as ''The Jack OF
All Trades We used our spraying outfit
the past summer. A picture of this outfit
was given in the Ranch some time since. 1t
gave good satisfaction. AS far as [ know
nothing equal to this outfit has yet been put
before the public.
Last spring Prof Piper, the distinguished
entomologist of Pullman College visited our
place and saw our spraying outfit I learned
that he was much interested in the question
of power spraying machines. He had it in
mind then to get some of the manufacturers
of these machines to allow the Experiment
Station at Pullman to give trial of these
outfits. That would have been done in the
summer of 1904 had these arrangements been
carried out. To our regret this able and de-
voted worker was called to higher position
at Washington, D. G. This may result in the
abandonment Of his cherished plans or they
may be carried ont in the East. The follow
ing letter from the Chief Inspector of Muir
series and Orchards in the State of Ohio
shows that Prof Piper is still Interested in
this subject and has not forgotten his old
friends in the great Northwest:
In recent conversation that had with Prof
Piper at Washington, D. c.. concerning the use of
power sprayers, he told me that you had been
operating that was run by gasoline engine
and he suggested that write to you concerning
YOUR outfit
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1903-12-15

The Ellensburg Dawn recently contained
the statement that the Kittitas valley, in
which Ellensburg is situated, could not be
equaled in the quality of it's fruits by any
section of the state. This shows how easily
a person can be mistaken. once lived in
Ellensburg and know something of it's fruit
growing and can testify that they raise fine
fruit in that valley, but I never suspected
that it could not be equaled anywhere else
be brought out by those who try to boom
country. "Bob" can go up to the head of
the class.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1903-12-15

Prof c. M Higgins of Portland, Ore, who
has forty acres in bearing orchard IN the
Boise valley and has made some money out
of the business, is preparing to plant sixty
acres more. Other instances could be given
pointing in the same direction.
But are not some people discouraged IN
the fruit growing business? Yes. And some
people are discouraged in every line Of bust
ness open to human effort Some people are
even discouraged in trying to live at all and
now and then take their own lives. Would
that prove that in this case we should "go
and do lilxewise?" The croakers can be
found in every walk of life. Let them utter
their Jeremiads, but we will go on in the
even tenor Of our ways and still make enough
money to keep out of the poor house.
But some people have very indefinite
idea of what profit is in the fruit business.
Hon. D. E. Lesh Of Yakima Co., some twelve
or fifteen years ago, sold the peaches from
one peach tree for 5000. This he made aft
davit to and it was published far and wide
by the real estate men. | have no doubt but
the honorable senator's statement was strict
after it occurred He had an Alexander
peach tree that bore $40 pounds of peaches
one season and he sold them at Roslyn, I
think, for ten cents per pound Now some
one who may have read this account may
have had no more sense than to think that
he could go into the peach growing business
and sell his peaches at ten cents per pound.
Now a man may consider himself lucky if
he can make ST. per tree on Alexander peach
trees. In fact that would be paying bust
ness. Two hundred peach trees can be
grown on an acre, so that $1.00 for each tree
would be $4,000 net per acre. Now, the fact
is, that any crop that will net man 800 per
acre is very profitable business. The writ
er once went into store in Zillah and was
asked by man sitting on the counter if it
was true that his peaches were all killed for
that year. The answer was given that they
were. "Then," said the man on the counter,
GO If had peach orchard, I would grub it
up" "What would you plant in place of
it," said the writer wheat" came the
response. To this the writer replied: "Last
year my peach orchard netted me more than
$4,000 per acre. How long would it take
your wheat to do thatg'' "Ten years." said
another man on the counter. And he was
not very far out of the way in his estimate
So [ waited and that same peach orchard
has netted me $4,000 per acre on two diff
ferent years and the ten years are not half
out yet. Now all this leads me to say that
when we are estimating whether orcharding
is profitable, we must compare it with other
callings, not in the gross earnings, but in
the net.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1903-12-15

Prof. G. M. Higgins of Portland, Ore, who
has forty acres in bearing orchard in the
Boise valley and has made some money out
of the business, is preparing to plant sixty
acres more. Other instances could be given
pointing in the same direction.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1903-12-15

j. D. dwell of Central Point, Ore, told
the writer last winter that between 35 and
40 Of these outfits were in use in his part of
the state and were giving splendid satisfac-
ton. He said that some men were using
these power sprays that did not have more
than ten acres and it paid.
The writer in some recent Farmers Insti-
tutes, addressed the people on the theme
"Orcharding for Profit" The theme was
chosen by the management at Pullman Col
lege, and it is presumed that the writer was
chosen to handle this theme because he is
in the business If there was not some profit
in fruit growing it is certain that he would
not be in the business very long. One of the
best evidences that fruit growing pays is the
fact that men who have tried the business
in many cases are charging their plants.
The writer is planning to plant some fifty or
sixty acres more to orchard. Part of this will
be in peaches, because he believes that he has
the ideal piece of ground for peach growing.
The remainder will be in winter apples.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1903-09-24
PERSONAL MENTION.

James D. Phelan leaves for New York
to-day.
DR.. D. E. Blackburn of Pescadero is at
the Grand.
A P. Booth, a merchant of Sacramento,
is at the Lick.
F. L. Lusk, an attorney of Chico. is
at the Palace.
DR.. W. G. Downing and wife of Suisun
are at the Lick.
Major J. w. F. Diss Of Los Angeles is
at the Occidental.
John Ross Jr., a mining man of Suffer
Creek, is at the Lick.
Colonel D. H. Bryant, a rancher Of San
Jose, is at the Grand.
Dr. A. NJ. Mcintosh of Vacaville is reg
istered at the Occidental.
Judge s. K. Dougherty of Santa Rosa
is guest at the Grand.
Timothy Hopkins will leave next Sun
day for a trip to the East.
Thomas Derby of the New Almaden
quicksilver mines is at the Palace.
Thomas D. Petch who is engaged in
mining near Eureka, is at the Grand.
Murray M. Harris, an organ manufac-
turer of Los Angeles. is at the Grand.
Charles l.. Tut, head of a big mining
company in Colorado, is staying at the
Palace.
John Mcintyre, mining man of Sac
ramento is in the city for a few days and
is registered at the Lick.
A B. Adams of New York, who is in
terested in mines in Mexico. arrived from
the East last evening and is at the Palace.
w. D. Pagan of New York, who is in
terested in the North Star mine. in Ne
vada County, has arrived at the Palace
on his way to the property.
T. NJ Ore of Omaha, assistant to the
president of the Union Pacific Railroad,
and wife are registered at the Palace.
They have been making tour of Califor-
MIA in a private car
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1903-09-24
WALTER MAGE DEFENDANT
IN A SUIT FOR DAMAGES
Handling Of Automobile Caused
Her Great Injury,

Walter Magee, athlete, clubman and
prominent society man. is the defendant
in a suit for S5435 damages brought yester-
day by Frances Rock. The suit is the
result of an accident in which Magee, au
automobile, the plaintiff and a street car
took prominent parts. 1t occurred June
80 last on Suffer street, between Hyde
and Leavenworth. According to the
complaint the accident was due to
the high rate of speed at which Magee
was driving his machine. The plaintiff
says that while she was a passenger on
an east-bound Suffer street car June 3d.
Magee endeavored to pass the car in
his automobile. He was going consider
ably faster than the twelve miles an hour
allowed by law she says, and the result
was that the machine swerved and
smashed into that part of the car where
she sat. She says that because of the
young man recklessness she suffered
severe fright, numerous bruises and a
permanent injury to one of her ankles.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1903-09-24
RIVAL COMPANIES WANT
FRANCHISE TO CAMPBELL
Two Electric Railways Are Anxious
to Enter That Thriving Little
Town

SAN JOSE, Sept 23.-There promises to
be race between the San Jose Electric
Railway and the San Jose and Los Gatos
Interurban Railway to see which can
reach Campbell first. That thriving town.
six miles southwest of this city, has been
wanting electric road for some time
and now 1t has the promise of becoming
the goal Of two lines. The citizens of
the place are also preparing to incorpor-
ate as a town.
The San Jose Railway Company, which
owns the First-Street line and other
branches. is said to be preparing an ap-
plication for a franchise for an electric
road from this city to Campbell and will
file it with the Supervisors at the next
meeting. 1t proposes to extend its branch
from the end of Willow street at Lincoln
avenue on out TO Campbell. The pro-
posed line will run through a thickly set
tied community. The German Savings
Bank of San Francisco is the owner of
the First-street road and the proposed
extension.
The San Jose and Los Gatos Interurban
Railway also has its eye on Campbell
and a lively fight over the franchise will
result The company has a line from
this city to Saratoga and Los Gatos about
completed and it has figured all along
on running another line from Los Gatos
direct to San Jose.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1903-09-24
SLEUTH BURNS
ON STILL HUNT
Hot on the Trail Of the
Conspirators in Chi
nese Case.
Other Persons Are Under His
Surveillance and May Be
Arrested.

Like a true sleuth United States
Secret Service Agent William j. Burns
cid not emerge from cover yesterday
and failed to put in an appearance
in the Federal building. He is evi-
IDENTIFY on the trail of other per-
sons suspected of completely in the Chi
nese substitution cases that have been
going on in this city during the last six
years. notwithstanding the fact that ru-
mors of substitution have been reported
from time to time by the newspapers and
that a man named Duffy was sentenced
year ago to the penitentiary for sub
stituting a habeas corpus Chinese between
the Mail dock and the Appraisers build
ing, neither the Chinese Bureau here nor
at Washington lifted a finger to close up
this knothOle through which Chinese la
borers have been leaking into the cOun-
try. 1t was only the great scandal pro-
voked by the confession of Deputy United
States Marshal Gamble that aroused the
Washington authorities to action and then
II was the Department of Justice and the
Secret Service that took a hand in the
matter. 1t is believed now that means
of Identification will be adopted by the
Bureau of Commerce and Labor to rem
der such frauds impossible in the future
MI burns was not the only important
character in the case who was missing
yesterday. 1t was observed that United
States Secret Service Agents George w.
HaZen and Harry Moff1tt were also alb
sent on the still hunt. The fact that the
deputies of the Sheriff. Dasha, Burnett
and Dempsey. were on the night watch at
the county jail only two weeks at a time
explains why other jailers have been
placed under surveillance, for it is sus-
pected that the three named and Gamble
were not the only white persons con-
cerned in the conspiracy.
Sheriff Lackmann called at the Apprafs-
er's building yesterday morning and held
half hours conference with United
States District Attorney Marshall B.
Woodwork and United States Marshal
John H. Shine. All declined to make any
statement other than that there was no
news.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1903-09-24
Insolvency Petitions.

s. NJ. Orr and A. n. Evans of the firm
Of Orr & Evans, planning mill and lumber
dealers at Ckiah. filed a petition in in
solvency yesterday in the United States
District Court. The firm owes S24,765 and
has 0.340 assets. Orr owes s5S76 and has
$1,000 assets, and Evans owes s575 and has
1929 assets.
A petition in involuntary insolvency was
filed in the same court by creditors Of
A. K. PhilbrOok, a merchant of Susan
vile, Lassen County. They allege that
he committed an act of bankruptcy by
allowing the Bank of Lassen County to
attach his property for a debt of $3.50.
They ask that execution and sale on the
judgment of the Superior Court of Lassen
be STAYED.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1903-09-24
PRINCIPAL MUST
ANSWER CHARGE
IangdOn to File Formal
Complaint Against
Miss Dryer.
School Board Ratires Two
Teachers From Active
Service.

Superintendent Of Schools Langdon yes
terday notified the Board of Education
that he viii file formal charges against
Miss Jean a. Dryer. acting principal of
the South End School, alleging that she
severely whipped a pupil named Frank
Dugnan Langdon stated that his
. deputies, Suzzalo and Heaton. had eX-
amined several pupils who Witnessed the
alleged Furnishing of Duignan and they
all testined that Miss Dwyer had admin
istered the whipping on the lower portion
Of the boys limbs with a rattan, which
he considers unnecessarily severe.
Langdon further stated that Miss
Dwyer stood on her legal rights and re-
I fused to make a statement, beyond de-
nying that she had whipped the boy in
the manner stated, because the charge
was made by Thomas Kelly, uncle of the
boy, who is not his legal guardian. Under
the circumstances Langoon said he was
compelled TO bring the matter to the
boards attention so that Miss Dwyer may
/ be accorded a hearing, and he will file
a written report on the subject at next
4 Wednesdays meeting.
The board ordered the erection of five
! portable schoOlhouses for the Bergerot,
/ Sunnyside, Sheridan and Sutro schools,
/ giving additional accommoda tions for
I seven classrooms.
The petition Of the Wilmerding and Lick
4 District Improvement Club that the board
/ erect a schoolhouse on the city's lot sit
uated between Kansas, Vermont,
Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets was
taken under advisement. The petitioners
complain that the Buena Vista School is
/ too far away for the smaller pupils and
that the school is too close to a Chinese
4 residence.
/ Leaves of absence were granted to
/ Edith NJ Boyle and Marie Van Buch-
hOltz
The board retired Miss 3. A. Shaw and
! Miss Jean Parker from active service in
! the public schools. They were granted an
annuity under the law for thirty years
! service as teachers.
It was resolved that the use for school
purposes Of the premises at the following
4 locations be discontinued. Stanyan street,
near Oak; Mission street, near Silver ave-
nue.; ~ Stanyan street, Twenty-sixth and
. Castro streets, corner Jersey and Castro
. streets and 5001 California street.
The sum Of $40 per month was allowed
/ to E S. Tucker for the rental Of a lot
on the west side of the Dudley Stone
/ School subject to a lease for three years.
/ with the privilege Of two years more at
the same rent.
Mrs. Robert A. Sample, the widow of
} a special officer of this city who was
killed in the performance Of his duty, was
/ elected janitress of the Irving Primary
/ School TO date from September q, vice
! Mrs. NJ. Gaffney, resigned.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1903-09-24
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
TO KILL THE DANDRUFF GERM.
Is the Only Possible Way of Having
On Effective Cure.

If you see woman or man with lux
uriant, glossy hair you may be sure neith-
er has dandrum to amount to anything
In nearly every case where women and
to dandruff. There are hundreds of prep
arations that 'claim" to cure dandruff.
but not one but Newbros Herpicide tells
you that dandruff Is the result of germ
manent cure of dandruff and its conse-
quent falling and badness can only be
had by killing the germ; and there Is no
other preparation that will destroy that
germ but Newbro's Herpicide. Destroy
the cause and you remove the effect -
Sold by leading druggists. Send 10c in
stamps for sample to The Herpicide Co.,
Detroit Mich.