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The Washington times., 1903-06-23
TOWN TURNS OUT TO
FIND STOLEN GOWN
Men. Women, and Children in Search.

NEW YORK, June 23.-Sheriff Miller,
of White Plains. was asked to send de-
tectives to Elmsford to hunt for q cost
~ reception dress stolen while in the
care OF a coachman for Worthington
Whitehouse. Deputy Sheriff Stafford and
two detectives were put on the case.
The dress was sent by express to Elms-
ford. addressed TO Miss y. II. Horgan,
guest at Worthington Farms, the
summer home of Mr. Whitehouse. rhe
coachman took the package from the
depot, placed II on his wagon. anc after
stopping at the village postofice went
into a saloon. When he came out the
box containing the dress had disappear
ed. although several other packages still
remained in the wagon.
The Washington times., 1903-06-23
Full Cars.

Full cars.
During the past two years the railroads
OF this country have had TO practice a
very close economy to keep operating
expenses within reasonable limits. by
reason of the Increased cost OF material
and the general and liberal advances in
wages. One line. the Baltimore and
Ohio, has devoted a great deal OF atten-
ton to having it's cars loaded TO their
full capacity. with a view OF not only
decreasing the number to be hauled. but
to obviste the necessity OF purchasing
additional equipment at high prices
Some recent statistics show how sue
cessful a move OF this nature can be
made. II 1t is properly followed up.
In April. 1903. there were loaded on
the system. exclusive Of the Baltimore
and Ohio Southwestern, 1921 tons OF
coke into 1852 cars
AT the rate of loading obtained in
April. 1902. this tonnage would have re-
CURED 1885 cars. so that there was a
saving In the use and movement OF 954
cars in April. 1903. over April. 1902. due
10 better average loading per car.
There were on the same portion Of the
system 1.416,2O7 tons soft coal loaded
into 4o.sos cars in April. 1903.
At the April. 1902, rate OF loading. this
tonnage would have required 1859 cars,
so that there was n saving in the use
and movement OF 1851 cars in April.
1903. over April. 1902. due to better
average loading per car.
The total saving IN the use and move
ment OF coke and coal cars due 20 this
cause was for the month 4.s45 cars. and
for the ten months 20 April 30. 1903.
1858 cars over the corresponding period
OF last fiscal year.
It may be we'll 10 add that the weights
herein mentioned cover commercial
shipments only. Company's fuel is not
represented in them.
The Washington times., 1903-06-23

Detectives Stafford and his assistants
put in the full day hunting at Elmsfo-d.
but did not succeed in finding it.
The women at WorthIngton Farms
were very much excited over the theft
this afternoon. Miss Horgan said that
the lace on the dress was Of great value
Several of the women came over 10
the courthouse in an automobile This
afternoon 10 swear out search warrants
for several places under suspicion in
Elmsford. Men, women and children
in the hamlet are acting as detectives
in the hope that they viii be rewarded
II they find the garment. No suspicion
is attached 20 the coachman. who has
been in Nr. Warehouses; employ for the
past eight years.
The Washington times., 1903-06-23
$4,000 FOR MONUMENT,
$750 FOR HIS SISTER
Reading Man Left Will That Came as
a Surprise to His Relative.

READING, June ga contract for
81 600 monument at Charles Evans
Cemetery for Irving E. Faust, who died
January 25. 1901. was awarded today.
Mr.. Faust, who was an insure nee agent,
stipulated in his will that 81 900 should
be used Ito erect a monument OF the
latest architecture and design" The
remainder was left to his sister. Mrs.
Valera Miller.
The provision OF mis- viii was a great
surprise. and is being carried out by
,he Reading Trust Company. the trustee
Faust's estate amounted to $4,75S.6s.
The Washington times., 1903-06-23
Warm Weather Rush.

The weather in Washington has been
so fine up to the present time that many
people who are at their country resorts
long before this date, usually, are still
In the city. enjoying the beauty Of Wash
ington IN a cool spring. Yesterday. how
ever. there was some heat. and many Of
the late stayers made things lively
around the railroad Offices. Col. s. B.
Hege and his assistants had their hands
full all days at the Baltimore and Ohio
agency. There was a rush also at the
Pennsylvania. and others in numbers be-
The Washington times., 1903-06-23
ROBIN REDBREAST
PICKED UP CHICKS

wILLIAMSPORT. Pa, June 23.-For
two weeks Murray Zealer, Muncy
Creek farmer. has been missing little
chicks from his brood until forty were
gene.
Hearing a commotion in the hen yard
yt sterday Zeale- reached II IN time to
sec a robin peck a chick in the head
and then start upward with il In its bill
The murderous robin is the first Of it's
kind ever known here.
The Washington times., 1903-06-23
Double Tracks.

The work Of double tracking the
Southern Is going on rapidly. Superin-
tendent OF Construction Dodson arrived
in the city yesterday from Manassas.
where he has more than three thousand
men at work grading. He reported that
UP to yesterday fifteen miles OF the track
had been completed between Alexandria
and Orange, and that by July / thirty
five miles will be IN operation. Had it
not been for the big storms and floods
in the South which for a while interfered
with the traffc conditions on the South
ern as we'll Is the other railroads, which
necessitated taking the gangs of Of the
construction work and putting them TO
repairing bridges and roadbeds, the work
would have been completed on this sec
ton.
The Washington times., 1903-06-23
PORTO RICAN JURIST IS
PROUD OF THE ISLAND
Judge SulZbacher Predicts a Bright
Future for the Country.

Judge Louis Sulzbacher. of the su-
preme court Of Porto Rico. is at the
Shoreham. He is here for q conference
with the President and Secretary Root.
Concerning Porto Rico he said
Il am confident that Porto Rico has n
fine future. The trade of the island is
expanding rapidly, fact that the people
Of the United States are finding out
Money IS needed for investments. and
when this begins TO so into the indus
tries in the country the growth will be
phenomenal"
The Washington times., 1903-06-23
POOR HUSBANDS ARE
ENSLAYED BY WIVES
Chicago Women Devise Pen
atty for Indifference.
THEY MUST ALL BE SORRY
New Organization Sets Forth Rules.
Members Grow En-
thusiastic.

CHICAGO. June 2S.-Because one hus-
band didn't get home for dinner until
8 o'clock, thereby causing his wife to be
tsrdy at lodge meeting, fifty-nine other
men will help him to pay the penalty.
Ledge meeting was quickly adjourned
last night and the members, gathering
their friends together. held a sort of
constitutional rights convention. debated
husbandly injustice, and considered its
remedy.
This is the plan:
Rules for Husbands.
Husbands will be permitted to go to
the club one night q week
They will wipe the dishes three nights
a week or hire a girl.
They shall be custodian OF all fires,
and their duties shall include poking
the ashes and carrying coal.
It shall be the duty of a husband to
spend some part Of his leisure with
his wife. In order that the wife shall
work only twelve hours a day he must
provide a girl to do the drudgery. Fail
ure TO do so will Justify the wife In
procuring one. aiding her TO collect
wages from the husband by due process
OF law.
hOOSE W ES ONlON Or OOI n
CHICAGO.
When Mrs. Carrie Hoyt arrived late at
Eastern Star Lodge she was chided b.
the woman who welded the gavel Mrs.
Hoyt put it up TO Fred he being Mrs
Hoyt's husband, and the indirect cause
of movement which is likely to give
the United Mine Workers hard battle
on the membership score.
Poor, Poor Women.
Mrs. Hoyt became so enthusiastic il
tearing Fred's hair that after fifteen
minutes she was overcome and sank into
chair. sobbing.
''Poor, poor woman said the other
poor, poor women. Then they stroked
Mrs. Hoyt's hair and told her to be OF
good cheer, promising that Fred would
sorry that Fred was sorry
I'VE need protection" said Mrs. A
/ 3. Booker. Il move we organize and
get IT." Then the convention was held.
1--WE need rules" said one woman
proposing the old Joke about the hus-
band acting as nurse girl
! Make 'em spend their money fol
hired girls" declared another. Tha
was a popular suggestion and all vote,
AYE" and planned for an anniversary
celebration of woman's emancipation
next year.
Then other rules were proposed Soms
one thought 1t would be a good idea <
organize a husbands auxiliary whicl
should meet with the Housewives
Union and discuss household topics
Make the husbands take an interes
in it and think of this movement as
pleasure rather than a duty" declare,
one.
More Rules for Men.
After insisting that each wife shoul
add one amendment to the constitution
the meeting elected these officers:
President, Mrs. A. B. Booker; vic
president. Mrs. Duckitt; secretary, Mrs
Carter; treasurer, Mrs. sheiss; guards
Mrs. Tanner and Mrs. Eva Cohen, an
chaplain. Mrs. Oppenheimer.
The duties OF the guards and chaplai
have yet TO be designated. Those c
chaplain viii probably be 20 pray 70
mercy when the husbands start to eve
, things. Another meeting will be hel
tomorrow
The Washington times., 1903-06-23
WILHELM DECLINES
CITY'S HOSPITALITY
Frsnkfort Ignored Because Municipality
Disputed a Hotel Keepers Bill.

FRANKFORT on THE MAIN. June
23.-The fact that the Emperor, during
his visit here. did not accept tho city's
hospitality. but returned each evening
to the palace in Wiesbaden, is much
commented upon.
The reason given Is that on the last
occasion on which the Emperor visited
the city the proprietor OF the hotel
where the Ka.sor lodged was obliged 10
take legal proceedings TO recover the
amount of his bill. which the munich
pallty considered eXorbitant. The En-
peror is said TO have declared that he
would never accept the hospitality Of
the city again.
The Washington times., 1903-06-23
GETS GERMAN SCENERY.

BERLIN, June 22.-Director Conried.
OF the Metropolitan opern House. New
York. has ordered q full equipment Of
costumes and scenery from a Berlla
firm for the Wagner operas which he Is
ia produce in New York next season.
The Washington times., 1903-06-23
Real Estate Agent

John K Taggart has been appointed
agent for the real estate department OF
the Pennsylvania, with Offices al Phila-
delphia-
The Washington times., 1903-06-23
NEWS OF RAILROADS
AND OF RAILROAD MEN

sieged Col L. s Brown at the agency Of
the Southern arranging for trips to the
Virginia springs and the "Adirondacks
OF the South in the mountains OF west
ern North Carolina. Assistant General
Passenger Agent Bronson. Of thu
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. also
got his share. Today. however.
the weather turned cool again and
the business dropped of. So far. al
though the railroad business has been
good, the weather is 30 per cent short
in temperature as compared 70 all years
for half decade.
The Washington times., 1903-06-23
Stock Subscriptions.

The subscriptions TO the allotment OF
SIS 900 900 OF stock issued by the Penn
syIvania yesterday reached S12. 600 900.
the percentage OF full paid subscriptions
being 90 per cent.
The Washington times., 1903-06-23
Creating Trouble.

The report has gone out quietly that
all the stories concerning the alleged
trouble between the Baltimore and ohio
and the Pennsylvania are emanatins
from one source. and that they are sent
broadcast simply to create trouble II
is said that carbon copies OF the re-
ports have been sent to all papers in
the East
The Washington times., 1903-06-23
Resigned His Place.

L. NJ. Van Allen, superintendent OF
the Buffalo division of the Lehigh. has
resigned. He leaves the road July /.
The Washington times., 1903-06-23
Vice President Here.

First Vice President Andrews. OF the
Southern. is in the city attending to the
business OF the system
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-30

runs in southeasterly direction to the
southern part of the state effectualIy
dlssipate these destructive winds so
that they never penetrate to that part
of the country described in this
article. 1t is true that the hot winds
have been felt in the western part of
the state, but the Oldest settler in the
central part has never experienced
them.
While it cannot be claimed thai
North Dakota is a hog-raising coun-
try, it is fact that nearly every farm
er has few pigs, and many are en-
gagged in the business on a large scale.
With the annual increase in the guam
tity of corn raised hogs are being given
more attention. The freedom from
cholera makes a North Dakota hog a
desirable meat product, and those fat
tened on barley and speltz have
brought exceptionally high prices at
the South st. Paul stock yards.
In 1902 North Dakota had 1857. SOB
mead of live stock, including horses,
cattle, sheep, mules and hogs, and the
sales the year previous aggregated tn .
enormous sum of s5,306,167. Numerous
well supplied horse ranches testify to
the profits arising from that branch of
farming, but it is to cattle and sheep
that the settler in Central North Da
kota should direct his attention. That
there is big money in both branches
may be easily and quickly demonstrate
ed by few figures that will not lie.
Take cattle, for instance: I
Suppose a man start with 100 three-
year-old or older cows, coming in in
the spring. he can count on raising
80 per cent of the calves, which, in the
long run, will be almost equally di-
Vided in sex. He will have, therefore,
at the end of the first year 100 four
year-old cows that will bear eighty
more calves, the following spring, and
eighty yearlings, of which forty are
heifers. These will be thrown into the
herd and bred at the end of the sec
ond year. Forty yearling steers are
easily worth $4,000 apiece, or $4,000,
but as they ripen into money so speed
lily 1t would be foolish to sell them be-
fore they had reached the age of two
or three years. The yearling heifers
are likewise worth $4,000, but they are
too valuable to be sold as calves, and
dad +o the bord fro,,, - 80 a.
Counting the COW and her calf at $40.
the account would stand as follows:
At end of First Year
100 cows at $4,000 100000
80 vaarlings Of 4oo eooo m
,oo -
LOU $0'oo0'0o
At End of sacond vaor
100 cows at $4,000 100000
80 2-year- olds at
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-30
Total sales ..............$14,S3 4.50

Accepting this statement to be COR
rect, it will be seen that this closes the
fifth year with 1896 sheep, young and
old, on hand. worth. at $500 and $3.50
a head respectively. $1O,752.50. His
sales have amounted to $14.S34.5O, so
that his total net gain. deducting the
original cost of 500 ewes, amounts to
the enormous sum of $240S7OO, while
the original ewes would be just as VAL
liable for breeding purposes. At the
fifth year it would be advisable to dis
pose of them, so that their sale, while
decreasing the stock in herd would
swell the receipts correspondingly. AS
in the Illustration given on cattle rails
ing, it may be well to provide for losses
not specifically covered above. Start
ing as we have with young sheep,
there ought really to be a very small
loss, and to be liberal we will place
it at per cent. This loss. If deducted
from the sheep and lambs. would still
leave nearly $500 sheep, valued at
over $4,000. If it be figured on the
whole transaction it would cut down
the net gain to $22,S00.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-30
$24,0OO.OO

SZ4,UUU.UU
Of course. no man would keen
steers until they We're five years old.
and most men would sell three-year-
olds. This would bring in substan-
tial revenue at the end of the third
year if he did not sooner realize from
sale OF younger cattle The foregoing
figures make no allowance for natural
losses of the herd other than the 20
per cent loss on the increase. 1t is
fan to presume that every herd would
sustain other loss. which the best au-
thorities fix at not exceeding per
cent, in the central part of North Da-
kota. Deducting this loss from the
inventory at the end of five years it
would leave So, 500. Deducting this
from the cost of the original 100 COWS
would give a net gain of $18,S00. These
figures are based on results of years
of operation and are believed to be
conservative.
AS an abstract proposition it may
be stated, and can easily be proved,
that a steer will add $25 per year to
his value, and this. too, with nothing
but the native grasses to feed upon
and yearling worth $50 one fall will
be worth $50 as a two-year- and
$50 as three year-oId. Hundreds Of
steers shipped from the ranges within
the past year have averaged far more
than these figures at the ages given.
Purchases of live stock for breeding
should be made in the fall when choice
selections of young COWS can be had
at low figures, the cost and trouble of
Wintering being the only excuse for
sales at reasonable prices.
But the greatest profit is in sheep
raising. The returns are not only Ger
tain, but very speedy. and hundreds of
farmers in North Dakota have grown
independently RIGA through a humble
start OF a homestead with a handful of
sheep. The market for wool, which is
never over supplied. assures an aver
age of 81 from each sheep each year
for its fleece, and. OF course, lamb and
mutton sheep are as staple food as
beef and can always be sold at good
figures. Sheep raising in North Da-
kota is very different proposition
from sheep raising in the states far
Their south. The dry climate and free
dom from swamps make hoof rot and
kindred diseases positively unknown,
and sheep share with men and cattle
the healthfulness of that remarkably
healthy region.
AS illustrating some Of the possible
profits arising from the raising of
sheep let few more figures tell what
can be accomplished: 81
Presuming that a man starts in the
fall with 500 breeding ewes which
cost him say $500 each. he will have
in the spring 500 lambs. His increase
will really be much greater on account
of the large number of twins, but the
losses will reduce that number to about
100 per cent increase on the average.
From his flock of ewes his wool will
average, as noted above, $1.00 per head.
He can count on 1t that his lambs will
be equally divided in sex one year
with another, so that each year his
flock increases about so per cent be-
sides his sales. To make the inven-
tory conservative, the increase has
been figured at $3.50 per head each
year. In this instance it is taken in
the fall-that of cattle above being
taken in the spring. The figures be-
low tell the story:
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-30
At End of Fifth Year

At End of Fifth Year
220 cows at $4,000. So 10000
40 5year-old steers
at $4,000 49,. 100000
40 4year-old steers
at $1,000 ....... 100000
40 3-year-old steers
at $4,000 ...... 100000
112 2-year-old steers
at $500 ...... $4,000
144 yearlings at
$4,000 ........ 2.SSO.OO
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-30

WOol-1,6S7 f1eeces s. 1,6SZO0
Yearling Wethers,
S44 head ........ 2,110.00
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-30

Third year ...........".$ 2,582.5G
At End of Fourth Year
1857 ewes .......$ 5,O61.O0
S43 yearling ewes. 2,1O7.5O
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-30

Wool-1.125 fieeces $ 1,125.OO
Yearling wethers,
563 head ........ 1,407.5O
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-30

1896 worth ........$1O,752.5O
Sales
Wool-2,53O feeces s. 2,5SO.OO
Yearling wethers,
1926 head ...... 3,162.5O S $50
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-30

Sales
Wool-750 feeces IS 10000
Yearling wethers,
375 head 10000. $3.50
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-30

Second year ............$ 1.6S7.5S
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-30

Fourth year .............$ S.79ZOO
At End of Fifth Year
$3.50 ewes ......$ $4,000
1906 yearling ewes. 31625O
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-30

Sales
Wool-500 feeces IS 10000
1earling wethers,
250 head ......... 625.OO
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-30

First year ..............$ 1,125.Od
At End of Second Year
$50 ewes ..........$ 2,25OOO
375 yearling ewes 9375O
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-30

l,l25 ewes ....$ 3,375.O0
562 yearling ewes 1,4O5.OO
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-07-14
A NEW CANE
LOADER TRIED

A new cane loading machine has been
used at Waialua Plantation during the
present season for harvesting a portion
of sugar crop and is said to have been
very successful. The machine has been
patented by Frank L. Webster of Aus
tralia and he has associated with him
in exploiting the tent in Hawaii, j.
A. McCloud and A. A. Wilson,
Our machine will load cane in
half the time and at saving of ten per
cent of the expense of the methods at
present employed" said Mr.. Wilson yes
terday. You know that with any new
invention there are a great many de-
fects to be corrected, and we have been
perfecting the machine right in the
fields. 1t has been operated all this
season at Waialua Plantation and has
proved to be successful. Thirteen men
can handle the machine and we have
been taking care of thirty cars of cane
Of four tons each per day.
1.-THE cane loading machine consists
Of a portable derrick which is
adjusted to trucks that run on
the portable track that cane cars
run upon. The cane cars pass through
the machine right over the top of the
trucks. The cane is piled into sings,
which are drawn in by cables and
dumped into the cane car as it stands
on the portable truck Besides the
drawing in cables, there are boom ca
bles which are used in conveying the
cane from distance on both sides of
the machine.
THE booms swing to either slS
There are six drums running ind.
dent of each other, two drums running
to the boom cables and two running
on each side taking in the cane from
distance. The whole is operated by a
thirteen horse power gasoline engine.
AS fast as the cars are filled they are
pushed off towards the mill. In the
morning all the empties are run
through behind the machine, and then
pushed on as fast as needed.
"Our best record was loading two
cars In twelve minutes, but that is not
the speed for days work. We were
timed once In the course of a days
work and two cars were loaded in
seventeen minutes. Forty-one cars was
the biggest days run.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-07-14

Is due in great measure to fires that
follow reckless numbering.
In the far West, the relationship be-
tween forests and water-supply Is in
innate and far-reaching. Here agri-
culture is mainly carried on through
irrigation. The question of water-sup-
ply is question of life, and forest
fire in a watershed means not alone the
loss of the timber but the removal of
the covering that protects the snow
from rapid melting with the warm
spring sun, and a consequent rapid
run-off of rain and melted snow, filling
reservoirs with sediment, carrying
away storage dams, and causing the
streams to dwindle to nothing in the
late summer, when water Is most need
ed.
A single Illustration will show this.
One of the accompanying views shows
a steep mountain-slope in the San
Gabriel Forest Reserve of Southern
California. When the first settlers
came, these slopes were well forested. /
there was an abundance of water andI
agriculture developed rapidly. This Isl
the famous orange district around Redi
lands and Riverside, where orangd
orchards are worth as much as twot
thousand dollars an acre. Soon after,
settlement fires started the denudation
of the San Gabriel and San Bernardino
sweeping them repeatedly.
Then streams began to fail in late sum-
mer. and flowing artesian wells made
up the deficit; more fires, and the wells
had to be pumped. Later. lateral tun-
nels were dug to develop every drop Of
seepage water, and now the supply is
barely holding out. Lands adjoining
the immensely valuable orange groves
have the same fertile quality, but are
through lack OF water. In
short, the development of what is prob
ably the richest agricultural spot of
the country has been effectually arrest
ed by forest free. and 1t will remain
at standstill until the replanted for
ests are developed.-Review of Re-
views.