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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1904-06-11
WASHINGTON LETTER
Especial Correspondence.]

The placing of Mr.. Cortelyou at the
head of the Republican national com
mittee will mean his resi- yuation from
President Roosevelt's cabinet. Already
there is considerable stir regarding his
successor at the head of the depart.
ment of commerce and labor. The
president has not intimated whom lie
has in mind in the event of Mr.. Cor
telyous retirement, but Mr.. Garfield,
now chief of the bureau of corpora
tons. son of the late President Gar
field and formerly a civil service com
missioner, has been talked of for the
place Two others who have been men
toned in this connection are ex-Gov-
ernor Winthrop Murray Crane of Mas
sachusetts and Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury Robert b. Armstrong.
Authorship of "Opportunity."
Hanging in President Roosevelt's
private Office in the executive offices
is the original of John j. Ingalls, noted
poem opportunity" 1t was presented
to the president some years ago by
Mrs. Ingalls, and was framed and hung
in the presidents office. In the June
number of magazine DR., Nicolo
Gigliotti of Erie, Pa, declares that
he is the original author of the world
famed sonnet He claims that ii was
first written by him in 1887 and was
successfully printed in number of
Italian papers, the names of which he
gives. Efe says it was afterward pub
lished in an Italian paper in Denver.
DR.. Gigliotti says he sent to Mr.. In
gals Il copy of it in English, the trans
lation having been made by Martin
Battle, a follower of the late Henry
George. The two poems are said to be
wonderfully similar.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1904-06-11

There has been much fun at the treas
ury over newspaper dispatch from
Ottawa, Canada, to the effect that the
Dominion senate has brought to the
attention Of the minister of finance
"the fact that Canadian cities are flood
ed with American silver which Is not
worth its face value and should be sub
jected to discount by the banks" The
dispatch adds that at Is the wish OF
the senate that American silver be
driven out of the country
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1904-06-11
Curios From Porto Rico.

Professor Fewkcs, who has been
touring Porto Rico for additions TO the
! Smithsonian institute, is happy In III"
possession of two images, fine pieces
of Indian work.
These stone carvings, which were up
| turned from earth near the south
shore, are curious in detail, the center
representing mountain, at whose
base on one side is IA contorted foot of
an animal and AT the other savage
head Among other interesting finds
are collars cut ont Of solid stone, about
the probable use Of which there are
twenty one different theories stone
bowls entirely covered with exquisite
chiselings and a maidstone"
This island so rich In Indian lore and
stepped in savage superstition, is sur
prising its own people by Its recent
yield Of woadrous things. \ ffty year
resident of Mayagucz was heard to re
mark that be had never before heard
of such things as have been brought
to light by American delylng.
New German Atnche.
Prince Hermann HatHicldL the new
est addition TO the diplomatic corps is
an attachp Of the German embassy.
The prince, WHO is IN his thirtieth year,
comes Of one of the oldest and proud
est families Of Germany. He Is the
elder Of the sons Of Prince Hermann l..
Of Tracherberg third prince Of Hatz-
feldt, who married Princess Natalie
Of Renckendorff. sister of the Russian
ambassador AT London
The prince is distant relative Of
Prince Francis OF Hatzfcldt, who mar
ried Miss Claire Huntington Of New
York
Little Hooseyei at the Circus.
The little Rooseyclts enjoyed the cir
rus the other day with the feryor Of
unreconstructed gamins, ayidly con.
sumlng stale peanuts and sticky pop
corn balls and taking III al the side
shows. even to the bearded lady
CARL SCHOFIELD.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1904-06-11
MIR, CromwelI's Big Fee.

William Nelson Cromwell, the attor-
ney who negotiated the sale of the
Panama canal company's property to
the United States, laughs ut story
that he would probably not secure all
of the fee it is alleged he was to have
received for his services. This fee is
variously fixed at from $2,00o0oo up
ward but it is not publicly known what
it will be- There is no doubt, however,
that the sum will be a large one. Mr..
Cromwell has worked on the case for
seven wears
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1904-06-11

The dog party has at last reached the
national capital The NJ sses Bell,
daughters of Charles J. Bell the bank
er, gave u tea recently at their fathers
country home where each guest was
accompanied by a dog of high degree
The Countess Marguerite Cassni was
accompanied by two splendid grey
hounds which We're presented to her in
Russia two years ago. Miss Durand
daughter of the British ambassador
took her St Bernard, Duke Nine
classes of dogs We're represented
The Dockstader Incident.
1t has been learned that part of the
costumes worn by Lew Dockstader and
his confederate in the impersonation of
President Roosevelt and Booker T..
Washington ut the capitol the other
day were secured from the stock of
local Costumer. Lew Dockstader is
a nerVy man." was the remark made at
police headquarters while the case was
under discussion. He was here two
years ago and succeeded in getting an
amount of free advertising by having
his band follow company of English
visitors. His bard played nothing but
ragtime music, and the English visitors
were unable to keep step"
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-11-15

and cattle to Manila. The horses are
from kentucky, Vermont, Missouri
and Arizona, and the cattle come from
Mississippi. These cattle are immune
to the Texas tick fever by reason of
having had it, | believe they will
stand the Philippine climate. Just
how the horses will stand it, is, OF
course, problem.
"The Philippine bureau of agriicul-
ture covers a wide range of industries.
We will have to look after rice, hemp
and banana culture, and many other
things, as well as the health OF do
nestle animals. Grading up the ami
mails so as to produce sturdy native
stock that will take the place of the
present horses and cattle, among the
latter of which is the caribou and the
Indian trotting bull, will be work
of time. The peculiarities of soil and
vegetation and climate in the islands
will have to be carefully studied"
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-11-15

In the Oregonian of a recent date
appears the following: After 81 years
of herding sheep, Mr.. Morse comes to
town with $1,000, accumulated by exer-
else of the greatest economy, and pro-
ceeds to have good time or, in other
words to throw away his money as
fast as possible, and to pour as much
bad whisky as possible down his
throat in limited time. The police
took Mr.. Morse in charge when about
$3.50 had gone in the cause of good
fellowship and they tried to persuade
their reluctant guest to place the re-
mainder in a bank. This is very
wrong on the part of the police, and
such action is an evidence of paternal-
ism in it's most pernicious form. There
are scores of men whose life altern-
ates between labOrious toll, combined
with penurious economy, and the most
unrestrained extravaganza. Far bet
ter for the shepherd, coming to town
with the saving of years, were he
sandbagged at the city limits and re-
lieved of his wad. Then he could go
straight back to hea thy work, and
would not damage his insides with
fire-water.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-11-15
What One Farmer Has Done

Wheat farming is not without it's
attractions when a man can in a
single season raise 200 acres of wheat,
the value of which is equal to the val
lie of the land.
This has been done near Almota,
Whitman county, this year by Alexan-
der Hickman. He has 200 acres of
red Russian wheat that will average
55 bushels to the acre. 1t will run
60 pounds to the bushel, and, with the
quotation at 62 cents per bushell, as it
was yesterday, the average return
from this single crop will be $34 80
an acre-about the cash value Of the
land as it is now rated in that local
ity.
1t will be difficult to find any better
investment than that in this part of
the country or in any other. Of
course, all farms will not bring such
returns, but the average yield is good,
and for some varieties of wheat a
higher price will be obtained than
that for which the red Russian could
be sold.
Taking the wheat farms as a whole,
the returns this year will be hand
some. Prices are likely to continue
strong, and may go above the highest
of last year. The man who has a
few hundred acres in wheat need not
worry about the immediate future.
If he has a large acreage, subStan-
tial fortune is assured him.
Don't keep Gull over winter. They
won't pay their board and keep.
Your chickens need lots of air with
out drafts rather than warmth.
Pure water is as essential in the
coop as in the dairy barn.
Give the chickens all the green stuff
possible this season and note the re-
suits.
Poultry that "have to scratch for
their living live better and longer
than the lazy kind.
Plenty of grit in the chickens diet
ing gives 'em a better grip on life.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-11-15

likelihood of strong Pacific Coast mar
ket within the coming few years, and
they do not believe that any person
connected with the eastern live stock
centers would place the slightest OBJ
stacle in the way of building up a
good substantial market on the coast.
Montana is so we'll situated that it
will always pay the maximum rate
of freight on it's live stock either east
or west but the development of a Pa
cific Coast market would lead to COM
petition and save the double haul for
which the producer must pay. If
portion of our stock went west for
slaughter and from there to oriental
markets there would be a saving in
expenses which the producer might be
able to share with the consumer.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-11-15
Philippine Bureau of Agriculture.

DR.. g. e. NesOm, state veterinarian
of South Carolina, and who for the
past six years has been professor
of veterinary medicine at the Glenn
son agricultural college, recently re-
signed his position and accepted the
office of chief of the bureau of agrf-
culture in the Philippine Islands, and
sailed on the steamer Coptic from
San Francisco on September 18th.
Clemson college is on the old John
G. Calhoun home stead near Clemson
S. G. While holding the position he
did, he had many opportunities to in
form himself in regard to the health
and diseases Of horses, cattle and
other domestic animals in the semi
tropical climate of that state. The
special line of work to which he will
devote his attention will be dealing
with the introduction of farm ami
mails into the Philippines, and deal
with and overcome native diseases.
There is an infectious disease called
surra that kills off imported horses,
and the cattle are affected by foot
and mouth diseases which originally
came from Europe and were introduce
ed into New England but few years
ago. Congress appropriated liberal
sum for it's suppression and 1T was
stamped out when but half the money
was used. The government officers
bought up every animal affected, or
that had been exposed, and by prompt
killing and complete isolation, put a
stop to it in short time.
Concerning stock in the Philippines,
Dr. Nesom said; "The native horses
are small but they are usually i'm
mune to the diseases that end the
lives of the horses brought to the ISL
ands from other localities and diff
ferent climate Our first object will
be to introduce horses suitable for
draft purposes and to get them &C
climated. In order to accomplish this.
the horses will be purchased where
the climatic conditions are like or
similar to those of the islands We
are now shipping a cargo of horses
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-11-15

A contribution from DR.. d. e. Sal
mon Chief of the Bureau Of Animal
Industry of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture, is published In
This issue, to which we call the par
ticular attention of dairymen of the
state. DR.. Salmon supports DR.. Mel
SON. the state veterinarian, in that
he believes dairy COWS affected with
tubercu' osis are menace to the peo-
pie consuming their milk, and that
measures should be put into effect
by the state with view to eradlcat-
ing the disease. We understand that
DR.. Nelson will appeal to the legisla-
ture at it's forthcoming session for
an appropriation to be used in this
direction.
AS stated by DR.. Nelson in his COM
munication published in our issue OF
Nov. 1st four out of seven herds
tested by him contained COWS affect
ed with tuberculosis, the total num-
Der of COWS in the seven herds be-
ing 283, and of these 81, or One-third,
had the disease This seems to DEM
Onstrate that tuberculosis prevails
very generally among the dairy herds
in this state and while The Ranch
does not wish to alarm the dairymen
unduly, certain it is that when such
a high authority as DR.. Salmon sup
ports DR.. Nelson in his contention
that the question can only be
handled by resort to radical meas
ures it will be seen that they are
face to face with a very grave prob
lem. We are securing additional data
on this subject which will give full
information regarding the disease and
also the methods employed in the
eastern states and which we will
publish in fol Towing issues.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-11-15
The editor received a few days ago

The editor received a few days ago
from E. H. Libby, Lewiston Idaho, a
pamphlet entitled "The Gateway
Lewiston Charleston" We are con-
stantly receiving handsomely printed
literature issued by land and irriga-
ton companies, etc., designed to ad
vertise the resources of their respect
i've communities, but nothing that has
ever come to our attention equals this
pamphlet. 1t is printed on heavy
plate paper, and the phOto-engravings
of scenes in that vicinity show as
clear as crystal. Much painstaking
and careful thought have evidently
been exercised in compiling this book
let The subject matter is prepared
in an unusually concise and clear-cut
manner, and the reader does not have
to wade through a lot of ''highfalut-
in" language to get at the meat of
the subject.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-11-15
BACK TO THE LAND.
A Mighty Movement Inaugurated and
What 1t Means.


Land hunger is the foundation for
the present great movement OF set
tiers into the northwest and south
west. This movement toward the
land-this eagerness to acquire land
at present priests instructive. The
minds of men and women are turning
toward the land. They do not know
just why this is so-but the eXplana-
ton is simple to the deep student OF
human nature, and to the few who
realize psychological conditions and
influences.
Just as the Aryans from Central
Asia swarmed over Europe centuries
ago, just as European immigration
has swarmed into the United States
during the past fifty years, just so are
the people in the more crowded Sec
tons cities and towns of America
now swarming out on to the land,
either in person or for investment and
speculation.
This movement has attained by far
the greater degree of activity in the
northwest but is rapidly increasing
in the west and southwest, the re-
newed prosperity of the old south is
attracting peop'e thitherward, while
in the middle states and Ontario, as
we'll as in New England and the
maritime provinces, people are walk
ing up to the fact that land values
in the country districts will probably
never be less.
Why Buy Land?
Therefore, the desire to obtain land
for farming purposes, and a home,
or for speculation, is keener than
ever All sensible people now real
ize the advantages of country life
and that it is the pace for a home.
Ten years of uninterrupted agricul-
tural prosperity, which bids fair to
long continue, have demonstrated
that farming pays even under shift
less management, while with expert
management, agriculture pays re-
turns so large as to compare favor
ably with banking or manufacturing.
Yet if one does not wish to work
land himself, it can usually be rented
advantageously.
Besides all this, the tremendous adj
vance in land values in some sections
of the country bids fair to be vastly
greater in the future than in the past
The area of land is fixed and limited
population is increasing by leaps
and bounds. The one hundred mil
lion people now in North America
will eventually be two hundred and
fifty millions. Education, religion and
philanthropy are cooperating to turn
people back to the soil. Country life
is again fashionable.
These are some of the underlying
causes for the ride of population back
to the land, a movement that is as yet
relatively in its infancy. The ire
mendous prosperity and profits en-
joyed by those who homesteaded or
bought the lands of Indiana, Illinois
Iowa and the older western states,
while those lands were cheap and
comparatively undeveloped, are now
to be duplicated by the settlers upon
and investors in the lands of the
newer sections of the west, north
west and southwest. -Orange Judd
Farmer.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-11-15

The supply of Year Books of the
United States Department of Agricul-
lure, furnished to The Ranch for free
distribution has been exhausted. Those
whose applications came in with
IN the last ten days will find that it
taxes time before a copy can be sent
10 them, as we will first have to get a
new let from Washington City.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-11-15

Address all communications to THE
pANCH. Downs Building. Seattle. Wash.
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Inc Montana Stockman and Farm
CT IN its last issue advances the sug-
sestlon that the stockmen of that
9 nte send a committee to Seattle,
rortland and other Pacific Coast points
WIN a view to investigating market
UTInulClons for live stock, and to see
swat SnaI may be done to help build up a
bb, o western market. There can
t ge no question, says that journal, that
ti he meat raiser pays a large proper
t fon OF the freight on all meat supplies
s LaI 90 first to the eastern market for
tb l"ushter and then to the coast and to
as :. orient for consumption. So far
tbo Une eastern markets are concerned
"' people there readily recognize the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-19
RAPS Bail BOND "TOUTS."

Magistrate Ommen. in Jefferson Market poles
court yesterday. devoted more than half an hour
TO questioning a who was arrested on
Wednesday night by Detective Dockstader. OF the
West Thirteth-st. police station as 20 the meth
DDS prisoners use 10 get bondsmen. He said there
was something radically wrong with a system that
permits policemen to act "touts'' for profess
sional hondsmen. saying that II he could discover
a case where member OF the force shared in the
profits no would the case through 10 the
end TO secure the punishment OF the offender
The woman was Hattie Williams of No 80
kShth-aVe-, who was arrested Twenty third
St. near Broadway, at midnight. She said she had
no intention of doing wrong, and had never been
arrested before. She had been hailed at the sta
ton. Magistrate Onlmen asked TO see the bond
DO you know whose name is the bond -
asked the magistrate
NO. sir.
The magistrate held up the paper for the pris-
oner to see The mans OF the bondsman was Sig
mund Schwartzkopf.
do you know this mani" asked the court.
'NO. sir: 7 never him before thought he
was Todd. the man sent for
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-19
TRANSACTIONS IN REALTY.

John s. Ferguson has leased Nos. 1903 and los West
F1fty-third-st running through Nos lO4 and lOt
West Fifty fourth TO Joseph H. Reilly and another
person years a $4,000 a year.
Samuel g Baum has bought Nos, 32s and $50 East
-hundr twenty story dweins
houses plot 5OQ10O11 feet.
Samuel {. Baum bought No. Ga West hundred
anGsX tesnth-st, 1--WE story double HathouSe on LOT
.JN92 feet. 100 feet east Of LenoN ave
samuel G. Baum has bought No 20 East one hun
fifteenth "A three and basement brown
dwelling house. lot l6.6xlOo-n feet and
has rtsod property Hulta MenSe for occupancy
samuel c. Baum has bought M Dos East One hundred
and three story ana basement stone
front dwelling house. lot Is 9NiOO III feet
Henry Russell has sold for Isaac NJ bernstein the plot
T5xe9.1l feet the south side or ne-hundred-an
twentyeighth-st 1855 OF benox-ave to Davis
f<arp Morris Heller, Will erect two six story
nathouses.
Max Marx has sold Il client or vincent p. Witter-
we'll No. l30 li3 West Nnetethst three five story
nathouses. plot TsL6xlO0.s feet
Louis Frankel has sold Tor Henrietta Goldman to Adoph
Miller 3d. Second ave. northeast corner
hundred nineteenth four story nathouse lot
20 6xI5 feet