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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-05-14
Winter Manurinq.

winter Manuring.
AS the country becomes older, the
land, unless carefully protected, will
become deteriorated and will produce
less and less each year. But believe
II we are careful we can keep it up
to high standard and even increase
its producing power by applying the
proper ingredients. One sure and
speedy way of building up the soil is
by sowing clover. Another, but not
quite so effective, is a rotation Of
crops. For instance, good corn crop
nearly always follows oats, and bet
ter one is rape. A third way that is
very effective, but is little slower,
Is hauling out manure. And what l
want to speak Of especially is apply
ing it in the winter. Many a man
who has but little stock to care for is
not doing much all winter. How
much better, be he renter or land
owner. II he would haul out every
load Of manure he could scrape up
and apply it to the land. If he got
the use Of 1t one year as renter and
it increased his yield 10 blu. at 40c,
the present price for corn, it is time
well spent.
1t has been our practice for years
to always have a sled or low wagon
with an old box on, and clean out the
barns and sheds and haul to the fields
and scatter pretty heavily on the
ground. We give an abundance of
bedding, and this in turn goes to ma
nure. 1t is easily forked or scraped
up from the floors and is readily ap-
piled. We scatter the higher ground
first and then as that is completed,
go to the lower which does not need
it so badly but is materially benefited.
We plow this under in the spring and
it never fails to produce good crop
of corn. We often scatter fine ma
nure from the sheep of cattle yards
on fall blowing with good results.
Haul out two or three loads of straw
or hay and let the cattle on good days
when the ground is frozen feed on it
and you will be surprised at the
amount of manure they will leave on
the weak places. While pursuing this
plan, since having our present farm,
its condition has been improved, rath-
er than weakened, although it has pro-
duced a good crop every year. Such
labor inevitably brings good profits.
Edwin E. Sedwick.
Warren County, III.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-05-14
POULTRY
The First Hatches.

The First Hatches.
It is desirable to have some of the
early broods come in the end Of win
ter or the beginning of spring. More
than the usual care win need to be
taken in the setting of hens for this,
and in the care of the broods after.
ward. Many chances have to be taken
with the birds that are used at this
time of the year, as some Of them will
not have the broody fever very badly.
Such ones will sit for few days and
then abandon their eggs much to the
discomfort Of the owner of both. 1t
is therefore best not to attempt to use
such birds as Leghorns, which have
the sitting instinct partly eliminated.
It is always advisable to select birds
in which the brooding instinct is
still very strong, such as the Plymouth
Rocks and the Brahmas. It is fur
thermore advisable to leave them on
the nest for some days before giving
them the eggs, to make sure that they
have well-settled intention to raise
brood.
The sitting place will have to be
most carefully selected, away from the
other fowls and away from drafts
from doors and windows. The winds
and rains of late winter and early
spring are not conducive to the health
OF fowls at the best. The number of
eggs given should not be so large as
II may be after the weather becomes
warm. When too many eggs are Civ.
en- those on the outside stand a good
chance of being chilled. Then after
some days the hen will have worked
them about and got them in the mid.
die and other eggs will have taken
their place on the outside to become
chilled in turn. During the three
weeks of incubation a good many eggs
are thus rendered worthless. The ex.
act number OF eggs must depend both
on the size of the eggs and the size of
the hen, as is evident. Ten eggs are
enough when the season is likely to
be cold.
The sitter must have considerable
liberty to go and come as she pleases,
and this will not generally prove detri:
mental to the eggs, provided the fowl
does not get out of the idea of sit.
ting altogether. 1t is surprising how
long bird can remain of the nest in
very cool weather and the eggs yet
hatch. The writer had an illustration
OF this some years ago. A hen left
her nest and remained off for two or
three hours. The eggs were "stone
cold" when the hen went back to
them, and it was believed that they
were lost 50 far as chicks were con:
cerned. The hen was allowed, how.
ever to sit on them, and, to the sur
prise of all, in due time biddy brought
off a nearly full brood Of healthy
chicks. We leave the explanation to
others. Someone will say that the
hen knew her business best after all.
Perhaps she did.
The greatest trouble with Matching
at this time Of year is in taking care
Of the broods that come. The hen
and they must have as warm a place
as it is convenient to give them, and
not too much room to wander about in.
The chicks will run back to their
mother after being out for only few
minutes each time and will thus keep
from becoming chilled, provided the
mother has hen sense, which she does
not always have.-Farmers' Review.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-05-14
The Hos Pasture.

Another important thing is the pas.
ture. I have one pasture, hog-tight,
forty acres, which is close to hog
house. You should have two or three
pastures, and, after putting one in
pasture five or six years turn it out
to corn. Don't have too small a pas
ture-five or six acres. They will
root, and then you will have to put
rings in their shouts. don't like
to do that. Give them a large field
and there will be practically no root
ing. Confine a hog and he will start
around in the morning. In the sum-
mer the hog gets up about o'clock
and starts around the fence to see if
there is an opening. If there is, he
will find it; but if he makes start
and goes around and there is no open
ing, he begins to root, if the Enclosure
is small; but if you put him in a forty
acre pasture and he starts around it,
it will take him mile, and he gets
tired before 10 o'clock and lies Gown
or goes to feeding. Give him an eighty
acre tract and it is good pasture all
the time. John CoWnie. NE 81
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-05-14
Transsiberian Railway,

The Transsiberian railway has at
no time since it was opened been
able to handle all the freight offered
it. Not being standard gauge, rolling
stock ready made cannot be bought
in other countries. Its mileage is
about the same as that Of the Penn
sylvania system. E,7. SIS 4 ..y 81
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-05-14
Shrinking of Soils.
Warren County, III.


The shrinking of soils on drying is
a matter of no little practical import
ance. This shrinking is of course off.
set by an increase of bulk when the
soil becomes wet. In variable wealth
er we have therefore constant changes
OF volume occurring, says Professor
Johnson IN Glow Plants Feed" Soils
rich in huS.a1s experience these
changes to the greatest degree. The
surfaces of moors often rise and fall
with the wet or dry season, through
a space of several inches. In ordinary
light soils, containing but little humus
no change of bulk is evident. Other.
wise, it is in clay soils that shrinking
is most perceptible; since these soils
only dry specifically, they do not ap-
pear to settle much, but become full
of cracks and riffs. Heavy clays may
lose One-tenth or more of their vol
ume on drying, and since at the same
time they harden about the rootlets
which are embedded in them, it is
plain that these indispensable organs
Of the plant must thereby be ruptured
during the protracted dry weather.
Sand, on the other hand, does not
change it's bulk by wetting or drying
and when present to a considerable
extent in the soils, it's particles, being
interposed between those of the clay,
prevent the adhesion of the latter, so
that, although a sandy loan shrinks
not incOnsiderably when drying, yet
the lines of separation are vastly
more numerous and less wide than in
purec clays. Such soil does not
"cake," but remains friable and pow
derry. Marty soils Containing carbon.
ate of lime) are especially prone to
fall to fine powder during drying,
since the carbonate of lime, which,
like sand, shrinks very little, is itself
in a state of extreme division, and
therefore more effectually separates
the clayey particles. The unequal
shrinking of these two intimately
mixed ingredients accomplishes a per
feet pulverization of such soils. On
the cold, heavy soils of Upper Lusa
tia, in Germany, the application OF
lime has been attended with excel
lent results, and the larger share Of
the benefit is to be accounted for by
the improvement in the texture Of
those soils which follows lining.
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-18
NEGROES
ARE SLAIN And
MANY WHIPPED
GeOrgianS Attempt to Rid
StateSbOrO District
OF Blacks.

STATESBORO, Ga, Aug. 17.-One
negro found dead by the roadside five
miles east Of the town, his body pierced
by two rife bullets; two negroes, one
Of the ''old-time darkies.'r and his son,
seventeen years old, shot in their
cabin during the late hours of last
night by unknown marauders; a half
dozen cases Of fiogging-such was the
local history of the day.
The scene of excitement has shifted
from this city to the rich agricultural
region surrounding it. At Riggs mill
several well-to-do planters met to-day
and planned to rid their neighborhood
Of obnoxious negroes. Individual ne
groes were marked for lashings and to-
night part Of the programme was being
carried out.
It is said tonight that the Statesboro
militia men had prepared their resig-
nations for the Governor. Military mis-
management was manifested when the
officer in command, it is reported, took
charge of the local telegraph office and
for an hour censored all messages.
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-18

DISEASE HAS
QUEER EFFECT
Perpetually Experiences the
DiSagreeable Sensation
Of Falling.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

OMAHA, Aug. 17.-For the rest Of
his natural life Harry Hensley will be
subject to the awful sensations Of al
ways being shooting downward through
space. Hensley has been professional
balloonist. So often has he made para
chute leaps from balloons that a nerv-
Gus affection has been developed, pro-
ducing the effect of perpetually falling.
even though his body is at rest Ply
sicians at the Presbyterian Hospital
where Hensley is being treated. say
that his case is the strangest encoun-
tered in many years experience and
that the disease is new to medical Sc
ence.
HensIey was found by the police yes
terday suffering intense pain. He told
them that since his parachute leap at
Courtland Beach the preceding even
ing he had felt the peculiar sinking
heaviness in the pit of the stomach
and difficulty in breath experienced
when he began to make the parachute
Jumps a dozen years ago-the same
feeling, he says, persons unused to rid
ing IN fast elevators OF office buildings
experience, only more pronounced.
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-18
Senator HOaf'S Life
Is Drawing to
q Close.
Physicians Agree That There
Is No Hope for the
Aged Patient.
Serene and Cheerful, With His Earthly
Affairs Arranged, Hs Awaits
the Final Call.
sseelsl p.zsateh 70 m. can

WORCESTER. Mass. Aug. 17--Sen-
aror George Frisbie HOar lies dying in
the house in Oak avenue in this city.
which he has made his home for nearly
fifty years He may Enger for several
days. but his physicians agree that the
inevitable end is very near. His fam
ily physician and DR.. Folsom of Boston
we're in consultation this afternoon,
ut were unable TO hnd any ground for
hope of his recovery.
senator Hoar is dying Of general
Syeakness consequent upon his long i'll
ness His hearts ACTON Is impaired,
his kidneys have almost ceased TO per
form fbeir functions. his lungs are fli-
ms up. yet his brain rs clear. He is
perfectly conscious of his condition and
discusses II freely with his son, Dis
frlCL Attorney lockwood HOar, who is
constantly al his bedside. Miss Mary
sIoar. the Senator's only daughter, is
also with him. as are his sons wife
and her two children. His personal
Senate messenger, Edward Doherty is
within call at all times.
Senator Hoar some time ago ex-
pressed the hope that when his end
came its approach should not be ac-
companied by an impairment of mind
or severe pain. Both wishes are graft
fed. He talked and joked with his
physician to-day and made playful re-
marks n his little grandchildren when
they came in on their daily visit. All
his earthly matters are arranged and
he contemplates the end with perfect
serenity
The Senator's illness dates back to an
attack Of lumbago in Washington last
spring, which kept him from his place
IN the Senate. When he came home he
seemed % have nearly recovered. but
was not strong. and his physicians
earnestly cautioned him TO take a COM
. plete rest, and. above all things. not to
attempt any public speaking. He dis
regarded the injunction when. late in
May he delivered a forty minute ad-
dress In the open air at the bicenten-
MA celebration Of the town of Sutton.
Hoar. has been a member of the SEN
ate since 1877.
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-18
Trust Strikes at the
Independent
Concerns.
Breaking Up Of the Various
Pools Now an Accom-.
pliSh0d Fact.
Prospective Millions Lost in Profits
Will Go Into the Pockets Of
Builders.
Special Dispatch to The call

NEW YORK, Aug. 17.-With a sharp
reduction in the prices OF wire products
the United States Steel Corporation
to-day, at one blow. nullified the ef-
feet of the bargain by the Republic
Iron and Steel Company with the Pitts
burg Steel companies in selling billets
at SO a ton. The long heralded con-
fict between the steel trust and the in
dependent concerns was opened. and
Wall street, alive to the situation,
looked upon the breaking up Of the
various steel pools as an accomplished
fact
While rails and bilIets were not at
fected by to-days cut, it was realized
that great price war is imminent,
and this in spite of the fact that the
heads of the big iron and steel COM
panies in this city and Pittsburg would
not admit that they had reduced the
prices of structural steel An open
market was predicted in all the princt-
pal steel products excepting rails
According to T. H. TavIor. assistant
general sales agent Of the company, the
reductions amounted TO "a a ton on
wire nails, 81 a ton on barbed wire and
s. a ton on fence wire
These prices" said Taylor. went
into effect this morning Thew cannot
be considered as a cut in the prices OF
the pooling agreement, as there was
no such agreement regarding this COM
pany's products. I can't say anything
as to the purpose Of the cut The
United States Steel Corporation would
be the one to make a statement on
this subject. We simply get our in
structiOns and give out prices
Dispatches from Pittsburg, however,
announced that the cut extended from
So to $12 a ton. AS the normal annual
output Of wire products of the United
States Steel Corporation is about ]. .000.
600 tons, ii was estimated that the gross
income of subsidiary companies manu-
featuring such products will thereby
be cut down from $4,000 600 to S12,00O.
900 a year.
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-18
WHEAT PRICES
SOAR UPW ARD
ON EXCHANGE
Frantic Efforts by Traders
to Cover Continue
the Advance,
Special Dispatch to The Call.

NEW YORK, Aug. 17.-Not since the
Letter boom in 1898 has there been wit
messed such excitement as prevailed
on the Produce Exchange to-day. The
wheat pit was in a turmoil and re-
sembled the Cotton Exchange during
January and February, when cotton
prices were soaring.
Wheat was the chief point of interest
and corn had a secondary position. The
almost frantic efforts of Chicago trad
ers to obtain wheat were duplicated
here, and advances, although not so
substantial as in the Western city, were
generally recorded. The handspring of
activity was fear Of frost coming on
top of the extensive damage done the
crop through rust. In Winnipeg tenn
perature of 3S degrees was reported.
and similar low records were reported
throughout the Red River Valley. This
was regarded as indicating a frost,
which would kill and further impair an
already short crop.
The greatest advance was witnessed
in May option, amounting to cents a
bushel. Wheat for delivery next May
sold at 81 09A bushel on Tuesday
night, and to-day it touched 81 141s.
September wheat sold up to 81 1878, and
December wheat to 81 1895. The net
gain at the close averaged cents a
bushel.
Corn sold at so cents a bushel to-day,
the highest price since the crop failure
of 1901.
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-18
EXtOrtiOn Is Charged
Against Labor
Leader.
New York Plumber SWearS
That He Purchased
Immunity.
Sensational Denouement in Struggle
Between Building Trades
and Contractors.

NEW YORK, Aug. 1.-THE most
sensational incident in the great build
ing trades lockout and strike, which
have thrown nearly $4,000 workmen
into idleness, came to-day when Philip
Weinseimer. president and organizer of
the Building Trades Alliance, was ar
rested on a charge of extortion- When
the labor leader was arraigned he was
confronted by George ]. Essig, a
plumber, who charged that on Decem-
Der 8 last he paid Weinseimer $1,000 so
that work could be resumed upon an
apartment house on Riverside Drive
Weinseimer's counsel appeared to be
anxious 10 have the examination go ON
at once, but, upon motion of District
Attorney Jerome, it was put over until
tomorrow, bail being fixed at $500 and
given.
In an affidavit Essig says that in De-
cember last he had the contract for
the plumbing in the Chatsworth build
ing; that Weinseimer called a strike
and two days later said that for S27OO
he would put the plumbers back at
work.
Essig said he could not. pay the sum
in full and agreed to pay $1,000 imme-
diately and give notes for the balance.
He had taken up all the notes but one,
which was due To-Day, ana on Ine dQ-
vice of the District Attorney he took
marked bills to pay the remainder.
When WeinSeimer was arrested EsStg
had just signaled to the detectives that
the labor leader had the maS1ed bills
in his possession. The detectives did
not find the money on the prisoner,
however.
AS the examination began District
Attorney Jerome, somewhat excited,
pushed to the front and peremptorily
called Robert P. Bell one of the law
yers to the witness stand. Bell had
started TO leave the courtroom.
District Attorney Jerome asked if he
had RECEIVED any money from any per-
son in the courtroom. Bell replied that
he had received one one-dOllar bill. The
District Attorney wanted to know if he
had seen any other money pass in the
courtroom and the lawyer said that he
had not. He said he was willing to
show all the bills he had, but the other
lawyers objected to this.
Il am asking these questions" said
Jerome, because of occurrences in this
courtroom. / am informed by a lawyer
in good standing at the New York bar
that bills were passed by this defend
ant to this witness.
The witness denied that he had re-
ceived any money from Weinseimer.
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-18
Japanese Begin General Flanking
Movement to the East of
Kuropatkin's Army.

from Captain Matousevitch, of the
Cesarevitch, now at Tsingchou show
distinctly that it was a long range
fight, and that the Russians, sailing in
close formation, were placed at a great
disadvantage, not only by the super
iority of the Japanese numbers, but
owing to the fact that, after encom-
passing Admiral Withoefts semicircle.
the Japanese were enabled to pour In
a remarkably deadly fire upon the flee
ing ships.
Captain Matousevitch says the Jap
anese kept at a distance of less than
five miles. The efforts of the Russians
to close with the Japanese and sink
some of their vessels by ramming them
or by gunfire, even at the cost of
themselves going to the bottom, We're
consequently unsuccessful. The Japan
ese would not permit the Russians to
approach, but the rain of projectiles
never ceased.
The twelve Inch shell which glanced
off the Cesarevitch's forward turret
and blew up the bridge on which the
late Admiral Withoeft and his staff
were standing was fired at range OF
eight miles.
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-18
Chicago RaCetraCk
Crowd in Rail
Collision.
-Four Persons Are Killed
and More Than a
Score Injured.
Brakes Fail to Work When Attempt
Is Made to Slow Down at
a Crossing.

CHICAGO. Aug. 17.-Four persons
were killed. another fatally hurt and
twenty three slightly injured in a col
lision late this afternoon between an
express train on the Chicago Great
Western Railroad and a train of three
trolley cars bound for the Hawthorne
race track. The dead:
MRS. FRANCES KAUFMAN.
WILLIAM IRVING. died in hospital
after amputation Of leg
MRS. JEREMIAH SHUCKROW,
panville. IL
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN. about 80
years old.
Fatally injured Michael Ryan, mo-
torman; skull fractured
The injuries of the others consisted
of cuts, bruises and sprains.
The accident occurred at the crossing
of F'orty-eighth avenue and the Chi
cago Great Western tracks. The train
vas coming into the city and, accord
ing 10 some witnesses, was running at
high speed. Others and the train crew
say that they were not going more
than twenty miles an hour.
The trolley train. which was made
up Of motor car and two trai1ers, was
III charge Of Conductor w. II. Condor
and Motorman Michael Ryan. The car
struck the train just between the en-
gine and tender. The motor car was
torn TO splinters. The car Immediately
behind turned over, was badly wrecked
and was dragged along the track for
200 feet.
Motorman Ryan remained at his
post and was fatally hurt. To those
who came TO aid him while he lay on
the ground he said:
The brakes would not work. That
was what caused it. When / saw that
they would not work l reversed the
current. Now get aside and be quiet
and 1 will be all right
Immediately after saying this Ryan
became unconscious. At the hospital
il was found that his skull was frac-
tured and that his death was a ques-
ton Of a few hours only.
All Of the persons killed occupied
seats in the front of the first car. One
had just taken a seat offered her by
William Tennis She rolled under the
motor car and was horribly mangleo.
Tennis. after giving up his seat went
to the rear Of the car and escaped with
slight injuries.
All Of the members Of the Chicago
Great Western train crew and the con-
ductor Of the trolley cars were placed
under arrest, pending an investigation.
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-18
WHEAT PRICES STILL
STEADILY ADVANCING

The deterioration of the wheat crop
in the Northwest has affected the
local market and prices. are going
steadily upward. 1t is reported that
the damage to the crop will be much
greater than was at first estimated.
The reports from the East had
marked effect on the local market
yesterday and thousands of tons of
December option, which includes the
privilege of delivering Walla Walla
and Sonora wheat at a reduction,
changed hands during the day. Strict
lv No. / California December wheat
commanded an unusual price and
spot wheat was firm, but made no ad-
vance, as buyers and sellers were
apart.
AS a result of the advance in the
price of wheat local millers have ad-
vanced the price of -four 20 cents a
barrel. This is the first change the
millers have made in prices in two
months.
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-18
VACCINATION
is A CURE FOR
HTDROPHOBIA
Hundreds Of Cases Success
fully Treated in Ger
man Hospitals.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

CALL BUREAU, HOTEL BARTON.
WASHINGTON. Aug. IT, Unusual
success in preventing hydrophobia by
vaccination at the hospitals in Berlin
this summer is reported in a communi-
cation received from Richard Guen-
ther, the United States Consul General
at Frankfort, Germany.
This method Is now used almost ex-
clusively in Germany and il has been
shown by experience that only Is per
cent Of the victims die when so treated.
This contrasts very favOrably with the
per cent Of deaths among victims not
vaccinated. but treated medically, and
the II per cent Of deaths among those
undergoing no treatment
Out Of PSI persons who had been bit
ten by mad dogs and then vaccinated
only four died Of hydrophobia. and the
others recovered after a slight attack.