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Middletown transcript., 1904-08-27
Hurry! For These Mattings
Sharp Reductions in
China, Glassware and Odd Pieces

buying opportunities Of the extraordinary
China retailing The prices quoted you'd
for the china and splendid chances your
Details of these few must guide for all the good things OF
this sale.
Aertons English Ware pieces blue Usually 5000
now .S ~. w
as I'll ~ now .Ssuo
Maddocks Royal Veous Ware 100 pink floral border decoa
tions, usually $500, $l4O0
Maddacks Royal Vous Ware 100 pieces decorated Stafford
Maddocks Royal Vous Ware l30 blue gold decorations
English Porcelain Ware l02 pieces decorations floral wreats
English Porcelain Ware 96 pieces pink decorations $
W = sees ...... ......$Z
orations was $170O, now .$137 75 Great bargains.
Limoges China brand l02 pieces blue floral
$ZLU now...... m Szi ou
Limoges China coronet brand m pieces decoration pink
flowers $24 co. $500
Theo Havand China 1O3 pieces
Interners Limoges China 02 pieces decorations Of pink
god stnppe0 was &1oUU now .... $3IUU
Lanterniers Limoges China 0l pieces decorations $3.50
w.... .. -~ -~ ..
Main Floor.
Middletown transcript., 1904-08-27

If YOU haven't the meaning MEGARY barga
you'll exercising by investigating those offered this wee
All the Fall stocks (arng daily into this sale at
ve price giving chances getting the be
of the latest patterns a considerable saving
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-02-02
Farmers Institutes.

Following is list of the winter series of Farm
ers Institutes yet to be held in the eastern coun
ties Of North Carolina:
Elizabeth City, Monday, February l.
Hertford Tuesday, February 2.
Edenton, Wednesday, February 3.
Roper, Friday, February s.
Washington, Saturday, February g.
Greenville, Monday, February s.
Tarboro, Tuesday and Wednesday, February
and 20.
Goldsboro, Thursday, February II.
Among the topics to be discussed are: "Soil I'm
provement and Hill Side Ditching," by State
Chemist B. w. Kilgore; "Varieties of Cotton and
Corn and Their Improvement by Seed Selection,"
by Assistant State Chemist G. B. Williams;
"Common Diseases of Farm Animals" by State
Veterinarian TAFT Butler; "Fertilizers for Corn
and Peanuts" by State Chemist B. W. Kilgore;
Hog Raising" by State Veterinarian Tate But
ler.
Go and take your neighbor with you.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-02-02

in three sections of the State having had this
past year twelve varieties of cotton and than
twenty kinds of corn under experimentation. This
will be extended to include other kinds of these
crops as they found in the State to aid in de-
termining yields under different soil conditions
Such tests must run through several years so as
to come under varying seasonal conditions.
We consider it important that a large number
of our farmers at least should grow crops of
definite, unmixed varieties for the purpose of
increased yield and increased value of seed and
then keep them pure. A crop grown under par
ticular name has identity, defnteness and indi
vduality, and would have greater value for
planting purposes than a mixed or unknown va
riety which yields practically good results just
tthe same as pure Jersey giving certain
amount of milk has greater selling value than
grade with equal milking capacity. The thorough
bred animal will reproduce herself in her off
spring with greater certainty than will the grade
and the offspring of the pure-bred animal will
have the greater market value.
An important advance will have been made in
our agriculture when our farmers grow crops
true to name. j.. y. kILGORE.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-02-02
Texas Cattle Fever Drawn.

Secretary Wilson has issued the annual quar-
antine order account of the splentic or Texas
cattle fever. 1t is effective February 1st, and
includes California, Oklahoma and Texas and the
Southern States The line in the States of Cali
fornia, Texas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, North Caro-
lima, Georgia and Virginia, is made practically
the same as last year. In Tennessee, Louis Coun-
ty is placed within the quarantine line and Clay
and Cumberland Counties are added to the area
from which cattle may be shipped inspection.
A slight change is made in the line between Nc
Dowell and Burke Counties in North Carolina.
The line in Virginia is the same as last year.
Under this new order cattle be shipped from
that district only for immediate slaughter; must
be shipped in separate placarded "Southern
CATTLE" and must be yarded in separate pens
known as Southern cattle pens.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-02-02

breeding from are better without any male. They
will lay just many eggs without him, and the
eggs will be of better quality and will keep bet
ter. The cause of bad eggs in majority Of cases
is that the germ starts to grow and then dies
causing putrefaction, and a rotten egg is the re-
suit.
Having selected the breed you wish to to
improve your stock stick to that breed Do not
use one kind this year and some other kind next
or you will never get any uniformity in your flock
either in color size.
Just another "do not" When your flock i'm
proves that they look about the the
pure-bred stock you used, don't make the mistake
of thinking that one of the pure looking roosters
you raise will do just we'll the pure-bred one.
No matter how fine he looks, he still has the
scrub blood in him and it may crop out at any
time J. S. JEFFREY.
Agricultural Experiment Station, West Raleigh,
n. c.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-02-02
Improve the Farm Poultry.
Editors Progressive Farmer:


The time for Matching the chicks is near at
hand and / want to say Just a word about what
consider the greatest hindrance to the improve
ment of farm poultry.
| suppose there is not farmer in every ten
who makes any pretence of selecting his best birds
to breed from, but breeds from any and all of the
flock without any regard to quality. great many
farmers buy more pure-bred males
each year to use with their common hens and
think that this is all that is necessary. The
male is, of course, half the flock, but you cannot
expect even a good male to produce good chicks
from scrubby small hens.
In every flock there some hens which are
better than others, and which the good wife, who
usually has the care of them, knows are her best
layers. Why not select ten or a dozen, of the
best yearling hens to breed from? Choose those
that have been your best layers as pulets, those
that have always been healthy and have come
through the molt quickly and in good condition
and mate them with pure-bred male of the breed
you have selected to improve your stock.
You say: "I have place where can keep
my breeders separate from the rest of the flock"
For the short time that they must be kept by
themselves a very cheap house will answer. A
good one can be made from piano organ box,
which can be bought for couple of dollars, and
poultry netting is very cheap now and enough to
bought for So or 81.
The cost will be small and the results will
ply repay it in the first year. If you have been
in the habit of buying several male birds, you can
make saving there, as the hens not used for
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-02-02
GROWING CROPS TRUE TO NAME.

There are large number of varieties of each
of the farm crops grown in the State. Among
cottons are Kings or Sugar Loaf, Hodge, Mis-
sionary, Webb, Excelsior Prolific, Peterkn, Peer
less, Trutt's Russell's Big Boil, Culpepper's I'M
proved, ETC., each having one ur more strong
points to recommend it and generally de-
fects especially for certain sections of the cotton
growing belt. In selecting kind of cotton for
a particular section careful attention should be
given to the main characteristics of that cotton
as to time of maturity size of boil, seed percen-
taee and quality of lint, total yield, etc. When
cotton is found which suits the soil and climatic
conditions of a section and gives the largest
value of products, lint and seed per acre. the
greatest care should be taken to keep that variety
pure and unmixed with other cottons we'll as to
select the seed for it's further Improvement
There are a still larger number of different
kinds of corn grown in the State than cotton.
These should be observed also to get the one
ones that are best suited for ensilage for
the different farming conditions and soils and
then kept unmixed with other kinds of corn.
The same is true of most other crops grown
There is a double advantage IN having pure
strains of crops which are best suited to diff
ferent farming conditions and soils, in that the
total yield of products will more generally bring
more money and the seed will have far greater
value when offered for sale for seed purposes
This is well illustrated in the large demand in
this State this season for Kings Improved or
Sugar Loaf cottonseed for shipment to Texas
Because of it's early maturing habit, it fixes
good crop of bols before the boil weevil attacks
the cotton in large numbers and thus partially
overcomes the ravages of the weevil. This cotton
has been tested in the boil weev district of Texas
and found TO have characteristics which gives it
value in contending with this pest of cotton. 1t
is reasonable and sensible the part of Texas
growers to want this kind-the purer the better,
and the more they can afford and willing to
pay for the seed.
There are considerable number of other kinds
of cotton grown in this State with similar grow
ing habits, time of maturity and value of prod
ucts which makes them practically the equals,
and perhaps the superiors, of Kings Improved.
Comparative tests for number of years are
necessary to demonstrate this in the varying
seasons Such tests can only be satisfactorily
made with pure seed of the different kinds, and
when superiority is shown, the increased value
would and should only be attached to the pure
strain of seeds For several years the Department
of Agriculture has been conducting tests of cot
ton corn and other farm crops on its test farms
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-04-15
HAS DEGUK SUIT
FOR INSURANCE
Wife of Sioux Falls Banker
Whose Tragic Death oc-
cured Recently.
OLD HE COMMIT SUICIDE?
1t Is Held by Three Insurance Com,
panies That w. M. Miles Met Death
at His Own Hands and They
Refuse to Honor Policies.

Sioux Falls, S. d., April 12.-Nfrs.
Miles, widow OF NJ, w. Miles, u proml-
lent citizen who died suddenly at his
hime in this city several weeks 6 UNI
der somewhat tragic circumstances.
has commenced Il suit in the cir
cuit court against three of the leading
life insurance companies to recover the
amounts of policies held in the compa-
MES by the late Mr.. Miles.
The Northwestern of Milwaukee, the
Penn Mutual and the Fidelity compa-
MES are made the defendants III the
circuit court for Minnehaha coun-
ty. Mr.. Miles, nj the time of his death,
carried life insurance TO the amoun OF
SIS. 200.
Three thousand dollars of this was
carried in the Modern Woodmen and
5000 in each of the three companies
The Modern Woodmen have
pal dthe claims against theb, but the
three companies have refused to pay
the amount of their policies, on the
ground that MIR. Miles committed sui
eide, thus multiplying the policies.
In the suit just instituted against the
three companies the plaintiff, it is UNI
derstood, will allege that Mr.. Miles
came to his death through the acciden-
tai discharge OF a pistol. This. 1t is
claimed. will throw the burden of proof
on the defendant insurance companies.
1t was held in a similar case which
was tried in the circuit court in this
city several years ago that it must be
proven by an insurance company tina
the dead man committed suicide.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-04-15
ROOT is AT ST. PAUL.
Eormer Secretary of War Is Looking
After Northern Securities
Case.

ST. Paul, April l3.-Elihu Root, former
secretary of war. arrived in ST. Paul to-
day to take up his work In connection
with the matter to be argued before the
United States court tomorrow, as to
whether the petition on the part of the
hartman interests for leave to intervene
IN the settlement of Northern Securities
affairs shall be denied or granted. The
ilrst question for consideration will be
whether or not Hartman and Pierce will
be permitted TO Vile their petition. If that
Is decided in the affirmative. further pro-
ceedings in the regular order may be had.
II 1t is denied 1t Will probably end the pro
ceedinss and the suit of the United States
VS.. the Northern Securities company will
stand as it did before the motion for leave
to intervene was entered.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-04-15
A BATTLE IN AFRICA,
Germans Report Defeat Of a Force of
5000 Herreros in a Sharply Con-
tested Battle,

Berlin, April 13.-The foreign office
received today the following from Col
onel Leutwein. governor of German
Southwest Africa:
With the united principal division
and the western division. we attacked
the enemy's chief force, about 5000
strong, at Onganjira. The Herreros
were in a strong semi-circular position
on a hill fronting northwest. We first
hanked and forced back the enemy's
left wing, then attacked the center and
right. Two energetic counter tanks Of
the enemy against our left were re-
pulsed.
The enemy's position was broken
through at nightfall. after eight hours
of fighting, and the enemy driven back
on all sides. The chief forces appar-
emily retired in a ~northeasterly direc-
ton. Our losses include L~ieutenants
Won Estorff and Won Erfna, and two
caralrymen, killed: Lieutenant Rosen-
berg and five men severely wounded,
and five slightly. The enemy's loss has
aot been ascertained but it was heavy"
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-04-15
HAS DECIDED NOT TO YIELD.
Governor Says the Court is Exceeding
Its Authority.

Denver, April 13.-When Coy. Pea
body was informed of the action OF
Judge Stevens. of Ouray, ordering the
arrest of Adjt. Gen. Bell and capt.
Wells for contempt of court in not
complying with the writ of habeas
in the Meyer case, he said:
w will not recognize the writ of
attachment, II the military authors
ties will not ppear in court. Neither
will we give up Meyer. We will claim
that the courts have no right to enjoiu
or arrest the officers or members of
the military while they are on duty.
They are not subject to attachment, or
injunction at this time. If the district
court of Ouray is to be allowed to in
%terfere in the carrying out of the plans
of the military under martial law. there
is no reason why a justice of the peace
might not with equal authority inter
Nene and render the military absolute
ly powerless and impotent. The court
made known its wishes in the mat
ter, and we have stated our position.
1t is now up TO the court to make the
next move in the matter. What that
Will be | am unable to say"
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-04-15

Or. Schei. the geologist-a member
of the last Sverdrup Arctic expedition
recently delivered a lecture before the
Geographical Society Of Christiania OF
the vegetable life of Ellesmereland. in
Is to IS degrees of northern latitude and
separated from Greenland by Smith
Sound. During the summer tracts of
the lowlands are covered with Arctic
flowers. A mountain slope of one of the
bays was completely covered with the
violet colored flower stalks OF the
species saxifraga oppositifolia- In the
rocks remnants of plants were discov-
cred, the species Of which today are
found in much warmer clmes-for in
stance. in Australia,
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-04-15
FEDERAL COURT YAD
NO JURISDICTION
Minnesota VS.. Northern Secur
tiles Is Sent Back to the
State Courts.
DECISION ~REAcAEDTCpAY
-owsr Courts Are Reversed aud Founo
to Have Been in Error in Assum-
ing Jurisdiction of the
Complaint.

Washington, April 13.-rhe United
States supreme court today decided the
case OF the State OF Minnesota VS.. the
Northern Pacific and Great Northern
Railway companies, involving the
Validity of the merger of the two rail-
road companies. holding that it was
without jurisdiction. and reversing the
opinion OF the court below. The opinion
MAS by Justice Harlan.
Justice Harlan said the circuit court
should not have entertained jurisdic-
ton III the case, the effect being to re-
lnand the ease to the state courts
Victory for the State.
st. Paul. Mimi, April 1S.-The SUI
preme court decision in the case of
minnesota against the merger is con-
iidercd by the states legal officers j
virtual victory for the state, although
IL puts he litigation back exactly
Where it VAS when the suit was first
begun. This was the original suit
against the merger, begun before the
federal government began its action.
u Was transferred from state to fed
eral court. II Judge Lochran in fed
hral district court took jurisdiction.
Without much question the decision of
The case on its merits against the
state. the United States supreme court
LOW says virtually hat Judge Lochran
ghould not even have assumed juris-
Fiction. much less decided hat the
merger was a legal corporation that
:cula rot be reached by the laws of
minnesota. The suit now goes back to
lhe stat ia tNlrtS
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-04-15
UNDER PREPARATION.
I. Is Not Believed Battle Will occu,
Immediately Between Japanese
and Russians.

London, April ia correspondent o
the Times with the japanese headquar.
i, tiers sends the following, dated April IL
b. wireless biography via Wei-liai-NNei:
present information fIom the lant
front must be belated owing to the dis.
lance OF the existing sea base from I'll,
advance guard, but this will soon be rem
edied.
1t is doubtful whether the long ex
pected engagement for the possession o.
the Ialu river Will ever take place. cor
tainly not unless the Russians have beer
reinforced more heavily than my informa
tion leads ME to believe. This was fore.
Seen by the Japanese and hence theii
strenuous efforts TO block Port Arthur Sc
tina they may be able to reduce the length
OF their and communication by the es.
Establishment of q more convenient sec
base. 1t must be that unles.
the Japanese secure the north of the Yall
with u new base by July the land move
ments from Korea will become practicall,
impossible. The rainfall OF summer is $,
heavy that all the iiimsy bamboo bridge.
will be destroyed. This would indicat,
that 1t is not TO the advantage of eithe,
belliSerent to engage i'll 4 struggle in tn
vicinity of the Yalu.
The Russians desire to get the Japanes,
inland with the hope of enveloping them
while the Japanese want to get inland be.
cause the country affords u more sultab!,
theater of operations.
As the time is short a new effort o..
the japanese must be developed almost i'm.
mediately."
London, April IA correspondent OF
the Times at Seoul. cabling under dat.
of April {. says:
lit is belie"ed that the Russians norts
of the Ialu are not sufficiently numerou.
TO withstand the japanese advance for an,
considerable distance beyond the river"
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-04-15
CRIT|C|SE GOVERNOR
AND the MILITARY
Cor Having Disregardee Course
OF the Court in Recent
Trouble.
QUESTION: WHO is GUILTY
curt Demands Thas General EEL ans
Captain Wells Sc Brought to
Justice, But Governor
Says No.

OurNy, colo, april 13.-pistrict judge
stevens today declared A%dj1tant Cen
eral Bell ana Captain Wells To be il
contempt of court Tor not complying
With Il writ of heabeas corpus which re
quired the officers To bring before the
court today Charles ii. Meyer. presi-
lent of the Western Federation OF
Miners, who they are holding in con-
tinement u, Telluride.
The court ordered the sheriff 10 an
rest the Two officers.
The judge severely criticised In.
course of Governor Peabody and Tie
military authorities.
II the military continues TO disregard
the order of the court and refuses &c
release President Meyer. Attorney
Richardson, representing the Western
Federation OF Miners. Will apply to Nh,
State supreme court lor a writ oil
habeitn corpus.
The return to the writ made by Sen
eral Bell through Assistant District
Attorney Howe of Telluride excused
his failure to produce the body of Mr..
Mover on the ground II a he deemed it
unsafe 10 bring Meyer To Ouray or 10
reduce the military force in san Migue!
county by SO doing, and that the gov
error had ordered him TO disregard the
writ.
Judge Stevens said:
The people OF Ouray will rightly re
sent the imputation that General Bell
or Captain Wells could not come alone
and in safety before this court.
"A very grave question is presented
as To whether it is the striking miners
or the governor of Colorado ana the ma
tional guard that are engaged in insui-
rection and rebellion against the laws
of the state.
IF there is to be a reign OF military
despotism in This state and civil au-
thority is to have no jurisdiction, the
latter might as We'll go out OF business
Judge Stevens refused TO permit the
filing OF the return of the writ, ordered
that Charles S. Meyer be dischaG gei
from custody, issued an order of at
tachment against General Bell and
Captain Wells. assessed 4 fine OF 500
each, and expressed regret that the
was not before the court. as
considered him equally guilty With
General Bell and Captain Wells.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-04-15
RACE WAR IN TEXAS.
Outlook for a Bloody Crisis in the Lonc
Star State Is Only Too
Good.

Houston. Tex, April 11.-News from
Waller county. sixty miles north OF here.
Indicates that race feeling is Very liGii.
owing to the murder near Hampstead o.
fucker Pinckney, a leading planter a:1u
and brother of Congressman
Pinckney OF the Houston district. Ii ap-
pears that Pinckney and a companion
named Goss were hunting cattle am, rode
to a negro church for a drink OF water.
when they were fired upon by ne.loes
who We're concealed behind the doors.
Seven revolver shots entered P!nckrcs >
body and death was Instantaneous. t.oss
said he has had trouble with negroes a,.a.
thinks they mistook the dead man to:
Over 100 whites were in the lu.s.
after the negroes,
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-04-15
AS showing the growth Of the omni-

AS showing the growth OF the ornni-
BUS traffic Of London. and Just how
little the opposition OF the tubes
was felt after the novelty a Worn
OF. ]. n. Moore. who presided at the
hals yearly meeting of the London Road
Car company the other day, mentioned
that in Oxford street. below which the
Central London railway ran. the num-
Der OF omnibus journeys run by the
various companies prior to the opening
Of that railway i'll 1899 was 1922 q day.
while today the number was 2,416-an
increase of 124 Journeys. Mr.. Moore
said he had great faith In motor cars
and believed when a suitable vehicle
was found it would beat tho tramways.
London Engineer,
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-04-15
j. M. GREENE ENDORSED.
srule County Republican Convention
Has Anti-Crawford Color.

T'SS AhIl-CraWforG color.
Pukwaaa. S. d.. April 12.-At the re-
publlcan county convention held here
j. NJ. Greene Won out on every PROPOSE
ton. from temporary TO permanent or
ganization. carrying every township in
Brule county, which means an anti
Crawford delegation at the state con-
Nention TO be held at Sioux Falls, May
4. and indorses Greene for governor or
national committeeman.
Senator Montgomery made a hard
fight in Chamberlain, his own home.
After losing at home he practically
gave up the fight and Greene a
everything his own way at The county
convention.
The following delegates We're elected
to represent Brule county at the state
convention:
j. Nj. Greene. chairman: c. wesner.
L. Il. L~aughlin, S. f. Wilson, Arthur
Blodgett. y. S. Stuver. G.. w. James,
John FLYNN. ]" II. Nedrow. r. II. Good
rich, w. S. Dent, Nels Larson and ole
Anderson.