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Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-06-10
MAY LET PERDICARIS GO
The Negotiations With the Brigand
RaiSuIi.
HAS COMMUNICATED WITH CAPTIYES.
The Sultan's Representative and the French
Diplomats Have Plan That They Believe
Will Bring About Release Of Caplives-May
Be Settled by End Of Week.-Mrs., Marley
Gives Story of kidnapping.

Tangier (By Cable).--The rumor
TO the effect that the American war
ships would land armed parties June
g if Messrs. Perdcaris and Marley,
captured by brigands headed by
Raisuli, were not liberated. has, upon
investigation, been proved untrue
The Sutan's reply to the representa-
tives of the powers has not yet beer
received, but it is said on high all
thority that the matter probably vii
be settled by the end of this week.
Paris (By Cable).-The officials
here now take more hopeful view o
the situation at Tangier. Reports show
that Mohammed II Torres, the rep
resentative of the Sultan at Tangicr
whose first efforts to obtain the re
lease of Mcssrs. Pcrdicaris AMI Var
ley failed, has another plan for secur
ing their release, Which is believed &c
be acceptable to the Sultan and Raj.
sui, tSc brigand chief.
London (By Cable).-Mrs. CrOm
well Marley has sent her relatives in
Norfolk all interesting description OF
the seizure Of Ion Pcrdicaris and MIR
Marley, her husband, by bandits near
Tangicr, Morocco.
After describing the sudden attack
of the bandits and the capture Of the
outbuildings, she continues
Hearing a noise, uncle and Crom-
we'll rushed out to sec what was the
matter. They were Immediately sur
rounded, ovcrpowered and bound
When we reached the scene the ban
dts threw mother and myself down
a flight Of steps, warning Ms not to
interfere in any way, so we retired.
One of the maids, however, with
great pluck and presence OF mind,
slipped away to the telephone and
shouted
"'Thievcsl They arc killing MS.
Before she could say more Raj
;uli dashed the instrument from her
1and and said lie would shoot us II
we called for help.
I'VE waited ten minutes while I'M
Gle, as we thought, was Arranging
terms with the bandits, when a sol
dicr informed us that Raisuli had car
ried off uncle and Cromwell.
The letter confirms the receipt Of
communications from Mr.. Perdlcars
acknowledging that he is well. treat
ed. The oaptives are lodged i'll a
Moorish hut, with all antiroom, in
which one OF Perdicaris soldiers
sleeps. This soldier voluntarily be-
,alne captive so that he might ac-
Perditaris. The letter con-
,ludes;
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-06-10
Peace In SantO Domingo.

Washington, D. c., (SpeciaD The
Navy Department has received the
following cablegram from Rear Ad-
miral Sigsbee, dated Porto Plata, San
to Domingo.
Representatives met aboard the
Detroit, according to arrangements
made with the commanding officer of
the Detroit Peace has been agreed
on in Santo Domingo and a cessation
of hostilities for the next two days to
obtain the consent of the recognized
government. The Newark arrived op-
portunely as the conference made
better arrangements.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-06-10
LIVE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS
No Surplus This Year.

For the first time in FIVE years the
Government will be confronted by q
deficit at the close of the present ifs.
cal year, which will end on June 80
next. Secretary Shaw, in his annual
report to Congress last December,
declared his belief that there would
be a surplus of $I4,ooo,ooo in the
Treasury at the end of the present
year The fiscal experts of the Gov
eminent hesitate ABOUT making state
ments for publication, but privately
admit that the Secretary shot wide
of the mark The deficit will be due
to decreased Federal receipts, in
creased Government expenditures. es-
pecially for the military establish
ment; the S5o.ooo.ooo payment on the
purchase of the Panama canal prop
erty and the appropriation OF $4,000
600 for the St. Louis Exposition.
For II months of the present year
the total receipts of the Government
have been $4o3,3oo,23o and the total
expenditures $545, 265,363, or deficit
of $5I,o65,l38 for the II months OF
the present fiscal year. Compared
with the Treasury statement of May
81, 1903, the above figures are ex-
ceedingly interesting. For the II
months ended May 81, 1903, the re-
ceipts of the Government were $780,
533.47I and the expenditures SAIL
584,855. leaving the Government with
a surplus of $38,o4S,6I6 on that day.
1t is pointed out by the officials OF
the Treasury that much of the short
age this year has been due to the
Panama Canal and ST. Louis Exposi-
aion expenJ itures, and that if this
total OF $54,6oo.o 900 were deducted
from the expense account of the Gov.
eminent there would be a surplus OF
$2,3346II for the first II months OF
the current year, as against a sur.
plus of $38,o46,6To for the same period
year ago.
AS compared with year ago, the
receipts of this fiscal year have fallen
off about $4,000, 900, and the expendi-
lures for ordinary purposes have in
creased about $22, ,ooo Including
the Panama and ST. Louis eXpcndl-
lures the expenditures are $75,ooo,ooo
greater than year ago.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-06-10
Get.Fat.Ouick Scheme.

Chicago (SpeciaD.-The "get-fat-
quick" contests were abolished by
the Chicago Civil Service Commits
sion. Three candidates for positions
in the city fire department who have
been dieting and exercising for week
in an effort to reach 40 pounds, the
standard required by the civil service
rules. failed to accomplish the task.
One candidate succeeded, increasing
his weight, seven and half pounds.
Instead of following the example of
his fellows the successful candidate
tried what he termed the crest cure"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-06-10
IT have been able to send them
clothing and provisions.

Washington (By Cable). - The
Navy Department is advised by cable
that the Marietta left Gibraltar tor
Tangier, having gone to Gibraltar for
stores for the combined squadrons
now at Tangier.
Rear Admiral Chadwick, command
ing the South Atlantic squadron, now
at Tangier, Morocco, reported to
Washington that conditions remain
practically unchanged in the case OF
the kidnapping of the American citi-
zen, Ion Perdicaris, and his stcpson.
Cromwell Narley, British subject.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-06-10
Killed By Folding Bed.

Minneapolis, MINI. - (SpeciaD. -
Mrs. A. NJ. Woodward, wife of the
president of the South Side State
Bank, died as the result of folding
bed accident. The bed suddenly
closed during the night MIR. Wood.
ward got one arm out of tie bed and
beat on the floor until help came,
when it was found that three Of Mrs.
Woodward's cervical vertebrae were
hrokeu
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-06-10
Murderer LyncheG.

Grangeville, Idaho (SpeciaD.-T.
NJ. Myers, who killed George Brown
lee and wounded Wallace Bennett,
near Crooks Corral, three weeks ago,
was taken from a party of officers
near White Bird and lynched. The
lynchers were masked and outnum-
bered the officers three to one. The
officers rode on to Grangeville. The
method of death is not known. Myers
was being taken to the county jail
when the lynching party overlook
the officers.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-06-10
FINANCIAL.

Traffic is steadily on the Decline
saws a New York Central official.
Call money is as cheap again as il
vas prior to the extensive gold ex.
ports.
There over 1000 creditors of Petit
gill & Co., of Boston, who failed for
;I,2I7,ooo
In the third week of May. gross
arnings OF the Louisville & Nash
lille declinel 500, 3o2.
Atchison has earned this fiscal year
bout 8 per cent. on its common stock
md it pays 4 per cent dividends.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-06-10
Boodling Cases Remanded.

Jefferson City, Mo-, (SpeciaD-The
Missouri Supreme Court reversed and
remanded the cases of T. Edward AL
bright, Jerry ]. Hannigan and John
A. Sheridan, former members of the
St. Louis municipal assembly, convict
ed on the charge of bribery and sem
fenced to FIVE years each in the peni-
tertiary. The cases were reversed on
the brief of the attorney general that
the informations were not verified by
affidavits as required by law.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-06-10
Wealthy Mans Tragic Death.

Doylestown, Pa. (SpeciaD.-Robt
Steel, a wealthy wholesale liquor
dealer of Philadelphia, was found
dead here with his neck broken. His
body was found lying at the foot OF
an outside stairway leading to Vaux's
store. Mr.. Steel was the owner OF a
large stock farm near here, and came
home from Philadelphia on the mid.
night train. 1t is supposed he tell
down the stairway leading to the
cfnra
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-06-10
Microbe OF Phthisls.

Naples-(By Cable). Professor
Schron the discoverer of life in crys-
tails, gave a public demonstration that
he had found a new microbe which
causes phthisis, a microbe quite diff
ferent from that causing tuberculosis.
Professor Schron afirms that this
discovery explains why DR.. Koch'S
serum not only did not cure phthisis,
hut AGGRAVATED it.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-06-10
Town SHept By Tornado.

Norton, Kan, (SpeciaD.-A lorna
do which struck the little town o.
Selden, West of Norton, on the RocL
Island railway, demolished a church
FIVE dwellings and much farm prop.
erty. A funeral service was being
conducted in the church at the time
and 800 persons were in attendance
A dozen persons were hurt, none ser.
iously, however. Much damage wa:
done to farm property in the path Of
the storm beyond Selden, but no loss
of Life has been reported.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-06-10
SZ,0DU, 900 to School Fund.

Portland, Ore, (SpeciaD. - Mrs
Amanda w. Reed, who died at Pasa-
dena, Cal, few days ago, has pro-
vided in her will for the funding of
an institution here, to be known as
Reed Institute, in memory of her
husband, the late Simon G. Reed,
pioneer and capitalist of Portland.
The bequest will amount to about ST.
900, 900. Her will specifies that the
institute shall combine instruction in
the fine arts and sciences AMI man
ual training.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-06-10
CONGRESSMAN Gets Plum.

After a conference it'll the President
Attorney General Knox announced
the following appointments:
William NJ Lanning, Trenton, N.
J., to be United States District Judge
for the district of New Jersey. Mr..
Lanning now repre- ents the Fourth
New Jersey district in the house OF
Representatives and succeeds the late
Judge Andrew Kirkpatrick.
Edward A. Mann, of Las Cruces,
New Mexico, to be assistant judge of
the New Mexico Supreme Court.
This is a new position created by the
last session of Congress.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-06-10
Congressional and Departments.

Elaborate arrangements have been
made for the entertainment of the
Filipino visitors in Washington.
The annual conference of officers
of the Marine Hospital Service was
held in Washington.
The coinage of gold during May
was $44,Ioo,ooo; silver, $4,000
Judge Pritchard, of the Fourth
United States Circuit Court, granted
a temporary writ of habeas corpus to
Josephus Daniels, of the Raleigh
News and Observer, who was COM
bitted by Judge Purnell for contempt,
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-06-10
Foreign.

Officers of the North Atlantic
squadron were entertained at Lisbon
by the King and Queen of Portugal.
President Loubet received Gov
c-ror Odeil at the Elysee Palace, in
Paris.
DR.. Baernreither, former Austrian
minister of commerce, and Count
Mervelft, former governor of the
Provinces of Tyrol and Silesia, will
tour the United States and Canada
to study educational institutions and
to visit the chief industrial centers.
An Italian cruiser arrived at Tan
gier. A delegation of chiefs of the
Angerra Tribe will appeal to Raj
souli, the bandit chief, to release Per-
dicaris and Varley in order to pre-
vent the occupation of Morocco by
foreigners opposing the Moslem
faith.
1t was announced in the British
House of Commons that no repre-
sensations had been made to Russia
or Japan regarding the placing of
naval mines in the Far East outside
of territorial limits.
After living 81 days on bread and
water four newfoundland fishermen
brought to St. Johns, N. F., fishing
vessel which had been alrift in an ice
foe all winter.
A treaty of arbitration has been
signed between Spain and Portugal.
The United States European squad
ron, under Rear Admiral Jewell, ar
rived at Tangier The Unite States
has sent a message to
the Sultan of Morocco declaring that
the brigand Rasouli must be held
personally responsible for any harm
coming to Perdicaris.
The United States battleship Kear-
sarge, flying the flag of Rear Admiral
Barker, commander of the North
fleet, and the battleships
Alabama and Maine have arrived at
Lisbon.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-07-01

Minnesota dairy and pure food COM
mission has given out for publication
a recipe for the manufacture of rasp-
berry jam without raspberries, expos
ing the methods of INSCRIPTIONS manu-
facturers of imitation fruit preserves.
The exposure reads as follows:
~ have seen raspberry jam made in
large quantities from the following
ingredients: The base of this jam was
apple parings and cores, as prepared
and packed in barrels by apple evapor-
ators These parings and cores were
first placed in huge copper steam ket-
ties with sufficient water and glucose,
the latter for sweetening, and boiled
until the mass was thoroughly cooked.
Then it was strained through filtering
material to make clear syrup.
"Next a quantity of analine dye, a
coal tar product, was stirred in for
color; then a quantity of timothy grass
seed to initiate raspberry seeds (and
we'll have to admit the resemblance was
close enough to deceive an expert) 4,
was incorporated into the mass and
finally a favoring extract was added.
The label said: Pure Raspberry Jam,
Made from the Finest Quality of Fresh
Fruit"
With good pure food law and a
commissioner who enforces 1T, the peo-
pie of Washington need not be fright
ened at the probability that such jam
might get into our state. Laws are
necessary-but when it comes to such
perfidy as this, they are doubly So
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-07-01
Selling Land on Commission.

A correspondent makes this inquiry:
what in your Judgment is fair COM
mission to give an agent for selling
quarter section of improved land?"
Agents who sell on commission usually
charge five per cent on the first 81 900
and 21a per cent on each additional
thousand or fraction thereof. When
a quarter section is priced for $4,000
this would give the agent $3.50 for sell
ing it and is about as reasonable as
a person can get such deal put
through if placed in agents hands.
The commission plan Of selling land is
the best way to deal with an agent al
though we prefer to advertise and sell
direct 1t does away with the agent
putting on a price very much above
what you would place on the property.
If he makes sale at his figures he
pockets the difference. In years past
we have known agents to make as
high as 5000 and $500 on a quarter
section of land in this way and hence
we say that the commission plan is the
only one to follow.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-07-01

exterminate this weed, which was
found growing in the vicinity of Top
penish, which money was used, but
with no perceptible effect. At the
same time the railroad company put
a large force at work digging and
burning it on its right of way, but all
was futile. In the Sunnyside country
effort was also made to exterminate
it, without success. People of this
valley, who are just finding out that
Russian thistle is growing about here,
are greatly behind the times in that
regard, and more so If they think the
work of any one man or of hundred
men could eradicate it. The whole
Russian army, while it might be en-
ployed in a better business than 1t
now is, if it were here engaged in de-
stroying this thistle, could hardly ex-
terminate it. The germ of the seed
lives three years in the ground. No;
the county commissioners should not
spend a dollar at such an attempt, 1t
would be a foolish waste Of money.
The Russian thistle is here to stay.
'Nor is this plant such criminal as
it was formerly supposed to be; for
while there is a statute against per-
hitting it's growth upon farms and
highways of this state, there are farm
ers of exalted local renown who speak
words of high praise for the Russian
thistle as a forage plant. Hon. Fl. d.
Jory, once law maker. and who now
aspires to promotion to such position
in the national councils, year ago
informed the writer hereof that he
was sowing the seed of this thistle on
large body of land which he owns
in the Sunnvside country One funny
thing about it was that he had gone to
considerable trouble to gather large
bag of this seed to thus SOW and his
horses had, unawares to him. gotten
their noses into the bag and eaten
about half of it, But he stated that
be has since learned better way, and
that is to not thresh it but pile up
lot of weeds on a wagon and scatter
them along the west line of his land
and the wind will do the rest He
said his neighbors are doing likewise
Perhaps the county commissioners
should hire man to follow after
Brother Jory, the law maker, and pick
up the seeds or next year dig up the
resulting plants.
"Cultivation will tend to keep down
the Russian thistle about the same
as it does any other tumble weed, than
which it is not particularly worse ex-
cept that it "stickers" on when ma
tured If only small territory was
beset with it a band of sheep grazed
on the land for three or four success
sive years would wipe it off that part
of the face of the earth
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-07-01
Russian Thistle in Washington.

Some years ago the middle west
states made great cry over the Rus
sian thistle, which was then just
spreading and threatening to become
a serious pest. Every sort of contriv-
ance was suggested to catch and de-
stroy the weed in the fall when it
tumbled over the prairie. The dam
age it was capable of doing to the
farm was greatly exaggerated-but no
one seemed to understand the thistle
and it's habits After a couple of
years or so the scare over the thistle
had completely died out and the farm
ers made up their minds it was an
evil to be put up with, whose ten
dencv was not so bad as had been
claimed at first A little later on 1T
was found that the thistle had it's re-
deeming features, for it proved itself
capable of furnishing some rough
age for sheep, though it never became
popular. Cultivation was found to be
about the best method of keeping 1T
down, and vigorous campaign
against it has practically rid the
farms of the weed.
In the more western sections OF the
country the weed seems not to have
appeared till sometime later Mention
of it's existence has been made now
and then in the papers, but little no.
tice was taken of it. Lately, how
ever, it has begun to demand the at
tention of the ranchers, and particu-
larly is this true in the state of Wash
ington east of the Cascades. North
Yakima parties report it to exist in
that vicinity in large numbers. In a
communication to one of the Yakima
papers e. r. Parker, of Fruitvale,
suggests that the county commission
ers should employ man to make war
on the thistle VIM. H. Redman, OF
the same county, replies to Mr.. Park
ers communication, saying that he
could show Mr.. Parker a hundred
thousand acres, or more. in Yakima
county over which the Russian this
tie is scattered and growing. "For
some miles on each side of the North
ern Pacific railway, from Kennewick
to the Naches river" he says "the
thistle is extant and has been for sew
eral years. 1t was growing out beyond
the power house and in North Yakima
some four years ago. Prof. Leckenby
of the u S. agricultural department,
division of plant industry, informed
the writer some three or four years
ago that Russian thistle had then al
ready gotten beyond control and be-
yond any hope of determination in the
Yakima valley. Six years ago Indian
Agent Lynch, upon his request, was
allowed fund by the government to
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-07-01
Raspberry Jam Without Berries.

When one knows the degree TO
which INSCRIPTIONS manufacturers
will go to adulterate foods he might
we'll pity the person who buys their
stuff under the supposition it is pure.
At the same time the rancher who
raises all his own fruit and garden
produce can congratulate himself. The
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-07-01

The worlds fair classification for
hares and rabbits provides for 70
awards for Belgian hares and for 7
awards in each of II sections for rab-
bits. The cash prizes for Belgian
hares amount to $148.00 and for breeds
of rabbits $204.00.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-07-01

ping berries from Kennewick, Wash,
to Seattle, Wash, the Seattle papers
statement that this is in line with
the continued desperate efforts still
making in Oregon, etc., is decidedly
ridiculous"
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-07-01
Ranch Small Talk

The northwest is having good har-
vesting weather and those sections
where the grain is in condition for
gathering have no time for anything
but harvesting.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-07-01

If you are interested in drainange
OF any kind you might find some in
teresting points in bulletin 70 of the
Iowa experiment station, Ames, Iowa
A copy can be had for the asking.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-07-01

Thirty-five bushels to the acre is
said to be the yield that will be Sc
cured in the better fields Of wheat in
the southern part of Franklin county.
That is good and will make the owners
feel pretty big.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-07-01

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