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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-05-17
CHICAGO POTATO MARKET,
Heavy Receipts Cause Decline in Prlc
Which Later Shows Recovery

Heavy Receipts Cause Decline in Price
Which Later Shows Recovery.
Chicago--Receipts of potatoes were
heavy again the early part of the week
and the market declined, but with
lighter receipts later in the week the
decline was made up and some slight
advance has been obtained over
former quotations. The feeling is
frmer with the advance in prices late
this week.
The supply of choice Rurals ap-
pears to be limited and the stock is
being taken up more readily. The
majority Of potato shipments coming
to this market are miscellaneous lots
and for this reason the quality is ir-
regular and has bad effect on prices
generally. In car lots Burbanks are
quoted so to 81 cents; Rurals 81 to IS
cents; Ohios 46 to SO cents; Rose As to
so cents.
New potatoes have been in small
supply and the price is still high. Re-
ports from the south and southwest in
dictate that there will be light ship
ments OF new potatoes for sometime
to come and the local trade inclines to
the opinion that it will be we'll up in
June before new stock will come down
in price so as to compete with old
stock.
Much interest centers right now in
what the market on old potatoes will
do during the next thirty days. A
number of letters have been received
by The Packer asking for an opinion
on the situation. A careful canvass
has been made among the trade and
the general impression is that unless
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-05-17
Foreign Seed Corn.

Some of our scientific corn breeders
say that it is not advisable to buv
seed corn grown more than twenty
miles from ones home; otherwise it
will not be adapted to the new con-
ditions. Several seedsmen do not
subscribe to this doctrine. Henry
Field, of Iowa, says:
my belief proved by actual results
is this: Iowa seed corn, good seed
corn, can be moved to almost any
part of the country and produce better
results than any of the native sorts.
and also better results than it would
here at home. The change is benef-
cial to it,
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-05-17
Winter Wheat Conditions.

The crop reporting board of the
bureau of statistics of the department
of agriculture, from the reports of the
correspondents and agents of the
bureau, finds the area under winter
wheat remaining in cultivation on
May to have been about 20, 1928, 900
acres. This is six per cent, or
about 1,71s,ooo acres, less than the
area reported as sown last fall, and
one per cent, or about 241, 900 acres,
less than the area of winter wheat
reported as harvested last year.
The average condition of the grow
ing winter wheat crop on May l was
81, as compared with SO on April l,
1906: 81 on May l, 1905: Is on May l,
1904. and IS, the mean of the May
averages for the last ten years.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-05-17
The Country Correspondent.

Again, at night, when the work is
done, you pick up the country weekly
from the old home back east. You
look over town news, scan the blazing
half-page ads and turn over to the
country correspondence. Not that
you were acquainted in every neigh
borhood from Pleasant Valley to
Pumpkin Ridge, nor do you know the
present generation spoken of in the
news items. But here and there is an
old family name that makes you think
and takes you back to the good old
days gone by. An item about the old
church or the school, and as you sit
there the recollection brings back
memories all but forgotten. You
wander out on the big road through
the valley and woodland to the big
farm house. Then hundred faces of
boyhood companions are all before
you as you picture the revival at the
crossroads church or the spelling bee
at the old red school house, and you
wonder what has become of all the
boys and girls you left when you
started west.
The old tourist printer has been
RELOCATED to the junk pile by the limo
type, the city man takes his notes in
shorthand, the editor dictates his mat
ter to an amanuensis, and from the
typewriter it goes down the tube-the
revolution is complete, yet there is
one good, oldfashioned feature hold
ing over-the weekly copy from the
country correspondent. Nothing can
take his place. May he be with US
forever, because the paper needs him
and the readers appreciate him and
we want him, though he hasn't i'm
proved a lick in spelling and punctu-
ation.-Perry (Okla.) Republican.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-05-17
Deaths IRON Appendicitis

decrease in the same ratio that the use
of DR.. Kings New Life Pills in
creases. They save you from danger
and bring quick and painless release
from constipation and the ills grow
ing out of it. Strength and vigor al
ways follow their use. Guaranteed
by G. A. Jack, druggist, Is cents.
Try them.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-05-17
sciatica Cured After Twenty Years of Torture.

oSioIASo SuISu AIkeI l"enty Years OF Ofture.
For more than twenty years Mr.. J.
B. Massey, of 80 Clinton St., Mime
apolis, MIMI, was tortured by sciat-
lea. The pain and suffering which
he endured during this time is beyond
comprehension. Nothing gave him
any permanent relief until he used
Chamberlain Pain Balm. One ap-
plication of that liniment relieved the
pain and made sleep and rest posi-
BILE, and less than one bottle has eff
fected permanent cure. If troubled
with sciatica or rheumatism why not
try 25-cent bottle of Pain Balm and
see for yourself how quickly it relieves
the pain. For sale by Princeton Drug
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-05-17
G. A. r., Attention.

: All members of Wallace T. Rines
post, l42, are urged to be in attend
ance at the regular meeting Nav %.
as final arrangements have to be
made for memorial day. Meeting will
be called to order at 1880 p. m.
1. q. Galley, Commander.
Attest:
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-21
CELEBRATING SAN JAc|NTo DAY
Texas People Are Observing Ami
versary of Big Battle Today
San Antonio Decorated.

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, April 21.-To-
day is the anniversary of the Battle
of San Jacinto, and the anniversary is
generally celebrated throughout Texas
The celebration in this city, which real
ly began with the opening parade on
Monday, will reach it's final conclusion
today with the grand battle of flowers.
The city is beautifully decorated and
the display of flowers is gorgeous.
Flowers are everywhere and the gen.
eral effect is delightful. Thousands of
visitors from all parts Of the SOUTH
west are here to witness the closing
events of this great patriotic celebra-
ton.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-21

stars and stripes will be carried by
the American athletes in all the fiat
and hurdle races, including the great
Marathon race, a twenty-six and one
quarter mile run from Marathon to
Athens America will also be repre-
sented in nearly all the other track
events, including the Pentathlon.
No other country has sent as many
contestants as the United States, and
it is expected that they will again, as
on farmer occasions, carry off large
percentage of the honors. Owing to
injuries received during the ocean voy-
age, five of the Americans were to
some extent disabled, but there are
enough of them left to make a good
showing in every one of the events
The list includes Hahn, Schick, Rob-
ertson, Eaton, Moulton, Queyrouve,
Hillman, Prinstein, Parsons, Pilgrim.
Cohn, Bacon, Bonhag, Sullivan, Valen-
tine, Lightbody, Leavitt, Friend, Frank,
Forshaw, Spring, Fowler, Kerrigan,
Ewry, Glover, Mitchell, Edgren, Shell
don, Borneman, Daniels, Spencer,
Schwartz and Miflot.
England, which is probably the most
dangerous rival of the United States
in some of the events, has only sent
team of eight men, but among them
is the flower of English athletes. They
are particularly strong in the fiat
races Ireland will figure in the jumps,
Australia and Hungary in the SWIM
ming events. Germany, France, Den
mark, Norway and Sweden are we'll
represented by a small number of ex-
ceptionally good men, and are partic-
ularly strong in field events.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-21
Dress Clothes viii Undoubtedly be
Eliminated.
ARE ONLY USED IN SOCIAL FUNCTIONS
SUPPLIED WITH NEW STYLE
LEGGINGS.

WASHINGTON, D. c., April 21.-
1t is source of considerable gratifica-
ton to army officers that the war de-
partment has refused to consider any
material changes in their uniforms. 1t
is realized in the department that, no
matter what the uniform may be, there
are those who will find an opportunity
to suggest changes, all more or less
expensive to the officers who must fur
nish their own apparel. General Chat
fee, while chief of staff, held that the
uniform was on a practical basis, and
his successor, General Bates, agreed
with him. There is every reason to
believe that the new chief of staff,
General Bell, will adhere to this view.
If anything is done to the uniform, it
will be to eliminate some of the styles
Of dress which are considered useless.
but which are used for show purposes
only. The only reason that the full
uIeSS lids Uecu IIldlIlldlIcu IS lldl III
public gatherings where army officers
come in contact with other represen-
tatives Of other services, it is desirable
to maintain a proper proportion of
display It's considered that the uniform
worn for the field by the American
army is the most comfortable and
bets suited which could be devised,
and surpasses in those qualities the
military apparel Of all other countries.
Suggestions of changes in the uin-
form continue to be received, but al
though they are examined and care
fully filed, no further attention is paid
to them. The only change of any i'm
portance, which has been decided upon
during the past few days. is the adop-
ton Of a new kind of leggings, rec
commended for use in the army by the
quartermaster general. These new leg
gings are a few inches shorter than
those in use at the present time and
are laced in front instead Of on the
side. 1t is not expected that any more
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-21
FRENCH LINER ON MAIDEN TRIP
La Provence, Biggest and Fastest Boat
Ever Built in France, Sailed
From Havre.

HAVRE, April 21.-La Provence, of
the French line, the biggest and fast
est vessel ever built in France, sailed
this morning from here on her maiden
trip to New York. The construction
of the steamer was begun in Deem
Der, 1908, at Penhouet, near ST. Nazaire,
and on March 10 last she ran her trial
trip off Belle Isle. She displaces about
1850 tons on a comparatively light
draught of 1918 feet The dimensions
in regard to length, beam and depth
have been adapted to the harbor of
Havre, which, on account of it's INSULT
cient depth, could not accommodate
the English and German leviathians.
La Provence has a length over all
of 626 feet, beam IS feet. and is ca
pable of carrying 1000 persons, in
Guiding a crew of 435, and about 400
first-class passengers. A system of
electric ventilation allows the occupant
Of each cabin to regulate it himself
The steamer has six decks and is
divided into twenty tight COM
partments, such doors as there are in
the bulkhead being controlled from
the bridge, where an electric indicator
shows whether all the water-tight
doors are working.
The engines consist of two complete
sets of triple expansion type, each with
four cylinders, driving twin screws,
with a horsepower of 10000 and an
expected speed of % knots There are
twenty-one cylindrical boilers, working
as a pressure of fourteen atmospheres
and fitted with Howden's forced
draught. The commander of the YES
sci is Captain Alix, formerly of the La
Lorraine.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-21
Republican LEAGUE Banquet.

WASHINGTON, D. c., April I'll
The annual banquet of the League of
Republican State Clubs of the District
of Columbia will be held at the Ma
of invited guests has been limited to
four hundred and will include promi-
nent republicans from every state and
territory in the United States. Many
distinguished speakers will deliver adj
dresses, among them several prominent
republican senator's and representa-
tives.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-21

WASHINGTON, D. c., April 21.-
The Texas Society of Washington
will celebrate the anniversary of the
Battle of San Jacinto this evening
with a large meeting at Odd Fellows
hall on Seventh Street, Northwest,
which accommodates about 1000 per-
sons An interesting program has been
prepared and Representatives Morris
Sheppard and George F. Burgess will
deliver addresses.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-21
John Stack
THE PAINTER
I27-I20 East Main Street
GOATS! GOATS!

Have a carload of high bred Angora
goats for sale cheap. Write 4. l. Eff,
Salem, Oregon.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-21
DIE OF FIRE.
Gasoline the Agent in Fearful Trag-
edv in a GIynden, Minn., Home.

Gasoline the Agent in a Fearful Tras-
edy in a GIynden, Mimi, Home.
GLYNDON, Mimi, April 21.-Three
deaths, chargeable to somebody's mis-
take, is last nights record in this viii
lage.
Mrs. CLAUS Anderson, her mother,
Mrs Peter Anderson, and the 2-year-
the victims of an exploding Oil can
which, it is presumed, contained gaso-
lene.
The younger Mrs. Anderson was
kindling a fire with what she supposed
was kerosene when the can exploded,
covering her and her mother with
flames.
The older woman caught up the
child and fled from the house a pillar
of fire, reaching her own home across
the street, where her husband ex-
tinguished the flames, but she and the
child were so badly burned that they
died this morning.
Mrs CLAUS Anderson was found in
her garden, back of the house, a
charred bit of humanity, but con-
scious and rational. She lived five
hours.
Her husband is on his way from Hell
ena While knowing of the accident,
he is unaware of it's terrible fatality.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-21
Musical Festival.

MOBILE, Ala, April 21.-Several
state have arrived here to attend the
first annual musical festival of Mobile,
which will open tonight with a grand
concert at the Mobile theater. There
will be in all, three choral and instru-
mental concerts, under the direction of
Mr.. Frederick A. Dunster.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-21
NOTICE.

When wanting hay. call up Phone
1872.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-21

East Main Flour and Feed Store.
Call or phone Tor prompt delivery.
Formerly McKey's phone. Main 1899,
P. r. Allen. prop, 120 E. Main street.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-21

material change in the uniforms or
equipment of the soldiers yill be made
this year, neither for home use nor
for use in the tropics.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-21

Wait for the street cars at the Book
Nook.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-21

Get the habit! II you read The
Statesman you will always have it.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-07
ELECTION SKIRMISH LINE

Arkansas led in the autumn elections
on September 1 and Vermont followed
September 4. The results were as
widely different as the distance sepa
rating the two states. The former ad-
hered to its invariable ha bit of return
ing a big Democratic ma jority and the
latter stuck with equal tenacity to the
habit of going Republican with a
sheoic bent.
The aext state election. that Of Maine,
will occur next Monday, September 10.
Maine is a Republican "old reliable
in its state vote, but there usually is II
fighting chance" for the election of
Democra tic congress ,men lin two of the
four districts. 1t IS only a remote
chance, judging from the returns in the
last congressional election, one of the
said districts returning Republican
plurality OF 1889 and the other one j419.
But the national Republican leaders
think 1t worth while, nevertheless, to
play their best spel-bnding card in
those districts. "Uncle' Joe Cannon is
doing his ''level oest' to save the four
Maine districts for his party.
The only othe" state election prior to
the common voting date on November
& will be that of Georgia, occurring
October 3. Opposition to Democratic
ticket in that state is merely per-
functory peratlon-somethin like that
OF person who has not hing to eat but
sits down to the table and goes
through the motions
The only feature of direct national in
terest in the state elections this year is
involved in the choice of congressman.
There is a great deal more than a
lighting chance" for ,electing a Demo.
cratic majority in the house of repre-
sentatiVes. The Republican leaders ad-
nit that fact and they are straiting
every effort to hold the fort.
In the tidal wave that swept the
Democratic party off it's feet in 1904 the
Republicans secured an overwhelming
majority in the lower house of CON
gress, but this is not tidal wave year.
In the congress preceding the present
one there was a Republican majority
in the house of only thirty-two in the
total membership of 3S2. Some districts
that the Republicans captured in 1907
are sure to elect Democrats next No
vember and there are enough doubtful
districts to make a close contest. al
least. for control of the house in the
sixtieth congress.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-07

vailed upon him to humor the national
liking for pomp to q limited extent.
When the Spaniards held the palace
it was filed with fine furniture and
gorgeous decorations These were re-
moved during the American occupation,
when plain furniture from America
factories was installed. Today, though
the interior equipment has been i'm
ported from Europe, and is of the best
quality, everything is simple and unos-
tentatious-as simple almost, as the
master of the house, who hires his own
personal servants and receives from
the government treasury only such
funds as are needed for the official
side of the establishment.
His American Customs
Office hours with the president are
as long as the workingmans day
and not the eighthour variety, at that.
Arising at six O'Clock, Mr.. Palma (or
Senor Palma as they call him in Ha-
vana) goes to work soon after finish
ing his breakfast, and he does not stop
working until late in the afternoon. In
the middle of the day he neither eats
a heavy meal nor indulges in siesta,
after the custom of the Cubans gener-
ally. He learned in America, he says,
that light lunches were best, and that q
DuSy man cOuIQ not dIIOTO 10 Waste
large part of the afternoon.
Another American habit that has
clung to the president is that of observ-
ing Sunday. On that holiday, observed
by the islanders as an occasionfor mer-
rymaking, he never goes to a theater
or a bull fight, nor does he receive
callers or transact business of any
sort.
ITS the only day / have with my
family" he explains, 'and / like the
American custom of staying at home
one day I'm SEVEN"
The presidents summer home is one
of the houses formerly used as Of
ficers' quarters in what was and still
is called Camp Calabria, about an
hours ride by trolley from Havana.
Mr.. Palma travels between this simple
residence and the palace daily on a
private car which takes him within
two blocks of the office, and he walks
the two blocks. 1t was while he was
on the private car that an abortive at
tempt was made two years ago to Kill
him by the placing of spike In the
rails, where the track crossed high
bridge.
Senior Palma is in the first year of his
second term as president, having been
reelected by the Conservatives in the
spring of this year. That the Radicals
have grown strong enough to father
even an embryonic revolution against
his rule is evidence that his grip on
the public favor Of the young nation
is far less firm than formerly; but IL
the cable dispatches are to be relied
upon, there still remains in the island a
majority enthusiastically i'm his favor.
Among the influential men of the ma
jority, it is recalled, are not few of
"Schoolmaster Palma's boys"-boys
who were trained in the country school
at Central Valley and later returned
to the land of their fathers, all devoted
to the interests of the kindly teacher
who played the part of foster-parent
to them during their absence from
Cuba.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-07

The Republican Southern Pacific
state platform declares. among other
things, that 1--WE favor the enactment
by congress of an amendment to the
existing tariff law providing, as a
measure of relief to San Francisco, for
the period of three years. all building
material may be admitted into that
port free Of duty" And yet when a
Tennessee congressman proposed, dur
Ing the session recently closed, to offer
a bill making provision OF that char
acter--particularly as to structural
steel-every congressman from Cali
fornia arose and requested that such
a bill be not presented. Mr. Gnlett,
now the nominee for governor, voted
with his delegation. When they had
a chance to do something they laid
down to the steel trust. Now they are
very busy with words-windy words,
signifying nothing
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-07
TlLLABLE LAND SHORTAGE

It is not an overestimate that Presi.
dent Hill Of the Great Northern rail.
way makes of the population of this
country within the next three or -four
decades. He says that within twenty
years the United States will have a
population of 125,0OO,OOO and before the
middle Of the century the figure will be
200, 100000.
What are we to do with the 40,00O,00C
additional people that this country will
have to support twenty years hence is
the pertinent question asked by the
discerning railway veteran. The great
rush Of homesteaders to secure allot-
ments Of government land, opened to
entry from time to time, Is q forceful
reminder that there Is but little govern
ment land remaining which now Is
available for cultivation.
The reclamation project undertaken
by the government will add largely to
the cultivable area, but even that will
be only 81 drop in the bucket" COM
pared with the needs of tens Of millions
Of additional mouths and stomachs. At
the present time there is practically no
other means of expanding the staple
food producing territory.
But President Hill sees a method
whereby the productive capacity of
vast areas of land now utilized might
be made to- yield immensely greater re-
turns than the usual output. He says
1t has been demonstrated that an aver
age Of two persons or more can be
supported on every acre of tillable
land by the highest form of farming.
How far short of that yield the average
grain farmer comes Is indicated by the
fact that the product of the great
wheat belt is only from twelve to
eighteen bushels per acre. From the
market price of wheat subtract the cost
of production and 1t will be seen that
several such acres are required for the
support of a single Individual.
Nowhere is the growing scarcity or
good tillable land more in evidence than
In Southern, California. Take out the
mountain and desert region and the
available area Is found to be compare
lively small. It Is this scarcity Of
highly productive land that causes all
real estate values in this section to be
high as compared with prices in most
farming lands abroad. 1t is here that
agriculture reaches the high level indi-
Gated by President HILL where an acre
of ground is ample for the support of
two or more persons
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-07
A POOR EXCUSE

When President Hadley of Yale was
professor of political science there, a
student once offered him poor excuse
for a bad examination paper.
Professor Hadley listened to the ex .
grim smile:
'rhat excuse is about as poor as the
one a criminal lawyer offered for his
client In case that had gone hard
with him.
"tGentlemen OF the jury cried this
lawyer eloquently remember that my
client is hard Of hearing. and that
peals TO him IN vain.'
It's a pity Artemus Ward couldn't
have lived to see his vindication.