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TRIP OF A DRYDOcK.
THRILLING EXPERIENCES oF
THE DEWEY"
Euge Steel Tank Being Towed to Phil
ippines Meets Storms and Eeavy
Seas and Drifts Helpless for
Many Days.

When the voyage of the drydock
Dewey is completed and she is safe in
the harbor OF Manila, the story of her
adventures across the Atlantic, through
the sditerranean, the Suez canal, and
down through the Red sea and the IN
dian ocean, will be one of the most in
terestfng and thrilling ever read. That
is, if the latter part of the journey is as
exciting as has been the trip to the
Canary islands, a point reached only
after fight against wind and wave and
storm Of nearly two months.
No one, not even the personnel of the
towing fleet, anticipated the unusual
length of the voyage across the Atlantic.
Even the northeast trade wind seemed
to have come further northward than
usual at this time of the year to make
the voyage more of a struggle Trials
the towing ships and drydock have had
plenty. Stormy days with gales and
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RUSSIAN RAILWAY UNION.
Agitation Increases Among the En-
ployes of Railroads.

Agitation Increases Among the EN-
ployes of Railroads.
ST. Petersburg, April 1.-THE min
istry of the interior during the last
few days has received reports of in
creasing agitation among railway en-
ployes. 1t is noticeable that the ques-
tions of the formation of a new or
ganization and the summoning of a
congress of delegates to a new rail-
way union are more frequently dis
cussed. The railway administration
consequently have been ordered to
watch that such agitation does not
end in the formation of a new rail-
way union.
The administration of the Nicholas
railway has ordered its employees to
sign an agreement not to participate
in meetings.
Large numbers of reserves of the
railway Lattalion have been sent to
the Caucasus to replace the railway
strikers.
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Controlling Mites and Lice.

I have in years past had my share
of troubles with lice and mites. but
experience has taught me that only
by proper methods used at the proper
time can they be held in check. Keep
fighting them is the way have always
found an efficient remedy. Twice a
year I thoroughly renovate my homes,
nest boxes and all, give everything a
thorough coat of good whitewash, in
which l place little coal oil and car
bolic acid. do this early IN the spring
before the birds get ready to incu-
bate, hence am not troubled with
the mites on the birds during the
Matching season. At all times of the
year I take pains to keep my houses
clean. Dropping boards are cleaned
thoroughly every week, and a good
lice paint used on them about every
two weeks. If there are any lice and
mites around l see no signs of them
when this method is used. 1t is by
letting them get good start on you
that makes them hard to control They
will soon own the place unless you
begin right and keep it up.-R. T.
Megibben, Sullivan Co, Indiana
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idle awaiting developments. In con.
nection with the conference George
F. Baer, chairman of the mine owners
subcommittee. made public a letter
sent to the committee by the inde-
pendent operators in which they gave
their views and express their firm
conviction that any effort to arbitrate
with the mine workers will be an
unjusti1abIe surrender to anarchy and
mob violence.
The letter came as a great surprise
to the miners, and did not tend to
bring the contending parties closer to-
gether
Notwithstanding the fact that both
parties to the controversy are now
committed to arbitration, they are
still far apart, but confidence is ex-
pressed on all sides that peaceful
settlement will be brought about. The
old tribunal will be accepted by
President Mitchell if he can induce
the coal companies to widen the
scope of the submission to be made.
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THE ENTIRE REGION is NOW a
LONELY WASTE.
HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE DEAD.
Bodies Found in Ruins Of Abandoned
cities-Ashes Still FaII-kins Vic
tor Emmanuel Reveals New TRACE
diA.

Naples. April 14.-While the news
from Mount Vesuvius is reassuring.
the conditions here in Naples are such
as make it difficult to realize that con-
dittons are actually better. The wind
is blowing from the volcano in the
direction of Naples, carrying the ashes
in this direction. Toward evening the
fail Of ashes and cinders here was
worse than at any time since the err
upton began.
The scenic effects vary from hour to
hour. Now in the north the sky is
chocolate colored, lowering and heavy,
under which men and women with
their hair and clothing covered with
ashes move about like gray ghosts.
Fort San Martino, as it towers above
the town, can only just be seen, while
,eastle Dell Ovo is boldly marked in
the light, seeming like silver against
the brown sky. To the south, beyond
the smoke zone, lies smiling, sunny
Posilipo and its peninsula. while far
away glistens the sea, deep blue, on
which the islands seem to float in the
glow of the setting sun. Adding to
the strange picture, one of the French
Pmen of war which arrived in the bay
sof Naples is so placed as to be half in
Sthe glow and half obscuFed by the
belt of falling ashes. From the obser-
vatory of Mount Vesuvius, where Di-
rector Mattecci is continuing his work
on behalf of science and humanity, the
scene is one of great impressiveness
To reach the observatory one must
walk for miles over hardened but hot
lava covered with sand until he comes
to point whence nothing can be seen
but vast gray reaches. sometimes fiat
and sometimes gathered into huge
mounds which take on semblances of
human faces. Above the heavens are
gray like the earth beneath and seem
just as hard and immovable. In all
this lonely waste there is no sign of
life OF vegetation and no sound is
heard except the low mutterings of
the volcano. One seems almost i'm
PEELED to scream aloud to break the
horrible stiffness of land seemingly
Forgotten. both by God and man.
Every day that passes gives new
,evidence of the magnitude of the
catastrophe. The visit of King Vic
yor Emmanuel to Ottanjano revealed
new tragedies. At a certain point
his majesty was obliged TO abandon
his motor car and went forward on
horseback amid constant danger, his
horse floundering through four feet of
ashes. stumbling into holes. blinded by
the fall OF large cinders and target
for falling basaltic masses. In the
presence of the king 129 more bodies
were extricated from the ruins, while
ashes and red sand were yet falling
as though determined not to relin-
quish their victims. The dead at
Ottajano are said to number $50.
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crop-Round EowIa.

Every farmer is familiar with what
is called "crop-bound" in fowls. The
crop becomes packed with food that
has ceased to pass into the gizzard of
the bird. If the contents of the crop
consist of grain only, the fowl should
be kept from food for some days In
addition, the crop should be manipu-
lated with the hands. This will tend
to loosen the grain and start its pass
age into the gizzard.
Sometimes the condition is caused
by feeding cut hay, dried alfalfa or
clover, which have packed at the point
where the food should pass out of
the crop. One poultry raiser, IN cases
Of this kind, pours sweet oil down the
throat of the bird, and this loosens
up the mass. In bad cases he opens
the crop by cutting and removes the
collected food. afterward sewing up
the crop. He says that this does not
appear TO cause the bird much pain.
After this is done the bird should be
fed only milk or other light food for
some days.
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PROSECUTE PACKERS
ACTION TO BE RENEWED

ments before the next federal grand
jury.
The government agents are now at
work securing information which is
to be used as basis of complaint be-
fore the grand jury next month. This
evidence, it is said, will sustain a
charge by the government that the
packers as individuals have violated
the injunction of Judge Grosscup. Sey-
eral railroad officials have responded
to questions put to them by govern
ment agents and the information re-
ceived from the railroad men togeth-
er with the Information volunteered
by former and present employees of
the packers was declared by one of
the federal officers to be sufficient to
warrant the return of indictments
against certain of the packers.
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San Francisco. April 12-Through
the prompt action of Acting Customs
Collector William B. Hamilton, fifty
two packages of goods landed from
the United States battleship Oregon
to be transported to the east, were
seized while in transit in custody of
Wells, Fargo & Co. A partial exam
ination was made by Appraiser Dare,
sufficient to show that the rumor Of
smuggling was altogether unfounded.
There were dress suit cases, apple
boxes. small telescopes and other
packages Of like size. and they were
found to contain souvenirs of the voy-
age addressed to the wives, sisters
and daughters and friends of the Off
GERS and crew of tee Oregon, all Of
them residing in the east. 1t is ex-
pected that the secretary of the treas
,ury, when put in possession of the
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Chicago, April 12.-The Chronicle
says:
President Roosevelt has once more
taken a personal hand in the prose
cution of the packers, and the result
is apparent in resumption of activ-
ity on the part of the local federal
officials.
1t has been announced that the ef-
fort to punish the packers as indi-
viduals is to be renewed with promp-
titude and vigor
This is under direct instructions to
District Attorney Harrison from the
president and Attorney General
Moody Attorney Morrison has been
directed to proceed against the pack
ers under the Injunction of Judge
Grosscup of the United States circuit
court and also to seek new indict-
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Keeping the Horns Off.

For the past fifteen years we have
had no mature animals on
the place with horns. We
maintain our herd OF COWS
very largely by raising heifer calves
and with these we make it a univer-
sal practice to prevent the growth of
horns with caustic potash. This is
done usually before the calf is three
weeks old and do not recall now that
we have had single failure If at
any time mature cows are bought into
the herd, we remove the horns at the
first convenient opportunity. We have
an Ayrshire COW that is dehorned and
an Ayrshire heifer that will be de-
horned soon. The practice of dehorn-
ing is very general among the dairy
men Of this state.-H H Wing, Pro
fessor of Animal Husbandry, Cornell
University.
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Cooperation in creameries.

Fortunately farmers are learning to
cooperate, as is shown by the thou
sands OF cooperative creamer-
les that have been started IN
the west and northwest. But
we need something more than
the cooperation of farmers in
single creameries; we need the coop
Grafton of the creameries themselves,
which will divide up the territory in
such way that as little work as pos
sible will be required to gather the.
milk from any one section. Where
creameries are numerous we believe.
it would be good plan to have county
organization of creameries, through
which arrangements could be made
for the gathering of the milk and the
selling of the finished product. In
stead Of 2 single man being sent from
each creamery to negotiate for the
sale of creamery products, one man
could represent a number of cream
cries in the same locality.
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SUES The new YORK LIFE:
SHOULD RETURN PREMIUMS

Cincinnati, O., April 12.-As re-
suit of the recent insurance develop
ments three suits of an unusual char
acter were filed here by David Beaum-
CART against the New York Life In
surance company. The suits are all
for the recovery of premiums paid on
lapsed policies. The basic allegation
is fraud upon policy-holders," and
carries the various allegations that
the officers of the company paid ex-
cessive salaries, squandered large
sums of the policy-holders' money in
illegal expenses, rebates, briberies,
contributions to political campaigns,
and that the trustees invested large
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Keeping up the Herd.

Our most successful dairymen
seem to find that they get
best results from the raising
of heifers to replace the older ami
mails in their herds. That is, by the
use of pure bred sires OF some of the
recognized dairy breeds, on grade
cows. we have very few herds of
pure bred dairy cows kept mainly for
milk, cream and butter production.
Such herds are kept principally for
the sale OF breeding stock. In my
opinion the Improvement OF dairy
herds, under our conditions, can best
be effected by the use of pure bred
sires, with careful selection based on
the showing of the scales and the
Babcock test.-F. L. Kent, Dairy In
strucsor, Oregon Agricultural College.
Free press., 1906-04-21

Location OF Barn and Care of Yard.
In the production of clean milk, no
one thing is of more Importance than
keeping the cows out of the mud
Many yards into which dairy COWS are
turned each day for their drink and
exercise are knee-deep with mud and
manure during the winter and sprinS,
if not nearly the entire year. In sum
mer when the COWS are on pasture,
they would keep comparatively clean
were they not obliged to wade through
a filthy yard in going to the stable.
In locating a dairy barn care should
be taken to have a gentle slope from
the barn in at least one direction af-
fording good natural drainage for both
barn and yard. If the barn Is ~
ready built and poorly located, drain
age and grading viii do much to rem
edy the evil. In most cases it would
take but small amount of labor with
plow and scraper, when the ground is
in suitable condition to handle, to
give the surface of the yard slope
from the barn sufficient to carry OH
the surface water Even if dirt has
to be hauled in from outside the yard
to accomplish this, it will not be ex-,
pensive. Tile drainage alone under
a yard is not sufficient, as the tramp
ing of the cattle soon puddles the sur
face, preventing the water from pass
ing down to the tile.
After the grading is done, the yard
should be covered with gravel or Gin
ders. By putting the coarser in the
bottom and the finer on top, a good
hard yard can be obtained and at
comparatively small expense, where
material of this kind is available. II
this cannot all be done. in one year
it is of the utmost Importance that
beginning be made by grading and
graveling a portion of the yard next
the barn. so that the COWS may have
some place on which to, get out of
the mud and filth. BY grading a part
of the yard each year and applying
thick coat of gravel or cinders tc the
graded part, the entire yard will, in a
few years, .be in good condition. When
gravel does not contain enough clay
to pack hard, small amount of clay
should be mixed with the top layer.
1t will then form a firm surface.
A portion OF the yard should be
bedded, thus affording the COWS a
ant days If,straw is scarce, the clean
est of the soiled bedding from the
stable will answer this purpose. When
| the straw and manure on this bedded
| portion of the yard become too deep
and soft, it should be. hauled into the
field and the bedding commenced
again on the solid yard.
1t is advisable to haul the manure
directly to the field from the barn
but if this is not feasible, it should
be removed at least 100 feet from the
barn. In no case should it be allowed
to accumulate against or near the
dairy barn, and no swine pen should
be nearer than 200 feet on account OF
the odors being readily absorbed BY
the milk. w. j. Fraser.
University of Illinois.
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MONUMENT TO GEN. SHERIDAN.
Harry Bone Wants 1t Erected on Sum-
NIT of Mount Jesus.

Topeka. April 1O.-H. ]. Bone, Uni
ted States district attorney, is the
leader in a movement which has as
it's object the creation of a monument
to General Phil Sheridan at Ashland,
Clark county. Mr.. Bone says that the
place is one of the most historic in
the country, as it was there that the
courier with the telegram from Presi-
dent Grant promoting Sheridan to be
lieutenant general of the army found
the general and his troops.
THE early Kansas pioneers" said
Mr.. Bone, hold in very high esteem
the memory of General Sheridan He
drove the Indians from the state in
1868 and 1869. and made it possible
for the settlers to live in security
here. The people out our way are
especially fond of the former COM
mander of the army and they think
that the proper place for the state to
erect a monument to his memory
would be in the place where he re-
ceived the courier with the telegram
from the president"
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GOT ANOTHER HARD JOLT.

Washington. April IL. The Chi
cago street railway case involving the
rights of the city of Chicago to COM
pei the street railway company of
that city to remove or lower its fun
Nnel under the Chicago river at Van
Buren street. was decided by the SUI
prcme court of the United States
against the company on the ground
that the change is an exercise of gov
Ornamental authority in the interests
OF the common welfare. The chief
Justice and Justices Brewer, White
Ackenna dissentcd.
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sums in syndicate operations for ex-
plotting stocks and bonds and otfser
securities for their own profit and
not to the advantage of the policy
holders. There is the additional allie
cation of Misrepresentation, the
charge being that while these things
complained of were being done, it
was represented that everything was
being done for the benefit of the pol
icy-holders. The plaintiff says he was
not aware OF these things when he in
sured or he would never have taken
the policies. The policies were for
$4,000 and recovery OF s6,2SO in
premiums and interest is sought.
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TROOPS NEARLY EQUIPPED.
New Springfield Rifle is Issued to the
Arnv

Washington. April 1G.-The war de-
partment has about completed the is
sue of new rifles to the troops in the
United States. This marks the pass
ing of carbines. so long n weapon of
the cavalry branch of the service
Both infantry and cavalry are now
being supplied with the same model
of rifle. modification of the model of
1908. This is about G inches longer
than the carbine now being discarded
by the cavalry. For the present the
rifles are being used with the rod
bayonet but these later viii be call
ed in when the new bayonet recent
" decided upon will be substituted
The issue to the troops in the Philip
pines will follow and when that has
been done soldiers of the United
States army will be armed alike.
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San Francisco, April 12.-Fifty mu-
tinous Porto Ricans. members of the
fishing crew of the ship Indiana now
Tying at the Harrison street wharf,
ready to depart for the north, walked
OF that vessel in a body. They gave
battle 20 the six armed guards on
watch at the dock. but finally were
oyerpowered with the aid of the ships
officers.
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DEATH RATE OF NEGROES.
Race Is Said to Be Losing Ground
in the South.

Washington, April 11.-Dr- Harris,
professor of medicine in the Univer-
sity of Alabama, talked to The presi-
dent about the ravages Of consump-
ton among the negroes of the south.
He expressed the fear-and he added
that his opinion was concurred in by
the medical fraternity generally in the
south-that the negro race was like
ly to become extinct in this country
through the ravages of disease, espe-
clally consumption. Statistics show
cd. he declared, that the death rate
among the members of the negro
race in America was greater than tho
birth rate.
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pistrIct pav in the House.

Washington. April IL. = This was
district day in the house and that body
resolved itself into a common coun-
ell for the purpose of making laws
for the District of Columbia. Gener-
al interest was shown in the bills re-
qniring nonresident pupils to pay
tuition and regulating the employ
ment of child labor.
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More sheep Wanted.

Sheep are doubly VARIABLE
for man. as they produce
both wool and meat In some
countries they also are the milk pro-
dncers. Wool clothing is much more
healthfuI than cotton. as 1t protects
the body from the changes of tempera-
ture which many times prove fatal.
Wool does not burn rapidly. While
cotton is very inhammable Many 3
person that has been burned to death
when their clothing has taken FIRE.
would have been saved If their cloth
ing had been Of wool
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TROOPS SUFFER MALARIA.
Water Supply at stoIsenberg, p. l. Ia
impure.

Manila. April 11.-Among the 1900
emergency troops in the eantonment
of Stotsenberg, 103 are suffering from
malaria and 1T from other diseases.
There is an inadequate supply of pure
water, the portion available being i'm
pure. The heat is excessive there and
there are insufficient barracks. Off.
GERS and men with families are quar-
tered in tents. The First infantry has
arrived here and is due in Stotsen.
berg, but is being held in Manila in
rented quarters on account of the IN.
healthful conditions at -Stotsenberg.
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in the Coal District.

Fort Smith. Ark. April 11.-Frank-
lin Bache. at the head of the Midland
Valley coal industry, and a factor in
the coal situation here. said that no
arrangements have been made by the
operators Of this section to sign the
scale
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TMo stnients DROWNED

Toronto. Ontario. April II = Two
three-year art students of Trinity uni
versity-A- G. Moorehouse. of this
city, and W. ". Hart. of Guelph, Ont.
were drowned near Mimico point.
Free press., 1906-04-21

King Edward and Queen Alexan-
dra arrived at Corfu, Greece. on board
the royal yacht Victoria and Albert.
and were welcomed by King George
of Greece and the Prince and Princess
OF Wales. who reached Corfu from
Egypt April g.
The sea-going steamers Grand Lake.
with $4,000 seals, Kite, with 5000
Havana. with 1900. Ranger, with
$4,000, and Erik, with I7.0O0. arrived
at St Johns. N F. Reports from four.
teen ships stin out indicate that they
are stiu securing good catches
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If you have an incubator put in It
only eggs that are free from
ice When the chicks come,
put them in a brooder that is free
from lice. When the birds grow large
enough to be put into pen by them
selves. have that pen perfectly free
from Ice. In that way the flock VIII
be kept free from lice and mites, and
much trouble win be saved.
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WILL PROTECT THE AGENT.
Cavalry to Sc Sent to UmatiIIa Indian
Agency in OREGON.

Washington, April H. = At the in
stance Of the department of the in
terror the war department has taken
steps to send whatever military force
may be necessary to protect the In
dian agent, Major o. C. Edwards, on
the UmatilIa agency in Oregon from
Indians who have threatened to do
him bodily harm. Orders were sent
to Brigadier General Constant VIII
hams. In command at Vancouver bar
racks. to send one or two troops of
cavalry from the agency at WalIa
WaIIa.
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Washington, April IL Finger
prints are hereafter TO be used by the
war department in identifying de
sertcrs. An order has been issued
providing for the taking OF prints Of
the fingers Of ali men entering the
service
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Montana Ranch Sold.

Dickinson. Mont.s April II. = The
famous III. r." ranch property has
been sold for 100000 to Fred Pabst,
the millionaire brewer of Milwaukee.
who has lately been accused Of re-
celving rebates from the railroads
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Learn 70 graft your own trees.