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The Florida agriculturist., 1906-03-28
Unjust Discrimination.

The question of freight rates will
not down until it is settled justly.
We have read the defence. of one
of the officers of the East Coast r. R.,
as published in the newspapers and
must say that it is very lame We
cannot conceive of anything that
would justify railroad in making
such a difference i'm rates as is made
on shipments of pineapples from Cuba
over these made from points on the
East Coast
1t reminds us of the objections that
the New England papers are making
to the proposed railroad rate bill.
They say that if it becomes a law
the roads will not be allowed to make
the same discrimination i'm favor of
New England manufacturers that
they do now, and then the business
will be transferred to the Southern
states where they are so much nearer
to the source of supplies that they will
get much lower rates of transportation,
and the New England factories can no
longer hold their trade. We believe in
equal freight rates for equal distances.
If any business cannot be carried on at
any location and pay fair freight
rate, then it is time to give it up and
try some other line. The exact figures
of the difference in rates is given in
an article which you will find else
where. this week.
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-03-28
WEDNESDAY, MARCH %, 1906.
The Florida State Horticultural
Society.
Society.

Are you making your plans to be
present at the nineteenth annual
meeting of this society, which will be
held i'm Jacksonville, early in May?
\ full attendance of all members is
always desired, and we hope that
each of you will bring one or more
new members with you. You can as
sure each one whom you ask to join,
that they will not regret it. That the
reports are worth the price of member
ship, as books of reference, and the
meetings themselves have always been
so interesting and instructive that we
do not think that any one who has
attended one of these meetings has
ever regretted the time lost or the
money expended in making the trip.
We hope to be able to report the
largest attendance that has ever been
known. Come, and come prepared to
do your share towards making it a
pleasant and profitable meeting.
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-03-28
The Torrens System.

We are anxious that this system
should be adopted by the legislature
of this state. 1t would effect a great
who buys or sells real-estate. No one
can possibly object to it except the
Abstract men, the clerks who record
titles and the lawyers who make a
profit both from looking up titles and
from the litigation that arises from
disputed ownership.
AS we believe in the greatest good
for the greatest number, we hope that
the next legislature will not overlook
this important reform.
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-03-28

good as the liquid spray, but that it
is useless and great waste of money.
This is the substance of a report
made by Prof. c. s. Crandall, i'm Illi-
nOis. as reported by Farm and Fire
side. The professor was very empha-
tic in his statements and while ack-
nOwledging that it was less expense
to use the dust spray method, he stated
most positively that it was worthless
as Il means of combating insects and
that money so spent was simply vast
ed
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-03-28
TO CORRESPONDENTS.

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We cannot promise to return rejected manu-
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All communications for intended publication
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Money should be sent by Draft, Postofice
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sponsible in case of loss. When personal
checks used. exchange must be added.
Only 1 and cent stamps taken when change
cannot be had.
To insure insertion, all advertisements for
this paper. must be received by 10 o'clock
Monday morning of each week.
Subscribers when writing to have the ad-
dress of their paper changed MUST give the
old as we'll as the new address.
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-03-28
Draining The Everglades.

We quote. this week, another ar
argues the impOssibility of carrying
this scheme to a successful termina-
ton. There are certainly some very
grave reasons against the spending of
the large sums of money necessary.
Oh an enterprise Of uncertain utility.
1t is only fair. however. to say that
Gov. BrOward has been making
speeches in answer to the charge that
we have more land than we can use
and therefore do not need the ever
glades. He says that very little of
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-03-28
Dust Spray.

y few years ago the idea was in
trOduced to the public that a dust
spray was just as effective as liquid
spray in fighting insect enemies of
the Orchardist and orange grower
The idea at once became quite pOpu-
lar and still has its advocates. Scien-
tific investigation, however. has shown
that the dust spray is not only not so
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-03-28
The Free Seed Humbug.

We have been requested to say
something about the free distribution
of seed by the government We do not
think that we can improve upon what
we wrote about it. for the paper of
December %. which was as follows:
The annual distribution of free seeds
from the Department of Agriculture
through the Senators and members
of the House of Representatives has
begun. We have seen some of the
packages sent to persons i'm this state.
They contain ) packets of the most
common varieties. such as beet.
Georgia cOllard. lettuce. yellow Dan
vers onion, and Florida FavOrite
watermelon. The packets are no
larger than the usual , cent packet.
for sale at any seed store and the
varieties are the most common on the
list. Probably not one packet in a
hundred is ever planted. Yet Congress-
of the country with a quarters worth
of ordinary garden seeds. 1t would
be just as reasonable for them to give
the voters each new hat or new
pair of shoes. OF course it would cost
more, and the shoe dealers and hat
ters would object but what of that?
the seedsmen also object but no one
pays any attention to them.
The original idea in starting the
seed distribution was good one. that
was to find and introduce new and
valuable species that are not in cult
walton in this country. A little of
this is still being done and in this
way some very useful plants have
been brought into general cultivation
The agricultural press has been
fighting this outrageous fraud for
many years. but so far with but little
success. SO long as the voters accept
these seeds without protest. just so
long will the Congressman continue
to send them out.
We may add that the committee
which had the appropriation I'm charge
has voted to strike out the item for
free seeds. OF course this does not
settle the matter as the item may be
restored when it comes up before the
House.
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-03-28

the land now open to cultivation is
suitable for the cultivation of sugar
cane That the everglades contain
thousands of acres of the best sugar
land in this country and that drain
be source of great revenue to the
state
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-03-28
ADVERTISING RATES.

Rates for advertising furnished applica-
ton by letter or in person.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1906-02-14
Child Instantly Killed

Vancouver, FEB. l4.-Caught in the
wheels of the wagon of his uncle,
Train Blair, Loren Blair, aged s years,
was suddenly killed within a few
yards of his uncle's door.
Train Blair, coming into town
with load of gravel, stopped be-
fore the..gate of the child's home for
a few minutes chat with his brother.
Matt Blair. In the meantime the boy,
in attempting to climb over the wheel
of the wagon, became entangled in
the same. and at the sudden move.
ment of the team, was crushed to
death almost instantly The wheel
rolled over his body, injurlng stom.
aoh, chest and skull.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1906-02-14
new PHONE SYSTEMS
THROUGHOUT COUNTRY
Two New Lines to Quincy-.New Com
pany to Buy Pacific States Com.
panys Holdings in Central Wash
inqton..Better Service Promised.

Many changes are now taking place
throughout the central part of the
state in regard to the telephone service
and by the end of the spmmer there
will be in this part of Washington not
only better service on the old lines,
but there will also be number of
new lines in operation.
The Quincy country, which has
heretofore been without a telephone
service, will have two new lines. The
Pacific States, Telephone and Telegraph
company is about ready to begin string
lag wires between Wenatchee and
Quincy. W. H. Babcock, the big land
holder of Douglas and Chelan
counties, is also about ready to give to
Quincy local telephone system. This
will connect with the one now in use
between Quincy and the fBabcock
ranch .on :the Columbia river. The
Babcock system will be connected with
the Farmers telephone system Of We
natchee, thus affording service over
the rural system from practically
every ranch between Quincy and Leav-
enworth.
Things are also doing in telephone
matters in the Okanogan. Chas. Herr
mann. of Conconully, was in the city
yesterday and in All interview said:
''A a company is now being formed to
purchase from the Pacific states Tele-
phone and Telegraph company their
entire system in that part of the state.
The leading stockholders of the COM
pany are: 6. J. Dillabaugh. William
Yeajln, Stickles, Fairweather, Herr
mann and others. The system to be
purchased now extends from Pateros
to Twisp and from Pateros to Bridge
port, Brester and Oroville. Thls sys
tenn will be supplemented by several
new branch lines. The present sy stem
in Ferry county will be taken over by
the new company and new line will
be built from Riverside to Wauconda.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1906-02-14
NO CONCESSIONS
TO COAL MINERS

New York, Feb. 14.-The coal mine
operators have come to full under
standing and have agreed as to the gen.
eral policy they will pursue at the con-
ference with the committee of the
mine workers union to be held here
Thursday night The presidents of
the coal carrying roads are unwilling
to discuss for publication the questions
at issue between themselves and the
United Mine Workers prior to their
meeting with Mr.. Mitchell and bis as.
sistants, but their position, ELECTED
by careful canvass, is, as one president
put it, such that the miners will have
to strike or back down.
I'VE do not propose, he said, "to
accede to their demands in any way,
and don't see what else theycan do but
strike.''
1t is stated that there are 5000, 900
tons of coal already mined which
might serve as reserve, not 0,000,-
900 tons. as has been stated. If a
strike comes in March, no serious hard
ship to the public will ensue; but the
operators say strike in November
would be another matter.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1906-02-14
H0CH AND HIS WIFE
TO Die TOGETHER

Chicago, Feb. 14.-Johann Hoch.
the wife murderer and bluebeard,
who must die on the gallows at noon,
February 20, verified the report pub
lished in che American several days
ago that he had entered suicide pact
with his last wife, Emily Fischer
aoch.
"Yes, it is true chat my wife is 60
ing to commit suicide if they hang
me-" Hoch admitted.
"Why should she wish to live it L
die? Doesn't she love me, and didn't
the police make hei furnish the evid-
ence that convicted me. Several day s
ago my wife said to me, johann,
if you have to die, I might as we'll
die too,'
81 advised her against suicide, but
think my wife will not be alive by the
day after I am hanged.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1906-02-14
Copper War Ended

Butte. Mont, Feb. IA. G. Car
son, representing Thomas F. Cole, to-.
day took possession of all the mines
and mining property OF Heinze and
the United Copper company in Silver
Bow county, which have been in
litigation between HeInze and the
Amalgamated.
This settles all disputes and enables
the Amalgamated and the newcomers
of the Heinze properties to operate
everything OF their own and also re-
leases valuable or bodies owned by
each.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1906-02-14

Chicago, Feb. 14.-Fifteen men
were arrested today in connection with
the circulation of forged pay checks
of the Illinois Steel company last Sat.
urday. Seven of the snpects were re-
leaed. but eight of them will be held
pending further investigation.
The exact amount of money ecured
by the forgers will not be known until
all the pay checks have been turned in
at the company Office. Up to tie
present time so forged checks have
been found, ranging all the way from
$25 to $3.50. The officials of the Steel
company now believe that at least
$15, 1000. was lost.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1906-02-14
COUNCIL VOTES TO
SQUARE CORNERS
Measure Providing for the Squaring
of the Corners Of Wenatchee and
Orondo Avenues Is Carried by
Unanimous Vote of the City Fathers

At the regular meeting of the city
council last evening the question OF
squaring the corners of Wenatchee
and Orondo avenues was brought up
and passed upon favorably. The land
vacated at the5 street corners will be
donatedsto the owners of the adjoin-
ing property on:i condition that sub:
stantial buildings be erected within a
short time and the city is freed from
liability in damage suits incurred.
The question WAS brought up few
weeks ago and the council then gave
the usual 20 days notice in whicn pro.
perty owners could file objections.
The 20 days expired yesterday and as
there was no serious objection to por-
posed change the council last night
after short discussion voted unaui-
mously in favor OF tue squaring of the
corners.
The proposition OF the city buying
the fair grounds for park which was
made to the council few weeks ago
was not brought up last night.
The new office of plumbing and
sewer inspector was created by the
council. The new official will inspect
all plumbing and will have the power
to pass upon all disputes and repairs
on sewer AND plumbing work.
The claim of James GeaIy for $4,000
damages for injuries incurred by fall
on the sidewalk of this city, was re-
ferred to the city attorney and it was
put in such a way that the council
had no power to act in the matter.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1906-02-14
HEE, WASHINGTON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY IA, 1906

number Of papers being read by per.
sons of national renown, and there will
be interesting discussions by skilled
apiarists. Among the speakers will be
A. H. Henry and,. Granville Lowther.
Last year the Yakima valley mar.
keted more honey than Colorado, and
those who placed the best articles on
the market received III Montana and
idaho % cents pound. The evening
SESSIONS of the association will be en-
livened by music and stereoptioan
views.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1906-02-14
No Doctor for Burned Girl

Waukegan, ILL.,, Feb. 14.--Estella
Smith, principal of one of the Zion
schools. died this morning as the re-.
suit of accidental burns, while the
elders prayed for her recovery.
Following Dowie's creed, no physi.
cian was called.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1906-02-14
Bee Keepers Meet

North Yakima, Feb. 14.-The Wash
ington State Beekeepers' association
will hold its annual meeting in the
old Methodist church for three days,
commencing Thursday. An elabol.
ate program will be carried out, a
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1906-02-14
Kings Body Lies in State

Copenhagen, Feb. liking Chris.
tian's body was exposed to view in
the Christianbory Palace church today
1t will lie in state three days and be
taken, Friday, to Roskilde and buried
Sunday.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1906-02-14

Augusta, Ga, Feb. 14.-John D.
Rockefeller, who has been missing 30
far as the public is concerned, since
December, has engaged rooms at a
hotel in this city. He will arrive here
tomorrow.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1906-02-14
Killed While Asleep

New York, Feb. l4.-At least three
lives are belived to have been lost this
morning, when a railroad freight barge
in the river was rammed by the tug
Ganego.
The barge broke into two sections,
one Of which sank. The crew was ac-
customed to sleeping aboard the
barge.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-06-13

Discuss Means to Better leaning
Conditions.
WANT IMPROVED DELIVERY
Convention Decides to Appeal to the
/, Companies For Cooperation in
an Effort to Bring About
Quicker Delivery.

NEW YORK, June l2.-About l5C
delegates attended the annual convention
Of the Team Owners Association OF
America. which began yesterday.
The present convention is the most
important the association has yet held
as the transportation companies have
begun to recognize the necessity OF bet
ter facilities for loading trucks at ter
minals and an appeal viii likely be made
to the companies for cooperation in an
effort to bring about more rapid deliv'
cries of merchandise.
President MCGOWAN of the Board OF
Aldermen made speech of welcome and
the rest of, the forenoon session was
taken up chiefly by the reports of the
officers and the appointment of conf
mittees.
Another session was held in the after
noon at which "The Commercial Auto,
mobile in Theory" was discussed.
George W. Tilton, Chief Engineer OF
Highways in the Borough of Brooklyn
spoke on good streets and discussed the
merits of asphalt, the oblong granite
block and the wooden block.
The relations between the team owners
and their employees viii be discussed to-
day.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-06-13

ST. PETERSBURG, June II, A
tempest Is brewing in the lower house OF
parliament aud Il will break when the
military procurator, PayloH, takes the
rostrum ON Thursday to give War Min
lister Rudigers an explanation OF the
executions in the Baltic provinces. II
il claimed evidence Is secured, showing
an order was issued to stop the execution
of eight men put TO death on May 20.
but the order was deliberately delayed
by Payloir until after. the execution
The socialist group intends to make a
stormy demonstration and even the con
servativc members Of the constitutional
democratic party are enraged at wha,
they term n new proof OF governmental
duplicity.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-06-13
COMPLETES CONSIDERATION.

WASHINGTON, June IL. THE house
comittee late completed It's tentative
consideration OF the Beyeridge meat In"
spection amendment The question Of
fees was not reached. The only state
ment made by the committee was that
the country could be assured that the
result OF its deliberations would be a
meat inspection law which will suit
the most radical democrats In that dirsc.
ton. Final conclusions 80 far "A the
committee is concerned will b. reached
tomorrow and the amendment will be
reported to the house as part OF the
agricultural bill on Thursday.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-06-13
TO REMOVE COURT HOUSE.

ABERDEEN. Wash, June ia Wig.
orous campaign for the removal OF the
court house from Montesano to a site
between Aberdeen and Hoquiam will be
inaugrlrated Friday night at a mass
meeting to be held here. The principal
object OF the meeting is to arouse en-
thusiasm and TO appoint a committee to
conduct the campaign.
The scheme will encounter active op-
position from the east end OF the county,
as Montesano is much more convenient
for the residents there. Montesanc, too,
will use every effort to prevent the re-
moyal. But as the western part OF the
county has much the largest proportion
of the population, and as Hoquiam and
Aberdeen are by far the largest towns in
the entire county, there Is little doubt
but that the plans for removal will
carry.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-06-13
A Bad Mix-up.-A rafting runaway

A Bad Mix-up.-A rafting runaway
occurred yesterday morning on Seven
teenth street. One of the milk driving
wagons of F. & X. johnson was being
driven out of Irving avenue into Sew
enteenth, and as the team rounded on to
a hillside, coming down, the neck
yoke slipped off the tongue end, and the
team took fright at once and Lit out
The driver who was riding on the side
step, dropped off, and the outfit plunged
headlong down the steep thoroughfare'
and there is no telling the sum of dam
age that might have ensued, had they
not run foul of wood-pile in front OF
William Boch's place. Here the momen-
tum of the outfit was lost in general
collapse, of team and wagon and for a
few moments there was a genuine and
inextricable confusion of woodwork and
horse flesh, and it became necessary to
cut the harness into ribbons to extricate
the animals. Luckily there was no SER
ious damage done, though the scattered
milk.cans (which we're mainly empty
might have indicated as much to the
immense throng that gathered to witness
the run.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-06-13
Annapolis Cadets Welcome the
Visiting Board.
PAUL JONES IS HoNoRED
Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte Urges
Middies to Emulate Great Ad-
miral-Coneert is rendered
to the Visitors.

ANNAPOLIS, Md, June ls.-The
board Of visitors to the naval academy
were officially received the first day Of
the annual examination on the academy
grounds with the usual sslutes and mill
tary honors and afterward reviewed the
corps of Midshipmen. Following the re-
view the portrait of John Paul Jones
painted by Mrs. Cecilia Beaux. was pre-
sented to the academy by Colonel LAUGH
heimer Of the marine corps. on behalf Of
the graduating class. Secretary of the
Navy Charles j. Bonaparte accepted the
gift for the navy in brief address in
the course of which he said:
aJohn Paul Jones was. first of all, a
fighting man; and in this he was emi'
nently successful. He did not win high
honors along any other line. The honor
which is now being paid his memory In
dicates. think. the country's apprecia'
ton of fighting qualities, and that II
will appreciate them.
"The American people must keep the
standard of the fighters as high as that
which any race can show. To get such
men. it must treat them as such men
ought to be treated. You. gentlemen, in
thus reminding us of the needs Of our
first sea warrior have aided to make sure
that we have a navy able to defend q
great country and a country worthy to
be guarded by great navy"
In the afternoon there was meeting
of the board OF visitors attended by
the following members: United States
Senators Dick of Ohio; Alexander NJ
Patterson of Colorado; Representatives
3. /. lLiley of Connecticut; Ernest W.
isoberts of Massachusetts; A. W. Gregg
Vt Texas; F. NJ. Shales of North Caro-
ina; F. Murphy of New Jersey; c. F.
Brooker of Connecticut; Brigadier.
General C. A. Woodruff, California; G. P
Blow illinois; Strathsarn Hondrie, Mich
igan; Frank ]. Sprague, New York.
In the evening concert was given in
honor of the board of visitors.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-06-13

& Columbia River Railroad Company is
still lamenting the shortage of freight
cars, as there is immediate demand for
four hundred to move waiting mill
stuffs along the line. And, even with
that demand filled there would be a
steady use for forty per day to keep
down any congestion. Like all other
western roads, however, it sees no way
at present, of breaking the hold-up, and
will do the best it can, under the cir
cumstances. There will be two more
Sunday excursions out of Portland for
the southern beaches, and then, on the
30th day of this month the new sum-
mer schedule will go into effect, and the
new extra train out of Portland, on
Saturday afternoon at $40 o'clock, will
go into operation. This train will make
but five regular stops between Portland
and Seaside, Rainier, Clatskanie, Astoria
Warenton and Gearhart, and at Hol.
ton and Goble. on flag. 1t is bound to
be popular train and run.