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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1906-02-24
STEUNENbERG CASE
BECOMES INTERESTING

Events moving with startling rapdity the Steunen
berg murder Orchard has made confession which
duplicates high 10 the councils of the Western Federation
of Miners This has resulted in the Charles E. Meyer
PRESIDENT William D. Hayward secretary and G. A. Pettibone
former member of the executive committee of that organa
ton These taken Boise and later brought to
Caldwell. Tuesday set for their preliminary.
Orchards Confession.
Orchards alleged confession purpors give details of the
plot asassnae former Governor Steunenbeg from its ncep
ton 1t gives the of other alleged be mpcaed
tells where Orchard them and the circumstances of the
meetings Since the confession secured than
weeks ago. the detectives have verified many of the details
One of the in this confession that Orchard
selected to aassnae of the justices of the supreme
of Colorado year ago He says buried bomb at the
judges gate but when he pulled the string the continuance
failed explode He took the string away and gave up
attempt Detective James Mcfarland of Denver has, it isl
claimed, since dug up this bomb.
Alone in Steunenberq Murder.
In his alleged confession Orchard says he alone the
actual execution of the Caldwell plot that had first planned
to shoot Seunenbg with buckhot and to the house
Christmas for that purpose intending shoot through te
window but abandoned the plan hid number of
under the sidewalk The cartridges it claimed have since
been found by the officers
Orchard has, it is claimed told of the workings of an
sinner circle" of the Western Federation Miners maintained
in Denver given details of plots that led the killing mum
Der of the Telluride district Colorado and information
about various outrages at Cripple Creek He duplicates
Simpkns and named Adams in the Steunenberg con-
spiracy Officers searching for both of these Oregon
They are supposed to be in the vicinity Of Hanes.
How Confession Was Obtained
Detective Mcfarland claims to have secured the conesson
by appealing to Orchards memory of his home teachings
says he made plain Orchard that the had perfect
against him and that the best thing he do would bel
to make preparations for future world.
The confession committed writing and signed by
Orchard in the presence Of witnesses.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1906-02-24
Pure Food Bill Passes.

After IS years, a National pure
| food bill has passed the United
States Senate and Senator w. b.
EHeyburn has become a national
figure. Senator Hepburn worked
increasingly for this legislation and
. by his energy, industry and ability
accomplished what scores OF other
Senators failed to do. 1t is with
pride that Idaho looks upon her
Junior Senator. He is by far the
ablest man any western state has
ever had in congress.
There is no end to the stories
told of William R. Travers, who
extracted more humor than discom-
fort from his suffering. A friend
who had known him in Baltimore
said to him:
BILLY, it seems to me that you
stutter more now than when you
lived in Baltimore.
"W-w-well, N-n-new York b.
! b bigger place" returned TraveIs
thong htfully.-"Uneer the Spread
ling Chestnut Tree" EVe,y6odys
Magazine tor March.
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-03-28
Nux Vomica for Killing Hawks.

1t is stated as fact by those who
have experimental that nux vomica
will certainly kill hawks if given to
the chickens. The following directions
for its use were published in the
Southern Planter:
How much nuX vOmica should be
used on broilers to kill hawks and not
hurt the chicl;en?
NOttOway Co., Va. John Gireth.
Mix half a teaspoon of powdered
nuX vOmica in quart of dry meal
and then make into mash and feed
to the chickens. The amount may
be increased up to a teaspoon to a
quart of the meal, or 5 or drops of
the liquid nuX vOmica for each chick
ell may be mixed with the mush
Ducks and guineas will be killed by
this mash, but chickens are immune
against it. The hawks taking the
chicken will be pOisOned-Ed. So.
Planter
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-03-28
Mites and Hawks-Two Chicken
Enemies.

Home and Farm published the rem
edieS given below. The mite cure may
Oe good, that is if you know what
carbon oil is. We do not see how
the tin would scare hawks Oh a
cloudy day.
In his lectures before the students
of the Agricultural Department of the
University of Missouri last week, Il.
e.. Orr, Secretary of the American
Poultry Association, told methods of
combating mites and chicken hawks
that might easily be used by every
Missouri housewife.
Mites, he says, may be gotten rid of
by spraying the chicken house with a
mixture of one part crude carbolic acid
and eight parts carbon oil. This mix
ture he recommends in preference to
mite eXterminators sold by travelling
agents.
Hawks, he claims, may be kept out
of the poultry yard by attaching bright
pieces of tin, 6X10 inches, to the trees
and poles surrounding quarters, by
strings two feet long, so that the wind
will make the bright metal dance in
the sunlight
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-03-28
Clippings VS.. Original Matters.
Florida.

We print an article. taken from the
Southern Planter, in which the editor
makes great ado about not using
clippings Some well edited papers
claim not to use anything except Origi-
mai matter While others are not
above using good thing when they
see it even though it did not originate
in their own columns. We believe that
it depends more on the writer than
anything else. If you print trash, it
does not make it any better to say
that it was written especially for your
columns
On the other hand, if you lind a
really valuable article in an exchange,
it Is none the less useful because it
was not intended for your paper when
written.
We should be glad to fill this page,
each week, with original matter, but
that is impossible.
We are very careful about our clip
pings and if we use anything about
"hiNh VIC eIC uOuptAui, "S "dNS q
note of the fact. One of the best of
our poultry exchanges contains each
week number of clippings.
The editor seems to go ON the idea
that no one paper can get all the good
writer's on his staff and that it is wiser
to use the best even if not intended for
him in the first place.
We should be very glad to hear
from more OF our readers about their
experience in keeping poultry in Flori-
da
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-03-28

an average of a pound apiece more
and sold for 20 cents a pound, paying
the grower about 81 apiece profit.
Visiting a friend near BOrdentOwn,
N J., four or five days later he told
me his experience with his Barred
Rock cockerelS this season; he had 131
cockereIs capOnized, of which number
he lost One and the 130 remaining
were sold the week before ThankSgiv-
ing, for % ID cents pound, wholesale.
They averaged to weigh eight and a
quarter pounds apiece, and sold for
just about $1.S0 apiece. My friend
said those capOns paid him between
92 and 81 cents profit each. The lar
gest capOn weighed 10 pounds and 10
ounces, and the average of the 13O was
s IA pounds apiece.
This lot of cOckerelS was Matched
mostly in April, dozen or so of them
were hatched the last of March and
a few the first of May; as they were
marketed between the Goth and 25th
of November they were but seven to
seven and a half months old when mar
keted, and paid the grower 90 to "a
cents profit each. They were grown
entirely by the dry-feeding method !;
three-eights corn and wheat, and beef
scraps before them all the time They
were given about an acre of field to
roam over till about a month before
marketing, then were penned up in a
modest yard. My friend said these
cOckerels (caponized) were just no
trouble at all-he kept the food-hop-
pers supplied with the foods and they
did the rest. He told us that those
Barred Rock cOckerels weighed two
pounds apiece when eight weeks old,
grown on all dry feed, and that they
were big, brOad-backed, husky fel-
lows, and felt solid when lifted.
On our way to the station at Bor-
dentOwn We turned in at the driveway
of the man who buys up the fine
dressed poultry of that section and
ships it to New York and Boston. He
was just buying lot of about 60
splendid, great capOnS, which averaged
to weigh nine pounds apiece, and he
paid 20 cents pound for them. They
were good lot, well fattened, and the
farmer told us they paid him about 81
apiece prOfit-frOm 80 cents to 81
apiece. Quite a difference between
these and the overgrown ''oId roost-
ers" that had 'eaten their heads off,
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-03-28
Capons VS.. "Old Roosters."

If you are raising many young chick
ems, and especially if you have any
difficulty in getting a fair price for
your brOilerS, we advise you to try
capOniZing some of the cOckerelS. We
are not at all sure that there is good
market for them in this state, but it
would be well to try a few for your
own use. The difference in value,
where there is market for capOnS,
is clearly shown in an article which
we cut from the New England Far
mer:
On my way to attend a Farmers
institute in New York state last month
L had to wait 10 or 20 minutes at
Rochester for branch-line train
While strolling about the station
came upon a baggage truck Oh which
were piled three cOOpS of cOckerels,
evidently on their way to market. A
glance told that the (perhapS) %
birds were past the SOft-rOaSter age
and would be sold as ''old ROSTERS;
they were all showing some develop
ment of spurs, and there was other
evidence of a hardening of the flesh
which makes ROSTERS such poor eat
ing. boosters are quoted in the mar
ket reports as selling at eight to nine
cents ii pound, and these would weigh
about seven to eight pounds apiece
In that local market they might sell
for a fraction more than if shipped
to larger market, but calling them
worth II cents a pound would only
bring their value up 81 to 96 cents
apiece, and the growers had fed them
food fully to that value in the eight
or nine months of their lives. We
cannot see any profit there!
If they had been fattened and sold
when weighing about five pounds each
they would doubtless have brought Is
to 20 cents a pound, actually bringing
the grower as much money as they will
sell for now, and saved the food of
three or four months. If they had been
caponized when weighing two and
half to three pounds apiece, and grown
to the age they were when sold to mar
ket, they would probably have weighed
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-03-28

Get a can of some good disinfect-
ant, make solution according to di-
rections and dip the fowl, body and
all Do not keep them in it too long.
1t will kill lice, feas and mites at
the same time. In two or three days
the warts or sores will disappear
and not return. 1t is undoubtedly a
microbe that causes the disease.
think | made the solution a little
stronger than directed, for 1 had tried
so many remedies that l had become
rather reckless and thought if a little
bit was good, a great deal would be
better. 1 had about $50 young chick
ems affected at one time, also little
turkeys and guineas.
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-03-28
Three Tons of Poultry Manure
going Begging.

\ firm of pOultrymen, in south Flor
ida. wrote to the Southern Ruralist.
that they have a large quantity of
poultry manure for which they can
find no sale. 1t must be that they ask
an eXOrbitant price or else the gar
denerS in that part of the state are not
up-to-date or they would be taking
this chance. that is provided, as we
said before, that it is offered at a
fair price. But no pOultryman who
has any land to cultivate can afford
to sell the droppings from his poultry
house at the market price of fertili-
zer
We have a poultry farm and keep
about 5000 fowls, and accumulate a
large quantity of drOppings, and seem
to be unable to find market for it.
Our fowls are yarded and the houses
all have dropping boards. The drop
pings are removed from boards and
put in air tight cans, thus being kept
in good shape for use. We have 3
tons on hand now. Most of our citi-
Zens use acetylene gas and we use
for this purpose.
Answer.-The value of poultry ma
nure as commercial article would
depend very much upon the amount
of moisture it contained and the me-
chanical condition it was in If you
will refer to page % of our January
issue, extra copy of which goes for
ward to you under separate cover,
Won fhf Of I,
as compared to that of stable manure
and other manure. From these figur-
es you will note that ordinary poultry
manure would contain about so per
cent. of nitrogen, 1.50 per cent. phos-
phOric acid and 80 per cent of pot
ash. This, figuring the nitrogen at 16
cents pound and phosphOric acid at
cents per pound, would make hen
manure worth about $9.4O per ton. If
the manure was thoroughly dry and
screened it would analyZe considerably
higher as the moisture it contained
necessarily reduces the percentage of
the plant food. After this sample of
the manure could be analyZed and it
could then be sold on the commercial
value shown from your analysis.
We should think it would pay you
to use all this fertilizer yourselves in
growing food crops for your fowls. 1t
would not pay to ship such low grade |
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-03-28
Sore Head.

A lady, writing to the Southern
kurailst, gives her method of curing
sorehead. We have not tried it, and
give it for what it is worth. We should
recommend caution in its use, if you
have bad case and know of nothing
better, it can be tried on the principle
that desperate diseases need desper-
ate remedies"
Here is a sure cure for sore head
among fowls:
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-03-28

fertilizer any very great distance ex-
cept in carload lots i'm bulk, and we
doubt if this would be feasible. We
should think it would be an easy
matter for you to get in communi
cation with some large truck growers
in your state and dispose of the fer
tiliZer to them.
The Washington times., 1906-03-29
.BENNING ENTRIES
FOR TOMORROW

First race-Selling; three-year-olds and
upward; five and one-half furlongs; Co
lumbia course. Brush Up, 101: EdgeIy
103; Plantagenet, 107; Loricate. lO7
Echodale. 107: Blue Coat, log; Chieftain
l05: Hyperion, 103; Lady Kaspar, lOl
Cassandra. SO; Nil, SO: DR.. Cofrey, 81:
'Nattie Bumpo, IS: Monte Carlo, IO2
sFoxey, SS; -Baby Willie. S4; paul Cliff.
ford. 80.
Second race-Maiden fiIiies; two-year.
olds; four furlongs; old course. Wfllet-
ta- 105; Mode, 105; Estella H, los: Wood
witch. 1O5; Mammymoo los; Eminola
los; Norwina. 105: Josephine l. Daiy,
105: Havana. 105: Bath Maria. 1O0: Wind
fail. 105; Zelina. 1O5; Wabash Queen
1O5.
Third race-Mares; three-year-olds and
upward; six furlongs; Columbia course
Gotowin, l09; Tickle, SO; Hocus Pocus
So; Society Bud. 90; Blvouac, go.
Fourth race-Maiden three-year-oIds,
six and cne-half furlongs: CoIumbis
course. High Brush. 112; Radical, II2,
Optical, 109: ". w Pierce IOe- I.ady
Georgia. 1o7: Frills. I07; Donna. IO7,
Flatteress. 107.
Fifth race-Selling; three-year-oId,
and up; seven and one-haIf furIongs
Columbia course. Jack McKeon. iOo
Setauket. 109; The Cure. III: Workman
l23; MeTlingo, 100; "Reidmore, SO; Del
phie, 107.
Sixth race-Handicap: three-year-old,
and upward; one mile; Columbia course
Bobby Kean. us; Duke OF Kendall, II6
Worthwhile, 100; Bill Curtis, 9s: Arsenal
20; Caronal. 80; Bizzy Izzy go
Apprentice allowance claimed
Cloudy and good
The Washington times., 1906-03-29
M. A. C. WON FROM
TECHNICAL SCHOOL

EVANSVILLE, March %. Tht
Maryland Agricultural College opened
her baseball season on the local ground
yesterday afternoon by defeating the
Technical High School of Washington,
by IA to /.
Although the washington boys put UP
spirited game. they were clearly out
classed. They had fourteen errors II
their credit. and showed up especially
weak at the bat Dixon's pitching for
the Aggies was the feature. He made
fourteen strikeouts in the six innings
that he was In the box He also sent a
fly TO left field for three-bagger during
the latter part of the game.
The Farmers made only three errors
Duzer and Brewster were in the box for
Tech. while Dixon and Byrd pitched and
Bassett caught for NJ. A c.
Johns Hopkins University will meet
the Maryland Agricultural College al
the latter's grounds on Saturday
The Washington times., 1906-03-29
NEW YORK COTTON MARKET.
NEW YORK COFFEE MARKET
COMMISSIONERS TEAM
SECURES BALL GROUND

The Commissioners baseball team.
which won the championship of the Dis
trict last year will reorganize again this
season with about the same personnel as
last year and a few new men who have
since 1905 made their appearance into
professional ranks.
The management of the club has al
most completed the schedule which will
be better this year than even before.
Among the teams with which games win
be played are some of the strongest
amateur league teams IN the city as
well as independent teams of Maryland
and Virginia.
The club has arranged to hive the use
of the Luna Park grounds where all the
home contests will be pulled OFF. The
first game is booked for the first Satur-
day In Nav
The Washington times., 1906-03-29
BOYS PLEADED GUILTY
TO STEALING BICYCLES

After having stolen more than ten
bicycles. according TO the police. Harr,
c Owens. William Mcconnell and
Charles Hurley, who were arrested IN
Hyattsville Tuesday, while trying TO
dispose of one of the machines for 81 ,
pleaded guilty to the charges brought
against they in Police Court today. Hur-
ley was sentenced TO the Reform Schoof
and the other two were fined SO each.
The Washington times., 1906-03-29
MARKETS TRADING
IS PROFESSIONAL
Reading Heaviest Stock In
Active List.
ADVANCES IN FIRST HOUR
Northwest Leads With Gain of Ten
Points-Union Pacific Up.
ADVANCES IN FIRST HOUR

NEW YORK, March 2S.-The stock
market continued thoroughly profess
sional. Reading was the heaviest stock
in the active list. Trading in il was
scattering with everyone disposed to
wait for further news from Indianapolis
The upward movement in the market
which started last Thursday afternoon.
made further progress in the first hour
today, and prices for many issues scored
material advances. The greatest gain
was in Northwest, which rose from S1S
TO S2S
A number of other issues, including
Union Pacific, Sugar. Smelling, St.
Paul. Louisville. and New York Central
made gains ranging from y to over
Reading fell off one point from the
opening. to 1An1S- Erie receded slight
~ on profit-taling sales. London
purchases being estimated at about
1000 shares
Government bonds were unchanged; ;
other bonds, steady
: D. m--Tuday's early market con-
tinued TO keep in the main "A very
strong undertone, but its movement
was thrown into considerable irregular
fty by profit taking London sent in
higher quotations for American shares
which, according 10 cable dispatches,
were largely the result of foreign spec
ulatorS, closing in commitments for
the decline The Improvement how
ever. was very generally on the Euro
pean mdrke is and there was a readiness
10 respond 10 the better American out
look, which was plainly discernable
With a combination of foreign pur-
Chases and buying from outside do
mestic sources the general market
started off higher
In the Standard shares the gains were
only fractional; in some of the special
ties advances of a point or more were
recorded. But at the end of the first
half of the hour IL was evident that
stocks were being supplied too freely TO
allow a substantial advance and specu-
lative interest on the long side was ac-
COTdingly diverted into the speCialties.
There were sharp advances in Copper.
Shelters, Sugar. Ice, and Colorado Fuel
and IL was stocks of this class which
occupied the attention of operators for
the rise during the greater part of the
morning
The movement of the railroad list. on
the other hand, continued to be hesitat-
ing. There were no positive signs Of re-
action, but the volume of realizing was
large enough 10 lessen the enthusiasm or
bullish speculation. Some attention was
paid TO the prospect of a stin advance
in money rates over the week end. CAN
money loaned at the opening today as
high as 5A per cent
The Washington times., 1906-03-29
STEPHENS INSTITUTE
WON ROUGH CONTEST

The St Stephens Institute basketball
quint won its second game from the
Washington Light Infantry last night in
the latter's gymnasium. by 1s TO To-
For the first time In the series there
was much unnecessary rOughness and
delays. Otherwise the contest was good.
the play being fast. Barker. of the In
stitute. and LOTUS. of the Infantry. each
scored three baskets for their respective
teams Shreve. of the militiamen. got
three free goalS.
The work of Moriarity at left back for
the winners was the feature. He shot a
difficult basket over his head which
practically decided the victory for his
team. The lineup:
The Washington times., 1906-03-29
CHICAGO GRAIN AND PROVISIONS
BEARS AGGRESSIVE,
COTTON MARKET SOFT

NEW YORK. March 2S.-The under
tone of the local cotton market was
rather soft. Room bears assumed the
aggressive, hammering May down TO
11:21 in the first ten minutes Their
action was based on the idea that many
professionals were loaded up in cotton
and in no position to stand any severe
punishment
Opening quotations: May, II. 23G11 "a;
June, Hip bid; July. 11.14dl115; August,
1e.964lO.9S September. 10. so bid; October,
10. 43G10 Al
The Washington times., 1906-03-29
WALL STREET NEWS ITEMS.

American stocks in London were firm.
ruling from - to q above parity. Money
was easier and insiders were reported
as buying freely more particularly the
coalers Good-sized buyers were also re-
ported from the Continent. A reduction
in the bank rate is expected next week
Canadian Pacific reports gross increase
for February of 81, ,16s.S5S. with a net in
crease Of se0S.573-
The National City Bank has secured
$1,000 900 gold for import, presumably
from Berlin.
The Boston stock exchange has re-
stored to the list S64, 600 shares of
Greene Copper stock
It is reported that the Northwest
has bought a controlling interest in
Union Pacific. and that the New York
Central owns both roads.
Erie reports net increase OF S601. .S4S for
February and from July 1 to February
2S a net increase of s -.620,096.
The Subtreasury gained $i03 600 from
the banks on yesterday and since Fri
day has gained $2,407,O O00
Rock Islands net increase in earnings
for February is reported at 81, ,6Oo5s2-
The Washington times., 1906-03-29
ERIE WILL ELECTRIFY
ROCHESTER DIVISION

ROCHESTER. n. Y. March 2s.-The di-
rectors Of the Erie have authorized imme-
date preparation of surveys and esti-
mates for the electrification of the
Rochester division, from Rochester to
Corning, N. Y The total mileage to be
electrified will approximate $50 miles.
II is proposed to procure the electric
current from Niagara Falls, and the
company building tire transmission line
will undoubtedly seek SditionaI business
from the cities and towns 1t will touch
The Washington times., 1906-03-29
IN THE WORLD OF FINANCE
RAILWAY COMMON
SUPPORTED AT Al
Preferred Was Well Taken and Bonds
Were Bought Heavily-Greene
Copper Climbing.

Running bank is not the only accom-
p1shment possessed by Clarence F. Nor
ment In the absence of President
Hiobs he started the call at the Stock
Exchange today and got to going nicely
by the time that official appeared, when
he as gracefully resigned the emblem OF
authority and retired TO his usual posi-
ton in bankers row"