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The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-02-04

The market was dull and saggy
all day Giroux annual stockholders
meeting will take place tomorrow
afternoon and eastern interests look
for change In management Every
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-02-04
ELY STOCK EXCHANGE.

Cumberland Ely moved a little in
the local trading yesterday as did
also Giroux. or the cheap stocks
Dexteretta was the only one In any
marked demand, 300 shares of this
stock changing hands. Trading was
quiet throughout the day, there be-
Ing less action than on any day dur
ing last week. The situation was re-
Election of the quiet In the eastern
markets. Sales made were A. n. M.
& p, 100 shares at 1914; Black
horse Phoenix, 500 at 2A: Gold
Treasure, ESQ at AZ. Butte Ely,
100 at 55; Cumberland Ely. 10 at
1925; Ely Consolidated. 100 at 10;
Ely Copper, 200 at 81: Federal Ely,
200 at Is " ; Giroux, 10 at 81: Nc
Donald Ely, 100 at 49, Robinson,
500 at 6 X Ely Witch, 100 at Al IA:
Dexteretta, 800 at "a. Total
shares. aero. Closing quotations
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-08-14
THE DEATH RECORD.

United States Senator William Boyd
Allison is dead at his home in Du-
buque, Ia, Of heart failure. aged sew
enty.nine years. The announcement
of the senator's death came as a
shock to neighbors and the COM
munity, as few were aware Of his ILL.,
ness. While for the past two years
Senator Allison was In declining
health and while he suffered loss of
much vitality during the present sum-
mer there was no news emanating
from his home indicating the serious
ness of his condition.
George Pettibone, for years prom
inent in the councils OF the Western
Federation of : Miners and charged
with President Meyer and former Sec
rotary Haywood with completely In the
murder of former Governor Steunen-
berg of Idaho, died at st. Joseph's
hospital, Denver, from the effects OF
an operation for cancer o.
Judge George A. Vanderveer, candi-
date for the Republican nomination
for Judge of, the Ninth judicial district
of Kansas. was killed at Hutchinson
when a Rock Island train struck the
automobile in which he was finishing
HIS campaign.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-08-14
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

A movement to raise money by pop
ular subscription to build a mammoth
United States %battleship has been in.
a%ugurated by Owen Gray. post, G. A.
R., at La Rue, o. The only request to
be made of the national government,
according to the resolutions adopted
by the post, is that the %battleshil
shall bear the name "Grand Army OF
the Republic, as a memorial to the
veterans of the Civil war. ,
Albert T. Patrick, who is serving a
life sentence in Sing Sing IN. Y.)
prison for the murder of William M
Rice, a New York millionaire. several
years ago, has had docketed in the
supreme court of the United States
his appeal from the decision of the
United States court in New York re
fusing to release him on a writ of ha.
beas corpus.
A rate of one fare plus a half fare
for the round trip will be the general
rate made by the railroads from prac'
tically all parts of the country to the
next annual encampment of the Grand
Army of the Republic to be held at
Toledo. O.. the week beginning Aug.
81.
Special agents of the government
are in Chicago trying to collect evi
dence to substantiate proceedings for
the disruption of the Hartman sys
tenn of railroads upon the ground that
the combination is in violation of the
Sherman antitrust act.
The American team was victorious
over the Irish athletes in the games
held at Balls Bridge, Dublin, under
the auspices of the Irish Amateur
Athletic association. The visitors Won
seven events to the Irishmen's, four.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-08-14
CRIMINAL NEWS.

-Four negroes, Virgil, Tom and Rob
ert Jones and Joe Ripley, were taken
from jail at Russellville, KY, and
hanged to a tree OF the edge of town.
q negroes were members of a lodge
q at a meeting recently, 1t Is said,
they approved Of tie murder of James
Cunningham, a white farmer, by his
negro tenant, Rufus Browder. This
murder occurred in the southern part
OF Logan county and it is supposed
here that the mob was made up OF
men from that part of the county.
Jesse Fifer, a Seattle gripman,
killed his eight-year-old daughter Ha.
eel and Mrs. Dennis Nihoul, a confne.
ment patient; fatally wounded his
wife, Mrs. l.. Fifer, and seriously
wounded Mrs. Ethel Warren his sis.
ter-in-law. He then turned his revol.
yer upon himself and committed sui
eide.
James w. Ryan, brother of John A.
Ryan, superintendent of the North
Butte Extension company, shot and
killed his brother-in-law, d. F. Mooney,
at Butte, Mont. The shooting is be-
lieved to have been the result Of fam
lily differences. Both families are
prominent in business and social life.
]. A. Morrell, a wealthy farmer liv-
ing at Blackberry Center, ILL.,, was ia
tally shot and his ,housekeeper was
murdered by John Anderson, who was
employed on Morrell's farm. Ander.
son later committed suicide.
Peter Meyer, seventy-five years old.
a recluse, was found dead on the floor
of a box car in which he lived on the
outskirts of %Jerseyville, ILL.,. ard $1O,-
900 he is known to have had with him
is missing.
One man dead and twenty-five 9TH
ers seriously injured are the results
of a riot between Italians and Slavs at
Gates, m of the H. G. Prick Coke
company plants near Masontown, Pa.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-08-14
POLITICAL NEWS.

1t has been announced at Repub
lican national headquarters in New
York city that an organization would
be effected in every one of the South
ern states and although no predictions
were made that the Republicans
would capture the electoral votes o.
any of these states it was said that
inroads would be made in the Demo
cratic representation in the house
from the South.
Chairman Norman f. Mack of the
Democratic national committee an
nounced the appointment of a finance
committee for the Democratic cam
paign, with Moses c.. Wetmore of st
Louis as chairman and John e. Cs
borne of Wyoming as vice chairman
and a speakers committee, with Johr
H. Atwood of Kansas as chairman and
Champ Clark of Missouri as vice chair
man. i
Democratic Chairman Mack, in dis
cussing campaign plans, said: "Plans
are in contemplation for a forceful
campaign throughout the country, but
of these I can say nothing at this
time. All parts of the country are our
battle-ground and no one section will
be neglected. Everything augurs well
for the election of William j. Bryan
United States Senator T. p. Gore
Democrat, and Dennis T.. Flynn, Re
publican, had no opposition in their
parties for the nomination for United
States senator in the primaries in
Oklahoma to succeed, Gore for the
short term.
William j. Bryan will make several
campaign tours which. will embrace
nearly all parts of the country, speak
ing in most of the principal cities be-
tween the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
Kansas Republicans nominated w
r. Stubs for governor and Joseph L
Bristow, former fourth assistant post
master general, for senator to succeed
Chester l. Long.
Bird S. Coler, president of the Dor
ough of Brooklyn, has announced that
he is a candidate for the Democratic
nomination for governor of New York
this fall.
Former Congressman w. s. Cow
herd has been nominated for governor
by Missouri Democrats. Attorney
General Hadley is the Republican
nominee. 1,
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-08-14
WASHINGTON NEWS.

Honduras has declined to comply
with the wishes Of the American gov
eminent by revoking the decree Is
sued by President Davila %cancelling
the exequaturs Of American Consul
Drew Linard and Vice Consul Virgil
HC. Reynolds at Ceiba on the ground
that they had interfered in the inter-
nal politics Of Honduras.
The interstate commerce commits
sion has issued q statement to the
effect that without waiting for the Al
ing Of formal complaints IT will insti-
tute an investigation Of Its WI mo-
ton for the purpose Of determining
whether or not advances In freight
rates are justified.
Month by month the total excava-
tion Of the isthmian canal is sincreas-
ing. The total excavation for July
was 3,16S,64O cubic yards, against
8,O56,976 cubic yards for June and
l.O77,4ss cubic yards for July 9 year yea
ago. 49, 3T
The monthly statement Of the gov.
eminent receipts and expenditures
shows that for July. 1908. the total
receipts were S52, 10000 and the ex'
penditures S77,03S.O00, leaving adefictt
iorsthe month Of s24..sss,ooo. us
The syubr-commnittee Of the monetary
commission, headed by Senator sAl
dricb, hasssailed for Europe to study
financial conditions ! foreisn e e'sll
IA
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-08-14
LABOR NEWS.

Officials of all the national and in
ternational unions affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor are to
hold a conference, probably in Chi
cago, within the. next two weeks to
issue an official statement on the pc.
litfcal situation. The purpose of the
meeting, 1t is said, is to set at rest all
doubt as to whether Samuel Gompers
represented organized labor when he
officially endorsed the Democratic
platform.
Paper makers in the mills of the
International Paper company in vari-
GUS places in New England r affect
ed by an order issued by President J.
F. Carey of the International Brother
hood of Paper Makers calling for. a
strike ON account of a recent an
nouncement of decreased wage sched-
ule. Practically all the mills of the
company have been closed down.
One of the biggest strikes in the
history of Canadian railroads was in
augurated when the mechanical en-
ployes of the Canadian Pacific road
quit work. Two thousand men in the
Winnipeg shops put down their tools
and, according to the leaders. the
strike will be general from coast to
coast. Eight thousand men are af-
fected.
President Truesdale has refused the
switchmen's request for a conference
on the troubles of the Buffalo division
of the Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western railroad. Grand Master Haw-
ley of the Switchmen's union declares
that a strike declaration seems inev.
table.
All Canadian Pacific railway shops
are in darkness owing to electricians
operating the light plants declining to
work with nonunion labor.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-08-14
NEWS OF NOTED PERSONS

NE L EH H+H ~ N.. E& 30 no. LEfl INAE +-rNE EA
President Roosevelt has issued an
official statement which fatty contra
diets public statements hitherto made
by Secretary Of War Wright and Sec
rotary Loebsa to the case Of the eight
West Point cadets who were recently
dismissed for hazing. The president
places both men fairly and squarely In
the Ananias club.
Rear Admiral Joseph n. Hemphill
has lowered his flag on the cruiser
Raleigh and has been relieved asscom-
mander Of the Asiatic squadron BY
Captain Giles b. HARDER. formerly
commander Of the battleship Maine.
Henry P. Brown Of Cleburne. Tex e,z
has been elected supreme chancellor
81 the order OF the Knights OF PythAas
Is succeed Charles a. Barnes Of Jack
sonville, III.
CARDINAL Gibbons was taken ~ at
Castle Gandolfo, near Rome, with u
stesttnal trouble. He was driven into g
Rome ana has beenHobliged stostaksSt g
his bed. vt
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-08-14

extra large heads I receive 60 cents
a dozen. There isn't a month in the
year when celery is not in demand in
New York city, so there can be no
doubt about getting good prices, pro,
vided the celery is up to the mark.
To raise celery to be marketed in
June my work begins in January. The
first step is to get good celery seed
and SOW it in boxes in a greenhouse.
Under normal conditions it will re-
quire three weeks for celery seed to
come up, though there have been oc-
casions when I have forced it up with
in eight days, and the result was in
every way satisfactory. As o o as
the two little leaves appear or the
plants the process of 'tpricking'' begins
and drags through February and
March.
As regards the greenhouse, I would
advise plenty Of moisture and air, but
not too much heat. At whatever. tenn
perature you begin always be careful
to keep it from the time the seeds go
in the ground until the plants are
taken out to be set in the fields. When
l have had occasion to force my seeds
I have carried the forcing process
straight on until the plants were ready
to set out. As a rule, I put my seed in
with the thermometer in the eighties
and keep that temperature right
straight through.
In April, as soon as the ground is
warm enough to pillow, the out of door
work begins. After the ground Is
thoroughly plowed the fertilizer must
be sown, and with a rake and harrow
the surface must be made to look as
smooth as velvet. The young plants
are then taken from the greenhouse, not
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-08-14

Once the boards are in position only /.
few minutes IRE required to finish the
process, and. us q rule. l do that part
Of the work myself. The boards are
kept together by a wire hook caught
across the two boards on opposite
sides Of the rows of celery at each end
Of the boards. This is done over the
entire patch until nothing Of the celery
Is visible but the green tops showing
above the boards. -Four or FIVE days
after boarding the celery is ready tc
ship.
Though the shipping time means ex
ira hard work, l always enjoy it, no,
only because it comes at a time o.
the year when 1 enjoy being out Of
doors, but because it brings money re
turns. You get the fruits Of your five
months labor, and If you have KEEP
up with the market you can cal
culate within a fraction of a cent wha,
each shipment will bring you. The
wire hooks are jerked off the board.
and the tall bleached stalks of celery
pulled up bunch by bunch. A few
strokes Of a sharp knife. and the roots
with the few unsightly outer stalks
drop off, and the transformed plant i.
loaded into the baskets to be takeI
to the washing and packing shed.
This final process should be done IL
fresh cold water, and the celery should
be washed and picked over until each
bunch looks as white and glossy a.
ivory. 1t is then put a dozen bunche.
at a time into a wooden form and tiet
with tape the color preferred by TIL.
grower into a square, compact bundle
All excess top is trimmed away, ani
the bundles are then packed while
dripping wet with fresh cold waite,
into paper lined crates.
cents a dozen and as high as 81. Tht
first price hardly pays, while the latter
gives enormous profits from the farm
er's standpoint. In the New York mar
ket a grower can count on getting II
cents a dozen for good celery and G
cents a dozen for all extras. Thai
gives a good living profit and has ad
vantage of being sure.
After paying all bills for labor, fer
%tilizer, rent on land (Which Of course
goes into my own pocket and is only
a matter Of form, the wear and teal
on the greenhouse, garden tools and
the boards I always count on having
$1,000 a year from my little patch Of
ground.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-08-14
news OF The WORLD.
Important Events Of the Week
in Condensed Form.
UNFORTUNATE EVENTS.

The destructive forest fires in the
Elk River valley in British Columbia
have burned past the region of the
towns. Fernie is destroyed, but Mi.
chel, Hosmer and Cranbrook are out
of the danger zone. The flames are
still devastating the timber region of
the valley beyond the settlements.
These bush fires may last a month, or
until rain falls. The total loss of life
in the burned are is now placed at
~thirty-eight and the property damage
is estimated at between $4,000, 900
and $6,000,000.
Fire starting from the explosion of
a barrel of chemicals in the Burling-
ton dock transfer warehouse at Chi
cage destroyed the warehouse, 100 box
cars and elevators r and F, owned by
the Burlington company. There was
owe half a million bushels of grain,
owned by Armour & Co., in the eIe-
vators.
Charles Humphreys, chief clerk in
the bureau of police, and Henry B.
Bromley, q prominent dealer in up
tAOAoSSASAo "oIOA4o1S, Willie CFOSSluS d
railroad track at Philadelphia in an
automobile, were run down by a train
and instantly killed.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. ]. Hume and baby
of Eau Claire, Wis, lost their lives in
Lake Nebagamon, near where they
were camping. Mr.. Hume was a cap
italist and the family was prominent
In Northern Wisconsin.
A careless traveller who threw a
lighted match into the underbrush
started a forest fire twelve miles from
Hoquiam, Wash, that, quickly getting
beyond control, destroyed $25O,O0O
worth of property.
A big automobile occupied by five
women and two children plunged
down a steep embankment zeal Bur-
lingame, CAL, killing five of the occu-
pants and seriously injuring the other
two.
Chicago's hottest day in several
years killed eighty babies under one
year of age and caused, directly or
Indirectly, the deaths of nine adults
and a score or more of prostrations.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-08-14

too many at a time. and sci, out. After
the setting. out the raking begins and
then the fight against weeds. II there
is any place where weeds grow faster
than In a celery patch, ! have never
seen It. OF course 1t is because there
is always so much more moisture in a
celery patch than on land where other
vegetables are grown. II the weeds
ever get a start in a celery patch. the
only thing to do Is to pull them up by
hand and haul to a pile and burn. II
weeds don't grow on the ground. It Is
no use to plant celery.
Along about the first Of June I begin
to board the tallest Of my celery.
Boarding celery now takes the place
Of banking earth around It. In June
1T Ii impossible to bank celery with
anything like satisfactory results. Even
the boards will sometimes rot It be-
fore the blanching ID begun. For
this purpose i use ten Inch boards ten
feet long. These are carried into the
patch and laid between the rows.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-08-14
FOREIGN NEWS.


The Young Turks have now com.
pletely triumphed in Turkey. A new
cabinet practically composed of their
nominees and commanding public con-
fidence is established on a constitu-
tional basis, the sultan having given
up his claim to the right to appoint
the ministers of war and marine.
President Castro has withdrawn the
exequaturs of The Netherlands con-
suls and vice consuls in Venezuela
and has informed Holland that friend
~ relations are severed until the lat
ter country "gives satisfaction for the
injuries and insults put upon Venezu-
Ella"
A series of terrific thunder and rain
storms have caused destruction and
heavy loss of life in the Austrian
Tyrol. The death roll in Bukowina is
said to be fifty, while in the FILLER
valley upwards of twenty persons
have lost their lives. s,t
During a storm at Stuttgart, Ger
many, the Zeppelin airship broke
away from its moorings, took fire and
was destroyed. The airship had just
completed the most remarkable voy-
age in the history of aerial navigation.
Minlius Erickson, the Danish ex-
plorer, has met his death in the Far
North, according to information just
received at Copenhagen in a telegram
to the committee of the Denmark
Greenland expedition.
The sultan of Turkey was stabbed
in the breast by a minor police Off
cial. The coat of mail which the sui
tan always wears detected the blow.
The would be assassin was arrested.
There has now been thirty-five
days fighting in the streets of Tabriz.
Persia, and the casualties. due chiefly
to bombs, thrown from mortars, and
shrapnel, are estimated at 800.
The japanese navy will take third
place in the navies of. the world In
1911, according to the tabulation made
by the German Navy league in. its
August leafiet.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-08-14

passes the winter as a dark brown
helpless creature, entirely unlike either
the worm from which it came or the
moth into which 1t transforms. This
dark brown pupa, inclosed in a thin
cocoon of silk intermixed with hair, is
stored away in some crack or %crevice,
under rubbish or ever in the ground it.
self. In April or May the nearly or
quite white moth emerges from the CO.
coon, flies into the trees and in some
cases deposits as many as 500 eggs
These eggs are set close together on
M leaf, forming q single tier and COW
ering an irregular patch on the u r
face. The larvae, Matching, construct
a tiny web under which they feed. As
they increase in size more and more
foliage is included in their web until
they may exceed three feet In diameter.
When the caterpillars become fully
grown they crawl down the trees and
seek out hiding places, as already
described, in which to transform and
lie during their helpless stage. From
the cocoons thus formed, in late July
or early August, the second brood Of
moths energies and deposits its eggs on
the leaves for the second brood Of
worms" This brood on reaching ma
turity forms the cocoons in which 1t
passes the winter.
Ordinarily certain two and four
winged flies PARASITIC q sufficient per
cent of the caterpillars to prevent them
from seriously threatening the life of
any well grown tree, but this para
sitism is rarely sufficient to prevent the
formation Of some webs.
The property owner who values the
beauty Of his shade trees cannot afford
to depend on natural enemies, but must
resort to artificial measures. II the
nests are within reach, the simplest
method is to wipe them out Of the
trees and crush their contents. II
the; are beyond reach, they must be
destroyed In any one Of three ways
they may be burned out by means of
a long handled torch; they may be cut
away with pruning shears and their
contents crushed or burned: their oc-
cupants may be poisoned by thorough
" spraying the foliage Immediately
about the nest with arsenate Of lead at
the rate Of three pounds to fifty gal
Ions Of water. Paris green mixed with
twice its weight Of unslaked lime and
used at the rate Of six ounces to nifty
gallons Of water may be substituted
for the arsenateS Of lead, but does moi
SJtick to the foliage n well.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-08-14
Farm ana
Garden
A WoMAN's CELERY FARM.
A Crop That Yields Good Returns
ts. Near a Civ. Fl.

A Crop That Yields Good Returns
Near a City.
Miss Helen L. Bailey writes enter
tainingly Of her experience in raising
celery for the early New York market:
My home is twenty miles up the
state and convenient to the railroad.
All told l have less than three acres Of
land, and when I started in to earn my
living there was a mortgage on the
place and less than 500 in my pocket.
Celery has paid the mortgage on my
home. has put money in the bank for
me and has enabled me to educate a
nephew and niece. My average crop
Of celery is $4,000 heads, and the aver
age price is 40 cents a dozen. For
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-08-14
ST. Paul Union Stock Yards.

St. Paul, Aug. 6.-Cattle-Good to
choice steers, $6.OO@6.75; fair to good,
$5.0OD5.75; good to choice COW and
heifers, 4.OO@5.OO veals, $500.
Hogs-s6.OO@6.75. Sheep--Wethers,
$3.S5@4.10: y%earlings. s4.90@4.5O;
spring lambs, $5s75 @6.4O.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-08-14
SHADE TREE PESTS.

The Despoilers Of Some Of Our Fa.
vorite Shade Trees.
The nests of the fall webworm are
forming unsightly white blotches on
the rich green foliage Of our shade
trees. They are most frequently found
On the elm. hickory, ash. apple and
plum, but occur only less commonly
on many other sorts of deciduous trees
The insect that constructs these webs
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-08-14
Chicago Grain. and Provisions.

Chicago, Aug. 6.-Wheat-sept.,
95Ac: Dec, 1880; May. s1.01A@
1.O1W. Corn-Sept. 1870; Dec,
s64kc; May, 641Ahc. Oats--Dec.,, 47aas
@47hc;s May, 49l1kkc;; Sept, 47asc.
Pork-SepG, $15.75: Oct, $15.s5@
16.s7hh JAM sl6.42h. Butter
Creameries, 10000; diaries, 17A@19c
Eggs-17114c. Poultry--Turkeys. lac;
chickens, 1151sc;; springs, 15c.