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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-18

TERRE HAUTE. Ind-The miners
OF the eleventh district of the United
Mine workers, in convention here,
adopted resolution condemning the
action of the government in sending
troops to the Mexican border.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-18
Legislation Against Reciprocity.

TORONTO, Ont, March 18.-The
resolution introduced by Premier
Whitney in the Ontario Legislature.
protesting against the ratification OF
the agreement for reciprocity with the
United States, was carried last even
ing by vote OF 10 to IL.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-18
Four Perish In Fire.

BOSTON, Mass, March 18.-Four
persons burned to death in fire that
destroyed a south end tenement early
today. A score of persons had mar
row escapes. The dead included two
Negro women, the 13-year-old daugh-
ter of one and the infant OF another.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-18
$4,000 WORTH OF SUPPLIES FOR
CHINA'S FAMINE-STRICKEN MILLIONS

SEATTLE,
lining
transport
OF Chinese.
The invocation
flowed by A. Major.
W.
Of Supplies Famine Victims
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-18
naowNs IN PowER CANAL.

sAuIT STE. MARIE. Mich. March
17.-Howard Cavanaugh was drown
cd I'm the water power canal yesterday.
he was walking along the emhank-
ment when he slipped into r.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-18
Late Telegraph News

COLUMBUS, Ohio-Ohio military
sharks have dug up a law, showing
that every Ohio male citizen between
1S and As Is subject to military duty
along the Mexican frontier should ac-
tual disturbance occur, as members
of the unorganized militia of the
state.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-18

ss,45s Deaths From Plague In Month.
CALCUTTA, March 1S.-A death
toll OF S8,45S was exacted by the
plague in India, in February, accord
ing 70 official figures announced to-
day
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-18
spnING nPENING.

~ you get one of our prize cards be.
ing distributed this week, be sure ana
save it and bring the card to our open
ing, March 29. Gateley's. 1915 Michi-
gan-ave.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-18

CINCINNATI-Rev. Earl Flynn, or
Berkeley, Ca, told Y. M. c. A. audi
ence that sauerkraut contains the
longevity germ and to eat lots Of it
IL they would live long
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-18

INDIANAPOLIS-Ruling that a hog
has feelings" Police Judge Collins
held a man guilty of cruelty to ami
mails for clubbing a stubborn porker.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-18

NEW Policeman John b.
Houlihan quit his job because he
couldn't stand for the abuse po-
liceman is called upon TO receive"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-18

Job Printing Done Right. Times
Printing Co., No. Is John R.-s. Call
Main 1923. OF City 33s5.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-18

BAY RIDGE, Ohio-It is suspected
here that the man who broke into
the Lake Shore depot and stole four
volumes of tariff schedules is some
congressional railroad rate revision
ist
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-18

NEW YORk-John Bigelow, "a
years old, former minister TO France,
sailed today for two-months' visit
in London, hale as a man half his
years.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-18

The BLUE ROSE Is now ready. Bst-
FER get one Immediately. NcCormlck
Nursery. Nonyoes Mich.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-18

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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-18

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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-18


ence that sauerkraut contains the
If they would live long.
BAY RIDGE, Ohio-It Is suspected
here that the man who broke into
the Lake Shore depot and stole four
volumes of tariff schedules is some
congressional railroad rate revision
ist.
NEW YORk-John Bigelow, 81
years old, former minister 10 France,
sailed today for two-months' visit
in London, hale as a man half his
years.
MONTREAL - Twenty-three Glou-
cester fishermen passed through here
enroute for Washington, declaring
that Canadian reciprocity would Kill
fishing in Gloucester.
AUBURN, N. Y.-"The day of Till
man and yardaman has gone ~foreYer
and we are now meeting with sym
pathy and encouragement for the Ne
gro race" declared Booker t. Wash'
ington in an address here.
NEW YORK-The Fire college OF
the fire department has had its first
commencement, graduating 90 cap
tains.
MINEOLA, l.. IA damage ver-
dict of $4,000 against the New YORK
Central has been awarded Michaei
Carmody. a 15-year-old boy who lost
both legs while stealing a ride.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-The Harvard
Advocate says that students do not
attend Appleton chapel, because the
sermons are so dry that 1T Is like
adding another day of lecture work
to the week days"
STAMFORD. Conn.--At the one
hundredth birthday anniversary din
ner of Mrs. Moses Hart, 100 candles
blazed on a huge cake.
PATERSON, n. For beating his
wife, Israel Wilson chose the alterna-
tive offered him by the Judge OF max
ing over all his property to his wire
and quitting the state permanently 10
going to prison for three years.
Eighteen men, wearing
drum major hats, quilted blouses ana
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-18

MONTREAL - Twenty-three Glou-
cester fishermen passed through here
enroute for Washington, declaring
that Canadian reciprocity would Kill
fshing in Gloucester.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-18

Eighteen men, wearine
drum major hats, quilted blouses and
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-18

STAMFORD. Conn.--At the one
hundredth birthday anniversary din
ner OF Mrs. Moses Hart, 100 candles
blazed on huge cake.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-18

PATERSON, N. J.--For beating his
wife, Israel Wilson chose the alterna-
tive offered him by the judge OF max
ing over all his property to his wife
and quitting the state permanently 10
going to prison for three years
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-18

AUBURN, N. Y.-"The day OF Till
man and vardaman has gone foreXer
and we are now meeting with sym
pathy and encouragement for the Ne
gro race" declared Booker t. Wash'
ington in an address here.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-18

MINEOLA, l.. IA damage ver-
dict of $4,000 against the New YORK
Central has been awarded Michaei
Carmody, a 15-year-old boy who lost
both legs while stealing a ride.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-18

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-The Harvard
Advocate says that students do not
attend Appleton chapel. because the
sermons are so dry that 1T Is like
adding another day of lecture work
to the week days"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-18

NEW YORK-The Fire college OF
the fire department has had its first
graduating 90 cap
tains.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-11
What One Girl Did.

There is an Albemarle pippin orchard on the Fair
fax estate formerly by President Monroe that
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-11
Mystery of Four Vanished Fortunes

million dollars to the Bavarian family A
year previously a Spanish governor named Jas dIed
at Antwerp. leaving five millions to relatives in
Bavaria.
Finally Joseph Pongrats who, like the two Joases
and Schleder, lived and died at Amsterdam left
$500 900 to descendants at Schausen, Germany
These fortunes have gone astray That they once
existed is beyond all doubt The heirs of Johann
Joss ready to show that Ausburg lawyer
testified to the arrival of the million May 2 1885,
The hopeful ones in the of Jais hold docu-
ment registering the banking Of their ancestors
fortune in Augsburg house in 1885. The benefici
aries under the Pongrantz will have received
small cash advances from this fortune during the
centuries which have elapsed. Once, for instance,
lucky descendant actually succeeded in obtaining
quarter Of a million dol ars This was In 1891. AS
recently as 1856 an Augsburg banker named Hader
confessed his deathbed that he had made his for
tune out OF the missing Pongratz millionsthat the
money IN fact lying in his safes. The would-be
benefciaries put forth every effort to obtain their
due, but in vain The Halder business has lately
been amalgamated with the Bank of Dresden. and
the descendants are now suing the latter concern.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-11

there Is IN s beginning but they setting out trees
by hundreds OF thousands and lands are jumping
In value. The country only about six years old
a marketing region. 1t in 1905 1906 that the
commercial orchards began to bear Since then the
bank deposits have trebled, this fall that
county alone shipped about 100000 bushels of ap-
pies The apple lands far cheaper than those of
the west selling for from SIS to $500 per acre. the
latter price being usually land on which trees have
been planted.
The same might be said Of extensive region OF
apple country in the mountains of West Virginia.
where large orchards have been set out and from
where annual shipments of many carloads made
There big orchards in western Maryland and in
southern Pennsylvania regions in which thousands
of trees being planted
Money in Southern Orchards.
The profits Of the southern orchards are SO far
nothing like those OF the far west the scientific
fruit tell that the lands in many of the east
ern sections just suited to apples and that
proper cultivation, spraying packing and marketing
should make them pay quite well. Many of the
western fruit growers realize this and know person
ally number OF orchardsts who have sold out their
lands in Washington and Idaho and buying
southern lands and setting them out. One such
recently bought 200 acres, right on the
railroad, within half mile of the fine old town
of Leesburg. He paid something like $50 or SEQ an
acre, and he expects to raise good apples within
about forty miles of the national capital can be
raised in Colorado Washington That man bought
apple lands in Oregon for $500 and sold them
for 500 Another young fellow of the Leesburg
neighborhood has bought $50 upon which he is
starting with orchard 5000 trees, one-half Of
the profits of which he expects give foreign
sions.
What One Girl Did.
There is an Albemarle pippin orchard on the Fair
fax estate formerly owned by President Monroe, that
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-11

Is paying exceedingly WELL and there is little
orchard of less than 600 trees which has been well
managed by a young lady farmer that it is object
lesson for miles latter case the trees
set out in 1890, twenty-one years ago, and it
sixteen after that before they give
crops commercially profitable One can plant 900
trees twelve acres Of ground and have room to
spare This is what that girl did with her trees.
1905 her net profits $1,612; in 1907, $S62; in
1908, $1,227; in 1909, $3,24S, and in 1910 she
gross receipts of So O0O yielding profit
of $500. Moreover, her trees have begun to show
what they will do and there is no reason why her
crop should not be greatly the years go
by
Will the Apple Market Be GIutted2
Stories similar to these are known to all who
have any acquaintance with the apple regions the
United States. They founded present condi-
lions and the of the enormous extent to
which orchards are being planted all over the
country. Many of the government clerks at Wash
ington investing In orchard schemes Some of the
fruit experts of the Agricultural department have
their independent orchards, and not few of Uncle
Sans employees have bone into the business and
making good.
At the same time apple lands are being exploited
orange lands years ago, and syndicates
formed to manage orchards at fixed price per
tree The planting is very extensive and this
is especially in the Pacific northwest and in Vr
ginia West Virginia and Maryland 1t also true OF
the other apple regions although to minor extent.
Last year, told, the shipments of apples from
the Washington, Oregon and Idaho regions amounted
to 900 carloads, and when the that
being planted come into bearing, say ten
years from now there will be from that region more
than 100 900 carloads The most of these shipments
in boxes, but venture carload of barrels would
contain about the same number of apples. At 200
barrels to the car, which is an average shipment in
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-11

with the scheme. according to a recent dispatch to
the Philadelphia Inquirer, which is built up around
the vanished estate of Baron Oruhohn, a field
marshal in the Dutch army, who died 234 ago.
which is built up around the vanished estate Of
Zaron Won oruhohn, field marshal in the Dutch
army who died 2S4 years ago.
This search has its counterpart in a series of
Bavarian mysteries dating still further back, and
curiously enough also dealing with Dutch fortunes
left to German relatives. In the latter the de-
scendants of four separate families Joined
in an effort to acquire the fortunes left to them
Here the main facts which the various claim
ants hope to establish their right to the vanished
Sl7,5O0,O 900.
In 1895 George schleded, German emigrant
from the Moselle country died. leaving about and
three-quarter million dollars to his family In 1884
Andreas Joas. Schleders son-in-law, died leaving
$S.500,0O0 to relatives in Bavaria. In 1907 Johann
Joas. . nephew of Andreas died beQUsathins nearly
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-11
Apple Pie Ridge.

There is a region in Virginia known Apple Pie
Ridge. II is in the Appalachian mountains, and I
shall dignity the whole of that system by that
Apples be raised in selected spots through that
whole range running from New England a far south
as Georgia, There fine apple lands in the Allie
ghenies and thousands OF OF trees being
set out in different parts OF the Blue Ridge In AbeA
marie county, about Charlottesville where Thomas
Jefferson lived they raise the famous Abemarle pip
pins. which bring from IS to $40 BARREL the greater
part Of them being shipped to England. That
the favorite apple of Queen Victoria. King Edward
ate II before going to bed and King George has been
brought up upon it They using Albemarle
pippins in Windsor palace, and 1 have bought them
in Covent Garden market at something like shilling
a pound This apple is fastidious to soil and
climate II grows best In the coves of the noun
tains and Of late It has been thriving in the Shenan
doah valley. 1 know Of men there who netting
from $4,000 to $4,000 year from their pippin
trees, and there are numerous farmers who make
more out Of their orchards than from wheat corn
live stock.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-11
(cOpyright, 1911, by Frank G. Carpenter

-o AsHINGTON, D. C.-(Special Correspond
MAZE ence of The Bee-I write of the Big
WV Red Apple. 1t is creating almost as
much trouble for as did that into
uSNYESSI which Mother Eve, at the advice OF the
kSGEz&AIJ snake sank her pearly teeth when she
lost the Garden of Eden. It is more
precious than the three golden apples which grew in
the garden of Hesperides and for which Hercules up
held the globe his shoulders when sent old Atlas
70 get them. That the second time that apple
3 upset the world. third when Juno Venus and
Minerva contended to their beauty for the golden
apple offered by Paris the CRATER who being brbed
by Venus with Helen of Troy thus brought about the
dong ten-year war which laid that city in ashes.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-11

ITH q view to tracing a huge inheritance
lost for centuries, a syndicate has been
formed in Cologne and has retained some
prominent German lawyers. Several
members OF the Reichstag are connected
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-11
In the valley of virginia.

Another taVorite apple is the York Imperial and
others are the Grimes Golden. winesaps and NAM
moth black twigs Take Frederick county, Virginia. Of
which winchester is the capital The apple industry
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-11
WZ7E MEM1I2zEE EzzET

any other port In the world The most of the north
western apples go by rail to Chicago New York and
New England, and not few sent across the con-
tnent by rail and thence by steamer to London.
1t surprised me to learn that of the most
profitable apple regions is in Colorado. 1t lies in the
western part of the state the other side of the
Rockies, and quite distance from Denver The
climate there is such that it has had crops when
those of the northwest have failed.
Coming further east, there is a big apple region
in Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas. The Ozark noun
tain country in many years led the United States
in the production Of the big red apple there
large orchards in Kansas and Nebraska and also in
the states the other side of me Mississippi river
Just now some of the most successful orchards of
the country are In western Michigan. They up
along the coast of the lake and extend distance
back into the interior. I know of one agricultural
scientist who has orchard of 200 there. 1t
was planted by his father thirty odd years ago.
That orchard brought in $4,000 this year, making
net profit Of about $500 per acre.
Apples I'm New York and New England.
The old reliable apple country of the United States
is northern New York. 1t has been producing large
crops of fine fruit for years. with spray
ing and improved cultivation it is yielding more
than Representative apple buyers of the coun-
try have annual meetings at Niagara Falls, where
they arrange the management of this CROP and
whether 1t is big little largely affects the market
prices all the country.
New England is raising a great deal of apples
This is especially OF southeastern Maine and
parts of Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire
The most of the apples from that region Bald
wins. Among the movements there is the reno
walton of the old orchards after methods laid down
by the Department of Agriculture A large number of
reuvenaton Of the old apple orchards through trim
ming and cultivation.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-11
Big Money in Apples.

Even the Bible speaks of apples of gold in pitchers
of silver Well, that is what we are having In some
parts OF our country. The apple crop is revolution
ing whole districts II has lifted the prices of lands
70 the clouds and has made 1t possible for the clod-
hopper to walk upon velvet.
What would you think of a country where nearly
livery farmer his automobile, where his house is
lighted by electricity and he has on tap where
scores of families every year to southern Cafor-
MIA to get away from the cold, where you cannot
throw stone without striking who has money
IN the bank? That am told at the Department of
Agriculture, is the condition of half dozen different
districts in the Pacific northwest.
Take the Hood river valley In Oregon, where the
apples and pumpkins of about the same size! Or
chard land there is worth from $500 to 81 900 an
acre, and orchards already set out will bring 900
and upward Said one of the department Of
hcials to
II was recently talking with an orchardst who had
ten of bearing the best districts
Of Washington. asked him what his land was worth
He replied
" 1T ought to bring me in at least $1O, 0OO'
WE'LL said /, after thinking a moment don't
know that that is too much You have ten acres and
that would be just $1,000 acre.
But mean $4,000 per acre., said the man. 1T
VIII bring me good income on that and leave fair
sinking fund And thereupon he took out his pencil
and showed me that he making a big percentage
on his valuation.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-11
Our Best Apple Lands.
Vhere are our best apple lands!

Where are our best apple lands?
have asked this question of several of the lead
Ing pomologists of the Agricultural department and
We have gone over the country with a map laid be-
fore us Take first the Pacific northwest The most
famous regions pockets such as the wenatchee
valley and the Hood River country They have not
large area, but the land has been divided up into
small patches, ten acres being enough for any one
man to handle. The Yakima region is larger. and
there other extensive in Idaho Oregon and
Washington. There is big apple country in Cali
tornia little south of San Francisco, from whose
port Watsonvile. shipped more apples than from
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-11
A Farmers Utopia.

The Pacific northwest is the Utopia of the
farmer said another of the. agricultural explorers
The apple growers mostly educated men and the
social conditions are high In Hood River, which il
town Of 5000, there is University club to which
belong $50 college graduates. North Yakima looks
for all the world like New England city, and its
houses are more artistic than those of the east The
Wenatchee valley is great farm town covering thou
sands OF acres, divided up into patches of five and
ten acres OF orchards. Each patch has its house
which is equipped with electricity and lighted by
common plant. Every home has RUNNING water and
telephone and scores of the farmers own their own
motor cars.
'The bare land in the wenatchee valley is worth
$500 and upward an acre. and the orchards in bear
ing yield $500 or more TO the acre a year
Near southern Washington a crop Of eight acres
was sold on the trees for $4,000 the purchaser
did the picking and marketing They had an apple
show at Spokane last fall where they gave away prizes
which aggregated 100000 the first prize being.
Bweepstake Of $1,000. At that show there were dis
plays from thirtysix different districts in Washington
Oregon. California, Idaho and Montana and the ap-
pies shown in all sorts of packages from the
load to the box. They sent trainload OF the ex
hibts from there to Chicago II went by express and
Il carried Just ], 0O0, 900 apples.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-10-09
Richard and Edna
Are Pleasing In
Jumping Jupiter

Richard is here! Not Richard
l nor Richard II; they're dead,
but Richard (Himself) Garlic, In
Jumping Jupiter" delightful
farce of two acts with pretty
chorus, known as some girls"
Garlic is the same irresistibly
funny man with the long skinny
legs as will be remembered when
he stopped here last season in
"Mary's Lamb" To tell the truth
the show would be rather dull
without Richard and Miss Edna
Wallace Hopper, his side partner,
but they are SO extra fine that this
is not noticed. Miss Hopper is
a regular little "baby doll' withGa
baby voice, and swad of pretty
gowns and Jewels.
Among the songs those that
seemed to take the best with the
audience are II Like to Have a
Flock of Men Around Me-" sung
by Miss Hopper, and "Thank
You" by earle and Miss Hopper.
We might mention that old fav-
orite of "Himself's" entitled, "She
Handed Me a Lemon in the Gar
den of Love-" 1t seems new
every time he sings it.
The performance will be repeat
ed tonight.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-10-09
City Briefs

Commissioner Woods and City
Engineer Raleigh returned home
Saturday night from their eastern
junket. They left Mayor Sey.
mour at New York, he intending
to go on to his old home in New
England.
Anders Anderson, a pool room
proprietor, was arrested this
morning by License Inspector
Shortes charged with allowing
minors to play in his establish
ment.
Robert st. Clair, a colored ho-
telkeeper, was arrested yesterday
on a warrant sworn to by his
wife. Helen st. Clair, charging
him with assault. He deposited
500 bail.
The Tacoma Y. w. G. A. has
opened it's winter season of social
and educational work and il prom
Uses more activity than ever be-
fore.