The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 28, 1905, Page 6

See AR mem eos o> a Mg es as ers a 3 REPLY TO GOV. FOLK. Board of Prison Inspectors of Mis- seourl Denies Res ibility for apetent Employes. Jefferson City, Mo, Dec, 26.—The Doard of prison inspectors Monday night gave out a reply to Gov. Folk’s letter to them critctsing their report to him on the penitentiary, and in which the governor charged this board with being responsible for the conduct of the institution. The board denies that they are responsible be- cause they have no voice in the selc- tion of the men who are to manage the institution. They say that they did establish a system of civil service exaninat 1 for applicants for posi- tions at the penitentiary, but this had not been complied with, for half of the men whom the inspectors have asked to t discharged for ineompetency we inted by the present admin- istratio They charge that this in- diet petromage | n used to) al debts. They call upon the ‘ t tin to have appoint- mn ey ut reference to poli- North Carotinean Py to Clerkship inf mont by the Prest \ bn, Dee, 26 \s a reward for tending the post office at Emma N, ¢ vir years apo against four bur- tent Roosevelt: has waived 1 rvice re ions upon the tie r Gen- « loxander's n from a 1 depart- ’ the brive North ( ‘ ! to ae contin e henoi, an official state Tient was issued Tuesday which gives a full f the deed, The at ton ' ace on the Biest Natloual Maak Dividend, Topeka, Kan, Dee, 26.—Receiver J 7. Be of the First National bank of Topeka «| Monday that a 55 per cent, dividend had been declared in ta- vor of the liters, This will be Mace payable about January 15, 1908, Th Hoturn into cireulation about $825 >the 2,000) creditors. The deposits amount to about $1,500,000, On a dividend of 55 per cent, the fol lowing will be realized on the various public moneys on deposit: State of Kansas, $200,850; Shawnee county, $16,500; city of Topeka, $13120.40. This is the bank with which the late C, J. Devlin was connected, Order, Topeka, Kan., Dec, 26,—Freight traf- Tenore Railrs q fic men here announce that the various | Farmers of Missouri are railroads in Kansas will refuse to ob- serve the order of the state board of railroad cominissioners for a five per cent. reduction in all grain rates un- less compelled to do so by the courts. The board has ordered the reduction to become effective January 15, If the roads do not obey the order the board probably will institute manda- mus proceediug to compel its obsery- ance. Odd Fellows Celebrate Anniversary. Council Bluffs, Ia., Dec. 26.—An ob- Bervance was held Monday by several local lodges of the Odd Fellows order commemorating the fiftieth anniver- sary of Gen. Grenville M. Dodge's Membership in that fraternity, Ex- ongressman Thomas Bowman deliv- ered the principal address. Gen, Dodge became an Odd Fellow in Coun- cil Bluffs in 1855 and is still a member here. Gen, Dodge is commander-in- chief of the Army of the Tennessee, Warden Seized 10,000 Birds. Enid, Ok., Dee, 26.—Territorial Game Warden Watrous and Deputy Warden Bailey of this county, assisted by a bird dog, Monday afternoon located and captured one of the largest ship- ments of game ever seized in this ter- ritory consisting of 19 barrels and two trunks of quail and prairie chickens, nearly 10,000 birds. Warrants for the arrest of the shippers, who live in Okeene, Blaine county, have been is- sued, j Waneas Track Walker Benten, Parsons, Kan., Dec. 26.—Patrick Mur- phy, a track walker for the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railway company, was assaulted by two negroes Monday as he was crossing a bridge a few miles north of town. Murphy was knocked from the bridge, a distance of 28 feet, to the bottom of the creek, and then the negroes beat him into insensibility, Murphy is not expected to live. The Officers have obtained no clew. New Javanese Ambassador, Washington, Dec. 26.—Viscount Siuzo ‘Aoki has been appointed Japanese am- bassador to this country. Informa- tion to this effect was conveyed to Secretary Root Tuesday by Mr. Hiroki, the Japanese charge here. Viscount Aoki is a member of the privy council and of the first class order of the Rising Sun. He is of the highest di- Plomatic rank. omeeensiestbanereenme Pennsylvania Hotel Fire. Uniontown, Pa:, Dec. 26,—Fire early Tuesday practically ruined the inter- for and contents of the Exchange Hotel one of the leading hostelries in this city. Guests numbering 150 were forced to flee to the streets in their Store to such a Price that each garment SAC EOL a Se a eT. | MINOK NEWS ITEMS. In a recent fire in Seattle, Washi, one man was killed and 31 horses were burned to death. A factory fire in the heart of New . York's tenement district recently caused a loss of $500,000. Two persons were killed and one seriously injured in a recent runaway accident in Delphos, 0. Cloaks RR educed died-at the Penoyer sanitarium in Ken. We have marked down every Cloak in our osha, Wis., Monday afternoon. In a rear-end collision at Meridan, Miss, recently two men were killed and three others badly injured. The Portugese cabinet has tendered their resignations to King Charles. A, new cabinet will be formed in January, Three fatalities and several minor accidents resulted from a noisy cel- ebration of Christmas in Louisville, Ky. The Sultan of Morocco has refused to agree to the holding of the interna- tional conference on Moroccan reforms in Madrid. Luke E. Wright, governor general of the Philippines, arrived in Memphis, Tenn., Monday to spend the holidays | at his home, Former United States Senator Bard of California, was seriously injured re- cently in a runaway accident near Oxnard, that state, Secretary Taft has granted the appli- cation of Lieut. Gen, Nelson A. Miles, U.S. A,, retired, from further duty with the organized militia of Massachusetts, One man was killed and three in- jured in an accident in the railroad yards in East St. Louis, Monday, caused by a freight train backing into a street em. ca John Southwind, a giant Winne! Indian, came over to Sioux City Su! day night and indulged in firewater, . Monday morning he was found on a sand bank frozen to death. According to Andreas Stockberger, a German emigrant lately arrived in Bos. ton, the recent bloodshed in Odessa, . Russia, was due to the Jews attacking ‘ the soldiers. T 4 Mrs, A. B. Dibble, the first president of the Woman's Christian Temperance yf Union, who with Frances Willard | : ie founded that organization, is dead at is a good bargain. ; Eggs taken same as cash. her home in Grass Valley, Cal. MARKET REPORTS. Kanaas City Live Stock, Kansas City, Dec. 26.—Cattle—Receipts 8,000; market 10c higher; native steers $3.76 @6.25; southern steers $2.50@4.50; southern cows $2,00@3.25; native cows and heifers Developing Big Orchards. and started good bank accounts. A | reason why the average yleld for the Nevertheless, the question repeats Macon, Mo., Dec. 25.—‘‘The fruit- | and care, two of theessentials infrult | be increased to at least 40 bushels | society, the highly paid president of growers of Missour! are beginning to | raising. take commendable interest in the) «The eoclety’s winter meeting will | well established scientific methods in ideas in his head and nothing at all matter of sclentifically caring for/be held at Kansas City the 28th, | selecting seed and incultivation, and perhaps, in his pocket? : shetr orchards,” remarked C. H./29th aad 30th of this month, We/ the use of proper fertilizers. Dutcher, vice president of the State/ will have there experts from Ne- Geo. B. Eis, Horticultural Society, who was here! braska, Minnesota, Wiseonsin, Iili- Secretary Board of Agriculture. ae anexpert witnessin a caseagainst | nois and Arkansas, and every indica- Rep orts Shows Missouri 4 railroad for burning an orchard. | tion is that {t will be the largest and “They have found that {t pays to) best gathering in the soclety’s his- guard their trees and keep them well tory,” Post Dispateh. pruned. Under favorable climatic} The officers of the Horticultural| The salary of the Equitable Assur- conditions the orchard willpay much | Society are: President, Doctor J.C. | ance Society president is $80,000 a| eport issued by George B. Ellis, sec- Pa ar pears better than the ralsing of stock and| Whitten, Columbia; first vice presi | year. The President of the Mutual | etary of the State Board of Agricul- 500; market higher; beef steers $2.75@6.00; grain-growing, provided it fe well at-| dent, C. H. Dutcher, Warrensburg; | Lite gets $50,000. Other great cor- ture, states that the soil of Missourt| stockers and feeders $2.0004.60; cows and “That is the obstacle to the aver-| Parkville; treasurer, W. T. lourney, | Upper servants. A competent presi. | Of the other crop-growing States, as| Hogs—Receipts 5,500: market 10c higher; age farmer—he can turn his money | Marlonville; secretary, L. A. Good- | dentis counted as worth all the way over quicker in corn, pork and beef, man. and quite naturally favors these pro- ducts, but the apple man ts coming) Productiveness of Missouri Soil | T°°®!ve trom $1200 to $2500 a year, to the front. He is developing in Missouri the best article raised in Columbia, Mo., Dec, 23, 1905. | $4000, but the average salary {e the United States. “Already Missouri ie famous the} The productiveness of the soll of | maximum salary pald a professor is world over for her ‘Jonathans’ and} any State {s shown by the average | said to be $5500. In that part of ‘Grimes’s Golden,’ and experiments are now favorably progressing with a new appleknown as ‘The Delicious,’ which is larger than the ‘Jonathan’ and of a richer color than the ‘Gold- “The one thing in the way of Mis- souri fruit growers {a the absence of| ment of Agriculture, which shows the 8 law making {t compulsory upon all| average production of corn in Mis- orchard owners to spray their trees|souri during the last four years has regularly and to eradicate all roost-| been greater than that of any other ing places for mice and rabbits. of the great corn growing states ex- “The careful orchard man suffers) cept Illinols. The United States re- from the insets that are allowed to} port gives Missouri credit for pro- breed on the place of his chiftlees|ducing during the last four years neighbor, and all his hard work goes | 130.4 bushels peracre, or anaverage for nothing. The difference between | yield of 82.8 bushels. For the same properly looking after an orchard |four years 1902 to 1905, inclusive, and letting it grow up unattended to/| the average yield of corn in Iowa, is the difference between a good crop | one of the greatest corn states in the and no crop at ail. “Of late years the semiannual mé@t | less than an average yield for Mis- {ngs of the Horticultural Society}souri. In Nebraska another great have attracted increased attendance.|corn State during the same period The reporte of these meeting are pre-|the average yield was only 30.9 eerved with stenographic accuracy, | bushels per acre, or nearly 2 bushels reproducing every perplexing ques-|less than Missouri. In Kansas an- tion asked by the fruit grower and | other border State the average yield the answer of the expert, and form a/ was only 26 bushels or 6.8 bushels volume of considerable value to the| less than our own farmers produced. “In some of the couthern counties}that Missouri. soll and ‘Missouri % : ” . : . $2.00@5.00; stockers and feeders $2.75@4.00; tors, and some of them have paid off | the four years mentioned of trom 40| He {sa kicker, a knocker, an fmprac- | alle Mee: Calvan H.0001.00) Neeaen e 2504.85; western cows $2.35@3.! large mortgages on the home place, | to 80 bushels peracre and thereis no | ticable person, a faflure. Hoge Receipts 1000; market deo Mieke bulk of sales $5,056.20; heavy $5.15@6.25; packers $5.10@6.20; pigs and lights $4.76@ 5.10, Sheep—Receipts 3,000; market 10c higher muttons $4.50@6.00; lambs $.75@7.50; range wethers $5.50@6.50; fed ewes $4.75@6.25. woman has the patience for detail | entire State of Missouri sheuld not| itself: which one {a worth most to per acre, if our farmers will apply | thecorperation or the professor with Chiengo Live Stuck. Chicago, Dec. 26,—Cattle—Receipts 18,- QW; market strong; beeves $3.50@6.40; cows and heifers $1.50@4.75; stockers and feeders $2 26; Texans $3.50@4.25. ipts 20,000; market 10c higher; mixed and butchers $5.00@6.30; good heavy rough heavy $4.95@5.10; Mghts What Is He Worth. Soil Leads Other States, 860525; ise ¥1.700020; bulk of sales Sheep—Receipts 18,000; market strong sheep $4.00@5.90; lambs $4.85@7.75. Columbia, Mo., Dec. 25.—An official St. Lonis Live Stock, second vice president, W. G. Gano, | porations are equally liberal to their | !8 moreproductive than that of most | Nevers S2Giin: “exas, steers $2.7508.00; r d lights $4.50@5.25; packers $4. eee by f a reports Es: batehens yell at beey Re from $25,000 to $100,000 year. | !rom all sections of the country. Sheep—Receipts 1,20; market strong; The college professor inthe West| Mr. Ellis states that reports from ig eg aia lambs $%.25@7.50; Texans Washington show that the average production of corn in Migsouri dur- ing the last four years 130.4 bushels ; per acre, an average yield of 32.8 (Weekly Agricultural Letter.) nearer $2000. Even in the East the bushels. For the eame four years, 1902 to 1905, inclusive, the average yield of corn in Iowa, ene ot the gh oe market 5 to 100 Greatest corn States in the Union, is | higher; heavy $5.10@5.20; mixed $5.10@5.15; oaly 318, eae Dashed bey than Apap ra pigs $4.40@4.75; bulk of verage lor Missouri. ~ Omaha Live Steck. { Omaha Neb. Dec, 26.—Cattle--Receipts 1,800; market strong to 10c higher; native steers $3.75@6.75; cows and heifers $2.50@ 4.25; western steers $3.00@4.40; Texas steers $2.75@3.75; cows and heifers $2.00@8.40; canners $1.55@2.40; stockers and feeders A few are worth $3000, or even crop yields for a series of years, | the country the average is probably rather than by the total output of | not above $3500. the State. That the soil in Missour!} I¢ thus appears that Mr. Paul Mor- : {s more productive than most of the | ton is worth twenty times as much tn elena, anoth A f cg gg Wc ae other great crop growing states is|ae a Harvard professor—say Prof. State dari pe lover great corn clearly demonstrated by the offical} James, or Muensterberg, or Royce. md same period, the Ponca, Ue ewes $4.90@5.50; lambs $7.00@7.75. Id was only 30.9 bushele ort of the United States Depart-| Mr. McCurdy, who drew $150,000 | *Yer8e® vie oe a ei ns “ from the Muscal Life, was worth | Pe" 9¢re, or nearly two bushels less] sready December 1; May WM, July 3% about fitty times as much asthe pro- than Missouri. In Kansas, another a "0Q80; Nos iogee: Corser border State, the average yield was . ‘ Ne fessor of philosophy in the greatest cember 35%; May 35%; July, Cash No, ; American untvoraty. Aafor Western | OMY Sronty.atx bushels, or 6.8] mire Budi Ne, 2 Thue Bea professors, they are commercially duced PrO-| s1@02; No. 2 mixed 31%. too insignificant to mention in the 8 : Hille cage: “While eB pte See tek ee this official statement shows that| rea 87yG89; No. 3 red 85@87%; beg Miseourt soil and Missouri farm ers | £140; No. 3 hard 79@85; No. 1 Metal 0 Mer aor | mete nc expr, ttaca | SEE Sed Se ced a tangible fact, Other States, It also shows that the| sts No. 2 0; No.3 2% never produced @ tang noth- | mit of production of corn and: other | sic wae sire eset Desa, ing that could be weighed, measured, touched or eaten. Indeed, it may be crops has not yet been reached in| May ##%4- Oats—December 94@8%; Missouri, ies shames : questioned whether they are worth “Many farmers have made an aver- to soclety what they receive. All they give—what te {t?—Ideas, always rb 5 saa aed acd ideas, never a scheme or a syndicate, per acre, and there is no reason —_T or & department ‘he average yiid for the cathe cune, ay beeen No. 2 cash 31 The greatlaborers in the vineyards | °! Missouri should not be increased | Sy. aday ny to at least forty bushels per acre, it of soclety have something to show for their industry—cash, stocks and | Urfarmers will apply well establish. ed sclentific methods of selecting seed | ,.X2"52* City, bonds, country houste—facts, in %%4e ver doz. shies note) san onetoty neal and in cultivation and the use of Butter—Creamery, Proper fertilizers.” It it be objected that many of these Chicago Cash Grain. union, is only 81,8 or one bushel While this official statement shows energy | farmers are equal if not superior to