Z>'hc  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
June  17,  1910. 
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New  York  State  News 
Towns  To  Get  Road  Money. — The 
Secretary  of  State  has  begun  the  appor¬ 
tionment  of  automobile  fees  among  the 
counties  of  the  State  under  the  new  law 
which  provides  that  one-half  of  the  fees 
received  for  auto  registration  from  any 
county  shall  he  remitted  to  that  county. 
The  distribution  of  this  money  will  lie- 
gin  July  1.  The  town  board  and  the 
town  superintendent  of  highways  will 
determine,  subject  to  the  approval  of  the 
State  Highway  Commission,  the  places 
and  the  manner  in  which  the  county  al¬ 
lotment  shall  be  expended.  The  money 
thus  received  will  be  used  for  the  per¬ 
manent  construction  and  improvement  of 
town  highways.  The  average  amount 
per  county  outside  New  York  will  be 
about  .$9. 000.  Only  two  counties  will 
fall  below  $3,000  and  in  .‘17  it  will  run 
above  $5,000. 
Dairymen’s  Leasee  Active.  —  Last 
week  a  meeting  of  the  directors  of  the 
Dairymen’s  League  was  held  iq  Albany 
1o  consider  ways  and  means  for  getting 
more  money  for  milk  for  the  producers. 
The  present  juices  are  bandy  sufficient  to 
cover  cost  of  production  and  they  look 
u|inn  the  situation  as  serious.  The  exe¬ 
cutive  committee  is  to  devise  some  plan 
of  action  and  this  is  likely  to  he  some¬ 
what  drastic  in  its  nature.  The  league 
now  1ms  13.000  members  it  is  said,  ami 
seems  to  be  in  position  to  enforce  higher 
prices  for  the  producer. 
Cherry  Insects  Trotttjeesome. —  Re¬ 
port  comes  from  Chautauqua  County  that 
the  cherry  rod  bug  is  threatening  the  crop 
again  this  year.  Prompt,  action  is  neces¬ 
sary  to  save  the  crop.  One  of  the  lead¬ 
ing  growers  of  that  section  recommends 
the  following  solution  as  a  spray:  One 
fiiut  "Rlaek  Leaf  40”.  four  pounds  ar¬ 
senate  of  lead,  three  quarts  lime  sulphur 
<  uneentrate.  50  gallons  of  water.  The 
spraying  must  be  thorough.  The  ground 
under  the  trees  should  also  be  sprayed. 
Potato  Oi.aim  Against  Pail  road. — 
A  ease  of  considerable  interest  t"  po¬ 
tato  shippers  and  growers  was  heard  in 
the  New  York  City  court  a  short  time 
ago.  A  St.  Paul  firm  brought  suit 
against  the  New  York  Central  railroad  to 
recover  losses  on  three  ears  jiotatoes 
shipped  to  New  York  over  that  railroad. 
A  prospective  buyer  ordered  these  ears 
to  be  taken  to  the  Barclay  Street  sta¬ 
tion  for  inspection.  They  arrived  on  Feb. 
11.  but  the  next  day  was  a  holiday  so 
there  could  be  no  inspection.  The  ther¬ 
mometer  then  marked  25  to  30  degrees 
above  zero  but  then  the  temperature 
went  down  to  three  above  zero  and  froze 
the  tubers.  The  railroad  company  or¬ 
dered  the  potatoes  stored  and  finally  the 
St.  Paul  firm  ordered  their  New  York 
broker  to  sell  the  potatoes.  They  then 
sued  the  railroad  for  the  loss.  At  trial 
the  judge  refused  to  let  the  case  go  to 
the  jury  and  gave  the  plaintiff  judgment 
for  $1,742. 15.  The  judge  said  that  the 
ears  should  not  have  been  moved  without 
an  order  from  the  consignee.  The  rail¬ 
road  appealed  the  case. 
State  Aid  For  Fairs. — The  Depart¬ 
ment  of  Agriculture  lias  completed  the 
apportionment,  of  moneys  for  the  county 
and  town  agricultural  fairs  and  chocks 
will  he  forwarded  promptly  to  the  treas¬ 
urers  of  the  societies  entitled  to  receive 
the  moneys.  The  fairs  paid  out  in  pre¬ 
miums  last  year  the  sum  of  $323, 0!)1.36. 
Sixteen  societies  will  receive  the  limit 
of  $4000.  j.  w.  i). 
EVENTS  OF  THE  WEEK 
DOMESTIC.— Nine  thousand  long¬ 
shoremen  in  tin1  Pacific  coast  ports  went 
mi  strike.  June  1.  The  strikers  demand 
a  fiat  rate  of  55  rents  an  hour,  the  pres¬ 
ent  rate  being  50  cents,  and  an  over¬ 
time  rate  of  $1  an  hour.  More  than 
1.500  longshoremen  went  on  strike  at 
Los  Angeles.  All  lumber  companies  were 
tied  up  and  the  mills  have  been  closed. 
Work  by  the  wharf  companies  has  been 
abandoned. 
The  work  of  opening  the  public  road 
over  the  mountain  summit  to  Trtiokcc. 
(’al..  is  progressing  slowly  owing  to  the 
enormous  snowdrifts.  At  one  place  just 
east  of  Summit  station  the  snowsheds  of 
the  Southern  Pacific  were  under  75  feet 
of  frozen  snow.  A  shaft  sunk  by  a  rail¬ 
road  crow  from  the  surface  to  the  roof  of 
the  shed  is  75  feet,  in  depth.  The  ex¬ 
pedient  of  throwing  fresh  earth  upon  the 
snow  to  hasten  the  process  of  melting  is 
being  used  mi  both  sides  of  the  summit. 
After  six  years  the  work  of  a  clever 
crook  has  been  undone  and  a  valuable 
tract  of  land  near  ( 'harleston,  N.  D„ 
which  be  mortgaged  on  a  forged  paper 
has  been  restored  to  its  rightful  owner, 
Andrew  Byrnteson  of  Superior,  Wis. 
The  crook  convinced  a  North  Dakota 
banker  that  he  was  entitled  to  place  a 
mortgage  on  the  property  and  obtained  a 
loan  of  $700.  A  year  later  Byrnteson 
was  notified  by  the  bank  bis  interest  pay¬ 
ment  was  overdue.  The  swindler  had  as¬ 
sumed  the  real  owners  name. 
Equal  suffrage  won  in  Iowa,  June  5. 
by  35,000  votes.  It  carried  in  Council 
Binds.  Des  Moines  and  Sioux  City  of 
the  larger  cities  of  the  State.  Des  Moines 
giving  it  a  majority  of  over  2.000.  Only 
in  the  river  towns  of  east.  Iowa,  acknowl¬ 
edged  to  be  wet  in  tendencies,  was  suf¬ 
frage  beaten.  However,  the  vote  polled 
against  it  llieve  will  not  be  (sufficient  to 
offset  the  vote  ill  the  farm  districts. 
The  effectiveness  of  the  Harrison  drug 
act,  regulating  the  sale  and  use  of  mor¬ 
phine  and  other  habit,  forming  drugs,  was 
much  restricted,  dune  5.  by  a  decision  of 
the  United  States  Supreme  Court,  hold¬ 
ing  that  the  possession  of  such  drugs  by 
persons  not  specifically  authorized  to 
have  them  cannot  constitute  the  basis 
for  a  conviction  on  a  charge  of  conspir¬ 
acy.  The  decision  practically  nullifies 
sort  ion  eight  of  the  bill,  which  declares 
it  unlawful  for  any  person  not  authorized 
to  have  drugs  in  his  possession.  The 
suit  was  brought  by  the  United  States 
against  Jin  Fucy  Moy  in  the  Eastern 
District  Court  of  Pennsylvania.  The  de¬ 
cision  will  place  a  serious  obstacle  in  the 
way  of  achievement  of  the  moral  pur¬ 
poses  of  the  drug  net. 
Over  100  persons  arc  reported  dead,  sev¬ 
eral  hundred  were  injured  and  the  dam¬ 
age  to  property  is  estimated  at  $1,500,- 
060  as  the  result  of  a  tornado  which 
swept  over  Arkansas  June  5.  The  storm 
was  general  throughout  the  State,  and  ex¬ 
tended  into  Missouri,  Illinois,  and  Tennes¬ 
see.  The  town  of  dndsonia  was  virtually 
obliterated,  15  dead.  'Feu  dead  were  dis¬ 
covered  north  of  the  town.  Six  are  report¬ 
ed  killed  at  Red  Fork  and  three  at  Hot 
Springs.  Delark  was  wrecked  and  five 
arc  reported  to  have  lost,  their  lives  there. 
At  Morrilltnn,  where  three  persons  were 
killed,  few  buildings  remain  standing'. 
Greenland  also  suffered  severely  and  sev¬ 
eral  persons  were  killed.  Twenty  arc  re¬ 
ported  dead  at  lleber  Springs,  with  heavy 
property  loss.  Five  died  in  the  storm  at 
('allot.  White  County.  The  tornado  was 
the  most  severe  that  has  visited  the  State 
in  many  years.  Thousands  of  head  of 
rattle  were  killed  and  hundreds  of  farm 
buildings  were  wrecked. 
FARM  AND  GARDEN. — A  twenty- 
year-old  girl  from  the  Eastern  Shore  of 
Maryland,  whose  parents  are  "raising 
her  to  be  a  farmer."  proved,  June  1.  to  be 
the  best  judge  of  horse  flesh  of  veteri¬ 
nary  students  from  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania.  1  Delaware,  Pennsylvania 
Slate  College,  Rutgers  and  Williamson 
Trade  School.  She  is  Miss  Ruth  Clen- 
daniel.  daughter  of  George  Clondaniol.  a 
farmer  of  Still  Pond,  Mil,  Miss  Glen- 
daniel  was  winner  in  one  of  the  novelty 
classes  at  the  Devon,  Pa.,  Horse  Show. 
She  is  taking  a  course  in  agriculture  in 
the  Women’s  College,  affiliated  with 
Delaware  College,  at  Newark.  Delaware. 
The  Summer  Fruit  Growers’  Meeting 
of  the  Monroe  County  Farm  Bureau  will 
be  held  at  Hilton,  N.  Y..  July  21. 
The  appraisal  of  the  estate  of  Mrs. 
Edith  Rogers  Gellatly,  who  died  on  July 
17,  1013,  in  this  city,  shows  that  while 
she  left  the  income  from  stocks  valued 
at  *12.707  for  the  care  of  her  horses  and 
(logs,  the  only  animal  she  owned  at  the 
time  of  her  death  was  a  horse  at  White 
Plains,  appraised  at  $700.  In  making 
the  bequest.  Mrs.  Gellatly  directed  that 
upon  the  death  of  her  pets  the  principal 
of  the  fund  and  the  tin  used  income  should 
be  used  by  the  Society  for  the  Prevention 
of  Cruelty  to  Animals  in  finding  homes 
for  animals  and  in  preventing  cruelty. 
WASHINGTON. — Louis  D.  Bvamleis 
was  confirmed.  June  1.  as  an  Associate 
Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court.  The  vote 
was  47  to  22. 
The  House  passed  the  naval  apjiropria- 
tinu  bill,  .Tune  2,  carrying  more  than 
$256,000,000  for  const  ruction  and  main¬ 
tenance  of  the  navy  for  the  next  fiscal 
year.  By  a  narrow  margin  of  six  votes 
the  House  refused  to  recommit  the  bill 
and  instruct  the  Naval  Committee  to  in¬ 
clude  the  '‘bigger  building”  programme 
of  the  Republican  minority.  The  motion 
to  recommit  was  lost.  ISO  to  183. 
President  Wilson  signed  the  ITay- 
Chambevlain  army  reorganization  bill. 
June  3,  which  provides  for  a  gradual 
increase  in  the  standing  army  to  100, 
000  men  and  federalization  of  the  na¬ 
tional  guard.  The  bill  is  now  law,  but 
until  (lie  appropriation  bill  is  passed 
most  of  the  provisions  cannot  be  put  into 
effect.  Secretary  of  War  Baker  already 
has  started  bis  plans  for  enlisting  about 
15.000  additional  men  tbe  coming  year 
and  for  obtaining  1.500  new  second 
lieutenants,  mostly  by  examination  of 
civilian  applicants.  It  is  hoped  that  the 
provision  for  recruiting  through  50.000 
postofiices  in  the  United  States  will  solve 
the  recruiting  problem.  The  new  law 
allows  postmasters  a  bonus  of  $5  for 
every  accepted  recruit  they  turn  in.  Im¬ 
portant  features  include  an  appropria¬ 
tion  of  $20,000,000  for  a  government  ni¬ 
trate  manufacturing  plant,  establishment 
of  military  training  camps  for  volunteer 
citizens  and  creation  of  several  boards 
to  investigate  questions  of  preparedness. 
June  5  reports  from  Santo  Domingo 
stut ed  that  intrenched  rebels  were  fac¬ 
ing  small  detachments  of  American  mar¬ 
ines  and  the  Navy  Deportment  has  or¬ 
dered  1,060  additional  marines  from  San 
Diego  to  Santo  Domingo  city.  The  task 
of  jiutting  dow!i  the  threatened  revolu¬ 
tion  against  the  native  authorities  now 
looms  up  as  a  bigger  task  than  was 
contemplated.  American  marines  already 
occupy  Santo  Domingo  city,  Monte  Gris- 
ti  ami  Huerta  l'lata.  The  fort  at  Puerto 
Plata  was  taken  on  May  31  after  a  two 
hours  resistance  on  the  part  of  the  reb¬ 
els.  during  which  (’apt.  Herbert  J. 
llirshinger.  United  States  Marine  Corps, 
was  shot  through  the  head.  He  died 
later  of  his  wounds. 
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