1903 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
649 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 409 REARL STREET. . 
Events of the Week. 
DOMESTIC.—Fire in the Rock Island freight house at 
Chicago, Ill., August 27, caused a loss of $100,000. 
Less of life and much damage to crops and railway prop¬ 
erty resulted from an unusually heavy rainfall In Iowa, 
Kansas and Nebraska, August 27-30. Seven inches of rain 
fell in 24 hours in Omaha. The storm belt extends to the 
Atlantic coast. The crops in eastern Nebraska and west¬ 
ern Iowa are reported to have suffered considerably. 
Wheat and corn, it is estimated, will be 25 to 50 per cent 
less than last year. The Missouri River Valley from 
Missouri Valley to Pacific Junction, 15 miles south of 
Council Bluffs, was almost a lake. The damage at Council 
Bluff's is estimated at $200,000. H. H. Larue, of Corning, 
and A. R. Fash, a Clinton (Iowa) horseman, lost their 
lives while attempting to rescue a number of persons 
from the fair groundh, which were suddenly flooded. 
Larue was electrocuted while pushing a boat under an 
electric light wire and Fash was drowned. Three others 
are missing, and are thought to have lost their lives. 
The water reached a depth of 21 feet on the fair grounds 
and washed away a number of buildings. Fort Crook 
City, seven miles from Omaha, was five feet under water 
August 2, and most of the inhabitants were living in 
tents.Three masked robbers killed two men and 
wounded a third at the offices of the Chicago City Rail¬ 
way Company, Sixty-first and State Streets, Chicago, Au¬ 
gust 30. The thieves escaped with $3,000. and it is thought 
that one of them was wounded by the men who attempted 
to protect the money.Representatives of the 
Marine Hospital Service are in consultation with leading 
business and commercial men of San Francisco in regard 
to a proposition to abolish Chinatown, the famous quarter 
of that city. Three years ago bubonic plague appeared in 
Chinatown, and although the existence of the scourge 
was not admitted by the State and municipal authorities 
until long after the situation had been considered by the 
Marine Hospital Service, there has been for a year or 
more most cordial cooperation between the city and 
Federal officers in their efforts to stamp out the disease. 
The attempt has been only partly successful, however, 
although the most rigid sanitary measures have been 
practiced. Several months ago Mexico and Ecuador de¬ 
clared a quarantine against San Francisco, and State 
boards of health all over the United States condemned 
the hygienic conditions of Chinatown and publicly de¬ 
plored the danger of a spread of the plague to other 
States. The Marine Hospital Service is satisfied that the 
situation cannot be permanently improved unless China¬ 
town is abolished. 
ADMINISTRATION.—Secretary Hitchcock, of the In¬ 
terior Department, has completed his plans for a thor¬ 
ough investigation of affairs in Indian Territory. A man 
from private life will be chosen to conduct the rigid in- 
fluiry, this step being taken to make the investigation 
more searching and disinterested and to give the ultimate 
finding more credence with the public. Pending the in¬ 
vestigation. Secretary Hitchcock has canceled all sales 
of land made prior to the time that the new regulations 
went into effect. There were 429 of these deeds, calling 
for an aggregate payment of $369,(X)0. All of these instru¬ 
ments, with the checks, have been returned to the pur¬ 
chasers, and the prices received on inherited lands in¬ 
dicate that under the new regulations the prices paid will 
exceed the old prices by from 15 to 125 per cent. The 
secretary has discovered that a number of officeholders 
are stockholders and officers in land combines, which 
stood to clear large profits on property purchased at low 
figures from the Indians. He has a letter from former 
Revenue Collector Cobb, who had an opportunity to enter 
a combination of this character, and asked for an opinion 
as to the propriety of such a step. He was promptly in¬ 
formed that the Department did not countenance such 
conduct by an official, so he resigned his Government 
position to enter the combination. 
GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.-The insurrection in 
Macedonia has made progress, the insurgent bands taking 
a solemn oath to die if necessary in the cause of liberty. 
Additional reserves have been called out. Insurgents 
captured the town of Klissura. but at last accounts 10 
battalions of Turkish troops were marching to recapture 
the place. Three Turkish camps in the vilayet of Ad- 
rianople were burned and the Turkish barracks at Ghiok- 
tepe was blown up, 60 soldiers being killed. The United 
States cruisers Brooklyn and San Francisco sailed from 
Genoa for Beirut to protect American interests. United 
States Minister Leishman has been notified by the Porte 
that five arrests have been made at Beirut in connection 
with the shooting that started the report that Deputy 
United States Consul Magelssen had been killed. It is 
a.sserted by Turkish officials that no attempt was made 
on the life of Magelssen, and that the firing was in cele- 
biation of a native marriage. Nevertheless Minister 
Leishman .Remands conclusive proof of this. Mr. Leish- 
m.an is making an effort for a general clearing up of 
American affairs in dispute at Constantinople. Ameri¬ 
cans there believe that the sending of the fleet to Turkish 
waters is not due solely to the Magelssen affair, but to 
the general dissatisfaction at Washington over Turkey’s 
failure to carry out her promise in several instances. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The Grangers’ Interstate Ex¬ 
hibition closed at Williams Grove, Pa., August 28. During 
the week 100,000 people were at the grove. Arthur Kirk, 
of Pittsburg, spoke August 28 on “How to Get the Best 
Road in the World W^ithout Taxes.” 
'The experiment of dipping 10,000 steers in vats filled 
with Beaumont crude oil to relieve them of fever ticks 
v/a’s tried recently at Ozona, Tex. It is thought that the 
oil will be an effective eradicaior of the ticks. 'The cattle 
are owned by M. Halff & Bro. 
The New Jersey State Board of Health wants to abolish 
horse troughs. An investigation has shown that public 
troughs spread gla,nders. The board wants to have stand¬ 
pipes instead of troughs and have every driver carry his 
own pail. Troughs have already been abolished in New¬ 
ark. Paterson and Bayonne. 
Frederick Law Olmsted, the distinguished landscape 
architect, died at Boston, Mass., August 28, aged 82. He 
was the landscape architect of the Columbian Exposition, 
and also laid out Central Park, New York; Prospect 
Park, Brooklyn; Golden Gate Park, San Francisco; Fair- 
mount Park, Philadelphia; Mount Royal. Montreal; South 
I’ark, Chicago; the great chain of parks in Boston; Belle 
Isle Park, Detroit, and many other parks and grounds 
connected with private estates or public institutions. 
The executive committee of the Illinois Farmers’ In¬ 
stitute concluded a meeting at Decatur, August 30, hav¬ 
ing been called to perfect plans for the State Farmers’ 
Institute round-up meeting to be held in that city next 
February. Classes in live stock, cow breeding, poultry, 
horticulture and domestic science were arranged for, and 
the best talent available from the agricultural colleges 
of the United States will be secured as instructors. 
The Society of American Florists, in annual session at 
Milwaukee, Wis., August 18-21, selected St. Louis. Mo., 
as their next place of meeting. Over 1,000 delegates were 
present, representing all sections of the country. Philip 
Breltmeyer, of Detroit, Mich., was elected president of 
the Society. 
Apples are almost a total failure; peaches about one- 
fourth crop. Onions are almost a failure; a few reports 
of good crops, for which good prices are realized. Hay 
was a larger crop than the average; not all gathered on 
the bottom lands yet on account of the wet weather. 
Pears, plums and apricots are a total failure; garden 
truck very good. Corn has made very good growth, but 
late corn is not earing well. Rye and wheat were about 
as large as usual; stock is not doing very well on account 
of the wet, cold rains. h. v. 
Orange Co., N. Y. 
Southeast Nebraska has no apples to speak of. North 
of the Platte River in Douglas, Dodge. Washington and 
Burt counties there is a partial crop; no especial disease 
except what would be noticed on a very few apples. 
Nebraska Horticultural Society. c. h. Barnard. 
WEST VIRGINIA APPLES.—The heavy freeze of early 
Spring ruined the fruit crop in most sections of the State. 
In the eastern pan-handle, however, which is the chief 
fruit section of the State, the injury was not serious. 
Peaches have been a very light crop in most places. The 
higher altitudes of the State, especially the banner peach 
country in Morgan County, have produced a fair crop of 
peaches. There will be probably about 200,000 barrels of 
apples in West Virginia this year, about 150,000 barrels 
of which will come from Berkeley and Jefferson counties, 
there is a fair crop in the northern pan-handle, an un¬ 
usually fine crop in the eastern pan-handle, a fair crop 
in the Green Brier Valley, and very few anywhere else 
in the State. I have just come from a trip through the 
eastern pan-handle and I must say the fruit is the best 
that I have ever seen, especially the York Imperial, which 
is the leading variety of that section. Ben Davis does 
not show up quite so well, but is still very good. There 
is practically no disease on the apples in this section, and 
there has seldom been a year when the fruit has been 
so free from worms. Apple growers are confidant of 
good prices, and are now holding off for about $2.25 to 
$2.50 per barrel, delivered on cars. This is certainly West 
Virginia’s year on apples. I might say that this eastern 
pan-handle country will have, at the rate new orchards 
have been planted, close to a million barrels of apples 10 
or 12 years from now. It is a wonderfully good section 
for apples, especially for York Imperial. 
West Virginia. g_ pi.etchkr. 
BUSINESS BITS. 
Every farmer, breeder and stock grower would like to 
have Summer pasture for his stock the year around. A 
A 7 ^ seems to very nearly equal fresh pasture is the 
beet pulp. It has been thoroughly 
tested by leading dairymen, breeders and feeders of all 
kinds of stock. Write Alma Sugar Co., Alma, Mich. 
K PO'wer baling press has become a feature in the 
hay baling world. In one form or another, for the Eli 
press is made in 38 different sizes and styles, the machine 
IS found doing duty m all parts of the country as well 
many foreign parts. All readers know the Eli as 
the prize product of the Collins Plow Co., Quincy, Ill, 
who will send descriptive catalogue on request. 
w “Taylorstown, Pa., August 
J8, 1902. I treated 35 lambs with Toxallne, drenching them 
three times. It certainly will do all that is claimed; it 
woud surprise anyone to see the change in the lambs In 
recommend it to destroy the 
WnrT‘ brothers.’’ “Toxallne” and “Summers 
Worm Powders are manufactured and sold by F. S, 
Burch & Co., 144 Illinois St., Chicago. 
^ broad distinction between the thrift that 
“P money against requirements of the 
P^l®s up wealth as the miser 
hoards his gold. Every man and woman with a spark of 
independence looks forward to the time when they can 
point to a snug little competence and feel that it’s their 
A as they please. This is the spirit that prompts 
the wisdom of a bank account. The banks of to-day do 
Uiese savings as a compliment to 
honesty, they pay for them in the shape of four per cent 
interest compounded semi-annually. This means a ma¬ 
terial growth to your bank account without effort on your 
part, and this accrument of Interest is not the least pleas- 
of the saving habit. These are prosperous times 
and there is really no excuse for anyone not having a 
savings account. Banking by mail has recently become 
so popular and general that savings banks have effected 
a system that makes this method absolutely safe It 
saying that everyone wants to benefit by 
the highest rate of interest consistent with safety so if 
your home banking facilities do not afford this, y6u can 
easily become a depositor with some strong bank that 
does, by taking advantages of the ’ Banking by Mall’’ 
system. ’The Pittsburg Bank for Saving, Pittsburg Pa 
IS one of the reliable institutions In this line. Your monev 
will earn four per cent in this bank and be just as safe 
as it would be in your local hank. Write for booklet 
'R Y and get full particulars. 
