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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Events of the Week. 
DOMESTIC.—A mine explosion caused by fire damp oc¬ 
curred at Black Diamond, Wash., October 1, killing 32 
men. The accident took place 1,600 feet below the sur¬ 
face.A colony of Oklahoma agriculturists is 
being established on Red Creek, several miles south of 
Florence, Col., and IS farms have been filed on. The 
farmers commenced the work of excavating for an irri¬ 
gating ditch which will be two miles long, 30 feet wide 
at the bottom, and three feet deep. As soon as.the ditch 
is finished they will make a reservoir which will cover 20 
acres of ground*and will hold 20 feet of water in the deep¬ 
est place. There are several thousand acres of good 
farming land in that vicinity.Congressman 
.Tames A. Tawney, of Minnesota, who fathered the Taw- 
ncy anti-oleo 1:'!, has been renominated in spite of bitter 
opposition from those regarded as administration leaders 
in his State. Mr. Tawney led the insurgent Republicans 
of the House in the late sessions of Congress against 
both Speaker Henderson and his committee on rules, and 
the efforts of President Roosevelt to coerce the Republi¬ 
cans into his scheme for 20 per cent reduction of the 
tariff on raw sugar. Mr. Tawney has a large beet-sugar 
constituency, and it was particularly to maintain the 
integrity of that great agricultural industry that he 
stood up and fought both the Speaker and the President. 
. . . . The fall of an elevator in a shoe factory at 
t.ynn, Mass., October 3, killed two persons and injured 11 
others.October 5 toll-gate raiders dynamited 
the toll house at Brooklyn Bridge, Ky. Mrs. Richard 
Rue, wife of the toll collector, was dangerously injured 
by the explosion. The bridge spans Kentucky River, and 
is the outlet for people of Mercer and Jessamine counties. 
. . . . Four of the most prominent officials and citizens 
of Lake County, Mich., and D. II. Miller, of Chicago, were 
arraigned at Grand Rapids October C before United States 
Court Commissioner Potter on a charge of running a 
lottery and promoting it through the fraudulent use of 
the United States mails. The lottery scheme was intend¬ 
ed to boom the village of Baldwin and to dispose of lots. 
The lottery was broken up a couple of months ago, but 
it is alleged that it has been conducted quietly since then. 
. . . . The Hartley Grain Company's big elevator at 
Goodland, Ind., burned down October 4, with 300,000 
bushels of oats. The loss is about $50,000, partly covered 
by insurance.A large coal barge lying off Eliza- 
bethport, X. J., October C, was boarded by pirates who 
terrorized the captain and stole 10 tons of coal. 
Fire, in a downtown business building in Chicago October 
3 caused a loss of $110,000.An important decision 
was handed down October 7 in the United States Circuit 
Court of New York by Judge Lacombe, in which he holds 
that a citizen of Porto Rico is not a citizen of the United 
States, and as such entitled to land here without inter¬ 
ference from the immigration authorities, but is an alien 
within the meaning of the law. 
LABOR.—The coal strike conference in President 
Roosevelt's sick room in the temporary White House, 
October 3, resulted in total failure, and the two parties 
were, to judge by their manner and words, further apart 
than ever. The miners offered to put their men back at 
work immediately, provided the operators would agree 
to leave the issues to President Roosevelt to decide and 
agreed to abide by his decision or by the decision of a 
tribunal to be appointed by him. The operators rejected 
this proposition utterly and would consent to nothing 
(hat involved any recognition of the Miners’ Union. 
They offered to make concessions, but insisted on leaving 
each employer free to deal with his own men. The rep¬ 
resentatives of the miners claimed that the main question 
was the public need for fuel, and Mr. Mitchell argued 
that acceptance of his proposition would relieve the pub¬ 
lic distress. He maintained that whatever might be the 
merits of the strike, the question of the people’s need 
for coal would be instantly settled, and he laid stress on 
the fact that lie did not propose to keep the men on strike 
until the President’s award was made known, but was 
willing and anxious to put them to work at once and let 
them keep on mining coal until Mr. Roosevelt’s decision 
or that of his tribunal was made. The operators insisted 
that to allow any such settlement of the case would be 
to surrender all that they were fighting for. Some of the 
operators sugested that, instead of dealing with Mitchell, 
(he President should send the army at once to Pennsyl-t 
vania. Mr. Baer was the first speaker, and he hinted at 
this. Mr. Thomas gave a stronger suggestion, and Mr. 
Markle made it stronger, lie openly demanded in so 
many words that the President “put the Federal troops 
in the field.” The same idea was carried out by the 
others.Twenty-five hundred miners in the em¬ 
ploy of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company, in Ala¬ 
bama, struck October 2 on account of the refusal of the 
operators to collect for the United Mine Workers the 
weekly assessment for the anthracite strikers in Penn¬ 
sylvania.A detail of soldiers, October 5, found 
in the house of a striker near the Grassy Island Colliery, 
in the Lackawanna Valley, 1,200 rounds of cartridges for 
shotguns.The tracks leading to the Silver 
Creek colliery, near New Philadelphia, were blown up 
with dynamite October 5. There were rumors of plots 
to wreck tracks in the Panther Creek Valley, and a 
guard of troops was maintained at night.The 
entire National Guard of Pennsylvania, nearly 10,000 
men, was ordered out by Gov. Stone October 6, with in¬ 
structions that all men who desire to work, and their 
familities, have ample protection.James Lewis, 
president of the United Mine Workers’ local union, and 
Henry Jenkins, a railroad station agent, were arrested 
at Tower City, Pa., October C, charged with recent dyna¬ 
mite outrages in the. Schuykill coal region. . . . Nine 
hundred miners employed by the Tennessee Coal, 
Iron & Railway Company at Blocton, Ala., struck Oc¬ 
tober 6. The Blue Creek miners to the number of 800 held 
a meeting to decide whether or not they will pay the 
assessment made for the anthracite strikers. The com¬ 
pany claims that a large number of the Blue Creek min¬ 
ers, arc opposed to the assessment and l’avor continuing 
work. . . . President Roosevelt made another effort to 
settle the coal strike October 7 by promising that if the 
miners will resume work he will appoint a commission 
to investigate their condition, and will do everything in 
his power to obtain a settlement of the controversy in 
accordance with the commission's report. The Mine 
Workers’ officials were not disposed to view this favor¬ 
ably. . . . Notwithstanding that Shenandoah is the 
headquarters of General Gobin, and that many troops 
are there, two bold dynamite outrages were committed 
October 7. The fronts of the houses of John Bulravitz 
and Antony Sovolosky, non-union workers, were de¬ 
stroyed. The dynamite was placed <yi the front window 
sills and under the porches, and the houses were badly 
wrecked and torn. At Sovolosky’s house no one was in¬ 
jured, but at the Bulravitz house, where Mrs. Bulravitz 
and her three children wore alone, the explosion was so 
severe that they were thrown about, and an oil lamp, 
which was shaken from the table, foil into the baby’s 
crib, setting fire to the little one’s clothing and severely 
burning him. He may die. Anthony Colsen, a non-union 
worker at the Henry Clay Colliery, was attacked by a 
large crowd October 7 while on the way to work and so 
badly beaten that he is reported to be dying. His skull 
was fractured and he was injured internally. The crowd 
got away before the deputies reached the scene. The 
family of John Keimonewski, of Edwardsville, a wife 
and three children, applied to the United Charities for 
aid October 7 and were taken in. On October 5, while 
Keimonewski was at work, a gang attacked the house, 
broke in the front door and windows and smashed all 
the household furniture and cooking utensils. When the 
young son attempted to interfere to protect his mother 
and little sister, he was assaulted and a hole cut in the 
back of his head. He was later found senseless. Mrs. 
Keimonewski was knocked down and kicked and dragged 
round by the hair, and driven from the house. The fam¬ 
ily sought refuge at the house of a Mrs. Gray, where the 
boy, Leon, was attended by a physician. The Grays felt 
it was not safe to harbor them any longer, so they were 
taken to the United Charities until such time as a house 
-•ould be secured. 
THE POTATO CROP . 
Our potatoes are a Summer crop and arc of course all 
off the market except Fall crop, which is used for seed 
purposes. We are depending now upon the West for our 
supply of Irish potatoes. At present the prices are rul¬ 
ing high, owing to being between the seasons. The Long 
Y.’hy Not Use this Key ?—Brooklyn Eagle. 
Island and western crops are not yet being cured, bu: 
T look for lower prices later on. j. e. britton. 
Norfolk, Va. 
There is a heavy crop, but stock will mostly be moved 
in next month or so, as there will be but a small amount 
put away for Winter. Hudson produce co. 
Hudson,. Wis.’ 
Our tracks have been fairly overloaded with potatoes 
from Wisconsin, Minnesota, Kansas and some from 
Michigan. As to the quality of the potatoes, they are poor 
keepers, too green, not matured, and we would not want 
any more for two weeks. YTc no reason for an ad¬ 
vance in price, as offerings are too .iberal. 
New Orleans, La. seessel, ashner & sugaiiman. 
So far as we have been able to learn there will be a 
good crop of potatoes, taking the country at large. Some 
sections report a short crop, but they are coming Into 
this market very freely, and prices are steadily declining. 
There was a temporary scarcity recently, owing to bad 
weather preventing shippers from loading. They arc be¬ 
ing offered very freely, and we do not see any indications 
of high prices for the present at least. 
Cleveland, Ohio. the kellt cfo. 
The potato crop in Mifflin County is under an average 
in acreage and in bushels per acre, selling at 25 and 30 
cents, mostly by growers afraid of rot. Others will hold 
for at least 50 cents, which they will likely get in the 
Winter. Much rot on low and heavy land. The supply 
is never equal to demand in the county, and many cars 
are shipped in; sometimes a car is bought up by some 
storekeeper and shipped out. v. d. s. 
Yeagertown, Pa. 
All our Summer crop of potatoes raised in Tennessee 
has gone into consumption, and we have been for some 
time Imying western stock; at present fine Rurals from 
Wisconsin at 45 cents per bushel bulk, delivered at Nash¬ 
ville. Our farmers around here are going to have fairly 
good crop of late or second-crop Red Triumph, but all 
of these will be saved for Spring seeding, few cars usually 
being shipped to Texas, but most of them being used 
around here. *'• a. lowe & co. 
Nashville. Tenn. 
The sweet potato crop in our section has been probably 
as large this year as heretofore, if not much larger. The 
growers commenced to market their crop much earlier 
than for some years past, and as the prices have been 
fairly good, the movement of sweets has been much larg¬ 
er up to this time of the season than probably ever be¬ 
fore. We think we are safe in saying that from two- 
thirds to three-fourths of the crop has already been 
moved. From all indications we do not anticipate that 
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prices will go much lower, and in fact, we are looking 
for quite an advance about the last of this month. 
Accomac Co., Ya. ■ a. j. m’matli. 
The potato crop in the western part of this State will 
not be as large as was anticipated a few weeks ago. Al¬ 
most every piece has been struck by the blight, killing 
the tops, and undoubtedly stopping the growth of the po¬ 
tatoes. From what we have heard we judge that when 
dug the potatoes will not run more than four to six to 
the hill, but these will be of normal size. We think this 
blight will reduce the crop at least 50 per cent. They are 
not offered as freely in this vicinity as they generally 
are at this time of the year. However, we are in receipt 
of large offerings from Minnesota and other northwestern 
sections. Those potatoes can be delivered in Rochester 
and other eastern points ’way below figures we have i > 
pay for potatoes grown here. t.. r.. itorton & co. 
Rochester, N. Y. 
In the vicinity of Des Moines and Prairie City, where 
potatoes are usually very abundant, the early varieties 
have all been of good quality, and there has also been 
a good quantity of them. We have had so very much 
rain, however, as well as heavy frosts at the time 
when the late varieties should be doing their best, that 
we are informed by reliable sources that the late varie¬ 
ties of potatoes will be very poor quality, and there will 
be less of them than there were in this State last season. 
From the large acreage that was planted to potatoes we 
fully believed we would not have to ship potatoes into 
this State this season, but judging from reports in re¬ 
gard to late varieties it is very evident we shall have to 
ship late potatoes in. davidson Bros. co. 
Dos Moines, Iowa. 
The late crop in this section of Wisconsin does not turn 
out as well as the early crop, which was an average one. 
Some farmers report a good yield, while the majority re¬ 
port a smaller late crop than for several years. The 
price being paid here is 20 to 22 cents, but farmers are 
very reluctant about selling at these figures, and only 
those needing money are selling. The general opinion is 
that the late crop is below the average and in conse¬ 
quence farmers, as a rule, are lidding their crop for 
higher prices. The onion crop here is above the average. 
The yield is from 400 to 450 bushels per acre, and of good 
quality. Prices opened at 30 cents and have gradually 
risen to 37 cents. Cabbage crop poor, the yield being only 
about 40 to 50 per cent of last year’s. Prices, too, are low 
owing to the large yield in other States, notably New 
York. a. I,, flatten. 
Green Bay, Wis. 
The crop in Michigan Is perhaps a little under the aver¬ 
age, but not a short crop by any means. Wisconsin and 
-Minnesota have good big crops. Such States as Illinois 
and Indiana have more potatoes perhaps than usual, but 
they are buying some now, and later will draw entirely 
-in the northern section for their supply. The New York 
crop is, we think, considerably affected with rot. We 
expect to see the Michigan potatoes move cast. We are 
not looking for any such prices as prevailed last year, 
but think that potatoes will bring reasonable prices, and 
consumption considerable heavier than last year. When 
one considers that importations are impossible unless at 
high prices, it seems reasonable to suppose that we may 
expect good fair figures for the crop during the entire 
season. The East Is now using a good many Wisconsin 
potatoes. That State is digging freely, as is Minnesota, 
but in Michigan the farmers have their ideas consider¬ 
able above prices one can obtain at present, consequent¬ 
ly there is little doing in that State. The market in <’bi- 
eago ranges from about 30 to 32 cents. 
Chicago, Til. albert miller - o. 
BUSINESS BITS . 
It is not only in implements and accessories for the 
farm that the Cash Supply & Mfg. Co., Kalamazoo, 
Mich., take the lead, but also in the various things that 
are needed and used in every home. 
Half your fuel saved means a good deal to most fam¬ 
ilies this year, and this is what the Rochester Radiator 
Co., 39 Furnace St., Rochester, N. Y., promise to do for 
you. Write for full particulars about it. 
While coal and other fuels are so high many families 
can use oil for heating and even cooking purposes. The 
Derrick Oil Co., Titusville, Pa., offers to sell oil by the 
barrel to consumers at reasonable prices. Write for par¬ 
ticulars. 
Make the baby comfortable and happy with one of 
Glascock’s baby jumpers, rocking chair bed and high chair 
combined. This is described in a beautifully illustrated 
booklet which will be mailed free if you ask for it. Ad¬ 
dress Glascock Bros. Mfg. Co., Box 53, Muncie, Ind. 
We should like to call our readers’ attention to the 
annual subscription announcement of the Youth’s Com¬ 
panion on another page. This is an excellent paper for 
the older members of the family as well as the young 
folks. Those subscribing now will got the remainder of 
this year free, which includes the Thanksgiving, Christ¬ 
mas and New Year's numbers. 
MASSACHUSETTS CORN.—In its crop report for Sep¬ 
tember, the State Board of Agriculture says that on, the 
whole Indian corn is one of the poorest crops ever se¬ 
cured. The frosts of the first week in September severe¬ 
ly injured the crop on high land in some sections, practi¬ 
cally none of the crop ripened at that time, and even 
with the absence of frost from that time to the time of 
making returns much still remains to mature. That which 
has ripened is not well eared, and in almost all cases less 
than an average crop will be secured. The stover is fair¬ 
ly well developed, and should be of good nutritive value 
where not injured by frost. 
CALIFORNIA NOTES.—Lima beans are being thrash¬ 
ed and hauled away for shipment as fast as possible. 
Sugar beets are being gathered and sent to the factory, 
so all hands are busy who have any desire to work. 
Walnut pickers are busy, too, so farmers have all they 
can do and help is not plentiful. Almost all crops are 
below an average where not irrigated. No rain for six- 
months to do vegetation much good, but we have a gen¬ 
erous supply of the fruits, grains, etc., and are hoping 
that next year will give us more rain. Much time and 
money have been spent to develop water but as with other 
things, we fall below our expectations, and disappoint¬ 
ment follows. Weather pleasant, no very serious earth¬ 
quakes, so we wilt go ahead and hope for the best. 
Santa Barbara, Cal. o. m. c. 
