1906. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
27 i 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK . 
DOMESTIC.—According to the recent municipal elections 
in Vermont, there will be fewer than 30 out of 246 towns 
and cities in Vermont where liquor can be legally sold the 
coming year. Four counties, Caledonia, Orleans. Essex and 
Orange, have voted solidly for no license, and in three others 
there is only one town each in the license column. This is 
a gain of one county and about 12 towns for the temper¬ 
ance forces. The only cities to vote in favor of licenses are 
Burlington and Rutland, the majority in the former being 
only 197. . . . The grand jury presented its report at 
Caldwell, Idaho, March 6, to Judge Smith in the District 
Court, returning indictments for murder against Charles H. 
Moyer, William D. Haywood, George A. I'ettibone, Harry 
Orchard and Steve Adams. A separate indictment covering 
the same charge was returned against Jack Simpkins, who is 
not yet in custody. The confession of Steve Adams re¬ 
veals the foulest of crimes by the inner circle of the Western 
Federation. He insists that Collins and Barney were killed 
on orders from Federation headquarters in Denver. Honey 
and Smith were done away with upon instructions of the 
Inner Circle of the Telluride Miners’ Union, according to 
Adams. Barney, Mahoney and Smith, the men who disap¬ 
peared mysteriously from Telluride. were cremated in a lime 
kiln on the outskirts of the city. This explains why the long 
and careful search of the surrounding country made by the 
authorities and others was not successful. When Smith dis¬ 
appeared, his family, friends and secret societies made search 
for him in all parts of the country. Rewards were offered 
for the recovery of his body. His murderers gave it out that: 
he had eloped. No one who knew him believed this. Although 
he was heavily insured, the widow could not recover without 
evidence of death. Now she may get the insurance. 
Former State Senator George A. Green of New York, who 
lias been on trial on the charge of conspiring to defraud the 
Government, was acquitted March S. Other indictments of a 
similar character are pending against Mr. Green. Mr. Green 
is the first man indicted for complicity in the postal frauds 
who has been acquitted. It is supposed that the verdict 
was due to a belief by the jury that the Government had 
failed to establish that the accused dealt with Beavers, in¬ 
dicted as a co-conspirator, with any knowledge that payment 
of commissions to Beavers on time recording machines pur¬ 
chased for use in post offices was a crime. Beavers, who was 
chief of the division of salaries and allowances in the 
Post Office Department, pleaded guilty and is now serving 
a sentence of two vears in the penitentiary. . . . The 
demands of the anthracite mine workers have been rejected 
in toto by the committee representing the operators, who re¬ 
fuse absolutely to make an agreement of any kind with the 
United Mine Workers of America. The demands of the 
miners were for a written agreement for one year with the 
organization, the eight-hour day, a uniform scale of wages 
throughout the anthracite regions, an increase of 10 per 
cent to men working under contract and an additional 10 
jer cent to all men using safety lamps, the weighing of coal 
n all mines, with all payments on the basis of a ton of 
2,240 pounds; the deduction by the owners of a certain per¬ 
centage of each miner's wages to be paid into the union as 
his dues, and the abrogation of the board of conciliation. 
. . Six deputy United States marshals were ambushed 
near Kansas, I. T., March 11, by the Wickliffe gang of des¬ 
peradoes and three of the officers were killed outright. The 
Wickliffes, who are full blood Indians, are only three in num¬ 
ber, hut according to the report of the affair they were as¬ 
sisted by practically the entire full blood population of the 
district. The region where the killing took place is moun¬ 
tainous, and the officers were caught in a trap from which 
escape appeared impossible, but they fought desperately. 
Three of their number went down and all six of their horses 
were killed. Marshal Darrough has asked the authorities 
to offer $1,000' reward for death or capture of each of the 
Wickliffes. They are brothers and sons of John Wickliffe, 
ex-Judge of the Supreme Court of the Cherokee Nation. 
Charles Wickliffe, the oldest of the boys, has" been tried twice 
for murder, once for killing his own brother, but he was ac¬ 
quitted each time. The Wickliffes constitute what is prob¬ 
ably the last band of outlaws in Indian Territory. The 
other full bloods assist them because all the Indians are 
out of money and are suffering, Government regulations hav¬ 
ing tied up their supplies. . . . Miss Susan B. Anthony, 
the distinguished advocate of woman's rights, died at Roch¬ 
ester, N. Y., March 13, aged 86. 
lTIIUIl’PINES.—Fifteen Americans, three members of the 
native constabulary, and 600 Moros were killed in a battle 
near the City of Jolo, which lasted from March 6 to March 8. 
Four American army officers, one naval officer, one officer of 
constabulary, 32 enlisted men of the army, 31 members of the 
naval contingent, and 13 members of the native constabulary 
were wounded. The battle was fought on a high mountain 
near Jolo, capital of the Sulu Islands. The mountain is 
called Dajo. it is a lava cone 2.100 feet high, with a crater 
at its summit. The Moros occupied the crater and the ap¬ 
proaches to it. The latter, which are extremely steep, were 
well fortified. The American troops stormed these ap¬ 
proaches, (he artillery being lifted by block and tackle to the 
lip of the crater. The rebel Moros were wiped out. The 
ti()0 men killed were the entire force which opposed the 
Americans. 
ADMINISTRATION.—-A resolution and a bill designed to 
cure the defects President Roosevelt pointed out in the Till¬ 
man resolution for the investigation by the Inter-State Com¬ 
merce Commission of railroad discriminations and monopo¬ 
lies were introduced March !) in the House, the resolution 
by Representative Townsend of Michigan and the bill by 
Representative Gillespie of Texas. Mr. Townsend's resolu¬ 
tions provides an appropriation of $50,000 to carry on the 
investigation and the Gillespie bill makes an appropriation 
of $100,000 for the same purpose. The resolution provides 
that the Inter-State Commerce Commission shall have under 
the Tillman-GfTTespie resolution all the power to subpoena 
witnesses, to compel them to testify, and to produce docu¬ 
mentary evidence, which it enjoys under the Inter-State 
Commerce act. It also provides that witnesses shall enjoy 
the same rights and immunities in this investigation that 
they enjoy under the Inter-State Commerce act. Similar pro¬ 
visions are made in the Gillespie bill. 
FOREIGN.—March 10 an explosion in a coal mine at 
Courrit'res, near Calais, France, killed 1,200 men. The mines 
of Courribres are the third largest in France. They are 
three miles from Lens, and cover an area of 14,000 acres. 
There are 12 pits. Shortlv before 2 o'clock in the morning 
there was a terrific explosion in pits 2, 3 and 4. It was so 
violent that the cages in the shafts were blown out. wrecking 
the structures at the mouths of the pits. The man in 
charge of the windlass at shaft 4, 1,500 yards away, was 
blown by the rush of gas against a stairway and killed in¬ 
stantly. The distress in the district must of necessity be 
lamentable unless it is speedily relieved. In some villages 
not a single man is left. Salaumines alone lost 500 men. 
The loss to the mining company, which is legally obliged to 
pay pensions of three-quarters per cent of their husband's 
wages to the widows of victims, is estimated at upward of 
6,000,000 francs ($1,200,000). 
CATTLE FOR BELGIUM. -Belgian cattle raisers see an 
enormous future in the Belgian market for American lean 
cattle, owing to the increasing demand, inadequately sup¬ 
plied from France and Holland. In all countries save Hol¬ 
land and France the cattle must be slaughtered within 72 
hours after arrival. Interested parties have petitioned the 
Belgian Minister of Agriculture to make an exception in the 
case of American cattle, as the French and Dutch have. 
The Dutch cattle are affected with tuberculosis, hence the 
desire for American cattle. Sixty thousand could be con¬ 
sumed annually. Representations in support of the move¬ 
ment have been made to the American Government. 
ELECTRIC LIGHTS ON FARMS. 
It would seem from the following note taken from the 
Aberdeen American that South Dakota taripers need not 
live In darkness. 
“The first electric light plant run by an artesian well 
on any farm In this part of the State is in operation on 
the farm of Lyman Turner just west of the .Tim, opposite 
Columbia, L. L. Narregang, of the Hub City Electric Com¬ 
pany, installed the plant on Tuesday of this week. Mr. 
Turner has had a motor of his own make on the well for a 
year or more, which has been a success, and it is now 
being used to generate the current. It is somewhat larger 
than other motor wheels which have been experimented 
with less successfully. The well is a tsvo-inch one of good 
pressure, but the wheel is driven at 450 revolutions per 
minute, just right to generate the required current, while 
a three-fourths inch stream is diverted to supply the house. 
It is confidently claimed that this indicates that any inch 
and a quarter well of fair pressure with as good a motor 
wheel as Mr. Turner’s will operate a plant like this one. 
This dynamo supplies 12 incandescent tamps, one in each 
of the five rooms In the house, one in the cellar, one in 
the power house, one in the door yard and balance in hay 
loft, barn and stables. No artificial light approaches so 
near actual sunlight as this electric light. No dangerous 
lanterns needed, no broken globes, lamp chimneys or man¬ 
tles to be replaced every few days. It Is cheap, safe and 
sanitary. It can burn till night in a sleeping room without 
danger or explosion or befouling the air. Every farmer 
can have this light either by force of artesian flow or 
engine run by cheap untaxed alcohol. With Mr. Turner’s plant 
a great saving of fuel, especially in Summer is practicable. 
The electric stove is a simple affair, being a disk about 
15 inches in diameter, which can be kept at a white heat 
if desired. Over this disk or burner a circular oven with 
several compartments above each other can be placed. The 
capacity of Mr. Turner’s dynamo is 600 watts, 400 of 
which are required to operate the stove, so that while the 
stove is in use only two lights can be used.” 
A Better Way 
to Better 
Corn 
Our newest cultivator possesses every 
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other cultivator and in addition has several 
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The Keystone 
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is all steel and malleable iron. 3, 4 or S shovels may be used 
on either gang which moves in unison with its wheel or may 
be operated independently. Gangs always run level— 
whether horses are large or small they are always the 
same. Beams widen and narrow by easily handled cen¬ 
ter lever which gives parallel movement of gang shovels. 
New Patent Pivot Axles 
mark the greatest step in advance . . 
ever made in pivot axle construc¬ 
tion. Note the position and form 
in the separate cuts, showing 
both open and closed. Pivots are 
placed where widest range of 
movement is afforded. Always works in oil—note 
oil cup. A broad turning base holds all firm and 
prevents wabbling while operator is able to turn the 
wheels almost at right angles. No other cultivatoTso per¬ 
fectly adapted to work in crooked rows and dodging ob¬ 
structions. Levers shift center under any weight so as 
to balance perfectly. No bearing down on horses* necks and no flying Up 
of tongue at end of row . The most complete and perfect working lever 
system ever placed on any cultivator. Either gang or frame hitch. 
Write for special circular describing in detail. 
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