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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Eveiits of the Week. 
DOMESTIC.—Assistant Attorney General Lightfoot 
brought suit April 25 in the State district court at Austin, 
under the Texas anti-trust laws, against the Fort Worth 
Livestock Exchange, the Fort Worth Stockyards Company, 
the Armour Packing Company and Swift & Co. The for- 
feiture or the charters of all the concerns is asked, and the 
infliction of cash penalties of nearly .$1,000,000 is demanded. 
There are also 21 suits tiled against persons and firms con¬ 
nected with these four large concerns. The filing of these 
smtsis the result of investigations made at Dallas and Fort 
\\ orth. It i§ known that papers are being prepared to start 
suits against alleged oil trusts, printing trusts and flour 
trusts. ... . Thirteen persons were killed and many 
seriously injured by a tornado which swept over the little 
town of Bellevue, Texas, April 2G. The place is practically 
wrecked. After the storm had razed every business building 
tire started and completed the work of destruction. Only 
four houses in the place are reported to have escaped. The 
tornado covered an area of eight miles wide and destroyed 
tarm houses and crops. A carload of provisions has been 
,i ro ™ T or * Worth, and tents were forwarded from 
Wichita balls. .The property loss will probably reach $200,- 
(l< 2. • • ^ le Enited States court of appeals April 2G 
affirmed the conviction of Charles H. Brooks, the St Louis 
get-rich-quick promoter. Brooks will now have to serve a 
sentence of seventeen months and fifteen days in the Jef- 
lerson City penitentiary and pay a fine of $450 imposed bv 
Judge Rogers at the trial in the United States district 
com'* last June. Brooks is out under an appeal bond of 
•SIO.ooo furnished by the National Surety Company. Brooks 
was a witness against Senator Burton of Kansas last Novem¬ 
ber. It was claimed at the time by Burton’s counsel that 
tlio government had promised Brooks immunity if he testi- 
tied. Col. D. I’. Dyer, the United States district attorney, 
denied that any promise was held out to Brooks. Brooks 
conducted the National securities company in 1902 and 1903. 
It was an investment concern which promised large returns 
to investors through wheat and stock speculation and ad¬ 
vertised to pay G per cent a month. Brooks’ clients were 
largely country merchants and well-to-do farmers. lie did 
a thriving business until the post office inspectors stopped 
him. Brooks was indicted in March, 1903. 
THE COAL SITUATION.—An organized attack on 70 
workers of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company, following a mass 
meeting of mine workers, occurred near Mount Carmel 
April 28. The men were stoned and clubbed, one was shot 
and several were thrown into a creek. The burgess of 
Mount Carmel, who tried to quell the disturbance, was 
roughly handled. Division Superintendent Humphries of the 
coal company was stoned. . . . Two men are dying in 
the Windber Hospital, a third is seriously wounded.' and a 
dozen others seriously injured as the result of a fight be¬ 
tween union and non-union miners at Paint Creek April 29 
The trouble is an outgrowth of the coal strike at Windber, 
about a mile above Paint Creek. . . . Seventeen rioters 
who attacked half of Troop C of the State Mounted Police 
at: Mount Carmel April 30 were shot down. Four were 
fatally wounded, while four of the troopers were badly hurt 
in the encounter. The squadron was compelled to retire be¬ 
hind the stockades of the Sayre colliery and leave the town 
in the possession of the rioters. . . . Dynamite was 
placed under the tracks of the Erie Railroad leading to the 
Meadow Brook colliery April 30 and 40 feet of the tracks 
was blown into debris. There is no clue to the dynamiters. 
. . . Good order continued in the Lackawanna region. 
The operators continued their efforts to operate their mines 
and washeries. They believe that the output, which is now 
about 25.000 tons, is causing many of the mine workers to 
hesitate about ordering a strike, and to demonstrate to the 
leaders that if the companies can do so well now they will 
be able to do much better if a strike is ordered. There 
have been persistent rumors among the mine workers that 
before there is a strike President Roosevelt will take some 
action which will bring the mine workers and the operators 
together. 
CALIFORNIA.—Another earthquake shohk, which caused 
considerable alarm but did little damage, was felt in San 
Francisco April 25. The situation is steadily improving. 
President Roosevelt issued a proclamation asking that con¬ 
tributions for relief of the San Francisco sufferers be sent to 
ex-Mayor Phelan of that city, instead of to the Red Cross, 
lie also urged Congress to appropriate money for new build¬ 
ings at Mare Island Navy Yard and the army post. The 
National San Francisco relief fund April 25 reached the total 
of $20,670,906.02. San Francisco goes to bed at nightfall. 
While the extremely rigid rule concerning lights in houses 
has been modified, still the general situation is considered 
by the average citizen to be so unsafe at night that he re¬ 
tires without going abroad, and in many cases without 
showing a light iu his house. Many reports have been made 
of shots fired into houses that showed a light, and few are 
disposed to take chances. Mayor Schmitz took a firm stand 
April 25 against "citizens’ protective committees,” organized 
in many parts of the city by men who undertook to regulate 
the affairs of their neighborhood. Many complaints have 
been made against these “committees.” Responsible citizens 
have been stopped at night and made to explain why they 
were abroad after dark, and even shots have been tired at 
persons who had a right to go anywhere they pleased at an)' 
hour. One of these so-called “vigilance committees” is to be 
held responsible for the death of Major Tilden. who was shot 
while performing relief work. The Mayor gave instructions 
that the members of these “committees” were to be dis¬ 
armed wherever found by the city police, and, if any resist¬ 
ance was offered, they were to be treated as looters, which 
means that they are to be shot without ceremony. The 
water supply is still a serious problem. Hereafter, until the 
water system has been repaired, there is to be only one 
water faucet for each block throughout the city. After a 
careful survey the engineers of the Board of Public Works 
estimate that the area swept by the fire is about 10,000 acres, 
or about 15 square miles. There are few cities in the 
world where so much valuable property was contained in an 
equal territorial area. Within the district were nearly 100 
banks alone, some of the finest office buildings outside of 
New York, thousands of mercantile and manufacturing estab¬ 
lishments. and about 250.000 inhabitants, together with 
about 25.000 transients. Only about $300,000 of the $2,500,- 
000 appropriated by Congress for succoring the distressed in 
the stricken city will be used directly in actual relief work. 
Most of the money will be used in replenishing army sup¬ 
plies furnished to San Francisco people and in covering the 
amounts expended out of regular army appropriations for 
freight and other things. Acting Secretary of War Oliver 
said that all except about $300,000 of $2,500,000 appropria¬ 
tion had been or would be used in purchasing new medical, 
quartermasters’ and subsistence supplies for the army, to 
take the place of those sent to San Francisco and for the 
payment of freight rates, telegraph service, etc., incurred 
on account of the disaster. In a letter to the President, 
written on April 21 and sent to Congress on the same day. 
Secretary Taft recommended an additional appropriation of 
$1,000,000 on account of the San Francisco catastrophe and 
made plain that the money was necessary to replace relief 
supplies taken from the army stores. This letter of Mr. 
Taft’s appeared to have been overlooked bv the San Francisco 
relief committee or misunderstood by its members and by 
Mr. Phelan, who is chairman of the finance committee. The 
idea of the relief committee, according to despatches from 
San Francisco, was that the entire appropriation of $2,500,- 
000 was to be used in the relief work in addition to the sup¬ 
plies taken from the stores at hand in army depots. 
Compared to the population, it is now believed that in Santa 
Rosa the greatest loss of life occurred from earthquake and 
fire, even if that city does not lead in the actual number of 
victims. There is not a single brick or stone building stand¬ 
ing and scores of fine residences are in ruins. Fire broke 
out in the business district right offer the shock and burned 
dead and living alike. There were three big three story 
hotels, but, while all of them fell, only one took fire. From 
the St. Rose they took out nine bodies. They found a little 
girl in these ruins. She was unhurt, but very hungry and 
thirsty, having been buried four days and nights. The tim¬ 
bers had lodged so that they protected her. Cases of this 
kind have been numerous. There would undoubtedly have 
been a great many lives saved if they could have been got out 
in the first twenty-four hours, but the task was so great it 
was an impossibility. . . . Dr. T.eopold Stockton, super¬ 
intendent of Agnews Asylum for the Insane, where more than 
100 were killed, has recommended to Gov. Pardee that the 
new buildings should lie only two stories high and that they 
should be fireproof. One hundred and one bodies have been 
taken out of the wreck of the asylum. One hundred of the 
most violent survivors were taken to the State asylum at 
Stockton ; the remaining 850 being cared for in tents on the 
grounds while carpenters are putting together temporary 
wooden shacks. 
EXPERIENCE WITH MISSION HELP. 
A little more than a year ago I had a considerable corre¬ 
spondence with a charity organization in New York City 
about getting a boy to work on my fruit farm. They finally 
wrote me that they could send me a boy of 17 or 18 years of 
age for $9 or $10 a month and board, according to iiis abil¬ 
ity. I wrote to them again to get more information on the 
matter, and to have a better understanding of what would be 
expected of me in case I decided to fake the boy, and you 
can imagine how great was my surprise when one day about 
a week after I had sent my last letter a boy walked into my 
home and said he was the hoy I had sent for. Instead of 
answering my letter they sent him right along. The outcome 
of the whole affair was that I decided to keep the boy and pay 
him $9 per month and board, if I thought that he could earn 
it, as he was quite a strong build and ought to be able to do 
a fair day’s work. Everything went on very well, as there 
was not much of anything that we could do till Spring work 
came on, and I had to leave the boy alone a great many 
times, when he proved himself to be one of the greatest 
shirks I ever had on the farm. He had no regard for the 
truth whatever; he would make up the greatest stories out 
of nothing, and I could not trust him with a single thing. 
I left him alone one day to \veed and hoe some grapevines, 
and before I left him I cautioned him to he careful of the 
vines and do his work well, even if he did not do quite as 
much. 1 did not return home that night till after dark to 
inspect his work, but asked him how he got along, and he 
said “fine.” I asked him also if he was careful of the plants, 
and he said yes. The next morning I went to look how he 
had made out. and T found to my astonishment that he had 
dug out and pulled up over 500 two-year-old grapevines, and 
piled them up and they were nearly all dried out, as they 
had been exposed to the sun and air all that time. I have 
had similar experience with others, and my advice is to let 
such help alone; better not have them around, as the damage 
they will do is more than their work amounts to, to say noth¬ 
ing about paying them any wages. I kept the boy four 
months and he got so that he thought he owned the place, 
and got abusive to the women folks, when I told him that he 
had bettor pack up his tilings and get. as I would not keep 
anyone around that would not try to be decent, and he had 
done about damage enough; I could not keep him any longer. 
Cattaraugus Co., N. Y. w. h. schwerk. 
THE BOX AS AN APPLE PACKAGE. 
We find the full bushel box package a very popular one; 
this being favored more and more every year by the trade. 
Chattanooga, Tenn. w.' h. less'ley & co. 
We have been selling for the past three years apples in 
bushel boxes, and they meet with high favor. We intend 
using them more extensively in the future. 
Scranton, Pa. short & hull. 
We have_ never handled many apples in boxes, and are 
not in position to say whether they would be popular or 
not on this market. Our trade here seems to prefer the 
barrels. the Harrisburg grocery & produce co. 
Harrisburg, Pa. 
We never handled them on this market in boxes, and I 
do not think well of packages less than barrels. Ben Davis 
apples have kept well in good cold storage until Julv. I 
have some very fine Russets that have kept well, and I be¬ 
lieve they would have kept until June. chas. j. murdocic. 
Zanesville. O. 
There has been an increase in the demand for box fruit 
on this market this year, due largely to the scarcity of 
eastern crop; the barrel will always have the preference op 
this market. I cannot say that the box package has made 
any legitimate inroads into the trade. j. u. keacii. 
Indianapolis, Ind. 
We believe the demand for boxed apples is increased so 
far as strictly fancy stock is concerned—and we believe It 
is the package that should be used for high-grade fruit. 
We have known apples to be held in cold storage for two 
years, and be in good condition when taken out. 
Cleveland, O. i,e cato fruit company. 
Boxed apples do not sell very well on our market, trade 
preferring barreled stock. This style package may become 
more popular in course of time. In regard to apples being 
held in cold storage, we have heard of their being held as 
long- as two seasons, but we do not know this to be a fact. 
Richmond, Va. Montgomery & co., inc. 
Judging from our own experience alone, we would say 
that the box apples are showing no gain in popularity, but 
are scarcely holding their own. Very late in the season 
boxes have the preference, but early in the season barrels 
have a decided preference. The extreme storage limit is 
10 months, but such stock much be exceptionally good and 
go into storage under most favorable circumstances. The 
ordinary pack of apples can by no means be held “with safe¬ 
ty” for that period. The ordinary pack can be held with 
safety from tthree to eight months, depending on the pack, 
quality and condition of fruit and length of time between 
picking and the time it is placed in cold storage. Apples 
should be placed in cold storage in, the shortest poossible 
time after picking. bower & haines. 
Kansas City, Mo. 
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General .Offices'and Factories, 42 Wayne Ave,, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
THE BOSS POTATO DIGGER 
works well in 
stony ground and 
on side hill. Digs 
every row. WARRANTED. 
Thousands in use. Write for 
prices. Manufactured by 
E. R. ALLEN FOUNDRY CO., 
Corning, N. Y. 
TILE DRAINED LAND IS MORE PRODUCTIVE «■*-*-*"»«• 
ROUND T 
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Carries off surplus water; 
admits air to the soil. In¬ 
creases the value. Acres of swampy land reclaimed and made fertile. 
Jackson’s Hound Drain Tile meets every requirement. We also make Sewer 
Pipe, lted and Fire Brick, Chimney Tops, Encaustic Side Walk Tile,etc. Write 
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