1906. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
9o3 
Events of the Week. 
DOMESTIC.—Another indictment charging conspiracy to 
commit peonage was returned November 12 by the United 
States grand jury at Pensacola, Fla., against W. S. Harlan, 
manager of the Jackson Lumber Company of Lockport, Ala. : 
Robert Gallagher, woods foreman of the company; os-car 
Sanders, an interpreter, and John Atwell, a deputy sheriff 
of Walton County. The indictments relate to a conspiracy 
to detain against their wills and commit to a condition of 
peonage two foreigners whose whereabouts is at present 
unknown. . . . Major-General William Rufus Shafter, 
United States Army, retired, died November 13 at the ranch 
of Capt. W. II. McKittrick, his son-in-law, twenty miles 
south of Hakcrsfleld, Cal., after an illness of less than a 
week. While returning from the polls November (5, General 
Shafter contracted a severe chill, and an acute attack of 
pneumonia developed. General William R. Shafter was born 
in Galesburg, Kalamazoo County, Mich., October 16, 1835, 
the son of a pioneer farmer. He had scant educational 
opportunities, and toiled on his father’s farm until ne 
attained his majority. When the civil war broke out he 
offered his services as a private in the ranks, but was 
fortunate enough to be commissioned a first lieutenant in 
Company I, Seventh Michigan Volunteer Infantry. He was 
honorably mustered out of the volunteer service in November. 
1866, and in January, 1867, accepted the commission of 
lieutenant-colonel in the Forty-first Infantry. He remained 
unassigned until March, 1869, and. when the Thirty-eighth 
and Forty-first Regiments of Infantry were consolidated and 
became the Twenty-fourth Infantry, General Shafter was 
assigned to it. He had long and important service on the 
Mexican frontier and in Indian campaigns. In 1876 he 
commanded part of a column which crossed the Rio Grande 
into Mexico after hostile Lipan Indians, reputed to be as 
cunning as the Comanches. He captured a number of their 
villages and killed some of their most active warriors. He 
served on the frontier of Texas until 1879, being engaged 
in numerous fights against Indians, and took the first troops 
across the Staked Tlains. He was promoted to colonel of 
the First Infantry in 1879, and in 1891 was sent with his 
regiment to suppress the outbreak of the Indians at the 
I’ine Ridge Agency, South Dakota. Later, he was in command 
of all the troops at Angel Island. Cal. At the outbreak of 
the Cuban War he was in command of the first troops sent 
to invade the island. General Shafter wisely declined to 
enter into any controversy over the Cuban campaign. He 
said he was ordered by President McKinley to take Santiago 
and drive out Admiral Cervera’s fleet, and that he did it; 
and that the result of the campaign before Santiago was 
the best evidence of his abilities as a commanding officer. 
He was severely criticised for his conduct of affairs in 
Cuba, and charges of inefficiency were made against him. 
. . . The Court of Appeals at Albany, N. Y., handed 
down a decision November 13 upholding William Rockefel¬ 
lers right to keep poachers off his Adirondack preserve. 
Oliver Lamora, who lives near the preserve in Franklin 
county, was prosecuted for fishing therein and Rockefeller 
got a verdict of 18 cents damages and $790 costs. Rocke¬ 
feller has had much trouble protecting the privacy of his 
preserve and in guarding his fish and game. Adirondack 
natives and guides for some years have been causing private 
preserve owners much trouble, and the feeling became intense 
enough some time ago to result in the shooting of a New 
York City preserve owner named Dexter. . ■. . The 
recent wreck on the Baltimore and Ohio at Woodsville, Ind., 
has reached a total death list of 51. Much dissatisfaction 
has been caused among the survivors of the wreck over the 
fact that the dead, the majority of whom were Roman 
Catholics, had been buried without religious rites. Local 
church officials have arranged with the railroad to have 
the bodies dug up and reburied. . . . Heavy storms and 
melfing snow caused great floods in the valleys surrounding 
Seattle and Tacoma, Wash. November 16, Black, White, 
Green, Cedar, Stuck, Snoqualmie, and other streams having 
their sources in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains had 
risen overnight and flooded thousands of acres of land 
and caused incalculable damage. Homeless and suffering from 
hunger and exposure, and in hourly dread that the rising 
waters would overwhelm them, thousands of residents of the 
fertile valleys lying between Seattle and Tacoma were camped 
in the foothills near by with what few provisions and effects 
they could cairy in a hurried flight. All the valley towns 
were under water, the depth ranging from eight to twenty 
feet. Railroad communication had been cut off, and the 
towns could not be reached except by message over the 
long-distance telephone wires. With the water standing on 
the streets at such a depth that it was no longer sare for 
residents to remain in the first stories of their houses, the 
men were organizing in each town and either removing the 
helpless ones to the second stories, or carrying them away 
to places of safety. Six deaths were reported November 16, 
which have followed the rapid rise of the rivers in King 
and Tierce Counties. Three of the men who met death in 
the floods were trying their best to prevent log jams that 
would endanger the residents of the towns further down the 
river. . . . The little Puget Sound steamer Dix, on the Port 
Blakeley-Seattle route, with a list of 80 passengers and 
crew, collided with the Alaska Coast Company’s steamship 
Jeanie November 18 two miles north of Alki Point and 
sank, carrying 42 of her passengers and crew to the bottom 
of the sound. The Dix lies in about 600 feet of water, 
with most of her dead imprisoned in her cabins. The 
casualty appears to be due to criminal carelessness on the 
part of the mate of the Dix, who steered across the Jeanie’s 
bows. . . . Five persons were killed in a hotel fire at 
Regina, Manitoba. November 19. . . . Heavy rain and 
windstorms in portions of Alabama, north and central Mis¬ 
sissippi, and west Tennessee, November 18-22, resulted in 
floods, which, followed by cold weather,' caused much suffer¬ 
ing. At Winona, Maben and Mathiston, Miss., damage is 
estimated at $300,000. Miles of railway trackage and 
bridges have been washed away, telephone and telegraphic 
communication stopped, and street car traffic blockaded to 
such an extent that in several lines operations have been 
temporarily suspended. In Shelby Co., Tenn.. the loss is 
put at $250,000; at Hopkinsville, Tenn., loss is put at 
$50,000. 
SAN FRANCISCO.—It appears that raanv sums of money, 
large and small, that were sent from different States to 
San Franciseo for the relief of the sufferers from the earth¬ 
quake and fire never reached the relief committee. Some 
of these amounts, which aggregated a large sum. were 
mailed to the care of Mayor Schmitz. F. J. Heney. William 
Burns, a detective, and about one hundred Government 
agents have been making an investigation. The cases come 
within the jurisdiction of the Federal authorities, because 
of the inter-state character of the postal service, which, 
is alleged, was criminally tampered with. A considerable 
sum of money was also sent through the express companies, 
including the Wells Fargo Express, which companies are uow 
investigating the disappearance of $10,580 sent in one 
package from the citizens of Searchlight, Nev., which the 
relief committee say they never received, and which the 
company says was delivered to the representative of the 
committee, to whom it was addressed. Wells Fargo & Com¬ 
pany declare they have a receipt signed by Mayor Schmitz 
and also a letter from him acknowledging its receipt. Mavor 
Schmitz declared before he left for Europe he had no 
recollection of the matter, but that if he did receive that 
particular package it was turned over to the relief commit¬ 
tee and James D. Phelan. Wells Fargo & Company and 
ex-Ma.vor Phelan are investigating, but no one has been 
able to follow the money past Mayor Schmitz. Captain 
Seymour, formerly head of the detective bureau and now 
chief detective for Wells Fargo & Companv, is now in Los 
Angeles, where it is said the Broadwav Bank and Trust 
Company holds the receipt of Mayor Schmitz, which was 
forwarded to them. Other instances of the kind, it is said, 
will be sought under the direction of the United States 
postal authorities. It is reported that the entire amount 
unaccounted for may reach $1,000,000. Mayor Eugene E. 
Schmitz and his boss, Abe Ruef, who made him Mayor and 
with whose assistance and connivance he has built up the 
most far reaching and successful scheme of graft ever 
operated in any American city, were indicted November 15 
on charges of extortion. The indictments were found at 
the end of two days of inquiry under the direction or 
Francis J. Heney. The indictments are jointly returned 
upon five counts. All of them concern the cases of the 
so-called “French restaurants,” the charge being oracticallv 
that the restaurant keepers paid large suras to Reuf to 
induce him to force the administration to grant them 
licenses, which would otherwise be denied them on the 
ground that the places were immoral. 
STANDARD OIL.—Recent locations of land in Kern County, 
Cal., by agents of the Standard Oil Company have been 
made the subject of investigation by Government officials. 
The land was taken up by the petroleum combine ostensibly 
* **e S-Vpsum deposits, but in reality for oil purposes. 
That the character of the land had been carefully studied 
is shown by the fact that a flowing oil well has already 
been developed The inquiry is being made through the 
office of T nited States Attorney Devlin of San Francisco. 
Federal agents have been at work for several weeks in 
Kern County. From their preliminary report it is believed 
that the manner in which the land tvas secured will warrant 
indictments on the part of the Federal grand jury. 
Attorney-General Moody November 15, acting through the 
resident T nited States district attorney, instituted proceed- 
'^ss *\Kamst the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey tinder 
the Sherman Anti-Trust act, by filing in the United States 
Circuit Court at St. Louis a petition in equity against it 
and its seventy constituent corporations and partnerships 
and seven individual defendants, asking that the combina¬ 
tion be declared unlawful and in the future enjoined from 
entering into any contract or combination in restraint of 
trade, etc. The grand jury at Findlay, O., found indictments 
November 14 against John D. Rockefeller M. G. Vilas, 
treasurer of the Standard Oil Companv of Ohio, J M 
Robertson, secretary, and H. P. McIntosh, a director. The 
indictments charge the defendants with having continued 
to contract the oil productions and to fix prices on and 
after July 7. 1906. in violation of the Valentine Anti-Trust 
®®t, a state law, under which the recent prosecution of the 
Standard Oil Company in that county was conducted, and 
in which a fine of $3,000 was imposed by the Probate Court. 
The persons indicted and a number of witnesses who 
had been subpoenaed have left the State. 
AND GARDEN.—The annual meeting of the New 
* ork State Breeders’ Association will be held in the City 
IlaH at Syracuse, N. Y., Tuesday and Wednesday, December 
18 and 19, 1906. 
Plans for the forth coming Convention of the Pennsyl¬ 
vania Dairy Union, January 22-25, 1907, at Harrisburg. Pa., 
have so far matured that we can say the programme will 
include Governor Hoard. Chief Webster of the Dairy Divi¬ 
sion at Washington, or some representative of that Depart¬ 
ment. and other men prominent in the different branches of 
the dairy work. Prizes will be offered for exhibits of butter 
cheese, and probably milk. Space has been secured for an 
exhibit of dairy machinery and apparatus, and correspond¬ 
ence indicates that the supply firms will make this an 
interesting and profitable feature of the convention It 
is expected that milking machines in operation will be a 
feature of the exhibit. 
THIRD ANNUAL ONTARIO HORTICULTURAL 
EXHIBITION. 
The third annual Ontario Horticultural Exhibition was 
opened on November 6 in Massey Hall. Toronto, by the 
ITon .J P. Whitney. Premier of the Province. The Ontario 
bruit Growers’ Association, the Ontario Vegetable Growers’ 
Association and the Beekeepers’ Association were all repre¬ 
sented on the management, and combined to make the ex¬ 
hibition a success in every way. This year there is an in¬ 
crease of 1.500 in the entries and already space is at a 
premium, if the show continues to grow at the present 
rate new quarters will have to be sought; the crowded ap¬ 
pearance of Some of the exhibits testify to the lack of 
room. The general opinion of the executive and the judges 
was that never had such a fine display of fruit been seen on 
the _ continent before, with the exception perhaps of St. 
Louis. The apples in particular were of the highest quality, 
coloring and uniformity in size and shape, showing through¬ 
out careful cultivation and selection of stock. Especially 
noticeable was the cleanliness of the fruit and its freedom 
from all marks of fungus and parasitic pests. It is only 
in the fruit sections that the work of fighting the pests is 
carried on. Farmers to whom fruit growing is but a side 
line, neglect their orchards and seem oblivious to the fact 
that spraying will raise the grade of their crop and bring 
in better returns. A new feature was instituted this year 
prizes aggregating $500 were offered bv 24 of the best fruit 
counties of the Province for collections of apples. The 
apple growers of each county competed among themselves 
for the prizes. There were 10 sections in each competition, 
and the entries were numerous : the management were much 
nleased with tne success of the innovation and next year 
hope to enlarge and further extend it. 
There were 175 entries of boxes packed for the export 
trade, an increase of 100 over last year. It is hardly more 
than two seasons since the idea of packing apples in boxes 
rather than in barrels was initiated in this Province, and 
in that time great strides have been made towards perfec¬ 
tion. Since the exhibit at Toronto exhibition an improve¬ 
ment is noticeable, the quality of the fruit has improved, 
more care is evidenced in the packing, and the right amount 
of bulge is obtained. The fruit is packed tighter so that 
when the apples shrink, or take up. no damage will result 
from bruising, etc. There were several object lessons to be 
learned, one in particular was interesting. In one section 
the entrv with the best fruit was the poorest pack, the 
fruit showed careful selection and spraying, but all chances 
of gaining a prize were thrown away bv the slackness of 
the packing. The fruit shipped any distance would not 
realize the price that it should, as in all probability it would 
arrive in a bruised and spoiled condition. There were 53 
barrels entered, and here the judges were faced by a very 
arduous task in determining the awards, in several cases 
the barrels were turned over, and the quality of the fruit 
examined throughout, before the judges could place the 
prizes. 
The pears, grapes and other fruits entered for competition 
were of excellent quality, though the entries were not nearly 
so numerous as the apples. The Ontario Experiment Sta¬ 
tions, the Central Experimental Farm. Ottawa, and the 
Ontario Agricultural College, had exhibits showing the work 
that is being done in new varieties, and giving a test of 
the fruit best suited to the different sections of the Prov¬ 
ince. The entomological and zoological department of the 
college had a nature study exhibit, showing the life history 
of some of the pests fruit growers have to contend with, 
and the results of some of I heir ravages. The display of 
preserved fruits an 1 jellies was large; the chief interest 
was centered in the contest for a handsome silver tropliv 
offered by the King Edward Hotel for the best collection of 
preserved fruits. 
The flower department was well filled with Chrysan¬ 
themums, roses, orchids and other flowers and plants. Some 
very beautiful specimens were exhibited : the bridal bouquets 
and wreaths of various designs attracted a great deal of 
attention and admiration. Several very handsome collec¬ 
tions of Chrysanthemums, orchids and other plants were 
on exhibition and were highly recommended by the judges 
for their beauty. There were four dinner tables entered; 
they were all decorated with a mass of flowers as a center- 
piece, valuable silver, snowy, table cloths and napkins, glass¬ 
ware and the usual accessories for the diners' comfort. 
There was a tendency to overload the tables; it seems almost 
as if the decorators had vied with one another to see who 
could have the largest color display in the center of the 
table, forgetting that simplicity is one of the greatest prin¬ 
ciples of beauty. 
The Beekeepers’ Association this year decided not to com¬ 
pete for prizes, but to make an exhibit ; each member was 
asked to send in samples of the best honey he had. Every 
kind of marketable honey was shown, comb, extracted anil 
granulated, also buckwheat in the comb and extracted. 
Tablets of wax were shown, also the different packages and 
tins used for placing the article on the market. It 
would have been more interesting and instructive if prizes 
had been competed for, a chance would have been given 
for comparing, and noting the products of the different sec¬ 
tions of the Province. 
The vegetable entries were very numerous and the quality, 
here, as in every other department of the exhibition,, showed 
marked signs of improverhent. Corn, watermelons, squash, 
onions and potatoes as well as cabbage, broccoli and every 
other kind of vegetable was to be seen. 
During the week several conventions were held. The 
Ontario Fruitgrowers Association held their annual meeting 
and several good. addresses were delivered. The SpenCer 
Seedless apple came in for a good deal of discussion. Sev¬ 
eral speakers advised the fruit growers not to touch it or 
to grow it only as a curiosity. A committee was appointed 
to investigate the apple and its growth thoroughly. lion. 
Mr. Monteith, Minister of Agriculture, gave a short address: 
Mr. Hale, of Shelby. Mich., spoke on the low-heading of 
peach trees, and Piof. Parrott of the Cornell Experiment 
Station, Geneva, N. Y., gave a very instructive address on 
the San Jos6 scale and how to combat it. Prof. Hutt„ of 
the Ontario Agricultural College gave an illustrated address 
on fruit farms, and Mr. C. C. .Tamos, Deputy Minister of 
Agriculture, spoke of the difficulty of obtaining correct 
fruit statistics. Papers were read by Alex. McNeil. Chief 
of the Dominion Fruit Department, on the future of the 
apple trade: Robert Thompson, of St. Catharines, Ont., on 
the tender fruits : A. E. Sherrington spoke as an expert on 
apples; W. A. Fisher on the strawberry: Dairy Commissioner 
Ruddick, of Ottawa, spoke on co-operation, and Rrof. H. A. 
Surface, of Harrisburg, Pa., gave some helpful advice on the 
protection of trees from mice and rabbits. 
Before the election of officers the advisability of introduc¬ 
ing new blood into the executive was discussed, some mem¬ 
bers protesting against the election of the same men year 
after year. The constitution was amended so as to allow 
each year for the automatic retirement of the four oldest 
directors. The session closed with five-minute reports from 
the fruit shipping association at the principal points. Rep¬ 
resentatives of the various branches of the Vegetable 
Growers’ Association held their annual convention. Fault 
was found with the lack of co-operation between the ento¬ 
mological and the horticultural departments of the Ontario 
Agricultural College, the work on insects being neglected 
in consequence. A number of prize essays were read on 
different branches of vegetable culture, and in the discus¬ 
sions that followed, some valuable points were brought out. 
The cultivation of the tomato was discussed by Mr. George 
A. Robertson of St. Catharines. The establishment of 
experiment stations was advocated, to render service for 
the vegetable growers as the fruit stations did for the 
fruit men. 
The Beekeepers’ Association also held their annual meet¬ 
ing and considered several questions of interest. The 
marketable value of buckwheat honey was thoroughly gone 
into. Foul brood, also, is always an important subject 
and preventives and remedies were discussed. Miss M. Trev- 
errow, of Meadowville, Ont., read a paper on beekeeping 
as an occupation for women. The vexing question of how 
many colonies to keep in one locality was discussed at 
length, the subject being introduced in a paper by Mr. * 
G. A. Saunders of Agerton. Different results may of course 
be expected from different districts, but the general opinion 
was that it was not wise to crowd too many colonies into 
one locality. _ e. o. 
Our market quotations are as follows: Timothy hav, 
$12: Clover. $10; mixed. $11: wild. $9 to $10. f. o. b. 
Oats. $1 per 100 pounds, sacks furnished. Wheat. $1 a 
hundred. Potatoes, 50 cents per 100 pounds. Apples. 50 
cents to $1 per box. Butter 25 to 30 cents; eggs, 30 cents. 
Victor, Mont. __ h. a. b. 
BUSINESS BITS. 
Arrangements have been made by which every lady reader 
of this paper can secure a valuable Cook Book. “The 
Enterprising Housekeeper,” simply by sending her name and 
address to the Enterprise Manufacturing Co., of 204 
Dauphin Street, Philadelphia. Pa., asking that it be sent 
to her. This book gives over 200 recipes for delicious and 
economical dishes that will be appreciated at any table. 
“Dr. S. A. Tuttle, Boston. Mass. : Allow me to say that 
I have kept your Elixir in my home as a family medicine 
for a number of years, and have found it all you recommend 
it to be. As a “Cure-AH” I believe it stands at the head 
of all remedies for sprains, lameness, soreness, pain, et 
cetera, on the market to-day. In my own case it has proved 
invaluable w' ! th a d'slocated and broken shoulder. I recom¬ 
mend it to all sufferers. (Rev.) W. N. Richardson, Hyde 
Park.” 
There is perhaps no one thing that adds so much to the 
comforts of driving during the Winter months as the 
heaters which are now provided to put in the carriage 
or sleigh near the foot rest. These heaters give off no odor 
or smoke and can be operated at the trifling cost of two 
cents a dav. They are worth all the cost for one cold trio 
and barring an accident should last a lifetime. For full 
particulars, price, etc., address Lehman Bros., 10 Bond 
Street, Now York. 
The United Factories Company of Cleveland, Ohio, have 
added a stove and range factorv to their list and they are 
announcing through our columns a special stove catalogue. 
A copy of this book recently came to us. It is clearly 
written, well illustrated-: it offers a complete line of cook¬ 
ing and heating stoves at what seem to us remarkably fair 
prices. Such a book is of great help to the stove buyer 
and we believe any of our readers who want anything of 
this kind ought to write to the United Factories Company. 
You might say to them. “Just send me a free copy of that 
stove book I saw advertised in The R. N.-Y. 
The greatest leak in household economy is the loss of 
heat up the efcimnev. Notiling but the Cross tube “Rochester 
Radiator” has ever stopped it. They take the heat direct 
from the hot current, instead of from the side as do other 
forms of Radiators. The Rochester Radiator Company 
have been manufacturing radiators for over 15 years, and 
their name on a radiator guarantees it to be the best that 
can be made. They will refund the money paid for it 
if the Radiator does not do all thev claim that it will. 
It will save from 1-3 to 1-2 your fuel or give you doubt*- 
the amount of heat from the same amount of fuel. 
It is not infrequently the case that the richest portion of 
the farm has gene to waste for want of drainage. Properly 
drained these swamps and marshes become the most valuable 
and productive fields on the farm. Anvone having such 
grounds to drain will do well to look into the merits of the 
tile offered by the Camp Company of Pittsburg. The letter 
following indicates this product is giving satisfaction. “The 
H. B. Camp Co., Pittsburg, Pa.—In reply to yours of recent 
date, would say that I have handled several carloads of vour 
3%-inch drain tile and thev have given perfect satisfaction 
to mv customers without one single complaint. Have used 
10.000 feet on my owd farm and consider them superior to 
round tile, as they are much smoother on the inside and 
are much easier laid in ditch. They iav iust where you 
put them, no rolling out of place. H. E. 'Grace, Jackson 
Center, Pa.” 
