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1'HE RURAL JN EVV-VOKKEK 
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EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.- -Ten valuable automobiles 
were destroyed in a garage Are February 
24. which followed an explosion in the ga¬ 
rage of Tinan & Keynolds, at No. 175 Wash¬ 
ington street, Paterson. N. .1. The loss is 
estimated at about $75,000. The garage 
was burned out and two buildings adjoin¬ 
ing were badly damaged. 
Six corporations and 21 individuals, 
forming the so-called Meat Trust, were in¬ 
dicted February 25 in Jersey City b.v the 
Grand Jury of Hudson County. They are 
accused of conspiracy and of creating a 
monopoly, enhancing the price of meat 
and poultry, and deliberately causing a 
shortage in the supply of articles neces¬ 
sary for the food of the people. In par¬ 
ticular the connection of the National 
Packing Company with Armour & Co., Swift 
& Co., and Morris & Co., is traced through 
the personnel of their directorates, and it 
is alleged that cold storage warehouses 
have been used to keep food commodities 
from the consumers. All of these acts, it 
is declared, were to the “great wrong, in¬ 
jury and oppression of the public of the 
said city and of said county and of the 
State of New Jersey, to the evil example 
of all others in like case offending and 
against the peace of this State, the Gov¬ 
ernment and dignity of the same.” The 
corporations accused are the National Pack¬ 
ing Company, Morris & Co., Swift & Co., 
Armour & Co., the Hammond Packing Com¬ 
pany, and the G. II. Hammond Company. 
The individuals are .1. Ogden Armour, A. 
Watson Armour, Arthur Meeker, Edward 
Morris, Louis F. Swift, Edward F. Swift, 
Edward Tllden, L. A. t^arton, Thomas E. 
Wilson, Thomas J. Connors ; F. A. Fowler. 
Charles H. Swift, L. H. Ileyman, James 
F. Bathgate, Jr., George II. Edwards, F. 
V. Cooper, D. E. Hartwell, Ira N. Morris, 
Henry P. Darlington, Lemuel B. Patterson, 
and A. A. Fuller. 
The plant: of the New York Veneer Seat¬ 
ing Company, covering the greater part of 
a block bounded by the Newark branch of 
the Jersey Central Railroad, l’uciflc avenue. 
Forrest street and Halil day street, in the 
Lafayette region of Jersey City, was de¬ 
stroyed and 10 of a row of 14 two-story 
frame dwellings on the llalliday street side 
of the factory occupied by whites and 
blacks were badly damaged February 27 
by a fire which kept the firemen busy for 
three hours. The. total loss was $200,000. 
William Uroadwell, charged with vio¬ 
lating the law regulating the sale of oleo¬ 
margarine, was sentenced at Chicago, Feb¬ 
ruary 28, to six years in the Federal prison 
at Leavenworth, Kan., and to pay a line 
of $18,000 by Judge Kenesaw M. Landis 
in (he United States District Court. Tho 
relations alleged to exist between William 
.1. Moxiey, the oleomargarine manufacturer 
and Congressman, and the indicted men, 
was revealed when Thomas Dudman, a pur- 
ehasing agent for the Moxiey concern, who 
lias acted as bondsman for the violators 
of the internal revenue laws, was brought 
into court and questioned by Judge Landis. 
“When you wont on the bonds of these 
men did you expect to be indemnified in 
case there were any losses?” asked Judge 
Landis. 
“Yes, sir,” replied Dudman. 
“Who was going to indemnify you?” 
“My employer, Mr. Moxiey.” 
“It has been disclosed that probably not 
less than $15,000 and possibly more Ilian 
$20,000 was lost by the United States Gov¬ 
ernment as a result of Ilroadwell’s actlvi- 
lios,” said Judge Landis in sentencing the 
oleomargarine dealer. “When arrested he 
lias given bond and then gone out and vio¬ 
lated the law again the next day. It has 
been a wilful defiance of the law. Ills bond 
has been supplied by a manufacturer of 
Ihe commodity which ho sold Illegally, a 
proceeding which i regard as my duty to 
say is highly significant.” 
With a furious blizzard seriously im¬ 
peding their efforts, hundreds of rescuers 
were working February 28 to save the 
lives of 125 or more men, women and chil¬ 
dren who were caught in an avalanche of 
snow that swept down on Mace, a little 
mining town near Wallace, Idaho, Febru¬ 
ary 27, and nearly wiped it out of exist¬ 
ence. A landslide at Burke, a town of 
000 inhabitants, wiped out a large part 
of the town, killed a score or more per¬ 
sons and reduced to kindling wood more 
than one hundred homes. The bodies of 
16 dead have already been found, how 
many more are under the tons of debris 
is unknown. It may be weeks before the 
full death toll is learned. Rescuers brought 
out 25 from beneath the avalanche at 
Mace. Three box cars containing 50 sec¬ 
tion hands in the employ of the Northern 
Pacific Railroad were standing on the side 
track when tho slide occurred. All of 
i hose men are supposed to have lost their 
lives. Fifteen houses were swept away. 
The little mining town of Mace lies be¬ 
tween precipitous mountain sides,, a strag¬ 
gling line of cottages in the creek bottoms, 
bisected by tlx 1 lines of the Northern Pa¬ 
cific and Oregon Railroad & Navigation 
Pom panics. Its one Industry Is mining, and 
its big mine is the Standard. With scarcely 
a dividing line perceptible, the towns of 
Black Bear, Gem, Mace and Burke form a 
string of houses for six miles. The snow- 
slide is supposed to have been started b.v 
the Chinook winds, which prevailed for sev¬ 
eral days. For several days there had been 
indications that the mountain of snow was 
becoming loosened, but the inhabitants of 
the several towns paid no heed to the warn¬ 
ing, and when the avalanche started about 
midnight the victims were caught asleep in 
I heir homes. The slide was from one-half 
to three-quarters of a mile long and 30 
to 50 feet deep. It started with a roar 
I ha t could be heard for miles, and the 
grinding mass of boulders, earth, trees, and 
snow left the steep slopes as clean as a 
floor, and settled in the cafion. where the 
debris-is estimated to be 100 feel deep. 
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company is 
taking an active part in the tight against 
increasing the number of liquor licenses in 
Luzerne County, Pa., by filing remon¬ 
strances against a number of applicants 
who want to conduct saloons in towns close 
to the line of the railway. Assistant Train¬ 
master Andrew Newberry, of Wilkes-Barre, 
was the chief witness. He said the rail¬ 
road company was opposed to more saloons 
because it desires to curtail the liquor 
traffic as much as possible in order to pre¬ 
vent accidents along the road. lie pointed 
out the danger of intoxicated persons leav¬ 
ing saloons near the railroad line and being 
struck by trains. 
THE MILK INQUIRY. -Henry Arnstein, 
one of the largest stockholders of the Mu¬ 
tual Milk and Cream Company, designated 
at an earlier hearing as being the repre¬ 
sentative of that company in the Milk 
Dealers’ Protective Association, was on the 
witness stand February 20 at Deputy At¬ 
torney-General Coleman’s investigation of 
the alleged milk trust. Mr. Arnstein was 
Unable to add anything very definite as to 
the use of tho $500 which his company fur¬ 
nished him to pay to the protective asso¬ 
ciation. He said that when he paid $500 
to G. C. Wetterhnhn, secretary and treas¬ 
urer of the protective association, he un¬ 
derstood that it was to pay for the collect¬ 
ing of cans and also to influence legisla¬ 
tion in reference to reducing the require¬ 
ments in the “solids Dill” from 12 per cent 
to 11 and a fraction. He never made any 
investigation to find out what actually did 
become of it because he thought it was too 
small a sum to he worth bothering about. 
Mr. Coleman asked if Mr. Arnstein knew 
that tin 1 protective association had estab¬ 
lished a price per 40-quart can of milk at 
$1.79, 38 cents above the price officers of 
tbe Consolidated Milk Exchange have been 
indicted for establishing on the ground that 
the agreement to the lower price tended to 
create a monopoly. Mr. Arstein said that 
he knew the price at which ills company 
had sold, but he did not know that it was 
arranged by the association. Previous tes¬ 
timony in the hearing lias been to the 
effect that all dealers who sold 40-quart 
cans had had the one price and that it was 
fixed by the association. John H. Kehror, 
secretary and treasurer of the Mutual, was 
also a witness. He said that his company’s 
Officials had had discussions prior to No¬ 
vember 1 concerning a raise in the price 
of a quart bottle of milk, but that they 
had not actually determined upon the 
raise until after the Borden Company had 
declared their intention of making it. 
Ex-District Attorney Jerome will act as 
counsel for five of the eight indicted di¬ 
rectors of the Consolidated Milk Exchange. 
Ilis clients and two of tho other three sur¬ 
rendered themselves to answer the indict¬ 
ments found against them on February 23. 
charging them with conspiracy in that 
they met to tlx. in restraint of trade, the 
price they would pay for milk, thereby tend¬ 
ing to create a monopoly. The Grand Jury 
handed up to Justice Goff an additional 
blanket indictment against the eight charg¬ 
ing the same offense at an earlier date, 
and eight more bills against them as indi¬ 
viduals for the votes they cast. Mr. Jer¬ 
ome asked that his clients he allowed to 
postpone their pleadings until he had had 
an opportunity to look through the indict¬ 
ments. or that he be allowed to plead not 
guilty for {them. with the permission of 
the court to change the plea. Judge Goff 
preferred the former course, and the plead¬ 
ings were set for March 3. Justice Goff 
fixed bail at $1,000. 
Rickets in Pigs. 
I have nine pigs born on April 22 last, 
weaned at 10 weeks of ago, always 
kept in same pen. They have been fed 
on creamery milk and butter-milk with 
some fruit and vegetables from garden, 
seeming to grow and thrive and in good 
health. During Summer, fed some husks 
tind cobs from corn cannery, which they ate 
freely. After feeding the cobs and husks 
(which were sweet, corn), they were then 
fed slop alone for awhile ; then as we were 
.about to feed corn from field we noticed 
the pigs when standing up to eat, stepped 
about with first one hind leg, then the other, 
not being able to stand still; then they 
would sit down and rest. I then turned 
them out thinking they needed exercise, but 
they grew worse. Figs grew rapidly worse 
and I stopped feeding corn, turned them 
out In n patch of sweet corn, let them hog 
it off and eat any green clover or weeds 
they could got, 'which they seem to relish. 
They got so had they could not raise their 
hind parts, hut could walk if they could get 
upon their feet. Any extra exertion would 
cause them to be much worse. They were 
nearly all taken at once. My own treat¬ 
ment lias been as follows: Charcoal and 
wood ashes, till they would eat ; sulphur 
mixed in slop of milk arid middlings, also 
some turpentine and powders, used freely; 
all used alternately. Figs are getting better 
rapidly. What is the trouble, and what 
caused the improvement, and was medicine 
used proper treatment? w. l. m. 
Delaware. 
The entire trouble lias come from over¬ 
feeding, lack of exercise, and most of the 
time supplying foods deficient in hone-mak¬ 
ing materials. Pigs never should he penned 
up when growing. Let them have free 
range and mixed rations. Limewater 
should lie freely added to the milk and slop 
they drink, and the corn should be reserved 
for the feeding of grown hogs that have to 
he fattened for slaughter. Such food as 
bran, middlings, shorts, oatmeal, flaxseed 
meal and tankage along with skim-milk 
tend to prevent rickets. Buttermilk or 
sour slop tends to induce rickets in corn- 
fed pigs that are kept in pens. Stop feed¬ 
ing corn and put the pigs on slop contain¬ 
ing some of the nitrogenous foods just men¬ 
tioned and add at least one ounce of lime- 
water per pint of slop or milk. Floats 
(ground Carolina phosphate) may also be 
red with advantage, and wood ashes, lime 
and charcoal also tire useful. a. s. a. 
Thin Horse. 
I have a horse thal is 12 years old and 
keeps quite thin. Will you tell me how 
much Fowler’s solution of arsenic to start 
with and if it will make any difference in 
watering the horse. c. j. e. 
Fowler’s solution of arsenic is merely a 
tonic, and indicated for any derangement 
of the skin or of the breathing apparatus, 
but it does not and cannot take the place of 
good, necessary, nutritious food, a matter 
that many horse owners seem to forget. 
The dose is half an ounce night and morn¬ 
ing until the needed effects have boon pro¬ 
duced ; then the medicine should be gradu¬ 
ally discontinued, using a week or ten days 
to the job. Always water a horse before 
feeding and not soon after a meal. 
a. S. A. 
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