Holbrook argus., October 04, 1902, Image 7

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THE CHOLERA IN MANILA
HOW THE TERRIBLE SCOURAGE
WAS INTRODUCED
Panic In Russia Man Shot and Killed In . runken
Quarrel White Whale Captured Virginia
Sheriff Killed Yaquls Will Fight.
Russia has officially handed over the
Shan Hi Kwan, the New Chwang rail
way, to China.
Justice A. H. Ellis of the Kansas
Supreme Court, died at Topelta, Kan.,
very suddenly Thursday night.
Plans are being perfected for a com
binatiou of a number of the largest
jewelry manufacturing firms in New
England.
John D. Long, ex-Secretary of the
Navy, has been chosen president of
the Board of Iverseers oi Harvard
University.
The whaling bark Platina of New
Bedford, Mass., reports the capture
near Barbadoes of a pure white whale,
which made one hundred barrels of
oil.
In a collision between freight trains
on the Pittsburg, Bessemer and Lake
Erie Railroad, near Pardoe, Pa., four
men were killed and two fatally in
jured.
William Hopkins, a member of the
Boston Globe staff, and known under
the pen name of "Bud Brier," is dead
from pneumonia. His home was at
Zanesville, O.
John M. Davis was shot and killed
by William Norvel at Hinsdale, Mont.
The men had been drinking and from
joking arose the quarrel. Both men
pulled guns. Norvel shot twice, one
of the bullets severing the juglar vein.
Davis's gun was found cocked and
undischarged, having failed to go off.
Norvel mounted a, horse and rode off
but subsequently returned.
While 400 peasants were attending a
wedding celebration at Werba near
Moscow, Russia, a fire was started
from a cigarette and a panic ensued.
Women and children were trodden
under foot. The fire spread with
rapidity, and within a quarter of an
hour over 100 of the wedding guests
had been suffocated or burned to death
mid many had been seriously injured.
Cholera In Manila.
The bureau of insular affairs of the
war department has ' made publics
report of the chief quarantine officers
of the Philippine islands, dated July
24, 1902, reciting the efforts of the
authorities to stamp out the plague
and cholera in the islands. The
quarantine stations are said to be the
best of the Orient and the inspection
work has been very neavy. As to the
cholera, the report reads:
"I wish to state as pertinent to the
manner in which cholera was intro
duced in Manila, that this city is the
greatest vegetable market in the Ori
ent. Nearly all these vegetables,
potatoes, cabbage, celery and lettuce
come from Canton and the West River
country adjacent. The Chinese meth
ods of fertilizing plants are well known,
.and the danger of such articles as cab
bage, lettuce and celery, which are
often eaten uncooked, is apparent, in
view of ;the possibility that a disease
like cholera has prevailed in the terri
tory in which those have .been grown.
Upon the appearance of cholera in
Manila, the necessity for protecting
the provinces against the introduction
of the disease by vessels was apparent,
and consequently on March 21 a five
days' quarantine was declared on all
vessels sailing from Manila for island
ports.
The same arrangements were applied
to United States army transports, since
.a large number of troops were being
returned at this time. The quarantine
has been effective since, although forty
five vessels have hud cases of cholera
occur on board while serving in quaran
tine here, no vessel has had the disease
develop after discharge from quaran
tine, and no port in the Philippines
has ever been infected by vessels from
Manila, with the exception of Nueva
Caceras, the latter being infected soon
after the appearance of the disease in
Manila by a vessel that had been per
mitted to load in quarantine and sail
to Nueva Caceras without the five days'
quarantine. It was afterward learned
that some of the crew had communi
cated with the shore in Manila, one of
whom had acquired the infection dur
ing the visit and developed the case
after the vessel arrived."
Virginia Sheriff Killed
Deputy Sheriff Watts, "Black Dia
mond" and Will Washington, the last
two negroes with criminal records, are
dead at Glen jean near Thurmond, Va.,
as a result of a crap same. Diamond
shot and killed Washington, and as he
was escaping was Bhot and mortaly
wounded by Watts. While lying on the
ground Diamond shot Watts in turn,
killing him. A crowd of 500 people
had followed and when they saw what
Diamond had done they became fren
zied and told him they proposed to fill
him with lead. He begged for mercy,
which was unheeded, and he was shot
to death as he lay on the ground.
PUMP IRRIGATION
An Object Lesson in Kern County to
Those Interested
The people of the Delano section of
Kern county, realize that in pump
irrigation, lies the solution of how to
make productive the broad acres of
fertile land and the Thomas Pumping
plant just finished, furnishes an object
lesson that is of interest, not only to
residents there, but to outsiders also.
The well has an abundant supply,
the water standing within 30 feet of
the surface. The power is furnished
by an 18-horse power gasoline engine
and a No. 4 centrifugal pump is used.
A steady stream of from 35 to 40
inches of water is raised, and this,
too,':without diminishing the supply
in the least. It is claimed that about
sixty acres of land can be irrigated
from the Thomas well, and a twenty
acre tract is to be planted to alfalfa
this year.
TERRIBLE EARTHQUAKE
One Town Destroyed and Hundreds of
People Killed
A dispatch received at Berlin, from
Taskend, capital of Russian Turkes
tan, reports a terrible earthquake
August 22, the shocks continuing until
September 3. One hundred persons
were killed at Kashgar in Eastern
Turkestan; 400 in the village of
Astyn, twenty at Jango, while the
town of Aksuksitche was complete
destroyed.
Kashgar, the capital of the province
of Sinkian is situated at the confluence
of roads leading to Peking, India and
the Russian .Empire, and is of con
siderable importance. It has a popu
lation of 50,000. The Gazetteers men
tion the town of Aksu in Eastern
Turkestan and say it is a center of
trade, the foreign traders, about 100
in number, being mostly Russian
subjects. The popluation of the
circle about Aksu is given at 180,000.
There are 4000 houses in the town
itself.
Five Thousand a Ton
One oi the richest strikes ever made
in the Grass Valley mining disttict is
reported at a mine near that city. It is
current rumor that a strike of tellurium
has been made assaying $5000 to the ton.
IN FIELD OF HUSBANDRY
TOPICS OF INTEREST TO FARMER
AND ORCHARDISr
Experiment to Determine the Value of Alfalfa
When to Plant Potatoes, Peas, Etc. Infor
mation on Angora Goats Laying Qualtltyof
Hens Improved.
In a feeding experiment to deter
mine the value of alfalfa against a
grain ration for dairy cows, the former
came out with flying colors, says the
Stock Breeder. While the ration in
which the protein was supplied by
grain produced slightly more milk and
butter than the alfalfa ration, still
the latter produced the milk at 12.7
cents less the 100 than the grain ration.
Although a cow can change grain pro
tein into fat, still it would not be wise
to force her.in;this way.
Of course you have planted some
potatoes already, and will put in more
this month. Now is the time to pre
pare for a good crop of peas, and your
tomatoes should soon begin to bloom
and keep setting out for a successive
crop. You have no doubt found a new
place for your strawberry bed, have
fertilized it well, and will be ready
to plant next month, and from then
on to December. Plant "Saltzers" for
cool weather, so plant them first.
Make your cuttings from your black
berries and dewberries. Horticultural
Commissioner Geroge P. Hall, in San
Diego Union.
Good layers are the defendants of
good layers, says Farmer's Voice. The
laying quality has been improved and
intensified by selection. It will be
noticed that even under very unfavor
able circumstances a few hens in the
flock will lay, while all their asso
ciates' seem to live for no othre pur
pose but to eat. These hens, though
subjected to the same hard conditions
as the others, manage to produce an
egg at irregular intervals. Such hens
should be placed to themselves during
the breeding season and made the
foundation of the futuie flock. Some
such system as this must be adopted
where the aim is to breed up a flock
of first-class layers.
The Herald recently gave some in
formation relative to angora goats and
the increased consumption of mohair
in this country. The Oregon Agricul
turist goes into the statistics of the
census reports quite elaborately on the
mohair industry for ten years or more,
concluding a lengthy discussion by
saying: "There is already too much
low-grade mohair produced both in
South Africa and the United States,
but the conditions are not such as to
warrant any fear of over-production
of mohair of fine quality for many
years to come, nor is it likely that the
prices of mohair equal in quality to
Turkish will average lower than they
have been during the past four or five
years."
E. C. Miller, of Buckeye, Ariz.,
forfnerly of Lemon Grove, San Diego
county, refering to the general impres
sion that land for alfalfa should be
level as a floor, tells Horticultural
Commissioner Hall, that "this is a
serious mistake, for if it is, when the
third years' growth of alfalfa is made,
j'ou can hardly get the water to the
farter side of an eighty acre field
divided into twenties for a progres
sive crop. There is further danger if
you do not give it all the fall you can,
up to twenty-five feet to the mile or
more, of the debris in the water, un
less it is very clean, clogging and
scalding 1 the alfalfa. The point is., if
the land has only ten feet to the mile
fall one way and forty the other, plant
in drills the forty way."
Are Valencias Overdone?
The intermittent condition of the
Valencia orange market each summer
causes a chilly sensation to follow the
spines of those who have a large acre
age of this favorite fruit. In quality
it is almost equal to the Washington
navels, and the price it brings in the
late market is genorally good, and
often phenomenal. It is not a question
of quality, price or bearing proclivi
ties, but something that should cause
much more apprehension than the lack
of any of these overproduction or over
supplying of the demand. Another
planting season will soon.be on, when
the question of varieties will recur.
Those who wish to be on the safe
side will not view singly the point of
price received tor Valencias during the
last few years. There are a few other
points to consider, chief of which is
the question of competition from the
summer fiuits, vegetables and melons
that has to be met about the time of
the ripening of the prince of late oran
ges. Paying $3 for Apples
Reports of buying at stiff prices in
the western New York apple orchards
have reached the Guide this week.
Ileavey purchases on a basis of prices
ranging from $2.50 to 3 have been
made, and one large Philadelphia op
perator is said to have purchased 20,
000 barrels at the latter figure. Con
servative New York apple men look
aghast at these prices, and assert that
with the apple market in its present
state such operations are in the nature
of a gigantic gamble, as the crop is
unboubtedly, in spite of what the
bears may say, a large one, and buy
ing apples at high prices to put in cold
storage for a future rise in the market,
a most perilous enterprise. The Guide
has no intention of trying to teach
apple buyers and operators their own
business. But it does insist that the
experiences of the past two or three
seasons should icculcate caution and
conservatism in apple buying. Only a
few weeks ago it laid it down as a
fundamental principal of common
sense business dealing that a man
should buy no commodity or product
at a price which forbids him coming
out with a whole skin if he wants to
dispose of them within thirty days
after purchase. Surely that is a prin
cipal not to be denied. Is there any
chance of a man who buys $3 apples
today being able 10 dispose of them
within the next thirty, or even the
next sixty days, and get an "even
break?" We rather fancy not. Such
purchasing is a speculation, pure and
simple, and all the Guide can do is to
wish these bold speculators the best of
good luck, even depreciating, as it does,
their tactics as prejudicial to the best
and basic interests of the apple tiade.
Fruitnian's Guide.
Shipping Fresh Figs East
The Fresno Republican announces
that "George Roeding, is going to make
the experiment this season of shipping
fresh Smyra figs east. If it can be
done successfully, and it is believed it
can be, it will create a wide demand
for the lucious fruit which promises to
make Fresno county famous. The
plan is to ship the fruit by Wells
Fargo & Co. In the early season, the
compauy successfully handles a good
deal of fresh fruit, putting it first
upon the market, where it commands
fancy prices. There seems no reason
why this cannot be done in the case
of figs. At any rate, Roeding has
agreed to furnish the fruit and the ex
press company will see what it can do
in getting it to eastern points in good
condition. It will be shipped in
"pony refrigerators," holding from
seventy-five to 100 pounds, and the
aeents on the. route will attend to the
icing. If the figs reach their destina
tion in good shape, they will doubt
less be in big demand in the east.