THE MORNING OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 190r.
SUGAR BEET HARVEST ON
IiA GRAXDE FACTORY WILT, GO IX
TO OPERATION AT OXCE.
Indnittry Offer -an Much to the
Farmer as Any Other of Which,
Oregon In Capable.
LA GRA2JDE, Sept. 20. (Special Corre
spondence.) Harvesting of sugar beets
lias begun. The factory at this place is
nearly ready to start up, and there will
be enough beets on hand by tomorrow for
the plant to begin work. Xearly 1000 tons
of beets are in the receiving bins. The
machinery of the plant has been under
going repairs for some time. It will be
kept going about seven weeks, and will
induce approximately 350 tons of beets per
day.
The industry will show much progress
this year. There will be a large crop of
beets, between 17,000 and 18,000 tons. This
is so much better a prospect than the
realizations of former years have been
as to banish the discouragement of other
seasons.
The Northwest has two factories for ex
tracting sugar from beets. The work of
producing sugar has gone far enough,
with the good assurance this season ex
tends to a full yield of beets,
to open to the Imagination a
luture scene of great activity in this in
dustry. The factories at La Grande and
Waverly, after several years of patient
waiting at last have something to work
on. Heretofore they have operated only
to a fraction of their capacity, and there
lore have not been profitable. This year
the facilities of the plants wil be about
the facilities of the plants will be about
erated for about half a full season. This
will be a gain over last year worthy of
more than passing notice.
Total Crop in the Xorthnvest
Harvest of beets has proceeded far
enough to allow of good estimates as to
what the total crop will be. The "Waverly
and La Grande factories will each re
ceive probably 17,000 tons of beets, the lat
ter plant perhaps a little more. Conserv
ative figures of this season's yield In the
Northwest are 35,000 tons. This amount
of beets will reduce to about 4200 tons of
eugar. At Waverly the average crop to
the acre perhaps will be between nine and
ten tons of beets. Here at La Grande it
"will be about eight tons. Some farms in
this district will produce twice that quan
tity, and even IS or 19 tons per acre. Such
land is the best that this district affords,
a.nd It is, In a few cases, aided by arti
ficial irrigation. Sandy ridges are not
(planted in beets as they were at first, for
they do not produce as well. This kind of
soil does not yield more than six to eight
tons per acre. As the great part of the
land given to beets is of this nature, the
ligures of the average crop will therefore
be reduced considerably lower than those
of the highest yields.
The total land tributary to the La
Grande factory is about 2500 acres; that
at "Waverly Is about 1SO0. By comparing
these ligures and those of the prospec
tive crops at the two places, it will be no
ticed that in the "Washington district the
yield will be a little .larger. Comparison
of the percentages of sugar in the beets of
the two places shows that "Waverly has a
larger proportion of the sugar element.
Last year the average content of sugar
of La Grande beets was 14.6 per cent. At
"Waverly it was a fraction higher. The
cause of these slight inequalities is not
apparent. Both places are regarded as
being equally favored by nature. Here
there are in some cases much larger crops
of beets than at "Waverly sometimes one
third. But the average production is be
low the quantity of that at "Waverly. This
difference in favor of the Washington
district It Is believed will be neutralized
by better selection of soil and improve
ment in methods of cultivation.
.. J2fl?npriiOi With Other Years.
The twef factories In the Northwest can
each rod(uce 350 tons of beets per day or
35,000 tonfe in a season of 100 days. Here
tofore the plants have operated only a
small parjt of that time. Last year Wav
erly had 6000 tons of beets; and the year
before only a few hundred tons. This
season that district as heretofore noted
produced between 16,009 and 17,000 tons.
The following is a statement of the ag
gregate yields of beets at La Grande in
the past three years:
Tons. Acres.
1?S S.151 3,500
189 1L29S 2,200
3900 9.037 1.750
19J1 (estimated) 17,000 2,500
It may be said that the dawn of the
sugar industry in the Northwest has be
gun. Its colors are rich with promise.
Production of sugar, one of ,the most
wholesale articles of commerce, opens as
goiden a future as does any industry of
which the -Northwest is capable.
A steady gain in the production per
acre will be noted. This has ben brought
about by better understanding of the
methods of growing beets and of the
adaptation of those metiiods to local
conditions of climate and soil. It has been
kmonstrated that beets can be made to
turn out renumeratively for the farmer,
more so than growing of wheat or of
any other crop. One farmer, J. M. Cav
Iness. who may be taken as a represen
tative of the class that conducts agricul
ture with conspicuous enterprise, netted a
l.ttle over 36 per acre last season from
110 acres. From that acreage of land he
harvested an average of nearly 14 tons to
the acre and received from the factory
$4 50 per ton. He figures from deduction
of the cost of planting and cultivating the
icpairing his wagons, that he cleared
from $34 to $36 per acre on his invest
ment. Waverly furnishes just as striking ex
amples of success. Several farmers in
that district last year earned above all
expenses from $25 to $35 per acre. As
might be expected, a few farmers have
not made a success of beetgrowing, a
fact due perhaps to the nature of their
soil and to their own thriftiness or lack
of it.
More Than Tentative Enterprise.
People of this district and of the Waver
ly section have in general come to look
upon beetgrowing as more than a tentative
enterprise. It has come to stay and to
develop, and it opens a rich store for the
future. It does this by relieving land
from intensive farming such as the grow
ing of wheat. But it does so more by
ngaging farmers in the production of an
article of Tood which has world-wide con
sumption,' and which the world absorbs
With an avidity ever on the Increase, and
at a rate that taxes all the facilities of
production to supply.
Cultivation of sugar beets is in a sense
gardening, but it is gardening that can
be expanded far beyond the limit that the
word commonly implies. It is an indus
try that disdains to be carried on on the
scale of the ordinarj' vegetable garden.
The extent to which one man may en
gage in it is conditioned only by his pow
er of organizing the forces in his control.
The old idea, if it ever actually prevailed,
that a man must farm beets on the fam
ily scale in order to do it profitably, em
ploying only his wife and children, is an
exploded one. The farmer whose name is
given in this article as an example of suc
cessful growers, hires his labor, in all the
stages of beet culture. The idea Is nega
tived also at Waverly and indeed every
where beetgrowing is carried on in an
extensive way.
An a. Relief From Wheat
Any system of agriculture-that relieves
''soil from the exhausting drains of con
tinued wheatraising, and affords as profit
able and a more profitable substitute, is
welcomed by farmers. The sugar fac
tories at Waverly and La Grande afford
this substitute. If farmers have been slow
to realize the potential wealth of the sub
stitute, it is a credit to their conserva
tism, and hardly a reproach to their in
telligence, since they promptly accepted
the evidence from year to year- of its
worth, and have gradually been adjust
ing themselves to It. A more rapid change
would perhaps not be economic or desir
able. It has been proved conclusively
that beets offer the means of recuperat
ing wheat lands. Moreover, beets do not
take from the soil in the same proportion
as does wheat. In the past, four years it
has been the experience of farmers that
the longer land is devoted to sugar beets,
the better the beets become. How long
this will continue Is a matter of conjec
ture. But this fact makes potent that
beet land may be given to the same prod
net continuously, and yield a profitable
crop every season, whereas wheatland is
usually given to idleness every other year
or practically so. Farmers have not been
averse to receiving this evidence. Their
readiness to accept it is proven by the
fact that the sugar beet acreage this
year is one-third larger than last. Al
though the acreage in 1S98 at La Grande
was larger than now, the yield this sea
son will have over twice the size of that
of last year. This demonstrates the" prog
ress that has been made in the lndus.try
and also that It is better for farmers to
grow into the Innovation than to take it
up all at once.
To Get the Bent Results.
Experience at La Grande has made
prominent a fact which is not so ap
parent at Waverly. It is that beets do
better when planted successively in their
own ground, than when they are "rota
ted with wheat. Wheat land has some-
-
The Late "William R. Johnson.
father. The faithful wife and mother died" May 10, 1863. In 1882, Mr. Johnson
married Miss Mary Shunway, of Wasco County, Oregon. Two daughters were
born to this union Lola and Willie.
thing about it or the grain leaves cer
tain properties to which beets do not
take kindly at first, and it is only after
another year or two that the beets attain
a good yield.
Farmers have also learned by experi
ment that the best yields come from Fall
ploughed land. Moreover, the soil needs
to be plowed deeply in order to enable the
beets to send down their roots and draw
up full nourishment This ploughing va
ries from 15 to IS inches. The soil Is, how
ever, not turned over deeply. One promi
nent farmer turns the soil over one-half
Inch deeper each year. He thinks this
brings up sufficient new soil and con
serves the resources of his land. The
growing tendency both at La Grande and
Wavely Is to plant more in the lowlands,
although this similarity between the two
places is perhaps not validly made be
cause the Waverly district is of a rolling
nature, with high ridges which suffer
more from aridity than does the more
even land in the Grand Ronde "Valley.
The two districts have arrived at the
same conclusion In regard to the most
economical distance to allow between beet
plants. At both places the rows are
about 20 inches apart, and the plants in
the row eight or nine Inches from each
other. At first the beets were grown
closer together, as is generally done else
where. But it was found that the beets
appropriate the moisture of the soil to
more advantage and attain a better pro
portion of saccharine and other Ingredi
ents when the plants are spaced further
apart. This has not Increased the size
of the beets at the expense of their su
gar contents. The varying character of
soils In low and high lands Is taken Into
account in determining the space between
the beets. In the more humid lands the
plants may be placed closer together.
Size of Beets.
The average size of beets at La Grande
is appreclablj' larger than heretofore, and
the sugar content is greater. Many beets
measure 26 inches long, and some weigh
10V4 pounds. This size is extreme, how
ever, and while It gives good weight to
the farmer, it does not yield the propor
tion of sugar that smaller ones do. From
analyses thus far made the percentage of
saccharine matter in the beets at La
Grande will be about 15, or, perhaps, a
little higher. The Waverly chemists es
timate that their beets contain between
15 and 16 per cent of sugar. About 3 per
cent is lost in the process of extracting
the sugar, so that the beets will reduce
to about 12 per cent of their aggregate
tonnage. The purity ranges from about
S3 to S6 per cent. In both districts the
sugar ingredients occasionally reach 22
per cent, and often 18 and 20 per cent.
Beets are purer here by 2 or 3 per cent
than in California, and, as a rule, contain
more sugar. Last year the Waverly beets
had perhaps the largest proportion of
sugar in the United States. At La Grande
last year the average sugar content was
14.6 per cent; in 1S99 14.5 per cent, and in
1S9S 14 per cent.
Factory Now n. Fixture.
If there was ever any thought of moving
the La Grande factory away, it has been
dismissed. The enterprise Is beginning
now to meet the expectations of the pro
moters. The success of this season, han
dicapped as it was by a late freeze and
unusually dry weather, is sure to give
impetus to the industry. Many more peo
ple are coming to engage in beet culture.
The sugar company has Increased Its land
to 1000 acres, all of which it will seed next
season; but lands tributary to the La
Grande' factory are at Welser, Payette,
North Powder, "Union and Sumrnerville.
It is hoped in the next two years to in
crease the total amount of beet lands to
5000 or 6000 acres, an aggregate which will
produce beets enough to feed the factory
for a full season. The plant has been
constructed so that Its capacity may be
doubled readily, by the addition of more
machinery.
Charged WItli Cattle-Stealing.
ROSEBURG, Or., Sept. 20. A. D. Per
due was arrested at Drain this morning,
and brought to Roseburg this evening,
charged with stealing five heifers from
Gaddis Bros., in this city yesterday, and
selling same to L. Kohlhagen. He has
been living in North Roseburg until re
cently, and his family are still there.
Payment was stopped on the check which
was given to Perdue for the stolen prop
erty. Recep'ion at Pacific University.
FOREST GROVE, Sept. 20. A reception
was given by the faculty of Pacific Uni
versity in Marsh Hall tonight. It is the
custom of the college here, on the Friday
following its opening, to have the stu
dents meet publicly together, for the
purpose of renewing acquaintances with
one another and with the faculty and to
become acquainted with 'the new stu
dents. Drowned While Working on Loirs.
ABERDEEN, Wash., Sept. 20. Harry
Poland. 20 years old, was drowned this
afternoon in Chennoyse Creek, "while pol
ing logs. He lived at Hoquiam.
WEEKLY TRADE REVIEWS
PARTIAIi SETTLEMENT OF STEEL
STRIKE EXCOURAGIXG.
"Woolen Goods Firm, With the Wool
Market Hardening Irrcgnlnrity
in Cotton Bank Clearings.
NEW YORK, Sept. 20. Bradstreet's to
morrow will say:
The sad events of the week have natur
ally been repressing features, even on days
when the sense of National bereavement
did' not seek expression in total or partial
suspension of all but the absolutely neces
sary activities. The reduced figures of
sales of products or securities dealt in
speculatively, and the lessened volume of
bank clearings were among the most
prominent measures of the repression un
der which the business world has la
bored, but the course of prices of nearly
all stocks and staples shows that repres
sion and not depression is the word to
express the steadiness and confidence with
which the commercial and financial world
An Oreg'on Pionee r
of 1852.
CARLTON. Sept. 21. William
R. Johnson, an Oregon pioneer of
1852, died at his Home, three miles
southwest of here, September 10.
He was born In Ohio In 1824. He
was raised on a farm in Indiana,
to which his parents moved In an
early day. Some years later he re
moved to Arkansas. "While living
In Arkansas he was united in mar
riage to Miss Dell Steward, the
daughter of John Steward, a well
known resident of Indiana. Hear
ing of the wonderful opportunities
afforded to settlers in Oregon, Mr.
Johnson, with his wife and child
and his mother and a few neigh
bors, started, March 24, 1852,
across the plains with ox teams for
Oregon. They arrived at La Fay
ette, Yamhill County, in the Fall
of 1852. He settled on a donation
land claim three miles from here,
and there resided until his death.
Nine children were born In Oregon,
five of whom are living Alice G.,
wife of J. W. Stallcop, of Tilla
mook; Lillle H., wife of M. H.
Messiger, of Carlton; Agnes, Kate
and Richard, who resided with their
awaited ad received the change in Ex
ecutives. Among the more favorable of the purely
commercial or industrial features of the
week have1 been the continuance of the
good demand from jobbers, the large ship
ments of goods with which to fill these
demands, the better call for goods at re
tail, Induced by the arrival of cool Fall
weather, and last, but not least, the set
tlement of the steel strike, which re
stores at least 50,000 men to their work.
The unfavorable features are few, the
most notable being the advices of the
arrival of heavy frosts in the corn belt,
affecting, however, only the latest planted
product. The strength of corn has been,
indeed, the feature of the cereal market,
and has been shared in by other grains,
though realizing later cut down some of
the gains jioted earlier. Cottons alone of
all the leading staples showed Irregu
larity. The resumption of work In the hoop,
sheet, tlnplate and tube mills has been a
feature of the week. Steel rails are being
well taken at the West, and steel mills
are reported sold ahead to next year.
Jobbers In iron and steel are busy sup
plying small lots to bridge over consum
ers until the mills, recently on strike can
come into the market. Pig Iron is In bet
ter Inquiry, and Bradstreet's Birmingham
correspondent reports an advance of 25
cents per ton. Export business is very
slow. The other metals are without much
change. Tin is excited, but copper is
steady, despite stock market rumors of
heavy distributers' stocks.
Wheat, including flour, exports for the
week aggregate 3,840,574 bushels, as against
6,648,609 last week and 3,535,857 in this week
last year. Wheat exports, July 1 to date
(12 weeks), aggregate 72,182.179 bushels, as
against 37,463,416 last season. Corn ex
ports aggregate 611,528 bushels, as against
777,661 last week and 2,134,205 last yeilr.
July 1 to date, corn exports are 12,133,204
bushels, against 3S.5S6.476 last season.
The boot and shoe Industries are in good
shape, and shipments compare excellently
with a year ago. Manufacturers are de
termined to get full prices for shoes, in
view of the strength of heavy leather
and hides.
For the week, business failures- number
158, as against 1S2 last week, 1S3 in this
week a year ago, 147 in 1S99 and 1S2 in
1S9S.
Canadian failures number 23, as against
16 last week, 21 in this week a year ago,
13 in 1S99, 19 in 1S9S, and 35 in 1S97.
R. G. DUX'S REPORT.
BnsinesH for the Week Restricted by
Death of the President.
NEW YORK, Sept. 20. R. G. Dun &
Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade tomorrow
will say:
Universal sorrow placed a calming hand
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SALLY
A sweepstake Shorthorn cow all over the United States, brought to Oregon by W.
O. Minor at a cost of S1700, -will be shown In Mr. Minor's fine herd of Shorthorns
at the Oreson State Fair.
e-a.4et-tio,,,.
on the rush and turmoil of the market
place. Exchanges suspended operations
for two days, and the distribution of mer
chandise was in many cases limited to
Immediate requirements. Mercantile pay
ments continue prompt, but it was to be
expected that bank exchanges would not
show the customary heavy gains over pre
vious years. At. leading cities outside New
York there was a gain of .8 per cent over
19W and a loss of 7 per cent from 1899.
Yet prices were stronger and there were
many indications of great latent power
that may be expected to appear as normal
conditions return.'
In preparing for an exceptionally active
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year in 1902, some of the largest steel
mills are to double their capacity. Fic
tltious prices disappear with the pros
pect of full production, but it will be
some time before immediate deliveries
are made at last figures. Meanwhile the
pig iron market revives at the assurance
of heavy consumption, and Southern fur
naces are already asking higher quota
tions Forwardings of Fall footwear to
the West and South have about ceased
with the advancing season, but producers
are still busily engaged turning out goods
for jobbing at Eastern cities. Quotations
for shoes are unchanged, though there is
a general advance of 25c on boots.
Abundance of work in prospect has made
operators more desirous of securing ma
terial, and the leather market averages
about a cent higher.
Woolen good9 remain firm, "but quiet,
while the wool market Is hardened by
advances at the London' auction sale.
Wheat is stronger, with less speculative
support and more actual cash demand.
Shipments abroad continue heavy, despite
much interruption, during the past week.
Failures for the week numbered 157 in
the United States, against 211 last year,
and 26 in Canada, against 33 last year.
OPTIMISTIC VIEW OF INDIANS
Farmer at Klnmntli Aftcncy Thinks
They "Will Become Self-Supporting:.
J. B. C. Taylor, who holds the position
of Government farmer at the Klamath
agency. Is at the Perkins. He considers
the Indians bright and willing scholars
and that they will finally become as pro
ficient as their white brothers, although
the style of farming adopted at the
agency only involves the singles processes
of plowing, harrowing and irrigating.
"There are about 1200 Indians at the
agency now," he said last evening, "and
many of them have long since become
self-supporting. Some are even quite well
to do. and Harry Jackson, a full-blood
Klamath Indian, sells $6000 or $7000 worth
of beef cattle off his ranch every year.
The elevation is rather high for the ripen
ing of wheat, as frosts are likely to be
both late In the Spring and early in the
Fall but alfalfa and grasses do remark
ably well. Stock farming Is therefore the
principal Industry, and that business has
been very profitable for the past few
years.
"The lands have long since been al
lotted to the aborigines in severalty, each
head of a family being entitled to 160
acres, but they think this Is too small a
tract, and are already clamoring for more
land.
"The Government has gradually with
drawn Its assistance since allotment
and there are very few 'blanket' Indians
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now on what was once the reservation.
I think they will all finally become a self
supporting and well-to-do community and
that they can, after a certain time, -be
lei.- to themselves altogether." Mr. Tay
lor has been teaching the aborigines the
art of farming for about six years.
Odd Fellows' Innovation.
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. Sent. 20. A cten
that is regarded as the most remarkable
ever taken as to the secret work of Odd
Fellowship was recorded today when the
sovereign grand lodge, the supreme body,
voted to allow duplicate" copies of the
secret wjrk of the order to be made. The
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resolution adopted today provides that
each state jurisdiction shall receive one
copy of the secret work. No additional
copies will be made. There was a long
.and spirited discussion on the resolution,
its adoption having been stubbornly op
posed by many of the prominent represen
tatives. The sovereign grand lodge has accepted
the resignation of Herman Block, spe
cial deputy grand sire at Holsteln.
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Bank Clearings.
NEW YORK, Sept. 20. The following table,
compiled by Bradstreet, shows the bank clear
ings at the principal cities for the -week ended
September 10, with the percentage of increase
and decrease, as compared with the corre
sponding week last year:
Clearings. Inc. Dec.
New York $1,120,503,000 47.3 ....
Chicago 127.234,000 0.8 ....
Boston 108.7S1.000 11.1 ....
Philadelphia 85.004.000 .... 0.0
St. Louis .: 34.70S.OOO 2.5 ....
Pittsburg 27,010,000
Baltimore 20,073.000 3.7 ....
San Francisco 22,406,457 .... 2.8
Cincinnati 15.C93.000 14.3 ....
Kansas City ; 15.401.000 .... 0.3
Minneapolis 11.093.000 .... 15.1
Cleveland 11,607,000 12.3
New Orleans 0,009.000 .... 20.7
Detroit 9,700.000 20.1 ....
Louisville 6.677,000 2.6 ....
Indianapolis 8.464.000 37.1 ....
Providence 5.218.00O 3.6
Omaha 5,414,000 7.5
Milwaukee 6.093,000 5.4 ....
Buffalo 5,447,000 2.9
St. Paul '.. 4.121.000 .... b.6
Savannah 2,626,000 .... 67.4
Denver 3,953,000 5.0
St. Joseph 3,508.000
Richmond 3.700,000
Memphis 2,189,000 6.6
Seattle 3,021,499 .... 7.8
AVashington 1,707,000 8.7
Hartford 2.119,000 .... 4.8
Los Angeles 2,SC8,000 18.9 ....
Salt Lake 3.235,000 27.7 ....
Toledo 2.1S5.O0O .... 13.9
Portland, Or 2,022,966 .... 18.9
Rochester 1,538,000 13.1
Peoria 1.907.000 .... 4.8
Fort Worth 2.467,000 48.1 ....
Atlanta 1,544,000 .... 14.7
Norfolk 1.037,000 25.7
Des Moines 1.511.000 9.0 .. .
New Haven 1,309.000
Springfield, Mass.... 1,112,000 4.3
Augusta 771.000 66.8
Nashville. 1,274.000 5.2 ....
Worcester 1.301.000 3.1 ....
Grana Rapids l,oi)2,000 11.0
Sioux City 994.000 18.7
Dayton, 0 054,000 21.7
Syracuse 9:19,000 10.7
Scranton 1.090,000 0.5
Portland, Me 1.0S9.000 4.2
Spokane 079,721 20.8
Tacoma 1,410,174 9.3 ....
Evansvllle 041,000 13.3
Wilmington, Del 004.000
Davenport 1.018.000 23.9 ....
Fall River 743,000 13.7
Birmingham 6S0.000 .... 7.2
Topeka 950,000 13.0
Macon 400,000
Little Rock 534.000 4.7
Helena 500,000 .... 9.0
Knoxville 435,000 .... 33.5
Lowell - 447,000
Wichita 4S9.000 3.6 ..."
Akron 501,000 3.0 ...'.'
New Bedford 393,000
Lexington 421,000 7.3
Springfield. Ill 391,000 13.1
Blnghamton 224,000 37.0
Chattanooga 540.000 11.1 ....
Kalamazoo 309,000
Fargo ( 315.000 2.6
Youngstown 562.000 ....
Springfield, 0 233,000 10.7
Rockford 349.000 43.0
Canton 287.000 9.1
Jacksonville 254,000 41.1
Sioux Falls 220.000 5S.1 .".."
Fremont 100,000 .... 25.3
Bloomlngton, 111 214,000
Jacksonville. Ill 231,000 ....
Columbus, 0 503,000 1.3 .".'
Galveston 5,901.000
Houston 11,105.000 4.7
Colorado Springs .... 740,000
Wheeling, W. Va.... 480,000 "
Chester 238,000
Wllkesbarre 545,000
Totals TJ. S $1,738,256,384 20.9 ..."
Outside N. Y $ 611,750.342 0.9 ....
CANADA.
Montreal $ 13.463.000 5.7
Toronto 12.472.626 30.0 ...
Winnipeg 2.217.717 33.3 ....
Halifax 1.634,013 13.3 ...
Vancouver, B. C 1.176,831 13.4 .. '.
Hamilton 849.114 9 1
St. John, N. B 850,229 10.1 ...
Victoria, B. C 4SS.806 .... 12.6
Quebec 933,000
Totals $ 30:159.758 13.9 ....
Fnnernl of Binliop Whipple.
FARIBAULT, Minn., Sept. 20. A large
number of the clergy of the Protestant
jfciPlscopal Church, with many laymen,
attended the funeral services over the
remains of the Right Rev. Henry Whip-
pie, bishop of Minnesota, this afternoon. I
Bishop Tuttle, of Missouri, was the chief
officiating clergyman, assisted by Bishop
Morrison, of Duluth. At the close of the '
services the body was laid Into the crypt
beneath the chancel of the cathedral,
where it Is being walled up with solid
masonry. Several hundred Sioux and
Chippewa Indians were in the city to at-
tendy the funeral of their life-long friend.
Oklahoma Indians Appeal.
GUTHRIE, O. T., Sept. 20. Lone Wolf.
principal chief of the Kiowa Indians, and '
Hlte, representing the Kiowa, Comanche
and Apache Federation, today appealed
to the Oklahoma Supreme Court for a
temporary injunction tq prevent the set
tlement by whites of the lands recently
opened In Oklahoma and to be restored to
Warblers
by Electric Light on
itnomah Field in the
all their rights. They name as defendants
ex-Governor W. A. Richards, who con
ducted the land opening, and the regis
ters and receivers of the El Reno and the
Lawton Land Oillces. Their petition was
refused by Judge Irwin in the Canadian
County District Court, August 9, and they
appeal from his decision. They are con
fident of success, but if they do not wiri
here they will carry it to the Supreme
Court of the United States. Should they
win, it will prevent all those who secured
lucky numbers in the Government land,
drawing from completing settlement on
t'heir claims.
ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Directors anil Olllcerx Electcl at the
Annual Sleeting.
NEW YORK, Sept. 20. At the annual
meeting of the Associated Presd, which
was convened in this city under the by
laws, the following were elected members
of the board of directors:
Stephen O'Meara, Boston Journal:
Whitelaw Reld, New York Tribune: W.
Xi. McLean, Philadelphia Bulletin; Albert
J. Barr, Pittsburg Post; George Thomp
son. St. Paul Dispatch: Victor F. Lawson,
Chicago Daily News; Charles W. Knapp,
St. Louis Republic; Charles Taft, Cin
cinnati Times-Star; Harvey AV. Scott,
Portland Oregonlan: Frank B. Noyes,
Washington Star; Thomas G. Rapier, New
Orleans Picayune; Herman Ridder.New
York Staata Zeitung; M. H. DeYoung,
San Francisco Chrpnlcle; Charles H.
Grasty, Baltimore News; Clark Howell,
Atlanta Constitution.
The board of directors met subsequently
and elected the following officers:
Frank B. Noyes, president; Horace B.
White, New York Evening Post, first
vice-president; William R. Nelson, Kan
sas City Star, second vice-president; Mel
ville E. Stone,' secretary; Charles S. Diehl,
assistant secretary; Valentine P. Snyder,
treasurer.
The following gentlemen were elected as
an executive committee: Stephen
O'Meara, Victor F. Lawson, Charles W.
Knapp, Whitelaw Reid and Frank B.
Noyes.
The following resolutions were unani
mously adopted by a rising vote:
"Whereas, the late President of the
United States, William McKinley, beloved
and honored by the people of the whole
country, has been murdered by the ruth
less hand of an anarchist assassin, and
"Whereas, his noble qualities and his
conspicuous example as a brave, generous,
sympathetic and lovable man his virtues
as a citizen and officer of the Republic,
his deeds as a patriot who inspired love
and sympathy between the sections and
the people of our common country, had
endeared him to the whole Union, there
fore be it,
"Resolved, by the Associated Press:
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"1 That In common with th whoio
country It deplores his tragic death as
a National calamity.
"2 That the sympathy of this body be
expressed to his bereaved wife, who, de
prived of his loving care and comfort.
and of his affectlonute solicitude, should
become, so long as she lives, the ward.
I of the Nation in all that can. be prop
erly done to give expression to the coun-
try's appreciation of her lamented hus
1 band's virtues, and to the unspeakable sor
row with which It views his martyrdom.
"3 That we call upon the state and tho
Nation to take prompt and emphatic leg
islative steps to deal adequately with tho
advocates of the damnable doctrine which,
teaches that law and order must be over
thrown, and which, the' world over, open
ly adopts assassination as the instrument
of Its operation. The anarchist has no
place in this country, and he should ba
made to understand that ha would ba
dealt with In the same manner as any
other plague or pestilence which threatens
the public security.
"4 That we felicitate the country in hav
ing met so firmly the trying ordeal of,
the past week, in which the enduring
strength and security of Its Institutions
have been again so strongly manifested.
That in this, as in all other National ad
versities, the patriotism, the loyalty and:
the fervor of Its law-abiding eltfczeas
should hold In such even balance the vast
commercial and other Interests which.
rest upon popular confidence In safe and
secure government. la a tribute, well
worthy of our great people, to the Gov
ernment which their devotion has mado
the greatest of the governments of tho
earth."
Killed by a Drnnkcn Soldier.
FORT MEAD, S. D., Sept. 20. Private
Charles Lynch, of Company M, whilo
crazed by drink, entered the barracks to
day, drew his revolver and began firing
indiscriminately at his comrades. One
bullet struck Private Caldwell In the th&rh,
and another Charles H. Amlch in the
stomach. Private Amlch died tonight.
Lynch had been at Sturgess on leave oC
absence, and there secured the liquor.
llrnzlllnn Candidates.
RIO JANEIRO, Sept. 20. At the meet
ing of the Brazilian Republican Conven
tion, in this city today, for the selection
of candidates for the Presidency and Vice
Presidency in succession of Dr. Campos
Salles and Dr. Rons Sela, the choice fell
unanimously upon Rodriguez Alves, pres
ident of the State of Sao Palo, and Sii
viano Brandao, president of the State of
MInas-Geraes.
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