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THE DAILY COOS BAY TIMES, MARSHFIELD. OREGON, SUNDAY. AUGUST 11, 1907.
PLANT WD
OF THE SOUTH
Secrets of Indians' Associate
Just Come to Light Through
Mere Accident.
AMUSEMENT
GROWS NEW VEGETABLE
With many things to commend Its
everlastingly popularity, one thing in
particular Is a feature- concerning the
Lowe Stock Company, and that Is the
clover work of Louise Lowe, the win
some little soubrctte. Miss Lowe's
success last season was far above the
ordinary and her Interpretation of
tho different characters is looked up
on as most artistic. The critics say
that she brings original touches at
overy turn. This year the company
Is stronger than ever, carrying a
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STANDARD OIL FINK OF 920,000,000 WOULD
IIUV UNCLE SAM F1VK DIG FIHST-CLASS WARSHIPS.
If paid In silver dollars it would require 184,275 men to carry It,
or 4C freight cars.
On a basis of five per cent a year tho $29,000,000, If Invested,
would yield a perpetual Income of $1,450,000 a year or $120,833
every month, or $4027 for every day In the year.
In 1857 tho total of the public. debt of the United States was
$28,699,831, or half a million less than the Standard Oil fine.
f If paid In silver dollnrs, the $29,240,000 would make a weight
of 1,827,500 pounds avordupols or 913 tons or 2000 pounds each.
Allowing that two horses could draw three tons, it would tako
three hundred and four double teams to haul the amount of tho
fine In silver from place to place.
The amount of tho fine Is more than Jefferson paid for tho
Louisiana Purchase, with Alaska thrown In; moro than tho wholo
Philippine Archipelago cost the United States In monoy; greater
Englishman Experiments For Fifty
Years Hoys Steal Vegetables
And Secrets arc Exposed.
Colllnsvllle, I. T.,' Aug. 10. Tho
Cherokee Indians Claim a close rival
to Luther Burbank. Tho achieve
ments of this heretofore practically
unheard of "Plant Wizard" among
tho Indians are like a romance, but
the truth 1c that Immense orchards,
flower gardens and vegetables proves
his existence among these people for
the past 57 years.
David Jaggers, an Englishman, is
the greatly beloved and highly prized
man among tho Cherokees. He is
now in his eighty-sixth year and has
lived among the Indians for 57 years.
His experimental station is situated
just outside the corporate limits of
Colllnsvllle, where he has worked
for the past eight years with wonder
, ful success. He formerly lived In tho
Spavlnaw Hills In the eastern part of
the Cherokee Nation, and his secret
has been closely guarded by his old
Indian friends for more than a half,
century. It was only a few days ago
that his 10-acre patch of ground was
found to contain numerous strange
and curious plants, which, it Is be
lieved, entitles him to second place
In the world of plant-growing and
breeding.
Turnips and Cabbage Crossed.
Among the number of new veget
ables produced by "Uncle David" as
the Indians call him, Is a. perfect
cross between an ordinary turnip and
a cabbage. He has also an entirely
new Variety" of onion, very much
larger than the ordinary variety,
Bweet and perfectly free from the
usual "hot" taste. This discovery,
or product, has only recently been
found by Mr. Jaggers to be a perfect
onion, to produce which, he says has
taken him more than ,2,0 years. It
was produced from crossing with a
wild variety whjch grow spontaneous
ly along the streams In the early
springtime. The wild onion was suc
cessfully crossed with the Bermuda
onion and. recrossed 'many times with
the native onion of this country.
In the "Wizard of Oz Gardens,"
as tho white people ca.ll his place,
are to be found'V practically every
variety of flower and vegetable. Ho
also owns several long rows of prac
tically evoryTliriown' JiliiU tree, and
vines. Just how well Jagger's efforts
have been appreciated Is shown by
tho great number of valuable orch
ards and vineyards ( tp bo found
throughout lie Southwest:
Indian Lcanied Readily.
C. A. McNnbb, secretary of tho Ok
lahoma Board of Agriculture, who is
un export orcliardlst, said on a rccont
visit, that the Cherokee Indians were
u revelation to him. He expressed
the opinion that within live years
these people would bo In a position to
teach their "palo face" brothers the
art of peach, pear and applo growing.
Discussing tho Cherokees and
their assistance in his work of scien
tific plant culture, Mr. Jaggers said:
''When I canio among those people
In I860 thoy were very friendly and
fully alive to their own Interests,
Thoy became Interested In my work
from tho start, and I have always
found thorn ready and willing to pro'
vldo tho necessary funds 'with" which
to carry on my oxperimonts. They at
ilrst regarded mo with suspicion, n'ud
8omo of tho m oven bellovo that 1
was a sort of conjuror, but they soon
learned that I was working for their
wolfaro.
"Thq combination turnip arid cab
bage is the result of nearly 25 yoirr',
careful study, and much labor.'" Had'
In not been for a fowbad boys tho
world would still bo in ignoriiuco..nf
tho vegetable. Th'o boys claimed'
over my high board fence, and In tho
darkness, took several and sold them
to Mrs. White, proprietor of tho Ho
tel London, Tho traveling men Eutd
tho combination was a moBt delicious
dish, and thoy (old sovornl newspaper
men about it. This is how I learned
that tho boys had entoVed my garden
lit night, and how tho public know, of
my success in this Hue,"
rnost notable cast, Including George L. tnan the ,ncomo qf flvo ,ndependent monarchies bordering tho
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cd leading lady, who is making as
great success, on tho Pacific coast as
Bho did in tho east. Ray Westwood,
the man who nevor fails to get a
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less sums. The fine Is fifty ner cent of tho annual incomo of tho
giant trust. All tho wars that Athens and Sparta fought against
invaders and against each other never cost so much.
4 In six months tho oil trust earns fine. In past ten years Its profits
exceeded $600,000,000, its dividends $380,000,000.
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LOLISI3 lldWll, SOUBRHTTE.
ibughT mid "popular HurryWeHIiig7
ton, Norman Grey, Bert West and
Bessie Wells are also with the com
pany. Another feature that Mr.
Lowe has added to his company just
of late is Burton and Avery, the well-
kiown vaudeville team. Their act is
one long laugh and two much' praise
c-.rnot be given to them, as,they get
away from the usual horse play that
is so much in evidence with most
vaudovlllo teams. They are a pro
nounced lilt at every town. The Lowe
Company opens here Monday, Aug
ust 12, for a week's engagement with
that ever successful play, "A Moun
tain Daisy." Reserved seats at the
usual place.
MYRTLE POINT MAN
RELATES INCIDENTS
Mr.
Jerry Haynes Pays Murshflcld
a Visit Came Hero In
Early Day.
ABSORBING ARTICLE ON
COOS FRUIT CULTURE
Paper Presented at Friday's Chamber of Commerce Meet
ing by W. D. Reedy, His Personal Experiences.
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DRAIN STAGE SCHKDl'LE. '
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Tho Drain stago'boat leavoa
MnrahfyilU, August 12, at 4 a.
111.; returning, arrives nt Marsh- 4
Hold nt 12 m.
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Uncle Jerry Haynes, of Myrtle
Point, was in Murshfield yesterday
and called at tho Chamber of Com
merce headquarters J where ho re
lated a number of incidents of early
life in Coos and Curry counties. Mr.
Haynes came to this country in the
fifties and has since then been a resi
dent of the neighborhood about
Myrtle Pofut for most of the time.
Ho has a 48-aero farm near there
which ho believes is onq of tho most
productive and paying farms for its
size in Coos county. Last year tho
renter on this farm cleaned up seven
teen hundred dollars from tho place.
Tho furm is stocked with 58 cows,
and tho dairy products are tho chief
rovonuo of tho farm. Mr. Haynes
came into tho Coos Bay country from
San Francisco by water. At oio time,
In an early day, ho with F. G. Lock-
hart and Gilbert Hall, formed a com
pany for thojjpurposo of cutting a
canal through to connect tho Coquillo
river with Coos Bay. ' They prepared
their papers and forwarded them to
Washington. 'But tho scheme fell
through, by reason of thd cost qf tho
ontprprlso and It was not carried to
completion.. Mr. Haynes feeds his
cowspoirimepclng about, this, timo of
peas; infer, corn ls'fed; and along In
tho winter the slip is opened, and In
tho spring, lini' Is tho chiofullet. Mr.
Hayu'es; in relating (he qarlyvlllstory
of (he, couiltry, told of an offer nmdo
by. A. .J. Pavjs, tho Montana 'million
aire who died aomo years ago. Mr.
Dftvls was horo about tho time coal
indications word fauna at tho present
Site of North Bond, and ho offered
$75,000 for tho land now occupied
by tho lively city at tho north. Since
ho could not buy It and invest 'his
money hero, ho wept to Montana
and made his millions in copper.
Mr. President and Gentlemen of the
Chamber of Commerce:
I listened with deep interest to the
able paper on "The Gravensteln Ap
ple," read by tho Honorable J. W.
Snover In this chamber one week
since. And his conclusions on cli
matls conditions and adaptability of
bcth our .climate and soil, and espe
cially our bench land soils, to the
successful propagation of the stand
ard varieties of the apple and the
various amall fruits, are borno out
by my own experience In fruit culture
on Coos Bay.
Looking1 from Marshfleld's water
front to tho east shore of the bay, you
see at an altitude of some four or five
hundred feet, the buildings and a
part of the clearings of what for the
past twelve years has been the resi
dence place of myself and family for
at least the summer months, and dur
ing some years the entire twelve
months.
On that place is embalmed my ex
perience In the growing of fruits. '
' My observatlons,xhowever, of bench"
land fruit growing, embrace almost
every inlet of the Bay, the Ten Mile
country and a considerable part of
the Coqullle Valley.
On my place, some ten years since',
I planted In the midst of a newly
slashed and burned clearing, among
the stumps and roots, with no prep
aration of the soil other than the
digging of Jiqles about four feet
square and two feet deep, some hun
dreds of ..apple trees of the Graven
stein, Baldwin, Coos River Beauty,
Salome and Spitz varieties. More
unpromising ground in which to sluk
tho feet of a fruit tree, never, proba
bly, spread itself before the eye of
a would-be orcliardlst.
But, surprising as may be tho them in the month of Febrrnrv
statement to those of you who have From these plants I sol.l for nt
observed xwlth what care the skilled')1 least three different years, all tho
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(.uinuiubioi jiiujiuiv.0 "'o t'"""" "-iiiij iioni seven niiKircci to one
ly all destroyed. But from some of
tho latter two years since, I picked
three boxes of fruit each.
They were, like the Baldwins and
Coos River Beauty apples, Arm,
and of good size, and so well colored
that one cheek was a rosy red and
the other beautifully red and yellow
streaked.
For testimony as to the perfect
beauty of the Baldwin apples, I refer
you to Mr. Stauff of tho Corner Gro
cery. The apples I sent him he con
sidered too fine to sell by tho box,
took them out of the boxes and sold
them by the small piece. I sent him
those apples In perfect condition long
after tho time the r.r 'win season Is
popularly thought to u ut an end. I
observed in the instance of the
Gravenstelns, that when the ; iw'and
apples of the same variety were quite
past their prime, the highland apples
were yet solid, firm and juicy.
Baldwins, I have kept In perfect
condition until April.
My experience with the Salome ap
plo teaches me that as a market
variety, it is not desirable; for, wh'lle
a fine cooker and a late spring keep
er, it is so lacking in uniformity of
size as to result in a great waste in
packing. It certainly Is desirable to
projiagate to some extent for home
consumption, as It remains firm,
crisp and juicy, when other varieties
have become Insipid.
Some of the specimens aro peerless
as to size and coloring.
In the midst of the apple orchard,
for some four or five years, I culti
vated less than one-eighth of an aero
of strawberries, with no removal of
the plants, and without the ujs of
fertilizer other than the turning un
der of a cJover sod, when I planted
fruit, planted the rooted tips of
ono dozen more nnd sold twolvo
dollnrs worth' of tips.
This season, Mr. J. A. Word, tho
gentleman who bought the plnco and
has his summer residence there, In
formed mo that he had marketed
thirty dollars worth of berries and
that subsequent sales would amount
to ten dollnrs moro ere tho end of
tho fruiting season.
Many of tho canes of the logan
berry made, on my plnce, an annual
growth of twenty-live feet.
I found that almost every varloty
of garden vegetable thrives and
yields abundantly".
Returning to tho discussion of the
applo culture I novo to say that the
moss grown, decaying condition of
trees is tho aftermath of total neg
lect, rnther than climatic conditions.
If ho trees are planted nt such Inter
vals that the boughs don't Interlace,
nnd If the trees aro kept pruned so
that tho air and sunlight can pene
trate to every part of tho stems and
branches, there will bo little troublo
with moss, fungi, and insect pests.
A mild solution of lime and water
applied spring nnd fall to tho trees,
the application extending from tho
ground to ahelght a little above tho
forks, will keep tho bark smooth,
effectually destroy the bark and sap
borer, and In many other ways con
done to the health and beauty of the
orchard.
Tho only pests that troubled my
trees were the bark borer, the green
aphis, whoso colonies tho ants sedu
lously spread abroad, and a bug that
came from the alder groves when the
trees were in blossom. Tho uphls
seemed, from choice, to Infest the
Salome trees, seldom troubling either
the Gravensteln or Baldwin varieties.
While, like the ninety and nine of the
brchardlsts on Coos Bay, I did little
spraying, I Investigated Its merits
far enough to know that Its sys
tematic practice will effectually de-
HEAVY LIO TO
HOLD ASTORII
Sea City Gambling
Closed and Old Times Will
Be Reminiscences.
SADNESS AMONG GAMBLERS
Now Order Will Deprive Llvc-R,,.
Men of Livelihood Ministers to
Get Credit.
games, all In plain sight. The tables
stroy the green aphis, and tho fungi, j are in the same room with the bar
Now the lid Is to be clamped do8
on Astoria and gambling Is to cease
Astoria Is at present the most wld.
open town in Oregon. Any k'nd oti
game of chance, with the exception c(
horso racing, can bo found In a walk
from tho depot to Swilltown. w
All soloons of Astoria, with per.
haps ono or two oxcoptions, have.a
number of gambling devices. The
nhkle-In-thc-slot machines, which
wore chased out of Portland, have
found a refuge in tho City by the
Sea. Thero are from three to a
dozen or moro nlckle-caters In each
saloon and In a few places the ma
chines line the walls. During the
daytime there Is comparatively little
play on tho machines, but at night
business Improves.
Gambling lay-outs aro found In
many of the thirst hospitals. The
first saloon a stranger strikes on
leaving the train resembles a minia
ture Milwaukee Club. There are
roulette tables, craps, faro and other
receive tho roots of' shrubs and trees,
tho young orchard made a fine
growth during tho first year, and in
Juno of tho second year ufter plant
ing, was in a healthy, nourishing
condition.
At that timo I was living on a sub
division of tho plnce about one-fourtln
of a mllo distant from the ypung
orchard, and from which it was ob
scured. On a certain Juno morning,'
thousand quarts of beautiful, med
ium sized berries of fine flavor, and
rod as rubles to the center. I re
ceived for them In the market, an
average price of eight cents per
quart, which meant from $C0 to $S0
per year. In addition to those mark
eted we consumed each year, a cou
ple of hundreds of quarts, in tho
family.
Mr. Sacchl handled my berries and
after an nbsenco of perhaps ono week, can testify as to tho popularity of
what was my dismay on repairing (q
my cherished apple trees, to find
that the mischievous deer had been,
"Cedar Heights" strawberries.
The berries were not irrigated;
but; if it Is desired to have the fruit-
Tho thriftiest trees I grow wore on
cleared ilr land, known as the "burnt
land," where apparently, the soil
was completely burnt out.
Let me say right now, that the
methods used my me In my culture
of fruits were very crude indeed, and
that I do not here mention them as
a model for any Intelligent pomolo
glst to follow. Rather, I give you my
experience that you may know the
possibilities of our bench lands when
properly tested by scientific inten
sive culture. i
But, gentlemen, I wish to go on
record as saying that of tho miles
and miles of these uplands stretching
about our beautiful Bay, there Is not
a road, if not so steep as to prohibit
terracing and cultivation, that will
not, under systematic tilth, pro
duce flno fruit and berries.
One who has no knowledge of the
highlands about Coos Bay, except tho
uupcrflcial one obtained from our
city wharves, or from the deck of a
river or inlet boat, has no adequate
conception of the large number of
acres of comparatively level benches
distributed throughout the hills.
It matters not how high those
benches may bo. Perfect fruit 111 ay
bo grown at a profit thp-eon, if given
tho same careful culture '.hat would
be given to a growing crop of pota
toes or other vegetables. ,
xoticr.
F. G. McGann & Sons glvo notico
that thoy will not bo responsible for
any bills contracted in their names
without writtou 'order.
V.- S. McGANNv
13. M. McGAN'N.
J. W.'McGANN.
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Itrniviiitierl. Hot chicken plo
today at Davjs A Dais' Bakery.
Try a Times Want Ad.
not alone , making a play ground of 1 ipg- of the highland berries continue
tho orchard', but had browsed and tlirough.t.he autumn, It is necessary
broken off every branch and peeled , to persist in a constant, shallow cul-many-
oftho trees to the very roots, tu'ro, or e'.be, uftiv tho'last cultivation
ajid npwhere left standing, ..a stub ! before fruiting, thoroughly mulch
o a tree more than two or three feet ' down the newly stirred ground be
Ifl height! ' ,- , . j twaen tho plants.
1 dldn.'t hope far. tho recovery pf -By adopting tho latter plan ono
ono (reo, but. about two hundred of! year, I marketed berries from May
luui ro August irom tho same plants.
By having varieties frultiug later, tho
market might have been supplied un
til the rains of winter set In,
The red raspberry, tho red currant
and both tho English and Amorlcau
varieties of tho goosoberrv, fruit to
perfection on the highlands.
If the gooseberry, moro particular
ly tho English variety, is vigorously
pruned each your, thero Is no danger
of either blight or mildew affecting
the limbless stumps,, in tho course of
'ajfow .weeks, began to put fortlj now
leaves. ,
' . For four or live years 1. nursed thou
recovering .trees, cultivating straw-i
"berries in tho midst of those on the
gentlq slopos, and terracing somo-
what and digging about those on tho
steeper slopes. I lost at least five
years' growth on thoso deer-wrecked
trees. Other trees planted seven
years ago havo outgrown them, and
are' now In bearlug. -J it.
Two years ago I gathered from thol Three years ago I ordered ono
best of tho reepvered Salomp, Coos dozen logan bony plants. Through
Hay Benuty and Baldwin varieties as a misunderstanding I didn't get pos
liifh as four or five boxes of fruit session of them until they wore mere
-faoh. So nearly perfect was the 'dry. hard mud balls, tho roots, ap
ciflorlng of (ho Coos River nnd Bald- parently lifeless. With careful nurs
wln apples, that a pin point could lug-1 succeeded in getting nine of
barely havo lieon placed on a part of them to struggle through tho year
the, sur'facQ that was not a beautiful and furnish enough rooted tips to
blushing red. gfye pie in all two dozen plants.
The, deer destroyed every Spitz Last tfear I sold from those plants
tree, and the Gravenstelns were near- twenty-five dollar? worth of prime
HAIL TO KNIFE GRINDERS!
ChH .HiTvi-jo Will Attract Them to
Nino Hundred Dollar Gov-
,Hall to tho knife grinder! Thou
sands of his trlbo will soon march
upon Washington, all Imbued with
tho lofty ambition to hold down a
government "snap." Tho great as
semblage, which will mako Wash
ington its Mecca for an indefinite
period, bids fair to produce a tie-up
in tho scissors grinding industry
throughout tho United States, says
tho Washington Post.
Llko a bolt from a clear sky, the
first intimation of this conclave of
horny handed sons came in the form
of an announcement Issued by the
civil service commission that ellglbles
for tho "ofilco" of knlfo griilder
would be exainined arid certified for"
Immediate service in the'gbvoi'nmeht
printing office' and other brartches"0f
department work where the deftness
and skill of tho knlfo grinder are
necessary in order that tho machin
ery may run smooth.
Thero are features that should at
tract and please applicants. No edu
cation is necessary, iso oxcruclatlng
mental or physical tests aro requir
ed. No long political pull Is needed.
Already there Is activity among
tho Washington grinders. It is not
yet nmdo public how many appoint
ments will be made from tho list of
applicants. Tho Job will pay $900
a year.
and tho free lunch.
Astoria's gambling proprietors re
celvo their custom principally from
tho fishermen. This is the season
when the town Is filled with gill
netters and many of these are invad
ers from California and the North.
Tho fishermen generally have several
hundred dollars and do not feel satis
fied until they have gone against the
"bank" or the slot machines. The
fishermen support tho majority of
the gambling games. In the Chinese
quarters of Astoria thero are many
games which are devoted to the pur
pose of skinning Chinese who work
in tho canneries along the river front.
The Chinese also visit the games con
ducted by tho white men, for the
money of a Chinese gambler looks as
good as that of a Greek fisherman.
There Is an understanding between
tho propriotors of the games and the
authori'ss In Astoria and because of
this it has not been necessary to run
tho games under cover. Gambling Is
conducted as openly as It was in
Portland under Mayor Williams when
tho monthly line system was In
vogue.
It was only a few weeks ago that
tho ministers and tho saloon men of
Astoria effected a compromise. The
ministers wanted to close the saloons
all day Sunday, but after two con
ferences, a compromise was effected
by which the saloons close during
tho hours of church service. There
aro moro saloons to tho squaro Inch
in Astoria than any other town In
the state.
BIG PLANS FOR THE
ASTORIA REGATTA
Dates, September U, .' and 1 Many
Unique- Features For This
Year's Fun-Makers.
Pianos stored; good waterproof
buildings. W. R, Unities Music Co.
Public Invitation.
Marshfleld C. & J. Union cordially
Invito the public to attend an open
meeting to bo held in tho I. O. O. F
hall- on Tuesday evening, August
13, 1907
JOHN GREENWOOD, Sec'y.
Viking ships with a Viking king
and old-time warriors togged In tho
costumo of a thousand years ago will
arirvo in Astoria from mysterious
parts at tho regatta and county fair
to be held at Astoria, September 2,
3. and 4.
AVHh,,a burst of old Norso songs,
accompanied by the swish of oars,
banked In solldjrows, two ships of
tho old pagan days will glide into tho
harbor to greet thousands of people
on. barges and in a huge ferandstand
at the. foot of-11th .street.
Tho members of the Oregon Stato
Editorial Association, hundreds of
trained; singer and two or, three
thousand 'visitors connected with the
Norwegian Sangerfest of the North
west, which holds a threq-day cele
bration' In co-operation with the
regatta, will bo present.
All the rajlroads tfnd steamboats
in tho coast states will give special
excursion rates to Astoria for tho big
six-day celebration, which will draw
tho largest crowds of any ovpnt over
held at the mouth1 of tho Columbia.
E STREET IMPROVEMENT
EXTENDED TWO BLOCKS
The improvement of E street Is
proceeding and the street is planked
for a distance of two blocks from
Fourth street, to a point opposlte tho
Oren property.
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