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r,nF5 to ms nnnm UULU 1U 111U UUU111 Prince VasiltchyKoH Murdered in Warsaw by Terrorists. JJEXTIN LINE FLEES THE LAND Two Other Brutal Officials Have Been Warned Troops Fire on Work men, Killing Several. London, Feb. 25. The Warsaw cor respondent of the London Morning Leader wires that Prince Vasiltchykoff has been murdered. The prince, who has won for himself great hatred be cause of his active work against the students and strikers of Warsaw in his capacity of head -of the military, was labeled No. 2 on the list of assassina tions drawn up by the revolutionists, says the correspondent. The dispatch adds: "Count Prieidrietzki, the brutal Hussar officer, who was No. 3 on th9 list, on receiving his death warrant from the terrorists, bolted the country "General Novosilieff, No. 4 on the list, has drawn the death penalty on himself by his recent order ior the ar- ICCb V L L'llV uuiVAio IT . v.i-J-v I to nre on women. "Baron Nolken, chief of the Warsaw nolice. is No. 5 on the death list. He Teceived word that in a day or two he would find his proper release in hell. The correspondent also reports fur ther disorders in Warsaw Friday after noon. Troops, he says, fired on 400 workmen who were about to resume work at the Vistulan railroad work shops. Five of the workmen were killed and 20 wounded. PROVISIONS OF CANAL BILL. President to Appoint Governor of the Zone Commission Not Abolished Washington. Feb. 25. The bill for the government of the Panama canal zone, which has passed the senate, is a house bill. It was ' amended in several important respects by the sen ate, notably in eliminating the pro vision abolishing the canal commission The measure will now go to conference if the amendments are not accepted by the house. The bill is temporary in character, its provisions expiring at the end of the first regular session of the next congress. It vests in the president authority to appoint a person or persons to gov rn the canal zone, and the president is given further authority to direct the manner of such control. Annual or more frequent reports from the gover nor of the zone and also from those in charge of the canal are provided for, as are also estimates ot expenditures and appropriations for all work on the canal, and it is provided that, after the present fiscal year, no money shall be xpended except by direct appropria tion. All rentals and other income irom the Panama railroad are to be credited to the canal fund and the pres ident is authorized to deposit $1,500, O00 in an American bank having a financial agent on the isthmus of Pan ama for the purpose of facilitating bus- . mess. ' WILL MODIFY THE TREATY. Santo Domingo Wants ' Voice in Ap pointments and Othe- Changes. New York, Feb. 25. One of the leading members of the house of depu ties is authority, according to a Herald dispatch from Puerta Plata, Santo Do mingo, for the statement that the Do minican congress will accept the new agreement with the American govern ment with certain modifications. Con gress will begin its session February 27. It is desired, the correspondent states, that article 2 of the treaty shall "be so amended as to permit the Do minican government to name the offi cials who are to collect duties in the ports whose custom houses are in charge of the United States, these offi cials to be named with the approval of the American government, and to be Americans, if desired. Citrus Fruit Pool Unlawful Washington, Feb. 25. The Inter state commerce commission, in an opinion by Commissioner Clements, today rendered its decision in the California orange cases brought by the Southern California Fruit exchange and the Consolidated Forwarding com- pany against the Southern Pacific and and a strong supporter of that states Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad man. There are various reports con- systems, in which it holds that the defendant carriers are unlawfully en gaged in pooling the traffic in citrus fruits originating in Southern Cali fornia. Awful Crimps Stain Baku. Baku, Feb. 25. The town is now miet. . All the Armenian shops have been closed, but the banks are doing "business under military protection, Order has been restored at Balakhanv. but at Romany today strikers attacked two factories and as a result 30 persons were killed or wounded. In Baku many terrible murders have been committed. Manager Adamoff, of the Naphtha -Re- lining works, . his wife and children, were burned to death. Inquires About Church Schools. Washington, Feb. 25. The house I -toady adopted a resolution calling on the secretary of the interior for infor mation as to whether any appropria tions of Indian funds had been expend ed for the support of any sectarian In- -dian schools DOCKS WIPED OUT. New Orleans Suffers a Fire Loss of Five Million Dollars. ' New Orleans, Feb. 27. Fire, -involv ing millions of dollars' loss in property and that strikes a serious blow tempor arily at the immense export trade of New Orleans, swept the river front to night and wiped out the vast freight terminals of the Illinois Central, known as the Stuyvesant docks. Nearly a dozen squares of modern wharves and freight sheds, two magni ficent grain elevators, hundreds of loaded cars and vast quantities of freight, including 20,000 bales of cot ton, were destroyed, together with a large number of small residences. The ocean-going shipping seems to have escaped serious damage. A num ber of firemen and employes of the docks were injured. Actual estimates of the losses are impossible to obtain tonight, though they may exceed $5,- 000,000. The Stuyvesant docks extend from Louisiana avenue almost to Napoleon avenue, a distance of 12 squares. The wharves between these two points were covered with miles of trackage, and a steel and iron shed ran the whole dis tance. The grain elevators were of the most modern construction, the upper one having a capacity of 1,000,000 bushels. Thousands of bales of cotton, several hundred thousand packages of sugar, jjuuuxcu bUUUIHtUU lOUILagCO Ul DUgUj I ?reat Quantities of cotton seed oil and 0il cakes, lumber and every conceivable vnrint.v of freight, filled the warehouses and sheds. Practicallv all the export business handled by the Illinois Central railwav was put aboard ships at these docks. BUY WAGON-ROAD LANDS. Hermann's Bill Relating to Klamath Reservation Passes House. Washington, Feb. 27. The house today passed Representative Hermann's bill directing the secretary of J, the in- teior to ascertain the value of lands heretofore conveyed by - the United States to Oregon as a part of a grant to aid the Eugene City military road and embraced in the Klamath Indian reser vation. These lands were awarded to the California & Oregon land company, by the supreme court. The secretary is also directed to as certain what part of these lands have been allotted to Indians, the value of improvements, and the price at . which the California & Oregon land company will sell to the United States or on what terms it will arrange for other lands in the Klamath reservation. Mr. Hermann was not present in the house when his bill was called up and passed. NO CAUSE TO FIRE. North Sea Investigatton Commission Decides Against . Russia. -. Paris, Feb. 27. The International commission of inquiry into the attack of the Russian second Pacific squadorn upon the Hull fishing fleet on the night of October 21, 1904, has found that there were ho hostile torpedo boats among the fishing ooats and that Ad uiiiai nujeBtvensKy was uol jusimeu in firing on the trawlers. This is the main point of the findings, which sus tain the British contentions through out, though the blow to . Russia is soft ened by the statement that Admiral Rojestvensky was justified, in taking all precautions against attack and acted according to his belief by declar ing that his miltiary valor and human ity are not questioned. The decision says that delay of the Russian transport Kamtchatka, follow ing the breaking down of her machin ery, was perhaps the cause of the inci dent. The commander of the Kamtch atka signaled to Admiral Rojestvensky during the evening that he had been attacked by torpedo boats. The ad miral, therefore, had reason to believe that he was attacked and gave orders for strict vigilance against the possible approach of torpedo boats. The major ity of the commission considers that Admiral Rojestvensky' Borders were not excessive in time of war, . particularly under the circumstanes, and that he had every reason to consider the situa tion very alarming. Witte Again Takes the Lead. St. Petersburg, Feb. 27. According to an apparently well grounded report, Minister of Finance Kokovsoff will soon leave the emperor's cabinet and be sue- ceeded by M. Roucaloff , a former assist- &nt to President of the Council Witte, cerning the proceedings of the council of ministers last night, but in all of them are indications that M. Witte played the most prominent part, as he did at the previous meeting. Great Ice-Gorge Breaking. Cincinnati, beb. 27. The ice gorges ln tne Ohio river, in this vicinity, which were the heaviest known for many years, began to give way. during the nignti several breaks occurring at various points. Aitnougn tne river rose several feet during the same time, tne ie was 80 heavy that it soon caught again, iormmg new gorges, property damage estimated at more than $75,000 was caused by these early movements of the ice, but no loss of life. Irrigate the Klamath Basin. Klamath Fafls, Feb. 27. The Unit- ed States irrigation committee met here today and took steps to incorporate the Klamath Basin Water Users' associa- tion, with a capital stock of $1,000,- 000.; This will probably be increased to $3,000,000 in the near1 future. CASHf FORafflVERS Chairman Burton Sore Appropria tion Bill Will Pass, v ITS FATE RESTS WITH SENATE Only Danger is that Load of Amend ments May Sink It in the Upper House. Washington, Feb. 23. Chairman Burton, of the rivers and harbors corn- mittee, expressed the belief today that his bill, consideration of which was begun in the house yesterday, will pass both houses and become law before March 4. There has been a growing fear that this bill would be sidetracked, not only because of the demands of party leaders for economy, but because of the un precedented late date in bringing it up for consideration. Only eight days re main to pass it through both houses and through conference, less time than was ever hefore given any river and harbor bill. Burton, however, says the shortage of time is a strong factor in favor of the passage of the bill. It will induce the x Y senate w maite oniy siigni amendments, fear of losing what is proposed by the house. He says that unless the senate me Din aown wun large amend- ments, it will pass without material oDjecnon, carrying praciicany ine ap- the propriations committee. agreed to by the house HOPE TO BANKRUPT JAPAN Russians Rely on Long Purse for Es cape from Defeat. St. Petersburg, Feb. 23. Although the party which is advocating peace as the only egress from the present- situa tion continues to gain strength, noth ing has actually been decided, and no move has yet been made. It is offi cially maintained that Russia's attitude is unchanged. At the foreign office not the slightest encouragement is given to the peace talk. . On the contrary, it is affirmed as strongly as ever that Japan must propose terms, while at the same time it is admitted that it is incon ceivable that Japan can offer condi tions acceptable to Russia. The idea of a complete Russian vie tory is not harbored, but it is insisted that Russia is not beaten, and will not be beaten until General Kuropatkin is decisively worsted by General Oyama and the fate of Admiral Rojestvensky' squadron is determined. Tne main consideration entering into the calcu lations of the uncompromising advo cates of a prosecution of the war is that Japan's financial resources must be come exhausted long before Russia's, HALF THE BODIES ARE FOUND Only Three Were Rescued Alive, and They Soon Died Birmingham, Ala., Feb. 23. At 8 o'clock this evening 75 blackened and disfigured bodies had been recovered from the Virginia mine in which the awful explosion occured - on Monday afternoon, entombing ..more than 150 miners The rescuers are still heroically at work in the stoe, and as they advance the bodies further in the mine are found to be worse burned and mutilat ed than those nearer the exterior. No hope is now held out that any are alive Three men were found yesterday whose hearts were still beating, but they ex pired immediately Tne Uirmingnam district has coice promptly forward in relieving the des titute families of the victims, and mass meetings have been held for that pur pose. Hundreds of dollars have been subscribed, and the Birmingham Com mercial club has raised more than $3. 000. Alabama District No. 20, United Mineworkers of America, today voted $5,000 to be distributed among the families Russian Raiders Violate Neutrality Tientsin, Feb. 23. About 300 Rus sian raiders slightly damaged the rail- way between Haicheng and Tatchekiao on Monday night and again disregarded the neutrality of the territory west of of the Liao river. The presence of Chi- nese soldiers was not reported. It is evident that the villagers kept the Rus- sians well informed as to the disposi tion of the Japanese troops. It was ex--pected that the raiders woud repeat the attempt . to destroy the Japanese stores at Niuchiatun, but they retired without an engagement. . Oil Refinery for Colorado. Denver, Feb. 23. Representative Clifton H. Wilder's bill appropriating $125,000 for the establishment of a state oil refinery was favorably reported to the house by the finance committee today. The bill also contains pro visions to regulate the price of oil. In- dependent oil producers who are sup- porting the measure have offered to lease and operate the refinery when constructed, and to advance the money for its construction at low rates. Kansas After the Railroads. Topeka, Feb. 23. The Kansas sen ate tonight passed a bill for the regu lation of railroads. It provides that a state railroad board shall make changes in freight rates upon due complaint being made. A section giving the board power to change rates of its own initia- tive was included in the bill as it passed the house. . -. TERMS OF PEACE. They ..Have Been. Practically Agreed Upon by Japan and Russia. ... ... St. Petersburg, 'Febt 22. Despite the official denials, the Publishers' Press correspondent is in a position to state that' the czar and his advisers have of late not only discussed the question of peace with Japan, but have also practically agreed upon certain terms, which are acceptable to the em peror, and, it is alleged, are almost identical with those which have been submitted by the Japanese government to Russia through the agency of the German emperor. It is still denied that such terms were submitted, but it is nevertheless true that they'. have reached the hands of the czar. The terms acceptable to both nations, and practically agreed to by the czar, place Korea under Japanese suzerainty and cede Port Arthur and the Liao Tung peninsula to Japan. Vladivostok, under the stipulations, is to be declared a neutral and open port in place of Port Arthur, the neu tralization of which Japan would not agree to. This feature, fit is stated, proved one of the most objectionable to Russia, as it was hoped that the dis armament of Port Arthur and its trans formation into a . purely commercial port, open to all nations, would end the vexing Manchurian question. The Eastern Chinese railway is to be placed under a neutral international administration, and, in order to pro vide some sort of safeguard for future peace in Manchuria, that country, as far north as Harbin, is to be restored as an integral part of China. The main difficulty in the way of bringing about immediate peace seems to be the question of indemnity. It is known that Japan will insist upon a considerable money payment, and Rus sia is not willing to submit to that con dition. The difficulty, however, is by no means insuperable, but if it should prove to be a serious obstacle, the czar will perhaps be willing to risk another battle in the hope of gaining a victory which may make the Japanese more amenable to the Russian arguments. LIFE IN ONLY ONE. Blackened and Mangled Corpses Re moved from Alabama Mine. Birmingham, Ala., Feb. 22. The scene at the Virginia mine this after noon, where a. terrific afterdamp explo sion yesterday afternoon imprisoned 116 men 700 feet below the surface, was the most gruesome and harrowing that has ever been witnessed m this section ot Alabama. Ut the miners who entered the mines yesterday after noon, so far only 50 bodies have been recovered. The recovery already of so many dead bodies precludes the idea that any living men remain among the unfortunates still in the mine. The corpses are frightfully mangled ..and disfigured and identification is almost impossible. Out of the 50 bodies recovered up to this time, one was found about o'clock which was barely alive: - The body was carefully taken from the mine and heroic methods resorted to to bring the man to consciousness. He is still alive, but scant hope is held out for his recovery. FAVOR COAST SHIPYARDS. Humphrey Pleads for Differential on Naval Contracts. . Washington, Feb. 21. An earnest effort is being made by coongressmen from the Pacific coast to have inserted in the naval appropriation bill a pro vision ior a 4 per cent differential in favor of shipyards on the West coast in the contract, price for warships con structed in these yards. Representa tive Humphrey, of Washington, today strongly urged the president to advo cate such a differential. If adopted. the differential would increase the cost ders by Tartars and Armenians are re ported. Communication has been al most cut off, even the telegraphers sta-iking, the few who are still at their keys being kept there with pistols at their heads. The situation in Poland along the Austrian border is also caus ing great uneasiness. Balticv Fleet at Nossi Be. Port Louis, Mauritius, Feb. 22. Russia's Baltic fleet is still making Nossi Be (Great Island), off the north west coast of Madagascar, its rendezvous. The whole fleet and colliers number 70 vessels of all kinds. Only a few col liers remain at Diego Suarez, Mada gascar. The Russian officers and sail ors are enjoying themselves greatly. The fleet has been supplied with 50,000 cases of potatoes and 10,000 bags of flour by local, merchants. Investigate Texas Oil Also. Houston,, T ex., Feb. 22. A petition is being circulated here asking Con gressman Pickney to request President Roosevelt to include the Texas oil fields i the investigation of the Standard Oil operations in Kansas. II I 11 I 1 I i L Retaining Manure Values. There is probably no better way of handling manure made in feeding cat tle loose in stables than to apply lit ter daily to absorb the liquids and keep the cattle clean and allow the manure to accumulate , under the cat tle. It was once supposed that if manure was kept under cover its ieruuiy would not be appreciably wasted. The Department of Agriculture finds that large losses may occur, though not to such an extent, of course, as from the open yard manure pile. The best way to keep manure seems to be to pack It into a solid mass, and exclude the air, in a somewhat sim ilar manner to the way silage is put up. The department notes experiments where steer manure was kept in deep stalls under the feet of the animals for months, as against the method of cleaning the stall out daily and stor ing in a compact heap under cover, enough fine cut litter being used each day to apparently absorb all the liquid manure. The deep stall manure was trampled to a very dark, compact mass and there was very little loss of the valuable ' fertilizing constituents nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash. With the manure kept in, heaps one third of the nitrogen, one-fifth of the potash and one-seventh of the phos phoric acid was lost, the total money value of the losses being equivalent to $2.50 for each steer stabled for six months. Manure, it is stated, can be kept almost perfectly, so far as the fer tilizer constituents are concerned, by use of the "deep stall" system. Ex periments show, however, that nitro gen is lost very rapidly by such man ure, if it be allowed to lie after the removal of the stock, without such covering as will retain the moisture and exclude the air. The Modern Farm in Germany. Electricity for farming purposes has probably been developed more In Ger many than In any other country. A large number of German estates are now run almost entirely by . it, the smaller ones being equipped usually in groups from a single power plant, as at Chottorf, while many of the large estates have their own private nlnts. A striking example of this latter class is the farm of Prof. Back haus, at Quednau, in the eastern part of Russia, which covers an area of 450 acres and has a dairy producing about 1.000 gallons of milk per day. The buildings are all lighted by incandes cent lamps and the grounds, in places, by arc lights. The current is supplied from a small central station contain in r n RO-horse power engine direct coupled to two generators, and a switchboard for the control of the various circuits, all parts of which are so simple and plainly marked that or form hand can understand and operate It In addition to the lighting. power is supplied for the pumping of water and the driving of saws, feed cutting machines, a threshing and a grist mill, and an electric churn in the dairy. Besides these stationary power appliances there are a number of elec trically-driven agricultural machines for use in the fields, including an auto mobile plow, all of which are run by storage batteries and may be charged it conveniently sub-stations. To round out the completeness of the equipment the barns are heated by electricity and ventilated by motor-driven fans and all parts of the farm have tele phonic intercommunication. Engineer ing Record. Hens Eating Eggs. Egg-eating hens are a nuisance, and after many years of experience in poul try raising the writer feels that when his hens are discovered at the trick the best way of stopping it is to kill the hen. If our birds were not well sup plied with limy substances, such as oyster shells and the like and all the grit they desire, we would rurnish these before killing the hen. As a rule, the habit is merely a habit, and is not due to any lack of a food ele ment except that of lime. Usually the egg-eating hen gets Into the habit by eating an egg that has become accidentally broken; liking the taste, she acquires the habit, and once acquired it Is almost impossible to break it. We have found it the better plan to have both grit and the lime material so placed that the hens may help themselves at will. Some hens require more of these than do other hens, so It is hard to dole it out prop erly. It is. better to let them decide as to their needs whenever possible. Coat Ashes. '. One of the agricultural papers quotes an alleged analysis by the Massachu setts station giving 37 per cent phos phoric acid and 42 per cent potash in soft coal ashes. In order to prevent any' misunderstanding, Professor Brooks herewith calls attention to the II fact that a decimal point has been misplaced, the actual per cent being .37 of 1 per cent and .42 of 1 per cent respectively. Says rrofessor Brooks: "The fertilizing value of coal ashes, whether from hard or soft coal, is always very low, for not only are the proportions of plant food exceedingly small, but the compounds present are as well yery Insoluble." Heaves in Horses. In mild and recent cases the heaves may often be cured entirely by turning the horse out to pasture for two or three months. If It is necessary, how ever, to work a horse affected with this trouble, he can be relieved greatly by feeding no hay except at night, and then only a small amount of clean and bright hay, entirely free from dust. If there is any danger of dust it is well to dampen it, but only bright hay should be given. Roots will be found helpful; beets, turnips, potatoes or anything of that sort that the horse will eat. The amount of water should be limited as much as possible, and no horse with heaves should be given water for one or two hours previous to going to work. Dr. Law recom mends arsenic in five-grain doses daily, and continued from a month to two months, as especially valuable, and says that the bowels must be kept easy, by laxatives if necessary. Jiy treatment of this sort a heavey horse can be greatly relieved. When the disease first comes on it will pay to turn the horse to grass, with the hope of effecting a cure at once and before the disease progresses to the extent where it becomes incurable. Wal lace's Farmer. Exercise the Stallion. Stallions should be put to work and kept at work whenever not in active stud service and then they will be surer and have fewer returned mares to look after and can do a bigger busi ness, says a correspondent of National Stockman. No stallion is too good to earn his oats behind a collar, and usu ally the more he earns there the more he is able to earn in .-e stud. One reason for the vitality and endurance of our trotting horses is that the sires were either raced or trained or driven a good deal of the time. The same is true, of some imported draft horses, the French horses especially, which are worked at a year and half or two years old and as long as the farmer has them. The- race of horses that Is not worked may possess size and weight, but it will not have the power, the nerve and the get there and stay at it ability that it needs to perform hard work. Openings for Nut Culture. The United States Consul at Frank fort, Germany, calls attention to the increasing use of hazel-nuts In hotels and private houses. Owing to the large quantity imported, he suggests that farmers children in the United States might supply themselves with pin money by growing hazel-nuts for the home and foreign markets. The domes tic chestnut is still a favorite, and at the opening of the season some times brings as high as $5 a bushel. There are, too, large quantities of hickory nuts, the boys' favorite; but ternuts, which are the favorites of those who grew up in the country, and some other sorts, like black walnuts and bull nuts, which have their adher ents, and all are particularly desirable for food. Fence Rail Philosophy. Knowledge is valueless if ignored. The man that saves his time saves his money. A job that's worth doln' is always worth doln' about right. Vim and vigor are the vital forces in achieving success. v The smallest event often becomes the greatest achievement If every man saved his time as he saves his money he would have money. It's generally the afternoon farmer that goes into agony about hard times. To have a show in these days a man must be an accumulator. Failure establishes, one thing that your determination to succeed was weak. It's no use denying when ' you've been outdone better acknowledge the corn. a Broken Branches. When from accident, the effect of snow or ice, a large branch of a tree is broken, cut temporarily, leaving a foot or more to be cut again close to the trunk ln the month of June, ad vises a Country Gentleman correspond ent Hog Notes, bran make Milk and an excellent slop. A strong maternal appearance should be the first consideration in a brood sow. No sow carrying her young should be allowed to become constipated. The brood sow and the growing pig should not be fed as the fatten ing animal. A sow may often be kept as a profit able breeder until she is seven years old. . , Too early breeding weakens the ma terial forces of 'the sow, causing small and weak Utters. To obtain the best results a sow should be in good flesh and gaining, hot overfed when bred. .