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POWtD TWO 5TA0B Lone Highwayman in California Made a Good Haul. EIGHTEEN He Joked TOURISTS LOST THEIR CASH His Victims While They Emptied Their Pockets For Him—Offices Can Find No Clew. Ukiah, Cal., July 17.—At 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon a telephone mes- aage was received at the sheriff 'a office in this city to the effect that the stage from Ukiah to Blue Lakes, as well as one to Potter Valley, had been held up and the passengers robbed. The two stages left this city on schedule time. The road to Potter valley diverges from te road to Blue lakes about five miles north of Ukiah, and it was just before they reached the forks that the highwayman, masked with a handkerchief, sprang into the road in front of the first ve hicle and ordered the driver to stop Burt Bucknell was in charge of the Blue Lakes stage, and Raymond Hill sat on the box of the Potter Val ley stage. The robber then ordered the passengers, 18 in number, to alight and line up. They were *11 tourists on their way to surrounding resorts, and they complied with ex ceeding promptness. The highway man was a jolly fellow, and had con siderable fun with his victims while they were engaged in emptying their pockets. About $400 was deposited in a nice little pile by the roadside. The drivers were then ordered to move on, and the passengers warned that if they valued their personal safety they should refrain from look ing back. One of the passengers who had something like $200 in gold in his pocket dropped the coin in the dust while the attention of the rob ber was distracted, and covered it up with dust. He went to Potter and then returned and found the money. The scene of the robbery is a deep canyon, heavily wooded and broken. It is nearly midway between this city and Lake Port, and from its character afforded excellent opportunities for the escape of the bandit. Sheriff Smith and deputy have just returned from the scene of the hold up. No clew was discovered. A few half dollars were fonud in the road where the Blue Lakes stage stood. They were evidently dropped by pas sengers as they were waiting to be re lieved of their coin. STRIKE OF MINE FIREMEN. Threw 30,000 Men In Anthracite Region Out of Work. THE QUELPART UPRISING. It May Lead to Foreign Intervention—Messrs. Conger and Rockhill Congratulated. Washington, July 18.—Full mail reports that reach Washington re specting the recent uprising on the Corean island of Quelpart say that it is not improbable that the appearance on the scene of the trouble of two French gunboats and one Japanese warship may lead to foreign interven- ! tion. If the islanders persist in their i rebellious attitude it will be dfficult for the Corean government to put it 1 down without foreign asistance. The French minister at Seoul reports that the employment of native Catholics to collect exhorbitant taxes caused the natives to persecute their breth ren. It is new apparent from reports which have reached the state depart ment from China that it was solely due to the moderation and humanity I exercised by the United States repre sentatives in Pekin by the presidents’ direction in the early negotiations for a settlement of the Boxer trouble that a number of innocent lives were not I sacrificed. These reports show that a more sober and painstaking inquiry 1 has developed the fact that some of the Chinese officials suposed to have l»een connected with the Boxer out rages, whose capital punishment was demanded by the foreign ministers, have been proved to be entirely in nocent of the charges made against them. In many other cases proof has been adduced that the offenses with which the Chinese officials were charged were not nearly so grave as was supposed at first by the foreign representatives in Pekin. It is re garded here by officials as a matter for congratulation that Messrs. Con ger and Rockhill moved with deliber ation and acted as a restraining influ ence in the matter of punishment, for not only were these lives saved, but, under their influence, the whole list of capital punishments was reduced from 10 to four, and mitigation of other offenses was obtained. YUKON GOLD SHIPMENTS. Five Million Dollars Have Been Sent to the Outside This Year. Seattle, July 18.—Advices from Dawson under date of June 28 state that the gold shipments to the out side this year have amounted to $5,- 000,000 to date. Over $3,000,000 of this sum went down the Yukon and is going out by way of St. Michael and the remainder has gone up the river. The Bank of British North America is this year shipping down the Yukon, and the Canadian Bank of Commerce is shipping in the oppo site direction. These are the only two banks doing business in the camp. Individuals taking out dust nearly all go by the upper river route. Seattle, as in the previous years, is this year the destination of the greater portion of the gold. The Alaska Pacific Express is the only express company in the field, and is taking out practically all the shipments of consequence by the up per rivor. It ships on the White Pass & Y’ukon Railroad Company’s steam ers. The express rate from Dawson to Seattle, on individual shipments above $1,000 in value, is \ of 1 per cent. Banks are given lower rates. This charge covers insurance in full against loss by sea, river steamer or robbery, in other words, the full jour ney from Dawson to Seattle. The rate on individual shipments last year was Ji of 1 per cent higher than this year. News has just been brought from the mouth of the Hootalinqua river by steamer that a placer strike has been made on Lake creek, tributary to Lake Teslin, the source of the Hootalinqua. No particulars have been received here as to the nature of the diggings or the amount of gold obtained. Hams, potatoes, cream, and all kinds of fruit are selling in Dawson at exceedingly low rates, and traders are losing money. Cherries, peaches, apples and other fresh fruits are plen tiful. , Wilkesbarre, Pa., July 18.—The strike order of President Mulcahey, of the Stationary Firemen’s associa tion of Pennsylvania, was promptly obeyed at 7 o’clock this morning, when 900 members of the organiza tion in this state refused to go to work. Most of the strikers are em ployed as firemen at the coal mines, and their failure to report for duty caused nearly all the collieries in the anthracite region to suspend opera tions, throwing out of work, it is esti mated, 30,000 men and boys. Some of the individual coal operators con ceded the demands of the employes on the condition that the short-lkour day was not to hold if the men em ployed by the big companies did not get the same concession. The big coal companies, however, did not make any concessions. The officials claimed that the demands of the men were unreasonable. The strikers held a meeting in this city shortly before noon. Reports were received from all districts, and they showed that the strike fiom Pittston to Shickshinney, in Luzerne county was general, and that the coal companies were unable to secure new men to take the places of the strik ers. The best they could do, it was said, was to press foremen and fire > bosses into the service. This was : done at a great many of the mines. | The strikers claim that the engineers | Picking Plant Burned. are friendly to them and that they Wichita, Kan., July 18. — Th« will not work with non union men. At the headquarters of the oper-| packing plant of Jacob Dold fc Sons, ators it was claimed that the demand of this city, was totally destroyed by There were four of the strikers would not be enter fire this morning. tained. The duration of the strike large buildings. It is estimated that will depend on the miners. If they 7,000,000 pounds of meat in process stand by the striking firemen the of preparation were destroyed. The lockout may be a long one, but if the loss is estimated at $1,000,000, insur miners return to work as soon as the ance about $400,000. One wall fell, companies fill the places of the strik injuring four men, but not fatally. ers, the strike will be lost to the fire-1 It is said that the plant will be re men. It is known that there is much built at once. The fire originated in friction between the United Mine the lardhouse and is thought to have workers and the firemen. The miners been spontaneous combustion. think that the strike is inopportune Ths King's New Title. and that the firemen should have: waited until April next, when the j New York, July 18.—Large num present agreement between the oper bers of letters have l>een received re ators and miners will expire, before garding the proposed extension of the making their demands. king's title, according to the London correspondent of the Times. The Lynched for a Trival Cauta. addition which seems to find most New Orleans, July 18. — Louis favor is “Sovereign Lord of Canada, Thompson, a Negro, was lynched Australia and South Africa.” Sev near Girard. La., last night by a mob eral correspondents suggested that the composed of white men. Thompson’s two sons of the Duke of Cornwall and offense was the stealing of a bottle of York should be created Prince of Australia and Prince of Canada. POP- ________________ Rancher Murdered for Money. Rushing Stock to Market. Cody, Woy., July 18.—The body of Samuel Carlson, a ranchman, resid ing at the Natural Corral, 20 miles from Cody, has been found some dis tance from his cabin, with a bullet wound in the shoulder and the face crushed and beaten. In his cabin ' evidences of a struggle were found, and a considerable amount of money | which Carlson was known to possess is missing. Carlson had not been seen alive for two weeks. Kansas City, July 18. — Because of the drought in the Southwest, which is causing farmers to rush their stock to market to save it, the record re ceipts here were again oroken today, when 31,500 head of hogs were re ceived at the local stockyards. The hogs received from the Southwest have been of common grade, averag ing 15 pounds lighter than the gen eral ran. hint riPfflih rm Coal Operators Continue Work DIED AT CRAIGSIDE. General Butterfield Succumbed to a Long III. new—Paralyzed for Months. Poughkeepsie, N. Y., July 18.— General Daniel Butterfield died at his ing Many Mines. 1 home, Craigside, at Cold Springs, at 8:30 last night. He had been in very UNION SYMPATHY FROM OTHER POINTS poor 1 eilth for a year or more and I had been in a condition of semi The Men Ar« Not Discouraged, and Declare paralysis for some time. He Left a Painting Farm Kiilldlna«. Their Ranks Are Being Steadily In > Souie one lias said that "paint and widow but no children. creased and Strengthened. The general came to Cold Springs ' putty are like charity, they cover up a much impaired in health. Six weeks multitude of sins,” or faults would ago he had a stroke of apoplexy in have been a tietter word, as uot all Wilkesbarre, la., July 22 —More New York. Last week he gave di faults deserve to be called sins. When mines were in operation and more rections to his wife to obtain permis the spring rains are over, and the wood coal was hoisted in the Wyoming sion from the secretary of war to have Is dry. but before the tiles get pleuty. valley today than on any day since his body interred in the military Is a good time to palut farm buildings, the stationary fireman’s strike began. cemetery at West Point. At first it carts and tools. It Is not necessary In the face of this change in the was thought permission could not l>e to have a skilled painter to do all this If situation the strikers are by no means granted, but later word came that it economy is to be studied. The ready discouraged. In an official statement had been, and, on receiving the news, mixed paints, properly used, will last issued this afternoon it is declared the feeble old man expressed his sat- us long, look as well, and preserve the that in the upjter anthracite region [ isfaction. wood as well as those mixed by the there is a greater number of mines Daniel Butterfield was born in painter, and any hired man or smart idle than yesterday. The statement Utica, N. Y., October 31, 1831, and boy can soon learn to spread them, not says: was graduated at Union in 1849. He as well as the man who learned the “In compliance with the order of was a colonel of the Twelth New trade, but well enough to cover the the United Mineworkers of America York militia when the Civil war be buildings. When we first tried such a to firemen of their organization to gan. On the enlargement of the reg Job we received these directions which return to work, but few have com ular army he was commissioned col helped us much: "Keep the paint well plied, and there is a steady increase onel and appointed brigadier general mixed, do uot get too much on the to their ranks. We hope to have of volunteers September 7, 1861. He brush, and carry the hand steadily In complete organization of the entire became major general of volunteers a straight line.’* Begin on something territory. A noticeable attitude is November 29, 1862, was made colonel or some old building where looks Is not that of the mineworkers throughout of the Fifth infantry in the regular J very Important, and a considerable im the upper region in their sympathetic army July 1, 1863, and was breveted provement will be seen lu the workman stand in our l>ehalf. From Hazleton, brigadier and major general, U. 8. A., ship after even a day’s practice, and Shamokin and Mount Carmel region for gallant and meritorous conduct. when a second coat is put on it should the men are fast organizing and will He Berved after the war as adperin- be smooth enough to hide the defects respond to the call to a man.” tendent of the general recruiting ser of the first attempt. Most of the ready vice of the United States army, with mixed paints are Improved by the addi ONE YEAR OF OCCUPATION. headquarters in New York, and in tion of a little more oil and turpentine, command of forces in New York har at least toward the bottom of the can, Pekin Will Be Given Back to the Chinese bor from 1865 till 1869, when he re- as but few will keep them sufficiently Authorities August 1J. I signed from the army and was ap well stirred.—American Cultivator. Washington,, July 22. — Commis pointed head of the sub treasury of sioner Rockhill has cabled the state the United States at New York. Reliable Farm tUphnn. departnment the following state Since leaving this position he has A correspondent of the Ohio Farmer ment of the present status of the ne been connected with the Ameircan describes n siphon which he made him gotiations at Pekin: Express Company. self, of three-quarter-inch galvanized “The diplomatic corps at Pekin is pipe. It lifts the wa engaged in considering the Russian CONGESTION AT ST. MICHAEL. ter. he says, 18 to 22 proposals for the eventual increase of feet perpendicularly the tariff (maritime customs). A Yukor.tr> Much Relieved by the Arrival of the from a well and de solution of the problem is hoped for. livers it Into a water Steamer Portland. The indemnity, fixed at 450,000,000 ing trough something taels and 4 per cent interest, has been Seattle, July 19.—The steamship like 100 yards from formally accepted and Japan has Portland arrived in port at 1:30 yes and (IJi feet below waived preferential treatment. The terday morning, bringing news of the water level of formal surrender of Pekin to the Chi the well. It works nese is expected to take place on Au awful ice fields and a great conges as well at 22 feet gust 14.” The date mentioned is tion of people at St. Michael, which from top. but not the anniversary of the relief of the le- was relieved by her arrival at the quite as fast as at 18 gationeis by the international forces. mouth of the Yukon, followed by The Russian proposal referred to is other craft. The Portland took two feet. The one thing understood, in substance, to lie an weeks —June 20 to July 4—to reach that la indispensable increase from 5 per cent to 10 per St. Michael from Nome. She plowed cent of the customs duties which through vast ice floes, and June 24 the Chinese government may collect was within eight miles of St. Michael, at the ports from foreign countries. only to put out to sea again. The It is further understood that the in report from St. Michael was to the crease is not to take effect at once effect that 1,500 Yukon men and and perhaps not at all. It will de women had been at that port for three pend upon the resources of China weeks waiting for the first steamer. under the existing system. This So scarce did provisions become that proposition is believed to be much these were living for a long time on a farm sipnox. less objectionable to Great Britain one meal a day. There is a great and Japan, as well as to the United rush down the Yukon from as far up toslphon water this height Is a valve at States, than the original proposition as Dawson for Nome, and a big ferry A to close and bold water in pipe while to make an absolute and immediate business will be done during the sum tilling. This valve is similar to the increase of the cistoms duties to the mer between those ports. The Port lower valve in a suction pump; Just tits extent proposed. land took 400 pasesngers from St. In a three-quarter-inch coupling, and Michael to Nome. The river steamer admits a full strenrn when open. POSTAL REFORM. City of Paris was carried out from the The lower end nt B is handled ns n mouth or the Yukon by the ice Hoes feed pipe from stornge tank, with a Postmasters Notified of « Change in Second- and was lost for a time on Behring float valve. Have a plug, C, outside, to Class Rgulatlons. sea. The steamships Portland and connect with a hose. At the top have Washington, July 22.—Third As Dora went out after her, but she a short piece of pipe bent down at sistant Postmaster General Madden finally managed to put back under eltUer side of the tee, E, K. to Insure has issued a circular notice to all her own steam, making port June 28. I) being the highest point In the pipe postmasters calling esjiecial attention from well to trough. At the upper hole to the order promulgated recently, HALF A CROP IS CERTAIN. at I) have a piece of pipe, G, say three making radical changes in the kind feet long, with good-sized holes at F, F. of publications allowed admission as Reins in the Corn Belt Came Before It Wat Have the pipe Inclosed as the core to second-class mail matter. It says chamber C, I.; chamber made of heavy Too Late. that postmasters may be held on copper soldered to pipe above and be their official bonds for revenue lost to Topeka, Kan., July 19.—The rains low F, F. Have pipe threa la protrud the department through improper that have fallen in Kansas last night ing at II so as to connect a three-quar- application or faulty administration and today have practically assured a ter-ineb steam valve 8. This Is safer of these regulations. The pound rate and more convenient than a plug. Have of postage, it says, is a special privi corn yield of at least 50,000,000 bush a bit of threaded pipe screwed into top lege at the public expense and the de els, and the yield may lie even greater. of valve, T, with enough threads, say partment will restrict the privilege to The state is under the influence of a one Inch, protruding to screw on a fun those publictaions which are fairly low barometric condition, and more nel. R. Our chamber Is three feet of within the contemplation of the laws rain is expected tonight. Corres three-inch pipe connected by graduates and properly meet the requirements. pondents in numerous Kansas towns, at H and I), but they are not kept ex Owing to the material changes of in reporting rains, say that the sky is cept at the large plumbing shops and practice which will l>e necessary by overcast with clouds tonight, and the chamber is not as I would like. some publishers and news agents, the that more rain within a few hours is The chamber should bold three or four department, where it is inequitable, certain. The drought in Kansas has gallons nnd then the siphon will run will not enforce the new regulations been broken, and with it has gone the for two weeks or more with one filling. immediately, but will in no case ex excessive hot spell. It is the opinion To fill siphon, close valve B first, tend the time beyond October 1, 1901. among those who have been watching then till funnel, It; next open valve 8 the weather conditions that the sea and weight of water in pipe will close The Dragon Has Left son will be more favorable to crops valve A. You cannot pump air out at London, July 22.—A high official from now on. Good rains are report valve 8 or B. Siphon runs about four in Pekin who claims the power of ed tonight over portions of Eastern gallons per minute with 6J4 feet bead divination, says a dispatch to the and Central Kansas, and in each case I below water level, with valve B wide Standard from Tien Tsin, has notified is mentioned the fact that the rain is I open. the Chinese court that thedragon has not through with yet. MKk from Farrow Cows. Secretary Coburn, of the Kansas left the capital, and that, consepuent- The milk of cows that have long ly, it is impossible for the court to board of agriculture, is enthusiastic over the result of the rain. Mr. Co- i passed the season of greatest produc return. burn has been optimistic all along as tion. which Is soon after farrowing. Is to the ultimate outcome of the much richer In buter fats than that Water for Suffering Indians. Phoenix, Aril., July 22. — The drought, saying there was not the which the same cows give soon after Un:ted States district court took sum- ' least cause for alarm, as Kansas could dropping their calves, says an ex mary steps to relieve the condition ot well take care of herself. He is sure change. If they had not been bred, the the suffering Pima and Maricopa that the corn yield will reach at least milk also usually contains more of the Indians when it granted an injunc half a crop if the present very favor albuminoids also. For this reason It is harder to digest, and, as cows’ milk is tion restraining the canal owners able weather conditions continue. at best unsuited to the stomach of a above the reservation from taking young Infant, that from new milk Crushed By « Chain. water from the river and thus depriv ing the Indians of their water supply. | , Cleveland, July 19.— A chain cows, where procurable, 1« always to The action is of much impbrtance weighing four tons fell on six men at * 1 be preferred. The milk of the cow Is in that it will give the Indians water the Westinghouse Electric Company’s too rich In fats, causing the Infant to enough to prevent a famine, which works this afternoon. One man was throw It up soon after taking a quan caused such disaster among them last killed and five others are badly in tity. It may be Improved by diluting it with warm water made quite sweet year. jured. with pure sugar. Even farrow cows’ milk thus prepared may be used with Trainmen Fled From Mexico. FUherriMn'i Strike Ended. safety If the infant Is obliged to suck El Paso, Tex., July 19. — An Amer Vancouver, B. C., July 22.—The ican train crew on the Mexican Cen It through a tube, through which It can strike of the salmon fishermen against tral Railroad has just reached this only get a small amount at a time. the Fraser river canners has been city, haivng fled from the republic to The White Orsh, adjusted, the Vancouver board of the north in consequence of accident- i trade having acted as mediator. It ally running over and killing a Mexi- 1 The white grub, which often In a dry has been agreed that the fishermen can. The accident happened below season eats off the roots of the grass shall receive 12'$ cents per fish for Torreon, Mex. A freight in an iso- ; and corn, and will eat almost any root one-quarter of the entire pack and lated a pot ran over a peon, killing the which Is not too bard. Is the larva of 10 cents for the remainder of the man instantly. In Mexico the kill- 1 what Is known as the June beetlepin pack. The union mtn began fishing ing of a native by a train is as mueb i and farther South as the May beetle. It often Is so abundant as to make it Sunday night. • crim« as murder. necessary to plow up tiehls where they have destroyed all the grans. and even then It Is difficult to de-troy the grub. But we have seen it stated that the beetle, though It tiles mostly by night. Is a leaf-eating Insect, and where the trees are sprayed with arsenites many of them are killed. As on« of tt.elr fa vorite foods Is the leaf of the hickory tree, that should be sprayed regularly each year.—American Cultivator. Coon for Yonnte Ch c^c In raising young chicks half the bat tle Is In keeping them well protected from damp weather, und yet giving them an ubundance of air for proper ventilation. The coop Illustrated has been thoroughly tested. It Is built of matched boards, and raised two Inches from the ground by nailing cleats two Inches thick around the bottom edges. GOOD COOP FOR CHICKS. The front is hinged, and during the day Is used as a feeding board for both th« chicks and the mother ben. At ulghL and when cold and stormy, the front Is closed over the slats and fastened with a button. In the top front of the coop holes are bored, which provide amplo ventilation. The form of the house may be as the builder wills, although the shape shown Is less expensive than the gable roof, and If matched boards are used, as advised, will be quite as water-tight.’ Care of Teams. It will soon be time to start the mow ing machines at work, and possibly many have doue so already, although the grass has not matured as early as It does In some seasons. It is a satis faction to watch the grass fall before the rapidly playing knives, and to feel that the horses are doing the work so much faster and better than It used to be done by hand labor. How we used to sweat and swelter in haying time, and how often we used to ueed to quench our thirst as we came to the end of the swath, some with water and some with more potent beverages. Now the man on the machine does not per spire as much, or need to drink as of ten. and we fear that he sometimes for gets that the animals which are doing the hard labor for him also need to quench their thirst more frequently than they would If quietly standing In a well-ventilated stable. They should not be expected to keep busily at work for more than five hours at a time, and they will do that much more comfort ably If they are given a half-pallful of water about twice In that time. Take a cask and bucket nlong to the field If the watering place Is not handy, and offer them water occasionally.—Massa chusetts Ploughman. V’uytng Worn-Out Farm«, Nine men out of ten who have passed through the struggles of handling a worn-out farm, paying Interest on a mortgage and getting from It a living for a family, would certainly advlae the young farmer against taking such a farm. Except In rare cases, the best profits from farming come from the small farm so manipulated that each foot of ground yields the largest possi ble results..and, many times, more than one crop. With this sort of farming there can be a concentration of cnpltal, energy and materials not possible with one who feels It necessary to buy a worn-out farm. Mines For Farm Horse«. Farm horses should go barefooted until there Is a necessity for shoeing to preserve the hoof. Like farm boys, they should wear no shoes except on sjieclal occasions until they are about 14 years old. Many horses can serve a lifetime on the farm without being shod. Farm Nates. Don’t begrudge robin a few cherries. No weeds are more Injurious than neglect Anybody can raise stra wberrtea— with a spoon. An ounce of cultivation Is worth a pound of manure. Berries well picked and packed are well received In market Do not let the wheat and rye get dead ripe before harvesting. Even a nice, refined girl may bav« a rough chap on her bands. Do your pears crack ? The remedy la to spray with Bordeaux mixture. Do it now. Just as like as not your lima bean poles are too long. It makes the vines tired to climb so high. Spray the grafts Just put In; often they do not start off well on account of fungi, which Bordeaux mixture will cure. Don't wait until your plants are bad ly injured by plant lice before apply ing tbe kerosene emulsion or tobacco water. For late sugar corn for the tabla, plant the last week of June or In July up to tbe Fourth. Such late corn al ways meets a ready sale In market. Borers should be bunted for. Gum exuding at the root of peach trees Is a sure sign of tbelr presence. Dig them out with a knife, or kill them with a piece of wire.