Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, April 21, 1891, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text'T-t,'"""'" EVENING CAPITAL JOURNAL. "THE lEOPLE'SJPAPEB." SALEM, OHEGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 21 1891. ."TO-DAY'S NEWS TO-DAY." NO. 352 THE GENUINE Oxford toil's Bibles anil Banter's Ciiprftlwivc Teachers in Ail Sizes and Styles, at Prices Within the Reach of Every Bible Student AT- T. McF. RATION'S STATE STREET BOOK STORE hfyou want an "Oxford" or a 'Bagster" Bible that will last as long as you live and be a comfort to vou everv time you use it. GET THE GENUINE. y Bibles, English and German, Price $3.50 to $5.00. REMEMBER THE PLACE 98 STATE STREET. Family (The Kloors are Creakin "" 7VTM -Under the Great Load of- ywiimi q ym 1111.11 -y fc -At the Store of- A. B. BUREN & SON Has We sell 1 lb butter Been in Your Midst, It Was None Of Your Friends this Call BUT HIGH FRIOESS Have died the ignominious death they deserve, we killed them. Look here if we did not. molds for 25c 21b molds tor 3Uc mtter .Ladle 10c 24U looth picks lor 5c (Joou black, ink only 5c per bottle Wire hair brushes 10c 12 good lead poncils for 5c. C091G AND SEE OUK TRICES OK TINWARE ! Extra large dishpans only 35 cents. Small dishpans for 25 cents. All other kinds of tinware. - AN J) IT WILL VAYYO U '. i loses our shoes, from 50c to the best hand made, at astonishingly low prices. Umbrellas Trom 60c to $1.25. Safety pins 2c a doz. Clocks, iruaranteed for twelve months, only 90c. Coffee mills 45c. ' Q '.- Hair combs 10 and 15c. Come in and see us.a 5 c. GRISSMA.M &Z, 033lLJj5IXrL Lamp burners only 261 Commercial Street. GO TO HENRY SCHOMAKER If you want a Plow, Harrow, Cultivator or any Agricultural Implement, machine. from a Hoe Handle to a Threshing- AGENCY OF STAVER L WALKER. The Oregon Land Co. -with Itai me ce a tan, Ml WL (In the State Insurance Building) and branch-offices in Portland, Astoria and Albany, Has for sale a large list of Grain, Stock aud'Frult Farms; also City and Suburban Property, k Oregon Land Co. was especially organized for tho purpose of buying M8ub-dlvidinirlanretraota of land, and has during the past two lyears "W and subdivided over 3,200 acres into to Twenty Acre Parcels file !! ... . ....... i I- ,a fnnt thnt mil, nf 280 tracts jjj-aa 01 una uuaertaKing is luimmu . .- ., 7 .., :. n J7f4tai,a n,i.f oo u,, i.-.. RnlH. We claim that ten acres: 01 .-WW ItltHAGU 4uU 1IMIU W --. in Fruit, tl ill Yield a Larger Income lOOtcrr-a or ,!. i . xn00iaamn! Vnllev. Woalso make valuable SfjweiueHU , tlie wny of roado clearing the land, fences, etc. we a . Zaa hih 0m 11 M Villi OTUUAVl same jjuee j w . vUtiiiiIh,tn.,H frf tl.u hrto Iy tut u lurge tarm. Send MUSIC for Pamphlet and Price List. THE grocer; Commercial Street. The Best for the Money all the Time. J AS. AlTKEN , GROCERIES AND PRODUCE. -THE BEST CANNED GOODS- Choicest Fruits and Vegetables in Season Garden Seeds, Field Seeds and Flower Seeds, Fresh and true to name. The Orange Store, 126 State St., Salem, Or. TAKE A LOOK AT BROWN'S $3.00 SHOES. Of all kinds Pianos, Organs, Violins, n.,:o, T).n;rQ nn1 Afniirlolii s. (whole- ale and retail) over 800 of the latest and If Y moat popular SHUUT M u oiu aital ; vrUMUP-te the purchase ot a rati trrl,D?fru"lont wnte to us for an iUus ' "' WSTN Co., 310 Com'KSt., Salem, Or, IUS1U. FREE. The best In the market. Eery pair warranted. WM. BROWN & CO. 231 Commercial Street. Till! CAPITAL JODHHL H0FER BROTHERS, - Editors. PUBLISHED DAILY. EXCEPT 8 UN DAY, BY TUB Canital Journal Publishing Company. (Incorporated.) Olnce, Commercial Street, In P. O. Building Entered at the postofllce at Bnlem, Or., m tecone-tJnu irnlltr. BOW MUCH CIIICU1.ATINO MEDIUM TKU CAPITA TUB UNITED STATES II AS. (Prepared lor tho Cafitai. Journal.) In a former issue of the Journal wo showed from tho ofilcial records that there is now in the- United Slates only about $977,000,000 which can properly bo said to bo "in circu lation," ns the people understand the meauiug of this phrase. How much of this niuo hundred and seventy seven millions' is held by other banks (not national) as reserve, it is perhaps impossible to tell, as they are under no legal obligation to report to the United Stutes comp- ti oiler. But by reference to the report of tho secretary of the treas ury for 1888, page 4401, we find that such batiks, as voluntarily reported, held over $101,000,000. Perhaps those not reporting held as much more, or at least sufficient to aggre gate $300,000,000. It is probably more now. But still we reckon all this "in circulation," and we found that it all was but $15.20 per capita. It now remains to show from ofil cial figures the actual circulation at other times. On page 80 of the report of the secretary of the treas ury 1880, tablo H, we find, in dlffer eut columns the amount and loca tion of tho several different kinds of money. l3t, in circulation; 2d, In national banks; 3d, in circula tion, in other banks and in individ ual bauds; 4th, total. This tablo covers the period fiom 1800 to 1880 Inclusive. By adding together the amounts of tho dlflerent kinds of money as given in the third column as in circulation, in other banks and in individual bands, and then do ducting two and a half millions per annum as a probable destiuctlon of paper money since 1803, wo will have as near as practicable the actual circulation for each year. But here uru stato bank notes, one and two year notes, compound interest notes, and fractional currency, theamouut, but not the location, of which is given. Then to bo perfectly fair let of six Inches. In the natnral way the plant grew from a ruuner thrown out and next year it will becomo mature, blossom, yield its fruit and throw out new runners, with new plants, etc. Oue year it produces tho youug; next year thtj young pro duces a crop of fruit. Undoubtedly for its welghtnnd size thestrnwberry plant in its modern perfection In this short season will turn out nioro weight of luscious, rich, palatable, nutritious fruit than any other crea tion of tho vegetable kingdom. Whatever plant-food this richest of all fruit-plants takes from the soil must bo taken from this area of a few Inches on each side, reached by thoso fine hair-like roots that com pletely till tho ground. What I am getting at Is the necessity of recog nizing that high culture of tho soil is indispenslblo to success with the strawberry. Uuless that small area it has to draw from is not a rich soil, mado light and porous by culti vation, best results cannot bo looked for. Nor can a plant stand in one spot for three or four years In sue-, ceosion and fine fruit be secured. I have gone Into this detail to overcome tho custom so prevalent in this part of Oregon of continuous cropping from tho same plant. Iu the experience of eastern nnd south ern market groweis. one full crop is all that is obtained with profit. Plants nre set iu spring; a full crop is taken tho following spring and the vines plowed under. In hill culture in Oregon, where plants are tet in fall, a fractional crop is secured the next year, a full crop tho year following, aud a" partial crop the third season. It must be evident that for sharp competition in mar ket, only choieo berries from- the plaut at its full maturity can be prolitable. To secure this end through woiblng of the soil is the great secrot. WHAT SOIL IS BEST? I quoto from T. B. Terry: "You want good land; just tho richest and best you have near tho houso. It will be a little better if it slopes to tho east or north, rather than the south or west. It will bo cooler, aud that would just suit the berries. It should bo land that Is pretty clean. Ifohickwced and purslalu abound, you will have nioro troublo iu keep ing your berries clean. You must uot set out strawberries ou sod ground, for fear of tho white grubs, unless you know there aro none there. I set borries on clover sod, ce between firm and hard, riant your rows three to four feet apart, as Is best suited to your cultivator. Set the plants two feet In tho row If you expect to boo ono way, or as far apart each way If you expect .to do all the work with u cultivator, aud make your rows ns long as you can to savo time lu cultivating. COST OF ONE ACRE. Tho following figures as to cost of planting, cultivating and cropping an aero aro mado up ns carefully as possiblo from comparisons of actual expense by growers in this vicinity. Tho cost Is figured on a basis of farm wages as ordinary farmiug is carried on. Tho wages estimated are not the highest paid, nor tho lowest, but fair averages, aud may bo modified in different localities. To prove them anyono can take tho items of cost and returns as given, aud flguro up at rates prevailing iu any given locality. PREPARING AND PLANTING. Plowing $ 2 00 Harrowing 3 times 1 CO Manure, 10 loads "5 00 Plains, 7000 28 00 Planting 0 00 TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCHES. issociatcd Press Report aid Digests of all Important News oi To-Day. MISCELLANY. us in addition to the two and a-half ln regu,ar rottttl0Ili thp mmo n8 wo millions annually allowed for de struction ot paper mouoy siuce 1803, deduct ten millions nioro from this as being either in tho treasury or in the banks, or as destroyed. Then we will have in actual circulation for tho year 1804, $945,500,000; 1805 $800,000,000, and 1806, $082,000,000, The population as estimated by the secretary of the treasury, (report 188C, page 880) was for 1804, 34 mil lions; for 1805, 34 7-10 millions; and for 1800, 35 4-10 millions. This then would bo nn actual circulation per capita of $27.80 for 1804; $24.78 for 1805, and $10.20 for 1800. We before showed that it is now but $15.20 per capita. This is $12.04 less than in 1604, $9.52 less than in 1805, and $4 less than in 1800. But this is yet hardly a fair statement of theactual difference, for in 1804-5 about ten millions of our population were iu rebellion. This money did not cir culate among them. Deducting ten millions from tho total population for these years, leaves us but 24 millions, 24 7-10 millions for these years respectively. This then would givo us a per capita in circulation of $30.40 for 1604, and $34.80 for 1805. This would bo $24.14 In 1804, and $19.54 in 1805 more than now. When the president, tho secretary of the treasury or tho director of the mint asserts that "there Is now more money in use or in circulation per capita than ever before iu the history of the country," ho asserts that which Is either: 1st, Contradicted by tho unim peached official reports; or 2d Ho uses the phrases "In use," 'in circulation," in u different sense from what the industrial masses understand them. In either case they aro mischievously misleading and deceptive. Tho JouitNAL is awaro thet this statement of tho u mount of the actual circulation during the war period will probably not satisfy those who assert that wo then had two billions of dollars in circulation, Neither is It likely to satisfy the advocates of the single gold stand ard. But while not claiming infall ibility for ourselves or exact mathe matical accuracy for tho ofilcial reiiorts, yet If these statements are seriously eon trover ted, wo can bring other, uud wo think, overwhelming, ofllclul evidence to establish their substantial uccuracy. SlraivLerry Culture. (From a uuner read beforo April meeting Btate Horticultural Society by IS. Holer, Sulem, Or.) SOIL THBATMKNT. ITuylng dUpatchod tio subject that lies nt the threshold of succeu In strawberry culture, we come to the life of tho plant lu tho soil. Take up a strawberry plant and wliut do we uenl Three to live haven and several hundred line white hulr-llko roots. Thene routs (on a one-year-old plant) completely Total $42 60 CULTIVATING AND CMOPPINO. Cultivating 0 times $ 0 00 Hoeing and cutting ruunors - 0 00 Winter donning 6 00 Picking crop 45 00 Boxes 20 00 Ono-thlrd cost putting iu 14 18 Average annual oxpenso $90 18 RECEIPTS. 8 crops, 4000 quarts each, 12, 000 qts 0 cts a qt., nver ago price at Salem $709 20 Expense 3 years 288 60 do potatoes; but wo have no troublo to speak of with grubs. If tlioro ure any in the ground they will eat the roots of your plants, and ruin your patch. They aro as fond of straw berry-roots as chickens and robbius are of the berries themselves. Thus wo have to look out for enemies on all sides. You should chooso land with no tree-roots in it. Theso would tako up tho moisture that strawberries particularly need. Ko tnember that tree-roots extend along way from tho body sometimes. 8trawberrles can bo grown success fully ou almost any klud of soil, from sand to heavy clay. I have seen big crops on sand so light that I much of it would blow away, if not protected; but it took much'manure to grow them. Very heavy clay will grow largo flue berries, but ono must choose varieties fitted to tho soil. Some will do bestonnpartlou larkind of soli and, some on another. I should rather prefer what would be called a good potato soil, a happy medium, about half way between sand and cluy. Moist soil is good, but not wet soil. If H. Is wet it should bo tllo-dralned. Just what Is best Is a well-drained (uaturally or with tiles) but still moist piece or land. Again, It should bo upland, not lowland, because lato spring frosts will bo heavier on tho latter.'' HOW TO PKEPARB THE BOIL, Laud that has boon used to root crops for several seasons is most apt to bo free from grubs. On this sub ject of soil, Ferry In his work says: plow the ground for strawberries as soon in tho spring as it Is dry en ough to crumble nicely from tho plow. Spread on the surface tho uslics from the house, if you burn wood; then harrow thoroughly,mak Ing tho land as line as you can. Leust of all, go over It with tho rol ler. Then you are ready for tho plants, Tho sooner these ure sot out ufter the ground Is dry enough to work tho better, This Is the best time, as our large growers all say, to a man; out witn caro mey can no set out almoift any time during tho summer, oven as lato as after cany potatoes have been dug. If you must set them out as lute as that or go wuuoui, wuy, uo it, uy an means; hut givo them richer laud and extra care. If you haven't a roller (bnt every farmer who lion u plow aud a harrow should have), a clod-crunher will answer. Remem ber It must ho very fine and firm, If you want the plants to do their best from tho start. If you have any doubts aboil til being in tho best shupe, harrow and roll It alternate ly two or threo times inoro, when the laud Is dry enough not to pack hard. Of court.?, you understand (hut you must be careful not to worh hind that U at all heavv. for any crop when It Is even a little too wet. it whiiubku u Hard. What we want 1 a line, mellow seed-bed, $510 70 It Is claimed by many growers that each hill ot strawberries hero will yield a quart, aud that their crops average 10 cents at Salem. At these figures 3 crops would run the not earnings of nn acre of strawber ries up to $1811.50. GENEUAL NEWS NOTES. Mexlcb will soud her finest spec! mens of various woods to tho Chica go exhibition. Petitions will bo filed at Ottawa on Monday to unseat Sir Adolpho Caron, tho Dominion minister of mihtla, and Sir Hector Laugovlu, minister of public works, for corrupt practices. At 2:15 Monday morning tho Cauadiun Paclilo railway oablnot shop, In connection with their works on Delorimero avenuo, Moutrcal, wcro burning and wore likely to bo totally destroyed. Tho stcamor Olymplu, from Puler- mo, arrived at the quarantine sta tion at Now Orleans Sunday with 460 Sicilians, who will bo cast adrift in that city from tho northeastern wharf. A baronetoy has been conferred upou tho Hon. James FlCjamcs Stephen, justice of tho queen's bench division of tho high court of Justice, who retired recently from tho beuoh owing to impaired health. Denunciations sent to tho Ger man government, protesting against tho ring in wheat and rye forcing prices to a fictitious height, have caused tho government to open uu official inquiry Into tho matter. Slgnor Imbrlauthas given notice In tho Italian deputies that ho in tends to question Premier Rudml In regard to tho refusal of Inspector Byrnes, of Now York city, to ac cept tho decoration sont to him by King Humbert. Tho walls of tho Qermanla pit, near Qoiieonklrcheti, Germany, collapsed Saturday, burying a large numbor of miners in the ruins Four men wore killed outright aud several Injured, Many of tho men aro entombed in tho mine, aud their fate Is uncertain, though It Is thought they will bo rescued. Tho Emperor William has pur chased the famous cutter Thistle, welt known for its unsuccessful at tempt several years ago to win the American's cup at New York lu a contest with tho Volunteer. Crop reports from Hungary nay that phylloxera is duvustlug the vlnoyards there, Tho prlco of Hungarian wino has risen ono-thlrd within a year. A dispatch from Capetown says that the Portuguese fired upon the British steamer Agnes, conveying tho Wllloughby expedition, and seized tho cargo in tho boats. Tho German government has determined to strongly fortify tho important commercial city ofOsna- hruok, Hanover. Besides tho de fenses of the city Itself, three forts will bo erected outside tho lines. Eastern Oregon wool cannot be produced with a profit for less than 16 cento per pound; to thuadd 2.02 cents for transportation uud there nvist bo a prlco of 17.0 cento per pound. Tho tariff gives at least 0.0 of a cent pcrpoutid to every pound of wool grown lu Oregon Let the tariff" be removed, and Oregon cau not compete with foreign producers, henco tho wool market of America will bo dictated by tho foreign pro ducor, Tte fill the oll tor a space of tho radlust firmly packed, There U ft dltferen-ISoi, Ilucklou'l Arulv Hutvu, Het HU In tin world or (ut, jiueum, rvYer (in. Uhltolalu. KruDtlaa. nail tmnl- Uvciy euiMltte, or noiwy rtqulrud. It U guaranteed lu k'lya perwrt tuuUlaottou aw. trvo, w;cu vw ilruUw, Horui, Ulovn, SalUtUeum, Vver , leiuir, uunpu llun Uorn n(t nil Hklo TUB KAISER'S TROUBLES. London, April 21. Thero Is arow In tho kaiser's household. Berlin dispatches stato that tho emperor may take his journey to Schleswig alone. The Imperial couple aro said to bo unhappy for several reasons, ono being tho growing influence of tho Empress Fredorlok, who, in tho opinion of tho kalserln, usurps soma of the importance that ought to at tach to tho kaiser's consort, aud an other is tho harshness shown by the kaiser recently to near relatives of tho knlscrlu. The kaiser has been a devoted husband, since tho suicide of Prlnco Rudolph of Austria had an effect lu mending his habits, but lie expects tho same divine-right sort of worship in his family that he requires from his people, and this has led to trouble. Tho affair has becomo sufficiently prominent to attract attention and arouso gossip outside of court circles. It 1b thought that it may amount to no more than strained relations for n few days, as tho Imperial pair aro dovoted to their children. THE PORTUGESE IN AFRICA. London, April 21. A dispatch received hero from Durban, South Africa, show tho Portugese authori ties are taking a high hand In Mash, onaland. Tho latest Instance thero of hostilities to British interests iu that district Is likely to cause a fur ther teuslon lu tho relation between tho governments of Great Britain and Portugal. Thero nro a number of British colonists who have set tled iu Mashonalalid, and malls des tined to them nro carried via Bclra, a Portugeso settlement. A short tlmo ago, upon tho arrival of the British mall sacks at Belra, the Portugese authortlcs held them, and refused to allow them to bo carried to tholr destination. Great Indigna tion was aroused on tho part of the tho British colonists by this high handed proceeding. Further details regarding the firing Upon thoBritish steamer Agnes, which was engaged I in conveying an oxpodltlon and the seizure of cargo boats engaged in tho samo service, show that Colonel Wllloughby, commanding the Agnes, endeavored to seouro tho re leaso of his vessel by paying what was Imposed by tho Portugese. The officials refused payment and order ed tho British flag down aud hoisted tho Portugeso flag in its place. The Portugeso declare tho Prltish are oxoludcd fron tho Ponglvo river, which tho boats wero navigating when seized, and which Is tho chief water routo to Mashonaland, Sev eral B'rltlsh colonists havo been Im prisoned uud most of tho British settlors havo leturued from Mash onalalid ou accouut of tho arbitrary action of tho Portugese. Thero Is every ovldonco that a serious rupture is impending between the Portugese and British authorities. THE ITALIAN MAFIA. London, April 21, A Home dis patch says that the government has agreed to givo free passage to Amer ica to nuy of tho Informers and ether witnesses in the Mala Vita prosecution that may desire it, and It is believed that tho offer will bo gladly taken advantago of by all of them. Several wlfuetses who testi fied in tho case havo already reached Nuples uudcr police protection, nnd uro undoubtedly awaiting tho first chance to emigrate to tho United States. A Roman gentleman Informed a London correspondent Friday that while ho hated and despised tho Miitla.ho recogulzedthat theveudetttt wus iuovltablo.uud that the leaders In tho Aineil&i" tragedy would dlo by violence sooner or later, though per haps not for two or threo years. Ho suld that this was tho chief reason in Italy for punishing murder with imprisonment Instead of death, m vendetta had always followed tin capita penalty. want to comk hf.uk. Rome, April 21. Tho Itullau gov- eminent has sent several officials to Sardinia to prepare tho way for Itullun families of emlgruuts. It U proposed to allot to eauh emigrant family a share of laud equivalent to about live acres, tho land to he paid for on cosy terms. Tho Italian gov-r orument Is too poor to give tht aml grants financial a&slstuuco In limit ing a start and there Is very little money iu Sardinia, So fur uot evea ono family has expressed n desire' to go to Sardinia, while the officers for booking for the United Stat u beselged by a clamorous crowd. A VlllKKAN LOSEH HIS LIKK. OHAVrANOOQA, Teuu., April 21.-T-A disastrous flro started hem Wan day ulght at 10 o'clock In the Kwv peau hotel. Twloo tha biilldl hm been destroyed by 11 r lu th )nm threo years. It In a Jarj foUM4ryp brick structure at tlw ooruw r Ninth and Cherry stnwts, 4 k m second-eluM hotel. HI luutd tt leru how tlw tire itfrtd. Th H J!