Iowa State Register, The (Newspaper) - July 14, 1904, Des Moines, Iowa ESTABLISHED DES MOINES FRIDAY JULY 14 WHOLE 2579 J R Sige 352 lots Corn fields utf Hails 125 o fa Gaol CORN AVERAGE WILL BE LOW Estimates That and Wil Scarcely Reach 30 Bushels Per Acre OATS WILL BE flUCH BETTER Wheat Crop Estimated Mil lion One in Excess of Previous Year vance in the condition is noticeable Last year in Jaiy the wheat condition vas computed at SS par cent while the condition at the present gives of at least a 31 per tent crop Barley has exceeded the mark set by year about 3 per cent Potatoes have gained oa the crop of last year by a promising advance of about 3 pr cent One hundred and one j per cerst is credited to the condition of the potato crop which promises that the price of ibis product sarily fall within the next month or i two Grapes the last on the 21st also advanced considerably as the re port will show Comparison of Conditions The statement given out by Mr Sege shows the figures and to be is a of reports re or IT IS RIDICULOUS FOR A BUSINESS MAN TO TAKE A VACATION Russell Some three and corn fields in a line from Des Moines to have been scored J R Sage of Iowa Crop and Service within past few days wilh the result thai only 125 of them have teen found to be good is The remainder range fair to poor The region is sobering ilr left Des Friday morning with a party of Ics mes ui a private car in charge of Su w H Given of Sock Island The itinerary the trip took the party over the Cowrie and Sibley the road along which ev ery field was closely observed with a view toward ascertaining as possible the the corn crop la the Sage divided the three classes good fair and poor The stand of the cora and the general condition of taken Into consideration Then he again invaded the Inse of the trip TWO in keeping with the general Between Sibley where the advantages of drainage have not applied great extent oca of the divisions vras made The other between ajia Cowrie as being of the tiling by Iowa In the between Cowrie and SIbley the fields were scored as follows Five good fair and 290 poor 13 tie portion o the of tour the marks were made as follows Good fair and poor Mr Sage places stress oh the fact that scorch are those which to the railway ana cannot of coarse be takea ay a representation of further from the central point Th that the railway travels a roare through lower portion of the territory Ies suid the part of the state Indicates the drainage facilities are rior to the higher land surrounding acd not the best of corn laud Estimate Yield As a matter of possibility however the best condi ioas Mr Sage believes that com crop of Pocahontas and counties will reach iram 25 to 35 jo the acre This average will he however L ge considers that the oats crop ison better thas the corn crop The made of late the attacks i by him after a close iwes of representative of the entire district through the toar made He found that only farriers out of the number ed had beea troubled by Tae better oats crop Ss dne p Mr Sare to the fact That such weather as Is corn s unfavorable and vice versa Keat is apt to out a com crop but usually produce the rusted tion ot is that com is the inthe localities it is the poorest The do not great re alts on the low farms but prefer to plant graias However the evidences of extensive drainage throughout Qje entire section visited by showa the fanners are interested in drainage andwill have increased the value oi the land immeasurably few years Another trip over same territory will be made in three weeks toy Mr Sage and a party for the purpose of scoring the same fields as before with a view toward at an estimate of the srain in Iowa Wheat Yield The total wheat this year is now estimated at 10 509000 and 11000000 bushels It be from 500000 to 1000000 bushels in ex cess of the yield of last year The acreage this year is less than last when ituras 850000 acres The yield was from thirteen to fourteen bushels per acre The increase of the yield this year per acre will more than balance the reduced acreage The excess moisture of this year has had no deleterious effect on the crop of The present condition is very promising There is no rust the heads are filling well and the is standing up At this time last year the fields were full of rust the wheat down andit was crinkly Director Sage of the state crop serv yesterday from northern where the wheat is in Iowa He the yield at more than l bushels in excess of that of last year despite reduced acreage ihs stand oi com is s lighter than average ft Je seed sad ail crops are several cays laser than usual as a o advent oj however is several Jei ter at date last ysar as Kill be sees bv be low Condition July Cora K per spring wheat 51 wiE ter wheat ST oats 51 barley rve 54 ilas SS SO pastures Id apples SS plans grapes Condition Last Year Com TT per eect SS oats S S potatoes SS 10 grapes IOWA COUNTY HOGS VALUABLE j Assessed Higher Than Those of Any I Other County In Iowa Iowa county hogs were assessed this year at per Xo other It hoss assessed at All others were Warren catte weat the highest t of al 10 was at old Horses assessed t or year old colts la Warren Paid J Alto was the at These have been prepared by Wall of the for the ia of prop of the state One year old heifers were SIS ia the Ap Heary Jaci Johason Scott aati of cattle were high In these ia oas year to the J are anxious DECLARED LAWFUL British Starrer Captured By Russians i IS THE Mill U Gating IS DECIDED ON FIRST VOTE VLADIVOSTOK July Brit ish steamer captured by 5 the squadron has beea declared a prize Her isander did sot 10 defend s himself firstly because the j against the vessel were I I th Vote ready bees bought by the the Chores Is Made t Name Presented by Littleton 3 of her transfer were were foar subject oa board the Her erew ari they did sot f their Joy ac the fact that ihfe Russians sad captured the hant When prize crew from tea ef t the lechasE they cheered by the mass j MAKES GALLANT FIGHT Matchless With His Fol lowers Net to Abandon Their ciples Bat Cannot Stem Tide WAS NOT TO BE BUNCOED A Farmer With Lose Whiskers the Authority cf Registry S I 1 icg into the Promised in charge of the I office here nad peculiar j Saturday A lors farmer ea tered the verv sternly before He had evidently heard of the dangers to place of This and was de sot ro be imposed upon Who lie iha was ork One old heifers were assessed be in the f Cal hosiK Cess Cerro Em Kos Osceola Palo asc Horses I year old are assessed at is the counties AS THEY 60 TO DEATH A Sunday School Picnic Excursion i Wrecked fay Crashing Into Freight Train Near Englewood Jil PACKING HOUSE EMPLOYES j 45000 Men Lay Down Their Tools and File Out in Perfect Order Tea how do T know It HaTe yoa got a The assures him he had not WaH you me ie said between his whiskers X knew who you He referred to do I you the e told Mr B nom Saturday after an On the of the first received Before giving hise vo and West Virginia added kirn the twothirds The Presidential pr of Gray Delaware 4f EC WaE Slchard Giaec or Tifi John in oilier words SCORE MEET JNSTANT DEATH Report Says Their Loss In Assault on PortArthur Is la Excess of Thir ty Thousand Men SixtyEight Others Receive Injuries Many of Which May Prove csgo St Accident on the Cause I City aad other elnes where f plants are located If ei rhe striae Is 10 cause Wide spread inconvenience possibly July the result of s stubborn chiefly over wages for unskilled labor one of STILL CROWD RUSSIAN LINES Use most excessive strikes irt the lory of the meat industry of the Stales Monday Sn CH July evening vista Cass lick twentyone members of the Sunday iason Hamilton Hancock Bar school din Harrises Ida j church Osceola Palo JUw Palo the lowest One year old colts assessed above in counties Apia noose Clayton Bes Moines Henry Jackson Baren Swiae assessed at TraSer the Visia Congregational ss and streets went to death uith joy in their hearts asd a on their lips Sev enty members of the same Sunday school were or at the The occurred in a cn the tracks of the Chicago trary to somewhat general without high la ani assessed leow C aai Sutler and above li a head DEAL DIRECT WITH RAILWAYS CROP PROSPECTS ARE GOOD Genera Are Better Than They Were for July 1903 According to the and esti mates of Director J of the I Iowa Crop and Weather service the month of July has a better prospect of E a crop than same month in last year Almost every form of plant life has prospered exceedingly well and gives evidence of the bumper crop so much desired by the Iowa farmer and consumers of the world Heavy rains last year were of course responsible for the con dition of the crops as compared with the outlook this year while the average quantity of rain and the general good conditions for a crop have thus far aided in giving the farmers the Ideal year for com and all manner of garden products The condition of corn is represented to be at least 13 per cent better than it was last year This of course is due altogether to the climatic conditions regarding moisture The moisture of last year was heavy with the result that a great part of the corn crop replanting again resulting in a loss of part of it This year there Has been an average good weather condi tion with the result that there is every prospect of a heavy yield not withstanding the fact that the stand is below what it should be Wheat does not stand so high above crop of year although the Corn Belt Meat Association Perfects to Protect Shippers steps have been which will tie rail road commission a large amount of the business heretofore handled by it The Corn Belt Meat Producers association of Iowa which was organized in Des Moines last winter and to winch is dae the credit for securing the restoration of the return pass for livestock ship pers establish a business or rather a secretary at Bes if who cp ths grievances of the farmers direct with the railroad companies instead of through the com mission The plan is that of the Iowa Grain association 5 its headquarters su Des Moines of George JL Wells is secre tary The secretary will be expected to take up ail of shippers who are of the as sociation and the officers they LI have every shipper of prominence in the state within the sir months directly up with the company At present shippers lose many claims ainst the railways the latter simply on them untal they die out Many of them are too small to institute suit over Scarcely a shipper in the state who handles four or five cars per year but who has a claim for damages on account of delay in shipment injuries to any animals by defective handling etc Sometimes these do not amount to more than or 520 individually and tie cost of I such notto warrant be ginning action if payment secrgtary of the company by the claims would be able to compel the companies to pay at small cost to the shipper In addition to this the secretary will be expected as a agent f or the members In case a cer tain county needs com as was the case last year it will be the business of to arrange for the purchase of a large quantity of it The feeders will be thus able to profit by the reduction in prices Likewise in purchasing stock cattle Questions of crossings drainage which are constantly coming up between fanners and rail roads will be submitted to the secie tary and he will be expected to repre sent the members ingr tbe anthracite coal famine of two years ago The unanimity of the strike was complete employes are directly involved Chicago alone snen are on The effect of the strike upon tae food supply of sad the price cf meats is dis owiss to 10 con Forces Now onr Opposite Banks of HIver Crisis Must Come Soon Unless ST PETEKSBUSG July ois from a Bussian at Mukden dated July 12 says intelligence here the Japanese last sight positions near Port Arthur and were repulsed with enormous losses sot less than 30000 it is said being killed or wound ed by our mines July correspondent says thai the Japanese casualties by land Port Sunday STATISTICS OF The Interstate Commerce Commission Gives Out Statements for Fiscal Year Ending June 30 1903 The inter state has as its statistics of railways ia the United States for the fiscal year June 30 1503 They show that the par value of the railway capital then out standing was which repre per mile The number of carried 694 an increase over the previous year carried an Increase of tons The from the operation of the total of miles of railway line which is the single track werd an Increase or 5174 466 expenses an increase of net earnings an o In come from other sources than operation net income available for 1 ivi Sends or surplus Total casual ties of which 9480 represented the number of persons killed And injured ot locomotives In service increase oars in service an increase Of over 000 tha year gone td the picnic grounds mence HL for was over and the train was re turn to Chicago when the accident oc Tie children in the first coach of the train were singing as it passed through Chicago Heights en miles from Chicago Two further the train oh and then the hushed in death for above a score aad cries of pain and horror for seventy others Two accidents combined to make the disaster was the breaking down of s freight train on the north bound track on which the excursion train should have proceeded after leaving Chicago Heights and the other was the breaking of on a second freight trains Because the train had blocked the right of the fail track the sion train switched to the southbound track to run miles until it should have passed the station of Glen wood just north ot Chicago Heights As it tore along the track at the rate of forty miles an hour it rounded a sharp curve and came full upon the made the second train which WES backing up on the southbound an order to take up its lost cars and trying at the same time to keep out of the way of the coining which it believed was on the northbound track There was no time for more than the setting of the brakes when with ua speed the train witi its load of five hundred men women and chH dren crashed into the was a shock a shriek and over twenty souls were in The bend is so sharp engi 2eer of the picnic train had no chance to see thS freight before he was upon it It Was too late to do anything but set the air brakes but before they could take the passenger train smashed into the freight at full speed The engine and baggage car of the went clear through the freight and were piled up in a heap of wreckage on the farther side of the switch on which the freight was crossing from track to the other The first coach of the picnic train plunged straight into the age and buried itself in a mass of kindling wood under the demolished here that the loss occurred rjr tae course mar afford is a matter of wide variation of opinion Tile packers declare that hundreds of men who could with places liave been applying daily for work Fight is Against Decrease President the strike leader said I wish to make It clear that we are not fighting for an increase of wages but against a decrease Our original demand was for a min of 20 cents an hour for laborers This demand was amended second conference with the packers ia June We then agreed to a scale of cents an hour except in Japanese Lose Three Regiments CHE FOO July reliable Chinaman declares that ths slass Port say week three regiments of Japanese troops were out just north of Port Arthur A Kussian regimens which was out was driv es back by the three Japanese regi meais wiio were in tarn surrounded by two of Cossacks out The reports lack Two Japanese Torpedo Boats Sunk July 10 a Omaha and sews agency St savs Sioux City scale is 13 cents Vice Admiral has reported The packers on the other hand re that on July 3 the Russian cruisers fused to pay more than 17 cents an commanded by Admiral hour and refused to sign any met several large war vessels in the an Korean back Japanese pursued the and fir ed on them result Eleven Jap anese torpedo boats then attacked the Russians but two of the torpedo boats were sunk The next Jap anese had The Russians sustained no damage ALMOST A THOUSAND DEAD Final On Steamer Slocum Disaster Make Casualty List Number 958 NEW YORK July total dead in destruction of the excursion steamer General Slocum on is given as SSS In the final report present ed to Police Commissioner McAdoo to day by the inspectors in charge of the investigation by the police department Only of the dead were identified 62 were reported missing and fied while ISO were injured and only 285 out of the nearly 1400 on the steam er escaped uninjured Assuming that the unidentified dead are among the missing all but one person has been thus accounted for SIX KILLED BY WATERSPOUT Clinton OWa Visited by Disastrous Wind and Rain Storm in Which Six Were Kilted OKLAHOMA CITY July crater spout accompanied by wind passed through CUnton Okla and vi at midnight Friday tight tn which six persons were killed and sev eral injured The dead MRS BAKER and three children MR All were drowned Reports from Ara paho Weatherford Geary Cordelle Anadarko And other points Jn western Oklahoma tell of treat ecn except with a small pro portion of the workmen Question of wages men was To workmen the wage was cents but when we asked that be they cut it to j cents and 15 cents Men could live on 15 cents if they got steady work but i in some plants aien have been able to TIEST make just thirteen hours a week at tary experts iere are of the opinion this wage scale They codd not live usat the positions at on it Xo one coald i Tang and Hai are Arbitration is in Sight against a three sided CHICAGO July of that the grievances which precipitated the j y general strike Ja the meat packing Arthur houses in various tee appears tonight to be in sight and a conference between employers and strikers be held tomorrow morn BtQ PLANTS KEEP ON WORKING AH Chicago Houses That They Operating CHICAGO July bore out predictions of the packing house pro that bis strike would not cause a stoppage of operations In the great abattoir district things moved slowly today but they moved All the packing houses reported that they were little Every said to be doing some work not much but some and was ex to increase activity tomor row Loading and snipping was in progress although curtailed as was the buying of cattle Some hundreds of workmen were hired and put to work in the places which had been va by thousands The price of fresh meats of all advanced per pounds Today as a result of the strike ai the houses A Cadahy the that there would be a farther is speedily set tled famine RESENT THE TARIFF DECISION Business Men of Panama Hofd Griev ance Meeting and Will Ask the Government to Reconsider PANAMA July decree of Governor Davis a customs house in the canal zone has created comment here The principal merchants of Panama and Colon as in the commercial club to dis cuss the situation and unanimously de that the establishment of cus toms houses In such form means the ruin of the commerce of Panama and Colon and consequently of the republic The chamber of commerce at ameet ing today appointed a committee to communicate with the government The chamber considers the tion of the tariff act not only detrimental to the interests of com merce and of the government but against the spirit of the canal treaty ST July of Chou by the announced from Tokio last is not officially at the war office but there is rso disposition to question the probable of the report as the latest advices receiv ed here mace it plain that Japan ese were in railroad the position The emperor and his military suite who left St Petersburg last aigh for the Volga region to bid farewell to the Fifth and Sixth array corps may al ready have received General Kuropat kins report bat he staff has not yer received General re port follows kins at a short interval The Kai Chou it is not believed that it wai exercise ma terial on strat is of importance to Japanese as it brings thenx within reach of General Okus with Koroki wUo raay already be in touch CHE FOO July European who left Port Arthur at 5 oclock Sunday afternoon reports that the Japanese a torpedo attack Sunday attempting to pene trate into the harbor They were re pulsed without loss to either side The European farther reports that on July 7 severe fighting occurred around Port Arthur The Russians said they had driven the Japanese back on all sides but admitted a loss of over killed Seven hundred wounded are said to have arrived at Port Arthur on July S and it was re ported that more were to come In CHE POO July men who arrived last Sunday from Port Arthur say that on Tuesday July 5 Chinese carriers brought into town over eight hundred dead two of whom were high officers They say that a part of the Japanese force advanced to within six miles of Port Arthur taxing another eastern fort GENERAI via July serious soon The opposing forces are now occupy ing the hills on opposite sides of the valley of the river where it crosses the Liao Yang road The Russians both officers and men a and see bos he could help He isii he didar care the fenaer yos are he to rcb cs Ba became so had ejected by the He left would appeal ro cent so the chief Is likely to have farther trouble on his Tiands and cowboys swooped Sunday took possession A band of is outskirts of the TOWS a party of broaeo busters the crack saot fe lie tae city Xo was done and thing is salet There is so street gambling ana the goers of The saloons are dosed as as on week kinds sre esque CabraT with a prime fe to cresse a ferors made to ee she actors fe true a styte in be is evf desee def eased asal aeir essens Tiat cry of Sfr longer is iu neis Issues Free ferns loss bees great ana dowit as a leader of Mr of the his was a mauu Sad ni Jn say no Bfe so opinion TeSit 20 one was ais made Se to and David S anJ then east and the the graud in asd y before Ms ROSEBUD IS STORM SWEPT A SmaU Cyclone and Fierce Storm Interesting at a of life cis and heTrta HaJI f a great Jaly of the fiercest ever known te by a cyclone today promised of zhe were as large as eggs sosie of the b being at tee office The first evidence of the scon came in the form of a cyclone appeared on che the after noon Ir Bonesteel and was of a funnel ty Everything stopped in Sorse people clambered cpon progress IL and across the open country coming within a mile of Beae steel Several photographs were taken of the twister It swept on and at S oclock another one formed had Just a touch of it and teats and seeds Trere overthrown This was followed by the hailstorm by with a Windows were broken oar the big stones lie lents breaking plates in the eating and causing a panic The lasted only a bat ssas fierce while it Tasted One nine registered today St Sine lot sale wlH bring a here T Ai and Sen Wade Suffer Death for Brutal Murder cf Kate Sullivan Ohio July AL anfi Sea were a ter at the Ohio sex the of at Toledo in 239 AI Wade to the first Bat one was was at Bea at was in chair bat shock He Both elec IT LASTED TWENTY INNINGS Southern Ball Teams Way a Remark able and Quit With the Score a Tie Miss The Greenville of the Cotton States played a same The was called at tae pi twers oa af score S to 2 Each tears scored rax after the regular sine ia had The eJ in JAPS WILL HAVE CANNED MEAT Northern Pacific Hauis a Order of 1000000 Forty Minn July received at head quarters state that the heaviest order canned ineat to the has been successfully delivered en the coast and loaded aboard the huge slp for transportation from sound to Yokohama The shipment con sists of a rush order for pounds of beef for the subsistence de of the Japanese army It was handled Chicago by the in special of forty On Friday sight in a gems auS periods tie Alton S Sarker was placed be fore the democratic national convent as a candidate of from the fest Jtt responsive mood was Use and tha last barsc of alf isal Icr a such as sot before been ia Tariff has been of thai class at by certain beea the people oi loot have baea to become the of capital ever been into sires to the chacK ex ance they can give aow of fee party We or the wv the few favor Ta tariff to Tie of the and levied as to the end that tie of as possible Tre favor the tariff by lth by the and its d sa vieir tie ultimate of burdens of purpose of by ti wit the wop port of the federal fa aa iis and but in From Littleton We too love lie stir of a life we ia equal Bess for all aad special for We derive oar from the seat ot the avt irom the souls of farmer is just as the star crowned soldier The man of natural Sero a hundred to man of is hero For la the of his great soul toward acne with charity for with in the right as God the wia dooa to see it Aal saod is the of his Tread softly aad carry Wg The HKesrity party rests on homely rule of each other half way A platform aot at photograph o party It a composite sketch ci party We appeal to every democrat from to forget tke bitter Jare of the past forget anger of Uie older oUter daya UM don all the grudge and rancor of party discontent aad recalling with ever pride the triumphs of of gorem now to the record reach of time in which liberty peace up and down to of the earth building their ID Uw hearts of mcs and gathering tar of toU in struck band of fMW tte i AtV
