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Used Kerosene to Start Fire. Fort Worth, Texas, August 2—Be cause she wanted to help her tired, busy mother, little Gracie Reams, 8 years of age, tried to build the supper fire in the kitchen stove Tuesday af ternoon. She poured kerosene from a five gallon can into the kitchen stove. The oil exploded, setting fire to the house, and burned the little girl and Orval, ler 4-year-old brother, to death. The victims were the eldest and the third third of . J. Reams, a worlmian at the packing house. The mother tried desperately to rescue the chil dren and but for intereference by neighbors she would have thrown her self into the flames. The house was completely burned beyond the sem blance of human beings. Frozen Dead With Thermometer 105., El Paso, Texas, August 3.—Frozen dead with the thermometer at 105 in the shade was the fate of a Mexican at Maricopa, 300 miles west of here on the Arizona desert. A carload of ic) had been unloaded on the depot plat form and covered with a heavy tar paulin. The man, seeking sleep and escape from the terrific heat, crawled beneath the tarpaulin, where he was found the next morning frozen stiff. Three More Arrests, Palestine Texas, August 4—Three more white men have been brought to Palestine and lodged in jail in connec tion with the recent negro massacre in this county. The grand jury i is at work and hundreds of witnesss ‘AYE to be examined. The militia have been sent home, but the rangers are ‘stil here and will be used to collect evi dence and to summon witnesses. No additional dead bodies have been found. Couple Arrested. Lockhart, Texas.,“August 4.—Sheriff Franks returned from a man hunt yes terday of a very interesting character. His prisoner, Will Roeder, about 3 years of age, married and the father of five children, persuaded a girl of 15, living near Luling, to accompany him and headed for Louisiana, where they intended marrying. Sheriff Franks was advised of the facts over long dis tance phone yesterday morning, caught the San Antonio Aransas Pass train to Luting and found his man near Wieli mar, where the couple had stopped to fick cotton. The young girl was turned over to her parents at Luting this morning and the man is safely located in the county jail. All parties are white,” Citrus Fruit Culture in Texas, in March, 1907, 30 varieties of or ange trees were planted at the United States Experiment substation at Beeville, Texas. Of these the follow ing varieties were bearing some fruit in 1908: Satsuma, Dugat, Washing ton Navel, Mandarin, Mediterranean, Sweet and Parson Brown. _ Other va rieties commenced to bear at various times during 1908. The experience of longer standing has been practically confined to two varieties of oranges, Satsuma and the Dugat, garden plant ings of which have been grown in Southwest Texas for some consider able time with apparent success. The Satsuma is the hardiest, and wil resist more coli than any other orange. So far as our experience goes, the Dugat is the next hardiest We have more experience with these two than any other variety. “They are’ young and heavy bearers, and the fruit of both is excellent for market. The Dugat has produced 200 nice market able oranges when the tree was 3 years old. The Satsuma will do about the same thing it properly cared for. ‘ Grape fruit is not extensively plant ed ft , Texas, principally because it is not so well known as the orange. The following five varieties of grape fruit, have been tried at the station thus far, all of which have proven,to, be heavy bearers, the third year after planting: Triumph, Tresca, Duncan, Pernambu co,and Royal. .The yields varied from 337 well matured fruits on 4-year-old Royal trees. Some of the individual fruits of the Tresca variety measured 5 1-2 inches in diameter. In general, the fruits averaged about 4 1-2 inches in diameter. The station tested only one variety of lemon, the Villa Franca, . This proved to be a young, prolific bearer. ‘The fruit is excellent in size and qual ity, and will doubtless secure a pre manent place in the markets. One year-old trees planted in February 1904, yielded as high as 164 lemons at excellent, quality in 1908. It must be borne in wind, however, “that the re mon is not so hardy and resistant to’ cold as the orange and the pomelo.” Suggestions made to the Tex mercial Secretaries Association, at Fort Worth by some of the wholesale fruit and produce dealers of the state, recommend a large growth of grape fruit in Texas as well as of oranges, on acount of the demand for the former being the excess of “the supply. Texas ‘irrigation: A wholesale produce dealer of Chi cago, Who has been traveling through ‘Texas in the interest of his house and also looking over the fruit and produce growing sections for an inquiring friend who desires to’ launch in the early buck growing business, said £ 0. the Texas Secretaries Association: + “Formerly T did not have much faith in irrigation, but since my trip through Texas I began to think that the surest crop is, after all, the irrigated one. “I have traveled through the irri gated sections of many states, but everything considered, I believe Texas is bound to rule- front rank Your State is as far north as it is safe to be if frosts are to be expected. Californ ia is a little too far away unless a per son goes there intending to stay at home. Ia person desired to make an “ occasional” trip to Chicago, St. Louis, or some of the eastern cities, it is too tedious to ride from California. “In South Texas I found an ideal early vegetable, fruit and onion sec tion with big opportunities for the t vacker and a nice climate and place live. “The irrigated sections of West Tex as and the Pecos and Torah Valleys will be fed: ideal with cool nights, bright, sunny days, abundant: ventured under irrigation and a sight of the mountains through the blue of the at mosphere to the west and north. “But the southern and ‘western por tions of Texas ‘are not the only ideal locations. Central, North and East Texas each have advantages peculiar , to themselves. “As tine goes into Louisiana and on, east through into Florida, it seems that the climate lacks the nerve and tone, and the people some of the west crn push found in Texas, and so pleas ing to the man from the North. Another Texas Gold Mine. The onion crop is among the most frofitable of all the products of Ameri can farms, experience having demon strated that onions under proper condi tions will yield a net profit of $450 per acre. So concentrated is the onion grow: Wing Industry that one-half of the entire ’ S produced by twenty-five out of more than 4000 counties in the United States. Texas is now becom ing one of the most promient produc ers of onioas among the states. In fact the onion has proved to be some thing of an empire builder here. in the Brownsville region, where only at decade ago the rural districts were al most unpeopled, today there is a pop ulation of fully 160,000, and they are making the land flow with the milk and honey of wealth derived ,mainly from the growing of the mild-flavored dermutia onion. T. C. Nye, of Laredo, is known, as, the onion king of the Rio Grande. His farm yields at least 20,000 pounds of onions per acre. The entire yield of that small district, comprising 1200p acres is said to approximate 24,000,000 pounds. The crop is sold at such prices as to yield a net profit of $480,000 or $400 per acre. The island of Bermuda, until Texas gained the lead, was the world’s most concentrated onion grow region. Its prosperity and its fir~ ™ i depressions are determined ty -' 1 status of the onion crop, Re..da's other crop is the Easter oxt'of which it makes a profit + hundreds of thousands of dollars ++ year. Strange as it may Seem, these two industries are yer elorely allied; the Easter lily being: cousin ger plan to the onion. They both belong to the album family. Texas can grow the finest of Faster ies and should “get in behind” that proposition too, and add a few mil lions more to its present store of gold dollars from its soil and equable cli mate.
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