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CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR
IS RUNNING: FOR SENATE
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Some Practical Suggestions Well
Worth Knowing From the De-
. artment of Agriculture.
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"SUCCESSFUL MARKETING
The Department of Agriculture at
Harrisburg is doing a work for the
farmers and for the people in general
throughout the State that is greatly
appreciated. This appreciation will
grow Irom day to day as the people
become better acquainted with its
work and realize the benefits that
are daily coming to them with but
little or no expense. |
The work of the Farm Advisers is |
beginning to bring forth fruit, some ot |
it one hundred fold. None of the work | |
however, seemingly gets quite so close |
to the hearts and pocketbooks of the
people as that of marketing farm pro-
ducts. All are interested in this pro-
position, no maltter ‘where they live
or what their occupation.
This important work has been asign-
ed to E. B. Dorsett of Mansfield, Penn-
sylvania. He is ably assisted in this
work by the other Advisers. In fact
‘the members of the board are demon-
strating what true co- -operation is and
means, by the splendid team work
which they are doing. They are teach-
ing fhe farmer that it is a waste of
time, money and enersy to produce a
crop and then not be able to success-
fully market it.
After the crop is produced the farm-
er must know how, when and where
to sell. It is a well known fact, that
no matter how fertile the soil, how
well the land is tilled, how abundant
the harvest, it is of but little avail to
Photo by American Press Association.
HIRAM JOHNTON.
PETROGRAD DOCKS
SWEPT BY FLAMES
Anarchists Blamed For Flames That
Swept Munition Works.
Reports of a conflagration at Petro
grad in which a bridge across the
river Neva, twelve large steamers, in-
cluding several transatlantic liners,
and the Putiloff gun works and other
establishments were destroyed, are |
printed in the Lokal Anzeiger, Ber: |
lin. The newspaper says: |
“On Tuesday the wooden palace
bridge across the Neva took fire at
several places. Immediately flaming
Photo by American Press
SENATOR A. B. FALL.
| 2658,000 officers and men, while the
|
A GENERAL SURVEY OF
THE WAR
Soldiers of Germany, Austria-Hun-
gary, Bulgaria and Turkey in two years
of warfare just concluding captured
entente allies in the same period made
prisoners of 1,605,000 Teulons and
their alli according toa compile |
tion publishsd by the German govern
ment. {
Brody, fifty-eight miles northeast of
Lemberg, has been occupied by Rus-
sian ‘troops, says an official statement.
Austro-Gérman forces have been
driven from the line of the rivers!
| have refused to consider any proposal
ERTIES
FEDERAL INQUIRY
IN WAGE DISPUTE
Railroad Managers Submit
Plans to Avoid Great Strike.
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ARBITRATION 1S OFFERED.
Agree to Refer Demands of Men For
More Pay to the Interstate Commerce
Commission or to Accept Settlement
Under Newlands Act. :
Naw York.—The announcement that
the ‘strike vote which has been.in prog-
ress among the train service employes
of American railroads for the past sev-
eral weeks has been completed, and
that the final demands by the union
leaders are soon to be presented to the
railroad managers here, indicates that
the public will soon know whether the
controversy between the railroad work-
ers and their employers is to be settled
peaceably, or whether a nation-wide
strike is to be inflicted upon the coun-
try. :
Thus far the leaders of the four
unions—the Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Engineers, the Brotherhood of Lo-
comotive Firemen and Enginemen, the
Order of Railway Conductors and the
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen—
for an arbitration of the questions in
dispute. or for settlement of the con-
troversy by the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
Would Cost $100,000,000.
The demands of the train service men
for an increase in wages, which, it is |
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es and the smaller
the farmer if he is unable to market
the crops at a profit. Successful mark-
eting is the key to the arch with every ! | out, and also to: the port where twelve
farmer. . i large steamers; including several
pontoons drifting to Vassili Ostrov
| (Basil Island), where a huge fire broke
Slonevka and Boldurovka, in southern estimated. would cost the railroads of
Volhynia, ard have fled in the direc | | the country $100.000,000 a year, were
| tion oi B: ody, pursued by the Rus-. originally presented last March. At
| sians. Explosions and fires haye been |ipat time the representatives of the |
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OVER A MILLION BUSHELS (ER
OF PEACHES
Estimates made by the Pennsylvan- |
ia Department of Agriculture on the |
probable peach crop of the State for |
this season place the amount at 1, 124 -
200 bushels compared with a produe- |
tion of 2,044,000 bushels last year.
The production last year was the |
largest ever known in the State, the |
other high years being 1910 when 1, |
600,000 bushels were produced and
1914 when 1,541,000 bushels was the |
estimated crop. Thousands of bushels
of peaches went to waste last year,
but with improved marketing Sache: |
crop this season
i suitable markets are expected to be |
found.
There is not a county in the State |
where a normal yield is expected, Car- |
bon county ranking highest with 97 |:
estimated. Other counties |;
BALTIMORE & OHIO
16-DAY EXCURSIONS TO
NORFOLK
OLD POINT
COMFORT
August 10 and 24, Sept. 7
$8.50
ROUND TRIP
GOOD [N COACHES ONLY
To be able to market successfully |
requires an unusual combination of
qualities as well as market facilities ments took fire.
not accorded to many. The farmer
needs to be not only a good tiller of |
the soil, but he needs .to be a good |
salesman as well.
Not all farmers are good salesman |
not any more than all salesmen are
good farmers.
Recognizing this
that will be beneficial to all parties in-
terested. Farmers are now being |
taught the art of marketing as well
as that of increased productions. Com-
petent men, are given instructions as
to grading, sorting, packing, as well
as market needs and cautions. An ef-
fort is being made to induce farmers
1 gen-
alk fgurat-
«er thé only one
&\ ag agtention, The receiv-
_. in our large cities are being con-
‘sulted as to the best package for
shipping and cold storage purposes.
An effort is also being made to adopt
a standard package for all fruit and
vegetables. In fact a “Get together”
policy has been adopted that means
successful marketing.
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PENNSYLVANIA APPLE CROP
In seventeen counties of the State
the apple crop is expected to reach
the normal yield, while in fourteen
counties the yield will be twenty per
cent., or more below the normal, ac-
cording to statistics prepared by the
Pennsylvania Department of Agricul-
ture.
In the fruit belt consisting cf Adams
Franklin, Cumberland, York, Lancas-
ter, Fulton and Perry counties the
general percentage is about eighty-
five per cent. of a normal yield. There
was a big June drop but orchardisis
report a splendid yield in sight. Penn-
sylvania ranks fourth among the
States ‘in the production of « apples
with = only New York, Missouri’ and
‘Ohio leading. According to the pres-
ent estimates the production of this
year should be about 13,424,400 bush-
els.
Statistics show that the Baldwin
is the most popularly grown apple in
the State with Northern Spy, York Im-
perial, Ben Davis and Rhode Island
Greenings following in popularity in
the order named. The Baldwins form
about twenty per cent. of the crop
grown in the State with Northern Spy
about twelve ver cent.
‘ Some of the counties where a nor-
mal yield are expected are: Cameron,
Carbon, Centre, Clinton,
Elk, Erie, Forest, Huntingdon, Luz-
erne, Mercer, Pike, Potter, Sullivan.
Susquehanna and Tioga. In Susque-
hanna county ten per cent. above a;
normal yield is expeeted, in Mercer
county . eight per cent. and in Eris
county six per cent., }
“The counties where twenty per cent,
below normal crops are expected are:
“Beaver, Chester, Allegheny, S| se Ta et avast
"Delaware, Fayette, Greene, Juniata, ais ho 5% wl
“Montgomery.” “Perry,” Philadelphin, 2 hoe
i "hdion, "Washington and Westmore- YOURE oir =
Druise
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"Got our prim o8 ob work
bejng usqd for military purposes.
| sian capital.
fact the Depart. the bourse, the buildings of the Uni:
ment of Agriculture is making plans | yergity of Petrograd amd of the Acad-
to standardize their ae Qreag, os
Crawford, |
| transatlantic’ liners, a floating dock,
| the Putiloff works and other establish
“The police suspect the conflagra-
tion was the work of anarchists who
| planned to burn all public buildings
“Vagsili Ostrov contains the most
| important insular section of the Rus-
The part of the island
facing the admiralty quarter contains
emy of Sciences, the Academy of Arts,
the Mining institute, the Zoological
| garden and the Semenoff gallery of
paintings.
TILLMAN GLAD SOUTH LOST
Seiko
SO ——— ett
Slavery a. Cr¥ yout § ele’ ‘dad to
i SoBe it ud, “Says Senator.
“I never believed it possible that 1
could do it, but slowly and by degrees
1 have come to think that it was best
for all concerned ‘that the south was
defeated,” said Senator Tillman of
South Carolina, urging passage of 2
bill dealing with Arlington National
cemetery.
“Slavery,” he continued, “was a
curse which had to be destroyed ere
the south and the world could ad-
vance. It was a curse for which the
south was no more responsible than
the north. Both sections were respon:
sible, and both paid four long, bloody
years for their joint sin. It had to go
While it went in the worst possible
way and its going gave birth to an
apparently unsolvable problem, still I
who was born in and of the old south,
am glad it is gone never to return.
“} am glad also that the idea of na
tionality has supplanted that of con
federation, despite the danger in
volved. So I can find it in my heart
to make the amphitheater at Arling
ton truly national in its scope.”
HUNDREDS DEAD IN FIRE
Towns Wiped Out—Reslier
Trains Go to Scene.
Forest fires raging in northern On:
tarto are believed to have resulted in
the loss of from 150 to 200 lives
Other scores of persons have been in:
jured and it is feared many of them
may dfe.
Several smsil towns have been
wiped out by the flames that have
been raging for seventy-two hours. Re
ports thus far received show that fifty
seven perished at Mushka, a French:
Canadidn settlement, and thirty-four
at Matliewson. Cochrane has eighteen
deal anid” thirty-four injured; Iroquois
Falls ‘fifteen’ dead and many injured
“and” Ramore, fifteen dead. -The num:
‘ber killed at” Porcupine Junction: it
pot known, but the eatire town wat
destroyed, except the railroad station.
Ontario
Reynoldeville (W. Va.) Man Dies From.
Beating With! Fists Over 60 Cents.
© Acchesed’'é! murdering Robert’ Gen;
fapdira ¢oal! miner -of Reynoidéviile |
W. Va., by beating Bim with his. fist:
when. they quarreled, over 3 debt. 01°
sixty. osnts in the merthwestern turn
pike ‘near shat tows, Otis
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MINER KILLED IN FIGHT - |
010 The
“Ye alithittied Hividg (he ght with Ger
4 PY the ofieri- sity dot’ “@i€ “nol
| ‘think the marwas seriessly Hart.
.! ish patrel-boats, off {ho const of Scot
cbserved in Brody.
Russian forces have broken the en-
tire Ausiro-German front west of
Lutsk. The Austro-Germans . were
routed and 9,000 ‘men, including two
generals and forty-six guns were cup-
tured. :
In the eastern war theater battles’
of almost cqual intensity and extend-
with the battle continuing after Rus
sian failure to gain“ground in these
assaults. Northwest ‘of Liachovichy,
two. Russian divisions repeatedly
surged forward, the tide of battle sev:
eral times ebbing and flowing.
On the Balkan front, the only war
area in which comparative quietude
of has prevailed, the Servians are report-
ed on the offensive. They have at
tacked Macedonian positions held by
the Bulgarians and, according to a
Salonika dispatch, have occupied a
series of heights six miles south of
the Greek frontier. Berlin reports con-
siderable losses for the attacking
forces.
The battle along the British front
in the Somme region contiues with-
out pause and, according tothe Brit:
ish war office, with success for the
British.
They claim clearing of the Brand-
burgers in the important position of
Pelville wood near Longueval, giving
General Haig's forces complete posses
sion of the wood.
The last German strongholds in the
Longueval have been captured by the
British troops, according to the official
statement given out by the British
war office. Iland-to-hand fighting con:
tinues in the vicinity of Pozieres, the
statement adds.
The figfifine for Delville wood is
sald by observers to have been wirtu
ally the fiercest of the war. The
violence of the British bombardment
is indicated by an estimate that on the
1,000-yard front during one period
three shells a minute fell on every
yard.
The battle at Verdun is still raging
with violence. Paris reports a Ger
man effort to attack at the Thiawmont
work, northeast of the citadel, which
was checked in its preparatory period
by the French artillery fire. The clear
ing of German trenches at Auberive,
in the Champagne, by a Russian recon
noitering party, is also announced: in
the Paris statement. The Russians re;
-tursed with some prisoners.
Berlin fails to concede a British sali
of ground at any of the: places men {’ :
attacks ' in}
strong force, with hand-to-hand fightwp
tioned, despite British
ing at some points along the Une.
Italiznsi have : gained more
ground _in. the Dolomites region, the
war office announced. After barg,
fSghting” with-+the Austrian defender:
at’ Monte-Colbriecon-the Italians ex
tended ,their positiops,
tasksiin ores oul A Dositions in
various? §etiomsl Tuithenio the west
were repulsed, sums jon a ow
1a’ eo navili“batlle ‘Deétwiéen” sévera),
QGermen eubmerines. snd three Brit
jand cme of the British vessels wat
Hank ‘socording fo a ronal ora ath
by the Dutch newspaper Haegllsiauieg |
unions asked for a conference with a
| { Baltimore and Delightful 8team-
committee of railroad managers repre-
senting the various railroad lines of
the country. |
This conference began here in New |
York on June 1st, and continned for !
two weeks. The railroads were repre-
sented by a committee of nineteen
managers, and the brotHerhoods by the |
westion to the tatpte Commerce
‘Commission, or to arbitration under the
provision of the federal statute cover-
Ing this matter.
The alternative suggestions whivh
they advanced for adjusting the con-
troversy were as follows:
‘“q, Preferably by submission to the
Interstate Commerce Commission, the
only tribunal which, by reason of its
accumulated information bearing on
railway conditions and its control of
the revenues of the railways, is in a
position to consider and protect the
rights and. equities of all the interests
affected, and to provide additional rev-
enue necessary to meet the added cost
of operation in case your proposals are
found by the Commission to be just and
reasonable; or, in the event the Inter-
state Commerce Commission cannot,
under existing laws, act in the prem-
ises, that we jointly request Congress
to take such action as may be neces-
gary to enable the Commission to con-
sider and promptly dispose of the
guestions involved; or
#2. By arbitration in accordance with
the provisions of the Federal law, enti.
tiled, “An Act Providing for Mediation,
Conciliation and Arbitration in Contro-
versies between Certain Employers and
their Employees,” approved July 15,
1913, and commonly known as the
Newlands Act.”
Uniens Refuse Offer.
The union leaders declined to com-
sider the suggestion of the railroad
managers, and announced that they
would seek a vote of the members of
the unions asking that they be given
authority to declare a strike on all the
railroad lines of the country. This
strike vote has been In progress for the
past six; weeks, and, according to re-
ports which have been received here
from tie to time, will result in giving
the four union leaders the authority
which they asked for to halt every
railroad train from one end of the
country to the other.
Meanwhile a resolution has been in-
troduced into Congress at the request
of the Chamber of Commerce of the
Dated wi directing the Interstate
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| Special Train in Both Directions is
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~~ Leaves Noyersdale 8:35 A. NH. 4
Roturding, Léaves ‘Pittsburgh 7:00 P. B. Ri
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gills public: pays every: dofian 9f:fhe
are: Berks, 85 per cent.; Lehigh, 82;
Northampton, 82; Perry, 82; Philadel- | |
phia, 85 and York, 80.
Counties which show very small |
percentages of a normal crop are: Al-
tlegheny, 25; Armstrong, 18; Butler, !
120; Cambria, 20; Forest, 25; Jeffeer- |
son, 22; Lackawanna, 20; Somerset,
ing over a vast front are in progress. {heads of their various national and lo-
The Ruszian onset proved too much cal’ organizations—some eight hundred [10; Venango, 26; and Washington, 25."
for the Germans under General von men in all. » Counties where practically no crop
_Linsingen, scutheast of the Via ) Choice of Methods Offered. is expected are Elk, Fayette, Greene,
Volynski, where the German HRS} pp. oonference failed to reach a deci- indiana, McKean, Potter, Tioga and
were penetrated near Sviniuch but, 'sion owing to the refusal of the union Westmoreland. ; |
Goa Sonne: Sans ee medi Headers to consider any modification of :
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North of the Pink nel the . Rus gt oe Sens {te toievion oF & MARIOS SETTING . a
} 6 ; ; piiet + FORESTS ON FIR .
“The ‘Commissioner of Forestry ‘has
referred to the Attorney Genera
thirty-one cases of careless or malici-
ous setting of forest fires, with a re-
commendation, that prosecutions be
brought in every case where the evi-
dence warrants it. Ten other cases
"are being prepared by the Chief For-
est Fire Warden, and will be submit-
ted to the Attorney General within a
few days. These cases represent over
ten per cent of the total number of
forest fires this spring, a record nevar
before equalled in this State. Prose-
cutions have been ordered for cases
in Blair, Lackawanna, Lehigh, and
Monroe counties, and others are ex-
pected in Potter, McKean, Westmore-
land, and = Lycoming counties. In ad-
dition, a civil suit for damages re-
sulting from a forest fire in Forest
county will be followed by criminal’
is favorable, and a case in Indiana,
county has been worked up by one of
in the September term: of court.
It will be the policy of the Depart-
ment of Forestry hereafter to ask for
criminal prosecution in every forest
fire case where reasonable evidence |
can be secured, regardless of whether
the fire was started maliciously or
is enforced.
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Low round rip fares from isrme
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whether is was the result of mereds
l carelessness. The act of 1915] putsd:
carelessness and incendiarism on the4
same plane, and the forest officers’
mean to do all they can to see that it}:
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t The Route is Rail to Washington or
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