Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1898 — BATTLE WILL STARVE [ARTICLE]

BATTLE WILL STARVE

DISCOURAGING OUTLOOK FOR CALIFORNIA HERDSMEN. Lon of One Hnndred Thousand Head I of Stock la Anticipated in Freano I County Alone-Great Combine of Pins Tobacco Manufacture. Dry Season the Cause. A special from Fresno, Cal., says: Unleu something at present entirely unforeaeen happens fully 100,000 head of sheep and cattle will die of starvation in this county alone iu the next few mouths. The order of the Government revoking for the present the 'restriction l»y which cattle and sheep are prohibited from being pastured in the reservations, and opening these reservations for such pasturage until further notice, will not afford the deaired relief. Herdsmen are not slow to point out that the order still excludes stock from parks, nnd it is in these alone that requisite pasture can be obtained. Forest reservations, ns such, are as bare of grass this year ns the plains themselves. The entire tract of country on the west side from Newman to Bakersfield, embracing an area 100 miles in length, thirty in width, and which in previous years has supported enormous herds of cattle at this season, is now- a desert. The waters of Tulare lake will be lower this year than at any time within the memory of the oldest inhabitant. To reach the water cattle will have .to wade through three feet of mud, and the prospects all through the slough country are for a repetition of the sranes of 1H77, when hundreds of sick and thirsty animals died on the banks from sheer exhaustion nnd inability to wade further. The quarantine which Nevada has established against California cattle will work great hardship. There is no pasture on Mount Diablo range, which borders on this valley, and stockmen at Hollister and points on the west side of the range are complaining as loudly as their neighbors on this side. Big Plan Tobacco Combine. A plug-tobacco trust is nhout to l>e formed, with n capital stock of $50,000,000, and it will mean the end of the long and disastrous fight between the tobacco men of the United Btntes. The new trust will be known as the Continental Tobacco Company and will absorb all the plug nnd fine-cut tobacco factories in the country, while the other trust will have all the smoking tobacco ami cigarettes. The president of the new company is said to be P. I. Drummond of the Drummond Tobacco Conqwny of St. Louis, with J. B. Duke, New York, vice-president, and Pierre Lorillard of New York secretary and treasurer. The new trust will give up the manufacture of smoking tobacco and cigurettes. Wrecked by Dust Explosion. The elevator at the Iloosnc tunnel docks on the Charlestown water front, Boston, Mnss., Was destroyed by a fire caused by the explosion of grain dust. The total property loss approximates $500,000. The explosion raised tile roof of the l*ig‘ structure high in the air, depositing it upon a block of tenement houses across the street, crushing them to the second story. Immediately after the shock flames burst forth, and within a few hours the SIOO,OOO building, its contents of-350,000 bushels of grain and five runs or galleries connecting with the great steamship freight sheds, which cost $40,000 to construct, were iu ruins. National League Standing. Following is the standing of the clubs in the National Base-ball League: W. L. W. L. Chicago 2 0 Brooklyn 1 1 Baltimore ... 2 • 0 Boston 1 1 Pittsburg ... 3 1 Cleveland .... 1 2 Cincinnati .. 2 1 Louisville ... . 1 3 Philadelphia. 1 1 Washington.. 0 2 New York.. .1 1 St. Ixtuis 0 2