Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 10, 1881, Page 4

B — :T'he Omal;lré Bee. Published every morning, except Sunday. The only Monday moming daily TERMS BY MATL:— One year. 210,00 | Three Monthe, £3.00 8ix Months 5,00 | One 3! .. 100 “THE WEKLY BEE, published ev- ery Wednes JRMS POS One Year. Six Months T PAID 2,00 | Three Months. . 50 100 One . 2 CORRESPONDENCE -~ All Communi- eations relating to News and Editorial mat- ters should be addressed to the Eptton o¥ Tur B BUSIN All" Business Letters and tances should be ad. dressed to THE OMAHA PUBLISHING CoM: PANY, OManA. Drafts, Ohecks and Post. | office Orders to be made payable to the onder of the Company. OMAHA PUBLISHING CO., Prop'rs E.ROSEWATER, Editor. — John H. Pierc m of TH in Charge of the Circu- 3] OxanA is gay with decorations and ringing with music. Tk mass of the Nlilli)l{cnll party in Virginia will support the Mahone ticket. SEvENTY-FIVE thousand women earn their own living in New York City in the various trades. T mania for mines is rampant on ‘Wall street, and prospect holes com- mend a good premium. CompArep with other states the crops in Jowa and Nebraska aro far above the average. P Tnr Wyoming cattle “‘rounds up” have proved that the winter losses have been greatly exaggeratod. EvEN in the cast the problem of cheap transportation is rapidly assum- ing a prominent place in politics. Tir, success of the Swengerfest is no Tess croditable to the citizens than to the members of the Swngerbund. Fary rents in England are report- ed as rapidly declining, owing to tho dncreased competition from America. Tur attack of the Colorado settlers upon the Uncompahgre Utos is likely to precipitate a general Indian war. Tue English don’t relish the doses of Epsom salts which Lorillard ané Keene have been giving their horses, PostMASTER Janes has already saved £800,000 annually to the postal servico by his investigation of the star route system, Quenkc suffered yesterday from a destructive conflagration which burn- od down six hundred houses, and made nearly ‘five thousand people homeless. —— Mz. WesBkR, a former resident of Omaha, has been presented by Col- orado vigilantes with a handsome lit- tle coffin. Mr. Webber will leave the place. Born Messrs, Larrabee and Sher- man are scratching in a very lively manner for that Towa gubernatorial nomination, and the friends of both claim a good majority of the conven- tionr ates. Cuicaco mocks and New York re- fuses to believe, but St. Louis goes right on building barges and ¢ i ing river transportation lines. West- ern producers are vitally interested in the result. ENGLAND must ecither be prepared to govern Ireland indefinitely by martial law, or make liberal terms with the agitators and their con- stituents, Mz, LORILLARD beig engagec in trade cannot belong to the English Jockey club, and is forced to huve some representative attend to his in- terests. He manages to win the races. all the same, —_— Tug Italian press expresses grave _concern over the heavy emigration in Italy this spring, During the past three months 300, 400, and sometimes even 500 peasants from Lombardy Lave left daily via the Alta Italia rail- way. They are represented as bound for France, but it is believed that a large number. are destined for the United States or Panama to work on De Lesseps’ canal, Jusr now Spanish papers seem to be at much pains to demonstrate to the world the simplicity between the sit- uation of France as to Tunis, and that of Spain as to Moroco, In political and cabinet circles at Madrid, it is openly declared that the success ‘at- tained by France in Tunis, is indica- tive of the fact that the time is pro- pitious for Spain at the first opportun- ity to pounce upon Moroco and es- tablish over that territory the protec- torate which was agreed to by the war of 1860, and the then concluded treaty between Marshal O'Donnell, on the part of Bpain, aud the govern- ment of that coyntry. The protee- torate could be the easier established, as Spain is already in possession of Centa, Melilla, and other stations on the African coast. NOT ANOTHER MORTGAGE. There was a time when the build- ing of railroads in this state had to be encouraged by liberal subsidies in lands and bonds. When money was in active demand at high rates of inter- est, when capitalists could invest their means in non-taxable government | ducements had to be held out to spec- | ulators to build railroads in Nebraska. | That time is happily passe | now a drug in the market, and railroad building, in they patronage. The time has come, in our opinion, when the people of Nebraska must set their faces against voting any more Money is corporations are every direction where seo any promise of mortgages on their farms to sabsidize railroads, We understand another scheme to mortgage Nebraska farms The intended yie- tims are farmers of Lancaster, Saun- der and Dodge counties. The parties most active in ihis job are among the most successful bond bulldozers in this state. Their head and front is a prominent corporation attorney who two yeara ago succeeded in plastering mortgages to the tune of three hundred and fifty thousand dol- lars on the farmers of Lancaster, Seward, Butler and Platte counties a8 an inducement for building the Lincoln and Northwestern railroad. The people of these counties had smarted 8o long under the extortion- ate oxactions of then existing mo- nopolies who held them in their iron grip that they were in. a fit state of mind to vote anything to anybody that promised them relief. ¢ In Platte county there was the most aggravating incentive for voting bonds to the Atchison & Nebraska extension, Jay Gould had personally made a public threat that he would destroy the town of Columbus if the people of Platte county dared to vote aid to the competing line. This threat very naturally aroused popular indignation, and the bonds were voted as much to rebuke Jay Gould as for any other reason, has been hatched. Although opposed on principle to the voting of such bonds, this paper .[on that occasion advised and urged the voting of these bonds under the belief that the north and south line would be a permanent competitor and could not pool with the east ond west line. It was mainly this [belief and the assurance of the bond bull dozers that the Atchison rnd Nebraska extension would never consolidate or pool with any competing line that induced the people of those counties to load them- selves with that burden. No sooner was the bond election over than the new road was offered to the very cor- porations with whose' lines it was in- tended to compete. The result was that even before it was built this new competitor was sold to the Burling- qon & Missouri company and in due time the managers of that company pooled their earnings with the Union Pacific at the very points where they are supposed to compete. The peo- ple who had generously voted mort- gages on their farms found out too late that their,confidence had been shamefully abused. The solemn promises made by the bond bulldozers and attorneys of the A. & N. were broken al- most before they were made. and now the impostors who perpe- trated that memorable fraud upon the farmers of Lancaster, Seward, Butler and Platte have the sublime cheek to enter the tier of counties immediately east of those in which they made their [ raid two years ago, with a proposition for another bond scheme. As a pre- liminary feeler they have given out in Saunders county that the proposed road would be built without a dollar of bonded subsidy, This pieco of news was very naturally hailed with general satisfaction, Such enter- prises, when undertaken by capi- talists with their own money. We are informed however, that this was merely o ruse—to feel the public pulse—in Saunders county. In due time when the workers, strikers and cappers who run elections and carry influence are greased and trained to their work, a proposition to vote bonds is to be submitted and hull- dozed throu h Wo deem it high time that the farmers of Sanders and Dodge coun- tios wero put on their guard, Lot them protest against the bond prepo- sition and notify their commissioners that they will hold them responsible for putting the counties to the ex- pense and trouble of an election, Let them furthermore organize in every precinet, and if the proposition is sub- mitted, voteit down by overwhelming majorities. There is no danger that railroad building in Nebraska will stop if the people refuse to vote mort- gages on their farms, If there is any business for railroads they will be built. If the trunk lines need foeders they will build them with their own money. They have already extorted millions out of Nebraska producers and they can well afford to invest their surplus funds in branch lines and extensions. Let it be proclaimed far and wide that the people of Nebraska will not put another railroad mortgage on their farms, em—— The railway employes of England are agitating & nine hours movement which is attracting a good deal of bonds at seven per cent., special in- | THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1851 public attention, At recent meetings held in London the grievances of the British railroad men were publically discussed, and the facts elecited crea- ted quite a sensation, There are about 135,000 men employed in the daily traflic of the railways, to which must | be added 70,000 1n the workshops and over 100,000 men employed by other firms producing the rolling stock. [This is a larger army and a much more useful ome than the standing = army of England, It appears that English locomotive engineers are on duty cleven, twelve and fifteen hours. 1t is proposed to limit the duration of a day’s work, in the generality of cases, to nine hours, but for signal and switchmen only Should the request be granted it would no cight hours shall be exacted. doubt be succeeded by a marked de- crease of accidents, which often owe their origin to overwork, rendering men incapable of properly performing their duties. A nirs has been passed by the New York legislat ure whereby a head tax of onedollar is to be imposed upon each emigrant that land in Castle Gar- den. Against this imposition a very decided protest has been entered, and petitions are pouring in upon Governor Cornell to veto the bill. The New York Tribune supports this outrage- ous embarge on emigration under the plea that the city of New York must be re-embursed for the discomfort which her citizens experience from an influx of unclean and malodorous for- eigners. When it is born in mind that the number of emigrants that are Ikely to land in Castle Garden is estimated at over one million, we can readily comprehend why New Yorkers ask for such a tax. It would virtually pay the entire expense of city govern- ment, But suppose it were true that New Yorkers suffer some discomfort by the presence of these emigrants, is it not true that millions of are pocketted foreign also money by New Yorkers from these emigrants What would New York this influx of forcigners? Ttisto be hoped Goyernor Cornell, who is usu- ally clear-headed and far-sighled, will return that head tax bill with his veto to the New York legislature. M. Peask, the United States en- gineer in charge of river improvement at this point, has been directed by Major Sutor, of St. Louis, to lay his views upon the necessities of the river at Omaha before our citizens. A meeting of our citizens will be held next Monday evening, when Mr. Poaso will address the board of trade upon the subject. Our two senators are now in town, and it would be very appropriato for them both to be present. This is cspecially the ease inrespect to General Van Wyck, who has taken a great interest in the case, and at the last meeting of the board of trade to consider the question, charged himself with pressing the matter before the departments. The improvement of the Missouri is of vital interest to the community, and not only the board of trade should agitate the subject, but also tho rail- road companies and the industries lo- cated on its banks. The late floods have shown the urgent necessity of taking somo steps to provent a repe- tition of the scenes of last spring, Any move should, however, be made only after a careful consideration of the most approved plans and consul- tation with competent engineers. With the amount which we under- stand lies unexpended for this purpose in the treasury of the United States, and with the co-operation of those most vitally interosted in the preser- vation of river front, a substantial and lasting improvement of the Mis- souri at this point ought to be as- sured. The Omaha Beg, a professional anti- moropoly pupar, i always. boon in- clined to flabbiness in politics. It now finds itself in & predicament. Its political inclinations are against Conk- ing. Its anti-monopoly professions require that it should fight his ene- mies. Its twisting attempts to appear consistent whiie opposing jthe great senator are equal to the most sublime efforts of the professional contortion- ists who exhibit themselves for a dol- lar a contort. —Denver Republican, The Ber has always been consist- ently republican in its politics. Since its foundation over ten years ago it hag supported every republican candi- date for president and every republi- can candidate on state tickets, except two during the last election, who it kuew to be unfit for office. As far as Mr. Conkling is concerned, the Beg has no knowledge that he has ever planted himself on the anti-monopoly platform or avowed himself as opposed to corporation rule. This paper believes that there are in the state of New York a number of gentlemen with sentiments known to be in accord with the anti-monopolists and with abilities equal to Roscoe Conkling who would more than fill the place left vacant by his resignation in the. United States senate. RosermsoN declares that the “brib- ery” ery raised by the stalwarts at Al- bany is only a trick to stop desertions from their ranks. — 8i1x deaths from lightning occurred in Indiana yesterday. Indiana is get- ting an unenviable reputation for thunder ard marital bolts, A NEEDED REFORM. proved the necessity of a very radical change in the auditing methods of the post office department, Hereto- fore the revenues of that department have been excepted from a provision of the revised statutes which requires that The gross amounts of all moneys re- ceived, from whatever source, for the use of the United Stajes * * * shall bo paid * * * into the treas- /& day as practicable, without any abatement or deduction on account of salar; fees, costs, charges, expenses, or seription whatever. Under this law all the collections of every other department whether aris- ing from the customs, sales of public lands, patent fees, or other miscella- neous sources must be ‘‘covered” into the treasury by warrant of the secre- tary of the treasury, and can only be drawn out by the same authority, A Toose method of dealing with the pub- lic: moneys has followed the non-en- forcement of this rulo in the post office department. It is true that a portion of the revenues have been de- posited in the depositories of the treasury, but to the credit of a seper- ate account, and the warrants by which they are ‘‘covered in” and drawn out are signed not as all other warrants are, by the secretary of the treasury, but by the post master gen- eral. The fiscal departnent of the government, whose duty it is to col- lect, keep and disburse the moneys of the government, and whose jorganiza- tion is admirably adapted to perform that duty efliciently, has no effectual control over the revenues and disbursements of this great branch of the service. The larger part of the revenues of the postofficedopartment 18 not placed in the treasury at all. Last year 835,000,000 of postal revenues were received and disbursed, and of the whole amount only §0,643,248.13, or a little over a quarter, was placed in the treasury aults, The remainder, amounting to more than §26,000,000, was col- lected and expended directly by post- masters, and was taken up in accounts of the treasury by formal warrants of the Postmaster-General, gross at the end of each quartar, con- structively taking the amount into and out of the treasury. It isa singu- lar commentary on official manage- issued in ment that this practice, wholly con- trary to the law hasJbeen carried on in relation of a positive requirement of the statute which provides that The postal revenues * * * ghall be covered into the treasury of the United States under the directions of the Postmaster-General. This section alsa requires that ‘‘the treasurer, as- sistant treasurer, are designated de- positary receiving such payment shall give the depositor duplicate receipt therefor.” Tt is difficult to see how the Post- master-General, or his assistant, could have construed this clear declaration into emplying that three quarters of the revenues could have disbursed be- fore reaching the treasury, at all. No investigation into the post office will be complete or satisfactory which does not provide for a strict compli- ance with the laws in this regard. As affuirs have been conducted, the post oftico department, whose primary duty i8 to carry the mails, and whose ma- chinery should be contrived for the simple purpose of performing that duty cfticiently and economically, has become a great financial department, practically independent of all control in its financial management. The mere removal of dishonest officials will afford no practical reform if the present lax system of accounta- bility is permitted to continue. An- other Brady will arise to scize the carlicst opportunity aflorded by the contract office and the disgraceful frauds will be renewed unless a change of system is made which will render them impossible. Lasor reform in Germany is etill one of the problems of the lour. The labor laws are about to be mate- rially modified. A bill has been in- troduced in the federal council pro- viding that boys in mines shall not be allowed to work more than eight hours a day, and that before being engaged they must produce a medical certificate testifying to their physical capability for the work. It must not be assumed that & desire for the wel- fare of the working classes and their children prompts such measures as the above, It is solely with a view of raising the requisite amount of can- non fodder or men to aill or to be killed that causes Bismarck and his colleagues to pay any attention to the wants and necessities of the lower classes, OCCIDENTAL JOTTINGS, ™ ‘WYOMING, aramie has & gymuasivin in full blast, 7, P, will erect a lage freighthouse at Cheyenne. The southeastern part of Laramie City is building up with amazing rapidity, The Sherman copper wine, four miles east of Red Butte, has been sold to eastern parties John Goodman lccidcnl-ulli)l* shot himself last woek, near Shillard, while reloading rifle shells, A party of rants, near Evanston, was robbed of all their stock last week by horse thieves. On June 80th, and July 1st, 2nd and 4th, the Cheyenne driving park will give $4,000 in premiums. A larger percentage of ladies ride on ponsba s Charenss. thanls town iu the country, A large train of emigrant wagons passed The Star route investigation has | m of any de: | | teams to pass over on Tue: throngh Cheyenne on the 31st, en route for Washington territory. The short cut fre North Park will be Cummins to the n o shape to allow There was a herd of eome two hundred buffalo seen near what is known as Cedar mountain, about forty miles north of Raw- lins, last week, A Laramie hose company s to_have & new uniform of white shirts with blue f. ings, militar; ps, white with go blae trimmings, and white belts. The U. P. railroad company has begun the work of constructing a new oil house and general supply depot east of the r road house at Cheyenne, It will be 96 ¥ 24 feet Quite an_outfit of Shoshone Tndians came into Green r with their teams | from Fort Washakie last we They will freight out their own supplies this season as they did last, Wyoming stock raisers discover that their losses have not been one half as great as the; pated, is having its effect in that region? The cattle men are pu - ing ns extensively this season as ever be fore. There is a great demand for ranch laborers. Jelm mountain nd milli City, are making p mence mining operations next week, Their mines comprise xome of the best in the Bra- mel district, The managers of the affairs of the company are confident that their mines will e producing bellion in a few months Some Evanston parties have discovered and located what they belicve to be a rich gold and silver mine, near tunnel No, 4 in Weber cas There is an abundance of ore, and they are shipping two car loads from near the surface of Salt Lake City this week. Several different_assays made by experts give results varying from 235 to €562 per ton. Carbonate float was found on the east side of Jelm mountain last fall by Mr. George Fales, an_ enterprising miner of Bramel district. He kept the discovery a secret until spring opened, meanwhile he took great pa jizate the charac- ter of the ore, and found that it was true carbonate. blance to the black carbenats that, when mixed with it, mine perience in Leadyville mines separate it gold and silver iin. uld ot Mr. Fales has organized o company for the development of these car- bonate claims, UTAH Salt Lake's business streets are filling up rapidly. Hrnq»]n?:]l"l’n are southern Utah, Considerable surveying is being done in the Park district. Large Mormon immigration is coming into the territory. A very promising vein was recently lo- cated in Snake Creek Canyon, There is a lond demand for faster trains between Ogden and Salt Lake. Ore is being shipped steadily from Alta, as it has been for almost two months past. The new Horn Silver Smelting Works, south of Salt Lake City are preparing to start up. The Utah and Salt Lake canal, which has been in_construction for a number of years, is finished. It will supply water to seventy miles of country. The aggregate value of the bullion ship- ments by the Ontario, during the month of May was £169,301.83, The mill was shut down for eight days, Work has been resumed on the Bar and Great Western Consolidated, with a fair prospect of continuing until an ore chimney is encountered in the tunnel. It is stated that the giading now in pro- gress in Emigration Canyon ix being d ne at the instance of Indiana cay italists, and that it is the inten ion to build a narrow usge to thiuu-itk to connect with the Yhnn Eastern at Kimball'’s, but to be en- tirely separate. During the early part of the week the well-known mining experts, (. W. Roberts and Col, Saunders, efiected in Salt Lake Cit{ the organization of o company to be designated the Old Hickory Mining and Smelting company. The mine is situated in Rocky District, not far from 'Frisbo, and hasa well-defined ledge ninety feet in width, yielding 24 per cent. copper and a fair_per cent. of silver, The amount of capitalizati is 81,000,000. Shares $50 h. The latest improved ing furnaces and machinery dered,—Southern Utah Times. COLORADO. Golden has organized a gas cox pany. Pueblo is re,ortod as crowded with new comers, Seven furnaces are in blast at the Grant works, Leadville, Rich discoveries in Cascade Gulch, in Clear Creek county, a-e reporte . Several tons of ore from the victor mine, Seaton mountain, 1un $.00 p r ton, About 150 Chinamen sre sluicing out goll at the heud of the Russell Gulch, Thirty passenger trains arrive and de- part daily from the Denver union depot. A young town called New Chicago is spring ng up neac the Fish lake, fittsen miles from Rieo. The Yat s Brothe sare reprrted to have mad- the biggest strike of tue seas n in Sugar Leaf distri.t. Assays run as high s $33,000, Ocrasional rains and the absence of frost has beuefi ted vesetation greatly in and around Fort Collins, T'ravel is s> heavy on the Denver & Ri Gracd just now that if a man gets a reat in the Daggag s car or on the platform Le is conten! A strike has been made in the first level of the Gloss-Pendery, of high grade chlor- ide meneral. The ~workings all through tue wines are Jooking very well, The uew carbonats caw cek i4 located about fifty-five miles a litle north of west from Buena Vista. The best road fs over C tionwod pass Real estate at Ft, Collins is booming now;_fifty dollars o food for vacant prop- erty iy the price, and 53,600 was offercd for one lot ninety by one hundred and six feet, but was refused, ravaging fields in of Spriog The Denver and Rio Crande shops in Denver_are completed and employ 800 men, They have an order for 3,300 freight cams. ‘There are thirty forges now blazing, and more are being put in. ike has been made in the London at the head of the Holy Cross The new discov ists of u vein of copper, pyrites and galena, ounces in gold and 38 ounces in silve A rich strike is reported to have heen made in the new incline of the White Quail, on Elk mountain, at a depth of 'The ore is & fine lead carboua t ut which the vein was cut \ the outerop: he output of Le The foet ille mines for May was the largest, save one month, in the history of the camp, 2 sielters’ output was $1,120,068; and the mill output %110, 000: the raw « output $125,000; total, 81 . The output for Aprl was $740,760. showing an increase of 379,305, The I ake City Mining Reygister thinks that st least three tines as many men will be employed this year as last st Sherman, Burrows Park, Capitol City, Rose's Cabin, Engineer Mountais Creek, Puughkeeps e G aud adjacent camps, ne uleh, Animas Forks NEW MEXICO. A new Ary-washer is now being tested at the Cerrillos by the patentee. A thirty horse power saw anill is being put up at Clairmont, in the Mongollons. The Harper lode in the new Placer dis- trict bas been bunded to castern parties for In Lake valley district the Trip mine has any other | been sold for 810,000, and the Snake wine wold for 20,000, A large quantity of delicious fruit of ale most all kinds is arriving daily in Las Ve | from California : | Little Mac is proving to be ane of the best mines in‘\\'lnh- Oak district. It promises to be a second Homestake, The highest price reported for a single [1ot of 95 feet frontage are 1,500 in El 00 in_ Albuquerque, and $2,000 Father Ferrari, of the Las Vegas col- took the first railroad ride of his life e other day in going from that place to Albuquerqu A rich strike of gold New, York lode, Cerrillos, recen isonly ten feet, and has av three feet wide, carrying free milling ore. niner who has been inspecting co's mining districts says the { yesources lies in its cop- & Tliey are of immense extent et rival of surpass those of Lake was made in the which | per dey | and ma | Superior. The Massachusette and New Mexi: Cousolidated are making their pro y | productive. New machinery is eing sent [ Forward and o powerful engine is to b . The mine development is in pro- d the outlook for this New M is regarded with much favor e can compar by its own A very large body of rich ore is beil opened wp in the Marshall Bonanza, and | the present promising condition of mines in that district that have been sunk to wa- ter level seems to indicate that first-class pay ore will be found in a large percentage of the leads when development has ad- vanced to that depth. Golden €ate is the name of anew mining | np abont 20 miles west of Las Vegas in the Tecolotina mountains. The carbona queen has a fine pay streak of gold rocl | which is rapidly widening. The vein mat- teron the Montezuma is about six feet wide, T sppings on the lead assay &10 in gold, un' other good locations have also been made. CALIFORNIA. Forty-nine miles of the Sonora railroad are completed. Hot wenther is injuring the crops in San Jonquin valley, Cal The flax crop in largest ever produced. They are heading wheat in Stanislaus county. A letter says the crop is g Hay is aqundant in Solano county, and can be hought for 83 and 8,50 per ton in the fields, The engineering corps of the California Southern railrond has been ordered from Tuscon to San Diego, It is said that a deposit of “platinum has been discovered at Tomales, In many places it can be picked up by hand. The California Southern railroad com- sany is grading the Santa Margarita ( n, which opens into the Temecula va and the rails will be laid in January. The greatest elevation of the railway on the new overland road is 4,614 feet, at Dragoon Summit, Arizona. Its gencral ion throngh New Mesico is 4,300 Bernardina is the elev feet. The farmers in one neighborhood in Plu- mas county made common cause the other day, drove together millions of grasehop- pers, covered them with straw and burned them, About Goose Lake are yet thousands of acres of government land, and_the settlers are rejoicing in the expectation that the Reno, Nevada & Oregon railroad will soon reach that point. The surveyors engaged in the prelimina- ry work of focmug a railroad to the Deer Creek conl field, Arizona, have completed their survey from Wilcox to the mines, and are now going over the route from Picacho to Deer Creek. The Southern Pacific railroad has reached El Paso. The event was celebrated by the citizens of that place. It is the asserted intention of the company to push its road through to deep water on the Gulf of Mex- ico, which \\'illl make the line a transcont nental one, through without change of cars, A farmer near Santa Barbara sowed some barley on the first of January, which, when ripe, was mowed. Irom the seed of this mowing a_second crop sprung up and ripened. From the seed of this second crop the third grew up, aud is now in the milk, and bids fair to ripen into good, large grain. Two crops :..fiy ripe, and a third “crop tworthirds ripe, all in five nu_vlntlls, hflmwa a Numrkl{)le capacity of soil. OREGON. Lakeview has organizeda vigilantes asso- ciation, .. A large immigration is coming into Coos county from Finland. The largest salmon caught at Astoria this year weighed twenty pounds, The cattle are dying near Silver Lake, Lake county, from ea¥ing wild parsnips. The planting of carp in ponds in the Clatsop county ponds is a great success. = 1t is expected that fully 35,000 head of sheep will be sheared at New York Bar, Columbia county, Oregon, this season, During May $631,734 worth of foreign exports were shipped from the Columbia river. The total for five months of the year was 81,634,194, Surveyors on the Northern Pacific ex- tension, between Kaloma and Portland, will reach Portland this week, crossing the Columbia River at Vancouver, A grizzly has been committing ravages on the cattle and sheep in portions of Lake Oregon. Farmers of that section ‘wanized, and offer a liberal bounty bear’ Ip. Several large grizzly bears were killed last week by ol «hlunturn. The C'alifornia and Oregon railroad has been Villard company for ni ne years, With the expectation of the steamers between San Francisco and Victoria, the Oregon Railroad and Navi- gation company owns every important means of transpoatation on the northwest coast, The Oregonian says that the engineer in charge of the survey for the narrow gange railroad, has finished the final survey. for an approach to Portland. ~ The road will come inover Elk Bluff, just above the White House, where a eut ‘about 700 feet long and from ten to twenty feet deep will be made through solid rock. MONTANA. Benton is to have a Catholic college, Benton's new jail is almost comp leted, Measles have closed the Madison schools, A new $25,000 brick building is erecting in Butte, Stevenson dist church, Grasshoppers have appeared in Lewis and Clirk counties. The quartz lodes of Madison county are attracting attention. Wood on the Mirsonri retails at from 83 to %7 a cord to steamboatmen, John Douglas was hanged at Virginia City last week for the murder of Alice arp, The members of the Helena Stock asso- clation. have decided to have no round-up of cattle this yeas A double i hes now run between Butte and tha minus, and still the vebicles are overloaded, Last week the Butte Vigilantes branded nearly every door along Park fstieet with the mysterious numbers 8.7:77, as & warn- ing to” opium smokers and vagrants to It is said that the Utah & Northern will immediately commen: e the bui'ding of & branch r-l&,{f[olfl Dillon to Helena, and in less than two years Dillon will be con- nected with the capital, T'wo mipers were seriously hurt in the Mculton mine Sunday nigbt. The cage inthe west department fell from 180 feet to the 300 feet station. Tho men were in- jured by jumping out ioto the timbere. ARIZONA. The Masons of Globe are fencing their ille is to kave a new Metho- Cachiso county assessed the 8, P, rail- road $1,357-185. 1 Toombstone miners ehipped 260,900 worth of bullion last week There are 664 miners employed In the various mines at Tombstone, Though but only three months old Ca- chise county carries a $33,000 debt, A geutleman of Tacson offers to com- pete withany one in throwing the lasso, the purse to be from $100 to &5000, Tombstone and Tucson are to be connee- ted Ly telephones, which are coming int general use among the mining camjps, IDAHO.' Building in Bonanza City continye brisk. The road through Camas Prairie is able for light teams, X Harvest hands will be [s valley this summer, Saveral (farms in the territory wer ruined by the last flood. s has been better in Boise ity enr than ever before, Crushing in the Forrest King, near Bojse Clity, will conmence this month, It is estimated that 200 wood ch will find employment on the Yanke. for the next four months, # The Wood River News says that t}, isno work there for laboring warns laborers not to come until the e, ers get in operation, . Some twenty cabins, two stor loons, one hotel, a_boarding hous, bla ree in ere and threo and cksmith shop inake wp the town, whicl, e | claims & population of 00 souls, K pack train last week took from the General Custer mill_seventy-two bar of bullion, valued at &178,000, destined for Black This shipment was the aceu- mulation of a forty x}uyn run on the mill, making an average of $4,450 per day. The road from Arco to Challis is at pres. ent in excellent condition, and a large number of freighters are en route from Blackfoot loaded with all kinds of merchan- dise with which to feed the hungry inhabi- tants of the Yankee Fork distr At in. tervals of ten or twenty miles along the road may be found cattle ranches and stage stations, Three miles above Hailey a small, clear stream puts into Wood river, and because of the many deer which frequent the little valleys which it waters it has been named Deer creek, se valleys are from a quarter to three-quarters of a mile wide anud ave rich in the production of a fine quality of hay, The land along Deer creek has been all taken up, and is being rapidly fenced and irrigated. A rich body of ore has been struck in the Charles Decker mine. 1t is richer than any ever before discovered in the mine, containing gold to ruch_an extent that it can be seen in the ore in the fuce of the drift. It is also very rich in silver, and we do not hesitate in ng now that the mine is worth, at the very lea 000,000. The richest pay streak goes up inte the hun- dreds, »mriu from 5 to 8 feet in width, Es- timating this at b feet average width, and counting the ore at §100 per ton, there is £6,000,000 in sight. Bullion is doing more work just at the present time to attract the attention of the outside world more thun any other camp atary to Wood river. It is located six miles west of Hailey, amid picturesquely grand surroundings, as beautiful in theit grandeur as is often reproduced in stereo. acuyic views through the art of photog- raphy. The town lies nestled Detween two gigantic mountains which tower more than three thousana feet above it, forming thusa canyon, the base of which is less than one hundred feet wide. Through this a stream of cool, sparkling water, coming from the mountains to_the north, winds gracefully toward the river, and the hills to the southeast, covered in their rich mantle of firs, form a striking contrast to the mountains vpposite, now covered with anew growth of grass—than which there is none more nutritious for stock to be found in the territory. NEVADA. Eureka is overdone with theatricals. increase this spring is above the average. The pumps in the Osbiston shaft have been started. alailroad laborers have struck at Bodie for 82,50 per day. The Chinamen in Truckee are suspected of mutilating coins. The Eastern & Palisades railroad have concluded their survey across Pinto sum- 1 he Reno Gazette tells about alfalfa raised in that vicinity seven and a half feet high. At the Utah west drift the 400 level ix cleared out 500 feet, and the drill started north, Arrangements are being made for the shipment of six or en thousand head of cattle from Winnemucca, Nevada, to the cast, Preparations are being made to extract ore from the 400 und 600 levels of the Bel- cher, Much low-grade and some rich ore has Leen found there, A moss-agate ledge three mjles from Ne- vada City is being developed by a San Francisco man. He thinks he has & hon- anza, but no clioice agates have yet heen found, The diamonc dated Virgini; of the m Tk drill-h s, ton, for a long time under o is getting to be quite a brisk little town, with the promise of beingstill better in the future. L‘hv is liable yet to become the Swansea of Nevada, About 2,500 pounds of mohair were brought into Winnemucea the other day, where it will be E:r «d and baled @ then shipped to Boston, where it meets with a ready sale. The Angora goats on Mill Creek Ranch are doing well, and the A report is circulated that Jay Gould has purchased the Battle Mountain & Aus- tin road. The papers say it is pretly cer- tain quantities of the stock have been sold, but not so certain that Gould is the pur chaser, Blossom's artesian well, lately sunk on i nche near Battle Mowitain, Neva pronounced the best in the State vada, Itisonly 165 feet deep, throws the water to a heighth u} ten feet aboye the surface of the ground. The wa- ter is clear and pure, and flows at the rate of 50,000 gallons every twenty-four hours. During the past twenty years the Com- stock lode has shown sixteen bonanzas, from which 6,500,000 tons of ore have been he total value of ore extract- 671,005, y ielding & n trom the mills and sluices of %3 The average porportion of pre in value is 4 per cent gold and cent silver, ‘WASHINGTON. Dayton is full of carpenters] Quartz claims in ghe Paradise Valley are yielding 82 per day. Walla Walla is infested with thic Tnless rain comes there will be & p: failure of crops. " Building is uwl{ at Spokane Falls, The for' » bridge oross the foot of rd street has been let for $4,500, The site is directly over the falls and it will be & miniature Niagara suspension bridge. One of the conditions made with the Villard syndleate stipulates for the early construction of the Cascade line, the con, tracts to be let as soon as the surveys are in and approved by the present board. The line is to be completed not later than the main line reaching Ainsworel Why is & person g sheumatiam liko 8 wan Jocking § doost Because he s cemetery. A vigilance committee has been organ- ized at Benson, turning & key (achy) the best cure for rheu- et or Neuraliis fs Dr. Thomas' Eclec, tric Oll, 4