Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 4, 1891, Page 11

» - b i 4 . ~- 3 T THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, APRIL 4. 1891-TWELVE Newg_of the Great West The Cream of the Newso 4 makes thisnew Modern Py gmation. “We buried an old ltalian last w wn on the Columbia, who died-well, of starva: tion, we all think,’ says a miner in tho Spo- kane Fally Statesman, **About fifteen years 820 Acoino Deminick and his wife, fresh from Italy, arrived inour section and sel spot in g0, where they made their b wome e be followed trapping and foralivelhood, but when game grew scarce s civilization advanced he branched off into farmn g, which he followed up to three years | awo, “Deminiok was & sculptor of rare ol One day when in the mountains aftera long &earch, ho came across @ squary of marble “Taking 1tto his bome he began the work of au imaginary form-the formof a woman, ¥ or eighteon months he worked away at odd Times until the stone began toAssime the he desired. This far along he Rroportions HeCae More attemti to his work, and_ tho features, one ata time, wore son made to stnd out in strong resemblance to a living | Being Atlastithe form was finished and only desired the breath of God to be put to Then trils tomake it a beautifuttype of wom He had achieved a wonderful under- taki So attached did h become to the e of stone thathe gave litle at- tentios: to his wife, and often would go for days without eating aaything, He became disagrecable ana tiree months ago turned bis wifeout 0 go where she might. She CAE to OUF AP ONC evening A4S WO Wero preparing supper and told her sad story. [ @uve hor permission tostay with us until something could be done, and she never loft thehouseuntilthe day of the funcral, when she followed the remains of her husband to the grove. He hid actually devoted so much time to admirivg nisideal form that he could find no time for his meals, and consequently di of starvation last week., “I'he statuo was placed at the head of his grave in a grassy <pot on the banks of the Columbin and marks the resting plice of a Pygmalion whose work would ave been a Galatea hiad it turned from its marblo state 10 that of flesh.” California’s Expenses and Taxes, Juaged by the record, which discloses none of the dark seances of the lobby, and reveals none of the seandals that have smirched the names of many membors, the work of the Jecislative session docs not make & bad show- ing, comments the Sacramento Bee. 1t must besaid that ina large measure the pledges made: by the majority to the people have been kept. The most interesting to taxpayers is the fact that the tax levy has boen kept down 10 the M cent limit, but it makes us shuddor to think what might tave been had the pledize not been laid before the cyes of the legislature by gentle and timely admonitims from _ Governor Markham and the honestmen in both bouses who recarded theirword. Fifty conts is a good deal better than 67, the rato forthe first year after the session of two years ago. The ing to the taxpayers will be likely to obliterate the memory of the personal rotten- ness of 50 many of the memvers, * * * The semi-annual tax bill will bring important relief tothe people. The withdrawal o1 $15,- 000,000, for taxes, out of a total circulating medium of not &0,000,000, was enough to puralyze business, Semi-annoal pay ments will avert this inconvenience and danger. Here are the amounts appropriated for the state expenses for the present, or forty-third, fiscal year: For the general fund, $2,622,674 1 school fand, 19661743 interest and sinking fund, §110,000, and special Mendoeino insine asylum fund, $175,000. For the forty-fourth fiscal year: ‘General fund, $2,756,01; school fund, "$1,966,74, and intérest and funa, #151,710, Tough ~ raveling. Justnow the Flithead country in Montana, like the promised land, seems hard to reach. There is an account of & recent trip to Demersville, the prosvective metropolis of Flathead : Fourteon pasengors on startmg from Ravalli were promised good trans porta- tin. Two fourhorse sleighs carried the crowd fo the first dinner station, but on leaving there all the passengers and bageage were dumpea into ono sleigh Think of fourteen full grown men and women and the usual baggage for each being jammed into one twelvefoot sled, with only three seats o accommolate thom! The strain was 100 great and the sied soon gave way, oblig- ing the driver to rustloup another, delaying the passengers for fully two hours and a half, At length every thing was relonded and pulled out. for Flathead like. The horses soon began o lag and the passengers were compelled to walk at almost every little hill or grade over which they went. At last the lnke was reached, just In time to be about thirty minutés 100 late for the boat, The boat. was expected the next morning at 9, but did not get inuntilnearly 5 o'cock that night. T'he following morning the littie steamer Tom Carter puffed away for Demers- ville with the delayed passengers aboard, The river being frozen over the boat vould could 1ot get nearer than eighteen miles of llo. Tt was met by two stuges. o the jamming process was repeated. Fourteen passengers and their baggago were crowded on one, and ten passengers and therr baggage on the other. Flower Farming. A party of floriculturists from the south of France has gone toSanta Barbara for the purpose of selecting a suitable location In the county, or at some point in southern Califor- nia, to establish a flower farm. They wmtend to cultivate violets, roses, tuberoses, jas- mines, narcissus, hyacinths, jonquils and from the blossoms produced perfumes by meaus of enflurage. The process o be adopted iscarvied onwithor without heat. Jasmmme and tuberose blossoms are laid on lard spread thinly on sheets of glass in frames: thelard absords the odor, and by a renewal of flowers the grease becomes saturated with the perfume. The odor of other owers is extracted by the hot process. Lardis heated toa melting pointand a small portion of purebeef fat thrown into the kettle. The Howers are thrown into the hot grease and rapldly stirred. Wien the ab- sorption is completed the grease is put into a press and filtered into cans, thus separating the blossoms. This process' 1s repeated until the grease is full of perfume. It requires skill to determine the proper amount of ab- sorption of odor, and that the lard or grease should be entirely odorless and freo from water 1s essential. The saturated grease pow taken to New York from Europe comes In tins and pays 30 per centad valorem duty, selling at the Tate of £.50 u pound for violet odor and from §1,50 10 §1.75 & pound for other perfumes, Fron this grease, in combination with alcohol o s, the manufactur- Ing perfumers make extracts for the hand- kerchief and other purposes, arting © (cken Hones ina Man. D. W. Mackenzie is o well known mining expert of the Pacific slope. He bas been superintendent of the Eureka and other large mives and b Juagment on mining matters 1sheldin groat respect. Six years ago, while end®ed in business in Colorado, Mr. Mackenzie was shot ia u dispute, the ball lodging in the wurrow of thethigh bone, Efforts to extract it proved unsuc cessful, and since then Mr, Macken- zie tried warious doctors, but obtained no relief. The wound, too, refused to close and occasioned great discomfort constant suppiration and discharges, At last, acting on the adviceof friends, he bo. camo a patient in the German hospital in San Francisco, aad xlllm'ell himself under the care of Dr. Morse. This was amonth ago. Dr, Morse laid the six-year-old wound open and success fully extracted the ball. Then came treremarkable partof the operation, The ball had shattered the thigh bone aud torn the tendous, and it was necessary to rekuit the tendons and build up the bone afresh iu order to make the operation & completo sue- cess. Forthis purpose the upper bones of chicken logs wero used, Small pieces were Jaid on the surfice of the thigh boue and fitted together with great nicoty, The torn tendons were also replaced £ the Northwest is herewith presented aleading feature. by pieces of tendon taken from chickens, hree. weeks ago the operation was completed aud promises to make Mr. Mackenzie as sound as he ever was, Tho wound is rapicly neuing aua closing up. The opemig was in readable form, It isthe week's history of the great northwest. No other paper large enough two weeks ago to allow the insertion of two fingers, bul now there is o0t for the passige of the doctor’s Mr. Mackenzie's general health lowed a diet of asolid | aving Flour Gold, Jittle finger. is alsc The big placer mining scheme on the Jgffer. | son river bar in Montana is being rigorousty | pushed by the Colorado company, organized | for this purpose. dredge bont at Forks. which 15 to work the Jeflerson river ar for golil, hasa scow attached on which the amalgimatiog machinery will be placed. Tho apparatus was made especially for the | purpose of saving fine gold, such as has been found in the Jeflerson and was dificalt for tho miners tosave by ths crude means at hand. The machinery was™ successfully | tested in Denver last ‘summer, the amalga- mnator saving every particlo of the flour gold. Fifteer, men are’ now employed in buil ing the boat and six car loads of machivery | have arrived. A 100-horse power engine will b put on the boat. The dirt will be scooped up from a depth of twenty feet, throwninto | a hopper on the scow atongside, from where itistaken up by the machinery and thor- oughly worked, the tailings ruining back into the river, William Berking, who worked up tho scheme and induced capitalists such as Senator Tabor 10 go into it, has the utmost coufidence in the project and believes that it will revolutionize the mining industry of Montanu. Yt His Wite Elope, Suspicion was excited in Grass Valley, Cal., that thero was undue intinacy botween the wife of Edward Daiss and Frank Harris., ‘Ihe latter had been working for & time on the Narrow Gauge railroad. Harris an- nounced that he was going back to Boston to spend the summer, and made preparations for his departure. Mrs. Daiss also packed her trunk so as to take a trip to some place unknown, Daiss knew something of his wife’s intended departure, and engaged the services of an officer to obtain some £oods the woman had recently bought on his account or with his mone Daiss was also of a mud to kill Harris, wiom he thought was about to clope with his wafe, “'he officer persuaded the hustand 10 keep cool about the matter and finally Daiss concluded that He was get- ting tho best of the bareain andlet thecouple go. The wife bourded a train for Colfax, and as the train pulled out Harris jumped aboard. It is supposed the cloping couple went to San Francisco. Daiss is a young man of exceilent character and works under- ground n the [daho mine as & carman, Ho will take no steps totrouble his wife. AWoman's Honor. Afterthree day's trial at Oroville, Cala,, Martin Krusick, a prominent resident of Butte county was found guilty of scducing Maggie Galisgher. The case was heard with Miss Gallagher is about thirty years old and Krusick about the same, Tho two reside in the vicinity of Biggs, and for several years keot company. Miss Gallag- nor testified that upon one occasion he so- duced her und promised to marry her. But hedidn't. Of course public sympathy was with the girl, and no surprise was ex pressed t. the verdict. Krusick is now in juil awaiting sentence, The extreme penalty of the law is a finie of £5,000 or five years in the penitentiary, or both, '8 result was a great shock to the young man's people, as he was considered respectable, and his father possesses considerable wealth, It is said that before the case cam on for trial the de- fendant offered Miss Gallagher 1,500 to com- promise the matter, but it seems she did not want the money, sho wanted the man. closed doors, Threat to Arrest n Judge. Judge Beatty, the new Umnited States dis- trict judge of Idaho, announces that he will hold the first term of United States court in the new stateat Boise, April 6. The first week will be given to hearing motions, setting of causes and trial of cases by jury in which both parties may be ready On" April 13 trial of causes with a jun 1l regularly commence and continue til May 8 The Unitea States grand jury will meet May 4. Boise and Hailey re- publican papers have lately given currency o & scheme on the part of envious politicians and defunct candidates for Judge Beatty's position to arrest Judge Beatty sbould he attemut to open court. This course of action is based upon the alleged illegality of Frosi- dent Harrison’s reappointment of Judge Beatty after the latter had failed of a con- firmation on the last day of the session of the United States senate, when Senator Farwell of Tllinois cbjected. Blood Money Didn’t Pan Ouat. John Ivett was killed in Mereed county, Cal, some time ago and bis brother-in-law, August Olsen, was accused of being his mur- dever. Ttwas thought that Ivett left no vlood relation whocould inherit his property, valued at upwards of §700,000. Hoe was a vative of England and an inquiry as to his family was iostituted there. Recently it was reported that a sister, Mrs, Sarah Kuob, had been found. She biad not been heard from in her native town for thirty vears previous. She still lives in England and has sent her power-of- attorney to Merced county. She will come in fora large share of the Ivett estate, 1t is supposed that Olsen hoped by putting Ivett out of theway bis sister (Mrs. Iveit) would come into possession of the entire estate, Took the Law in Her Own Hands, A sensation was created last week in a Tacoma hotel. Mrs. G, E. Bailey swept into the dining room while the guests were at dinuer and pulling a revolver from the folds of her aress, pointed the weapon at L. E. O'Malley and commanded him to confes O'Malley turned pale and cringed in his seat. Her little girl, ten years old, stood beside her aud accused O° Mulley of a crime. Begging her uot to shoot, O'Malley fled from the room and the city.” He left s letter stating that he bad gone to Australia. O’ Malley was a groc- ery ‘man and abandoned his business sud- deuly. Mrs. Bailey’s husband is mauager of the Chilian mediciie company for the Pacific coust, Other little girls teil simlar stories of O'Milley. Tho police refused to take my action, and Mrs, Bailey took the matter into herown hands. Putting the SCrews on Shyste California’s new vagrancy law classes as vagrauts the numerous pettifogging, so-ealled lawyers that infest police courts and city prisons, and is causing this class of sharpers much anxiety. There is 5o much competition in the lucrative business of fleecing prasoncrs that each one of the disreputable gang em- ploys solicitors among the prisoners to drum up tiade, These fellows watch each other closely and much trouble is caused by their battles over some particularly wealthy vi tim. Thepew law is’ very stringeni and Chief Crowley of San Francisco has given special instructions to bave each provision fully attended to. The firstcase under the new law was that of Belte Wilson, who was seoteuced under the suspicious character clause. Stock Suffering in New Mexic Great distress is reported: among cattle, sheep and other live stock in New Mexico Reprosentative Frank Hubbell, who returned from bis rnch near the Zuni Salt lakes, in ro county, tells & distressing story about the condition of sheep. He lost, in the past few months, over thirty thousand head from freezing and siarvation, aud also re ports theloss general among all sheep own- crs, The weather has been cold aud the ground covered with snow, so the sheep can- notget avythiog to eat. ' Such weather s thatof the last two months has never been experrenced before. Fine Sea Exmbition. One morning last week a school of whales visited the entrance to San Francisco, and were stll in sight ahout the bar when the sun weut down, They were full of life, ana were almost constantly blowing or breach- . One big fellow ventured into the Golden Gate as far as Fort Point, but concluded he | tryiug out | If this in did not 1ike the muddy bay and declined to como any further. News of the visit wos conveyed to two whalers in port by am ex cited boatman, but they failed to enthuse or take any steps toward capture. The whales ave of the California gray variety aud are not rich cnough in_oil to make them profitable They have no bone. Value of Irrigation. As an allustration of rapid development, at- tention is called to the Alsesandro irrigation district of ) acres, says the Pasadena (Cala) Star. Six months ago theland in that district could not be sold for 10 an acre, and without irrigation actual settlers could not afford to take it as a gift, As soon as it was decided to district and irrigate the land, sales commenced, and up to date 8,400 acres have been sold for 866,000 in ten andtwenty- acre tracts, mostly to actual settiers, and the laud is selling ranidly today for $120 an acre, ased valuation in that one district could appear in the assessment roll, it would show an i, crease in thatoue district alone of £2,757.400, and @ state tax levy of 50 cents on £100 would give the statean increased income of $13,937 a year. Probable Murder. W. L. Davison of Shoshone, Tdabo, fifty miles from Bellevue on the Oregon Short Line, was brutally assaulted last night.2A dishwasher named Joe Jackson entered Davi- £on's storeat 9 p. m., asking for a sack of fiour. Davison, who is about fifty-five years old, was about to fill the order, when Jackson assaulted him with an_iron bolt, fearfully beating him over the head. Davison's cries called friends in from a neighvoring saloon and Jackson was scared off. 1t is supposed the assualt was made with the intention of robbery, as Davison had considerable money in tho 5tore. A constable and a large search- ing party are scouring the lava beds for Juckson.” Davison's condition is precarious, the wounds on bis head being seven in num: ber. A Blind Fiddler's Treasmre. Charles Drew, a blind fiddier who trav fromtown to town and plays on street cor- ners, fell down a stairway ina lodging house in Stockton, Cal,, breaking lis collar bone and terribly bruising his face. The leftear was nearly cut off and had 1o be sewed. He wias taken to the receiving hospital for treat- ment und the officers there found £1,200 on his person, The money was found in a buck- skin sack fastened to o string around his neck and resting on bis left breast. Drew objected to being searched and did not want the money taken from him, but was reas- sured when told he was with friends and his money was put in the jail safe. Demented from Grief, Mrs. Lucy A. Bell attempted suicide at the grave of her husband in the Odd- fellows' cemetery in San Francisco, by taking laudanum. She wis soon to take the drug by an employe of the cemetery, who immediately summoned the patrol wagon, and Mrs. Bell was hastily conveyed to the receiving hospital. After some dificulty she was restored to somi-consciousness and placed out of immediate danger. Mrs. Bell was evidotly mtent on suicide, as she had taken all her keepsakes and trinkets to the cemetery with her. Her husband, Robert Bell, was a pioncer of California, and since his death his widow has deeply mourned for him, and at times her grief has driven her intoa mild form of insanity, which probably accounts for her attempt at suicide, Columbia River Improvements. A portege railway at the dalles is regarded by people familiar with the subject as only a makeshift at the best, and there is butlittle probanbility that the government will commit itsolf to the scheme, says the La Camas (Wash.) News, The natural bent of im- provements would be canal and locks, and when the final improvement of tho Columbia river at the dalles is entered upon it is thought they will be adopted. Somuch gov- eriment money has heen expended at the mouth of the Columbia river and the Cas- cades that 1t is doubtful if any improvement will be made at the dalles unless Oregon, Washington and Idaho, the three states to be benefited, join the govern et with pecuniary aid, Close Call to Being Blown Up. What might have resulted in a fatal acci- dent from the premature explosion of some giant powder happened at the Shylock mine, Idaho, tne other day. One of the miners had been sharpening some drills at the black- smith forge atthe mouth of the tunnel forty feet away from the face and after he got through put four sticks of powder on some warm rocks, which form a low wallto di- vide the fire from the bellows, to dry, He then went to work at the face and had drilled asix-inch hole, which probably took haif an Tiour., when off went the ‘pow.der, shatic ring the largest vocks into fragments. ' It was No. 1 Hercules powder and what caused the e: plosion 1s hard to surmise, as the rocks were only warm and the fire out. Fortune for Oregonians, A Frenchman uamed Emil Gaillac, wife aud four daughters left Olympia, Ore., on the boat for Victoria thirtcen years ago. Gaillac died on the boat before reaching Ta- coma, where he was buried. About a year ago the French minister at Washing ton wrote Dr. Riley of Olympia for full particulars concerning his death, and for a certificate of death. Last week the city counal received a letter from Gustave Gaillac, brotherof the deceased, inguiring for him, and stating that the deud 'man had fallen heir to a fortune of over half a million dollars. The widow and four daughters live at Grand Mound prairie, ten miles south of Olyrpia. Rival of Warbington. Theodore Walk, a young German stone cut- ter of Tacoma, created a sensation on Pacific avenue by deliberately smashing i the plate glass windows of five stores, commencing with Bonney's drug store and going north, He @id it in a quiet, undemonstrative man- ner, simply thrusting fist through each pane. Beforehe could be stopped $700 worth of plate glass had been destroyed, His hand and arm had been badly lacerated. W hon arrested he becamo violent, and it was evi- dent thut he was insane, He explained his actiou in breaking the windowsby saying the stores were being kept open on Sunday, and lie was siraply punishing the owners for their disobedience of the law. Costly Bite of a Dog. Ewilo Bigue, the four-year-old son of P Bigue of Bigue of San Fancisco, was given judgment for $10,000 against Michael W. Hayes. About a year ago Hayes was keep g a saloon and asthe boy was passing @ vicious dog owned by the defendant sprang upon him and bit him several times on the face. His forehead was badly lacerated and a piece of flesh was torn from his cheek, Ho will be disfigured for life. Suit was com. menced against Hayes for £10,000 damages Hayes sold his saloon and left the city and his whereabouts is not known. He was represented in court, but no defense was put in, although an effort was made to reduce the amount of thoe judgment. The parents of the child are in very poor circumstances. Planting Vines at Night, In the vineyards of Fresno county, Cali- fornia, hunareds of men may be seen plant- ing grape vines at night by lantern light The vineyard lands seem to be infested with a multitude of huge fireflies, which are dart- ing and moving i every direction, It is* claimed that the setting of the stakes can be done much more easily and avcurately by the aid of lanterns than in broad daylight: that movre work is accomplished by thé men in the same number of hours, wud thata large amount of time 1s saved. Oue set of men work frown ¥ o'clock in the eveuing until 6 o'clock im the morning, when they are K lieved by auother reia; Tried to Keep Out of Prison. Michael Coffey, an attorucy, and Owen Kelly *were arrostedon 3 charge of com- pounding a felony. Wrank Quinn, a notori- ous character, was arrested a fortnight ago ona charge of picking Mrs. Kelly's pocket, but she did not appeat as witness agaiust bim, and her husband said he thought she had gone to Stockton to see her sister. He said Coftey and Quinn’s wife called at his bouse and ~ offered to_recompense her if she did not_appear, but #he was absent at the time. Coffey admitted that Mrs, Quinn gave him 250 to pay Mrs. Kelly to leave, but says he kept the money. Became Crazy on a Hand Car. Michasl Clifford, section foreman for the Milwaukee milroad at Plaakioton, S D, beame temporirily paralyzed and mentally deranged while roturning from his work a: noon, and instead of stopping at the proper place to take the car off the track por- sisted in movine on till he ran in the west- bound freight train that wis just putling out of Plankinton, The engincer reversed his engine in timo to save tho maa's life, Clif- ford’s hands were clinched fast hold bf the handles of the hand-car, aud could not be easily loosened. Chance for Dakota Settlers, In 18% hundreds of settlers who had made themselves homes on the Crow Creek reser- vation in South Dakota when those lands were proclaimed open to scttlement by Presi- dent Arthur, were forced by proclamation of President Cloveland to abandon those clams, itbeing held that the land was not legally opened to settlement. These people have be- come scattered east and west. General H. RR. Peaseis now, by government authority, at Chamberlain, receiving testimony of the' set- tlers as to losses or damages sustained by reason of the Cleveland order. No GhostDance in His. A man and wife at Sanger, Cala., were taught a salutary lesson recently. In their employ was a young man that chopped wood and lived in atentnot far from the house. The parents thought it would be pice to frighten him, so they aressed their child in o sheet and mask and poked her head into the tent door. The child was stunued by a club wielded by the frightened woodchopper, and came near dying. After the parents got a doctor they found the man in the tent in con- vulsions, and the doctor had bhard work to fetch bim out, ence for Him, Neal Howard of Paradise valley, W ashing- ton, sunk a well sixty-six feet through sohid clay, not striking rock of auy kind the whole distance, and has an abundant supply of water, When at the depth of fifty-fivo teet he struck some bones which were of a coarse nature and showed that they belonged to some large animal. The bones were found on the edze of the wall. Some one wanted to investigate further, but it was water and not bones of past gencrations that Howard was after, and he objected to spoiking his well for the sake of investigation 0dd Sort of Accident. Passengers on the Aberdeen, Wash,, stage had a startling cxperienco tho other day. While crossiug the Hoquiam river on the ferry, which is operated by a cable, a large tree struclk the boat, breaking the cable and fetting the boat and its occupants drift out into the bay, where it was at the mercy of the wind and waves for over an hour bafore they were rescued by a tg. It rained hard all the time to add to the misery of the situa- tion, A few weoks agoa €nowslide occurred near thé site of the old Bemis mill, in Alpine county, California, in which a woodman 1ost bis life. A dog was missing and a few days ago, while ono of the woodmen was digging out some of s lost goods, he found & dog sitting on his haunches in & hole just large enough for his body, urder six feet of snow., After fitteen days of imprisonment, without food or water, the little' dog came out all right. Whisky That Wouldn't Burn. Some tough varns originate in California, but one from Shasta secms to be tho gem of the crop. Here it is, and alocal paper vouches for its reliability: A fire broke outin the Mott postolice one night. destroying that building aud three others. In oneof tho buildings a barrel of modern whisky was stored; thohead aud staves of the barrel were burned, but the contents stood upright as a monument in the ashes, asolid block of ice. Powerral Lungs. As Hiram Strong was wending his way alongthe road near Cape Horn mountain, Washington, a cougar junped over a log into theroad in front of him. Not being pro- vided witn means of defense he resorted to the use of his lungs in such stentorian notes thatthe cougar, evidently disgusted, soon beat a precipitate retreat, and the courageous pedestrian made his way'out of that locality with becoming haste Pugilist and Salvation Army. Juck Murphy, the pugilist, attempted to conduct the Salvation army services at Butte,- Mont., one night last weck, and was nabbed by Sheriff Lloyd's tbree special deputies, Jack was marched up to the county jail and locked up. Presently, however, Miles Fin, lan secured Murphy's release by giving a §0 oond for his appearance in court. Yosemite show Open. The first stage for the scason was sent mto the Yosemite valley last week, the roads be- ing reported n good condition, and stages will run daily into the valley from now for- ward, or nearly three weeks earlier than last year. Thenumber of touvists applying for accommodations to enter the valley is said to be larger than i any previous year, Montans Leads the Drama, The Normanns Literary association has for its members all the upper class of Scandi- nayian residents iu Butte, Mont., and vicia- ity. It avo its hrst entortainment last week. The first part consifted of a dramatic repro- sentation which was enlivened by a realistic hanging scene. Engine Ran Wild. At Greenwood, EI Dorado county, Cal., a few days ago, John (rimmins lost his life by jumping from an engine on whichhe was fireman and which was running wild. The enginoer also jumped, but escaped. Crim- mius struck on his bead on a rock, crushing his skull, Monster Sea Otter. Gus Gottschalk of Bozeman, Mont., bas amoug his stock of furs the skin of a sca otter, measuring seven feet from tap of Aippor o nose and thirty-three inches around the girth. Itis the largest one ever captured on the west coast and its skin is worth §00, It ‘was captured by an Indian, California, There is talk of holding a rose fair at Oro- wville, Mike Snyder, a laborer, fell from a freight carat Alameda and was crushed to death An electric raliroad is to be built from San Jose to Alum Rock, u distance of seven miles. The infant son of W, Rigney of San Fran- clsco was smothered at night by the mothor roliing over it. It is said that a syndicate of San Francisco jobbers has been formed to control the Cali- fornia brandy market, _There are 18,500 stands of bees kept in Ventura county and the yearly output of hovey is worth &, 000, Diphtheria 1s reported as prevalent in San Francisco, largely owing 10 defective sewer- age in certain localitics. J. L. Bittick of Modesto has planted forty acres in cotton seed. Ho intends w give the experiment a thorough trial, The Bauk of Caiiforna has obtained judg- ment agninst Heury F. William and his assignees in insolvency for §770, 453, The dead body of a two-year-old child found floating in San Francisco bay. throat had been cut from earto ear, An arrest was made in San Francisco of a mau selliug pools in a pool room, and a test case will be made of the new ordinsnce. The wife of Congressman-clect Joun T. Cutting of San Francisco died in that city. Sh d\\'u.:u(‘uu)ln of e lawe President Gar- fiel Mrs. C, M. Smith, formerly of Sringfield, Iil, died in San Francisco of acute brouchi- was Its tis. colnn. In 1880 California shipped 06,508 fifty. pound sacks of flour to the Orient. Last year the shipments amounted to 3,050,663 sacks The Mercal Expross says: The Holland colony will bo increased soon by the arrival of several hundred immigrants from the old country OA wlony of farmers from Illlinois have bought 6,000 acres of land near the town of Merced, which will be divided into twenty- acre tracts, Charles H. Drake, an employing stone- cutter of San Francisco, has disappearcd from that city, leaving soveral creditors to regret his departure, The tracks of the Oakland and Berkeley rapid transit cornpany are laid and tho wires strotcbed. [t is expected the road will be runniog 1n two weeks, .. A meetingof citizens hes been held in San Francsco to_arrange for the funeral of the late John £\ Swift, whose remains are soon expected to arrive from Japan, A Chinaman was thrown from a runaway vehicle near Colusa the other day and landed on a birbed-wire fence, cutting his neck in a frightful manver. He' will die. A local fusurance company of Stockton had to pay 5o many losses last yearin Washing. ton that its directors nave been forced to levy an assessment of £20a share, A new town named Rodeo has been laid out on & creek of that name on San Pablo bay, about twenty miles from San Francisco, Ex- tensive stockyards will be built there, A farmer in San Jacinto valley, San Diego county, recently turned loose'a flock of Japancse pheasants and @ dozen prairio chickens that were sent from Nebraska. At Redwood City Gregoor Silva was sen- tenced to eight years' imprisonment at San Quentin for assault to commit murder o Salvator Garcia, a saloon keeperat Halfmoon Bay. Lawrenco Parsons, third earl of Rosse and baron of Oxmantown, in the peerage of Ire- land, has arrived in San Francisco from Mexico. Heis traveling for pleasure and is on his way home. Alfred and Frederick Lee have arrived in San Fraucisco from Chill. They are Ameri- can hardware merchants there, butleft he- cause of the interruptions of business by tho WAr 10W ragin g, F. F. Fuquay, o wellto-do citizen of San Diego, recently fell downa flight of stairs in a_lodging house and expived a fow moments after. He was sixty years of age and a vic- tim of paraly Frank Fisk, aged twenty-one, of Coulter- ville, prepared to go hunting and when load- g liis gun it was accidently discharged, the ioad strikiug him in the abdomen, killing bim almost instantly S. Rosoncr, who claims to_bo one of _the New Orleans La Mafia, has boen arrested in San Francisco for resisting an_officer who ordered him to desist from drawing skull and crossbones on the sidewalk. There is a project on foot among Placer county’s miners to send a gold brick weigh ing 1,000 pounds to the world’s fair, the brick to be made exclusively of the product of tho Placer county gold miines H. L. Parker, the confidential clerk of Rea, keeper of the Forest Hill hotel, Placer county, ran behind inhis accounts about $1,500, and when thero was danger of his beine exposed recently, he disappeared. A Chinese cook attempted toshoot a wait- ress in the Langham house in San Francisco one moruing because she protested against being given & plate of cold pancakes for tho Sho wasa sistor of Mrs. Abraham Lin- dining room. He was disarmed before doiug any harm. A small boy blowing a_ hown causea the team of G. W. Dameron of Madison, in which Mr. Dameron and his wife were riding, to run awayand both were thrown out, Mr. Dameron sustaining internal injuries which were thought fatal. Samuel and Eugene Steward, boys of Colusa, were out bunting recently, having one gun between them. In crawling through some brush the weapon was discharged, mu- tilating Samuel’s right hand and shooting Eugene in the calf of the left leg. Four shrvivors of six men who deserted from the sealing schooner Ethel arrived in San Francisco by the steamer Humboldt. ‘The other two were drowned off Cape Men- docino by the apsetting of the boat in which they made their escape from the schooner, J.D. Smith, recently convicted of man- slaughter at Fresno, in having shot and killed Percy Williams, arguments for a now trial were made and the motion denied. The defendant was then sentenced toten years atSan Quentin, being given the maximum penalty @ Annie Childers, a girl of fourteen, residing with her parents at Chico, the other day attempted suicide by toking a dose of lauau- num. ~ The drug was pumped out of her in time to save herlife. She sud she hadno reason 1o take her life, but that she was will- ing to die, C. E. Sessions has made a contract with A. W. Von Schuidt to dredge a ship canal 1,250 feetin length through a tract of forty- seven acres of land at the foot of Seventh avenue, Fast Ouakland. Wharves will be built, streets macadamized and railroad tracks laid. Six of the 285 census enumerators em- ployed by the government in San Francisco last year will not receive their pay because of the errors made iu their returns. James J. Cusick pleaded guilty to stufling the returns in that city with 375 names in the district he enumeratod. Charles Thayer, mght watchman at the Black Oak quartz mill, eight miles east of Sonora, was shot through the arm early one morning by unknown parties, who evidently entered the mill for the purpose of robbe as they demanded that he throw up his hands before the shooting. Loss Fickes was 'arrested in Winters, charged with seducing his sisterin-law, a sixtoen-year-old girl named Ollie Parker, and subsequently discharged. He was a sec- ond time arrested ou the charge of assault. The father of the girl swore out & complaint charging the sbove crime. William Kitrick, one of the Lumpkin mill company, near Oroville, has just discovered a quartz ledge near the mill that has all the up- pearances of a bonanza, The ledge is 5 feet tiinches in width, and its extent is yet un- known. The rock, so far as prospected, proved astonishingly rich. One of the largest sales of oplum ever made in San Francisco took place this morn- iug at the appraisers’ building. Twenty three hundred boxes of opium were pur- chased by a syndieate for $17,400. A syndi- cate of Chinese, who hud‘)v]nnued to purchase the opium, was out-witted and overbid o the extent of about &,000, Miss Shepherd of Long Beach, who has earned spme fame as a conchologist, has been pursuing her researces in the vicinity of San Diego, and claims to have made some in- teresting discoveries, Shedeclares her in- tention of fitting out a smallvessel and fol- lowing her investigations along the penin- sula of Lower California and up the gulf. There is talk in Stockton that Horace Davis of San Francisco recently had an agent to sccure a site foranother big flourirg mill, which would make the fifth for Stockton, It is said there his San Francisco property is too valuable for the milling business, and he has concluded to build in Stockton. The mills now running turn out 3,000 barrels of flour daily,and unother of 2,500’ bartels capac- ity will by’ operating in July Oregon. There are twenty-one saloons in Pendleton, which only has 4,000 population. The business men of Fossil have raised 5,000 to start a flour mill at that place, Citizens of Astoria will vote at the election on April 6 on the question of issuing bonds to build a seawall, The Pacific Coast steamship company will run no more steamers to Vancouver, & the trafc does not pay. A dispateh from Portland states that the Cauadian Pacific steamers will cut rates on tlour for the Orient from 8 per ton 1o §.50, Gus Long, a young man, while breaking a horse near Pendleton. was thrown by the animal aud bis foot cateling in the stirrup ho was dragged to death, Two school bows at North Trehalem went on a hunting trip one day last week after a heavy snowfall. They came on a drove of en elk and killed them all. A fraght train from the south ran into the cabooss of a train from the north at the Ash- land switch, Brakeman Jobn Castlo was seriously injured. No other damage was done. Fish commissioners at Portland are experi- encing cousiderable dificulty in keeping Chinook salmon out of the market, the pro- scribed fish being smuggled into the city in side of sturecon. Last fall the farmers of Willamette Valley could bave sold their big crop of potatoes for 60 conts por bushel. Thoy scorned the monsy and held for 81. Now the same ocan hardly e sold for 40 cents. A man named Emle was assaulted on tho | 1ong wharf at Olympia and robbed of about $500 by three unknown men. He was thrown into the bay and was rescued by a Siwash. The assailants escaped and no_trace can bo found of them by the police, Emlois badly | burt but will recover. | While out hunting man named Richards was accidentally shot | and killed, He was climbing a bank and | drew his rifle aftor him by the muzzle. The weapon was discharged, the ball entering the grol, passing clear through the body and lodging under the siin of the shouider. The Astoria athletic ¢ 7,000 purse for a fight between bob ti [ simmons and Jim Hall. Fitsimmons® | backer, who is in Chicago, wired his & | ancoof the ofrer. Il, who is now in_ Port- | 1and, accepted the terms. I'ho date of the fight has 1ot been decided, butit is to take place bofore August 15, Says the St. Hoelenn Mist: Sturgeon is being shij stward from the Lower Co- lumbia. It Teturn to us some of those days in hoxes markod ‘Boueless Codfish: ne.” Our Oregon pranes ats sent to Sau Francisco, put iuto a hogshead, n French stamp puton the tierce and in & fow wee we are offered *Fine French Prunes.” A Chinese boy six yoars of age one after- noon hiad a miracuiods escapo from death by beiug run over by an electric car at Portiand Tho car was on top of him before he kuew it. Not having time to get oft ho dropped down and lay on the track till the car passed over him, ° Fverybody sceing the occurrence thought ho was kilied, but he escaped with outa scrateh. ub has raised wil Washington. The littie steamer Success was sunk by a swrm at Whatcom Joff Nelson killed a cougar near his home in Camthas that measured seven feet from tipto tip. 'The animal made & hard fight Skagit county has immense codar trees zacasuring from 8 to 12 feet in diameter and from 150 to 200 feet from the ground to the first limbs, John Fornens, a gambler and bartender, was shot and fatally wounded at oma by his sweetheart, Mollie Adaws, Jealousy was the cause. E. E. Sloan, aged twenty-seven, committed suicido ot Tacoma by taking ten graius of carbolic acid. Despondency and inability to obtain employment were the causes There is a proposition on_foot. in Seattle to establish there a plant for drying the codfish caught in Alaskan waters and making Seat- tle the great distributing point for fish on the Pacific coa: ‘Three couggars were seen in the woods near Sightly by several school children as they were ou their way home from school last week. The heavy snow in the mountaios no doubt drives the animals into the foothills. An unknown man who was under arrest for stealing blankets eluded s captors and jumped into the Y akima river from the Pros e, which resuited in his being drowned snd his body carried over tho falls. A farmer named Herbort Groff of Spokane county was shot and iustantly killed by a sperado named Hart. The kiling is the result of trouble over disputed land. Sheriff Pugh started in pursuitof the murderer, who is yet atlarge, In the Puyailup saw mill a workingman named Foster caught the sleeve of his shirt in the teeth of a saw and was drawn to it His neck came in contact with the rapidly revolviug circular saw and his head was sev- ered from his body. At Port Hadlock the Pugat Sound Dock company is building the largest pontoon dry- dock in the world. It is 325 feet long by 100 wide, and 2,000,000 feet of lumber will enter into its construction. Its location has not yet been determined. The Lummi Indians, located on & rveserva- tion a few miles from Whatcom, now number only about two huundred. They were once a powerful tribe, but have dwindled to elr present number by warfare and disease, They are peaceful, industrious and religious. The sloop Alert, notorious in the north- west as a smuggler, has been seized on Puget sound by the customs officials, who found her secreted near the boundary line. She is the property of Larey Kelly, whoso arrest some time ago for smuggling was noted. The Cornwall sawmill on Bellingham bay has received from a mining company at Riviera, Australia, an order for 20,000,000 feet of lumber. This is believed to be the largest single order ever given to any mill. It will keep a large pumber of men busy for six mouths. 1t is expected that trams will shortly run through to the boundary line on the Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern. The Canadian I cific has only ten miles of track to lay to con- nect with the Lake Shore line, but the two roads will probably connect by April 10, and special arrangements for the event are being made, The new charter for Spokane Falls was submitted to voters and adopted by a laree majority. Of four candidates for mayor D, B. Fotheringham is elected. The vote on separate article No. 1> was carried. This drops the word “Falls" from the name of the eity, which will hereafter be called S po- kane. Captain Charles Enell, who divides residence between San Fraucisco and coma, a wealthy man weil known on tho coast'and who had both legs broken in the Lake Labish disaster on the Southern Pa- cfic railroad, has settled with the railroad company. He was paid £,500 and $00 ad- ditional for doctor’s bill. He has not yet re- covered from the accident, D. W. Welty, formerly of Sacramento, a promivent lawyver well known among Odd- fellows, died ut Chelases. The remains were forwardeda to Sacramento for burial. He was past grand master for Californiaof the Grand lode, Independent Order of Oddfellows, and a delegate to the Sovereign Grand lodge. He served several terms in the state senates of both Nevada and California, and was the author of legal works. 1t is stated that the hull of the United States steamer Thetis, now lying at Tacoma, is s0 badly damaged by teredo that it is more than likely that she will be condemned. The Thetis was formerly sheathed with copper, but this wus removed when sho went to_the Arcticto therelief of the Greely party. When she came back from thenorth she was sent to Panama, and then the teredo began to work on the vessel. Un the trip home the vessel leaked so badly tuat the crew were contipually at the puinp. his Ta- The Two Dakotas. A new smelter will be erected at Gregory, Methodists of Fort Plerre will build o church, Sceding has river counties. hirty-two scholars are eurolled at the Pierre indian school. Work will s00n be commenced on Canton's system of waterworks. Tho signal service station at Fort Suil to be removed to Plerre. + Eden citizens ave preparing to raise 1,000 bonds for a flouring mill, ho Oddfellows are pushing the ercction of ir new temple in Fargo Brule county 15 going into the drilling of artesian wells on a large scale, The fenco around tho bascball park at Madison was sold by the sheriff, The Minnehaha county school lands sotd at an average price of §15.2 per acre. pOrdway is nearly deserted and there is tatk of closing the railway station A faith curist bus ingratiated himself into the good graces of some Yankton people. wan in Deadwood who claimed he was the “Messial’’ has beeu adjudged insane. A strong orgauization has been formed at Bismarck for the purpose of wiping out the saloous, Deadwood business men ure clamoring for better polico protection, The cizy only bas three patrolmen. @A citizen of Palisailes secured a loan of $10,000 from an_eastern capitalist ou o build ing worth about §200, From Menno 1,230 pounds of prairo chick- ens were shipped t0 Sioux City recently. “They were billed as *‘tallow.” Rapid City, having voted bonds for the building of &' railroad to Hill City, is now ving: “Ou to the Missouri." Hay is scare at$h o ton at Woonsocket Farmers who sold all their hay in the fall are now compelied 10 puy. Maggie Boll, n sixteen-year-old girl of pearfish, was ' poisoned by eating cocon candy, but an emetie saved her iife. Sanborn county lays clmm to being the banner prohibition county in South Dakota. 1t hus uot hud a saloon for four years A wan who thought s bouuty was paid on commenced in several Jim is th | near Salem, 8 young | 11 | eoyota skins dolivered a wagon 1oad to the ditor of Pennington county the other day The Oddfellows of South Dakota have raised ovor §,000 for the relief of afiicted brethren in the drouth strickcn portion of the state. | . Soren Marenson of Yankton county paid #58 per acre for a half section of schoo! land tho oth> day, Other tracts sold as high as | #19 per acre. A mountain llon made a feast out of 8 dog belonging to ¥. C. Bowen of Sundanee Bowen and a ghvor tralled the lion, found | tand kilied it Dr. €. B, Alférd, recently appolnted mem. | ber'®f the stato board of charities and core | rections, has forwarded his Governor Mellotte, | Edward Evenson resignation to found a fine specimen of erystalized gypsum twenty-nine feet below | the “surface” of the ground while digging & { well near Grafton. | . Thestate agricultural colloge | Ings hus leased & forty-acre | county and will make a test thereon gation this season. The date of hold ampment of the 1th Dakota Sons Veterans has been changed from tho first week in June to the third woek of May. | Gitbert and Olaf Anderson, gonsof (us Ane derson, living near Parktor, wore overcome by deadly damps ina well, ' The bodies wero taken out with grappling hoc Chatlos Wood, who keeps a jowelry storo in Flandreau, was “buncoed’* out of $1,000 by the green goods game. He bought what ho thought was counterfeit money Broo) Spink of irri- at @ tho en George Burns, agent for the Van Duson clovator company and secrotary of the 1Red- field Buil 4 Loan assoviition, is shor in his accounts with the latt By the repeal of capital punishment it late session of the ' Johin 1 man,who was sentenced to death by a (! | county jury last scapo the d penaliy’ Tho seed wheat bonds of Dickey county | were sold at a bandsome premium, and the county commissioners expect to be able to | take care of all their n without outsido ussistance, It costs something to get dr F. A, Stowe of that town indulged too freely in the flowingbowl, was arrested and resisted the officer. Ho was fined §100 or fifty days in jail “The winter has boen a favorable one for prairie chickens, and if the season is favora. ble for hatehing tho young thero will be more chickens in South Dakota next fall than for many y “Tho first white womon were two camp followers lorious names of “Cayuse ack Kite." They wero prior to 180, The clorgy of the southern chapter of the Sioux Ball diocese, which embraces twenty itieS in the state, will nssomble in regu- lar conference at the Catholic church in Mitchell on April 8 According to the Pioneer the temporaty | dropped sosuddenly an Deadwood the other day that many persons wero taken with hills before they could seoure o supply of quinine and whisky. “Thore was a law p: v over #2,000. tho Leh- K in Ipswich n the Biack Hills who sported tho Laura” and the Hiils in the ssed @ t legzisln- ture against tying a horso with a its neck, that” being consictered cru animals, and a fineof not less than posaed for such an offense, Commander E, T. Langloy mended that the twenty-fifth unt the Grand Army of the Republie, which oc- curs April 6, be observed as o silver auni- versary by the several posts throughout South Dakota. The Sioux Fall conference lias d; district of the Methodist sided to hold its annual camp meeting at Bast Sloux Falls from Juno 16 td Rev. Dr. Bolton of Chicago will bo present, as will also George D. Elderkin, the well known singer. Adead horse was dragged street at, the tail of a wagon, says the Dead- wood Poneer. The driver stated that the horse died of @ broken heart, caused by eat- ing forty feet of a lariat and finding that tho other end was securely tied to a picket stake. In spading his garden the other day Jamos Davis of Spearfish uncirthed soveral hilis of potatoes that had been overlooked at digging tame last fall and had been left where they mrew. 'The earth covering was only of the orainary depth, but no frost had reached the spuds. The Perkins family of Howard is in trou- ble for illicit liquor selling. Some time ago the mother was arrested and_bound over to the United Staes cireuit courtin Sionx Fails, and lately the son, William, was taken to Yankton to answer for breaking the prohibi- tion law: An East Pierro man is_goiting ready to start out with a party of Indians for an ox- hibition tour. He thinks ~there are so many philanthropists in the east who lovo the red man that the snccess of the caterprise s s- surod. Tho party will travel overland 1n real Indian fashion. 0 The Grafton city council has passed a res- olution declaring every place in the city where cards orany other games are allowed to be played common nuisances, and the ver- son who owns the place, as woll as those who may participate in the game, shall come in the same catogory. The pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church at Madison had just pronounced the benediction Sunday evening und suid “Amen’ when the electric lights went out. Matches were lighted which enabled the worshipers to find their wraps aud the way to the ehureh door. All_chattel mortgaces in South must bo released within thirty satisfaction. Any mortrageo his ag failing to comply with this provision will bo imea guilty of a misdemoanor and upon convietion puished by a fine of not less than £ nor more thau 50, Henry Koestor, living north of Brookings, 1ost his granary, stable, 400 bushels of wheat, 150 bushels of “flax, also shme oats and co by fice. A span of horses were cremat The fire started from a threshing machine engine and Koester's house was only saved after considerable hard work. «dfield aro getting ready usade azainst the druir They called vpon all the druggrists and examined their books 1n which are registered the names of purchasers of liquors to find out if their husbands and lovers had been imbibing on the sly. State Treasur er Taylor hus issued a_notic 10 the effect. that all South Dakota state war- ran's that have been presented for payment and endorsed *not paid for want_of funds,’” excepting two funding warrants dated Murch 5. 1810, for 5,000 each, are called in for pay- ment, there being fuads on hand in the oflice of the treasurer 1o pay the same. The postoftice department gves notice to parties desiring the prompt transportation of their mail, that they must bo careful and write “North Dakota” or “South Dakota® on the wrapper, The word “Dakotn” will not do and letters thus addressed will go to the St. Paul oftice where tho deficiency” will be suppl ied and a delay of twoor throe days oc- casioued thereby, The officers of the Depurtment of South Dakota, Grand Army of the Republic, elected at Yankton are as follows: C.S. Pulme Sioux Falls, commander; 8. J. Holt, Aber deen, senior vice; . A. Houston, Armour, junior vice; A. S. Swewart, Hot' Springs, medical divector; T. M. Shandfelt, Huron, chapiain; John L. Joliey, Vermillion, and £ 5, Clough, Yaukton, delegates to the national encampinent. Gratitude s a rare \irtue; but the grateful people, that §. 5. 8, has cured, aftor physicians Lad declarcd them ineiaa- ble, number way up in the thousands. Oscar Wiles of Huntin sburg, Ky., says: “For years | was aflliced with thit bafled the skill down Main Dakota diys afte The women of R« 10 comImenc 1 a blood taint of the best PHYSICIANS. The disew o affected my ©_e: until T was almost blind, 1 am thankful to say th it a few Lottles of 8, &, 5., our= od me entire y. )y cyesightis com- plet:y ms ored, my geeral health is bet er than It has been for yeurs."” Bk on B ool ard skin d'seases fre fie Co. Atlanta, Ga and “Phe Swift >pes ES ONLY a1 s poatpal Rasd o5 stamo) (o Vanicaias. Address LION DRUG €0, bugalt K. 7%