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

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE [ — . News of the Great West. Khe Cream of the News of the Northwest is herewith presented in readable form. makes this news a leading feature. It is the week’s history of the great northwest. No other pa per Wyoming §tock-Growers' Meoting. Thero was & larger attendance than ever fore at the annual meeting of the Wyoming k-Girowers’ assoclation which held a two- " session ot Cheyenne, beginning last onday. The following officers were elected dohn Clay, ir., president; George W. Baxter, i esident: H. B. ljams, secrotary, and Hay, treasurer. The only change fade from last year is in the case of the homas BB, Adams having removed His successor, Mr. Ijams, is sec- ‘Tetary of the state live stock board. These are the members of the executive mmitteo selected: H. K. Te.chemacher, J . E} Hammond and M. M. Mason, Larunie unty; Messrs. Hecht, Boughton and Bacon, Albany county; A.J. Bothwell, ond Mr. Haley, Carbon county S. Morgan Messrs. Kin- y, Miller, Luman, Sweetwater county; A.H. eel, H. Booth, A. V. Quinn, Uinta county; sdrs. Haly, David and Torrey, Fremont coun- y : Messrs, Irvine,Guthrie and Wolcott, Con- county; E. P. David, J. H. Durbin and 'om Sun, Natrona county’; Messrs, Clarke urphy ' and Robinson, Johnson county, essrs. Thomas, A. B. Clark and Bissell, Brook count H. Pratt and John Ken: , Sheridan county; Messrs. F. P. Voor- s and J. C. Spencer, Weston county. * Various matters of interest were discussed, r. Kendrick of She couuty, introduced resolution binding each member of the asso- ation to pay 50 cents per head for the braud- ng of all calves found on their ranges. He tofore some of the outfits have been branding only their own calves, lotting the calves o all other outfits go. It was the objec motion to get the calves branded while feed- dng with their motners and away from their \ range. 'I'his resolution had few friends § was dofeated. he round-up districts for this season wero tefined. Dr. A. A. Holcombe, the state veterinarian, resented an interesting report. He said %m the number of southern cattlo entering yoming last year by rail, was a few head ict. number com- fny in by trail is not known, but was in. the neiehborhood of 11,000 head, making a total y rail aud teail of 42,000 h Under the provision of the governor's proclamation, is- ued in March 1500, all cattle were required load at Cheyenne for inspection. By d by them inspector, @ity for Wyoming. A short pustrated that to compel all cattlo to be un- 1 at Cheyenne imposed un- ary expense aud dship upon ho shipper, and seriously embar asscd the rallvoad company handling the traffic. By direction of the governor the vet- Dlaced an fnspector at Denver for tof the shipping season aud one at blo foy wearly & month. At a meoting of the sanitary authorities of Colorado, Mon- tana and Wyoming, held at Helena on De- e omber 11, 1800, it was decided that during 1591 all cattle should be inspected before being ed, after which they would be en- titled to o to any point in Colorado, Wyom- ing or Montana wit traint. To put into operation this system of in- speetion will require one inspector on the anta Ko l‘nlln)ul\ll for New M ona and two on the Denver, T 3 orth fn Texas. To meet the expense i Jsurred by this arrangement an inspection fee of 114 cents per head was agreed upon. Whether this revenus will be sufficient to moet the expense can only be determined after the shipping season has ended. The Union Pacific railroad agreed to fur- nish the funds to meet the expenses of the inspector at Denver and PPueblo, while the inspector at Cheyenne was paid in_certifi- catos issued by the auditorand cashed. by he local banks. The contingent expenses of terinarian for the fiscal year ending on March 31, 1801, wero about 81,600, while the ppropriation ‘made by the legislature to tho same was only $1,250, leaving @ do- ficit of about #350. The appropriation for continent expenses for 1801 s 8750, or but little more than $60 a month. Dr. Holcombo ays this sum is insufficient to meet the ex- Efl‘n.«' which must be incurred uring the season of southern shipments. To Mciently guara against the introduction of angerous southern cattle requires that an inspector be stationed at Cheyenne to over- ook the papers of all cattie entering tho state. Under the agreement with Montana and Colorado the veterinarian of Wyoming was designated to uppoint and supervise the Wwork of the wspectors. 'To do this properly will necessitate the expenditure of all, and E haps more than all, of the monthly allow- nce provided by the legislature, Swindled Out of Millions. ~Overland passengers who buy fruit of a Qecrepit old man at the depot at Reno, Nev., who can be seen any morning with his bas- ket on the arrival of trains from’ either cast or west, do not know that they are contribut- ing to the support of Alva Gould, the original locator of the world-famed Gould & Curry mine onthe Comstock, says the Gazette. Gould is a familiar figure in Reno. He was born on June 15, 1815, and crossed the plains 1n 1549, arriving in Sacramento in 1850 _He followed placer mining in Culifornia until F’« when he came to the then territory of evada. He discovered silver on the round of the celebrated Gould & Curry mine January 6, 1859, snd on Sanuary . 22 located the same. Curry vos 8 mine-jumperor “floater” as ho was hen termed, and jumped the location Gould d made and forced Gould to take him in as partner. Gould made arrangements with & Pparty of prospectors to develop the mine, and hese when thoy found how rich it was anaged to swindle him out of it, and he gover ot ollar. Curr r sold his integest to enry Meredith, who wrs afterward killed in a battie with the Inatans at Pyramid lake in April, 1800, George Hearsi, who con- fided in’ General Oriando Evans the se- cret that a Dutchwan by the name of Charles Tinnls had traced ‘up the float to 8 high ledge on the Gould & Curry location, made & fruuo«lllm\ to General fivans that e tako a piece of the rock and o to Nevada Jity and juterest Houry Moveditn, John H. Bostwickand Sam Curtis in the enterprise, or which the four men, Meredith, Curtis, Bostwiselr aud Evans, wero to pay $4,000 for 200 feet, @eneral Evans started for Nevada City by the Carson Canyon voute in the early art of Decembver; 1860, and about the timo o left for Nevada Meredith left he Henne's Pass route for tho Comstock, and cawo near porishing in a snowstorm.' The general wont to Nevada and bad an assay made which showed over £,000 per ton. The general immediately made s proposition to Bostwick and Curtis, who agreed to it and thoy sent 34000 right back to Georg Hearst. ‘The following March Evans, Curtis and | iek met Hearst aud Merodith in Virginia and wero informed by Hearst that it would take $3,000, instead of $,000, to make tho purchase, 'They put up the additional $4,000, and in the meantime Hearst had formed a copartnership with Bill Lent and others of San Fraucisco, and they in turn cceoded in freezing Evans, Curtis and Bost- ick out, and Meredith having been killed by s, Was bo longer 1 the way, Gen- s did manage, howevor, to get f a proporty that was worth 1y millions. Bostwick sold his in- for #1600, and Curtis got out with Hearst and his San Francisco part- ners got the nine and soon after hought Len arley Chase's intovest in the ould, who had been so shamo- the Comstock until S ¥ be loft to try bis luek in Montana, fizally drifted to Cheyenne, Salt Luko nd baek to Colfax, ¥ o nuimbor ho poddied friit, an: 0 to Reno and has it business, In the hax % ho went to Plicerville for supy and was nowed in, and when he returnod ha fourd the eight or ten minevs on the Jode iu almost a starving condition, and talk- fny of vobbing Dutch "Jake's stove in John- . and Mr, Gould immodwtely left for Laka for move supplios. The old 1an fongbly one of the first wmen on 8 nd was foliowed up by Com- o James iiuney. He furnished the mouey aud seut Comstock to San Francisco With the flrst lot of ore Lo have assayed. ‘The Old man's Life has beon a failurc in & flukscial way, and he is talking aow of goieg to New Mexico to begin anew, a living illustration of Pope's assertion, *'I'hat man’ never is, bu® always to be, blast.” In a Hurry o Location. Tn some parts of Idaho the snow has been 50 deop this winter that no mining to say nothing of prospecting could be earried on successfully. Of course there were restive spirits who couldn’t wait for spring to open. Tho story-of how a Caeur d' Alene miner fared afforded his companions & good deal of fin at b his expense. 1t appears that the man, whose name is Chapman, went dawn to the reserva- tion near by. He located a beautiful level meadow, and after laboriously measuring, and staking it out he was resting from his toil and patting himself on tho back for being so fucky s to get ahead of everybody else and socuring so fine a_meadow when a Siwash came along. Without saying @ word the rea- skin took a shovel and clearod away three foet of suow for a little distance; then taking an axe he choped into the surface, which ap- peared to bo ica, Then he took A ten-foot pole and buried it in water, showing that the whité man had located a quarter section of the lake. It is ncedloss to say that he moved. out of Titani, by Orest out of Queen Mab, by Lambton, out of Blanche, by Birdeatcher. Fuses is in foal toSt. Leger. The mares nave beon taken to Dr. Koss’ ranch near Sacramento. I4I_vm| Too Fast, Henry Ark, financial secretary of the Coast Seamen’s union, was arrested in San F'ran- cisco last week chargéd with embezzlement. Ark has been secretary for the union for the past two years, and it is alleged that while filling the position he embezzled $2,500 of money beloaging to tho organization. When seen in a cell at the cif deny that he squandered the money, but claimed that not more than §1,800 was spent. Fast living is_attributed as the cause of his downfall. - When arrested a loaded pistol was found on him and a charge of carrying a concealed weapon was also entered on the books. Will Bore for O A deal was completed a few days ago by which Judge L. P, Caldwell and Dr. Robert Gardinier exchanged their ranch fifteen miles from Laramie, Wyo., for Denver property valued at $188,650. Andrew N. Patton is mentioned ar the purchaser of the ranch, though he is supposed to represent a syndi- cate. The ranch is located on the Big Lara- mie river, and is one of the best on the Lara- mie plains, [t embraces over five thousand acres of titled land and_some moro for which no title has ever been obtained. It is thought that the ranch bought for the purposo of boring for o1l which is supposed to exist there, An agent of the purchasers recently made an investigation of the property when a well was struck ther Deer Tramples a Child. Near Davenport, Wash,, recently & pet deer belonging to Mr. Laughenour strayed from home and went to C. W. Bethel's place. Mr. Bethel's little daughter, » child about seven, went out to tho gate, which is about | one hundred and fifty yards from the house. She opened the gato and let the deer come in. She then went to caress the deer, and roaring up on it hind foot, it struck the child with .its front feot. This throw her to the ground. The deer began jumping on her prostrate form. Mr. Bothel ‘and wife both ran to the rescuo of the little one, who would very likely have been killed except for the timely rescue. He A Wyoming Justice. They say that the truly good Deacon Hay- ford, now justice of the peace at Laramie, is a past master in the science of jerking jus- picked up a piece of fence board and struck | ice, reports the Cheyenne Leader. His e animal oo the ead and e 2 phrg | Strong hold scoms to bo in lcturing the cul- prits, and to seo him seated on the woolsack with'two rather ponderous feet elevated on the desk in frontof him whilst gentle re- proofs rall from his lips 18 & sight which 15 said to thrill the heart of every law-abiding citizen of Laramie. wore, however, fourteen places on her head that were badly bruised and she complains of her back paining her. Mexicans Must Marry. During the term of the Unmted States court just elosed at Las Cruces, N. M., six women and five men, all Mexicans, were convieted of unlawful cohabitation, under the Edmunds law, and sentenced to terms ranging from six months to one year or fined. The convic- tions were the result of a vigorous cam instituted a vear ago by the United Ste district attorneys in all the courts the territory, for the purpose of purging New Mexico of the stigma ofadultery, which has been so prevaleut since the admittance of the territory into the United States. The native population, in hundreds of cases-before this time, dispensed with the marriage cere- mony, and the wealthy ones among the men in mauy instances supported several wives. The convictions which have boen found have had a salutary effect and the practice is in a fair way to be completely stopped. Trying to Protect His Safe Crooks of various degrees of notoriety in- fest Butte, Mont., and burglaries are of fre- quent occurrence. There doesn’t seemto be any understanding among the burglars, for n several instances the same place has been robbed a number of times. One of the vic- ims of these daplicate, robbertes named Davidson grew tired of this sort of thing and wont to & newspaper office and requested tho publication of instructions as to how his safo could be worked. This was the statement Merchant Davidson made: “If all the burglars will kindly follow di- rections, my safe will not be spoiled. Turn to the left three times carefully and stop at 50. Turn to the right until it stops and then open the door, Ixamine papers and leave them as you find them. Takeall loose change. Close tha door and turn the indicutor so as to make the papors secure in case of fire.” Loaded Up a Stove. Samuel Tanner, a miner in Delano, in the north end of Wells county, Nevada, was kilied by an explosion of giant powder which he was throwing in a stove in his cabin, His legs wero broker in several places, and he was fearfully cut about the head with frag. ments of the stove, The cabit was blown o splinters. Another man was in the act of stooping to take the powder out of the stove when it exploded, but, strange to say, es- caped unhurt of Prehistoric Patm., Something of @ curiosity is on exhibition at Casper, Wyo. It is an imprint of a mon- “strous palm leaf, caused by the leaf falling into clay and the clay afterwards petrifying. The rock was found on Salt creck and indi- cates that ages ago, when the big coal beds were being formed, Wyoming possessed a tropical climate Wyoming. A Catholic church is to be built at Lusk. Rock Springs holds its city election next month, An oplum raid at Newcastle netted eight Chinamen aund five females. The coal company will commence opera- tious at Sundance by April 20, The Laramie rolling mill started up again aftor an idleness of three weeks. A large commissary building is going up at the Cambria mines at Newcastle. Casper will vote on the proposition to bond the city for 85,000 for waterworks. A daily mail is now run between Rawlins and Dixon. It was put on April 1. The Rawlins board of trade has been re- vived, with Homer Merrill as president. A drover deposited £30,000 in the bank at Lusk, to be used in the purchase of young cattle. Settlers on Oil creek are going to put in oxtra lurge crops this year, Indieations for a wet season, Specimens of varigated marble from Stock ade Boaver are being polished to send east- ern exports. Kilpatrick Brothers & Collins’ ranch will have 1,000 acres under cultivation this year near New Caste. The Hams Fork milling company is bank- ing 1,000,000 feet of logs, to be driven down the fork this spring. It is expected that 300 to 400 feet of the iron work of Cheyenne's new viaduct will be in position by tonight. Rev. Mr. Wilson, the new Methodist minis- ter at Rock Springs, has secured the armory for church services. ‘W. 0. Owen will soon bpegin the survey of the abandoned Fort Laramie military res- ervation of 34,000 acres. A car load of fine blooded horses and Jersoy cows with calves arrived in Casper from the «east for the Big Horn basin. Thomas Clark, United States mail carrier, was lost in the storm near Casper. He was found and was bat little injur The gold mine near South Pass, is turning out quite rich. A company has put in an ore crusher and other macbinery, The supreme court will convene at Chey- enne April 27, when it is expected soveral im- portant decisions will be handed down. Arrangements have been made for the de livery of a large quantity of red ochre on board the cars at Rawlins for the Denver paint works. A Cheyanne butcher recently paida local cattleman $40 per head for beaves of exactly tho same class for which he last year at this timo paid §21. The Central Pacific mines at Almy are shipping o vast deal of coal to Ogden and Salt Lake. The output now is an ex- cellent quality. There is a report that C. H, Hardy of Oak Creek, near Sundance, has discovered an im- mensé body of iron ore which to all appear- ances is very rich, It is rumored that Toot Hereford, who killed James Maas in Sweetwater county re- cently, will geta change of venuo and take his case to Evanston for trial. There is to be a public meeting at Cheyenno to protest against the heayy advance in the Took th oison . Route. Ex-Judge W. L, Buckley of Stockton, Cal., was found dead in & lodging house there with an empty morphine bottle by his bed- side, aud a glass from which the poison had been drank. He had been ill for some time, and left home one morning saying he would not be home for dinnér. He went to tho lodging houso about 9 o'clock that night. Judge Buckley was an old resident, and for many years a_leading democrat there. He was county judge several years, and whon the new coustitution was adopted he was eleoted to the superior bench, where he re- matned five yoars, and was defeated for re- cloction, Ho was anative of Virginia and fifty-nine ycars of age. He leaves a wifo and throe childron, one a grown son, He was a momber of the Knights of Honor, Knights of Pythias, Oddfellows and Masous. A Pioncer's Burial, Lysander Hathaway, a native of Massa- chusetts, died at Shasta, Cal., recently aftor abrief illness, He was soventy-four years of ageand went there in 1852. He followed mining mostly for a livelihood, but when the diggings failed he turned his hands to any jobs of work.he could do. He was a social and neighborly man, and always aimed to do what was right, says a local paper. He was buried in the public graveyard there, no one taking intorest enough to give a few taps on the church bell to denote that the butial was ready to take place, and the old pioneer, who had a warm place in his heart for everybody, and who always made it a point to turn out at the funcrais of others, was chucked in the ground and covered up without a word being spoken over his remain: Penalty of Claim Jumping. An important murder trial Avill take place at the present term of the Wyoming state court. Henry McDonald is charged with killing & man at Big Piney in Uinta county Iast summer. Briefly the circumstances are: McDonald had been living on a ranch that ho intended to prove up on, but it scems soveral parties wanted to tnnp his claim. McDouald claims that the killing was done in solf dofense as the deceased was attempt- ing to shoot him from ambush when shot, ‘Thore are a lot of witnebses toexamine. The defendant claims that therd is & conspiracy to conviet him. it is the general impression that he will bo acquitted. P L i rice of meat cuts made the retail Avenging a Girl's Wrong. butchers, Oue plan is to invite Armour to James Grant attacked John Kelly, superin. | come in. 1t is reported that No. 7 mine of the Union Pacific company at Almy is about played out. The company, it is said, has in some good or- ders from western points and is working the other mines in earnest. . Sundance Republican: Bear gulch cap- tured the medal for the most valuable display of tin oro at the Paris exposition of 1880, Tho medal was in Washington for some time, but has just been received. There are expoctations that extensive shearing and dlpkmg vens will be put in at tendent of the Bodie cousolidated mine, in Bodie, Cal., with a pistol, firing feur or five shiots at him in quick succession, Three of the shols took effect, two in Kelly's shoulder and arm and one striking him n_the chin | and coming out of the left J.lw, Kelly then suceeeded in goet! hold of Grant and threw him on the sidewalk, when othpr parties sep- orated them. Kelly 1s seriously but iy is not believed fatally wounded. The difoulty, iv is roportad, grew out of the refusal of Kelly to marry a step-daughter of Girant's, who | Douglas within the next few we clafmed that Kelly had betvayed hor. Hrom 15000 100,000 aheon will 'bb ‘sheaved Contempt in Instaliments, L d.“"'f"l,""m R County Treasurer Widber of San Fran- | 3 avi o Tiawliue liss beem girarded the contract for furpishing the Shoshono In- | dinns 20,000 pounds of seed oats, 17,000 pounds seed potatoes, 1,080 pounds seed corn aud 100 pounds seed timothy. Tho present average daily ont-put of the Rock Springs coal mines is 170 cars, which is o very high agerage, though the out-put has been as high as 200 when the Anaconda | smelter was supplied from Rock Springs. ‘| A band of tndiy.» from the Sioux reserva- purged of contempt. A writ of haboas corpus | tlon passpd dovia’ the Stockade Beaver re- was sued out in the supreme conit in het:f | cently, They'were -eturuing from a trading Vidber, who was releasdd om his own | Visit'to the "Crows in Moutana. The most recegnizznce. conspicuous feature of the outfit was a white — flag carried where it could easily be seen. Macors | William Crawford, a prominent stock man i Dr. Ross of Sacrameato, receutly retaraod | of Ulnta county, shippea 125 beef cattle to | feom Auckland, Novw Zealand. He brought | Om atile wore o a8 €o0d w con- ! two very finc thoroughbred mares, pur- | dition us any vent from Evauston this year, | chasod at the aurval salo ot tha Siylvia Park | ane, bad been fod on Wyoming hay and | bresiing farm, ‘Ouoef thews, mmed Fiour- | oaned 8 Mtto above 147, The Ulata g | county cattle are boing sent east rapidly now ette, is by Rebinson Crusos out of Kose of | and for tho next few weoks shipwents will Denwark by Stockiwell, ot of Mavohioness | be heavy. by Melbourne. out of Ciuotello by Touch- | Tt ls reported hero that Mr. Guernsey has stous. She is in foal to the colebrated Nor- | purehasod the celebrated silver propertivs, denfeldt. Fusos, the other, is by Musket 1 e Silver Loal aud the Green Mountain Boy csco formally surrendered himself to tho authorities inst week in accofdance with the judgment of Juago Wallace,who, & fow duys bofore deereed that the thofisarer was guilty of conterupt of court when he refused to oboy an order of Judge Trout and pay . a bill p sented by 1he sherift for the i'l\ug up of L presont 6ot ordored kim confined one hour daily u SATURDAY, APRIL 11, [801-TWELVE PAGES, prison Ark did not* mines, near Ha rtville. Under the superin- tendency of P. H. Grogan a pontoon bridge is being built noross tho Platte at Millers- burg so that the haul from the mines to Bufgar on the Cheyenne & Northern will be shortaned, Reocent reports from the range along Wind river do not make the prospects of stock very favorablo. It is said that cattle are dying in great numbers, and one man says that there will boa loss of atleast 50 per cent. The cattle seom to be suffering for lack of water as much as for feed. The closing up of the streams made it impossible for them to get anything to drink. Tho women of Rawlins ata recent meet- ing adopted unanimously a resolution that in case the candidates who may be nominated for the A‘umlugcl({ electfon will not pledge themselves to enforee the laws, thon the women will nominate a ticket of 'their own and will labor ailigently for its election. An- other meeting will be held April 11, E. M. Reod of Wyoming station says he will begin active work onthe Ora Haley irri- gating canal just as soon.as tho frost is out of the ground, This ditch faps the Big Lara- mno river above Hopking' ranch, runs around the bluff below Wyomisg station, and al- most to the MeGibbon ranch, It will be fif- t en miles long, but with s proposed branches this length will be increased several miles. A miner from Rock Springs says it is very hard to g@t work 1n_the/mines at that place. Many of the men there aro doing only half time. Heo said one of the minos there had re- coived orders to shut down. This will throw soveral hundred men out of employment. During the year the Union Pacific mines have been giving work to fewer miners than for several years past and steady work was given to but very fo Catifornta. Yuba City has a telegraph office. Frank Yob, a tailor, committed sulc ide by jumping into the bay of San Francisco. It hias been decided to hold a fair and rac- ing at Chico from August 25 to the 20th. It fs cldimed that a bed of coal has boen found in San Francisco, near Sutro Hoights. The Califoraia kennel club will open its an- nual bench show in Sau Francisco April 29. The corner-stone of the new Mercantile Library building in San Francisco has been laid. From Ontario a shipment of nursery stock has been made to India of deciduous citrus trees. D. O. Mills has arrived in San Francisco from the east to look after his private busi- ness affairs, The navel orange crop in southern Cali- fornia is not as heavy as in 1590 but the quality is better. Liutenant-Governor J. D. Reddick was ad- mitted to practice before the supreme court in San Francisco. The woman’s board of foreign missions has been in session at_Santa Rosa, Eifty dele- gates were present. The farmers' alliance in California com- menced on April 11, 1800, with eight members, and now numbers 22,000, Robert Lindsay, a Southern Pacific brake- man, feil from a train near Alhambra and was killed. He leaves a family Mrs. J. C, Flood, wifo of the bonanza man, fell and broke herarm in San Francisco wkile alighting from a carriage. 1t is claimed that the coal deposits claimed to have been recently discovered in Marin county have been known for years. Internal Revenue Commissioner Mason has insugurated a crusade agaiust the use of foreign labels on California wines. The charges of mismanagement of the San Krancisco hospital have been officially inves- tigated and found to be groundless. Benjamin Hallegoak is In jail at Riverside on suspicion of having murdered Louis Allie- riett, who was found dead near that place. Six lads, rangng from ten to fourteen years of age, were arraigned in the San Fran- cisco police court on a charge of burglary. D. P. Winie, a promment resident of Brookiyn, N. Y., on_a wedding tour, fell from a'strect car at Los Augeles and broke his arm. A Chmaman died recently in San Fran- cisco from alcoholism, the first defined death from that cause on record in America among that race. Mrs. McWilliams, a plucky San Erancisoo Iady, discomfited and drove away a burglar a few nights since by assailing him witk a water pitcher. Several of the ex-assemblymen from San Francisco are striving to obtain positions in the city offices there since their occupation as legislators is gone. Dr. C. Rowell, a prominent physician of San Francisco,has been-threatened with soft- ening of the brain,and was arrested Tuesday and charged with insanity. ¢ A large force of men will be put to work in the river bed owned by the Big Bend tunnel company near Oroville as soon as the tunnel will carry the water of the river. Ah Chung was arrested in Sacramento on complaint of a poll tax collector, He refused to pay his poll tax, and followed the refusal by shying a tin can at the collector. Carl R. Briggs, a business man of Redding, was held up by a_highwayman one evening while going to Shasta. The stage came down a different road and escaped. The San Joaquin county farmers® alliance, with about two hundred delegates, repre- senting all subordinate alliances of the county, has been in session at Stockton. George Wilson, who was taken from Chico to Oroville to be tried for assault to commit murder, was found guilty by a jury and sen- tenced fo two years in the Folsom prison. Many persons who desired to fila on the Mendocino timber lands thrown open April 1 to location, waited all night in front of the land office in San Francisco to be on time in the morning. During the month of March 2,109 arrests were made in San Francisco by the police. During the sawe mouth there were 603 deaths in that city, as aguinst 600 during March, 1890, The internal revenue collectors haveseized the winery of the Gallegos wine company at Trvington, Alamenda county, The company has been marketing brandy on which the tax had not been paid. Principal O'Connor of the Walencia street grammar school in San Francisco is accused of having brutally beaten one of the pupils. Ho was suspended from his position and afterwards arrested. Johann S, Weblen, a Mexican war veteran, a ploneer of 1852 and a resident of Sierra county since the spring of 1853, was found dead “in_ his bed at Downieville from the effects of heazt disease. < The widow of the late Senator Hearst has been granted an allowance of £3,000 per month preceding the settlement of the estate. The incomo from the estate is between $100,000 and 00,000 per annum. Safe crackers blew open the outer door of the safe of the Mansion house at Stockton, but were frightened away before they could open the ipuer door. The work was evidently done by experienced hands. “Little Pete,” the notorious Mongolian jury-briber who has served time in the peui- tentiary for the offense, is again suspected of bribing witnesses in the trial of a high- binder for murder in San Francisco. J. P. Phelan of San_ Francisco, senior at- torney for the plaintiff m the Bliss water suit, “fell down stairs at the Winnemucea, Nevada, hotel, causing hemorrhage of the brain. Ho died at noon the next day. It is stated that Claus Spreckles, the San Francisco sugar king, bas entered the Have- meyer sugar trust, Upon such terms as will give the Spreckles the control of the western trade and the Havemeyers the eastern trade. The trouble between the box manufactur- ers’ association and their union employes coutinues and may result badly for the fruit- packing industry. The Truckee box factory ot San Francisco has locked out its union men. The Southern Pacific car shops at Sacra- mento are overcrowded by men seeking work. Huudreds are disappointed, there being not enou,h work for one in ten.” The company is goiug ‘o build 500 cars, but the plans are not yetreay. It 1s suthoritatively stated that the rail- rond fron [asadena to the observatory on Mount W ilson will be ballt within the year. It will be twelve miles long, and will be oper- ated by ¢ ectricity. 1t is stjmated that the wtal cos' will be 500,000, Italiar fishermen have eagaged in unlawful warfars upon the seals, #t Seal Rock, San rrancisco bay, clmuming that they destroy fish, There is a law agufyist kiliing the seals there, and if the guilty parties can be discov- ered they will be punished, A great stir was createdin Sacramento by Mrs. Clara Hoffman declaring in a veceut lecture in Ventura that school girls were in the habit of visiting saloons in Sacrameuto l and bacoming inebriated. Legal proceedings will be iistituted to silence the scandal. The Saa Prancisco supervisors passed an ordinance prohibiting the suspension of elec- trio light wires over the roofs of bufldings. The nflvlrlct light company brought an in- Junction suit to prevent the enforcoment of lg::* n(:—dlnnnr(\,but Judge Hawley sustains the ard. Miss Zua Danlels, daughter of Rev. E. R. Daniels, minister of the Seventh Day Ad- ventist faith, now residing at Stockton, has brought suit against M. J. Church, a wealthy land aud ditch owner of Fresno county, to recover judgmont for $5,000 damages for slander. Charles Smith of R.) Vista was suffering from pnoumonia, and thinking that his lungs wore affectod, went toa hospital in San Francisco and was the first patient who re- ceived treatment with Dr. Koch's lymph. Instead of receiving benefit he has grown worso ever since. Rev, Samuel 8. Fleming has surrendered the ministry of the Methodist church at Los Angeles and resigned also from church mem- bership. This s owing to serious charges of misappropriation of the funds of the Redondo COhautauqua enterprise and criminal asssult on his servant gir} At Nevada City, in the case against Frank Wright of San Juan, who bit oft Henry Fuller's ear in_a row about the ownership of the Boss mine, while Fuller was acting a8 & peacemaker, the jury re- turned a verdict of guilty of mayhem, with recommendation of mercy. Nathaniel Hunter, secretary of the Society foa the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in San Francisco, seems to reserve all s ten- der feelings for the brute creation. He badly beat a man over the head with a six-shooter for protesting ugainst his cows being driven to the pound by Hunter's myrmidons, It 1s stated now as a positive fact that Henry Miller, who is in the Los Angeles county jail, is the masked man who single- handed held up and robbed the stage rununing between Redding and Weaverville on the evening of February 19, Captain Thacker of Wells, Fargo & Co. says he is the man, The San Jose board of trade has appointed a committee to take steps to build a railroad from San Jose to Alviso to connect with freignt steamers to San Francisco. Seventy- five thousand dollars have already been sub- seribed, and but” $50,000 is needed, as a froo right of way will be given by the city. At Sonora, Tuolumn cou nty, w hile taking down from the rack a doube-barreled shot- gun, Captain S. S. Turner accidentally shot and killed himself. Captain Turner loft Tennesseo in 1548 for California, and located in that county in 1849, where he has ever since lived, being one of the first white men in the county. A little daughter of Captain Mi rell of Oakland died under circ which would indicate ppisoning by gist having made a niatako in putting up a prescription. The child was a little over a year oid, R. B. Smith, the clerk who put up he prescription, was arrested but released in $2,000 bail. It has just been discovered that the grand jury empaneled in San Francisco last Decem- ber has a member who is a non-resident of that city. J. C. Partridge lives in Oakland, but does business in San Francisco. The lawyers 0 o now wrestling with the guestion whether uis nou-residence will not invalidate all the proceedings. Robert M. Hutehinson of Alviso was found dead in bis bed in a pool of blood. His throat was cut and a knife lying near by ind that he bad taken his life. He was a pioneer, having come to California in 1850, and leaves a wife and daughter. Mr. Hutchinson was seventy-nine years of age. No cause has been assigned for his act. Veterinary Surgeon C. S. Brown of Biges was putting a cork into a bottle of liquid = carbolic acid when the cork was forced down through the neck of the bottle, causing the acid to gush out into his face and both eves. A doc- tor was called in immediately, but grave doubts are entertained of his ever being able to see. Manuel Pascadero, who, during a fight sev- eral weeks ago, chewed the upper lip of Mar- tin Ortego, was tried before a jury in Sacra- mento. The evidence seemed tojndicate that Pescadero acted in self-defeuse, and the jury, after being out several hours, announced thiat they were unable to agree. It is said that they stood six for conviction and six for ac- quittal. J. H. Jewettand others obtained judg- ment against the Spring Valley mining com- pany of Biggs for #5,100 and costs, The de- fendant is better known as the Cherokee mining company, which has been using the lands of the plaintiffs as a dumping place for hydraulic debris, The company agreed in 1880 to pay plaintiffs 8500 per month for the privilege of using their landsas a dump. Only a part of the amount has been paid, leaving a baiance of $5,100 still due when plantffs brought the suit. The San Diego commercial company has been incorporated with a large capital for the importation of fine cabinet woods from Mexico and Central America. The company has pur- chased a pleasure steamer and - transformed her into a deep-sea tug for towing purposes, and will adopt the log-raft plan of importa- tion, which has succeeded so well on the Atlantic coast. Immense tows of prima vera and mahogany will be brought up the coming summer, which will be worked upat the hard wood saw mill at National City, which was built for this purpose. e Given Away. New York Herald, Her hat, a pricecless gem of flowers, Aud beasts, and birds and insects rare, A thing of beanty, gmmuf towers, ‘An Effel, o'er her sunny har. Below, a jacket, tailor made, ‘Achieves the acme of high art— At first this maiden seems arrayed 1n style to break a critic’s heart. Her gloves are chic, her bangs in crimp, Her gown a marvel in its way; ‘The purse that bought it did not scrimp— Her dress is perfect!—ah, bat stay ! — Glance once again; with wilful zest For flaws and imperfections seek; Behold her shioes, a man’s last test, They’ve needed blacking for a week! SRR Taking Cara of the West. Apropos of the appointment of ex-Congrass- man Carter to be commissioner of the general land office at Washington, says the New York Continent, a prominent Montana man tells a story about an eastern mau who was sent out to Montana to be a judge. “I won't mention his name,” sald my informant, “‘but Judge—— knew absolutely nothing about the western country, One of the first cases he had to try was one relating to the title of some mining property. Richard Roe had sunk a shaft and made other improvements which entitled him,he aver, to claim the land. John Doe set up a counter claim. In charging the jury, this judge, after making a prelimmary ‘statement, suid: ‘It you are convinced that the defendant had Zone ahead and erected a shaft in good faith,’ ste. ‘Great God,' was the terse comment of the foreman of the jury, ‘this judge does not know the difference between a hole in the ground and a liberty pole.” Those arc the kind of people that have teen saddled onto the west and northwest in the past, comments the St. Louis Republic. They meéant well, but they did not know any- thing about the locality. Mr. Carter is the first_ really western man to oceupy the osition of Commissioner of the land office for many years. Most of his predecessors have been as ignoraut as the judge I spoke of regarding the condition of things west of the Missouri river, i et Spoiled the Marriage Gifts. Edward Moore and Miss May Brauson wore married i Coatesville, Pa. The bride re- ceived o great array of wedding presents, in- cluding the usual stores of linen, bric-a-brae, silver table service and pictures. A few ovenings ago somo enemy or enemies broke into the house where the goods were stored and mutilated and destroyed them all. Noth- ing whatever was stoien, but everything was made unfit for use. Mr. and Mrs. Moor are at a loss to account for the outrage except upon the presumption that a rejected lover may have inspired it A Woman with a Lion Heart. New York Sun “What led you_to break off your engage- ment with Miss Craik " : “I was afraid of her. One evening in the parior 8 mouse ran across the floor. Sho never moved a muscle, but said: O, what a pretty little creature ¥ Shocking Inf-rence. New York Sun. Cumso (reading)—A ship which recently sailed for Africa had on board soven mission- aries and 5,00 barrels of whisky. Mrs. Cumso (Indignantly)— Well, I do flunk they ought Lo send missiouariés who dou't drink, WYOMING'S NEW GOLD CAMP, Rich Strikes Made on Gold Hill Oreate Great Exoitoment in Mining Oiroles, BURIED UNDER THE SNOW ALL WINTER. Development Work Has Been Golog on Slowly but the District Has not Yot Been Thoroughly Prospected, Near the top of Medicine Bow range in western Wyoming is Gold Hill, a little min- ing camp from which groat things aro ox- pected. Now it hasa pormanent population of only about fifty, Before the ‘season is over, though, it is predicted that it will be a o place of considerable importance. It was late last fall when the first mineral find was made in that part of the Saratoga district, about which has sprung up the new camp. Atready it has bocome the taik of mining circles everywhere, During the winter theve was little if any chance for prospecting there. Buried deep under the snow for months it has been dif- cult enough to carry on development work on the few locations made by the lucky ones who rushed to the sceue after the first strike in that locality became known But venturesome miners were drawn there by the reports of rich finds that had been made, backed up by specimens of the oro which was being taken out. Notwithstand- ing the difficulties encountered in getting into the camp and the lack of accommoda- tions for people after they reached the place, it is estimated that at least 1,000 peopls have visited Gotd Hill since the first of tho year, So far all the reports have been of . one kind-favorable. No attompt has been made to boom the camp, Those who hold claims have been content to work them as best they could under tho existing unfavorabls circum- stances. There has been nothing left for new comers to do but 1o possess themselves of patienco and await the time when the mantle of snow that covers the district to a depth of six to ten feet shall have disappeared. When the snow has melted then there will bo a chance for prospecting. Judging from the numerous inquiries by mail that have poured into Gold Hill and other more accessible camps and points along the ling of the Union Pacific railroad thero will be an army there to do the prospec It will bo a case of first come, best picking. Thoe fame of the camp is such thatis certain to attract a horde of oid time treasuro hunters as well as inex- perienced scekers for goidh. From no quarter has there come such good reports on which to base great expectations as from Gold Hill. Ono thing that scoms to indicate that there is something tangible about this new gold craze, 1s the fact that no- body reaps any benefit out of the furoro that has been created. Those who have already staked out cluims there would bo glad enough of the opportunity to do some prospecting themselves at their leisure. The demand for trausportation be- came so0 great that not long ago a daily stage line was put on between Raw - lins and Gold Hill. The board of trade of Lardmio appointed a committee to raise funds for opemng the road from that place to the camp. When 3500 had been collected last week @ contract was made with an old con- tractor to complete the work by April 25, He set out with an outfit of twenty-four men equipped with the necessary provisions, tools and teams. They began work at the Little Laramie and wili have plenty to do to digout the big drifts over the snowy range to make aroad fit for travel by the contract time. This bold attempt to clear a track shows that the Laramio morchants regard it ns worth their whilo to open communication with the new camp as speedily as possible. Reports from Gold Hill indicate that tho snow is fast disappearing. Tho Rawlins stago line is well patronized now und arrange ments aro befng made to increase the accom- modations as the traMic demands. By this route is the only practicable means of reach- ing the camp at present. Gold Hill is seven- ty-eight miles from Rawlins and good timo is made of the trip. A mail route was recontly established between the camp and Saratoga, which is on the way from Rawlins to Gotd Hill. The only way of getting into the camp now other than the one described is by cross- ing the snowy range on snow shoes. Soveral who have attempted that during tho wintor have barely escaped witn their lives, al- though some men have successfully made the trp. The latest Information from Gold Hill is to the effoct that there are upwards of ono hun- dred and fifty prospect holes in tho camp that are down at least ten feot. Some of tho claims on which work has boen done are the the Loviathan, which is down 85 feot, Acmo 50, Little Bonanza 50, Laramie (tunbel) 60, Star of Wyoming 27, Snowflake 25 and Florida 18 foet. Al of ‘these claims improve the decper the shafts aro sunk and thero are 1o indications that the veins will pinch out. On the conurary, in one shaft, whore there was a showing of eight inchosof ore at the surface, the vein w!senod out to three feet at a depth of_twenty feet or more. Freo gold is found through every foot sunk and the wall rock pans out well.” The lends so far discov- erod are mostly gold-bearing, though somo copper and silvér ore is found, The general character is mainly of gnefss, with iron- stamed and decomposed matier without quartz, From bits of rock four or five colors are obtained. I'res and wire gold is found and from ono holo was takeu out peacock copper ore, specimens of which have assayed as )00 a ton. . Downey of Laramie recently reccived a small sack contaming samples of oro from the Wyoming lode in the Brush Creek camp on Gold Hill, The speelmons were all white quartz, showing tree gold to the naked eye, which, under the glass, looks liko immense nuggets, while sprinklod through tho whole is flour gold not visible without the atd of the microscope, but as plentiful as snowflakes after a storm. Au experienced prospector and mining expert says thoy resemble the frec gold quartz of Idaho aud are ich. May Be a Rich Distr ot Petitions are cireulating among the miners in the Victora afstrict asking t@ have it de- tached from Utah and annexed to Wyoming, to which they claim it belongs. The district, which is about oue hundred and fifty milos loug, is claimed to be a vast mineral belt lies on the Wyoming side of the Uinta range, but by some oversight on the part of the gov- ernment surveyors the boundary line betwoea Wyoming and Utan, which should have run along the summit of the range, was mado to foilow the foothills, That s the ciaim set up in the petitipn. @ streams in that section all run toward Wyoming and ompty into Groen rivor, and tho float is all found on this side of tho line. As yet not much prospecting has been donoe in tho Victoria district, but itis anticipated that there will be a good deal of work dono in that direction during the coming season. There is one mine, from which the distriet takes its name, which Is turning out rich ore, At present ten teams are engeged 1n hauling the ore from the Victoria to Carter, from which point it is shipped to tho Chicag i smelters. Tho profit 1s sald to average §2,000 for each carload. Tho ore is estimated to run from 33 to 50 per ceut In. sil heu Naby wan sick, we gave her Cestoria, Wien she was a Child, she cried for Castorla, When sho becaine Mias, she clung to Castoris, When shie had Childre, she gave tisin Castoris, ONE ENJOYS Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts ntly yet promptly on the Kidneys, iver and Bowels, cleanses the sys- tem effectually, dispels colds, head- aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever pro- duced, pleasing to the taste and ao- ceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy nns agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most pugnlnr remedy known, yrup of Figs is for sale in 500 and 81 bottles by all lending drug gists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will pro- cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it.© Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA FI6 SYRUP CO. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. \OUISVILLE. KY. NEW YORK, K.V T weves I rath # (s t manhood, makes soefoty & pl 11fo antiafactory. In short it r ofprice. Leslie & o KInsl Cormik & L sile, Owaha, A D. Foster, Council Blufs Baron Leibig The groat mist pronouncod tre well knowa Leibig Compariy’s Fxtract of Beef, made of the finest River Platteeattlo. nfinitely su and quality to any i o e grown In elsewhe o Ha authorized L his as the well kno'n < trade mark signature ot LEIBIG |Extract COMPANY’S lof BEEF. For del Beef clous, en, ADVICE TO THE ACED. Age brings Infirmities, such an sluggish bowels, weak kidneys and torpid liver, Tuit’s Pills have a specific offect on these organs, stim- ulating the bowels, gives natural discharg- os, and Imparts Vigor to the wholo systou or improved o snoniie Cool Y. ‘We make more plasters than all makers in this combined, becauso ‘)uhl\fl appreciad » the mer- dicinal plaster for house- hold use, all others being weak imitations, Get tho Genuine. Gou; MAG! w0 b 1L hro Abcory it ot Kt (s e o Staten, TPKINK, P Before and Afleq 6 aGripp Fortify the 8ystem BY THEUSE OF _SCOTT’S EMULSION Of Pure Cod Liver Oil and HYPOPHOSPHITES OF LIME AND SODA. It increases the resisting power against Disease. Re- stores to health and strength the debilitated. Heals the Lungs and Cures the Cough. ! Palatable as Milk. FOR SALE BY AL 1GG erain the Unito PERIN T, 11¢ 18, BEGGS' BLOOD PURIFIER AND BLOOD MAKER Is not pleazant to take, as it is com- posed of all the medicinal qualities thatgo to make new and rich blood without compelling the consumor to pay $1 A BOPILE FOR ONE-THIRD SYRUP which can be bought any where for thirty-five conts a gallon, as all sur- aparillas are. 'BEGGS’' BLOOD PURItIER aud BLOOD MAKER I8 composed of pure medicine, and al- lows the purchaser to add syrup which is advised when glven to children. It your drugslat aoos not keop ft accent no substituto, but order divect from Bog 3 My Co.. 105107 Michizan Bt Ghicuga, 1 and shoy will torward. oxpréss propuld, (s bot- e for L or six for ¥, FOR MEN Mon, Wonk y old Young M ddle aged Men, bring erve Bean Co, Huff wn Drug 0o, 1110 Fo