Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 16, 1891, Page 11

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1891—TWELVE PAGES. - News of the Great West. T..e Cream of the News of the Northwest is herewith presented in readable form, No other paper makes this news a leading feature. It is the week’s history — | ) How it Feels to Be Lynched. | Sioux war. Dr. Crampton, the post surgeon, thu ¢ . the man who was | Visits them regularly every morning and pre- Arthur Archunbault, the man who ¥ | scribes meaicines to relievo their sufterings Mkl Bodinotad Bt At Bodesho ol 3 as far as possible. They occupy & couple of at Gilman, in an_attempt to muke him con- | Sipley tents just outside the barracks enclos- foss toa plot to fire the Gilman botel, was | ure. - Yestorday, the day being fine, they before Justico Neagle on a charge of at- “\'mulurvd'uul through the grove, ) " S the red fox squirrels leaping tempted arson and was djscharged. There | q - th It ¢ own to the la - was absalutely no evidence tending to show | thither and down to the lak hat Archunbault had to the hotel, says the Scattle Post. Archunbault s about twenty-three old. Helis quite ruddy of c withal a “hard-looking" citizen. the affair is that late at night h by a acputy sheriff and was His ken to & he had engnged for himself iv Davis' lodging house aud was there held a prisoner. was a stranger in the place and as here ners were all the miners, who was deputized as an officer, held him on the bed fused to tell his business the agaiust hin. Oune of fu his roor while a crowd of twenty or angry men ked the room and the and demanded a confession of him. was obdurate and insisted that he n ¥ about any attempted arson “One fellow bad a bowie knife and w 1o stick said Archunbault, another man had a revolver and was going to ot me, but the man with the dirk w “irst whack at me. Linally the other [ t's take him out and hang him up “The crowd all helloed and they ¢ hold of me from all sides, pulled me the stairs and into the street everal ran to get a rope and the r tree. [t was pitch dark to fight. One fellow tied a He didn't do it good or I wouldn't here to the tale. Thef threw end over the limb of a putting the noose over my head, me up. They failed to tie my hands grabbed the rope. The motion saved hroken neck. One of the miners struc uds with something that fo £0 The rope tightened around my nec! cut off my wind. Icould feel the into the flesh, and it smarted funny. 1 thought they were out o cheeks. I felt—on, I felt like hell! Then they let me down. One man “‘Did Hughes tell you building#’ aud I said ‘Yes:' then ing that I did not know Hughe that made them mad and they again. 1 felt my head jerked pein was awful. T knew I was but swinging. It was so da was dead and in another world. pain then, 1 don't know how long it was after: but I suddenly felt stinzing pains 1 head, and the pain shot down my boc thought | was dead, but | didn't kn 1 was. I couldn't think aud my eyes. Then some on with something. It was a black hat. a whole lot of men and my grip was foot of the bed. 1 was in my own roc the Davis house and the miners were dri than before. I was lying down sitting on my legs While telling the showed the teil-tal out bis _neck. whiu mark. The kuot my jawe ‘Lhis ptace is where it rubl iléshi off when the rope slipped tighter. second time it caught lower down- my Adam's avple, and heavier wark. I don't the knot was, but it must have right here where you see this spot whe skin is rubbed off sud the flesh st pull [ was too kuot in the the tree, ! remer 1 said not sta k I thou 1 was ¢ story “The first came under the left s my head.’! P Wyoming's Napoleon. vo got & bank clerk up in our n oy cards und spades in the game of financi and beat him to a standsiill,” says Curren of Cheyenne, to the Leader. only 19 years old, but is » hummer. ko bank was away and in a few hours was in a del state. The young ‘Napoleon' was in sole charge of the bank. disposed person started the story one and that @& ‘bluff.’ Before night it wa country Ny wa dent there would be a _run on the iustitution the next morning. The young clerk there was scarcoly money enough to ] hour. vromptly. He called on > merchant and held a brief c Then this young _Napoleon home, where he found & from the depositors did not wmt for them to this biuff: I refuse to with you. There will speak, but discass bu in the safo. You may draw out every you have deposited and we'll be glad to get Then he turned on his'heel and loft the committee. Brght and early there assembled at the pank the Just before time for opening the doors An express wagon was driven up, id of your small aceounts.” creditors. which were seatedtwo heavily armed oné of them the watchman of the A pathway through the crowd was and the watehman began the bank canvas bags containing gold as indicated by the prominent marks, of the bugs were marked ‘85,000, &n or two ‘#1000, The people saw bags, heard the chink of the metal, an lieving the bank was O K, move away. Justasthe last bag of * was bauded Into the door the voung fin threw the bank open. The crowd make any effort to reach the paying t window.” ‘Uome on now. every one of shouted the clerk. No cne respond wade another biuff. ‘You must com - sttempted to set fire | was arrested | d me to & have been to set fire to the put me up back, and the w where would not open struck my face and a man Archunbault blister and red marks time the rope glor my chin and made this upper ed the and made the twisted My neck’s awful sore—it burts me to turn woods wno some day will give Jay Gould shree months ago. while the president of the , the cashier was taken Some evil Qi Boon that fhe institntion was iu bad wag, futimated that the president had skipped the cashier's illuess He hada no one to advise him, but he the leading committee awaiting him. be 50,000 in gold e - Yere in the morningand there is alike amonnt carrying into were about t did not years room He more hall He knew anted “and anted man ght down men ared rope. other and ran nd T me a k my d me to lot k and cutting My eyes felt n my said: m ber- ‘No.' nding ight 1 n't in ward, 0 my gy, 1 1 saw on the m_in unker ide of The right kuow n re the up. eck o' ering Mortz “He's wo or ick, irious left after- as evi- knew ast an onfer- went He made siness dollar in men, bank. made coin, Some d one these nd, be- gold ancier eller you g be e and get your money. We don’t want you rd-d nccounts any more. Here, Jim take this and sign this receipt in full. Bartley. Here, man, come and get your dust. .' He a on their taking the money. Just at tnis junclure tue committee came i n and begeed the clork to ‘stop, for God's sake.' They almost got down on their knees the bank to_keep their money. The to ask young ‘Napoleon' finally consented, but de $6 there was_ever ‘any wore d—d no: he would throw every depositor's eclared nsense moaey into the street’ The crowd de) parted the bank was bappy and confident that one of the strongest institutions of its kind in America. Their confidence have beeu shaker had they known th might vas bags marked 000 gold,’ ete., and be- e can- daubod with red sealing wex, contained noth- ing more nor less than iron washers whic the voung clerk had purchased from the ha ware man who had otherwise assisted deceptiou, he being convinced of the ness of the bauk. The two men the Napoleon iusisted on paying in full the bad long wished to get rid of. in the sound- young bank Sick and Lonely Sioux. The four young Sioux Indians, Horse, White Beaver, His-Horse's-Voi ers of war at Fort Sheridan, are ba forlorn aud discouraging time of it their chiefs, Kicking Bear and Stort aud the rest of the wa brought in from Pine Miles went to Europe wild west sho less sick, and have came to the post. that prevented Ridge by with Buffalo been It was sickness, in fact, > their going with their companions and earning a few dol- lars in the show making terrible business. ravages Consumwp on ing grouuds unless mate. dread disease, but_is advanced, although it is o Take-the-Shield-Away, who remain prison- rs and squaws These four are all more or ever since His-Horso's Voice, who is scarcoly able to dragz himself about, and heawill soon go to the happy hunt- be has a change of cli Little Horse is a victim of the same bis case 1t is not so far plicated with Gher ajlments that make bim an invahd. Little ce and ving a since Bull, eneral Bill's they abroad ption is White Beaver is suffering from s Tuke-the-Shield-Away is the onl; four who has thus far escaped roe. axwell savs, to Fort Sheridan Jasuary 27 last. Thy tracted thelr disease from exvosure one of the isease, and ke is melancholy and homesick to the lust de- These Indians were sick, Lieutenant when they were brought rofula. watching hither and shore to listen to the'waves, They complained because they had no hooks and lines witn which to catch fish. Little Horse attempted to go in swim- ming one afternoon, but fouud the water Loo cold toenjoy thebath. When thetwenty-three warriors and squaws left with Buffalo Bill in the latter part of March, they took the half breed interpreter,John Shangrau, with them, This left the four remaining bebind without any one with them who could converse, and they plaintively made kuown their longing to 0 back to their own country. Colonel Crof- ton, commander of the post, sent a telegram to Washington asking for instructions as to disposing of these four Indians, The war de- partment replied tuat it had no special in- formation regarding them, and dia not_wish to interfere with the plans of General Miles. Bee Culturc in the West. Bee culture is 8 big industry in Southern California, and profitable, The largest bee farm in this town belongs to a merchant, and he has 160 hives, with 45,000 bees in each, } making 7,200,000 bees, It is quite a colony. But it is no! there will to be supposed that be an overstock of bees. The lite of a bee in the working scason is but three weeks. On the second day of its existence it eats its way out of its cell aud commences storiug honey. If a bee dies within the hive it is drageed out by otber bees. Each hive hus a queen bee, She is the mistress of the hive aud does no_work. She ouly molts a drone once during uer life which lasts five years, and she has a capacity It is this tremencous increase that keeps the stocks of bees up, for if it were not so the colony would soon be dead. The drone is twice as large as the queen bee, and the queen bee nearly three times as large as the work bee. The working bees will 000 eggs a day not tolerate more than one quéen bee and will kill the drones. Th drone's life is short. He dies after meeting the queén bee. When a colony is without a queen oee th will proceed to elect oue. The most singular thing about the queen bee is, can she lay an egg so that it shall be a queen bee, aroue or working bee! The bees make these cells for the depository of the eggs. The celis for the work bees, which are of one gender, are smaller than those of the drones, while the cells of the queen bees are like a peanut roken in half, or pear shaped, hanging downward. Now some think that it is the size of the cell that regulates this. is customary sometimes to take away these queen cells and place them in hives which have not them. This is for the purpose or forming a new colony. Bees are extremely fond of fresh water and do well near a spring. They especially delight in swarpy placas where they can alight and drink in the water with- out danger of drowning. It hus been proved that the sage brush makes a very good noney. They are no trouble through winter; twenty pounds of hone will feed a colony of 45,000 bees, The profits on 140 to 160 hives is from $1,100 to §1,200 per annum. A man or woman can attend to 800 or 400 hives without feeling the labor. Completion of the Pacific San Francisco celebrated the completion of the Pacific railroad May 8, 1860, though the formal ceremony of connecting the two mam lines of the system did not take place until two days later. The last spike on the Central Pacific, roaa proper was driven on May 8 at 10 0'ciock n the forenoon. At suurise on that day in San Fraucisco a salute of 100 guns was fired. The ci decorated with flags and bunting, in the ilroad and evening was illuminated. Bells and whistles were put to good use,and asa watter of course there was a procession. without which 1o American celebration is complete. Free transportation was offered to Sacramento, and thousands went there to participate in an equally elaborate demonstration. The ccre- monics which took place at the actual union of the Central and Union Pacific roads at Promentory Summit, Utah, were of a more impressive character. All' the leadiug offi cers of the roads, the goveruors of several states and many otbers were there, the as- semblage numbering nearly one thousand per- sons. Arizona presented a spike made’of gold, silver and iron, while Nevada offered one of silver The *last spike was driven by Governor Leland Stanford aud Vice Pres- ident Durant, and whon 1t was announcoed thut the last transcontinental road had at last been completed the spectators gave cheer af- ter cheer. _Governor Stanford sent this dis- patch to President Grant: “Wo have the honor to report,_the last rail luid, the last spike driven. The Pacific road is finished.” The coustruction of the road was authorized by congressin 1862, but actual work was not begun until 1865, As a matter of some inter- est, it may beadded thatthe fare charged from Chicago to San Francisco was originally 21095, California Early Days. ““Along in the early 50s 1 went to Califor- nia intending to dig a fortune out of the rocks in a very few days, but I found that I had counted too many chickens before a certain needed development by nature had been ef- fected. I hadn’t been among the miners more than a week.”” said a veteran miner to a San Francisco Examiner reporter, “‘before they bad found a pickname for me. It was ‘Old Buckshot.’ You see, I carried a huge, old-fashioned horse pistol, which I had loaded almost to the muzale with buckshot, on tne principie that ten bullets would do better execution than one. As the weeks and months passed the name grew so familiar that had anyone said ‘Martin Ordway,’ [ would probably not have realized who was meant. My ill luck in the mines induced me to accent a“‘zovernment position.’ That was 10 carry the mails from a poirt 150 miles east to Sacramento. In thi rvice I remained two years and wus known at every station as ‘O1d” Buckshot.) One day I found a letter in my pouch addressed to ‘Martin Ordway. At the first camp I inquired for that {naivid- ual, but no one knew lim. I continued to make the inquiry at every station, and when 1 reached my destination it still remained in my possession—one of the letters which I had found no owner for. At Sacramento I met one of the boys who came out from the states with me, and to_him 1 showed the letters. When he looked at the ane addressea ‘Martin Ordway’ he paused, thought in- tently for a minute or two, and then, sud- deuly brightening, exclaimed: ‘Why, ‘Bucksbot, didu't your uwame used to be Martin Ordway It was a revelation. I had actually forgotten my own name The President in the Desort, The most striking thing about the presi- ent's reception at Indio, dowa in the heart of the Colorado desert, was the appearance of the small body of Iudians from the neigh- boring camp. They were under the charge of the old Chief Cabazon, who is & good spec- imen of the hale old age that may be reached in that climate, for he has turned one hun- dred, yet is still stalwart amd active. Cabazon is an elderly, patriarchal In- dian, with § white mustache and goatee and a particularly uristooratic appearauce, Ome of bis head nier is Captain Jim, an ex- ceediugly intelligent Indian,. who 'speaks English and Spanish flueatly and is a good farmer. He has u fine crop of - eorn, musk- melons, beans and other vegetables growing along the irrigating ditch near Indio, the owner of the ditch allowing him this privilege, in return for which Captain Jim and his Indians irvigate land for the ditch owner. Cabazon's special grievance is the treatment which he and bis band have received from several of the Indisn commissioners. One of these commissioners keeps a musewt of Indian curios in Pasadepa, and his whol object in writing the different Indian tribes Appears Lo be to secure objects for uLis shop. He mnn:l! begs baskets of the Indgians, lace and carved woodwork. Tuese articles the In- con- the dians give readily to anyone in suthority, but they object streauously to the wite of the ea':mflumneril who boufiy h\.nvu.i: rne;; wickeups and takes snap-shot ures their squaws and papocses. These Indians of the great northwest. r the camera, and it is very difficult to get them to face it, as they think it has an evil influence. Yet this woman, despite her knowledga of their prejudice. continues to violate their feelings. ~ Cabazon gave the president a memorial setting forth their grievances and asking that they be given ® chance to do some farmiug from art wells, Killing Near Blackfoot. The bodies of Robert and William Hull, killed by the Indian near Blackfoot, Idaho, wero taken to Whitney, their home. Mr. Cnadwick, who had been with others o Blackfoot for the bodies, stated that the un- fortunate men had started for the Suake River country just one week before tne caskets containing their remains were re- turned to their former homes. They were going to work on some land that Mr. R. Hull had taken up in the Snake River velley and had camped for dinner at the railroad tank, just outside of Blackfoot. William Hull had washed. and was in the act of cutting meat, while Revert Hull was engaged iu washing. The aged geutleman was struck by the bullet in t head, back of the ear, the bulict ranging up- ward, while the ball which killed the young man, William, steuck him o the side and ranged upward. The death of Robert was instautaueous, while william lived ouly u few minutes, ana had expired before any help could be gotten to him. The Indiau was A young man who bad been drivkiog, as al ready published, and seems to have been a bad ‘charucter naturally. But three weeks before he had sola his wife for & pony When fouud he had committed suicide,shoot ing himself in the stomach. The ball had torn his band and partly shattered his wrist, and his acath had evidently come very soon Mr. Raobert Hull was fifty-one years of age and had moved to Frankiin as early as 160, fore ¢ 1e ploneers of Cache y aud he le a host of frieuds and many loving hearts in his family to mourn bis sorrowful ending. Story of the President. I was attached to the train which carried the president from Yuma to Los Augeles, and had an opportunity to see u good deal of Mr. Harrison,”" observed a tragesman on the Missour1 Pacific. “A one-armed officer, Major Saneer, I think his name is, secmed to me to be the closest to the president, and ap- peared to read everything before it was sun- mitted to Mr, Harrison. The president breakfasted at the same time we did, and he gave my brother Will and myseif a very pleas- ant ‘good morning.’ Of course, the breakfast was a very nice one, but, £00i heavens for two hungry brakemen, eversthing was entirely too small. The party seemed very pleased with the reception at Indio, but when they got to Pomona the people began to surge around and commenced throwing flowers and fruit that Mrs, Harrison said when she reached the cars: **We shall all be taken back in a box if this thing continues longer.” At this point an extra train with a reception committer and a band came out. You should nave scen the oranges they brought the presilent, some as big as a man’s head. In Los Angeles the crowd grew wild. There were 12,000 school children to greet him, and each child trought a bouguet Flowers were hurled at him from the tops of houses, and he was literally buried in them. One smart hatter put out a big hatand called it “My grandfather's hat,” but Chief of Po- lice Glass came along and ordered 1t down It will be days before the streets can bo swept clean. Isaw no liquor on bosrd the president’s car at luncheon time, only Apolli- naris water. This seemed to be the favoriie tipple.” A Miner's Story. “A man who is a fine mineralogist 15 not always the most successful prospector. To my own knowledge three of the greatest grecuhorns on eartn made the richest find have ever sccn, stumbling upoun them by sheer good luck,” observes J. T. Ryan to & Salt Lake Tribune representative. *“When I was first_out with a party of prospectors fu 1daho av old Yankee came up to our ‘eamp one sultry afternoon and asked: ‘Say, can you tell me where there is a good place to mine?” Wo thought we wourd have some sport at the fellow's expense, and so pointing unthe bill to where aloue trée stood said: ‘Right under the shade of that tree you will fiud lots of gold. Dig down about ten feet, and when you get tired restin the shade of ihe tree.” He went up there and set to work at a_place that showed no indications of eold, aud which we had passed by. We thought +d & sucker. He worked for two days very industriously, and then iu the evening came strolling into our camp. ‘Much obliged stranger,’ he said! ‘ve pave me good advice, and ['ll make it squar’ with you. I've run acrossa whole busketful of these little lumps of gold.” He exhibited a dozen nuggets as big as marbles, and later on, when the mine was develoved, it wrned out wondrously rich, We all felt & little weak when we saw the extent of his find,” A Snake Story. “Speaking about rattlesnakes, I will tell ¥ou an encounter with them which amused me considerably at the time. It was some years ago, when stages ran into Los Angeles,” says a gentleman to the Sacramento Bee, was on intimate terms with the dmver ana heard in the boot most distinct souads of rat- tling. “Jim,' I said, ‘vou havea rattlesnake inthe boot.” ‘Ob, rubbish; howecan It ‘You have.! ‘Well, they can't get in tnere, and that's all about it.) Stage drivers are so pig-headed that you can pever convince them, so I left him alove. The stage stopped at the old St. Charles hotel, and as the stuff was being got out of the boot we heard more ais- tinctly than ever the rattling—not one snake, but several. When the porter pulled out a wooden box he saw through the ill-joined boards the head of a rattlesnake, With a howl of terror he dropped the box on the pavement and fled. The case smashed, and there was some half a dozen vicious rattlers charging about the street. You should have seen the idle crowd scatter. Soon there was not a man to be scen. - The roprietor of the St. Charles was furious. Tt s wicked of anybody to ship rattlesnakes in- securely, and I do not blame a baggage agent in refusing to carry one. I am &n ola miner myself, and have had to deal with rat- tle suakes, and 1 know the dauger of their bites." Due to the Mascot, J. C. Carson, otherwise “Kit"" Carson, was amwong the first miners to seek silver in the mountains of the Centennial state, says the Denver News. From tne first “Kit" was unlucky. One after another of bis friends struck it rich, but he couldn't even strike a respectable sized mica ved, Ope day “Kit" said to Jack Lansing, who had made a fine discovery: *Jack, give me a masect.” Jack banded out an English crown, and after blessing it passed it over to the noted Indian fighter. Shortly afterward “Kit" disap- peared and Jack Lansing speedily forgot the circumstance. Several years afterward Jack Was 1 Denver, e there ho recelved 6 request from & well known tailor to call and Jack did so. The former insisted on taking Jack's measure, who finally consented, when he was told that 8 man had dropped {nto the shopa day or two before, leit $50 and ordered that Mr. Lansing be given as finea suit of clothes as could be made. I asked me,’ said the tailor, Just us he was Jeay around and held up an bis n. give it turue t he would not : the store he nglish crown and said: ‘If Jack says he won't take tne suit, tell him 1 showed you this old cofn. That'll fetch him.'” And you bet it did. “Kit" had struck luck and he always in- sisted it was due to the m; A Ghost Danc wribed. During the recent Indian campaign Gov- erument Scout Harry Raymond witnessed many fetes of the hostiles. Ho was prescnt at maoy ghost dances. He said the Indians, while performing this asuce on oue occasion, bad their hands joined together, with thelr flugers locked, and kept going around in a circle of 100, comprising men and women of allages. They would go aroundi n that way until some of them would break loose from the circle and run off, throw up their hands and probably fall down and rub their faces with dirt and go through manauyres beyond the power of description. They would go aroand that way for a long time in a circle until they got in such & con- dition that they would fall down and, to all appearances, sectn to be lifeless: and 'when they came to they would be brought inslde the circle and the medicine man would go up and receive a statement from them of what | they saw mn mm‘viiian while they were in | this eonaition. Thev generally kept this up | | | without eating or drinking and go through it in the hot sun or, as the weather might be, cold or rain Slaughtering Game. The complaint of settlers in the Jackson | Hole region of the slaushter of game by in- | dians is greatly exaggerated, according to the Lander (Wyo.) Clipper. It also says: Since | assuming charge of the agency Ageut Fosher has used the utmost entteavors to keep the Indians on the veservation, and bas sent the | Indian polica on various tecasions to bring back those absent withiont leave, and at no | time were there any considerable number fonnd and brought back. ' The police at pres- ent have orders to arrest/and bring back any | Indiaus who attempt to leave the rvesery tion without due authorfty. In this connec- tion it may be well to mébtiou the fact that the Indiaus are not alwdys the greatest of- fenders in this slaughtering of gam vears ago a party of Enélishmen c this section to hunt, and slaughtered over hundred head of elk near the Tetons, 1 took away onlv four or five pairs of ant- | lers, leay all the carcdsses Lo rot in the valley of Snake river. One of the par being asked on the return trip why th slaughtered so much game, replied that b “wished to get a few choice’ hat orate the rooms of the Halpine ¢ Lers to dec- ab in Lon- dou,” of which he was a member Married a Horse Thiet Under Avrest. | Sheriff McKay of Banner county, Ne- | braska, brought here a Dave, Andrew Bros, | who confessed to stealing ahorse from the | Thomas Ranch, near Piue Bluffs, says the Cheyenne Sun. McKay was put on the case | by Sheriff Kelley, as the be sectien ad- | s barliwick and he knew the country. rest was made at 4 ranch not far from all, Neb. McKay was implored to sus. pend service as Broe was to be married in an bour. The officer informed the thief and bride and motner, a widow, and the assem- bled guests that he couldn’t stop for a little ~ thing like that and started for Kimball with his prisoner. The girl and her mother followed. When ne mother-in-law- elect explaiued to McKay that an early union of the lovers was most impeativ d manded and went into details quite adroit! but explicitly enongh, the sheriff recousid- | ered the motion to postpone and said the by might proced. A license had been secured, but the party had no money and a_collection was taken up to pay the squire who tied the knot. M stood watch 1a the h before the bridal chamber all night. The prisoner is young and unts Mrs. Bros Jias gone to ber bome Butter Making. A Departure in Butter is made in a peculiar way in Cal fornia, but it is sold in still more eccentric fashion The butrer-make ways turns it out 1 round rolls, abouta half-foot in length, supposed to weigh two pos lsit by the rell and for two pounds, but the roll always lacks from six to eight ounces of full weight. This thing has been going on for sears to the loss of the con- sumer, and without profit to any one except the middleman. The latter buys but- ter by the pound and sells it by the roll, so he makes a clear profit on the short weight When a man ndles seven tons of butter a ay kes a large item, for on euch roll he will make from Sc to 10c, or at least §100 on every ton. The dairymen can't prevent this, as if they made buiter in good two- )ils no commission roan would handle at the butter makers propose to do is to establish an bonest mold for the rofls and then sell their butter themselves in aco-op- erative market. This will also run out the oleomargarine which is sold by many dealers as second-class butter. A Calitornia Mystery. “There is a strange story toid aboat the house iu San Diego where Governor Water- man died recently,” says Marcus D. Borbuck, private secretary to the late Governor Water- man. “Ido not believe fir superstition, but here is the story and people can judge for themselves. A man named Morrisbuilt the house three years ago, and soon after took to drink and died a horrible death in the gutter, Not long aftér that his wife' died. Then the house was occupied by a'San Diego bankar and his family, Some mouths ago_the bauk- er's wife and thr. dren were all drogoed in San Diego bay. Thed Governor WHter- man took the house, and a short time after he moved in he was taked sick and died. At the present time Mrs, Watérman and two of ner chilaren are lying dapgerously ill in the same house, _ ol il Told to Tourists, “Talking about yarns that are told to the tenderfoot tov I used to have one story when 1 drove stage into Genoa, Cal, that takes the cake,” says a veteran stage driver. At one point we passed a hizh hill bare white spot that gleamed in the s abig piece of tin. When the passengers asked about it T told them this yarn: That, gentlemen, is my alum miua—ali there is teft of a beautiful prospect. You see I struck the genuine Boulder Hill lndge, and ran a forty- foot tunnel, when just before sundown we struck a big boay of alum. We quit work then, but when we came next morning we couldu’t see a bit of my mine except that bare spot. *‘Why. what became of it!' some fellow always askod. Well, 1 used to reply, you see there was a heavy rain that night snd the whole thing puckered up.’ T 1ds. charges Ruce for a Wife. A lady from near Bijou Hill, S. D., con- cluded that she was tired of living with her liege lord and master, and while her husband was at work in the field she, like the Arab, folded her tent and silently stole away.” As soou as her absence wus discovered the husband made tracks for Kimball, thinking that his wife would take the " nforning train for the east. His surmise was correct, and after talking matters over, each forgave the other and departed for their home. The meeting was & very oramatio one. Both were so surprised that they gave vent to their pent-up feelings by weeping and wail- ing, aud toe loafers at the depot were con- strained to turn away and gaze upon the green fields. A veteran miner of California who was one of those who braved fortune in 1349 declares that gold beaters, by hammering, can reduce golu leaves to such minute thinuess that 252,000 must be laid upon each other to pro- duce the thickness of an inch. Yet each leaf is so perfect and free from holes that one of them laid on any surface, s iu gilding, gives the appearance of solid gold. They are so thiu that if formed into a book, 1,30 would only occupy th pace of a single lear of book papel A single volume of a gold leat book oue inch 10 thickness would have as many pages a< an entire library of 1,500 volumes of common books, even though the volumes averaged 400 pages each, Piled up Waves. Two years ago the bed of Lake Merntt, near Yosemite, was a mas of alkali dust. A few wouths 8go water began to apvear, and now it is a good many feet deep in places. Last week the wind blew a gale and actually piled up waves twelve' feet high on tnis former desert. The lake is about two miles wide, and on the north side, when these greai rollers came charging in, the ranchmen had a lively time saving their, places from ruin. "They rigged up @ rude breakwater and kept the "water off their ranches, but it was a tough struggle. Stoc hipments, Watson Pickrell, spe¢isl agent of the bureau of animal industries has made ar- vangements concerning ~the shipment of southern cattle into Wyoming, which are atisfactory to Wyomingastockmen. Article 2 of Secretary Rusk's éifcular, which de- clares “‘that southern cattfe shall not be al- lowed 1n pens or on trails In Wyoming that | in | Dakota cession. Shipments will probably commence immediately. tfonx Falls Divorce Colony. While the Sioux Falls colony of divorce applicants is rapidly increasing there was one who bid goodby to her comrades on Wednesday with a joyful and bappy heart, says the Sioux Falls Press. He name was Mrs. Jennie Wentworth of New York city. Mrs. Wentworth is now Miss Jennie Kidder. Her widowed mother is reputed to be quite wealthy, moving in_good society, while the daughter has been always looked upon as an unmarried lady. In the spring of 18%0 Miss Kidder fell in love with a traveling salesman by the muame of Frank Went worth, On June 12, 1589, she secretly mat- ried him io East Hoboken, returning ‘to her mother's home immediately afterward aud ping this important event of her lifo a tuntil the following December, when she coufessed all. Her mother counseled with the family lawyer, and of course the young ladv's circle of friends, who wereall ignorant of the marrlage, were not to obtain any nowledge of the event. South Dakota's bid was the best and the young lady came to this state in compliance with the orders of her lawyer, eventually securing the freedom she 80 greatly coveted, Died in a Geavel Pit. The body ofa well dressed young man, apparently about thirty yearsof age, was found suff and cold in death on a gravel walk trout of the residence of F. Rockwood Moore at Spokane, Wash. A pistol was erasped tightly in the right hand of the dead man aud there was tiole in nis left cased, and the a bullet No une knows the ¢ breast s investigation failed to throw light on the question of s The juest was con- an was ideatified by Mrs who came to her hou and told her he must have it ¢ that he would shoot himself. aid lie had been to all his friends, but without getting assistal from them, and he provosed 1o try a stranger us a last resort be fore taking s life, Mrs. Moore told him to return later iu the d en her husband would be at home Mr. Moore was driving up to his hous was seen standiug at the gateway, but made no effurt to attract Mr. Moore's attention, nor did he o yach the house until he came to shoot iz . A Relic of Long Ago. aw mau’’ by the name of La Plout, on the reservation near the a ecently, the Tribu ears old and has lived in He remembers when who live was in Armour He is seventy-six says fty-six years, there were uo towns be sn here and St Joseph, and this country was indeed a “wild and_woolly west.” His stories of Indian warfare in esting nd real. made and lost several fortunes in with the Indiuns, and his life has been ore of ups and downs. Mr. La Plont now has a depredation claim_ugainst the government I tigrew believes 15,000, which Senator P lowed in a few mont Wy g Evaustun has a girl militia company. A Catiolic church is to be built at Carbon By a majority of 5 Carbou voted to wmcor- porate, A party of eastern capitalists have been examining the Hartville iron mines, From April 1 to May 6 the United States d office at Evanston took in $17,500. At Hanna, No. 1 coal mine bas shut down temporarily, but No. 2 s in full operatio The Wyoming untverity at Laramie w send forn its two first graduates this year. Survevors have bean to lay out the Bear Bear river and Yellow creek ditch in Ulnta couaty. A corps of surveyors are at work on the paint mines north of Rawlins and staking them off. Surveys are being made on the big ditch which is to irrizate the Platte valley in the vicinity of Deuglas. Plats of the Star Valley country have been on file in the Evanston land office some time, Filings will commence on May 18, Both the quartzand placer claims in the Atlantic City and Miners' Delight districts promise well. New finds are reported David Lannen, one of the pioneers of Lara- mie county, aied at Cheyenue Pass recently He leaves property valued at 50,000, Prospectors are going into the Bald moun- tain mining district near Sheridan, wnere some good strikes are reported to have been made. The Cheyenne high school this year gradu- ates eight boys and eight girls. This is twice the number ever graduated vefore in a single year. “Kid" White, who was reported by Buffalo papers to bave been killed on Powder river three weeks ago, has turned up again safe and sound. Sealed bids received for the Rawlins city water bonds have not been gec2pted, and tho bouds will now be sold to private parties at public sale. Sheridan expects to have a militia com- pany, as a petition for its orgauization has been sent to the governor with forty-seven names on the roll. _Dr. 1. E. Osborne of Ruwlins is through shearing a clip of 100,000 pounds of wool for which ne has already refused 17'; cents, Fleeces are fine and the sheep are all in good shape. A spur is soon to be built from tbe Chey- ence & Northern main line to the red sand- stone quarries owned by Contractor M. P, Keese ana located forty-six miles north of Cheyenne. State Engincer Meade has bezun to guage all the irrigating ditches supplied by the Lit- tle Laramie river. There are over one hun- dred ditches to guage and the work will take more than a month. Surveys have been made aud part of the work done on a ditch that will carry 2,000,000 gallons of water daily from Canyon Springs prairie, twenty miles north of Newcastle, to the Cambria mines. Major Rasmussen of Rawlins has appointed new city ofticers as follows: City imarshal, H. Daly; city clerk, Warren Galvin; city treasurer, James H. Clause; city attorney, Charles E. Biydenburg. Cheyenne turners will build a gymnasium immediately. Plans for the bulding arenow being accepted. It will be of brick and stoue, two stories in height, covering an area of A7x32 feet and will cost at least £10,000. It is reported that the Murphy cattle com- puny guaranteed the Burlington & Missouri 700 car loads of cattie for shipment this fall if the road is built to Powder river, and if not built that far the stock will be sent over other routes. The town of Wendover on the Cheyeane & iern has been abandoned. Thé Union Pucific got tired of paying taxes on town lots and the townsite company relinquished that part._north of the river kuown as North Wendover. This week 8,000 stears are passing over the Cheyenne & Northern railroad at the rate of three train loads aday. They are the prop. erty of John Holt and are being ship Wilcox, Ariz, to points in Montana, where they will be turned on the range. A.J. Bothwell sold his cattle intercsts on the Sweetwater to Nebraska partics. They are to be delivered at O'Neill, Neb., as fast as gathered. ‘The herd consists of 2,500 for which & good average price was re- ived. Mr. Bothwell still owns one of the finest ranches in tae state, on the Sweet- water. Sheep men in Sweetwater county are jubi- lant, as they had but smali losses during the winter and are now securing good prices for their wool. ranging from 16 to 1S cents per pound. The amount of wool shipped from Green River and Rock Springs will be un- usually large. A large amount of counterfeit money has recently been passed at Sundance and in the northern country. At the last term of court a number of indictments were found against different parties for making the mouey. Marshal Ravkin has gone there to take some of the alleged counterfeiters back to Chey- eune, Prospectors are going into the Victoria dis- triet from Colorado in large numbers. A large number of teams were hauling ore to Barter Station, on the Union Pacific raiwa; all winter, and by June 1 there w one hundred teams on the road between the Bassett mine, which is the principal producer far, and a rich oue, to Carter, Cattle meu say that range stock are too thin for avy sbipmeuts to be made this are W be occupied or by cattle going 1o easteru markets before December 1, 1891, has been recinded by Mr. Pickrill, who was suthorized by the secretary to make the con- spring, reports the Newcastle Journal. Grass ha# been short all winter, and the late spring made it a long struggle for the stock. percutage of loss is small, and upon the whole the cattlo are In good condition, but it will take a couple of months to fatten' them. As a prelude to the opening of the Rawling normal and scientific school a celebration will be held there on May 23, to which has been | fnvited Scnators J Carey and F. E. War- ren, Representative C, D. Clark and Judges H. V. S Groesbeck, A, B. Conawayv and other eminent citizens, teachers have already indicated their desire to attend the normal school and sixty pupils hayve been securea for the school. ‘The junction of the Cheyenne & Northern railroad with the Northwestern, seventeen miles wost of Douglas, is to be called Orin Junction, and promises to be considerable of a place than a wile from the Platte, and_some eutor- prising men have purchased eighty acres which they propose to lay off in town lots All cattle shipped north over the Clieyenne & Northern will be unloaded at this station, which will make of it an important cattle point. An eastern syndicate has purchased the Alcova hot springs, and will spend £230,000 in imoroving them. The springs ore situated the south bank of the North Platte river, at a point where the river cuts its way betwoen perpendicular walls directly through an immense mountain range. There are forty springs in all, ranging from very small springs to one that throws a volume of water 100 great to pass through an ordinary bar The springs range in temperature from luke- warm water {n the sn o8t to the largest, which regist 160 degrees Fahrenheit, or from M degrees to 70 degrees hotter than any other springs in the kuown world. Colorado. Meeker 1s now shipping grain re Miners are in dew 1at Bonar county. Many new residen 1dad this spring. ularly aguache os are bewng built in bine, the state flower, is now in m in southern California idad A r urges the con iction of an ele Iway iu Trinid The people of St »are urging the ¢ tablishment of watcrworks system in the town, Returns from the horse show at Castle Rock are to the effect that it was a t stuccess, A telephone line is to be put up between Delta, Hotcbkiss, Paonia, Crawford and Smith's Fork The cutting of alfalfa will begin about May 20, Some of the farmers expect to be about through cutting by June 1 The town of Elbert is naking ex preparations to entertain the Eibert teachers, who meet there May 27 and ‘Irinidad horsemen made a good showing at the Albuquergue races, and brougtit back a v bundle of New Mexico money “anon City Roval Gorge advocates a ty fair for Fremont next fall, and roparatory steps stould e taken at nsive unty once. The Harrisburg Pioneer takes occasion to remark that it is going to rain at Harris- bure. Tt does not inform a waiting populace when, however. The Denver & Rio Grande railroad com- pany has kindly consented to furnish water from its pipes to water the trees recently purchased by the towns along its line. At the annual meeting of the Rock Creek ditch company Menday afteraoon, Hocker, John Hellman and P. M. Cov were chosen directors for the comir The first cattle round-up this spr of Meeker, Routt county, started on May 15. It met at_ \Wolf creek. ~For the south side the round-up will meet at Rangely, June 5. Alfala hay is now seiling in Delta at §20 per ton. Our ranchmen who sold at §5 per ton were too hasty. Land that grows five tons of hay per acre at §20 per ton ought to pay. William Raworth, an energetic miner from the Bonanza camp, reports that camp filled with a quiet activity; the old miners belie the camp will come’ out in great shape this year. The Del Norte flouring mills started upand the water power dces the work nicely, From present indications the Del Norte flouring mill company will be able to sell more flour than it can make. Track-laying was begun on tbe Rio Grande Southern last week, A large force of men has been colllected and the work will start from the north end ut Ilium aund go toward Rico, which will be reached by the midale of August. From the present outlook, Philip county promises a spiendid wheat crop. Grain is at least ten to fifteen days earlier than last year, and hundreds of green fields greet the eve in every direction. Farmers are putting 10 & larger ucreage than ever. It is said that the state is furnishing trout 10 stock the lakes in the mountaius, but has no fisu for Grape creek. The fish commis- sioner has been informed that Grape creek i 8 stream that runs ary every year,and re- fuses to give fish to stock the stream William McCartney, in addition to his ex- tensive ranch interests in the north end of the park, has receutly added to his cares in that liue by leasing,in connection with U. Val ley of Jefferson, the Litmer ranch, which cuts about four thousund tons of hay aa- nually. Golden has reached a point when it is al- most absolutely necessary to have a new school building. At present the school boar.d have to rent rooms in town which are very poor and unsuitable for school rooms, and tie grades throughout the schools are overcrowd- ed ang there must be more room provided for next year. From Leadville the Denver & Rio is hauling on an average of forty cars of ore, merchandise, etc., daily and six regular throagh fast freight trains run daily from Salida. The business on the Blue River branch 1s above the standard and it has b found necessary to put on extra trains to haul the accumulating freight. La Jare farmers have not been idle for the past few weeks. A larger acreage of land is tilled in this vicinity than ever betore. With an abundance of water in our streams und laterals, irrigating, in some localities, is well under way, and indications point to anothor prosperous season for the farmers in Cone- 308 county What is needed in this cattle country is a more developed tanning industry; the bides, it is said, become almost worthiess if Jeft ex- posed too long to the dry climate, and it has been demonstrated that it is more convenient to ship extracts in thau to dispose of the hides in the east. It will come sooner or later. Messrs. W. A. Bronaugh and W. W. Iden purchased of Charles E. Michod his cele- brated five-year-old Mambrino-Clay stailion The price paid for this fine animal was ouly 2,250, The horse is to be prepared for the scasons’' work tnd, until further announce- ment will ve kept at lden's livery and sale stable, Depver. Ata meeting’ of the Merry canning and pickling company twelve contracts were made with gardeners for produce to be deliv- ered to the company from August to the of the season. These contracts aggregat large acreage of garden, and will give er ande se ployment to & great many individuals. The company has decided 10 go to work in a few days preparing their building and will put the machinery in order in a short time. The extension of the Otero canal to the Purgatoire is a sure thing. All the papers bave been filed to secure the necessary funds (an amount of §X,000) for the extensiou This is oue of the most important events that has transpired in that valley for some time. Tu us to broaden the agricultural ares in Bent connty to one-half mora than she al- ready bas, The entire valley will not only reap much benefit from this, but it will in- crease the population of Bent county & great deal, and Las Auimas will be a better town. Work on the Busk-Ivanhoe tunnel is being pushed with dispatch, aud at the Busk side ;u.- big bore has reached a distance of 1,230 eet ing on account of the iooseness of the ground At the Ivanhoe side the distance reached is 00 feet. The air ut bLoth sides is excellent Whenever the surface seepage dries up the work of casing the Tennessee tunnel will be umed. The timber used will be California wood, and it was trimmed up and plancd by the Wilhams lumber company. Business in railroad circles at Leadville during the past week has increased ma terially, principally from the fact that the roads 1o the different mines are coudition, allowing the bauling of ore. Ship- ments are coming in from outiying camps, which assist in swelling the business. Kail road officlals state that the outlook is very promising and that shipments of ore from adjoining camps this year will be greater than ever bofore. The senger busiuess m pace with the freight business, and few s arrive in that city that have not their full complement of passeugers. 1t is located on a lovel stretch less | | | About twenty-five | 1l live of the Santa Fe, in New Mexico and Ar izoua, has commenoad, and the first trainload for the pastures have arrived in Trinidad. Tho first shipwent the Santa Fe will tackle will be 10,000 head belonging to J. M. Holt at Wilcox, Ari. These will be shipped to Wen- dover, Wyo, and from hence driven to the grazing grounds in Montana. ounch of cattle will require over four hun dred cars, It will cost more than &2,000 to ship them, The Santa Fe expects to handle several huadred thousand head this season. to those sent to Montana many men will ship to Kansas and Nebraska, the cattle will graze until fall and theo corn fed To move the Washing A suit involving title to a large tract of land in Spokane, \Wash., which has been in progress for years, has just been decided in favor of the Northern Pacifie railroad com: pany The volunteer fire companics mot at What com and passed resolutions resi tho city council agree to pa; alarm &1 cach aud % cents per hour for actual ervice, The postoftice at Deon Creek Falls, Wash., was robbed by two masked men. Shortl; after the postoMce and & number of oth buildings were burned. Loss, §0,000; in- sur ance &,000, A site for the Seattle Grand opera house been secured and the ¢ building will be boyun shortly, It will have a seating capacity of i, 40 and will be mod- led after the Chicago Auditorium Attorney Harry A. Fairchild, examine the law relating to the ¢ of New aud Old Whatcom nstraction of the mployed te asulidation gives a written opinion that soction 10 of the incorporutic act is unconstitutional. A test case will ge to court vefore further complications arise. Sherman Ball and A. C. Moore, two young men, arrived at Seattle from Eau Claire, W min the Seattle hotel. TV retiring, and late that af. found in an unconscious condi and took & 1 re tion physician thinks they will ro cover. Witk days a number of mee have settl 1 roservis tion lands across n Tacoma and built hiouses thereon, intending to claim squat ters' ri ts when the servation is thrown open to settiement effort to oust them thic question has boen thrown into the courts, The land 1s very valuable. has Word reached Loy enter of a terrible choccurred at that place re. rmer named Holeomb had cod some giant powder in u stove, The powder exploded, demolishing the hous Two daughters of Holcomb, aged fourt aud sixteen, were instantly killed, and He comb and his wife seriously, if not fatally in- Jureq Two tramps attempted to escape from the city prison at Tacoma. They were carryin Wwood iuto the juil and, when the oficers’ backs were turued, they ran, one rushing into the jail corridor, throwing open the door and yelling to five hobos to run. They scampered iv all directions, but werc ail cap tured by a squad of police, who fired freely av them. An unknown man, apparently aged forty, beavy set, with cuoppy, black mustache and goatce and dark hair, and partially bald in the front part of nis head, was found drowned on the beact of North bay, neat Tacoma. There were no pay 1 his pock ots save an_advertisement clipped from the The Post-Tuteligence; o in boat association will be held at Se little business was transacted at the rec meeting of the association. The grievauces of the Pacific navigation company remuiu unsettied, but there are to be uo more stop- over ticiets on that company’s Belliugham bay route, and a veto bas beén put upon thy catrying of excursions at reduced rates. Tha talked of disbanding of the association does not at all seem immnent. “The sum of §100,000 was completed at Ta- coina to start a permanent exposition buil ing. The exposition will be used also to de- moostrate what sort of an exhibition tha state can get together for the world's fair, fol which $100,000 has been appropriated by the legisluture. One feature of the exposition will be a magnificent aquarium displaying the food fish and sea monsters found in Puget sound and its tributaries. The Tacoma ex position will occupy # comuanding site, giv. mg s view of Mount Tacoma, Puget sound, Olympia and the Cascade mountain ranges. The exposition will open next September, idah Irrigating has done much to improve the aurrounding country and to bulld und fostet the young town of Nampa. Fred Kiesel & Co., of Ogdeu, are stocking theiv Idaho farm, near Parma, witu a fine (o of thoroughbred Percheron horses. Jennings, who murdered Ross Hutchins, the well kuown stockmau, near Boise last fall, has been found guilty of wanslaughter, The state board of pardons has rofused s pardon to Denis now undergoing a life sentence iu the penitentiary for murder committed in Boi JUULY Seven Years ago. ampaland and improvement company mpa, with Mr. Alexander Duffes prac. al in settled tle, bringing to ana sustaining a larg area. The Capital City electric gl have received a carload of machine i5 the complete outfit for their arc Ii tem, which they expect to have in cper by June 1 The canal owned by th irrigation land and Iu known as the “Ridenbaugh ditch,” ¢xpect t¢ complete the same and have water ruuning through its ditch on Ma Articles of incorporation of the Bingham County abstract company of Blackfoot have been filed with the secrétary of state. The object of the corporation is to make und s cure title to real property in the county of Bingham, aud its capital stock is §25,000, The Caeur d' Alene Uity Times announces that the St. Joe transportation compauy will on begin running a line of steamers up the Caeur o' Alene viver to the Mission, The steamers will stop along the shore of the lake and river, making it very couvenient for set- tlers along that route to' freight by, Governor Willey has appointed the follow- ing additional memoers of his personal staff: Inspector general, J. F. Curtis, Boise; quar- termaster general, Charles A! Clark, Bowse; surgeon general, S. E. Bibby, Grangeville musterine officer, Bd Beck, Grangeville; all with the rank of coloncl; also as lieutedant colonels and aides-de-camp, A, H. Ca Boise, and W. C. Harroun, Albion, he horses stolen from Mr. Peter Grogan 1ast fall, with a lot more stolen stoc been found in one of the Soage riv 1n Cassia county, the thieves not able to run them out of the country yet. An buckaroo wanting to hir stockmen nmer, if be a stranger, will have to ruificate of character. Horse steal ing is not going to be an easy way of ma} ali y Owyhee county in 1801, Lt company Boise Cit r comp, = Timbering is kept up close 1o the head- | A big irrigatin h when completed will | beexpected to water 300,00 acres, or all that | body of land lyiug between tb. Boise and | Suake rivers. The diteh will carry a volume of water twenty fect in width at the bottom, thirty at the fop and six feet in depth, It taps the Boise river about ten miles northe east of Boise City, and windiugin at tous route crosses the main Jine u Short Line about four miles east Nampa: frow that point op two prongs ha been built, one entering Nampa cu the south aud the other on the uorth side, of the ot Two Dak r trains arri Thirty and leave Dead- wood daily. | . Deadwood voted §100,000 in boads for city improvements. The Sisseton tract is to be opened 1a settle- | went Juiy ) Fargo's new city directory gives that town a population of 7,000. Presho county, opposite Chamberiain, is a candidute for orgunization, zain in good | The movement of cattle from along the Dell Rapids 1s furnisbing large quantitics of stone for paving in Omaha. Brookings city and school bon 0 home capitalists at a premium Tho date for the Sioux Falls camp meating has been fixed from June 29 to July A Jamestown man receatly sold a St nard dog to a Philadelphia pirty for #00. A new brick sehool building at Chamber- lain 15 uearly completed at a cost of #15,000, Metbodist church In course of | coustruction at Fort Pierre will cost 1,800, The citizens of Spearfish offer $40,000 as a inaucement for some railroad L bulld 1o that | place | George Werner, a Salem youth, <tule %300 | from bis father and geparted for unkuown climes, #All but six of the 140 Congregational churches in South Dukots maintain regulat services, is were sold Ber. | The new