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

\, | THE OMAHA DAILY' BEE, SATURDAY, JULY 11, "1891-TWELVE PAGES. THEPROGRESSIVENORTHWEST A Glimpse of the Energies Rearing Common- wealths Beyond the Missouri. FOR MONTANA'S LONGING An Inviting Field for Statistieal and the Fair--A Railroad Work—W yoming Varielty of Interesting AN OMAHA ROAD. Enterprise—A Valuable Tin—South Dakota News. ontana and Omaha. Mires Ciry, Mont., July 5,—To the Editor ®f Tue Bre: | read with great pleasure the editorial in your issue of the 29th ult., headed The Trade of Montana.” It 1s timely, apt, forcible and trae. 1 heard one of the largest cattle and horse raisers in this part of the state say yosterday: *'1 wish to God we had another line of railroad here.” There would be work enough for it. Your editorial hit the nail on the head. Wo should be bound to Nebrusa and Omaha by a direct line of rail- ‘way, and the first railway company that doe ft 'will reap @ _wolden ~ harvest. The Burlington & Missouri and the Chicago & Northwestern have pushed preliminary surveys to Stoneville (near Al- zada), in the southeastern portion of this state and county, aud two miles west of the Wyoming line. 'The lino of the proposed Dendwood & Miles City railvona runs from that point to this, crossing Powder river Powdorvillo, . The Fremont, Eikhorn & Missouri Valley railrond has ‘made a perma nent survey to a point four miles north of the Powderville crossing of Powder river, about, sixty-tive miles from this point. The end of Yhe present oxtension of the Fremont, Elk- horn & Missouri Valley railroad 1s at Middle Creek, uorth of tne Belle Fourche, and Torty-seven miles southeast of Alzada. "The Miles City, Beaufort and Deadwood tago runs between that point and this three imes a week. Why, any lino that orosses the Yellowstone hore will strike a point mak- Ing tributary over 100,000 head of cattle on the Big Dry ana the 1Red Water alone, then Funning west to the Big Bend of the Mussel. Well it will reach_the rich mining country, Maiden, Barker, Nertash, Castlo, ew., and this without 'any engineering difficulties. T'wo hundred thousand head of cattle will ba shipped to the east from Montana this fall, 1,500,000 sheep and 15,000,000 pounds of wool. You' say well and truly that no line of rallway can bo extended to the northwest which would open the Omaha a fine field for interchange of traffic. It would be doubly beneficial to Mon- wana as well as to Nevraska. Why this fleld has not been occupied before now is one of those things which few can undersuand. There's mitlions in it. T havosaid nothing about the possibilities of the horsc-raising business, which is re- ceiving a romarkable oxtension now in this county of Custer and the entiro eastern part of the state. Tho industry is not only ex- tending but elovating, and reaching yearly a higher grade. The very best castern and im- portea blood is infusing into the veins of the Montana horse. The cayuse has become a relic of the past. and Montana will share with Kentucky tho raising and_sale of thoroughbreds. ~ Tho spring mecting of the Custer county fair ‘and horse sales association has just closed after four days races, which for genuine sporting excellenco have not been s passed on_any teack in the northwest. Some of the most noted victories of the meeting were carricd off by home-bred horses, raised in this country by Ryan brothers, the big horse raisers of tho Mussel Bell. ' I think that at least two or three of these flyers, it their future does not belio their present g{om!sn and performance, will be heard of eforo long on the great tracks of the oastern seaboard. 1n view of their promiscs of a future national reputation, it may be in- terosting to horsemen to know that these winged equines are the sorrel filly Lucinda and the bay Lillah, both sirod by the Duke of Hamilton, A-unique feature of the races here was the Aaily participation_therein of the Cheyenno Indians from the Fort Keogh reservation. On the first day_there was an Indian race, half-mile dash, with fourteen startors, which created great excitement and enthusiasm. Thore was 1o monkey at_the start—no hold- ing back *'to get the jump.” The fourteen trotted slowly, aligned us well us a piatoon of cavalry to' the starting point, and all started at the dropping of tho flag-—tlagging Zor all they were worth from start to finish 8 horse belonging to Standing Bk winning the race. On-tho third day there were two ndian races: One mile, two startors, won by Standing Flk; the second, haif 'a mil twoive starters, wou ogain by Standing Elk, who scems to be coming out as an Indian Lorillard. 'The second money was divided between High Walking and Rising Sun. They came in so close together that tho udges could not decide botween them. The st race of the day wasulso an Indian race, half mile, five starters: Little = Wolf, Stump Horn, Left Hand, Medi- cine Bira and Bald Head; — won by Stump Horn, Little Wolf socond, Left Hand third, Great interost was taken in these Iudinn races by all present, especiully by visitors from her Britannic majesity’s do- minious. Another feature of theso half-yearly meet fngs, and the event of especial iuterest and attraction for the ladies, is the hurdlo one mile, four hurdles. In this race the horses aro ridden by their owners, generally oung [Euglishmen, Welshmen or Irishmeu n the horse or cattle business in Custer county, in all the glory ot English regulation raciug costume—buckskin breeches and tops. A squaw raco was on the programme for the last day, but it did not come oft. Some squaws had consented to ride 1 the raco but they did not show up. It was ration But tho fact is_tho squaws did not take kindly to the idea. In the tepeo from their infancy they are taught that the Indian girl must viil her faco and turn away the head when o strange masculine enters the lodge. A [ndian givl must not go twenty yards from the tepee without a female com- panion. If she does she is at the mercy of whoever finds her. Anothor reason is that an Indian Squaw when sici, burt or wound- ed will not leta mun como near her if sho can help it, and as accidents are likely to happen iu 1 did nov want to run the risk of injury for which they might bo compelled by cireimstances to accent the ministeation of masculino medical skill. And this sug gosts to mo the idea that it might bo a step in tho way of progress and civilization to have .8 medical practitioner of the feule sex @uployed by the government on every In- alan_ resorvation to attend the squaws and break down tuoir confidence 1 old women's “medicing” and medicine men’s incanta tions, MoxTaNA A Wyoming Napoleon. “we'vo got & bank elerk up in our neck of woods who some day will give Jay Gould cards and spades in the gamwo of financiering, and beat him to a stand-still,” says Mort Curren, to @ Cheyenne Leader reporter. “He's only ninoteen y but heis a hummer. ‘Two or three months ago, while the president of tho bank was away, tho cashior was taken sick and in a fow hours was in o delirious state. Tho young Napoleon was left in sole charge of the bank. Some evil-dispasod person started tho story one afternoon that tho institution was in a bad way, and Intimatod that the president had skipped the country and that the cashier's flluess was only a ‘blufr.! Before night it was evident thero would be o rush on the institution the next morn . The young clerk knew there was acavcely monoy enough to last an hour. Ha had no one fo advise him, but he actod promptly. He called on the leading hardware merchant and held brief conference. Then this young Napoleon went home, where ho foun » committeo from the depositors await- ine him. He did not wait for them to speak, but madd this bluff: I rofuse to discuss business with you, There will be §0,000 in gold tero in tho morning, and there s 'a like amount in the safe. You may draw outevery dollur you have depositea and we'll be glad to got rid of your small accounts.”” Then ho urned on bis hoel and left the committee. “Bright and early there assomblod av the bank the creditors. Just before time foropen- ing the doors an_express wagon was driven up. in which were seated two heavily armed men, oue of thewm the watobman of the bank. A patoway through the crowd was made, and the watchwan began carrsing into the bank eanvas bags containing gold coln, as indicsted by the prowiipent marks. Sowe of the bags s old, wore marked 5,000,’ and one or two '$10,000." Tho people saw these bags, heard the clink of the metal, and, believing the bauk was O.K., were about to move away. st s the last bag of gold was handed into the door the young financier threw the bank open. Tho crowd did not mako any ef- fort to reach the paying tellor's window. “Coma on now, every ouo of you,' shouted the clerk. No_one respondiug, ho mado another bivff. *You must come and get your money. We don't want your d--d accounts any more. Here, Jim Bartley, take this and sign this receipt in full. Hore, Bill Wyman come and got your dust.’ Heinsisted on their taking the money. Just at this juncturo tho committee came in and begged tho cleck b ‘stop, for God’s sake.” They aimost got down on their knees to ask the bank to keep their money. The young Napoloon finally cou- sentod, but deciared if there was ever ‘any more d—d nonsense he would throw every depositor's money into the stroct.’ The crowd departed happy and confident that the bank was one of the strongest institutions of its kind in America “Their confildence might have been shaken had they know the canvas bags marked *%,000, gold,’ etc., and bedaubed with red sealing-wax, contained nothing more nor less than iron washers, which the young clerk had purchased from the hardware man, who had otherwise assisted in the deception, ho being couvinced of the sounduess of the bauk. The two men the voung Napoleon insisted on pay- ing, the bank had long wished to get rid of." Tulare Lake Rising. Tho Colorado desert is not the only portion of Catifornia where the water is making an appearance in an unexpscted and somewhat unpleasant manner. Tulare county has been subjected to a phenomenon of . this charactor, and from present indications it would appoar that the shallow stretch of water known as Tulare lake is agaiu to claim its own. Thero is a logend of the Ludians on Tule rivor that tho lake once coverad many times its present area; that it receded year by year until it had shrunk to a comparatively insigniticant pond, around which were the fishing camps of their grandfathers. But thero came o timo when the waters from the Sierras rolled down into the valley and the lake be- gan to spread. It encroached upon the ad- Joining territory far oeyond the habitation s of the Indians, which wero destroyed and their ownors driven to the foothills for sus- tenance, Since that time thoy will not dwell near tho lake. but look upon it body of water, and it is quite prol somo of the unfortunate settlers who have made their homes there during the past two or threo years share the same opinion. ‘'ho heavy falls of snow in_the mountains during the past_winter, and the fact that the soil of the valley is already well soakea and cannot absorb the waler fast enough to pre- vent tho streams from carrying o large volume to the lnke, is the cause of this unex- pected riso. Tho' greater porfion of this water is carried to the lake by the Kern and Tule rivers. Travelers who havo recently been in that section report that iravel around the lake, by the old roads which have been used for is entirely cut off, and tho streams of flowing into the lake from the south can bo forded only by what is_known us tho Swan road, leading west across tho valley from Alila, A strong current provuils in these streams, aud as the water is from two and a alf feet to fourteen fect doop, it is exceed- dangerous to attempt to cross it. One cty who attempted to foliow» the old road, ot in team and all, and narvowly oscadod drowning Ko the past threo or four years tho lako been stoadily recoding, and as tho land thus recovered is vory fertilo, settlors have been crowding closer and closer to the water all the while. The: surrounding country is very lovol, and a riso of but a few feot suflices to'cover thousands of acres. During the present summer many settlers have had their lands entiroly flooded and have lost houses, crops and all their property. The Desert Overflow. The mystery of the Colorado desort lake is not yet clearod up. The explorers have no light on the source of this powerful eurrent which is slowly but surely raising tho level of the groat shallow lake. Manager Durbrow of the salt works at Salton proposes to the questign of the source of the wate sonding b Indian from Volowno 'Speings, 'wo railroad parties have started out, ono from Salton and the other from Ogilby, to lo- cato the spot where the water comes through the suud ridgo. The Cocopah Indiaus, who come from the beud of the Gulf of California, declare that the water is from tho gulf, and tho Yuma people favor this theor: Two exploring parties are alrcady in the field and it is probabio the source ot the over- flow will be determined this week. The thoory advanced that the water now running into the Salton basin is caused by the barrier washed out on tho Colorado_river last yc noar Pilot knob is exploded by the fact that the tlood of February this year carried twice the prosent amount of water a month_ago, and this would have run into the desert if an inlot existed, Caroful investigation vro thiyt the barrier_ botween tho Colorado and tho rim of tho desert was only a ridge of four foot. This was ascortained in tho sur- vey mado by Purdy anda James several yoars ago. Tho borg of high ridgo from the Gulf of California rises from fifteen to tinriy-threo foet and runs up parts of the Colorado. and it is belioved by pioneors familiar with tho Sal- ton section thiat the four-foot bench has boon worn down and the gulf is gradually rotur ing to its old bed. Cocopah Indians just ar- vived say the water surely comes from the gulf, “I'he Colorado river has beon falling for over A week past, and it is lowor now than at the sumo time last year. If the water is running from the guit tho amount must increase duily, as the difference in level is 80 great. Romance of the Among the tales of tho late Round-Up which drifted into Rapid City, 8. D., is one with a flavor of romauce, According to the Rupid City Chronicler, when the cattlomen had cleaned up the reser- vation and crossed the Cheyenne the camp was visited one evening by a party from w neighboring rauch, one of whom was a charming young girl from the east. She was dolighted by the novelty of scones at camp and readily accepted an invitation from one of the most gallant men of the outlit to take a canter over tho bluffs to the river, Both were well mounted and sped _merrily over the prairie. Thoy wero neariug tho blufts when suddenly o black steer rushod out from a clump of bushes near at hund. ho bhorse which the young lady rode, a idid animal, took fright, became unman- oable and boundod away toward the rivor. Her companion tried in vain to overtake hor and grasp the vom of her maddened horss, His horse's best efforts would ot bring him near enough to accomplish the feat. On rushed the horse wild with fear. As the two horses rushed up the bluff a sheor prec- ipice fringed with troe tops appeared a fow rods ahead. It looked as if horse and rider were doomod, but the cow-boy who bad an- tioipated the danger suddenly reigued in his horse, swing his rope lariut about his head and sent 1t cording in the air. The loop fell about the graceful shoulders of the fright- enea girl, the cow-boy’s horse reared back, the rope tightened and the girl was lifted from the saddle and drawn to the hoavily tuffted prairio sod, The horse sped on and into the chasm. The girl half unconscious was borne back to camp by hor cavalier who is prouder of his cxploit than the cow-boy Who beat the steer-roping record last year. Literally Boiled Alive. Oue of the most horrible incidents that has er ocourred in the west happened at the great hot springs at Pagosa, Col,, June 2 | ravishing This spring Is about thirty yards in diameter, | being & large pool of bolling sulpho-alkaline water. In the centerof the pool no bottom has ever been foupd, although a lino has bean lot dows for D00 feet, welghted with o cunnon ball. Oue of the peculiarities of the spring is that whatover is thrown into the conter gradually disappears and never comes to the top again, A party of freighters and eatherad at the springs. The; filled with mountain dew. Charles Johnson, a freighter, who came here from Missourl, offered to bet that he could swim across the pool. The party was too full to realize the awful danger, and the bet was quickly cov- ered. Twenty dollars on each side was put up and Johnson stripped preparatory for tho sttompt. A boat was procured and Johnson stood up in the stern ready to jump, ‘when be lost his balance and fell into the boiling water. Ho rose to the surface and was graspsd by his companions, but the hot alkaline solution caused his skin to peel and he slipped from their hands. The second time hio camo up ho was caught by the hair and arms. The hair came out, but he was drawn to the shore in a _most horrible coa- dition. The flesh literally dropped from his logs and lower portions of his body, exposing tho bones and intestine: He died in great agony within five minutes of the time that he struck the water, The corrosive action of the water was so great that it was almost impossiblo to handi o the vody, and within two hours after the death the flesh had fallen from the bones from the shoalders down, leaving tho upper part of the body, the arms aud tho head in a most horrible condition. This is the socond human being who is known to have been in the pool. Tha first was 8 negro soldier who jumped in fora swim in 1878, Ho immediately disappoured, and the body wus never seen again, prospectors A Valuable Statistical Work Among the many publications issued by the several departments of the government the forthcoming report of the bureau of sta- tistics on internal commorce will be of un- usual interest to the public. It is devoted to tho interests of the Pacific coast, inctuding the states and territories lying west of the Rocky mountains, and sets forth the wonder- ful natural resources, including the forests, fishories, mining intorests and ag- ricuitural, manufacturing, commercial and trausportation interests in that re- gion. The work was bogun nearly u yoar ago under a special act of congress, appropri- ating §7,000 for the purpose, sad the report has just beon comploted and is now pub- lished. It is a volume of 1,200 pages or more. Papers by oxperts have been pro- pared on the various industries of Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah aid Washington,and will appear iu the appendix to tho main report, The portion of the report devoted to Alaska is of pecu interest in that it contalns the late facts _concerning that terra _incognita on this republic. Aside from the seal comparatively nothing loped as to tho possibilities of this territory; even its bounduries are un- known. Buough, however, has been brought 1o light in the pages of this report to snow that it has within its borders evidences of great mineral wealth, and her fishery re- sources are scarcely to be estimated. While the report on Alaska necessarily contains lit- tlo of- statistical yet'it conveys a knowledwo of the country and its people which will be of interest and value to tho general public. This report completes theseries issued by the buroau on states and territories, the first volurae of which was publisnod in 1350 Miraculous Escape. Littlo Lena Scheack, tho bright e year-old daughter of W. T. Y. Schenck, a well-to-do merchant of San Francisco, is now deservedly the pet of all Camp Taylor. Sho had a most thrilling exporience theother day, and that sne is still alive is only due to her miraculous presonce of mind About half a milo from Camp Taylor, on the way to Sausalito, the North Pacific coast ¥ (narrow guage) runs over u deep ravine on a trestle-worlk about one hundred and twenty feet long. T'ho traids run about cighty feot above tho bed of the little stream bolow. Lena was playing with the other children near Camp Taylor, and in some way got sep- arated from them aud staried off on tho track alone. Sho had nearly crossed the trestle-work when the train whistled arouna the curve ahead of hor. The engincer saw the child and blow sev- eral sharp blasts on the whistle, trying all the while to diminish tho speed of his train Lena turned and tried to run, but feil down twice, and finally, when tho engine was al- most upon ber, put her hands over her face and throw herself down flat on the ties be- tween the rail and the outer string-piece which keaps the ties in place, The engine and eight cars rushed above her before the train was brought to a stand- still. Dwico hor dross was nearly caught by tho steps of tho coaches, but she kept per- Tectly still. When lifted up by the conductor the child was unbarmed and not as much frightened as tho traiumen. ed nine- South Dakota and the Fair. The volunteer commission which is work- ing up the means to make tho proper exhibit of South Dakota rosources at the would's fair held a meeting at Yankton recontly. No defimto plan was outlined. Tho _failure to make an appropriation is now lookod upou as agriovious vlunder, and many of the mem- bers who opposed a stato donation ara now auxious to rectify tho mistake. An extra session of tho ~ legislature is probable, vided tho memvers agreo to ogo their salaries. The commission ro- ceived pledges from members of tho logi ture represonting nearly two-thirds of the membership with sevoral hear from and a special session called, five members guarantee d the sossion freo of costto tho s he others, while agreeing to vote for opriation requiro their expenses paid. n farme alliance members of the legislature who wore subposed to oppose an appropriation have signified their willingness to vote for a 0,000 appropriution The commission was permanently or- canized by the eloction of Fred T. Evans, Hot Sorings, presidout; . H. Hale, Scot! land, first vice prosident; T. F. Conniff, Pierro, second vieo president: Robort, Piske, Gettysburg, socretary: W. W. Taylor, Picrre, trensurer, and Oliver Gibos of Ram 50 eneral manager, A resolution was adoted providing that a board of lady mana- gers bo olectod at somo future mecting to act with the comwissioners. Tin in Wyoming. Mr. Spicer, a momber of the Laramie hoard of trade, in a recont roport to that body ro- views the work of develcoment in the vicin- 1ty of Gold Hill. He says prospactors are at work on Rock creek ana have discovered ore exactly slmilar to that of the Brush creek i A tin oro ledge has been fdocated is belloved to bo of grout value. An old tin miner named Thompson was so well satisfiod that 1t was the genuine stuff that hrought some samples to anne. Assaver IKuight being absent from the city, ho took the ore to Cheyenne, where Prof, Stanton snid there wns nothing | in it. He next took it to Denver, and whatever may have been the rosult, he bas gone back to worl on the ledge and has undouotedly an immouse body of ore, whatever it may be. There are two distiuct types of the ore. That on the surfaco is similar to what was found on the Grand Encampment some yeavs ago and pronounced carbonates of lead. A pick will stick in it,it1s so soft. That further down is dark and more solid. The tiu ledgo is four miles from Mr. Williams' ranch, twenty-six milos from Lookout and forty miles from Laramie, The Forty-Fourth Star, The addition of Wyoming's star to the nation's flag provokes an apostrophe from tho Laramie Republican: “Wyoming's star! 1ts radiance will yet dim the lustre of ail its sisters in the groat constollation. The world will gaz0 upon it with wonder and admira- tion. Its rays will light up valloys filled with the homes of thousands who will fina here their ‘Promised Land,’ and fall upon cities where the hum of industry will be as to the oar as the musie from Moemnon's statuo; ol marble pal- acos and temples to learning and to art, whose gortals shall be open allke to the children of the rich and poor, though of the latter there will be few. But'If the consum- uation of all tuese prouiises 1s to be reached t must not be forgotton that for all tho tal gata Wyaumiug bas peceived 3ho muat give a faithful wocount. Her eitizens must be dili- gent in lmproving the grand opportunities that are thelrs, they must work with harmo- ny ns well as zeal, or tho star of Wyoming, Ifke the star in the east, may recode into apace and not appear again until a long cyclo of years has rolled around.” California Crop California has the promise this year of an excellont crop of wheat, fruit and wine. Wheat is being harvested throughout the state, and, whilo not & bonanza crop, It will yleld far moro money thau for several yoars, because of the higher prico of the cereal. The fruit crop will be largor and of a finer quality than last year, but of course, growers, can't expect to seourosuch large roturns bocanso eastern frult has cdono woll, The report that tho Califoruia prune crop Is a failure fs avsurd. It grow out of the fact that the prune_troos at Pomona had a light orop, but the gréat pruno orchards of the Santa Clara vallay, which yield throo- quarters of the state's crop, were never be- fore in finor condition. ., Tho season is late, but the warm weathot this week has ripened apricots and poaches, and all canneries are in full biast. The acreagdih boaring frutt will be increasod fully one-fifth this year, while pext scasou will sce a stiil larger increase, Bald Mountain Gold. There seems to bs no good reason for doubt- ing the existence of an! Immonsely rich d posit of the yollow motal in the Big Horn range of mountains, an@with the number of practical miners going into the unexplored region there is an almodt absolute cortainty good mines will bo doveloped the pi season, Like all other new eampe, savs the Buffalo Bulletin, thero scoms 10 be ‘o wild scramble of men for claims at Baid mountain. Our corrospondent 1ntimates that tho claim-grab- bers are gotting in their work in great shap: but wo believe tnere is enough payyground ab the Bald mountain digaings to satlsfy all the rnshers in and av the sawe time leave sufli- cient for the late arrivals. Chance and luck bhave made more men wealthy in mines than sciencoand hard work. Sone day an unsus- pecting innoceut tenderfoot will stub his toe on o nuggetof gold in the Big Horns and then—well, bistory will repeat itself. A Roasting summer Kesort. During the past throo days of last week California experienced the hottest weather in forty years. 1o San Francisco the the mometer ranged from 98 10 108 in the shade and in the mterior the mercury registered as igh as 130, Tho intenso heat burned up $1000,000 worth of crops and fruit. Forost fires raged in Niono and Luyo county, in which hundreds of families 10st everything and are loft destitute. A number of pro trations and deaths from sunstroko occurred. The Northwest Wheat Crop. The statistics of the whoat crop of the northwest for the year ending June 30 are complote and the followiug figures may bo onsidered accurate: Total surplus, 13,000,- 000 busheis, of which the Willametto valley produced 3,000,000 and Eastorn Orogon and Washington, with a corner of Idaho, 13,000, 000 Of the whole, 9,000,000 camo to Port- Land, 5,000,000 weat east by rail and 4,000,000 bushels went to Seattle and Tacoma. Last season’s erop was phenomenal. season’s crop will b very ood and tho most careful estimates place the surplus at the amo as last vear, while the most liberal placo the surplus at 19,000,000 busbels 1- lumette valloy produces no moro wheat than z0, more land being dovoted 10 stock-raising, orchards, ete. This Wyoming. An oven hundred arrosts wera made by the Cheyenne police force last month, Rawlus is about to_indulge in a moderate auantity of water and electric light. Reports are curront that the Laramie soda worles will shortly resume operution: Strong indications of oil have been struclk in the artesian well in the university campus in Lavamie The assessed valuation of Sweetwater county this vear is $1,37,550, as compared with §1,206,913 in 1800 Spocimens of Galena ore from Battlo lake aro shown in Rawlins, - Battle lake is distant twenty-five miles from Saratoga. Peter Frier, a section hand, was killed by a train near Rawlins racently. ~ dis wife and two children reside at Danuebrog, Neb. Uinta county’s assessment roll foots 81,777,017, exclusive of Union erty, whicli last year amounted to A sheep herder named Canan collided with a locomotive uear Cheyenne. A cargo of Cheyeune whisky saved him from serious injury. 5 The Union Pacide coal mines at Atmy pro- duces 500 tons a day. The output is to be doubled and 200 additional miners given em- ployment. Filing on public land for state institutions, to the amount of 44,145 ucres have boen made at the Ivanston land oftice. The land is in Carbon county. A large party of Laramie peoplo of both sexes are summering in camp ia _the Poudre valloy. A large crop of fish - stories is an iously looked for. One of the finest sights to be seen many miles of Evanston is a field of 2 of growing 0ats on the Bear river ranch of Mossts. Chambers & Whitney. The capturo of & havmless garter snako near Laramie astonished the natives rocent- ly. Instead of returning it to its native boot the captor preserved it in alcohol. The skeriff is going to sell threo tne chureh building of the Congrogational soclety t Rock Springs next month., Ii1s to satisfy a mechanic's lien of 31,400, The Overland mining company has filed ar- ticles of incovporation. With a capital stock 0,000, the company will mine r, asbestos, coal and oil, ana deal proper A Sundance young man proposes to take al carlonds of Wyoming n. s0ap to @'s fair, put it up in tin boxes and is said 10 be a fine articlo for tak ing groase out of either clothes or com- plexion. The census bulletin on national and county indebteduness furnishos some interesting sti- tistics on the county indebtedaness of Wyom ing. Itappears that the total indebtedness of all the vounties in the state ogites $1,033,700, of which 622,000 is bonded and #401,701 is in floating debts, making tho per capita debt on the basis of 60,705 population up Pacific prop- 443, within lots “and well known eivil king the survey for 1g canal in Fremont and ditch will begin ‘on sorge Bro gineer. is at pr an extensive irrigut Ulntai counties. The Irontestelle creel and range south to Black Fork, u branch of the Green river, and will have'a cavacity of irrigating half a million acres of land. Tho length of the canal will bo about sixty mil Bishop Talbot will not accept tho positio of bistiop of Gieorgia to whio he has been unaniously elected and with such fatto ing ovidencos of esteem. He has projocted aud is carrying outa great work in his dic ceso of Idaho and Vyoming. With this work now well under v but still far from accomplished, ho feels it in u sense cowardly to desert it for a wider and richer field | Georgia. en- The Mothodists of Missoula propose to build a 15,000 chur I was d wow Episcopal church at Livingston cated by Bishop Brewer on the 1st Tho Spoiane mine, Frail Croek district, has been sold to New York capitalists for £10,000—82,000 cash. Marcus Daly, its manager, says thore not money enough in the world to buy great Anaconda wining property. The rainfall in tho state in June was ro- markable, Oun the west side of the range an average of o shower & day was reachod Horso stealing Is gotting to b quite an art around Butte and the sheriff’s officers are busy rounding up the men charged with this offense, ows s received from White Sulphur Springs.of the death of two old Montana pio- neers. They were Josish Lanoy and Jorry Maboney. The mosquito plague fs again upon tho Yollowstone valley, aiiddt is no uncommon thing to see pedestrans coming from Keogh with their heads coveped and fauning the pesky thines. ‘ Says the New York Sun: “Hoom, then, Moutana, boom! Withisbeaps of potatocs, piles of the prosious metals and boundless opes, the state cau caumly yet proudly wait tho coming ages!" | At the annual meeting-of the Parrt com pauy in Butte last week an uxtraordinary dividend of $180,000 was declared s the ports showed surplus and accrued profits of tho yoar of £000,000, A rioh strike is reported in the Germania ¢ Butte. The lodgo was uncovered forty foet from the lovel. An assay ran 250 ounoes of silver to the ton. All oro taken from the mine has averaged high. Bya caven intho Polarls mine in the Bannook district, which occurred last week, o sixty-foot veln ' of high grade ore was ox- posed. Things wore looking very discourag- ing in the mine prior to this fortunate accl- dent. Steam coal has beon found some twenty miles north of Columbia Falls. Seven veins have been openod showing strong deposit from five to twenty foot in thickness of ap- parently good bituminous conl of oharacter requirod in tho steam genorating works of tho state, A striko of rich ore was made in the Clark at Butte recoutly and the prospect is that litieation will follow, Tho Anaconda com- pany claims the property. Its claimis dis- puted by H. L. Frank and others. The property is considerca very rich. It adjoins the Green Mountain and Mountain Consoli- dated. Northern Pacific officials say that owing to financial stringency it will bo impossiblo to go aheaa with improvements in Bozeman at present, but 1f the citizans of tho town will givea bonus of £,000 cash they will agroe to erect a briok passenger devot tocost $10,000, avd will put 818,000 improvements to' tho yards. Among tho many promising the flat below Butte no ono is making a ter showing today than the South Star. The shuft is now down on tho load about’ sixty feet and no less than fifteen tons of forty- ounce ore have been taken out i sinking. Tho lead has been growing stronger and richer with every foot of sinking The Parrot company of Butte has addod to its already large possessions anotber rich ore producer, tho Littlo Mina claim, which lies just noctheast of the Belle of Butte and southoastof the Buffalo Tho property was owned by Johu Stowart, Emanuel Haus- wirth, Simon and Ed_Hickey, i bonded 1t to th Parrot company. The price received by thesn gentlemen was $103,500. At the last session of the logislaturo a law was passed taxing mortgages. None of the assessors had returned railway mortgazes and the board sent them instructions o day 10 turn in this form of indebtodness as ro corded in their several counties. The rail- roads affected are the Northern Pacific,(Great Northern, Montana Contral, Montana Union, Oregon Short Line, Utah 'Northern, Union Pacific and Groat Falls and Canada, 'Assess- ing these mortgagos adds §20,000,000 to tho taxable wealth of tho state. prospects in bot- South Dakota. The assessed valuation of Sioux Falls is $2,346,503, ‘he site of the tin smolter at Hill City has “been selected and worl commenced. The new Deadwood smelter, now being built, isa_duplicate of the famous Parrott plant at Butte, Mont. One hundred and_sixty acros of land near Ropid City_was sold for 316,000, 1¢ was owned by Omaha partios. Tvo ostimable young ladies of Yankton eloned with Will D. Marphy ana G, White, a air of mashers of doubtful reputation, The second session of tho Black Hills Chautauqua meets v Hot Springs, Tuesday, August 11 and continues until the 22d. Yankton county is blooming with ripening erain and growing corn. Thero was never a better promise of an abundant harvest. Astrike of tin ore, assaying 10 per cent cassouite, is reported on the 150-foot level of the St. Paul group, in Ponnington county. Samples of the ore wero brought in to Dead- wood. @ider Buck, a faith doctor who fieeced tho crodulous in Yankton during the past six months, has departed for greener fields. leaving’ threo childron on tho charity of Yankton. James Casey of Hotel Casey, Omana, is interested in the proposed now hotel in Dendwood, for which the residents sub scribed @ bonus of $20,000. Tno deal will probably be closed this weel. The regalar semi-monthly bullion shipment, aggregating 180,000, was made on the 3d, bo! sides bricks from the Golden Reward, Homo- stake, Dendwood. Terrn, Highland ana Cale- donia mines. ‘The shipment included a brick valued at 7,000 from the Monitor. During the recont session of the grand lodee at Madison, W. H. Timmerhoff, of Hill City, on behalf of his lodge, presented to the grand lodge a_ handsome gravel made of tin from the Harney Peak tin mines at that place. The asscssed valuation of Leaa City is 288,800, Under the Dakota statutes a man who robs a stago can bo sent to prison for Jife, and if be attacks but fails togot any plunder ho can be sentenced to half alife tine. In o case where a judze fizured that fifteon years was half a life time tho supreme court has upset the sentence, figuring that nineteen years, seven months and four days is tho correct figures. . The Bie Missouri company effected a twolve mouth’s lease of the Uncle Sam sixty- stamp mill and wilt haul it over the Black Hills and Fovt Pierro railroad from the mine at Lead City, soven miles, to the mill. The companv has heretofore reduced its oro at io Pluma mill. T'his has only twenty stamps and as ore bodies were openod up was found too small. Marietta M. Bones, the Webster, Day county lady, who has stirred up somewhat of an” aroms, among the Woman's Reliof Corps and other womens organizations in South Daketa, wants $20,000 damages from the Sherdecn Nows and as soon as this sum 15 secured will procoed in court to razoo the Andover Gazette for all property in sight. Mrs. B. proposes to rattle all journalistic bones in the stato that ‘assail her reputation as a reformer. California. San Jose intends to raise $16,000 for improverments. The San Prancisco board of health refuses to admit Chinamen to the eity hospital. There aro twenty-three combined harvest- 5 at work near Reedley, Fresno county, on 520 acres of g on nine foot throo 350 pounds, was caught river at Anderson, Shasta count. Petaluma shipped lust yoar, 10,642,272 eggs into the markoets of tho world, and yet Potal- uma hens have to serateh for liviog The quarantine officer of the state horti cultural board has seized 375,000 oranee trees from Tahiti, which aro infosted with five Qifforent varieties of scale bugs. One of the last of *ho pionsor buildings of an Francisco is now being demolished. 'This is the old Macondray builaing, at N 204 Sansome streot, built by Captain Macon- dray in 1850, Mr. Porter's census-bulle credits California with a tle over 157,000 barrels of crude oil anuually. As a matter of fact the production is over 400,000 barzels; moro than three times tho consus estimate. For the six months from January st to July Ist there has been completed 1" Frosno ono building cach day, or a total of nearly two hundred buildings. Most of the buildings are homes, The aggrogate cost of the buildings is about §100,000. It is related as a curioas fact that ern California_potatoes, shipped to Now Orleans, are thence sent to St. Louis and Chieago, and soid as New Orleans potatoes at higher pricos than potatoos of tho same sort shipped to those markets from this cction. scheme is In process of completion to huild a road eighty feet wide, from Los Au geles to Santa Monica, macadamizo it, plant double rows of trees on vither side, and lay the necossary pipes and put in hydrants, that it may bo kept free from dust.” If th work is carried out as planned, the result will be oue of the finest drivoways iw the world ‘Phe Chino beet sugar mill will be in opera tion August I, All thd wachin for the factory and retinery bas now arrived. It oc. cuplod 118 cars and came from Germany total cost is 300,000, There is now over 4,000 acres of beets maturing in this valley for use at the factory as so0n as possible, and v delay in getting boet-sugar operation: ed will cause a loss of much capital by the farmers. now 15 over £00,000, The Lotal yoarly capac ity of the Chino factory is 7,000,000 pounds. Idaho. Five tons of ore from the Sawtooth mine sampled $100 10 the ton. The Cow Croek mines, two milos west of Delmar, are attracting considerable atten tion. The trail through the state is now wilh sneep, horses and cattle, whioct | s park 51 inches 1 in in on petroloum oduction of 4 lit. south- alive coe- | ity of Tts | | The total sugar beet crop hore | ing driven from Orogon, Washington and Caltfornia to the corn growing states. The shipments of gold fron the assay office in Bolse to the Philadelphia mint for the last weolk amounted to 25,400, The Unitod States marshal has arrested several wealthy parties in the northern part of the state for stealing government timber. The Malad Enterprise says: A man with » flexiblo log has beon around town peddling boards to iron white shirts on. There being two white shirts in town—alroady in soak for board—his business has not prospered Two handsome yotng ladies onused ing excitoment last weok in East Walla uncovering a lodgo in the hillside, whero thoy had boon prospecting with a piek and shovel. About a hundred porsons took a look at the now find. In Snako river valloy grass is excoodingly good, and cattle are beginning to roll in fat. At least two big crops of lucerne will bo har- yosted this soason. ‘Tho cattlo interosts are botter than at any timo iv tho past soven or eight year: Parties in from Soven Dovils roport timos lively in the camp, the country filled with prospoctors, many new locations being made and a good deal of work going ou on old loca- tions. All the recent developments go to show that the immense woalth of this camp is not over-ostimated, and is only kept back for want of proper transportation facilitios. ‘There is a firm at Bliss whoso firm namo is a standing advertisement whioh would be worth a fortune to them were they in somo big trade centor. Mr. Goforth and Mr. Rus- soll havo entered into s copartnership to sell lumber, and thoy transact thoir business un- dor tho name of Goforth & Russell. Such a combination is unique, and overy load of tumber one sees his mind unconsciously re- verts to “Go forth and rustle. Oreg; Portland city bonds recently sold for $1.05. Firebugr are cultivating a nocktie sociablo at Portland. Sixty thousand boxes of peachos will shipped from Ashland this season. It is estimated that tho timber in Clatsup county, consisting largely of spruce, codar, hemlock and yellow fir ropresonts a value of fully £20,000,000. There will bo a great harvest in Oregon this yoar, both east and west of the moun- tair 1t is reportod that it is thought tho vield'of wheat in Umatilla county will bo 30 bushels an acre, “The importation of eastern farm produce, opzirs aud butter, into Orogon has increased within the last fow years. It is now pretty wall settlod that Oregon cannot, or at loast does not, produce enough eggs and butter for home consumption. Tho teredo, the dreaded marino insect that bores mto and makes uscloss so many wooden structures built in water, is said_to bo un known in the Columbia river. Piles driven in tho water at Astoriu thirty yoars ago are snid still to bo sound and porfect. "Thus far this scason the jetty at the moath of the Columbia has boon oxtended over two thousand feet, the pile-driver being employed every day the weathor will permit. Already the jotty is over twenty-threa thousand foot in longth, or nearly four and one-half miles, direct out into the ocean, A three-yoar-old gray hair seal weighing about sixty pounds was caught the other day in a salmon scine near The Dalles, Oro, An- other scal said to be twice ad largo was caught in one of the fish wheels of Winats Brothers on the Washington side of tho river. It isseldom that seals follow their prey so far up the river. bo Nevada. Everywhore in Owons Vailoy crops will bo above the average this season. Lively timos aro oxpected in Churchill county s0on, all the indications bolng favor- able for u boom in mining. A rich striko is roported fu tho Union mina at Austin. Tho ledge is ten_inches wido and the oro will go at least §1,500 por ton. Silver City is oxcited over the reeent rich strike made in_the Oest mino, and the de- velopments so far mado promises n bonanza to the owners of the property. William Mitcholl of Smith Creok has com- pleted sheariug over four thousand head of shee, from which the clip will amount to between 25,000 and 30,000 pounds, about seven pounds to the head. Tho prospects for a good wheat crop in tho vicimty of Reno woro never botter than at prosent. The cool wet weather has been very favorabla for grain and the crop will be of the heaviest ever producod in Novada. rancis G. Newlands is agitating the sub- joct of rrigation in Nevada, He holds that the deserts of that state can be made to blos- som if the water at hand be utilizod. This is no doubt true. It is well known that the valleys of Nevada aro wonderfully fertile, the most romarkablo results having boen achioved wherever agriculture has been tried. A consus_bullotin fjust issued gives tho populahion of Nevada iu 1500 at 45,701, de- crease of 16,505 during the last decade. If the decreaso continues at this rate Novada will be totally depopulated before 1920. Tho decadance of the state forms a striking con- trast to its flourishing neighbors and tho gen- erally prosperous condition of the surround- ing rogion. Utah, The contract for the foundation of the Utah university has been let. The price is $237,950. $ The record of the Salt Lake mining ex- change for tho past six months shows 2,014,- 116 shares sold for $370,942. Twenty carloads of farm machinery have been unloaded at Prico, Emery county, this ng, for uso in eastern Utan. ho assessment of Logan county is abont $300,000 nighor, as tho county assessor puts 1t, than as it is' made by the city assessor. 1t is feared the potato crop in tho Cacho valloy is considerably injured by rocent frost, In many fielas the wibers aro sot back very ous] Kate Jean Boan, editor and publisher of the Uintah Papnose, in the last issuc of her publication expresséd hersolf as veing irre- vocably opposed to ladies riding sidewiso, and said that as soon as she acquived the courage of her ~ nvictions she proposed to 0 “straddlo,” alw Thore are ao flics on Kate. Parsons City, in Uintah county, is attract- ing a great deal of attention asa mining town and 15 rapidly building up. The peo- plo have organized a new mining district, situated in tho Uintah mountains, north of Vernal, which is forty to thirty miles square, Parsons City boing situated about in tho middlo of the district. Washin on. Soattlo's postoflice recoipts ending Mareh 81, 1501, wero $96,643. Twenty tracts of school land in Lewis county sold for $15,000, about one-fifth of its value Three miles of the Big Yakima canal been finished already, wod work is p ing very satistactorily, The stato board of trado meots In Port Townsend July 16th, The world's far coms mission holds & session thero on tho 17th. School lands in Walla Walla wero recontly sold to farmers, the highest bid being $50 per acre, and the entir sales aggregating $170,904, for tho year haye gress- ON SELIFISHNE That and Not Money Is the Boot of All Earthly Evil. sUfishness, not monay, 13 the root of all evil, says the Texns Siltings. All the great schemes for the improvement of mankind fail from ignoring tho natural sellishness of all ind. Tho theories of the nutionalists sound beautiful and their arguments are convincing until into consideration the human- is solfish- commun- of an- 1an vou tako man, and his humanity ness. Both socialists and ts lose of this, nnd archy solfishuoss is tne keystone, The succossful mau, the man who piles up his thousands long aftor he acquired more than he ean possibly enjoy, but giving play to his solfish instincts to keep from the less fortunate sl he can and make1t his own. The man who acquires woalth may not ho more salfish than other men, but ho has with his seltishness the faculty of gratifying it to a gronter extent than others. Turn whutever way he will, the theorist confronted by the insurmoutable wall of individual selfish the nature of wan is must fail, sight is is ess, and un changed his hopes MID-SUMMER THEATRICALS. Jnlia Marlowo is expoeoted to return from uropo in the early part of August. Lilli-Lehmann-Kalisoh is sponding th summer noar Praguo, which was at ouo time her home. Alexandor Satvini summer with Floreaco, Rose Coghlan hins bought o cavilry horse, to be used in his production of *‘Dorothy's Dilomma’ noxt season Colonel Mapleson bas been engaged to manage the soason of Italian opera proposed in New York next sonson. Georglo Drow Barrymoro loading fominine character in son's Widows' next season Aftor soeing a_ portormance of “Love's Lavor's Lost" a Chicago paper remarks thore arostula fow pooplo who profer Shakos- pear to Mr. Hoyt. “Tho talk about J. H. Hill's diflcultics has sottied down into an easy belief that the man- ager will pull out of his troubles by the mid- dlo of the coming season. Tho long hitigationevor the Warder grand opera houso in Kansas City has been sottled, and G. W. Henry has regained possession, while L. M. Craiwford rotired. Ovide Musin will bo accompanied to this couutry next year by Julietto Folyille, a Bol glan composer and conductor, who, mean- whilo, will have become Mrs. Musin, Miss May Robson has had her vacation abroad cut short by a mossago that sho is wanted for the production of “Jane' at the Madison Square theater in August Mr. McKoo Rankin s seriously thinking ot rotiring from the stage and becoming o pla; wright. Ho has several dates for next soa. on wich he will ill, but ho will malko no now ones. Abby has engaged Albani, Maiba Emma Eames, togother with Cupoul Jean and Bdouard de Reszko, for an opof tour of the United States during of 1801-2, When Honry Trving comos to this country he will visit Edwin Booth in Boston, Joseph Jefterson at Buzzard's Bay and Stuart 1ov. son at Cohasset. He will be accompanied by Augustin Daly. A cavlogram has beon torien Surdou,in which the famous dramatist states that tho Iinglisn adaptution of “Phermidor’” has met with bis approval, and that it was forwarded to this country on Sat- urday. Mrs. Dion Boucicault, who is at present member of Chnries Frobman’s stock company prosenting *Wilkinson's Widows' at the Co- lumbia, will next season create the leading femalo' part in ““The Solicitor,” tho comedy for which Mr. Frohman has ougaged Henry Dixay. a Managor A. M. Paimer has ro-ongaged for is stock company uoxt soason Miss Maud Harrison, Mr. Maurico I moro, Mrs. E. J. Phillips, Miss Agaes Millor, Mr, J. H. Stoddard, 'Mr. B, M. Holland, Mr. Cliarles Harris and Mr. Walden Ramsay. Pauline Hall doclared to u Philadelphia re- porter that sho had not washed her faco in fivo vears. Sho uses cold cream ns a substi tute for aqua pura and says it insures a good complexion, Maybe it does, but—ugh! Think of a face unwashed for five years! It is rumored th:at Mr. Irving's approach- ing visit to this country, although matnly for rast and rocroation, is not attogether discon nected with business, and that ke will thon decido upon the expudicncy of making an- othor professional tour in the United States. Annie Lowis, the bright ittle soubrette of _atter On” fame, has signed a throo yoars' contract with Manager Jaced Litt of Chicago. Sho will appear fu **Yon Yonson” next soason, and her contract prevides for a starring tour after that in a play especisiiy written for her. Tho veteran actress, Mmo. Janauschok, uis announced that she will nover play agoin. Hor toars have been unremunerative of 1a.g vears, and tho Mirror asls the general publiy %o unito in a_grand testimonial benofit thut shuil rank with tho farowell accorded to Charlotte Cushman. Nat_Goodwin's scarch for now plays is al. mast_ indefatigable. Ho tires oasily of drae matic matorial which has been used for u cer. tain length of time. Ono or two of Goodwin's earlior pioces might eusily havo served him for years on the road, buthe refused to iden- tify himself with any one play. Hence his fréquent appearance in new. piccos. Walter Damrosch anaounces that the coue stitution of his symphony orehestra. for next soason will be as follows: It violins, 12 cconds, 10 *celli, 6; dounlo L ; flutes, 2; English born, ionets, 2 'bass clarionet, 1; bassoons, horns, 4: trumpets, 3; trombones, #; tubn, i+ tympani, 1 pair: bass drum, 13 small drum, trianglo’ bells, ote., 3; harp,'1; total, 6. The practice among players of assuming false names 13 being abandoned almost alto- gethor by recent rocruits of the profession, It originated in the times when acting was generally discountenanced, and_ when thoss who o0k to it lost thereby nearly all socio! consideration. A_search through the cast in nearly all the New York City theators by & man cxceptionally well acquainted with tha personalities reveals the fact that not less than 50 por cont of the porformers wero bilied by their real names. Many New York millionairos, says tho World, aro adept performors on musical in- straments. John D. Rockefeller is said to ba an enthusiast with the tiu o, and William W, Astor plays classio melodies on the piauo and organ. Henry Clows still fingers tho piano, and 50 do Robort Goelet and Joan H. Inman, while Frastus Wyman, Creighton v tho Standard Oil magnato, Henry M ler, prefor the organ. Frodorick Vanderbilt finds charms in the banjo, and Colosel Do Lancoy Kano is tho bost amatour coruet playerin the country. Nearly all the comic opora people havo been watching “Miss Helyott” closely, but tho mystery with which Mr. I'rohmun invests his plans concerning it continues. Mr. Frohinun insists that tho pice with the introduction of music featu nece will spond wnost of the his distinguished father in will play the “Mr. Wilkine and and e tho soason receivod frem Vie telar as one of the e suys that a prima donna is not wy for tho priucipal rolo. indi- is not much of u singor, and s gencrally bo- licved that Mrs, Carter is not much of a singer. Mr. Frohmon las placed tho man- agoment of **Mis W eutirely m the hands of Mr. and, as Mr. Prics is Mrs. Carter's there is another reason to believe that the Chicago divorcee will have the leading role in Audran’s beau tiful Mr. David Belasco walls around with maps of the Iyronces in bis hand aud “Miss Helyett" on lis hip and Mr. Belasco is Mrs. Cartor's stago managor and instructor. It is plain that Mrs. Carter is to play Miss Helyott, and it s dilicult to soo what ond can bo gainea by the continued de- nial of tho fact. Miss Mary Shaw has many sousiblo words to say ou the subjoct of praiso s accorded to tho work of actors and actresses. *Prajse is pleasant always,” sho says. “[t us right in tho great world of nobodies—gives a r sou for our existenco to managers—and in countless ways greases the wneels of materinl things, Although often putronizing, it is still 4 vory desirablo thing. Yot b raises scarcely & ripy 1d thereforo, may do us vitally as much harm as 1t scemed to do us good.” Foi that praiso and succoss ar 1us for what really deserve littly cre Wo win them for what was Cioa’s gift to us at birth, to which wo ean add or tuke sway very little, and which simply finds expression througn us as light does through the medium of air, But thero is also in us spark whose flame might enkindle the world had we the courage to dovelop it T'his is sure to spread or ex tiuguish. It is tho one who blows the helping breath to keep this alight who does us moro Kgood than any words will express,” Mumo. Patti has fixed a dato in tho woek of August for the opening of tho beau tiful bijou op which 8ho has built lately at Croig-y-N stlo. The ovont is to be colobrated with mueh fosti S0y the Chicago Herald, and M. and M Nicolini will entortain'a lavge party of giests in bonor therecf, On tho inaugur nighv tho hostess herself will take part in the first sor of “La Traviata’ and the garden scone from st Noxt iight thoro will lkely be a all in the thoater, the tloor of which can, an' ingenious applica tion of h ilic power be raised to the level of the sta; Again on the following evening thore will bo an operatic performanee includ ing ncts from “Romeo et Juliewe) and fartha." Tho baton is to be wiclded by the veteran Signor Arditl, and a competent orchestra will be cugaged, To muke the artistic interest of tho affair compls wpe propriate address will be delivered on the fest night by Henry 1rving, whose presence n fwelling of the “Queon of Sc will fittiog outward symool of tha at binds the drama and the “divine s housc