Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 8, 1891, Page 11

8 FAVORED HOME OF FORTUNE.| ‘Wisely Directed Brain and Brawn Successfully |y Wooing the Goddess, Fickle. AND REARING MIGHTY § ATES IN THE NORTHWEST. ‘Wonderful Development Activity in Wyoming—Montana and the Omaha Excursion—=The Gold Crop of California—Rail= rond Prcgress at Various Points—~The Week’s Events in Detail. A New Industry Dostroyed. A commotion has been stirred up amone the matrimonial misfits down cast over what promises ta be tho destruction of joblot di- vorce business in South Dakota. The laxity of the divorce lnw of the stato attracted little attention in the west, but down east wher galling yokes aro numerous, South Dakota became a Mecca for divorce hunter The announcement thot the courts propose to shut down on this scandalous business d consternation to the dive ny in Sioux Falls and neighboring towns and filled east- orn papors with dotails of the lamentations following & stringert interpretation of the law. Judge Alken, heretofore a famous divorce dispensor at Sioux [alls, announces pri- vately and from the bench, that henceforth e will throw out all cases where there is the slightest shadow of a doubt that the plaintiff has come to the state solely for the purpose of obtaining a divorcoe aund of then returning to their previous homes Tho Dakota law requires but ninety days’ residence before action for divorce be brought. Agreat mauy divorces are granted 1n tho various circuits in the state, but there are probably moro cases in this circuit than any other. Tho greater portion of the decrees, how- ever, are about as valuablo as so much waste paper. The plaintiff '8 10 this state, takes up his or her residence at a hotel or boarding house, stays ninety days, makes aflidavit that ho or she is a bona resident of tho state, obtains service on the defendant by publica tion, and after the lapse of seventy-two da gots a decreo, then shukes off the dust of South Dakota and leaves on the very first and fastest train, The trouble has all come about by the lax- noss of those sceking divorce papers in the matter of residenco. Their insincerity i soen on every hand. Ior instance, M Blalne came here, hired a_room, staid a few days, went back to New York and remain thero nearly two montbs. Mue. de Stuers engaged a sulto of rooms at the leading hotel, remained a few duys and then went over to Bpirit Lake, Ia. Tnis sort of obtaining a res- idenco created gossip und was tinally the subject of much comment. in the pape At this juncture Judgo Aiken took a hand in the ®Bme and promises to muke matters exceed- ingly lively. On Saturday last he refused a divorce to Walter Mann, a wealthy Philadel- phian, on the ground that his affidavit as to Dis residence in South Dukota was not made in gooa faith. 1t has recently been found that there was somo irregularity in the service of papers in the case of Clinton Edgerly against his wife, Rose Coghlan, the actress, and the cuse is be reopened. Among the most interosting of the recent suits is that of Thomas Turner agatnst Hen- rietta Turner. Mrs. Turner resides at No. 252 Atlantio avenue, Brooklyn. Mr. Turner is a wealthy furniture dealer of Yonkers, N. Y. Mr. Turner claims divorce on the ground of desertion and his wifo answers through her attorney that ho is taking advantage of the law to secure a divorco by fraud. Edward E. Pollock, son of the New York ship supplies merchant, and a member of the Manhattan athletic club, is here living his ninety days preparatory to filing his papers for divorce. A conspicuous figure here is that of Dr. T. D. Warral of Newport and Providence, R.1. Heseeks a divorco from his wife on the ground of desertion. She is with rela- tions in Boston. Two other cases of promi- nent Imopla of New York are those of Robert, Ward vs Isabella Ward and Mrs. Sarah Hubbard vs James C. Hubbard, Three 1adios aro stopping at the Griswold place on Minuesota street, all of whom are secking legal vesidence for divorce purposes. They are Mrs. Wober of Washington, Mrs. Cuth- bortson of Chicago and Mrs, Leavitt of New York City. It is stated by attorneys that the list of Eeo[lln who have come to Sioux Falls within he last six mouths for the sole purpose of securing divorces numbers 103, A large num- berof these have secured their divorce: many cases aro pending, und a large propor- tion are here living the ninety days required o become legal residents, Judge Aiken is a New Yorker by birth and originally read law with Roscoe Conkling. His present attitude of hostility to the di- wvorces pending is due to a sudden influx of New Yokers, who are seeking divorce with- out intent to become resideuts, and to the notoriety which the nowspapers are giving past divorce decisions of his. In many past casos there hayo been perjury and fraud, and the coming to light of this has aroused the community und laid the bench opeu to criti- cism, WYOMING At VITY, Energetic Assaults on the Storehouses of Minerals, This Is Wyoining's vear of progress and development, Energy and activity aro con- spicuous everywhere, From presont indica- tions and discoveries, the output of mincral this year will astonish the natives, The Gold Hill camp has more than fulfilled expectations, Recently some remarkably rich gold bearing quartz was taken out of the bottom of the shaft, which is down to a depth of fifty-two feet. Specimens of it, which bave been exhibited at Suratoga, says the Sun, are studded all over with free gold, and good sized nuggets embedded in the rock. A new discovery was made last week on the Acme, which caused its owners to feel much elated, Twenty feet from the loud, and running pavallel to it rich sur- face indications were found. Pros- pocting showed a vein eizhteen inches wide and carrying oro which is fully as rich, if not more valuable than anytbing fouud in the discovery shaft, At i depth of fifty-two feot in the shaft an @iht-foot oro body was upened up, but the lead has not been exploited to such an extent s to determine its full width, and ouly one wall was located. Lewis Jolinson, who has been directng the development work, thinks the new vein marks the limit of the missing wall. Should this theory prove to be cor- rect, then it I8 reasonably certain thut the ore deposit on the Acuie is fur more ex tensive than ever its most sanguine admirers anticipated, Ore from the Acme is now being sorted proj ory to shipment. The owner: ure convineed, trom assuys and other tests that have been made, that it is rich enough to give them & good profit over and above all oxpenses in sending it to Omaha for treat- ment. Hints were dropped in_Saratogn last weelk that tho famous Bradfield gold diggings, sometimes known as the Lost Pick and Snovel claim, had been re-located in the Sav- ery country, just over the range on the west side. On a recent drive around the base of Buld mountain, the eaitor of the Sheridan Post found about one hundrod men engu old mining, He says 'he first cal ted was that of Mcssrs. Buckley, Darling. ton & Cuaplaine,where four or five men weie engaged o slulcing. After sbout eight hours work & clean up was made, und ul- though the exact amount could not bo ascer- tained, disinterested parties who saw the gold taken out, say_thero was about On the following day” Mr. J. H. Buckley took out $10.60 with a rocker 1 tweuty minutes by the watch, “On Sunduy another elaim owner took out 8 nuggot that’ weighed #1.40, and Mr. Mike Rohau exhibited another weighing $1. Mr. C. W. Morey took out 813 with a pan in less than an hour. We wmight go on and enum- erato huudreds of other Like iustances, but these are sufficiont to show that there is an Bolimited quanity of Kold fu tho district, aud | circamstanc that men are now eageriy and enthusiasticly eneaged in loeating and taking it out.” “Tho Bald mouhtain district embracing five or six thousand acre ach acre of which cone tains placer gold to the extent of 30,00 Miners aro now taking out various amounts of dust per day, tho most successful one,who is running a systewm of sluice boxes, recently cieaning up £20 1n a day’s run. Thers 1s aii- other well authenticated stance wherein threa mon cleancd np 55 worth of dust in four days. ‘The min are work - ing under a disadva time and labor is employ dirt to the running water. Laramio papers report the discovery of a tong lost rich lead in the Centennial district, which bids fair to_creato a furore in_mining circles In the Strawberry, Atlantic City and Miner's Delight distriets active opera- tions a I i carried on, and some very ood leads are being worked. A recent sale of a piece of property in the Atlantic City district al good flzures, show that eastern people ave still willing to invost where there isa chance for fair returns. We expect, within a year tosee Wyoming take first place as a mineral producer R. N. Kelley of Denver, brought into Chey- cnne recently some rich specimens of gold from tho Tongue river mines, One bottle contained gold nuggots, another displayed finer gold, and the third showed what is called flour gold. Mr. Kolley states that the gold of tho Ton- gue river section started from the grass roots and that in many localitios the turning of the sod exposed # gold deposit running from fifty cents to $ per puu. Mr. Kelley will at once make arrangements for the purchase and shipping to the Tongue river section of all needed mining machinery. “These are the main camps now attracting capital as well as onterprise. Boti are pour- ing in in good mensure, infusing new lifo in trade, oulivening oid and building new com- munities. The state is in the infancy of its careor of progress and prosperity, and the prosent activity is but a faint rumblo of its future growth, THAT OMAHA l‘}.’i‘lfillfll()l astern Montanians Anxious For a Visit, Great results frequently grow from trifling 5. The uecessity for railroad communication between Omaha and Mon- tana, recently pointod out by Tie Beg, roused an uncommon dogroe of enthusiasm in interostod quarters. The importance of a direct moans of business interchange is fully appreciated, especially in Montana, whero tho groat stock industry is deprived of the succulent corn of Nobraska und obliged to ship to Chicago to market. The proposed excursion of Omaha mer- chants to Helena is the first step in the di- rection of closer business relations. But Helena will not be permitted to monopolize the guests. Butto proposes to take a hand in showing the hospitality of the great min- eral camp. Miles City is also arranging to ure & visit, and its wishes will undoubted- ly bo granted when the tripis fully decided uipon. peaking of the vast stock interests, of which Miles City is the center, tho Yeliow- stone Journal says: “While our mercantilo trado is porhaps not such a volume as to attract the attention of a metropolis like Omana to the extent of in- ducing them to make very strennous efforts for a rail counection with us, our live stock business is of suficient volume to make it desirable for the Omaha men to divert even a portion of 1t to_their vards, and whilo they kiow generally that castern Montana is a large shipper of live stock it is of the utmost importance that they shonld be informed that Miles City is tho acknowledged center for this vast trado and the most important ship- ping point for live stock on the Northern Pa- cific rond. This if properly done will fix more fivmly in the minds of the Omala peo- lo the necessity of pushing the Fremont & Slkhorn road to this point, it being already the more favored route in the estimation of many business men whose expressions we have noticed in the Omaha papers. “It ust be evident to any thinking man that an effort made at this timo by the Miles City chamber of commerce, calling the at- tention of the Omaha excursionists to this point, in connection with its ackuowledged position as the cattlo center of eastern Mon- tana would not be a mstake and might re- sult in Iasting benefit to us all. By ourselves we can do but little, but if we can by a mu- tuality ol interests enlist the influence of tho powerful businass organizations of Omaha wo will have accomplished much,and our days of waiting for tho ‘boom’ be ' ma- terially lossoned.” The chambor of commerce of Miles City has appointed n committee to tender tho Omaha merchants tho hospitality of that city. THE DAVIS MILLION Courts and Lawyers Knocking a Hole in the pus. The contest over the financial remmins of Andrew J. Davis, tho deceased millionaire of Butte, Mont., is axain in full olast at Butte. Davis died Mareh 11, 18%0. He was a bacho- lor. During the closing weeks of his life his mind had been clouded, About him in his dying moments gathered a room full of rela- tives. Some of them approached with gon- uine regret the suprome moment in the career of one to whom years of personal asso- ciation had attached them ; others were there, not so much to be “in at tho death” as to be surely on hand when the hour for the cavving of tho estatn airived. Judge Davis left no will. His nearcst heir, a nephew, applied for and was appointed ad- ministrator of the estate. A fortuno of three millions that has doubled in two years, was not long in finding claimants, and ora the grass grow over the bauker's grave, more retatives than ho had ever dreamed of in lifo appeared and claimed a share of the spoils. An alleged will was also dug up, and from Towa came o family of claimants, accusing tho dead of being husband and father by so- crot marriage, Tho preliminary contest bogan in Butte last winter. Oué side objectod 1o the town, ana on the plea of produjice sought o change of venue, On this the case weut to the su- preme court and was denied aud the case ordered for trial in the district court of Butte, before Judge McHuatton and a jury, The trial opened Monday, July 27. 'The oud cannot bo foreseon. Four aad twenty law- yers are engaged in the coutest, home ani outside ent being drawn upon, Among them are Robert . Tugorsoll of New York, and Hon. James M. Woolworth of Omaba. GOLD GALORE, The Wonderful Outpur of Calitornia Excelling All Other States, +Of all ail the states in the Union,” writes Charles G, Yale in the Overland Monthly, “California still occuples the leading placo in the production of gold—a position it has stoadily held since the first discovery which brought the state to the atteution of an as tonished world. “Yet the conditions under which gold mining is carried ou 10 California today are different from those which existed when the first pioneers of the state came to gather tho millions that lay ready to their hands. Then Jan Was.4 miner; now, few who come hero tosettle have auv thought of the mines, and only u small portion of the inhavitants of the state know oe cave any- thing about the minlug industry . It seems rewarkable that’ an fndustry which coula peoduce upwards of §1,200,000, 000 in one state withix # period of wubout forty years, should bo neglected by the peo- pie of tho state. Yot this is the case with the gold mining industry of California. Aud THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, SATURDAY,''AUGT | not only that, but ono branch of it romains under the ban of the courts, aud may not bo lawfully practised. “Ofecial figures show that the total yield of gold f California, from the time Marshall discovered the historic nugget in the tailraco of Sutter's mill at Coloma, to the end of tho rIS00, is ®1,247,2087156. And there must have been many other millions carried away by the ecarly ors, that were never enum- 1 erated in the official fgures. The rates | chiurged for export of treusure in the ecarly | days were exossive (5 per cent snd_ prim. | ag0) on the steamers, and for several yoars th deposits ant the eastern mints oxceedod by ten or fifteen mil- Sau Francisco, as shown by the cumtoms house records. As overy stoamer carriod from five tundred to one” thousand passen- gors, no inconsiderable amouut must have gone abrod in the same way. “But even tho sum stated is an immense one to bo added to the world’s weaith in so short o period of time, No such record has even been mude by any other country, or any other region. These Hgures are for the gold alone, the silver, quicksilver, copper, lead borax, and other mining products, not boing considored. » The largest amount of gold | taken out in this statein one yoar was in 1852, | wher the product reached ~881,594,700, just double the product of 1850, In the r 1851 the wold yield was 85,938,252, [t was not below $44,000,000, sinee which timo there has been a gradual declinefuntil within the past few years, sinco vl mining, the averago is sbout $13,000,000. T'his ‘would be very materinlly increased could moans be adopted to permit the work | ing of the hydraulic mines without datrimont time when theso great deposits of auriferous gravol will again_be utilized, and made to yield up their golden contents; but at present tho wholo question of hydraulic mining and brisis one in which the projudices of classes of the community are so strongly ex hibited that mere mention of the subject vro- vokes aiscussion. The more sober judgment of future generations will doubtless bring about a solution.” RN MO Agricaltural and Mineral Region Attracting Settlers, Tho Pacific extension of the Great North- ern railroad through northern Moatana opens a vast section of undeveloped country to set- tlement, ihe resourcos of this vast section, s Great Falls Leader, are unoqualed. Thoy consist in part of coal, iron, silvor, gold, tin, marblo, magnificent water power, mountains of precious metais practically unexplored, rich, fortile soil capablo of produciug seven- ty-five to one hundred bushels of oats and forty of wheat an_acre, with already forty thousand head of horses, two hundred thon- sund head of cattle and vight hundred thous- and head of sheop feeding on its luxuriant grasses and yielding immense profits to tho inhabitants.” With all theso resources and facilitics of wealth not one-tenth of which aro yot hardly developod, what may Lot be expircted of this rich and' fertilo region iu the next decado ! But it is scarcely twelve years since there were not more than four families located on the Belt, the Shonkin, the Teton, or in the wholo Judith basin. Ten years ago there was a small settlement in_the Chestnut vallev, J. K. Castner held the fort on Belt creek, Gov ernor Brooke was standing off Indians on Warm Spring creck i the Judith bastn, John Lepley, A, W. Kingsbury and George . Pat- torson bad just moved to the Big Sag and che Shonkin, and Robert Blanienbaker had taken possession of Box Ilder, Soon after Wolf creek, Judith river, Sand Coulee, the Teton ana the other valle; named, became settled. The Barker mines wore discovered by Messrs, Barker and Hughes, Tho Maiden mines bogau to attract attention, and a large immigration was turned in these directions. But the Marias and the great Milk river val- leys wero embraced in an Indian reservation, which was not _removed until two or three yenrs since, The building of the wreat Northern railway tarough the heart of the reservation soon opened up this country. The result has been a_constant influx of farmers into the rich and fortile rogions of northorn Montana. Notwithstanding the severo drouth of the last two years farmers, sheepmen and cattlomen hiave done romavk- ably well and with tha present favorable vear will bo placed in what would bo re- jearded in the east as prosperity unparalelled. Concerning this northern section the people all along tho line of the Northern Pacitic, that 1s i the south of Montana know almost nothing. They sce a large increase in votes, but even that is not_a fair criterion of the rapid settloment. The fact that one county whose assessed valuation in 1557 was only £1,000,000, has this year a valuation of ncarly £13,000,000, may illustrate tho growtn of northern Montana. But Cascade und Cho- toau and Fergus and northern Dawson coun- tles are an empire in themselyes. An emvire lurgor than the New England statos. THE COUER D'ALENE. NOR riNA. A Rich the Railroad Communication with the Famous Camp. The Northern Pacific extension to the Couer d’Alene country in northern Idaho 1s completed ana in operation. The road extends from Missoula, Mont., to Wardner, Idaho, and opens to trafc a ricn and well settled section of the Idaho pan- handle, The Couer d’Alene country contains minerals in abundance. For the past eight yeurs it has progressed marvelously, despite its isolated position. The difficulties of trans- portation, the enhanced costof living, and the large proportion of the value of products absorbed in moving, all operated against the country, yet the great mineral weaith of the rogion over-balmiced costs and transformed tho country from a mountainous wilderness to a cluster of industrious communities. The advent of a railroad will not only cheapen transportation and_cost of hving, but also afford prompt and coffortable means of communication with the outside world, a chango which will increase the growth and porperitys of the countr; REGION. A New ates a Stampede in Nevada, The excitement over the Pine Nut gold Qiscoverics in Nevada Is growing. Advices from Carson say from twelve to fiftcen pros- pectors arrive there daily, bound for the now camp. All go armed to proteet their claims, and bloodshed may follow over some of tho ledees, many showing free gold ou the sur- faco. Hebe Holman, foreman of the Best & Belcher, and Gould & Curry, at Virginia, Nev., in an interviow says: have made a thorough investigation and rogard the excitement as based on a good foundation. The discoveries are as good ns thoso made on the Comstock, and if the sur- face indications amount to anything, the re- sult will bo a heavy influx of mining men within the coming week. Several regular surveyors are now on tho grounds surveyi over fifty claims, There seems at some time to have been a geuneral upheaval which pushed the ledges through the sur Y lam Zirn, the discoverer, panned out’ $60 in one pan before me yesterday, and says he has taken out §100 in a small sack.” A town site has already been laid out and called Zitnvillo. A stage lino will be put on from Carson by Oliver Roberts. Tho dis- tance is twenty-five miles, Teams will take out building material us soon as possible Among the most promising finds are tho Mascot, Mountain View, Valley View, Baulk of Califoruia and the tor. LEGEH LATIVE BOODLE, | Sudden Collapse of a Celebrated California Case, ‘Che Faylor suit for §,000 claimed to be due him for his servicos as lobbyist in Sacra- mento last winter suddenly coliapsed in San Fruncisco last week. Two of the most im: portant witnesses for the pluntif disap- peared and could ot be found. Commenting on the testimony adduced, the San Francisco Examiver says: *“The under- world of corcuption is curious counterpart | and caricature of the day ight world of | legitimate business. 1f we did not knoa that the commodities dealt in were votes and the ourselyes among & party vf F'ront street mor- chants discussiug the price of pork. We have Senator Willlams telling Colorel Dan | Buras tuat be bus cutered luto a combina tion with Phileim iy to do businoss ot Britt and Mahonoy granot in the combina- His combination an Erancisco delogation, loss has gone to consists of the Britt aud Maboney co to dig up business railroad company anud others; and if 1ot make satisfactory arrar gements, Sonator Burns to accept the agenc ports that Colonel Crocker has sont word for and vote against ative fegislation, sud at tho end of the session dotinite to suit tho 4boys, and then Williams ‘T will take you “to a1 what is right.’ undertakoes prico for their votes. lions _annually the entire exports from | an that will do to' 800 that they got & fair have appointed a finance committoe to repro- in & business way, and this com- mittes moots Burns four times' n week in the state library, that shrine of d pure politics. Burns reproaches the senators with treachery They had agreed with him | tho alectric bill for §7 sold themselves to Crimmios for §1 ! exclaims the colonel, looking down on them from the hi cted hike honest men,’ mmitteo foels the force of buke, but it anxiously 1 8200 of the until 1543 that tho annual yield dropped | suppression of hydraulic | Buras remarks that it will business ove it what to do the authoritios nesses have disappointed hi corroborated reported as saying that he is willing to go to San Quentin 1f he can take the bis testimony to other iuterests. Itis only a question of | Ay on record t give two or three grand juries i good start in- the \ IDAHO Oy A Wonderful wvery in the Mou Close on the heols of tho report of tho dis- covery of a mammoth cave in Oregon comes the report of a like find fro While prospecting and Hot Springs, says Teller, Mr. Paron Havry v ered a cave that may 10 timo Prove as won- derful to the west as the Kentucky is to the south and oast. a roliablo description of tois hollow placo in the carth wo would havo to make a special and seo it for ourselves. which is about the will be found a freely flowing spring,and the water from which runs direct into the cavo. Tho cave is about ten foet in width and fully o back about milo and there will bo found a lake of beau- tiful clear water, about thirty or forty feet fn sizo, which 15 lined with fine green moss, and just boyond the lake are seven entrances Little Salmon Huvert discov- Mam:moth cave of a common door, vo was_ thickly cover 13, causod by tho contin- kali water, n w0 feot in length, and they w=ro says tho top of the ¢ with petrided i ual dripping of a kind of of which were thre a few specimens with formed exactly like icicies only of a different color and perfacily hard. gold quartz specimens, some contamning free conlident thut he has found and aims that will: somo day make him He will retura. in a short time to do- ms and plso furtuer to investi- gate the wonders of the cave. FORTUN Ho has many fino The Productive Qualitics of Califor- nin Orchards, ax-Governor L. A Sheldon writes in the August Forum: The raism yields o profit in Fresno, San g0, San Bernardino and Los Augeles counties of from $150 to $100 per acre when orchards yield frow $200 to $100 per acre when the trees are oighteen or twenty vears Last season Mr. Pasadena sold his fruit from thirty-eight acres of peaches, apricots and prunes for )4, the cost of production being $1,000. Last year Major Chase in El Cajon valley, San Diego county, raceived $2,600 from five and a half acres of prune trees, and the cost of production and preparation for market From sixteen acres of apricots Mr. Stratton of Azusa, last year received 00 after paying the cost of production and preserving for market, overnor Markham receivad $330 from one © of orange trees, in South Pasadena in 1839, the fourth bearing year—and the cost of production was $26. ames Smith of Pasadena, net, for oranges produced on three and one- third acres. Redlands, San Bernardino county, received for the last year's crop 8900 per acre, aud the Sciplo Craig says that seedling orch- unty will average $100 to 8500 Riverside is the most celebrated place for orangs production in Receipts per acre have boen as high as $1,200, and $400 and upward are not uncommon, ‘Cnompson of In the same year Mr. ards in that Butte's Judicial Hide Awfully and Wonderfully Made. Kansas has its Judgo Mckay, Montana its The former attempts to overrulo the stato supreme court, the latter Both have undertaken tasks from which giants, much less pigmics, would shriuk. During the appeal to the Montana supreme court for a change of venue in tho Davis will contest caso, the Helena Journal, in rofo p, insinuated that Judge McHat- For this awful crime ing editor and business manager bofore his high Judgo McHatton, to muzzlo the pre to local gos: i ton was prejudiced. were arrested mightiness in Butte, was dischargod, but the managing editor, Mc- Knuight, refusing to give the name of author of the paragraph, was clapped into This was two weeks A writ of habeas corpus was secured from the supreme court and McKnight ro- jail and bail refused. “This is an illustration of the way in which judges somo times exerciso tyranical power. 1t ought to bo stopped, for judges should bo as subject to criticism as other ofiec power of courts to commit for contemp® wis established in a day when newspape had i oxistence. v have boon suited to that day, but 1t is not in harmony with the liborty and the civilization of this age. SOUIH DAKOTA. Facts From the Repa troller of the Currency. of the Comp- Honorable i says the Now Yor comptroller of tho system is hold in high favor in the new wes tern states. Take Sopth Dakota for lustance, At the close of tho lust fiscal year there wero 1 operation in the state thirty-nine national ving an aggregate paid-up capitai 5,000, an ageregato surplus fund of 06,029 aud _aggregate undivided profits of footed up 85,572,008, sports in which thedo ttems ave ewboaied, notable progress has beeu mado all along tho 2 the date of The largest and strongost bank in South Dakota is the First National bank of This bank was organized in 157 2391 on the “official roster’! 1t s a paid $100,000 and its surplus and undivided profits foot up about 8l foot up nearly § business of 50,000,000 DISCUTE )0,000 aud 1t doos wn wnbual ) LANDS, A Railroad Grant Litigation n and Califoraia railroad commenced uit court against fifty three holders who bave taken up claims with: limits of the old Oregon Central mpelling them to quit transactions felonies, wo wmight imagino | the nurpose of to the lands they have filed os that the land of 1o receive the tiliy, o had no right | Chamberlain, #5,400; Rapid Cit ) pute was granted to tho old Orogon Central road by act of congress passed May 4, 1870, he Oregon and California company succooded the old company and assumed all its indebtedness, the plaintiffs claim they also como into possession of all the lands of the Oregon Central company sequired- through patents from the Unite States gov- ernmont. The case promises to lead to end- loss litigation, and several hundved others who have filod in the samo way will De af fected by the decision of the cou A WYOMING TOWN. The Growth and Industrics of New- castle, Less than twenty months nago the sito of the city of Newcastlo was covored with snge brush and pine Since that time fifteon two and thr brick blocks were con- structed, it was made a_county soat, a §125, 000 system of waterworks completed, #1,000 spent for sewerage, £,000 for streot grading. 000 school house, a £,500 county jail, )0 city hall and two elogant churches were erceted, The coal fields near the town were developed until the Noweastlo mines wero justly called tho “Model conl mines of the world. The B, & M. built 200 miles of road to reack the mines, efghty miles boyond Nuwcastie on the extension to make connec tion with the Northorn Pacitie, and 100 miles into Deadwood As o1 1t ol the discovery of this body of excellent bituminous and colke-producing conl and the incoming of the B. & M. the wholo Black Hills country has awakened to a great prosperity, and the i monso richies that have so long lain dormant are being develoved with uuprecedented vigor. A YOUTHNCL TURPIN, The Fate of a Dime Novel F wayman, The mutilated body of found beside the track at Brighton, Cal., and brought to Sucramento. Life was not yet xtinct, though the skull was broken, and numerous wounds covered the head and body, produced by contact with a moving train. Death occurrved a fow hour later. The docoasod was very young, but of stal- wart build. Around his waist was a belt filled with pistol cartridges,while a flne forty- five caliber Colt's revolver, a foot and a half long, hung to the beit. In the pockets were a bunch of the latest and best-mado skeleton keys, and also newspaper clippings relating to train vobberies and other lawless deeds. There was also a letter from bis sister, “Eleanor,” a girl of thirteen years, writton in affectionate language and imploring her brother to write and tell what ho_ was doing. Wherever his own name occurred it had bee fully cut out, and also the date of the let- ter and tho address of tho family. Whether the youth was a genuine desperado or some weak-brained victim of dime novel literaturo 13 not known, gh- young man was Wyoming. Timber firos are smd to be raging In timber south of Piedmont. Choyenne is weary of mulo motor and wants clectric rapid transit, The Union Pacific disburses $35,000 a month at Rock Springs. A state weather bureau is to by added to Wyoming's attractions. More than 1,100 corporations are authorized to transact business in the state. Flowing wator was struck in_tho Rawlins well at a depth of 300 fect. Thirteon_rebuilt locomotives wore turned out of the Cheyenne shops last month. A postoftico has bosn establishod at Cora, Fremont county, witn special servico from Big Pinoy. Z The Denver and Wyoming Pipe Line company has been given'a frauchise by the Laramie city council. Satisfactory progress is roported in nego- tiation to convert I'ort Sanders into a state encampment reserve. Near Wheatland, on the Choyenne and Northern, the Wyoming Developinent _cor- pany has over 1000 acres under cultivation, John Chase, for eleven yoars manager of the Inter-Ocoan hotel in Cheyenne, has re- tired on accouut of rapidly failing bealth, Perhaps the liveliest town in the stato jast now 15 Gillette, the new terminus of “the Burlington. " newspapor has beon started there, Thero isa good prospect of a stamp mil 1z put up to work the ore from tho Grand sampment tunnel. 1t has been domen- 5 d that there is 4 seven-foot quartz vein 1 the lead that will pay well. G Two or threo of our eouuty officials visitod the Starvalley country recently, and re- turned with very flattoring reports of the crop prospects, and think that that section of the country will become tho garden spot of the county. J. C. Risher, who is largely engaged in tho cattlo business in Wyoming, with a _range fifty milos sonth of Greon river, says that in the past eight years there bas beon no time when thero was as much grass and cattlo were in as good condition ay they are now. Citizens of Sheridan county have organized and meorporated the Omega Mining company with a capital stock of $100,000. Money paid in will bo devoted to the purchase and de- velopment of mines, principaily placers in the Bald Mountam district. Mrs. John Kurtz, the victim of the kero- sene can explosion in Cheyenne Wednesday morning, died Thursday evening in great agony. The lodger who fought desperatsly t save tho woman was William Rath, a orako ran for the Union Pacific. His hands are badly burned and sowe surgery may yet be neeessary. The Green, Grand and Colorado river navi- gation company will start on an_exploring tour this month. The party will be com: posed of ten or twelye persons, among whom will be representatives of the press. Tho cditor of the Cheyenvo Sun will go along to keep the slack out of tho sals. South Dakota. Tne Black Hills Chautauqua will be hel1 at Hot Springs, August 11 to 26, The educational expenses of Rapid City for the current year foots up 238, Doadwood was short of water ono day last week, but the natives did nov miss it. The Retrelver mine paid its third dividend recently, making a total of §20,000 for seven months of tho year, ‘The Harney Peak Tin company August 10 let contracts for sinking 200 feot of the three-compartment shaft on the Addie, and 100 feet of the two-compartment shaft on the Coates mines, at Hill City, Tho threatenod removal of a brewery from Sioux Falls created a sensation in business circles, and a united effort provented the calamuity. The report that South Dakota is a probibition stute lacks confirmation. ‘I'he new earbonate camp on the Rocker- ville road is forging ahead. The district is oue of the eldest in southern hills, hayi been prospected for gold years ago, when Stovidan and Rockervillo were flouvishing cities. It declined and again revived. Wolves are lalling stock along the Chey- cune river. The wolves are growing bold d cowe up 1o the Is and kil the colts. o stockmen 1o that vicinity ave talking of organiziug @ party for tho purposo of exter- wimatiog the different bauds of wolves, Justice Campbell of Cascade, accompanied with an overgrown Jag, attempied to iwm- prove the morals of the town the other day He drew a knifo on a “coon,” but the latter caught bim under the jib and sent him to grass, indetinitoly postponiug the reform. Garden City properties are looking up uguin, o deal having been closed yosterday for a minority interest in the capital stock of tue Mueller Mining company and Koystono Chlorination Works at & net prico of 25,000, The purchasers were Hurrod Brothors of Waterloo and Waverly, 1a. The Deadwood and Delaware smelting company's plant began its iuitial run at 4:3) o'clock July 2. Exactly sixteen minutes after the blast was turncd on the furuuce will on | was discbarging molten ove at the rate of 15) tons per day. ‘The plant hus now beon in operation long enough to set at rest ull doubts before entertained as to the practicavility of the pyritiv process, Tuomas H. Ruth, commissioner of publie and school lands, filod in the Rapid City land office his application foe lands undur the on uli adwitting South Dakota iuto the union. » most of the lauds selectod urs located in Moado and Fall River couniios, aud are of the best lands fu the distriet open for settlement. The filings amount to 6,713, 205 acres e business of the gener: | laud oftices o the state for the ye Juue #, show @ total of 6,547 1 umber of acres newly filod on Piorre, 114,473 1non, §3,307; Mitchell, 64,134; Yankton, ; Huron, 38,984, 'The number of ncros acquired by final proof is: Pierre, 17 Champerlain, 25,080; Rapid City, Aberdoon, $0,273; Miteheli, 181,030; Huron, 1 e kton, S4488, y vana Franels Murphy scooped in 700 converts in Helena. Butto is enterfng upon a grading of hor streots in oarnest . Missoula workingmen are determined to boyeott the Chineso. A quarter of a million by ht a premium of The total shipment of wool from Groeat Falls sineo the opening of the season foots up 1,412,358 pounds, Work on the enlargement of the East He. lena plant is being rapialy advanced. Sixty new ovens are being put in duriig the past weok. The theft of a kog of beer trom a wedding feast in Butte provoked a row, during which tho thieves dropped tho keg'as well as o bucket of blood. The workmen of Missoula are protesting against the employmoent of Chinose !abor and declure theiv intontion of boyeotting business houses patronizing Chinese, A rich strike s reported in the Southern Cross mine Zosel distriet. A force of men had been put to work to take out ore to fill thoir new contracts for shipment from Ana- conda. Keports t Groat Falis bonds mo from Montana of a man who once n yoar sheds his skin a8 does o sna Each yoar, in July, bo is said to be attacked by a sort of fover, His 1 leosens and in ten days or two weoks it can b tuken cou plotely off A vein averaging about twenty-fivo feot in width hias been found in the Montana Chief, Cataract distriot It rut 8 from £15 to #18 per ton, Several tons have been taken out that were heavy with wire and native silver which weut as bigh us §60. Specimens of coal founa in McCiellan Gulch, ten miles east of Eelena, have been pronounced antharcite by oxper: s, and some development < is being done, At a depth of fifty foet tho vein was found to bo avout four foet in width. A level is now being run to further test tho extent of the vein From all sources the information coming during the past week touching the condition of the mining interests throughout Montana is most encodaraging. Tho provailing cf weather has materially improved the condi- tion of tho ronds, assisting in the getting in of supplios and the shipmont of ove! The novelist will find more material for ro mance in Helona than n an other city in the country. The city contains twenty-sevon willionaires, all of ‘whom have made their fortuncs thore, It has gold Kiugs, cattlo kings, silver kings, great gamblers, a good firo department and a discouraged religion relizion in Montana noeds moro irrigating than crops. ‘The manly art is right at homo in Butte, Tts dovotces may bo found in all walks of lifo, rogardloss of age or sex. Two pre- coclous youths came togother in an aliey tho other day, without any prelimmaries the flwht bogah, the mother of one acting as um- pire. Mud'had o wrrovs for thom, and ouls were ut a discount, but the mother kept hor weather oye open to see that her son did not got any the worst of it. _After they had serapped for some time and . crowd hud athered, one of tho bystanders at:empted to interrupt thom, but ho soon wished he had no., for with a Sullivan blow the umpire sent him to erass or mud, and the battle raged, much to the amusement of most of the look- ers on. Several attempts were made to stop the tight, but interference was only reward- ed by an'attack from the mother, and us no one desired to strike her the men ratived dis- comfited. Finally s policoman came along and put an end to the procoedings. Neithor of tho lads was hurt_ana the conclusion of the crowd was that the battlo was a draw. Utah. Au onyx mine has been discovered near Logan. Chipmunks are destroying sugar heets in Wasatch county. The cruol political war is over, and peace reigns on the Jordon. Anothor discovery of natuval zas has been made in Salt Lake City. he sale of stocks on the exchange for July aggrogated the sales today were 400 share Alumma and fire clay in considerable quantities ana of a valuable quality have been found in the near neighborhood of Brigham City. it is said that Messrs. Raht, Snyder,Moore and James havo sold their mino on Gold Mountain, north of Maryvale for the ncat sum of 365,000, A great deal of wool is now being shipped out of Sanpete vatloy. It has beon officially stated that siuce last November 1,000,000 pounds have beon shipped out of the valley. A new court house is being constructed en- tirely of stono at Eurcka. Its dimensions will be 30x40 feet, with fourteen-foot ceil- ings. The Methodists and Roman Catholics arcalso orecting houses of worship at Eureka, Ore from the mines located near Garden City, Bear lake, and recontly discovored, has just beon assayed. 1t shows 82lg per cent fead, 1215 ounces silver, and $2.111 in gold to the tou. Arrangements for the irrigation congress to be held in Salt Lake City, September 15, are well advanced. Ivery western state has been invited to sena delegates, and favorablo responses have beon received. The Taylor & Brunton Sampling works company of Aspen, Colo., has purchased ground ut Bingham 'Juncticn, and ovdered machinery and timber for tho ercction of what they state will be tie largest sampler in the United States. Work is to begin im- mediately. ulphur mines near Cove creck were inspected last week by a representative of a St. Louis syndicato, who proposes purchas- the cntire property, having the Rio ande Western extend’ their line to tho mine, and proceeding to develop it to its ut- most capacity. Ior tho first six month of the present v the following noted mines of Utah have paid dividends as follows: Daly, $225,000; Horn $100,0005 Outario, $150,000; Centen- L-ISureka, #20,000; Champion, $60,000; mmoth, 240,000, ' Petro, $12,500; total, 000, with @ scoro or more yot to hear from. Tho Salt Lake recoipts of oro and bullion for the week ending the 20th, inclusive, have been to the total value of $17,460,050, of which £,121,81:3 was bullion, and’ §),339,137 was ore. . 1or the previous woeek tho s wero to the valuo of $16,370,468 in total, of which §3,455.650 was in ore, and $3,025,518 was in bullion, ‘An analysis of samples of pumice stone, an extensive deposit of which was roceutly dis- covered near this city. showea 91.5 per cent of silica, witli a traco of aluminum, magnesia and lime, whilo moisture makos up the bal- "Pho deposit is sixty feet wido and can aced for over one thousand feot Receot arrivals from the Deep creek coun- tey brought in ore from a now place, which 15'said to bo a fino strike. It comes from Thomas' creck, on the eist side of tha Deep Creek valloy, in tho Daep Creek range, in what is known as Durst’s canon. ‘The ore prought in cama from tho surface, and is rich in When announced tey thero was a stampodo for tne e 4ing,” and the drst day fifteen lo tions werc mido alt Lake mining 20,424 shares; Tdah . The Payetto board of trade has beon fncor- porated, with £0,000 capital. The Prosbyterians and Catho! ing churches at Idako Falis, Phero ara forty-one insurance companies doing business in this state, with a force of 254 ugents, ‘I'he track of the Boise electrio stroet rail- way i3 completed and the company is now awaiting the arrival of the o Bagle Rock has by popular vote ehanged its nawe to [daho Palls and the railroad com pany will chanze tho statiou name 1o corre | Vin a few days. | wsshoppers ara said to be so thick along | Soldier creek, Camas prairie, that large num: | bers have porished in the stroam and tholr | | ics are buila bodies have so polluted the water that stock W or drink it 1 no lon, The Bunker Rill & Sullivan mining cota piauy has decided w build another large co cenivator ut Warduer, The pressut cono | wator hos a capacity of about four huudy | tous. The now mill will ve largor A rich strike is reported from Doer Creek county, uear Hailoy, It was wade in the Nettie wioe aod the veln, which is fourtes {nchos wide, carries ore that ruus ilver and 60 per cent load, Th paid its owners herotofore at the rato of §1,400 por mouth in dividends while doing dad work United States Marshal Joseyh Piukbam ) ounces WELVE PAGES, 1 unearthod in the northern part of tho stato & big timber steal und saved 1,250,000 foot of iumbor, that had been unlawfully out on the public ‘domain, from being run ovor into Washington, Hearrestod the prineipals and had them bold in bonds to appear when necossary. Thoro fs much activity in tho Caur de Alono country at present, — Tho Black Trav ilor in that section is down thirty-live foot, | ol in oro. A cross cut at tho bottom of Af. toon feot did not ercountor the hanging wall o ore assays i per cont in coppor outcos in silver, with u trace of gold aud & small percentago of lead. T'ho somi-annual report of State Trensurer | Frank R. Cofin contains some fatercsting | ngures, The eencral fund warrants paid amonnted to the comfortublo sum of $1 | 205,84, while warrants on this same fun led and outstanding, wero $1,080,%), interest paid on the bonded indebtediess of tho state was 811,001, 44 T'ho largest copper camp in America is sald to bo in the Soven Dovils country in lTaaho, S. 0. Spencer, & compotent judge, hns just from thore and Lo says that, ny mining districts i that wonders | fully rick country have only been scvatched, ho is confldont that it will in timo develop into the largest and richost copper country in the world. Tho Ameriean mining company own nino patented elaiws which have stocked at §,000,000 Oregon Portland s to have bieyele factory. Now potntoss ure selliug at Salom for 1 it pound. State Fish Commissionor Reod snys the sulmon pack on the Columuin. river this 8 ae son will not ogual thatol last seasen by Tho Fraser river salmon pack i3 said to be 50 per ¢ behina the two pvious years this season, Tho pack 15 also short on tho Colimbia vivor. Miss Hope Mulholland of Ha suddenly awakenod from her rivs ono duy dustwock by @ snake falilng onto hor 10 from the tree under which sho wis sitting, Astovia has formed another railroad pro- ject, a compniy having been incorporated to build a rond from Astoria to Goble, the point where the Northern Pacifio crosses the Columbin. Astoria is becomini famous for two things —for railroad projocts, and for thoe largest town in Ameriea without rail- rond connection. Eastern Oregon and Washington will raiso for export 22,000,000 bushels of wheat. At 63 conts per bushel, which is not un overesti- wate, this means $14,000,000. Add to it tho wool clip, and the sale 0f fruits and it is au easy matter to figure out that farmers of oastern Oregon will bo ablo o keep the wolf from tho door for tho noxt year withiout much wear or tear. Tho great jotty at Iort Stovons has roached its western limit about five miles out tosea, It is oxpectod that it will roquiro two years to finish tho work of dumping reok, and i the good vesults nlready attained continue, the valne of the improvement to tho whole northwst o will be incalculablo. This jotty is said to oo tho only picco of gov- ernmont” work underta ken wh eiin the cost was lower than the original estimates. The Astorian says that as Mr. Alexander, an Oregon sheop-raiser, was driving o hord of 10,000 mutton sheep throngh Klickitat county to the Sound market recently, a small canyon was reached which tho herders did notseo and when tho front sheep camo o it the rear ones pushed them ahead until thore was a oridge formed with the struggling and burs was dying leadors. The rest of the band passwd ovor aud whon tho hovders arrived thoy found 360 dead and dying sioop. Washington. Willapa harbor has shipped ¢ oystors during the past season. The corner stone of the Plymouth church in Seattle was laid last Sunday. One man and_£50,000 worth of property were crematod in Seattlo last Saturday. Seattie is something of a divorco mart. Seven mismatod couples wore sundered ons day recently. In_ Klickitat county they have a genuino baldhended eagle that they are fattoning for tho Chicago exposition. By the witl of J. W. Munson, filed for pro- oate in tlo, tho Sulvation Army becomes the beneficiary o all his estate, Onoof the most recont schemes in Wash- mgton is for an electric car line between Seattle aud Payallup, to be built in the near Future at a cost of about $100,000. The tea ship, Guy C. Goss, arrived a Tacoma with 30,255 packages of tea, valued £150,000, Tho Goss is the first tea ship to enter the Tacoma custom house, previous tea ships having entered at Port Townsend. The greater part of the cargo 1s destined as follow: New York, 9447 packages; Chicago, 14,675; St. Paul, 1,863, Thero was a grand sight out in Seiahoo bay Sunday evening wheme twenty porpoises or humpbuck whales went puffing and blow- ing by Birch bay head out into the ewulf, Every time one of the monsters plunged for- ward and spurted the salt water high in the air, his tail or back fin would protrude from the water at least five feet. The spectators could hear them snort liko frightened horsos, though with moro volume and groater forco, though they were fully two miles out from shore. It ‘was a grand sight to see them plow the water to a foam, and judging from the length exposed to viow they must have been fully thirty foet in length. 2,000 sacks of Nevada. Tho total sum disbursed by Comstock min- in compunies for wages during last month amounted to §192,253. The wheat crop of Nevadais said to bo very largely in excoss this year of the amount raised in that stato last yoar. Chinamen are about to hydraulic the mountain east of Unionviile, Humboldt coun- ty, placer claims having been a@iscovered for soveral miles in tho canyon. Sloughs and ditehes on ranches near Win- nemucca are full of carp and _cautish which have been cut off from the riyer in conso quenco of the water falling, and scoop them up by the saclful. I°rom the summit of Mount Rose, 10,500 feet above the sea lovel, the waters of twen- ty-one lakes may be seen glistening among thie forosts of tho Sierra. The snow on Mozt Kose is now from four to erght feot deep. Commissionor Carter of the general land oftice has dirceted tho rogister and receiver of tho Carson land offico to receive mineral applications and allow minoral entries on tho abandoned military reservation at. Foct Mc- Dermitt, “P'wo Shoshone bucks named Spruco Aleck aud Laughing Charlio fought a bloody duel at Wells. The tronble aroso about n squaw. They were both hobbled togother and fought with knives. Thoy are horribly mangled and Aleck will dio, There is an old man at Austin who for four years has beon prospecting on a hill back of the town, working ten hours a day and six diys & week, and has never been rowarded for his perseverance by the return of a dol- lar. Ho is looking forthe Waitlock ledyo, which has boon lost as effectually as tho famed Lost Cabi Catifornia, Tho Sucramento Beo has entered upon its thirty-fifth yoar San F'rancisco and San Matso are con- nected by an eiectric railway. Tho exports of lumber from San Francisco r the first half of tho year amounted 1o Gi,- 000 feet, valued at 8572000, Tho rocords of tho oid county court in San ncisco show that boforo” Judge 8. S ikt on July 9, 1570, Mrs, Mark Hapkius 103 hor son W logally adopted Timothy Nol and | Some specimans of mangel wurzel beots grown at Sants Ana have been sent to the pormanent exhibiv at Chicago. The largest et weighed sixty-six pounds. One moas urod 3 foet six inches in longth, aud six of ther welghed 423 pouuds, The Salton sea hus now received its vindi cation and lottors patont, The sea serpent has visited its waters and disportod therein The creaturo is doseribed as being about fifty foot in longth, with tho conventional yollow scales, yawning mouth and graat flippers. Oue of the most umqae murder trials of recent years in California, and. one intousely choracteristic of the plonesr opoch of the Pacitic coast, 15 in pro’ross in tho town of Trucke Court 15 bield in a combined bt ym and gambling establishment, and deeds f violonce azainst the prisoner, M n M Dougald aud other acts of contompt of conrt, aro kopt only 1o restraint by means of five wrms fu the hands of the judge. Owing to the excited condition of tho friends of the vietim, Michuol Laenahon, the leveling of rovolvor by the bench has' been @ froque nocossity. A mouion o udjourn to tho bas is always in ordow