Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 18, 1892, Page 5

o ettt S 1 | 1 { | ! { WATER'S WORTH 1IN WEST, How the Union Pacific Can Unload Its Sur- plus Aqua and Fructify the Land, MONTANA TAKES KINDLY TO WATER. Great Rallroad Projects on Paper—Ceur Mines—Sugar Beet Cul- ng—All the Nows of the Northwest, Covxcrr, Buuers, Ta,, Jan. 16.-10 the Edi- tor of Tur Ber: Several years ago I trav- eled considerably through the arid region and came back thoroughly convinced that it left to individuals it will take generations to reclaim it by irrigation. Each individual out there secmed to have his own idea “on how to ao it.”" There 1s really but one prac- tical way if we in our day wish to see it accomplished. That is, the general govern- ment must undertake tho job, reserving all water rights to itself. The system should be to build storage reservoirs to catch and hold the waters runming down the mountain sides. In valleys like the Platte, the Snake, and the Columbia, these reservoirs should be bo built on the elevatad lands, and the water pumped Into them from the rivers and run ning streams. You will find this system in vogue in Colorado, Arizona, and in Aus. tralfa. In Egypt the water is dipped up from the Nilo and passed from band to hand until 1t aches the higher land, when it is theu distributed from the watertignt rush baskets. You can 800 by this how Mosos came to be hid in t ark of bulrusnes, 1f you will get Prescott's Conquest of Peru, volume I, you will find how the Peruvians first irrigated the land and then pianted colonies on it. Now then, we huve the land, the wator and tho systoms before us. The question is, will the general government do the work! I think not. Consequently asubstitute for the government must be found, It is needless to say, you bave this under your nose, in the Union Pacific so far as it covers the arid regions. The tracks of that company trov- erse nine states and territories. It owes tho general government between 0,000,000 and §i0,000,000. What will be easier and more practical than for congress to authorize the company toset aside annually a stated sum of its earnings ns an offset to its inaebted- pess and proceed at once, under the super- vision of government engincers, to build irrigating works and brauch lines and plunt colonies on tho lands no irrigated! The government —owning alternato sections will ‘ba benefited by the enhanced value of the land, and the company will develop settloment, etc., secure greater earniugs and pay off its government debt without feeling it in about twelve years. “The details of such an arrungement can be mado simple. ‘That is, wheuever the gov- erument engineer finishod a set of irrigating works let him certify to it, and then the government can give the company a receipt for the money expended. With the branch lines, the same method can be used—the Rovernment either accepting the branch road and leasing it to the compuny or accepting a first mortgage on the branch road, so the government can sell it in open markel. for the credit of the company. "T'his is my notion of the thing and you can enlarge on it. The ultimato effect of such & plan will be that it will be the mightiest movement in the material development of the country, opening a tromendous market. for tno products of our farms and manufac- torles. E. F. Test. On to the Coast, Ogden and Salt Lake City aro fruitful of ruilroad schemes, It is & rare week that somo great project is not developed and turned loose for the enlighteument of the vablic. So far the rivalry bas not called for groat resources, other than the groy matter expended i1 making them on paper. Ogden has finished on paper a project. that casts a shadow on the threatened Rio Grande extousion from Salt Lako City to the coast. 1tis ' nown as the Ogden & San Francisco Shor. Line. Local and foreign capital is said to be iaterested. The route 15 all sur. voyed. It is to cross the Great Salt lake a few miles wost of Ogden, thenoe across the Amnerican desert, through the Sierra Nevada by tunnels and on to the coast. The first 100 miles out of Ogden wiil be a perfect air lino, gaining sixty-oight milos over the present line from Ogdon to Loray, a point on the Southorn Pacitic When constric- tion work begins on Salt lake, hoavy timber for piles will be forwarded from Orégon via the Oregon Short Line. These will be deliv- ored at the lako shore, where ateam barges constructed for the purpose will receive them and the work of driving will begin by mears of pile drivers attached to the barges. In this way the line across tho east arm of the lake to Promontory will be constructed, a distanco of fivo and one-quartor miles, and flat cars loadod with drift and stone 'from Little Round mountain will be constantly kopt busy dumping 1to the lake until a causewny is built to Promontery point. Pas- sageways will bo lett open at regular in- vervals in this great causoway to allow passago for the Bear river currents into the south side of the lake. The dyke will be of suficient width to allow of a double track being laid the entire way across. Irom Promontory westward to the far shore, adistance of twenty-ane mwiles, the samo method will be pursucd i the construc tion, und when finished the work will be one of the most substantial and stupendous on the Awerican contient. ‘Phe names of thoso who are to furnish the mouey to build this vew lino to the coast il ot bo divulged at prosout. Bayond tho assurance that the road wiil ba _constructed nothing can ve loarned us to the financial backing. Several of Ogdon's leading citi- 2608 Who are on the inside of the deal assert that it is & sure go. Treigation in Montana. An advance proof-sheec of @ special census butletin ou irvigation n Montana says: s bulletin, the fitth of the series de- voted to irrigation in the arid states and ter- ritories, bas been prepared under the direc- tion of Mr. John Hyde, special agent, and velates to the stato of Moutana, in which there ave 5,706 farms that are irrigated out of & total of 5,664 The total area_of land upon which crops were raised by irrigation in the census year ending May 81, 1800, was 330,582 mcres, in_addition to which ' there were approximately 217,000 acres irrigatea for grazing purposes, The average size of the irrigated farms, or more strictly, of irrigated portions of farms on which crops wore raised, is nivety-five acres. The aver. ago first cost of water right is $1.63 per acve, and the averago cost of preparing the soil for cultivation, including the purchase price of tho land, I3 §.54 per acre. The uverage present value of tho irrigated land of the state, including builaings, etc., it reported as $10 00 per acro, showing an apparent profit, loss cost of bullaings, of §5.33 per acre. The average annual cost'of water is 95 cents per acre, which, deducted from the average an Dual value of products par aero, leaves an average anuual return of §12.01 per acre, *Tue tendency throughout tho entire arid on to describe as irrigated all land to which water has been applied within any rocout period by artificial means, lands to which ditches perbaps so far destitute of water have been constructed, and even land Hor which water rights merely are claimed, hus placed the census office under the necos- sity of absolutely restricting itself in its ofticial bulletins” onirrigation to land on which orops were actually raised by the artificial apolication of water during the ear 1880, The farms or stock ranches in ated merely for grazing pur poses have therefore not been taken into account in this bulletin beyond the foregoing statoment as to their approximate total Carur D'Alene Suspension. Groat hardship is likeiy to follow the clos- Ing of tho big mines in the Cour d'Alene dustrict, which was set for the 15th. January 1 was originally the date fixed by the mine oWners Lo stop shipping oro unloss the rail- roads reduced the rates on ore. It was inti mated that possibly the raiiroads might listeu to & compromise If the time was ex tonded. So the miners changed the date to January 15 But the railroads rofuse to make any corcesslon, as the followiug lotter from General Traie’ Manager C. S. Mellen of the Union Pacitio shows. The letter is Quted Decdmber 25 and is sddressed to the Cour d' Aleno Mine Owners association, It is as foilows : “'I am in receipt of your favor of the 5th; in which reply hias been dolayed, owing to & desira on our part for reliable information as to the conditions surrounding the disposition of the output of your camp. **E'rom such information as we have boen able to obtain, thero appears to be no good reason why any reduction should be made in our freight rates, Our information is to the effect that the product of your camp is contracted at the present time for the coming _year, and on & busis of the rates now in effect, and that vour product both can and will move on these rates. Such being the case, we feel it s botter to submit to the temporary loss occasioned by your shutdown rather than unnecessarily reduce our fucome permanently,’” The Northern Paciflc has given an answer very similar 1o the above, During 181 thero were shipped from the Caeur d’Alene country $300,000 worth of ore and concentrates and at' least $250,000 fn gold bullion and gold dust. Development work has beon carried on, and the great oro bodies have been extending all the way from the head of Prichard croek to Milan and from Milan to Warduner, embrac- ing an extent of torritory difficult to tealize without a personal knowledge of its beavings During the year two large new mills have been added to the goncentratiug oapacity of the district, and ndarly all the other mills have beon ‘enlareed and improved. There are three mills at Wardner, two at Milan, seven at Canyon creek and one on Mile, making a total of thirteen mills 1n the Corut d"Alene, whicn have a reducing capacity of 400 tons of concentrates a day. The Montunn Congress, Detailed reports of the proceedings of the Montana irrigation congress give a different color to the action of the convention than that indicated by the dispatches, It is true the convention declarod agaiust the Salt Lake platform favoring cession of the arid lunds to the respective states and territories This action wus not deliverative. It was had under pressure of a clique under tho lead of Senator Power, who deliverea him, self of many reckless statements in his speech, Among other things he said he was refused a place on the senate irrigation com- mittee becanse he did not endorse segrega- tion, 80 ho took his revenge by inducing tho convention to pronounce against the Salt Lake plan. The action doos not represent the sentiment of the state, by any means, Great Falls and Butte papers criticise tho convention and rigicule the ussumption, pretty general in the convention, t the national government will undertake a gen eral aystem of irrigation. Resolutions were adopted urging *‘the cre- ation of a state irrigation and immigr tion commission, which shall bo appointed by the governor, together with stato engineer, which shall have power to divide the state into districts according to natural slopes; to prepare plans for the constri:ction of "the necessary canals and reservoirs or other works of any district, to have sole con- trol of cor:struction, 1o cause the organization of any such districts by tho election by tho legal voters of such district of five trustee who shall exarcise the control of such canal reservoirs or other works after construction, issuo bonds of suct districts for construction, levy taxes and otherwise vrovide sinking fund, interest and repairs, subject in ail cases to the laws of the state,” Russell, WAsHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 17.—Mr. Clark of Wyomiug introduced the following bill in the house: Granting the state of Wyoming cer- tain lands in the Fort D. A. Russell military reservation for agricnltural fair and indus- trial exposition grounds, and for other pur- poses. Tho secrétary of war is hereby aythorized and empowered to setapart 100 acres of land: that may no longer be required for military purposes, in tho Fort D. A, Russell military Teservation, in the stato of Wyoming, for tho use of the said stato for agricultural fair and industrial exposition grounds, and for other public purpo “Chat the lauds 50 set apart. aro hereby cranted to the state of Wyoming: Provided, That if the said state shall at any time permit the saia lands hereby granted to be used for any purpose not contemplated by this act, the said lauds shall revert to the United States. Talking Out in Meeting, o tho heat of devate in the San Jose, Cal., common council over the granting of u fran- chise for a street railroad, Hon. Dr. Brey- foglo intimated his suspicions tnat the appli cant might sell the franchise to the Southorn Pacific railroud and ‘give 1t a chanco to bring the scum and riff-raff of San Francisco to San Joso every Sunday.’ Thereupon Hon. R. O. Shively indignantly denounced the idea as ‘‘too ridiculous to talk about.” “Tne Southern Pacific,’" he exclaimod, *con- trols the politics of California (striking the railing with his fist). I dare any mun bere to deny it; control—you bet thoy do. If the Southern Pacific wants a road do you think that1t would try to buv this counecit? No, sir. It would elect its own council.” Be- coming move calm later on Mr. Shively mado “an earnest appeal for the franchise and begred his brothér legislators not to be silurian clams " Sugar Beots In Wyoming. ystematic experiments with tho growth and value of sugar bests will be made in Wyoming this year. In 1891 trial fields were grown on the six experiment farms. Seventy analyses yielded an average of 15.79 per cent of sugar, with a maximum of 22.18 per cent. In view of these results, Prof. McLaren of the Stato university pronoses an_extensive system of co-operative field trials in all parts of thestate. Circalars descriptive of sugar beet culturo will be sent to all who take an interest iu their cultivation. It is expocted that tho experiments will result favorably and determine the adaptability of tho state to the cultivation of sugar beets, Nebraskay Tue Merna Valloy bank has suspended operations because of a lack of funds, The Wells-F'argo express oftice at Blair was broken open by burglars and $25 in cash stolen. The Browster News has been from Wiliilam F. Brewster by Miller. Meterial for the construction’ of the new Missouri Pacific bridee over the Platte at Oroapolis has begun to arrive, Martin & Claurens, implement dealers at Union, Cass county, have made an sssign- ment for the benefit of creditors. While herding cattlo near Hardy, August Fiated had u leg broken and an_ankle dislo cated by his horse falling with him, Dodge county's fair will be held September 19 to 29, 3. Robinson has been elected president of the Aericultural socioty. R. E. Barker of Gordon claims 1o bo the champiou checker player of the northwest, and 15 willing to meet any professional, A *Nack tho Peaper” 1s making himsolf numerous around the bedroom windows of Liverty ladies, and if he keeps it up a shoot- ing way be looked for. Madison county's agricuitural society will have a four days® fair this year, Septomber 20 to 23, There is $20.05 left in the treasury from last fall's exhibit. An objectionable character at Pierce was given a rido on a rail and threatened with a ducking in a pond if he did not reform by a crowd of indignaut citizens. John D. Gormley has resigned his office as postmaster at Burte City, the capital of Boyd county. John C. Santee, editor of the Kreo Lance, 1s after the vacant place. It has been decided to hold the Fillmore county fair Septemver 13 to 16, Fifty new stalls” will be built by the county agricul- tural society and the speed track will be re- paired. A backing train struck a wagon at Wilson- ville, The youog wan driving the team jumped out and lierated the horses, but the wagon was crushed and the coach nearly thrown from the track. _One of the cold mornings of last week Kearney people witnessed a mirage, The cities of Holdrege and Mindon could be uis- tinetly seen refiected upon the clouds, the n‘nru‘u appearing best lmmediately after sun rise. The Nebraska land and cattle company, dotng business in Buffalo county, has boen aissolved, The assots bave been divided among the creditors and the real estato among the directors. The company owned a large tract of iand in Buffalo county, com- monly spoken of as Poolo’s ranch, Tho Burt county alllance has clected S, A. McDowell presideut. Tue other oficers are Vice president, J. T. Blackstone; secretar: Frank Roth; treasurer, C. M. 'Viles: lec turer, George Osborn; assistant lecturer, RRobert Hauson; cbaplain, George . Good purchased Radle L. 1 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1892 ell; doorkeeper, Charles Avarill; ssistant doorkeeper, J. 'W. Patterson; sergeant-at- arms, J. 5, Gullup; exeoutive committos, T. J. Minier, George Osborn, G. A. Crannell, A. K. Leurs and £. M. Benton, Town. James Wood died in the Union ho was locked up for drinkenness. The charge is mado that wolf farming is common in Towa for the sake of the bounty. Ex-State Superintendent Sabin's bienniul report o the governor makes n book of 500 pages. Dr. J. 8. Roon of Calmar 1s suffering in tensely from blood poisoning in his hands,the result of attending an erysipelas patient. Sand t ken from the Des Moines river bed 13 said to bo tne finest obtainable for building purposes, nnd a Keokuk mun ships many car loads of it every year. v The captain’s commission given by Presi- dont Madison in 1512 to Robert Lucas, who was the fivst governor of fows, is still pr served by his family in Davenport Some of the Cherokee people are hinting in pretty plain languagn that they wanta re port from the relief committee who distrib uted the flood contributions last summer. A discussion brought up by the Philadel- phia Press develops the semingly indisputa blo fact that Frank Carberry, now editor of the Dubuquo Tiines, was the first man to en- list on the morning after Fort Sumter was fired upon. Alfred W. Towasend, 15 years old, left his home in Hamilton ' township, irankim county, on December 5, and has not since been 'heard from by his parents. His fathor's namo is Thomas Townsend, and bis address Dows, Ta, Uncle Chamberlain of years old. Ho killed and drossed a hog last week which weighed 550 pounds, alone and unaided, Fe also owned a cat 17 years old, which the duy before its doath caught and killed a jaclc rabbit. A German who works for Lawronco Foell, in Hayes townsbip, accidentally shot and ul most fnstantly killed his 6-vear-old uaughter., They were gotting into the wagon to go vis. iting when the gun in some unaccountable way was discharged, B. A. Dolan, a prominent Keokuk attorney, has instituted’ a suit against the Pullman Palace Car company for §1,500 damages, He claims he was damaged to that extent by reason of contracting a severo cold while riding from | defendant’s cars. J. M. Leo of New London exhibitod an ear of ‘corn_in Burlington that weiched one pound ana_six and one-hatf ouuces, aud se cured & prize of an overcoat agninst fifty- seven other competitors. Tho corn shelled from the cob weighed one pound ana one and one-half ounc The winter term of the : tate university has opened with a full attendance. The past has been the most prosperous one that tho school bas ever had. The chair of Buglish is at present vacant, P’rof. Simpson having accepted that position in the Leland Stan- fora university of Calitornia. A country editor in Missouri, it is said, has roturned to Mr. Wiliiams of Rush park famo a complimentary ticketto tho races, donated last year, with this note: “Dear Sit—I used this “comp’ last year at your track during the August week. Accept thanks_ for same. It is all thut I have to show for $1,200. Happy new vear! You need not send’ me one for 1802.” Yours truly, Retired Sport.” A Steldon man sent his littlo son to Now Jersey a vear or two ugo to live with an aunt.” Ho wrote to his fatner recontly for tho money to buy a_gun 4o kill ground hogs with. He could seil the scalps for 10 cents each and soon pay for the gun. The other day tho father sent on a draft to pay the aunt’s neighbor 25 for a likely heifer which was a_victim of the boy’s marksman- ship. Major Andrews of Davenport, in a letter to the Wnat Cheer Patriot, explains how tho name “Wbat Cheer" originated. He suys: “When the Puritans came (o America to get rid of relizious intolerance they sottled hera as tho ‘Massuchusetts Bay colony,’ and they bocame as_intolerant of ihoss who neld different religious views as those they had left in old England. Hence, in 1636 Rower Williams, being driven out of the colouy, landed from his canoe on the present site of the city of Providence (which name he gave it). Hero he wus soon joined by some of his followers, and here was formed the first Baptist church in Awmerica. At the time of his landing ho was accosted by the Indiuns with *What cheer, Owaunux{’ (the last word meaning Englishiman). This is bistory; and having myself been born and brough’ up in tho city of Providence, it very uuturally came to my mind, I could not find any other postoffice of that name in the United States, and so I named the ofice What heer." il, where near Spencer is South Dakota, Pennington county bas a cash $12,205. A racing circuit has boen Black Hills. 1t costs £100 a year to run an auction shop in Sioux Falls, Negotiations are under way to group the grauite quarries at Stoux Falls ia & trust. ‘The Elkborn Railroad company paid $20,- 000 taxes into Black Hills treasuries last week. Chamberlain proposes to bridge the Mis souri this year if congress passes the pending charter biil. South Dakora newspaper men have orzan ized u company for the purpose of supplying each other with ready made interiors, A Spearfish doctor is said to stand in for a divvy of §30,000--on0 of the many promis- cuous ‘‘tortunes” awaiting heirs iu England. “T'wo Boston capitalists have taken Lold of the collapsed Uasey hotel in Deadwood and will erect a six-story building costing $130,- 000, A strike of silver-bearing rock in a hitherto entirely unoxplored section of Bear Butte district is rellably - reportod, and will create something of a stampede to the lo calty. A rich silver strike was mado in the Mur- gavet tin mine near Harney City, The voin 15 3aid to be five feet in width and yields tifteen to eighteon ounces of silver and some gold to the ton, Exploration of the Tuter Ocean property coutinues with most satisfuctory results, ani by the imu the twenty-stamp mill is com- pleted there will probably bo enough ore on the dump for some mouths' operations. A call has been issued for a mecting of stock growers, to be held at Rapid City, Pebruary 20. ‘I'he intention is to bring the different organizations under one head and 30 work unicedly, and in this way effect pro tection more thoroughly. Gaorgo M. Johnson, the new owner of the Caloboga property, ‘18 sinking an incline shaft, following the ore on its dip, and has already taken out several oar loads of high grade galena, which will be shipped to the Dendwood or ' Omaha sielter. fhe Hawkeye company, a recently organ- ized lowa corporation owning free milling property, is advertising for proposals for building’ a forty-stamp quartz milt at Pluma Station, on the Burlington railroad. Con tracts uve to be let at Des Molues. The Burlington railroad nas just defiuitely located a line from Deadwood ‘to Hurricano ana Rawlins district:, both in the Nigger bills, partly in South’ Dakota and partly 1n Wyoming. The railroad will hasten devel- ovments of the district, where what work has already been done proves the existence of large veins of tin, besides maguetio and bematite iron ores, which carry generaily enough gold to make them valuable for the most precious motal. Wyoming. Gold Hill mines are doing well ‘There are fifty boarders in the state pen, Buildiog and loun assoclations are becom- ing popular in Laramie. The Dowaey stamp mill at Gold Hill crushes fifteen tons of ore a day. Railroad tickets to the valuo of $23,562.23 were sold at Rock Spring during 1891 Laramie's Hotel company squeeaed its cap- ital stock from 75,000 down to §17,500, Ranchmen have donated right of way for the Horse creek extension of the Burling ton. Saratoga none bas limits, A Chicago syndicate has on several copper claims Casper. Thirty-five bundred voters registered in Cheyonua. Loss than 1,500 voted at the city election Cheyenne balunce of formed in tho with the hemmed in suow, but fatlen within corporation secured options in the vicinity democrats are hanpy, They ver to P’aeblo, Colo., on the | | Of | during the past two or three weoks | conveution with a sail and ventdrog out on the Union Pacific line with the craft, Laramio county roégipts for 1501 amounted to 8244,776.33; expenses, $124,407.91. A snug balance of #50,050.75 emains in the troasury. Casper hns importad a heavyweight malo teacher from Nevraskw. His dukes are mod erato hams, with keobs that agitato the cuticle of unruly kids through several thick: uesses of joans, During 1801 there %60 unlonded at Rock rings 53,408 cars of eoal, weighing 1,100, 3 pounds and ywlding io value $2,101, Tho expenses of Kock Springs station wore §7,007, and of the yards #,600. Merchants of Cheyento and Rawlins have framed for future.ireference & number of handsomely engraved checks for which they paid sums ranging from $20 to $110. The checks wero bous, but a smooth psuedo “miner” with great expectations induced them to cash the paper. Ctah, Thore wero 102 deaths in Park City last yoar. A soven-foot vein of coal has been erod ten miles northwest of Manti. Tho wife of one of the counterfeitors ar rested in Salt Lake has given awny tho wholo history of the gang. In granting a franchise to the Natural Gas company, the Salt Lake City council fixed the price at 40 cents per thousand feet According to the Salt Lake Times, ‘“‘the first democratic logisiature in the history of Utah is now in se on. ree-fourths of the members are Mormons, The way the snow is filling up in tho mountaius causes tho farmer to wear a broad swile these days. [t means plenty of water for irrigating purposes next year, and also is @ sure guuraatee of an abundant harvest uext year. Jobn Audorton, a Union Pacl of cho, was shot and almost instantly killed neav that place last week. He ana his brother were out hunting and in some manner the brother's gun was accidentally discharged, the contents entering the vic tim's leg. He bled to death in a very few moments . Tho total revonuo of Salt its census for the uncoy employe Lake City from ar 1891 15 placed at $161,- 42440, of which amount the saloons pad £110,500 and the other callings 124,40, Last_year the receipts from saloons were 503 other callings, $45,462.45; a total of %.45: making a eain for the past yoar 1195 sutana, Every loyal Montanian jowelry. Butto vies with Cheyonne in the mattor of jml deliveries. The Jay Gould mino near Helena has paid $150,000 10 dividends, Tho Racing association of Butte will hang up $20,000 in purses for the summer mooting, An ore bodv eight feot in width has been _struck in the Biuo Cloud lead, near telena "I'his is another evidence of the fact that thera is a great deal of rich mineral land lying near Helens, It is thought probable that the Union Pa- fic will build a branch line from Meirose to the mining section known as Camp Croek the spring. The district is twenty-five milos south of Butte. ‘Twelve Chinamen are in jail in Butto for cliping the ears of another celestial. The latter was thus punished for appearing as & witnoss against a . Chinwmwan arrested for attempted murder, The Springtield mne, north of Walker- ville, continues to produce rich oro. Roturns from the last shipment. of twenty-eight tons to the Colorado smelter averaged 125 ounces silver und one ounce of gold to the ton. “'he Union Pacific €oal company of Chey enne has been incorpbrated in Butte. Capital stocl, $20.000. The purposes of the company are to carry on the businoss of prospecting and locating coal and atoue mines and dealing in veal estate, 1 wears sapphiro Iditio, An oxtra session of the legislature i talked of. Tiwo men fost thoir lives on the drifts near De Lamar. Boise is to have s five-s small smelter. 1 A. J. Crool’s Gold Ledgo on Salmon river, runs rrom & 10 #0. per ton, Itis said that the Seven Devils railroad 1s a sure go. The chief stoker nas not veen named. ‘'he Poorman mine, in the Caur d’Alene district, profluced $40,357 last year and paia dividends aggregating 305,000, vt Yearian, a fifteen-year-ol1 residing cion, Lenilis county, is u musical Itis said he is u puonom ou the np mill and a Renius. violin. Dr. R W. Marshall of Bellovuo stepped into the office of tho Snoshoue Journal and cnquired if the editor was in. Ho wus. The Goctor expressed a desiro to become uc quainted, and suruck a Sullivanesque atti- tude, but before e could make an expression tho editor drew his artillery and invited the medic to guze ioto tho bors. The doctor acknowledaged the call and retired. Nevadu, It is swid that two-thirds of the miners on the Comstock are idlo and are anxiously waiting for spring to open in hopes of secur- ing work. “Tho burned district in o is being gradually robuilt. Seve fings have already gone up and more are in courso of construction. The Chinese quarter of Virginia City is said to be the liveliest section of the whole town. It has faro games that are well putronized by both white ami yellow suckel The recent dividend of 10 conts declaved by tho Staudard Cousolidated of Bodic is its venty-seventh, aggregating 3,615,000, or per share.' After payiug this dividend the company will have a surplus of 30,000, A strike of vich oro is reported in the Con- solidated Hew York mine ou the 600 level. It has been tpped by four crosscuts, and tho Inst of these has developed richer ore than 1ts predeces: The ore in the last crosseut is suid to go 300 or §600 per ton, A Carson dispatch savs that a small meoteoric fragment passed tarough tho back window of Gieorgo Vondorbyde's haruess shop last Saturday. It foll from a cloudless sky about 4 p. m., at an angle of sixty de groes. Under o' glass it shows metal re- sembling nickel, crystalized in placos, with smooth cavities and indentations all over, It weizhs half an ounce, and 1s about the size and sbave of & big bean. It will bo sent to the Smithsonian institute A certain lady in Sods, who thought her tusband spent too much’ time down town, one day last week took a walk to find him. As sho passed a saloon she saw ber liego lord seated at a table near tho stove engaged ina game of soven-up. So sho walked right in, drew a chair zear the stove, put her feet on the fender and drow her knitting from her pocke and began to lnit. Her husband told her to go home, - but sho said she was quite confortable and. would wait until he was roady to go. Finally tho old man quit tho game and they ddphrted. Two hundred and _ three applications for tho purchase of state lands embracing 80,- 770.02 ucres, situated 1 the sovoral counties of the state, were flgg in the Nevada stato land office during the year 1891, Of this amount thero was salpcted, out of the 2,000, 000 acro grant, 82,453 acres. One thous and aud elght contravts were issued and completed in duplicate, covering 34,210.83 acres at §1.25 per aewe, ropresenting &34, 210.88 drawing intevost at 6 per cent per sonum, One hundred' and fifty state land patents wero issued, ombracing 23,5322 acres, The uot cash into the t m.m asury for account of stute 'MAuds sold in 1501 was $09,251,28, TS Alongthe Coast, Seattlo 13 flooded with bogus money. The Walla Walla penitontiary is over- crowded. ‘'he filbert is being profitably cultivatea in Washington The North Californis Citrus fair is in blast at Auburn, An eight-foot veln of coal has boon discov- ered in the vicinity of Mt. Vernon, Wash The cable road company in Los Angeles intends to convert the horse car lines into electric roads, therepy making a saving of 0,000 o you . I'he snow fall throughout southern Oregon has s great as ever kuowu during period ouuties havedsignitied their epreseuted in the state which meets iu San ¢ full prohaoly be tho same oty tion to be inten iner elected three of the four councilmen at the | uext Wednbsday city election lust Tudsday Theoe men were recently arrested for stouling a haudear at Choyeaue, rigging itup A dairy company has beon f in San Joso with a capital stock of $10,00. Oue of the girectors is uamed Weils, but it does not nocessarily follow that the stock will be watered, The otter is said to be growling vory scarce up {n Washington. Very few skins are boing obtained this season, and all along the coast the fur-bearing animals seem to be rapidly disappearing. Tho propriotors of the quarries at Tenino, Wash., have set their machinery at work to ot out @ block of stone which is four feet square at the ends and 100 feet long, to be sent to the World's fair. Over #50,000 of the eapital stock of the Por Townsend ' Stoel Wire and Wire Nal company has been subscribed, and it now looks as if the stock will command a pre- mium betore work is begun on the buildings. A man in Oregon looks so much like (iove ernor Ponnoyoer that W, H. Bigks, & politician of that state, poured into his oars a lot of party secrots before aiscovering that he was not talking to the governor. Big sell on Biggs, The city of Ellensburg, Wash., is in a ro- markable predicament. It has had a munici pal election, and both candidates for r rocoived exactly the samo number of vo but the law provides noway to settle the contest, The placer mines all over Orewon will have plonty of water next spring. I'rom overy district most promising reports are received. Owners of quartz claims are putting in the winter developing their propertios, aud with the opening of spring many new mines will be added to our fast fncreasing bullion pro ducers. A phenomonon is observed in an artesian well near Ellensburg, Wash, Tue well spoken of is down about 200 feet, but the water in it is still 100 feet below the'st The peculiarity consistsin the fuct that when there is no wind the wateris that distance bolow the curbing; when there isa high wind flowing water pours out of the pipe. MILITARY MATTERS. i08sip from the Will Tnterest Army Thero are 373 soldiers now in confluement in tho militavy prison at Fort Leavenworth, Hereafter the colors of a rogiment are to be placed in mourning only in obedisnce to o ders from the War dopartment. The desertion problem, says the Rauk and File, seems to bo working itself out in a very satisfactory manner in tho army, War departmont orders announco that the ten first class sorgoants of the signal corps will rank ot posts with first sergeants of the line. The remaining sorgeants of the corps Wil runk with sergeants of the line. Tho significance of this should not bo lost on the powers that be. 'here is no reason why desertions caanot he much further ro- diced. From January 4, 1867, to June 10, 1891, 88,475 soldiers deserted from the army, the ostimated loss thereby to the goveriment belng §2,500,000. This makes an annual average of more than 3,600 for the period of twenty-four aud ono-half years, nearly two aud one-half times as many as took pl during tho year ending June 30, 1801, in which the total number was 1,503, Kor the year 1590 the total was 2,344, and for the pre- coding year 2,58, The remariable decreaso in desertions, as shown by theso figuros, is, no doubt, due, in part, to the exercisé of greator care in the selection of recruits, but principally to tho wiser policy that now pre- vails in the government of the army. Fort MeKinney, Private Eroest Koenig of the Eighth in- fantry band was discharged on the 10th, Licutenant R. F. Ames, Eighth infantry, loft the post oa the 7th inst. on a four month's leave. Chief Musician Carl J. Carlsen. Eighth infantry, returned on the 9th after having enjoved u six months’ furlough in San Fran- cisco. Mail facilities in this part of the world are not much to wvrag about, and the posioftice authoritics should stir themselves a littlo and give us botter servi Wo have been hav weather for the p ok, tho thermomoter registering for vs from 15> to 42 below zero, and it 1s still very cold. The band at this post is being reduced by aischarge to such un extent that before iong, unless 1t is recruited up again wo will have only the dvam major and tho bass drum for patades and guard mounts. Quartermaster Scrgeant Wil Edwards, fighth v fantey, returacd to the post on the Sthinsi., after Having enjoyed a visit to Cali- fornia, Whers his family resues. He re- ports having had storr ber ou his journey to California and also on his return trip. Work is rapidly bemg pushed at the ice house, and there is no_doubt but that the ice now boing stored will prove suflicient in quantity and also in quality. Last year, gathering the crop was delayed until it” was 50 late that there was not enough for the wants of the garrison. Besides 1t was of a vory inferior quality, more suow toau ice, Justice is administered very queerly ‘in Buffalo, For instance, a few days ago’ two cavalry soldiers were in town havine their photographs taken and upon starting for the post found they had only a very short time 10 reach it in. S0 they Dbut spurs to their mounts in order to be in time for arill, They were promptly arrested for fast driving by the vigilaut marshal of tho town, tried and sontenced to confinoment. Private Andrew Koisor, troop i, Sixth the crack shot of the Sixth cavalry, and one of thie best shots in the army, has~ been lan- guishing in the county jail of Johnson county on account of not being able 1 toll tho differ ence between o horse and a deer. Ho was out bunting a short time since and secing nord of horses in the mountains mistook thom for doer and olk, at lcast he says so Ho fired and killed two horses and shot a colt in the leg. He is now at liberty under $300 bonds, which were kinaly furnished by the citizens of Buffalo, ng oxtremely cold Fore Shdney Notes, Major Daniel N. Bash, paymaster U. S, A, arrived hero and paid tho post on the v, Dr. A. L. Stowittaof Sidnoy Is performing <he duties of post surgeon during the iliness of Dr. Tesson. Assistant Surgeon ‘Cossor, Lioutenant Brooke, ost Quartermaster aud Lieutenant Stumper, aro all on the sici list. Jonn Moran enlisted for company £, Twenty-first infantey, has been appointed corporal, vice Portens, discharged. Private Holland, company B, Twenty-first fantry, was discharged “on ' the 6th inst. und lefi on the samo day for Salt Lake City Corporals W. H. Morford and Michael Kelley bave been promoted sergeants, and Artificor William Marienhof and Private Ludwig “C." Grimmnitz appointed,corporals in company C, Twenty-first infantry. Great preparations aro being made for a pall masque, to bo given on tho evening of the l5th by the enlisted men composing the base ball niue of this post, the proceeds from which are 1o be used 1 buying uniforms, Captain J. W. Duncan arrived from David's Islany, New York Harbor, on the 12th with twelve recruits for this post. While passing throngh Omuha he turn>d over to Licuten ant Butts, wuo had been sent from Fort iandall, 5. D., to meet him, fifteen recruits for companies of tho Twenty-first infantry stationed at that post ort Nlobrara, Sorgeant Julius Reinke, company B, Eighth infantry, was disoharged Jauuary § and re-enlisted the next day. Leavo of abseuce for one moxth, with per mission to apply for an_ exteusion of ono montn, is granted to First Lieutonant B, H. Cheever, Jr. Chaplaia Orville J. Nave is uot expectod here until January 15. His stay at Wash tngton hus been In conncction with the aunual meeting of the United Cbristian com- mission. Private Alfred Boone, troop G Sixth cavalry, will bs discharged from the service of the 'United States for having enlisted under false protenses. Boone is a good operator and as long @s he atteuds to his bus ure to get along outside of the - Neb, Sir—1 Ot 28, '60.—Dr. have just bought Life, It is when you bottie my right my liver en iio upon my 4 soroness over but now that Just s well on Moore the third bottle of your Tree of indeed a “*Free of Life." Doctor, 50 kindly g o that first side was 50 lume and sore and larged so much that I could not right side at all. There was my kidnoys the time, trouble is all over, 1 sleep sid the otber, and my aleep & and rofreshos me, and | foel the best I've felt in fifteen years, and I know that it is all due to your 1 Life. Yours very truly D. 1. Duniey 'or sale oy all drugglsts, WHAT THE EFFECT WOULD BE. Senator Pettigrew's View of Electing Sen- ators by the People Direct. LITTLE IT WOULD BE IMPROVEMENT, at ¥ Favor the Generally but the d Not Be Ind dorso the Me oy Prestnt od to En- sure, Wasnixatoy, D, C., Jan, 17.—[Special to Tik Ber,| 1 wouldn't give a toss-up be- tween tho prosent systom and the proposed law to elect by a direct voto of tho poople, said Senator Pettigrow of South Dakotn in speaking today of the bill now pending in the senate which proposes to elect United States senators vy adiract vote of the people stend of through tho state legisiatures, "here are advantages in both systems,’ inued the senator, ‘*‘ana there are serious objections, The most serious ob. jection vnder the presout systom is the thwarting of the will of the peoble now and then, It is very provoking for tho majority of a state to want a cortain man for senator and get somo one they do not want. Yes, if the bill proposing an amendment to tho federal constitution making it compotent for the people to elect senators at the polls should pass, I have no doubt the various legislatures would ratify it and it would by come law, for it would not do to defeat an opvortunity for the people to have more men 1o elect to oftice. 1 don’t believo the senators themselvos would seriously object to it But there are, as I have said, two sides to the question “It is easier to ‘setup’ a convention or mass meeting or ‘tix’ a primary than it is to over come a legislature. at 1s ndgment of the matter, 1 nevor tried either, but 1 have seon the workings of all sorts’ of political bodies. In any decent stats it is almost im possible at this age of the world to use money 1 electing a United States senator. It i3 more dangerous, too, than it is doubtful, it possible, Senatorial contests are also fought out, at the polls now, the same as they would bo under a law providing for eloction by the people. Candidates in the fiest place vt up their men at the primaries or in convention, and the contest for eloction to the logisla® ture when @ senator is to be clectea is drawn sharply upon personal lines. It is political, social and businoss death for a member of the logisiature to violate bis in structions at tho polls or 1 convention. Few intelligent men will risk it, even if wo do not consider the moral question involved in civing a bribe. So far us 1 am concerned, 1 would rather try to improperly iuflu a people at the poils or in convention than in astato legislature. Besides, when one is clectod at tho polls there is'a multitude of machinery and intricacy whicn will cover up misgivings ond intrigue, whilo at the legislaturo the chances are fow. Do you think tho bill will pass ! “Idoubt it. 1f it got through the seate I don’t believe it would pass this house. I tave found little objuction to it in the senate, and tho objections raised to it I find como from the constituents of the senators. Thoy themselves can have no objection. In fact I do not see that the senators themselves have tho right to say how thoy shall bo elected. That 15 a prerogative which belongs to tho voters. . Their Outlook Rather Gloo, Now that the democrats ara moving to set aside the silver issue, and they have already shelved “‘tariff roform” and given notico thut thoy do not propose to indulge in any legisla- tion contemplating expenditures of monay, it bocomes apparent thut the present session of congress will bo very short,unless the majority in thie house chooses to waste the time of tho people in useless and aimloss political discus- sion rather than real work. At present the outlook is favorabio to anothor .campaign on the partof the democrats with nothing in viow but promises ana complaints. A party that does avsolutely nothing but complain at thoso who do accomplish something and tries by blockading to stop those who would accomplish something can conduct nothing bat a defensive campaign. [t was believed that when Davia B. Hill came nere that the proposed plan of choosing tho presidential electors of Now York by the legislaturo of that state would make demo- cratic success easy, providing they bold tbheir own in tho south and wes uow that that politician has said it will not do to overthrow populur policy and tradition in that way all plans of legislation by the demaocrats have been upset, and the outlook for that party is indoed gloomy. Dispensing Political Patronage, It 15 a pity that everyoue who seoks an ap- pointment atthe hands of the president for bimself or a friend canzot sco both sides of the question. 1€ ho could less blame would attach to the appointing rower. The fact that ofticial patronage is the greatest misfor- tune that can politically befall an oftice ais- penser has novor been so palpably apparent as auring the present and last administra~ tions. This is probably due to the fact that the civil service law is just getting a firm foothold, and those who have been trying to moat consistently ussist the now law to be- come popular have bad to siand the burden of the scen and unseen work in this connec tion. Not half of tho circumstancos which move the president to make an appointment or refuse the abpointment of thoso who are strongly recommended ever bocome under- stood by thoso most diroetly intorestod. Probably the hardest part of sppointment troubles with the prosident grows out of tho fact that ho is_compelled by custom and for policy to remain silont at the eud of a fierce contést for ofico and make no explanation Iu overy other position the appointment can bo explained: this and that ono cau have tho status of the contest at the close and know something of the reasons which lod to the proferment of the successful man; but if the appoinument itself does not carry sufcient vindication the power which made it must carry tho odium in silence, Caution is Ne Reflections against character are magni- fied as they travel; motives are magnified for personal interests: revengo is keener and swifter than gratitude, 1t therefore be hooves the appoiating power to bo not only cautious in what he doos, but in the words of explanation ho utters, e has even more disadvantage than the court or juryt He cannot defend his own action, eithér pub licly or privatoly. Itis not_any more natural for an aspivant to judgo of his own qualifications than it is for him to weigh the requirements of the ofice he seeks, Naturally ho thinks he is tho ideal for the place. Tho prosident must araw the iino of wisdom, roach the conclu sion as to the demands of the place and the fitness of the applicant. It is a serious insult to toll an aspirant that he 1s not fitted for tho place he seoks, unless tho thing can bo said in general languago. I1f the position requiros a lawver or physician and the apph- cant is not, he may be told so; but if his temperament, age, size, oducation or what not is not right and ho is so told, he is mor. tally offended. The applicant ‘or his on dorsers seldom know what comes to the president or cabinet oficor in this direction he canoot always know that a disqualifying point has been raised, although he may in somo instances. 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