Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 22, 1892, Page 5

,' THE OMAHA DAILY BEELIM)ONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1892 PULSE OF WESTERN PROGRESS The Q@olden Tints of the Black Hills Brought Out in Strong Colors. MILLIONS TAKEN OUT AND IN SIGHT A Glimpse of Utal aterial Strides—The Stock Growing Industry of Mo Fhotographing the Chinese—Sam- mary of Northwest News. tann— ‘I'he current number of the Engineering Magazine contains a just and accurato sketch of gold mining in the Black Hills, from the ven of Harry M. Havson. Mr. Hanson pre- faces his admirable article with the words of Marvir Hughitt, president of the Chicago & Northwestern railroad, to the effect vhat ¢he Black Hills was the richest #pot of like dimensions on the face of the globe, and proceeds to demon- strate tho correctness of the assertion. “The Black Hiils intorest,” ho writes, ““hus been developed in the face of obstacles any ono of which would have been the death-knell to a country less vichly endowed with mineral wealth. TIn this region the last determined stand was made by the savage avorigines; tho goid lunters risked their lives to reach the mines, und it was yoars before the Hills became a safe placo for elther living or ‘prospecting.’ After the war-whoop had dled from the hiils and val- leys and hostile bands had coased 1o molest immigrants on the pluins adjoining vhe foot- hills, the cost of transportation was so high as to prove almost as effectunl in keeping away sottlers as the pullots of the Indians haa been vefore. Now, however, two trunk line railroads have penetrated the Hills and tWo narrow gauge systems wind up the val- leys and ravines, cross the canons and climb the heights. “In 1878 the discovery of placer-gold callod attention to the hidden™ treasures locked 1n the Hills, but it was not until 1874 that they were explorea to an important extent, and Dot until 1876 that they wore fairly open to settlement, The last federal census shows that in sixteen years the population hus in- creased from nothing, practically, to over 50,000 souis. Titus B, Corkhill of Lead City, statemine inspector of South Dakota, is authority for the statement that the average monthiy output and cleun up of this mino last vear was from $400,000 to $500,000. It has been officially estimated that the total output of the Black Hills has amounted in value to £0,341,028, including $30,423,776 worth of gold and $017,262 worth of silver. “The method Ly which the ore is mined and bundlod is what makes the Homestake Mining company such a_remarkable success, They take advantage of nature’s laws, par- ticuiarly the law of gravitation, and do all the work, so far as practicable, by means of machinery, avoiding the expense and delay attenaing numerous handlings of material. For example, the fire wood and lumber used in the various engine-rooms und mino shafts aro hauled by the narrow-gauge Black Hills & Fort Pierre railroad to a point from 300 to0 500 feet above tho place whero 1t 18 to be used, and from there, by means of what aro kuown ns ‘wood chutes’ and the force of gravitation. it is transferred to the desired point without other handling than simply throwing i1 from the cars. I'he same mothod {s extended to the handling of ore. Cars aro filled with ore by means of chutes from floors or levels above, and when a car is once filled with ore, no matter from what ‘level’ it may be taken, the ore is ever after handled by machinery, being transferred to tho various stamp miils and crushed through the agency of steam or water.”’ Statistionl Review of Utah, In a friendly article reviewing the matarial growth of Utah as a prerequisite to state- hood, the Now York Sun presents an in- structive group of facts. By the census of 1890 Utah had a population of 207,905 people, occupying an area of 84,070 square miles. 1t had 874,340 acres under culuvation, 310,759 irrigated and 205,805 under onclosure for pasture. Tts assessed valuation, exclusivo of mines, not taxed, was $121,146,048 last vear. The valuation of the incorporated towns and clties was about $55,505,000, and their indebt- edness less than $1,205,000. The territory bas 3,000 miles of irrigation canals and from 10,000 to 15,000 of wagon rouds. The dwaell- fngs and business houses erccted for the year proceding July 1, 1801, numbered 2,359, valued av nearly §6,000,000. During the census year there were in the torritory 805 industrial establishments, with plants worth £,500,071, paying $2,050,501 in wages, on a little more than double that amount of capital, to 3,008 hands, and turn- ing out products ' worth £6,306,409. In the stores of the territory the invested capital was $20,013,139, aud the sales were #15,020,- 684, The agricultural products, as reported by the county assessors, were valued at §10 218527; the live stock at §).86247 The value of the mining products, computing gold and siver at thelr mint value, and other metals at their seaboard values, was $14,340, As to the mining interest, the governor's last report declares the present to be ‘‘a phenomennl period in the historyof miniug in Utah. New discoveries bave béen made in the old min- g camps of Park City, Yintic and Binghuin Canon, and at Dugway, Fish Spriogs, La Plara, and Ohio mining districts, and in other places.” Of coal, over 300,000 tons were mined in 18%0, and’ of sult, evaporated from the waters of Great Sait Lake, 145,000 tons. The torritory also hus iron, sulpbur, asphalt, and miveral wax. | Utub s 1,157 miles of railroads and the freight trafficis very diversified. It has rty-threo banks which reported last year £5,145,232 and deposits of £,355 Salt Lake has sixty miles of ele reet railway and with Ogden, Logan, Park 3 on, it 1s lighted by electricity. The value of school property in the territory 37,544 and the school commissioner rerorts that last year there wero 66,000 chilaren of school age in the territory, o whom 53,044 were of Mormon nnd 12,965 non! Mormon parentage, Au Salt Lake 1- Desoret university and at Logan is an agris oultural colloge. - Montani St Intorests, ‘Ihe Montana State Board of Equalization has prepared tables of the number, assess- ment per head and total vaiue of sheep, hogs, stock cattlo and horses iu the different countios of the state. I'he stock cattle aoes not include cows, thoroughbreds or bulls, snd tho horses do not include thoroughbreds. All the counties have sent 1n their returns excopt Choteau, aud the board, after walting o reasonable time, decided to give out tne statement without the wissing county. The total number of stock cattle last year was 021,742; this year, exclusive of Choteau county, it is 575.7 Estimating that Cho- teau has the same number as lust year, 113,041, the total for the state would be 680,666, In 1501 the total number of sheep reported was 1,517,- 758, This year, oven estimating Choteau to have no more than last, the num- ber shoula be 1,778,545, The number of borses reportad in 1501 was 161,311, Allow- 1ng Choteat ouly the same as thew total this year should be 105.200. Last year thero were 6,002 hogs; including Choteau ai the same numbor as last, there should be this yoar 7,040, Tho'chances are tuat Choteau has kept pace with the increase iu other parts of the state, and thu ,all tho totals this year should be somewhat larger. The board equalized the valuo of sheep ut 82.50 por head this year, horses 82000 and hogs at 8; tho averuge valuo of cattle belng $12.75, as returned, whereas the board only made it §12.50 last year. Thero was 1o occasion to cqualize valucs on this class of live stock, Photographing the Chinamen, The Geary Chiuvse exclusion law enacted by Congress requires that every Mongolian be photographed und a cabiuet size pioture bo placed in each certificate entitling the holaer 10 romain in the country, The law 1s & re- production of the California tageing whick proved a failure, How the plan will faro at the bands of the national government rom 10 be seen, Preparatious are boing made to put the law Certificates are belng for- warded to lnternal revenue colleotors. When tliled out the certificates will show the name, Bgo. business. height, complexion, residence and other marks possessed by each China- man, It is estimated by theiuternal revenue bureau that there are from 120,000 to 150,000 \liknese i the country whose descriptions | will bo necessary to get. The government | stirrup he was stamped to death does not propose to put itsslf to any unaeces- sary trouble to search out these men and drag them 1o the photograpler's camera. It is entirely voluntary on the part of the Chinamen. 11 they do not comply with all the regulations and are caught after May 5 next in this country they will be arrested and hustled on board the first vessel going toward China. The Chinaman must supply three photographs. They must be good plctures, too, Tintypes will not be ac- cepted, Thev must be taken full face and the picture ef tho face must be at least one and one-half inchos lone. One of the throe pictures will bo pasted on the apolication which each Chinamaa 1s required to make for a certificate permitting him to remain in the United States, If the application i3 in good forin a_cortificate will be issued to the applicant and the second of the pictures will bo attached to it as a sort of passport. The third picture will be retained in the office of the local cotlector of internal revenue by whom the applicant was registered. An 1daho Desperado. The sheriff of Alturas county, Idaho, is seurching tho hills and vaileys for a young man named D. Coopor, who is one of the most desperate ana successful thigves who evor oporated in that state. On the 14th inst, he walked into the office of the Idaho sampling works at Hailoy, where he had proviously been employed, calmly turned the combina- tion of the vault, opened the acor and stole #4,000 1n negotiable securities. While he did this Mr. Griffiths, superintendent of the sampling works, was standing not over ten feet away around a corner. Cooper walked across the street, sold £1,500 worth of county bonds ‘to au attorney and then fled, leaving his wifo and a 1-week-old baby behind. Threo months ago Cooper, who was then employed in the sampling works, arranged a plan by which be swindled both the works and the First National bank of Hailey out of $2,000. Ho secured a quantity of poor ore, salted a samplo and bad 1t sent to the mill, Tho sample was assayed, a great showing of wealth being made, ‘and Cooper readiiy in- duced the bank to purchase for $4,000 the lot of ore from which the salted oro haa been taken. Soon discovering the swindle, the bank 1uduced the sampling company to stand half the loss. Cooper was suspected, and ho was discharged from the works and kept under surveillance. Ho would socon have been arrested for fraud had he not at that time veen away. He is armed, and he said bofore he left that he twoula kill anyone who uttempted to capture him. Cooper came to 1daho from lowa. War to the Knife. Only those who were in the forofront of tho fight against rairoad domination and ex- orbitant rates in Nebraska 1n the later sev- enties can realizo the intensity of the battle being waged by local merchants of San Fran- cisco and the Southorn Pacific railroad. It is war to the knife, The heavy cut made on clipper ship freights betweon San Francisco and New York has been mat by the railroad, which has cut down neatly one-half the rates on u dozen commodities that are not perish- able. Included 1 this list are wine, canned goods and beans, of which the yearly shipment is very heavy. The ratlroad company has goue further, and is understood to be backing John Rosenfeld, one of the largest ship brokers of the city. in his fight against the iocal association of merchants behind the clipper rates, Rosenfeld has slashed rates to New York so savagely thav George W. McNoar, tho grain king, has been forced to load the big olipper Shenandoah for Liverpool instead of New York, as he tirst proposed. What tho outcome of the fight will be depends largely upon the action of the association. If the present compact with the Paciic Mail comvany is not re- newed, then there will be merry war ali- round, for the steamship company will be bound to make a lively bid for freight. Tho Northwest Whent Crop. ‘The latest advices in regard to theseason’s wheat crop of tho northwest shows that the output of the Willamette valloy in Oregon will be about the samo as last year and of a superior quality. East of tho mountains there witl be considerable shrunken whoat, some of 1t not _marketable, but although the stundard of Walla Walla wheat will have to be lower than that of last year in order to carry & lot of wheat which will bo marketed, the report of damage to the crop has boen ex- aggorated, Wheat in Pulouse county 15 as good as it was last year, but south of the Suake river much has boen blighted. The surplus of the northwest will bo about the same as last yea Portiand's Big D . Worlk is about to be resumed on the mag- nificent union passenger depot at Portland, Oro. Owhiz 1o tho change in tha manage- ment of the Union Pacitic nearly two yoars ago, work was suspended. Arrangements have lately been perfocted for pushing con- struction work with all possibio spoed. As soon as the foundation is up work will bo begun on the superstructure, which 13 to be of ovrick and stone, threo stories high, 500 feet long, with u handsometower. The imod- ifications mude in these plans affoct only tho style of the architecture, and tho station is to be the finest west of Chicago, as at first 1atended. Wyoming Oil, Casper papers report considerable aotivity in the oil region in that vicimty, Weil No. 1, owned by a Penasylvania company, is flowing oil worth §16.a barrel. The company 1s arranging W placo the product on the mar- kov. Thooilis to be hauled by wagon to Caspor tomporarily, as the company intonds building & pipe lint from the well to the rail- road. Considerable work is being dono on the proporty of other companies, Nebrask: Thayer county has bought six road gra- deors. Two 12-year-old burglars have boen oper- ating at Milford, A Prosoyteriun church society is to be or- ganized at Randolph A Kuights of Pythias lodgo has been iu- stituted at Humphiroy. . Channer's market at Osceola was en- tirely destroyed by firo. A. E. Ovenden has bacomo part owner of the Elk Creek Seutinel. ¥, H. Barrow hus started the News at Bounett, Lancaster county. The Logan Valley fair Wakefiold Septeniver § to 10, ‘Tne State Bohemian Turners association will meet av Wilbur Augast 25, fi'he Custer county alliance expects to build a farmers’ elovator at Broken Bow, A veautiful new churoh building is being erocted by the Methodists at Gering, Tyoof the horses that took partin the Friend races died from over-exertion. Benkelman wauts a flouring mill to take caro of Lbe immense new crop of wheat, Baucroft taxpayers have voted to issue bonds to build u system of water works, The new Bapust colloge at Grand Island will open Septemver Li with eight, instruc- tors. A Hastings man with a well improved farm and 900 av interest is advortising for a wife, Lewis Fellers, a promiuont citizen of Ta- ble IRock, was severely injured by a runaway toam. While Gus Sahisbury was intoxicated at Lowsville & negro slugeed bim pud then rovbed bim of § Buralars entered B, . Farloy's residence at York, but thoy failed to secure any large amount of plunder. Pl Bauch, after living in retiroment for nine years, has agaiu becowo the editor of the Madison Chronicle. George Lff of York took an overdose of morphine to quiet pain and only the prompt sction of two doctors saved bis life, Albert Juckson, & ld-yearold boy of Loomis, foll from & load of whoat and’ was run over. Ho died in & fow minutos. Fire destroyed all the wood work in the ougine honse of the Tecumseh mill, but the maiu bullding was saved by the firemen, Joo Bushel, a B, & M. machinist at Platts- mouth, is mious two fingers and & thumb which be lost in the cogs of bis wachine, Ora Waliace of Bookwalter, Pawnee county, 18 micus an ove as the result of showing her mother how to lay mumble-do- Peg. The Alliance Sun, published at Lyous, has changea its name and its politics. It is 'now ropublican and is called the Logan Valley Star. A 10-year-old son of B, J, Morrl farmer living near Western, while rding a pony was Lhrown, aud bis foot remaluing o the will be held at A child ot another farmer was also serionsly injured by heing run over by a heavy wrain wazon While playing ou a riding plow the d-year- old nophew of Andrew Kiddier of Juanita had his foot entirely cut off with the rolling coulters. Incendiaries fired a oar of baled hay at Schuyler, but the flames were discovered wnad subdued befors they could spread to other property. The B. & M. depot at Culbertson was en- tirely destroyed by fire, supposed to have been started by a spark from an engine. Tho total 1oss amounts to §2,000. ‘The program of the Washington county fair, 10 be held at Blair Septembor 21, 22 and 23, has boen issued. There are §1,500 in purses offered for speed contests. John MeCawley of Grant county, while boing hoisted to untangle the ropes of a hay- stacker, had a splinter a quarter of an inoh in diameter run through nis arm. The Jefferson county fair will be held at Fairbury on Tuesday, Weduesday, Thurs- day and Friday, September 13, 14, 15 and 16 A Rood program has boen arranged. Thieves enterod the house of Thomas Rob- Dins near Peru while the family were away from home and carried off everything port- able, from the vedelothing and provisions to the silverware, The Hartington Driving and Fair associa- tion has purchased a forty acre tract of land for fair grounds. Work has alroady com- menced on the track and fair builaings. Tho association was just organized during the past three woeks, as tho old fair association had become finuncially embarrassed. About $4,000 has already Deen ralsod and some good races are expected this fall, as liberal purses will be offered. »Tho barn and granary of H, E. Haden, a farmer hving near Fairmont, were entirely destroyed by fire. The barn contained a span of colis yalued at 350 and n span of mules, which owing to the rapid progress of the flames were consumed. The granary, containing 150 bushels of shelled corn ana a stack of oats were aiso burned, The fire is supposed to bo incendinry. The 1oss is esti- mated at §1,000, partly covered by insurance. The Soveath Day Adventists of Nobraska will hold their annual camp meeting and con forerce at Seward, August 30 to September 6. The camp will be pitched in Schafer's grove, ono and one-half miles southeast of the city on the banks of the Big Riue. Prominent speakers of the denomination will be in at- tendance. Meetings for youth and children will be held daily in separate tents pitched and seated for this purpose. A dining nall will be on the ground, whero refreshments will be served to all who desire. Pasturage, foed and grain wili be furnished ior horses at a moderate prico. ‘Tho death fast weeik of Mrs. Anna Barnett residing near Table Rock, recalis a sad story. She was married tureo vears ago to Garrett A. Barnott. Within three or four months after their marringe, young Barnetu trav- clled ostensibly as @ commercial man, At Chicago, he purchased, with forged drafts, goods to be sipped to Canon City, to a firm of which he represented himself ' to be the senioc member, taking care, 1 each case, to have s goodly amount return- ing to him in curren No such tirm existed. After victimiziog the Chi- cago firms he left for Philadelphia, Pa, whero he repeated the gamo, was caught, and sentenced to tho state prison of Pennsyl- vania for threo years. A short timo after a ohild was born to them which still lives. Barnett's time will be out within the next few months, when he will be arrested and taikon to Chicago to answer to the charge of forgery. The troublois suposed to have been tho primary cause of Mrs, Barnett's sickness and death, yoming. The tramp nuisance has become acute along the Union Pacific, Cheyenne taxpayers rejoicad over the re- duction of the levy from 12,9 to 10.5 on the dollar. The state republican convention will hold at Laramie September 14. representation is 103, Four nundred and fifty Chinamen are em- ploved in and around the Uulon Pacific coal mines at Rock Springs. Saratoga people propose to build an elec- tric railway from their town to Wolcott, the neareststation on the Union Pacufic. The state firemen's tournament opens in Rawlins today. One thousand dollars in orizes will be contested for, with horse rao- ing on the sige. Glenrock coal mires have a large force of carpenters and trackiayers at work repairing the mines and placing them in tirst-class con- dition for the winter trade. Work is being pushed vigorously on the whole line of the Burlington extension from Powder river to Sheridan, and it 1s thought that trains can be run in here by about tho 1st of November. The mines at Rock Springs produced 944 more carloads of coal during July than dur- ing the samo month last year. The increase in railroad business at that point for the month amounted to $58,000. Mike McDouald, a liverrman at Chadron, Neb., and Miss Alico Chase, daughter of a well-to-do farmer in Dawes county, Ne- braska, eloped and were married at Suggs, Wyo., recently. They were subsequently arrested, McDonald is on the shady side of 40; the bride 18 under 16. 'he terminus of the Burlington & Mis- souri railroad will remsin at Powder river about one month. It is expscted to have the bridge over Powder river completed and the track laid to Clear creck by September 1. From thero west work is not nearly as heavy and progress will be faster. Jonnstown is the iufant of Wyoming towns. It is on the Sweetwater ut the soda fields, fifty miles north of Rawlins, which is the railroad peint. A New York syndicate has invested 50,000 in making toste with the soda. If expcriments are successful u large plant will bo placed and an industrial center will take life. The Big Horn County Rustler takes a peep at the big crops in the Basin and cheerily bids farewell to poverty: *“The hay crop is simply immense—big stacks of it; the oats crop, as it stands, coloring in a double sense, t0 a golden tiut, promises yields of from sixty to ninety bushels per acra, and other cereals equally abundant. Beans, corn, potatoes and other vegetables of all kinds, yea—and fruit, too—-are growing in a way that would cause ye granger from the worn out soil of the over-bakea east to doubt his senses.” South Dakota, Yankton boasts of a democratic club with 300 members, A rich strike of gold and silver Is reported on Spring creek in the vicinity of Reoder's sawmill. The beef round-up is on in the northern bills. It is estimated 150,000 head of stock will be shipped from that section this year. “Wheat flve feot high, forty stalks to the stool, heads five inches longi" This a fair sample of the reports from the telds, says the Huronite. Tne Black Hills Mineral Belt Eleotric Rallway company is the title of .o new corporation which proposes connecting Deadwood, Central, Terraviile, Lead and Bala Mountain with an electrie road, about fifteen miles long. Itis said $200,000 has been subscribed to the enterprise, The farm implement doalers of Aberdeen have sold sevonty-six carloads of mixed farm machinery and seventeen carloads of binaing twino this season. In addition to this fifty threshing outfits have been disposed of. It 13 estimated that over 1,000 threshing mu- chines are now at work in Brown county, The wheat crop in the northern part of the stato is surpassing all expectations. 1t is said that forty busbels to the acre wiil be no unusual occurrece, and hoavier yields than even these ure confidently expacted. be The total Montunm. Some practical joker dubs Paris of Montana.” The fight for the capital location is at pres- ent coutined to Heleua, Bozeman aud Butte Butte * the | with Groat Walls allé Mizsouta posing as | umpires, 3 | In ten years the Heolamine paid $1,800,000 | in aividends and $7,500,000 for lubor. Forty thousana dollars worth of property as destroved by fAira %4 Missoula 1ast week. The total assessmont i Silver Bow countyy is 1414 milis, Tho total: for the county and Butte is 21 milts. Nearly 1,000,000 pounds of wool have been shipped from Billings this season over the Northern Pacifio. Tho Tron Mountainreompany has declared a dividend of $100,000, 3 cents o share, pay- ablo August 12. It iy probasle that another dividend will bo decla#ed this month. Butte's new libeary building will cover an aroa of 70x104 feot. . It will ho three stories in height, with a seventy-five foot tower. The materials will be pressed brick and stoue, At Shoridan, Madison county, David Me. Cranor aud others aro working & group of mines with gratifying success. The ore is free milling gold that assays from $25 to 8500 per ton, The Adior Gulch output this year wili be upusually large. About sixty men are em- ployed in the placers. Wator has been abun- dant and the oclean-up will exceed any for the past ten years. The new o1l flelds north of Fiathoad lake aro creating considerablo comment among mining men. It is thought the flelds extend for fifty miles north and south and twenty miles oast aud west. The oil oozes out through the gravel, and the indications are that a 1arge supply can be secured. Tho largest samplo of gold quartz ever mined in Montana was taken out of tho Mo~ Intyre lode, tho property of the Whitlatch- Union and Melntyre Gola Mining company’s property, and placed on exhibition in Helena. Its weight was given at 1,755 pounds. '‘here are other largo samplos from the same prop- orty oxhibited. ~All are dostined for exhibi- tion at the World’s fair. The quartz is open and coarse-grained, which is sure vo run well in gold. In the 60's Uonfoderate Guich was discov- ered with its tributary gulches on the north and south. Somoe of the bars were very con- spicuous in some of the after days, and es- pecially Montana bar, lying west of the mouth” of Montana (iulch. A tesm of ten mules, escorted by armed men, took away from the bar all the dust 1t was possible to haul, and quite & number were working there besides, After years of profitable action James King of Holena bought what they supposed tho leavings and worked it for a number of years. Last year's work revealed o his gaze $00,000 in three cleanings, and this year he aid not wait but sold for $400,000. Utah and Idaho. Fourteon prisoners have escaped from the Utah penitentiary in two years. Tho strike in the Poruvian mino at Alta, Utah, improves as work progresses. The assessea valuation of Salt Lake county is $48,500,000, or about $10,000,000 less than last year. Moreton Frowen, the ex-cattle baron of Wyoming, is boomine the Deep Creek min- eral district of Utah. The assessment role of Elmore county, Idaho, for 1802 sums up $1,133,120, which the taxes will amount 'to $37,302, The roli shows a falling off of §50,000 on las year’s valuation. The Ogden Standard continues to boom the Laplata district. I'bis camp was discovered about one year ago and has had an astonish- ing growth, considering that the ore is prin- cipaliy galena and tho location 1s high up in the mountains where the suow falls tco deep to work any of the witter, A party of engineers are at work running a line for a ditch to by taken out of Snake river about fifteen miles avbove Walter's Ferry, Idaho. The object, is to secure power enough to ruu an electrig light plant. If this can be done the power will bo conveyed to DeLamar to be used at the mines instoad of steam. i J. Schomerorn, the geglogist and mineralo- gist who is working in the intervest of Ida- ho's exhibit at the World's fair, discovered an immense glacial field in centrat Idaho, be- neath which is a series of glavial lakes. The glaciers are located abovt twenty-five miles southwaost of Shoup, amid & number of high peaks not down on tHe map. Messrs. . Carlson, and A, H, Borgman were up the south fork of the Big Cotton- wood on Sunday and_inspected the sirike recently made by Wil Griftith, Mr. Carlson describes it as one of the biggest things he ever saw, says the Salt Lake Tribune, They had sunk to a depth of ten feet and had a vein thirty mohes wide and ¢rowing wider, The ore was carbonate, chioride of silver and steel galena, Tho Neil gold mining district, twenty miles oast of Boise, is attracting many pros- pectors just now. The distriot has for years eon regarded as a very rich one, but only tho placer claims have beeu workod. Now the quartz claims are velug developed. Dr. B. Powers of Boise has struck a vein of clear milling ore that runs #80 to the ton, and for over.a hundred feet the vein is pierced oy a thirteen-inch streak that runs $170 to the ton. A man named Sioane has discover- ed a ledge which runs $170 to the ton. An eastern syndicate is making prepara- tions to coustruct a_broad gauge railroua from Weise, on the Oregon short line of the Union Pacific system, to the Seven Devils rogiou of Idaho, a distance of uinety miles Later on the line will be extended to Lewis- ton. The Union Pagific is believed to be the controlling spirit of the syndicate, oneof its confidential employes having been at, work on the scheme for many months. Tt is claimed that ore shipmonts from the Seven Dovils rogion alone will more than pay the construction oxpense of the new lino, which will be known as the Weiser & Northern. Co Spolane county, Washington, reports 9,550 school children. Rogular traivs are now running on the Great Northern to Spokane. A hungry bear tore the side out of a cabin in the Greenhorn mining district of Oregon and feastod on 150 pounds of bacon. Hazel Keyes, a ballooness, attompted to d near Seattle. She was dumped in a neighboring lake and picked up, unconscious, by a boat. Work has commenced on an irmgation canal which, when completed, will add 80,- 000 acres to the cultivable area of Kiltitas as valiey, Washington. California is getting tobe a pretty solid state. Governor Markham, in a published interview, says that, with's population of about 1,250,000, there 18 in the savings banks of the state nearly $120,000,000, two-thirds of which belongs to the wage-earuers of the state, One of the richest gold discoveries ever made in eastern Oregon was recently made near Olive lake, Grant county, by Jack Coyle and B. H. Bonnett. They had run two tunnels in only & short distance, when assaye were made, showing up $114 ore in the upper tunnel and $2,457 ore in the lower. The work of changing the Sun Diego street car system 19 an clcotrio systom is rapidly progressing, and very soon the en- tiro force of workmen will be taken 86 the bay, when the stowm motor line running from tho ferry wharf to the Hotel del Coro- nado will be changed §o that electricity can be used. used. “The overhead trolley wire is being ——-— Saved His € A's Life. A. N. Dilferbough, York, Neb., says: “I'he otner duy I came'lome and found my little boy down with cholera morbus, my wife scared, not knowing what todo, Iwent straight way and got 8 25-cent bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cliolera ana Diarrbeea Remedy snd gave it acgording to directions. You unever saw such & change in a child. His limbs and body w@re cold. 1 rubbed his limbs and body with juy bands, and after I nad @iven bim the second dose he went to sleep, and, as oy wifo aays, ‘from a death- bed he wi upplnvlur In three bour: It saved mo a doctor bill of about §3, and what 18 better, it saved my cbild. I can recom- mend it with a clear conscience." Highest of all in Leavening Power.=—Latest U, S. Gov't Report. Rl ABSOLUTELY PURE Baking Powder CHARACTER IN THE EYES Rules and Regulations for Analysing “the Windows of the Soul."” TRUSTY, SYMPATHETIC AND DECEPTIVE Significance of the nifting, Unensy Glanoe”—A Famous Hammer—That Horeid, Nearsighted Gossip About Women—Useful Intormntion, If wa only knew it, we are revealing un- ‘consciously all the While to outsidors tho 1n- ner workings of our nature through the sign manual of hair, eyes, hands and mouths. Read one or all, and guided by the warnings thus beld out we can steor clear of trouble and tie fast to that which is good withovt ever giviug any reason other than inclina- tion, yet guided by signposis that loom up straight and clear vofore eyos uot too blind tosee. A few days ago, says tho Pbila- delphia Times, wo gave our readers tho hints about the hair, ana today come rules governing the reading of tho eyes that may prove of value. Oue can always trust the eray, full orb that look clearly out from uader lashes long and straight. The gray eye with curling lashes is a cortaiu sign of & frivolous nature, while n small, oval, brown optic, with flecks of contrasting color near the pupii. indicates & highly nervous tem- porament with literary tendencies, This eyo is ulways overshadowed by saduoss when io repose, and is such an ono as mauy poots and painters have possessed. Large liquid black eyes denoto A sympa- theuc natucre, easily moved, but with no great deptn of feeling, [yes of whatever hue, if set close together, tell to the world that their owner 18 uov to be trusted. Be- ware of the shifting glance—it threatens danger., A full, dark olue eye is the very type of houest intentions and resolute pur- poso, yet a light watery ono botrays a weak vacillating nature, easily influenced for good orevil, but nore often toward the latter rather than the former course. The eye of koen perception and rave ability is the deep brown, with no mellowness, but a look on its surfaco as of high polish. This eye roads you through and through and is the index of a nature calculating, cold and bard in business dealing, yet stanch and true in its frieudships. No watter of what color, beware the eyes that have no desire to look you full in the face. ‘I'hore is something wrong behind the shifting, uucasy glance, and the owner of suoh optics will prove unworthy of trust. Read weil the aigns, for if actions speak louder than words, eyés speak even louder than actious, aud to be forewarnd is to be forearined. ‘The writer might have added, and truth- fully too, that the eyes of rascals and ruf- fians would stare an honest man out of coun- tenance. The ‘shifting, uneasy glance” is nota true indication of untrustworthiness or inherent wickeduess. The design for that much-talked-of ham- mer with which Mrs, Potter Palmer is to drive the last nail in the Woman's builaing at vhe World's fuie has been fixed upon. To determine what the hammer shoula be like has been the work of maiy months by the women of Nobrasku, but thoy have succeed- ed atlast and the precious implement is being executed by an Omaha jeweler. No hammer of the like of this one has ever pounded a nail. The handlo will be com- posed of ight and dark woods alternating and encircled by a broad band of xold on which will be engraved: *‘From the Women of Nebraska.” The head of the hammer will be of solid silver. On the face of the head will bo the seal of Nevbraska in gold re- lief. Draping the bammer and haundle will be the flag of the union wrought in gold. For each state in tho union thero will be a dismond star, and the flagstaff will be of pearl, surmounted by a golden oagle. ‘Cho idea of the hammer originated after the women of Montaua had proposed a de- sign for the last nail. This last nail is to be manufactured of gold, silver aud coppor, the most prominent native minerals of the state. ‘The heaa of the nail will consist of a repre- sentation of the seal of the state. This seal happens to contain mountain, rivers and val- loys, as well as tho sky. To properly repre- sent these features diamonds and sapphires will be used. Mrs. Eliza J. Rickards is the originator of the nail idea, After tho nail story had been circulated the Nebraska wowmen took up the hammer idea. Last come the women of Colorado They aid not want to fail in doing something on the line of finishing the Woman’s build- ing, 80 they will present the casket in which the hammer and nail are to be kept. This casket will be a miniature model in precious metals of the Pueblo Mineral palace. Thero was & very angry man at the Stock- ton last nignt, an” exceedingly ombarrassed young widow, and & chucking practical joker of the feminine gender. It all came about through a harmless bow of ribbon, writes & Cape May correspondent. The man is very nearsighted, and when being taken to his_apartment upon arrival was appailed at the endless vista of bod- room doors which met his astonished vision, It 1s impossible for him to decipher numbers after nightfall, and the knowledge of this caused him some little concern, for he feared Pears’ Soap What is wanted of soap for the skin is to wash it clean and not hurt it. Pure soap does that. This is why we want pure soap; and, when we say pure, we mean without alkali. Pears’ is pure; no al- kali in it; no free alkali. There are a thousand virtues of soap ; this one is enough. You can trust a soap that has no biting alkali in it. ~ All sorts of stores sell t, especially druggists; il sorts of pevple use it. Proposal for the Sale of L the Va Between John 1, R ‘s Nubdivision and Farnam Street, Bealod proposals will be received at the eity comptrolier's office, eity of Omuha. to 4 p. August 8th, 1802, £0r tho salo of the (ollow parcels of lind: * Two ploces of 80 by 123 feot, botween Farnam and Harney stréets: and ono piece of 8 by 170% feet, between Harney and Tulf Howard. Bids will bo received on citeh o all plecos s muy bo dos! d by Reason of od, Sne bidder to enclose certified chock of #20. The Fight by rescrved to rejoct or acoupt any or all bias. Plat and deseription of the land vn file in this office. THEO. OLSEN, al7a6e Cowptroller, RIEANE Y BES Al . Frthe ticod, ure e ot medicine knowh for blous i, comatipétion, 0 sywptiar fou] dlgeacdanvimplon sllon Sigles: oy aud e i reai i o Laapure bloc4,or & fallire by the SLomAc. Livel oF 1 Ll 1o perform thelr propar functiors. Versous v to o ek e e lodhy takli opo ifier mn), Bice, 04, bl B s EHETCAT 60 T8 Phface bt Now Yok ireath, beadache, hearthura, o of appotite, meatal def rewion, painful ‘ S hewunereseeser sostererrneyo! thatif he should go downstairs bo would not be able to find his room aguin, Tn this dilemma his troubled eyes foll upon { atiny knot of ribbon lying in the corner, loft by some fair predecessor. Taking a pin he tacked the bow on the outside door-frame and went on his way rejoicing. A young and giddy girl from Chicago witnessed the act and hurriedly moved the badgo to the next door. About midnight the nearsighted man, after n pleasant evening, eamo slowly up stairs. With inward satisfaction at his brili- iant iden, ho scanned (he doors untii ho de tected the riovon. Forthwith ho turned the knob and pro- coeaed to enter, only to be confronted with & flood of light and a highly stariled young widow in & state of deshabilie. Ho fled down the corridor and the lady, with rare acumen, instead of scrouming and raising a sensation, slammed and locked the door. An hour later tho unfortunate man sneaked up to bed in tow of a bell boy. Miss Marle Adelmde Belloc has & _pair ot aimples that she found useful in_overcoming the continental prejudice to interviewers, for Miss Belloc is an Brglish literary woman who began her carcer by securing for the Pall Mall Gazette some very valuablo intor- views frow prominent Kuropean statosmen whose exclusiveness, invulnerable to_masou- line inquiry imeited before Miss Belloc's raceful questioning. Although Miss Belioo rejoicos in a ‘‘caroer,” she 18 but just past 20, Still a sly maturity croeps Into the short stories that sho fre- quently contributes to Murray’s Magazine, the Review of Reviews and other period- icals, Miss Bolloc possesses au advantage over most writors 1n that sho is equally at homo in both Fronch and Knglish: 1n fact, sonie of her best stories, those of a piquancy more appreciated in France than in England, have appeared in Parisian magazines, This linguistic oxcellonco sho owes to the fact that her parents were ono English, the other French. At a recent religious convention in Con- necticut Roev. W, H. Walkor said he had no money 1o contribute, but would consecrate his daugnter to the work. Miss Walker, a beautiful girl of 19, is not of the material that cousecrates succossfuily. She iy pre- paring for tho stage, proferring short skirts ana the footlights to the seclusion of the cloister. e T Tho Alliunce Israelite Universolle has de- termined to be an oxhibitor at the World's Columbian oxposition. The Alliance will show specimens of the work performed by the pupils in all its schools, photographs of the school buildings, products of the agri- cultural school at Jaffa and of the technical school at Jerusalem, and of its boy and girl appreatices in workshops. Tho collective exhibit will give anidea of the results ob- tained by the society sinco its_{oundation in the domain of olementary and techmoal edu- cation. Bpth the method and results when Syrupof Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts ently yet promptly on the Kidneys, iiver and Bowels, cleanses the sys- tem effectually, dispels colds, head- aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever pro~ duced, pleasing to the taste and ac- ceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its manyexcellentqualitiescommend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. : .Lyrup of Figs is for sale ih 750 bottles by =l leading druggists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will procure it romptly for any one who wishes o try it. Manufactured only by the CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO,, SAN FRANOIS00, OAL. 1 OUISVILLE, KY, NEW Yl?}l: N. !L NOTICE ¢ NT OF DAM AGES FOR RECONSTRUCTING THE SIXTEENTH STREET VIADUCT. To theowners of ali_lots and parts of lots and real ostate along the Sixteonth street via- und the approaches thereto. You aro hereby notified thut the under- signed, threo disinterested froeholders of the ity of Owmaha. huve been duly appointed by the muyor, with the upproval of the city cous el of Sald eity, to assoess the d' wage Lo th owners respectively of the proj srty affected by the eonstruction nnd reconstruction of the Sixteenth street viaduct in the eity of On us declared nocessary by ordinauce No and as proposed by plans duly upproved by the mayor and counell of sald ¢ity, You are further not fled, that havinz ao- cepted suid appolntment, and duly qualified uired by law we will, on Mond d dity of August., A. D, 1802, at the hou o oelock n tho forenoon, ut direotors room of the Commercinl al bank, within tho corporato limits of meet for the purpose of considering ana makin the assessment of di 10 Lo the owners re- spoctively of said property. affected by said Teconstriotion of said vsaduct and lts ap- prouches, taking into consideration spocial enofits, It uny. You are notified to bo prosent at the time and pluce aforesaid and miko any objections 1o or statements m)llcurni'l){laflld assessmont of damnages as you mav consider proper. o8 48 YOU INGY CRTAM I VA MS, D, ADOLPH ME 1802, Alldion ik, ALFRED MILLA Omaha, August To Preserve The richness, color, and beauty of the hair, the groatest care is necessary, much harm being done by the use of worthless dressings. To bo sure of have ing a first-class article, ask your druge gistor perfumer for Ayer's Hair Vigor, It is absolutely superior to any other preparation of the kind. It restores the original color awl fullness to hair which has becomo thin, faded, or gray. It keeps the sealp cool, moist, and free from dandraff. It heals itching humors, provents baldness, and imparts to THE HAIR a silken texturo and lasting fragrance. No toilet can be considered complets without this most popular and clogant of all har-drossings. My hair began turning gray and fall- ing out when I was about 25 years of age. 1 have lately beon using Ayer's Hair Vigor, and it is causing a new growth of hair of the natural color."— R. J. Lowry, Jones Prairie, Texas ‘Overa year ago I had a sovere fever, and when I recovered, my hair began to fall out, and what little remained turned gray. I tried various remedies, but without success, till at last I hogan to USE Ayer's Hair Vigor, and now my hait is growing rapidly and is restored to its tinal color.””— Mrs. Annio Collins, Dighton, Mass. “I have used Ayer's Hair Vigor for nearly five years, and my hair is moist, glossy, and in an excellent state of prese ervation. T am forty years old, and have ridden the plains for twenty-five years.”—Wm. Henry Ott, alias tang Bill,” Newcastle, Wyo. Ayer’s Hair Vigor Prepared by Dr.J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. Sold by Druggists Everywhere, Mus- AMUSKEMENTS. ) NEW THREE THEATRE, |_NIGHTS, Commencing Sunday, August 21. 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