Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 12, 1892, Page 5

- 4 ~-—sho mount , ono hour, ‘aud came o A C PULSEOF WESTERN PROGRESS A Etatistical Pioture of Montana's Crop of Mineral, EXPLORING RANIER'S LOFTY SUMMIT A Scribe's Transition from Poverty to Affln ence—Another Lost Cabin Mine - Biack Hills Tin—Summary of the Week's Events In the Northwost, A work recently issuea by the United States geological survey furnishos a valua- ble statistical insight into the mineral wealth of Montaua. The figures cover the years 1880-00, and though somewhat an- clent ore, novertholess, interesting and In- structive. But fow are aware of the fact that Montana furnishes a fair proportion of tho total antimony produced in the United States. In 1500 the total product of tne country was 257,708 pounds, valued at $40,- 756, The total product of Montana was forty-six tons,twenty-nine and a half tons of which came from the vicimty of Thompson Falls. In addition to the forty-six tons of first-class ore (ore yielding 35 per cent or more of star regulus beiog considered first class), Montana mined 200 tons of secol class ore, none of which was sold or treated, In 1500 Moutana vroduced 517,477 tons of coul, valued at $1.252402, This exceeded tho year preceding by 154,176 tons. The counties prouucing were: Unscade, Choteau, Custer, Dawson, FFurcus, Gullatin, Lewis, Clarko and Park. The latter headed the Jist with 37 tons, and Cascade wus 8 close second with 200,435 tons, The small- est amount was produced by Lewis aud Ciarke, 115 tous. I[n 1883 Montana pro- duced 19,705 tous of coal; in 1857 it drovped 10 10,202 tons; In 1858 1t was 41,467 tons; a0 1850, 863,501 tons, and In 1800, 517,477 to Some coal has beon found in ' Deer Lodge county, butno attempt has been made lo produco for the market. In 189 Montaua led tha country in its cop- ver production, the total beitg 112,950,806 pounds, the next highest, the Lake Superior mines, producing 100,745,277 pounds. The growth of the copper production in Montana sinco 1883 has teen almost vhenomenal. In that year Montana _produced 24,604,346 pouNds; in 1834, 43,008,054; 1985, 67,797,564 ; 1880, K7,611,621 3 1887, 78,600,077 5 1888, 07,807,~ 90351580, 444, and Qo 1500, 112,950,806 pounds. In 1800 Montana produced 3,139,327 in gold nd $20.303,363 in silver. Tne total produc- tion 1 the United States of the hrst was €32,845,000 and §70,485,714 i silver. In 1890 the production of gramte in Mon- taua was included with that of Arkans Washington and Nevada and the total of the four states was §76,000. During the past ten years Montana became noted for its granit output ond its product reaches at least §250,- 000" annually now. so that that the figures for 1500 are merely good as a_comparison. As a producer of iron ore Montana in 1800 makes but a poor showing, the total for this state, Oregon, New Mexico and Utah being laced ut 51,632 tons. ‘U'his is not because Moutana has not large deposits of iron, but but because it has not proved profitable to wine. No figures are given of the lead output in 1800. but the year preceding Montana 1s credited with an ore product carrying 10,183 tons of metal, and yet the smelters of this state produced 19,404 tons of bar bullion. On Rainer's Lofty Summit, Dr. Warron Riley and George Jones of Oiympia recontly made an exhausting and exhaustive exploration of Washington’s hignest peak, Mount Rainer, or, as it is Jocally known, Mount Tacoma. They suc- ceeded in reaching a point on which no human being had ever before stood and in establishing beyond a doupt that the great mountain 18 higher above the sea level than the 14,44 feet allotted to it. Lr. Riley’s trip, which Is his second one, was for the purpose of exploring the north pealk, believiog if there was any mineral on nat all it was at that point. It was contewplated that the journoy would cover four weeks, but provisions enough for five woek were tuken. The travelers wore leatber coats, heavily corked boots, thick woolen underwear sud strong, thick gloves, o addition they carried an Alpine etaff seven feet long, an ordinary hatchet and a rove. The latter was used in crossing can- yous, it being often necessary 1o lasso a rock on the opposite siae, arop down and draw oneself up and across. The long leather coats rendered particularly gooa scrvice, not only as protectors, but in facilitating travel while descending ' over broad fiolds of ice. ‘Tho tuil of the coat was drawn through the legs aud served us u seat, or sort of toboggan, which enabled the men’ to slide with com: parative comfort, Dr. Riley’s route was by the great South Puyallup glacier, the same one he followed last year, and in crossing it he fell in with Fra k Taggart aud Frank Lowe of Urling, The travelers formed one party and com- menced the perilous climb to the hitherto unexplored north peak. Their prospective point for the first day’s journoy wus a camp established last year, 11,000 feet above the sea level, Tho party started at 7 o'clock on the fol- lowing morning and at sundewn entered tho littlo crater on the southeast peak, all too wuch exnausted 10 pay any uttention 1o tho preparation of a meal. A bed was made vy diggiog 8 hole in the hot sand, around which & windbrenk of rocks was constructed, and the travelers slumbered on the highest peak of the mountain, They found it impossible W rewuin on the craterany length ef time, owing to tho steam which whistled up from the crevices in the rocus. The steam is ox- ceedingly disagreeable and nausoating, being ampresnated with sulphurated byarozen. So intonse is the heat 1n the cre that & pot full of iwe melted aud reached the boiling point in twenty minutes. Again, at 7 in the worning, the party con- tinued the journey to the north peak, which i3 ono and seven-eizhths miles distant,across a valley 700 teet deev. It required three and one-half bours’ walking over a smooth fleld of snow with a crust thick enough to bear the weight of a man. ‘The most unfavorable encounter was the flerce wind, which blew at the rate of 121 miles an hour, with the Lhermomoter at 27, ‘Tho top of the north peak wus coverea with snow seventy feet doep, and tho travelers passed around 1t and over thetop. The western face of the peak is a ledge of stone drovping down perpendicularly for & distance of 2,000 feet. Hero Dr. Riloy found the most interesting ao0a peculiar rock formation, It differs in character and quality from any other on the mountuin, being compozed par- tially of chlorides and sulphurets, leaaing tho doctor to believe that gold and silver exist in the immediate neizhbortood, Thbis peak, Lo thiuks, is an extinct crater which bas been split directly in two, loaving the porpendicular wall of stone before re- ferrod to. The other half of the peak rests 1o the valley, threo miles below, forming “the meadows" and two small mountains, where it has beon thrown by violent voleanic uction which happened uot less thau from 1,000 L0 10,000 vears ugo, The principul rock on the mountain is a couglomeration of eranite, vasalt slute, mar- olo aud Lale, oxcopt on the worth poak, which differs wiaely from the others, and {s mado up of sulphurets, chlorides, carbou- ate, rod oxides and traces of iron, ‘I'ne pariy stayed on the north peak about 1 ovor tho same soute, reaching camp iu nino hours, where it bad required twenty-four Lours (o go up, In oue instance in, which they brought their leatlier coats iuto sei vice, they siid ovor @ half mile surface of ice iu less than one mivute. Among the other objects of Lhe visit was 10 ascertain the practicability of establishing on the mountaiu & swuul station for the northwest, which would overlook all op <tructions. Dr. Riley fitds it to be perfectly feasivie by ouilding « augout roofed with stones, aud utilizing the escape from stoam its for beuting purposes. He furtber estab. bod the important fact, by the measure- mwent of threo good barometers, Lhat the alti- tudo of tho mountain av_tho bighest peak is Just ten feot less than 15,000, and that the originul measuroment of 14,444 foet Is lucor rect. Dr. Riloy suys the original measure- mont was aken by Lriangulation from a poiut on tho sound, fully twenty-five yoars ago, by a United Stutes engineer, who “undoubiealy found trouble to acquire an acourate bas: line. Binek Hills Tin, 1o an iuterview with a reporter of the Rapld City Bepublican, suerintendent Childs of the Harney Peak tin mines talked encouragingly of the tin industry ana clearly indieated an intention to produce tin this fall, suficient at lenst tod.press the anti. to eranks to the point of suicide, He re- viewed his trip to Wales mado some months since and declared that tho primitive char- 8cter of the mining there was aconstant sur- prise to bhim. “Why," said he, ‘I saw six men dumping & car which with improved American appli- ances wiil be readily unloaded by one man alono. The location of such a mine as ours in Wales would cause mob violence among the laborers. We expect to do with twenty men tho same mmnount of work for which fiftv-five men are required at a Cornish mill.” He found the tin bearing ledges of tha mines there very similar to those uncov- ered here. Superintendent Childs is evi- agently a firm believer in Harney Peak tin. He expects to produce it in commercial quan titles when a sufficient dapth has becn at- tained, and does not_hesitate to declars that the company will pay double the wages paid for the samo labor 1n Wales and at the same timo produce the white metal av greatly re. duced cost. Half a million dollars mads in nine months on an nvestmont of §10 is & story that sounds like & Mulhattan tale, and you 1t is a simple story that is borne out by fact. Colonel L. N. Muncy, a well known newspaper man on the coast, {8 the man who has worked the tidoe of fortune to the extent and manner stated above, About nine months ago Colonel Muncy took hold of a group of tive prospect holes & short distance from Osburn, Idabo. All the money he had to 1nvest, according to Ais own statement, was §100. All he expected to do Was 10 represent tho claims for a year or so in order to ascertain what there was 10 them. He went 1o work slowly and cautiously. Not naving money to hire many men, he went into the prospect holes himself with one or two men who were willing to wait for tneir pay. It was not long before be discovered that o had struck into one of the richest finds in that silver belt, Three of the pros- pects showed extraordinary richness of free willing silver ore. They are now known to fame and finance as the Ceeur d Nellie, the Mineral Poine and Emma, A stock company was or ized, the mines were bonded forlarge amounts and two of them were subse- 4quently sold for 200,000 each over and above the bonded indebtedness, The others wero also sold to eastern capitalists for good sums and Colouel Muncy, who had not had more than his weekly salary from some news- paper at any one time in ten years, was fairly in it.” Ho cleared ovor $500,000 in the various deals ana is now the gen- oral manager of the fivo mines nt & salary of $25 a day. Now ho wears fine cloties and dines at the club. The ore from all those mines yields from 0 to #0 per ton ot During tho past thres weeks there wus shipped trom the Nellio unot less than 450 tons of §i0 ore. A railrond has been ruu into tio mines, reducing the cost of transpor- tation from # tv S0 cents a ton. A tunnel 1,200 feet in length has been cut into the Nellie since March 1, and a gravity tramway coustructed to carry the ore to the bius, and similar work is under way at the other mines. The first carload of ore shipped from tho Nellie netted $07 and the first from the Mineral Point $1,303, The old newspaper man is not sorry Lo forsook his profession and became a miner, The Salt Lake and san Francisco Road. The fact that the backers of tho proposed railroad oetween San Francisco and Salt Lake are not working with a brass band is uot to be taken as evidence of the collapse of the enterprise. Const merchants are deter- mined to secure reliet from the Central Pa- citio monopoly aud are quiotly but surely preparing for the construction of a competing rond across the mountains. *We find this,” says the Salt Lake Tribune, “that the men engaged in that enterprise up to date have naver willngly said a word for publication, They have gone on and spent $100,000 in cash in making survevs and buyiug tho right of way out from the Bay of San Francisco this They are trying to ses if they can get 8 certain amount of capital subscrived in San Francisco. Tbey have asked no favors of Salt Lake, uot even encouragement of this vluco. They havemado uo blow of what tuey proposed to do, for the simple reason, as they oxpluin, thal they did_ not know but they would fail, and if thoy dia they did not care to huve anything said about their enterpriso: They understood frow the first that they wanld be fought by the Central Pacitic rond, by its local press in Califoraia and in Utan, by all the influence its powerful managers could bring to bear in the money centers of the east. They did not underrate tue ob- stacles in their path; they do not y By going to work as thev nave, they certainly are eutitled to the full sympuiby of every man in Utah who would itke tosce a road run through the mineral belt of eastern Utah acd western Nevada, in order to secure for this city at ieast one point of trade which the other railrouds have not taken away from it.” Another Lost 1 Mine, 1f thero be one thiug rarer than a June day it1s & meral district in the west without a Lost Cavin mine legend. T'he Black Hulls fol- lows the example of other camps in uneartn- ing one, and, like its protolvpes, is pro- nounced marvelously rich. Wiiliam Denny, an old prospector, is back in Deadwood from the western hills \with a sack of gold nuggets and @ thrilling story of a rich discoverv, Denpy started on a prospecting tour about two weeks ago and accidentally found in the waestern hills a cavern which be at first sup- vosed was a natural cave, out which proved upon investigation to have been hewn out of the mountain side. In tho cavern he found 8 human skeleton aud, hiaden away in a se- crot place, a quantity vf goid nuggets which mus be worth at least 25,000, Fur- ther aud extended search found the mive frowa which the nuggets were taken, which Deuny doscribes us marvel- ously rich. He deposited a large amount of gold with Dr. Robert Goebring, the Home- stake assayer, and after coming to Deadwood displayed a number of rich specimens and expended considerable money, Denny thinks be has found the famous Lost Cabin, for waich so many men have searchied in vain. Ho refuses to describe the exact locality of the mine, but_says it is about fifty miles wostward from Deadwood. His story, backed by the nuggets in his pos- session, ‘was givon general credence, and aroused considerable excitement. A Famous Nugget. The Marshall gold nuggat will be exhibited atthe Woria's fair. Mr. Marshall picked it up in the flume of the old Sutter mill, Cali- foruis, Fobruary 15, 1848, Iu is only about the siza of a lima bean, but iv was the starter of the world’s comuercial revolution. It was alwost to the United States what the dis covery of tho contiuent was to Europe. Tt chaoged fo & groat measure the charucter of tho people; 1L chauged us a8 u uation so much toat the world in thinking of us has forgotten what they used to think before tnat ovent. Up o that time, says the Salt Lako Trioune, we wers looked upon as wimply & nation of agri- culturists; our credit ranked avout liko that of Egypt; it was the habit of Engiishmen to pity evorything they saw in our country, and the idea of rating us asa first class power would have made a smilo all over K- rope. It was first that exodus to California, it was next the added power which came through the use of that gold. More thau all, it was the knowledge that added to the agri cultural fields of our country there was a mineral region which would keep us 1n tho front rank until all other nations would be second class, - Strange Body of Water, Soap lake is & most porplexing little body of water in Douelas county, Washington, near tho Columbia river mouth of the Grand coulee, aud s one mile in length and about one-fourch as wide. It derives its name from tho soapy appearance of tae water, aud is re- garded as gaite o curiosity by overy one who has seen 1t. It is said that'its water, when disturbed, will become & seething mass of lather, and will form a heayy suds by mere rubbing between the hands. Oue of its peculiarities is 18 poisonous qualities, Stories are toid by thorougnly reliable per- sous of horses haviog died from the effools of drinking Soap lako water, and of moa- strous sores bulog ralsed o other animals where the water touchea them. Irrigation in Montaua. In the state of Montaua there are 1,340 ir- rigaung ditchos and seventy-sight mining ditcbes which bave veen bullt sinece 1864 average slze of diteh, five and one-quarter inchos by six sud one-eignth iuches: average capacity of the ditches, 1,490 wnehes; total THE eapacity, 705,100 inches. three rosorvoirs and 2,475 hoad gates; avor. ace cost per mile, $517; st of ros orvolrs, £,708, These ditenos irrigate 242,000 acres of land under cultivation, in all 476,000 Acres. It cosis on an average $11.61 per month 1o irrigate these lands, or §7.60 poer anoum. There are 9,815 lateral ditches hav- ing a capacity of 86,000 inches. The average rental charge is 81,41, Latoral ditches sup- ply 300,000 acres; averago annual product forty-one and one-half bushels of grain, 240 bushels of vegetaoles and one and three- fourths tons of hay. Nebraska. The Harrison Journal is four yoars old. Syracuse is to have a cob pipo factor The WilBer opera house will be opened on the 12th, The Plattamouth News is- now printed semi-weekly instoad of weekly. The first annual fair at Callaway opens September 12 and continues over the 15th. _B. F. Buffington has sold the Fairbury Enterprise to Cash M. Taylor, late of Kan- sas. William resident of I years, ‘Thiree prisoners escaped from the county Jail at Auburn by prying opea & window frame. Abscesses caused by the pulling of teeth resulted in the death ot Sadie Maupin at Broken Bow. Daniel Tleaton, one of York oldest setticrs, died at his home near uged 74 years, A cow belonging to J. C. Muggleton, near Raymond, gave birth to three perfoct calves, which all lived. Gettlers in Boyd county on Rock creck are missing cattle. have disappenred. Fred P, King, editor of the Litchfield Mouitor, has been discharwed from the Nor- folk insane asylum as cured. Two Thurston couuty Indians, Pros Ar- mell and Ed Priest, have been taken toa Blair gold cure institute for treatment. Mr. Covey, near Curtis, was fixing ma- chinery with his pocket knife when it slipped from his hand and put out one of his eyes. The house of Mrs. Custer of Firth was eantirely destroved by fire, and the citizens aro taking upa coiléction'to enable her to rebuild, An unknown old woman wandering io the flelds week ago, has been asylum, Some one threw a chunk of coal in a car window near Bustis and the giass struck T. S. Sapp of Wallace in tho head, inflicting severe cuts. Arthur Duval, a 12-year-old David City boy, was discovered in the et of burglariz- ing a grocery store and was sentenced to tha reforni school A meeting of the republican editors of the Fourth congressional district wilt be held at Lancoln Septemver 8 and an organization will be periectea. Tho Women’s Christian Temperance union of Pawnee county held its sixth annual ses- sion at Table Rock and an interesting pro- Eram was carriea out. W. E. Hitchcock has sold the Alliancs Times to H. J. Ellis, Mr. Ellis has been foreman of the Times for several years and is & bright newspaper man. Wild cats killed ehickens for Leo Da Bock of Harrison, and his daughter Rosa took a un und wout after them. She shot one and killed another with sticks ana stones. Mrs. James Giandon, living near Curtls, dropped her baby out of the wagon In trying to drive down a stesp hill. One wheel ran over it, breaking a leg and cutting its foot. Dr. James I Gumamr of Liberty was severely injured by being thrown from his buggy, ‘and " Mrs, James Burge of the same place was very badly burned by an explosion of gas in a stove. Francis Barber of Burr struok rock in digging a well, and put 1n a blast. It ex- ploded before lie got to the top of the well, shattered the bucket he was in, and blew him several feet from tho well. T. B. Kail of Norfolk has invented a steam engine of mnovel construction, In which the piston head and piston rod are dispensed with, the pressure beine exerted on a diaphragm the full size of the cylinder. Whilo Robert Kelley, 18 years of age, was assisting in raising a pipe out of a well near Brokea Bow s hook broko aud a block and tackle feil on his head, crushing his skull, He livea thirty-six bours and died while the doctors were trying to raise the bone from tue brain. C. K. Morrill of Howard has two fino specimens of the remains of a mastodon, which were recently found by a German, while diggiug 1n a sand pit near here. They consist of a tooth, measuring eight inches by four across the face and nine inches in length, and a part of one of tho fore logs, from the knee to tho shoulder, measuring five feetand nine inches in length, while the knee joint measures thirty inches around. Charles Endsley, for twonty years a resi- dent of Cheyenne county. has bsen declarea insane, Twelve years ago he shot & cowboy 1n @ quarrel about cattie, siuce which time the matter has been preying on his wind, Politics and olections are his hoboles. He appeared to be all right while attending the independent senatorial convention, but his mind became entirely unbalanced and he took possession of the United States land oftice, as he claimed. uuder the divine com- mund of Christ, and created great excite- ment until he was taken in charge by the sheriff, OMAHA DAI Thers are ninety Stonebraker, for ten years a berty, is dead at the age of 60 county's Waco, the Burnt Sixty head who was found near Stromsburg a sent to the insane Wyomin A Chicago syndicate is investing heavily in Wyoming sheep. A chunk of coal weighing three tons was rolled vut of the Rock Springs mine recently. It gocs to Chicago to swell the show. Lamarie1s reaching for some of Choy- enue's plumes as o jul delivery city. Six of Lamarie's conyicted tougns are abroad on the prairics without permjssion. Surveyor W. O Owen of Laramio has se- cured & government contract for surveving a section of the state in the vicinity of tho Yellowstona National park and has already started for the field. Nicholas Palz, 8 St. Louis snoak, was picked up while writhing in & fit on the streets of Lemario by a clergyman and cared for. Palz “rewardod” the good Samaritan by robbiug bis house of jewelry valued at 250, Tho boiler in Willam Lelshman's sawmill, twenty-five miles from Kvanston, blew up sud scattored fragments of the mill over the neighborhood. William Scott, the engineer, and Joanie Leisuman, daughter of the owner, were instantly killed, and William Dowe ser- fously injured. Two Nebraska boys, Harmon and _Quirk, have struck a very rich lead in the Laulaus districl and are gewtiug out mineral similar in character to that of the Gray Copper, aud which is belioved to bo an oxtension of tho Gray Cooper, as it is supposed to cross Libby creek at that point, Thisis the first high grado copper ore strick on the emst side of Libby creok and all tho miners ure very much encouraged by tb e'find, The coal shipments from Kock Springs fur August did not quite come up to the 7,000 cars thut were expectod, but they aid numuer 6,700, which was 500 in excess of anv pro- vious month's business in the history of Rock Springs. It 1s bard to form an adequate idea Y BEE: MUNDAY | ot tha ¢ antity of ‘awal raprosented by 03 carloaas, but a fy) or realization caa be | when it is figy ‘linl 6,700 freight cars | coupied together oni 4ingle track would make o train almost forky-four miles long. South Mwkota Bourke Cockran is :bedked for a speech at Sioux Falls, Sept. 16, Work is progressing at a lively vace on the Rapid City railrond. A conservative estifdte of the ore now be- ing shippod from Bald-Mountan and Ruby Basin to the Deadwopd chiorination works by the narrow gaugo rouds amounts to 250 tons daily, with a steady increase in the out- put. Those ores run at from $2) to 30 per ton, and even much more. One of the most tmportant as well as ono of tho largest miniug deals ever transacted | terday, says the Deadwood Pioneer, Nothirg Is known as to the sum involyed, but it is said 10 be in the six numvers. The deal was botween the Bald Mountan Consolidated Milling company and an English syndicato WN0Se names We are not now at liberty to mention. The transfer wncludes all of the abovo company’s mining property at Bald Mountain, including the chlorination plant at Garden City, Guzzlers have an 1nteresting time dodging prohibition in Aberdeen. An alleged harm- less cider or cordial has been having quite a run, but row the officials insist that the business along this line must be stonped. A chemical analysis was made of the cider and spirits of aleohol, tho genuiae “‘old stuff,” was found contained therein to the extent of 30 por cent. ‘T'hie city soaks found this drink much to their liking and all was going until until a stranger was tompted to drink threo large glasses to quench his thirst. He was umazed and rendered ex- ceedingly indignant to discover in & short timo that ho was intoxicated and had made a boly show of himself. He sought tho mayor, detaled to him the circumstances, and was assured thatthe traffic would bs squelched. The Butte library bonds of $0,000 wers sold to Blair & Co.” of New York ‘ata pre- mium of $313. 1t is estimated that Alder gulch, inwhich Virginia City is_located, has yiolded $65.- 000,000 in gold dust. The gulch has been worked almost continuously during the last twenty-eight years. The aunual meeting of the Montana Wool irowers association will be held at Biliings on Friday and Saturday, September 30, and October 1, 1802, immediately after the close of the Yeilowstone Fair association’s exhi- bition. Anaconda and Groat Falls filed their cer- tificates of nomination with the seoretury of stato, makiug six towns which have formally entered the race for the state capital. The other four are Bozeman, Boulder, Deer Lodge and Helena. Some valuable medals will bo contested for at tho Butte tonrnament for the Montana bioyelists, There will be sixteen medals 1 the apggregate value will be $400. The first prize medal will bo worth $150. The tournament begins Sunday, Septem- ver 15, dnho aud Nevada, Rocky Bar, Idaho, was almest destroved by fire last week. One hundred and fifty persons were rendered homeless. Bodie, Nav., is a very lively camp just now. A two-story hotel was bogun last week, aud many other houses aro in process of coustructior. The Lasc Chance mine at Atlauta, Idaho, not long ago sbhipped to San Fraucisco for reduction abouta ton of “specimen’ ore that was valued at $250 a pound. The Tahoma mill cleaned up on fifty-five tons of Last Chaace ore, #1L,0001n gold, besides a ton of rich sulphurets. R. B. Browne is lessee of the Last Chdnce. Angle York, the 10-year-old daughter of W. A. York of Bellevue, Jdaho, was fatally burned and died in extreme agony at 9 o'clock on the 2d. While her parents and older sisters were away, Angie and two younger children filled s tin vessel with coal oil for a play fire, and fn doing so carelessly saturated her clothing witt the deadly liquid, and when sheignited the oil in tho can her dress caught, fire, and in an instant ber ciothing was mass of flames, William B. Hurd, who ordered Superin- tendent Kinkead to throw up his hands und gy out o 810,000 sack of coln in tho early art of the month, while the latter was on the way to the Occlaental mine in o buggy to pay off the. emploves, and who was pep- pered in the leg with buckshot and captured by the plucky superintendent, pleaded guilty 10 the charge of attempted nighway robbery at Virginia City and was sentenced to serve tive years at hard labor in the state prison. Hurd statea before sentence was pronounced that, notwithstanding he bad Kinkead cov- ered with a loaded revolving pistol, he bad no intention of shootiag him, but was merely “‘making a bluff”" under toe delusion that Kinkead wouid rot *call for a show down." Along the Const. Seattle has 900 telephones and Tacowa 750. A prolific feature of Portland life is ae- structive fires. The state flower of Washington, so de- clared by 7,704 votes, is the rhododendron. For the quarter ending August 31, Tacoma issued 201 permits for ouildings valaed at $075,720. W. H. Mahoney, a common laborer at Fresno, Cal., has won a law suit which eives hi land worth $100,000 in Stanisiaus county, ‘Tho Portland cable street railway was re- cently sold at auction for §25,000. ~Tho pro- perty 15 valued at $500,000 and is encumbered #100,000, There are about 175 Indian boys and girls at the Chemawa (Ore.) Indian school now, but 1t is expected the number will reach 300 before long, It is estimated that the deciduous frujt of Southern California for this year will reach 10,000 carloads, valued at $3,000,000, and that the citrous Lruit will reach 6,000 carloads, valued at £,500.00, _A drunken Indian on ths Colville reserva- tion recently received twenty lashes as the penalty for indulging too freely. He chose this form of pumshment in preferonce to beiug confined in jail for a mouth, Oue of the terrors of San Francisco is known as the hoodl| It 18 neither an earthquake, tidal wave nor oyclone, but still makes its presence very forcibly felt, The hoodliss, in fact. is merely a female hoodlum, A freak in Tacoma swallowed a match case, opped short never to go again. When time was called his spirit had run out, An analysis of his interlor department showed a job lo? of nails, brass, ete,, in various stages of .odigestion. Since July 1 thirty-one coastwise or ocean- ward vessols. have ssiled irom Tacoma, of which thirteen carried lumber agerogating 8,705,333 feot. Three carried coal aggrogat. ing 13,510 tons, Tho others carried gen- oral cargoes. The value of tha lumboer shipped is placod at $91,870, There are but six sbips in port awalting cargoes, but of this number two are slready under charter, A small grove of big trees has been dis- covered in Placer couuty, Califoraia, on tho middle fork of the American river, not far from Korest Hill, It was found by 'Wililam W. Price, a hotanical ‘student in Stanford university. He thinks that this grove, of | Which only six troos arp standing, marks the extreme northern limitof the growth of the quoia gig Some of th You Needn't Look immediately for thetlamage that dangerous washing compounds do. It's time, but you won't see its probably, for several months, there, and it's going on all the effects, It wouldn’t do, you know, to have them too dangerous. The be t way is to take no risk. You needn’t worry about damage to your clothe; , if you keep to the original washing compound—Pearline ; first made and fully proved. What can you gain by using the imitations of it? <Prize packages, ch . aper prices, or whatever may by urged for them, wouldn't pay you for one ruined garment, Beware you an imitation, be bonest i Peddlers and some unscrupulous grocers will tell FALSE-Pearline is never peddied ou, as good as' or “the same as Pearline.” oy Btocer seads send 1t back. M0 JAMES PYLE, New Yoik, in the Hills was virtually Sonsummated ves- | measura tivonty feet in diameter. The grove has probably been saved from completo ox- Uinction by a dense grove of sugar pines around it, The overturning of the Yosomite stage one day last week is notewortny simply for the extraordinary cause of the accident. A swarm of hornets suddenly descended on the four horses as 1t rounaed Inspiration Polut,at the entrance of the valley, ana the leaders jumped over the cliff and wers strangled, while the stage was upset, ana the three men on board were all injured. A huge octopus, or dovil fish, has beon captured outsido the Golden Gate, Califor- nia, by some hshermen. 1t measured four teen feot from the end of the body to the ond of the longest tentacle nua has eight arms, and, 0s is usual with the fish, there are ovor S00 suckers on tho arms. The body is nothing but a nuge sack, and is soft and flabby : itis about two feet long. There are two eyes, about an inch in_diamoter, aad a faint resomblance to a beak and mouth. This spocimen is one of tho best in the oountry and will bo preserved and seut to Chicago for exhibition at the exposition. - Disease never successiuiy attacks tho sys- tom with pure blood. Do Witt's Sarsuparilla makes pure new blood and onriches blood. —_— The Westfield Union County Leader, N. J., wdependent in politics, has como out with an able and complimentary editorial, nomi- natine for governor of the state of New Jersey, Chuuncey B. Ripley, Lit.D., LL.D., commending him for the suffrages of the voters of his adopted state. Dr. Ripley is identified with improved pubilo roads and with advanced education; and in theso re gards has a natonal reputation. Ho1s ono of tha largest farmers in tho state of Now ersov, and is said to have a herd of the handsomest cattlo in the United Statos. —_— take pleasure 1n recommonding Cham- berlain’s Colio, Cholera and Diarrhaa Rem- edy,” says Geo, C. Bankston of Mill Creok, IL - “uis tho best medicine I have ever used for diarthaa, One dose will cure any ordinary case.”” For salo by druggists. Britee it Henry de Rothschild, a 19-year-old scion of the famous family, and who 1s sot down as heir to more than 50,000,000, is at Saratoga. Surely his family guardians must have been in blissful iznorance of the winning wiles of the city of wicked waters, to trust such a prize within reach of 1ts temptations. These Qualities By the most elaborate re- searches, careful study and costly experiments Dr. Price has been enabled to give to the world the purest, strongest and most economical natural and delicious fruit flavers in from all pois- onous oils, ethers or artifici. essences. Itis these qualities thathave created such a great demand for Dr. Price’s De- licious Flavoring Extracts of Lemon, Vanilla, Orange, etc., flavors that retain all their delicate taste and freshness for an indefinite period. existence; fre HEALTHFUL, AGREEABLE, CLEANSING. For Farmers, Miners and Mechanics. A PERFECT SOAP FOR ALKALI WATER, Cures Chafing, Chapped Hands, Wounds, Burns, Etc. A Delightful Shampoo, WHITE RUSSIAN SOAP, Specially Adapted for Use in Hard Water PROPOSALS FOR PAVING. Sealed proposals will be roceived by the un- dersigned until 1:30 o'clock p. m., September 20, 1802, for the followling kinds of paving mate- rial, viz Sheet asphaltum, Sioux Lalls or other zranite, Colorado sundstone Woodrufl, Kansas, stone, and iing to specifications, Vitritied brick, Allncc For pavinz purt of the following streets in the city of Omil provenient districts Nos. 4 bt 1ered improyed by ordinu 25, 144 5245 und 5245, and more particulariy doseribed s tollow No. 410 feot of lot o the all No. 47 to Spenc 'he strect lylng east of the west 26 7. block 246, eity. from Pacliic street south of Pacific stroot 'wenty-lirse streot from Wirtstroet rstrect. No. 4T5—Douglus street from the west e of 16th street to the east line of 20th street. No. 470—Seventeenth street from the north 1ino of Furnam street to south line of Dodge suroet, No. i83—Grace stroot from thoe west line of the b Bult rallway's right of way (o tho east line of the Chizugo, St. Paul, Minneapoiis & Omaba rallway’s right of way! Guch bid to speclfy a price per square yard for the puving complete on each street in sald {mprovement districts. Work to be done in ue- cordance with plans ana speelfications on file in the office of the Board of Fubiic Works. Linch proposal to be made on printed bianks furnisbod by the board and Lo be necowm punied by a certified check of $1,000 payable to the clty of Omuha. as wn evidence of good fuith, The board roserves the right to wwird the contract on all the said districts together or on each district separately, subject to the se- leotion of the material by’ the broperty own- ers or the mayor and city council, toreject any or all bids, una to wuive dofects, PoW. BIRKHAUSER, Board of Publie Work: Omauba, Septemver 12uh, 15 S1215-14 NOTICE TO SELECT MATERIAL FOR PAVING. To tho owners of lots and lund feoutiug upon streo lmprovment distr.ets numbered und aeseribed us follows: No. 476—1he street Iying east of the west 26 teet of lot 7, block 246, eity, from Pacific street 10 tho alloy south of Paclfic streot No. 417215t streot frou Wirl stréot to Spen- cer streot. No. 47a—Douxlas street from the west 1ine of 16tk struet to east 1ine of 2th street, th street from the norih lino of oot to south ine of Dodye strect. No, 4Ki—-Grage strovt fFom the wost 1ine of the Omubu Bolt Ry's right of way to the east [1ne of the Ohicugo. St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omahs By's Fizht of way and subject Lo asscssuient fOF tho Puving OF Fepaving of the Sume. You are hereby notified in pursuance of or- dinunces Nos 255, 5244, 8245 and 4240, passed and upproved September 6th, 180 Lo seleot d deterniine uboo the kind of muterial to be d in paving sald improvement distriots on or befors the 6th day of October, 1892, or the oity couneli will determine suid ‘matorial, 1t shoot asphaliun is petitioned for by property owners, they must state In thelr potition for paving, whother pitoh luke, land or overflow, or Oulifornia usphult is to o used Dated ut Omaha, this 1:th duy of September, 1602, W B USE (6, Chairman of Board of Public Works, s0pL 12-16-14 Chairman of the Poundmaster's Notico, akon up. two bay boracs, welght a' out 150 or L, on ikie sth day of Beptombor. 1t ‘hot redoemed wiil be sold at publio auction on the 10th duy of Seplember at 10 a. . ab 2118 Loaveaworth street. JOHN SPOERL, Poundw aster. 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THE ALOE & PENFOLD D, 114S. 15thSt., Creighton Block. g el e 5 TABULT p B o, e, smllow ¢ o reauting taapure bloc Y, cx i ¢ A v o celinon to perform theit propr 1 [ et e ekt Uy il oneniic i1 1 o b/ AMUSKEMBNT NEW BOYD'S 1) i¥um. 4 nights commencing Sundny Septembor 11th WEDNESDAY MATINEE, The Estublished Comedian JOHN T. KELLY Assisted by Florrie West, Mattie Vickers and others, IN THE MERRY ECCENTRICITY, McFEE OF DUBLIN. Written by Charles T. Vincent und John Kelly NEW 22%%%s NEW goRgsaces Seatsgoon sale Saturday iing ut usual price PARNAM. Sy THEATER. it One week commenc| Sunday (Matinee), ptomber 11, MET'S GIEAT PLAY, of New York nt of Mr. Harry Willlwms, Kl scanory ! DOn't rall 1o u lirond Bridgo scons! On aecq of Barnum's 5 the midwook matines will placo on Thursday lustoad of Wednesduy now on sale, * WONDERLAND--BLJOU THEATRE, 16th and Capitol Avenue, Week of September 12th DRAMA-FOGGS FERRY. clalty 1:15, 4:9), 7:15 i KATie The Waifs Undor the Apowarfal ko Boats CONTINUOUS SHOWS, CURIO HALL FREE THE EVANS, The Hot Springs of America, Hot Springs, Btriotly First Ite, Now ‘able n Spo. Of §onson. lvery Evenlugla th ange Hath | Mouutaln Boen Climate, Mosqult above the Sea. outh - Dakota ot Sprins aro attracting stienton all ovor the world. are ourlug » larger perceniako Lhau any sorio fitho U8 Yyorrodi! DAt & otior 1o ormadl on, addre 0. 5 MART Hot $prings, South Dakots D, Hotel Koo Fioest Ros Cluws L Open. Al clalty. i Orlie P Yo Beautitul « !Qflr;mi! JS(QY«SAWA CL, P \/eve bib usi right sgasrrogrrd H)(zvls/im?r;:l‘sfi;’fl“; ! sayjistas longas | Kip ¢it it fur'e ?flu Wont pester me. abcg‘fi éi :rtam I eep wa. A itl n??u'l,'];"@fif.‘é’w‘,l' 7"?:’7‘)‘ ,;m? [ IF YOU EVER SUEFERED FROM Indian Depredations If you are In position to take advantage of the laws re- fating to PENSIONS you have taken up a piece of Public Land. If you have made an invention on which you desire to secure a Patent You should communicate with the Bee Bureau of Claims The object of this bureau is to give every person holding a legitimate claim aguinst the government the advantage oa residence in Washington, , whother helive in Texas or Alaska It does more than that. Nine-tenths of the population of Washington would be helpless if asked how to go to work to secure their rights through the depart- ments. THr Bee Bureau of C.aima gives the advantage, not only of per- sonnl residence, but of thorough famil- fuiity with a | the machinery of the government. 1t offors Absolute Security. You do not know whether the averaga Washingtonclaim agentwill cheat vo oy not, although on general principles you would naturally suppose that he would. But you know that the San Francisco Examiner, the St. Paul Pio, neer press and the Omaha BEg cannoy afford to cheat you. They guarantes this Bureau, ana their reputation is staked upon the honesty and ability of its management. The bureau employes attorneys who are Expert Specialists for each of its departmonts, Its Indiun deprodation casos ure care- ully worked up, with all th evidencs required by law, and argued before the court of claims in such & manner us to bring out mosy favorably all the osson tial points. Its land cases are handled in strict no- cordance with the rules of the Genoral Land Office, so that no deluys or com- plications ensue in the orderly settlos ment of the claims, Its patont cases are 80 manazolis o insure the utmost possible benelfit Lojthe nventor, by giving him the broadest protection his ideas will justify, Its pansion cases ave disposod of with the least possible delay und expsnse to the veterans Don’t refrain from consulting the burenu because you are afraid of the cost, Its costs nothing to get information, Ask as muny questions as you ploise, and they will bo answered promptly cheerfully and accurately, withoup charge. ——THE —— Bee Bureau of Claimg Room 220, Bee Building, Omaha, Neb,