Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 31, 1893, Page 5

WESTERN MINES AND FIELDS A 22-Inch Vein Running Over $400,000 to the Ton, FABULOUS STRIKES IN CRIPPLE CREEK Teackinying sn Negan at Matte — World's P Shearing Contest—The Teten Country—Decline of Comatook ~Occldental Haps, The best strike ever made Creck is reported by the Gold pany, which owns the Rhinoceros and Nil Desperandum mines. A vein twenty-two anclies thick has been uncovered twenty-two inches boneath the surface from which a sample mill run ga 700 ounces gold 10 the ton. The properties aro being worked under an eight months lcaso by Messrs, Banders, Dahl, Morrill and Banatta. They will ship a of this rich ore next week Another phenomenal discovery mude by tho Pharmacist in a cross vein in the second lovel. The pay vein is twelve foot thick, with & high grade seam runuing through it from cight to ten inches thick. A five-pound lump taken from this seam ran 806 8.10 vunces gola, or $8a pound, Minimg Prospects Around Laramie, We all know that gravel 18 worked in Cal- Ifornia at the presentday at 8 eents a cubic yard, said an old-time miner to a reporter on the Laramic Republican, and parties are known to be working the gravel at that re- mune; aying 870 a day for water alone, yet in eightecn months paid for all their plants and cleared a profiv of K000, This is an illustration of what can be done in placer mining. Tako for instance the placers on Douglas crock, which aro now idle for want of money to work thom Hore 1s o stream of water running 100 cubic feot por sccond at low water. These placers have been worked at times since 1860 and have averaged to the man who has worked daily from six _ to eight hol botween $3.50 and §1 a day. In1 pare; consisting of men from Montann, Idabo, Utah and Laramie startod in to a paying basis. Thev started in on Douglas creck, a milo below the Home, put in a flume and blasted out on the side of the hill 4.000 feet of solid rock, when their money gave out and they were forced to sus- pend work. About $5,000 was spent there. One of the men went 1o Fort Collins whoro ho died. It was demonstrated satisfactorily 10 all concerned that these placers worked por cubic v This valuablo property is now lying idle for want of a fow thousand dollars fo clean out the old flume, lay pipes und ao n preliminary worl. Lately, 1 1t know, 4 quartz lead has been founa o barren mountain at the foot of the Medicine Bow range. At the bass of the mountain is a large stroam of water sufficient to run a 200-stamp mill,and the ore runs by ussay into the hundreds of doilars Other prospects in the mmediato vieinity nll show free gold. Bight miles northwest is Hermao, where ther of low grad the near future will surol o Prospects - have ulso been fou tween Dutton creck and *© One-Mile having as many as twenty-three colors to the pan. On the gravel mountain line be- tween Three-Mile and One-Milo and between Rock creok and Foot creck aro prospects which have been pronounced by competent experts to run from 15 to 20 cents per cubic yard. Rock creok is fo W sixty feet wwide, has a depth of at least two fect, flows at the rate of 120 feet per second and has a fallof at least 300 feot per mile, and as water s wcluded in theso claims frec, it is easy to wash 6,000 cubic yards in twenty- four hours at an expense, perhaps, 0. Suppose it should average onl sents per cubic yard. This would bo & and if you deduct ns0s thero is left a profit of $242. v as the gravel in the mountain is con- cerued it hus been worked for tho last twenty-fivo years off and on, but the poor miner has been kept away by the cxpense in carrying a ditch out of Rock creck to bring the water to the gravel. These claims are now in the hands of good partics and ought to result in sometiing which will be of per- wanent benofit to Laramie. Tracklnying Begun. Twonty-five carloads of rails, together with tho necessary bolts and fasteners, for the Butte, Anaconda & Pacific road, arrived from St. Paul and are now lying at the Great Northern depot at Butte ready to be put to the use for which they are intended. Ono carload arrived earlier, making twent carloads that are now on hand. Tho work of tracklaying will menced at once and actively pushed. Two hundred men and about forty teams com- menced work at the Moitana Central depot_grading for the connection with the Butte, Anaconda Pucific con- nection, Two trestle bridges will bo built from the end of the Great North- ern rond across tho old placer diggings to the point where r tho new road ends. The first bridge, v will be onst of Main strect, will b t long, but not more than six or eight feet high ‘at the highest point. The other bridge will be west of Main street, and it will also be a long one. Work has o been commonced on be put to With the in- fn Cripple Mining com- carload is that bo com- every day from now on, od employment which the new railroad and with the Boston & Montana and the other big copper properties runuing at their full capacity, the financial outlook in Butto is a good deul brighter than it has been for some time. Laramio Man Wi Theo sheep-shearing contest for the cham- pionship of the world took plfice at the World's fair in Chicago tho other day, says the Laramio Republican, and the victor was Frank Hewitt of Laramie. It is understood that by his success he is the winner of nearly 3,000, There were in reality two contests, it1s understood. The contestants wero to shear 100 sheop, and if one of them made better time than a patent sheariug muachine he was to receivo §1,000. Asido from this, the man who made the best record among the shearers was o receive $1,000. Both these prizes wore won by Hewitt, and several wagers whioh he is known to have made will bring the total of his winnings up to about 5,000, Hewitt had seventeen ontrance monsy of each being $100. The léading man whom he had to contend against was from Australia, and it is undor- stood that the contest was very close. Sheep shearers consider that a_great pomnt has been gained by defeating the machine. Hewitt sheared his 100 sheep in 8 hours and # minutes, The Switzerland of Amerlea, Civil Engincer W. . Owen has just re- turned to Laramie after exploring and sur- veying the country immedia south of Yellowstone park. He talks fu glowing torms of that district, and says it is the Switzerland of America, and is the paradise of the hunter and fisherman, Among other things Mr. Owen had the following to say in the Laramio Boomerang of his trip aud the country *'Parties of tourists are beginning to pour into the Tewn country. The beautias of that country are entrancing and gawe is abundant. The days are warm and ‘the the nights cool. There are no exasperaling insects to make lifo a burden to man or beast. Ho savs they saw 10,000 olk in bands of 50 or more while they weve there. The streams are full of trout and the Indians are slaughtering the elk and other game in great numbers, sitply {or their bides, and the governwent ought to do something 1o protect the game. When Mr. Owen loft surveyors for the ton and Uwmon Paciflc had just reuched the Teton country. The Burlington surveyors were hoaded for the south line of the National park and the company expects to compete with the Northern Pacitic for the tourist travel. This is also the ovject of the Union Pacitic. The latter is endeavoring to Hud a feasible route up the Snuke river. The Oomstock Drooping. In the days gone by when the Comstock wy roll s million a mouth, und the world was ransacked. for diamouds la swough for mining superintendents; in i fays when champagne baths wore Common At Steamboat Spriugs and Booth played in Piper's opera house, the wan who predicted v competitors, the THE OMAHA DAILY BEE that the president of the Savage would ever | to & vote, aad the old prineipal will continuo work for §195 a month would have been Ariven from the slopn of Mount Davidson, if not off the face of the earth But that last awful crushing blow has come, and there is talk of rotrenchment and reduction all along the line, says the Sim Francisco Examiner. The wonderful Comatook Inde, that intro- duced silver kin to the old world. made Pine and California_streets a gambler's pandemonium, that built half the fine blocks in San Francisco, that paid $100,000,000 in dividends from one mine and eat up nearly a8 much in asscssments on others, that has always paid miners 8 o day, and enablod superintendents vo drive trotters, that has astonished engineers and taught the whole world how to bore holes in the ground, has fallen on evil times, and is soon to un- | dergo a revolution. More than twi though the the earth, and left only from lic has d and there iy The Comstock is rapidly golng the way of Pioche, White Pine, Boaie and all the other famous camps. Of the men who have worked thero for wages, some in once place for more than twenty years, not one has got a dollar to show for his toil. True, the Mingrs union has always kept the pay at $4 o day, an no Chinaman has © done a day's work in Washoe county ut any lab t washing and peddling, but theminers, as & rule have nothing to show, What is the use of reducing the mon's wages?” asked A mining magnate in 1 'Sure, the boys wouldu't be able to pay their assessments if we cut down their ity-five years of digging. / have only made moletracks in exhausted the ri the bare bones of the mines d Hill to the North End. The pub dod to pay assessments no longer, nothing left but hard work and pa, "Fhat has been the socret of 1t all Every miner bought stock, and it was always re- garded as next door to treachery to the lode 10 sell a sharo, Five or six years ago with Confidence at 452 a share the foreman of that mine could have sold out his holding for $65,000, and he had been digging there for twenty-two years. He got as faras tho broker's off but thero his nerve came back, and remar! g, “I'll hold her for $500 a share,” he went away. Next woek the stock was down to one figure. Now it is probable that there will be a re- duction all along the line, though many of the managers wish to leave that till the very last. They ave saying: *‘Let the rail- road, the water; tho mills and wood come down first.” If the men’s pay was cut down 25 por cent it would only save the lode about §2,200 u woek, the big expenses bemg for timber and hauling supplies, The clay of the Comstock grows when the air and moistnre reaches it, and a timber 18x13x48 will in a very short time be compressed 1o the size of a baso ball bat. That makes coustant renewing neces- sary, and as the forests in the Sierras are destroyed the expense daily incroases. “The mills, once supposen to make 1t all, have nad but little profiv lately, for only a small amount of ore is mined and with silver at next to nothing tho outlook 18 dubious Oro assaying 20 a ton will not pay now. The rail and mill take $6, the dead work and mining 86 and the oftice expenses and silver about the balauce. st cut came last week in the Savago at the annual m 2. “Tlie superintendent of the mine, who has been receiving $400 per month, was down to $2( ho president has been §250, was fixed at 31 tary had been receiving duced to §125, office was cut down from $00 per month to #100. These reductions were voluntarily mado in the interest of retrenchment. He_was ro- the Virginia Unearthed Treasuref The usually quiet town of Saratoga, Santa Clara county, Cal., is much wrought up over the reported discovery of a large smount of buried treasure near.Congress springs by a party of flve Spaniards, says the San Fran- co Chronicle. Their mysterious move- ments since they camo here & fow weeks ago caused such a feeling of curiosity that four or five men watched their movements. For several nights lights wero scon by the spies among the trees south of Congress springs, Crawling on their hands and knees they upproached and distinguished the men cngaged with picks and shovels in digging among the roots of a medium-sized live onk tree standing on an otherwise barren kuoll, 4 place that has been conspicuous for many years. Lookiug from tho veranda of the hotel there can be seen avhat appears to be an_opening In the side of the mountain, and n v guests have called attention thereto and inquired the cause. After watching the Spaniards for a time the watchers’ attention was called to one of the workers using a pick, who was heard to oxclaim and who began to gesticulate wildly, pointing to the place where his pick had struck something hard. All five then com- menced to dig at this spot, und their labors resultod in the unearthing of a decayed rod- wood box, which fell to pieces when it was movod, exposing a large awount of Spavish gold. The watchers inquired of the finders of cause of their searching in “They answored that 1 their possession an old Spanish map whicn they showed the watchers, and which had been left to them by an old Span- ish woman whom they had befriended in her old age, and whose death oceurred i Mexico soveral f The watchers not being. anish mouey, they were un- ablo to correctly estimate ‘the amount of money found, but say that taking American old as o basis for_estimation, there must have been at least $12,000 in thé box. After dividing tho money among them- olves tho Spaniards departed neross the Santa Cruz mountains, going toward Boulder ek, and the watehers returned to Sura- a. Tho next day o number of persons visited the spot, and upon close scrutiny 1t was discovered that the tree beneath which the treasure had been found was marked with a heart and a cross. A Carpet Worth Over 85,000, The longer a carpot is used in the coiner's department at the United States mint the more it is worth, says the San Francisco Iix- aminer. Wear and tear do not diminish its value. Yestorday a thick woolen carpet that has been on the coiner's floor for seven ars was taken up and carefully cremated. \o precious ashies were scrupulously gathe oved togother as if they were the relics of some departed saint, and by an elaborate re- fining process the government recovered 279 ounces of gold, worth 85,500, The metal had been deposited here' by tho infinitesi- mal abrusions and disintegrations of the yollow wmetal whilo g con- verted from bullion into in. Even the heavy gloves of the men who handle bullion are incinerated and tho gold is brought back to Uncle Sam's coffers. Even the smoke from the furnaces used for melt- ing the metal is made to reacliver the treas- ure with which it 1s trying to escape, and from the soot in the chimnoy cunuing little bars of yollow stuff are secured. The sweep- ings of the institution for the past year are now belng assayed, after which they will be sold to the hizliest bidder. In former years a8 much as 33,000 has been obtained from the sweepings of the local mint, and this will surely be up to the standard this year. At leust'so say experts on mint sweeping: May Have to Move Thelr Herds, Dr. Willlam Harris, whose ranch ana catile rango in Johnson county is at the lo- cation of the recent severe fire there, says that if the ited hill range has been burned over asroported that every one who has any number of cattlo in that country will have 10 move them this fall, aud this will include his herd. Ten wiles square of the KRed hiils country is reported to have boen burned over and thiis was the last range feed in that locality. Buffalo has been surrounded by forest fires to the southwost for twenty miles. The fire has boen burning severely siuce July 7. The fire at one time came down iuto the valley, destroying all of Tul- loy's flelds, pastures, fonces, corrals, etc., ou Poison creek, sud ' burning half of ' Her- ster's place, south of Muddy ocreek. By groat exertions the fire was checked, Nebrasks and Nebraskans. Tho Wahoo New Kra has completed its third year. A hundred binders have been sold at Platte Center this season. M. A Sawpson, an Elm creek hardware morchaut, bas failed becausé of alow colloo- tions. York bankers have just made up their minds to charge cuslomers exchauge 0o all drafts sold. Alma beople have beon divided over tho question of retaining the services of the school principal. The matier was submitted her deposits | to teach th o for another year. A Plattsmouth cow was attacked with hydrophobia, and after awfal suffering died of the disease. Mrs. William Guthman, daughter of Jacob Vallery, st., of Platismoutn, died suddenly at Oklahoms. There will be 860 delogates in the independ- ent stale convention, which will meet at Lincoln September 5. After a sproo lasting several days, C Wilson, & you £ Viegin county, lard down on his bed and die Victor Lea, & young Cass county farmer, was drowned in the Platto while seining. He had boon married but & fow months. North Platto has 810,000 electrio hghting bonds in the market aud bids for them will be received up to August 21. The bonds bear 6 per cent in crest, Work has progressed on building at Fremont to the stage where koystone has been piaced in the arch n entrance. The two Pattersons, well known Platts- mouth athletes, have arranged for race on their bicycles against a crack teatn of horses from Plattsmouth to Murray. The stake wili be 00, hehad a norn, Thomas Gray, a r Murray, cut a'hole in his _boot, tiesnake took advantage of the fact to bite him in the toe. Tom's life was saved only by heroic treatment. N. A and Wager Cornell wero triod at Rushville for stealing caitle from §. S, Cor- neil, a Sheriaan county farmer. The de- fondants clnimed they were permitted to sell the cattlo and keep the proceeds by verbal contract. The jury gave a verdiot of guilty, and the men’ were fined &35 and costa and have to pay the assessed value of the cattle stolen to plaintiff. 14 Paulsen of Arlington founa a tramp in his kitchen at 4 o'olock tho other morning and asked him what he was doing. The fellow informed Ed that it was none of his business. Upon receiving such an answer Mr. Paulsen collared the traveler, whore- upon the tramp drew u_revolver and_fired. The shot took effect in Mr. Paulsen’s left hip. The wound is very slight and will give him very little trouble. Lowis Irig, who has resided on a farm in Dawes county for some time, died Friday after a continuous sleep of three months. This case has been pronounced by the num- orous doctors to be tho most_peculiar in the history of medical science, and in fact one which™ has bafiisd the most skillful physi- cluns. Irig was about 45 yoars of age and always onjoyod good health, although ho wos a hard worker and very ambitious, and possibly it was this that brought on his long sleep, which finally ended his life. During the early spring he was out in the woods chopping and was overtaken by a blizzard and suffered & great deal. Shortly after this he went to sloep, and from that time until his death his sleep was broken but twico, although everything known to the medical fraternity was used without avail. During the threo montns he slept ho was taken care of by faithful and loving friends. He was kept alive by being fed with a spoon on milk and othier nourishing liquids, a8 it was impossible to get him to take any_food. When ho came to he would converse freely, but knew nothing about what had tr pired during his_ sleep, or, In fact, did know he sleptat all. Ho would sty possibly ten to fifteon minutes at a time, then without any warning would qui fall aslecp. He suffered no pain whate ‘fhe caso has prosented several new and in- teresting features, and will be thoroughly investigated. . Colorado. the government the over The local wool clip at Sagnache is going to amount to 200,000 pounds, of which 90,000 have been sold at Del Norte. The workmen of the Bessomer stecl plant at Pucblo are talking of forming a co-opera- tive company and opening a store. Mountain lions have made away with eight colts and arrangements are being mado for u grand hunt at Glenwood Springs. The first_shipment from the Pike's Peak lode, Cripple Creok, was 1,446 pounds and the smelter has sent the owners 76 to pay for it. A strike of bigh-grade smelting ore, run- ning 500 a ton, has been made 1n tho Alice, Yaukee Hill. The streak is reported to bo tive feet wide. ‘There is no truth_in the report that the mines of Aspen will resume work, paying the men $1 cash per day und $2 when the ore mined is sold. A deep shaft is being put down on_the Sternborger -tunnel, York district, Clear Creel- county. Somo rich leads are supposed ‘om 500 to 1,500 feet down. Threc ex-Pueblo policemen—Captain Me- Donough and two patrolmen—lefy a gold watch and nearly $600 in charge of a barber while thoy took a bath at the Mineral bath house, Pucblo, and when they returned ho was gone. 1t'was a barberously cruel bath, in fact in mighty hot water, to let them out so literally skinned. The Red Elephant Mining company has perfectod an arrangement with its miners whereby they shall bo paid monthly upon the basis of an average of the daily” quota- tions of silver. With silver at 80 they get £84.50, when ot 60 they got §03.50. The men agree that something is better than nothing. Tho basis of computation is $3 a day when silver is at 85, Thero'scems to be a smouldering fire of hatred burning between tho ranchmen and tho cattlemen all through this part of the Arkeansas valloy. tilomen aro from outside the state and send their herds here 10 pusture, turning them 1 the rango along the river, where th asily brenk into cultivated flolds and do great damage. Many of the farmers aro so exasperated at their losses that they are waging a bloody, though very quiet war, upon the cattle. Here and thore, all along the river, carcasses of dead animals can bo seen. The hides ara usually stripped off, making detection doubly aificult. The Dakotas, A Yankton paper says it present indica- tions are reliable the South Dakota corn belt will this year produce the largest corn crop ever grown on the same number of acres in the United Statgs. The Black Hills Stockman says South Omaha is making & moro earnest effort than ever before to seoure the handling of South Dakota range cattle, and her efforts in this direction are not in vain, Tha hot springs in the Big Horn basin are attracting many people. It is said there are about 250 peopla there now, and they report much benefit from the baths. It is sald that they are superior to the famous Arkansas hot springs. Besides being an extensive cattle-sh point, 2,000 horses have been crossed ub Pierre so far this year and driven o eastern points or disposed of. Other herds contain- ing about 1,000 more are now on their way from Idaho and Wyoming. The excitement over the oll find north of Stanley sull continues and 1n fact is grow- ing. One nighta number of men slept on their claims for foar some one would jump them. Already over 2,000 acres of Stanley county have been taken up, and if the ex- citement continues all the vacant land in the county will soon be gobbled. Grasshoppers are devouring garden stuft and flowers with a voracity lgnl, renders their presence s mutter of serious impor- tance around Yankton, They are natives and notof the migratory variety, but are possessed of robust appotites. A Pine street flower fancier covered his choicest collection with mosquito netting as & means of protection but the hoppers ate the uetting and pro ceeded to devour the floral dainties, The Pacltic Slope, Miners in the Comstock district, where 84 was being paid, have agreed to acoopt $3.50 Tather than lio idle. Because of tho prevailing financial string- ency the city council of Walls Walla has ex- tenided the time of tax delinquency 90 days. New rich placer mines have been discov- erod on one of the lrlhullr{ stroams of the Yukon river, a hundred miles below Forty- Mile creek. Four coyote mlrl were presented to the county clerk at Salem the other day by Otto Williams, and i returnyhe received a war- rant for §20. Hop vines in Chehalis county, Washington, bave never looked better in the month of July than they do this year. There are in that county 700 acres planted to hops. Rose mine, iu the Morango mining district, has developed a rich body of are on the 500- foot level, said to be the richest strike ever wade in this part of the country. Reports from the Slocan district say that 1o the Northern Belle six inches of ore have been struck in the lower tunuel at & depth of fifty feer. Lo the upper tunnel, at a depth MONDAY of 200 fent, thero is from eight to twenty four inches of solid Wipming ore. besides from two to four feet of eoncontrating ore It is estimated that £150,000 have been taken out of the placef’ mines on Sultan river, and yot one can#ceroely see where it has been has been worked Duvid Young and Shri Stratton roturned from the Six rountrd. They brought with them some beautifuk &ppeimens of quartz, abovit half gold, which ey took from their claim on the mountaid. Atid which would be Mcient to give almostvany one the gold | s Laura M. Uldon of Virzinia was last admitted to practice before the courts vada by the $upieme court. first lady to bo admitted in Novads. She passed a very creditable examination and was highly complimented by the judges from tho bench The recent gold strike made at the Virtuo mine, near Baker ( richest and 108t ‘extensivo rove ars. A chunk been taken out weighing thirty pounds, which is estimated to contain & 000, On ae- count of the extreme richness the ore is not run through a mill, but pounded up i large mortar, Threo large scows aro at Pasco for the plucer claims on the Hiver above that city The company which recently filed mining claims along the Columbia near Pasco has contracted for the purchasc of the land and has invested 75,000 in o now being made in O Chris Miller, the tramp o tho Chicago Times, who started out months ago on detail to make the circum- feronce of tho United States by dead-hoad- ing his way, will have rather an unpleasant incident to write up in connection with his experience in Seattle. He spent Wednesday night in jail, having been arrested for drunkenness. The opening for purchase of tracts of gov- ernment timber land in Lewis and Cowlitz countics brought a small army of land seck- ers, including a number of women, to Van- couver last Friday. About fifty camped on the sidewalk in front of the United States land oftice for throe days and threo nights, and on Monday the force was increased to about eighty. when the entries were made Somo of the ciaims are said to be worth $0.000. Thomas Weir, superintendent of the Monte Cristo Mining company. the Prideof the Mountains Miniag any and the Rainy Mining company as roturned from @ trip east, says that work will bo #he Pride of the Mountains and mines, and that work on the tramway from those properties is in progress. A tramy will also be put in from the Mystery ani Pride of the Woods, and plans have been made and contracts let fora concentrator with a capacity of 200 tons a duy. iscellaneous, being ec rpose of we From all indications Wyoming is going to be a gold-producing state. Sheridan county will ship £200,000 of beef to the eastern kots this ye: George M. Varnum of Denver has chased the Union placer claims at Creek, Wyo., for £10,00. It is claimed that 5,000 trout were caught in the Bix Goose croek in tho northern part of Wyoming last weck. Charles Hall, formerly of Leadville, is putting a twenty-stamp mill in at the Superstition gold mines, Ariz. The Fortunatus Mining company of Bald mountan will make a clean-up of a threo woeks run about the first, week in August, and very favorable results are anticipated A New York company is successfully working sixty dry washers in the Otter dis- trict, Arviz. It employs Indians at 7 cents a day. The rovurns averago 81,500 per week The gold excitement at Lander still con- tinues. What meagernews n bo got from the mining i is o the effect that the i arp Deyond the fondes dreams of the prospedtors’ The Yosemite Mining cémpany is working day and night on 80-cents-per-yard_dirt on South Boulder creck. Other placers in Boulder and Gilpin counties are also work- ing to their full capaeity. 'There is plenty of water. “The surveys of the Union T lington have reached the Teton country, in the northwestern part~of Wyoming, botn roads pushing work toeemplete a transconti- nental line for competition-with the North- ern Pacifio. j Henry B. Rule of Reno, Nov., reccived the following roturns from an_assiy mado yes- terday of ock from his mine recently dis- covercd this side of Peavine mountain Reno: $222 in gold, cent covper to the ton, A steer belonging toa M. Driscoll, living near Devil's Tower, worked 1ts way up to a canon until it got 1o & plateau wherd it could get neither up nor down. It stayed there for forty-Lwo days and then climbed down. It was very poor when it came down, but was alive and eating heartily in two days. The wool growe f Utah have met and decided to form a territos association, the object being to provide for the storage ' and shipment of the entire Utah wool clip next year. Henceforth the Utah producers will make the profits upon the wool instead of easterners, who have always jobbed it. Larly this spring two men struck what they claim to be a rich placer field on Bad Water, about 120 miles from Casper, They claim 'to have taken out 35 conts to the pan, but were driven out by high water before they could decide on the extent of the pay ground. They came to Casper last week and organized u party to return and prospect the ground thoroughly This season promises to be an eventful one in the history of Wyoming’s mineral devel- opment. The new gold discovery thirty miles from Laramio city is creating groat excitement. Other important discove are reported from various loculities prospesting is being carried on with matic determination which will surely re- sult in other valuable finds within & few woeks. In western Socorro county, New Mexico, the cow sand sheep men aro at war again, o herder named Eustacio Lobato having been shot and killed tly. Ho was in Water canon with soveral herders, when three unknown cowboys rode up and commenced shooting, & bullet passing through his body. It is likely this homicide will bring about 8 bad state of affairs in Socorro county. During heavy storms great quantities of oil have frequently been washed out of the oil well of Mike Murpheyani taken down the Big Horn river. Tho oil has often been noticed floating past Lander, and now some one, probably Mr. Murphey himself, hus con- ceived the idea of putting in u gravity oil b lino to bring tho oil from the wel to the ¢ rn Pacific, Thereis enough oil wasted ay of tho year to supply an ompire, it may be that some of it will now be pur- Rock George Morgan came in from the recent gold discovery on Bald mountain and re- ports the men at work on the tunnel drifting into the lead struck at the top of the mountain, They arg in about thirty feet and have struck mtact vemn of very fino ore, It is l.wmu.j;‘mur inches wido and is thought to be fully 48 ®dod as that at the fop ot the hill. The mill‘men at Denver are taking buc little ore how and none will be shipped until they are” in @ position to hun- dle i, i Hundrods of poople srrits. It is impossi ble to describe the good Hood's Sarsapariila has done me.” It will b of :aqual help to you. Padheliim i Tl Fireworks tomorrgw, Courtland beach. e The Gutered Mule, Washington News: #Did you ever see & ‘gatored mule? " asked Mr. William G. Thompson of Néw''York, who is on his way home, after's year spent in Flor- ida for his health. . ‘A ‘gatored mule,' as he is called in Florida, is one of that stubborn race which has been driven partially insane from an alligator, fright. In fact, while a mule will stolidly wait to be thrown off @ railroad by a locomotive before he moves, he goes into a wild state of terror ata single glimpse of a saurian monster. “There are hundreds of ‘gatored mules’ in Florida. To tell the truth, I helped to ‘gator’ one myself. How did it happen? “Well, I had been staying at Ocala some weeks, and finally agreed, with soveral friends, to go hunting in the south. About twenty miles from town we located upon a small stream abound- ingin game. After pitching camp I went aken from, sq littie of the ground | | #nd the pole remained fast. She is the | fic and Bur- | for a walk, and before ‘gator hole.! From the strong, musty odor which issued from it, I know that the owner was at home. “Calling my companions, 1 decided to capture him. Wo rammed a long pole into the burrow several times. Finall, we heard a snap like the report of a gu The ‘eator We tried in vain to puil him out hen some one suggested that we try our camp mule. We shouted The mule was led down to the hole, a chain fastened to the pole, ana then the frightened animal was started “There was a creaking of chains, & roar, and the elligator, fully seven feat in length, came out with a rush as the mule started on a wild run for the road. The saurian's teeth were sunken so deeply into the wood that he eould not release himself,and away went the mule, pole and all. Thealligator spunaround, hissing like a steam engine, but he held on, while the mule, thinking himsell pursued snorted and ran. We followed. Into the main street of Ocala flew the mule and his queer load. Completely exhausted, he was stopped by a party in front of the Postoffice. The ‘gator’ was dead. We skinned and stuffcd him. The mule recovered, but the sight of a swamp throws him into a perfect frenzy of terror, long found a had seized it. —— Busy peopie have no time, ana sens ble people have no inclination to use pills that make them sic y for evory dose they take, They have learned that the use of De Witt's Little Barly Risors doos not iu terfere with their hoaleh & 13102 naus: pain or griping. These little pills ave por, feet in action and resulte, regulating the stomach and bowels 8o that headaches, diz- ziess and lassitude proventel Thoy use the blood, clear tho comploxion anl one up the systom. Lots of haalth in shoss littlefellows L Fireworks tomorrow, Courtland beuch. iy COSTLY AFFAIRS. Some Figures Showing What Uncte Sam Pays for Luwmaking. The extra sossion of congress will take out of the impoverished treasury a big sum in cash, writes a Washington cor spondent. Though many of the expenses o} bl ationkl legislature run on dur- ing its absence from Washington, they jump toa maximum when it sits. To make laws costs Uncle Sam a pilo of money annually. The pay alone of mem- bers of the house amounts to 1,800,000 a year, and they get $130,000 extra for mileage. To help them transact their business they require a small arm clerks, doorkeepers,booklke messengors, ete. The 3 this force of assistants runs up to 000. This does not include the oftice of the sergeant-at-arms, which is a sort of bank, through which the salavies of the representatives ave paid. To run this financial institution an outlay of $16,000 more is needed. An additional $26,000 s for the support of the house postoflice, through which as much mail matter passes as comes into and gous out of a good sized eity. The number of Senators boing much smaller, their annual pay amounts only to $440,000, with an addition of 000 for There is an expense of £5,460 for cmployes in the oftice of the ce president. The offico of the seere- tary of the upper house, which does the banking and attends to much of the clerical business of that august body, costs $04,500 in salarics. s and messengers to the various committoes draw %163,500 The sergeant-at-arms, doorkeopers and other helpers get an aggregate of $118,600. There are further exvenditures of $30,700 for the docuwinent and folding rooms, $18,200 for the s postoflice and $18,000 for stationer newspapers, Tnis brief statement by no means com- prises all of the expenses involved in running congress. Among many other things left out, which are paid for out of the contingent funds, is the item pf aries for-the official reporters. These are the men who write out the reports of proceadings and debates which make up the daily publication called the Con- gressional “Record. There are tive of them on the floor of the house, whosit at a ta n front of the speaker's d i duty to report every word that is said from the opening to the adjourn- ment. Beingall of them rapid sten- ographers, they manage to tako turns. As quickly as No. 1 has got 1,000 words put down he holds up his thamband No. 2 takes up the thread, very likely in the middle of a speech, while No. 1 goes down to a roomon the floor bolow, whero heldictates the 1,000 words he has taken to two shorthand writers—500 words to one and 500 to the other. While tho two shorthand writers are copying off their notes quickly in type- seript, reporter No. Igoes buck to” his seat in front of th sakor’s desk. Meanwhnile No., 2 has finished his 1,000 words and held up his thumb to No. 3, who in his turn takes up the thread while No. 2 goes down staivs and dice- tates, and so'on until No 5 holds up his thumb to No. 1 and the business goes on as before. This arvangement venders it to have the complete type- veport of the hous soedings ready for the printer fow inutes after that body adjourns. It is tho same with the senate. Thus oach congressman finds on his breakfust tablo next morning o coppy of the Lecord composing & con pletd roport of overything that was said and done in the national legisluture on the day bofore. Theie skilled sten- ographors get $5,000 & year each. There are ten of them, and 80 it costs #50,000 4 year for the writing of the Congressional Record, the stenographers paying their own assistants. The print- ing of this interesting daily publication is done at an expense of nearly $150,000 annually. During the last fiscal year it used up 825,000 pounds of papor and 1,058 pounds of ink. KFor the titles and ornamentation on bound copies 150 packs of gold leat were roguired, valued at $1,009. Five barvels of flour wel sumed in the shape of pusto for binding, During the first session of the last con- gress thoe outlay on the printing of bills and joint resolutions for both house and senate was $71,880. During the two sessions 10,837 such documonts were presented to the house and 4,050 to the senate. Bills. have to be printed and reprintod at all stages of their progress, 50 that inasingle ono may have to beput into type a score of times before it bo- comes & law. AR T Nervous headaches promptly cured by Bromo-Seltzer—urial bottle 10 cts, NI eworks tomorrow, Courtland beach, e Special Kautes that Stauned Hi Harper's Baz “My dear,” said Mr, Foster, as he glanced over the vile of lotters by his plate at breakfast, I bave a little surprise for you.” The entire fumily became instantly attentive. ‘‘You kuow,” continued the smiling man, “of Finnyfire-Harbor-on- the-Sand, It is a beautiful cool spot— no mosquitoes—bathing, boating and goneral happiness. 1 quote from the advertisement of the Cuttlefish Villa, WHAT CAN CUTICURA DO Bverything that 1s cleansing, 3 lug for 1ho skin, sealp, wnd bair of infants and cblidien the CUTI- cusa RExkvies will do. They aperdily cure dtch snd bury! ecacuiag, cleanse Bumors, purify ¢ stare thé hair. ' pure, sgreeable, asd usiailiog. | which eaught my eoye the other day | Tha proprietor, my " love, advertised | ‘Special Rates for Children,’ and I forth- with wrote to him. Here is the answer, | holding aloft an envelope, “‘and if favor | able we will all go down-—" “Tomorrow,” suggested hall a dozen trosh young voices Whit, my dears,” said their mother, Imly, yot truly delighted Mr. Fostor opened the letter and read “Replying to your favor of the 1ith inst., [ would say that our regular rates for adults are $3 and 84 per day “Rather oxponsive,” intorpolated Mrs. Foster; *“but with reductions for the children-—" And,’ " continued Mr. Foster, slowly ‘special rates for children h," hummed the seven listene cely ablo to restrain their im ‘Special rates for childrer re- peated Mr. Fostor, soverely, * ‘&3 a day a each. — hore aro tnree things 1o, Trouble and moi Attle Barly Risers will lieso little pils w! act promyptiy. Th they causo no pain monev 48 they econ ST SATING — nd De Witt's thom for you. 1 tim, s il ible as will save you or's bills. Fireworks tomorrow, Courtland beach. }EADY MADE MUSTARD PLASTERS Wo wore tho first manufacturers on this Continent. Our latest improvement surpasses anything Gver beforo Produiveds. 150, 850y 30, Jor tin, Do sure to have SEABURY'S. " Ask or them spread on cotton oloth. SEABURY’S SULPHUR CANDLES: Provention 1s better than onro, by burning hese candles bad smells in hasements, closots, &v. arede oyed, and thus contagious discases are kept nways #iso usorul for expelling mos- quitos and irritating inseots. _ Price, 23¢. each. ‘To purify sivk-rooms, apartments, cte., uso HYDRONAPHTHOL PASTILLES which in_burning, disinfect and produch & fragranco refreshing an Invigorating, #0. por oS ol 10, - Solo Mannfaotuters, SEABURY & JONNSON, Fharmaceutical LN EW YORK. Chemists, VTfliciKcyslone Watch ~ Case Co. of Philadelphia, the largest watch ease manufactur- ing concern in the world, is now putting upon the Jas. Boss Filled and other cases made by it, a bow (ring) which cannot be twisted or pulled off the watcl It is a sure protection against the pickpocket and the many accidents that befall watches fitted with the old-style bow, which is simply held in by friction and can be twisted off with the fingers. It is called the and CAN ONLY BE HAD with cases bearing their trade mark— ¢ Sold only throughwatch dealers, without extra charge. Ask any jeweler for pamphlet, or send to the maunfuctwicrs, Tt & PHYSIGIANS SURGEONS sneci‘;nlisls CHRORIC, RERVOUS AND PRIVATE DISEASES Wo cure Catarrh, All Disonsos of tho Nose, Throat, Chost, Stomaoh, Bowals and Liver, Rheumativm, Dyspopsia, Blood, Skin and Kidnoy Disonso., Fomale Wenknessos, Lost Manhood CURED, an | all forms of WEAK MEN HYDROCELE AND VARICOCELE pe and wuccessfully cured. Mothod new aiid PREATMENT BY MALL u spe PILES, FISTULA, FISSURE, p Wwithout : Al olther s Call on or uddr I stamp. for Olreulars, Froe Book, on awiid Sympom Lu Dr. Seavles & Searles, *'HaA) S An Awhil Headache S CAN BE CURED IN 10 MINUTES DY USING Viclor' 5. Heqdache Copsl PRICE 25¢c PER BOX, Ask Your Druggist MANUFACTURED 1Y SERMAN & MoCONNELL, OMAHA, = NBE VITALITY zs ato. HCTELS, The Mercer. Omaha’s NewastHots!, Cor. 12th and Howard Streets 40 room ) por day. 40 roonrs $4.00 por day 0 rooms with bath ut 33 per day. Y0 roous with buth av#i5) per day. Modern W Every Hespeo Newly Furnishod Throughout C. 8, ERB, Pro! THE OMAHA EUROPEAN HOTEL. Otk Bireet aud Lexiglon Ave. Eight blocks from World's Falr FEne trance, Chicago, 280 roows—Special low rates. Take Jackson Park cablocars. B, Slloway of i Murray,' Maus: &or, ¥. E. Alexder, proprivior, RIME IN HIGH PLACES! It W not strange that some peoplo do wrong through ignorance, othors from a failuro to investigate ns to the right or wrong of a matter, But it is strange, that individuals and firms, who are fully aware of the rights of others, will por- sist in perpoteating frauds upon them, High-toned, wealthy manufroturing firms will offer and soll to retail mer chants, articles which they know to be infringaments on the rights of proprie- tors, and imitations of well known goods We want to sound a noto of warning to the retailers to beware of such imita- tions nud simulations of “CARTER'S L1« TLE LIVER PILLSY When they aro of- fered o you, rofuse them; you do not want to do wrong, and you don’t want to lay yoursell liablo to a lawsuit. Ben onkiin said “*Honesty is the best poli- ¢ it is just as true that “Honoesty is thebest principle.” Route - nsmtm ST. LOUIS AND CHICAGD W. L. DOUCLAS . 83 SHOE ndt'kie. Do you wear them? When next In noed try & palas) 4 Best in the world. $2.00 FOR LADIES $2.00 $1.75 FOR BOYS D31, an) gy I you want afino DRESS SHOE, mado In the latest styles, don't pay $6 to $8, try my $3, $3,50, $4.00 or $5 Shoe, They fic equal to custom mado and look z0d wear as well, 1f you wish to economizo in your footwear, do so by purchasing W, L, Douglas Shoos, Namo and price stamped on the bott; W. L. DC 1otz Newman W. Bowman & Co. Cressey, So. Omahn. New York Hospital TREATMENT, For all Caenls, Narnys, Private any Special Disaass. of bty MEN AND WOMEY all_other troubles troated CONSULTATION Svenson; S Carlson; I\ S, £tricture and at blo churges. Calionor address R SEYMOUR PUTNAM DOUGLAS BLOCKE, - OMAHA, NEB Cppositetluyden Bros. PROTECT YOUR EYES AnD sE Hirschberg's Nonohangeabls Spoctacles aal Eyoglassos. HAX HEYER BRO. f?‘s‘agavr:g«s:fi company. 18 e H DR. "] ? E R F w SPEC I.Ao;‘.i'&‘l' ‘ b PRIVATE DISEASES and DEBILITIES of MEN ONLY. Women Exclude 18 yenrs experience, Clroulara free. 14th and Farnam Ste., O N) CHRINTIAN COLI fn the for young women; locatid in Colum- Mo, Huibt Of SUALO Ui vorAlly1argo wnd commo - collent; eradusting cour s, Miale, Bloout 'JACKSONVILLE jemis, 83t year. Propa, Must A fort ity AtV akeat e Addres i ¥. BUL = MILITARY ACADEMY acraled Ut TAKY ACADEWY, L Wright, b rawall, lew YORK il Ol C. .Y, Notieo | Notioo 15 heroby glvi Con ) that sonled proposals will bo recelyod by tio moderato nt Millard, i new frame sehool bullding for distriot number 17 in- Miliurd, Nobraska, uaull July L, 1505, at 2 0'6lock D Plany i specificus Libns can Do seon at (he 0fles of the wrehirect, J. 1. Guth, room 516517 Pazton blook, Omi Wi ut the ofice of the moderator 1n’ Miliard Nubrasin. A certified cheek for the sun of K50 must weoompiny owon bid. The diress Lors Feserve Lhe Fight to relw or wll bidw JOUN NUNSTER, 117 SCHAT HISTIAN KAELBER, M iy10-21-23-2 truotorn Bram, Neb., July 21, 1893, ~Bids will bo re- celvad at thb bifoo of thia city clork until Augunst 5, 1893, al 7 0'ciock p. i, 0f sl 1o boro two six-ineh weils and furnish ¢ ot Cuok strainer-paints, sultable o i pipe ¥ the city of BIalr, Neb. Depth of wells from 100 oot 10 105 Siso Lo bo comploted by August 25, 15038, Plaus and spocifications on file at the office of E. J. Farr, water commissioner, Blair, Neb, Rikhits rosorved 1o reject wny wnd all bids. E. B CARRIGAY Jy21M10tA4 Oty Ulerk of Blalr, Néty