Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 4, 1893, Page 5

{ P o DOINGS OF THE WILD WEST A Ledge of Almost Solid Ruby and Native Bilver, ANEW EL DORADO IN WEST KOOTENAY Pin Mining Pays in Wyoming—A Square of Wheat Under Exhibition— Sold Part of a Rallroad— Gonernl Now Jack Henderson, an old prospector and minor, has Just roturned from what is known s the Seafoam district, about 100 miles from Boise. Horeports & big find on Sulphur ireek, near Seafoam. The strike Is in the “O. K." mine, owned by John Early of this city. Theledge is four feot wide, carrying quantities of almost tolid ruby and native silver. It is the big- st lodge of ruby silver, Mr, Henderson suys, that has ever been discovered. The owner of the Mountain King mine assayed some of the rock and 1t went $20,000 te the ton. Mr. Henderson brought somo of the ore in with him, and it is wonderfully rich. A small shipment of the ore w sent to Salt Lake, but returns have not yet boen received from there, When Mr. Henderson left they had taken dut about nine tons of this ruly silver ore. Bome Afty miners have rushod into the dis- trict to muke locations. Mr. Henderson has 8 claim, the O. K. No. 2, which is a continua- tlon of Early's ledge. In addition to this, Mr. Early has a number of other mines that show phenomona) wealth in silver, with some gold. Mr, Early will start for his mines in a few days. The new mine, the O. K., is being worked by two men, to whom Mr. Early has #lven a one-thied interest. He will proceed to Seafoam, and will pack some of the ore to Boise. He expects to reduce it by a new process in which he ie intereted. He thinks the new process will win. Seafoam is des- tined to be one of the leading silver camps of tdaho. v A Ledge of Siiver. One of the most surprising and sensa- tional finds yet recorded in West Kootenay was discovered recently in the White Grouse mountaius, on the divide between East and West Kootenay. Here, about fifteen miles from Kootenay lake, in a fine, open grass country, the wonderful claim, or claims, wero struck. Forty feet betwoen walls,such is the ledge discovered, and highly mineral- ized from wall to wal ssays from this tremendous body of ore ran from 350 to 9,000 ounces in silver and 55 per cont copper, with about §2 in gold. The country rock is slate and lime. the vein a contact one, the crop- pings of which can be traced seven miles and is easily visible at ten, ‘T'tus ‘new El Dorada is but fittoen miles from Marysville, on the Kootenay 1:ke, fol- lowing up Lockhart creek, and ubounds in cariboo, deer, grouse, and the rare white grouse from which it 'takes its name. The whole way from the lake to the claimsis easy und open and 1s most_favorable for a trail or wagon rond ata minimum of cost. Much exciteraent has been caused by the find, and already about seventy or eighty prospectors have left this place for the seat of the new discovery. Such an immense body of ore returning such magnificent re- sults is enough to give any ona prospectors’ fever. The names ot the discoverers ar James Black, David Gibson, John Noble and Robert Lockhart, and the number of claims thoy located wero seven; their names are Silver Tip, Bauner, Colby, Mammoth, Morn- ing Star, Copper King and Big Four, all of which were recorded in Ainsworth Auguss 1, and united under the name of Copper King €roup, the nama of the big discovery. An Old-Timer’s Views, Mr. Hurloy, one of the old-timers, has worked in Liacoln gulch for thirteen yoars, and beforo that wes six years on Spring sreek. Hohas alsobeen in Montans, but declares ho never snw such gold there as has been found iu Wyoming. uring all the time that he has beon 10 this country ho by mude his living by placer mining, and never a year has rolled around that he has not made & good cleanup. He says that ho has done fairly well this year, but that frost and low water had to bo contended against. Yet with the frost reaching down two foet in the ground lustspring he man- aged to “pouch out,” as he says, $10 & day. Ho has not been at work for two months, but_says that he will probably do something in the way of improving his property soon. Ho now has a reservoir, which he has been improving steadily, and which backs the water up 900 feet. He will probably do some work upon this in a short time. Mr. Hurley has bonded his guleh proporty to Denver parties, and should they decide to “buy it he will transfer his operations to an- other claim which ho declares is justas good if not better than that which he has been workiug so long. Rich Earth in Washington. CPeter Koontz, the pioneer prosvector in the Green river country, has come in from that mineral field, bringing with him speci- mens taken from the mine his party is de- veloping, which specimens assay from $600 to #1,000 per ton of gold and silver, the former motal predominating. For six consecutive summers Mr. Koontz and his party pros- pected the St. Helens country, and were the first to disc minerals of a quality aud quantity suficiently abundant o justify any_ considorable amount of development work. Last year the region of the “find" was made known, anda great rush of gold hunters resulted. Three parties in particu- far—the Maker party of Chehahs, Duffy's two camps, and the Koontz outfit—are doing a vast amount of work on their respective olaims, and are taking out ore in apundantly paying quantities, The mineral vein in each mine 8o far developed increases. in size and guality as it is followed furthor into the hill- side. Mr. Koontz returned to the mines, having only come out to secure a supply of proyisions. Tho mineral sp about midway botween this pla and Mount St. Helons, are also attracting considerable attention, They are soda springs, the priu- cipal one of which bubbles up in the center of & group of a half a dozen, and overflows the land to such an extent that fully an acre of land h mation ol Ingrodients ducing a bear up been hidden from sight by a for- the sulls of soda and other of mineral waters, crusting - strong the weight of a A Colorado Strike. Frank C. Smith, secretary and treasurer of the Whale Miping and Milling company, is in from the Yinkee Hill gold district. Ho shows a certificate from the Chamberlain sampling works at Idabo Springs which credits ore from the ten-foot shaft of the Little Clair mine with thirty-four ounces in gold and seven ounces iu silver to the ton The aiscovery was made last week, the ore sxamined baving been taken from' tho vein oy tue editor of 4 paper at Idaho Springs. The Little Clair shaft, in which the rich ore is found, is located on & small strip at the end of the Whale territory and has probably cut the Whale vein Iu the Whale mine the main shaft is down forty feet. Tho ore body widens and grows richer as depth 1s attained, which leads to the supposition that several veins merge or run together at the point where the shaft is located. A Novel Wheat Show. Modern science and the skill of the best farming talent of tho greatest farming couatry in the world combined last week in giving to the nations of the earth an ex- hibition such as they never bofore saw and which made an impression surely fated to bear fruit in lnter years and in other climes. Before the eyes of the forcign commissioners and Visiting newspaper men i square mile of ripe wheat melted away like suow before a suwmmer sun, and when noon came over 320 Acres of waving grain had been iaid low and stacked upin symmetrical heaps about one of the fluest and best equipped farms in North Dakota. The town of Larimore is unothing buta corner of the vast estate of N. . Larimore, whose acres number 16,00, of which 10.000 are sown io wheat. An avmy of men work in the great fields und reside in the hamles bearing the name of the proprietor of the farm. From the railroud tracks to the south lay the square mile of wheat waiting for the harvest. The slightest possible touch of frost the previous night had not injured the #rain, but bad given a hint of the necessity of action. The guests arrived during the night from Grand Forks, Gathered to see the attack, and at & word from Mr. Larimore, forty-throe self-binders, manned by 150 men, atarted from one side of the fleld, and with all the speed of the most modern appliances, cut great swaths and threw the in behind them in even and well-stacked rows. 1t was more like magio than reality to maoy of the foreigners, who gazed nmll‘numl at the work. Others, more accustomed to modern agrioultural methods, watched with approval for awhile and then went shooting or on a tour of inspection about the farm, ns their tastes dictated. In either case the visitors had a treat, for the prairie chickens were plentiful and the farm- ing methods & most interesting study. The wip to Larimore was taken after midnight, untit which time the people of Grand Forks entertained the visitors at the Pioneer club, concluding one of the pleasantest days of the trip, A Missourl Pacific Annex. 1t is asserted by projectors of the Yankton & Norfolk railway that eighteen miles of this roadbed havesbeen sold to the Great Northern, and the contractors now con- structing the Sioux Falls-Yankton oxtension of the latter road expect to begin ironing the new acquisition by September 5. The purchase of only eighieen miles of Yankton & Norfolk roadbed is interpreted to mean that J. J. Hill intenas extending his road in & more southerly direction to connect with the Missouri Pacific. The Great Northern extension from Sioux Falls will be com- pleted to Yankton next week. It is under- stood that Senator Pettigrew has tranferred his franchise for a rajlway bridge across the Missouri river to J. J. Hill, and that Yank- ton is to be made division headquarters for the Great Northern. Mrs. Bruin's Luncheon. A few days since Paul Pascoe, wife and friends took a day off and went berrying on the head of Four-Mile. Mrs, Paul hied her away to the head of the gulch, where she soon succeeded in filling her two-gallon pail with luscious raspberrics. Just than the circus opened and the fun began. A huge cinnamon bear had evidentiy been patiently awaiting her efforts t_fill her pail and, un- expectedly to Mrs. Paul, put in a sudden appearance, Mrs. Paul did not wait upon an order to g0, but neglecting her pail of berries, startod down the gulch at a 2:11 gait, her feet dislodging the boulders of tho glacial gra, turning a sharp corner she struck bod- rock and ono of the aforesaid prohistoric rocks went bounding over her form. Upon recovering her equilibrium she stolo a hasty glanco backward and beheld her bearship and family of eleven oubs_quietly lunching off the berries, the fruit of her patient la- bors for full six hours. Mrs. Bruin evi- dently believed in Jacksonian democracy— that to the victor belong the spoils, Wants n Game Warden., Henry Shafnit, of Steamboat Springs, Colo., arrived in Denver to confer with the state game warden in relation to the viola- tion of the game laws. He reports that the destruction of deer and elk in Routt county is something appalling, and that the casses are lying around the country spoiling and furnishing food for coyotes and wolves, Wagou loads of game, he says, are being slaughtered and hauled away, regardless of any restrictions the law may impose. The Yampa river country is about the best game district in the state'and the people of ‘hat country have taken considerable interest in preserving the game that the fine hunting might be prolonged as an attraction as long as possible. 1t is a camping resort and in- experienced riflemen gather there in the summer provided with big guns and shoot at everything in sight. Mr. Shafnit will ask that a game warden be placed in that district. Fear the Apaches. Members of the annual roundup party which started from the San Bernardino ranch on the Mexican line last week, report having encountered two bands of Appches in the Animas valley, fifteen miles north of there. One band was composed of fourteen bucks and the other of six. They were well armed and mounted. The two parties were seen on different days. 5 The larger band was encountered atthe mouth of a canon. Tho Indians, evidently expecting an attack, rode rapidiy up the canon. The roundup party, composed of thirty-five cattlemen, had their herd to- fulllor and feared a stampede if they fol- owed the Indians. Had they done 8o they would undoubtedly havo been ambushed and 4 heavy loss of life resulted. The troops under Licutenant Wallace, which have been camped in that vicinity, have been withdrawn, and the renegades from San Carlos are roaming at will unmo- lested. Unless prompt action is taken to capture or drive these Indians back on the reservation a raid equaling thatof Geroni- mo's several years ago is predicted by the frontiersmen of this section. A courier from the roundup brought tho news to Tomd stone with a request that the proper author- ities be notified. Nebraskn Fairs. Dates for fairs in Nebraska have been set as follows: Omaha Fair—September 5 to 8. State Fair—Lincoln, September 8 to 15, Adams County—Hastings, September 5 to7. Antelope—Neligh, September 20 Boone—Albion, September 20 to Boyd—Butte, September 27 to Brown—Long Pine, September Buffalo—Kearney Burt—Tekam Butler— 3 to 30, ptember 19 to 22, Cass—Plattsmouth, Cedar—Hartin on, September yler, Septemver 4 to Custer—Broken Bow, October 8 to 6. . Callaway Disurict—Callaway, ‘September 26 t ). Cuming—West Point, September 27 to §0. Dawes—Chadron, September 20 to 23, Deuel—Big Springs, October b to 7. Dixon—Poncn, September 12 to 15 Dodge ~Fr pLembor 18 to 21. Fillmore—Genev, September 19 to 92, Gage—~Beatrice, September 5 to 8, Gosper—Elwood, September 21 1o Hall—Grand Isl Hamilton—Auror Harlan—Stamford, Sept. Hitencock—Culbertson Holt—O'Neill, October 5 to Jefferson—Fairbury, Sentember 27 to 20, Kearnoy—Minden, Septomber 19 to 23, Knox—Creighton, September 5 to 7. Lancaster—Lincaln, September 8 to 15, Madison—Madison, September 19 to 23, Nemaha—Auburn, September 26 to 20. Otoe—Syracuse, October 11 to 13. Pawneo—Pawnee City, Sebtember 5 to 9, Perkins—-Madrid, Septomber 23 to 2 Platte—Humphrey, September 25 10 Platte—Columbus, September 27 o 29, Polk—Osceols, September 5 o 8. Red Willow—Iudianola, September 5 to 9. Richardson—Falls City, September 5 vo 8, Sarpy—Papillion, Septomber 20 to 22, Saunders—Wahoo, September 19 1o 2: Sheridan—Rushville, Septomber 25 to 28, Seward—Seward, September 26 to 29, 28, nd, September 25 to 29, mber 27 to 29, tember 19 to 22, Stanton October 3 to 6. Thayer—Hebron, Sepu Valley—Ord, Septemb Lo 3 Wilcox District—Wilcox, October 4 to 6, Washington—Blair, September 25 to 29, Wayne—Wayne, Soptember 20 to 23, York—York, September 19 to 22, ebraska ana Nebraskans, Hitcheock county republicans will hold their convention at I'renton September 30. A Beatrice man is negotiating for the purchase of the electric light plunt of York. R. Gilbert, an aged resident of Pawnee Civy, fell down a cellarway and broke his arm. A. Mekin, a farmer near Brock, became in- saue from the effects of & sunstroke and was sent 10 an asylum, IMire destroyed McCafferty’s barn at O'Neill, and a" team of horses and a pouy perished io the flames. One thousand people attended the Hay Springs firemen’s tournament last week, and Iushville won the hose team race. Eleven children with their families at- tended the silver wedding anuiversary of l{lou. aud Mrs. A. Zimwerer at Nebraska City. The Sons of Veterans of Papillion will give o grand ball during the county fair for the purpose of raising woney to buy paraphor- nalia, ‘The twenty-third apnual meeting of the Loup and Elkhorn Baptist association will be heid in Norfolk on Septembor 25, 29, 80 and October 1. The fifth convention of the Christian En- deavor socleties of Cass county was held at Avoca und there was a large attendance from all the towns in the count, H. A. Gurinlan, an Armenian joweler of Holdrege, was taken bofore the Board of In- sanity aud found Lo be suffering from a wild THE OMAHA form of insanity. His brother from Chicago will endeavor to take him home with him. It is thought n change of scene will bring him around all right. A Perkins county farmer has discovered that thirty drops of carbolic acid in three gallons of water, given to hens or hogs in their food, is a sure remedy for cholera. The democrats of Hitchcook county have had no organization for four years, but now they propose to get into shape and a mass convention has been called to arrange for consolidating the party. Says the Lycns Mirror: H. L. Twiford of the resorvation brought totown on Saturday A sample of winter wheat of his own raising, which weighed at the rate of sixty-eight pounds to the bushel. Who says winter wheat oan’t be raised heret The residence tof Banker Chambers of Herman was burglarized the other day dur- ing the absence of the family and jewelry of considerable value was stolen, among which was Mrs. Chambers' gold watch, bracelet, pair of valuable cuff buttons and other good jewelry. 'The thief escaped with his booty. Pyle & Briggs, the Syracuse horsemen, have just lost (Gumbo, one of their most promising horses. Mr. Briggs was speeding him on the track, and had gone but a quarter, when the horse suddenly dropped dead. Gumbo made a record lnst year of 2:201, and this _year had paced a quarter in 30 sec- onds, and was giving vromise of becoming one of the fastest pacers on the turf. The 1088 is a severe one to his owners, W. E. Gleason of Hoskins has just sold his fine farm to . Wickert of Iowa for a handsome price, says the Norfolk News, Northeastern Nobraska lands are in good demand. The fact that the soil is unusually productive and good crops always insured in this portion of the state, is one that has not escaped the observing eyes of hundreds of farmers from other states, who are coming in daily in search of purchasable lands. Burglars broke into a saloon and_drug store at Hardy and made a rich haul. In the saloon they took about $200 in money and goods, including several jugs of whisky, cigars, clothes and about $40 worth of lottery tickets. At the drug store they secured some money and a quantity of perfumery, amounting in all to about §5. They had ovidently taken their time to the job, for in the saloon they had made themselyes sev- eral lemonades and smoked several cigars. Tue Dakotas. The state tax of South Dakota is 43¢ mills. In two big prairic fires north and south of Highmore, 700 tons of hay and a good deal of pasture were destroyed. Russian thistles aro getting so thick around De Smet *hat the newspapers are calling tor an organized effort to weed them out. One of the featuros of tho exposition at Mitchell will be the wedding of an Indian couple from Yankton agency, the ceremony to be performed by a native preacher. Tests of the wonderful artesian Chamberlain show the spouter to havea force suficient to throw a three-inch stream of wafer 175 feet in the air. The well is the largest in the world. = There are ten wells in Yanikton city alone, four of which aro larger than the largest well in Brule county, This county went into the artesian well business thirteen years ugo and has been actively engaged over since. One hundred and nine full depth wells is the number in Yankton county. Representatives of a colony of 200 families in Rockford, 111, have inspected lands west of Pierre on'the recently ceded reservation and have decided to have the colony locate upon these lands and go into farming and the stock business. The land opened for settlement botween Sturgis and the state capital is fast being settled up. ‘The people of Spearfish are preparing to hold a grand demonstration on the occasion of the entrance of the first locomotive over the B. & M. oxtension into their city. The advent of a railway, connecting with™ one of the great trunk lines of the west, is occasion for rejoicing in any city and Spearfish will probably be duly heard from when the Pproper time comes. Colorado, Ore from the Fountain, Turkey creek, in El Paso county, is running $15 gold and some copper. A lengthy lead carrying $160 gold and thirty ounces silver has boen discoverad near “Taylor river, Gunnison county. TLe committee of sheep and cattlemen which met at Parachute vhe other day failed to agree and trouble may begin again. At a depth of eighty-eignt feet the Blue Bird, Cripple creek, has a two-foot streak of high-grade ore runuing five to seven ounces gold. Six inches of rich ore like that m the Sul- tan has been struck in the Iree Amorican wmine at Duncan. Another rich strike is re- ported on Short creek. Mr. Callicotte, fish and game warden of the state of Colorado, will visit Elk creek soon, where he will distribute 15,000 rainbow trout in the stream at Pine Grove. {’ourteen miners are cleaning up the Col- umbus mine near Mancos, which w: cently sold to a Boston syndicate for § The four-inch pay streak runs $150. The potato crop is unusually large and of a very fine quality at Groeeloy, exceeaing last year's crop by 12 per cent. The ship- ments will probably exceed 5,000 cars. A set of tools weighing 1,000 pounds has been blown out of a 1,450 foot hole at Coul creck by natural gas. They were lost by the Colorado Coal and Iron company nine- teen yeurs ago. The Pike's Peak, Cripple cveek, is down seventy feet and has seventy feet of drifts, Forty pounds of the ore panned §350. Steady shipments will be made to both the smelters and their milis. T'he Holden works of Aspen were closed under an attachment in favor of Charles Graham of Philadelphin for $199,000, Losses in silver and general depression in business are given as the cause of the trouble. The United oil refinery at Florence is run- ning full capacity, 1,000 barvels a day. The Rocky Mountain refinery at Overton is run- ning 800 barrels a day. "The consumption of crude oil now exceeds the proauction, but there is a reserve of 000 barrels, Chlorination, which has proved 8o success- ful in connection with the big Homestuke mill, Black Hills district, is about to be in- troduced at Cripplo creek as an adjunct of the Roscbud mill. All the concentrates from the stamp mill will bo treated by the chlorination process und refractory ore run. ning from #40 to 0 per ton can be worked cheaper in this way than by smelting, Wyoml Major Schnitger, the fish commissioner, has distributed 3,000 fish in the streams of Ulnta county, John Cudahy, who lost s0 much money in Chicago by the fall in pork, has 10,000 head of cattle in Wyoming. The Union Pacific is only shipping 200 cars of coal a duy now, 100 cars less than it was sbipping this time lust year, The Bluo Jay and Eyostons mines of the Otras Mining company, were sold at public auction. They brought 3,030, They cost the company nearly $100,000. “The Sarton's ranch property, near Lara- mie, was sold the other day for $30,000, It includes 60,000 acres of laud, This samo property wus luvoiced in 1857 aud was thon valued at §700,000, A war between sheepmen and cattlomen is imminent uear Laramie peak at the north line of Albany county. Shoriff Frazer left Jestorduy for the scené. “The cattlomen for- id the passuge of sheep, Sir Peter Walker Bart of England has contracted with Colonel William H. Root to furnish bim with a car load of elk for his estate at Osmaston Manor, Derby, Englaud, The carlond s to consist 'of twenty head, oue-third to be male. There is supposed o be & case of leprosy 8t the penitentiary. It is Ed Fisher, sen- toaced 1o one year for grand lurceny from Sweetwater county. Secretary' Barber called at Laramie 1o inspect and Governor Osborne will come. M. W. Dillon expects to continue the de- velopment of his recent coal discoveries near Rawlius. He will drive a slobe on the four- teen-foot vein, north of the Union Pacific rallroad track. A test has been wade of the surface coal, which I)ruved very satisfactor! but no complote analysis will ‘be made un llu:nlmw is driven in at least 100 foot on the vein, well at Oregon. The 13-year-old son of Lewis Paddock killed a lyox nesr Vale last Friday which wmeasurea four feet from tip Lo tip. The estimated vield of hops m Polk county this year is 1,800,000 pounds. The quality of the Lops this year will be better than lust, DAILY BE The average yield will made up in nereago. op tiokets will be legal tender for the fi ek of picking. A Willamina man hae savented a hay pross that presses two bales at onoe, Itis a self- feeder and will bale straw as it comes from the thresher. Pendleton's talophon® subscribers are com- bining to have their monthly rental reduced from 5 to #3, on penaity of withdrawing their united patronage. The Orecon Pacific 6fice at Chitwood has been ordered discontinued, says the Albany Democrat, but the agent. refuses to discon- tinue until his back salary, h|<'lud|r|§ the old one, is pald. He continués to do business, ;r‘ul the company seems inable to get rid of m. N Thero Is a_curious . fooking car at the Southern Pacific depot at Corvallis, It was built at Chehalis, Wash,, and has made & trip to Dakota and back to Corvallis. It is one of six of its kind that aro scouring the United States in the bhotographic business, and in tho last six years their provrietors haven taken 25,000 dozen pictures. Sheriff Furnish of Umatilla county, found five horses lying dead in a room of an_unoc- ocupied house on his ranch. Thoy had been there for some time, and had evidently been placed there by some person or persons who had killed them. At least, this is the sher- iff’s conclusion, ns the door was shut and only one pane of glass was broken in the windows. Mr. Willis Brown of Bugene, has_recelved returns from the ocarload of peach plums shipped to Chicago. Seventy-eight cents per crate was realized from the fruit. This was fully 10 cents a crate above California fruit of that description on the same date, but was not what it should have been, as the railroad delayed the car on the route and some of it had decayea, The wild parsnip has taken quite a hold of the cattle ranging on Buck and Hiatt prairies. Nine hoad of fluo bovines have succumbed to the flatulent properties of the root of t! swool smelling but death-deal- ing herb. These cattie strayed to the herds of Barron and Butler. As the ground in that section is soft the wild parsnip root comes out easily, hence it is feared othors may go the samo \way. Washington, Vandals are shooting sheep on the ranges about Laurel. A Montesano man captured two sea par- rots at Westport, The Pomeroy Indopendent reports a shor- iff’s sale of 100 horses for §00. A New Whatcom mill turns out 70,000 shingles daily for eastern orders, Settlers west “of Custer aro building a bridge moro than 200 feou long over Califor- nia creck by donation work. less, but it will be The Simpson logging camps near Kamil- chie have closed down and about 300 men turned out of employment. This is one of the largest loggring co mountains, averaging 575,000 foet a aay. The body of Frank Switzer of Kaslo, tho last of the two men killed by the snowslide on the Freddiy Lee mine last January, has been recovered by his brother, It was in a porfect state of “preservation and showed Tt vk of injuries, - H. C, Walters passed through Ellensburgh last week with a carioad of ore from his mine in the Slocan country, which assay: #2325 in silver and £50 in gold to the ton. This is the first shipment from the mine and the company has plenty of iv on the dump. T'wo of Simpson’s logging camps at Monte- sano, employing about 100 men, closed dowh last Saturday evening, and it is rumored that the remaining two camps will also soon shut down for the season. There are now 16,000,000 feet of logs in the sound at Kamilchio which have been cut in Simpson’s camp. Several prospectors haye arrived from tho mouth of the American river with samples of sand running from $8 to '$14 per ton, Bill Tibb, the cook at the caip, came to Tacoma with some very rich samples, and reports those already ihero taking out ' from $3 to 84 a day with rockers. It is estimated that from $10 to $20 a day can bo taken out with sluices. M. Tibb was. among the first to take up claims on the Americanriver placers, and ho piloted in the first party.~ He has been prospecting since the gold fever days in California. —— Near Fuirhaven a fow days ago a cougar visited the house of a farmer.. The animal came up to the door, wvhich was open, and a little girl, who was alone in the house, saw it. She didn’t know what kind of a beast it was, but the cougar blinked at her and she says looked at a piece of bread she had in her hand. She threw it to the beast; it ate the bread, took another look at the child and quietly disappoured into the forest. When the child told her story an examina- tion of the footprints showed them to be those of a large cougar. Four men in a boat had an exciting scrim- mage with an enormous bear on Lake What- com. They werc on a fishing trip and were armed only with an ax and a pistol. They saw it swimming in the waver and opened fire. The boar made straight for the bow of the boat, with its eyes like small balls of fire and its mouth open wide. It seized the boat, tearing a piece of wood off the gunwale sev- eral inches in length; then dodging the blows from the ax that were direcied at him, Bruin gave the side of the boat a swipe with his paw, nearly overturning it. But Just then the pistol and the ax got in their work and the bear gave up the fight and the ghost. The carcass was towed ashore. ~ The Modern Beauty Thrives on good food and sunshine, with plenty of exercise in the open air. Her form glows with health and her face blooms with its beauty. If her system needs the cleans- ing action of a laxative remedy she uses the gentye and pleasant liquid laxative Syrup of igs. anies west of the —_———— COURTLAND BEACH. Large Crowds of Excursionists Swell the Gute Recelpts, Yesterday was the largest day, numeri- cally and financially speaking, that Court- land beach has enjoyed this season, excopt- g the Fourth of July. The Union Pacific railway brought into Omaha about 3,000 Courtland beach excur- slonists, in two sections, while the Elkhorn road’s special excursion train contributed another thousand, the Burlington adding 200 beach visitors from Plattsmouth, - Leuvenmark made his dive in the presence of 4,000 spectators who stood on the beach. His tactics, as usual,caused joers and shouts when ho made o mental survey of the dis. tance from the tower to the witer with ap- parent fear, but in due time he made his usual matchiess dive which was received with great applause and attended with char- stic success. he Bicketts gave their regular nerial ex- hibition. On account of the high wind Jes- sie Zelno only made ome balloon ascension, which closed the balloon contracts at Court- lund for the season. Leuyenmark closes .his third and last week tonight. S0 do the Bicketts. T'wo ex- hibitions will be given today in commemora- tion of Labor day. o Tomorrow night w\ll 20 fireworks night, and on Wednesday, All| Saints church will picnic at the beach while the University of Omaha picmo occurs Thursday, ana that of St. Vincent de Paul on Saturday, e m Busy people have no time and sensible people have no inclinatin 10 use pills that make them sick a dayfor overy dose they take. They have learned that the use of De Witt's Little Burly fisers does not inter- fere with their healthi 'by causing nausea, rllln or griving. I'hese httle pills are perfect n action ana result, vegulating the stomach and bowels, 80 that headnches, dizziness und lassitude are prevented..c They tone up the system. Lots of health in these little fellows. NEBRASKA FARMER PROTESTS Scheme to Open the Sand Hills Engineered by Oattlemen, HOW A THOMAS COUNTY MAN FIGURES De! ils of the Manner In Which Wenlthy Stook Ramer Would Crowd the Tioneers from Thelr HMard-Earned Homes. the TaroroRD, Nob, Aug. 81.—To the Editor of Tne Bee: Belioving that you have at heart the best interests of Nebraska and its farmers, wo would like toask the aid of your vaper in giving publicity to a matter which threatens to bring upon us considerable trouble. The situation is this: ‘The settlers—farmers—in what is known as the “sand hill region” of Nebraska, aftor locating hero and taking up homesteads, have mado for themselves fairly pleasant homes in what was a wilderness when they came. Bofore the farmors came the cattlomen held all this country and used it as a cattle range, but as settlers came in the cattlemen were gradually pushed back and have not operated in this territory for several years, and our present grievance is that the cattle men are now trying to get back here and crowd the sottlers out and make of this a cattlo range once more, after wo have suf- fered all the privations of frontier life and Iabored five or six vears to plant troes, build houses and otherwise improve and beautify the country and make of it a productive ag- ricultural region instead of a lonesome cattlo range. Naturally, we object. ~ The herd law of Nebraska provides that the owners of stock must keep their herds off of the farmers' crops, and the farmers neod not fonce their crops unless they wish to do 80, First Act of the Opposition. The first act of the opposition was to call a meeting of the settlers in the early summer t0 consider the advisability of trying to have the herd law changed, just in this county, so that farmers should bo obliged to fence their crops and the owners of stock be allowed to range their herds at large—in other words, a freo range. “The meeting was held and nothing dove, for out of a_large number of settlers present or represented, only two or three were in favor of the change, these two or three being men whose farming operations are conducted oua very small scale, and who mainly de- pend for a livieg on herding cattle for other people at 8o much a head per season. The majority of the sentiment was in favor of leaving the law just as it s, for there is no = timber growing in this county, absolutely none, and ail the posts for fencing, and, of course, the wire would have to bo bought outside and hauled or shipped here from a great dis- tance. All this would put each farmer to a heavy expense, and as building up a home in A new country 1s an uphill struggle at best, very few of the sestlers are financially able to fence their farms: besides it is just the next thing to an impossibility to construct a fence which will wurn range steers anyway. Barb wire has no terrors for them and if they sec a cornfield on the other side it just about takes a stone wall or aregiment of cavalry to keep them out, o, wo fear, if free range is permitted, the sottlers will be driven out of the couutry, their crops de- stroyed and their many years of labor and privation brought to naught, while their farms bocome once 1nore a wilderness and a cattle range. Not Easily Discouraged. As stated above, nothing was accomplished at the medting and so the few in favor of the change schemed around and managed to have a committee appointed to call another meeting in hopes, perhaps, of having enough of their sympathizers present noxt time to make it appear that. a majority of the set- tlers in the county was in favor of having the herd law changed. The second meeting was held at Thedford July 4, and the result was the same as be- tore—nothing done, only a committee ap- Eghnod to call still another meeting, and it gan to appear as though a waiting game was boing played, the idea being, appar- ently, to continue calling meetings indefi- nitely until finally such an attendance should be secured as would give an expres- sion of the sentiment desired and enable the matter to be railroaded through. The next meeting was held at Thedford July 27, delegates being invited from several of the 'adjoining counties, Logan, Cherry, Hooker, etc nd this time a new sensation was sprung when it was proposed to try and secure a change in, not the state herd " law, but the United States law, just in these few Nebraska counties, and g to each settler enough land, w addition to what he already hoids, to make him the possessor of one square mile of land, and then after this to permit the cattlemen or companies to buy all the r ning land trom the government, no one company being allowed to buy more than one township fu a place, they to fence all their land and keep the attle inside their own fences, thus relieving the farmers of the necessity of fencing their crops, nothing more being said about free range. Furmors Not Satisfied. On its face this seems to be a fair enough proposition, but the farmers are afraid of it, for from what they have observed of the ex- perience of other states they think it is im- possivle lor range tle and farmers to exist in the same territor; One or the other is generally ccowded out and unless there is some law like our present herd law to pro- tect them the farmers are usually the ones to suffer; and so, believing that it is more to Nebraska's interost to make of this an agri- cultural region than it would be to make it a cattio range, they, in self preservation, ob- Ject to any change from present conditions and view with suspicion all encroachments of the cattle men. There was some hot debating at the Thed- ford meeting on July 27, but as before no definite conclusions were arrived at, and the waitinggame was continued by adjourning the meeting, first appointing the usual com- mittee to call another meeting. Tv is said that two or three of our legislators are in favor of bringing about this chango and letting in the cattle- men, but the farmers have confidence to bo- lie that they would not favor anything detrimental to the agricultural interests of the state, and think that the matter has been misrepresdnted to them, A petition is now being circulated among the settlers, and when the signatures are secured will bo forwarded 1o the legislature, requesting that no change be made from the present order of things. Feeling is beginning to run alittle high on the subject, although trouble is not seriously feared, the other side keeping very quiet, excopt av the meetings, which are always called by committees of their own friends and which they are always careful to ad- journ before any decisive vote is taken which would show a majority of the settlers opposed to the chunge they desire. They thought perhaps to calch the settlers nap- ping and “trick” them into consenting to their wishes at the very first meeting,before they fully realized what was being done; but the farmers did realizo what was going on right from the start, and they are decidedly opposed to admitling the cattle companies and wish to ask the aia of your paper and its influence in shedding light'upon all sides of Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report. ol ° uu!o«ua’;‘;;dy. Bros Baki moShew 1s the only SPECIALIET Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE the matter, and then whatover s found to be right and for the best interests of Ne- braska we Wfll’llflb‘ acoept. A Fanwrg or Tomas Counry. ool ‘HIS FIRST NAME." How Sergeant Ormaby Was Cleverly Onanght on the Witness Stand. Police Sergeant Thomas Ormsby is an in- voterato joker, and is constantly springing some “‘gag" on his friends. Sergeant Ormsby sometimes has the tables turned on himself, but he approciates the joke the same asf it WaS On some one clse. Some time ago he acquired the habit of turning the laugh on story tellers by earnestly quiring, just as the laughing point came up: “What is your first name?” Not long ago Attorney Will Gurley was caught in this manner and an- swored the question by saying: “William ; arnit, haven't I been in this town long nough for evory one to know me?" The reply cost Mr. Gurley several cigars, and he swore vengeance, Some weeks lator on Gurley was defending a man whom Ormsby had arrosted on a chargeof larcony. Ormsby was the principal witness and Gur- loy's faco became illuminated with one of his most childlike smil he realized that the opportunity to “get even” with the sergeant had arrived. After asking the usual ques- he suddenly: inquired: ) “‘Sergeant v, what is your first namo The sergeant was caught and knew it, but he would not answer the question. Guriey ropeated the question a couple of times, and then turning to the judge requested him to compel Ormsby to answer the question under pain of being in contempt of court. The court did so and Ormsby meekly answered ‘“Thomas." . ‘‘What is your other name?" aeked Gurley. florson,” said the sergeant meekly, ‘‘Now please tell the jury what is your full name,” said the attorne; ‘Thomas Jefferson Ormsby,” said the wit- ness and the court was compelled to join in with the roar of laughter which went up as tho sergeant was excused from the witness stand. It cost the sergeant quite tidy sum o square himself and he is still laying for Gurley, T ey Thero are threo things worth saving— time, trouble and monoy—and Do Witt's Little Early Risers will save them for you. These little pills will savo you time, as they act promptly. They will save vou trouble, as they cause no pain. They will save you monoy, as they economizo doctors’ bills, A i ey Mormon Cholr Coming. Of the 400 Mormons who loft Salt Lake last week on a special train for the World’s fair, not more than half have over beon be- yond Salt Lake City; tho other half repro- sent the old pioneers, many of whom arere- visiting the east for the first time since they were driven from Missouri and Illinois in 1846, 1t is strango to think that tho weary, huntod pilgrims who toiled on foot across the plains to the Rockies forty-five yoars ago should now be returning in Pullmans to contest with the musical sociotics of the east for subremacy. The Mormon Tabernacle choir, 250 strong, will entor the lists against o similar number from Scranton and Cloveland on September 8 for a prize of ,000, and on the Uth they will assist In celebrating Utah day. They give one concert in each largo city enroute, appearing here at Boyd’s new theater on Sunday, September 10, in a sacred concort. AT COVERS A DEAL OF GROUND —Dr, Pierce's Golden Modical Discovery. 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