Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 25, 1893, Page 5

B . s [ PSS —— i\'flfll) RIVER'S COPPER F IELD A Monutain of Red Ore Golng Down to the Ketchum, Idabo, Smolter, ! i % | (0 BE REFINED AT SALT LAKE CITY | | Milions In Alaska Mines—Rieh Iron Ore | Finds (der Creek Gold — A | 81,000 Sugget—Weostern 1 Breviiios, The Wood river valloy, 1daho, unless all Teports ure untrue, is coming o the front us | a copper producer, and the big Philadelphis | and Idaho smelter at Ketchum that cost $1,000,000, the most comploto in Idaho, will | SUArL on copper ore Septembor 25, tho product to b sent to Salt Lake to be refined Tho first ¢ liscovor s worn made fin | that sction ot Idaho in 1389, on what is called a mountain of covper. A couploof | miners staked out claims, did a little work and proved 1o the satisfaction of a of and number chimneys of that ore showed on the surface indicated that vast ore | bodies obtained wi depth. Asido from tho assossment work, absolutoly nothing ks been done in the way of onening up these deposits save on the original four locations. On these tho time and work ex- pended has been insignitficant. A forty-five foot snaft i the docpest workings on the property. In that the ledge was cut at a depth of thirvty-five feet, oxposiug an {m- menso deposit. Crosscubting and shallow shafts at other points, as well as short tun- nels, run into tho side of the mountain, afforded tho basis for calculat ion that repr sent an onormons tonnage already expised, From the nature of the ground and tho formation it is argued that the ore can be quarried and 0t an cxpeuse not to exceod $1 a ton Due to the remotencss of the markot for copper oro and the lack of facilities for the treatment of copper ores conveniently near, owners of the claims were neither encour- aged in doveloping their properties nor justi fied in trying o market the product. ioc tion of ‘the big conper plant in Salt Lake City scrvod as an incentive to put tho prop- erties in a condition for shippine. Attention of big operators wa Franklin i necticut and p tracted. 11, 4 big brass founder of Con- ssidont of the groat Parrot company of Butte, visited the Lost River miuo a fow weeks ago. He was accompanied by Superintendent “Ben Tibbey of the Par rovcompany and a Cornish expert. From tho favorable opinion expressed vegarding the properties, local enthusiasm was kin dled. aud a sule av a big figure was consid- ered a foregone conclusion. Financial de- pression. is the explanation offered for tho failure to mako the deal, When 1t was learned a fow days ago that the big Parrot smelter and the company's two mines at Butte, that employed 500 men, were closed, therewas eaatae encouragy ment that something might be dc Colonel Sharp and his associatos, however, don’t propose to lose any time or advantage this season by awmting the pleasure of any body. With the prospect of a big demand for copper at the Salt Lako refinery the: plan to make large shipments of copper matte to that plant. Good roac's lead to the mines. Of the distance twenty-two of the haul can be made over the ga; vetween Kotehum and Challis, b supplics for Custer county are transported, and the balunce of the way. about fifteen miles, wonld be good freighiing. Contracts can be made to lay down the oro at Ketehum for §8 a ton. Cost of treatment would amount to £, and the same churge would be imposed for deiivering the matto in_Salt Lake City. Tven though the estimated cost of mining exceeded §1 a ton, as climed, there would be a profit in working the mines. Mountains of Gold Ore. William . Keller, formerly manager of the Blue Bird Mining company, returied to Butte a few days ago from Alaska, where ho hias been 1or some tume, in company with Phil Foster, & cngincer fornerly of this city, investigating the wineral resources of thut country. They went up there in the interest of an yndicate and the re- sults of the trip have been very successful and satisfactory, says the Butte Miner. Mr. Keller thinks thut the possibilities of Alaska are grent and that its mineral resources aro unbounded. It is his opinion that the coun- try will some day be ono of the ereatest mining districts in the world. Mining is carried on uow in some parts and the annual product of gold is consi ably over a million dollars, but industry opment. 'There are whole mountains of gold ore, bui of a low grade, and, instead of going down into tie carth for the mineval, winers simply have todia away the mount cost of such mining is smail, and therefor notwithstanding the low grade of tho or the results aro large. With improved facil. ities for handling the product, which will come with the further develovment of tho countr, ns on millions of wealth will bo taken out of Alaskan mines. 1t is prob- able tiat the syndicate represented by Mr. Keller will socure possession of some of the miles 2o road which all the still in the first stages of devel- mineral lands now in the course of develop- ment Alaska will some day b a great country through othe says Mr. Kelle resources than its minerals, Few peoplo realize the i wensity of that country, or that it fifth a8 large a8 the whole United As for game and fish, Mr. Koller hud seen the like. Tho mountaing deer, goats and bear. They Now Cbject, All mining men, especially among those who do the actual work, are not in favor of the proposition tlat congress extend the time for doing assessmont work on mines heretofore discovered for one year. The reason for making this request of congress i that tbe financial-depression venders it a hardship for many men who have claims to pay for the ussessment work. The propo- Bition that such work way be suspended for one year came originally from Colorado, and 2 bill. providing. for the susponsiae pae beon introduced in the senate by Sontttor Wolcott A miner who has spent sevoral seasons ut La Plata suys that many of the men who wero doing the uctive work in the mining amps _were opposed to the idea of doing a never are full of away with the assessmont work for any length of time. It was their opinion that the proposition was in tho in- terest of wmen living In towns who had clams and wanted 10 get out of paying for having any work done upon them, | *‘Thy miners,” “said he, “ure in favor of compol- ling ull assessment work 10 bo done. Thoy want to do the work and 1o receive the puy for it. To suspend such work would thice Just 50 much money away from them. “hoy endure the hurdships of camp lifo and worl hard and believe they ought to have us muck consideration as the man from town who merely goes out and locates a cluim AL a recent meeting of La Plata miners o petition was numerously signed asking con Kress to authorize the suspension of ussoss. ment work. Since then the men have bhaen talking the u ter over, and, it is said, that many of thom would glidly Withdraw' thei names from the betition could they do so now. Aron ad Gold, Several rich finds of iron ore have been made near [ron River, Wis., and the people in that vicinity are very wuch wrought up over the discovery. The deposits so far have been found on the claims of King Staples and A. A. Hobbs on section 5473, which lie within a wile of the city. It is thought by old Gogebic rauge prospectors that the findings are on w! is & continuation of this range. The greatest interest is cen- tered just now in the Hobbs tina, specimens rom which he assayed 70 per cent of iron from the service ore. A small percentage of gold is found with the ore devosit. There is @etinite talk of the formation of & company 20 prospect ou the property thoroughly. Tao laud now beiug sought after wost lios near Fire lake. A Croek with Golden Sands, Colonel Teters of the Yosemite Hydraulic gowpany, oporating placer claims on South Boulder creek, arrived in Denver the other day with & lurgo-sized sample of gold taken from the grovnds at a depth of twenty-five feet. That is the depth that the company sunk before reaching bed rock. The sample 8f gold shows course grains and scales of Quite large size. From onesix of & cuble yurd of earth seveu ponnyweights and four- Teeu graius of gold were panued. Bouth Boulder creek bLas been placer THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, EPTEMBER 9= 1393, mined for voars, and results have | stiown that gol i ities bt of o *Ho; 0o saved roadily. It however, that bed TOCK Jower duwn Lthe straam has nover boen ed, and 1ho volo mAKOR tlid otade. 1t he boliaves thore 1s 83,000,000 or 1,000,000 worth of ¢ " that stream Allalone it nen rospectiag and are ob taining go One of avor hroye thero by nia milier, w . in the Mojav exactly fifty-six o worth | FN,50, ini sized cobbles tly boen v mark sroken oft. Mr. Ko fort in the missine half, was found in the same uicgines where n fourteen and o If " ounco nugget was found a fow woeis ago weeount of | Which was sent to the San Frenciseo Fix mininer. The country is dry ana the only methods are dry washors, hore are only about thirty men in tie camp, which Reed cluiims is very vieh. Ho and his part new, he says, have beon averaging o 60 | 18160 & day with thelr dry washers, He 180 that the Last Chance camp, iles furt enst, is also very ana that the fow men thoere o making | e returns. ‘Iheso caips are on the old 0 Gordo mines trail and in the winter have a livtio ter. Tho miners thero now inexpericnced Mr. Reod states, are fo the most pai but a s dotng well., A Wyoming Company. ‘The Golden Rod Mining and Milling ¢ pany has been organized in- Miner's Delight | district, with a ¢ al of 500,01 nd the incorporation papers will be filed in o fow days. 'The company is composed of St Louis capitalists, 1. C. Bartlett of Omaha is prosident, J. 5. Novins of 'St. Louis vice vresidentand troasurer, and A. L. Palmer seerotary, Mz Bartlett says In an intorview in the Chyepne Sun: It 18 the intention of the company to at once spend sevoral thousand dollurs in development work on the ( Rod property, and machinery will be shippod this winter, 80 that it may “be hauled to tho location of the mill some time in March, so that wovk will commence in the mill at least by the first of noxt year. | “While wo do not expect to moke any vast amount of money at the start, we oxpect to show by the ercetion of this mill that thoro Is zold ‘there, and then a mill of suflicient vapacity will bo erected to_produce the gold ata minimum of cost. You should know that the company I represent owns 16,000 acres of placer ground and more than fifty development claims. The tests we hav made upon all of these mdicate that there is gold there which will o about $12 to the ton We do not make uny extravagant claims, but e willing that time should show Just what we have,” laen Nebraska and Nebraskans. Iire destroyed August Zelle's barn, near Stanton, and six horses wore incinerated. Greoley county republicans will meet convention and nominate a ticket October 14, A Wahoo man captured a racoon weighing ar town the other day. ot Fillmora county will anion at Fairmont Octo- twenty-five pounds n The old settlers Hold their annuai r ber 4 synod of the United Pros- church is in session at Mission ek, Pawnee county Forty ministers are attending the Ne- braska synod of the German Lutheran Evangelical church at Schuyle ‘Twenty Ponca young men have organized a voluntéer fire company aud are practicing o a weelk to train for expected conflagra- tions, While Moil Clerk Gossard of the Union Pacific run was visiting at Nickerson, his 10- months-old child fell off a mower and fra tured its tigh. The old settlers of the uorthwest quarter of Custer county have mado arrangements t0 hold their annual picnic seven miles from Mernn Sepomber 24, Mind Reader Johnstone made a bad break t Nebraska City and insutted his audience, using language which caused ladies to leave tho opera house with blushes on their cheeks. While a man was driving cattle over tho Elichorn bridge at Stanton one span gave way and precipitated the cattle into the river. A number of the animals were hurt, but uone killed. Nuckolls county old settlers held an cn- thusiastic rounion lust week and follow ofticers were olected: D. W. Montgome: president; G. W. Archer, sccretary; W. i, Knapp, troasure Diphtheria has made sad havoc in the family of Mrs. Angelin Borowiak at Colum- bus. Four of her children have died in the last month, while three others ave very low with the same dreadtul discase, Charles Connors of Columbus, and old time engineer on the Union Pacific railroad, who W sent to the asylum over a year ago, has been dischacged cured of his mental trovble, but it is feared he is a hopeless paralytic. Boyd county democrats have nominated tho Tollowing ticket: George T Bastedo, county clerk; B. L. Chambers, county treas. urer; William Hunt, sheriff; Frank Burnedl, superintendent; C. S, Murphy, county judge’ W O. Wilson, ‘county surveyor; Dr. S. P. Hansen, coronier; R. Robler, commissioner. Crimiuals in Saline county aro getting their deserts. In the district court at Wilber, in the case of the col: 1 lad, Fr Pierce, charged with an infamous crime Crete, the jury brought in o v 1etof guilty, Charles Busch and his wife, ch; I with housebre ing near Friend, pleaded guilty to petit lurceny. Bernard Hatsohi pleaded guilty to the charge of horse stealing at Wilber, The Dakotas, Trains will start running regularly on the Yankton & Sioux [alls road in another week, ‘The past two weeks will be long remem- bered in the Hill cities which went through o terrible experience with forest fives, “The ranchers near Lead who have horses are u litbie uneasy about the rustlers who have boen theroabouts of lute, and farmers are arming thewselves and aro liable to make it decidedly interesting for the hustlers, Tracklayers on the Great Northern rail- way reached tho eity limits of Yuukton, S, D. " The extension from Sioux Falls is sixty. two miles in longth. It is belived that this road will be oxtended uvp the Missouyi to Charles Mix county immediately. “Tom Beverly, one of M. Koliher's cowboys, had a dispute with an Indian at the store 1 Croston on Wednesany. He drow his ro- volver and pounded the Indian over the head. The Indian crossed over the Ch river to the camp of Indiaus enga; round-up, and shortly returned with about tweaty-live Indians.” fncluding a number of policemen, The Indisns wanted Beverly's scalp for Ins treatment of 0no of their nut- ber, but he could not be found, us he, sur- wising there would be trouble, immediately left for the cow ranch, The state of North Dakota will offer for sale during the month of October nearly 190,000 acres of school lands, the choicest on the farming lands in the ontire Red River valley During the past two yeurs the state hus offere for sale and disposed of $7.000 acres of those lands at an average price of “These school lands are a part of tho mogw. nificent land endlowmont granted o the state for school purposes by the goueral goy. ernment, comprising sections 16 and 36 in cach township, one-eightecnth pait of the en. tire area of tho state. Reports come from the new town of Irene, ou the Sioux Falls & Yankton road, thut the railroad company tas Inid their tedck right through the town without putting in any sidotracks, and it is understood Lo be their purposo to establish a town about two iles turther south. Those who have bought town lots aud crectoa buildings thereon at Ireno are highly indigoant at the action of the railroad compauy, sud suits for damages are liable to follow. ubout $19 per acre Colorade. The Utica company is putting up a $30,000 mill at Boulder. The Rattler mine, Cripple Croeck, is work- 10g three veins of pay ore. The Rosotta mne at Cripple Creek is suck- ing ore.for shipment which assays $150 per ton, Cripple Creek sesms to be growing faster than any town fu the state, The 'buscs go. ng there are crowded all the time. For the mouth of September 084 witn in Cripple Crock wore paid §59,863. This ow- ' hraces the forcos In both mines and is the Iy Vv 1abo in the history of that eamp Loasors are taking out good oo from th and mi yment for | Aurora miue, Gilpin county. 1t rans thre mees gold at thy mill and 8135 at th smelter Two sample assaya from the Victor mine at Cripple Cresk yielded 703,88 and 511.2) gunces in goid por tou. The Victor's output | is ineroasing Tho farmors of Greeley are going to send | | 8,000 0r 4,000 pounds of the various varicties of potatoes wrown in this w the World's fair in nbout two woaks i The Jumho tunnel, near Breckinridge, it 1,000 fe A sixty-ounee retort has be ‘ sent to the Denver mint. 1t represented one week's run at the fifteen-stamyp miil ' I'ho party sent out to examine the mineral find made by William Burgass o fow wooks | A0 on the Big Soutn, says the Fort Collins | Jurier, roturned to town last Friday with very encouraging reports. They located | four claims and broaght back with thom | s of ore taken from each, which earry | y silver and galena in Jarge quantities. | Another strike is reported as hiving beon ade on the Pike's Peak ground, says tho Crioplo Creek Minor. A fow days ago Sim- | mons, McCrea & Page secured o voar's loaso | on a portion of the ound west of the Pike's Peak shaft house. This e ing, at a depth | of threo foet. some of the richest ora yet found on Bull mountwin was uncovered The vein or denosit is represented to bo three feet wide and tho ore literally cov ered witn rusty gold I'he most daring mine robbery ever com mitted in the vicinity of Leadville ocourred at tho Little Johunia mine. The plans were carefully laid, the velephone wires boelug cut and communication with the city made im- possible. Turly in the morning Joseph War- ren, might watchman, was surprisea by two masked men, who bound and gagged him. They then went to the shaft house and began carrying off the ore, which was in 8acks, toa team that they haa in the neigh- borhood. ~ They got away with fourteen sacks, valued at $1.500 per sack or a total of over §20,000. iore is not the slightost clow to the porpetrators Wyoming. The Soda Lakes branch of the Union Pacific from Laramie is to be abandoned. There 18 not suflicient business to keop it in running order. ‘The McNutt Diteh company, with a capi- tal stock of £5,000, filed 1ts articlos of inc poration with the secrotary of state yestor- day. Tho company will take its water from West Pass creek, Sheridan county. T'he reports from all over the state are to the effect that the dry weather has ruined | the ranges and that the streams ar drying up fast Streams that have never been now as dry as a tle Lo circutated and signed and prosonted to onw of the water | suporvisors requesting that the running of er in some ditenes on the upper part of the stream be discontinued, Since then there has been a better supply down along the river. Mrs, M. F. Knadler of La surprising discovery on the littlo 11-months-old daughte iug. The child haa heen weeks, Friday evening it out and Mrs. Kn e in some way. She took it up and just aboveits thigh discovered the point of a needle sticking out. The point of the necdlo could Just bo felt. Dr. Miller was called and le succoeded in removing it. 1t is supposed that the child swallowed the needle two weeks ago and that it has been working its way out of the body siuce then, amio made a verson of her I'riday even. tful for two idenly s fler saw that it w: Washington, Tt is eatimated that tho hop orop of the state will be about 50,000 bales, Whitman county is advertising for bids for a 300-foot bridge at Palouse. The people of Waila Walla vailoy are talk- ing of the profit there would be in raising tobacco. Already tobacco is successfully cultivated on several tracts in the valloy. J. W, Bryant has threshed 8,000 bushels of wheat from sevonty-five acres of land neaw Sprague. This is the largest yield yot ro- vorted in Lncolu county. The averago yield is forty bushels to tho acre. Judge Columbia Lancaster of Van Couver, an old pioneer91 years of age, died Inst week of old age. The deceasod was the first dol- egato Lo congress from tho territory of Washiugton, and he was also the first’ dis- trict juage of the territory. The Castle Rock Manufac uring company \ingle Itis fur- improved ,000 shingles u employment to expects to start up its new ten-block s h. mill before the end of the m nished throughout with the lat machinery. has i capacity of 2 per day and will furn upwards of fifty men, Track laying bas boen again resumed on the Spokarc Falls & Northern, The con- tractors expect to complete the road to Nel- son iv six weeks. Itis said there isn't an idle man in thas part of the country who wants work but can get it. They need meon on the Spokaue Falls & Northern in every camp. A case involving title te school worth $1,000,000, situated less than two miles from the business center of Tacoma, is to bo heard before Secretary Hoke Smith September 26, John G. McBride, a mer- chant. claimed to have discovered gold and filed his claims. ‘The case now to be heard is the state's appeal rrom the land ofico commissioner’s decision 1 favor of MeBride. The lumber trade of Tacoma, summod up by the Puget Sound Lumberman, is as fol- 1ows: ‘I'he rail shipwents from Tacoma di ing the mouth of August footed up 113 car- loads, of which 62 were lumber and 51 shin- lands gles, ' Thirty-ive carloads of lumber and 47 of shingles were cousizned to transcon nental points, ‘The rail snipments during July amounted to 92 carloads of lumber and 720f shingles. Tacoma’s cargo trade during August was 2,727,467 feot, Oregon. Nutmeg melons earn a Dalles gardencr 500 an acre. A tomato vine at'The Dalles is fourteon feet long aud has borne 250 tomatoes this ve A. Butler bought a 900-acre stook ranch of George Hargadine, near Ashland, for &3, Two potatoes are being shown at Pendle- ton which together weigh six and a haif pounds, Oue is fourteen inches long. T'ho Hayes mill at Goldendale sawed 21,733 feet of lumber in one day recently, This is believed to bo the largest lumver output of @ single day’'s work ever done in Klickitat count W. W. Martin, \the jeweler, says the Sa- lem Journal, sold u couple of the old pale yellow, pure gold beaver 5 pieces for #35, They were coined at Oregon City 1 1540, and are now ravely met with Fruits of all kinds, peaches, prunes, plums, apples, ote., are coming into the market at Hood River, and the vield is very large this year. ‘Thoproduct1s shipped all over the country, and furnishes a good source of rey- enue for that town, J. M. Hicks of Ashland shipped more thun 1,000 from his two-acre pateh, and will probably send off as many more bofore the season closes. He grows them on granite land, not on the creck botton Lee Get, a Chinese contractor, has finished clearing a 100-acro field’ for Goorge Alexander of Iorest Grove. He has em- ployed about fifteen men, has been at work about two months, and has the tract, whici wasa burned fir slashing, ready for the plow. Ten teams are now at work drawing bricks from the yard of the state peniten tiary to the reform school. About 1,200,000 bricks will be required for the new addi tions to tho reformatory, ana it is desived to have as many as possibie of these on the ground this fall. A carload of plums shippod from Eugene by the Oregon Orchard company to Chicago brought %0 cents a crate for Bradshaws and 8110 for Columbias, uccording toreturns just received. Out of the first sixtecn carloads of fruit shipped from Oregon this season, says the Guard, a carload from Kugene com- wanded tho bighest price in Chicago, with the excoption of a carload shipped very carly from The Dalles. “That huge raftat Marshfield continues to £row. At last accounts there were 2,584 piles in it, and the raft was drawing about twelve feet of water. Captain Ii)bertson belioves that when the raft is complete Lho number of piles it will coutain will only fall a few short of 4,000, which was the nut it was originally iutended to contaln, The rafts built at Fort Bragg were insigoificant compared with ithe ouc being built here, has alveady boxes of tomato about only one-fouryh, in size. The piles average eighty feet cagh in lene and the when completed, #s to draw sixteen foot of water Miscomannons Willard and Nelson, Bonnet aro aoont the wecesstiul minfig men near Batte at the prosent time. ‘They are operating the Roval Gold praparty in” Desr Lodge county An Arizona cashienhung up the fo! lowing sign: +Tnis bank 8 not busted o it owes the people §6,000; the pdople owe it #55,000; it i3 the poople who ars busted; when they vay, we'll pay Noarly 500000 pounds of the products of Santa Cla int re shipped from San Jose the ot k fageording to the state ment of the Southera Pacifio railrond. OFf this big total 3,453,370 pounds went to oast eri markets and 1 10 pounds to San Franeisco and other California points. A gold excitement has broken out on Mid lle Fork of Salmon river, [daho. Some years ago, as the story gocs, two men startad on a trip from Boies to Batte, Mon and lost their way among the Salmon country. But onough to find rich placer ground from which $10.000 was taken 1 three duys time, Tho men succeeded in gotting east. The story has created considerable excitement, and now prospectors are said to be going into that country in [arge numbers, All work has been stopped on the San Dicgo & Phaenix railroad. This was in pur- suarceof au order from Prosident Reed and several circumstances cansed it The main cause is attributed by Reod to the apathy of the people of San Dicgo, and his remarks upon the subject today were em. phaticand truo. Ho recalled the mag ticent offer of one prominent capitalist, who offered to subseribe as much cash as any one of a dozen men, and who, whon the timo came, backed up his word to the extent of cash, the mountains of they were lucky OPTICIAN'S, Elderly Lady Who Was Blind to Her Own Bllndness, urious,” said an AT THE An optician recently to a New York Tribune reporter, “how sensitive some people are to the ovidence of advancing ago given by their eyesight. With many customers | am actually obliged to’ resort to deception to suit their requirements. Last weok an elderly woman came into m inquired for rlasses. She said sho knew her present glasses were too strong, couldn’t stand old glasses, eyes too younyg and all that, 1 tried her oyes and found that the real trouble was tie reverse of her statement, ** ‘Madam,’ I said, ‘your glasses are too weak.' store and i ngor.’ ‘Young man, you must be insane, she said, getting angry. ‘I have only worn glasses a fow months, and I wish the mildest sort. T know it is so, be- cause the pair you have selocted hurt my eyes dreadfilly HOf course that settled it. T explained that [ might have boen mistaken, ex- amined her eyes again and said T had a pair of very mild glasses, not so strong as her former pair, in fact, but ot excellent make, which I could recom- mend. 1 produced a pair and she tried them. “‘Aro they weaker than you showed me before? she asked. ** *Vory much, madam,’ t* ‘Weaker than my present ones?’ ‘Somewhat.’ **“Well, now, you see I was right, sho said, triumphantly. ‘I haven't seen so well in woek. These are oxactly right and I'll take them just as they are.’ *Of course we can't put old glasses on young eyes,’ I suid as pleasantly as 1 could, and she went out just as well sat- isfied as if she knew it all.” “Didn’t sho?” asked the reporter. “Well, hardly. Ihad sold a pair of glasses to that woman one number stronger than any she had tried on, and but for my deception she would have ruined her eyesight for a. bit of pretty ely. You need two numbors vanity.” =V o AN AMUSING LAWSUIT, A Paris Ofleial Who Pald 820,000 for Call- ing s Superior n Fool, A most umusing lawsuit has just taken place in Paris which has terminated in the sentence of 8 gang of blackmailers to terms of imprisonment ranging from ten to two years. Itsecms that somo time agothe Viece Admiral Count de Marquessac, in writing to a person with whom he had no business to be in cor- vespondence, reforred to the minister of marine, his superior officer, as ‘‘une vicille bote,” which may be translated as “'an old fool.” This, as well as two or three other letters of the same tenor, fell into the hands of a cang of black- mailers, who forthwith proceedod to ex- tort money from the old admiral under the threat of publishing the contents of these lettors in_some of the opposition papers. Thp admiral, who.held at the time the position of prefect or naval governor-general of the maritime dis- trict of Lovient, realized that if the let- ters containing the uncomplimentary referonces toward the minister were published he would iravitably lose not only his office but also his prospects of promotion. Nearly $20,000 did he pay to the gang for the sake of securing the return of his unfortunate corre- spondence, and it was not until he found that he could pay no more that he decided to appeal to the police for assistance, and not before he had made & clean breast of the affair to the minister of marines, who was one of his old messmates and who took the matter as a great joke, being especially tickled at the idea that the admiral, who is a grand officer of the Legion of Honor and renowned as one of the strictest disciplinarians in the French navy, had found it so expensive to refer to him as an old fool. 1t may be added tnat one of the blackmailers succeeded in making his escape to the United States, carrying with him a let- ter of Introduction from the admiral to the consul general at New York—the viscount d'Abzac—a letter which, under the circumstances, ho will scarcely have the impudence to present, il i Pills that cure sick headache: DeWitt's Little Early Risers, PR ey The End is Drawing Near: Two months more and the World's fair will bo a thing of the past. Yet the end excols tho boginning. You have nevor scen the like, nor ever will agalr., Ilach building is oue grand piece of statuary, within them aro amassod samples of everything that the civilizod world produc The Midway Plaisance is & curiosity shop'of oriental foatures, The illuminations at night, the electric fountains, with an’ everchanging hue from white to rose gnd thence to azure, make up a banqueb of royal beauty. For excursion tickets at greatly reducéd ratos apply to ticiet office, Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway, 1501 Farnam street, | was once. (ONGRESS IS A QUEER CREW Mediocre Men Seem to B in the Ascendanc X Just at Prosent, SMALL BORE POLITICIANS iN POWER Positions Onee Britiantiy Filled Now Held by Men of Very Ordinary Ability Some Samples of the New gime in Both Bean Wasnisaros, Sept. 91 taff Coree spondence of Tite Beg of odd materials, 1t reminds moulded from the scraps of foundries and shops, from u « mass of metals containing load, pig iron Wrought ivon, pewter, type metal, tin copper, brass and a sprinkiing of gold und silver. If the bell's clapper strikes upon tho finer motals it rings clear and its musica sound 18 far reaching and pieasingr but should the stroke be upon any of the baser metals the result is a flav ious sound An impression prevails in remote soctions of the country that ail men in« bigg men—that, is men with broad mental vis fous and studious habits, 1t is a notorious fact that since’the days when politics was not a profession and demogogery was almost unheard of, and men were selected for their mentality and patr cress has been in a state of retrogression. livery year that a congress selocted the inferior eclass 1n that body seem to have been augmented and the superior ranks decimated. The stronger minds, like Sumner, Blaino, Irye, Sherman, Gartield and others, who mide the house of representatives scintillate with in tellectuality, were callod to tho senate There were left as timo prozrossod toward the present era a fow men liko Cox, the brilliant “Sunset ;" Samuel J. Randall_and the like of Reed, but there is now i cither house only a surgestion of what congress Steadily, a8 prejudico and poli ame to tho front, intellect and useful- went to the rear, stule and obnox ngross are usm, ca tics nes Some Few St Great, [ do not mean to intimato that not great mea, great ip every sense of the term, in Congress. When wtors Allison and Jones (of Nevada) were selected as members of the international monetary con ference thoy were chosen on accountof their thore are general mental equipment. They were sup posed and really proved to be the equal in every respect 10 the representatives fr any other nation. When Seaator Morg: Alabama was selected asa member of the Be ringsea arbitrtion commision ho was taken because he was a great man, and he showed his greatness best when he was brought in contact with the select minds of u half dozen Eurovcan nations. John Shorman is re- garvded the equal of any living man upon finance. Senator Frye has few peers when it comes to commerce and international affairs, Thercare, in short, many great men in the senate today, and there are a number of fine minds in the house, but the number of really great men is out of ull proporiion to the total number of members of congress when compared to conditions thirty or forty yeurs g " The debates upon the proposition to repeal tho silver purchasing law have brought out expressions, cither in public speech or pri- vate interview, from nearly every man in cougress. Those who follow the business of collating public_sentiment and spreading congressional opinion hiave had an admira- ble opportunity to gauge the cupabilities of men in congress, Fitty Who Can't Think, The subject is o complicated and far aching oue, and in order to keep in the ks, men in both brauches have been com- pelled to apply themselves studiously to solving the problem. It is amazing how many of the smaller minds have no thought of thieir own, but blindly follow the men who think. ‘I'bere are fifty men in the house of representatives who are as helpless in the great field of thinkers and in the ocean of mentality as is the lone man in a canoo in midocean. When any great question comes up_ for uction they imme, off to their leaders and ask them how shall vote, remind one of tho child holding his father's great fng: P they little and being led through the rabvle. When left alone they ave as likely to act one way as another. ~ Some of them are absolutely illiterate, and they make nocffort to educate themselves in _any dwection. They have little “stump specches,” which they deliver with regularity whenever they return to their district, and they play upon the credu- ulity and prejudices of their constituents in order to be returned every two years to their seats in congress, Comes from th rehwest, I know of a populist member of the house from the far northwest who was an assistant clerk in a little office at the time tho con- gressional cyclono struck and landed him in congress when the farmers gou on tho rampage in that scetion three yoars ago. Ho never thinks of voting upon LiSown informa- tion, for e 1s never well informed us to the subject under consideration. When a bill comes before the house he hies away and finds his promptor, who tells him how to vote. He has no more idea how many grains of silver there are in a standard silver dollar than he docs how many pounds there arc in a bushel of whoats nor does he know any more about the condition of the public domain or the management of the Interior department than he does what hay or cattlo are worth in his own district, and yet ho is the “farmer's revresentative,” here are two kinds of worthless mem- bers of congress besides the lazy man who never does auything, One is the isnorant and trifling fellow who only knows - how to pull the wool over the oycs of his constit. uents and mako them bulieve ho is a big llow in congress und knows something. he othier oxe has been in congress so long and has secured his seat so casily every two years that ho feels heis cutitled to it by right, and is not required to give any equiv- alent for the houor or the work his seat eosts his friends, S0 much for the men in the house, Bettor in the Sennte, While there are inferior minds and men in the seunate, the duties as well us the Compo- sition of that body are different from those in the house, and as they requiro they re- ceive & supetior representation. The senato 1s a sort of piunacie of reward for the fuith- ful men i the house. For excellent service and good behavior mauy of them ave sent from the house Lo the senate, There are todnny thirty-two senators who served in the Touse, and most of thew have go from ' the lower to the uppe of congress, their proportion being directly in recognition of valuablo services, While it I8 10U necessary W give 4 man the educi- tion which service in the house sunplies in order Lo mako him u useful senator, the ex- perience is almost invaluable. There is not one of the populist senutors who has served in the house, and branch nave eve public position. uono of those in either r Leen tested in a tr, They were, for the wiost part, sciec wave of public excitement L r psont & prejudice, It can bo trutn fully said, however, that ut no timo iu the hislory of the country has congress been froer from improper influcnce or divect cor ruption than now. It would thus appear that vurity does not always come with in tetligence and industry. Friky 8. Hean, - Sweet breath, sweet stomach, sweet me* per! Thenuse DeWitl's Little Karly Risers. Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov’t Re port, Baking Powder think Enough Pearline has been sold to put a girdle of it round about the earth, and a good deal over, Hundreds of packages, in the of st fifteen millions vears, have made w wshing casy for millions of different women. This suggests a ques- tion to the timid women who that because Pearline saves so much work it must do some harm. Could Pearline have beer way and for this time, another, addressed to 1 sold and used in this And all women: Isn't it better to if it were dangerous? be sure with Pearline, the original washing com- pound, which has been thus proved, rather than to risk it with some imitation about which you know Peddlers and some unscrupulous grocers will te IS FALS| and if your grocer sends Send or "the same as Pearline,” it Back honest—send it back, An on 'HARPER'S MAGAZINE Pennell’'s 4 paper on H Serials, etc. HARPER AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA CONTENTS OF THE OCTOSER NUMBER. article, Schurz; Edwin Lord Wecks's paper, From the Black Sea to the Persian Gulf by Caravan, with 13 illustrations by the author; Thomas A. Janvier's illustrated paper Lispenard's Undergraduate Life at Oxford, with illustrations ; Mrs. Joseph Pennell ; Colonel Dodge's Riders of Syria, with illustrations ; Our N Lanier, illustrated by A. 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