Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 23, 1893, Page 5

FLOSH OF WESTERY FORTUNE Wontana Kootenai Olaims to Havo Been Re- W taniod by Advares Silver Legislats IT WILL MERRILY BOOM IN THE SPRING Busk Tunnel Complsted-Rieh Find of . Precions Stomes—A Nataral Sridge— Tronblesome Cree Indians—Western Fistiories Supply the World, Althewgh the Montann Kootenai is one of @ most promising mining sectione in the northvost, it has had a serious drawback this summer on account of silver legisiation. ‘To say the least, hnd the financial erisis novor ovenrred this portion of the great state wonlil todag be in a blaze of commercial ac- 7. o por »f Montana offers more favornble advantages for legitimate specula- tion, and the oroperty, even under these unfavoraoie times, will Peap a rich reward in a few years, says a Standard correspondent. During the spring and summer not less than 400 men were i the hills, They all outfitted hers, and daily caravans to the mountains was & usuai mght. From the beginning of the main contact to the high penks on Bramlets creek, a distance of forty miles, could be found men at work doing assessment. Nothing more was expected of them. The great majority of the property owners in this mining region arc poor men, hud expected & rich mining season. prospects wera very encouraging last when in silver came the was manifest upon them. many of them thought they had lost their all, but day by day they have be- come more hopeful of the future, and now are of the opinion that their hoidings will yer prove valuable in the metal worid. Bhould some compromise be reached on the silver question, this seetion will be livaly mext year. Men who were about to bond this senson will foek hero in hasio to get the first chance. Rk Tannel and [ts Cost. running from Chicago to the Pacific const the Atchison, Topeka & Santa e rail- road crosses the continental divide of the Roeky mountains at Hagerman pass. in the Saguiche range. This pass is about twenty miles west and south of Leadville. % Leadvitle and following the trail of the rail- roud, the Tennesses valley is crossed over and the base of the chain of mountains form- ing the Saguuchc range. The mountains are skirted for five miles alongr the south sidd of the Tenuessco pass until a sharp curve is reschied. ['rom that point a winding course is taken to the summit of the range. The eut begins at the Hrst qurve in the trail at a int known, and most appropri as indy Point and it is here Busk tunnel is. . The tunnel is now complete and soon the roar of the trains running through will echo along its rocky groove. Busk tununel has cost $1,000,000, twenty Tives, and has charged to its construction be- taween forty and fifty maimed and crippied ‘men. Only one life was lost by a cave. and of all the rest not one life or chargeable to the constructing company. Accidents were met in different ways. The man was there who thawed the giant pow- der and his name was John Hemphill, and m thawing out the powder he caused his own and the death of Owen Hinds, hese wero the first two lives to be lost in the tunnel. The man who tried to close up the fulminat- ing cap was there also, and he, as usual, biew his head off. The largest accident was wherein five men were killed by a premature biast. The biasts were then fired by elec- tricity and through a mistake of the fore. FWAD & WCONE OTAEr CONCErning the wires was fivan. The consequence was A hremature ¢ ana the five poor fcllows in the head- ing were all instantly killed. e tunnel is feet in length, with fifty-foot approaches, is twenty feet high and fifteen feet in the clem It will be yendy for service abour December 1, less than three and one-half years from the first blast. investor in mining P ho ¢ o In Glittering Amazon Stone. ‘The other day L. B. Harrison and ~Brown found uite a curiosity on Elk creek, mear Golden, Colo. It was a large block of crystais of Amuzon stones, having a _pret bluish tint. The crystals ware about fiva inches long aud two inches in diameter and were all different in shape. They were found five feet below the surface, but the exact location will not be made known until the deposit is safely located by the discov- erers. The crystals are now on exhibition & D. E. Hurrison’s drug store in Golden and @ School of Mines professors and min- fir men all pronounce it a rare collection, a thing of beauty and a rich find for Jeerson county. It is said that there are onlv two laces in the United States where these me stones are found. This collection will be sold to some college. To Feed the Bungry Earth. The Southern California Improvement company has made extensive water develop- ments on the Mojuve river near Calico, A flume eight feet wide and ten feet deep is being sunk in the bed of the river w de- welop the underfiow. A large force of men now at worlk and will be soon increased to @oont 200 men. At the head of the works Bhe ilume will be seventeen feet beiow- the bed of the river, at which point a bedrock f dam will bo inid to secure the ontire under- und flow. It is estimated at 5.000 inches. JBiis watar is to be devoted Lo irrigating [ $0,000 acres of land. Nuture's Architecturs, ‘There is a wonderful natural bridge in f Montana, situated about seventy mites from f the National park, on the east side of the ‘Bmowy rangoe of the Rocky mountains. ‘Phe bridge is crossed by the wagon road Big Timber, on the Northern Pacitic , 0 the new mining camp of Boulder. msists of a ledge of rock about ninety in height, extending across a canon feot in width. The width of the bridge Bt its aarrowest point is 200 feet, A chan- through this munmot! ledge allows the s of the Boulder river to pass and a perpendicular fall of eighty-ive t to tho bottom of the canon. The m bursts from out the side of Rocky wilh a wemendous roar, which can be for a distance of haif a mile. It is osti- that 200.000 miners' inches of water through the vinduct every minute. In and July, when the melting of the snow the mountains increases the voiume of in the Bouider, the immense outlet m the rock fails to let the water puss and an overflow is the result, sometimes making the travel over the bridge hazara- There has been formed a company for the of utilizing s greas full of water ting eleotricity for the operating pf un electric road between Big Timber and the Boulder camp, a distance of forty miles, tor furnishing light to Big Timber and various mines in the Boulder district. Bluekened with White Fish. The annual siaughter of the fiany tribe commenced in the vicwity of Stesmboat . Colo. Every year from -the 6th to hof October the “grayling,” or Wilkin- s white dsh, b 10 ascend the creeks ying into the Yampa for the purpose of iting their spawn. [n about ten duys less from the date of the first ascent ave veturned again to the river. This the best food fish in the state fi:—h-wmmmwu‘““um . @ legislature of the state, avparently well versed in piscatory love, hus made ‘open season’’ and Lho spawning season’ this fish coincident. Under the eager of the natural instinet they ascend n | numbers, darkening the whoie bot- the stream from bang 10 bank with iheir closely commingled bodies, and mak- & most interesiing spectacie. As the ave usuaily sballow at this season become an casy prev W Lhe oot Hsher- If only the ordinury hook or even ofks were used it would not be bad, the fish seem o have good powers of . a and reproduction in their for life. But every sortof missile L—stones, aiubs, pitchforks, , are used for their destruction. driven to the steams and the varried away in Dags, I:a:nh, oxes sowetimes w: while mangled | strew Lhe banks and bars of the ureeks. years ago when the massacre wss Past in one of Lhese cresks, State N. H Game Warden Land oaught three or four of the butchers, put them under arrest and then rsioased thew upon their readily given Promise to be good in the future. So far as thoe writer knows this is the only instance of angthing ever oeiny dome by any of the | game wardens or Lheir deputies toward the | preservation of this excellent fish. Not- | withstanding its hardy character, it must in | the near future become vary scarce under | this wholesale method of destruction. l Canndinn Crees In Montana. ! The people of Silver Bow county, Montana, have by a costly experjence had occasion to | Kknow something of the band of Cree Indians | now roaming over this state. By reasonof | a murder of one_of their band by another and the cost incident to the arrast and trinl, and by the expense of keeping the band | during a period of an infectious disease in | their cwmp they have become as costly as they ara undesirable in this section, For this reason the following from the | Helena [ndependent will be read with sur- | prise i A communication from the Canadian | Cree Indians, now in Montans, asking | cither to be admitted as citizens or to be | atlow=d_a reservation on which to live. has been referred to the Interior depar Washington by Governor Rickards. it was addressed. These same [ndians mado an applieation to the clerk of the | court of Casoada county iast June to be | allowad to declare their intention of becom- | ing citizens. Their application was rejected. | Then they wrote to the governor, who | found that he had no authority to act in the | matter, and referred their petivion to Wash- ington. Tt 18 extremely doubtful, in the light of | past experience, whether anything will be | dome by the foderal authorities. There have | been about 50 Cree [ndians in Montana for { about eight years. Mamy hi supposed | that they crossed the line from Canada | about the time of the Riel rebeilion in order | to avoid the comsequences of participating in that uprising. This, however, is declared not to be the fact. They Fought with Riel. Some of them, it is ciaimed, came befors the Riel rebeilion and others afterward, but that event, it is stated by the Indians them- selves, had nothing to do with their crossing the line into United States territory. How- aver that may be, they are here, and in_the absence of any other explanation, the most reasonable supposition is that they came because they wouid rather be wards of this han stay on British soil and rustle | for themseives. The Canadian Crees now here are somewhat peculiar position. In one they are better off than the Tadians of the TUnited States, in that they can come or go as they please, and there is no agent to in- | tarfere with their movements. - In another way they are worse off, since this govern- | ment has officially declinea to sume any responsibility for their care or maintenance and feels no moral or legal obligations to | provide them with blaniets, food or huntiug | grounds. | ‘When Governor Toole was in the execu- tive offico he stated in_a communication to the authorities at Washington that the | Crees ware not a desirabie lot of people to | veling around Montana; but, as the | e had no contrel over Indians, vhe fea- | eral government should look after them and | at they were deported over the line | nada, where they belong. etter went through the office of the commissioner of Indian affairs, the Interior | department and the Department of State, and the answer came back that the Crees were not under the jurisdiction of the United | States authorities and that the general gov- | ernment could do nothing toward. sending | t back to Canada. Since Governor | Rickards came into office he has renewed | the agitation and has met with the same | success, or waut of success, that attended sovernor Toole's efforts. As the general government disclaims all | responsibility and the state government | does not care to assume any, it looks as | though the Craes would be allowed t won- | der over Montana as they see fit, camping and hunting where they plense, and killing ame in or out of season as they need it. Fish for the World, The extent to which the fishery business of the Puget sound country has already been | veloped is_indicated by the fact that the Great Northern railrond tne other day | shipped a train of thirty ads of carned | sagoon from Liverpool, B. C.. consigned to | London, England. and also by the shipping i | in a way of dried codfish dircot to New York and Boston for shipping to the West Indies ana South America in competition with the England fisheries. The extension of this business in the east isdue to the material reduction in which has been made by the railroads. Gen- eral Manager Shelby of the Great Northern ines said that hiscompany put the reduced rate in effect after mucn discussion, and other roads have made the same reduc- tion, The reduction is from $1.25 w0 75 cents | per hundred pounds in carioads from North Pacific const terminals to_eastern terminals ana Chicago on dried codfish. This is a re- duction of 40 per cent, and regarding it Mr. Shelby said: “This rate was made witha view toat- tracting capital to the fishery business, and | 1t should stimulate the business, for the sup- | ply is uniumited and the demand is aiso practically uniumited. The harvestof fish ught to bring money as surely as the wheat harvest.” John A. Masheson, who has been engaged in the business of drying and curing codtisa | at Anacortes for some time, goes as faras | Mr. Shelby in regard to the possibility of developing the industry and shipping the product east. When asked about the pros- pects of competing with the New Lngiand | risheyies, he said: Money i Cod. “Cod can be caught in Bering sea, brought to the Sound and dried or cured for'L cent a pound less than on the New ingland const, and at the present rates of §1 to New York | and $L.02 to Boston we can compete with the New England fisheries right in their own territory. So far this year I have shipped two carloads, twengy tons of dried cnd to New York, whera they are sold to brokers | for shipment to tL.e West Indies and South | Ameriea, and the business can be done at a good profit. I have had the schooner Litzie | Colby in Bering ses this summer catching cod, and have put up 150 tons so far. Dried | fish are the only xind suitabie for hov | countries, and they are put up in drums or casks holding from 250 to 400 pounds. Cured fish are sold almost entirely in the United States. Wo should be able to work np market in Hawaii and Austraiia, for there are no cod south of the equato well as | on thoe west coast of South America. “*As fast as the fish are caught they are cleaned and suited on board the ship and stownd away until there is a full cargo. Then they are brought to the drying and | curmg works, dried in the sun and tied up in | bundles for shipment. The pickie-cured fish are sonked i tanks of brine for a month or s0. I have been using Carman isiand saiv | from the Guif of California, as it 18 the best | on the const and does not discolor the fish. “A similar business might be worked up n shipping smoked halibut east. Gloucester, Mass.. now controls the trade, but fish are more abundunt on this const and can be caught and smoked more cteaply. There is no resson why the trade snould not be brought to the Sound if we can get ocapital aud skilled men to handle it.” Nebraska. J..H. Emery of Diller died of dropsy, aged 70 years. Minden's new elevator is about ready to steam up. The Biue Springs electric light plantis rapidly approaching completion. Bloomsield people are making a hard fight 10 secure the division of Knox county. Epworth leagues have just conciuded a successful district convention at Wymore. Cougressman MeKeighan's son Charies was marriad last week ar Rod Cloud 1 Miss Gertrude Maranville. The Huwiey house at North Platte was completely destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $10,000, only partially covered by insur- ance. A farmer uear Wahoo found a large bald engle in his poultry yard, aud after a hard u‘fiun he succeeded in capturing the bird ve. The North Platte conference of the Lutheran church opens tcday at Oaklsna and will continue in session for more than a week. Huyes county peaple belleve in patroniziag home indusiry, and therefore the Palisade mulls are kept running night and day to @l urders. A farmer near Hearney raised a pumpkio thay weighed fifty-ve pounds, w0 say noth- %flu Mexican corn that meusured i inches. Thowas Giison of Burchard has sued Paw- | all the | test. | briet | by shoot | near Idaho Springs. | ning | be put in at once and a large number of men nee county for Iying in mxmx 1 Tiemth impaired. When William Beihle of Stanton wasdriv- ing to town with & lod of hay, having two ahildren with him, he discoversd his load on five just after he had passed a train. He had to liustle to get tie ohildren off the load and | got the team out of the way in time to pre. vent more serious results. ‘The wagon and hay were burned in a short time. | Says the Superior Journal: With thou- sands of tons of hay imported Here this year it is high time our farmers were setting down to the fact that the wild prairie grass is & thing of the past. A substitute must be | had and the only thing in_sight is aifaifa. | This onee started will give a never failing supply, both as pasture for eattie and hogs, as wall as insure thrae crops of hay t vour ground ready to plant aifaifa early the resultof | s having his | mext spring. | Farmer Sloan of Sarpy county challenged | all comers to & corn-shucking contest and Dick Kiger took him up. The agresment was that if Sloan shouid win no wages wers | to be paid Kiger for the husking, but if the | latter should win hie was to receive as a gift | s o could shuck during the con- | 1he time of the match was two hours | wenty minutes, and_the score in that ime resulted: Sloan, 28 bushels; Kiger, 30 busnels and 0 pounds. | Says the Springfleld Monitor: Three little | Indian boys, ranging from 10 to 13 years of | age, stopped at G. W. White's one_day last woek to get something to eat. They had | be- l and slept in A straw stack the night fore and claimed they had eaten nothing for thio past twenty-four hours, and, from the way they ate, Mr. White says he didn't doubt their word. They had come from Oklanoma as far as Nebraska City on the train, and were tramping it the balance of the way to Norfolk, where their parents lived. Che railroad company has been doing an immense busincss for the last faw days, say: the Long Pine Journal. Nenrly fifty ongines have gone over the turntable at the round house every twenty-four hours for the last week. From five to seven stock trains, aver- aging about twenty cars to the train, passed through Long Pine esch day. ‘The coal supply bere has been distributed to all parts of the country at the rateof ten cars per day. The company has been uuable to secure lielp enough at the yards to do the work necessary to be done. ‘Thirteen or fourteen years ago Dr. Byrne was one of the practicing phy of Table Roek and 5 sicians was considered one of the leading citizens. A couple of yemrs previous | be was clected and served as coronerof | Pawnee county. He got into some financial | trouble in connection with his partner in the | winter of 15880, and about Februarv, 1881, suddenly left for Californin_to avoid prose: cution, presumably He had a wife at Table Rock at that time and three children. He wrote back until the following Angust, after which no further aews ever came from him. It has lately transpired that he married at ivingston, Tex., some twelve years since and commitied suicide there two years ago himseif after a protracted de- bauch, leaving a wife and two culdren at | that place. As he left some property investi- | gations are being made as to the rightful heir Mrs. Byrne, his first wife, suill lives at Table Rock, never having remarried and always believing he would return some day, and her oldest son is now a man grown. Colorado. Placers are paying well on Chicago creek, | The Kent, an old Gilpin county property, is ng cleaned out for resumption of wori. The Woliftone mine, Leadville, is turning out about fifty tons of iron sulpnides daily. About 5,000 locations have been made in Crivople Creek and about 400 patents have been applied for. Leadville Consolidated is selling in New York at 12 and 13 cents per share. It was active last week. The Pmiadelphia smeiter, Puebio, is run- full force, handling 500 tons every twenty-four hours. A sawple from a vein struck on Goose creek, the new Gunnison country gold dis- trict, assayed $1,000. The Cte and Ulay mines at Lake City are | preparing to resume operations. They ex- Doct to employ 250 men. Several tons of ore from the Shellbark lode, Yankee Hill, just treated at Idaho | Springs returned $640 per cord. The Ben Harrison on Bull mountain, Crip- ple creek, has opened a four-foot vein with a six-inch streak of 3100 ore and fourteen inches of $10 ore. E. Gladstone, a Central City shipper. is down fifty-five’ feet and has shipped $500 worth of are in two weels. It is the work of two men alone withont machinery. The Great Equator company has com- menced the erection of a mill at Empire. "The Gold Dust mine there has struck three feet of thirty-two-ounce free milling ore at 200 feet. The daily product of Cripple Creek is now about 170 tons, of which about ten tons run from $75 to $500 & ton and are shipped to the smeiters. The remainder runs from $8 to §20 and is milled there. The hig canal of the Farmers High Line comvany, at Golden, has beea levied upon and advertised for sale on a_claim of about $IT.000. (¢ is worth $50,000, but the company finds it difficult to raise funds now. The Boulder Tribune anrounces the re- sumption of work in the old Phanix gold camp, three miles west of Noderiand, where there are large bodies of low grade ore. For twenty years the camp has been pra tically abandoned. A forty-stamp mill will given work. The Dakotas. Extensive prairie fires have been burning in the viciity of Miller, S. D. M. A. Freetand and W. J. Esley of Onawa, a., were the lucky bidders for constructing ten additional buildings at the new location of Lower Brule agency. at §23,000. One of the fluest beef corrals in tne north- west has just been compieted at the new lo- cation of Lower Brule Indian agency on the west side of the Missouri river, a little above w Creek agency. A bearshot last week at Newcastle, in the Hills, proved 10 be a grizaly, weigning about 1700 pounds and in good fighting condition. There are pienty of cinnamon bear in that part of the country, but a grizzly bas not been seen for tifteen yeacs. Che Messrs. Jilbert and Markham are placer mining on Deadwood creek, near the Gaville bridge. with very satisfactory re- sults. One washing of dirt netted the boy $17. _The scene of their operations is where in 1876 two brothers cleaned up sometfing like $100,000 in 3 few months. Sioux Falls ana Yankton and intervening towns were celebrating in_great style the completion of the Wioux Falls & Yankton road upon which regulur trains are to begin running Monday. The celebration was under the auspices of the Sioux Falls Jobbers as- sociation and there were present 110 guests from Yanktonand fifty from intervening points. An injupction was served on the B. & M. railroad preventing it from extending its line across mining ground owned by W. Lavdner near Deadwood. Lne company fought the injunction and crossed the ground. - This resulted in a Aght between Lardner's meu and railrond men. Lardner's men came oul_irivmphant, tearing up the | track and standing guard over it with guns, Some days ago a nunber of condemned cavalry horses were sold at auction at Fort Meade. [ is now reported that a nightor Lwo after the sale of taree of Lthe condemued horses that had been purchased for the Indians of troop L, and four beeves, also be- | longing w0 members of this troop, wera stolen from a corral near the camp of the Indan soldiers. The bars had been out and the anumals run off during the night. Partics are out scouring the country for the thieves. Oregoun A company of the Oregon National nas been organized at Milton. Wild geese have appeared at Eugene and are being shot for the market. The Trail creek placers have cleaned up another §2,000 and sent it W Baker. Elias, Hevel, of Holin. Umatiila county, raised a potato sixteen inches long. ‘Phe wale population of Astoria ‘s down on the docks hooking Lhe festive wmood. ‘The Toledo coal Company’s miue brought $8,750 under sheriff's sale at Yaquina. Lane county prunes a.e about ail gathered, The rains did seme damage to the crop, The snow 18 six inches deep on the Cas- cades between Lane and Crook counties. The Eugene caauery hus closed down after working over 118,00 pouuds of dsh. ‘The Simmons artesiva well, northwest of Pendleton. is dowa 275 feet and still no signs of water. Neitner the well-borer nor the Guard see what is going on. the plants aimost look as though they were alive, the nipning of the 35,000,000, | catchies are the resuit, county jaii and was himself obliged w0 through iron bars for twenty county, tion of over fifty inhavitants: a saloon, newspaper in the county. general store are gowg in. struction of wheat by the recent raius in tha over 5,000,000 busheis, and all that vested will be marketed as rejected thn being the instructions of agents to e halis last week the wedding married. 4 resolution recommending that cit first class, instead of patching up their pres- ent charters, m:te in going before the next legislature and asking that a general mu- nicipal-incorporati oprosite West Aberdeen, has been completed, and the dike compietely closing the middle e neers will then take a rest and wnig for ra. sults expected to come The appropriation of 40,000 completely exhausted. in boring for artesian The product is promounced by those who Jinow to ve of & high grade and well worth going after. of anly sixty feet, ten water. izing a company to go after the coal, looking, is beating ner way along the Union Pacific’ toward Portiand, California, where she claims 1o have friends. She says she started from Peors enough money to pay her way o Los An at 3 cents 4 mile, out at Bozeman, and now she hides herself ing down the iCalama road, she met o team on'the rocky point just above the Kalama macher s discouragod, but the Intter's finds have about grven ont, T Benton county roadi“are already in an almost impassable comdition in many places. Water is ligh snough in the Luckiamute to flont logs dowwn that AT been accumu- lating for nine years, A. Vitus and sons havebought for $18,000 the Samuel Meek farm of 752 acres eight miles northwest of Eagene. Joo Southwell is puttini inte the pavilion at The Dalles faira protuy exhibit of sixty- four differsnt grasses and some tobacco loaves, togother with Jernsalom and broom corn, all grown on his ffm, M. M. Davis, receiver of the Niagara Mill compAny, hias gone np tothe company’s mill on the Santiam, having received word between 900,000 and 1.000.000 fest of logs had broken away {rom the boom at that place. Umatilia Indians are returning from the hunt. One of them, Jumes C-sa-kite, Brought back with him t Pendleton six deer and_two elk after a fortnight of hunt- ing at Olwver or De.lation lake at Green- born. Mr. Reynoids, up to date 3,008 b cattle buyer, lias bonght rad of beef in Crook county. every head of which will ba shipped 1w eastern marke's. When the ride ceases and | nspectious are completed his purchases | hat county will resca not less than 5,000 | at Tiilamook, as silversides have come in. The timore eannery now has twenty-five boats fishing and_the average eatch is about twenty-five to the boat. 1t is | expected the run will imiprove after this rough wenther. Henry White and ‘aver the trail" wit 7,000 head of the E. begun_to Fred H:ll, who went one bunch containing Boetteher sheep drive sm Cmatilla county, have returned to Pen- dleton. Thedrive was successfully made, and stopped at_Laramie, Wyo., where 12,000 sheep were delivered to purchasers, Mr. Payne, who has been prospecting on his piace opposite Wood's rock quarry, near Corvallis, after sinking a sixty-foot siaft, found that the stone was too difffcult o quarry, so he opened up another piace, whera he found what he wanted near the surface. The sanastone he found there was pro- nounced by a Portland expert as a kind that has not been known to exist this side :he Rocky mountains. There is a cabbage fleld on the bank of the river a little above Salem, according to the Tadependent, which the present high water nas overflowed. leaving the tops of the plants a litte above the surface. The owner sa; that an immense scheol of carp have taken advantage of the opportunity to fatten off his cabbage and that his garden is_fairly alive with them. Standing where he can 70. fish causing them to be in a constant tremble. Washingto Senttle’s taxable wealth is a little over w Whatcom's Septembe 00, Wildeats in broad aa, reign exports rrv off poultry about Knappa light. Silver backed salmon are running up the streams about Port Angele: There is a turnip in the Blaine Journal's office which weighs twenty-three pounds. The Walla Waila street cars running and the superintendent expiain. John Uphouse of Sedro is said to have is- covered asbestos deposits of considerable richness and extent The Ruby creek trail is_ opening to view and possible settlement extensive vall and bottom lands 2,000 foet above sea levi Dr. Walstan of Ocosta 'was~ driven out on a railroad trestie by & bear and had to hang | from the end of a beam while a freight train passed. A newly arrived Englishmin named Rich- ards advanced a Seattle bunco man $100 on in unsigned check for $3.200 & few minutes after he met him. "The high winds have caused an immense runof fish at Aberdeen; and phenomenal number of boats "o stopped teclines 1o bringing in over 300 cach. B. B. Glascock of Sprague has sold to W, M. Wolverton of Spokane ail his land in Lincoin county, amounting -to about G.000 acres, for the sum of $70,000, The Walla Walla farmers have hired J ames Hamilton Lewis of Seattle to prose- e the enforcement of the:Anderson freight bills rate on wheat before the courts. Mike Camphbell of walking along Deep ri bears eating sai-lal berri them with his rifle. him about 345, John Galligher. janitor of the Pacific Na- tional bank building at Tacoma, talked through the grates with a. prisoner in the look minutes as a result. He has sued for $,500 dumages for the indignity. Stevenson the Cathlemet while out r cAme 4Cross some es and killed four of The higes will bring only town in Skamania is already the county seat, though only two montbs oid, and now has a populu- vostoftice, and the only A bank, mill and hotei, billiard hall A conservative estimato places the de- Palouse, Potlatch and Hangman regions av is har- wheat, Vator companies. When Laura Gordon was married at Che- alke proved w be one made three years ago Ly herself and | three companions, 10 be cuy for the Of course the ca as when first made, anu y wedding cakes can be. The Tacomu Commercial club ha s of the bill to provide uniform harters throughout the state be passed. The government dike in the south chaunel, L will soon be finished. The engi- with high water. has not been A three-foot vein of conl has been struck water at Pullman. he vein was struck at a depth ix foet above artesian There is now strong talk of organ- A female tramp, 25 years old and good having in view o, 1L, wih zeles but that her money zave wherever she can about freight trains. A few days ago, while Miss Hull was com- what | ¥ = 1 river tridge. As she started to tde by the tenm, one of the horses bit her horse, cvu ing him to jump sidewise off the high cliff, some forty feet, into the desp twate be Miss Hull managed to jurp oft on_the ped unhurt. The horse landed in ter and $tam safely ashoro WMigeellaneons. ovar & foot deep at the head of Powder river in Wyoming. At Lusk, Wyo., the other day of shieep were dipped for scab. Three drunien Choctaws kailed two white men at Caddo, L. T., without provocation. The Indians in_Churehill, Humboldt, Lan- der and White Pine counties, Nevadu, are harvesting the pine nut crop, which is said be unusually good this season, Tivo sons of Andrew Carnegie have been in Wyoming hunting for some time past. They report game pienty, but say that the Inaians are staughtering il species rapidly A carlond of chickens and ducks from Kansas passed through Reno, Nev., on the way to California. The car fowis and is arranged so that they can fed and watered. The raisin crop in s about hali picked, will finish the work. he as in former gathering the grapes by white labor, only a few dians being employed. A party arrived in San Bernardino, Cal., A few days since from a protracted prospect- ing trip on the desert in the region north of the Kose mine, bringing with them fne snecimens of gold-bearing quartz discovered by them. An assay shows 3,000 ounces in brittle silver and $200 in gold. The Mok is biack and of peculiar appearance. The lodge discovbred is only m few inches in width, but its rmchuess counterbalunces this. priwerinboeRcveshoi Mn. Eprron: It having come to my knowi- odge that thera is considerabie misappro- hension amang members of the Commercial club and other citizens that the electric ight company has designs upon the city for the sale of its plant to the oity of Omaha from the proceeds of the Dbond proposition before the city and now pending. 1 have thonght that thiese reports were too preposterous to deny, but, as_silence seems to be wrongly con- struod, I wish to respectfully state that the eleotric light company is not for saie, and it could ot be bourht nless compelled to do so by conditions that do not now exist and can- not be anticipated hereafter. The electric light plant is owned by eastern stockholders. of which [am the president and manager and nova large stockholder. Our stock is held by over 100 different persons, and who invested in the compaay for an investment only 1t mnk 10,000 head Riverside vallay, Ca nd another two weel The crop is not as cars. The work of been done most Chinese and I my confident belief that the company would avail its self of the cheap power from the canal, as it intends to be among the fir-t to compete for it, from the city of Omaha or who ever builds the canal. If on any account it shail be thought best to pur- » clectric light plant hereafter tnat se and saie can only be effected be- ie city of Omaha has the right of condemnation. The electric light company stunds ready today to contract for 000 horse power in advance at the prices that been mentioned in the different mest~ ings upon the canal project. Iam informed that the charge ls utly made that the electric light com- s gotten up this canal project; to un- lond itself upon thecity, and that the city council will repenl the ordinance creating the commission and abolish it so it can buy the electric light company. In an- swering ths [ can say that, S0 far as the electric light company i conce wholly without foundation, as offered onr works for sale. 1 would not hava any part in the diversion of the canal or water works money, as the completion of the canal will be ‘the prade of my life. [ am asked why [ take so much interest m the canal project, and conclude to answer it publiciy. That the same motives (and those only) that impeiled me to commence the sur- vey of this canal alone six years ago and persistently continued it since, at a personal sacrifice of nearly $5,000. others refusing to heip, and was called a crank for thinking of such a tning as a water power on a plun. is my only answer. Some object 1o my being on the commission, and to those [ will say thut while I feel competent ta sit upon the commission, after having had over twents years experience in building and operating water powers, T would rather be loft off of it than that the building of the canal should be imperiied. I did not seei or ask to go on the commission, und my only ambition is to see the canal built, as [ expect toend my iays in Omaha and have larg torests at stake by the rise or y. Very respectfully, s P SWALLOWED BENNETT'S BAIT, con- fall of this L. WLeY. Organized Labur and Populists Indignant Ovor the Action of an Editor. The action of The Western Laborer, supposed to be issued in the wterests of organized labor, in supporting & ticket in- cluding Bennett for sheriff, is sovere demned by members and leaders of the people’s party and Knights of Labor. They intimate that the fisihook, oce can never be delivered. The attempt to guil the citizen is too plain. It is also said, on good authori since the lust 155ue Of the paper a proposi- tion has been made to the peavie’s party to reorganize the management of the pag which will then advocate the election of the straight peopie’s party ticket. The leaders of that party, it is renorted, o not ook with much favor upen such a scheme. Chairman Cohen, Candidate Fow ler, Secretary Sackett and a number of others met yosterday torenoon at hemd- on this quarters and discussed the attitude of the | vaper. “[ didn’t have enough money,” said Mr. Fowler, “otherwise I might Lave received the endorsement.” ———— Serofula eradieated and all kindred dis- enses cured by Hood's sarsaparilla, whic! by its vitalifing and alterative effects, makes pure biood. AR ik Refused the Request. Mamie and H. C. Curry were arrestod yes- terday afternoon at the corner of Sixteenth | and Cuming streets by Officer Dubois, The officer says that Mrs. Curry was creating a disturbance, and when he went to arrest her she resisted with so mueh vigor that he lled on her husband to assist in arresting his own wife. He naturally refused, and Dubois placed him under arrest for refusing. el Littie pills for great ills: DeWity's Little Early Riser: - Odd Fellows Home Associatic The Odd Fellows Home trustees of braska leld their first meeting at Lincoin inmediately after the adjournment of the grand lodge, and perfected a lemporary or- ganization by the eiectio Omaha, temporar N. Besls, temporar; then adjourned tempora president, a secratary. The boui subject 1o the call of the ¢ president, to moet at Fremont. L George ' “Attacks on Washing-Powders dph't affect Pearline, Pearline is a wash- ing-compound, in powder form, to be sure, but quite a different thing. that it acts upon dirt a: clothes. It's made so s noth- ing else will, but can't possibly do any harm to substance, Soap-makers are advertis- ing against washing-powders, claiming that they ruin the They're more than half right. But ghemical amalysis and the experience of millions of women prove that Pearline hasn't the power to harm clothes thag soap has. And it saves all that ruinous rubbing that you have to use with soap, besides, - Peddlers and ** this is as Bewar YOU 24 imitation, be Lonest—smd i back. i is an good a2 or ihe same ae Peasine.” ALSE—Peaitas is never peddied. if P T some unscrupuious grocers will teil , TS grocer sends. . New York, haited,” but thav the goods | of John Kvans of | CONTINENTAL CLOTHING HOUSE. GREAT HALF PRICE SUIT 00 MEN'S CHEVIOT SUITS FOR Beginning on sale 500 nominal price. BOYS DEPARTME SALE. 50c ON THE DOLLAR. this morning we men's sack suits, from all wool cheviots and cassimeres, which were made for this season’s busi- ness to sell at g10, $12 and 313, at the unheard of price of $3, 6. 50and $7.50. This means business, and is a rare op- portunity to buy reliable clothing at a will place made $5.00 $6.50 $1.50 NT. Boys’ 2-piece Suits. We mean to keep our boys’ department busy this week and will have on sale over 500 suits of boys' all wool cassi- mere and cheviot suits at $2.50 and $2.50 $3.50 3.50, which cannot be_duplicated for less than double, outside the Continental, Men’s Fancy Worsted Pantaloons 500 pairs of $2.75 fancy worsted pantaloons, similar to those sold by us recently, will be on sale Monday and Tuesday at KEEP IN MIND $2.75 that the Continental Half Price Suit Sale will be the greatest feature in Omaha this week. CONTINENTAL CLOTHING HOUSE. “THERE IS SCIENCE IN NEATNESS.” BE WISE AND USE SAPOLIO ETIC NERVINE. 15 sold with written guarantee to cure NarvousProstra: tion, Fits, Dizzi- ness, Headache and Rourdigia and Wako- fulness,caused by ex- oossivauseof Opium, L g N B Stentas D ! l; Memtal Depros- ~BEFORE - AFTER - sion, Softening of tho Grain, causing Misery, Insanity and Beath; Burrencss, Impotency, Lose Fowar in sither sox Premature Old Age, [uvoIniury Losses, onuse by over-ndulgencs, ver-exertio: the Drain and rors ot Youth. Tt gives to Weak Orguus tivie Nataral Vigor md doubjes (he joys of ffe: cures Lucorrhoes and Femuio Weakness, A month's treas ment, in plain peckage, by muil, to any address, S1 per box, S boxes 8. With avary 85 order we give o Written Cunrantee w cure or refund the money. Circular fros, Guarutes issucd only by our ex- clusive agent, Kuhn & Co.. Sole A gents,Omahn. Neb' L DAPO, thegroat Hindoo Remedy. Soid with writ- n Eunrantes of ire.Sample sout (ree. 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