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

GOLD 1N BLACKFOUT VALLEY | Rich Btrikes Reported from the Head of the Gulch. WAS ONCE RICH IN PLACER DIGGINGS Parsnit of the Search for the Ledge Re: warded with a Find of Decompused Quartz that Containe Mueh of the Glittering Dross. Parties in from the Big Blackfoot bring news of a very rich gola strike. In the early days the Big Blackfoot placers were very rich and produced thousands of dollars in gold, says the Helena Independent. After the placers had been worked out the miners de- serted it, though a few tried for years to find the ledge from which gold came. The gave up the search. vistopher Strauss and Alexander Came ron did not abandon all hope of finding the vein ground av the head of the gulch ana have been sinking shafts in the hope that they would find the much Tonged-for ledge. The other day their labors s rewarded, and at the bottom of one of theiv prospect holes a ledge some six feet wide was found, the center of which was composed of rotten auartz in which the nug- nd coarse yellow dust could be scen % brightly in the dull-colored decom- Some of tis panned bo- of persous, and the gold taken from the first pan amounted to over Several other pans of dirt were washed and in no cuse did the amount fall below The people in the Blackfoot valicy are greatly excited over the find, and the many wining men who have looked at the ledge say 1t is as rich as they have ever seen. The ground on which the leage was found is patented and is owned by C. Strauss, Cam- eron, Edgerton and Jewel, the last two being residents of Helena. If this is really the main lead, and there can hardly be a doubt but that it is, it will be a great help to the Blackfoot country and is apt to prove an- sther Whitlawh-Union as regards richness. Another Shipper for Creede. Shallow creek will furnish the next shipper from Creede shortly aft the first of the year. 1t will bo the Eureka Extension lode, owned by Tom Lahr and David Long of Creede and James R. Poole of Deaver, says $he Times of that city. This fact is estab- lished by the condition of the property as developed by recent work. Tho tunuel is in 260 feet, following the vein the entire dis- tance. Laur drifted north on the vein and struck a mass of zine blende, iron py . and amethyst q , assays return- fug 206,80 ounces sily and three- fourths of an ounce of gold, or a value of §222.76 per ton. As he has been running the entire distance on the hanging wall, he is unable to the width of the vein. The recent optionon a fourth interest, given by K. Smith to . C. Burns for 10,000, has been throwu up bythe latter, and now Smith is working the prop- erty with Lahr. This property has shown as high as four ounces ingold, and a trio of Swedes, who are working a claim just north of and ad- Joining the Eureka, have a copper stained talcthat has shown from two to three and oune-half ounces gold. Handicapped, by low finances the boys are unable to make rapid progress, but they propose to stay by Lying southwest of the Fureka is the Jasper group, which i ¢ more gold value than silver, and a new mineral—new to Creede—is found ou this ground. It is asbestos, but very short fiber. The owners of this are negotiating with some capitalists o open it up, Big Strike of Lead Ore. The Great Kidge mine has again shown a wondorful improvement, which, though expected, yetWias predicted by an eminent expert over u year ago. says the Denver Times. This phenomenal -property, owned principally by ex-Senator Thomas K, Bowen, o few months ago struck a volume of water, which washed out nlso a volume of iead ore, something over 600 tons in three days. As s00n as the water subsided ityyas found that there stood at the breast of the tunnel an immense chamber of ore, but standing in such condition as to make it unsafe to work. While endeavoring to afford the proper pro- tection to the miners there occurred another flow of water as great as the first. Then it was decided not 1o drive any further ahead, but instead to bulkhead the breast and drift north on the vein as first. This development has given up an average of five carloads of lead concentrates per day, which run 75 per cent lead and $10 to $12 in gold per ton. A short time ago a drift south was started toward the Ethel, and giving greater depth the further into vhe hill they went. More recently the miners in this drift encountered the first quartz ever found on the propert It is hard and of whitish color, carrying ounces silver per ton, and the streak is six inches wide. Alongside this quurtz lies a streax of galena, about the same thickness, ‘which assays 300 ounces silver per ton and 30 per cent lead. Twenty-four hours of work on this new find shows it to still hold out, and the fact thata certain exvert last win- ter predictea that the mine must and would reach quartz before 1t gave up its richest mineral, gives strength to the belief that the property is now at its best stage. It1s reported that its owners will erect another concentrator, The preseut one is of but forty tons capacity and has long been too small for the amount of o It has been separating the lond and zine splendidly. Up to a recent date the owners had been unable to sell their zine prodact, but now they com- mence shipments to Canon City. Gold Fields nt Satlda, citoment is growingz at Salida over the mineral discoveries in the southwestern corner of South park. Eignt prospecting parties left Inst week for these new gold ey owned som fields on the strengtn of favorable reports received the Sunday previous, Partie: outfitting to start and will take provisions along to last all winter, There 18 a good wagon road from Salida to the new find and the distanco can bo covered with & wagon team in six hours. The camp is located near she old Hartsel Salt Springs, well knowa to cattlemen, Gas and Possibly OlL. A correspondent of the Denver Tintes vis- ited Grand Junction's natural gas well and found that it bad reachea a depth of over 860 feet. ‘The heavy volume of gas which was found in tho sand rock a couple of weeks ogo is still flowing with undimmished volume and gives every evidence of per- manency, Judging from tho smell of the gas it comes from petroleum and it is confl- dently expected that additional work will tap o large body of oil. All of this is in keepiug with the idea thut has prevailed in the minds of many people throughout the country for several yearss past, that botb oll and gas texisted beneath the surface of the ground in this valley. The Western Colorado Development com- ny was organized for the purpose of bor- ng & well for general results, it being the expectation of the prime movers in tho pro- ject to find_artesian water, The work was commenced under the advice of Prof. J. H. Soutnwell of Rock laland, 111, who came last spring and looked the grouna earefully over. .I'he scape of the cowmpany bas been very largely increased since its Inception, and it was found advisable to incorporate with a capital stock of $1.000,000. T'weunty of the leadmng citizens of the city became ‘incorpo- rators, and through the efforts of some of these a considerable amount of Rock Island, 111, capital was interested under the leader- | _ship of Adair Pleasants, & leading attorney of that oity. . The city of Grand Junction granted to this company, at & special election held October 16, a franchise for oil, gas and artesian ‘water. The people of the valley have given 10 the company leases in exchange for stock for several thousand acres of land. The company has secured contracts to water a “large tract of the finest truitland in the country, and it is the intention of the com- paoy, should artesian water noi be found, Lo ‘complete several ditch systews, pians for ‘which have aiready beeu formulated, and severa! miles of dilch constructed. Irou Carbo antes. Brad Du Bols came in from a listle station called Alder.about twenty nules beyond Pon- ¢h Divile. seeming protty well satistied :.l.sh life in general, and well he may be, for 18 pusseased of 160 acros of ground there (and reachiug for more) that, u syste. watic development has satisticd bim itis & blanket formation of iron carbonates, car- | South Dakota since rying gaiens. ‘Two carloads have vecurned 42 por cent lead, thicteen & in gold por ton. The formation is almost identical with that of the well known [ron Hill at Leadville. Aftor considsrable pros- peoting and development, and meeving too much water, arrangoments are on foot to drive a long tunnelinto the lill, dratn it and got out the stuff. Viry Rieh streak. Charles Kittriage and frionds, the Gold King at Amizstte, N. M., wove sur- prised today at the returns received from a sack of ore brought trom the mine a fow days ago. 'The streak is about eizht inches in width, of « decomposed nature, lving next to an ei “h streak of quactz which has assaved from three to four ounces in goid. ‘Ihe decomposed matter has been thrown over the dump heretofore, but is foun:! to contain #4%0 per ton in gold. Cinrk's Fork Filelds. it of three prospectors of Butte to the Clark's fork gold fields durine a blinding snow storm, suys the Red Lodge Pickett, led them to telezraph o Butte paper that the whole thing was a bilk. Their entire time was occupiea while there in staking out claims for themsclves, which shows that they had a motive in giviog the camp a black eye. There isno doubt thut greatly exaggerated stories have been told ounces silver and who own { In regard to the richness of the fleld, but that gold is there canaot be disputed. If it is 1n paying quantities remains to be demon- strated, and this cannot be done unul next spring. Prospectors will do well fo stay away until reliable resuits are obtained. After the Wolves. Stockmen in the eastern and northern parts of the stato suffered immenso losses last year from the ravages of wolves, which navenot been sonu merous and bold for years, i Reports are being ain ap- ing on the ranges in such numbers that they are a veritable pes in all the range count ary to Fort Benton the ground is strewn with carcasses of calves and yearlings killed by wolves, Stockmen are offering rewards for wolfl calps in addition to the state bounty, and successful hunters can make that section. Catile Rustiors Caught. A big cattle stealing_deal in the western part of South Dakota has been made public by the arrest of Willism Newson, charged with stealing sixteen nead of cattle from a stockman named Patterson, A number of hitherto considered prominent stockmen west of Plerre, says the Minneapolis Trib- une, were implicated in the deal, and it is claimed that they shipped train loads of stolen cattle from Hermosa, in the Black Hills, to Kansas City, whero they were sold. A number of parties ' who were implicated have skipped out, having got wind of the fact that oficers were after them. Newson came within one of making his esc The stealing was unearthed by the Missouri River Stockmen’s association, and it is on the trail of the thioves and purposes to clean out the gang. big money in Nebraska. Emerson wants a new $3,000 hotel. Platte county has been having a mad dog scare. The Lyoas Mirror has entered upon its thirteenth year. A revival is in progress among the Presby- terians of Nelson. R. L. Alyea has been elected president of the Webstér County Agricultural society. A stallion belonging to Eugene Mock of Beatrice, valued at §1,500, lost its life ina burning barn. A lodge of Royal Neighbors has been or- ganized at Fairmont with twenty-five charter membenr: ‘The big sewer from the State Institute for the Blind at Nebraska City to the river has been completed. A petition has been signed by many prop- erty owners of Blair for the extension of the city limits on all four sides. Mrs. J. H. Bennett of Harvard' fell down a flight of stairs and received injuries whien itis feared will prove fatal. The Lyons creamery divided among its vatrons during October $1,465.7), the net profits of the factory for the mouth, Pupils of the Blair schools contributed liberally on Thanksgiving day in food and clothing to the voor. Irrigation - meetings ara being held regulurly at Lodge Pole and an effort is being made to work up sentiment in favor of state aid. . Robert Wyckoff, 12 years old, of Tekamah had his leg broken in two places by being thrown from a lorse and was otherwise bruised. 4 Albert Bartlett of Alma has been found guilty of attempting to murder his own sister, Mrs. A. E. Brown. The jury wasout twenty hours. The Baptist society of Wayne is the one to join. There hasn't been & death in the membership of the church since it was or- ganized twelve years ago. iles Brink, a Gage county farmer, will try irrization on a large scale next year, and some other farmers in the vicinity will also oxperiment with ditches. Mrs. Auna L. Dowden has retired from the Noith Bend Republican, ana Wil M. Maupin has stepped into her editorial shoes. They pinch his feet a trifle. A Jady of Brolken Bow comes out in a card to the public explaining that her daughter was suspended from the public schools, be- cause she said she saw the professor with his arms around oue of the female teachers. J. W. Powers of Curtis used a piece of won to hammer home some shells that were tight for s shotgun. The cat in his chin aud his thumb have been sewed up by a doctor, but the physician was unable to pick all the powder out of his patient's face, With his experiment in the raising of mustard on his farm near Brainard ,Mr. James Bell has had good results, notwith- standing a considerably loss in tho yield on account of hail. From what could be called about half a crop the receipts amounted to $10 per acre. He harvested 1,100 bushels of this novel crop. About a weelk ago, while a 6-year-old son of Dan Leach of Fonca was playing 1n the yard, he fell, running a lavge sliver into his kuee. Mrs, Leach extracted the sliver, as she thought, and dressed the wound. Tho wound, iustead of healing, began to swell and get very sore. A doctor was summoned. He probed for the remaining piece of the sliver and could not find it. The knee has now swollen to enormous proportions and is very painful. It is thought that amputation will be necessary to save the child's life, Says the Alma Tribune: Fred Martin, a young man living in Phillips county, Kansas, after persuading Miss Berthu Boechler, n young lady 17 years old, to marry him, came to_Alma, nnd on returning told the young Indy tbat he had secured the license and that Judge Smith would meet them at a literary sociely that evening and iarry them. However, the judge did not arrive and they started for home, but, as Martin had planned, they were overtaken by o young man who claimed to be Judge Smith, and he performed tho ceremony. The young Indy's father suspected that all was not right, and sent to Alma and found that no license had beon issued. He immediately swore out & warrant for Martin's arrest, but when Deputy Sheriffl Mitchell arvived at the house he fouud that the young couple had left for Kansas, It will be rather warm for the young. wan and the pretended judge if they ave captured. The Dakotas, The D. & D. smelter at Deadwood is now t'.‘rc ting 100 tons of ore every twenty-four ou Quite & number of prominent peoplo at Fort Pierre are claimed to be implicated in the rustling that has been goiag on. A report from Miller, 8. D., says wheat thieves are getting in their work in the onrthwest and southeast parts of the county. The gold bullion product of the northern Hills properties, for the first half of Novem- ber, amounted to just §350,000. The School of Mines at Rapid is now equipped with a turee-stamp mill, makiogit possible for the institution to make practical tests of fairly large quantities of ore. Efforts to vlace an elbow on the pipe at the Risdon artesian well have proved suc- cessful, and now the huge stream that for two weeks past has been shooting eight. feet into the air. goes into ditehes aud Luds its way into the river. Judge Edgerion of Sioux Falls directed a verdict declaring invalid $60,000 of bounds is- sued during the 1800 campaign for the capi- tal location. If this decision 1s sustained by the -um- court of the United States every municipal and-school bond issued in statehood is invalid Huron alone can repudiate £300,000 worth of bonas, The deal between the Bald Mountain Con- soligated Mining compiny and an English syndics ated at Deadwood, Tho deal acres of miniog eround, water buildings. The price paid was about £00,000. Tho new company will be known as the Thunderer Mining company William Barnaby and William Brown of the notorious Wyoming rustlers were catight at Deadwood _and two of tho stolen horses were found in their possession. Brown stolo twenty-eight head from Wyoming last October, for wnich he is wanted. The hocses found with the thieves here were stolen at Newcastle, Wyo. Colorado, A fow Colorado miners are figuring on going to the African gold fields, 700 miles from Cape Town. The Isabella company, Cripple Creek, has contracted to supply the Rosebud mill with 600 tons & month. A rich strike is reported in the D on Raven hll, It isaquartz with gold scattered through 1t Ore assaying §800 is reported to_have beon encounterea in the Morning Glory No. 2, Cripple « ok, At grass roots. All the coal mines of Coal Creek, Rockvale and Willizmsburg_are vunning full force, about 1,200 miners being employed The Colorado Fuel company is pre to run a tunnel half a mielongat C to tap a big deposit of cc cessible. The gold strikes at Caro and Buffalo sloughs ure causing considerable excitement in Park county. One assay is said to have returned 600 ounces gold. A good strike of sylvanite is reported in the Kalamazoo on Bull hill, Cripple Creek. Good shipping ore hus been exposed in the Damon, 1.000 feet east of the Londonderry A Pennsylvania_syndicate is reported to have taken hold of tho project to run a rail road from Durango to Albuquerque, and it is thought that it will be really built next season, There is now enough work being done in the Mollie Gibson to pay expenses and tho regular dividends. A large force is now de- veloping the ore bodics 10 the eighth, ninth and tenth levels, which aro practically un- explored. A new gold belt in the vicinity of Stlver Plume s a source of a good deal of en- couragenent to the miners of that section, Some very rich ore has been discovered above timber lineand development work wiil be carried on during the winter. Astrike of forty feet of mineral is ported in the Hubert mine, Nevada district, Jilpin county, at a depih of 1,050 feet. The crevico is four feet wide, eizht to ten inches of which is worth from $300 to $400 a ton at thesmelter. After January 1, seventy-five 10125 men will be employed. The October output of Cripple Creek was as follows: Tons milled, %,020; production, 5; tous shipped, 2,211; production, $210 nide. mill and gold dust, £,300; total, . Ihis1s an_increase of §0,650 over September. The amount of oxe sent to the smelters was nearly doubled. orth Star, stalized Wyoming. The citizens of Rock Springs are going to present the Miners hospital, when it is com- vleted, with an ambulance valued at 350, Ranchmen say that horses have been dying in North park and that the Hunter brothers have lost a number of good animals at their ranch on Big creck. .000-pound fly wheel in the Union Pacific shops at Cheyenne broke on Tuesday morning, and 500 pounds of it knocked a big barn door through the side wall. The product of the new billon coal mine will be placed on the market this month. It 1s claimed to be superior to any other in the state for steam and domestic uses. The Miners Delight, the oldest mine in the Lander, Wyo., districy, was sold last gveelk at sheriff's sale to the mortgagor for $25,000. It is estimated to be worth $100,- 000, “T'wo men have been arrestea near Raw- lins, charged with horse stealing. Thirty horses were recovered. Iv is aliegea that they made off with 100 animals from the vi- cinity of Douglas. Tnsthe belief that the Kindt coal would coke with the addition of asmall per cent of anthracite, Saratogans aro having an oven specially constructed, and will experiment with the coal on that theory ‘While the coal is pronounced as valuable as any in the state, the fact of its coking will add much to its importance. Uregon. Snow is seventeen inches deep at Hood river. The Siuslaw salmon pack is put at 10,000 cases. About 1,000 bales of Lane county’s hops are yet unsold. Another $4,000 cleanup has come Baker from the Monumental. Some 170,000 mutton sheep shipped from The Dalles in 1893. A band of 1,800 sheep has just come in at The Dalles to be fed for eastern markets, Fruit trees are arriving by the carload at Yoncalla for numerous orchards, which will be planted thereabouts. A chinook is blowing great guns at The Dalles. The snow is about gone, and cattle are finding grass again. A crowd of hunters counted up some 13,000 Denny pheasants killed in Lion county dur- ing the open season. ‘The new observatory at McMinnville col- lege is completed and the telescope has been brought into requisition. The shores of the Columbia along by The Dalles are thickly lined with wood piled high 1n anticipation of a cold wintes Banker Eakin and County Superintendent Stevenson ure cach setting out 1,000 Enghish walnut trees on their Lane county farms, P. C. Hickman is reported to be surveyinga route for a rairoad from Seaside to Tillu- mook, by way of Kk creek. He hasa fully equipped surveying party. Emsley Houghton, town marshal of Clat- sop, found three horses runging about loose at Seaside a few days ago and sold them at public auction, the owner refusing to pay the fees for impounding them, The anmimals, which were tne property of C. A. Bradbury, brought $05. One of them was reputed to be worth almost double the amount brought by the theee. into have been ‘Washungton, Ocosta’s wild cranberries are being gath- ered by the boar: The Satsop creamery paid out £10,000 for miulk this summer. Colville's six inches of suow still hangs on and fears are felt for the stock. Of Gray's harbor's visible supply of logs w:;muw feet, less thaa 6,000,000, are un- sold. New Whatcom has got the deed to its newly purchased water works ; consideration, #144,000.83. ‘The Puyallup Indians have platted an ad- dition to the city of Tacoma. It will be called the Columbia addition, Whatcom has seventeen oxen on hand and does not know what to do with them. The oxeun belonged to ex-Treasurer lsensee and were attached vy the city. There was another immersion service at Wallula Sunday. Niue women and two men went undex the water with the thermometer a1 18= and ice on the bushes, Hoquiam's big hotel haviug gone inlo liquidation, the town asks to be relieved from halding the next Pythian granda lodge, as it agreed to do next May. Olympia will likely be substituted. ‘Three and a hatf million feet of sawlogs belonging t Day Bros. of Snohomish were sent over Snoqualmio falls last week with- out being injured in the least, and 2,000,000 feet more, now caught in a jam just aboye the falls, will be sent over 4s soon as it can be broken up. In less than six weeks the celebrated Puyallup Indian reservation case, inyolviug property in the state valued at from $5,000,- 000 1o §7,000,000, will be takea up by the United States court of appeals at Seattle. United States District Attoruey Brinker is preparing his brief in the case, which promises to be oue of the wost bitterly con- tested in the bistory of the Pacific coust courts. Most of the Indians of the Colyille rescr- vation are gatheriug at the Okanogan river, opposite Alwa, and will 800n commence @ week!s celebration, or, in other words, a ‘wdeath feast,” over two indians of intlueuee who were burned Lo death some time ugo. Chief Moses and ouber celebrities of gh trive will be present Lo assist in the cere- monies which are 1o beof a supersiitious THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MO nature. Barbecues and Indian singine will be indulgod in, and o wwild, weird sort of “ghost dance” held. Miscellaneo 1. Sonoma has a grapdviab over 40 years old. tisat least 100 feet Jopg, Seventy-five carloadset basalt blocks were shipped from the qhrries near Sonoma ia one weelk recently. i Considerable excitement has boen created in Texas by the gold atrikes in the Organ mountains. Work on the big fftigition dam near Mo- desto is prozressing! 1idly and the struc- ture will probably be cpmpleted in another weok The posofice the smailest in the postmastoes mont, At the Arizona ‘statehood which adjourncd last wedk, u o avpointed to procecd w push the admission of the te The Santa Railroad company hias a foree of surveyors running a line and la, route for new road to connect 1o and Lakeview, Au S05-0unce rotort was r branch mint from the Mammoth mi Field camp, Avizona. 1t wa ounce or §l 2 It was the r weclt's run of ten stamps, Through the efforts of Governor Hughes, a colony of 500 familics of Italian g growers will locate near Yumu, Ariz advanee guard has already arrived. will invest $100,000 at the start. It has boen detormined by the War d partment to abandon the ac! at Bof idaho. The post was established in 156 ‘The citizens of Boise will make strenuous efforts to have the post maintained. Prof. Lowe proposes to establish a mete- orological station on Eoho mountain. He has ordered a complete set of instruments, which are now on the way from the east. Obser- vations will be taken daily, beginning Janu- Azua Caliente is one of uftry amounts 1o from & to £ per ult of one 5 They be, Ariz, recently, two men entered the store of a Chinese merchant in broad daylignt and, pulling down the curtains, commanded the heathen to open his safe! Two big revolvers ecwmbhasized the request, and he complied. The th secured $400 in gold coin. several silver bars and a gold watch. The robbers escaped, An important conference in regard to im- proving the Colorado river was held last week at Yuma betwoen Governor Hug hes, Colonels Mendell and Renguard of the United States engincer corps and Colonel chief of the Moxican boundary lii commission. 1f the plans suggested are ca vied out it will open up to sattlement miles of rich land. Tue electric power project took definite form last week by the incorporation of the Pioneer Electric com An immense dam will be constructed across the riverat Og- den, creating a veservoir that will hold L000.000 cubic fect of water. The power will be taken through a five-foot pipe, under a head of 455 feet, with a velocity of two miles ber minute, creéating 10,00-horse power ————— COONS AND CANDLE LIGHT. Au Excltiog and Spectaculsr Sport as it s Pursued In 1iinots. “One of the most enjoyable nights I ever spent in the woods after coons was over in Illinois last fall,” says a writer in the Globe-Democrat. *I think I have chaged the old ring-tailed corn destroyer about as often as anybody, and have sought him on all kinds of nights and days and seasons. .1 have trapped the coon, hunted him with dogs, shot him, and even gigged him But when it comes right down to real fun, that beats a Fourth of Jaly celebration all to pieces, coon hunting with Roman candles catches me every time: **As I was saying, one night last fall, when I was up the Illinois river duck shooting, some of the boys provosed that we get old Bent Burleigh and his dogs, and spend the night in the bottoms after coons. Burleigh was a coon hunter from away back, Knew just wbere to find them, and hadAhd dogs that understood their business as well #s Bent. We sent up to. Burleigh's house, about a mile distant, and the old inan was eager for the fray. He.came down with his brindle dog Bark and his black-and-tan hound Oreoide, and by 7 o'c four of us were floating down the river in the semi-darkness toward the mouth of Otter creek. The moon was just breaking throughacloud that hung ulong the east when we landed about a mile up the creek. The timber wasnot large and there was not much underbrush-in the bottom. On the south side of the creck there was abig cornfield, und the water at the stopping point was shallow, and numer- ous old logs were ble rising at differ- ent angles—just the place for coons to come in search of mussels and crawfish. There had been a light shower that afternoon, leaving the ground moist, und scarcely a breath of air moved the branche As we neaved the landing place the dogs began sniffiug, and would have barked had not Bent silenced them. “‘Here we be, boys, said the old coon hunter, as we landed. ‘Now, two on ye take yer guns, but carry 'em empty, Keep ‘shells handy, and watch the ole man. He's goin’ to show ye some fun like ye never saw 'afore. The woods is just right, an’ there's heaps o' coon aroun’ in ‘em tonight. Now, Bark, ‘en you, Oreoide, git ter worl.’ ““The dogs, let lovse, went scampering about among the timber. Suddenly tho old hound made the woods echo with a yelp. Then Bark unswered the call, and the music began. Inside of ten minutes after landing Burleigh said: ‘They've got him, boys. Come on;’ and with long strides the old man made for the place where the bark and the bay mingled. Ona good sized sycamore were the coons. Burleigh cautioned the dogs ‘tor watch out,” and then took from a pack- age which he had been carrying, wrapped in a piece of oilcloth, a Roman candle. ** *What in the world are you going to do with that, old man?’ | asked, ““Well, boys, wat de ye think uv my style uy shakin’ coons outen the trees? beats climin’ all holler, don't it? Now, DI've shown ye how ter do it; jist handle the fireworks an’ I'll keep the dogs in line.’ The dead coons were placed in the boat, and away we went; and ina uit of about one wile three more ringtails were bombarded from their perches in the trees and kifled by the dogs. Then we condlided to etart for camp. On the wux back a big owl who was hooting in a ti'sa made a fine mark for our Roman candlés. When ono was lighted the old fellowseemed to take a great interest in it,*bis when one of the balls flashed close to his head it seemod to blind him, and helost his bearings, flow against tho trunk of a tree and fell to the ground only 'wbe grabbed up by the dogs. > *I tell you we had @ grand night of it! Going back on tha haat we used up our remaining candles, popping them at in- quisitive stock that yas loitering along the creek, and youought to sec the cat- tle and hogs run when our fireworks ])u])]lud in their direstion! 1 have never had an opportunity:«sd go after coons since that night, bat*I hope 10 be in a few days now, and I'&dvise all who en- joy the sport never to go put coon hunt- ing, or 'possum, either, without a dozen at least, of from five to fifleen-ball Ro- man caniles. The pyrotechnic efiects in the timber is a novel and interesting sight in itself, but when it comes to make a coon or 'possum let go his hold on & limb and come down, the best climbing darky ain't in it Pills that cure sick headuche: DeWitt's tle Karly Risers, . college icultural iostitute for farmers, to be held soon Prof. French of the Corvallis is arranging for an Washingion county at Hillsboro, DECEMBER 4 1893 DENOCRATS.AS DEMAGOGUES | Peouliar Featnres that Characterized the Praparatioa of the Tariff Bill. TAYING TO SAVE THEIR OWN INTERESTS Howlers for Keform Suddenty Tarned to Suppliants for Favors for the Things that Nearest Affect Their Con- stituents st Mome. Wasnisaros, Dec. 8 Ree.|—When the democrats at the Chic convention last year framed a platform the arcfal to characterize the MeKinley ciff law as unconstitutional, 1n spirit if not in let and to denounce in the severest possible 1 go tho republican principle of laying a tarif with a view to the protection of American intcrests. They character the present tanff law as being vic declar [Special ty Tn us, and L in favor of a tariff law which would only raise a revenue. When the demo- cratic members of the ways committee at the outset of the recent extraordinary session of congress began the preparation of tho new tariff measure, it was supposed that they would provide sim- ply for a large revenue, which is necessary to operate the government, and that there would be no provision made for anything else. They worked in a litle dark room down in the basement of the capitol behind closed doors. The democratic members of the committee kept every step of their work i They would not even tell a vepublican memuer of the committee where their secret overating room was located. of operation was profoundly covered up in the mysteries of the dark chamber, When the Mouse Came Forth, There wore from time to time intimations thrown out to the public by the majority membership of the committee that ‘a gre revenue measure is inproparation,” S of the experts in congress and the Treasury depurtment were calenlating that from $106,000,000 to §500,000,000 more revente than is at present raised would be annually se- cured by the new law; and _provident nem- bers of congress = had begun to fizure upon appropriations for pub- lic buildings, riv and harbor im- provel ete., for their districts, The, most fearing that the surplus which the new law would place in the tr ury would become s burden. Bat lo! when the bill appears from the committec it is not a revenue measure. 1t is found that it will aise £55.000,000 a year less revenue than the McKinley Inw. 1The secrets of the sessious of the committee are beginuing to crop out, and it is found that this and that democ who has upon the stump fi i demanded a revenue ta perspired and raised all trouble to securs some sort of t protection for his home industries. Democrney and Protection I never knew that there was half as much demugozy in congress as 1 have seen during the past few weal d a southern member of the ways aud s committee to Tue Bek correspondent. 1 have read the speeches of certain distinguished tarift re- formers and heard them declaim in favor of free trade or a revenue law as against the present protection. Mo sooner did wo reach the schedules affecting their districts than they rushed to us in hot haste, almost out of breath, and begged that we save them from destruction. 1t made me fairly sick at heart, and [ was really ashamed to “sec the clamorings of certain Missouri demo- erals when we took up the para. graph containing lead. We intended to put lead ore as well a uad ore upon the free list, and we actually did get lead ore on tho free list at one time, but Senator Vest and other democrats from' Missouri almost swooned away. They came to our room and d that unless we put lead ore pack on the dutiable list old Missour: would go repub- lican. Of course we all know what the Loussiana democrats demanded in the way of a duty on sugar, and how the Alabam: democrats declared their state would be republican if iron ore wus placed upon the free list, and kept there, You know West Virginia_flocked to tho committee room, sending democrats only, and demanded pro- tection for her coal. I suppose that, accord- ing to their threat, West Virginin will now be safely republicun. 1t was just so through- out the entire work.” PEiiy S. Hearn, m WILL CLOSE 1TS MILL. Nebraska Binder Twine Company Will Wait Till the Question’s Settiod. Fremoxr, Dec. 8. —[Special to Tue Bee.] In view of the threatened reduction of the tariff ov hemp product as outlined by the Wilson bill, Tur Bee correspondent visited the Nebraska hemp and twine factory at this place to obtain an expression in reply to the question as to what the effects of tho entorcement of the schedule, as proposed in the bill, would be. Mr. B, W. Reynolds, tho president and general manager, replied: “In the manufacture of any commodity there is a fixed limit of prico below which manufacture must either cease or be carried on at a loss, The price of binder twine dur- iug the last season has been too low to make the business either remunerativo or profita- ble. Should the present price be reduced to correspond with the proposed schedute the ndustry of binder twine manufacture in this country must mnearly or altogother he wiped out of existence. ‘I'he only salvation would be the reduction iu the price for labor to correspond with that of our Luropean competitors, which we deem, at least in Neb) utterly impossible. Another consideration’ which s not genevally given the weight it deserves is that the use of money 1n this country is worth fully twice as much as in Furope, and that works cor- respoudingly agasinst tho American manu- facturer as compared with s European competitor. It is also a fact thut when money is invested iv machinery constructed specially for the manufacture of uny article, ss thove is some profit in the business, that capital is practically an expense and the taxes and interest eat it up. “And [ will say mght here that under the present - prospects or until the matter of the tariff on our product is settled the Nebraska Binder Twine company will not manufacture anotvher pound of twine,. We can produce the raw material and manufacture the article as chenply right here at Fremont as it can be done in any part of the United States, and we therefore huve no fear of American com- petition, shut we cannot competes with Furopean pagper labor und their low rates of interest on capital invested." “What effect hus the proposed tariff change had on the wages of your employes!" “We started up our two mills the middle of September on a 80 per cent reduction from former prices for the manufacture of the raw and moans | materal, but even that reduction would not bo adequate to make the manufacture of twino profitable with the tarif reduced as | proposed. «T will state that as faras my obser extends there has been no complaint the farmers ns to the price at whicl have sheld our twine undor the McKinloy tariff. Thoy seems to be willing to pay prices that will sustain the home manufac- turer in his enterprise. The kicl i from the professional politic | what purpose you knosv as wi farmer rersons that the production of hemp age of other crops and that proved one of our most when the twines could bo rures of the presont to strike dow dministration seems to be any industry that pror twine ns well as su inported until tiy again permitted to box.* The Nebraska Binder Twine company was 30 with a paidup capital of The present officers are as follows . Reynolds, preaident and manager: O. vy and_treasurer denv; Wilson Rey H. 1>, Shively, W, 1. Smails, Fred B 3N Morse, J. F. Hanson and B Reynolds, directors. The institution ploys fifty hands and consumes tho product of 1,700 weres of land. Tho first year tho output of ma od Lwino was 470,000 pounds; in 159 5, and this year, 558.000 pounds, Tn addition to the Fremont plant the company opera es a hemp mill at Nor-h Bend to work up the product raised in that vicinity. The company uses about §00,000 in transacting busivess 1 Sugar. Keansey, Dee. 8.—[Special to Tue Bee.] — W. W. Cumnock, manager of the Kearney cotton mill, was seen in relation to the pro- posed changes in the tariff, as published in He says: *1 do mot think the demovrats willddare intorfere with the tarift on our class of goods. In fact I don’t think they will do nearly as much us they now try to makgoute They are only making a show of carrying out their ses made before election. Of course_if should take all the duty off of manufactur cotton goods such as we manufactur it would make considerablo difference to us but we are so far inland and have such veady saloand great demand for our goods in this of the country that I don't think any > tha s finally made will affect us in A Wo will probably shut down until tho 1stof January, but so €ar as 1 know now we will then stary up at the old scale of wages. |, Ot course, taken off we ¢ land ar may all b American people are speak at tho ballot s Isaid, if the T is all ) it, but being so far in- fully compete with all forel| s if not wore than a 25 per ceut reduction is made in the old rate. That, howe r, is only because we in the west have the advantage over the eastern manufacturer in frefrht rate During the shutdaown refe boilers will be put in and some al machivery added, which looks Mr. Cumnock was saying what he believes when he said, *1 don't think any change that is finally made wiil affect us in any way.” Nb Istann, Dee §. Howe, U 1o two new Lto Tie ger of the ommended by the ways and means commit- tee would have. I eannot talk on that subject at all,” he answered ou should seo Mr. Oxnavd Mr, Oxnard, however, is in Washington and .has been since & woek ago. It is the general opinion here that though the reaction of one-cighth is a small matter, it \\'()\llll._ nevertheless, but a 8top to the investment of any further capital in this industry, which s to become a highly important factor in Nebraska.” +GO0D FORM” FOR MEN. Simplicity the Keynote of the Genvleme: Attire This Winter. In conformity with the unwritten law which declares that the man dressed with the most una: tive simplicity will in almost any gathering be the best dressed man, the various etcete- ras of evening dress scem this season to have formed & ‘conspiracy to preserve in the highest degree the dignity and un- obtrusiveness of their wearers. Perfectly plain fine linen shir ing two or three studs on the bosom, and guiltless of aught in the nature of frills or tucks, are most favored by the men who are always acknowiedged to be well dressed. A few of the “heavy” brigad will, perhaps, cecasionally Do scen by hind bosoms-of very fine ribbed white pique, with collars and cuffs to match. The swells have pronounced in favor of the high standing collar, gracefully curved at the sides and with high, straight points, which are just a triflo bent to give ease to the wearer's chin, Inasmuch, however, as a man should never wear what is unbecoming to him, those who cannot wear this high poke collar may wear a lower ono with ironed down points and will rotain the tran- quility of mind begotten of correct attire. A ; Cuffs are of generous proportions,with square points, and should always bo fastened with a pair of link buttons. The best dre s always wear their cuffs and collars attached to the shirt. Ties are either of white lawn, rather wide and straight allaround or tapered om the center to a width of about two inches at the ends; or se—and these look especially well with the pigue shirts—of fancy dimity or pigue, cut so as to tiea bow that is tight and erumpled at the center and spreading at the ends —in fact, a butterfly, as it is commonly called. Gloves for eveuing dress should be of very pale pearl color, of dressed kia,and stitched in self-color or black, i The gentleman of assured position never dreams of making a display of conspicuous jewelry. Two, or, at most, three small single pearls on his hosom, or, if these are too expensive, plain gold or white enamel studs of the plainest stylo, & pair of neat sleeve links, usually of bar or oval pattern, and sometimes set with a small jewel, and a very modest watch guard, with a plain gold signet ring, would usually sum up the jowelry shown of an evening by & man of good taste. Either a fob riband or a plain gold chain of very slender pattern, and oither with or without & quiet pendant, such asan intaglio, may be worn as wateh guard, The really corre hat for evening s, show- wear is the “crush” opera hat, whieh appears this season made of ribbed silk, and is very handsome, Some men, how- ever, will persist in wearing an m-dmm?(' silk strect hat, and to a modest blac| Alpine no exception can bo taken. Sailing Away, and both of them for pleasure,—with the chances for safety in favor of the wash- board. to kee In fact, there isn't much chance for safety until it's gone, If you want your clothes, if you don’t want them rubbed to pieces—throw it away, - = Then use Pearline. That washes clothes without harm- & The washboard wears ing them, them out while it's getting clean, It's rub, too, . Pearline takes away ’ rub, rub, and wear, wear, wear, without Pearline. It's work, work, work, them (Y. [ the rubbing and takes away the work, There's no use for cither, because, easily, quickly, safely, and cheaply, the dirt. Beware you au imitation, be honest—send it back, Peddlers and some unscrupulous grocers will tell *this is as good as FALSE—Pearline is never peddied, if your Pearline takes away IT;S JAMES PYLE, New York, or *‘the same as Pearline.” “Boys who should not go to College” More harm than good from a College course is the ex- perience of some boys. But who are they ? President Hall, of Clark University, will answer, in wise words which need to be said, in an important series of articles on “Choosing an Occupation,” to appear in The Youth's (ompanion b, o S ' Programme for 1894 Brighter than Ever. FREE “SWEET CHARITY,” o beautiful plcture of Colonial times, in colors, 141 x 21 inches in size, presented to all New (or Renewing) subscribers. All New Sub- scribers sending $1.75 now, get Tiz Con- ravtox Free to January 1, and a full year from that date. Sample copies free. 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L OMAWA, NEB., NOVEMBER 1, 1803, 15 hereby glven to the stocklilders of Laid“and Cattle compiny that the annual meetinz of the stockholders of the company whil be lield at the oflice of the suld company In th in the state ot Nebraska on We day, Decomber 6, A, D, 1898, at 2 o'clock r Lhe purpose of s for tho' Company, the ensulng yeur, und 1o trans- iy busiuess which uuy be’ presented uh ot uso the office of sald company, in sald ety of Omiha, shall not be lurge enou; ommodate wll the stockhoiders wiy sent at such weeting will adjourn from o the hotel kuown as the Paxton house, situate ut the southwest corner of Fourteenth and Farnam streets, In sald city of Omahs, aud the meeting will'enter upon and continug its deliberations ut sald Paxton house. The directors earnestly request oach stocks holder to be pununull{ presont at sald stocks holders' meeting, and If 1w possible 10 bo pross e0t, 10 uppolat s proxy. Attest: JONATHAN ABEL, Becrotary OFFIC Notics com puny's ol « LAWRENCE, President, BOVARILO L