Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 1, 1894, Page 5

RICH BARS OF SNAKE RIVER Oleveland Oapital Enlisted in Developing Idaho Resouroes. BEAYTLE & BOISE RAILROAD PROJECT | An Attempt to Suppress Polygamy in the Stishone Reservation May Lead to an Indian Outbreak—Far Westorn Nows, A mining partnership has been formed tween George Newell, a prominent Seattlo Eimng man, and George Chisholm, son of a ealthy Cleveland, O., capitalist, for the ;urpu!n of working on a large scale the rich ars of Snake river near the Warm Springs fetry, says tho Anaconda Standard. They bave secured large propérty along the river @nd will proceed at once to their develop- ont. The largo doposits of tale in that Heinity run as high as $20 in goid to the ton, and Mr, Newell thinks there is a sufficient Amount to keep them busy for years to come, In addition to the mining interests of this firm thoy have taken up 600 acres of llml on Snake river, which they will set out n fruit for the most part, reserving some f the land for hay and grain, 1o irrigate his act they have purchased a large gnsoline eagine, with which they expect to pump the water from Snako river in suffi- fent quantities to for_sluico mining ns well as for irrigation. They will con- Btruct o house for residonce from the lava rock which abounds 1n that neighborhood, modeled after the lower part of the Idaho's World's fair bulding. This will be a » unfque, cosy building, warm in the winter Commencing carly in he spring there will be quite & number of fine gold saving machines at work on the yarious bars along the Snake river, and nrge quantities of the precious metals will e taken out, causing quite a rush to this section. They anticipate a prosperous year. Owyheo County Opnl Flelds The opal fields in Owyhee county will come 1o the front again in the spring. Pony Young, chief owner of sev prop- erties over there, told tho corre- spondent that abundant c fortheoming with which to v f A disagreement among some of the original bwners has been the drawback in tho past. Foreign capitalists are ready to put up tho necessary cash to develop the min When 1t is considered that opals have be takon out of these mines worth as high as $200,and that there seems to be plenty of them there, the importance of their proper development will be apparent to ail. New Road for Idaho. .,i:ml cool in summer. al of the valuable Landard The old Seattle & Boise railroad projecy has been revived under a new title and a new management. It is now called the Payette & Northern, and articles of fucorporation have been filed with the secre- tary of state. It Involves the building of u road from some point near Payette through the Camas Prairie country to Lewiston, em- bracing branch lines into on Devils country, to Garden Valley and to Payette lakes. The plan, if carried out, will result in the building of about 500 miles of road. That portivn into the Seven Devils will be constructed first, as there 1s great demand for a road to transport the valuabie ores of that section. 1t will result in the opening up of one of the richest copper and lead reglons in the world, and will add much to the commercial importance of Idaho. Wil Fight for Polygamy. - Captain Ray, who was appointed military agent at Shoshone reservation about a year g0, 18 something of a martinet. Quite a num- Berfindlin squaws of easy virtuo have been in the habit of visiting the post on pay day. Ray ordered them to stay at home, savs the Deadwood Pioneer, but they paid no atten- tion to his orders.’ On last'pay day he had. A number of them arrested, shaved their heads and seat them home. This treatment fncensed both the Arapahoes and Shoshones. Captain Ray summoned the chiefs before him and ordered them to dispense with all but one wife to each man. All of the chiefs except. Sharp Nose of the Arapahoes are olygamists and have been for years, l“l(mt, Bear, tho war chiof of the Arapahoes, who has two gquaws, when told he must abandon one, be- came enraged and told Captain Ray that he was too old a man to change his habits, bringing his Winchester down on Ray I®would die first, “We will both die to- gether.” Ray ordered the Indian police to Arrest him, but they refused to obey, and Plenty Bear left the council swearing he would never give up his wives. Washakie, the venerablo chief of the Shoshoues, is also n polygamist, and his arrest has also been ordered by Captain Ray. Ho hasa body of Bhoshone braves who keep watch over him constantly, and they say if his arrest is at- tempted blood will be shed and war will commence. The Shoshones and Arapahoes have usually been at variance, but in this matter they are united, ana if Washakie and Plenty Bear are arrested an outbreak is certain. Upenlug Anothor Reservation, The survey of the Colville Indian reserva- tion, opposite Kottle Falls, Wash., having been completed and the government in- spector having finisned his duties of the in- spection of tho lines, there is a prospect that the reaorvation will' be_ speedily Opened. oo settlers, says the San Francisco Chronicle, This will be pood news to prospectors, as well as to those wishing to locate ranches, There has been considerable prospecting done_ quictly some free mlling gold uartz is to be had but & few miles from the town and but a short distance from tho ferry landing some fine samples of silver ore Liave been obtained. There arc but a few of the Indians and they are eager to accept therr allotmonts, Some hro already settled on farms whic they have worked for fifteen years, here is probably 800,000 acres of good agricultural and fruit land 3l well watered and about 100,000 acres not quito so desivable for agri- culture, being broken ana well timbored. The_other 500,000 acres 1s well suited for stock ranges. being covered by bunch grass from two to three feet high on the highest ridges. The Hurtsell Gold Distriet. Senator Isreal roturned from a weel's prospecting trip. says the Salida Mail, and ives some facts which shed additional district north of rfiu- E:IM on the Hartsell t SAllda, which has been regarded favorably £ as a gold field. The discussion that has been frequently heard concerning this terri- tory led Mr. Isteal to go over the ground, or at least a portion of it, in order to satisfy himself about its possivilitios. He suid “From this ity most directly to the old Suc where the Last Chance mine is lo From thero wo went to Gribblo park, brospecting at various places on tho roud. We next took in Poncha park, crossed over the divide east of Black mountain in the Thirty-Two Mile creek region, then through Shumway yark, back to Ponoha park, down through he Cottonwood couutry, then into the lahasse. We made a close examination of the wmineral-bearing hills and ledges wherever we stovped, and found the forma. tlon all the same, ora' least very similar, throuzhout the territory traversed. We ran across Gieorgo Crosby in Shum- way park, where he is prospecting for Ben Disman, A. M. Alger and other Salida parties. Iie has done considerable thorough work and has compared the fragmental por- hyry found in that vicinity to the Cripple Jreek porphyry ana Y"mmuum‘s it very simi- lar, In Wildcat gulch, just across Current creek from Shumway park, a gulch comes in from the direction of Cripple Creek. Here there are many ovidences of the existence of tho samo stuff, and parties from Cripple Creok have staked many claims there, The float found in this vicinity is unusually in- viting to the gold hunter, but there has been very littlo work done either at this place or in the entire country around it. Mr. Crosby sald the highest tests he bad ran from § to .50 he dirt thrown out of the badger and gopher iwles at the sides of the knolls and maller wountains shows porphyry of the same character. The rock 13 vary similar to that tound at Cripple Creek. Everywhere sees this broken up porphyry that con tallls gold in greater or less quantity." Leadvil The western man never gives up, and his Resources. moto is git up and hustle.” It is, there- fore, not surpirising that despite the adverse circumstances and the persistent refusai of stlver to come up to 70 cents, the camp above theclouds displays such great vitalivy, and that thero 13 considerable important mining being carrfed on here. It is not the mining of the silver sulphidsores that keeps Leadville going, but the fact that many of her properties have what is known as by- products, wnd as long as these Inst those mines will be enabled to work. For in- stance, whilo the Mald, Penrose and other mines of that stamp have to depend largely on their silver value, there are the Johnny, Lallian, White Cap and others that have a ®old value to fall back on, as have the Lead- ville Consolidated, Lee, Big Chief, Welden, Grey Eagle, Morning and ening Star mines a good iron excess to fall back on. Lead, fron and gold properties wiil be en- couraged to go ahead, out the work on sul- phide ore bodies is likely to be greatly ocur- tailed unless silver takes a big upward Jump. | Tho Bohn property will soon be running full foreo again. A large new engine is now being placed in position and the water, which has risen about 100 feet in the shaft, is to be taken out. As soon as this is done work on tho oro bodies already disclosed will be car- ried on. There is an excellont iron ore body and some good carbonate mineral disclosed, and Major Bohn feels quite encouraged with the outlook, On the Penrose properties all the ore bodies opened up in tho first level will be worked out, after which it is probable that tho present shaft will be sunk a further dis- tance of 100 feet. This sinking will doubt- less further open up the ore bodies, but it will cost a great deal of money and take some tima to complete the work. As the Perrose people are now working first #t the water ievel, and the further sinking of the shaft v=ill mean the handling of au immense volume of water 1t can readily be seen what a heavy expense will beinvolved. The pres- ent plant is handling the water without difficulty, but is pumping about 1,500 gallons ver minute, A California Coal Strike. Recently good news was brought to town by Sam Todd and Tom Wood, says the Alturas Herald, While out prospecting about two this side of Cedarville, in Cedar pass, ) ered a six inch vein of coal that could be traced some distance. Samples of the coal were tested by Armstrong, the blacksmith, and was pronounced by him as being of excellont ‘uality. It burned just the same in the forge as the coal he 2 city, and he had no trouble in ng enongh heat from it to weld iron. discoverers nave filed their location papers and will return in a few days and prosvect the vein to find out if it increases in size and quality as depth is veached. Mormons In Mexico, The Mormons are making strides in progress in their colonies in southern Mex- ico. C. Bentlea, business agent of the Juarez and other c s in northern Chi- huahua, is in the , says tho Denver ‘T'imes, to estabiish a market for the prod- s of the colonies, numberihg 2, he output of the colony dais 3y be about twent, tous of cheese and sev. tons of butter, as well as many thousand cases of canned fruits and vegetables. A tannery is in operation and a fine flour mill, the finestin the republic of Mexico, has just been erccted. The Juarez scolony had a brush with an outfit of bandits recently, posing as revolutionists, along the border and killed three of their number. 5 A Big Timber Deal. The largest trade of timber lands ever ef- fected on the Pacific coast has just been con- summated here, says the Truckee Republi- can. The Truckee Lumber company has ex- changed 5,000 acres of the dense forest be- tween here and Sierra Valley for 5,000 acres of forest owned by the Sierra Nevada Wood and Lumber company between Truckee and Tahoe. The deal has been under way for the past eighteen months, but nothing was really ac- (:nmJ)lllhELl until last March. The final deeds were exchanged last week. A Valuable Coal Field. James Yerington states that the vein of coal discovered in Esmeralda county, south of Candelaria, is developing into a promising find, says the Reno (Nev.) Journal. The in is nine feot wide and the quality of the coal grows better as the prospect is opened up. A coal bed n Esmeralda is a valuable property, as wood is scarce in that section and coal retails in Candelaria for $40 per ton. If it proves as large a coal bed as the indi- cations now point to 1t will havean im- portant effect on the mining interests of the southwest, as the fuel is one of the largest items in that section in the mining and milling of ores. In addition there would be a coal demand from the Carson & Colorado, the V. & T., and possibly from this division of the Southern Pacific railroad. The mine is owned by William Ingails of Candelaria. Among the exhibits at the Midwinter fair from Esmeralda county will be a large pile of coal from this mine. The A plumbago deposit has recently been lo- catod in Lyon county by James Hardwick and others. The location is at the head of Hackett canon, in Delaware district, says the Virginia City Fntorprise, and 1s about seven miles south of Dayton. The vem is four feet in width and the croppings show at vwo different points about fifty feetapart. This is by no means a new find, as tho graphito vein was known to exist in 1863, but its location was kept a secret by the dis- coverer, who at that time sold m Dayton and Silver City lead pencils whittled out of plumbago which he 1s supposed to have ob- tained from the deposit recently located. The plumbago is pronounced absolutely pure, no grit showing in_its composition. A snaft a few feet 1 depth has been suni on the croppings and the vein is fully as strong at the bottom as at the top. A solid block of plumbago, weighing 200 pounds, will be excavated from the vein and included in the Lyon county exhibit at the Midwinter fair. ho location has been christened *The Graphite.” Another Big Nugget, Superintendent Read sent down from the Diamond company’'s mine a nugget of ore weighing 2,250 pounds, which has been shipped to the Midwintér fair in San Fran- cisco, and which i3 to robresent Kuroka county, says tho Eureka (Nev.) Sentinel. Tho nugget is threo foot and ten inches loug, eighteen inches wido and eighteen inches th It assuys 182 ounces in silver per ton, and per cent lead. The nugget, when quarried out in the mine, was about double its present size, but was too large to haul up the shaft, and had to bo broken. The com- pany paid the expense of transporting it to the fair. A Tour Through the Hills. On December 17 Mr. W. S. Brawner of Touis escorted & party of capitalists from Chicago and St. Louis in a special car for a tour of the Black Hills. The party took in all the principal cities n the Hills, incluc ing Rapid City, Deadwood and Lead City, where the great Honmestake gold mines are situated; Custer Hill City, the home of the Harney Peak tin mines, and wound up the tour by & visit to the great Hot Springs. The party spent several days in Rapid City, with a view of locating some large factories and industrial plants for the manufacture of iron and steel, ashestos, mica, mineral paint, stucco, ete. Rapid City 18 the seat of Bennington county, S. D. [t is the gateway to the Black Hills, the richest country in" the world, and has a mag- nificent water force of 100,000 horse power. The gentlemen wero highly pleased with the location of the city and aro unanimous in their verdict that it is to become the Chicago of the west. Oa the return trip some of the gentlemen com yosing the St. Louis party, namely: Judge Alexan- der Davis, W. Brawner, Fairfax Palmer and R W. Hofsommer, stopped over for sey- eral days at the Hot Springs, where they were entertained by Mr. Iivans and others of prominence in the city. Ou » Wolf Hunt, Messrs. Brawner, Palmer and Hofsommer, accompanied by Messrs. Patrick, Moody, Harry Clark ana John Evans, secured Uncle Pete's groy and fox hounds to take a hunt for wolves and jack rabbits on the prairies of the Cheyenne river, bordering on the bad lauds. The day wasa superd one, the thermometer registering about 5=, The party rode down the valley under a cloudless sky, traveled along the baunks of the beautiful Falls river, with its green grasses aud water cresses, listening to the murmur of the waters and the croakiug of the frogs, for this stresm, coming from the hot springs, never freezes, but retains its animal and vegotable life through the hardest of winters. The party had excel. lent luck, segurlng a few wolves and Jacks after several experiences of a very movel mnature to the St Louis boys, such as fonding the Choyenae river twice and doing some lively mountain climb- ing. They romained all day onethe prairies, returning Inte in the evening to their avart- ments, where they refreshed themselvos with a warm bath and did ample justice to an elegant dioner prepared by Mr, Evans, The party is highly pleased with the Hot_ springs as well as the hospitalities ex- tended, 8y agrees that Jn the future all parties accompanied by them to the Hills will be asked to visit the wonderful Hot Sorings, the Carlshad of America, Th ) are of the unanimeus opinion that the Hills is the garden spot of the world a thusiastic over the grand future, both of Rapid City as a_great maoufactuving and trade center, and Hot Springs as the finest health and summer resort in the world. Nebraska. A fire company has been organized at Wayne Wayne spent $57,000 in new buildings dur. ing 1803, There is not a single family in Papillion asking charity. vernor” John H. Powers has becomo an agent for J. Burrows' populist paper. The Presbyterians of Beatrice will dedi- cato their new church building during the month of Januar, Bethy Oleson of Wahoo has secured a vor- dict against Swan Nelson for §2,000 damages for breach of promise, A Kearney man is organizing & colony to g0 to the state of Washington in the spring. He liopes to secure sixty families. The twin daughters of Dr. J. F. Hackett of Exeter died within three weeks of each other with consumption of the brain. Amiel Shrader, a farmer near V: fed his arm fnto a corn husking m paraiso, hine and the member 13 now short from its elbow down. Mrs, Hannah E. Maxam of € use has sued hor husbanc fore their mia asks for 10 per for §300 she loaned him be- wo in 1860, and she also ent interest which he agreed to pay her when she made the loan. Land Commissioner Humphrey visited Grand Island the other day and entered a hack to be driven to a hotel. The hackman, howe sized up his passenger and then drove him to a jag cure nstitute. The mis- take was discovered before any serious in- jury was done. ‘The shooting of John Sanderson by Harry Domerritt, near Broken Bow, was the out- growth of a feud of long standing. Sander- son’s cattle had been feeding at Demerritt's haystack, and Dererritt wanted $) to pay for the hay consuvied. Sanderson offered $1.50, and then the dicpute led to hard words and finally to the shooting. Sanderson will recover. arles Munt, an aged farmer living southeast of Hastings, was discovered on Christmas day by some young ladies lying in & helpless coudition on the floor of his little home. Masculine aid was summoned and the old gentleman taken up and put to bed, where e has remained since in an un- conscious condition, and it is not thought he can live. The supposition is that he suffered o paralytic stroke and had fallen, his face striking the stove, as it is burned. Munt is u bachelor and lived alone. The young ladies had gone over only because they had been dared io a joking way to_make the old man a Christmas call, and if Munt recovers it will be owing to his providential discovery by the young womien. The 4-year-old son of William Lemke of Nebraska City drank aquantity of laudanum from a bottle he discovered in a drawer, but luckaly his mother discovered what he had done a minute or two later. He was already becoming drowsy, and the death sleep was fastening upon him. The fatber was called and, with the little one in his arms, he ran as fast as he could for a doctor’s oftice. Fail- ing to find a physician, tho frantic parent hurried toa drug store. By that time the deadly drug had almost accomplished its work and the child was quite nncouscious. The clerk was equal to the emergency, how- ever, and a powerful antidote soon restored the child to consciousness. ‘I'hen, by walk- ing him about, the effect of the drug was overcome and the little one's life was saved. Says the Auburn Granger: On Tuesday Judge Church was called upon by a young lady who desired a license to wed. She was without the on> who was to love, cherish and protect, for lo, he was serving out a sen- tence of thirty diays in the county jail for engaging in robbing hen roosts. The judge told her that she would have to wait only twenty-one days, when her lover would be a free man; but she deciined to wait, stating that she was in a delicate condition, and for the sake of onc as yet unborn she was not willing to wait even that short time, where- upon the judge issued the necessary papere, when, accompanied by some of her friends and a preacher, she went to the jail, where the vows were spoken, after which she re- turned to her home near Talmage, where she expects to be joined by her husband when he shall have satisfled the demand of the law. The Dakotas, An incandescent light system has been put in and works to perfection i Deadwood. A grand hunv was last week organized by the nimrods of Webster, 5. D., the proceeds to be seat to Minneapolis for the needy of that place. The first annual state meeting of the Epworth league convened at Mitchell, with about 100 delegates attending. Many promi- nent religious workers were present. Sturgis hasa vagraat law just enacted. Tramps must now steer clear of this Chris- tian village on penalty of a flne of $100 and thirty days in the county jail, during which time they must work eight hoursa day at “hard” labor. Another cement factory is assuved for Yankton and will be erected by eastern cap- italists as soon as title to the land can be perfected. Yankton cement was awarded the highest prize at the World's fair, being declared superior to any other cemert made for building purposes. W. H. Young, representing the Missouri Bridge and Iron company of Leavenworth was in Yankton the other day to make the preliminary arrangements for building the irou railroad and wagon bridge across the river. Mr. Young will return to Yankton January 12 with a corps of engineers for the purpose of making the soundings for tho piers. This company intends to build the bridge and float the bonds themselves, An inmate of the Soldiers home of Hot Springs, who has a crippled daughter de- bending on him for support, received $3,000 of back pension money. He intrusted it to the cook of the home, who promptly took unto himsell a woman and skipped. The chief of polico arrested the man at Long Pine and roturned him to Hot Springs, but the woman who, it has since been learned, had the monay sewed 10 her clothes, was allowed to proceed. Colorado. A rich strike of gold ore in the Express group at Asheroft promises to revivo the camp. An assay returned tweuty-one ounces to the ton on ore from the Mable lode, Boulder county. The Black Wonder, says the Lake City Phonograph, has four carloads of high grade ore ready ‘T'he Durkin mine, Leadville, has contr; to supply 5,000 tons of iron fluxing o Denver smelter, Lighty-two assays {n the last four days on ore from the new Hartsel district ave re- ported to have averaged 815,50, A 400-foot shaft will be put down by Alex MeDonald to tap the main line contact of New York mouutain, at Fulford. It Is proposed to start up the Argentum Juniata. The water has gone down 100 feet since the Mollie Gibson was pumped out. Ore running forty-four ounces gold is be- ing taken out of the Ground Hog mine, Rod CIlif, by less 1t also yields $150 in silver. 1t is proposed to put down an experimental artesian well at Holyoke with a view of sinking several more if the result is satis- factory. Therecent strike in the Tillie Butzel Sunshine is said to be the biggest one ev made in the camp. As the mines there have produced wmillions already this is saying a good deal. Dubols camp is booming. Fifteen new buildings were started the other week., A strike of ametnystore is regarded as the best yet encountered, and - newspaper has now been started . C. Kavanaugl is exhibiting ore in Sa. lida from a strike made in the Sangre de Christo range, fifteen miles south of that city. Assays give 407 of gold and 83 of silver, or $10,191 per ton. All tho ore from the lndependence mine, on Buttle mountain, will go to the smelters after this. W, S. Stratton, the owner, re- ceived returos from two carloads shipped, which ran 8140 to 8190 a ton, Hitherto it cted o a t | bas boeu yielding §20 ab tho stamp mills THE_OMAHA DAILY BEE: MBNDAY, 7 e— Mr. Stratton estimates his loss at $50,000 durlng the past six months from this mistake. el Otto & Purnelle, the chlorination expert who built the Black Hilf¥ works, the largest in the country, 13 to vist Cripple Creek in the interests of the Gi.f/lron works, Chi- cago. It may result fuse coustruction of large works there. The Telluride Journal“days that two re. torts, woighing 498 oundes, were deposited in the Bank of Telluridecby Manager A. J. Clark of the Suffolk. The retorts wero the the result of a thirteensays run of twenty stamps, a record whichj will be hard to beat by any gold mine in thephate. It is reported that the Rathbone Mining company, which has been steadily pushing developmient of its properties in the Peru distriot, Summit county, the other day cut a six-foot body of lead ore which runs well in gold and silver. This will be opened up at once and shipping, comment Wash JA Some 115,000 bushels of w at Uniontown, Everett has made application for a second bonded wareliouse. A starch factory spring at Mansfieid, La grippe is worse on Bellingham bay than over, even the year of its first appearance. A great deal of harvesting is going on among the Big Bend farmers about Farming- ton. A searching party has left Spokane to find Colgate, the missing cook of the Carlin party. The quartz mill in Peshastin is pounding away with good results, and somo sixty men are given employment. The snowplows on the Great Northern line have found constant employment for the last two weeks in the Cascade moun- tains. So many hogs have been imported into Whitman "county for feeding the damaged wheat that in some places the price of pork is down to 83 per 100. J. W. Janney has been given the contract to build a tempoaary bridge over the North Palouse river at Colfax. ‘Theexpense of the work will be shared equally by the city and county The Tacoma chamber of commercs is taking up the subject of indiscriminate ped- dling being carried on in competition with local merchants, and is advocating the license of solicitors of all kinds other than those of actual producers ‘There are about 450 pr tentiary, and the number reasing slowly. Of these, 260 uve working in the jute mill, the largest number ever so occu- eat are stored announced for next oners in the peni- bied. The millis_turning out 5,000 grain sacks per day. Tho brickyard, owing to unfavorable weather. is not in operation. deer was recently seen bounding down the mountam side a short distance above the mouth of the Grande Roude river, closely followed by a mountain lion. As soon as the frightened vuck reached the river it plunged in, while the lion stood on ch the water's edge snd saw the deer the Idaho side in safety. Orogon. The Coos bay jetty is being strengthened. Steelheads are running wild in ths Rogue. The White Swan is turuing out $500 in bullion a day. The Coos Bay railroad’s loss by the floods is put at $5,000. The Aumsville revival has netted so far fifty-two converts. The hop acreage about Gervais will be in- creased 50 per cent for mext season. Horace Sloan has arrived atv Baker City with an $5,000 clean-up from the Elk creok placers, - An actual count of 212 tramps is claimed to have been made on a teain passing through Ashland the other day: Herman Larsen of Marshfiold has killed three panthers lately. = The last one was a female, seven feet long, and a feroctous beast. The contractors have commenced work on the Siuslaw fish hatchery at Kuowles creelk, Lane county. The work is under the super- vision of a deputy fish duspector. A. C. Speer of Josephine county, has an airship made of aluminfum that is to carry 1,000 pounds. Fauns at each end will be pro- pelled by electricity from storage batteries. Ora Johnson, one of the pupils in the state blind 2sylum, recited a poem of 134 lines at the school’s Christmus entertainment. Sh learned it 1n three days from raised lette Sherman Banta and Edward Barnes have been taking their rifies to church with them at Mabel, Linn county, and the neighbors had them before a jusiice, who fined them 815 eacn. In the state circuit court Judge Fullerton set asido the recent sule of the Oregon Pa- cific on the ground of inadequacy of price and irregularity of procedure. At the fore- closure sale the road was sold on the15th for $200,000. A Roseburg man recently sent a carload of apples to a San Francisco commission houso. A few days later he was sent a bill for $il, being the bal due the commission house for freight arges pald and commission charges. The apples cost in Roseburg in the ueighborhood of $200, and it is rather wugh on the speculator to iose not only the fist cost, but $41 in addition, Since Rogue river has regained its normal stage of water a deep channel is being cut straight out to sea. while the north spit has moved out to sea fully half a mile. At low tide a low spit can be seen reaching out from the McCormack rock in a semicircie to the mouth of the river, half a mile further out than the former spit, and where the mouth of the river formerly was is now dead water. Miscellaneous. Rich copper ore is to be hauled by trains m the Butte Lake mines, near Saratogo, Wyo., to the railroad at Rawlins or Fort Steele. Operations commence at once. The State Teachers association of Wyo- ming will be hold at Rawlins on the 20th and 30th of March next. The executive com- mitter held a meeting at Choyenne and out- lined the program. A rich silver discovery has boen mado in abandoned workings near the Rio Grande river in Presidio county, Texas, near tho town of Shafter. Spaniards oporated there oever 100 years ago. Reno records another large shipment of apples for Now York. The apple exports of the valley around Reno for this year are es- timated at 5,000 tons. Most of the apples went to New York. The Diamond R Mining company will start up 1ts mines at Neihart, Mont. within a few days, employing about 100 men. It had just 105 men on the pay roll when it shut down several months ago. A force of £00 men is to be put to work on the big South Gila dam in Arizona at once. Construction has been suspended during the past six months. Thedam will cost §1.000,- 000 and make a lako:thirteen miles long, holding enough water to wrigate 160,000 acres, It is estimated by those ina position to know, says the Texas Live Stock Journal, that fully 1,000,000 cattle will dio in Toxas this winter from stavfavion. Should the winter be as long and savere as it sometimes is the death loss will greatly exceed, possibly double, the above figu The revort of a race’ war on the sheep ranges west of Cerrillon, N. M., has be confirmed. Five whitéy uod ninéteen Moxi- cans are reported tohave been killed and further trouble is ansicipated. It is expected that the govornor will'send for trcops to quell the trouple. The feeling on both sides 13 intense and wuch e38itement provails, Articles of incorporation have been filed at Sau Bernardino, Cal th the county re- cord>r by the Vict kflsnrvmr company, which has a capital stodk of $2,500,000. The object of the company is to ercct & dam at Victor narrows on the Mojave river, 150 feot in height, impounding a lake of water nine miles long and about three miles wide, This water will be used in irrigating about 200.000 acres of land on the Mojave desert, which Is specially adapted to growing raisins, grapes and alfalfa. et Cure indigestion and billousness with DeWitv's Little Early Risers, T e e e T s e e B NUARY 1, 1804, How the Transmitter of the Telephons Reached the Market, COSTLY LITIGATION AT EVERY STAGE Plans by Which the Patent Ofoe is Sald to liave Been Compellod to Doluy Kecognizing the Merits of the Clar Bostoy, Doc. 31— [Spocial to Tus Bee.|— The sult against the Awmerican Boll Tele- phone company which orought about two years ago by ex-Attorney General W. H. M. Miller, in dispute of the right of the company to use the orlginal for a transmitter, s onc which involves the various patents relating to telophone trans- mitters for fourteen voars. 1t furthor brings up more complex legal questions than any one but a lawyer could understand. The suit was brought into the Massachusetts court, of course, because the American Bell Telephone compiny nized under the laws of Massachusetts, The main reasons for the suit,and the history of the affair, are told in Mr. Miller's bill of complaint. According to this, it seems that 1n 177, on Juno 4, Emile Berliner, describing himselfas a subject of the em- use is or peroc of Germany, filed an application for & patent 1 combined telegraph and hone, known usually as a variable ure transmitter, He appointed James Norris of Washington to present his ms. Now tho patent for this invention not issued until fourteen years after the apblication, or until November 17, 1801, and the number of 1t was 4 When it wus finally issued in 1801, 1t was issued to the American Bell Telephone company, assignee of Emile Berliner, the inventor. ow it is_on the ground of this delay, which Mr. Miller says has been caused by the American Bell ‘Télephone compaty peo- ple in order to prolong their patent rights, that he has brought L against them, to show that they have acquired control of other patents similar to the Berliner, and embracing all the Berliner claims, id that acquiring control of the Berliner, revised and changed it in 1582, and then' purposcly delaynd issue of the vatent because they had control of all other similar patents, and by withhoiding this one tioy could extend for a longer time their monopoly of the patent. Mr. Miller claiws tb piration of a patent numbe to Alexander Graham Bell transmitter should then be common prop- erty, as the orizinal application has nothing new iu it, or has been made void by changes made 1n 1880, The American Bell Telephone company was organized in Massachusetts in 1880, for the particular purpose, so says Mr. Milier, of buying up all other telephone companies, pateats, otc., and the company did acquire many of the patents, one being that of Bell, and another that of Fraucis Blake, known as the Blake transmitter, Mr. Miller further claims that prior to 1875 Berliner sold his original patent to either the Bell Telephone company, or the National Tele- phone corpany, both of which, with others, were included in the American Bell Tele- phone company when it was organized 1 1850, Interfered with His Patents. After the issue of the patent to Bell in 1876 there wore many applications for pat- onts. Berliner himself invented various things in the same line and, Mr. Miller claims, for the benefit of the company. He received six different patents for these in- ventions. Then there were interferences filed by Thomas A. Edison and Moses G. F'armer, both, says Mr. Miller, controlled by the company, which continuod to- prolong the issue of the original patent applied for Berliner. Mr. Miller then claims that in September, 1880, Anothy Pollok, acting as solicitor for Berliner, but really for the company, amended the original application, striking our all the old Berli drawings and substituting new ones. ‘This amend- ment then, he says, must stand as though filed orginally and the old application is void. Mr. Miller further introduces evidence to show that Edison was the original in- ventor of the Berliner transmitter, The answer of the American Bell Tele- phone company is a full denialof everything except the real history of the case as shown in the patent office. They claim they have aright to purchase ail the patents they choose, and that they have acquired control of these numerous {nventions ata great cost. Whether the application of Berliner in 1877 was pending longer than it should have done, they do not know, but call upon the plaintiff to produce proof that it was. They claim that they did all in their power to hasten the issue, but it was delayed by in- terferences and hostile claimants to the rights the application called for; and that they did not intentionally postpone the expiration of the pateat by delaying the application. They claim the microphine amendment made in 1850 was already in use in 1877, and that the application as amended in 1880 would have brought the issue of the patentin 1882 but for hostile claimants who continually antagonized and delayed mattors from 1877 to 1801. They also claim that Idi- snn’s work was all made plain to the patent ofice, and that they knew oxactly how ho stood in relation to the invention, and that he was accorded all his rights by the patent office. and in the same manner Berlin, also given what he was entil April, 1803, Berliner files saying he believes the answer of the American Bell Telephone company to be in- correct, and, that so far as he has been able to prove, ho is the true, original in- ventor. The case has never been tried. The timo, therefore, has been occupied iu collecting evidence, and as fast as ovidence, etc.. is collected it is taken c: of in the clerk’s of- fice in the United States court. James Starrow of 40 State street, Boston, is coul sel for the American Beil' Telephoue com- puny. Mr. Starrow will say nothing about the case, only that he supposes it will be tried in May, 1594, —_—— Keep the blood pure By taking Hood's sarsaporilla. If you decide to buy Hood's In an afdavit Sarsaparilla, do not be persuaded to take any other. e Secretary Laug and's Appeal. The Associated Charities, through the generosity of a few very kind and benevo- lent friends, were enablea at Christmas to provide about 180 families, consisting of about 850 individuals, with diuners and pro- visions. Our only regret was that we had not the means at onr disposal to supply the remainder of the 500 or 600 deserving poor families upon our register. We hope, how- ever, that v of these were attonded to by the churches and kind-heartei citizens We beg to call the attention of our many friends in the civy to the convcert which the Stryken-Blaas-Lust club is to give for the benotit of the friends of this association in the First Methodist Episcopal church, cof ner Twentioth and Davenport streots, which the ofticial bourd has kindly donated for the casion, on the eveuing of Tuesday next, at lock. ‘Tickets, 50 cents each, to be had of Chase & Eddy and Ford & Charlton. We can assure our' friends that thoy will by their presence not only be helping the very many unemployed nud deserviug families in groat distress at the present time, but will enjoy & raro vocal and instrumental treat, We have now several good situations for girls from 14 to 18 years of age for general housework in the city und countr; Don't forget us when requiring kindling, hard and soft wood ; always a large stock on hand ready for imriediato delivery. The laundry is in full swing and doing good work. Joux LavenraNn, Secretary, ———— Little pills for great ills: DeWitv'sLittle Early Risers. UAKER OATS Berliner patent | i A ISR Everything connected - with Butter —churns, patters, tubs, firkins—ought to be washed with Pearline. That gets at the soaked-in grease as nothing else in the world can. Things may seem to be clean when you've wasiied them in the usual way; but use Pearline, and they really are clean. 1t might make all the dif- ference, sometimes, between good butter and bad. Wherever you want thorough cleanliness, or want to save your labor, the best thing to do is to use Pearline. Peddlers and some unscrupulous grocers will tell you **this is as good as® Send oF (Vi8] Susis;ke- Pentline,” V8. FALSE=Dautline 1, tisver. pecddled, s and if your grocer sends you s Pearline, be it Bac honest—send it back, a9 LB, New York, —_—— Just before—— Stock Taking You'd better sce the goods--to appreciate them! 054 207 South 15th Samples Mailed. TEXE TA' LOR(Kal’bach Block.) PDSSBILITIESlRUBBEH. Fuel Gas Ditched Boots, Platt River Canal Arctics, Omaha Chicory Mill Wader Mammoth Shoe Factory Clog; International Hotel Footholds, Men’s Irrigating Rubber Boots, Chicago & Great Western Ove Illinois Central Snow Exclude ) Nebraska Central Strap Sandals, J. V. Farwell & Co. Mackintosphs. Duluth & Omaha Lumbermau Overs, Douglas County Beet Sugar Rubbers, Farnam Street Union Depot Sandals, Elegant Omaha Driving Park Slickers. Government Supply Depot Army Arctics, Immigrants Felt Boots, German Sox, Ete. Great Union Tannery Leather Solid Boots, Seymour Park Electric Line Rubber Coats, Marshall Field & Co. 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Clarko-Andreesen Hardware comvany that | Notice {s herehy glven thitt the annual meet inual meeting of the stockholders of | fug of the stockholders of the Ouihn & Bik- company, will = bo d bt the | horn Valley Rallway company,for the eloction es of | the sald company, = 1219, | of sovon directors wnd the teaiisiction of such and 1228 Harney street, in.the city | other bu: Ay luwfully como hefore of Omuha, in"the state of Nebris Tues- [ the meot lield at tho oftice of John day, J ry 9, A D., 1894, 0t 3 o'clock p.m, | M. Thurston, Unlon Pacific bullding, Ouho, for the purpose of elocting u bourd of directors | Neb., upon Weanesday. the 8rd duy of Juns for the puny to serve during the eosulng ¥, 1894, ut 10 o'clocl o, w your and to transact such other business us e stock transfer books will be closed ten sy bo presoatod at such me days bofore the dut ceting ’ H. J. Lk, Prosident. Haoston, Dec. 14, 1 ALkx MiLuan. Attest: W. M. GLass, Secrotary Secrel Lsdsoys Dl