Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 19, 1894, Page 5

| =S-10 has worked in and about - 4 i him in his campaign against of MORE ABOUT PORTER GROVE How the Blick Manipulator Works Hi ored Brethren at the Capital, Col- LOT WITH EACH 85 SHARE OF STOCK Don't Know Whether He Is Worth One Million, Five Millions or Twenty Vil fHons —Conl nt ¥ Gen- ernl Wester emnn News. 5 % Last week the New York IR tained a dispatch from Helena, telling of the suffering of Charles Porter Grove's vie tims at Groveville, The Recorder's cor- respondent at Washington looked up Grove and his operations in that city order con and the re- sult is a story showing in detail the methods “Blue Dick” is pursuing. The account slows that Grove Is keeping up his reputa tion as the biggest lar in the northwest. The unfortunate part of it is that innocent colored people are the sufferers. The Re- corder story is as follows: The colored population of Washington th “Montana has gone wild over schemes of Chi Porter Grove, the who has been here nearly a month explain- ing to them how they can become wealthy on an investment of $5 each and share in the fabulous riches that are to be dug out of vast mining properties owned by a com pany in which he is interested in Montan Grove Is a smooth-faced negro, as black as midnight, He cannot write anything except his name, mitlionaire, and writes that so badly t the certifi- cates of stock he is distributing are signed with a stamp. He can read a little, and know good deal about mining because mines all his life. He has been engaged in his present about months, ations re o good many colored pe scheme 1 field of ope where there six was_ at His Lexington, ple of mode many subsc ate means. He secured a great ibers there, and he found a very pretty octoroon, whom he married in great state, dazzling the eyes of the colored population of the place by driving through the town with his bride wrapped in the stars and stripe Eldorado, § him and h his pape; writing. He has operated since In Chicago, Loul: ville and Indfanapolis, with good suc e brought his wife to Washington to help the meagre servant girl: He two-story hol in where he fitted up a table with fifly specimens of quartz, a mag- nifying glass and a formidable array of blank stock certificates. Then he inserted a glowing advertisement the Colored American Accompanying this advertisement he had a grandiloquent article inserted describing his marvelous success, and secured the in- dorsement of the newspaper by a shrewd piece of rhetorical description, at which he is_an adept. Then he began to arrange his meetings in the colored churches around Washington and in the halls of the various colored benevolent societies that are principally patronized by house servants. The meet- ings have been crowded to suffocation, and the deluded negroes have listencd with wide- open mouths to the glowing word pictures that the ignorant but eloquent and magnetic prospector had painted for them. He described to them a land overrunning with gold in the hills and milk and honey in the valleys. He pictured a valley twenty- five miles in length and five miles in width lying between the Crow Creek and Boulder valleys, In Montana, which is to be the seat of the most prosperous colored community on the face of the carth. At the head of Happy valley lies Grove City, the center of his mines, that are to support the only city governed exclusively by colored people in the United States. ONE MILLION ISN'T IN IT. Grove sets out marvelous tales to his cred- ulons hearers. He Is possessed of wonderful magnetism, and carries them away in a fury. He tells of the white men who are forbidden to get so much as a square foot of land in this colored Eldorado, and who are making desperate efforts to secure a foothold, He speaks of his own wealth as beyond his power to estimate. Millions are as familiar 1o him as dimes and quarters to most of his listeners. He sneers at the suggestion that he 15 a millionaire. “What is a million?" he asks contemptu- ously, and then clasping his head between his hands he exclaims, dramatically: “‘Five millions! Twenty millions! How can I tell? They are alike to me!" o Then he pleads with the negroes to come up and buy stock. For $5 he gives a cer- tificate with a gaudy seal of the state of Montana that dazzles the eyes and the im- agination, setting forth that the purchaser is the “owner of one share of $5 of the cap- ital stock of the Montana and Illinols Min- ing company, full paid and non-assess- able.” With this certificate goes a deed for a lot land in the happy valley, twenty-five et front by 125 feet deep. Tt Is for the common people, and every purchaser gets one lot and no more, no matter how exten- sive the purchase of stock may be. Grove has sold nearly §2,000 worth of stock in Washington, but he says he has no ready cash, Everything goes to develop his mines, then setting out with her for his nce then she has traveled with s been his adviser, looking after and attending to his reading and earning the colored hired ro in a little Sonth Washington in of and with millions in his ecyes he has hardly enough on hand to pay his house rent. Everything, he says, goes to the company. The Recorder correspondent read to him the story from Helena, describing the suf- ferings of his colonists, He became full of wrath at once, and abandoned his grandilo- auent air. “How can I be responsible for what the company does?” he asked. “Those men I sent out from Chicago at my own expense. It cost me $675 to get them out there. I-havo sent them $250 since. I must have money." Out of all of Grove's twenty mines, from which he claims to show paying ore worth $50 to $200 a ton, he exhibits only one as- say, and this credits ono of the Eureka mines with an ore of $37.20 a ton. RICH COAL SEAM. Tho greatest body of coal ever struck In this state has just been opened by Johnson McCarthy at thelr mine eleven miles east this city, says a Bozeman (Mont.) dispatch to the St. Paul Ploneer Press. They have a clearly defined vein of coal twenty-two feet in width, The coal is of fine cokeing quality and is very clean. For several years Johnson & McCarthy have operated the Chestnut mines in Rocky canon. Not many months ago they concluded that they could get better results by tapping the vein they were working on at a different point, 50 commenced a new tunnel 126 foet from the old one. They has proceeded 600 foot on this new tunnel when uch to thelr surprise, they struck a seam coal which was entiroly new to them. A blast of glant powder exposed a nine-foot veln, and a day later the seam widened to twenty-two feot. Exports say that this is a veln and that every indication points to its keeping up that width as it is mined out. It has been rumored that the great Anaconda Copper company intends to buy out or lease the Timberline mines east of this city, as well as other coal properties in the distriet, with the intention of putting in coke ovens 'In the spring FRAZER RIVER GOLD DIGGINGS. Captain William Osborne of Duluth, who Is well known aver the great lakes, was in St. Paul the other day on his way home from the Frazer river in British Columbia, where he has been Investigating the gold dis- coverles, during the past six weeks. Captain Osborne is an expert in the use of pumping machinery, and was cnsaged to put int) oper- atlon a plan whereby the sand on the bottom of the Frazer river Is pumped out for gold “The bed of (he river,” sald Captain O borne to a Ploneer Press reporter is com posed of sand and boulders, and behind each of thesn boulders ‘for a distance of over 200 miles in the river is a deposit of sand carry- ing a high percentage of gold. All the sand in the river is auriferous, but these boulders have served to collect the deposits, and the sand is pumped out, bringing the gold with it. On the 25th of last month our pump brought up & nugget welghing over one ounce, and nuggots have been taken out weasuring over two Inches in diameter. On January 31 three men took out from behind one ledge of rock In three hours ovor $5,000 worth of gold taken out by the pumping machine in two hours one day last month. About $900 worth of gold was “The work Is at present very primitiy and crude, but improved machinery and methods will doubtless develop a bonanza I belleve, as a result of my investigations, that there is a stretch of river for 200 miles that will pay, when systematically worked not less than $4.50 or $5 a square yard, on the average. In the spring the water is too high to allow work, and operations are con fined to the period from September to April or May. The current in the river averages about five miles an hour, and the water runs between high cut banks, so that improved methods must be used to obtain the best results, There are a great many Chinamen working along the banks in a primitive way making from $1 to $5 a day." UTE RESERVATIONS. ‘The problem of settiing the Uintah and Un- compahgre Indians of Utah has engaged the attention of members of the house committoe on Indian affairs at their daily meetings for some time past. Delegate Rawlins of Utah has a bill before the committee by which the Indians are to be given lands in severalty elghty acres for each head of a family, and ch for other Indians. He pro- it the remainder of the land shall be open to scttlement by citizen to be allowed 160 acres at $1.2 acre. The mineral lands, and lands contain- ing timber of commercial value, are to be ex- cluded from the plan, and governed in their disposition by existing thrown sottler AWS, he Ulntahs now hold about 2,300,000 es and thelr neighbors, the Uncompah- &res, about 1,700,000, or about 2,800 acres for each Indian. Difficulties exist over the title of the Uncompaligres to the lands they hold They were moved over from Colorado a few years ago and oceupy their present holdings by executive order. They were promised gricultural lands, loweyer, and not mineral lands sits of great commereial n discovered in their very desirable for sottlers have countr settlement claims, or claiming to think so. There is a difference of opinion committee over the action to be take it is thought that the matter may be by disposing of the mineral lands separately. G McCOORK ON HE NAVAJOE General A, MeD. McCook, accompanied hy his wife, arrived home from the east terday, says the Denver Times, They are living at the Metropole. jeneral MeCook spent several days in Washington during his castern trip, and had a long consultation with neral Adams, assistant commissioner of Indian affairs, regarding the scheme to dig wells on the Navajo reservation for the purpose of supplying the Indians with water, %0 that they may raise cattle. On General McCook’s - recommendation $50,000 was ap- propriated some time ago for this purpose, and the general is awxious that no time be lost in putting the plan into effect Speaking of the Navajoes, the gencral said Many believing the land to be stuked in to a reporter There are, 1 should say, about 18,000 of them mow, although ten cars ago there were but 10,000 tagged Years ago they gave us much trouble, but now they are peaceful. They have 1,400,- 000 sheep, 88,000 horses and 9,000 cattle. The reservation of the Navajoes is a large one, exceeding in area the whole of the New England states. Part of it is high mesas, much of it is sandy desert, a pors tion of it is pineries, known as the Navajo pine land, and some little of it is fit for agricultural purposes. Sheep, lorses and cattle fcrm their chief industries. With frosts prevalent every month of the year, farming will never be a succes with them. Hence it is imperative that the live stock Interests of these people be fostered. There are few streams or other natural means of getting water for stock, so that the only way to help them make a living on thelr reservation is to dig wells for them.” General McCook scouts the idea that there are any valuable deposits of gold and silver in the Navajo reservation. He went all over the country some time ago with a com- mission composed of the most expert miners and metallurgists, and they found no indica- tions of any precious metais. The general has known the Navajoes since 1853, and he says they have improved very little since that time. They do not take kindly to civilization, though they have been peaceful of late years. ANOTHER FLYING MACHINE. Jerome B. Blanchard, an inventor residing at 418 Agate avenue, Highlands, will this summer construct a flying machine to ac- commodate one man, says the Denver News, The ship will be fitteen feet long and eight feet wide and will be built by the inventor for the purpose of practically demonstrating to the world the feasibility of his “aerial- aeroplane” ship. A few days ago Mr. Blanchard was granted letters patent upon his machine. He has carefully experimented and has found his idea to be practicable. The greatest prob- lem remains to be solved, that of propelling the ship. Mr. Blanchard is now conducting experiments In this line and feels assured of final success. He claims that the aerial-aeroplane ship has an advantage in covering a great area of space in a condensed form. Instead of the aeroplane’s wings being attached to one deck he uses the double or treble wings, one above the other. The wings, which will be constructed of sheet aluminum or silk, will be set on an incline to aviod a roeking mo- tion. The rudder i3 set in front and con- sists of horizontal and vertical planes, each adjustable independent of the other. The horizontal plane will guide the ship up or down and the vertical plane will steer right or left. Mr. Blanchard has invented an elevated tramway for starting and landing the ship. He was recently declared an hon- orary member of the Academie Parisienne des Inventeurs. NEBRASKA. w Advance has changed Its The Plainvi name to the News. The state convention of the Epworth league will be held at Grand Island June 21 to 24, Rusty mains at Hastings are causing heavy losses to the gas company through leakage. The Kearney Journal, after “taking a brief vacation,” is on earth again with J. H. Inman still in control. Fulton & Combs' implement Burchard was entirely destroyed causing a 1oss of $4,500. Conductor Everdeen of Bloomfield is now toeless. Ho put his feet under the wheels of the Short Line snow plow. An unknown thief was caught in the act of shoplifting tn a Grand Island store and was fined $100 and costs. He Is in jail. Seward county teachers will hold a meet- ing at Seward February 24 and listen to an address by Prof. Norton of the State Normal louse by at fire, school. The Alliance-Independent, published at Lincoln, has changed hands. It is now owned by Gibson, Griffin by a stock company : Hyatt instead of The Nebraska City News, the home organ of J. Sterling Morton, overlooked fact that the secretary was hung in effigy by his enthusiastic fellow democrats. Ten citizens of Bloomfleld have together to plant and care for an beets each for the purpose of dete the nocessary expen An interesting program has beern for the farmers institute to be held at Merna, February 27 and Prof. Barbour of the' State university is down for an ads dress. C. B. Phippenney, a prominent Nemaha county farmer, was found dead in his barn- yard, where ho had gone to do his morning chol before breakfast. Heart disease was the cause. He was 756 years of age. While attending al services Methodist church Stuart R clubbed acre of mining prepared In the Mr. 1 home Overwork was but he will recover. at Chuchill was taken i1l and was carr in an unconsclous condition. the cause of the trouble Two, and possibly three, boad proposi tions will o before the voters of Has tings at the spring election. The two which are reasonably certain to be voted upon are the water works extension bond proposition in the sum of $10,000 and bonds for a new high school bullding. The canal bond proposition will also be in shape by that time to be submitted to a vote. Since Mareh 1, 1893, the missionarles in Nebraska of the American Sunday School union have organized and reorganized 143 Sunday schools In new settlements or neglected communities, and induced 641 teachers 1 4,989 ' scholars to be come members of th schools. They also aided other schools in 1,267 cases where 6,796 teachers are giving bible instruction to 76,748 scholars, held 1,477 meelings, made 11,328 visits to families, dis OMAHA THE tributod 805 bibles and testaments, put into the hands of these people $1,038 worth of religlons reading and traveled 7 miles. A rumor started n Grand Island the other day that Mrs. Higgins, widow of the late Judge Higgins, had been appointed post- master and the male candidates for the e were given such a shock that they en't entirely recovered yet A paint mine has been discovered twelve miles northeast of Chadron in the bad lands The rock is In a canon and crops out in several places, and {s from ten to fifteen feet thick. So far, there are four distinct colors discovered, and by combining them there have been twenty-eight different shades formed, Already there Is talk of ting a suitable mill for crushing the THE DAKOTAS, Whooping cough is raging at Fort Pierre, The poultry show at Vermillion is reported a big success, Douglas county 1s wells at public expen: The Bald mountain region in the northern Hills, as reported, fs covered with a mantle to sink four artesian of the beautiful of the average depth of six feet It is stated that work is soon to be re- sumed at Harney Peak. An order was placed by that company recently for a car- load of candles, A dispateh from Pine Ridge announces the burning of the Pine Ridge Indian school Commissioner Armstrong of the Indian office says the school had a capacity for 150 pupils 1d was one of the best in the service. The rich vein recently struck in the Rialto mine, at Carbonate, {8 Increasing in rich ness and the owners are feeling jubilant over the results. It is now over eighteen inches thick and Is widening as they pro- Volunteer signal stations remote districts last se have proven very valuable to stock de and ranch- men in all parts of the state. Warnings of approaching storms and cold waves have been sent out sifficiently early to allow anchmen to get their herds under shelter before storms came upon them. There are at Crow Creek and Lower Brule agencies a number of Indians wiho aided the government during the Indian trouble in Minnesota thirty years ago or more. These Indians have just been visited by Special Agent Shelby of the Indlan bureau, who paid them for their services at that time. Several thousand dollars were disbursed among them. This makes about $25,000 of government money that has been paid to the Indians at the adjacent agencies this month. H. A. Carpenter has been chosen the Meade county vice president of the soclety establis of Black Hills Pioneers, says the Sturgis Record. They gave him the place because he preached after Preacher Smith was killed near Crook City, probed for the bul- lets in Wild Bill, helped hang Jack McCall, was the first white child born in the Black Hills, found the biggest nugget in the gulch, saw Bare Butte when it was an ant hill, built the first stamp mill west of the forks of the Cheyenne, sold flour at $250 a sack, Killed three stage robbers at one shot, rode in the first train, walked from New York to Sturgis, was attorney in' the first case ever tried, lost $40,000 by not owning an interest in the Homestake mine, and other things of the kind. COLORADO. There are 225 men at work at the Ar- kansas Valley smelter, Leadville, The Florence and Cripple Creek railroad Is said to be laying a mile of track daily. There is a rumor that an electric road will be built fram Boulder to Denver via Lafayette. A rich pocket of free gold was struck in the extension of the Midland lodge at Crooked creek Saturday. Some Ouray miners who have struck a Bood thing in the Black canon are hauling timber for 1,000 feet of fluming. _The striking miners at the Jesse mine, Yankee hill, have returned to work, accept- ing the reduction of 25 cents, Near Eaton a Denver colony is being lo- cated upon 23,000 acres of first class potato and wheat land under irrigation canal. A five-foot vein of quartz has been cut in DAILY the Sunset mine at Cripple Creek. It runs high enough to ship without sorting. A twelve-ton shipment from the Silver Age mine, Idaho Springs, returned an average of 150 ounces gold and 162 ounces silver. An eighteen-inch streak of $1,000 ore has been struck in the lower level of the Ne- vada, at Ouray. Production will be largely increased. John McCormack has surveyed a new ditch from Coal creek two miles south of Erle. It will Tun ten miles northeast and will water 1,000 acres. Pagosa Springs is happy over the discov- ery near there of $12 a ton gold ore in lim- ited quantities. Archuleta county will boom next spring. The Colorada Fuel and Iron company at Pueblo is sald to be negotiating $3,000,000 worth of bonds, with a view to largely in- creasing their manufacturing capacity. Tellurium ore covered with cubes of gold is exhibited as coming from the Pike's Peak and Orpha May lodes, Cripple Creek. It runs from five to sixty ounces gold to the ton. D. H. Lemon and a Mr. Jessop have ar- rived at Cortez with several hundred pounds of gravel from the San Juan, which is im- mensely rich, It washed from 50 cents to $1.50 per pan. The Florence Rapid Transit company has surveyed a line from Florence to Coal creek and will soon be operating a trans- portation and rapid transit line between the coal mines and the oil city. Sulphuret ore, different from anything be- fore discovered in Aspen, has been struck in the Mary B. on West Aspen mountain. It runs from sixty ounces in the lime to 800 and 1,470 ounces in the vein. Surveys have been made for an immense ditch on the lower portion of the North Platte river near Julesburg. This ditch, the Oshkosh, will bring many thousands of acres of rich land under immediate cultivation. On the north fork of the Cache la Poudre William Compton has constructed and filled a menagerie with bears, wildeats, mountain lions, deer, elk, wolves and other wild ani. mals. It 1§ near Fred Dillon’s resort, and s the largest wild animal collection in exist- ence. Gas has been struck at Pueblo at a depth of 1,500 feet. The Pueblo Oil and Gas com. pany, which s boring for ofl, owns about 18,000 acres of land near Puebio and is en- deavoring to strike the same ofl deposits which flow 50 abundantly at Florence, thirty wiles above Pueblo. WYOMI The telegraph line to Steele City has been completed. At least four gold mines will be operated in the Gold Hill mining regions near Sara- toga next season. Casper has concluded a contract for the onstruction of reservoir and water pipes and hydrants for $30,000 in 6 per cont bonds. The work begins at once and thus Casper starts on its 1894 boom, Tho Le Garde gold placer diggings are at- tracting a large number of miners who reach the mines on snow shoes from the Laramie trail. The snow Is from two to five feet deep, but claim staking still goes on. \ ming is sald to have about $5,000,000 in sheep and $26,000,000 in cattle. In the Irrepressible conflict now on between sheep and cattle interests the survival of the fittest will determine the contest. Cattle can- not live where sheep range. Laramie City Is excited over the dis covery that sick and crippled hogs and cattle aro sold from overland cattle trains and dealt out by butchers to the consumers. Discased pork is poisonous and pork eaters in Laramfe are alarmed over the disgusting discovery. A recent dispateh from Lander says that the estimated value of ten sabks of ore taken from the Burr mine s placed at $60,000. It further states that four pounds of gold have becn taken from elght and a half tons of ore from the Garfleld, a claim adjoining the famous Burr mine. The proposition will be voted upon at Lander in aay to issue bonds and grant a franchise for the building of water works. A very large ghost, dressed in black and a heavy black vell, has b n chasing lonely women at night at Evanston and the police now propose to lay for it with guns. Rainbow trout from California, placed In the North Platte about two years ago, have done well. Trout weighing from two to ten pounds may be seen in shoals at the head of the Platte in the North park. The flsh commissioner of Wyoming has arranged BEE: MONDAY, for placing 10000 mone rainbow trout in the North Platte riyer. ORBGON, Pendloton has condemmed a street for the scouring mill site. Lilacs are budding and pansies are in full bloom in Baker City dooFyards. The Pleasant Hill chesse/factory will start up soon with the milk of860 cows. The weather is good enough at Eugene for outdoor band concerts to b In vogue A grand coyote rouudup. was held In the vicinity of Arlington a short time ago. Bugene s scared ovét the presonce of t San Jose scale. Banker Bakin has a pear tree full of them. J. R. Squires has take charge of the Dolly Varden property at Sparta and will put it into operation In thd &pring, including a twenty-stamp miil Construction will be resimed on the Coos bay road east from Myrile Point in the spring if right-of-way arrangements can be made reasonably enough A phrenologist is d=awing crowded houses at Albany. His stronghold is with the bumps of courtship and marriage, topics than which nothing appeals more strong to the Albanian. VanBibber of The Dalles has sed his morning rounds for twen nine years. Owing to a recent accident he is going on crutches now, but gamely keeps at work., W. R. Winans county, has J measures seven, feet six inch to date is fourteen bears, thirte not m the Ds killed niel Boone of Wasco another cougar. It His record 1 wildeats, FEBRUARY five wolv nd six cow The Annie mine during the past two y has taken out upwards of $70,000 and | turning out one ton of concentrates per ars now and will have ready for shipment, as soon | as the snow blockade I8 raised, from 150 to | 200 tons of concentrates. This from the working of a five-stamp mill and a small | force of men. | WASHINGTON. I A wheat dryer s belng put in at Latah. | Pasco s enjoying Itsell clothespin parties, Some 6,000 tons of ice have been put up on Loon lake. A daily postal service has been established on the Bellingham Bay railroad. E. W. Cooke's East Kittitas apple orchard has not missed a crop in eighteen years. The Townsend Leader has a_hen's cight and three-quarter Inches long in office. Beaver skins are being bought numbers of the Indians up the amish, J. D. McLeod & Co.'s shingle mill at F monds cut 3,126,000 shingles in twenty days during January. E feet eight and one-half inches of snow have fallen so far at Monte Cristo, and this is not a very good winter for snow either. Seattle and Townsend n OB its in Stilla large i iv quarreling about harbor facilities, with ulterior designs on the sealing patrol fleet. Their patronage is in great favor. Whether Pygmalion’s statue was of marble or ivory forms the topic of a fierce discus- sion, with pointed personal allusions, in the Walla Walla papers. About 600 tons of Slocum ore were stored at the Kelso wharf during January. The gross amount of ore mined from fifteen different properties during the month will reach 1,500 tons, worth $225,000. A chinook, untimely ripped from the womb of the weather bureau, not only broke up the grand ice carnival scheduled at Spokane, but stranded many ranchers, who had come into town on'sleds. It took fifty men to pull some of them over the worst pots. y The Tacoma smelter’s output for January 200 bars of bullion, weighing 333,23 and valued at $69,144.43. © There 9 ounces of gold, valued at $42,- 737.08; 23,693.31 ounces of silver, valued at $16,065.42, and 331,472 pounds of lead, worth $10,341.93. MISCELLANEOUS. In British Columbia an investigation fs under way of sales of Indian girls to white men. Prices range frop.$5 per mouth to $150 cash. In Hell canon,’ near ‘Albuqierkue, N. M., Denver parties are preparing to develop a ledge of low grade ore seventy feet' wide, which can be mined for 50 cents a ton. Copper mining in Churchill county, Ne- vada, is being carried on with good profits all winter, The White Cloud and Rock Cabin mines are turning out large quantities of copper. Miranda and Espinoza of Yuma, Ariz., re- turned from their trip to San Felipe in search of coal. They report finding there large de- posits of good coal only eight miles from the Gulf of Californta. On Washoe lake, Nevada, a large ark has been bullt as a pleasure resort for the sum- mer fishing season. People will live in a floating hotel and communicate with the shore by means of small boats. Farmington, N. M., In the heart of the forthcoming truit producing region of the San Juan, is manifesting more actyity in irri- gating enterprises than most any other sec~ tion in the west, except the Pecos valley. Four irrigating canals are being built or en- larged near Farmington. There is great religious excitement among the people of the town of Jerez, Mexico, and surrounding country over the appear- ance among them of & beautiful young girl, who pronounces herself to be their patron saint, Anita. The girl has performed some very remarkable cures of serious diseases by simply laying on her hands, and the ignorant Indians of that section are wild over her. She seems to possess the same power as the so-called St. Teresa, who created such a sensation in northern Mex- ico about a year ago. St. Anita is a native 19, 1894. of Molte Fscobedo, and began exercising her strange power over the Indians only a few weeks ago. The Santa Fe Water and Irrigating com- pany of Santa e, N. M., has just com pleted the construction of a reservolr for supplying the city proper and suburbs, and it was dectded to commence at once the con struction of another reservolr of a capacity for storing 600,000,000 cubic feet of water for the irrigation of valley lands. Two bears set upon a Mexlcan woman named Sisto Wesley of Silver City, N. M., while she was mourning on the grave of a child recently buried. She was unable to de- fend herself and was completely devoured Nothing but the bones and tattered clothing was found. It is the first time wild animals have attacked human belngs {n that vicinity, except when wounded or cornered. TURNED TO STONE. Story of the Early Daysin the Land of the Mormons. A human body from which life had been extinet for nearly forty years, but which is so well preserved that old ac- quaintances could recognize it, was car- vied from Pleasant Valley, Utah, vecently by M Lippinworth,now of Capo Town, Africa. Thestory is one of the carly days of Utah. James Lippinworth and a boy- hood friend, Paul Harris, came out to the new created terrvitory in 1855, looking for gold and silver in the mountain southeast of this place. One day the youthful pros pectors heard that the [ndians were ris- ing against them and made hurried preparations to cross Green river But on their way they ran into a_ prowling bund of tho redsking, who fired upon them and wounded Harris with a poi- soned arrow. They sueceeded, howe ve in escaping after killing three of the seven Indians, and went on their way to the spot where they knew ten or twelve Mormon farmers to huve camped. But, after the first twenty miles, Harris' foot grow so painful that he wus obliged to stop. His companion waited on him, but at last the poor fellow declared that if Lippinworth stayed with him it would be the death of them both and urged Lippinworth to go on and bring back sistance to carry him on. He kept his revolver and told his friend that if the Indians appeared he would kill himself before he would fall into their hands. With much reluetance Lippinworth agreed to go_on, as to stay meant only for both to die there of hunger or to be killed by the cnemy. But before Harris was left alone he made his friend prom- ise that if it were possible for him to come back, and if on coming he found him dead, he would bury his body, and when he was able take it back to his home in Alabama, where he wished it buried beside his mother and father, This Lippinworth promised, und went on. He found the Mormons, who had made friends with the Indians by ju- dicious gifts, and they accompanied him to the spot where he had left his friend. But Harris was dead and his scalp was gone, this baving been taken by the In- diuns as they passed his dead body, for on their approach he had sent a bullet through his temple, as ne had said he would. Lippinworth, reduced still miore in fortune than when he had entered on this prospective project, now left the territory, and not having the means of sustaining the expense of removing his friend’s remains, as he had promised, de- ferred it until he was able. He drifted out . to Africa and soon did well thero One of the first uses he made of his money was to come to America to carry out his pledge to Harris, who had been dead nearly forty years. Lippinworth counted on the climate having preserved the bones, at lcast, but was not prepared for the.way in which nature had kept the body. He identified the place after some little trouble and had the grave opened, but the men with him called out that there was some mistake and that they had opened the grave of some nowly buried person, as the body had not yot begun to docay. Lippin- worth came to see for himself and easily recognized Harris, who looked as if he had just been buried, but on attempting to remove the body it was found to be more than six men could accomplish and more help had to be obtained. The body had been converted entirely into stone, the very mark of the bullet as it entered his temple and the gashes of the knife as his scalp was taken were to be seen. The body weighed in the neigh- borhood of 1,000 pounds, the clothes and beard even having been reproduced in stone. It was carried to the railroad and shipped to Harris' old home, where it will be re-interred, as he directed. i A s Thanks to the introduction of Salvation 0il, young bicyclers need not fear a fall. 25c. gicsbioe Sallinay An Unfinished Story, Chicago Tribune: “It was 5o thoughtful of you, Herbert,” said his young wife, meet- ing him at the door, “to send a man for your overcoat; you knew there was a cold wave coming and—" “What are you talking about, Marie?" said Herbert. “I didn't send a man for my overcoat.” “Why, yes, remember? About Herbert, you did. Don't you the middle of the afier- noon you sent a very pleasant and nice pearing young man to tell me I must lot him have your best oversoat, and yow hadn't time to send a note, but it was hanking on the haltack and yon would need it before dark, and of course 1 let him have It, and why, Herbert, what Is the matter, and why haven't you got It on, and can it be possi ble that But there are scenes 100 sacred o be pre faned by the presence of listeners. Herbert has begun to speak. Let us hasten to retire -~ NOT A CHEERFUL GIVER. A Parsimonio Living in a suburban town not many miles from New York, says the Herald, is a devout church member, who is at the samo time very wealthy, but some- whut parsimonions, At the present time ho has a difforence with one of the same congregation, which will probably nevor be healoed. The trouble all came abont over a minor charity of the religions denomi- nation with which the church is allied. A willing thing., something like th Home of Superanuated Clorgyviaen, but an undertaking in which the wealthy members took o great interest. It supported by voluntary contributions, the aver collections at the chureh in | question ranging snerally at about $20 Quite recently the clergyman nonnced that on the following Sunday the chureh would take the annual collec- tion for the support of the charity, and he lhoped it would be a gencrous onc. After the service the parsimonious mem- ber, in a burst of surprising generosity, informed the clorgyman privately that he would double the amount of the eol- leetion for his favorite chavit Entirely unconscious of what the re- sult might bo the minister permitted this information to leak out. Among others it reached the ears of a well-to-do mem- bee of the congregation, the man against whom the grievance is now lodged. As the latter well knew the close disposition of the brother member, he at once saw an opportunity to sceure from him a do- nation commensurate with his means. | He whispered tho information to | others as willing as he to seo the fun through. Sunday arrived and® with it the hour for the collection. The mini ter, in his announcement, liberal donation and the deacons beg to pass the plates. To the astonishment of those not in the secret, where they had been in the habit of contributing dimes they now gave dollars, and when the plates were laid at the foot of the pulpit they were heaped with bills, Then the minister arose and nounced in a plensed manner ‘that it gave him great pleasure to receive so goodly a sum, but that it was notgall, for a charitable brother had agreed to give double the amount of the collection. At this all heads turned in the direction of the parsimonious man. Some persons tittled and the individual grew red and excoedingly angry. After the service was comvloted the contribution was counted and found to approximato $200. The confiding deacon was furious, but was as good as his word. He paid the $400, where & thought he was going to get off with about $40, but it is not at all likely that the money was given in the spirit of the precent, *Not grudgingly nor of neces- sity,” and as for the man who enforced the liberal donation, why, the two do not speak now. an- - One word describes it, “‘perfection,” We re- fer to De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve, cures plles, e Curlosity of Easter Day This Year. Easter day falls on Lady day this year for the first time in the history of the United States. The last time these two days fell together was in 1742, and they will not clash again until 1951. Lady day has somewhat lost its significance and importance of late years, and it never has been such a special day in this country as in some others, where the leasing and renting system are more general. It is still, however, the first quarter day of the year, and aithough for convenience rents and premiums are gene ally made payable on March 31, the law in some states still recognizes March 25 as quar- ter day. Easter has to fall exceptionally early to come into contact with Lady day, and the coincidence will cause inconvenience in countries where a legal holiday and a legal pay day will be simultancous. DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve cures ulcers. DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve cures piles. S S it A Heverday Herror, Once while touring England Mr. Trving's company stopped at a small city in the in- terior. ~ The play for that night was “‘The Merchant of Venice.” Shortly before the performance the head super took aside his five assistants, who wore new at the busi- ness, and started in to give them their in- structions. Among the five was an Ameri- can, who paid his instructor the closest at tion, Now,” sald the head super, endeavoring to impress his words upon his pupils, “when Shylock comes on in the last scene you must throw him a look of 'ate.” There was silence for a_moment. Then the American spoke up: “How can we do that when we're only five? ROYAL BAKING POWDER has always been given S i 5*";3%35 R ROYAL Al vays Leads. VY VIV SV > The Highest Award Royal Baking Powder 1 Wherever Exhibited. The official examination made under the direction of the Chemical Division of the ‘ U. S. Agricultural Department shows that of the baking powders tested the RovarL Is ; the purest, most perfectly compounded and 20 per cent. higher in leav ening strength than any competitor exhibited at the Worlds Columbian Fair. ALL 8T., NEW-YORK, urged a | | p- 5 e | COMMON-SENSE TRUTHS, An Able Physiemn Explaine (he Afters Effeots 0! Geip, the ou in which \ os People, and the Only Thing It I8 very slow process The spouker wias u prominooct Continuing, he physiclan, mean getting over the aftor-efteots of th grip. Any one who nusseen as mi h of it as have can easily understana it The grip luste for w long thme, and seems to tuke a spooinl hold upon tho systen, 1L frequontly Funs into preumonia, sometimes loaves the houring partialiy i paired, the throat with an Ieritus 10 Sorenuss, wnd tho stomueh with Tinpalred dizestion’ Tt seens to tuke a long time to re- cover tho strongth, theonor.y, o the umbition (fror ono has hid 4 run of tho erip, and we fro itly find neurnls o, rhoumatism, and oven worso (hings fo owing it “Now, what should any sensiblo man or woman o under these circnmstances? The ANSWOrSeCIS hard, bucls roally cusy. Stnply holp N Lure 1 ot over the trol stimulnto tho body and facuitios fust o e, This is what overy good physiclan in the tand advos QALES OTAOF (0 THVG FID out of the systen. 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