Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 31, 1894, Page 12

12 IRRIGATION'S CROWNING ACT Will Illuminate Dakota Towns and Cities Besides Feeding the Soil, DYNAMOS RUN FROM ARTESIAN WELLS ot 8100, Crystal Bearch After n ¥ 000 Burled on n River Coy the Inl ry—News of West. A new use has been found for artesian wells In the Dakotas. It will not in any interfere with their utility for purposes, but will ncrease thelr value in that section to a very large ex Before being turned into the irrigating ditches th water as it springs from the wells Is to b used the motive power to run electric dy , says the Chicago Post, so that they will be an important factor in electric light plants for the towps and cities of the Da kotas. Through their use in this respect It has been found that cost of illumination may be reduced minimum. Exp have been with a number wells, the way irrigation to a of results of which have shown ments made those that they and that t through th pensive One nt source generation of 18 economical of power lectricity 1 exce eir use and inex Redfield, 8. D., was sunk to 1,030 feet and gives a flow of ater per minute h 18 lined with six-inch to bottom, outside of inch pipe to sorve as a ng. The entire vol from the pipe above well at epth of bore pinc of ng well from top an hening tie water thrown sixteen fc piping, and when a two-inch pipe is in w#erted and the flow confined to it, the water §s thrown 158 feet in the air. This gives a pressure of 128 pounds to the square inch When the well is closed entirely the pr ure 1s 165 pounds to the square inch This flow of water Leen turned a' water wheel of fifty-horse power, which has been attached two dynamos, these furnish both are and incan circuits for the illumination of the These dynamos have been found to give steady light, and the whole experiment has been shown to be a pronounced success When the. growth of the city demands au increase of power it is claimed the flow from the well will be amply sufficient to work a wheel double the power of the present one. The cost of the complete construction of the well was but $3,000 and its value for irriga ting purposes has been in no way dimin- ished The well is but one of a number which have been utilized in the same way. The supply from all of them appears to be in- exhaustible and their multiplication does not appear to diminish in the slightest degree the forée of the flow from those previously in_exlsten They can be increased | defialtely. The plant now in operation at Redfield Is paying 15 per cent on an invest- ment of $15,000. A BIG STAKE. Mr. W. K. Smith of thig city owns a farm of eome 300 acres on the west shore of Sauvie's island, on which there Is said to be a treasure of $100,000 buried, and along- side of It a big trunk full of bottles of whisky, says the Portland Oregoni The particulars in_regard to the matter were learned from Mr. Smith himself a few days ago on the steamer Kellogg. During the past winter, Mr. Smith stated, gome parties had been boring holes all over his farm in search of a treasure buried there. The work had been done at night, and the neighboring farmers had seen the lanterns flitting around the place and mis taken them for ignes fatui or Jack- o'-la terns. The treasure, which is by some said to be in a trunk and by others in tin can was buried thero back in the 60s by a stranger, who afterwards had the misfor- tune to get into the state penitentlary, and the further misfortune to drop dead of heart disease in a hotel in this city soon after getting out of prison and before he had time to recover the coin, which is mostly in slugs, While in the penitentiary this un- fortunate man revealed the secret of his treasure to his cellmate, and also furnished him with a rude map or plat of the ground, intended to show where the treasure is lo- cated, the bearings of certain trees, stumps, ete., being given as witness marks. This plat_does not appear to be definite enough, as the fellows have been boring all over the place, till it begins to look like a big pepper box. When asked why he had made no effort to recover this treasure himself, Mr. Smith intimated that he had not been in any need of the money, and, as for the trunkful of whisky, it was improving with age and would keep, best where it is. The holes bored, he says, are eight Inches in diame- ter and twenty feet in depth. NOT'SO BAD AS REPORTED. The breaking of the Indian creek reservoir 1s entitled to rank as a disaster. It has in- volyed the company owning the reservoir in great loss, has caused much damage to the railroad company, has shut off traffic and has caused 108s to many persons who can flly af- ford to bear it, says the Boise Statesman. However, the loss will not be so great as has been feared. The Or rd Farms com- pany will be able to catch enough water for all purposes during the present seasen, and for a comparatively small sum it can rebuild the dam €0 that no pressure of water, no in- roads of gophers can put it in danger. The railroad company, with its crews of men ready at hand, will repair its tracks at much less expense than the average observer would suppose possible. The interruption of trafic cannot be remedied, but the gap made in the revenues will soon be lost sight of. The ditch companies whose works have suffered will be able to repair them for a few hun- dred dollars. This they will quietly do, glad the damage was no worse. Those who were driven out of their homes by the water have suffered great inconvenience, but that will be forgotten as soon as the event shall have passed into history. No death has resulted from the flood; mo enterprise has been stopped; no industry has been destroyed; no family has been ruined; and when communi- «ation shall have been will run on as before. CONSOLIDATING TWO ROADS. A statement comes from reliable sources says the Denver News, that the Elk Moun- tain railroad and the Crystal River railroad are to be consolidated and pushed through to completion. These two roads have been con- structed up C tal river from Carbondale on the Aspen branch of the Rio Grande, and are each in a half completed state. Each has had the usual amount of financial and legal troubles, and for the two of them in that tion at the present time there is no earthly use. United there would be a strong company and a profitable plece of road, which, from the day of its completion would have all the traffic it could handle in the form of marble, slate, coal, timber and precious ores. There is stroug hope that the consolidation will be effected This Crystal river countr as it Is called, 15 o of the riche: mineral sections in Coloras It contalns the celebrated Yule creek marble beds, which in quantity and quality are unsurpassed in the United States. A rallroad Is alone needed to render them at once productive. In addition there are vast deposits of fine bituminous coal, ex- tensive beds of the mos® excellent slate and Jarge tracts of timber, as well as lodes of gold and silver ore. Large industries would follow the completion of this road up Crys- tal river, and this section of the western slope would enjoy a speedy and substantial growth in wealth and population These are not propiticus times for rail- road building, but it s seldom that so varled and attractive a list of natural re sources awalt productive development on the completion of a few miles of railway. The grading i all, or nearly all, done, and not much is needed except the iron and rolling stock. The surest and quickest way for those who have already put their money into the enterprise to get it out again is to com plete the line. RICH PLACER DI Some wonderfully rich placer diggings are being worked in the upper Big Bend of the Columbia, says an eastern Washington ex change. 0. B. Willlams and J. W. Mc Creary arrived at Revelstoks on snowshoes from French ereek, making the sixty odd miles in three days. They have taken out considerably over $6,000 from the Consola- tion mine, the result of four men's work since Decomber 1. The pay streak ls eight on to and nt city restored everything THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: twenty-five can easily teet work with three shifts between thirty and forty men. By actwal test the gravel averag clear through the pay streak, $15 a day the man, and the ro some 3,5 the mine yet untouched. About a of a mile below th neolation the people have struck a bonanza. They a tunnel into the bench and have struck the rim rock of an old channel. How much y have taken out far Is unknown Messrs. Willlams and MecCreary. Wililams went nto the tunnel the day they left and the owners, as an fllustration of the mine's wealth, cleaned up about $100 off the bed- rock while Willlams was standing In the drift wide and o COLORADO. mery mines, n 00 men this summer. The Monts employ Las 15 business men starting a woolen mill for of blankets S A flow of gas was truck at 202 feet in the ol well at Colorado City. It is light thus far, and the drilling will be continued. The Last Chance, Creede, s outputting five tons a day, which is being d to a smelter at Mansfield, Pittsburg, ar Alma, may talking o manufacture are the Rock K dis- returned $50 A small ship extension in I trict, to the gold The cheese South park Its business of spring The force on the Champion and Hamburg elluride, will bo increased as rapidly as more room is opened ) as to Keep the 120-stamp Bear mii runn The machinery the Primrose wool couring plant at Trinidad is being rapidly put in place, and the N s it will he in operation by April 1, when it is expected to do a large business A righ strike is reported in the D. H. I mine on the north spur of Mount Lincoln, near Alma. It consists of four feet of lime with u foot of quarizite in the center. It averages cight ounces gold An excellent ferry been established on’ the Plate from Grand Junction. It is Mount Lincoln ferry and is pervision of H. C. Durham. The cable Is inch and a auarter steel. The boat is of sufficient size to hold four loaded wagons Hesperd the name of a new the, Rio Grande linc near Durango the Imniediate vicinity of the celebra ter and Ute coal mines. The pay roll of these mines is $6,000 a month. It is the nearest station to La Plata City, from which nine miles distant, with a line of s connecting ager Hersey and the le Marion property encountered an the other day. The strike is a good one, while not very he Iver. Its value is in good fron pyrit h makes it desirable s smelting ore. The strike made at a depth of 1,020 feet, making its working ore body the deepest in the camp. Fifty-five car loads of wheat were _shipped from Berthoud, during week “ending ‘March 21. The wheat Is shipped principally to Texas points, while during the week consignments of flour have been made to’ Blizabeth, Salida, Leadville, Pueblo, Colorado Springs, Aspen, Denver and Central City, Coio., and to Marquiz, Te Lake San Christobal is a beautiful sheet of water near Lake City, on which it is pro- posed to float a steam yacht this sumimer. The lake is about three-fourths of a mile in width, with several small islands in dif- ferent parts of it. As a fishing resort this lake is known far and wide, many Kinds of trout and in great abundance being caught there. ent from ty gulch uride smelter the Copper ve oose C at Jefferson, in the but on a small scale with the openi factory ie running, will increase Creek the Grand has u canon road known as the under the su- town on nd in 1 Por- es of the ore body flour the and OREGON. Baker City has a new box factory. Hop-poles are already being set in Marion county. Uncle Sam Smith of Angora, Coos county, has just harvested a G0%-pound rutabaga. A Salem man has a violin he claims to be 204 years old, and, of course, a Stradivarius. Grant county's bridge across the North Fork t Canyon City is to be of steel, and cost $9,600. s Nehalem wants a shingle mill, and says it has an inexhaustible supply of the best cedar timber. The shaft of the Ollie Woodman is down 140 feet, and the ore is the best ever found in the mine. Recently many cattle have died in por tions of eastern Oregon and the disease Is supposed - to have been that known as “blackleg.” Bggs are selling for 10 cents per dozen in Ashland and a fifty-two dozen lot was pur- chased last week by one of the grocery firms of the Granite City for 7% cents per dozen. The squirrel pest Is so extensive in the northern part of Marion county that farm- ers arc paying & cents reward on thelr scalps in addition to the 5 cents bounty given by the county. The Portland City water committee has asked for proposals for the construction of four reservoirs to cost over $500,000. It has ordered the sale of $1,600,000 bonds to carry on the work. L. A. Pickler, Malheur county surveyor, has been up on the Owyhee to measure the distance over the river to the new bridge. It will take 309 feet to span the river. The county court will advertise for bids for the construction of an iron or steel bridge. During the past three months the sales of butter from the Fairview creamery, Tillam- ock, metted to the patrons 29.1 cents per pound for butter fat. As the average amount of butter fat in the milk was about 4 per cent, the price is equivalent to nearly $1.17 per 100 pounds for the milk. The foreign commerce for Puget sound for February, as reported by the customs de- partment, shows a alue of exports amounting to $5 , _including 67 bushels of wheat, worth $364,090; 75,240 bar- rels of flour, worth $18 5 feet of lumber, valued at $14,654, and 80,000 laths, valued ‘at $140. The imports of dutiable goods were §57,044; free of duty, $26,097. Value of merchandise imported in’ the dis- trict and transported to interior ports with- out appraisement, dutiable $12,272; free of duty, $178, total value, §$190,498, THE DAKOTAS. west of the Missourl river re- port slight losses of stock during the re- cent storm. Animals that were in good condition stood the storm well, but some of the poorer ones succumbed. Spearfish has a minlature for testing the stream tin of Bear gulch. If satisfactory results follow, a twenty-five ton smelter will be erected for the reduc- tion of the extensive deposits of placer tin found in that locality. The cement factory will start up with their force increased to 110 laborers. The demand for Yankton cement has Increased beyond the facilities of the present plant, and it is rumored that another extensive factory will be erected here during the com- ing season. The farmers of Brown county institute resolved that the reports made in the east of the damage caused by the so- called Russian thistle in this region have been greatly exaggerated to the detriment of our fair state, and that by thorough cul- tivation and other proper methods we will be able to successfully deal with the weed. A colony of Dunkards from Walkert Ind., numbering 860, will start from that place the future homes in Towner county, N. D, large number of the party will buy fa while others will rent or file on government lands, and still others seck employment through the first season with the intention of Investing thelr earnings in farming land. Hot Springs merchants have incorporated themselves into a union for the advancement of the interests of that city and county. They intend to have an electric street rail- way, a home for commercial travelers whoso tongues are worn out, and a national hospital for disabled soldiers. They will also advertise resources of the county in | building stone, coal, gypsum and climate, | organize excursions in the states east to bring visitors, and will otherwise bestir themselves generally. WYOMING The coal mines at Newcastle are being worked to the fullest capacity. Work is about to begin on the property ot the Fairview Mining company at Silver Crown Ranchmen in from the Big Laramie that small bunches of sheep may be along the entire road A rich gold vein has been discovered near Lewlston In the South Pass country. Pros- tlemen tin smelter at their now state seen pectors report that it will be the richest | of the tter part of the month for their | ATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1894 I'WELVE PAGES find tains, Bishop ever discovered in the Rocky moun Wyoming has $10,000 work on the new Talbot of with which he will begin cathedral at Laramie. A stage line from Rock Springs to Lewls ton, In the ith Pass country, the rich now gold district, is projected Two hundred men will leave for Lewiston as soon as the mit. A new road has been that city, which makes the distance to Lewliston seventy miles, a saving of at least fifty miles over the old' route WASHINGTON Sprague’s creamery will be ready for busi ness April 1 A new tannery has started Pacifie county Contracts have been let for six new blocks at Harrington. Two new shingle milla are n pletion at Cosmopolis The Everett paper mill will ship 100 tons of paper to Australin, They make their own fiddles along Toutle river, and a good many of them John Elwood has bought 1,600,000 feet logs at Whatcom for the Bl nills, A distillery to make alcohol from wood is belng projected by eastern parties at Aberdeen There are the National trial union. Crews are being increased in the and shingle camps and some lar; re being signed. A company has been organized in Mon- treal to turn the offal of the Frazer river cannories into guano. Rock Spring now will per opezad from up at Nasel brick aring com- of in the 263 Farm branches of and Indus state Alliance 1ok contr The salmon season which will open April 10 promises to be more than usually active on the Columbia river. John McClellan, a famous hunter Willapa, has caught a cougar meast feet nine inches from tip to tip. A Washington story teller, Ella H son of Whatcom, has been awarded prize by a New York publishing house prize is worth $500. Andy Johnson of Winlock has been given a contract by the Northern Pacific for 20,000 They to replace old ones along ‘acoma-Portland line, Toledo Raiflroad and Tmprovement ny has been incorporated to build a road from Toledo to some point on the orthern Pacific. It is expected to use the bicycle system. R. Gamwell of Fairhaven ships about six orders of fresh fish daily to points in Wash- ington, Dakota and Minnesota. He has standing orders for 1,500 pounds of halibut and 1,000 pounds of cod twice a week, but finds difiiculty in getting the fishermen to bring in a sufficient quantit Near Hesseltine Martin Engleson h, %0 bushels of wheat in one bin that was ireshed before the first snow. It was not bone dry, but it was called dry, and part of it sold for No. 1 last fall.” . The other day .he had carpenters at work hingling the oof of the granary to protect the grain from the spring rains, when it was acci- dentally discovered that the wheat was burning. When uncovered a few Inches a column’ of steam would escape, and the work of removing it to another bin was at once commenced in hopes of saving a part of it. e are 263 local alliances of the Na- tional Farmers Allia nd Industrial union in the state of Washington, branches of the association being found in eighteen thirty-four eounties of the common- wealth, It is strongest in Spokane county, where there are forty-seven alliances. Whit- man county comes next with thirty-seven, followed by Lewis county with thirty Stevens with twenty-one, Lincoln with twenty, Cowlitz and Thurston each with fourteen, Garfield with thirteen, Kittitus and Whatcom each with eleven, Dierce and Chehalis each with eight, Okanogan with seven, King and Douglas each with six, Clarke with five, Columbia with four, Yakima with one. MISCELLANEOUS. Blectric signals are being put up by the railroads at the str in San Jos After nine weeks of boring the Healdsburg Trust company has struck water at a dep of 280 feet. The miners of the Agva de Lobo district, sixteen miles east of Tres Piedras, N. M., have organized as Camp Meiggs. Considerable excitement has been caused by the gold discoverfes at Tickelville, Utah. The ore runs $20 and can be treated for $4. The Spokane Indians will soon be located on the Coeur d'Alene reservation in Idaho. Cottages have been erected for their accom- modation. The reccnt slaughter of eleyen buffalo in tho YeJlowstone National park by a single hunter has justly created much indignation in the Montana press. The San Francisco S. P. C..A. has un- earthed a plan for a fight between a lion and a grizzly bear at the Midwinter fair grounds and will prevent it. Large coul fields of an excellent quality are being uncovered in northern Arizona, and Phoenix is hoping to scon have an abundant supply of that kind of fuel. The first year's work of the Utah beet sugar works was pronounced a success. It has been decided to put 8,600 acres in beets for the coming season. This will be all the factory can handle. 3 Senator Stewart of the committee on mines and mining has favorably reported his bill amending the mining laws so as to require that $50 instead of $10 be expended annually in work upon each twenty acres of placer claims. There is an rigation about of the ing ten in- first The abundance of water for ir- Eddy, N. M. Although the acreage Is increasing, the demand for water will probably not keep . because the farmers are learning that less irrigation and more cultivation are required. The number of paupers constantly ar- riving at Salt Lake from the west has made relief work very burdensome in that city. The unfortunates are sald to be returning eastward from San_Francisco, not finding there a city of milk and hone In Febraary the Treadwell gold mines, Alaska, shipped $44,951 in bullion. The expense of handling the 20,487 tons of mill- ing ore and 324 tons of sulphurets from which it came was $27,811. The profits in the past nine months were $372,000. The merchants and busine: men of Salt Lake City are making active efforts to cre- ate a popular sentiment in favor of using asbestos of home manufacture. The move is one that will increase the wealth and independence of the territory of Utah. The Utah Portland cement plant at Salt Lake City has started operations. It cost 50,000 and has a capacity of 400 barrels a day. The company will pay out for help over $60 daily and consume etght tons of conl in the furnaces every twenty-four hours. te Veterinary Surgeon Holloway of Montana has a scheme to dispose of the surplus horses of that state, and there are many. He proposes to slaughter them and export the dressed carcasses to countries where horse meat is consumed. It s esti- mated that Montana has 100,000 horses that would be available for this purpose. Extensive efforts are to be made to ship the first product of the Salt river valley from Phoenix this season. A dealer named 8. Goodman has asked the Wells-Fargo Ex- press company to glve him a living rate, and on his part agrees to ship from this valley 4,000,000 pounds of fruit during the coming season. Hitherto local dealers hav been content with shipping a few thousand pounds annually to points within easy reach. Mr. Harold of Pittsburg, Pa., has a con- tract to sink ten artesian wells in south Santa Fe county, New Mexico, for the Hy- draulic Placer Mining and Irrigation com- pany of New York. He has five car loads of machinery and is prepared to surmount all obstacles In securing water for operating the thousands of acres of placer gravel in south Santa Fe county. He will sink 8,000 feet In hopes of striklng artesian water, but it this fails to flow then a series of wells will be put down and pumps used to lift the water Into elevated reservolrs. The Enterprise Reservoir and ¢ has been organized in Utah to construct a reservoir the head of Shoal creek, at a point known as Little Pine Valley, in Wash- ington county, Utah, with @ capacity suf- ficlent to irrigate an area of 6,415 acres of land. The estimate is based upon a calcu. lation by which the capacity of the reser- voir Is shown to bo 2,758,145,277 gallons, which will give a depth of sixteen inches of water over the entire surface of 5415 acres of land. The reservoir will be one mile long by half a mile wide, and the average depth of water will be about forty-five feet, nal com STORIES ~ OF THE ~ WAR Every Page Replete with Material for Dramas and Novels, GENERAL CLEBURN HOW DIED Killed While Heading a Confe ~One rate € Many Theilling Stories Em- almed in th entury War Book.” arge Among the stories of war which impress themseives upon the fancy there are Which, by a certain strikfig quality, are so vividly plctured upon the mental that they become fixed forevor. Such {8 the story of General Cleburn's death as related by an eye-witness. It ap pears that a certain desperate charge was to be made which involved the passing of an old-fashioned rail fence, behind which at short range the federal troops were massed in a strong position the story goes, there was some doubt expressed about the ability of the confederates to pass the fence in question, as it was the focus of a tre mendous fusillade, Cleburn, who rode a thoroughbred hunter, placed himself at the head of the charging body and rode at the fence. The road be- fore it was sunken, and as he rode down the embankment upon the opposite side he gathered his horse for a mighty leap. The steed rose gallantly and beautifully to the jump, but as they reached the high- est point and paused ypparently n midair & withering volley pierced hoth horse and man with a hundred wounds, and they sank dead across the top rail of the fenc General Cleburn's hat had fallen off and his sword arm was raised in a gesture of command. The death stroke had been in- tantaneous, and while his soldiers swarmed over the fence beside him and madly. con tinued the charge so gallantiy headed the dead leader still sat erect in his saddle with his eyes wide open, and fixed upon the cnemy’s position, Jis sword held rigidly above his head. Such are th some sereen As stories the veter tell, and such are the vivid em- Imed in the records of the civil war. ose who delight in listening to the recital of gallant deeds find endless store in that standard history of the great rebellion, the “Century War Book.” Every page s replete with material for war dramas and novels beyond the flight of imagination to compass. Here the great leaders, the command on both sides, de- ploy their force in in action or unfold the maps and plans of those tremendous mpaigns. Here the private soldier tells with glee how “Uncle Billy” rode plain and erect at the head of his glittering staff, and “no man looked so much a commander as did the fatherly gencral. He tells also of the hot days when n ing with footsore pace was an endless a only forgotten shen the enemy's works lay” before them. He tells of the games and routine of camp life—the forbidden raids upon alien barnyards—the “song of home”" and the death of “my chum’ as they lay “behind a log upon the skirmish line. And all this is told by the southern soldier as well as by him who came from the northland. We cateh a_glimpse here and there of the reality which lay behind the meager newspaper reports of the period. We see the self-sacrificing women at home —toiling In fields and shops—that their loved family hero might give up his precious life for a principle. We see the terrible anxieties which beset the aching yet stead- fast heart of the great president. We are told of deep-laid plots and successful coun- ter plots. We grasp more clearly the meaning of the mighty word “‘freedom’ and realize in some measure what it cost. The * ntury War Book,” as issued by The Bee, is a revised edition of the stand- ard history known as “Battles and Leaders of the Civil War.” In the revision the great aim has been to evolve from this huge mass of data, figures, and detall an interest- &, graphic and comprehensive story in popular shape. Nothing has been eliminated which Is of vital importance, and the revision has in many instances, as regards particular nar- rative but rearranged the maiter in more attractive form. Nine hundred of the best illustrations are retained, and these alone without a line of letter text will vividly tell the story to the ordinary reader. For students of history, as well as for the younger generation, the book is invaluable. It is an educator without a peer in respect to the salient facts of that momentous period of American history. To the vet- eran soldier the book is already well known. and the only reason it has not been hitherto placed upon the library shelves of every loyal American household has been the necessarlly high price placed upon it in the original form. This drawback is happlly removed and the work as now issued is brought casily within reach of the most moderate purse, The terms upon which the ‘‘Century War Book” may be obtained will be found else- where in this issue. e OLD PRESCRIPTIONS FAIL. Sure Thing Remedies Applied to a Balky Hors The crowd had gathered ahout a horse and buggy in the middle of the street, says the Chicago Tribune. The horse had balked. “Tie a €tring around his ear,” sald one of the bystanders. “It gives him some- thing else to think of. I never knew it to fail. It had no effect. “Blindfold him,” suggested another. A bandage was tied over his eyes and an effort made to start him. Same result. Back him.” “He won't back,” owner. I tried that. “Try him with an ear of corn.” The ear of corn failled to move the ob- stinate horse. “I'll_see if I can persuade him somo other way." sald the exasperated owner of the animal. He took a whip and belabored the beast with it till somebody threatened to have him arrested Then he kicked him a while. All in vain. Finally a benevolent-looking old gentleman forced his way through the crowd and said “I have seen a great many balky horses started by building a fire under them. Can you get some straw or shavings?"” A boy was sent to a neighboring furniture store for some excelsior. He came back presently with a huge armful. It was placed on the ground under the horse and a lighted match touched to it. As the first feeble flame rose from it and the smoke began to eurl about his legs the horse unbent a little. He turned his head, took a calm survey of the situation, and when the combustible stuff burst Into a big blaze he moved forward about six feet, In full possession of his faculties, and without any unnecessary haste, and stopped again And the elegant buggy was damaged worth by the flames bsfore it occurred anybody to scatter the blazing stuff. And then an old colored man in a faded suit of second-hand clothes and a hat with the brim half gone went out and sp ke kin‘ly to the high-spirited animal, rubbed his nose, patted him on the neck, climbed into the damaged buggy, and said, And the horse moved off at a brisk trot, with his head high in the air, e A Monster Amethyst. A huge amethyst, welghing twelve pounds and measuring nine inches by five in thick- ness, was found recently by Billy Norwood; says the Helena Herald. Norwood dis- covered the stone on Granite creek, his at tention being first attracted by the bril- lant display of colors sparkling in the sun- light. The color takes the most beautiful | shade, a violet blue and & pinkish purple, | in one hexagonal prism, which will measure about four inches. A variety of tints are shown through the balance of the stone ac cording to the mixture of peroxide of mang nese when it was formed. This particular specimen is of the hard- est variety of quartz or rock crystal, cut ting plate glass almost as neatly as a dia- | mond. is more valuable as a beauty | specimen, probably, than for commercial purposes 1id the exasperated $26 It Ieking Close to Home. A local paper of Moravia, Cayuga county, 3t along, sonny." | | manufacturers N. Y., says that George Dumore, & prosper- Great Special Sale in our Boys' Department. ON SATURDAY, MARCH 3l1st. 1500 Fancy Cheviot Two-Piece Suits at 80 CENTS ON THE DOLLAR. The goods were bought from M. Sampter Sons & C»., of New York, at 50 cents on the dollar, and will be offered on Saturday without regard to actual values. Boys' Suits, Wbl 75 50 Union Cassimere Suits, ages P 0505 Soono cooutogtads: LA+ Suits $2.00 200 Checked Cassimers Suits at.$2,00 Worth $3.50 Suits $2.8580 200 absolutely All Wool Mixed Cheviot Suitsat..... Worth $5.00. Suits $8.00 200 suits, two shades d wk and me- dium colorat............ .....$3.00 Worth $6.00. Suits $8.80 High grade Cheviot Suits, cannot be bought in other stores for less than $6,50; our price on Saturday ; ....$3.50 Suits $3.78 Handsome Brown Striped Cassi- mere Suits at. .....$3.75 Worth double. Brown -$2.50 15th and Douglas. CONTINENTAL, HATS. A manufacturer'sen- tire stock of men’s Fe- dora and Derby hats at less than cost of manu- facturing. $1.00, worth §1,735. $1.25, $1.50, $1.75, worth g3.00. All this season’s shapes in blacks,drabs and browns. worth ¢2.00. worth $2.50, Men's Derbys. $1.00; worth $2.60 $1.10; worth $2.26° $1.25; worth $2.50 $1.50; worth §3.00 15th and Douglas CONTINENTAL ous farmer, who has been a resident of that town nearly eighty years, has never been outside the township. The well known vil- lages of Courtland, Homer, Genoa and Aurora are within ten miles of Moravia, but Farmer Dumore has never been in elther one of them. He has a brother and a sis- ter who have lived eight miles from his farm for over sixty years and he has not n cither of them for forty-five years. A neighbor of Dumore’s, Nathan Tuthill, years old, has lived at Moravia fifty years and was never inside the village tavern or postofiice. He has lived half a century in one house and never slept or ate a meal in any other house. He never tasted liquo beer or tobacco and never wrote a letter or signed a note or other obligation. Another sighibor of Dumore's is Seth R. Webb, aged 83 years, who has been town clerk for fifty- four consecutive year - FEWER HOURS, BETTER RESULTS Productive Capacity of Workmen Invari- ably Inereased There are still some here and there who seem to believe In the old maxim of Riche- lieu that workmen are to be compared with mules, who are less spoiled by work than by repose; but, on the whole. the beneficial ef- fect of reasonable repose is now generally admitted, and, according to the Contempo ary Review, nobody would think it wise or profitable to return to the very long hour of the early part of the century. And, he again, what is good for one nation has proved good for others; all have alike bene- fited in productive ¢ abandoning long hours of labor. When Mr. Scott, the eminent Scottish shipbuilder, opened a 'yard in France, he reduced the hours of the French shipwrights from twelve to ten, and says he found it advantageous so far as h was concerned, Indeed, he raised their wages in consequence from 4 francs a day to 4% francs, so that they must have done more work in the shorter day than in the longer one. When the hours were reduced to eleven in 1872 in Canton Glarus, the manu- facturers prophesied ruin, but obtained 99.15 ot of their old production in the first nd more than their old production in next. The eleven-hour day was intro- duced into the rest of Switzerland in 1878, and Dr. Schuler, the factory inspector, ex- tracts the following results from the books of a spinning mill whose machinery was too old to be speeded except yery slightly: In 7 in twelve hours the mill produced § ko. of yarn per 10,000 spindles, but in 80 it produced 388.85. In 1881 the Swiss tory Inspector reports a tannery and a watch factory as having voluntarily reduced hours to ten, and having in both cases found the same quantity produced in a day and an improvement 'in the textile of a particular district in their hours In 1870, and, first a little less product on got more than befo blind manufacturer Hamburg and Berlin, who had reduced s to nine in 1890 and found th pfitable, reduced them further to eight in and obtained from a majority of his hands an iner of the quantity produced without any loss of quality, reduced got at they s windg Bohenia while they in the day M. ' Freese at his step 74| CABLE SIGNALS. A Novel A ratus Ins e in New York City. A highly interesting and novel system ot apparatus is now being install by the Third avenue cable railroad of New York | city by means of which it will be possible to | signal or telephone from practically any point on the line of the road to either of the power stations. At the intersection of every other cross street, as a rule, manholes have | been built between the tracks, which contain i | an electric apparatus, known as an ‘‘au- tomatic,” which is connected with the ele tric cable running between the tracks to the power stations. Each of these manholes is numbered and has a plug switch, by means of which a portable telephone can be thrown into the circuit if desired. In the engine room of each power house are two gongs on which the signals are sounded, the smaller gong for one portion and the larger for the other portions of the road. As th road has three divisions, the large gong is used I connection with an electric annun- | ciator operated automatically which indi- cates to the engineer in charge whether it is the up or the down cable that is to be stopped. The first signals are always sent out by the conductor of a car, who only uses the apparatus when the cable must be stopped When such an emergency arises he raises the cover of the nearcst manhole, lifts the handle of the automatic and replaces the cover. In this manner the number of the box s transmitted to the power sta tions, where it is printed by an instrument resembling a stock ticker. Immediately upon the receipt of the number of the in strument from which the signal was sent, the wrecking wagon from the nearest sta tion is sent to it. This wagon carries the portable telephone used in communicating with the five telephone and two power sta After the trouble has been remedied is again used to signal the engin stroke meaning to stop the cable, two strokes to go easy, three strokes to go ahead all right, and four strokes stands for fire. All the delicate parts of the ap: paratus, which are few in number, are in closed in a tight metallic case protecting them from the dampness and dust. The entire system is operated as a closed ¢ cuit, 80 that in case any portion is injured the ‘danger signal is given at once. tions. the automatic A Deserving Mensure Missouri sald a western Washington Post, “they good story about Senator David R. Atchi son of that state, who had the honor to be president for the duration of one Sunday, by Virtue of his position as president pro-tem pore of the senate. There was a good deal of discusslon about bringing Kossuth to this and much talk about the great A bill had been introduced in con- | gress 1o defray expenses, and was then before the senate. The word Magyar was dinging in everybody and it had not escaped the attention of Semator Atchison though he didn't know what It meant at the time. There was talk one day in t “Out in ber to the country Magyar (€] ™) @ [ NOTICE These suits are GUEERIN e | double-breasted shape New goods made for this season’s business all popular & Co., of New York. A WATCH at cloak rooms about the ‘Magyar,' and the prC | priety of votug for & bill' to pay Lis ex- On Saturday with every $10 purchase of boys’ clothing we will give a stem winding nickel watch, a good time piece, which retails at $2.50. THIS OFFER Is on every g$10 purchase of boys’ clothing, CONTINENTAL penses, no one denying that he was a great orator ‘and a friend of this country. “Well,' sald Senator Afchison, after a short reflection, ‘if, as T take it from his name, he is related to the Maguires of Ken- tucky, he is a good fellow, and I shall vote for the bill.' " = — Bloody Battles of Europe. tactics and firelocks contributed more ighly to the death Toll than the skirmishers and breechloaders of modern times, suys the Saturday Review. At Blen- heim England lost some 23 per cent and her enemies about the same numbe At Moll- witz the Prussians lost 18 per cent, the Austrians 28 per cent. At Kolin Frederick force suffered to the extent of 37 per cent, while thelr victory cost his enemies only 14 per cent. At Zorndorf, the bloodiest battle of which we have any record that we may rely upon, the proportion of losses to the total forces engaged rose to the enormous total of from one-half to one-third, Kuners- dort was almost as destructive to human life, and Frederick lost 35 per cent, agalnst 2 per cont of the allies. With the advent of Napoleon and the loosened formations of the revolutionary armies, losses . were- T first diminished, but at Aspern the Austrians left nearly 28 per cent of their men on the battlefield and the French, although the bul- letins denfed it, are said to have b weakened by one-lialf after the battle, Borodino, foo, deprived the Russians of 86 per cent and the French of 25 per cent. During the Napoleonic wars we find the lower, although after Ligny the Prussians were weaker by as many as 20 per cent, and the victory of Waterloo cost Ingland rather more than that proportion. When, however, we turn to the campalgns which succeeded’ the lull' of exhaustion following the downfall of the first empire, we are confronted with no such bloody records, In spite of the invention of percussion caps, rifles, and even rified can- non. The allies at the Alma only lost some 6 per cent and the Russians 14 per cent, Inkerman, however, was as bloody as Watere, 1oo, but It was a struggle in_which tactics played a very small part. The losses at Magenta and Solferino were comparatiyely slight. Although the consequences of Konig= gratz were immense, they were cheaply purchased by the victors; while in 1870, nots withstanding that both ' sides were armed with breechloaders, the losses never ap. proached the huge totals of some of the battles of the early contury or of those of the seven years' war. At Worth, it 1 true, one-sixth of the total forces cngaged were either killed or wounded, but at Gravelotte the proportion was only one-eleventh, and Welssenburg one-twelfth, o ———— U S Children Cry for Pitchor's Castoria. Chiidren Cry for Pi! Wior's Castoria. Children Cry for, Pitcher’s Castorla, Linear LY CONTINENTAL CLOTHING HOUSE, * by M. Sampter Sons __ i 15th and bouglas. e -— N, b 4