Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 2, 1894, Page 7

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE APRIL, 2, 189 Gas Prizes. We think wo have the finest and MILLINERY DEPARTMENT in the west To stimulate tour cash prizes $1.25 for the best descriptions this department written by And mailed to us before (he 1 The merits of the composit teachers xtonsive interest fn it we will give of $10, §5, $2.50 and of four seh I of April be de by n t the suggested ¢ the girls contesting. ore are sther conditions and the gompositions will not be published with- out the consent of the writers. termined by ity MONDAY'S SALE OF Men’s and Boys’ Wear. Take Elevator to Second Floor. Tis oasy to say, not so0 simple to do; Quite easy ‘0 0.aim, hard to prove it quite true Quite a d fferenc> "twixt words and deeds one may s2e, For the form r a id latter do not always agreo; mere, day at $1. wool, - N \busin lies in the northern part of the state = P But to briig th> whole matt-r down to We promise here values that Our clothing bu in the cast half of wholesale prices, ages from 4 300 Boys' Knee Pant Suits, doubl On sale Monday 600 Boys' st 5, worth $3.50, ymbination Suits, 2 150 ¢ pair p fbr ust™ ...\ Juch boys 250 TERROR SUITS, double kn e le Monday wool cassimere and cheviot. On s and $5.00. ) fine point, will not disappoint. bought 1,100 Children's Suits for to 15, e and single breasted; union cassi- at $1,25, worth $2.50. ctly all-wool Cheviot ( wssimere Suits. On sale Mon- ts to match, warranted strictly all- On sale Monday at $2.25, clothing house price $4.50. nted strictly nd $3.25, worth Hayden Bros. guarantee to show the finest and most complete line of Men's, Boys’ and Children's Clotl 25 per cent. Will continue our Men' Give us a call on Men’s High Grade € in the city at a saving of from 1 $4.75 Suit Sale until all are sold. lothing before calling ¢ Mail Orders Promptly Selecteds: Carpets “Bpeclal prices this week on fine ingrain carpets. We have a good line of all wool carpets, good patterns, at 60c and 55 per yard, Also a good assortment of cotton and wool from 25¢ to 40c. These wool §oods we guarantce to be as good as are made. Tapestry brussells from 49c to 76c; body brussells from Toc to $1.00; velvet carpets, 75¢ to $1.00. Our stock of fine carpets comprise all the leading produc- tions of the best mills In the country. WEALTH OF BIG HORN BASIN | A Country Destined to Becomo a Land of Milk and Honey. WINDING STREAMS NOURISHING RICH SOIL Agricaltaral Possibilitles and Climate Augur Rapld Settloment—Near Approach of Two Ruilways in Prospect — General Western News. Within the bounds of the state of Wyo- ming is located ‘the Big Horn basin. This of. Wyoming, nearly encircled by the Sho- whone and Big Horn mountain ranges. It is located just east of Yellowstone Natlonal park, watered by the Big Horn and Sho- shone rivers and numerous smaller streams. 1ts snow-capped boundary was at some time in the remote past upheaved by earth’s con- vulsions. The snows were soon caught, and have since ever contributed to the never-fail- ing flow of the streams in thie basin below. Through the disintegrating and erosive influ- ence of alr and water the surrounding moun- tains have been slowly wearing away to form tho thousands of acres of rich soil now to be seen in the basin. For generations past varlous savage tribes have warred for possession of this same country. The Sho- shone, the Blackfoot and the Crow Indians held it fn turn as a home and a hunting ground. Many have been the flerce con- fiicts waged for possession of its beautiful Here streams and _bountiful _pastures. Yanged the buffalo in immense herds, here Were elk, antelope, deer and beaver in plenti- ful numbers. No more does savage fur- ously contend with savage in the Big Horn basin. A few contented settlers are there 1o be found, and the day is not far distant When this country will be densely peopled. Its olimate, its sofl and (ts easy prnhh-m.; ot irrigation assure for it a prosperous future. 178 VARIED RESOURCE: The resources of this little state are varl ous and multiplied. Here are found mineral Qoposits, preclous and useful in manufacture, lumber sufficient for home supply and to spare, coal in quantites inexhaustible, iron enough to supply a great nation, an oil flowing from earth’'s interior. Here are found rivers switt and beautiful beyond coin- pare, lakes of clear, cold water, large and Small, fed by snows of ages upon the moun- tain fops. Here are seen mountains tower- ing above and about this basin, which shut At the blasts of winter and the destroy- Tug hall storms of summer. Jullan Ralph writes of It In Harper's Magazine of June, 1893, as follows: *Its future must be grand. Hero will come thousands of men and women. Here will soon be seen a sea of (idy farms, with houses gay with green and yollow grain, dotted with orchards —and Jively with teams upon a tangle of highways. And somewhere in this same basin there {8 sure to grow up a clty ot wealth and {mportance, with factorles, stores, schools, churches and mansions.” It awaits only the railroads to build it up. The plentiful dow of water and the thousands of acres of rich, irrigablo land assure the support of home and mountain toilers and of a clty's popu- lation. No finer opportunity for the grow- Ing of hay, grain, fruits and vegetables is known to exist within the bounds of the United States. Under the vivitylng influence of irrigation vegetation becomes surpass- Ingly luxuriant and fleld and garden pro fucts ape harvested in amazing profusion. The prospect for the speedy settlement of the Big Horn country and the near approach of at least two lines of raillway lends in- preased interest to the few persons who have already settled there and to those who have contemplated a removal to the basin. This will be the next bit of territory to attract speclal attention, and that speedily. J. H. WHEELER, MINING IN COLORADO. The Indlana Mining company at Leadville, ays the Denver News, Is taking out a large Juantity of fue lead ere dally aud the oul- Hats and Caps. A manufacturer’s entire stock of men’s, boys' and children’s hats purchased at less than manufacturer’s cost. Why pay two cr three times the price elsewhere. The latest styles, the best quality and the lowest prices Men's fine fur Fedoras 75, worth $1.7: Men's fine fur Fedoras 95c, worth §2 Men's fine fur Fedoras $1.25, worth § Men’s fine fur derbys 75c, worth $2.00. Men's fine fur derbys 95¢, worth §2.50. Men's fine fur derbys $1.25, worth $3.00. Boys' crushers 37c, worth 76c. A large line of misses’ and yachi caps 50c, worth $1.50. children's 4,000 On Thursday, March 22nd, Town vant in New York 4,000 pieces of Foreign MONDAY, 4,000 Pieces of Silk! Preces of Silk! send & Montant sold by order of Passa- and Domestic, Plain and Fancy Black and Colored Silks, and notwithstanding our having an immense stock of silks on hand, our New York buyer was so tempted by the low prices at which fine goods were going that he purchased an immense lot of them which go on sale Monday morning at prices which is the English language, and powerfu absolutely defy competition. ully eloquent when employed by expert Copious as pens, a description that would do justice to this immense lot of silks would be difficult to frame. Hence let these submitted stand as evidence of others omitted. 3 Cents Vard At this pri China Silks that wo | Cents Yard. Will Pon, buy Plain Cents Yard. Plain Colored Jupa 39 | Il 2L in. Printed Chin ce we show 21 in. Cream Washable Habutai Silk, well worth a handsome assortment of Printed uld be cheap at i Colored China Silk worth 40c, Striped » Silks that you cannot get elsewhere at any price. Will buy Kai Kai Wash Silks well worth 50¢ yard. nes Silks, all eolors, well worth G5 yd. yavd, a Silks, handsome design, well worth 650 Will buy 28 in. wi 0 Habutai | 27 in. Bla Priuted [ in. wid /o Cents Yard. || At this price we Color Washable Si Black Taffetta Si Will buy a handsome Black Faile * 7 Plaid Sil Y Printed match the guality n Wash Silks worth ck Jupancse Silks worth Tic. ndia Silks, handsome designs, worth 7 e Navy Blue Printed Jap Silk, worth show a magnificent line of Japunese Solid ks, worth 85¢ yard. il for Skirts worth 8¢ a yard. Silk worth $1.00. k= worth fully $1.00 a yard. Japanese Silks, 85 designs. elsewhere less thaa $1.00. You can't Will buy handsome heavy quality Black' Dress Silk nnmber of fancy w Will buy handsom Plaid Sil Cheny hundred other it We assert positively that without fear of contradiction, that we wi you this week the most wonderful valus old shop-worn passed styles, but the weaves and colorings of the best looms of Europe and America. oF caves, worth $1 o Novelty Silks worth ks worth $1.75 yard. Bros. Printed Sutin Duehess and ems we have not space to mention. 0 yard. give es you have ever seen in Silks. Not in NEWEST, CHOICEST, most desirable If there be any one under the impression that any house in the west can show an equal selection of Silks with us, we desire to dispel the illusion by an invitation to inspect our silk stock. Save I\i&wy While Spending it. On Waists, Wrappers There not another house who devotes the space to the we do, and we aim novelties well goc We Iadies’ s in the city se two artic to keep all the newest as as every thing in staple have popular large order o prettiest and most novel ever shown, and have the Just recetved ists in the have “GRASS CLOTH Waist” in a variety of styles Our wrapper department your attention as a helper comfortably and cheaply wear, and we have for the best wrappers that moncy can purchase | for general Also all of the fiuer per- | cales, L at $1.40 and $1.75. d patterns, that calls ping you for house and $1.2 s on in ki gowned 98¢ WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO BUY FOR A SPRING WRAP? If it be a jacket, see our stock before you decide. We have every popular style, shade, etc., known to this season’s trade, $2.40, $2.79, $3.25, $5.00, $5.50 and $7.00. All unmatchable. BLACK sales from our black ca that we have and you will d CAPES, The demonstrated in this line before you' purchas riety is such that what they want fouk mp well to see the find have tition Vit Just o« elsewhere any one SKIRTS, Fast black sateen, well finis full, K3, worth $1.00. Fast black satin, perfect, $1.00, worth Striped cheviots i s th 8 10 dozen ladies’ dress skirts in flannel and repellant, colors, blue black and tan, go on sale Monday and until_closed out at $1.6 worth from $2.25 to $3,76. 1 and made le $1.5 great r fine retail trade, variety of color House Furnishing Goods, I A set bougl ) o LIMOG LANTERNIE FRANCE ench China T'ea Scts, In the very finest regular price of thi from $15 to $25 New York finporter at less than manufac turer's cost, and on Monday yon can have | hofce at $8.25 cach; this is a chance of | w lifetime. Just received 1,000 mocking bird and parrot s steel, zine and brass, irom 4Sc up. Milk and baking erocks, e per gallon. Blue enamel ware at the price you gener- ally pay for tinwa Wash basins, 22¢ ¢ Cups, 13c each. Coffee pots, 39c each Large preserve kettle Dippers, 26¢ each 1 milk pans, 19¢ h Ations; the any other store is we 1) sets from a bird ca canary in Ja each Domestic Bargains You will find the largest stock of bleached or unbleached muslin or double width sheet- ings and pillow casings at the lowest or money Best shirting ealico 31ec 3 Best 36-inch wide percale 10c RBest oil red figured prints Best Amoskeag or gingham Dress styl Outing flannel White shake 30-inch wide All colors in yard. e yare vard i Lancaster | checked G, 10c and 15¢ yard. be yard. width bunting flannel cretonne, double 10¢ Sewing Machines left of those elegant sewing ma- chines at $15.00, fully warranted for & years, they will soon be gone and cannot be duplicated. A few put for March will be about 2,500 tons. The present working level in their Woleott shaft is 267 feet, and it s in this neighborhood where they have disclosed some of the largest and finest bodies of ore in the camp. The chute is now dipping westward, so a winze is being sunk in order to get the ore body again. ~They are at present taking out 100 tons daily through the Esther shaft. The satisfactory results attained in the Wolcott has stimulated mining matters in that melghborhoood and much _important work is being carried on and the Wolcott ore chute is belng sought after in other prop- erties. There is quite a rush to the Little Buffalo district, about five miles north of Beuna Vista. John Gooding, with a party of Aspen and Denver capitalists, have a group of claims on an enormous veln which varies in width from 100 to 500 feet, and have been prospected about. six miles in length. It Is of freo milling nature and the average mill run is about $12.50 gold per ton. It is authentically stated that a large body of ore of high grade ranging from twelve to cighteen inches in thickness has been dis- closed In the deepest workings on the R nolds mino situated on Silver creek, near Georgetown. In other portions of the prop- erty there are large bodies of ore of an in- ferior grade, which at the present price of silver cannct be mined with a profit, hence it remains Intact, With the present showing and a fair price for silver a force of at least 100 men could be employed with handsome results. AFTER MINING RIGHTS, The Pocatello News reports that the In- Qians on the Fort Hall reservation have, by treaty, made a lease of mining privileges of all mines on the reservation to a company headed by Butte City capitalists. Under this treaty this company s given the exclusive right to prospect and mine wherever minerals are found on their lands, and for this right the Indians are to be paid certain stipulated sums which are satisfac- tory to them. Of course this agreement must be ap- proved in Washington, and there is where trouble may be expected, if any trouble s to come. It is generally believed that there are several rich mines on the reservation, and |t has been hinted that these were lo- cated long ago; if they can be worked it will bring rich profits to Bannock and Bing- ham counties, to Blackfoot and Pocatello. The Tribune says: It is rumored around town that the Indians have decided to lease the mineral lands of this reservation to the Kenyon company at a royalty of 50 cents per ton for alk ore taken out. A SHOWER OF SALT. It was a balmy spring day—as pleasant a day as has struck the town in many a long, weary month, but late in the afternoon @ drizzling rain blew up, carried on a wind that blew directly from the south, says the Pocatello Tribune. It was of peculian whitoness, and after it had passed every one who had happened to have been out in it and who wore a dark suit of clothes or a dark hat, noticed that clothes and hat were covered with thousands of tiny white spocks, Later it was noticed that every window in town looking to the south was also covered h white spots, It has been raining mud,” saild every one who noticed the phenomenon at first, but later some of the curious spirits tried tasting the spots. They had a distinctly salty flavor, and analysis made later by local druggists proved that they were salt, The question now is, where did the salt come from? There can only be one answer From the Great Salt Lake, nearly 300 miles south in Utah, It must have been a warm day over the Great Dead Sea when a strong south wind swept over it, catching up the salty vapor and sweeping it north to Idaho, and finally bespattering the clothes and windows of the good people of Poeatello with the salt spray. Here It congealed and left its marks in the thousauds of white apecks that caused so much wonder and surprise. NEBRABKA. P, A. Willlams has purchased the Riverton Guard. Grave robbers have again been at work at the Columbus cemetery, Valley county teachers will hold a session at Ord on April 13 and 14, The Scribner Nows has celebrated eleventh birthday by ensmalling. Two young men were scufing for the possession of a revolver at Columbus when the woapon was accideatally discharged. its Tho ball lodged in the knee of George Pitts, who will be laid up several weeks. Rev. George W. Borden has been chosen pastor of the Iirst Presbyterian chureh at Auburn, Willam Ackerman, near Oakland, kick of a horse, Wilber has organized a camp of the In- dependent Workmen of America with eighteen members. Fire at York destroyed the harness store of Willlam Bernstein. The loss is placed at $1,800, partially covered by insuranc At Wahoo Samuel Goldgrabber lost some of his glittering wealth when Mrs. Beer- maker brought sult against him for $75 for rent. Gretna Catholics are going to proceed with the building of their new church, which was indefinitely postponed when the hard times came on. The little village of Julian in Nemaha county 1s now lighted by electricity. It is the smallest town in the state to have such a public improvement. President Mansfelde has sent out notices that the date of the meeting of the Nebraska State Medical association has been changed trom May 8 to May 1. A cow belonging .to Mr. J. G. Mackrill, a farmer living five miles west of Merna, gave birth to three very large calves, two red males and one white female. The bank of Harrison, which closed some time ago, has been reopened, President John A. Lucas having obtained sufficient funds to pay all depositors in full. Methodists at Valentine partly paid for the sonage by glving the cantata, “‘Rebecca’s Triumph.” ~ They intend to build a new church this season at a cost of $2,000. Mrs, Edward Osborn of Beemer, who fell on a hot stove in an epileptic fit, died from her Injuries and was buried at West Point She leaves a husband and two children, Mr. Layman Groves, who has lived near Harvard for over twenty years, is dead. He was a member of the Grand Army post in that city, He died from consumption. Wind blew down the end of the brick wall in the west wing of the Methodist Eplscopal church at Pawnee City, doing damage which it will cost the Hartford Insurance company over $500 to repair. Olot Stenman of Gothenburg failed spicuously in a recent attempt to bucking broncho. The animal went backwards and the Fider was rendered conscious. He is likely to recover. There are not enough democrats in Ord to support a paper and so the Democrat has been consolidated with the independent Journal. The failure of Editor Jackson to secure the postoffice also had something to do with the ca The Fremont Foundry and Machine com- pany has been awarded the contract for the construction of the Friend water works; $18,000 worth of 6 per cent bonds have been sold at 2 per cent premium and work on the construction of the new water works will be commenced at once. A young man appeared In the office of the county judge at Plattsmouth to secure a marriago certificate, but he became 50 rattled at tho thought of what he was about to undertake that when asked the name of his Intended he had to turn round to the lady and address himself to her with the words: “What Is your name?" At a Beaver City debating society the war was fought over agaln and ended in @ victory for the south. It all arose over the question of whether the south had the right to secede. Argument was soon abandoned and the disputants set to work to smash up furniture in lieu of regiments. Some of the pacticipants were badly hurt during the affray. THE DAKO! The gun clubs of the Black Hills have offered a reward of $60 for the first arrest and conviction of a person on the charge of vio lating the law In regard to the taking of fish. Seth Bullock of Deadwood says that the flow of the Belle Fourche artesian well was increased to 230,000 per day by the explosion of thirty pounds of dynamite in the sand stone strata The clty council of Hot Springs has heen asked to grant a franchise to J. M. Metcalt and assoclates of Omabia for an electric steel rallway through the principal streets of the city, covering about two miles. The ordi a young man living had his leg broken by the con- ride a over un- nance has passed its first reading, and it Is generally believed that it will pass its final reading without trouble. A flow was struck in the artesian well that is being put down by the Armour Roller mills at a depth of 735 feet. The well is to be used as power to run the mill instead of steam, as is now used, A colony of Dunkards, about 600, from In- diana is expected at Devil's Lake in a few days to settle on lands In this district. The train conveying them and their goods will consist of twenty coaches. Most of them will settle in Towner county. T. W. Diskell, the cattle king of South Dakota, has Jjust returned from a trip through the ranges of that state. He is re- ported as saying that while on the trip Le did not see a single dead animal, and that the losses during the winter will not reach 3 per cent. But these statements were made before the recent storm which has just swept the whole plains country. Reports received from the stock ranges west of the Missouri river say there was some slight loss of cattle during the recent storm, Cattle that were in good condition stood the storm well, but some of the poorer animals could not withstand it. The fact that the temperature stood at about 20 de- grees above zero during the storm prevented greater loss to stockmen, WYOMING. The Wyoming State Teachers’ assoc met at Rawlins last week. Fully 200 men are to leave Rock Springs for the gold fields of South P'ass as soon as the snow s gone. Buffalo Bill's agent is recruiting his next year's show from this state. He Kuows Where the best riders are to be found The eastbound passenger train, Joe Finley ongineer, ran through a band of sheep the other night about six miles east of Creston, Killing The Rock Springs Coal company las cut down the force of miners on wnccount of the fact that more coal is being mined than cars can be secured to haul away, The registration of Chinese just comy shows 463 at Rock Springs, sixty at I ton, thirty-nine at Green River and twenty- two In Cheyenne, a total of 534 for the state. Ed Howell of Cook, Wyo., has heen ar- rested and brought to Mammoth Hot Springs for poaching in the Yellowstone park. Five freshly killed buffalo were found v liere he was caught. The commission of Louis Miller as state fish_commissioner was attested by Secretary of State Barber under mandamus of the supreme court. Miller will start quo war ranto proceedings to oust Schnitger, the present incumbent Many business tion men of Evanston, Wy are arranging to go into the chicken busi- ness, simply for amusément Incubators and prize eggs have beer ordered end com- mission merchants soligited to handle the output from these inyestments, COLORADO, The mines are shipping a day. A good strike Is reported Nevada, at Yankee Hill, The Cowenhoven tunael, nearly a mile and a halflong A streak of ten-ourfce’ ore has been opemed in the Fraction mine, Idaho Springs, The graders on the Flarence railroad have cut three veins on the Mound Rock claim. An elghteen-inch stteals of $100 quartz has been struck in the Magenla mine at Granite, Rich ore bodies Heve been opened up in the lower levels .of. the Isk, Central City. T ready pound. Some fine ore has been struck In the McDermott, Copper Rock, and two tons have been sacked, Some of the the C. O. D, Cripple Creek. Tho Elda (. mine, the first shipper at Balfour, has closed down on account of dis- agreeing owners. A four-foot vein of $12 fre ore has been struck in the ish bar, near Idaho Springs. ! Thirty-five of the Swedes who came Colorado on an excursion have settled on land on the north side of the Arkansas river Aspen 200 tons in the Sierra Aspen, {8 now Solix Tylee, for shipment Granite which 100 worth has is stacks $Loa ore naw 18 the being richest yet taken from found at milling gold Josephine, Span near Las Animas with their families. They have already started a church with a mem- bership of forly-three. A mill is to be erected to treat the ores of the Baltimore, near Ophir. The mine has a twenty-seven foot vein of free milling ore. The_building of new stock-feeding vyards at Grand Junction is expected to increase the demand for alfalfa in the Grand valley. It is claimed that the large velns which were the source of the gold in the rich Tar- ryall placers have recently been discovered. The ranchmen on the Roaring Fork about Carbondale have determined to open a grange store at Aspen for the sale of their products. Work Is being pushed on the excavation for the new $15,000 county bridge across the river at the foot of Pike's Peak avenue at Florence. Large deposits of lead carbonates have been discovered near the headwaters of the Elk river on Halin's peak. A smelter is already projected. Some_rich strikes are repored from the Deep Creek country, near the Buckhorn mine, in western Utah. Assays show 900 ounces silver and three ounces gold. The fish at the Durango hatchery are re- ported by Commissioner Sarler to be doing well. The Herald states that he has re- cently received a consignment of rainbow trout, about 1,000 in number and from three to six inches in length. This gives three varieties, native, eastern brook and Califor- nia. $ soon as the high water comes down a large quantity of trout will be turned into the river, and in a few years the Animas should be the sportsman's paradise, OREGON, When the Columbia fell at The Dalles it left 3% inches of deposit on the stcamer docks. The streams of Crook county were higher this spring than they have been for ten years, It is reported that a contract has been igned for the construction of a railroad from Portland to Astoria. An Oregon paper remarks if it does not stop raining the weather clerk will have to put a second story to the gauge. There is too much water for some of the southern Oregon placer mines. Some have had to postpone operations until the water runs down a little. A train from Elgin brought twelve loads of rallway tles to La Grande, This makes 160 carioads from the same point lately, and there aro still fifty carloads to come. The Union car- Mining & Milling company will start in on the proposed extensive de- velopment at the White Swan in a short time. It is said that work outlined by the company will cost upwards of $50,000 Robinson & Holcomb, who owns rich placer ground in Pleasant cr cinct, Jackson county, have picked number of nuggets this season, the largest of which were valued at $221, $38, $75, 367 and $52 respectfully, and were found in the order named. A mining some pres up a deal of no small magnitude was made the other day whereln B. F. Durphy of Portland, bought 240 acres of placer ground on Juckson creek. The pur- chase includes five miles of water ditch and five reservoirs. Mr. Durphy, it s under- stood, contemplates immediate operations and upon an extensive scale. A shipment of 2,000 feet of hydraulic pipe has been shipped by K. K. Kennedy to his gravel mines, situated on what is known as Thorn guleh, tributary to Lower Powder, on the Union county side. These mines are un doubtedly rich, since further up the gulch many thousands of dollars were taken out in years past. The mines are supplied at present with free water, but later on water from the Sparta canal will be use J. H. Brown, representing linsced works, was in Sclo recently. He is engag in making contracts for the raising of flax for oil purposes and furnishing seed to the farmers. The Press informed that he effected contracts in that vieinity amounting to about 500 acres. He guaranteed to pay the farmer the Chicago price, less 'the freight to Portland and the bags. The farmer will be able to realize from $1.15 to $1.25 per bushel The Joseph Aurora spe the stock outlook. It says the ests of Wallowa county have material loss this winter. While has been one of unusual severity sufficient feed and the winter ks reassuringly of stock {nter uffered the winter there was range was unusually good, 5o that the loss of all kinds of stock will amount to practically nothing. Reports from the Grand Ronde, Snake river and the Imnaha say there is no danger of any further loss. WASHINGTON. The snowfall at Thumbville this winter was twenty-nine feet seven Inches. Along Crab creek, Adams county, they think they are lucky if the well-borer strikes water 150 feet. The reported gold discoveries at Sumas are now declared erroneous. The excitement was genuine, but there was no gold. The snow on the summit of the Cascades is higher than the tops of the telegraph poles along the line of the Great Northern. Logging bees are quite in vogue In the Willapa timber settlements. The day's work is followed by a big dinner and free dance W. H. Babcock, the Bureka Flat wheat king, has twenty-six gangs of men at work, and 1s putting in wheat at the rate of 100 acres per day. The Oregon Improvement company is get- ting out a great number of railroad ties in Columbla county. There are 12,000 banked up along a flume in one place ready to be taken to Dayton. People are going miles to see the new drop-curtain of the Whatcom opera house. Among the many artistic effects introdu may be mentioned a pleturesque view of Bellingham bay, a rocky cape with a row boat and a revenue cutter at anchor, Mount Baker rising in the distance and a Great Northern train rushing around Chukanut mountain. Prosser Falls has a unique advertisement in the shape of a big sign board thirty feet long by ten feet high, standing so that it can be seen from the railroad, and upon it the following, in big, black letters, appears “Thus salth the Lord. Make this valley full of ditches. Ye shall not see rain, neither shall ye seo mud; yet the valley shall be filled with water, that ye, your animals and your beasts may drink.—I1 Kings, 1ii:16. Messrs. Cole and Price of Seattle have made the people of Mission, Brown and Pine Flats, Kittitas county, a proposition to build an irrigation ditch.” Right of way is to be donated, and §10 for each acre put under water Is to be pald, either in cash or secured by mortgage at 7 per cent; $1 #per year to be the annual charge for each acre of land placed under cultivation. If 3,000 acres shall be subscribed, the offer holds good. As this is by far the best proposition tho people have had, it will undoubtedly be accepted. MISCELLANEO Smalipox 18 sald to have at Anaconda, Mont. An orchard near sently sold for $750 an acre, he university lands of Utah are soon to be placed on the market for sal The Santa Fe road will place an order for rails with the Pueblo steel works in May Electric signals are being put up by the rallroads at the street erossings in San Jose It Lake is negotiating with a lar, factory to secure the removal of the that city. The county courts of Utah are appointing fruit tree inspectors in accordance with a recent law. le gold excitement growing. A large area of the has been staked After nine weeks burg Trust company depth of 280 feet The newsboys of Pasadena have organized a union. The ovent was celebrated by a banquet at the swell hotel of the town Fruit shipments from Ontarlo amour nearly twenty-two car loads. There 4,995 boxes of oranges and 690 of lemons. Conaiderable excitement has bgen caused the gold discoveries at Tickelville, Utah ore runs $20 and can be treated for $4 Territorial Veterinary Surgeon Norton thinks he has the glanders district in Arizona under control and limited to a narrow cirele , Idaho, put up 180,000 pounds son and estimatos thoe value per pound-—$18,000 home gain broken out Las Cruces, N. M., re- ge glass plaut to i, Utah, Wasatch ran, the Helds water at a of boring has struck ed to by The Camas Prairl of pork this se at 10 ¢ product The Southern Pacific |s having 150 re fr cars built at their shops in § mento. This 1s a new departure, this class of rolling stock has been prey congtructed 1o the cast of oak, The sy uow rree. Attent rree. system whorehy each pureha receives coupons for the ame rehased. and when th P amount to $25,00 they title the holder to ong cral handsome gifts whicl on display in our store ny SHve your conpons. Trunk Tal We the gard recoived follov Marhoff's Trunks : “Jas. A, Howard, successor to H. H, Marhoft— Omaha, March 21, 1804, Hayden Bros., City GENTLEMEN—1 beg to you have not bought the store or factory. I bought it, and have a clear bill of sale for the same, including the trade mark, “Marhoft, " which i i 1 sold trunk and bags F. 8 March 6, 1894, and most of th under my direction, and if yon still use the aume “Markoft” in your advertising I shall bring suit against you for damages, for thers will still be manufactured in this city, and sold here, trunks and also sample cases, bew this trade mark. Please take notice und save further trouble. Your truly, JAM \ inform you that Marhoff* trunk copyT ¥ Clinton on were made HOWARD. Referring to the above letter state that we have > Mr, Howard we wish to no desire to injur any one We pur- chased the +“Marhoff" trank and bag business and will guarantee to sell any or all of tham at one-half of Marhoft's prices. or else. entire Note the following bill of sale F. S, Al the Marhoft Clinton sold to Hayden Bros trunks ana traveling bags in the trunk store, 1510 Dodge sfreet Received payment March 18 1804 CLINTON. Mr. Clinton further stated he owned the factory and had some material which he would make up at once for us, and why Mr. Howard should com- plain is something we can not understand. Havpex Bros, Pictures. New line of fine goods just low prices on all our oid lines. in. Special cars will be made of Oregon pine, which is said to stand the changes of climate better and give more general satisfaction than oak. The Spokane Indians will soon be located on the Coeur d'Alene reservation in Idaho. Cottages huve been erected for their accom= modation. The recent slaughter of eleven buffalo in Yellowstone National park by a single hunter has created much indignation in the Montana press. Pay ore has been struck in the Sunshine group of mines at Mercur, Utah, The ore vein is twenty feet thick and averages $10 per ton. This is a gold camp. A returned prospector from the Galer and Red Rock camps tells a new story. He says there is little gold in that section. He de- clares the reported finds at Black mountain 1o be “fa J. H. Ward of Willapa valley Is sending in so many cougar scalps that the Pacifia county commissioners are debating on sus- peuding the $5 bounty on these trophies of the chase. The San isco Society for the Pre- vention of Cruelty to Animals has unearthed @ plan for a fight between a lion and a griz- zly bear at the Midwinter fair grounds, and will prevent it, e Eidy ts that, with all due respect (o the v rest of ) Mexico, in the Pecos valley more fruit trees have beon planted this year than In all the rest of the territory combined No Utali potatoes are being shipped from the territory at present on account of the cold weather, but it is expected that a great many will be shipped as soon as the weather permits the opening of the pits Charles Deacon is exhibiting at Grand Junction three ounces of gold which he Claims to have panned in five days in the placers near Westwater, o station on the Rio Grande Western just over the Utah line. He says the dirt runs $5 to $8 a yard. A heavy fall of suow i reported in the desert west of Yuma, Ariz. This is looked upon as @ metcorological phenomenon, as neither the whites or Indians of that vicinity remember a similar occurrence. The alti- tude at the point of the suowfall is less than 0 feet above sea level, A rare specimen of Solomon's lily sancticum), sometimes (callod the ‘“black calla,” fs now in bloom at Mrs, P, M. Kil- bourne's, Walla Walla, The leaf proper is pendant,” which is Its natural position, and deep, beautiful purple black in color, and the spadix or spike is of ebony black ness, The lily came direct from the holy land, having been sent direct from Jorusalem by W. H. Winans, who came across it du ing_ his travels there last year and gave it to Mrs. Kilbourne The Montana wool grow taking measures to down the combination of Boston commission merchants, which ralsed the old established rate of commission for storing and selling wool last summer. 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