Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 11, 1894, Page 5

PULSE OF WESTERN PROCRESS | California a Greater Gold Producer Than tte THE OMAHA #ome time ago expressed the bellef that an- { other vein underlaid the one being worked. A drill hole was begun in the bottom of the shaft, and, drilling to a depth of seventy feet below the old workings. a vein of coal, six feot In thickness, was found, with a sand | i rock ‘“‘roof.” | fouth Africen Mines, The company state that they practically | | have & new mine and will make arrange- | FABULOUS VOLUME OF HER GOLD PRODUCT | The Ctaw's Flourishing Onyx Industry—Quarries Fairly inexhaustible—Will Supersedo © Mexican Stone—News of the Northwest. The gold fields of present recelving a vast amount of advertis- Ing, but before people begin to flock to the far-away country it would be well for them to first fuvestigate the mineral resources of California, a state which has produced fully $1,600,000,000 since 1549, The hydraulic mining industry, which for- merly produced on an average $3,000,000 an- nual has been shut down owing to variou causes, principally because to the navigable stre this problem—the sto doubtless be reached by the national and state governments, says the San Chronicle, and that class of mining will again prosper and furnish employment to much of the now idle labor of the sta The n who are Interested Iin developing the mining Industry of California are very enthusiastic over the present prospects and outh Africa are just at of damage done ns, Some solution of t debris—will Francisco predict a large incre in the output this year. A well posted on such mat- ters, when interviewed, said “‘California is still producing great quanti- ties of gold. When a state produces 31, 000,000 a month in gold from her mines, is not that enough to convince the doubting ones that this is still a good field? All this product 80es to enhance the wealth and credit of the people of the state, and sometimes I think they do not fully realize the importance of this induatry, of which we hear o Little, “The Incessant praise of South Africa to the detriment of all other countries as gold preducers fs liable to lead people to think that no other country can produce any quan- tity of the precious metal. Since 1849 Cali- fornia has furnished the world with $1,428, 2 in gold. That welghs 2,071 tons and would requirs t train of 207 cars and six locomotives to haul it. That glves some idea what has been done here. It is hardly time for South to begin making comparisons. ‘“Twenty-six counties of this gold producing. Why are the them not worked? Simply because our mineral rescurces need capital to develop them, and to the effect that the advantages of the state in this line need advertising. The public does not know. what s being done. When a mine pays a $50,000 monthly dividend it is briefly mentioned in the press and is soon forgotten, except by its fortu- Africa state are mines In When a mining proposition is suggested a great many men immediately cry, ‘Gam- ble’ Yet if'a man will give the same calm and carnest attention to a mine which he gives to any other business, applying the Kame strict economy to every detail, he will find that it is no more of a gamble than ralsing grapes for making wine, which may depreciate in_volue below actual cost of production. There Is no more element of chance than there is In putting in a crop and gambling on the weather first and the price of cereals in Europe next. “A gold miner has one advantage over all other producers, because he can always find a market for his product. When the people of the state awaken and fully appreclate what a wonderful gold-producing country they have, then the mining industry will recelve an Impetus which it has not had for twenty-five years. “I will be willing to wager that if one- fourth of the capital which has been Invested on thirty miles in one part of South Africa had been spent in mining in this state we could have shown a production of gold many times in excess of the whole of that country ONYX IN UTAH. Last year a syndicate of Salt Lakers ob- talned possession of three claims near Pell- can Point, Utah county, about fourteen miles southwest of Lehi, and after prospecting their ground found three distinct velns of onyx, in broad slabs, from ten to fourteen inches in thickness, the veins being about one mile in length, says the Salt Lake Trib- une. Having ascertained that the quality was first class and the supply practically in- oxhaustiblo, the owners organized for busi- ness and incorporated the Salt Lake City Onyx company of Utah. Later they secured the contract to furnish the wainscoting for the first and second floors for the new city and county building, and in January began operations thereon. The contract is not by any means a small one, as It calls for the covering of about 6,000 square feet of sur- face, the walnscoting befag thirty-four inches in height. Of the amount required the com- pany has already delivered about 5,000 feet, and the remainder will be furnished as fast as_needed. The onyx is received at the works in large blocks or slabs, and in its natural state, rough hewn and flintlike in appearance, gives little sign of the rare beauties, brought to view under the skilled manipulations of the polishers. from one to three car-loads of the raw material s received from the quarries weekly. After the huge blocks have been ‘“‘squared up” to the size desired they are adjusted beneath the gang saws, of which two large sets are in constant op- eration. After being sawed into the proper thinness, the slabs are placed on a rapidly revolving horizontal grinding machine, the bed of which is kept surylied with fine sand and water. Next the slabs are subjected to a course of expert hand polishing, similar to the system used on marble, and afterward the finishing touches are put on by a burn- ishing machine, which leaves the onyx with a surface like plate glass. The process is most interesting, and those who were shown through the works recently expressed astonishment as well as pleasure at the sub- stantial evidences of business-like activity shown by the company, which has furnished employment for from thirty to forty men for several months past at the quarries and in the polishing works. The finished product also came in for un- stinted praise, owing to its splendid quality and fine finish. In color it is variegated lemon and white, the markings being differ- ent on every slab, and when in place in the city and county building will be a source of patriotic pride to every citizen of Utah Judge Powers vouches for the fact that in all the slabs they have taken from the quarries, not a single crack, check or flaw has been discovered, and says that as soon as the company gets a little more clbow room it will be able to drive the Mexi onyx companies out of the United even on a free trade basis, as the local product is not only a better article than the imported, but owing to the immense veins n States, and ease of working the market can be supplied at cheaper rates ELKHORN EXTENSION, The Elkhorn railroad is to be extended the present season from Bell Fourche to the Hay creek coal fields. This matter is no longer a secret, as the engineers are now in the fleld surveying the route and setting the grade stakes, says the Sloux Falls Argus- Leader. A short time ago the company pur- chased the coal lands from a syndicate that has been at work opening up and developing the coal mines and it has been intimated that the company would at an early day extend the main line through that section. With the building of the main line north- ward towards the Northern Paclfic railroad, Deadwood will receive little or no benefit, a located as she is off the main line of the road and reached only by a plug line, the town will naturally refuse to credit the state- ment that an extension will be built north of Belle Fourche. Information from a reliable source is that during the past thirty days emissaries of the the Elkhorn rallroad have traveled the coun- try between Belle Fourche and Miles City, and it is intimated that the bullding of the road to Billings forces the Elkhorn to build & line to an intersection of the Northern Pacific if they hope to control the shipment of cattle from the northern country. A NEW COAL VEIN. The officials of the United Coal company are feeling quite elated over results in the Caledonia mine at Loulsville, Colo., where prospecting has been carried on for another voin of coal at a lower depth. The workings in the mine have been car- ried on at & depth of 120 feet, says a Denver Times dispatch, and Superintendent Simpson | in_a few day ments to sink a shaft to the new vein | Acme mine fs fn the same locality and a bore will be commenced n that mine | to tap the new vein This discovery, which Is nsidered most important, will revolutionize coal mining in that locality, as the mines that have been | working the upner vein will now sink for the | Tower one and will work it through the old | holstings. WOOL WILL FLY. It I8 reported here that about forty cattle- men and cowboys are rendezvousing on Pinon Mesa, west of this city, to take care of the { 10,000 head of sheep that were driven on to | this range, says a Grand Junction special to | the Denver News. They will begin active work at once and are all thoroughly wrought up over this invasion, and what they call a breach of faith on the part of the owners of the sheep who massed their herds in this city, glving It out that they would ship to Tennessee Pass, and suddenly rushed them from the cattle yards across the two bridg that span the Grand and Gunnison rivers and on to this range that has been held for twelve years by cattle growers exclusively. Word was received here that the cattl occupying the Dolores river in Utah are or- | manizing to keep this bunch of sheep out of | that territory, and that it is their intention | to shove them right back on to this county, | where they have been for some years and where their owners live. The Utah men ex- press a_determination to keep these flocks out of that territory, and the Colorado men | say they cannot remain here. BLOAT FROM ALFALI A number of parties have It t cows re- ntly from bloating on alfalfa feed, says the Lemoore (Cal) Advance. Investi tion shows that in all cases the practice | has been to cut the alfalfa and feed it wilted. The explanation given by veter- inary surgeons is that the wilted alfalfa generates a gax within the stalks that cavses bloat in the cattle. The bloat can sticking or by pulling the tongue out and throwing a handful of 1t down the throat. When cows browse in standing alfalfa they eat only the tops of the plants, which seldom causes bloat. alfaifa field should have a stack of y access of the cows. A JFUL PENALTY. Back In the mountains of Chihuahua is a little Mexican village. The belle of the placo was a girl of great beauty. She was the daughter of the leading family of the place. All the young men for miles around sought her favor, but she had no favorite. One day a year ago a handsome tourist came that way and lingered for a time, says an El Paso dispatch to the San Francisco Chronfcle. He saw the girl, and when he went away she departed with him. There was a_fruitless pursuit, and, save in mem- ory, the girl was dead to those who had krown her. A few days ago, when night had settled upon the village, a weary figure stumbled to the low door of the adobe house from which the girl had wandered a year ago, and called her mother's name. The mother started to answer, but the father forbade, and directed the wanderer to_the sheep pen for shelter. The next day, by the roadside, a mile away beside a great stone, passers by saw a woman's body bruised and broken, the face horribly mangled. There was no need to seek an explanation. No questions were asked. The girl whose love had led her astray had paid the penalty of her sin. CREES WILL HAVE A HOP. Governor Rickards having fssued a proc- lamation forbidding the celebration by the Cree Indians of the annual sun dance, a religlous ceremony to be given at Great Falls, Mont., June 15, on the grounds that it is “inhuman, brutaiizing, unnatural, inde- cent, and abhorrent to Christian civili tion,” those interested in having the dance have applied to the district court for an in- junction against Governor Rickards, Attor- ney General Haskell, Sheriff Hamilton and County Attorney Froeman from interfering with the dance, says a special to the St. Paul Pioneer Press. The majority of the citizens here think the governor's proclama- tion entirely uncalled for, as Cascade county {8 amply prepared to preserve order within her own limits, and believe that the dance is harmless. The managers say it will pro- ceed regardless of the proclamation, if they have to get an injunction from every court in the land. The hearlng takes place June 8, and whichever side loses it will be ap- pealed to the supreme court. In the mean- time the dance will take place under the protection of a restraining order of the adstrict court. The Crees are Canadian ren- egades, and the situation is very delicate, In- volving the power of the federal government be relieved by Every and International law. SHERIDAN STILL GROWING. SHERIDAN, Wyo., June 10.—(Special to The Bee)—The excursion rates now on sale by the Burlington has been the. means of inducing a large number ol farmers to move west and seek homes In this great farming country, where a fallure of crop is unknown and where there is a home market for all products. Messrs. Willlam Eggart and Charles Friday from Union county, TIowa, have purchased several hundred acres on Pass creek, just a few miles from the B. & M. road, and will bring a colony from Iowa this season. S. Dworak and a party from Schuyler, Nel are looking over the country with a view of purchasing farm lands. The Big Horn Basin Colonization company, which is com- posed of Omaha capitalists, s sending in quite a few who have become interested in the country and who are going over into the basin to see the property of the company. The W. F. Cody Hotel and Transportation company has taken charge of the celebrated Sheridan Inn. Mr. Sherman Canfield and H. S. Boal are now prepared to handle the traveling public and equip fishing and hunt- ing parties with a complete pack outfit. Among the prominent Omaha people who were seen on the streets of Sheridan this week were Messrs. Henry W. Yates, John Collins and Kent K. Hayden. Business blocks and residences are being erected and Sheridan has now taken a place n the front in the way of prominence that assures one that investments in Sheridan realty will bring a good return. We notice in the columns of The Bee that the Commercial club intends making a trip to Sheridan. We are glad to hear it and Sheridan will make it pleasant for this enterprising organization and show them the garden spot of the west and send them home each with & fine string of brook trout. The new road over the Big Horn' moun- tains will reach our new mining camp, lakes and summer resorts, and when completed will wind around through canons, circling beautiful mountain lakes, and pass under the shadow of mighty mountain tops covered with eternal snow, reminding the traveler of the wonderful roads that for years have called tourists and pleasure seekers to the picturesque scenery of Switzerland, Sher- idan county has contributed $1,600 and the city of Sheridan $1,000 to complete this road, $2,000 has been raised by subscription and in two months it will be completed. The W. F. Cody Hotel and Transportation com- pany will run a line of coaches over this line and open up the finest farming coun- try, hunting and fishing grounds known in the west. NEBRASKA. The seventeen-year locust has made its appearance in Box Butte county. It is rumored that a move is on foot to organize a stock company at Ponca, the ob- ject of which will be to bulld a steam grist mill, Thousands of acres of ground - that had been sown to fall wheat in Buffalo county are being plowed and sown to millet or listed to corn. Already the shipments of cherrles have be- gun at Nebraska City, and In a few days from one to two car loads per day will be shipped. There will be very little frult matured in the vicinity of Kearney the present season, the recent hall storm having destroyed the most of it. The alfalfa crop, though but few have en- gaged In its cultivation in this section, says the Kearney Democrat, is being harvested and is a very good yleld M. G. Nicholson, one of the committeemen appolnted to look after and find the probable cost of & system of water for Springfield, re- ports that he got estimates from a number of Omaba men who make this work a spe clalty. They informed him that a good sy tem of works could be put in there at a cost of $4,000 or $5,000. The warm days and recent good rain at | Madison are bringing the corn crop out in good shape, ard it is fast assuming a good stand and a healthy growth armers round about Superior are busy re- planting and cultivating corn. The weather 1= all that could be desired, and the mojsture sufficient for good cultivation and growth Scarcely a day passes but a number of eml- grant wagons pass through Superfor going east. They say nothing but starvation Is staring the settlers of western Kansas In the fa 0. G. Smith, superintendent of the agrl- cultural deparfment of the State Industrial school at Kearney, has been experimenting with irrigation, and made it a complete suc cess, A number of farmers at Fritsch are trynig pumping in a limited way for Irrigation purposes, with indications that more of it might be done to advantage where water does not have to be lifted over 300 number are pumping with conside A ble suc- cess along Red Willow creek The stringency in the money market s to have affected matrimonial matters what, In Gage county at least. The ds In the county judge’s office show that up to the present date eighty-six li- censes to wed have been issued during 18! as against 122 for the same period of 1893, The theory that alfalfa will not stand dry weather has been utterly exploded by Sarpy county farmers who sowed alfalfa this spring, During this unprecedented dry spell, where other grasses have utterly dried up, alfalfa s still growing. Much more al- falfa will be grown in Sarpy county in future. THE DAKOTAS. At a grand encampment at Desmet resolu- tions were passed denouncing recent modes of procedure in the Pension Department. Frank Phelps, sentenced to life imprison- ment for the murder of Matt Matson a year ago, died in the jail at Alexandria of heart di A colony of twenty or more families from near Odessa, Russia, will arrive at Heron within the next sixty days to locate on land in Potter county already secured for them. Gxtensive improvements are under way in both the Homestake and Highland mills in the way of putting in new timber, etc. It is the general fmpression that the company will erect several new buildings the present sum- mer. Henry Shorzman, aged 17, was killed by a three-ton boulder falling upon him at Yank- ton while digging a pit in which he intended to place the boulder. His father, who un- consciously started the rock on its downward course, has become insane. The Yankton brewery, with a capacity of 25,000 barrels per annum, his begun dis- pensing its product. This brewery was closed by the prohibition law thre rs ago, and has recently resumed operations under the directlon of eastern capitalistz. Creditors have attached all lands in South Dakota in which the American Investment company of Emmetsburg, Ia., has equities, This action involves over 100,000 acres and aflfects the interests of thousands of eastern investors holding bonds and mortgages of this company. Yankton college students have at last shipped the $600 chalcedony slab to the Sioux Falls university, which Institution won it in the recent state oratorical contest. The charge of plaglarism brought by Yankton col- lego against the Sloux Falls orator, R. F. Locke, has not yet been investigated by the state association, and It never may be, as it is understood that the other colleges in the association look on the matter with dis- pleasure. A party of Grand Forks business men and bonanza farmers arrived home from a_trip up to the Lake of the Woods and Rainy river. These gentlemen have lately acquired pine lands In that section and were making the trip to look over their newly acquired interests, They were accompanied by Cap- tain A. J. Dunlavey, who in speaking of the excitement over the recent gold find in the Rainy lake district said that he believed that it would rival that of the Black Hills and other western mining booms. COLORADO. Grasshoppers have made their appearance east of Longmont. Ibex is the name of a new town sprung up within a few miles of Leadville. The Amethyst of Creede has increased its daily output from fifty to seventy tons of ore. The dam and headgate of the Platte and Beaver supply ditch at Brush has been washed out. The Alamosa flouring mill is turning every wheel In trying to keep ahead of the flow of wheat nto its fmmenze elevator. The first trail herd of the season passed through Pinneo. There were 6,000 head In the herd, the property of the X. L T. com- pany. The amount of damages to Jefferson county by the flood will reach $50,000. About 100 bridges have been washed away and the mountain roads are badly damaged. The Swedish irrigation company of Chicago is locating a large number of families in the Arkan:as valley, near Las Animas. The ma- Jority of them, says the Las Animas Leader, are Swedish Americans, well posted in the laws of the country, good farmers, indus- trious, economical and first-class citizens. Word comes from Loveland and Berthoud, says the Longmont Times, confirming the report that the home supply dam has been washed out. This will leave the farmers de- pendent ufon this ditch for water for irri- gation in very bad shape. It this dam could not Le repaired in fifteen days their entire crop would be lost, unless there should be a large amount of rain. WYOMING. Judge Slaymaker of Douglas had a $1,000 horse killed by lightning recently. The cattle on the ranges of the state are doing remarkably well at this time and the grass is in good condition the state over. Frank Bond of Cheyenne received an award from the World's fair commission on his map of the irrigation ditches of Wyo- ming. The contract for the delivery of 975,000 pounds of beef to the Shoshone Indians was awarded to E. Amoretti of Lander at 2.74. Within a radius of twenty-five miles of Sheridan there are 500,000 acres of good irrigable land, only about one-half of which haying yet been taken up. Governor Osborne estimates Wyoming's wool shipment of this year at 5,000,000 pounds, or about half of what it was last year, the shipment of 1893 reaching 10,187, 870 pounds. When the shrinkage in price is also taken Into consideration, the loss to Wyoming has been enormous Two corporations have been received at the secretary of state’s office for fling. They are the W. F. Cody Transportation company and W. Cody” Hotel company. he object of the first company is to run a stage line from Sheridan to Yellowstone park and to operate and control livery ana feed stables, he hotel company will open up a $12,000 hotel in the city of Sher- idan. Shearing time In this section, says the Natrona Tribune, has about come to a close, At the various shearing pens in this county there have been sheared this spring nearly 300,000 sheep, and there has been shipped frcm this point over 2,500,000 pounds of wool. About 750,000 pounds of this wool have been sold outright by the producers ut prices ranging from 6% cents to 7% cents per pound, net. The latest excitement in mining circles is the mineral claim taken up by Laramie parties in the hills but a few miles north of the city springs. It appears that the claim was located about a year ago, and that an immense body of iime and calk spar in a crystalized formation has recently been uncovered. Numerous assays made show that the rock runs from $6 to $8 per ton In gold. The formation is of so soft a character that it can be worked very easily, OREGON. Toledo is bullding a pretentious city jail. High water excursions are the program now in the valley towns. The Forest Grove-Tillamook stage line has started up for the summer. Having named its streets, Astoria is put- ting up signs at the corners. It takes 1,000 to go around. The ambitious little town of Grant is sald to be wholly under water, every house in the place belng surrounded. The last steamer from Marshfield to San Francisco carried three and one-half tons of cheese and two tons of butter. The board of prison directors, Governor Pennoyer, Secretary of State McBride and State Treasurer Phil Metschan have adver- those | DAILY BEE: MONDAY, tised for sealed proposals for the construc- tion of an addition to the south wing of the state penitentiary The total amount of off secured from the big whale that came ‘wshore on the beach near Newport recently was 1,100 gallons. Action will be commanned at Portland soon to foreclose the mortgage on the Oregon Raflway and Navigatioh company, because the bond Interest has ot been paid By a man In a positfon to know, it s stated there is at least: money to th mount of $200,000 hid away in_jars and socks by the different owners in Clatsop county, walt- ing to be banked or ifvested when confidence is restored Nearly all the 2,000 head of cattle pur- chased by John Stowart and A. J. Plckard for J. . Carr of California, are now massed in tho pastures near-Gosken. Branding has been going on for several days, and that portion of the work fs nearly completed. The cattle wifl be driven to northern Cali- fornia. The Yaquina News has discovered cor- roborative evidence that eastern oysters can be propagated in the bays of the Oregon st. Eastern plants were put out at Will- pa bay three years ago, and the owner of the bay, In tonging for natlve oysters, brought up eastern oyster spawn. Yaquina oyst n are urged to improye thelr busi- ness by trying the experiment. Owing to the high water the canneries at Bagle, Bureka and Waterford have closed down. This, together with the destruction of the fishwheels in the Upper Columbia, has practically closed all the cannerfes of the upper river. There Is no trouble at Astoria on acount of the high water, and but for an unprecedented scarcity of fish, the canneries would be operated to their full capacity. WASHINGTON Spokane county has bought a rock crusher for road work The Tacoma Ledger Is suing the city for a printing bill of $1,100. The Port Townsend nail works have re- sumed operations after two months of fidle- ness. The saving effected by the Tacoma school board in the reduction of teacher's salaries is put at $9,187. Clallam county pays the Port Angeles Tribune-Times $2,800 for printing the de- linquent tax list. Farmington s promising nuggets brought down from the Hoodoo diggings. The nuggets range in size from a small shot up to as large as a kernel of corn, and contain scarcely any quartz, nearly all of them being pure gold. Joe Cates of Port Townsend is preparing to put up a lot of Puget Sound sardines this season, and already has men out at Discov- ery bay to bring in the first run of the sea- son. He has a supply of cans coming, and much agitated over some } will have the product on the market as soon | as possible. A petition bearing the signatures of 135 taxpayers has been filed with the Walla Walla county commissioners, praying that the bounty on squirrels and gophers be again revived. The petitioners aver that, owing to the mild winter, these animals are now very numerous, and are devouring many young crops. William Hall, who Is in business at Port Townsend, Is the owner of a beautiful $5,000 residence in Tacoma, and he groposes to remove the same bodily from the ‘City of Destiny” to the “Key City.” The con- tract for the job is practicaily closed. A large scow will be used in the transporta- tlon, which will be quite a novel thing, and the first occurrence of the kind on the Sound at least. C. H. Weeks, general agent of the Great Northern, estimates that the Wenatchee val- ley will produce 2,808,500 pounds of fruit, in- cluding tomatoes, this season. His estimate is_as follows: Pears, 49,000 pounds; prunes, 117,000 pounds; tomatoes, 331,500 pounds! grapes, 643,000 pounds; peaches, 825,000 pounds; apples, 837,000 pounds. - Besides this, considerable quantities of melons and simi- lar products will swall the aggregate. A young woman ‘of Crab Creek, Adams county, indulges “fn_frequent freaks ot mnambulism. One of 'her recent exploits was as follows: She arasé from her bed about 3 o'clock In the marning, and was seen to approach Crab creek jfn her night robe. Upon reaching the stream the young woman waded in for a short distance, as if feeling her way, and swam safely across. Upon reaching the opposite bank she awoke, half frightened to death, dripping wet and shive ing from the cold, made her way to the house of a neighbor, where she was cared for and taken to her home. Henry Hawkins, a Peone prairie rancher, committed suicide near the Peone school house, Spokane county, in full view of the pupils, He rode to the crossroads, jumped from his horse, drew a big forty-four Colt's revolver and placed it to his temple. Then he changed it and put the muzzle into his mouth. Again he hesitated but quickly put it against his left breast and fired two shots, the bullets going entirely through his body. The teacher and school children saw the tragic act, but were powerless to act. Hawkins was unmarried. He was released from the insane asylum about two years ago, but has been considercd of unbalanced mind. MISCELLANEOUS. As a result of placing dipping tanks and shearing pens at Las Vegas, N. M., there are 25,000 head of sheep on their way to that town, to dip and shear. The calf crop promises to be good this season throughout most of the state of Mon- tana. Cattle, as a rule, have wintered well and where this is the case a good increase in calves almost invariably follows. The Maricopa and Phoenix Railroad com- pany have determined to build a steam motor line from Tempe to Mesa and to run local trains to and from Mesa to Phoenix, golng four times daily each way. Two prospectors from Ashley arrived in Salt Lake City bringing with them some ore from there which assayed twenty-five ounces in gold to the ton. They say they have a good, strong vein of the ore and think they have a bonanza. Holders of homes on Mora grant in New Mexico will not be disturbed. Persons who have occupied homes on the grant for ten years will be given titles to their homesteads. They will simply be required to designate the land they have actually occupied. The Santa Fe Rallroad company has just completed the largest sheep shearing plant in the country, at Las Vegas, N. M. It began operations by shearing and dipping 8,000 sheep. The company proposes to make that place a wool shipping point for its system. Plans have been perfected for the Arisona Territorial Reform school at Flagstaff. It will be of Flagstaff sandstone and will cost $28,000. It will be situated a quarter of a mile from the Atlantic and Pacific railroad. In size the building wiil be 185x100, with three floors. There s a mistaken idea circulating through some eastern exchanges about the condition of sheep in the southwest. All classes of live stock in New Mexico are In splendid condition, up to date, and should the spring and summer rains come in time there will be no complaint heard from the stockmen of New Mexico. J. P. Hughes of Fort Worth, says the Eddy Argus, bas an outfit busy building the Hagerman power dam, a short distance above the Eddy depot. Steam derricks un- load the stone, which* comes on cars from Pecos City, and drgp them in place upon the work. The stone base of the old dam is to remain undistufbed, and similar work is being extended Wwestward 160 feet. The JUNE 11, 18! masonry base will then be 320 feet long. The wheels will operate pumps lifting a water supply to the stone reservolr of 1,500,- 000 gallons capacity, on Hagerman helghts, for irrigating the orchards, vineyards and farming lands of the place Cherrles are loaving San Jose for the east with a rush, eighteen carloads, amount- ing to 421,7000 pounds, having gone east In one week.” The total fruit shipments were 1,220,000 pounds. Cauners are not packing cherries this year and the bulk will go east where good prices are secured. An extensive land deal was closed at San Antonio, Texas, Involving 2,500,000 acres of land lying on the Rio Grande in the Mexiean states of Coahuila and Chihuahua. The land was sold by ex-Governor Gonzales of Chihua hua to the Mexican Coffee, Cotton and Colo- nization company, represented by J. 8. M amara. W. H. Ellls_is intereited in a Mexican colonization scheme, and will col- onize 10,000 negroes on part of the land peatisli-eisehiin FOURTH OF JULY AT EDGEMONT. Preparations Under Way for t Great Magnitude. The busy, bustling little town of Edge mont, situated in Fall River county, South Dekota, and on the southeastern slope of the Black Hills, amid the pings and upon the shores of a beautiful little lake that bears the same name as that of the town, Is to have a Fourth of July celebration that bids fair to create enough enthusiasm to cause the revolutionary forefathers to turn over in their graves to ask the cause of all of the disturbance. On that date the Irrigating canal, Celebration at water power and extending a distance of fourteen miles, from the Cheyenne river to Edgemont, will be opened. This canal has a fall of seventy-two feet in the fourteen miles, and is said to carry enough water to irrigate 1,000,000 acres of land, besides furnishing 10,000-horse power for factories, Upon addr; Bres: other the oceasion of the celebration the of the day will be delivered by Con man Butterworth, with a number of notables responding to the toasts Among the prominent people who will be present and take part in the exercises of the day will be Governor Patterson and staff of Pennsylvania, Governor Crounse and staff of Nebraska, Governor Sheldon and staft of uth Dakota, Colonel A. L. Snowden, ex minister to Spain; C. 0. Miller of New York, ieneral Nettleton, ex-assistant United States treasurer, and a number of others. The exercises will consist of speeches races, games of base ball and general athletic sports, the whole to close with a grand display of fireworks in the evening. During the day several companies of regular soldiers will give an exhibition of fanc: drills, after which 100 Sioux Indians will indulge in the war dance for the amusement of the crowd, which is estimated will reach 10,000, as all of the roads running to the Black Hills have made special rates to such parties as may desire to take part in the celebration, A special train, conveying a large party of castern capitalists will visit Edgemont upon the day of the celebration, with a view to stablishing several large manufacturing plants. ~ After remaining there for a few days they will take in Hot Springs, Dead- wood, and all of the principal towns in the Black Hills. These men are said to repre- sent $100,000,000 of money which is seeking a western investment. F. M. Andrews, a_well known newspaper man and author of New York City, who is now stopping at the Millard, is on his way to Edgemont, whither he goes to report th celebration for a syndicate of eastern pryers, and will go inadvance of the party and see that all of the preliminaries are arranged to make the celebration of the opening of the canal a success. T Perfect health is seldom found, for impure blood is so general. Hood's Sarsaparilla really does purify the blood and restores health. PLATTSDEUTSCHEN SECEDE, Nebraska Members Forsake the Verein of North America. An important move, and one of great inter- est to all the Plattsdeutschen throughout this state, and perhaps the west, was con- summated at Germania hall last Tuesday night. At that time delegates from the Omaha Central and South Omaha Plattsdeutsche vereins met and formed the Nebraska Plattsdeu: che bund, after having given, three days previous, ‘formal notice of withdrawel from membership in the Plattsdeutsche Central Verein of North America, and that these courageous western organizations proposed to paddle their own canoe in future nnder the new name. The central verein of North America was called into existence some years ago through the efforts of Chicago men mainly. Its ostensible purpose was (o unite the Plattsdeutsche societies more closely and to provide a system of life insurance for its members. The latter object has been an en- tire failure, it is claimed, as members did not seem to take kindly to the life insurance scheme, participating only ‘n very limited numbers. The friendship ties were also purchased by western members at an >xorbi- tant cost in attending annual conventions at remote points and other entertainments, In consequence of this and the persistence of eastern members in trying to divert the central organization from its course, leading it on to take up other questions, and pro- posing even to dabble In politics, dissatis- faction has existed in the west for some time, until it now has ended in the formation of the western organization. Though com- posed only of two societies at present, it is confidently expected that the bund will be the nucleus for a large organization in the near future. What the Omaha society was to the central verein may be judged from th statement that it exceeded in membership nearly every one of the remaining societies. It supplied almost one-half of the members contributing to the life insurance fund. The money now remaining in the treasupy of the central organization will, of courd®, re- main with it. The annual convention is to be held at Avoca, Ia., June 22. J. P. Lund, treasurer, and Theodor Heuck, financial sec- retary, will go there for a final settlement and to turn over the records of their office The Nebraska bund has organized by the ection of J. P. Lund, president; Hans Lemburg, vice president; Frank Humpert, treasurer; Theodor Heuck, financial s tary; William Butt, recording secretary. The local society is not only strong in num- bers, but thousands of dollars are to its credit in banks. e — DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve cures piles e Assaultod & Wheelman, William Peterson was arrested yesterday by Officer 8. 8. Drummy, at the instance of L. Cohn, for ass Cohn says he was going up the street on his bicycle when he was met by Peterson and two others. The stopped him and wanted him to dismount and let them have his wheel for f an hour. He declined. ~One of them then seized him by the collar and foreibly took him from his wheel and held him while the others attempted to ride the wheel for half an hour. When they re rned Cohn called thelr attention to a twisted pedal and asked th to pay fo t They made their first Instalment by giving him a sound beating. He broke from them anc AN Sixteenth street for an officer, They over- blocks Cohn before he had gone two him another beating. took him and gave finally got loose long enough to call Officer Drummy, This Matter of Darning @i“‘) doesn’t amount to much, with the women who use Pearline. done because you persist in rubbing things over the washboard so. get them even passably clean, if you wash with soap in the old way. and you'll save the darning. Youhaven't rubbed the things to pieces, and you won't have to mend them. And another kind of darning won't suggest itself, either, for you haven't tired your- self out to the cross point with the hardest .of women's work. Beware you an imitation, be honest—send if dack. Most of it has to be You have to, to Use Pearline Peddlers and some unscrupulous grocers will tell you, **this is as good as™ or **the same as Pearline,” FALSE—Pearline is never peddled, if A IT§ ur grocer sends JAMES PYLE, New York, This stock was not burned, but the store was full of smoke and the goods became wet from water that dropped from the floors above. dry, Fire prices go, however, Men's Full Suits he kind we are making the run on at %5 before the fire are now. . $1.75. Men's Light Overcoats--Dam- aged by water only, all dry now, and when pressed as good as ever. .. X $2.00. Men's Strong Pants—They were up in the gallery and were not wet at all, only smoked. ...... 35¢ Men's Suspenders—No apparent damage by either water or Gl oo 3c. Men's Handkerchiefs — Plain white and just as good as ever 3 for 10c¢. Neckties—The water did not get into them for most of them were in the show cases........ 5c. olumbia Clothing Co., Cor. 13th and Farnam. The smoke is all go now and everything g of value, regardle Men's Sack Suits—in brown, gray and oxfords, only slightly wet and smoked of course, sold for $10 before the for £ be- Suits that sold the fire, only smc Boys for now 2.50, Men's Cutaway Tho #18 and $20 kind. ‘They were only smoked; not hurt a bit; go now for.s. i Suits $6.00. Men's Cassimere Suits—In two colors that the water couldn't hurt, regular $15 suits, go now ‘ $4.00. Wilson Bros, Shirts—4 ply linen | —the water did not come noar them, and they are not even | smoked: got them for. i "' 75c, Full finished top Hose— worth 25c before the fire, regular Rockford socks, g0 at......... [ Balbriggan Undershirts — Not | damaged a particle, just as OO 88 OVELes e vveerrnernnens | 35¢. 0 Powm ~amcago, 245 Lake St Omaha, 107 S, 14th St FROM T POW E o OTTO GASOLINE ENGINES GASOLINE DIRECT FROM THE TANK. . GHEAPER THAN STEAM. » Boiler. No Steam. No Engineer, R for Corn nnd Feed Mills, Baling , Runuing Separators, Crenmeries, &e. Stationary or Portable. 1to 50 IL P, 8020 H. P, o, Prices, ete., describing work to be done, OTTO GAS ENGINE WORKS, 33d & Walnut Sts, PHILADELPHIA, PA. vous or dis insomnin, Frnommiig Consti] don. BEFORE anpo AFTER tion of & famous Froncn physiclan, wi.l quicki; ses of the s In Lo Bick, Beininal nfitness to Marry, Ex cure yon of all ner- enerstive orgis, sich as Lost Manhood, g imissions, Nervous Debility} wstlng Drains, Varicoorte and CUPIDENE clesn:es tho liver, the kidneys and the urinary organs of all impurities. * CUPIDENE strengthens and restores small weak organs, The reason s Prostatitis, 15 the only known re tmonials, A written guarantee gy aent clire, $1.00 4 box. 81X for 5.0, by mail Address DAVOL MEDICL Goodmav U not cured by Doctors is b ) and money returned (81X boxes A0es 1ot G0., P. 0. Box 2076 Sun Fran, ux Co.. 1130 Farnam St.. Omiakia: Camp Lrag.. C cause ninoty per cont are troubled with an operation. 5,000 te ta per- Ay to cure withou reular and tostimonials, 00, Cal. For Bitie by AL Blutrs, Tow s, Send for 2l “IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED,” § TRY ness,ail dralns and by overexerti ulants, which vest pocket. SAPOL.IO . MANHOOD RESTORED! i} ache, Wakefulness, L hfal errors, o inplain wrapper. Address NEIRVESEED CO.. Masonle Temple, CHICAGS ERVE SEEDS. al remedy ex.such oy Weak Memory, Loss of i st Manhood, Nightly Kmissions, Nervous: s 0f power in Gen o'¢ caused or stime ¥ wil K sent sonle For sale in Omaha. Neb., by Sherman & McCouneil and by Kuhn & Co., Druggists RED ROUGH HANDS CURA S0P, Mozt cffec- i purifying nd Leautl- Bad complexions, baby blemish clogging of the pores, Sold everywhere TRUSSES. DOES ' WE HAVE A ROOM ,;(P?IIJJSRS FOR FITTING TRUSSES PLEASE i YOUu? Large Stock. The Aloe & Penfold Co. 1408 Faroam 8t., Opposite Paxton Hotel, THE LION DRUG HOUSE - NEBRASKA NATIONAL BANK U. 8. Depository, Omaha, Nebraska. CAPITAL - - SURPLUS - - $400,000 $55.500 Officers realdent, Feed, Cas wnt cusbier. THE IRON BANK. ané Directors:—Henry . A 8. Collins, vice-president er. Willlam' H. 8. Hughe: 1 'D ’ GENUINE WELT;; S SOUEAKLESS. BOTTON WATERPROOF, Best Shoe sold at the price, $5, 84 & $3.50 Dress 8hoe Lqual custom work, costing from $6 to §S. $3.50 Polico Shoe, 3 Soles Best Walking Shoe ever made, $2.50 and $2 Shoes, Unequalled at the price, Boye’ $2 & $1.76 School Shoes, Are the Best for Service, Ladies’ $3, $2.50, $2, $1.76 Hest Dongola, Stylial Fitting and Serviceable, 10 the world, Al ving W. L. Douglas N 1 price stamped on bote W. L. DOUGLAS, Brockton, Mass. tom. lgnatz Newman, 420 8. 13th. Elias Svenson, 1519 N. 24tn. A. W. Bowman Co., 117 N, 16th, C. J. Carlson. 1218 N, 24th, W. W. Fishor, 2925 Loavenwor F. A. Cressy, So. Omaha. DRUNKENNESS Or the L 1t 0an bo givea & ofoffie or tea, without the knowledgo of the pationt. 1 barmiess, and will 6ffe olutel @ permanent and speed i uiter 1o sos ity it - v Frop 48-Dag> Lack of Barticwiars Tre {5 the' 8p taa liguor Kubo & Co., Druggists, 15th and Douglas \ Btreets, Omaha, Neb.