Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 18, 1894, Page 5

PULSE OF WESTERN PROGRESS Casper's Incipient Wool Plant and Begin- ning of Her 0il Boom. NATURAL GAS TO BE PIPED TO SALT LAKE Baghwh Onpitglists Behind o Plan to Sap- ply Mormondom's Oapital with Chesp Yuel—Another Big Irrigating Diteh for California. Active work has been done and several meetings beld for the purpose of securing for Casper ‘a woulen mill that will convert the fleece, as taken from the sheep, into knit goods of all kinds, ready for the shelves of the retailer. A company was finally incorporated by J J. Hurt, A. J. Cunningham and Willlam Madden, with a capital stock of $20,000, and Mr. Hurt started for North Galveston, where there is a plant of the kind which was operated only a month when the owners —the Minnesota Loan and Trust company— Lecame insolvent and offered the machinery at a fraction of 'ts cost, which was originally H $19,000. It as represented, Mr. Hurt will purchase ft for the Casper company, says the Wyoming Derrick, and an expert will come with 1t to set it up here. There are six or geven carloads of machinery, and it is all of the very best and latest style. The establishment of this enterprise means that Casper is to become the great manu- facturing center of the Pennsylvania of the west There is every reason to believe this suc- cess assured. Wa have the wool without paying freight; the pure water to scour it and the best market for woolen goods at our door. Montana, the Dakotas, Minnesota, Nebragka, Colorado and other states and territories are casily and cheaply reached from this, section If the North Galveston plant is purchased & building will be erected and the factory started s soon as possible. CASPER’S FIRST CAR OF OIL. Last Thursday a request was made by Judge McCalmont to the station agent here for a car to ship a carload of ofl from this point to Orin Junetion, consigned to the re- ceiver of the Denver & Gulf Raflroad com- pany, and as soon as the fact became known @ general feeling of gratification pervaded the entire town. From the numerous visits of the Gulf officials here and the facts made kuown by the Derrick of the proposed pipe line, our citizens have been daily expeciing the close of a contract between the Pennsylvania Ofl company and the Denver & Gulf receiver whereby the latter would use our oil aud glve reasonable transportation rates. This order is now believed to give assurance that such contract is signed and that the pipe line will go this season from the Salt Creek wells to Orin Junction. This means that a grand rush will be made to our oil flelds and development work pushed very actively, and it follows that Casper, as the outfitting point of the oil region, will boom as never before. WILL SOON BURN NATURAL GAS. A number of English capitalists are in- teresting themselves in Salt Lake's natural gas fields. They have had the fields thor- oughly prospected and e come to the con- clusion that there is plenty of gas there, says the Salt Lake Tribune. The Tuscarora well shows a pressure of over 200 pounds to the square inch, and the other wells in the neighborhood also give some Indications that they are charged with the fluid. The parties interested are. represented by George F. Penhale, and matters have progressed so far that a company has been formed with a capital of $130,000, of which $90,000 has been subscribed snd actually paid up- ® Mr. Penhale says when the remaining $40,000 is subscribed in London, which he ex- pocts will be tn a very few days, he will apply to the city council for a franchise to Ppipe the gas into the clty and through the gtreets, and It the council is disposed to deal liberally with him there will be no delay in laying the pipes and supplying the city with cheap illumination. A GREAT SHEEP RANCH. Ex-Governor Warren of Wyoming is a veritable stock baron. His ranch is 75x100 ‘miles, stocked with 2,000 horses, 15,000 cat- tle and 120,000 sheep, says John D. Hale, a Dakota ranchmean who recently visited there. The sheep are divided into bunches of { through £,000 to 10,000 and driven from place to place, or rather locate for only a short time in one place, the herders living in movable houses built on wagons. ln summer they are driven up into the mountains; in winter in the valleys. Two hundred miles of telephone wire eovers the vast ranch and each sheep and cow ranch has telephone connections with the “home” ranch, enabling Mr. Warren to communicate with the several foremen at any hour, but he makes it a rule to talk with each boss every evening as to the in- cidents of the day. The most modern ar- rangements are provided in the way of clip- ping machinery, shearing sheds, etc., for the speedy, safe and profitable handling of the sheep, making it in all departments one of, if not the most perfectly, arranged ranches in the west and the most scientifically han- died. THE DAKOTAS. Horse thieves are reported to be operat- ing in the country surrounding Aberdeen. The annual meeting of the conference of Congregational churches of the Third dis- trict in the state held their session last week at Jamestown, N. D. The Soclety of Black Hills Pioneers held their fourth annual picnic at Spearfish the other day. About 2,000 people were in at- tendance. Reports from Chamberlain indicate that the #June rise’ of the Missouri will this year be the highest for several years. The pontoon bridge will not be replaced till the water has subsided, a ferry boat serving the purpose at prosent. The Investigation of the Fargo lodge of 0ad Fellows by the grand lodge of North Da- Xota for the alleged misappropriation of funds contributed to 0dd Fellows who were burned out in the big Fargo fire of June 7, 1893, ended last week on the anniversary of the conflagration by the virtual exonera- tion of the local lodge. Business at the United States land office at Aberdeen continues good and compares vorably with former years. The following is a list of entries for May: Some forty-five final timber culture proofs were made, em- bracing 7,105.29 acres; forty-four final home- stead proofs, embracing 6,961.90 acres; forty- six homestead entries, 7,110.45 acres, and nine cash entries covering a small acreage. The record for June will show wuch activity in new filings and proof; A tramp with a manufactured sor coedod In working the town of Devil's Lake. N. D., to the extent of $40 before the fraud was discovered. Mayor Kelley ordered the fellow taken before the city physician, who at once detected the swindle. He calied in a fow friends, and with a grave face in- formed the man with the sore that he would have to make an incision and in all probabil- ity amputate the arm at the shoulder, at the same time displaying surgeon's instruments and a bottle of chloroform. At this juncture the fraud wilted and agreed to leave town, not even awaliting a train. Much surprise is manifested all over the state by the attachment of all the lands in South Dakota in which the American Invest- ment company of Bmmettsburg, la., has oquities. Eastern creditors kept the matter wvery quiet, the attachments being issued un- expectedly to many of those directly inter- ested, some of whom bave already taken sleps to protect their Interests. The exact amount involved cannot be ascertained for several days. Messages asking for full par- ticulars are being received, indicating the anxiety of these affected by the proceedings. The litigation likely to follow cannot be estimated. DEER CREEK MINES. The Wells brothers, two prospectors who arrived from California a short tme ago. have succeeded in Anding what promises to be & very valuable free gold quartz mine on the headwaters of Deer creck, five or six miles from town. A lttle more than a woek ago they commenced searching for the vein that fed the gulch that was placer mined by B. F. Channell with great profit & greal many years age, says the Bolse THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, Statesman. By sinking holes and panning the dirt they succeeded In finding the veln, which is over a foot in width of ore that I8 execodingly rich in free gold. By pound- ing the quartz with a hammer they panned out over $100 during the first six days work The mine holds its own as far as sunk om— ten to twelve fost. Several prospectors are at work In the Deer creek country, and more valvable discoveries will undoubtedly be made. One man is at work om a small veln that Is exceediugly rich in free gold The owners of the [llinois are laying a track and a car will soon take the place of & wheelbarrow. The rich ore body dis- covered over a week ago still holds out as the tunnmel runs west. The ledge Is now known to contain free gold ore for a length of 500 to 60O feet NEBRASKA. Grand Island expects to do herself proud the coming Fourth. Corn is reported as doing nicely In Otoe county and crops look well Eieven cars of stock were shipped out of Harlan last Saturday night over the Rock Island A Bohemian echool will be conducted during the coming vacation weeks at Schuy- ler. It will be supported by the Bohemian ocieties The Platte river is running bank full, while the land in m portion of the country which it courses is suffering for molisture. A team of milch cows hitched to a wigon coming eastward passed through Surerior this week, the owner saying it was tne best team he had The report of the school census at Hastings has been completed, and shows that there are 2,450 children of school age in that city. an increase of nearly 200 over that of last year. Cozadians are becoming aroused on the sub- ject of irrigation and have appointed com- mittees to solicit money for the employment of an engineer, to file water rights and take such other steps as may be deemed neces- sary Seven cars of hogs, three of cattle and one of sheep is the record of stock ship- ments from Gothenburg Wednesday, which, with a car of hogs shipped the day previous, makes a total of twelve cars. Between $6,000 and $7,000 cash has been put in cir- culation by reason of said shipments. A crowd of Italians blew into Fremont the other day and wanted to give some kind of a bear show. There were twenty or thirty bedraggled members of the company and a half dozen bears and other animals which are unfortunately no comelier than their owners. The manager of the “show” wanted to pitch his tent and give a few exhibitions at fiva centa per capita, but Mayor Fried would not grant a license. ? COLORADO. Three feet of snow at Yankee Hill. The San Juan smelter has added thirty men to its pay roll. A Niwot granger figures the cost of an acre of wheat at $13.50. A number of Welsh miners have gone to Stlver Creek, a new camp north of Central. A very large acreage of potatoes is being planted this spring by the ranchmen con- tiguous to Berthoud The United Mines company of Creede is credited with a strike of silver ore running 1,000 ounces to the ton. The cattlemen at Grand Junction have mot yet made any move against the sheep in the Mesa, but will soon proceed. Superintendent Burns of the Rio Grande estimates the damages to the rosd at Flor- cnce at not less than $60,000. A second car of ore has been shipped from the Iron Cap mine, near Dubois, which is ex- pected to run $100 to the ton. The extensive plant of the Golden Pressed Brick company will be running in full blast on 4,000,000 brick for the Denver sewers. A big landslide in Taylor gulch near Georgstown buried 100 feet of the Silver Creek wagon road. The damage amounts to a largs sum. The concentrating plant at the Alice mine, near the Yankton Hill Qistrict, will be in operation in two weeks and will be able to handle 140 tons a day. The prospects for a busy time in the can- ning factory In a few months, saya the Rocky Ford Enterprise, are most excellent. One hundred acres of tomatoes have been planted in the immediate vicinity of Rocky Ford and all the various fields are looking well. The community at Silver CIff is wild with excitement over another new and rich strike in the Geyser mine. The 11 o'clock shift fired a shot and opened a streak about eight inches thick of as fine ore as was ever found in the county. The ore is composed of ruby silver and, tellurium. The Holyoke papers are urging farmers to adopt windmill irrigation. There are a hun- dred or more farmers in Phillips count living on the Frenchman, the Whitemen and their many tributaries where the water rises near the level of the surrounding country, who ocould, by the aid of windmill power, elevate the water, irrigating land sufficlent to make for themselves profitable farms and comfortable homes. 'WYOMING. The rival stage lines from Rawlins and Rock Springs to Lander are doing a thriving business. The passenger trafic is partic- ularly heavy at this time. A strike has been made on the Dutch Tom gulch, mear Lander, Wyo., in a four- foot vein, at a depth of six feet. The ore washed $10 to the pan, one going as high as $25. The cattle roundups will soon be only a memory, says the Bonanza Rustler. Only eight men accompanied the Bay State wagon in the gathering of cattle In this part of the basin this year, where only three years ago there were seventy-‘ive. Ww. B. ish hatchery at his Aurora ranch, owing to the death of his late partner, Mr. Amesbury. The fish, to the number of nearly 100,000, bave been allowed to make their escape to the waters of Rock creek, near the hatchery. The Four Mile placers can be set down now as steady producers. All the claim owners now at work are making from $5 to $16 a day, working alone, and the Rock Springs company, employing about twelve men, is taking out thousands of dollars worth of the yellow metal every week. The shearing season is over in. this vicinity, says the Rawlins Republican, and the sheep have all left for the mountains for the summer. About 75,000 were clipped at the Milan pens and about 10,000 at the Mahoney pens, at Osborne's pens 25,009, and about the same number at Massay's pens, making about 130,000 in ail. The ditch enterprise at Douglas under contemplation by Messrs. Richards and Shcenfelt comprises a rock dam across the Platte at a point near the mouth of the Wagon Mound and a water wheel capable of producing at least 500-horse power. This will run pumps with which the water will be raised twenty-five feet and carried thence in a ditch thirty feet wide to the adjacent lands. Preliminary surveys were run, show- ing that 10,000 acres of choice land can be brought under the ditch, and all of it on the north side of the river OREGON. Home grown cabbages are in the Albany market. The steam cheese factory at Cove has started up. 1t costs §5 a head to have a band of horses broken in Wallowa county. One of the runaway upper Columbia fish wheels has been captured at Astoria. The damage to the Cascade locks at Port- land by the floods is said to be incalculable. A Paradise, Wallowa county, farmer has some rye thirty-seven inches high already. The Red Boy mine on Clear creek, Baker county, has sent a $2,600 clean-up into Baker. A summer conference in the interests of Indian education is called for July 23 to 2§ "at Salem. Lincoln county has let a contract for a bridge across Hekman slough. It 18 t0 be 1,100 feot long. The 1,200 cattle which W. H. Huffman has purchased in Union county will be sent to stock & oig ranch at Fort Cloud, Canada. Bear hunting is quite a profitable industry in Josephine county. The hides are shipped to Chicago, where they bring $15 to $40 each Lumber 1s being sawed at the Yalnax mill, Klamath county, for building a bridge 200 feel long across Sprague river, neer BEagle ford. The berry crop at Hoed River, on account of having no facilities for shipment, will be almost & total less. The Dalles Chronicle understands that salos of strawberries had beens contrected at the price of 22 ceats a Carlin has abandoned his private | box. These oannot be shipped, and the pro- ducers not only lose the sale of the crop, but the cost of gathering. The crop is valued at some $60,000. The Ochoco mines of Crook county are running day and night, and the prospects are that considerable dust will be taken out this summer. A band of 2,000 head of cattle, gathered in the Willamette vailey, will leave Eugene in a few days for eastern Oregon, and the Guard thinks that before long stock raisers will see the mistake they have made in dis- posing of their young stock. A feature of the Sloan and Haskell inef- dental clean-up in Grant county recently was the product of large nuggets. Many have been picked up during the clean-up, ranging from $10 to $30. There was one nugget valued at $124, and another worth $480. Already over 100 homesteads have been taken in Klickitat by the Indiane, and forty patents have been lssued to them by the government. The law does not permit them to sell or deed land until after the lapse of twenty-five years from the date of the patent issued. The Indians are permitted to homestead eighty acres for farming or 160 acres for grazing purposes, while a squaw at the head of a family can enter eighty or 160 acres of land for each one of her minor children. WASHINGTON. Cowlitz county's logging camps are em- ploying 730 men. Kalama claims the largest sturgeon pack- ing house in the state. The co-operative shingle mill, burned at Custer, is to be rebuilt. The Stmpsons are putting in some 350,000 feet of logs a day at thelr Kamilcheo camp. Elmer Huntley, an Oakesdale farmer, has just finished seeding 1,400 acres of wheat. A drive of 2,500 cords of wood was suc- cessfuily brought down the river into Colfax. The White River mill, at Buckley, has just Inereased its capacity to 140,000 shingles a da, Everett’s offer for the county seat of Sno- homish county will be twenty twenty-five foot lots and $30,000 cash. The settlers of Quinault, despairing of county aid, will build a road to Humptulips by giving each ten days' work. Beet and milk from animals aflicted with tuberculosis and pleuro-pneumonia have been found by the state veterinarian in the New Whatcom markets. Walla Walla county has pald out $12,000 annually for some years for the eradication of squirrel and gopher pests, and now it is rather discouraging but apparently true that these animals are more numerous than ever. John Hudson, a South Bend taxidermist, intends shortly to enter upon the very odor- ous job of cleaning and mounting the bones of the whales recently stranded on the beach near Tokes point and on the ocean beach. He thinks he can sell them to ad- vantage to somé museum. Experiments will soon be commenced on the lands of the Prosser Falls Irrigation company, with the canaigre plant, with a view to the establishment of a tannin ex- tract manufactory at Prosser. The plant has been found wild on some of the bot- toms situated on the Indian reservation, which leads to the conclusion that the in- dustry will thrive. Philip Rine came home from Washington, where he went to purchase sheep, says the Fremont Tribune. He bought a flock of 6,000, which fs now on its way to Nebraska by rail and in the hands of reliable men. Mr. Rine says the floods and storms have been terrific and caused great damage. He was in the path of one cyclone which struck a mountain top, bounded over him and struck the earth beyond him, killing five persons. Henry Hanson, an old California miner, has been over at Westport looking at Gen- eral Don Carlos Buell's plant he has put up at Westport to extract gold from the sands of the ocean beach. He tells the South Bend Journal that when he arrived there General Buell was preparing to leave. The experiment has proved, it scems, a fail- ure. Hanson panned out some of the sand. He found only a few colors, and they small flakes as fine as gold leal. Thus again have gold beach hopes vanished into thin air. MISCELLANEOUS. Never were more abundant crops assured in the vicinity of Santa Fe than at the present time, Saltair, one of Salt Lake's great bathing resorts, is already busy and is a great rival to Garfield beach. The Nevada state board of agriculture has decided that no state fair will be held this year, owing to dull times. Three train loads of cattle went to eastern Nevada enroute from the parched plains of California to the green ranges of that state. Mrs. Alice Ramsay died at Phoenix, Ariz., of acute pneumonia. She was the nlece of Andrew Jackson, being the eldest daughter of Moses Jackson. She was born in Algiers, La., and was 656 years old. The Chinese miners around Grangeville, Idaho, have been “salting” their gold dust with silver filings and quicksilver and sell- ing 1t to the merchants of that place, who only got about 40 cents out of every $1 of gold dust. The Central Utah woel company at Manti has cars loaded with baled wool almost every day. Business is rushing at the warehouse, and, although wool is hardly worth handling, a large quantity is being handled by this company. Chico women have formed a society called the Ladies' Anti-Chinese league, and, begin- ning June 1, they ceased to patronize Chinese tor any purpose. Already ful families who formerly purchased vegetables and fruit of Mongollan peddlers are trading with white men. The passerger department of the Union Pacific railway has issued a pamphlet on irrigation, its history, statistics, methods and resuits. Of course its purpose is to give information as to irrigable lands on the line of its route. But it is valuable apart from that. Letters received at Yuma from Guaymas, Mexico, state that B. B. L. Robinson and James Logan, two of the sloop Examiner's party, bound from Yuma to San Francisco, were murdered by Indians at Tiburon island May 26. The Indians are cannibals. O'Brien and Clark escaped. Butte had quite an acquisition to its popu- lation the other day, when there arrived from Michigan a miner's wife. The woman is only 36 years of age and is the mother of soventeen children, fifteen of whom are liv- ing and were on the train with her, the eldest belng a girl of about 18 years of arge and the youngest an infant of 14 months. A long string of wagons reaching fully three-quarters of a mile has arrived at San Angelo, Tex., comsisting of sixty teams heavily loaded with wool, consigned to wool buyers. The large number of teams re- called to the old-timers those good old days when railroads were unknown in this country and everything was freighted to San Angelo from San Antonio and Austin. The railroad race for Rainy Lake City and the gold region thereabouts bas begun, and surveys are being made by at least three American roads. It is likely, however, that a Canadian road will arrive first. The Port Arthur, Duluth & Western has been granted a subsidy of $4,660 a mile for the thirty-five miles necessary to build and the wark will begin this summer. Word comes from Harqus Hala, says Tombstone (Ariz.) Prospector, that the In- dians are quietly arming, and trouble is ex- pected. For the past two days every Indisn who hes come into camp has carried his Winchester and ammunition. The antici- pated trouble, if it oocurs, will be due to the action of s white man, Bloomer, taking up with an Indian's wife, whom he refuses to surrender. Should trouble occur it may result seriousty. Four men are now employed at the mine located about five miles from Boise, near the Idabo City road, which was recently dis- covered by Willlmn Pope and Jesus Galindo, and in which Probate Judge Ryals und County Jailer Packard are interested. The tunnel is now in five feet and the ore con- tinues to loock better. Six pounds of ore, taken from the surface, was pounded up and washed. The button was assayed, giving a result of $102 gold and $187 sflver per ton. —_— Grand Stand Collapsed. PERRY, Okl, June 17.—During a game of base ball at Jerome park, near here, this even- Ing between an Indian nine and & nine bere, the grand stand gave way under the heavy load and 500 people went down in a heap. Many were injured, a little daughiter of A. C. Potter fatally. ———— DeWitt's Little Barly Risers. Small pills, sale pilis, best pills. recently the HEROISM ON THE GORY FIELD | A Brave Confe’erate Orosses the Enemy's Lines and Saves a Oomrad 's Life, RECOVERS ALSO THE REGIMENTAL COLORS Fearless Cournge Displayed at Gettysburg —An Incident Mingling Fun with Pat- rlotism —War Reeolloctions of Gresham snd Banks. 1 note that without exception the writers declare it is most difficult to recall some one man or act and point to it as excep- tional. Speaking for myself, and I am sure it is the experience of other officers, valor was so usual that it was only an act of cowardice that impressed one, and of this, T must confess, 1 saw but little, writes Col- onel Wofford in the New York Advertiser In bodies men would undertake things that could not be thought of by smaller numbere, and then again fleld officers did not have an opportunity to note individual acts. From the many rushing through my mind, I select one, not bocause I think the hero was the bravest man I ever saw, but be- cause this act was uncalled for and showed an indifference to death that might rank it with devil-may-care exploits rather than co0l deeds of deliberate daring, where there was a duty or great principle involved. It was at the battle of Sharpsfur, where I had the honor to command a brigade under General Hood. 1 need not remind any of the survivors north or soutn that Sharpsfur, or Antletam, as our Yankee friends call it, was, for the numbers engaged, the bloodlest battle of the war. We had been fighting all day near or about a bullding known as Mumma church. Some- times we were in the advance of this buiid- ing, and again the terrific firing would force us to seek shelter in the woods, where there were a few pleces of almost useless artillery. As we had done again and again during the duy, we drgve the ememy back, and were again_subjected to a perfect rain of shells, The Fifth Texas on the right of the brigade was commanded by the gallant Captain Turner, and as I rode in his direction, I noticed that an enlisted man, whose name I learned was Monroe, was engaging him in_earnest conversation. Before I came up, Monroe had left the captain and was running like a deer in the direction of the enemy, who were quick to fire on any moving thing. “Captain, what does this mean?” I asked, as I looked after the flying figure. Pointing to the trampled corn field in which 80 many men, friends and foes, lay, the captain said: ‘Monroe, one of my men, saw a flag rising and falling a bit ago, over near that burned stump, and he asked for leave to go out and get it.” ‘‘Has your regiment lost nag?’ I asked. “No," he replied with pride, “what's left of the colors of the Fifth Texas, is still in our possession, and we'll keep it while there’s a man to carry it,” and he pointed down the line to where a Iot of blood- stained tatters flapped about a bullet scarred s ite ‘It must be a Yankee flag,” T said, it 8o, T hardly think 1t/ prident” to rish o man on such a venture.”” Captain Turner made mo reply, but mean- while my attention whs drawn to Monroe, for I was now intensely, interested in the out- come of this adventufe. He reached the hlack stump about 200 yards away and dropped so suddenly that at first we thought he was shot. Soon, to our great relief, Monroe rose to his knees. We saw him Ufting a man on his back and that the man clung to a & Monroe straightened up, took a quick glance about him and then started for our lines. He was a young athletic fallow, but he had no child’s burden; back in the line and’ how he escaped is one of those wonders that can never be ex- plained, though he was sllgntly wounded in the shoulder. h ’ He brought back with him not & Yankee and his colors, but the color bearer and flag of the Fourth Texas, lost in our retreat. Every man in the brigade saw this exploit and greeted it with a ringing cheer. The colors were saved and T may add the color bearer got well. Had it not been for Monroe the flag would have fallen Into the hands of the enemy and o I cannot count his act as sheer rashness. FIGHTING AT GETTYSBURG. It was the first day of the battle of Gettys- burg. We were in line of battle on the north side of a knoll with our guns planted ! at the brow, where they commanded per- fectly any advancing body of the confeder- ates, writes Major McDowell in the San Francisco Call. After the battle had been raging for some time our officers could see the enemy preparing for a charge. The guns were double shotted and the order was given to wait until the confederates came within short range. On came the line, double-quick, until it was within less than 100 yards of the muzzles of our guns. There was a flash of flame, & roar that shook the hills and valleys, and when the smoke cleared away there seemed to be nothing but piles of dead and wounded. Our shot had mowed a tremendous gap in the llne filled only by prostrate bodles. Quick as the movement could be executed, however, the advancing line wes reformed in front of the windrow of bodies, and, elbow to elbow, the charge was renewed. They were so near that we could see their faces, and I shall never | forget the expression of courage and deter- | mination, which it seems to me I could see as plainly as though we were face to face, and which showed that they were either going to conquer or to be shot to death. Again our guns belched forth and again the whole line to a man seemed to go down. A new windrow of the hundreds of dead and dying was made considersbly in front of | the former one. Like magic the line of the enemy formed again, and again, elbow to elbow, in front of the piles of their fallen comrades, those undaunted fellows came on. Even amid the smoke that was now cloud- ing everything we could plainly see that terrible expression of desperate and fearless courage, which was almost as appalling to us as the decimation of their ranks must have been to them. A third time our bat- teries poured forth their murderous fire, and a third time the charging troops of the enemy disappeared, but only to form again, and they finally made it 80 hot for us that we were forced to withdraw to Ceme- tery Hill. T could not conceive of a grander exhibition of courage in battle than was exhibited by those confederates. Each time it was almost certain death, and yet not a man seemed to waver. The precision with which they reformed after the fearful decimation of their ranks that followed each discharge of our guns was, I think, the most marvelous thing that took place under my observation during the war, | An incident which ioccurred at the battle of Drainsville had a’mixture of the tragic and the humorous timt makes it worth re- lating. The color sergeant of Colonel Me- Calmont’s regiment was' Frank Alexander, a fellow not counted particularly clever, but one who was infatuated- with his office and with his flag. While the battle was raging and we were slowly ‘mdyancing, Frank in his enthusiasm got far in front of the regi- ment. “Bring that flag back to the regiment!" shouted Colonel MoCatmont. There was no respomse, though it was evident the color-beargr Hfad distinctly heard the order. 45 “Bring that flag hack to the regiment,” again shouted the calumel. “D—— you, bring the 1egiment up to the flag," shouted Frank furfously, and the col- onel obeyed the order; When Prank was afterward taken pris- oner he managed in some way to wrap the flag. which was 50 precious to him around his body under his clothes, and so carried it with him until he was exchanged THE MILITARY BALLOON Men were falling | | being salt meat. JUNE 18, 1891 ith the balloon hanging on to its tadl, hile the attendant sappers on each side keep it steady. The train moves along at a good round pace, easily keeping up with or even passing the infantry, and makes for the particular spot at which it has been determined to commence ballooning opera- tions, which is usually on the top of & good high bl An ascent is an easy enough matter and is soon accomplished. The balloon is se- curely fixed to the end of the wire rope, and the two men who are to ascend take their places. At the word of command the men who bave been holding down the car let go, and up shoots the balloon, unwinding the rope as it rises, and allowed sometimes to ascend to a height of 1,000 feet. And suppose the officer receives instructions to move the position of the balloon, is it neces- sary to haul it down? a bit of it A man is placed at the end of the wagon wiho carefully guldes the connecting rope s0 that it cannot get entangled or run risk of being cut, and away goes the wagon, sometimes at a trot across the flelds and up and down hill until the balloon itself is a long distance away from its original sta- tion. Next fuppose that it is necessary to lower the balloon. Is it needful to wind in all the wire rope that has been paid out from the reels? No such thing. The expeditious manner. A long, stout pole, in the middle of which is a pulley wheel, is lald across the rope Half a dozen men seize the pole and run it along the rope, and their weight soon brings the balloon down to the ground. Passen- gers can then be exchanged or any other operation can be carried on, and then the men run the polo back and up shoots the balloon again many hundreds of feet into the air, without having been a from its exalted position more than a few minutes. But It is not necessary to lower the balloon in this or any other way whenever it is re- quired that messages should be exchanged between se below and those above There are various contrivances for doing this. Sometimes, for instance, a wire is attached, through which messages can be sent to a telephone. Another plan is to send messages down the wire cable. A little wire hook is fastened around the cable, and the letter or paper, weighted with a small fand bag, is sent fluttering down. The human voice, it mey also be addded, can be heard both from a considerable height and depth, so that verbal communication is not difficult if there is no wind. WAR PRICES IN THE SOUTH. The Confederate War Journal is authority for the following list of prices current at Mobile, Ala., January 21, 1865: Apples, per bushel, $60 to $70; corn, per bushel, 3 to $7; corn meal, per bushel, $7; cow peas, per bushel, $8; onions, per bushel, $50 to $70; sweet potatoes, per bushel, $12 to Irish potatoes, per bushel, $30 to $40; per bushel, $30 to $35; salt, per bushel, $ to $45; wheat, per bushel, §28 to $30; bees. wax, per pound, $5; bacon, per pound, $3.75 to $4; butter, per pound, $6.50 to §7; candles, per pound, $8 to $8.50; coal (Shelby), per ton, $200 to coffee, per pound, $50; calico, per yard, $17 to $20; chickens, per dozen, $45 to $50; flour (extra), per 100 pounds, $140 to $150; fresh beef, per pound, $1.25 to $1.50; quinine, per ounce, $150; morphine, per ounce, $350; milch cows, $600 to $900; powder, per pound, $25 to $30; shot, per pound, $4 to $5; sugar, per pound, $8.50 to §$10; tobacco, per pound, $3.50 to $10; whisky, per gallon, $50 to $120. GRESHAM IN THE WAR. Colonel R. M. McFadden, now a resident of this city, says the Colorado Sun, makes the following statement regarding the wound- ing of General Gresham, claiming that since the death of Generai Potts he is the only one now living who was close to the present sec- retary of state when he received the dis- abling wound “In July, 1864, T was in command of the Forty-first Illinois volunteers, stationed at Kennesaw Mountain, Ga. About the 17th I visited the Fourth division headquarters, four or six miles east of Atlanta, Ga. General Gresham suggested that I remain until they located again and act as aid on his staff. I did so and was with him until the 20th, dur- ing which time our lines were continually advancing against stubborn resistance, some- times amounting to a battle. On the after- noon of the 19th for the purpose of locating the enemy’s lines, and to find a position to | put in a piece of artillery, General Gresham, Colonel Potts and myself left our horses in a ravine in the rear of our skirmish line and walked through our lines some distance to the front to & small knoll or ridge, whera we stopped and were taking observations of the enemy, who, improving the opportunity, were cutting the dirt all around us. While in this position General Gresham received a shot in the front of his rignt leg, as I now remember, about six inches below the knee, breaking one bome and lodging in the skin in the calf of the leg. We assisted him back to the ravine, whence he was taken on a stretcher to the rear. I remained with him that night at his request, as he femred that the surgeons would amputate his leg, and he remarked that ‘when that leg goes I prefer to 20 with it.’ He was sent north on the 221 and I have not met him since. Except the time named above I never saw General Gresham under fire, but I do know that he was an officer of high standing in the Seven- teenth army corps. General Potts, referred to abeve, has since been governor of Mon- tana, and 1 think that he is now dead, 5o that I am probably the only person living who witnessed the wounding of General Gresham and helped care for him upon the field of battle.” GENERAL BANKS IN BATLE. The bravest deed I ever saw in my two enlistments in the army occurred at the bat- tle of Camp Bisland during General Banks' advance upon Alexandria, on the Bayou Tesche, writes Elijah A. Morse in the New York Advertiser. It was in the spring of 63. The union troops were advancing to dis- lodge the ememy at that point, were in line of battle in front of the enemy’s works and e hourly expecting to assault the same. confederates had their works mounted with some real cannon and more wooden ones. This incident occurred about sundown. The confederates emerged from the woods, with a tremendous yell upon the left flank of the union line, intending to turn to our flank and rout us before the assault could be made wupon their fortification, mounted and manned as before stated. At this juncture Major General Banks with his flag and staft rode to -the front. General Banks sat on his horse looking at the as- saulting party through lis glass, when a solid shot from the enemy's works struck the ground in front of his horse and cov- ered the horse and. rider from head to fogt with dirt. General Banks sat unmoved and continued his observation, simply brushing the dirt off of his whiskers, and motioned nis flag to the rear, which made him so conspicuous a mark. I was but a few feet from the general when this occurred, stend- ing in my company in line of battle. We elept on our arms that night, expecting to make the assault in the morning, but that night the confederates retreated from their works up the bayou and left us in peaceful possession. This was one of General Banks' preliminary movements for the investment and capture of Port Hudson, which place surrendered to him in July, 1863. i Pills that cure sick headache: DeWitt's Little Early Risers. —————— Wreeked Seaters Picked Up. NANAIMO, B: C., June 17.—The steamer Willamette arrived last night from Dutch Harbor, Alaska. She brings a meager re- port the loss of the American whaling bark James Allen; which was wrecked off Atka island, 200 miles west of Alaska, May 11. The steamer Dora picked up two of the crew on Bonen Island June 7. The men were in a starving condition, their only food The Allen ran on a rock off Atka island and sunk almost imme- diately. The captain and first mate were lost. The rest of the crew, who left in one of the boats to head for Unalaska, are still missing. The United States patrol boat Petrel is out searching for them, The lost vessel belonged to San Francisco. The captain's name is not known. He was drowned with the first mate in his cabio, The second male 18 among the missing men. The Allen had on board at the time of the wreck a $15,000 cargo for whalers up north, Balloon and wagon bave formed a junc- tion and are ready to start with the troops. Away goes the wagon, says Good Words, S Little pills for great ills: DeWitt's Little Barly Risers. UAKER OATS balloon is brought to earth in a much more | Endle thing | Pearli there little and, a Peddlers and some unscrupe) Send & LrT I ‘t Back a il your honest—. it back, Manager Fire Stock, Close out entire balance WET and ¢ as we want this entire matter closed THE UNDERWRIT way of washin rocer sends you something in ' 7 Song of the washboard. :ss rubbing—tiresome, ruinous, back-breaking ; wear and tear on things rubbed ; wear and tear on temper and health; wear and tear on every- —even the washboard itself It's all done away with, if you ffse ne. There isn’t any washboard ; isn't any rubbing on it; there’s no wear and tear, and there's very work. It's the only sensible y—easy, economical, bove all things, absolutely safe. crs will tell you ** this is as good as® FALSE—Pearline is never peddied, ince of Pearline, be ES PYLE, New York ous IT a8 e READ The Insurance Companies Urder. Omaha, June 16, 1804, COLUMBIA CLOTHING CO.: MOKED clothing next week at a1y eat 1 up just as soon us possible, Yours, S INSURANCE CO.'S, So, beginning Monday, June 19th, The biggest tlaughter that has ever yet taken place for Al clothing, only & little wet, smoked and mussed will commence. $15.00, in outaways and sucks, all latest styles, smoke than the cheaper grades (we carr which the Insurance companies have .00 and $22.00 suits, high gi makes the reductions on this expensive clothing mu grades. This week this fine stock of $15, 818 ing the description and prices for them W hat we do, No Omaha firms carrying clothin slums of New York City and who try" to warslcde long regent cuts, more casily damaged by rade cassimeres, black ana fancy ied a big stock of these fine goods), and cn to make up a greater per centage of loss ch larger than on the lower and $22 suits is knifed so low that by rcade below you will readily be surprised. others cannot. g made .in sweat house tenements in the mislead the public by stating that the goods are imported can touch the Fire Prices (aithough they would feign have you believe it.) Smell their clothing and see if it is imported. The Insurance Money is What Knocks, So no envious clothing houses can come so low as to reach the prices on SUCH BEAUTIFUL SUITS As are offered from now on at the Columbia Clothing Co., for $4.50, $5, $6 and $7.50. LATEST FIRE PRICES. 150 elegant gray cassimere suits in s $1.50 each. 200 cutaway (4-button) frocks in tans, ressed and all right, go at $5.00. your choice at $6.00 and $10.00. 500 s take your choice for §7.50 10 $10.0¢ Wilson Bros.’ negligee shirts at BOYS’ hand embroidered amongst them, slig formerly brought 33¢ to e, traight and round cut sacks, regent cut grays and oxfords, were only wet, now its in cutaways and sacks, even Prince Alberts amongst them, now take 1its, odds and ends, for short and stout, long and slim, all styles and pate ) cach. worth $1.50. AND CHILDREN’S SUITS. 300 boys’ and children's suits at half former pri 200 dozen hemstitched handkerchiefs (large size) for gantlemen, some that ave s, from 50 up. htly soiled Dy water, now go at 124c each, Columbia Clothing Cos, Corner 13th and Farnam Streets. The Best Shoes for the Least Money. 2 IGNATZ NEWMAN, 420 South 18th, A. W. BOWMAN (CO., 117 North 16th. W. W. FISHER, 2025 Leavenworth. W. L. 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