Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 23, 1894, Page 12

PULSE Discovery of a Sparkler as Large s a Bean Excites Leadville Miners, \ISIONS OF A POSSIBLE DIAMOND BELT Hard Times Con tilltonaire” 1 a mon “Co s Qu orthwestern News. Exelte vert nt at Dodge City Montun The mining experts will have an oppor tunity of puzzling heir brains over the ques- tion whether the Leadville district does not produce real genuine dfamonds. The assertion that Leadville may yet be come a diamond producer, and that the en terprising geologist may yet find a diamond belt, is based on the discovery made by a prospector naned Dennls Maguire, who weveral claims In Union gulch. Maguire has been working on these claims for moiths, in company with another man Philip Henderson. Henderson in ver and showed a number of parties a curl ous,_specimen of crystal, that had enough prifflancy and sparkle about it to make one thigk it was the genuine article, The men, it seems, were runn In through the porphyry. After Afty feet they into a soft that resembled decomposed porphyry, had, a decldely clayey appearance, being very soft. Fhe ground became treacherous that'they had to timber it up very close, and even then progress was difficult. One day s ghey' were working in this material ther was noticed.a bright speck in the fuce of the drift. Supposing this to be an iudication of mineral, Maguire reached forward and pulled aut ‘the crystal, for such they now Baw It was, It was about as big as.a bean and the edges were rough. When washed thoroughly the crystal appeared to be a bright aad sparkling as a diamond, and the men felt satisfied that this was what they had struck. THe crystal was not perfectly clear but_of a’ pecullar bluish tinge. A reporter examined the curious crystal whifeh bad been carefully cleaned. If it wasn't 4 dfamond, it certalnly had all the glitter of one, In order to make an experi- ment a pieea of window glass was secured and one of the sharp rough edges applied to the glass. - The crystal demonstrated its hardness by making a very tiny mark along the glass, which could then be easily broken along the line thus made BASIN'S GOOD LUCK. The Lone Star, after four months of un ceasing toil, has cut the sought for lead, says the Basin (Mont) Times. This mine belongs to Samuel Mulville and others of Butte and is situated half a mile north of Basin on the east side of the creek. There, was a perpendicular shaft on the claim to the forty-foot level some years ago. The oxidized ores were stoped to the sur- facé and most of it worked In Pat Dough- erty's arastra on Basin creek. The cross- cut of twelve feet on this level was on the contact between the base and the free mill- jng and no part of the former was ever worked, though some scattering bunches were in the bodies of ore near the surface. The free milling was very remunerative, but when the base had to be resorted to work was suspended until Sisley and his partners took the bond for $50,000 for a period of elghteen months, with the privilege of working 500 tons of the ore. A new chute of ore induced them to sink an additional sixty feet, making the shaft 200 feet, from which they run a cross-cut twenty-one fect and cut the rich body of ore in which lies stored a fortune for the owners. A station has been prepared and conveniences arranged about the shaft, o sure were the boys that they would cut a rich body of ore, and they advanced on the lead that realized their brightest expecta- tions and added one more producer to the list of permanent gold mines of Montana. The ore s of the same character as that contained in all the rich mines of Basin, and it demonstrates beyond a doubt that the mines of the Cataract district are exceedingly rich in depth. Another rich strike was made last week in the Saturday Night, situated two miles up Cataract creek and owned by John andl James Wall. It was leased and bonded in Febru- ary to John Hallahan of Butte, since which time a force of men has been developing it. There s no question but the ore is very vich. Being of a base character the proper way to determine the true value is by a fire assay. This makes two very important strikes in one week and puts confidence in those who were doubtful as to the future of the Montana gold fields. BIG LARAMIE PLACERS. Excitement still continues on the Big Lar- amie at Dodge City. The last two weeks there were nearly 1,500 acres more of placer ground located. A Cheyenne party located 340 acres and a Denver yarty located eighty acres. The Denver outfit will commence sluicing next week, as all necessary material will then be on the ground, writes a corre- spondent of the Laramie Republican. The Dodge City Placer Mining company will complete is ditch this week. Then they will commenee sluicing. What kind of machinery they will put in has not yet been decided on, but a.Poeatello gold saving machine may be tried here about the last of this month. The Lovett company of Laramic is expected in the camp this week. We un- derstand it will commence work on its claims at once.: Thé camp will be booming in the course of a few weeks now, if the machinery that is put in will save the gold. In this connection it may be said that the patent- ees guarantee that they can save all that can be saved with a pan. The Iron Mountain company will put in machinery as soon as it can get the’water to supply the machine. Those interested are going to hplsp water with a wheel, but they have not the material yet on the ground for the flume. Fhey:are walting for the river to fall, as the water is too high at present for the work of putting in the wheel. There are foyr or five companies that will com- mence ‘operations now in the course of a few wecks, MONTANA'S FAKE MILLIONAIRE. A letter from Lexington, Ky.; recetved in Butte by one of the mining stock vietl of Charles: Porter Grove, alias “Blue Dick, the colored “four times millionaire” of Mon- tana, of whom mention has frequently been made {h The Bee, tells about the downfall of that mighty fraud. It seems that his downward.course began with his struggling advent “in the national capital, where he circulated his fables through the columns of the colored people’s newspaper, His remarkably fishy stories about fabu- lous wéalthi, his. rich producing mines and the booming growth of Grove City, located somewhere beyond nowhere, did not go un- challenged very long. They soon caught the eyes of same colored men who knew a little more than Charles Porter Grove gave them eredit for. He was exposed and was com- pelled to feave Washington, and from that time his downfall was rapid When Grove's father-in-law Washington expose and learned that *“Blue Dick” was nothing but a big black fraud, he sent for his daughter to come home, but warned her that if she dared to bring “‘that Montana niggah” along he would shoot him The daughter heeded the warning and left Charles Porter, and she has since begun suit for divorce. Grove started out In search of new flelds, but his reputation preceded him everywhere and his luck was bad. 41though he robbed or coloved people out of thousands of dol rs, he saved none of it, but spent it as freely and easily as he got It, and now, the letter states, he Is in Cinciunati and is hay- Ing a hard time in getting enough to eat and isno longer anything but a very com- mon *goon He made an effort to organize a new min- Iug company in Cincinnati, but the colorea people were *all dead on and it did not pan out. The letter also states that if Mr. Grove should ever venture back Into Kentucky it would go hard with him, as the colored peo- ple have threatened to stretch his neck it they ever get hold of him. Cornelius Hodges, the man who received the letter and who had some deailugs with Grove, tells of a few of the “four times il Honaire's” tricks that have never found their way into the papers. One Is that he reached Lexington during & big revival meeting in the church. He became couverted and In a “sperfence meetin' ' declared that his heart bad been 80 thoroughly opened by as to several ned was Den g a tunnel going for came material heard of the OFWESTERN PROGRESS | but | #ion. ‘ligion that he proposed to take all the poor people into his mining scheme out of a purely philanthropic motive. He wanted to do good and his scheme caught on. He learned that there was a mortgage on the church and volunteered to give $500 toward 1ifting it as ®oon as he returned to Montana, and then he sold the pastor $60 worth of stock and pocketed the cash TIRED OF Practically all of Sloux who enlisted i the regular army abcut three years ago will shortly be again At home on their reser vistlons feading the old and indolent life. A Fort Meade correspondent of the Sturgis Advertiser that by the middle of this month the greater number of the Indlans of troop lird cavalry, the best Indfan troop in the service, staticned at will have Laken wdvantage of the thres mont furlough granted under the provisions of gen- eral orders No. 80 of 1890, and will return to the andat the expiration of their expected that they will tuke thelr dscharge. Should such be the case the trocp will have tw be recrufted or disbanded vailing _opinfon_among a great many to be that the Indians will never be satisfled with the restraints tmposed upon them as oldiers, and that upon the completion of their three ervice they will be only too gl to the service of Uncle Sam and return to their orlginal pursuits. Some of the In- dians of troop L (those who have served both as soldiers and scouts), when que:- tioned upon the cot sald those of their brethren who are about to tuke their fur- loughs and return to Pine Ridge agency will weary of their cld life and be dissatis- fled and auxious to return to army life be- fore the epiration of their leive. NAVAJO Henry Smith of St. Johns, one of the Territorial Live says that the ranchers and stock men f the districts adjoining the Navajo reser- vation are, worked up over depredations com- mitted by the Indians The litter refuse to remiin upon thelr reservation, says a Phoenix dispatch to the San Frane'sco Chroicle, but insist upon ap- propriating the best watering places, and frequently drive oft and destroy stock. A serious rupture has so far been averted only great forbearance Complaints hiye been pouring fato the office of the governor. He will at orice bring the matter to the at- tention of the Department of the Interior, whenee it will be transmitted to the War de- partment. re are 7,000 Navajo war- riors, and ugarly atl are supplied with Win- chester rifles and cther first class aceuter ments, with the use of which they are thoroughly familiar. RUSSTIAN OIL FOR THE WEST. In connection with the current stories out- lining the plans of Russia and American capitalists to establish a line of steamships to be operated on the Pacific in connection with the great Russian railway soon to be completell’ to Vladivostock, it is now stoutly asserted that the principal American port for the steamship conipany will be lished at San Diego. It has heretofore been claimed t talists largely interested In the railroad are closely identified with the Rus- sians in the'scheme. General Thomas S. Sedgwick, San Diego's harbor engineer, gav further information of the scheme, dispatch to the Denver Times. He states that since August last he has been furnish ing the interested parties with technical and complete information concerning San Diego harbor. He had been required, how- ever, to keep the matter a secret. Now that he is free to talk, he gave the substance of a letter recently received by him from a friend who s an” engineer connected with the land department of the Santa Fe. His friend_informed him that representa- es of the Santa Fe company, the Standard Oil company, and the Russian Oil company, had just held ‘a conference in Chicago with Tvan' Gavetsky., representing the ~Amoor Navigation company of Vladivostock, for the purpose of organizing a steamship line be- tween that Russian port and San Diego. It is a well known fact that the Standard Oil company, not a great while ago, formed u combination with the Russian Oil company for the purpose of controhing the world’s supply of petroleum. It is claimed that it 1 the plan of the two great companies to hav the western part of the United States sup- plied from the Russian wells, an undertak- ing that would, in reality, be more economi- cal than the present method of transporting oil across the continent from Pennsylvania and Ohio. The Amoor Navigation company is owned by Sibiriakow, who also is the principal owner of the Siberian Transcontinental rail- road, which at present handies the greater portion of the oil output of that country, as well “as_ other commerce with Siberian ports. The determination of the oil combine to establish a line to America has evidently caused the Santa Fe stockholders to take advantage of the situation of affairs, and endeavor to secure the tremendous traffic which would naturally follow the establish- ment of such line of steamships. BOOMING ARIZONA MINE: The new raflroad is now completed almost to Wickenburg and fncreasel activity is noticed among both mine owners and pros- pectors in that vicinity. Goodwin, Mayer & Co. have a ledge of cinnabar e ght feet wide assayiig 20 per cent quicksilver and rich in gold:says a special to the Denver News. They ‘claim it contains native quick- silver in_paying quantities. Owng to the scarcity of quicksilver mines containing any quantity, they think they have a bonanzi. Many others ‘have located in the immediate neighborhood. A large lot of mining machinery is now at the Prescott depot awaiting transporta- tion to the Red Buck mine. It is very probable thaf, work: will commence on this in a few days. A few days ago an employe of this company discovered a small stzzak of gold bearing quartz running Iel to the Red Buck vein in the immediate neigh- borhood, and after digging eight feel was bought out by the company for $1,000. Charles Capelli has 100 tons of silver ore on the dumpof his Perry mine, which will run. $200 to the ton RAISING MUSTARD SEED. . D. Cgng, agent for the Great Northern, Is making an experiment in farming wh ch will be watched with considerable interest. He has leased. forty-five acres of land one mile north of the city, says an Aberdeen di pateh to he Sicux' Falls Argus-Leader, which he is having sown to tame mustard, a seed used to great advantage by all plek- ling and spice concerns, and cultivated to a very limited extent in’ this country. It is afmed that the tame varlety will not scat- and reseed Jike the wild species, 50 much dreaded Ly the careful husbandman, and that it can bo threshed out and marketed with the same machinery and appliances used in handling flax. Mr. Cone is very in sowing, and for this reason cannot make the test in as thoroughly and satisfactory a manner as he would like, The seed, which cost $18 per 100 pounds, which represents, it is said, the actual market value of the product-—was shipped to Mr. Cone from San Francisco several weeks ago; but owing to various delays did not reach here in time for earlier seeding. With anything like good weather from now on, and a able yield in the fall, the crop should be very valuable. Mr. Cone has already contracted fifty bushels at $10 per bushel, and is cer- tain of a good demand for all he can raise. He sows in the neighborhood of one peck per acre, and ought to get an average yiell of ten bushels to the acre. In some localities the crop averages twenty and twenty-five bushels. ARMY LIFE, the says reseryation, furlongh it be quit DEPREDATIONS, Apache county, Stock commis NEDRASKA. Alfalfa s becoming the popular crop Fillmore county. Norfolk is becoming metropolitan ing a Jack the Hugger. Hastings is employing only upon its public improvements Farmers from all parts of the country re- port crops as never looking better in Buftalo county. The stage of water in the Platte river con- tinues about the same, being the highest known for years A movement is on foot at York to build a monument to the old soldiers of that county to cost from $10,000 to $18,000, The rainmakers did some work up at Broken Bow and the rain fell, whereupon the fellow pocketed his wealth and departed The cherry crop Is almost harvested and has proved a very remunerative one. Good yields at an average price of $2.25 per bushel has been the rule. Misz Eva Woolford has district court at Kearney Lionberger for defamation placing the damage at $5,000. A band of gypsies, consisting of about thirty persons, among which were about twelve women and a whole raft of kids, arrived in Fullerton last week. They had four bears, about a half dosea moukeys in in hav- home labor brought suit In agalnst Isaac of character, | tor THE consider- and doing | and gathered dancing several dogs. They able money by singing, the usual exhibitions with the bears A_party of surveyors are at work north of Gothenburg, making a preliminary survey for an Irrigation ditch to water the first table lands north and east % The June rise Is on and the Missourl is up and booming. The river Is eat'ng away the banks at a rapid rate and is swallowing up many acres of valuable land on the Ne braska side The Fullerton Milling company contract for furnishing flour to the Indian school for the year heginning 1t will require about 110,000 pounds the contract A number of the ured the Genon July 1 to fill farmers living along the Platte river are considering the question of irrigating their land, It is estimated that ditches along the bottom can be constructed for $1,000 a mile It is reported that the Pickard farm, the Pappio, just across the road from § Mills, has been sold to Omaha $200 per acre, and a paper factory be erected upon the premises, George Lowe and Ed Tippen, while driving near the fair grounds at Kearney, came upon a whole den of snakes, Using their buggy whip they dispatched fourtsen garter snakes and bro ht them back to town, The people of Gibbon secured the services of the rainmaker, who was to make the rain come Inside of one week. If the splendid shower that came last Thursday night was of his work he ought to get his $200 without a kick William P. Gochenam, a peddler, has sued the town of Hooper for $2,000 damages for false imprisonment. He wa rrested there last August charged with peddling without a license, and taken to jail, where he re- mained three hours, Willlam Palmer was bittén by a rattlesnake at Stella. He killed snake and hurridly came to town. Andrews treated the wound, but Mr. was a mighty sick man for a short He is now all right, however. Thirty-five acres of beet ground were plowed, dragged, replanted and rolled in two d on the O'Shea farm at Madison Fourteen teams were at work. It has taken sixty-five pounds of beet seed to. replant the beets injured by frost and wind W. 8. Locke of Riverside township in Gage county has a bunch of oats absut four feet in height, with the heads generally filled out, and indicating an unusual yield. Mr. Locke says he h; ninety acres of oats just like the simple down on his farm. His wheat will average up still better. The B. & M. and Union Pacific Rallroad companies were asked some time ago to put in a transfer switch at Schuyler. The roads E up several reasons in their arguments why they should not build the switch, but after_hearing the pros and cons of the case the State Board of Transportation. held that they should comply with the law ‘and build So far the toads have taken steps towards complying with the board's nd and that body will bring ‘the case lore the supreme court. THE DAKOTAS. The Central Baptist assoclation fs In ses- sion at Huron. The annual meeting of the South Dakota Homeopathic society was held at Huron last week. Mercury touched 105 in the shade at Eilen- dale last weck, which beat the local record for this time of the year. The South Dakota Medical society will hold its thirteenth annual me:ting at Huron on Wednesday and Thursday, June 20 and 21, Squatters have been driven from their homes on an island in the Missouri river op- posite Vermillion, S. D., by the sheriff, and their places burnid. A large artesian well Grandview township, in Brule county. water is already rising more than a foot above the top of the casing, and s in. creasing rapidly. It is a gusher. The well s 160 feet deep. The water is very warm, having a temperature of 90 degrees, being different in this respect from any other ar- tesian well in this section. The committee appointed by the mayor ot Grand Forks to canvass the city for pur- chasers for the $30,000 worth of city or- ders to be fissued soon, are at work, and re- port encouragingly. The funds derived will be used in the construction of a water sys- tem for the purification of the city water supply, which subject has been agitated since the fever epidemic last winter. The citizens of Jefferson township, Me- Cook county, are on the war path. The town board purchased a road grader, paying about $290 for it, including freight. The voters circulated a petition and secured about forty names, and presented it to the board, urging them not to purchase the grader. But it had already been ordered ahd shipped, an the citizens will now try and compel the members of the board to foot the bill them- selves, Jdgemont has a good reason for having a big celebration this year on the Fourth of July, and she intends to have .it. On that day ‘the last shovel full of dirt which will complete the mammoth irrigation ditch will be thrown. This ditch, besides . furnishin water to irrigate a vast extent of country, will also furnish a supply of water to run a number of industries. The principal of these will be a woolen mill, since the great exodus of sheep from Wyoming into this state, and particularly the western part of the state, has made the wool industry a very important one. This will be.the first woolen mill in the western part of the state. William McDonald, aged 107 years, has re- cently moved to Tyndall to live with' his son He has the appearance of being about 80 years old, being still vigorous and healthy. His father, Donald McDonald, fought in the British army at the Battle of Bunker Hill. William wanted to join the American army during the war of 1812, but his father was too good a Britisher to allow his son to do anything of the kind. Donald Mclignald died at the age of 114, being crushed between two fancy horses, of which he was very proud. The family records are yery com- plete as regards dates, an examination of them showing clearly that the age of the gentleman Is as stated above. COLORADO. A Grand Junction committee is working with the railroads for Peach day rates. Work at Yankee Hill is greatly impeded by the heavy fall of rain, nail and snow. Fort Morgan Times denies that crops have been damaged in that locality by the storm. Berthoud will this year have a high school Three teachers are to be employed and nine grades taught. The Iron Cap mine in Goose Creek district is taking out ore for another shipment which is expected to average $100 a ton. In Lake City district the Ute and Ouray mines shipped 1,275 tons of ores and con- centrates during the month of May. The first train of the Pike's Peak Cog road was run to the summit last week. It was pected to open the road a couple of weeks ago, but snow prevented It is said that the experts sent into La Plata district by the Daly-Haggin syndicate will recommend the building of a mill for the purpose of testing, on a large scale, the ores of the Baker contact. About twenty-five women stoned the miners who attempted to go to work at the mines at Sopris. A Mexican was badly beaten. One woman and a man are supposed to be the leaders of the attacking party and were arrested. ' A Prowers county farmer is growing al- falfa for seed and is seeding with the or- Qinary arill in rows fifteen (o twenty inches apart, He cultivates and Irrigates between the rows and claims'a yield of fifteen bushels to the acre Erown In (WO Crops. Willlam Lawrence 18 shipping ore from a mine recently leased at 1daho Springs at the rate of a carload a w The ore is valued at $250 per car, and Mr. Lawrence hopes soon to increase the output to a car every day, in which event the mine will prove a splendid investment. Phere was shipped from G nth of May forty-seven cars con- 000 pounds of ore, of which containing 715,000 pounds, went to Denver, and fifteen cars, containing 374,- 000 pounds went to Pueblo, and two cars, containing 48,000 pounds, went to Argo. Th horticulturists sbout De Beque, says the Grand Junction Star-Times, are already preparing for next spring’s planting of fruit trees. AU h nurseryman has sold to Stewart & Eaton 13,700 prune trees, next spring delivery. This firm set out 7,000 prunes in April, which bave already made a growth of elghteen inches. They are so well pleased with the quality of the trees that they mow buy euough more to 8l gut on rpy capitalists will some hand the Dr. almer time, on the has been struck in The orgetown dur- taining 1,28 thirty cars OMAHA DAILY ATURDAY, JUNE Thisi will make the larg- varfety in the state, of De Beque, bought 8,000 prune:, He has already a growing orchard of this varfety and thinks the prune is the thng tosralse Several papers have stated that since buy- ing the Monte Vista and Mosca mills the Mullen Milling company own all the mills in the San Lu's valley, except the one at Del Norte overlook several smaller mills which make a lirge quantity of flour. Conejos, Saguache, Manassa, Lo: Ceritos San Luls each have a flour mill The Ovee, on East Battle mountain, owned and operated by George Bowland, records the strike of the week in the Red CHff dis- trict. Ore running 750 ounces in silver has been produced for some time, when a re- cent shot disclosed an increase, and now a body of ore which has ne.ther top nor bot- tom is opened and the vein has increased to four feet in width. The new strike I8 70 feet from the surface and is mixed with ore carrying spar, sulphurets and galena. WYOMING. Carbon county sheep men have adopted the plan of plac ng lanters around the flocks to protect them from the ravages of wolves and otes. A 120-acre traot. est orchard of a single Willlam Harris, als Phere were 231,000 Natrona county this eason. The price paid was 7 cents a head. One hundred and fifty shearers were employed. The cattle and sheep men about Saratoga, Wyo., are holding a convention to arrange the lines of their respective grazing grounds and settle all differences amicably The sheep shearing season about Rawlins, Wyo., i8 over, and most of the flocks have been driven to the mountains for the sum- mer. About 130,000 were sheared this spring. A deal by which Ferguson & Co. of Love- land, Colo., became the owners of the Chase coal ‘mine on Mill creek has about been com- pleted. The coal will be transferred to Laramie by a tract'on engin The state selections of land for the blind asylum have not been approved by the land office, Over 5,000 acres of mineral land are embraced in the selection and as it s against the law to appropriate mineral lands for state purposes the land was ordered re- ved to the government. The crickets which were devastating vegl- tation In the Lander valley a few weeks ago are fast disappearirg. Considerable damage done to certain crops in the vicinity fed by the pests, But now that they are leaving the farmers hope to get a second crop and reap a fair harvest. A solid trainload of Idaho sheep through Laramie for the Chicago market. Accompanying the sheep was the owner, very prepossessing lady, who appeared to be perfectly at home in a position that al- ways proves a trying one to even those of the sterner sex. The owner will take the flock to Chicago, where she proposes to dis- pose of them at the highest market prices. WASHINGTON, The Great Northern track is now passable from Leavenworth to Seattle. A force of seven men ias begun resurvey- ing the Puyallup Indian reservation. Whatcom county expects to have thirty- four miles of planked roads by the end of the year. Rye in the Palouse country grew eighteen inches in one week. Hop vines grew six inches in a d Sinking wells has become quite an in- dustry in Hoquiam. Three concerns of that town are now boring for water. The cherry crop will be immense in the Palouse country this vear. The trees are as full of bloom as it fg possible for them to stick on; plums, pears and apples are equally loaded. There were shipped from Gray's harbor by water during May 7,410,000 feet of lumber distributed as foilow: From Hoquiam, 4,584,000 feet; from Cosmopolis, 1,346 feet; from Aberdeen, 1,450,000 fee The Port Townsend Steel Wire and Nail works are now running to their full capac- ity, giving employment to forty men and turning out from 250 to 300 kegs of nails a day. The company is said to have sufiicient busineéss ‘ahead (o keep toe works going. for six months. George Miller captured a big gray eagle one day last week five miles northwest of Garfleld. It measures six feet and nine inches from tip to tip of its wings. ~He has been feeding it squirrels, which it devours with evidence of much isfaction. It will devour one in an incredibly short time, swallowing the head whole. Wilbur has a gold excitement of her own, and is fast being depopulated by a rush to Hellgate canyon, on the Columbia, twelve miles away, where the precious mineral is reported to be hidden in the sands in large quantities. Nobody has seen any gold yet, but the report of ‘a syndicate's extensive fil- ings has precipitated an excitement. The paper mill at LaCamas employs sixty for which is paid at he mill $11,000; 1,800 It consumes' annually 5,000 cords of fir wood, for which is paid at the mill $11,000; 1,800 cords of cottonwood, at $3.25 a cord, and 1,000 tons of straw. The daily output is eight tons mews print and three tons of straw paper.’ At present the straw manu- facturing department is shut down, but this will only be :o until the water sub- sides. There were made in the jute mills of the Washington state penitentiary during the month of May 180,003 grain bags, 1,761 wool bags and 2,239 oat bags During the month the price of grain bags has been reduced from 7 cents to 6% cents cach. The pen- itentiary now has cn hand subject to sale: 1,084,385 grain bags at 9% cents each; 625 wool bags at 7 cents; 2,100 oat bags at 7 cents; 500 ore bags at 9 cents; 10,763 yards hop cloth at 9% cents per yard; 5,161 pounds fleece twine, five ply, at § cents per pound. Joe Scott, president of the Montana Cat- tlemen's as'ociation; Frank Rebinson, Henry Tustler of Miles City and J. T. Boardman of Deer Lodge have just completed a cattle purchasing tour of ~ eastern Washington. They bought 15,000 head, the prices averag- ing $10 for yearlings, §$15 for 2-year-olds, $20 for 8-year-olds. ' It is estimated by cattlemen that 40,000 head will be taken out of Washington and Oregon into Montana’ this vear. The Montana cittlemen are prosper- ous again, and ases will m terially relieve stringency of eastern Washington. OREGON. rock crusher is doing good sheep sheared in passed financial Marion ccunt work at & The hop louse has made its appearance at Fairview, in Polk county. A swimming club is to be added to Ne berg's already long liat of fmprovement so- clet es, The Pendleton scouring mills have started up, and already have 350,000 pounds of wool to operate on. Bnow Is sald to be Interfering with mining operations in Baker county, and miners have been busy digging out supplies cached last winter. There are about twenty-five applicants for the position of principal of the Albany schools, and about seventy-five for the posi- tion of assi:tants, A little grandehild of Mr. and Mrs, E. B. Smith of Ashland, aged 2 years, died at Elk- ton, Douglas county, a few days ago from blood poisoning braught on by a copper cent, which it swallowed several months ago. urveying work Is being rushed on the proposed railroad from: the Seven Devils to Payette, Idaho, and EA Mix, who has it in charge, says there is every probability that the road will be constructed at an early day The family of Mr. Thompson at Springfield was shocked last week, 50 says the Tiding by lightning running down the chimne into the stove and scattering the ashes, and it adds that almost any one would be shocked by such an intrusion. The Pendleton scouring mill uses pounds of soap a day. It makes its soap, consuming for that purpose some pounds of tallow. This makes a good ho market for tallow. As It is, the tallow to be imported from Portland by the car load. Major Post has taken charge of the fight to save the Cascade locks, the government standing the expense. SIX traius are run- ning, hauling brush, gravel, rock and an thing that can be utilized to ra'se the bulk- head. Some of the cut stones are being dumped into the works and seventy barrels of cement were used in one day in solldify- ing the sand and gravel A storm of severe fury visited the lake and settlement of Butte Creek, Jackson county. Barns were blown down and sheds carried through the air. Hail stripped or- chards of fruit and leaves and pounded growing and headed wheat into the ground, Some trees Wwere torn Of at their base. 1,600 own 260 Whole flocks of ohickens and turkeys were annihilated and the young ducks along the luke shores were blown about and drowned The Davidson mine, on Missouri flat, Jo sephine county, {8 digging out a rich pocket which pays $24 a day to the man. The Railey boys, of the Mountain Lion, are open Ing up a new ledge of paying ore four feet wide, which promises to equal the old mine in permanency A 16-months-old child of Mrs Ashland tumbled out of a car window coming down the Siskivous last Mouday. The train was moving about fiteen miles an hour. It was stopped and the distracted mother and train crew rushed back to the rescue and found the child sitting on the sand pile where it had fallen, screaming mad but not injured in the least MISCELLANEOUS, reform at thirteen inmates, car of new wheat was Kern county, Cal., last Carrler pigeons are being used messages from Catalina island to Angeles Times office It is sald that on account of the Sunday closing ordinance fifty saloons in Salt Lake have quit b tliey conld not pay $300 quarterly license these hard times. The report that the fruit. crop of Lassen, Nev.,, was entirely rufned by frost was somowhat exaggerated and it is claimed by the papers as well as from other sources that while the crop will not be of wonderful magnitude, still there will be enough to supply the home market and some to sp The faculty of the Nevada state uni- versity have taken hold of the matter of saloon men selling intoxicants to students and propose to vigorously prosecute every such case. One student has already been suspended for conduct unbecoming to a young man wearing the university uni- form. At Count Shepp of while The state Miles City, Mont., has The first from Poso, shipped week to carry the Los Willow Ranch, a little town in Modoe Californfa, there have been twenty six cases of smallpox In the last few weeks and there will be many more, for no pains are taken to keep the patients isolated It is d that people visit in houses where the disease prevails hose who have been vaccinated had the disease In a mild form but others were very ill. Santa Fe, known in mili Fort Marcy, s unquestion permanent military post on American ol The Spanish built a fort here in 1543, and with the exception of the interval followiig the revolt of the Pueblo In ns in 1680, until the conquest by Diego de Vargas in 1692, it has been continuously o pied by military. Fort Marcy is now the headquarters of the Tenth United States infantry and band. Work on the great Rio Verde reservoir and canal enterprise in Arizona will begin shortly. A contract for nearly $2,000,000 has been let that requires the storage and diversion dams and 100 miles of canal to be compléted by January 1, 1896. Horseshoe reservoir, which will be create b the storage dam, occupies the geographical center of Arizona and will cover 3,400 acres This dam site is sixty miles northeast of Pheenix. The dam will raise the water 150 feet and will extend 260 feet up and down stream, and 360 feet across. It is to be built of hand-laid rock, with an impervious layer of asphalt on the water side. A lake six and one-half miles long and three and one-half imiles across will be formed thereby. - Popular music tonight Courtland beach. s SWAP CONSORTS. ry circles as bly the oldest LIKELY TO Troubles Which Resulted from Two Couples Living in One Summer Cottage. Behind two divorce suits that are sched- uled for the June term of the court of com- mon pleas at Philadelphia there lies a strange story which bears a strange resemblance to one of the famous tales of Boccaccio. The ases are those of Tunis versus Tunis and Henry versus Henry. In both cases the suits are brought by the husbands, and each names the other as co-respondent. The story, as related by the Record, dates back to last summer when Mr. and Mrs. Tunis and Mr. and Mrs. Henry, who were all fast friends, rented a cottage at Atlantic City together,each family paying its share of the living_expenses. In the latter part of July Tunis was obliged to start off on a business trip, and, yielding to his wife's persuasions, permitted her to remainat the seashore. In August, Mrs. Henry began to suspect that her husband was to) attentive to Mrs. Tunis, and, after the whole party had returned home in September, she claims to have obtained evidence of their guilt. Mrs. Henry did not make a scene. She simply ascertained Mr. Tunis' address and wrote him full particulars. This brought the absent husband home in quick time, and on his arrival he was met by Mrs. Henry, who produced for his benefit the proofs she had gathered of the guilt of his wife and her husband. Mrs. Henry and Mr. Tunis then resolved to keep a careful watch In order to secure more evidence. The two watchers, having the same object in common, were thrown a great deal in each other’s society, and it is claimed in the libel in the Henry vs. Henry case that the same kind of an intimacy resulted as that which is alleged to have existed be- tween Mrs. Tunis and Mr. Henry. Neither case is likely to be contested and the de- crees of divorce will speedily follow the taking of the testimoav. It is whispered too, that the divorces are likely to be fol- lowed by two weddings in which both the brides afid = grooms will simply have changed partners. e Zoological garden Courtland beach. The Phonograph as o Witness. The phonograph is being used with marked effect in Bnglish courts. Recently a railroad company was sued by the owner of premises upon a street under which the road had run a tunnel, The complaint stated that the nolse of the trains going through the tunnel was so great as to utterly prevent sleep, while existence in daylight was made un- bearable by, the same cause. The railroad company's attorneys produced in court a phonograph which they had managed to have placed in the premises in question, and when it was put in motion and failed to emit any of the terrible nolses alleged to have been suffered” by the complainants, and the fact that it had been on active duty in the build- ing occupied by the latter was sufficientl established, the judge dismissed the co plaint without further ceremony, virtually holding that the evidence of the phonograph was more acceptable than that of the inter- ested plaintiffs. ] Children Cry fol Pitcher’s Castoria. 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