Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 16, 1894, Page 5

—————— e R PULSEOF WESTERN PROCilESS Olaim Jumpers OUausing Great Exocitement at the Hahn's Peak Placers, MILLIONS SUPPOSED TO BE AT STAKE Rich Strikes in Arizon Iy Creatures of the Arld Region—-Call for m Na- tional Irrigation Congress— News of the Northwest. The slowly brewing trouble over placer grounds at Hahn's Peak has at last cul- minated and what promises to be a war to the knife has been started. For twenty years the property In and about the peak has been in the control and presumed owne ship of what is now the Hahn's Peak and Elk River Placer Mining company, but of late considerable jumping has been going on, the property thus acquired passing into the control of a party of Aspen capitalists, con- slsting in the main of Messrs. Shear, Gil- lespie, Dow, MHler and Blackburn. To a correspondent of the Denver News Mr. Wells B. McClelland, a member of the new company of Steamboat Springs, sald ““All this trouble really amounts to nothing. Our acts are simply those of going on to land and taking it up as placer ground under the existing laws. The Elk River company could show us no title to the land they claimed, and as the property secured Is worth in the neighborhood of $2,000,000 we naturally filed and put men to work. Miller, Sanburn and myself have about ) res of the land which the Mackey or Elk River company, as it Is now called, claimed. In all there is a slice of exceedingly rich ground of about 2,600 acres in extent which is now in the hands of the Aspen companies, all of which has been pr sumed to be paténted ground In the poss slon of the Mackey company. “‘Some of the company are trying to in- timidate our men and have threatened to resort to the Cripple Creek way of getting a man out of camp, but they are not strong enough for anything of that sort now. The directors of the company are falling out and Jumping their own ground. The new work going on is the result of the victory gained by the Aspen company in an Injunction suit in which it was sought to restrain them from conducting operations by shutting off their water. The latter com- pany now owns and controls the land sur- rounding the Mackey company's property thus cornering the dumping grounds of the old company. The camp s well crowded with prospectors and great ement pre- vails, 8- ARIZONA GOLD Two important discoveries are repor from the Santa Maria district, says a special to the Denver News. Ired Bonner and Harry Ashton found a ledge near the old Hays mine which is a splendid prospect on the surl The ledge Is a strong one and prospects well in free gold. Mark Josephi made the discovery of a ledge MINES, of rich ledges near the Sultan claim that is unusually rich. It Is supposed to be the iedge from which rich float found years ago and for which people have prospected at different times for several years past. Ex-Governor R. C. Powers will ship a 20-horse power boiler and engine to his Emmet mine, on which extensive development work is being pushed. N Thomas Roach and partners have struck flow of water in the Cumberland mine on furkey creck. They have a shaft down 142 feet, with three feet of good ore exposed. George Mcek and three partners went propecting a_few days ago out from Ticson and nearly died of thirst before reaching water. They lost the road and left one of their companions far in the desert. They discovered water, and, on returning to their companion twenty-four hours later, found him nearly dead, and it Is feared that his mind 18 permanently deranged. Superintendent Staunton of the Congress mine reports that a new water supply has been developed at the mill and the forty stamps are running night and day again, Twelve miles of the grading on the Jerome camp branch road has been contracted to R. Toohey, who will start work at once. Heo expecs to have his contract completed in sixty days. : There are about 100 men at the San Domingo placers. Considerable of the gravel 18 worked by the dry washer process. Senator Tabor will ship pipe from Denver for the pipe line from the Hassayampa to the Vulture mine. Work will soon begin at this old camp. Joseph Morrow and partner have made what appears to be a bonanza gold strike in Government gulch, a few miles southeast of Prescott, The vein Is two and a half feet wide at the surface and gives an assay of $190 per ton. NATIONAL IRRIGATON CONGRESS. By the authority of the national execu- tive committee the third national irrigation congress has been called to meet in the city of Denver, Colo, for the seven days be- ginning September 3, 1894, To the people of the western half of the United States this congress presents both an urgent duty and a supreme opportunity. Irrigation commissions in seventeen states and territories, created by the last irrigation congress, will render reports to the con- vention at Denver. Upon these studies of existing conditions” and futre needs in all parts of the arid region it is proposed to construct a national policy and code of local laws to be submitted to the federal congress and the legislatures of western states. In accordance with a resolution adopted by tho International irrigation congress at Los Angeles, Cal., October 14, 1893, the third national irrigation congress will be composed as follows: 1. All members of the committee. 2, All members of state and territorial trrigation commissions. 3. Two delegates at large and as many additional delegates as they have congress districts, to bo appointed by their respective governors for the following states and ter- ritories: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Ore- gon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washing- ton and Wyoming. 4. Two delegates at largo for each state and territory not heretofore enumerated, to be appointed by the goversors of said states or territories, 6. Duly accredited representatives of any forelgn nation or colony, each member of the United States senate and house of rep- resentatives, each governor of a state or tepritory, one member each from different socleties’ of irrigation, of irrigation engi- neers, of agriculture, of horticulture, of chambers of commerce, of boards of trade, together with a delegate appointed by the mayor of each. incorporated city of the sey- enteen states and territories named as being directly Interested in irrigation, will be ad- mittetd as honorary members, TARANTULAS AND CENTIPEDES, “It's sure death to be bitten by a taran- tula. Such is the general mmpression among peoplo who have a limited acquaintance national executive with them,” said the campaigner from the southwest to the New York Sun. “But I think that my experience in Arlzona, cover- ing a period of five years I will not substan- tiate that statement, “I had my largest experlence with tar- antulas while on the Geronimo campaign during 1885-86, and one night while in camp at Guadaloupe canon a man by the name of Mahoney was bitten on the arm by a tarantula whose body was as large as a walnut. The only evil effect was the swell- ing of the arm, which went down in a few days without any recourse to medicines or drugs of any kind. “It might be well to add that in the morning Mahoney found the dead tarantula on his arm, where he had smashed it during the night. “Whero we were camped was really In Mexico, although the boundary line was so close that it might be called ‘no man's land.! We were guarding a water hole and sending out scouts every day te communicate with the troops east and west of us, the whole thing being a chain through which the hostiles had to pass on thelr way to Mexico or the United States. Troop G was on the north side of the hole, and mine, H, on the south, while a little further up was the camp of our Indian scouts. The rocks about were literally alive with centipedes, tarantulas, soorplons and skunks, yet no precautious whatever were taken to guard aguinst them. I never knew of a man, woman or child in Arizona dying through being bitten. ““Pud’ Grifin of H used to catch tartan- tulas with his fingers, catching them in the same way that a boy would catch a bee, by grasping him firmly around the center of his body where the Joint Is. “Centipedes are the worst thing In Ari- zona next to the rattler, and right here I want to say that I was much finterested at reading a story, 1 think it was in the Sun, of a held-up where a centipede crawled up a man's leg, and all the terror he felt becatise he dare not move through fear of being shot, and he expected to feel the centipede sink its foet in him at any mo- ment, and that, he knew, was instant death, It was well written, and brought out the wonderful courage of the man In nice style. But it wasn't so. If that centipede had grabbed him he would have yelled blue hell and grabbed his leg, gun or no gun, Then, If the stage robbers didn’t shoot him first, his leg would have swelled a little, and where the claws or feet sunk in the flesh would rot and drop out, and that would have been the end of it. So far as his being near' death’s door and all that, if he never dies until a centi pede Kills him he'll have to swallow one, and then get it in his death trap. “But they are nasty things, enough, and wherever they crawl on they leave a red mark, which burns itches like sin for a few hours.” STRUCK IT RICH. Charles Willlams s out from Dixle and reports great activity in quartz and placer mining in that district, says the Jreo Pres of Grangeville, Idaho. Reser, Fink and W, M. Clark are mining a bar on this side of Salmon river, which Is paying $100 per day They get their water from a gulch, which is now nearly dry, and will soon commence packing gravel to the river and continue washing. The gold found on this claim is not the ordinary river gold, but a coarser and highly oxidized varfety, which evi- dently came from some quartz ledge near at sure you and hand, as It shows no water or glacial wear or pressure. On the old Dillinger placers Mr. Mailhon is running three pipes and stripping a lot of new ground which pros- pects well. Mr. Willlams gave us a gold button, the preceeds of five pounds of ore from Dillinger's Sampsonian ledge, and which 18 said to have a two-foot ore streak running through the ledge matter that will mill $500 per ton. Williams and Dillinger intend putting up a three-stamp mill on Crooked creek this summer for the double purpose of making tests of their several clalms and taking out a little money for further development. At present there are fully 100 men in Dixle and more on the trail headed for that camp. TO REPLENISH THEIR The cattle ranges of eastern are being invaded by the stock raisers of Montana this season to recuperate the de pletion which years of heavy shipments to HERDS. Washington eastern markets has wrought. For three months, commencing with October, says the Tacoma West Coast Trade, it has been a practice to load train load after train load with stock for eastern consumption, and while Washington, Oregon and Idaho have contributed liberally to this caifse, the greater shipper has been Montana. The tlemen of that state have awakened to a realization that they were destroying the future of their industry by selling all the young stock from their herds, and have very sensibly taken a new tack. President Sco of the Montana Cattle- men's assoclation and other represent- atives this season made a thorough canvass of Washington and Oregon, buying about 20,000 head in this state and a similar number in Oregon, paying an aver- age of $10, $15 and $20 a head for yearlings, year-olds and 3-year-olds respectively. The distribution of such large sums of ready capital by the cattle kings is a godsend to the agricultural communities of eastern Washington at this time. It is decidedly appropriate to add also that the state farmers alliance, in_its platform recently adopted at Seattle, when crediting the Pa- cific Meat company of this city with con- trolling the price of all live stock raised in this state, could hardly have taken into con- sideration such_competition as the Montana buyers must afford. NEVADA STRIKES. The mining Industry of the southern por- tion of Lincoln county is coming to the front, says the Pioche (Nev.) Record. New strikes are being made and old properties are looking more promising. An_important strike has been the Forlorn mountains, situated five southwest of El Dorado canyon, on old claims that were located some eight years ago and abandoned. About the latter part of April John Heuss, with another party, went to the old claims and got some ore from them, which they had assayed for gold and which went very high. Other samples were then taken, all running from $10 to $600 in gold to the ton. There are four parallel ledges and all well defined. The belt is small, being about one mile wide and three miles long. At present some ten locations are made. On the Capital mine two shafts have been sunk, one twenty feet and the other twen- ty-three feet and about seventy feet apart. The vein Is from two to two and a half feet wide and averages the same in both shafts, $41 in gold to the ton. A deep cut has been run on what s known as the Big Ledge, situated one mile south of the Capital shaft. The cut Is in thirty feet and taps the ledge at a depth of thirty feet, the ledge being about two and a half feet wide and averaging $50 in old. 8% bout twenty-two miles from the Vegas ranch and on the road to El Dorado canyon a very promising strike has been made by W. J. Stewart of the Vegas ranch, Sam- ples taken from the croppings go from $10 to $100 a ton in gold. A RICH PROSPECT. In conver:ation with Major Simmons of the Keystone mine that gentleman stated that the report of a wonderfully rich pros- pect found in the vicinity of the Keystone was entirely true. Tho ground is about 400 feot west of the Keystone mill and was formerly located by Blair and Franklin, but had been allowed to go back on account of not doing assessment work. The discovery of the prospect was purely accidental, says the Rapid City Journal. About a week ago William Franklin and his daughter were seated on the ground in conversation, dur- Ing which Mr. Franklin was carelessly driv- ing his pick in the ground. His daughter picked up a piece of rock and immediately discovered that it contained free gold in considerable quantities. The report of the hness of the rock could hardly be cred- Ited, and all day long men were pounding ‘up the rock, thereby sati:fylng themselves on the subject. Charles Upman brought over $100 of gold that was pounded out by hand by different parties during the past few days. Work] of fleveloping this prospect will be at once commenced in order to find the ledge, which cannot fail of being exceed- ingly rich. made in miles some NEBRASKA. Clay Center's new flouring mill has hegun operations. The Madison Reporter Is now advocating a bounty on bables. There are 171 teachers enrolled at the Buf- falo county teachers institute, Rev. A, O, Gearhart has resigned as pastor of the Lutheran church at Auburn. Three of Nebraska's bank examiners have gone on a month's fishing trip to Utah, The Loup Valley District Sunday School convention will be held August 2 ut North Loup. An effort is being made to force the busi- ness houses of Falls City to close on Sunday by ordinance. Hartington, Randolph, Wayne and Nor. folk are talking of holding a tennis tourna- ment soon at Norfolk. Mennonite Brethren in Christ have begun a series of revival meetings at Holbrook and will erect a tabernacle. A horse fair assoclation has been organized at Falls City and a meeting will be held August 2 and 3, with purses of $1,600. A company has been formed at Tecumseh to build a steamboat and clear the river of snags, 8o that the vessel can be operat A poultry assoclation has been organi by chicken fanciers of Richardson county Another meeting will be held at Falls City on July 21 Because of the strike the ratiroads refus-d to take the body of James Slayman, a Rich- ardson county farmer, to Marion, Kan., for burial, and it was necessary to inter the corpse at Falls Oty among strangers. Rats carried matches between the walls of the house of W. H. Miles at Stockville, and when the rodents began to chew the ends of the sulphurous things there was a con- flagration, The result was that the house was burned o the ground with all its con- THE OMALIL air Deal HAYDEN BROTHERS DAILY BEF: MONDAY, ing . ‘We place on sale in our LK DEPARTMEN 3,000 Yards of rinted China Silks In Navy, Brown and Black ground AT 1 9 C a yard, OUnly one dress pattern sold to a cu No samples of these goods cut. value, come early, because they w PRINTED CHINA 19 Gts tomer and none to othe If you want a silk dress for half its | A YARD for good qua merchant s SR MORIG SILKS A SWEEPING PRICE SN Men’s Summer Suit YOUR CHOICE OF Ve Light Summer Suit IN THE HOUSE FOR BO L5 They sold right along from $13.50 to $18, These suits ave light, airy and fashic able—in sacks and cutaways. The cutaways ave extra long and in t regular cut of this scason’s style. all varieties of cloths and colors, in fan cheviots, cashmere, clay worsted, ete. you need a light s @ price ($9.75) is rare and valuable. Money refunded if goods are unsate actory. Come and see our line of summer coats and vests. There are mmer suit, buy now—if you already have a suit, buy another, as such 5] n- he cy It WE CANNOT EMPHASIZE THIS FACT Beforo buying a Piano, an Organ, a Violin, T00 STRONGLY iitar, a Mandolin or some Sheet Musie, look through our stock. Lookers on invariably be- come purchasers. JULY 16, 189, Groceries. The list of prices given below refer to! cholce selections from our stock. When you order from us you ean depend on receiving full value every time. Large pails jelly, Cholee sugar corn, 6%c can, Barly June peas, 8%c can. i Cholee solld packed tomatoes, 9%c can 1 Very fine preserved blackberries only 10c! ean. | Cholce cuts steak salinon, Sige ean, 0Ol sardines only 3% can. | Mustard sardines only 7i%e can | iberless cocoanut onl Corn starch, 31 c. Bakers' chocolate, 1714¢ package. 4o can, Sweet chocolate only 3¢ package. Tomato catsup only 15¢ pint bottle, Pure condensed milk, 10¢ can. Good rice from 3¢ up. Rolled wheat, some breakfast food, only be. Finest fmported queen olives, 364 quart. Saville olives only 25c quart. Arabian olives only 16e quart, Mixed pickles, Gc bottle. H Chow chow, bie bottle, French mustard only 2ige bottle, Oysters crackers only 8l%c pound. -pound can golden pumpkin only 10c. | call it California Flour. To Intioduce Haydens' will for a short time put in every one of the following articles. The flour is war- ranted to be the best you ever used or money refunded. One diamond ring. Ong gold watch. One $5.00 bill, One solid silver plated teaspoons, One lles' rolled gold watch chain, One ladies’ cluster diamond lace pin. We y the leading brands of flour, such as Hayden's Bros.’ 5X Superlative (Rex pat- ent) hard wheat flour. 4X Minneapolis Superlative best 5X flour, we | flour, $1.10 Valley Lily flour, $1.00 sack. Central Mills' Best Superlativ k. Snowflake flour, 65c sack. | A very good flour for Hoc. Good rye flour e sack. i Choice rye flour $1.00. i Best rye flour $1.15 sack. | | Hayden's Eye Openeis on Meats. Read these prices: Sugar cured No. 1 hams, lurge size, 10%c; sugar cured No. 1 hams, 14 to 16 pounas eacn, 11%c, and hams from 8 to 12 pounds, 12c; boneless ham, 9%c; salt pork, Sc; pickle pork, T%c; bo- logna, dc per pound; sugar cured bacon, 10e. 12%c and finest made for 14c; corned beef, summer sausage, 17%c. With such prices as these on meats who can say that Haydens' is not In line. Dress Trimmings and Button Dept. Biz special bargains in jet trimmings, 25¢ und B0e. Jet at 10¢ per yard, Gimp at 10c and 20c per yard. Hercules braids in blacic and white, in all the different widths, from 2o, 3e, e, Se, 10c, 12¢, Dress buttons at 5e per set. Odd lot of nice dress buttons at 2¢ per do: Buttons in all styles and sizes, and cheap ones, too. BLACK To do this department justice wc space of The Be go-inch all wool henrietta, price, 39c. G would nee worth 39c, :d the entire before-invoic ng jo-inch storm serge, worth 59c, before-invoicing price, 35¢. 46-inch Frederick Arnold’ 98¢, before-invoicing price, 59¢c. A magnificent line of black black goods best German good henrietta, worth A complete line of HAYDEN BROS. STRIKE THE RIGHT CHORD IN OFFERING Fine Music and Musical Instrument AT VERY LOW PRICES. S Ross; * vegularly sol plication. nd complete assortment. MUSICIANS AND O | MUSIC, ifth Nocturne, by Leybach; * HERS are pianos, organs, violins, guitavs, mandolins, cte. 5 upwards, ted Washburn mandolins and g tting a piano, got the world, and for which Mandolins from $ lebr guitar av £3.75. are agents for the 1f you contemy standard piano ¢ mauke a very material saving dealers. New planos always on tuning ovders. Our piano case org ance resembling a handsome, upri to our hand N s MATT 3 YOUR'LIFE ffis 1S SPENT not got the Our matiresse figures cannot be undersold. Iere Combinations ...... Wool Hu{E e We can make over any moss or hs Feathers and piilows of tha very best gr: Minue for e, Toe and $1.00, NOW 6 000 copics of all grades of Vaeal Music, folio, 25¢, 35¢ and s0c. customers, as for at least 9 or GLADSTONE prolonged powers in a measure to long sleeps. Fyven the average man business man, mechanic or lub one-third of his time in by ‘R COPY, % ited to look over We offer as a Stewart b in ltars, our L wo prices on wo und rent. 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The Table Rock Herald has changed hands just because the editor wore a Coxey badge on the Fourth of July. ‘The business men boycotted him and now he has leased the plant to R. H. Wessell, who wll ccn- tinue to run the paper as a popnlist orean. R. G. Wilkinson, a Nemana county farmer, cut, threshed and sold his wheat in- side of eight days. He had forty acres, yielding twenty-four bushels to the acre, and the price paid for the output was 4%% cents per bushel. Says the Red Cloud Argus: It any one has any doubts as to the efficacy of a “sick” chinch bug as an exterminator of the pest a visit to the wheat field of G. W. Lindsay south of the railroad will dispel them. He procured a small supply of the Inoculated bugs from Prof. Bruner and distributed them among the healthy bugs which liter- ally swarmed over his wheat, and today one can gather up dead bugs by the hand- ful. If every farmer would take a like course this country would soon be rid of the pest. THE DAKOTAS. A cloudburst mear Hot Springs, S. D., flooded the Fall river in the Black Hills, damaging Deadwood and other towns.. Stockmen are making, frequent complaints regarding the depredations of wolves on the ranges, says the Belle Fourche Bee. These pests are becoming more numercus Wwith cach succeeding year and are killing hun- dreds of animals, Eight carloads of machinery arrived at Bdgemont for the big woolen mill. Work on the mill will begin immediately and it will be pushed to completion as rapidly as possible. When in running order it will furnish employment for 500 men. Large numbers are arriving on every train to attend the encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic and Sons of Veterans at Lake Kampeska. Battery A of Clark is already in camp, and company H of Water- town is on hand. There will be at least 1,000 people in camp. Within the radius of twenty miles of Al- pena there are at least a dozen women hold- ing down claims. To spend day after day and week after week miles away from nelgh- bors takes grit, energy and backbone. Two young ladies, Presba by name, have started in to hold down a quarter section just north of the county line, and from all accounts they will do it in good shape, for they are of the right material. Judge Grant has been hearing the case against Al Gram, a farmer living twelve miles south of Huron, arrested charged with obstructing the flow of water in a public stream. Some months ago Cram constructed a dam across tho Jim river to obtain water with which to irrigate a portion of his farm, Some of his neighbors objected, and a couple.of weeks since the dam and water hoisting appliance were blown to pieces with dynamite. Mr. Cram set about to recou- struct the dam and was arersted. The case interest, as other farmers along the river were about to follow Mr. Cram’s example. Mr. Cram won his case, and another season will see very many farms on the margin of Jim river irrigated with water from that stream. COLORADO. Five hundred miners are employed In the attracted much Ouray district. A $15,000 car of Golden Fleace nie fs stalled at Salida, A ten-ton mill is being put up at tie Troy mine in Boulder county. The force of miners on the Maitle D at Cripple Creek has been doubled. The Annle Lee at Cripple Creek shipped 180 tons of ore averaging $50 last week Ore encountered by the new shaft of the Mahala mine at Leadville is very rich, The Little Johnnie, in the Leadville Gold belt, is credited with an output of $127,000 in a single day. In a roping contest at Tellurlde for $100 Ford Galloway of Paradox roped, threw and tied a steer in elghty-seven seconds. A strike Is reported on the Sacramento, Cripple Creek, which yields from $60 to $70 in gold to the ton at a depth of thirty feet. new gold camp in Gilpin county on Silver creek bids falr to become a second Cripple Creek. The ores are of low grade, but are sald to exist in great quantities. The Geyser mine struck & vein of argen- tite ore that assays $17,000 per ton. It is traced 100 feet in height and 15 feet in length already. This is in addition to the rich bodies already opened. It is claimed that if the blockade contin- use the Omaha & Grant smelter will be shut down on Sunday and the Globe and Argo soon after. One thousand men are now employed. Work is being rushed on the big plant of the United States Economic Reduction company on the bluff north of Florence. Chlorination, amalgamation and roasting will all be used. The new gold saving device, called the Beam process, starts in at Telluride with an assured supply of ore. Parties interested in the mill, Messrs. Beam, Chapin and Whiteman, have taken a bond and lease on the Roy Johnstone group of mines, in Pros- pect basin, at $150,000. The first payment will be made in sixty days, which gives time to test the mill. The bond expires in one year. There are twelve gold-bearing claims in the group, and it is said that a large force of men will be set at work to develop the vein and get the ore to the mill. WYOMING. The state penitentiary at Rawlins is fast nearing completion. Laramie merchants came near having a sugar and flour famine. asper lubricating oil has a range of 338 degrees—standing a fire test of 326 and a cold test of 32. The sources of the coming Casper water system are living springs, situated 1,200 feet up the side of Ca:per mountain. The cattlemen of Evanston are negotiating with the Union Pacific company for the leasing of about 200 sections of land around about Evanston and to the north. If they do it will settle the foreign sheep nuisance very satisfactorily for the settlers around the town, who are being eaten out of house and home, and will revive the cattle indus- try in that section. In excess of 230,000 sheep have been sheared at and near Casper this season, giv- ing a wool clip of over 2,000,000 pounds. Of these sheep 26,000 head were sheared by machinery, Casper having the first steam shearing " plant established in the United States. Wool scouring and knitting works are soon to be established at Casper. Man- ufacture of woolen cloths is also being agi- tated. OREGON. The grain aphis has appeared In Wasco county. An oatmeal factory is being projected at Albany. Hop flelds near Harrisburg promise tre- mendous ylelds. The Hammersly mine turned out $350 from a short run. Three large hop houses are going up in the vicinity of Gervais, Grant's Pass has cut its saloon license down from $800 to $400, About 200,000 dozen of eggs are shipped from Albany each year. In Lane county the new aphis s appear- ing on oats and timothy. An assoclation 1s about to start up a co- operative butcher shop at Tillamook. The Union Pacific hag over 1,000 men at work between Bonnevillg and The Willows. It is estimated that $600,000 in gold dust was taken out in the Medford district last year, t It 1s worth 50 cents’a day to pick wild blackberries on the preuiises of Linn county tarmers, Grant county will have to spend $20,- 000 in replacing and repairing bridges af- fected by the freshets, McKune & Co. will erect a stamp mill this summer on their ore vein in the Blue river mining district, fifty miles from Bu- gene. While cleaning up at his placer clalm in Kerby district Guy Morrison found sev- eral nuggets, the largest welghing $10, $60 and $92 respectively. Quite a number of late inspections of aphis-infected grain up the valley show that the kernels seem plump and uninjured, and fears are being allayed. D. W. Long and Thomas Nicely of Ju- niper precinct, Umatilla county, are two of the largest and most successful farmers of that section. This year they have In 4,700 acres of wheat, which they report to be in splendid condition, with prospects of be ing ready for harvest in three weeks. They estimate that this grain will average fully twenty-five bushels to the acre—a total product of 117,000 bushels, Tho curfew law s being enforced in Al- bany., A 16-year-old boy was put in jall, where he remained three days, for being on the streets after 9 p. m. There is talk of forming a company and starting a pulp mill on the upper Necanni- cum. There is plenty of suitable timber and an abundance of water. A. F. Miller of Sellwood has completed a display of Oregon woods, over 100 varieties, for the Southern Pacific company. The dis- play will be exhibited at Chicago. Georgo Carnegia s back at Baker City from a trip to the Cherokee nation, where he successfully and profitably sold to In- dians 200 head of Burnt river horses, J. G. Birdsey shipped $200 worth of gold the other day, the result of work with a hand mortar ‘on ore from Birdsey, Swinden & Knott's ledge, in Willow Springs district. Wallowa county stockmen say that cat- tle will be ready for market two or three months earlier than usual owing to the abundance of grass and water on the range. Ryan, the sheep buyer, band of mutton from Grant county over- land to Nebraska. He paid for yearlings §1, for 2-year-olds §1.50, and for 3-year-olds $L75 per head. Charles Hilton, a well known eastern Oregon sheep man, Is reported to have re- cently added to his flocks 12,000 head he bought of Fred 0. Hale. Hale is expected to go into the cattle business. H. Friendly, in a few days, will ship twenty-five tons of chittim bark from Bugene to New York manufacturing drug- sts. This industry ecatters considerable money through Lane county annually. A farmer in a distant part of Linn county made a long stage trip to Albany to have an assessment removed on a cow which had just died. The trip cost him about $5, and the tax would have been 6 cents. The caterpillars are now attacking the hop yards. They should be sprayed against. In fact, there should be no caterpillars in Oregon. As the Salem Statesman truly re- marks, had our orchardists used the least care and taken any precautionary measures none of our orchards would have suffered by reason of the caterpillar_pest this year. Josephine county has the only Survivor of the war of 1812 who draws a pension on this coast—Hosea Brown of Wilderville, who was born in Westmoreland county, } York, in 1792, Of the old soldier, the Francisco pension agent writes Brown Is the only survivor of the war of 1812 on our rolls, and one of the few sur- vivors now living, and we feel very kindly toward him, always looking for his voucher and remitting the amount promptly. We would like to have a photograph of him It possible." At the Baptist assoclation in session at Lebanon a few days ago, an amusing in- cident occurred. Rev. Mr. Jenkins of In- dependence by mistake took a valise be- longing to a lady member. He took it with him on a visit into the country, and was ignorant of his mistake until he opened it and beheld the berufiied and bifurcated apparel within, The young lady also had his valise, but what she found in it 1s not stated. Mutual explanations followed, and the valises were exchanged after much anxlety on both sides and profuse apologies by the minister. The Canyon City News has heard from Joseph Magone, who walked to the World's fair. Some one sends in the following from a Canton, N. J., paper: ‘“Joseph Magone was in town yesterday. He is 80 years old, and in coming to Canton walked from Ogdens- burg to Morley, a distance of eighteen mile He said that he had walked from Oregon to the World's fair in seventy days, averaging thirty miles per day and traveling a distance of 2,100 miles in all. While here he took a ‘bracer’ by walking around the half mile track in six minutes and thirty-five seconds, a pretty fair rate for a gray-halred man of his age." has started his WASHINGTON, owlitz county has sixty employing 730 men. White river hop growers are refusing offers of contracts at 11 cents. On Huckleberry mountain, in Stevens county, the recent severe winds are said to logging camps, have destroyed 1,000 acres of valuable white pine, Placer mining is booming at Marcus, and people are arriving from all directions The women voted all one way at the Prescott school election, and turned the scale, Chehalis county believes in good roads. A contract for a piece of road was let for $5,000. T. L. Fox & Sons, over 1,000,000 shinglés waiting for cars. Everett is constructing, by private ontor- prise, a plank road four miles long, to con- nect with Machias. Ellensburgh city bonds, $33,000 sold in Spokane, brought par less 5 per cent com- mission to the broker. Miners in the vicinity of Tone Clity, Cow- litz_county, have discovered placer diggings that prove to be very valuable. Reports agree that Klickitat county's crop outlook is the best it ever had. There will be about 1,200,000 bushels of wheat. A long line of prairie schooners passed through ~ Spokane ~containing a Nebraska colony bound for somewhere on the Sound. Jonathan Pierce, of the Upper Shookum- chuck, killed a cougar, which thus paid the penalty of having devoured —twenty-seven lambs of his slayer's flocks. Klickitat county is so hard up that crim- at Burlington, have in their dry kiln inal actions, according to the Goldendale Sentinel, cannot be maintained. There is no money either for juries or to board prisoners. They expect great things in Lincoln county from the Mennonites, who ve about de- cided to move there from Manitoba. The settlement in Manitoba comprises 13,000 p sons, and it is said they are determined to leave the land of cold winters. The Northern Pacific is said to be think- ing of building a new wharf at Kalama upon a now idle float 275 feet long. The agent there says it could be done as cheaply as to repair the old wharf, and of course high water would have no terrors for it. The Montesano Vidette says there is stand- ing in Chehalis county, in feet, of fir, 15,0: 000,000; spruce, 6,765,600,000; cottonwood, 1,620,000,000; hemlock, 12,005,000,000; alde maple and ash, about 1,600,000,000; cedar, 4,925,000,000, making a total of 42,- 000,000,000 feet of timbe The latest developing mine in the Ce Creck district is that of Hays, Nelson and Axtel of Boundary City, which s a silver property, assaying $203.12 in silver and $13 grand in gold to the ton. These gentlemen will begin shipping ore as soon as the break in the railroad s repaired and ready for traffic. Seven years ago Robert Neal set out 1,000 fruit trees on sagebrush land on the Colum- Dbia, about sixteen miles north of Wilbur, since having added 3,000 trees to his orchard. Last year five acres of his peaches were bearing and 3,080 boxes of the fruit were sent to the Spokane market. From three acres of sirawberries 27,000 ‘hoxes were picked. Mr. Neal obtained about $5,000 as the 'product of his comparatively young fruit farm last year. One druggist in Colfax sold $100 worth of strychnine inside of twenty-four hou and a 600-acre wheat farmer tells the Peo- ple's Advocate that his boys shot 300 or 400 squirrels a day, and at the time he told it he was buying poison to help the work along. H. H. Livingston of Colfax has been study- ing over a scheme and believes that some of these pests can be innoculated with a di:- ease that will spread and destroy a multi- tude of thelr kind, Yakima sheepmen feel somewhat encour- aged over a :light improvement in the price of sheep. Several very fair sales have been made of late, among them belng 2,000 head of range sheep, which Mr. McAllister dis- posed of to Victoria people at $2.50 per head, and several thousand head which W. H Peatross of Prosser shipped to Chicago. For- tunately for the owner, they arrived at their destination just ahead of the floods and netted him $3.10 a head A fish story which does credit to its com- poser appears in the Skamania Ploneer as follows: John White and John Baughman had good luck with a dipnet. In six hours they scooped out 4,580 pounds, actual welg of choice salmon, and were at it when we left. James Galbraith, the chief engineer of the steamer Dalles City, came up to where Messrs, White and Baughman were fishing mon, one a notion to salmon.” minute. quit st later years on the heach near South Bend. patent on ton, sent to St. Paul, and, ductive beach. place. a_ whistling Alternating sound stratas of Miners working in t Grass Valley report thunder storm the of 1,000 feet and ther pipes. down, Men work ng The hands narrow of the Tlaxeala; tute, who vegotable Mexico for the learned. Had Mr by friendly Ind speedy death as belng veyor, for which the him. ' Prof. Nelson is strong party for other It has been a good | cattlemen of Montan as they do at this writ Mountain has b and ns Hon. John F (Idaho) Times that ti are looking first-rate. done much damage, alley a noise. A person wit stroke on the can the noise. Ono persc lions of them. T| ley and their for two day them to the hills, The leopards glve t Ceurtland beach today. often depends on beauty Sold by Sherman & Mo Street, Omnhe, Neb, in Husbandmen. every section of the state wintered well and the range is everywhere good and it does not at if it coa he n kin, “entomological Nelson not be e W a Tlaxc now re. 5 have iy Stock h a along by the side of the crickets, the erickets cach other in their endeavor to escape from can, by walkin back and forth for Aty feot or 'so, beat back quite a number of the crickef four persons acting in con e ranc families fought with empty oil ceeded In getting rid of them by steering on wo LOVE The \y halr Is Iust and s clean, Detection Impossible, the loss of the othe titul, Ruined hair, stre bleaching, never iy, pertectly restores a rich, the_hair healthy or ‘Turkish baths do not affect it ural as nature it fre IMPERIAL CHEMICAL MFG. 202 Fiith Avenue, N, ¥ ong and in five minutes dipped up five fine sal- He sa mboating and aid: “I have a dip for R. 8. Jackson has filed, on behalf of s S Ja B sev- eral St. Paul men of prominence, a number of claims on the natural accrctions made in 0 Peterson's point, ”l‘h('s'n gentlemen own a a machine for extracting flour gold from sand and other natural deposits, This machine, the Herald says, can be worked at a profit in sand yielding 50 cents to the Sumples of the sand for trial have heen Droves as pro as reports on all sides have fit, a number of machines will be put in at the MISCELLANEOUS. The residents of Hesperia, In San Bers nardino county, California, are puzzled by the phenomena exhibited in a well near that At a depth of ninety feet there s a strong downward current of air. lower the current changes upward, causing like s Seven feet team rse escaping, gravel and cement gravel constitute the formation, Empire mine at that during a recent h lightnin pipe and descended in the mine to a depth struck the into the drifts, where the men were working repairing the alr Two of them in lifting a piece of pipe were struck by lightning and knocked the mine, it is said, were similarly affected. escape from Z n Indians Nelson, naturalist of the Smithsonian insti- Granite Hill death at the of Prof, & collections of specimens In > years, 1s just n secreted ould have met ed land sur- lans mistook organizing a arches, years since the folt so buoyant says the Rocky in nearly m that it is possible that anything can ur to prevent a fine crop of beef and falrly good prices. Thero are also a large number of steers and o great many spayed COWS on our range 1 with good grass, which is fully assurcd, they will go into market early ‘and in better condition than Montana beet has been in any shipping sea- son for half a dozen or more years, says e crops down the valley o criokets have not cause learned the trick of driving them away, by beating tin cans or anything that will make in the Halley people have tin can walks At cach owd over 8, and three or can drive mil- % down the val- the crickets cans, and s performances at loss of onc meany widom beau- trom and patchy IMPERIAL HAIR REGENERATOR rous color, Steaming, sa It 18 as n Book about co., 11, 1618 Dodge