Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 21, 1894, Page 12

PULSE OF WESTERY PROGRESS |2 Bold Discovery at Salina Canyon, Utah 3 Causes a Rush, THREE MILES OF RICH PLACER GROUND Hardships of the Desert—A Delirious Wans derer K d and His Companion Found In His Last Stumbyr— Northwestern News. excited says a Ass The of Manti are greatly over a gold find at Salina canon, speclal to the It e Tribune show over $75 per ton The claims are placers in blick sand. Se eral locations made and rushing to the find. A new mining district has b formed called Red Creek The town of Sterling lated. The citizens of M going In d Claims by 0. F. Coolidge, R. B. sen and Willard Pierson. Jumber s, on hand and sluicing are beginning. The gold s fine visible to the naked eye IThe find is about thirty-five miles west of Salina. The fleld contains miles of placer ground Mr. C. Lowe of Salt Lake, says the journal above quoted, has received a letter from W. M. La Pearle, dated Bullionville, Nev., which contains a thrilling story of hardship and death on the desert. Mr. La Pearle de- soribes his experiences as follows: “ left Vanderbilt, Cal, 300 miles from here, afoot. Part of the way I came afoot and the rest of the way I walked. I had a Jackass packed with a little bacon and flour and a canteen of water and then struck out Into the desert, It was a tough trip. I had one tramp of sixty-five’miles without water, except my canteen full, and the sun beat down on me redhot for two long days with ot a living thing in sight. I tramped steady for two days and one night, geltiug across that piece of landscape had quite an exciting experie last day when within about six miles ater. I met a crazy prospector. He had his lothes off and was digging holes in the sand for water. When I came toward him he told mo to look out, for the water was very decp. The poor chap had been without water so tnx that he had gone crazy. I poured a little ater out of my canteen for him. “As soon as he saw the water he jumped on me like a mad dog. As I fell I managed to put my hand on a rock, with which I hit him on the head. He came to in a few min- Mites and I got some water into his mouth. joon after he fell asleep. Every few minutes E would poor some water into his mouth, until it was all gone. I had only a pint when I met him. “I knew It could not be far from water, 8o T I took my pack off the jack and got on him and struck out. In a lttle over an hour I found the water. I never saw an animal drink like that jack did. I filled my can- teen and went back to my crazy man, who was still asleep. 1 got some more water down him and wet his head. I watched him all night, and I tell you it was a long, dreary night, sitting out on the desert with @ crazy man. By morning he had recovered his senses, He told me he had a partner, and they had got lost on the desert. He could not remember where he had left his partner. “After we had had a bite was too weak to go with me, I struck out alono to look for his partner. I found tracks leading right away from the water. I followed them about three miles, when 1 came to the poor fellow, lying on his back, a9:d. I dug a hole in the sand and put him in and covered him up as well as 1 could and went back. My wild man being able to walk a little, we went to the Indian recervation and told the Indian agent about the dead man and then came here and we both went to work." MONSTER PREHISTORIC REPTILE. Up in the mountains about five miles west of this town is a curious formation in solid lime stone consisting of a circular hole hav- ing a diameter of about three feet and an unknown depth, which has long been re- garded as the crater of a prehistoric geyser, says the Townsend (Mont.) Messenger. Mr 3. P. Hardy, a well known mining man, otermined fo explore It for the furposs of prospecting the rock for mineral. After descending about eighty feet the passage was found to be blocked by debris washed in from above, which, after cleaning away, disclosed the entrance to a vast underground cavern. As soon as he could accustom his slght to his surroundings Mr. Hardy found himself In the midst of one of the grandest sights ever beheld by the eve of man. On every hand stately columns, caused by the dripping of water through the lime stone, ross from the floor in graceful form to meet a counterpart descending from the roof. A partial exploration of a few hundred yards brought him to what appeared to be a line of white barrel hoops standing upright and extending away Into the darkness farther than his one candle would shed Its rays. Judge of his astonishment to find on examini- tion that he had discovered the petrified skeleton of an enormous reptile, perfect in every detall from head to tail. The bones of the head showed plainly that the monster was well equipped for aggressive warfare. Curved fangs hinged to the upper jaw, eigh- teen Inches long, lay in place in what was once a huge mouth, which could open casily four feet, judging from the articulation. The monster lay in a nearly straight line, and Mr. ‘Handy found upon pacing it off that it measured upwards of 120 feet. About fifty foet from the head lay a number of bones that appeared to belong to the skeleton and which Mr. Hardy concluded were the wings. Further examination disclosed the presence of Tegs. though only one of these was in good condition. Judge Watson, who has read much on prehistorle mammalia and fos- sils, states that this is probably the only perfect specimen of a dragon in existence. The Smithsonian Institution has been in- formed of the find and we expect will have a representative here in a few days. Mr. Hardy refused one offer of $20,000 for his find and states that nothing short of $50,000 * will purchase it. He has been trying to keep the discovery a secret in order to be pre- pared for the rush that is sure to follow its announcement, but we are here to write up the news and our readers may look for more disclosures as the cavern Is further explored. OLD GLORY MINES. A test run of three bars of gold-silver ore. from the mines of the Old Glory Mining and Milling company, in Pima county, Arizona, has just been completed at the experimental works In Denver. Prof. E. C. Englehardt conducted the test. The gold was extracted Dby the bromine process, the result being 97 per cent of the assay value. Leaching was used to extract the silver, and this was also successful, thus hinting at the establishment of a combination plant as best suited to this ore. By using a Buckner eylinder for roast ing the total cost of extraction fs fixed $3 to $3.60 ton. The use of the Pearce furnace, - which is worked automatically, would reduce the cost a perceptible extent, as It handled a fifty-ton lot of Black Hills concentrates at an average cost of 85 cents per ton. For a large plant it s almost {ndispensable. The Old Glory mines belong to Los Angeles parties. The ores tested here aro worth a trifle in excess of $400 per ton, fairly divided between gold and silver. PACIFIC COAST BONANZAS, Ernest G. Rognon, mining man and at- torney, has returned to Salt Lake, says the Tribune, after a pllgrimage which embraced all the localities and bonanzas in which his syndicate are Interested, and extending from Sonora, Mexico, on the south, to the Trinity gold fields of California on the north, and brings with him practical evidence of a most thrifty seazon among his people. In the Mexican venture, which was promoted by the Pan-American Mining company, re- sults are sald to be most gratifying, the property Itself ylelding handsome profits and producing 100 tons of ore a day, the avorage value of which is $9 a ton. The ore, of which he says there is an immense body in sight, ylelds readily to the cyanide process, which was introduced In Sonora by the company, which had procured a lease on 10,000 tons of tailings, and is now the most popular of any of the many that have been applied to the low grade Mexican pro- dugt. Among the Pan-American's nelghbors is ex-Senator Tabor of Colorado, who Is prose- cuting a moat VIgorous campaign on a bo- panza In Jesus Maria, which promises to lift people ays are more & almost depopu- itl and Salina are have been located Brown, J. P. Ma Men are employed operations d clearly zens, south- three to eat, as he en | the blanket mortgage from his estate and [ rain fell fn this city on th The ex- senator, for whom the turn has been coming | place him square with the world ever sl the depression In th 18 pinning all his faith to the gold product of his southern property, which | has, it is said, since December last, paid him between $75,000 and $100,000 a month. It i the Mexican venture, says Mr. Rognon that has induced the holders of long matur loans to hold off, and, at prescnt rate of pro- | duction, the sheet will soon disclose a bal- ance i his favor. A of nuggets and I8 exhibited by Mr. Rognon dence of the riches which are placer operations along the north fork of Coftee creek In California and some ffty miles northwest of Mount Shasta, where the company has a strip of gravel three miles long lying In the bed of the gulch. beds are In Trinity county, which has been washed for years, and which, in its primiti processes for the handling of gold, has pro- duced many fortunes, From a selected pan of gravel gold of the value of $6 was recently washed by the voyager himself. Concerning the sensation th | occurred in one of the canons between the Yaqui Indians and General Torres' troops, Mr. Rognon states <hat it is without founda- tion, and that of tie tribe, which furnishes labor to nearly all the mines in the locality, there are not fifty hostile members. The ro- | mance was a source of considerable merri- | ment among those who read it QUICKSILVER MINES of the tariff very rocky metal murket shot gold which is the best evl- rewarding their nest trouble had The contemplated removal on quicksilver will ruin the industry of min- ing for that substance in this country. It | Is a pity, too, for apart from its commercial value, a certaln picturesque interest attaches to the metal Its fluldity at ordinary tem peratures |s one thing that makes it re- markable. One can hardly realize th: when reduced by cold to a solid, It is very malleable and can be beaten out into sheets #a thin as tissue paper. Deposits of quicksilver have been dis- covered recently in Utah, says the Salt Lake Tribune, but nobody has tried to work them as t. The entire product of this country comes from California. Cinnabar, the ore from which it is obtained, is a sulphide of mercury. By heat the mercury is sep- arated from the sulphur in the form of gas, which, being condensed, runs out of the distilling furnace In a thin stream like a_continuous pencil of molten silver. Frequently the miner with a stroke of his pick penetrates.a cavity in the rock that is filled with pure quicksilver, which runs out sometimes as much as a quart. The ore is often filled with globules of mercury, and when it 1s blasted the high tem ature created by the explosion volatizes the metal, which In the form of gas poisons the air. Workmen in the mines eat without washing thelr hands, and in these and other way their systems become saturated with quick- silver. The first it symptom of resulting trouble Is usually exhibited in the nails, which become diseased. Later the teeth drop out, bone rot of the jaw follows, and the unfortunate is fairly eaten up by the poison. These troubles are avoided to a great extent cleanliness, The men who work in the quick silver mines of Wales are the cleanest peo- ple in the world; their skins, untanned by the sun, are as white as snow. The Mexiean miners in California are dirty and die fast, but after two or three generations spent in the mines they last longer, thelr constitu- tions becoming more tolerant of mercury. THE DAKOTAS. County commissioners at Yankton, falling .to find a professional rainmaker, purchased 200 pounds of dypamite and experimented with apparent success. A valuable horse was stolen from a pas- ture in Charles Mix county the other day, making the sixth or seventh theft of the kind perpetrated since January. When the woolen mill s completed at Edgemont it will give employment to 500 hands. Work on the structure has begun and cight carloads of machinery have ar- rived for the mill. It will be run by wate: power furnished by the big irrigation ditch. Two veins of coal have been found in Day county, two miles north of Pierpont. The first vein of fifteen inches was found at the depth of sixty-three feet from the surface. The coal is of good quality, but light in weight. The second vein of thirty-two inches was found at a depth of elghty-two feet. The coal is of extra quality. A co-operative creamery is in successful operation in Beadle county, managed wholly by farmers. Nine thousand pounds of milk are used daily and a churn that will make 200 pounds of butter each day will soon be in operation. The plant cost, complete, about $2,000, and is rapidly becoming a source of much revenue to its patrons. Several cream- eries have been established in that county the present scason and all are In successful operation, COLORADO. The Chance mine, Park county, Is shipping gold ore to the Denver smelters. Some flelds of alfalfa abour Fore Morgan are about ready for second cutting, Leasers on the Golden Age mine, Boulder county, are clearing from $10 to $10 per day. In Twin Lakes district, Lake county, the Golden mine and mill are turning out’ gold at the'rate of $100 per day. The tracks of the Midland Terminal are bolng taken up and this point will be abandoned by the road in favor of Gillette, The new creamery at Julesburg is about ready to start. It is 24x20 with a boiler room 12x14. The machinery Is of the latest improved pattern. The Pine Creek district, Gilpin county, turns out good specimens, but its success will be measured by actval shipments to the mill and the resulting retorts. The cyanide plant in Boutder county, operated in connection with the Livingston mine, is reported out of condition. A plant of this nmature can only be run by an ex- pert. The last Dirt mine, the Argo smel twelve tons. shipper. The Chandler Creek branch of the Denver & Rio Grande, which was washed out by the June floods, s to be repaired. A few days ago engineers went out over the line, only five miles in length, and estimated the damage at from $5,000 to $10,000. In the Schiller lode, Sunshine district, Boulder county, a strike of gold ore is re- ported which measures twenty feet between walls. A parallel vein thirty-five feet dis- tant, but in the same property, yields equally well, the average value ranging from $150 to $212 per ton, John Young has completed the new wagon road over Indian Creck Pass, and travel has already turned that way. The distance to Fort Garland is shortened fully ten miles A new county road is being built up the Cucharas river to Stonewall, and will make travel in that direction more easily ac- complished. The strike of manganese tellurium ore in the Front Range district a few days ago has caused considerable Inquiry to be made regarding the new El Paso county gold camp. A large number of citizens visited the district, twelve miles north of Colorado Springs and were very enthusiastic with the outlook. ore from the Gold was handled at 3.19 for about is a regular carload of Empire, which r, returned The Gold Dirt WYOMING. A Laramie young man has three bald eagles as pets. The oldest inhabitant of Laramie states that there never has been so much rain in that region in July. A herd of tame buffalo was driven through Casper the other day, enroute from P Ridge, 8. D., to a Montana ranch. The cattlemen of Evanston, Wyo. are negotiating with the Unlon Pacific to lease 200 sections of land north of that town. The shipments of cattle from Texas for this season have ended and close to 60,000 head were sent over the Cheyenne gnd orthern, A strike has been made on the Dutch Tom gulch, near Lander, Wyo, in a four-foot vein, at a depth of six feet. The ore washed $10 o the pan, one going as high as $22. The Laramle Republican tells about a re- markable catch of trout in the Big Laramie | river, a number weighing from two to three pounds each, and one of them six and a quarter pounds and measuring twenty-two inches. They were of the rainbow variety, which were planted in the river seven years ago from the state hatchery. Rainmaker Melbourne (s certainly an un- lucky man. He s unlucky for the reason that it he had made his contract with the people of Laramie county to produce ten {nches of rain during June, July and August he would have received a good start in July at least with no effort on his own part, More §th and Gth than locality for two years. location of Fort Ruseell has been demonstrated séveral times lately when the authorities | found it desirable to distribute troops in | various Isealities on short notlce | Report comes from the Wind river moun | tain country, Wyoming, to the effect that the boys have struck it rich in that section. A | party has just returned with 500 pounds of | ore, which they claim yielded $1.50 worth of free gold to the pound. The owners are most | enthusiastic over their prospects, and expect | to place enough stock on the market with | which to put in a stamp mill at the mines. OREGON, Work has begun the Tillamook emy, which is to $6,000, Wool is being freighted by teams to The Dalles from Silver Lake, 200 miles south, A broom factory has started up at Mc- Minnville by two brothers named Smith from Nebraska A great deal of first-c being done In Lane county this with Improved grading devices Hay s a profitable crop about Warren- ton, where iU yleld: three and four tons an acre, selling last year as high as $14 a ton. Water is has fallen In th The advantag: as_a military post on acad- road work Is year, mostly worth someth'ng In Klamath county. The Little Klamath Ditch com- pany has just recovered a judgment of $400 for a water bill against a Tule lske ranch John Gill, who has been a resident of Polk county for the past , coming from Mexico, will return to Lower Caiifornia next November to work in the Tespucha iron mine: a salary of §10 a day (silver). Coquille seems to be doing reasonably well, in spite of the hard times. Its last trip the steamer andorille took out 80,000 fey of lumber, about thirty tons of butter, five or six tons of checse, pesides hides, wool, chittem bark, etc. The Florida man who bia for the North Yamhill and Tillamook mail route found that roads in Tillamook are not built from ashphalt, and in order to subcontract the me was compelled to experience a_loss of $830. Philip H. Messner of North Yamhill is the subcontractor. The country seat of Al Goodbrodt of Union is pronounced the finest in the Grand Ronde, if not the whole state. There is an artificfal lake, from four to ten feet deep, a twelve-acre fruit garden and every vard of vegetables and berries. Five acres of it yielded last year 200,000 pounds of potatoes. An Astorla Chinaman who got off a mov- ing street car with all the agfle ease of his race was hurled violently to the ground and rendered unconscious for some hours. No one who has seen a Chinaman alight from a street car can have falled to wonder how the Chinese could ever be made into sailofs. A survey of the mouth of the Columbla river has been completed by .direction of Major Post, United States engineer-in-charge, w0 ascertain the result of tie late flood on the jetty and bar. He finds the jotty unin- jured, and a wide, straight channel twenty- nine feet deep at low tide in the shallowest place on the bar. The depth of water on the bar at high tide is thirty-six and one- half feet. Pilots have taken soundings all along the Columbia river, and found a good deep channel all the way to Portland. WASHINGTON. Walla Walla’s registration bogks ! closed with 1,383 names. Chelan is movnig for the county seat of Okanogan county. Colfax has 703 children of school age, an incrense of twenty-seven over last year. The cornerstone of the State university was laid at Seattle with imposing ceremonies. The Northern Pacific’s Tacoma freight sheds are piled high with millions of shingles awaiting shipment. Additional wood has been ordered for Fort Spokane, a fact which is regarded as an in- dication that more troops are to be stationed there next winter. The road from Northport up Deep creck, and thence to Cedar creek, is being sur- veyed by the Stevens county surveyor, R. B. Thomas. The road will open up a large ssction of the country. irant Copeland picked a twig laden with Royal Ann cherries from his orchard, seven miles south of Walla Walla. The bunch measured three inches In length and num- bered 137 cherries. Another gold medal for a Washington young man. His name is Archie Isaacs, and he Is a full-blood Skokomish Indian boy, who went from the Puyallup Indian school, and has received the honor at the North- western Military academy in Chicago. Last year a Spokane firm made 30,000 fruit boxes for the Big Bend country. The other day a Spokane firm shipped nails enough to make 100,000 fruit boxes for the Snake river country. The fruit-growing in- terest In eastern Washington is in intimate touch with Spokane, The young women of Whatcom are toying with vows of perpetual virginity by pledging themselves not to accept the matrimonial proposals of men who are not “intelligent, honest, industrious, good natured, cleanly in person and apparel, healthy, sober, church members and total abstainers from liquor, tobacco and profanity.” A sad state of affairs is that reported from the Newskat. river settlement, Che- halis county. The Johnson claim has two conflicting owners, while an administrator is trying to dispossess both. No ‘case known to history offers so many beautiful law points as this one Is said to, and yet, unfortunately, none of the interested per- sons is able to carry it up to a higher court. It people living along the upper river will observe more care in the future about putting their names on their front doors, they will materially assist Skamokawa peo- ple in returning their homes to them on occesions like the present. The Eagle says there is a comfortable little home tied up on the island opposite town which ' the owner may have by calling around and proving property. Samuel Crump, proprietor of the Spokane soap works, has made a close study of vegetable oils, and is now experimenting with sunflowers, peanuts and at the ranch of S. Conway, at Kenne Mr. Crump thinks that ralsing sunflowers can be made a profitable industry in the state, and an immense market can be ob- tained for the oil from the seeds, which can be largely used in the manufacture of soap. MISCELLANEOUS. Salt Lake City is paying § per cent on an outstanding warrant indebtedness of $200,- 000. The new road now building from Prescott to” Phoenix will be completed to Wicken- burg in September, and to Phoenix by Jan- vary 1. It is already dolng a heavy traffic on its completed portion. From reliable sources it Is learned that the work of grading the new road from Jerome camp to a point on the S. F., P. & P. railroad at Clear Springs Is being prose- cuted to completion rapidly. The Jerome mine s one of the largest producers of copper in the southwest. Provo, Utah, has another gold excitement. There has been much prospecting in the Wasatch range just east of the Garden City, and Thad Fleming came in from Deer creek, about eighteen miles from Provo, bringing with him orc that assays 17.41 ounces in gold, or $359.63 to the ton. The establishment of a new line of steam- ers between San Francisco and Alaska, with a passenger fare of $20, has caused a rush of miners to the northern gold flelds. Smelt- ing ore is now shipped from Juneau to Ta- coma at $6 per ton, while small stamp mills find plenty of work along the Yukon river. Arrivals from the Black Butte country In Montana say that in that section there is a herd of buffalo, consisting of several hundred head. They have greatly increased in num- bers the past year. They are protected by some of the cattlemen who have their herds in that country, and who employ men to watch them and protect them from the In- dlans, who annually come from the Piegan reservation for the purpose of hunting them. These buffalo have received such ecare that they are almost as docile as cattle. A wagon load of peaches brought in from the Hagerman farm, on the Pecos river, sey- enteen miles below Eddy, N. M., sold for $42, at 10 cents per pound, and the second load brought Ip solg ~for about the lame amount. Thesé peaches came ffom but fiye trees, all lighter bearers than some trees there, which will ripen finer fruit later in the geason. Thys five treen five yoars old 1t will be seen brought about $15 each above the cost of hauling to market. One hundred such trees per acre would yleld §1,600. In one of the oldest ruins in the state of Oaxaca, Mex., a number of very rare and interesting images, found in metal, have been uncovered. The {mages represent people of HE _OMAHA DAILY BEF: SATU DAY, JULY 21, 1894 RS RS G TR A . T THE SLAUGHTER STILL GOES ON TODAY FRIDAY, TSMORROW SATURIDAY, July 20| That you can get a last chance at the WONDERFUL CLOTHING IN THE CLOSING OUT SALE OF THE COLUMBIA CLOTHING CO. AN V@ LR PIEOIE AT L4 PRICI AND LEss, All unsold stock intended ]/2 for wholesale trade. Mail Orders, TODAY AND Filled. 1 /2 PRICE AND LESS. TOMORROW. 1 /2 the —AND- Julg 21. We want the publicto have benefit before we sell in lots to the trade. Mail Orders FRilled. Columbia Clothing Company, Gor A TG T ner Farnam and 1 Lt 3th R SR S oriental apppearancesand dress, as well as priests in their robes of sacrifice. They bear hieroglyphics of unkmown characters and are elaborately wrought, with fine art lines shown in every curve. The images found thus far are of solid gold, efther wholly or in part, and are coated with some unknown enamel, which has preserved them from all harm in the many years they have been buried in the soil. A STARVING IMPOSTOR. Rogues Touch Washington for a Liberal Sum. The benevolent heart of Washington, writes a correspondent of the Chicago Record, has received a dreadful shock because of the dis- covery that a man whose sufferings have aroused public sympathy to a greater heat than any case that ever occurred before is a wicked impostor. His name is A. C. Chewn- ing, and he was picked up by the police in the Smithsonian grounds the other night dying of starvation. He was taken to the Emergency hospital, where stimulants and liquid food were administered to him fre- quently and in small quantities until he was sufficiently recovered to explain that he was a resident of Basic City, Va., and had come to Washington with the expectation of get- ting an office. He said that his money gave out; that he left the place where he had been boarding rather than get into debt, and for a week or ten days had been sleeping in the parks and picking up a little food at the mar- kets and free-lunch counters. For four days he had not had a mouthful, however, and the doctors at the hospital say that he would have been dead before morning. In his pocket were two letters, one from his wife at Basic City relating in the most pititul language her struggles to get bread for her children and herself and begging him to send her all the money he could, if it were only a few coppers. She told him of her love and sympathy, described the cun- ning things the children had said and done, and expressed a confidence that even if she should die of starvation God would put it into the heart of some kind soul to take care of their little ones. The other letter was his reply to this communication, which was even more heart-rending, and which he said he had not mailed because he had not been able to get a postage stamp. Many a tear was shed over the letters when they appeared in the papers the next morning, and before noon $300 in cash had been left for Mr. Chewning at the hospital. The Post opened a subscription. Mr. Man- derson collected $50 In the senate and tele- graphed it to the postmaster at Basic City with instructions to see that the wife and children were fed at once. The subscriptions exceeded $600 within twenty-four hours, and four people offered Mr. Chewning emplo ment. It is not known how much money wa sent to the woman at Basic City, but the telegraph office Teports a considerable amount, and the postmaster down there s she recelved a large number of letters the day after the publications, which probably contained money. Mrs. Chewning arrived here the next day. Theto was an affecting scene when she wrapped her arms around her husband, and all the calloused doctors and nurses of the hospital wept. Even the policeman who brought her from the station had to wipe his eyes. When she left the hospital the woman took the money that had been col- lected and has not been seen there since, but the husband still remains in care of the physicians, Now comes the second scene. The post- master at Basic CIty reports that he found Mrs, Chewning and family In a first class boarding house, where she had been living for about a month; that she was paying $6 a week for her own board and a correspond- ing amount for her children; that she was a stranger in the city and it was not known where she came from. Her board had been paid promptly to date' and there were no signs of starvation. Rev. Mr. Jones of the Epworth Methodist churoh, who lived at Basio City uptil two years ago, sent a $5 bill to Mr. Griffiths, one of his former parish- loners, for the benefit of Mrs. Chewning, and received a reply that there was no evidence that she needed mony. Mr. Grifiths con- firmed all the postmaster had sald. Dr. Mc Kim of Epibhany Eplscopal church, who had alio interésted himself, got similar informa- tion from Basic City and something addi- tional from another town In Virginia, where the newspaper accounts of the case had been read and reminded the people of a similar gamno that was played there about two months ago by & man answering Mr. Chewning's de- scription, Then the chief of police of Alex- andria identified him as the man who ap- peared in that city last winter and aroused the sympathy and opened the purses of the Shrewd people with a story about a burned house | and a starving family in the village of Am- brosia. There are several other witnesses against Chewning, and it appears very probable that he is an impostor, although the physician at the hospital still insist that it was a genuine case of starvation, and that it Chewning’s story Is not true, both he and his wife are remarkably fine actors and can make more money on the stage than by playing this game. While the police believe the impostor theory, they say that there Is no way to punish’ Chewning and his wife, for they have violated no law. Neither of them has asked a cent of money, but every dollar she took away from the hospital was a voluntary gift to her, left there twelve hours before sha reached the city. He i& not a vagrant, for there fs evidence that he has applied for work at a hundred different places in this city, and it {s no crime for a man to be picked up in a park In a starving condition. Altogether, it is as clever a game as was ever played against a charitable community, but will do a serious injury in making peo- ple skeptical and causing them to withhold assistance from those who really need it. ——— BALD HEADS IN THE SENATE. They Are So Numerous as to Form a Ma- Jority of the Members, “What a charmind@rray the senate would present in tho first row at a grand ballet,” a gallery occupant was heard to remark, sweeping his cynical glance over the senate floor. A large majority of the members of that body are baldheads, says the Washing- ton Post. Mr. Gordon sports a small ridge of thin hair that extends over his bump ot veneration. Senator Call brushes his halx over the top of his head to conceal his baldness. ~ Coke has a fringe of white hals extending from ear to ear across the back of his head. Baldness peeps through the thin, iron-gray hair of Senator Tur- ple. Blackburn is partially bald, but cul- tivates a Napoleonic tuft at the top of his forehead and retains a fairly respectable supply along the sides of his hiead, which is always cut short. rvis faintly conceals his polished cranium by a sprinkling of white hair. Harris is entirely bald, show- ing the bumps of firmness and sclf-estcem strongly developed. His scalp is ruddy, and a saber mark, which forms a deep in- dentation in the skull, is reminiscent of the war, He retains a small quantity of hair over the ears and circling around over his collar. Ransom is very bald, but what hair remains on the sides and back of his head is thick and fron gray. Senator Vilas has lost all his halr but a quantity of luxurious and glossy black locks that are suffered to grow long enough to be brushed over a white expanse of sterile scalp. ~ Gray has a small bald disk on the top of his head, and the crest of Mr. Palmer is quite bald. Senator Vest's hair is becom- ing reminiscent of a departed luxur id in Mr. Dolph's case his hair of late has run (o whiskers. Mr. Davis has dark hair, which does not vegetate fast enough to con- the growing inroads of baldness, No hair restorative can save Mr. Shoup from the consequences of early piety. Mr. Platt shows signs of losing his hair fast, and Mr, Aldrich retains a thin scattering of gray hair which shows signs of careful rursing and scrupulous brushing. Mr. Hawley is quite bald. Mr. Hill's pallor of face ex- tends to his scalp, which long ago bade fare- well to the use of brush and cosmetics, and which, In relation to the seam of bluck gloss extending over his collar from temple to temple, is like the contrast of Poe's raven, On the pallid bust of Pallas Jones of Nevada has a long, pointed doth Messrs, a remnant of Mr white beard, but little hair Squire and Mitchell retain dark bair. A striking contrast to the senators named 1s presented by Senators Sherman and Mor- rill, the two oldest members of the senato Mr. Sherman has a well-preserved supply of white hair, and Mr. Morrill's white locks are still long and wavy. Tea cures 25 cents. - 1 by the Flag. last_Sunday N, ¥ tol the foll rican In Cuba had and condemned to death th American and British con:uls, whom he succeeded in convincing of his innocense, They lald his case before the governor general and demanded his re lease, but that official was inexorable prisoner had been found gullty under Span Ish law and must dle The consuls retired and the next day the condemned man was led out to execution, blindfolded and man- Oregon Kldney troubles. Trial slze, all kidney All druggis! Sav Rev. George wing been In his Fairlee sermon of Troy, story: “An An taken as a spy He appealed to acled, and a platoon of soldiers was drawn up to receive the fatal command to fire. Then the American consul took the flag of his country and wrapped it around the pris- oner, and’the British consul did the same. ‘Now fire upon those flags if you I was the warning given to the commander of the platoon. “The order to fire was not given, and the prisoner was soon after- wards released —_— Kidney Tea cures nervous hend- Trial size, 26 cents. Al druggists. e SUPPED ON STAGE RAIN. A Meal Cooked Amid Discournging Sur- roundings. “Perhaps one of the most peculiarly pre- pared luncheons ever laid before hungry peo- ple was one which we had when we were snowed up In the theater of a small western town,” said a theatrical man to the Pittsburg Dispateh. “Upon this night, in the briet interval atter the people left the theater, while we were dressing to go to our hotel, & terrific snow storm, such as you can only find in the west, camé up. The snow drifted against our doors and aM about the streets, 0 that we had to remain all night in the theater. ~ Of course we got hungry, as ac- tors sometimes do, and we began a search for something eatable. We prowled around the property room and were about to give up in disgust when one of the company struck a box of beans, which were usad to imitate the sound of rain. By shaking the box a stage rain storm could be pro- duced. © We took this ‘rain,’ as the pro- fession Is pleased to call it, but saw no way of cooking it. Some one suggested that the ‘thunder’ might be a good thing to cook it upon, in liew of nothing batter. The ‘thun- der’ was a sheet of tin or iron which was shaken to make the roar of heaven's artil- lery. We bent the ‘thunder’ so that it would hold the beans, but were at a loss for means for producing heat. Our property man sug- gested that we use ‘lightning,’ a powder of Iycopodium used for making flashes upon the stage, for the fire, We found quite a lot of this, and with the addition of sonie ‘snow'- little bits of paper used to represent the beautiful—we started quite a fire and suc- ceeded in cooking the beans, which we atet with a relish. Resolving into stege parlance, we had ‘thunder,’ ‘lightning' and ‘snow’ to cook a lunch that consisted of ‘rain.’ -~ - A POPULAR DELUSION. Oregon aches. Thoe Notlon That R » Are E in Pullmu The popular Idea that rents are ch Pullman is shown by the Chicago Po be *‘one of the most glorlous and resplendent errors that ever juggled the brains of the statistician whose beautiful figures show how vastly superior the lot of the wage worker in this country is to that of his brother on the other side of the Atlantic. The common streets of the town are lined with miles of two-story brick tenements—four rooms up stalrs and four rooms down This 18 the average house. The other houses are some of them better, some of them worse, But this s the prevailing style. The houses are bullt of brick and in rows, with plain pino floors, the plainest of walis, the cheapest of sashes and doors. hey were turned out by the contractors as chalr rungs are turned out in a chalr factory. For each of these flats $14.71 per month is charged, making $20.42 the rent of one house. This Is rather high tor the Investment, The I 1 cost the company practically nothing. The hous are cheap, T Pullman rent roll is som thing ftupendous! It ht to be about as good a thing as the income of the duke of Buckingham from his estate around Adelphl in Loudon." xtremely Low e some on in this who is aficted with a stomach trouble If so, the experience of A, C. Eppley, a carpenter, and contractor of Newman, 11 will interest him. 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