Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 3, 1894, Page 5

{ } e PULSE OF WESTERN PROGRESS Two Railrcals Already Intorested in Enter- ing the Blanca Gold Camp, RUSH TO THE CAMP CONTINUES UNABATED Rich Strike at Fresno. Plerre Stockmen Compiain of Migh Freight Rates— dy, N. M.~ General Western New Developments at & Both the Rio Grands and Missouri Pacific roads are understood to have sent special | men to look over the ground. at the new camp at Blanca and determine the proba- bilities of permanency, output, etc. Mount Blanca, on the northwestern slope of which | the gold finds have been made, says the | Denver News, 18 on the eastern side of the San Luis valley and forms part of the front | range. It is practically the southern ter- mination of th: Sangre de Christo range. The camp, it is elaimed, can be easily reached by a thirty-mile extension from the San Luls valley line of the Rio Grande, which can be | built at a eomparatively small cost. It is also close to the proposed line of the Mis- sour! Pacific from Pueblo to Creede and the | San Juan country by way of Mosca Pass. | The project was well under way some time | ago and wis stopped by the financial de- | pression. The people of the new camp are very sanguine that one or the other of the lines will be built The rush to the camp continues, being 400 town lots staked In the town of Blanca. The prospects which have had enough development to show that they are of value are the Vesuvins, owned by Frawley, Kunkle & Heistle; the Castle Gar- | den, wned by McGrath & Morrison; the Annfe, owned by Fullenwider Bros, and the Sunflower, owned by McLin, Harrison & McClure, ~Such complaint is made by the mining men that farmers from the valley have come into the camp and stuck claim stakes so thickly that the mountain sheep can scarcely dodge them. This in- terferes with genuine development, but will, there of course, worked itself out in time. The first town lot was staked by J. M. Chritton. The road from Mosca s crowded with wagons going to the front Engineer John R. Patterson, in speaking of the camp, says: There cin be no doubt that there are several leads in and near the camp that will assay $40 to $7,000 a ton, and while it may or may not bo free milling, yet there is enough free gold in it to show colors in washing. 1 do not believe that the gold is confined to Arastia gulch, and the best thing to anticipate from the pre ent rush is that a large number of pros- | pectors will be attracted to the Sangre d Christo range, and being diszppointed in getting a claim in Blanca camp, will pros- | pect the range. There is about fifteen miles | of it between the Maria Baco and the Sangre de Christo grants that I would particularly call their attention to. It is all govern- ment land. Blanca camp is within one milo of the line the Missourl Pacific would naturally take if built.” PIERRE SHIPPERS PROTEST. For the first,time in the history of this | country the stockmen, assisted by the peopl are making a vigorous protest against the Northwestern Railroad company. This company has always had a monopoly on Plerre business and also the shipping in- | terests across the river, but up until the last | two years they have dealt very fairly, says | a Plerre correspondent of the Minneapoils Tribune. Durlng 1893 and 1894 the road has grown so unreasonable in its demands that they amount almost to extortion. Last | year shipping rates from here to Chicago were raised from 38 to 42 cents, and the raise was accepted by the large number of shippers in this county In passive sub- mission. But this year the stock yards company has raised the price of switching in the yards ot Chicago from 80 cents to $2 per car, and the Northwestern company on top of this raise and in the face of the hard times, when beef is from 75 to 80 cents lower, comes in and increases the freight rates another cent and a half, bringing it | up to the xceedingly high figure of 43% cents, It is estimated that 20,000 head of beef cattle will be shipped from this point this fall, and figuring on this basis these two Increases foot up over $3,000 to come out of the pockets of shippers this season. Tho stockmen have sent representatives to Sloux City and Omaha in hopes that these two cities will hold out to them some induce- ment to consign their shipments to them. The price would not have to equal that of Chicogo to let them out, as there would be a saving of over 40 per sent in frelght rates besides a vast saving of shrinkage which is 1ost on the long trip to Chicago. The Missourl River Stockman’s assocla- tlon, which is composed of men who own collectively herds that will aggregate fully 100,000 head, have sent a committee to the Milwaukes road to arrange for shipments trom Chamberlain to Chicago. RICH STRIKE NFAR FRESNO. Reports come from Auberoy valley, forty miles northeast of Fresno, of a rich strike of gold in a ledge known as the Mountain View, says the San Francisco Chronicle It has been worked for years, but never until recently has any one sunk deep into the ledge. This ledge is situated near Table mouutain, and in the early days much rich placer mining was done in the vicinity. The Mountain View mine is owned by parties in Chicago and they have been work- ing it under the superintendence of P. B. Donahoo. They are running a drift in 1,500 foet to strike the ledge at a depth of 1,200 feet from ‘the surface, and fifteen men are doing the work. They struck rock in two places that is exceedingly rich. It is known to run up into the hundreds of dollars to the ton and promises to be very profitable property. The exact width of the ledge was not learned, but it was satisfactory and the outlook is good in every respect. This property has always shown every indication of being a good mine, and with the present company back of it there is no doidt that it will be thoroughly developed. Some of the rock taken out is so rich that it is broken up and sold for specimens. Test- ing with the mortar and horn spoon shows that some of the rock will go $1,000 per ton. This 15 not simply a small pocket, but the richness seems to hold good in the en- tire ledge, although some streaks are ex- ceptionally rich. The ledge grows wider as the men go down and old miners express the opinion that it will turo out to be one of the best in the stat There is considerable excitement among the owners of small mines in the vicinity and renewed activity is seen on every hand P. B. Donahoo, the superintendent, was in Fresno, but left for the mine soon after the news came of the rich strike. VAST PLACER FIELDS IN UTAH. Mr. George W. Moody of Delta county came up from the canon of the San Juan below Bluft City, Utah, says the Montezuma Journal. Mr. Moody has been in the canon for the past three months. He is an ex- perienced placer miner and a close observer, and his opinion of the San Juan as a gold placer fleld is entitled to much weight. He says that it is a mistaken idea that it re- quires any expensive machinery or patent process to accomplish the best saving gold on the canon bars. Those who are having the best success are those who are employing cheap appliances, with copper plates, and saying the gold by amalgamation in sluice box or rocker. The proper prepara- tion of the copper plate Is the most important matter in connection with placer mining in the canon in order to obtain satisfactory re- sults. There Is along the river in the canan a stretch of gravel bars forty miles in length, according to Mr. Moody's observation, that will pay from $3 to $5 per yard to the man, with the simple process above Indicated. In this fleld profit employment can be furnished to from 1 to 2,000 men for several years to como. It 18 predicted that the coming fall and winter will see not less than 1,000 men at work in the canon. There will be a stampede, but those who go there will be men who are familiar with the conditlons under which they will have to labor and with no exag. gerated notions of the results to be obtained, THE PECOS VALLEY RAILROAD. Fine progress Is belng made in the con- atruction of the Pecos Vailey railroad between Eddy aud Reswell. More than twenty-five miles of track has been laid, and by the end of the month forty-five miles will be nrpctically completeds All the grading will results in | for assay. | to the top of a log be finished early in September, says the Denver Times-Sun, and it is now the expec- tation that trains can run the entire length of the road by the first of October. In honmor of the completion of this highway there is to be a grand celebration, iron consisting of a fair with tne finest exhibit of fruits, grains, grasses and vegetables ever seen In Lhe Pecos valley, together with 4 bar- becue and an excellent program of sports. Special trains will be run from Chicago, St. Louis and the Missouri river points for this occasion. Already many tickets have been spoken for and a large number will be pres- ent. Everything points to a more rapid settlement of the valley in the future, as it now has an easy means of communication with the outside world, and its advantages, both in raising large crops by irrigation and its favorable markets, are being fully appreciated. Poor hay crops throughout cannot but redound to the Pecos valley farmers. The alfalfa fields never yielded larger than the present sea- son nor has the hay been of finer quality. The drouth in Kansas, Nebraska and further east will undoubtedly be the cause of many cattle being brought to the valley for win- ter feeding. In one way and another our farmers are confidently expecting to realize better prices for thelr crops than has been the case for some time, It would seem that this anticipation is well founded. This appears to be a new golden age, and Bddy does not propose to fall behind in the advancing procession. Six miles east of the town some ore was found the other day and samples were sent to Colorado Springs The result has just been made known. This ore runs from $4 to $10 in gold to the ton, which, considering that this is supposed to be purely a farming locality and the rock was taken from almost on the sur- face, is claimed to be a very excellent show- ing. The wonders of the Pecos valley are today by no manner of means all known or appreclated, GREEN MOUNTAIN GOLD The ‘editor of this paper, says the Gunni- son News, accompanied by Willlam Hill, took a trip to the Green Mountaln gold camp the other day. While we were much hurried in our glance through the camp we were more than pleased with what we saw. From one property, the Only Chance, owned by Gilbert Bros, and others, they are now taking a car- load for shipment. The ore at present depth, ten feet, is a decomposed quartz from which assays have been obtained all the way from eight ounces to 440 ounces. High expecta- tions are being indulged In regard to that property and the opinion prevails that the smelter’s return will astonish the old-timers. R. S. Fisher of Bonanza is located at Unfon Hill and fs doing a flourishing assay business. Mr. Fisher Is very enthusiastic and says such surface showings have never been made before in any camp. Among the many good showings obtained, he reports sixty-nine ounces from a specimen from the Lucky Strike, owned by Cuenin & Daly. This claim is one of the bonanzas if indica- tions go for anything. Mrs. Jacks has obtained a splendid group known as the Scorpion group, and is push- ing development work. She enjoys the dis- tinction of having a full-blown law suit on hand already. One noticeable feature is number of men who are country. The gulches contain an average of three camps to the mile, and the hills are fairly covered with men. Two towns are already laid out, Union Hill, near the Denver City mine, and Diamond City, about three miles west of that place. CLAWED BY A BEAR. dam Q. Mechling, the veteran hunter of o .\'nuk? fell under the jaws of a she bear the other day and Is now nursing a lame shoulder and hand and lacerated thigh as a result of his experience, says the Seattle Post-Tntelligencer. G mpany with Joseph Mathias of Penn- sylvania he was hunting for deer in the dense undergrowth of the forest east of Hsmilton, in Skagit county, and was pass- ing through a thicket in which devil's club grew profusely. Progress through the un- dergrowth was most dificult, and in order {o see where they were the two men climbed that had fallen across another log. All at once Mechling raised his hand with a warning gesture of silence, Sh-h-h, 1 a fawn's head,” he whis- pered, at the same time pointing over the tops of the bushes to & brown animal some yards away that seemed to be eating the ted berries of the devil's club “1t is a fawn,’ he added bringing his club to his shoulder. Taking a steady aim he fired, and the animal dropped from sight. A moent later there was a commotion in the brush about twenty yards to the right. “I struck it, but It is getting away!" shouted Mechling, and he piunged from the log into the thicket, determined to capture the fawn before it could get further into the forest. In a second or two he was at the spot where the animal was first seen. As he crashed through the brush, suddenly a black object ross up before him, uttered a smothered growl, struck flercely at his arms, and sent his Winchester spinning twenty feet away. The bear, for such it was, im- mediately closed with him, and down he went, the savage beast on top, tearing his clothing to shreds and lacerating the flesh in a dozen places. Mechling called to Mathias, who at once sprang to his assistance. When Mathias reached his companion’s side he found the bear lylng across the prostrate hunter, the claws of the left fore foot set in his right shoulder, the right paw clutching the left hand and the jaws closed on the left thigh. Mathias placed his gun at the side of the animal's head and sent a bull:t crashing through the skull from just behind the ear. The shot apparently produced no effect. He then touched the bear's side with the muzzle of the rifle and fired a ball through the heart. Then the beast slowly unlocked its jaws and rolled dead from the body of Mech- Ting. Me the country the advantage of the enormous prospecting the hling was helped to a rancher’s cabin and his injuries attended to. Five incised wounds were found on the thigh, the shoul- der was badly scratched and one claw had pierced the left hand, entering at the back. to say, his injuries were compara- y slight, and he is now able to be about NEBRASKA. Maggie Lingner of Gretna had one of her fingers smashed between the cogs of a cider raill. W. A. Hemleben, night clerk at the Pacific hotel in Norfolk, killed a mink in the rear of .the hotel. Bert Clayton was dragged into a barbed wire fence by a runaway team and has died from his Injuries. G. W. Strong has sold his creamery at Falls City to M. Giannini. Mr. Strong is re- turning to New York. A. B. Charde has purchased a halt in- terest in the Wayne Democrat and will as- sume editorial charge of the paper. At the meeting of old settlers at Endicott Jasper N. Helvey was elected president, and it was decided to hold another reunion in the same grove next year. Frank Pursell, living threo miles out of Mason City, as handing a gun from a Wagon when it was accidently discharged, nearly tearing off his arm. Lizzle Smith, a domestic, has sworn out a warrant for the arrest of John Sonnenfiela, a blacksmith, at Bromfield, for assaulting hor, and Sonnenfleld has been arrested. Rev. U. Spencer of the Auburn Episcopal church preached his farewell sermon and has left for California, having accepted the pastorate of a church n:ar Los Angeles. While cuting corn near Springfield, Ira White accidently severed a bivud vessel in his shia with the point of his knife, and the flow of blogd could nct be etopped for a con- siderable time. The second annual session of the northwest Nebraska conferene: of tn> Methodist Epis- copal church will convene at Chadron Sep- tember 12 to 16. Bishop Foster of Roxbury, Mass., will preside. Editor John Albin of the McCool Record is sick with typhold fever, and as he expects shortly to become editor of the York Demo- crat he announces that he will cease the publication of the Record. Charles Woods was running a steam thresher over a bridge near St. Edward when the bridge collapsed and the engine went through. Woods had his leg broken, besides being badly scalded in many parts of his body. A vigilance committee was formed outside Neligh recently and the men who were sus- pected of stealing hogs from Rev. Mr. Grif- fiths wero notified that six days would be given them to get out of the county. Two days sufficed. Only a year and a half ago th> 13-year-old son of Henry Graves, living two miles south- west of Odell, became subject to a jerking sensation In his left eye, and finally became totally blind, Last week he dreamed dbree [0) [AHA DAILY BEE: HONDAY g e Y. SEPTEMBER 3, 1894, Beautiful Souvenirs \ A Fifteen Dollar Suit A Nice Child’s Suit Now We Are Ready. Fr For $5. We For 75c. them. with every suit. double breasted--six different shades —get one Saturday. open one of pants 10c up. The M. H. Cook Clothin Successors to COlumbia Clothlng CO., Mail Orders Filled, ————— e ———— 13th and Farnam. the finest all wool, They're little, but Oh, my——they’re fine—every man will like They’re in gold—They're in silver—They're scarf pins —-They’re dandies—They're in the window—They’re given A perfect suit—in sacks—straight or round cut—single or It's a $15 suit—if there ever was one—but no matter—it will advertise us children’s departments in the entire west and will show every style from 75¢c up—Knee nights that it he would fire a gun oft twice his eyesight would be restored. He told his parents, and his father told him to try it. He id it and his sight returned. At the residence of H. T. Donnell at Ponea, a girl tried to Ml the tank of a gasoline stove while it was burning and a sericus fire was only averted by the prompt action of J. V. Pearson, who rushed across the street when the girl called for help and extinguished the flames with hot water from the boiler. In doing so he badly burned his hand. A large number of white people are attending the closing exercis:s of the harvest home at the Omaha reservation, about sixteen miles north of Lyons. This harvest home was organized for the purpose of Christianizing and educating the Indians of the Winnebago and Omaha res:rvations. The leader of the movement is Rev. Levi Levering, an Omaha Indian, who has been attending Bellevue college for the past two or three years. Rev. Mr. Levering is a ready speaker and a young man of ability. He has all the English speaking Indians on the reservation inter- est:d in this harvest home movement and expects great good to result. The effect of sending Indlans away to be educated is just beginning to be manifested among the tribe. THE DAKOTAS. H. Newcombe, artist of Huron, was awarded the medal for perfection of work in class “D" at the national convention of photographers in St Louis. There were 110 competitors for the prize, from all parts of the union. The State Board of Equalization has made a slight reduction inv the assessment of Min- nehaha county. The assessment made by the county board was §$9,438,012. This has been cut to $9,422,396. Some of the counties were considerably raised. The Valley Land company of Huron closed a deal with an Illinois syndicate for fifty quarter sections of land in Edmunds county. A large portion of the tracts are occupled by rentors and under cultivation, The consideration is nearly $50,000. Jol La Croy and Bill Hoy are in jail at Faulkton charged with stealing a carload of cattle from W. C. Pratt's ranch in Hyde county. The cattle were driven to Faulk- ton and from there they were shipped to Sioux City, where they were identified by Mr. Pratt. The Faulkton Milling company was or- ganized at Faulkton by the adoption of arti- cles of incorporation, with a capital stock of $10,000, three-fourths of which is already subscribed. Arrangements have been com- pleted with the railway company for tracks and ground, and the work of erecting a 100- barrel roller mill will commence at once. It will be equipped with the very best of modern machinery The annual meeting of the Corn Belt Real Estate assoclation at Mitchell was attended by representatives of eighteen counties, and was a profitable and enthustastic gathering. All members reported a great deal of Inquiry from eastern tenant farmers for farm lands, with indications of a large influx of settlers this fall and next spring. Reports on the crop conditions showed that the results were not nearly as bad as first feared. In view of the fact that corn and wheat wiil be a slim crop in Douglas county this fall, and that the farmers have more hogs on hand than they have grain to fesd, at the Tast meeting of the Board of County Com missioners a resolution was offered by Com- missioner LeCocq recommending that the county purchase 30,000 bushels of wheat and distribute it among the farmers, taking a note and bill of sale of the hogs intended to be fattened in paying for sail wheat, The plan meets with general favor. COLORADO. Large melon shipments are being made from Rocky Ford. A company of Ute Indians are giving per- formances at Colorado Springs Tha Portland mine, Cripple Creck, is in- creasing its shipments of first-class ore. The Puzzle mine, Summit county, has shipped $83,000 worth of ore since last Sep- tember. Ore from the Lexington mine, near Idaho Springs, is producing ten ounces In gold to the ton, The Idlewild mine, near the Alice, Yankee Hill district, is to be worked with a good force of men A contract has been let for sinking the main shaft of the Little Glant, Bear Creek district, another 100 feet. Rico and Silverton are fast regaining their ©ld time prosperity. The new Austin smelter has helped Silverion perceptibly. At Montgomery, Park county, the Whist mill has taken out §20,000 since the first of the year. It is & ten-stamp plant There are said to be 5,000 acres of potatoes maturing under the Larimer county ditch, 1t the yleld equals the average of 100 sacks to the acre, the crop: will be worth money than the entire ditch cost. Cripple Creek places §100,000 as the prob- ablo cost of the new De Lamar chlorination plant on the site of the destroyed Rosebud mill. The Telluride Journal asserts that there are more men employed in San Miguel county this year than al any previous time in its history, Hard rock miners find no trouble in getting work. For the week ending August 10 Creede shipped seventy-six car loads of ore. The | York and Chance has not cut down produc- tion, while the Amethyst has developed some old in the lower levels. in_the Leadville district the new mill of the Yak Mining company is turning out con- centrates at the rate of fifteen tons per day. The main item of value,is the lead, which | runs from 10 to 25 per cent. The Fort Collins Courier says the project of enlarging the Larimer county ditch from the river down to the reservoirs., so that a larger volume of water can be carried during flood times, is being talked of. Some very rich ore has been struck in the Nevada mine in the Silverton district. Samples of it showed free gold all over fit. | This ore body was found between the upper and lower levels, but at present the extent of the body has mot been determined. Five sacks were taken out, and the contents will run over $15,000 to the ton, WYOMING. The well known hoodoo, the letter B on the | wheat, has made its appearance in Wyoming. A herd of thirteen antelope were seen in the big basin about ten railes from Laramie. It is reported that parties are killing fish in Sweetwater county by means of giant powder. The Burlington extension to Billings, Mont., is now completed and will be running daily more trains in a few days. A ranchman living at Jackson's Hole states that he caught by trolling twelve trout which weighed in the agsregate 110 pounds. A forty-ton smelter s to be bulit near the Rock Springs copper mines by local and Den- ver parties. Some of the ore is worth §100 per ton, The numerous gold prospects in the At- | lantic district are being rapidly developed | this season. Several stamp mills have been put in and others are contemplated. William Reeder, a ranchman residing at Logan, in the northern part of Swe:twater county, has received notification from Eng- gland that he has fallen heir to an cstate valued at $700,000. The Rock Springs gentlemen who are operating the hydraulic placer works on Four-mile cre:k, eighty miles south of Raw- lins, have a gold brick valued at $2,000, the returns from one week’s clean-up. A new gold saving machine Is at work on Snake river, and the men are enabled | to clen up $10 a day each from the gravel run through it, yet there are men who say that there is no gold In Wyoming, The walls of the mew city hall at Rock Springs ar2 beginning to ‘rise above the level of the foundations. The contractor expects to have the structure réady for occupancy | by October 1. It will cost $25,000. There 15 considerable of a boom in the Salt creek oil district. Numerous eastern parties are com'ng in and taking up claims. Nine | hundred and thirty-five certificates were filed in the office of the county clerk in one day last woek, The colony of Colorade farmers who lo- cated on the lands of the Wyoming Develop- went company at Wheatland have demon- strated that the finest of cereals and root crops can be grown.on. these lands. Every farmer who located at Wheatland this season will raise a magnificent drop of potatoes, oats and barley. The hay crop in the Platte valley is about over with, and the production has been something enormous. The harvest was much heavier this year than last, and the num- ber of tons cut and etacked, including alfalfa, of them provided with passes from Captaln Ray of the Shoshone reservation. OREGON. Patrick Gaten of Ona Is 107 years old. He has just been visiting at Corvallis. A drive of 2,000,000 feet of logs from the McKenzie has been delivered to the Har- risburg Saw Mill eompany. Soap creek, Polk county, has some newly discovered soda springs, which the next legi lature will be asked to appropriate money to improve. An army of crickets, that has been march- ing north from the Malheur country, arrived at Blue Mountain springs, at the head of the John Day valley. coiled in fis lap, was an enormous rattlo- #nake, whose triangular head was swaying and vibrating about the child's face. The snake was snatched away and dispatched, when it was found that the baby was entirely unhurt. What is supposed to be a kind of clam has been discovered at Point Deflance by A. M. L. Hawks. No one locally can be found who can tell to what species it belongs, so it ag been sent to the Smithsonian institute for examination. Sturgeon fishing at Kalama has been an important factor in developing the farms sur- rounding Kalama, as well as the town itself. Many persons who have ranches fish during the winter and have all the summer to put lke Banta of Seal Rock gold-saving ma- | in their crops and develop their farms. chine fame has left for the Big Bend coun- | mpere will be twenty-cight canneries pack- try with one of his machines. Owners of | ing on the Fraser this season, which have land lying along the Columbla have sent [Or | taken out 560 fishing licenses. About 1,300 him, { licenses have becn issued altogether for the At least ten car loads of chittum bark will be shipped from Eugene east during this summer. This industry has scattered con- siderable money throughout Lane county during the past two or three years. The large flour mill erected by Martin & Brandon on Lost river, at the new town of Merrill, is nearly completed. This mill is a large threv-story building and is substantially built, and is located in the midst of one of the largest and finest wheat-growing sections of the Klamath country. The Lebanon paper mills expect to pay out about $12,000 for straw this year. The price paid to the farmer for straw is 50 cents per load, and teamsters receive $2 per ton for hauling. The mills will consume this year all the straw available In the vicinity of Lebanon, and teamsters are hauling from the prairies a dozen miles away. The whistle of the woolen mill is delight- ing the Bandonites, The buildings have been nicely painted up and ‘‘Bandon Woolen Mills” is painted on the roof in large letters, which_can be read for a mile or two out at The company has been making buggy , and have some fine samples on hand. They will commenc: making blankets next. A Drain correspondent has an entry in the champion plucky-girl contest. His candidate lives in the Shoestring settlement. From April 1 to June 1, this year, she plant:d three acres of potatoes, did all the cooking and sewing for the family, milked four cows, fed the calves, pigs and chickens, shot three hawks and a wildcat, st the dog on elghteen tramps, attended thirteen dances and three pienics, read five dime novels, and set up four nights in the week with her beau. The Astorian has an amusing account of the landing of a bull near Knappton, from the steamer Eclipse, which was new and novel in its way, and doubtless was enjoyed by the bovine. On reaching the desired spot the blowing of several whistles brought two men in a skiff out to the steamer, some distance from land. To the uninitiated mind the question arose as to the lack of capacity of the skiff to hold the animal. But men who knew their business were in charge. A Tope was thrown to the men in the skiff, at- tached to the horns of the bull, and by lead- ing the animal to the side‘of the steamer, a dextrous and concentrated pull of the crew landed the animal overboard in twelve feet of water. It only took a few moments for his lordship to appear at the surface of the water, blowing like a porpoise, with his tall slightly elevated in the air, heading for the shore and towing the boat along at a rapid pace. WASHINGTON. It is rumored that the government post at Port Townsend will shortly be abandonzd. Prairle fires have swept over 1500 acres of the rich bunchgrass on the Colville Indian reservation. Whitman county has decided on a site near Elberton for the poor farm and $4,400 will be paid for it. The plant known as China lettuce is get- ting a good start in some sections of Asotin county, and steps will be taken at once to prevent its further spread. Jefterson county is much grieved at a re- | cent ruling of Secretary Hoke Smith, by is greater by one-third than the abundant | which it stands to lose a bill of $300 for harvest of last year. The wheat and oat | taking care of some shipwrecked Alaska In- crop will be in about the same proportion. The Revero and Northern Spy mines have turned out to be tin properties. What the owners took to be silver proved to be tin. The local assayer, Mr. L. S. Kempher, made two tests from samples taken from the out- crop, which gave returns of 5 per cent and 6% per cent tin. This lode Is over sixty feet wide and shows a strong outcrop for aver 6,000 teet, The Lander Clipper says & gentleman just returned from Jackson's Hole confirms the report of the depredations of the Indians in that section. He says that the country is fairly alive with red skins, and that they re killing game to their heart's content, leaving the carcasses to rot in the sun, carrylug away the skins only, They are ali | dians last winter, The Snake River Frult Growers' associa- tion will ship this season 150 carloads of fruit to eastern points. The association’s shipments thus far have aggregated 16,050 boxes, or sixteen carloads. The Palouse is a great country. Not only are the greatest wheat crops of the world raiscd here, but the most wonderful of many other things are here seen. That's what Joseph Oakes of near Endicott thinks, and he has good reasons for his opinion. On Friday evening last his little child of 2 or 3 years was missed by the mother. She finally heard thu child crowing and laughing in the yard, and going out found the little one sitting on the ground, while twined around its neck and shoulders, and partially raser this year, which is 200 more than last year and double the number of four or five years ago. Skagit county will petition congress, as well as the stato legislature, to take m to protect the ures valley against the damage by another flood. Last spring's losses foot up to 0,000. To dredge the mouth of the Skagit river and to dike the banks will Te- quire from $125,000 to $200,000. MISCELLANEOUS. Cattle shipments in northern Montana are just beginuing. Eastern capitalists have arranged to take the bonds of the proposed Monterey & Fresno railroad. The big dam across Stevemson creek at Pine Ridge has been badly cracked by an earthquake shock, Since the building boom struck Caldwell, Idaho, the town has been overrun with con- tractors from Boise City. Crops are sald to be below the average in the Central Rio Grande valley of New Mexico on account of the lack of water. The Shoshoue shops are to be closed per- manently Scptember 1, and it is_understood the machinery will be moved to Pocatallo. The Burlington (Xtensfon to Billings, Mont., is now completed north from Sheridan to the Crow agency, a distance of seventy miles, and the company expects to comence run- ning daily trains, The Municipal Investment company of Chi- cago has purchased the water works in Albuquerquz and Santa Fe for over $500,000. Big irrigation ditches will be run to furnish water to irrigate 100,000 acres of New Mexico land. It is stated that two women kidnapped a female Chinese slave in Los Angeles Satur- day night and took her San i to Francisco, presumably to save her from a life of de- bauchery, The Chinese in Chinatown are conslderably worked up over the matter. The Coeur d'Alene Indians ar to prevent the carrying of conc taking steps ed weapons upon the reservation. Louie McCheel, the Indian policz, arrcsted a white man with a revolver upon his person Thursday, and fined him $5 for carrying the same. But falling to pay the fine, his revolver was taken In lleu of the fine The Plute Indian prophet of Walker lake, who caused such a furore among his people several years ago by announcing the coming of the Indian Me ah and originating th ghost dance, Is at his old business gain with new tricks. He announces the end of the world to take place soon by a mighty rush of waters that will tear down the mountains and make a plain of the earth Reports from the Yukon state that the gold mines are ylelding more gold than usual. The Bertha brought down $100,000 worth of dust. The miners lost large quantities of stores by the floods, and it is feared that provisions will run short for the winter It is expected that at least 1,400 whites will winter on the Yokon this year. During the last winter the thermomeier registered 32 degrees b:low zero along the coast, and Indians say such cold weather has never before been known there. Elghteen Indians starved to death. e Shiloh’s Cure, the great cough and croup cure, is in great demand. Pocket size con- tains twenty-five doses, only 256 cents, Children love it. Sold by druggists. 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