Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 8, 1894, Page 12

™ THE OMAHA PULSE OF WESTERY PROCRESS @old from the Grass Roots Down in the Pour-Mile Conntry, ITS PLACERS INDICATE IMMENSE WEALTH Camp Blanca Booming-Report thut the Camp 1s “No Good” Denied—Investi gating Leadviile's Gold Bett— General Western News. Ex-Sherift James G, Rankin came in & few days ago from & ten days trip to the Four- Mile country, says a Rawlins special to the Denver TimesSun. He is very enthusiastic over the prospects of that region as a placer mining camp. That there Is gold there and plenty of it from the grass roots down to bedrock there is no possible doubt, while the country resembles a sandy rolling sage brush plain. The sand consists of pulverized quartz which carries gold In quantities from 10 cents o $10 per cubic yard, He made a number of locations, which he claims will yield $3 per yard. The gold is not gonfined to a small district, but covers an extent of country that has already been more or less prospected, fif- teen miles in width by twenty-five miles in length. Mr. J. B. Adams, who Is manager for an Omaha syndicate, has recently taken in a dry process machine whicn it is claimed will handle 1,000 cubic yards of gravel in a ten hours run. The machine is said to be a success in every particular, the manufactur- ers guaranteeing that it will save 95 per cent of the gold passing through the machine 1t requires some water, which has already been secured, and its operations will be watched with the greatest interest, for it it | does the work clalned for it a large number of similar machines will be at once ordered and placed In position to begin operations with the opening of next season. During the last fortnight there has been great ac- tivity in the camp, caused by the arrival of prominent mining men from Denver, Aspen, 8an Francisco and Portland, Ore. A large amount of placer ground on Four- Mile, Jack Rabbit, Timberlake, Dry Guich, Big Hole, etc., have been located, all of which Is claimed to be very rich. It Is currently reported that Mr. D. H. Moffat of Denver, a prominent banker and mining operator, has purchased a large block of claims. Mr. James Gillesple of Aspen, a wealthy mine operator, with a party of miners, also visited the camp and has ordered the survey of a ditch, which will tap the up- per waters of Slater creek and cover many thousands of acres of good mining ground on Four-Mile and Timberlake, where he owns numerous claims. The ditch will be about twenty-five miles long. The Gold Valley company, an Aspen organ ization, of which Mr. Shear Is president, will construct a ditch from Snake river, tapping the river near Dixon, covering all the land heretotore held by them, as well as a large amount recently purchased, all of which will be vigorously worked, as the president is #aid to have an income of $40,000 per month. Another company has just completed the sur- vey of a ditch from a point near Dixon to the Big Hole and Dry Gulch district, which will furnish water for many thousand acres of fine, rich placer ground. Mr. Booth has very rich ground, as is also that owned by E. H. Swizer, L. Calvert, John Easum, C. Hayes, Willlam Booth and others. The claims owned by John Hardenburg of Aspen are pronounced the richest so far developed The gentleman is a thorough prospector and practical miner, who has had many years ex- perlence which has served him well in the cholce of his locations, He bas several gentlemen associated with him which next season's clean-up will make @ handsome stake for him. Qolonel R. H. Wilson and his brother, .George, two well known old-time residents of Timberlake, have probabiy as rich ground yet discovered. They are washing out big money every day and saving all their &0ld by the use of a machine invented and constructed by themselves, The Rock Springs company, of which Frank Hinman is man- ager, owns a large tract of rich ground which they worked the present season, taking out a large amount of gold. The company is making preparations for greatly Increasing its capacity, intending to work @ much larger number of men next season. A Rock Springs paper, speaking of fts last clean-up, says: ‘‘Great chunks of gold as large as average sized turnips are the attraction in Wipperman's show window this week. The aggrcgate weight of the lumps Is something over ninety ounces and their Intrinsic value is nearly $2,000. They are the result of one week's clean-up from the bydaulle placer works on Four-Mile creek, about seventy miles south of Rawlin A Mr. Boise is working over the tallings at Nelson's camp on Four-Mile and is aver- aging about §15 per day, which he modestly calls making wages. A number of Rawlins parties have recently made a large number of locations. There is a daily stage from this point. Dixon, four miles north of the camp, Is reached in twelve hours. GOLD IN ALPINE GULCH. The coming gold mining district of Hins- dale county will without doubt be in the Alpine country, according to the Lake City Phonograph, This gulch opens at about two and a halt miles southwest of this city and runs back about six miles, forming one of the most attragtive and richest mineral ized districts in the Sen Juan country. Float which Is found here in great abun- dance is of a tellurium character and of the very highest grade. A recent tellurium discovery was made on property located in the main range and due west of the old Fidellia mine, where a large body of tellurium ore has been uncovered, and in an assay the return showed thirty-five ounces in silver and five ounces In gold. It is thought by all mining men that this is by far the richest and soon to be the most productive distriet in this sectim of the country. The Fidellia mine, which is known all over the state for its rich bowlders, is being worked steady. The parties in charge are running a cross-cut-tunnel to cateh t vein, which will be accomplished in about 200 feet, and cut the vein about elghty feet decper than where it was opened in the old tunnel. Across the gulch from the Fidellia 15 located the Chicago and Kansas City lodes, which are being worked by local parties. A tunnel has been run on the vein about forty feet, passing through a porphyri- tic quartz and following a streak cf tale, which is thoroughly impregnated with ‘pyrites of iron, and baving every other indi- cation of scon belng a steady producer. The prospectors in this section find it a great feast to search for the leads that the rich float comes from, and when a few more of the large veins are opened up an excitement such as this country has never experienced is sure to follow. MORE MINES AT CRIPPLE CREEK A boquet of the new discoveries of pro- nounced merlt lends a spicy aroma to the talk among the leading mining men of the camp, says a Cripple Creck speclal to the Denver Times-Sun. Some time since it was given out that a team of shipping ore had _been found, but as rumors of this kind are frequent in regard to mines in genersl, no #pecial attention was paid to it. 1In the last day or two all doubts have been put to rest, and the forecast can safely be made that in futyre the Summit will ot be simply & low- grade mine. Some of the finest specimens in the district have been taken from the ore bins here since Sunday. For (he most part they consist of flourin:-staintd quartz earrying free gold, though there is also a rich seam of brown quartz. What 18 of far greater importance (s the almost positive assurance that a vein has at length been opesed on this ground. It means much, not only for the Summit, but for other properties on Globe Hill. As now #howing, it is from six to eight feet between walls, and has a strong seam of from one to Wo feet of bonanza pay. A carload of high- grade has already been taken out that can safely be put down to run not below $100 a ton. In addition, it can be said that the re- - Merves of milling mineral Increase each da ‘There is now from a dozen to fifteen months' supply marked out for the mill, and though ity tons & day are taken out, it does not DAILY BEE: BATURDAY, seem to make a seratch on the linmense n"' bodies. Thirty men are hers at work. RICH ORE AT RICO The placer mines have developed such rich deposits that Rico bide fair_to become re- nowned as a gold camp. Messrs. Charls Little and Robert Snyder, while prospecting seven miles below Rico, says the Denver News, went down to bed roek on # bar close to the road. They washed out four pan and found $18 worth of gold. It Las lung been known that gold existed in this vicinity, but it has never been prospected to ahy ex- tent. A few days ago Mr. John Little, a brother, found some magnificent gold, which caused furth:r investigations. At the mouth of Scotch creek a yard of gravel produced gold to the amount of $1.75. This was (aken out with a crude form of rocker. Prepara tions are being made for sluicing and further developing. The largest nugget weighed 137 grains. Five others welghed 8, 6, 86, u9 and grains respectively. There séems to be quite a quantity of coarse gold. Ten pleces of this grade welg twenty-two graing The business men of the town are buying into the claims, and a stocck company is being formed RAILROAD TO COOS BAY. The Marshfield & Peninsular Railroad com- pany has been incorporated in this city, with a capital stock of $100,000, for the purpose of building a raflroad and telegraph lin from the western terminus of the Coos Ha Roseburg & Eastern railroad in a nortii- erly direction to North Bend and Coos bay, says the Portland Oregonian, The promoters of the scheme and incorporators of the com- pany are Captain Thomas W. Symons of the United States engineers; Mr. Lee Hoffman, a well known contractor, and Mr. San rson Reed, the lawyer, all of Portland. Every thing is In readiness to commence th: work and push it to completion at an early date, just as soon as the right of way can be secured through Marshfield. In speaking of the project, Captain Symons said: ““Our idea is to build a sort of belt line from Marshfield around the outer edge of the pen- insula, o0 as to enable certain new Industries to be established there. Tuese industries cannot be established Just now because there is no way to bring n the necessary materials. The materials can be obtained from along the line of the Coos Bay, Roseburg & Eastern railroad, which terminates at Marshfield. Just now we contemplate building but four miles of track, but may build more at a later date. Gventually we hope to -see the Coos Bay, Roseburg & Bastern road built into Roseburg, a distance of sixly miles from its present stern terminus at Coquille. That would open up direct rail communication between Portland and the beautiful deep water harbor at Coos bay, and a country rich in resources, which s practically tributary to California at the present time, would become tributary to Portland. That is a country of which people here are comparatively ignorant. It has extensive forests of lumber famous the world over; coal mines upon which Califor- nia is dependent for a portion of its supply, and dairy products unsurpassed. The Coos Bay, Roseburg & Eastern road, which Is but fifty-six miles in length, ‘always has been a paying proposition, and three steamers ply be- tween Marshfield and San Francisco the year round. The shipbuilding yard at Marshfield has turned out many substantial vessels since its establishment, and has the Pight sort of tim- ber on hand to turn out more and better ones. Some new coal mines are to be opened up in the near future, and the shipments of coal largely increased. The settlers in that portion of the state are still a little scat- tered, but they are thrifty and progressive. We have not yet secured our Tight of through Marshfield, but it has been promised, and we do not anticipate any trouble in securing it. The town will be greatly benefited by the road. “The extension of the Coos Bay, Roseburg & Eastern road eastward is not necessarily a dificult task. The country is rough in some places, but good passes may be found, and there are really no insurmountable diffi- culties.” way A NARROW ESCAPE. A. D. Mershon of Troutdale recently had an adventure with-a cougar in. the moun- tains which he does not care to repéat siys the Portland Oregonian, He was out for a walk in the thick timber and was proceeding leisurely along absorbed In the beautles ot the forest surroundings when he was suddenly aroused from his contem- plation of nature by the stealthy approach of an an'msl in front. Mr. Mershon saw the animal was @ cougar, and belng unarmed, having nothing but an old sack, he at- tempted to get around it, shiking the sack at the animal to frighten it. It continued to approach within a few yards, where it assumed a crouching attitude, preparing to spring upon Mr. Mershon, who concluded his time had come. However, summing up all nis courage, looked the cougar squarely in the For several minutes neither moved. Mr. Mershon thought it was an age, never taking their eyes off each other, The ferccity of the beast sesmed to subside, end presently he walked ofi, eyeing Mr. Mershon until he disap- peared in the timber, As soon as the ani- mal had gone Mr. Mershon retraced his steps with flying leaps. It was on2 of the largest c.ugars geen in the locality. and would have been an ugly customer, es pecially for an unarmed man. THE DAKOT Preparations are already begun opening of the state university million on September 12, A boy about 12 years of age, while herd- ing cattlo cn the Rorebeck farm near Trent, was gored to death by a bull. In connection with tha coal strike at Glasgew serious rioting occurred and se eral pits were wrecked by disorderly mob: The first large shipment of cattle from th: ceded Sioux land ranges has been made from Chamberlain, comprising a train of thirty cars, hauled by two locomotives, and destined for Chicago. The water works plant at Dell Rapids Is at a standstill for lack of material. The contract ealled for a completion of the werk by August 15, and the delay is c:using con- siderable dissat staction. Three residents of Smith township, in Brulo county, hava enjoined the county au- thorities frim procezding to put down the artesian well recently ordered in that town- ship. Scme people believe this will result In stopping work on all wells in that county. The summer shipment of cattle from Fort Plirre to eastern markets has commenced in earnest. About 1,000 head have already been shipped to the Chicago markets, and about 20,000 head will be shipped within the next thirty days. The cattle are in fine coudition, but will' improve, as the hot weather is about over, and the grass on the range is fine. A few days ago a grave was near Miller, the slab upon which bore this epitaph ‘Wm. Dunn, Linn, lowa; dizd May 11, 1861; Indians.” A number of graves have been discovered in this vieinity during the past few years, some of which contained well preserved skeletons, and the inference is that a severe battle was fought here in the carly 60's between the United States troops and Indians. The “low price of wheat and scarcity of corn In the counties and states south of Aberdeen has opened up a new enterprise, which consists in buying up the young pork ers from districts 10 the south and feeding them on cheap wheat. The wheat is soaked in tanks ty-elght hours before feeding and is then relished by swine. IUs fallow- ing properties are sald to far exc 1 those corn, one bushel going as far as one a half of the coarser grain, Already seviral large shipments have been made. The Custer Chronicle, while complaining of the d:lay In establishing the axle grease factory, notes with pleasure that other pro- ducts * besides axle grease will be manu- factured. “Following is a list of the various articles which they propose to manufacture and handle ext:nsively: Lubricating com- pounds, tale, lump and ground; saponule, fluke, saponule, ground; plumbago, lump plumbago, ground; plumbago paints, mica heets for stove, mica for elcetrical purposes, mica flake, mica fine ground; Sicnna paint raw Sienna paint burnt and foundry fac- ing he eye. for at the Ver- unearthel COLORADO. The Mancos Times says seventeen mines in that district are now shipping ore. Over In E:gle county the Tip Top company has decided to erect a mill. Work has com- menced on the foundation. Ore which ylelds §600 per ton In gold 1s being taken from the Mastcdon in Silver- ton district. This is a recent discovery. News comes from Bear creck, in the Aspen district, that the Little May is outputting ore that assays 343 ounces gold and 263 ounces silver per ton. A placer machine fnvented by Gordon Land, Which is said o have & capacity for handling 30,000 cuble yards of material in twenty-four hours, has been located on the Arkausas ’ 5.00 We’ve heard of better suits For $20.00. None better for $15.00— To Introduce us. We are going to clothe every man in this » town with that Fifteen dollar suit for five, ! if the other dealers don't look out. It's a single - breasted or double breasted, especially made for this opening sale, six shades, straight or round cut. None see it but buy it. knee pants suits 75c. Boys’ full The M. H. Cook Clothing Co, Successorsto Columbia Clothmg‘ CO., 18th and Farnam Sts.,, Omaha. river, about four miles below Granite, on the Wheeler claim, and will commence operations at once, The owners of the concentrating plant at Rico are well satisfled with the returns re- ceived from thelr first shipment to the Durango smelters. Dillon, in Summit county, wants sampling works o that a market may be had there for smail lots of ore. Two railroads, plenty of water and cheap fuel are among the in- ducements, The Georgetown Courler reports a number of gold strikes in that hitherto argentiferous camp. It is surprising how these wornout old silver mines are turned into steady and voluptuous gold producers. In gophering around the Difficult Creek Mining company has opened up a fine two- | foot vein of mineral, which runs anywhere from a trace to ten ounces in gold. The camp is about twenty miles from Aspen. An assay from the Scott claim on Fall civer near Idaho Springs showed a test of $252,000 of gold to the ton. ‘hat the ore is found in small that the development work has several of these. High grade sn kets, and uncovered elting ore is being shipped from the Longfellow, located southeast of Hull's camp on Bull hill, over at Cripple Creek. The find is being kept as quiet as possible. The pay streak Is two feet in width and the ore runs about §$100 per ton from grass roots. At the head of Russell gulch in the Idahs Springs district is the Fairfield mine, which has not been worked for a number of years, although it had a record of $150,000 in" gold. Work has been resumed by Williams & Harker, who have erected a new shaft house, put in new machinery and, will sink the shaft to a depth of 500 feet. They find plenty of free milling and smelting ore. Mr. Scott says | Scrapers will be utilized on the large placer beds near BIuff City, on the San Juan river. Major Hound, who controls a large share of the property, claims that he has the most complete gold-saving placer plant in the west, and that he will be able to put through from 200 to 250 cublc yards of gravel per day at a minimum cost. He has two Kennedy ma- chines and an electroplate of large capacity. The gravel is worth over 50 cents per cubic yard, and his appliances will save it all, at least he is confident that they will. WYOMING. There is big gold excitement recent discovery of gold in the mountains. The cattlemen around Green River report that there is considerable rustling being done in that vicinity, The haying season in the Platte valley 1s mbout over. The crop was one-third heavier this season than it was last year, A number of residents in and around Fort Laramie, about 100 miles north of Cheyenne, near the junction of the Laramie and North Platte rivers, report great devastation by grasshoppers. They have eaten the grass for miles, and the crop of hay will be very short. They appear, however, to be gradu- ally leaving the neighborhood, but the dam- age already done s very great. The Casper Derrick says ravge riders re- port awful havoc by wolves this season. Prominent cattlemen place the destruction of calves at fully one-fifth, and say that they find an average of three to five calves that have been killed by wolves every day, and a great many ows and yearlings terribly mangled. No end of complaint is heaped on the Natrona county commissioners for their lack of encouragement to have these pests exterminated. OREGON. Newberg voted fcr §15,000 water works. A $4,500 school house is nearing comple- tion at Bay City. The Coos bay creamery Is pounds of butter and recelving pounds of milk per day, A movement is taking shape in Columbia county to build a road over the mountains into the Nehalem country. * Jobn Hyde of lzee, lately sold 217 head of cattle, and Is delivering the same at Huntington, He realized $10 to $12 for cows, §9 to $10 for yearlings, and $13 to §14 for twos. A panther was killed at the ranch of Henry Sengstacken, on South slough, Coos bay, which measured over seven feet in length, The animal had succeeded in killing three calves and one hog before he was killed. over the Big Horn making 485 11,600 Harney county has paid off her artesian well man and called it quits. It is thought &0 abundant flow of water could have been obtained if they bad used the proper ma- chinery for boring deep holes, The drill gus stuck at a depth of nearly 8§00 feet, and could not be recovered. At Coos bay the chinook run of salmon is late putting In an appearance this year. Fishermen, up to the present, have been making very poor catches. WASHINGTON. The fight over the location of the capital at Butte, Mont., {s getting quite warm. An ordinance has passed the Oakesdale council euthorizing the issuing of $28,000 light and water honds. “Wheat King Northcutt” of Pullman has 100 acres of glant wheat which he thinks will average eighty bushels to the acre. At Monte Cristo they expect $75,000 to be expended this fall in putting the Everett & Monte Cristo railroad in first class order. Among the subjects discussed at the Yakima hop growers' convention was the pay of Indian “bosses.” The sum of $2.50 a day was agreed upon. The Everett council is still wrestling with petitions urging it to-submit a proposition to the voters authorizing $30,000 sewer and $30,000 park and harbor bonds. The Stillaguamish creamery at Slyvenia has commenced operaticns and is turning out 1,000 pounds of butter daily, which it is ex- pected to increase shortly to 5,000. V. Kellogg, a farmer one mile from Cum- berland, Wis., discovered gold, silver and copper while digging a well. A company is being formed, and a prospecting shaft will be sunk at once. There is now on exhibition at the head- quarters of the Payette Valley Fruit associ- ation, at the depot, a cucumber twenty inches long and thirteen inches in circum- ference, weight seven pounds. okane county has made free distribu- tion through drug stores this season of something like 14,000 ounces of strychnine, six tons of bisulphide of carbon and 500 pounds of phosphorus to farmers for the de- struction of ground squirrels, A submarine eruption in Bristol bay re- cently killed a great number of codfish and salmon. The effect of this was so extensive that the natives had been unable to catch any fish as late as August 1. All the vol- canoes in Alaska are active this summer, which is very unusual. On the Austin ranch, nesr Whatcom, there is & fir tree seven feet in diameter growing over & half burled, perfectly sound cedar, which is five feet In dlameter. It is esti- mated that the cadar must Lo several hunir d years old. Instead of sparing this arboreal Ccuriosity the Isenses choppers cut the fir tree off about ten feet from the ground. The Penniman frult evap:rator ordered by the Yakima Evaporator company has ar- rived and is now being placed in position. It is thought that the machine will be in readiness for operations this week. It will cost, complete, about $1,500, and will have & capacity of five to six tons of prunes per day, or ten to twelve tons of apples. This will be the second uf these machines north of California, the other being at Ashland, Ore. William Rehmke shows the Ellensburg Local'zer a chunk of coal that was taken from Rebmke Bros.' mine, one and one-halt miles above Cle-elum. It is on the same vein as thal of the-Roslyn coal, which it resembles very much. The opening of the mine is about a mie and a half from the railroad. The mime-is in a'gulch and the vein crosses it, running in a southwesterly direction. The coal i pronounced as good, and perhaps superior, to the Roslyn de- posit. The tunnel (s in’ about twenty-five feet and the vein is five feet thick. The authorities at’ Seal islands have fin- ished killing seals for (his year, having slain 15,000 of the-animals, = The forty sehooners comprising the sealing fleet have all cleared from Unalaska. They report having killed from 400 to 4,000 seals each while enroute to VUnalaska, and cach schooner expects to il at least 1,000 seals after August 1. It is expected that the fleet will kill between 75,000 and 100,000 seals this year. The captains of the schooners say that it will not be necessary for them to go near the sixty-mile limit, as, according to thelr experience, the seals do not feed nearer than 100 miles from the islands, MISCELLANEOUS. The Pecos valley, N. M., fair will be aban- doned this year. Honey 1s being shipped by the car load trom Phoenix, Ariz., to New York and Liver- pool. Over 1,000 car loads of California fruit has passed through Cheyenne this year, and the season s not yet over Six miles of the grade for the extension of the San Pete Valley road is now com- pleted, and about half the ties for the en- tire line have been delivered, The heaviest | factured. work will be encountered in the remainin two miles of grading, and no such rapid pro- gress will be made. A rich gold strike has bien made in the McNeil district, on the divide between Big Goose and Tongue river, and about two miles from the new Gillette mountain road, in Sheridan county, Wyoming. Fisk J. Shaffer of Helena has been awarded the contract for the erection of a $5,000 jail at Mammoth Hot Springs in the National park, and work on it has already begun. It is to be completed this fall. Another new geyser broke forth in the upper geyser basin in Yellowstone park. Boiling water was thrown 150 feet high and over a radius of 200 square feet. The new geyser broke forth very unexpectedly and a tourist named Lorenzo E. Anderson was badly scalded For the first half month the Mercur mill, at old Camp Floyd, Utah, cleaned up $18,000. The company expects to double its output in a short time, having ordered additional ma- chinery, so that the mill can handle 200 tons per day. The Mercur is the most suc- cessful cyanide plant in the country. Two hunters recently returned trip to Fish lake and the Metoles end tell the Albany Hereld that 150 Indians are slaughtering deer, killing does and fawns, in the mountains near Fish lake. It is sald that last fall Indian hunters Killed over 1,000 deer in that region and saved nothing but the hams and hides. Hon. Orlando North of Evanston, manager of the Clover Valley Land and Cattle com- pany, one of the heaviest organizations in the state, is shipping some cattle to Chi- cago. The gentl:man has just been in Idaho for the purpose of purchasing 1,000 head of steers for his Wyoming nch. He regards the outlook for cattle good, although prices are low. Considerable oll snow rests at the bt tom of the old crater on Canon mountain, and its gradual melting keeps the numerous springs along the mountain full to over- flowing of the purest ice water. An effort was made cnce by the miners to wall up the side of the crater which had f:llen In, and make an immense reservoir for storing water for mining purposes, but that was found to be impracticable, as subterranean fissures carry off the water as rap.dly as the everl:sting snows melt. According to the Corvallis Times the best prune crop in Benton or Linn counties this season will be picked on Hugh Finley's place, eleven miles south of Corvalli. The or- chard has been leased this season to H. M. Stone, who is now building on the place a Kertz dryer with a capacity of 200 bushels every twenty-four hours. The Kertz dryer is made at Salem and contains 150 trays when full. Mr. Stone has four men em- ployed on the work and expects to be ready for drylng by the last of this month It is expected that the amount of prunes pleked from the Finley crchard will reach 3,600 bushels. The Salt from a Lake Herald harvesting of sugar beets on Monday, September 3, later the factory of the Utah Sugar com- pany will begin the manufacture of sugar and continue the work for not less than 100 days, In which time it is anticipated over 4,000,000 pounds of sugar will be manu- This will be an increase of nearly 200,000 pounds over the production of 1893, a_ very gratifying showing for one year, proving, as it does, that the farmers are be: coming more skillful in the culture of the beets, and therefore reaping greater rewards for their industry. On or before November 1 the Burlington will be completed to a junction with the Northern Pacific at Billings, Mont. It has already made svch arrangements with the Northern Pacific as will make it one of the most prominent factors in transcontinental business (o and from the Pacific ~oast, For all practical purposes it will be a. addi- tional transcontinental line, as it will run through trains to Portland via Billlngs and the Northern Pacific. Although ihe North- ern Pacific will thus admit a new competitor Into its own territory, the combination will materially strengthen it in its irrepressible conflict with the Great Northern. Oregon Kidney Tea cures backache. #ize, 25 cents. All druggist: i L A Terror to the Conductors of the trains running through the Pennsylvania coke regions dread the Hungarian and Italian passengers. They seldom ride long distances and they never buy their tickets before they board the train. The great traveling day with these people is SBunday, when they go In parties of a dozen or more to visit friends In neigh- boring settlememts, They take particular states will that the commence and four days Tria) | pains to hand the conductor a $6 note or perhaps one of $10 out of which to take the fare for an eight or ten mile ride. By the time a conductor makes change, cuts a “‘duplex” for each passenger, and answers the dozen or more questions they are sure to ask in broken English, he is a tired man. P — THE HOG AND THE BEAR. A Lively Fight, in Which the Bear Was Vanquished and Devoured. Leonard Alverson of Leye Creek, Pa., ped. dles meat through that part of Bradford county, says a correspondent (o the New York Sun. His slaughter house stands close by a wood, near the creek, and Is out of sight of his house and the maim road. Ad- Joining the slaughter house on the woodland side there is a large yard, with a high fence, in Which the butcher keeps a lot of hogs to feed on the offal. The, slaughter house shuts off the view of the yard on the side toward the road. When butcher Alverson slaughter house at daybreak last Tuesday morning he heard the hogs smorting and tearing about the yard as though they were being driven around by a dog. A tnree-year- old boar that the butcher nad kept confined for several months was also snorting and thrashing around in his pen in a corner of the slaughter house. Butcher Alverson ran into the building and looked through the cracks to see what had alarmed the swine. One glance brought to view an fmmense black bear near the center of the yard. The bear was feeding on the offal as if he hadn't eaten anything for sev- eral days. He had evidently just tackled it, and he had full possesion of the yard. The hogs were in a state of terror at sight of the big, black animal, and were cantering along the fence and vainly trying to find a hole to crawl out. The hungry bear paid no at- tention to them, but put in his best licks to fill his stomach, Not having a gun at hand and thinking to have some fun with the bear, Mr. Alverson got a crowbar and opened the door to the boar's pen on the inside. The boar, bounded out Into the yard with an angry snort and came up standing when he saw the bear. Bruin glared at the newcomer for a moment and then pitched into the offal again. The boar, having apparently made up his mind that the bear had no right to be in the yard, charged on the big black beast, and before the bear had time to realize that he had an antagonist the belligerent hog cut a hole in the bear's Jaw with his tusks and leaped to one side, snorting as he dashed past the bear, The bear wheeled and lunged at the boar, but the maddened hog had just turned for another attack, and being quicker than the bear, he set his tusk into the bear's snout and hung on until the bear gave him a cuff that sent him staggering toward the other hogs. Both were game, though, and again they came together and had a bout in which the bear got the worst of it With blood pouring from his nostrils the bear forced the boer into the corner where the hogs had huddied, but in that he made a mistake, for the smell of fresh blood enraged the hogs and the whole diove of mearly twenty piled upon the bear and rolled him over in the dirt to the opposite end of the yard, where he broke away and started to climb a tree Inside the fence. The infuriated boar pulled him down several times, but finally the bear, with blood streaming from half a dozen wounds, ot away from the boar and climbed to th branches, Then he soon became %o weak that he lost his hold and fell to the ground. In less than five minutes the boar killed the bear. Then the other hogs commenced to tear him to pleces, and by sundown, Mr. Alverson said, he was devoured. Mrs. Ellen Malson, wife of Elder Malson, pastor of the U. B. chruch at Galton, 11I., in speaking of Chamberlain’s Pain Balm, says “I can cheerfully recommend it." Applied 10 & cut, brulse or burn, it produces a sooth- ing, pleasant effect, relieving the pain al- most instantly and healing the parts quickly and without leaving a scar. A flannel cloth dampened with this liniment and bound on over the aflccted part will cure a sprain in less time than any other treatment. Sold by druggists, approached the - Rare Coins in a Kiver, For ceuturies it has been the belief of the common people of Genca that treasures were hidden In the bed of the Polcavera, a stream that runs by the clity. Recently a carter, in digging for sand In the bed of the dried up torrent, came upon hidden treasure, ¢f which s0 far coln of Lhe face value of 60,000 francs has been f the supply is not yet exhauered, oy T Italian law half of this goes to the state &nd haif to the finder. The value of the colns is far beyond the sum mentione many of them are rare and of great artistiq value; they are chicfly gold and belong to the period between 1460 and 1550, that is, the " regions of 'Louls XI, Charles VIIL, Louis XIL and Francls 1 and " all are ‘either French or Gene cese. The Genoese ducats are specially rare and will fetch h'gh prices. The search for treasure is going on und o er poli - L police super: ENLISTED M3N IN THE ARM 7 Qu Eugaging the Attentlon of t ‘War Department. Several questions of importance to the ene listed men of the army are engaging the at- tention of the War department officlals, says a dispatch to the G obe-Democrat. The ad- visabllity of repealing the law which deprives the soldier of §4 monthly during his first year of service comes in for speclal consider- ation. What disposition shall be made of hecruiting depots, and the apprehension of deserters, are two other points upor action will be taken. ] bl The object of the law which retains part of the men’s pay each month was to prevent desertions. It was supposed that, if the soldier had a conelderable sum of money on the paymaster's book, he would not leave the colors. Experience shows that such ex- pectation is not realized in practice, Men who are bent on desertion are not deterred by restrictions of the kind, The fact that their pay is withheld in part is frequently the chief cause of diecontent, which ends in desertion. War department cflicials are now getting the views of officers at the several Posts as to whether or not the repeal of the law would work to the benefit of the soldier and the serv In gelting the desired in- formation, an exception to the military rule is to be made, and the enlisted men thems selves are to be asked for opinlons in the matter, 1f the reports show that a change is ad- visable, congress will be asked 1o toke ace tion in the case. Opinifons on the subject, already expressed, are to the effect that the soldier's full pay should be kis own to do with as he pleases, and that the goverament should not retain any part of it, espesialiy it the service of the man bas been hunest and faithful, Relative to recruiting depots a eompromise feature of the new army apprioriadn agct makes it optional with tiie secretary of wam to send recruits from recraiting rendez\cus to either depots or military pests Arsistang Secretary Doe, after consul'ation with a number of officers who ve recen.ly served with troops, opposes Lho continuance of je= cruting depots. He wishes to sea them ene tirely abolished, or, what s practically the same thing, be made rogalar military pocts. A large percentage of line officers are sald be favorable to the change, These cfficera prefer to get their men direstly frou the rendezvous, and thus he abls tc control thir earliest instruction in military matiers, G Doe's arguments are likely to prevail with Secretary Lamont. Jefferson Barracks, where cavai'ymen cre trained, may be made an txceptcn i the rule, as there are but few facilities snd little time for disciplining the uorse troaps ot regu= lar posts. Under a law jast passed by ccne gress $10 is to be the maximum sum to be paid for the arrest and delivery cof descrters and in the future no special «ffort will be made to detect them. Steps 7ill be taken to prevent desertion by making the scrvice more attractive and the soldiers more com- fortable, but when a man runs i way his cap- ture will be a matter of indifference to the military authoritie tios S Kiduey Tea cures Trlal eize, 25 cents, AT Typogruphical Curlosity. Among the curiosities of typography a prominent place must be given to the recent achlevement of a Chicago paper in the mixe ing up of headlines In & most startling manner, First there Is an article with the caption: THE CONDOR OF THE ANDE! Albert Scaton Bery of Kentucky Bears That Distinction column, on the same page of question, 1y thls announces all kido'y All druggista, Oregon troubles. In another the paper In ment TALLEST MAN IN CONGRESS, Soars Far Above the Eagle and Reaches & Helght of Six Miles. - Beloaoie Oregon Kidney Tea cures nervous heade aches, Trial sise, 26 cents, All drugglate, ,