Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 26, 1894, Page 5

b | 3 - PULSEOF WESTERN PROGRESS Tests on the Baker Contact Proncunce the La Plata e Region of Fabulous Wealth, ORE INSIGHT WORTH NEARLY $100,000,000 Ponsiderea the Largest and Most Valuable Ore Body on the Continent—Great Power Project at Les o ~Another Kail- road—Northwestern News. The Baker contact has far excceded the most sanguine expectations of its discoverer. For several days rumors of a clean-up at the experimental mill have been floating through the air. The reports safd that the result of the first week's work slowed $10.98 a ton. As the experts never prophesied more than $4 or $5 few persons placed any confi- dence in the reports. Colonel 8. H. Baker, the discoverer of the veln, arrived in the city from the La Plata region, says the Denver News. He corrobo- Tates the statement of other persons from the district, and his joyous manner indicates that he is on the road to fortune. “There has been so much talk about the contact,” sald he In reply to inquiries, “that I am afraid to say anything. I will say, however, that the ore body is far be nd our expectations. A mill run of thirty-five tons for the first week cleaned up between $10 and $11 to the ton, and the ten stamps are now pounding away day and night. The ore is growing richer velopment pro- gresses, Three tunnels being run into the ore body, one of which is in seventy feet on ore all the way, and the other two are In about forty fect. The miners at work in the tunnels are all men of experience, and they say that they have reached $100 ore.” Colonel Baker says the mill is running at the rate of fifteen tons a day. The ore is sent to the mill as fast as it is mined and only eighteen miners are employed, as the road to the mill is too rough to admit of heavy hauling. ore body is more decom- posed as depth increases. It is a porphyritic quartz and is stained with copper. In one place the ore is guarried from the vein, a straight cut of thirty feet being made. The vein i3 700 feet between walls. The syndicate of which D. H. Moffat, Eben Smith and Colo- nel Baker are members has located eleven claims on the contact. It Is now estimated at a conservative basis, that there are $9,000,- 000 worth of ore in sight between the two walls. 1t this estimate is anywhere near correct the Baker contact Is by all odds the greatest gold discovery ever made on the con- tinent. Colonel Baker will explain the situ tion to Mr. Moffat and a meeting of the cor pany will be held to arrange for operations on a large scale. The success of the mill has started a new boom In the La Plata re- glon and miners are again flocking to the claims which they temporarily deserted pend- Ing the experiment,at the mill. The news of the clean-up carries joy to scores of Denver people who pinned their faith to the La Plata district and have waited patiently for many months for reliable in- formajion as to large mill runs. Ten dollar ore means the erection of a reduction plant with ten times the capacity of the plant now fn operation. It remains for vwners of claims on the opposite side of the mountain, five to seven miles away, to prove that their properties are to be classed with the great Baker contact. At a conservative estimate the experts figure that there are § worth of ore in sight in the Baler contact The successful experiment makes it probable that the estimated value is less than half of the real value of the remarkable dis- 20very. LEADVILLE AFTER POWER. That money s power has long ago been Xnown, but in the present age the adage ay well be reversed, for now power means money. The Leadville Water and Power company is to build a pipe line twelve miles in length, and will erect a plant for the pur- pose of generating electricity to furnish power to the mines and smelters, says the Herald-Democrat of that city. The necessity of an_electric power plant here has long been felt, and several years ago 'Mr. Priddy interested a number of gen- tlemen in the project. After looking over the ground it was decided not to erect the plant. Last week, however, Mr. Priddy re- celved a telegram from Mr. Hawks to the effect that himself and partners were now ready to procced with the pipe line and power plant. The pipe line will be twelve miles long, and the pipe will be thirty-six inches in dlameter. The new line will tap the Ar- kansas river at Birdseye gulch, and will be run along the old Oro and Fluming com- pany’s ditch into the city, until reaching Ninth street, when it will run down James street or Leiter avenue to Front street. The pipe line alone will cost §100,000. It will require over 100 carloads of lumber and forty cars of iron bands, in addition to a large amount of other machinery. The power house of the company will be erected In the vicinity of the old circus grounds, which property is owned by these people, as s the ground along which the line is to bo lald. It is estimated that the power plant to be erected will cost at the very least $50,000, as it will be fitted up ‘with modern machinery and will be equipped in such a manner that there will be no doubt of the abllity of the company to furnizh all the power that will be required. The real fmportance of this new enterprise may not sirike the average reader at first glance. It will, however, practically revolu- tionize mining and smelting in the camp. One great element of expense in mining has been the cost of keeping up an expensive steam plant for pumping and hoisting. The cost of keeping a number of pumps running is something enormous, and a great number of mining .men have been frightened out of attempting to sink shatfls by the presence of water. With the introduction of plants run by electricity, manufactured, as it is, at a nominal cost, all this will be changed. 1In the first place the cost of pumping will ba materially reduced, and in the second place the cost of m ning will be lessened. This will enable the mines 0 handls much lower grade ore than can be handled now at a profit. With the introduc- tlon of electrical power at the smelters the samo reduction in expense will be made, thus enabling them to make lower treatment charges, and thus encouraging the shipment of lower grade ore. Of course, at this time it would be difficult, it not impossible, to stato In dollars and cents just what this re- duction will amount to, but that there will be a material decrease in both the cost of wmising and smelting is assured WEALTH PAST RECKONING. From present appearances the wealth of the Independence ma e even past comput- ing, says a Cripplo Oveex wecial to the 4) ver Republican. Wnen the property was opened up at the surface the quartz only ran a few dollars to the ton. A little devel- opment showed better values and the pro- ducts for many months were sent to stamp mills. Later on it was discovered that the gold In the rock had materially increased, and from that time until the present every pound mined has been shipped to the smelter. It must be understood that this famous mine has only been opened by drift to a depth of 100 feet. A station at the second level has just been put in, from which miners are busily engaged in drifting o both directions. It was no small work putting the shaft down to its present depth, s It Is of gigantic proportions. Mr. W. 8. ratton, the owner, realizing the time the sinking of the hole would require, and grow- Ing somewhat impatient, concluded to start & winze on the veln and by this means see what he could find. This hole s now down fifty foet, and whilo it has been In good pay all the time, within the last few days it has eut something entirely new for the mine. It is a sylvanite ore. The discovery startied the foreman, and when the owner was in- formed of the find he directed that a Arift should be run toward each wall. Both were found, and a tape line shows that they are fitteen feet end elght inches apart. From wall to wall the quartz sparkles with syl- vanite. Some specimens run into the thou- sands, and it Is likely the entire body will average much better than ten ounces in gold 10 the ton, ONE MORE RAILROAD. Still another Utah-Colorado-Wyoming rail- road profect has been launched. This time It is the Colorado, Wyoming & Great Nor- thern, Grand Junction people, backed by uastern and foreign capital, being the pro- Adoters, Provo is te be the westera terminal purchasing the Little Book Cliff Railroad company property and will do a general | railroad business. The proposed scheme will | tap somo of the best country in the western slope d.x vict, and they will have no com- petition eountry is oft the line of all roads and | id to be some of the best land and Grand Junction another, says the Salt Lake Herald. Articles of Incorporation of the company were filed in Denver. The in- corporators are W. T. Carpenter, Thomas B. Sanford, Criss F. Lass, Melvin O, Whitehead and James P. Nesbitt, all of Grand Junction The company is incorporated for $1,000,000 | and the route of the line It proposes to build under its charter is from Grand Junction northwest to Douglas Creek Summit, in Gar- | fleld county; from there north to Rangeley | in Rio Blanco county, then by the most | feasible route to the Green river and up that | river to Green River station on the Unlon | Pacific. A branch line will also be run, starting at a point where the proposed line | crosses the White river, down the White to the Ouray Indlan agency, up the Du Chesne | river to Strawberry creek and on up through | the old Indian reservation, crossing the | Wasatch range and down to Provo, Utah, | The company also retains the privilege of In the west, particularly up through the old Indian reservation, which will probably be opened for settlement next year. GRAPHITE IN WYOMING. The graphite mines, situated in Halleck canyon, on the boundary line betwen Albany and Laramie counties, siy Cheyenne Sun, aro just now attracting « creat deal of attention. » Considerable prospect work hos vready been done and several claims located th present | season. Assays made in Denver and at the | Stato university of Wyoming show a high | percentage of graphite. | o ore body lies between well-defined | walls of slate and is practically inexhaustible. It s well located for convenient and economic working, both from the contour of the moun- tain containing the mineral and from its proximity to railroad contections. It is esti- mated that a little work would show up fully 80,000 tons of the ore. The higher grades of the minerals are said to be worth from $50 to $100 per ton, while the lower grades are valued at from $50 to $70. Of the $1,000,000 worth of the material used in the United States in 1892, over four- fitths was imported. The substance is largely used for pencils and as a bricant, for both of which it must be of high grade. The lower grades are used for stove blacking and many other articles, POWER FROM HUMBOLDT LAKE. While work s rapldly progressing on the canal to tap Humboldt lake the plans of the operators are materializing, and the mag- nitude of the operation is becoming known, says the Lovelock (Nev.) New Era. When the canal shall have been completed torrents of water will speed through the great vent, tearing on within the Say slough to the Car- son sink. With water heads and dynam the expending energy is to be converted into clectricity, to be stored or transmitted at the will of the operators, and expended with greater convenience than any other known power. The opening of the canal will drain 15,000 to 20,000 acres of rich alluvial tule land on this end of the lake, of which the canal pro- moters have already in their pos acres. The land is known to be e adapted to the growth of sugar beets; fur- thermore, the work of the agricultural ex- periment station at Reno shows the average per cent of the saccharine matter in the Ne- vada product to be the highest in the world, ranging as high as 24 per cent, with cor- responding coefficfent purity. With those facts presented, the conclusion is forced that the power generated at the canal, ten miles distant, will certainly be transmitted by cop- per wire along the railroad telegraph poles to a beet. sugar factory on the grounds. Not only the beet sugar factory, for, in ad- dition, there will be a flouring mill to convert the farmers' wheat into flour; a starch estab- lishment, where potatoes will yield their starch; a creamery, where milk will give up its butter The B.g Meadows of the Humboldt produce 500 to 600 car loads of wheat yearly, shipped to Liverpool, and the farmers buy ali their flour in California. On the Big Mead- ows of the Humboldt last season 6,000 head of beef cattle were fattened for market—just as well might 3,000 milk cows have converted the hay into rich milk for a creamery. Five to sixteen tons of the finest quality of pota- toes are produced to the acre. In the mountain range near the foot of the lake gold, :ilver and nickel and other ores are found, and to reduce such an elec- trical reduction plant will probably be built at the source of supply. A wire into town will supply Lovelock with electrical light. A more inviting combination of natural re- sources can scarcely be imagined. TEMPERANCE IN THEIR RELIGION. “Chehalis county Indians have just closed a peculiar religious ‘revival’ in the western part of the couuty,” says a Walla Walla gentleman. *Now they have gone to Pacific county, where they are going to stir up the tribes there. “Their religion is very unique, strikingly original, and distinctly Indian. It seems that it first originated in the Sound country among the Mud bay Indians, and the story goes that one of the tribe, John Slocum, was taken sick, gradually wasted away and died. In the midst of the preparations for the obsequies John created consterna- tion by coming to life again the day the funeral was to take place. He ken, and this is kailed with delight, as it i supposed that the bad spirit has left the candidate and entered into the bell, filling it to bursting. When this happens the candi- date is completely cleansed from all evil and is born again. The candidate for admission, after standing in the position for a short time, commences to shake through fatigue. This is taken as a sign that the good spiri is entering, and the noise and the din are, it possible, increused, until, from sheer ex- haustion, he falls trembling to the ground. His conversion is then complete and he is admitted into full membership. NEBRASKA. There are serious complaints of coal thefts in Fullerton, Coroner Gregg of Howard county has re- signed his position. The work of rebuilding the burnt district of Talmage is proceeding. Madison's new Knights of will be dedicated December 11. The Fullerton company of the state militia has been reorganized with twenty-five new ruits. Mulligan post of the Grand Army of the Republic at Western has been revivified with about twenty members. The fourth annual meeting of County Farmers' institute will be Cralg some lime during next month. Tekamah's lodge of the Ancient Order of United Workmen has been disbanded, and a number of the members have joined the Her- man lodge. Emil Von Bergen, a prominent business man at Columbus, was held up on the outskirts of the town, but as he had little meney he did not lose much, John McCarthy of Bellevue is down in Mis- souri to buy a pack of fox hounds and coon dogs for Sarpy county. He also proposes to bring back a live red fox. Willlam Dustin, the aged postmaster of Dustin, was thrown by a cow and lay for several hours in the cold before he could make himself heard. He is likely to be laid up for several weeks. Now that Ponca has secured her new mill she is after a cauning factory. It is pointed out that there is an unoccupied building in the town which could be utilized, and the cost of the machinery would not exceed $2,500. Mr. Farris of Broken Bow has removed to Auburn to enter into the hotel business in that town. While on the train enroute to Auburn his cook, who was traveling -on the car, accidentally upset a lamp and all the goods and the car they were in were burned. George Purnell, a farmer living near At- kinson, was moving to another farm for the winter. He had taken several bushels of grain and some household goods and left them for one night. When he returned they had all disappeared. Rev. J. P. Aurelius has preached his fare- well sermon at the Swedish Evangelical Lu- theran church at Wakefleld and has left for EI Campo, where he has been assigned to misslonary work along the gulf coast. He is succeeded at Wakefield by Rev. P. Sjoblom, D. D., of Fergus Falls, Minn. Hon. James Whitehead, who campalgned through the Sixth dlstrict for Matt Daugherty, has returned home, and reports to the Calla- way Courier that the Russian thistle is gain- {ug a strong foothold in the morthern portion of the state. He saw timber claims so piled Pythias hall the Burt held at up with the lodged weeds that only the top | Verdon, and will begin his pastorate limbs of the trees could be seen sticking out above the mi while wheat flelds, harvested this summer, were covered with a dense mass of the prickly growth. They even come up on the prairies wherever there is a chance for them to take root, and the roads and fences are lined with them everywhere. Hon. Willlam Kaup, member-elect of the | legislature, has disposed of his windmill | and pump business at Western in order to | be able to glve his time to his constituents Rev. Francis Mueller ot Clinton, Ia., has | recelved a call to the Lutheran church at | thero about the first of the year. Richard Bruln in Lodge Pole for a short time, and while he was in a store a lap robe and a blanket were stolen from his cart. The complaint is made that recently such thefts have become very common in | the town, and the business men of the place are invited to take measures to put a stop to them. They even steal ballot boxes and election returns when nothing else is in sight. THE DAKOTAS. The incorporation of the Black Hills Ar- tesian Well company at Rapid City bodes well for the future irrigation in the state. The Merchants mill of Mitchell has been awarded the contract to furnish 0,000 pounds of flour to Indians at Crow Creek and Lower Brule agencies The Burlington road has completed a spur to the Crown Hill group of mines, situate near Elk mounatin in the Black Hills coun- try. There is now over 100 tons on the dump that will average $17 to $18 per ton. As 2 ns the railroad company furnishes cars ular shipments will be made to the cyan- mill in Deadwood. Stutsman county has been notified that the recent decision of the supreme court of North Dakota reaffirms the first decision of Judge Rose of the district court, before whom the case was originally tried, in the Northern Pacific gross earnings tax suit, The court holds that the taxes are legal and can be collected. The amount due the county now amounts to several thousand doilars. Other counties in the state are similarly affected. COLORADO. The Suffolk mine, Ophir district, is pro- ducing gold at the rate of $3,760 per week. Pine Creek, the new gold camp of Gilpin county, will continue development during the winter. Up in the Red mountain country the sled has taken the place of the wagon for hauling above timberline. The Summit lode, Virginia district, Gilpin county, is producing ore running twelve ounces in gold per cord on the plates. Durango is moving for better roads to the La Plata mines. The present highways are unfit for the hauling of heavy machinery. The big Gunnell property, in Gilpin county is being gradually pumped out. Several car loads of timber are on hand for use in re- pairing the shafis and levels. A difference of opinion as to methods and results has caused a temporary shutdown of the Prussian mine, Boulder county. About thirty-seven miners are thrown out of em- ployment, but will doubtless find places in other mines. The Wilmington group of gold claims, in Ophir camp, is now owned and operated by a company of miners. Their first run of five tons at the Suffolk mill returned $22 per ton In gold. The ore is free milling, and occurs In large veins. Quite an excitement was caused in camp at Yankee Hill by the discovery of a rich plece of float, found by W. G. Compton on Chesapeake mountain. One plece weighed several pounds, and a portion of it assayed fde $10,000 to the ton. A plece of it taken to Idaho Springs was literally permeated with gold. The Climax mine in the Telluride district has & new silver vein about one foot in width and widening with development. The gold streak is now about five inches in width and is just as rich as when first encountered. The contractors are working a double shift and are now in over fifty feet. The Climax is an ideal mine to work, being rather soft and easily handled. The Captain, the latest big find made at Cripple Creek, is a bonanza. Returns from the first carload shipment of ore, eleven tons, went 84.96 ounces, or at the rate of $1,699.20 per ton, The shaft is down only thirty feet. The vein Is well defined and the pay stre two and a half feet in width. Another car- load of ore from the Portland, shipped a few days ago, assays $1,080 per ton. A force of surveyors in the employ of the Gult railroad is at work laying oft the land in blocks, lots, streets and alleys, preparatory to the opening up of a new town on the south side of the Platte river, where Orr sta- tion was formerly located. The name of this new town will be Latham. Austin & Moore of Lupton have already opened up a general merchandise store there, and W. L. Clayton of this city has erected a large new ware- house. The country around Latham is highly productive and well cultivated. WYOMING. One ranchman in the Big Horn basin ralsed over 12,000 pounds of alfalfa seed this year. A vein of coal has been discovered in the Big Horn basin, in the vicinity of Hyatville. Ranchmen in the Lander valley have been experimenting with celery this season. It makes a prolific growth in that region. The Union Pacific coal mine at Almy, which caught fire over a year ago, is still burning. The company shut up the mine as closely as possible, but the fire was not smothered. The work of exterminating wolves is being prosecuted vigorously by ranchmen in the northern part of the state. Hundreds of the animals have been driven into Wyoming by the prairie fires recently raging in morthern Nebraska, Willlam Marshall, at the mouth of Green river lakes, has recently started up his new sawmill. It is his intention to raft lumber down the Green river and establish lumber yards at the mouth of tributary streams. It his rafting venture is a success it is his intention to place the lumber on the market. A contract has been awarded to J. A. Thompson to build a bridge across Wind river at Merritt's Crossing, north of Fort Washakle. The contract price is §2,450, and the structure is to be completed not later than May 1, 1895. The contract was also let for the building of a flouring mill at the Sho- shone Indian agency. The owners of the Watkins mine in the Centennial district are convinced that they have discovered a fine quality of platinum. An Australian sample of this ore sent Denver for comparison looks like a twin part of the Watkins ore. This is a valuable min- eral, and if it holds out as the first assay shows tho owners have a bonanza. OREGON. The Nehalem cannery closed after packing over 6,000 cases of salmon. Nestucea bay put up 1,500,000 pounds of fish during the season just closed. There are 315 Siletz Indians to participate in the present disbursement of $24,000. A Scott’s valley farmer drove into Medford the other day with 1,800 pounds of honey. Gilllam county Is spending $300 In build- ing & new county road, known as the “Thirty Mile." A Baldwin tree in the yard of Prof. Johnson at Eugene bore twenty-five bushels of apples this year, Thers are hundreds of bushels of refuse apples rotting on the ground, says the Cress- well correspondent of the Bugene Guard, pointedly, yet in six months from now the farmers, as well as other people, will be | canned salmon put up.and about 400 barrels | follow its use; so that it is the best family THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1894. buying California vinegar, just as if there was nothing In Oreganta make it. David Hughes of Capyonville has raised this year a 125-pound Eguash, It measures elghty inches in circuthference. Hayford Bros. of Luke county have just finished a drive of qgagide to Gazelle, Cal., for shipment, which paid them $25,000 The Siuslaw fishink ‘séason closed on the 1et of November, with bout 22,000 cases of | salted. | James Wilhelm has unaarthed a twelve-foot | vein of coal on Bear éreek, about eleven miles | from Crosswell, Lane eolinty. Experts have | been looking at it and think well of the coal. James Campbell and Ira Sproul took to Baker City their latest cleaning up of nug- gets from the Humbolit placer mine near | Canyon City, which/aggregated 280 ounces, | tho value of which was over $5,000. The railroad from Weiser to the Seven Devils mines “will certainly be built during| the coming year,” according to the editor of the Welser Signal. The distance of the road will be 110 miles, and Its cost $1,250,000. The | Merrits of Duluth, Mian., are back of the proposition. More activity than ever before in its his- tory is reported from the Sparta mining camp. Several Utah, Montana and Colorado companies have recently become interested in both placer and quartz, and considerable money is being expended in development and machinery for working. The old camp is taking on new life. There are about 250 men at work and all are doing well. A company has been organized at McMinn- ville for the purpose of constructing an elec- tric light and water system, to bring water from the hills two miles north of town. The city has passed an ordinance granting them the use of the strects for the purp named. The water system Is to be com- pleted within twelve months and the electric light plant within eighteen months from the date of the passage of the ordinance. WASHINGTON. The Standard Oil company has just put in an 18,000-gallon tank at the South Bend depot. The State Agricultural college will apply to the legislature for a grant of $3,000 for a dairying plant. The Dungeness Trading company has buflt an approach and wharf about three-fourths of a mile long at Dungeness, costing $13,000. The Northern Pacific car shops at Edison are glving employment to 400 men and turn- ing out large orders for coal cars, besides regular repair work. The city of New Whatcom is still in dark- ness, the city council refusing to give the light company what they want, and the light company refusing to give the citizens what they want Some 400,000 feet of logs were set loose by tho high water just above Woodland, and floated down to the mouth of the Cowlitz. Most of them were recovered, some of them after they had reached the Columbia. There have been shipped east this season from North Yakima 1,057,331 pounds of hops, 859,667 pounds of which have been shipped this month. This does not represent the total county shipments, as thero are five other stations where many bales are being held for future shipment. The stamp mills in the vicinity of Loomis are all running, and the result is bringing out several fine gold properties. At Conconnully there is considerable excitement over the placer mines, and everything has been staked out for claims. Miners are making good wages on a large number of claims. T. A. Lingham of Johannesburg, South Africa, has sent two cargoes of lumber to South ' Africa, and s hegotiating for the whaleback City of Everett and other vessels of the same kind (o, engage in the same trade. There are copntries which can com- pets with us in wheat and cotton, but none in Oregon pine. The German carp are reported to be de- stroying the sturgeon’ wallows In Cowli county. They dig into the mud and destroy everything in sight, They are wonderfully ravenous, and during, the great freshet this year they nearly ruined some of the rich bot- tom land on Sauvie's:valley by rooting up the grass. MISCELLANEOUS. Tn Arizona the Hargis-Hala mine shows a surplus of $150,000 @xd has declared a div- idend of 10 per cent. -@he ore veins are ir- regular. -h The Mount Baldy mining district near Marysville, U. T., has come ,out as a won- derful producer of gold. Large ore bodies of low grade are the rule. After a week's run with a full force of men the English company's great pumping plant at Pioche shut down for good. The result of the clean-up was $30 in gold. Ex pert Glendennin has decided that the pumps will have to be moved and their location changed before they can work successfully. Senor Pallo Martinez Del Rio of Pueblo, who has returned from New York, nces that arrangements have been per- fected for the consolidation of the Mexican Southern and the Intercolonial railroads and that the former line will be immediately ex- tended to Salina Cruz, where it will connect with the Tehuantepec road, thus forming a direct route from the United States to the isthmus of Tehuantepec. C. E. Mayne, well known to the people of Omaha, Salt Lake and Ogden as one of the most active ‘‘promoters” during the boom days, and the original projector of the Ogden power dam scheme, has come to the surface again, This time he appears as the projector of a transcontiental railway line, which shall have San Diego as its western terminus and run through southern Nevada and Utah. The novel feature of the enterprise Is that it is to be built by subscriptions from railroad men, A suit involving the title to a large number of los in Cheyenne and Evanston, as well as a large number of tracts of railroad land, has | been instituted in the United States court for the district of Wyoming. The title of the case is the United States against the Union Pacific Railroad company, and is brought under the act of congress of March 5, 1887, for the purpose of setting aside pat- ents to lands wrongfully acquired from the United States under the railroad land grants. It is the intention of the United States at- torney to make present owners of the prop- erty defendants in the case. It Is an impor- tant action and will require some time to tako the testimony. A commissioner will probably be appointed by the court for that purpose. The official statement regarding the pelagic sealing of 1894, compiled from log books sworn to, has been forwarded to Ottawa, London and Washington. They spent from the 1st of August to the middle of September strictly observing the law prohibiting the use of firearms under the watchful supervision of United States gun boats and confining themselves to the use of spears. Only about half of the fleet were able to seeurs Spears- men, and these did remarkably well. Despite this ‘and other interferences the total for the year is the largest catch on record, the catch of the fifty-nine vessels belng 94,47¢ this year's sKins, against 70,332 lior the fleet of ffty-five vessels in 1893 and 45,385 for the sixty-five schooners in 1892. There were en- gaged this year 818 jhites and 518 Indians. A Child Bnjoys The pleasant flavor, geatle action and sooth- ing effects of Syrup ol Kigs, when in need | of a laxative, and ifithe father or mother be costive or bilious, the most gratifylng results remedy known, and dvery have & bottle on hand: tamily should danger of da too little. In that dread to your F pack all, waste Sen it Back or ‘the same as Pearlive.” and if your honest—zsend it back, There’s no Daflger to be feared, Pearline in the washing. Pearline couldn't do as much damage won't hurt anything. Peddlers and some unscrupuious grocers wi ocer sends you someshing in, place cf Pearline, be b evenif you do use too much If ‘there's any mage at all, it's then you use that case, you'll have to begin ful rubbing —and carloads of clothes as that will. ollow the directions on the ge—that's the best way of But remember, too much It's only a of good Pearline. 11 tell you * this is as good as® :—Pearline is never peddled, IT'S FAL LITERARY NOTES. The will of Mrs, Henry Hemenway of Mil- ton, Mass., provides that the income of an estato of $15,000,000 shall be used for educa- tional purposes. 8. Wyman thinks that President Andrew Jackson, Instead of being the author of the expression "O. K." (abbreviation for “all correct”), borrowed the phrase from the Choctaw language, in which the word “‘okeh’” means “it Is all right.”" Mr. Henry W. Fisher is probably the only man who has interviewed the household of the late emperor of Russia in true Ameri- can style. The result of his visit and ad ventures at Fredensborg, Denmark, will ap- pear in an article called “The Truth About the Czar, of November 17 Dr. Bdward Everett Hale not unreason ably thinks the fact significant that five dis- to bo published in Harper's Weekly tinctly American poets—Whittler, Longfel low, Bryant, Lowell, and Holmes—were all Unitarfans. ~ And with this should go the l\'o’(l SU;{gCQt That you place your order now for your stationery—including cards, invi- tations, ete.--as within a week will have all we can do to fill orders by Christmas, 100 cards,with name engraved, 1. 50, declaration of Rev. M. J. age (Boston) that he believes that “‘no Unitarian can be found who disclaims that he is a Chris tlan.” ““The Dawn of Civilization,” by Prof. Mas pero, edited by Rev. Prof. ce, is nounced by D. Appleton & Co. The per| dealt with covers the history of Bgypt froi the earliest date to the fourteenth dynasty and that of Chaldaca during its first empir ‘The book is brought up to the present y and deals with the recent discoveries Koptos and Dahabur. The October Virginia Magazine of His ory and Biograp! continues its antiquar ar gleanings from the manuscripts found i public and private collections. Some « these are of more than local interest, such “The Causes of Discontent in Virginia, 1676 the genealogy of the widely scattered Flour noy family and the diseriminating reviev of Keith's “Ancestry of Benjamin Harrison Dr. Holmes paid as little heed to th dictum of the . rhetoricians that a sentenc should not end with a preposition or oth unimportant word as did the author of work on rhetoric, who laid down the rule ‘A preposition should not bs used to end sentence with.” Dr. Holmes ended nc only sentences but chapters with preposi tions and other insignificant words. 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