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

- MORSE'S GRAND OPENING of our TOY DEPARTMENT in the basement tomorrow, The wonders of Fairyland are deposited in this gorgeous dis- play of Christmas goods. RND CHRISTMAS OPENING TODAY DOLLS BOOKS Appropriate for JUVENILE ENJOYMENT and instruction. A LIMITLESS ASSORTMENT of everything that diverts child- hood's hours, and Wood, iron, tin, combination toys of all kinds. Toys from Germany, Toys from France, Austria and America---wherever they make Toys. A thousand varieties precludes the possibility of quoting prices, but they begin at Sc and climb to any point your purse can stand. We call especial attention to our 25c, 45¢ and 95c bargain tables---and to our immense variety of dolls of every conceivable kind. VISIT US TODAY and bring the children. CANDY. The sweetest depart- ment in the big store-- such prices as these are what accounts for the increasing trade. Cholce mixtures, Te pound. Taffy, fresh dally, 10c pound. Chocolate cream, 18¢ pound Pound box rted cream: be. Butterscotch wafers, pound. Best hand made creams, 40c pound. o Buy your Christmas candies here and save money. HAIR CLOTH. You all know how scarce this article is-- almost as scarce as money—We have just received a big supply and can furnish you with the quality you want. THE CLOAK STORE Is bright with interest for every lady in Oma- ha, Tomorrow will see the biggest yet of the big c¢rowds that daily throng the cloak rooms. Others have been telling you that cloaks are scarce on account of the strike-- and what not--Nosuch story here-- plenty of cloaks--We looked out for that. - Not only plenty of-cloaks-- but look at the prices~= $7.60 cloaks reduced to $5.00. $10.00 cloaks reduced to . $18,00 cloaks reduced to $13.60. $20.00 cloaks reduced to $16.00. MORSE DRY GOODS Co. MORSE, 16th and Farnam, BLANKETS. Don’t have to talk much about these-- they tell their own story--hear them talk: 10-4 white blankets, 43¢ pair, 10-4 gray blankets, 43c pair. 11-4 white blankets, 97¢ pair. 10-4 wool blankets, $1.57 pair, 10-4 wool (better) blankets, $2.25 pair. COMFORTS. They are reduced to figures like these-- 8. $ y marked to $2.00. $1.60 quality marked to $3.00. SPECIAL -- Just re- ceived, silk seal plush, B0 inches wide, for capes and cloaks. BOOKS, An overstocked pub- lisher and jobber con- signed to us an im- mense lot of books to sell at any price--We quote you lowestprices currentany where on Shakespeare's Lytton's, Irving's, Goethe's and all the pcpular works, We have-- “Trilby," Mark Twalin, Macaulley's and Hume's England, ¥ 's Mexico, s Peru. Also all.the popular editions for the little folk Cinderella, Rohin Hood, Mother Goose, A B C Books, Picture,Books, ete. Book Degpt. onsecond floor--see us before you purchase a book. MORSE DRY GOODS CO. ‘MORSE, 16th and Farnam, e Cook & Son’s $50.000 Stock , . . Of Fine Shoes to be sold at once for Cost and Under Cost to satisfy Eastern Creditors. ., 400 pairs ladies’ fine kid shoes, Cincinnati make, always sold for 8, to close out at.... . 500 pairs ladi goat shoes, button and lace, sold for $2and 3, to cluse out at. ; kid and Men 52,79 98¢ adies’ felt slippers and at cost and under cost. look at our bargain » shoes that sold : all go at Rubber goosis at cost. 500 pairs. men’s calf shoes, lace and congress, form- er price $2.50; they go at laceshoes rubber 200 pairs mi patent leather tip,square 400 pairs misses’ at_tipped shoes, for- and arctics fine kid At heel, ¢ formor 2,50, ull go at . fine kid goat.. child's p A largo number of pairs of atent tipped shoes, former prics 175¢ goat.. cost, Chnld’s felt slippers and shozs at 31,50 200 pairs 700 pairs men's fine calfl shoes, lace and con- ss, plain narrow square tipped and Pic toes, former price $4.00, now g0 at...... . Geo. W. Cook & Son's Shoe Stock at goat. shoes, former pr boys' congress 98¢ $2,50 cost, All our fine dr and youths go at cost and under shoes for boys RECEIVERS SALE. 203-205 South Fifteenth Street. - PULSE OF WESTERN PROGRESS High Grade Ore in the Independence at Oripple Oreek. SEVERAL MILLIONS ALREADY Rich Ore Specimens ‘wlcd at Sitverton ~Provo's Frojected Power Plant—Cod. fish Trade in the North Pacific-- Nows of the Northwest. IN S.GHT The ore which Is now being sent to Den- ver from the winze which is being sunk from jthe first to the second levels in the Independ- ence, and that which is being taken out both north and south In driving the second level, is by far the highest grade ore ever shipped from this mine, says a Cripple Creek speclal to the Denver News. It was calculated by an expert several months ago that if the ore would hold out as rich and the pay streak remain as wide in the second level of the Independence as it was In the first there would be over $1,700,000 worth of ore in sight when the level was driven along the entire length of the ore chute, which was about 350 feet. The present indications are that the length of the ore chute will be at least 400 feet in the lower level and the ore body is fully as wide and will average at Teast 100 per cent more per ton In gold, The returns from the several hundred tons shipped have not been recelved yet, but the numerous assays made would indicate that the ore will run from $200 to $350 per ton. 3‘: present about thirty tons fs the dally out- t of the mine, which will be increased to #ixty tons as soon as stoping is commenced. A holsting plant, ore and shaft houses are Reing erected on the Scranton, the new shipper belonging to the Portland group. The flrst ore sent to the smelters from this mine Went at the rate of 13.77 ounces per ton. he vein is about four and a half feet in bldth and the greater portion of it Is high grade. At present, from the Portland proper, the highest average grade ore ever shipped from the mine is being sent out. Several cars of screenings which were sold to the local sampler at Victor last week averaged over $800 per ton. The Independence and the Portland are the two leading mines of the camp at present and If they keep on improving with develop- ment in the next six months as they have in the past half year they will be second 1o no two gold mines in the state. The own- ers are true friends of the miners, and now @8 at all times have pald the highest wages of any mines in the Cripple Creek district, Recently, in addition, each paid the London Guarantee Insurance company a good round sum for free insurance in the case of accl- dent or death of any of their employes, The New Discovery strike on Mineral hill 18 attracting a great deal of attention. Ever since gold was discovered in the camp Mineral hill has been prospected almost continually. Everybody has been fres to predict that some of the big mines would some day be opened up in this portion of the camp. The lessees on the New Discovery are confident that they have discovered one of them. The vein is at least ten feet in width and everything between the walls 1s appar- ently pay. It all pans and occasionally good slzed nuggets are found mixed in the quartz, The ore is nearer a true free milling rock than anything yet found in El Paso county. The claim {s owned by the Mutual compuny, With headquarters at Colorado Springs, SAN JUAN GOLD. A correspondent of the Durango Herald, writing from Silverton, says the Maggle guich mines are situated flve miles above Ahat town, on a branch running into the river at the foot of Galena moun- n the front window of the store of the mayor of Silverton,” he says, “can be seen three piecea of ore from the Golden Nugget mine in this gulch, the small piece weigh- ing eleven pounds, the others weighing thir- ty-soven and fifty-seven pounds, taken from "' four-foot pay streak. A 1ag near marks 52,60 ounces goid and 1604.40 ounces silver per t0n cn the sale of their first carload of ore. The owner paid all debts und cxpenses and went off on a visit to spand the residue. + They hold their mine at $100,000 in its undevel- oped state and their showing seems to jus- tify it, They hold sixteen other claims i this gulch, and this is the reason why they only ask the small sum of §$100,000 for the Gold Nugget. “There were some fifty or more claims lo- cated in this gulch in the last month or so, and they are all in the hands of prospectors. The mineral in this gulch is somewhat like that from the Bear Creek mines, in this county, all of a tellurium nature, and bearing well in gold and silver under a fire test, and the fact that our miners were looking for free milling ores in the past i3 the reason why these camps have been so long overlooked. San Juan county has not been half prospected as yet, and this, too, the home of the true fissure. Some mines are now being worked in the dead of winter by miners dwelling in tents. They, like all the others, must close down soon, as prospecting closed for the win- ter weeks ago.” Ed McKay and Major Elkins own two fine properties in the gulch on the same vein with Jack Miller. Banner of Hope has a fifty foot outcrop. and. six feet of vein matter and twelve inches pay streak that runs as high as ten ounces gold and 900 ounces silver at grass roots. The mineral In this camp s a combination of tellurfum, silverite and petsite, running high In gold as well as silver. BIG DAM FOR PROVO. The. big Provo water power dam for the generation of electricity is not to be a myth, says the Salt Lake Tribune. Already a full million of dollars is subscribed for its con- struction, and to the support of the scheme has rallied one of the most experienced and energetic men in that line of work In the country. As already intimated, the waters of the Provo river are to be utilized, and the expec- tation is that many times as much power will be developed as is calculated upon by the bullding of the. Big Cottonwood power plant, Mr. George Newman of Colorado is the principal projector, together with Mr. J. T. Davis of Salt Lake City. Mr. Newman is the superintendent and general manager of the Percy Mining and Tunnel company at Aspen, Colo. - Some two years ago he constructed at that city a water power dam and plant similar to that which is now proposed at Provo, It furpishes electric power, on a twenty-year franchise, to the city of Aspen, and besides is used to operate the mines of the company of which Mr. Newman is the superintendent. It has already nett:d hand- some profits and proved to be thoroughly efficient and practical. Mr. Newman is asso- clated with Chicago capltal in the enterprise, and it is presumed that he has the same assoclation in the Provo scheme. The full details of the latter are not ready for publication, but' it is known that they look to immediate realization, The dam will probably be located three or four miles from the mouth of the Provo canyon, where water rights have already been- secured. Survey- ors are now at work in that vicinity laying out the plans. Sufficlent horse power will be developed to enable the plant not only to furnish power for Provo, but to extend the same to mining towns and mills in the vicin- ity, including Tintic, Silver City, Park City, Bingham, and also the Lehi sugar factory. PACIFIC COAST CODFISH. Thirty years have elapsed since the inaugu- ration, as a commercial pursuit, of the cod- fish trade of the north Pacific. The begnning of this trade is traced to a simple incident, says the San Francisco Call. A trading ves el was returning from Russian Asia. Some- where oft the coast of Alaska the wind died away and there was nothing for the crew to do but to wait and fish. In both occupations they were quite successful, and when the salis again responded to the renewed breezes they had qu'te a number of codfish on board These were cleaned and salted and brought to San Francisco. That is how an important business was started. Ever since 1865 vessels have been sent up from this port to engag in these fisheries, and with fairly good re- sults. ‘The number employed from year to year has varled from five to twenty-one, while the average for a number of years has been about ten, Only six were employed this year, but on> of these made two trips, and the seven carg es aggregated 909,000 fish. This is the smallest number in five years. The total catch for the past thirty years is 80,- 090,800 fish—an average of 1,000,000 fish per annum, The prosecution of this industry bas put a healthful article of food within the means of thousands of families. Up to the beginning of this business this c-ast was entirely de- pendent upon supplies drawn 3,000 miles away. Prices of eastern codfish in this mar- ket for a number of years were 10 cents per pound and upward, and In some extreme cases as high as 20 cents. The presence of the Pacific fish, while not driving out the eastern variety altogetber, has greatly di- minished the quantity imp:rted and made a permanent and radical reduction in the cost of both kinds to consumers, Reckoning the Pacific fish at only 10 cents aplece, it will b2 seen that the business for the past three decades has netted a large amount of money to those engaged in it. PROSPECTS IN LUMP GULCH. Messrs. Coats and Pearcey of this city have mad2 an important strike at their Fargo mine in Lump gulch, says the Helena Inde- pendent. Their shaft is only down twelve feet, but they are in lead and silver ore. This is very low grade, but its character in- dicates that galena will surely be reached at no great distance. The particular signifi- cance of this strike lies in the fact that their lead is capped with black iron. They sunk through this black iron and reached white lead, after which they got into lead and sll- Rogslt Now there are a number of black iron- capped leads in and about Lump gulch, and if one of them reaches galena, as the Fargo is pretty certain of doing, the others, being of the same character, will probably develop into good properties when worked. The iron rock found in the Lump gulch district is par- ticularly hard to p:netrate, and that is one reason there has been so little work done heretofore on claims of that character. If it is demonstrated that the iron strata is not very thick, many miners will sink shafts where otherwise they would not care to do so. It is believed the enterprising owners of the Fargo will strike galena before they go down on the lead much farther. If they do, it means a great deal to the Lump gulch dis- trict. A SAN MIGUEL BONANZA. The Silver Pick mine, owned by ths Mount Wilson Gold and Silver Mining company, in San Miguel county, is credited with an out- put of $40,000 per month this season, mainly in gold. There 1s, says the Tel- luride Journal, a mill at the mine which formerly had a ten-stamp capacity and that answered until J. P. Colp took the management. Mr. Colp spent con- siderable time and money prospecting and developing the vein, and found it to be good, no matter at what point opened. After open- ing up new ground the working force at the mine was doubled, and likewise the ca- pacity, which is now twenty stamps. Suit- able bulldings have been erected for the ac- commodation of the men, and in the spring more miners will be put on and fhe mill enlarged to forty stamps. There ar: 2,000 tons of ore out ahead of the mill now, and while running the mill day and night, tre output is steadily gaining. The Tam O'Shanter is an extension of the Pick, and from work done on it this summer, las proved fully as good as the Pick. It will he worked in connection with the Pick next summer, and between the two mines the management will make a showing second to none in the state. FULFORD'S FUTURE Fulford district will next year repay all its friends who have stuck by it for the past three years, says the Bagla County Times. It has become a sure thiug now for the investment of capital, and being a goll proposition makes it more valuable to the operator. Several fine veins lave been opened up in the past year that carry gold in paying quantities, but the want of proper milling facilities prohibited the working of but a small portion of the veins. There is only one twenty-five stamp mill at present at the place, which is on the Polar Star, and has done excellent service during the latter part of the year. Another mill is being fitted up for the Johnson property, a claim that has a five-foot vein opened up for several hundred feet. This property has lately been leased to parties who will put It on a regular paying basis. GOLD MINE IN JACKSONVILLE. The discovery a few days since of a gold and silver-bearing quartz ledge within the corporate limits, not more than 800 yards from the depot, says a Jacksonville, Ore., special to the Portland Oregonlan, has cre- ated quite asensation. It is on the J. N Miller donation claim, near his vineyard, and it still owned by Mr. Miller. The dis- covery was made by Will L. Miller, and he has christened the find ““The Lucky Bill." The shaft is down about twelve feet, and the prospects at this depth are sufficiently flattering to justify a vigorous prosecution of the work. This ledge was uncovered In early days by some unknown person, but as nothing was known of quartz mining at that time it was abandoned and covered up and passed out of mind. It is about two ASSURED. teet wide, broadens as it deepens, and gives promise of being a rich discovery, THE DAKOTAS. A co-operative store Is to be opened at Aberdeen. Arrangements have been made whereby ¢ number of the faculty of the State Agri- cultural college at Brookings ~will ~hold farmers’ institutes In pumerous parts of the state during, December, January and February, while there is no school in the institution. Blackleg is killing a number of. cattle be- longing to stockmen sn Presho and Jackson counties in South Dakota. Wolves Killed thirty sheep belonging to Ranchman Lille, west of Chamberlain, and are causing stockmen great annoyance and damage. The live stock men who live near Smith- ville, in the Back Hills country, will here- after irr'gate their hay land, and in this way guard against the chance.of running short of feed. Soma excitement prevails at Hill City over the result of a three days' run of a five-stamp mill recently built on the lately opened Holy Terror mine at Keystone. The clean-up realized $5,000 in free gold from less than six tons of ore, besides five tons of valuable concentrates requiring other treatment. The ore is taken from a drift about forty feet below the surface. The vein is four feet wide. Several other mines have yielded splendid returns. Parties from the interior of the ceded Sioux country give information of an inter esting peculiarity concerning White river and the numerous creeks which, after aversing the Pine Ridge and Rosebud ervations, run ioto it from the south. / month or £ ago White river was nearly dry, there being standing pools of water only in low places, and no running water ir it at all.. The same has been true of the crecks which run into it from the south, Now, it is reported, both White river and | the creeks have running water in them, al- | though there has not been a drop of rainfall in that region for some months. COLORADO. Work s to be resumed on the Valley mine, Big Evans gulch, Laadville, The Paris mine, Alma district, is credited with gold ore which ylelds $264 per ton. The Smuggler at Aspen is putting in a pump that took five railroad cars to carry The Belden mine at Red Clff shipped a car of ore the other day that run 75 per cent pure lead. The Silver Bar mine at Silver CIiff is pro- dueing chloride ore, much of which is worth $400 per ton. Improvements at the Union smelter, ville, are said to have cost $200,000. liberally supplied with ore. The gold output of Yankee Hill is estimated at $10,000 per week, and increasing all the time. ~ Eight mines are included in the work- ing list. The Amethyst mine, Oreede district, has recovered from the recent fire. The mine is free from water and 100 tons of ore per day is the regular output. The Grand river placer flelds, Eagle county, promise a large 'yield next year. The machine introduced to save the gold, which is light and flaky, has proved a success, The first strike ¢f high grade ore on the south side of Squaw mountain has been made in the Santa Rita. andithus has another sec- tion of the famous: district bee me productive, The Last Chanoe mine at Creede is taking the richest cre ever found in this bonanza from 900 feet below the surface. The ore carries large silver values and three ounces gold per ton. It is reported that the San Juan smelter at Durango has reduced its treatment charges and is now treating cre valued at §50 or less for $12 per ton, and that valued at over $50 and up to $100 £-r §16 per ton. A good sized vein of sulphide ore was un- covered at the eighth level ¢f the Last Chance, Creed district. Reports say it is be- tween seven and eight feet wide and that it carries gold to the extent of three ounces per tin. Says the Victor News: Lying within a few feet of the Pertland mine is a shaft having a windlass as its only adornment. Six men are employed and it is estimated that during the last six weeks $120,000 worth of ore has been extracted. Every claim ad- jacent to the Portland has been estimated to b2 very valuable. Every little prospect is being pushed as fast as men can w:rk. No hill in this vicinity presents so much activity as Battle mountain. A few years ago we were paying 30 cents a gallon for coal oil in Boulder, buying our oll after it had passed through the hands ct the Standard Ol monopoly, says Lieutenant Governor Nichols. At the same time the pe:ple at Canyon City were required to pay but 6 cents a gallon. I found upon inquiry that a new oll fleld was being opened at Florence and the Standard people had put down the price to crush out the new com- pany. I warned the people of Canyon City that they sbould stand by thelr home com- Lead- It is pany or they would pay dearly for their coal cil in_the future, My prophecy was realized. The Standard company smashed the life out of the little corporation and coal oil went up to 30 cents in Canyon City. L. P. Southworth, who has some 17,000 sheep in the Poudrt valley near Fort Collins. has a large force of men at work construct- ing dipping facilities near the dep:t. The swim pens and corrals are being made in a very thorough manner and will be large enough for frem 2,000 to 3,000 to pass through a day. A steam pump will be used to keep the swim at an even temperature. Mr. Southworth's cperations this winter will in- volve the expenditure of many thousands of dollars and give employment to a small army of men. WYOMING. Four carloads of soda are brought in from the lakes every day to Laramie by horses. Green River talks of organizing a board of trade to agitate the new railroad from Grand Junction. An effort is being made by Natrona wool growers to organize an assoclation of wool growers for the purpose of protecting the in- terests of sheepmen in that section. Gray wolves are getting very bold and are Killing lots of stock, says the Brffalo Voice. Mr. Hogerson has had twenty-five or thirty head of the cattle he brought from Nebraska this summer killed already. It is reported that a number of mining men and those interested in mining will visit the La Plata mountains in a short time to in- vestigate the mines and inform themselves as to the results of the treatment of ores by the Baker contact mill, which is now experi- menting upon and testing the different ores in the La Plata district. Heretofore there has been considerable com- plaint on account of the express companies re- ceiving game for shipment at various points in Wyoming. Hunters were enabled to vio- late the game laws with impunity and it was impossible to detect them. The Union Pacific has decided not to ship any game for these hunters this scason. Only jackrabbits will be received. The Wyoming representative of the Penn- sylvania ofl syndicate says that the company intends building a refinery at Casper next spring. The company owns large tracts of valuable ofl land in central Wyoming and al- ready has several produchug ol well product of which is being hauled to Casper and shipped to different parts of the country It is the intention of the company to ¢ struct a pipe line from the wells on Salt creek to the railroad, which will enable them to pump the oil instead of hauling it In wagons, OREGON, Dalles markets are glutted with bear meat. A Philomath cider mill has turned out spventy-five barrels of the seductive beverage so0 far this fall. The Island City flour mill is running night and day, and turns out about 100 barrels every twenty-four hour: Placer mines are still working in Baker county, but tha final cleanup will soon be made. The run has been the best since the palmy days of the 60s. A discovery of a rich deposit of copper ore has just been mado by Lon Simmons, south- east of Unlon, cn the headwaters of Tucker creck. There is an immense ledge of the quartz rich in copper, also containing gold and silver. The contract for sinking the main shaft at the Virtue mine in Baker county 100 'feet deeper has been let to a company of nine Cornish miners, who commenced the work at once. The price to be pald per foot was fixed at §20. Charles H. Plerce, who has traveled with his_cruisers over every “40" of pine lands In Klamath county, says, in an article pre- pared for the special edition of the Express, that there are 5,000,000,000 feet of timber in Klamath county, which, in time, will bring $40,000,000. The streets of Pendleton were gaudy with the blankets of Indians the other day. There were fully 200 of the natives in town, many returning from hunts in the mountains, the hop flelds of Washington and fishing trips along the Columbia. They all had money, and a good deal of it was exchanged for pro- visions and clothing. WASHINGTON, A good deul of immigration around Kennewick. E. Meeker & Co. of Puyallup have shipped to London this season 3,473 bales of hops. Complaint {s made that the potatoes of Cathlamet are Infected with a species of dry rot. iy A long-distance telephdne 18 Deing put up, connecting the various scattered shingle mills of Whatcom county, The farmers of Walla Walla valley will make an urgent demand on the next legisla- is coming in ture for the enactment of a law providing for a state wheat inspectog. An Asotin miner while prospecting in the mountains near Shovel creek found a six-foot ledge carrying free gold, He has the utmost confidence in the section as a future mining district. The First Methodist Episcopal church of Spokane s figuring on a_magnlficent edifice with a seating capacity of 2,000. The pastor is Dr. McInturfl, once stationed over St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal church at Port- land. A prominent young business man’ of Aber- deen has had an offer of marriage which he is meditating on. The offer, the Bulletin says, comes from a rich shipowner of Cali- fornfa, who offers to become papa-in-law and give a good shipping dower. ~The only doubt in the gentleman's mind is the appearance of the young lady, who has not yet been visi- ble. MISCELLANEOUS, The Chinese merchants of San Francisco have subscribed $1,000 toward the San Joaquin Valley railroad. At a_meeting of the wine-makers at San Jose 1,670 gallons were represented by those Who signed the agreement of the new combine. In order for success 3,000,000 are needed from that county. The waste dumps around the Butte smelters and sampling works are being extensively worked by leasers. Two leasing companies are making extensive shipments from the B. & M. dumps. The Mercer Gold Mining company, has reduced the wages of miners from $3 to $2.50 per day, and abandoned the com- pany boarding house. The men have ac- cepted the reduction. A San Francisco “blood" appeared in court and teslified that he could not pay a $250 note on which he had been sued. The court requested him to hand over his gold watch, chain, diamond pin, cuff buttons, etc., which he did with great disgust. The Anaconda company, Montana's copper producer, is doing more work and working on a larger and more expensive basls than it has ever done before. Its pay roll is over $100,000 per month. The ore carries gold | and silver, and the daily output exceeds 3,200 tons. | The Bonanza group of gold mines, Mercur | district, Utah, has been bonded to Begdon and Smythe, the two Colorado miners, at a pur- | chase price of $100,000. This group Is one- half mile east of the Mercur mine, It is developed by two tunnels, exposing an ore | vein about fifteen feet wide. An eastern syndicate has an agent in Churehill county, Nevada, examining the right for a reservolr just above the old Bisby | station on the Carson rive with a view of constructing a dam and catching the waste | water that runs to the sink during the winter and early spring months, C. H. Phillips of San Luls Obispo county, Cal., has purchased the Chino rancho, the price pald being $1,500,000. The property consists of 41,000 acres of land, and includes the Chino Valley railroad. This branch is one of the most valuable and productive in southern California. Upon It stands the Chino beet sugar factory. W. P. Watson of Hood River has been visiting Memaloose fsland and thinks it the most wonderful cemetery in the counlry He estimates the number buried there as not less than 5,000. He is also convinced that the high water last summer was the highest | that has occurred In the Columbla for hun- dreds of years, basing his belief on the posi- tion of the bones on the island that were below the present high water mark. e Last August while working in the harvest fleld 1 became overheated, was suddenly at- tacked with cramps and was nearly dead. Mr. Cummings, the drugglst, gave me a doso of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and D rhoea Remady which completely reileved mi I now keep a bottle of the remedy handy. A. M. Bunnell, Centerville, Wash, Aot Ll 0da Boundary Dispute. One of the oddest boundary disputes in this country is that between New Jersey and Delaware over the jurisdiction of the Dela- ware river opposite New Castle and for some distance above and below. New Jersey in- sists that her jurisdiction extends to the middle of the river there as elsewhere, while Delaware claims jurisdiction at that point clear across to the New Jersey shore. Charles 11 granted to his brother James, duke of York, about the year 1683, a portion of the Dela- ware peninsula. The grant speclally gave | James a circular plece of land twelve m | about New Castle, all islands falling within | the circle, and seémingly from the language Utah, | the bed of the stream. James gavé the land | to Willlam Penn, end this land afterward | became the state of Delaware. It s upon the language of the grant that Delaware claims jurisdiction over the whole river ope posite New Castle. The matter was once brought before commissioners from the two states. PET R T DON'T BITE YOUR NAILS, There Are Many Reasons Why, but Don'e Do It The practice of nibbling at the finger nails is to be condemned, first, on the ground that the nails are thereby rendered brittle andl une sightly, and, secondly, because it is a senses less habit, which makes the practice of it a source of constant irritation to the friends of any one who has the habit. The habit, says Youth's Companion, is usually acquired at school in early childhood, and steps should at once be taken to break it up. This may be done in various ways. It is usually sufficient to explain to the child the perniciousness of the habit, requiring him to be constantly watchful against it in himself, and to discourage the practice in every one else, Punishment is usually un= called for. Strategy may be resorted habit is well established. The finger ends may be dipped in some harmless prepara= tion of a disagreeable or bitter nature, which will serve to remind the child what he is doing. ) A French investigator has lately pub- lished the results of an elaborte study of the subject chiefly in reference to the ime portance of the habit as an Indication of nervous disease. His investigations have ' been pursued among the school children of Parls, among whom he found the habit widely prevalent. Of the total number of children examined, about one-third were given to the practic the greater proportion being among the girls. The age at which the habit was most common was found to be between 12 and 16 years. The investigator thinks he has discovered a remarkable relation between nail-biting and a defective, or at least an impaired, stability of mind and character, as all the teachers united in saying that the pupils addicted to nail-biting were the poorest stus dents. The boys were inclined to effemie nacy and the girls to slackness. Both sexes showed a lessened ability to sustain the ate tention, and were consequently the hardest pupils to teach. According to habit is best corrected transform the unconscious act into a cons sclous one, thereby counteracting the tens dency to a confirmed habit. It is doubtful if nail-biting Is of anything more serious than temperament, which should bs general principles, Oregon Kidney Tea cures all kidney trous bles. Trial size, 25 cents. All druggists, - . Mr. Buppum's Modesty. New York Sun: “I am not unduly proud of my children,” sald Mr. Buppum, “but I honestly believe that they are about as bright as any children can be. “The other day the after me, by the way- Daniel for the first time. Naturally, he was interested, especially in the lion's den epi- sode. 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