Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 17, 1894, Page 12

k—____——x————— PULSE OF WESTERN PROGRESS ) Boring for Ooal and Oil in Juab County, | Utah, \ A CURIOUS PETRIFIED FISH ENCTUNTERED Xadian Problem in Eastern Oregon—Rigamy the Common Practice—A Traveling Mountain—General Western Mat- ters and Happenings, *“The property of the Juab Oil and Coal eompany lately incorporated under the laws of Utah, is situated about twelve miles in an easterly direction from Juab, a station cn the Unlon Pacific railroad in Juab county, Utah, 100 miles south of Salt Lake City, and con- sists of 320 acres of land containing vast quantities of “bituminous shale whcse out- crops on the surface are plainly seen. While all the shale on this property contains some hydro carbons, says the Salt Lake Herald, those which are commercially valuable are ot black or dark brown color, and of these are several beds, over and underlain by lighter colored shales. These light colored #hales can be mixed and used on the property fuel, but would not pay to ship or dis- . The property has thus far been partially develcped by a tunnel twenty-one feet long, and a shaft 4x6 feet, eighty feet deep; from the bottom of this shaft a boring six inches in dlameter and 100 feet deep has been made. The shaft exposes a series of beds of shales, sandstone and limestone and in it are four or five layers of black bituminous shale, the smallest cight inches and the largest six feet thick. The bere hole passed through light shales and clays and then penetrates twenty feet in a bed of blagk shale with- out going through It. At a depth of sixty feet in the shaft and below “ganolds” i. e., petri- fled fish four or five inches wide by twelve inches long were taken out, and smaller pleces were recovered from the drillings in the bore hole. These, I identify as pieces of “'ganods”—a fish which was plentiful in the waters f the carboniferous period. The rocks of this period are those in which the large coal and ofl bearing areas in Pennsyl- varia, Ohio, Indiana and Canada occur. The Indications for ofl are extremely favorable, not only in the pr.perty located upon rocks of an age which has furnished both o1 and coal in large quantities, but the presence of ol is shown by the water extracted from the boreholes being continuously cated with a Alm of oil. Irrespective of what future developments will unquestionably show, there is positive proof that the property at present has a large value, samples from a surface outcrop of black shale which have been subjected for centuries to atmospheric influences, and was visibly much altered, gave by analysis 26.5 er cent of volatile matter and forty-five gal- lons of lubricating oil per ton of shale. The shaft has been opened several years, and a sample from the six-foot layer of black shale in it gave 30 per cent of voilite matter and fifty-five gallons of oil per ton. ‘When the shaft was first opened the yield of ofl from this layer was eighty gallons per ton. The drillings from the bore hole indi- cated that the thick bed of shale was of still better quality than either of the other two mentioned, but no suitable sample could be procured from the fine drillings extracted. In October last machinery represented to be capable of boring to a depth of 1,000 feet ‘was taken out and set up at the shaft and a tole six inches in dlameter started from the Dottom of the shafi. It proved, however, ‘wholly unsuitable for the work, and after a succession of breakages, work had to be sus- pended, when a depth of only 100 feet was attained; if this hole could have been pushed down a few hundred feet farther there can be no question that oll or coal would have been struck. The suspension of operations is only tem- porary, and just as soon as suitable machinery can be obtained, for which negotlations are mow pending, the work of boring will be re- sumed and pressed forward vigorously. ( LO'S IDEA OF MARRIAGE. It has always been supposed in the east that the Oregon Indians were the most ad- wanced of any in the the country, or at least At was supposed that they had long ago ylelded to the habits of civilized life, and that, having been so long associated with white people, they were far in advance of their more wild brethren. The reports of the different agents indicate that they, like many other tribes, care little for habits of civiliza- tion and that it will take a strong pull to get them out of thelr present condition into civilized life. Here Is what Alphabet (J. F. T. B.) Brentano, agent at Grand Ronde, says of the Indlans under his care: . “Bigamy is very common here. Yet the arties claim that they are innocent. The lacts are as follows: Acting under the in- structions from the department, the Indians past years and before the aliotment were marrled on this reservation without obtain- ing the license requjred by the statutes of the state of Oregon. For some reason some 6ne of these parties became dissatisfied with ‘his wife and went to see some lawyer, who had more consideration for his pocket than for the sanctity of the family, and who ad- vised the Indian that the marriage was void and that the Indian could again contract another without the formality of a divorce. “The Indian was but too willing to follow the bad advice that suited his inclinnation so well. Ho took out a license to wed another ‘woman and left his wife and children, Had the first case been punished it would not ‘have become so common. Now, after years of abuse, it becomes a hard matter to break up this viclous custom. The Indian claims that he is not guilty. He says the first woman that he was living with, and of whose children he Is the father, 18 not his 1 wife. He lives with the second (who he claims {5 his legal wife) and raises a second family, He turns his first wife out of the house and home that has been allotted to Bim only and does not turn a hand to sup- port the wife and children that he has dis- carded.” Mr. Brentano says that there will be a rich harvest for lawyers in the future, as the Indians have one name and ther another, and already there {s great confusion as to whom lands are allotted. ‘He does not hold an entirely pessimistic view of the Indians, but says the school Is a credit to the country and is well patronized. The report of David W. Matthews, agent at Klamath, presenis a much more favorable point of view. The Indians on this reserva- tion seem to be tending towarl civilization, and have made advancem:nt. The schools also show a good attendance, Beal Gaither, agent at Siletz, & favorable showing, but the 18 not promising. He says: “The progre of the Indians has been slow, yet some im- provement is noticeable in habits of industry and morals. One of the wost difficult mat ters to contend with amony these Indians 48 the laxness with which the marriage vows are regarded. They seem to have but little idea of the solemnity of the ceremony or the obligation it imposes.” A WONDERFUT, MOUNTAIN, A traveling mountain is found at the Cas- cades of the Columbia. It is described in G ldthwaite's Geographical Magazine as a triple-peaked miass of dark brown basalt, #ix or elght miles in length where il fronts the river, and rises to the helghth of almost 2,000 feet above the water. That it is in motion is the last thought that would be dikely to suggest itself to the mind of any one passing it, yet it 1s a well established fact that this entire mountain is moving slowly but steadily down the river, as If it had a dellberate purpose some time in the future to dam the Columbia and form a great lake from the Cascades to the Dalles. In its forward and downward inovement the forest along the base of the ridge has become submerged in the river. Large tree stumps can be seen standing dead in th wi on this shore. The railway englneers and brakemen find that the line of raillway that skirts the foot of the mountain is being continually forced out of place. At certain mu the permanent way and ralls have pusbied elght or ten feet out of line in makes quite oral condit ribute this strange phenom- e0on to the fact that the basalt, which con- stitutes the bulk of the mountain, rests on & substratum of conglomerate or of soft h stone, which the deep, swift current of ty river is constantly wearing awa; this softer subrock is of itself yleld- | THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1804 Ing at great depths to the enormous welght of the harder mineral above. MARVELOUS CAVES AND CANYONS. The *“‘Grand Teton" peak fis 15446 feet high, being 1,220 feet higher than Pike's peak, and 982 feet higher than the loftiest mountain peak in Colorado, and it has re- mained for an exploring party under the leadership of W. T. Sawyer to make the dis- covery, says the Denver News, The valley, as described by Mr.. Sawyer, is sixty miles long and has an average width of twenty miles, Jackson's lake, a body of water elghteen by nine miles in size, is in the upper end of the valley, and the Snake river, emptylng out of the lake, which is fed by a hundred mountain streams, winds its way through the valley. Mountains on three sides shut the valley from the cold winter winds, 50 that the Snake river is never frozen over, even in the coldest days of the year. “This reglon,” sald Mr. Sawyer, “is one of the most interesting I have ever seen, and I have visited all the principal countries of the world. One of the mountains, which has been christened Mount Sawyer, has a water- fall with a_perpendicular "descent of 4,500 feet. Snowslides and glaclers may be seen lending down toward the valley from the peaks, whose summits are all the year 'round sending the waters toward the lakes that are scattered through the reglon of the streams that merge Into the Snake river. Where the river breaks through the Teton range there is a canyon with a sheer perpendicular helght of 6,000 feet. The canyon is forty miles long, and so far as Is known no man has ever passed through its gloomy portals and came out alive. There are many other canyons leading into the valley, but the Snake river canyon surpasses them all in grandeur and impres- siveness. It is decper and darker and more dangerous to the lifo of any person attempt- ing to make the passage than the Grand 2 of the Colorado. Sawyer described a great cave whose dark opening peered out from the base of one of the mighty mountan peaks upon the borders of Jackson's lake. The explorers en- tered the cave to the distance of 800 to 1,000 feet, “In our progress,’ said the leader of the party, ““we heard strange groanings and hiss- ing noises that would have frightened a ru- perstitious person out of their wits. Lights flashed upon us like the colored lights of ~ theater, and (n_an instant we were sur rounded by the darkness of midnight. We found the broken and decayed bones of two skeletons, and just before we turned back we came to the conclusion that the noises wero caused by the explosion of the steam as it rushed from the recesses of the rocks." In the opinion of the members of the party the cave is a natural wonder which will ‘be a never failing source of interest to travelers and tourists of the future. Its ex- tent is unknown. MERCUR'S PRECIOUS STONE. My own curiosity being aroused some weeks ago by reports of the discovery of a rare and beautitul mineral in Utah called variscite, says Don Maguire, writing in the Engineer- ing and Mining Journal, 1 visited the locality in which it was discovered. The place Is situated about 100 miles southwest of Ogden, Utah, In a Yfoothill on the cast base of the Oquirrh range of mountains, and lies in the northwest corner of Cedar valley, Utah county, Utah, about three and one-halt miles northwest of old Camp Floyd. The formatlon {s_metamorphic limestone, with occasional beds of black pyritiferous slate. The mineral itself occurs in nodules, or reniform, varying in size from that of an English walnut to an occasional one of the size of an average cocoa- nut. Upon each of these there s an outer coating about one-eight of an inch in thick- ness. This is laminer, yellow in color, and from one-elghth to a one-sixteenth Inch in thickness. Underneath this, like the kernel in a nut, lies the beautiful green mineral variscite. The composition of this is almost similar to that of turquoise, the base being a hy- drous aluminum phosphate, the coloring principle arising probably through either iron or manganese. The natural gem in color Is of great beauty, stands a high de- gree of heat, of considerable hardness, takes a fine polish, and is doubtless one of the most beautiful gem stones hitherto discov- ered upon the American continent. Upon first investigation of this discovery it was thought probably that the locality was that whence the Aztec monarchs of Mexico ob- tained the beautiufl green jewels held in such high favor by the members of Monte- zuma’s court. With a desire of finding proof that might lead to such a conclusion, I searched the locality in which these gems are found, without, however, (liscovering any traces of anclent workings. Near by I found two metate or mealing stones, such as were used by the Aztecs, and are com- mon in Central America and Mexico to this day. 1 found, also, about two miles south of the variscite mines, upon ledges of rocks near what is known as the “Pass,” hieroglyphical writings in considerable ex- tent, the work, of course, of a lost race. I, however, failed to find any cld workings of the mines, although, as scems to have been usually the case, they may have been worked at some point on this ground, all traces of such work having been carefully covered up by the ancient miners. It is strange that a year should have passed since the discovery of these gems, and yet the werld knows so little about them. This partly arises from the fact that they are found in limited quan- tities and, secondly, that those who discov- ered them seem to take very little interest in the find. A few pounds found their way east, and passed through the hands of deal- ers in New York and Philadelphia, but it s only now that attenti:n from more distant points seems to be drawn to the discovery made in that remote part of Utah. From England, Germany and Russia collectors and lapidaries are making inquiries and request- ing specimens of the mineral for jewelry manufacture, and also for the cabinet. SIOUX MAY CAUSE TROUBLE. Trule and Ogallalla Sioux, who wish to pro- test against the hanging of Chief Two Sticks, the Indian who murdered the cowboys at Humphrey's cattle ranch, are gathering at Pine Ridge agency, says a Rosebud special to the Sioux Falls Argus-Leader. TwoeSticks was sentenced to be hanged December 28, Captain Penney, acting Indian agent at Pine Ridge and Rosebud agencies, Is be'ng solicited to ald the c:ntending ones. They are re- celving some encouragement to revolt, as the Brules are not yet satisfled with the lesson taught them in 1890 and 1891, which resulted in the bloody carnage at Wounded Knee. Their unsettled state of mind might cause them to break out upon the slightest provocation. Agent Wright fears no trouble. Everything is being done to keep the bands on their respective reservations so as to nip any up- rising in the bud. A ghost dance Is going ¢n at Pine Ridge agency In the camp of Young-Man-Afraid of-His-Horse. There will be a gathering of all the Indlans at this agency next week, when Agent Wright will issue their annuities and the big councils will then be held. FAULKNER GOLD CAMP, A correspondent of the New Mexico Nugget says the new mill of the Myers Gold Mining and Milling company, on Slapjack hill, at Faulkner, 8 running regular ten-hour shifts. The ore being treated is a cement bearing gold and s taken from the contact. Twelve men are employed in the mill and mine. So far the results are satisfactory and the man- agement will soon add another thirty-ton Huntington to the plant. Slapjack hill is one of the bonanza spots of this camp. Thousands of dollars have been taken out in former years by placer miners. Work was begun by Messrs. McDerment & Jenkins upon a contract to sink a well 10 furnish water for the Charter Oak company's new mill at the lower camp. Work upon the grade for the site of the mill will be com- menced next week. It is intended to treat by milling the cement, which is so abundant here, and all of which carries free gold. Messrs. Willlams & Parks, operating for Chicago parties, are sinking a double com- partment shaft and driving & tunusl upon the Wicks mine and have excellent free mill- ing ore. They will soon begin the erection of a mill on Percha creek for the treatment of their ore. MONSTER TURNIPS, Although Sauvie's island was almost en- tirely submerged by the great flood of last spring, the farmers on that favored tract have but little reason for complaint. As goon as the water subsided they went to work replanting their crops, and as a sam- ple of the result, says the Portland Oregon- ian, Messrs, Reeder & Sons have left at the rooms of the Oregon immigration board a number of specimens of the purple top, strap-leaved turnip, raised from seed sown July 15, which are the largest of that vari- ety ever seen hers They are as big as & man's head, and some of them much larger. They are perfectly solid and sweet all the way through. The flood left deposit of fertile soll on the island, which will be of much more value than the floed did damage. Messrs, Reeder also raised a good erop of potatoes, although it was so late when the seed was planted that it did not germi- nate as well as usual. Mr. Reeder's ofchard killed by the flood, but he is setting out another. He has lived over forty years on the island and never saw such a flood before, and never expects to again, even if he should live there forty years more. Dr. Jay Guy Lewlis, who was present when Mr. Reeder brought in the turnips, said he saw nothing at the Columbian exposition to compare with them, and he arranged with Mr. Reeder to secure samples to take to the pomologists' meeting at Sacramento. Mr. Reeder is certain that the sugar beet will grow well on Sauvie's island, as mangolds and tagle beets grow to a great size in the rich alluvial soil, which, he thinks, will give the usgar beet a large percentage of sacchatine matter. TWO RAILROADS, There Is every prospect that the construction of two more important roads in the Black Hills will be begun in a few months, says the Laramie Republican. The first is the Dakota, Wyoming & Missourl River, and the second 1s the Rapid City, Missouri River & St. Paul, The grading on both for several miles out of Rapid City was begun in 1803, but was stopped during the panic when money became scarce. All the indebtedness has been pald up, and the directors of both roads think that they see a clear way ahead. Both roads start from Rapid City and traverse a rich mining and farming country. The second road will cross a vast tract of country not now covered by a rallroad. Its eastern terminus will be Plerre. The first road penetrates the heart of the Black Hills. ELECTRIC POWER. The Telluride Journal notes the starting up of a new seventy-five-horse power motor at the Columbia mill, and then refers to the water power at Ames, Colo., where the electrie power is so cheaply and efficiently generated. The electric station is the prop- erty of the San Miguet Consolidated, which has just added another permanent improve- ment in the way of a 500-horse power water wheel, which will be set in by the side of one of the other motors now in use, and operated by means of water piped from the new reservolr—Trout lake. The last wheel raises the water power to 1,650-horse power. all told. There are three water motors in use—one of 350-horse power, one of 700- horse power, and the last one Is 500-horse power. The power so gathered is wtilized for motive power by which the electrical machinery of one of the largest plants in the world is driven, and the current is transmitted long distances to mills in dif- ferent sections of the county, and Is also used for lighting the town of Telluride. The com- pany owning the plant is running five large mills now and will soon add two more t the list. THE DAKOTAS. The Yankion Indlans have refused to ac- cept government checks in payment for their land, and have demanded that they be paid in gold or silver coin. The Methodist Epworth league of the Huron district adjourned its convention here to- day. Rev. Stokesbury of Miller was chosen president. The next annual meeting will be held at Redfield. Howard Eaton, a wealthy ranchman of Dickinson, N. D., has forwarded a carload of elk to relatives in Pittsburg, Pa. The animals were raised in the Bad Lands and are quite tame. Superintendent Rowe of the Sioux Falls city schools has made his report for the month of November. It shows that the total enrollment December 1 was 1,717, against 1,594 for the same time last year, and 1,410 for 1892, Parties living fifteen miles north of Miller report the falling of a meteor in their neigh- borhood a day or two ago. It caused consid- erable alarm to a few, as it made a noise similar to distant thunder and flashed a pe- culiar blue light as it fell. The first annual exhibition of the North Dakota and Northern Minnesota Poultry as- sociation, now in session at Grand Forks, N. D., has been very successful. Over 400 fowls are on_exhibition and the attendance is large. The next show will be held in Grand Forks in December, 1895. Seventy-five . cigarmakers: employed by Wuest Brothers at Sioux Fails struck. The cause of the strike was the hiring of a sec- ond apprentice boy, which the union men claim was against their rules. There was no dissatisfaction in regard to wages. There are still twenty hands remaining in the man- ufacturing department. Probably the most important gathering of educators ever held in South Dakota will occur December 26-28, when the South Dakota BEd- ucational assoclation holds its annual meeting at Huron. There will be present prominent educators from every college, university and high school in the state, together with prin- cipals of schools and county superintendents. At a meeting of the Old Settlers’ associa- tlon at Fargo, embracing residents of the Red River valley prior to 1875, N. K. Hubbard was elected president; W. H. Lounsberry, George B. Winship, R. N. Probstfield, 8. G. Roberts, David McCauley and Charles Cava- lier were appointed a historical committee to prepare for the soclety history of the val- ey. The State Normal school at Madison is one of the state's educational institutions that it is proposed to turn over to the con- trol of the city or county in which it is located. This institution is in charge of Hon. W. H. H. Beadle as president. He says the institution is strictly a state school which returns its cost to the state In bet- ter trained teachers—something that is very greatly needed. The attendance in 1892-3 was 260, of whom 188 were in the normal department, and came from thirty counties, with eighteen graduates from elght counties, and one from outside of the state. Rey. Father Craft, the Indian missionary who has devoted his life to Indian work and was left on the Wounded Knee battlefield for dead, writes Bishop Shanley commending Secratary Smith’s position on the Indian que: tion, and in his views the bishop concurs. He says: “Most, in fact, nearly all Indians, will not progress until they are compelled. They are ready now as they can be made by any scheme that leaves out the sharp spur of necessity. The reservations should be broken up and the Indian compelled, like white men, to make an honest effort. It would enable progressive Indians and force nonprogressive ones to act.” Justice of the Peace Zimmerman of Oacoma, who was recently appointed to the position, to try his hand went through a mock marriage ceremony, in which Erick Lund and a young lady who is employed at an Oacoma hotel were the principals. The question that the marriage was legal was afterwards ralsed, and the \wo principals in what they supposed was simply an enjoyable pastime are now considerably worried about the matter. It is claimed that they are legally married according to the laws of the state, with the single exception that they had no license to marry. Whether or not this fact leaves the marriage ceremony null and void is looked upon as their only salvation. COLORADO, An artesian well is to be sunk at Granada, The Cowenhoven tunnel at Aspen is now two miles long. Leadyille's gold belt Is keeping good the promises made the first of the year. The Golden Wonder mine, Lake City dis- trict, expects to start up in the spring. A large number of hogs and cattle are being fed on alfalfa about Las Agimas. A bunch of range horses recently sold at auction at Meeker for the low price of $2.16 a head. A patent has been issued to John W, Balley of Denver for an ore pulverizing and amalgamating mill, The Florence Oil company has just finished packing 600 barrels of winter apples. Thelr crop this year was 1,000 barrels. Development work goes steadily on in the prospects at Goose Creek. Some finds of importance are chronicled every week. A mining man in from Cripple Creck says that the monthly yleld is a little over $600,- 000. The talk of @ million & month is flap- doodle, There Is work enough about Lamar to keep the threshing machines running for two months. A great deal of alfalfa seed is yet to be threshed. Nell Horton has harvested from fourteen ucres of bottom land, a few miles below Mon- trose, seventeen car loads of potatoes. These at 60 cents per 100 would return him §110 a car, or $1,870 gross. This Is & cash return of §133.67 per acre. Probably the largest water ram In the country has been placed in position for the Peorla Gold Mining company in the Ward district, The machine was built by J. George Leyner of this city after the plans of Gordon Land, and will lift over 1,600 gallons of water a minute from the Ste Vrain river to a tank at the mill, 600 fead‘abave. Now that the year :is nearly over, a good many will have to hedge on the figures of the gold yleld for the state. It will not be over $12,000,000, msrmany enthusiasts have claimed. The Lemorny, Otipple Creek, is being ac- tively worked by lessees. Some rich float has been found averaming $2,600 to the ton on the Clayton B claim, owned by the Lemorny company. Two hundred tome of ore shipped from the Lilllan mine, in Leadvile's gold belt, were paid for last wedk. . The smelter returns showed from five to; elght ounces of gold per ton, 100 to 100/ ounces of silver and 40 per cent excess irom. This means an average of over $200 per ton. The Argentum-Junfata at Aspen is among the shippers again and ore is now being taken from the big body that was encoun- tered a few days before the mine was flooded. At this point over $60,000 worth of ore was taken out in two or three days. The present shipments are expeeted fo be phenomenal ones, even for Aspen. W. 8. Stratton of Cripple Creek has started to sack gome of his Independence ore. Here- tofore all the ore shipped from this mine has been sent to the smelters loose. The sylvanite ore, which fs found in the second level, I8 turning cut very rich. Several hun- dred tons already smelted have averaged over | $400 per ton. Only the very richest ore is| being sacked, and when a carload of it is shipped it wiil, without doubt, be the richest car of ore ever sent to Denver from Cripple Creek. It will not run less than $50,000, and may bring $100,000. WYOMING. | The coal mines at Rock Springs are being actively worked. | A number of head of cattle have died in | the Saratoga valley recently from eating the loco weed. The new depot at Wheatland is about com- pleted. It will be the finest structure on the road between Cheyenne and Orrin Junc- tion. Bishop Preston of Salt Lake and a number of other d'gnitarfes f the Mormon church own 8,000 acres cf fine land in the lower por- tion of the Star valley, in Uinta county, which they intend to improve and put under ditch next year. The commissioners of Fremont county have brought suit in the supreme c urt of the state to t:st the constitutionality of the bill creating the county of Big Horn, which is taken from the northern part of Fremont county and a porti n of Johnson. The business men of Sheridan have for- warded a petition t> Washington requesting the department to improve the mail service between Sheridan and Billings, by running the mail car through to the end of the line instead of cutting it off at Sheridan. The Douglas Power and Electric Light company has submitted a proposition to the town of Douglas to build a 250-horse power plant for manufacturing purposes. The com- pany proposes to furnish the power for the city water works and the electric light. The Yellowstone Park Irrigation and Land company of Omaha placed a large ditching machine in the Big Horn basin, near the mouth of Stinking Water river, and propose to have 8,000 acres of fine land ready for set- tlement and cultivation by March 1 next. The Boomerang says that Fish Commis- sioner Schnitger has just received a_letter from the government hatchery at Neosho, Mo., that they will ship 50,000 rainbow trout eggs In about sixty days. He had asked for 100,000. Mr._Schuitger will also get 50,000 brown trout eggs from the Michigan hatch- ery. It is the general Impression that there is going to be a b om In the northeastern part of Wyoming next summer. The valuable coal croppings on Hay creék, north of Sundance, are attracting the attention of eastern cap talists. Within the past ninety days filings have been made on over 12,000 acres of these c:al lands. The Laramie” Republican says the Union Pacific surveyors are locating a spur to the vaint mines north of Rawlins, The paint has turned out to be better than was expected and Denver smelters say they will take 20,000 tons of it if the company will build a track to the mime.and make a reasonable rate to Denver. An attempt was made to burn the shear- ing pens at Baggs, in the southern part of Carbon county, which are owned by J. G. Edwards of Rawlins, The fire was kindled, but the parties left it before it got a good start and it died out. = Mr. Edwards has offered a $200 reward for the conviction of the guilty parties. While trying to extricate a drill from a well on the Medicine flat ranch of A. M. de Cleroq the other day, a well borer discovered the well was nearly full of oil, says the Sundance Gazette. When the men stopped drllling over a year ago there was no in- dication of ofl or water, but last week the well was discovered to have over seventy feet of water and ofl in it. The well is a little over 100 feet deep, and the presence of oil in this vicinity was never before thought of. OREGON. Three feet of fresh snow has fallen on the Siskiyous. A Salem tannery received 1,000 sheepskins from Troutdale. Five feet of snow Is reported on the road to the Santiam mines. Salem's Building and Loan association has assets now of over $100,000. P. B. Beckley of Oakland has turned off $12,000 worth of hogs this fall. There Is some talk at Dallas of the re- opening of the woolen mill now idle. Thirty-seven carloads of potatoes have been shipped from Jefferson this fall. The Prineville Review uses a picce of re- cently fallen aerolite for a paper weight. Bears are unusually fat and plenty in the Curry county woods this winter. Many are caught in traps. A combined grist and sawmill is going in on Elk river to meet the needs of Rogue river and Port Orford. Lake county is almost on the verge of a mining boom, says the Lakeview Examiner. Mines are being located in almost every lo- cality. There are 250 miners in the vicinity of Sparta, Unfon county, In comparison with ninety located there last year. A new quartz mill is being put in. The Tygh ridge cattle have an ecpidemic among them again. This time they call it the “blind staggers,” for want of a more accurate term, and many are dying of it. Some 2,000 sheep have arrived at The Dalles from Crook and the interior of Wasco county. About 800 are for immediate ship- ment to the Sound, and the rest will be pas- tured, The Bandon woolen mill has captured a contract for several: thousand blankets for the Japanese, The mill is therefore working day and night, employing two shifts of fifty hands each. The mines of Powell's creek are booming, and a great deal of coarse gold is being brought to the surface. Almost the entire course of the creek has been located, and a great deal of activity s noticeable. The Black Gold Channel Mining company, which acquired a large area of mining ground in Foots creek district, are still actively en- gaged in prospeeting. They have already run a channel 1,200 fekt in length and are now engaged in crosscutting. This promises to be one of the most important mining enter- prises in Orgeon. There is prospect for lively times on Rogue river during the mext year. The Alaska Packers assoclation bas decided to have a cannery in operation in time for next spring's fishing, and it is quite probable Hume will also build a cannery. The Alaska company will bulld at the Baguell ferry, which is con- sidered the best location on the river for a cannery. Oharles Howard, a school teactier near Mil- ton, In this county, while punishing a pupil, was attacked by five grown boys. Howard pulled a pistol and held them off while con- tinuing to give the unruly pupll a whipping. This is the same district in which Frank Fletcher and Peter Gaskell, boys who mur- dered Charles Petrie on Lington mountain two years ago, attended school. Traveling Agent P. B. Whiteny of the Southern Pacific lines in Oregon, is the Ash- land Tidings' authority for the statement that up to the end of Novemb:r a total of 40,000 bales of hops, aggregating about 500 carloads, have passed southward through Ashland so far this fall over the Southern Pacific railroad. All were consigned o east- ern points, and most of the cars were billed through by way of the Sunset route. Most of these bops, of course, are ralsed in Oregou, and the extent of the shipments can be more Long cut, black and blue and tan kersey Overcoats, with velvet collars, 48 inches long, for Black diagonal worsted overcoat with velvet collar, length, 44 inches, worth at least $12, Black or blue sacks and cutaways, suits in regent cut trimmed and lined, bound or unbound, Black or blue clay worsted suits in sacks or cutaways, cut extra long, the best imported goods, made up TaSHIORERTEV G T R 6N medium all wool, at.vieus clay worsted dress all wool, neatly - L S SIS ar in the height of 5.00 6.50 0.00 2.50 The M. H. Cook Clothing Co., 18th and Farnam, Omaha. casily comprehended when it is added that at § cents per pound they would aggregate a value of about $750,000. The people of the southern end of Benton county want the Long Tom navigated by river steamers as far up as Monroe, and are holding mass meetings, with a view to peti- tioning congress for aid to clear out obstruc- tions in the channel of the stream. It is six miles from the mouth of the stream to Mon- roe, and light draught boats, it Is said, have sometimes made the trip. It is figured out that a $20,000 or $30,000 appropriation would clear out the channel so that it could be navi- gated several months in the year. WASHINGTON. The Cheney flouring mill is running day and night. Rabbits are working havoc around Natchez. The new Yakima match factory has already begun to market its product. Large numbers of deer are being slaugh- tered in the Birch bay country. Money has been raised, it is sald, to pay off the recalcitrant Ellensburg ditch laborers. Weterville rejoices in tfie near prospect of a survey for an extension of the Great Northern, and the Northern Pacific's exten- sion from Coulee City westward, For the purpose of ascertaining the extent of the recent disturbances on Mount Ranier the Post-Intellizencer of Seattle has decided to fit out an exploring party to climb the mountain. In eastern Washington the prospects for a surprisingly large increase in flax culture the coming season are excellent. Growers have become thoroughly interested and will ex- periment largely. It is stated that the Great Northern is ‘making arrangements to cut 00,000 cedar _ties this winter in Washington, the Oregon Rail- way & Navigation company 250,000, and the Northern Pacific about 300,000, Some Ilwaco druggists have about twenty pounds of ambergris, picked upon the beach there last spring. They have been offered $32 per ounce for it on the strength of a sample recently sent to London, The annual session of the Chehalls county teachers' institute will be held in the public school building in Aberdeen, December 19, 20 and 21, This is the first time for the institute to be held on the harbor. The Wannacott Lake Milling and Mining company has obtained a patent for ten quartz claims, covering the townsite of Golden, in Okanogan county, and adjacent lands on the northwest and south sides of the same, also the land on which the stamp mill and other company buildings are located. The famous Onyx mining case, Involving a valuable deposit of onyx near Valley station, which was recently sold by G. W. Ainsley and other owners for $10,000, was decided in the superior court at Colville’ by a jury, who gave a verdict to Ainsley, the plaintiff in the case, involving title to the ground. The herring packers of Waldron island, in- cluding Thomas Bros., packed 12,000 boxes of herring this season, and those who have vis- ited the Island testify that the quality is good. The San Juan salmon cannery Is sald to have placed 10,000 cases, although it was the first season of the cannery and the run was light. One hundred and twenty Commonwealers, who have been harassing the citizens of Ellensburgh for some time, have march to Olympia, where they expect to arrive when the legislature convenes in January. They propose to demand appre priations for public highway improvements that will give them work to do. Dr. N. G. Blalock, chairman of the Wash- ington Irrigation commission, estimates that there are 2,400,000 acres of land susceptible of irrigation in eastern Washington. Of this amount about 1,260,000 acres are in the Yakima valley. On the basis of twenty-acre farms, Yakima could, therefore, support 60,- 000 people on irrigated land, The Prosser American believes that the oll seeds of commerce can be successfully culti- vated in the Yakima country, and thinks that experiments in the culture of olives and castoroll plants may lead to a promising in dustry. Southern Californta has made a suc cess of ollve cultivation, and while the climate there is much milder than that of the Horse Heaven country, the experiment may be fruitful with success. MISCELLANEOUS, Agent Day has been ordered by the Interior department to bring the wandering Utes back to their reservation from Utah. The Bland tunnel at Cochitl, New Mexico, has plerced Gold hill 300 feet and the quartz improves as depth ig gained on it. On January 1, 1895, there will be a general reduction of salaries on all revenue boats, lighthouse tenders and lighthouse steamers stationed on the Pacific coast. All employes of the revenue and lighthouse service except in orchards captains, lieutenants, engineers and com- missioned officers will be affected by the new order of things. A letter from White Oaks, N. M., tells of the pleasant anticipation of having a railroad to that camp before the end of 1895. American capitalists have bought the Colon mine for $200,000, and the Canavan mine for $90,000. Both mines are in Soncra, Mexico. The consolidated Califcrnia and Virginia, on the Comstock lode, produced 350 carloads of ore in one week recently worth over $60 per ton. The Northern Pacific has filed a list of over 100,000 acres of land selected by it under the new regulations of the Interior department. The Apex controversy is.up for settlement in the Mercur district, Utah. The Marion company has followed the ore vein outside its side lines. It {s said work on the Fresno & Mon- terey road will be begun in Fresno and at Monterey in January or February, if the rights of way are given as previously promised. ‘ George McGarvey arrived at San Bernar- dino, coming from Rock mining district, bringing with him $800 in gold nugeets, two of which are worth $260 each. On a few locations in the district miners are d-ing well. A. Neuschwander, who has a borax plant thirty miles south of Kennedy, Nev. Is producing about thirty tons of refined borax a month. Borax s worth 7 cents a pound, making the monthly product of his plant $3,000. Movements are reported to be afoot in Park City, Utah, looking to the development of the whole ridge of mining claims lying north of the Ontario drain tuonel. The Great Eastern company, which was recently in- corporated, is leading the movement. A tract of grazing land forty miles wide, between Fresnal and the Gunsight mines in southern Arizona, is about to be abandoned by stockmen, Papago Indians steal some $1,000 worth of prime beéf monthly and that is'a higher tariff than “the trafic will bear.” A hand of Indlans arrived from the north to wait on General Booth. They a re from the Siwash Salvation army and are in uni- form, They left the Methodist church be- cause their pastor, Rev. Mr. Crosby, objected to their religious marches and drum accom- paniments, The situation in Ellensburgh in reference to the work on the ditch, says the Localizer, is unfortunate for the men and a burden to the city. There are enough impecunious residents to be cared for who have claims upon the city. It is unfortunate for the men, because they do not receive full pay for what they have done. It would have been much better for the men and the city, too, had the work not been commenced. —_— Captain Sweeney, U. 8. A., San Dlego Cal., says: “Shiloh's Catarrh Remedy is the first medicine I bave ever found that would do me any good.” Price 60c. - She Had iler Doubts, Tndianapolis Journal: She held herself so still to catch what he was muttering in his dreams that she hardly breathed, “Mary—" “That's me,” she thought to herself, as there was no occasion for her to think.of any one else. “Mary must have that new wrap, even though I do have to take It out of the book- keeper's salary. It is (0o bad, too, He is the only support of a widowed mother. Al was still again. She lay there and thought some more. “He's just as mean as he can bé" she murmured, “I don't belleve ho was asleep at all.” — The Crucial Test. The Queenslander, Australia: “Your high- ness,” said the menial, “the man with a bul- let-proof shirt is in waiting in the ante roon Meekly the inventor entered. “Has this garment been subjected to every possible test?” inquired the potentate, “It has, please your majesty.” “Er—has it been to the steam laundry?"” The inventor fell to the floor in & swoon, “Folled again,” said he as he fell, the mouth?" ““Phe woman Is glaring and frothing at the mouth.” “Has the woman a fit?" “That 1s just the question; the dress says she has; she says she haso't.” “Tuey are speaking of the matter. ¥ 2 Oregon Kidney Tea cures all kidney trou- bles, Trial size, 26 cents, All druggists, naker FEMININE NOTES, The women’s clubs in and about Washing= ton have federated under the title of “The Federation of Woman's Clubs of the District. of Columbla.” Mrs. Bradley Martin, the American mother~ in-law of the earl of Craven, is credited with six months’ negotiation and patience in the purchase of a jeweled coronet of as much historic as intrinsic value. Lily, duchess of Marlborough, formerly Mrs. Hammersley, nee Price of New York, is again the subject of fresh matrimonial gos: sip in London ‘“society weeklies,” which rumors and gossip, however, her friends deny as “‘utterly ridiculous.” Mrs. Langtry keeps up her pedestrianism daily irrespective of sunshine or rain, to which exercise she attributes her health and envied complexion, A matter of ten miles a day on foot Is to Mrs. Langtry what a walk around the block Is to an American woma, Duchess de la Rochefoucauld .is counted one of the cleverest women in Franco-Ameri- can wircles in Paris. She Is a daughter of Senator Mitchell of Oregon, and was married to the duke in 1892. People say she “‘looks and speaks like a Parisian,” which s a double compliment, The Political Equality club is making, ar~ rangements for the proper observance of Miss Susan B. Anthony's 75th birthday, which wilk occur on February 15. A recent acquisition to the club is Miss Helen Gould, who, with her sister, has also joined the woman's law class of the University of New York, The wife of Franz Rummel, the planist, is the daughter of Prof. Morse of telegraph fame. _he had, perhaps, more offers of maj riage from titlad personages than perhaps any young American lady of her day. Mr. Rummel was 5o unpopular with her parents that her_mother refused to attend the wed~ ding. Mrs, Rummel has grown stout and gray, but is still a very handsome woman, An odd occupation has been thought out. and entered upon by a southern woman liv- ng in Alabama. She arranges school and Sunday school entertainments, being able, when needed, to write an address or short dialogue, to instruct in the art of declama- tion or recitation, get up tableaux, or, In fact, do any of the irksome but most neces- sary things Inseparable from such entertains ments, and which usually fall upon some overworked committee. The wedding of Mrs, Eva Wilder McGlag- son, which follows close upon the announce- ment of her engagement, is an event of much pleasent (ntere:t to the many friends. and admirers of this gifted woman, Mrs. McGlasson marries a member of an old and distinguished Prnnsylvania family, Mr, Henry C. Brodhead c¢ Wilkesbarre. The wedding: and trip includes a long stay abroad, the first objective point being Genoa, for which port Mr. and Mrs. Brodhead sailed on their weds ding day, December 5. The Woman's Relief corps of Indianapolls, Ind., conducted a lunch and coffce stand i front of the pension office on the last pay day. This was done to lighten the effect of the counter temptation of the neighborin liquor saloons. Under the guise of & cons venient place to have thelr checks cashed, for which service a commission of 25 cents the veterans are lured Into thess aces, and rarely get away without leaving considerable more than the commission money: in exchange for liquor, which the old soldier finds it easy to be persuaded to drink, A champion for the Boston girl has arisen in' the person of Harriet Prescott Spofford. She says of that learned lady: “She is in this generation a composite of all her grand- If she bas the Pilgrim's firm ade orence 10 her faith she has also the libers ality of the friend of Harry Vane, the stralghtforward courage of the Scotch-Irish, the vivacty of the French, and always some of the iron fiber of the Puritan in her morak and mental and physical condition. She knows that New York considers her provin- cial. But what matter? She considers Now York banal" The adoption at the recent meeting of the New York State Woman's clubs of Mrs H. R. Shattuck's “Woman's Manual” as the authority of the newly formed state federation in all parliamentary matters was eminently proper. It was a compliment to all women, and a deserved compliment to one In par: ticular, Mrs. Shattuck understands offl and legislative red tape as most women do chdfons, and it s quite right that her a mirable brochure should supersede “Cushing's Manual,"” at least in all gatherings of women, The New Jersey BStale Federation alsg adopted it a few days ago,