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THE OMAITA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, DEOEMBER 31, 1894. PULSE OF WESTERN PROGRESS Heris of Sleck Oattle Dottinz the Vas Ranges of Montana, MORE OWNERS AND FEWER CATTLE KINGS | Btock In Fine Bolse Basin Furnished h Coiture in Wyoming counter with n Lynx — News Notes. Conditlon for Wintering the Latest Bo- nea The eattlemen very successful business of have had stock been of Montana year. The the state has Helena the state Independent. The great ranges of are belng cut Into by the progress fve farmer, and there has consequently been & tendency to the size of There are not many so-called kings" in Montana as there once were. business s becom year by year general. While the range, after them the busi increases the importance. Reports come from every section that th cattlemen anticipate very few severe weather In the next few months. Th < #tock has accumulated such an abundance of fat that they will be able to stand scarcity of food when the range is about ex hausted and covered with snow. Should cole weather come without snow and close the lesser waterways, the o and mountainous sections suffer before spring opens become green again. decrease s0 Th mor there As are more owners to this tendency to distribut cattle business will grow losses will and undoubtedl! the range! The gray wolves this year are proving a very serfous trouble to the stockmen of east ern and northern Montana. The wolves hav been doiog considerable ranging about Laurel, Park City and score of other sections. In the northern part o Gallatin county, upon the Sixteen Mile range they have appeared In great the other wild animals. Coyotes kill hun. of young calves and sheep, but th t gray wolves often attack and kill th strongest stee The stockmen all say thaf some protection from such destruction shoul be afforded them by the enactment of suitable bounty law at the coming session o the legislature. BOISE BASIN A BONANZA. Much Interest attaches to the develop ments being made at Idaho City, Idaho, i the search for gold below the false bedroc of the Doise basin. Some weeks ago drills brought up r gold ore, and ch th theory that great deposits of that class of ore exist below the false bedrock has bees demonstrated to be absolutely correct. Re growing undergoing changes of a revolutionary nature, says the | herds, “cattle there are as many cattle on look to many people instead of a few in from up tle in the hilly damage to the stock I numbers, They are much more troublesome than all the the animal than had the brick. Tt stopped a moment in its rush, and the engineer, still unable to get out of the door, took out his Jack knife and stood ready to use it it it should be necessary It was a wise move on his part, for the cat sprang at him and was about to use its claws when the man stabbed it in the body. The blow was accurately placed, fortu { nately, and the lynx fell without a whimper. | » man stabbed the animal a dozen times ter that untik he was sure It was dead The lynx was a fine specimen, and had it not been reduced in strength by hunger could | easily have whipped a man armed with any | thing less than a2 gun SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL LANDS, The total area of public school lands of the state s 2,821,348 acres. Of this immense | | acreage none may be disposed of for less than $10 per acre. While this is the mir imum, the state has disposed of 141,000 acres | at an average price of $14 per acre, and the same average price for all the school lands will give the state a_permanent school fund of | about $40,000,000, which cannot be invested at | less than 7 per cent. While the office has \h en in existence but a few says the Minneapolis Tribune, the am of perma- nent_school fund now on hand Is in round numbers $2,011,000, the school popula- tion is 105,175, the in est on the sum now on hand is about $1.35 per capita per annum. | Besides the school lands the government granted the state at the time of admission | 653,000 acres of endowiient lands for the various educational and charitable institu- tions of the state, all of which have been selected but about 40,000 acres, and part of which has been patented. The amount of school and endowment lands already patented to the state is 114,092 acresz, a greater amount than has been patented to the five other states admitted at the me time with South Dakota, and a greater amount than has been patented to Arkansas. In connection with this the manner of disbursing the school fund will be of interest. The fund is apportioned i [ amongz the ‘various counties upon a basis of the voting population and the county com missioners are made loaning nts, the county being held responsible for any lo The interest is returncd to the state commis- sioner and is apportioned among the var.ous counties upon a basis of the school popula- tion of the county. SOUTH DAKOTA IRRIGATION, The principal topic of discussion through- out South Dakota is the matler of perfecting a thorough system of Irrigation, says the Minneapolis Tribune. Heretofore in those townships wiere artesian wells had been sunk, the farmers and taxpayers have been content merely to have their lands or the lands of their neighbors traversed by living streams of water frem the artesian wells, Ditches lead in all df ctions from every ar- tesian well to carry away the surplus water. Many or all of these ditches flow for miles, but beyond furnishing ample water for stock do little good It was believed that | t t 8 o a y s o t o t a a t the running streams of water would increase the rainfall to at least a slight degree, but it has now been determined that they do not. The opinion is rapidly gaining ground that in order to make a success of frrigation the farmers must be permitted to use every drop of water from each arteslan well. At present the law prohibits the damming of any of the ditches unless with the unanimous con- - n k e f n would have been of little service to them in an_effort to reach the inside of the bank safe, C. D. Palmer of the firm of McBride & Palmer, hardware merchants of Nehawka, has died of consumption. He was a promi- nent_ politiclan The annual distribution of aid by ex-Sena- | tor Van Wyck Ladies' Aid soclety leved 121 families The explosion of a lamp school at Genoa set fire to building and the Indians had hard save the structure from destruction Charles Sourbler, a Norfolk contractor, died of pneumonia The day before his sis- ter had been buried and his wife now lies dar.gerously ill from the same discase. H. H. Jones of Lavacca has been adjudged insane by the Roard of Insanity of Valen- tine. Mr. Jones was an old soldie 1 rose to the rank of lieutenant in the war. A meeting of the members of the vigilants f the townships of Falrmount, West neva and Madison, in Fillmore county, has been called for the afternoon of January b. An organ peddler recently left an Instru- ment at the house of a farmer in Dixon county, who gave him a receipt. A few days later this receipt turned up in the form of a promissory note for $125. Nels Foear was driving Into Oakland when the tongue of the buggy came down and the horses started to run. A lady who was rid- ing with him had her skull fractured by being thrown to the frozen ground Men working on Humboldt's water works system struck for $1 per rod and work was immediately suspended. They have been re- ceiving 60 cents, but now that the frost has come they demand a larger salary. A large cooking and hot water range Brown's hotel in Sterling blew up, and Mrs. Abbie Carrel, who was near the stove, was badly scalded besides having one of her ribs broken. The range was nearly new. About eight years ago a young bo Raymaker, left the home of his fathe gmaker, in Nebraska, No trace of the could 'be found until his father, now a resident of Kingfisher, OKL, received a letter from his son, who at Ontario, Ore. F. R. Wingfeld of Crawford has moved his plant to Chadron and will continue the publication of the Citizen, which e has purchased from W. I, Bailey and B. C. Hill, who have ken their printing plant to Monterey, Mex., where they claim to have found a better opening. Mr. Wingfield will have the co-operation of A. L. Enbody of Chadron in his new venture. “Chea Mit Svandu Aneb Kupecti Mladence v Hlavmin Meste” is the seven act title of a comedy which will make everybody laugh. It is to be presented by home talent at Schuyler on New Year's day, and the Bohe- mian gymna under whose auspices the play Is being arranged, have undertaken to gIve a dance for the benefit of those who at- tend the play and care to remaln longer. 10WA. The Missourl Valley Times has m its elegant new building. McMillen & Johnson's flouring Sigourney have been shut down. Ex-Governor Larrabee is about on a two months' trip to Mexico. direction of City, ander at the Nebraska the re- at the Indian the floor of the work to in éd into mills at to start Blue, | in Irclgation is rapMygrowing, and the coming season’s Irrigpted acreage will be double that of last year, What will probably Brbbe the largest mam- moth ever discovered IS been found near Sfoux Falls. The skpleten is over forty feet long and ten feet wide, One of the animars teeth is eloven and dné-huarter Inches long, five inches across aml eleven inches deep. At a recent teachers!asosciation held at Clark, a_resolution was adopted requesting tho members of the Tegfslature from Clark county to to each teacher In the.siate one holiday in a three months’ term for the purpose of visit ing other schools antt edmparing methods of work ( During the season of 1504 John M. Thomp- son, an extensive sheep breeder and wool grower, forty miles jwest of Plerre, says he raised on an average 103 lambs from each 100 ewes in his flock, 'Which numbers some. thing over 4,000. He successfully wintered ver 1,600 sheep, with no other feed but prairie grass. The Yankton Indian reservation, which will be opened to gettlement by presidential proc lamation in the spring, - comprises about eighteen townships, all of which are now comprised fn the boundaries of Charles Mix county, which contalns about twelve town- ships~ outside of the reservation: Douglas county, east of and bordering on the reser- vation, contains thirteen townships, and will come into the legislatuza-this winter asking that the reservation bs divided between the two counties. Charles Mix county will op- pose. The Yankton Indian reservation, which will be opened by presidential proclamation In the spring, comprises about eighteen townships, all of which is now included in the boun- daries of Charles Mix county, which contains about twelve townships outside of the reser vation. Dougles county, east of and border- ing on the reservation, contains about thir- teen townships and will come into the leg islaturo this winter asking that the va- tion be divided between the two counties, making them about equal in size. Charle Mix county will oppose any action toward a reduction of her territory One of the finest and best appointed library and reading rooms in the whole northwest was presented with appropriate ceremonies to the citizens of Lead by Mrs. Phebe A Hearst, widow of the lata Senator Hearst of California. The Iibrary and reading rooms occupy the third floor of the new hall r cently erected by the Miner's union, and con- tains, in addition to a well selected stock of literature, embracing the leading dailies and periodicals of Europe and America, all the paraphernalia necessary to play the popular games now in vogue. Once a fortnight a free musical recital will be given in the main reading room, Mrs. Hearst having employed a librarian with musical and sent with the furniture a plano. magnificent COLORADO Springs has four large tunnels all making good headway. A farmer etted $586.10 from two acres of cantaloupes at Rocky Ford this season Tt is estimated that the Cripple ( cost the Strong Mining company §: Uncle Johnnie Wilson of Floris Tdaho progress in k war 30,000, re the pateag of a law giving | talent | | .~ Boys’ Ulsters. | poys' vLSTERS— | ages 6 to 15 years, | fabrics— | Brand new-—made especially for us | $6.00 value at .. dar'e colora and good BOYS' ULSTRRS— ages 6 to 11 years—light all wool fur beaver | —elegantly made and trimmed— Brand new-—made especially for us $6.00 value at . BOY s | £ | 8 to 12 years—black melton, cut extra long —cassimere lined— Brand new —m de especially for us .00 value at . BOYS' 1 to 19 vears—dark gray Shetland flannel lined, cut extra long— Brand new—made especially for us $10.00 value at. ULSTERS— wool, Me MEN'S TLSTERS—cut long, plain or check patterns— Brand new— Made especially for us— $1.60 values at.... MEN'S HEAVY DARK ULSTERS—lined with flannel, large collar, cut extra long— Brand new — Made especially for us — $10.00 value at..... M3 HBAVY CHEVIOT U1 lars 1o go ove JRAY AND BLACK with great big col- de especially for us 8 FINE ALL WOOL RS—magnificently long. Brand new— Made especially for us— $15.00 value @t........eoo. FRI trimmed, ULS- cut Gi-in n’'s Ulsters. ' HEAVY WI PANTS SUITS dark colors Brand new — £.00 values at.. BOYS' ALL WOOL single bre d—cut Brand new $10.00 value at BOYS' ALL WOOL ages 14 tn 19 ye Boys’ Suits. NTER WEIGHT LONG re—all wool made especially for us 1.ONG Tor; PA SsUITS, made espedially for us LONG PANTS SUITS cut_double breasted and made from extra welght nd new value at ¥ $12.00 ROYS' FINE DR worsteds and cas gray, ete.—single and finished equal Brand new— Made especiall $15.00 value at ... MEN'S WINTER-W linings und strongly Brand new $8.00 value at... 5 .00 MEN'S in ALL the new lengths carefully made up-- made especially for us Brand new $12.00 value at.... MEN'S CLAY AND FANCY for us CBIGHT SULT made espe WOOTL, assimere made especially for us S SUITS, IN CHEVIOT e.black, 1sted ~made ustom work— Men’s Suits. S—-GOOD wed— ially for us WINTER SUITS— and weaves, and most WORSTED SUITS--artistic in workmanshlp, all sizes— Brand new-— Made espeei $15.00 value at.. MEN'S FINE ment B d new-— WORSTED MERE SUITS—In ev AND CASSI- y and any style gar- equal to any §25 custom made sult— Made especially for us ant has lative to the work now going on the Idaho City correspondent of the Boise Statesman sends his paper the following: The trustees of the Holse County Mining company have decided to ralse more money and go down decper with the bole in the false bedrock. None are yet satisfled that the granite has been reached, and will go fifteen or twenty feet deeper to satisfy them- selves. One thing Is certain, and that is that the company has great mines whether the bedrock has or has not been reached. All tha way from the surface there are sul- phurels, but not till within 100 feet of the sent of the taxpayers of the township. But few townships hawe residents who pull to- gether on this proposition. Grand View township, Brule county, is an exception to the rule. At a mecting held a short time ago, which was attended by every taxpayer in the township, it was agreed. among themselves that as a beginning onc person was to be permitted for a certain length of time to use all the water from the splendid cight-inch artesian well completed only a few months ago. This individual ac- cordingly dammed the ditch and turned the stream toward his own land, letting it run opened a three-foot vein of quartz two miles west of town, which assays from $28 to $10 per ton, Several Two boys broke loose from the rcform school at Eldora and were captured n day after a hard chase at Hubbard by Mar- shall Fisher. C. H. Vall on retiting from the clerkship of the courts at Audubon, was presented with a diamond ring as a Christmas present by the Audubon bar. Members of the JTowa society of the Sons of the American Revolution have been sum- moned to mect in Des Moines January 13 the election of officers, etc. fine crops of potatoes have rai in the Arkansas valley this se and ils newspapers are urging farmers start into competition with Greel The Alma Dulletin_ tells of a valuable strike in the Benedicl, where a three-foot body of ore has becn opened, assaying four ounces in gold and 100 ounces in silver. It is positively stated that the been o to The M. H. Cook Clothing Co., bottom of the hole were they saved. |@ssayers have been testing the sulphuret ‘and find them rich In gold, the assays goin All tho way from $10 in gold to $62 in gol fand twenty-seven ounces in silver per ton, § The quantities of sulphurites are immense. f'In fact, the hole demonstrates that we hav a great bed of iron sulphurites rich in gold. ‘To secure the capital necessary for the work- ing of the ground is the next question for people of the company to consider. The Boise and Ada counties have spent $12,00 bunting for the pay, and now that the, have it there should not be, it seems, muc! trouble in getting capital to take hold an put down a working sbaft. Those who have watched carefully th formation and the amount of sulphurets th cement contains are of the opinion that the discovery is the most important that ha been made in the west for Several many years. until a depression in the prairie or other natural reservoir had been completely filled with water, when the stream was again turned into Its proper channel. Then the next man on the ditch did the same thing, until now every farmer In the township has a sufficient quantity of water stored away to thoroughly soak every inch of his land if need be. The plan has been to store the water at as great a height as possible, so that lower land can be irrigated at any time by means of ditches leading from the reservoirs. THE COMING LEADVILLE, The Leadville Herald-Democrat gives the total cutput of the camp for 1894 at $5,160,- 074, Of the 1894 output, the production of gold amounted to $1,934,240. This fs cer- tainly an excellent record for a gold camp but a year old, and with but three gold properties practically producing at this time. The gold output for 1893 was only a little 3 d e 0 y h a o o An Audubon jury has found Mushrush guilty of manslaughter in causing the death ot Frank Lieb. This Is the third conviction in this case, and there are two others await- ing conviction on the same charge. Mary Clancy has put in an appearance at Orlent township, Adair county, and claims to be the widow of John Cralg, who died last summer, supposedly a single man. It is sug- gested that the lawyers can now secure the property for division among themselves. At Monticello on Christmas night some young fellows who had been crealing a racket at the home of the mother of ona of their number, tied the old lady to a bed- post and afterward set fire to the house. The fire was soon extinguizhad, howsver, and little damage was done. Deputy Sherift Herman Zernacke and his family had a narrow escape from asphyxia- tion on Christmas morning. The door of the coal stove was left open the night befors strike on the Rex propcrty at Leadville has not béén overdrawh, In' 'the least. Another strike of almost as much importance is chron- feled in an adjacent properiy—the Doris. The Las Animas Leader states that J. A. Westerlund intends ‘to put in about 160 acres of broomcorn next year. “He says he could have cleared nearly: $4000 at the present prices of broomcorn it hie had planted eighty acres last spring. The Jim Blaine miue, located about five mites from Needleton, has a new five-stamp mill ready for operaticn. The ore from this Dproperty assays on an average three ounces £01d, 150 ounces in silyer per ton ,and it is said there s a large body of it in sight. A good strike has been made In the St. Louis and Cripple Créel tunnel, located .on tha suithwest slope of Mineral hill. At a depth of GG feat and 180 feet below the surface a vein of qiia:t= was’'cut which has says the wheel was there when he was a young brave, and no one can recollect when it was made. P. Williams, a cowboy, who has been on -the.range in the northern part of the state, reports that gray wolves and other wild ani- mals are becoming quite ferocious. He was attacked by a large lynx the other day while riding across the bad lands, near the Mon- tana line. The animal jumped on his horsc's back, chewing and biting both man and horse in a terrible manner. Willlams' com- panion, who was riding at his side, managed 1o kill 'the beast, after firing three shots into its body. A syndicate of eastern capitalists are mak- ing preparations to develop the extensive couple of seasons ago, and Indications of the presence of petroleum have been discoy- ered at various points. The new planing mill and warehouse at Whatcom, for the Bellingham Bay Improve- ment company’s mill, is rapidly nearing com- pletion and will be ready for the machinery before the beginning of the new year. It will bo 222 feet long and 132 feet wide. B. D. Parrott of Ellensburg is making a fiying machine which he proposes to patent, His plans contemplate a machine made of aluminium, weighing, complete, about 1,000 pounds, capable of going about 100 miles per hour. A chemical engine, also his invention will ‘supply the power. His fuel is to be gasoline. ~ 18th and Farnam, Omaha. belong In Canada the United States govern- ment pays no_ attention to them, and they are in very bad clrcumstances. A deposit of exceptionally fine onyx h been discovered about 10 miles from Brigham City, in Box Elder county, Utah. 1t is sald that six feet of fresh snow fell during the recent storm on the summit bes tween Carson and Glenbrook, in Nevada. The Santa Fe Placer assoclation, which has located the bed of the Galisteo river for three or four miles above Rogers' ranch, is sinking for bedrock about three miles from Cerriiloss, The Caisson is down about twenty feet at present, and gold colors have been found all the way from the surface. There are millions of gold under the false bedrock, or, more properly, below what bas been worked, and the only thing that re- mains is (he raising of a sufficient amount of capital with which to work It. TO RECLAIM A DESERT. ~ H. E. Huntington arrived here this after- noon from Daggett, says a Los Angeles spe- clal to the San Francisco Examiner, having been inspecting the large property” which h has secured in the Mojave desert and which he proposes to irrigate by means of an im- mense water system from the Mojave river. “We shall use the water from the Mojave been entered already a distaude of eight feet, and an assay made went at the rate of $161 per ton. A few days ago it was staled that o body of high grade sulphide ore had beerl run through with a drill on the property of the Ibex Mining company at Leadville, 170 feet from the present workings of the Little Johnny. The statement was more than true, for the owners were startled to learn that the lowest assay taken was seventeen ounces in gold. % A very rich body of ore has been en- countered in the Alice property at Yankee over $803,000. The grand total of the yield of Leadyille mines from 1879 to 1894, Inclu- sive, is $106,449,447.20. The number of men engaged In mining, hauling and smelting ore, as furnished by the superintendents of the different mines, is divided as follows: Miners and mine laborers, 2,231; smeiter hands, 650; ore haulers, 150. From the developments made in the Lead- ville gold belt In the last few weeks the mining men of the camp feel that they have something to be thankful for, even though sliver {s down to 60 cents. Conservative to the utmost degree, and & mining man coal flelds in the northeastern part of Wyo- ming next summer. Two large companies, with a capital stock of $500,000, have been organized. The principal offices of the com- panies will be located at Aladdin, Crook county. The Aladdin Coal company will develop the coal properties which have been acquired by the syndicate. The purpose of the Southeastern Coal company, the other cor- poration, is to construct and operate a rail- road from the coal flelds through South Da- kota o a_point on the Missouri river, pre- sumably Sioux Falls. OREGON. and he awoke to find his wife deathly pale and his children and the servant girl in a stupor. He quickly opened all the windows, but the Christmas turkey was untouched. Clinton has undertaken to provide work for her unemployed. The city council has given orders that $10,000 worth of work be pro- vided for mean who are seeking worl and can- not find it elsewhere. The money will be ex- pended in building new roads leading into the city. It Is expected that a similar order will be issued by the board of supervisors, as much destitution is reported to exist in the A ranchman in the neighborhood of the Jemez hot springs was in Albuquerque and stated that the Navajoo Indians continue stealing cattle and other stock, and they are 50 bold in committing thelr depredations that they will ride up to one's house and take stock under the nose of the owner. Mr. J. W. Gerritt of Mineral Park, Arlz. is Interested in a mining claim that pro- duces ore from which the gold is pounded out in a hand mortar. In this way more than twenty pounds of the yellow metal was recently obtained in a remarkably short time, In the United States circuit court at Spo- kane, Chester H. Bingham has filed suit against the Northern Pacific Raillway com- pany for §22,000 damages. He claims §11,000 damages for a fall he received while build- ing a Palouse bridge, and $11,000 for damages he reccived while being treated by the com- pany’s physician, The people of Carrollton ure exultant over the prospects of securing a big shingle mill —one that will cut 150,000 per day. It will furnish employment to about 100 men. The people of Carrollton agree to furnish for the river,” he said, “taking it out of the rive four miles above Daggett. We already hav: four miles of main canal bullt and sevel miles of laterals, putting about 1,500 acre! under irrigation. grow vegetubles of all kinds and deciduou fruits. As soon as the rainy season is ovel wo shall put in a submerged dam and hav works planned which will cost $300,000 of $100,000. tem wbout 210,000 acres of land, will take several years to put it all unde trrigation. We will develop power ove there, too. Near Mincola, onr new there will be a waterfall of a vertical droj 05,100 feet. Out of cvery 1,000 = we are going to get 260-horse powe NICELY 3, which will be used to drive th though guire Tary at the mines in the Calico dis- BHE. s o FISH CULTURE PAYS, Commissioner Schnitger has made hi . wal'report to Governor Osborne, says th Bl cnne Leader. The advance that has bee " made during the year just ended is set fort In detail, and the gratifylng announcemen made that fish culture has not only profitable to the state, but very much 0, a the fish planted in the various streams hav thrived and grown to the extent that Wyo- ming's fishing resorts are being used as a udvertisiog card by the transportation com panies. mie hatchery cost §7,016.85 and 1,256,000 fis| were distributed. Major Schnitger recommends an priation of $2,600 for a branch hatchery a Sherldan, an appropriation for the Larami hatchery and certain modifications of th laws that seem necessary. In all, fish were distributed during the year. HUNGRY WOLVES Talk about your gray wolves, this is th pountry for them, says a Laramie Boomeran correspondent writing from the town Dwen. tle are. A party last here week, of whicl your correspendent was one, suw a bunch of up a 2 Iwenty-nine which year-old heifer. had just eaten Not one of the party had gun with them, but they gave them a chase. Dnly for the country being very rough they would have succeeded In capturing some of them. Three years ago there was scarcel & wolf to be seen in this country. Now there are bhundreds of them, and they are killin stock at a fearful rate. Colts, calves an earlings seem to be thelr choice of diet, yet hey have killed large steers in this neighbor- hood. ATTACKED BY A WILD CAT. The engineer of the new flour mill at Sa Quintin, Lower California, heard a low, rasp- Ing purr while at work in his engine room the other day the San Fran ing toward the door saw an unusually larg Iynx stariog him in the face. The was gaunt with hunger, and its condition ha evidently made it brave, for it appeared flerc and In no hurry to turn back. The enginee would have turned back himself, but the onl: means of exit was occupled by his visitor, an: the fact was anything but comforting When the engineer began to realize hi position be saw that no other weapon tha @ brick was at hand. Before he could reac! says a San Diego spevlal t for the missile the lynx sprang into the room, uttering a growl. It meat, and the engineer tempting meal avallable could make the spring fowever, the brick went whiziing throug the alr ‘and landed between its cyes. Th blow dazed it, but, notwithstanding th's, th maddened brute sprang toward the man in way (hat caused the lalter to bunt over barrel of water in his haste to escape was obviously afte offered the Before the huge ca that was The land has been experl mented with sufficiently to prove that it wil There will be tributary to our sys- town, inches of been During the past two years the Lara- appro- 93,000 o They are almost as thick as the cat- isco Examiner, and upon look- beast most tutended Part of the water fell over the lynx, and this ap- peared to have a more depressing effect on who knows cvery foot of territory in the camp, Mr. Page's declarations will certainly have great weight. Under his signature, Mr. Page says in the Herald-Democraf “The gold camp of the future fis assured, and an adoquate description of its possibil- itles begfrars language. Leadville may justly be styled the gold Comstock of Colo- rado. The great lode i3 as yet in a very small part developed, and has an extent of at least three miles by ten. The develop- ment of the gold belt has progressed far enough to state conservatively that its record is such that the Leadvillo of the past will be forgotten in the Leadville of the present, and the golden future of the camp is assured. In the judgment of one who may clalm to Know the camp thoroughly, having been pro- fessionally engaged here for sixteen years, [ indulge in no exaggeration when I say the half is not told.” r o n 5 1 s r o r it r r D r e TO REFINE CASPER OIL. The oll refincry to be erected here s only a beginning of the work contemplated by the Pennsylvania syndicate of which George B. McCalmont is manager, says the Casper Tribune, This enterprise alone will furnish cmployment to a large number of our peo- ple and bring others to Casper who will be- come permanent residents, A large number of sheep men havo erected handsome residences here this summer, and it is now understood that some of the ofl operators will do likewlse in the near future. The prospect of Casper becoming the lead- ing city of the state is at present very bright and, we might add, fully assured. Belng centrally located and surrounded by every resourco that will build a city, we have no reason to doubt a steady and rapid advancement. Take' Into consideration our large amount of arable land and unlimited water supply, together with our oll interests and close proximity to the Casper mountain, on which is deposited an endless quantity of the precious metals, and our large, Open range, we have every reason to belleve that Natrona county will soon be the leading county of the state and Casper the capital. NEBRASKA. Diphtheria has appeared at Oakland. Superior sports have a Corbett Athletic club, Daughters of Veterans at Fremont organ- ized a tent last Friday night, L. B. Erwin of Oakland had one of his feet crushed by a wagon wheel, Publication of the Stockville Faber been supended on account of the drouth, J. A. Miller's clothing store at Superior was broken into and the till robbed of $33 Emil Snigg's office adjoining his black- smith shop at O'Neill was completely gutted by fire. Mrs. Sarah Gamble of Beatrico slipped on the sidewalk in frout of her house and broke her wrist. 0. Walte's hardware store at Palmyra was entered by burglars and about $30 worth of razors and knives stolen Fay Baker of Swanton had crushed by a hatchet while his grandmother at Dowitt, Noll Bros.' saloon in Wymore was burned to the ground. Loss on building, $600, and on stock, $2,600, with small insurance. J. W. Quinlan of Ohlowa, who was elected to the legislature In 1893 by the populists and democrats, died recently in Florida Workmen employed on the Wakefleld water works system have been paid off, as the sys- tem only needs a standpipe to be completed. An effort was made by burglars to rob A. W. Clark's bank at Papillion. The men had entered the store and were evidently frightened away, for they left there the tools which were recently stolen from the black- smith shop of A. W, Critchfeld, and which 5 e n h t n t o 4 B v r y & d has n o 3 a . r y two fingers a on a visit to s 0 h r t h o a a city. Tho officers for next year of the South- western Towa Horticultural association are: M. G. Edwards, Mills county, president; O. W. Rich, Cass county, vice president; George Van Houten, secretary and treasure:; W. K. Follett of Malvern, director for the Second district, composed of Mills, Montgomery, Fre- mont and Page counties. The meeting next year will be held at Council Bluffs. Mills county took first premium on best display; Pottawattamle county second; best individual display, J. F. Record, Mills county; L. Prouty, Pottawattamic county, second. Fred Lambert arrived in Marshalltown from Illinols, intending to marry Miss Nellie Havens, but' two hours before the time ap- polnted for the ceremonies J. W. Quick ap- peared on the scene and accused Lambert of seducing his sister, who is his own cousin, under promise of marriage, and then desert- ing her. He had been engaged to Miss Havens for two years and she Is terribly dis- tressed at the disclosures. She Is highly respected in the town in which she lives. It is said that Lambert has an abandoned wife in Mississippl. He will be taken back to Ilinois on requisition papers to stand trial, THE DAKOTAS. From present indications several arteslan wells will be put down in Aurora county. There appears to be a regularly organized gang of thieves in Moody and Brookings counties. A government agent inspecting horses of Indians of Cheyenne river reservation has killed about forty horses afilicted with gian- ders, The faculty and boards of the State uni- versity will invite the South Dakota Educa- tional association to meet in Vermillion next year. With the successful completion of the sec- ond artesian well at Pierre the artesian project is belng discussed all over this part of the stale, The Methodists of Vermillion have been crowded out of their church building by force of numbers and will bulld a larger edl- fice in the spring. An enterprising butcher of Dell Raplds has established a new euterprise. Ho is making jack rabbit sausage for the Chicago mar- kets and finds it pays bim well, During the present season fully 3,500 jack rabbits have been killed in Hand county, the most of which have been shipped to the large clties, whete they are eagerly bought. Large quantitles of fuel, clothing, meat and provisions, including about 8,000 pounds of flour, were distributed among needy peo- ple on Christmas day by tha Sunday schools of Huron. The Great Northern is securing the neces- sary right of way to reach the river where the proposed bridge across the Missourl is to be located, and It is the belief at Yankton that the bridge will be built during the com Ing year. Patten, Jackson & Co. have just completed the bullding in thelr new elevator at Carth- age, 8. D., which is the largest in the state, having @ capacity of over 45,000 bushels It is thoroughly fitted up with fine machinery and is almost fire proof. The primary oralorical contest of Sioux Falls university for the choice orator to represent that instiution in the state oratorical contest, resulted in that honor belng bestowed on Nathan Fawell, who spoke on “Oliver Cromwell." Two three-inch artesian wells been completed in St. Lawrence township, one on the Sedam farm and the other on the Barker farm. Both will be used for irri- gating, and the surplus water from the latter will be turued Into a ravine and allowed to flow eutirely across the township, lnterest th of bave just Hill, running from forty to fifty ounces in gold per ton, It is also stated to be wonder- fully rich in native silver. A piece of ore blown out was estimated to be 50 per cent brittle silver, and so heavy that no man in the mine could lift it. If this report is true it 1s one of the richest strikes made in the state this year. WYOMING. A bridge is to be bullt across the Platte river at the old Bennett ferry. Between 6,000 and 7,000 tons of coal are now being taken out at Rock Springs. The cinnabar mine, owned by A. L. Kil- man, thirty-five miles up the Big Laramie, has a veln In sight 74x800 feet. The Almy coal mines are now turning out fifteen cars of coal dally and preparations are being made for a larger output. Almy s now turning out fifteen cars of coal per day on an average., Everything fs pronounced to be in good shape for the steady working of the mine, A large cave las been discovered on Saw- mill creek, nine miles from Lander. The walls are studded with very fine crystals, so far as the cave has been explored. Iron ore from Rawlins being used by the Denver Smelters for fluxing purposes has been discovered to carry gold to the amount of $10 a ton. It will prove to be a bonanza to its owners, A ranchman at the upper La Prele country has purchased 240 head of lambs, which he proposes feeding on alfalfa for the market. The ranchmen of Wyoming are watching the experiment with a great deal of interest. Not content with the magnificent Sheridan inn subscriptions are now being taken for a hotel stock company for the erection of a new uptown hotel in Sheridan. The plans will call for a three-story brick buflding, with stone front, to cost from $25,000 to $30,000, Captain P. H. Ray, agent at the Shoshone agency In Fremont county, has been sums moned to Washington to attend a confer- ence of Indlan agents with the secretary of the interior early in January. The object Is to discuss needed changes and improve- ments In the Indian service, A vein of coal within three miles of Lara- mie has been discovbred and will shortly be worked, to the lasting henefit of the citizens of that city. Prof. Kuight of the State uni- versity stated some time ago that it was his belief that coal would be'found in the locality just west of the city and the new discovery sustalns his judgmept. A monster steer, walghing 2,800 pounds, made a portion of a stock shipment from the west, says the Laramle Republican, and on account of his immense size enjoyed the distinction of having one-half of an ordinary stock car partitioned off for his special a commodation. The sbipment was for the Denver Christmas market and the owner expects that his prize steer will not him at least $100. The secretary of war gives the strength of Wyoming's national guard as 450 men, the largest company being located in Cheyenne. He says the cobt of improvements and main- tenance of Yellowstone natlonal park to date has been $648,917. The present plan of im- provements contemplates the construction of additional rallways, at an estimated cost of $350,100. The immediate needs of the park demands an outlay of $57,000. There is an interesting Indlan relic four miles northwest of Bald Mount which but few of our people haye ever secu. It is what I8 called thé “Medioine Wheel.” It is made of rock Imbedded in the ground in the shape of @ wheel, With thirty-seven spokes. The circumference of (he wheel is about 175 feet, and it is supposed the savages came (o this place in the early days ‘'to make medicine,” and from this custom the wheel derived its name. One old Indian on about n City the Crow reservation, over 80 years of age, The Ollie Woodman group of mines have been attached by laborers and other credi- tors. At the Oregon Lumber company’s mill, near Hood river, the loggers are working in three feet of snow. A good many cattle are being dehorned this winter in Gilllam county. The price fer deborning is 10 cents a head. A second crop of apples has started to grow on the orchard trees of Farmer Steven- son of southern Curry county. Upward of 800,000 tons of coal are sald by the Coquille Bulletin to be stored in the Beaver Hill mine walting the completion of bunkers at Coos bay. Joseph, a Celilo Indan, converted last year on the Yakima reservation, has became a preacher and is holding meetings for the Umatilla agency Indians, . M. S. Ioss, an eastern gentliman, is feed- ing over 1,100 head of cattle on the Nodine ranch, four miles northwest of Union. It takes eleven tons of feed a day. The agitation is being renewed for a county bridge over the Snake at Ontarlo, It would cost from $8,000 to $10,000, and would help Malheur county's trade with Idaho. It Is reported that the persons who re- cently located the soda spring on Littie Eagle creek, east of Union, will put in a bottling plant’ next year and prepare the water of the spring for market, Riley Hammersley, superintendent of the mine in Jump-Off-Joe district, in which he is interested with relatives, has taken an- other $1,000 into Ashland. During the thirty days ending December 10 they ha deposited_over $4,000 of bullion with the Jackson County bank. The contract will soon be let for R. D, Hume's new cannery at the mouth of the Rogue river. It is to be on the north side, wlhere Mr. Iume has been building a town, and is to be completed by March 15, Mr. Hume will move everything over there, in- cluding his newspaper, and have a town all his own. Mary Peco, an Indian woman who claims a little farm down Rogue river, bas at last a title for her land, but it 18 not perfect Her deed, sigued by Grover Cleveland, is a trust deed, and provides that patent absolute shall not issue for twenty-five ye Mary and her heirs can hold and cultivate the land till then. It is in eftect the establishment of a small Indian reservation under govern- ment protection during the term of her dis- ability. George Patrick of Grant's Pass was at the Josephine caves this fall and explorod as far into them as anybody, which 1s a dis- tance of 1,600 feet, although Captain A. B. Smith claimed to have driven in twenty-two miles with a four-horse team, and the Ex- aminer averred {Mat seventy wiles would not find the end. The utmost distance which any reliable person has been sble to pene- trate is 1,600 feet, and this Is done by crawl- ing on hands and knees, climbing over bowl- ders and wading numerous cool pools of clear mountaln water WASHINGTON. There is an increasing inclination to or. | ganize the new county of Wenatchee out of porticns of Kittitas ad Okanogan counties rtsmen relurning from the ranges in the nerthern part of Whitman county report that deer are very scarce and that their trips are not accompanied with any success, The frequency with which trac leum have been discovered has led to the belief that & flow of consider- able size can be tapped, and prospecting with this end in view will probably be undertaken. Attempts to develop oil fields In the northern | part of the state, in the viclnity of Nook- % of petro- about” Olympia | gold ana silve sack, were made on a considerable scale a first year 100,000 cords of bolts, at §2 per cord, and donate 10 per cent of it to the mill. The lumber for the plant has been ordered and work has already been commenced. The Tacoma longshoremen and sailors have struck, the former because sailors have been employed to unload ballast from the ship Babcock, and the latter for an increase of pay from $15 to $20 per month. Both claim to be acting in unison with San Francisco zailors and longshoremen, The ship Francis, Which came to Tacoma from San Francisco to load wheat, has gone to Port Townsend hoping to secure a crew at $16 per month, but on arciving there the sallors demanded §25, In order to enforce her captain to secure a crew at Tacoma. One reason assigned for the advance demanded is the prevailing stormy weather at w MISCELLANEOUS, The Phoenix city council has just granted a charter for a new electric street rallway. Construction work on small frrigation ditches in the Milk river valley, Montana, is very active. The Pecos Valley Irrigation company are making arrangements (o build a canalgre extract factory at Eddy. Tho setting in of winter weather in Utah has Induced a larger activily among the woolen mills of that territory. The contract has been let for bullding the road from the San Carlos coal fields in Texas to Chispa on the Southern Pacific, Work has been commenced on a large flour mill which is to be built on the Humbolt river about four miles east of Lovelock, Nevada. A rich strike has been made in the Coyote mine, Kennedy district, Nevada, an average taken from the streak assaying $261 in gold per ton It is stated that an effort will be made to have the legislature of Montana pass a law gIVing & bounty on beet sugar manufactured In the state, A train of twenty cars passcd over the Union Pacific the other day, carrying silk tea and stock valued at $2,000,000, It ran on passenger time, Stockmen have organized the E: tana Wolf Bounty association, lovy a tax on its membe paylng bountles, Utah Is credited with a clip of six and one- half pounds of wool to each of its 1,808 sheep, which places it among the individual producers. It is reported that, beginning with new year, miners on the Comstock to work for $3 per day. In ca not accept the reduction the mis down. Cox & Thebo have put in a plant at Kalis- pell, Mont., for pork packing, and propose buying all the hogs in the valley for the purpose of meking hams, bacon and other prepared meat Iron ore 1s being shipped In large quantities | from Lovelock to San Franclsco, where i is manufactured iato stecl. Nevada contain sufficient iron ore to supply the entire tinent with that metal The Kingman (Ariz) miners assert that Music mountain contains many rich mines of r that can be made productive by the erection of mills and reduction works at some point near the mir The Indians recently slaughtered deer by the hundreds in the section of country be tween Rock point, on the Missouri river and the mouth of the Musselshell. 1t 18 re ported that the ¢ a ma rauders in the and The Cree Indlans danger of suffering from winter. There are some about 100 Crees now astern Mon which will for the purpose of beaviest the have they will s will close Hwhoys Missourl chased the bad now in Moutana are lack of foud tk ten tepees with at Helena. As they | The clalm now lies near Providence, Arlz. The Salmon City Recorder reports that David Arbogast and William Long havi struck a fourteen-inch veln In their mine near Salmon City, Idaho, in which gold can be seen all through, In the center is a flve- inch streak that s fairly plastered with gold. A specimen about. the size of a Eooss egE sold for $10, and it is said thero Is fully that amount of gold In it. The bars of the Colorado river will be worked for the gold in their shining sand, says the Kingman Miner. A hydraulic piocess of working the bed of the Colorado river would contribute millions of dollars in gold annually to the world’s supply. That the bed of this great river is rich in gold no one will deny, and a fortune awalits the man who can work it successfully. The Great Falls Tribune clalms that dur- l0g the coming season work will be begun near the Rainbow fdfils on the largest cooper refining works In the world. In the erec- tlon of these works it 1s the fntention of the Anaconda company to make them of suf ficient capacity to” treat the entire output of thelr great mines, and today the mines of the company are able to produce more copper than all of the other Mottana compan: ies combined. The owners of the Lucky Strike mine, sit« uated In Millard county, Utah, twenty-five miles northi of Fillmore, have struck a large body of the finest kind of fron ore that has ever been found in this territory, and gives a fine report of the prospects owned by six of Fillmore's people, and they are ready to furnish all the fluxing ores for the Leamings ton smelter In any quantity they desire and cheaper than they can buy it for elsewhere, They say they can compete with any iron mine in Utah. The gold product of California is largely from quartz mines, and this branch of min- ing is in better condition than it ever has been before. The gold product of 1893 was $12,422 811 and silver $537,167, making a total of $12,959.969. 1t i3 not in gold and siiver alono that the mineral wealth of Cali- fornia consists. Many other substances are mined which even now bring up the valus of mineral products to about $19,000,000 or $20,000,000 per annum, and they are ine creasing In value. It is announced officlally at the City of Mexico that the government will grant a com cesslon to T. R. Jones and 0. H. Nels cattlemen of Pueblo, Colo., and Kansas Ol respectively, for the establishment of ‘ex: tensive stock yards In that city. It ls the intentlon of the orlginators of the enterpris to bring large quantities of fine American cattle Into the country, place them on ex- hibition in some locality, especially designed for this purpose, and dispose of them to Mexi- can breeders dairymen Many irrigation canals are being come menced o Montana. The El Dorado canal, taking water from the north bauk of the Telon river, 15 ten miles long, fifteen feef wide on top, twelve feet wide at the bottom, v ¢ two fect of water. The president company, in a late interview, esti- the capacity of the canal at 12,000 fuchcs. Ho says there are betwe 30,000 and 40,000 acres under the canal, being @ gravelly loam, and that can water nearly all of the land. + of the biggest Irrigation seheme in_southern California 13 mbian Colonization company, with capital stock of $4,000,000. J. G. Foster, \ English barrister, representing foreign apital, v San Bernardina perfecting t the winor details preliminary to be- ; work on the construction of a dam r, which will impound sufficient water i 250,000 acres of laud, The Santa ¥ road passes thrcugh the lapd, and the can be Lrought under cultivation af comparatively Nttle cost, 0 proj ar the €