Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 7, 1895, Page 5

PULSEOF WESTERNPROGRESS Los Angeles 0il Well Eponting Two Hundred and Fifty Parrels a Day. BITTCM KNOCKED OUT OF LOCAL MARKET Ol at ¥ifty Cents a Burrel—Another Strike at Leadvillo—Colorado River Placers - Mining the Bottom ot San Joachin River—News of the Northwest. The Metropolitan gusher, for so It may be called, was commenced three months ago and gave such trouble by caving, etc., during the work that the owners were sorely tempted to abandon it, says a Los Angeles special to the San Francisco Examiner, but they pushed on down to a depth of 1,020 feet. Ol was finally struck and it 300 feet In the well. After the pumping has commenced the yleld at the rate of five gallons in forty seconds. It was pumped all night and the following morning filled a five gallon ean in thirty-five seconds. The ofl has now risen feet In the well and It is strongly impregnated with gas, It Is belleved that a large body of oil has been tapped, acd it s estimated that it will yield 250 barrels a day and is pronounced the most productive well yet sunk in that section. It subsequently rose to a height of 600 feet and much difficulty was found in putting in a pump large enough to keep the well free from the accumulating product. It is alleged that some of the local pro- ducers are now selling ofl at 50 cents and glad to get that, but none of them will ad- mit that they are selling for that price. They are all very reticent as to what they are receiving, Some claim that they are not taking less than $1.50, but this un- doubtedly is exceptional. The men holding out for $1.50 are apparently not selling much ofl. Those who get $1.25 are in luck, and It is probable that the majority are not re- ceiving much over $1. One of the chief pro. ducers says an analysis of the Los Angeles petroleum shows that it contains from 73 per cent of lubricating oil, about cent coal oil and benzine, and about cent asphaltum. Of the lubricating oll 33 per cent is neutral, that is devold of smell, taste or color. Neutral ofl, extracted, Is said to sell in the open market at $7.75 per forty-two gallon barrel. Just how large the Los Angeles ofl terri- tory Is has not been determived. As yet only a comparatively small area has heen prospected. It s pretty certain that the ofl sand extends from Second street to a point almost a mile and a half west of West- lake Park and thence north to the junction of Temple street and the Edgewood road. The Wade-Maginnis company sack a well to the depth of 1,500 feet a mile and a halt beyond the terminus of the Temple street cable road. They passed three strata of ofl bearing sand giving a total yleld of about twenty barrels a day. THE LEADVILLE GOLD BELT. A strike has been made in the Spot Cash property. While it Is not so important for the value of the mineral, says the Leadville Her- ald-Democrat, it is important from the fact that it shows the continuity of the gold ore chute between the Eliza and Little Johnny properties, Indicating an extension of the ore bodies northwesterly. The ore was cut at a depth of 190 feet from the surface and s opening out very nicely to the main chute, Which lies below. An assay of the stuff so far encountered runs one-half an ounce in gold and nine ounces in silver, The Spot Cash shatt lies northwest of the Golden Eagle properties, and the property itself is composed Of portions of the Lowland Chief and Idaho claims, There need be no longer any doubt in the minds of the people as to the extent or rich- ness of the great Leadville gold belt. One. by one the shafts are reaching the ore horizon, and the result is just what the most sanguine expected, ~Narrow veins ar pockets do not gxist. Mining Is not conducted by following knife blade seams. On every property on the Bold belt where mineral has yet been encoun- tered the ore has been found in great masses. Theorles of the experts have in a measure, gone for naught, for with every strike the area of the belt fs Widened, and secms to take some new direction. Re- cent development would certalnly seem to In- dlcate that the entire area of Breece hill and the noriherly and southerly gulches was ons vast mineralized horizon, of Indeterminate length and breadth. There is certalnly no more magnificent fleld than this for the in- auguration of many great mining enterprises. History will repeat itself. The men who gel In on the ground floor, sink the shafts and unoover the first ore will be the ones to re- celve the richest rewards. We know of no mining district in the country that has 0 many favorable elements to tempt inyest- ment. A few years' development on the great gold bearing areas will demonstrate to u;’u:;mh:hme true greatness and importance of s, the richest of the mineral produ of the Rockies. i Vi AT COEUR D'ALENE. A correspondent of the Engineering and Mining Journal says the miners’ union is in complete control of the Coeur d'Alene dis- trict, from which the Denver smelters in former years received much of their lead ores, The Bunker Hill rose and Sullivan company's mines continue shut down completely, and not even pumping nor other necessary work Is allowed to be carried on. Some of the mines are still working, including the Tiger, the Gem and the Poorman, but the future even of these i entirely uncertain, The union has announced its intention to permit no mon-union man in the district and to ad- here strictly to the $3.50 per day rate. In the Morning mine, at Mullan, Mr, Huntley continues at work under the co-operative plan, but there are rumors that the union WIll foree the abandonment of this Interest- fng oxperiment. There has been mo open violence recently. . RICH UTAH PLACERS. Colonel Ben R. Hite of Kansas, Texas and Utah is In Salt Lake City, from the placers of the Colorado, A stay of four months at Hite has made him more confident than ever that the bars below Dandy crossing are rich in gold. He reports, in the Salt Lake Trib- une, a revival of interest in the placers, and that the gravels are being worked to a greater extent than they have been for months, *‘About seventy-five men are at work along the river for a distance of forty miles below Dandy crossing. A good many of these min- ers have come in from Colorado, and have been permitted by the owners of the claims to go to work on the bars on their own a count, As they are there merely on suffer- ance, they are mot very frank in speakir of their carnings, but the best evidence that they are making money is the fact that they are writing (o their friends in Colorado, ad- vising them to come into the country. ““Those of us who have been interested in the placers for seve year: said Mr, Hite, “‘are arranging plans to conduct mining operations there on a larger scale than has ever before been attempted. We have a com- bination of forty-two men, who control 2,600 acres of the best gravel on the river, from Dandy Crossing down to Good Hope, a dis- tance of sixteen miles, and comprising fully 100,000,000 cuble yards of ground. The gold bearing bars down there are practically in- exhaustible. I believe that 100 years from mow Utah miners will be washing out the yellow metal from these placers. “Some ground is belng worked about six miles above Dandy crossing, and 1 believe the properties are good. Below the crossing for forty miles, and probably further, pay dirt abounds, and when the arrangements now in prospect for extensive arrangements are completed, you may look for a veritable min- ing boom in that quarter of Utah. DAMS FOR IRRIGATION. The farmers of Douglas county in South Dakota will have a most excellent opportunity during the coming season to witness the ex- criment of artesian irrigation, says the ankton Press. There will probably be six or elght farms of different sizes in the country Where experiments of considerable extent will be conducted at private expen: James A, Wilson, who owns a section and a half of land in the Choteau creek valley and situated five miles northeast of Armour, has com- pleted a six-inch artesian well and has ob- tained a fine flow of good water. The flow is over 2,100 gallons a minute. Mr. Wilson has tructed near his well, which is located on most elevated portion of his farw, a res- ervoir covering about seven acres of and having a holding capacity of nearly 10, 000,000 gallons. From this reservior he has constrncted waterways, throngh which he can conduct water to any part of his farm, Mr. C. 0. Knapp, an early settler In Douglas county, aré a man of considerable wealth and Influence, has a farm of 1,600 acres about eight miles west of Armour, is now en- gaged In sinking a six-ioch artesian well. He i also constructing a system of reservoirs on the most elevated portions of his farm. Another experiment s that of Messrs. Whee- lock, Conover and Perine, neighboring farm- ers, loca on the outskirts of Armour. These parties have contracted and will begin imme- diately the work of sinking a well at a con- venient place to irrigate their farms. DIVERTING A STREAM. One of the largest mining operations ever undertaken in Fresno county, If not abso- lutely the largest, has been commenced, and a small army of men are now engaged in turning the channel of the San Joaquin river at a point about twenty-five miles from Freeno, where the river flows out of its gran- ite canyon. So little was said about the pro- posed work that the people here did not know 1 was in contemplation until a force of men had been put to work, says a_Fresno corre- spondent of the San Francisco Chronicle. It fs being done by a company composed princl- pally of Ohlo men, among whom are ex-Gov- ernor Campbell, A. W. Thurman, ex-United States minister to Berlin, and several other well known gentlemen, For foriy years it has been the dream of old miners to d:ain the deep pools and eddies of the San Jeaquin near the mouth of Fine Gold river, so that the deep beds of gravel and sand now under water could be worked. But until the present time the great cost of cutting a canal and putting in a dam has de- terred the residents of that part of the coun- try from undertaking the wo:k, and from year to year the swift waters ol the river have poured down from the gorge. Fine Gold river, a stream formerly rich in placers, but long since worked out, flows from the Hildreth district and empties into the San Joaquin. Where it flows into the San Joaquin thers is a deep eddy, and in this the gold 18 looked for. The gravel along the shallow edges of the river was worked years ago, and it was considered good pay in the palmy days early in the 50s. In order to the richness on the bottom of the deeper parts of the stream divers have from time to time brought sand up in baskcts which has paid trom $3 to $5 per pan. The depth of the water prevents divers from reaching many parts of the stream. The company up to the present time has cut a course forty feet wide and 600 feet long to carry the water from the bed of the stream.” A dam will be built across the channel and the river bed will be left dry below. A MAMMOTH RANCH. Yakima county is not given to mammoth ranches, but Hon. John Cleman is a man who does things on a broad scale, and his hay and stock ranch of 12,000 acres on the is a principality in_itself, says the Yakima (Wash) Herald. Mr. Cleman is now build- ing another large barn in addition to the five already constructed. Its dimensions are 80x120 feet, thirty feet in height, covered with rustic, and with a sandstone founda- tion of an average height of thres and one- half feet. This barn will have a_capacity of 300 tons of hay and 100 head of stock. Of his other barns, two were built a year ago and are even larger than the one now under construction, being . 116x102 feet on the ground, and' fifty feet in height, and having a_capacity of 400 tons of hay each. Besides his own stock and a band of 15,000 sheep, Mr. Cleman is wintering 120 head of blooded trotting horses, valued at more than that number of thousands of dollars, including the stud of Millionaire Stinson of Chicago, Potatoes and other speedy horses belonging to George Hall, formerly of Massachusetts. One of the features of this great ranch which gives It an added value 15 a quarry of the finest sandstone to be found in Yakima county, if not in the state. It is easily quar- rled and comes out in blocks as straight as milled lumber. The quarry is three miles from the Northern Pacific siding and eight miles from North Yakima. A BULLET-PROOF GRIZZLY. Jim Reubens has been in town a day or two telling about his big hunting trip, says the Lewiston (Wash.) Tribune. The party was composed of Reubens, Nat White and young Tom Bell, and at Little Salmon they were joined by Pile of Clouds and Lazy Coon. They ‘passed Little Salmon, Salmon meadows, Long valley and Payette lakes, and returned by way of the head of French creek and Sheep mountain to the mouth of Little Sal- mon, During the trip they killed sixty deer, five elk, three brown and black bears, and caught 300 salmon and over 700 trout. While Reubens and his hunters were going up on the mountain side suddenly there ap- peared in front a large grizzly bear, when cvery man jumped off his horse quickly. Their arms “consisted of two Winchesters, 45-70 and 38-56 caliber, and two United States army guns, both 45-70. With these powerful guns there were twenty shots fired into the grizzly and without doing any damage. But Reubens says: ‘“After the grizzly disap- peared at his own galt we all concluded that after getting out of sight he began running, and that we had gained a great victory over him. We all felt very brave. We felt so brave that next morning we went over the same ground to find him, but the result showed that none of us cared to meet him single handed.” Reubens says that the sound of the rifles reminded him of the battle of the south fork of the Clearwater between General Howard and Chief Joseph in 1877, although on a smaller scale. IOWA. Paul Melster's residence at Calmar was en- tered by burglars who got away with $219, Oskaloosa has thirteen saloons under the mulet law. The old number was seventeen. Dennis Colony went to bed at Davenport with a lighted pipe in his mouth and was suffocated. Willlam Edling, a farmer near Eldora, While fishing In the South Fork picked up a clam in which he found a pearl of remark- ablo size and purity. James Thompson, a banker of Davenport, one of the real estate owners In the west, died at his home at the age of 68 years. His estate Is scheduled at $1750,000, but it is Involved for at least $1,000,000. NEBRASKA. A Utica boy was struck under the chin b; a shinny club and nearly bit his tongue off. Danfel Sweeney, who took up a homestead In Cass county thirty-five years ago, dled at the age of 76 years. Mr. and Mrs. Newall E. Bump of Blair cole- brated thelr silver wedding by giving a din- ner party to their friends. . David H. Mulholland of Bxeter is dead after elght months' of intense suffering. He came to Nebraska In 1879, C. H. Linn's hardware store at Calhoun was entered by burglars, who carrled away about $50 worth of property. A crook named Brown was efected ‘from a saloon at Loulsville and returned and shot L. Baedeker in the right arm. Mrs. Rose Lusk and Mrs. H. Billings were thrown out at the back of a buggy while driving Into Springview and serlously hurt, Mrs. Peter Smith, who, with her husband, was driven from Kansas by the border war In 1856, died at her home in Auburn, aged 2 years. J. D. Sandquest, an old resident and wealthy farmer living near Oakland, was thrown from a buggy and had several of his ribs broken. Dudley Faw of Cambridge was out skating on New Year's day. His skate caught in a crack in the fce and he fell, breaking his leg in two places, between the ankle and the knee. Church Howe is going to give up farming and build himself a home on a nice plot of ground that he has been reserving for that purpose at Auburn. He Is advertising the Walnut Grove farm near Howe for sale Jim Miller of Platte was pulling up a fence the other day, when no fewer than eighty snakes, according to his own version of the story, appeared from under one of the corner posts, where they had rolled themselves and laid away for the winter. It is sald that Mr. Miller is a strict teetotaler. Burglars entered the house of Captain Goodwin at Crete while the family were ab- sent from home, and ransacked it thoroughly. Three other houses in the city were entered the same evening. The roBbers were after- ward seen on the B. & M. tracks, and, al- though several shots were exchanged, the men got away. Mr. aud Mrs. Hayden of Crete had an ex- citing adventure with a burglar. They were returning home in the evening, when Mrs Hayden was confronted by a man with a revolver, who demanded bher money. She pushed aside the gun with a package she was carrylug and her husband, who was a few steps behind her, was then confronted with the weapon. Mrs. Hayden rose to the occasion, and without & moment's hesita- | elassification, tion handed her mittens to her husband, with the words, “Here is your revolver, shoot him.” The burglar ran and Mr. Hayden was unable to track him. Henry Dahl, who lives near North Bend, found a twelve-foot balloon lodged in the tree tops near his house a few days ago, and Is searching for an owner. S. C. Beebe, the late postmaster of Broken Bow, Is accused by the postoffice inspector of being $400 behind in his accounts with the government. The allegation fs that he took the $20 office rent allowed by the gov- ernment, paid $30 rental for the building, and sublet a portion of it at a price that netted him during the time that he held office the sum of $400. SOUTH DAKOTA. Tt is stated that the Milwaukee railroad will reduce its force at Yankton largely. The well borers at Harrison have struck water and the people of the town elaim to have a gusher. Hunters near Miller have shot about 4,000 Jack rabbits this season and shipped them to eastern markets, Two artesian wells were located in Spink county by State Engineer Fassett, One is in Benton township and the other in Olean township, and both will be used for irrigation. The Vermilllon Plain Talk eclaims that Vermillion is becoming a famous divorce cen- ter, rivalling Sfoux Falls, Yankton and the other larger towns, There are now seven applications for marital release on file. Deputy United States Marshal Jake Tschetter of Bridgewater, who has recently returned from the Yankton Indian reserva tion, pronounces the horses delivered to the Indians “the rottenest lot of stock he ever saw."” The coal mines at Cambria are working a large gang of men. At present Kilpatrick Bros. & Colline have over 700 men at work and orders for coal are coming in 8o quickly that it is difficult to keep a supply on hand. The coke gang is rushed all the time and the company is loading about five trains per day with their black diamonds. The vein is 4 fine one and almost inexhaustible. Just now the Keystone seems coming gold camp of the w People arc flocking in from all direction: 0 such rush has been witnessed in" the Biack Hills since the palmy days of 1 Many are compelled to sleep out under the trecs. There is now thought to be ore enough In sight to insuro an output of 2,000 tons daily for the next twenty years. The average value of ores in all the mines is about $15 per ton. The gold belt at Keystone is one mile in width by four miles in length. COLORADO. A large force of men find Polar Star mine, Fulford district, Eleven ounce gold ore is found In the new Pharmacst strike, Cripple Creek district. A twenty-ton shipment recently made from the Mary Ellis mine, Cripple Creek, netted $1,000. The miners at the new camp of Mill Creek, near Dumont, are calculating on keeping up work all winter. A machine is being perfected in Chicago to handle Colorado gold ores at $3 per ton. Electricity s used. hie present output of L at 1,300 to 1,400 tons daily, which is a hea increase of December last year. The vein of high grade ore recently de- veloped in the Summit mine, Cripple Creek, ranges in value from $200 to $500 per ton. Lessces in the Loulsville property at Lead- ville opened a body of fine sulphide in a drift. The stuff assays 140 ounces in silver. They have a body six feet high. Leasers on the Puritan at Yankee Hill have struck good smeiting ore, running $76 per ton in gold and ten ounces silver. This ore was discovered at grass roots. A strike is reported In the Forest Queen mine, Cripple Creek. The strike reported consists of thirty Inches of ore, which re- peated assays show to have an average gold bearing value of from $16 to $75 to the ton. to be the work in the eadville is estimated There are no idle men in the Alma dis- trict. Everybody who wants work there can get it, no matter whether he is a first class miner or not, or whether he has mined any at all. There is plenty of work there for ail kinds of laboring men. The Gillett Mining company, who owns the Mother lode claim, situated three miles east of the town of Gillett, Cripple Creek district, has opened a vein in the tunnel four feet wide, with two well defined walls of gran- ite. As far as developed the vein appears to be a true fissure. The vein matorial or gangue 1s composed of quartz, with decom- posed tale, and there is iron pyrite and oxide of fron in the quartz and the gold is thickly disseminated through the vein mate- PLUNS 10 BE DISTRIBUTED bk Wyoming's Governof Will Have an Unusual Amount ‘g“”(}iu Cut, e FAT SALARIES ATTACHED TO SOME OF THEM ol AlL the Present Incambgnts Except One Are Republicans and Seyveral Likely to Be Reappointed—Other State Officers Name Thele Deputios. CHEYENNE, Wyo., Jan. 6.—(Special)— Governor-elect William_A. Richards and the other state officers will assume the duties of their respective offices today. There will be an entire change in every department and there is naturally considerable interest mani- fested tn who will be the fortunate ones in securing the deputyships and other minor po- sitions to be bestowed by the new officials. Governor Richards will have a larger amount of patronage at his disposal than any chief executive since the admission of the state to the union. The best appointive office | 15 the state engineer, who has supervision over the waters of the state, The appoint ment fs made for a term of six years, and the salary is $2,000 a year, with a liberal appropriation for traveling and other inci- dental expenses. The engineer is authorized to appoint an assistant at a salary of $1,200 a year and a stenographer at $500. The term of Prof. Blwood Mead, the present fncum- bent of the office, does not expire until 189 but he will no doubt be his own successor. W. H crest will probably be the assistant engincer. 3 An attorn general will be appointed at once to succeed Charles N. Potter, who was elected to the supreme bench at the last elec- tion, and will take the oath of office with the other state officials. The term of the appointment is for four years, and the salary is $1,200 per annum. Hon. B. F. Fowler of Sundance, Crook county, ex-United States at torney for Wyoming, is believed to be slated for the place. Hon. T. F. Burke, J. A, Van Orsdel and General Hugo Donzleman, all of Cheyenne, are also candidates for the office. The state librarian and ex-officio superin- tendent of welghts and measures, is appointed for a term of two years, The salary is $1,000, John Slaughter, an old citizen, has been in the office since the state government was or- ganized and he will probably continue to hold the office as long as he is competent to per- form the work. The state veterinarian's term of office Is two years and the salary is $2,000 per annum. Dr. A. A. Holcomb, the present incumbent, so far as known Is the only applicant for the office, The state examiner holds for a term of four ye The salary is $2,000 per anmum and there is a liberal allowance for contin- gent expenses. Harry B. Henderson has held the office since 1867, and he will prob- ably be his own successor. John K. Jeffre: the retiring county clerk of Laramie county is also a candidate for the position. PAYS TO BE A FISHERMAN. The state fish commissioner holds his office for a term of two years at an annual salary of $2,000. Gustave Schnitger is the present commissioner and an applicant for reappoint- ment. Dr. J. H. Hayford, editor of the Lara- mle Weekly Sentinel, is also a candidate. The state coal mine inspector is appointed for a term of two years, and the salary Is $2,500. Dave G. Thomus of Rock Springs is the present incumbent. The state board of live stock commis- sioners is appointed for a term of two years. There Is no salary attached to the office, but the secretary chosen by the board gets §1,200 per annum. H. B -ljams I8 the secretary, The members of the board are W. C. Irvine of Converse county, J. V. Hammond and Charles Hecht of Giieyerine. The governor's private secretary is paid out of the $2,500 contingent fee of the office, and the amount of hi salary depends upon the liberality of his ‘chief. The secretary is usually pald from $i00/to $150 per month. Robert C. Morris will probably be the gov- ernor’s assistant. - i The adjutant general of the Wyoming Na- tional Guard is paid a salary of $500, and his appointment is for a term of four years, Fred P. Shannon is the present incumbent. This Is the only office which Governor Os- rial in the form of sylvanite. The ore will assay hundreds of dollars per ton. OREGON. A Coos county farmer, Hood by name, has 1,500 sheep pastured on 1,500 acres of hill 1and. The Register says Eugene s in a fair way t3 have a box and basket factory established there, Mr. Sherman, who lives on Robert Day’s place east of Bugene, recently dug up from one hill ten potatoes, which tipped the scales at fifteen pounds. There are about 1,000 Indians on Klamath reservation, which containg over 1,000,000 acres. They raised enough wheat last season to keep a threshing machine busy for two months. the | shipped from that place. The Klamath Falls roller mills is one of ninety barrels capacity, the one at Tule lake is sixty capacity, and the one at Keno thirty- five capacity. The 195 capacity of Klamath county has been fully tested this year, and the mills are humming yet. A. J. Peterson of Oakdale, Polk county, bas just killed an old horse, under the skin of whose neck, fifteen years ago, a two-bit plece was slipped, for indentification in case of the animal being stolen. The eagle came out smiling and will be kept as a souvenir. Game must be quite plentiful around Fos- sil, as the following from the Journal will show: *“About a dozen deer have been Kkilled during the week in and around the B. C. L. L. S & L. company’s pasture, within an hour's ride of town. The deer traveled down from the highlands before the advancing snow," Several of the boys who left Curry county for the purpose of going sealing have re- turned, owing to the low price of sealskins and the reduction of the share of the hunt- ers. Sealskins are worth but $7, and the hunters' share the coming season will be only cneqfifth, which precludes any possibility of making anything. Major Newell, who is the inventor of a scheme for raising gold-bearing gravel from the bed of a stream by means of a strong suction pipe and extract the precious metal therefrom, has launched his craft on Rogue river, near Grant's Pass. The boat Is thirty teet long by twelve wide, and is fitted with an engine and boller to run the pump and set of slulceboxes to wash the sand and gravel after it has been rafsed to the surface. The colored coal miners imported for Coon county people made quite a sensation at Roseburg. There were two carloads of them, about fifty in all, more than had eyer been in Roseburg before at one time. They were much put out at the prospect of the trip over the Coast mountains, and sald they had been told the mines were only elght miles from the raillroad. Those who had | families finally refused to go, and have been | shipped around by way of San Francisco | and steamer to Marshfield. They came from McDowell county, West Virginia WASHINGTON. The Prosser American is advocating a small scouring mill at Prosser to ciean the wool | The oyster beds at Bay Center are being | systematically robbed, and a reward of $75 is out for the conviction of the offenders. The bee industry will receive a practical test in Kennewick. A man with over 100 stands of bees Is expected there in a few days to make it his future home. Colville valley has a surplus of hay, and Flathead valley, in Mcntana, has a surplus of cattle. The Colville people have written to the Flathead people offering Lo trade 100 tons of hay for cattle. Oakesdale has shipped 402,600 bushels of | wheat, barley and oats by the Northern Pa cifie and 150,000 by the Oregon Rallway & Navigation. Some 219,000 bushels are yet stored. About $78,745 has been paid for freight. Farmers hava sold about all their | crops. Several hundred head of cattle have dled lately at the feeding ground near Ritzville They are believed (o have been polscmed by eatiug a plant concerning which nothing defi Dite is known. Samples of the plant have been submitted to botanieal authorities for borne was permitted to fill by the appoint- ment of a democrat during his two year term, The senate two years ago refused to. confirm all other appointments made by him, conse- quently the republican incumbents continued to_serve after their terms had expired. In addition to these appointments Governor Richards will be called on to name seven members of the board of trustees of the State university, three members of the poor asylum bullding commission, four superin- tendents of the respective water divisions of the state, and several members of the boards of the various state and charitable institutions. Each of the other state officers will have the appoinrtment of a deputy and other neces- sary assistants, who are paid out of the con- tingent funds of the respective offices. The salary of each office Is $2,500, with a con- tingent fund of like amount Henry G. Hay, state treasurer, has ap- pointed Fred B. Sheldon as his deputy. Mr. Sheldon held this position for the past four years under State Treasurer Otto Gramm. Willlam O. Owen, the auditor, has selected Prof. J. Niswander vf the State university as his assistast. Charles W. Burdick, state auditor, has appointed Miss Aman as stenographer in his office. C. F. Putmam, who has been with Mr. Burdick in the auditor's office for the past four years, will probably be his chiet clerk. Miss Estelle Reel, the superintendent of public Instruction, will not require any as- sistant to conduct her office. All the retiring state officers, with the ex- ception of Governor Osborne, are republicans, consequently there will be but little change in the political complexion of the official roster of the state, LEGISLATURE WILL BE LIVELY, South Dakota Wil Wrestle with Resubmis- wsion and a Rallroad ML SIOUX FALLS, 8. D., Jan. 6.—(Special.)— The session of the legislature which opens at Plerre next Tuesday is likely to be an event- ful one. Not only will a United States sena- tor be elected, but some laws of the first importance will be discussed and the financial condition of the state will have a thorough overhauling. Politically, the body is solidly republican. There are no democrats in either house or senate and the populists have only fifteen votes on joint ballot. That being the case, the republican caucus will be much more interesting than matters on the floor. Already the strongest kind of contest has de- veloped over the organization of the house. Bighty-one patriots have applied for the vari- ous positions, and ‘it is quite likely that others will do 50 within the coming week. The biggest fight is over fhe speakership. Five candidates have declared themselyes, Howard of Redfield, Burks of Plerre, Glass of Watertown, Truinan of Brookings and Haro of Sturgis. A fight rivaling that‘over the speakership in earnestness is on fop the clerkship of the house. J. W. Cone of Sioux Falls, who was assistant clerk at Bismark, and has been chief clerk of the last thres legislatures, is an active candidate and believes that he has a cinch. He hgs, however, two rivals, Hopkins of the Henry ndependent, and Van Camp of Highmore, who was assistant clerk two years ago. For sergeant-at-arms there are seven can- didates and it {s utterly impossible to pr dict the outcome. Of fhe seven, the three in the lead appear to ba Captain January of Moody county, Walgemuth of Davison and Homer of Rexford. The fight for positions Is not so virulent. It is generally conceded that R. 8. Person, editor of the Howard Press, will be elected secretary. There are two rivals for this position, G Cooper of Beadle county, who has been the senate's clerk for two sessions, and A. R. Plicher of | the Hills, who was assistant clerk two years un the senate ant-at-arms there are a nvmber of candidates, but among them Lew Brown of | Spink county and O. B, Jones of Aberdeen, aro distinetly in the lead. The former at this time seems to have decidedly the best of the fight The most important committee in the sen- ate s the judiciary, and there are a large Falls oould have this place It he wished It, but Mr. Boyce is disinclined to take this posi- tion, which is one of the most onerous in tha legislature. Wilkon of Fall River is an ap plicant, but the indications are that Aplin of Beadle county will get the plum. There is reason to believe that the session will be cf the highest interest from the start. The United States senatorship fs causing very little gossip. Senator Pettigrew has a clear | walkaway for re-election. Of the 100 repub- | llean representatives he has ninety pledge and It Is more than likely that no other names will go hefore the caucus. General Silsby of Mitchell and Willlam MeclIntyre of Water town are declared candidates, but their ca vass has excited only a smile among the poli- ticians, and it Is generally understood that they are merely training for the race two years hence, when Senator Kyle goes out of office. The most important fight, and the one which will attract the largest lobby, will be r resubmission. Both sides are ac- y aseing the situation. When the election was first held, it was believed by struggle. But a close and careful later demonstrated that it was no foregone conclusion. The house stands for resubmis. close, ‘and it will ba impossible to tell the standing of the members until the leglslature organizes. Mrs. Cranmer, president of the Wemen's Christian Temperance union, has been actively at work for a_month pulling wirss on one side and Mr. Koftman, of the Sioux Falls brew with N. E. Fillips, the warden of the L and B, W. Cald- well, of the Sioux Falls Press, have been as energetio on the other. However, the con- ests on this subject which have gone before nt a aré likely to be outdon: this yea THe next subject to attract the most earn est attention will be that of appropriaticns. The state constitution limits the tax levy to 2 mills, and on the prosent scale of expendi- tures this would make up an annual deficit of §60,000. There is a general feeling through out tho state that expenditures should be cut by this amount. How to cut them is difficult question. The state officials pald economical fes, and the state go roment Is run with less expence than that of any of its nelghbors. To cut largely would bs difficult without hampering the adminis- tration. The favorite plan seems to be the suspension of the state colleges, five in num- ber, or their removal to a position by which they can sustain themselves. These tutions have made a great outery over the proposed cut, and as they are located In the chief polities counties of the state they feel confident of thelr ability to prevent a reduc- tion. Another fight of considerable prgportions will ba that for restrictive railroad laws. The business men of various towns hava banded together and have had drawn a voluminous statute, which will compel the railroads to glve facilities to South Dakota cities equal to those granted to Minnesota and lowa, A careful canvass has been made, and a voluminous amount of literature and statis- ties collected, and the managers propose to g0 to Plerre and secure the passage of thelr bl On the other hand the railroads have taken the matter ac in hand, and are confident of their ability to defeat any leg's- lation. The to command re n well question is also certain great deal of attention. The carefully formulated several laws, which, if passed, would enable both that resubmission would carry without a | canvass | sion by nine majority, but the senate is very | for statehood, and urged no Intemperate log Islation be enacted, with the possible result that it would prejudice or blight the chances for the passage of the enabling act. He urged that the Pueblo Indians be educated in the public schools under an arrangement for compensation to be made with the fed- ¢ral government. He has been assured the Interfor department would enter into such an agreement. The presiding officer, Presi dent Curry, promised the re of the governor il receive faithful con sideration. B —— PROTESTING AGAINST THE POPE. Recent Edlet Against Secret Socleties by the Cathollo Authoritles Roviewed, A, Wash,, Jan. 6.~A meeting, at tended by fully 2000 persons, was held in Armory hall this afternoon, under the aus- es of the A. P. A, to protest against the nt edict of the pope placing th socleties under the ban of t church, G, W state A, P, hour's " duration. 3 ence In the affairs of and the United States. Congregational minister. the Ond_ Fellows, H o was_thoroughly And eminent! teaching and practice. He briefly its history and enumerated its deeds. Why the pipe did not want Catholics to be Odd Fellows was because the Catholic church to exist must confine the visions of its members to the L nels of ignorance. To &0 Into O1d Felo ship b sned a man’s mind unfitted him to be a Catholic Rev. B. I, Ratc ational min- Ister, ‘spoke bricfly n of Temperance It the pope well in hand to place tem. perance under’ the ban he declared, s four-fifths of the of dives, saloons 1 gambling joints members of the tholle church. He was willing for any American to hold any rellgious views he pleased, but the pope and the Catholles must Keep their hands off American institi- tions, St Senator or, a Knight of merrinment’ by riing tepresentative d Tay- ry of the state the pope 1o issue 50 as to drive all Catholics fr into the A. P. A. the only so undc e the ban. The senator said the lict had madé A, . A.'s out of b tants and half of the 10,000,000 the United States. The only ipheld it were the fgnorant tholic sident of the n_speech of a half papal interfe ropea ries W. Gallagher, a * in behalf of this order ane in D [} n- W and therefore are sident and s ith bribin his 80~ pop 00,000 Catholics in Catholics whi and foreign bor itors. knowledge- little less W YORK, Jan. 6.—In ment of the address to Pope L than a year ago by the United States, the pope has sent a co dial ry ugh Mgr. Satolll. Extrac a translation of the Latin ed by the apostolic delegate, as follows “It has ever been our most ardent desire that in these days of unbridied literary 11- cense, when the world is flooded with hurt- ful_publications, men of marked sagacity should labor for the public welfare by the dissemination of wholesom ; this work was mostly z b thful children we were alr aw: while an address which mar them had signed and caused to be tran: mitted to us confirms our convictions of prosecuted of the state to lend its credit to the various counties in the interior to enable them to sink artesian wells for irrigation purposes. It is hardly likely that this measure will succeed, for it ean apply to only a few of the coun- and the others have shown a strong tility to being taxed without return. PETTIGREW'S PATH IS NOW CLEAR. Has the Pledge of Every Republican and Five of thy Popullsts. PIERRE, S. D., Jan. 6.—(Special Tele- gram.)—Matters have simmered down so that of all the scare of contests which have whistled about the Locke hotel during the past weels hardly anything remains. Sen- ator Pettigrew will not have a republican against him in the caucus, which comes Monday night, and five populists will vote for him, giving him an unusual compliment. The populists will not throw their fiftecn votes to one man, but will give compli- mentary votes to varlous state leaders, They wiil hold a caucus in the morning, but will probably not nominate officers in either sen- ate or hcuse, seven-elghts majority against them being too formidable to encourage even a formal opposition. The Black Hills pulled a number of plans on the organlzation. Joe Pilcher of Custer will be first assistant clerk of the senate, the same position ho occupfed two years ago. There is no opposition to him; Will Stanley, editor of the Hot Springs Star, will be bill clerk, while E. F. Dick- son, mayor of Hot Springs, will be chairman of the house judiclary committee The caucuses will be held on Tuesday mor: ing and the senate ofiicers will be as follows Secretary, Person of Miner; first assistant, Pllcher ‘of Custer; second assistant, Hall day of Kingsbury; bill clerk, Stanley of Hot Springs Star; sergeant-at-arms, Eastman of Roberts; assistant, Chamberlain of Edmunds; chaplain, Blackburn of Plerre. For the house nominees will be as follows: Speaker, How- ard of Spink; clerk, Hopkins of Codington; sergeant-at-arms, Barnhart of Turner; chap- Iain, Austin of Potter. The principal chairmanships of the senate will be: Pease of Roberts, judiciary; Ken- nedy of McPherson, railroads. In the house: Glass of Watertown, chairman of the judi- clary; DicRson of Hot Springs, Insurance; Burke of Pierre, rallroads; Gold of Grant, appropriations ELKINS AGAINST THE FIELD, Interesting Nenatorial Fight Before Legislature of West Virginta, PARKERSBURG, W, Va., Jan. 6.—The legislature meets at Charleston next Wednesday. An exceedingly Interesting fight is on for the United States senator from West Virginia to succeed Senator John Camero There are five candidates, viz: N. 1. Whittaker of the First congressional district, G. C. Sturgls of the Second, John B, Floyd of the Third, John A. Hutchinson of the Fourth and 8. B. Elkins of the Sec- ond. It will be Elking against the fleld, With the present prospects rabis to k1 Ki; The election of senator occurs Janu- the ary Urged the Leginlnture le Careful. SANTA FEB, N. M., Jan. 6.—A joint session of the legislature heard Governor Thornton read his message in person. The governor called attention’ to the Hatiering prospects A Part of the Body is worn out with every museular and intellectual act. It is the duty of the lungs, kidueys and liver, aided in a Inrge measure by the skin, to expel this worn out substance from the blood. If the Kidneys or liver are impaired an extra amount of work is thrown upon the lungs. At such times Ozomulsion is of great value. It puts the lungs in a condition to perform the extra labor by Increasing the supply of oxygen. It helps the appetite, aids the digestion and supplies the body with nutriment necessary (o replace the waste of tis blood and flesh which is continually It is s going on, The Kind Physicians Prescribe e For C:uzhe, Colds, Consumpticn, Brin- chitis, Asthwa, the aftor efficti of Pnsum nia and L1 G ippe and all Ful- monary Conplaints; 8c-ofala, Ge eral Dati'it:, and all Wasti-g Di‘e s:s, KUHN & €O, aumber of applicants for the chalrmanship. It 1s an open secret that F. L. 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