Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 28, 1895, Page 5

ULSEOF WESTERNPROGRESS Bohemo to Construct a New Transconti- nental Railroad, EX-MAYOR CUSHING ONE OF PROMOTERS Rich 1daho Placers to Be Made Accessible ~Invasion of Mexiean Cattio—Califoraia's Olive Crop—Van Couver Tndinns— News of the Northwest R, C. Cushing, a well known railroad con- tractor of Omaha, and an ex-mayor of that city, has come to California, says the San Francisco Chronicle, to see whether or not it is to interest Callfornia capital in a transcontinental road, to connect Salt Lake City with the San Joaquin valley. He has been figuring on the project for some time, and has traveled over what siders a most practicable and ecasy and one which would insure plenty of busi- ness for the road when once completed. In speaking of the matter, he said: ‘It is folly to try and interest eastern capital o a competing road to California if the people of Callfornia, who are to be most benefited, refuse to take an fnterest in the enterprise, The need of a competing road to run from Salt Lake to California is ap- parent without argument. I have studied the situation in Callfornia pretty thoroughly and 1 bell that a road into the San Joaquin vall passing through that rich mining reglon in southern Utah, 4s what is needed. Nothing else will bring the relief for which the people cf this state are look- fog. 1 do not belleve a competing road down the Joaquin valley will unless it can connections with atranscon- tinental road such as I have outlined. A road to Salt Lake would give connections with the Union Pacific, Pio Grande Western and all the other roads reaching into that territory, and the problem of railroad trans- portation between California and the east- ern markets would be s:lved. A road up the San Joaquin valley should be an after con- sideration. “A road from Bakersfleld to Salt could be built for $16,000 a mile. aro several easy passes through the tains. I have been over the ground with engineers and T think that $16,000 a mile 45 a conservative estimate of what such a road would cost. It would open up a rich mining district in southern Utah and coal could be brought to San Francisco for $4 ton. There would be no lack of business for such a road.” BIG PLACER SCHEME, At a point on the South fork of the Pay- ette, a short distance below its confluence with the Deadwood fork, the stream makes @ great bend. At the point of nearest ap- proach where the river doubles back upon itself its waters are separated by only 800 feet, says the Boise Statesman. Gulches lead up’ from either side, leaving a ridge about 200 feet wide and 200 feet high. The river flows a mile and three-quarters around the great bend beyond this point of nearest approach. The bed of the stream Is known to be rich in gold, different parties having taken out large sums by working along the edges at low water. There are hot springs all along the horscshoe, from which gold can be scooped up in ‘considerable quantities. This_great placer ground has been located by J. S. Batchen of Denver, president of the American_Red Stone company; A. Camp- bell of Chicago, and Samuel Gillilan of Cedar Rapids, 1a. They have admitted L. E. Farnham of Detroit to an interest, and propose to cut a channel for the river through the neck of the bend. This will leave the river bed dry for the entire dls- tance of one and three-fourths miles and ft 18 belleved the ground will yield enormously. It 'will be mined with water taken either from small streams that flow in or from the main river at the Gam that will be built to divert. the stream. They have not decided whether they will make a tunnel or an open cut. If a tunnel Do constructed it will be about 20 feet square. It a cut be decided upon, it will, for a short distance, be 200 feet deep. The work will cost fully $25,000. It will be begun early in_the spring. Messrs. Farnham, Batchen and Gillilan are now in<the city. Mr. Batchen has a bottle of gold which was taken out with a pan about ten days ago. It contains $108, and s the result of four and a half days' work, of four hours each, by two men, working dur- ing the warm part of the day. CASE OF ALLEGED SALTING. A somewhat sensational case of mine salt- ing has just come to light in this district, in which M. Finnerty of Denver was the in- tended victim, says the Denver Times. The property in question is the Alice, a location on Bull hill, or what was known to cattlemen as Bull hill before gold was dis- covered at Cripple Creek. The hill is south and west of Wilson creek, and in a portion of the district where mineral has mot yet been found. On the Alice a shaft has been sunk to a depth of several feet, and in this shaft a pecullar formation was found, some- what resembling the gold-bearing quartz of the district, but yet a little different. It was this rock that they salted and at- tempted to palm off on Mr. Finnerty. But before he pald any money on the property he called upon Al Wuensch, the well known mining expert, to make an examination of the property. Together with Mr. Finnerty and Mr. Wuensch, the owner of the salted mine went there and secured a number of samples from the shaft, which, when as- sayed, ran $131.40 to the ton. This was more than Mr. Wuensch expected from the rock, and he at once became suspicious. That night he soaked some of the best looking of the rock all night in water, and the next day took it to the same assayer who had made the former test, The shrinkage in value was something phenomenal. There was a short- age of $111.80. Atter this, Messrs. Wuensch and Finnerty again wont to the shaft, but found a man on guard, who positively refused to allow them to enter. This satisfied them beyond ques- tion that the mine had been salted, and Mr Wuensch returned to Denver cursing the man who had tried to put up a job on him and his friend Fionerty. The names of the parties who salted the mine are kept quiet for the present, as pros- ections will probably follow, although no moncy changed hands on the deal before the trick was discovered GUNNISON GOLD. That Gunnison couuty will soon be one of the foremost in the production of gold can- not for a moment be doubted, says the Crested Butte Pilot. All along the belt from Poverty guleh to Cochetope rich finds are reported, and accounts of extensive de- velopments are glven almost every week by the papers of that vicinity, Mills are being erected, contracts let and properties bonded in almost every section. Not alone is gold mining assuming activity, but some of the oldest und most reliable silver mines continue to pound away, either shipping or sioring their ore. Pitkin rcports the Cleopatra, Fairview and Ben Franklin, all silver proper- ties, steadily woraing and shipping ore. In this nelghborhood are the Forest Queen, Bul- llon King, Sylvanite and August. Reports from the Crystal Lance and Marble Times in- dicate considerable work on the silver proper- tles in that section. To this can be added the steady output of anthracite and bitumin- ous coal und coke from Crested Butte. That 1895 will bring more favorable returns to this section of the country is assured. The Ruby mine 15 to open and begin operations again In the spring, which will add much to the activity of this place. THE OURAY GOLD BELT. Ouray d es not, apparantly, r allze how well oft it is, says the Ouray Plaindealer. In August, 1893 1,000 miners were thrown out of employment, yet not a business failure has ocourred since then, and the three or four saloons that closed have re-pened. Every merchant weathered the storm and fully 700 miners are agaln at work and drawlng Wages. With an immense gold belt, which has ylelded to every persistent touch, Ouray still clings to silver. From a point indefinitely fixed at three or four miles southwest of town to another equally’ uncerialn, twenty- two of twenty-three miles northeast of thero, and of width varlably estimated at from half & milo to elght miles, runs the Ouray gold belt. Whether It Is part of that one supposed by theorlsts to stretch from Long's peak through Breckenridge, Leadville, Telluride to possible he con- route, Lake There moun- he Ouray gold belt exists and today there are only two great properties on It being operated, the Grand View and the American Nettie. Both these are worked by tunnel and the ore was reached near the mouth. In fact, a veln of gold that run by mill test elght ounces to the ton was recently struck where the Grand View mill was being erected, “Two other very rich mines in this belt, the Bright Dia ond and the G-1dsn Calf, b th of which have shipped valuable ore, are ¢losed by litigation. The West View has made some light shipments, but not enough to count. Over 200 locations have been made and many are now being worked in a desultory man- ner, but none, it would appear, with capital bohind them. Probably one remson cf this lassitude 18 that the ore is refractory and great difficulty has been encountered in ex- tracting values. The Grand View mill, which has been running only three weeks, has sucessfully met the difficulty, saving fully 90 per cent. On the east side of the Un- compahgroe river the American Nettis is in a flat ore body in the partzite, and the gold is found in chambers or caves. On the west sido of that river the Grand View is in a true fissure vein.' THE GF MOUNTAIN DISTRICT. The green Mountain mining district, situ- ated about fifteen miles southeast of Gunni- son, is one of the most promising of the many new gold camps that are rapidly springing up in_Colorado, says an Iris special to the Denver News. The Lucky Strike and Only Chance, which were located in June, 1894, have shipped several cars of high-grade ore. The management is steadily pushing development. The ore averages $100 to the ton in gold Lehan & Turner have erected a five-stamp mill to test the Mineral Hill ore and are much gratified at their tests. They are able to save $20 to the ton and have thousands of tons of ore in sight Mr. Bell of Ouray, who has a bond on the Black Jack, has leased a mill in Gold Dasin and expects to commence work this month This property is one of the best in the dis- ce postofficas have been established In nt parts of the district, namely, Iris, Schistar and Chance. There is a daily stage line between Gunnison and Iris. AT LEADVILLE. Lying In the big h, about 1,200 feet north of the Big Six group, Is the G Hope, a claim which in the early days achieved considerable notoriety by sinking a deep shaft and making a rich strike in gold, says the Leadville Herald-Democrat, The mineral was caught at a depth of 200 foet, but after a few shipments the property remained In statu quo, the owne; among whom are Dr. Graham and Judg Allen of Denver, never working the ground. A short time ago, however, Messrs, Vivian, Old & Co. secured aelease on the property and have gono to work actively to develop it. A forty-horse power boiler and holster have been put up, and the work of draining the shaft has commenced. When this s _completed the 200-foot workings will Yo explored, but it is the intention of the lessees to sink the shaft deeper, and develop the lower contacts, which present the char- acteristics of all the contacts of that section in that they are known to be gold-bearing. A gold strike is reported in the Rosebud claim, three-quarters of a mile south of he Rex, ‘demonstrating the fact that the gold belt extends to a considerable distance south of hitherto unknown limits. formation in the shaft, which is down only nineteen feet, indicates that the top of the parting quartz has been reached. Assays from the top ol the vein give sixty-three one-hun- dredths of an ounco of goid and seventeen ounces of silver. The width of the vein is unknown. The Rosebud is a fraction of a claim in tho bottom of the Empire gulch and is owned and worked by Tiny Hurm, Dean Richmond and William Mandy. The location is almost due south of the Little Johnny, Antioch, Lillian and Rex. WILSON BILL CATTLE. The cattle trade between Mexico and the United States is fully up to expectations as to the number of cattle. Colonel Albert Dean, agent of the bureau of animal industry for the southwest, has just completed his re- port of the number of cattle that have crossed the border into the United States from September 28, when the shipments first commenced, up to December 31. It shows that 45,890 cattle were admitted from Mex- ico. All of these were from the states of Sonora and Chihuahua. From the state of Coahuila, an Infected district, 21,074 cattle crossed the border. Be- sides these, it is thought 6,000 more have come into the United States since the first of the year, making the number of Mexican cat- tle admitted into the country so far over 50,000. NOVEL LABOR EXCHANGE. A movel and so far successful means of solving “‘the unemployed” problem has been inaugurated here, under a form of co-opera- tion, says a Los Angeles special to the San Francisco Examiner. A number of persons of both sexes who found themselves without resources and unable to secure employment got together, and have formed what they call the New Era Labor exchange. They number 327, and will publish an appeal for assistance in the city papers. They have, however, by organization and ideas assisted themselves to a great extent, and they only ask the oppor- tunity of Increasing their methods of self- support. By the ald of some prominent citizens they have established a laundry, which keeps twenty-five of them busy, and furnishes them a living and something over. A committee is now organizing a_vegetable gardening de- partment. A number of land owners given the society the use of unoccupled land, free of rent, and others at a low rent, and arrangements have about been completed by which probably a hundred more of the mem- bers will find employment In this way. No worthy applicant is denfed admission into the ranks of the association, but nothing more than, board and lodging Is furnished until after all contracts and labor is com- pleted, when each will receive his pro-rata of any surplus. There has been a business-like method about conducting the affair, which has caused it to be well received by the public, and so far a decided amount of success has been met with, Much is expected from the gar- dening feature, as vacant land is plenty and the market for products is excellent. INDIAN JUSTICE. The Indian mission three miles from Van- couver has its own laws, and they are better suited to the Indians than the laws of the white man. The citizens of the mission are educated by a Catholle priest, make thelr own shoes and stockings, build thelr own houses and till the ground. They learn to sing and to play musical instruments, says the San Francisco Chronical, to read and write English and to read and write short- hand., They have a fine brass band, and all the population nearly are expert stenogra- phers, an accomplishment which enables them to read shorthand journals from Italy, France and Germany. Their laws, however, are the most unique feature, In the days when it was very inconvenient, if not Impossible, to send In- dians to Victorly ta 'receive punishment under the British laws for ordinary mis- demeanors, the missionarles were obliged to form a code of laws themselves, with the help of a council chosen from the wiser In- Qians In the community. These laws are stlll_in force in the mission and respected by the people. The following are a few of the most striking regulations: Wife beat- ing—The Indian Tyhee (judge) sits on a chair, and the wife-beater i brought into court In charge of two stalwart policemen. The klootechman (wife) is also brought in, when the following dlalogue occurs: Tyhee—Your man kick you? Klootehman—Yes; he kick me in shin, Tyhee—Policemen, kick the prisoner in the shins. This is done viclously. No one in is allowed to sympathize with the prisoner when he howls With pain except his wife. She usually pleads to have hime released, but the Tyheo remorselessly continues: Tyhee—Did he slap your face? Klootchman—Yes, but let him go. Tyhee—Policeman, slap the prisoner's face. The prisoner's face 1s unmercifully clouted, the prisoner usually belng knocked . down, when the court loungers laugh. Tyhee—What else did he do? Klootchman—That's all, that's all. Tyhee—Release the prisoner, and let the prisoner sce that the only one who pities him in the whole world 1s his wife. Then the husband and wife hurry off to- gether, swearing thelr love vows over agaln. It must be a good law, for the Indians believe in it and want mno other. A SOFT WATER ARTESIAN. The Santa Fe Rallroad company has been sinking an artesian well here, says a La Junta ~ speclal to the Denver Republican. Borers struck & flow of soft water, which Fose L0 the top of the casing sud Gowed quite court THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 1895 freely. The well is only 155 feet deep. St Is thought when Mr. Archer, the superintendent, arrives he will have It sunk deeper In order to increase the flow. There was gas enough In the well last evening to ciuse an explc- sion when a light was held over it, and cne of the workmen got his nair singed while attempting to look down tho woll. This is the first drilling that has hcen done in this section of the valley, ani cur citizens feel quite jubilant over the result, ana it will oniy be a question of time when numerous wells will be put down. BIG OLIVE CROP. The ollve crop of southern California fs being harvested now, and Is proving to be one of the best in several years. In Pomona valley, where olives have been made a specialty, the crop fs the best yet known, says a Pomona special to the San Francis Chronicle. The total olive crop of southern California Is estimated at 260,000 gallons. Of this Santa Barbara county produces 70,000 gallons and Pomona valley 40,000, A feature of the industry this season is the fact that more orders from wholesale fruit dealers and hotel and restaurant keep- ers in the cast have been received already than have ever been known in any one season, It Is thought that there will be such a demand for pickled olives that few will remain for use in making olive oil. Prices so far are high for pickled olives. OREGON FIR. It fs not generally known that Oregon possesses certain_woods which are equally, if not better, adapted to the construction of musical instruments than any elsewhere. Prof. J. A. Wesco of Portland, says the Oregonlan, who Is a cultivated musical amateur and member of the Handel or- ! ys that for the tops of violins, guitars, and for the sounding board of a piano, no wood is superior to the na- tive fir of Oregon, which is remarkable for its straight grain and the great size it at- ains, For plano sounding-boards it fs e peclaily valuable on account of its size, us it is impossible to find trees in the east suf- ficlently large to furnish a board as wide as that required, and a sounding-board made of two or more pieces of wood is not pro- ductive of so fine a tone as when it is of a single picce. Prof. ‘Wesco is an enthusiast on violins and spends his leisure moments manufacturs ng the instruments. He claims that there is not &0 much in tho old theory of violins improving with long usage as is gener: supposed. He says that a good instrum is produced only by the expenditure of much more time and labor and scientific knowledge than is usually expened in the manufacture of violins. As an illustration of this point, the professor mentioned a Stradivarius in pos- session of Guillot, the great pen manufacturer and musical amateur, which bad been left in the shop of the maker, unvarnished and untouched, for a perfod of sixty years; y the first time a bow was ever used on it ex- perts pronounced the tone equal to the best of the great man's make. Prof. Wesco has a violin of his own make of which he Is particularly proud. The wood of which it was composed was If the forest 1o longer ago than eighteen months, and yet, as the professor draws his bow across the strings, the sound is as strong and clear and melodious as could be produced on many excellent instruments that have been in use a score of years. Tho top of this violin is of Oregon fir, while the sides, back and meck are of the native maple of this state. UTAH SULPHUR. The mines and works at Sulphurdale, Beaver county, Utah, are in excellent shape for a_large production of sulphur, says the Salt Lake Tribune. It produces the various grades of pure sulphur ready for market. The demand for sulphur has been so light as to be insufficient to keep the works at Sulphur- dale running one month out of twelve. Only about 500 tons of sulphur was produced during 1894, Many industries in the Rocky mountain region consuming large amounts of sulphur have been ruined or crippled through the policy of the present adminis- tration. The few consumers that yet re- main in the above mentioned section are in favor of home production, and their orders specify Utah sulphur. The great sulphur mine of Cave creek ought to supply all the sulphur and acids made therefrom for con- sumption throughout the great west, since the mines there are amply capable of doing this, A PLUCKY BOY. A few days ago Sandy Allen, a salesman of E. T. Allen & Co. of 416 Market street, was surprised on receiving a rather novel New Year's present from a friend in Lake- port, says the San Franciico Call. On open- ing the packags which contained the treasure Mr. Allen almost dropped to the floor when his eyes fastened upon an enormous snake- skin, attached to which was a note signed by N. O. Smith of Lakeport, as follows: “This skin, which measures eight feet nine inches, was taken from a bullsnake that was killed by my son, Ray, whose age Is 9 years. The boy was coming from school when he met his snakeship taking a sun bath on the road, and instead of running from it, as most boys would have done, the lad broke a plece off a rail fence, with which he dispatched the slippery monster. The snake, it is sald, is the largest of its kind that has been killed in this section of the country.” NEBRASKA. Dixon county's poor house bas only two inmates. Wolves are becoming very ravenous in the northwestern part of Phelps county. James T. Willis was sentenced to one year's imprisonment at Dakota City for the slaying of Amberry Bates. A valuable gold watch was found in the possession of a burglar named Wilson who was captured at Clay Center, Rev. Diffenbacher of Wilbur, ex-chaplain of the legislature, is expected to receive a call to the Lutheran church at Auburn, Richardson County Horticultural society will meet at Salem January 31. All persons interested in fruft growing are invited to be present. 5 Women of Beafrice on February 14 will be allowed full control of the editorial, news and advertising columns of the Beatrice Express. While James Brouelette was in church at Smith Center in Colfax county the whip and blanket were stolen from his buggy which he left standing outside. Craig citizens are taking steps for the suppression of the lllegal liquor trafic in the city. At a mass meeting $900 was sub- scribed for the prosecution of offenders. Mayor Houston of Tekamah has started a raid on gambling houses, In one house operated by a man named Barker a number of small boys and young men were caught playing poker. Eddie Christenson, the tw of Andrew Christenson, of C school on Tuesday morning not been seen since, He and light hair. Little George Brim was playing with a shotgun in his father's house, three miles north of Dwight, when the weapon accident ally went off, instantly Killing the boy's younger brother, Antone. John J. Berger, who saturated $100 worth of flour at North Platte with skunk juice, was bound over in the sum of $500 for trial in the district court, and in default of bail was committed to jail. Coal has been stolen In large quantities lately from the cars on the Rock Island at Fairbury. Link Lee and Dick Kotzman have been arrested for complicity in the Jjobs and Lee has been sentenced o pay a fine of $16, Private houses at Emerson have been entered on many occaslons recently by men who have had no business there, and al- though nothing of Importance has been missed, householders are very much on thelr guard. Deputy Sheriff Prime of Beaver City had to sleep In @ pair of handcuffs the other night He was fooling with them and accidentally fastened them on his own wrist. The key was In the possession of Sheriff Jackson, who was at his home five miles away. A wagon load of corn was taken from a car that was standing on the tracks at Glen- wood Park, a small station in Buffalo county on the Black Hills road. The thieves bored a hole in the bottom of the car and the corn was allowed to flow out Into sacks. The hole was then plugged and all evidence of the theft was covered up until the car was opened. Crete ladies Issued a remarkably attractive number of the Democrat last week. The Fashion, Temperance, Home, Sporting, Chil- dren, Art and Musical and Educational de- partments were in the hands of speclally selected women, and the results show the efforts they put forth (o bring out a news- paper in which they could take pride. There is a high literary vein rununing through all parts of the paper that gives even the driest ve-year-old son g started for last and has has blue e portions an Interesting;, appearance, leading editorfal, war_between Japan Rn@‘China, J.F. 8 The firsy, nwmber of that left the press sold for $7. Dawes County Agriultural assoclation elected the following! officers and directors President, Charles Malin; vice president, Willlam Wilson; trepsurer, W. W. Wilson; secretary, B. F. Pliman; directors, James M. Young, Theodore Atigustine, A. C. Put nam, T. J. Wilson; John Stokoe, A. C. Fowler, Willls Campbell. The report of the treasurer showed a balance in the treasury of $157. SOUTH DAKOTA. The school population’ of Deadwood is 624 and that of Lead City 1 7 A joint stock company has been organized at Huron to operate a ¢reamery. It s stated that the Milwaukee road will reduce its force at Yankton largely The DeSmet well 18 now 1,610 feet and no artesian flow has yet been reached. An Indlan marriage has been annulled at Chamberlain, ‘Who says Lo clvilized? Hunters near Miller have shot rabbi to 4,000 Jack this season and have shipped them ern markets, Spink county had $8,000 in Treasurer Tay- lor's bank ‘at Redfield, but the day before it falled drew out $6,000. Cattle shipments from Belle Fourche last ar amounted to 2,600 cars, of an agsregate alue of almost $3,000,000. The new $10,000 school house at Howard is rapidly approaching completion and will be finished by the middle of February. Stockmen from the Dad Lands section of ceded Sioux lands report stock in the st. possible condition. Thus far cattle have ined their living upon the prairie, as but has fallen on the ranges. at last session appropriated the improvement of the Missouri at Pierre and Fort Plerre. Prelimi- arrangements for the commencement of this work are already being made. A creamery Is to be opened a few miles west of Aberdeen. De Smet has decided to put in a large creamer. or stock plan. The plant Prof. Wheaton of 3,000. Thera 1s a movement the business men of Gary to population of the towns adjoining the town. The scheme Is to obtain an option on the vacant land antiguous to G at low figures and then cause an fmmigration and s:1l the land as cheap as pessible, For a number of years the using of hay as fuel and the lessening of the coal expenses has been a serlous question among the far- mers in the vicinity of Gary. There has now been invented a stove which successfully burns straw and dces not litter the room There Is a detachable drum which is taken to the outer room and packed full of str: This being placed on its base and ignited will keep a small living room warm from fifteen to twenty-four hours. A great quan- tity is being sold and they are giving im- mense There is caretaker of Fort Congress its is to be put in by Brockings, and will cost in consideration by increase the a clash of authority between the Sully military reservation and the land cffice in Pierre. H. E. Cutting was appointed carataker on the abandonment of the post and instructed to eject all intrud- ers. The office has been furnished with a copy of the act of congress, approved August 23, 1894, which clearly gives settlers a right to take possession for entry, but Mr. Cut- ting’s instructions compel him to eject them A number of settlers in the vicinity of the reservation, a portion of which is well tim- bered and watered, are looking out for the best locations, and will attempt to secure them regardless of the caretaker's orders. COLORADO. The Smuggler mine at Aspen has dis- charged thirty minefs. A ten-ton shipment from the Wilson lode at Ophir milled $110' per ton. A Kansas City packing firm is feeding 18,000 sheep at Fort; Collins on wheat and alfalfa. A movement is on'foot 'to start a canning factory at La Junta, A large part of the stock has already been ‘subscribed. The Rico silver mives are showing creased values in gold as depth This s true in the Rico-Aspen, and Newman groups. An English syndicate is about to invest in the Cripple Creek district. The purchase price is stated at $500,000 and the property which is about to change hands is a dividend payer. A report comes from Colorado Springs of a recent discovery in the Argentum mine at Aspen. It is described as a large body of ore ranging in value from 200 to 1,500 ounces in silver per ton. Shipments of low grade gold ores, by the cars and by team, from Gilpin county to Idaho Springs are steadily increasing. ~The concentration plants have more material offered than they are able to handle. A new gold find of considerable importance has attracted the attention of the Silver Clift people. The new strike Is about four miles east of that town, and it is said the ore bears close resemblance to that found on Bull Hill at Cripple Creek. The cross-cut on the Robert Emmett, Tel- luride and Shoemaker 7um®s, San Miguel county, Is in 235 feet. Mill runs on the Tel- luride give $35 per ton, the Shoemaker runs from a few dollars to $2,000 per ton and the Robert Emmett shows $48 per ton. Deep mining has proven to be successful in Mineral county. A rich strike was made in the seventh level of the New York and Last Chance mine, A large ore body carries fourteen ounces of gold and 400 ounces silver. Considerable enthusiasm prevails among local mining men. , The only copper mine in Colorado is located near Salida, Chaffee county, and from the date of its discovery up to the first of the year, has produced 23,630 tons of ore or about 5,474,000 pounds of copper. The prop- erty is still being worked and from thirty to forty men find steady employment there. WYOMIN Eastern parties are arranging to erect a $35,000 woolen mill at Sheridan. The city of Sheridan expended nearly $270,- 000 in improvements last year. A specimen of grass from the Big Horn basin measures elght feet in length, The average number of cars of coal mined at Rock Springs is now about 200 per day. A number of cattlomen are getting things in shape to petition the leglslature in refer- ence to a wolf bounty. Over 200,000 trout o hatched at the state fish hatchery and 600,000 eggs are on the trays A Saratoga jeweler is the owner of an antelope head with two sets of horns fully developed, one set being buck's horns and the other doe's. The coal output is the different mines of the state for the past year was 2,202,000 tons, The number of fatal accidents was thirteen, out of 3,453 men employed There are now about 250 families located in Wheatland, and applications for land are coming in rapidly. There will be a larg influx of settlers in the spring, and a little city will be built there, The bondsmen of N. Burns, the late county treasurer of Converse county, who was compelled to resign about a year ago on account of a shortage of about $1,600 in his accounts, held a mecting at Douglas junction on January 3 for the purpose of settling with the county, Each bondsman was com- in- is gained. Enterprise recently been with it, too, eddlers and some unscrupulous grocers will Be this is as good as" or **the same as Pearline.” FALSE—Pearline is never peddled, if your grocer sends you an imitation, be honest—send it back, The a garefully prepared col- umn and a half digést on the causes of the is_assigned the paper deep Is not being on the co-operative Pearline makes another woman of her, washes and cleans in half the tim Nothing can be hurt by it, and every thing is saved with it. Pearline does away with the Rub, Rub, Rub. Pearline does more than soap ; soap gives you more to do, pelled to pay 0 on every thou which he qualified on Burns' bond. At the city election In Laramie, which oceurs In April, the question of issuing $40,- 000 retunding bonds td take up the outstand- Ing indebtedness of the city, will be submitted to & vote of the people. Among the bills Introduced at this session of the legislature will be one for the pro- tection of hotel keepers of Wyoming. The new bill provides that when baggage has been left for a board bill it shall be held for a certain time and then advertised and sold by a constable. o The annual cut 8,000 cords. On a tract ndleton 4 for BGON. of wood at Meacham is of land 500 feot 8,000 sheep are being fattened. merchants' carnival, to raise funds for road improvement, i proposed in Baker City. square, near he movement to establish a_creame Albany is not meeting with much encou: ment, The Astorian road construction farmers next spring. Salmon fishing on the Rogue river is In r, and onoe big one taken out in Sam's 1s sald to have welghed a trifle under forty-five pounds. A blg ball of gold bulllon, worth $19.2 to the ounce and amounting to $17,000, was brought to Baker City from the Virtue mine. It was the result of a month's run The negroes imported from West Virginia to dig coal at the Beaver Hill mine fn Coos | county have quit work and say they can't make a living digging coal at 45 cents per ton. A rich and new ore vein was struck west In the 150 foot level of the White Swan mine, and from a vein of three or four inches it has increased in width until at the present time it is about thirteen inches. The Lake County Examiner gives a graphic account of a rabbit drive in that section recently. A tight board corral was made and everybody turned out to enjoy | the sport. The first day 1,700 rabbits wer killed and the next day 1,800 more were gathered in. A long petition by “taxpayers, water con- sumers and laboring men"” is being pre- pared for the Astoria water commissioners, king them to require contractors bidding on work to pay not less than $2 per day for labor and charge not more than $3.50 per week for board, and that excavating be done by day’s labor. An unknown hunter at Brinnon, Wash., recently Killed twenty head of elk and left the carcasses at the bottom of a ravine. The heavy snows in the mountalns drove the animals down to the beach, where the were mercilessly slaughtered. The settle organized a vigilance committee and started |after him, but he had gotten Wind of the movement and fled. A rancher living on Sutton creek, a few miles from Bak sold some chickens in In the craw of one of them the purchaser found some particles of gold. The rancher was informed of this and at once began prospecting in a gulch near his house, with the result that he dis- covered diggings yielding 25 cents to the | pan. Next spring he will turn his attention to mining. He is of the opinion that the poultry business is very profitable when the chickens engage in prospecting. WASHINGTON. There is a movement on foot at Oakesdale to establish a creamery there, The Morite Cristo mine will is in bonds for development work. The Northern Pacific has begun the con- struction of a new depot on the wharf at Tacoma, The farmers of Marsh, Snohomish county, will_put flood gates in the Williams and Stephenson ditehes at a cost of $100, and reclaim much valuable land from overflow. A hunting party in the Olympic mountains report having seen 500 elk In a single day, without attempting to shoot any of them, be- cause their pack animals were already laden with game. { During the month of December the Everett smelter shipped bullion to the amount of $107,000. The product for the month in- cluded 3,000 ounces of gold, 60,000 ounces of silver and 500,000 pounds of lead. David E. Drurie, who went east with Eugene Semple and Julius F. Hale to secure $5,000,000 with which to build the Lake Washington canal, has returned to Seattle and reported that the money has been raised. After securing necessary legislation at Olympia the money will be paid and the work commenced. MISCELLANEOUS. Anthracite coal has been discovered Utah, not far from Salt Lake City. According to Librarian Gilbert's report, the state library has over 20,000 volumes. Tho average number of cloudy days In Arizona during the year is only fourteen. The population of Santa Fe was increased by the birth of three girls New Year's night. While digging a well at Helena, Mont., nearly enough gold was taken out of the dirt to pay for the well. There are now ninety-three tramps in the San Jose jail and they are flocking into that city by the hundreds. Arizona led all states and territories last year in the miles of railroad constructed, the amount being 1,919 miles, The most reliable figures obtainable give the output of gold in Montana as $4,500,000, an increase of $1,000,000 over last year. The coal consumption of Butte is estimated at 1700 tons per day. Mostly all the coal produced in the state is consumed in Butte, A Butte “problem” is being examined by a commission on insanity. One of her freaks 15 to go bicycle riding in a snow storm, clad in her night gown. H. J. Langdon of Oroville, Cal., Is irriga- ting 180 acres, and pumps the water through 4,000 feet of iron pipe and 1,600 feet of ditch. He estimates the cost at $1.50 an acre. The Japs on the Oregon Short line were laid off for the winter and have decided to winter in Shoshone, about 150 of them having bought the old Railroad hotel, which they will make their headquarters. The largest plow in the world is owned by Richard Gird of Chino, Cal. It is eighteen feet high, weighs 36,000 pounds, s run by steam and will plow fifty acres per day, with a consumption of less than two tons of coal. The Mesa Haclenda company was incor- porated at Phoenix, Ariz., with a capital of $100,000, in 10,000 shares of $10 cach. It will engage in’ viticulture and horticulture, and build canneries, packing and storage houses, The California Irrigation company has se- cured subscriptions of 20,000 acres in the vicinity of Brownwood, Tex., and will begin work when 40,000 are subscribed. The dam will be thirteen miles north of Brownwood. The route is now being surveyed. The Rio Grande Western road is now ship- ping 105 cars of coal per week from the Castle Gate (Utah) mines to the Southern Pacific company. The shipments of commer- clal coal from the Rio Grande Western mines to polnts west of Ogden run the total up to 150 cars per week. Petitions have been circulated and numer- ously slgned at Red Lodge, praying congress to amend the law by which the ceded strip for the Crow reservation was thrown open to settlement a few years ago. Under the law as then enacted settlers under the homes stead law were required to pay $1.50 an acre for all lands taken up. This is a provision that was never before inserted In similar laws. at 8¢ predio by great the CI activity in sop county sue $150,000 in —the woman who doesn’t use Pearline. She's tied to her work, and tired It with half the work. ¥ 17's We have about 7 sizes and styles that we away, some all wool Overcoats HFTH - EACURS The excursion goes by the ng prairies of eastern V the base of Tacoma, the smoking moun largest water power in the United St through the ever green valley of the Wil Make _your own bargain for transport lington System, buy your tickets to Sal Omaha at 4:35 p. m Billings and the Northern Pacific railroads— derful mining cities of Montana-—across the great wheat grow- shington—over world where ships from the sea can go to the very foot of the fails FOR AN OVERCOAT. Overcoats in broken want to close out right If you are of the right size you'll save all the way from §3 to §8 by buying these hand- for ¢5. O 70 ORECON By Stearus Fruit Land Co., 101 Bee Building. People enough having signified their intention of goin with us, on this excursion. to make it a success, we have decid- ed to remove all restrictions and give all who wi chance to join this personally conducted trip to Oregon. h to go, a popular Burlington Route, via through the won- the celebrated Stampede Pass—around tain—along the lovely shores of Puges Sound—through the city of Tacoma—over the great Columbia River on the big- gest railroad ferry in the world—to Portland, Ovegon, the biggest on the continent—past the falls of the Willamette, the second (to Niagara alone) ty of its size ates, and the only one of any size in the 'hen on lamette 10 Salem, the Capital of Oregon, the only state inthe Union which has absolutely no state debt and has money in its treasury for appropriation by the legis ature now in session. A journey worth a lifetime to accomplish. fation with any ticket agent of the Bure em, Oregon, take the agents receipt for the money paid and join us at any point, on the train that leaves .. January 28th. Your receipt will be taken as money for land. DOGTOR SEARLES & SEARLES, Chronic, Nervous, Private Diseases, 'Wo cure Catarrh, all diseases of the Nose, Throat, Chest, Stomach, Liver, Blood, S8kin and Kidney Diseases, Fe- male Weaknesses, Lost Manhood, and ALL PRIVATE DISEASES OF MEN. WEAK MEN ARE VICTIMS TO NERVOUS Debility or Exhaustion, Wasting Weakness, In voluntary Losses, With Early Decay In young and middie Tack of vim, vigor andweakened prematurely in approaching old age. All yeild readlly to tur new treatment for losa of Vital power. Cas on or address with stamp for cir- culars, frec book and recelpts. 1416 T Dr. Searles and Searles, 452 S A\ | Amold’s Bromp-Geiery. e g ety C THE ARNOLD CHEMICAL CO. 1561 8, Western Avenuo, CHICAGD. For sale by all druggists, Ouaha. Lspecie] or general Nevralgla; leo for Mhez. Hiatyim,“Gut Klaner Bitoriers, Acid DS b, Bando0eeics BABY'S SKIN AND . SCALP Cleansed, purlficd, and benutified by Curicuna (-\ 0w, reateat of akin uricrs of {nflammation and clogging of the pore, the caue of most complezs | beautiflere, ns well s purest and fonal distigurations, Bold everywhere, vepsin, ' Anmmin. Antidoto and other oxcesscs, Pl Efiorvescent. sweetestvf tolletund nursery aoaps, Only cure for pimples and biack: heade, because the only preventive ¢ W. I Seymour, our optician, has been extremely successful in fitting glasses to hundreds of the best people in the city. Lenses Exchanged Free of Charge. The Aloe & Penfold Co., LEADING SCI 1I°IC OPTICIANS, 1408 Farnam Stree: Opposite Paxton Hotel THE LION DRUG STORE. Teeth Without Plates. BAILEY, DENTIST. Paxton Bl 16th and Farnam Sts Tol 1085, e Fllings .. 81,00 Pura Gold Fllllngs 200 (old Crowns, 22k .. 6.00 |Bridge teeth:tooih .00 Tzeth Outin Morning, % New Teeth 8ame Day 10.0) Paluless Extrac’'n 50¢ ALL ABOUT CHANGING NEW FAGES 410000 Sl ey s . DoucLAS SHOE 275 5ot $ 5. CORDOVAN, 9 FRENCH & ENAMELLED CALF.’ 43350 FINE CALF &KANGARDR, $3.80POLICE,3 SOLES, $2. WORKIN, 2 NSNS, $2.%1.75 BoYS'SCHOOLSHOES. LT $2P2%2.81.7° 8327 2 T posor, END FOR CATALOG! RO WL T Over Onc Million People wear the W. L. Douglas $3 & $4 Shoes All our shoes are equally satisfactory They glve the best value for the money. They equal custom Shoc in style and . Thalr woarlng qualitics are unisurpassed, The prices are uniform on sole. oke A.W. Bowman Co., N. I61h St, C. J. Carlison, 1218 N. 24th St. W. W. Fisher, Parker and Leavenworth St. J. Newman, 424 8, I13th St. Kelley, Sticer & Co,. Farnam and 16th St. T.S.Cressey, 2509 N St,, South é:’ RARNGISCAN BROPS Prepared from the original fo mula pre erved in the Archiver of tho Foly Land, hay ag an suthentic history dating bae 000 years A POSITIVE CURE for all Stomach, Kidney and Bowel troubles, especially GHRONIC CONSTIPATION, Frice 50 cents. Sold by ull druggiste, < Puvely Yogetable, I'he Fraucis:an Remedy Co,, L84 V2> “UREN 5T., CHICAGO, ILL, for Clreular ;i lisastrated Oalendar For sale by Kubng Co., 15th & Dougla Warm Your Feet. at night with a HOT WATER BAG 2 -quart, 65 cents, 3-quart, 7Beents. 4-quart, 850 5-quart, $1.00 1f ordered by muil Add 10¢ for Dostage. RUBBER GOODS OF ALL KIND&, The Aloe & Penfold ‘o,, 1408 Farnam Street, THE LION DRUG HOU N.ost Manhood i ey ing Blemishes, in 160 p. book 10 & stamp. 20 JAMES PYLE, New York, Johe . Woodbury, 1271 W. 42 8t N. ¥, Laveator of Woudbuiy's Facial Boab. Bia s ey A bAVe e g §. A. Fuller & Co., Corner 15tk aud Douglass Stsy OMAHA, NEB.