Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 20, 1895, Page 5

PULSEOF WESTERY PROGRESS Miner's Mecca in the Region of Carl New Mexico. ROUGH € 1L «TRY, BUT GOLD IS THERE Troablesome Red Men—FPuynllups Declare They Will Not Permit Parchasers of Thele Lands to Take Vo Sheep Kaising in South Dakota. oasion— An extraordin ry discovery of gold has been made at Carlisle, filty miles from here, says & Lordsburg (N. M.), dispatch to the San Francisco Chronicle. Reports ot rich fuds, which at first were thought to be exaggerated, are belng confirmed and the greatest excite- ment pr are rushing In from all parts of New Mexico and Arizona and news of the strike is being carried along the line of the Southern Pacific. Carlisle has developed into a bustling com- munity of 300 miners, busy for miles around on the mountains. Powder, merchandise, pro visions and supplies of every description are befng sent to Duncan, where they are carried by stage over a rough road fourtesn miles to Carliste A few wecks ago an unusual movement to- ward the camp was noticed. Occasional small shipments of ore, some of which assayed as high as $1 a pound, were sent through to Deming and Bl Paso, and an effort to ke:p the matter quiet gave gpur to the exejtement Gradually the presence of miners in the camp became known and Carlisle promises to over- shadow any mining excitment of recent years Those who have come down from the camp may that the discoveries of gold far exceed the wildest expectations, and they declare that some of the prospectors have been quietly working for years, and have sunk shafts to a depth of over 100 feet, dlscovering exe:p tlonally rich ore. It fs sald that fifty mines have been located, showing remarkably good assays, and hardly a day pass>s that some mew find is not reported and the excitement increases. The first reports were discredited, but now the stories receive confirmation at every turn and this added flame to the excitement, and every Indication polnts to a m'ning boom wi h- out a parallel In the history of the territory. LUCKY MINERS. Two prospectors from Walla Walla have mado a lucky strike on the Snake river, below the mouth of the Salmon, about forty miles from this city, says a Lewlston (Wash.) dispatch to the Spokane Spokesman-Review. They were on the trall over which hundreds of gold hunters have passed every year since 1862, when they became intercsied In some “goud looking™" gravel that was uncovered by a washout, They panned out some of the dirt and got a prospect of 25 cents a pan They then set up a rocker at the river, forty fect away, and one carried the dirt in a gunny sack while the other washed vigorously for the balance of the day, about four hours. They cleaned up at night and were surprised to find such a large amount of yellow metal They had such a large amount that they could not believe it was gold, so they hastened to Lewlston to have it tested. They timidly offered it for sale, and were again surprised to have It accepted without doubt as to what it was. They secured $15 for the result of the afternoon’s work. NERVY INDIANS. The sale of land in the Puyallup Indian reservation, under the direction of the gov- ernment was begun, says a Tacoma dispatch to the San Frauclsco Examiner, despite the protests of a large number of Indlans, who threaten to make trouble If any of the pur- chasers of the land attempt to take pos- session. The Puyallup Indians are recog- nized by a decision of the United States eir- cult court as cltizens, and they exercise all the rights of such, with the singlo exception that land on their resorvation s held in trust for them by the government, the In- dians only being allowed to enter into a le of them for a period not to exceed two years Great dissatistaction exlsts among them on his account, and when the sale of lands began a squad of redskins announced pub licly that the whites had better not buy the land. John Laclaire, one of the chiefs, said “The land belongs to us. The White Father gave It to the Indians; these men come out here to sell it when we don’t want them to. We want to be let alone. We are good In- dians, If we want to sell the lands, we will sell, but the government says no. If the government wants to sell the lands and we say no, the government says It will sell any- how. The Indians don't like that. No man can take the lands it he buys; the Indians say so. We give falr warning to men who buy to keep off the lands and away from the reservation.” GOOD SHEEP COUNTRY. While In the past cattle raising has been considered of leading importance in the stock Interests of this part of South Dakota, sheep are beginning to become a large factor, says n Plerre dispatch to the Sloux Falls Argus- Leader. In the days of the “sheep bogu of flve years ago a number were brought in regardless of the high price of about $4 per hiead, So many were rushed into this sec- tion that the price rapidly declined, and this decline was yet more marked when the free wool discussion frightened the sheep men. A conservative estimate of the number of sheep In this portion of the state is 50,000 head. This 18 an increase of about 50 per cent in he past two years, of which atout 30 per cent has been natural increase and the other 20 per cent new flocks brought in. The range of prices has been from $4 per head five years ago to $1.50 a head two years ago, while at present the price is about $2.50 per head. The advance is considered by flock- masters to be almost exclusively on mutton, following the advance of the price of boef. The average wool clip on the ranges of this wection is about six pounds per fleece, and for Inst year the average price received was 12'% cents per pound, but a slight advance is expected for this year's clip. NIGGER CREEK MINES, There is no abatement in the excitement here over the Nigger creck mines, says a Leavenworth (Wash.) dispatch to the Spo- kane Spokesman-Review, and the mountains In that section swarm with men engaged in & wild rush to secure clalms. Since the new life began at least one discovery has been made which gives promise or proving to be the equal of the Ontario mine. It was made by G. N. Watson, an old-time prospector, and a gentleman well known here. The ore which he exhibits Is an exact counterpart in appearance of that shipped to St. Louis, and Mr. Watson says there is a big body of it. The discovery is In a rather conspicuous place, and has probably been passed over & thousand times before it was located. A shipment of 300 pounds of ere from the Nigger creek mines has been made to Balls & Co. of Seattle, who will immediately for- ward the ore to Frieburg, Germany, for analysis. It Is being shipped at the instance of W. J. Riley, secretary of the Negro Creek Nickel and Copper Mining company, who is himself well versed in mineralogy and is a civil and mining engineer of considerable ability. Riley says his object in sending the ore to Europe Is to gain more accurate Information about cobalt, this metal being one of which very little is known by the average miner and can be treated by but few analysists in the world. Mr. Riley says there are but four places where cobalt can be suc- cesstully treated—Frieburg, Germany; Swan- ils. Prospectors sea, Wales; Newark, N. J., and Reast St. Louls, IlL It requires a different furnace from other metals, and its scarcity dces not justify the erection of many smelters that can handle it While there is universal good feeling over returne from St. Louls, there is suspicion in the minds of some, so deeply seated that it nnot be eradicated, that the ore should have yielded much more than was reported Every assay and test of small quantities bave shown larger returns, the nickel in many Inctances running as high as 16 per eent and the cobalt reaching 6 or 7 per cent, GLITTER, BUT NOT GOLD. The schooner Zelma of Tacoma Is back from Alaska with a party of unsuccesstul goldhunters, who became disgusted with the ‘project because head winds and stormy weather for six weeks prevented them from getting further north than Queen Oharlotte sound, says a Port Townsend dispatch to the San Francisco Examiner, On the way back, at Robinson's Light, B. C., they found, three men nearly starved to death. The latter ware golug to the Skeena river gold mines in l0op. At night they anchored and went asbore to sleep. A storm came on and blew their craft out to sea and destroyed ail thelr provisions. One of the men took & small skiff and started for the mainland, twenty-five miles distant, for aid. He has been gone a fortnight and s supposed to have been drowned. The other castaways were taken to Vancouver. GOOD FOR ARIZONA. It is reported here, says a Denver dispatch to the San Francisco Examiner, that the re- | sult of the government inspection in Spain of the Peralta-Reavis Arizona grant is that the claim and documents are frauds. The Per- alta-Reavis grant Is 4 claim made under a baronial grant by the Spanish government to 10,000,000 acres of the choicest land in Arl- zona. The land lies in the Salt river valley, covering most of the reservation of the Yuma and Maricopa Indians, and the town of Phoe- nix, the capital of the territory, lies almost in its center. The grant, it was claimed, was made to a certain Baron Peralta by the Span {th crown In the days while Mexico was still a province of Spaln, and it Is now being nshed before the court of claims of Santa Fe by the descendants of the old Peralta, It has not been very long ince the parties| laiming title to the grant were offering land for sale in tracts to suit settlers. NEBRASKA Sam Jones is to be one of the etar attrac- tions at the Orleans chautauqua. The report of the village treasurer of Wake- fleld shows no indebtedness and a balance of $1,800 cash on hand Sixteen acres of chicory have been planted at Falirmont, and if the crop Is euccessful a factory will be established A man named Anderson, much wanted in Cherry county for cattle stealing, has finally been captured and taken back for trial. Kittle Lammert, a Schuyler girl, has sued the B. & M. for 5,000 for injuries which will make her a helpless cripple for life. The firm of Gage & Berry, general mer chandise, has falled at Alma, with assets of $8,000 to offset liabilities amounting to $7,000. aptain Dabb, proprietor of a light river teamer, will run it as an excursion boat up and down the Missouri river from Platts- mouth. R. Bernicker of Hastings has moved to Costa Rica, Central America, where he will engage In the business of raising coffee and bananas. The city of Schuyler has levied an occupa tion tax of $25 per year on telegraph com- panies, $16 on telephone, and $10 on express companies, A broom factory recently opened at Loup City Is dolng a good business, its entire out- put being handled by Lincoln and Denver jobbing houses. Bddle Draub of Norfolk lost his left hand by the bursting of the barrel of an old army musket, which he had overloaded with a six- inch charge of powder. The Chadron paint mill has been com- pleted and the manufacture of prepared paint from natural material found in the vicinity will commence at once. Herman Freese, acquitted of the charge of robbing the Homer State bank, has sued the sherlft_ of Dakota county and other parties for $10,000 for malicious prosecution. A Boone county farmer while prospecting for subsoll unearthed three human skeletons, all of heroic size, the largest measuring eight feet and tho others more than seven. Osceola has revived an old ordinance re- quring children under 16 years of age to be off the streets after 9 o'clock at night. The fire bell Is rung every evening as a curfew. The -railroad station agent at DuBols claims to have discovered a method by which he can produce an electric light from a sim- ple battery, such as are found In every tele- graph office. A Furnas county farmer ripped open the lining of an overcoat glven by the State Rellef commission and found $130 in bills. He sent the money to the man who con- tributed the coat, John Magney, a highly respected farmer living four miles north of Nehawka, dropped dead while feeding his stock Thursday even- ing. He was 67 years of age and left a wife and four children. Fred Disbrow, an Arapahoe lad, ran away from home with several companions. He traveled as far west as Moorcraft, Wyo., where in some unaccountable manner he fell under the wheels of a moving passenger traln and was mangled to death. His re- mains were brought back to Arapahoe for burial. While returning from a fisbing trip Wil- liam McMurrin _wandered through Farmer Skow's back yard, near Beatrice. The farmer accused him of stealing corn, and in_the altercation which followed the farmer drew a gun. A scramble for the possession of the weapon followed, and then the doctors were called in to dig the bullets out of McMurrin's anatomy. He will recover. Two Kearney young men, accompanied by their wives, are floating down the Platte river in a house boat, having reached Schuy- ler Wednesday, two weeks after starting. They have a boat five feet wide and twenty feet long, with a cabin twelve feet long in the center. They expect to float through the Platte, Missouri and Mississippl rivers to the state of Mississippi. A young man working as a farm hand for Thomas Allen, ten miles north of Eagle, squinted down the muzzle of a loaded revolyer and thoughtlessly pulled the trigger. The ball struck him squarely in the forehead above the right eye, making a raggged wound, but coming out without penetrating the brain. He is in a precarious condition, but the doctors say he will recover. He refuses to give his mame. *I have a father and mother in Lincoln,” he sald, “and I don't want them to know what a fool I was to monkey with a revolver.” 1I0WA. The state fleld day of Iowa colleges will be held at Grinnell May 24. Mount Pleasant has a population of 3,920, a Aoss of seventy-seven over the census of 1890. * Thirty-two new postoffices were established in lTowa from December 1, 1894, to May 1, 1895. Eldora boasts of a population of 2,100, a gain of 500 over the federal census of five years ago. The new telephone line between Webster City and Des Moines will be ready for opera- tion June 1. Completed census returns of Waterloo give that city a population of 8,456, a gain of 1,782 in five years, Willlam Sunday, the ex-base ball player, is holding an extraordinary serles of revival meetings at Ottumwa, The recent cyclone In the western part of the state have glven the cyclone cave busi- ness a decided impetus. According to the assessor’s returns Winter- set has a population of 2,708, with an area of less than one square mile. is to be bullt across the Des Moines at Frazer to enable the Boone Valley rallroad to galn access to new coal flelds, Preparations for the construction of the new wagon bridge over the Missouri river at Sloux City have been actively commenced. Thirty convicts are to be transferred from the penitentiary at Fort Madison to the one at Anwmosa. The Fort Madison institution will still have 560 prisoners left. The coal miners are still out on a strike at Lehigh, with no immediate prospects of a settlement. The miners insist upon the old scalo of 85 cents and $1 per ton, while the operators refuse to pay but 80 and 90 cents. Marshalitown {s Towa's convention city this year. She entertains the A lodge May 29 to June 3, the Knights of Pythias in August, the Odd Fellows in Sep- tember and the democratic state convention August 7. SOUTH DAKOTA. Deadwood young ladies have bloomed out in bloome A new ferry boat has been launched at Chamberlain. “Trilby” will be played at Rapid City by a local company. A county road is belng surveyed between Menno and Oltvet. There will be fitty new creamerles in oper- ation in this state this year. Ore which assays from $60 to $200 per ton has been struck on the Ruby Basin. It is rumored that the Illinois Central con- templates extending its line to Yankton in the near future. C. H. Singer has secured a fine artesian well at a depth of 700 feet on his farm south- of Armour. South Dakota Congregationalists anticipate 4 grand time at Yankion on the 21st inst. At that time the general assoclation of Con- gregational churches In South Dekota will THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY hold its quarter-centennial meeting, and for the seventh time will be gathered In Yank- on. E. Lemmon will ship 2,000 2-year-old steers from New Mexico to the Grand river ranges in this state There will be a great amount of building done In Clay county this year. Over 100 farmers will construct new houses. The steamer Jim Leighton at Pierre is kept busy carrying people bound for the Sioux reservation to make their homes. The reform school of the state at Plank ington will yield to the’state a large rev- enue this year. Over 1,200 acres have been put in erops. The supreme court has handed down an opinion declaring valid the issue of $98,000 bonds to make good the loss to the school fund through the Taylor defalcation It has been fully decided that the next en- campment of the Central Dakota Veterans' ssoclation, which asesmbles in July, will be held on the banks of Lake Kemperka, as | last year. It has been decided that South Dakota Is not entitled to the 50,000 acres of valuable lands fo the Yankton Sioux reservation which the state recently took steps to secure for its own use, Another strong artesian well has been com- pleted in the north part of Brule county, which flows about 1,600 gallons per minute This makes seventeen wells in this county that supply water in over 300 miles of ditches passing through farms. It has been decided by the trustees of the State School of Mines and the board of re- gents having in charge the educational insti- tutions in the Black Hills to run a geolog- ical survey from Rapid City to the coal de- posits on the Grand river Work at the Keystone mine has been shut down, It is reported, on account of some diffi- culty’ between the owners. The shutting down of this mine, following so closely upon the shutting down of the Holy Terror, has had a depressing effect on the Keystone camp, where these two wonderful mines are located. The latest reports from the United States mint of the affairs of the Holy Terror mi show that the mint returns amo to $46, 206.07, while the outlay is only 256. 46, The many reports concerning the sale of the Holy Terror prove to be fakes. The Sioux Falls broker who originally had the privilege of disposing of the property for $100,000 net has been wired. that he has the same chance as ever, and will have for thirty days, Arrangements are being made to have a big barbecue at Sturgis on the Fourth of July, at which roast horse will be served The scheme {s to hire a professional chef, who will be given a carteblanc order to malke the thing a success, No expense will be spared In the matter, and the chef will give Instructions free of charge as to the proper methods of preparing palatable dishes of horse flesh. Work is being pushed on the Fort Pierre & Black Hills, between Lead and Englewood There are indications that this line will be completed soon. George M. Nix, formerly manager of the profected railroad from Min ela to the Hay Creek coal fields, has been out over the proposed route with a party of New York capitalists, and it Is thought by the people in that part of the state that the trip is significant, and that the road will be extended to the valuable coal fields. The completion of this line would serve to reduce the price of coal all over South Dakota A large colony of Bavarian stone workers arrived at Edgemont to reside permanently _will be employed in manufacturing dstones from the local quarries. The dif- ence of 10 per cent tariff in favor of the domestic stone, which Is similar to the Ba- varian article, has driven many who were formerly employed in manufacturing that stone to the United States. The revenue de. rived from the imported Bavarian stone In the way of duty has decreased largely this year. Forty familles are included in the first contingent, which will be follgwed by others. COLORADO. This year there will be great activity in placer mining around the Alma district. Aspen miners and trammers are now paid $2.50 per day. At the Mollie Gibson and Ar- gentum the lowest fs $2.37% per day and the age $2.75. 'he Union Gold Mining company has heard from a small shipment from the Osborne lease at Colorado Springs. It runs 177 ounces of gold per ton. Shipments from the Durant mine at Aspen will exceed 3,000 tons this month. This out- put is the result of a force of 150 lesseos and seventy-five company men. The Gold Standard at Apex is putting in nachinery and will employ more men soon The mine was recently bought by an English company and the ore runs from $65 to $140 a ton. The Independence, Cripple Creek, is now down over 400 feet. The net product in gold in the past month was over $130,000, and no end yet to the ore in sight. Better ore and more of it as depth is gained. Six bars of Tom Boy gold, weighing over 600 ounces and worth more than $10,000, vere deposited at the local branch mint This indicates that the Tom Boy mill, located near Telluride, is again in active operation. The Black Diamond, Cripple Creek, is just now attracting a good deal of attention since the new strike was made therein. Three feet of rich sylvanite ore was recently die- covered in one of the lower drifts, assaying as bigh as $170 per ton. Japtain Van Orsdale, who is Interested in some of the Cripple Creek properties, has returned from that camp with the informa- tion that a nmew body of ore has been dis- covered in the Isabella mine altogether differ- ent from that which has been previously en- countered. The veln is four feet wide and said to be very rich. A remarkable scheme to systematize op- erations has been organized in New York City. It is proposed to locate 100 gold min- ing claims in Colorado. Out of these the ten having the best surface indications will be developed. Associated with the New York organization there will be experts to pass upon the various prospects. The Ocean Wave, located on the south slope of Squaw mountaln, is being worked vigorously. The returns from the last ship- ment of five tons was received, and it went 14.1 ounces per ton. A new vein was cut a few days ago In the tunnel which parallels the first discovery thirty feet from it. The quarts assays at the rate of $50 per ton. WYOMING. The Black Hills & Fort Pierre railroad has begun the use of Newcastle coal in its locomotives. A carload of elk has just been shipped at Opal, intended for a game preserve M the Empire state. The women of Evanston were recently de- feated -for the first time in six years at the school election, A hay dealer at Laramie has sold $1,700 worth of hay to cattle shippers at that point during the past four months. The contract has been let to bulld a road from Casper to the forks of Wind river, to afford an outlet for the Big Horn Basin country. Buffalo Bill has commissioned R. 8. Van Tassell of Cheyenne to send bim fifty Wyo- ming horses of the color famous command. Some of the farmers in the Lander valley are planting early amber cane this spring, They hope to get enough farmers Interested lu‘ Justify the putting in of a cane mill this fall. Mayor Hee of Carbon superintended the shearing of his large herd of sheep at Kort Steele last week. The clip weighed 30,000 pounds, which was shipped at once to Phil- adelphia. The wool clip of 1895 for Wyoming Is esttmated to reach between 8,000,000 and 10,000,000 pounds, and s cleaner and of a superior quality to any former clip Congrifft Bros. of Fort Steele, who are known as the mutton kings of Wyoming, are trying to purchase more sheep. They are already running eighteen bands, and their flocks number over 60,000 head. Kels P. Nickols of Iren Mountain is taking cortracts for the extermination of prairie dogs. He recently cleared a piece of land where the pests had grown fat upon the poisoned food that had been spread out for them. Kels has a cheme for poisoning wheat that makes It sure death. gotiations are pending for the sale of the properties on Douglas creek of the Doug- las Consolidated Mining company. An option for 360,000 is now held on the property, which consists of rich placers. A Denver company, known as the Bennett Placer Min- ing company, Is also desirous of developing the property, and if it can be secured upon satisfactory terms will develop it by putting in one or more machines, known as the used by Custer's | dence, R. | ot 500,000 Bennett patent. The local company has title to 2,400 acres of fhe placers covering & streteh of fifteen mi&¥'Klong Douglas creek. At Sheridan a t16'b86in, known as the Me- Shone boom, on Tamgue river, was broken away by an unusuglly strong current in the river, due to the ml(ing of the snow in the mountains. In"'tRe! neighborhiood of 25,- 000 ties were carniadsdown the stream by the overflow, représenting a loss of $10,000 Elwood Mead, state engineer, is making an official examinatfon’ of the plans and sur- vey for the proposedifditeh which the Provi- 1, Irrigajion company intends con- structing this summer. The water supply will be obtained ftom Snake river and will irrigate a large tratt'ef land which is to be colonized. [ Fish Commissioner, Schnitger has let the contract for the branch hatchery at Sheridan at a contract price '6f' $1,000. The building will be 30x60 feel amd will be located on Wolf creek, fourtesn.miles from Sheridan. It will be fitted up with all provements and will have a hat fish. farmers of the upper have determined to form an irrigation dis- trict of their own, under the provisions of the law passed by the last legislature, sim- flar to the law of California. The district will embrace all irrigable lands under the Ridenbaugh, Settters and Phyllis canals, ag- the latcst im ng capacity The Bolse valley gregating 140,000 acres. Negotiations will open at once for the purchase of these canals. The Gold Dollar saloon of Buffalo is said to be one of the handsomest drinking places in the United States, nd it is to be con verted into a temperance saloon. The pro prietor is tired of selling liquor, and will be put fn charge of the new enterprise. The floor of the place fs laid with $20 gold plec the bar is studded with $50 gold pleces, the walls are hung with fine pletures, and it is furnished with 1,200 incandescent lights A force of men is at work completing the bed rock flume of the Jack creek placers mmenced last season. The placers are very 'h, the gold being coarse and easy to save. ming and Nebratka parties are furnish- ing the capital for putting in the flumes. Wyoming and Nebraska parties, with ex- vernor Dawes at their head, are also put ting In apparatus to work placer grounde on Spring creek, where very favorable prospects have been found. Fifty thousand acres of land have been filed on as placer clalms near Douglas. The claims are contained within three district tracts, one being close to the Douglas town- site, one near the Brenning tunnel, where oil ‘bearing sand was recently discovered, and one, comprising 20,000 acres, being along Antelope creck, three miles from the c Oil springs exist at different places all threa tracts. The oll is of good quality and it found in sufficlent quantities will at once make Douglas the center of a good ofl produe- ing region. OREGON. Clams and crabs are being hauled from Bandon to Roseburg, where they go off like hiotcakes. Captain Cann ot Columbia’s mouth around his vessel are bl Mid McPherson Springfield. The this state, but identity In this ene. Eugene Guard fs in receipt of a letter aisley announcing that buyers are in \ewaucan country to buy 2,000 head of cattle, It has been a long time since the was €uch a demand for cattle, and it will be strange if prices do, not stiffen There is an immense number of cranes in the Grand Ronde vallew and in some in nees farmers hiive put boys on horses to herd the birds oft'the fields. In some locali- ties the cranes gre & numerous that they resemble from a distarice herds of sheep. George W. Rowland of The Dalles has just celebrated the 50th anniversary of the settle- ment of his father and mother In Oregon. Ho remembers arpiving at The Dalles over fifty years ago, where his father bullt a raft and on it the family floated down to Colum- bia The Umatilla Tgdian chiofs Peo and Young Chief have returned from Washington, where they interviewed Secrgtary Hoke Smith and Indian Commissioner Brown. The chicfs say that the secretary promised to pay the In dians the $200,000° g from the sale of lands in cash, instead of billding houses for them. WASIINGTON. pounds of, Valentine ore sampled $176.88, of which $108 was gold. The Yesler saw mill, on Lake ton, has been leased to the Gres Lumber and Supply company of § will soon be operated. Two tunters cornered a yearling cinnamon bear at Lake Chelan and exploded a stick of dynamite in his cave. The bear was not scathed and had to be punched out. Tacoma's whistling well has commenced operations again after a silence of two years. Residents in the neighborhood say that just previous to every storm It commences fore- ing out alr, impregnated with gas, and that a person looking down stands a good chance of suffocation. The Tacoma Chamber of Commerce con- templates sending a representative to Japan with the purpose in view of inducing the Japanese Steamship company, Nippon Yuson Kaisha, to make its American terminus at Tacoma, in the event of carrying out the in- tentions entertained previous to the breaking out of the Oriental war, of establishing a trans-Pacific line of steamers from Yokohama. G. F. Smith's horse backed the buggy off the east end of Morse's wharf at Port An- geles ths other day. Mrs. Smith and her child were in the buggy at the time, but jumped out before the rig went overboard. The horse broke loose from the carriage and swam ashore. The plle driver working on the whart caused the horse to become frightened. The buggy was fished out considerably dam- aged. Water wil reach the farmers under the Congdon diteb, in Yakima county, in a few days. The big siphon across Cowychee canyon works to perfection. Over 500 acre will be cultivated under the canal this s son. Sixty acres of orchard have been set out. The ditch company owns but 640 acres. The water right, which is permanent, is bought at so much an acre. This season the cost will be but 30 cents an acre for main- tenance. Reports from Walla Walla say that if the present weather continues strawberries will begin to ripen by the 15th of May. Many of this year's berries from that place will be of the Hood River variety. These berries were formerly only grown at Hood River, Ore., but two years ago their cultivation was commenced at Walla Walla, and last year some reached the Spokane market, where they brought 25 cents per crate more than any other berries. They are not extra large, but solid, and of a delicious flavor, and are exceptionally good shippers. MISCELLANEOUS. One of the new oil wells at Summerland, Cal., flows 100 barrels a day. There are 200 juore men at work in the coal mines in Belt Mountaln than there were & year ago. Arbuckle has a:fide geranium twelve feet high on a trellis, it is perhaps the finest rose geranium In northern California. At a sale of thie eattle and horses on the Bailey ranch at Stilwater, Cal., 114 head of the lightship oft the ys that the waters ack with sardines killed a porcupine near animal 1s seldom found fn there was no doubt of its as the hide was on ex Forty Washing Western ttl> and horses, some of them pretty good animals, too, s0ld at 13 cemtssa: head. Information has been received that the Yaqui Indians are paeparing to make a great stand against the -Mexicans.. Yaquis em- ployed in and aboutthe mines are system- atically buying ammef and ammunition. A man, writing from the lately discovered mines in Cariboo, British Columbia, gives the prices of miners supplies, among them flour, 38 to $10 per. hundred; pork, 25 cents per pound; eggs, $1.85 a dozen; chickens, $3 each. ) A tramp was larrested at Winnemucea, Nev., with a half dozen ax blades in his pos- session. He claimed’ that he worked for a wood contractor up the Truckee, who pald him in axes, which, it seems, are legal tender In the forests of the Sierra Nevada It is stated that the Dilworth band of cattle ranging near Red Lodge, Mont., and numbering about 3,000 head, were sold at Miles City the other day for $21 per head, and it also stated that another band of about the same number sold for $22 per head. Parties from the east are in Thompson Falls to inspect the antimony mine there. This antimony mine is the most extensive one in the world and is one of the many re- sources that will make Thompson, Mont., a city of no little importance. About $3,000,000 of this metal is consumed annually in the United States and the metal heretofore has been imported from forcign countries. The demand is lucreasing and there are moun- talos of autimony at Thompson Falls, MAY 20, 1895 THE FLY COP OF FRANCE A Man of Gentle, Unassuming Manners and Great Shrewdness, THE CAREER (F DETECTIVE MACE Remarkable Industry Displayed in the Con- duct of His Work—Chapters from His Recor n Sleuth— Secret of His Success. (Copyright, 18%.) It was my good fortune to be thrown a good deal with M. Mace once, and I remember him and some of his methods well. In ap- pearance he was a small, fair man, with a mild, thoughtful eye, a soft voice, and a gentle, unassuming, and yet persuasive man- ner. He might have been an inventor or & mathematiclan, possibly a schoolmaster, for ho was a little pedantic, and liked to put one right with one's French whenever idiom or pronunciation went astray. His favorite cos- tume was the decorous suit of black and the white tie of the French officer of justice. There were times when he assumed dis- guise, and he could do it with the best, but disgulses are much less used by than is commonly supposed. M. Mace was an indefatigable worker; at his office in ‘hose days, in a corner of the Palais de Justice, early and late, coming enerally at 7 a. m., and remaining often till 10, 11, even 12 o'clock at night, unless he was calied away, for it is the rule in Paris detectives when any great crime has been committed to summon the chef de la surete without delay, and the chief himself, for obvious reasons, is anxious to be early on the scene of the catastrophe. But otherwise ho seldom left the Palals except to go home, where he always took his meals—as a rule a short hour for breakfast and the same for dinner sufficed; he was a very domestic little man, loved the coin du feu. Even then he was with sy reach of the Prefecture, and was ready to go round at any hour, day or night, whenever he was sent for. ® MACE'S DAILY ROUTINE. 1 have sat with M. Mace through the day in his little burcau, hung ‘round with rell and reminiscences of crimes, the sort of thing to be seen any day at the Black museum in Scotland yard. His first business was the simple routine duties, inspecting “'state: reading the return of any arrests made during the previous twenty-four hou Then he scanned the whole of the morning papers for items of police news; where they went too far he liked to put them, where they were still in the dark he found it con- venient sometimes to enlighten. Every noon, by the way, be gave an interview to press men; it paid him well to give his own account of whatever was going, The mor ing's correspondence was next disposed of; a lengthy affair, for all manner of people write to the chef de surete, secking his advice or ntervention, sometimes offering it to assist n_the detection of still undiscovered crimes Every country has its amateur detectives and very officious and w isome they some- times prove to the professional police officer Then came his morning levee. There were many waiting for interviews, but they had not to walt long, nor, when once admitted, were they suffered to waste much of his time. I sat with him through one of these levees and greatly admired the tact and promptitude with which he dispatched the morning’s busi- ness SOME OF MACE'S VISITORS. First mother and son appeared. They had been haggling over a sum of money, the proceeds of a small inheritance which they ought to have divided; now they came to say they have so agreed a franche la ques- tlon," the incident is ended, “Good morring.” Now a sub., the confidential clerk, a fox- haired youth with weak eyes, brings up a small brown paper parcel. “One moment, plea; says M. Mace as he deftly loosens the strings. Inside wa link in a chain. Mace declares’ on finding it marked with certain initials, “Put it with the other pieces a couviction; that completes the evidence. What next?" A typical thief. A prisoner who has been caught red-handed about dawn in an apartment not his own, and with stolen property on him. He Is a re- spectable, harmless looking youth, “And what makes you a thief? the chef asked him sharply. = “You cannot be in want?" The lad, who is in good clothes and carries a shiny hat, hangs his head. “Well, how did you get it?" proceeds the interrogator. By force.' “No, with a false key.” “Of ‘what kind?” and M. Mace points to a series of photographs on the walls, represent- Ing all known varieties of false keys. ““That,” answers the accused, nointing with. out hesitation, The key itself was in the hands of the police; why try to withhold information? “Who else was in the job?" “No one _ “Bah—what s your trade or calling? convicted before? Where, when, Sentence—six months? “Father alive?” “Mother?" “No—step-mother, outside.” ““Well, let her come in A WEEPING MOTHER. a shirt, the missing Been for what? Mme. La Bellemere is A lady, or a very good Imitation of one, well but showlly dressed, entered. She was overwhelmed with grief and began at once to upbraid her step- son, whom she sees now for the first time since his arrest. Then she attacked the chef, imploring his clemency. “The lad is not really mechant; he means well; he has been led Into this by evil as- sociates; he Is_a good, honest youth." “And yet he has a previous conviction against him, madame.” ““True,” she replied, a little disconcerted, but he was a victim then, as now."” “What Is his trade?” “Ho Is a—" ““Typographe,” the youth riedly, evidently afraid might make some mistake. “‘Indeed?"" the'chef sald dryly, as he caught the ald’s hand and examined his thumb and foretinger. They were black, but with tobacco juice, not printer's {nk. ' “I must know who else was in this,” Insisted the stern official. *“Take him away. “Now, madame,” he went on, when the accused had been removed, “will you tell me who were the other parties?” Instead of replying frankly, she had re- course to a woman's weapons—tears and en- treaties, declaring that they are people of good position, respected in thelr quartier, that they will be overwhelmed with shame and disgrace by tha scandal of this thing." “That's all very likely,” sald M. Mace, coldly, “but I am an official functionary; I have to deal with justice, not with family affairs,” and he was about to bow her out. “If T only knew who—" he added tentatively, with his hand on the door knob, “If T only knew who else was In the robbery, your step-son might get off.” “I can tell you,” she now cried excitedly. “Ah! A woman, no doubt, a bad woman. I was sure of it. And her name 15— “I can not quite remember, but she lives, or is to be heard of, at the Brasserie Cochin Chine, Rue des Carronfleurs. I will find out exactly and I will come again. Meanwhlile you wlll take every care of my poor boy?" “‘Of that you may rest assured,” replied the chef with & meaning smile, and prosently the youth is marched off to Mazas. RECOVERY OF 60,000 FRANCS. A gentleman well dressed, well-to-do, was the next caller, a little nervous and shame- taced, perhaps, but nothing of the criminal about him. He had the misfortune to lose a large sum In bank notes—50,000 francs worth, He had dropped them, left them behind him, forgotten them. Where? Somewhere, any- where—he could not remember. He is rather incoherent; his story is confused and contra- dictory. "When questioned his statements vary, ‘all but the one fact of his loss. “They were not stolen, I suppose chef asked with a keen look. “I cannot say; I think I dropped them." “Where and how did you carry them “In my breast pocket.” “In & purse?”’ “No, wrapped in a parcel in paper—new paper. “Really! 50,000 francs in a newspaper—extraordinary " ““You do not disbelieve my story, T suppose the applicant exclaimed with some Indign: [ interposed hur- his step-mother ' the plece of old rtalnly not; Monsieur's assertion ls more than sufficlent, Stil—"" M. Mace gave a significant glance toward the pile of papers on the table. Just then there were two loud knocks In succession at the door— & plain hint that other visitors were growing impatient At least, tell me what I had better do." “Advertise, put {t about. Say when and where you had the notes last. Offer an ample reward, The poor man went off. and the chef turned to me, muttering significantly, *‘Mauvals lleux,” a plain hint as to his notion when and where the notes had disappearcd. But this easily aroused professional suspi- clon was in this case misplaced, as the sequel showed. ~ The notes, still in thelr strange cover, were actually dropped upon the Grands boulevards. The bulky parcel attracted the notice of three gay soldiers, who made a foot ball of it for some hundred yards along the pavements, Then one of th and secreted it unobserved haversack. The unconscious £2,000 was on his way home on a short fur fough, and did not open his haversick, but on reaching his father's cottage at Nuelly threw it on a shelf. There it lay unnoticed for several days; at length it was opencd by one of the family and the treasure re vealed The Wwere honest folk thes French peasants, apd they wers anxious to restore the money to its rightful owners, and went (o the nearest oficial—a brigadier of gendarmes—who examinad the notes He found the name of a Parisian broker on one of the notes to whom he at once tele graphed, The story of the lost notes had been men tioned in the papers and the news of their re covery was quickly communicated to (he in a comrade’s possassor of loser, who hastened to Nucilly by the first train, It is but fair to add that he ga the peasants a handsome reward WORKING ON PRISONERS. ot the least important part of the French detective’s duties s the preparation of cases for his judge's instructions, the stern official who interrogates every accused person, and it 1s to be feared, generally considers a man guilty until he can prove his innocence. The chef ‘de la surete has, therefore, access to all accused and visits them regularly in prison, first in a friendly way to talk over the whole affair. 1 went with M. Mace one Monday to Mazas and accompanied him to several cells, We stayed longest with a sus pected murderer—who was afterward exe cuted—but against whom there was nothing but circumstantial evidence. The judge plied him hard to obtain a confession, or at least admissions, but without success. Now M Mace came with one of his skillful assistants to have a chat. Chairs were placed for us in the cell, the prisoner was requested with much courfesy to be seated, the chef brought out his cigar case, which was handed around, and we all settled down quite good friends. The detective agent—let me call him Adbemar—was a curious creature— a great, big, portly man, In a responsible looking frock coat, in which was the red ribbon, his hat was as broad brimmed as a Quaker's but very curly. Very dark, sallow skin, coarse featured, with a long nose and dull stagnant eyes, but the most jovial, open hearted manner possible. He had, as M Mace sald, I' air sl bonasse. He scemed such a simpleton, in fact, that no one could have imagined he was playing a part. But he was acting all through; did all the talking and fn the most dramatic way proceeded to tell Gilles exactly how he had committed the crime. You had often seen the old lady. You knew she had economies; where she kept the magot (property); you watched your oppor- tunity, frequently yassing te and fro up and down the street. Adbemar stealthily paced the cell. “One evening she was alone in the kitchen, stirring the pot an feu; her back was toward you; you crept up to her'—Ad- bemar acted "the stealthily movement across the cell. “You stood behind her thus; you raised your hand, armed with a cleaver, and struck down with all your force, eric—crac she fell dead—hein? Wasn't that it, ch? Adbemar turned suddenly on Gilles to the effect of his words, hoping that he had worked him up to the last pitch of excltement and that surely he would let some unguarded expression escape. We were watching Gllles closely, and once, as though the scene were again before him, I saw in his eye the first symptom of a shiver, a start involuntary, but immediately suppressed. By the time Adbemer turned he had re covered his self-possession—now he only shook his head and smiled vaguely. He was not to be caught that day. - TURNING ROGUE TO CATCH A ROGUE There were many trusted subordinates then as now, who were ready to face any discom- fort, run any risks, to compass an arrest, While we were patiently golng the rounds of the night houses and were seeking suicide by trying the villainous brandy sherries at the drink shop of the once notorious Pes Lunctte, once one of the lowest and vilest haunts in Parls, a man in a blue blouse and a flat silk cap, a voyou of the mo: bidding aspect, came up and fraternized even to the extent of following us into the street, importuning. My conductor, one of M Mace's chief assistants, laughed afterward when we broke away. “He does it well. That is our Jules; he ee will go fa He has been here in this lounge, this Infamous quarter, three weeks it is an intricate case—but he'is on the brink of something Interesting.” I asked if this was often done, ““It 15 most necessary at times,” replied my informant, Beltraud, an old soldier, who still retained erect military carriage and was always punctiliously neat in his appearance, yet he once went through all the inconven fence of a fortnight's imprisonment, asso- clated with a well known rufian who had a secret which Beltraud wished to worm out of him. How did you like it?" T inquired, Not much. I could not stomach the food; my cell companlon, however, disposed of most of that.” “The deprivation of tobacco, too, was awful, only I sometimes got a whift at the reception when T went down to have = slight talk with the instructing judge. The chiet warder managed that for me. 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