Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 27, 1895, Page 5

PULSE OF WESTERY PROCRESS Froe Lands and Golden Opportunities Await the Fettler in Montana, BIG PRICES FOR ALL FARM PRODUCTS New Rallroad to Connect Important Min- Ing Nections Between Butte and Reno— the Clear Creek Ite- there lands As to free lands, T would say that are an abundance of free government | here that can be taken up under the different Upited States land laws that are now In force and which is as good land as yet been taken up, writes a correspondent from Ubet, Mont. The Judith Basin is a large basin or valley almost surrounded by moun- tains, which are covered with fine forests of pine and afford an abundance of fuel, fencing and lumber to all who will use them for improvement purposes. As this is Uncle Sam’s domain the law provides that all settlers may cut and use the timber to im- prove thelr farms and their mines, ete. Besides the Judith river there are many other rivers and creeks of pure mountain water In the basin. This water can be used for irrigation and all other purposes. The valley Is generally level or moderately rolling, and approaching the mountains the land rises into hills covered with large grass, which affords an abundance of pasturage for stock the year around. You must recollect that this basin fs as large as many of our large states and therefore has many different kinds of land. The Mussellshell and valley of which 1 speak is a river heading in the Craigle and Belt mountains and some 200 or 300 miles long. It has many tributaries which afford much water. The lower part of the river is as yet but little taken up, and therefore affords good opportunitics for all who wish to settle (especially In colonies) Improved farms can be bought here very cheap, as there is an abundance of free lands, and so In many cases lands cap be bought for what the improveménts cost. Our pro- ducts are wheat, oats, barley, corn and ve, tables of all Kinds on the lower Mussell- shell. Our yields per acre I would not attempt to fell you as you might think I was exaggerating it, but will refer you to the statistics of the state agricultural reports which you can get on application. As to our markets, we are surrounded by many mining camps, which afford us a home market for all we have been able to produc probably always will, as our minlng exc our agricultural population, and will tinue to do so. Montana farmers generally recelve just as much more for their produce than the people do living in the states east or west of us as it costs them to ship their produce here. As a greater part of our people are engaged in mining, we seldom become hard up, as people do who depend solely on agri- culture. When the crops fail we have many mines that are located and are work- ing, while there are thousands yet to be opened. Miners are paid from $3 to $5 per day. We need flouring mills and all other Kinds of manufactures. The B. & M. rail- way Is located through this county, and we expect it here within a year, and then peo- ple will come in here like blackbirds, and then opportunities will not be easy to find. To the east of the Mussellshell river is a vast country, 300 or 400 miles long by 200 or 300 miles wide, that Is particularly adapted to grazing, where horses, caitl and sheep graze the year around and keep fat without hay or grain. As yet these stock ranges are but little taken uvp and but sparsely stocked. Abundance of small fruits have always been grown here by all who put them out and care for them, and I belleve that apples, peaches, etc., can be grown in certain scctions if properly cared for. homes, con- THE LATEST ELDORADO. The Carlisle mining excitement has come to stay. Inquiry and investigation demonstrates the fact that most remarkable country has been opened and the mining men who are in camp realize it, says a Duncan (A. T.) spe- clal to the San Francisco Chronicle. They represent some of the oldest mining states in the United Sfates and declare that this d'strict leaves them without words to describe its richness. Tho journey on the railroad from Lorsburg to this point is dreary. The way Is through a desert, where, for mile atter mile, the heat is intolerable and the dust blinding, From here to the mines the distance is fourteen miles. Tho way to the mountains from here s rough. Part of the journey is over the rocky floor of the canyons nearly blocked by gigan- tic bowlders. Soil is almost wanting, but hers and there stunted trees show green leaves. As the team drags its way over rocks one sees ore teams weighed down on the way back to town. The ore Is rich, they say, be yond expectation, Mile after mile is pass:d and the road grows harder as the ascent Is made. Here and there miners are at work on the mountain sides. Now and again one hears the rattling echoes of a blast. Prospectors and miners are extravagant in their descriptions of the country into which they have flocked. They can hardly believe thelr own eyes. Rich ore is all around them. It is under thelr very feet. They can knock it off huge croppings of many veins which cross the country. They receive assays which astound them. They are scrambling for more claims, and ecach succeeding day adds to their enthuslasm. One is first attracted to the Jim Crow camp, three miles south of Carlisle, where a fow primitive shanties house the miners. Several mines are being worked on the Jim Crow veln, which marks its broad way through the country, until it merges in the summit vein eight miles above Carlisle. The vein, as ail the others, crops boldly into the air. The veln is marvelously rich along its en- tire length. Upon it are located the Jim Crow, Raven, King, Imperial, Alabama, Car- rie M and Nellie mines, cach of which is being worked, and from which shipments are being made. The ore is rich in gold. One is not asked to accept the reports of the sayers. He can see for himself. In some instances they run up into the thousands. Northwest of the Jim Crow vein Is another on which are located the Geronimo and Three Brothers mines, both very valuable. On still another is the MeDermott mine, recently s0ld In Paris. From this mine a new wagon road is now being built toward Duncan. On the dump near the shaft is 1,000 tons of ore, varying from $50 to $75 a ton in value. In the mine are 15,000 tons of ore ready to be toped out. Near the mouth of the shaft aro scores of sacks of ore worth $400 a ton | and waiting to be shipped. This gives but an idea of one part of the rich country. There are but a few mines of the big district. Thus far the miners and prospectors are unanimous in the em- phatlo opinion that Carlisle rivals any district in America for surface richness. In the Alabama and McDermott the ore grows richer as the depth becomes greater. 'The veins seem permanent, and even development work not only pays, but gives profit. The ore is widely distributed, running from eight miles west to flve miles east of the camp. and all feel confident that in the ground yet untouched there are many mines whose dis- covery means wealth. It is for these that the bunt Is now golng on. As it is, for a distance of five miles there are mines producing ship- ping ore ranging from $250 to $750 a ton. STRUCK A NEW VEIN. Charles Sweeney, the well known mining operator, brought news from Trail Creek, B C., that has thrown the mining world into a whirl of excltement and has incidentally en- wiched the prospects of the stockholders of the War Eagle mine $1,000,000. A parallel vein of ore has been discovered in this mine greater in richness than the vein now being operated, says a Spokane special to the Den- wer News. The discovery was accidental, al though the property has been considercd bonanza since early in its development. It was not even dreamed that another and richer wveln was still awaiting the miner's pick to uncover it. The news of the discovery sprea liko wldfire through the camp ahd on helpel to increase the popularity of this a ready famous gold camp. The Kansas City Smelting company about a month ago offered $1,000,000 for the mine, but the majority of the stockholders wanted more. Now the mine Is not for MINING AT DEADWOOD. Placer mining s being carried on Deadwood creck at more extensively and with better results than for several years past, says a Deadwood dispatch to the Sioux-Falls Argus-Leader. Jowslers veport a lurge amount of placer gold being brought in daily, and three men working at the bend of the ereek near South Dend are averaging $10 per day. Mr. Bright, agent for the Moffit oxidizing | process, is making arrangements with Lead City parties for the erection of several plants on thelr respective mining properties. He will_erect a twenty-four ton plant, operate it successfully for sixty days, guarantecing to save 90 per cent of the gold contalned in the rock, for $10,000, outside costs for ex- tractions and royalties not to exceed $2.50 per ton of ore. Mr. Bright feels confident that before the summer is over at least twenty-five of these plants will be in suc- cessful operation on the various mining properties in the Black Hills The sale of the J. R. has been mated. Mr. Dodge put four men making preparations for work company will work the mine making such tests as they deem before final payment. The J. R. will com- | pare favorably with any other mine, in | point of production, all things considered. | There 1s record of over $80,000 output during its less than two years' operation, which, | :wns«h]u-vlnb the unfortunate manner in | which the work was conducted, is nearly as good a record as that of the Holy Terror There is every reason to believe that the J. R. will again resume its place at the head of the procession. WYOMING OIL ENDORSED. This is o copy of a letter Hutchison, oll manufacturer Spring Vale oil mills, Glasgow Thomas Brown, esq., Jerusalem London, B. C “Dear Sir: As consum- at work The new months, neceasary six from Robert and _refiner, Scottand, to Exchange, requested by you, 1 beg to report as follows respecting the samples of Wyoming oil lately handed me. Owing to | want of time I have been unable to examine the above thoroughly, and so cannot commit myself positively as to its quality, further than to say that the body is far in excess of any mineral oll I have ever come in con- t with, and if the color of this oll comes up well in the refining it will, I believe, be without a competitor in the market. Indeed it fs 80 heavy that it appoars to me it would require fo be thinned down by mixing with a lighter oil. This would be a great recom- mendation to its merits in the eyes of consumers “I find that the color of beaver ofl comes up most satisfactory by treatment with chem fcals, but had I had sufficient of it I would prefer to have done it by distilation, as I am convinced that the later method would be both cheaper and give even better results as to color “After being refined the much superior to the best Russian ofl. The practical meaning of this s, that it has a greatgr mercantile value than the latter oil, which sells wholesale in this country at about £23 per ton, and that, at an equal price once its merits are known, it would get the undoubted preferance against the Russian “It is in my opinion, more than probable, however, that it would be preferred to rape, and even become a serious competitor with lard oil for a large variety of purposes, fn which case its value would be very much greater than what I have mentioned, but taking it at the most moderate estimate, I think T am within the mark in saying that the Russian oil, which has been a perfect fortune to the proprietors, would have no chance against it. I am yours truly, “ROBERT HUTCHISON TAR FROM FIR TREES In the mountalns about twelve miles back of Potter valley there is being tried an ex periment which, if it Is a success, will be of immense benefit to Mendocino county. Mr. L. B. Frazier some time since read an ac- count of the extraction of tar from the roots of fir trees belng made in Washington, and, having a great forest, not only fir, but also of pitch pine, determined to experiment him- self and see what virtue there was in it. Mr. Frazier has met with partial success and hopes soon to be able to have his experi- ment in such shape as to make money out of his project. The chief difficulty to be over- come {8 the saving of the Ingredients which tar contains on coming from the kiln, such as creosote, balsam of tar, oil of tar, turpen- tine, etc., which, if properly extracted, could be made profitable. Mr. Frazier has sent samples of the tar extracted from one kiln he made to partie: n the east, with the hope of finding out some method by which the ingredients may he ex tracted cheaply, so that he may be able to compete with the tar from Stockholm and th Carolinas. The regular price is 50 cents per gallon, and this will harily pay at present. Mr. Frazier put up an experimental kil of fire brick. It is about six feet long, a little over three feet high and about three feet wide. The top is of sheet iron and supported by Iron bars. This is put on after the kila is filled. A second brick wall is now built on three sides about a foot from the maln walls, and the open front forms the fire- place. A chimney at the rear creates a strong draft. The fitting of the Kkiln is a tedlous jobi and requires special care. All the avail- able space in the kiln is filled with the fat- test of the pitch, split fine, the finer (he better, and stood upon end. When the Kiln is full the front is built in and made air tight, for the least air would firo the turpen- tine coming from the piich and destroy the kiln. The tar as it fries out of the wood goes onto a steel sheet which forms the battom of the kiln. It takes twenty-four = hours to fire a Kkiln, and requires great skill and judgment. The last of the product, ~tar, takes fully sixteen or eighteen hours to run off, and this Is caught at the front and emptied Into barrels. I the various Ingredients can be extracte: cheaply, as Mr. Frazier has reasom to be- lieve they can, it will hecome a large and lucrative business in this couniry. MINING IN ARIZONA. Few people are aware of the amount of mining going on in Arizona and through in- dividuals and small corporations. Outside of the United Verde copper mines (bstter known as the Jerome mines) near Prescott, the Bls- bee copper mines, southern part of the terri- tory, and the Congress gold mine, and a few other large syndicates, most of the mining is done by men, says the Denver Times, who came here without capital, put up arastars and small mills, and worked their mines in a small way. Another feature of mining Is the dry plac:r, which fs very extensive in Arizona. The placer machine 18 built on the principle of a fanning mill, elght feet long and two feet wide. One man turns ths fans and two men shovel the sand into the mill, and in this way handle many tons per day. When the sand don’t pay thls mill is taken down in sections and put on the back of a jackass and imoved to a richer spot. It can be sot up and put in running order in five minutes. San Domingo 1s one of th> main placer camps. In a radius of a few miles there are over 100 men working the dry washer. The old custom still prevails. No mining loea- tlons are allowed—everybody for himself. It is surprising at the amount of gold that is got in this way of mining. Since the com- pletion of the Santa Fe, Prescott & Phoenix rallway into the great Salt river valley, living 18 as chrap as any part of the middle states, FISHING AT BIG STONE LAKE. A large delegation of Aberdeenites have Just returned from Big Stone lake, where they have spent several days fishing, says the Sioux Falls Argus-Leader. They tell some pretty big stories, but since the gentlemen are representative business men and have brought home their catch, there is no occa- slon to doubt the veracity of their statementa. The party consisted of Messrs. F. W. Brooks, H. H. Sabin, 8. M. Salisbury and W. F. Hall In four hours on one day they caught 124 pike and bass, and on the following day, rein forced by two more gentlewen, on the same ground, they caught 511 fish, weighing 1,000 pounds, and caught them all with a spoon hook, trolling. The catch has been photos graphed by an Ortonville artist, and will be used in a pampblet to advertise this lake as the fishing pond of the west. FOUR MILE PLACER WORKINGS ‘The Four Mile placers on the Snake river bordering on the Colorado-Wyoming line, fif- teen miles from Dixon, promise to become the most Important and extensive gold pro- ducing district In Wyoming. State Engineer Elwood Mead has recently been investigating the possibility of constructing a eanal for working the placer field on a large scale. The original plan was to build the canal for mining purposes only, but, by the advice of Mr. Mead, the parties back of the undertak- ing, who are Providence, R. I, capitalists, have enlarged the plan and will construct a canal to Irrigate 20000 acres of excellen® farming lani contiguous to the placer grounds. OFf this acreage 15,000 acres are in Colorado and 5,000 in Wyoming. The canal Is to be constructed for a distance of thirty- as oil has a body elght miles and will carry 125 cubic feet of water per second, It taps Snake river oppo- 6ite the towa of Dixon. The first THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, MAY 27, 1893, plant for saving gold in this neighbor- hood was built on Timberline ereek, a tribu- tary of Four Mile creek, in the fall of 1893, by a Rock Springs company. Thelir ditch is seventeen miles long and has a capacity ot about 600 miner's Inches. This plant does effective work during a perfod of sixty days only in the spring, owing to the drying up of Four Mile creek about July 1. pany is washing about 160 cuble yards per day now, which returns an average of 30 cents per yard. The Providence company owns about 1,600 acres, and the expert, Mr. M. J. Miller, who reported on the claims, states that the average run will be 31 cents per cuble yard. The company has already invested $40,000 and upwards $100,000 will be employed in the construction of the new canal CANADIAN INDIANS, There are some particulars of interest the annual report of the Canadian depart- ment of Indian affairs. The number of these residents of British Columbla was at the date of latest returns 23,307, and taere are ten agencles. Thelr live stock includes 9,329 horses and 10,634 other animals. Their property is valued at the grand total of $765,- 035, and the government has In bank con siderable sums of mcney in trust for them the share in thiz possessed by the Songhees of Victoria being $11,317. The Indian schools are having a good effect in modernizing the tdeas of the rising generation, and there are 843 puplls enrolled in the thirty-one schools The misslonaries who have been hard at work for many ars can, as a result, count a considerable number of converts, the of- ficial returns showing 8, Roman Catholies and 5,960 Protestants, rest still being classified as pagans The Indians of common with the last year, but philosophically took from the fact that they had recovered from the effects of a like disaster which occurred A great many yea ago, and set to work re- placing their property in the firm conviction that it woulg not be similarly for at least fifty or sixty years. The Indians “of the Fraser river have 3,613 acrcs under cultivation, and raised in 1,442 bushels of corn, 3,408 of wheat, of oats, 7,562 of peas, 2,862 of barley, t potatoe 1 1,813 tons of hay now, nor can they in the the Fraser suffered white settlers on the in river Indians do not the future, as formerly in any line of industry or enter. prise where the natives used to be the only people available for such employment and pursuits: white men and Japanese and others are at the present time to be seen in all di rections and in great numb competing th them in the labor market, and in the rccupations of fishing, trapping and hunting, This natural outcome of the settlemen' country is constantly being brought to of the Indians by myself and the Indlan agents, the natives being urged to concentrate their energies more in the culti- vation of their reserves, the raising of stock and in such pursuits within themselves as will prove of permanent use to them as a means of self-support in the future, A SKY FLYER H. 8. Bliss, a Rapid City inventor, has a model about completed of an air ship which ho thinks, and others who have seen it think, will be practicable, says a Rapid City dis- paich to the Sioux Falls Argus-Leader, He has built it entirely from hickory, every piece being made by hand. The ship, when made for practical use, will be constructed of uminium. /The invention 1s, cf course, very complicated, but a general idea can be had when it i3 told that the invention resembles a bird of passage in many respects. It has four wings so made as to catch the air on the downward stroke and allow it to pass through on the upward stroke. Rudders are constructed on efther side, which act in the same way as a bird's neck and tail. RAILROAD FOR IDAHO MINES. The much talked of railroad from Butte to Reno, via this city, will soon be built beyond a doubt. H. H. Daniels, represent- ing Philadelphia and New York capitalists Is here, says a Bolse speeial to the Denver News, making final arrangements for a line to tap the Boise. At a meeting held leading business men decided to put up the $100,000 bonus asked. This is simply as a guarantee of good faith, and is to be re- turned in six months. A tclegram from Denver announces that a representative will arrive, who will arrange the guarantees for bullding the road and show their financial ability to carry the project to completion The assurance is made that work will be gin within sixty days. The route has al- ready been made out. It will cross the Rockies at Lemhi pass, strike the Lemhi river, go up the Salmon through the famou Challis mining country, following down the Yellow Jacket, Clayton a Stan- ley basin country, cross near Sawtooth lake, over to Atlanta and Rocky Bar and down to Boise then taking a southwesterly course through Silver, DeLamar and south- castern Oregon to Reno, Nev. At no point on the line does the elevation exceed 4,650 feet, and from Boise to Reno the grade is only 1,400 feet in ecighty miles. The line will open Idaho's richest and best mining and agricultural sections, which heretofore have been but meagerly developed owing to lack of railroads. Spurs will be built reach- ing into most important mining sections and valleys not reached by the main lne, thus reaching every locality of importance, SOUTH DAKOTA. The creamery at Iroquois is receiving over 000 pounds of milk per da The creamery talked of for some time at Highmore has at last been cstablished. Tt commenced operations with 300 cow The fourth annual meeting cf the Dakota Wool Growers' association place in Mitchell on June 11 and 12, Aberdeen’s city councll will probably pass an_ordinance prohibiting children of tender age from being on the streets after 9 o'clock in the evening. A deed for $5,205,392.58 was the other day filed in Codington county. 'The desd was for railroad property and other awnings of St Louis and Minncapolis partics. Ortonville and Big Stone City are about to issue between 5,000 to 10,00) pamphlets advertising Big Stone lake, its attractions, ete., and showing the accommodations af- forded summer visitors in the two cities. The Fortunatus Mining company is cin- templating a stamp mill at Ball mountain this summer. The company has two Bucyrus amalgamators in the camp, but is not en- tirely satisfied with the work the inachines do. The gold-bearing formation wnich is worked is a hard cemant, and this has (o ba crushed in order to extract the gold. The stamp mill to be put in will have twenty- five stamps, with a combincd capacity of fifty tons per day. ‘The gold-bearing cement ex- tends for miles, and if it is demonstrated that the gold can be saved by ihe crushing process a large force of men can be given employment in the camp. The sulceme of the experiment is anxiouxly watched. COLORADO. The Smuggler company at Aspen has re- cently increased its force to about 125 men and in a fow days will resume taking out low grade ore. C. A. Littls is getting In readiness tn work his placers on the Dolorea river. Much more enthusiasm is manifested in placer min- ing on the Dolores than ever before. 1t is the general opinion that mining can be gencrally made profitable in the Alma dis- tricts this season, and every day develops more plans for working mines, some of which have long been idle. One of the directors of the newly formed Gold and Silver Extraction company, op-rating at Florence, estimates that fully one-fourth of the gold being preduced in the world comes from cyanide plants. Ther: are many large works in South Africa using the process, and one of them is tsking out 60.000 ounces of gold a month. o far in this country the picduction has been small. Mr. George Campicn feels highly elated over tho recent drill strike in the depths of the Pandora at the head of East Seventh strect says the Cloud City News. The body was en- countered at a depth of 350 feet, and showed a thickness of tw:lve feet. The shaft is al- ready down a distance of 100 feet, and 250 foet more will not take a great while to sink, 50 we may look for another lead-silver pro- ducer before summer. A child was born on Pike's Peak to the wife of Jobn Taggert, the section foreman of the Pike's Peak cog road. It is a lively boy and welghs ten pounds. The birth occurred at the section house, & mile above timber line. The altitude is 12,660 feet at this point. Undoubtedly it is the oniy child ever born at such an altitude in this country, if in the world. The mother has promised the rallroad boys that they shall christen the youngster, and they propose to call it Pike's Peak Tag- gert. ex pect South takes WYOMING Work on the canal above Granger ls ex- pected to begin soon, An important new discovery of spinning fiber is reported from the Casper moustains This com- | | a numb comfort | threatened | make as much money | | Long 1 water e wsbestos mines. The fiber is fine from the very grass root: it Beaver creck and' the Wind river country are flooded with prospeetors. The Wyoming state, Sunday school con- vention will be held at Laramie June 4, 5 and 6. . Applications have Béen received by the Arid Land commisstorfor more than 300,000 acres of land under: the new law. The Shoshone Land ang, Irrigation company asks for 200,000 acres. One hundred ad ‘twenty-nine ounces of gold bullion was received at the First Na- tlonal bank of Rock Springs the other day from a South Pass' mine. The shipment was worth $2,600 The government! bridge over Wind river has been completed. The bridge is 305 feet in length, the roadwhy fourteen feat wide. It is put up in three spans, with four piers and substantial abutments, ddward Allen, mall carrier on the stage route between South Pasa and Atlantic City, who was found gullty of cutting cpen a_mall sack with intent to rob the United States mail, was sentenced to imprisonment for cighteen months in the state penitentlary. During the next sixty days a train of ten cattle cars will run daily over the Union Pacifie, Denver & Gulf tracks to Cheyenne, in order that 200,000 head now awaiting shipment in Texas and New Mexico may be transferred to Wyoming and Montana feed- ing ranges. A dispatch from Hyatville says: A. F. Washington of St. Joseph, Mo., repcesenting * of citizens of that city, has filed clatms on a large area of oil 1 les south of Deranch, Fremont ecounty Well drilling tools and material have heen shipped for the necessary development of ths L Tyspect. Burlington railway officials here are still at work on the project of connecting their line with that of the Cheyenne & Northern branca of tha Denver & Gulf system at this place. An effort is being made to secure sat- isfactory figures for right of way through several blocks necessary to be utilized in order to make the connection Mrs. Del Reyman, wife of the defaulting bookkeeper of Riner & Schuitger, insurance agents of Cheyenne, has become | ne over her husband’s trouble. Her relatives, who live in Kansas City, have been sent for to taka charge of the unfortunate woman. Nothing has been heard of Reyman since the lisappeared about ten days ago, when ‘nis hortage was discovered. Arrangements are being made to establish A factory at Casper for the manufacture of scap from mineral ofl and natural soda, both of which are found here. C. R. Smith of Boise, Idaho, will ave charge of the fac tory. ' He expects to turn out, by using clarifled oil, an excellent toilet soap, and as ho has discoverd a process of manufac- turing it at small cost, he is confident of making his enterprise a successful one. Tha sheep and cattle men of Uinta county nieet Lere to formulate p'ars for an 2quitabls division of the range between the two in- terests. A strip of land was set apart for the benefit of the sheep industry, and the sheep men agree not to graze their flocks on lands other than these contained in the strip. June 15 was set as the date when outside lands should be vacated by the| sheep men. The threatening trouble be- tween the two industrics will be ended by the amicable action of the meeting. OREGON. So far, Morrow county 34,000 sheep this spring. The Oregon Observer insists that a real white deer has been seen at Jack creek. The Ore, slfic, is now hauling about 10,000 fect of logs dally to the Gates sawmill People attracted to(Goble by the railroad boom complain that town lots are held too high. The wool from 60,000 sheep on the Wash ington side of the.river will come to Arling- ton this y A corporation is being formed in Albany to make chairs. It "will be run in connection with the Sugar Pite factory. Butter is selling in the Portland market at 10 cents a pound, the lowest price ever known. California’ importations caused the low prices The Go'd Hill''Miner has examined the Black Gold Changel company’'s property on Footo's creck, and celeulates that the ore in sight is worth $2,983,680. Stock buyers eré quite numerous reek and John Day country. offering for 3-year-old steer. cows and from $8 to $12 for yeariin, Cape Foulweather 1s now being niioned as a desirable location for a harbor of refuge. It is estimated that tne nocessary break- ald be built there for £i) 00, Georgo Bamford and It K. Haln have taken a logging contract for Krogsiad Bros.' mill of Toledo. They will got 1he logs near Mill Four and will take out ahout 500,000 feet. They are busily engaged having a road made for the logs to tidewater. Mr. H. McCoy, a ploneer residen: of Dafur, says the wire worm is doing great injury to crops in that vieinity, and unless warm weather begins soon a large portion of the growing grain will b> destroyed. In some In- stances, Mr. McCoy says, farmers have re- planted their fields. An old gun barrel, unearthed in the Buc ingham swamps, near Monroe, invit:s specu- lation. It is said to be copper Instead of stecl. The barrel s round instead of octag- onal and the bore is the size of the ordinary 44-caliber rifle. It is to be brought to Cor- vallis for examination. While exploring in the Cascade mountains during last summer Prof. Lloyd of Fores: Grove discovered a new violet. It is a small plart with a delicate white flower with trans- lucent petals and grows in wet mossy places. He has named it Viola Macloskeyl in honot of his preceptor in biology at Princeton. WASHINGTON. The prospects for a steam Garfield are good. Ellensburg is rejoicing over a cheese factory and a creamery as established facts. Jack-the-Ripper of tires of bleycles has made his appearance in Walla Walla. Wahkiakum and Pacific counties are much exercised over the location of a hatchery for salmon. W. S. Arwstrong fell seventy-five feet through a manhole at the coal-bunkers in New Whateom without breaking any bon:s. The Blue Canyon Coal company at New Whatcom is mining and shipping large quan- tities of coal to the Bering sea coaling sta. tions at Dutch harbor and Alaska bay. Whatcom is considerably put out at the discovery of a 500-foot set line, covered with decomposed trout and bait, in Lake Whatcom, from which the city's water supply is drawn. Mr. Merritt, who lives near Rockford, tells how, a year ago, he bought thirty cows on time, which he paid for from their milk in a few months. His income, on the average, is cow, or $180 per month. The Clallam Bay Record mys a large vein of coal has been discovered within twelve miles of East Clallam. Arrangements are be- oll has disposed of in the They are $15 for elevator in { ing made to get a diamond drill on the ground to determine the extent of the find. Work on the new cigar shaped raft at Stella is progressing slowly, owing to the impossi- bility of securing suitable logs as fast as wanted. The raft Is now about one-half com- pleted, and Mr. Robértson hopes to be able to leave the Columbia river the latter part of June, when he expects fine weather and a safe passage to S¢n Francisco. The Indian agept at the Siletz has received official notice from, the Indlan department at Washington ' stating that the de- partment had . recognized the action of the county gourt in appolnting a justice of the peace and creating road di tricts at the Siletz, and authorizing the agent to abolish the Indian courts, as these Indians are now“citizens. THie Indlans have all been allotted their lands, and there remain to be openel to settlers 84,000 acres. Diversified farming, is receiving a good deal of attention around Garfleld. Several are planting broom corp, some are going in for beans, one planting sixty acres, another twenty-five, another fifteen, another ten. One man is planting 100 acres of sunflowers. Flax 1s being sown a good deal, and five and ten- acre potato patches are almost universal. This thoughtful seleetion of various crops is a great improvement over the old way of sowing wheat on all the land and trusting to luck for high prices MISCELLANEOUS. Fresno is moving to secure a new electric and water power plant to furaish light for the city and power for the mills and shops. The Apaches of the White mountain reser- vation in eastern Arizona are disappointed, owing to the plotting of old warriors recently returned from an eastern exile, and to the retrenchment in the rations due to the scal- ing down of the Indian appropriation bill in the last congress, To the same causes is due the inciplent trouble reported from the Mount Calero Apache reservation in eastern New Mexico. The Southern Pacific Rallrcad company expects to have its trains running into Pasa- dena by June 1. The company has thus far expended over $80,000 In buying right of way and depot ground In searching the Winnemucca Chinatown the other day for Ton Sing, wanted for an assault committed on another Mongolian, the officers ran into a lot of squaws smoking oplum. The Indians are rapidly acquiring all the vices of the age. C. W. Jones and Louls Pipen have just re- turned from a six week's trip to the Little Rockies, says the Nefhart, Mont., Herald. They clalm they never before saw such rich quartz, and seemingly plenty of it. They made sixteen placer locations and claim they have a big thing The Idaho State Insane asylum has 2,100 acres of land. It Is all near the asylum and all under fence. Two hundred and forty acres are already under cultivation, and 100 acres more will be under cultivation soon. This immense farm will, in a short time, make the asylum almost, if not wholly, self- sustaining Los Angeles is to have a hotel to cost $600,- 000, that in size, style and finish, will rival any in the country, and will be In keeping with the progress of that city. The owners will be Benjamin R. Folsom of Philadelphia, who is a cousin of President Cleveland, and a Mr. Griffith of Chicago, who is sald to be very wealthy. A test case brought by the Southern Pa- cific to determine the ownership of thousands of acres in the central counties of California was decided by Judge Ross fn the United States district’ court against the railroad The land was claimed by the Southern Pacific | as part of the indemnity grant of the Atlan tic & Pacific railroad Musician Sweeney of Bolse Barracks, Tdaho, walked from the barracks to Idaho City and back, having made the round trip in nineteen hours and thirteen minutes. Deducting the stops, his actucl walking time was sixteen hours and one minute. The total distance is seventy-two miles. Therefore his wa'king time averaged four and one-half miles an hour The prosperous town of Fullerton, Orange county, Cal., will soon have a cannery, es- tablished on’ a co-operative basis, It is es- timated that there will he between 350 and 400 tons of fruit in the vicinity of Fullerton this season, and growers wanting the highest price for their products—either fruit or vege- tables—are taking an active interest in the proposed co-operative scheme. To illustrate what may be accomplished with a small plec> of land in the Payette ley, the Payette Irflependent sa Mr. Ireton's fine ranch s almost adjoining the town. In 1887 he seeded a forty-acre tract to alfalfa. For seven years it has given an annual yleld of 210 tons of hay, and the hay has been sold at from $3 to $8 per ton, the general average being $6.50 per ton. A new oil well has been completed at Pu- ente, Los Angeles county, Cal., which pro- duces sixty barrels a day. Another one re- cently put down ylelds fifty barrels, while from the largest well 120 barrels are pumped daily. Thirty wells are now operated and others are constantly being put down. It is probable that arrangements will be made by the city to burn ofl at the water works, the cost being considerably less than the charge for coal. Every one who knows anything about the island of Vancouver desires that the E. & N. rallway should be extended to Comox, says the Victoria Colonist. Such an exten- sion would open up a large area of excellent glve a stimulus both to settlement and trade in this part of the province. The Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway company is prepared to go on with the extension, provided they can get the usual Dominion subsidy of $3,200 a mile, The John Day country, near Soda Springs, Mont., is literally covered with sheep. ‘Some ‘estimate of the number in that sec- tion can be had when it is known that one man has put 150,000 head of foreign sheep on those ranges. All over the country we will ses sheep this season, and in many places where they never were before. The result is going to be that the ranges will be bare of feed long before snow flies. Most of the above sheep came from Utah and the owners don't pay a cent of taxes on their herds in this state, When so many people are taking and de riving benafit from Hood's Sarsaparilla, wh: don’t you try it yourselt? It is highly recommended. —_— Literary Chicago and Lard. Notwithstanding the fact that Harold Montgomery lived in Chicago, he had written a poem, and a lovely thing in mellifiluous measure it was, says the New York Sun. At least Harold' thought so. Daintily tying it with a soft blue ribbon he sent it away to the publisher In the far- off east and with a throbbing heart waited to hear what fortune was to be the poem’s meed. Al last, one sweet summer day in June, come back to him, wafted on the wirgs of the post. His heart fluttered in a strange struggle between hope and disappointment. His wife, who had no music in her soul and had never felt the touch of poesy, stood by his side when he opened the missive from the east. He read it through, hopefully at first, then despairingly, and his head fell upon his breast. “What's the matter?” she Inquired with wifely anxiety. My poem,” he gasped. What of it?" “The publisher says it needs shortening; think of that.” ‘Well,” she said with an air of superior intelligence, “why don’t you put some lard in it and send it back to him?" he it flying e —— A HALF.COLUMN INFANT. San Franciseo Rejolces In & Tiny Mite of & Haby Boy. San Francleco has a miniature baby that is & more remarkable specimen of minute hu- manity than even the diminutive Cranford, N. J., baby that created Interest hereabout last March. The Cranford baby weighed two and a quarter pounds whe: born, when two weeks ol was thirteen inches long and weighed three and a half pounds. The San Francisco baby was six weeks old on April 24 and was then only twelve inches long and weighed only four pounds. When born it weighed only one and three quarter pounds and was just seven inches long. The Jersey baby, too, came fnto the | world prematurely and died when about three | weeks old, while the California child at last accounts was healthy and likely to keep so. It is a boy baby, the child of Mrs. May Bonnell, and is her second child. Its brot | is a sturdy Httle fellow, 6 years old, of aver age size. ~ Mrs. Bonnell i 24 years old and a medium sized woman Small bables are said to run in her family. Her mother weighed only one pound at her birth, and a clgar box was her crib and cradle, While Ernest Eugene, as the baby has been named. has grown at what in his case may be called a normai rate and §s continu ing s0 to do, he is so ridiculously emall that his mother is afraid when carrying him out for an airing that she may lose him out of his clothes. The clothes prepared for him against his arrival are more than twi too big for him. His fingers are all less than halt an inch long, and his finger nails can scarcely be seen without a magnifylng glass while his doubled up fist will easily fit ins & thimble. His feet are just one inch long. Only his lungs seem disproportionate to the rest of his measurements. He is in every respect perfectly formed, fn proper propor | tione, deep blue eyes and yellow hair, and a good idea of his general proportions may be had from the fact that he just fits in the family coffee pot This baby has had the unique honor of having his picture printed life size in a news. paper. The Examiner had his picture taken when X weeks old and reproduced it ac cording to exact measurements, It was a shade over the width of & column and a trifle over half a column in length. B e, i Nothing s The successes achieved by men and things are not always based upon merit. Dut a success well merited and unprecedented in the annals of proprietary medicine, should these cver come to be written, is Hostetter' Stomach Bitters, a botanic medicine, discov ered nearly half a century ago, and the leading remedy for and preventative of ma- larfal, rheumatic and kidney complaints, dys. pepsia, constipation and biliousnes One Way Chicago Tribune: T can’t bring my fagged-out fancy up to the point of por- traylng the culminating love scene between the hero and heroine of this sto solilo- quized the gifted novelist, “and I'll just say ‘the interview between Roderick and Penclope, those true hearts so sorely tried, now 8o happily reunited at last, may b» safely lett to the reader’s imagination.” This may b» a little disappointing to the reader, but it flat- ters him and saves lots of work. There's cheating in all trades but ours,” continued the gifted novelist, making a row of stars across the page, adding a quotation from Byron, and | writing the words, “the end.” land now very difficult of access, and would | Some & Indianapolis Journal: the sage, “I hear you are married? You are right,” said the young man, ““Well, young man, the day will come when your wife will make the discovery that you do not krow evervthing on th. It will be a great shock to ner feelings and your supremacy. Still, there is this hops for you; you, while cheerfully admitting that “you really do not know it all, may be able to persuade her that the reason for that state of things is that there is so much In the world that is not worth knowing.” Young man,” said about to be Q m"‘""“‘“"'m‘““"“"‘g AR AR | | i‘ e ) l the Take one of our hand water colors with a mat and fr: Napo- Louise Cecealing, Ny- dias, adonas; cholce, $1.27 Remarque proof etching, in tvory and gilt frames and in natural wood frames, §1.19. Are® you going to wed- ding? painted gold Jeons, me A. HOSPE. Jr, Music and Art, 1513 Dougl Qastoria is Dr. Samuel Pitcher’s prescription for Infants and Children. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. It is » harmless substitute for Paregoric, Drops, Soothing Syrups, and Castor Oil. It is Pleasant. Its guarantee is thirty years’ use by Millions of Mothers. Castoria destroys Worms and allays feverishness, Castoria prevents vomiting Sour Curd, cures Diarrhcea and Wind Colie. Castoria relieves teething troubles, cures constipation and flatulency. Castoria assimilates the food, regulates the stomach and bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. Cose toria is the Children’s Panacea—th¢ Mother’s Friend. Castoria. *Castoria is an excellent medicine for chil- dren. Mothers have repeatedly told we of its good effect upon their children." Di. G. C. Osaoon, Lowell, Mass, * Cgatoria is the best remedy for children of which I am acquainted. I hope the day is not far distant when mothers will consider the real interest of their children, and use Castoria in- stead of the various quack nostrums which are destroying their loved ones, by foreing opium, morphine, 8oothing syrup and other hurtful agents down their throats, thereby sending thew to premature graves.' Da. J. F. 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A littlo of this whiskey i the water not merely kills the germs that would make mischiof in the stomach and wels, but it tends directly and strongly to revive a nervous system exhausted by long | continued mental application, pressing anxlety or physical labor Make room in your gripsack for a bottle of Duffy’s Pure Malt Whiskey and use it when you are worn out with the heat—for there are fearful days even fn the country, Res invigorate your sluggish body with this princa of stimulants, and in the sense of strength and well-being that follows you will be glad that in making up your list of absolutely needful things you did not overlook Dufty’s Malt Whiskes Deformity ——=mBraces, Supporters, Batteries, Crutches, Atomizers, Bed Panus, H) | Air Pillows, Rubb;' Goods, Surgical Instruments, Medical Supplies. THE ALOE & PENFOLD (0., HE LION DRUG HOUSE, 1408 Farnum St., opposite Paxton H RED ROUGH HANDS | Bad complexions, bat y, blemishee, o 4 faing ,_/4‘5; CURA BoAr. 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Finest and Best Denta] Work UseDr. Bailey’'s Tooth Powde an order of the district court of Douglas court, whereln Willlam A" Wallace is plain. 27th day of 1895, at 2 o'clock m, ald number 411 South Tenth street,in Omaha, Ne« Wallace and company, incorporated all be facturec the sald Wallace together with shafting and be g and two nd @ lot 'of raw material and partially time during business hours and the unders prior to the date fixed for public sa the sald order which will be found in the ubove premises at any time during business #3.50 POLICE,3 SoLES, . WOR, i ,259‘2 KlengNs_ 92,8178 '3.‘2!.9'2.".7.5 D FOR CATALOG PR W. L. Douglas $3 & $4 Shoer Allour shoes are equally satisfactory They equal custom shoes in st; Thelr wearing qualities From $1 o $3 saved over other makes. 1f your dealer cannot supply youwe can. Sold by J. C.Carlson, 1218 N. 24th St W. W. Fisher, Parker and J. L. Newman, 424 13th St Kelley, Stiger & Co,. Farnam T.S.Cressey, 2509 N St Omaha. Rowland Wm, Bailev, D, D.S LUADING 84 floor Paxton Block, Gold Fiilings, Crown und Bridge Work Teeth extracted withont pain—withouv gus. b, RECEIVER'S SALE. Notice is hereby glven that pursuant to county, Nebraska, entered on the 9th day of May, 189, in a suit pending in sald tift and Wallace and ‘company, incorpor- ated, Is defendant, I will on Monday, the of sald day @ of business of Wallace and company, = incorporated, . at braska, sell at public auction to the highs est bidder for cash all of the assets of sald ald assels consist in part of saloon bars, back bars, mirror frames, beer coolers, ete, and company, incorporated, a complete outs fit of improved wood w-nkmr; machinery, i Detrolit electric motors of ff 1\ hor ower each, the office furniture and fixture manufactured stock. Sald propcrty may be ingpected at any signed s authorized to sell all or parts of 1 property at private sale at any time Wld sale will be con 4 according to the instructions of the court smbodled in office of the clerk of the district court or copy of the same may be Inspected on th hour JOHN JENKINS M-1-17t m and o