Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 17, 1895, Page 5

PULSEOF WESTERN PROCRESS New Proapect Supposed to Be an Extension of tho Oripple Oreck Gold Belt. ENORMOUS QUANTITY OF GOOD PAY ORE Faps Say it Wil Net the Owners Mil. Gons of Dellars-Work Begun on the Anslo Raliroad—The Flathead Coun- try—News of the Northwest. What Is destined to exeite the public to quite the extent the well mbered gold discoveries of Cripple Creck did but a few years back Is the brilllant mining prospect found in the neighborhod of this small place, the lead of which is clearly defined, being well stored with mineral, and which Is sup- posed to be the same gold belt upon which | Cripple Creek Is situated, says a Palmer Lake special to the Denver News. Located about two miles north from Palmer lake 1s this wonderfu! prospeet which will, in all probability, net its owners miiifons of dollars, Colonel Ford, a mining expert’ of Denver, visited the site at the Invitation of Mr. G. G. tussell, one of Its owners, and pronounced it to be the finest prospect he had ever seen, The first assay of ore which Mr. Russell had made by E. E. Burlingame of Denver ran at $9 a ton for gold. This assay was made May 8. The following day two differ- ent specimens were sent to A. L. Dana of Colorado Springs, which resulted in $15.65 and $4.65 respectively in gold. On May 17 the same assayer found gold amounting to $7.67 and $5.67, with traces of silver o On May 20 the gold ran at $6.34 and $8.34 per ton, with an increased amount of stlver, and on May 23 it assayed In gold at $6.34 per ton. On May 27 three assays were made which ghowed an increased amount of gold, two of which ran at $8.67 and the third at $9.67 per ton. Mr. Dana has visited the place and pronounces the prospect to be ex- ceedingly promising. Mr. Russell had a mill run, which resulted in $15 a ton for gold and $3 a ton for silver, This prospect shows traces of platinum, which when assayed ran $40 a ton. Mr. Russell went stralght in along the vein, which widened as he proceeded, a distance of fifty feet, from which the foregoing assays were made. He then backed, and is now sinking a shaft at the mouth of the tunnel, from which quantities of ore are being taken, which he proposes to ship in a fow days. A wagon road is to be constructed, and the ore Is to bo shipped by the Denver & Rlo Grande railroad, the mine being situated o the west of the road. The property, which includes 1,700 town lots, has been purchased by G. G. Russell and others, and a clear title to the land se- cured, which obviated all danger of future litigation. THE KASLO-SLOCAN RAILWAY. J. Hendry of Vancouver, B. C., one of the three holders of the franchise granted by the Canadian government for the construc- tlon of the Kaslo-Slocan railway, came down from Kalso over the Spokane ifalls & North- ern the other day, says the Spokane Spokes- man-Review. “Work on the road is beginning all along the line from Kaslo to Cody creek,” he sald to a reporter. “About 400 men are now at work on the road bed, and there will be 1,000 at work within a week. Some of the sub- contractors have been delayed on account of being unable to get their outfits in promptly. The full force will be at work in a few days, and the work will be crowded forward as fast as possible. The road will be completed before the end of October. “The route selected is easy to build over and the road will be a good one. The steep- est grade does not exceed 3 per cent. It Is a gradual climb to Bear lake, which is 1,700 feet “above Kootenai lake and from which there is a dead level of eight miles to Sandan The building of this road will be of great benefit to Spokane and this entire section, as it will stimulate the development of the mines, and most of the ore will come out this way. The road will enable the mine owners 1o ship thelr ore at far less expense than they are now under, and this will result in largely increased shipments and the develop- ment of new properties. That whole countr, including the Slocan, Nelson and Tra creek districts, is wonderfully rich in mineral. Active development work Is going on and the outlook is rosy indeed. DOWN THE FLATHEAD. “The Flathead river, from the lake to the Clarke's fork of the Columbia, flows through the Flathead Indian reservation. a magnifi- cent body of land of about 1,500 square mlles, mostly open, bunch grass grazing land, says Captain T. W. Symons of Portland, Ore., United States engineer, just returned from a trip in Idaho and Montana. Soon after leaving the lake the river commences to tumble, and in the course of three or four miles falls about 200 feet. The river coirse here Is very steep and rocky and 300 to 500 feet deep and the views from the tops of the bluffs overlooking the confined, rushirg, tumbling waters of the river, the lake dotted with islands, the nearby grassy plains and hills and the distant timbered, snow-capped Rocky mountains, are of the most gorgeous and magnificent description, and I believe un- surpassed on earth. “The falls and rapids here in the first five miles of the river below the lake constitute a most effective bar to Its navigation. Below the falls and all the way to the Northern Pa- cific railroad at Jocko station the river flows with deep channel and even current and is well suited for navigation. Tossing the reservation on horseback 1 treated to a delightful surprise by eoming on a fine herd of 100 buffalo, in- cluding bulls and cows and about twenty calves. Most of them scampered away as we approached, but some ef the old bulls were too deeply engaged in glaring, sulking and pawing the ground at each other pre- paratory to their amatory combats to mind us very much. I learned that two half-breeds, named Allard and Paolo, have accumulated here on the reservation the largest, and, in fact, only herd of buffalo in the world. To their own herd, which they have had for some time, they have recently added the Kansas herd of ‘Buffalo’ Jones. “On Wid Horse Island, in the Flathead lake, they have put about twenty buftalo bulls and several hundred ordinary, every day cows and are making a large experiment In cross-breeding. CANALS FOR FOUR MILE. A number of eastern capitalists, together with experts, will visit the Four Mile mines during the carly part of June, says a Four Mile special to the Denver News, and if the property proves satisfactory they will let contracts immédiately to construct a canal from twenty-five to thirty miles in length, to be ten feet on the bottom and four feet in depth, to convey water from Snake river to the Four Mile and Timber lake Gulch. The first operations will be carried on in the Four Mile district. The canal will carry 6,000 miner's inches of water and give the plant & working capacity of 12,000 cublc yards a day. The intentlon Is to work over th Four Mile bars before extending the can to other properties. The ground consists of 4,150 acres, containing 200 claims, and s situated along the Four Mile creek for a distance of five and one-half miles, and the dumping ground s conceded by all miners to be the best in the district. Having a very heavy slope, the ground can be worked from the very edge of the Four Mile creek back for a distance of two or three mil The gravel s very rich and deep and will run from 26 to 50 cents per cublc yard, and will average ten to twelve feet In depth. The compeny will commence operations dur- fall and summer and will complete and sluices in order to commence actual mining operations early in the spring of 1896, All the Four Mile country needs is capital to bring the water to bear upon the ground. The gold is there and in good paying quanti- ties. This district will prove to be one of the richest placer mining district rado. Prospectors mal ing the gravel seven or elght miles to water and saving the gold by pan and rockers and long toms. The gold is fine, but can £0 per cent of the gold is saved in the riffes aud 20 ceut saved on the burlaps. ABERDEEN'S GRAIN PALACE. The stockholders of the Interstate Grain Palace association held their annusl meet- ing last week, says an Aberdeen dispatch to the Slcux Falls Argus-Leader, It was unani- mously voted to exhibition this yoar, and tho detalls were left in the hands of th | directors, Last year, in the face of a com- plete failure, mot alone affecting this seotion but the entire northwest, a most successful exhibition was held, uently the present bright outlook for scanon makes our people feel much encour- aged over the prospects for an exhibition. It was alto hinted at this meeting that an effort might be put forth to organize an in- terstate stock show and fair, SHEEP WAR OVER. Nows just recetved by speclal messenger from the scene of the sheep war in northern Routt county, Indicates that the trouble be- tween the cattle and sheep men s over, for i the present at least. Actual facts go to show that many false reports were circulated, Instead of 500, 250 caitlemen actually left Hayden for the scene of trouble, only to find from 1,800 to 2,000 sheep in Colorado territory. These are being looked after by six herders and a foreman | Tho balance of the flock had already been drlven across the stats line into Wyoming | and those still in Routt county were headed | in the same direction, with assurances from | those driving them ‘that they would cross the state line at the earliest possible mo- ment. So ends the sheep war and that it has so | ended is surely a matter for self-congratula- tion, not only by those directly concerned, but for the entire state as well. A PLATINUM MINE. Platinum has been discovered on the land of Willlam Lewthwaite, on the north side of the Clackamas river, about three miles from this city, says the Portland Oregonian. Tho prospecting has not yet progressed far enough to determine with any degree of satisfaction the richness of the find, but sey- eral grains of the metal were washed from the river bank and zent to San Francisco for assay, and the report of th assayer 18 that it is platinum, and worti looking after. So the prospecting is now proceeding more systematically, and it is expected that a valuable mine will be developed. This dis- covery was made by Frank Lewthwaite, a nephew of the owner of the place, who is visiting his uncle. The young man had had some experience in California mining and the river bank In front of his uncle farm seemed to him to- promise too much In the way of valuable mineral to be per- mitted to go unprospected. He dug a hole in the bank and found the platinum, and he is now continuing the work. A SONGHEE POTLACH. Fully 1,000 visiting Indians are gathered on the Songhee reservation, partly to at- tend a potlach and have a celebrazlon of thelr own and partly to attend a potlach which is to be given by an Indian named George. The attendant festivities will be shared In mostly by ofder Indians from out- side places, many of the younger Indians baving learned better, as one of them etated to a representative of the Victoria Colonist The visiting Indians came from Nanaimo, Chemalnus, Kuper island, Duncan, Cowichan, Saanich, Discovery island, Beechy bay, the west cosst and from La Conner, Snohomish and Lumi, on the American side. In all thes> piaces the whole Indian population has left every- thing behind at the summons to the potlach, for it is a great insult not to respond to such a bidding. The ceremonies began by a gathering st the graveyard, and dancing from there into the village. The Indians pointed out the graves of their relatives, and, after telling the story of the dead, distributed cloth:ng or something to thelr memory. In tne village were scrambles for blankets, clothes, gurs and Ictas generally, while dancing every- where. This went on for two days. A MOUNTAIN OF COPPER. About a year ago Captain A. M. Brown accidentally learned that some large copper deposits existed {n Josephine county, and after a time learned their location. Since that time he has been quietly working up his proposition, until now it has developed into more than he had ever hoped for, says the Portland Oregonian. The mine s located about thirty miles south of Grant's Pass, at the mouth of Falls creek, on the west bank of the Illinois river, and is about nine miles trom the public wagon road. This distance s quite rough and hard to traverse, but a road 1s now being built, which will change mat- ters of transport to a considerable extent Several months ago Captain Brown bonded eighteen copper claims on the creek, and later on induced Captain George F. Wheeler to come out from Baltimore to see the mines. Mr. Wheeler brought an expert along, and they soon satisfied themselves that they had struck the richest copper mine in existence. Before leaving Mr. Wheeler purchased an interest in the claims and on returning to Baltimore organized the Siskiyou Mining company, and sent out the necessary capital for Captain Brown to commence development work with and to put in the necessary machinery for a test. They are now opening the mine in two places by tunneling, and are getting out very rich ore, which runs from 22 to 45 per cent pure copper. This Is five times richer than any other known copper mine, and is 90 per cent richer than the celebrated Lake Superior mines. Not only that, but it con- tains $6 per ton in gold, and is free from base ingredients. This has been ascertained from tests made on upward of 1,000 pounds of ore, which have been shipped to St. Louls and Baltimore. The mine is spoken of as a mountain of high-grade copper ore, where water is unex- celled for quality and quantity. An inex- haustible supply of timber for all purposes can be had close at hand. The town of Wheeler City has been lald out, and the works will be located there, as well%as buildings of the company. Head- quarters will be at Grant's Pass, for the present at least, and a telephone line has been constructed to the mine, which con- nects at this end with Captain Brown's office. The captain is very sanguine about the enterprise, and has no doubt about its being an entire success. WILL MANUFACTURE STUCCO. Negotlations are now under way for the erection of large stucco works near the city, says the Laramio Republican. The plant, if completed, will represent an out- lay of between $60,000 and $60,000 and will glve employment to thirty or more men. The works are to be used in calcining the deposits of plaster, or rather decom- posed gypsum, found in the vicinity of Red Buttes and other places near the oity. The process of working the clay into stucco is sald to be very simple, the product merely having to be calcined before being ready for shipment. It takes the place of cement of a fine grade and is especlally valuable for the use of cellar floorings whero @ particularly hard and durable ce- ment is needed. The erection of the new works will be of immense benefit to the city, as the enter- prise is bound to grow, from the fact that the Laramie material discounts anything on the market, and also from the fact that the supply of the deposits at our doors is inex- haustible. PLATINUM ON THE YUKON. For a number of years past it has been known that platinum exists and had been found upon a number of different bars on the Yukon, but it has been only of recent date that the miners have given the mat- ter any thought, which seems only the more strange when one considers that plat- inum is worth from $7.50 to $8.50 per ounce, says the Juneau Mining Record. It is nearly always found in bars assoclated with free gold in placer deposits, and miners who bave worked Forty Mile creek and other creeks In the Yukon basin, where platinum has been found, had they but knowsm the value of these globular masses, they would not have been 50 quick to “cuss” them for persistently getting into their riffies. Platinum ore, as it {s sometimes erron- eously called, contains iridium, rhodium, gold,” copper and fron. It Is occasionally found crystalized in cubes and octahe- drons, but more usuaily in rounded or fi tened grains having a metallic luster. The platinum used in the United States comes principally from Russia, which amounts in imports to fully 3,000 pounds per annum. The principal consumption of platinum is in the manufacture of jewelry and chemical apparatus, but within the past few years the use of incandescent electric lights and also gas jets made more luminous by a‘heated spar of platinum has caused an increased demand for the metal, and the comparatively recent steady advance in the price may be attributed to this cause. VALUABLE STONE. A number of years ago old man Words- worth, one of the earllest settlers in Spring- ville, Utah county, made a discovery of a mountain of stone of peculiar character about elght miles up Springville canyon, says the Salt Lake Herald. His earlier experience led him to believe that some day the deposit would prove of great walue, but en account of | the Free Methodist church will be held lnl'm be contidered at the coming Epworth | Bor. the hnhx.a ocondition of the country at the time of the discovery mothing was done with it, and {te existence attracted but Nttle atten. tion. Just recently a party of Springville |men, made up of Johm Hafen, tho artist, John V. Wordsworth, a son of the discoverer, John Tuckett and Charles Jasko, started to | investigate the deposit, and found that it covered a large territory, on three quarter sections of which they have located. Samples of the stone were submitted to Dr. mage, who pronounced it & conmcretionary lime stone. It {s of a graylsh brown color, show- ing the most beautiful variations on account of the presence of sedimentary sea shells, and when finished it Is superior to either marble { or onyx In appearance. In character it is a little ‘harder than marble, but not quite so hard as onyx, and so far as prospected Is entirely free from any fron The opening up of this deposit gives fur- ther evidence of the extent and varlety of | the wonderful deposits of valuable stone in | this territory. The quarries, it is said, can | be opened up to any extent, so that stones | of almost any dimensions can be taken out and on this account the deposit may prove of great value as a means of securing large pillars, while the general run is adapted to all decorative uses to which marble or onyx can be put. The locators are taking the prelimi- nary steps to form a company and develop the quarries WOULDN'T BE TRAPPED, An eagle, measuring seven feet from tip to tip and lugging with him as he flew a heavy | steel trap, was recently shot by H. Cooley, a | ntendent of the Southern Pa- | , says the San Francisco Examiner Cooley was hunting on Mount Shasta, Slsson, when he saw a big bird rise slowly from the ground, The bird was big enough to be an cagle, but his slow rate of flight did not agree with Mr. Cooley's expe rience of the nature and characteristics of the eagle bird of freedom that sun and says “Ha! ha!" of words to that effect. However, he shot the thing and satis- fied himself that it was an eagle, a good deal hampered In his flight by a heavy steel trap | that had been snapped on the right leg of the bird, where it hung and flapped and | Jangled. I"astened to the trap were some links of an iron chain that had been broken by the bird In his efforts to free himself. The tremendous power of the eagle’s wings was shown by the fact that he was able to break this chain without any of the impetus that | might be gained in a long flight. For weeks the bird had carried the trap on his as was shown by the fact that the scar made by the jaws of the trap on the leg had almost healed. How the bird was able to live during that time is not clear, for he was so greatly hampered in his flight as to make it difficult to catch his natural prey. All the arteries but one fn the leg had been severed by the jaws of the trap, but that one was enough to supply blood to the claw. NEBRASKA Ponca will endeavor to secure the location of a Lutheran college, The Platte river is said to be higher than It has been for many years. The Ancient Order of United Workmen now claims 19,000 members in Nebraska. Mr. and Mrs. Saulsbury Houchin of Geneva have just celebrated their golden wedding. Tho assessed valuation of Otoe county shows a decrease of $203,202 over last year. Fremont will open proposals for the con- struction of fts own electric light plant a_15-year-old boy at Hum- was bitten by a huge rattlesnake, He recovered. Pawnee City has & school girl that has neither been absent nor tardy at school for elght years. Frank Wichman, a Madison county farmer, fell dead from apoplexy while plowing corn in his field. The Syracuse cob pipe factory now employs twenty-seven men and proposes to enlarge Iimmediately. Louls Dundi, a young son of Chris Dundl, living four miles south of Hebron, was kicked to death by a viclous horse. Saline county s putting on several frills over the fact that the last of her floating in- debtedness has been called in. A reckless colored man at Fairbury stabbed Attorney Charles Clifton three times before he could be Induced to desist. Timothy Hood of De Witt attempted to board a moving train, and will go through life with but part of his left foot. H. L. Wagoner, B. & M. station agent at aplehurst, dallied with whisky and poker until he was $200 short in his accounts. | The city of Lincoln has been compelled to dismiss fourteen of her public school teach- and cut the wages of those remaining. Sixty feet of Missourl Pacific track at Pauline, in Adams county, was washed away by the flood of the Little Blue river during the recent ra ¢ A. Bailor of Chapman left his dwelling house out of doors one night and a frisky cyclone demolished {t. Generous neighbors contributed $200 to help him rebuild In the district court in and for Dawes county the case against Arthur Morrison, charged with the murdep of A. V. Harris, has been continued until the September term The city of Tekamah has been sued for $10,000 damages by an inmate of the Burt county poor house, who claims to have been injured by falling through a defective side- walk. A 4-weeks-old infant, minus clothing, was found wrapped up in an old blanket in an outbuilding near the residence of August Zelmer at Hoskens. Its parentage cannot be discovered. A traveling fakir was egged out of the town by indignant citizens of Gordon, because he agreed to masticate a large quantity of glass, but refused to do so after he had taken up a collection. The total number of newspapers published in Nebraska is 614, of which thirty-three are llies, one tri-weekly, seven semi-weeklies, 532 weeklies, seven semi-monthlies, and thir- ty-four monthlies. Part of the remains of a child were found beside the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Val- ley railroad near Chadron. It is believed that the child had been killed on board a pas- senger train and thrown out of the window. Nellle Yerkerson, a Beaver y girl, was killed by the accidental discharge of an old- fashioned muzzle-loading rifle. She was hand- ling the weapon when it was discharged, driving the ramroad entirely through her body. She lived a few hours. I0WA. A new forty-acre addition with 200 lots has Jjust been platted at Tabor. The Central Towa Lumbermen's assoclatton meets in Waterloo June 26. The correct population of Creston is 6,848, a decrease of 352 In four years. Montgomery county has a new postofice named Alix, in honor of the famous trotter. Centerville's census gives her a population of 5,570, a gain of 2,336 over the last statet census. The ninth annual reunion of the Benton county old settlers was attended by hundreds of people. Dubuque's new brewery is nearing com- pletion. Over 18,000,000 brick have been laid in its walls, Carson people a trlp through Holy Land, The city council of Creston has refused to pass an ordinance reducing saloon licenses from $1,200 to $1,000, Three hundred old soldiers were present at the fifth annual encampment of the North Towa Veterans' assoclation. The Creston Young Men's Christian asso- clation has gone out of existence with $600 of debt clinging to Its memory. Jay Stifier, 9 years old, fell into a mill race just over a turbine wheel. He war ucked into the whirlpool and was drowned. ‘While plowing corn, Owen Casey of Jullen, Dubuque county, jabbed the point of the plow into his leg. Blood poisoning set in and he dle George Carr has been bound over'to the district court at Webster City for having a complete set of counterfeiting tools in his possession, Governor Jackson has pardoned Doc Campbell, sent to the penitentiary for seduc- tion, He was released In order that he might support his family. A Dennison man sued a railroad company for $1,900 dawages because a conductor ejected him and his dog, after he had pur- chased a full fare ticket for himself. THE DAKOTAS. Fall River County Teachers Institute will convene at Hot Springs, June 25. Arteslan irrigation is getting quite a boom near Hitcheock, 8. D, this season. A camp meeting for thé north and north- east districts of South Dakota couference of re making up a party for southern Europe and the DAILY BEE: of a recent California Sta‘e Board of Horticulture, MONDAY, the Wallace at W 12-18 Inclusive. «' The board of trustees of the Sloux Falls university decided to add a normal branch to the university and Prof. 8. L. Brown was engaged as superintétidont. The new creamery I8 in operation and turning out about 500 pounds of butter dally at Millette. The complete plant embraces four skimming stations, located at Rose, Mellette, Athol and WNorthville, and the management contemplatés putting in another at Devoe. Only ty tions are yet running, and when they are all in operation the crekmety will turn out three times the amount it now does. The capacily of the creamery is unlimited and it is the second largest in the state A. P. Jones, a prosperous farmer near Sioux Falls, has Beed exhibiting a ssmple of this year's growth of his new beardiess barley. Mr. Jones says he has spent the past twenty-six years crossing different kinds of barley, until he has now a beardless bar- ley, the straw of which grows as nigh and rank as wheat straw and the yield s twice what the old kinds brought. This year Mr Jones has fifty acres of this new grain. It now stands three feet high and some of it is headed out. He expects it to yield from seventy-five to 100 bushels to the acre. COLORADO, Reports from the neighborhood of Louls- ville say that grasshoppers are very numer- ous, and it is thought that the vegetable crop will be destroyed. A rich body of ore has been discovered in the Triumph mine at Leadville, which assays six to seven ounces of gold and over twenty ounces of silver to the ton The most recent development ngton Springs June at the Big Six at Leadville is the discovery of a good | ak of lead ore, twenty ounces in gold L. Wil carrying 33% of silver, and per_cent halt an man: of the Jessle ar Breckenridge, expects to start -stamp mill, and he says the plant kept running night and day during ance of this year g the month of May 150 tons of ore, which ran one and one-fourth ounces gold fifteen ounces silver, and 5 per cent copper wer> shipped from the Centennial mine, at Georgetown. This was the result of the labor of three men State Engineer Sumner has returned from investigating the proposed wagon road which is to be built from Bellsvue to Steamboat Springs. He is of the opinion that the sur- vey cannot be commenced before this sum- mer, as the snow in that vicinity is etill from two to ten feet in depth. Tire Modoc property opens up better every day since ore was disclosed, and will be a regular producer as soon as the road is put in shape, says the Leadville News. Devel- opment has proven the ore body recently opencd is on the edge of the fold in the formation, and as soon as the drifts penetrate the basin formed by the fold the immensity of the channels of the Little Jonny will be duplicated. A sanitarium company, some land at Boulder for sanitarium pur- poses, will immediately begin the erection of a building which s to be 100 feet front, 70 fe:t deep and four stories high. The Kitchen and dining room will be in the fourth floor of the building. The entire fourth story is to be supplied with windows 50 as to give a magnificent view of the sur- rounding country. In addition to this large building the company will also erect in the neighborhood six small cottages as a starter. WYOMING It has been decided to build a wall around the state penitentiary at Laramie. One_million pounds of wool were shipped from Fort Steele th: ‘present season, 300,000 the amount belog. from the clipping of Cosgriff brothers. Work will be commenced at once on the buildings for a soap factory at Casper, and the plant will be in-running order by the 1st of July. Soap will be made from the the fort will b which has bought natural oil and soda found in this vicinity. The Acme mine at Gold Hill, at the depth of eighty-five feet, has developed a four-foot body of ore that averages $200 per ton in gold, 160 pounds taken from the pay streak and pounded by hand- yielding 13 penny- welight, or at the rate of $160 per ton. If the report of E. C. Lindermann, a Den- ver mining expert, {s correct, the region along the Cheyenne Northern road in Wyom- ing is one of the richsst mineral regions of the world. Mr. Lindermann has placed on exhibition in the headquarters of the Guif road many samples of the ores he found in trip to the morth. The samples include iron, gypsum, nickel, zinc, copper, plumbago, paint ore and gold bearing quartz, The Denver man says there are millions of tons of those ores along the line of the Cheyenne Northern. OREGO The last census of T: Wamic _and Wapinitia precincts & more than 1,000 inhabitants in those localities. Emil Schanno has received a colony of Australian lady bugs at The Dalles from the They are brought in to destroy fruft and grain pests w. in P. Russell and G. M. Corns of Spokane have secured by location 560 acres of land in Oregon, on the Snake ri , which contains an immense deposit of pure gypsum, which is 86 per cent pure. Oregon sheep to the number of 21,500 have crossed the river during the past two weeks on the way to their summer range. Several thousand mutton sheep have also crossed on the way to the Sound markets. The Milton strawberry crop blighted, says the Eagle. Big patches that have been depended upon to furnish hun- dreds of crates of luscious berries will not turn of. moret han a fourth of a crop. The Eugene caunery and drier will not make a run on cherries and early small fruits and berries this season, but will begin operations in time for the prune crop this fall, and will also handle tomatoes and other late fruits. The wool continues to come into The Dalles in large quantities, but no further activity is noticed in the market. The most important transfer recently was the selling of 50,000 pounds belonging to George Young of Bake Oven. This lot brought 9 cents per pound. E. T. Wade 15 hauling in his wool from Alba. Shearing has just been completed at his camp and 12,000 pounds of wool Is the result of the clip. He drove his sheep into the mountains during March and they are fn fine condition. In the vicinity of Alba the shearing season s just finished. The water is so high at the Cascades that little work can be done until the river re- cedes to the normal stage. One section of the second gate is placed in position, and as soon as the water goes down the other gates will be erected, the remaining walls bult and the upper bulkhead taken out. The people of Juniper Flat and the coun- try between Wamic and Wapinitia will be glad to know that the contract for remewing the work on the big irrigation ditch has been relet and work will begin at once. E. Owens of North Yakima is to complete the job in seventy-six days from May 27 last. WASHINGTON. A surveyor says thgl 5,000-horse power can be obtained trom the falls of the Big Klicki- tat, The vew mill company at Spokane ha already contracted, for, 2,000,000 feet of logs that are now cutjand waiting to be floated down. Joo Clyde, a rancher on the Humptulips river, is said to hgve a team of elks broken to harness. They, wi)l haul as heavy a load as any pair of horses. Work Is about fo be started on the con- struction of the Lake Washington canal near Seattle. The whole undertaking, involving an expenditure of $7,000,000, will be carried out without interruptipn. Pleasant'is threatened with an invasion of grasshoppers, the .ground in some instances being alive with them. They have already done considerable damage to crops, in one in- stance almost completely ruining a whole field of grain. William Sullivan and Willlam Dunn, who have just come down from Trail creek, report that (he ore body in the CIIff mine has been struck at a depth of 150 feet, the veln being eighteen feet thick and assays showing $78 In gold per ton. Tom Trent of George creek, In Asotin county, says his sorghum cane i up and growing. He has about eleven acres planted and thinks that with anything like a fayor- able season this amount of cane should pro- duce over 1,500 gallons of sorghum. The Epworth leaguers of all western Wash- ington are going to make & decided and de- termined stand against the liquor trafic. They are going to make an effort to intro- duce the bible into the public schools. The matter will be formally taken up and ways ind means for the prosecution of the objects has been 00 the skimming sta- | i JUNE 17, 18985. league_convention, which takes place at the ;"n( I‘!“ odist Episcopal ehurch in Tacoma une Two sawlogs from tho immente tree cut Willlameon's camp last year were brought in and rafted for Tacoma. The largest of these, which was cut off twenty-five feet from the butt, is thirty-two feat long, sev- enty-eight Inches In diametor and this mon- strous log contains 10,158 feet of lumber. The first cut of this tree, twenty-five feet loug, 13 still in the woods and will be cut fnto short pleces, say two feet long, for exhibition pur- poses, making 1ogs of two feet in length and eleven feet in dlameter. The tide flats along the Indlan resorvation on the other side of the bay from Tacomo have been bought up by the Puyallup Indlans. They | et upon them by the State Board ot Land Commissioners. ~ Some of the land bought by the Indians fs exceedingly valuable for raliroad entrance. A part of Joseph Alexan- der's purchaso gives him that portion of the water front near Brown's point which Frank Ross attempted to grade for the Great North- ern entrance to the flats MISCELLANEOUS Lambing s about completed on northern Montana sheep ranches, and the sheep men are reporting gratifying results The building of an electric railway from Sonoma to tide water at Embarcadero is again being agitated by a number of Sonoma valiey people. The Anchor Mining company, silver-lead mines in Utah, has advanc wages of its men 10 per cent, from § $2.75 per da The Navajo Indians have planted tensive acreage of wheat this year, under the management of the government farmer. The seed and implements were furnished by the paternal Uncle Sam. 1t is reported that the m: Carlos operating d the to an ex- ority of the San Indians are continually intoxi- cting their crops. Thelr inso- cording to the Silver Belt of bodes no good lont bearing. Globe, A, T., Hop worms, which have been devastating the fields the vicinity of Ukiah, Cal., are constantly increasing in numbers, and are attacking alfalfa fields as well. Sevel farmers are endeavoring to abate the nuf ance by burning their fields. This action has apparently resulted beneflcially. Hon, Jerry Simpson has decided to live in Utah, having tired of Kansa. It is said that he has practically closed a deal with the Mount Nebo Irrigation company for the purchase of a 300-acre tract of land under that ditch 100 miles south of Salt Lake. It is expected that Mr. Simpson will bring with him a colony of Kansas farmers, On the Los Angeles and Yuma road there is no water from Carriso creek to Cameron lake, a distance of over fifty miles. In ordinary seazons water is to be found at sev- eral points between Coyote wells and Cam- eron lake, but none is to be found now. The distance is forty-six miles. There is great danger for travelers at this time. A surveying party, of which Frank and Harry Leonard of Winnemucca were mem- bers, had a narrow escape in the recent Ore- gon forest fire. They were in the woods when the flames burst forth. Only by the most pre- cipitate flight were the men saved from being roasted alive. They only saved the clothes on their back, everything else, in- cluded the surveying Iinstruments, belng burned. Unusually important developments have been made at Atlanta in Elmore county, Idaho. A company of Boise men have been opening up an extension of the Atlanta vein under the management of ex-Surveyor Gen- eral Pettit. They have opened a body of gold ore fifty feet thick. There are streaks from three to twelve feet thick that run from $30 to $300 per ton, while the rest of the vein runs from $12 to $15. SAiih & A SHARP REBUKE. Judge Greshum's Opinion of Lawyers Who Act w8 Lobbyists, Fugene Tield relates the following In the Chicago Record: Both Walter Q, Gresham and Robert T. Lincoln were members of President Arthur's cabinet; within the last ten years both have been mentioned with more or less frequency and with more or less sincerity as possible presidential candidates; the fact that both hailed from the west has made jt natural that the mention of one should suggest the other. Yet it would have been hard to find two men more different In every trait and character- istic. An illustration of the difference be- tween these two is afforded in an incident which is recalled by the death of Juige Gres- ham. At the time of President Arthur's leath a number of Chicago people went to ew York to attend the funeral, and among this number were Judge Gresham and Mr. Lincoln. Upon the journey eastward several | of the party fell to discussing a certain ques- tionable measure which was at that time before the is leg- islature at Springfleld, and in the course of the discussion surprise and re- gret were expressed by one or another mem- er of the party that Lawyer —— of Chicago had gone to Springfield and joined the lobby in advocacy of the questionable measure re- ferred to. Thereupon there ensued an argu- ment as to the propriety of an attorney's serving a client without regard to the justice or the dishonesty of that client’s cau Mr. Lincoln took up the cudgel quite briefly in deferse of the proposition that a lawyer, so long as he was paid for his services, was justified in advocating an unrighteous cause; with reference to the particular affair at Springfleld, Mr. Lincoln saw no wrong in the part played by the attorney therein, since the attorney represented the Interests of a corporation for pay and was wholly justified in so doing, even though the cause which he advocated was prejudicial to the interests of the public. Judge Gresham sat in the seat just ahead of the party engaged in this discussion, and it was observed that he grew restless under the argument made by Lincoln. Finally he turned about in his seat and facing Lincoln he sald sternly: ‘‘Young man, I knew your father well and I loved him dearly. ~He never would have expressed the sentiments I have just heard you express, and I am shocked to know that it is Abraham Lin- coln’s son who has advocated that which, if generally approved and practiced, would speedily result in the demoralization of pub- lic and private morals. Whatever your sen- timents upon this subject may be I advise you, when tempted to utter them, to remem- ber that you are Abraham Lincoln's son and to keep silent.” Mr. Lincoln made no answer to this re- proof, but the scene was one which none of the many others who witnessed it has ever forgotten. We know of no other Incident illustrating more clearly that high and jeal- ous moral principle which shone conspicu- ously forth In Judge Gresham's character and served as his rule of thought and action, both In public and private life. ——— DENSITY OF POPULATION. How American Cities Compare wi of the Old World. the countries of Rurope, In the States, and the Dominion of Can- ada, says the New York Sun, there are so far as recent authentic figures show, 70,000, 000 houses. There are 342,000 houses, some of them unsubstantial affairs, inthe city of Tokio, Japan, one for every five people, so that the Japanese metropolis does not suffer from overcrowding. New York has 115000 houses averaging teen residents to each. London, the greatest accumulation of inhabitants {n the world, has 60,000 houses, or seven residents in each on the average. London has in- creased In this respect very rapidly, for at the beginning of the present century the number of houses was only 130,000, little more than New York has at this timé. The population of London at that time (1800) was 90,000 It is now 4,200,000, So It has increased nearly fivefold, but the number of houses has not increased in as large a ratio. Paris has 90,000 houses. At the close of the Franco-Prusian war it had 70,000, At the close of the Napoleonic wars it had 25,000, The area of the city has been ex- tended meanwhile. The average number of residents in a house in Paris is twenty- five, which 1s about 50 per cent. greater than in New York. The majority of pub- lic buildings in Paris are utilized for pur- poses of residence, especlally upon the top flors, whereas in New York scores of the buildings in every street down town are iven over exclusively to busines purposes fo'Uhe ‘square mile or more of the terri: tory between Wall and Spruce streets -and between Broadway and the East River there were at the recent election only 43 voters, representing a population of 1,750, In all computations of city population’ by houses Philadelphia ranks as a shining of & big town which has plenty of elbow room to expand in. Philadeliphla, with a pjopulation in exces of 1,000,000, has 187,- houses. It s less densely populated than London, but not much less so. —_e That scrofulous taint which has been in your blood for years will be expelled by tak- ing Hood's Sarsaparilla, the great blood puri- Those In all United have bought In the lands at the price | FEMININE GOSSIP. A novel soclety has been formed In Toster- burg, a town In Germany, with the laudable object of endeavoring to place a check on evilapenking tongues. Naturally the mem- bers are to keep thelr connection With the soclety a profound secret—aithough how they will do that Is & puzzis—and it is the duty of cach one to denounce to the president all those who are detected in backbiting and siandering their nelghbors, glving full de- talle, including the names of the persons with whom the report originated, and also thoso who helped to spread it, as well as the neces- sary witnesses. The soclety then takes the jcase In hand, Informs tho injured person, and places, when necessary, funds at his dis posal to enable him—or her—to bring an action for slandor, Unfortunately, in most cnses there will be little doubt as to the indentity of the informant, who will probably be made to suffer for such well meant zea and as Iusterburg s hut & moder zed town, a lively state of affars will probably ensue, while the logal authorities are likely to have enough to occupy them for the fu- ture without taking ordinary business into | account. " In the meantime, the place h. become famous, and the proceedings of the oclety for the Prevention of Scandal” will be watched with interest. A Sheridan of today might find material for a comedy in | tais new ‘'school.”” Wellesley girls show no diminution in thelr fondness for aquatic sports. ore has just been shipped from the works of A Connecticut bullder a fine eight-oared barge, intended for the use of the class of '97. The barge is described as forty-five feet long, three foet beam, and is constructed throughout of Span ish cedar, lap streaked, with copper fastens Ings. The fittings are made up of patent roller slides, swivel rowlocks and adjustable foot braces. It sounds like & racing boat but it has not been built for that purpose, as the students are not permitted to race on the lake near the college, but it Is safe to say that there will be some pleasant and not t0o slow pins taken in the new barge. The London World has engaged in congenlal task of telling Englishmen a mistake they make when they marry American heiresses. It points out to the domestic-minded, home-loving Snglishman who has wed American dollars that his wife will prove a torment ie has no taste for home life," says the oracle. “On the con- trary, she counts every evening wasted that she spends at home, and would die of ennul were she condemned for long to sole society of her husband. Very quickly he will find that her theory of life comprehends only an endless round of gayety and a pe petual circle of expenditure. The country is only tolerable to her during the first effer- vescence of the bridal return, when the house is filled as rapidly as it empties, and the neighbors are all in activity to welcome the bride. But when the long evenings set in and it is no longer possible to tear about all day, and the landscape assumes the gray hue of winter, very soon she tires of it, grows restless and discontented, while her naturally strident voice assumes a sharper and more disagreeable note. So, at last, the country seat is left to take care of itself, and the couple hasten to London, Paris, Cairo or Monte Carlo.” Prof. Max Muller of Oxford confesses that at first he was opposed to the girls' college: but he now concedes they are a great su cess; “and it is a real pleasure to me to see the young girls so eager to learn. Most young men do as little as they can; young women do as much as they can—too much, indeed. Again, they work more systemati- cally, and their knowledge is better arranged. It fends wonderfully to the fmprovement of the whole of their character. I wish the men could be shamed and spurred into fur- ther effort.” the what The baroness, Burdett-Coutts, who is sweet 81, continues to wear her evening gowns decollete, To repair this error in taste, the good lady never appears without old-fash- ioned lace mits on her hands and many splendid rings on her fingers. Mrs. Curzon, formerly Miss Mary Vie- toria Leiter, must have made a star ap- pearance at the drawing room held by Prin- s Louise, and it is deplored our latest American beauty-bride should not have been honored by an introduction to Victoria he self. But perhaps that will come later, in some more private way, when the lovely Mrs. George Curzon can her majesty si is ler namesake, and on that account en- titled to receive one of those Indian shawl A beautiful young woman with a multi- millionaire papa will always have an easy time of it but the late Miss Leiter has a level head on her shoulders and a sound heart in her bosom, 8o there is little to fe for her in this new life among strangers There have been three or four international marriages to be satisfied with. One is the Curzon-Leiter, and the others are the Cham- berlain and the Playfair. Miss Endicott and Miss Russell have represented the best there is here, and their English husbands have been gifted with brains as well as soclal position. Mrs. James Brown Potter never dressed in the prevailing fashion. In place of long lines and clinging draperies she required frou-frou effects—something curled or clus- tered like feathers and flowers. She was not only a very pretty woman, but very in- telligent. If she knew her fine points sho also knew how to conceal her defects. She was the first woman in America who ap- pearcd at a dinner party with long sleeves and a low-necked dress, and the sensation she produced was astonishing. She wore the sleeves not because she liked them, but be- cause she didn't like her thin little arms to be seen. In the ballroom she was a vision of beauty. This tiny brunette, in her tucked up, flufly dancing frocks, was copled by women of double her age and treble her bulk, “YOU CAN'T AFFORD.” YOU CAN'T AFFORD to rueh into danged simply because you happen to be fears less and courageous. YOU CAN'T AFFORD If & man, to take largo risks fn business {f you have a fame ily dependent upon you. YOU CAN'T AFFORD, if & woman, to nege lect your children.They may make yous future happiness or misery. YOU CAN'T AFFORD to neglect youg health In the slightest degree. 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