Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 8, 1895, Page 5

= . - v . p i o A $6,000,000 dredging contract between the Seattle South canal and the Lake (Washington Waterway company and the Bowers Dredging company has just been signed by C. H.' Prescott, president of the Aredging company, and vice president of the Northern Pacific rallroad, says a Ta- coma speclal to the San Francisco Chron- fcle. The Seattle company has already signed. It is the largest dredging contract ever awarded to one firm In this country. The contract calls for the excavation of 35,000,000 cuble yards of earth, of which 9,000,000 yards are to be dredged from the waterways through the Seattle tide lands and 26,000,000 taken out of the threc-mile canal connect- ing Lake Washington and Puget sound. This canal will cut through a bluft 200 feet high for halt a mile. The excavation at this place will be done by sluicing. The company has five” years in which to do the work, and expects to keep the large dredgers busy on it for most of that time. The earth excavated will fill in 2,000 acres of tide flats. The dredging company I8 planning to build a third dredger to be used in filling in the Tacoma flats and on government work. When the work Is started two dredgers will work at Tacoma part of the time and part of the time at Seattle. The tide lands 1o be filled in here and at Seattle will be used for railroad terminals, manufacturing and wholc:ale purposes, as heavy business can be transacted more cheaply on the flats than on the hilly stroets The Seattle South Canal company has ob- tained a contract from the state of Washing- ton by which, in accordance with the state law, the company can fill in the entire flats and secure a lien on the property, to bo re- leased only when the upland owners, having the first right of purchase, pay the average cost of filling, with 15 per cent added and in- terest, after the work is completed. This plan will also be adopted here. By it the flats can be filled in under one contract and the cost lessened, the streets and waterways being laid out in a systematic way. By the use of improved dredgers the dredg- ing company expects to make large profits, and the canal company will make money by the 16 per cent bonus or sale of the lands. ‘The money for the Seattle contract is being furnished by St. Louls capltalists through the Mississippl Valley Trust company. The drodging company s a Chicago corporation, having its western headquarters here. The Tacoma Land company has just raised $1,000,000 on bonds in Philadelphia with which (0 buy of the state and commence fill- ing in the largest part of the Tacoma tide lands. BELCHING FIRE AND MUD. The Cocopah mountains in Lower Cali- fornia are again in a state of eruption. Georgo Neal, a mining man who has just returned from the Juarez placer district, T.ports having seen a volcano in_eruption, says a_San Diego dispatch to the San Fran- cfsco Call. It was the central butte of the threo fsolated Picachos, about twenty miles southeast of Signal mountain, and not far from the mouth of New river. He was on Cantila mountain at the time, twenty- five or thirty miles distant. Hoavy smoke was seen to ascend, at first thought to be from a Colorado river steamer. Accompanying it were heavy sounds like cannonading, and the column shot high at intervals. Indlans working at the placer told Neal that the Cocopah mountains were again shaking, and that the Cocopah and Santa Catarina Indians had left the moun- tains to await a cessation of the disturb- ance. Besides fire volcanoes, the Indians sald wmud volcanoes, gas holes and hot springs were spouting with greater activity than ever before. At some whistling sounds were made, to be heard miles distant. It is sald at the times of the greatest activity in the Cocopah coun- try the Colima volcano is also to be found in” eruption, SILVER STRIKE AT HAHN'S PBAK. Hahn's peak, tho rich placer camp, Is at present the scene of a rush of prospectors that almost equals the stampede of the early days of that great gold field. The excitment is caused by the discovery of an Immense blow-out of silver bearing rock, said to come from a blanket vein, and the street corners are alive with excited men talking over the rich bonanzas just uncovered at the peak. The first discovery was made two weeks ago by Stucky and Ward, two prospectors from New Castle, says a Steamboat Springs special to the Denver Times, and now the country 19 staked for miles and digging goes on at a lively rate. The ore seems to be a black lime and, according to tests, runs made all the way from 300 to 500 ounces in silver to the ton on the surface. Specimens which were brought down by Colonel 1. G. Voice, clerk of the district court, and John Murphy, the veteran stage driver, after being tested in a blacksmith's forge, were literally honeycombed wity globules of silver, in size all the way from a No. 1 to a No. 8 shot, and were estimated by experts to run into the thousands. The same character df rock Is found over a vast territory. Belng on the north slope of Hahn's peak and extending from the Smith claims on Willow creek to Red Park, a dis- tance of over five miles, and as far as pros- pected the belt seems to be several miles in width. It fe estimated that there are from 400 to 500 men on the ground at this date and every stage adding to the list. Parties from Cripplo Creek who have been in town for supplies pronounce the strike one of the rich- est known in the history of the state. The Whipple & Shaw stage line is preparing to put on six-horse Concord coaches in order to meet the rush. A CO-OPERATIVE RAILROAD. George W. Vroman, president and promoter of the San Diego, Pacific & Eastern railroad, 1s now in Salt Lake City, engaged in making the preliminary arangements for this new en- terprise, says the Portland Oregonian. The road I8 projected to be built from the port of San Diego to Salt Lake City, through the fert!le vaileys of southern Utah. It is unique in its way, as it Is organized to be built by rallroad men and operated for their benefit. The capital stock will consist of 100,000 shares at & value of $10 each, and assessments will be called until the shares are all subscribed for. Mr. Vroman states that great progress has deen made already in the contemplated en- terprise, and the company is hesring from out- slde territory every day. The object of his visit to Salt’ Lake is to call the rallroad and usiness men of that city together to fully explain the project to them, and to obtain their support. . The road is intended to pay as high wages s any other line, and, as the employes are to own and manage it themselves, they expect to derive dividends, in addition to earning their salaries. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers at Salt Lake Ctiy has indorsed the project, it is sald, and will take an active part in the proceedings. Already 500 shares have been taken in blocks ranging from one to twenty-five shares, and orders are said to be coming in daily. A MAMMOTH WATERWAY. The purchasers of the Victor reservolr as- sots will commence work at once with a largo number of teams constructing a canal fitty-two miles long, seventy-five feet wido d ten feet deep for Irrigating 200,000 acres on Mojave plains, on the north side of the range of mountains, extending from Victor to a point on the Atlantic & Pacific road west of Barstow, says a San Ber- nardino, Cal., dispatch fo the San Francisco Call. Six hundred miles of lateral canals will be constructed, on which settlers will do the work, being paid by the company, thus supporting their families while thelr ranches and fruit farms are being devel- oped. The lands to be watered are mostly gov- ernment land taken up under the desert land act. The company offers settlers the following proposftion: The settler takes up 320 acres, making a first payment of 25 cents per acre. The company will furnish him water and pay the balance of the price, §1 per acre, when proved up, give the set- tler forty acres with water right, one inch 1o five acres, and take the balance of land for the company. The settler thus reserves & forty-acve ranch with good full water right, the whole costing him but 380, or §2 POr acre. The land Is very rich for farming and fruit raising, but too cold for citrus of the gas holes | fruits. Apples and peaches yleld a remark- ably fine crop and are fine flavored. This syndicate, cailed the Columbla Colonization company, is very wealthy and has a large colony in Georgla and one in the Antelope valley, this state. It is simply a land and water syndicate, but furnishes colonists as soon as land and water s ready for them. General O. O. Howard is one of the principal managers The office of the company is crowded daily with applicants for lands, and inquiries are coming in daily by the hundreds through the m As the company will push the work -actively, prospects are excellent for the establishment of thousands of settlers in the colony within two years, adding great wealth to this country, and San Bernardino being the nearest supply point, business of all kinds will be active here. WYOMING CATTLE SHIPMENTS. The shipment of cattle over the Denvor & Gult to the ranges of Montana and Wyo- ming has been about completed for this year. The total number and in sight amounts to close to 110,000 head, saye the Denver News, which is 10,000 to 15,000 short of the number that the road had reason to belleve would be shipped earlier in the season. The falling oft is accounted for in the fact that sellecs in Texas, finding there was a brisk demand for their product, raised the price to a figure that prevented purchases, The ranges of the northwest were never In better condition. The coplous rains of the past six weeks have made grass to an extent lurdly known before, or at least not in a good many years. Cattle landed on the ranges this year are doing well. A large percentage of them have been yeatlings and 2-year-old and will not be ready for the beef mar- Ket this fall. On account of this fact, taken in connection with the fact that the ranges were nearly depleted of tle last year, those owning beeves or catt to become beeves this fall are looking for a stift price W. E. Guthrie, one of the best known of western cattlemen, says that the drouth of last year in Kansas and Nebraska will have the effect of stimulating prices this fall. The farmers of that region found it necessary to sell oft what cattle they had on hand, and the price to them was no object, 1t belng a matter of necessity. More poor cattle found their way to the markets last fall and winter than have ever been known before. They are out of the way, and the purchase of stockers and feeders has not been brisk enough to cause the deficiency to be filled. CASPER MOUNTAIN ASBESTOS. Messrs, Currler, Nelson and Johnson, the well known asbestos miners of Casper moun- tain, the other day brought in 500 pounds of fiber from their new discovery that sur- prised every oue who saw It, says the Wyo- ming Derrick. The late find is beyond the old diggings, and 1s much better both in quality and quantity; In fact, experts say it Is fully equal to any of the Canadian product. We have samples of the fiber and also of the rock, just as It was taken from the mines. This rock shows fully one-half fiber and comes from a six-foot vein. It Is as fine as silk and of that beautiful greenish shade which indicates the best quality. It is from one-fourth inch to three inches in length, and can be spun into a fine thread, like silk, by twisting it in the fingers. The Derrick says that there are tons of asbestos now on the dumps at the new minbs on the mountain that is fully equal to any produced in Canada. It means just what it says, and can substantiate its statements. The boys have worked quietly for months to fully verify the value and extent of their find before making it public, and Casper people all rejoice that their efforts have met with such marked success. Shipments will soon be made to eastern asbestos works, which we belleve will open the eyes of manufacturers to the value of the Casper asbestos deposits. GOODBYE, POTATO BUG. Prof. Koebele, who found out that the Aus- tralian ladybird was sure death to some varieties of California orchard scale, has again been heard from as the discoverer not only of more useful scale parasites, but of an in- sect which feeds on the larvae of the potato bug. The importance of the latter find will be understood by all who are familiar with the ravages of the Colorado beetle in potato- growing states during the past twenty years, says the San Francisco Chronicle. The slow- crawling insect with its unappeasable app tite for potato vines has cost American farm- ers millions of dollars annually and has en- riched the manufacturers of paris green and of spraying apparatu Prof. Koebele found the much-wanted para- site in Japan, where he is at work upon vari- ous lines of entomological research for the Hawallan government. As yet he has made no report upon its sclentific characteristics, but has mentioned the discovery and dwelt upon its importance in letters to his wite, who lives in Alameda. By a recent steamer Prof. Koebele sent the State Board of Horticulture a small number of ladybirds of two varieties peculiar to Japan, which, he believes, will multiply rapidly in this climate and do great good in the citrus and deciduous orchards, where the black and white scale and the mealie bug have been making their depredations, Some of these parasites will be ready for distribution in two weeks, andesome of them canuot be given out before spring. It is highly interesting to watch the de- velopment of the ladybirds from the larvae, as may be done at the rooms of the horticul- tural board. The insect, in its embryotic state, is placed in a large glass far, the orifice of which is then covered with thin cloth. Besides the larvae the jar contains twigs cut from scale-infested trees, so that when the insect is developed it may find its natural food. The ladybirds, which have so far been incubated, are lively and industrious, and are rapld breeders. The horticultural people have great hopes of them. A FAMILY OF SNAKE CATCHERS. There 18 a queer character In Sheridan who is called ““Rattlesnake Jack,” says the Buffalo Voice. He makes a business of catching wolves and rattlesnakes. While in Sheridan not long since we saw him and his two ehil- dren, a boy of 12 and a girl of 10, going about the streets with their snakes. The boy and girl each had one around their necks and the old man had a sack full, which he would empty on the pavement, and while they were rattling and hissing at every one else, he would pass his hands over them and they would seem to be charmed aud would allow him to pick them up without striking him. It is said he will approach the most savage snake on the prairie and pick it up with his hand. OLIVES AND OLIVE OIL. Near Guerneville and on the Forestville road s the largest olive orchard in Sonoma county, and probably one of the largest in the state, says a Santa Rosa dispatch to_the San Francisco Call. It is owned by Dr. Pro- sel. There is 100 acres of orchard, with 8,500 trees, The crop last year was ten tons and this year will be about thirty tons. Dr. Prosek built the first olive mill in Sonoma county in 1894, The building is forty feet wide and sixty feet long, with an en- gine houso 14x20. An eight-horse power en- gine generates the pressure. Immediately on picking the olives are put into a novel crusher, the first of the kind in the state. In the crusher are two granite wheels, which welgh 1,500 pounds each, ' and revolve on a flat gran- ito 'slab. The wheels are reversible, and can be raised or lowered mc- cording to the size of the olive. Latest im- proved scrapers, which keep the paste under the wheels, have supplanted much work in that operation, an arrangement having been made whereby it empties itself by two or three revolutions of the wheel. The crusher has a capacity of two or three tons daily, both first and second grinding. A hydraullc press receives the paste, and the juice that comes out goes into a separ- ator, which separates the oil from the water of the vegetation. When settled and clear the ofl is filtered and bottled, and is then ready for market. Last year was a distastrous one for olives and yet the output of oil was 230 gallons. Dr. Prosek has in his grove thirty-five dif- ferent varieties of olives, and will bud from those that do best in the locality. The ear: liest and best bearers are the Nevadello Blanco, Rubea and Manzanillo, while the Polymorpha produces the largest olive and the bost for packing. Successful olive pack- ers always keep their methods a secret, and after experimenting for four years Dr. Prosek has discovered the secret, and this year he will pack large quantities of his olives. NEBRASKA. G. D. Deltrick of Crawford is erecting a brick block at a cost of $65,000. Postmaster Bowler of Cummingsville sleeps alone in the postoffice. Masked burglars rogress. . 2l[all armed with shotguns ralded the place and carried away $35. Beatrice proposes to foster a steady growth by organizing a Commercial club. Hay Springs gets the next tournament of ::m Northwest Nebraska Firemen's associa- on. J. F. Robinson has been sent to the state penitentiary for three years from Fremont. rgery. In Boone county the assessors' returns show a loss of 24,751 head of cattle over the returns one year ago. Ten Timber creek farmers visited the farm of a widow named Foutz and plowed forty acres of corn for her. The Farmers and Merchants bank at Fre mont has divided up profits amounting to $4,000 among stockholders, ge county's old soldiers are planning a reunion, to be held on the Chautauqua grounds early in September. Mrs. J. F. Wilson, wite of a B. & M. sec- tion hand at Brownville, was bitten by a mad dog. It Is feared that she will dle. Crelghton Morrls, receiver of the defunct Farmers and Merchants bank at Humboldt, is distributing among the creditors $16,274. Frank Rutlege was arrested at Red Cloud charged with a bank robbery alleged to have been committed at Clarksburg, Ont., a year ago. 1t cost Colfax county $3,007.04 to maintain her paupers for the fiscal year just closed. The cltizens of the county now talk of purchasing a poor farm, At Elwood the 14-year-old son of Wesley Loos shot his younger brother with an old revolver with which he was playing. The boy will die. A married man living at Rushville went to the camp meeting at Gordon, where he insulted a couple of young women. He was waylaid by members of the family and beaten nearly to death. H. A. Whitaker of Fremont has been sent .to the state penitentiary for eighteen months for stealing an organ. He left behind him a wife and five children, the youngest a baby 9 weeks old. The 2-year-old child of Phil Walker, liv- ing at Hay Springs, attempted to swallow a small brass clock wheel with which it had been playing. The wheel lodged In the baby's throat and death ensued. Two new irrigatlon districts have been formed at Gothenburg, under the new state law, one the Gothenburg South Side district, comprising 100,000 acres, and the other the Lincoln and Dawson county district, compris- ing 300,000 acres. At a game of ball at Trunk Butte a young man named Chalk became o enthusiastic that he announced himself as a bad man from Bitter Creek and wanted a fight, He was accommodated by CIff Larsh and ‘was taken home in a hayrack. TOWA. Mason City has adopted the curfew fad. Missourl Valley is to have a $20,000 opera house. An_Atlantic doctor makes his professional rounds on a bicycle. A new postoffice has been established at Scott, in Fayette county. Charlie Hunter of Newton had his hand blown off by a cannon fire cracker. W. H. Hartman, who has edited Waterloo Courler since 1858, is dead. Lawrence Logsdon is under arrest at Clin- ton on the charge of having two wives. A Catholic theological seminary will be ccted at Dubuque at a cost of $150,000. There are at present b! inmates in the State Hospital for the Insane at Clarinda. Fred Spencer, at Creston, had an eye blown out by a cannon fire cracker on the Fourth. The postofice at Cottage, In Hardin county, has been discontinued, much to the discomfiture of 200 patrons. At Dubuque Willlam Callahan picked up a cannon fire cracker. It exploded at the same instant, carrying away his face. Frank Smith, aged 21, formerly lived at Dyersville, but’ he's dead now. He mixed the morphine with whisky and drank until he died. Arlington has a new banking house, the First State b > Deming hier. The Masons of Jefferson have subscribed $4,000 toward a fund to be used by the 0dd Fellows in securing the Odd Fellows orphan home. Frank Smith, a clerk in his father's drug store at Dubuque, committed suicide be- cause his father would not send him to medical college. Tho agent of the Milwaukke road at Ossian locked up the depot and went to dinner, and in his absence somebody tapped the money drawer for $95. 5 Marquis Lang, a Le Mars veteran ol dier, Killed himself because the government refused to increase his pension. He leaves a wife and thirteen children. Alyin Bliss of Cedar Raplds received a check for $11.66. It was not large enough to suit him and he accordingly raised it to $116.60. He's out on bail now. Hiram Jaynes, the 335-pound Shenandoah man, who married a ninety-pound girl two months ago, is already in trouble. His slip of a wife has sued him for a divorce. Miss Jennie Coffey committed suicide by taking a mixture of chloral and chloroform because her passion for a young farmer named James Delk was not reciprocated. The following are the week's census bul- letins from Iowa towns: Elkader, 920; Mc- Gregor, 1,200; Wilson, 1,263; West Liberty, 1,479; Muscatine, 12,332; Guttenburg, 1,4 George Thayer, acquitted at Creston on the charge of robbing the railrcad com- pany, was immediately rearrested and taken to Kentucky to answer for a similar crime. H. S. Rand of Burlintgon has donated the residence formerly occupied by Senator Gear to the Young Men's Christian association. The association will immediately erect a $12,000 gymnasium and auditorium. Eva W. Clark, an Ottumwa girl, went boating with Thomas Reardon. The next morning the boat was found floating upside down with tae dead body of the girl be- neath it. Reardon's body has not been re- covered. Orlin Adrain, a Marshalltown boy, cele- brated the Fourth with a cannon impro- vised from a plece of gas pipe. It exploded, shattering his face and skull, and blowing away portions of the brain. Although still alive, he cannot recover. The little 4-year-old son of Frank Spacht at Bedford had his skull crushed in by a kick from a horse. He walked into the house with blood and brains oozing out of the wound, and after the splintered bone and two tablespoonfuls of brain had been removed the little fellow began to recover. His recovery is looked #pon as almost mi- raculous. ank, with a capital of $265,000. is president and D. B. Allen ca THE DAKOTAS. Salem is to have a large elevator, to be completed in time for storing this year's crop. The Chautauqua .at Devil's Lake, N. D., opened very successfully, the receipts on the opening day being 100 per cent in excess of what they were the same day last year, A strange disease has made its appearance at Maryville, N. D. Nine physicians have examined the cases and none have been able to identify the disease beyond terming it “blood poisoning.” Its origin is a mystery. The Lucky Cuss gold mine on Tepee gulch six miles from Keystone, is sustaining its name. ~Another rich find was made In the working, and nearly every mine in the Hill City and Keystone district is being worked The steamer Castalla, from Bismarck, passed down the Missouri to engage in trafic between Charles Mix county and Sloux City. There is a lively competition between the steamer and the Milwaukee railroad to con- trol the Charles Mix county trade. Governor Sheldon received a $1,600 from John H. King, state agent for South Dakota at Washington. This is South Dakota’s share of the refund of direct war tax against Dakota territory. The same sum goes to North Dakota on the refund. A threshermen’s assoclation will be organ- ized at Jamestown, N. D., on the 20th inst A large part of the wheat crop of 1591 was lost to the farmers, for the reason that there were not enough machines in the state to do the threshing. This year the threshermen of this part of the state will have an organi- zation and will plan to do the work, so that there shall be no loss. The largest land deal Moody county has been draft for in the history of consummated at Egan, 8. D, betwesh A. G. Brown of that enu:\l:y -:m .l'ull ierman !-rml I.I' r;om northwestern low amount of land is |,zoohum, Id):;lnlrr‘“ o townsite of Egan on the east, and trdvetked the whole length of lh"lr;rl by the Riggloux river, and the price s $36,000 for the tract. The probable ylellf T small grain in the vicinity of YanktonOewéveds the wildest ex- pectatjons and surpasses ail previous records Threshers and farmers have estimated wheat at thirty-five bushel¥'#hd oats at 100 bushels per acre. Nol a pattule of rust is visible anywhere In the gral, wheat fleids, where the ripening grain stahds four feet high and topheavy with its own“elght. Watertown completer, extensive prepara- tions for the reception and enter- tainment of the, = Central Dakota vet- erans and 200 of the National Guard, who were t0°®o into camp on the banks of Lake Kempaska. The military feature of the encampment 1s something un usual, as the DeSmel, Aberdeen, Clark and Watertown companies 'take part, besides 400 veterans. COLORADO. new concentrator, equal to day, will soon be ready for Black Hawk's 100 tons per business. Preparations are under wa tion of work on the Ute and U Lake City. The Winona Milling company a' Duncan fio- ished sampling the Maskel Venus ore, which for a resump- y mines, near ylelded $52.25 per ton. The ore was taken from a twenty-inch pay streak and was shipped without any &orting At Leadville there is considerable activity noticeible in the mining field and much steady development work is being done. Iron shipments are still on the in e and a number of new iron leases have been started up More than 80 per cént of the rock hof: 1 from the Portland mine at Cripple Creek finds a profitable market. The ore vein is twenty feet in width, and has not varied an inch from the surface to its present depth of 475 feet. Splendid returns have just been recelved from a car of ore taken {rom the Gold King mine, located on Gold hill, Cripple Creek mining district. The firsi-class sacked ore ran 4.86 ounces silver per ton, or $298.40. The <econd ran 4.62 ounces gld per ton, or $02.40. teen men are constantly employed sort- the Victor dump. This ore rather difficut to crush, so much so that the ma chinery at the Florence plant is performing only 50 per cent of the work the makers guaranteed. Additional machinery has been ordered. Empson’s canning factory at Longmont has began packing -peas. Mr. Empson shipped 435,000 cans of peas last year and expects to ship 1,000,000 cans this year. The Empson pea crop is &aid to be the finest and largest ever grown In the United States by a single factory. Twenty men were put to work prospecting for coal one mile south of Monument, and it is rumored that 100 more will be adde1 to the force in a few days. The are supposed to be immense beds of coal underlying this sec- tion of country and an effort is being made to mine it. The Rotten Hole on Mine:al hill at Colo ralo Springs is Icoking exceed ngly we l. The shaft is down 125 feet, but the boys expect to keep sinking until a depth of 250 feet Is reached before starting drifts, They occa- sionally find pocke!s of ore in the streams that run as high as forty ounces in gold to the ton. Dan Hutchins and Nick Handy brought to the Boulder sampling works 1,000 pounds of second-grade mineral, ylelding thirty ounces of gold to the tonm, while seventeen pounds of selected ore produced a gold retort of fifteen ounces, and, the washings or concen- trates during the pannthg operation ran $3.50 per pound. The citizens of Rocky Ford are Jubllant in consequence of the success of the artesian well. At a depth of 750 feet flowing water was struck. It is now flowing over the cas- ing, and a stream of citizens is going from the well, laden with hickets and jugs filled with water, This etrike is a big thing for Rocky Ford. The Canon City, Cogl company, operating a large coal mine at Rockvale, has just booked an order for 2000 cars of coal and will begin on the order at once. The mine gives employment ‘to 430 men, to whom the prospect of a month's!steady work is glad as the mine ascnot been working half time for the past four'months. The mineral display in Telluride during the western slops congress was far superior to the San Miguel county exhibit at the World's . It was composed of 225 rare and beau- tiful goid and silver specimens, the most of them quite large and showing the character of the different veins from which they were taken. Among them was one specimen from the K. C. Humboldt, which weighed 150 pounds, and was absolutely full of ruby and brittle silver. Much Important work is being done on the Eliza property at Leadville, and develop- ments are resulting very favorably, says the Herald-Democrat. These people cut a three- foot body of lead carbonate ore recently which runs fitteen ounces silver and 17 to 30 per cent lead. They are, however, after a gold ore body and at present are carrying on ex- ploration work with a_ diamond drill in the lower formation, in order to locate, if possi- ble, the main gold ore chute. WYOMING. A large number of young antelopes are reported in the vietnity of Casper. Montana papers claim that the Burlington will build into the Big Horn basin this fall, Ex-Governor Baxter has sold his ranch in Laramie county to a Denver man for $100,000. Thes Albany county cattlemen and sheep- men are naw fighting their Dbattles out through the columns of the Laramie papers. Everett Glafcke has located a rich de- posit of yellow ochre at Silver Crown. Samples from the camp show as fine an article as was ever mined in any, country. The shops at Cheyenne will be reopened August 1 on the Denver scale. This is a reduction of about 25 cents a day to ma- chinists, while the balance of the schedule remains unchanged. Residents of the Big Horn basin state that there are over fifly persons now at the hot springs and that they are coming and going all the time. It is expected that nearly 5,000 people will visit the bathing resort this season. Union Pacific Roadmaster McDonigle of Laramio has discovered a curiosity in the shape of a petrified railroad tie. The tie was put down in 1868, when the road was first built, and is in just as good condition as when laid. Subcontracts will be let in a few days and work begun on the West Side Placer company's property at Four Mile. Mr. Green, the contractor, expects to have dirt moving and a large force employed by the 10th. The ditch will be twelve feet wide at top and about forty miles long, and must be completed in eighty days. The Sundance Coal, Development and Min- ing company has filed articles of incorporation in the secretary of state's office. The capital stock is $1,000,000. The object of the corpora- tion is to develop the goal flelds of Crook and Weston counties. It will also construct and operate a line of ,rajd;’[uml in Crook county, Wyoming, and in Laidlaw and Butte counties, South Dakota. . Ralph Anderson hag, been doing some land office business the past month in trapping bears, having caukht seven in four weeks, four of which—the H¥gest of the lot—were caught In two day&"'time. They were of the cinnamon and siiver ‘tip varieties and were all full grown except dhe. They were caught on the west side bf the Platte canon, about thirty-five or forty wiles from Saratoga, on Mullin and Douglds creeks. State Auditor Owen, who has just re- turned from the Big ‘Horn country, says of the placers at thé' mouth of Crystal creek “Three thousand #cres in claims have been staked oft. Miners' And prospectors are coming in through '“every avenue which reaches the counfry’‘and already several hundred people are washing out gold. Every pan of dirt washed shows fine color, and the camp will in all probabllity be a per- manent one, On Green river, at Jenson, the woods and hills are full of ‘men, waiting for a signal that a portion of the Uncompaghre reserva- tion lying east of Green river and south of White river, s open for mettlement; and It they get the signal there will be wild stampede for the a phantum lands on that part of the reserv says the Vernal Express. Parties cominy in from east of Green river estimate about 700 men scattered from Green to White river, and the majority of them are well armed with Winchesters and six-shooters, and if the report is true that the land spoken of is to be thrown open by wire, there will be trouble in a very few hours after- ward. It Hoke Smith opens that reservi tion without giving everybody & chance, somebody Is sure to get burt, as there are people in Ulntah county, Utah, and Rio Blanco county, Colorado, who wili not stand 1dly by and see any syndicate gobble up all the asphaltum lands The gold discovery made at Douglas the other day was the result of several weeks secret search by a party of Colorado pros- pectors. It is estimated that over 100 claims have been staked out. Reports brought in are that the mineral locations of the recent find are identtcally ltke Cripple Creek. An assay shows gold in more than paying quan- tities and the ore Increases in value gs the shaft deepens. The new flelds are IBcated about twelve miles from town. It has just leaked out that Wyoming & Great Northern officials were at Green River the other day looking over the terminus of the proposed new railroad They are golng to start work just as soon as Mr. Armans, one of the head officials of the gigantic enterprise, returns from a trip over the line. More excitement was created among the business men and property hold- ers of the town when it was learned that the Anaconda smelter men were also looking the ground over for a smelter site A Green River dispatch says that a road grading outfit, consisting of several hundred horses, twenty-five men with wagons, scrapers and plows for rallread grading work, passed south through that city over the line of the proposed line of the Colorado, Wyoming & Great Northern railroad. The outfit, which is owned by J B. Orman of Pueblo, Colo., has been work ing In Montana, and Is now on its way tu Grand Junction, Colo. It is expected that grading work on the new line will be com- menced at that point on July 15, the Colorado, rail ORBEGON, Thus far 1,000,000 pounds of wool have been received in Baker City, and there is more to come. A few years ago jackrabbits were unknown around Creswell; now they are cutting down beans by the acre in that vicinity. A Hunt captured a black bear In the Dead Indian country recently. The bear was an unusually large one for the black species, weighing about 500 pounds. The Bristow brothers brought from thelr Powell creck mines a bottle full of coarse gold worth $522. The gold varied in size from $50 pleces down to fine dust. Hides that have been diccarded as valueless strewn upon the hills, and left on the pas- tures near Pendleton, for the last two years, are now being picked up by collectors and hauled into town. The grasshopper pests have been making inroads on crops along Trout creek. Not a in green blade is left after their devastating visits, and the stalks of wheat and other cereals are leveled to the ground. Last month the J. S, Clark creamery, in Forest Grove, was Kept very busy. During May, 91,657 pounds of milk were recelved, from which 3,670 pounds of butter were made, selling for $446.25. This brought the farmer 18 cents a roll clear of expense. F. W. DeLentmen of Grant county was re- cently married to the girl of his choice, after an engagement lasting twenty years. Miss Spense, who Is now Mrs, DeLentmen, waited in England, while Mr. DeLentmen made a home for her, and then made the journey of 6,000 miles alone to be wedded to the man of her choice. B. C. Coltrin, a miner on the Lower Rogue river, while trying to catch his horse, stepped on a rattlesnake and was bitten on the right leg. He bled the wound freely, bound to- baceo on it, and started down the mountain but became blinded from the effect of the poison, and had to call for help. Bud Fate heard his cries, and assisted him to the resi dence of W. S. Jones, where the wound was treated with coal ol and soda, and the sick man was soon able to be around, feeling very grateful for the assistance which saved him from a horrible death. WASHINGTON. Hugh Nelson of Medical Like has invented an attachment to binders that will bind grain with the grain's own straw. There are 15,000 prune trees in the vicinity of Mount Vernon, and growers are discussing the erection of a dryer, to cost $2,600. Dr. Lee, stock inspector of Klickitat county, says that for the first time in the history of the sheep industry there s not a case of scab in the country. Marion Meeker, a pigeon fancler of Puyal- lup, has invented a cage for transporting pigeons. After the liberation of the birds the cage can be folded up and carried in the pocket. Sailors have been enticed from vessels at Port Townsend and other sound ports by rival shipping runners on the promise of get- ting work on the Seattle canal at the rate of $1.50 to §2 a day. J. G. Megler, the Brookfield canneryman, is rous of running his canenry in Aber- deen this season, provided the Aberdeen cit- izens do mot object to the introduction of Chinese during the fishing season. Two extensive lime works are constantly at work on San Juan island. One runs three kilns and turns out 120 barrels each day on an average. The other Tuns two kiins at present, and produces about the same amount Colfax is working hard to sugar factory established there. Ten thous- and dollars cash, $1,200 in labor and 2,000 acres of land, besides a site for the factory and forty town lots, have been subscribed, and the starting of the enterprise is as- sured. The Northern Pacific Coal company has made arrangements in nearly every case to settle with the widows and children of the victims of the Roslyn mine disaster. Each widow will be pald $1,000, each child $100 and the suits dismissed. South Bend is noted as remarkable in the county press for having a man elected to office against his own protest; one who has, without remuneration tun the local schools for three months because the funds gave out, and a police force of two men, one ot whom weighs 295 pounds, and the other 285. It is estimated that 1,000 men have gone from various parts of Whitman county into the mining regions within the past three months prospecting. Men who have hereto- fore worked on farms, many small farmers and even boys who are out of employment for a few weeks go to the Snake river placers and wash sand for the yellow metal MISCELLANEOUS. The most complete collection of Southern California_Indian antiquities in existence has been secired by the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. Kanodia, a Kicapoo squaw, with the aid of a shotgun, secured a $2,000 guarantee bond from the Choctaw railway contractor who was building in her allotment of land. There Is a large amount of tan bark belng cut in Mendocino county, California, at pres- ent. The recent advance in the price of leather is responsible for the increased activ- ity. Fremont county, Idaho, has nearly 590 miles of canals, with as many more contem- plated. Most farmers belong to stock com- panies and water costs not to exceed 25 cents per acre on the average. The largest harvester in the world is now at work near Grayson, Cal. The machine, which is a forty-two-foot cut, requires but two men to run it, and will cut 100 acres a day at a cost of §1.10 per acre. Some maliclous person cut the log boom at the shingle mill at Smead’s spur, near Missoula, Mont., allowing several million feet of logs to get away. This Is a serious loss, as the mill cannot be operated this season. The idea that Arlzona is only good for min- ing camps must be dispelled bafore the state- ment_from E. F. Keliner of Phoenix, who says he has 1,000 acres in a body all sown to alfalfa, and this pays Lim in clean cash $20,- 000 a year, While out in the mountans near Darby, Mont., Jacob Goff killed the largest mountain lion that has ever been seen in this part of the country. The beast measured eleven feet from nose to tip of tail, and twelve Inches between his ears. There was great refoicing at Wardner, Idaho, over the resumption of work in the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mill and mine. Sixty-four men were put to work. Whe the properties are in full blast they will give employment to 350 men. Quite an_excitement has been created at Redding, Cal, by the discovery of a rich ledge of quariz on Kirk creek, three miles from Pit river, in what is known as the Big Bend country. The ledge is 300 feet wide, with black quartz assaying $60 to the ton. A rich strike has just been made in the Georgla mine, near Landusky, Mont. The Georgia lies near the Big Chief and was purchased as a prospect for $150. One of the owners has refused $15,000 for his interest in the mine. The owners have been engaged in sinking a shaft for several weeks, and at a depth of twenty-seven feet struck & vein get a beet which now shows a width of twenty-five feet. The lead 1s located In porphyry and the ore from the bottom of the shaft runs from $i5 to $150 In gold. Prof. Dell and Dr. Becker of the Govern- ment Mineral commiesion, now fin Alaska, have discovered valuable nickel ore ledgos at the head of the Indian river at a place called Silver bay. While examining croppings along a legde near that point Becker came upon the ore. The ofl wells recently discovered on Minor ranch, near Orinda Park station tra_Costa county, California, prove a valuable acquisition to that rich | and prosperous county. It s claimed that the ofl wells are there, and only awalt to be developed The gold mining boom at ootenay, British Columbia, energy. Fully 100 fow shipping ore from Rossland to North Port, the nearest smelting center, while over 500 men are diligently prospecting the ne'ghboring mountains, Con- are likely to Rossland, South conti with horse teams are daily The winemakers of the upper Napa vallay, who were members of the California Wine makers' assoclation, have organized a new company 1ts object is to subl from the California Winemakers' corporation its ir at St. Helena and operate it during the com Ing vintage. A ledge of soapstone has he vic ¥ of Centerville, Cal. I+ four feet in width and the stone is of ex The output of this ledge 1 be placed on the cars in that city for §° ton present price of soapstone i per t dlscovere The ledge | n the t quality per $10 A large two-and-a-half-ounce phiro was recently picked up Crocket of the Gravelly range placer gins, near Virginia, Mont. The stone Is a beautiful specimen, being nearly round, flaw less, lustre vitreous, and of a desirable pale, amber-yellow color Bartholomew Maize, a Silver Creek, Idaho, rancher, has boiled crickets for twelve hours and on throwing them outside some had enough life left to crawl away. He had a pit arranged by which he captures great quantities. These he dries and packs away for chicken feed next winter. amber s by H Mining matters are very active in the Mo rongo district, San Bernadino county, Cal The Rose s working a twelve-inch vein of ore that runs §1,200 to the ton. The ore is strongly impregnated with iron and looks like red paint, but it turns out gold at a rate that makes the owners look at peace with the world, The results In the clean up of the Leary placers on Granite creek, Boise county. Idaho, Is now in the Boise assay office, The shining yellow metal came in good sized bags, and when it had all been weighed there was in the neighborhood of 1,000 ounces, valued at $16 an ounce. The season has been exceptionally short, One of Butte's (Mont.) fashionable ladies attended the circus and was fooled out of $100 by the pea game. She was confident she knew ‘where that pea was, and backed her confidence with $50—and it was not there. Then she got mad and invested $50 more to got revenge. The thimble rigger has her money and she is still unrevenged, + W. H. Denton of Markam, I. T., has leased the Petaca grant for a term of ten years and will immediately ship his 27,000 head of cattle to Las Vegas, and from there he will drive them to the grant. He will bring twenty families with him, aside from his cowboys. There are 180,000 acres in the Petaca grant and_the property is owned by ex-Congressman Farwell of lowa. T. B. Green, a rancher of Gallatin county, Montana, writes the following: ‘‘Perhaps it is not very well known th: the snows of this winter were highly charged with am- monia. It was the case, however, for I ex- amined it very carefully. The rancher will find that everything he grows this summer will be highly azotised, and I can safely pre- dict that the glutin in wheat will be raised to 25 or even 80 per cent.’ M. F. Eby of Boiso had $500 in gold coin tied up in two packages—$140 in one and $360 in the other. His children opened the desk and took the packages out and amused them- selves with them in the yard. After the money was missed a search was made and the premises carefully raked over, but fot 0 much as one single gold piece could be found. The supposition is that some tramps came along and saw what the children had and got away with it. S LABOR NOTES, Henry Weisman, the energetic editor of the Bakers' Journai, has recently been chosen secretary of the Journeymen Bakers Inter- nationdl union, a position for which he is well qualified. The trades unions of Oakland, Cal., have refu: the celeb: that the o conditions. United Garment Workers report that six new charters were issued last month and that established unions are gaining many new members. month were won. The Detroit and Cleveland Steam Naviga- tion company has decided not to employ on its vessels any person not a citizen of the United States.” Persons coming from Canada or elsewhere will not be employed. Death benefits amounting to $39,600 were paid last month to the heirs of deceased mem- bers of the Brotherhood of Railrond Train- men, making a grand total of $2,913,413.70 paid since the brotherhood was organized. Judge Sherwood of the Missourl supreme court filed an opinion a fey days since that knocks the last prop from under a law enacted two years ago, to prevent superin tendents, foremen or officials ‘of corporations from discharging employes who refuse to withdraw from lawful labor organizations or societies. The law was declared to be arbitrary and unconstitutional. an Francisco and ed to take part in tion of the Fourth on the ground asion s a satire under existing other Narcotic substance. It is Pleasant. Its guaran feverishness. Castoria. “ Castorla Is an excellent medicine for ehil- dren. Mothers have repeatedly told me of its good effect upon their children," Di. G. C. Osaoon, Lowell, Mass, * Castoria Is the best remedy for children of which I am acquanted. 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