Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 15, 1895, Page 5

[E OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, JULY 15, 1895. " Pulse of Western Progress. e e e e e e The West canal at structed Side Placer Mining compiny's the Four Mile placers will b before the snow flies, says Cheyenne Tribune. The Providence people tnterested In this grest mining work are purhing matters and canal construction will Lo under way in a few days. This canal lies Just acroes the Wyoming line in Carbon county, and will be thirty-elght miles long. Providence, R. I, capitalists have purchased and paid for 1,500 acres of the richest placer ground in this section, and their canal which taps Snake river, will also carry suffi- clent water to irrigate 10,000 acres of Wyoms« fug lands and a considcrable area rado. There are a ing features which handiing in the work Among con« the in Colo- number of differe will requir construction of this them are a 1,000 feet and a strip of two miles of wooden pipe lay- ing. These pipes will cross a large valley, foliowing the contour of the surface, and will in diameter. A, G n, & member of the American Sociely of Engineers, has taken the contract for the construction of the entire canal, and the sub-contracts for earth and flume con struction will be let in a few da The contract calls for the completion of the canal in nty-five days, but those familiar with the conntry to be traversed do not think it possible to complete the work in_that time, The large sums of moncy already spent for placer ground and provided for in con struction contracts will be considerably aug. mented by the purchase of an cxtensive hy- draulic plant for washing and saving the placer gold. EXCITEMENT AT HAHN'S PEAK 1t the judgment of 150 mners and an equal number of tenderfeet is to be considered as a criterion, the success of Columbine, the new camp which has recently been dated in the dispatches to this paper as Hahn-Peak, is an assured thing, says a Columbine spe clal to the Denver Tim Your corrospondent has been upon the field and in a trip of inspection, covering a we nothing about the former assertions of the camp has been found to border on the fake, although a number of prospectors, who are self-asserted experts, claim that the country is entirely broken up and that nothing of solid formation is visible, The camp continues to increase In popula tion, and assessment work, as well as stak- ing, continues at a lively rate. Already two townsite locations are undergoing preliminary survey, and by the date of this publication the first townsite, to be known as Columbine, will be located from the summit of the Srake and Bear river divide west. The ore that has been found runs as high as 1,7203% ounces of silver, from samples that are not consid- ered to be the best specimens obtainable. It is the prevailing opinion In camp that the ore will run, on a shipping basis, as high at least as an average of 900 ounces per ton silver. The feeling of the camp is that the mineral lies in blanket formation, and the staking has been done accordingly In all probability about fifty claims have been located, and though the extent of the mineral belt has not yet been determined, it is believed there are yot 1,000 unlocated claims The mineral is capped by a strata of slate finely ground, and this covered in turn by an upper strata of quartzite, varying in thick- ness according to the ridges and gulche which the prospects are sunk A PREHISTORIC COPPER MINE, Clark and Howard, two Butte miners, a remarkable story about the discovery of & developed mine with a fifty-foot tunnel that was ovidently driven by a prehistoric race of miners. In prospecting along the side of Fleecer mountain, according to their story given in a Butte special to the San Francisc Chronicle. the men found several pieces of good looking copper ore in a hollow, ch they at first supposed was a buffalo wallow in the days when these animals roamed the Big Hole country. The prospectors, belleving that there was a lead somewhere In the viclnity, began to dig_into the mountain side, and after an hour's hard labor they were considerably surprised to find the earth suddenly yield to the blows of the pick and a big hole opened before them. They cleared away the earth and entered a tunnel about six feet high and four feet wide, walled in with blocks of stone. The top of the tunnel was protected by large, flat stones, and for about twenty-five feet (here was not a break in the primitive timbering. About twenty-five feet from the mouth of this tunnel the prospectors came fo a spot ‘where the earth had apparently broken down the stonework, and after clearing away the debris the men were able to go in about twenty-five or thirty feet further. Here they came to a ledge, which was carefully examined, but as to what there the' men will say nothing, except tha they found some implements made of ston which had apparently been used in digging the tunnel. The men are positive that the work was not doue in this age for the reason that at the mouth of the tunnel there was an immense pine tree growing. The imple nts showed plainly that the tunnel was the work of an earlier race. The prospectors are very re- ticent as to the discovery, and all efforts to ascertain the extent and richness of the ledge have been unavailing. They will return to the place as soon as they secure a quantity of supplies. Clark and Howard are both men of unim- peachable veracity and their story is gener- ally credited. The men, however, seem to give the historical nature of their ‘discovery very little consideration, and think only of its mineral richness. THE YUMA CANAL. The most important irrigation ever under- taken in this section, says a Yuma special to the Denver News, is the building of the new Yuma canal from Hinton's island, in the Colorado river near Pichacho, along that stream for ten miles, thence across the valley of the lower Gila, crossing that stream six- teen miles east of Yuma, thence on across the great mesa to the Mexican boundary line, the surveys of which under that eminent civil engineer, George W. Norton, are just finished. The' canal, which will be seventy feet wide at the bottom, twelve feet deep and ninety miles in length, will irrigate 100,000 acres, also the rich vailey lands lying along the east bank of the Colorado which hereto- fore have been classed with those of the deso- late portions of the great southern desert. Tho water will be taken across and under the Gila river in immense steel pipes. The project Is the same as that contemplated by the International company of London, and also by Captain Beattie's Colorado Canal company. This new project is in the hands of western capitalists, headed by C. D. Baker tho well known California hotel man. The canal will cost $1,500,000 GRASSHOPPER CHOLERA The San Francisco Chronicle Is responsible for the following story, which it publishes @s a dispatch from Denver: Colorado farmers bave struck a new Industry that is akin to the great works of Pasteur. They are en gaged In the propagation of grasshoppers to meet @ demand from the northwest. Re cently ranchmen around Brighton and Greele discovered that vast flelds of ‘‘hoppers” had perished from some cause unknown. Some of the wiseacres were not satisfied with the cold fact and sought to have their curiosity gratified by an opinion from the professors of the State Agricultural college. Prof. C: P. Gillette, state entomologist, reported “I have just concluded a microscopical ex- amination of the body of the fluids of the grasshoppers sent and find them literally covered with countless millions of a minute bacillus. In other words the 'hoppers are dying, not from the attacks of a parasitic n- sect, but from a contagious disease caused by minute germs similar, but not exactly like, the germs that cause such disease as cholera and anthrax and tuberculosis in the higher animals. It is possible the disease will de- stroy the greater number of the 'hoppers in the country west of the Missouri river.” Since the foregoing discovery the farmers of the northwest have been informed of the natural eradicator of Colorado for supplies of infected 'hoppers. The stock has been re- duced 50 there is not a 'hopper left, and the farmers are now cultivating the pest, which they recently dreaded. As the young 'hop- pers hatch out they are placed in a barrel ined with “dead ancestors’ ‘and the infec- tion is communicated to the young brood, which are then shipped North in a lively con- dition. ut engineer- speclal at flume RICH ORE BODY, R. G. Burton, an experienc:d quartz miner, has made the valuable discovery of a vein ot ‘old ‘bearing quartz located on the land of W. A. Board, adjolning that of Horace | men¥ prevails in that section, Board, in northwest the of Dry Creek this ity valley, ten miles and much excite- says a Heald Francisco Chron ore assays $3 burg dispatch to the San fcle. Burton states that the per_ton The gentleman also exhibited some placer gold taken from the sands and gravel ad- joining the lods, which led to the discovery of the ledge. Fiakes of platinum were mixed with placer gold. It is a well known fact that gold exists in the gravel deposits of Dry creek. In the G0s there was a great deal of excitement in regard to the gold found in_these deposits of well-washed gravel. They mever proved to be profitable, however, and were abandoned. All the gold found Th the gravel had its origin In quartz and it Is possible that Burton may have dis- covered the lode and the source of it all GREENHORN GOLD. Considerable excitement prevails here over the discovery of a new gold field in the Greenhorn range, nine miles south of this place, directly on the line of survey of the Florence Southern railway, says a Florence special to the Denver Times. The fleld has been quietly worked for some time by par- ties from Coal creek, but there were no prac- tical prospectors among them for the past few days. The find is what I8 known as the Blowout, and seems to be a continuation of the mineral belt running from Rosita through the Bassick mine. One vein of ore is in por- phyry between walls of granite and gnel It is forty feet wide, and has had a mill test running about $10 for the full width of the veln, and Is free milling. Another tunnel is In thirty feet and struck a vein of quartz between walls of granite and gneiss that seems to be high grade ore, and prospectors claim an assay of $55 for the whole vein, and some parts of it $500. Some lead float has been found, but not in veins as yet. A prac tical mining man who visited the camp says it is the best he has seen in any mine he has visited In fifteen years. ANOTHER COLONEL SELLERS. Willlam G. Nebeker, one of the assistants in the office of counfy recorder, thinks he has solved the problem of extracting the from the waters of the Great Salt Lake, the Salt Lake Herald. Mr. Nebeker is an assayer by profession, and when he learned, several years ago, that the waters of this great dead sea contained gold in considerable quantities, he began work on a plan to save it. The metal, as is well known, is held in solution and efforts to precipitate it have proved successful in this way only—that while gold resulted from experiments made, the cost of getting 't was too great to make it a money making propo- sition, The salt water of the ocean contains one- thirtieth of a grain of gold to every ton of sea water, which, while it may seem small, is sufficient to amount to about 10,000,000,000 of tons of gold in all the oceans of the world combined. The water of the lake contains more in proportion than does the ocean It is estimated that 10,000 tons of gold is in Salt lake alone. Now, the question is, how Is it to be obtained. Nebeker began some years ago. He has experimented considerably with various methods, but only recently has he employed electricity. What the details of the scheme are he refuses to make public, as a matter of course. But he admits that his general plan of work is to precipitate all gold by elect currents and concentrate it. He is working a plan by which there is to be no pumping of water; rather, he expects to be able to g0 out In a boat all alone by himself and gather the mineral as he goes along. Nebeker believes there are millions in it. He is confident he has a good thing and says he is going to Keep it to himself, although he could got any price he wanted if he would sell the secret. He showed a reporter a small nugget which he obtained from three barrels of the water and will make some more experiments. NEBRASKA. The school trustees of Grant, county, are all women. Tho Archer creamery is churning a ton of butter a day these times. Wayne dealers have so far this season sold 114,000 pounds of binding twine. The North Bend fire department corporate under the laws of the state. Ponca_implement dealers have sold thirty self-binders within the past ten days. Cozad has a new weekly newspaper called the Journal and edited by S. I. Stevens. Oakland implement dealers have orders for as many self-binders as they can supply The Sons of Veterans at North Bend will organize a cornet band from among their own members. The Blair fire department took second prize at the Fremont tournament and narrowly missed the first. The summer meeting of the Nebraska State Horticultural soclety will be held at Wymore July 23, 24 and 2 E. W. Curtis, manager of the Papallion creamery, is talking of putting in a butter plant at Springfield. Citizens of North Bend are working with enthusiasm over their prospect to erect a large beet sugar factory. Two years ago Dundy county boasted of five newspapers. Four of them have suc- cumbed to the hard times, Harlan county boasts of box elder trees which have attained a growth of four feet this season and are still growing. Harlan county has entered in the compe- tition for the $600 offered by the state fair for the best county collective exhibit. A combination of small boys and matches resulted in the destruction of Isaac Butter- field’s barns and granary in Webster county. Ex-Senator J. W. Dolan's handsome res- idence near Indianola has been totally de- stroyed by fire. The loss was only partially covered by insurance. A Nelson chump exploded a firecracker under a wagon loaded with people. The team ran away and several of the occupants of the wagon were badly injured. Simeon Patton of Otoe county has threshed twenty acres of wheat and it averaged thirty- two and five-eighths bushels per acre. He s0!d it for 53 cents per bushel. Mrs. William Heln and William Neiman of West Point had a fight and now the woman has sued her antagonist for $5,000 damages for bruises received in the encounter. Ed Hiller, at Seward, looked down the muz- zle of a loaded Roman candle. The candle went off and a bright red ball struck Hiller in the eye, nearly destroying its sight. A gang of tramps struck West Point on the Fourth of July and the people felt so patriotic that they gave the hoboes a basket- ful of provisions and two kegs of beer. Tekamah is talking of voting bonds for a new school house to cost $20,000. At present the schools are so crowded that two depart- ments are occupying the Presbyterian church, A Stanton firm proposes to erect and op- erate a seventy-five-barrel flouring mill at Ponca if pald a cash bonus of $2,000. The Ponca business men are figuring over the proposition, Philip Gascolgn, aged 77 years, was so badly gored by a vicious bull in Gage county that he died within a few hours. He wi one of the old settlers of the county and was highly respected. T. J. Ryan, an Ionia man with an inventive turn of mind, has applied for a patent on a corn shocker’ which can be placed on the market for less than $30 and do the iwork of a number of men. An Italian working for Peter Merchant one mile west of Brock was playing with a large, viclous dog with which he supposed he was on good terms. The dog tore away the dago's nose and upper lip. James Whitehead, republican candidate for congress in the big Sixth district three years ago, Is just recovering from a long illness which for a time seriously threatened to end his political career forever. On June 25 Max Bangs of Wymore caused the arrest of Pearl Wilson, charging him with having set fire to a building in that town. In the district court Wilson was ac- quitted. Now he has sued Bangs for $5,000 West Point is temporarily without a school board. The old board a’journed sine die, and when the new board met it was unable to effect an organization. After taking sixteen fruitless bollots for president the board ad- journed. Town Marshal Carver of Raymond attempt- ed to arrest a young man, Jesse Fitzgerald, who was under the Influence of liquor and inclined to be quarrelsome. In the fght which followed Carver was badly cut with a in Perkins will in- dRfillEEEREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE | knife. Fitzgerald was taken to Lincoln for safe keeping William Weston wandered away from his home at Wakefield two months ago and was not heard from until last week. He has been located at Onawa, Ia., where he has been working on a farm, with a good record for industry. His mind is unbalanced 10WA Cedar Rapids is waging a vigorous warfare on the social evil, The Portland o been destroyed by The annual camp meeting at will be held August 13 to 26, A new tribe of the Improved Order of Red Men has been instituted at Eldora. Waverly Is getting ready to en in encampment of the lowa National Guard. The grand lodge of colored Masons has just held a very successful meeting at Keokuk The union veterans of din county are planning for a two days' reunion August 8 and 9. Kasner's store at Avoca was burglarized the other night and $200 worth of goods arried away. Burglars have been prowling around Pella and many residences have been robbed the past two weeks. Martin Harrington, one of the first resi- dents of Cherokee county, died very suddenly of heart disease. At a recent fire in Dubuque a number of women formed a bucket brigade and saved a burning building. The twelfth annual convention of the Towa Women's Christian Temperanca union has just closed at lowa Falls. The republicans of the Third congressional district gave General Drake an enthusiastic reception at Iowa Falls, The new woman is doing business at Cres- ton. Her name is Miss Carrie Roseberry and she deals in brick and sand. Willle Wachter, an 18-year-old Pella boy, while out hunting, accidentally shot himself in the leg. The doctors will save it. Roy Johnson, the Towa Falls boy, whose héad was shattered by a kick from a horse, is still alive to the intense surprise of the doctor men. The Anchor Mutual Fire Insurance com- pany, which has been operating at Creston for six years, will remove its general offices to Des Molnes. J. P. Jones has leased the Doud packing house plant, which has been idle at Boone for several years. He will start it up with a full force of hands, Tramps have become such a Missouri Valley that the mayor compelled to issue a proclamation tizens not to feed them. The thirty-second annual conclave of the Towa Knights Templar has just closed at Spirit Lake. T. B. Dacey of Council Bluffs was elected grand commander. The Eldora Clay works is in financial dif- flculties, The City State bank holds a chat- tle mortgage for $8,000, and foreclosure pro- ceedings have been commenced. enator Cassett, president of the defunct Pella National bank, has been indicted by a United States grand jury at Keokuk. He is now in the custody of the United States mar- shal. It is dry in some parts of Towa. A spark from a passing locomotive set fire to twenty- five acres of meadow grass in Archbishop Hennessey's farm, near Dubuque, one day last week. At Irwin R. J. Cemphrey was mixed up in a runaway accident. His left leg was broken twice, and he was so severely injured inter- nally ‘that he died within a few hours. His son was nearly killed in the same accident. Stella Childs, a 16-year-old girl at Cedar Rapids, was frightfully burned by- gasoline. Her clothing caught fire, and she tried to extinguish the flames by rolling in the grass. She is still alive, but small hopes are en tertained for her recovery. Joseph Winter, a Dubuque wood turner, has been missing for more than two weeks, and it is feared that he has either boeen accidentally drowned or has committed sui- cide. When last seen I was in a boat row- ing up the Mississippi rive THE DAKOTAS Lead City is to have a $30,000 school house before Christmas, The Stutsman County Wool Growers' asso- ciation now has about 100,000 pounds of wool on hand awaiting favorable markets. The owners of a quarter of a million pounds of wool raised around Mandan are considering a bid of 11 cents offered for their clip, Twelve cents has been paid for individual lots of extra quality. Land sales in the James River valley, In North Dakota, are steadily increasing, Sales are not made to speculators, but to actual settlers and residents who will cultivate and improve their purchases and pay for them out of the products of the soil. A bar of bullion worth $45,000 was un- carthed in the Soclety cemetery near Lead by Superintendent Grier of the Homestake company, who had just returncd from Sioux Falls. This bullion constituted part of the steal of Alex G. Street, who is now serving time in the penitentiary. The supposition is that he hoped by giving this up to help keep his wife out of prison. She Is under bail. The much advertised fodder plant, saccaline was sown this spring by Willlam Waterbury of Melette as an experiment. Although he exercised all possible care, the plants died on his hands. Jack rabbits, gohpers, mosquitos and all other Insects seemed to have a par- ticular fondness for saccaline, and fenc screens and other methods of protection proved unavailable in keeping them away. Prof. J. E. Todd, state geologist, has been in the northwestern part of the Hills exam- ining the lignite formations and found two and in some places three beds of lignite coal averaging four feet in thickness and of a very good quality. He left for the southern Hills to continue his investigation in the in- terest of the State university, He says the South Dakota lignite flelds are a continuation of those of North Dakota, which are worked advantageously at Dickson and other places. At a meeting of the representatives of the creditors of J. T. Rierce, of forged bond no- toriety, it was decided to complete the Yank- ton & Norfolk railway, which was commenced by Plerce, and in which enterprise he has in- vested $150,000 in grading the right of way. These creditors are all wealthy Englishmen who have the necessary capital to complete the road. It Is understood that the Great Northern will take this road when completed although it is known the Missouri Pacific has made overtures for its purchase. Partles returning from Crow Creek and Lower Brule Indian agencies report that while the Sioux at the latter agency were going through a sham battle during a grand celebration there one Indian in the excite- ment used ball cartridges, sheoting away the ear of one of his brethren. At Crow Creek the Indians refused to participate in a sham battle because the photographers who were on the ground could not be persuaded to pay them for the privilege of taking views of the scene. It will be remembered that the North Da- Kota state press reported that the early frosts had killed the cactus. It is quite noticeable now that the cactus will not down, and comes up as smiling as ever to bother the farmers, The grain in the cactus regions, however had such a start that the cactus will not bother until after harvest, and then, it herolc measures are not taken, the pest will mature and scatter its seeds everywhere. In the cactus reglons of Logan, McIntosh and La Moure counties the cactus plants were seen in many localities so thick that they cover the ground almost to the exclusion of all grain, eamery at Mason ( has fire Clear Lake the nuisance at has been warning COLORADO. A late strike in the Mountain Durango assayed $886_ gold. Grand Junction will assume bonds to the amount of $200,000 for the construction of water works. Recent reports from Hahn's Peak more than verify the reports that the ore found at that place is heavily mixed with gold. In Granite district the Magenta shaft Is now ready for work. The vein on this claim is about three feet wide and carires a pay streak a foot in width, averaging over two ounces of gold to ths ton, Two years ago ore that would return less than $20 per ton was not considered worth shipping to smelters. It had to be run through the stamp mills, where but 40 to 50 per ceat of the gold and silver was saved, Lily at | ana and then sent to smelters, Now the smelters Bave reduced their gebpdule of rales to eange from $3 to $7.60 per’ ton, making this the era of low grade priced” " No doubt now exists that the most mous crop of frulf, yer harvested Arkansas valley will mature Many are thinning out frdff ofe-half upw apples now growing onithe trees. Arrangements have.been made for several parties to go to the upper Chicago lake, at Idaho Springs, WHICh s now frozen over, to reach which 'they must go through from ten to twenty feet of snow. A big strike Is TepIrted to have been made on the west slope of Beacon hill, close to the Little May tunnel.; A big dyke of ore has been uncovered on the surface and with very little sorting is found to pay big when treated by chloringtion, Interest increas®s in the new gold belt, sixteen miles southeast of Silver Clff. About 160 claims have alréady been staked and work is pushing on most of them. Ther are immense bodies of ore, great fissure veins running from a trace to six ounces of gold. Arrangemen bull fight at enor- in the growers rd of the are being perfected for a lett and neighboring towns early in the fall. No date has been set for the occasion, but t details of a carnival of spol re going ahead on a giganite scale. The plans are in all respects similar to those adopted in the City of Mexico at the national fight, and puplis of Senor Diaz have already been engaged by the management, and they are said to know all about buli fighting bovines WYOMING Sheridan will soon house. A Quaker colony is considering visability of locating at Wheatland The Carbon County Teachers' institute will be held in Carbon, beginning Monday, August 26, A rough clean-up made on giugs on the Big Laramie City panned out $1.75 per There are still about 750,000 pounds of wool on the Evanston circuit. The wool growers are holding their clip for a better market Another coal discovery has been made near Laramle. The new find is in the hills east of the city. The quality is said to be ex- cellent. During the month of June State Engineer Mead approved of forty-one applications for new and also for the enlargement of old ditches in different parts of the state, A reservoir capable of holding water suf- ficient to reclaim and irrigate about 15,000 acres in the Goose creek and Tongue river regions is more than half completed, and it makes a fine addition to the beauty of the lako scenery. Fourteen thousand acres of land under the Globe canal, which Is now being completed by the Yellowstone Park Land and Irriga- tion oclation, have been filed on by people from Nebraska and Towa, the settlement being known as the Greeley farm colony. Shell creek ranchman have been success- fully using kerosene oil for killing grasshop- pers and crickets, says the Courier. Some of them, where they can get the pests in no other way, drive the hoppers into the ditches that are oiled, and in this way kill large numbers of them. The Pennsylvania Oil and Gas company filed articles of incorporation with the secro tary of state. The capital stock is $600,000. The incorporators are New York, Pennsyl- vania and Wyoming capitalists, The princ pal business of the company will be mining and refining oil, and, will be carried on at Casper, Wyo. . Barrow, who has been prospecting in various portions of; the west for thirty years came in from Tounge river, in the Blg Horn mountains, with some rich specimens of gold quartz, which he siys'exists in large quanti- ties. ‘A local corhpany at Sheridan will at once be organized‘to filly investigate the ex- tent and value of the find. The poison weed near Heart mountain in the northwestern ‘part'‘of the basin is more numerous tiiis season than usual. John Chap- man_ found fifty-tio head of cattle bearing his brand dead oh the prairie, having died from eating the stuff. There are other heavy losses. Chapman has driven his herds to the Sunlight country te aveid further losses. OREGON. A new oyster bad has been found in Ya- quina bay, nearly opposite J. J. Boon's place, four or five miles below Toledo. The Coos bay raft that was distributed along the coast last year is the source from which piles are taken to build the wharf at Port Orford. From a recent census of the fruit growers in Hood River valley, it is found that there are 118,000 fruit trees, ot which 90,000 trees now growing are apple. Water for mining at Gold Gulch is scarce, yet some of the miners are making large wages. Several large nuggets were recently taken from the Foster claim. W. W. Brown of Fife, who only had 500 head of shecp left after the hard winter of 1889-90, now has from and out of that small band 11,000 sheep. Evidently Mr. Brown is a good rustler. The Bugene sawmill is again running regu- larly, and is expected to continue work for the next five months. Eleven thousand logs are in the boom, and 5,000 more have been contracted for. Some of the Antelopo farmers say that there Is a band of mules killing calves and young colts on the Antelope range. A mule will, it is said, take a calf between his teeth and’shake it to death.” The report has gone abroad that hoppers have taken northern Grant. This report is erroneous. It's a hard matter to get grasshoppers for fish bait in this locality, says the Long Creek Eagle. A canvass among the business men of Pendleton to see whether the necessary funds could be raised to establish a woolen mill in conjunction with the scouring mill met with much encouragement, and the project is be- lieved to be feasible. A large number of farmers in county are cutting hay this season, instead of letting the grain ripen for wheat. A gen- tleman living near The Dalles sold twenty- five tons for $10 a ton, when last fall the price paid was between $7 and $8. Two parties of prospectors, in one of which is a woman, are in the mountains near Har- ney, endeavoring to locate the Bluebucket mines, woman was with the emigrants who first discovered the mine, And feels con- fident of being able to locate it. A petition to the county court of Gilliam has been signed by many farmers, sheepmen and merchants asking for $1 bounty on every coyote killed. The coyotes are becoming more troublesome every year, and, besides killing sheep, calves and chickens, have be- gun to kill young pigs by the wholesale. C. K, Spaulding has returned to Newberg from his logging camp. He reports this year's drive well on the way, being at last accounts near Independence. ' The drive is about 4,000,000 feet, 1,000,000 feet larger than last year. A force of thirty men and two four-horse teams are kept busy on the drive Benjamin Agee is the owner, in southern Oregon, of 3,000 acres of land, and is largely interested in fruit,! having 22,000 trees planted, 2,500 prume ‘trees being in bearing Last year ho dried his prunes and sold them for $4,500, receiving 5% cents per pound. He cleared $3,300, it costing him 1%%c for pickin drying and deliveHng aboard cars. In two years Mr. Agee will have 19,000 prune trecs in bearing, and says that $2 of dried fruit to each tree Is a safe estimate at present prices. Captain Brown of the army has in his col- lection at Grant'’y Pass a live oak stump brought from the baad of Jones' creek, in which is the left halg of the antlers of a 6- year-old elk that was left there over seventy years ago. The grewth of the tree shows by rings that it is,minety-seven years old, there being about® twenty-five rings batween the point of depesit,of the horns and the heart of the tree The two lower spikes of the antlers protrude about two inches through the opposite side of the stump. The stump Is perfectly sound, without knots, and is about twenty-two inches high, WASHINGTON, It is now estimated that the Yakima crop will not exceed 12,000 bales, The Ellensburg cheese factory is to be en- larged to double its present capacity. The spring roundup of hornes centering at Kennewick resulte] in about 20,000 head A number of farmers in the vicinity of St John and along Pleasant valley are experi- menting this year rajsing sugar cane. More than sixty acres of sand beach half way between Cape Flattery and the Ozette river have been filed for placer mining cliams. A black bear was shot four or five times by Charles Mouncer and Ethan Weathers, near the Satsop river. Mouncer thought the bear was doue for and started after him, but have a $10,000 opera the ad- the placer dig- river at Dodge ard. grass- Wasco bop ! where 1 kin wash up, bruin rose and caught him and was tearing his flesh frightfully when a shot fired by Woathers killed the animal, The nail works at Everett hand for 25,000 kegs of nal ficlent to keep the plant op for over two months at full kegs daily, The always veraclous Walla Walla States man has heard of a trout taken out oL Willow creek which contained a rattiesnake, not quite dead, about 10 inches long, with one rattle and a button The miners in the Swauk district are pre. paring to fight the claim of the Northern Pa cific railroad to the odd sect s of land in that district. The railroad claims (hat the land is agricultural Jack the Hair Stealer has been operating in Walla Walla Ida, the 12-year-old daughter of Thomas Doncott, was shorn of about a foot of her long and flowing auburn hair, she knows not how, on the Fourth A single log, thirty-two feet long, six and one-half feet in diameter, and containing 10,158 feet of lumber, was cut from a tree 1 1 in Mason county recently This log was cut off twenty-five feet from the butt of the tree, Several short logs, iweasuring elever feet in diameter, were cut from the lowe part The postmaster of the little village of Usk writes to the Walla Walla Union that John J. Bettancourt, an old settler of Walla Walla, who has been working this spring on his mine, The Ma Thomas has found a twelve-foot ledge of ore that carries 3,000 ounces of silver and five ounces of gold. He has five carloads on his dump, and as many more in sight, which has caused a big excite- ment, and hundreds of prospectors are in the hills, and some have already made lo. cations. A new town has been started name Silver City. Jehu Switzler of the Columbia river, who probably has more horses than any other man in the northwest, has entered into a con tract with the Portland Canning company to deliver 8,000 head of horses on the'north bank of the river at $2.90 per head. If he takes them acros the railroad he is to re- ceive $3 per hea It understood the horses are to be slaughtered and packed for the Chinese trade, but they may find tieir way into the home market under the guise of choice corned beef, ys the Yakima Herald, The greatest gathering of Pacific north western Indians in latter days has just taken placo on the Nisqually Indian reservation, twenty miles from Tacoma. The race is dy: ing out, but 1,000 aborigines, representing the Muckleshcot, White River, Black River and Puyallup tribes and ail of the Nisqualli were in the gathering. The occasion was the disinterment of the remains of Chief Leschi, who was hanged at Steilacoom in 1856, and Chief Quiemuth, his brother, who was killed in Governor Stoven's office at Olympla while in custody, in 1857. Both were famous war chiefs in the wars of 1854, 1855 and 1856. MISCELLANEOUS, Th>_extensive coal mines in the town of Belt, Mont., owned by the Anaconda Mining company, have been shut down and nearly 1,000 men thrown out of employment The Lexington Mining company of Butte has been sued by the Butte and Boston com- pany for $400,000 damages, the value of ores alleged to have been taken from the Wah- pello mine by und:rground workings from the Lexington. Grasshoppers still continue to damage to_the vineyards and corn fields of northern Sonoma, in California. In some places next to the foothills the crop has been entirely destroyed, They are more numerous on the hillsides than ever. There Is in process of formation in Stock- ton another tannery company, the intention of which is to build a large sized tannery on the north bank of Stockton channel nearly opposite the tract of land which is to be used for wharves and water front of the Valley road. Surveys for the new Yuma canal are com- pleted. The ditch is seventy feet wide at the bottom, twelve feet deep and ninety miles in length. It starts from Hinton's island, in the Colorado river, cros: the Lower Gila and thence to the Mexican boundary. One hundred thousand acres will ba irrigated. The Southern Pacific Railroad company owes the city of Oakland over $17,000 in back taxes and has refused to pay. The city has begun suit against the company for re- covery of the amount due. In making a defense the railroad, it is sa1d, intends to set up the technical claim that the new char- ter is invalid. It is now generally believed that the gold mine found near India on the desert by the McHaney brothers is the old Peg Leg mine. found by Peg Leg Smith and party sixty years ago. The quality of quartz, old work- ings, human bones, kind of gold, richness of ore and location indicate that it is really the old mine. It is producing from $300 to §1,000 per day in a two-stamp miil. The oldest olive tree in the United States is at the mission of San Juan Capistrano, in an Diego county, Cal. The seed of (his tree was brought from Barcelona, Spain, 126 years ago. This veteran olive tree is fifty feet high, with a trunk five feet in diameter. nce the first planting of olive trees in Cali- fornia the industry has extended so that it today embraces 700,000 trees, of which 400,- 000 were planted in 1893, has orders on which s suf- ating steadily apacity of do much SAVED H18 BOOTS. About the Only Satisfaction the Old Man Had on a Modern Train, The old man had just arrived at his son's house from the country, relates a Boston exchange. “Well, father,” said the boy, “I hope you came through in the sleeping car, as 1 told you to, and had a good night's sleep.” The old man smiled a sickly, sarcastic smile. “Oh! yes' he said, “I had a good sleep, first rate sleep; went to bed early.” “Did you wake up during the night “Only twicet; only went to sleep twicet, “Say, father,” said the young man, “you've got two great bumps on the top of your fore- head. What have you been doing?” “Them’s the two times I woke up. another train both times, an’ when the big engine whizzin’ by, an’ the bell ringin’, I thought ‘twas a fire, an' jumped up slam agin th> cellin’, It's lucky I was awake one time, though. “Why, how 50?" “The ' high an’ mighty importer laughed when I ast to go to my room in the evenin’ was sneekin’ off with boots.”” “Why, he was only going to shine them for you.” “Oh, go 'way,” sald the old man. ‘I never ast him to shine 'em. Anyway, I tock ‘em to bed with me after that, an' never slep’ another wink. Say, Henry, you ain't got an old pair of suspenders, have you?" “I guess T can find a pair for you—yes. “Busted mine tryin' to put my pantaloons on lyin' down. Dons it, though. Got all dressed laying flat—boots, pantaloons, coat collar, necktie—hull business.' “Why didn’t you get out of your berth to put_on your collar and coat?” “Wimmin in the car. Got Henry? an' ! Passed I heerd that arly my a handy place Thers was a umped some, so fast I couldn't Say, Henry, what I'm 80 hungry I bin in the car was goin' well o' water but the train stand up to the sink. time's dinner ready eatin’ my whisker: “Didn’t you get breakfast car, as I told you to?’ “Oh, yes,” said the old man. but I Qidn’t want to go it too expens told the feller I'd just take a cup of o an’ some buckwheat cakes.” “Pretty light breakfast, Henry. “Yes, two_panc: “Well, in the dining that's so," said the old man, kes." come 1ight breakfast— downstairs and we'll fix up Beecham's pills are for bilious- ness, bilious headache, dyspep- | sia, heartburn, torpid liver,diz- ziness, sick headache,bad taste in the mouth, coated tongue, loss of appetite,sallow skin,etc,, | when caused by constipation; and constipation is the most frequent cause of all of them. Go by the book. Pills 10c and 25c a box. Book free at your druggist's or write B. F, Allen Co, 365 Canal St., New York. said | Annual sales more than 6,000,000 boxes. something to eat right away. wait for dinner." “Charged me a dollar," man. “Feller sat next to me eatin’' grapes an' eggs, an’ I don’t know what all. When | we got back in the bedroom car I told him [ calculated that breakfast he st cnst $18 An’ then he told me breakfast was $1 anyway, | w'ether you et much or little. You'd ouglter | wrote me about that, Henry." | “Well, father, a man can ride pretty fortable ‘nowadays, after he gets used to sald Henry, as he started (o lesd the gentleman to the bathroom for a wash “Oyes a man can ride all right when he knows how,” replied the old man, and the smile lasted untll he started to wash his from the fatisets sver- the bathius ! NEW ARMY RXFLE You mustn‘y !%‘Mg} continued ‘he old old to oyes, o Eminent the endorsers all ot Satisfactory at Range, If the target records for the scason of 1805 of companies B and G, Nineteenth infantry 1 ¢ , rent it the Detroit I Press, may be taker ' as a criterion for entire army, company while trade it ommanders rocords for 1 he seasc practics will assuredly expori ence a mingled feeling of deligh and di ust. Delight, because in all short rang shooting pl jomenal results were attained, and disgust because long ranges produc nothing. Yet it must be said that the faul did not lie with the shooters, but must be attributed to the gun Up to 500 yards the a a better shooting gun than the Krag-Jorgen world--artists, Soldiers Say it is Long your nefghbor all othe and Kimball above the for an who high Wy torms if z applied if we rent it i ny has never seen &www: A. HOSPE, Jr. tand Music 3 Douglas. over reconinend the We in a organ, we sell it; rent on, but go back 100 yards farther and it is beyond doubt the worst shooting rifle manu- | 1 The entire fault appears to be In‘ and unless this is corrected the gun is practically useless beyond a points blank range. The velocity of the gun is 1 feet per ond, hence it is easily accounted for why the gun shoots so well at the short | ranges, but as soon ag it becomes necessary | ) elevate the sights it is apparent that the frectional parts of the sight are very de. fective. At 500 yards Corporal Frost, com- pany G, equaled the army record—47; yet at the 600-yard range his scores were very low. Out of the fifty-five men firing in company only three men made a marksman's score. Alwe made two fine scores at the long range--22-24—but the balance of the SCOTes were poor. At the S00-yard range company G fired seven men, who made an aggregate sco of 71. The possible of the aggregate scores was 1,400. Company E fired fifty-nine men at this range and very little better results were | attained Lieuteant Foster made a 24 in one score, but the remainder of the men firing could do nothing. At the 600-yard range it was neces- sary to hold the rifle about two feet to the right of the target and three feet at 800 yards. The highest individual score at one range was that of Private Kuhlman, company G—173 at 300 yards, The lowest score at one range is 2 at G600 yards There is not one Tobacco Chewer in a who does not enjoy LORILLARD’S i {eYe) SOAP for |nfants and chlldren. OTH E RS Do You KnOW uwat raregorie, Bateraan's Drope; Codirey's Gordial, Tsany, s-oalled Boctbing Syruph asd most remedies for children are composed of opium or morphine ? Do You Know that opium and morphine are stupefying narcotic polsons 1 Do Youn Bnow that in most countries druggists are not permitted to sell narcotics without labeling them poisons ? Do You Know that you should not permit any medicine to be given your child unless you or your physician know of what it is composed ? Do Yon Know that Castoria Is a purely vegetablo preparation, and that a list of its ingredients is publishied with every bottle ? Do You Know that Cactoria is the prescription of the famous Dr. Samuel Pitcher. ‘That it has been in use for nearly thirty years, and that more Castoria is now sold than of all other remedies for children combined ? Do You Know that the Patent Office Department of the United States, and of other countries, have issued exclusivo right to Dr. Pitcher and his assigns to use the word “ Castoria” and its formula, and that to imitate them is a state prison offense Do You Know that one of the reasons for granting this government protection was because Castoria had been proven to be absolutely harmless? Do You Know that 35 average doses of Castoria are furnished for 35 cents, or one cent a dose t Do You Know that when possessed of this perfect preparation, your children may e kept well, and that you may have unbroken rest ‘Well, these things are worth knowing. They are facts. is on every wrapper, 3 Million, 134 Thousand, g Hun- dred and Thirty-four Packages sold in 1894, which made 15 Million, 674 Thousand, 7 Hun- dred and Thirty-five Gallons of HIRES Rootbeer or 313 Million, 494 Thousand, 7 Hundred glusscs, sufficient to give every man, woman and child in the United States, five glasses cach—Did you get yours? Be sure and get some this year? The whole family will enjoy it. A 25 cent package makes § gal- lons. Sold cverywhere. Made only by The Chas. E. Hires Co., Philada, o \\ Wulmlmvnm. T 1 DlD CLIMAX PLUC. O30 e [ e Are You Car-Sick When Traveling? Car-sickness is as trying many people as sea-sickness. comes from a derangement of the stomach. A I\lpans Tabule is an insurance against it, and a box of them should be in every traveler’s outfit. to It Ripan's Tabules: Bold by drugglsts, or by mail 1f tho price (50 cents a box) s ment to The Ri- pans Chemical Company, 16 Spruce st., N. Y. e B B g | ] st 1l ) A A A FLOATS JAS. S. KIRK & CO.. U. 8. A 0 i O OO0 B\ [ =) T,