Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 12, 1895, Page 5

Worl on the Puget Sound and Lake Wash- | ington ehip canal, which in this stato has ranked in lnportance with the Nicaragua canal, has beon made the fssue of a campa'gn and has reesived the attention and recommendation of® United Slates senat enngressmen and government eng actually commenced, says a Sea to the San Fraucisco Chronicl bullt by eastern tali who § 000 in its eonstruction The project of untold fmpor m A commcreial and naval standpoin discussed by the state s h dispatch 1t is to he will spend both and ple I for of has been ¥ the country. Tho canal will run through a neck 10,225 fect wide, and wili bo cx at the flate an additional 19,560 feet, so that its length from deep water In the sound to deep water tn the lake will be 20,785 feet, or 3 miles. The hill section Is projected through the high lands dus east of the flats. It plunges into a hill of glacial drift, whers a cut of 308.5 feot will be required; then it enters a valley, in which the st point Wil Le 81.4 feet; then into another hill ris- ing 141.6 feet above the bed of the canal, and finally through a slough into the lake. The canal will be eighty feot wide bottom and twenty-six feet deep @ water. Near Elliott bay, on the w lock will be built, 400 feet long and feet wid Lak: and of miles deep a ears t land the low . fitty long five | feet tide, quiet might Washington 1s twenty miles width varying from three to and is from fifty to seventy-five It lies sixteen feet above high with its numerous Inlets and ers, where the ships of a nation in’ security, will afford an ideal harbor val men have looked upon It as one of the most perfect bavens to be found in all the world. Tt is said that the canal, together with the waterways to be bullt through the tide flats at the mouth of the Duwamish, will afford A means by which the anuual freshets can be_controlled. The canal will open up a large area of country on the shores of the lake; it will contribute a large and convenlent acreage for railroad yards and manufactures: it will vastly increase the deep water frontage of the city; it will supply a fresh water harbor where ships may ride In perfect safety and unchafed by the rising and falling of the tide, and where they may become rid of the destructive teredo; and, all told, it will en- dow the city with facilities for commerce enjoyed by few of the most favored sea- ports of the world. TRYING TO RAISE FLA Extended Investigations of much {mpottance to the commercial interests of the country, having in view the determination of the pos- sibility of successfully growing flax for fiber in this country, have been declded upon by the Agricultural department, says a Wash- ington special to the Oakland '(Cal.) Tribune. The work will be begun at once and will cover this season, and doubtless will extend to next year. The experiments will be con- ducted al East Ferndale, Wash. Agricultural officials belleve that this region is best adapted to flax growing, in view of its damp, moist climate, and the best flax raised in this country, practically all of which is for oil purposes and none for use as fiber, is said to be raised in the vicinity of Puget sound. The Investigations will involve expenditures ing at least $900,000 and will be in charge of Dr. A. W. Tronton, the agent of the department there, who will be assisted by an expert Belgian, who has been in this country some time. The experiments are regarded as of great tmportance and will be watched with much interest by manufacturers. The work will bo begun at once, and the flax, after being grown and treated, will be sent Lo factories. SILK CULTURE ASSURED. Mr. 8. Ban, an intelligent, educated Japan- ese, who speaks English guently, has just e hibited in the office of the secretary of the exposition a skein of silk ralsed on Portland Helghts, says the Portland Sun. Mr. Ban has a ranch of about sixty acres on the heights near Mount Zion, and three years ago he began the experiment of cultivating silk. He was advised that the experiment would result In failure; that this courrry and climate were not suitable, and other reasons were assigned. However, belng a practical man, and having a knowledge of the culture in Japan, three years ago he imported 1,000 mulberry trees from the old country and set them out on two acres of his land. The trees took root readily without the loss of one. Last February Mr. Ban secured from Japan silk- worm eggs sufficient to stock the trees, and the result is now that he has a sample of the finest silk that has ever been raised. He has demonstrated the fact that silk can be raised in this country, and he is anxious to show It to the people, especially skepties, at the exposition. It Is certain that silk cul- ture can now be added to the other industries of this valley, and there will be money In it The experiment tried In other portions of this state proved an entire fallure from the start, but in those cases it was the fault of tho climate. The climate of the lower Wil- lamette appears to be sultable. WELL OF GREEN PETROLEUM. Veteran oilmen from forelgn parts and ploneer borers of local repute have had their Interest aroused by a discovery of vast im- portance to the local ofl Industry, says a Los Angeles dispatch to the San Francisco Ex- aminer. Joseph E. Cook, the well known broker and manufacturers’ agent, has struck it so_rich in his_well on Meicalf street, near Temple, that he is the envy of all the fortune hunters in this district. About six weeks ago he bought his well, which is near the Strauss plant, and has been boring with varying success since. At the level at which all ‘the other wells had run Into the full flow of petroleum, little or no result was achieved, But Cook resolved to “fight it out on that line if it took all summer,” and continued his boring. In the next 200 feet all kinds of obstacles were encountered. Sand buckets fell into the bore, casings would stick, the hole would become jammed and promising indications would ‘end in nothing. Nine hundred feet down, in the third sand stratum encountered by the per- sistent borer, what looked like quantities of Iiquid green paint was brought up. A little further and clearer quality came up in a steady flow, and Investigation discovered im- measurable quantities behind. The stuff wasassayed and tested, and was found to be of 4 vastly different quality from the or- dinary petroleum of commerce. The black petroleum, which Is on an asphalt base, is coarse and of & gravity as high as fourteen or fitteen. The flow from the Cook well is green, on a heavy parafine base, and is strong with Its quantity of kerosene, hav- ing & twenty-elght gravity. In fact, the borers who wash the black ofl out of thelr hands with ordinary Kerosene can take this raw product and wash themselves equally clean. Oil men claim the discovery to be fully as important as the first strike made hers, and perhaps even more so, because it fudicates an inexhaustible basis under the fleld, and deposits below the present depths 80 rich that measures will be generally taken to see who can strike it next. The gauge of the bore will have to be increased o make the depth, and machinery and meth- ods will be revolutionized. RICH IN FREE GOLD. The richest gold strike ever made on the Colorado river was that just made in the Pleacho mines, says a Yuma special to the Denver News. Some miners working about tweaty feet from the line of the Mars mine, in what has always been supposed to be barren ground, began an open cut in the great vein of quartzite which crosses the foundation. On the surface no gold was found in the rock. At the depth of twenty inches they struck $5 to $8 ore, which at fhe end of the distance of twenty feet Increased to $15 to $18. They then sunk a shaft on the ore. At the depth of five feet the rock run $18 to $25, at ten feet from $25 to $50, and from soventeen to twenty feet it runs from $50 to $150 per ton in free gold. The ore body as now opened s twenty feet wide of this rich ore, showing neither wall At the bottom of the shaft the ore continu- ally grows richer as depth is attained. The croppings on the surface are 700 feet wide and show for a long distance in length When they enter the Mars line and partly across that mine they are more than 700 feet in width. All the ground covered by the new find has been located. It is regarded by mining men to be the richest and most im- portant strike ever made ‘n Southern Arizona or along the Colorado river. LUCKY ORE FIND, Beveral Impartant discoverles have been made lu Morongo min'ng district lately, says a rest | wer | who are also veterans of the late stern Progress. ‘ e TR R D e R San Bernardine 4l Chronicle, The greatest excitement prevails at the Morongo King mine of that district becanse of a big strike, and the richest ore yet uncovered is being hoisted from a level that has been 1 ning over 300 feet The new find fs a seven-foot ledge of rich ores From the first thirty tons which were milled at the mine three bars of gold bullion made, one of which went $1,300. The two are about the same, so that the tons netted a total of $4,000. Judge iphell, one of the owners, had an made that showed $272 to the ton. But es were from the same body of ore as tiis just discovered This mine Is located about fifty miles north- east of this city, and has an excellent supply of water and wood. VETERANS Two old-time miners on other STRIKE IT RICH the Pacific slop war and in mates of the Soldiers' Home, four miles south of this city, have been putting in ome of their leisure time prospecting for gold in the mountains north of there, with the result of finding some fine looking quart assaying more than $100 to the ton, says a Santa Mon- ica dispatch to the San Francisco Call. They began sinking on the ledge, which was a well defined cropping, a year or more ago, and from time to time resumed work until they have attained a depth of thirty feet, at which depth the new ore was found. The ore body is about six inches in width and Is running perpendicular with the walls, which are I J and porphyry. The ore is black and white spar, interspersed with pyrites of tron. They have also put it to the test of pan and mortar and some beautiful colors were obtained, which were visible to the naked eye. There fs a great deal of float quartz in the gorge below and it was by this means that the ore was traced to its origin. The new find has stimulated the discoverers to continue work as rapidly as possible, and to this end they are putting up a cabin at a spring in the vicinity of the claim and hereafter will camp on the ground. For many years prospecting in these mountains has been indulged in, but with no results like the present, and many have gone out to see the new discovery and look for mors. OIL IN THE FOOTHILLS. A company is belng formed here for the purpose of developing the rich oil beds be- lieved to underly the foothill land in the Coast Range, owned by Selma people, a Selma dispatch to the San Francisco Call. Near Coalinga, in the extreme south- western part of Fresno county, A. Baricau, a merchant, and Milton McWhorter, a Methodist evangelist and newspaper man, who is known throughout the state in connection with the Sunset Irrigation district, own land in the foothills. A streak of oll rock crops out on this land, It has been prospected with pick and shovel, and such surface work as could be done with the most primitive tools. In this way A. Baricau has secured many gallons of lubricating ofl, which comes from nature’s laboratory all ready for use. Many well known farmers in this viciiity have used it in the past season on their machinery, and pronounce it superior to the commercial ar ticle. The petroleum, which has been se- cured in the same primitive way, Is black and odorous, but burns well, and could be made available for fuel without refining. A samplo has been sent to the east to be tested. In the same vicinity natural gas has been Qiscovered. A fet in a fissure by th side, accidentally lighted by a mateh, burned for days, a weird torc lonely and unfrequented region..Captain Bar- rett, Captain McClurg and W. D. Lagrange, all of whom have had experience in oil de- velopment in the oil regions of Ohio, recently visited the Baricau land and were more than satisfied with the prospect. The com- pany now being formed includes these gen- tlemen, together with other experts and cap- italists. A plant will be procured and two or three experimental wells sunk within a short time. KILLED BY A BEAR. | Word was recently received of an unknown man being killed by a bear at Berner's. bay. The man was James McDonald, an old-time miner and prospector of Juneau, Juneau Mining Record. The story goes that while he and William Prior were out pros pecting the day upon which the death oc curred they gave two Indian boys the rifl which they had with them to go up on the mountain side to hunt for mountain sheep. Soon after the Indians had left McDonald and Prior saw three bears, ore old and two year- ling cubs, coming after them at full speed The men started to run, but McDonald, who saw at once- that his fate was certain, told Prior, who was in advance, not to wait for him, ‘but to save his own life. The large bear soon overtook McDonald. As she was about to come upon-him he turned and raised a prospecting pick to strike, but the bear with one blow from her paw sent him whirl ing in the air. No soouner done than she started In hot pursuit of Prior. Prior was headed for a deep gulch, and upon reaching it he fell over a clump of buslios, landed on the snow and shot down the mountaiv side like 1 arrow. When he reached the gulch the bear was butafew feet from him, but here she seemed to have lost all track of him and turned back to finish the wounded man, and betore leaving him she saw that life was extinct. The Indians were far up the moun- tain side and saw McDonald meet his fate, but were unable to render any assistance. Prior landed at the bottom of the gulch not a little bruised, but feeling rather satisfied with his unpleasant ride. The bear soon left and Prior and the Indians brought the re- mains of the dead man to Juneau, where he was buried. James McDonald was born in Nova Scotia in 1844, and came to Alaska from Colorado in 1886, from which time he has been engaged in mining and prospecting. He served In the late war, and was a mem- ber of the Grand Army of the Republic. NEBRASKA. Red Willlow county claims to have 8,000 acres of alfalfa this season. Thurston county is organizing an agricul- tural society and will have a fair. Emerson will have a new Methodist church, to be bullt of brick and to cost $2,000. Threshers at work in the vicinity of Wake- fleld report that wheat is averaging tweaty- five bushels per acre, Wayne Is to have a new enterprise in the shape of a shirt factory, to be operated by E. C. Cole, recently of Omaha. The two days' reunion of the old soldiers at Hooper was a great success. General Thayer was one of the a#rncnouu. G. G. Haller's residerftp, three miles from Winside, was entirely destroyed by fire dur- ing the temporary absence of the occupants. The directors of the Custer county falr have decided to permit no political speeches on the fair grounds during the annual show The semi-annual statement of the treasurer of Platte county shows the county has $7,- 593 cash on hand and only $11,265 in out- standing warrants. ' The rallroad company has completed & new sidetrack at Pender in order to make room for the grain cars that will be needed to haul out Thurston county's crop: Mr. Duell, a farmer near Meadow Grove, threshed 230 bushels of barley from two and a half acres of land, the grain being machine measured and the land surveyed. Fred Schram, a 14-year-old Columbus boy, climbed onto a frieght train switching about the yards for a ride. In jumping off he was thrown under the wheels and killed. Postmaster Korns of Tekamah will resign in order to enter the newspaper business. He has, in company with Charles Conger, pur- chased a newspaper at Casper, Wyo. Norfolk's military band s figuring on going to Bostou with the Nebraska Knights Tem- plar. Incidentally, twenty or thirty other bands in the state are hoping to make the same trip. Sparks from a locomotive set fire to Joseph Graham's field of shocked oats near North Bend and he now has to guess how big the ylold would have been had the grain not been destroyed. The 3-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Mar- shall was lost in the sand hills of Frontier county for twenty-four hours. The little one was found nearly dead from heat and thirst having wandered seven miles. The Lyons Mirror figures the value of Burt County's crop something like this Wheat, $338,688; oats, $387,600; corn, $900,000; hay of all kinds, $240,000; potatoes, fruft, etc. $500,000. This makes a total of $2,366,188 and does not Include hogs, cattle, pouitry ©gEs or butter. Some idea of the agricultural importance of Burt county may be gained when It s known that it bas this year ateh to the San Francisco | 112,000 acres of corn, 4 says the | 2,336 acres of wheat, 000 acres of oats and 60,000 acres of hay lands, B. E. Ash Is the first Custer county farmer to pay for the seed furnisped him last spring Ly the Broken Bow Rellef assoclation was loaned fifteen bushels, and from the seed he raised 200 bushels of fine wheat Mrs. Anna DeLario of Fremont word that her brother, Charles Bramel, been killed at Laramfe, Wyo. He was at work in a mine and a heavy hoisting bucket crushed him, death being instantan eous. Farmers in the vieinity of Table Rock have contracted to cultivate 2,000 acres of sugar beets next year, and the citizens of that bus- tling town and subscribed $3,000 in cash toward a sugar factory. Loup City people are enthusiastic over the new ditch being constructed by the Sherman County Trrigation company. The ditch (ap the Middle Loup river near Arcadia and is hirty-six miles long. It will irrigate 30,000 acres of rich bottom land John Ihrig, a Beaver City man, drove into a shoal of water at the head of the mill race | to water his team. The horses plunged into a washout twelve feet deep and Ihrig was nearly drowned before he could extricate him- self from beneath his buggy. Three_tramps broke into a Beaver City store. Their Identity was established and a posse of citizens gave chase. The tramps took refuge in the corn fields, and the corn stood so thick and high that they had no diffi- culty in secreting themselves. North Bend has had another baptism of fire. The flames started in Kemper's harness hop, and before they were extinguished Kruza's new grocery store and Mrs. Scott's millinery store were entirely destroyed. The total loss foots up to about $8,000. Oscar Brown, a man 50 years old, is under arrest at Fremont for trying to make a erim- inal asauit on Clara Dalstrom, a littla girl 7 years old. The child is an orphan. The court offered to release Brown on $300 bail, but the sentiment against him was so st/ong that no one would go his bond. Work has been commenced on a new grain elevator at Wakefield. The Masonic lodge has purchased a lot and will at ynce erect a two-story lodge building, a new hotel is to b erected right away, and new grain is being shipped out of the town at the rate of a car load a day. Times are pretty good in Wake- fleld. recelved had T0OWA. The pontoon bridge at Sioux City is prac tically completed. The Onslow 0dd Follo two-story brick hall An electric lighting plant probabilities for Rockford An artesian well is being sunk at the Fort Madison state penltentiary. Work on Indianola new system of water orks is to be commenced at once. Fort Dodge is to have a Catholic academy, to be conducted by the Sisters of Mercy Mr. and Mrs, Edward Kerivan ously injured in a runaway accider ton. Three well known citizens of Waterloo have been fined for shooting prairie chickens out of season. The Women's Bicyele club of Mason City has seventy-gight members, and they all wear bloomers. Good progress struction_of the at Fort Madison. The contract for the n county court house at Knoxv to a Chicago man. The college at Humboldt with ten regular Instructors. closed for some time. John Beccher of Burlington was Kkilled by a train while crossing the track on his way home from work. Twenty-five hundred old soldiers and their fimilies held a monster picnic at Greenwood park, near Des Moines, Grinnell has just laid the corner stone of a new Methodist Episcopal church, to | when completed $30,000. Judge Granger of the supreme court is tc be married scon, the bride being the daughter ot Judge Given of Des Mol Chnton people are all worked up because Genevleve Flood, an employe in a miliinery store, has married a Ch'naman Calhoun county has a preacher who a bicycle, or rather, did ride, until thief In the night rode it away. Isasc H. McQuown, 60 years old, and a lighly respecte] farmer near Burlington, was gored to death by a vicious bull Willlam P. Barnes, a prominent citizen of Dubuque, died at the age of 73. He had been confined to his bed five years. The deadlock In the Indianola school board over the choice of a superintendent still con- tinues. Over 100 ballots have been taken with no_results. g Fred Jones, cashier of the Merchants' Na- tional bank at Clinton, was nearly asphyxi- ated by a gas heater In his bath room. took two hours to resuscitate him. Charles Phillips, a Rock Island railroad conductor, went to a ball game at Trenton and yelled so enthustastically for the winning club’ that he ruptured a blood vessel a died. Mrs. C. D. White of Hanley was thrown from a carriage and had her scalp torn com- pletely from her head. She is still living, but the physiclans have but little hopes of her recovery. Miss Emma Hanson, living near Malone, went to a dance Saturday night and danced over Sunday. She stezed with heart dis- ease the next day as the result of over exert'on and died. : EA Croskrey, an 18-year-old boy at Tama, dug through the basement of the Methodist Episcopal church until he uncovered the cor- ner stone. Then he chiseled through to the tin receptacle and stole the trinkets that had been deposited there when the stone was laid. He put in several days' hard work and sold the stuff for 50 cents. The census returns are revealing a number of centenarlana now living in lowa. Among those discovered the past week are Brooker Ford of Ottumwa, 102 years old; Naney Craughan of Monroe county, 100 years old, and William Kennedy of Monroe county, 100 years old. All claim to be enjoying good health. The first named is a negro preacher, who can neither read nor write. The latter two are Irish Catholics. COLORADO. A new gold strike has been made In the Batty near Idaho Springs. The smelter re- turns show $35 to the ton. A Detroit syndicate s about to commence the construction of a $100,000 chlorination plant in California gulch near Ward. The Gold Standard mine In the Cripple Creek district is tq be driven another 250 feet. It is now 700 feet in the mountains. At the depth of over 100 feet a big vein of $100 ore was opened up In the Champlon, on Rich hill, on Alpine creek, about four miles from Duncan camp. In the Smuggler mine at Aspen, 900 feet below the surface, one pump is installed which welghs 114 tons, cost $45000, and throws to the surface 850 gallons of water per minute, The Grand View management has struck two feet of $300 gold smelting ore in the Great Western, which they are working under lease. The ore s said to be almost solid copper. The Lincoln Placer company, situated on the west side of Gillett, has nearly com- pleted the dam for water storage and con- templates running a flume from Ol creek to obtaln water supply. Placer dirt running as high as $40 to the ton has been uncovered in the vieinity of Second street at Victor. A hand-rocker has been called into requisition and the ground will be thoroughly prospected. Huerfano county 1s attracting considerable attentlon on account of tne recent important and extensive discovery of tin ore that coy- talns & greater percentage of tin than any yet discovered in the United States. are building a is one of the were seri nt at Clin the rail Is be new eles g made in ric street con $80,000 Marion lo has been let s to b2 reopened It has been rides some Sam Hubbard, §r., of Prescott brought some ore from a recent strike In the Queen milne on Spruce mountain for assay. At a depth of thirty-two feet a drift was started, and in ‘the first ten feet a veln of sulphuret ore was encountered. Samples were taken from Ho | ve formed a joint stock company | 5 BEE: It, and_the assay shows $45 to the ton in gold. The veln will be followed in the be- llet that it will g#W richer as depth ie al tained. g | The Hahn's pesk excitement is spreading and a number of praspecting parties have left Leadviile for the rew carbona e camp, ard | other parties are belng fitted out to explore | for silver bonanzab Bf' the $2,600 order Reports show that’grasshoppers are doing much damage near Greeley. | the farmers are doing their best to kill them | with bran mixed With paris green, their neighbors are making no effort to suppress the evil ) Swan Anderson reports the find of a rich mine about three and one-half miles mortheast | of Victor. The ofe i paying at a depth of | three feet. Expebts say it is one of the | brightest prospects struck in the district in the past year. A large holy in the Gold Standard property, at Pine Creek, in the bottom of the ninety-foot shaft, run ning from $200 to $300, and has practically demonstrated the fact that ninety to 100 feet will put other mines in good pay News has reached this ¢ity of a portant strike in the Walter Scott in the Alicante d t the Herald-Democrat he is =ta average $65 per of it nine feet true it is the In rocent years On Antelepe creek new gold is attracting large crowds ors, camps are established veyed, and altogether, fi ta! d fiom the surface rock, there is good reason to believe th thi. too, is going to make another of the now many gold camps ot Colorado, says the Colorado Springs News. | In fact, the Greenhorn mountain par ticularly on the west side been done justica to by the pros forma- tion that exists here, if fou west ern mining region, would have been prospected THE DAKOTAS. The postoffice at Grand Vie continued and mall for that sent to Hillside. The tenth annual convention of the North Dakota pharmaccutists convened at Fargo last week and officers for the cnsulng year were elected The city council at Pier pressure of the water m requirement of the contract tion virtually annulling the same, The tournament of the Black Hills Fire- men's assoclation, to be held last week at Rapid City, was declared off on account of greement in the board of control. An- other tournament is to be inaugurated in its place. The sceretary of the interior has rendered a decision which practically gives the famous Squatterville tract to the city of Aberdeen, being adverse to all other claimants. There is a general foeling that this long drawn out case s, to all appearances, drawing pidly to a close. The land is very valuable, as it lies within the city limits, and a large por tion of it will be devoted to a public park. Rosa Verona De Pgdro Baro Is the long panish name which hand ne brunette told Judge McConnell of I when she applied for and was tivorce the other day. Her former home was in Havana, Cuba, where in 1884 she marriel the wealthy Cuban planter, Juan Do Pedro Baro. Fortune smiled on the pair, and they traveled extensively in France, Switzerland and other countries, when, it is alleged ir the complaint, Ju reserted the plaintiff two ago for another man's wife. There were two children, the jssue of the marriage One is in the pdss of the father, an the other is being educated in New York. WYOMING. A postoffice s (about to be established at Smith's ranch on the upper Big Laramic for the accommodation of the people of that vicinity b 1t is raported that a vein of coal over fow feet in wdth has bepn struck at shaft No 2 on the Fort Saunders reservation mnea Laramte at a depth of sixty fe The coa is said to be of fne quality. A big strike was made by the Pennsylvan Miging company at no in a new shaf which it was sinking, an eighteen | vein of free milling ! gold o being struck that runs upwards of §500 per ton A colony of about thirty Germans are ex d to arrive kooh at Bonanza frem Col orado. They will settle on the north end ¢ the Big Colorado flat, along the Big Horn where there are several fine sections of fin tand vet unclaimed, The Unfon Pacific land in Sweetwater cc which it returnec for' assessment at 15 pr acre. The county commissioners got after th» company and raised the land to $5 per acre, making ¢ change from $3,450 to $115,000. J. F. Stanley will ercct a large rvoir near Casper which will cover forty res. The dam across the ravine will b 1,200 fest long, ferty-eight feet wide at the base and seventeen feet high. The stored in this reservoir comes down Casper creck and will be sufficient to rigate several thousand acre: The richest gold fnd in the South Pas mining dist has heen made by Messrs Schultz, Davies and Swales, who are operating a lsase on the Franklin m'ne. The com menced to drift at a depth of sixty feet, and had sone hut a few feet when they came on a veln of rock covered with gold. Sixty pounds of the rock was pounded out, twe pounds of amalgam, which will retort half, making the rock worth $43,200 a ton. The vein is six to eight inches wide. OREGON It is rumored that Astoria will build another caunery on Gray's bor this fall. It is expected that 7,000 shipped from Arlington this fall to ton slaughter house. A party of copper miners has specting a copper mine on Bear Wallowa county that is said to rich, There Is a fig tree growing in E. Weide- man's yard, which, though only three years old, had on it this year 277 white figs, says the Guard, of Eugene. In some of the gardens of Lane county, says the Eugene Guard, tobacco has proved a successful crop, being more generally ralsed in the Nehalem county. S. H. Friendly shipped a carload of cas- cara from Eugene to Philadelphia, contain- ing 28,000 pounds. This is the largest ship- ment of cascara bark east from this state ever made, says the Register. John Turner, who is mining on the creek about a mile above Canon City, picked up a $15 nugget the other day, containing plenty of white quartz. The nugget was worn smooth as though it had drifted for some time. The first tunnel at the Santiam mines has been run in forty feet, and free gold ore has been str.ck. Considerable activity is apparent in the Santiam region, and the hills are being thoroughly prospected for new claims The Oregon Rallway and Navigation eom- pany is doing good :work In improving the road near Grants, oA force of men has been busy for some time blasting away the rock for the purposeof doing away with the curves near that place. The Springfleld’Lowell mail route has a woman mail carrier. "She Is a plucky woman, and mounts her hogse at 6 o'clock in the morning, carrying thail a distance of over twenty miles and-back again the same day She carries the mafl only on days that the Kitson Springs stuge does not run. The latest freaks in nature that are now on exhibition in Roseburg are two malformed pigs. They havé mo hind legs at all, nor rudiments of hips. 'Their bodies taper oft to a sort of point' frem which the tail elon- gates like well-formeéd’ pigs; otherwise, they look like other hogs ‘of the porcine family A hen's nest wa§ found on Douglas & Levinger's farm, " abiove Springfield, whieh contained 1,042 eggs. About one-halt of the eggs were good, and the remainder spoiled The nest was found under a barn which was bullt five years ago, and it Is supposed that the hens have been laying there ever since. very im- property, Leadville pd, will 1f this be strike made re, it andthere pened up Important in that district ton wide a the discovery of of prospect il townsites sur m the assays ob. mo; never the the ago has 1 in long has beep dis point will be finding the half the od a resolu s o &ion P has 23, nty. 000 acres of con storage ot cannerymen har- horses will be the Linn- been creek, in be quite WASHINGTON. From to 250,000 feet of logs are dumped into the boom at Shelton daily It is estimated that the forest fires in Whatcom county have burned over 50,000,- 000 fect of timber, destroying about one- fifth of it. The damage done by the fire on the Austin track, near South Bay, is estimated at 5,000, 000 feet of cedar and 30,000,000 of fir For three-quarters of a mile from the lake the forest is perfectly clear of underbrush and all debris. 1t f thought that 150,000,000 feet of fir has been %0 burned as to necessitate log- MONDAY, AUG While some of | f Migh krade ore was uncoverad | 5P TSt 13, ta0n._ £ing Within two years. At present prices this would aimount to a forced marketing of tim- ber worth on Bellingham bay $160,000, The Yakima river at Bllensburgh is running at low ebb, The editor of the Capital says | 1t I8 lower at this time than *t any similar period for twenty-three years | The women of Olympla are taking hold of the work of establishing an Olympia branch of the State Co-operative society, a society to encourage home Industries, | A large forcst fire Is raging Bay, Lake Whateom, and a \ount of valuable timber is | No other damage is reported |, Harvesting In Walla Walla has pr far enough for the farmers to conclude t | the crop this year will be little, if any than last year, and that more will be shipped | out because of better prices The Lincoln County Times is that a colony of United Brethern from the | | state of Ohlo has determined to come (o | Lincoln county, and fs arranging to purcha: about 10,000 acres of land in the nelghbor- | | hood of Mondovi | he Spokane Times says that a well known cattle bu: by a troop of United States cavalry, at Fort Spokane, just as a | erowd of Indians was preparing to string him up to a tree. The Indians claimed the man had outraged the 12-year-old g'rl of the tribe. Mount ms, in this state, 1s 12,402 feet ligh, according to figures based on calcula tions made by Prof. Edgar McClure of the University of Oregon, who carried a mer- curlal barometer to the summit July 10, with the hellographic party rom the figures | taken at th's place, Portland and Bugene Ore., he finds the above result as a mean Herstofore the mountain has been thought to be only a little more than 11,000 feet, but the new figures make ft 197 feet higher than Mount Hood, Oregon: MISCELLANEOUS. ie survey for the coast line of the South ern Pacific has been compieted to Elmwood. F. A. Smith of Santa Ana, Cal,, has a sun- flower stalk that is fourteon and one-half feet high and is “'still a-growing." The Maricopa & Phoenix railroad will Messa, A. T., in six weeks. Ground has b broken at Tempe for the new extension “It is an_open secret that the San Board of Trade has offered Colone a subsidy to extend the Monterey & Fresno rallroad to the Garden City. The road will be connected at Fresno with the Valley road. The Southern California Packing company of Los Angeles will put up this season ibout 60,000 cases of canmed frult. The pack will comprise apricots, pears, peaches, blackberries, strawberries, raspberries and plums, A farmer near Marysville, Cal., is author. ity for, the statement that every day he is cbliged to feed from four to six tramps. It lie refuses them they threaten to burn his property. The river banks are lined with them, and their camps plainly show that chickens are stolen and cooked almost dail at work in the mountains Tulare county, says the Tulare Register She is running an engine for a shake m ibove Mountain Home. She is the practica manager of the outfit, and when the machis goes wrorg she diiests the rip iring. She b s her husband and two small boys at work and keeps things moving. The English syndicate chased for $250,000 informe ach Jose Jones A new woman is ot is al | | that recently pur. Iron Mountain mines the richest gold, silver and copper mines in this part of the state, located nine miles north of Shasta, Cal., will soon begin to erect » smelter and other works at the foot of the | mountain, two miles from town. They will also soon begin grading for a railroad from the mine to the works. s Twe men who have been Trinity mountain forthe 1 pocket a few days ago he mountain, about midway between Shasta and Trinity Center, which contalned $11,200 | in gold dust. Some of the old ploneers living here belleve this gold to have been buried by robbers who in early days robbed Wells, Fargo & Co.'s pack trains quite frequently in the neighberhood of this find, Woodpeckers in the mountains of southern California do cabinet work that cannot be squaled by the most skilled artisan. The srafty birds gather acorns, drill holes in the trunks of pine trees, into which they fit the nuts so closely and snugly that squirrels ara unable to pull them out. It is discovered hat, after belng implanted, a worm appears n the acorn, and it is for the purpose getting this worm later on that the crafty bird stores away acorns in this unique nanner. The Tucson Star gives the following to illustrate the troubles of the stock raiser One firm of stockmen, not so very long.ago, sunk a well and made other preparations and then put out some 2,000 head of stock Recently they hunted up all the cattle to be found that bore their brand, and although they had sold none yet, about 400 head was all that could be got together. Another man could find but ninety-two out of 1,500. It is said that the depredations of the Papagoes will account for much of the miss ing stock. The California cotton mills in East Oak- land have under consideration a move to Japan on the other side of the Pacific. The ompany of local capitalists behind the con- was organized in 1883 with a capital of $600,000, and has given employment to as many as 300 boys and girls at a time, but owing to the future possibility of having to compete with prison labor and the set-back given the industry of twine, rope and ore bag manufacture, the works have no outlook, and in_casting about to sce what could be done the Japan scheme was broached to the stockholders, prospecting on past month found near the foot of - To Cleanse the System Effectually yet gently, when costive or bil- ious, or when the blood is impure or slug- gish, to permanently cure habitual consti- pation, to awaken the kidneys and liver to a healthy activity, without irritating or weak- ning them, to dispel headaches, colds or fevers use Syrup of Figs. Unable to Resist Taking o Look at Mexcian Women's Bathing G They tell a good story on a party of ex- cursionists who went om a personally con- ducted tour to Mexico last winter, says the Washington Post. The party was in charge of Charles Gates of Toledo. O., but included prominent people from other cities. They traveled in a special train, which stopped at all the Interesting places en route long enough to give the excursionists ample time to see the sights, and sometimes they saw ome not down on the bills. This story concerns one of them. They stopped at a small town near the Mexican frontier—name omitted, lest after this tale is printed excur- sionists’ should swarm to see it. While strolling along a little stream halt a dozen of the male members of the party came across an inclosure with the legend: “Bath- ing for ladies—Do nct look. No more was necessary. They were out to see the sights, and this sign was sufficient The fence was not too high to climb, and when a greaser policeman happened along that way he found six stald and supposed.y respectable heads of families hanging over that fence, gazing with all the strengih of *huir dozen eyes. Accordingly, he gatnired them In and escorted them down to the litcle acobe jail, where they were locked up to await bail,, As the time for the tra'n to de- part approfiched the wives of the six prisod- ers began to look about for their worse halvi Then a Mexican official came the train and notified them of the troubls Mr. Gates, who had luckily stayed with the traln, at once went to the rescue. Fira: le Interviewed the prisoners, and then he wert before the local alcalde to plead for them Luckily, that officlal spoke English and alio enjoyed a joke. hese wen are all American gentleman urged Mr. Gates. “Highly respectable o zens of some of our largest communitiss.' “Well, they should not have looked over the fence; they saw the sign.” “I am convinced they did not see the siga, Insisted Mr. Gates. “Why?" Inquired the alcalde. “‘Because there were half a dozen more in the party, and if they had secn that sign all would have been there.' “Release the prisoners,” sald the while his sides shook with laughter. She DId Not W J. W. Johnson, editor Traveler, Chicago, says: *“When at the lowa State fair last fall my wife was taken vio- lently 1l with cholera morbus. 1 asked, ‘Shall 1 go for a doctor? she sald ‘Go for Chamberlain's Colie, Cholera and Diarrhoea remedy.’ 1 followed instructions. 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The others replied with a smile, as If they in- dorsed his views The first and second day until midnight passed pleasantly. Then the ship began to pitch and roll, and well it might, for it had struck the track of a eyclonic storm and the next morning it was in the midst of the storm itself. When the traveler who feared that “this might be his time" found his way to his seat, he discovered that his companions were missing. “It was rather a hard night, steward,” he sald. “A great many of the passengers sick, T suppos: ““That they are, sir,"” answered the steward All of this table sick, sir, but you, sir.” ‘What! Mr. Blank also?’ asked the voy- ager In mock surprise, as he mentioned the name of the person who couldn't get sick. “Well, I'l have to go and see him later." A few hours later he found his way to the cabin of the superior sailor, who was groan- ing wretchedly, when not imploring some one to knock him on the head and throw him overboard “Why, sick?" 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