Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 26, 1895, Page 5

parts of the compass In San Bernardiro county comes the news of rich strikes In the mines, and renewal of work on claims long ago thought to be of no value The mines recently opened at Engle camp, at the head of Morongo pass, are developing rich finds, says a San Dernardino special to the San Francisco Call. In some places work has been pushed to the depth of twenty feet, with the result of producing ore (hat says over $100 in pure gold to the ton. The ledges aro wide and can be traced for nearly a mile, Excitement continues to grow over the big find at Oro Grande, as rock has been taken from the Carbonate that goes iato the neig! borhood of $15,000 per ton. Mining men are not slow to say that the Oro Grande country will be the “biggest diggicgs” in the state. “Jack” Simmons, Joseph Brown and Jap Corbett returned to this city after having made an cxtensive mining trip throughout the eastern portion of the county. On the trip they 1 Hathaway mountains and Chucawalla me brought back with them about a hundred specimens from as many different s, all of which are now Pprospects. The most famous claim in the Hathaway mountains is the Honch mine, which containg an Immense body of ore, ranging from $40 up fn gold In the Virginia Dale district the two princi- pal mines are the White Star and Ivanhoe, both containing large bodles of oro yielding from $15 to $30 to the ton. The French com pany in the Virginia Dale district has forty or fity very rich claims, all showing rich classes of ore. In the immediate vicinity 13 the mine Gypsy, bearing a very high grade of ore. The formation in which the gold is found is mostly granite. These mines are Toeated about 120 miles trom San Bernardino to the east. FOUND A LOST MINE. There are many legends told about differ- ent finds of lost mines, and it would seem that one of them has at last been verified. In 1835 a crank who believed himself to bave been selected of the Lord to discover a rich gold field, which would be the cause of the removal of the Catholic pope to this country, 1s said to have discovered one, says the Denver Republican. He wandered over a large part of Wyoming for three years, but was finally wounded by the Indians near the present city of Rawlins, He made his way to New York, where he shortly after- ward died in a hospital. Just before his death he traced a map, which was afterward gent to Father Cassidy of the Rawlins par- fsh. The statement accompanying the map read as follows: “Go northwest from Fort Steele seven miles, then follow Indian trail a half day's march to an old river bed." The map marked the trail's direction and the location of the placers. This was shown to several members of the Catholic church 0 Rawlins, among others William McCarthy and Malachi Dillon, well known business men, Hundreds of old prospectors have searched for the old river bed during the past twenty years. The other day Mr. Dillon stumbled upon it. There was no water in the vicin- ity, 50 a quantity of the gravel was taken to Rawlins and the result was 50 cents a pan. The spot is about seven miles north of Rawlins and several hundred claims have been staked out. An artesian well is being talked of and a_scheme of bullding a great diteh from the Platte river is under consid- eration. 010 mining men say it is one of the most promising placer outlooks in the west. STRIKE IN SAWPIT GULCH. The excitement over the carbonato strike n Sawpit gulch, on the line of the Rio Grande Southern, fs materlally subsiding, says a Telluride special to the Denver Experienced miners who have returned from that district, which is only fifteen miles from Telluride, say there is no good foundation to Just'fy the excitement, but there is never- theleas good mineral at the bottom of it. The excitement has its inception from the discov- eries made by L. Blake, J. Campbell and others of Rico, who recently obtained a lcass and bond on a property there. While devel- oping they encountered a chamber two or three feet In height, It length and bre:dth being yet undetermined, between the blue lime stone and quartzite formations, and on investigating found the floor of the cavity to be almost a solid bed of mineral. It is principally carbonates and runs over an ounce in gold, thirty ounces silver and 50 per cent lead. The ore is easily mined and the l:ssees are taking it out very rapidly, considering the number of men employed. They have 500 sacks ready for shipment and bhave made requisitions for a large number of ore sacks from Telluride. The formation with wh the ore Is assoclated can be traced from just below Vance Junction to a point telow Saw- pit, covering an area of many miles. It is #aid by some that this contract ore is pecu- liar to those cavities, or where there has been a decomposition of the limestone. There was much excitement there over locations and every inch almost of the ground from where the strike was male was located. Another report coming from Vance Junc- tion says mining men of this section are be- coming greatly excited over recent discoveries made by James Blake about five or six miles below this place. It is a contact which can be traced for fully five miles In an easterly direction from the discovery and carries mineral values, according to assay returns, of from $50 to $200 per ton. The pay streak 1s a lead carbonate and it is fully three feet wide. The contact lies on top of the lime and Is covered by sandstone. Already hun- dreds of prospectors are on the ground and all are of the opinion that it is one of the richest discoveries ever made in this section of Colorado. Locations covering fully ten miles square have already been made and still the good work goes on. AT HARQUA HALA. Speaking of the recent strike in the Har- qua Hala mine, the Phoenix Republican says the rich ore was discovered on the 200-foot level of the Bonanza claim of the Harqua Hala group. In a short space of time forty sacks of ore were taken out, which netted $1,000 per sack. The find was opportunely made, for the company had been forced to lay oft several men, as ore was giving out, and their intention was only to work the diamond drills and the prospecting crews. As It now is, a full force of men will be put at work to develop the new ore body. The ore is hy no means confined to the pocket, but 13 quite extensive and equal to the former body of ore discovered several years ago, and which put the Harqua Hala mines at the head of all Arizona bullion pro- ducers. At the time the mine was-sold to a syndicato by Hubbard & Bowers for $1,250,- 000. Mr. Hubbard was quite confident that an immense body of ore would be found in locality where tho last discovery was From a'l the is HAHN'S PEAK RUMORS. It was rumored, says the Aspen Tribune, that a number of Aspen people, who have been prospecting in the Hahn's peak country since last April, struck a vein of go'd cre which surpasses any discovery ever made in that Deality. Assays running all the way from sixty to 100 ounces in gold were taken from various places along the vein. Investi- gation failed to reveal the names of the par- tles interested or any information, further than that the strike was made by Aspen par- tiea and would subsequently develcp Into one of the richest gold mincs on the wes'ern slope The property on which the strike is re- ported as having been made comprises rev- eral claims, each of which contains excell:nt showings, which point to great future de- velopments. Should the expectations of those interested be fulfilled, it will mark a new era in the history of Hahn's peak, as well as the entiro western portion of the state. As n-ar as could be ascertained the d'scovery was made after sinking ouly a short distance below the surface, when a short drift was made and the true vein lceated. Work taking cut the mineral, preparatory to ship- ment, will be commenced as soon as the necessary machivery cin be procured and erectad on the grounds. It is sald that the formation and mineral deposits are such as o enable a few men to take out snd sort a fumber of tons per day. WANTON GOLD-SEEKERS It would seem that the Metlakahtla Indians on Annette island are to be driven frcm their homes by an influx of white miners. With every steamer returning from Alaska reports 50 Tecelved of prospecting expeditions, large of | n numbers and well armed, fitting cut with | cents worth of pestage stamps. Annette sland as the “This is not right,” sald a mining en- gineer just returned from Alaska, speaking to a reporter on the Portland Telegram. “The saume mineral formation as that found on Annette island fs carried by every island of the Alexander archipelago, and there is no reaton to believe the discoveries on the sea- girt home of the Metiakahtlas are richer than hundreds of other lodes and lodges lo- cated within the past ten years, of which dur. iug my trip north 1 examined over sixty. “The country Is all mizeral aud timber, the latter betug the great detorrent against the in- vestment of capital in mining operations, strange as the statement may sound, but 10 ono who has not fought his way through the dense undergrowth and creepers of an Alaskan jungle to reach a line of croppings showiug far up on the mountain side can appreclate or realize the almost insurmount- able difficulties attendant on the developing of a ledge In that country. For ages the glant growth of fir, cedar, spruce and hem- lock have been depositing fallen leaves and cones, until the country is covered with a blanket of debris and moss from three to ten fect Lo thickness. The almost congtant rains produced by the warm Japan current have made this bed of moss a veritable hothouse for fmmense ferns and creepers twining in and out among the forest. This condition makes it impossible for any but a company well supplied with funds to attempt the working of any of the numerous ledges found and of all the islands of the inland passage I believe Annette island is the most lux- riant in its undergrowth and timber. “This precludes the working of the quartz by the men who have made the discoveries, for they are poor men, in a majority of in- stances their possessions consisting of a grub outfit and a pick and shovel. With the out- cry that would surcly be raised by the mis- slonaries, should a company attempt to plant a mill on the fsland, It is a certainty capl- talists will not take hold of the claims, know- ing they would be stopped by the Department of the Interior about the time they were ready to begin operations, and I cannot but think that the best and right thing for the miners who are now among the Metlakahtlas to do is to withdraw from the island and proceed to uncover and prospect others of the numerous leads already found across the channel and toward the north.” “Is there any danger of a fight between the Metlakahtias and the whites?” was asked, “Not the slightest,”” replied the mining man. ““The Indians are thoroughly under the control of their leader and teacher, an old Scotch Presbyterian minister named Dr. Dun can. So great is his influence over the Metl kaltlas that were he to order them to aban- don their home and leave it to the whites, without a murmur the siwashes would gather their household effects, place them in the canoes, and wait for the old missionary to lead them to another place, trusting implic- itly in his judgment and that all was for the best.’ objective point. A ROMANTIC ERRAND. Charles H. Wright, son of Lambert Wright, who was sent on an errand by his stepmother twenty years ago, and who had not been heard of from that day, has just returned to his father’s home, bringing with him the article he had been sent to get, to- gether with a wife and four children, says a Wilmot, S. D., special to the St. Paul Pioneer-Press. When the boy went away the Wright family was living at’ Fox Lake, Wis. Charles was ordered by his stepmother to go to the store and get a clothesline. The boy was_displeased, and instead of doing the er- rand left the fown. A few years later Mr. and Mrs. Wright removed to this place, where they own a large farm. They have looked upon Charles as dead. In the meantime the boy had gone to Monticello, Minn., where he, In the course of time, married and raised a family. A few years ago he learncd that his father was living here and came on a visit. Before golng to the house on ar- riving here he went to the store and pur- chased a clothesline, and, armed with this, and followed by his famfly, marched in on he old people and dropped ‘the line at thelr eet. HAD EIGHTEEN RATTLES. 8. P. Paxton of this city had an engage- ment with & huge rattlesnake, from the ef- fects of which he is not as yet out of dan- ger, says a Ukiah special to the San Francisco Examiner. Paxton was on his way to a ranch which he owns about five miles from this clty. Ar- ways on the watch for something to add to his already large collections of nests, birds and animals, he discovered what he supposed to be a huge bird's nest. Dismounting, he crawled on his hands and knees through the chapparal, and was about to reach for the supposed nest when the thing, giving no warning but a hiss, struck at Mr. Paxton, but fell short. Paxton turned and made his way out of the chapparal as fast as possible, with the snake after him. On emerging from the chapparal Paxton started on a run for his horse, secured his riffe and shot the snake. It was a long time before the gentleman could calm himselt so that he could take measurements. The snake was five feet four inches In length, and was large as a man’s leg. It had eighteen rattles and a but- ton, and Is the largest that has been killed In the valley. Considering that Mr. Paxton has only one arm to battle with, it is mar- velous that he escaped as well as he did He 15 still quite prostrated and will be more careful in ths future, NEBRASKA., Emerson will have a new opera house, with a seating capaclty of 500. The Norfolk sugar factory will commence active operations on September 15. Logan county reports that prairie chickens are unusually numerous this year. Mrs. John Ploof, a highly respected woman of Tekamah, has lost her reason over spiritualism. Work on the new opera house at Plerce s progressing rapidly. It will be ready for opening October 1. The Richardson county supervisors have complied with the new township organiza- tion law, and have redistricted the county. Alma people are indignant yet over the action of a woman of that town who spitefu cut off her cat’s tall with a common pair of shears, ) 01 settiers in the vicinity of Madison are predicting early frost, because they recently witnessed a large flock of wild geese flying over the town. A farmer near Alexandria turned fifteen cows into a cane patch after the crop had been cut and removed. Thirteen of them d'ed within an hour, Charles Petring of Nebraska City saved the lifo of an aged colored womau who had in some unaccountable manner been thrown under a moving train. The Beatrice canning factory has resumed operations, giving employment to nearly 300 men, women, boys and girls. The factory will run elght weeks. Ravenna people report that a woman fn a barvest fleld south of that town gave birth to a baby without Interrupting the work of gatheriug a large crop. Isaac Clark of Westerville now grinds wheat into flour right from the shock. He has harnessed the water wheel of his flouring mill to a threshing miachine, Mrs. W. T. Draper is the name of a Ne- braska woman, 42 years old, who recently gave birth to her eighteenth child. Thirteen of her children are still living. Emerson 13 enjoying a healthy bullding boom. The German-American bank will erect a two-story bullding of pressed brick and the Methodists will erect a new church edifice. A. D. Norling, the well known druggist of Litchfield, combines the joys of agricultural pursuits with the cares of a business life in town. He harvested 500 acres of wheat this ye W. H. Sterns of Humboldt, one of the best known citizens of southeastern Nebraska, has just died at the rip: age of 71 years. He has ‘been a resident of Richardson county since 1866, One firm of peach growers near Wymore will harvest 15,000 baskets of that fruit this year. When the new orchards planted by the same company begin to bear it rx- pects to gather 100,000 baskets annually, Fred King, residing with his parents on the Buffalo flats, thirty miles south of O'Neill, was instantly killed by lightning during a recent storm. A man working beside him was uninjured, not even feeling the shock. Burglars blew open the safe in L. F. De- mer's office at Emerson, but secured only 25 They had better luck at Palnter & Isenburg's store, where they stolo $60 worth of pocket cut- lory. Norfolk people are Interested in a renewal of the rumor that the B. & M. is to be ex- tended from Schuyler to their city. They also suspect the Missourl Pacific of having destgns upon the proposed Yankton & Nor- folk road, The Fremont b closed a very suce ufactured and sold 1,035,045 pounds of tow, or thirty-nine carioads. The factory expects to start up on the new crop of hemp about September 20. The town board of Howells has ordered 2,000 feet of sidewalk laid along the front of property owned by nonresidents. When the work is completed there will not be a house in town that cannot be reached by a substantial walk. C. F. Wilson of Wahoo was assaulted the dark one night recently and clubbed into unconsciousness. He will recover. v several weeks had been receiving anony- mous letters of a threatening nature, but he has no idea of the identity of his unknown enemies, Patrick Delehanty of Dawson county s something of an irrigation farmer himself. He irrigated 100 acres of wheat and threshed trom the field sixty bushels to the acre. A wheat fleld upon an adjoining quarter sec- tion without irrigation yielded fifteen bushels per acre. Two boys, 5 and 3 years old respectively, were playing with a scythe at the home of M. S. Lowell, seven miles west of Ashland The oldest boy, a son of Nat Wells, swung tho scythe and the point of the blade pene- trated the brain of his younger playmate, who is a son of Mr. Lowell. The injured boy has a chance for recovery. 10WA The Ottumwa hospital is out of debt. A new electric light company has gone into business at McGregor. The new three-story Masonic Anita s practically completed Oskaloosa people are pointing with pride to a new electr's fire alarm system. The Crawford creamery, owned by C. C. Richey, has been destroyed by fire Missouri Valley's new opera house, costing $25,000, will soon be ready for use. Dubuque has a new camp of the Sons Veterans, with Dr. F. A. Boysen as captain. The fitth annual reunion of the old settlers of Franklin county is in progress at Hamp- ton, Mrs. G. C. Evans has sued the saloon men of Madrid for $5,000 damages for selling her husband liquor. The soldiers' home at Marshalltown s too small to accommodate the old veterans en- titled to admission The Newton canning factory has burned and _the insurance companies have just paid $0,750 on the $10,000 policy. The 3-year-ofd son of Carl Wissink of Al- ton fell headforemost into a barrel of-water and way drowned before discovered Out of 300 wells in Des Moines examined by officers of the State Board of Health, not one was found in a healthy condition. A bicycle thief was captured at Fairfield with a wheel in his possession which he had stolen from H. H. Sickles of Des Moines. Towa has a new town named Trilby. It is In Dickinson county, thirteen miles north of Ruthven, and although only a few weeks old, has twenty-five buildings. The Cresco falr gives promise of being a winner. Among other featu will be a series of bicycle races, for which prizes ag- gregating $500 are hung up. Charles Burke, a bachelor citizen of Water- loo, was found dead in his bed Sunday. He had been seen last the Wednesday before. It is believed that he died a natural death. Davenport proposes to levy an annual tax of 50 cents on each telegraph, telephone and electric light pole in the city. The several companies have nearly 5000 poles in the city. The 3-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Leonard of lowa City ate rat poison found in the corner of a closet. The mother administered a dose of milk and mustard and saved the child’s life. A young girl named Li with” her parents at Marsh dissatisfied with home surroundings and ran away. She was found at Green Mountain, dressed fn a suit of boy's clothes. Richard Ishmael married Mary Tilter at Marshalltown and deserted her in two weeks. The deserted girl has since discovered that her whilom lLusband was already possessed of a wife when he married be; THE DAKOTAS. The fifth annual festival of the Upper Mis- souri Turner society was held last week at Yankton. The Hot Springs Star reporis the &is- covery near that city of a_vein of fuller's earth ten to fifteen feet thick. The stuff ts worth $15 to $20 per ton. On account of the total fallure of the corn crop of Davison county, the Corn Belt aa sociation announces that no corn palace will be held this year. Corn will not average one bushel per acre and is now being cut for fodder. Pierco's English creditors have cabled that they will either sell the graded roadbed of the' Yankton & Norfolk or they will com- mence lroning It by October 1. It Is be- lieved that they are considering a propesition from the Great Northern. The town of Eureka, at the terminus of the Milwaukse rallroad, in McPherson county, has the distinction of baing the greatest pri- mary wheat market in the world. There are thirty warehouses and elevators in operation, and it is expected that nearly 3,000,000 bush- els of wheat will be handled there during the season A unique event transpired the other day at the Yankton Indian agency. Agent Sm'th distributed $20 gold pieces siruck off for the sion at the United States mint as souve- of the signing of the treaty ceding lands the United States, which recently went into effect. About 450 Indians received the souvenirs, or $9,000 in all. This is the last payment to be made to this tribe for twenty years, when $500,000 will be due them. They are now full-fledged citizens. Dr. Blackburn of the Pierre university, ac- companied by Clerk of Court William H. Smith, spent a couple of days in the Ree Hills southwest of Miller, S. D., gathering mineral specimens, fossils, ete. Upon a high hill they discovered a ledge of chalk of light color, fres from grit and suitable for black- board use. Scattered all through this sub- stance can be traced the perfect prints or forms of a number of different species of fish, varying in size from an inch to six or seven inches. He says they were fresh water fish, and one of the species never existed anywhers else, at least has never been found elsewhere to his knowledge. Something of a sensation has been created in the southern Black Hills by the arrest of a prominent lumberman in the vicinity of Custer, charged with violating the United States ‘statutes regarding the cutting of tim- ber on government land. Five men have al ready been arrested and bound over to ap- pear before the United States court, and it Is probable that a number more will be ar- rested and taken to Deadwood for trial dur- ing the term of United States court there next month. Violators of the timber law are not only threatened with arrest ana criminal prosecution, but also with ecivil prosecution to recover the value of the tim- bep that has been cut. In addition to this merchants with whom dealers have exchanged lumber for supplies and who have since shipped the lumber out of the state, are s be prosecuted to recover the value of the timber. ding twine factory has temple at of e Rowley, living itown, became COLORADO. Arrangements have been made to erect an ice palace for Leadville next winter. The recent strike in the Sacramento at Cripple Creek is growing in value as distance ts gained in the drift, Some of the richest ore ever seen in the camp was taken out. The quartz is fairly covered with bright gold and would assay up in the thousands. Among the Littie Ellen hill mines the Con- way is making good headway, the shaft being down 225 feet, says the Leadville Herald- Democrat. The Resurrection, right above, has struck ore at the 600 foot level. They are taking out some very good ore. It is sald to carry one-half ounce in gold, runs high in silver and 1s a good lead ore. P. Cherubine of Rico, who bought some twelve years ago the Black Diamond and Don Pedro on Sheep mountain, up South Mineral, las done each year considerable developing sful season, having man- | sl | with pack work on them and hamat last reaped his re- ward. As he P“""}W~ It required depth to bring this section {6 the front and he has realized beyond his''#xpectations. The veln was cut and shows wh a pay streak of twelve inches running 200 punces silver and four ounces gold, A seam in the Portland at Cripple Creek, which a fortnight fmce was only an inch wide when It came into the vein, has steadi'y widened as it has been exploited until it s twenty-four feet tAick’ and cvery pound is a good paying product. For a week every ton of rock that has been brought to the surface is profit-pay{ng mineral. There is great excilgment over the dis- covery of tin ore four miles north of Duncan on Cottonwood creek. Mr. D. Segar, who is one of the owners of the new find, is in Dun- can on his way to Walsenburg, where he ex- pects to have the ore examined by experts at that place. Mr. Segar claims to have had returns from Denver ,assayers which ran from 13 to 36 per cent tin Senator Tom Bowen is reported to have made a new strike about 30 miles north of Del Norte beyond Meyers Creck. He has taken in a party of mining men, also sur- veyors, and is locating claims, laying out a townsite, ete. A mumber of parties have al- ready gone to it. The new town is to be called Sky City and can only be reached nimals. The location is thought to be fn Saguache county. WYOMING, w. chased the Stinking Water hot will make a resort there, A reservoir capable of holding water suffi- clent to irrigate and reclaim about 15,000 acres of land in the Goose creek and Tongue river regions Is almost completed, A new discovery of drawings on rocks has been made near the springs in the vicinity of Thermopolis. The place is between the upper Stagnex bottom, where the herd fs usually held, and the springs United Statos Marshal Pinkham now comes forward with the astounding assertion that Robert Ray Hamilton, supposed to have been drowned in the Snake river two years ag was murdered. The Big Horn hot springs are mor quented this season than ever before are now about 200 people at that fa; health resort, most of them camping around the hot springs. Word was received at Rawlins that the Penn Min‘ng company has made a new strike in the Bone Sight leai at Seminoe, opening up an eighteen-inch vein of very free milling gold quartz that runs over $500 to the ton, Charlie Bads came down from the Casper mountains and reports a find of a rich vein of mineral wax between two and three feet thick lying underneath his recantly discovered magnesia lead. His new mineral wax may prove a valusble one, as he has assuranc from the Wyoming Oil Soap and Manufactur- ing company at Casper that they may be able to use large quantities in the manufacture of soaps. Rin‘nker and Davis b find on Gold creek, on the Continental di vide, at the very scuth end of Wind River range, the dirt from which gces $50 to the square yard. It is not a gravel bed, as there is no gravel in that section, therefore ex perts say the gcld comes from some won- derf rich lcad further back toward the mountain, great anxiety of the miners now is to discover this lead, and they are fairly tumbling over each other in their efforts to discover the source of the gold supply. Mrs. Frank Watt took her little baby into the bedroom and placed it on the bed for a sleep, says the Lusk Herald. That is nothing particularly strangé, but as she turned to leave she stopped and Jooked under the bed To her horror and gmazpment her eyes rested upon a large snake' all coiled up. She jerked the babe off the bed in a jifty and called her husband, who appeared on the scene with a pitchfork. ~ Watt says, he thought it was a harmless bullsnake until he thrust the tines of the fork ipto it, when he discovered it to be as large a rattlor as he ever saw. OREGON. hay crop springs and ve made a placer Myrtle Point’s tons. Eugene's new flouring mill will be opened about September 1. Union county’s prund crop is estimated at 750,000 pounds of green fruit. The new mill machinery ordered for the Cornucopia mine weighs 600,000 pounds. Horses are being gathered up by the car- load about Enterprise at $12 to $14 a head Steam threshers are at work along the Umpqua, with the largest grain ylold in years. Somewhere in the mueighborhood of 180 men are at work mining within :hirty mife of Myrtle Point. Sol King, a Benton county farmer, ra‘sed oats this vear instead of wheat, Ilis 140 acres ylelded 4,000 bushels. The Fossil Journal says that the “coyote bounty of $2 is working ‘almost to perfection 0 far in Gilliam, and these pests are being rapidly thinned out in the county.” The Gold Beach Gazette is being moved across the river to Wedderburn, Mr. I ume's new town. The building is put on wheels and roll:d onto a scow, then towed across. A controversy is raging in the valley pave as to the champion hiccougher. George W. Harris of Albany appears to be entitled to the belt, with a record of nine days and nights. The Dalles Chronicle Martisson has a patch of ground 100 feet spuare at The Dalles, which he planted in cucumbers. He has already sold $100 worth in Montana, and between $40 and $50 worth at home. “China Jim,” the venerable “daddy” of the Chinese colony at Gold Beach, left on the schooner Berwick, bound for China. He is over 70 years of age, and has been away from China just forty-four years. With tears streaming down his cheeks, he sald he was going back to die in his native land, There has already been subscribed toward the Industrial exposition at Portland $9,382.50 leaving a balance of $617.50 of the $10,000 guarantee fund to be raised. This the mem- bers of the committee have pledged them- sclves to secure. This makes the exposition an assured fact. It will open October 5 and run thirty days. The machinery for the new salmon can- nery for the Siletz has been purchased in Astoria, and the materials for the build- ings, along with the machinery, will be loaded on a steam schooner and taken to the Siletz in a few days. The cannery will furnish employment to many of the Indians who would not work at any other er:ploy- ment. The work of laying heavy steel on the Portland & Willamette Vauey railroad, for- merly known as the narrow gauge, has been completed from Portland to Dillas. The crew is now laying a third rail from Dun- dee south, and after two weeks of track- laying near Portland the men will be taken south again and finish the work up to Airlee. The towns along the road expact a dally train trom Portland when the work !s done. WASHINGTON. The Sprague flour mill Is being enlarged to a capacity of 300 barrels a day. Skagit river is the lowest known, snd its navigation is becomlng dangerous. Grasshoppers are reported to be damaging the oat fields in Whitman county It is said that 20,000 trout are annually caught from Trout lake in Klickitaz county The water in the Yakima river is lower than it has been for ten years, and all tho tributaries are unusually low The hop crop in the Yakima val'ey prom- ises better than last year, but grow-rs are discouraged at the prospective 1)w pricos, Whatcom is raising $750 by subscription to extend the Haunegan trail througn th the Skagit by way bl Little Beavar Oakesdale claims thelpennant as plon wheat shipping point of having shipped 886,000 bushels year. Rapld progress is being made in the con- struction of the girls' dormitory at Pullinan, and it is believed that it will be ready for occupancy at the opening of the next se- mester, September 26, The Kittitas valley is to have another new cannery, M. Gibson having purchased a plant with a’capacity of 5,000 pougds of milk daily which will be put in operation on the Na- num, nine miles from Ellensburg. The Pacific Coast Rlevator company making extensive improvements upon buildings throughout Whitman counfy are also building somd new structures recently completed a 150x40-foot addition to the Guy elevator, from which little town there is a large amount of grain shipped. The Pullman elevator has been renovated and put into shape for handling a large amount of grain this season. At Gleuwood there Is aggregates 2,000 says that Martin during last is its They They Cody, according to report, has pur- | belng constructed a 120x40-foot addition, In fact, evory elevator In the county has beon put’In readiness to bandle a big amount of grain, and an enormous crop 18 expected The Big Bend pea harvest s turning out fully up to the expectations of the most hope- ful Big Bender. The crop yields an average of from twelve to fifteen bushels per acre, which, at the contract price of $1 per buskel, will contribute quite a sum to the not gains of the Big Bend this season MISCELLANEOUS. It Is reported that there are 500 stolen horses in the mountalns near the Tule river Indian reservation An offer has been made at Healdsburg for 6,000 tons of new grapes at $12 a ton de- livered, This is the first offer of the sea- son. | Twenty-five carloads of melons were ship- | ped from Lodi recently at one time, which is the largest shipment ever made in a single day. Thirty the distance has been proposed electric rallroad T., to the Grand Canyon miles of surveyed for tho from Flagstaft, A of the Colorado The crop of honey from one corner of River o county, Temescal district, will amount to 3,200 cases of twenty-four one-pound boxes comb honey, and 350°cases of extractel hone of 120 pounds each. About $25,000 was paid out to the Perces Indlans at Lewiston, 1daho, last we The money is part payment of the $1,600,000 for lands relinquished by the Indians to the government domaln, Indications show that there is an abund anca of oll and gas in the vicinity of Li ermore, and only needing capital to de- velop them properly. Surface oil and gas ara found in several places. A German restdent ot Marysvlile has started a “wormery,” for the propagation of the angle worm. He has planted large quantities in a specially prepared bed, and proposes to fatten and sell them to fastidious fisher- men The manufacture of citric acid has been commenced in Los Angeles. It is said that a Philadelphia firm are the only other manu- facturers in the United States, and they im- their entrated lemon juice ~from the Mediterranean It is stated that the Crow Indians of Montana had an income of over $82,000 from their crops last year, and this year they have sufficient hay and grain to supply the mili- taty posts of eastern Montana, and also pota- toes and vegetables for sale. The fourth national irrigation congress wiil meet at Albuquerque, N. M., Sapt:mber 16 to 20. Noted men in the science cof irriga- tion will attend from all over the country, and the territory will spend $5.000 on thelr entertainment. It is a great movement, end s much for the country. Las Animas Land and Cattle company {s making arrangements to construct a ten- foot diverting dam across the Rio ‘irande near Bagle, N. M., for the purpose of ‘rrl gating 25,000 acres of land. This will be seeded with grain and alfalfa, anl an ex- tensive feeding enterprise will be sstablisacd. There is considerable excitament sver the Qiscovery of gold quartz in the i'adroli mine in Silver City, six miles from Virginia, Nev Emanuel Padroli, a rancher, uas discovered a ledge on his ranch working $100 per ten. He made a clean up of $10,000. Pleaty more of the same ore is in sight, and assays going up to $150 per ton have been abtainad The De Lamar company's duminum coins don't alwa ass current. Tha absence from them of the screamag eagle and the goldess of liberty caused a ropudiazion of one the other day at Ploche, Nev. An In- dian brave was tendered a G0-cent piece for cutting some wood. He scauned it closely, turning it over several times, an with a grunt, handed it back, sayin, No chicken hawk, no squaw; kaw wino (no good)."” It is well known by all who have observed the habits of the Nevada Inc the Carson News, that by chewing root of a certain specles of sage brush a sub- stance greatly resembling rubber s produced Here Is a chance for some inventive mind to distinguish itselt and discover the method by which bicycle tires may be extrastd from the sage brush. The demand for bicycles 1s steadily increasing, the world's supply of rubber decreasing; why :ot utilize the mil- lions of acres of sage brush on this canet? One of the most important pold Ciscoveries in the history of Montana was r.ade a few days ago In Grasshopper gulch, near Baunock, Beaverhead county. It is a discovary that doubtless means millions of Jollars lo the state, and is one more instance where pa- tient, persistent effort has brought lis re- ward. The find was made on the property of the Grasshopper Mining company, which began work in Grasshopper gulch about five years ago. Since that time muny thousands of dollars have been expended in developing the property, but the recent discovery was the first gold ever taken out by the o pany. port b £ les CAN THE E SARCASM? Bieyelists May Think So and Feel Disposed to Make n Reply. A correspondent of the Rider and Driver says that he was recently pained to read in that publication an article referring to the bicycle in flippant and contemptuous terms and proceeds to express his trouble as fol- lows “Such sentiments are inspired by people, who, while able to ride a mere horse, have not the hands, the seat or the nerves to master a bicycle. A man who has only known the pleasure of crossing a country at the tail of the hounds cannot understand the intoxicating delight and exhilaration of spirits engendered by working a well mannered bicycle along the road—particularly when dashing up hill or through deep going. Have we not seen them with their backs inclined in a graceful curve, with their faces flushed purple with pleasurable exertion and their protruding eyeballs fixed with childish eagerness or a point in the road about half a mile ahead? If he Is run over and squashed under an ice wagon he has the satisfaction of meeting an end worthy of a true sports- man and of not ‘aping the English." “The horse is doomed. Shrewd judges as- sure us through the columns of “the daily press that in five years he will be extinct, with the exception of a few specimens pre- served in menageries. How our nerves will tingle at the sight of the Keenes' and Bel- monts’ colors, in a grueling finish, borne struggling _through the stretch on safefy bicycles! Bicycle shows will be in order, and each November the garden will ring with ap- plause as the winner is announced in the class for ‘road bicycles of not over sixty-five inch gear: manner and conformation to count per cent, etc., ecc.' Bicycles with nineteen different gaits will be invented to suit_our friends in Kentucky, and, although the hunter and jumping clas: will have to be abandoned, we may look for an inecreased number of entries: in the tandem classes ‘When out riding we will meet our cook, ar- rayed in her Sunday bloomers and mounted just as we are—a condition of equality ex- ceeding the fondest hopes of our forefathers Down with the horsocracy!” A correspondent of the Boston Her calls the origin of the word “Jingo.” now so widely used on both sides of the Atlantic. Some years ago, at the time of the Turkish atrocities in Bulgaria (so vividly described and so vigorously reprobated by Mr. Glad- stove), the advisability of Euglish interven- tion agitated by a large war party, whose members were of all shades of political opinion and joiued forces only on tbis one point. There s no public question in England that does not sooner or later get into the songs In the music Lalls, and so one of the most popular singers of the day wrote a ditty, with these loes for a chorus We don't want to fight, but, by jingo! we do, We've got the men, we've we've got the money, too! This song was received by the patrons of the music halls with every demonstration of enthusiasm, and the refrain quickly found its way into the newspapers. An anti- interventionist journal one morning contempt- uously referred editorially to the extremists as “Jingoists.” This word was not long afterward heard on the floor of the House of Commons, and quickly thereafter took its place in the popular vocabulary, belng presently simplified into *‘Jingoes." - - The Mot Sensitive Thing on Earth, Is a human n This in a state of health, Let It become overstrained or weaksned, and the sensitiveness is increazed tenfold. For weak or overwrought nerves, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters s the best tonic in existence, since It invigorates and qulets them at tha to i got the ships, sme time. It also possesses superlative ef- cacy in dyspepsia, constipation, malarial and kidney complaints, rheumatisin and neurals 8la. AS AANNANNRNNN i K A NN U U A NN for Infants ana Children. MOTHERS‘,‘ Do _You Know s ruregere, Bateman's Drops, God(rey's Cordial, many so<alled Soothing Syrups, and most remedies for children are composed of opium or morphine ? Do Yon Know that opium and morpline are stupefying narcotic polsons ¥ Do Yon Know that in most countries d; without labeling them poisons ? ruggists are not permitted to sell parcotics Do You Know that you should not permit any niedicine to be given your child unless you or your physician know of what it is composed Do Youn Know that Castoria is a purely vegotable preparation, and that a list of ita ingredients is published 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, of all other remedies for children combined Do You Know that the Patent Office other countries, have issued exclusive right to “ Castoria ' and its formula, and that to imi Do You Know that one of the reasons and that more Castoria is now sold than Department of the United States, and of Dr. Pitcher and his assigns to use the vord tate them s a state prison offonse ! for granting this government protection was because Castoria had been proven to be absolutely harmless? Do You Know that 35 average oents, or one cent a doso Do Yon Know that when possessed of be kept well, and that you may have unbroken doses of Castoria are furnished for 33 this perfect preparation, your children may rest Well, these things are worth knowing. 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Max Nordau, in his “‘Degeneration,” men- tioning peculiarities frequently manifested by a “degenerate,” says: “He is tormented by doubts, seeks for the basis of all phenomena, especially those whose ! first causes are completely inaccessible to us, and is unhappy when his Inquiries and rumi- nations lead, as Is natural, to no result. He 18 ever supplying new recruits to the army of system-inventing metaphysicians, profound expositors of the riddle of the universe, seek- | ers for the philosopher's stone, the squaring | of the circle and perpetual motion. These last three subjects have such a specal at- ction for him that the patent office at Washington is forced to keep on hand printed replies to the numberless memorials in which patents are constantly demanded for the so- lution of those chimerical problems.” The Yankee inventor, in his most unique demonstrations of originality, says the New Yark Sun, has failed to see sufficient practi- cality in either the philosopher's stone or the squaring of the circle to tempt him to seek | patents for those myths, end Nordau errs | in supposing that circulars referring to them have ever been prepared by the patent office | authorities. But one intended to suppress the perpetual motlon crank has been found necessary, and, as it can have come officially to the knowledge of but a small percentage | of the public, It is here reproduced as a rather interesting illustration of an excep- tionally ingenious, emphatic ana effective way of dealing with the impracticibles Room No...... All_communications should be ad 'he Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. (" DEPARTMENT o U. 8. PA Washington, essed to THE NT D. IN' OFFICE (o5 IRIOR, 183.. 8ir-You motion, ~has therefor, Before entering sald of the offic you, In order and'labor, that the vi with' tho regurd to me that they arg he . ‘an alleged perpetual been received, with the fee hooks Advise You further expense s of the office coin- e of scientists in general in hanical perpetual motions impossiblilties. Should your the first offieial actl would be 'the Fequirement of a WORKING MODEL~the office being aware | that it will be impossible for you to comply with this requirement For the reasons given your the accompanying fee’ are turned 1f, notwithstanding desire your cepted by the oifice, and they will be tully, ana herewith re- this not you still and fee' to be a You may return them rotained. “Very respect BENTON I. HAL Commissioner of Paten As a_matter of course, the requiremen a working model settles the question agaln feeding the fee into the official hopy G. L. Morton, chief clerk, says that th clreular Is “occas‘onally used,” but does not In & note on the subject, convey the that the demands for perpetual motion pat ents are, In Nordau's phrase, ‘‘numberless He reports, however, that he cannot, from the records, identity them ‘‘without the names of the applicanls or the numbers and the date of the applications”—specific data which would render inquiry of the patent office uge necessary. THE “§ RAID ON Writer Does When He Wants to Be Funny, Boston Globe: Sarah Smith stands sorrows fully solus; she sees splendid spruces sure rounding shady spots; she sees summer sun shining; she smells sweet savor; sweet song= sters singing silvery strains serenade Sarah, Still she sighs. Sunset’s soft shades settle silently; still she stands silently sighing. Suddenly she started. She saw some stranger strolling silently southward. “Stop!” she shou “Stop, Sarah Smith says so! Stately she stood “Stop!” wuel Slocum, successful statesman, w0oth speaker, started, saw Sarah, seemed 1, soliloquizingly said: range; seemingly scarce sweet 16; 80 . % eimple, still so singularly suse picious! She seems strangely sad. Say something sweeter, Sarah.” 3he stops some silent struggle, say “Surely some stranger seeing sight arah Smith shun such? Scarcely.” So, strolling sllently stranger-ward, she said What n Bosto) stranger; sternly she shouted Shall rah ks Smith sympathy. scorns susplcious scandals ceks she succese: Still shone silvery streams slantingly south= ward. Samnuel Slocum sat sweetly smiling— Sarah Smith seated suspiciously somewhere, Sunset’s serene splendor suggested supper, Still she t She sought sympathy successfully; supper emed superfluous Some six Su some sketches, eeding she signed Sarah Smith Slocum.” - DU The number of registered delegates present at the Boston Christian Endeavor convention was 56,285, The largest state delegation oute side of Massachusetts was that from Cofe necticut, which numbered 4,000, Rev. H. Loomis, at the last meeting of the Amcrican Bible socety, in a letter from Japan, reported the totai number of volumes distributed in the Japanese army and navy up to the 17th of Juns to be 2,500 testaments and 120000 gospels, Bishop Thorold of Winchester, who died the other day, this country before he the interest of temperance, friend of the late Bishop st he frequently was. I'rom a recent report Brith it is learned ti in the order England, frequently visited came a bishop in He was a warm Brooks, whose of the Order B'nal L there are 26,000 mem- There are ten grand lodges and 383 lodges. It exists in America, Palestine, Bgypt, Austria, Germany and Rous mar i, for b nevolent purposes, Bishop Potter has had some amusing exe periences with tho street Wrehing that swarm arcund the Cathedral Mission in Stanton stroet since he took wp'his residence in the slums. One of them recently approached bum respectfully and said: “‘Soy, bishop, be ye any relation to Mr, Potter o' Texast™