Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 9, 1895, Page 5

EIEE Pu The Pawnee Pass Reservolr company filed & plat with the state ongineer which gives intimation that northeastern Colorado is per- haps to have % largest irrigation entorprise in the United States, says the benver News. The company proposes to occupy a large tract of land under the Carey desert land act. The plans contemplate a great canal ninety miles long ard a storage reservolr capable of supplying water to 200,000 or 300,000 acros of land. The canal Is to begin above O on the Platte river and to empty its water | 1nto a basin In the southwestern part of Logan county. Pawnee creek runs through the county and s to be made the bed of the reservoir. It is estimated that the reservoir will cover about 7,000 acres. The law requires that the filing shall be thoroughly examined by the state engineer and the state land board is made ldrgely respousiblo for the faithful performance of pany. Settlers aralimited to 160 acres of land ‘ench and the company can receive a patent to no land which it is unable to water, Daniel A. Canfield and George H. We:t are tho persons appearing in the entorprise. Quite a ni ber of leading citizens of th state are sald to be interested. The proje s as yet in the pros period as it must pass the Inspection of the stat> engincer and the state land board. It ls the first at tempt n Colorado to occupy land under the desert land act. It carried out it will ‘re quire an outlay of $1,600,000. A TION SCHEME A large iriigation enterprise is about to be started at Willard station, about eighty miles east of Cheyenne and about twenty miles west of Swerling, Colo,, on the line of the Cheyenne and Burlington, says the Chey- enne Tribune. An Immense natural basin, about seven and a half miles long by one mile wide, is to be filled with water by a canal from the South Platte river, and this 45 to be done after the irrigation season is over. It s estimated that it will take eight months to fill the big basin, There are 200,000 acres of fine farming laud to be frrigated from this reservoir. All that the land needs to make it very profit- able is this suppiy of water which it is now to have Several Greeley citizens are Interested fn the enterprise. ‘General Manager Holdrege of the Burlington Is glving the undertaking avery encouragement, as the building up of & large town at Wiliard and the ralsing of €rops on the 200,000 acres of land would be of much advantage and a source of great profit to the Burlington road. A FORTUNE IN A POCKET. Farncomb hill, famous as the rlchest pocket ground in the country, has given up ®ome more of its gold and Robert Foote and George Clavaux are richer by many thousands of dollars than they were a few days ago, says a Breckenridge special to the Denver News. The hill of preclous metal is located a few miles from this city and Foote and Clavaux leased a claim on it. In three days one man took out fifty pounds of gold of fine quality, worth $17.50 &n ounce, and a portion of it s now in Den- ver, having been taken there by G. B. Wat- son. Another lot was taken to Leadvlile. The ore is-fabulously rich and contains crys- talized and nugget gold. The place now being worked and out of which the fifty-five pounds were taken is only four feet square and thers is more of the ore in sight. It was gold from Farncomb hill that atiracted 80 much attention at the World's Columbian exposition, B. G. Collingwood having some of it in the Colorado exhibit. The luck of Toote and Clavaux has created considerable excitement and Charles Fuller, who had a leaso of the claim prior to them, feels much chagrin, as he worked within eighteen inches ot the big strike. One nugget taken from the pocket weighed twenty-six ounces. FOUND URANIUM. A dispatch from the Hahn's peak gold flelds, says the Laramie Republican, informs us that considerable interest has been mani- fested in the mew camp at Columbine by finding a_peculiar white substance in several prospect holes that resisted all ordinary tests for the precious metals. The assayers, hoth at the peak and Columbine, were at first completely stumped. More exhaustive tests were made for some of the more rare metals, and it has been proven that the refractory stranger is the metal known as uranium. The richest deposit is found in fissures in the granite formation about seven miles north of Columbine, but it i3 also found In five or 8ix of the properties in the quartzite ter- ritory. Tts particular use in arts is as a coloring for Bohemlan glass and in china painting. It valuable and in demand this camp will no doubt ere long be able to sup- ply considerable quantities. MAY OPEN BLACKFOOT RESERVATION. It is understood that the commissioners appointed to treat with the Blackfoot Indians for a portion of their reservation in which rich mineral deposits have been found, are now at Blackfoot agency, says a Great Falls dispatch to the Anaconda Standard. A com- mittee of citizens will wait on ths commis- sloners and assist in trying to get the Indians to deed the portion of the reserve, which 1s of no earthly use to the reds or to the gov- ernment. If the desd fs made it will result in a large Influx of prospectors and miners into the region known as the “Little Rockles,” where valusble gold properties are believed to_exist. Landusky, already a prosperous and grow- ing mining camp, 18 located near the rescrva- tion line, and tho people there are confident it will become a large city if that portion of the reserve s thrown open for mining purposes. A SEA OF SUNFLOWERS. South Dakota excels in the sunflower as wwell as mustard business. 8. D, Cone, station mgent on the Great Northern railway here, says an Aberdeen dispatch to the Sioux Falls Argus-Leader, 1s without question the largest grower of sunflowers and mustard in the world. He has this year 190 acres of sun- | animals flowers and over 700 acres of mustard. One field of 120 acres of sunflowers, near Aber- deen, i3 Just now the prettiest sight that will mect the eye in many miles of travel. The fleld is just half a mile long and 120 rods wide and in full bloom. Many people drive out to it every day, and all admit that there i3 a fortune in that one fleld alone. The alks are now from six to seven feet high and the blossoms are about ten inches across. fThe various uses to which this plant can be put are familiar to most readers of daily papers and need not be repeated here. Other patches of sunflowers In the immediate vicinity of Aberdeen swell the total acreage to 190 acres. There is no field of less than ten acres, and all are in much better condi- tion than corn. LURED BY LOST LODE. The “Lost Lode of Queen Charlotte's Tsland,” which has already lured a dozen or more prospectors to financlal ruin and halt that number to death, is once again the object of systematic search. Whether the present expedition will share the fate of its prede- cessors will be disclosed on the next return of the steamer Danube from the north. If persistent endeavor may be counted upon for its reward, Frank Mitchell, a nephew of Senator Stanford, and his associate in the present search, Captain Irving, hope to write themselves millionaires b:fore the close of the yoar. It is Mitchell in person who is making this latest exploration of Moresby island for one famous disappearing ledge, his partner Baving borne the expense of cutfitting on in- terest of share and share alike in the results. Mitchell pulled In a rowboat upward of 600 miles along the west coast of the treasure island, searching every promising cove and inlot along that little known shore, but find- ing nothing, and in all the hazardous voyage not seelng a human face. Mitehell, who continues the search alone, is reported to be more hopeful than ever, and to place absolute reliance in a “tip” which he received not long ago from a friendly Masset chief. If this be true the beller of old miners that the Indians could unfold the secret If they would ls likely to be proved correct. It was a Masset chlef who, ten years ago, offered to conduct the original finder of the treasure once again to the spot where he unwittingly had made his it discovery away back in 1852. When ukey returned the following spring to exact the fulillment of this promise the Indian was dead. DARKEST ALASKA. Fred A. Fay, one of the Seattle men who went to Alaska last spring to try their luck in the Yukon placer mines, is not enamored with tho country, says the Seattle Post- Intelligencer. A letter from him, dated at Deadwood Creek, Alaska, says: Alaska is the most barren, God-forsaken spot that the sun ever shone on, and If there ever was a place op this earth that was not intended for labitation, this is it. ho work that one must perform to exist at all is the work of animals rather than men; It is ono vast swamp, thousands of miles in extent, covered with moss and frozen to unknown depths. The only re- sources of the country are the fur-bearing and the natives are the ones al- lowed to trap them. Five dollars of gold has been brought in here to every dollar taken out of the mines, The working season 1= about sixty or sev- enty days, and one is lucky It he gets in half of them. The wages are $10 per day, and one can save more, outside, at $1.50 per day than here at $10. Bacon is 80 cents per pound, beans 50 cents, flour $24 per sack, salt $5.50 for a 10-pound sack, and so on; 40 cents per pound of this is for frelght from Circle City to the mines, about 100 miles. You will see that it don't take long to eat up $100 worth of grub. Oh, the country is so strange and wild; now tho heavens are all right in the sum- mer, but the earth, oh, my! The tralls are through dismal ewamps, with water a foot deep, and mosquitoes! "It means that one has to be covered with cheese cloth and long gloves. You can form no conception of this terrible plague p is out of the question. They disappear about the fitst of August, then the black gnat comes—ten times worse than the mosquitoes, and then the cold weather comes—60 to 70 degrees below zero. As one of the boys who came in with us sald, it God would forgive him for coming in here this time he would never do =0 again. Most every one here keeps from one to five dogs, which are used for hauling sleds in winter. In summer they are not used nor fed, and they go around every one's tent and steal anything they see; they will grab a pot and run off with it, tip it over and eat the contents; they will eat boots and gloves and socks and dish rags. Oh, how they do annoy us; every ona has to bulld a high platform in the trees and put everything on It, and often the dogs get on them, and when they do they will throw everything down to the dogs be- low, and then such a feast. 1In this case the owner of the dogs has to pay for the goods, ¢ & OKANOGAN'S COLLAPSED BOOM. Any one who was familiar with Okanogan county in its prosperous times, to see it now would feel sad over tho changes that have come over it, says the Spokane Chronicle. Such mining properties as the Fourth of July and Arlington are lying idle, nothing doing, in fact, deserted. Such properties upon which hundreds of thousands of dollars have been expended since the fall in_ silver are com- pletely shut down and erippled. Tho city of Loop Loop, that nnce boasted of 1,000 inhabitants, new has but two, the postmaster, Mr. Tanker, and the mail carrier, Jack Hayes. Ruby City, once a live mining camp, now has about twenty-five inhabitants, including men, women and children. Con- connully, the county seat, is sadly changed, not over 100 people all told remaining in the once beautiful and prosperous town. Notwithstanding all these drawbacks, the farmers have put in large acreage in crops and will harvest a blg yield. Spring Coules Is particularly favored.” The farmers there are now cutting the second crop of alfalfa, which is large, many fields of it standing from five feet to six fect high. There will bo plenty of feed for the stock for the coming winter. There are also a great number of fruit raisers in that vicinity, who will har- vest an abundance of all kinds of fruit. In fact, If the farmers only had a market for thelr produce they would have no cause to complain. Nature has done well by them, but from the fact that all the mines aro shut down they have no one to buy their pro- ducts, NEBRASKA, Cass county has prepared a big exhibit for the state fair. The Ord Quiz estimates the Valley county corn crop this year at 1,000,000 bushels, Willlam Cunningham of Aurora dropped dead from heart disease. Ho was 70 years old. The Nebraska City presbytery met at Ne- braska City with an attendance of forty mem- bers. Falls City will send its crack hose com- pany to the tournament at Seneca, Kan., next week. Quite a number of deaths from typhold fever hava occurred recently in the vicinity of Aurora. Joseph Shera & Co. are drilling for coal in Cass county with the most approved form of modern machinery. The North Nebraska Methodist conference will meet at Fremont October 2. Bishcp Newman of Omaha will preside. Ralph Mills of Osceola worked beyond his strength at the recent fire in that town and dled from the effects of his overexertion. George Smith, who was arrested at Allianco on the charge of criminally assaulting Mrs. Dora Crossing, has been honorably acquitted. Mrs. John Jellinek, living near Ravenna, fell backwards out of a wagon and dislocated her neck, She lived seven days after the ac- cident. Charlie Miller of Falls City had a fight with Al Townsend of Tecumseh, and his leg was broken In the fracas. He has sued Townsend for $10,000 damages. A Valley county farmer who frrigated 450 acres this year raised forty bushels of wheat to the irrigated acre and only eighteen bush- els to the acre on land not irrigated. A little daughter of Carl Wyhe at Fremont was accidentally shot in the leg by two boys who were carelessly handling a target rifle, The wound is painful, but not serious. Willlam Young, one of Cass county's old settlers, recently celebrated his 8Tth birth- day with five children and twelve grandchild- dren present to make the affair a success. Jesse Willlamson, 19 years old, was drowned In Bazile creek, near Crelghton. His two younger brothers, who herolcally tried to rescue him, narrowly escaped death them- selves. The pastors of the Methodist and Congre- gational churches at Fairmont have Invested In a tandem bicycle, and they are now the envy of the athletic members of their re- spective flocks. Ben Owens of Saunders county has been ar- rested as a result of a quarrel with a Wahoo butcher, named Coit. The Wahoo man al- leges that Owens tried to carve him with a pocket knife. The mandamus proceedings against the Dodge county supervisors to compel them to liva up to the provisions of the new town- ship organization law are ready to be filed In the supreme court. John Knox, who has been working in the vicinity of Alvo, borrowed a speedy plece of horse flesh without consulting the convenlence of its owner. He afterward abandoned the horse and was captured. B. 8. Harrington of Oakland and Mrs. Liz- zlo Jones of Council Bluffs were married last June, but their numerous friends at Oakland only discovered the fact last week when the couple went to housekeeping for good. Havelock has a new hemp factory that will this year consume the product of 300 acres. Seed to plant 1,000 acres has been ordered for next year. It is claimed that a good crop of hemp will net the producer $20 per acre. Work has been commenced on the big Taschuck Irrigating canal at Burwell, sixty teams having been engaged. The canal will be thirty miles in length and will irrigate the best territory in the upper part of the North Loup valley. The Blair men who purchased stock i the horse collar factory have sold their holdings for 85 cents on the dollar. Imasmuch as dur- ing the five years they held the stock they recelved 15 cents on the dollar in dividends, they came out just even. mes Roberts, a Cass county farmer with a sweet tooth for watermelons, fired two charges of fine bird shot into the anatomy of threo hoodlums who were ralding his garden patch. The boys are prospecting for lead and keeping away from the melon patches. Paul Dungan of Hastings has successfully passed the examination which admits him to the United States naval academy at Annapo- lis. Dungan is the second Hastings boy to cessfully pass the examination at Annapo- lis, the other lucky boy being Will Selgnor, who 13 uow an officer on one of the ships of the White Squadron, having graduated several years ago. The Queen city is also represented In the army by Lieutenant Arthur Edwards, who graduated at West Point two years ago _and |5 now stationed at Fort Snelling. * Incidentally, all three of the boys got their start in newspaper offices. York is making a strong pull for its pro- posed sugar factory. The following towns have guaranteed aid in ralsing the beet Fairmont, 600 acres; Sutton, 500 to 600 acre Lushton, 200 acres; Aurora, 100 to 200 acre Clay Center, 300 acres; Tobias, 200 acres; Dakin, 200 acres. This is a total of 2,100 acres, in addition to the amount to be pledged by farmers in the immediate vicinity of the city of York. T0WA. Decorah is to be connected with the Towa Telephone company's system A new school house costing $25,000 ., is nearly completed at Winterset Mrs. Emma J. Smith of Council was held up and robbed by footpads. George L. Clark has been nominated Cherokee county’s democratic candidate for the legislature. Burglars invaded the residence of B. M. Storm at Waterloo and secured a pocket book containing $45. The census employes under Secretary M- Farland took $3,157 out of the state treasury for fourteen days' work, N. F. Casey, a prominent farmer living near Cherokee, was killed by a kick in the stomach from a vicious horse. While working on a scaffold at Towa Falls Isaac Blackman, a cntractor, fell elghteen feet and was seriously injured. Citizens of Charles City are taking time by the forelock and are already making prepa rations for next winter's ice carnival. Appanoose county republicans have nomi- nated J. C. Barrows of Centerville for thelr representative in the next legislature. The assessed valuation of Floyd county is announced as follows: Real property, $3,952,- 000; personal, $850,000; railroad, $334,674. J. J. Wilkins, pastor of St. Paul's Episcopal church at Des Moines, has resigned to ac- cept a call to the church at Sedalia, Mo. Oscar Sherman, son of ex-Governor Sher- man, and who mysterlously disappeared from Des Moines two weeks ago, is still missing. S. J. Alderman, a grain dealer of Webster City, was Instantly killed by the falling of a shaft attached to the engine in his elevator. Fred Ludwig, who killed Martin Kautz near Rowley, and who was at first released on ?nll. has been placed in jail to await his trial, Articles incorporating the Highland Park College company, with a capital stock of $200,000, have been filed with the secretary of state, Miss Mary Westbrook of Savannah was to i'red Chambers and was taken il r wedding day. She died in less than a week. Three Dubuque sports pald $80 for the privilege of running a wheel of fortune at the bicycle race meet. Their gross recelpts were $5. The little town of Ramsen will put on city airs by investing § in a system of water works. The bonds have been sold and the contract let. C. J. Smith, a colored man employed in the treasury department at Washington, was refused a meal at a Council Bluffs restau- rant. He will bring sult for damages in the United States court. Mrs. Charles Baughman dled very suddenly at her home In Dubuque with hemorrhage of the lungs. Her husband left her at home while he went to church. When he re- turned she was dead. Mr. and Mrs, George Sash of Creston are proud parents of triplets, two boys and a girl, born last week. One of the boys weighed six and one-fourth pounds, the other five and the girl five. This is the fifth case of triplets at Creston in five years. John Spence was caught in the machinery of the oatmeal mill at Cedar Raplds and in- stantly killed. His clothing caught in a big belt which carried him to the main shaft, He was beaten into a pulp and lived but a few minutes after the machinery was stopped. Miss Lucia Griffin of Albia believes the new woman has come to stay. She em- phasizes her belief by appearing on the streets in knickerbocker trousers—not flow- ing bloomers—but the regulation masculine knee pants. Her favorite form of exercise is horscback riding and she uses a masculine sadd Bluffs THE DAKOTAS. Lead City has just let a contract for the erection of a $30,000 school house. Rich gold deposits are reported to have been discovered last week In the vicinity of Medora, N. D. A farmer near Frankfort aims to furnish the town with electric light generated from the power of his artesian well in process of boring. A _renter near Miller claims to have taken in 3330 from early abbages raised on an irrigated patch covering only two-thirds of an acre. Mitchell was the scene of an elephant chase one day last week. One large brute broke loose and it required the entire cir- cus force, to round him up on the commons, a mile south of town. One of the best artestan wells in the state has been struck on the ranch of Phodes Bros. in Charles Mix county. The well Is elght inches and throws water forty-one inches above the top of the pipe. COLORADO. A recant strike was reported In the An- chorla Leland, at Cripple Creek, which aw sayed about $3,000 to the ton. The Salvation army at Denver has organ- ized a cavalry corps of young women. Thess are the only mounted Salvation soldiers fn the world. ~They will make a tour of the mountain towns. Specimens from Camp Creek district in Gunnison county assayed over $300 per ton. The ore is a glassy looking quartz which the average prospector would pass over anywhere without delgning to give a second look. That reltable dividend payer, the Moose, at Cripple Creek, has scored another big strike. In cross-cutting from the B00-foot level a seven-inch streak of quartz was found that assays eighteen ounces. The new vein ap- pears to run parallel with the old one at a dlstance of forty-five feet. In the Cripple Creek distriot fitteen steam holsts are working on the northwest slope of Gold hill at present. The number will be increased to twenty in the next thirty days. Over 300 men are working on ore and the output s about 2,300 tons per month, with a value of $110,000. This is a remarkable showing for a section of the camp which was not shipping a pound of ore five months ago. The most important strike made In the Cripple Creek mining district in many months occurred last week In Moose terri- tory. The words “important strike” and “in many months" are used advisedly, for the find was made in a cross-cut forty-five teet from the 600-foot level. At this point @ streak of ore about thirty inches wide was encountered that assays better than elghteen ounces to the ton in gold. A big flnd of phenomenally rich ore has been made in the Mineral Rock at Cripple Creek, twelve feet from the shaft, in the uth drift at the elghty-foot level. The chute was entered and it has been drifted on a distance of fifteen feet. The veln is four feet between walls, with four inches of ore along the hanging wall, which {s fairly sprinkled with free gold. =No assays have been made of it, although nearly one ton of this wonderfully rich stuff has been sacked. It will run better than $1 per pound. The balance of the vein is all pay and the screenings assay at the rate of §650 per ton. WYOMING. Coyotes are reported as growing more plen- tiful and troublesome to sheep up in the Big Horn mountain Work on the McConnell company's asbestos mines on Casper mountaln has begun, says the Casper Derrick, and is being pushed rapldly in the main tunnel, A Placer strike has been made in the Gold creek country by Fred Riniker and Sam Davis, says ‘the Central Wyoming News. They have been hauling dirt to the creek and getting $50 o the pony: load he Sweetwater Sheep Growers' assoclation has been organized and a resolution adopted requesting the governor to issue a proclama- tion prohibiting the admission of all forelgn sheep into this country unless the owners have in thelr posssbtiod a health from the Inspector, quires. Dean Sulger has Fosigned the deanery of St. Matthew's cathelfal in Laramie and has | accepted a call to the pastorate of the Ep! copal church at Atehison, Kan. Dean Suiger successor has not bézn appointed, A_consolation live bird shoot will be had on Thureday next between Sheriff Paton of Casper and Dr. Jesurun of Douglas. The | match will be for $100 a side and will ex- cite great interest in both Casper and Doug- las, E. C. Lindemann, the' well known Colorado expert in mines and geology, is authority for the statement that the Wyoming deposit of onyx is almost inexhaustible in extent and that it is fully as benutiful as any found in the world. Twenty-two cars clean bill of as the law re- of cattle wwere shipped from Fort Fetterman for the Omaha market on Sunday. Sixty head of steers belonging to this company which died en route to mar- ket have been found to have died from nat- ural causes Instead of from poison, as was suspected. An unknown man, who set fire on Au- gust 20 to the store and dwelling house of Charles A. Sherman at Alcova, was captured and brought to Casper last week. He was evidently of unsound mind and was tried for | Insanity and sent to the state insane asylum | at Evanston. F. N. Whitman of Washington, D. C., fn- spector of the Star route mail service, {s in Casper and recommends the abandonment of | the Casper-Freeland route, Changes have | also been recommended in the Star route service at Sundance, which will effect a sav- ing to the government of $1,000 a year. The Cement Plaster company recently in- corporated has purchased several tracts of | land on the outskirts of Laramie. All the land purchased has on it a layer of from two to five feet of the clay to be used in the marufacture of stuccos, Plans for the plant (o be erccted are being made, and the works will be pushed to completion before winter, The sult of the Union Pacific Raflroad company against the Rocky Mountain Plaster Stucco Mining company of Red Buttes in- volves, it Is stated by the president of the company, but $1, which the railroad company clalms is the rent due them for the ground occupled by the mill of the stucco company. The matter will be amicably adjusted betweon the stucco company and the railroad's attor- neys. Engineers are making the preliminary sur- veys for a proposed ditch into the Goshen Hole district. It is proposed to take the ditch from the Platte river about fifteen miles below Wheatland. The survey cont>mplatas covering 200,000 acres of fine agricultural land, and the enterprise when completed will be one of the largest irrigation schemes in Wyoming. A portion of the land is now owned under patents from the general gov- ernment, and the remainder will be taken under the provisions of the Carey act. OREGON, Fourteen-ounce peaches are being reported at Ashland. There are about 1,800 acres of hops in the viclnity of Silverton. Fourteen hundred and sixty beef cattle were driven through Klimath Falls recent'y on the way to a market in California. The Springfield flouring mill at Eugene is recelving about 3,000 bushels of wheat during the daytime, while at night they take in about 2,000 bushels, Assessor Jackzon has assessed the Southern Pacific roadbed at $10,000 per mile in Jack- son county, whereat the rallroad officials are considerably exercised Ollie Heacock, A 12.year-old girl living near Newberg, discovered a chicken hawk in a fight with the mother of a brood of young chickens. She slipped up behind the hawk, placed her foot on its tail and then put it in a sack. McHarvey, a well-known buyer of cattle in eastern Oregon,,ls just back at Baker City from Upper Burnt river, where he pur- chased 700 head of twos, threes and cow The price paid was $16 for cows, $18 for twos and $26 for threes. A disease supposed to be ‘“pink eye" is prevalent among the cattle along the Mal- heur riyer, above and below Yale. The dis- ease causes temporsry blindness, during which the cattle walk off embankments and into the river, causing numerous deaths. The Vitus family, says the Eugene Guard, will have 18,000 bushels of wheat harvested this season. They also raise oats, barley, hay, hops, wool, and have a number of cat- tle, hogs and sheep to turn oft. These gentle- men came here a few years ago without a dollar or any friends and rented land. They are now among our wealthiest farmers, owning large tracts of land. It is understood that a band of the Nez Perces Is to visit the Umatillas, says the East Oregonian. The visitors will come well supplied with gold, and a gambling picnic, the like of which has mever before been seen on the Umatilla reservation, will be the fnevitable result, The “blanket,” or il- literate Indians, are all inveterate gamblers and now have enough to indulge their pas- slon for weeks. While Postmistress Hunt and her brother were on the way to her claim on Wilson river they were followed by a large panther. They had eaten dinner at Walt Smith's place, and were about a mile away on_the trail ‘when they discovered the fact. Miss Hunt was pretty badly frightened. Walt Smith's dog was on the animal's trail and treed him soon after. Walt heard the dog bark, and within fifteen or twenty minutes the animal was no more, the first shot being mortal. WASHINGTON, Sprague’s roller mill ias been improved to a capacity of 300 barrels a day. The jute mill at the state prison, located at Walla Walla, Is turning out 8,000 bags a day. The saw mills of Kittitas county are cut- ting more lumber this year than they have for several yea The schooner Lizzie Colby came into An- acortes lately with 112,000 codfish from the Bering sea banks. Prof. Cheney, according to the Cosmopoli Enterprise, killed a large wildeat the other day by striking it betwcen the eyes with a stick that he threw at the cat. A mining convention s to be held in Spokane on October 2. The territory proposed to be covered comprises the states of Wash- ington, Idaho, Montana and Oregon. A proposition is on foot to build a road from Seattle to Tacoma, to be psed ex- clusively by bicycles. The projectors hope to be able to eliminate tolls and make it a free road. Two hundred and sixty-elght miners are drawing regular wages in the varlous mines around Rossland, and at least 100 more are doing development work upon their own pros- pects. During the month of July the ten principal cargo mills of Puget sound shipped 31,692,844 feet of lumber by water, the largest amount, with the exception of June, for any month during the current year. Over 200 people Inithe city of Everett have signed a pledge that they will not ride on Everott street cars so long as the manage- ment persists in employing only enemies of a certain religlous denomination. A sample of Alaska csdar, from the top of Bald mountain, near Lake Quiniault, is on ex- hibition in Aberdeen. It is a fine-grained wood, susceptible of & high polish, and would make handsome furniture. It grows to a large size in the Quintiault country. Mount Baker was visible the other even- ing for the first time in elght weeks, the smoke of the forest fires having died away. The new peak, whether the work of avalanche or voleanic eruption, I3 still there, so that it ia cortainly not compgsed of soft snow, says the Revellle. A real estate man at Seattle has sued for $350,000, to which he would have been en- titled as commission If a sale of land he had arranged had not fallen through on account of a defective title. He clalms that he car- ried out his part of the work, and that the fatlure was not his fault, Drysdale’s fishermen at Blaine caught a shark of the genuine maneater species in one of the salmon traps. The monster measured more than fourteen feet in length, and on opening the stomach numerous salmon and other fish were found nearly digested. The fishermen secured about nine gallons of oll from the shark., Its skeleton will be wired and placed on exhibition at the cannery, Freeman Brown, a resident of Thurston county for the past forty 0dd years, the oldest civil engineer in the state and long engaged in government surveying, recently re- turned from an extensive exploring tour in the slightly known _reglons west of the Olympic range. He tells the Olymplan that there are many extensive valleys of very fertile land there, while the | was master of the bucking bronchos timber is Immenss, an unbroken forest so dense that the sun's rays never reach the ground. Spruce trees from ten to twelve feet In dlameter are found along river bench: and on the uplands; hemlocks 100 feet to the first branches, and much white fir and larch immense in size and of fine form. MISCELLANEOUS, St. Helena and Napa wine men are offering $16 and $18 for grapes In Sonoma county, Lime rock, from 90 to 100 per cent pure lime, is being taken from the hills in River- side county, California. The lime brings the highest market price. There are twenty-one persons in Monteroy county, California, who own more than 9,000 acres of land each. There are several estates of 30,000 and 40,000 acres in that county. Copper is king In Montana, the annual yield belng larger and of much greater value than any other product of the state. Anaconda is the greatest copper producer in the world, It Is reported at Santa Fe that the general land office has concluded to throw open to settlement the alleged Una de Gato land grant In Colfax county. This Is a tract of 300,000 acres, An Immense found near Tubac deposit of guano has been A. T., which is sald to bo superior to Peruvian guano. Twelve dol- lars a ton has been secured for the little amount already taken out. A concession to bring electrical power into the City of Mexico has besn granted a French syndicate. Water power for operating the machinery s to be obtained on the River Necaxa, in the state of Puebla. Albert Steinfleld, an Arizona ¢ who ot his native deserts, went to an Francisco and attempted the' feat of riding a bicyale. He was pltched off and his skull broken and he 18 now lying in a hospital A large number of Cres Indians are en- camped south of Landusky, Mont., and are making life a burden to the residents of that locality, These roving marauders are being carefully watched and as soon as they commence violations of the game law sum- mary justice will be dealt out to them. An interesting relic placed In the Fresno exposition window recently was an old muz- zle-loading gun that has been in one family for 148 years. It passed through the revolu- tionary ‘war. Since then it has been trans- formed from a fiint-lock to a cap-lock. It is nearly seven feet long and is a remarkable looking weapon. A great glacier northeast of Avalanch lake, and perhaps the only one in the United States south of Alaska, has been discovered, par- tially explored and photographed. A road will at once be lald out, so that such a curi- osity as a real glacier can be visited by all who desire to look upon another one of the wonders of Flathead county. In a yard in Yuma there is a mute but majestic reminder of the days of great ex- pectations along the Colorado river fifteen or twenty years ago. It is one of the largest —perhaps the largest—wagon ever bullt. The hind wheels are seven feet in diameter, and the front ones are five feet, while the hubs are two feet long and two feet in diameter. xels are of steel brought from New the way of Cape Horn. It was built whoy, The engineers of the Valley road are sur- veying through Clovis. This is the shortest route to Visalia and will pass through the richest country, tapping the largest flumes in state at Clovis and Sanger. The Clovis Flume company alone will ship over 3,000 cars per year. It will take over 800 cars to move the grain of this section this season. This is also the center of a large wine and fruit region. ———— Subject to Attacks of Cholera Morbus, While staying in the Delta (Mississippi Bottoms) last summer, E. T. Moss, repre- senting Ludlow, Saylor Wira Co. of St. Louls, suffered from malaria and became subject to attacks of cholera morbus. In every in- stance when attacked he was relieved as It by magic, by using Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. He says: “I regard it is the ‘ne plus ultra’ of medi- cines.” PAD] Enters Into the Composition Structure of Almoxt Everyt This is the age of paper. Everything Is made of paper nowadays, from the wheels of railroad cars to costumes for fancy dress parties, and from bonbonnleres to under- clothing, says the Philadelphia Times. This last is a recent hygienic fad, favored by the doctors, and a lately incorporated company xpects to get wealthy by supplying invalids and_delicate persons with undergarments made of fine paper. The product of their ingenuity is said to be as light as paper, as warm or warmer than wool and as flexible as the finest silk. At present it is not in the market, and the experiments made so far have proved that it wi'l be costly at first but the projectors of the scheme are co vinced that in a short time it will be both commonplaco and cheap. Many an Irish peasant has profited by the knowledge that a plece of old paper makes just as good a chest protector as silk-covered chamols skin; street car men, teamsters and tramps all know the value of a thin sheet of paper wrapped around the feet in cold weather. Ice men and trained nurses have long since learned that paper wrapped around tho outside of the rubber sheet which con- tains a lump of ice will exclude the air better than a blanket, and the worth of paper as a bed covering has been demonsttated in almost every hospital In the country. Several charitable women in Chicago regularly make paper lined quilts in the summer to be given to poor families at the approach of winter and in many private families paper is quilted botween the linings of ‘‘comfor and counterpanes. Turning from the useful, ordinary, every- day kind of paper, contemptible from its cheapness and generality, to the ornamental varieties, which furnish plenty of new women and not a few new men with a good livelihood, three kinds are found—the plain tissue, or “kite” paper, as it was called a few years ago, the crinkled, or crepe varicty, and ‘the French tissue, or “Flower” paper. The first and last mentioned kinds can be had in all possible and probable shades, to say nothing of plaids, checks, etc., but the crinkled is limited to black, white and tie more artistic shades and tintings, To have a bed rcom or parlor papered with tinted crepo papar is the latest fad in the furnishing of country houses and sum- mer cottages. They have paper bed cloth- ing, paper cushions on the rattan chairs, paper draperies and window curtains, tables of papler mache covered with a crinkled paper scarf, paper shades on the paper dee- orated lamps, chandeli or candelabra, paper paneis-upon the paper doors, paper frames to the paper pictures, paper cov- ered vases holding paper flowers, and, if the owner of all this beauty is a faddist, a paper gown to lounge in. A Chicago firm has just finished a cottage at Newport in this style, and the boudoir of the house mis- tress is done In rose pink paper, each panel of wall, ceiling or door being gathered in the center under an American beauty rose, which might be alive, so perfect are all the detalls, even to the perfume in its folded heart. The carpet is of paper in a cor- responding shade, the Turkish lounge is upholstered in the same fashion, and the lady herselt looks, when in the roum, like a glgantic rose. The skirt of her gown Is composed of flounces of the shaded, ruffled papsr, topped off with a calyx of green paper. The full bodice is drawn into a bertha of the green, and the sleeves are made of a suc- cession of Immense rose petals. Porches wide, sunny halls and dark, solemn libraries are all finished with paper, and pretty and artistic lounging coats and smoking jackets are fashloned from the same material. Garden hats, sun_ bonnets and -little shoulder capes, both for children and their elders, are belng shipped to the country 1 largo quantities, and they are as pretty heart could desire. Paper “curtains” are gathered to paper crowns, paper tiestrings are added, and the trimming consists of paper bows and flowers. The hats are all of the wide-brimmed, shady variety and are attractive looking hanging in the hall of a summer cottage, to say nothing of when donned by a pretty girl. This fad grew out of the hat worn by a soclety leader at a fancy ball last winter, and bids fair to spread far and wids, They are easily made, requiring merely a milliner's frame, a roli of paper and a little ingenuity, and they are not costly to buy ready made. — The Modern Denuty Thrives on good food and sunshine, with plenty of exercise In the open air. Her form glows with health and her face blooms with its beauty. _If her system needs the cleans- ing action of a laxative remedy, sie uses (he gentlo and pleasant liquid laxative, Syrup of Figs, e Cloek Trade Rushing. The manufacturers of clocks have not been 50 busy at any time during several years NNNNANRAN Castoria is Dr. Samuel Pitcher’s prescription for Infants and Children. It contains neither Opinm, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. It is & harmless substituto for Parcgoric, Drops, Soothing Syrups, and Castor Oil. It is Pleasant. Millions of Mothers. feverishness. cures Its guaranteo is thirty years® uso by Castoria destroys Worms and allays Castoria prevents vomiting Sour Curd, Diarrhcea and Wind Colie. Castorin relieves teething troubles, cures constipation and flatulency. Castorin assimilates the food, regulates the stomach and bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. Cose toria is the Children’s Panacea—the Mother’s Friends Castoria. “ Castoria is an excellent medicine for chil- dren. Mothers have repeatedly told me of its good effect upon their children." Di. G. C. Osaoon, Lowell, Mass. % Castoria is the best remedy for ehildren of which I am acqualnted. I hopo the day is not far distant when mothers will consider the real interest of their children, and uso Castoria in- stead of the variousquack nostrums which aro destroying their loved ones, by foreing opium, morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful agents down thelr throats, thereby sending them to premature graves." Dr. J. F. Kixcneros, Conway, Ark, Castoria. * Castoria I 50 well adapted to children thas 1 recommend it assuporior toany prescription kuown to me." I1. A, Arcuen, M. D, 111 8o, Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y. *Our physicians in tho chiliren's depart- ment have spoken highly of their experl- ence In their outside practice with Castoria, and although we only have among our medical supplies what is known as regular products, yet wo aro freo to confess that the merits of Castoria has won us to look with favor upon it." UmiTep T0SPITaL AND Disprxsary, Boston, Mass, Atrex ©. Swirn, Pres., The Contanr Company, 71 Murray Streot, Now York City. 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Mothers would do well to atomize their children’s throat and nasal passages morning and evening with Allen's Hyglenle Fluid—a positive preventive of all contagious diseases, such as diphtheria, scarlet and typhold fevers, small pox, bronchitis, etc. 3 aromatic flaver and is perfectly harm! ——— NEW KENTUCKY CAVE, Three Miles Long, with an Ice Cold Underground River. Prof. Gordon Curry, dean of the College of Pharmacy of Louisville, and a botanist of some note, accompanied by Mr. Hugo Soltau, an enthusiastic naturalist of New York, spent a day in the neighborhood of Rock- haven, thirty miles from Loulsville, on the Louisville, St. Louls & Toledo road, search- ing for rare plants and insects. While near Rockhaven, says the Courler Journal, they discovered the mouth of what proved to be a cave over three miles long. The cave is filled with stalactites and stalagmites, some of them in course of formation. About half way in the cave they found an underground river wth a temperaturo of about 40 de- grees, or just about the frerzing point. They crossed the river, which wus in some places four or five feet deep, where Mr. Soltau found some rare insects of the beetle species that have no eyes or places for eyes. In speaking of the discovery Mr. Soltau sald: ~ “The iInsects that I found are of the beetle species, whose technical name is anophthamus tenuls, and I never found or heard of any of their kind anywhere else. They bave no eyes, and nature seems to have made no provision in them for these organs. They are a small Insect, and I found them In the crevices of the rocks in- side the cave. They were gotten from the crevices by dashing water agalnst the walls of the cave. The cave s one of the prot- tiest I ever saw. It Is something near three miles long, as ncar as I comd judge, and we found some beautiful stalactites and stalag- mites in it In all the processes of formation. Prof. Curry found lakes of the calcareous matter from which some of them are formed, and some of the unfinishel stalactites were as beautiful as I ever saw in my life. “Tha river wound across tho cave in a zlgzag fashion, and the water was as clear as crystal. In some places it was four or five feet deep, and in other places it widened out into little pools that were perfectly lim-- pid. We were surprised to find that it was ice water. The temperature of the cave was about 60 degrees, and, of course, the water was considerably colder. We waded the stream and went to the end of the cave, or as far as we could see that the cave ex- tended. The cave is reached only after a hard climb up a steep hillside. 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