Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 23, 1895, Page 5

Pulse of Western Pre James Blako Is in n from the new strikes In Saw Pit gulch, says a Rico special to the Denver Nows. The discoveries are| really In Wheelor gulch, on the brink of the San Miguel river, in San Miguel county, in| the lower Sun Miguel mining country. The shipping point is Fall Creek, on the Rio Grande Southern road. James Blake of Rico | and R. J. Hyde of Placerville are the men | who made the first discoveries in this promis- ing section. They are both old-time prus- pectors and wers In Leadvill the early times. In May they found what they thought was valuable ore. They then spent two months attempting to get a lease on the par- ticular claime that they wanted. The prop- erty s owned by James Kirkham of Califor- nia. The ore showed carbonate deposits, being u lead ecarbonate assaying from one- half to two ounces in gold and 110 in silver to the ton. The first strike was made in the | Bell Champlon. Otto Kaster, John Campbell, | superintondent of the Enterprise, and Mr. | Blake have bonded and leased three claims for $2,000 cuch and six clalms for $9,000 each. | The first day they took a ton and a half of ore out of the Bell Champlon. Three carloids were shipped to the smelter at Rico, running well in gold, silver and lead, and netting the shippers a handsome profit over all expense incu Wherever a man sticks a pic there s to be lots of ore. Opposite Hm: Commerclal 1o 000 feet on the same line of contract, Messrs, Wheeler and Feire are | shipping gold ore that runs from two | to four ounces in gold and thirty to fitty in silver per ton, at a depth of forty feet, from a vein thirty-four inches wide, The ore Is a flat contact of dol- omite and porphyry. At the Commercial they are sacking ore from the grass roots. Four feet from the surface thero is a vein of solid galena fourteen inches wide. It Is a blankst veln. They strip the dirt and sack the ore. The mud over the ore Is rich in gold and sil- ver. Mr. Blake first went into this section of the country to examine gthe placer claims along the San Miguel and make an effort 1o find where the gold came from. He thinks he now has the key to the situation. The extent of the territory carrying car- bonates is unknown. The lime belt is twelve miles square, showing Indications of carbon- ates. Soveral placer claims have been located for a town site. About sixteen men are at work. Two men on the new strike are taking out a carload of ore every three days in dolng development work. Mr. Blake prospected for a long time in New Mexico and has made a study of carbonates for twenty years. It is his opinion that there will be a number of paying mines opened up at Saw Pit within the next sixty days. The situation is such that the winter will not interfere with the work. The ranchmen on the mesa above are staking their farms In mining clatms. WILL BOOM YANKTON. Yankton Is in a blaze of enthuslasm. The long hoped for boom seems about to material- ize. The rallroad to Norfolk will be built this fall, the bridge over the Missourl will be completed at once, we belleve that the Tllinols Central will come in next spring and there is some likelihood that the Great Northern will extend up the river to Charles Mix county within a few months, says a Yankton speclal to the Sioux Falls Argus- Leader. The deal for bullding the Yankton & Nor- folk has been completed and the contracts have been signed. Messrs. Nation & Teliuh of London, the managers for the syndicaie which Plerce roped Into so large an amount of securities, are here agaln and they have succeeded in floating enough bonds to build the road. Nation was here some months ago and made a careful investigation Into | tho Pierce properties. That gentleman had not only the thirty miles of graded road bed of the Norfolk line, but the Plerce hotel here, the Union block and considerable other property. For all of this the Englishmen had pald something like $600,000, and they made a careful investigation to see whether it would pay to drop the whole thing or to g0 ahead and complete the line and thus mike the property rise in value and repay them their cost.” They decided upon the latter. They have now raised the money and have telegraphed to Senator Pettigrew to come here. Ho v chiefly in- terested in the new bridge and s supposed to be the representative of Jim Hill. The contracts were all signed. The Great Northern guarantees the interest on all the bonds and will operate the new road. ed Just what the arrangements for the new ! bridge are is not known, but that it will be completed at once is settled by the contracts. HEAP GOOD INDIANS. ‘When the great Sioux reservation was opened to settlement and the Indians placed elther north of the Cheyenne or south of the White river a number of them who had taken severalty land were left on Bad river, says a Plerre dispatch to the Sioux Falls Argus-Leader. The whites who went upon the ceded portion to take up lands found that the Indlans who remained had taken up most of the cholce locations, which were supplied with timber and water along Bad river, and tho whites were forced to take second choice. The Indlans remalning on Bad river are all the way from seventy-five to 100 miles from the agency, and a great deal of their time 1s taken up In going to and from the agency after their monthly supplies. Some time ago an agency employe was working among the Bad river Indians, attempting to persuade them to remove north of the Cheyenne, where they would be more convenlently situ- ated for control by the agent. J. K. Sechler, who has charge of the subagency at the mouth of Cherry creek, now reports that many of the Indians have already given up their allotments and are taking new locations on the reservation, and that it will not be long until all of them make the change. LOST VEIN FOUND AGAIN. A. E. Humphreys, the well known mine owner, who has just come in from Trail creek, 18 in possession of a telegram from J. D. Farrell, which contained the welcome news that an Immense body of ore had been struck in the Crown Point, says the Spokane Chronicle. Mr. Humphreys sald in reference to the strike: ““This news only confirms my faith in this property. The former superintendent at the mine had sunk a shaft, but after going down thirty feet he lost the vein. 1 was firmly convinced that he had drifted in the wrong direction. I engaged a new superintendent and he set to work on another shaft, with the result as you see by this telegram. A vein running from six to elght feet in width has been struck at a depth of thirty feet, and an immense body of ore Is in sight. From a hundred assays made on the Crown Point the ora varled from $2 to $105 in gold. We are now bullding a road to this property. “We are also developing the Iron Horse, and with every blast the mine continues to improve in richness. There Is now from twelve to fourteen feet of ore In sight frqm elther wall.” IN A BAD FIX. The mining boom at Cook's Inlet has pe- tered out, and there are over 200 miners in far away Alasks who are stranded. Not only have many of the men no means with which to come home, but there is no way in which the majority of them can get home this win- ter, says the San Francisco Examiner. Wild stories of a great boom in that part of Alaska were told last fall and the spring saw the fitting out of a number of expedi- tions for Cook's Inlet. The first to go from here was In charge of C. D. Lsdd in the schooner Marion, twenty-elght men being in the party. The steamer Chehalls took twenty-five men from FPuget sound, the schooners Elwood, Prosper and sloop Mars also took parties from Seattle, Tacoma and Port Townsend. The steamer Jennle arrived from Cook's Inlet elght days ago, and when she left the latter place only the Marion, Prosper and Elwood was there. These boats could not accommodate ene-quarter of the miners. The schooner Prosper's captain offered to take twenty men—all she could carry—to Una at $5 a head, the men to board themselves on the trip. The Alaska Commercial company’s new schooner, Kodlak, which way built here a fow months ago, 1s expected to arrive at Cook's Inlet next month, but her capacity will not accomodate many of the miuers. “It depends where the miners are along the shores of the I [ company’s office. “If they have remalned on the east side t can easily reach our trading post at XKenal, and there are two or three canneries on the Konal and Kussilof rivers, but if they have gone up on the westerly side they Ars very likely to have a hard time unless |G W, they arc provided with guns an uni- | tion | Even the possession of these will not | avail them much after the winter sets In, | for everything thero is snow and ice. If they | tty well acquainted with the country could work down to Kenal, but if they worant of the proper knowledge the o is very serlous. We have another sta- foa at Tyanock, but 1 do not think that it Ia kept open in the winter months.” LUCKY LITTLE BLLA. One of the richest assays sccured from | ore from any of the mines surrounding the city in a long time is that from the Little Elia, on Dutton creek, says the Laramic Boomerang. This mine Is owned Jointly by Fox and T. L. McKeo, the former boing the possessor of three-quarters of the clalm and the latter one-quurter. The assay referred to was made by Prof. W. C. Knight showed 32.17 ounces of gold, valued at $643.40, and one and four- tenths ounces of silver. In addition to these values there is about $20 worth of copper to the ton, there being from 10 to 12 per cont. The Little El'a is the best developed mine in that section, men having been at work on | It for the past year, and the ore that 18 now being exposed in it shows what may be ex- | pected In many other claims when they have | been properly developed. It is a sulphide oz | and the owners aro figuring on securing a | process that will work the same. There are a number of processes and none of them are cxpensive. Perhaps $5,000 will cover the cost | of a plant to handle the ore. They have 200 | tons of ore on the dump there which it will pay well to work with the process, and they have some ore sight now that will pay to ship. Very few, however, have sufficient con- fidence in the smelters to trust their ores in their hands to secure any value from them. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MIN Very encouraging news comes from Boulder Mining company's property, sit- uated about thirty-five miles southeast of Salton station on the Southern Pacific rail- road, says a San Bernardino dispatch to the San Francisco Call. The company has six claims, the best one of which Is the Boulder. From assays re- cently made it 1s shown that the ore runs all the way from $16.50 to $195. At the Boulder mine there s a shaft which has reached a depth of fifty feet. All the way down the shaft are gold veins, which will average on milling $20 per ton. The quality of the rock is granite, and the veins are of 4 uniform width, So far on the six claims elght shafts, vary- Ing from twenty-five to sixty fect, have been sunk, and four tunnels run in from twenty- four 'to 250 feet, bringing to view the very brightest of prospects. A Bryant rotary miil that will cost $10,000 has been ordered and will be in running order {nside of sixty days. The mines have a most commanding posi- tion. They aro at an altitude of 2,000 feet, which does away with much desert heat The hills are covered with mesquite and ironwood. 1In the immediate vicinity of the mine there is a constant flow of water for eight months in the year, which is more than enough to operate a ten-stamp mill. The Boulder district mines promise to be second to none in soutbern California. Placer mining is coming pretty well to the front, as some very good discoveries have been made about forty miles to the northwest of this city in the Fish Fork branch of the San Gabriel canyon and about thirty miles from the mouth of the canyon. In running a thirty-foot tunnel on the Mystery between $90 and $100 was taken out, the gold lying mostly In pockets. The bedrock is hard and smooth. A fifty-foot tunnel is being run on the Lone Boy and the indications are very bright. In order to work the mines to an advantage the river must be flumed and di- verted from Its present channel. These mines were recently discovered, but for the last thirty years miners have traversed the San Gabriel canyon right over the claims and never made a discovery. The country Is very rough, sixteen miles having to be trav- eled on burros. NEBRASKA. Bancroft will build a new Presbyterian church. Emiel Gruenwald of Plerce county killed fifteen rattlesnakes one day last week. Pender schools have an enrollment of 220 pupils, Dodge 174, Scribner 181, Norfolk 900. A movement s on foot to relocate the county seat of Knox county. Niobrara is the present county capital. Land owners near Humboldt have con- structed an artificlal lake of sufficient capacity to irrigate 300 acres of land. Stanton county threatens to sue Wayne county for permitting Russlan thistle seed to blow across the boundary line. Hooper has a female base ball club and the girls have a record of beating a team made up of hoys by a score of 9 to 3. 3 Isaac Peed of Plainview raised twenty-two acres of sugar beets and the crop sold for $1,320, or an average of $60 per acre. Citizens of Ashland recently joined in the celebration of the sixtieth anniversary of the wedding of Father Hackney and his wife. The town board of Hooper Is negotiating for the purchase of the electric lighting plant now operated in that town by private indi- viduals, York has given up the sugar factory for the present, owing to the fact that eastern capitalists are not yet ready to invest the necessary funds. The 4-year-old daughter of Henry Myer, a prominent farmer living near Cortland, Gage county, was run over by a heavily loaded wagon. She died seven hours later. The hot dry weather which has prevailed In all parts of the state for the past ten days has ripened corn so rapldly that there is jow practically no danger to be apprehended from frosts, Joe Frilze of Wilber, 20 years old, loaded a shot gun, placing the cap on first. Whil» he was wadding the last charge the gun ex- ploded, shattering his left haud in a shock- ing manner. The starting of the sugar factories at Grand Islard and Norfolk will be delayed a little on account of the warm and favorable weather. Beets are rapidly acquiring increised sac- charine strength. BIg oat ylelds are constantly being re- ported. Now comes Peter Winckel, near Ran- dolph, in Cedar county, with five acres of oats, from which he threshed 505 bushels, machine measure. The Golden Iirrigation district in county, with headquarters at O'Neill, pro- poses to construct an immense canal 250 miles long to furnish water which will irri- gate 500,000 acres of land. Herman Shulz, living eleven miles south- west of Wisner, was struck on the head by a flying plece of tumbling rod, which had become loosened from a horse power, Con- cussion of the braln resulted, from the ef- fects of which the injured man died. Miss Jennie Brown of Neligh went to sleep with her glossy head of hair hanging down her back in two long braids. During the night some one entered her room and with some sharp instrument like a razor severed the braids from her head without awakening her or her sister. Nearly 2,000 voters have signed a petition asking the supervisors of Knox county to call a special election on a proposition to move the county seat away from the town of Nio- brara. The beard refused to call tho election and Judge Robinson issued a mandamus com- pelling it to do so. From an articie In a recently published ir- rigation issue of the Nebraska Farmer, the facts are gleaned tuat thirty-six counties in Nebraska have completed canals upon which $1,070,915 has been expended. In these canals 595 miles of ditches are now in cours construction. During the past year 122 acres of irrigated crops were cultivated. Nearly 1,000,000 acres of land can be irri- gated by canals now completed. Probably the most extensive irrigation heme in the state, says the Nebraska Farmer, is the one to bulld a canal 250 miles loug from Sheridan county south to Rush- ville, east across Cherry, Brown and Rock counties to the northeast corner of Holt county, where the water will be emptied Into the Niobrara, whenca it was taken at the head of the e The water is to be con- veyed from the Niobrara a distance of thirty miles to where it will be emptied into the Snake river. The natural channel of the latter will be used for forty-five mil a ditch twenty-seven miles long will convey the water to a reservoir in Cherry county to be seven miles long, constructed by dams built about a group of small lakes. This r ervoir for storage purposes is to occupy the space of 13,700 acres, with a capacity of 411,000 acre feet. The ditch will follow a divide between the Elkhorn river and th the Holt | first, and | THE OMAHA DAILY BEE:IIMONDAY, Niobrara river from Long Pine and Bassott to O'Nelll. The total cost s estimated at $1,500,- 000. The reservolr alone wiil cost $100,000 | and the head gate at that place $20,000. 10WA. A bicyele thief is doing business after dark in’ Atlantic. Ottumwa has ralsed a cash bonus of $55,000 | for a glucose factory. The oldest inhabitant of Fort Dodge, E. H. Allen, is dead. lTowa City has adopted vitrified brick for paving on residence streets, Mason City is gratified over the fact that its wchool census reaches 1,620, Mrs. David Wright of Des Moines was severly burned in a gasoline explosion. Farmers in the vicinity of Waterloo report that the second hay crop is better than the Mr. | The Des Moines brick yards have so many orders akead that they will have to run all winter. Gottlieb Forch, a farmer living near the little town of Anthon, committed suicide by hanging. Laborers are fo scarce at Fort Dodge that the sewerage contractor has difficulty in se- curing the number he needs. There are 600 natives of Ohlo Taylor county. They held union this year at Bedford. I. W. Cook of Oskaloosa acted as tem- porary secretary at the National Irrigation congress at Albuquerque, N. M. B. Arle, one of Boone's enterprising build- ers, will expeud $20,000 in preparing the ground and erecting a tenement house, State Treasurer Herriott has returned to Des Moines after an absence of a month in the west. Mrs. Herriott remains in Denver. William Rogers, 70 years old, a retired farmer living at Clinton, stepped on a_rusty nail. Lockjaw resulted and he is slowly dy- ing. Prof. N. E. Hansen of the State Agricultural college at Ames has accepted a professorship in the Agricultural college at Brookings, 8. D, The Postoffice department has granted tle residents of Orange township in Blackhawk covnty the privilege of naming their post- office Orange. At Burlington two broke Jjail. streets. One was the other escaped. L. Jackson, a Sibley barber, swallowcd about twenty doses of laudanum, perhaps thinking it was liquor. Dr. Crawhill kept him on earth by pumping him out. Out of the five candidates who took the plarmacy examination this week the foliow- ing passed and will be issued certificates to practice: F. C. Hemple, Clinton; James Greg- erson, Harlan. John Anderson, a Des Moines school hoi Janitor, had no faith in banks and buried $360 and two gold watches in his cellar. Some clever thief got the whole pile, leaving only the empty far. Owen Switt, aged 52, jumped from a wi dow at Des Moines, alighting fifteen fect b low on a concrete welk. He struck on his head and dled soon afterward, leaving his young second wife. A boy 16 years old, who had been sentenced at Green 40 a term in the Waverly jall for stealing a hat, jumped from a passenger train going at a high rate of speed and es- caped without Injury. Mills county, probably the greatest apple county in the world, Is preparing to give an apple carnival at Glenwood, September 27 Arrangements are being perfected and a great display will be made. Peter Delp was overcome by damp in a well near Laurens while trying to extract a rock and died before he could be rescued. A man who endeavored to get him out was also cvercome, and a physician had to be called to eave his iife, The democrats of the Fortieth senatorial district, comprising the counties of Alla- makee and Fayette, nominated R. N. Doug- lass of Postville for senator. He.is presi- dent of the Cltizens' State bank, but has antimonopolist leanings. The capital stock for the proposed $25,000 shoe factory at Fort Dodge has been sub- scribed by ‘local business men. A building 18x143 feet, four stories high, constructed of brick and stone, will be erected. Oue hun- dred men will be employed in the factory, the capacity being 500 pairs a day. A young man named Bates, a son of an attorney, was found in an orchard at Des Molnes with his skull fractured from a brick which was said to have been thrown by a Mrs. Sterling. She was arrested on a war- rant. The young man was protecting the or- chard, which is the property of the Fidelity Insurance company. It is reported that a number of families who live around the or- chard make themselves perfectly at home with the fruit. The report of the Spirit Lake monument commission is completed and has been filed with the governor. Charles Aldrich, who is one of the commissioners, said the $5,000 ap- propriated had been expended with the excep- tion of a couple of dollars, and the legislature would be asked to provide enough money to construct a permarent fence around the monument. The commissioners are C. C. Car- penter, John F. Duncombe, Abble Gardner- arpe, Charles Aldrich and Rodney A. Smith. State Mine Inspector Thomas reports a strange thing in the Saylorville ccal mine, a few miles north of this city, says a Des Molnes paper. For some time the operators have been working on the 200-foot level. There is no water in the neighborhod, and all the water used in the boilers and for other purposes had to be hauled from tie Des Moines river. Recently the shaft was sunk to the 230-foot level, and in addition to finding a good vein of coal a spring of soft pure water has made its appearance on the floor. The spring has been piped up and the water s now pumped to the surface. The water I8 softer than rain water. THE DAKOTAS. The Grand Forks street fair, the first ever held in the northwest, was opened last week and proved the biggest kind of a success. Over 10,000 strangers attended. The electric belt fakir came to Midizon last week and found suckers enough for nearly $200. Purchasers thought they were going to get their do'lar back and the belt thrown in, Instead of that the fakir kept their dollar and they have an ‘“electric belt” worth 7 cents to remember him by, Some bought as many as five. Charles F. Flynn, agent for the North- western rallway at Volga, has just completed an invention which will greatly improve telegraphy. It is a repeating machine, which enables the operators of any place to talk with any other point by simply using a shift key on the instrument. This will be a great saving of time in transmiiting messages, as well as qulte a saving of expense. He has al- ready Introduced the machine and it is be- lieved it will be a great success, Settlers in Gregory county have at last re- ceived the justice that was denled them for many years. Surveyors have completel the government survey of that portion of Greg:ry county which was coled by the Sioux and opened to seitlement February 10, 1890, and the several hundred settlers who hava re mained patiently on the land as squatters in re- living their annual desperate characters A running fight took place in the captured, wounded, and | money since that time are at length enabled to know the boundaries of their land. The annual conference of Irdlan Presby- terian_and Congregational churches of North and South Dakota, Nebraska and Montina was held last week at Mountain Head, on the Sisseton reservation. About 2,000 Iniians were present, and fully 1,000 whites gathered to witness the concluding services. The de- liberations were conducted in the S'oux lan- guage and were generally participated in. Teepees were arranged In_the form of semi- circles extending half a mlle or more, and in the center of which was the church and also a tabernacle. Rey. John Eastman of Flandreay, an Indian preacher, presided. The next con- terence will b held a year hence on the Yankton reservation near Springfleld. GOLORADO. A new strike on the St. Louls and Cripple Creek tunnel runs better than two ounces to the ton. The ore shipped from the Doctor mine amounted to about twenty-four tons, and it assayed all the way from 100 to 700 ounces per ton, says the Victor Review. It is b lieved that it will run from $3,000 to $5,000 SEPTEMBER 23, 1895. per ton, Nearly ‘Al fhis ore was taken out while excavating for (u shafthouse, and the breast today shows a twelve-inoh veln J. G. Hiestend of Manitou has recured a 135-pound meteorite, which was found by some cour strike of coal has been made about ten miles west of Cripple Creek. A four and a half foot vein, similar to that found at Canon City, was struck ‘at a depth of fiftesn feet A shipment of ‘nine tons of ore from the Red Umbrella mine at Cripplo Creck put enough in the treasury to liquidate the cost of sinkfig fhe shaft 200 feet and left a balance of §800 in the treasury. Returning hunters report the slaughter of game in northern Colorado this scason as outrageous. The country s full of touris who are killing game in a reckless and wanton manner. There are seventyfive bod'es cf elk lying in that part of the country which have been left where shot From a Leadville gentleman who is a¢ quainted with one of the parties who helped take out the ore, the Kagle County Blide learns that s recently made on sample taken from a vein of ore uncovered fin th Great Western at Holy Cross averaged 5.0 ounces gold. An assay from the richest portion of the vein gave returns of 21.51 ounces gold. A surprising find has been made at head of Cascade creek, just on the other of the divide and about two miles this s'de of the Bondholder, says the Creede S:ntinel Messrs, J. C. Butler and J. S. Presion of Denver have located seven claims on a leal from which they can plece they hav men were on a summ bining prospectin taking in the Cochetopa part of the adjacent Cre th the it These two gentle- on trip, com- and_have 1 belt and that do territory where tinel man found them when ha was on way to Camp cresk WYOMING. A contract has been let by the city of ( per to put in a water works plant at a c of $40,000. A fine oll spring covered near Dougla out of the sandrock. Report has it that negotiations are being made for the erection of a grist mill on the Belle Fourche river in the vicinity of Hulett, A pipe line from c:ntral Wyoming to Omaha Is talked of as calculated to revolu- tionize the manufacturing industries of the west. An irrigating ditch is being taken out of the Platte river, two mlles north of Glendo, which will irrigate several thousand acres of good agricultural land. Mrs. Olstrom, wife of a section foreman at Cheyenne, discovered a small rallroad bridge to be on fire, and immediately ran the track and flagged the approaching t mail. The passengers raized a purse of $50 for the woma W. C. Knight made an assay of a plece of ore brought in by Charles Hegewald the other day from the Fox mine, in the Cooper HIll disirict, says the Laramie Republican. It ran $643 to the ton. The owner is ve naturally elated over the result. If such ore exists in his mine In quantity it will pay handsomely to ship it to Denver. Several hundred pounds of ore from the same mine has been sent to Denver for a mill test. OREGON, Snow bas fallen heuvily range west of Baker Cit Cattlemen are receiving 214 cents per pound gross for their stock, an increase of half a cent over last year's price. A fig tree six feet high and loaded with a hieavy crop of large figs, the second crop this season, Is growink in'the yard of Carpenter Albright of Corvailis. An assoclation for fhe destruction of coy- otes has been organized in Crook county. This association affers to pay a bounty of $1 for each coyote killed in Crook county. A small body of Umatilla Indians hanging about the Portland federat building declare that there are signs,well known to them which point cleatly to an early winter and a long and hard ope. While a teamster ai Astorla was about to water a span of mules at the trough he dis- covered a monster black bear quietly drinking at the same place. . The mules and the bear both became frightoned and ran in different directions. About 100 men are at work on the new Hampton ditch on Upper Grave creek. The aqueduct is to be five miles long, seven feet wide at top, four feet at bottom and thres feet deep. The wages pald men vary from $1 a day to $2.50 and board. Captain Dzle has finished running another tunnel at the Beaver creek mine, near Coal- edo. The tunnel is betwoen 300 and 400 feet in length, and taps a vein of coal five feet thick. This vein he has tapped in several places and found excellent coal everywhere. Persons from Robinsonvillo report that a Mr. Harrington, a young Englishman, has made a rich strike in that vicinity. The p: where the discovery was made is just above an old placer claim. The vein is about four inches wide, and it is reported that $20,000 to the ton Is a fair estimate, It is sald there are 16,000 sheep scattered along the hills from Catherine creek at Cornucopla, without a shepherd, the herder having notified the owner by posting a no- tico on a tree that he would better get au- ther herder, and then left the sheep. The owner is sall to live in Umatilla county. Some time ago John Priest, ex-collector of customs of Yaquina district, discovered a process by which fir and other wood could be rendered impervious to the teredo and the effects of decay. Mr. Priest obtained a patent on his discovery, and last wesk announced that he expected to sell the right for the United States within a few days to a company or syndicate for $20,000. WASHINGTON. Spokane Is to have a fruit fair, beginning September 30 and running ten days. st been where recently dis- the oil drips on the mountain A company for the irrigation of the arid | lands of Franklin county Pasco. Two hundred and sixty-eight miners are drawing regular wages in the various mine around Rossland, and at least 100 more are doing development work upon their own prospects, B. F. Smith, a newspaper man of Sno- homish, and C. A. Messimer of Lake Stevens have invented a new propeller, which, they think, methods of navigation. The flax crop of Columbia county Is about all harvested. So far there bave been 1,915 stacks threshed, which will average 120 pounds to the sack. This amount was raised on less than 300 acres. Last spring a number of Kennewick farm- ers planted small patches of peanuts as an experiment. The yleld promises to be far beyond their expectations, and the Pasco News says next year peanuts will be raised on an extensive scale, Moxee coyotes have been ralding the water- melon pateh of €. L. Gans. Mr. Gans says they tear the malons open with their teeth is talked of in | and claws and eat out the meat close to the rind, and that they mever mistake a green melon for a ripe bne. Sultan has madp stveral steps forward as a place of manufacture during the month, The new ghingle mill, with a ca- pacity of 120,000, Las been erected and is ready to begin cujtipg. It will be run to its cowboys 1n the swestern part of Routt | pan gold from every | been is destined to revolutionize existing | past | full capacity. The old hand machine at the Holmquist mill {s being replaced this week by a double-block Challenger, having & cas pacity of 120,000 per day. The daily product of shingles may be placed at from 200,000 to 000 per day. A large amount of wheat ralsed In Whit man county this year will be fed to swine. On nearly every farm throughout the farming portion of the county can be found from ten to forty hogs, all of which are to be fattened and made ready for market out of the crop now being harvested, J. W. Heron, an Aberdeen logger, found a fir tree recently from which he cut five twenty-four logs, the largest being seven inches in diameter at the big the smallest was fifty inches In ameter at the emall end. The five logs caled about 48,000 feet. Reports of cargo shipments from the ten principal cargo mills of the state of Washing- st show that a 4,736 feet of v was shipped to forelgn ports and 16,752,600 feet to do- mestic ports, making a total of 30, feet of lumber, says the West Coast Lumberman, 3 MISCELLANEOUS, Thirty ofl wells are in operation at Sum- merland, Cal. The famous Milk river valley s one of the richest reglons in favored northwestern Mon- tana, and Is just now attracting settlers and other immigrants coming into the state. All the canal companfes in the Salt river | valley in Arizona have entered into an agree. ment to scll no water to any one owning or holding land under their canals who does not own a water right It is mora than probable that Monta reich the $4,000,000 mar this year, and that of the 13,000,000 ounces of silver which will be the record, one-half will come from copper ore, as it did last year, It Is estimated that the redwood forosts of Sonoma and Mendocino counties, California, contain no less than 40,000,000,000 feet of lumber, and that at the present rate of cut- ting it would take 100 years to exhaust the supply. The Los Angeles council has passed a ct cus ordinance, so that hereafter all dollar shows will pay $1,000 for the first day of their visit, and $800 for the wacond day, and 60-cent shows will be taxed $500 for the first day and $350 for the second day, and $50 for all side shows. A correspondent of the Alaskan writes that there is a stream seventy-five feet wide emptying Into the Stickeen river, one-halt of which is ice cold and the other half scalding hot, and that the fish run up the cold side and avoid the hot. He says Major General Howard and Prof. Muir have seen this phenomenon. A man on a soap factory float at Butte on Labor day persisted in throwing cakes of the product weighing a pound. Chief Tebo ordered him to stop throwiug and hand out the cakes. He refused to obey and struck a boy in the face. The lad fell under the wheels of a wagon and was badly hurt. The s0ap thrower was arrested. The recent gold find in the Costilla dis- trict, New Mexico, from present Indications, is among the most valuable discoveries of ra. cant years, says the Mosca Herald. An area of about ten square miles has been thor- oughly prospected, and everywhere Is evi- dence of a practically inexhaustible supply of gold, bearing ore of medium grad:s, running from $10 to $20 per ton. This ore is free milling and so soft that the cost of reduction is very low. T. D. Hughes, R. F. Davis, R. L. Mann and Pete Chrisman of Gonzales, Cal., and H E. Mohrman and P. Jennings of Gilroy have sailed for a lona island in the Pacific ocean about 800 miles west of Peru in search of buried treasure. Forty-three years ago Mr. Jennings was a sailor in the South seas, and s such is said to have been one of six who burizd on a lonely island In the Pacific three large jars of Spanish doubioons, valued at between $300,000 and $1,000,000. Mr. Jen- nings is the only man alivi that knows the location of the money, as the other five died on the Peruvian coast. —_— The Modern Benuty Thrives on good food and sunshine, with plenty of exercise in the open alr. Her form glows with health end her face blooms with its peaury. If her system needs the cleans- ing action of a laxative remedy, sie uses the lgemle and pleasant liquid laxative, Syrup of igs. A will in gold production —_—— KANGAROO LEAT Something About the ever Little Animal that Produces It. Leather made from the skin of the Kan- garoo is ono of the mew products in the leather line, says the Philadelphia Times. It is soft, strong and the light grades are particularly well adapted for light summer shoes and for shoe tops, while the heavier grades will bear more usage than any other leather finished on the grain side. The light skins are made into the finest brilliant glazed kid and in dull finisn for ladies' fine shoes, and the heavy ones are finished for men's fine work. Much of it is crimped and sold for tongue boots. Shoe laces of good quality are also made of it. The skin of the kangaroo has a wonder- fully muscular fiber, which contributes largely to the strength of the animal, en- abling the females to carry their young in their pouch until old enough to take care of themselves, and aiding the kangaroo in his long leaps when in motion. The animal is a native of Australla and adjacent islands. It is a distinct specles, and has no counter- | part in other countries. There are a great | number of familles, some scarcely larger | than a rat, others of almust gigantic size The giant kangaroo (Macropus majcr), the family which furnishes the most valuable skins, was discovered by Captain Cook about a century ago, at which time it attracted much attention among naturalists. The na- tives of Australia call the ola males “‘booma and are slow to attack them. The “booma” has paws as jarge as thos: of a mastiff, ugh of different shape. His fest are his vons, and when attacked he is a dan- gerous antagonist. When raised to his full height his hind legs and tail form a tripod upon which his body rests, carrying his | head as high as that of a man on horseback The kangaroo lives upon vegetable food, and roams over the plains of Australia in large flocks. Its teeth are so constructed that it can feed upon roots and live upon barren plains where other animals would starve, and to its destruction of roots is attributed the sterile plains so common In Australia. When feeding a large male stands at his full height and acts as sentinel, while the balanca cf tho flock lie on their sides and browse. At the slightest approach of danger the sentinel sounds the alarm, and In an Iustant all ar erect upon their hind feet. They leap with their forepaws clasped close to their bedy, the tall stretched backward, while the power. ful thigh muscles are caused suddenly to straighlen to the joints, by which act the body files through the air at a low curve The ordinary jump is about nine feet, but thirty feet is often made at a leap. When pursued by hunters, and on level ground or on an up grade, theéy can outrun the flectest dog, but down grade they lose their balance and roll over. The flesh of the kangaroo fur- nishes excellent food, kangaroo venizon being considered a dainty 'dish, while the tall fur- nishes an excellent and nutritious soup, B Ladies who value a refined complexion must use Pozzoni's Powder. It produces a soft and beautiful skin. ER. Marble statuary, statuettes, and ornaments—so delicate, so easily discolored—ought always to be cleaned with Pearline. back their without the these soa That will bring snowy purity perfectly, and least risk of harm. Some of ps and other substances that are sold for washing and cleaning would simply rui So with basins, etc, Then getting yellow n them, marble mantels, slabs, tables, Clean them with Pearline. you won't see them gradually or dingy. With almost everything you can wash, there’'s some Pearline’s easier, point or other that makes washing better, as well as Peddlers will tell you “ this is as good as” or “‘the same as Pearline.” 1T'S FALSE—Fearline is never peddled, 0 your grocer sends you an imitation, be Lonest—send it back, a SANRNARNY AANERRANENERNRRRNN HIRTY yenrs' observation of Castoria with the pntronage of millions of persons, permit us to spenk of it with NNNNRNANANAN 7 Euening, Tt is wnquostionably the bost remedy for Infants and Children the world has ever known. It is harmless. Children like it. It gives them health. It will save their lives. In it Mothors ha somothing which is absolutely safo and practioally perfect as a ohild's medicine, Castorin dostroys Worms, » Foverishness, vomiting Sonr Curd. a onres Diarrhoa and Wind Collo, orin relioves Teothing Troubles. Cnstoria oures Constipation and Flatnlenoy. Castoria noutralizos the effects of oarbonio nold gas or poisonous afr Castoria doos not contain morphine, apinm, or other narcotio property. Castorla_assimilates the food, regulates the stomnch and bow. glving healthy and natural sleop. Castoria is put up in . f20 bottlen only. Tt in not sold in bnlk, Don't nllow nny ono to sell yon anyth that it is “just as good " and “ wil oo that you get C-A=S=T=0- Tz Children Cry for Pitcher’'s Castoria. The fac-simile signature_of ison every wrappor. ORCHARD HOMES. The Land of Plenty Sure Crops No Drouths No Cold Winters The Land of Promise Big Profits No Hot Winds No Fierce Blizzards ORCHARD HOMES! situated In the most fertile and rich vegetable and fruit growing re- glon of the world. The place where one-lalf the encrgy and perse- verance necessary in this western country to make a bare living, will In that glorious climate make you a good living, a home and money In the bank. Here is a soil that will raise anything almost that grows and no such thing Is known as afailure. You ave uot limited in the demand for what you raise by any local markets. On the coptrary you have the markets of the World Buying all you can ralse and paying the highest price for it. There 1s no end to thescason or crops. You can have a crop to market every month In the twelve if you wish to do so. the architect of your own fortune in this garden spot of the world. Now is the time to go south. It has becn estimated that more people be accommo- dated comfortably in the south and lay the foundation for prosper- ity than now live In the Unlted States, 20 TO 40 ACRES. in that marvelous region with its perfect climate and rich soll if properly worked will make you more money and make it faster and easier than the best 160 acre farm in the west. Garden products are an immense yield and bring big prices all the year round. Straw- berries, apricots, plums, peaches, pears, early apples, figs, oranges— all small fruits—are an early and very profitable crop. Timber of the highest quality is abundant. FULL and costs you nothing. Cattle run out all the year, ralsed and fattened. Grazing is good all the year. are luxurious and nutritious. CLIMATE 1s the finest in the known world. The summers are even {n tempera- ature and rendered delightful by land and breeze The nights are always cool. The winters are mild and short In duration. There are no extremes of heat or cold In reglon. The mean temperature is rainfall is 56 Inches. You are can abundant They are easily Native grasses this favored to 66 degrees. The average There Is az abundance of rain for all crops. Uentral Mississipp offers to the intelligent mun the finest opportunity for bettering his condition that was ever offered. The health of this reglon is excelled by no section of this country. The soll found here can ravely be equalled and never excelled for all good qualities. Karly and sure crops bring you big prices. The bLest raflroad facilities in the coun- try briug the entive country to you as a market. One-half the work you now do to get along will render you a successful money maker on any of this Orchard Nome lands. Work Intelligently and success 18 assured. ‘This is your opportunity. The are friendly; schools efficient; new pers progressive; churches liberal. The enter- prising man who wants to better the condition of himself and his family should investigate this mutter and be will be convinced. Care- fully selected fruit growing and garden lands In tracts of 10 to 20 acres we now offer on liberal terms and reasonable prices, spondence solicited. GEO. W. AMES, Gen. Agent, 1617 Faruam St., Omaha, Nebraska, people Corre-