Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 30, 1895, Page 5

I Majors Vickers and Champlin of Colorado Bprings, Colo., have bonded the old Black Hills mica mine and now have a large force of men employed mining and taking out mica, says a Cutter City dispatch to the| Sioux Falls Argus-Leader. This firm will %00n commence the erection of a plant in this city with a capacity for grinding twenty tons | of mica per day. The machinery has already been purchased. When finished and in run- ning order these gentlemen will have tho largest and most complete mica grinding and trimming plant in exlstence. all mica of every kind produced. Heretofore only that suitable for sloves was used. This did not exceed § per cent of the total amount produced. The other 95 por cent was classed as wasto and considered of no value. Now it will bring from to $100 per ton. A great many mines that waould not before pay expenses will be able to resume work and pay profits, The Akron company has been running its plant steadily for the past three months, man ufacturing axle greate from graphite, mica and petroleum, The graph d mica are obtained the petrolenm from the new flelds in Wyom- ing. The company also grinds mica and fur- nishes cut mica for stoves and trieal purpose A discovery of a mineral something resen- bling in its characteristics fuller's earth, and also somewhat of soapstone nature, but be- ing_neither, has recently boen made near Buftalo Gap, in this county. One car lond of the stuff hie been ehipped to Kansas Cit Mo. It will be grpund and experiments be made with it ‘as a filler for soap, cloth, paper, cte., taking the place of other adulter ants. Developments on the late discovery of fuller's carth near Argyle station show the deposit to be more than fifteen foet in thickness, and to cover a known area of fully 200 acres. A deal is now on for the property and, whether made or not, ship- ments of the earth will soon begin to Omaha, Kansas City, Chicago and elsewhare. GOLD NEAR ASPEN. Thero is considerable excitement here over what is now thought to be valuable gold discoveries at Maroon lakes, about twelve miles above Aspen, on Maroon creek, says an Aspen_special to the Denver Times. The first discovery was made by the Beatty brothers Monday last, and as soon as the as- says, obtained from specimens brought to town Monday night, were made known, the people here began a wild rush for the dis- trict. About 100 Aspenites visited the scene of ex- citement, and local assayers were kept busy testing all sorts of rock brought down by the prospectors. Many reports are current regarding the results obtained. The bemt authentic assay is twenty ounces of silver and seven ounces of gold. The Beatty brothers have obtained an assay of five ounces of gold from the first claim discovered. The ground s being staked all around the locality of the find, and the locators are con- fident that gold Is there. As far as can be learned, the formation seems favorable for the existence of gold-bearing rock. Speci- mens of the ore exhibited several streaks of what appears to be tellurlum. The vein matter contains quartz and disseminated fron. Whilo it would be prematuro to afirm, at this time, that a bonanza gold camp has been struck within a dozen miles of the greatest ‘silver camp on earth, and in a dis- trict which herctofore has received no atten- tion at the hands of the prospector, it can be said that experienced gold miners are so ‘well satisfled with tiife showing thus far made that thorough examination will be at once commenced on the ground already located. Another favorable feature of the new re- glon Is the fact that the formation bears a striking resemblance to that of Farncombe hill, at’ Breckenridge, where a vast amount of the precious metal has been mined. In conversation, Surveyor Wilcox, one of the most conservative mining experts in the district, stated that “if the ore brought down runs as high as It is claimed, five to seven ounces in gold, there is sufficient rock in that district to make the new flelds the rich- est In the state.” SLATE CREEK QUARTZ. J. H. Young and P. E. Nelson of Anacortes sent some picked specimens of gold quartz from the Slate creek district to the city for examination which would make them both millionaires In a week if their whole vein were equally rich and they were to work steadily at it for that length of time, says the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The gentle- men who brought the specimens here exhib- ited them at the Butler, but refused to allow the use of his name, and hesitated to tell how rich it was, lest his veracity should be doubted. He says the whole vein s im- ensely rich, but that these specimens were pleked from it and are among the best pieces of rock. They were shown to J. M. Dawley, the as- sayer, and, after examining them, he said: “I have heard of quartz carrying gold, but this is a case of gold carrying quartz. An average assay of the ten pounds exhibited would show a value of from $30,000 to $50,000 to the ton. This is leaving a pretty wide margin, but this Is very rich ore, and it is necessary to leave a wide margin. The ore comes from Canyon creek, a branch of Ruby creek, which empties into the Skagit, and s in a vein thirteen inches thick. The discovery was made about five weeks ago by Massrs. Young and Nel- son and they have driven a tunnel about fifteen feet on the veln. Before coming down to Anacortes a few days ago they picked out these specimens for thefr un- common richness. They are studded with lumps of gold and two pleces of.rock as large an egg were held together by a plece of the precious metal until they were finally shaken apart by constant handling. AFTER SPANISH GORE. “Buck' Taylor, the king of Wyoming cow- boys, has forsaken the Wild West show with which h> has been traveling and ter- rorizing the effete east, and will organize a band of 100 men to go to Cuba to fight for the independence of that island, says the Cheyenne Tribune. According to the report which was pub- lised, each man will receive $1,000 on en- listment and will receive $100 per month for his services after that. Taylor will com- mand the 100 men of picked fighters and it is expected that they will whip their weight in wildeats, and would whip a regiment of puerile Spanish troops. CRAZED OVER GOLD. This peculiar story Is printed in the Lewls- ton Tribune: EA Davis, a Nez Perce Indian, was almo’t burned to death last weck at his home on Clearwater river, six miles above the agency. He had carried several hundred dol- lars in gold coln home with him and the music of the Jingling yellow metal seemed to fascinate him. He would count and recount 1t and handle it and let it drop through his fingers. The sight and sound of the coin weaved a magic spell about him. His houte caught on fire, but he heeded it not. He could not tear himself away from handling his money. The flimes continued to feed and grow and soon approached Davis, but though they began to scorch and burn him he wouid not move. Finally some of his neighbors, attracted by the flames, came to the place nd found him about to be burned alive while handling his gold. They dragged him out and saved his money, but half of his face was burned away. OLD CAMP REVIVED. A new mining excitement for Saguache county has broken out in the vicinity of Hayden pass, five miles east of this place, and in the Sangre de Christo range, says a Villa Grove special to the Denver Republican. Some fine discoveries of gold veins have been made, and many prospectors have been drawn to the locality. The district is near the old camp of Oriental, which was quite a bustling little city in 1880, when the silver and lead veins south of the present excite- ment were being worked. Bob Atkinson was the discoverer of the mew camp. He located a big prophyry ledge, along which lies a quartz vein elghteen or twenty inches In width, and carrying gold in pay quantities. A mill run of $40 a ton was hxd from a fifty-pound sample taken across the veln. Whiteman & Haw- Xins, merchants of this place, have bought into the four locations made on the vein by Atkinson, the Spotied Fawn, Oak Springs and others. Since the news of the first discovery got out the same vein has been traced and lo- cated for more than two miles. The ore at the surface s oxidized and will mill They will use | | nre fifty-six rooms | and the mines in this locallty and | a for elec- | k { narily consists free, but it is thought that It will prove refractory at depth. Much of the surface quartz shows quantities of free gold, and specimens could be plcked that would run very high, QUEER PREHISTORIC RACE. Explorations in the Rio Verde valley of Arizona, conducted for the Bureau of Eth- nology by Cosmos Mindeleff, have brought about interesting discoveries respecting a pre- historic race, says the Oakland Tribune. lese people burrowed in the earth like rdts. Their houses were holes in the hills, some of theth so extensive as to be veritable sub- terranean hotels, the apartments being in suites for the occupation of families. Jight miles south of Verde, on the east side of the river, is the now empty home of a once prosperous underground community. It has 200 rooms on the main level, divided into seventy-four distinct and separate sets. On a level above, constituting a second story, in twenty-four sets. It 1s belleved that the entire establishment ac- commodated 150 to 200 people. - Hoflowed out of the faces of the cliffs in that region are thousands of rooms, some- ti € in clusters of two or three, while now hen will be found such an elaborate ex- cavation as that just described, affording quariers for a community of considerable size. In the underground hotels a suite ordi: ot one large main room in front, entered by a narrow hall from the fa of the biuff, and a number of smaller rooms | connected by narrow doorways or short pas- s. There is no outlet into the open air pt through the main room or parlor. Usually there are a number of little storage rooms or cubby holes, corresponding to clos- cts. These are from one to five feet in diam- eter, on a lével with the floors. Not much is known about the history of the Rio Verde valley., Within recent years that region has been a stamping ground of the hostile Apache and Walapal. The ancient inhabitants of the Verde val- ley relied mainly if not wholly upon agri- culture for thelr support. Of the military art they knew so little that they built no fortifications of any kind. They grew much corn, and remaing of {rrigation canals and reservoirs utilized by them are found. In the rooms were found fragments of baskets, bits of grinding stones, bundles of fibres, pleces of cotton cloth, pottery, arrow- ghafts and sandals of woven yucca fibre. Sometimes the house had a cavity in the rock for holding fifteen or twenty gallons of water— a month’s supply for an aboriginal family. These people buried their dead in niches in the rock. A few of their mummies have been found, preserved merely by the dryness of the atmosphere in the arid region. That climate is particularly favorable to the pres- ervation of bones. The orlgin of mummifi- cation is natural and not artificial. It was o in anclent Egypt, which is a very dry country. HOME OF RATTLESNAKES, A party of Santa Barbara women, who have just roturned from a camping-out at Point Conception, bring an extraordinary ac- count of the vast number of rattlesnakes found in a portion of the Cojo ranch, says a Santa Barbara dispatch to the San Francisco Call. On one occasion the campers found five snakes in one knotted, squirming mass and succeeded in killing two of the largest, bringing back their rattlers as trophies. The gnakes literally Infest the land and it is im- possible to travel any distance without seeing them In large numbers. On the Cojo ranch there is a great den where these reptiles are accustomed to col- lect, the opening being some twenty-five feet in width and conslsting of an immense crevice between two rocks, the lower one of which forms a projecting shelf, which is polished by the constant travel of the slimy bodies over it. Ranchmen in the vicinity declare that this den shelters hundreds of rattlers, and one among these which has been re- peatedly seen is declared to be ten feet in length. No horses or cattle can be induced to approach the cavera, and even hogs, or- dinarily the rattlesnakes' enemy and de- stroyer, cannot be driven up to it. William ‘Hollister states that two similar dens of somewhat less importance formerly existed on the Santa Anita ranch, but that they are now deserted, and ho believes that the reptiles have all moved up to this den on the Cojo ranch, which adjoins the Santa Anita, a few miles further up the coast, with only wild and uncultivated land between. Local sportsmen are talking of organizing an expedition to Investigate this uncanny The women who bring in this news a the first social standing, one of them the daughter of a bamker we!l known through- out the state. They are cultivated women, yet had the courage to go out upon this trip without masculine protection, having no fear of marauders and relying upon their own revolvers and guns and thelr own good aim in c1se of unexpeeted trouble. NEBRASKA. Wausa has voted bonds to ald erection of a steam flouring mill. J. W. Bookwalter recently mortgaged 6,403 acres of land in Gage county for $55,000. The Syracuse creamery has been closed temporarily because of the difficulty in secur- ing cream. Rev. Aaron Thorpe lived at Syracuse twen- ty-five years and then jolned the great ma- jority, aged 7. The Fremont Turnverein will celebrate its anniversary on October 6 with a grand parade and demonstration. Hemingford people recently enjoyed the novelty of a hard snow storm, accompanied by thunder and lightning. Work is to be commenced at once upon a new creamery at Humboldt, and it will be in operation within sixty days. James Johnson and John Hansen of Fre- mont have started for Ruthton, Mion., on bleyeles, going by way of Sloux City. Will Goodman fed one of his hands into the cylinder of a threshing machine near Crab Orchard and is shy two fingers for life, I. F. Kortright, living near Syracuse, was held up by masked highwaymen the other night and robbed of a silver watch and $8 in cash, John Behrend, near Auburn, sold his farm last week for $52.50 per acre, and the pur- chaser belleves he got the land at a bar- gain, too. The Standard Cattle company near Ames is glving employment to a large number of men and boys In cutting and gathering 1,800 acres of corn. An additional passenger train each way be- tween Scribner and Oakdale is one of the evidences of returning prosperity to the Union Pacifie. Colonel J. G. P. Hildebrand has hoisted his initials at the masthead of the Lincoln Her- ald, the paper formerly edited by Colonel J. D. Calhoun. Mrs. C. D, Baker, living near Salem, was suddenly seized with insanity and became so violent that she had to be taken to the hospi- tal at Lincoln. Domestic trouble impelled Mrs. Charles Nestle to drink concentrated lye at Talmage with suicidal intent. She was severely burnad but will recuver. D. G. Ferguson of Beaver Crossing raised this season 1,000 bushels of sweet potatoes from two and one-half acres of irrigated land. He s0ld the tubers for $1 per bushel. 0. W. Meeker picked from the bed of the Blue river, near Beatrice, a pearl which is estimated to be worth $50. Pearl fishing will 5000 be the favorite pursuit of the Beatrician Several boys at Valparaiso were trying to see which could throw a car link the farth- est. One of them threw it so far that it crushed the skull of a boy named Shertz- berg. It required the work of a ten-horse power engine and fifteen days to make a big silo at the Plattsmouth cheese factory. Forty acres of corn were cut up and planted in the silo. Linsey Little and his father-in-law, F. C. Harrls, living on a farn northeast of Crab Orchard, became Involved in a dispute, when the old man drew a revolver and opened fire. His faulty aim prevented his daughter from becoming an immediate widow, and the old nan was bound over to the district court. A traveling evangelistic preacher living near Kesterson was fined $20 and costs for beating his two daughters, one of them a married woman. His name is R. W. Owen, in the habit of awakening his ghter, aged 17, se 1 times night In order to r to her several selections from the seriptures caleu- lated to turn her thoughts from earthly pleas- in the ures to spiritual delights. She ran away from home, and when she refused to return he whipped her and knocked her older sister senseless because she attempted to interfere. Bight years ago Nellle Cox of Wilber lost a gold ring. Last week she went into the garden and pulled up a radish to see how long it was. She fonnd her lost ring around the radish. Bd Foster, living at Ord, came near dying at the same place. He trifled with the af- fections of an old revolver which was not loaded. The bullet bored a hole in the palm of his right hand. B. D. Fisher of Douglas left his store to go home, apparently in the best of health. On the ‘way he was stricken down with paralysis, and died before morning Without regaining consciousness, H. Putnam lost a steam thresher by fire one day last week. Sparks from thé en- gine started a fire which could not be con- trolled in tinie to save the machine, Four stacks of wheat were also consumed. The Hebron Journal, for twenty-five years edited by the late 1. M. Correll, will con- tinue publication under the direction of Mrs. Correll and her son, both of whom had been carrying on the paper for several months previous to the death of Mr. Correll. TI0WA. Webster county has colony of Illinois settlers. J. T'. Babcock & Sons have established the Saturday Gazette at New Hampton. The Second fowa cavalry is holding its annual reunion at Des Moines this week. Council Bluffs wants the next annual con- vention of the Christian Endeavor union. Waterloo's school census shows 2,927 chil- dren of school age within the city limits. Because he was disappolnted in a love affair Walter Dekraay of Alton committed suicide. Des Molnes people expect to buy anthra- cite for $5 per ton before the railroad war is over. H. A. Byers, a Davenport sewer inspector, fell dead on the street while pursuing his duties. Heart disease. The High school at Des Moines has adopted the military form of organization, two com- panies of cadets having been formed. Congressman Updegraff is a bicycle en- thusiast, but he was ran down by a farmer's wagon near McGregor, just the same. Henry Davis of Mount Vernon committed suicide because his parents would not let him attend the university at Iowa City. The 9-vear-old son of L. J. Murphy at Emmettsburg was run over by a heavy feld roller. His skull was fractured, but he may live. The Cherokee sports have engaged to play three games of foot ball with the Sioux City eleven, all three games to be played at night by the light of electric glims. Mr. and Mrs. James Weeks of Waterloo have lived together in wedded bliss fifty-six years, and they recently celebrated the last anniversary with a reception to their many friends. While working on a bullding at Fort Madi- son Patrick Cronin’s head collided with a falling brick. He was badly injured and now has sued the Fort Madison Iron works for $20,000 damages. John Crawford, a farmer, had one of his legs nearly severed by a sled corn cutter. Ho was carrying a large armful stalks and stepped in front with the result stated. THE DAKOTAS. Society leaders at Yankton have organized and incorporated a hospital association. Brule county Is preparing to go extensively into the irrigating business next season. The books and effects of the Yankton & Norfolk road have been turned over to the London Development company, and 1t is au- thoritatively announced that work will be resumed on the road within thirty days. Northern Pacific shop removal rumors have been rampant of late, but the most recent favors Fargo. It is now reported that the shops at Dickinson and Mandan will be abandoned, except for current repairs, and the company’s main northwestern shops will ba located at Fargo and Glendive. An ex-resident of Britton is authority for the statement that Marshall county’s “hub’ possesses a curiosity in the animal line, which Is described as follows: “It has the head, ears, eyes and front feet of a cat, but the hind part of the body, legs and tail are % a facsimile of our jackrabbit. It can't walk, but when it feels like getting a hump on itself has to jump, just like a rabbit. It is undoubtedly a cross between a jack and a cat. It was one of a litter of seven, and was the only one of the litter that lived.” COLORADO. It is said that some of the ore holsted from the Anchoria-Leland, Cripple Creek, is worth $50,000 a ton. | Lessees on the Gray Corbonate in Queen’s gulch, near Aspen, have opened up a two- foot vein of ore averaging 100 ounces of sil- ver to tha ton. In Crystal basin, Gunnison county, near Yelm lode, J. D. Jackson and associates bave opened up a good body of steel galena carrying from eighteen to 100 ounces of silver to the ton. The great Newhouse tunnel at Idaho Springs, which is destined to cut the mines on Quartz hill, Gilpin county, to a great depth, has commenced on its second mile, the first 5,260 feet having been completed some time ago. A strike has been made in the Pennsyl- vania mine at Rathbone, Clear Creek county, that is sald to be larger than any so far made in that property. It was made in the second tunnel, and the streak is eight feet wide, running well in lead and silver. A thousand acres of manganese ore ls re- ported to have been discovered In Custer county. It is claimed that the mines of this reglon will produce a greater number of ouhces of silver this year than In any year of our history, says the Georgetown Courier. While drilling for coal seven miles north- west of Akron, a party of Akron men struck black sand that runs $27.30 in gold and $1.22 in silver. The sand is of the same nature as that found in the South African flelds. The strike was made at a depth of thirty feet. The owners of the Masked Venus mine at Duncan camp are highly elated over the now strike in their property. At a depth of seventy feet, and from wall to wall, about five feet in width, they have a solid body of ore that looks like it would average, at the lowest estimate, $30 per ton. The new vein ore chute opencd on the Anchors threatens to eciipse anything yet found on the northwest slope of Gold hill, Cripple Creek. Three shafts have been sunk on it and from twelve to twenty ounces of very rich ore is exposed. It contains both freo gold and sylvanite, and assays from $200 to $300 per ton. Fulford, In Eagle county, has In the Elsle a mine that is producing ore that is valued $16,000 per ton, and solected samples that bave been assayed run $150,000 wper ton. The ore is from a small streak, and while the general run of mineral in the claim does not assay that high, the property Is un- doubtedly a fine one and is being worked systematically. The quantity of gold extract:d from the placers of Cripple Creek this year will be less than any year since the camp was discovered. Men out of regular employ- ment, who wer: willing to put in time on placer work In 1893 and 1894, have been attracted by the system of leasing which was insugurated one year ago and find it more profitable than rocking and panning. A new mining excitement for Saguache county has broken out in the viclnity of Hayden pass, five milets east of Villa Grove and in the Sangre d: Christo range. Some fine discoveries of gold veins have been made and many prospectors have been drawn to the locality. The district is near the old camp of Orlental, which was quite a bustling little city in 1880, when the silver and lead veins south of the present excite- ment were belng worked. WYOMING. At the Wyoming creamery Ora Haley is having 125 cows milked, says the Boomerang. and it 1s expected that during the winter they will milk 200. 1t is learned at Rawlins that Denver parties who are working the placer gold fleld on Snake river, thirty miles below Bagi meeting with considerable success. Sever miles of ditches and two dams have been Just welcomed a of the cutter | recently made are very encouraging. of corn | THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, pl ter secured. A machli led the Heatley Iy being erected to ex- tract the gold. The loss by the Bifning of the coal chutes at Medicine Bow Is far greater than was at first thought. It pow figured that $10.- 000 will hardly cover the loss. Thirty thousand polthds of copper ore have ben mined from # fewly discovered copper lead near Saratogp hy George F. Doane, superintendent of the Union Pacific store at Carbon. The ore will 'be freighted to Wol- cott station for shipment to Chicago, where a mill run will be mada, to test its quality. An encouraging strike of copper ore has been made in the moulitains south of Douglas by Messrs, Blaisddlt and Hazen. An as- say of samples sent ta; Denver yields $69 in copper and $3.35 in gold to the ton, the ore being from a prospect. hole about two fee in depth. The fing WIJi be thorougbly pros- pected and developed. A Utah compan¥, “At the head of which is James Sharp, a government Union Pa- cific director, has secured a large area of coal lands about Cokeville and is prospecting and developing with a special view to es- ablishing coke works in this vicinity. Tests One of the chemists prounounced it a cokeing coal. The Shoshone Land and Irrigation company has bogun construction of the South Side canal, which taps Stinking Water river at Marquette. The contractor has already gone into the fleld prepared to push construction. During the next sixty days they expect to complete the main canal on the south side of the river. The portion now under coustruction is about thirty miles in length, but the canal system, when complete, will be upward of 100 miles long. The stockholders of the Colorado, Utah & Wyoming Rallroad and Land company have approved the route selected for the railroad and authorized the issue of bonds. Tho road will begln near Rawlins, and will run by the Four Mile placers to Cralg and Steamboat Springs, Colo., and westward to Ashley, Utah. It is understood that a New York house has arranged for $2,500,- 000 bonde, the proceeds to be used in con- structing the first division, OREGON, The bees of Mr. Hubbard of Beaver have made him over 1,200 pounds of honey this season. Nearly every farmer in Unlon county has a lot of hogs, numbering all the way from ten to several hundred, and to these will be fed a part of the crop of grain. John Winn, who has a ranch on McKay creek, raised this year 200 bushels of po- tatoes on a halt acre of ground, without ir- rigation. On specimen measured twelve by twenty-seven inches in circumference. Another rich discovery of quartz Is re- ported from the eastern part of Union county. The ledge was found by David Baird, on Goose creek, abont twenty-five miles from Unlon. It is about twenty inches thick, and shows a true fissure vein. B. S. Adams and Ed Coyle, who have been prospecting in Jackson creek district, found a pocket, from which gold estimated at be- tween $600 and $1,000 has been taken. Mr. Adams says that he has ordered a five-stamp mill, which will be put in position soon after it arrives. Bears have been doing _considerable damage to the sheepmen down the coast this season, says the Gold Beach Gazette. They did so much damage to Con McGeehin's flock that he sent for Joe Woods, who has a reputation for bear Killing, Joe came up and went to Work, and killed his fifth bear for Con, mak- ing his eighth bear in six weeks. J. W. Haworth'of Ontarlo says he has a pear tree in full'bloom on his ranch, and expects to have ripe frult about Christmas. Mrs. Mellinger, aiso of Ontarlo, has an apple tree that has matured'one crop this season, bloomed, and has apples on the tree as large as an egg. If nothing. happens to this sec- ond crop ripe apples can be picked from that tree In about a mobth. A bunch of wheat ‘secured by Committee- man J. S. Morris. of Albany for the Linn county exhibit, 1y a curiosity. It contains forty-two stalks, with 024 meshes, each mesh having three to'five kernels; probably averaging four, a|total of over 3,500 grains from one kernel of wheat. Mr. Watts has collected a large 'and attractive assortment of cereals in statks that will compare with anything to be found anywhere in the world. A correspondent of 'the Ros:burg Review says: “The first tobacco shipped to the Oregon coast was in coil and was called “trail rope,’ and sold by the vard. In the later '40s the first manufactured or plug tobacco was sold at the falls—Oregon City —by a pure American gentleman of color. When asked by his customers if the article was good, he would invariably say, ‘Yes, sah; yes, sah; the gentlemans in general, and myself for one, say it is far superior to dat of de trail rope.” An interesting document was recorded in the county clerk’s office of Lincoln county. It Is a transfer of the old government land grant In Oregon from the Oregon Central Railroad company to the Oregon & California Railroad company. It {8 a written instru- ment, and covers forty-two pages of closely Written legal cap. The instrument was Qated fn 1870, and its margin holds forty $20 internal revenue stamps, all conveyances at that time belng compelled to bear a reve- nue stamp to insure thefr validity. WASHINGTON. With 75,000 or 100,000 hogs in Whitman county, the demand is still stronger than the supply. There are 4,082 acres devoted to potatoes in Yakima county. The yleld is estimated at 1,250,000 bushels. The business men of Port Townsend are en- deavoring to secure the Fort Townsend res- ervation for their school district. A slice off the end of a second-growth fir log about ten feet in diameter will be one feature for visitors to wonder at during the Whatcom fair. Olympla 1s to be supplied with artesian water. A well four feet in dfameter has been sunk and plenty of water struck at a depth of twenty-three feet. The South Bend Journal says: About 2,000 barrels of cranberrles will be gathered on the peninsula—in Pacific county—this fall, which will net about $24,000. A novel attraction is arranged for in the Indian department at the fair at New What- com. An old Lummi Indian will finish up a canoe during the fair with the primitive im- plements used by the tribe in early times. In the neighborhood of Whetstone Hollow and Alto, in Columbla county, the coyotes have become a terribla nuisance, and bands from six to ten are seen nearly every day. The men 8f that neighborhood, with volun- teers from Dayton and Waitsburg, are or- ganizing for a coyote drive. An unknown bicyclist rode from the Sehome dock to the G street wharf on the stringer that runs over the railrgad ties. He swung around the circle with apparent ecse and at a fair rate of speed, although the stringer is only six inches wide, and a deviation of three inches would have sent him over into the bay. L. B. Livermore recently accomplished the feat of climbing, to the top of Silver Tip mountain, a .peik in western Wash- ington never beforg sealed by man or woman. He was one of a party of mountain climbers which left Snohomigh and remained two weeks in the mountains. Mr. Livermore was the only one of the party who succeeded in making the corpplete ascent. A mining claim belenging to W. T. Rarey and George Bean, jot Bear creek, Okanogan county, is attracting attention. Gold Is seen with the naked eye and can be panned out. One pound of the ore was selected, mortared and panned, ylelding upwards of 50 cents in gold. Other tefts mave resulted similarly, and an assay of what Mr. Rarey says average ore secured from C. M. Fassett & Co. of Spokane shows five ounces in silver and sixteen and & fraction ounces of gold per ton. W . bes MISCELLANEOUS, A new cable i§ contemplated from the city of Guaymas, state of Sonora, to a point almost opposite in Lower California. Feathers are being plucked from the birds at the Fullerton, Cal., pstrich farm feathers sell at from $15 to $30 per pound. The Santa Monica Soldiers’ home now shel- ters 1,633 Inmates. New improvements now under way will permit of a number of further admissions. It is estimated that the Mexicans engaged In placer mining in the gulches at Pinos Al- tos, N. M., have averaged among them over $5.000 per ‘month since the rainy season be- gan. A Wileox' (A. T.) man used his shotgun as a club to beat his horse with while out hunting. He took the gun by the muzzle and hit the horse with the butt of it, and the force of the blow discharged the weapon. The | SEPTEMBER 30, 1895. and exposed his heart and lungs to view. He iived about a day. Los Angeles wheelmen are having trouble with their pneumatc tires, as some evilly disposed person Is seattering tacks in the clty streets. At Riverside over forty tons of wild canal- gre roots for tanning are now on exhibition. | It 1s found In that county chiefly by Mexi- cans, The gresn product brings $3 a ton, the dried $12. George White of Black's creek In Nevada says that 8,000 rabbits have been killed there without gnaking any appreciable difference in their numbers. Mr. White has a chicken ranch and feeds his fowls on cooked rabbit W. T. Hefternan, says the San Diego Unio has appropriated 10,000 fnches of water fr the Colorado river, to be used for motive power and irrigating purposes and to be di- verted at a point on the west bank of the river one and one-quarter miles north of the Mexican Boundary line. Judge Blake in the district court at Helena | has held the antl-gambling law unoonstitu- tional. The case will be appealed, but the gamblers are so sure the decision will be sus- tained that all of the gambling houses in Helena will reopen. The effect of tho de- cision Is to leave the old territorial law li- centing gambling In force In Virginia City, in August, 1868, Elizabeth Harrington and John Smith Moxley assumed the relations of husband and wife, without the formality of a_marriage. Elizabeth Har- rington believed she was John Moxley's le- gal wife, and at his death laid claim to his entire_estate, amounting to upward of $100,- 000. The courts, decide, howeve the title of wife and widow have justly belonged to another Elizabeth, whom Moxley deserted in the east many years ago. To the woman who was thus wronged Judge Hebbard has now awarded one-halt of Moxley's estate. The othor one-half s confirmed to the woman | whom MoxMey decelved and wronged in Ne vada, and who is now decreed to be a wife in name only. W.T. A A. AFFAIRS PRC Annual Meeting nt Grand Inln uults Satisfnctorily t GRAND ISLAND, Neb., Sept. 29 cial)—At the third annual convention of | th: Western Travelers' Accldent association held in the council chamber of the city | hall, there was a general feeling of har- | mony among the members of the assoclation and a feeling of good cheer over the good condition of the affairs of the assoclation, as shown by the address of President B. A Stevens and Secretary A. L. Sheetz, both of whom make their headquarters in Grand | Island. J. H. Wintersteen was elected vi president for the ensuing year. I showing the amount of losses paid during | the past year to have been nearly $10,000, and that after defraying all other expenses a bal- ance of over $1,300 remained, the, report of Secretary Sheetz showed a very encour- aging increase in the membership during the past year, especially when the hard times are considered, when so many travel- Ing men—and some of the best ones, too- were pulled off the road. The membership in the varlous states was shown to be as follows: Nebraska Towa . Kansas Missouri Illinois .. Minnesota Colorado Wisconsin " New York 713 North Dakota 314 Inhana . 104 Connecticut 183 Canada . Kentucky' Virginia Hampshire, . oming hington Maryland " Utah . uth ‘Dakota. lifornia gla . 10| Vermont 18/ Montana 6f New Jerse, 6| Oldlanoma. . 2| Florida members in Nebraska, 245 ire In Omata and 136 in Lincoln, and out of 3 owa, Council Bluffs b S City 66 and Des Molnes g0, " o SI°U% Several amendments of mi ents nor importance were made to the constitution, ¥ PInttsmouth News N b PLATTSMOUTH, Neb., Sept. 20.—(Special.) —Elmwood, Cass county, will hold a spectal election October 2 to vote $3,000 bonds to put in-city water works. The bonds rec:ntiy voted are technically illegal. The 4-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Slattler, living west of this city, died yesterday and will be buried today. Arrangements are being madle to try sugar beet raising in Cass county next season on a considerable sczle. Should it prove profit- ablo there will be a sugar factory erectel here, At the Episcopal church in this city teday the Harvest Home festival of that church celebrated in an extenive manner. The con- tributions were given to the Bishop Clarkson Memorial hospital in Omaha. Ralph Rau, a prominent farmer, near Murdock, this county, was kicked by a horse and instantly killed last Thursday night. He was going into the stable behind the horses without giving taem notice of his presence. At the time the hor:es were fighting and the animal is supposed to have mistaken him for another horse, driving awa: with both feet, striking him directly over the heart. He was picked up a few mo- ments later, but life was extinct. The un- fortunate man leaves a wife and large family in good circumstances. The funeral of T. J. Totten, an old and re- spected c'tizen of Cass county, who died last Thursday, was held here yesterday after- noon under the auspices of the Grand Army of the Republic. District Soldiers’ Reunfon. HARRISBURG, Neb., Sept. 20.—(Speclal.) —One of the most successtul reunions ever living HD G \ held in western Nebraska closed here yes- terday. The counties of Banner, Scotts Bluff, Kimball and Cheyenne wers largely represented, and camped or were entertained by our people at Camp Thayer, the. local Grand Army of the Republic post. Varlous estimates are made as to the number pres- ent, but 600 to 800 would be a conservative estimate. Senator .Akers, Judge Neville and other prominent speakers were present and delighted all who heard them. The Gering- Harrisburg Consolidated Cornet bands fur- nished the music, which was conceded the best ever given in this part of the state. Base ball and a grand street parade and other attractions were presented and thoroughly appreciated by all. Fifty old soldlers marched in the parade, and a number did not fall in. Gering will entertain the re- union next year. Deleg: % from Hall ty. GRAND ISLAND, Sept. 29.—(Special)—The delegates to the republican state and judicial conventions selected at the county convention yesterday are as follows: To state convention: E. E. Klinger, George H. Thummel, William Geddes, Bert Brewster, W. H. Harrison of Grand Island; George P. Jacobs, L. W. Lyons, Josiah Stall, James Bright, William H. Har- rison of Harrison township; G. L. Rouse, W. V. Musser, H. A. Rose, F. M. Penney, J. T. Brown, Bert Matt, H. P. McLaughlin, Mar- tin Simms. To judicial convention: Willlam Frank, R. R. Horth, H. S. Ferrar, Harry Har- rison, Z. Avery, A. DeWitt, E. E. Thompson, J. C. Bishop, W. C. Wingert, W. C. Mullen, Charles Taylor, A. O. Powers, J. W. Gordon, Mill Fuller, O. W. Eaton, Charles Ewing, J. E. Dodge, George Humphrey and M. Au- gustine. Saved the Elevator, WISNER, Neb., Sept. 20.—(Special.)—The Nye & Schneider company's elevator at this place took fire yesterday afternoon at the rear of the engine room, th> woodwork be- ing constructed in too close proximity to the boller. The hose company was success- ful in getting control of the fire. It was feared that fire might still bs smouldering beneath the grain bins, and a night watch was placed on duty, which proved to be a very wise precaution, for at a few minutes past 11 o'clock fire was discovered a second time. The fire department and citizens were summoned and worked till nearly morning to completely extinguish the fire. The dam- age to the elevator is at least §500. s o L Keep Your W ther Eye Open. Fraud loves a shining mark. Occasionally spurious imitations spring up of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, the great American family remedy for chills and fever, dyspepsia, con- stipation, biliousness, nervousness, neuralgia, rheumatism and kidney disorder. 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Some can be used with good effects by persons apparently well, sional resort to Ripans Occa- Tabules prevents attacks that result from disorders of the stomach] and liver To preserve is better and cheaper than to repair. Ripans Tabules i the price (50 Sold by drugglst nts a box) is el pana Ciemical Company, No. 10 Spruce st., or by man to The Ri- NOY. () [ | NIUM. HUNGARY M lebration to Laxt Throughout the Entire Year. Hungary is preparing to celebrate its mitlenium as a state, the celebration to last from January 1, 1896, to December 31 of the same year. This milleniwm year wiil be fille with commemorations of events of inte: st in (he long history of the Magyar realm, whicly, for many hundreds of years, was the bulwark of western Europe against the bar- barism of the east. The year's celebration will be divided into three parts, says the Chicago Interior, each commemorating an epoch in the history of Hungary. The cele- bration proper will open with a combined session of both houses of Parliament in the new hal, now nearly compl:ted, at a cost %,000 florins, and this grand occasion s marked by unusual pomp and cere- monles. Next will come the opening of the Pantheon at the end of Andrassy street, Buda-Pesth, when hundreds of busts and statues of Hungary's heroes and eminent men and women of the last thousand years will be placed in Hungary's Valhalla. ' This will be followed by the inauguration of the new Museum of Art and History, built at a cost of 3,600,000 florins, the laying of the corner stones of two new bridges to span the Danube at Buda-Pesth, and the dedic tion of three other great public buildings the Palace of Justice, the Ixhibition hall and the Museum of Artistic Hand Work. Still further to indicate the besinning of a new era in the spring two “t'ons of th older part of the city will be remodeled on hygienic principles,” and 500 new pubiic schools throughout the country whl be opened. The exhibition buildings in them s:lves will constitute an attraction of no ordinary kind, as in the different bulldings to house the historical collections wiil be illustrated all the different styles of archi- tecture that have characterized the 1,000 vears of Hungary's existence as a state In addition in the ethnographic village will be tene en'ed all the dw ilings, types, chir- icterlstics, ete., of Hungary's conglomerate of nationalities, together with schools, polic Ccourts, churches, fairs and kirmesses, the whole'forming a celebration of unusual in- terest to the scholar, the historian and tho cthnographist. Such an exhibition will also be of great significance, not only to Hun- gary, but to Europe. It will indicate, among other things, the grow!ng sense of nation- ality in this great Magyar state, and the entrance upon & new era in which ‘education and civilization, humanity and progress will represent the goals and a new order of cvents, A C g & Subject to Attacks of Cholera Morbus. While staying in the D:lia (Mississipp Bottoms) last summer, E. T. Moss, repre senting Ludlow, Saylor Wire Co. of St. Loul-, suffered from’ malaria and became subject 1o attacks of cholera morbus. In every instance when attacked he was re.leved as 'f by magle, by using Chamberlain’'s Cole, Cholera anli Diarrhoea Remedy. He say: ““I regard it as the ‘ne plus ultra’ of medicis Strawberries and Small Frults. Within a very recent period, comparatively, the Orchard Home region began the culture and shipping of strawberries to the northern and western markets. Now there are sec tions of this delightful region that ship fifty 1o sixty crates of Lhis luscious fruit each year. A crato contains as a rule twenty-four boxes of strawberries. It is any wonder that the fruit growers of this section are getting rich? They are not geiting into debt, but, on the contrary, are putting money in the bank each season and have a surplus to loan at good rates of interest. They are today making a profit of all the way from $150 to $300 an acre, which pays if you stop to figure it, a pretty good rate of interest on the money they have Invested in their land. You want to bear in wind that they only need from twenty to forty acres of land in the Orchard Homes region on which to make a living and lay by a snug sum of money each year. You can cultivate blackberries if you de- sire, and in that balmy climate they do well and’ pay you a large percentags of profit They find ready sale in the gr ths country and come in as all do, from a month to six weeks ahead of the berry ripened in-the north or west. Pears, plums, peaches, succeed here better than you who have not seen the country can have any idea of. Quinces raised in the Or- chard Homes section are as fine a fruit as you ever laid your eyes on. Their cultiva tion has been neglected, and it only remains for some enterprising Orchard Homes settler to make a fine thing each vear raising this always high-priced fruit. It can be sald of all the fruits grown in the Orchard Homes region tbat for beauty of coior and delicious flavor they are unrivaled, Fig troes abound and can be cultivated as well as any other fruit-bearing tree. The crop of figs Is an abundant one; good tree will pay yearly it the figs are put up and sold as preserves, from $30 to $50. No more delicious confaction than the preserved fig can be found. The chances for success are so plentiful in the mild and equitable Orchard Homes region that the question of making & living is one very casily solved; with one half the work you do there, in Orchard Homes you will be- come free and independent financiatly, pros- perous and happy, and have for yourself and family all the advantages that a” well ssttled country, friendly people and delightful cli- mate can give you. For all information as to Orchard Homes, the means of reaching, see- ing and settling there, write or see George W. Ames, general agent, 1617 Farvam street, Omaha, Neb. Investigation will convince you that your place if you want to do well is with the settlers of Orchard Homes. Good schools, churches, newspapers and all the material comforts that make a location desirable are already established there. ———— Impure blood is tae cause of bolls, pimples and other eruptions. 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