Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 7, 1895, Page 5

Further explorations on the northern llopa: of Mount San Miguel, near this city, says & 8an Dirgo special to the San Francisco Chronl. | cle, revealed highiy Interesting evidences of | anclent mining operations, which, in the opin- fon of men working there, will result in find- ing gold mines covered with foil to a great depth and forgotten for ages. Herman J. Cooke and C. A. Fauvel are ‘the men working there, the former, some weeks #go, having discoverod evidences of an an- clent rosdway leading, as he belleved, to a mine. Since then they have worked diligently and have reached the end of the road on the mountain side, and belleve they have before them the tunnel Mading to the hidden treas- ure, The roadway is of stons, appearing at first glance to be a ledge of rock, but which, upon closer Inspection, is geen to be blocks of rock hewed out and laid with great skill. In some places trees a foot in dlameter have grown in tho road, showing its great age. Part way up the hill were found what were supposed (o be old dumps, in the debris of which were found pleces of gold and silyer bearing rock Later work has laid the roadway bare to a point within half a mile of the summit of Ban Miguel, and there it stopped at a solid wall inclosure, a wall that was lald and cemented £o (rue to nature as to appear, es- peclally in fts erumbling form, like a regu- lar but natural ledge of rocks. When this was broken, however, the stones were found to be blocked on the sides and edges to as true a square as ever made by a mason. Cioser inspection showed the chafing marks of the makers. Inslde the enclosure, which had been filled with debris, were found what is believed to be an old arastra. A portion of the floor is there and fragments of what is supposed to be the c hing stone, all more or less dis- Integrated. A little distance away and above the aras- tra the mouth of a clearly defined tunnel has been discovered. It s filled with debris and the sides are irregular, but the walls are plainly located, and the debris Is of a differ- ent character of dirt from that of the sides. The keystone of the arch over the entrance to the tunnel was also discovered. Pros- pectors are now clearing out this tunnel, and they belleve It will lead to the gold mine they have been so long looking for. Other discoveries of interest are traces ot foundations of nineteen small houses, pre- sumably used by the ancient miners, and of a flat stoue bearing inscriptions, which is be- leved to be the marking place of a grave. MOUNTAIN OF GOLD QUARTZ. There Is big excitement now in the Goler district, near Mojave, at the junction of the Southern Paclfic and Atlantic & Pacific lines. Hitherlo work has been confined to placers, at which about 150 men have made a good living. The only incident out of the routine wag the finding of two nuggets, one worth ) and the other $190. he present excitement, says a San Bar- dino special to the San Francisco Call, 13 over the discovery of quartz eight miles from the Goler camp. Men are taking out $5 to $10 a day each with dry washers from the decomposed quartz on the surface. Borcham, Moore & Singleton of this city have ten loca- tions, comprising about 200 acres, on the mountain side. There appears to be a whole mountain of quartz. John Hall, an old and experienced miner of this city, sald to the Call corre- spondent: “It is the biggest thing for surface indi- cations I have ever seen. The gold Is so fine that you cannot see it on the rifle board, but it s there just the same. The mountain is full of stringers all the way from the breadth of your hand to a foot wide, and these are certain to lead to pockets. There is no telling how much gold bearing ore thero is on that mountain sid The owners have begun the construction of a road from the mines to Mojave, a distance of forty-five miles, and will immedlately com- mence boring tunnels and sinking shatts. “MISSING LINK" MONKEY. In its issue of September 16 the Rocky Mountain News contained an interview with Prof. J. L. Worthman of Columbia college, New York, in which the professor related his thrilling find of the bones “of the missing link, a being who lived and moved 1,500,000 years ago.” These remalns of the original man were wrapped in cotton and are being transported by the learned professor to the fireproof museum in New York, says a Rock Springs dispateh to the Cheyenne Tribune. The priceless bones were found by the pro- fessor and a party of s®entific students near the head of the historic Bltter creek, near the Wyoming and Colorado line, this summer while in search of missing links. The pro- fessor's interesting find has caused Intense merriment among the old-time cattlemen of this section, as it is a well known fact that a monkey was owned about twelve years ago by the cowboys of a large cattle out- fit, whose range was In the exact lo- cality in which the professor and the studen! made thelr ‘“lucky find.” Nu- merous tales are told of the cun- ning of this monkey, who was an all round pet with the cattlemen, and was carried by the cowboys around to their various camps. In the course of a year or two this monkey met with an untimely end, as most of the species do. And his existence was almost forgotten until Prof. Worthman came along in time to cast his practical eye upon the cat- tlemen’s pet of years ago. In his Interview the professor sald that he did not attempt to take exact measurements, but he estimated the skeleton to be about two and one-half feet long, and with the general make-up of the species of monkey known as the wlilte- faced capuchin. In this estimate of the size of the monkey the savant of Columbia col- lege was correct, but the cattlemen here do not agree with him as to the number of years ago that this particular monkey lived. NEW MINING CAMP. The new gold camp of Newlin gulch, only a few miles south of Denver, on the Gulf road, Is growing rapidly and attracting much attention as a placer camp, says the Denver News. A new strike made in the Muldoin has added to the excitement and enthusi- asm. It is a seven-foot blanket veln of gravel and sand, carrying a large per cent of free gold, similar to shot gold, and in the pan shows startling results, exceeding anything found in the camp in the last sixty days. The great drawback to the camp has been the scarcity of water with which to operate. The American Mine company has been drilling and finally struck a good flow of artesian water, which they will use for washing. They are now setting their ma- chinery, and will commence taking out gold next week. All the diggings in the camp are ylelding substantial returns, and some are preparing to operate on a larger scale. Otto Ruttcamp, one of the owners of the camp, } in Denver, purchasing machinery, for the purpose of opening up his claim on a large scale. Dan Croft of Denver has opened a hotel and saloon in the camp, and a dally stage line connects with the Guif trains at Parker station. Prospectors are coming in dally from all sections, and all at once be come enthusiastic after testing some of the ground with a pan. . VAST DEPOSITS OF ONYX. George Maderla of this city and Isaac Gray of Gray creek, ten miles west of Healdsburg, have discovered an extraordinary deposit of onyx marble, says a Healdsburg dispatch to the San Francisco Examiner. The deposit, which is simply Immense, occupies the crest of a high mountain ridg?. -It is vast in ex- tent, cropping in great masses to a height of forty feet or more. It is a varlegated marble of green and gold, green and white, purple and light blue. The spocimens brought in are wonderful for their beauty. Columns or slabs of any desired size can be obtained from the deposit. The find has cre- ated quite an excitement, experts stating the deposit to be of inestimable value. The same parties have been prospecting a gold-bearing ledge, which has developed into a forty-foot wide ledge assaylng up Into the hundreds. This mine will be worked at once, arrange- ments having already been made for ma- chinery. Maderia says the ledges do not be- 1ong to the miocene slates of the Coast range, but to the jur. slates of the Sierre Ne- vades; that the mount:'ns are as old as the period of the Nevadas, and that the moun- tain chain was cnce an island#in the Pacific. What Is stranger, a large deposit of chrome iron ore was found on {he southern boundary of the onyx ledge. GIGANTIC IRRIGATION SCHEME. The San Jose grange met this morning and discussed the great Irrigation schems by which It is proposed to supply mlillons of gallons of water to the orchards and ranches | of the Santa Clara valley, says a San Jose dispatch to the Ban Franolsco Bxaminer. The promoters of this great enterprise bave been at work securing the rights of way veloping their plans for two years pi are now prepared to begin active work in constructing the miles of canals which will form a network over the valley and supply 50,000,000 gallons of water daily to those who appreciate its benefits. This Is three timos a8 much as the various systems of the Spring Valley Water Power compauy can supply. In bringing the matter up for the endorse- ment of the grange Delos Smythe, who ap- poared as the representative of the pro- jectors of the enterprise, lald great stress upon the feasibility of (he scheme, Its necessity to all fruit’ growers aad its cheap- noss. He called attention to the fact that there are now 5,000,000 frult boaring trees in this country, and the number is constantly increasing. It is a fact, recognized by all orchardists of experlence, that the soll, not- withstanding Its natural richness, cannot re- tain fts productiveness without artificial aid in the matter of fertilization and frequent ir- rigation. This has been fully proved by the experience of all the older fruit growing com- munities That part of Mr. Smythe's address de- scribing the enterprise s as follows: “A mighty reservoir with almost limitless capacity awaits the englueers' command—an tnland lake as it were. Though the rain should cease for a season, we can look with confidence to this gigantic supply to pass us safely through a year of drouth. Twelve miles south of San Jose, at an elevation of 260 feet above the tide level, and covering a space of 7,000 acres, is the base of supply to the pipe system. The reservoir will re- celve Its supply mainly, but not entirely, from Coyote cveck, a small proportion coming from the Laguna Seca. In addition to this is a watershed of over 200 square miles and the flowage of Coyote creck during the rainy sea- son. The assurance of the water supply Is absolutely unquestionable.” NEW PLACER FIBLD. Word from San Pedro is at hand announc- Ing the discovery of a new and apparently rich placer gold district in South Santa Fe county, says a Santa Fe dispatch to the Denver Republican. The find was made by the ploneer native placer miner, Pablo Ar- nado, who, with his son, cleaned up $45 in gold in one week there. The features of the discovery are that it is four miles distant from any placers ever before worked, and that the:gold In the gravel is very coarse, and therefore easy of extraction. The new gold field is six miles east of San Pedro on government domain. Water has been devel- oped there at a depth of fifteen feet, which will make it possible to extract the gold by the ordinary sluleing process. The find has created a furore among miners at San Pedro and Golden and the district has al- ready been protty well plastered with claims, Two corporations have been formed, and each has secured 160 acres in the new terri- tory. GOLD IN MIDDLE PARK. What may yet prove to be one of the greatest gold camps in this western country has been discovered in Middle Park by Henry Boyer, J. W. Forrest and Sol Robeson of this city, says a Georgetown, Colo., special to the Penver News. While camping out in the park recently Mr. Robeson strolled up Willow creek in quest of what he believed would prove to be rich gold quartz, and his bellef was far from being wrong. He found some of the coveted prize, and when the party returned to Geongetown he had the quartz assayed, the result showing very con- clusively that his judgment was correct. Being a man of somewbat reticent nature, ho kept everything to himself except as to a tew personal friends. Mr. Robeson equipped himself and hastened back to the new El- dorado, and by this time has staked off several claims before the rush of prospectors | to the diggings, which will be quite numerous In a short time. An embryo city has started up already, and many who had contemplated going to Cripple Creek are seen wending their way to this new gold fleld. TORN TO PIECES BY A BEAR. A thrilling story of an encounter with a bear, In which a boy lost his life, comes from Gorman's station, sixty miles south- west of here, in the mountains on the border of the Mojave desert, says a Bakersfield spe- clal to the San Francisco Chronicle. Two boys, whose names are not given, left Gorman's station one morning recently for a day's hunting. foothills In their search for game they came suddenly upon a large grizzly bear. Acting upon the impulse of the moment both raised their guns and fired. The shots were well aimed, but were only effective in Infuriating the bear, which immediately started in pur- suit of the boys. Becoming dismayed at the ineftectiveness of thefr weapons, the nerve of the young hunters deserted them and they started off on a run, closely followed by the angry brute. One lad, dropping his gun, succeeded in reaching and climbing a tree, where, safe from attack, he was compelled to witness the awful sight of his comrade's death. His companion was less fortunate In evading the pursuer, being so closely pressed that he was finally compelled to dodge around a con- venient rock, followed by the bear. Twice he circled the bowlder in a vain endeavor to save himself, but his powers of endurance were not equal to those of his pursuer. At length, when he could go no farther, a stroks of the grizzly's paw stretched him on the ground. Springing upon him the bear rapidly tore him to piecs his terrified companion in the tree gazing in horror upon the awful spectacle, but unable to render any -assist- ance. NEBRASKA. Blair s working up another horse collar tactory. Sallne county has rented a portion of her poor farm. Hastings public sehoo It Is estimated that 40,000 sheep will be wintered in Dodge county. ‘The Norfolk Insane asylum is so full that no more patients can be recelved. Farmers in the vicinity of Sutton will cultivate over 400 acres of sugar beets next season. Jacob Beck of Blair was robbed of $350 by a man who has been boarding at his house for nearly a year. L George Mulligan, a Custer county farmer, has recently fa.len heir to a wad of money, $40,000 in circumterence. A passing locomotive set the B. & M. depot on fire at Holbrook. Prompt efforts of citi- zens prevented the entire destruction of the building. Miss Jennle Kelm of Falis City had the bones of her vight leg broken in two places by being thrown out of a carriage attached to runaway horse. The Ashland Mill and Electric Light com- pany is shipping large quantities of its flour to outside points, Omaha taking the largest share of the output. Oscar Hurst of Trenton used corrosive sub- limate to drive away bed bugs, He became poisoned from the deadly drug and died soon after In great agony. Increasing business has compelled Scott & Co. of Ashland to erect a large brick busi- ness block. It will be reaay for occupancy early in the coming spring. The B. & M. is again compelled to do a large amount of work on the river bank op- posite Plattsmouth to prevent the river from endangering the bridge approaches. While working around a steam threshing machine Willlam = McCloud, living near Wayne, had his right arm torn out at the shoulder. The arm was toru completely from the unfortunate man's body. Auburn’s new building and loan association Is doing a very gratifying business to com- mence with. The first week over 200 shares were taken, It is expected that there will be 500 shares out before November 1. The excursion planned by the Nebraska Press assoclation to Atlanta has practically been abandoned, not enoungh of the editors of the state belng equipped with the ready wherewithal to pay the expenses of the trip. Threshing machine engines are dangerous even when they don't explode. A spark from one of them set fire to the stacks on the farm of Mrs. C. E. Gibbs, near Norfolk, and in a few minutes 3,000 bushels of wheat and oats went up In smoke. ‘While herding cattle Charley Anderson anl Howard Greeley, living near Spencer, amused themselves with an old sholgun. Greeley accidentally shot Anderson in the right arm, It was maoy . bours bsfore & dootor could be 1,425 pupils enrolled in her While traveling along the | secured, and then (t was found that ampu- :I'llun would be necessary Lo save the boy's ite. Keya Paha county will construct an irri- gating ditch through the county for a dis- tance of seventy-elght miles. It is expected to push the work fast enough to enable the water to be used in raising next year's crop. H. H. Stottko, J. J. Slining: and H, Cook, all living near Fairmont, have pooled fasues and will cultivate 111 acres of sugar beets next season. They will employ thirty hands and they estimate that their crop wiil bring them from $50,000 to $76,000. G. W. Chapman of York has an apple tree fruit this year. The first apples ripened in June, the second crop is now ripe, the third 18 nearly full grown and the fourth is blos- soming out. Recent frosts, however, will pre- vent the fourth crop from maturing. The new township organization law, re- cenly upheld by the supreme court, has re- sulted in many curlous methods for deter- mining which of the supervisors shall release their offices and ‘which shall retain them. It is told that in Richardson county the super- visors decided the matter by a game of freezo out. The game continued for three hours and a good old republican church dea- con came out ahead. In another county the supervisors settled the matter by an appeal to a game of craps. In still another high five was played. Most of the counties, how- ever, drew lots In the good old-fashioned way. TOWA. Cascade has a new newspaper called the Oourier. Hard coal can be purchased by chilly in- habitants of Sioux City for $5 per ton. Marshalltown is having hard work to decide upon a new location for the postoffice. Wililam Rogers of Clinton died of lockjaw after suffering horribly far three days. Work has been commenced upon the new building for Lenox college at Hopkinton. Charles City is golng ahead with its fce carnival project. Over $10,000 had already been subscribed. The cars for Fort Madison's new electric street rallway have arrived and the lina will soon be in operation. James Muldooney fell thirty feet ut Des Moines and received Injurles from which he died a few days later. The dry bed of Lake Cario has been ceded to Hamilton county as swamp land. It embraces 1,300 acres. John Emarine was shot from ambush at Quich and fatally wounded. The identity of his assailant is unknown. Joseph Bennett, one of Kellogg's old citi- zens, became tired of life and committed suicide by taking a large dose of strych- nine. Peter Apland, a young farmer living near Cambridge, In Storey county, was fatally in- jured while attempting to climb aboard a moving frelght train. The contract for the buildings to be oc- cupied by Grinnell's new glove factory have been let. The factory will be operated by Morrison, McIntosh & Co. While out hinting near Eagle lake, In Kos- suth county, John Gallion was acidentally shot In the leg by a companion. He bled to death before help could arrive. The citizens of Mount Vernon will vote on a proposition to bond the town for the purpose of constructing a system of water works with an electric lighting plant attach- ment, Ono township school board in Franklin county was swindled out of $250. The board purchased and paid for school supplies from strolling canvassers, who never delivered the goods. Cattle thieves are perniciously active in some parts of the state. One Union county farmer had five carlcads of fat steers stolen just as he was preparing to ship them to market. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Miller of Columbus Junction are in jail on the charge of crimi- nally assaulting the 12-year-old daughter of a neighbor, It s charged that the woman held the girl while her husband committed the outrage. A saloon keeper in the little town of George has created some comment by issuing a cir- cular letter in which he.requests all mothers, wives and sweethearts of the village to send him the names of men who are confirmed drinkers. To ail such men he agrees not to sell liquor. Several years ago Charles Hansell dis- ! appeared from his old home at Conway, and it was believed that he had been murdered. Circumstances all pointed to the crime and Hansell was glven up for dead. The other day the people of the town were surprised to see him arrive well and sound. THE DAKOTAS. The announcement is made at Fargo that the Great Northern will build a steel bridge across the Red river between Fargo and Moorhead next winter. It Is to cost $50,000 and when completed will give the road steel bridges across all the large streams be- tween Fargo and the twin cities, An English syndicate, which owns con- siderable land in Faulk county, is about to send out a colony to settle on it. Several Englishmen have already arrived and are employed with farmers for the purpose of learning the methods of farming employed here. The colony is expected in about six weeks, Reports from the reservation country west of Mellette are to the effect that gray woly are playing havoc with young stock. Onc outfit reports losing 60 per cent of thelr colts this year by them, and other reports are nearly as bad. The wolves have been Increasing very rapldly in numbers the past three years, and nothing has been done to decrease them. Ranchmen will import wolf hounds this fall for the purpose of extermi- nating them. It s reported at Grand Forks that the Great Northern will in a few days commence the construction of a line of road from Kas Grand Forks to Drayton, N. D., extending along the river. This, it is claimed, Is done to prevent the business escaping from the Great Northern which that road gets in river shipments at the present time and which the Northern Paclfic expects to get through its extension north from Keystone, Mian., into Marshall county. The Improvement of the Missourl at Fort Plerre will be about completed this fall, when the river will be forced into one deep chan- nel. not over a quarter of a mile wide, The b of the river for railroad purposss will 'b> almost solved and the cost redu one-halt, In the work so far about cords of poles, 8,000 cords of stone, millions of feet of timber and plling have been used and its total cost will be $300,000. I | mattressed dikes have been bullt into the river 300 to 600 feet, cach one forty fect thick. Unless considerably more than the usual | amount of snow should fall during the com- ing winter, several lakes, which a few years ago were the largest in South Dakota, will become dry, Notably among these is Lake Kamposka, heretofore a fine body of water near Watertown. A sister lake to Kampeska, known es Pelican lake, has alrealy becoms entirely dry, and Kampeska is at a lower stage than ever before. Should this lake be overtaken by the same fate which has be- fallen scores of other lakes in the state, the water supply of Watertown would be shut off and where to find a substitute would be a problem not easily solved, Another vein of gold ore has been discov- ered on Spring creek, In the vicinity of the Storm Hill group of mines, which was sold recently to St. Louls parties. The mine engaged in stripping the ground for b draulic mining on the Bonanza bar uncoy- ered a ledge of rich ore fourteen feet in width, That panned out by mortar test Is of heavy gold. The find Is of such value that work on the placer ground will be dropped for the time and the entire time of the miners will be devoted to prospecting for gold ledges. The district where this prop- erty lles is twelve miles from Rapld City and the same distance from Keystone, COLORADO. Colorado Springs 1s organizing a third min- Ing exchange. The new gold and silver camp of Hahn peak is beginuing to raise the price of ranch products and ranches throughout this sec- tion. The Itallan comsul, Dr. Joseph Cuneo, has presented the historical society of the state with a most Interesting collection of relics of the days of the Incas in Peru. The collection consists of sixteen pleces of pot- tery work of the time of Plzarre's conquest, which he claims has produced four crops of | MONDAY, and one mummy of a small child, the latter of unknown dal The collection s very valuable, " The Winona mill st Dun bas boen started up. The mill covers a ground space of 8,000 square feet and its capacity Is 100 tons per day. ShouM the venture prove a success, two new companies are ready to erect mills at once, A short time ag0 a business man of Cripple Creek traded a $2 pair of shoes for a speci- men of ore which ke had assayed. It welghed eight ounces, and gave him a return of $116 in gold. The specimen was from the Nevins, which Is located on the top of the Rosebud hill. \ Recent discoverics of gold-bearing ore in the western part of Douglas county are ex- citing a good deal of comment and attention. The new camp is situated near the northern end of Maniton park, on West creek, a tribu- tary to Horse creek, which flows into the South Platte about Nfiden miles above Symes. The Doctor mine on Raven Hill at Cripple Creek Is coming in for great credit, it having made the richest shipment of a carioad of ore ever treated by a Colorado smelter. Infor- mation obtained from a relidble source says that the carload contained a little over nine- teen tons and netted a little over $80,000, Hard times and the light quotations on silver and lead have lessened the shipment from many camps in the San Juan, where ores of that character predominate, but in this county the tornage will be larger than that of any previous year, says the Telluride Journal. This is accountable for partially by an Increased number of working mines, and partially by the desire of owners to glve ‘miners employment, and to keep up our reputation as one of the banner camps in the state, besides making a few dollars for themselves on the side. J. H. Pierce, the man who made the first discovery of gold In Colorado back in '5S, Is now working placer grounds at Idaho Springs. He says that he will attend the first annual festival of Mountain and Plain, and it is understood that the board of direc- tors will place him in charge of some im- portant work during the carnival, in connnec- ton with the early discoveries of gold in Colorado. He is the only survivor of the 104 people who came from Georgia In 1858, and was the original discoverer of gold in August of that year In Cherry creek, near Denver, on what Is known as the Byers farm. WYOMING. About 100,000 pounds of freight have been unloaded at Casper for the Shoshone agency, among other things a thresher and a buggy. There have been located up to date in the neighborhood of Douglas about 100,000 acres of oll claims. This/ds all good land, with un- mistakable prospects of oil on the surface. ‘fen tons of the cement rock underlying the Bald mountain camp were recently run through the two-stamp mill in thirty-six hours, and over $100 in gold was extracted, says the Sheridan Enterprise. James Morgareldgs killed a bear on Powder river reported to weigh 1,400 pounds. He made a track elghteen inches long. His hide measured nine feet eight inches in length and eight feet eight inches in width, J. E. Micheaud of Cloud county, Kansas, is looking over Wyoming with a view to locating a colony of French families in some irri- gated portion of Wyoming. He has portions of Albany and Laramle counties in view. The refinery of the’ Pennsylvania Oil com- pany®at Casper is being remodeled and en- larged to meet the growing démand for Cas- per ofl. The capacity of the refinery will be almost doubled by the changes being made. A Rawlins speclal #4ys the West Side Placer company has decided"to put in an electric light plant at ity works in Dry gulch, so ihat the work of waghing out the gold' can be carrled on day'and night during the sum- mer season. The! company is putting in one of tha best and most lmproved placer mining plants ever operated in the Rocky mountain reglon. L E. B. Comley, whd has been prospecting in Carbon county for the past ten years. and who was one of the original locaters of the paint ore mine north of town, has made a rich find of mieral nine miles from Raw- lins. It consists -of a vein of quartz eleven Inches wide, with granite wall on one side and quartzite on the Gther. A force of men OCTOBER 17, | fine quality of sugar can be made from the will be put on at once to develop the prop- erty. ‘ Robert. Taylor, one, of the largest sheep- growers of Natrona county, is making ar- ragements to buy ‘up' the old cattle ranches of this part of the state, to be used as alfalfa farms for the purpose of fattening sheep. The wool produt, he says, doos not yleld sufficlent revenue to make the business profitable, but by getting mutton in a mar ketablo condidtion there is a good outlook for the sheep industry of the state. The largest practical irrigation enterprise In this county his been organized by a number of farmers and land owners living on Columbus Pass, Five Mile and Six Mile creks. The organization will be known as tho Granger Ditch company, and will operate with a capital stotk of $50,000, one-half of which has already been subscribad. The company will taks water from the north fork of Tongue river, The main ditch will be thirty miles long and will furnizh water for about 12,000 acres of choice farming land. The incorporaters and stockholders of the company all own land under the proposed diteh, and are all prosperous farmers. QREGON. Pendleton s bound to have a woolen mill. Over $10,000 of the $15,000 bonus has been subscribed. Settlers in the Lake couptry are anxlous] awaiting the survey of that country, which will be made this fall. A squash raised by Henry Bateman is on exhibition in Broynsville. It measures five fest six Inches in circumference, and welghs seventy-six poundd Henry Herburger kilted a large lynx with A stone one day recently last week on a lonely mountain tryil, says the Grant County News. The feroclous animal had whipped the dog and was, coming toward the boy, when he grabbed ghe only available weapon and defended himgelf, H. F. Stephens Mas come down to Cottage Grove from the Vesuvius mine, in the Bohemia district, ind reports about $30,000 worth of ore in sight at'the mine. He has a cut thirty fest m depth and a drift 100 feet, and another shaft sunk west of that, twenty feet, all showing good ore from $10 to §50 per ton. Ore will average about $15 to a three-foot ledge, Mrs. Lawrence Griffin, who lives near Vale, has just been relleved of a pin which was found imbedded in her side and has caused her much suffering. Last spring she was taken suddenly ill, and+no accounting for it could be made. Doctors diagnosed her case differently, some calling it an internal tumor. A large amount of secretion has followed the extracted pin, and, though she is in a very weak state, her full recovery is now confidently expeeted. G. F. Billings has on exhibition at his office in Insurance block, in Ashland, the peach that surpasses the record for size. It is of the twenty-ounce cling varlety, and lacks only one and three-fourths ounces of welghing ‘twenty ourfces. The blg reach was grown by B. Beach of Ashland. It has been preserved in a ghes-far for exhibitio severel other smallessiones (one of the latter weighing sixteen and three-fourths ounces), and they will probably be sent to some of the fairs. ) About two weeks &go, while cleaning out @ spring in front ot /D, A. Herrin's cabin, at his sheep camp on Ditch creek, croppings of coal, or what is msually the forerunner of a mine, were discoveved, says the Heppner Gazette. The layersof coal, which is cov- red with slate roek,’is not thick, but of ex- ceptional quality; imfact, it has been tried by the different blacksmiths in Heppner, all of whom pronounce /it excellent. This find has not yet been! developed, so its extent is not known, though ‘there is much evidence of coal in that vicinity. WASHINGTON. In Whatcom county this year there are only three hop raisers who are picking their crops, owing to the low pric Isaac Catheart, a well known merchant and timber land owner of Snohomish, has let the contract for logging nearly 100,000,000 feet of | his timber on Lake Beecher. A prominent young citizen of Spokane, says a Tekoa paper, has been recruiting men to join the Cuban'rebels, and probably they will leave for the island In a few days. One of the boats out trolling for salmon in Seattle harbor a few mornings ago did not bring back a catch of fish, but, instead, the lucky fisherman had aboard a sack con- taiping 100 five-tael tins of prepared oplum, Which he had found floating in the bay. _borhood’ watched his The find was turned over to the custom house officials and will be sold at auction, aud the disappointed salmon troller will prob 1895. ably realize $160 for his morning on lhl' water, The Kittitas county potato crop Is of an extra fine quality this year. The season was dry, and irrigators have learned the secret of using little water, especially in growing po- tatoes. John Stauffer killed a very large elk in the Willapa valley. The antlers had thirteen polnts. Mr., Stauffer fired ten shots into the elk, after which it ran a mile and a half, and another bullet was required to finish it. Mr. Simpson of the lower Yakima has made 1,600 gallons of cholce molasses from sugar cane this season. The mill used by Mr. Simpson is a crude affair, but next year he intends having a larger and better one, and to increase his acreage of cane. N. J. Potter of Kennewick is putting his muskmelon crop to a new use. He has found that by squeezing the juica out of the melons ‘and boiling it down it makes a very good syrup. He intends putting up enough for his own use. It is also claimed that a Juice of the melons The Gray's Harbor Commercial company of Cosmopolis recently bought a smail raft of spruce logs, which, perhaps, contained more lumber to the log than ever got into one raft before, There was sixty-elght logs, averag- ing and 2 finches in length, whic sca 9,659 feet, making an average of 2,693 foet to the log. Even these figures do not show the contents of the log, as the rulo in scaling includes only 60 inches and all above that is thrown out. MISCELLANEOUS. There were recently shipped out of Stock- ton in four days 2,200 tons of flour, repre- senting nearly 1,000,000 sacks. Several thousand small fancy boxes of prunes are being packed by the San Jose Board of Trade for shipment to Atlanta, where they will be given away as exposition souvenirs of Santa Clara county. A Los Angeles brickmaker has invented an oil burner for bricks that is the first of its kind to regulate the heat satisfactorily. Ho says that it costs $1.76 to §2 to burn 1,000 bricks with wood, while it costs only 60 cents to 75 cents with the ofl burner. The irrigation congress at Albuquerque scoyed @ good point for the cause by calling attention to the fact that in Massachusetts about 80 per cent of the people are land- less tenants, while in irrigated Utah 90 per cent of the families are landed proprietors, Work on the San Joaquin Valley railroad is being pushed rapidly, but some delay has been caused by slow transportation of ma- terial, The right of way through the great valley from Stockton to Fresno has been se- cured practically without expense, as nearly all the farmors gave the land required, A $2,000,000 company has been organized at Holbrook, in northern Arizona, for the reclamation of 100,000 acres of fer- tile land along the line of the Atlantic & Pacific. The, waters of the Little Colorado and Rio Purco are to be utilized. The land and climate are especially favorable for the growth of deciduous fruits and early vegetables. While we were at Juneau and Sitka many prospectors were continally arriving from the Yukon river country, sald a miner re- ceufly returned from Alaska. They all re- turied disgusted and say that the wild re- ports of rich placer diggings there are grossly exaggerated. A few men have gone there and cleaned out some rich pockets, but along the river and Forty Mile creek there 1s not gold enough found to pay for grub, let alone wages. The Roseburg Review s not anxious to get up a reputation for telling big hunting yarns, but it is willing to give the follow- ing true panther story: Elmer Weekly, who herds sheep for Frank Waite, just over the coast range back of Callahan's sawmill, came across three panthers one day, about three weeks ago, and quickly dis- patched them. One Sunday soon after he me. three more om the trail, and, going home, got his gun and Mr. Ensley's dog, and in a very short time had three more panther hides. The average length of these animals was about elght feet, all of them fully grown It is unnecessary to add that panihers are thick in the Coast mountains, and that sheep- men are kept busy protecting flocks. Up to the present time the treaty with tho Plegan Indians has not been consum- mated. The commissioners delegated to treat with the Indians offercd $1,000,000 for that part of the reservation extending from tho Canadian line to the Great Northern :ailway. The Indians demanded $3,000,000. Another effort to purchase these lands was made and the Indians made concessions, but these were not satisfactory to the commis. sion, and another council meeting will b essary. It is believed the Piegans will accept $2,000,000 for that portion of the re- serve upon which minerals are found. The land in question is of no practical value to the Indians, but they realize that gold and silver mines have bben discovered on the land, hence their exorbitant demand. e D THE CHIMNEY. Dificult Climb of Two Hundred Feet, Ha Over Han A brick smokestack, nearly 200 feet in height, stands on the site of the old Morris & Tasker iron foundry, on the north side of Morris street, between Fourth and Fifth streets, says the Philadelphia Times. The entire block was occupied by the foundry buildings until lately, but they have been torn down one by one to make room for the encroaching rows of small dwelling houses, which began on the Fourth street front and are now being built along the east end of Morris street. All that remains of the foundry now is a building and the tall stack determined to remove these in order to extend the row of dwellings along Moryis street to Fifth, and the contract for carting them away was awarded less than a month ago. The contractor busied himself In removing the airt and rubbish in the nefghborhood, while others began to dig_cellars and lay foundations for the houses that were to take their places. A_week ago the work was practically stopped because the stack had become il obstruction. It Is a huge affair, octagonal in shape, and bullt entirely of brick. It stands on a solid foundation twenty feet square and ten feet high, und it tapers from diameter of eighteen feet at the bottom to eight feet at the top. It was built a quarter of a century ago, when they knew how to build stacks, and was apparently constructed to last forever, The contractor wanted to pull the st: down, but the formidable height and size made’ the operation o Gangerous to all the other structures in the vicinity that the building inspectors positively forbade him to do it. The authorities ordered that the stack be taken down, brick by brick, and recommended that thé work be commenced at orce. In its present shape the tall pile of bricks is regarded as something of a menace to the neighborhood, although it l00ks as though it could withs{and an earth- Qquake. The work of razing the stack must of necessity begin at the top, and the first ef- fort of the contractor was to get & man up to its smoke-blackened mouth, Various plans were suggested, and finally the job was intrusted to Thomas Cutler, who, with three helpers, essayed to get a rope up through the Interior of the stack on Tues- day afternoon, Cutler is a well known rig- er, and has a reputation for getting away with just such tough contracts as this one appeared to be A large crowd of people from the neigh- operations. He firet amined the broad interior of the stack, but could see no way of climbing up with out the ald of a rope fastened (o the Lop. The surface of the bricks on the inside wis an inch thick with soot, and some of them seemed on the verge of crumbling to pleces. From the basement all that could be seen above was & square patch of biue sky that locked M‘ll’c(‘ir a foot across. In order to get on the inside of the stack Cutler broke a hole in the bricks and mortar big enough to permit a man to squeeze through. With these difficulties facing him the contracior purchaze! a numt of rmall hot- alr loons, and he sent th aloft on the fnside of the stack with a long, thin rope tied to them. The balloons would float slowly upward, bumping from one wall to the other, until they got nearly to the top, and then they would catch fire in the confined space. A dozen were tried in vain, and at midnight the balloon scheme was abandoned and the contractor went home. Yesterday morning he returned bright and carly, bringing with him a wagon load of paraphernalia of all sorts, The whole nelghborhood was aroused, and before he iched the spot so large a crowd had gath- cred that the services of several policemen were required to keep them out of harm's way. The windows and the roofs of ad- joining dwelling houses were filled, and everybody took the livellest interest in the truction of their old landmark. utler and his assistants first unloaded ils of rope of ull sizes, and then produced @ bunch of powerful sky rockets At sight of thege the crowd gavée a shout One of the riggers crawled inside the stack with the rockets, and the coil of the thin- nest rope was pushed In afier him. For a while the eager watchers held their breath, well knowing what was going on. Then the legs of the man were seen coming slowly out of the ragged hoie in the slot, and when SCA ntly it FLORIDA EXCURSION Is the destination, where we have secured AND VEGETABLE LAND in the state. OMAHA, OCTOBER 14 CHICAGO, OCTOBER 18, SPECIAL TIRAIIT Conslsting of all Sleeping Cars, Derths Free, LOWEST RATES ever given to that State or any other point sonth. 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The crowd cheered, and Cutler was for the moment the big- gest hero the neighborhood had known for years, Having got the thin rope eafely over the top, a thicker one astened to It and drawn_completely through. This process was repeated four or five times until a rope an inch and & half thick was in place One end of this was made fast to an iron nchion outside and the other dangled long the east wall on the instde. irectod one of his men to climb up this the purpose of making a_block and whkle fast on the top, and George Bren- nan, an old fireman, undertook the job. He started up the rope hand over hind, zetting what support he could for his feef from the ragged cdges of the bricks, but when less than half way ug he stopped, struggled for half a minute desperately, and then began to slide rapidly earthws He reached the ground with no othe juries than blistered hands and knees, but {t »=s a long time before he could get his breath. He said he did not believe any man could make the ascent unless he was also tied to the tall of a rocket, as the first rope had been. Cutler, however, made the next attempt, and he succceded, He went up hand oyer hand, shaking down the soot and dirt in biack clouds, and when Is head ap- peared over the top of the stack he looked us if he had been painted black. The crowd gave him another cheer, he ralsed his handkerchief in He looked no bigger than a sparrow at the wreat height, and it could be seen by the way his clothes flapped about that ne was catching a_brisk breeze. He stayed up all the afternoon and rigged a block and tackle for hauling the men up hereafter and lowering baskets full of bricks. It is expected that /fully two weeks will be required to raze the stack. B What is more attractive than a pretty face with a fresh, bright complexion? For it, use Pozzoni's Powder. Women's Clubs of England. Mrs. J. C. 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These are the pro- fessional, political, industrial and social. The latter will have to be largely created, as at present there seems no medium for soclat organization which by any stretch of the im- agination could bo called national. England is honeycombed with societies, but they are all for people, not with them. They work on separate and distinct lines, and are often dia- metrically opposed to one another. For ex- ample, one group Is working hard to effect legislation for working women in the direc- tion of shorter hours and improved conditions for labor; another s opposing all such legis- lation vigorously, believing that discrimina- tion in favor of women will tell against the worklng woman' with the employer. in. bruised and return. 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"RICE CONSTRUCTING er.—Omaha, Neb., —October "1, 189, Sealed proposals, in triplicate, subject’ to the usual conditions, will be received here un- til 12 m., central standard time, Thursday, October 10, 1895, at which time and piace they will be opened in the presence of bid- ders, for constructing gravel roads at Fort Crook, Neb. Government reserves the righ to reject any or all proposals. Plans an specifications can be seen and all informa- tion obtained on application here. — En- Yelopes ™ containing * proyosais should = be marked “Proposals for (as the case ma be),” and addressed to CHARLES F. HUM- PHREY, jor and Qr. Mr. 0-1-2-7-8. RAILWAY TIME CARD QUARTER- IBUKLINGTON & MO. RIVER. I OmanajUnion Depot, 10tk & Mason Sis.| Ornaie .Denver Express, lis, Mont. & Puget Uenver ' Expres Nebraska Local (except -Lincoln Local (except Sunday). Fast Mail (for e [CHICAGO, BURLINGTON & Q.|Arrives “Omahal Union Depot, 10th & Mason Sib.| Orah Vestibule 0 Express. t. Louis unetion "L i ST. 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