Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 14, 1895, Page 5

THE OMAHA DAILY lU‘l' e e e e Pulse of Western Progress At Rosebud agency a secrat oxpedition 18 | epotted with frae gold and assaying from $100 baing planned to go out, under the guidance of some of the old braves, and plunder the grave of an Sloux chief who has burled since 1854, In his grave Is believed o bo $30,000 In gold coin, long supposed to be worthless trinkets, says a Deadwood dis- patch to the Sloux Falls Argus-Leader, When the Mormons were migrating to Utah from Nauvoo they passed through an Indian village of about 6,000 people situated where Fort 1. now stands. Their stock being ralded shortly after, some gov- ernment troops were induced to castigate the reds, and a raid on the village ensued. Among the leading spirits In this aft was a prominent Sioux chief called Winding Hawk, who, in revenge, held ment annuity ambulance. The talned about $50,000 in currenc same amount in gold coln, The currency was recognized as valuable by the half- breeds, immediately appropriated it, and there is n half-breed family at Rosebud that is wealthy now in consequence of that raid. The gold coins, however, were looked upon as trinkets. So far as the Indians knew, it had no money value, and was appropriated by Winding Hawk as his share. Later they buried Winding Hawk, and with him, accord- ing to their custom, they buried his best bow and arrows, his ncst valuable furs, and ‘nis new trinkets As the Indians became more intimate with the whites and more clv- tiized, they came to know the valus of the gold coins, but, as the viola- tlon of an Indian grave brings, according to superstition, fatally bad luck, there was no thought of robbing old Winding Hawk until the young braves of the present generatior casting aside the red man's superstitions as they acquired the white man's love of gold, have persuaded thelr fathers who helped to bury Winding Hawk to go with them and show them the spot, near Fort Laramle, where Winding Hawk and his gold treasure 1o burled. AN ALASKAN MONTE CHRISTO. Mictael O'Hearne, an old-time Comstock miner, who arrived on the last steamer from Aloska, came hero f Seattle, passing through on is way to New York, and carr ing with him $30,000 in Alaskan gold, pounded out of decomposed quartz in a hand mortar, says the Portland Telegram. Bighteen months ago, he, his brother, Peter, formerly an underground man in the Richmond mine, at Rureka, v., and Henry Morehouse of Plumas county, California, went to Juneau, engaging in prospecting thronghout the gold- bearing country in that inhospitable region, Wwith anything but success Early last June they started out on what they resolved to be their last prospecting tour in the cold north, unless they “struck’ something. On this trip, however, great luck accompanied them. In the mountains, some sixty miles from Juneau, they accidentally stumbled over a quantity of decomposed quartz, heavily carrying gold. Thelr expe- rlenca in the mines suggested (o them that this “find” indicated the presence near by of either a “pocket” or a ledge. Setting to work, the three men, at a depth of fifteen feot, discovered what Mr. O'Hearne terms a well defined ledge of the richest decomposed gold quartz that possibly has ever been found in that part of the earth. He sald that in less than sixty days he and his partners pounded out §90,000° with two swall hand mortars, He declined, however, o name the location of that Monte Christoan property till he has a government patent for it in his possession. He remarked that during his absence the mine is guarded by his partners and six Indians, all armed to the teeth. “I believe,” sald ha to a reporter just be- fore he boarded the train, “that the bonanza mines in Virgima City are not a circumstance to what we have. As yet I have had no ac- ourats means of determining how high the rock will run, but it certainly can’t be less than $100,000 per ton. There are millions in sight in that mine even now, as little work as we have had a chance to perform on it to the present time. If it does not make us three the richest men in the United States I'm very greatly mistaken. Mr. O'Hearne has been mining in Call- fornia and Nevada since 1856, and Is as good a Judge of mines as any man on the cifie coast, Besides that, ing has taught him not to grow enthusiastic unless he has a ‘“dead sure thing While he did not say so, his mission in the east, in all probability, is' to obtain that government patent of which he spoke. MINIATURE EARTHQUAKE. Over 1,000 visitors from this city wit- nessed the minfature earthquake at the Otay dam the other afternoon, when 30,000 pounds of giant powder were exploded in the bowels of (he great hill just below the dam, says the San Francisco Examiner. Preparations for the blast have been car- rled on for some weeks. A shaft 115 feet deep was sunk in the hill eighty feet back from the basin and charges of 24,000 pounds were placed in drifts at the fifty-foot level conch con- and the whe and the remainder in the bottom of the shaft | in the ends of the two drifts. All were united | by electric wries connecting with a_battery. A previous explosian of tons of powder had torn a great hole in the hill and it wrz caleulated that this explosion would furnish enough rock to fill the hole and make it accessible for the dam. Two hundred thou- sand tons of rock were to be displaced, ac- cording to the estimate of Walter Russell, the engineer in charge of the work. At 3 o'clock E. S. Babcock, president of the company bulilding the dam, fired a pistol as the signal to the man at the battery. The latter stooped and the watchers on the op- posite hill felt the ground rise under them and fall back. Their eyes were glued to the face of the hill opposite, which suddenly began to squirm and emit little spirals of dust. Bowlders, dykes and carth alike moved upward and wavered, seeming to crumble to dust, and to the visitors it seemed as if an earthquake of fearful proportions was going on before their gaze. Almost instantly after the hill reared it- ®elf there came a heavy groan from the mid- dle of the hill apparently, not loud, but which was heard miles away. The mon- strous mass quivered on a delicate balance for the fraction of a second, and with an echo deeper than the bellow' of the ocean, crashed Into the canyon. Instantly a sharp clatter of rocks followed and continued for ten or fifteen minutes, while a heavy yellow cloud gathered over the canyon and hung there. It floated away slowly, revealing an fmmenso pile of earth and small rock flliug the space below the dam. No large bowlders were seen, ail that remained of the great masses of granite being small jagged rock, showing the tremendous shattering power of the blast. The hill behind stood stark, and little cracks here and there revealed that the ex- plosion had parted the bonds of dykes and velns, making material for hundred feet further into the hill. Engineer Russell says more than 100,000 yards, or 200,000 tons, had been displaced, and that plenty of rock had been provided to complete the dam, which will take another year's work. The dam is now forty-five feet high and will be 130 feet when finished. It will impound three times as much water as the famous Sweetwater dam. VANCOUVER GOLD FIELDS. A gold craze, similar to that which is at- tracting hordes of capitalists and adven- turers to South Africa, though on a some- what smaller scale, has selzed upon the people of Victoria and western British Co- lumbia. Big finds have been made in the Alberni gold flelds, on Vancouver island, and about eighty miles from tnis city, says a Victorla (B.” C.) dispatch to the San Fran- clsco Call. Every day men come and go between the hills and the little town of Alberni, on Bar- clay sound. Those who go out from the town besr heavy packs of supplies and blankets to serve them while on their pros- pecting tour. T return with heavier packs. The supnlies Live been consumed and in their place are huge fragments of quartz, broken from the outcropping of some distant ledge and put aside for assay. The principal theater of action in the district now is Mineral Hill, which lies in a southerly direction, some thirtesn miles trom Alberni. The approach to it is steep and rugged, but the mines so far known are located on the hill's crest. They are the Missing Liuk, Champion and Albernl. High &rade ore has been struck In all three. The Missing Link resembles the Alberni rock closely, being of a dark blue color, thickly lain | i up a govern- | his experience in min- | 1o $400 to the ton. The Champion rock is of 4 gruylsh blue hue and carries a great deal of sulphurets On Coleman creek a party is now work- Ing on the mountain a deposit resembling a great quarry of queer-looking rock. Some of this has been assayed and the discoverer states that he has had an assay of $480 to the ton. The Star of the West shows an assay value of $6; the Happy Lover $40 and the Islander $41.60. This latter assay 18 by Price of San Francisco. In South Africa $20 rock is a bonanza and pays 100 per cent on the capitelization of the com- pany. Two or three gears ago 1t would have been impossible to make rock like that found in | South Africa and Alberni pay the cost of working, much passed away with the tailings and was lost. But now the cyanide process has made the saving of gold from ore hitherto regarded as refractory an matter, and therein lies Alberni's hope. A _circumstance which strikes the vis Alberni favorably is the confidence the prospector has in the ultimate success of the mining enterprise. Kvery man carries his hope and expectation of bhappiness in his coat pocket or In his hand. The ever- ready magnifying glass Is constantly in ac- tion, and on all sides groups of men be seen peering through its lens at the latest find of quartz. At every doorstep and windowsill, on every sidewalk, in the hotels, the shops and in every quiet family circle, quartz is produced for examination and criticism. BUTTE'S PROPOSED RAILROAD. Very little local interest is manifested in the proposed railroad from Butte to San Francisco, of which some Boise, Idaho, men are the promoters, and nothing is known of it except from information sent out from this city, says a Bolse speclal to the Sur The project was firat agitated about five years ago by W. H. Miller, an engineer, and a man named Babbit. The line at that time was surveyed from Bolse to Butte, but the people of this city took no interest in the scheme. An effort to interest eastern capital at that time also met with poor success, but the pro- moters kept up their efforts and claim to have been fairly successful. The {nformation from Woodworth of Denve promoters, has been in Boise for a week, working up a bonus and a right-of-way, no money to be paid until the road is completed. Woodworth says the building of the road is assured, and it is alleged that among those interested is Theodore Voorhies, first vice president of the Reading system, and several other Philadelphia men, Moritz Lipp- man, the New York banker; Ernest M. Dickey, president of the Little Rock road, and others, The proposed line is from Butte via Silver Bow to the Idaho line near Gibsonville, through Salmon City, and thence to the principal towns of Custer county to Atlanta and Rocky Bar via Redfish lakes, down Boise river to that city, to Nampa or Cald- well, thenca to old Camp Lyon, near Silver City and Delamar to Nevada, via Beckwith pass, and on to California. Mr. Wondworth says $10,000,000 Is ready to be spent In con- truction work and that the only ralroad e ny that Is opposing the scheme Is the Southern Pacific. He also claims that San Francisco will give a bonus of $2,500,000. Some people hav been inclined to the belief that Butte, Ana- conda & Pacific and Marcus Daly are behind the scheme, but it is authoritatively stated from Mr. Daly that he knows nothing about it. The westward route of the Butte, Ana- conda & Paclfic has not yet been planned, though It It Is ever extended beyond Ana- conda it will be through Idaho, but not over the route indicated for the Butte & Boise. Others are inclined to the belief that the proposed road is a Burlington scheme, but whatever it Is, it is news to Butte and to focal railroad men. The general impression in this city is that there is not much to the scheme, The country through which the road is to run is rich im mineral and fertile in agriculture. BEAR IN OREGON. C. E. Tebbs and Haydon Jones, the artists, came into town from southwestern Oregon, loaded with a sack containing the skin of a black bear, an animal which In life welghed 720 pounds and measured seven and a half foot In length, says. the San Franciseo Chron- | fele. The animal was run across just party were leaving their camp, miles from Kerby. They had gone four or five miles, when a shepherd dog which ac- companied them started the big fellow out of the brush. The bear’s dimensions were %0 enormous that he made an easy target. Jones fired first and lodged a ball in his head. This, however, had no effect, ana the great bear ran down the guich, fol- lowed by the men and the dog. The latter was so hot in pursuit that the bear turne on him and attempted to deal him a blow, but missed, and fell thirty feet down the ra- vine to the bushes, where he regained his feet. Tebbs and Jones followed as rapidly as the nature of the ground would permit, The bear turned up the opposite side of | the mountain, the dog after him, Jon fired again, hitting the near the eye, and then Tebbs ball in the black and the head. He dropped, but arose again. | Before he could get away, however, hunters sent five more shots into the body and bruin gave up the ghost. They then re- turned to camp, and, getting a horse, and placing the carcass in the fork of a felled t dragged 1t with much difficulty five miles distant. There the bear was weighed, measured and skluned. The meat was given to the miners, and the hunters again startel for home. They say they saw no deer, but that bear are numerous. One day they treed a bear with her cub, but having no gun Tebbs returned to camp in search of one while Jones stood on guard. Soon the mother tired of the situation and descended, pushing her youugster before her. Once on the ground she had much trouble to overcome the curiosity of the cub, and Mr. Jones says it was laughable to see her cuff and spank her oftspring every time it would turn to ser what sort of creature the biped was. The chatisement had its effect, and mother and child bhad disappeared from view when Tebbs had returned to the scene NEBRASKA. Philip Putt was thrown out of a wagon Beatrice, His neck was dislocated. The first day's delivery of beets to the Norfolk sugar factory amounted to sixty- seven tons, There are now rolled at the Sta Nebraska City. The Wahoo Democrat tas suspended for want of patronage, and its editor will ‘en- gage in other business. The people of Spencer think they are in the artesian water belt and are going to test the matter by sinking a deep well. A fruit tree agent in Dixon county was bitten by a rattlesnake. The snake died in spite of all that could be done for it. The Albion News has just celebrated Its seventeenth birthday. It has been in charge of Editor Ladd ever since its first jssue. Eight complete new threshing outfits have been sold by Randolph dealers this fall. The work of threshing Cedar county’s mammoth crop is not halt completed. Tha body of a full grown white child was found under a bridge within the corporate limits of Crawford Thursday. The child was laid there alive in the condition it was born, nude. The Northeast Nebraska Base Ball league has completed its season, the clubs finishing in the following order: Coleridge, Randolph, Creighton, Hartington, Wausa, Plainview, Wayne. The delinquent tax list of Dodge county occuples less than a column in a newspaper, thus proving that the people of that county itor Boise is that E. T. one of the alleged as the about forty animal lodged a fleeing mass near at seventy-five students en- Institute for the Blind at tre; rer's office. A man named Tuscorl of Pender dled last week from the result of injuries receiyed in a fight at the hands of one Woodhull® The assallant has fled, but if captured the charge of murder will be booked against him. Two banks in Randolph, Cedar county, cashed grain checks to the amount of $24,000 in five days. Only a third of the small gralu crop I8 threshed, and the figures, of course, do not include corn, Cedar county has 3,690 children entitled to a share of the state apportionment fund the present school year. There are seventy-nine districts, ninety-three school buildings and 108 school rooms in actual use, requiring five ouncos. the rich Maloney shaft 180 feet In i ilu\'mn' e Fighland Snap shaft at chude recently found In the tered, There is now OCTOBER 14, may when | the | are promptly up to date in their visits to the | 108 teachers. The total bonded indebtednoss is $18,688; other indebtedness, $5,973; making a total indebieduess of $24,661. The total value of all school property is $72,210, and $60,425 was expended last year in operating the schools. A foot ball team has been organized In | Randolph and the boys have commenced | practice In a thorough manner. A game has been arranged to take place in this city on Thanksgiving day between the Randolph and | \\'nkrvfiuhl teams. ' ayne has contracted the beet sugar tover, hd enterprising citizens have | unfted ‘in an effort to secure a_facto | Wayno county is well adapted to beet cul- | ture, and its farmers are taking a deep in- terest in the subject. The Grand Tsland sugar | to pay out $250,000 for beets befo the | season clos Nebraska can suppert 100 factories of the same size and never feel a strain. One hundred such factories would pay out $2,500,000 ev ason for beets. The brick work on the new wing to the State Institute for the Blind at Nebraska City is practically completed and the building wiil soon be ready for the plasterers. The | wing is sixty-two feet wide and sixty-seven feet deep, three stories and basement. Miss Maud Gates, a domestic working for a family at Lyons, Burt county, was hang- ing out clothes when she stepped on | boards covering a cistern and broke through. The water was ten feet deep, but her cries brought speedy help and she was rescued in | a damp, but undaunted condition. The body of John Kuttler, a farmer living | near Barada, Richardson county, was found dead in his hog pen, partially eaten by the hogs. The fac> and stomach were eaten very badly. ~ Mr. Kuttler was in good health when he arose in the morning. After break- fast he went into the field with his hired man to do some work. Leaving the hired man in the field, he went to th: house. This was the last time he seen alive, In the summer of 1893 A. R. Humphrey, commissioner of public lands of this state, contested the title of the town of Butte, Boyd county, on the ground that such site was on school land. He was sustained by the commissioner of the general land office. The trustees of the village of Butte appealed the case to the secretary of the interior and he has just lately made a decision that the town has a prior right to the quarter section upon which it is situated. A family of immigrants, consisting of a man, his wife and daughter, on their way from Des Moines, Ia., to Red Cloud, camped east of Fremont. While the wife was get- ting supper the man took his gun and went out’ to kill some ducks. Returning, when within four rods of his family, in crawling through a wire fence, the hammer of the gun caught and the gun was discharged, the load of shot taking effect in his wife's right e. A doctor was called, who picked out some of the shot. factory expects 10WA. The population of Buena Vista Is 15,0 Salcons have been opened at Eidon again. The Mississippl has risen two feet at Dav- enport. Oskaloosa will erect a new Episcopal church at once, Bremer county has gained 800 inhabitents in five years. Coal operators in Mahaska county report a boom in mining circles. Benton county has a population of 24,244, as against 24,178 five years ago. George Marshall, living at Long Grove, got up In the night and captured two burglars. The Des Moines city council has voted down an ordinance providing for the inspection of meat. George Ross, living near Trentor, was run over by a steam threshing engine and fatally injured. Sibley has a new building and loan assoca- tion_that gives promise of doing a profitable busines Owing to an ebb in treasury recelpts, Du- buque’s mayor has vetoed all further street improvements. In a restaurant quarrel at Dubuque the chief cook slashed a girl named Reed with a potato knife. Mrs, James Jenkins and daughter were killed by lightning in a field near Milton, Van Buren county. Two Creston papers were forbidden en- | tranca to the mails until they had dropped illegal advertisements, Five years ago Black Hawk county had a population of 24,219. The census just com- pleted gives tho county 26,941 George Ulrich of Jefferson tried to kil himself with a razor, was seized by a fit and fell unconscious. He still lives, John Hayes, Harry Traynor and Frank Wilson were arrested at Charles City for burglary committed at Nora Spring Policeman Windahl of Oskaloosa has been sentenced to one year's imprisoument for shooting a tramp who run when arrested. The Orange City Building and Loan asso ciation, organized four years ago, has made an annual earning of 30 per cent on its | stock. An old settlers’ soclety has been organized in O'Brien county which will undertake to obtain & biograply of every person who lo- cated in the county prior to 1873. Mass meetings denouncing Spanish govern- ment in Cuba and demanding the recognition of the insurgents by the United States are | becoming popular throughout the state. An O'Brien county farmer who was hailed out last spring recelved pay from an insur- ance company for twenty bushels of oats per acre. He has since threshed eighty bushels per acre from the same field. The 18-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Santmau, three miles southwest of the city, drank a small quantity of concen- trated Iye and now lies suffering great tor- ture. Some one about the premises had been using lye cleaning milk cans and had left the cup from which the lye had just heen emptied sitting on the edge of a table, The little one put it to her mouth, pouring the contents down her throat. Those por- tions of the child’s mouth and throat ex- posed to the liquid are terribly burned and the agony of the little one is great. THE DAKOTAS. Samples of ore from the recent strike in the Plutus at Deadwood assay $60 to the ton. Fargo is figuring on the erection of a tow mill that will make a local market for flax straw. Strenuous efforts are being made by South Dakota's railroad commissioners to collect the $1 license fee due on elevators, of which there are 1,000 in the state. Wolves in the vicinity of Plerre are again killing a great many sheep and cattle on the range, and the ranchmen have organized a hunt to exterminate them. A Wisconsin man has arranged to erect a creamery at Carthage that s to have a ca- pacity for handling 2,500 pounds of milk an hour. It is to b2 completed within sixty days. The scheme to start an experimental irri- gation farm at Miller is meeting with the approval of nonresident land owners, who have forwarded nearly $1,000 to Judge Car- roll in favor of the enterprise. Camp Crook, up in Harding county, has a gold excitement, and it Is claimed rich placer diggings have been found near 717 ranch. It seems that during the last Indian trouble in the country a rich find was made, but its marking had been forgotten. One nugget was clalimed to have been found worth $175. COLORADO. The main working shaft of the Strong mine, which was closed by the Cripple Creek war, has attained a depth of 400 feet and is work- ing a force of seventy men. Smelter returns on ores from Columbine camp, generally called Hehn's Peak, are re- ported to have given the owners $831 silver per ton and a small per cent gold. Tarryall and Georgia Pass will do thelr sharo of producing-next year, judging from the amount of preparatory development in progress, says the Alma Bulletin, The Lucky Gus shaft, Cripple Creek, Is now 300 feet be'ow grass roots. The output this month will reach 200 tons of smelting ore and a big tonnage will be shipped to the local mills, Forty miners are employed. Two good strikes were made by lessees on the Anchor at Cripple Creek. The young shaft reached the ore chute at & depth of 160 feot. The pay portion is fully thres feet wide of sylvanite ore that wiil not run less than the | ws eighteen inches of {t along the foot wall that | assays at the rate of'$308 per ton. | The surveys hdvé teen completed for the | mammoth irrigation jenterprise at Sterling, | Coto., and work on it |s to commence at once, | The total cost of thé work Is estimated at $1,000,000, and it ‘will place 700,000 acres under a system of wager storage and canals. | What promises o develop Into a good strike was uncovered the Accident a fractional claim located on the west glope of Gold HIil, | close to the Florence & Cripple Creek rail- road. The vein ‘aas been entered only a few | feet, but the quartz pans as though it would | run at least $100 per t¢n, WYOMING. A recent shipment of a_carload of ore from the Collett mine, near Cokeville, returned § in silver and $26 in gold to the ton The main canal at the Four Mile placers will be completed October and the foun- dations for the gold extracting plant will then be commenced Barrett Littlefie'd, a Snake river cattleman, has raised a_small band of elk on his ranch. Last spring he had about sixty head and this year he raised thirty calves, An old bear which caused much trouble among young steck in the vicinity of Buffalo was Kilicd recently by Jim Monday. The ani- mal weighed about 1,400 pounds. The National Park Mining company, com- posed of Nebraska men, is working seventeen claims near Atlantic City. The ore it is get- ting runs from $10 to § per ton. The Union Pacific Coal company is making preparations to work the Hanna coal mines to thelr full capacity. A force of men is now at work making a new opening 600 feet in length in No. 2 mine, Mine No. 1 has been closed down temporarily in order that a new set of screens may be put in The recent rich find in the Franklin mine at South s City still creates a sensation. Not long ago the lessees took from one blast over $1.000. When the rich ore was first found the vein was only eight inches thick; now it 1s eighteen inches, It is predicted the Franklin will turn out more gold this year than_ all the other mines in Wyoming com- bined. A carload of copper ore will be shipped from the Empire mine at Hartville, waich has been recently opened in order that the commercial value of the product may be full determined. The Empire has a true fissure veln, which has been cut in three places, With a veln surface of about thirty square feet, with a pay streak of four to six square feet. The ore is gray copper asso- clated with carbonates and siticates. The death is announced at South Pass City of James Smith, one of the ploneers of the place. Mr. Smith served as a sailor in the United States navy in the war with Mexico, The deceased was one of the 49crs and mined with varying success in California, Mon- tana and Wyoming. He settied in 1867 at South Pass City and was city marshal of the place at a time when it was one of the liveliest mining camps of the west. He also engaged in the mercantlie business and ac- cumulated quite a fortune. Smith was the original of Mark Twain's well know sketch of South Pass Clty's most important citizen in “Roughing It.” OREGON. Many tons of clittim-wood weekly shipped from Halsey cisco to be made-into-bitters, A band of 1,600 sheep were driven acros the mountains on the Minto Pass trail to Nlagara, on the Qregon Central & Eastern. The beef cattld of Klamath county have practically all been sold. Twenty-two hun- dred and eight passed through Tule lake re- cently. John Y. Johnson of Roseburg raised on a lot, 50x22 feet, on'Main street, 1,618% pounds of “onions. This is at the rate of 1294.8 bushels per acre, The sofl In which the onions were growh fs known as black mud. Arrangements have been completed where- by Grant's Pass will 0on have in operation the only pine needle, factory in America. Pine needles will be converted into various commercial products, such as soaps, extracts and oils. « The famous log chute of La Grande, one and one-half milek from top to bottom, has served its usefulness and the lumber in it will now be cut up into cordwood. More than 3,400,000 feet of logs were shot down the chute, and it was a financial success, Overconfiding Britishers, says the Tilla- mook Headlight, are again buying lots in the noted “Tillamook Park addition,” a swindle that has been exposed in the Oregonian and other coast papers. The lots are twenty- five miles from Tillamook, In inaccessible mountains, and are absolutely worthless. The secrotary of the Oregon Board of Horticulture esiimates that there are 565,000 acres of pit and core fruit in the state and 1,500 acres of a berry variety. There are 35,000 acres set to prunes, the estimated yield being from 0,000 to 100,000 pounds dried in one orchard of twenty-three acres H. F. Stephens has come down from Cot- tago Grove from the Vesuvius mines, in the Bohemia district, and repor:s about 320,000 worth of ore in sight at the mins. Iie has a cut thirty feet in depth and a drift 100 feet and another shaft sunk west of rhat twenty feet, all showing good ore from $10 to $50 per ton. Ore will average about $15 to a three-foot vein. A party of Ashland hunters bagged in the wilds of Curry county during a six weeks’ hunting crip three bull clk, four bear znd sixty-five fat bucks. “They brouzht back with them more ihan 700 pounds of Jerked venison During the trip one of the peck unimals lost his footing and rolled down the si=ap moun- tain side for a distance of 12i feet, rolling over and over. The bulky pack protected him, thovgh® and no serims injuries re- sulted. Some time ago Henry Stark, a well known citizen of Antelope, came to The Dalles with a four hirsc team, expecting to take back a load of fre'ght. He disappeired and nothing was heard of him. The myatery of his disap- pearance has just been cleared up by his te turn. Stark, in conversation with Shorfl Driver of Wasco county, sald that he hai gone to Porc'imd, from whih place he bad been shanghaied. He had been put on board a ship and taken to sea, bu' as the vesscl touched at a1 Franclsco Stark made nis it took him some Lwe to resen bark to San are Fran- home. WASHINGTON. The great jetty at the mouth of the Co- lumbia river is rapidly nearing completion. The Parker shingle mill at Lawrence, which was burned a few weeks ago, has been rebullt. Neah bay is the wettest place In the country, the annual average of rainfall be- Ing 123 inches. New Whatcom papers claim there seventeen residents of that place who testify that they saw a sea serpent in lingham bRy. This year's crdp of peppermint in the Kennewick valley is ancouraging. The pro- gressive people of that, district are also ex- perimenting with the castor bean. A Mr. Lewls of Kerns, Wahklakum county, has just finished getting out on contract for a Baitimore firm of manufacturing pharma- cists forty tons of cascara, or barberry bark. Arrangements have besen consummate whereby another largs, salmon cannery will be located in Whatcom county. Richardson, on Lopez island, will" be the home of the plant, The Seattle clty‘cbuifell has passed an or- dinance requiring ‘the ‘removal of telephone, telegraph and eleetric light poles from the streets and the placing of the wires under- ground. Goldendale s toibe furnished with a water supply which will e conveyed from a spring nine miles distant<to ‘the town in wooden tubes. The tubes’ are' made by boring the center out of ten-inch pine logs. From the Snoqualmie hop ranch, the largest in the sate, which usually grows 200 tons of hops, only forty-five tons were gathered this year, because of the low price. The yia:'s crop’ was but little affected by mold or the aphis, . Mrs, W. H. Harvey of Pullman Is the first woman admitted to the bar in Whitman county, and probably the first admitted in the state on examination, although others have been admitted by courtesy. Her hus- band is also a lawyer. C. E. Averill has the largest tle contract ever let on the Palouse river. In the next thirty days he will have 100 men and teams at work cutting and hauling logs and ties, He intends to put in about 3,000,000 fest of timber, 2,000,000 for the Northern Pacific Railroad company, and 1,000,000 feet of siw logs for his mill at Elberton. He Is en- gaging all the No. 1 tie-hewers he can get, but says there are plenty of them who are looking for work. are will Bel- 895. THE POINT TICKLES MILLIONS What the Solemn and Stupid Sneer and Oriticise, SPILLING SMILES ON HUMANITY'S MUG Certain P e Affeet to Despise and Derlde Plays Upon Words, but the Custom Is Ancient and Sanctioned by Good Usage. To belittle and sneer down puns, humor has been the constant effort of the leading moralists of all ages, says the Wash- ington Post, but the pun and jovial jokers still survive all the malicious and senseless opposition. Jonathan Swift was a clever joker, and said that “only they deride puns who aro unable to make them.” The moral Dr. Johnson placed the punster and the pickpocket on the same level. Even diction ary makers, in echo of the overrighteous class of soclety, define a pun as a “play upon words,” a “low and vulgar specles of wit,"” ete. Addison abuses puns roundly, Hazlitt damned them with faint praise, Campbel asked pardon for descending so low as to mention them, and Sydney mith, in his youthful lectures, must needs have his fling at what he was all his life making. dney was one of the best of punsters Now, what are the main charges againot puns? Under what pretext do self-appointed judges condemn them with so much rancor? “Punning is the wit of words,” says Sydney Smith. What is meant by tha ‘“wit of words ? In one sense all wit, spoken or written, is such, for without words wit could not exist. Amusing ideas have more.or leos merit, croate more or less pleasure, accord- Ing as they are expressed in good or bad words and phrases. A story told by one per son wlil be as melancholy as a price current; by another it will be provocative of infinite mirth, What is meant by murdering a good joke, missing the point and kindred expres- slons? Clearly for the want of the best and proper words in the best places. Give an ordinary man the facts and ideas of a scene of Dickens, or a hit of Sheridan, or a pun of Prentice; let him perceive, as far as pos sible, without the author's words, its full force and see what he will make of it. Who- over tries the experiment will admit th words have something to do with all pleas- antry. “On a word,” says Landor, “turns the pivot of the intellcctual world.” MUCH HUMOR IN PUNS. It grieves me much to fe» puns meet with such shabby treatment as they do, when I think of what rich and delicate humor, what sharp or gushing wit, nay, what true pathos has spoken through them. Take, for in- stance, one of Lamb's puns. He is chatting with a party of friends over his glass of toddy. Disturbed by a dog howling without in the storm, some one benevolently proposes to let him In. “Why," stutters Lamb, “grudge him his whine and water.” A t paipable pun. A very serious diplomatist, describing a picture of the animals leaving the ark, spoke of the strange effect produced by the little ones going first and the elephant waddling in the rear. ‘“Ah, no doubt,” sald Canning, “the elephants, wise fellows, stayed behind to pack up their trunks.” It is so natural to be delayed by trunk packing that the pun is_both expressive and amusing. While Mr. Webster was once addressing the senate or the subject of internal improve- ments, and every senator was listening with clos» attention, the senate clock commene2d striking, but instead of striking twice at 2 p. m., continued to strike without cessation more than forty times. All eyes were turned to the clock, and Mr. Webster remained silent until the clock struck about twenty, when he thus appealed to the chair: “Mr.” Preai- dent, the clock is out of order. I have the floor!” To say that a long and loud laugh from every senator and person In the august chamber was indulged in is a faint descrip- tion of the merriment thés exquisite pun produced. BUCHANAN FELT HURT. Mr. Clay was a jovial punster, and improved every opportunity offered to exercise his pas- sion to produce a laugh at some friend’s ex- pense or for the sake of a little merriment James Buchanan, up to the time of Jackson's first presidential term, was a prominent and active federalist, when suddenly, and to the suprise of every politician of that day, he “turncd his coat,” so to speak politically, and became an active democrat and ardent sup- porter of General Jackson's administration, In the course of a year or two the president appointed him minister to Russia as a reward for his patriotism. At this time every envoy to a forelgn court had to wear a court dress at the recptions of state, and as Mr. Clay had served as a minister at a foreign court Mr. Buchanan, in the presence of several others, asked Mr. Clay's advice in the matter of dress. Mr. Clay gave him the information asked, at the same time remarking that he was in'posses- sion of a court dress, which he offered to Mr. Buchanan free of expens: or trouble. Mr. Buchanan returned thanks for the generous offer, but expressed his fears that the suit had become more or less faded, or, perhaps, stained. “Oh,” said Mr, Clay, “you have a remedy for all such defects—you can turn it, Mr. Buchanan!” It Is said all present greatly enjoyed the clever plecs of sarcasm except Mr. Buchanan. He considered the “turning the coat” suggestion rather per- sonal, HIS SCRIPTURAL SANCTION. Even in the writings of St. Paul can be found sentences of sarcastic punning and of a character decidedly amusing, Take the following quotation for an example: “If a man thinks he is something when he is noth- ing he deceives himself.” Solomon would have said that such a man was a fool. Paul was too much of a gentleman to use that harsh expression, but the ircy of his words carry the same ‘‘Solomon” import. And, furthermore, the confirmed toper must have a share In adding his quota to the list of quips and puns. “You ought to follow the example and teachings of St. Paul, the apostle of temperance and godliness,” said a preacher to his Inebriate nelghbor. “That is Just what I do every day of my life—follow his example, for we read in the book of Acts that he stopped at three taverns! Now let us select a few puns and witti- cisms presented to the world by that prince of puns and jokers, George D. Prentiss, who, for more than a quarter of a century, was the owner and editor of the Loulsville Jour- nal. Scarcely a number of that highly es- teemed daily failed to contain one or more of his side-splitting puns, flashes of wit or a severs piece of sarcasm. Here are a few samples: The editor whose acts of theft we exposed the other day is a member of the church, We never think of his character without being reminded of a mercantile firm in this city—Pray & Steel William Hood was robbed Ala, by a highwayman. The robber is unknown, but that he was “Robbin’ Hood The coat of a horse is the gift of nature, That of an ass is often the work of a ta‘lor. “Return a kiss for a blow.” Certainly, provided the giver of the blow Is a pretty girl. wit and ors near Corinth, name of the 1s no doubt You seem to walk more erect than usual, my friend.”” “Yes, I have be:n straightened by circumstances."” James Ray and John Parr have started a democratic paper in Maine. Parr, in all that pertains to decency, is below zero, and Ray is below Parr. eneral H., finding himself unable to pay his debts, has taken to drink. We suppose he calls that going into “liquidation.” Bill Johnson says that General Harrison's private character is not reputable. That's a “lie—BilL" Mr. Joe Segar of Norfolk, Va., candidate tor the legislature, attempted to pass himself Off as a whig, but the voters “smoked” him. A duel was fought in M 1ppl last week by T Knott and A. W. Shott. The result was that Knott was shot and Shott was not The editor of the Troy Whig says that he hardly knows how to classity the democratic postmasters. He may as well arrange them in two classes—the “'ins” and the “outs’ those that are 1n the penitentiary and those that are out The man who lives only for this world Is a fool here, and there is danger that he will be (we speak not profanely) a damned fool in the next. It Is exceedingly bad husbandry to “har- row" up the feelings of your wife. o A man was recently convicted in Kentueky | boen una Success in washing and cleaning is Pears. e, « By doing' away with the rubbing, it opens the way to casy work; with weekly wash can weakly woman, possible harm and danger; things washed last lon-w soap. with it —Why women use millions upon millions every part of the of packages of Peariine uu’/rm, a 1 be done by a it shuts out all with ZLearline than if washed with rything is done better lhvw form but a small Ev year, Let #¢ m/im' do its best and there is no fear of * dirt dmn\* lls worst.’ Turn the “the same as” never peddled, Key On the peddlers and grocers who tell you Pearline 236 ““this is as good ns,” or Pearline is New York, IT'S FALSE; besides, JAMES PY1 D T —— MANHOOD RESTORED. tlon of a famous Frone pliysicia ses of the gei inafn the Bick, Plmples, Uatiness to dgtvy Tt atops all 1o ness of discharge, Which if notcheeked Joads to &5 all the horrors of Tmpotency, €U Kidneys and tho urinary organs of all impurities. restores small weak orga Jous or disc Tnsomta, Constipation, BEFORE awo AFTER tlYl'll)lKl atrengthon “CUPIDENE® This great Vegotatly riheprosciipe Su gl nil nee anhood Debiiity, a by day oF nigh ormatorrho DENE cleniscs tio liver, U . cized by Doctors i3 because ninets per cont aro tronbled wit o a1 tme OOBTBRN £ i .00, by mail, 8o only known remod: d for FRER circular and tes ro without an operation. 500 teatimor timonlals, ) & srritied guarantee stvan ac money s tuened i Boxen docs 1Ot elloct & pormmnunt ety SWSMLMK or §5 Asdiress DAVOL MEDICINE €O, 708 SALE BY GOODMAN DRUG CO. P, O, Box 2076, San ¥ cisco,Cal, For Sate by 10 Faram 6L, Omahe. A Few Advantages Offered by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. made up and started from Omaha. Paul R allway, the short line to Chicago. A clean trals S\OUXCITY Tam, CEDAR RAPIDS Baatyil Biyf1,DES MOINES Baggage checked from residence to destina tion, ployes. E dining car service in the west, with m you want and pay for what you get. Chicago at 9 a. m. City Ticket Office, 1504 Farnam Strect, tire train lighied by electricity, wit h electrie re Als' werv ed a la carte, Tliyer lea ves union dep Elegant rain_service and courteous eme ading lamps in every herth. Iinest in’ other words, order what t daily at 6:00 p. m., arriving at 8. CARRIER, City Ticket Agent. “WHERE DIRT GATHERS, WASTE RULES.” GREAT SAVING RESULTS FROM THE USE OF SAPOLIO of steallng hie neighbor's cows and hiding them in his cellar, It was a cow-ardly mode ot “‘cow-hiding." SOME SHARP SAYINGS. Josh Billings has few superiors in the art of manufacturing puns, jokes and bright maxims. A few of the best are as fol- lows: Thero s no medicine like a good joke; it 1s a silver-coated pill that frolicks and phisicks on the run. Do a good turn, young man, whenever yu Kan, even if you have to “turn” a grind-stun to_do it. Fallin' in love iz like 'lasses candy, sweet but_dreadful dobby. “Time {s money”—menny people take this saying in its literal sense, and undertake tew pay their debts with it. Marrying for money iz a meaner way tew get it than counterfeiting. Love is said to be blind, but T know lots of phellows in love who kan sce twice as much in their gals az i kan. When yu strike ile stop boring; menny a man has bored kiean thrue and let all the ile run out at the bottom. If a man is full ov himself, don’t tap him, but rather plug him up, and let him choke to_death or bust. Hunting after helth iz like hunting after fleas; the more ye hunt, the more the flea, ““Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast,” says Shakespeare. “He that is of a nerry heart has a_continual feast.” Proverbs xv., 16. In spite of all that has been sald for centuries, puns and witticisms still hold their own. 'Round the cottage grate they are always going off like chestnuts roasting in embers; at the grave college suppers graduates of many years' standing forget cares and dignity in & bright pun and a quick gush of laughter. Now and then the pun Dops up its head from the stagnant level of the toasts and speeches of a political din- ner. A knack of punning is invaluable to a social being. Who cannot call to mind some pun which started a circle from the stupors of silence, or gave a new turn to a compliment, or a re- mark on a threadbare subject, or turned the plank of a troublesome conversation. Not only by the domestic fireside, mot only on silk_and broadeloth evenings are puns fre- quent companions, but they even venture into the office and ‘wriling room. These are bound to go everywhere. They seem to be universal. And we may rest assured that 80 long es language retains its present char- acter, 50 long as fun and jollity are kind enough to stay on earth, puns will continue to be made and punsters to run at large. The world is not quite ready to give up pun- ning. Wit gives too keen a relish of life to part with any species. “We do not enjoy life any too much,” is the opinion of our Jolly townsman, Hay. Izaak Walton's neigh- bor, who was too busy to laugh, lives next door to many Americans! Make him laugh by hook or by crook, and you bless him. Horace Smith hit the nail square on the head when he said: ‘““The gravest bird is an owl, the gravest beast is an ass, and the gravest man is a blockhead Hence, let all give heed and be governed by the good old proverb: ‘‘Laugh and grow fat!” —_——— GENERAL WESTERN NOT Ground has been broken at Bozeman for the new State Aricultural colleg: English capitalists intend to establish cot- ton factories in the state of Jalisco, Mexico. A pure white crow has been captured on Toxadia island, B. C. It wes taken from a nest in which were several entirely black crows. Since the passing of the Wilson bill over 70,000 head of Mexican cattie have passed through Bagle Pass, bound for Chicago and other points, A large tourists’ hotel, be open by January 15 Redlands, Cal., provided bonus of $20,000. The Colton cannery, it is reported, has been putting up 30,000 cans of fruit per day recently and paying out from $2,000 to §2,600 per week in wages The Chino factory is now working up about 200 tons of beets daily. The Anaheim crop is pretty well cleaned up. The factory has received over 60,000 tons to date. The remains of a man supposed to have been Tim Donovan, who has not been heard from since 1564, were found in an old dirt cabin, which had caved in, near Rocky Bar, 1daho. Many countles in California are following Yuma's example in erecting gaide posts along the desert trails pointing to the near- est water. No less than 176 persons by perished in the Colorado valley west of Yuma for want of water. Yuma capitalists will soon begin the er tion of a largs smelting plant at Castle Dome, says the Flagstaff, A. T.. Democrat, for the reduction of lead and sfiver ores from the mines near that place. 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