Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 7, 1902, Page 7

) MINING 1N THE BLACK RILLS Rich Btrike/ of Bmelting Ore Made on ' ‘Golden Bottle Mine, EN /VID[NS OUT WITH DEVELOPMENT Whereby, DBADWOOD, 8. D., July 6.—(Special)—A rnel strike of smelting ore has heen 'made on the Golden Dottle, & mine situated “on Bquaw creek. The mine is being worked By Arnold and Wall, two miners who have Pecently taken a lease on the ground. They IBave started an open cut, following a small wertical, about two feet wide, which sho: on the sutface. The cut is now in about ‘twelve feet, and every particle of the ore taken from it pays. The men have now taken out about twenty tons of ore, which 18 exceedingly rich, so rich In fact that ey are sacking every pound of it befare shipping it to the smelter in this city. It sald that the ore will go better than 3600 to the ton, and fr®m what work has been done on the vein, the ore carries s values all the way through. The veln which ls now being worked has only re- tly been discovered, but on the ground here is another shoot of good commercial ‘ore, but it is not mear so rich as the vein ‘which Meesrs. Arnoldsand Wall are work- 10g. The vein at the present time fs very small, but as it goes into the hill it ap- pears to widen out, so a tunnel will be tarted from the face of the open cut pd driven in so long as the ore main- tains its values, and then a shaft will be #tarted. The ore is rich enough now to make the men who hold the lease on the ground thelr fortunes with a few’months worlk. S'he second cleanup from the Alder Creek yanide plant, which has been running on Fm from the dump of the Little Blue mine on Yellow creek, has been brought to the city, and the brick is valued at $10,000. The Alder Creek company’s plant is only a fifty-ton affair, so its cleanup for the last halt of June was.@ pretty/big fome. | Wasp 2, as usual, came down on Tues- day last with its semi-monthly cleanup trom Yellow creek, and the brick is valued at $8,000. From the Wasp 2 and Alder Creek nlone, Yellow creek is sending to the United States assay office In this clty ‘:boul $40,000 a month. Besides thess 'wo producing plants, there a number of ‘properties having their smelters and cyanide plants outside of the district, which it added to the product of those two plants, would send the pro- duction of Yellow creek up to at least $50,000. This is pretty good for a, short /®uleh, but then it has always been a good !producer, and from the ore now exposed in the different properties which border om it it is destined to be one/for a good many years. Big Sale Effected. A sale of property whichjhas been pend- 10g for a long time—that of the Scandi- navian and the Hogan properties, on Elk creek—will be consummated this week, 10 per centy of the purchase price having been pald down to the owners. Included in this sale will be about 200 acres of a ®00d mining land. as there is in the dis- Lrict, and on the most of which 1s a great deal of work has been done, exposing in many places good ore bodles. The ground is 2 continuation of the Uncle Sam vein, which ‘s five miles distant, and the,ore in th openings made on the grouad is identical in its character with that taken from the latter mine. The price to'be pald for this ground will be over 910,000, and when what the Scardinavian hac dome In the rest 1s taken into consideration, the smount pald is very small. The Scan- dinavian, w/th the exception of the Clover Leaf (the old Uncle Sam), has had more work dm’J on it than any mine in the dis trict an/l has milled moro ore. The ore 1s a tee-milling, concentrating proposi- tion snd will pay well to eyanide. The veln in this mine is about thirty-five feet in ‘width and the ore will average better tAan $15 free-milling. There are several Andividual mine owners interested in the @eal, and the most of them are from this city, men who have been working on the development of their location for a num- ber of years, so the distribution of wealth caused by the will enrich quite a mumber. The sale is being made to a party of eastern gentlemen, who will, it ia #ald, erect a plant for milling the ore from the groind, some of the claims al- weady being in such a condition that they can begin at once the production of ore, and especially is this true of the Scan- dinavian, which is well opened up. Mesars. Smith & Coe of this city have been working a large force of men on the Lids and Pledmont group of claims, on North Bare Butte creek, for some years past, and bave mow the ground in shape for patent. Om the Lida group they have & large body of free-milling ore exposed, ‘which gives average assay returns of bet- ter than $8 per ton, while on the Pied- mont group several velns of refractery ore have been opened uwp, some of them very extensive and carrylng very high values in many cases. This ground b been worked for years, but as it Is mote from treatment faclities, but little of its ore has been tested in any quantity, but what has, has given good returns. It is the intention of the owners to arrange for the erection of a treatment plant on the ground some time this year. This s & district that has recelved but little o tention from outside people, but one which is well known to residents of the Hills, and there are many who have interesia | there which are very promising, and should the owners of Lida and Pledmont erect their mill, it will be the cause of awakening interest in its min The country is well timbered and there is watér sufficient to run any kind of a plant or any number of them. With little effort a raliroad could be bullt from one of the main lines of the Hills to any portion of the district, and as its ores are of a guality that would find a ready sale, with the ad- vent of a road the district would take on & boom. A. K. Davis of Lead has recently taken & bond on the Ground Hog group of claima In the Whitewood mining district, and will A —Ep RN . Pale. Thin Pale cheeks, white lips, and languid step tell the story of thin blood, impure blood. Doctors call it “anemia.” They recommend Ayer's Sarsaparilla. Ask them and they will tell you just why it makes the blood s0 rich and red. oy oy i P o Mo R ‘h:l have frequent attacks cmk- eadache, nausea, biliousness. Just one of Ayer's Pills each night will cor- rect these troubles. s 3.G. AVER CO., Lowell, Mass. ores treated by | l- Farming in Nebraska Fwrming in Nebraska pays. This statement is predicated on the facts set forth in bulletin 193 of the Twelfth census, which deals exclusively with agri- culture/and its allied interests in Nebrask In the introductory note addressed to Di- rector/Merriam, Mr. L. G. Powers, chiet statisticlan for agriculture, says . ‘A farm, as defined by the Twelfth census, ineludes ‘all the land under one manage- ment used for rasing crops and pasturing live stock, with the wood lots, swamps. meadows, ‘etc., connected therewith. It in: cludes al#o the house in which the farmor resides, and all other bulidings used by him in_connection with his farming operations. The farms of Nebraska June 1, 1%0, num- bered 121,525, and were valued at $577,680,020. Of this amount $91,04,120, or 15.8 per cent represents the value of bufldings, and 096,90, or $4.2 per cent, the vaiue of lands and improvements other than bufld- Ings. On the same date the value of farm implements and machinery was $24,919, and that of live stock $145.349.487. Th valuey, ‘added to that of the farms, giv $N180,067, the “total value of farm prop- p s ‘The products derived from domestic ani- mals, poultry and bees, including animals #0ld 'and animals slaughtered on far are referred to in this bulletin as “animai products.” The total value of such prod uicts, together with the value of all crops termed the “total value of farm products This value for 189 was $162,606,38, of which amount $70,227,060, or 43.2 per cent, rep sents the value ‘of anima 92,469,326, or 6.8 per cent crops, including forest products cut produced on farms. The total value for farm products for 189 exceeds that re- ported for 1859 by 39,858,769, or 143.4 per cent The gross farm income Is obtained by de- ducting from the total value of farm prod- ucts the value of products fed to live rtock on the farms of the producers. In 189 the Feported value of products fed was K805, , leaving $124,670,866 as the gross farm income. The percentage which this latter amount is of the total value of farm prop- erty is termed the gross Income upon fn- vestment. For Nebr: in 1599 it was 16.7 per cent. A vast amount of detalled information concerning farme and farming operations in Nebraska ls contained in the bulletin, from which some statements are condensed for The Bee readers. Nebraska's total land area 18 76,840 square or 49,177,600 acres, of which 29,011,779 acres, or 60.8 per cent, are included in farms. These farms, which are of the av- erage size of 246.1 acres, contain 18,432,505 acres of improved land and 11,479,184 acres of unimproved land, the total per cent of im- proved land being 68.6 per cents The num- ber and arca of farms has increased rapidly since 1860, the rates of increase since 1890 belng 7 and 38.5 per cent respectively. The establishment of extensive livestock ranches in the western part of the state and the cultivation of large corn-producing arel throughout the state, have efledted a sub- stantial increase in the average size of farms since 1880. The development of these industries has been so rapld that the divis- fon of farm holding in the eastern half o the state, where the farme are more fnten- sively cultivated, hae not been suffictent to counteract the expansive movement In the western section. In the last decade this in- crease in the average size of farms was most marked. Each decade since 1860 shows galns in the values of all farm property. For the de- cade ending tn 1900 the increases In values are as follows: All farm property, 46.1 per cent; farms, 43.6 per cent; implements and machinery, 51.4 per cent; livestock, 56.8 per cent. Nearly two-thirds of the countles report increases In the number of farms in the last decade, notwithstanding the severe drouths which occurred between 1880 and 1900, caus- ing the abandonment of many farme in the central and western countles. The total farm acreage increased In every county except Cass, Saline and Perkins. The average size of farms for the state is 246.1 acres. In the western countles, owing to the number of livestock farms, many of which are more than 1,000 acres in extent, the average size of the farme Is greater than in the eastern countles, where general farming preval The average value of the farms for the state i $4,753. In eleven counties fn the northern part of the state the value has more than doubled since 1890. Although de- creased farm values are reported by a few western counties, increases in the value of implements and machinery are reported by nearly all counties. The average value of implements and machinery for 1900 was $205 per farm. In the northern countles, which showed the largest increases in farm val- ues, the galn in value of livestock was also large. In more than one-sixth of the coun- ties this valne doubled, and In the re- THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, JULY 7, 1902. der, except in a few southern coun- ties, which reported elight decreases, it in- creased notably. The average expenditure for labor in 1899, whach was $61 for the state, varied greatly in different countles. For fertilizers, the everage expenditure per farm increased trom 17 cents in 1589 to $1.26 In 1800. Most of the counties report largely increased ex- penditures for fertilizers. This is due to the growth of flower culture and market gardening in hot housee, which branches call for almost the entire amount of fertil- izer used in the state. Of the 121,525 farme in the state, 76,715 are operated by the owners. In the term “owners"” wre Included owners, part owners, owners and tenants and managers. This amounts to 63.1 per cent of the total. Cash tenants operate 11,599 farms, or 9.6 per cemt of the total, and share tenants operate 83,- 211, or 27.3 per cent. These figures show a decided variation from those returned for 15%0. In that year the farms operated by owners numbered 85,525, or a percentage of 5.3 out of a total of 113,608; the cash ten- ants operated 8,42, or 7.9 per cent of the total, and te share tenants operated 19,141, or 16.8 per cent of the total. Of the total number of farms in 1900, 99.7 per cent were operated by white farmers and 0.3 per cent by colored farmers. The term colored is thie respect included 2 Chinese, 249 Indiane and 78 negroes. The propenderance of In- dians is due to the allotment of land on reservations, More than 60 per cent of farms of the state are operated by owners and part owners, about tbree-fitths of the farm acreage and of the total value of farm property being accredited to these two classes. However, the average size, the av- erage value of all forms of farm property and the percentage of gross income are greater for farms operated by managers than for any other group. These conditions are due in part to the fact that many ot these farms are large stock farms, while others are adjuncts to public institutions. Among the colored farmers the Indians out- number the negroes, but the average acreage and the average value of farm property, s well as the per cent of gross income, are greater for the latter. One Chinese is an owner and one Is a cash tenant. The number and acreage of farms, and value of farm property June 1, 1900, classi- fled by area, with percentage, is as follows: o2aqL, “Se0 204y} Japuj) 12A0 pUT $2IOR PUPSHOY) OUO “$10% 55 O) PIAPUNY OALL $3I0¥ g5} 01 AIXIS PapUNY OM.L ‘820% $,1 0) pAJPUNY PUQ $o408 SUU-£IAUUL 03 A1JLT SO0 SUIU-A)I0) O) AJUIM.L, $310% UPNPUIT 03 UAL sazov oup 0} ‘$210W 67 01 AY-AIUSAS PAIDUNY IO . peismotoman X P 2RIHE! i e HEEEEHEASE) - S i welbS¥acoce Bisisiom i teie & “rusp aed] The relative frequency of quarter-seetion holdings is evident from the fact that the group ¢f farms contalning from 100 to 174 acres each comprised more than one- third of all those in the state, and repre. sented nearly one-fourth of the total acre- ‘age and one-third of the total value of all farm property in the state. The average value of Nebraska farms and improvements, exclusive of buildings, ‘was $4,004; the average value of bulldings Some Figures from the Twelfth National Census. on farms wi , and the average value of implements was $205. of livestock on farms was $1,196, and the Average gross income from products not fed to llvestock was $1,026, making an average gross income on value of farms of 16.7 per cent With few exceptions of all forms of farm property with the size of the farms. The average gross income for class comprises for the most and truck farms supplying city markets, and includes twenty-five of the thirty- eolght florists’ establishments in the state. For thess industries the incomes depend less upon the acreage than upon the amount invested and livestock, and the amount expended for labor and fertilizers. The average gross incomes per acre for classified by area are as follow Under three acres 3 to 9 acres 10 to 19 acres part dairy In arranging the classification of farms by principal source of income, if the value of the hay and grain raised on any farm exceeds that of any other crop and con- stitutes at least 40 per cent of the total value of products mot fed to livestock, the farm is designated a “hay and grain farm.” The same rule is applied to determining the chief crop for the other subdivisions used In the table below, the figures belng for June 1, 1900: N Tl S * oompoud Lipeq _“ © 83iquyada, ~ureas puw Avig e e * #onpoad Aswan; - suwd puw sIMO) Swoouy Jo sonog redpung e swreg 3o Jequiny | “TI6'63| swavg $210% Jo Jaquin Ny} = -f1aadosd wwng Jo onjvA *Less than one-tenth of 1 per cent. For the meveral classes of farms the av- erage values per of all ted to llve stock are as follow Flowers and plants. Nursery products Frults Bugar Vegetables Hay and grain. Live stock . Miscellaneous . In computing these averages the total acreage is used, and not the acreage de- voted to the crop from which the principal income is derived. The wide variations in the averages and percentages of gro income are due largely to the fact that nd deductions from the gross income are made for expenditures. For florists’ es- tablishments and nurseries the average expenditure for such items as labor and fertilizers represents & far greater per- centage of the gross income than ia the case of livestock and miscellaneous farms. If it were possible to present the average net income, the variations shown would be comparatively slight. soon begin operations on it. The ground is a well-known property and is situated near some very good ground. Discovery in Geld ¥ CUSTER, CITY, 8. D., July 6.—(Special.)— Something of a sensation has been sprung on mining men in this district by a re- cent discovery which has been made in the Gold Fish mine, situated four miles north of this city, near Burn's siding on the B. & M. The strike was made in a new shaft and crosscut, which have but recently been started om the veln. The shaft is now down about forty feet, and a crosscut has beea run along the strike of the vein from its bottom. The rich ore, which is & telluride, was first encountered In tho shaft, and ‘the crosscut started, and the rich streak has continued in the drift. Some of the specimens of ore taken from e working equal anything that has ever been taken from & mine in the Black Hills, the gold actually sticking out of the quartz in chunks, and it looks as though the owners have run onto another Hidden Fortune mine. The vein where exposed Is about sixty feet wide, but it does mot all carry this kind of ore, the rich streak belng but from twelve to eighteen inches wide, but rich emough that a few tons of it is worth a fortune. Some idea of the rich- ness of this streak may be had when it is ted that one assay gave a return of $36,940 to the ton in gold, and, the sample assayed did not show very much free gold. This rich streak may last 1lké the one In the Holy Terror, and it may pinch out after | it has been drifted or sunk on for a few feet, but whether it does or not, this much fs cortain, enough of this rich stuff has | nt workings | to keep the mine golug for some time | to come, even though all the development | been taken out of the pre put on it should prove to be dead work. The vein 18 a big free-milling proposition which will, outside of this very rich streak, aver- age mbout $4 & ton. It has been opened up in several places by shafts and drifts and in many of these workings free gold specimens are frequently met with. At present there is & force of nine men work- ing on the ground, but it {8 the intention of the owners to increase this as soom as | the steam holst, which has been ordered can be placed in position. An air compr: sor plant has also been ordered and ma. chine drills will be instalied. In the meantime the owners have had a large amount of the rich telluride ore sacked to the National smelter at Rapid City, where it will be treated. The new find ha used quite an excitement in the vicinity of the groun miges on the extension of the veln are preparing to work them more extensively. Progress of North Star ¢ The North Star company bas its mill almost ready to drop stamps and before the middle of the present month expocts to bave it in operation. The mines of the company, which are situsted about six wiles north from Custer City, are ready to and next week will make & shipment of u“ and thess owning | furnish ore as soon s the mill is ready to recelve it. The miners are now work- 1ng on the 360-foot level, driving a cross- cut on the ore body. This mine, which is owned by Creighton and other Omaba peo- ple, is one of the best free-milling prop- ositions in the southern Hills and will soon be producing. There are several velns on the property and the mafh work- ing shaft has been sunk between a couple of the largest, and drifts run from various levels to tap them. Stations have been established at varlous le and stoping out ore can begin at any time. The ore will free-mfll about $15 & ton, and com- centrates from the ore will go about $8. Where the men are now working the vein is about eighteen feet in width and car- ries good values as any other part of the ore body. The mill has been 8o ar- ranged that its capacity can be doubled | at any time, and it is more than likely that it will be after it has been in opera- tion a short time and cyanide tanks are added. It s now in splendid shape to work_and there will be o dificulty’ what- ever in getting out ore, for all of the d velopment work has been done with this end in view. There are boarding houses, offices and machine shops bullt at the property and quite a little settlement has | sprung up about the plant. Work on the Old Bill continues with good results. The working shaft, which wi started some time ago, is now down about 100 feet and the ore body which it 1s golng down on s as good at that depth as it is nearer the surface. The Old Bill was one of the famous early day mines, but when it first attracted attention a | method for treating its ores had not been | devised, and although all of the pan tests made from it were exceedingly rich, the | values could not be saved in a stamp mill, and the work on the mine was abandoned. It is belleved now, however, that from the first shipment of ore made from the mine a cleanup will be received that will be | richer than 1its present owners ever | dreamed of. The vein s & gcod-sized | one, about twenty-five feet, and when it s | | opened up properly should sapply ore| | enough to keep a twenty-stampemill going | without any trouble. | Hogan's Detuyed Celebration. Patrick Hogan was unable to celebrate the Fourth as he could have wished, be- cause, at the time, he was finishing up & two and a half days' suntgnce in the city prisen. His time was up on Saturday morning and he hurried to apologise for being sober on the glorious & ended up his celebretion by falling off the | high platform of the Deering buflding at | Bighth street and Capitol avenue, or the bank close beside 1, into the diteh. where he lay untfl 7:10 o'clock Sunday evening, E. W. Shearer discovered the man | h him sent to the station, where | was found to nave sustained a few bruise | and to be budly exhausted from hix lon exposure in the rain and mud. He was warmed up and made comfortable for the d fallen off the other the e e el o na o elevation he wi ve gone Hogan | and | h EDUCATORS AT MINNEAPOLIS Representatives of Nati ", Are Hurryin, Minnesota City. MINNEAPOLIS, July 6.—Many of the prominent delegates to the Natlonal Edu- cational association arrived in Minneapolis today. Among them were National Com- missioner of Education W. E. Harris of Washington. President W. R. Harper of Chicago university, and President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia university and various superintendents of schools from the west and south. The real business of the convention discussion will not begin until Tuesday, and tomorrow morning the na- tional councll meets and will be presided over by Miss Nicholson, assistant superin- tendent of school of Indianapolis. The In- dian section will also hold its first meeting tomorrow morning, and will be addressed by Governor 5. R. VansSant. Interest is added to the convention today by the news that Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, will take charge of the assoclation for the education of the deaf, dumb, blind and weak minded. Mr. Bell is deeply Interested in this work and is anxious for an {nterchange of views with teachers on the best methods of procedure. Mr. Bell is now visiting friends in Minne- apolis and expects to devote his entire time to this work Commissioner Harris sald tenight that the greatest progress In education in the last en years had been made in the morthwest. This was due, he thought, to the fact that by the ordinance of 1892 every sixteenth section of every township should go to the publlc schools. This land, as soon as set- tlements were made, was sold and the money devoted to educational purposes. In 1890, he said, there were 2,540 high schools in the country. In 1900 there were 6,005, and of these the morthwest had half. Great interest is felt in the address to be delivered by Prof. Harper summing up the remarkable educational events of the year at home and abroad. An interesting feature of the occasion is the presence of & number of Indians—boys nd girls—from the Indian school at Cham- \berlain, 8. D. They are in charge of Super- intendent Flynn and his wife. The Indians bave a band, 4 mandolin club in which ven girls play, and a base ball nfie. They are anxious to play any base ball team in | the countr; | Very N r n Crime, Te allow constipation to poison your {body. Dr. King's New Life Pills cures it | and bullds up your health or no pay. 2c. | North Carolina Town, The average value the average value increase relative high average value of livestock, and high farms under three acres, are due to the fact that this in buildings, Implements the various groups AFFAIRS AT SOUTH OMAHA veral Bubjeots to Oome Before the Oity Council Tonight. REQUEST FOR CITY BUILDING INSPECTOR Board of Education to Open Bids on Radiators and Tubular Boller— Little Damage by Satur- day Night's Storm. Several important matters will come up for consideration by the city council at the meeting to be held tonight. Colonel Alexander Hogeland, the ‘“newsboy’ friend,” secured an audience with Mayor Koutsky one day last week and asked per- mission to address the council on the ma! ter of a curfew law. There is a curfew or- dinance on the books now, but Colonei Hogeland erts that it s inoperative and he desires that the council pass an ordi- nance such as is used in other cities. He will in his remarks to the council request that & ourfew ordinance, if passed, be en- forced. In this work the mayor is taking an active interest and has promised Colonel Hogeland his hearty support. Members of the Anti-Saloon league, it is asserted, will attend the meeting with the expectation that the license committee will make a report on the enforcement of the Slocum law. What is particularly desired at this time by members of the league Is an order from the mayor and council pro- hibiting the selling of liquor to minors. Then will come up the question of & road to the river. Mayor Koutsky said last even- ing to a Bee reporter that he would ask the council to appropriate about $150 for the purpose of placing the road in a pass- able condition. After a conference held be- tween the mayor and members of the street and alley committee it was decided best not to confer with Herman Kountze at this time, but to hold him to his written agree- ment, which is on file in the office of the city clerk. Some other matters of impor- tance may come up. Possibly a remon- strance against the Omaha Water company renewal ordinance may be read. If this is presented it is expected that a counter petition will be presented requesting the council to cause the extenslon of mains and the location of hydrants as soon as possi- ble. . Slow in Obtaining Permits. It 1s reported at the city hall that prop- erty owners erecting buildings here are very slow in obtaining building permits Shortly after Mayor Koutsky assumed the duties of his office the building inspector resigned, and in order to save expense the mayor decided that the duties of inspector could just as well be performed by the city | engineer. The engineer is kept pretty busy | attending to the duties of his office, but he | has done his best to induce those erecting | bulldings to secure permits. A clerk is kept on duty at the city hall every day for the permits, but the records show that very tew of the former permits have been fssued wihin the last month. It is understood that the mayor will be requested to appolnt a bullding inspector for the reason that a large number of dwellings are to be erected this summer. Under the charter the fees of inspection go to the inspector, that 1s, up to & certain amount per month. It was with s desire to turn this money into the treas- ury that the mayor decided that he could dlspense with the services of an inspector. The result shows that the city is recetving very little benefit from the change. Busy Session Promised. It is expected that at tonight's session of the Board of Education bids will be opened for the placing of distributing radiators in the Hawthorne school, including the two ad- ditional rooms to be constructed this sum- mer. Proposals for a forty-horse-power tubular boiler for the Lincoln school will also be opened. A report from the teach- ers’ examining board is expected. It has been suggested that after this all exami- pation papers be kept on file at the office of the superintendent of schools, and the members appear to favor this move an or- der to this effect will doubtléss be made. Little Damage Done. The police department announces that the heavy storm of Saturday night and Sunday morning did little damage to the unpaved streete. Of cours: the washouts caused last week by the rains were reopened, but few new holes in the streets were reported. On Twenty-fourth street the water rushed down some of the Intersecting streets which are not paved and deposited quantities of mud on the pavement. It will cost quite & sum of money to remove this accumulation of mud, but the street foreman will get WILLMINGTON, N. C, July 6.~Fire at |Clinton, N. C., today destroyed forty-two 14 residences, causing a loss of “l”.m. on which there wi Nttle tosur- ance. Among the bulldings burned . the BEpiscopal church and the Western Unlon Telegraph office. X teame to work within a day or two cleaning awey the mud. As for the balarce of the paved streets, they have been washed clean. Magle City The cavairy arill tonight There will be a meeting Omaha lbrary board on W Gossip. troop will meet for regular of the South ednesday after- purpose of issulng building and plumbing | The Mystic Word that Makes You Hungry It describes the most delightful little Ginger Snap you ever tasted, and only 5 cents. the price is Kept fresh and good in the In-er-seal Package. NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY. noen to determine the grade of the site purchased for the Carnegle library. Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Wilhelm of Sfoux City ‘are here the guests of Miles Mitcholl The patriotic services held at the Metho- dist church last night were largely at- tended Roy A. Davis and wife of Gibbon, Neb., o here, the guests of Mr. and Mrs, Ivor Thomas. A meeting of Philippine veterans has been called for Tuesday evening at the troop armory. Fire damaged the residence of Mrs. Buck ner, Twenty-sixth and O streets, yester- day to the extent of $200. Charles Sherman and Roy Fox are in Jall charged with &hooting a horse belong- ing to Robert Ashburn of Albright. Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Wilcox have re: turned from 1da Grove, Ia. where they spent & few days with relatives. MANY CATHOLICS TO GATHER One Million Will Be Represented at Convention of American Fed- eration in Chicago. CINCINNATI, O., July 6.—Much interest is being manifested throughout the coun- try regarding the national conveneion of the American Federatfon of Catholic so- cleties in Chicago, August 5, 6 and 7. It is estimated that 1,000,000 Catholics will be represented at this convention, including all the leading socleties in the United States. The opening service will be held at the Holy Name cathedral, with Archbishop Feehan, Bishops Muldoon, McFaul, Me mer and other prelates in the sanctuary. Since the inception of the movement in Cincinnati last December, when but one state federation, that of Ohlo, existed, the tederation has made phenomenal advances. The following states will have permanent tederations by August 5: New Jersey, In- dlana, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Kentucky, Wisconsin, Alabama, Massachusetts, and probably New York, Ilinois, Kansas and Minnesota. The executive board of the federation will meet in Chicago with supreme officers of the Knights of Columbus, Knights of §t. John, Cathollc Knights of America, Cathollc Order of Foresters, Irish Catholic Benevolent union, Young Men's institute, Catholic Truth society, Central Verenin, Western Cathollc union, Ancient Order of Hibernians, Catholic Benevolent Legion, Catholic Mutual Benefit association, Cath- olic Knights and Ladies of America and others, two days prior to the convention for the purpose of suggesting such changes in the constitution as are agreeable to all. The speclal call & now being prepared by Right Rev. James McFaul, Right Rev. 8. G. Messmer and executive and advisory boards of the federation, which will soon be pub- lished, and through which all Catholic & cleties in the United States, whether afli- ated or not with the federation, are invited to send delegates. One of the cardinal principles of the f eration is that in furthering its objects it does Dot in any way interfere with the gov- ernment or disturb the autonomy of any or- ganization afliated with it. On next Thursday a mass meeting of all Catholic socleties of Milwaukee will be held for the purpose of forming a branch fed- eration in that city. The mass meeting will be addressed by Bishop Messmer of Green Bay, Wis, and National President T. B. Minehan of Columbus, O. Amusements. At the Boyd. Owing to the fact that Miss Hayward' father died at his home in Mount Cornell, 1ll, on Saturday night, she and Mr. Ferris left .r that place to attend the funeral, This necessitated a sudden readjustment ot plans and “Kathleen Mavourneen’ was put on instead of “In the Hollow of His Hand.” Although called on at short notice, mem- bers of the company gave a very creditable prescntation of the old favorite and their efforts were well received by a large audi- ence last night. On the return of Mr. and Mrs. Ferrls it is the intention to put on “In the Hollow of His Hand." Hostler's Head Cut. Willlam Everett, a colored hostler in the Palace stables, was thrown from a cars riage he was driving at Nieteenth street and St. Mary's avenue about 10 o'clock 1ast night and had the frontal bone above his eye lald bare. He was taken to the olice station and the wound sewed up. verett was driving down St. Mary's ave. nue and at Twenty-sixth street the horses became frightened and ran down the a nue. At Nineteenth the off-horse fe! Jerking the driver out on top of the ani- mal, Everett thinks he was struck by the horse's hoof. LOCAL BREVITIES. The report that Mrs. W. H. Thomas was Injured at Krug park is incorrect. The rain of Saturday evening caused & smal . 'ashout on Twenty-fifth street, near Martha Fred Freeman, a messenger boy, had his thumb dislocated In a collision with an- other bicycle rider in front of the Iler Grand hotel at a late hour Saturday night, While the family of R. Ringwalt wore absent from their home, 916 Worthington Place, yesterday _aftérnoon, burglars knocked In a rear basement window and ransacked the house. A revolver and ar- ticles of jawelry valued at §75 were taken, During the afternoon and evening _of yesterday occurred the picnio of the So- clety of Russian Israclites at Hibbler's park, Forty-fourth and Leavenworth streets. An admission was charged and the proceeds are to o to the benevolent fund of the society. A large number were present and the picnic was & success both from a financial point and in the matter of enjoyment. Dancing, cards and basket lunches were the order of the day. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. C. W, Beal of Broken Bow and W. T, uick of Lincoln stopped at the Miliard funday. W. J. Weston G. 8. Leavitt and Frank Neleon of Hartington were at the Mer- chants yesterday. Harry A. Gonden of Grand Island, who has been visiting relat! nd friends in Omaha several days, leaves for home this DIED, GALLOWAY—Dalsy H., aged 24 yeas the home of her parénts, Mr. and Mrs, > Galloway, 1884 Wirt st, Sunday, 1902, funeral services at the residence y, July 7, at 1 m. Interme: Tuesday, July 8, at Oakdale, Neb. Battle Creek, Michigan, | 4 O e ot 2 b s e DELICIOUS AND NOURISHING. S - G o o i T B e o L MALTIITA FORE 10D CONPAAY, Pure, Palatable, Popular. Millions are Eating Malta-Vita. 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