to
\
l m of the country. Mr. Hoscwat r lint
innflp many tnlttakcR , but lie Ins Mm wcm
ninny notable achievements nntl It la but
! Ju t to nay on till * Bluer nnnlversnry UifU
1 tbe cnrcor of tlio paper n.i 1 ltd e < lltor hive
Jifon successes.
Wnyno Democrat- The Democrat nclcnonl *
cdgci tlio receipt of nti Invltntlon to attend
( bo silver anniversary of Tlio Omilin Die ,
but reacts that It cannot attend. The Ilco
of today vvlll contain n full hlntoiy of tlio
Mrtli and growth of tlili plicnomcnal paper ,
which lias grown from n little handbill In
1871 to bo tlio leading paper west of the
Mtifllsilppl ; for whatever big enemies may
Kiiy of Hone water , ho line , made The lice
tlio most wldel } lead paper In tlio west ,
nnd lla Influence permeates e\cry western
state.
Broken Bow Republican Thli oflleo Is
In rccdpi of an Imitation to participate In
Iho clcbintlon of tbo twenty-fifth annlvrrsiry
of Tbo Omab.i Iko tomoirovv ovcnlnfi , and vve
only rcRiet our iunbllllv to bo present
"Whatever may lw said aijainfit Hi. Jloi.e-
natei by bin personal nnd political enemies ,
It must bo confrded that lilt Indomitable
cournfie and pin cud business capacity bos
won him a place In tlio rnnKs of Joutnallsm
in thli rountry , iinJ bo lias given to Ne
braska a truly metropolitan paper that Is
L n credit to tbo state.
/ StiomsburK NOWM The Omaha HOP wan
tvvoiity-iUc jcars old lait 1'rldiy , and hold
n Bllvcr anniversary in honor of the event
That paper cainn out vllh a special uum-
bcrvhlcli was Indeed a ncdltablu one Mr
i llosewatcr has built up the bcHt newipaper
\\cnt of Chlciipo and Is entitled to much
credit for what ho ban accomplished The
. News coiiKintulatei Tim Heo management
on tbf successful closlnfi of a quarter cen
tury of a crowning event
" Nc'llRh Lcadci Prldaj of lout \vcck Tbe
Omaha lice passed the one-fo\irth century
mark of a lomnrkably successful and enter
prising career. The occasion was observed
l by a icccptlon at Tbo Hie building , the
commodious structure bolug almost paeked
± with the fi lends of the paper and Its cml-
ncnt editor , whose bus } life has earned the
| F partial rest that ho Is now taking , tbe
L gical burden of the management of the paL -
L per boliig now well assumed by his two
fc nous.
I Kmcrson Enterprise * Kdvvard Rosewater
m celebrated thu twentj-flfth annlversaiy of
| P the Omaha Hco last I'rlday by giving n pub-
KJ lie reception In The llco building and by 1s-
Pf suing n mammoth edition of Tbo llco. While
| * there are qulto a number of people In No-
, braslca who do not like tbo course some
times taken by tbo editor of that paper
* " etlll all will admit that The Hoe Is a great
mvmpapcr and Its founder and editor Is to
if bo heartily congratulated upon the success
i ho has achieved.
St Paul Phonograph Mr Ilosewater colc-
In-atod the 23th annl\er ary of TJio Onnha
] ) ec Krlilay In a lilting way At the public
reception , held In the llee building on that
occasion Buveral thousand cltl/cns call1 * !
upon Mr llosewatcr and tendered their well
wishes The Hoc Is certainly a unique ex
ample of the succcbs of cnctg } and true
merit and tvhlle It has jlclded Its able i ro-
prletor d ( solved returns. It has been a btlll
greater benefit to the public of the Btate
May Its enorgotlc chief live to celebrate the
fjOth unnlveraaiy
Tccutnneh Journal 'Hie Omaha Dally
] ) ec of June 19 , contained a complete his
tory of the paper and Its able editor , I'dvvard
Jlosevv liter beginning with the first Issue of
that paper on Juno I1) 1S71 To many who
have Kupt tab on Tlio llco for tbe past
twenty-lho jears It was a great satisfaction
to look ovci Us pages of today mid note the
rapid Btrldcs made by It In the newspaper
woild Without question The Uee la toOaj
what It has boon for over fifteen years the
leading dally paper in the west , so recog
nized by all who ha\o not some personal
or political grievance against Its editor.
Schuylcr Quill Last rriday. June 19 , 1S96 ,
The Omaha Ueo celebrated Its twenty-fifth
birthday anniversary. A special edition of
Hie Dee was issued , which gave a historical
lev-lew of Its past. Ono could not lead that
without having great regard for the able
editor and to fool that bo has prospered In
Bpltr of many amenities We do not agree
with Iho Dec's policy nnd what It advocates
jet have the greatest re-gard for Editor
Uosovvatcr , who has done much for the state
by bis aggressive and fearless policy in The
Hoe and by ever denouncing fraud and dis
honest } In public life. May The Bee over
prosper !
Gothenburg Independent The Omaha Bee
celebrated its tvvcnt-nTUi anniversary jes-
torday and the reception rooms of the llee
building wore thrown open for the entertain
ment of guests from 8 to 10 o'clock p. in
The Dee , founded In 1871 by ndward Uosc-
vvatcr , Is today and has alv\a\s been the
principle paper In Nebraska , and as for gen
eral news It ranks among the leading dallies
of the United States. It Is now a quaitcr
of a. century old , and wo hope that during
tbe next twenty-five yeais It will meet with
the same success as during the last , and still
retain Us sterling qualities of today by
fearlessly advocating tbo principles of right
In nil public and political btrlfes.
Blair 1'llot' Tbe Omaha llco celebrated
Its twenty -fifth anniversary at Its head
quarters In Omaha last Friday. It put out
n twenty-four page edition of the paper that
ilay , bi 1m full of the latest news , and held
n reception in The Dee building from 8 to
10 In the e\onlng During all these twonty-
ftvo jears ndltor Hosevvatcr has blood at
tlio bend of the paper and directed Its
course. Ho has made some inlslnUva , no
doubt and has some enemies as a result ,
but nevertheless The Hoc is nnd has been
ono of the grut dallies , and its Influence
nnd business cnterpilso is not confined to
the state of NcbrasUa. The best wishes of
the Pilot are with Mr. Uoaavv.itar as l.e
starts on his second quartt r ceutury ca
reer ns editor of Iho lice.
Nlobrura Pioneer The editor of the Pioneer
neer v.as among the thousands who greeted
IMltoi Kosewator ut his reception last Fri
day evening over the advint of The Omaha
lice's twenty-llfth anniversary , represent
ing Knot county as a self-constituted dele
gate , us It were. The man who has made
The llco , ( .lauding by whoi.o side vvero his
faithful wlfo sons , daughter and brother
nnd wife , with members of The llco com
pany , was the lion of Omaha that oven Ing
Men who do not llko Mr Kosevvater laid
aside prejudice and hate to congratulate
htm upon a great event , and it was indeed
n vorj happy ono lint t\\a men In Omaha
refused to pay him tilbute ono his con
temporary anil the other a bilk , Ho paid
thorn the highest compliment man can pax
to the dead by remaining silent. The Hee's
nnnlvmsary number was also a handsome
edition , detailing Its wonderful history and
Hiving what has never before been printed
a character sketch of IIr. Ilosewater b >
Ills eon , Dr. Victor Ilosovvatcr Mr lloso-
vvater is a illfllcult man to understand , but
la not ungrateful to his friends except by
genulnu forKetfulncss Ho is uullko otlitr
poonlu. Is original and bis will is apt to
express Itself In spontaneous decisions , but
tboy are ephemeral ami are forgatttMi OH
easily an announced. This may bo tmid to
bo a bocrot that makes Mr. Ilosewater the
Rre \crgatllc editor that he Is Ills bat-
Hen over , he has been ready to toke up new
ones until the old cars wrro forgotten ( per
haps not forgiven ) . The Pioneer congrat
ulates The Dee and Its editor and trusts that
many ) ears may be In store for usefulness
by nil concerned
Stanlon I'lcl.pt List Friday was the twen
ty-fifth tmnlu-isarv of The Omaha Brc , that
grealcsl of the great nexvupapers west of
Chicago , nnd the orcaelon wan celebrated
by a reception nt the maunlflcrnt Dec build-
In : : to which people from nil over the state
were Iinlteil , nnd hundreds were In attend
ance to express their congratulations and
best wishes. The Dec of that daj was given
over to n history of Us career , Its founder
and the city of Omaha. It Is seldom that a
newspaper Is established , built up and bo-
comcM crcat and icmnlns undoi ono man
agement for a quarter of a century. Mr.
Kosenatc'r has shown that ho In made of
about the rlKht kind of Bluff for a successful
editor of a great paper May The lleo and
Its editor survive and pioaper for many ycius
jet to como.
Holdrege Progiess- The Progress cheer
fully acknowledges receipt of an Invitation
to participate In the celebration of the
twrnty-flttb nnnKcisary of The Omaha lice ,
which Is to be held ut the Hco building , but
sincerely regiet that the editor of this paper
Is utmblo to take advantage of the oppor
tunity to mingle with the gr.ymatter men
of the slate nt Omaha this afternoon How
ever , It Is hlfl sincere bopo that the festivi
ties of this auspicious occasion will not only
meet Iho moil sangulno anticipations of Its
promoter , but will prove a sort of oasis as
it were In the endless toll of the journallstn
of the state who are fortunate enough to bo
present And while the political policy of
The line does not \olcc our sentiments gen
erally Its fearless editorial exprcs'slons In
the past prompt us to extend the wish for
a prosperous future for Tbo nee the only
bona lido lepubllcnn paper In the state
Htirrhard limesTho Omaha lieu cele
brated its twrntv-fKlh annlversaiy last Prl-
day In n happy mannoi. Us propilctor ,
Edward Itosctvaler. has cause to feel
just prldo In the success ho has made , when
presenting the contrast between nn humble
beginning In n small frame house In the
jcar 1871 and the pictures of that nnd the
several buildings occupied by The llco since
that time. Including the ono now occupied ,
which has few. It any equals In the states
The Ueo has done much for the upbuilding
of the gicat city of Omnlin , and consequently
for tbo state of Nebraska , and It has wielded
n greater Influence over the politics of the
elty and state than any other paper. The
proprietor has risen from the position of an
humble tclegiaph operator to that of n
publisher of world-renown , nnd Is regarded
as authority on nny subject upon which ho
writes , except by those who differ from him
In matters political.
Pawnee Press The 25th annlvcrsaiy num
ber of The Omaha Dec. Issued Trlduy was
one of the most complete and reminiscent
papers ever published In the weht The
writer recollects the occasion in 1871 vlien
Mr Hosovvater established his papci In
Omaha and we have been a constant render
of that Journal Blnco that time Its gro\vlh
nnd development have been largely duo to
Us superior news department and the un
flinching independence of Us eilltoilnl page
lu opposition to unwoithy ami dlccredltable
candidates of the partj whosa cans" It es
pouses That The Hco nnd Its editor imy
ll\o long nnd prosper is the unlveisal senti
ment of nil those who know nnd appreciate
a good newspaper when they sic It
Scrlbncr News The Omnha Ilee rcachiMl
Its 2."th birthday last Trlday an 1 the event
was celebrated in a manner appioprlnto to
the occasion. The Issue of the paper foi Hint
day contained twenty-four pages nnd formed
n great eontiast with Its Issue of n quarter
of a century ago , when the pages were few
nnd not very large. While wo cannot rec
ommend Mr Hosewatcr's politics , wo cinnot
but admire the untiring cnergj und push by
which ho has made The De-o one o the fore
most papers In the country and boused It In
one of thu finest buildings in the scale.
MIU'lII IUIIYWIS. .
Wn slil net on Star.
It comes , oh , small bov on the bike ,
Tor you , the glorious clny or tliys ;
You mny go scoiehlng , If you like ,
In Buverul thousind different ways.
Imllannpolls Jourml.
"Oh , candidate , prny tell me ,
Are 5011 In liner of sound curronceo' "
Anil the candidate nuld in sighs piofouml.
"I um giving no currency at nil to Bound "
llncioattr 1'ost
ITnrk. from the tombs a mournful sound
It is tbo people's cry :
"Come Gro\er , come , und sen tbo ground
Where you must shortly lie "
Detroit Tribune
Ho whispers low. nnd one ilescrles
A radiant light como in her ejos
Whntwords weic binNo more than
thOHO
Short , simple words : "Look plensint ,
"
Toronto Record
She bought a pretty parasol
Of nn entrancing Hhnde ,
But dared not tnko it In the sun
Tor fear that it might fade.
Puck.
Ho pledged his heart , he pledged bis love ,
Hi1 pledged bis promlsu hWeeter ,
And then to buy the migngemi-nt ring ,
1I ) pledged his gold repeatei.
WnBliliiRton Star
When sweet girls compose ,
Then genius expi esses
Long eHsaja in ptoao
And poems in dresses.
Detroit Tribune
The poster cow qulle beggars words ,
The words oui thoughts to utter ;
Lea\n her to such us think thut they
Prefer oleo to butter.
Chicago Ilecoiil
At Delln's window , bowi-red In green ,
White roses clumber free ,
And bf.u bet , as they Inward lean ,
Pel hups , a dream of me.
The dear girl to tbo casement comes
I wait , In glad surprise ;
13ut lo , n bhoelc my houl benumbs
bliu's slapping' itt thu Hies ,
riiiscucn.
Bomerv Ille Journal
How did oho know his heart was hern ?
He .spoke no woul
Of love to her ; how did oho know
That when she passed , or touched him so
HlH pulsis was Htlned/
How did she read his secret thoughts ,
And never err. '
How did alii ) know her glances thriller !
Ills Boul7 That all his heart was filled
With lo\o for her/
How illd Hbo know their Ufa would bo
Oim grand , Hwent iionu ?
To tell the truth , whi < didn't know
Tilt-so things Slut thought that they -were
BO ,
Hut she was wrong !
Pulse of Western Progress.
Straight across the valley from Qolcr
In a southcrl ) direction Is a range of
mountains perhaps G.OOO or 6,000 feet In
height. A more desolate , barren , for
bidding looking range It would bo dlfilcult
to Imagine , writes n San Tranclsco Chron
icle correspondent , who has Just visited the
region. Prior to the present > car this range
had been prospected , so It was said , nnd
when miners at Ooler looked across the
weary stretch of saml that Intervened be
tween that place and the mountains and
asked whether It was n.ot possible that gold
might be there , as the whole range was
apparently fit for nothing else , they were
nlwajs met with a contemptuous negative
not nn once , not n grain was in the entire
territory. Had not Old Timer. Mxperlenced
Pospcctor & Co gone over It again and
again nnd never got n color ? Sure1
So It lay neglected until last January ,
when a couple of miners whose experience
was not wlilo , nnd who consequently had no
cast Iron theories , took It Into their heads
to make a trip to the mountains They
went and penetrated fnr Into the gulch nt
the mouth of which Camp Handsburg Is
now situated Here ono of them sat down
on n Jutting ledge to rest , and as has ro
often been done before with similar re
sults , Idly hammeilng at the rock with his
prospectors pick A piece was broken off ,
picked up , examined , and a series of mines
wcr6 then discovered which have out few
If any equals In the state
A mining expert , who owns n one-fourth
Interest in a single one of the gioup , las
said that henlues that Interest nt M 000.-
000 , not from what may possibly be hidden
beneath the surface , but from v hat IUIH
already been developed. Imagine a peak ,
perhaps 2500 feet higher than the elevated
mesa nt its base , with sides hitting n slope
of at least forty-live degrees , and In places
oven steeper Imagine gullies Beaming the
BideH of that mountain in various directions
Imagine. If jou can , the sand In those gul
lies so rich tbnt almost anywhere one can
pick up a handful of It. blow nway the
lighter material with his breath , and find
"colors" left In his palm. Imagine climbing
to the top of that mountain and on Its bald
est summit gathering a handful of red earth ,
pulverizing it and again blowing away the
loose dust and finding still moro colors left
Imagine again bicnklng off pieces of rock
hither und jon almost at tandam , taking
them to camp , pulverizing them in a mortar
and then "homing out" an appreciable
amount of gold from It.
Pcrhnpb when > ou have Imagined all this
and It Is not Imagination , for tlio writer
saw these -very things done , nnd not by
men with mines to sell jou will bo pie-
pared for the statement that a couple of
men ba\e itpentedly washed $100 to $200
a da > with a dry wabhor from this sand j
and dirt , the lichcst placers being If an > .
thing on the topmost summits You w 111
be picpared for the statement tint tons
and tons of the rock have been taken out
nnd milled nnd have jielded an average of
as high as 200 n ton.
DIG IlUN OP SALMON.
"If the present run of salmon continues ,
the packers will get nil the flab thej can
handle for 3 cents , a pound , " bald the fore
man of n largo cannery to nn Astoria , Ore ,
correspondent of the ban Kranclsco U\am
Never has there been a better run of fish
Eveiy canner > in this city Is swamped anc
SBvernl have limited their men to 1.000
pounds each At Samuel Elmoro's largo.es
tablishment , 100 tons , comprlblng 10.000 sal
mon bad been received up to 5 o clock the
other day. This cannery will run night and
day and oven then will have more fish than
can be handled
The same is true of all the other canneries
which are using sticnuous cffcvts to handle
the fish already iecei\ed.
1 he high boat , so far as had reported ,
came in with 4,800 pounds of salmon , the
result of a nights work. The haul 'r ° Elit
$ ' ] fi The low boat at Klmore's had eighteen
fish , weighing o\er 400 pounds.
A fisherman who had worked all through
the strike auived down ftom Kalama , Hay
ing ceased opeiatlons foi the season no
said he bad earned about $1.000 , which he
considered enough for one beason. He re
ceived -1 % cents for his fish. .
, , , „
that the
It Is thought by all the pickers
catch will bo quite as laigo as that of last
> CThe effect of the settlement of the strike
wondortully beneficial lesult commercially -
has had a
mercially and tbo merchants were liardlj
for goods.
able to supply the demands
COAST TLOUIt THADE.
James MeWllllnms. who for several > cars
has dovotcd himself to the export of Hour
to foreign countries , in an Intervle.v with n
reporter of the Poitland evening Telogiam
gives some Interesting figures icgardlng tbe
Pacific coast flour trade In the Orient , from
which place he recently came
He has traveled extensively through Ja an ,
China , Phllllpplno islands. Straits Settle
ments , Java and Australia , and In all of
those countries he says that the Washing
ton Oregon and California flour Is known
as the best flour In tholr markets Mr
McWilliams snys
"In 1895 there was sent fiom the United
States to Hong Kong 3.7GO 000 sacks of
Pacific coast flour containing one-fourth
of a barrel each , or something over 000,000
ban els , about one-half of which was shipped
from California
"Japan consumes about 200,000 sacks poi
year. The Hour from Hong Kong Is dis
tributed to the Phllllppmo Islands , Ce > lon
Ju\a. Slam , up the China coast and
Stialts Pottlcments The Increase In 1893
over that of any other > oar was , accord
ing to stntlstlcb , fiO per ce < ut
"A brief history of flour In China mn >
not be uninteresting In 1S70 the Canton-
es.0 impoited a few hundred sacks , since
which tlmo the trade has Incicased until
it Ins reached immense proportions The
common people are now commencing to
use bread , and this is probably the reason
for the increased importation
"Hour , after readilng the Orient , is
handled almost exclusively by Chinese
merchants. I will say right heto that for
integrity , bquaro dealing , promptness in
making payments and for general hon
esty the Chinese merchants excel any pfo
plo I have ever done business with Of the
millions of dollars' worth of flour purchased
b > them In the last twcnty-flyo jcars I
have never heard of a man who has lost so
much as 1 cunt by them The amount
handled by them last year approximated
$30,000,000
"A good trade is springing up with Gen'
tral America and the Sandwich Islands
The last steamer took out from Seattle
400 tons for Ocntrnli America The Sand
wich Islands take about 25,000 barrels of
flour annually "
GOLD rilOM ALASKA.
The schooners MagiJlo' t1 lluss Captain
Jacobson. nnd SMvator , Captnln Jensen , ar
rived today nt the Tncoma smelter with 303
and GOO tons of gold Just and concentrates
respectively. sn > s a Tncoma special to the
San Trnnclsco Chronicle'1 The value Is esti
mated at from $75 to $2"iO a ton The value
of the two cargoes Is about $90,000 The
dust was brought from Oonalaska , on Unga
Island , and Is what Is left after extracting
the large particles of gold H will bo ic-
flnod here
Kra Meeker of this city received en
couraging news from Tred Meeker , his son
who heads the Pujallup party that Is pros
pecting on Slx-mllo creek , Cook s Inlet
Ho writes , under dote of Mny 1 ! ) . that In
n prospect hole started after clearing nway
ten feet of snow hundreds of colors and
small pieces of coarse gold were found The
indications were considered very favorable ,
as the shaft was not down to bedrock This
undoubtedly solves the problem of whether
hundreds of miners at Cook's Inlet will
find gold In pacing quantities.
Meeker tolls of seeing washed from two
shovilsfull of earth twelve chunks of gold
varying in slo from a ginln of wheat tea
a pea Such dirt will pay well to work
oven b > bnnd , nnd during the summer
sluices i an readllj bo worked llettci re
sults are expected when warmer weather
pel mils prospecting in the cicek bottoms
and ean > ons
News has come of nn alleged attempt of
the Alaska Commercial company to violate
Its pledges to passengers destined for Cook's
Inlet. It Is asserted that the compati } agreed
to corr > those who went north on
the steamer City of Topeka June
2 from SItka to Iho Inlet for
$25 first class nnd $1G steerage Theio were
nlnettwo of the former and seventj-four
of the latter. A transfer was to bo made
Juno 8 to tbe steamer Dora , which accom
modates 100 passengers
Thu ciowd was so great that the Dora
people added $10 for oich passenger. IJach
paid the advance , but when the pissen-
gcrs held nn Indignation meetiui ; and ro-
solvtd not to purchase tickets but charter
a Bchooner on their own hook , the steam
boat owners reduced the rate to the orgl-
Inal flguio and icfunded the extra charges
paid by a few
fewma
ma MINING DEAL.
Ibo largest hydraulic mining deal , and
one of the Inigtst of any kind that New
Mexico has ever known , will be put through
In a few days says an Albuquerque special
to the San Trancisco Kianilner It Is pro *
posed to list * the California methods an cm-
plojed in the da > s prior to the "iintt-sllck-
cus" decisions The deal Is now vlitualh
a ccrtalntj The scene of operations will
bo the plarer fields cast of Hlllsboro , In Sl-
eiru county. Thct > o placers have been
worked in n small way on tbe suifacc bj
Mexicans since l ! > 7t , and although no water
1ms been obtainable and the gold has been
extiacted by dry washing , the mlneis have
made good wages
The people have been I prospecting fie
ground ami studjlng the pioblems involved
foi six months and bavoi spent $20,000 In
pielimlnary work Their engineers and h > -
draulle experts from > Callfoinia have made
opogiaphlcal surveys , sunk shafts and
cstcd the ground thorough ! ! nnd all have
nado favorable reports The nuilfcrous
giuvcl bed Is nbout sixty feet thick , covers
4,000 acres , nnd Is all pay dirt. The operat
ors have secured much of'this by purchase
and have options on 'the ' lest , and the op
tions will be taken up In a few dajs Water
for working the mines will bo impounded
at the head of the Aiilmnn river by n dam
150 feet high , and will be conducted to the
placer * through fourteen 'miles of thirty-
Inch riveted steel pipes end discharged
through monitor no/zles under a pressure
of 3GO pounds
Alter doing Us work hi the Innks and
sluices the twator will be 'conducted to ba-
bli's , A/hero the debris' Is to be dropped nnd
then impounded again in n reservoir In the
mesa foimcd by damming the Perchn Troiii
this rebcrvolr lirlgatlon canals will conduit
the w liter to abo-it 12,000 acres of arable
"and " between the mesa and the Illo Oiandc.
Iho estimated cost of the enterprise in
cluding the purchase o the gioumt nnd the
construction of dams and pipe lines Is
about $ r)00,000 , and it the gravel averages
bat a few cents to the cubic yard the > lcld
vlli bo up In the mllllo-is The deal is now
In such shape that there Is every icason
to believe the woik of building dams and
pipe lines vvlll be Blurted bj the 1st of
\ugust.
UAJIU SPECIMENS.
Dr. Dlshfoid Dean. G N. Calkins , II. C.
Grlllln and N It Harrington , nil Instruct
ors In Columbia university , nro temporarily
located here , sajs a Port Townscnd , Wash
special to the Tan Kianclsco Examiner.
They wcie sent out to obtain material for
original Investigation on the part of the
itudents of the university nnd to add speci
mens to the museum
A number of very interesting forma of life
already known occur In the vlclnitj of Port
Tovuisend , also some forms not Unovn to
iccur in any other region. Thus the rat
Ish , which nro exceedingly common here ,
and a nuisance to fishermen , are of great
-ckntlfic interest This species Is the cole
.jurvlvor of n lane group of fishes which
! ccamo extinct ages ago It lu thought by
iiiiuy to bo closel ) allied to Iho family of
shailtH Then , again , many terms of fish
'l.'e which ale plentiful at Port Tovvnscml
mid \Iclnlty are exceptionally large and
splendidly adapted for dissection by utu-
dcnts
Some veiy iare and important specimens
Invo been found and the scientists nio
elated over their success Mr Calkins dis
covered a rare dlcjema , a curious little
parasite of tbo devil-fish famll > , which rep
resents the connecting link between the
lowest forms of life and the group of Jelly
fish , and never before found on this conti
nent or this bldo of Naples.
THE DAKOTAS.
Farmers from Sullj county icport a lar ei
acreage of new breaking In that county this
> car than for the past ten ycara.
Prof J E. Todd of the state gcol ical
survey , accompanied by eight nBsistanti , lias
gone to the Bad Lands to spend two months
In exploring that wonderful section of noiuh
Dakota.
Ileports from the government artesian
wells ut llosebud and Cheyenne agencies
show that they will have to bo sunk deeper
than was at first supposed Thu well at
Rosebud will bo about 2,500 feet deep when
completed and that at Cho > onno about 1,800
feet. The former wclj 1 ; now down about
2.GOO feet and the lat r , 1,400 feet. In
the Chejenno well n strong flow
of gas was found nt about 400 feet and
gained strength to nbout COO feet , when It
was reduced In amount , but there Is little
question that they will secure n good sup
ply with the water when they reach It
Owners of the minion- Stock ranch. adJoining -
Joining the town of Artesian , were uwnrileil
by striking n fine flow at the depth of ylJ
feet This Is the first deep well secured
cast of the Jim river near this latitude
Other wells will DO put down In this vlclnlt }
this fall.
Plans nnd specifications are being drawn
for the new government buildings to be
erected nt rlnndreau ns nddltlous to the
present government liullnn school. The ap
propriation for these buildings Is $ G2f > 00
There will be n new school building erected ,
a. new dormitory nnd superintendent's icsl-
tlcnce With this Improvement rlnndreau
will have ono of the finest Industrial Indian
schools In the United States.
The Homestake Mining company at Deadwood -
wood has revised Its plans for Improvements
nt the mines , and Is spending over $500.000
this > ear These Improvements consist of
additions to Its mills that will bring the
number of stamps to 800. all of which will
bo arranged to drop both day and night
It Is sinking a 3,000-foot shaft , and Is erect
ing n steel bridge across n gulch 1,500 feet
wide. The cost sheets of its mills show
that the company has reduced the expense
of milling Its mo at the Uolden Star mill
fiom S3 cents a ton In 1SS7 to 70 cents In
1S15 This cost of stamp milling Is less
than In nnj other district on earth , except
at the gieat Treadmill mine In Alaska At
Its Hnnustake mill the cost last 3 car per
ton of rock was 85 Gl cents.
COLORADO.
The Johannesburg at Pltkln Is a now loca
tion by William Reid , having eighteen
Inches of ore carrjlng a value of 552 In gold
The Russell mine at Palmer Lake Is now
down 150 feet nnd n solid vein of ore two
feet In width has been uncovered , nssa > iiif ,
$ CO pel ton.
Seventy per cent In lend , fifteen ounces
silver and three and flve-humlredtbs gold Is
the nssaj recentlj obtained fiom the llernain
propel ty at Carbonate camp nt Pltklu.
All assay received fiom n sample of ore
taken fiom the Silver Lake near Elwood
nliovvs the ore to caiij clghtfour ounces ,
of silver and n small quantity of gold.
Torcst hill , about twelve miles from Ilow-
Jimn , Is being worked In a most careful man
ner and laigu bodies of gold bearing oie
running about $30 to the ton , have been
opened up.
The Oipban Glil lode In niack can > on at
Pine cieek , is ono of the phenomenal pros
peels of the camp At a depth of ten feel
It shows n fine vein of honeycomb quartz
which runs $100 per ton
Oio , easy of access , carrjlng mill values
of $38 per ton , has been struck In n coppei
claim thrcc-quaiteis of n mile from tbe Rio
Grande depot at Sallda The claim is ovvneu
bj J W Jarrett and two otheis
fir Al Hnibcrt has opened a streak of
brittle sliver running ns high as $3,000 to
the ton nt the Anna Dcdrlka mine , at Tin
Cup which it Is expected will make u 10
luaiknblo showing this summer.
Another I Ig ledge of silver ore has been
discovered on Drown cieek. Clnffeo counlj
which is compared to n largo overflow of
porphyry , salil to be fully 75 per cent crystal
ll/ed lead , running fift } ounces In silver
A icport comes from Alma of a big strike
in the Hock Hocking , at the mouth of Pcnn
Mlvnnla gulch , n famous gold nugget section
of the past Three assays mailo from a
tin co-foot vein by Assayer Rollins of Alma
give 2793 ounces gold , < 3 1-10 ounces silver ,
IS 2-10 per cent lead.
Two prospectors named J. W Jones and
L A. Hnnlgan , claim to have made a dis-
ccvery in Brown park resembling red
hematite , associated with carbonates One
assay was obtained of $ SC In gold and eleven
ounces In silver The claims are located
neni the Intersecting lines of Colorado , Utah
and \ \ yomlng.
WYOMING.
A dairy Ins bcii started In the Bald
Mountain mining camp
Hvdraullc mining has been commenced
at ] ) aton gulch , in Iho Bald mountain ills-
diet.
The Odd Kcllowb and Masons of Caspci
nro to build a now hall. The stiucturo will
bo erccte 1 at once and w ill cost $33,000
Eight } cailonds , 1,871,4-57 pounds of wool
have already been shipped fiom Rawllns ,
and tLc"-o ara fourteen cai loads to be shippsd
jet.
jet.A
A now town to be known as Shoshone , has
been laid out about three miles north of the
hot Bpilngs and qulto a pretentious seltlc-
ment has sprung up thoienbouts
A tunnel b'ing driven on the Spring
canon mine near Glenrock , Natrona county.
Is In forty-two feet Three nssn > s have been
made and the returns lun from $57 to $111
In gold
life Copper Pllnlng company of Casper ,
operating In the Casper mountain district ,
is taking out ere rapidly ' 1 he quality uf the
product Is improving with the advance of
the tunnel now under way
J A Bailey and John Johnson unearthed
a copper load at the head of CY canon that
promises as well as any jet dug out of Cas-
pc" mountain The dlscovciy was puicly ac
cidental nnd alongside the road ill it ban been
ciosscd nnd rcciossed cvciy < laj for years
The copper corrosion stnln on the rock gave
thorn the clew.
OREGON.
The enpnclty of the Mouroo flouring mill
is to bu Inci eased to f > cventj--llvo ban els pui
da- .
Wild pigeons are xcry numerous this year ,
nnd nic doing considerable clamngo to crops
in Coos countj- .
The Albany creamery recently had to ic-
turn an order for 8 000 pounds of butter ,
having orders for 21,000 pounds In advance
The Pilnovlllo Review learns from reliable
niithoi lt > that there will bo 250,000 yearling
owes bought lu eastern Oregon this summer
and driven east , to bo used fni breeding
purposes Crook county will furnish a largt
t.haro of them.
Millions of joung grasshoppers have made
their nppcainiieo on Tjgh rldgo , nnd farmers
In that section feur they will do consider
able damage to growing crops bcfoio the
"critters' " wings are KUl'lelently ' largo tc
carrj thorn out of the country.
A largo amount of wool Is being moved
to market , sajs the Prluovillo Review Tht
othet day thlitecn freight teams passed
through I'rlnovllle , loaded , for The Dalles
I
It ha * be > n n. backward spring nbout sluar
Ing , nnd mf.ny tboutnnd poundi of wool
wrro lost on account of there being nn
cRRo In the wool.
Tbo contracts for building the Vrlnexllle
Land nnd Llvo Stock compnnj's Irrigating
ditch In Summct pralrlo ha * been awarded
The ditch will he two miles in length , with
a capacity of 200 miner's Inches of water
The contractors will commentc work on It at
once.
The wool clip of Unglcvolley this > ear
will amount to nbout 100000 pounds , nnd the
product Is now uniting nt the warehouses
In linker Cllj- . The top price nsked U OS
cents , much lower thnn last > eni , nnd It Is
probable the wool will be held for nn ad
vance
The right of way for the new ditch of the
Little Kl.imath Water Ditch companj 1ms
boon cleared and work on the same will bo
commenced from some point near the sourop
of the old one , and will have less fall , thus
making available to Irrigation peveial
thousand acres more of the fertile lands of
the Tule lake \nllej- . The \allcj's sjstem
of Irrigation is nil exce-llent one
A matter that Is exciting considerable In
terest up the Sanllum Is n project to have
all of the section of vomiti } In Marlon
county west of the Little Noith 1'oik of the
Snntlam cut off fiom that county nnd put
In Linn county , sajs the Albany Democrat
This would place In Linn count } Gates. Mill
City and Detroit , nnd the adjoining country
It Is clnlmod thnt , under the present nr-
rangemcnt , In order to get to the. count }
feat , losldents me obliged to como to Alb.anj
nnd go thcnco to Salem , making n long nnd
expensive trip
WASHINGTON.
The Sknmoknvvn ricamery Is now separat
ing ono nnd a half tons of milk per da } .
The National Packing conn any of Port
Angeles has contracted foi 50,000 feet of
lumber to erect additional cannery bulld-
llgs
Captain Klngsbury , who hns been cm-
plojcd as engineer of the Yaklun reserva
tion ditch , leports that the channel will
cnnj 1G1 feet of water per second , BUfilclent
to wntei 10,000 , acres of land
The ovstcrmcn of Mason county have nil
been notified by the state land commluslon-
cis that their deeds for the ojstcT lands
are read } for thc'in , nud they me hnpp ) , as
the work of } eais Is bearing fiult
Judge Hanford denied the application of
certain of the Indians living on the Yaklma
reservation , who nsked foi an Injunction lo
prevent the agent on the reservation fiom
oM'endlng0.000 for the construction of nn
Inlgation canal
A few weeks ago a quantity of flax straw
grown on luget bound , wns shipped bj the
Seattle Chamber of Commerce to Harbour
& . Sons of Llsbnrn Ireland. The innnu-
fatluieis rcpoit that the samples aio e\
ccllent and verj blmllnr to that giowii lu
the Courtral dlstilct In Belgium
It Is said the late discover } of rich sul-
phurclb In Swank district assnjs $103 30 to
the tan und tbnt theie nrc thousands of
tons in the ledge It is also stated that
Mi Robinson 1ms snipped bis ledge to a
vldth of fort } feet. Nov evcrjbody Is
searching for sulphuicts The hills there
abouts nre coveicd with prospects
The Abenlcen Recordei ba > s It has In-
foijnatlon from a leliablo souice that work
will soon begin on the extension of the
lallioad fiom Aberdeen to Hoquiam The
projectors of this enterprise1 intended to
have stalled tbo work on the fiist of Juno
but have been dclajed somewhat In procur
ing the ncccfcsar } approval by the court of
Iheir contract with the Norlheru Pacific
Railroad company , nnd the transfer of the
rl lit of waj fiom that company to them
selves
Both the brlckjnrd and the Jute mill nt
the Wnlla Walla penitentiary aioworking
on full time and making a good output
The brlckjard is turning out from 18,000 to
24,000 bricks dally. The third kiln of the
season Is now being built. A largo amount
of brick Is being shipped to Wnltsburg to
bo used In the construction of the new
school building Theio are 2. > 0 men nt
woik in tbe jute mill and turning out n
large product. Ono week icceiitl ) 4C.79S
sacks were made a dally average of 7G
A ca\e , the Interior of which has not } ct
been full } explored , was discovered re-
ci ntly on section 27. in township 27 , at a
point ovei looking Lake Chelnn nnd the Co
lumbia river , sas the Big Bend Empire. It
has been explored for 150 'cot down nnd
two largo loonib or caverns have been
opened , while soundings to n depth of 300
feet have failed to icach bottom Costal
foucntlons and some ivory have been found
'iho discoverers are at work opening tbe
passage and penetrating deeper Into the
cavern.
MISCELLANEOUS
The Biggs ( Cal ) cannery , which will open
July I , will employ 100 women
It Is figured thnt San Diego's sixty la\Vers
earn each from $1,000 to $ r > ,000 n jcar.
Every locomotive In the service of the
Southern Callfoinla railway Is now using
oil for fuel.
The Butte council hns decreed that po
licemen must pay their bills 01 be 'lopped '
fiom the rolls.
Prcd Gcbers. a Comstock laundrymnn , has
been notified Hint ho is heir to $75,000 now
In a bank in Germany.
Yaqulna bay is expecting to have a sal
mon cannery put up there thlj season by a
piomlncnt Columbia rlvur packer.
An electric 1011 ] , to cost $175000 , Is pro-
Jc'eted from Rcdlands to the top of San Ber
nardino range , north of that town
Miners and prospectors are still going out
In considerable numbers from Jlojavo to
Randsbuig and Cow Wells , the now gold
fields on thu desert
The Hanfonl ( Cal ) Sentinel sajs that
tineo men from Arrojo Giando have located
a coal mine near Alcalde and are making
an aveiage of $7 a day taking out coal.
John Chlng of Camas Meadows , Idaho , has
a herd of nlno elk which have become to
domesticated that bo docs not keep them
Inclosed In the corral except nt night.
Crude petroleum runs down Home of the
Los Angeles gutters from the oil fields
'Iho other day a man threw n lighted papci
In a gutter and the flames shot up us high
nB the telegraph wires
Tremont county , Idaho , boasts of nearly
500 miles of camijs , wllb ns many moro con
templatcd. Most farmers belong to stock
companies and wjjtrr costs not to exceed 25
cunts per acio on the average
The Los Angeles Record sajs thnt n rat-
IIonian on the Ail/oim line who has been
for jcars bathing his feet In ono of the
springs that petrlf } leaves , frogs and snakes ,
Is now unable to walk. Ills feet are petri
fied ,
The growth of v/ool shipments from Great
Falls , Mont . during tbo last two or three
} < mia has boon plicnomcnal In 1893 the
shipments reached 3SOO,0 < > 0 pounds , In 1895
they reached a crand total of 5,300,000
pouml U Is estlmatc-il that fully 7000000
IHtundK vvlll bo i etched and shipped from
Great 1'alU thl irnstm.
A piomlnent Irtnhn wool grower lest year
rnlsed 700 tons of turnips to reinforce his
alfalfa In feeding Mieep nnd Is so well satis
fied with the result that he will this jenr
cultivate fitt } acres In turnips
The ttallnii-SnIss colony has purchnned
n OH ) ncre tinct of vlnejnrd land near Mn-
tleru. Memloplno enmity , Cnl The land Is
mostly out In sweet wine ginpcs , nnd , besides -
sides contains various oichards In fruit and
olives A. winery Is also on the place
A colony of people have organised nt \r-
rojo Grande , near Unkcrsflold , to demon
strate the fact that they cnn produce eveiy.
thing consumed. They will buy nothing
not aoll niij thing. Their object Is to demon *
strnlo that th y ran get along without
monej of any kind
The organization of the Poultry avwlv
tlon In jnuie-kn Cal , Is icpoiled In n flour
ishing condition , and n number of Us members
bors have become legulai poultiy fanciers.
dovollig much attention to the propaguUm
of fani } and ordlnarj breeds of fowls , both
for profit nnd pleasure.
The work on the Independent canal , taking
Its suppl ) nbout thiee miles below SI An
thony , from Snake liver , Idaho. Is progioss
Ing well nnd this fall will witness Us ciiu-
pletlon It vvlll bo the means ot opening up
several thousand acres of now unproiluctlvo
land but It Is mostly tnkcn up.
Persons who have n coughing spell every
night on nccount of n tickling sensation In
Iho throat maj overcome It at once bj u
dose of Ono Minute Cough Cuic.
A KISS ; .V Tilt MUnillOl.T.
KIIU n Mn n In llln s.t-
liviirl'n Arm * .
Upper Now York generally gets n shaio
ot the weather whenever n toinndo sliuts
from Jeisey up to the Hudson \nltej , snjs
the New York Sun , and it got a-plcntj on
Sundaj , the 21st , with a scourging wind ,
violent lightning and sheets of inlu Ono
freak of the lightning was to strike n pnlr
of nowl.v reconciled lovers ns they were
Msslug each other In nn oiehnul In Tlbbott s
Biook lane , Klngsbrldgo The man was In-
stnntl } killed nnd the woman stunned nnd
paral/cd.
Iho man was Charles renuclly , a big.
snapping fellow of 3.1 Ho mot Louisa
Costello nbout eighteen months ago and they
Immediately fell lu love with each other.
Louisa , who is a line looking git I of 22 ,
worked In tbo Owl cigar facial } , in East
Twent-sixth street , nud all hoi fi lends con-
giatulatcd her when she announced her en
gagement to rcnnclly , foi ho was sober
and Industiious , nnd ho had u good Job in
the Street Cleaning department
Soon , bowevci , Iho IOVCIB quaireled over
a Irivial matter , and n coldness spi.aug up
lylween them Neither could give unj pai-
ticular reason foi the disagreement Both
woic piouil in theli way , and ns tlmo went
by the } drifted npait. until lluull } . In less
than a month after tholr engagement was
proclaimed , tlicj ceased to speak to each
other The } were reconciled on Sundu } , but
their Jov was abort lived
According to Miss Coslcllo's slor } she and
lonnoll } attended mass lu the same chinch
Sunday morning , and thiough common
fi lends they met again Their affection for
each other had not diminished , und In n
short time they made up the quuncl and
iletei mined to eclehiate the event with nn
outing At 11 o'clock in the morning thev
went to Van Coitlnndt paik. and. after
spending several hours thcie , they wandered
over to Dash's orchard In Tlbbett's Brook
lane , near Van Courtlnmlt avenue They
sat down under a cheny tree , and , having
a great deal to say to each other , neither
noticed the lllght of time nor the dark binlc
of clouds which had gathered in the western
sky There was tlnnlly n muttering of dis
tant thunder , nnd when a few drops of rain
fell the lovers starled up and walked out of
nn1rl"3' ' " " " "S ' ° KO home. Lolllsa
took off her hat and reunclly threw his coat
over her head When they reached tbo
road the rain began to fall heavily , and the
ovois , thinking tint the utorm would Boon
plow over , determined to rotum to the shel
ter of the cherry tree.
Konnelly helped the girl to the top of the
old stone wall thnt sunounds the orchard
S"r' Jxv,1,1 , ! "B mcr' ho hcl11 out hls Jrms f ° r
n nightcnctl laugh Louisa
Jumped and rinnelly caught her ami jffl
crA' , V'nt ' 1"8ta t " 'ere ' was n blinding
flash of lightning , nnd both fe 1
' " ' bolt struck
f'mim Kcnnelly ,
o
' " shoulder , tearing the Meevo of his
" " ' " ! "IlnG hl" li
/ ! " >
af o . , , 'l ' KlallCt(1
M'l ; ( Orf 1"ll Struck the
, ,
,
vlrl M
girl on the
right shoulder. The Bleovo
of her light shirt wnlst was burnc through
and lightning loft Its Impress In the form
of n huge black mark upon her "kin.
Ifteeni minutes later , when the jaln had
abalccl. Policeman Volte , who lives ho
neighborhood , ciossed Tlbbctt's Brook on
his way toward the road. As ho dievv near
ho stone wall ho heard a moaning for
cry
help. When lie ran to the spot he found to
lovers } ing on their backs Bide by si , e
riio girl was conscious , but bcforo she could
el him what had happened she relapsed
nto unconsciousness Volte huirled to his
house and , hitching up bis horse to a Vut
buggy , ho drove back to the unconscious
lovers Ho Hfiod the llfi-less body ot Fen
nel } Into the bottom of the wagon , nnd
aklng the girl in his arms , he drove o
the Klngsbridgo station , u mile and a half
An ambulance came from the Fordham
I',0"1,1' aml wlpn | Ambulance
! Surgeon
, . , , ,
Re lly had lovlved the girl ho found that her
eft side from the shoulder down was para-
ly/ed. Her back was also covered with cuta
and bruises , which he received when she
fell upon the sharp stones at the base of the
vvnll ,
She was taken to the hospital. She was
not Immediately made a-.vaie of the fnto of
her lover. When they told her thnt bo nun
dead she moaned and sobbed as though her
heart would bieaU. and no ono was able to
comfort her The girl will iceovir. but It
Is not certain that she will evci regain the
use of her right arm and log
When rennelly's body was stripped at this
station a livid mark In the shape of the let-
ler "S" was found upon the right side of
his breast. The formation of HID letter ,
which was tbrco Inchca long and half an
Inch across , was almost peifect. Iho llnoa
wcio tlireo-ulishtlm of an Inch In width nnd
the maik stood out In hold relief from bin
white skin 11 u though It hail been branded
tbcro with n led-hot Iron The dead man
lived at CG Woostcr street , and ho was the
only mippoit of his uged mother Loulxn
lives with her parents nt 312 East Twentieth
street.
Small In size , but great In results. Da
Witt's Llttlo Karly IlUers net gently but
thorough- ! , curing Indigestion , dyspepsia
and constipation. Small pill , s-afo pill , best
pill.
PEXN PICTURES POINTRDLxY
AOT AM. TAI.IC
Kvery oue who saw the piumto hiht
night nuisit have reall/ed thnt did jou
8eo It or can't you see very well Dr.
13 , D. Ainold buys our optician Is one
of the best reail men In thu profession
bo say loin of other phj blchuiH wo never
fall to icniedy tie fee It , of bight which \\o
uuaerlaKo.
T Aloe & Penfold Co ,
" " ° 1408 Faniatti
f&Mutr"iB. rS
MVIII : > I.NK
.Monday and ' 1'uc.sday will wind It tip-
not aMiik'li ! artldu In the stoie liut luis
been KI fatly i educed lu price all the
moro notlceahle In thu hroUen lots of car
pets and cnrtaltib jou can buy odds
and ends in ui ( , ' for almost j-our o\\n
price.
Omaha Carpet Co. ,
1515 Dodge
roimrii onjuiv _
Men who want oinuthliiR Hvechil ] for
cool wear on and after tliw Fuuith
should Invet.tlK.ito our vlcl Uld tan lace
razor toe the decidedly now nhoo that
wo'ui Bellini ; for ? : iOO as wood as any *
bodj'b ifntx ) shoe It's a dink- teal
brown tau and Is thu biggest huap In
touu.
Drexel Shoe Co.
1419 Fariiam
POHl'ATKS
.Nothing llko It ever l > ufore eoncontpil
hciitt * Ie cre.un sods. or lev CTUIUM all
to pieces It is lU'llgbtfully dullclouu to
tlio table anil very iiivlKomtinu it k > a
tuu-cont drink hut It's a inlshty lilg
( llnui's wo.tli nil you euro for nt ono
hitting roseb free to ladles Saturday ,
Kuhn's Drug Store ,
stor.l5li ! & Douglas
rilllMSIIIMi THU SPUU 111
"SVo do e-aU'iliiK hwau.su w've done
< > IM ) foi Ki'iiwalloiih we me fur-
tlflltflitrul dlimi'is hiiiulu'b leu
c.il c H for wcddliiKh for silimmt
any and ou'iy gnthutlnu anil thuic'h. u
yiiiuaiiliHi of cxc'liislvciicriB ahout thi'.so
ini'i > : natloiib thut it Uortli oiu-'s vvlillu
to coiihlder jiiki'iury
BalduiT , Caterer ,
1520 Fnniam.
And done on tlio bluntest nntlcu nt thu
loucxt pilctiji i > vur uuoti'd for jilutiuo
framing wo can fnuiiu your jtliitino
ftuui any Kind of mould ItibS und all
coiniilt'lo to ( It jour pictmo foi lota
litss than .M > U can huy lht > moulding
alone anj licro olwvo mo closing out
a hljj lint ! of [ ilctuu'H for neuily to.st.
A. Hospe. Jr.
.Music and Art 1513
IMMC _
Thu'o Kioiit colors -Ali-Sur-Ilen colors
the piL'ttleat effect In undi'nvear jou
ever saw jiileo 75c a suit n whole suit
for 75cui aio having a Bieat tun tm
niom llKlit ui'lKht Waco oollon nicely
finished the biinio tiling \\o got a dollar
for aeek UKO-HOW jjolnjr for 75u for
thu whole hull.
Albert Cahn ,
1322 Farmim