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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 31, 1896)
r T THE OMAHA DAILY 3JE12 : LiktONDAY , AUGUST 1 , 1800. i of lh popocratle candidate. The difference Is that the same communistic principles hnvo now a more able and elo quent advocate , and that their chief ex pounder appears upon a loftier platform. Then his journey 1 * marked by a greater paralysU of business , a more general clos ing of factories , a moro uniform toppling of credits , and n deeper and wider alarm. nut It should not bo forgotten that tbo name collapse Is In store for Ilrynn that came to Coxry , who U now one of the No- braskana * followers. The culmination of the "bread march" was also to ho In Washing ton , and It was expected to gain In strength nnd magnitude until the multitude that no man could number should mount the great Btcps of the rapltol nnd majestically pre- cent Its dcmanda brforo the congress ot the United Statci. The 29th of April was the dny set for tbU grand rllmnx , but whnt was the result ? A few "sildlm" wcro arrested for trampling on the nation's grass , the country burst Into a guffnw , nnd the crazy and dishonest epi sode has be' i ) nearly forgotten already. This will bo Mr. Ilrytin's fnte , though he In nt the head of a larger army nnd though ho Is kept In countenance by n greater party. As sure us th > > night follows the day the American people awed at first by the nov elty nnd force with which the populists urge their demands will detect tbo ab surdity and hollowncss of the silver move ment In tlmo utterly to rout Its advocates. Itryan's progress Is on n more majestic acaln than Coxey's , but It Is essentially the name , and IH to the full as ridiculous and as dangerous. . \ \ AllHliTlTciMIIMi.lIXT. One of ( In- Hilly AKHITIIIIIIN of tin- ClirbMoiio I'lnnnHrrx. WiiKhlnKtnn I'ont. Of all the absurdities ot this educational campaign none Is moro preposterous than the over-recurring complaint that the pres ent banking system favors the cornering of money and thereby prevents It from be ing used In business. How can money locked up In bank vaults bo profitable to the cus todians of It ? It would be as sensible to lilre laborers nnd keep them from work as to lock up capital. It would be as politic for a liveryman to refuse to furnish riding nnd driving outfits , and keep tits horses Idle In their stalls , as for bankers to refuse dis counts that could bo safely made nnd keep money Idle In their vaults. A man who knows enough to come In out ot the rain ought to know better than to believe or circulate the complaint that the banking business deprives Itself of Its principal source of profit In order to demoralize busi ness , for business Is the life of banking. Money looked up brings no Income to the banks. To lock It up Is to surrender the chance of making a profit. As well could n farmer liope to mnko n living for his family by letting his lands go unplowcd and im planted. Hnnklng Is a practical business , not sentlmcntnllsm. Bankers are quite as much Interested as merchants or manufac turers In the activity of trade and the pros perity of the people. They are In business for the profit there Is In It , and that prollt comes , la a largo degree , from Interest on loans. They encourage the largest use of money that Is consistent with safety. They nre far moro likely to err In loaning too freely than In refusing loans. y Hut the money loaned by banks Is bor rowed money. It belongs to millions of de positors. Most of It is due to the depositors nt nny time when they see fit to check It out , nnd nil of It Is a debt as binding as any hu man obligation can bo. For this reason banks are compelled to curtail their loans when confidence- shaken , but every dollar of curtailment Is a reduction * of their In come. CAMJ'AICNOTHS. . Ex-Senntor McPherson of New Jersey has declared -.gainst Ilryan and cheap money. The abolition of St. John's literary bureau In New York has deprived the campaign down cast of much ot Its merriment. Another people's party convention Is to be held In Illinois. The mlddlo-of-tbc-road men refuse to fuse and reject "tho leprosy of democracy. " A Boston man attempts to check opposition , to a clipped dollar by announcing tl.at he will give twenty beers for a free silver dollar. No troubln to ralso the collar The free silver faction of tbo Iowa democ racy was cheered and comforted when It crept Into the populist tent with unc tuous greeting of General Weaver , who paid : "God bless you ! We welcome you to the pop ulist camp nftor so many years of warfare nnd waiting. " Dispatches fro n Denver Indicate that the popocratle national treasury Is not as empty ns Jones pretends. The Denver & Hlo Grande Railroad company subscribed $25,000 as n starter. The committee which Is passing the hat In Denver and vicinity Is composed ot David H. Moffatt , Otto Mears and N. P. Hill , each of them millionaires several times over. There Is n man In Ohio named Jenkins , wuoso resemblance to Abraham Lincoln Is said to bo wonderful. He Is said to have received in his tlmo enough jail sentences to round out an ordinary life , and been In enough brawls and accidents to kill a dozen ordinary men. Yet , on account of bis likeness to Lincoln , it Is asuertcd , he gets nil the free passes on the railroads that ho wints and almost any favor ho asks for. "Lot ns have no dodging , " exclaims Tom Watson , supplementing a demand for ottlcial notification. "Why does Senator Allen , chairman of that committee , refuse to do what the convention Instructed him to do ? Is he afraid Mr. Ilryan will repudiate our sup port ? If BO. our party has n right to know that fact. If Mr. Ilryan Is ashamed of the votes which are necessary to elect him wo ought to know it. Ho cannot carry his own state without our he'p , and If ho is ashamed ot our help ho Is not the iiinn our people Lave taken him to bo. " The editor of the Rockvlllo Tribune , an Indiana sheet which supports free silver , Is charmingly candid In explaining his motives. Ilelng charged with purchasing Mexican dollars lars he acknowledged the corn In these words : "Tho editor of the Tribune bought 100 Mexican dollars , for which bo paid $50 in cash and $10 In advertising , nnd would bo Kind to mnko a similar deal every day. The only drawback Is the required cash. If Ilryan Is elected It Is the purpose of the writer to have them coined Into United States legal tender dollars , und If at the tlmo be owes $105 ho will liquidate the debt and thus. In n small degree , get back part of thu loss ho has sustained by reason of the single gold standard. As to the morality of the transaction , wo will take our chances on the Bide of the debtor , who the republicans think ought to bo compelled to pay In dollars that will buy twice as much of the farmers' 1 product ns they would ten yenrs ago , The claim that the creditor will got 53 cents Is Billy when the sovereignty of the govern ment has put Its seal on the old-tlmo amount ot silver and says It Is worth 100 coats. " miVAX'S FATAL AUMISSIOX. Tim l.nw of .Supply mill llcmnnil Ap- pllpil to Crop Prlcf * . N > w York Times. "You know that If the world's crop next year of a certain article Is very much grtaler than the crop of this year , that article will fall In price. If the crop Is much smaller than this year , that article will rlsn In price. You known that the law of supply and demand reaches and controls all sorts ot property. " Mr. IJryan at Mad- alln , N. Y. , on August 22. Mr. Ilryan was talking to farmers. The remarks which wo have quoted above set forth clenrly the chief cnuso of the de cline of the prices of agricultural products hero during the lest twenty-five years. Hut Mr. liryan and nil the other sllverltcs toll the famers that these prices have fallen because of the "appreciation of gold" and the "demonetization of silver ! " For example. In Now England and In the west the stump speakers and other repre sentatives of the silver party nro snylng to the farmers that the fall of the prlco of potatoes has been caused by this "ap preciation of gold" and this alleged "de monetization of silver , " although the real cause Is clearly disclosed to every Intelli gent man whoso mind Is not full of sil ver fog. and was pointed out by Hryan himself In the words we have taken as a text. Last year's crop of pota toes was enormous and without prece dent. It glutted the market. The quan tity was reported ofllclally to have been 207,000,000 bushels , while the trade cstl- matn wns 400,000,000 , and the annual av- orngo for the five years Immediately preceding - ceding had been only 178.000,000. Mr. Bryan shows how the law of supply and demand affects- prices under such con ditions , nnd then tells the farmer that the fall of prices has been due to the use of the gold standard ! Here Is a table showing tbo enlargement of the output ot cereals In this country since 1873. with some figures relating to farm animals , exports of hog products , and the world's product of silver : IN T\VINTY-TWO YKAHS. isx 110 ; . Corn , hu . 93S.274.000 2.151IM.rM Oat * . 1)11 . 270.310,000 R24.4I3.M7 Wlirnt. bit . 2St. 25 1.700 407. 10i ! > 47 m-P bll . ir , H2.WO 27.210.070 llnriey bu . 32,011.491 87.072,741 Itucliwhcnt , bu . T.S37.700 1S.J4I.33J All cm-nK bu . l.KM.fOJ.ono 3.572.C10.COO O.tton llM . 1.8M 1M.M1 C.OS0.9'-.1,4W ' IMIntofl. . bU . 10fl.OSa.POO 257.237.370 tnrin . ZJO 5. X ) 47.0TS.B41 liny ! ! . NO. . . . . . : : : : : : : : : . . 9.222.470 15,124.037 Oxon nna other cattlo. _ I rd , 'mi.iuceil. . Ilia . 292,000.000 l" ' . ( W Ijinl exported. Ilia . 1CS.000.000 4D1,000H r : C3.2G7.000 1M.OW.OOO The year 1870. Force Is ndded to the comparison when It Is borne In mind that tbo average crop of wheat for the five years Immediately preced ing 1895 was 529,000,000 bushels ; that the demand for oats and horses has been affected by the use of the trolley and tbo bicycle ; that panic duo primarily to silver legisla tion and the discussion of the sliver question has depressed the demand at homo for con sumption , nnd that the agricultural output abroad has been Increased by legislation. Mr. Ilryan's remarks nt Madalln strike down the very argument by which ho and his associates have procured the support ot so many deluded farmers. CUHHU.Vr IM.KASANTHIKS. Chicago Uccord : "Pop , what Is Inertia ? " "Well , If I have It It Is pure laziness , bul If your mother bus It Is la nervous pros tration. " Dntrolt Free Prrss : Hrldo n't the Wedding to Uest Man Why Is marriage often a failure ? , , Uest Mnn Hecnuse the bride docs not murry the best man. Somcrvlllo Journal ; The man who cnii't afford a bicycle can console himself with Iho thought that be doesn't hnvo to clean OIIB every time after ho comes In from a ride. Cincinnati Knqulrer : "Mnrrlagc , " said the unsophisticated youth , "marriage baa n civilizing effect on the man. If not. why Is It that nn old bachelor Is so apt to bo cross and crusty ? " "Hocause , " said tbo Cummlnsvllle sage , "because nn old bachelor Is not ufrnld to say what ho thinks. " Atlanta Constitution : "Cnn't toll any thing about the case yet , " said the lawyer , "tho Jury Is hung. " "Jerusalem ! " exclaimed the prisoner , "that docs beat all ! Hut I knowed my friends 'ud lynch 'cm If they got a chance at 'em. " Indianapolis Journal : "And you say that the hailstones were as large ns hen eggs ? " "No , " said tlin cautious person ; "they were not quite that. Thuy were , say , about the size of boarding house canteloupes. " Chicago Tribune : Tenderfoot I don't understand the epitaph on this tomb stone. It suys : "Ho Talked Himself to Death. " How's thnt ? llroncho Pete That's right. Ho called Alkali Ike a llnr. Washington Star : "Do only trouble 'bout bavin'-patience under provocation , " said Uncle Ebon. "Is tlat desa r > z or man gits er reppytatlon foil It , cvrybody seems anxious ter gib ' 1m or chance ter show off. " Buffalo Times : "Why do people always say 'HI' when they want to stop n stage ? " "Because they don't want to tantalize the borsu by shouting 'Hay. ' " THI3 FETCHING QUALIFICATION. Detroit News. "Where are you irolng , my pretty maid ? " "I'm going a-votlng , sir , " she said. "Who will you vote for , my pretty maid ? " "For Congressman Blank , kind sir , " she said , "What Is his platform , my pretty maid ? " "Ho dances divinely , sir. she said , XOW AM ) TIII3.V. Nixon Waterman. O. now nnd then there comes n day When all our skies are bright , And all of life's appointed way Is bathed In golden light ; When roHi-H limit no thorns beneath ; When love holds no alloy ; And zephyrs full of pcrfumo breathe From out the hills of joy. Thn present IB a Hooting thing , The past will live for nye. And nil Ita .store of treasure bring Forever and a day. And softer shall tbo echoes como From time's receding shore ; Kaeb day will glean a pleasure from The days that nro no moro. O , memories of such , awnko ! And glnil the weary Now ; A wreath of recollections make To crown the dreamer's brow. O. silent voice anil vanished hand , Bring back the golden sheaves ! The rlpplo of this waters and The luughtcr of the leaves. PE1N PIOOTUREIS PLJ&A.SAN'TlAY 'IJ ' ND POINTE1DLAY PAR.A.Q RAP HELD t TIIJSY'VR JIOVHU CJot a better house before the bors knew It the for rent sign wan up hail one of our great three-horse "Vaim" put everything on one load all Iho fur niture placed In the new house In BO short a time you wouldn't believe It unless you moved with one of our "Vans" KB u pleasure to inovo nowadays - days wo do everything but pay the rent better move right when you do move. Omaha - 141S Fariiam IIOX'T YOU KNOW We have an expert that does nothing else but correct eye defects by far the commonest defect of the eye Is known tu astigmatism which properly speak ing Is the Irregular curvature of the cornea or "watch crystal" portion of the eye This defect may exist Inde pendently or be combined with other troubles-Onr optician will make an ex amination and tell you all about it. Aloe & Penfold Co 1408 Farnam Pulse of Western Progress. | It Is announced from the headquarters of the Ynnkton & Norfolk Railway com pany that acttvo work on the road and bridge across the Missouri river at Yank- ton will bo commenced within thirty days , says the Sioux Falls Argus-Leader. Nearly the entire summer has been taken up by the company In reorganizing , rcsurvcylns and voting bonds along the route between Yankton and Norfolk. Neb. The elections wore carried In fierce , Madison and Holi counties. Two ot the townships through which the road passes refused to vote bond > , and In retaliation the road refuses to furnish depot accommodations between Crofton and Wasau. A mortgage wns filed nt Nlobrnrn August 7 , by the railway and land syndi cate , limited. In which tbo syndicate bonds Itself In the sum ot $1,500,000 to assure the Norfolk & Yankton Railway company $100,000 nnd the Ynnkton Bildgo company $500,000. The bonds will number 300 oi $5,00V ( ench , nnd the mortgage or trust deed bears the names ot James P. English , pres ident ; Benjamin J. Scannel , secretary for the rnllwny company , nnd Arthur H. Tulloh and Chnrles P. D. Madlgnn , directors , nnd Hornco Simpson , sccrctnry of the rnllwny Innd syndicate. RICHER THAN SOLID SILVER. A fabulously rich strike of gold ore has been made In the Quail mlno , In Whltehead gulch , about flvo miles from town , says a Sllvcrton , Colo. , dispatch to the Denver Re publican. The strike has net the town wild with excitement and hundreds of men nre rushing to the scene of the strike. Not a horse can bo obtdlned here , and everything that can carry a man has been engaged for days ahead. The locator of the claim Is John Kllmartln , a prospector , who has spent twelve years In his search of wealth In that vicinity. Ho stumbled on an old aban doned claim that had not been worked for eight years. Ho offered U to eight dlfTei-- cut men It they would work the assess ment , nnd not ono would take the chance ? . Ho finally did the work himself. The llrst shot began to show blotches of free gold , and bis ten-foot face now reveals n four- foot vein ot quartz , blotched all through with pockets of free gold , whllo on the foot wall is a two-Inch streak of the rich est gold over seen In this country. Kllmar tln says ho could not believe the shining particles were gold thought they must bo pyrites of Iron and he began shoveling the precious stuff over the dump. Finally ho filled his pockets with chunks and brought them to town. An nssaycr offered to test It for the gold he got out of the rock. When Kllmartln went for the returns ho could not believe It. The ere ran $84,376 to the ton. Ho had given away fully $500 worth of ere to people about town. The nowa spread quickly nnd Kllmartln returned to the mine. Since then ho has returned , hav ing put an armed guard on the dump and located two moro claims on the vein. Ho says ho has thrown some of the ere over the dump , and from the way ho Is giving the ore awny nbout town there Is no doubt of the truth of the story. This Is claimed to bo the richest strike ever made In the state , and as soon as people can get on the ground It Is predicted there will b > the wildest excitement ever known In the San Juan. ANOTHER OIL DISCOVERY. There is n flutter of excitement In Llver- moro over the finding ot what Is supposed to be the best of petroleum oil , says the Snn Francisco Chronicle. The discovery was made on the farm ot Mrs. Louise Davledes , living four miles from Llvermore , and the oil was found by August Brecht and a man ndmcd Brown , who persuaded the woman owning the property to permit the sinking of a well. When a depth of nine feet had been reached a scam of sandstone was struck , from which came a stream of dark brown fluid , later found to bo petroleum. About ten years ago a Mr. Guttman formed a company and entered Into arrangements with Brown to bore his lands for oil. In the project Mark Livingston , Jerry Sullivan and other San Francisco capitalists were as sociated. They provided themselves with an old-fashioned boring apparatus which was constantly getting out of order. It was operated by a man who was Inexperienced. A San Francisco politician , slnco dead , put up the money. A twelve-inch well was com menced and sunk to n depth of 200 feet , at which level It was narrowed to eight Inches. At that point the well borer got his casing stuck. It wouldn't drive down and it wouldn't como up. The San Francisco poli tician was apprised of the fact that the scheme was not being worked for oil In the hills so rapidly as It was for the gold In his pocket. Up to that point hp had backed the Guttman management for about $4.000 , and had nothing to show for It but an old rattle trap of a boring outfit and a disabled hole 200 feet deep. The capitalist refused to honor any moro of Guttman's drafts and the enterprise was abandoned before It was fairly begun. That was ten or eleven years ago. Practically nothing had been done since to probe the secret that was half told by the disclosures on the surface so long In evi dence. Brown has been the ono man of the neighborhood who has clung to the faith that was In him. Without capital he could debut but little , and that little he has done with his own hands. Ho has drilled n second well four Inches In diameter and fifty feet deep In sandstone formation , In the gully below the big well , and has opened up more evidences ot both gas and oil. The pe troleum from these wells has been used for years by the farmers for nxlo grease. The district Is In n direct nlr line between the coal fields of Mount Diablo and Corral Hol low , The geological formation Is everything that oil experts seek when prospecting , EXTENSIVE IRRIGATION SYSTEM. The ditch and water of the Brown's Valley irrigation system has been leased to F. W. Page , says a Brown's Valley dis patch to the San Francisco Examiner. This Is ono of the most Important transfers that baa been made In Yuba county for a num ber of years past. Although the considera tion Is nominal , still the benefits that will arlso therefrom will bo of immense value , not only to this section , but to Marysvlllc , If she chooses to take advantage of It. The lease of this ditch means the running of the mines of this valley by electricity and cheaper power for Marysvillo , The people along the line of the ditch do not lose their right to the water for Irrigation purposes , As a matter ot fact , this transfer will bo of great vnlue to them , as the real considera tion Is that Mr , Page will bo In duty bound to keep the ditch In good running order for the time for which the ditch has been leased , which Is fifty years. This will lessen the ex. penae , so that It will be only nominal to YOU AHI- : If you jjct a pair of those new narrow Columbia too yoniiK nien'u shoes In genuine cfilftkln that we've Bold as lilKh as $5.00 lint now HID price lias been put down to f'5.00 U' the same shoe nothing chani'od but the price wo have them In extra razor too also It's a youiiK innnti' shoe at a price that will surprise you you're Koltlng a full $5.00 value In every pair for only $3.00. Drexel Shoe Co. Farnnm them , and at the same tlmo give them n continual water right. The ditch at present , with Its laterals , Is 100 miles In length , and . waters about 44.000 acres of land. U wns completed In 1SOO and has been of Incalculable value to this county. The main ditch Is nineteen - teen miles long and has Its source from the north fork of the Yuba river , four miles be low Dullard's Bar. There are nine miles of flume , all In good condition. If the decision of Judge Ross holds good the people will lose this work , which has cost them In the neighborhood of $270,000. The people , with the exception of a few , have paid no taxes' for three years , awaiting a final decision from the supreme court. If tbo decision Is reversed the people will have to pay up their back taxes , which , notwithstanding that It will bo n great hardship , they nre willing to do. Mr. Page states that , there Is plenty of water for their Immediate use , and that as soon as a decision Is reached work will bo resumed on the system. There Is a fall of 410 feet perpendicularly along the line of the ditch. This will give nbout 3.000 horse power , which cnn bo Increased to 10.000 horse power If necessary. It Is the Intention of Mr. I'ago to so Increase the power that enough may be generated for the use not only of the quartz mines and mills tn this valley , but for the furnishing of power for all purposes for Mnrysvlllo and surround ings. NRW MINING TOWN. Bnrnato Is the name of a new town which Is being laid out In tbo Cedar Canyon min ing country , nt the junction of the Daven port , Frultlnnd , Hunter creek nnd Springdale - dale roads , and near the mouth of Cedar canyon. It Is named after Barney Barnnto , the celebrated mining king , sajs the Ta- conia Ledger , The location Is a beautiful level plateau , about half way up the moun- tnln side , with a magnificent view of the valleys of Alder an 1 Hunter creek nnd the Spokane and Columbus rivers. The proprie tors of the town nro Levl D. Kenn nnd J. V. Yobs , who represent the Legitimate Mining and Smelting company ot Houston , Tex. These gentlemen , together with their mining expert , spent two or thrco weeks exami ning tbo Cedar canyon country , with the result that they have purchased n number of mining claims , orgaulzod n townslto and nro going to put In a smelter In the Imme diate future. The smelter will bo built on one side ot the town property. Surveyors are now at work platting the land adjoining tbo smelter site. Mr. Kean reports that cop per. Iron , lime nnd everything necessary to successfully operate a smelter are to bo had In the vicinity of the camp. Ho also believes that the Cedar canyon country has the brightest future of any camp he has ever visited , nnd bo has been n mining man all his life. He has shown his faith in the country , after careful Investigation , by buyIng - Ing up mining property and Inaugurating the projects already named. Ho gives the assurance that a smelter will bo running Inside of four months. LOVED PORK TOO WELL. The Snobomlsb Tribune has the following tale of frontier life : The other morning , at about 10 o'clock , Mr. J , A. Baker heard one cf his hogs squealing. Ho armed himself with an axe and went to Investigate the cause of the disturbance. Not'far ' from tbo house be discovered a largo she bear , Just beginning to break her fast on his porkor. When the bear noticed Mr. Baker , she raised her head , but havliTg tasted hog's blorel she would not leave , and resumed her meal. Mr. Baker walked up and dealt her a blow behind the ear. The blade of the axe went Into the brain. The bear concluded that it was tlmo to move nnd started away through the under brush. She went about 100 feet and lay down and bled awhilct Site then decided to go back and try somoi more pork. Mr. Baker In the meantime had gone to the house and got his shotgun , which was loaded with situll shot for blue ! Jays. He soon found the bear , and got so. close to her that , when he discharged the gun Into her ear , the load went In without tearing the bido. FORTUNES LfeB-r'tN" DUMPS ; ' A comparatively now feature In mining pretty much all over the country Is tbo working over of old dumps which new pro cesses , better concentrators nnd reduced cost now render possible. In nil the mining states moro or less of this work Is In prog ress , says the San Francisco Examiner. In some cases there are tens of thousands of tons of ore which would not pay to mill at the time It was mined , being of too low a grade ! , but which under the improved con ditions will now pay very well. Sometimes the company works over Its own oil dumpn , but In many instances the mass Is sold at so much n ton to men who make M business of this kind of work. A conccntrulng mill In Colorado recently bought alump of about 30.000 tons , the owner receiving fl a ton. The ore runs a little over $7 per ton. To the owner this was Just like finding $30,000 , whllo the concentrating null men are also satisfied with their purch.ite. This Is only one instance of many of like kind. A loose body of $7 rock on the surface , with no expense of mining to get it , ought to bo a pretty good buy. There are doubt less hundreds of thousands of tons which wore mined years ago , when facilities for shipping or working were poor , which will now bo utilized. Railroads have bci : ex tended , wagon roads built , custom nillln constructed and cyanide plants established , which were not In exlatenco at the time these ores were mined. A largo proportion of this ore was of too low a grade to work at the tlmo , but now It can be mode to pay very well indeed. Such ores ar-i now being reduced In all the inlnlii ; : sU'.ca , and with a satisfactory profit. In many In stances It has been thought worth while to put up special works ro treat extensive dumps. There are many mines , abandoned years ago , where the dumps are lir c and well worth looking after. Time , exposure nnd moisture have oxidized the sulphurets to n Inrso extent , making the ro cantor for reduction In simple plants than when mined. It has been estimated that there are In Colorado alone not loss I'w.i thirty millions of tons of ore In old dumpn , which may bo concentrated and aver.igo nbout $8 per ton , ALASKA CANNERIES. Among the recent arrivals from Alaska wns Captain H. Mclntyro. Ho Is in the employ of tbo Pacific Steam Whaling com pany nt Prince William sound. This com pany owns four canneries In Alaska , be sides eight or nine whaling vessels In the Arctic ocean. Captain Mclntyro , In an in terview published In the Seattle Post-In telligencer , said : "Tbo catch of salmon In Prlnco William sound this season will bo up to the aver age. The run begins there about May 1C and continues until the middle of Septem ber. Our company baa four canneries. Ono is In Hunter's bay , one at Khlkuak i ifii.i LIST US IU3PI3AT IT _ That wlmtuver wu 'offor you you can ( lepuiul upon It Unit It's just \vlmt wo bay sainu all over the store wo'vo Just ruuulvi'd our now fall tapestry curtalim some ot Urn most bountiful designs you liavo over luiil tlio opportunity to look over almost any price down to yii.no-tlmt's the cheapest wo hnvo a largo line of Ingrain carpets some an low priced as KS eenls butter see them. Omaha Carpet Co , , 1515 DocKe ! and two in Prince William sound. The total pack ut these four canneries will be about 100.000 cases ot salmon. All the can neries In our section of Alaska are- doing well and the catch will be fully up to the average , although I have uo advices from Cook Inlet and other remote points. "The Pacific Steam AVhallng company has eight or nine whalers In the Arctic ocean. The whalers tem.ila In the Arctic for two seasons catching blowhend whales. They do not pay milch attention to the oil , but are after the whalebone , which Is worth from $3 to $3.60 per pound. The steamer Jennie , which Is owned by our company , goes up ns far ns Ilcrscbcl Island with supplies for the whalers , and we will not get nny news from there until she returns to Prlnco William sound , which will bo along In September. The season before last the catch of tbo whalers was large , but last season It was small. " THE DAKOTAS. A joint meeting of tbo Dairymen's nssocln. lions of North nnd South Dnkotn Is to be bold nt Aberdeen the llrst week In October. A new elevator company has been organ ized at Fargo to operate fourteen houses In the Red River vnlley on tbo line of the Qrt-nt Northern road. The country west of nnd adjacent to the See terminus nt Kulm. N. D. , Is being examined ns to its resources with n view to extension of the See line to the Missouri nnd Ironing the grade from a junction at Ashley to Aberdeen. It Is reliably stated that the Oxnard Sugar Beet company of Now York City , which owns and operates two largo sugar factories In Nebraska , contemplates putting In a fac tory , perhaps two , In South Dakota , located nt or near Aberdeen. The attention ot the commissioner of the general land ofllco having been called to the wholesale violations of the land laws In the western portion ot tbo Chamberlain land dis trict , which have been flagrant ever slnco the opening to settlement of n portion of the Sioux reservation In the spring ot 1S90 , and consist of the Illegal fencing nnd occupancy of government lands. The violators are prin cipally stock men , who have gone to the Interior of the ceded lands , coolly taken pos session of vast tracts of land , which they have In many Instances fenced , the squat ters making no attempt to make entry of the land so held at the proper land ofllco , ns required by law. Charles Bates , deputy United States sur veyor , baa left Ynnkton with/ / party of ns- slstnnts for the Rosebud rcscrvntlon , where ho has a surveying contrnct that will keep himself and men busy until late In the fall. Many of the Indians on the reservation have expressed a desire to receive allotments of land in severally ; and largo tracts of the reservation are being surveyed with this ob ject in view. The Indians on the Pine Ridge reservation have not yet Indicated a willing ness ! to receive their allotments , principally for the reason that Red Cloud , their aged and respected chief. Is opposed to it , and in deference to his wishes but few allotments will be made to the Indians there during his lifetime. COLORADO. The Silver Pick , on Mount Wilson , has added twenty-flvo men to Its working force , and now employs about 100. A good grade of ere Is being shipped. Judge Holbrook has very flattering reports from bis mlno near Cochetopla. At a depth of seventy-five feet they are now shipping ere which runs from two to seven ounces in gold and from 400 to 1,100 ounces iu sil ver. ver.The The output for the Victor mlno for Au gust will In all probability be In excess of any month so far this year. The mine Is employing 130 men , and the production Is reaching seventy toni : per day ot all grades of ore. Gold ere has been opened In the Lcsslcr lease on the Kittle M. Gold bill. At a depth of sixty fcot the shaft is filled with oro'that ' averages $32 a ton and gives assays up to $100. Preparations for mining arc under way. The government has recently established a monument on Ruth mountain. This moun tain Is 9,000 feet high , and a government corner was necessitated by the great num ber of applications for patents. This Is now the Freshwater mining district. The Halm's Penk country has been greatly strengthened by the rich find of land In the Tom Thumb. The shaft has been sunk twenty-seven feet , and In the lower half the walls widened out until everything was In ere , which runs from 200 to 700 ounces silver nnd CO per cent lead. It Is evident that the richest ore Is not on the surface In the Fulford district , from the fact that the Johnson assayed from $1 to $5 when the work was begun , and nt the present tlmo they nro Inking out ere worth $ SO per ton. The same holds true In regard to the Polar Star and other properties that have been developed. News has reached Denver of a great strike In tbo Yankee Girl , one of the old- tlmo properties near Ouray. The mine has yielded over $4,000,000 In dividends and at a depth of 700 feet a great strike has been made which will again bring the mlno to the front as one of the largo producers of Colorado. The ere Is In a vein ilvo feet wldo and runs $2,000 to the ton. The prospectors of NIghthawk camp , on the Cripple Creek belt , are excited over the reported discovery of wonderfully rich ore In this vicinity , an assay on one specimen showing a value of $80,000 In gold to the ton , or $40 per pound. This would bo equivalent to 12'/4 per cent , pure gold. The exact whereabouts of this remarkable mineral has not yet been made public , tbo man who made the discovery refusing to reveal the secret until bo has made title to the claim secure. Messrs. Cameron and Miller left Crlpplo Crcok some weeks ago to prospect In Gunnl- son county. As a result a new gold camp called Cameron has been started. It Is be tween Selgcl and Cross mountains , In the Tin Cup district. They located five claims and found a distinct vein running through all five. Assays show over $100 In gold , the best being $181 , checked by smelter assayers In Denver. These prospectors are building a road and will begin shipments. A town- site has been laid out and prospectors are going In rapidly , WYOMING. From ninety to 100 cars of gravel are loaded dally at Sherman. The Green river county bridge Is ncarlng completion and will bear trafllc in a short whllo. Work has been commenced on a reservoir Wl.l , OK MUSIC We've purchased the slock of Weber & Son 14H Dodge street and wo'vo put the price at half or less Just to sell It quick theru are violins horns llntes gultniii hanjos-fltringii etc the entire stock everything they had now In your life opportunity to get what you want In an Instrument at less than half price everybody knows Ihey carried a line line and you're getting double value at the price. A. Hospe , jr. , .ic.HaArt. 1513 Douglas at the soda springs. The water will bo evap orated and the product sold , Two towns , about onu inllo apart , have been atiutcd In the Cooper 11111 district ami a Rood number of people arc settling there. A great dwil of work Is living dotio In the GrHiilto mineral Hold nd Hie proipects nrc giving evidence of value. Assays of from JG.fiO to $10 In gold have boon rcecli-cd. The lie contraotors for the t'nlon IVirlflc Are nrranglng to bring the * largest drive of tlos down Medicine How and Hock rivers ever attempted. The number tn be run down Medicine llow Is 200,000. nnd down Hock river 150,000. On the top of Cooper hill there Is .1 blan ket formation some ! l\o feet thick , owned by the some company , which has been un covered for a distance of 100 by 200 feet. Assays from this formation nro said to give from $12 to J35 per ton gold. Reports from Hock CYi'fk say that the en gineer * have not rociploto.il their \\ork on the dlteli Intcndrd to carry water to the placer fields. It wn ? expected to finish the ditch In time tu work thn ground to some extent Ilila year , but present Indications are that the construction work will not bo com pleted before winter. The ditch will be eight miles long and will cost 55,000. There are over 2,000,000 feet of logs now In the boom near Nowberg. A largo whnln Is reported ashore on the beach a short illntancu below Hlk creek. The project of a motor line between Inde pendence and Kails City Is now being agi tated , with 8omo prospects of success. Salmon trout In great numbers me now being taken from the Siuslaw , where they hnvo followed the salmon to feed on spawn. Estimates are being made preparatory to building a good road Into the Cnllpoola and llluo Hlver mines via the old Callpoola trail. At Midas bar ot the big bend of Snake river an eighteen days' run of a pumping plant cleaned up $1 per hour for each man employed. The Harrlsburg lie-view says that at least two-thirds of the hops In that vicinity will remain unpicked , owing to the low price of fered for them. A tramway three miles long has been built by Contractor Hlchardson of ha Orandc , to carry logs from the Hock creek district to the river for the Grand Honile Lumber com pany. The mining boat which has been working on the bars of Snake and Clearwater rivers Is proving a success. Some of the poorest bars worked by the boat have paid as high as 27 cents to the yard. The California Construction and Equip ment company has commenced operations on the now creamery , which It will build ut Ashland. The lumber has been engaged and carpenters secured. During the past two years Douglas county has paid as bounty on wild animals killed the sum of $8,857 , as follows : Hear , 262 , bounty $ r > 1" ; coyote , 312 , $0,300 ; panther , 670 , ? 2,010 ; total scalps , 1,814 ; bounty , $ S.S67. It Is reported that the Hose Hill can nery on the Sluslaw will not bo operated this season. The proprietors have formed a combination with the Florence cannery men nnd tbo Florence cannery will bo oper ated alone. Young Chief , a prominent member of Malhcur valley this year than ever before known and the ranchers have killed great numbers of them. All of the snakes pro 0 to 10 years old , and their prcscnic is accounted for by reason ot a scaril'y of food in the hills , as they have Increased so fast that they have killed of ! all the rats , squirrels , etc. . In the Immediate vicinity. Young Chief , a prominent member of the Umatilla tribe , Is away on his ar.nual vacation , and Indian Agent Harper grants him the freedom of the state.in the fol lowing notice to whom It may rnnrern : "Young Chief has permission to visit Wai- Iowa and surrounding country , with vari ous other Indians , to be away sixty Oays. He Is a good , law-abiding man , and very friendly toward whites. If nny of hli crowd are boisterous or violate any law , If re ported to me , I will have the matter recti fied. Any favor shown him will bo appreci ated. He respects the whites and ask 3 that they respect him. " WASHINGTON. J. H , Walker while engaged In digging a. well on the property of J. F. Warner , near Sultan , found a well-preserved hem lock log twelve feet below the surface. It Is said that three mills will be required to work up the cane that has been grown In the Kcnncwlck valley this season. It will bi nearly all converted Into molasses. J. E. Leonard's cheese factory , near C'he- halls , has commenced operations and Is turning out a very line article of cheese. It has a capacity to handle the milk from 250 cows. The Centennial flour mill , at Spokane. has been closed down for repairs , and when It resumes operations It will have a capacity of SOO barrels per day , inn'-lng It by far the largest mill in the stato. The Chinook trapmen are reported to have subscribed $10,000 for the purpose of building a' cannery , which they expect to operate themselves next season , thus se curing all the profit thcro is In tbo busi ness. The latest discovery of quartz mines In the state of Washington Is along the Gulf of Georgia. There are said to be a largo number of low grade prospects thcro which could bo profitably worked If transportation facilities were a little belter. An Immense cougar , eleven feet long , was killed by an engine on the Great Northern road a couple of miles south of Lowell. Ho ran along ahead of the train for two or thrco hundred feet and finally , becoming enraged , turned and sprang at the locomotive. August Smytho and EOHS of Kllckltat county shipped 3,100 head of sheep to Chi cago. They have a band of 7,500 head of sheep and shipped DO.OOO pounds of wool to Boston early In the season. They report the grans around Mount Adams as being mostly eaten out and say thcro are as many Oregon as Washington sheep In that vi cinity. The professor of chemistry at Pullman State Agricultural college has been experi menting with sugar beets , nnd finds that they begin a second growth If allowed to stay In the ground too long , nnd the sugar turns to starch , destroying their usefulness for sugar , Experiments are In progress lor the purpose of determining the best time to pull the beets. The Seattle canal Is still In an embryo licato , owing to the fact that the secretary of war has not yet directed -vhother the earth excavated shall bo piled along the canal or spread over the submerged lends. The secretary has also failed to state whether the canal shall pass through Sal mon bay or through Smith's cove , and baa made no definite location for the lock. Ulchard Dutto , a Colvlllo miner. Is saliMo have Invented a. duvlco by the aid of which JtOSRS AUI3 KH1SI2 To nil our liuly patrons nt our cele brated Boila fountain on Saturday wo especially Invite strangers tn try our "Frozen Kosfaten" that 1mvo such n with all Oimilii--wu high reputation : - - liavi ; thn original formula and you can't get lliciii nearly no nice anywhere else we've got a fouimmi on Hit1 fair grounds right ovK'Ilo f'je p'lH.iv ? ' 11 no arts. Kuhn'sDrug Store , iSth&Douglas ho Is enabled to locale living water at \arylti depths under ground. Ho refines to dlvuUo his method for determining the \\licii\ibauts of the. water , but the method Apparently differ * from the Kentucky geese bono or the ordinary stick of the watrrwlteli , InaAmuch AS be finds the depth by nld ot mathematics. Whflitom county carries the banner for ( he l.-irgcat number of shlnglo mills In the state , s.iya the Pacific Lumber Trade Jour nal , There arc sixty. one saw and shlngl * mills , of which forty-four are shlnglo inllll pure ami simple , six nrr s.iwmllls and seven teen ro Raw-shingle mills. These have dally rapacity of 3.fi05,000 shingles nnd S12.000 feet of lumber. The estimated out put In 1S95 WAS 4IS.OOO.OOO shingles nnd 100- 000,000 fret of lumber. Vnlted States Fish Commissioner J. J. Hrlco nnd Washington State Finn Com missioner Crawford will plant a largo num ber of eastern oysters In the Waters of tin state this fall. Mr. Crawford Is now ox anilnltiRarlmu localities with n view to selecting those best adapted for the experi ment. Those planted In Wlllnpa harbor a few yenrs ago were so much disturbed that Is was not considered a fair test of the possibilities of making the experiment a suc cess. MISCKLLANKOl'S. Ventura county. California , raises yearly $1,000,000 worth of beans. The body ot n 400 pound man-rating shark has Honied nshoro at Del Mar , Col. Chlno Is shipping her new sugar to Kan sas , Nebraska. Colorado nnd Utah. Six or seven carloads a day nre sent out , Indians ifemand 5000 of Dan Simpson , the well knuwn Nevada cattleman , who acci dentally Khot nnd killed n 1'luto squaw re cently In Smith valley. At the placers the Snake river Is too low to allow the boat to approach the bank. necessitating the blowing up of the river bed with glnnt powder to mnko room for the boat , If the oil borers strlKo a good flow ot oil In San Tlmetco canyon , near Snn Ilernnr- dine , big developments will follow , as all the available government land has been taken up. Oil wells nro being sunk near Lafayette , Cal. , In the Contrn Costa bills , on the Joslah Allen ranch. If the llow Is largo the oil will bo piped to Oakland , where n re- llnery Is to bo erected. The Sacramento Hecord-Unlon suggests If congress pays California the $4,000.000 duo her for thirty years on war claims , that It be used to build four main highways- two through the state from north to south , and two from cast to west. An old gold miner who will try bis for tunes In the Hnndsburg legion says thcro Is abundance of low-grade ore , with a great deal of high grade , and tin- desert camps will certainly become largo gold producers. The great need now Is fuel and water. A railway to the top of Mount Tamalpals will soon be In operation. It will extend to the summit of the most consnlcuoiis eleva tion In the vicinity of San Kranclaco , nnd will afford a magnificent view , but Its flnnn- clal success Is at least problematical. The I'lutes , Chinesennd .laps In the Sa cramento valley arc underbidding each other for the privilege of picking hops. The Fl utes from Nevada want $1 a hundred pounds. the Japanese 75 cents and the Chinese will take 65 cents. White men nre not asked to bid and are not considered. Rxperts who have gone Into the subject think that the Indians formerly smelted gold ere on the Slsqtioc river In Santa Hnrbara county California. This fact seems to clearly establish that many have searched the moun tains for the source of the Indian's supply ot ore , but have thus far failed. Uutto Is reported to bo full of life. Minors receive $3.50 n day and carpenters from $5 to $0. The lowest wages paid for any kind of work is $3. The population of Uutto Is 40,000. The pay roll of the mlnca Is $1,000,000 n month. The biggest hoist In the world Is now going up on the Never Sweat , owned by the Anaconda company , The professors of the University of Cal ifornia are making an effort to Induce grnpc- growcrs to graft their stock on strong , resist ant vines. "Tho roslstnnta now most popular In this state. " says I'rof. Hayne , "aro vast y Inferior to those used at the present tlmo la Europe. We have had great dlillculty In convincing vlneyardlsts of this .although In the last year $500,000 has been lost to them from this reason. " _ 1M2NSIONS I'0ll AVKSTHHN 3IH.V. Vi'lfrniiH of HIP I.tilf "War Ilc-im-iii- lirrtMl by tlio Oovoriimoiit. WASHINGTON. Aug. 30. ( Speclal.-Pcn- Blons granted , Issue of August 12 , were : Nebraska : Original Joseph \f. Strlc'.tler , Waco. York. Restoration nnd Increase ( special , August 17) ) Jacob Hillings ( de ceased ) , Omaha. Douglas. Restoration , ro- IH.XUC and Increase Qustnvus S. Jo" " ! ; . Genoa , Nance. Inert-use Sylvester Stroud. Omaha , Douglas. Original widow ( special , August 17) ) Maria U. Hillings , Omaha , own'OriginalWilliam II. WaHson. Pn- nora. Gutbrie : Albert II. Cronk , Marshall- town , Marshall. Increase Orlando Cmf- flth. Clearlli-ld. Taylor ; Reuben Van "V\ art , Yllllsca , Montgomery. Original wldowii , etc -Caroline potts. HothlcliomVnyiic ; Louisa J. Williams , Marslmlltown , Mar- Hhnll : Emma Scott Lnurcns , I'ocahontns ; Sarah A. Payne. Liberty Center. Warren ; minors of Marcus It. Cooper , DCS Monies , I'olk. nnd LaureiiH , Pocahontasf , nnd Van- Colorado : Original Kdinond J. Price , Giceli-y. Weld , Issue of August 13 wcro : Nebraska : Original Georcn S. Kennedy , Omaha. Douglas ; Gi-orge W. 8. Hobbllt , Geneva , Klllmoro ; James U. Miller , Ans- luy. Cutter ; William P. Elinor , Indlanola. Red Willow ; 1'i'ter S < : hwenk , Omaha , Doug las. Reissue-John S Duke. PlattHinoutli , Cnss. Helssuo and Increase John McKeun , aitt J&ttl-John W. HlKBlnH .Car- narvon. Sao ; Henry C , White , Malvcrn , Colorado : Original-Robert Donton. Don- vor. Arapnhoc ; John K. Kbcrt , Monte Vista , South' Dakota : Original Joslah C. Stout. Deadwood , Lawrence. Issue of August. 14 : Nebraska : OrlBlnnl-'Mntlilas Edwards , Omaha. Douglas Incrt-ane \ \ Illlain Mur phy , Holdrego. Phelpfl. Orlulnal widow Elizabeth Flennllo-n , Wlsnor. Cumlng. Iowa : Original-Daniel Hagerty , Temple- ton. Carroll : Sylvester A. Stalllngs , Xwir. Ing. Story ; Nicholas Klernh , Mlnnola , Mills. Ri-storiutfon nnd Increaso-Josi-pli Ilardacre , Klngsley. Plymouth. Original widow ( hjin- clal. August 20) ) Saruh Carlskaddon , Lake SouthnDako\'n \ : Original-Andrew I. Clrln- ager. Estclllno. Hiunlln. Incroasn Kdwnra Alwiter. Hot Springs. Fall Rly.-r. Original widows , etc , Jacob H. l-Voy ( father ) , Mil- ' Original-Daniel O'Sulllvan , Columbus. Yellowstone. Issue of August IS : Iowa : Original-Thomas II. Hagby. Kdse- wood , Clayton. Original widow Reissue Mary Tucker. Docorah , Wlniumhli-k. Montana : Original-David D. PuUorson , KulUpolli Jllssoula. ciiYi.vr ; rou .MOHI : That's Hie way with everybody who have ever tried tlio delicious confections that "HalduJT" alone cnn iiialw alwayn Kottliif ; out some new Hwi'ut-Jnat u > keep the people KIICSSIIK | our 'Choco late Don DOIIH" are the latesttli y are Without doubt tin ) linest confection wo have ever made It IIUK taken us ywirit to brliiK them to perfection but Hie/ are perfection now. I Balduff , Caterer , 1520 Fartiam