THE OMAUI'AUY BKR : MONDAV , JULY IB , 1804.
Claim Junipers Causing Great Excitement
at the Halm's Peak Placers.
MILLIONS SUPPOSED TO BE AT STAKE
llkli Strikes In Arlroim Deutllr Crenturei
of tlm Arid Itrglon Cull for a Na *
tlon.it Irrigation t'ongrciH
NOWII of the Norllnrot.
The slowly brewing trouble over placer
ground ! nt Halm's I'eak has at last cul
minated and what promises to bo a war to
the knlfo has been started. For twenty
years the property In and about the peak
has been In the control and presumed owner-
Hhlp of whnt Is now the Halm's Peak and
Kile Hlvcr Placer Mining company , but of
late considerable jumping has been going on ,
the property thus acquired passing Into the
'control of a party of Aspen capitalist ! , con
sisting In the main of Messrs. Shear , Gil-
Icsple , Dow , MHIor and Ulackburn.
To ft correspondent of the Denver News
Mr. Wells I ) . McClelland , a member of the
new company of Steamboat Springs , said1
"All this trouble really amounts to nothing.
Our acts are Blrnply thoic of going on to
land and taking It up as placer ground under
the existing laws. The Elk Itlver company
could show us no title to the land they
claimed , and as the property secured Is
worth In the neighborhood of $2,000,000 we
naturally filed and put men to work.
Miller , Sanburn and myself have
about GOO ncrea of the land which the
Mackey or Elk Hlvcr company , as It Is now
called , claimed , In nil there Is a slice of
exceedingly rich ground of about 2,600 acres
In fxtctit which Is now In the hands of tile
Aspen companies , all of which hus been pre
sumed to bo patented ground In the posses
sion of the Mackoy company.
"Some of the company are trying to In
timidate our men und Imvo threatened to
resort to the Cripple Creek way of getting a
man out of camp , but they are not strong
enough for anything of that sort now. The
directors of the company arc falling out
and Jumping their own ground. "
The new work going on Is the result of
the victory gained by the Aspen company
In an Injunction suit In which It was sought
to restrain them from conducting operations
by shutting oft their water. The litter com
pany now owns and controls the land sur
rounding the Mackoy company's property ,
thus cornering the dumping grounds of the
old company. The camp Is well crowded
with prospectors and great excitement pre
vails.
ARIZONA GOLD MINES.
Two Important discoveries ot rich ledges
are reported from the Santa Maria district ,
says a special to the Denver News. Frd
Bonner and Harry Ashton found a ledge
near the old Hays inlno which is a splendid
prospect on the surface. The ledge Is a
strong one and prospects well In free gold.
Mark Joseph ! made tlfe discovery of a ledge
near the Sultan claim that Is unusually
rich. It Is supposed to bo the ledge from
which rich float was found years ago and
for which people have prospected at different
times for several years past.
Ex-Governor U. C. Powers will ship a
20-horso power boiler and cnglno to his
Enunot mine , on which extensive development
work' Is being pushed.
Thomas Roach and partners have struck
a flow of water In the Cumberland mlno on
Turkey creek. They have a shaft down 142
feet , with three feet ot good ore exposed.
George Meek and three partners went
proipectlng a few days ago out from Tucson
and nearly died of thirst before reaching
water. They lost the road and left one of
their companions far In the desert. They
discovered water , and , on returning to their
companion twenty-four hours later , found
him nearly dead , and It h feared that his
mind Is permanently deranged.
Superintendent Staunton of the Congress
mlno reports that a now water supply has
boon developed at the mill and the forty
Btamp : are running night and day again.
Twelve miles of the grading on the Jerome
camp branch road has been contracted to
U. Toohoy , who will start work at once.
IIo expects to have his contract completed
In sixty days.
There are about 100 men at the San
Domingo placers. Considerable of the gravel
Is worked by the dry washer process.
Senator Tabor will ship pipe from Denver
for the plpo line from the Hassayampa to
the Vulture mine. Work will soon begin at
this old camp.
Joseph Morrow and partner have made
what appears to bo a bonanza gold strilio In
Government gulch , a few miles southeast
of Prescott. The vein Is two and a half
feet wldo at the surface and gives an assay
of $190 per ton.
NATIONAL IRIUGATON CONGRESS.
By the authority of the national execu
tive committee the third national Irrigation
congress has been called to meet In the city
of Denver , Colo. , for tbo seven days be
ginning September 3 , 1S94.
To the people of the western half of the
United States this congress presents both
un urgent duty and a supreme opportunity.
Irrigation commissions In seventeen states
and territories , cicated by the last Irrigation
congress , will render reports to the con
vention at Denver. Upon these studies of
existing conditions and futro needs In all
parts of the arid region It Is proposed to
construct a national policy and code of local
laws to bo submitted to the federal congress
and the legislatures of .western states.
In accordance with a > resolution adopted by
the International Irrigation congress nt Los
Angeles. Gal. , October U. 1S33. the third
national Irrigation congress will bo composed
as follows :
1. All members of the national executive
committee.
2. All members of state nnd territorial
Irrigation commissions.
3. Two delegates at largo and as many
additional delegates as they have congress
districts , to bo appointed by tholr respective
governors for the following states and ter
ritories : Arizona , California , Colorado ,
Idaho , Kansas , Montana , Nebraska , Nevada ,
Now Mexico. North Dakota , Oklahoma , Oregon
gen , South Dakota , Texas , Utah , Washing
ton nnd Wyoming.
I. Two delegates at largo for each state
nnd territory not heretofore enumerated , to
bo appointed by the governors of said states
or territories.
G. Duly accredited representatives of any
foreign nation or colony , each member of
the United States senate and' house of rep
resentatives , each governor of a state or
territory , ono member each from different
societies of Irrigation , of Irrigation engi
neers , of agriculture , of horticulture , of
chambers of commerce , ot boards of trade ,
together with a delegate appointed by the
mayor of each Incorporated city of the sev
enteen states and territories named as being
directly Interested In Irrigation , will bo ad-
mtttetd as honorary members.
TARANTULAS AND CENTIPEDES.
"It's sure death to be bitten by a taran
tula. Such Is the general impression among
people who Imvo a limited acquaintance
with thorn , " said the campaigner from the
southwest to the New York Sun. "Hut I
think that my experience In Arizona , cover
ing a period ot Ilvo year a I will not substan
tiate that statement.
"I had my largest experience with tar
antulas whllo on the Gcronlmo campaign
during 18S5-SG , and ono night while In camp
at Guadaloupo canon a man by the name
of Mahouey was bitten un the arm by a
tarantula whoso body was as largo aa a
walnut. The only evil effect was the swell
ing ot the arm , which wont down In a few
days without any recourse to medicines or
drugs of any kind ,
"U might bo well to add that In the
morning Mahoney found the dead tarantula
on his arm , where ho had smashed It during
the night ,
"Whero wo were camped was really In
. ji. Mexico , although the boundary line was so
* i close that It might bo called 'no man's
land. ' Wo were guarding a water hole and
sending out scouts uvory day to communicate
with the troops cast and west ot us , the
whole thing being a chain through which thp
hoatllos had to pass on their way to Mexico
or the United States. Troop O was on the north
nldo ot the hole , nnd mlno , II , on the south ,
vrhlln a little further up was the camp of
our Indian scouts. The rocks about wore
literally allvo with centipedes , tarantulas ,
noorplons and skunks , yet no precautions
whatever were taken to guard agulnst them ,
I never knew of a man , woman or child In
Arizona dying through being bitten.
" 'Pud' Grlftln of II used to catch tartan-
tulas with his fingers , catching them In the
8.1 mo war that a boy would catch a bee ,
by grasping him firmly around the center
of his body where the joint Is.
"Centipedes are the worst thing In Ari
zona next to the rattler , and right hero I
want to say that I was much Interested
at reading a story , I think It was In the
Sun , of a hold-up where a centipede crawled
up a man's leg , and all the terror ho felt
because he dare not move through fear
of being shot , and ho expected to feel the
centipede sink Its feet In him at any mo
ment , nnd that , ho know , was Instant
death. It was well written , and brought
out the wonderful courage of the man In
nice style. Hut It wasn't so. If that
centipede had grabbed him ho would have
yelled blue hell and grabbed his leg , gun
or no gun. Then , If the stage robbers
didn't shoot him first , his leg would Imvo
swelled a little , and where the claws or
feet sunk In the Hcsh would rot and drop
out , and that would have been the end of
It. So far as his being neardeath's door
and all that , If ho never dies until a centi
pede kills him ho'll have to swallow one ,
and then get It In his death trap.
"Hut they are nasty things , sure
enough , and wherever they crawl on you
they leave a red mark , which burns and
Itches llko sin for a few hours. "
STRUCK IT RICH.
Charles Williams Is out from Dlxlo and
reports great activity In quartz and placer
mining In that district , says the E/co Press
of Grangovlllo , Idaho. Rcser , FlnK and W.
M. Clark are mining a bar on this side of
Salmon river , which Is paying $100 per day.
They get their water from a gulch , which
Is now nearly dry , and will soon commence
packing gravel to the river and continue
washing. The gold found on this claim Is
not the ordinary river gold , but a coarser
nnd highly oxidized variety , which evi
dently came from some quartz ledge near at
hand , as It shows no water or ulaclal wearer
or pressure. On the old Dllllnger placers
Mr. Mallhon Is running three pipes and
stripping a lot of now ground which pros
pects well. Mr. Williams gave us a gold
button , the proceeds of Ilvo pounds of ore
from Dllllngcr's Sampsonlan ledge , and
which Is said to have a two-foot ere streak
running through the ledge matter that will
mill $500 per ton. Williams and Dllllnger
Intend putting up a three-stamp mill on
Crooked creek this summer for the double
purpose of making tests of their several
claims and taking out a llttlo money for
further development. At present there are
fully 100 men In Dlxlo and more on the
trail headed for that camp.
TO REPLENISH THEIR HERDS.
The cattle ranges of eastern Washington
are being Invaded by the stock raisers of
Montana this season to recuperate the de
pletion which years of heavy shipments to
eastern , markets has wrought. For three
months , commencing with October , says the
Tacoma West Coast Tnrdo , It has been a
practice to load train load after train load
with stock for eastern consumption , and
while Washington , Oregon and Idaho have
contributed liberally to this caifae. the
greater shipper has been Montana. The cattlemen -
tlomen of that state have awakened to a
realization that they were destroylns the
future ot their Industry by selling all the
young stock from tholr herds , and have very
sensibly taken a new tack. President
Scott ot the Montana Cattle
men's association and other represent
atives Imvo this season made a thorough
canvass of Washington and Oregon , buying
about 20,000 head In this state and a
similar number In Oregon , paying an aver
age of $10. $15 and $20 a head for yearlings ,
2-year-olds and 3-ycar-olds respectively. The
distribution of such largo sums of ready
capital by the cattle kings is a godsend
to the agricultural communities of eastern
Washington at this time. It 13 decidedly
appropriate to add also that the state
farmers alliance , In .Its platform recently
adopted at Seattle , when crediting the Pa-
clflc Meat company of this city with con
trolling the prlco of all Ilvo stock raised In
this state , could hardly have taken Into con
sideration such competition as the Montana
buyers must afford.
NEVADA STRIKES.
The mining Industry of the southern portion
tion of Lincoln county Is coming to the
front , says the Plocho ( Nov. ) Record. New
strikes are being made and old properties
are looking more promising.
An Important strike has been made In
the Forlorn mountains , situated Jive miles
southwest of Cl Dorado canyon , on some
old claims that were located some eight
years ago and abandoned. About the latter
part of April John Heuss , with another
party , went to the old claims and got some
ere from them , which they had assayed
for gold and which went very high. Other
samples were then taken , all running from
$10 to$000 in gold to the ton.
There are four parallel ledges and all
well defined. The belt Is small , being
about ono mlle wldo and three miles long.
At present some ton locations are made.
On the Capital mlno two shafts have been
sunk , ono twenty feet and the other twen-
ty-throo feet and about seventy feet apart.
The vuin Is from two to two and a half feet
wldo and avorases the same In both Bhafts ,
$11 In gold to the ton.
A deep cut has been run on what Is
known as the Big Ledge , situated ono mile
south of the Capital shaft. The cut Is In
thirty feet and taps the ledge at a depth
of thirty feet , the ledge being about two
and a half feet wldo and averaging $50 In
About twenty-two miles from the Vegas
ranch and on the road to El Dorado canyon
a very promising strike has been made by
W. J. Stewart of the Vegas ranch. Sam-
plea taken from the croppings go from $10
to $100 a ton In gold.
A RICH PROSPECT.
In conversation with Major Simmons of
the Keystone mlno that gentleman stated
that the report of a wonderfully rich pros
pect found In the vicinity of the Keystone
was entirely true. The ground Is about 400
feet west of the Keystone mill nnd was
formerly located by Blair and Franklin , but
had been allowed to go back on account of
not doing assessment work. The discovery
of the prospect was purely accidental , says
the Rapid City Journal. About a week ago
William Franklin and his daughter were
seated on the ground In conversation , dur
ing which Mr. Franklin was carelessly driv
ing his pick In the ground. His daughter
picked up a piece of rock and Immediately
discovered that It contained fre-o gold In
considerable quantities , The report of the
richness of the rock could hardly bo cred
ited , and all day long men were pounding'up
the rock , thereby satlifylng thcmsclvos on
the subject. Charles Upman brought over
$100 of gold that was pounded out by hand
by different parties during the past few
days. World of Jlovcloplng this prospect
will ho nt once commenced In order to find
the ledge , which cannot fall of being exceed
ingly rich.
NEBRASKA.
Clay Center's now flouring mill has begun
operations.
The Madison Reporter Is now advocating a
bounty on babies.
There are 171 teachers enrolled at the Buf
falo county teachers Institute.
Rciv. A. C. Gearhart has resigned as pastor
of the Lutheran church at Auburn.
Three ot Nebraska's bank examiners have
gene on a month's fishing trip to Utah.
The Loup Valley District Sunday School
convention will bo held August 2 at North
Loup.
An effort Is being made to force the busi
ness houses ot Falls City to close on Sunday
by ordinance.
Hartlngton , Randolph , Wayne and Nor.
folk ere talking of holding a tennU tourna
ment soon at Norfolk.
Monnonlto Brethren In Christ have begun
a series ot revival meetings at Ilolbrook
and wilt erect a , tabornaclo.
A horse fair association has been organized
at Falls City and a mooting will be held
August 2 and 3 , with purses of $1,500.
A company has been formed at Tccumseh
to build a steamboat and clear the river of
snags , so that the vessel can be operated.
A poultry association has been organized
by chicken fanciers of Richardson county.
Another meeting will be held at Falls City
on July 21.
Because of the strike the railroads refus-d
to take the body of James Slayman , a Rich
ardson county farmer , to Marion , Kan. , for
burial , and It was necessary to Inter the
corpse at Falls City among strangers.
Rats carried matches between the walls of
the house of W. II. Miles at Stockville , and
when the rodents began to chow the ends
ot the sulphurous things there was a con
flagration. The result was that the house
was burned to the ground with all Us con-
HAYDEN
Fair
Low
We place on snlo In our
SILK DEPARTMENT
3,000 Yards of
Printed China Silks
In Navy , Hrnwn and Black ground
AT a yard.
Only one dress pattern sold to a customer and none to other merchants.
No samples of these goods cut. If you want a silk dress for half its
value , conic earl } * , because they won't last all day
A YAKD for good quality 1
I !
PRINTED GHIftA SILKS
A SWEEPING PRICE
-IN
YOUR CHOICE OF ANY
Light Summer Suit
IN THE HOUSE FOR
They sold right along from 813.50 to$18.
These suits are light , airy and fashion
able in sacks and cutaways.
The cutaways are extra long and in the
regular cut of this season's style. There are
all varieties of cloths and colors , in fancy
cheviots , cashiriorc , clay worsted , otc. If
you need a light summer suit , buy now if
you already have a suit , buy another , as such
a price ( $9.75) ) is rare and valuable.
.Monev refunded if goods are unsat
isfactory.
Come and sco our line of summer coats
and vests.
WE CANNOT BUS FACT TOO , SJRONOLY
Before buying a Piano , an Organ , a Violin , a Guitar , a Ma ndpliii or some
Shoot Music , look through our stock. Lookers on invariably become -
como purchasers. , ,
tents. It was the oldest frame structure In
Frontier county.
The Table Hock Herald bus changed
hands just because the editor were a Coxey
badge on the Fourth of July. The business
men boycotted him and now 'jo has leased
the plant to R. H. Wessell , who \s-ll cm-
tlnue to run the paper as a populist urgan.
U. G. Wilkinson , a Nemana county
farmer , cut , threshed and sold Ms wheat In-
sldo of eight days. He had forty acres ,
yielding twenty-four bushels to the acre ,
and the prlco paid for the output was 42V4
cents per bushel.
Says the Red Cloud Argus : If any one
has any doubts as to the efficacy of a "sick"
chinch bug as an exterminator of the pest
a visit to the wheat field of G. W. Lindsay
south of the railroad will dispel thorn. He
procured a small supply of the Inoculated
bugs from Prof. Bruner and distributed
them among the healthy bugs which liter
ally swarmed over his wheat , and today
ono can gather up dead bugs by the hand
ful. If every farmer would take a llko
course this country would soon be rid of
the pest.
THE DAKOTAS.
A cloudburst near Hot Springs , S. D. ,
flooded the Fall river In the Black Hills ,
damaging Deadwood and other towns , .
Stockmen are making frequent complaints
regarding the depredations of wolves on the
ranges , says the Belle Fourcho Dec. These
pests are becoming more numerous with
each succeeding year and are killing hun
dreds of animals.
Eight carloads of machinery arrived at
Edgemont for the big woolen mill. Work
on the mill will begin Immediately and It
will be pushed to completion as rapidly as
possible. When In running order It will
furnish employment for 500 mdn.
Largo numbers are arriving on every train
to attend the encampment of the Grand
Army of the Republic nnd Sons of Veterans
at Lake Kamposka. Battery A of Clark Is
already In camp , and company II of Water-
town Is on hand. There will bo at least 1,000
people In camp.
Within the radius of twenty miles of Al-
pena there are at least a dozen women hold
ing down claims. To spend day after day
and week after week miles away from neigh
bors takes grit , energy and backbone. Two
young ladles. I'rcsba by name , have started
ta to hold down a quarter section just north
of the county line , and from all accounts
they will do It In good shape , for they are
of the right material.
Judge Grant has been hearing the case
against Al Gram , a farmer living twelve
miles south of Huron , arrested charged with
obstructing the flow of water In a public
stream , Some months ago Cram constructed
a dam across the Jim river to obtain water
with which to Irrigate a portion of his
farm , Some of his neighbors objected , nnd
a couplo.of weeks since the dam and water
'
hoisting ap'pllance were blown to pieces with
dynamite. Mr. Cram set about to recon
struct the dam and was arersted. The case
attracted much Interest , as other farmers
alonK the river were about to follow Mr.
Cram's example , Mr. Cram won his case ,
and another season will sea very many farms
on the margin of Jim rfver Irrigated with
water from that stream.
COLORADO.
Five hundred miners are employed In the
Ouray district.
A $15,000 car of Golden Flueco oie Is
stalled at Sallda.
A ten-ton mill la being put up at the
Troy mine In Boulder county.
The force of miners on the MaUlo D at
Cripple Creek has been doubled ,
The Annlo Leo at Crlppio Creek shipped
ISO tona ot ore averaging $50 last week ,
Ore encountered by the new shaft ot the
Mahala mlno at Lcadvllle Is very rich.
The Little Johnnie , In the Lcadvlllo Quid
belt , Is credited with an output ot $127,000
In a single day.
In a roping contest nt Tellurldo for $100
Ford Galloway of Paradox roped , threw and
tied a steer In eighty-seven seconds.
A strike Is reported on the Sacramento ,
Cripple Creek , which yields from $ CO to $70
In gold to the ton at a depth of thirty feet.
TtiQ now gold camp In Gllpln county oa
Silver creek blda fair to become second
Cripple Creek. The ores are of low grade ,
but are oald to exist la great quantities.
Tlio Geyser mine struck a vein pt argen-
11 j
tlte ore that assays $17,000 per ton. It Is
traced 100 feet In height and 15 feet In
length already. This Is In addition to the
rich bodies already opened.
It Is claimed that if the blockade contln-
use the Omaha & Grant smelter will be shut
down on Sunday and the Globe and Argo soon
after. Ono thousand men are now employed.
Work Is being rushed on the big plant
of the United States Economic Reduction
company on the bluff north of Florence.
Chlorinatlon , amalgamation and roasting will
all be used.
The now gold saving device , called the
Beam process , starts In at Tellurlde with
an assured supply of ore. Parties Interested
In the mill , Messrs. Beam , Chapln and
Whlteman , have taken a bond and lease on
the Roy Johnstone group of mines. In Pros
pect basin , at $150,000. The first payment
will be made In sixty days , which gives tlmo
to test the mill. The bond expires In one
year. There are twelve gold-bearing claims
In the group , and It Is said that a largo
force of men will bo set at work to develop
the vein and got the ore to the mill.
WYOMING.
The state penitentiary at Rawllns , Is fast
ncarlng completion.
Laramlo merchants came near having a
sugar and flour famine.
Casper lubricating oil has a range ot 358
degrees standing a fire test of 320 and a
cold test of 32.
The sources of the coming Casper water
system nro living springs , situated 1,200
feet up the side of Casper mountain.
The cattlemen of Evanston are negotiating
with the Union Pacific company for the
leasing of about 200 sections of land around
about Evanston nnd to the north. If they
do It will scJUe tlio foreign sheep nuisance
very satisfactorily for the settlers around
the town , who are being eaten out of house
and home , and will revive the cattle Indus
try In that section.
In excess of 230,000 sheep have been
sheared at and near Casper this season , giv
ing a wool clip of over 2,000,000 pounds. Of
these sheep 26,000 head were sheared by
machinery , Casper having the first steam
shearing plant established In the United
States. Wool tcourlng and knitting works
are soon to bo established at Casper. Man
ufacture of woolen cloths Is also being agi
tated ,
OREGON.
The grain aphis has appeared In Wasco
county.
An oatmeal factory Is being projected nt
Albany.
Hop fields near Harrlsburg promise tre
mendous yields.
The Hammersly mine turned out $350
from a short run.'r
Three largo hop hpuses are going up In
Uio vicinity of Gervals. - .
Grant's Pass has 'cut Its saloon license
down from $800 to $4QOL
About 200,000 dozen of eggs are shipped
from Albany each y ar
In Lane county the new aphis Is appear
ing on oats and timothy , ,
An association Is about to start up a co
operative butcher shop at Tlllamook.
The Union Pacific iioij' ' over 1,000 men at
work between Bonnovjlloland The Willows.
U Is estimated that $ 00,000 In gold dust
was taken out in theUedford district last
year. 1 o j
H Is worth 50 cents 'h day to pick wild
blackberries on the premises of Linn county
farmers. ,
Grant county will Iiavu to spend $20-
000 In replacing and repairing bridges af
fected by the freshets ,
McKuno & Co , will erect a stamp mill
this summer on their ere vein In the Hluo
river mining dlitrlct , fifty miles from Ku-
genii ,
Whllo cleaning up at his placer claim
In Kerby district Guy Morrison found sev
eral nuggets , the largest weighing $10 , $ CO
and $92 respectively ,
Quito a number of late Inspections of
aphls-lnfeoted grain up the valley show
that the kernels Eeem plump and uninjured ,
and fears are being allayed.
D. W. Long and Thomas Nicely of Ju
niper precinct , Umatllla county , are tweet
ot the largest and most successful farmers
of that section. This year they have In
4,700 acre * of wheat , which they report to bo
la splendid condition , with prospects of be-
Groceries.
The list of prices Riven below refer to
choice selections from our stock.
When you order from us you can depend on
receiving ( nil value every time ,
Large palls Jelly , 33c.
Choice sugar corn , C > c can.
Early Juno peas , 8Uo can.
Choice solid packed tomatoes , Olio can.
Very fine preserved blackberries only lOo
can.
can.Choice
Choice cuts steak salmon , S > Jc can.
Oil sardines only 3l c can.
Mustard sardines only 7ic ! can ,
Flbcrlcss cocoamit only 7'ic can.
Corn starch , 3W. c.
Ilakcrs' chocolate , 17He package.
Sweet chocolnto only 3Vic package.
Tomato catsup only IGo pint bottle.
Pure condensed milk , lOc can.
Good rice from 3o up.
Rolled wheat , some call It California
breakfast food , only Be ,
Finest Imported queen olives , 35i quart.
Savlllc olives only 25c quart.
Arabian olives only IDc quart.
Mixed pickles , 6c bottle.
Chow chow , fie bottle.
French mustard only 2',4c bottle.
Oysters crackers only 3V4c pound.
3-pound can golden pumpkin only lOc.
Flour.
To Intioduce Hardens' best BX flour , we
will for a shott tlmo put In every sack one
of the fallowing articles. The flour Is war
ranted to bo the best you ever used or money
refunded.
Ono diamond ring.
Onp gold watch.
One $5.00 bill.
One set solid sliver plated teaspoons.
Ono ladles' rolled gold watch chain.
One ladles' cluster diamond lace pin.
Wo carry the leading brands of Hour , such
as Hayden's Uros. ' CX Superlative ( Rex pat
ent ) hard wheat flour.
4X Minneapolis Superlative flour , $1 10
sack.
sack.Valley
Valley Lily Hour , $1.00 sack.
Central Mills' Uest Superlative , 95c sack.
Snow flake flour , G5c sack.
A very good flour for COc.
Good rye flour S5o sack.
Choice rye flour SI.00.
Best rye flour $1.15 sack.
Haydcu's Eye Openeis on
Meats.
Real these nrlces : Sugar cured No. 1
hams , largo size , 105ic ; sugar cured No. 1
hams , 14 to 1C pounds cacli , ll' c , and hams
from 8 to 12 pounds , I2c ; boneless ham ,
9' ' c ; salt pork , 8c ; pickle pork , T'/ic ; bo
logna , 4c per pound ; sugar cured bacon ,
lOc , 12c and finest made for 14c ; corned
beef , 5c ; summer sausage , ny-c. With
such prices as tlicso on meats who can say
that Haydcns * Is not In line.
Dress Trimmings
and Button Dept.
Big special bargains in jet trimmings ,
2jc and 30c. Jot at JOc per yard. Gimp
at JOc and 20e per yard. Hercules
braids in black and white , in all tlio
diflerent widths , from 2c , 3c , oc , 8c , lOc ,
12e. Dress buttons at Cc per sot. Odd
lot of nice dress buttons .at 2c per do/ .
Buttons in all styles and sizes , and
cheap ones , too.
Ing ready for harvest In three weeks. They
estimate that this grain will average fully
twenty-five hushcls to the acre a total
product of 117,000 bushels.
The curfew law Is being enforced In Al
bany. A IC-year-old boy was put In jail ,
where he remained three days , for being
on the streets after 9 p. m.
There Is talk of forming a company and
starting a pulp mill on the npper Necannl-
cum. There Is plenty of suitable timber
and an abundance of water.
A. F. Miller of Sellwood has completed a
display of Oregon woods , over 100 varieties ,
for the Southern Pacific company. The dis
play will be exhibited at Chicago.
George Carnegla Is back at Baker City
from a trip to the Cherokee nation , where
ho successfully and profitably sold to In
dians 200 head of Burnt river horses.
J. G. Blrdsey shipped $200 worth of gold
the other day , the result of work with a
hand mortar on ere from Blrdsey , Swlnden
& Knott's ledge , In Willow Springs district.
Wallowa county stockmen say that cat
tlo will bo ready for market two or three
months earlier than usual owing to the
abundance of grass and water on the
range.
Ryan , the sheep buyer , has started his
band of mutton from Grant county over
land to Nebraska. He paid for yearlings
$1. for 2-ycar-olds $1.00 , and for 3-year-olds
$1.75 per head.
Charles Hilton , a well known eastern
Oregon sheep man , Is reportpd to have re
cently added to his flocks 12,000 head ho
bought of Fred 0. Halo. Halo Is expected
to go Into the cattle business.
S. II. Friendly , In a few days , will ship
twenty-five tons of chlttlm bark from
Eugene to Now York manufacturing drug
gists. This Industry scatters considerable
money through Lane county annually.
A farmer In a distant part of Linn
county made a long stage trip to Albany
to have an assessment removed on a cow
which had just died. The trip cost him about
$5 , and the tax would have been 6 cents.
The caterpillars are now attacking the
hop yards. They bhould bo sprayed against.
In fact , there should bo no caterpillars In
Oregon. As the Salem Statesman truly re
marks , had our orchardlsts used the least
care and taken any precautionary measures
none of our orchards would have suffered
by reason of the caterpillar pest this year.
Josephine county has the only survivor
of the war of 1812 who draws a pension on
this coast Hosea Drown of Wlldervllle ,
who was born In Westmoreland county , Now
York , In 1732 , Of the old soldier , the San
Francisco pension agent writes ; "Mr.
llrown Is the only survivor of the war of
1812 on our rolls , and ono of the few sur
vivors now living , and wo feel very kindly
towaid him , always looking for his voucher
and remitting the amount promptly. Wo
would llko to have a photograph of him If
possible. "
At the Baptist association In session at
Lebanon a few days ago , an amusing In
cident occurred , llov. Mr. Jenkins of In
dependence by mistake took a vallso be
longing to a lady member. IIo took It with
htm on a visit Into the country , nnd was
Ignorant of his mistake , until ho opened
it and beheld the bcrufllod and bifurcated
apparel within. The young lady also had
his vallso , but what she found In It Is not
stated. Mutual explanations followed , and
the vatl&es were exchanged after much
anxiety on both sides and profuse apologies
by the minister.
The Canyon City News has heard from
Joseph Magone , who walked to the World's
fair. Some ono sends In the following from a
Canton , N. J. , paper : "Joseph Magone was
In town yesterday. Ho Is 80 years old , and
In coming to Canton walked from Ogdons-
burg to Morley , a distance ot eighteen miles.
Ho said that ho had walked from Oregon to
the World's fair In seventy days , averaging
thirty miles per day and traveling a distance
of 2,100 miles In all. Whllo lieru ho took a
'bracer' by walking around the half mile
trade In six minutes and thlrty-fivo seconds ,
a pretty fair rate for a gray-haired man of
his age. "
WASHINGTON.
Cowlttz county has sixty logging camps ,
employing 730 men.
White river hop growers are refusing offers
of contracts at 11 cents.
Oa Huckleberry mountain. In Stevens
county , tha recent uovero winds are said to
To do this department justice we would need the entire
space of The Bee.
4o-inch all \vool henriotta , worth 590 , before-invoicing
price' , 390 ,
,10-inch storm serge , worth 590 , before-invoicing price , 350.
46-inch Frederick Arnold's best Gorman henrietta. worth
980 , before-invoicing price , sgc.
A magnificent line of black goods. A complete line oi
black goods.
HAVDEN BROS. STRIKE THE RIGHT CHORD IN OFFERING
Fine Music Instrument
AT VERY LOW PRICES-
SIIlvF.T MUSIC , coinprlsintf such popular titles IH "Over the \Vuvos , " by
Rots ; "Fifth Nocturne , " by Loybuuh ; "iMinuute , " bv I'tulorawdlci , oto. , suuli us nro
i-cKUlni'ly sold , for f > 0c , 75o and 81.00 , NOW < fc 1MJH COl'V. Catalogue upon ap
plication. f > ,000 copies of till uriulos of Vocal Music , folio , Uoo , Jtoo anil f 0o. A full
and complete assortment.
MUSICIANS AND OTIII2US nro invited to look over our assortment of
plixnos , orpans , violins , Riiltni'ri , mandolins , etc. Wo olTur as a louder , an olujjimt
guitar at * ; t.75. Mandolins from ? . ' ! 75 upward * . Stewart banjos from $10 up. Wo
are agents for the celebrated Washburn mandolins and guitars.
If you contemplate getting a piano , got our prli-os on "Tho Clilokorlnp , " the
standard piano of the world , and for which wo are solo Omalia agenU. Wo can
iiialce ti very material s-aving to our customers , as wo undoi'scll regular muMo
( k'aloi'8. New pianos always on band for rent. I'romnt attention given to plann
tuning orders. Our piano ease organ ia Ibo latest novelty in organs , la appear
ance resembling a hrtmlsutnc , upright piano with seven full octavo keya.
SOMBL MATTRRSS 'TALK.
ALIMtED Tllli : OK HAT , in his famous sub
division of time , yuve 8 hours to sleep.
SANDOW , the Strong Alan , says he sleeps
at least 0 or It ) hours out of the 24.
GLADSTONE attributes his wonderfully
prolonged powers in a measure to lonjj ; sleeps.
Kvon the average man bo bo a professional or
business man , mechanic or laborer spends at least
one-third of liib tlmo in led. Considering this , why
not got the bust mattress to sloop upon , and wo eaa
lot you have the bust at a very moderate figure.
Our nmttrcbpos arc made by the Omaha Mattress Co , and Billow fc Doup. Our
figures cannot bo undersold. Here aio tome samples :
Cotton top mattress $ 2.CO
Combinations $ 't."iO and -l.CO
Wool $3. 5 , S-l.SW , 1.7. ' )
Hair $ S.OO , $10.00 1U.OO
Wo can make over any moss or hair mattress in whatever si'/.c you doslro.
Feathers and pillows of the very best grades at the lowest possible prices.
DON'T FORGET OUR FURNITURE PRICES.
have destroyed 1,000 acres of valuable white
pine.
Placer mining Is booming at Marcus , and
people are arriving from all directions.
The women voted nil ono way nt the
Prescott school election , and turned the
scale.
Chelmlls county believes In good roads.
A contract for n pleco of road was let for
$5,000.
T. L. Fox & Sons , at Burlington , have
over 1,000,000 shingles In their dry kiln
waiting for cars.
Everett Is constructing , by private enter
prise , a plank road four miles long , to con
nect with Machlas.
Ellonsburgh city bonds , $33,000 sold In
Spokane , brought par less 5 per cent com
mission to the broker.
Miners In the vicinity of lone City , Uow-
lllz county , have discovered placer diggings
that prove to bo very valuable.
Reports agree that Kllckltat county's crop
outlook Is the best It ever had. Tlicro will
bo about 1,200,000 bushels of wheat.
A long line of pralrlo schooners passed
through Spokane containing a Nebraska
colony bound for somewhere on the Sound.
Jonathan Plerco , of the Upper Shookum-
chuck , killed a cougar , which thus paid the
penalty of having devoured twenty-seven
lambs of his slayer's flocks.
Kllckitat county Is so hard up that crim
inal actions , according to tha Goldendalo
Sentinel , cannot bo maintained. There Is
no money either for Juries or to board
prisoners.
They expect great things In Lincoln county
from the Mcnnonltes , who have about de
cided to move there from Manitoba. Tile
settlement In Manitoba comprises 13,000 per
sons , and It Is said they are determined to
leave the land of cold winters.
The Northern Pacific Is said to bo think
ing of building a new wharf nt Kalama
upon a now Idle float 275 feet long. The
agent there says It could bo done as cheaply
as to repair the old wharf , and of course
high water would have no terrors for U.
The Montesano Vldetlo says there Is standIng -
Ing In Chehalls county. In feet , of fir. 15,030-
000,000 ; spruce , 6,765,600,000 ; cottonwood ,
1,020,000,000 ; hemlock , 12.005,000.000 ; alder ,
maple nnd ash , about 1,500,000,000 ; cedar ,
4,925,000,000 , making a grand total of 42-
000,000,000 feet of timber.
The latest developing mlno In the Cedar
Greek district Is that of Hays , Nelson nnd
Axtel of Boundary City , which Is a silver
property , assaying $203.12 In silver and $13
In gold to the ton , These gentlemen will
begin shipping ere as soon as the break
In the railroad Is repaired and ready for
traffic.
Seven years ago Robert Neal sot out 1,000
fruit trees on sagebrush land on the Colum
bia , about sixteen miles north of Wilbur ,
slnco having added 3,000 trees to his orchard ,
Last year five acres of his peaches were
bearing and 3,980 boxes of the fruit wore
sent to the Spokane market. From throe
acrea of strawberries 27,000 loxts were
picked. Mr. Neal obtained about $5,000 as
the 'product of his comparatively young
fruit farm last year.
Ono druggist In Colfax sold $100 worth
of strychnine Insldo of twenty-four hours ,
and a COO-acro wheat farmer telU the Pee
ple's Advocate that his boys shot 300 or 400
squirrels a day , and nt the tlmo he told It
he was buying poison to help the work along.
II. H. Livingston of Colfax has been studyIng -
Ing over a scheme and believes that bomo
of these pests can bo InnocuUtod with a dli-
ease that will spread nnd destroy a multi
tude ot their kind ,
Ynklina sheepmen feel somewhat encour
aged over a illght Improvement in the price
of sheep , Several very fair sales have been
made of late , among them being 2,000 head
of range sheep , which Mr. McAllister dis
posed of to Victoria people .at $2.50 per head ,
and several thousand head which W. II.
Pcatross ot Prosscr shipped to Chicago , For
tunately for the owner , they arrived at tholr
destination just ahead ot the floods and
netted him $3.10 a head ,
A fish story which does credit to Its com
poser appears In the Skamanla Pioneer as
follows ; John White and John Daughman
had good luck with a dlpnot. In six hours
they scooped out 4,680 pounds , actual wolght ,
of choice salmon , and were at It when wo
loft. James Galbralth , the chief engineer of
the steamer Dalles City , came up to where
Messrs , Whlto and Uaughmau were fishing
and In five minutes dipped up five flno sal
mon , ono n minute. He said : "I have a
notion to quit stcamboatlng and dip for
salmon. "
R. S. Jackson has filed , on behalf of sev
eral St. Paul men of prominence , a number
of claims on the natural accretions made In
later years on the beach at Peterson's point
near South Bend. These gentlemen own a
patent on n machine for extracting flour
gold from sand and other natural deposits.
This machine , the Herald says , can bo worked
at a profit In sand yielding 50 cents to the
ton. Samples of the baud for trial have boon
sent to St. Paul , and , If It proves as pro
ductive as reports on all sides have It , a
number of machines will bo put In at the
beach.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The residents of Hesperla , In San Ber
nardino county , California , are puzzled by
the phenomena exhibited In a well near that
place. At a depth of ninety feet there Is a
strong downward current of air. Seven foot
lower the current changes upward , causing
a whistling sound llko steam escaping.
Alternating strains of coarse gravel and
cement grnvol constitute the formation.
Miners working In the Empire mine nt
Grass Valley report that during n recent / *
thunder Rtorm the lightning struck the
plpo nnd descended In the mlno to a depth
of 1,000 feet and thence Into the drifts ,
where the men were working repairing the air
pipes. Two of thorn In lifting a pleco of
plpo were struck by lightning nnd knocked
down. Men working In the Granite Hill
mlno , It Is Enid , were similarly affected.
The narrow escape from death nt the
hands of the Tlnxcnlan Indians of Prof.
Nelson , naturalist of the Smithsonian Insti
tute , who has been making collections of
vegetable and 'entomological specimens In
Mexico for the past two years , Is Just
learned. Hod Mr. Nelson not been secreted
by friendly Indiana ho would have mot
speedy death as being n hated land sur
veyor , for which the Tlaxcalans mistook
him. Prof. Nelson Is now organizing a
strong party for other researches.
It has been a good many years slnco the
cattlemen of Montana huvo felt so buoyant
as they do at this writing , says the Rocky
Mountain Husbandman. Stock In nearly
every section of the state wintered well nnd
the range Is everywhere good and It does not
seem that It Is possible that anything can
occur to prevent a fine crop of beef nnd
fairly good prices. There nro also n largo
number of steers nnd n ureat many spayed
cows on our ranges , and With good grass ,
which Is fully ofcourud , they will go Into
market early and In hotter condition than
Montana beef has been In any shipping sea
son for half a d07on or more years.
Hon. John Hnlloy says In the Halley
( Idaho ) Times that the crops down the valley
are looking flrst-rato. The crickets have not
done much damage , because people have
learned the trick of driving them away , by
boating tin cans or anything that will make
a noise. A person with n tin can walks
alone by the side of the crickets. At each
stroke on the can the crickets crowd over
each other In their endeavor to cscapo from
the noise. One- person can , by walking
back and forth for fifty foot or BO , boat back
quite n tiumbor of the crickets , nnd three or
four persons acting In concert can drive mil
lions of them. The ranchers down the val
ley and their families fought the crickets
for two days , with empty oil cans , and suc
ceeded In getting rid of them by steering
thorn ta the hills.
The leopards glvo two performances at
Courtland beach today.
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