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THE OMAHA DAILY MISE ; EATrifDAY , JULY 11 , 1890. TIIB OMAHA DAILY BEE E. R03BYVATI3R , IMItor. punusunD MOHNINO. TEIIMS O Dallf me ( Without Sun < liy ) One Yeaf . ISM Dally Itf * and Sunday , One Year . W W Hit month * . < fftiree months . 2M Sunday leo , One Yenr . JgJ Paturday lle . One Year . 2 vWcekly llee , Ona Year . . { 5 OFFICHS ! Om hn , The Ilcc llulMInc , . . . . Bouth Onrnhn , Hinder Hlk. , Cor. N and Mlh St . Council lll rr , 18 North Mnln Street , Chlcnpo OHIcr , 317 Chamber nf Commerce. New York. Itoorrn , 13. II atul IS , Tribune Bldg. Washington , 1(07 ( P Street , N. W. COIltlCSrOKUKMCB ! All communications relating to news anJ cdl torlal matter should bo < Mrc * d : To the I.JItor. All business letters and remittance * should t addressed to The llee l'ubll < hln C"mi' ny , Omaha. Drafts , cher-ks and postoBlcc ordcrt tel . l ) m da payable to the order nf the comlmmr. TUB nnn runMBiiiNu COMPANY. STATHMUNT Of C1UCUI..ATION. Btate of Nebranka | DouRlaa county. | Oc-orRO I ) . Tzuchuck , secretary of The Hoe Pub lishing company , belnt ; duly sworn , snyi that the nctunl number of full and complete copies of the Dally , Moriilnj ? , livening nnd Sunday lleo printed during the month of June , 1M6 , was ns follows : ( Iciluctlonn for unBolJ anil returned copies ' .10' " " Net totiil sales 5S3.470 Ket dally average 1M' QCOItnil 11. T7.HCHUCK. Hworn to before mo nnd mibicrlbod In my prcKrncc tlili 4lh day of July , ISM. ( SeM. ) N. P. mil * Notary Public. Parties going out of tlio city for tlio summer 'may have The Bt'e sent to their address by leaving nn order at the business olllce of the Hoc. Telephone 1US. The unexpected often happens. It was foreordained that Bryan's nom ination should bo made on Friday. Bryan can readily hypnotize the multitude , but when reason cts her H\vny tlio spoil Id broken and the re- uctlon sets in. It Is only n coincidence that the gold reserve fell below the hundred million murk simultaneously with Bryan's 1,0111- inatlon for president. There arc any number of men willing to wager sixteen white beans to one that Bryan will not become the occu pant of the white house on the 4th of March , 1807. Some of the largest cities In the country have found It necessary this year to make provision for eradicating noxious weeds , whoso rank growth lias caused complaint at the hands of citizens. The Hoard of Health Is of opinion the weeds superinduce con tagion. It Is not at all strange , under the circumstances , that loan and trust companies handling eastern money are slow to put It out in this state just now. Conditions are sueh as to make it ex pedient for capitalists to ascivtatn definitely just what the llnancial policy of the government is lo be. When ex-Governor Russell of Massa chusetts declared In the Chicago Coll- soiun , "I have heard that democracy was being tied to a star not to the lone star we would gladly welcome- but to the falling star which Hashes for an Instant and then goes out In the darkness of the night , " ho doubtless had in his mind's eye the brilliant but evanescent Uryan. Toor old Bland , who had given a life's service to the cause of silver , had to bo dropped by the wayside and a political stripling who was still at school when the old Missouri war horse fought the battle for silver remonetl/atlon that re sulted In thu coinage oC ( WO.000,000 standard silver dollars has been given the nomination for the highest position within the gift of the democracy. Germany and Austria have solved the problem of lire Insurance at the lowest possible cost to the insured. Kather than penult private corporations to drain the country by Imposing excessive premium rates upon properly owners , the govern ments of those nations took the matter all In their own hands , and each stand nt the head of a great mutual lire Insurance company. By this means absolute Indemnity Is ottered to pollej holders at the minimum cost. The time may come when state Insurance will claim general public attention. Chances for soenrlng the Christian Endeavor convention for 1SS ! seem to be good , while the national body of the locomatlve engineers may decide to meet In Omaha during exposition year. If this thing keeps up mueh longer It will bo necessary for the Commercial club to arrange a dnto card for these events , to the end that no two bodies shall meet In Omaha the same week. Unsigned dates mlKht bo furnished the Bndeavorors , whoso convention would , of course , demand and receive the right- of-way. It Is all any city can handle nt once. Figures based upon actual results of the garden plot enterprise as conducted In this city hist year has demonstrated beyond question Its economy , Tina gratifying rest-It was attained the ilrst year in a season of comparative drouth. " \Vhnt \ must be the result of tins year's work , when certainty of an enorniout yield Is manifest , and when the ex perience of lust year taught the managers and promoters just how UK work should be done ? There Is u doubt tlmt the crop of this year will bt double that of lust , and that the pooi fund will be benefited In like proper tion. Uy mutating the poor and nee < l > lo help themeslves thu taxpayers oi Douglus county are saving a largi amount of money at a time'when it h inont needed to cover the expenses cl government. WlYMf FOIl 2'ttKSIDBST. The nomination of "William Jennings Irynn for picsldent of the United States is n striking Illustration of the caprices of politics. When the Chicago convention mot there were very few icoplo nnd those chiefly his most In- Imiito friends who thought of Mr. Bryan as a presidential possibility , lie was not nn avowed candidate for the lomlnntion and while he was recognized ns among the foremost champions of ho free silver cause It was felt that 10 would have little chance with the political veterans who had entered the ace and prosecuted a vigorous cam- mlgn. "Whatever may have been < lone 'or Mr. Bryan by his friends , his noinl- mllon was duo almost wholly to him self. His speech In support of the ma- orlty report of the platform commlt- ee was by far the strongest on the free silver side that was addressed to the convention. A characteristic utter ance In Its sophistries , its appeals to class prejudice and Its "glittering gen eralities , " delivered In the theatrical imnncr of which Mr. Bryan Is a maser - er , It produced an effect upon that lin- iresslonablo body which left little to ) e done to secure the nomination of he man who made It. Thus Mr. Bryan nay Justly claim that the dis tinguished honor which has been conferred upon htm Is unstained > y any deals or Intrigues or nanlpnlatlons , but came as n tribute to his brilliant and unflinching advo cacy of the cause for which he stands. "Whether or not the selection of Mr. Bryan was the best , on the score of avail- tblllty , that the Chicago convention could have made , Is a question that need not now be discussed. Ho Is the youngest man ever placed In nomlna- : Ion for the presidency and his politi cal career and experience of public af fairs have been confined to two term. ? In the national house of representatives. As a member of the Fifty-second and Fifty-third congresses Mr. Bryan ac quired national repute as an advocate of free trade. He assisted in f ram Ing the Wilson tariff bill , with Its free wool and unconstitutional Income tax pro visions , the later of which he intro duced and urged and still defends. Mr. Bryan believes that the policy of pro tection to American Industries Is tmivm- stltutlonal and If he had the power he would undoubtedly remove every ves tige of protection that remains. Sliu-o retiring from congress Mr. Bryan has devoted most of the time to advocating free silver , presumably retained fo'1 this purpose by the producers of the white metal , and be has contributed more largely In volume to the discus sion of this subject than any other man in the country. In this campaign In Ne braska two years ago Mr. Bryan was a candidate for the United States ben- ate and had an opportunity to express himself regarding the railroad corpor ations. He , however , avoided the sub ject and no one is now nnthorl/.ed to say what his position is respecting tU- treatment of the people by those cor porations and their course In connection with politics. No one will dnny that Mr. Bryan Is a man of ability. As an exponent of free trade and free silver he has , perhaps , no superior In the country , lint in his brief public career he gave no evidence of states manship or of .tho possession of iho u qualifications which lit n man for the great duties and responsibilities of the olllce of chief magistrate of 70,000,000 of people. The ability to make a bril liant speecli is not a suflieieut recom mendation for president of the United Stales. Mr. Brynn will be carefully weighed and measured during the months that Intervene before the day of election in November and the words that won him the nomination at Chicago cage will count for nothing with the millions of intelligent voters who will render their verdict upon the action of that convention. Representing princi ples and policies which we profoundly believe are hostile to the interests and welfare of the American people which wo believe would be productive of greater disaster to the financial' and business interests of tills country than they have ever experienced we conll- dently predict that Mr. Bryan and his party will lie overwhelmingly defoaivil at the polls. von THK K The momentous problem that confronts - fronts the managers of the Trans- misslsslppl Exposition is tlio rais ing of the funds necessary for placing the enterprise upon a scale commensiirato with the magnitude which Its projectors had contemplated. Under the conditions of ilio act granting It recognition by tlio government and pledging an appropriation of $ iit)0,0 ) < )0 ) for a building and exhibits represent ing the national government , not lens than , " 0,000 must bo rahed In sub- scrlptlons and donations by the exposi tion association before tlio president caii Issue his proclamation givli'g notice to the American states and to the world In general that an International exposition Is to bo held In Omaha In 18J18. After full discussion and mature deliberation It has been deemed most desirable to Inaugurate a radical departure from the original plan of organization which had been Improvised on the spur of the mo ment and carried through by n MiiuU body of stockholders and directors to the point when the exposition project has secured a Jinn foothold. In order to en courage and stimulate the active co operation of all classes of our citizens thu articles of incorporation of the Tninsmlssihslppi association have been revised and amended so as to popularize thu management by giving all subscrib ers to the exposition funds a voice In the management. Just as soon ns ? uOO- 000 lias been subscribed to thu stock of the exposition association thu board of directors will be enlarged from eleven to Hfty memburs and these directors , elected by the stockholders , will have control of all the affairs of the exposition until after it lias been held , With an uctlvu canvass for subscriptions to the stock there should bu no dllUculty In raising the $ ; 5X.t)00 ( of stock , payable in gradual Installments running for eigh teen months , by the middle of August nt the furthest. Meantime , the present directory will continue the work and duties devolving upon it and endeavor to secure the location nt Omaha during 1898 of every Important national con vention , conference or reunion , so as to insure the largest possible attendance. The plan of campaign for raising the slock subscriptions Is now being mapped out nnd within a few days It will bo under way. It is hardly necessary for Thu Bee to Impress upon the citizens of Omaha the importance ot responding H'omptly to the call nnd subscribing gen erously to the cause. Everything that Omaha hopes for In the near future de pends upon the success of the exposition mil Its success will depend upon the patriotism nnd public spirit of the citi zens of Omaha. 1DKAS llf 1'HOSl'KlllTi' In his speecli supporting the majority report of the committee on resolutions Mr. Bryan said that the democratic Idea of government has been that "if you legislate to make the masses pros perous , their prosperity will llnd Its way up and through every class and rest upon It. " If such has been the den of the democratic party It has failed throughout Its entire history to put It Into effect. When has that party given the country a single act of leg islation that operated to promote the [ irosperlty of the masses ? For the greater part of the time from thu foundation of the government to ISTO the democratic party was In power and during tlmt period Its legislation served to repress and retaril the ma terial development of the country. It was opposed then as It still Is to the policy of protection and ns the result of the carrying out of Its Idea the coun try experienced the two most disastrous panics In 11s history. That of 3857 , due almost wholly to the tariff policy of the democratic party , bankrupted the people and the government. Not only was the general business of the coun try prostrated , but the government had not money with which to pay its cur rent expenses and was able to borrow only by paying nu enormous rate of Interest. The countrtv swarmed with idle people nnd everywhere distress and suffering prevailed. At thnt time the tariff came nearer to free trade than ever before nnd It may be remarked that the country also had the free and unlimited coinage of silver. Whoever will take the trouble to examine the statistics of progress during the seventy years from the foundation of the gov ernment to the last democratic admin istration before the war and compare them with the period from the close of the rebellion to 1S90 will find that republican policy and not the demo cratic idea Is what has made this na tion great and its people prosperous. In material development in all lines the United Slates made a greater ad vance In the two decades from 1S70 to 1800 than in all the time before 1870 and in those twenty years the financial and economic policy of the republican party was in operation. The democratic idea of legislating to make the masses prosperous was again given form in the present tariff law and everybody knows with what result. In the two years preceding the advent of the democratic party to power in ISO. } this country had attained the high est measure of prosperity in Its history. Every industry was in active operation , everybody who wanted to work was employed , the masses of the people were prosperous. Wo have since had the dem ocratic idea , so far as the tariff is con cerned , together with democratic agi tation for free silver , and the consequences quences are llnancial distrust , Indus trial and business depression , inade quate revenues for tlio support of the government and millions of the people Impoverished. The democratic party has not abandoned - doned Its hostility to protection , from Which the country has suffered im measurable Injury , but its paramount idea now for giving.the masses pros perity Is a policy of currency debase ment which would make the wages of labor worth only half what It Is now , destroy HO per cent of the value of the money of thu pensioner and of every dollar deposited in savings banks and so unsettle and demoralize financial con ditions as to produce a more deplorable state of alfalrs than the country has ever experienced. The American people ple have had enough of democratic Ideas of making the masses prosperous for the present and they will not give that party an opportunity to experi ment with Its latest scheme oC repu diation. The question of an auditorium whether It bo submitted along with a market honsu proposi tion or not , will soon become one of most vital concern to the people of Omaha. Great conventions are flock ing to Oiiinlm for 1SOS. The Coliseum Is thu only building big enough to nc- commodntu the multitudes these great events must attract , but It Is not centrally located. No ono conversant with thu situation can fall to seu the Imperative need of a largu auditorium building , work upon which should begin with exposition construction. Other wise Omaha will receive a black eye In the estimation of the outsldo world. No loss than a thousand lawyers will attend the law league convention In this city on the 20th lust They will bring their wives , many of them , and will want the best hotel accommodations money can procure. The leading hotels will receive a higher degree of benefit than any other Interest , nnd most of them have responded to thu request of thu commlttcn for subscription to the entertainment fund. . Any hotel man who declines to respond should be treated accordingly. Reception com- inlttees can see Incoming delegates and pilot them to pre-arranged quarters. It will bo remembered the last legis lature made repeated attacks upon the business Interests of the state , iiml particularly upon these of this city , Whether this fact was duo to design upon the part of members or to Ignorance of actual conditions , matter * little. Certain It Is there were no rep resentatives .from this county strong enough to ddt'i d our interests. It was remarked then' ' and It Is no less true today , that Do iglas county must send a delegation ofuuslness men to the next legislature , , , /riio needs of the coming exposition will more than anything else emphasize thu demand for able men In the legislature. It Is not likely the men best IJtted for thcso places will " seek them. " "They must be picked out and Induced to run. I.oiiK nnil Short of H. I'hlenRO Tribune. The silver rule Is : "When In doubt , yell. " TinH nrt oVtlic * Uiiontloii. inillnnapolls Journal. "An honest" dollar , worth 100 cents every where , cannot ho coined out of B3 cents' worth of silver , plus a IcRlslatlvo flat. " So says Hon. Carrot A. Hobart , republican candidate for vice president , and the state ment goes to the heart of the question , I'ovirtyiiii' 'UM - . New York Journal. The cry of the poverty-stricken John 11. McLean for "moro money and less misery" is pathetic. But even the "suffering masses" scorn to have a llttlo small chanRO about their clothes , for on the Fourth of July they liurned up about $15,000,000 for fun , and large bloclcs of them are able to attend the latlonnl conventions apparently for the same reason. Culinn Tnctli-H. Minneapolis Trlliune. The Cuban correspondent of the London Times admits that the Insurgent tactics of avoiding pitched battles and exhausting the Spanish resources by guerilla tactics and the destruction of property have proven com- ilotely successful. Tlio Spaniards have been outgeneraled nnd outwitted ; the Insurgents control the country districts. The Spanish troops have boon utterly Inactive during the last four months , nnd are now confronted by a four months' rainy season , with the usual accompaniments of yellow fever and malaria. Colmuri * nf Silver Dollnm. SyrlnBllcl.l ( Mass. ) Republican. Secretary Carlisle is to resume the coinage - ago of the silver bullion held back of the Sherman treasury notes the Intention nnw being to coin $3,000,000 a month for the rest ot the year. It Is asserted that this step Is required by the need of a larger nmount of the coined dollars to redeerii the notes In as presented , and Is not dictated by any political considerations. Apparently this is the case , as Secretary Carlisle cannot suppose the coinage of nny such amount will placate the silver extremists in their present temper. Size of the Silver Swallow. New York Sun. A sanguine-haired silver delegate from Louisiana , with a long-distance voice nnd the name of Marston , excited wonder In the Chicago convention by refreshing him self with six or seven glasses of water while the crowd was amusing Itself by pun ishing him for having been tedious In his speech. There seems to be nothing beyond belief In the apparent fact that a son of the Pelican state drank a number of glasses of water. A man who can swallow 1C to 1 ought to bo able to swallow anything. JSliO mill l.S'Ml. Globe-Democrat. The speech ot Mr. John R. Fellows of New York In the Chicago convention on Tuesday , deprecating the tendency of the silver men to tyranny and oppression of the minority , had In It an echo of the speech made In tho'Charleston ' convention of 18CO by George E. Pugh of Ohio , one ot the leadIng - Ing Douglas Wen of that body. "Do not humiliate usj dp not Indict what seems to be a mark o'f punishment upon us , " said Mr. Fellows to the silver men. "You seek to humiliate \ ; 'iou ' demand that we come before you with jour hands on our mouths and our mouths ih the dust , " said Mr. Pugh to the southern fire-eaters. What befell the democratic party as the result of the Charleston convention Is a matter of his tory. The fiiture'of ' the democratic party as a result of the Chicago convention Is a mat ter of easy guessing. CoiiiiioiiiiilliiR Fraud. Chicago Tribune. The honest money delegates from Ne- braslca who were turned out of their seats by the free silver majority were ousted simply because their seats were needed to make the two-thirds bad money majority. The wing of the party in Nebraska to which the honest money delegates belong Is the most numerous one. That was proved at the polls , when each faction ran a ticket of Its own. The ousted delegates wore the regular ones , and had they been for free silver CO-ceut dollars would have been recognized as entitled to seats , no matter how they were elected. But the free sllvor- Ites needed the sixteen votes of Nebraska to help them get their two-thirds majority. For that reason the legitimate delegates were put out and the Bryan crowd let In. The forty-eight votes of Illinois , secured by brace primaries , were cast for the admis sion of the bogus delegates from Nebraska. Thus one fraud helps on another. THIS TUILNI3I ] DOWN. Kansas City Star : The public would llko to know whether Mr. I ] 111 Is still a democrat. Chicago News : It is understood that Mr. Hill is still a democrat , only he isn't so vociferous about It. Pioneer Press : Senator Hill seems In a way to discover that it is not enough after all to bo a democrat. Chicago Chronicle : Henry Watterson's slaughter house will have to bo enlarged to accommodate the droves of lean kino that will bo driven In from the Colisoum. Washington Star : David B. Hill has a record as a manager of conventions , but ho was never before confronted with so serious an undertaking as the one at Chi cago. Indianapolis News : No ono would suspect from the Chicago platform that the present administration Is democratic. About every thing that Mr. Cleveland has done Is con demned directly or indirectly. Globo-Domocrat : Cleveland deserves praise for his policy of masterly Inactivity with regard to the Interests of the party that has repudiated him because ho favors the re publican doctrine of honest money. Now York Mall and Express : Nothing Is moro certain at Chicago than that Mr. Cleve. land's appeal for pcrmluslon to servo as a private In the ranks of hla party will be unanimously granted. The convention la bound to be not only willing , but anxious , to meet the gentleman's wishes In this mat ter. Philadelphia Record : The news from Chicago cage makes the Record slcl : of politics aud politicians. The intelligence that It Is possi ble once more to catch an occasional salmon In the Dolawarej'lVBr la of moro Immediate Interest than the : result of the catch with the presidential bait thrown among the snapping sllvcrltes who are contesting for the nomination. A TUA.NSIiATlO.V. \VflSJilnKton star. Up from the erudlo cuine a wall , At llr.st u pensive coo , Into a weird , vociferous wall Of mourufalncHs it Krew. HlH HOI roW'J)1 ) | i vein prolix , lie HtruKslM 5 ° reveal , " .My fathertalking - politics : And mother jrldeB a wheel. "They say mjcrosa. rm almply Bad At being sUVhfcd BO ; I wish the JWJSJ carriage fad Could nom > fiwv got u show. How can you ulumu me in my ns For HettlnsT'up a squeal ? My futlier'u talkingpolitics. . And mother rldea a wheel. " MAGNET OF THE PROSPECTOR Mining States Shout for Silver and Dig for Gold , WORKING NEW AND UNTRIED FIELD Icvcl < iinioiitn | In the AVent mid Nnrtli- iv < ' * t\i'T > - nnil Olirnpcr Mrtlioiln 1l'roilnc < lou Likely to He Doubled. It Is n singular thing thh < , while all the newspapers have been full of what the party platforms shall say upon the question ot gold , and whtlo dlro threats ot party bolts and oven of secession have been wafted eastward from the silver states , where such matters are of paramount Importance , there has been such an activity In gold mining , such a development ot gold properties as this country has not seen before In n quarter ot n century. The people of Now York and the east have , says the Now York Herald , been sin gularly obtuse to this remarkable revival of gold mining and have thus far largely failed to take advantage of the profitable field for Investment hero offered , The re vival has taken place entirely with the aid of local capital. Very llttlo has come from the cast. Whllo the people of . England have poured millions upon millions In'o the South African mines the American mines have been loft to shift for them selves. It now appears probable that English capital will be the first to bo Invested large ly In our new gold Holds. The chief activity at present outsldo of Colorado nnd Utah Is In the rich belt which extends from north ern Idaho and northeastern Washington up Into Drltlsh Columbia , and It Is In llrltlsh Columbia that the largest amount of work has been done. Concerning this latter field an expert representing the Uolt-Darnato syndicate Is reported , after having made his examination , to have said : "Thero Is ten times as much gold In this district as In all South Africa. " Inasmuch ns the gold deposits of the Wlt- watersrand about Johannesburg are calcu lated at anywhere from $700,000,000 to ? 1.000,000.000 it would bo seen that this Is an extraordinary statement. Nevertheless It Is certain thut with the active develop ment now going on In this district it will within another year become one of the chief gold producing districts in the world. NEW I10NANZA DAYS. There Is indeed a distinct prospect that the United States , Including British Colum bia nnd Alaska , will soon bo pouring forth such a quantity of yellow metal as will sur pass the "bonanza days" when the placer fields of California gave forth their golden flood. Last year this country produced nearly $47,000,000 ot gold bullion moro than any year for nearly a generation. Colorado turned from a silver state to a gold state , as based upon Its production , and took rank as the first of the gold producing states at that. This year the product of this single state will probably run close to the entire output of the whole country as the output stood for ten. years or moro down to the panic. Alaska doubled Its gold output and will probably do so again this year , and Utah will In all likelihood do the same. Probably this year the United States , Alaska and British Columbia will turn out more than $60,000,000 of this precious metal , and next year It is not unlikely that these sections will turn out above $70,000,000. That is double th.o gold production of this area during any period since the Cornstock days. Nor is this all. Recent geological surveys have disclosed the probability that there are under the great lava overflows ot south eastern Idaho and northern California gold placer beds likely to surpass In value the great placer fields from whence has come the great bulk of California's gold output. Do you comprehend the meaning of this ? Up to the present time , and since the dis covery of gold In ' 49 , California has turned out approximately one and threeiuarters billions of gold bullion. That is three times the present stock of gold money In the United States and more than all the stocks ot the United States , England and Germany put together. It Is nearly one-half of all the gold money In the wldo world. And It Is estimated that more than three-fourths of California's total product has como from Its placers that is , upward of a billion and a half. The extent of the lava gold fields noted Is calculated at above 27,000 square miles. THE GREAT LAVA FLOW. The great lava flow In Idaho , as It is described by the Engineering and Mining Journal , confessedly the first mining author ity in America , covers a section of country about 400 hundred miles In length and about forty to sixty miles In width. It lies in the southeastern part of the state , on or along the course of the Snake river , and mostly on the north sldo of that stream. This great lava bed Is the eastern end of an Immense volcanic bolt that extends westerly to the Pacific ocean , and the lava Is of the same character as that constituting the vast lava bed In Modoe county , California , In which , In the Morioc war of 1874 , the Indians so long evaded the United States troops sent against them , Most of the belt along Us northern sldo Is dotted with vol canic craters , and northwest from Blackfoot - foot station , on the Utah & Northern road , they rise , isolated , out of the plain so huge that they constitute landmarks visible to a great distance. The Snake or Shoshone river forms the great center of the Idaho system. IJoth this stream and a large number of Its tributaries were wonderfully rich in gold , the original discoveries having been made us far back as 18G2. What was known as the "Boise Uasln" was ono of the richest placer regions ever found. The total urea of this bolt Is not less than 20,000 square miles , nnd lying as it does in the very .heart of the aurlforoua or gold-bearing , region It Is certain that It must cover enormous deposits of gold. Very recently there have been discovered some exceedingly rich placers on the Snake , three miles below American falls. The gold Is coarser than Is usual on that river and It is found on both sides of the stream as far back as prospecting has been done. Rich pockets are found under all the boulders encountered , and where the lava bed rock Is exposed the seams In it are full ot gold. As the river was flowing for ages and tilled It up , still richer deposits must Uo beneath in the ancient channel of tlio stream. CALIFORNIA FIELDS. The California fields extend from Plumas county on the north to Tuolumno on the south , and from the east side of Sacramento valley to near the summit of the Sierra Ne vada range , covering In all an area ot about 7.000 square miles. A largo part ot this re gion was In agea past covered with trochttlc lava to a depth of several hundred feet , turning the ( streams and completely chang ing the face and configuration of the coun try , Iy ) glacial action the huge canyons containing the channels of the present rivers were ploughed out and the melting ice sent down torrents of water , which cut them still deeper. The glaciers doubtless did much to tear out the gold channels of the ancient rlvcra. The western portion of the California lava belt , where It passes across Modoc and thu northwestern part of Slsklyau county , con stitutes a very rich mining country. It Is exceedingly rugged and Jagged In Its char acter , nnd extends as far north as Mount Shasta , and a line of smaller volcanic cones. It appears that no prospecting of a Bystem- atlo character has been done under thcso California beds , but in ono place an arte sian well was sunk which produced very rich borings and gave excellent promise. On the other hand , the surface digging of Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U.'S. Gov't Report the Idaho basins atone Is calculated to have already yielded upward or $711.000,000. All tlio Ecological conditions nro present to lit * dlcnto the presence ot Immrnso auriferous deposits all through the two section * named ; gold lias been found In srnllorcd localities all through them ; the flow of the ancient rivers of modem Invn has been traced nnd men \\hosa opinions nro of weight and who are not tucro speculators bellovo that If thcso beds can be uncovered untold quantities ot golden \\ealth will bo Inld bare. 1)KK1 DOUINGS. The method by which nil attempt will bo made to locate these deposits Is exactly the same ns that which has been employed to locate the extent of the gold deposits of South Atrlra. That Is , to mnko deep bor ings , In 8stcmatc ! fashion , at regular Inter vals , by means nf the diamond drill. In South Africa thcso borings hnve been car ried to n depth of 2,000 and 3,000 feet , nnd are the basis of what nro known as the "deep level" mines. It Is not probable that any such depth must bo pierced In the fields of Idaho nnd California , slnco for the most part the over lying lava has been eroded and sctlpped out so ns to approach within some workable dis tance ot the Rold beds. To lay these do- poslts bnro n inrgc nmount of capital w lit bo required , nnd It will bo necessary to con duct the prospecting upon a scale nnd under the samu scientific methods ns have been employed so successfully In South Afrlcn. Hut It Is to bo noted thai the revival of gold mining Is duo not so much to the dis covery of now nehls , although ninny great discoveries hnvu been mailu on this conti nent , ns to the wonderful cheapening mid Improvement of every department of mining. Kvcn within the last five years It Is esti mated that the cost ot obtnlnlng gold In many of the western states has been cut In half. Slnco the days of the famous Coin- stock lode. It hns been cut down to n fourth or fifth of what It was. The Introduction of the diamond drill , of the compressed nlr rock drill , of high explosives , ot Impiovcd machinery nnd of now nnd moro perfect methods of extraction has made It possible now to mlno low grade ere at large pront which but a few years ago would have been thrown away. A WONdnRFUL CHANGE. This , of couise , is true not only of gold mining , but ot silver and copper mining ns well. Thus , the Anaconda mlno In Montnnn. tlio control of which was recently purchased by a German syndicate. Is today the largest silver producer In the United States and ono of the Kreatcst In the world. Yet but n few years ago It was simply n copper mine , nnd the silver that was found In the ere along with the copper was thrown awny , simply because the cost of separation from the copper was greater than the value of the sliver Itself. A single Invention that of electrolytic extraction has wrought this wonderful change. All In nil , It Is probable that but for the Improvements mentioned and the cheapen ing of the cost of supplies and transporta tion the gold product of the world would not bo one-half what It Is today. To tnko a single conspicuous example but for the process of gold extraction by cynnldo , South Africa would hardly have been heard of. Until this process was Introduced Us mines were a failure. These facts were noted to Indicate the reason of the renewed activity In gold inning and also to Indicate that the possi bilities of an enormous Increase of the gold supply from our western states nnd from the British possessions are not a more guess , but based upon Bclentlllc probabilities. While everything that goes to the produc tion of a gold dollar has been enormously cheapened , so that 15 or 20 cents will do as much as would a dollar twonty-flvo years ago , the bullion value of gold remains the same as It hns been for half a century. The effect of this is not calculable. ALASKAN FIELDS. Although the fact Is trite enough , yet not many people are particularly nwaro of the fact that extending from Arizona and New Mexico to he frozen fields of Alaska Is the richest and most extensive gold Held In the world. What Is known as the Mother Lode In California U the greatest gold bearing quartz vein on earth. In all probability under the lava beds of Idaho and California are the greatest placer fields ever known. It is only in recent years , Indeed , within a very few years , that great combinations of capital have been found to systematically exploit and develop gold mines , and but lit tle of this has yet been done in this coun try. Putting all these facts together , con cludes the Herald , it is safe to say the day Is not far distant when this country will bo producing as much gold as a few years ago It produced of gold and silver put to gether. The bearing of this on the money question Is that if free coinage of gold Is continued and there Is no very great pros pect of its bulng stopped the moro increase of the gold supply will produce very much of the same monetary expansion that the adherents of free silver and of populism proclaim Is the crying need of the day. Uo Xol AVuiit Toller. TOPEKA , July 10. Mrs. Anna Dlggs , the populist leader , tells her people hero that the populist party has nothingto do with any of the "warmed over" bolters from cither of the old parties. They want none of Teller , she says , and Holes and Bland are out of the question. She leaves for St. Louis to bo ready for the populist conven tion and to udraonlsh her brethren to keep In the middle of the populist road. Humor of Miirro'N Di-nlli. HAVANA , July 10. Merchants of Plnor del nio who arrived hero last night state that Antonio Macco , the Insurgent leader died of wounds received in the last engage- mcnt ho had with the Spanish troops. LKADtNU FEATURES. THE OMAlIAjSlTNDAY BE& A SIOUX FOUIlTir OF JUI/5T ! The Fourth of July celebration by tha Sloilx Indians nt Pine nidcc nRcnoy will be described In detail by The Hce's start correspondent , who was on the ground , Tills Ucuctlptlon will bo read wltli Interest - est owliiR to the fftct thnt It IB not likely tlmt so largo n body of Indium will ever be gathered together again , The celebration was the most remark * nblo In the nnnrtlM of Indian life. mnrk IIIK the transition from ghost dance BAY * ngery to crude civilization , It Is n story of historic * vnluo that deserves to bt widely rend. x'Kv 8TONI3 , A KHMlNMSC-HNtiR OF THK U1NO , UY A. CONAN DO Y 1-13 : A new serial story begun Knster Sun- dTy to continue for seventeen weeks The tnlo Is told by the hero himself , a. retired nnvnl olllcor , nnd ho recalls the Incidents of his cnrcor when n boy The story hns been pronounced by com petent critics to bo ono written In Dr. Doyle's % ery best stylo. 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She loved very madly Fltzhugh , Hut she married John Jones ; and , In vush Of the fact , as Hho tella It herself , by- none clso Was she asked , why , what could she dughT Ilrooklyn Life. "They never loved who dream that they loved once ! " Ah ! Mis. Browning know the heart of laking a Lot of Noise , That's what the carpenters are doins tsaring out parti tions floors , ceilings but it's all in the back end of the store , yet We're Tearing out the Prices. That's what we're doing. The 20 per cent sale has loft us with a number of broken lots that wo have Cut deeper than ever. That means a good deal for fine goods goods that you can't get outside B. K. & Go's or tailor shops. Any Straw Hat in the House , for man or boy , Half Price Because they are in the way of the carpenters , A lot of Straw Hats for 25 cents. Browning , King & Co. , Reliable Clothiers , Southwest Corner 15th and Douglas St.