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IN FAIR GRASS VALLEY
The Mountain Town
Feels the Touch of
Prosperity's Wand.
NEW MINES OPERATED,
Many of the Old Diggings Are
Being Worked With Im
proved Machinery.
ELECTRIC POWER NOW IN USE.
Rich Ore Struck In Several Mines.
A Town Which Keeps Abreast
of the Times.
GRASS VALLEY, Cal., May 22.— The
oldest, largest and richest mining camp in
all California is famous Grass Valley, sit
uated in the rolling foothills of the pine
clad Sierra Nevada Mountains, and distant
from tan Francisco IGO miles by rail.
This beautiful city of SOOO inhabitants, j
sequestered in a basin encircled by low j
hills covered with pines and carpeted with ■
rich green grass, is not a mining camp '
euch as is to be seen in the mountains of
Montana. Colorado or Nevada, where pre
cipitous cliffs obstruct the view and castel
lated peaks are wreathed in clouds that
float above the deep, barren canyons; but,
in strong contrast, here are found apple,
peach and pear orchards encroached upon
by a mining company for dumping room
for refuse rock, or a vineyard in the center
of which is a magnificent hoisting plant
connected with a mill of large dimensions.
A casual observer would hardly think
that mining was a vocation, for the heavy
foliage hides from view the deep scars the
miner has left on mother earth, yet a drive
through the pines and over the hills will
disclose hoists and mills, where thousands
of tons of ore are brought from great
depths to be reduced to a pulp and yield
the precious metal.
Grass Valley has been the most product
ive gold quartz district in this State, yield
ing an ag-regate of f 100,000,000; and Ne
vada County, in which it is situated, has
yeilded $260,000,000 by hydraulic, drift and
quariz mining.
In 1848, before Marshall's discovery of
gold at Coloma was made known, placer
gold was found on the present site of Grass
Valley, but no particular attention was
given to the field until 1850, when the pre
cious metal was discovered in quartz on
what is known as Gold Hill. Gold quartz
taken from the ledge gave a mortar assay of
$500 a ton. The news of the discovery of
gold in quartz spread throughout the Coast,
and by 1852 Nevada County had a popula
tion of 14,000 whites, 3000 Indians and
8900 Chinese.
The early influx of the timid Chinese is
a noteworthy incident of early mining on
this Coast. The Celestials, as will be ob
served, comprised nearly a fifth of the
population and were principally employed
in the gravel diggings. In the fall of 1850
c mill was constructed on Wolf Creek, the
name of the brook that flows through the
town. The second mill of eight stamps
had wooden stems, shod with iron, which
answered for stamps, and was constructed
by a man named Wittenbach, but from
this crude structure was evolved the pres
ent ponderous stamp mills, the perfection
of mechanical genius, the roar of which is
pleasant music to the toiling masses
throughout the mining regions. And here
it may be well to note that John Hays
Hammond, the right-hand man to Cecil
Rhodes of Transvaal fame, gained his
earlier experience and knowledge of mines,
mills and mining in this section, in fact
the greater number of expert mining men
of the Western world began their careers in
Kevada County. The charges for milling
rock in 1850 was $50 per ton and miners
were paid $12 a day.
For a number of years after the first dis
covery no startling results were obtained
owing to the inexperience of the operators,
few, if any, of whom ever saw or had
heard of quartz mining. By 1855 such
rapid strides were made in milling that the
ores^of the aistrict were made to more
readily relinquish their gold, and by the
sixties millions of dollars were annually
produced. The process of reduction then
in vogue was soon used throughout the
West, and was known as the Grass Valley
eysteni of amalgamation.
The rich auriferous gravels were not
neglected, for up to 1855 the production
from this source reached $4,000,000. The
year 1852 witnessed the first application of
water in sluicing, and in 1853 the power of
water, under pressure, to remove large
masses of gravel was recognized, and on
American Hill, north of Nevada City, hy
draulic power was fust utilized and the
method of directing the power improved
upon, which led up to the present power
ful monitors capable of washing down
mountains. The salient features of min
ing in Grass Valley to-day are : the per
manence of the ore bodies, or chutes, the
"freeness" of the gold and the utilization
of water power.
The town proper is in a basin and the
mines are on the surrounding hills at an
average altitude of 300 feet above the busi
ness portion of t the city. The altitude of
the city is 2450 feet above sea level. There
are a dozen hills and on each hill there is
a group of mines — some active and many
inactive. Every hill has a name, and one
hears of Massachusetts Hill, New York
Hill, Osborn Hill, etc., names which were
given them in the pioneer day. On these
hills for forty-five years mining has been
continuously prosecuted, now a mine
closing and another taking its place, and
as progress was made in the art of milling
and mining abandoned works were re
opened, until to-day there are operating in
and around Grass Valley not less than
thirty mines, with a prospect of many
more resuming within a year.
The total number of stamps engaged in
the reduction of ore is 250 and the number
of men on the payroll in mines and mill is
about 400, in addition to 600 tributers.
Tributers are miners who lease ground and
give a percentage, gßierally half, to the
owners of the mines for the privilege of
extracting ore from partially worked por
tions of the mines. This policy is much
in vogue, though the leasers seldom make
more than $3 per day, and in the greater
number of instances barely obtain a liveli
hood. The closing of the silver mines in
the silver States in the past few years
caused the influx of hundreds of miners to
Grass Valley, so that to-day there are two
men for every position. A year ago an at
tempt was made to reduce miners' wages
below $3 per day, resulting in the forma
tion of a miners' union to resist the reduc
tion. One of the mining superintendents
most agressive at the time, was driven
from the town by force, and no effort has
since been made to economize on these
lines.
The most famous mine of the district is
the Idaho, now known as the Maryland.
THE TOWN OP GRASS VALLEY.
The surface croppings were discovered in
the early fifties on Eureka ground — an ad
joining claim — and the pay chute followed
into Idaho ground. The Idaho became
the property of the Coleman brothers and
O'Connor, and under their management it
yielded $13,000,000, of which over $5,000,000
was paid in dividends. The pay chute has
beer« worked into Maryland ground, and
some time ago the Idaho company sold
their "worked-out" property to S. P. Dor
sey, owner of the Maryland, the signifi
cance of the sale being the advantage to be
gained by Dorsey of the long incline and
openings leading down three-fourths of a
mile from the surface to the ore bodies.
The Maryland is the deepest gold mine in
operation, having a vertical depth of 2400
feet, and 3100 feet on the incline of the
vein. At this great depth mules are driven
to cars. The animals are taken down
on the regular mine cars, and to avoid
blindness are occasionally brought to the
surface to enjoy a few hours of sunlight.
At the bottom of the mine the vein is
wider than at any point above, and carries
a large percentage of metal, demonstrating
the permanence and true fissure character
of the veins and the profitableness of deep
mining: in Grass Valley. About 130 miners
at $3 per day are employed. The hoist,
pumps and mills are operated by water
power.
Adjoining the Maryland on the coarse
run of the vein is the Lamarque, where
Andre Chavanne and a son of L. Fricot are
sinking a shaft to cut the same chute of
ore. Chavanne and Fricot made their for
tunes in Grass Valley, and were noted
characters in its early history. After accu
mulating wealth they drifted to other quar
ters of the globe, but lately the aged Cha
vanne, more as a diversion than for gain,
returned and commenced operations with
the above-stated aim in view. This group
of mines is a contact of serpentine and
diorite, while the majority of the mines of
this locality are in syenite, a granite rock,
or in diorite. The country rock is hard,
and often its extraction entails an expense
of $14 a foot for labor alone.
The Empire mine, situated on Ophir Hill,
one mile southeast of the town of G rass
Valley, has been worked almost without
intermission for forty-five years. This
property has materially added to the fame
of this region. On the 1300 level the main
ore chute is divided into three veins,
but at the 1800 level a reunion occurred,
and it has continued down to the 2100.
The North Star mine is down 2800 feet
on the incline of the vein, the quartz at
this depth showing a high valuation in
gold and carrying 3 to 4 per cent of sul
phnrets.
The Electric mine, owned by J. H.
Henry of San Jose, L. L. Lewis of Sacra
mento and Dan Cofiin, the superintendent,
has a 10-stamp mill grinding day and
night and is said to be a promising mine.
The Omaha is under the management of
George Mainhart, and is owned by a San
Francisco company. This company lias
lately been investing in other mines of the
district. The Shamrock group, managed
by M. J. Farrell, is also owned by a San
Francisco company. Work has only lately
been resumed on this ground.
The Allison ranch, owned by James L.
Flood, the son of the late bonanza king, is
to be pumped out and again worked, after
lying idle for a quarter of a century. In
portions of this mine the golrt had to be
chiseled from the vein, and when it was
allowed to till with water rich rock was in
sight; in fact the direct cause of the close
down was the high grade of the quartz. A
party of miners had leased a portion of the
mine and the owner adopted the drastic
means of refusing to drain the water from
the shafts. Years have passed and all but
one or two of the leases have died, and the
living gray-haired miners no longer hope
to profit by their discovery, so without any
obstacles to overcome by litigation the
water in the shafts is to be pumped to the
surface and mining resumed.
Osborn Hill mine Is owned by George W.
Grayson, ihe Nevada raining man, and it
is said to be a promising property. This
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mine remained idle for many years before
the present ownership. Steam is used at
the mine and mill, owing to the elevation.
W. Y. O. D., the abbreviated title for
"work your own diggings," has been in the
front ranks of bullion producers and is
looked upon to-day as one of the leading
min^s of the camp. Ten stamps are to be
added to the mill. The property is owned
by Joseph "Weissbein.
Outside capital has given little attention
to this inviting field until within the last
four or five years, although Grass Valley
has made many poor citizens men of great
wealth, who then sauntered to other citieß
to spend their moneyfand partake of the
luxuries of life.
In 1860 Clarence King, at the head of the
Government topographical and minera
logical survey, devoted much time to the
geology of the formations of this region,
and among his party was James D. Hague.
This latter gentleman has since become an
extensive operator in mines, and, recalling
his high opinion of the mines of Grass
Valley, formed while on the survey, he re
turned here five years apro representing a
New York company, and has devoted the
intervening time to the purchase of a mile
and a half of mining ground, stretching
from Gold Hill to the North Star mine, in
cluding it and embracing mines the history
of which is inseparably connected with the
history of this city. Among the mines
purchased is the Rocky Bar, overlooking
Boston Ravine, which has not been worked
for years. The oft-repeated tale of the
suicide of Michael Brennan and the poison
ing of the family by the father, while
despondent and in despair of "striking the
vein," has made the Rocky Bar notorious.
Men were engaged during the week con
structing a blacksmith-shop on the
grounds, preparatory to arranging for the
resumption of work.
James D. Hague has outlined an active
campaign of mining his new properties,
for which he has paid $150,000, and the
initial steps have already been taken.
Among the first questions considered was
as to the most feasible power to be used
and the method of transmission. After
careful study and research by his civil
engineer, Arthur D. Foote — during which
he visited the electric plant of the Calu
met and Hecla copper mines in Michigan,
and other electric works — it has been de
cided to use compressed air. A 20-inch
pipe will convey water from the South
Yuba ditch on Osborn Hill to a central
power station in Boston ravine, where a
pressure of 775 feet attained will drive a
19-foot Pelton water-wheel, and this power,
estimated at 600 horsepower, will be con
verted into compressed air, and thence
distributed along the mile and a half of
mines, and applied to hoist engines,
pumps, mills, Burleigh drills, etc., wher
ever needed. To convey the water main
over Wolf Creek and afford a firm anchor
age a heavy stone aqueduct will be con
structed. The contract for the machinery
has been given to a San Francisco foundry
and within three months the machinery
should be in place. Three to four hundred
men will find employment, and the entire
group of mines and mills will be under
the superintendency of H. P. Roberts, a
mining engineer who has operated at the
Atlantic copper mine, Michigan; in El
more, Idaho; Piailroad district, Nevada;
at the KeiJey-Bliss mine, California, and
lately in the State of Chiapas, Mexico.
Mining men, and especially those wno
have studied electric power transmission
and its relations to mining, will be sur
prised to learn that Mr. Foote's investiga
tions have resulted in the adoption of com
pressed air. Electricians, though, acknowl
edge that in transmission by electricity an
initial loss of 20 per cent is always'incurred,
while it is expected that the. loss by com
pressed air will not exceed 12 per cent,
which can be reduced at little cost by heat
ing the air at the point of application, thus
increasing its expansive power. An elec
tric plant will be established to furnish
lights for the mills and mines.
While Hague is adopting distribution of
power by compressed air a company has
been formed to bring electric power "to the
mines from live miles to the north; thus
will Grass Valley enjoy the advantages to be
derived from the most scientilic modes of
milling and mining Known to man. At
the Rose Hill mill a gasoline engine of six
horsepower, weighing a ton, has been
placed in position, and will furnish power
for a three-stamp batten' at an estimated
cost of $2 25 in twenty-four hours.
The most complete milling outfit in
Grass Valley is the North Star, containing
40 stamps, where ore is reduced at a cost of
only 80 cents a ton, divided as follows:
Labor 32 cents, power 32 cents, supplies 16
cents. The average weight of the stamps
of the district is 850 pounds, with a drop
of sir inches, and eighty-four revolutions
a minute. The ore is dumped from the
mine cars into ore bins, which lead to
rock-breakers, and from rock-breakers to
Challenge self-feeders into the batteries
and from copper-piates to concentrators.
Sixty to eighty per cent of the assay value
is caught in the battery-plates. The con
centrators run from one to five per cent,
ranging in value from $30 to $400 per ton.
The sulphurets are treated at local chlori
nations work or shipped to San Francisco
or Everett, Washington. But little slime
appears during the milliug of the ore, thus
enabling the milimento work the ore up
to 85 and 90 per cent without encountering
difficulties met with in nearly every gold
mining region of the world. The United
States Bureau mining statistics state that
to produce $1723 in gold in Nevada
County has required an expenditure of
only $725.
The forty-five years of mining on the
veins of this district and the immense out
put therefrom surpass even in expecta
tion the wildest estimate of the "boomers"
of the South African "blanket" deposits.
Although London and Paris are passing
through a period of extreme speculation
and exultation over the mines of Johan
nesburg and the neighboring country, a
careful observer calculates that fifteen
years will witness the exhaustion of the
ore bodies, while the prospects are that
Grass Valley a quarter of a century hence
will be as active a mining camp as it is to
day. The veins are comparatively small,
varying from two inches to two feet, with
an exceptional showing of four and six
feet of quartz, but there seems to be no
terminal point in depth. At the 2400
level the Maryland has a six-foot ledge on
an ore chute that has been worked for
nearly a mile through Eureka, Idaho and
Maryland ground.
With the commencement of activity in
the Hague group, the , reopening of old
claims by the Omaha Company and activ
ity on the Allison ranch, Grass Valley will
enjoy an era of prosperity not witnessed in
fifteen years.
This city of mines has its own water
works, is lighted by electric and gas lights,
contains four churches, has twenty-one
public school teachers who preside in ten
school-buildings, including a high school,
and the public are kept informed on the
news of the day by three daily newspapers
— the Tidings, Telegraph and Union. The
Union takes Associated Press news, and
was the tirst printing office in the State to
introduce a type-setting machine. Every
home is surrounded by yard room, and
every yard is a flower bed or garden, sup
plying fresh vegetables and delicious
fruits to the table of the homes. The
greater portion of the population is from
Cornwall, England, whose miners are in
every quarter of the globe where mining is
followed. The men are of superb phy
sique and are excellent miners. They are
noted for their quaint dialect and fondness
for music. Their local brass band of
twenty-one pieces will compare favorably
with the best bands of San Francisco. The
narrow-gauge railroad connecting the city
with the outside world does a good busi
ness, but never pays a dividend. Stages
are in operation between here and Colfax
and Marysville, and a 'bus line unites
Nevada City and Grass Valley. One hun
dred and thirty-three houses were built in
1894, and yet it is almost impossible to get
a house to rent.
During these balmy days of springtime,
while the shade trees are in foliage and the
fruit-trees in blossom, there is not a more
delightfully picturesque spot to be found
than Grass Valley, the quartz-crowned em
press of the wild Sierras.
HAPPENINGS AT SAN JOSE
Death Watch Again Placed
Over the Slayer of Mate
Fitzgerald.
The Fifth Time St. Clair Has Had
This Gruesome Attention
Shown Him.
SAN JOSE, Cal., May 23.— Sheriff Lyn
don last evening placed a deatn watch over
Thomas St. Clair, who is sentenced to be
executed at San Quentin on May 31 for the
murder of Mate Fitzgerald of the bark
Hcsper. The death watch consists of
three guards, one in the day and two at
night.
St. Clair still has hopes of the sentence
being commuted. This is the fifth time
a death watch has been placed over him.
Sparf, Hansen and St. Clair were con
victed of the murder of Fitzgerald, but
Sparf obtained a new trial and was ac
quitted. The Supreme Court affirmed the
sentence in the cases of Hansen and St.
Clair, and Hansen is now waiting to be
resentenced.
Methodist Conference.
SAN JOSE, Cat-., May 23.— The con
ference of the Free Methodist church of the
San Jose and lone district opened this
morning with devotional services by Rev.
W. W. Kelly of Morgan Hill. Eev. C.
Swithenbank delivered an address this
afternoon. Rev. A. Beers addressed the
conference in the interest of the Seattle
Seminary and E. P. Hart spoke in the
interest of the Free Methodist Publishing
House. Rev. A. Beers addressed the con
ference this evening.
Twelve churches are represented in the
conference.
To Teat n License Laic.
SAN JOSE, Cal., May 23.— Antonio di
Palma, a vegetable peddler, was arrested
this morning for peddling without a
license, and a test case will be made of the
ordinance which imposes an annual
licence on produce peddlers. A short time
ago the vegetable peddlers organized the
San Jose Produce Union, and they claim
that one license is sufficient for the entire
membership. When arrested he denied
lie was peddling, but said he was simply
delivering produce for the union. The
union will test the case in the courts of
the State.
Surd In/ Her Son.
SAN JOSE, Cal., May 23.— The suit of
James G. Lendrum against his mother,
Anna J. Lendrum, for an accounting a3
guardian of , his estate, commenced in
Judge Reynolds' court this morning. The
plaintiff claims that when he became of
age, July 11, 1891, his mother was indebted
to him in the sum of ?G471 70. He also
claimed that she loaned $4550 on a piece of
property, near Saratoga, which is of in
sufficient security. There is considerable
bad feeling between the mother and son.
Suspects Releastti.
SAN JOSE, Cal., May 23.— The two men
who were arrested last night on suspicion
of being Jack Dempsey and Thomas
Hunter, who escaped from the Oakland
jail Tuesday night, were turned loose this
morning. The men proved to be two
hobos who were discharged from the
County Jail yesterday morning, where they
had served terms for vagrancy.
I.rninin ijit) Assessments,
SAN JOSE, Cal., May 23.— State Con
troller E. P. Colgan and L. C. More-house
and E. Ohesebrough, members of the State
Board of Equalization, are in the city mak
ing an inquiry into the assessment of the
county. They are paying some attention
to the taxation of inheritances and are go
ing over the appraisements of the various
estates in probate.
Suspected of lieing a Jail- Breaker.
SAN JOSE, Cal., May 23.— A peddler
was arrested at Madrone yesterday and
brought to the County Jail on suspicion of
being A. Golden, who escaped from the
Martinez jail about a year ago. An officer
from Martinez will arrive to-morrow to
identify the man.
Death of T.assen County's Sheriff.
SUBANVILLE, Cal., May 25.— Sheriff
F. G. Ward died to-day. He was sick two
months with pneumonia. He leaves a
widow and ten children. He will be buried
by the Native Sons and Masons.
Portland's JYVtn Fire Chief.
PORTLAND, Ob., May 23.-The Fire
Commissioners to-day elected David Camp
bell chief of the Fire Department, to
succeed Joseph Buchtell, who was re
moved.
STOCKTON IN LUCK
To Be the Terminus for
the Corral Hollow
Railroad.
RIGHTS OF WAY WANTED
A General Freight Business
Will Also Be Undertaken
by the Road.
WILL BE OF GREAT VALUE.
Two Directors of the Proposed En
terprise Now Looking Over
the Ground.
STOCKTON, Cal., May 23.— 1t is very
probable that Stockton will be the termi
nus of another railroad besides the San
Francisco and San Joaquin Valley road.
H. Barber returned to-day from San
Francisco, where he had a long talk with
the directors of the San Francisco and San
Joaquin Coal Company, a corporation
formed to operate the rich coal mines at
Corral HoJlow. It was the original in
tention of the company to build a railroad
froqi the mines to Mohr's Landing on Old
River and at that point build bunkers of
the most improved pattern for the handling
of coal.
Mr. Barber pointed out to the directors
the advantage of this city as a terminus
and yesterday noon two of the directors
arrived here to investigate the feasibility
of making Stockton the terminal point.
The visiting directors are John W. Cole
man, formerly president of the North Pa
cific Coast Railroad Company, and John
Treadwell, both of Ban Francisco. Since
their arrival the gentlemen have been con
versing with various business men and
taking a look at Stockton and the country
round about.
From statements made by them in the
course of an interview to-day it was
learned that they will build a broad gauge
railroad from the Corral Hollow miues to
this city and will carry on a general rail
road business, providing rights of way and
facilities can be obtained here. The raii
road will not haul coal alone, but grain
and general freight. If built it will be a
standard broad gauge and its length will be
about thirty-two miles.
Arrangements have been made to take a
number of prominent citizens to Corral
Hollow next Sunday morning to show
them the extent of the coalfields there and
the quality of the coal. When this has
been done the directors of the company
will make a formal proposition to Stock
ton, stating just what is wanted in the wav
of rights of way and facilities. No money
will be asked for, but a space on the water
front — perhaps on Mormon channel, near
its mouth — will, it is said, be required.
The members of the party have not been
selected as yet. The party will leave here
on the 6:30 train in the morning and go by
rail as far as Tracy, whence they will take
teams to Corral Hollow, distant from
Tracy twelve or fourteen miles.
The coal mines of the company are of
vast extent, and recent experiments show
that the coal is equal to Australian coal
for steam purposes. At the Risdon Iron
Works it was found that one pound of coal
evaporated 7.2 pounds of water. The coal
is also good for domestic use, and if the
road is built here it will be sold in Siock
ton for not more than $4 a ton.
The building of the proposed road is re
garded by business men as being of more
importance to Stockton than might at
first be supposed. It will give the city a
supply of cheap fuel, and thus naturally
assist manufacturing industries.
A MIJSJSTHH IN HOT WATER.
He Make* Serious Charge* Which He
Hill Be Asked to Sustain.
STOCKTON, Cal., May 23.— There ia a
Stockton minister named Ray Palmer
who has got himself into trouble. In a
speech at the Avon Theater last Sunday
night he was understood to have said that
certain city officials had told him that
they had given out and received bribes.
The present corps of municipal officers
were naturally aroused, and they de
manded an explanation from the man of
cloth. Mr. Palmer said he did not say
that any of the officials now holding office
had been guilty of such corruption, but
that it was passed city officials who con
fessed to him. Now those who had held
city offices are indignant, and they have
demanded an investigation. Mr. Palmer
will be summoned before the Grand Jury
and made to tell what he knows about
municipal corruption. It is thought that
he made the statement for political effect
and that it is without foundation.
M URDJER SEA.X, FRESNO.
A. Chinaman Brutally Killed by a Coun
tryman on Slight Provocation.
FRESNO, Cal., May 23. — A brutal
Chinese murder occurred on the Sharon
estate alfalfa ranch, seventeen miles
northeast of Fresno, this morning. Five
Chinamen were on the place irrigating.
At about 1 o'clock this morning one of the
men named Gwan Yee Sing returned to
the cabin, and Gow Ah Yee went out to
take his place. Gow became enraged at
finding Gwan had let the water overflow,
and returned to the cabin, a distance of
half a mile. Gwan had eaten his supper
and was sitting washing his feet prepara
tory to going to bed, when Gow came up.
Without a word Gow struck Gwan over
the head with a shovel handle, having car
ried the shovel in with him with the evi
dent intention of murdering Gwan. One
of the other Chinamen saw the blow
struck, but before he could interfere Gwan
had delivered several more severe blows.
Gwan had no chance to defend himself
and died on the spot, where the body lay
several hours until Coroner Long arrived.
Gow tried to escape by running, but three
other Chinamen caught him and tying his
arms and feet put him in the cabin. One
Chinaman went to call a white man living
near, leaving the other two on guard. Gow
made a desperate effort to escape and suc
ceeded in cutting the ropes by which he
was tied.
The Chinamen outside the cabin, however,
were armed with shovels, and held him
prisoner until the white man arrived.
Qow waa securely tied, and made no
further resistance. He was taken to
Fresno.
ARIZ OA A IXDIAXB JIESTLESS.
The Attention of the Secretary of War Is
Called to the Matter.
PHCENIX, Akiz., May 23.— Hon. Oaks
Murphy, delegate to Congress, has written
the Secretary of War that the Indians are
restless and threatening and that a feeling
of insecurity prevails, which condition is
a great injury to Arizona. He urges the
importance of strengthening the military
force at San Carlos and the vicinity, and
in conclusion says:
"It seems only just and proper that so
long as the possibility of danger exists
from the untamed Indians, ample and
effective protection should be afforded to
life and property. It is my judgment, how
ever, that no protracted Apache war will
ever again occur, especially if an adequate
military force is maintained at exposed
points."
The complaint of inadequacy of rations
and compensation for rights of way
through the reservation by the Indians,
he states, is merely an excuse.
GOOD FOB THE IROX TRADE.
There Haa Been a General Advance in
All TAnes.
NEW YORK, N. V., May 23.-The Iron
Age to-day says : The improvement has
now spread to practically every section of
the country and to every department, with
very few exceptions. The consumption is
growing and the demand is much better,
buyers having given up resistance. Unless
some fatality throws back the iron trade
the balance of the year promises to be
quite good. Thus far only very few East
ern concerns have followed the initiative
of the West in advancing wages, simply
because the improvement in prices is just
beginning to reach them.
The central West has had another week
of activity, and especially in Bessemer pig
iron. Eastern buyers of soft steel are wak
ing up. Prices for finished iron and steel
in the West are up from $1 to $2 per ton,
with further advances imminent. The
East is following slowly. The steel rail
trade is in better shape although current
reports are exaggerated, but there is cer
tainly a very substantial improvement
over 1894.
The wire industry is quite active. There
has been a sharp advance in all nails in
the West.
General Renjifo Returns.
NEW YORK, N. V., May 23.-General
Julio Renjifo was a passenger on board the
City of Para, which arrived from Colon to
day. General Renjifo is the secretary of
the Colombian legation at Washington
and was called home in February last to
take command of the army and put down
the rebellion. That being over, his ser
vices were no longer required in Colombia,
and he is returning to his post in this
country. He went direct to Washington.
ODD FREAK OF AN INDIAN
He Becomes the Envied of All
Hi& Tribe by Purchasing
a Hearse.
It Is Utilized for Making Frequent
Visits to the Surrounding
Towns.
BOISE, Idaho, May 23.— An amusing
6tory is told in connection with the recent
opening of the Nez Perce Indian Reserva
tion. When the Indians of the reserva
tion had received their money from the
Government they went to the neighboring
towns to spend it. Their visit was, of
course, anticipated, and all possible
schemes were on foot to relieve Uncle
Sam's wards of their cash as speedily as
possible. The Indians were on the buy^
too, and money was no object when any
thing they saw took their fancy. The red
skins took a notion to purchase carts,
wagons, buggies, etc., and in a short time
every available vehicle in the little town of
Farmington was in their possession.
There was one old Indian who failed to
make a purchase, howevei , and after all
the buggies were gone a desire to possess
some sort of conveyance started him on a
diligent search. After visiting all the
places where vehicles were sold without
success he finally learned of a conveyance
which, from the description, completely
overshadowed anything in point of
elegance ever sold before, and the
possession of which would render all the
Indians wild with envy. He sought out
the owner, who proved to be the town un
dertaker, and opened negotiations for the
purchase of the vehicle. The undertaker
soon found the Indian wanted to obtain
his hearse. The thought staggered him
for a moment, but having an eye to busi
ness and noting the anxiety of Mr. Red
skin, the hearse was sold for a good round
sum.
The Indian hitched two horses to the
somber vehicle, and putting his squaw and
pappooses on the inside, trotted off for
home, the proudest copperface that ever
strung a bow or stole a sheep. The other
Indians, hearing of his coming, had lined
up along the road to watch him pass.
Perched on his high seat, he drove
haughtily by them, while the little pap
pooses peered through the glass sides and
clapped their hands rapturously.
The agent remonstrated with the Indian,
but all to no purpose. He retained the
hearae, and in his frequent visits to the sur
rounding towns, driving in his somewhat
gloom-inspiring conveyance, is no longer
an object of curiosity.
HOLDS OJff TO THE MONEY.
Arrest of an Attorney Who Denies a
Court's Jurisdiction.
CHEYENNE, |Wyo., May 23.— 0n the
order of Judge Hayford of the Second Ju
dicial District, Alexander T. Butler, a
leading attorney and politician of Casper,
was arrested and sent to jail to-day,
charged withembezzlemet. Butler refuses
to turn over to the clerk of the court money
collected by him as agent for a suspended
mercantile house when ordered by the
Judge. He denies the jurisdiction of the
Judge in the matter and claims he is being
persecuted.
Tried to Bribe a Witness.
MILAN, Mo., May 23.— A. H. Maucklin
was to-day sentenced to two years in the
penitentiary for offering a witness $1000 to
not testify against W. P. Taylor in a case
where the latter was charged with steal
ing thirty head of cattle. Taylor, with his
brother George, is now held for the mur
der of the Meeks family, and charges of
jury-bribing were freely made at the recent
trial, which resulted in a hung jury.
Offers to Produce Taylor.
REDFIELD, 8. Dak., May 23.— Fritz
Arnold, formerly of Spink County, S. Dak.,
has written to a Redtield lawyer from Dcs
Moines, lowa, to rina out if the reward of
$20,000 for defaulting ex-State Treasurer
Taylor is still open. He says he can pro
duce the missing man at any time provid
ing he has assurances that he would get
the reward.
Strikers Return to Work.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 23,— Nearly
all of the 400 employes of the Upson Nut
and Bolt Works who struck for a ten per
cent increase of wages last week, returned
to work this morning. The men decided
that while there was a revival in trade to
some extent, it was not sufficient to war
rant th c company in granting the advance
WITH A WILD LUNGE
Rapid Rise of the Price
of Wheat in the
East.
CHICAGO MEN ARE DAFT.
Bulls and Bears- Also Tussle
in the Pit at New
York.
NEARING THE DOLLAR MARK.
Reports From Abroad and the Crop
Failures Tend to Increase
the Demand.
CHICAGO, 111., May 23.- Wheat started
with a wild lunge for the dollar mark to
day, touching *1 cents for the July option
before 9:30. At the opening bell almost
every man was on the floor and was
frantically yelling for wheat. There was
but little on sale and the market opened
wildly, at from 3 to 4 cents advance over
last night, first trades ranging from 80
to 81 cents as compared with 77^ at last
night's close.
The big profits in 81-cent wheat were too
alluring for many fortunate holders and
as they began to let go large quantities the
prices dropped from the high point. From
81 cents July tumbled rapidly to 70% cents,
reacting about 10 o'clock "to 79% cents.
The immediate cause of the bulge was the
condition of the foreign markets. Liver
pool was reported as plunging madly,
about 3 cents above yesterday's price, and
other European markets were almost radi
cally strong. Crop damage reports were
still pouring in from all portions of the
wheat belt.
NEW YORK, N. V., May 23.— Wheat
had another sensational rise this morning
with an enormous business amounting to
about 15,000,000 bushels within the first
hour. July opened at 83 cents, which was
a clear gain of 3 cents from the close of
Wednesday and 2 cents for curb prices.
Stimulated by the heavy outside buying
ana reports that a big Chicago operator
was actively engaged covering shorts it
soon rose to 84*4 cents, which proved to be
the highest point of the day.
The country demand seemed to be the
wildest thus far on the rise. Cablo? and
crop dispatches all helped the advance
and the bulb were confident of dollar
wheat, when prices suddenly dropped
under heavy realizations, losing a cent in
a few moments.
At noon there was another excited jump
and the early afternoon price fluctuated so
violently that local traders-left the market
entirely alone.
Jumps of ! , and % a cent were frequent,
and at one time there was a drop of 1 cent
in three minutes, while the Chicago mar
ket was even more erratic. The sensation
of the day, however, was a 2»^-cent drop in
fifteen minutes. It came like a thunder
clap, and the pit was fairly turned down
while it lasted. Whole blocks of wheat
were thrown over and the prices went \
and Vi cent at a clap, closing at £i\:, cenis
for July. The total transactions for the
day were about 237,000,000 bushels.
GUARD Hit JiNJi ZJV DISGUISE.
Steps to Prevent the. Lynching of a Child-
Murderer.
HUNTINGTON, W. Va., May 23.—
Charles Eingo, who was rearrested at
Point Pleasant yesterday for the murder of
his two children here, was brought back
here to-day. The train was met in the
suburbs by a closed carriage and Eingo
was rushed to the jail in disguise. Two
thousand people had assembled at the
depot and a lynching is anticipated to
night. The jail is strongly guarded by
deputy Sheriffs.
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