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NEWS OF THE WORLD
SHORT DISPATCHES FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE GLOBE. ~
A Review of Happenings in Both 1
!
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week—National, I
I
Historical, Political
Events.
and Personal
The reports recently circulated in
Europe and America that King Menelik
was desperately ill, and even that he
had died, were exaggerated.
Mrs. Mary Partridge is dead at the
almshouse in Brooklyn, at the age of
106 years.
Fanned by a 60-milo wind, seven fires
in as many sections of Oklahoma City
recently destroyed property valued at
-$ 200 , 000 .
Hat manufacturers in the east have
inaugurated an open shop system.
At London, Ontario, Saturday Philip
Van Sycle and family were burned to
death.
The town of Nowata, Oklahoma, was
almost wiped off the map Saturday by
a fire. The loss is estimated at $200,
000 .
Two thousand farmers attended a
mass meeting at Chicago of milk pro
ducers to demand that the price of
milk be raised.
Marvelous work of the St. Paul
(Minn.) fire department in intense cold
and heavy north gale, aided by snow
on the roofs in the path of the flames,
averted a terrible disaster in Satur
day's fire in the heart of the city,
holding the total loss down to $500,
000, well covered by insurance.
It is reported that M. Falconio, the
apostolic dedegate to the United
States, will be recalled. M. Aversa,
apostolic delegate to Cuba, will be ap
pointed to take his place.
The statement of clearing house
banks of New York for the week shows
that the banks hold $27,497,375 more
than the requirements of the 25 per
■cent reserve rule.
An omnibus bill providing separate
statehood for the territories of New
Mexico and Arizona has been intro
duced in the house.
The Tribuna of Rome proposes that
Roman citizenship be conferred upon
President Roosevelt as a manifestation
•of gratitude for helping the Italian
.earthquake sufferers.
The Panama-Colombia treaty has
been ratifi d by Colombia.
While crossing Salt river, near Phoe
nix, Ariz., Saturday, a party of three
people were precipitated into the wat
ers and Miss Florence Brown of Globe,
Ariz., was drowned.
The recent dismissal of Yuan Shi
Kai continues to causo unrest at Muk
den. The viceroy of Manchuria, fore
warned that a similar fate would be
his, has resigned.
Snow from seven to ten feet on the
level and drifts many feet deeper are
still blocking many of the lines of
the Colorado railroads.
All communication with southern
Spain and with the city of Barcelona
is uninterrupted and the reports ema
nating from England relative to a dis
astrous earthquake and tidal wave are
untrue.
Miss Amanda Yearwood, 56 years
•of age, a nurse at the Johns Hopkins
hospital, recently attempted to kill
her mother, aged 96 years, and be
lieving she had accomplished her pur
pose then ended her life.
Aeronautics occupied much attention
in the house of representatives Satur
day in connection with the considera
tion of the army appropriation bill.
Five hundred thousand dollars was
appropriated.
Household goods at the White House
are being packed preparatory to mov
ing to Oqster Bay after March 4.
Governor Willson of Kentucky re
. ,
nutted Kentucky's portion of the $1000
fine entered against Berea college for
violating the Day law, which imposes
a penalty for coeducation of whites |
nnd negroes in the same institution. |
The announcement by Secretary of J
the Interior Garfield that he will not
be in the Taft cabinet brings out the '
!
hour changes R. A. Ballinger of Seat
tle will be secretary of the interior.
President Roosevelt has given his
consent to the placing of the head of
Lincoln on one of the popular coins.
ROOSEVELT WITH CIRCUS.
Connecticut Man Offers Him $300,000 !
for 30 Weeks.
Bridgeport, Conn.—Professor James
M. Atlas has written President Roose
velt, offering him an engagement of 30
weeks at $10,000 per week ($300,000
in all) to head a wild west show to be
known as the ' ' Theodore Roosevelt
Rough Riders' Congress of the World."
Abruzzi Soon to Wed His Kate.
Turin.—Notwithstanding official de
nials, it is still asserted that the duke
of Abruzzi has resigned as an officer
of the Italian navy. It is said also that
he has expressed his determination to
marrv Miss Katherine Elkin« either o
marry Miss Katherine Elkins, either as
a royal prince or a private individual,
after his expedition to the Himalayas.
Countess de Lesseps Dead.
Paris.—The eountess de Lesseps,
widow of count de Lesseps, promoter
-of the Suez, Corinth and Panama ca
nais, died here Sunday.
SPORTING- NEWS NOTES.
W. S. C., 15; Idaho, 14.
This was the result of the third
basketball game of the series between
the two rivals, and by taking the game
W. S. C. won the championship from
the Moscow team.
In a letter to Boomer Weeks of Spo
kane Dr. Roller states that he is will
1 ing to arrang0 a Inatch with the Spo '
! kane man, provided a place can be
found where it can be pulled off. Rol
I lcr wants to fl S bt in Seattle if possi
I ble, and it is oxpeeted that the limited
a
round bout will be sanctioned in Seat
tle within a few wooks.
Nick Demera, a Greek, won the Mar
athon tryout at Faibanks, Alaska, last
week in 3 hours 27 minutes. Wada, the
Japanese runner, who was expected to
win the race, was second, and George
Taylor was third.
Outplayed in team work and basket
thowing, the baskot ball team from
Los Angeles met defeat in the Y. M.
C. A. gymnasium at Salt Lake Satur
day. The score was 54 to 13.
Yale's fast hockey squad ran away
from the Cornell five at St. Nicholas'
rink Saturday, Yale , winning by a
score of 6 to 3.
The northwest circuit will open with
the Victoria Kennel club show at Vic
toria, B. C., April 7 to 9, C. K. C.
rules. Vancouver Kennel club' follows
with three days, April 14 to 16, C. K.
C. rules. Seattle Kennel club, April 21
to 23. Tacoma Kennel club, April 28
to 30. Portland Kennel club, May 5
to 7. The San Francisco Kennel club,
it is reported, will hold a show in May,
closely following the Oregon show.
Oakland Kennel club has arranged for
a fall show.
Emeryville, Cal.—S. 0. Hildreth's 4
year-old horse, King James, won the
16th annual race Saturday for the rich
Burns handicap, proving himself one
of the most courageous thoroughbreds
of the American turf.
Pittsburg, Pa.—Shannon, of Edge
worth, Pa., won the Marathon race
Saturday in a biting cold wind in
3 hours and 34 minutes. Masten of
Pittsburg was second. There were 250
contesants, 50 of those having entered
declining to run on account of the un
favorable weather and road conditions.
Lonnie Lahey, the plucky and
speedy little Spokane boy, won over
the crack eastern professional, Ricard,
at roller skating last week.
The Yakima Valley league this year
includes North Yakima, Toppenish, El
lensburg, Kennewick and Paso.
Seattle will witness the first real
Marathon race in the northwest when
the best distance runners on the Coast
contest over the classic distance on
Washington's birthday,
Jack Atkin, carrying the weight of
kin, carrying the crushing weight of
138 pounds, proved himself the cham
pion sprinter of America when he won
the Alhambra handicap at six furlongs
at Santa Anita park today in a terrific
drive by half a length from Dominus
Arvi. The six furlongs were run in
the remarkably fast time of 1:11 3-5
Negotiations are now pending for a
meeting between W. S. C. and the Uni
vercity of Oregon on the gridiron next
fall.
Hugo Kelly, the middeweight, and
Joe Thomas, the California heavy
weight, have been matched this month.
Before a delegation of visiting horse
lovers and newspaper men at M. W.
Savage's stock farm at Savage, a sta
tion near Minenapolis, last Tuesday
the king of harness horses, Dan Patch,
and the heir to royal honors, Minor
Heir, were formally introduced, allowed
to size each other up and for the first
time to test each other's mettle for a
quarte? of a mile spurt on the farm's
famous covered track. The two passed
the silent spectators nose and nose. The
first race between Dan Patch and
Minor Heir was declared a dead heat.
ROOT ADVISES CALIFORNIA.
Says Laws Must Agree With Treaties
With Foreign Nations.
Sacramento, Cal.—Governor Gillett
has made public the text of a letter re
ceived today from President Roosevelt
with regard to ant i.Japanese legislation
now di in the California legis
j aturo . #
| President Roosevelt begins by quot
| ing a letter from the secretary of state
J to Governor Gillett, in which Mr. Root
said he saw no objection to the passage
' of a law which treated all aliens alike
! r.
erty, but "to avoid conflict with the
constitution of the United States such
statute should contain an express pro
vision excepting from its operation any
rights secured by treaty between the
United States and foreign nations.''
President Roosevelt then gives the
text of a memorandum from Secretary
! ® oot which, he says, has his cordial
approval.
BUSSE SHOT WOMAN.
Brother of Mayor of Chicago Was Ex
amining Gun.
Chicago, Feb. 1.—George Busse,
brother of Mayor Frederick Busse, Sun
day accidentally shot and killed Mrs.
L. C. Tuckerman, 32 years old, wife of
a fruit dealer at Milton, N. Y., while
he was Showing the workings of a re
volver to his mother.
The shooting occurred in the Walton
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to TT apartment . bal ding where Mrs.
o , Tuckerman was v.s.tmg her father,
General A. C. Girard, retired, who oc
cupied an apartment in the building.
Mrs. Tuckerman was twiced married.
Charles Bush, her first husband, from
as
Oakland Cal
ca- '
whom she was divorced, is said to be
merchant at San Francisco and also of
Have you seen the first robin t
NORTHWEST STATES
ITEMS OF IDAHO, MONTANA
WASHINGTON AND OREGON.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding Country—Numerous Acci-j
dents and Personal Events Take
Place—Outlook Is Good.
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.
An epidemic of mumps, which is
gradually growing to alarming pro
portions, is sweeping among the school
children of Bellingham.
At Tacoma, while the fire depart
ment was answering a call a truck was
struck by a streetcar and the driver,
J. W. Taylor, was seriously inpured,
and Dan Noonan, a truckman, was hurt
so badly that he wijl die.
While blasting rocks five miles north
of Prosser, Austin Gibbons was terri
bly injured by a premature blast.
The joint commission appointed by
the Washington and Oregon legislat
ures have reached an agreement on the
Columbia river salmon fisheries ques
tion. The agreement calls for a spring
closod season from March 1 to May 1,
a fall closed season from August 25
to September 10, a Sunday closed sea
son from May 1 to August 25, the re
peal of the two initiative laws passed
by Oregon June, 1907, and also the
mutual recognition of floating gear
licenses.
Operations have started on the model
farm, four miles north of Kiona.
By the records of the superior courts
of Spokane county for 1908, 480 di
vorces were granted.
Farmers to the number of 25 or 30
at Garfield have formed the Coyote
elub. The object is protection against
the ravages of the little wolves.
The peach crop in the Columbia river
valley in the vicinity of Wallula has
not been injured by the late frost.
W. L. La Follette, the fruit king of
Whitman county, states that the recent
cold weather killed all the apricots
and 75 per cent of the peach buds at
his Wawawai orchards on the Snake
river.
No trace has been found of Lewis
Rummel, the Tukanon farmer who dis
appeared from the ranch of his broth
er, George Rummel, recently.
C. P. Bissett, who recently pur
chased an orchard tract on Lake Che
lan, is a Lincoln student, and has in
his library over 800 volumes relating
to the emancipator.
Acting under a telegraphic order
from the superintend nt, Agent George
Blake of the O. R. & N. this morning
laid off the section foreman and em
ployes at Washtucna. All the agents
on the Connell branch received similar
orders.
C. T. Booth has resigned as postmas
ter for Washtucna after eight years of
service.
The new town officers have been
giving their attention to ridding Con
nell of its undesirable citizens.
The assessors Of the state will urge
the legislators to increase the salaries
of assessors, making them equal to the
salaries of county auditors. Auditors
now receive $2400 and assessors $2200
a year.
Surveyors are now approaching the
mouth of Deadman creek with an ex
tension of the old Cox survey running
out of Colfax and terminating at Wil
cox, in Whitman county. These sur
veyors have brought the line to the
north side of Snake river, at Pene
wawa, crossed the river at that point
and now have almost reached the mouth
of the Deadman stream, which empties
into Snake river at Central Ferry, in
Garfield county.
Farmers of Columbia county, at
1 ast 20 in number, will attend the
state convention of the farmers' un
ion at Spokane, February 7 to 9.
The new North Yakima depot will
cost $60,000.
Police Chief Thomas Story of North
Yakima has issued orders that all dis
orderly women must leave town.
James Dawson, for many years one
of the best known attorneys in Spo
kane, is dead.
There is a coal famine in Kahlotus.
Three tourist cars, a Pullman sleep
er and a dining car carrying 100 or
moro Spokane business and profession
al men and ministers as a bodyguard
to Billy Sunday, left Sunday night for
Olympia. Sunday addressed two mass
meetings in the Olympia theater and
spoke to a joint session of the house
and senate.
Chicago, Milwaukee and Puget
Sound surveyors have run a line from
Plummer, Idaho, by the way of Rock
creek, to Rockford, this state.
Two mill hands, Moros Scheffln, aged
18, and Arthur Gestland, aged 30, be
came involved in a quarrel at a saw
mill near Oakville, on the west side,
and Sheffin seized Gestland and forced
him onto the edge of the saw. Gest
land was literally ripped open, suffer
ing a terrible injury, from which he
expired in a few minutes.
IDAHO ITEMS.
J. N. Thennes of Spokane has leased
for 10 years the $250,000 Samuels ho
tel at Wallace, the finest hostelry but
one in the state.
Emma Goldensmith of Wallace was
found not guilty of assault with intent
to commit murder. Defendant was ac
cused of shooting at Ed C. Scott, an
employe of the Snowstorm mine at Mul
lan, after warning him to desist un
loading timbers on property which she
claimed. The defense had alleged she
shot at Scott with a rifle, while evi
dence introduced showed the weapon to
be a shotgun.
Weiser is an applicant for the state
deaf and blind school. The building in
which the institution was located was
burned at Boise last winter. Boise also
wants the institution.
Joint operation of the Grangeville
Riparia line is to become effective
March 1, according to reports.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed in Kootenai county incorporating
the Blackwell Lumber company. The
capital stock is placed at $2,500,000 and
Coeur d'Alene is designated as the prin
cipal place of business. The directors
named are F. A. Blackwell, B. R. Lewis,
Fred B. Grinnell, G. R. Smith and Ray
M. Hart.
This company is understood to merge
the B. R. Lewis Lumber company, the
Idaho Northern railroad (the Lewis
road), the local timber interests of the
Menasha Woodenware company and a
portion of the Blackwell interests.
It is claimed that the B. R. Lewis
mill will be started in a few days. Sev
eral hundred men will be employed and
the plant improved. The planer has
already started. The new organization
means the close of trials of the B. R.
Lewis plant, which had been forced to
close.
Gaylord W. Thompson of Lewiston,
to whom the state land commission
voted a lease, yet to be executed, giv
ing him exclusive right to mine for iron
ore on 8000 acres of Nez Perce county
land, secured a certified copy of the
board 's minutes on the subject. This
dndSicates Thompson intends to take
the matter to the courts in case Gov
ernor Brady refuses to sign the lease.
The governor has held up the lease
pending a more detailed investigation.
During a short session of the house
Saturday the Winship bill providing
for a bridge over the St. Joe river at
St. Maries was placed on final pas
sage and referred to the appropriation
committee.
The Y. M. C. A. is announced for
Grange ville.
The short winter course for farmers
opened at Idaho university Monday
with a large attendance. Professor
Elias Nelson, who is in charge of the
state experiment station at Caldwell,
as expert in irrigation, will be present
and jgive a series of lectures on irri
gation farming. »
Shoshone county's finances were in
excellent shape January 2, the close of
the last fiscal quarter of 1908, accord
ing to the report of County Auditor
Fairweather, just made, in which it
is stated that the cash on hand that
date amounted to $287,625.40. Collec
tions during the three months amount
ed to $285,661.56, and of this the 1908
taxes yielded $20^,113.11. Warrants
wore redeemed in the sum of $17,
355.91 and January 1 the outstanding
warrants amounted to $128,158.05.
MONTANA NOTES.
The season of 1908-1909 has been suc
cessful in the vicinity of Troy. It is
estimated that $3000 worth of raw furs
have been shipped from that station
this winter. Mr. Bartlett, a pioneer of
Flathead county, killed a 500-pound sil
vertip bear about a mile east of town.
This made the 109th bear he has killed,
a record held by few big game hunters.
G. H. Grubb, a Kalispell lawyer and
one of the complainants, recently gave
the legislature the essence of his
charge to the effect that the state had
received only $1.50 a thousand for
timber, exclusive of the land; that the
records in the land office had been al
tered to suit "dummy purchasers
and that the provisions of the enabling'
act had been violated in sales at less
than $10 an acre and that the statutes
were contravened through sale of more
than 160 acres to single individuals.
• Announcement is mad by Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul contractors that
the Taft (Mont.) tunnel, 7000 feet in
length, the longest on the Pacific ex
tension, will be completed February 7.
This tunnel is the remaining gap on
the Coast line. Through freight traf
fic from St. Paul to Seattle is expected
in a little over a month. •
George Frankhauser, who was sen
tenced last week to life imprisonment
for having extracted $40,000 from the
registered mails of a Great Northern
train, is now confined in the federal
penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan.
OREGON SQUIBS.
Domand for 15 to 25 per cent wage
increase will be made by several
branches of the Portland building
trades council April 1.
The most important gathering of
farmers ever held in Athena is an
nounced for Saturday, February 6,
when an all-day session of the state
farmers' union will be held.
Incorporation articles of the Port
land, Baker City & Butte Electric
Railroad company were filed in Port
land Saturday, with Mark W. Gill, H
J. Martin and C. D. Charles as incor
porators. Eastern interests are said
to be behind the project, which
capitalized at $2,000,000. The road __
to run, say the articles of incorpora
tion, eastward through Clackimas
county, across the Cascades south of
Mount Hood to Trout creek on the
Deschutes river, Burnt Ranch and on
through Grant and Wheeler counties
to Baker City, and from Baker City
across Idaho into Montana and to
Butte.
Sees Dog, Dies of Fright.
Philadelphia, Pa.—Albert J. Winn, 3
(years old, died here Sunday of fright
caused by seeing in the street a dog
! which bit him seven weeks ago.
LAND FRAUD CASES
SECRETARY GARFIELD AJKS
BIG FUND TO COURT THEM.
A Large Portion of the Lands Are Lo
cated in the Northwest—People Im
plicated Well Entrenched as Defective
Land Laws Make It Difficult to Main
tain Prosecutions.
Chicago.—Since Secretary of the In
terior Garfield made his sensational
declaration that cases of land fraud
involving the theft of portions of the
public domain valued at $114,000,000
were ponding in the federal courts or
under investigation by his department,
he has receivod information of still
more extensive frauds, says a Wash
ington dispatch to the Chicago Record
Herald. Secretary Garfield at first
asked for an appropriation of $500,000
to carry on the investigation, but the
reports reaching him show that the
frauds are so numerous and of such a
character that the amount will not
suffice, and he now asks for $1,000,000
to be used in the work.
The almost herculean task of un
earthing the gigantic frauds in the
public lands, which are alleged to ex
ist, is strikingly shown in a statement
of Chief of the Field Service Schwartz,
who reports to the secretary that
"combinations are frequently so well
organized and so aided by defective
public land laws as to present an al
most impossible task in securing evi
dence, or recovering lands worth hun
dreds of thousands of dollars."
Some Northwest Cases.
In giving out a summary of the
larger cases affected by charges of
fraud or illegality now pending, classi
fied by states or financial divisions, the
department omits details of identifi
cation and names of parties in cases
still under investigation, for the rea
son that the parties are entitled to such
protection until investigation develops
facts warranting their presentment to
a proper tribunal, and, on the other
hand, present publishing of details
would, generally, embarrass further
inquiry in a case.
Following are the cases in the north
west:
Washington and North Idaho.
In United States court—
1. United States vs. Flynn, to re
cover 160 acres of improved lands,
$8000.
2. United States vs. Multnomah M.
& D. company, to recover 256 acres of
land, $10,000.
3. United States vs. Barbee, to re
cover 640 acres of coal lands, $64,000.
4. United States v. Kettenbach et
al., to recover 8481 acres of timbered
lands worth about $20 per acre,
$170,000.
5. United States vs. Hope Lumber
company, timber trespass, $7000.
6. United States vs. Bunker Hill
Mining company, value not given.
In department—
1. To recover 6000 acres timber and
fruit land in the Colville Indian res
ervation, held on mining claims,
$300,000.
Oregon.
In United States court—
1. United States vs. Kribbs et al., to
recover timber lands, having commer
cial value of $200,000.
2. United States vs. C. A. Smith,
two suits to recover timber lands, hav
ing commercial value of $750,000.
3. Twenty-one allied suits to can
cel 47 entries of heavily timbered
lands, $235,000.
In department—
1. Case involving 75 timber en
tries, $200,000.
2. Case involving block of pine,
heavy stand, 10,000 acres, $250,000.
3. Two unlawful enclosures of over
140,000 acres of vacant land; value not
given.
4. One lot of coal entries on timber
land in national forest, $200,000.
Montana.
In the United States court—
1. United States vs. B. F. Howard
et al., to recover value of timber lands
entered under the mining laws, $40,
000.
2. United States vs. Anaconda Cop
per company, timber trespass, $64,934.
In department—
1. United States vs. McCune et al.,
trespass of 720,000 cords of wood,
stumpage value, $360,000.
2. Eighty tracts of coal land, en
tered under the timber and stone act;
actual value $100 per acre, $1,280,000.
3. One lot 4000 acres, agricultural
land worth $25 per acre, acquired un
der the desert land act, $100,000.
4. One case involving lands worth
$100,000.
5. Timber trespass in Missoula dis
trict, stumpage, $500,000.
6. One railroad and lumber tres
pass case, Missoual district, $500,000.
7. Timber trespass case, Billings
district, $50,000.
8. Land conspiracy, lands at $5 per
acre, $100,000.
9. United States vs. Libbey Placer
Mining company, timber lands held
under mining locations, $250,000.
Cases Pending.
There are set for trial and hearing
1021 cases before local land offiecs
upon reports by special agents and
forest officers, including the following
in the northwest: Oregon, 141; Wash
| ington, 25; Montana, 227; Idaho, 25.
There are also pending in ^
partment of justice and United St t
courts upon reports by special a
the following cases: Timber tresL**
161; suits to recover lands, 490 -
lawful fencing of public lands'
criminal cases, 321; total, 1094.'
MINES PAY $150,000,000.
Coeur d'Alcnes Produce Great Wwn,
of Ore in 1907 and 1908. ^
The record of production by the eil.
ver, lead, gold and copper mines of the
Coeur d'Alene district within the W
year or two and the splendid showing
made by dividends declared and paid b
1907 and 1908 are a fitting climax to
the record for the last quarter of a cea
tury, in which these mines have con
tributed to the metallic wealth of the
country in round numbers $150,000 000
Of this vast sum the lead mined was
valued at $100,000,000, silver at $ 46 .
Allfl A A A V. J J n 4 e a aa aa#. a.
000,000 and gold at $5,000,000. Coppe'i
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and zinc mines throughout the district
are coming to the front as wealth p ro .
! Queers very rapidly, and it is predicted
! that before many years copper especial,
lv will be one of the principal producta
There is no doubt as to the existence of
rich deposits of zinc, but the ore is of
such a nature that more simplified and
cheaper processes of separation must be
found before many of the zinc produc
ing properties will be worked with
profit.
The Bunker Hill and Sullivan and
Federal Mining and Smelting company's
four mines yielded in profits, divided
among the stockholders prior to Janu
I ary 1, 1908, $15,678,000. During the
last year these properties paid dividends
amounting to $1,845,000, and the
Bunker Hill and Sullivan paid in Janu
ary of this year $75,000.
The figures for the Hercules mine are
only estimates, as the dividends are not
made public as in the case of other
properties. It is known, however, that
the Hercules has paid to date profits
amounting to about $3,324,000, of which
more than $500,000 was paid last year
and a dividend of $48,000 declared for
the current month on the 20th.
The Snowstorm at Mullan has yielded
to date $645,000, including a $45,000
dividend in January, 1909. The Hecla
has paid 67 dividends in varying
amounts, including $20,000 for this
month, and a total to date of $1,730 000.
The year of greatest production was
1907, but there is no doubt that it would
have beon exceeded by last year had it
not been for the depression in financial
circles and the prevailing low price of
lead and silver.
the
Mining in Many Camps.
The pooling of the stock of ___
Jumbo Mining company and placing
the same in escrow in a Spokane bank,
to be sold for 5 cents por share, is the
culmination of the failures that have
characterized the management of one
of the most promising properties
the Buffalo Hump district.
The Inland Empire Copper company,
operating property near Troy, Idaho,
has 12 cars of ore blocked out ready
for shipment.
Word comes from Grangeville that
the Florence Ore company has been
organized to prospect claims in the
Florence district.
Two 70 foot tunnols have been com
pleted and crosscutting is to com
mence on the property of the Keno
Mining company, located on Snake
river, near Pittsburg landing.
S. W. Thompson and associates will
begin work this spring, prospecting
along the north fork of the Clearwater
river with diamond drills to determine
the strata.
Ore for the first shipment from the
Butte and Coeur d 'Alene in the Gentle
Annie gulch is being loaded at Lar
son siding, near Mullan, Idaho, and
the management of the mine announces
that this will be followed by regular
shipments.
John and James Callahan, owners of
the Callahan mine on Sunset moun
tain, near Wallace, are dated over the
strike made recently, when eight feet
of solid galena was encountered. It
is the biggest strike made on the moun
tain.
The flume and machinery of the
Golden Winnie, the tungsten mine at
Murray, Idaho, are frozen up tight,
and as a result it has been decided to
abandon all work until spring.
John S. Danforth and son, R. S.
Danforth, owners of the Aziscoos
group of six claims in the heart of the
Dixie district, say they have spent
two years developing the property and
have six veins of good ore. The main
ledge is about four feet wide and runs
$16 a ton, mill test.
The big boiler for the Alberta Min
ing company is now on the road be
tween Elk City and Stites and will he
installed as soon as it reaches its des
tination, which is about 12 miles
southeast of Elk City.
Council, Idaho.—Work at the White
ley coal mines on Middle fork has
been temporarily suspended, owing to
the mine filling with water during the
floods.
Captain E. W. Johnston, one of the
most prominent Nome mine operators,
said today that he had received infor
mation by the last Nome boat in No
vember, that Nome miners are demand
ing an increase of $1 a day and the
mine owners, as a rule, are refusing
the demand. The miners work on an
average eight hours a day and have
been receiving $3 a day and board.
There are about 1200 miners involved.
Governor Cosgrove Suffers Setback.
Governor S. G. Cosgrove of Washing
ton left Portland for California at 1:30
o'clock Sunday morning in a private
car attached to the Southern Pacifie
train. Mr. Cosgrove has experienced a
serious setback to his condition.