, 1890-11-20

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n plenty Of land In Yakima county
that In not watered and some that
never will be. For this latter class
especially, 1t Is important to know
that 1t Is not without cropping
value. The dwarf Lima bean finds
in this class of land its most
productive nursery. 1t houishes
On the drlest soil and In the hottest
and driest period. When every
thing else beside 1t is whiting, this
bean Is holding every leaf erect and
every available space Is loaded with
blossoms or rapidly developing pods.
On spikes erected In the air IL sports
its blossoms in the open sunshine,
while this year the blossoms of the
common bean have failed to ex-
pand, though covered with foliage.
The reason for this Is that 1t Is native
to the dry desert-liSe section of
South America, and to the hottest
and driest parts of central Asia, In
dia and Africa. In Yakima this
irrigated, and IL could he made u
valuable adjunct to our prosperity If
cultivated In quantity on our high
and dry lands.
The night watchman of the Cana
dian Pacific railway docks had II
startling experience the other night,
says the Vancouver Telegram. 1t
was in the first hour after midnight,
and all around was as still and quiet
as graveyard. Not q boat was
moving on the harbor, and the re
wasn't wind enough to disturb the
surface of the waters. Suddenly he
heard out In the harbor the breath
ing of some mighty animal. The
inhalation and exhalation were dis
tinctly marked, but the sound was
such as to indicate that 1t must be
of tremendous size. The pulling
and blowing, as he describes, re-
minds one of the noise heard by
Sinbad the sailor In the burial
cave. After the noise had continued
for moment or so he heard tre-
mendous splash and then the noise
ceased. He Is at a loss to know
tell him has yet come forward.
A Mullan correspondent of the
Anaconda Standard gives the fol-
lowing account of Judge Clagetts
advent into the Ceur d'Alencs dur.
ing the placer boom of 1888 and
1884:
Judge ClaQett at that time had an
office clerk by the name of Miller,
who Is now resident of Montana.
Miller arrived at the lower end of
the South Fork country with
Clagett; they packed their blankets
thus far, and 1t is no discredit to
Judge Clagett to say that he packed
his blankets into this country. Dur
ing the gray of the morning after
they had arisen from the earth as
their bed and the blue sky rs their
covering, Clagett and Miller espied
cay uses near by, which belonged to
some other seekers after gold, and
Miller, being weary and sore-heeled,
proposed that they steal the cayuses
and pack their blankets into the
gold fields of the North Fork. To
this Clagett, in his inimltable hon
esty, demurred. For" said he, 'if
/ have anything to do with the pur-
loining of those horses, and they
catch us, they will send me over the
road as common horse-thief;
butt" said Clagett, "you steal the
horses and If you get caught III de-
fend and clear you of the CHARGE"
The cayuses were taken and packed
into Eagle without trouble, and
then returned to the owners on the
South Fork.
The steamer Mexico arrived ut
Nanaino recently from the Yukon
country, bringing ten miners who
have been up there from one to six
years, working in the placer mines
which abound there. One of the
miners was seen by a Free Press re-
porter, to whom he gave an account
of his experience for the last two
years in that country. He said:
"The country is in such n poor state
that 1t was all the men could do to
make living. After buying a few
pieces of clothing 1t takes all the re-
mainder of n mans earnings to pay
his board. The cost of packing pro.
visions into the country Is Sl5 per
100 pounds, and to get 100 pounds of
flour into the country costs nearly
double that price, and everything
else in proportion. We are only
able to work about two months in
the year, and that Is in the
summer months-the rest of
year you are compelled to lay
around and do nothing. 1t Is i'm
possible to get out of the country
after September, as the rivers are
then frozen up. While we are at
work we make from 10 to $25 per
day. This is not made on an aver.
age, but only at odd times. During
last summer there were about l75
men In the Yukon country, and out
of this number there are % remain.
ing in the country, the rest having
left After being up there two years
he has come back to civilization
without a cent In his pocket. An
other man who has been up there
for six years is in the same condi-
tion. Some of the men had nothing
but deer meat to live upon for twelve
months, and they tell of the fearful
hardships which they have endured
in that country"
This forenoon, says the Walla