Omaha daily bee., 1890-07-03

is the general opinion that mo will not again
be recaptued, as nc has no doubt put con.
siderable territory between himself aud
Delta.
People oiThcpallSs, Ore, claim that city
handles more wool direct from cho producer
than any city in the United States. The
ware houses are full, and large wagons loaded
with wool are coming to town every day.
This season 5,oM,0O0willb be handled. In one
day last week l,1OO bales were sold at 10
cents, the highest price yet paid.
Says the Santa Rosa (CalA Rcpu bllcani
One OF the strangest things that has hap.
pcncdherefOr some time took place at the
Enterprise planning mill last Saturday. A
runaway horse, with hamess dangling ran
into the mill and out again, passing between
aplaper and n sticlScr, which were running
in full blast and only three feet apart and
escaping without a scratch and doing no dam.
age toanything,
We learn from the various round.ups now
III thefeldin northern Montana that the calf
crop is heavier than for years past, says tho
Be 'ou River (Mont) Press. Cattle owners
are Iluch encouraged over the continued
rains, which assure good winter ranges, Uno
last four weeks havoaddcd 80 per cent to the
value Of cattle herds lad the dry weather
continued this year as it did last our stock
owners would have been badly hurt before
next spring.
A dispatch from Tacoma Wosh., ays The
brigade encam pmentat American lNRe Of the
HHLlOual guiEu Oi w iSHluElOn IS greatly
aroused over an indgniy offcrcd Governor
Ferryand his underclothes the Other night
Somebody pulled down the stars and stripes
from the flagpole and hoSted in tleir stead
the governors S red underwear, wGiCh had
been pulled from his tent with astiCk, and
hoiste1 and cutthe ropes SO they could not be
pulleddow The perpetrators will be court.
martlaled If caught.
Says the Redlmds (Cal) Citrograph;
About the quickest harvesting work we have
heard of was done by Nance II knight of
Pcrris n week or so ago They started com.
Dmed harvester thresher and sacker in the
morning. As fast as the sacks were dropped
by the machine they were hauled to the
firms barley crusher and run through, re.
sacked andloadcd on the cars. This was all
done so rapidly that five car loads were in
San Diego, San Belnardno, Rive erSde, Pasa-
dena and Los Angeles In forty-eght hours
from the time the grain was standin 6 in the
field.
George Horbcson of New York who came
out tovisitDr. Harvey at Fort KeOugh, hav.
ing ID vvidideaof western Ii fe, made his ap.
pearance the morning of his arrival in a big
sOmbrero and SKIS hOoter, and all other wild
west trimmings, says thoMilos City (Mont)
journal. The thought of IA good joke flashed
through the minds OF Interpreter Thompson
and Lieu tenant Casey, and accordingly they
proceeded to take the youth tothe utcamp
to clean out thecamp, but on arriving lie sur.
MhsGGthe real situation ; but, bcin ga Sprintcr,
they soon arranged a lO0yard race between
him and one of the bucks, the outcome to be
toward thepoSt The race was an easy one
for the victim, but at seventy-five yards the
indian runner was Joined by four other
Indians in war paint, who jumped out of the
brushand chased the lad into the post He
claims that 400 instead of four Indians joined
the chase.