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mining ores from mines In these dis
tricts in 1890, was about three million
dollars, while the amount of smelling
ores produced that year from tributary
districts is placed at 175, 900 tons. OF
this the C9ur d'Alene district produced
90, 600 tons of ore, Valued at S6,O21 200.
The smelling charge on this amount OF
ore, at the average price, would be
81, $50, 900.
Another city which is surrounded with
abundant mineral resources is Ellens-
burgh, the county seat of Kittitass
County, and the metropolis Of the va
kima Valley, situated In practically the
geographical center of the State. In
1880 its population was 10C; 1t now
has nearly 5000 inhabitants It's latest
triumph OF enterprise is the erection of
the Eiensburgh Blast Furnace No. /.
The buildings are already up, and the
furnace is being built Of iire-brck man
ufacturcd from native fire clay by
plant erected on the site of the furnace
The clay from which they are made is
superior 10 the famous Scotch iire-clay.
The manufacture of these fire-brick
which retail for $40 per thousand can
scarcely fail TO develop into an industry
of considerable proportions; but IL is to
their iron, gold, and coal resources that
the citlzons of Ellensburgh look with
greatest expectation. Iron has proven
the world over, and particularly in En-
gland, Pennsylvania, and Alabama, TO
be most substantial basis upon which
TO build cities. There is no reason why
IL should fall TO meet the expectation of
the people OF Ellensburgh, for there are
In Kitutass County, and in close prox-
unity to ElIensburgh, literally noun
tans OF iron OF very high
grade In the report of George
A. Bethune, State Geologist, bearing
date OF 1891, we find the following Off
cial statement: ain Washington, to day,
there are n process of development
nearly twenty promising iron properties.
These are situated In King, Skagit, Kit.
Ia ass, Stevens, and Okanogan Counties,
aad am pleased to say that the devel-
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he would DO willing TO take an affidavit
that one and the same person wrote on
the Declaration and in the Bible, and
that no and all his descendants were
intellectual peop'e, all conspire TO make
me firm believer that Robert Morris,
my great-grandfather, was the original
signer of tho declaration OF Indepcnd-
ence.
sMrs. Content Sutphen, my aunt no
members her grandfather Robert dis
tinctly. She said TO me that he fire.
quently came TO her fathers house,
which was then two miles distant in
Farmingdale, and talked constantly
about tho Revolutionary war She re-
members distinctly how he talked about
Washington and his white pony. She
o so remembers very vividiy riding q
long distance to the funeral of her
grandfather, and how they stopped and
cared for the horses on the way, and
that he was buried In Leodsville, N. J. :"
Mrs. Ada Woolcy, the youngest
granddaughter OF Robert Morris, was
born at Farming, ale, Monmouth County,
N j., on Feb. 10, 1916 She Is "A years
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siikworm. Attn. Fair.

Chief Buchanan is in correspondence
with the 'silkworm producers OF the
country. He has written to all the
State boards of agriculture for the adj
dresses of the people who have received
silkworm eggs from the Government.
This industry In the United States is
scattered through thirty-three States.
The cocoon crop of the country in 1889
amounted to IS, 745 pounds. This was
purchased at Washington. Philadel-
phia, and Peabody, Kan. II is nota-
BILE fact that 2,7s6 pounds, or about
eighth of the entire produot, was
produced in Marion County, Kansas.
OF course, the silkworm exhibit at the
exposition will include exhibits from
foreign countries, but the American
exhibit promises TO be very interest
ing. n. II. Sessions, Secretary of the
Massachusetts, Poard of agriculture,
writes to Chief Buchanan that the
NoDotuck Silk Company of Florence
will make silk exhibit. from the egg
to the finished product.
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CHAS. NJ MORRIS. II urCn, Rnlladel-
phia, and that there Have never been
any heirs coming forward to claim him
would all go TO favor the theory that
some one in prison permitted him to es-
cape, and thus allowed him to live in
seclusion at Farmingdale. This Is enough
20 account for the family ignorance and
tile great discrepancy in historical ac-
counts Of his death.
DR.. Daniel Morris Woolley, Of Brook
lyn, was discovered, in the search for
authentic information on the subject OF
the c1eer of Robert Morris, TO be a
great-grandson OF tho revolutionary
patriot, and he gave all the information
at his disposal, although at first reluctant
20 do so. as he felt, he said, that his
family would not care TO be prominent
in the matter. He said:
"Whcn | take into consideration that
Robert Morris was born In the Same
year as that recorded In history; that the
granddaughter has the Bible, from
which | made comparison OF tho sig
nature on the original Declaration Of
Independence and found them unmis-
takably similar in every particular; that
an impress has been taken upon oiled
paper and shown to the cashier of ma
tional bank in Long Branch, who said
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IN them. l look forward with supreme
confidence to the time when Washington 8
Bessemer steel will TO one of her princi-
pal manufactures, and to the time when
steel works will be seen In operation
throughout the great hematite and mag
netite ore belt of the State.
"The fact that the railway develop
ment Of tho State has assumed really
phenomenal proportions, and that iron
highways are penetrating the very seat
Of these and deposits of otherSiron ores
of the classes / have mentioned war
rants the prophecy that within less than
two decades the output of iron in this
State will lead that of any other iron
producing division of the Pacific Slope. I"
The presence Of large quantities Of
the red hematite ore greatly simpliiies
the process OF reducing the other iron
ores, because the introduction of q
proper proportion of red hematite into q
mass Of the other ores causes the whole
to reduce third quicker than il
smeited without mixing. Alongside
these iron mountains arc immense de-
posts of high grade coking COAL and
limestone Of remarkable strength and
purity, which makes the finest of 1uX-
ing lime.
The gold fields about ElIensburgh are
the famous Sank, Cle-Elum and Pes
chastin districts, in Kittitass County.
Concerning the first and second beds
the State Geologist reports: "This dis
covery was made in the spring of 1874
by Ben Goodwin, an old time California
miner, and prospector who, in search
OF hidden treasures, had traversed the
whole of Oregon and Idaho, and then
came into Washington and what Is now
Kittitas County Reaching the Swauk.
/ am told GC edwin lost his bearings,
and camping, proceeded to look about
him. As result of this the prospector
found himself the dlscoverer of what to-
day are the richest placer mines of
Washington. OF fabulous richness werc
those placer mines, and as an evidence
of their extent, i may say TO this day
they are being worked with rich results
Nuggets valued az as high as 500 have
as recently as the past season been ex-
tracted from these plaCers And TO old
Ben Goodwin must be given the credit
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Parrot and Hawk.

The young quail's worst enemies are
the hawks. Where they all come from,
and how they live when the quail are
big enough to keep out Of the way, is
one of the mysteries. At other seasons
hawk in the park is rarity. Just
now there are lots of them.
There is one hawk out there whose
quail-killing days are over. His downs
fall was accomplished by the big red
and green parrot that lives around in
the trees near the Casino. Capt.
Thompson saw the hawk swoop down
into the brush when he was quite O.
distance off. Pretty soon there was
the most extraordinary racket inSthe
scrub. oak.
The parrot had the hawks neck i'm
his claws, and was driving away with
his hook bill at the hawks head. The
hawk was willing enough to quit, but
couldn't.
They few up and down, first one on
top and then the other. 1t was not o
long fight. The hawk beat his adver-
ssry with his wings, and even got his
talons and beak to work, but the red
and green bird was too big and strong
for him, and would moi release his grip
a moment. Before the people got very
near the hawk quit fighting
The parrot had apparently sunk his
talons through the hawks neck, and
that is probably the reason they did
not separate. When the hawk got
quiet the parrot managed to disengage
himself and flew up into tree, where
he remained scolding and straighten-
ing his feathers. lie was pretty badly
scratched up and one of his eyes seemed
to be gone, but he had killed the hawk.
San Francisco Examiner.
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discoveries of placer dggings date from
the year 1881, when the Gle Eium placers
were found. The Gle Elum River Is o
small stream, having its source in the
Cascade Mountains in Kittitass County,
and emptying into the Yakima River
near the prosperous little town Of Cle-
Elum. There was a rush OF miners to
the new found field There Is no posi-
BILE method by which the output OF tSe
Cle-EIum placers can be even approxN
mated with anything like accuracy.
know the fact to be that the Cle-Elum
placers are still being worked by num-
Der of miners, and with substantial re-
Suits"
There are extensive quartz mines In
the Peschastin district, and the first
stamp mill in Washington was erected
and is now operated here The Coma
hue mine in the Peschastin crushed its
quartz in old-fashioned arrastros, at o
loss Of 50 per cent. OF the metal, and
then secured SIT, 900 worth Of god last
season.
The annual output Of the Swauk, Gle
Elum, and Peschastin districts is over
100000. MAYFLowER.
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bay proper is twice as large as New
York bay, and there are smaller bays
stretching along the coast on each
side. The town struggles in irregu-
larly built terraces up precipitous
red cliff, dotted with hanging gardens
1t is the seat of the Archbishop, and
has even more churches than Pernam-
buco, all having n strong family like
ness. AS at all the Brazilian ports,
there are no docks at Bahia, and one
has to land in boats. The wharf,
which is dotted with rather rickety old
kiosks, built in imitation of those
along the boulevards of Paris, is used
as a fish and fruit market. The
market-women make wonderfully pict-
uresque groups, with their CANDY tur-
bans, their white embroidered che
misses, necklaces of bright-colored
beads, and fingers covered with rings.
The men smoke cigarettes necessarily /;
the women, briar-wood pipes
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A Clown Goat.

Richmond, Me-, is the homo of a
clown goat which is source of amuse.
ment all along the Kennebec. He is O
pet among the steamboat men and O
regular visitor OF the wharf when
steamers arrive or depart. One day
last week Billy's owner missed him,
but two days afterward, when the
steamer KeDnebeo arrived, the goat
walked calmly down the gsngplank,
dressed in pair of old trousers, q
swallow-tail coat, and stovepipe hat.
He had been to Boston with his friends,
the deck-hands, and came home with
an increased dignity of bearing natu-
rally consequent upon visit 10 that
learned town When a lady in the
waiting room petted him the goat
whipped her veil from her face and
swallowed It in twinkling. Then he
went home in his new toys, which he
has probably since eaten.
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DidRt Meet Them.

Mrs. Hayseed- we see any o.
them sharpers in the city?'
Mr.. Hayseed-"Not one, Miranda,
not one. But ]. met some old friends
I never expected to see again Do We
remember old Mr.. Bigcrop? Well, I
met SOD of his. Thought both those
boys was dead an lynn out there in the
cemetery; but this one said he was
snatched by grave robbers. and just as
they was sellin' his body to medical
college he came to. Coed enough fer
a book, Miranda, good enough fer
book. and 1 told him he ought to write
it, and he said he would. and he'd dedi-
cate the book TO me as his fathers old
friend. There's one queer thing, Mi
randa This mans hair is black, while
the Bigcrop boys had red hair, but he
said it turned black from fright. He's
way up in society, Miranda, and intro
duced me to young men named Van
derbilt, and Astor, aud Gould, and
Drexel, and ever 80 many more.
tell you, Mimndy. these young fellers
spend money! Some bills fer cigars
and things came in while we was talk
ing, hundreds O. dollars worth, an they
whipped out the cash like O breeze.
One OF 'em happened to run short, and
so | lent him all had, but he said he'd
send it by express tomorrow. tell
you what, Miranda, @ smart man like
me is just as safe in the city as in the
country.s
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ing MS last years MRS. MARY HUKLHY
of life he was in cared for and devotedly
nursed by q granddaughter named Mary
Hurley, now living with her own grand
daughter at Toms River, ~ j. Robert
Morris had three children, Samuel,
James and oseph-Samuel residing I'M
til his death in the vicinity of Farming
dale, James going to Eatontown, snd
Joseph' to parts unknown The three
nearest relatives to the historic Robert
arc three living granddaug Mrs.
Hurley, mentioned above, and residing
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Cariyfe's Bluntness.

Thomas Carlyle was once bidding
Good day to very conceited young
man who had favored him with long
sermon on things in general; he went
politely to the door aud then said
We'll. Mr.. Bland, I've received ye for
the sake OF your father. Now, good
by, and ] earnestly hope I'll never see
we again. On another occasion Car
lyle looked in O passionless way at the
visitor who had been holding forth for
ever so long and said: Man, but ye're
q puir creeture"
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from them is made that quality Of steel
designated the Bessemer, and acknowl-
edged the king of steels throughout the
world. Our magnetites and hematites
are peculiarly adapted to the manufac-
ture Of steel, because Of the small guam
rtity Of phosphorus they carry and the
high per cent. Of metallic iron contained
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lyon write u,co,b,y. s,ro

A Yale student recently handed in q
paper to his professor and was sur
prised to have it returned with q note
sorawled on the margin. He studied
it diligently. but was unable to de-
cipher the note, and SO he brought his
paper back to the professor. Il can't
quite make out what this is, if you
please, said the student. THAT, SIR"
said the professor why, that says:
Il cannot read your handwriting
You write illegibly, sir. "-Sprtsagfeld
RepubLicd7l
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A Special Rcvfvh.

Mr. Friendly-Parsn Bimbertp,
you are complaining of dull times at
your church; don't you think revival
would help things?
Parson L-Ve'y much, Jedge! Hit'd
rimerdy de case in iiffy, pervided,
sab, hits de right sorter revivum. De
kin dat chu'ch wants am q revivum err
dc ekschecher, an how she gwine ia
git it while de shinin' lights er de sim
ergogue am wsstin' deir substance at
de waterin' places? Tell yo' what it
are, genterman, eff dc keeps on in dis
scan'lous way, hit won be no waterin'-
place dey'll Ian up wild in de mex worp,
deed IL won.
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Morris, Mrs DIR. Cook, Mrs. o. s Eli
thorpe and Mrs. Robert White, of Lake
City. Samuel Norris had several broth.
ers all of whom attained prominence.
AS stated, enough is known to abso-
lutely establish the fact that Robert
Morris did not die in debtors or any
other kind Of prison, but on farm OF
his own purchase, or purchased by
friends, in Farmingdale, Monmouth
County, n. j.
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chic River, which In turn terminates
with a jointure with the Columbia River.
This creek Is in what Is now Kittitass
County. Like the Swauk, the Peschas-
tin pIacers proved fabulously rich, and
were worked by hundreds OF miners.
thousands OF dollars being extracted
from them. Like thes Swauk deposits
they seem to be inexhaustible, as at this
writing they are being worked, and with
splendid returns, by many minors"
OF the last no says: @The more recent
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opmcnt work ON all OF these deposits

opmcnt work on all OF these deposits
is being vigorously prosecuted. have
inspected many of these discoveries, pro.
cured samples from all visited, and have
ascertained that each of the classes of
iron j name above are to b. found in our
own State, and that Of these classes the
Washington ores are Of superior excel
lcne. In King, Kittltass aud Okanogan
Counties magnetltes and hematites exist
in great quantity, and the value OF these
varieties cannot be over estimated, as
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he reslucu untII MS Mrs. CONTENT bUIFHEN'
death, May .. 1889. For nearly twenty
years he resided in Plano, and acquired
considerable wealth. In his mature
years he was active, kind and highly re-
spectcd by all who enjoyed his aequaint-
ance.
His surviving children are Charles NJ
Morris, now thrifty merchant Of Plano,
ILL.,, Cyrus II. Morris and John d.
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Matrimonial Red Tapa.

-Florry, dear faltered the Wash
ington youth. II couldn't summon
courage to tell you what was in my
heart, and | wrote it. You got my
letter, didn't you?'
Yes, George, got it,
And You read it. didn't you?"
Yes, | read it In fact, II read
Ii over twice"
And now, F1orry," he said, growing
boldey, Il have come to learn my fate"
Tho best L can PROMISE you,
George said the blushiI.g daughter
Cd the distinguished Congressman, with
drawing her hand from the ardent
clasp OF the infatuated young man, ais
that 1 will advance your letter 70
third reading tomorrow. '-HH-ford
-Costxussk
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at Toms River, N.
j., age 90 years;
Mrs. Content SUIT
phen, living at Colt
Neck, five miles
from Freehold, n. j. /;
and Mrs. Adaline
Woolley, ago "a
years, living at
Long Branch, N. j.
T he fact that
Robert NJ orris'
grave cam OF be
found in G h ri S t
C1 rnh Dhfio AL
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HISTORY is FALSE.
AT LEAST REGARD TO ROBr.
MORRIS.

The Patriot who Sacrificed His Wealth
and Ambition. To Save His Country-He
Did Not De i'm ~ Debtors Prison-Mili-
ions OF do lars Are Due His Heir.
History is likely to suffer from a most
Lmportant contradiction. and actlYe
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OF age and remarkably intelligent and
active woman. She was 10 years old
at the death OF her grandfather and
rememb ers him distinctly.
Samuel Morris, tho grandson OF Robert
Morris, was born in Farmingdale, N. j.,
Sept Is, 1907. At the age OF % he mar
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In Germany experiments have re-
Gently been made with small locomo-
tives for towing boats ON canals. In
stead, however. of attaching the rope
TO the locomotive IL Is attached 10
heavy towing car, which is drawn by
the locomotive. The plan Is said 70 be
satisfactory.
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measures are now
b @ ing taken to
p r o V o I h q Z
statements which
have come down
from generation
to generation, and
which havo been
copied into every
cyclop pdia extant,
are wrong in, a
very important
historical respect.
The s TIA o m O II t
which 10 now in u
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Acquiring Providence.

Quester know Shrimper, don't
you? That chap that's made himself
so conspicuous in town affairs of late.
Jester-Oh, yes Very well, indeed.
Quester-He claims to be self
made man.
Jester-Good Pm glad to be,able,
on his own testimony, to relieve Provi-
dence of the odium of having made
such q mistake.
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ried his first wife,
Rhoda A. Van Me-
ter, and raised q
in mily of ten chill
dren, six Of whom
survive the father.
The wife died about
twenty-siX years
ago. Five years
after the death OF
the first wife he
was united In mar
+ age TO Mrs. Han
nah Lincoln, OF
Piano, ILL.,, where
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An Economical Darby.

Gabe Snodgrass recently applied to
the Reverend Whangdoodle Baxter.
of the Austin Blue Light Tabernacle,
for some pecuniary assistance.
Il jess can't do hit" replied Parson
Baxter; Il has to sport my pore ole
mudder"
"But your pore ole mudder says yer
don't do muffin for her."
well, den, eff l don't do muffin for
my pore old mudder, what's de use OBJ
an outsider like you trying to make me
shell out ?"-Terds Sftifgs.
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THE Oldest travelling passenger ngent
IN the land is Capt. May, who has been
retired by tho Pennsylvania Railroad
on half pay for the remainder of his
days. He Is white-haired man Of
seventy, ax feet tall, straight aud
strong
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for having first found the States richest
seat of surface deposits Of gold.
at was nearly three years after the
discovery OF the Swauk placers that c.
Z. Culver, q pioneer pros2ector, en- route
to the Columbia River and the South,
found paying placer diggings on the
banks OF the Peschastin creek, lively
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1T is again asserted that the Cana
dian Pacific Railroad has about com.
pleted arrangements for Chicago ter,
minal point
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The Reason OF 1t.

Quester-I wonder why it is that
man is heavier when he is in liquor
than when he is sober?
Jester-That is easily explained.
It's because he's "half shot.
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IT is stated that the railroads of the
United States lose S2,000,000 yearly
from landslides- 100000 by foods,
81, 900, 600 by fire, and $4,000 900 by
collisions.
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that he was born in
England in 1894,
but he did not die,
as related by his
tory, in q debtors
prison in Philadel-
phia, but on a small
farm in, the neigh
borhood Of Farm
ingdale, n. j., in
1926, twenty years
later than record
ed in history. Dur
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HAFp drinkers have no antipathy 10
the whisky trust. IL is the whisky mo
trust" they want abolished.
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Importan
SAMUEL NORRIS.

SAMUEL. NORRIS. way 10 90 proved
Incorrect If not absolutely'false in every
particular, is that Robert Morris, the
Revolutionary patriot and financier, died
in debtors prison, and lies buried in
Christ Churchyard, Philadelphia.
"More than once" history goes on to
state, Robert Morris rescued Congress
from seemingly fatal crisis by borrow
ing money on his own name and that Of
his firm The 81, 500, 900, which enabled
Washington TO carry out his last cam
palgn against CORVALLIS. was raised by
his eXertions and on his own notes.
From 1871 70 1884 Robert Morris
was uperintendent OF Finance, and
was vested with complete control over
the monetary affairs OF the country.
Here again he several times used his
reputation as man Of great wealth to
rescue the Treasury from embarrass-
ment.1
Four years ago, law was passed by
Congress TO reimburse the heirs
Of Robert Morris tho S1,50O,000
which was due him, with interest,
now amounting to in the neighborhood
of So, ZOO, 900.
The heirs have been active in conse-
quence, and some interesting discover
les have been mado dn the tracing of re-
lationship, among the facts which are
established beyond controversy being