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The St. Johns herald., 1891-04-23
Struck it Rich.

A Helena, Montana, dispatch
 says: Two Arizona prospectors,
 Oscar H. Ogden and E. B. Parker,
 have made one ofthe biggest strikes in a mine heard of here some time. They came here just a year ago and went to the EIkhorn district, where they located six claims. As work proceeded, the claims looked better. J. T. Smith, we'll known mining operator, examined the pro- perty, sampled the ore and went-to Tacoma, where he formed a compa- ny and disposed of the property for $100,000. Of this S40,000 was paid to-day, the rest being due in three months. The deal is a strictly f. nancial one, no part of the S100,000 being paid in stock. The purchasers are w, R. Rust, r. W. Clark and Briggs, of Tacoma shelter; J. T. Smith of Helena, and George Boetler of Elkhorn. They have or ganized company with capital of $300,000. The average assay of ore is $44 gold, $23.50 silver and 300 RO Iood
The St. Johns herald., 1891-04-23
Big Mine Prospects.

A Prescott Courier correspondent, writing from between the Walnut Grove dams, says:
 Here we learned of a very rich strike made by Charley Ellis and his partner. They did not appear to want any one to visit the location just then, but they were most gen. erous with their specimensas as we got some 20 specimens full of free and and sparkling gold, and they must have given away fully 1900 or s100 worth of this beautiful quartz, show ing gold to one-fouith of it's weight This if certainly the best find in the Territory for some years if 1t lasts, and few days will tell what 1t is. The find is near Castle Creek, be- tween the dams on the IIassayam- pa. These two big mines could be run by water power,as ample power can be got from an electric plant would not cost over $2,000 for all hoisting and drilling purposes. The tramway from the mine to the mill would not be expensive and the whole plant c0ul,l be r;In at q very low cost parton. This is a great oppor- tunity for capital.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-04-23
An EX-LeglSlatOr Shot.

Little Rock, April 5.-At May nard this morning, Milton Ownby and Tom Kirby, two prominent cit izens, settled an old fued with shot guns. The duel had been agreed upon, to take place the first time the men met. They met in a store and fired simultaneously. Kirby's head was blown off, while Ownby was seriously wounded. The form CT was in 1889 a member of the Ar kansas legislature.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-04-23
The GZar'S Peril.

London, April 7.-The Telegraph's $ correspondent at St. Petersburg says; An attempt was made on the Czar's life to-day. It was Rus sian holiday, and the Czar and Czarina went to review the Impe- rial Guards, opposite the palace oi Grand Duke Nicholas,
 Invitations were sent to limited number of persons. A man with a sallow complexion and of a South ern type was among those admitted He took a position five paces dis tant from the place where the Czar was to stand.
 As he continued to wear his over coat he was requested to remove it, but declined on the ground that he was afraid of draughts. He was arrested and taken to prison, where revolver and globule suppose d to contain poison were found in his pockets. His name is Shamei- kin.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-04-23
Bold Burglars.

number ofthe rooms at the San
 Felipe hotel were entered by a bur glar or burglars, last night and a number of the lodgers at that popu-
 lar hostlery awoke this morning to find themselves reltived of their spare change. The thief didn't seem to care for watches or jewelrs, or anything that might tell on him, he was doing strictly cash business and would not accept anything else. Fortunately, none of the occupants of the rooms visited happened to have much money in their pockets, and the individual losses were not large. Mrs Kornberg was the heavi est loser, and her pocket was re- lieved of sixteen dollars the other rooms visited contributed about five dol ars apiece. The fellow seemed to be very bold about it, for he lit the gas in the room in which Mir. and Mrs. Kornberg were sleeping and left it burning. Suspicion rested upon one of the walters at the hotel, as he was seen coming out of one of the rooms, but an examination fail ed to discover any article about his person that could be identified.
 So much care is always taken at the San Felipe to protect the rooms of guests against such visits as the one referred to, that it is probable a sense of absolute security caused | most of the parties to be less careful than they otherwise might have been.-Albuquerque Citizen.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-04-23
Population of the World

The Statesman's Year Book for 1891 estimates the worlds inhab- itants last, exclusive of the polar regions, to have been l ,467 100000, and the land surface they occupy whole or in part at 46,350,0OG square miles, of which 2S,269,000 square miles, are fertile, 13,901 GOO steppe and 4,1SO,OOO desert. The polar regions are put down at A. SSS,000 square miles, with popuIa- tion on only about 300,00O.-Albu- querque Citizen.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-04-23
A Tennessee Wretch Done For.

Nashville April 5.-A special from Bryant station says: Martin, alias Cub, Mayberry, was found dead, hanging to Q cedar tree, about one mile north of this place. The jury of inquest rendered verdict of death by the hands of unknown parties. A note was left by the lynchers saying: This is done for the protection of our wives and daughters.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-04-23
Possibility of More Indian Troubles.

A Washington dispatch says ''The War department is taking ad- vantage of the cessation of hostili- ties among the Indians of Dakota, and has been engaged in gathering authentic information as to the probability of another outbreak this spring, Careful Investigations have been made by officers serving as agents at Pine Ridge and the Rosebud agency and their reports are not altogether reassuring.
 ''In substance these officers as sert there need or there need not be trouble, just as the government de- sires. The whole case rests upon the care exercised in the distribu- ton of appropriations. If the In dians get promptly all that is due them, and there is not too much haggling, there will be peace, but the moment the government at tempts to pinch the Dakota tribes the hitherto friendly Indians, who do not feel very complacent eyer their late trips to Washington, will, it is predicted, surely revolt.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-04-23
frst-class condition and ready to go.-Texas Live Stock Journal.

gO.-leXdS Live OLOCk JOuIldI.
 Taken all together the leading | markets of the west show a decreas'
 in cattle receipts in the three months
 closing with March of something
 like 100000 head, as compared witt
 the same time last year. Of this
 number the greatest fall off has
 been at Kansas City; but it is al
 Chicago where it counts for most in its influence upon the trade ot the country. The.cattle figures up to April 1 at Chicago have not yet been received, but the decrease will not be far from 10000 to 25,000 head. This, though, does not re- present in full the difference in the number ot cattle available Tor mar ket purposes brought to that point. A decidedly larger proportion of Chicago receipts has gone to Europe than in the same time last year, ard a larger proportion has also passed into the hands oflocal slaughterers and exporters of cured meats. This in itself is sufficient to explain 6 great element of the strengk in the current cattle market, and the prob ability of similar conditions con tinuingthroughout the spring season gives ground for strong hopes which are entertained of the trade of the early summer. As a straw bearing upon the more remote future it is somewhat significant that the num- Der of feeding cattle sold in that market so far this year has been below normal, which would look as though preparation for supplying latter markets with ripe beeyes was less extensive than usual. This is a natural result, of course, of the very high price of corn, and the inability of many men to feed who are usually at thls time of year pos sessed of surplus grain and rough feed which they cannot otherwise we'll dispose of to advantage. But the way, it hardly seems likely that there will be any great rush of buy CTS for feeding stock until the op- portunity to sell corn at present ex- travagant figures shall have passed away.-National Stockman, Pitts burg Pa.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-04-23
Train Robbers Captured.

Los Angeles, Cal, April 10.-Or
 the evening of February 6, the Lo:
 Angeles express due in this city
 from San Francisco at ' :25 a. m
 was held up Alila, in Tulare coun- ty. During the iracas fireman c. ". Radcliff was shot and died a few days after.
 The Southern Pacific company not only put good detectives on the case but offered a reward of 5000 for the capture of the robbers.
 AS days passed into weeks and nothing more was heard of the af- fair, it was the general belief that the robbers had made good their escape and that the officers had given up the chase.
 Such, however, was not the case. The railroad detectives, by hard work, not only ascertained who the robbers were, but have been close onto their trail since the 2d of March. On that day two of the party were located at San Luis Obispo, where they purchased two horses.
 Before the arrival of the officers, however, they had departed. But their trail was soon struck and the chase so lively that the pursued were obliged to abandon their horses and take to the mountains. They sold their horses on March s to a man at Ludlow, a station on the Atlantic and Pacific road, about 100 miles east of Mojave. Here the trail was again lost and not again recovered until yesterday morning
 On March 26 the railroad compa- ny sent to every one of their agents, and to all sherifs and constables, a circular giving the names of the men wanted and their description. morning the agent at Indio was somewhat taken by surprise upon beholding Bob and Emmet Dalton, the two men wanted. climb ing into refrigerator car of an out going train, Not being armed the agent did not Care about tackling the men single handed, but imme diately telegraphed the conductor at the next station. The conductor upon receiving the message said nothing, but when his train stopped at water tank he very quietly se- cured the door, and then telegraph ed to the sheriff at Yuma to be on hand with sufficient force of men to capture the outlaws.
 According to the report that reached here to-day, everything worked to a charm, and the men are now in custody and will arrive in Los Angeles on this evenings train.
 It appears that the hold up was done by five brothers named Robert, Emmet, William, Marion and Graf ton Dalton. The two latter, it is claimed, are wanted as accessories, Robert and Emmet, the two arrest ed, are aged 23 and 21 years re- spectively.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-04-23

A Mexican was arrested this week by Sheriff Olney on suspicion of be- ing the man who held up the Bow ie stage last week. He was unable to give an account of his where abouts at the time, and suited the description of the robber exactly, The stage driver however failed to identify him and he was released. Graham County Bulletin.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-04-23

From ten to twelve ounces a day is the quantity of meat required for healthy adult who takes and or dinary amount of work and eXer- else. As a rule, women eat less than this, and deiude themselves with the idea that they don't re- quire as much food as men, even when they work as hard. Hence it is that so many women drift in to inyalidism in middle age,- Butchers Gazette.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-04-23

A negro soldier named Joseph Lester, who has been in the San Carlos hospital, one day last week, in a fit of insanity, or cussedness, assaulted one of the attendants with knife and cut him severely, though not fatalIy.-Rulletin.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-04-23

The Farmers Alliance is growing rapidly in Minnesota, having gain ed Il, ,OOO members since the recent election.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-04-23

There is very nearly as large an Indian population in the United States to-day 0s at the time of Co., lumbus.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-04-23

Under the reciprocity treaty now being formulated with Mexico, cat tie, hogs, sheep and horses are to Lo olnooI c,> d. r~o~ I:-L
The St. Johns herald., 1891-04-23
Stock Notes.

N1OOh O'tttA0 III Al4IOlld dIC IepOIt- ed as selling at the following figures, Sl4 for two-year-olds, and ST for threes.
 Among the exports from Boston last week were 1000 live cattle ship ped to European ports. ] John Roberts, of Midland, Texas, has sold his stock of about 1 700 head of cattle for $17,0O0.
 Ten carloads of cattle were ship ped from Winnemucca on the 3Oth ult by Hardin & Liley for this mar ket.-Butcher's Gazette.
 T. ". Lenier purchased la9t week 200 head of two-year-olds of Col. Staples at s7.50 per head.-Fort Worth Gazette.
 Cattle are now selling higher than for three years. Hogs, notwith- standing heavy receipts, are now higher than year ago, and a dol lar above the low point.
 There are beef buyers in Reno, ,Nev. from Portland, Oregon, but they have not yet succeeded in getting any cattle at the price they offer six cents.
 Parties are offering high grade Shorthorn steers at $S, SIP and $16, for ones, twos and threes-a sign that the cattle business is looking |up.-Mason (Tex.) News.
 The Tombstone Epitaph says; Of the big drive of cattle to Los Angeles by Land & Co.,, 600 head are as far as Indian Wells and the balance have not yet crossed the river from Yuma.
 T. F. Ketchum and John Meyers, of Montrose, sold last week thirty five alfalfa-fed steers for $4S each. They were taken in the corral and were for the silverton market.- Denver (Colo.) Field and Farm.
 The Chicago Drovers' Journal says; Fourteen head of three-year- old Herefords averaging 1,749 lbs. sold to Ziegler March 18th for $6.- 20. This is the highest price paid for cattle-with the exception of a few Christmas beeves-since 1888,
 Fort Worth Texas Gazette says; H, s. Boice of Miles City, Mont, has closed a trade with Captain Henry Warren of Holbrook, A. T.. for 1900 head of two-year-olds at SIS, and 1900 head of threes at $17. all for May delivery. The trade was made Tn this city.
 The Southwestern Journal Will cox (Ariz. says G. H. Vandewalk- CT shipped last Sunday morning to the Los Angeles market, 42 head of beef cattle purchased from Mayer & Sachse and E, T, Hams. Those purchased from the former parties average 825, and the latter 970 pounds.
 Reno (Nev,) Gazette says Shank lin & Hornlein of Susanville, have purchased the stock of A. Gallatin at Horse Head Lake, Lassen coun- ty, paying $19 for cattle, and $43 for the horses. The cattle are all we'll bred Shorthorns, and the horses are good stock.
 The Reno (Nev.) Gazette says: There are not over 2000 beef steers left on the meadows, and as it will be the first of May before grass cat tie are ripe in California they will be in big demand. The grass cat tie California will furnish by May 1st will be slippery and unsatisfac- tory to dealers.
 The Northwestern Live Stock Journal (Cheyenne) says: Salt Lake butchers are reported as go- ing over into Nevada for beef cat tie. There are not many fat steers left in the great basin between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevadas.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-04-23
Comment On The Outlook.

than 1t ought to De. WOOL growers are prospering. The man who has good ranch, can cut plenty of hay and controls a large range can make money growing wool and mutton. There is also class of horse-grOw- CTS who are doing well. These are the breeders of common horses and cattle are not much encouraged by the outlook.-Montana Journal.
 Meat dealers all predict an in crease in prices. Already there has been a gradual rise. The same loin steaks that are selling here this week at from II to 20 cents brought last week from 10 to 15 cts. Many prominent Chicago butchers think that beef will advance before the month is out to 50 per cent more than it cost week ago. and before the month of May probably an advance of fully 50 per cent will be realized. The cause of this re- markable rises is the almost unpre- cedented demand, both at home and in Europe, for live and dressed beef. Another important factor is the comparative scarcity and high price of good corn. The demand for cured pork is also immense, domestically and abroad. The chances are that before long there will not be enough beef or pork to supply both markets.-Drovers' Journal.
 If this thing continues much longer The Gazette will really have to beg the indulgence of its readers while it permits itself the quiet satisfaction of repeating a time or two "We told you sol" Ii apl ears at the present writing that those men who have contracted cat tie for June at six nts and hogs for August at five cents will not have 10 go into bank very heavily order to keep their contracts, as not a few were predicting they would. And in view of the present situation and the prospective con- dition of the market may The Ga Zette direct attention 10 the coming sales of pedigreed bulls of the inn proved breeds as furnishing the profitable "way out" for many a man? There is now every reasonable encourageme It for the breeding of beef cattle. The Gazette believes that it's consistently conservative position on this question in the past should lend emphasis to the opin- ion. If it's suggestions year ago had been needed by some of its readers they would have been just that much nearer harvest. It is not too late 10 begin now Breed CTS Gazette.
 The opinion prevails among a great many stockmen that slight advance in the markets would re suit in rush of all classes of stock to the markets, which would of course soon cause another decline. This is not only a mistaken idea, but the fact are that an improved condition of the market will have exactly the opposite effect. When cattle, sheep, hogs, or any other commodity goes begging at low fig ures. everybody wants to sell, sThe idea then seems to be that the stock on hand must be gotten rid of at all hazards, consequently the worse the market, the greater the runs. But as soon as the the market ad- vance and the product Tn question becomes valuable, holders are no longer anxious to sell, but seeing that their property is in demand and has ready ma -ket value at good figures they feel satisfied to keep it. For these reasons the owners of cat tie, sheep and hogs, instead of rush.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-04-23

A delegation from W lllace coun- ty, Kansas, has arri, e in KlnsaS City to ask for aiI for suffering farinarS
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-10-22
A Valuable Presentation.

John ID. Rockefeller, who has n
larger annual income than any other
man in America, has been hard at
work i'm pursuit of his lost health the
past summer. He has spent four
months on his farm in Ohio, and has
given himself up entirely to outdoor
pursuits. Arrayed in overalls and his
shirtsleeves, he has worked with his
men, ploughing and planting his fields
and cultivating and gathering in his
crops. He has sawed wood for DAYS
and has shoveled the earth for road.
ways in his township. The result OF
all this is, instead of being the physi.
cal wreck he was when he quit his
counting-room, broken down with
nervous exhaustion, he is now in ro-
bust health. The prescription is
worth preserving. 1t is a sure cure
for a growing complaint among men
of the day.-BostOn Herald.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-10-22
The Home Market orowInr.

The farmers have better prices this
year, and the Tribune is glad of il.
But why? One reason is that the
home demand for all farm products
are employed on this side instead of
in Europe. Here they consume Ameri-
can food; there they consumed large
ly the product of foreign farms. The
new movement of work and workers
to the United States in consequence
of the new duties on imported goods
has been going on for a year, and
scarcely a week has passed in which
there has not been recorded the trans
fer OF one or more important estab-
lishment to this country.
This week theitem ofinterest is that
new works are about to be establish
ed i'll Massachusetts, probably near
Worcester, by II. b. Crosley & Co.,
owners of the Fort Vale mills at Ster-
ling, Scotland, who have exported to
this country an enormous quantity
of woolen goods, but find their mar
ket cut short by the new tariff. Last
week it was announced that the pur-
chase of property and the establish
ment ofworks near Manchester, Conn.
was contemplated by French wool
en- manufacturing firm now located
near Paris. In like manner works for
the manufacture of plushes, ofcutlery
of tin plates, of cotton ties and many
other products have recently
or are now in the process of removal
to this country.
In the aggregate these transfers
within the last year have brought to
the United States many thousand
hands, who will hereafter consume
the products of American farms and
American artisans. AS they come
here to work which was not previous
" done by operatives of this country
but in foreign establishments exclu-
sively, there results no decrease what
ever in the demand for American la
Dor. But their own consumption of
all other articles except those they
produce must be supplied by Ameri-
can industry, and thus the demand
for such products and for American
labor is greatly lyincreased.-New York
Tribune.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-10-22

Orifice. Both were pale and painting
and the girl started to descend, but
her mother stopped her
''I'm afraid to let yOu go" she said
"I'm afraid you'll fall" "
But Anna had her feet on the
rounds ''l'll not fall, mamma" she
replied. Don't hold me. l must
60"
At the bottom she groped cautious
ly with her foot She struck some
thing hard. then a square corner, and
then another. cts here mamma
It's herer' shouted her fresh young
voice out of the dark; ''it's here
among the weedsli
What more is there to tell? How
the great great box came numbering
up at a tackles end; how the black
smith broke it open and found the
store intact; how their loving hearts
rejOiced at the dissipation of their
clouds forever-all that, as Mr.. Kip
ling says, is another story. And as
for Abe, wien he saw the gold and
realized that the message of years
had Overleaped at last the barriers OF
his beleaguered brain and had been
heard and understood - then Abe
burst into the most coherent speech
of decade. "Good lott a hundredI'
he exclaimed, and Herewith lapsed
into blisslul silence. Consti-
tuition
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-10-22
MISTER JIM.

mind the day he was married, and danced
at the weddin', too
An l kissed the bride, sweet Maggie, daugh-
ter of Ben McGrew.
mind how they Sc up housekeepin', two
young, poor happy fools,
When Jim's only stock was a heavy truck an
four Kentucky mules.
Well, they lived along contented with their
little joys and cares,
An every year baby come, an twice they
come in pairs,
Till the house was full of children with their
shoutin', an playin', and squalls,
An theirsinRin' an laughin an cryn' made
Bedlam within its walls
An Jim seemed to like it, an he spent all his
even's at home.
He said it was full of music an light from pit
to dome.
He join the church, an he used to pray that
his heart might be kept from sir.
The stumblin' est prayin' but heads an hearts
used to bow when ned begin.
to day,
With plenty o. time for drivin' work an lit
tie time for play,
An CROWN around 'em the sweetest girls an
the liveliest, manifest boys,
Till the old gray heads of the two old folks
was crowned with the homeliest joys.
Eth Come to my story? Well, that's all
They re Twin just like | said,
Only two of the girls is married an one of the
boys is dead
An they IRE honest an decent an happy, an
the very best Christians | know,
Though | reckon in brilliant company they d
be voted a leetle slow
Oh, you're pressed for time Excuse you
Sure I'm sorry kept you so long.
Good byel Now he looked kind O. bored like
and reckon that | was wrong
To tell such cOmmonplacestory of two sucl
commonplace lives,
But we can't all get drunk an gamble an
fight an run off with other mems wives
r. j. Burdette