Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-09-05

$4,000 and 100000 seals this year. The
captains of the schOoners say it will not
be necessary for them to go near the sixty
mile limit, as, according to their expert
ence, the seals do not feed nearer than
100 miles distant from tn. islands.
Another rich gold vein has been I'M
covered in the vicinity of the noted Mabel
mine, about twelve miles south of Baker
City, Pleasant valley. The ledge was
struck at a depth of 10 feet, and it as
says $50 to the ton. The ledge is seven
feet in width. A nice body of water
was also struck simultaneously with the
ledge, making it practicable to build a
mill right at the mine, which will be done
at once.
There have been quiet rumors for
some time past that the Dead Mans
mine in Uintah county, Utah, was a put
up job, and now it is openly asserted by
the parties who are negotiating to buy
the property that it had been sailed.
AT Heppner Orr three little girls,
the eldest but IL years of age, nave
caught this year in traps 1864 squirrels.
Their father also shot and trapped over
1000 Of the little pests, and, through
the efforts Of all, his crop was saved.
"A wildcat with six kittens was dis
covered in the park at Sprague, Wash,
during a Sunday school picnic by several
boys, who had gone some distance from
the main body of picnickers. The old cat
showed fight, w%hereupon one of the boys,
aged 10, pulled" a revolver and killed
the animal.
A trainload of condensed milk passed
through Pueblo recently. There were twen-
ty box cars of it containing 432,240 cans.
1t was consigned to San Francisco, and
the train was put through on passenger
time. One inscription with which the
cars were decorated was For California
Babies"
Two professional trappers reported in
Prescott, Ariz., lately, that they last year
scored a record of forty mountain lions.
They brought in with them this trip
about 100 anned lynx skins, besides sew
eral wildcat skins, beaver skins, wolf
skins, etc, which they have sold for rugs.
They use Swedish bloodhOunds in hunt
ing.
The Tacoma smelter shipped 800 bars
Of bullion, weighing S2,421 pounds and
valued at $13,367.O2, during July. There
were 261.93 ounces of gold. worth So
53S.11: S444.S3 ounces silver, worth
$5292.4O, and S1,323 pounds lead, worth
S2o36.01. The mpa had ffty-eight
men on its pay roll, and disbursed $3351.-
81 in wages.
-Indio, on the Colorado desert. $50
miles south of Los Angeles. had but .73
of an inch of rain in 1890. Usually
about three inches falls in a year in one
or TWO STORMS. Inc lowest temperature
in winter is 80 and the highest in sum
mer 116. 1t has a mild and delightful
climate in winter for invalids. The town
is thirty feet below sea level.
While L. D. Williams was engaged in
killing an old she-bear and two half
grown cub on the Long creek meadows.
in Washington, a cartridge got fastened
in the magazine of his gun. The old bear
laid hold of him, and had one leg of his
trousers torn off before he could right
the gun and despatch her with a ball
through the heart.
Butte Mont.) teachers will be paid as
follows the ensuing year: Superintendent.
$500 per month; principal, 500 per
month: assistant principals, 800; high
school teachers. $50: grade and kinder
garten teachers, $50; normal training
class teachers, $50 the first year. The
monthly expense of the Butte schools is
placed at $4,000.
A tramp sneaked into the Barton
winery in Fresno the other day, secured a
demijohn and undertook to take the bung
out of a 3400-gallOn cask of port wine
while the men were at lunch. The force
of the wine as it issued out knocked him
down and soaked him from mead to foot.
Fully 1000 gallons of wine were wasted
before the bung was replaced by the men.
The wine wasted was valued at $4,000.