Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-02-06
WILD WEST WAITS.

IN the absence OF market 1Of tnelr
potatoes the farmers around CresWell, Or,
are feeding them to their stock.
Maurice Kavanaugh snatched a purse
from a woman in San Francisco and was
sent to the penitentiary for twenty years
The Denver News says the female
members of the Legislature have given
their husbands good jobs as clerks of
committees.
From Belt mountain comes the news
Of the burning of the old Clendenin smelt-
er at Barker, the pioneer smelter of north
ern Montana.
Recently the people of Bakersfield,
Or, amused themselves by putting dead
drunk into a coffin and then carting him
out to the cemetery.
Potatoes are being shipped from Gree
ley, Col, as rapidly as the railroad can
handle them. Many cars are sent every
day to Texas and Kansas.
A Saratoga (Wyo) jeweler is the
owner of an antelope head with two
sets of horns fully developed, one set
being bucks horns and the other does.
The Evening Bulletin of San Francis
CO was sold at auction for $35, 800. The
Bulletin will now be run independently.
instead of in connection with the Morning
Call.
Rock Springs, Wyo., is at present put
ting out between 5000 and 1000 tons of
coal monthly, the largest production of
any one coal mining district west of the
Missouri river.
George Wright is feeding 1900 head
of mutton sheep at Olex, Or. He will
feed some 1000 or 5000 sacks of wheat to
them. He is also feeding 5000 head at Ell
lensburg.
A flock of about fifty Chinese pleas
ants have been seen on several occasions
in the vicinity of Nehalem City, Or
These are about the first that have been
seen in that section.
The greatest problem that the Idaho
Legislature will have on its hands is that
presented by the Carey bill donating
100000 acres of land to each of the
arid land states under certain conditions
The citizens of Spokane have ten
| der before the government of 1000 acres
of land in the outskirts of that city upon
which the war department wishes to es
| tabhsh large army post.
What promises to be a wonderfully
rich mine that has been named Ostimus is
| involved in litigation that may cover q
| term of years because Of previous claims.
| The rock in sight will yield five ounces of
| gold to the ton. The find is located in the
Cripple Creek district, Col
During 1894 thirty-four mills in
| Washington turned out 100000 bar
rels of flour, of which 100000 barrels
of the mills is 1900 barrels, the largest
being the Puget Sound mill at Tacoma
| $50 barrels. and the Centennial mill al
| Spokane. 700 barrels.
Silver in quantities is being shipped
| from Denver direct to China through an
| agency in San Francisco. This has been
| going on for some time, but recently the
shipments have been doubled as the smelt-
er men can get a better price under the
arrangement than can be obtained in the
| United States owing to the demand for
the metal in the Celestial kingdom.
The young men of Jacksonville, Or
who have found it impossible to get EN-
| ployment, are striking out into the hills
| with pick, pan and shovel, and report
{ finding the venture remunerative. There
is also one lady who goes out regularly
| with her young sons to mine on Rich
| gulch. Those who are at work report
| wages from rs cents to $1.50 per day.
A rich strike is reported in the Lack
| aWanna mine, situated on Green Mount
| ain, few miles south of Deadwood, S
| D. A vein has been uncovered, the ore
| from which after many assays, give re
turns averaging from $500 to $1,000 pei
| ton. The vein is well defined. The mine
is owned by James Collins and Curley
! O'Leary, poor miners.
The ownership of the Sioux mine at
! Tintic, Utah. has passed into the hands Of
Franklin Farrell of Ansonia Conn, pres
ident of the Parrot Mining and Smelling
company of Butte, Mont. This deal will
result in the erection of another big reduc-
ton plant in Tintic, it being Mr.. Farrell's
| intention to put in a combination mill OF
| at least 100 tons capacity.
Capt. J. A. Mellon is having two
boats built in San Francisco, which he
will take by rail to Green river, Wyo., il
April, and assisted by river men will de
scend the Colorado river to Yuma anG
| the Gulf of California. Capt. MelloI
has been running steamers on the Colo
RADIO river thirty-two years. He is a resi-
dent of Yuma, Ariz., and proposes tC
make this trip of 5000 miles in seventeen
days.
A rancher living on Sutton creek, q
few miles from Baker City, Or, solo
some chickens in that city recently. In
the craw of one of them the purchaser
found some particles of gold. The ranch
er was informed of this, and at once be
gan prospecting in a gulch near his house
with the result that he discovered dig
gings yielding % cents to the pan. Next
spring he will turn his attention to min
ing. He is of the opinion that the poul
try business is very profitable when the
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