Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-09-30
WILD WEST WAITS.

The largest sum to be paid to any
Nez Perez Indian at Lapwai is $1,000,
which amount goes to Moose Moose
John.
Last year farmers on the La Prelle
in Converse county, Wyo., as an expert
tanned such a handsome profit from the
enterprise that they will feed 10000 head
of sheep this winter.
A telegram from Westminster, B. c..
states that a contract for building
bridge across the Frazer river has been
awarded to the Bullen Bridge company
Of Pueblo. The contract price is in the
neighborhood of 100000.
The Nez Perez Indians that have re-
Gently been paid off are flying high, A
good many of them are trading. They
now have matched teams and new
wagons, the latter being loaded down
with new blankets and provisions.
A commercial cable from London
says it is reported that 25 per cent. of
the stock of the Anaconda company has
been sold to an English syndicate on the
basis of t6,OOO,OOO for the entire prop
erty.
A colony of North Dakotans, with
six prairie schooners and thirty head of
cattle, passed through Palouse, Wash,
on their way to the Nez Perez reserve
They report that hundreds of families
are leaving the Dakotas for the West.
The tax levy in Blaine county, ID,
this year for state and county purposes,
is $3.50 on the $500 of taxable property.
The levy for school purposes in the Hal
ley school district is $3.50 on the $780,
The total levy this year is therefore $3.50
on the $1O0.
Last spring a number of Kenne-
wick CWash.) farmers planted small
patches of peanuts as an experiment.
| The yield promises to be far beyond
their expectations, and the Pasco News
| says next year peanuts will be raised on
an extensive scale.
1t is more than probable that Mon
tana will reach the 100000 mark in
gold production this year, is the opinion
Of the Helena Herald, and that of the
| 100000 ounces of silver which will
be the record, one-half will come from
copper ores, as it did last year.
1t is said there are 10000 sheep
scattered along the hills from Catherine
creek to Cornucopia, Or, without a shep-
herd, the herder having notified the own
er by posting a notice on a tree that he
would better get another herder and then
| left the sheep. The owner is said to
| live in Umatilla county.
| In 1890 Colorado was the leading sill
| yer state, the output of the Colorado
| mines in that year being $24,OOO,OOO:
| Montana was second with the production
| of S2O,OOO,OOO, while the mines of Ne,
| vada had almost ceased to yield, the
| total output Of that state being but $5,.
| 100000
When William B. McCabe of Butte
| returned from work as a common miner
| in the Anaconda mine, he found a tele>
gram awaiting him at his clearinghouse
| informing him that he had fallen heir
| to S25O,O00 by the death of William P.
Dolan, a San Francisco wholesale liquor
dealer, whose adopted son he was. Nc
Cabe is an unmarried man, "a years old,
| and has been in Butte eight years. Some
years ago he was enrolling clerk of the
| California Legislature.
| Norman S. Lilly of Corvallis, Or,
| now possesses a gun the like of which
never before was seen. It was manu-
! featured by John Kincade and presented
| to Mr. Lilly as token of appreciation of
| his qualities as an Indian fighter. The
barrel of the gun is made Of 1A-inch
water pipe, and is attached to a hand
some redwood stock; the forward sight
| is from the second railroad spike ever
driven in the Oregon Pacific track; the
trigger is of hoop-iron. and the spring
| of selected rubber. The gun is seven
| feet in length