Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-04-23

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Snow drifts six or eight feet high
filed some of the streets in Echo,
Mimi, last Easter Sunday.
Mrs. Lydia Price Peyton, of Orange,
Va, celebrated her hundredth birth
day on March Is and died last week.
All the merchants in Plymouth,
Mich, have entered into an agree
ment to hereafter do business on a
business basis. None of them will in
the future offer chromos, prize pack
ages, or any other gifts in the effort
to secure trade.
A woman in San Jose, Cal, who
got a divorce from her husband seven
months ago and had him sent to Jail
for six months for extreme cruelty to
her, was remarked to him last week
three weeks after he was released
from prison.
More than 10000 sparrows have
been destroyed in Gratiot County,
Mich, during the past twelve months,
as shown by the bounties paid, but
the birds appear to be practically as
numerous as ever. One man makes
a good income as a sparrow hunter,
collecting an average of $50 a month
in bounties.
Last seasons salmon pack in British
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pected the pack on the Columbia
River this season will be enormous if
the run is good. Many canning es-
Establishments have been moved to the
American side of the river, because
Canadian Gamers are only permitted
to use nets, while American Gamers
may use any device to catch the fish.
Many people in Omaha, Neb., are
opposed to the curfew ordinance,
compelling children to be at home by
8 O'Clock at night, which went into
effect recently. They are preparing
a new ordinance, which is exactly
like the curfew ordinance except that
it is made to apply to married men
instead of children. 1t is sure of a
few votes in the Council, although
perhaps it is not expected that it will
pass.
An important find of skeletons of
prehistoric people, supposed to be cliff
jewellers, was made some ten days
ago on Beaver Creek, Yavapi County,
AriZ. The skeletons were laid out in
orderly arrangement on natural
shelves in the chalk-like cliffs bord-
ering the creek. There were about
forty skeletons in all, and each was
laid ON n piece of mating. They
were evidently of full grown people,
but were very small in size and were
in a remarkably good state of preser-
walton.
Eleven elk that have been broken
to harness and trained to drive single,
double, and tandem, are owned by
two men of Columbia Falls, Mon.
They were captured about a year ago
and were easily tanned, being 10Y as
gentle as horses. They were taken
by hunters on skis. When an elk was
located it was driven down the moun
tain side into the deep nov in the
valleys and there roped and made
captive. The owners have had offers
ranging from 5000 to $3.50 apiece for
the animals, but none of the herd is
for sale.
Another big log raft is oon to be
made up in the Columbia River to be
towed down the coast to San Fran
cisco. 1t is to consist of piles amount
ing to about 100000 feet of lumber,
board measure. If the raft reaches
San Francisco intact the piles can be
sold there 30 or 40 per cent. cheaper
than if they were transported by
schooners in the usual way. Those
interested in the scheme say that ex-
perience with former RATS has en-
abled them to reduce the risk to
a minimum, and they have no doub.
that the big raft will reach San Fran
cisco safely.
The trolley car and the bicycle are
credited with being mainly RESPONSE
BILE for the remarkable fact, stated in
the Department of Agriculture re-
ports, that the value of the horses
and mules in this country decreased
by almost one-half between 1892 and
the end of last year. The aggregate
decline in the value of horses is put
down at $500, 900 900 and of mules at
$780, ZOO, 900. The stories that have
come from Western ranges lately
seem to bear out the figures in gen.
eral. A Lewiston, Idaho, newspaper
a few days ago spoke of the homely
but once highly necessary cayuse as
being a ''pest and nuisance in that
region, and rejoiced over the advent
of a company seeking 1000 cayuses to
supply a rendering establishment.