Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-04-20
WILD WEST WAITS.


Lee Tong and Chin Pong fought a
bloody battle with knives and hatehets
at Seattle. Tong is dead and Pong, can
not live. They fought over a Chinese
woman
Half a dozen women in bifurcated
garments and armed with rifles have left
Tacoma for the Yukon country, Alaska
They expect to make high wages cooking
for the miners.
"A disease similar TO hydr0phobia is
rapidly carrying off the dogs taken to
Alaska. Many CANNES have been shot
and the loss falls heavily upon their~own-
ers, owing to the difficulty in replacing
them.
A big outfit Of teams and men have
commenced work building a canal from
the ShOShone river, near Otto WyO.. to
water 1900 acres of farming land so
be colOnized and cultivated under the
Carey land act.
The reported heavy cattle losses in
the Black Hills country and along the
Missouri river are without foundation.
Ranchmen say the spring roundup will
show herds in better condition than for
the past FIVE years.
Santa Barbara, CAL, reports the
capture of large devilfsh. The deep
sea monster undertook to take possess
sion of Gennie LarcO'S boat, the first
notification of its approach being an
ugly, Shiny arm thrown over the boats
gunWale. The young man drove q long
gaff into the creatures body and hauled
it in. It was found to measure Is feet
from tip to tip and 10 feet from the head
to the end of the longest arm.
The Puget Sound, Mount Tacoma &
Eastern Railway company has been in
corporated with a capital stock OF ST.
100000. The enterprise is backed by
Eastern capital, secured chiefly by
Holmes. who recently returned from
New Yerk. The object is to follow the
Hart logging road, of which ten miles
is already built, to Mount Tacoma, forty
miles away. as scenic route, and then
build eastward to probable connection
with the Burlington.
The Seattle and Lake Washington
Waterway company, which has charge
of the construction of a ship canal con-
Meeting Lake Washington and Elliot bay.
has executed mortgage in favor of the
Mississippi Valley Trust company of st.
Louis for S3.25O,OOO The work hiss
been in progress about six months, and
will be pushed to completion.
The San Francisco Call says: "A
dark veil of mystery enshrouds the long,
continued and wholly unaccountedAfor abb
sences of Charles Louis luxembourg, who
recently inherited the duchy of Oldeh-
bourg and q vast estate in Germany
The last time he was heard from was
| last Saturday, when he boarded train
| from Palo Alto to San Francisco. His
! brother fraternity men at the UNIVERSE
! ty fear that he has fallen the victim OF
! foul play, and state that his unpreeedent-
! ed absence is wholly unaccountable.''
| The largest store in the United States
| is approaching completion on Market
| street, San Francisco, and 600 workmen
| expect to finish it by April Is. 1t fronts
275 feet on Market street, extends $50
| feet south to Jessie street and is eight
| stories high. 1t is built of steel, marble,
| copper and terra Gotta, has fifteen cleo
| tric elevators, nearly 100 miles of elec-
! tric wire, and will cost, exclusive +Of the
ground, about 81, 100000. A general
stock of everything will be kept.
According TO a dispatch from Phoe-
nix, Ariz., an ambitious railroad scheme
has developed ia the incorporation of the
| Saluda Southern Railway company, with
a capital of $40, 755, 900 to construct S76
miles of road from new town to be eS1
tablished eighteen miles north of PhOe-
nix upon the lands of the Rio Verde
Canal company The company is snow
constructing a water storage system on
the Verde river and also a great canal,
and expects within two years to water
an area of 100000 acres of excellent land
in the Salt river valley. The incOrpUrat-
ors are all connected with the canal com
pany, and it is announced that work viii
soon be commenced upon a belt system
of railways throughout Salt river valley,
connecting the new town with Glendale,
Phoenix and femme