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from which petroleum is obtained
in oil regions. In fact, when the pres
sure in a well has become reduced, the
well often fills with oil-oftener. how
ever, with salt water-which has evil
IDENTIFY been held back by the gas.
These wells are all fitted with six or
eight-inch casing, which reaches down
to the bed rock and is Joined TO II with
a rubber washer or thimble. Before
they furnish an adequate supply of gas
they must be shot" that is, blown out
with dynamite, which is first dropped
into the well in cartridges of from 40
to 60 pounds, and then exploded by
sending down after IL "go-deviT "a
sharp crowbar fitted with guides.
When the go-devil strikes the explosive
there is first a hoarse rumble; ana
then, after what seems to the expec-
tant listeners a long wait. there is an
eruption of stones, gravel, dirt, water
and mud. followed by the gas. After
the gas is flowing freely 1t is got under
control by means of valves and allowed
to escape slowly through a small pipe
two and one-half to three inches in
diameter to a main. which may be as
much az a foot in diameter. These
wells are not placed nearer to each
other than half a mile. The privilege
of boring is usually leased from farm
ers at about 5000 year and the owner
of the land Is given all the gas he
wants for household use and for pump
ing--which latter operation may be ac-
complished by using the simple gas
pressure, or. by means of a device SINH
lar to the so-called "air lift, where the
water 70 be raised is mixed with the
gas and raised as a foaming mass. The
objection to this plan is that the gas
used escapes into the air. where its
odor is Objectionable; in the first
named plan II is led away into the
mains after its pressure has been util-
lied.
The whole region is a network or
tubing, half-inch pipes being laid down
above ground along the roads for
miles. This system may be called the
'.Tramps' Delight" The traveller In the
region is often puzzled by seeing at IN
tervals along these roadside pipes
blackened heap of stones. These are
the remains of the tramp's natural
gas camp fires. The ingenious but i'm
pecunious Indiana pedestrian tiattens
one OF the Joints in the piping with a
heavp stone. lust sufficiently to let a
little gas escape--a minute crack VIII
do. owing to the heavy pressure. Ihen
he piles a heap OF stones over the
break touches IL on. and 10! a nre
quite as good as those for which. In
the neighboring city aristocrats are
paying a high toll to the grasping gas
company.
The chief cities supplied by this gas
region are Indianapolis. Lafayette. Lo-
gansport. Frankfort and Fort Wayne
They are not in the gas belt proper
the capital. for instance, being 80 10 8
miles distant. All draw heavily on the
supply of gas. as the consumption i
constantly increasing. on the othei
hand. the pressure at the wells is as
! constantly decreasing. having fallen re
| Gently from 335 pounds 10 30 pounds
| 10 the square inch. The consequence i'
| that there Is not enough pressure L
| force the gas through the mains as tal
as 80 miles in sufficient quantity <
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counc;l for .ha esca, ar was held on
Tuesday avaning ne mayor an
nounced the follows appoiheiieh's'
which were confirme --
Church George p ms and John Hos
Ier. chiaf of tie a, department, j. 9.
Rond. asststant EFF. Charles Sawyer;
secretary, w. M onnston' clty pnysT
clan, DR.. E. p. Tnseno.
The following g'ommittees were ap-
pointed nv the ayor:
Streets and sewaIks, drainage and
citv nronertv-ade ademaker and Finkeln-
berg.
forester and Robinson.
Oficers aY bonds-Robison and
Fire. lightlnd water-Rinehart and
Forester.
Finance-inkelnbur and Donovan.
Captain gatson, u. s. A, acting
United Stses Indian agent. was over
from Crovagency Friday. He is hold
ing a bal of 33 Crees, subjects OF
Chief I,iie Bear, and awaiting In
structior about their deportation to
Canada So far the agent is in the
dark asto what action to take with
these rimads. Governor Richards, on
being splied to, says that "the matter
of the deportation rests wholly with
the fAcIdl dulnOiitiCo, anu thoS 50
can't 10 thing for the agent. So far
the 5deral authorities are silent as to
thefJwishes.
Btings has now a troupe of cavalry,
the.ompany recently organized having
bed mustered into the Montana Ma
tidal Guard on Wednesday night by
Ceonel H. S. Blanchard. The follow
if is a list of the officers and men:
JC. Bond, captain; M. v. Bailey. first
n N
Ieutenant; Robert ]. Barnes, first ser
keant; E. B. Carter, second sergeant;
w. II. Morse, third sergeant; Fred w.
Soule, fourth sergeant; c. E. Boswell.
first corporal; ]. Z. Buns, second cor
poral; Fred H. Hathhorn, third corpo-
raj; w. H. Mccormick, fourth corporal;
p. A. Campbell, trumpeter; Charles
trumpeter; j. e. Hughes, "A.
J. Steinbrueck, T. G.. Griggs, G. 5.
Lamport, A. A. Morris, George w. Hub
bard, r. E. McAndrews. p. b. Hall.
JgE. Smith, L. V. Shearer, c. w. For
ester, H. T. Ramsey, H. p. Babcock.
Ed Miller, ]. w. Selvidge, Fred Tews,
r. L. Wilkinson. L. L. Colvin. John
Mcintyre, w. ]. Mccormick, A. b.
Newman, ]. H. McCurdy, A. e. Ross,
Austin North, ]. B. Rerford, F. H,
Mickey, w. d. Cullen, F. ]. Witham.
Yellowstone county mas Deen pleSSeu
with copious local showers and vege-
tation has advanced to a remarkable
degree. During the mild dry weather
of February and March the farmers
had done most of their plowing and
seeding, so that the recent showers
and warm weather are bringing up the
crops in good shape. The lambing sea
son is in progress and the weather has
been favorable to the little woolly
strangers and the increase is expected
to be fully up to the average.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thoms of Livingston
have moved here and on Thursday
opened up a new dry goods store.
Burt Sheehan of Quincy, ILL.,, is th'
guest of his sister, Mrs. David Fratt.
District Judge Milburn paid f1yint
visit to Billings Wednesday.
Colonel d. Perry, accompanied b!
Mrs. Perry and daughter and Mis-
Clough, spent a few days in town thi
week. Colonel Perry is commandini
officer at Fort Custer.
The Custer Cattle company hav
bought Is townships of railway Ian
for a winter pasture and Mr.. McCor
mick is having it surveyed.
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From a Mother.

''DR A. T. SANDEN-Dear sir: bought your
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was SO bad that many nights could not sleep.
I would get 50 nervous that could not hold my
head up. I found relief almost soon as
applied the Belt. and to-day an as well as any
woman Of my age l can say for your Belt that
n I was not ahle 20 get another one would not
sell mine for $500. Yours truly
MRS. AMELIA QUINN"
800 Richland ave. San Francisco. Cal"
The warming toning power from Or. San
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II daily increases the healthy vital force II cures
weak women as II cures weak men. by renewing
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regular physician Of thirty years experisnee.
who Is In charge.
saNDE~ ELECTRIC CO..
253 Washington street, Portland. Ore.
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IN BILLINGS.

Billings, May 9.-O'Neill's Monte
Cristo" troupe played to fine house
here last Saturday night though there
were a great many more people present
than there would have been had the
audience had any idea of the shabby
treatment they would have received
from the players. In order to eaten the
IO:4O o'clock eastbound train the play
ers rushed the piece through with sucn
haste that the curtain fell about 10
o'clock, and much of the interest was
lost. 1t was a downright fraud on
people who had paid $3.50 and 81 a seat
and had a right to expect to see the
whole play.
A birthday surprise party was given
to Mrs. Stinehouser on Monday even
ing. Those present had an enjoyable
time and partook of an elegant supper
where many good wishes were ex-
pressed for the future of the recipient
of the honor of the occasion. The
guests were: Messrs and Mesdames
Grove, Funk. Appleman. Erickson
Hoskings, Mesdames Terrell, Thomp-
son. Hosler, Misses A. and E. Hoskings,
L. and E. Thompson, j. Terrell, ".
Funk. A. Hosler, Ella and Arthur
Mrs. w. w. Johnston pleasantly en-
tertained at tea Tuesday evening Mes
danes Child, Funk, Canv1le and Rixon
and Misses Anna and Ella Rixon, in
honor of her mother. Mrs. Walton OF
Beatrice, Neb.
On Saturday a surprise party was
given to Mrs. Terrell, the wife of our
popular city marshal, in honor of her
birthday. The evening passed pleas
antly in social conversation. music ana
games, and about IL o'clock dainty
supper was served. Those present
were: Messrs and Mesdames Stine-
houser. Funk, Appleman, Renwick,
Erickson, Grove and Hoskings, Mes
DANES, Thompson and Hosler, Misses
l.. Thompson, E. Thompson, M. Brock
way, c. Brockway, v. Funk, ]. Terrell,
A. Hoskings, z. Hoskings and A. Hos
Ter. Mrs Terrell was presented with an
elegant headrest.
Mrs. Arthur Tompkins mad few Ia
dies to tea Friday afternoon, when a
pleasant time is reported. The guests
were: Mesdames Burton, n. G. Car
vile, Clement Chapple, Fulton, Goss.
Holmes and Johnston, and Misses Fra
ser and Ogilvie.
In honor of Mrs. Fulton of Beatrice.
Neb., who is visiting her daughter.
Mrs. w. w. Johnston. Mrs. Frank Car
vile on Wednesday entertained a num-
ber of ladies at tea.
Mrs. Paul Mccormick had a small
dinner party of ladies on Wednesday
evening.
On 1cOiSt
TeeDles of Bean. Mont, and Miss Har-
riett Morris of Avilla, Mo-. were united
in matrimony at the Congregational
parsonage by Rev. p. B. Jackson. The
bride had come from Missouri to wed
the man Of her choice. The groom was
supported by his cousin. w. ]. Eckles,
and Miss Bertha Bean acted as brides
maid. Mr.. Teeples first attracted pub
lie attention by being the first man
who was able to ride the famous
''bucking bull of Belgrade
Rev. A. Carswell. rector of ST. Luke's
church. performed the ceremony on
Thursday afternoon which united in
matrimony Alexander s. Gass and Miss
Alice Kelly. both of this city. Miss
Nellie Cusick acted as bridesmaid and
L. A. Corey supported the groom.
Billings has subscribed Sl75 as heI
quota of the $4,000 required by the
American Bimetallic Union for educa-
tional purposes
The first regular session Of the city
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NINETEEN OUT or TWENTY WOMEN
~ have a weakness that can be cured BY DR..
Sanden's Electric Belt. There are too many
weak. broken-down mothers, wives and sisters.
wrecked In constitution through the sluggish
weak action Of the vital functions. For this
weakness the usual tonies have proven Of only
temporary assistance. and nothing but new
vitality can restore the weakened functions 70
their normal health
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and Hoarseness. use Browns Bronchial
Troches." Sold only in boxes. Avoid i'm
itations.
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Heart Cure has done for
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pain in my heart, short
ness of breath. palpita-
tion. pain in my left side.
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chest, weak and hungry
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Northern Pacific, and this bold proposi-
| tion that the Government by foreclos-
ure confiscate bonded securities held ir
Amsterdam and London would extin-
guish it entirely and all credit would &C
the same road. Eastern business mer
foresee in it the immediate dump o1
every American security.
Il am not arguing this matter at all
only holding up the mirror to the ma
ture of opinion in this most important
question as it exists outside Of Califor-
MIA.
Government ownership to follow fore
closure is an uneasy dream. No con-
sideration is given to it in Congress.
1t implies as complete a change in our
political system as if we were to burn
the Constitution and put the Govern
nent in the hands of T'sung Ii Yamen,
like the Chinese. The Socialists here
may fill Metropolitan Temple and take
General Sutro's meetings out of his
hands, but they have no power in
Washington.
Eliminating their scheme, we have
foreclosure proper adumbrated by Mr..
Doyle's legal opinion.
81 think that our members of Con-
gress are feeling the handicap. Judge
Mcguire, who is the ablest and frankest
anti-funder, indicates this in his inter
view published in the tCall" of the 10th,
in which he says:
+" 1t begins to look now as though the
Vanderbilt and Gould interests have
deserted the refunding scheme They
were potent factors in its support here
A. rlIo,.
bilts at least are looking for a chance
to buy the Union and Central Pacific
roads at a foreclosure sale, and thus
secure a through line from New York
to San Francisco If this be so, the
funding bill will be beaten, the mort
cages foreclosed and the road either
held by the Government or sold to rep
resentatives of the Chicago and North
western system
'Of course such sale would be made
subject to the first mortgage lien, for
the Judge adds that the Government
will in the act of foreclosure fix a min
imum price, believe forty cents on the
dollar is proposed, at which bidders
must start, which would not be the case
if the senior lien were wiped out
'In my judgment the statement by
Judge Mcguire puts a new phase upon
the whole issue, as it affects California.
The wealth of the middle West has
been drained into the Atlantic States
and cities because their capital owns
and operates the trunk lines connecting
the Mississippi Valley with tide water.
A trunk line is a single projection from
a local distributing system, and is run
in the interest of that system. For in
stance, the local distributing system of
the Southern Pacific is in this State,
consisting of about 4 900 miles of line.
Therefore the trunk line policy of the
Southern Pacific is to stimulate local
production in the interest of it's pIexus
of local lines. think it fair to say that
this policy appears in the trunk rate
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on dried fruit from here to New York
and in the rate on green fruit to Chi
cago, which is less on a 2500-mile haul
than Eastern roads charge on 1000
mile haul. There is a, railroad question
III the id-continental States and it is
caused by the trunk line policy of the
Vanderbilt roads to confine manufact-
ure and wholesale trade to the distrib-
uting system which expands at the
Eastern end of all their trunk lines.
While East recently I read an article
OF more than a column attacking Mr..
Huntington for shipping goods from
such points as Boston for 81 40 per
hundred to San Francisco via the
Southern Pacific and sending them from
here to Ogden at a total rate less than
Eastern roads would lay down the same
goods for at the same point. | know
nothing of the facts more than the
statement of them, and that is interest
ing only because it shows the force of
a natural law in transportation and
proves that Mr.. Huntington, having
4 GEO miles of local distribution in Cali
fornia, promotes it by the use of his
trunk lines in such a way as to give
San Francisco the distribution of what
she does not yet manufacture, enabling
her to dominate a market for which she
may ultimately produce the merchandise
which she now handles on commits
sion.
CAS- presented by Judge Mcguire, and
my confidence in him leads me to be-
lieve implicitly his statement of the
situation, the issue now is between re-
funding on a plan that will pay the
Government the whole debt, dollar for
dollar, and foreclose on such terms as
will throw off so per cent. of the Govern
ment claim for the benefit of the Van
derbilts, thus presenting them with
about $S4,000000 subject to such re-
duction as they may bid above the min
imum.
Members of Congress from this
State may well hesitate, and divesting
themselves of the prejudices which
make lurid the columns of the press of
this city, study Vanderbilt policy in the
middle West and ask themselves if a
gift approximately of $S4,000,O00 is not
a high price to pay for its introduction
into California"
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IRISH ON FUNDING.
Dispassionate View of the Proposed
Measure.
Colonel John p. Irish Opposed to Pay.
ing the vanderbfIts Ss4, 100000
for Coming Here.
fFrom the San Francisco Post.)

fFrom the San francisco PoSI.1
Colonel John p Irish, who has just re-
turned from the East, where he had an
opportunity of studying the railroad
question from a beyond -the-Rockies
standpoint, gave his views to a reporter
for the POST to-day.
''The people of California" said Colo
nel Irish, have too little chance of get
ting at the full measure of the funding
question because the press Of this city
treats it from a standpoint entirely To-
cal or personal, and with a heat and ha-
tired which finds no sympathy in the
East.
"a few very large questions are in
vclved The local anti-funders are in
two camps. In one are massed the So
cialists and communists, who are anx-
ious to begin the equal division of prop
erty by entering upon State ownership
of all means of production and distri-
button, including railways. These ele-
ments habitually take control of every
mass meeting held in San Francisco on
the subject, as l learn from Mr.. Barry S
Star and other anti-funding authori-
ties. When a delegated meeting repre-
sentative Of the whole State was ar
ranged to shut out the socialists the an
ti-funding press had to admit that it
was fiasco, as only about fifty people
attended it.
"In the other anti-funding camp are
the foreclosers proper. with General Su-
tro at their head. This camp organized
around the startling legal opinion filed
by John T. Doyle. The necessity for
that opinion rose in the Government S
embarrassment by reason of the first
mortgage bonds senior to its lien, which,
if valid, must be paid in any foreclosure
action. Mr.. Doyle's opinion swept this
difficulty aside by boldly declaring the
Government lien to be senior and the
first mortgage bonds to be worthless or
susceptible of easy Reputation by the
Government as a sovereignty. 1t is i'm
possible to estimate the startling effect
produced by this opinion in the East.
The first mortgage bonds of the Pacific
roads are held in Europe. Their amount
is so large that their reputation would
so affect the credit of this country and
of every American enterprise seeking
European capital as to put the world
in peril of an immediate panic. Railway
credit has been none too good in Eu-
rope any way, thanks to the peculiar
financiering of the Erie and of the
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IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
County OF Sacramento Stale OF California.
In the matter OF the estate of MARY E.
HUMPHREY, formerly MARY t.. HALL.
deceased.
A. Il. Humphrey. executor OF the estate Of
said above named deceased, having filed his
petition herein duly verified, praying sor an
order to Inortga.e certain real estate of said
decedent for the purposes therein set forth
tt therefore ordered by the said court that
ali persons interested in tire estate OF said DE-
ceased appear before the said Superior Court
on FRIDAY, the 2lst day of February a. d.
1896 at 10 O'Clock a. IN. of SAID day at the
courtroom OF said Superior Court at the
Courthouse in the City Of sacramento County
OF Sacramento, and state OF California. then
and there to show cause why the following
real property, TO VIII, a tract of land situate
In the County OF Stanislaus state OF Cali.
fornla, ana described as follows, To wit; All
of sections "a and 25 and the east half OF sec
ton 20, IN township No. south rance No
j east, Mount D1abio base ana meridian.
also, the west half OF section 8, the west naIi
oil secLlOn 80, IN township No. 4 south Of
range No. II east, Mount Diablo base ana
meridian, ana containing In the aggregate
twenty-five hundred ana twenty-five acres.
more or less, together with the improvafnen
thereon, excepting. however, the portion
Pacinc Railroad Company or some part
thereof should not be mortgaged Tor the
amount mentioned in said petition to wit
$26 600, or such lesser amount as 10 the court
or Judge may seem meet. to which petition
all persons are hereby referred for further
PARTICULARS.
Dated january 22d. 1896.
MATT f. JOHNSON.
ja%3td Judge "a said Superior Court
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exceeded all expectations and is taxing
their capacity to supply it. The demand
comes not alone from California, but
from Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and
part Of old Mexico. While olive culture
in the other regions must be expert
mental it has passed that in California,
and has proved decidedly successful.
Students of the subject say the climate
and soil of the foothill regions are al
most exactly like those of the countries
in which olives have been successfully
grown for ages in the Old World, while
! like conditions do not exist in all the
regions that are about to try the busi-
ness. The growth of the industry in the
San Joaquin Valley is particularly graf
flying, the young trees sold indicating
that 1000 acres will this year be added
to the area devoted to olives. The i'm
pulse given to the business is not due
exclusively to success in growing the
fruit. The demand for it has been so
great that the last crop has been about
sold out and left large amount of un-
filled orders
ANOTHER INVASION.
Los Angeles Herald: An evening con-
temporary announces with apparent
satisfaction that local citizen has re-
ceived from London a letter which
states that the effect of the enormous
bond subscriptions has been to restore
confidence in American securities, and
that in consequence many American
projects, including some of Importance
to this section will be carried through
with British capital. This particular
evening contemporary is noted for its
steel-riveted. copper-fastened antago-
nism to foreign-especially British
capital, and the complacency with
which it views this promised eneroach-
ment of the detestable foreigner will
astound some Of it's readers.
According to its point of view, the
further investment of British gold in
this country, as a result of the resto-
ration of confidence in American secur-
tiles, is simply calamitous. Why, If
such is to be the outcome, this business
of restoring confidence in American Sc
curities should be stopped, as involving
national menace.
If more Johnny Bull pounds sterling
are expended in developing water
rights, gold silver, copper, coal and
lead mines, building railroads and fac
tories and planting trees and vines,
whole lot of American mortgages,
stocks and bonds will be exported to
England and-well, there you are.