Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-07-06
WILD WEST WAITS.


Nebraska farmers are emigrating in
numbers TO the Bitter Root valley in
Montana.
Fred Gebers, a Comstock New
laundryman, has been notified that he is
heir to $4,000 now in bank in Ger
many.
The Indian Guide is a new paper
issued by the Indian boys and girls of
the Shoshone agency. 1t is neat little
paper and contains much interesting
matter.
The California Winemakers' associa-
ton has let the contract for the erection
at Fresno within three months of one
OF the largest distilleries in the United
States.
The recent storm must have reached
extraordinary proportions at Soldier
Creek New. as a boulder estimated to
weigh 100 tons was washed down the
canyon to the side of the road.
Crude petroleum runs down some of
the Los Angeles cutters from the oil
fields. The other day man threw a
lighted paper in gutter and the flames
shot up as high as the telegraph wires.
There was terrible cloudburst on
Powder river, near Miles City, Mont.
e. +. Mckenzie had a bunch Of $50
sheep in a corral when the storm came
up suddenly and the river rose, drown
ing $40 head.
The Los Angeles Record says that a
cattleman on the Arizona line who has
been for years bathing his feet in one
of the springs that petrify leaves, frogs
and snakes, is now unable to walk. His
feet are petrifed.
Three prairie schooners passed
through Eugene, Or, recently. On the
side of one Of them was the inscription,
Everett, Wash, April 26, 1896. Back
to Texas we 60" Another one said,
%"TpXaS home. sweet home -
Reports from the Black hills ranges
show that at least 10000 Southern cat
tie will be brought onto that range this
season and purchasers from the Missouri
river range are now in the South secur-
ing shipments which will reach as high
as 10000 head.
-Puyallup (Wash.) fruit-growers have
discovered that one of the causes of the
whitening of fruit blossoms is the pres
ence of myriads of little hard-shelled
beetles, which are found on the petals of
the blasted bud and the state entomolo-
gist has been called upon for a remedy.
1t had been supposed the trouble was
entirely due to wet weather.
A gusher has been struck in the Coal
inga oil fields, near Fresno. Cal. The
well was capped with great difficulty.
An S00-pound weight was first placed
on the cap, but the jet sent it hurtling
into the air. Then 5000 pounds of scrap
IRON was uSeu ana TINS nelu the cap
down. The value of the well is esti-
mated at $4,000 Before the summer is
over 100 wells will be sunk in the dis
trict.
AT Bozeman, Mont, Gen. Wilson has
had quarried and made into a beautiful
monument piece of native onyx. weigh
ing, after being dressed, fully 1000
pounds. Notwithstanding that the stone
was taken from near the surface, it is
almost fawless, making one of the most
beautiful cemetery monuments ever seen
IN this part of the country. The stone
takes an exquisite polish, which brings
out it's various colors as clear as glass.
Near Pasco, Wash, one night recent
ly, a farmer was awakened by the chat
tering Of his geese. On stepping out of
the door he soon learned the cause of
the disturbance. A flock of wild geese
were in the yard endeavoring to coax
the domesticated ones to follow them in
their fight. After being frightened
away the wild birds lowered around the
yard the remainder Of the night con-
tinuing their pleading for the tame ones
to join them.
A correspondent writing to Salt Lake
City from De Lamar says that camp
was thrown into a furry of excitement
on Friday by the report of fabulously
rich gold-bearing float rock, said to have
been found about two miles or so north
east of town in the Helene gulch. The
ASSAY certificates are said to have shown
returns ranging from $500 to $19, 28O
to the ton. The scene of the new find is
placed on the north slope of the range in
which the Monitor and April Fool mines
are found and not more than two miles
from town, across the hills.
"A rich gold discovery is reported
from Flint Greek, in the Georgetown
district, Montana. Nine weeks ago Sam
Snyder, a destitute and hungry Butte
prospector, trailed a deer over the hills,
and accidentally discovered fabulOuSly
rich ledge, which he has been working
since alone and in secret. He came to
Butte a few days ago with thousands of
dollars worth of gold, and the reports
of men who have since inspected the
property say that Snyder has a million
dollars in sight although his prospect
hole is only about ten feet deep. Ihe
vein is only eight inches wide so Ear as
developed, but is yellow with virgin gold.
"A number of the richest tin strikes
that have ever been made in this or any
other country have recently been made
near Custer, Oak, upon claims owned
by the Harvey Peak company upon
which the annual assessment work was
being performed. In one instance, says
the Custer Chronicle, body Of ore nine
feet in width was encountered which
was fairly alive with the metal, than
which no richer deposit has ever been
found anywhere That Custer has the
largest and richest tin deposits in the
world is beyond cavil, but just when
they will be ripe for utilization may only
be dimly cOnjectured at this writing
At some future period in the misty
hence Custer will be a tin. city with gold
mountings.
Sir BartIe was Real Nice Man.
A story of the late Sir 8artle Frcre