Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-22
WILD WEST WAITS.

September, followed by d fall in the tenn
perature below zero, is undoubtedly the
cause.
in Montana, the negro is given high
er respect than in any other state IN
the Union. A colored man Of Helena
was elected a delegate over ex-senator
Sanders.
Two hunters while out in the mount
aims of Clark county, Wash, found a
band of deer and a pony running with
them. The pony left the deer and fol-
lowed the men out of the mountains.
The first settlers to locate on Col.
Cody's land in the Big Horn are ma
tives Of Tyrol, on the borders of Swift
zerland, sturdy mountaineer race, by
nature well fitted and equipped for this
country.
In the fifty days between March 81
and May Il there were forty-eight days
in which snow fell in DeLamar. Idaho,
and only one day in which it did not
either snow or rain.
The cattle in the vicinity Of Absor-
AXE, Mont, are reported as coming
through the winter in very poor condl-
ton. The loss by wolves is very heavy.
One man with q band of 100 head lost
thirty by the wolves.
The wool clip in Washington county,
Ida. this year is figured at 100000
pounds, which will sell for about $780,
OO0 It says 10000 mutton sheep have
already been sold this year for about
$4,000.
South Dakota has received patents
for 800. $50 acres of land in the Aber-
deem and Huron districts. The lands
go to the agricultural college, normal
schools, school of mines and public build
ings reserve.
Some Scotch Highland cattle have
been imported to the Powder River coun-
try Wyoming, for the purpose of cross
ing with native cattle. 1t is expected
that they will be able to stand off at
tacks by wolves, as they are natural
fighters.
Careful inquiry in the wine valleys
of Napa and Sonoma, in California,
shows that the reports of damages by
frost have beer exaggerated. The sec
ond crop of grapes will be fairly good,
and unless the season should be very
short they will mature in time to make
good wine.
A trapper found the remains of An
drew Allen on the North Fork, three
miles above the mouth of Pritchard
creek, in Idaho. He left in November,
1898, on hunting trip. Search was
made, but all traces were covered by the
first snow.
e. Dewire, a Yakima (Wash.l ranch
er. has a scheme to irrigate the Yakima
valley. It is to erect a monster furnace
on the top of the mountains, melt all or
the snow and conduct the water through
big iron pipes from a prearranged reser-
voir down to Yakima city and valley. He
thought there was a fortune in it, but
the physicians think he is insane.
Wyoming is to have new National
park. A treaty has been concluded with
the Shoshone and Arapahoe tribes for
the cession to the government of a sec
ton of land 10 miles square in one cor
ner Of their reservation. The purchase
includes the famous hot springs at the
head of the Big Horn river, in the Owl
mountains and the price to be paid is
100000.
The first printing press was brought
to what is now Idaho as early as 1886
by Rev. Spaulding, Presbyterian mis-
sionary among the Nez Perez Indians.
The press was brought from the Sand
witch islands and was used merely for
the publication of crude pamphlets con-
tanning scriptural quotations and other
religious matter printed in the Nez Perez
language.
Some of the heaviest timbers ever
sawed on the Columbia are being shipped
to Shanghai The list includes one mon
ster Iii feet long, 24x24 inches, and
there are eight 1OO-foot timbers that
square from 24x24 to 1Sx18 inches.
There are also a number of heavy timbers
running from 70 to 80 feet in length, and
four handsome spars 100 feet long, "a
inches through the center.
While returning in the evening from
one of her neighbors, near Colviile,
Wash, Miss Grace Duckett met bear.
Instead of screaming and running, she.
with the help of her dog, forced bruin
up a tree, where she left him till she could
go to one of the neighbors and returned
with help. Miss Duckett herself cut the
tree down, and, when it fell, they sue
ceeded in capturing the bear alive.
-Drillers on the Buttke farm, south
east of Buffalo, n. D., have struck what
is probably the strongest artesian water
the Northwest. The water has burst
the pipes far below the surface and
gushes out for many feet around the
original opening, heaping up immense
quantities of sand and debris. Efforts
to enclose it have so far been unavaiing.
The largest gray wolf killed by dogs,
so far as yet heard from, was taken at
the Cave hills, Wyo. The animal meas
ured feet and inches from the point
of his nose to the root of his tail, and
stood 81 inches high From the point
Of his nose to the top of his head was
II inches, and his hide and head alone
weighed twenty pounds. Three old dogs
and two pups attacked the wolf, and the
fight lasted thirty minutes.
e. G. Grindrod of Kittitas county,
Wash, is experimenting in the cultiva~
ton of the Australian salt bush plant
Attorney L. A. Esteb of Medford,
Or, found on Trail creek the horn of a
4-year-old deer inbedded in an oak tree
The horn was in the wood twelve feet
from the ground. From the rings on the
tree it is estimated that the horn has
been there thirty years or more. Mr..
Esteb cut out a block of the wood con,
tanning the horn.
The cattle trade of South Dakota is
growing to vast proportions. 1t is es-
timated that 100000 head Of cattle will
be handled in the roundup now in pro-
gross on the reservation lands west of
the Missouri and that the value of ship
ments from Pierre alone this year will
be S1,250,0O0 An estimate of the profit
in the business on the ranges is furnished
by President Thomas of the Stock asso-
citation, who takes 100 steers as an illus
tration and says: First cost of yearling
steers, $1,000; care for two and a half
years. $3.50, when they would bring an
average of $40 per head in Chicago;
cost of TRANSFORMATION and other ay-