The Black range., 1896-08-28
LOCAL NEWS.

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Tom Whitley was in from the Pos
this week.
Campaign hats and Byran buttons
are all the go here.
Plenty of rain and the mountain
streams are booming.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Bishop moved
down from Grafton yesterday.
L.. j. Otto went over the range this
week to survey ranch claim.
Jas. Wing and John Saucier are do
ing the Big Pigeon country this week
F. A. Reynolds has returned from a
trip to the headwaters of Chloride
creek.
Superintendent of Schools Chandler
went to Hillsboro this week to attend
a meeting of the teachers examining
board.
Chas. Bishop started this morning
togo to Grafton to bring down a load
of household goods, but was compelled
to turn back on account Of high water.
Myron W. Mitchell, formerly of this
place, but now of Ann Arbor, Michi-
gan, writes to his mother here, that
the "silyer craze" is rapidly gaining
ground in that state. He states that
when he first went to Ann ArbOr it
was a difficult undertaking to ind a
man that would talk free silver, but
now, he says, "silver lunatics" are
counted by the dozens to where there
was one few months ago.
Among articles of Incorporation re-
Gently filed with the secretary Of the
territory, we find the following: The
Tiff Mining & Smelling CompanY-In-
coporators, Daniel Braymer, Chas. F..
smith, E. G. P. Kellum. John S. Mack,
James S. Riser, John Creighton and S.
D. Felt; object mining and reducing
ores; capital stock, S25,OOO; life, fifty
years; directors, same as incOrpora-
tors; principle place of business, Chic
ride, Sierra county, N. M.
The most gigantic obstacle which
The free silver committees have to con-
bat with is the scarcity Of money for
the purpose Of procuring and distrsbut-
ing silver literature. 1t is the duty of
every friend of silver to contribute his
mite, whether it be a nickel or q dollar,
10 the honest cause Of free silver liter
ure and education. W. M. Armour
will shortly take the matter in hand
soliciting funds for this purpose, and
everybody will dig up.
The big flood that occurred at MOgo-
ION few days ago was hard blow to
lat camp. Some fifty families were
ell nigh rendered homeless, twenty
six houses were wrecked and the dam
age to mills and mines amounts to
Iaany thousand dollars. John Knight
and an unknown Mexican were drown
ed and their bodies were found several
miles below the camp, and it is report.
cd that seven or eight persons are miss
ing since the flood. The wagon road
leading to that camp was entirely de-
stroyed and now all freight taken into
that place is carried on pack animals.
Capt. Jack Crawford, C"Poet Scout,")
who has for many years posed as a
famous Indian scout, and theprotector
of suffering humanity generally,
and the miner in particular, has taken
the back trail and now seeks the scalp
of the miner of whom he has written
an endless chain of prose and poetry
and shed many quarts of salty eye
water direct from the human reservoir
of profound sympathy" Our own
Jack, 'tis he; he's been bought and
sold by Hannss gold, and now he walls
atariff tale and 'hollers' bout the eff
ty-cent" dollar at the rate Of 5000 q
week. Capt. Jack writes back to
friends that he has been engaged to
take hestump for Mckinley at salary
of 5000 a week; he says that tariff Is
fha cause of the nreennt financial de.