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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1896-10-09

ALL THE campaign talk devolves
into this one proposition: If you
wish to put an end to the hard
times, vote for Bryan and Free
Silver. At present you have the
gold standard. McKinley's cleo
tion would mean continuance of
the present condition, because his
party has declared in favor of
maintaining the present gold
standard" Bryan's election would
mean free coinage Of both gold aud
silver; it would mean more money,
and therefore better prices.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1896-10-09

BILLY FURNISH, for four years
sheriff of Umatilla county, at the
hands of democrats. was in town
Monday, hanging on the band
wagon with the rest of "us" re-
publicans,
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1896-10-09
MARRY This Girl. SomebodvI


have been reading in your paper
about several men and women that have
been very successful selling self heating
fat irons. and l concluded would see
what girl could do. have worked IL
days and have sold 151 irons and have
2lS dollars left after paying all expenses
Everybody is delighted with the irons
and sell one almost every place show
it, as people think they can't afford to be
without one, as they cave so much fuel
and time and don't burn tue clothes. /
know can clear FIVE thousand dollars in
a year. How is that for girl?
A GRADUATE.
Splendid, my girl, splendid, you are a
true American girl. Anyone can get
complete information about the eelf.heat-
ing iron by addressing j. F. Casey & Co,
st. Louis, Mo. 1t seems to be winner,
as everybody selling it writes in its
praise.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1896-10-09
been for me in certain way bright

been for me in a certain way bright
ness.
AS I grew older there came to me
other abnormal peculiarities, which
have been mercifully sent as compen-
sations. / can always tell when others
are looking at me, and can generally
tell whether they are looking at me in
kindness or the reverse. My sense of
hearing is extremely sensitive, and
through it 1 can read character in the
tones Of the voices Of men and women
around me.
/ can also discern character accurate
ly in the touch of the hand. / have
certain instincts for which / have no
exact name, which sometimes make me
foresee future events. My senses of
touch and smell are excessively del
icate.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1896-10-09
ment with other nations and have

ment with other nations and have
free coinage"
'How about the railroad to
Mars2" Cheer and applause.)
81 am going down to that now"
Here he repeated his statement
that he only referred to the alb
surdity Of such a thing under the
Cleveland administration, in the
face of the fact that his language
was ''now or at any time"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1896-10-09
This is Your Opportunity.

This Is Your Opportunity.
On receipt Of ten cents, cash or stamps,
o generous sample viii be mailed of the
most popular Catarrh and Hay Fever Cure
(Ely's Cream Balm) sufficient to demon
strate the great merits of the remedy.
ELY BROTHERS,
Sc Warren ST., New York City.
Rev. John Reid, Jr., of Great Falls, Mont,
recommended Ely's Cream Balm to me.
can emphasize his statement, at is q posi-
tive cure for catarrh if used rs directed. ~
Rev. Francis w. Poole, Pastor Central Pres.
Church, Helena, Mont.
Ely's Cream Balm is the acknowledged
cure for catarrh and contains no mercury
nor any injurious drug. Price, so cents
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1896-10-09

A GOLD bug advocate must sure
ly be possessed Of a cast-iron ch eek
to hereafter allude to anarchism
after the exhibition by the Yale
hoodlums when they mobbed Mr..
Bryan. Our gold bug friends had
better fight shy Of that term in the
future.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1896-10-09
SENSES OF THE BLIND.

Tho Singular Acuteness of One who Ia
Slshtless.
Throughout my whole life, says a
blind person in the Argosy, my blind
ness has had this remarkable feature in
It; 1 always have before my eyes bril-
liant light, SO that the whole air around
me seems, as it were, incandescent. I
appear to be walking in light. In this
light ! can call up at win all sorts of
beautiful colors, which see mingled
with the radiance and forming part Of
It. Thus my blindness has always
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1896-10-09
SIS has the circulation its advertising within the reach

THE democrats and populists
have effected fusion in Kentucky,
and there is no sense in the repub
licans wasting any more of their
time talking about carrying that
state.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1896-10-09

: AT Mitchells speaking in Salem
q man asked him this question:
"If we elect Mckinley, will he not
have to issue bonds to maintain
the gold standard just as Cleve-
land did?"
"Within year after Mckinley
is elected he will have an ag, ee.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1896-10-09

We understand some of our re.
publican friends are little hurt
and chagrined that anyone should
be 50 bold as to ask Senator Mitch.
ellquestions during his speech at
this place Monday. The PROPOSE
tion was this; The senator signi-
fed his willingness that questions
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1896-10-09

TnE gold bugs tell us in one and
the same breath that free coinage
will make 53.cent dollars to the
workingmen and l00.cent dollars
70 the minc owners.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1896-10-09

THE question is right here. Are
you dissatisfied with the present
state of atfairs2 Then vote to re-
store silver to its constitutional
position beside that Of gold.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1896-10-09
sLEEPLEss LARVAE.
Voracity OF the Young OF Some of th
Vegetable Feeders.

voracity OF the Young OF Some of the
Vegetable Feeders.
Prof. Lintner, New York's state en-
tomologist, is of the opinion that the
larvae stage of many species of in
sects is one of the sleepless activity,
the grub feeding necessarily from the
moment of its birth" He says that
it is doubtful If some species ever sleep
or take a moments rest. The vora-
ciousness and rapid growth of these
creatures may be better understood by
making a statement of two facts: A
certain desh-feeding larvae, (which
simply means the infant state of
carrion beetle whose scientific name
would be of no particular interest, says
the st. Louis Republic) will consume
in twenty-four hours two hundred
times his own weight-a parallel to
which, in the human race, would be an
infant consuming one thousand five
hundred pounds of nutriment on the
first day Of it's existence! There are
vegetable feeders-c -caterpillars-wh
during their progress to maturity, in
crease in size ten thousand during the
first thirty days of their lives. To
equal this remarkable growth a ma
ture man would weigh scarcely less
than fifty tonsl
According to Scripture, curses were
known from the beginning Of man.
But the earliest curse the world has
authentic record of is found inscribed
on o door-socket of King Sargon of
Babylonia, $500 B. c., in the Assyrio-
logical collection of the University of
pennsylvania. The inscription which
has been translated by DR.. HI. v. Hill
precht, OF the university, calls down
the vengeance of the gods, Bel
shamash and Ninna. upon the bold dis
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1896-10-09

A Churn that Churns in one Minute.
have been in the dairy business all
my life and have many times churned
for an hour before butter would appear,
so when heard of a churn that would
churn in a minute, concluded to try 1t.
Every day for week used it, and not
only could churn in minute, but got
more aud better butter than with the
common churn. This is very important
information to butter makers. The ehurn
works easily, an ] will churn an ordinsry
churning in less than 60 seconds. / have
sold two dozen Of these churns in the
past month. Every butter maker that
has seen the churn In less than minnie
has bought one You can obtain all de-
sired information regarding the churn by
addressing j. F. Casey & Co., st. Louis,
and they will give you prompt and ccurt-
eous attention A DAIRY MAN.
The herald., 1896-11-22

several hundred feet as they now do
at a depth of from fifty to one
hundred feet. For many miles in all di-
rections the surface ground prospects
we'll in free gold. Dry washing is carried
on profitably in many of the gulches sur
rounding Randsburg, which the writer
visited, and where the operations We're
closely investigated for some time.
Coarse gold is often found and occa-
siorally nuggets varying in size from
S. to $23 worth, the latter being the mos.
valuable yet found, and which is de-
scribed elsewhere.
The whole district in and around
Randsburg has been taken up in claims,
covering an area of ten miles square,
1000 claims having been filed, but only 450
recorded. 1t is as yet a poor mans
camp" as even the largest mining prop
critics have been operated by men of
small means, who have utilized their
profits in development work, thus prov
ing their faith in the permanency of the
mines. There is little or no disposition
to sell any mines of established value,
and as none of the mine owners are pos
sessed of large capital, the work of de-
Velopment Is comparatively slow. This
is drawback to the entire district, as
capitalists are not willing to offer large
considerations for mines whose shafts
have not been sunk much below 100 feet,
and where continuous pay ore is, there
fore, In their opinion, problematical. The
lack of water for milling purposes is also
a serious drawback, necessitating long
hauls to Garlock mills, twelve miles dis
tant, and other points as far as Kane
springs, twenty-five miles from Rands-
burg, where there is abundance of wa
ter and good ten-stamp mill Hauling
and milling ores cost from $S. so to $40
per ton, which is too great an expense.
Notwithstanding the phenomenally high
grade of ores taken now out of the mines
in active operation. 1t is said on good
authority that Los Angeles capitalists
will erect large stamp mills in the i'm
mediate vicinity of Randsburg If the
many efforts now being made to obtain
a plentiful supply of water near Rands-
burg prove successful. The fact that one
surface we'll six miles south of Rands-
burg furnishes 1000 gallons of water
daily (Which Is one of the wells that
provide water for domestic purposes).
proves conclusively that there is abun-
dance of water if tie people of Rands-
burg will bore deep enough for it. IT
must be borne in mind, however. that
the camp Is new the first discovery of
gold having taken place only eighteen
months ago.
EARLY HISTORY OF RANDSBURG
1t is surprise to those who are not
familiar with the character of country
in which Randsburg district is situated
that so rich mineral region should have
been overlooked until within the past
The herald., 1896-11-22
THE GOLD MINING DISTRICT QF RANDSbURG|

November go. which will reduce the dis
tance to thirty-six miles, and Messrs
Rice IL Shippee of Mojave will commence
running stage on that date via the
new route, making the trip in five and a
half hours and for So. Randsburg is the
most orderly of the many mining camps
the writer has visited in California and
Arizona, the people who reside there
also the new arrivals up to the present
writing being decidedly a better class
than is usually found in mining districts
There is a phenomenally large number IF
families permanently established there.
as demonstrated in the groups of roll
licking children seen on the streets. A
school will be established in the town in
December.
Randsburg is supplied with water for
domestic purposes from two wells, stu
ated six miles south of the town, also
from Garlock, and 1t costs. delivered 81. 20
per BARREL or 40 cents per barrel al the
wells, when the consumers do their own
hauling. E. NJ. Shilling 6; Co. arc now
laying pipe from their well. six miles
south of Randsburg, to the foot of a
high hill. or mountain, east of Ranls
burg. where it will be pumped into a
reservoir and thence piped to all parts
of the town.
GEOLOGICAL FORMATIONS AND
MINING OPERATIONS.
The geological formations of Rands-
burg district are principally quartz, por-
phyry and granite. the latter showing
peculiar slate features, being in many
places in thin horizontal layers. The
ores, sa far as known, are almost entire
ly free milling gold, with a very small
percentage of silver, except in the ST.
Elmo section, six miles south of Rands-
burg. which shows sulphurates and a
larger percentage of silver.
II, Il t.,.-
ures peculiar to itself and differing
greatly from those of any other min
ing section of California that it is puz-
zle to old-tine miners, who are at first
inclined to term it "a desert camp, with
good surface ores, but no indications Of
depth" But the more they investigate
the few mines where considerable devel-
opment has been bade, the more con-
WINGED they become that it is not only
wonderfully rich district in gold bearing
ores, but that unquestionably the mines
will show as good ore at a depth of
The herald., 1896-11-22
4 PUZZLE 70 EXPERIENCED MINERS
But They Are Favorably I'm.
pressed With It
A POOR MANS CAMP
Capital Needed to Develop Water AMI
Erect Mills
-Four Thousand Claims Located and Only
Five Hundred Recorded

Early History of the District and Who
Found the First Gold-Description
Of Principal Mines-Output and
Prospects - How to Reach
Randsburg and Cost of
Outfits, Board, Etc.
The herald., 1896-11-22

time afterward he made a speciality of
supplying prospectors with groceries
and provisions, and when GOler and Red
Rock mining districts were booming, in
1893, he opened a general store there.
Last July he removed his store to Rands.
burg, where he built the first substantial
frame building erected in the present
business district, which is still occupied
as a general store and meat market. Mr..
koehn owns a valuable gold mine two
miles south of Randsburg, which is de-
scribed in detail in the list of mines of
that district.
The immense deposits of salt (92 per
cent pure) in Dry lake, adjoining Kane
springs, which are ten miles in length
and from four to five miles in width,
with sulphur spring In the vicinity, will
be utilized for baths, which, with the
pure, dry air and abundance of spark
ling mountain water will make Kane
recially consumptives. Mr.. Koehn will
erect suitable buildings for the accom-
mediation of invalids as soon as the de-
mandl will justify it.
The milling now done at Kane springs
aggregates over 800 tons of ore per
month, three-fourths of which is from
the Randsburg district. He has arranged
to place concentratOr in connection
with the mill. The increase in capacity
from five to ten stamps will add materi-
ally to the tonnage of ore milled
Last Chance canyon, twenty-nine
miles from Mojave, leads on the north to
a larger canyon beyond the mountain
range, where a vast amount of gold has
been taken out in placer mining by dry
washing. One mile further brings us to
a we'll twenty feet deep, where George
Fugard, formerly of Los Angeles, OBJ
tains water for his gold and silver mine,
situated one mile north of the road, in
canyon. Thirty-two miles out is Poison
springs, about mile north of the road,
where the water is strongly impregnated
with arsenic. Mesquite springs, thirty
six miles from Mohave, is a promising
gold mining district, referred to in de-
tail elsewhere in this article; and Gar.
lock, thirty-nine miles out, Is a. new and
bustling little town of 300 population,
which Is also referred to in another
part of this article. All along the road
from Mojave to Randsburg we passed
dozens of teams and freighting wagons,
some Of the latter having sixteen horses;
also three or four stages returning TO
Mojave; many private conveyances,
burro prospecting outfits, and miners
and tenderfeet, with packs on their
backs, going on foot to the new Ell Do
rado.
AT RANDSBURG.
The stage arrived at Randsburg at 6
p: M. making the trip from Mojave in
eight hours. The short road now being
constructed will be ready by Sunday,
The herald., 1896-11-22

cSTATE LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY OF Los A
y streets Capital paid up, s5to9oo. Otrcers-H j.
president; Warren Gileen second vice president; j.
Drectors-Geo IL. Bonebrake, p. NJ. Green. II. II. How
+. Ball, Judge W. p Gardiner, j. w. A OF, Warren Gi
a general banking business. Accoun
OF the world. Special attention given collections Safe
rent. Certify issuing of bonds interest Bearing
deposits; per interest paid short debentures
of depoors and safety boxes the bank
The herald., 1896-11-22
A Weeks Investigation by Special Corre=
spondent of The Herald

desirable vista presents itself to the
east or west-bound trAveler-a verita-
BILE "oasis in the desert and which will
ere long doubtless become popular re-
sort for tourists, invalids and residents
of the surrounding mining districts, COW
ering an area of several hundred square
miles. When the traveller alights from
the stage, the first thing likely to at
tract his attention is the substantial
stone building occupied by c. A Koehn
(owner and founder of Kane Springs).
as general store, meat market and res
taurant. Close by is five-stamp mill,
built to operate ten stamps and soon to
be enlarged to its full capacity. owing
to the rapidly increasing output of the
mines in the surrounding district.
tlocks of geese. also large number of
chickens, turkeys and hogs. all fat and
contented. meander around the corral
and farther away herds of well fed cat
tie, sheep and horses are browsing upon
the native grasses. The question nat
urally arises, Where does the water come
from to cause this gratifying change
in the landscape and to supply the mill
with water? A little investigation
While the stage horses were being wa
tered led the writer to the Kane
springs, never failing supply of pure
mountain water which overflows the
adjacent land. except when pumped to
supply the stamp mill The present flow
of the springs is 100 miners inches, but
1t can be increased greatly by excavating
to depth of twenty or twenty-five feet
and enlarging the area to fifty feet.
Mr.. koehn is a good type of the
shrewd German-American citizen, who.
by thrift and energy, amasses consider
able property in a few years, where the
majority of people fail to do so. At
tracted by the springs, he took up a
homestead there of 100 acres in 1892, WITH
the intention of starting a goat ranch;
built house, barn, etc; purchased two
horses and few fowls, which exhausted
his saved-up capital of $500. For some
The herald., 1896-11-22

Continued on Page Twenty.
The herald., 1896-11-22
COAST STEAMSHIP
Gs...-A1
esz@~s-yS=lZ


Steamers leave Redondo and Port Los
Angeles for san Francisco:
Nov. Dec.
Santa Rosa. 2:2O p.m...1 9 II 25 8 Ii 10 2,
Corona, 2:20 p. ..m......5 13 q 20 Is 23 81
Leave San Pedro and East San Pedro for
san Francisco. via Ventura. Carpinteria.
santa Barbara Gaviota, Port Hartford (San
Luis Obispo). Cayucos, San Simeon, Mon.
terey and Santa Cruz:
Coos Bay, G:30 p. M. .....2 10 is &c | 4 12 20 n
Eureka $50 2. .....6 IA % 80 SIS "a
Leave Port Los Angeles at 6 am. and
Redondo at II am. for San Diego. Stmr.
Corona will also call at Newport (Santa
Anal.
Corona ...................3 II 10 27 513 81 %
Santa Rosa .............1 4 10 ~ l. 8 II 2S
The company reserves. right to change
steamers or sailing days.
Cars connect with steamers via San Pes
dro leave S. p. r. Il. (Arcade depoO at sos
nm. and Terminal Ry. depot at pm.
Cars connect via Redondo leave Santa Fe
depot at $3.50 am, or from Redondo Ry.
depot at 9:05 am.
Cars connect via Port Los Angeles leave
S. P. r. r.. depot at 1:35 pm for steamers
northbound.
". PARRIs. Agent. 1A W. Second =.
i'ei GooDATL, Cd PERKINS & CO.. Gen. Agts..
San Francisco.
The herald., 1896-11-22

PROPOSALS FOR FORAGE AND
straw.-Ofice of Chief Quartermaster.
Denver Colo, November 2, 1s96-Sealed
proposals in triplicate will be received here
and at office of Quartermaster at each post
below named until IL o'clock am. 10th mer-
idian time. December 2. 1895, and then open
ed for furnishing Forage and Stray at
Carlos and Whipple Barracks, A. T., Forts
Bayard and Wingate, N. M. Forts Doug
Colo, during the fiscal year ending June
go 1897. Proposals for quantities less than
the whole required, or for delivery at points
other than those named will be entertain
ed The right is reserved to reject any or
ali proposals or any part thereof. Inform
Offices Of respective post quartermasters.
Envelopes to be marked Proposals for
Forage and Straw" Z. B. ATWOOD. Ma
for. Chief Q. M. NOV. S-4-o-6-So Dec.
The herald., 1896-11-22
DIRECTORY OF SOUTHERN CALL
AFORNIA HOTELS.

DIRECToRY OF SOUTHERN CALL
AFORNIA HOTELS.
HOTEL -GREEN-J. H. Holmes, mana
ger, Pasadena.
HOTEL METROPOLITAN Santa Cata-
lima Island.
HOTEL ARCADIA-Santa Monica, s.
Rheinheart, proprietor.
HOTEL HOLLENBECK-Spr and Sec
ond streets, Los Angeles.
HOTEL RAMONA-Spring and Third
streets. Los Angeles.
ABBOTSFORD INN-Corner Eighth and
Hope streets. Los Angeles.
HOTEL PORTLAND-444 South Spring
street, Los Angeles.
HOTEL BRUNSWICK-Santa Ana, Amer
lean and European plans.
HOTEL HOLYROOD-Rivers B.
Cochrane. proprietor.
THE ROWELL-Main and Ninth streets.
Riverside, e. J. Davis. proprietor
HOTEL CARLTOr,-1S to 27 East Colo
rado street. Pasadena
HOTEL AvALON-Avalon Santa Cata-
lima Island
HOTEL BREWSTER-J. E. O'Brien, pro-
prietor. Fourth and c sts., San Diego.
The herald., 1896-11-22

Chatsworth Park-Leaves from and ar
rives at River Station. San Fernando ST..
only.
Sundays excepted. . 80 Saturdays and
Sundays excepted. *"Saturday only.
s*t*Sundays only.
All S, =. Co.'s trains stop at First st
(except the four San Francisco trains) and
Commercial st. Except the 900 o'clock San
Francisco evening train), in business CEN
ter of the city, saving time ana street car
fares to passengers.
Trains for .ea beach points leave River
station 20 minutes earlier than from Ar
cade depot.
TICKET OFFICES-No. 229 S. Spring ST.,
general office; Arcade depot. through and
Commercial St. local: Maud Junction. local
The herald., 1896-11-22

HOTEL BREWSTER-J. z. O'Brien, pro
prietor. Fourth and c sts., San Diego.
The herald., 1896-11-22
READ THIS LETTER

To the nnSiic iAiNdnEs was .sssioMsIy sainI aftiictea
kidney troubles. tongue ceuld never ex:
years. was reduced in flesh until was
,.nn mere i,e skeleton. Ny sight and hearing
roubled With and pies any
had severe chronic cough. In short, life
was a burden and death would have been
give Dr. " Wong Him Him. of No es5 tpper }presn Man
/ hnd no faith in a Chinese doctor. but l' Il
took only few doses of his life-giviny
herbs. to knock all the skepticism out OF
me- In just five weeks the doctor pronOun-
ced me cured, and now can truthfully say
that was never healthier and never felt
are both fully restored; that obnoxioms
cough. constipation and piles are entirely
cured, and l am rapidly gaining in flesh.
having gained forty pounds in two months.
/ earnestly recommend all sufferers and
skeptics 20 give the doctor a trial and be
sician. '- '''1 1N'e' ~ 'Al'' 90 D"'
JOHN NJ. STEVENSON.
62o Bellevue avenue. Los Angeles, Cal.
To the Public: ! take pleasure in tes-
tifying to my marvellous recovery under
Upper Main ST.. Los Angeles. from num-
Der of stubborn ailments, among which
and kindred stomach troubles, heart affec-
ton and kidney disease But what ! con-
slider this physician excelled in; so far as
my case is concerned, was in the restOra-
tion of my eye service. Astigmatism,
coupled with other disorders, was my af-
Fiction in this respect, and. although a
number, Of well known skilled cculists in
advised me ] should always have to de-
pend upon glasses, and receive but poor
service even then; DR.. Wong Him's rem
the use of any artificial help to sight and
my eyes continue to give such service.
both for near work and distant. as is truly
wonderful To the skill and remedies Of
the physician named can alone be attrib-
uted a, revolution in my physical condition,
throughout that puzzles those who knew
of the "incurable' character of my af-
nictions. Respectfully.
q. l.. PLOWMAN.
Pico Heights p O.. Cal. Sept. 5. 1895.