Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-02-01
WILD WEST WAITS.

A fad in Berkeley, Cal, is to have
telephone wires run to the church and
hear the sermon at home.
Bicycles have reached the Arizona
Indians and people of Phoenix recently
noted Pima riding his wheel along the
Tempe road.
A thrifty farmer who lives $50 miles
from the nearest railroad brought a wag-
Unload of eggs, chickens and cabbage
into Eddy, n. NJ.
The artesian well in Andes lake, n.
D., is now completed at depth of 725
feet. 1T is a 6-inch pipe and throws
1900 gallons minute.
1t is estimated that 100000 cattle
were handled i'll the roundup in the
Dakotas this fall. These, at $50 a
head, would amount to 100000.
George 9. Cannon says the the new
Utah & California will build 400 miles
from Milford to Los Angeles as soon as
the Oregon Short line rs foreclosed.
The Santa Fe trains are so run that
it takes two days to get from Las Cruces
to Deming, n NJ, only fifty miles apart.
A stage line is seriously urged.
Abe Shellenberger, pioneer of Osce-
ola. New, took to Salt Lake a nugget Of
gold weighing sixty-one ounces and
worth $1064, making $500 they have
picked up this season.
Near the foothills south of Butte,
Mont, a band of Indians numbering for
ty-seven-twenty-fo men and twenty
three women and children-iS reported to
be starving to death.
One firm recently bought all the
sheep feeding on Big Meadows, near
Reno, New, amounting to about $4,000
head The prices paid ranged from
$225 to 1915 per head.
"A company has been organized to
conduct Blue canyon water to Sacra-
mento for drinking purposes. The eff
fort will be applauded by any person who
has ever visited the capital.
Mr.. Kane Of Fort Collins, Col, is the
possessor Of gray wolf which is sup
posed to be tame, but while playing with
one of Mr.. Kanes children Wednesday
bit off two of the child's fingers.
-Gusta, the big Injun' of the Occur
d'Alenes. is dead He had the finest
horses and equipage in the Palouse re-
gion and splendid 40O-acre farm in
cultivation. "Firewater' killed him.
Over 100 carloads of Sonora oranges
have been shipped at Nogales, Ariz., for
the United States up to January 1, 1897.
1t is estimated that this seasons ship
ments will aggregate 300 carloads, and
that there will be 500 carloads shipped
next season.
While on q camping trip with her
husband three weeks ago IN the Crandall
creek country in Montana, Mre. 3. q.
Van Dyke shot and killed a black bear
weighing about 700 pounds and large
bull elk She also brought down seven
grouse without missing a shot.
There are 5000 Indians in Arizona
who occupy five reservations, aggregat-
ing 6lS.937 acres. The governor in his
report recommends this land should be
allotted in severalty and the Indians be
encouraged to cultivate the soil SO as to
enable them to become self-supporting.
The Mexican international boundary
line of 700 miles from the Rio Grande
to the Pacific has been marked by iron
monuments 6 and stone monuments IL
feet high, averaging two and half miles
apart and always in sight of each other.
They are inscribed in English on the
north and Spanish on the southern side.
Good horses must be drug on the
market in Washington when 11O0-pound
matched teams sell for $3.50 team and
1OOO-pound horses broken to ride or
drive bring $3.50 a head. These were
the prices eighteen head of horses
brought the other day at an auction sale
of horses of the Northern Pacific Rail
way company at Tacoma.
"A new and decidedly original method
of catching wolves is reported from
Wyoming. Small wires are attached to
ishhooks baited with meat and attached
TO some object just heavy enough SO that
his wolfship can drag it around, after
swallowing the bait, and still be ham,
pered with the weight SO escape is impos-
sible. Mr.. Allen then makes the rounds
on horseback, followed by number of
dogs, and puts on the finishing touches.