The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-07-31
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Inc gunDOat Helena q Deen Or
dered to Shanghai.
The National Retail jewelers. asso-
citation has gone to pieces.
All owners of good horses in Wash
ington expect an era of better prices.
The income from mutton from the
Missouri valley this year will amount
to yer 100000.
At the steam shearing plant at Hill
lard, Who, recently, fifty men sheared
3,4OO sheep in n day.
A great gas we'll has been struck
flowing 100000 cubic feet in twenty
four hours at Baldwinsville, N. Y.
The threatened strike of telegraph
operators at London has been averted.
The operators are inclined to accept q
compromise.
twenty-five seamen of the lost Brit
ish ship KankOra, who spent nearly
two months on the barren island of
Clipperton, in the South sea, arrived at
San Francisco on the war ship Comus.
At the Putney boat races Black
state won the Wingfeld SOULS, How
ell, the young American being among
the competitors and taking second
place at the finish. Blackstafe won
by two lengths.
The Indiana Farmers Savings and
Loan association, Fort Wayne, has
been placed in the hands Of a receiver.
Liabilities, $4,000; assets, $4,000. In
ability to raise funds to meet the with
drawals Of stock caused the failure.
The Berlin Lokal Anzeiger says that
Capt. Sverdrup will endeavor to get
around the northern end Of Greenland.
He expects to be absent two years.
The party will take dogs with them as
a precautiOn against being frozen up.
The natural gas strike. in Sacramento
Is turning out an important matter.
-Four bodies of gas have been struck.
lying in different strata, and the total
supply from the we'll is estimated at
100000 feet daily.
Mountain lions are very numerous in
the neighborhood Of White River, Col.
In Hub Gulch, lear Salida, also, they
are making trouble for p~rospectors and
cattleemn, killing and carrying off
dogs as cats do mice.
The Campania Perlifera de la Baja
California Nower California Pearl
Fishing company has sold it's conces-
siors and other property in the Gulf Of
California to an English syndicate for
$500, 900.
The will of Mrs. Julia G. Maffit, re-
puted to have been the richest woman
in St. Louis, has been filed for probate.
Tie estate is Walt ed at $3,0OO,OOO, and
consists largely Of personal property.
1t is to be apportioned among six chill
dren, share and share alike.
8. G. Carter, national secretary Of
the Metal Polishers, Platers and Buff
feters' union, announces that the
eighteen months strike of the polish
ers employed by the Overman Wheel
company at Chicopee Falls, Mass, had
been settled.
A party of Deadwoodites is on on a
treasure-hunt far into the Bad Lands,
where as vet few white men have trOd.
b The mission is to locate the grave Of
Winding Hawk, once the head chief Of
the Sioux nation, wherein, according
to Indian tradition, is buried $4,000 in
gold.
Contractors state that the Canadian
Pacific has issued an order that no
United States citizen can be accepted
as contractor, subcOntractor, manager,
superintendent or laborer on the
Crows Nest Pass railroad, now about
to be built by that road through Fort
Steele mining country.
Another immense gas we'll has been
developed, one-half mile northeast Of
Baldwinsville, N. Y. 1t is by far the
most prolific well yet found. The vol
ume Of gas flowing from 1t amounts to
over 100000 cubic feet every twenty
four hours. The force of the gas pro-
ceeding from the boring ia so enormous
that it will lift a weight Of 200 or 800
pounds placed over the opening.