The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-01-14

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Chicago parents, was held in the police
court at New York for examination on
the charge Of forgery. Parker is ac-
cused of being connected with the
forgery of a check for $751; in New
York, and the police say that he has
passed many bad checks in Chicago.
AS the result Of a three-cornered duel
fought at Lulu, Miss, j. e. Kennedy
and Richard Hartman are dead and r.
Grady is MORALLY wounded. 1t is not
known how the trouble started, no one
being in the vicinity when the shooting
began. Hartman and Kennedy were
each hit twice and died in a few min
utes. Grady was struck in the lungs,
and is not expected to survive. All
were fairly prominent.
Western Mining, Notes.
Nearly all the gold-producing states
Of America show an increase in the
output for 1893.
A six-foot vein of ore carrying $40 @
ton in silver and gold has been opened
up in the Elkhorn mine in Cache val
ley, Utah.
Assays from the Whitaker mine at
Mammoth, Utah, give values Of III
ounces silver, 60 per cent lead and a
small amount in gold. The ore is fine
galeEa.
The gold-bearing region on the west
ern slope of the Sierra Madras, on q
tributary of the upper YaQui, is in a
fair way to be opened up for prospect
ing and development 1t. is in the 'Ures
district, State Of Sonora, Mexico, about
eighty miles east of HermOsillO.
Mariposa county, California, is hav-
ing a gold sensation in the Big Betsy
mine, near Groveland, on the Tuolum-
ne county line. The main shaft is
now down over 300 feet and in ore all
the way. The average width of the
ledge is thirteen feet and the ore as
says $72 per ton. y
Tucson, Ariz., reports that the Old
Dominion Copper Mine company is ac-
cumulating copper at the smelter.
There will be, probably, 100000 of
copper for shipment as 500 as the
railroad is ready to take large quanti'
ties Of freight from Globe to the
| Southern Pacific track at Bowie. /
A rich strike is reported from the
Windy mine, half a mile north Of
Randsburg, Kera county, California, at
a depth of forty feet. The main shaft
is down about $50 feet, but the richest
ore taken out comes from above that
depth. The ore in the last strike runs
as high as $500 per ton.
General. ga
Illinois Democrats declare for Bryan
and the Chicago platform.
The >. Wright Tobacco company Of
| Richmond, Va, was sold out to the
Continental Tobacco company.
A number of Chicago painters, dec
orators and frescoers have formed a
| cooperative association. y
The next years naval estimates for
| Italy will provide for eight new bat
tleships, two being of the first-class.
Arbuckles have reduced granulated
sugar Lice a pound below the. Ameri.
can Sugar company and several of the
independent retiners.
Ex-Gov. Merriam of st. Paul goes to
West Superior and takes the manage
ment of the Superior Water, Light and
Power company.
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The st. Louis tPost-Dispatch says ne
gotiations are nearly completed Tor the
equipment OF q part OF tEe 81. Louls
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Attorney General Monnett a Ohio Il
going after another. company which lie
reealds AZ a9tr,st.. II a The American
Biscuit compdny.sof which 3. FAlsraws
petition to file in the supreme c9gglItsto
GUST the company, winch Is calitalized
at 55,OOO,OOO, but which he has been
informed is doing business on 5000
600 capital: Some Of the wholesale ale
mems 40 sss output It 4 q 5000 &. gsilea s,s &