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Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1900-09-29

Reno Gazette, Sept. 25: A new strike
has been made in the Wedekind mine.
Assays have been made showing 4,3S3a
ounces Of silver and 261 ounces in gold.
The strike was made today, and there
seems to be . good body Of ore OF this
character.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1900-09-29

III: Scheolfne's improvements.
The Reno Gazette Of September %
says that N. Schselins is making . nun
Der of Improvements in the extending Of
The already large grounds about his resi-.
dsnos on South Virginia street in that
city. and that when they are completed
he will have the handsomest residence
and grounds In Reno.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1900-09-29
THE wINNEMU CCA BANK.
Abstract Of Its Condition Before the
Robbery.

ODOery
The Controller Of the Currency at
Washington has given out a statement
of the condition Of the Winnemucca
Bank on the fifth day Of September,
1900, compared with the report OF
June 20 preceding: II shows that the
total resources decreased from $685.
759 to $549. 1886. The loans and dis
counts increased from 1913. 1888 to
1851, 107, and the cash reserve de-
creased from $45, 100 to $4,000. The
individual deposits decreased from
SAC, 665 to 1892, 791, and the average
reserve held fell from 1920 to 17.01
per cent.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1900-09-29
DIED.

In Eureka, Nevada, September %, 1900.
Mary Olympia Virginia, beloved wife Of
Angelo Picollo, a native of Italy, aged q
years, 3 months and 10 days.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-08-03
AVOCA FIRE.
Armstrong & Newkirk's Eleva-
tor and Hay Sheds
Consumed.

News reaches us that a destructive
fire visited the neighboring village of
Ayoca at an early hour yesterday
morning. The fiend made quite a
hole in the town, and under other
circumstances would haye almost blot
ted out the town. The origin of the
fire is unknown, but is thought by
many to be incendiary in character.
The fire broke out at 3 q. m. in the
elevator and hay sheds, occupied by
Armstrong & Hewkirk and owned by
the Lenox Elevator Co. These were
totally consumed together with all
their contents, which consisted in
hay, grain, salt, lime and machinery
together with one horse. The total
loss is variously estimated, some plac-
ing it as high as $4,000.
The building is known to haye con-
tanned 1000 bushels of wheat, besides
hay and other material. Lindsay, of
Smith Creek, had 1864 worth of hay
stored in the sheds, and Smith q
Bricker about $500. On these no in
surance is reported. The sum of $500
was carried on the contents owned by
Armstrong & Newkirk.
Besides the elevator and sheds, two
cars on the track were consumed, one
containing lime and the other salt.
Among the many smaller items of
loss was $3.50. worth of binding Irvine.
The E. S. Dodge elevator, was barely
saved, and for q time it seemed as if
the Hotel Norway was doomed to
ashes. The loss will be felt by many
besides the ones having property con-
sumed. And if there were no other
sheds or elevator left, it would be such
an inconvenience as to materially
cripple the fall trade now near at
hand.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-08-03

Buy your harvesting gloves at s.
Goldberg q Co.'S.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-19

range the Indians begin to take careful
aim. Finally a lucky shot kills the
creature, and the whole party lands.
THE otter is skinned at once and the
shots that may have struck it are fol-
lowed until the bullet is found. The
rules of the hunt are that SO from the
skin shall go to the man who sighted it;
So each shall 60 to the other nine men
in the party, while the one whose
marked bullet evidently killed the ami
NAL gets all the rest. There is seldom
any disagreement in these parties,
either.
Sometimes an otter killed on land
nay have several bullet holes in his
skin, but these holes are no damage to
the fur, as the furrier closes them easi-
ly from the back. Ordinarily, now,
when one hide has been secured, the
whole party goes back to the trading
post. The Indians are much shrewder
traders now than they were once. They
have need to be. They may take the
hide to every dealer in the post and still
be dissatisfied. In such a case they
pick upon some sQuaw 10 take the pelt
to another poSt-maybe even to Daw-
son. They would not trust man to
do it. for he would be almost certain to
get drunk. The squaws are almost
universally honest and dependable,
and the hunters count on every penny
of returns save the necessary expense
incurred. Sometimes the Indians make
money by this; sometimes they don't.
offered party Of hunters $500 for a
skin, but they refused to take it. They
sent a woman with 1t 10 Dawson and
there she got only $500 after spending
$40 on steamer fares and incidental ex-
penses. She was the wife of the man
who had killed it, and she was quite
pleased with her trip and experience.
Near Cooks Inlet one finds the best
hunting. There are moose, caribou,
mountain sheep, and bears for big
game. In addition there are millions
of geese, ducks, brants. and water fowl
of all description. Our party killed
three moose, seven mountain sheep,
and one caribou In the four months
that we were there. We have brought
back twelve moose skins and heads,
seventeen mountain sheep, thirteen wolf
skins, and the hides of sixty bears. The
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-19

letic figure that once might have trod-
den the boards. To halt in her quick
pace down town was something un-
usual for the woman, but the dissipated
face, with the gray, shaggy head. ap-
pealed to her, and she asked wonder
ingly:
What has caused you bad luck 2"
"It happened, madam" the man re-
sponded, that the world went hard
with me, among other things. know
all the stages in the descent of man,
and, in fact, know the stage itself.
Things were different when l played
with Mccullough in the 70s." He
sighed as he leaned gracefully against
one of the foundation pillars of the
Calumet Club building. and let his
eyes wander over the ruins of the
burned church opposite.
The woman was compelled to admire
the beggar, whose figure was as ma
jestic as McCullough's own, and who
belonged, it was evident, to the same
artistic profession.
But what brought you to this condi-
tion?' she asked, breaking in upon his
abstraction as she saw a far-off look In
his eyes that might have belonged to
Mccullough in Bloomingdale.
"Oh, found the current too swift for
me. When l got into 1t couldn't get
out. When man gets to going down.
ward" he went on, addressing the
! charred walls, not the woman-''when
a man gets to going downward, moth
ing can stop him-unless it Is a woman
lI-and-and the woman died! / should
have been a different man If it had not
been for that. l left her In a grave
back there in Donegal, and l went
down with the current-left her in
grave in Donegal" he continued, for
getting his listener, forgetting his hun
ger, as he drew his old cloak around
his once proud form and walked away,
and the soft morning breeze brought
back the words, "a grave in Donegal"
The woman called to him, but he did
not heed her, and then she ran after
him, and put a coin in his hand for the
sake of heart gone to dust in grave
In Donegal.
When she had parted with her money
she walked on, refiecting that 1t might
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-19
The Butterfly King.

The London Express, in announcing
the death of William Watkins, one of
the foremost entomologists of the day.
gives this interesting story of his life:
OF Welsh extraction, he began col
| lecting butterflies when he was a
schoolboy of nine. AT that time there
and the first butterfly Mr.. Watkins
ever caught was the peacock" From
| thenceforth he became an ardent en-
tomologist; he gradually went on col
lecting moths. and eventually he made
| this the business of his life
His parents articled him to some shin
and insurance brokers, but while out.
| with them he devoted all his leisure
time to collecting. Indeed, 1t was no
unusual occurrence for him to stay out
until midnight in pursuit of the treas
ures he coveted. Taking a dislike to
the shipbroking business, and mani
! Testing the inevitable desire to "ses
life," he went to India, where he had
plenty Of scope for his love of ento-
j mology.
After sojourn of six years in In
| dfa, he returned to England, and was
able to sell a large collection to Mr..
Horniman. the well-known tea mer-
chant.
He then began business as profess
sional entomologist,, and opened estab-
lishments in Piccadilly and in the
Strand. In 1881 he formed the Insect
1 House in the Geological Gardens
During the past ten years he resided
at Eastbourne, where he carried on the
breeding of butterflies of the most d.
verse specimens. His success earned
| for him the name of 1.-THE Butterfly
/ King"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-19
GyE6lR 3 SleebbE5

There are 10000 different kinds of
butterflies.
A statistician of small things figures
1t out that the posterity of one English
sparrow amounts in ten years to some
thing like 276,OOOOOO,OOO birds.
There are 100000 miles of copper
wire used in the telephone service in
are received daily in the telephone ex-
changes of the country. The wire would
girdle the earth at the equator forty
eight times, or reach from the earth to
the moon five times.
Although Queen Victoria does not per-
NIT smoking in her immediate neighbor-
hood, yet she keeps on hand stock Of
the most superb cigars for her guests,
and the consumption thereof is about
three thousand year. They are spe-
cially made for her majesty, of the
most carefully collected tobacco leaves.
and when finished are hermetically
sealed in glass tubes In order to guard
against deterioration. connoisseurs in
sisting that the leaf Is affected by
cndnSe OF Climate.
A new lightship of novel design is
soon to be moored in the stormy
waters of the dreaded Diamond Shoals
off Cape Hatteras. 1t has been found
impossible to place lighthouse there,
and the lightships moored on the spot
have, one after another, been torn from
their fastenings. The new ship is to be
propelled by steam, and furnished with
electric flashlights tc be displayed from
her masts, fifty feet above water. She
will be anchored on the shoals with
strong tackles, and in case she is torn
loose by a gale, can take care of her.
self with the aid of her powerful en-
CINE.
The ingenuity of architects and build
ers is sometimes severely taxed to pro
vide for the comfort of the dwellers in
lofty apartment houses. In New York
City plans have been filed for a gigan-
tic building of this kind to stand on
Fifth avenue, and to be connected with
q well-known restaurant across tine
street by a tunnel, finely fitted up and
lighted, whereby the occupants Of the
apartment house can go out to their
meals in all kinds of weather without
the necessity of putting on hats. The
only drawback appears to be that they
are limited in their choice of restau-
rant.
William w. Evans of Deals Island.
Delaware, has horse which has proved
a remarkable investment and has over
ridden the ideas and records of the aver
age useful life of horses. Twenty-seven
years ago Mr.. Evans purchased the
horse from Scott Covington, who guar
anteed at that time that the animal was
six years old. Mr.. Evans proved to be
a good master, and the horse returned
the kind treatment by retaining its full
activity and energy, and now, at thirty
three years, the horse works nearly ev-
cry day. see and hears well, and has an
excellent appetite.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-19
ALASKA GAMESUPPLY
FUR BEARING ANIMALS RECk-
LESSlY KILLED.
Deer Are Now Almost Extinct, Sea
Offers Are Extremely Scarce, and
Moose Are Vanishing with Great
Rapidity.

Ten years ago Alaska was FUR coun-
try beyond all else, with trade annu-
ally in excess of $2.OOO,OO0. This year
the fur crop, exclusive Of the seals, will
not exceeu $5OO,OOO. In the judgment
OIL a prominent Chicago furrier, recent
ly returned from a fourth trip of four
months in that country, the slaughter
of the fur-bearing animals, with the
exception Of the seals, Is such as to
make the life Of the fur trade short
indeed. The sea otter, one OF the most
valuable of all animals, Is practically
extinct. Wolves have killed all the
deer spared by the hunter or have
driven them to the islands of the coast.
The moose are fast going, and only the
seals are more numerous than they
have been for years. But these are at
the mercy of a United States monopoly
and of the British hunters, who come
openly within three miles of the Ameri-
eau coast and kill seals in open water.
Yet POO American seal hunters sit idly
on the coast, not daring to wO what
the British and the North American
Trading and Transportation Company
are doing unhindered.
Not only are the fur-bearing animals
threatened, but it is said that the can
neries are raiding the salmon supply of
the country in such a way that Indians
receiving only 8 cents apiece for salmon
weighing above eight pounds are max
ing SIS to $40 day at fishing. In the
Columbia River country years ago the
cannaries worEnd havoc with thfS m, q o..
nificent game fish, throwing them out
of the coast rivers by machinery, TAX
ing the big fish and leaving the smaller
ones to rot in the sun. With the eight
pound limit there are evidences that
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-19
WHEN TO MARRY.
Depends Upon People, Time, Kind, Taste
and Circumstances.

Depends Upon People, Time, Kind, Taste
and circumstance.
At what aga should a man marry?
That depends upon the man. Some men
are more fitted for the responsibilities
of matrimony at % than others are at
B5, said man in discussing this inn
portant subject recently. If marriage,
however, be postponed after that last
figure man is likely to get into what
may be called the habit of celibacy,
from which as from other bad habits,
1t is hard to break away. In this habit
of celibacy he will continue till he Is
about sixty years of age, when great
desire will come over him to try what
matrimony is like just before he dies,
and he will propose, right and left to
everything in petticoats, until at last
he is picked up. not for himself, but for
his money or for his position, or be-
cause some one is tired of being called
Miss" and wants the novel sensation
of writing Mrs before her name.
An old man told friend that he
wanted to marry before he died if only
to have some one to close his eyes.
Perhaps" suggested the friend, you
will get some one who will open them"
1t is not natural for young girl to
wish to marry an old man. A father
said to his daughter, "Now, when it Is
time for you to marry l won't allow you
to throw yourself away on one of the
frivolous young fellows l see around. I
shall select for you a staid, sensible,
middle-aged man. What do you say
to one of about so years of age?
"Well, father" replied the girl, ''if it
is just the same to you, should prefer
two of twenty-five"
Perhaps the best advice one could
give young man in this matter is to
say: "Wait until you cannot wait any
longer" Wait, that is to say. until she
that not impossible she-comes with
smiles SO sweet and manners so gra-
cious that you cannot wait any longer,
then marry, and may you be happy ever
after! AS to the age at which women
should marry, 1 am afraid of burning
my fingers with that question. All
shall say Is that if some women are
not worth looking at after thirty years
Of age, there are quite as many not
worth speaking to before it. Let man
please himself, but let him not marry
either child or an old woman"
adelphia Inquirer.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-19

the slaughter already has begun when
1t is said that one company for 1900
will pack $4,000 cases of salmon at
Kodiak Island.
''The seal fisheries are the greatest Of
the fur-bearing possibilities of this
great country" says the Chicagoan.
1.-The impression has been given out
that these animals are rapidly becom-
Ing extinct. But it is not SO. l have
my own eyes as evidence in this state
ment, and anywhere along the Alaskan
coast natives and those long resident
there will tell you that more seals have
ben seen this season than ever before
According to law the Alaskan In
dian may kill seals for food, but In SELL
Ing the skins he must make affidavit
that the animals were killed for food
purposes and he must not kill too many
for that purpose, either.
1.-The most valuable and most nearly
extinct animal now Ia Alaska is the sea
o.,er Ten or fifteen years ago hunt
ing party could go out and kill perhaps
twenty of these splendid animals in
one hunt. Now the same party may
go out and get one, or it may come back
without any. Owing to the scarcity of
the animals, too, the hunting of the few
left Is becoming more and more diff
cult A skin now brings from $500 to
$500 to the Indian hunters, and in Lon
don they sell for $3.50 to 81 200. Most
of these skins are bought in London by
the Russians.
Hunting the Sea Otter.
at least eleven canoes, each holding
O hunter, are necessary in the killing
of sea offers. They can be hunted only
when the water is CLASSY smooth, as
their habits are such that they are in
visible on ripping surface. They are
a strangely human sort of creature.
The mother otter nurses her babe in
her arms, and they sleep on their backs
In the water. When frightened or sus-
picious they keep only their noses and
eyes out of the water.
when the hunters start out each is
armed with rifle, and each man uses
marked bullets, that may be identified
after they are fired. When the nose of
an otter is sighted the man finding 1t
gives a signal to the nearest boatman,
and in a few moments the little feet is
surrounding the creature. When the
great circle is complete as may be the
nose of the animal may be a thousand
yards from the nearest marksman. A
shot is fired at the black spot on the
water and it disappears. The animal
is capable of diving 5000 feet under
water, and it may not come up for
many minutes, but If the circle is well
formed it is not likely to break the line,
''The instant the nose appears again
another shot or two is sent after it.
and the boats close In on the circle.
Time and again it comes up, only to be
frightened down again, each time for a
shorter period. AS it weakens and
grows short of breath the otter raises
more and more of its head out of the
water, until finally it is a good target
for the hunters. AS soon as it is in
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-19
RoId and SIeepy,

The boldness of wolves and coyotes
in the presence of man is well known.
1T is not uncommon" says the author
IF Adventures in Mexico, "for these
animals to gnaw the straps of saddle
,n which your head is reposing for
pillow"
One night, says Mr.. Buxton, when en-
.amped on an affiuent of the Platte, a
heavy snow-storm falling at the time,
[ lay down in my blanket, after first
heaping on the fire vast pile of wood
to burn till morning.
In the middle of the night | was
awakened by the excessive cold, and
turning toward the fire, which Has
burning bright, what was my astonfsh-
ment to see a large gray wolf sitting
quietly before it, his eyes closed and
his head nodding in sheer drowsiness.
looked at him for some moments
without disturbing him, and then
closed my eyes and went to Sleep leav-
ing him to the quiet enjoyment Of the
blaze.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-19
Deer Have Become Extinct.

Deer Have Become Extinct.
Deer In Alaska proper are now ex-
tinct, but the islands off the mainland
are full Of them. This is due to the
fact that wolves will not take to water,
while it is the deer's favorite method
for escaping pursuit. A pack of wolves
chases a deer to the sea and 1t swims
out to an island. In this way the whole
archipelago of the Alaskan peninsula
is full of deer
"Onee the moose and caribou were in
great herds, but they have thinned
greatly. After Sept. 1 the mountain
sheep gather in bands and even yet as
many as 300 may be found in a flock.
The moose and caribou, however, are
seldom more than twenty-five in a
herd, and they are exceedingly shy and
difficult to kill.
s.The territory needs good, practi-
cal game law that could be enforced.
That enforcement would be difficult,
however. Among the thousands of ad-
venturers in the territory there are
many who kill game wantonly. The
Indians, too, have no regard for the
preservation Of species.
"The fish supply of the country is
open to the onslaught of Gamers and
packers. Something should be done to
regulate this. A fisherman may go
out, and in an hour, with only hook and
line, catch fifteen halibut, some of them
weighing 200 pounds. These big fish,
of course. have to be let go, as they
cannot be taken into boat. There
are millions of Goldfish, herrings In
myriads, and salmon in swarms, but
at the present rate of canning the sup
ply will be cut into heavily in few
years. All other kinds of shell-fish
save oysters abound in these Alaskan
waters. 1t Is only matter of time
when Alaska will be supplying the
| United States with fish. Just how long
1t supplies will depend upon how the
sources of supply are treated by the
fishermen. There are no reptiles OF
any kind in Alaska, not even turtles
lizards, or frogs. There are few
toads, however"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-19
RECENT INVENTIONS.

A Pennsylvania has patented an
improved coal bag and unloading ar
rangement, comprising central sus-
tanning member, surrounded by bag,
which has a gathering cord at the top,
the bags being suspended by the stems
on a wooden support for filling from
the chute.
Dustless roads can be rapidly made
by Californian's machine, which has
a plurality of dust-stirring fingers,
which are adjusted to stir up the earth
in the road, series of pipes extend
ing at the rear of the fingers to sprin-
kIe oil from a reservoir mounted Oh
the machine.
Shoes can be quickly laced by the
use of a new attachment, comprising
a pair of slotted rigs carried by the
edges of the upper, with headed studs
set in the slots to slide freely, with a
lacing attached to the studs to draw
the edges of the upper together as the
studs are raised.
An improved automatic safety lock
for elevators is formed of two triangu-
lar blocks pivoted on top of the car,
and held in folded position by the
cable, the breaking of the latter throw
ing the blocks out and operating two
links, which catch in the sides of the
well and support the car.
In New York man has patented a
collar button which will save trouble
in fastening a stiff collar, the shank
of the button being telescope, with an
internal spring which prevents the
shank extending too far out and also
locks 1t in a contracted position after
the collar Is fastened.
A handy tablet for telephones has
been patented by an Ohio man, COM
prising a reel suspended in two brack-
cts at the edge of the battery box, a
roll OF paper being placed on the reel
and held smooth across the top for
writing, with a sharp metal strip to
sever the sheet after use.
Moving and reaping machines can
be provided with a new whip holder.
which is formed of support attached
to the tongue Of the machine, carrying
whip socket with gear wheel at the
I
rear, which meshes with gear shaft
extending in position for the driver to
turn it and operate the whip.
A handy adjustable bracket for use
on painters easels has sleeve to fit
around the upright legs of the easel,
with an L-shaped arm pivoted in each
sleeve to engage notches in the legs
whom in a lowered nOSition allowing
the sleeve to be raised or lowered
when not engaging the notches.
Runaway horses can be brought un-
der control by new dashboard attach
ment, which has base bolted to the
dashboard, with lip pivoted to clamp
to rein against the base when pulled
from the front, backward pull releas-
ing 1t for tightening the reins when a
new hold is taken by the driver.