Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-08-11
WILD WEST WAITS.

) WILL WES l WAITS.
Oregon hopgrowers are selling Their
crop for 10 cents per pound.
-Theo. Wolf, living near Rulo Staticr
Wash, lost 300 acres of grain by fr,
recently.
Some fields of late-sown oats near
Newberg, Or, were literally burned 10 n
crisp by recent hot spell.
The yield of wheat in portions Of
Oregon runs from twenty-six to thirty-
hve bushels per acre. Barley averages
sixty bushels.
AT Kent, Ia, Hugh McCaulay's fam
lily OF six were poisoned from eating toad
stools, which they took for mushrooms
The mother is expected to die. The 9th
ers may die also.
Charles E. Cotton, cashier of the
First National bank of Syracuse, Neb.
has been arrested upon the charge OF
converting to his own use $4700 Of the
funds belonging to the bank.
About 600 acres of wheat were
burned in Spring Valley, eight miles
north of Walla Walla, Wash. The fire
was started by spark from threshing
engine.
e. Il. Michaeis, a Spokane barber.
hunting at Priest lake, wounded a bear
1t got him down and would probably
have killed him had not his companion,
w. ID. Benson, hurried up and given il a
fatal shot.
H. B. Thrall, superintendent of the
railway mail service of the United
States, has made the fastest trip yet
made down the Yukon to and back from
st. Michael. The trip from Victoria oc-
cupied twenty-six days.
Three or four hundred Pima Indians
along the ella river, above San Carlos,
Ali hnx, Lea !
the failure of water, the river being en-
tirely dry. Many have gone to Globe
and other towns and about 200 camped
along the Verde river, east of PaysOn.
The shipment of horses from Pierre
5. D., this year promises to be larger
than for many years past. Nearly every
freight takes out few loads Of horses,
some of them being shipped as far East
as New York and Pennsylvania. Iowa
is also taking number of range horses.
Fire started by sparks from loco
motive destroyed 5000 acres of pasture
on the hills of the Des Chutes river, Or.
Winter pasture for sheep was ruined,
which will prove as great a loss as
though the land had been covered with
grain.
There is much anxiety at the present
time among citizens of Wyoming as a re
suit of the numerous forest fires. Fires
are raging in Elk mountain in Carbon
county; Horse Greek, Uinta county; the
Pedro mountains west of Casper, and
Piney creek in johnson and Big Horn
counties.
Some South Dakota farmers who
sowed large acreage of wheat las
spring and who did not secure a crop
on account of dry weather, are cutting
the growth of wild grass and thistes
with what wheat that did show up for
fodder for their cattle. Several tests
which have been made show that when
thistles are cut before the thorns harden
cattle Will leave the best of hay for the
thiStles.
Cape Nome was treated to a great
confiagration early in this month. Miles
and miles of tundra was burned over and
many homes destroyed. The fire began
close to the eastern suburbs of Nome and
swept the country from the outer edge
of the sand beach to the foothills and far
below Cape Nome, so that the surface
looks like a vast prairie that has been
burned over.
john d. Devine, a prominent cattle
raiser of Harvey county, has one of the
largest ranches in Oregon. The number
of acres in one of his enclosures is esti-
mated at 10000. He thus divides a
goOdly portion of Harvey county with
Miller d Lux and the French-Gle
Stock company, these latter firms having
niue enclosures OIL tnClf OWN VI tpsOoo 40
$4,000 acres.
A band of masked and well-armed
cattlemen of Routt county. Cal, took pos
session of band of sheep owned 10y
Hetzler and Rivera of Rawlins, Wye,
and after killing upwards of seventy
head drove the balance of the band
across the state line into Wyoming and
scattered the animals in all directions,
The same men are credited with the
slaughter of 1900 sheep belonging 10
Martin johnson of Rawlins, Wyo.
r.. d. Hume of Wedderburn, Or, al
the mouth of Rogue river, a well-knoWl
canneryman, has embarked in canning
peas. to occupy his leisure when salmon
do not run Hume has invented Il ma
chine for making cans for salmon or otn-
or articles. which is wonder. The
sheets of tin are fed in at one end, come
out perfect can at the other, and when
intended for peas have both ends on
with a hole in one end into which To
pour the peas.