The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1902-05-23

recently bonded by Batterton & Cone
for $4,000, and on which $4,000 has
been paid. There is ore in 420 feet
of the 600-foot tunnel on this property.
Much of it is of shipping grade.
The Bombast and Taylor Brothers
own the San Francisco group, just be-
of tunnel this winter and now have
four feet of milling ore. An increased
force will be put on Immediately and
continued until the Douglas lead is
found.
A consignment of machinery for the
Gold creek Consolidated Mining com
pany has been received at Orofno,
Idaho, and will be moved to the mines
of the company as soon as possible.
1t is the reorganized Mascot Mining
company, which has been operating
northeast of Orofino for some years.
One of the most important items in
the Indian appropriation bill, which
has been agreed to affecting the state
of Washington is Senator Turner's
amendment providing that mineral
lands only in the Spokane Indian res
ervation shall be subject to entry I'M
der the laws of the United States in
relation to the entry of mineral lands,
provided that the lands allotted to In
dams or owned by the government for
any purpose or by any school shall
not be subject to entry under this pro
vision. The bill including this pro
vision is now in the hands of the presi-
dent, and will be signed in the course
of a few days.
AS agreed to by both houses, no
date was fixed for opening of the res
! ervation, and to cover this omission
Senator Stewart. on the Indian COM
mittee, introduced a resolution fixing
July /, 1902, which will undoubtedly
be agreed to, and accordingly the res
ervation will be open for that date to
entry, as above stated.
A special from Dawson states that
Joseph Mcdonald, superintendent OF
the Treadwell mines on Douglass is
land, shot and killed Nick Jones, a re
ligious fanatic. Jones claimed Goo
appointed him to have Mcdonald close
the mines on Sunday Mcdonald was
warned. When the two men met
Jones told Mcdonald that his time haC
come, and attempted to pull mis- re
volver. Mcdonald pulled first and pu
four bullets in Jones, who died in al
hour. The coroners jury exonerateC
Mcdonald on the ground of self de
tense.
A special from Blackfoot, Idaho
says that the miners of the Whit
Knobs Mining company today declar
ed off the strike which has been il
T. force for the past several weeks. TIL
company has granted recognition o
+ the union and has consented to en-
a ploy none but union miners. Over
: hundred men were out and the mine
1 tied up.
The two 10000 pound boilers Tor tn
I Badger group of claims in the Susar
e vile district Oregon, will be place
in position this week. Ten regulatio
: stamps, dies and rolls equal to 2
g stamps were shipped to the mine froI
l. Sumpter last week. The mill, whe
completed, will have a capacity of 8
stamps.
The pay streak of the Badger
J. from one to 10 feet wide and contain
S some of the richest free milling OF
S ever found in the Blue mountains
f To Mrs. H. e. Taylor, now of Bots
t Idaho, belongs the distinction of bein
il the first woman to enter the now far
o Gus Thunder Mountain camp.
f. Her husband made a large fortur
d in the Cripple Creek mines of Col
e RADIO and then went broke. In II
e summer of 1898 he went into Thund'
Re Mountain and was accompanied by h
it wife, who not only aided him in bull
ing their cabin, but in operating plac
n claims subsequently located by hil
IS Mr.. Taylor was the locator of the Fai
lie view group of claims on Rainbo
m creek. They are now living in fiji
1T residence at Boise, and have a bar
n account variously estimated at fro
1t 500 900 to $3.50. 900, all made in Thu
IN der Mountain.
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