The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-06-16
NEWS OF WALLACE
ial to The Daily Muscular.

Special to The Daily Muscular.
Wallace June 15.--"There is no
doubt but what the, Reindeer is close
to the vein in thu 2,So0-foot cross
cut" said George Huson, a Mullan
mining engineer. "a zone Of sheeting
and shearing with some fine cleavage
and iron With sulphide and carbonates
is being encountered. This is q good
indication for that part of the Occur
dAlenes, 'rhn iron il different from
the general run Of frog in the district,
being magnetic iroh. Il believe further
depth will have TO nd attained to get
into the best ore." Sf5
Two forest fires III the Big creek
country are the first to occur on the
Occur d'Alene national forest and
both were extinguished before seri-
Gus damage was done. Settlers in the
vicinity tried to burn some brush and
the fire ran away from them. Forest
rangers stationed near by We're called.
On Sunday Wallace and Mullan will
meet for the second baseball game of
the season, the game to be played in
Wallace.
The city health officer has
raised the restrictions imposed
on children under is years on ac-
count of the prevalence of scarlet
fever and they are free to attend
theaters, eircuses and sunday school.
The Big Flat Mining company.
operating some placer ground in Ore
gon gulch at iron Mountain, is en-
gagged in putting in 200 feet OF tlume
and water pipe in connection, to be
used in sluicing the ground. Eight
men are employed, but this force will
be doubled as soon as the water goes
down sufficiently to permit of extern
sve operations.
George Champagne, a rancher resld-
ing east of Wallace, along the pro-
posed route of the Spokane, Wallace
& Interstate electric line, has received
an offer of $4,000 for his property
through a banker of this city. The
offer was refused, Champagne asking
$4,000. but negotiations are not at an
end The site is wanted, it is under
stood, for railroad shops for the cleo
trio railway.
The shaft on the Anchor property
at Burke, one of the richest silver
properties in the district, has been
sunk to the 20O-foot level and a
cross-cut run to the vein, opening VI
silVer-lead ore.
Fifty-one applicants for final nat
1lralization papers have presented
themselves before the district judge
the rush being due to the fact that
three Indian reservations Will be
thrown open soon to citizens OF the
United States. Finlanders and can
adams head the list of applicants.
A cougar measuring eight feet and
four inches from tip to tip has been
killed by Erick Pierson at the Lucky
SWede mining property. The anlma
has frequented the trail to the mime
and given the men considerable worry
on account of his evident ferocious-
ness.
With the sale by the sheriff OF the
old dance hall at Mullan there mas
been closed one of the most notorl-
Gus resorts in the Occur dAlenes. A
Judgment against the proprietor
Niillttih i+a" leliGe, iof pow "e' g.
and in default of payment the prop
erty was attached.
Charging that Sheriff Moffatt IN
utter fragrant and fraudulent dlsre-
gard of his duties refused to pro-rate
the judgment of II. M. Richards
against the Occur d'Alene Powder
company ;Tlong With other creditors
suit has been commenced in the dis
trict court by Mr. Richards against
the sheriff and his sureties to recover
$i1l with interest. 1t is alleged that
on May 81 the plaintiff together with
John p. Gray and John Morrison
placed executions in the hands of the
officer, but that With intent to de-
fraud the plaintiffs and give pref