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TIIE MORNING OREGOXIAN, MONDAY, MAY 14, 1906. PHASES OF INDUSTRIAL GROWTH IN THE STATE OF OREGON 12 MINING. BOOM-. IN.-. BAKER DISTRICT Three of Largest Companies Put Stamp Mills in Operation.; RETURN OF PROSPERITY Present Period of Development and Actual Production Never Dreamed of Even In Champagne Epoch of Camp's History. KAKETt CITY, Or., May 13. Special. V-Three- of the biggest mines in the Baker district witliin the past week have put mills Into commission and are now on the list of mine in aictlve operation. This is the biggest showing ever made In the dis trict. The mines starting up are the Golconda, the Standard and the Highland, 'l-he Golconda is not a new mine for It hits produced heavily during the years past , At one time the Golconda wM perhaps tne btst producer In the district, accord-, in to the reports of the corporation, then controlling it. but some doubts have been expressed ns to the reliability of these reports. .The mine was orgaaiied on a IV p.10 000 basis and practically sold out to O B Wade, the defunct cashier of the First' National. Bank of Pendleton who advertised it from Alaska to South Africa and sold stock every place between i them But when Wade took control the mine suddenly ceased to be ft producer. Vnder new management the ore bodies have been increased and mining men now gfve it-a. their opinion that if handled the Golconda will be a dividend paver, although it will not pay enor mouslv It is considered a good mine and d the first run of the mill shows up verV favorably. . , The Standard has been undergoing de velopment for several years a "f expense to the Chicago and Milwaukee capitalists who own it. A new mill and reduction Plant have been put In in addi tion to extending the tunnels and Increas ing the depth of the shaft. The ore body h.Sds out well and there Is no indication of a dlminuation In the amount of rich ore. including cobalt. D. W. Campbell, president of the company, came out from Chicago and was present at the time the mill was put Into commission. He was well satisfied with the outlook. The Highland mine is in the Baker dis trict proper and ha been known for rear, although it was never thoroughly developed until Nell J. Sorensen took it. The mill, with a capacity of 1 Itons daily, Tva, put into commission Wednesday, working on a large body of ore on the dump while a crew of 60 men was put to work in increasing the- reserves and blocking out new ore. The old Bonansa. mine, under the man agement of the Gelsers. is hw'ng. up well this year, producing steadily and at a profit. This is one of the monuments to the perseverance of the native. The Ceisers several years ago. then very poor people, discovered this ledge, opened it up and with a small mill began working the ore. The mine paid them handsomely and thev grew rich. Knsterners came along and wanted me Vu.v-. It was bonded to a company, which made a great flourish, put in increased machinery. "flips-flaps" "din.ne" wrinkles" of all sorts, mainta ned an office force that would run the state and altogether cut quite a splurge. But some how or another the mine did not pay and It reverted to the GeJsers. who pulled off their coats and went quietly to work, and now have the old property producing handsomely. . This Is a great year for the mining in dustry in Baker County. It presages a period of development and actual produc tion never dreamed of before, not even In the golden day when money and cham pagne were the only mediums of ex change known. In those days two big mining men stopped at the old Washoe Hotel and had rooms adjacent. But go ing out into the hall to pass from one room to the other was too much trouble for them. They called In a bri.-k mason Hnd had a door cut connecting the rooms. The proprietor objected, but in vain. It was In those days that the old Virtue mine was producing Us millions and the Connor Creek mines were regular mints. This year the old Virtue Is producing again and the Connor Creek mine will be Marled up In a few days. Both of these n-lne have over $3,000,000 to their credit Over on the copper belt there is great est excitement on account of the building of the railroad down the Snake River. Last week a party of prospectors went out from Baker to Goose Creek with the intention of taking up copper claims. They found that every foot of mineral land in the Goose Creek country had been staked and most of It worked. There are no claims to be had for the staking now. But so far as known there have been no sales. The Cornucopia mines, which were re cently secured by the Gugucnheiniers, are employing SO men on the Red Jacket, Cnlon Companion and Cornucopia ledges. The '20-stamp mill Is running day and night, and it is reported that the month ly average from the pans is J&O.OOO. The Guggenhelmers are expected to Increase the rapacity of this property In the near future. The Iron Iiyke mines, the famous cop per property which- attempted once to build the road down the Snake River, Is doing more developing and putting ore on the. dumo ready . tor the smelter when The road conies through. Frank Fearce. the manager, says he is confident the road will be built, and is already build ing tramways and wagon roads from the mine to the proposed line of railroad. The Queen of the West mine. In the Cornucopia district, now owned by Sod derllng ft Smith, la about ready to start up the new mill, the old one haying burned down last Fall. This is a very rich property and has been a steady pro ducer. The famous Gold Coin mine is getting ready for the installation of if. 100-stamp mill. There Is considerable activity In the Gold Coin district this Spring, and pros- pert holes are .selling for enormous prices. Ji00 being paid for a -bare claim. The formation in the Gold Coin district ie so peculiar that It Is impossible to tell whether there Is gold on the other loca- 1IUI1H liH. i-Ul lll'tll H. llltilll III that section gives a color in the pan. but the ledges or extent of the gold-bearing in are niia iu ueicrininr. The North American mine in the copper oe.u nnrr kojiik nuuu(n HIK.UI 1W leet of native copper ore. Is entering a copper glance-or pyrites formation which Is very Tl.. ......... . feet to encounter water within the next 100 ..., feet Over in the Idaho section of the Seven Devils there is Increased activity in the cojper mines,. At i reported that the Ladd Metals Company is going to put up a smelter at Mineral and operate the three copper mines owned by it there. This report lacks confirmation, however. The Peacock mine is going to do some further development work this Summer to determine, if possible, the extent of the copper deposit. The Peacock has worked on copper .shoots, or veins, but has found the percentage varies to such a degree that a diamond drill was neces sary to keep within the pay. The Indiana copper mine. In the Med ical Springs district, is still piling ore on the dump, and it is understood that this company will erect its own smelter, un less a riilroad Is built from Baker. The Indian lias sulphides going from 3 to $4 a ton In gold and from 4 to 8 per cent copper. RAILROAD WORK IN" WALLOWA Contractors Working on Extension of O. R. & X. to Joseph. LA GRANDE, Or., May 13. (Spe cial.) Work has commenced on the O. R. A N. extension from the mouth of the Wallowa River to Joseph. The firm of Erfckson & Peterson has the contract and is now active in the prep arations for the season's operations. As yet no sub-contracts have been let, and the force of men now employed is small, but will be increased as rapidly as men can be hired. Mr. Erickson says he would like to have 800 men em ployed, but. he fears It will be impos sible to get that many. A large number of men and teams are now engaged in hauling supplies from Elgin to Wallowa bridge, wnich place will be supply headquarters. Teams are also hauling tools and im plements used in construction to where the work Is going on. However, it is not. expected by conservative citizens that the road will be completed this year. The first sixteen miles of the road bed from Elgin to the mouth of the Wallowa River, which has been under the construction of George McCabe, will be completed within a very few weeks. JOSEPHINE COl'XTY PROPER TIES SHOWI"6 UP WELL. Pittsburg People Operate Gold-Saving Plant on Salice Creek Black Sands With Profit. MERLIN. Or., May 13. (Special.) Mer lin, heretofore noted principally on ac count of the fine peaches raised here, is rapidly coming to the front as a mining district. The Copper Standard Mines Com pany, recently incorporated, has shipped a car of high-grade copper suphide ore and received handsome returns from it. This company has eight men at work and has a fine and extensive copper property, carrying also gold and silver and 3 to 5 per cent nickel. Sanders & Hadley, of Pittsburg. Pa., are operating a gold-saving plant on the Old Channel mine on Gallce Creek, sav ing fine gold and other rare metals from the black sand. Their plant cost about 120,000. but is pronounced a great success, and other mines will soon be fitted with like plants. The Mount Pitt Mining Company, of which the principal stockholders are Portland people, has an improved quartz mill and cencentrator on the depot plat form here on Its way to their mine, and soon five stamps will be dropping on this fine property. Other properties on Pickett Creek near the Copper Standard are being worked on a smaller scale and give promise of good returns. A DEADLY CAMERA. When the Murderer's Picture Is In His Victim's Eye. Current Literature. A butcher's portrait has been found on the retina of a slaughtered ox, or so, at any rate, it would appear from a com munication In the London Telegraph. But Dr. George Lindsay Johnson, F. R. C. S., says the trace of truth underlying the slaughtered ox story is based upon ex periments by Professor Quehne, of Hei delberg, and Professor Boll, of Vienna: "The latter discovered that the layer of pigment cells Immediately behind the rods and cones of the retina secreted a pinkish purple coloring matter which spread between the ends of the rods. He called this sehpurpur (visual purple), and found that it became rapidly bleached by light. Quehne succeeded in taking a photograph, ' or 'optogram,' as he called it. of a window showing the panes on a rabbit's eye, and fixing It In a solution of alum. . The experiment is extremely difficult to perform, and requires the ut most care and precautions. To succeed in obtaining a portrait of any one on the eye of a person suddenly killed, the following conditions are necessary, and the failure of any one would probably prevent any portrait being formed at all. The victim would have to be chloro formed and fixed immovable in a dentist's chair, the eyelids held apart by an In strument, and the pupil dilated with a mydriatic. The murderer. In the same way. would have to have his face kept Immovable, at a distance previously agreed upon, during the whole of the ten minutes' exposure, while his face was brilliantly illuminated all extraneous light being carefully excluded. It would also be necessary for the refraction of the victim's eye to have been previously ascertained, and such a spectacle lens placed in front of it as would sharply de fine the face of the murderer on the vic tim's retina. The moment the exposure was sufficient the eye would have to be smeared over with lamp black, at once removed from the body in a subdued non actinic light, divided In half, and the back half placed in a solution of alum. If all these directions were implicitly fol lowed the result might yield an image sufficiently distinct to be recognized as a human face, but in any case it would be ridiculously small. If, for example, the murderer's face were nine and one half inches long, and at a distance of one yard from- the victim's eye, the size of the face on the retina would' be under four millimeters 1. e., a little over an eighth of an Inch, nor could it be en larged, as the light used for that pur pose would cause the image to fade." - Bonus for Healthy Babies. Baltimore News. Sir John Brunner has followed up the scheme of the Mayor of Huddersfield, England, and has arranged for the town ship of Wlnnlngton, Northwich, what is called "a bonus scheme for healthy babies." Every birth will be reported, and at the end of 12 months Sir John Brunner will make a grant of 30 shillings to the mother or the guardian of each child that has made satisfactory progress. The object of the scheme Is to reduce the infant mortality. Wtifn th. .frct! of th. Olympla. Tjonflon, vr.re iod by auction recently, th. .artlone.r could st for a panorama of the Mediterran ean, a mile long. -htrh had cost mora Ihaa SS5.0O0, as offer ot etUf ti. POTLATGH MODEL OF Built and Owned by Branch of the Weyerhaeuser, Syndicate. COMING LUMBER CENTER Great Mill Hating Capacity of 700, 000 Keet Daily Will Commence Operations Before August 1. Xo Saloons Allowed. POTLATCH. Idaho, May 13. (Special.) Potlatch now has a population of more than 500 people, with prospects of this being doubled before August 1. and in- FEEDING LAMBS OX AN creased to 1500 to 2000 by the time the town is a year old. This is to be the headquarters of the Potlatch Lumber Company, a branch of the Weyerhaeuser syndicate, which owns saw mill at Pa louse and Colfax, Wash., in addition to the big mill now being built here, which it is said will be one of the largest in the West. It will also be headquarters for the Washington. Idaho & Montana Railroad, a new line being built from Palouse. east into the timber lands of Idaho, tapping the Saint Maries, the Pot latch ' and the Palouse River districts, where the Potlatch Lumber Company owns more than half a million acres of heavy timber. The town was started less than six months ago. It now has more than 100 homes,-with 30 more in course of con struction and .this number is to be in creased to 250. These houses are being built by the company to be rented to its employes. They have three, four and six rooms and rent for t6, 8 and J10 per month. Four boarding nouses, each con taining 15 rooms, are being built and a large brick hotel will be erected as soon as the brick can be spared from the other work in progress. M ill Be Running August 1. The saw mill building is completed anJ much of the machinery is in place. It will begin operations between July 16 and August 1, and will have a dally capacity of 700.000 feet. The building is 176 feet wide by 25 feet long. It has four band saws and a gang saw, is lighted with electricity throughout and will run de-y and night, employing from 500 to 800 men in the mill and yards. The yards cover 60 acres and will have 30 miles of track running through them. The mill will be operated by steam, the engine having a minimum horse power of 1200 and maximum of 1800. This is the largest engine ever seen in this country. Steam is to be supplied by 12 huge boilers, heated by four large fur naces. A plRning mill 400 feet in length, to be built of steel. Is under construction adjoining the saw mill. A- brick round house, with stalls for six engines, has been built and a brick car repair shop is nearing completion. All the build ings rest on concrete foundations, built on bed rock, and all but the big saw mill are of brick or steel. The saw mill build ing is frame. Company Owns Everything. The Btreets of Potlatch ore being ma cadamized or planked, and before the town is one year old the company ex pects to have a population of 2000 souls, with modern buildings and the best of accommodations for Its employes. The company owns the townslte and every building in the town. No town lots are offered for sale and no business will be permitted by any but the company, which has a department store, for which it is erecting a fine brick building. When this Is completed the store will rank well with some of the department stores of the large cities. No saloons are permitted in the town. The nearest saloons are in Princeton, four miles dis tant, and efforts are being made to have those closed. Suburban Improvement. American Homes and Gardens. IOcal history Is to be recorded, not able sites are to be marked, interest ing and beautiful architectural lega cies from the past preserved. . The school and Its surroundings are to be beautified, and, the churches, as semi public structures. should exemplify civic virtue in the outward aspect of their property. The fixtures of the streetstheir name signs, guldeposts, the lighting apparatus, the trolley pole, the town bulletln-board--all these may well enlist the society's en thusiasm, for there are artistic de signs to be secured. Prize competi tions may be inaugurated to arouse the dormant interest and stir the civic spirit of those who have the ability to design artistically, and in some In stancesas In that of the trolley and light-pole--a design has now, happily, been already made, and there is need only that the proper apparatus be se cured. Finally, there are the private houses with their gardens, these giv ing to the town their most persistent characteristic. The society has no right to Intrude upon the home, but many homes will be comprised within the direct Influence of its membership, and It may yet more broadly exercise some persuasiveness. This Is a long list of undertakings which It .would be entirely desirable TOWN for the improvement society to contem plate. It comprises the undertakings that are beet worth while, and, offering scope for every conceivable interest in the membership, it ought to leave no energy for a misdirected zeal in clean ing streets, inviting skyscrapers, mow ing the lovely growth on rural road sides, magnifying the railroad's civic prominence, tearing up good board walks, cutting- down trees on the "business" street, and doing various other unwise things through loyalty to a city instead of a town ideal. SCOTCH SEA FOWL. The Birds of Sgeir Dhubh on Argyle ehlre Rock. Scotsman. Of all the birds that find a temporary lodging on the Sgeir Dhubh none are more interesting, certainly none are more substantial looking, than the eider ducks, which have in recent years greatly in creased in number. Twenty years ago an eider duck was a rare -visitant, so rare that it was almost certain to become a target tor some enthusiastic fowler. Not that this bird is at all a table delicacy. It carries its own particular flavor to the last, and takes posthumous revenge on the sportsman who, having dared to slay it, adds insult to injury by venturing to eat it. Owing, doubtless, to the wild birds' protection acts, these fowl have multiplied all down the Sound of Jura: the writer has seen large flocks of them between Jura and Islay, so numerous as to resemble a company of widgeon in the N ft -jf EASTERN OREGON RANCH distance; and nowadays there are always one or two flocks within sight of the Sgeir Dhubh. There is one season more than any other when the Sgeir Dhubh is a most popular resort of sea fowl. This season begins on the arrival of the herring fry in the loch. Usually it occurs about early Autumn, and the occasion is eagerly looked for by more than the birds; for In the wake of the herring fry follow the mackerel, and the. local fishers, who mere ly tolerate mackerel, know that a shoal of more mature herring Is generally close at hand.. Countless though the number of the Immature herring may be. those help less silvery morsels find life a tragic ordeal when they enter the loch. Pursued beneath the surface by mackerel and saithe. whose appetlties are insatiable. and also by guillemots, whose movements In the depths are as easy as their efforts on the surface, they rise wildly at times upward, even leaping madly into the air to escape their relentless pursuers. But the air Is as full of danger as the water. The sea birds all know the signs of the herring fry. Their green eyes recognize promptly the troubling of the waters when the sorely persecuted fishes seek to escape their woes in the depths. At such a season accommodation is scarce on the Sgeir Dhubh; its tenants are countless. One sees it covered with a motley crowd of gulls great and small, while scores of terns fill the corners, and close at hand several guillemots are sure to be cruising expectantly. Presently in the distance a single sea swallow, scout ing leisurely, begins to dive with ex ceeding haste, plunging and plunging again without a pause. Every bird on the Sgeir Dhubh understands the sign. There is a hasty tumult of wings, and the crowd which a moment before had been resting decorously on the reef, is hurrying to the spot Indicated. There, while the fry remain near the surface, a scene of utmost animation is presented. A babel of sea bird voices fills the air. There. is constant diving and reappear ance. A single gunshot Into the heart of the rabble would easily slay a score of victims. The larger gulls scorn to dive. They simply swoop down and pick up what they can reach, or rest on the water devouring what is sent. The terns are bolder. They go fearlessly down in to the water, to reappear with silvery morsels held firmly In their red beaks. The tit bit glimmers for a moment, then disap pears. All the while the divers are not Idle. Their work lies mainly out of sight. For brief instants they leave the depths to draw breath and swim along the sur face, only to go down again in haste. Sometimes an older bird has Its half grown chick in company. Then it is beau tiful to see the parent come up with two Or three tiny herrings in its bill, call its offspring and place the palatable dainty in its willing beak, a kindly mark of at tention deeply appreciated. But Oliver Twist constantly asks for more, and the parent dives again. . In two or three min utes the shoal of fry sinks into the depths again. Thereupon the riot overhead ceases. The crowd of guzzling sea birds melts away. By twos and threes they fly back to the Sgeir Dhubh to rest until the next signal summons them to the feast. No one who only saw the birds on the rock would dream them capable of the wild activity they display in feed ing: nor would the spectator of the al fresco banquet Imagine those winged riot ers capable of the statuesque repose dis played upon the Sgeir Dhubh. Its ten ants at one minute suggest angels in med itation: at the next a. mob of hungry de mons struggling madly for victuals. With the fall of the leaf the army of herring fry Is either eaten up or has moved to other waters. The sea fowl follow. Salting Babylon. Toronto Mail and Empire. The great productiveness of the ruins of Babylon in the way of ancient coins has aroused the suspicions of visitors. An American who was going around with a guide became distrustful of the ease with which these relics could be disin terred. Accordingly he remarked to his guide, while they were searching about the Tower of Nlmrod, that he particu larly wished to find one coin witii a spe cial design. On the one side was a horse's head, with some sticks placed roughly between the ears, and on the other side a bull and a fowl In the act of crowing. The guide requested him to draw on paper a picture of the two sides of the coin, which the traveler did. About a week afterward the very coin came to light. There was no doubt of its genu ineness, for on the obverse was a mare's nest and on the reverse a rooster and a bull. C ML ND OIL IrJ L Western Washington District Coming to Notice of Mining Men.- IRON AND COPPER ALSO Prospectors Find Indications of Val uable Minerals on Skookum chuck and Cowlitz Rivers. Signs ot Petroleum. CENTRA LI A, Wash., May 13. (Special.) Coal experts and mining men generally are just beginning to wake up to the possibilities of Lewis County as a mining district. During the past year much de velopment work has been done in the mines of Lewis County, east of the main line of the Northern Pacific Railway Company. At Centralia five coal mines are. being developed, which it is hoped will yield the best soft coal on the mar ket. At Chehalis two mines are being opened and at Cinnebar one of the best soft coal mines of the state is just now in the first stage of development. In the eastern part of Lewis County arsenic mines are being developed and worked. Not only coal, but copper and iron deposits are now being looked Into; experts coming down every few days to examine the mines up the Skookumchuck River, where there are good Indications of both metals. Many people have been skeptical about the future of w estern Washington when the forests were gone. The mining developments that are now being carried on leave no doubt as to the future of the country, when mines are worked in connection with farms and orchards and grazing lands. No systematic geological surveys nave ever been made in this particular Held, but if made it is safe to say they would produoe data that would stimulate the search for coal and oil. That these min erals exist here in paying quantities few can doubt after studying the geological structure of the county. Such is the opinion of'C. C. Schmand. a local geo logist. Mr. Schmand in an exhaustive article says: Local Geologist's Opinion. "Although the sedimentary formation, where found here, is of the lower Eocene period, and practically the same as far ther west, where the lignites are found, they have been so subjected to the metamorphtc action of the overlaying and adjacent igneous rocks that the coal in them has been changed to bitumious and semi-anthracite. That these changes have been wrought Is recognised by such authorities as Professor Henry Landes. state geologist for the- State of Wash ington, and by many others. "Analysis made by these authorities proves the coal to be of a superior qual ity, low In water and ash and high in fixed carbon, producing coal of great heating qualities. This is particularly true of the Morton coal. "The first measures thus affected are at Cinnebar. where considerable develop ment has already been dons. There is an outcrop of about one dozen veins here that average in thickness from two to nine feet. The coal may be classed as bitumious and of good quality, but its close proximity to an Intrusive basalt dike lying to the south and east of it has. in a process of lifting these veins to their present elevation and angle, so subjected them to a crushing force that much of the coal has been badly mixed with the rocks composing the roof and floor. "It is on this same intrusive dike, about three miles to the southeast, that evidence of oil In the sedimentaxies. through which the dike has been forced; can be found. The Igneous rock here, of which the dike is composed, is quite porous, and has. become so charged with oil that upon being disturbed with pick or hammer an irridescent scum of oil, even drops of it, can be seen floating off on the waters of a small stream flowing past. Indications of Petroleum. "This opinion of the igneous rocks, charged with oil being forced through a heavily charged zone of oil in the sedl mentaries. Is supported by no less author ity than Professor Arthur Lake, of Den ver, Col., to whom a sample and descrip tion of the country were submitted. No sedimentaries appear here, but about a mile to the southwest, along the Cow liti River, which has cut its channel obliquely through the dike, they again appear at Intervals, where the river has cut the overlying basalt which covers the country for miles, and has laid bare the original formation. "It is in this neighborhood that the most perfect geological conditions exist for the finding, by boring, of high grade coal measure and petroleum under pres sure that will produce 'gushers' when the oil strata are broken into by the drill. "The history of all known and worked oil zones shows us that the hole bored into the anticline, or antlcllnical fold, in an oil zone, is the oil producer. This is presumably caused by the oil-bearing strata feeing more porous and allowing the overlying and underlying strata of the same to be forced apart by the bending formation, thereby forming openings into which the oil is forced from parts of the zone which are subjected to the reverse pressure. The process of bringing the oil to the anticlines is further helped by the action of the water, which, being heavier, naturally drives the oil to. the highest point. ' Coal In Cowlitz River. "The best time-to study the geological conditions existing here is when the Cow litz River is extremely low, as It is only along its course that the sedimentaries are exposed. This is particularly true in regard to an outcrop of coal, which exists directly in the river, and which on being prospected at extremely low water was found to be about six feet thick. Samples taken from this outcrop are as fine, if not finer, than the Morton coal. Analysis of this coal shows, water 1.57, volatile matter 7.M. fixed carbon S4.S2, sulphur 1.7a and ash 4.04. "This coal, no doubt, on account of its high heating qualities and little smoke, would be suitable for the Government's warships and coaling stations on the Pacific Coast." Building a Flying Machine. Technical World Magazine. The flying machine of the Wright broth ers t ho first successful flyer in the world Is constructed of spruce wood, se-ond-growth ash, steel wire, heavy muslin and a very small percentage of metal. It is not at all bird-like in shape, early experiments having demonstrated that it was not feasible to build such a machine when more than thirty or forty pounds was to be carried. Imagine to yourself a structure about 18 feet long, consisting COUNTY chiefly of an upper and a lower deck of rectangular frame-work, the width of each being about seven feet. The two decks are about three feet apart and are held together by uprights, between which are stretched small wings or slats, like those of an old-fashioned window-blind. In the center, between the two decks, is located the gasoline motor that drives the propellers, which are placed immediately below the lower deck. The operator re clines at full length on the lower deck, face downward. A striking feature of the machine is the horizontal rudder at the front, which has much to do with main taining the equilibrium of the car when in motion. In starting, the car Is pushed by hand for a few feet along a single rail. Then, as the propellers make themselves felt, it gradually mounts into the air. and, rising or falling at the will of the opera tor, sweeps ahead or to one side in re sponse to its rudder. No difficulty is found in keeping the machine on an even keel; and, in alighting ,the great fabric comes to the ground so gradually and easily that the shock is barely felt. In moving through the air. the flyer goes broadside. TWO HUMAN OSTRICHES. One Wants to Die and the Other to . Continue Living. Baltimore Cor. Chicago Chronicle. Fearing that someone will kill him if he does not commit suicide. Karl Knudsen. a patient in the Insane de partment at Bayview. lately tried to end his life by eating a large quantity of Junk. The man had no idea of try ing to become a human ostrich, as Ar thur Shutt, a young man of Northeast Baltimore, did some years ago, but he wishes to die and pleads constantly with the physicians to kill him. Knudsen is ot Norwegian extraction, and is 24 years old. He was released from the Maryland Penitentiary after he had served a term of three years for larceny. Warden Weyler said that the young man had shown signs of mental breakdown while in the institu tion. Twice, according to the warden, the man ate glass, but Dr. Cooke, the pen itentiary physician, saved him. Now his condition is extremely serious, and an operation will be performed by Dr. N. Moreland Owensby, resident physi cian in charge of the insane depart ment. It is thought that a large num ber of nails and pieces of glass will be taken from the man's stomach. Enough has already been taken from the patient to cause wonder how he could live. The stuff removed so far is as follows: Twelve bits of glass. Four wire nails, measuring SV4 inches in length. , A large quantity of sand. Sixteen pebbles. Nearly a whole copy of a newspaper. And there are indications that twice as much foreign material is still In his stomach. Shutt's record beats this by a good deal, though when the operation is performed it is more than likely that Knudsen's ability to swallow such things will equal that of the original "human ostrich" who was operated on at Johns Hopkins Hospital, v Shutt's collection is still preserved at the hos pital as a curio. It is as follows: Four brass watch chains, with catches and stays. Twelve and one-half feet of three-eighths-inch iron chain. Twenty-five grams of ground glass. One staple. Forty-nine tacks. Two screw eyes. Eleven pins. Eight screws. Nine horseshoe nails. Seven knife-blades. Two knife-handles. Nineteen wire nails.. Seventy-two assorted nails. At the asylum Dr. OWensby subject ed Knudsen to a physical examination, and whenever he touched the man's body the man shrieked. Dr. Owensby did not imagine what was the cause, but realized that there was something wrong with the man's Btotnach, so' he investigated. The story of the patient's experience, as gathered by the doctor, follows: "The man is absolutely insane and Imagines someone Is trying to kill him. While he seems to want to kill himself, according to his statement, he wanted me to kill him, and, in fact, begged me to do it. . His one thought Is that he has done wrong, and that he will never be able to retrieve himself. He seems to think that he has done something of an extremely grave na ture, so serious that someone would kill him for it." Shutt gained his reputation as a "hu man ostrich" in March, 1900, when he applied at the Hopkins Hospital, com plaining of severe pains in his stom ach. He told the doctors that he had made a living by chewing nails, tacks and other unusual food, bat that he had never been made to swallow them He said he usually disposed of them 'by a sleight-of-hand movement, secretlnE them in his coat sleeve. secreting Shutt boasted of his ability to digest such dainties before some medical ft u aents, and a wager was made. The tilt"? 71 "ot easlly derived, so they insisted upon Shutt rolling up his Tame Snake Bird. Forest and Stream Tii. snake bird is really tamed when taken young. Rev. John Bachman, who reared some of these birds, said My pet was tame from the beginning of its captivity and followed me about the house, yard and garden until I thought it quite troublesome, in con sequence of its peculiar attachment -to me. It is a fearless bird, keeping at bay the hens and turkeys in the yard, and never sparing any dog that chanced to pass by it, dealing blows right and left with Its sharp-pointed bill, and occasionally posting itself at the trough where they are fed, to pre vent them from taking a morsel of food until he has tantalized them suf ficiently, then he leaves them to share whatever he does not relish. "It was not until my bird was fully fledged that I found it willing or anx ious to go to tne water, and then whenever it saw me going toward the pond it accompanied me as far as the gate, seeming to say. 'Pray let me go.' On my opening this gate it at once followed me, waddling like a duck, and no sooner was It in sight of Its favorite element than it immediately let itself in. not with a plunge or a dive, but by dropping from a plank into the stream, where for a while it would swim like a duck, then, dip ping its long neck, it would- dive for the purpose of procuring fish. "This bird sleeps in open air. and during warm nights perches on the house or the bars' of the fence, with its head under its wings, placed there from above Its back, and in rainy weather It often sits In that same place for nearly the whole day. It ap pears to be very susceptible to cold, retreating to the kitchen, and near the fire, battling with the dogs or the cooks for the most desirable place on the hearth." Gnra.I TJriba-UHNi ha hen appointed by Colombia ai a .VUgat to the Pan-American Oonarea?, wMrh will tn-t at Rio Janeiro In Jtilv. He will wear hia hyphen, hm win be deprlvad of his sldeaumi. Wuhlnxton Post. VALLEY OF RICHES Grand Ronde the Fruit Orchard of Eastern Oregon. YIELDS ARE IMMENSE Land Will Soon Command Fabulous Prices Fruit Cannery Needed at La Grande to ITtilize Great Surplus. LA GRANDE. Or., May 13. (Special.) Grand Ronde Valley is situated 300 miles east of Portland. It Is surrounded by the Blue Mountains, which rise to altitudes of froni 4500 to 7S00 feet above sea level. The general altitude of the valley is about 2SO0 feet. The valley Is a level bottom IS miles in width and 26 miles In length. W. C. Bishop, general agent for one of the big Insurance companies, while in La Grande, expressed himself In regard to the future of the valley by saying: "There Is no section of the Pacific Northwest that has such a glowing future as the Grand Ronde Valley; none has such variety and wealth of resources, as wen as the elements and materials for con tinued growth and prosperity." Great Faith in Grand Ronde.. His belief is that this section of Oregon will with rapid strides become the most populous, busy, prolific and prosperous part of the Pacific Northwest, and Grand Ronde people agree with him. The Grand Ronde's greatest and most permanent advantage Is in the abund ance and fine quality of the products of the soil; the fruit output, especially In the line of cherries and winter apples. The apples are wonderful keepers and can stand shipment to any market around the world if necessary. Karl Stackland, of Cove, estimates that the crop of Royal Ann cherries will reach 50 tons this year, while of those varieties that cannot bear shipping there will be IS tons. In view of this fact it is plain to be seen La Grande is well situated for a fruit cannery-, which would not only be a boon to the fruit producer, but a fine source ot revenue to the promoter. Record-Breaking Fruit Crops. In 19(6 Stackland Bros., of Cove, sold over tloOO worth of cherries from eight acres of -seven to eleven years old trees, while J. K. Lantz, of Cove, sold 329.5t of cherries from an acre of nine and ten year old trees; this was the lightest crop In many years. Many growers of apples near La Grande exceeded the above basis. C. D. Huffman, of La Grande, netted J1V) per acre from a seven and eight year old orchard. L. Oldenburg, of the same place, has frequently sold J60 worth of apples from single trees of the Willow Twig variety. The latter trees are of good age and large size. A Cove orchardist in March. 1901, sold his crop from fourteen large Spitzenburg trees, occupying one-eighth, of an acre and amounting to 140 boxes. The whole sale price in New York City was $3.75 per box and the total 1625. This was at the rate of $4200 per acre. Land Becoming Valuable. Such fruit lands as this valley has will undoubtedly command a fabulous price; they are worth it. It will not be long before this valley, the surrounding foot hills and every nook of productive soli will be brought to a high standard of production, and when that time comes it is beyond estimate as to what the material and productive wealth of this valley will be. The city of La Grande will keep pace with the general advancement of the country. It certainly has a more certain future than any other place in the in terior. It has the resources and will out strip all competitors. Within a few years La. Grande will be so far in the lead among the cities of Eastern Oregon that it will have no rivals. Surrounded as It is by such an abundance and variety of resources it will stand alone as the metropolis of the Interior. BEET SUGAR PROSPECTS. About 4000 Acres Planted In Vi cinity of La Grande. LA GRANDE, Or., May 13. (Spe cial.) Sowing the beet fields has been the steady employment of the beet growers recently, and by the end of this week 3000 acres of beets will bo in. Conditions have been exceptionally favorable for the beetgrowers and the sugar company expects a large harvest, and consequently a larger output than ever before. 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