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About The Medford mail. (Medford, Or.) 1893-1909 | View Entire Issue (June 21, 1895)
1 r? JlIINJCC A TVTPk MIMINIf! .1 PACIFIC" COAST ITEMS. SAXE CREEK QUARTZ MIXES. As there is nothing doing in the placer mines at present, I will give particulars about prospecting work going on in the quarts mines here about: Messrs. Young & Kerman have been running tunnels in their ledges the past several months, with good indications of developing some good mines. The Sugar Loaf has a tunnel in about eightv feet mostof the distance in hard rock, but two miners were able to make that distance in about one month's time. As the ledge had pitched to the east, and not knowing how much further they would have to run to strike it, work was discon tinued for the present. They then commenced work on the Caledonia, another of their ledge6, which is now in about seventy-five feet. The tunnel is thirty feet from the surface. The west wall is an immense body of gold bearing porphyry, a portion of which is rich in free gold. The width of the porphyry ledge is about forty feet. The adjoining formation NEWS NUGGETS PICKED UP WEST OF THE SIERRAS. Bonds Required or Conductors A Chi nese Accuses a Postmaster Mining Troubles In Idaho Judge Wallace's Severity on Criminals. Vallejo (Cal.) is to have a fine new school building. A crematory has been completed at. the Odd Fellows' cemetery, San Fran cisco. The Seattle Shippers association i boycotting the Northern Pacific rail road. The Chinese have been expelled from the orchards at Orangevale, Cal. The cut worm is doing considerable damage to crops in the upper San Joa quin valley. Amalie Reinelt committed suicide at San Jose by sending two bullets into her head. San Francisco will provide one of the greatest Fourth of July celebrations this year ever held on th: Coast. Thomas a Louttit, the aged father of ex-Congressman James A. Lout tit of Stockton, is dead. The deceased was a pioneer and made a fortune in early days by forging mining picks. A force of graders will be put to work soon to construct the roadbed of the ii i i - i 1. ...a e lur"z meieage utinK huoui. iour Stockton um, UhU T,.nnil)ai ralhvay. feet wide. The gold in the quartz The grading will be done by the corn is colored tellurium and not a fleeted rumy itself, no contracts being let. by acid, and must be smelted to get The Stockton Commercial association its natural color. A hne prospect is panned out in every mortar crushed, and must run high in gold. The next formation east is a strata of slate, and then serpentine. The owners intend to run a working tuunel in the near future to strike the ledge at a depth of 150 feet. It will be about 200 feet in length. This mine, if it continues as rich as it does at present, promises to be an Oregon bonanza, equaled by none yet discovered in this part of the state. Another tunnel has been run on the Tennessee ledge, about sixty feet which will be continued during the present summer. It is on a line with the Caledonia, further south, but resembles it on the surface. Upon two of their other ledges shafts, thirty feet in depth, have been sunk, which prospect well. These ledges all contain free milling ore. We expect ere long to have lively times here, when quartz mills are erected to pound out tne weann vij for tne issuance of receivers' cer contained in the ore. Saxe creek i tificates. mines will then be known through The second trial in the famous con out the land, and will awake from i test brought by .Mrs. Kate c. l arrig. r the Rip Van Winkle dreams cf past i of Sonoma to break the will i.f h.-r 1ms years to become more lively and j William V. Carrier, came to J piuI nf Santa Knii with n v.i-tirv f.r F'":1'"7- , j ilrs. Carriger on every issue. KEKXAX- The city council of Stockton has ! passed an ordinance giving the San Joa- Parties are said to be working in j quin Valley railroad the right of way the old black and sand beach some i through the city. The rointwnr can ;ia -fV,v. f,Aa.vL-ntar nr Prtrt ! now begin the work of construction in Oxford, with sluices: no riliies. i .1 l . i;,l v, neyoi uii; out mcuincnc, apiicu bottom of their sluices, to which the flour gold adheres. If this is the case, it will revolutionize silver plates for mining. Grants Pass Courier. The Tolo Mining company are not working on their placer propo sition this week, owing to repairs which are being made on their pipe line. They are, however, working on the new quartz ledge lately discovered. C. A. White has retired from the superintending of the mine and is succeeded by M. M. Miller, formerly treasurer and gen eral manager. John B. Griffin of Woodville, was in Medfod the first of the week. He informs us that himself and Chas. White have just completed a tunnel tapping their rich ledge which was struck, near Woodville, by them sometime ago. They are now ready to take out milling quartz, and have made arrangements to have a lot of it milled at Ashland. The rock will be shipped to Ashland by train, the charge for which is $8.40 per car of twelve tons. The ore is quite rich and will well 'pay the expense of hauling to the Ashland mill. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. Tlclous Aets of Lawbreaker and Losses by Fir and Accident. Greenville (O.) had a $150,000 fire the other night. "Mike Ryan, award politician of Den ver, has been convicted of stealing i, 000 from a Norwegian. John Anderson, a prisoner in the Sac ramento county jail, escaped by cutting a hole in the brick wall of his cell. William Benson, an Englishman, aged 5, was attacked by footpads at Santa Crnz and beaten so severely that death followed. William Pickler, accused of stealing bullion from the Carson (Nev.) mint has been lteld to await the action of the grand jury. A cyclone struck Hartford, Kan., the other day. Several persons were badly injured and much property was dam aged. Twelve houses were destroyed. The boilers at the water works plant at Union City, Tenn., exploded some days ago. Engineer Carman was in stantly killed and it is thought others , were badly hurt. Race track gambling is stopped in II- linois. The legislature adjourned with- j out passing a bill proposed by poolsell- : ers and the law prohibiting betting at 1 race tracks is still in force. J. Marciarini, a prominent Swiss , dairyman of Sonoma valley, residing at ' St-ars Point, Cal., was fatally injured by falling umler a mowing machine. A , wheel came oil and threw him under the machine. A. S. Moore, formerly an employe of Iuuian. Swnne & Co.. cotton brokers at , New York, bus been arrested for forg- : ery. He had put out $100,000 worth of worthless paper. Moore was superin tendent of the Harlem Sunday school. The British ship Enoch, from San : Francisco March 2, lately arrived at ' lueenstown and reported that on June , 8, 300 miles south of Western island. : she passed the American schooner Alma ! Cummings, the vessel being water- j logged and dismantled. j Three distinct attempts were made ou ! a recent night to burn the grocery store j of Jonathan Merrifield at Victoria, B. C, but firemen put out the fire each time. The third attempt was made : with three firemen and a policeinan ou watch. No arnts have been made. Miss Londonderry, the globe-circling cyclist, met with an accident after leav- ing Coltou. CaU Her wheel broke and !he had to walk a long distance in the hot sand, with the thermometer registering 1 12 degree. She arrived at Walters htatiou completely exhausted. IVrnata Merira. a vounif Italian farm Oregon Short Line railroad case as pro- iai,r Ji.hI t IVtaluina. iL from injuries received from a mowing ma chine. He t.tejiped in front of the cut ter to adjust something when the horses started. His left leg was cut off at the knee and his left wrist was nearly sev ered. Two hundred strikers at the United Slate works at Cleveland, O., went to the plant a few days ago armed with dubs iftid compelled those at work to quit. The strikers demand an increase lu wages of 50 cents a day. lhe works are guarded by police. Any attempt to put new men at work will be likely to cave serious trouble. A yonr.g man named Clifford of Fruit Vale, Alameda county, while working on the Stanislaus river at Copperopolis, was drowned. He and two others were working in a lat which upet. The three men landed safely on a rock, but Gifford undertook to reach the shore by swimming and tne current carried him down stream. The trial of Will Tabor for the mur der of James P. Medlin in Cajon pass HORSES FASCINATED BY FIRE. has decided to offer the Corral Hollow railroad rights of way ami a franchise to the city. The railroad's application for a terminal site has lieeu refused. Kate Flood, the notorious confidence operator, now in jail at San Francisco, has been operating in San Jose, where she stole a ring from Maggie Olsen and defrauded Mollie Hirsch out of $14. The big wheat fields just south and west of Moreno, Cal.. have been badly damaged by rust and the crop output from that section will be considerably reduced. Conductors employed by the Southern Pacific company have been notified that after July 1 they will be required to furnish bonds of $2,000 each. The con ductors kick at this new regulation. G. J. Cowan, a representative of the j Pittsburg Coal Mining company, is in j Stockton looking for a suitable water 1 front site on which his corporation may j erect coal bunkers. , Instructions have been received in Portland to take an appeal from no much of Judge Gilbert's order in the i W. I. Fast Locomotives. It has been claimed that the cele brated Empire world's fair express madt; 112 miles an hour, but the state ment fails entirely of authentication. The fignre of 102.7 miles per hour for short distances appears to be nearer the mark, and even if there were an error of a second the rate would still have been 100 miles an hour. Between Jersey City and Philadelphia it is a common occurrence for the engines hauling the Blue Line trains to reach 5(0 miles an hour. Speeds of over 84 miles an hour are often made by the Phila delphia & Reading and Central New Jersey flyers. In England a Great Northern train has made 84.1 miles an hoar; while a Midland train between London and Scotfend has run up to the same speed. The London & North western has gone up to 81.8. The con tinent of Europe does not appear to af ford any examples at all approximat ing the American and English records, a fact attributable to the conservative dislike of the government officials to high speed rather than to actual inability. Travelers find a safe companion in De Witt's Colic and Cholera Cure. A change in drinking water and in diet often" causes severe and dangerous complaints. This medicine always cures them. Geo. H. Haskins, druggist. the city. George A. Stnrtevant. district attor-, Mendocino county, has been ar rested on a charge of voting illegally at 1 a local election. He is accused of vot ing in a precinct in which he did not re side. Governor McGrawof Washington has pardoned Samuel B. Duseiiberre, ex cashier of the Bank of Puyallup. who was convicted of embezzlement in the fall of lt?93 and sentenced to three years' imprisonment. There is trouble brewing in the Cceur d'Alene mining district, in Northern Idaho, between the Miners' union and the law and order men in that section who have organized to protect the men who wish to work and the mine owners. Whisky is exterminating the Indians on the mainland of British Columbia. Recently Chief George of the Capilanos was found drowned and later Chief George of the Seymour creek Indians met his death in the same wav. The Sauta Clara town trustees have awarded the contract for constructing the municipal water works to a San Francisco company. The price is $42. 000, including the cost of a steel tower. The Epworth League of Cyclers of the First Methodist church at San Jose will no longer be known as such. The ma jority of the members of the league, at a recent meeting, voted the cycling an nex out of existence. Bloomers were the cause of the split. Vincent Ross, postmaster at Hatzic, B. C, has been arrested for tampering with the mails. A Chinese alleges that he mailed a marked $o bill to Victoria and that he received the same bill in change in Ross' store a few days later. Ross has been released on $2,000 bail. The man who made a foolhardy at tempt to rob the Silver Bow (Mont.) ! National bank has been identified as an old Leadville gambler named Tom Hud- j son. lie was once an inmate or a Colo rado asylum and is a confirmed mor phine fiend. The San Francisco grand jury, which has been investigating all sorts of things for six months, has presented its final report. Election frauds ahd the escape of the perpetrators thereof is the sub ject receiving the greatest attention. The courts are censured lor not bring ing the ballot box manipulators to jus tice. Police Judge Campbell is hauled over the coals for accepting straw bonds for the release of swindlers. Thomas Hennessy, a young man con victed of highway robbery, was sen tenced to life imprisonment by Judge Wallace of San Francisco. There was a prior conviction against Hennessy which and because of that fact the judge gave him the severest penalty of the law. Judge Wallace for several years has made it a i-"- ict to give footpads the full limi . i- .-tu utes. Twenty years is the sei, ..ni he g.ves all the robbers couv ' -a his court. last March will begin Thursday at Sau Bernardino. Tabor's lawyers will make a novel defense, inasmuch as they will put forth the theory that the wound caused by Tabor's gun would not have been fatal had proper care been admin istered to Medlin in bandaging the arm so as not to let him bleed to death. Nothing has yet been heard of Witness Holt, who knows considerable about the killing. E. W. Dawson, a white man. shot and killed his negress paramour. Fred Mack lin, overseer of the Natchez Island I (Miss.) plantation, and Robert Carter, a colored boy. The negress left Dawson and he went to her cabin on the planta tion to "persuade" her to return to him. The overseer went to her assistance and he was shot. Dawson then started for the swamp. A posse, headed by Magis trate Brady, overtook him and riddled i him with bullets. Brady then held an , inquest on the spot and Dawson was j buried in the swamp. ! An agreement has been reached be tween the friends of absconding State '. Treasurer Taylor of South Dakota and Attorney General Crawford. Taylor re turned to Pierre Tuesday and surren dered. He will pay over all the money , he has on hand, about $45,000, and also . his personal property, which is to 1 as sessed at a liberal valuation. Taylor i will then plead guilty and Judge Guff.- ; ney has agreed to call a special term of , court and sentence him to the peniten- j tiary for t wo years. It is further agreed that before the expiration of this sen tence the governor will pardon him and thus save his citizenship. At Bessemer, Ala., Bert Rocket t, a former clerk, called at the wholesale liquor store of Albert Benson and de manded back salary which he said Ben son owed him. A quarrel followed, re sulting in Rockett drawing a big jack knife and driving Benson from his own store. Benson told Rockett he would see him again. Later the men met on the most prominent street in town and renewed the quarrel, Rockett suggest ing that they fight it out and asked Ben son if he was armed. Benson said he was ready and both drew pistols and began firing. They emptied their re volvers, after which Benson proposed to finish the fight with their fists. As Rockett stepped forward he fell dead, having lieen shot just l)elow the heart. Benson, who was unhurt, was jailed. The Animal Sailed with a Strange Mad neu When In Peril. The panic that is inspired in the minds of horses by a phenomenon so strange as fire enn be understood only by those who have witnessed a fire in a large stable where numbers of horses are kept, says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The scene that ensues is one of the most frightful that can be conceived. The horses are rescued from the burn ing building with the utmost difficulty and only with the most serious peril to the lives and limits of the rescuers. The animals go mad with fright, rear, kick and dash from side to side so wild ly as to make an attempt at rescue as perilous as nn adventure on a hostile battery. When rescued they will often break away from those who hold them and charge back at full speed into the burning building, there to perish in the flames. They resist every attempt to take them out. They have been known to tear their rescuers with their teeth, to throw them to the ground and tram ple on them, to kick out their brains. As the lury of the names increases so docs the panic of the unfortunate ani mals. They scream out in their agony us the fire reaclws their bodies, vet will they uot for all that seek safety in the open air. 1 hey are crazed with fear, and vet remain to be burned to death when a ten seconds' run would carry them to liberty. Hut they never make the run. and. as a rule, are burned alive in their stalls, where alone they seem to fancy they can find security. There is but one way to get them out and that is to blind them with some convenient cover, such as a coat or a blanket, and thus, unable to see the dangers about them. trembling in every limb, apparently ready to fall to the earth with fear, they may le led out. But the cover must not bo too quickly removed from their eyes; in fact, it should not be taken on until the animals are out of sight of the burning building, otherwise they will break away from the persons leading them aud. in spite of the stoutest ef forts at restraint, will dash back to per ish in the Humes. VuUru of Som of the Greater Star of the l'lel4e. If our sun wore removed to the , Pleiades it would hardly K visible in au opera glass with which nearly 100 stars can W seen in the cluster. Sixty or seventy Pleiades surpass our sun in brilliancy. Alcyon N-ing l.HOO times more brilliant. Elect ra Son times and Maia nearly 4x. says Longman's Maga zine. Mrius itself takes a sultordinate rank when compared with the five most brilliant mcmlx'rs of a group the real majrniticanco of which we can thus in some degree apprehend. If we seek to know the dimensions, not of the individual stars, but of the cluster iw-U. we are met with many Hli cukics. but. on the assumption that it is approximately spherical in shape, we can calculate its diameter to In over lo.nio.ouUH'o miles. If we think of the dimensions of our solar system by themselves or in relation to terrestrial matter llwv appear stupendously onor iiiniK Neptune, the most known nu-mN-r. has an orbit over .. (aai.iim.oon miles across, but the solar i svsteni is to the Pleiades but a I.ilipu-i?, tian to a l'.rolMtingnajiian is but a ; iiiierolx to a mountain for a sphere the size pf the solar system would, if ' it were spherical and its diameter that of the orbit of Neptune. lo relatively so minute that it could lo contained more than IiM.ooo.ooo.k'o times in a sphere the size of the Pleiades: ml other wor:!s. the limits of the Pleiades j could contain i.o solar systems as many times over as there are miles lo tween Neptune and the sun. It must not 1h" forgotten that though there are stars in the cluster, yet with such dimensions for the entire group vast distances must separate the stars from one another. In fact. 2.oo spheres, each with a diameter of 3..0H).0iW tniloK. could !o contained in the limits assigned to the group, and assuming equal distribution of the stars in the group, each would !" nt the center of a sphere .l.ooo.tXHi.iXK) miles across, nnd therefore a light j.uiriiey of 1ST days from its nearest neighlnjr. Maine' Floating- Ialand. In some of the lakes of northern Maine there are floating islands. Along the shore roots of trees push into the water, bushes grow among them, moss fills the chinks and in time a kind of platform of vegetation is thrown out along the surface of the water. The delist; network of roots makes it safe to walk upon and deer paths are often found running across the surface. The surface is covered with deep moss, cranberry vines, pitcher plants and the like. When one jumps the log shakes for rods around and water is always bubbling up around one's ankles. In a high wind pieces of the bog are torn off and they are the floating islands. 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