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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.
They generally drift to shore and tie
up by the roots again.
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