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News Notes From (he New
Mining District.
THE KIND OF A GIRL TO HAVE.
Now and Xioli Discovery of Silver Bear
ing Quarts ou Mr. Frazlcr's
Plaoa.
ntki.oi-k, October It, tail.
Several of our onergetio farmers are
plowing.
Save your potatoes. They are
cheap now, but will bo in demand in
the spring.
Mr. Taylor Green drove his sheep
down from their summer range to his
Antelope farm last week.
Mr. John Dobbin, Jr., has contraet
ed to deliver the- lumber, about 12,000
feet, from the Park saw mill for the
Telocasct school house.
Mr. Win. Catcs is busy hauling rock
for the foundation of the new school
house at Telocaset. It is to be some
what larges than the new school house
in upper Antelope.
Everybody hauling wood for winter.
Many of the farmers havo hauled con
demned ties from the railroad for their
winter's wood. Mr. Joseph Yowell
has a pile as high as his house.
Judging from the way that horses
have been shipped east this last year
they will soon be scarce and in de
mand. Buyers o east with car loads
of horses that they purchase hero for a
song and return and inform the fann
ers that horses are a dull sale cast and
they havo not made anything, but
notwithstanding they don't make any
thing in buying and shipping horses
out of Grande Rondo valley, 1 notice
they still keep in the business, for tho
fun of the thing 1 suppose.
Several of the mogul stock men of
Grande Rondo valley hayc had their
bronco busters riding the Antelope
range lately, rounding up and driving
ofV cattle to the valley. The conse
quence is that several of our cows and
steers have disappeared from oft" of the
range that before their advent were
running on the hills back of our farm
in Pyle canyon. They are probably
wandering around the lanes in Grande
Ronde valley or have joined the gang
that infests the streets of Union. It is
a nuisance and should be suppressed.
Probably the next thing they will be
taken up an estrays and cost us a good
round sum to get them buck. If any
body that notices cows or steers brand
ed with the triangle brand on the left
hip and a crop and slit in the left ear
horses triangle on the right shoulder
vill drop me a postal card I will be
much obliged and will send them a
chromo for their trouble, or, if they
prefer it, my photograph, if I can in
duce my girl to part with it, but I do
not believe she will, for
See's a daisy, idie'N a ducky, she's a lamb,
And Ik lautiful, bonule, bright and free.
she's thcKirl that doesn't care a damn
I 'or any man in Antelopo but me.
It has been known for years that
the mountains at the bend of Antelope
and around Lyon's hill were full of
lloat quartz, but no one has ever pros
pected for tho ledges. Two or three
weeks ago, however, Mr. Irwin Frnzier
uncovered a large buried ledge of dull
looking quartz on his father's homo
stead. It is on tho hill back of tho
old gentleman's dwelling hoino. It is
a largo body of oro and not very pretty
to look at, but Oh My! Ervo has just
received his first nssay of tho ore from
McVicker, an assaycr of Salt Lake
City, Utah. It assayed a trillo in lead,
traces of gold nnd 1"0 ounces in silver.
How is that for high? McVickor
stands high among mining men uh an
accurate assayer. Irwin will immedi
ately send oil' other samples from
difl'erent places ou the ledge to several
assayers, to verify the Suit Lake City
usHity. I was dowh in his shaft yes
terday. Ho is only down about ten
feet hut 1 miiitt bay it looks fitvorublo
for u jmrinanunt ledge, Of course he
has not developed it enough yet to bo
stiro us to iU permunoiicy, but receiv
ing tmoh nn assay from audi ii lurgu
body of quart in night u very onooiir
aging. ThU Antelopo (y)iintry ouo of
those iluya will atirprloo tho ekuiluu,
It i full of Imluu ami llout iimU,
mid lm iKJYur bfiiii ji!opiiM by
iuliuror (Miuiiu also, fenny oJ Uic
lloitt UM4y wu Jt fltMM )0t KU)0
from tho heaven., but from buried
ledges that some day, when t"P right
class of miner! get in lu re, will be
found, and then Antelope will hum
with industry. It u to be hoped that
Erve'a ledge will prove permanent and
tlmt the assays to be hnd t-hortly will
verify the Salt Lake assay. TT.
FAVORS THE WASHINGTON SIDE.
Tho Portland Chambar of Commerce Intor
eatinjf Hnolf In an Open River.
Tho Portland chamber of commerce
has decided to adopt tho portage rond
from Tho Dalles to a point opposite
Celilo ou the Washington side of tho
river. This route was adopted by a
vote of 20 to 7. Portland is to take
$300,000 in bonds. Lengthy reports
wore made on all possible routes. The
following contains tho gist of tho re
port of the committee, as relates to tho
objections of the Norton route.
Wo do not consider tho so-called
Norton route on tho Oregon side feasi
ble, nor, in view of tho probable legal
complications over the rights of way
now controlled by the Union Pacific
and tho Columbia Railway and Navi
gation Company, do wo consider the
route parallelling the Union Pacific on
the other side, or the route suggested
by Mr. Rogue in his report, from a
point near Tin eo Mile Uapids to Celilo,
on tho Washington side, as being
proper for favorable recommendations.
Wo find that by Mr. Rogue's estimate
tho lowest cost of this route would bo
$.'M7,000, exclusive of warehouses,
wharfboats and steamboats. This es
timate is made on a basis of .$18,000
per mile, cost of construction, while
the same engineer for a piece of road
on tho Oregon side which, wo arc in-,
tormcd, is not much if any more diffi
cult of construction, estimates the
cost at !f25,000.
Referring to the possible lino on the
Oregon side, suggested by Mr. Rogue,
parallelling the Union Pacific, wo find
the estimated cost by tho report is
$100,000, exclusive of boats and wharf
boats, and in this estimate apparently
the necessary tunnel at Capo Horn,
referred to in Mr. Roguo's report, is
omitted, which tunnel would cost on
a conservative engineer's estimate from
$05,000 to $75,000, and again, while
this line is estimated to cost $25,000
per mile, we find on investigation that
the Union Pacific lino in the same
district cost from $50,000 to $(10,000
per mile.
MILLIONS OF BUSHELS LOST.
Rain and Snow In the Northwest Causes
Irreparable Damage te tne Wheat Crop.
A Minneapolis dispatch of October
l.'lth says : The sUKpenseover the wheat
crop of North Dakota and the Northern
and Western lounties of .Minnesota has
grown into positive alarm. Up to today
there was a general hope that the
grain could be threshed and graded, re
jected or used for feed for stock. Dur
ing the night, however, heavy rains set
in all over the North country which
changed to snow at 10 o'clock Huh morn
ing and is still failing. Tin storm ex
tends as fur south as Minneapolis to
night, and all threshing operations are
suspended and will not lo resinned be
fore next week, even if there is no more
rain or snow. Mill and elevator men
declare tonight that front three to live
million bushels of wheat will be utterly
ruined.
Oregon's Financial Condition,
The fact that tho state treasurer is
now indorsing all warrants drawn on
the general fund, "Not paid for want of
funds," has elicited considerable inquiry
as to the financial condition of the state.
State Treasurer Motchuni said that the
state Injard which made the levy of taxes
for this year met just prior to tho legisla
ture and levied a sitllicient Mint to meet
the current expenses of tho state for
I8'.H, estimating ou the suiiio basis us
IMKI, but the legislative assembly made
greatly increased appropriations and
large stuns were noon asked for, for
which no provision had been uiaile hi
tin estimate. Ah a natural consequence
tho funds have lieeti exhausted. The
total amount received into the gcncrril
fund this year, including the balance
turned over, in a Unit t.VIO.OOO, which
has been paid nut on wurrantx since
Jauuury I. Htuto warrants me eugerly
sought at their face value, showing the
Hiiindiiin- of the state's llnuurlul condi
tion. Tlit'le In lio alutti liidtblidiiitH,
tin lumbal debt un hut ( WW), ami
oiiUluudlng warrant othwr (Jjuii llioo
nl I Ida ytKir, wlily (700
TL bus! IjU iU'Hii&i u 'a in- iimsJ
til UiU ultitw.
WASHINGTON.
Our Weekly Letter From
the Xatioim! Capital.
CUSTOM COLLECTION DISTRICTS.
The Speakership Contest at a Standstill
A Methodist Conference In
Session.
ASHi.viiTo.v, October !, IM1.
Editor Okkuux Scout:
Secretary Foster was a sticessful
business man before ho ever entered
politics; therefore when he tells the
public, as ho did in an interview with
a committee of merchants from New
York, that there are at least fifty cus
tom collection districts in tho United
States that cculd bo abolished without
detriment to the public service and at
an annual saving of several hundred
thousand dollars, were it not for the
opposition of tho politicians, his words
arc worthy of tho most careful consid
eration on tho part of tho people, who
aro already beginning to realize that
they aro the masters, not tho servants,
of tho politicians. Mr. Foster is a
good deal of a politiaian himself now,
but it was tho business man, not the
politician, who spoke when ho told of
this absolute and unnecessary waste of
public money, simply to provide pat
ronage to bo disposed of by politicians.
He said of tho districts which ought to
bo abolished : "More than a scoro of
theso districts aro in New England
alone. Out of fourteen districts in
Maine, but four are really necessary.
Massachusetts has eleven, and of these
all but three ought to bo abolished."
That is plain language about his own
department, and ho was equally plain
in replying to tho question asked by
ono of tho merchants, "why aro they
not abolished, thou?" Ifosaid: "Re
cause the politicians will not allow it
to be done.TrTho abolishing of thoso
districts means the abolition of just so
much patronage, and representatives
and senators aro more interested in
increasing than decreasing patronage."
What an indictment that is 'against
congress. This is tho second time that
Mr. Foster has dropped tho rolo of
politician long enough to call atten
tion to useless offices connected with
the treasury department. It is a very
unusual thing for the head of a depart
ment to do, ami something ought to be
done to save the people's money. Rut
will congress do it?
Senator Call, of California, appears
to be confident that he will win in the
contest for a term in the senate, not
withstanding the action of tho govern
or of the state in retusing to sign his
credentials, and in appointing ex-Representative
Davidson to fill the vacan
cy, which ho claims exists by reason
of tho failure of the legislature to legal
ly elect a senator. Mr. Call bases his
confidence upon an act which was in
troduced in congress in 188(5 by Rov
crdy Johnson, which says that a
majority of both branches of a legisla
ture acting as ono body may elect a
U.S. senator. Ho claims that eight
similar cases furnish precedents in his
favor. Tho senate committee on elec
tions, of which Senator Hoar is chair
man, will really decide tho contest, as
tho report it makes after investigating
will almost certainly ho adopted by tho
senate, and as a majority of the com
mittee are republicans and both of tho
contestants democrats, there will bo
no political complications in tho case,
which promises to bo decided 60lcly on
its merits.
The speakership campaign is prac
tically at a stand still, as thoso mem
bers yet unpledged and there area
good many of thorn prefer waiting to
see tho result of tho state elections
next mouth before committing them
selves. At first glance this may look
queer, and one not used to going be
low tho political surface might ask,
"what have the results of tho stato
elections to do with tho speaker of the
house'" Hut thofto who aro familiar
with tho undercurrents of things po
litical know that upon tho result of
tliu state elections depends tho fate of
ono of tho loading candidate for
speaker, mid every ony of the candi
date will ho aflccted one way or tho
oilier. For Illinium, the fourteen
doritoyrutlo uoiiHiimniun front Nuvy
ItDUluml Iimvo formally ilttulilwl nut lu
flfliuiuH UiuiiisuJvM lii tow of my
uiiiiiIii(u until uftui tliu Main iilao-
tiom. All of the uncommitted ml
to go to the side of the wintv i . tin
they recognize tho fact that it will !
easier to pick the winner aft r tl.i
result of the state elections is L,. ur.
Away back in the days "Im ! -h l
wnh" the negroes used to sing at tlar
church meeting a hymn with a r -frnin
something like this:
'Top a Meth'dix' born and n Meth'dK i -
An' a Meth'dIV t il bo till I'm; dead, '
that ought to bo iopulitr hen th -woek,
owing to tho presence oi -.
many Methodists from all parts tin
j world in attendance upon the Kei-
monical conference of all tho braucht -of
that largo denomination, which
opened on Wednesday, and which
to last two weeks. Wednesday night
a Washington banker gave a recep
tion to tho delegates which is taid to
have eclipsed a similar entertainment
given to the last conference, ten years
ago, by the Lord Mayor of London.
The presence of Mrs. Cheney as a
guest at tho White House has given
tho rumor a fresh start that ex-Governor
Cheney, of Now Hampshire, is
to be secretary of war. J. H. C.
A BIO SUIT.
The 0. & W. T. R. R. Co. Made Defendant
in a Proceeding for the Collection
of $4,000,000.
The Farmers' Loan & Trust Com
pany of Now York have commenced
action to foreclose mortgages aggre
gating somothing over $1,000,000
against the O. fc W. T. Itailroad Com
pany. Tho suit was.begun last week in the
United States Circuit Court for the
District of Oregon, and service was
had on the l.'lth inst. upon the defend
ant company's attorney, C. II. Carter,
Deputy U.S. Marshal Gregg of Port
land visiting Pendleton for the pur
pose. Tho plaintiff company holds
tho mortgagees its trustee, to secure
the bonds of the defendant company
which havo been issued.
The suit is undoubtedly the largest
ever brought in Oregon courts, and
will doubtless bo the means of deter
mining tho truo ownership of the (). it
W. T. railroad. It is stated that mere
ly the real estate of the company, and
not its rolling stock, is covered by the
mortgage.
The complaint prays for a decree of
foreclosure and for tho appointment of
a receiver. The defendant company
havo filed no answer and as yet the
action they will take is problematical.
They havo always' been in a state of
financial difficulty, which is increased
by the suit, and it is believed in thb
instance if rescued at all from collapse
tho Northern Pacific will be thn
saviour.
At present, it is understood, the
Northern Pacific is not tho owner of
the road, as has been oltcu believed,
Railroad In Luck.
It is said that tho decision of Judge
Caldwell in. tho North Pacific case is
worth from $15,000,000 to f-JO.OOO.OOO to
tht railroad, although on the main issue,
as to taxation of the lands, the decision
gives them a clear title to all the land
within their grant not known to con
tain minerals at time of filing maps of
the definite location of the road. The
interior department has hitherto
refused to patent these lands until the
railroad should produce proof that the
lands did not contain minerals. .Manv
thousand acres of laud in Montana,
Idaho ami Washington, upon which
gold, silver ami copper have been dis
covered since the filing of the maps of
location, and which the interior depart
ment held, were not included in the
grant, am by Judge Caldwull's decision
declared to Im the property of the rail
road, not only the laud but the mineral
uh well. The value of the railroad taxes
involved in Judge Caldwell's decision
for the twelve counties interortcd will
be about $100,000.
A Nightmare,
Have you ever Imvii visited by that
frisky and uncomfortable animal, called
a nightmare? Have you ever htul it
climb ti m tn the I ail while you were
asleep and go through a lively perform
auce which would make a fortune for the
proprietor of a circus? You never can
tell just when this nocturnal steed will
make its appearance, but you tue abso
lutely safe from it If you happen to lie
rejMislna on ouo of K I'. MIMer'n new
UiUlimd, which ure unMirpiiK-M In
qlialltf and price.
II. II. Ihovvn U Kiillhikf m'ImmiI Uiba itt
Portland pili tM tijul I tflviiiy anas a M
uf IwuiJjssuiJi' idjuiiji' mnl 1 1 I'Mi'li
Ijoyk bmIiI, I'mU ii)y utulwri I'lmh'wsl
auk liM?m