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HOOD UIVKK, OREGON, SATURDAY. JULY 30, 1892.
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OCCIDENTAL MELANGE
Union l'acific Train Collides With
a Runaway Coal Car.
THE HOP LICE APPEAR IN OREGON.
Total Amount of Peculations of Collins
ami Dire The Kimball Olive
Oil Works Etc.
m Angles Is once more striving for
an outfall sower to the sea.
Han Diego wants 8'JO square feet of
up ute for its county exhibits tit the
World's Fair.
Francis O. Newlands was elected Pres
ident of the National Mining Congress
at Helena, Mont.
The Union Pacific la arranging for a
new line of steamers between Portland
and t'nina in place of the Upton line.
A tire in the basement of tho court
house at Pretcott, A. T., oriRinutinR
from slacked lime, caused a loss of about
$6,000.
The weather In Oregon la beneficial to
the crops. A good yield of Rrain is prom
ised. Hop lice have made their appear
ance. The Canadian Pacific railway is to
send an aRent to New Zealand to make
arrangements for an Australian line of
teniiierR.
Much complaint is made of the way
in which Register Roberts of the land
office of Sacramento does business, and
an effort is being made to secure Ills re
moval. The British steam schooner Eliza Ed
wards, seized at 8aa Diego on suspicion
of being a eiuuigler, has been released
by the authorities, no actual proof being
obtained against the vessel.
Rev. 0. 0. Brown of the First Congre
gational Church at at Tacoma, has re
signed to accept the pastorate of the
First Congregational Church at Han
Francisco.
The Kimball Olive Oil Mills at Na
tlotmt City, Han Diego county, Cal., are
to enlarge their works. The demand
for oil is ten times in excess of the
output.
A Union Pacific train collided with a
runaway coal car near Beaver Canyon,
Idaho, the other day. The fireman,
Jack Moore, was killed, and the en
gineer, George Oram, badly hurt.
The total amount of peculations of
Collins and Dare of the defunct Cal
ifornia National Bank at Han Diego is
placed at $1,200,000. Collins, it will be
remembered, committed suicide, and
Dare made his escape to Italy.
The bringing of suits to quiet titles
to land at Nogales, A. T., lias created
much indignation, and the claimants
were hanged in elflgy by the people.
The settlers in the Han Rafael and Cal
abusas land grants are also served with
noticos of contest.
The old Tinciacacora mine, south of
Phumlx, A. T has been discovered
after a search of years, and much ex
citement prevails over it. The shaft
was filled with debris just as the Mis
sion priests left it when they were killed
by the Indians.
Attorney-General Hart of California
says the story that Lob Angeles county
has lost $37,000, due from the Southern
Pacific Company for taxes, because of
the delay of the District Attorney in
bringing suit to recover the amount,
thus enabling the company to plead the
statute of limitation, la untrue.
Yda Addis Storke who recently sued
for a divorce from C. A. Storke of Santa
Barbara, Cal., but was unable to obtain
it, has petitioned the Board of Super
visors for county aid. She is a literary
woman of considerable note, and at one
time was comfortably well off. Her
health is feeble and ftie is now unable
to suDDort herself.
The Union Pacific has assured the
lumber dealers of Portland that it will
oinn thn nld 4(l.cpnt rate to Denver
and common points. This is the result
of a meeting between President Clarke
and a committee oi me rorwanu inuia
portation Bureau during the recent visit
Hi i. f ioi-bo that nitv. The matter
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will have to go to the Western Tratfic
Association, but me lumDermen are cud
aji ; nriil favfti-ahiv. The new
rate will apply only to lumber shipped
Irom roruana.
CONGRESSIONAL MATTERS.
Bill Granting Wight of Way Acrov the
Umatilla Indian 1'cservatlun for
an Irrigating Ditch.
KiHNia has notified the United States
of her acceptance of an Invitation to
participate lit the International mone
tary conference. With Russia's accept
ance all the countries of which were In
vited have sent formal acceptances. The
matter will now ho laid before Congress.
Secretary Pouter of the Htate Depart
ment said the other day that the action
of the Canadian Council in allowing re
bates on tolls on grain shiped from
American ports on Lake Ontario passing
through the St. Lawrence canals and ex
Hrted from Montreal lias no particular
licar.ng on the controversy between the
UultedHtutes and Canada on the sul
Ject of discriminating canal tolls. He
added that it could hardly be regarded
very much of a concession.
Senator Mitchell's bill granting right
of way across the Umatilla Indian reser
vation for the Dumont irrigation and
Improvement Company was reported to
the Senate, and at his request was taken
up and passed immediately. The bill
preserves full Indian rights, and compels
the irrigation company to furnish the
Indiau3 with water for irrigation pur
poses from the ditch which they propose
to build. It alno grants the company
mch reservoir sits a may be necessary
on the lauds owned by the Indians.
Judite Randall of the Department of
Justice, who was specially detailed to
Investigate the charges made by Assist
ant Secretary Nettleton against W. D.
Owen, Commissioner of Immigration,
of incompetency, insubordination and
general unfitness, has submitted his re-
ixirt to the Secretary of the Treasury.
While the report confirms several of the
specifications on which the charges were
based, it aroints Owen of all the serious
charges. The report will not be made
public until after copies have been lur
nished Nettleton and Owen.
The United States marine hospital
service at Han Francisco will lie directed
bv the Secretary of the Treaatiry to care
fully inspect all vessels arriving at San
Francisco from Victoria, B. C, and ves
sels from Northern ports having on lioard
passengers or merchandise from Victoria
to prevent the introduction of smallpox
into San Francisco. The Hecrotary of
the Treasury has received a telegram
from Assistant Surgeon Magruder at
Port Townsend. station that smallpox is
epidemic at Victoria, and that many
cases aro now under treatment. Owing
to the close proximity of Tacoma, Seat-
tie and Port rownseud to Ictorta ami
thecontlnual traffic between these places,
the Treasuiy Department is alarmed lor
fear the dinmse may spread, and strin
gent measures are to be at once adopted
to prevent It.
EDUCATIONAL NOTES.
Effect of the Free Education Act Upon
the Schools of England and
Wales Gratilying.
Phillips Andover Academy has just
held its 114th commencement.
The State Agricultural College of Mas
sachusetts graduated last week a class of
twenty-two.
The Dublic school is not universal in
the old world. There are 10,000 parishes
in England with only church schools.
Hereafter in Boston new school housea
will te named after illustrious citizens
who have been gathered to their fathers.
Omh nf t.lm r.hlnf feat n ran of the com-
moncomnnt exercises at Amherst Colleire
this year was the class oration, which
was delivered by William N. Lewis, a
younir colored man of Portsmouth, Va.,
on "The Amherst Idea."
The new Catholic Ecclesiastical Semi
nary, which is in process of construction
on Valentine Hill near Yonkers, N. Y.,
is progressing rapidly. The total sub
scription to the building fund has al
ready reached the sum of $140,000.
Harvard University is spreading her
net over a very wide extent of territory
this year. It is announced that exami
nations lor admission to mat institution
are to he held simultaneously in no less
than twenty-five places, Including Eng
land, Germany and Japan.
The effect of the free-education act
upon the schools of England and Wales
has been unexpectedly gratifying. Out
of a total of 19,000 schools affected by
the act it is estimated mat between lo,-
000 and 10,000 are now absolutely free,
and the attendance has largely increased,
especially among younger children.
Prof. Skeal, who maintains the ortho
dox belief that the study of Latin and
Greek is serviceable for improving a stu
dent's style in English composition,
thinks also that there is something to be
said on the other side. Whatever the
study of Latin and Greek might do to
ward improving the student's style, the
study of languages and jngium litera
ture would do more.
The saleswomen of Jordan, Marsh &
Co. of Boston Lave had a gymnasium
opened for them by their employers at
the top oi tne store, ana mere, instruct
ed bv two women teachers, each of the
1,500 employes of the establishment has
the chance of exercise and physical
training twice a week.
The World's W. C. T. U. has chosen
Mies Mary Allen WeBt, for years editor
of the Union Signal, superintendent of
the World's VV. U. T. U. scnool ot mem-
ods, and will Bond her by special com
mission to the Sandwich Islands and
Japan to teach and train workers by
means of the schools that she will hold
for a few days at a tima in a place.
TMP
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Grain Acreage Throughout the
Southern States.
THE TENNESSEE GRAPES MOLDING.
State of New York Goes Into the Landlord
business Car Manufacturing
Companies Combine.
The "army worm " Is ravaging wheat
fields near Doyleslown, i'a.
The new capitol of Kansas at Topeka
Is slowly crumbling to pieces.
A ureat strike of void ore is reported
twenty-five miles from Creede, Col.
Immigrants to the n timber of 02,242
arrived in this country during May.
The Burlington threatens to withdraw
from the Western Tralllc Association.
Immense !eds of asphalt have recent
ly lecn discovered in Northorn Texas.
The Kansas railroads are putting down
their rates for the beiwlit of harvest
hands.
Last year the airreuate Iocs of prop
erty from fire in the United States was
$14), 000,000.
The National Executive Committee of
the third nartv is out with an appeal for
campaign funds.
In Middle Tennesnee grapes are mold
ing and rotting, and it is feared the crop
will I a short one.
Settlers In the Indian Territory are
alarmed over the Arapahoe ghost dances,
and want them stopped.
New Jersey Is jailing and cropping her
ballot-box st Hirers and decorating them
with penitentiary uniforms.
The rise in the river at St. Louis is
throwing many helpless people on the
relief committee for support.
General Horace Porter will receive
$:t75,OO0 in place of the $350,000 he asked
for to complete the brant monument.
A company with $1,000,000 capital has
been chartered at Trenton to propel
Btreet and other cars by compressed air.
The Indiana oil field has received a
boom by three wells just drilled in near
Portland, which produce 500 barrels a
day.
Edward O'Kellev, who killed Bob
Ford, the slayer of Jesse James, has been
sentenced to the Colorado penitentiary
for life.
An Atchison (Kan.) bride is not only
supporting her husband, but is paying
something every month on his first wife's
funeral expenses.
Spencer county, Ky., is threatened
with a natural-tras boom, gas having been
struck at a point about a mile and a halt
from Taylorsville.
The car-manufacturing companies of
Michigan have combined. The capacity
of the trust is 10J cars a day, and the
profits $1,000,000 per year.
Several hundred negro emigrants have
left Christian county, Ky., in the last
few days for Kansas and other Western
States to reside permanently.
The Typographical Union of New York
city has just secured a rich plum in the
shape ot an agreement with tne govern
ment to do the postoflice printing.
The State of New York has gone into
business as a landlord. It will rent camp
sites of five acres each in the Adiron
dack region for irom $25 to $150 a year.
Philadelphia possesses the most re
markable street-cleaning contractor on
record. He sends a check to the con
science fund after every heavy rain
storm. The total amount of the pension ap
propriation bill as agreed upon in con
ference is $140,737,350, or $11,912,234
greater than tbe amount voted by the
House.
On July 1 for the first time since 1885
the State of Tennessee was able to pay
the interest on the State debt without
borrowing a dollar. There is now a re
mainder of $232,000 in the treasury.
During the last nine months the im
ports of coffee into the United States
amounted to 405,187,732 pounds, an in
crease of upward of 100,000,000 pounds
over the imports for the same period last
year.
New York is growing at a great rate,
especially in the upper part. The valu
ation of real estate has increased over
$40,000,000 in one year, chiefly in the
wards that are being built up with new
houses.
The magnitude of the work now in
progress at Conewago and vicinity along
the line of the Pennsylvania railroad is
very little understood. One thousand
men will work a year before the under
taking is completed.
The grain acreage throughout the
Southern States is greatly increased this
year. King Cotton yields a large portion
of his territory to wheat, corn and oat
crops. The farmers are producing grain
fully 25 per cent, cheaper than any year
since emancipation.
The rains continue to break the Tom
bigbee's left banks in Mississippi, de
stroying thousands of acres of tine cot
ton and corn and sweeping away all
bridges erected Bince the April floods.
The damage will not fall short of $400,
000, and hundreds of families are on the
verge of starvation.
Governor Buchanan of Tennessee and
the Prison Inspector have entered suit
against tbe Tennessee Coal and Iron
Railroad Company for $147,000 lease,
money due from the time the 500 con
victs were not allowed to work by the
Ebb t Tennessee miners, and for expenses,
etc, for maintaining guards and militia.
THE CHICAGO EXPOSITION.
Trustees and Elders of German Evan
gelical Protestant; Churches of
the Middle States.
Mexico has appropriated $000,000 for
herdisplay at the Columbian Exhibition.
The Louisiana Legislature has appro
priated $.',8,000 for a State exhibit at the
World's Fair.
Over 11,000,000 persons have up to
ilittn tiMtltirwiiil tlmt tlm ffntoi itt t)ia
j World's Fair be closed on Sunday.
A plan to utilize all the schoolhounes
in Chicago as dormitories for teachers
visiting the World's Fair is being agi
tated. Ten or twelve Esquimau families are
to be brought to the World's Fair. They
are getting ready a schooner at Halifax
to go after them.
A solid gold brick, weighing 500 pounds
and worth $150,000, will be exhibited in
the mines and mining building at Chi
cago by a Helena (Mont.) mine owner.
Director-General Davis has received a
petition from the trustees and elders of
lorty-six German Evangelical Protestant
Churches of the Middle States, repre
senting a membership of 63,0X1, strongly
urging the opening of the exposition on
Sunday.
The Kentucky building at the World's
Fair will lie a typical representation of a
Southern colonial mansion, one of the
distinctive features of which is great pil
lared porches or verandas. Exclusive of
these porches the building will measure
about 75x90 feet.
The Michigan World's Fair Board has
engaged agents to attend all county and
other lairs in the' State the coming fall
to secure the first-premium exhibits of
farm products that may be drawn upon
for the State's exhibit at the World's
Fair. Premiums are offered for the best
collections of grains and grasses.
One of the novel exhibits in the ma
rine section of the transportation de
partment at the World's Fair will be 200
pen engravings of American steam ves
sels, beginning with the Clermont and
following down a typical series of the
present day. The pictures will be sent
by the New York Seaboard, a marine
paper.
The Washington World's Fair Cora
mission has arranged to make a very
complete fish exhibit. It will include
all kinds of deep-sea and inland species
i of fish, oysters, clams, crabs, lobsters
land other crustaceans, turtles, frogs,
snakes and other reptiles; specimens ol
aquatic mammals, such as sea otter,
seals, fishers, beavers, muskrats, etc. ;
fish-eating birds and their nests and eggs
and bshing boats and apparatus.
The jellv palace, which the women of
j Ca ifornia will prepare for the World's
Fair exhibit, will be 10x2J feet and 25
feet high, with two open doors ap
proached by marble steps. The frame
work will be of wire. On this will be
placed several thousand jellv glasses,
cups, globes, prisms, etc., filled with
jeliy of many shades of color, arranged
in artistic and beautiful designs. The
interior will be brilliantly illuminated
by electricity. The cost of the frame
work and glasses alone is estimated at
$2,700.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
awarded the contract for the construc
tion of the United States life-saving sta
tion authorized to be erected upon the
grounds of the World's Columbian Ex
position at Chicago for $7,878. The sta
tion will be a part of the government's
exhibit at the fair. It will be one of the
most complete of its kind ever erected,
and w ill serve to illustrate in the best
manner the organization and methods of
the life-saving service. It will take the
place of the present Chicago life-saving
station, the crew of which will be moved
to the new station.
PURELY PERSONAL
Victorien Sardou, the Famous French
Author Italian Workmen Testify
Their Respect Etc.
Roger Sherman was a cobbler's ap
prentice 150 years ago. He worked his
way up to be a lawyer and a Judge and
a statesman and a signer of the Declara
tion. Congressman W. L. Wilson, the Chair
man ot the Chicago Convention, was ot
tered the President's chair of the Mis
souri State University two years ago, but
declined it.
Mme. Leon Bertaux is announced as a
probable candidate for membership in
the Academie des Beaux Arts the first
woman to seek such a distinction since
1783, when Mme. Vigee-Lebrun was
elected.
George D. Johnston, the newly-appointed
Civil Service Commissioner, is
an Alabamian, a nephew of the Confed
erate General Albert Sidney Johnston,
and was himself a Brigadier in the Con
federate service.
Italian workmen testify their respect
for Christopher Columbus by donating
several days' work on his monument at
Eighth avenue and Sixty-ninth street.
This is not less touching than the story
of the widow's mite.
Sir James Lyall, the famous ex-Governor
of Puujaub, is making a voyage
round the world. Sir James went out to
India thirty-six years ago as plain Mr.
Lyall of the civil service. He is the au
thor of many important works on Anglo
Indian government.
Secretary Foster (J. W.) is said to be
the only man in our diplomatic history
who has held three missions of the first
class. President Grant sent him to Mex
ieoj President Hayes appointed him to
Rusnia, and President Arthur gave him
the Spanish mission.
Victorien Sardou, the author of "The
odora," "LaTosca" and other famous
nlavs. has a verv happv domestic life.
His aged father lives with him, and has
just celebrated his 90th birthday. Sar
dou has several children. He does most
of his work in the early hours of the
morning.
FOREIGN CABLEGRAMS
Dr. Brown-Sequard Has Faith in
His Famous Elixir.
ANNAM ADOPTS THE GUILLOTINE
Amount of Damage Done by the Great
Fire at Chrlstlania, Norway
Mr. Gladstone.
Mount Etna is in active eruption.
Henry Irving will tie made a " Lit. D."
by Dublin University.
Wine clarifiera in France use more
than 80,000,000 eggs a year.
Over 5,000 murderers are believed to
be at large in Great Britain.
The government of Holland has a prot
ect on hand to drain the Zuyder Zee.
The Salvation Army Booths claim a
renewal of public interest in their work.
The Duke of Manchester is sued bv a
not spotless female for alleged borrowed
money.
London's current opera season is an
unusually brilliant one, and may be ex-
lenaeo.
Emperor William has refused to allow
a military band to go to the Chicago Ex-
niDiiion.
For many years the Thames has not.
it is said, been in such tow water as it is
at present.
The French in Tonquin have suffered
a severe loss by falling into a Chinese
ambuscade.
The London Time makes the wheat
crop of the United Kingdom 5 per cent.
less than last year.
According to a statement in Truth the
Queen's journey this year to Darmstadt
and HyereB cost nearly $75,000.
Germany in anticipation of a war with
France has a golden treasure of 060.000.-
000 marks stowed away in a safe place.
The people of Baku in Russia are ter
rified by the ravages of the cholera, and
are fleeing from the city in every direc
tion. Annam has adopted the guillotine for
the execution of criminals, and the na
tives were delighted with the first exe
cution.
The Pasha of Fez has apoloeized for
the ill treatment Messrs. Chambers and
Bonsai, Americans, received at the hands
of his subjects.
The British Board of Trade returns for
June show that imports decreased 4,
040,000 and exports decreased 3,36J,0U0,
as compared with last year.
European influence is chillinz Hindoo
faith. Not a third of the monev re
quired can be raised to restore the Tem
ple of Juggernaut at Pun.
The influenza epidemic is on the in
crease in Valparaiso and Santiago, Chili.
There were over 600 deaths from the dis
ease in Buenos Ayres during June.
France's last torpedo boat. 149. ran
for two hours at an average speed of 24,V
knots an hour and a maximum speed of
over 26 knots, with 342 revolutions.
W. T. Stead, the well-known Glad-
stonian, declares that a change of Min
istry would be for tbe worse so far as the
conduct of foreign affairs is concerned.
M. Ribot, Minister of Foreign Affairs,
has recalled M. Jacquet, Consul at Leip-
sic, for disorderly conduct while intoxi
cated, which lea to his arrest by the
Lieipsic ponce.
The Shelley Centenary Committee of
Horsham. England, has decided that the
county celebration of the centenary shall
take the form of a library and museum
to be established in that town.
The damage done by the great fire at
Christiania, Norway, amounts to 7,000,
000 of kroner a kroner is equal to 27
cents. The total number of houses de
stroyed is 356, and also two banks and
the postoflice.
Great Britain has larger commercial
interests in Morocco than any other
country, commanding three-fourths of
an export and import trade amounting
in the aggregate to about $17,000,000 per
annum.
The French Chamber of Deputies hits
passed a bill to indemnify sufferers from
Anarchist outrages. It gives a pension
to the widow and daughter of M. Very,
who was fatally injured in a dynamite
explosion.
The whole German press is displaying
irritation at the action of the French
government in determining to hold an
international exhibit in 1900, thus great
ly interfering with the proposed Berlin
exhibition.
It is said that a native Judge of the
Calcutta High Court will shortly be made
to appear before that court as a defend
ant. It is said that he negotiated with
a millionaire for the marriage of his
child, but at the eleventh hour broke it
off.
The Melbourne Legislative Assembly
has imposed a tax of 30 shillings per
bead on cattle, 3 shillings on sheep, 10
shillings on pigs and 50 shillings on
horses and also a duty of 7 shillings per
100 poundB of beef and mutton and 10
shillings on pork.
Mr. Gladstone keeps making engage
ments, election or no election. In Octo
ber he is billed to lecture in Oxford on
the history of Universities, and he will
read a paper before the Oriental Con
gress in London soon after on archaic
Greece and the East
Dr. Brown-Sequard has not lost faith
in his famous elixir despite the attacks
made upon it. At a recent meeting of
the French Academy of Sciences he de
clared that its nse has made him ten
years younger, and that thousands of
people had been oorad by It.
"COAL OIL JOHNNY."
HMt Ecceotrlo of All Men Who Cot Qlofc
(Jalekljr ia the Oil Regions.
The wealth of Mr. Steele, better
known as "Coal Oil Johnny," has un
doubtedly been overrated that is to
Bay, hia wealth in cash. At the tame t
the Pittsburg sanitary commisHion
made an offer to donate a soldier's
monument to the county making the
largest contribution, the producers
of this section agreed to set aside for
th?t purpose the proceeds from their
Js for one day. Mr. Steele' s con
tribution for that day was $2,500,
which was a fair gauge of what bis
wells were doing.
The farm and the conjunctive inter
ests bequeathed to him by his grand
mother he probably could Lave dis
posed of for $500,000 or more when
the eame came into his possession,
but it is doubtful if at any time he
possessed more than' $100, 000 in cash.
His expensive eccentricities were
many, but did not include, as often
reported, the purchasing and giving
away of a hotel in Philadelphia. The
6tory probably grew out of the fact
that while in. Philadelphia at one
time he experienced some difficulty
in securing a hack and finally bought
one outright; that when he got
through with the rig the driver
asked him what to do with it and he
told him to keep it. It was on that
trip to Philadelphia that he, while
with Slocum, the fellow who was
"showing him the world," attracted
so much attention by going about
with bills of various denominations
tied in the buttonholes of his cloth
ingby making small purchases
with good sized bills; taking no
change back, and even lighting cigars
with his money.
Another of his eccentricities on
that trip was the forming of a negro
minstrel troop at rnTvlt j, for each
of the members of w hich he bought
a suit of, clothes when he engaged
him. He brought his troop here,
and that was about all he did with it
The details of his doings in Phila
delphia, New York, Saratoga and
elsewhere, including his experiences
with sharpers, notably his $10,000 ac
quaintance with John Morrissey,
have been written threadbare.
Summed up briefly the main points
in his life are these: When quito
young he became an orphan and was
adopted by his grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. William McClintock. He
was married two or three years be
fore he became of age and worked at
farm work until the oil excitement
began. ' He then engaged in hauling
oil down Oil creek and hauling coal
back with a pair of old plugs. The , .
result was tie possession of a good ,
team of hi3 own. The McClmtock
farm became one of the most vah ,
able along Oil creek. Mrs. McQhv
tock survived her husband severlf v
years, and when she died, in fsfctf'!
the adopted son, Steele, became tHe1
sole heir to her property,!'
He soon concluded to.eeso(me of
the world with his weaj&,'and he
saw it. He sought notpuety and he
got it He spent his money like a
man with Monte Cristo backing
was bled by leeches, fleeced by sharp
ers and in a few years, his oil inter
ests in the meantime rapidly depre
ciating in value, he rfound himself
again a poor man. But no one ever
heard him express particular regret
over the return he received for hia
money.
At one time when he was highest
in his eccentric extravagances Cap
tain J. J. Vandergrift, T. H. Wil
liams and others sent for him and
kindly expostulated with him on the
point that he ought to save some of
his money. He thanked them for .
their friendly advice, but said that he
had made a living by hauling oil und
could do it again if necessary. He
couldn't rest until he had spent that
fortune. Ultimately he got the re
quired rest
A cousin of Mr. Steele maintains
that the estimates which have been
put upon Steele's wealth have not, as
a general thing, been exaggerated.
He says that he personally knows
that when Mrs. McClintock died
Steele inherited $125,000 in gold and
about $100,000 in other money. The
income from his wells then was from
$1,000 to $2,000 a day. The cousin
says that from his knowledge, of
Steele's affairs he should say that at ,
one time "Coal Oil Johnny"' could
have produced $1,000,000 in cash,
Oil City Cor. Pittsburg Dispatch.
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Mistaken Identity.
A Texas man is the owner of a very
fine imported Kentucr jack, and
stockmen are continually (ailing to
soeit One day.h'e4p'pened to bo
up stairs when, a i J" called to see
the animal. His little son called:
"Father, come down, a gentleman
wants to see you."
"What did you say, nfy soar
shouted the father.
"I said, 'come down' a gentleman .
wants to see our big donkey." Texas
Sittings. .