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Comprehensive Review of the Important Hap
penln(s of the Past Week In
Condensed Form.
Queen Victoria is dead at her 0
home house home, at Cowles, Isle of
Winht. She was alinoNt 82 years old,
and had reigned longer than any other
monarch in the world.
Verdi, the noitiposor, is seriously ill.
The severest storm ou record is re
ported from AlnHka.
A strip of Benton connty, Oregon,
may he annexed to Linn.
A fire at Walla Walla destroyed
$25,000 worth of property.
The next Grand Army encampment
will he held at Cleveland, Ohio.
The Venezuela government is trying
to blackmail the asphalt company.
Speaker Reeder, of the Oregon legis
lature, has announced his oommittees.
A new pure food law is now being
considered by the Oregon legislature.
A bill is before the Washington leg
islature for the abolishment of fish
traps..
Ex-Congressman George W. Cowles,
aged 78, is dead at his home in Clyde,
N. Y.
A measure has been introduced in
the Oregon legislature to increase the
monument fund to $20,000.
The senate has confirmed the nomi
nation of James S. Marian to be attorney-general
of Porto Rico.
A new county, named Clearwater,
will probably be created by this ses
sion of tie Idaho lgeislatnre.
John II. Russel, a well known the
atrical manager, is dead at the state
hospital at Middletown, N. Y.
The governor of Idaho has recom
mended a memorial to congress asking
for popular election of senators.
A measure is before the Washington
legislature providing for the purchase
of the Thurston county court house for
a state capitol.
Rev. Charles E. Conrad, M. D., a
noted missionary, died at Quincy, 111.,
aged 81. He was in Calcutta during
the Sepoy outbreak.
The revenue cutter Grant is to make
a cruise along the coast near the United
States -Canadian hue to investigate the
wreckage, of which so much hag come
ashore lately.
West Point cadets agree. to abolish
hazing.
Enraged Omaha citizens burned a
penthouse.
Germans contemplate a cable line
around the world.
The naval appropriation bill provides
for four new warships.
Astoria's big export sawmill will be
located at Tongue's Point.
The term of duty in the Philippines
may be limited to two years.
Minister Wu urges Americans to
enter into trade with China.
Havana citizens petition congress to
lower duty on Cuban products.
America's protests against Venezuela
have been detied by that government.
The house will devote most of its
time this week to the appropriation
bill.
British ship Mnel Try van foundered
in English channel and 11 lives were
lost.
T. W. Bartley, of Moscow, has been
appointed lish and game warden for
Idaho.
Anarchist plot to kill prominent
Ameticans disclosed by member in a
couit trial.
Severe cold weather prevails in
Cuba. There has been much suffering
at Santiago.
Count de Lubersac and Baron de
Rothschild fought a duel in France in
which the former was wounded.
An Idaho bill for the repeal of the
stringent law against gambling hat
been introduced in the house.
The Oregon legislature will be asked
by the managers of the Spokaue expo
sition to appropriate $50,000 for, an ex
hibit at the fair.
Two men, while rowing across Ni
agara river, lost control of their boat
and were carried into the rapids. One
of them was swept over the falls and
drowned. The other was rescued.
All hopes (or the recovery of Queen
Victoria are gone and the announce
ment of her death is hourly expected.
All members of her family are either
at her bedside or going there as fast ai
steam can carry them.
Mayor-Elect Hurley, of Salem,
Mass., will give his salary of $2,500
to the poor.
Chairman Johnson and Secretary
Walsh will keep national Democratic
headquarters in Chicago open till
1904.
An experiment farm will be started
200 miles from Manila by the United
States Philippine commission for the
growth of all torts of seeds and plant
from this conntry.
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DIAMOND SMUGGLER CAUGHT
Had Them Snugly Hidden in the Pockets of a
Belt He Wort Around His Waist.
New York, Jan. 21. United States
Marshal Alcott, of the Ferry district,
hat formally seized in this olty $17,600
worth of diamonds, which were
brought into this country by Antonio
Aiuenia without paying duty on them.
The goods were fouud on Ansenias'
person by United Statet customs offi
cials at Ansepias was leaving a steamer
of the Hatnburg-Anierioan line at Ho
boken. Anseniat was not arrested, but tht
diamonds will be held pending a decis
ion of the Treasury department at to
whether he it giiltyof smuggling.
Hit defence it that he is a Cuban
merchant, and that be it merely past
ing through this country on hit way to
Cuba.. The diaotnnds were concealed
in the pockets of a large belt which
Anseniat had around hit body, and
were accidentally discovered by a cus
tom inspector who happened to place
his hand on Ansenisas' back as the lat
ter was leaning over a trunk. There
are 126 separate at tides, of an ap
prised valuation of $11,000, which
with 60 per cent duty added would
make them worth $17,600.
THE IRRIGATION MOVEMENT.
It Receives Strong Support From Secretary
Hitchcock.
Washington, Jan. 21. Secretary of
the Interior Hitchcock was to have
been heard today by the house commit
tee on public, lands on the subject of
irrigation, which it attracting atten
tion in many Western states, but being
unable to come to the capitol, ht sub
mitted a statement. This strongly
supports the policy of irrigation, and
says that a vast acreage capable of sup
porting 50,000,000 people should not
be left a desert. Mi. Hitchcock points
oat the remarkable results experienced
in the valley of the Nile, practically
redeeming Egypt from bankruptcy.
Professor Newell, of the geological sur
vey; Professor Finchott, ol the agri
cultural department, and Representa
tive Newlands, of Nevada, who started
the movement by a bill for irrigation
ttoreht u-es along the Humboldt river
in Nevada, also strongly supported the
plan. The hearings today were on the
Newlands bill, but this has brought
up the whole subject as applicable to
Western states, and particularly Cali
fornia, Oregon, Washington, Idaho,
Nevada, Utah, Montana, Wyoming,
Colorado, Kanasa, Nebraska, South
and North Dakota.
DARING HOLD-UP.
Two Men Tried to Rob a Fifth Avenue, New
York, Restaurant.
New York, Jan. 21. Two robbers,
armed with 32-caliber Colt's revolvers,
eutered Maillard's restaurant and con
fectionery store, near the Fifth Avenue
hotel, just as the place was being
closed at mi luijht, and ordered the
cashier to throw tip his hands. In
the place were a half dozen waiters,
and the very boldness of the robber
attracted attention. The cashier had
several hundred dollars of the day'i
receipts on the desk before him, and it
is supposed that he did not move
quickly enough to satisfy the robbers,
for one of the men discharged his re
volver. The bullet crashed into the
wall back of the cashier, who caught
up the rash and dodged underneath
the counter. The waiters concealed
themselves underneath tables. The
shot attracted a Broadway crowd, and
the police were notih'ed. Brandishing
their weapons the robbers dashed from
Maillard's, the crowd falling back and
giving them all the loom they wanted.
One turned into Twenty-fourth street
and succeeded in making his escape.
The other dashed across the pavement
of Fifth avenue to Madison square, and
waB captured by a policeman. He
said he was Fdward Burgess, a steam
fitter. . Conference on Cannal Treaty.
London, Jan. 21. United States
Ambassador Choate and the secretary
of state for foreign affairs, the Mai
quia of Lansdowne, had a second con
ference today on the amended Hay
Panucefote treaty. An outline of the
aotion Great Britain intends to pursue
was not developed, and no definite de
cision is likely to be reached by Great
Britain for several days.
General A. J. McKay Dud.
New York, Jan. 21. General An
drew Jackson McKay, a distinguished
veteran of the civil war, died in this
city today. He was quartermaster
general on the staff of General George
W. Thomas in the army ot the Cum
berland. Burned by Molten Copper.
Tuscon, Ariz., Jan. 21. Juan Lo
pez, a workman at the Copper Queen
smelter, was burned to death by molten
copper which fell fro:n a twinging pot
under which he stood. His clothes
were set on fire and his body horribly
disfigured by the liquid metal.
New Ships Building.
Ships that will be worth in the ag
gregate $29,725,000 are now in pro
cess of construction at the shipyardi
along the Delaware river.
Mail Boxes for Rural Routes.
Salem. Jan. 21. Twenty-five dozen
mail boxes required by the govern
ment for the rural mail routes, have
been received in Salem, and the bal
ance are expected in a few days.
They are made of galvanized iron, 16
inches Ion?, six inches wide and six
inches hiub. Each family or person
on the route desiring mail by the car
rier mast put up one of these boxes
and pay $1 each fur them.
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Mil
Venezuela Trying to Squeeze an
American Concern.
ENGLAND WILL GIVE NO PROTECTION
Offers to Restore the Asphalt Property for
One Million Dollars Insurgents
Cain t Battle.
Tort of Spain, Trinidad, British West
Indies, Jan. 23. The arrivals today
from Venezuela confirm the leports of
the existence of a critical condition of
affairs in that republic A former
Venezuelan miuistei asserts that the
politicians at Caracas are making a de
termined raid on the Bermndese
Asphalt Company. He adds that they
tried it before ou a modest scale,
squeezing $30,000 out of the company,
when United States Minister Loom is
protested and stopped Inrther action ol
this description. The government, the
minister aho says, listened to reason
then, but hat now lost its head and
offered to restore the property for $1,
000,000, although it is said to have
been illegally taken by a dictatorial
decree. ' In addition, the assertion it
again made that if foreign governments
permit the action of the Venezuelan
authorities to pass without some pro
test, all foreign investor! will be driven
from South America, for the latter al
ways claim they are being illegally
plundered. In this connection, the
assertion is made that no former Ven
ezuelan government would have dared
to act as this one does toward Wash
ington. It is explaiued that the Ven
ezuelan authorities are counting on the
disinclination of strong nations to co
erce weak ones.
At the office of the Orinoco Com
pany, whose two steamers were re
cently seized by the Venezuelan au
thorities, the manager says the British
minister at Caracas, Mr. Haggard, has
informed the American minister that
the Biitish government will not pro
tect the company because its share
holders are Amerioans. The compiny
it said to be losing heavily through
the seizure of the steamers.
The commander of the French cruiser
Suchel, stationed at Curapano for the
protection of the large French interests
in that vicinity, reports that disturb
ances are inoreasing. The insurgents
of Venezuela have just gained a battle
near Gucia.
Germany Not li terested.
Berlin, Jan. 23. tfhe German for
eign oflice shows no interest whatever
in the reportt regarding the situation
in Venezuela, and characterizes the
newspaper accounts of the difficulty
as exaggerated.
A WESTERN FIGHT.
But the East Is Willing to Help Obtain Appro
priation for National Irrigation.
Washington, Jan. 23. Some hun
dred prominent daily Eastern newspa
pers recently have editorialy expressed
views favorable to a system of national
irrigation. It would seem that the
East is well in line in wishing the de
velopment and reclamation of the
great area west of the hundredth meri
dian, and that it is realized that such
a development would benefit the entite
country and be a national benefit, add
ing to the general wealth and power of
the nation. While the East is thus
willing to assist and co-operate, it ex
pects, of course, that the West will
make its own fight. Every local
Western organization of whatever
character chambers of commerce,
boards of trade, commercial dobs,
business associations everything with
a president and secretary ahould dis
cuss and take action upon this ques
tion of national irrigation and govern
ment appropriations for the building
of storage leservoirs, and then stand
ready to cooperate with the National
Irrigation Association, for whatever
procedure is necessary.
Accident to the Bailey.
Washington, Jan. 23. The torpedo
boat Bailey has come to grief again.
The accident which disabled her in
this case is peculiar. While lying in
Newport, about to undertake a trial
trip on the following day, the intense
cold froze the water in her boilers,
bursting a number of the tabes. The
boat has been sent to New York for re
pairs, and the trial board has been
ordered home.
School Act Passed.
Manili, Jan 23. The act establish
ing the department of public instruc
tion wat unanimously pasted by the
Philippine commission today, after a
debate between commissioner Moses
and Judge Taft, over the section per
mitting religiout instruction in tchool
houses. .
Piano Two Hundred Yetrs Old.
D. Decker, of Charlott-ville, Ind.,
it the possessor of a piano made 200
years ago and which is yet in good con
dition and of excellent tone. It it
made of solid mahogany.
Florence Strike Settled.
Florence, Colo., Jan. 23. The strike
ol the mill men of Florence was set
tled today. President Gorman, of the
State Fedeiation of Labor, who has
been here in conference with both
sides, announced tonight that the mill
mangaers had signed an agreement
granting the main demands of the men,
including the eiuht-hour day and of
the onion wage scale. The in ilia will
resume work at once. The agreement
It fer one year.
ANARCHISTS' PLOT.
Planed to Kill Prominent Americans Disclosed
in Corut Trial.
New York, Jan. 23. Ellas Masuras,
a Greek, the complainant in an assault
case, which came before Judge Kel
logg, of Yonkers, N. Y., this morning,
told a startling tale of a plot of Greek
anarchists to kill prominent Americans,
and would have told more had the
court not stopped him and turned him
over to the police, that they might
quietly investigate the case. Several
arrests have already been made, and a
number more are planned.
On the stand Masuras (aid that in
Greece he had been a member of an
anarchist society. Some time ago it
fell to his lot to kill a public man in
the United States, and he was ordered
to come to this country and place him
self under the ordett of the American
branch of the society. He had never
beard the name of the man he wat to
murder, and understood that, at in
other cases, the man who wat to be
the victim wat to be telectcd after hit
arrival in this conntry.
After reaching America, Masuras,
according to hit own story, went to
Yonkers, and affiliated himself with
a branch of the organization, at well
at one in New York. Finally he he
came frightened, withdrew and refuted
to cany out the mission entrusted to
him. From the time he left the organ
ization he claims he was annoyed and
threatened by members of the society.
He remained firm in hit determination
not to obey the orders, however, and
yesterday six of the men came here
and begged him to return. When he
still refuted, one of the six, which one
he could not say, attempted to stab
him. The blow wat aimed too high,
however.
Masuras wat appurenty willing to
tell more about the society, but Judge
Kellogg adjourned the hearing and
committed the prisoner to jail, pending
further examination. Masuras was
examined by the police, and at a re
mit the war. ante were issued. Joseph
and James Kiptaukas and Frank lit a
taigns were arres.ed by the police. One
other Yonkert man and two New York
ers are named on other warrants, and
the police are searching for them.
The police assert that they believe the
story told by Masuras, and they say
that the affair hat led to the discovery
of an anrchist band of a dangeroua char
acter. SNOW STORM IN ALASKA.
Cimplete Tie-Up Resulted on White Pass and
Yukon Railway.
Seattle. Jan. 23. The steamer City
of Seattle, January 14 from Lynn
canal, reports a great snow storm in
Southeastern Alaska. For five days
succeeding January 7 the fall was par
ticularly heavy, completely tying up
the White Pass A Yukon railroad.
The highway wat still blockade I when
the Seattle sailed.
Between Skagway and White Horse,
the interior terminus of the road, there
were eight engines and three rotaries
stalled. Several of the engines were
diawiug trains on which were from 10
to 12 passengers each. All of the en
gines were without water, having to
melt snow. A train near the summit
of the mountains back ol Skagway ran
short of provisins, the crew having to
pack food for the passengers from
Eraser, over two miles distant. The
storm appears to have extended well
towards Dawson, carrying down the
wires of the Dominion Telegraph Com
pany.
Highwayman Will Die.
Spokane, Wash., Jan. 23. P. B.
Callahan, a highwayman, lies dying at
Saared Heart hospital, as the result of
last night's adventures. At midnight
Callahan entered Garabaldi Albi's sa
loon, 'one block from police headquar
ters, took a drink with the proprietor,
and covered him with a gun. Albi
lan away and gave the alarm. Calla
han robbed the till, then run down
Washington street. In the darkness
he plunged over the Great Northern
retaining wall, falling on boulders 18
feet below. Both his jaws were brok
en, and the base of his brain injured.
He was taken to the hocpital where he
will probably die. Albi is a brotherof
William Albi, who killed a robber
named Lacey two years ago, in revenge
for having held him up.
Glass Works to Close Down.
Haitford City, In.L, Jan. 23. The
American Window Glass Company and
the Independent Manufacturer's Asso
ciation today agreed to close their
plants until Aripl 1, instead of June
1. Eighty factories and about 80,000
workers will be affected. The object
of the shut-down is to curtail produc
tion an maintain prices.
Soldier Commits Suicide.
San Francisco, Jan. 23. Edward M.
Baytel, a convalescent soldier, com
mitted tuicide at the Presidio yester
day by shooting himself through the
head with a Krag-Jorgensen rifle. He
wat a Russian, enlisted in Chicago,
and assigned to company E, Thirty
teventh infantry. His sister resides in
Pullman, 111.
New Negro University.
The University of West Tennessee,
which has jut been chartered in that
state, it to be built at Jackson by
prominent negto educators.
Charges Against Militia ColoneL
Columbus, O., Jan 23. Charges
have been filed with Governor Nash
against Coonel C. X. Zimmerman, of
I the Fifth Regular Ohio National
j Guard, by Major Dodge, and it is ex
pected that a court maitial will be the
result. The charges inende false en-
tries on the musier rolls and failing to
1 account for public funds. . No action
will be taken until Governor Naan re
turn from Washington.
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Interesting Events and Gossip of the Past Week Reported From
Cities and Towns in Washington, Oregon
and Idaho.
OREGON.
The Dalles has levied a 6-mill tax.
Burns hat leceived a chemical fire
engine. ,
The Southern Pacifio Is stoiing ice at
Ashland.
The Dalles will purchase 600 feet of
J fire hose.
The Oregon legislature deficit foots
up $50,000.
Mchinery for the new laundry at
Eugene hat arrived.
The Grant county tax levy at been
fixed at 25H millt.
Coyotes are numerous In Colet val
ley, Douglas county.
The Douglat connty tax levy baa
been fixed at 20 millt.
The Pendleton school district hat
levied a special tax of 8 millt.
Several herdt near Montgomery have
been visited by coyotes of late.
It is reported the Dallas organ fac
tory may be moved to Albany. ,
The approach to the Upper Calapoola
bridge wat carried away by the flood.
Baker City hat rescinded street
Hunting contract, and is in darkness.
The walls of the first story of Mal
heur county's new court house are fin
ished. Collision of a train and handcar
near Woodburn, Or., was narrowly
averted.
Famous Uncle Ben gronp of mines
in Idaho hat been told to a New York
syndicate.
The coal shaft being sunk by W. A.
Maxwell of Coos City, it now down
about 800 feet.
Plans for the new creamery at Sum
merville are taking shape. It will
cost about $4,000.
Athena has invesetd $1,600 in school
warrants. The city, besides, has a
balance on hand of $1,100.
Lincoln county ha awarded the
contract for bnilding the depot bridge
to George McCoulou for $335.
The old Coos Bay road it said to be
in better condition than for several
years at this time of the year.
Henry Zntz, Jr., a 17-year-old boy,
of Vale, Or., accientally killed him
self while examining a revolver.
I. J. Straw, of Klamath county, rode
off a bridge into a snow bank last
week, and had to dig his horse out.
Contract for building the Wheeler
county court house has been let to A.
F. Peterson, of Corvallis, for $9,025.
Sixty-five thoroughbred sheep belong
ing to O. F. Knox were drowned near
Cottage Grove by the recent freshet.
Howard & Stearns are feeding 500
cattle on Crooked river and about 600
head at Silver Lake, in Lake couuty.
A petition it in circulation asking
that the public roal from Cottage
Grove to Loraue be widened to 00 feet.
J. W. Waltera & Son, proprietors of
the Elmira mills, have floated their
logs into the Ixng Tom from the Noti
river.
Several car loads of Weston bricks
have been shipped to Mission station.
They will be used for government
Luildings.
An acetyl ine gas plant belonging to
J. P. Williams, of Long Creek, ex
ploded last week, and slightly injured
Mr. Williams.
A petition is being circulated asking
an appropriation of $1,000 to repair
and improve the state buildings and
property at Sodaville.
A herd of 110 sheep wat shipped
from Huntington to Salt Lake City
by the Baldwin Sheep & Land Com
pany, of Crook county.
It it reported that Ed Lambson, of
Willamina, hat leased a large tract
of land ou Salmon river, which he in
tends to stock with cattle.
The sale of land belonging to the
Leonard Lang estate in Pine valley,
which escheated to the state of Ore
gon recently, has been confirmed b.v
Judge Eakin, of the circuit court.
A meeting was held at McMinnville
in the interest of the woodcutters of
the county. Every precinct was well
represented. They advanced the price
of cutting oak wood from 75 cents to
90 centa a cord, and fir from 70 to 90
cents.
The farmers and stockmen of Malheur
county feel confident that the coming
season will be a prosperous one for
them. While the winter tbtit far has
been an open one compared with those
generally experienced here, the indi
cations are that there will be plenty of
water for irrigation during the coming
summer, and that the feed on the
range will be good.
WASHINGTON.
The new $16,000 tchool house at
Davenport is finished.
The railroad agent at Hamilton,
Harry Beeardsley, was robbed of $200.
A school house will be built at Day
ton to cost between $20,000 aud $30,
000. Ed Sievert, of Jowa, is consider ing
a proposition to buy a shingle mill at
Everett.
WASHINGTON.
Tacoma butchers have formed an
association.
A petition is being oircnlated to
have the postoffice name of Guy
changed to Albion.
The Simpson Lumber Company, ol
South Bend, hat accepted plan for a
pony band saw mill.
Fire partially destroyed the ship
chandlery atore of J. C. Todd & Co.,
on the water front, Tacoma. . Lost
$4,000, fully covered by insurance.
Mr. II. P. Harrington, a prominent
citizen of Rosalia, died of pneumonia.
His remains were taken to the home
of hit parents In Monroe, Mich., (or
interment.
During the recent snow SO torn of
ore was hauled from the Cedar Canyon
district to Davenport for shipment.
Had the sleighing continued good, still
more would have been brought Out.
Larkins' hotel at Garfield, leased by
J. W. Keown, was entirely destroyed
by fire, together with most of the con
tents. Loss on the building, $1,500;
insurance, $650; loss on contents,
$1,000, with $050 insurance.
While fording Toppenish creek, near
North Yakima, Will Carrat was nearly
drowned. He was on horseback and
the swift current of the stream carried
horse and rider several yards, when
they lodged in tome willows, from
which, with difficulty both succeeded
in lauding safely on shore.
Owing to technical error in writing
the boundariea of a small strip of land,
amounting to nearly three sections,
lying on the east side of North Bay,
between Mason aud Pierce counties,
is left out of the jurisdiction of both
counties. An attempt will be made to
have the neutral strip incorporated
with Pierce.
Oscar Bates, ex-sheriff of Stevens
county, received fatal injurlea at the
Drummer's mine, near Curliew. He
had set three shots in the 125-foot
level, and started to climb the ladder,
but missed his footing on the second
landing and fell back 20 feet. The
sliota exploded before he conld regain
the ladder.
Hopkins D. Jones, until recently a
hotel potter at Wilbur, Wash., who
was arrested at Spokane on a charge
of horse stealing, has been releaed.
Word came from Wilbur that the man
Chance, whose horse and ' saddle Jones
had appropriated, would not prosecute
Jones. The Wilbur man said he owed
Jones money, and that he would be
satisfied to have him keep the horse
and saddle to settle the bill.
IDAHO.
A free ferry at Weiser it proposed.
Caldwell merchants have made an
early iloaing agreement.
John Hunt wat arrested at Oiofiuo,
on a charge of cattle stealing.
A public meeting was held at Lewis
ton to protest against division of Nez
Perces county. '
The postoffire of Ledno, Blaine
county, has been moved two miles
southeast, without change of post
master. At Weiser't regular city election in
April, the citizens will vote whether
or not they want the city bonded for
$00,000.
It it announced that shipments of
crude ore and concentrates from the
Coeur d'Alene last year aggregated
175,000 tons. - ,
There were several tnow slides in
Bear gulch last week, but no damage
is reported except that the Orofino
blacksmith shop was swept away.
Several carloads of steel rails have
teen unloaded in the Weiser yards.
They aie to be used in extending the
Pacific & Idaho Northern next sum
mer. .
Meetings have been held and resoln
tions adopted by several G. A. R. post
protesting against the proposed plan o
moving the soldiers' home from Boit
to Fort Sherman.
H. M. Merrin, of Spokane, hat taken
a bond on the Father lode and two
claims adjoining in the Coeur d'Alene
district. It it understood that work
will commence immediately.
Lew Granger, who is charged with
stealing eight head of cattle out of a
pasture near Moscow, hat been arrest
ed. Granger hat a number of aliases,
but it is said hit true name it Lai kins.
Plans are being perfected whereby
300 feet more tunnel will be driven in
the claims of tne Silver Eagle Mining
Co. There is alto talk of building a
cog-wheel road from the Silver Eagle
to the summit. - .
A Mountain Home drug store wat
broken into and an attempt made to
rob the place. The proprietor, who
has sleeping apartments in the rear,
wat awakened by the jtoise'Of the rob
bers. Upon his apjiesrari-e'e" they ran,
having secured nothing. .