Show A Chestnut Unearthed The following story of Senator Junes I is told by a visitor at the 49 mining camp Once In Placerville he was invited to a bal and his white shirt being in the wash he appropriated one belonging to J Owens a miner in an adjoining cabin Owens traced up the matter and was very hot when he found his shirt on Jones He charged him with stealing it and offered to bet Tones 20 that his name was on it Jones who never takes a bluff put up the money and on the show down sure enough there was the name of J Owens stamped on the shirt Hold on thats my name said Jones and he slowly repeitecl the letters let-ters Jowens thats the way I always al-ways spell it The crowd howled at the clever way the senator lit on his feet and T wens w-ens set up the drinks Ex Testing Four Mile Placers J S Hurd a mining expert of Shoshone Sho-shone Idaho came in from the west the firstof the week and went out to the Four Mile placer camp on Wednesdays Wednes-days stage Mr Hunt is I a miner of nine years experience He came here and went out to make a test In the interests In-terests of the Rock Springs company which is operating exclusively at Four Mile He will experiment or make tests with what is known as the Burlap Bur-lap process and he expects to remain in that country till July The process pro-cess Is comparatively new and the expert ex-pert carries all the necessary apparatus appar-atus for working with him and it was conveyed to the placer fields on the stage with Mr Hunt Rawlins Republican SHOW and Dust Two or t lree inches of snow fell here last Saturday morning that was not the pure white stuff that usually falls but of a dark yellow color The air was evidently full of dust and the snow gathered it as I fell This dust must have been carried on the wings of the wind many hundreds of miles At this season of the year the wind could not raise a dust any further north than Arizona New Mexico or California Snow filled with dust has fallen here several times during the past eight or ten yearsIdaho World Will Plant Sager Sheets The Boise Statesman says H L Taylor Tay-lor of Buffalo who is largely l interested in the RIdenbaugh canal will this season plant ten acres of sugar beets somewhere under that canal The beets will be taken to the Lehi factory in Utah for reduction thus securing a practical test AH Bad an Niagara The secretary of the interior has approved ap-proved the increase of hotel rates proposed pro-posed to the Yellowstone Park association associa-tion Room and board will hereafter cost the tourist 5 instead of 4 pei1 day board and lodging in tents at fixed camps will cost 4 a bath 50 cents hair cut 50 cents a shave 25 cnt cents billiards CO cents per hour tend telephone 35 csiits mcssajfs cnt > 0 |