Show 1 NEWS OF THE isr Indian Gamblers Have a High Time at Pocatello QUEER FIND IN OREGON HUMAN HEAD AND SHOULDERS I REPRODUCED ON A ROCK Pioneer Flute of the Rocky Mountains Mount-ains Idahos Cattle Woman Makes a Sale Montana State Expences Laramie Gambling Cases Soda Works In Hevada Denver Man Inherits a Fortune Pocatello Tribune The Indians are having 1 high old times these days hitting hit-ting the high card often and the high places not infrequently It seems that about a week ago the braves who have been imitating the busy 1 bee during the summer made a great hay contract and sold hay to the amount of 8000 The beauty of the whole story is that they < got their 8000 in cold cash and at once made bee lines for Pocatello and began to twist the tail of the tiger All week the shadow of the red man has j hovered over the gaming table and they do say the Indians have dropped not a few of the dollars that the 1 hay making brought them Keogh Bias of Cassia and West Sons of Chesterfield were the largest of the hay purchasers Face on a Rock A perfect reproduction of a human face was discovered on a small stone about as large around as a 10cent piece found lying on the railroad I grade near Junction City Ore IJTot only are the brow hair beard and beautiful aqualine nose distinct on the stone but the neck and shoulders are vignetted off as carefully as if they had been engraved Upon seeing the stone Professor Thomas Condon of the Oregon State university a geologist of national distinction dis-tinction wrote to the finder F W A Crain < that he had Just seen the ring into which the stone had been set with its truly wonderful face It is an agate with some of the qualities of an opal The Pioneer Flute Denver News Professor E Carter the distinguished Colorado naturalist yesterday arranged with the State Historical His-torical society for the reception of the pioneer flute of the Rocky mountains Thirtyeight years ago Professor Carter Car-ter brought the flute across the plains Three years later 1 when the owner had taken up his residence on the banks of j I the Blue river in the heart of the I mountains he received Va urgent request II i re-quest to lend thf instrument for use at a high class entertainment to be given by local talent in the old town hall of Denver The flute was carefully I packed in a box and transported to Denver where it did service for several sev-eral years before it was restored to the hands of its owner The flute has been I j played upon by scores of performers now dead and still remains in prime I condition It will be laid away in one of the glass cases in the basement of the capitol and a history of the interesting inter-esting instrument will be prepared by I Curator Ferrill Idaho I James Mahoney one of the pioneers of Cassia county died while on his way to his home at Albion from Coal ville Utah Albion Times A serious accident occurred oc-curred at Veys sawmill on Willow creek last Friday While Joe McBride of Oakley was attending to his duties about the mill his arm was accidentally accidental-ly caught in the belting and fearfully mangled Salmon Citys electric light plant is nearing completion Weiser Signal Mrs Ann Johnson the woman cowboy of Weiserlanu has turned off 500 worth of beef cattle settled all her debts and is correspondingly correspond-ingly happy and contented All summer I sum-mer she has rode the range been in I at the branding and helped at the roundup She had to turn the delivery deliv-ery over to some one else on account of a crippled arm but withal is as happy as any bucaroo in the land Montana The Bozeman railroad tunnel three quarters of a mile long has been arched arch-ed with brick throughout the side walls being of concrete The records of State Auditor Poin dexter show that during the fiscal year of 1S97 warrants to the amount of 525520 were drawn on the general fund That includes the expenses of the executive judicial and legislative I expenses as well as the cost of maintaining main-taining state institutions and deficiency bills to the amount of SiSOOO In addition I addi-tion to amounts drawn from the general gen-eral fund other funds were drawn upon During the year 53973 was paid i for bounties I The associated charities of Butte will reopen the recentlyabandoned Critten den Home Little Whirlwind one of the murderers murder-ers of John Hoover the sheepherder has been sentenced to life imprisonment imprison-ment II Wyoming I Casper Derrick The Pennsylvania j j 4 I Oil company have awarded C H King I the contract to construct nine oil tanks jon j j Ion I-on wagons to convey the oil from their j wells the tanks to remain the property i j prop-erty of the oil comoany V while the i wagons will be the property of Mr j I King I The nine tanks will be hauled by I slrins teams of 16 horses each three tanks to each string team The lead tank is to hold 24000 pounds of oil the swing tank 18000 pounds and the trail 11000 pounds The tires of the wheels will be four inches wide and j I the tanks as light as a wagon box By using tanks the Pennsylvania I company expect in 30 days to Save the cost of transportation over the present method of from 75 to 90 barrels or of I about 150 a month I The last of the Laramie gambling cases was disposed of Thursday As a result 20 men paid 5 fine each one man I 10 a Chinaman 15 five professionals paid sums ranging from 2150 to 35 each In addition three saloonkeepers and one cigar store were fined sums from 25 to 50 each Only one man stood trial but he was convicted Nevada Elko Argonaut Eppenger Gris I wolds soda works at Soda Lake Churchill county is a state industry that the people generally have no knowledge of They run a 12horse I team between the lake and Desert a station on the C P five miles east of I Wadsworth making four trips a week At the lake they are fitted up with I pumps vats etc to pump the water into the vats and extract the soda bv solar evaporation It takes all summer I sum-mer to work a vat and 25 vets Produce pro-duce about 500 tons of soda Mr SD penger is in charge of the works At Little Soda lake just over a small ridge from Big Soda lake Frank Small sheriff of Churchill county is operating a smaller plant and the two together are important to Churchill county W J Hollinsworth a well known citizen cit-izen of Reno died last Wednesday Pioche Record The recent reports of operations at State Line and Deer Lodge are causing many of the unemployed unem-ployed to come in from Milford and other points so much so that the places will shortly be overrun with idle men Colorado Oleomargarine has been sold for butter but-ter in various parts of the state contrary con-trary to law and Secretary Wilson of the department of agriculture is now investigating charges that the internal revenue collectors office is interested in failing to enforce the law and col I feet license from dealers in the compound I com-pound I Louis Dieckman of Denver has received re-ceived notice that he is one of 17 heirs to the estate of Maria Holseburg who recently died in New York and who left an estate valued at 1500000 G W Hoover of Antlers is circulating circulat-ing a petition asking the county commissioners com-missioners of Garfield county for aid i I in sinking an artesian well at some I suitable point in the valley Section Foreman Charles Davidson of the Santa Fe road was instantly I killed near Littledon Thursday night t by being struck by a train I j Harriett M Goss one of the pioneer women of Colorado died at Denver last Thursday She went to Colorado in 1S63The The statement filed by the silver Republican Re-publican committee of Arapahoe county coun-ty shows that its expenses during the recent campaign were 12875 |