Show ITEMS OF INTEREST lews news quarried from various daily Eit enhances hauges CULLED CUT dowa AIO ASSORTED lemy bits from itah utah idaho sada selada and and rewritten A keno reno has an 18 year old cherry tree of 0 the black republican variety from which he this year harvested harvea ted ten ton boxes of ten pounds bac each h which bold sold for 1 50 per box the sierra nevada tourist saya says fruits and vegetables are cultivated successfully cess cesa fully in the high sierras gardens y yield eld abundantly and are a almost free from insects which are BO so de destructive a truc tive in lower altitudes the carson appeal has opened a 10 cent subscription list at its office wh where e re money can be deposited for mra s pratt of san francisco a lady who gave forty five equart inches of skin to save a life recently parties are leaving car carson son daily for the pine nut mines twenty five miles from that flace two men a arrived r there saturday with shot sacks containing over worth of decomposed ed quartz in a which gold appeared in large flakes the riverside mills at fit keno reno expect to be able to get enough wheat on this side of the mountains this season to operate their mills while last season they they were obliged to tend send to california for about half of the wheat required to keep the mills in in operation mutton on the comstock is is a scarce article none being obtainable in the local larkens lark markets ets it is thought the sheep men in the neighborhood have entered into a combine to create a scarcity in the market with the object of forcing butchers into contracts for a year at least henry IV brown of independence valley talley near tuscarora has eold sold a 3 year old filly for 2000 2 and her dam for 1000 to W D bradbury of san francisco the animals are from good trolaine block stock and hence their val value a 6 and the price speaks volumes for nevada products in a collision at darks clarks station en on the central pacific railroad twenty m milea ilea cast ot of keno reno last saturday batur day night an unknown tramp was killed outright and an engineer e named Mazz enette was erious eri oum endine y injured D arm din internally ter nally sa sam m kinkead Kio kead a fir fireman an I 1 was cu cut a little he I 1 but not injured COLORADO it ia is estimated that from to thirty five carloads of peaches will be shipped from grand valley this ceason at least fruit crates of various sizes sizes and patterns will b be e used by the fruit growers of grand v valley alley next season in the immediate I vicinity ficini ty of grand junction I 1 fruit ru it trees W were ere planted this season A 17 year old girl can be seen any day pitching bay in a field in close proximity to rocky lord ford she can pitch more hay bay than any man on the place and earlier in the season plowed and harrowed the same as aal a man n her iler father pays her the same as the rest of big his help and says she is worth more than any of them calida Sent ital john Mund lins strawberry patch of two acres located a about bout seven miles above fc alida is certainly a eight tile ground ia is literally covered red with berries and oi of the finest quality mrs thinks they will be able to gather at least quarts these at 10 cents per quart would bring 2000 cr 1000 per acre at present men are engaged at the mined minea of the colorado bubl comand pany at home rome aff more will be put u t on when when ben the he cial cal season tei begins z ins they are digging 2000 tons or carloads per day on ou an avera average ige and have put pat as hi high 1 1 a as carloads on the track in one day y lach each main elope is in in about feet with many side aide cuts and room rooms denver lee bee danvers Den vers biz big cotton mill opened for business this week the largest in the west and is turning out enough cloth to supply the who whole leWest cotton goods will mill be allther all the rage age in denver now sheep sheet will be turned out to grass and their wool ool will not pay for shearing until our woolen mill moneyed men come to time and complete the long read about enterprise rocky ford enterprise from oae one of mr swinks elves this week eighty four pounds 0 of f honey was taken on june ath the hivo hive weighed forty six pounds and on jane june lolli pounds the greatest amount of honey was made on july i when nine pounds were recorded E lighty tour four pounds of honey in bweni twenty shinki ty on one days is a good record mr expects to take out of this same hive pounds more if the bees do not swarm the hive rests resta on a pair pair of scales and the daily dally increase in weight is marked on the outside oits oat ido side grand junction star california senda send sup upwards wards of pounds of green fruit to E fasted astern cities annually colorado consumes one fourth of this and a large percentage of the remainder is distributed between denver and chicago the fruit dietrict of western colorado is hundreds bun dreda of miles nearer the fruit market than any fruit growing country it has the colorado market at its v very ary doors and can place green fruit in any market which california now supplies in much lees leas time and in much better shape than can the coast orchards when the output of western colorado becomes ecomet sufficiently large to come into markets where it will of necessity meet with california competition the colorado article will begin to be a appreciated prec by those who do not know fla its quality now california californi a cannot raise a better flavored finer appearing or better quality 0 of fruit than western C colorado produces MONTANA great falls shipped pounds of wool last season this is more of the fleecy product than was shipped from any other point in lit the united states there is little doubt that the sapphire fields of montana will some day in the near future causa a venti i ble sensation een gatlon the gems thus tar fir brought to light are almo almost t ai fil fine and brilliant as diamonds an damany and many prefer them ti the more costly stone i governor tooles proclamation against the importing to or the transportation por tation through the state any sheep from the dis disease infected section under penalty of I 1 law aw is being enforced in justice c to tho the stockmen stoc kmen of montana ftp it t re requires aires that certificates as eta to the sourness soun soundness ness and health of the stock shipped within the state beg be given ven by the owner or persons shipping them A correspondent refers to the indian reservation known as the flathead and says it is a lit burning bhame to see bee the lazy gy loungers enjoying ad eo so many brivil privileges ga which are den denied the white man thousands of acres or of land per capita while the white mn man c can a is get but IGO they demand lao p per Z day ay per head for all block stock grozing on ion erah the e reservation while freighting to the lake from RoT gotsill sIll it a unreasonable rna unjust and unwarrantable one must conclude the white I 1 I 1 11 roan man has no rights the indian is bound to respect the mhd litter tam a in is not PI plowed with tb the e idea that the pree ct of montana must b be PI put U I 1 to expense to protect I 1 rights which congress distinctly accorded tuemo them and compelled to fight a wealthy and unscrupulous corporation the northern pacific railroad company for the possession of mining claims which the latter is alleged to be seeking to acquire by technical violation ot of the law the helena journal says that gome some cattle companies are preparing to ship ev everything e yi thang and go out ot of business T this is rendered a matter ot of necessity in some localities small farmers and ranchmen ranchman ranch men are as settling in thickly and are fencing up nearly all the available water va while hile sheep men are occupying the country more and more every year they are eaid said to require less attention and are con s dered of much more advantage to the t le country coup try small springs and an d diminutive streams will suffice for them and in the opinion of a man well posted in the matter it ia Is only a question of a few tears years when large herds erds of cattle in montana will be numbered as a thing of the past OREGON B baker a ker city democrat irrigation is a all I 1 I 1 important to the and arid r regions of oregon or agoa and the state should shou have a TO voice ce at the salt lake con convention bention next september things are booming in the Willamette v valley alley farms jb arms are being laid off in twenty a acre cre fields and planted in fruit tre trees a to accommodate the gre great at rush ol 01 home from the list east oregon is sometimes Bome times called al slow owl b but ut there is one thing to its credit it dont owe anything ally thing with the exception of texas oregon is perhaps the only state that ia is completely out debt the members ot of the county alliance ot of baker county ak wk the county court to discontinue die continue the paying of money on fealk bounty as they are satisfied that 1 they are I e being ca n grob robbed boi by a ring of di dishonest t pere persons ons the state press association will t next month at astoria A D iea paper has already suggested that the next meeting be held at hood river which ia n coming into prominence as a summer resort the legendary lest lost cabin mine has been found again this time on diamond pek peik near fort klamath Klama tb kick rick go gold ld quartz has haa been found there as well as old pack saddles remains of old sluice boxes etc and also the skeletons of two men A miner while at work I 1 in deep creek grant county a few days ago unearthed the largest nugget that has been see seen 11 since the early mining days the nugget was six inches in I 1 length and would average one half inch in thickness weighing 36 3 ounces value the anniversary of the discovery of the columbia river by captain robert gray will be celebrated at astoria on alay may 11 1832 it was claimed c laamea that gray was the first man ma n to carry the stars stare and stripes around the world washington idaho and 11 oregon will participate alike in this celebration the large lar go wheat crop which will eoon be harvested in oregon will wil I 1 bring english gold into circulation in this state as nearly all the grain exported will be sold in the liver liverpool po 0 I 1 market this influx of coin cola will be ver very acce acceptable to the northwest and wi wilf IT greatly aid in the de development V elop ment of natural resources grant county news the humboldt company a few daya days ago washed a piece of bone from the bed of cement in their mining claims ilala which was thirty feet le et from the he surface stir ace and just above t tho he pay 2 gravel ravel the bone was tolerably well preserved having doubtless doubt leca lain for thousands of years in a deposit almost impervious to air dr orr pronounced it a human bone fro from a leg below the knee what a etory story relating to prehistoric man on this continent that relic could relate if it only bad had the power of speech slacked masked men entered a sheep ramp camp on 03 upper burnt river drove off the herder pilled the tent and camp 4 equipments into a heap and set fire tc to them this done they discharged their rifles into the band of sheep killing about twenty five head ana and crippling others and scattering them to the four winds the antipathy anti pithy of the cattle and horse owners of the burnt river section toward the sheep men has reached a high pitch when they res ottto to such actions tocarra to carry out their spite |