Show I I i I AROUND ABOUT UTAH I I The Phenomenal Weather Which Is I Ripening the Fruit ill Oregon The Galena Smelter Expected to he n I Success on the Next Hun I Minor Mention of Nevada Moulnnc and Idaho I I The Philadelphia Smelters One 50ton stuck of the Philadelphia Companys smelters at Ketchum was blown in a few days ago and the second last Monday night The Superintendent expects to keep them running all next j winter as the bins are all full and ore I I going in at the rate of 100 tons per day I The Silver Bullion miner on the head I of Little Smoky is working a large force and the owners of the Carrie Leonard lithe I li-the same neighborhood expect to send in 150 tons more before the weather compels com-pels them to stop shipping Some ore is being received from the Ontario Blackhorse and Buzzo mines on Warm Springs Creek and considerable from the Argonaut on Lake creek and amine a-mine owned by Jake Lockman and Pat Burns the name of which we do not remember re-member J 0 Swift has just completed I a concentrator near the head of the creek It has been running some during the past few days and will be kept in steady op ration till winter on ores from the Home stake and other mines From East Fork ore is being received I from the North Star and Pride of Idaho as well as from the Parker and other mines on Elkhorn Hill Besides the mines mentioned ore is continually going in from dozens of prospects pros-pects from the Ophir mine on Boulder and the Silver King concentrator at Saw tooth The amount of ore received the past three weeks is morethan double the amount received during any same length of time last year InterIdaho Ingenuity of Nevada Prisoner Yesterday Sheriff Fellows made his regular cleanup in the county jail says the Wmnemucca Silver Stale and the result re-sult was a collection of articles of very little value to outsiders though highly prized by prisoners who are incessantly watching for an opportunity to escape from jail and are unceasingly endeavoring endeavor-ing to make their opportunity Among the articles found during yesterdays search hid in cracks between the iron plates with which the jail is lined and in corners of the cells were several wooden keys made of chair legs two iron keys and one lead key for the jail and cell doors handcuff keys made of tin and brass clock springs corset stays a case knife cut in two and made into saws two jack knives a razor shackle rivets and links sawed into a button hook a file wire etc Considerable ingenuity was displayed in the manufacture of some of the articles A key made of solder in a soap mold was intended for opening the jail door and the saws made of a case knife and clock springs were designed for cutting bolts and bars Montana Cattle Stock on the ranges never looked better than they do now atthis season of the year and in about six weeks will be in prime condition for the market The downward tendency just now of the eastern market need not be a mattr of serious thought I unless the stock owners on the Cheyenne and Arraphoe Indian reservations conclude I con-clude to throw their 200000 head of cattle I cat-tle on the market If they do it is liable I to demoralize prices for a time and our I shippers will in all probability hold their stock In fact they may be compelled to or ship at a loss which our stockmen need not do as they are all in easy circumstances cir-cumstances financially and therefore not compelled to sell at a sacrifice Qlrndive Times The Crows Raid the Sioux I In the fight between Crows and Sioux at Poplar creek a few days ago one Sioux squaw was killed and one buck creased The raid was made after night and it was the head of a party of about one hundred Indians returning from a dance that was attacked An unearthly din was at once set up and the Crows in making their escape tore down about 40 rods of wire fence the wire is still covered with paint hair and gore It was rather bold of the Crows to come down to within a mile and a half of the agency headquarters The Agents wife Mrs Parker and Miss Weid man had arrived but a short time before and they thought the reds had turned loose Glendire Times Phenomenal Oregon Weather What is the mattor with the Oregon seasons this year anyhow asks the Portland News The spring season was six weeks ahead of time and now fall is upon us an equal period in advance of previous years The ground is strewn with dead and dying leaves fruit of all kinds fully ripethings that have never occurred in Oregon before September 15th Then again the weather is cooler much more so than is general in August There is no explanation for the phenomenon Probably the weather clerk has changed the time table for this section giving us I spring when the Easterners are enjoying I winter to induce immigration to Oregon I Froze Vpi The Senate smelter at Galena Wood I River which had been running only a short time froze up a few days ago It I is being cleaned out and will be blown in again in a few days The ores in that section are base but the superintenden thinks he now understands their character char-acter sufficiently to work them successfully success-fully Named After Lips and Toiiffnc I There is a stream in Montana called I Rosebud and it is supposed it is named after the lips of the girls who live ill that I section because they are so like rose i buds Exchange Yes and there is a I stream not far from there which is called Tongue liver and is named after their well because it goes on forever I Waking TipI Tip-I At Bullion in Elko county Nevada we are told by letter that within a few days 150 or 200 extra men will DC put at I work on some very favorable new developments I deve-lopments in that old camp Let us hope j that all that region of old camps will again come to the front minor Mention George A Croffutt the wellknow gazetteer and directory man is canvassing canvass-ing Butte weroentertained I As man as400 guests were I at the Mammoth Hot mings Hotel I National Park in a single day last i i week A new skiff for the Shoshone Falls j has arrived It was bUIlt at I Racine Company Wisconsin and is the flnest boat ever launched on Snake river I The board of equalization of Alturas county vldaho has reduced thejassess nient of the Oregon Short Line 435 pel mile a total reduction of 10945035 This reduction was probable made in appreciation of the act of the 0 S L in raising the rate on ore five dollars per ton Several capitalists from New Yorknow at Murray intend to cut a large drain i i ditch from the north fork of the Occur dAlene river to Murray and thus give a j I bedrock drainage to all the mines The I estimated cost ia 100000 |