Show COAST PARAGRAPHS Pickings From Our Utah Idaho Montana Nevada and California Cali-fornia Contemporaries Helena M T can Hello through 135 telephones Denver is preparing for a big Odd Fel lows celebration on the 27th of April During the last twentyone days of March one hundred h and seventytwo car loads of beef cattle were shipped east from Nevada i A Pioche man broke his finger last Ii week while engaged in taking offhis sock It is a powerful sock that will break a mans finger Sparring and wrestling are still allowed in Montana but the line is drawn at prize fighting This law will knock Sullivan Sul-livan and Ryan out before the first round F J Kiesel J C Anderson and J D Carnahan have purchased the Mineral Springs at the mouth of Ogden Canyon price 9000 They are to bo utilized asa as-a Bethesda on a mammoth plan Fiftyeight new members have been added to the Helena Presbyterian church in the last year forty of them having come in on the tidal wave of a recent revival re-vival The Bullion and Mayflower mines of Bullion Idaho have produced nearly 2000000 since their discovery four years ago onethird of which is aid to have been profit Senator Jones of Nevada will it is reported re-ported put up a tenstamp mill on Roc Creek Idaho to work low grade gold ores If successful the mills capacity will be increased to thirty stamps Last Wednesday morning Anaconda M T was startled by a terrific explc I sion which occurred in a China washhouse wash-house Four out of six Chinamen were killed and horribly mangled the other two are not seriously injured Anaconda S I is much excited Counting the coin in the Carson Nov mint was done last week A thousand dollars in silver were carefully weighed and then the rest of the 3000000 was emptied into the scales and weighed I to correspond The 1000000 in gold tool a couple of days to count A silk plug hat made its appearance ir I Dillon Montana last week and an old timer followed it around for two block with a full cocked doublebarreled shotgun shot-gun in his hands ready for business Then a deputy sheriff interfered ant peace reigned in Warsaw An Aprilfool joke of aMarvsville Gal paper was an account of some of the paving slabs in the sidewalk spontaneously spontane-ously heating and getting nearly red hot This story and the DEMOCRATS outlet tc the Great Salt Lake successfully April fooled a number of our esteemed contemporaries con-temporaries The new gambling law of Idaho has killed percentage stud poker in that Territory Ter-ritory Its day is over and the legislator who did the strangling is entitled to the gratitude of his constituents and the rest lof the Territory The game has folded its tent and skipped away in the proverbial pro-verbial manner of the Arabs There is a flurry among the chiefs of the Comstock and many mining magnates mag-nates are on the road to Virginia City The Virginia Chronicle thinks the old camp is on the eve of some very remarkable remark-able occurrence If another bonanza should be uncovered there would be a general rush of oldtimers to participate in the fray of the bulls and the bears The Elko Nev Grand Jury has officially fftiled the attention of citizens to the importance and necessity of clean streets and the abatement oj nuisances of all kinds Considering the accumulation of filth and garbage in the streets of Salt Lake and the existence of hog pens and cattle corrals in our midst and in view of the coming hot weather it would be a seasonable subject for the present Grand Jury to investigate One result of the miners strike in Wood River is that leasing is being advocated troubles This as a remedy for the labor system has been in vogue in all old mining communities and is generally found to work well A leaser is his own boss he can1go to work when pleases and quit when he pleases He has no assured rate of wages it is true but as he never works unless he has ore in sight or knows it to be there the chances are generally all in his favor and the result is most satisfactory to him Says the Carson Appeal the 15th inst Utah is not the only part of the Union in which polygamy is practiced The system flourishes quite luxuriously in the San Francisco Chinese quarter While the poorer classes of Chinaman have no wives many of their richer countrymen maintain harems A correspondent cor-respondent of the Sacramento See gives Tai the the information that Dr Li Po wellknown Chinese physician of San Francisco has no fewer than ten wives the last of whom was sealed unto him but a few weeks ago and he is on the outlook for more Christian philanthropists philan-thropists of the East who never think of shock moral the Mormons without a the China I but whose hearts bleed for man becaubo we do not want his com I are respectfully invited to con pany aspect of the sider the polygamous Chinese question The Virginia City Chronicle of the 16th has the following in regard to Hale t orcross and the rich strike on the 3000 level Everybody HappyOre That Averages Over 200The Whole Face of the Crosscut in Ore with Every Indica Body AheadCrosscut No tion of a Big i on the 1900 Also in Good Ore Assays 2000 might that would go from 1000 to easily be obtained by selecting specimens but what is of far of the ore greater interest to practical persons is I the fact that the average assay taken this morning was samples f of eight 235 The proportion of gold to sil over is just the same as in the big bon ver anzanamely onethird gold to two thirds silver This was shown very evenly and exactly in all the assays that there being over 300 over went in each of them 100 in gold the 3000 level is The ore on black sulphurets of the finest quality Mau and Borland is in high spirits Mr Hoeflich is actually jubilant The for rice his usual did not deliver I mer gentleman address with regard to cau admonitory this afternoon but tion to the reporter showed cordiallv grasped his hand and shped rock exclaiming some of the rich him some What do you think of triumphantly lots of it and that my son f Weve got all to the devil now the bears can go |