TSCn DA1XX3 -WXETiT CHEOaijaJS, JTODAT, SrCSUBES 16, 18.
JiEW DIAMOND FIELDS
-tiffany Reports Fayoralili Upon Speci
' mens From Wans.
AN INLAND EMPIRE RESOURCE.
Added to the Long List of Rich Treas
nres now Existing.
aBI BIGCLAR KIMI(BI.I STONES.
rmeiuiel of the Party aow on the
Ground for Further' Definite
Prospecting.
A Boise City dispateh says that Chaa.
andorn, who is interested in the dia
mond discovery on Snake river, tells the
following story in regard to the discov
ery and his connection with it: In the
80s he was at KVniberly, Sonth Africa,
and become acquainted with diamond
lining. About six years ago, alter com
ing to Boise, a prospector showed him a
tone, which he pronounced to be a
Ximberly diamond. When the man
told him that he picked it np on Snake
river he ridiculed the idea. Subse
quently he made an investigation, and
Jound that there was a formation '.litre
aimilar to that at Kimberly . He had H
Sratnoben, the widely-known mining
Man, look into it, and that gentleman
advised him to have the ground proh
nected. He then took Mr. Waters, who was
running a ferry in the vicinity, into his
confidence, and the latter has been
quietly prospecting the country, having
recently found the gems. One or more of
those stones was sent to Tiffany & Co.,
who made a favorable report. Vandorn
states that he will soon have one of the
atones that is i-ingcut. The party who
h;is gone to the fields is composed of
.Engineer Wellington and an assistant,
three employes of Vandorn, who are to
take up additional ground, L. W. WeiUn
an expert from New York- and a Mr.
Casscerouft and Mr. Bullfinch, -.-xperts
irom Baltimore. What it will amount
to only time can tell. It should be
stated that fields are in that part of the
tate which fIiuws Buch great evidences
f volcanic action, being on the border
of the famous lava flow which stretchet
in a cheerless desert for hundreds of
miles across the country.
-Progress lu Mexico.
For the fourth time Porfiro Dial has
been inaugurated as President of Mexi
oo. His first term was from 187S to 1SS0.
Since 1884 he has been continually 'in of
fice. In many respects he has shown him
self to be and enlightened an proyre
ive ruler. In the matter of railroads,
telegraphs and telephones, banking faci
lities and other modern improvements,
there has been a remarkable develop
ment. The separation of state and
church continues to be enforced. Pop
ular education makes headway, but'
slowly. The population of Mexico is
about eleven millions. Of late somewhat
more has been attempted in order to
rescue the laboring people from their
degraded condition. The Indians consti
tute about one-third of the population,
and lead a life of their own, mingling
but not mixing with the other raceB.
Mexican Romanism, not having the en
lightenment and stimulus that would
come to them from powerful Evangel
ical churches in contact with their own,
is mostly what it is in the other Spanish
Bepublican countries, largely a miser
able parody on what a christian church
should be. A more needy, if a more
hopeful field, for the mission of a pure
Christianity hardly exists.
"The Greatest Farce."
"The greatest piece of detective work
in the history of Oregon," is likely to
prove the greatest farce. The Oregonian
Thiel-Sullivan combination, who are
trying to establish the fact that a lot of
sheep herders and cowboys ot Gilliam
county are the "terrible desperadoes''
who robbed the Roslyn bank, are, if onr
information is correct ; likely to be the
butt of ridicule of two states. The
"sixty-four of the bravest men that ever
marched out of Portland," and who sur
rounded one cow boy, and marched him
to Roslyn, are probably upon the wron
track. ' Hale, who has been identified a
the one who held the pistol at Cashier
Abernathy's head, was at Wm. Hendryx
place in Gilliam county, on the day after
the robbery, having come from Fossil
that day; he was in Fossil and pur
chawd goods of Steiwer & Co., on the
day oi the robbery, and it is said the
alibi of the other men who have been
"jositively identified," can and will be
clearly established by men whose word
18 unquestioned.
. '"
Pretty Good. .
Oregonian. The Dalles, Baker City,
La Grande, Pendleton and Union are
the commercial centers of five counties,
which represent a gross valuation of
over $22,000,000, and have a population
of over 75,000. This is a good showing
ior a country that two weeks ago was
-described by a state official as a land
ch'eSy devoted to sagebrush and bunch-
A VVOMA.1 . AUli A DISS
A REMAfitCASl-E . CAPTURE ON MN
v RTVEA 04 UKXtGAM.
Ha. atia twilu, mt Hiiii1K Has Had
: a BflaJOy Thrilllaj r i I na . as Her
Ufa THI. Story ghm That Mte
Only Ha Nerve bmt Ktrensth. .
Ods of tbo best known characters to
the lumbermen and sportsmen of upper
Michigan is Mrs. John Towle, of Strong
ville, a small deserted village an the
Pine river; twelve miles below Radyard,
a station on the Soo railway thirty miles
from here. Her home and name have
become famous to tae woodsmen and
rambermen on account of Mrs. Towls
keeping a boarding house, where the
woodsmen engaged on the drive in the
spring have always stopped for their
meals, it being the only house on Pins
river for a distance of ten miles on each
side of Stroagville.
Mrs. Towle came to this country from
Aalborg, Denmark, twenty years ago,
and first settled down in Newport, Vt
She was called to attend her present
husband, who was confined wita a
broken shoulder, after the doctors had
given him up. She mended him in soch
good shape that Mr. Towle decided that
she was the woman of his destiny, where
upon they were married and started for
the wild upper peninsula of Michigan to
make their home and fortune. Taking
a boiusatead near th banks of the Pine
river, Mrs. Towle has occasion to come
to this city ouceabont every two months
with the produce of the form and dairy.
In the whiter she can drive in, but in
the summer there is no other way bot to
take a boat and row up the Pine river
twelve miles to Rndyard station, where
ahs can take the train for this point.
It is with one of those trips that this
narrative has to deal. Mrs. Towle had
left home with a boatload of produce as
usual, and came to town with good suc
cess. On her ratnrn trip taa was leisure
ly rowing home down the Pine rirer,
with its high and very thickly wooded
banks in some places, and sloping, moss
covered banks in others. See had not
gone far when she heard a rustling
vound above her.
"OUT OF TH FEYIJfO FAS," KPC.
On looking up she perceired a large
deer standing on the edge of the preci
pice about fifty feet up. screaming, with
a wolf hanging on its front quarter. The
deer immediately jumped for the river,
landing clono to the shore, bat the wolf
mill held its grip. It might be noted
rare that deer when attacked by wolves
in this country will always make for the
dearest river, as wolves will not go into
ha water uulesa they have a hold on
their prey. The deer had no sooner left
ihe ground to jump when two more
wolves j maped down after him. followed
Oy ten more. One of the wolves man
.iced to secure a grip on the deer's hind
quarters aud took a chunk out the size
it a saucer.
The deer, now thoroughly frightened
.md excited, on seeing Mr. Towle in
i he boat started for the boat. The water
:xj being very hign it maaagsd ire
its fore feet into the craft, with the two
wolves still hanging on. Mr. Towle.
; J though half scared to death, did not
lose her presence of mind, but seizing
iter paddle struck the two wolves such
IiIowb on their heads that they released
their bold and took to the shora, while
the boat continued to drift down the
river with tha current. The wolves see
ing this gave np hope and returned into
the woods. -
Mrs. Towle, now that the wolves were
gone, found sibout enough of the sports
man left in her to have a desire to secure
the deer. She raised her paddle and
struck it a blow between the horns,
which was not a very light one, by the
way, as Mrs. Towle has always been
used to the harder working side of life
and is of sirong physique. The blow
ptunnod the deer for a few mqKoents,
and Mrs. Towle, thinking it was dead,
started her craft for shore to place the
deer, in position to row the boat home
with him.
MB. TOWLK FINDS THB DBER.
When she reached the shore and was
about ' swinging the deer around by the
tail the deer came to and started up the
high bank, with Mrs. Towle hanging on
to its tad. The deer succeeded in get
ting about half way up the bank when
the skin on its tail, which Mrs. Towle
was hanging on to, gave way and pre
cipitated Mrs. Towle down the bank
headforemost.
The deer by this time had become so
weak from the lass of blood from the
wolves' attack that it slipped and fell
down the bank, landing on Mrs. Towle.
She, thinking the wolves were after it
again, nearly went into hysterics. The
deer, however, on striking terra firma
never moved again, and Mrs. Towle pro
ceeded to load him in her craft and get
home. She got him aboard, and after
capsizing a conple of times reached her
mall dock, made of logs, in safety. Her
home is three miles back in the woods
from the river bank. She was obliged to
leave the deer on the bank all night, it
now being dusk.
n the moi niug, when Mr. Towle, her
husband, went down for the deer with
hia pony and jumper, he was surprised
to find a bear there munching away at
the deer. The bear on seeing the man
started for the woods. Bears will only
show tight in the spring. Mr. Towle
got the deer safely home, and it would
be difficult to find a more interesting
story to listen to than that of Mrs.
Towle, sitting in her log cabin in frost
of the old log fire, telling her story in
broken English of how she captured the
deer. Sault Ste. Marie Cor. St Paul
Pioneer Press.
Want Pay for Alleged Dei tUmm.
An old man named Taylor from Chi
cago has asked several congresses for
$10,000 in payment for having suggested
to President Lincoln the idea of issuing
greenbacks. Colonel de Arnaud has
made repeated demands for 9M.M0,
which as conninl is dna has far stow
ing General Grant how to captors fee
town of Padncah, Kj. Waskimtasi
Letter. :
EVANS AND. SOJiTAG.
Detectiycs Are Scattered all Oyer The
Mauntains in Disguise.
LOOKING FOR THEIR WINTER CAMP.
A Stock Raiser Had an Exciting Ad'
. venture With The Robbers.
TUKT TOOK a SHOT AT HIM.
uiitag Still Carried His Arm In a Sling
And Both Had Gnnny Sacks Wrap
ped Aronnd Their Feet.
Fresno, Cal. Dec. 9. A report has
reached here, by way of. Lemoore, that
Evans and Sontag have been seen in
White Deer valley. Detectives are scat
tered all over the mountains in disguise,
and several of them visited White Deer
valley, a secluded region lying several
miles back of Sampson's flat. Very few
persons live in that locality, it being
merely a stock range. It was suspected
ihat Evans and Sontag had a winter
camp.among the hills somewhere near
this place, and an effort was made to
trace them to it. Among those owning
- attlein that region is Edwin Dooley,
who had an exciting adventure with the
i rain robbers. Some sportsmen among
vhom was Rev. Ledt'ord, of Lemoore,
were hunting in the White Deer valley,
:ind left their horses with Dooley who
i urned theiu into the pasture with his
uwn animals. One of the horses es-
aped and Dooley was searching for it.
While following a trail a short distance
from the house, he heard a shot and
felt a bullet whistle iast him. He
turned around and, looking up, saw
Son t as ami Evan." etanding not more
t han 30 yards away. They accosted Mm
i:i a !aih manner and asked him what
l.e was doing there, and whether or not
he war-taking i-are "f pack-horses be
luiiging to the detectives. Dt.!ey as-
sui''-J the riantm l'. it ne mm nounnt:
ataii rodi. u it.'i ti.e detectives, but .in
in the mea;::!me they put a convenient
tree between the bandits and him-
If, as he was fearful lest the next time
their aim raitrht prove more accurate.
I li said that Sontag still carried his arm
la a sling, due to the wound received in
: light with a posse at Young's cabin,
.ii.d both n:en had their feet wrapped up
i'i jjunny 9'.cks presumably to prevent
ineir making tracks.
A Kemarkable Chapter.
The fate of nearly all the prominent
ictors in the Cronin murder, to which
;he latent addition is the death of Mar
tin Bnrke at Joliet last week f.rins a re-
narkable chapter. Pat O'Sullivan, one
i-t Burke's fellow-prisoners, died in
prison last M.-ty. About a month before
John Beggs died. As senior guardian f
cmip 20, ot the Clan-na-Gael, he was
prominently identified with the case.
Dr. Lewis, the dentist, who was working
on Dr. Cronin's teeth at the time of the
murder, has recently died of consump
tion. Edward Spelman, a wealthy
brewer of Peoria, who testified in the
case as a prominent member pf the Clan-na-Gael,
was killed about a year ago by
a fall from a ladder.
Tom Desmond, of San Francisco, an
other member of the Clan-na-Gael, is
permanently crippled from a fall one
night while on his way to a meeting of
camp 20. Michael Gannon, a witness
in the case, popularly supposed to have
had much knowledge of the trouble lead
ing, up to the murder, died recently of
pneumonia. Frank Shea, another im
j.ortant witness, went the same way.
Peter McGeehan, who was accosted on
the street about a week lefore the fatal
night by Cronin himself, and accused of
being a party to the plot to murder him,
secured work in the south side rolling
mill and met a horrible death one day
iy falling into a pit. Robliert Gibbons,
who was an lil i witness for Burke, nt
into a quarrel two years ago with police
Captain Schuettler, who was active in
running down the Cronin conspirators,
and as a result, of a threatening movem
ent on Gibbons' part. Schuettler shot
him and was exonerated by the coroner's
jury. In addition, several other death
have occurred among the "an i-Cronin
gane,"some of them natural aud some
violent.
Swallowed a Cork.
The Ashland Tidings of tne 9th gives
the account as follows of a distressing
thing that happened to a little child in
that city. "A little daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Anson Jacobs, three years old, had
a serious time last -unday with a cork
that fell into its throat whiie tne child
lay upon its back playing with a per
fume bottle in which the stopper be
longed. The cork had a metal cap, bell
shaped, surmounted by a tubuiar top of
the same metal. When the cork fell "or
was drawn into the windpipe, the child
coughed violently, and the cork was
forced up, metal end first, into the head
into the' passaee leading to the nose,
where it was wedged tight, out of sight.
It caused the child great pain, and Dr.
Psrson was appealed to for relief. As
sisted by Dn Songer, who etherized the
patient, the doctor succeeded in dislodg
ing and removing the obstruction, after
much difficulty.
1 Urn Mat rin1n Bar !JwA
ot 21 mw Tara was a ar rnasut of ata
m to toag tomg ago days The
aud ward ml siattbaw L Davav ate tu
tiauit aasu'iat sad Mograpaar ml Barr
aha had it store uf aneodwtes of mea wao
figured prosaineoUy in aarmnal ailairs
seventy or eighty rear naca. bat taie
one which I shall repeat as aearlT a
tMiloim m her own words- uuerevl
ate most of all
. '1 was a schoolgirt of fourteen, spand-
Ing a short vacation at Uncle Matthew's
hoOHe la the city whan ooe day I beard
him calling to aw frutn the hall below
and went to th head ot the stairs
-Come down, he niA There is a itu
tleuiao here who wwhea to see you I
bt-Kitated. held back by some nndehnabte
fear Airais he said 'C'mne down . ami
in such tones that 1 dared not disobey
He led tw into the parlor and there oil
the soa at an old uuta whom I had
never before mm Very old be kxa.t
drmndil w the ooatnma of Che last vttn
tnry with Mia snow whit hair drawn
back and tied in a cn behind But his
.eyes- they were not old.' Large, dark
and deep, they flashed with ail the tirr
of youth I newer saw soch eyes la maa
or woman They fasciaatad while they
frightened mm.
Mv ancle ted m forward and wwd
Cotonel Bnrr. this is the child of whweu
I spoke I Deed not tall you whose name
she bears. The otd man rose, took my
hand tm km aad bead mm mm at an
length add looked at me looked at me
with those eyes which oemnod o see mto
my vary soot Only a mouHrat. but the
motnemt was an boor. Then be dropped
my hands and eaelaunad to a voice
trembling with emotion: 'Take her away
Matthew, take ber away! I cannot bear
if 1 av hiia only ones afterward, it
was on Broadway, aud I tried to slip by
una, nupercaived. Bat when I turned
to look back he was standing still, fol
lowing m. with- those wonderful, won
derfnl eyes They haunt me null, and
will. 1 know, while memory lasts." -S
Louia PoM-Dispatch-
Hasaalay as a Bees.
Maeasiay was a pattern host. On bis
ewe account, it true, he was no epr
can and hia nepnaw tells as that at amy
time ne would have been amply nasi
tied with a (turner soch as m served at a
decent seaside lodging buuas. Thia was
a sad moral defect, bat happily h coa
iiennous news of. the obligaticcia of
hospitality prevaated Ins gnrmt from
snfTormg by it He generally selected
by a half cooevious preference dishes oi
eHtablmhed caaracter and traditional
fame Us Dirmeuting friends be treated
to a tUiet of veal, 'which lie maintained
to be the recognised Sunday dinner in
good old NoncnofuriiiiBt fatnilira.' On
Micbaluuu .lay li wonld bare bean
wretched had no got smoked on the
board At Ctirvttaiae be never forgot
the old historic turkey
If he was rntertaming a couple of
nchooilioys who could construe the
fourth satire of Juvenal, he wonld re
ward them for their proficiency with a
tlisn of mullet that might have ptisaed
muwr on the table of an augur or an
emperor's freedutan With regard to
the contents of his cellar, Macanlay
prided himself on being able to say with
Mr. John Thorp. "Mine is famona good
stuff to be sure.' and if he were taken
to task fur hi extravagance he would
reply, in - the words tuwi by aeothar of
nis favorite harac-ters in fiction, that
there was a i,Toat deal of good eating
and drinking in 700 a year, if people
knew how to manage it. All the Year
Bound
Tne Seaiors la War.
One mar Ice. I difference divided the
generals of Frederics' William 111 from
those of Napoleou The Duke of Bruns
wick was sHVvaty-oue years old. Prince
Uonenlobu sixty and among subordi
nate commanders were men of sixty
eight seventy uud seventy-four. Lefe
bvre. the oldest French general, was
barely fifty-one. Auyereau forty -eighk
Bernadotte ' torn two. Napoleou. Ney.
Son It ami Launea tlnrty-nevea. Marat
only thirty five
Excepting for tne intervention, in Hol
land ui l"t7 and the I hike J Bruns
wick's ill starred invasion of Champagne
m I7U2 the Prussian army -li'ie that of
Great Britain in hihl suffered
from a long peace o':e of the results in
each case ieiri;j a certain disbelief in
young com i..;iiders Von d-r Oecken.
writing in 1 T!- under the title "Is it
necessary that we should only have
young sreneniLs-' iecide.l the question
in the negative aud m the Bntistl army
today au otii. .-i ot Hie same aire as that
of Napoleon oi M mat at Jena may find
bis energ.es routined to the command of
a company whatever hv capacity.
Edinburgh Review
Claims Before Congr
Immediately after every change of ad
ministration claims which wer disal
lowed by the outgoing power pour in by
thousand, to tie considered and rejected
again. Applicants tmngiue. evidently.
that what one party will uot grant the
other may grant. Their persistence in
luauy .cases is astonishing. One citizen,
who ban not the shadow of a right to
back him up. has written more than
1 ,000 letters to the treasury respecting
his demand, and has expended more
money in postage than the value of the
claim He has addressed his communi
cations on the subject to every public
official in Washington, from the presi
dent down, and, even to the Chinese aud
other foreign ministers Washington
Letter . .
Went t Choren Onee.
A Maine woman who had an trreli
grou husband kept driving at him on til
ahe anally got him to go to church.
Now mark how she was rewarded, in
stead of fellowsag the service ha looked
at the congregation and noticed how
much more handsomely the other woav
an were dressed than his wife 'fh fast
pricked mas to the heart as no worda of
the miAMter eouid. and the next day h
gave has wife fBUt and told her e go aad
buy some enries Seed we enlexx on
the niral .f f rr We trrt i not
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