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About The Medford mail. (Medford, Or.) 1893-1909 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 7, 1892)
i if- BUFFALOES IN -COLORADO. . ,u the same ows, flsbea In wnodchuck,- both eoro-flcld. .eschoolgU-L,and dreamed eet dream. j red off at SO, passed the world's it nuninUtniL .-aced blsturle rivers through legendary lands; Be sailed tempestuous oceans, by trailing tropic Islands, Basked in Irriguous valleys, aod tolled through desert sands. Tom lived at home till 80, mowed the ances tral hav-flelds. . . . And reaped his annual harvests, and watched his hens and bees; Be tolled on his birthplace until the mourners bore htm To the hereditary graveyard beneath the maple trees. But Ted, be lived In dreamland, and every where be wandered Be saw the old green meadows, the waving fields of corn, , , The big rock by the pine woods, the buckle berry pasture, . The red bouse in the valley the house where be was born. Toe. also lived In dreamland, and trod In misty trances . Through visionary mountains and through ) sailed through odorous oceans, and passed palm-rronded islands. And beard the sounding surf-wash that broke on savage strands. Thus Ted and Tom were brothers, and lived as life companions, . , Taough evermore divided by sundering lands Both roamed the earth together, both tilled Until both slept together beneath the maple 8. W. Foss. Onlv Fifty Lett, and Five of Them tonly SlanRhtered. THE RIDE A HALF-BREED MADE. Chased Bad Shot by Indiana as lis Gal loped Away for Kelnforceineat. fro llie be- ex- CR ANT'S FEALTY TO FRIENDS. Bow He Reinstated the Son of an Old Comrade In Office. Ride?" said the colonel; "there's nothing in the world can touch an In dian for riding:. Ue can ride on a pony's neck, on his side, on his flank he can ride nnder a pony, for I bare seen him do it many time. "And now that we are on the sub ject of riding I'll tell yon about a ride that a half-breed Indian made once. I never liked half-breeds before that anv more than I like Indians. I don't - like half-breeds now. but I liked that critter Joe. This w down in Arizona- , ' Never been in v Arizona, eh? Well.it was a nice country in those days. Yonr scalp was worth just about 10 cents par value. A friend of mine. Will Sarvin. was a lieutenant in the th. He picked no a half-breed, the mean- VL. est-looking half-breed I ever saw. The 1- whiter of his .eyes showed every time ' "yon spoke to him. I wouldn't have - - ' -- trusted him if my neck had been in risncmc and . he could have saved it. -"iL,: and ' euffiojl i-the half-bree around , 1 camp one" day. The Indian was just :K whininz and taking it all. V ill cursed -' the Jen oC the spot and threw two or of them over . their neeis. ue took the half-breed, warmed him no. and gave him something to eat. He couldn't drive the worthless devil "-'' There are about fifty buffaloes still ranging wild in Colorado, says the Denver Republic in. And yet one man, for whom frontier justice" is waitiug recentlv killed live. ' It has been so generally ana quently stated mid published that American buunlo aim Disou nave come completely and thoroughly tinct that the general public has come to accept it as a fact, aul believe that the only specimens are those which have become domesticated, and are carefully housed and cared for in the several zoological gardens and parks. That there are few ol them remain ing on the plains is true, but there are euough. with proper protection, to soon produce large herds. In this state, whure once there were thousauds of these auimals, their number has been rapidly reduced by hunters, who have slain them simply for the mo mentary pleasure they have experi enced iu killing large game, until 'they now number less than fifty and are in four small herds. These are con fined to the rougher and more sparsely populated districts, their habitations beiug a more effective protection to them than all the state game laws ever enacted by the general assembly. So small had grovru the number of these distinctly American auimals that in 1389 the state ' legislature enacted a law providing a severe penalty for the killing of a single specinieu before the year 1900, thus allowing a full ten years for them to propagate, but iu SDite of this enactment word was re ceived but a short time ago that some one in the Kenosha range had shot five buffaloes. State Game Warden Land started at once to make a special and personal investigation of tho case. While out he has also made an exten sive visit through the stale, ami he has just returned with an interesting ac count, lie is somewhat discouraged with many things connected nith the enforcement, or. more properly the non-enforcement of all the game laws, and predicts that unless some thing very decisive is dope, ami that very soon, the buffalo will not be the only family wiped from tin: face of the earth. He reports a imst terrible slaughter of all game during the last few months, lie was asked in refer ence to the killing of ImlTaincs. There are now verv few of them. he stated, "and these, in our feeble and crippled condition wo are en deavoring to protect. That live of them were killed recent I v is a fact, but I found that we could not- convict the guilty if we brought him to trial. He admitted haviug killed live of tlieiti and boasted of the fact to his friends. but we could find no one. after a care ful investigation, who would testify against him. and if he uere arranged he would ol course, say nut gnutv. "I iudge that we have now iu the state something less than fifty buffaloes. and these are iu four bunches. Une ol .i i ,t.. i .. : f : .1 . 1 1 .. - . ... I luese lias rt:i:uilt ucm jmjtii lit miiuio than mrtn u matfio bind nf m.tn- I .-J . 1.- i " u park, aud numbers but live. Another. senini oiDi uu..ug ...u. - . -idy the lari the Indian wasn't worth a rap for any kind of work. Will was an awful reckless fellow. He didn't believe that the Indian lived who would fight face to face with a man. He used to say that he would take ten men and ride through a tribe. hootin? whatever men he chose, and 'Smr vu t ,, thev "wouldn't show fight if he ... .. . - - , could Keep mem irom closing in ueoiuu him." "He eot his chance one day. He was escorting a supply-train wagon, yon know, across the plaic He had about twenty infantry men' n ith him. A swarm of them came down upon him and began to blaze away. and possibly the largest, is in tbe Kenosha range, and numiiers possibly twenty. The third, of ten or fifteen head, is at H aim's Peak, in Routt county. The fourth, ami the small est except that at Middle park, is at Dolores. THE STITCHES IN A SHIRT. Of the most prominent traits la Gen. Grant's character." said Col. T. R. Mutheson of Washington to a Pitts burg Dispatch reporter, when the con versation turned on the late President, was the steadfast maimer in which he 6tuck to his friends. I can recall a case which illustrates that. Iu 1873 the term of a Western Senator ex pired, and before leaving Washington he secured a position in the PostotUce Department for his only son, a bright young fellow whose only failing was an indulgence in an occasional spree. Marshall Jewell was theu Postmaster- General, and he had appointed the boy. After a month or so of work he weut on a spree and under its effects resigned his position. Wheu lie had straightened up and realized his trick his heart was broken; out of money, out of place, with a wife aud child to take care of. he didn't know Where to turn. All at once he thought of Gen. Grant, aud off he went to the White House. His Hcmiaintaiice with the at taches readily procured him an nudi- pnra with the President, to whom he made a clean breast of the whole af fair. "Can you stop drinking?' asked the r resident. "'Yes. sir.' replied the young man "Will you promise me uot to touch a droD of anvthimr intoxicating for a year?" "Yes. sir.' came the answer. "Taking a card. Grant wrote: 'The Postmaster-General will please rein state Mr. to his clerkship in the Postoffice Department U. S. G.' Ho anded this to the son oi nisoiu menu. aud told him to be a man. 'The young man was soon in the Postmaster-General's office. The of ficial slowly read the card. 'There is no vacancy. ' he said. 1 nave nneu your ulace. However, put an applica tion on h e. and it will be consiuereu iu its turn.' The clerk returned in tieiected mood to the White House. Ho said there was no vacancy, niu he?' said tho Presideut, 'and told you to file an application, eli? Well, you can't file that wife and baby of yours. can vou?' Grant look the card am: wrote on the reverse side, ! on make a vacancy or I will.' 'The President ol the lunie.i states can have mv resignation if he desires it," said the Posliiiasler-Gi'iiiTuI testily, when the message was handed to liiui, but he cannot nut vou in this depart ment while I am at the head of it. The now thoroughly discouraged suppliant for ifl"uai once more returned to the H hue Hume and ioiu tir-tii what the Postiuaster-Geuerul had said "Take this voung man over to the Navv DeoarlnieiiL' said thu Presiden to a clerk whom ln-ealh-d from au ad joining room, -and say to Secretary Kobeson that I desire his appointment as a clerk. Tl is lime the ap-Niintineat was made. There was a Cabinet council next dav. and Grant nsked fur and was tendered and accented I lie Postmaster General's resignation. T.e clerk? He keul his promise, mid is today a re spected, soin r man. How Ij nsej ar Made. 'Wind and frosts have reduced the estimates of the southern California orange crop from 6000 carloads to 3000. The Southern Pacific, has consoli dated the Stockton division with those of Oakland and Fresno. Why Theae Article of Apparel Lnlcw Marie at Hob Are No A IT. Y. Mail and Express report- r was standiug in front of the "'gets fnrnishing-goods department in a big East-side dry-goods store the other They fired day when a lady entered, and pointing like a hailstorm. Thev got the wagon i at a big pile of shirts which rounded od and then tried to make the gnread out on the couuter with the . 1 - I :!.. 1. : X" I - I I in .. . h inuians come iu suu ugiit "- i'w. a i prices uiaraeu uu mem iu ujuiw v bit of it would they have. They hung around like a swarm of liees. just out of range. Everv time he got the train in mnlinn Hnvn thfr frt nif aifnill with a swoop. They were losing mules, and Will was raving, cursing mad. Hi couldn't make them fight hi So there they stayed That night tbe red devi' fcJ them a terrible daneoi-birtlbey stack it ont. Tbe next "day .was one ol those scorching, blis tering days that you get on the plains. Tbe sun was like a flaming sword, and tbe wind that that came over the bleached plain cut " tbe skin open. There was no water to drink, the men'c ' swollen tongues were hanging ont ol their mouths, and tlieir carbines were so hot they blistered the flesh on their bands. Aad-all the while Will was swearing, and trying to get the devils to fight him. There was no fight in them. They bad a sure thing of it waiting. "In tbe afternoon it got so terrible that tbe men could not breathe. They began to faint nnder the torturing uu- Will wanted some one to come ont and ride ioto camp for a cavalry troop- Joe was lying in tbe shade of i supply wagon, ana ne got np ana tea bis pony over. Tbe Indians were ly ing off about three miles then, waiting for night, when they could come in and make things lively again with bowers of rifle-balls. "Joe started off to tbe south on an easy lope. Yon could see the Indians where they bad rested like a shadow on tbe plain. Then ont came a circle like the curve of a band of bine swal lows. It spread out. widening and widening, and circled in again like a closing f.n, after Joe. All tbe while Joe was loping over tbe white plain to itne sosU. J. hey were after lum now at a hot pace, and Will gnawed bis mustache as he watcbod bis half-breed getting smaller and smaller. He was riding harder now and the pursuing Indians were between bim and the . train. The soldiers could see puffs of white smoke where tbe Indians were sending balls after the balf-breed. and then tbe speck of a Joe went out of ' sight and afterward tbe band, only a - fine cloud of alkali dnst showing where It floated over them. "Tbe redskins chased the half-breed Joe for ''nine hours. They shot him too. bnt tbe boy took off "a sash and tied himself to bis pony's neck, when we got so weak that he could bold no longer. And that's tbe way tbe pony carried the boy into camp in a dead . faint. There was no need to tell tbem what the trouble was. It was after midnight then, bnt in twenty minutes '. a cavalry troop was galloping north- ' ward. The next forenoon the men in tbe train conld see their sabers flash- ' ing in the sunlight miles away. They ' came over the plain with 'the'sonnd of 'light thnnder, and . the ; first. jcries tbe relief beard from the 'train were cheers which came from burning . throats and shriveled lips for the half breed Joe. The cavalry brushed tbe redskins ' off the plain and sent them scurrying in tbe direction that the sun wentl - Titer pulled Joe together and got bim on bis feet again, but after be got well he was the same lazy, good-for-nothing half-breed that he bad been before ab solutely fit for nothing. And yet, don't yon know. I really believe in spitr of myself that I think better of all balf-breeds on account of that boy. - "Gentlemen, will you drink to the half-breed. Joe?" N. T. Tribune. . Buruing of Waapa' Neata, It is known that wasps' nest often . take fire, supposed to be caused by tbe chemical action of tbe wax upon the paper material of the -nest itself. This may account for the -many mys terious lire io barns aod' oulbuild iaxs, - " , long as your arm, inquired of the clerk: - ? -Ho much?!' -Thirty-nine cents, madam, roplied at functionary. "Three for $1, of course?" "No. madam, we couldn't really af- fard it-" Ohr And she picked up one of the gar ments and proceded to test its quality by pulling with might and main at its weakest points. Failing in this laud able purpose she threw it back on the counter, and with a look of disgust on her face bounced out of the store. "Usual thing, I suppose?" queried tbe reporter. Oh.that's tame." he replied. "I was surprised that she did not report me to the manager. Now. just look here a minute." be continued; "that woman couldn't afford to spend her time sew ing that shirt together, to say nothing of tbe material and cutting, for three times tbe amonnt we ask for it. Do you know bow many stitches tbe seam stress had to put in that shirt to with stand the kind of usage it has just been put to? Well, just 21.000. "There are four rows of stitching in the collar. 32.000 stitches; cross-euds of the collar. 550; bntton and button hole. 150; gatheriug the neck and sew ing on the collar, l zuo; stucning wrist-bands. 1.328: ends of the same. 68; bntton-holes in wrist bands, 148. hemming slits. 2G4; gathering the sleeves, 840; setting on wrist-bands; 1. 468; stitching on shoulder-straps. 1. 880; hemming the bosom. 393: sewut in sleeves and making gussets. 3.050 sewing up seams of sleeves. 2.554 cording tbe bosom, 1.104; tapping' tbe sleeves. 1.526. sewing np all other seams and setting tbe side gussets. 1, 272. This represents the amount of la bor that must be put into a shirt, and explains why the home-made article bas gone ont ol fashion." Oddities of East Indian Life. Coast News. CALIFORNIA. BUTTE COUNTY. F. W. Willetto. a candy maker of Chico, bos sold his business to two different parties and skipped. FRESNO COUNTY. Washoe Kelley, who murdered Michael Kinney, goes to the state prison for lite. A colored colonization society has been incorporated in Fresno. The Christmas rabbit drive, which was to supply the poor or Ban rran cisco with free rabbit meat for Christ mas, had to bo postponed on account of trie rain. Orattan Dal ton and Riley Venn, tho train robbers who broke juil at Visalia some tune ago, were olseovered camped in a wild ami rocky portion or tne sierra iNevada mountains on Christmas and Dean was captured. uaiion escaped. C. W. Hnrtsouch. formerly assessor of Marin county, married Mrs. Barker at Fresno twenty-four hours after his wife hud secured a divorce from him. The marriage is illegal under the law rorutduing mitrrlago within six mouths after divorce. HUMBOLDT COUNTY. A larefl number of trees infected with wooly aphis have been con demned at Ferndalc by the horticul turul commissioner. KKRN COUNT. Bakorslleld ships raisins by the carload this year for the first time. LAKE COUNTY. Postal money orders are now cashed and issued at UpHT Lake. LOS ANGELES COUNTY. she reached for the cat, when the animal grabbed her by the hand, driving its teeth clean through the nana ana scratcmng up ner wrist with its claws. It then ran away and has not been seen since. Several buildings were crushed bv snow at Yreka Dec. 29 and shovelers were In demand at $1 an hour. The bulldintrs nt Spencer's ouartz hilne, on Humbug creek, were swept away by an avalanche Dec. 29, but no lives were lost. BAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY. Robert Shinn committed suicide on his ranch ten miles.south of Sun Luis. SONOMA COUNTY. Burglars robbed the store of Martin O'Reilly In east Pctuluma Dec. 28. Potaluma expects to secure a boot ana snoo factory. SIERRA COUNTY. No. 7 battery at tho Young America quartz mm was ruined byuu explosion oi giant powder. i iu-ed lv some malicious person. Dec. 23. This was the third attempt. The first two failed. VENTURA COUNTY. Jose de la Rosa, the first printer of California, died at Ventura Dec. 28, aged 103. He once published a paper at Monterey. YOLO COUNTY. The county hospital was burned Christinas night but all the inmates were saved. YUBA COUNTY. Edward Raymond shot ami killed Tom Brlce in a quarrel at Marysville Christinas night. . Brownsville is a money-order post office. PACIFIC COAST. General News. The Pests of Australia. The Chileans are angry over Har rison's message and the mnjority of the Chilean congressmen are averse to muking any concessions to tho United States. Military preparations are going forward rapidly, as if in anticipation of war. Minister Egan is accused of charg ing refugees $100 a day for the pro tection oi tne American legation at Valparaiso. j Tho Chileans arc showing more pliability and reparation for the out rage on the Baltimore's men is ex pected without war. Word comes from Rome that the American government has agreed to pay indemnity money to the families of such of the persons lynched at New Orleans us are proved to have been Itulinn citizens. Blaine bus given Chile two weeks in which to give safe conduct to the refugees at the American leiration at Santiago nud express her regrets for the assaults on American sailors nt Valparaiso, If she does not do this Me must light. The art of making spectacles, says the PovnUir .! tie,: Mouth1 v. has been reduced to a Science- '1 he lilt of glass to be formed iulti a !eus is fastened by means nf pilch to a small block ol hard rubber so that it may be more readilv handled. It is ground by be ing pressed against a rapidly revolv ing "metal tool, whose curvature is equal and oiiosiie to that desired id in the lens, itus is Known ns me Tough tool" and is made of cast iron. It is mounted on a vertical spindle, and is kept moistened with emery aud water, several grades oi emery are used in succession, changing from coarse to tine as the grinding proceeds. As a result of this process the glass has a rough surface and is uo longer trans parent- It is now tntnsfereu to the "nne tool- - J bin ..is mane oi orass and has its surface as true as possible. It is compared from time to lime with a standard curve in order to insure ac curacy. ... In this second grinding the abrad ing material is rouge (carefully cal cined sulphate of iron). Kiually the lens is polished by being pressed against a piece of cloth powdered with rouge aud fasteued to the rntatiug tool. Tbe glass is now loosened from its block, turned over, and tl.e reverse side of the lens ground. When this bas been accomplished the lens must be cut down to the proper shape for mounting in the spectacle frame. It is placed on a leather cushion and held firmly in position by a rubber-tipped arm while a diamond glass-cutter pars ing around an oval guide traces a sim ilar oval on the glass below. The superflouous glass outside the oval is removed by steel piecers, the rough edges are ground smooth on Scotch wheels and tbe leus is ready for mounting. The glasses for small telescopes.microscopes, burning glasses and the like are ground in the same fashion. Tolstoi. The recently published letters of the late archbishop of Bombay give some interesting glimpses of life in India. "After breakfast." he says in one of them. "I bad to listen to au address and then to a series of complaints again sr tbe parish priest, who was fresent and defended himself vigorotis y. A carious case of conscience came before me. The pagans had conse crated a cock to one of their gods. The bird is taken to tbe shrine, offered to the god. and then set free. Can a Christian kill the cock and eat what has been offered to idols? The com mon Christians dare ' not touch such a bird for the world. I fear the priest shot it and made one or two good meals of it." Of the same sort is the following: "Not long since a devout Hindoo gave a live bull to one of his gods, and tnrned the animal loose. A less worshipful mortal collared the bull and yoked him in his' cart. Thereup on followed a lawsuit; the devout man claimed the bull, but the judge decided that the bull was nut his he had given it to iHs god and he implied that the deity bad not looked after bis property. The Earthworm. " ' Tdlstoi has recently been described by a Danish writer who had visited him, and the London News thus sum marizes the result: "The oldest son. aged 27. has takeu the degree of Doctor of Pxilosnpiiv. mid bas accepted an official appointment on the State Prisons Board in order that be may avoid the appearance of too emphatic ally opposing bis fathers opinious. winch he does not share. He is a musician and composer, inheriting an srdent love ol music from his lather, The next 'son Illja. is married, . and lives quietly on the estate in the pro vince of Tula. The third believes more in his father's doctrines than any other of the family. TI:o eldest daughter. Taljana. is no adherent to her father's teaching. She is artistic and paints well. The second, Masclia, has chosen her father's mode of life. Dres-ed as a peasant girl, she labors in the fields, and gives her leisure to working and caring for the poor. There are four youiig children, the smallest of whom is 3 years old, Countess Tolstoi, notwithstanding the claims of this large family, tiuds time to attend to her husband's English cor respondence. Ine Count receives letters in four or five lauguages, and alwavs replies in that in which he is addressed. His daughters help to write tho answers. The German let tors are dealt with by a young gentle man of that nationality. An Inebriated Cow. W. Bert McGregor, a newspnper re porter ut Los Angeles, was engaged to marry Leah, 17-yenr-old dmighter of Ben Benjamin, unother rerter. but Ueujamiu rerused to let them marry uutil the girl was older. They were married in secret a couple of months ago, and Wee. 2i, weary of living that way, liot li took poison in n hotel, from the effects of which they died. Santa Paula is to have a laboratory for analyzing coal oils. A money-order postoffice has been established at Duaru. The people who Hocked to San Clc niente island some months ago to take up government lund, paying the promoters of the scheme for trans portation and from $25 to $00 apiece for locating government luud, are a disgusted crowd. The entire island is a government lighthouse reserva tion aud not subject to entry. Half the Los Angeles city officials are down with the grip. M. Betlnu of Los Angeles has sued A. Turner for $20,tiuo for seducing Mrs. Bedau. M4RIK COUNTY. Two San Rafael hoodlums routcl John Sanity out of IhmI Christmas nicht and forced him to cook them a dinner. Then they beat him, cut off bus mustache, stripped him oiclotnlcg and turned bim nuked into the street. He went down town, borrowed some clothing and got warrants for the ar rest ol tne tougns. MONTEREY COUNTY. Pacific Grove has been made a money-order office. MENDOCINO COUNTY. " The steam schooner Whiteslwro was wrecked at Little River Dev. 29. Those on board escaped, but saved nothing and the schooner is a total loss. NEVADA COUNTY, Thieves stole Wallace McDonald's entire sawmill outfit at Nevada City and sold It ata junkshop. ORANGE COUNTY. Santa Ana expects to have a beet- sugar factory running next season. Water pipes froze and burs tat Santa Ana Dec 26. The right-of-way for the railroad from Westminster to Santa Ana bas been secured. W. B. Garlock was killed ami Samuel Rogers probably fatally In jured by a locomotive which run into their buggy at aanta Ana JJec. 'ii. Olive has been made a money -order postofllce. NAPA COUNTY. Two masked men robbed the rail road station at Shingle Springs Dec 10. The winegrowers have combined to hold their wine for IS cents a gallon. Nana has voted $27,000 for a steel drawbridge. BAN JOAQUIN COUNTY. Vincent Glenn of Newhope was tortured by robbers lecause be would not tell them where nis money was, Dec. 23. He cave them lefore they tortured him, and they got no more. SANTA CLARA COUNTY. Emily Arnold, 11 years old, was killed in her home nt Madrone on Christmas by a shot from a pistol which her little sister knocked off a mantel and which exploded as it fell. BAN BERNARDINO COUNTY. John Ciisiek. n train robber who es caped from Flagstaff, has been cuilglit at Los A litre les. One man perished and Joseph Klein, George Bosworth and two others are U'lievcd to have shared the same fate In crossing the Sierras from Plucer villrt to Carson in the Christmas xrorm. Stock in San Diego county and across the line iu Mexico Is dying on account of the drouth. The Southern Pacillc has withdrawn its opposition to the organization of the i ail way telegraph oTaiors on this coast. A strike of all iLs train men was threatened if tbe company did not yield. ARIZONA. The Contention mine hoisting works nt Tombstone were burned Dee. 27. Los $30u,uoo. A prosiKH-tor from New Bedford Mass., whs found dead near lcni' with bullet holes ill his back and Ins partner missing. William MoGill got a verdict again? the Southern Pacific for $A"i.o nt Tucson for injuries sustained in an accident. BIUTISU COLUMBIA. Darwin used to say that the most powerful worker w kiin.v is the earth worm. Without i he earthworm we could not live. Eaiih-uorms make the soil fertile. According to Dar win's calculations eaci particle of the earth-to a depth of two feet is brought to tlieurface at leas( once every hun dred years. . But this estimate is too low. it has been recently calculated that this renovation of tho soil lakes place every twenty-seven years. There In spite of Pasadena's prohibition policy a poor cow got drunk there re cently. The story is told by L Pro gress, the t rench paper ol Ltos Angeles, as follows: Some davs ago one of our countrvmen. who lives at Pasadena, was astonished to see one of his best cows lyiug npparenly dying in front of the baru. xiie animal lay there inert. with open eyes, oblivious of every thing. J he man called a verterinary surgeon, who could not diagnose - the case, and a butcher was seut for to bleed the animal. He was some time in arriving, and when he did come the cow was found eating at a haystack. but with legs a little uncertain. An investigation followed, and it was found that the cow had eaten copiously of the refuse oi a neighboring winery. are from 150 to 200 worms in each This stuff, composed of grape skins square yard of earth ten inches in I and stems, had fermented and induced depth. . . ' a state of intoxication. UNITED STATES. Tho trrand jury commends the county officials but condemns the lewinir of a courthouse tax by the supervisors. Chino. Rialto and Needles have been made money-order offices. 8HA8TA COUNTY. Mrs. William Condon of Redding was fatally burned In saving the life of her 2-vear-oltl cniiti. which iiiki pulled a lump over on itself iu their home Dec. 24. SANTA CRUZ COUNTY. Boulder Creek has lecn made money-ordur office, 8ACRAMENT0 COUNTY, James Murphy, a track walker, sat down on the track for a smoke near Sucrumento Chrlstmus night and fell asleep and the Urst truln which came along toon his nena on. 3. W. Hov. foreman car insnector at Sacramento, was found deud at that city Deo. 27, having been mangled by a train. . SANTA BARBARA COUNTY. Santa Barbara has votetl $70,000 bonds to build a boulevard aloug the beach. 8AN FRANCISCO COUNTY. A. Lusk & Co., tho largest fruit buying and canning concern on the coast, and J; Strauss & Co., whole salers of crockery, have failed. , BAN MATEO COUNTY. R. H. Hatch, a Half moon Bay dairy man, has been complained against for working glanderea horses. BI8KIY0U COUNTY. A wildcat took up Its quarters re cently under the house of Mr.' Allen at Dunsmuir. Mrs. Allen went with a piece of meat to try to catch it. Tbe cat came up to her for the meat and The steamer Thistle from the north arrived ut Victoria Dec. 2(i. She bad n uarrow escape from a snowslnle nt Gardner' inlet, where Sikm or ln,ti tons of snow came down, carrying nil before it. When it struck the water it lifted the Thistle out of iu j IDAHO. j Mormon Bishop Hoge of Bejir Lake , county is on trial for cutting timber on government lunu nna ins nitruej j says his only hope of eseate from conviction is'in a technicality. Miss Annie Campbell has been con victed at Boise City of passing coun terfeit money. She was working it off for the makers, whom she cannot be induced to expose. MONTANA. J. L. Davis, a Butte grocer, was shot iu the l-gs by a woiuau with whom he hud been living Tor two years but whom he desertel a few months ago just before she became u mother. A runaway cable car nt Butte Dec. 26 killed illiam Cunningham, hurt Dun McDonald so that he was ex pected to die and T. C. Camron and four Italians were Injured. Some un known person loosened the brake while tne dummies were being changed and let Uie cur go flying down the hill. Five hundred horses have been stolen alonff the Wyoming Une in a month aud $12tiu a head is offered lor the capture of the thieves. Allen Hav. a pioneer, shot anil killed himself at Deweys Dee. 30. lie was to have been examined for insanity that day. NEVADA. Mrs. Larry Kearny's, cook-stove at Carson was blown to pieces by a charge cf powder put iu a stick of her wood Doc 24. She got a new stove and the next day it was destroyed in the same way. Nobody was killed, but a flying tlatiron struck her little boy on the Jaw and KnoeKeu mm down. Failintr to find a profitable mnrket for their nay, tne farmers or Aiuson valley have incorporated three creamery compnuies. Michael Flvnn, a Comstock in ventor, has applied for a patent on an air shin which he claims he can hold stationary in space while tlieeurin re volves lieneath him, thus enabling him to eircumunvigate it in twenty- four hours. NEW MEXICO. Albuciueniue will have free mail delivery by carriers. . OREOON. The supreme court has reversed the conviction of Doininieo (Joella of murder iu Jefferson county and severely censured Judge nacns, who trieil him. W. M. Parsons got drunk and died from exposure near Astoria u-.h. 24 Another landslide in Cow Creek canyon delayed trains Dec. 2G and 27. The Eugene Mill company's dam nt Eugene has gone out and as a con- sequeuee Uie mius at inui. piuce are shut down, ine eiecirie ukui com puny is tho greatest sufferer. Philomath, Elkton and Waldport have been made money-order post offices. Spreading rails wrecked a train two miles west, of La Grande Dec. 30 aud Engineer R. E. Low, Fireman George Low and two tramps named Ziiuiinski anil Sigmer were killed. , The People's party luul a controlling vote in the supreme council or the Fainers Alliance. A faction opposed to the milt-treasury scheme ami goy- ruiuent ownership of ruilrouds se eded. The Fanners' Alliance pro- ioses a political federation with all trade and labor unions. The attorney-general denies the riijlit of the interstate railroads to issue free pusses and will bring u suit to lest the mat ter. The internal revenue department promises a vigorous v;urou bull butter ut San Francisco. The crank who attempted Russell Sage's life at New York but killed himself lias been idenlilied u Henry L. Norcross of Somerville, Mass., u broker. Will D. South worth, whom the New York xlice arbitrarily ur rested after the affair, without a war rant or a panicle of evidence to con nect him with the affair, has liecn ex amined by au insanity commission ami declared sane. There are 7.1n cases of crip under treatment in Denver. The fan-house of the Coal Bluff mini', the only one wlncli lias -u- tiniiitl running in the Indiana li-'M despite the strike, was destroyed with u dynamite Itomli Dec. 11. The sixteen anarchists recently ar rested nud titled for holding a meet ing in Chicago, but whose lines were remitted for fear they would apH-nl uiid a higher court would decide their arrest illegal, have npMaled auy way. Tlielav prohibiting the owning of land in Tex ts by aliens has leeii de clared unconstitutional ly the state supreme court John A. Sumiis was kiill and sev eral men injured !v a iuwsli!o ai Alicante, C-.l., Dv. as. Mary R.-utiy of Feu!res county, Teiiii., had her lather, Claylorne Beany, a rich banker, arn-sied for im-est and be narrowly es4-atl lynch ing. She left home and went Ct live with a fuinily named Hani'. Dee. 23 she weut to town to testify against her father. Edward Harris aeeom- lanietl her. When they started home her two brothers, Mnrimi and Dave Benltv. and Gwvtin Bowden followed u horseback and Alanon opieretl ner return with them, striking her with whip. She replied that she would rather die uud the whipping wad te ll med. when Harris shot the llirte pursuers dead iu their trucks. The Clearfield hotel livery stable at A 1 ton a. Piu. was blown up with dynamite Dec. 2".). Edward M. Field is trving to starve himself to death in Ludlow-street jail. He will swallow nothtug but whisky. Gladstone Is 82. United Slates soldiers have lieen niiiiht smuggling Chinese across the Niagara into New York. "There is absolutely no diminution in the rabbit pest in Australia" said H. T. Aubrey of Melbourne at the Oc cidental recently. "In New Zealand from 15.000.000 to 20.000.000 rabbit skins are sold annually. This is all the more remarkable when it is considered that until 1851 uot one of these ani mals was to be found in the colonies. In that year a gentleman who was visiting England thought it would be a fine thing to have some rabbits in the antipodes, and so returned with a cage full of the little animals. . For a year or so all that he had bred were dis tributed through the colonies and hence the terrible result Thousands and thousands of acres of land have been devastated, and hundreds of farmers ruined financially. "Another source of great trouble to ns has been the thistle. That pest we owe to a Scotchman who carried one of the flowers ont to Sydney with him. Its arrival was made the occa sion of a banquet ami the thistle was planted with elaborate ceremonies. The plant grew and thrived, and in time its seeds were scattered by the winds. It has now rooted out the na tive grasses on millions of acres, de stroyed sheep-runs by the hundreds, and caused no' end of looses and trouble." San Francisco CM. . Prolits of New York Newspapers. The profits on the big papers of New York are enormous. They are gold mines to their owners. All the daily papers are said In be making money except the Heeorde.r anil the A'lv rtiscr. the new p.iH:rs. lhe Hermit is sup posed to lie the most protitable of thetu all. ami is followed by the .Sim, the Murnin'i Journal, the Tribune, and the Slunlz-Z ilunn. in the order named. Mr. lieiitiell's income from the lleriibl is estimated all the way ' from $800. 000 to $1 2iK).0(X) per year. The Sun is said to lie paving 40 iter eer.t per annum on the capital invested.' The proliis ef the Morning Jimru.il and the Trilmiie are probably very uear as lame. S. Y. UtU r. V R. HALL'S Pulmonary Balsam. A Superior Remedy tor a Throat and Iunjf Troubles, Oughs, Culdx. Asthma, Croon. Influenza, Bronchitis, Wboiming Cough and Incipient ConsnmptMn, Beaililjr ylrM to Iu healing qnautira. SOLD BT ALL DRUGGISTS. PRICE GO Cta. J. R. GATES & CO.. PROP'S. 417 SAN SOME ST- SAX FBAXCIBCO. CONSUMPTION. I ban povtive nmedj for tb mbawedjMMn; by rt. Mthwadicrf ri at tba want kind mud ot looc l.Mtng hTc hma coral.' Indited oatroaclBmruuUi iBltftv&cacy. Uut 1 will Brad TWO BOTTLE ruUE.itfc VALUABLE TREATISK on Uu iamm urngMt Iii.i i ill mil mi lh.il 1'hiiii .ml I n uliliiw T. A. Mwrwn. M. C. 133 Pearl (Sl N. V. BOOK, PAPER '-' f CARD STOCK. STRAW A5D BINDERS' BOARD, Patent Machine-made Bag. S12 and SIS Sacramento St. San Fraaefan UTAH. , V,it O'Mnllev and Erie Jneobsou were burned t death In a biinkhouse nt the South Galena mine Christmas inoiniiifr. , Wrml riiirmlnffhiiiii. a switelminn was caught between ears nt Salt Luke Dec. 27 niut erusneii to iieiii u. " WABHISOTON. T.ni.i Oidio lumped from a movln enr nt Spokane Dee. 11 tind, ntiikiiiRu miscalculation, was caught and dragged and killed. Theron J. Nolton. fomi?rly vice- president of the Port Townscm national bank, is accused of fraud ulently securing $30,000 and au effort will be maue to extrauiuj mm. The Chicoiro chief of police has paid the claim for $000 for damage to Dronertv smashed when the police raided the anarchist ineetlngat Grief hall. . The money-order system has been extended to the postomoes at. nw lock.llwaco. Senlno, Castle Rock, Seio, Marysville and Orilln. llie Farnelliffw earned the pax- minentary election in VVaterToM. Another plot ocutast the life of the ez.tr is reported and another balch of luHiple has lieen arrested and sent to Silieriii. The srrand duke Senrins, the czar's brother, who has been highly trusted and has been governor 'f Moscow, has been sent to Asia under guard for tampering with the loyalty or officers. Philadelphia will have the largest tin-plute fat-tory in the United States. The Chilean government demanded cash deposits instead of bonds from shippers for the payment of customs duties. The merchants combined and are bovcotting the jroveinment by refusing to ship goods until th order is withdrawn, i ins cuts on all customs revenue and the banks mean while refuse to loan monev to the government. Guatemala has the dutv takeu off riee, be.tns, peas, corn, hay, vegetables and cattle. Sisto Sanchez, a college graduate but a victim of the morphine habit, took a fatal doee of morphine and then fell off a hay loft and fractured his skull at Lios Angeles Jan. 1. Cost or Livang In Chili, The uorth wins of theeastern Mich fgitn insane asylum at rontiac was burned lVc. 2t5. The inmates were saved." The total loss is about $tM0,. 000. with about SoOO.lHiO insuniuce. tour of the city s lemliug dry goods houses were destroyed, and the prin cipal boot and shoe, croekerv and fur niture houses, two nanus, tne public library, the ehatulnT of commerce rooms, tlieUoliweb eiuo and a variety of pnmll shops, oftlecs. etc., were burned out. The property destroyed is on two of the nu-st important cor ners of the city. Chattanooga, Tenn., had a SoOu.OOO fire Doc. 2C. The Sims twt v of moonshiners were captured in the mountains in Choctaw county, Al., Dec. 2rt, aud soon after a mob took the prisoners rrom tne' guard and hange.1 them. The mills of Minneapolis expect to be forced to shut down for want of transportation for their Hour, the rail roads being blocked witn irvtght. The National Cordage company has secured such a control of the rojH mills of America that it is able to and has advanced prices 10 per cent. O. S. Kellv of Springfield. O.. has patents covering all the electric strcit-1 car systems. Isaac B. Sawtelle. convicted of mur- lering his brother Hiram F., died of Mtoplexy in jail at Concord Dee. 2fi, thus escaping the pillows. He had confessed the murder. The grip is carrying off icop!e in Philadelphia by the hundred. Seven imtsous were killed ami many injured in n railroad collision at Hastings, N. Y., Dee. 21. There had been a wreck aud a brakeman went back to signal an approaching ex press train. He stopped at a switch man's hut and lingcicd so long over the switchman's Imttle that the train passed him and run into the wreck. Boss Buckley did not start from Montreal for S.m Francisco wheu the supreme court decided the grand jury a nullity, as report-"!. He isXnnder the care of a celelralei oculist in London. All the lalwir organizations have united in a People's inrty with pro hibition as one of its planks. Mrs. Norman Thoma- ol Stamford, Conn., visited n lawyer Dee. 30 to see about getting a divorce. iNormnn knew n l'iiiiic that would beat that at Imir the cost. He waited outside the oflh e t ill she came out and theu blew out what brums both of them had Buffalo (N. Y.) has given over a million poundsof Hour for the starving Itussiuus. John J. Wocran. a divekeepor of New York, attempted to throw Joseph Selling out of the dive for jokingly muimu a newsiniiier ouu m a mn o pocket Christmas night, but Selling shot turn dead. M. F. Pritclmrd's 'house in Phila delphia was blown to atoms by the explosion Ol gas which nan leaiven from a pipe in the cellar Christmas, but none or the ramiiy were kiucu. A largo wildcat chased a pretty young schoolteacher for over a mile in the hills near North Yamhill. Uu able to distance her foe, she turned on him with a parasol and he lied. The cat was afterwards killed, aud was found to be the largest ever seen in that section. ' A ladv's bonnet in Chili costs from 30 to $100. dress silk from fG to f-JvJ a Yard, ami the modiste will charae yon 'from $30 to $.50 for making it- In Santiago I paid $12 per dozen for linen handkerchiefs of small size and ordi nary quality, and $18 for a pair of bntton boots which at home would have cost about $4.50. I am informed. that a gentleman's snit of common clothes co ts from $00 tu $10J. a pair of uaienl-ieather "Shoes from $15 to $30. and t silk bat not less thaa $23. Breati.-iutTs are correspondinniy hirh ami far iwymid lhe reach of he poor K"l"S. .v- l.ouix laruiuWr..' Ad Kffort to Speak Doss in a native or wild state never bark: thev simplv whine, howl, and growl: the noise which we call harking is found only anmug those Lh.it are domesticated. Columbus found that to be the case with the d.irs he tirst brought lo America and left at Urge for on his reiuru he tells us Hint they had lost ti-eir iirniiensiiY to bark Scientific men s.-iv that liarin real I V an etT-irt mi the part of !:. do;j to s leak .T..-r"s l"n. Ably SeoiKideil. ' There was onlv one were nf pie left on the pl:.te. aud Willie's mother pressed the visitor to take il. He decliucd. but she insisted. Willie ti.td mi am that v as more than he eon d si and. a voice of inner rca-ni he h-.w .e.i ,.m "n.ee on wnmni him. ma: fx-u on uortAiu inui; it u lake n alter nhile!' MACTIFFl .. ...liUaA S Fix 2q Put that inyour Pipe andimokeit Prit-e ought to lie oue of the least considerations when buying smoking tobacco. If you want the best and are willing to pay a few cents extra buy the Mastiff Plug Cut; there is more solid comfort in one package than you can get out of a dozen others. Packed in canvas pouches. J. B. Par Tobacco Oo..Rtchinonu. Virginia. Tower? pp lrr)prov3 5LICKER t is Guaranteed If Absolutely VateC ; reproof. Bran. OTJL 5oftWooleu "Cfr Watch Out! Collar. ALL Impmti Suckers have beside the Fish Brand Tf ADEJUtr on every Coat A J- TOWER. MFR BOSTON. MASS LAKE, M0FFTTT & TOWHE, IXl-GBTEBS AND DFJLLEBS DC NEWS. WRITING ANO WBINfMl A POEM; in, Trperuwre "Strf Iniernauoaal r nouti Ecvboard. Bet (tnacfclne In Uu . worM. Lasx eaon to book' een hnm drvd oonlractct wiUi pabusher rite for oar contra loOSi WT-C. BJWlTLtrUE ccl I oonlractct Park-Sq, Boston. i I CURE FFTSJ3 WImo iKrcareldaM men Beratr to atop than foritiMitiirabmthcaMBiBaiMB. I Men a. ndtcslcssv. I ban ande ti djm of FITS. EPU LEPSY or FALLING SICKS ESS Mm kw fdy. 1 bnduoco fa aedr Gin EipnaudfMOiBk. H. C. BOOT, M. C 183 Peari St. It T. JOE POHEID THE TAILOR MAKES Til E BEST CLOTHES Ut THE STATE At 25 PER CENT LESS THM ANY BTHEB HOUSE. S(TKitsQTielrciS2() FINE TAILORING AT MODERATE PRICES aj-RnV tor Srlf-M. and Samples of dotli sent free for all oniets. xJtV4 203HontgO8Mi7, 724Earkrt, 11101112 UarW8U S.4-Y rR-AXCISCO. WW r r-catior.al Hsseuaef Aaatasry RlWWli t Uwtr CriUax. ft aai erxxrt bw. th aarf TUl & ft. rue t4 Trti:s itfh M IWmnI 14 W1 W matt t tuctt rftjMW r-d itaNK tatrur or )mtm A. Zellerbach & Sons, PAPER WAREHOUSE, 01t-ai Olay SlrwU PacrrcBar strrrun a Sracui.'vT CAREFUL MOTHERS We rmiM han room. We musi keep buar. We must bar- money, anit iul-k. u., and thla means laurtiUT. kM. rvviix lions, sacrifice: calnuouriuxin: alU everyUilnK bttpcafa to tiurselTt-, but stock mut be put In oroer Sue sUx-K-laKinf; rljrnt away. jtt tt.a c.xl dry iieachee jt ttvlttte su(nr . Hi tt.s vtitle otcoIoixnI beans ... Mtfi or taiKVA S !t- Curfe-lmas candy, mixed 30 !K guild Frencb pruuea. v4 large...... UUl scwitu; daralui; needlea.. . s cans table aprlcota. Hue.. S cans table plums, grapes or apples I pair Ladle Ane Uie slipfiers ...... 1 pair Misses" nneOlAird lies. i lialr Misses nh-e sandals. 1 llr nice lace curtains .... 441 Ladles fine lluen cwlars and cuffs feidoacu ass.iTteii bulpius. fiirfamilv use. 25handk,Mrvblefs mens.wifuen's.ciilldren'a I ut 12 yards handsome Cashmere, S in. vide. . 1 ta Send tur prk-e list uf .itber bargtans. SMITHS' CASH STORE. 414t8 Front Street, Su FTaaeaaea. Cat. 53 tl flt IN 1 W Itta la 1 1 I'M 100 .... 1 1MI ;o laa 1 1)0 1 Statk of Ohio. Crrr or Tvojeoo. i Lccas ou'Krv, j m Fknk i. Chknky makes -nth that he Is the swihj ivartuer ut tUe llrni of V. 1. CuKaEV Ok doing business tu the City or Toledo. County ama State afv.resatd. and that said firm wUl py tile sum of OXK HlTSl'kKl) DOTXMtS frr each am every case of Catakku that canuot be curedbj Uie Use of H ALL'S CATAKaU Cl KK. VKAXK J. CHKSKT. Sworn to before me and subscribed In my prreeuce.t his 6th day of December. A. D. li6. ( A. W. GLEASOK. I Hotory Pbite. Hall's Catiirrh Cure Is taken internally mail acts direcUy ou the blood aud mucous surface of Uie system. Send r tesnnHUilals. free. F. j. CHKSKX IXX. TV ledo, 0. -rd by DruorlstsCTSc r i SKAL FOREIGN. People and horses aro dyinp of grip In upper Austria. Martin D. Loppy, a wire murderer, was electrocuted at Sing Sing Dec. 7. Humane, Strom Visible, Omental. CHEAPER THAN BARB WIRE. HARTMAN" WIRE PANEL FENCE. Barm leas V rile for Ptoel Mcket Double tbo Strength of any other fence: will not stretch, sag or get ou: of shape. to-Stock: a perfect farm ftenee, yet Handsome enough to ornament a Lawn. prices. T-ecrlpttve Circular and Tvsumonlals. also Catalogue of "Hartman Lawn Fence, Tree and Flower Guards. Flexible Ire Mats, Ac HARTMAN MFG. CO.. BEAVER FALLS. PA. BAKER A HAMILTON. SAN FRANCISCO. . v a-Always mention this paper.