ÍX DAYTON HERALD. large m ill was unuaed and falling In rains. "T h a t is m ine," he answered. laWKit u aacond risaa m atter at the pw< Blocked« Situatioa la North Dakota B .c o n w 4s unlucky. I t was a spinning m ill;, ■flea » I Dajtou, Oregaa. StrfaMM Ms lad tfitittn of Subsidence. once one of the floors fell through, k i l l IT E M S OF IN T E R E 8 T FRO M ALL St. Paul, A pril 2.— Transcontinental lug many people, and twice it ? DAYTON ............. ... ORIGON, PARTS OF OREGON. burned, a ll in 10 years— yes, «11 in 10 traffic by the Northern routes continues — ------------------------- j -------------------------- ---- ■ . -------------------------- BY J. MACLAREN COBBAN. - years.” to be blockaded. The Northern Pacific’s “ And today it seems to have added Financial Happaamg» el Isa- efforts to transfer passengers across tbs to its work of k illin g .” He looked at lake formed by the overflowing ST the vrvci wvttw wa UW wwwwi me. “ You have not heard, perhaps Review ul the hopartaat sloughs near McKenzie, N. D ., have I raid— s f the Maay ladaatries • ~ Industry. IN TRO DU CTIO N . d the Peat Week, Presented proved futile and but little hope is held “ What?” And still as I looked and thought of 1hrtvtag C sauasaw ss M l M y name is Unwin— Gerald Unwin fora, Which It Mott I related what I had reen and heard AMD out for a resumption of business in the this the bell tower of the ruined m ill “ Rev. Gerald Unwin, B. A.,** I am to ta l* Market Report. “ Have you heard of this?” he asked Likely Io Interest Our Many Readers. near future. nsualty styled on the backs of envel before me fell with a loud clang, and glancing from one to another. TIME (C H E O U L II opes; for, though I have laid aside cler­ there uprose into the sir to mingle pgraw r A a a ira Reports from the Great Northern No; None of them had heard. PertlanS, Or. The supreme lodge of Oregon, A. O. ical duties, for the present at least, with the other sounds the frantic ' Flood stinntion in Minsissippi is “ I must see to it ," he raid, and are to the effect that their transcon­ U . W ., will meet in Portland June 10 again becoming serious. am still in orders. Now that I enjoy screaming of pigs and neighing ol stirred as if ho would set out at once a:3u p m. Balt la k e , Denver, Chicago tinental trains, which have heretofore to 20. z - Ft. Worth.Omeha, Portland leisure and the absence of those petty horses. I was not surprised; 1 was but he added, “ after dinner.” Twenty-two men were killed in an Kanaa« c ity , St. Special been able to get through with only a Ixjuli.C'hieikgoaQtl 9:u0 a. na. Oliver Grace, a pioneer of 1343, died worries which prey upon the subordin­ somehow prepared by the scene not to And after dinner he set out; and explosion in a Tennessee coal mine. via Kaat. alight delay, are now held up by floods at hia home at Silverton laat week. ate cleric more than the lay mind can be surprised at anything that might thought better of him than I had at H uutlngton. happen in this strange region. I A six story building in Philadelphia aonoeive, I set myself to write out the in the western portion of North Dakota. He waa born in 1329. first been disposed to do because of his was entirely destroyed by fire, loss, strange narrative of event and experi­ passed, however, hurriedly down the A t'a n tlc W alla w » ila lew is- t: 10 a. m. Just where the trouble is has not been .The Western Union Telegraph Com­ ence which, in the Frovidence of God, slope by a rough path, and found the kindly feeling, though it were only for ton.Spokane.Mln- Kx presa »•110,000. neapolis, St. Paul. S:5S p.m. » definitely determined, but telegraphic pany has subscribed »1,000 to the Lewis have worked such a change in my con­ road into the valley and the village. I pigs- D ulu th . Milwan- vta Dr. Thomas Dunn English is alive, In the drawing room, however, I was H u a Un« and Clark exposition. ton. kee.Cblca«oJilEaat heard voices and saw a dim crowd of reports say that the Moose river is out dition. I promised myself and my but his physicians say he may die at struck with the altered manners of tlte The Prohibitionists of Portland and friends some months ago that I would people about the rained m ill, bat the fam ily in the temporary absence of its of its bsDka at Minot, on that line, and I any moment. 7.00a. m. St. Paul Salt la k e . Denver, Multnomah county have nominated a do this, but until now I could not bind stream, black and evil-smelling, was head. Mrs. Steinhardt was gossipy Fast M all 1 Ft. W orth.Omaha, between me and it, and I bad perforce Since the outbreak of cholera at that numerous bridges have been swept city and county ticket. myself to my desk; I hare had too S;l# p. m. Kansaa C ity, 3;. and kind— even motherly; Frank threw away. The Red river is also at flood Manila there have been 90 cases and 70 v ia Lauu.Cnleageaud much other occupation, desultory, per­ to let my curiosity wait. I continued off b is awkwardness and shyness, and About 70 teachers from all parts of Spokane Esat. deaths reported. tide at Grand Forks, N. P -, but so far haps, but agreeable: in short, like the my way into the village, which, I Clackamas county attended the teach- found, lay behind the many-storeyed delighted me with his skill on the man in the parable, I have rparried The house committee favorably re­ as reported but little damage has been piano; while Mademoiselle Laoroix was ■’ institute in Oregon C ity last week. wife. Y et that is the very reason why m ill toward the mouth of the valley and ported the b ill for 20 per cent Cuban done there. OCEAN AND RIVER SCHEDULE close to the high road by which I very bright and winsome. Yet, now The situation on the Northern Pacific The Tillamook County Rank, of T ill my friends in town have pestered me, tariff reduction. I had, as it conversing with her and now observing is extremely serious. Reports from amook, has filed articles of incorpora and now grow clamorous to know all should have entered it. H O M rO B T L A N U . ■The plague situation in India is grow­ McKenzie are to the effect that a lake tion with the secretary of state. Capi- about it. They have been good enough were, let myself in by the hack- door. her (when, for instance, she rat near Frank at the piano), I could not but ing worse. Over 70,000 deaths a re je - 39. miles long and Two miles wide has tai, »10,000. to remind me that, though it is prover­ Before I was well into the village I •aop.». A ll sailing dataa «:00 p m. ported monthly. passed an arrangement of low buildings remark that a look of sadness over formed and the tracks are lfi feet under ■abject lo chante bial clergymen get handsome wives, yet - 'Preparations are being made to in spread her sweet face— of sadness, and with blank walls to the road, from water, or perhaps entirely washed out. it is quite out of the common for so or­ The senate w ill take up the Nicara­ For San F r a n e la » - crease the water supply of The Dalles as of anxiously waiting for something Sail «very t daya gua canal bill as soon as it has disposed Efforts to transfer passengers across this During the summer months the reser­ dinary looking a priest as myself to which came no sound of life or work, or some one— whenever site was left to lake have not been successful. The win a lady • so beautiful and dis­ but, instead, the vilest and strangest of the Chinese exclusion measure. voirs leach a very low stage. her own thought. This expression wind has been so high and the water so tinguished as (they are pleased to say) smells that ever offended the sense, was able to account for satiirfactot ily Floods in the South caused immense rough that much danger has attended my wife is; and, further, that though and from the midst of which, rose a The retail clerks of Raker City are Dally Celuaikla Sisar t oo p m damage to property. the attempt to transfer passengers in trying to secure an agreement among it has been whispered fine looking cler­ towering chimney that smoked con- very soon. Ex. Ssi inlay Staaawrs. Ex. Sunday We had been some time in the draw­ « :U> d . m. The loss in Tennessee by the recent small skiffs. A gasoline launch was the merchants to close their places of ical tutors have had the audacity to as­ sumedly. These, I guessed, were part To A ttoria and Way of the chemical works of which I had ing room when the door bell sounded a 1 Saturday' put into service yesterday, but evdn business bn Sunday. flood is estimated-at |4,000,000. U OO p. m. la n d in g « . Most of the pire to ladies of very high rank indeed, this large craft was found inadequate merchants are willing to agree to such their aspirations have usually been heard. 1 found the rectory at the loud peal, and at once I saw that sub­ Roosevelt declares himself in favor to the task. I t is.thought that an en­ dued expression of patient waiting on other end of the village. I-did not go a proposition, provided it is generally overwhelmed' with contumely; and, C:4Aa.m Wlllaasatta Rtsar. of a more stringent Chinese exclusion « : » p. m. Miss Lacroix’s face flash up into one of tirely new track wilt have to be built observed. Mon., Wed. W ater perm utine lastly, they are consumed with wonder — the rector was in bed ill— but asxed Kx. Sunday law. 'jager expectancy. For a moment she Oregon C ity, Nasr- and Fri. to be directed to my lodgings. around this gap in the road before that I should have lighted upon a re­ berg. .Satani, lu.le- 1 had some tea and then I prepared to ’.ooked at the door with her pale face once more be carried on. The creamery plant at Junction City fined and delicate Frenchwoman in the A general uprising is being planned traffic neudem-e. Corrai- gone paler, and listened with quick ear, Ila aud Way la n d - in Macedonia to throw off the Turkish Pasaengors eastbound have been held at w ill soon be in operation. wilds of Lancashire Of a ll conceivable go to dinner at the house of M r. Em­ tuga. till she heard the voice of tlie visitor, Bismarck, and no westbound coast yoke. plaoes. Perhaps,- they add, with a manuel Uteinhardt, one of the creators A party of about 20 immigrants ar when her eager hope collapsed and sank and lords of the Tophet into which I trains have been started from St. Paul. 7:00 a. m. Wltlamattt and Yaas- » 30 p. m. touch of sarcasm which I can oom- Fire partially destroyed a Cincinnati tslli siterà. Thur, Mon., Wed. A train reached here tonight bearing a rived in Y am h ill connty a few days ago placently endure, I was the’finly creat­ had entered. H e was rector’s church into deeper sadness than before. I t Tue«., and Sal. W ater peruiitting. theater, but the audience escaped un- aud Fri. from Tennessee was a rich, cheery voice I heard come number of passengers who had been Oregon C ity, Day- ure Jjke a gentleman she.^ad ever seen. warden, and I had corresponded with .harmed. to n .A Way Land- successfully ferried across the lake at - A commercial club has been organ But my story is a lliw iç terèible and him concerning tlie curacy, ^nd .bad from the b a ll. |D<« “ I s t h ’ new parson come?” it asked Pension Commissioner Evans has McKensie, and they report the situa­ ixed at Freewater to further the inter­ serious to be introduced w ith persisge. made this dinner arrangement a week 'of some one. ago. I asked my landlady where I been given to understand that his resig­ tion there extremely bad. ests of that city. “ That’s J im ,” said Mr«. Steinhardt L v . Riparla Saaka Mear. Lv.Leseiausn should find Tiihperley H a ll. nation was desired. As no freight can be moved west­ CHAPTER I. «:05 a. m. 7 ou «. in. ‘926,000 for the Puget Sohnd navy are for Williamson. They are not com­ perfey iri'Lancasbire. So when one of the stairs, yard- “ A rt ready, parson? T h ’ lad’s wait­ mitted for governor. M atteu That Were Complained ol In Its Re Divorce in Europe. dark afternoon of February I alighted Cecil Rhodes left most Of his fortune ing’ «fl . • • port to the President. ‘ A* at the nearest station on a branch ra il­ Divorce was established in Germany to the. promotion of his educational The noted Roaring Gim let mine, in -l-positively laughed to myself- My in 1875. From 1881 to 1885 the year­ way, and asked a fellow passenger, who Minneapolis, A pril 2.— Judge E ll the Gold H ill district, has caused schema. ■ amusement increased wtien T“saw my Torrence, commander-in-chief of the another sensation in the nature of a looked like a rtitivb. and who Was hurry­ guide, a young Hercules in clogs, who ly number of divorces was about 8,000, Heavy rains in the South have caused ing away, whether be could direct me while of late years it exceeds 10,000- Grand Army of the Republic, just hacl; rich strike. The mine was purchased riiight qpeily have “ taken" me to T im ­ J the Mississippi to overflow its banks, i:3 0a. m .. 7 p. ns. from a conference with the president last week by Indiana men for »10,000, to, Tint perley-nwltea. I , was answered perley H a ll and farther under hia arm. In England divorce waa established in Leave« Portland A lbany 12:3» p. us., 10:30 p ut. flooding many miles of territory. — ith a curt “ Noa," I was not discon­ 1857. During the years 1858.1862 the Arrives Ashland 12:33 a. m., t u t u a . in.. on pension matters, says the report of and since its purchase the new. owners Timperley H a ll I discovered, over­ Sacramento à p. m ., s.dà a . m. o -■ r w a a a I m fu L n s rv ZtM n Z 1HU --■ • ™ woe" rve X* | i IIZ 1’ rr -X iteoointioiiR to tnvBstigBto an A .R . pension committee' was have struck a big pocket ledge on the certed. I received a somewhat uninT looked the valley -from the side oppo­ ftilfiU Jil iiiiiiilk Han Francisco 7-té n. ni., 8:15 a. 1 tofligibie direction from a station- por­ about 550; in 1898 about 660. In , Ogden ft:t& a. la., t i :a»-a. m. — bribery scandal in connection with submitted to the president over a week main vein, and removed a pan of near­ ter, and leaving orders concerning my site'to that from which I had first Austria, where only non-Catholios can sale of the Danish islands were adopted ago. At his request, however, it wilt" ly pure gold, orkbeut »18,000. » Kansaaí'tty 7:2¿a. m., » 30 a. m, luggage, I w e ifo u t into the dark and viewed it. Soon I was in its drawing apply foa a divorce, the number of de­ Chicago7:-fea. ws., »:H» a. m. by the house. not be made public for some time, as room, shaking liandi with M r. (or lo a Angele« 1:30 p. m., 7 a. m. tlie drizzle to walk to Timperley. mands for divorce increased 26'per cent The Prohibitioniats of Washington K1 r u o t o , m .,tp . ni. Herr) Emmanuel Stetohardt; for I raw Senator M itchell has asked the com- the president has under consideration oounty w ill hold their convention April I tramped for half a m ile or so along in four yearn, and in Belgium about 20 T o rt W orth « ::«» a. m , « 30 p. ia. the selection of a successor to Pension nieioe committee to increase the appro­ well paved road, and then (according at once that he was of pure Teutonic per cept in four years. 'V ity of Magico «¡Afta, m., 0:56 a. m 6. I t is the intention to place a full Houaton « a. ns., 4 a. ns. priation for the Columbia river and its Commissioner Evans. Judge Torrence, county ticket in the field. to direction, I thought) I turned down breed, and I heard, when lie had spoken Demo­ New Orleans 6:25 p. m., 6:25 a. m. discussing the report said: a few words, that*he must have spent tributaries »1,000,000. a narrow lane between a isedge and a W ashington 6:42 a. ni.. 6 42 a. m .' Hard on th« Cook. “ The committee found no fault with cratic primaries were held in Um atilla all his youth and part of his manhood New York 12:43 p. m., 12;43 p. ni. The indications are tor an early ad­ the pension laws as they now exist, but oounty March 26 and the county con­ wooden fence. I trudged some distance Lord John Townsend, a British gour­ in the Fatherland; be spoke perfect journment of congress. rather with the manner in which the vention in Pendleton March 29. The through deep mud, now stumbling upon English, but with an indescribable, met of 50 years ago, would often call to Pnltman and To tiriat cars on both train « lumps on the firm edge of the cartaay, C hair cara Sacramento to Ogden and El Paso, vote at the primaries was very light, tell-tale accent. I had just time to tho footman in the middle of dinner: and to n rm -e n n to Chicago. Bt. Louia. New Or­ Cecil Rhodes,.'.!the...uncrowned king laws have been construed and adminis- and now plunging into holee, when the burean. A dostre there being no contest over the elec­ “ Tell the cook to come to me this leans and Washington. of Connecting at ban Francisco w ith several for a change in the office of commis­ tion. A full county ticket was names). lane seemed to lose Heelf in a fielfl. moment^” wlilcEbccasionesI rather an linea rounded shoulders, and his massive ior H on olu lu, Japan, C hin a. Philippine«. hesitated a littje ami then resolved to Miss Ellen M . Stone, the American sioner of pensions has been steadily awkward pause. Then, on the entrance Central and Bòuth America. bald head, when 1 was introduced to return to the road. My eyes were now missionary, is on her way home. PORTLAND MARKETS. growing for two years past, until now of the poor cook with very red face from « . M /U £ N , O. P. A., used to the dark, and I perceived a his wife, a ta ll, nandsoiue, Iancashire the combined effects of the kitchen fire woman (her speech betrayed'her), with There may be some difficulty in the it is almost nniversal among the veter­ Wheat— W alla W alla, 84c; bluestcm, foot path across the field inclining P o r t la n d . O r a g o n . ans. Conservative Grand Army men ami mental confusion, he wpuid address grey hair, evidently a good deal older United States getting a coaling station back toward the road, I struck into believe, and with good cause, that great 66c; Valley, 64066c. her in a voice of thunder: “ Pray have than he; then to Miss Louise Lacroix, in Cuba. Barley— Feed, >2 0 0 2 1 .; brewing, this, thinking it would save me some of whom I w ill only ray at present that tlie goodness to taste that dish and tell injustice has been done to many de­ distance. But I soon found to mv »21021.60 per ton. A passenger train struck a buggy in serving and worthy claimants. A ll the me if yon do not agree with me that it vexation that “ the shortest way arches she looked refined and foreign— a rare is beastly.” the suburbs of Pueblo, killin g its three veteran soldier of the union desires is Oats— No. 1 white, »1.1501.2294 ; exotic in this region of surprises; and, is the longest way round." I perse that the laws be justly and fairly ad­ gray, »1.1001.20. occupants. lastly, to “ my son, Frank,” a' young ministered, and all who are entitled to - Flour— Best grades, »2.8003.40 per vered over the sodden grass, and some­ man of one or two-and-twenty, who Toe Much for th« Cobra, times somthing else besides grass, and Another mounted force ef 2,000 men receive their benefits shall enjoy them looked in every way and spoke like an Recently ( rays an Indiana paper) a barael; graham, »2.6002.80. • presently liegan to scent somewhat of is being raised in Canada for service in without diminntion or unreasonable Englishman. These introductions over, large crowd,- comjsosed chiefly of Kam Millstuffs— Bran, »18 per ton; mid­ the pleasant odors of rusticity, and my South Africa. delays, and that every unworthy claim dlings, »20; shorts, »20; chop, spirits rose a degree or two. I passed we sat down to wait for the announce­ stis, assembled at Yersarpaudy to offer Two masked men held up an Em­ shall be rejected and every fraudulent »16.60. low black wooden building, and ment of dinner. There was very little gifts of fruit and pour libations of [«nsloner stricken from the rolls. raid: they seemed constrained, and I m ilk into the hole of a sacred cobra. poria, K an., hotel, bat were unable to guesse«! it was a cow bouse; 1 bears! Hay — Timothy, -»12013; clover, Effective 12:01 A. M . September », 1900. “ The atmosphere of the pension bu­ was, perhaps, shy. No one seemed to This is an unusual ceremony, and break into the safe. the animals pulling at their chains and reau has been such as to create an im­ » 7.6008; Oregon wild hag, » 6 0 6 per think of trying to set me at my ease. called “ Nagala Chowty," or the snake- munching their food. By-and-by - ~ The president is receiving doeeas of pression that a great many frauds are ton. flonth South North North found myself again on a tolerably good Mr. Steinhardt sat watching the clock, feeding ceremony. Such a quanti bound Bouud Bound applications for the governorahiu ef the attempted by the old soldiers, but it is Potatoes— Best Burbanks, »1.1001.25 Bound and at intervals throwing questions milk, waa poured down that the cobra, road, came upon some bousea of the Danish West Indies, should those worthy of note that according to the per cental; ordinary, 70080c per cen­ over his shoulder to h is-w ife. (One to escape drowning, darted- from its last report of the commissioner, ont of tal, growers’ prices ¡sweets, »2.2602.60 suburban semi-detached villa descrip­ question I noted was, “ Ia Jim coming hiding place, scattering its devotees, islands be sold to the United States. tion (at one of which I knocked and S T A T IO N ». 169 persons convicted of frauds against per cental. D ally Dally inquired my wav), and soon, stumbling at all?’ ’— to which she answered, "Jim and took sefuge in a bush close at hand D ally Cuba will be turned over to the Cub­ the bureau last year but 10 were sol­ Freight -Paa« said he might look in after dinner and Batter— Creamery, 22940 25c; dairy, and splashing through exasperating Freight ans May 20. diers of the C ivil [war, of whom two 18020c; store, 13016c. A Big Hog. mnd and cindera, came out upon the smoke a pipe” — and I wondered who Jim was. I was wishing I bad not ac­ Eggs— 14c for Oregon. There have been 40 cooler« cases and were deserters. Many convictions were Down in Vladosta, Oa., recently, a edge of the valley in which Timperley for offenses against the old soldiers, A rrive A rrive cepted this invitation for my first even­ hog was killed, whose gross weight was Leave Cheeee — Full cream, twins, 130 lay. Laava 30 deaths at Manila. and not by them. The. records show 1394c; Young America, 14016c; fac­ I stood and gazed around me. 8uch ing in Timperley, when the young ladv 1,260 pounds; his net weight was 955. A 8t. Joseph, Mo., man is under ar­ that only one uld soldier ont of 73,000 tory prices, 1 0 1 94 c less. « m l M p . n i ' Bigg« 11:2# a m S:40 p.m edged her chair a little nearer to me, Each ham weighed 102 pounds. a spectacle I had never seen befi*re This 7:10 OU a. 1 :5S p in Gibsons i l :uu a.m 3:12 p.m has been convicted of fraud against the rest for having 13 wives. Poultry— Chickens, mixed, »3.500 listened to and felt the feverish rush of and said, with the sweetest of smiles fat monster produced 601 pounds of S 1:30 a 2:14 p m Wa«co lo :45 a.m 3:M p .fli government. Certainly that is a won­ 4.50; hens, »4.5006.60 per daaen, 110 »:45 I . and the most musical of tones: 2:27 p m K lo'dykel»:30 a m 2:40 p.m the life of Lancashire industry. The lard, or nearly a tierce and a h a l f - Emperor W illia m ’s new >aoht, the derfully good showing.” S:5i a.m 2:33 p.rn Sum m it 10:25 a m 2:JW p.m “ You come from the south— from enough to last a small family about 9:1« 1194c per poand; springs,1101194c per birr and buzz of thousands of spindles, a.m 2:45 p.m May ' c C Je 10:15 a in 2:12 p.m Meteor, w ill be ready to erase the ocean Incidentally Jndge Torrence denied pound » 3 0 4 per dozen; ducks, »506 { >o’ldatn:12 ¿ .ñ i 2:0H p.m London; ye«?’’ the swift click and thud of shuttle and four years. Besides the lard, there 9:26 a ra i 8:00 p.m, DeMoaa in a few days. that he was to be made pension com­ per dozen; turkeys, live, 12013c, Her accent was that most delightful was nearly a wagonload of sausage from 9:80 a m 3:09 p.m' Moro 10:00 a.m 1 :W p.m loom, and the regular sob and respire • a.m 1:40 p.m .................I p ni ErnkinYl a.m Two men, charged with grand lar­ missioner, or that he was a candidate dressed, 14016c per pound; geese, »6)4 tion of mighty engines mingled with of a ll foreign accent«— the accent of an this one pig, to ray nothing about diah- 10:50 a.m 1:44 p.m U'a V ’y •:15 a.m 1:00 p.m for that or any other office. I answered pana full of hogshead cheese, livor pud- ............— I 4-06 p.m Bourbon 0 7 per dozen. ceny, sawed their way out of a Mon­ the ruth of wstei and the plaintive educated Frenchwoman. • :.V> a. in - .............. 4:*Mp.ml Kent Mutton— Gross, 4c per pound; dress­ panting of some machine as of an en that I had come from London, thongh ding and other products. » :40 a.mi tana jail and escaped. = Six Prisoners Etcapa. ................ 4:40 p.m W ilco« . » a. 3 1 was not native there. ed, 70794c par pound. slaved geni of the Arabian Nights. 1 ................ I 5:20 p.m¡Shaniko 8:00 a. St. Louis, A pril 2.— By means of a President-elect Palma, of Cuba, is Hogs—Gross, 5j