The Port Orford tribune., July 29, 1903, Image 1

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T h e N o rth w e st Fttssage.
Gen. M iles us Hoi reman.
the Mexican capital. Mr. Tenney
ing habit. But that it is great no j
thus described the campaign during
one can deny. The work of life in-
STATE AND DISTRICT OFFICEHS :
In the heroic search for .the north wjjioh he captured the cork leg of
Any plan whereby a man’s sav- surance companies has been ex ten
k l Rrno, Okie,, Jul 14.—Lieu-
U. 8. Sets—J ihn H. Mitchell of P ort­ ingsuire made more secure to him sive and persistent. At the present f tenant-General Nelson liles com- I pole that has beeu in progress a l-' ganta Anna;
land and ChaB. F u lto n of Astoria aids thrift and nurtues the habit of] time there are many thousands of I 1‘leted a horseback rido'from Fort most constantly lor the past third
“ After landing at Vera Cruz and
I have _____
used Ayer’s
Iyer’s Hair Vigor
C ongressm an, F ir s t D istrict—Binger
people now insured in more than j ^>11, Indian 1 erritory, tp 1ort Reno, ] of a century, vaiied by an occasion- reducing the defense, we went on to
saving!-
In
countries
where
prop­
for thirty years. It is elegant for
fi
H erm ann, of ftouebnrg.
one company, and insured as invest- Oklahoma, a distance ol 90 miles, in tai persistent and equally bootless] the | nterjar ¡n the direction of the
a hair dressing and for keeping the
Governor—Geo. E . Cham berlain S a­ erty is not well protected by law, or
hair from splitting at the ends.” —
where the accumulations of the ments. The man twice insured and . nine hours and ten m|nutes. file ] quest for the south pole, Ihe at- 1 City of Mexioo, the objective point,
lem.
J . A. Gruenenfelder, Grantfork, 111.
tempt
to
force
the
Northwest
I
as-j
“
We
were
next
stopped
at
Cerro
-Secretary of State—F. I. Dunbar, Sa­ thrifty are an object of plunder by the man putting money into insur-1 d|' ,t 3® miles were mad» in record
lem.
the strong or by a corrupt govern­ ance as .on investment were both al time, the distance being covered in sage has tor many years been Qorj O) a mountainous position that
H air-splitting splits
State T .easurer—O has. S. Moore, Sa­
two hours and 23 minutes, Upon abandoned. Lately, however, Cap-, jJa(j been fortilietl heavily by the
ment, poverty prevails. The in­ most unknown forty years ago.
friendships.
If the hair­
lem.
Recognizing that the fostering of completing the trip, General Miles tain Amundsen, a study Norseman, Mexicans. This is about 50 miles
splitting is done on your
S u p t Public In s tru c tio n —J . H . Ack­ centive is to eat up what you have
io hand today lest your enemy eat the saving habit is strengthening to ’^owed no signs of fatigue and 40 has turned the prow *>f ln« »uiaR northwest ofVern Cruz. The road
erm an, Salem.
own head, it loses friends
State P rinter—J . R . W hitney, Salem.
it up tomorrow. Under such cir- a nation and to society, good life in- I minutes utter his arrival at I ort cralt Gjoa in this direction, hi* ioj over ftn<j through the hills, and
for you, for every hair of
Attorney G eneral—D. R. N . B lack­ cumstances social conditions like surance companies must be given Rono reviewed the troops stationed avowed purpose being to rediscover tbe pa8s wag guardeJ by the Mex
your
head is a friend.
b u rn , Salem.
those prevailing in Turkey and , large credit for their part in the ad- at that post, The ride was taken, the north magnetic pole it Bootnia • ¡can8> Here we stalled for a while.
Ayer’s Hair Vigor in
Clerk State I-and B o ard —M. L .C h a m ­
“On the night of April 17, 1847,
Cbina are found.
vance ofour nation socially, financi it is stated, to demonstrate that Laud and at the same time force
advance will prevent the
berlain, Salem .
Forty years ago life insurance in ally and politically. The man with General Miles, a t th e age of retire­ the ie.e locked passage.
it was decided to make « road» splitting. If the splitting
J o in t Senator for Coos and Curry—T.
Recurring to what seems like around the left of the mountain, j has begun, it will stop it.
M. Dlmmlok.
this country was only beginning to invested interests, other things be- ment, is skill a sturdy man.
Jo in t R epresentative for Coos and establish itself in the confidence of ing equal is the best citizen, the
General Miles spent Monday ancient history in Arctic explora­ This was completed the next morn
$1.09 a baffle. All druubta.
C urry—R. » - Hume, W edderburn. | th e pu b l¡c flg R
depO8¡l for gfty
tion, it is recalled that Commander ing. Then the charge began, some
morning
inspecting
Fort
Sill,
rest­
If
your
drugglat cannot supply yoa,
Ju d g e, 2d Ju d icial D istrict—J . W I
»y-1 best neighbor and the best man.
send us one dollar and we will exp
H am ilton, Roseburg.
nigs. Ih s present well fortified '1 here are a number of legal reserve ing in tire -afternoon preparatory to McClure, who spent practically five of us going around, some charging
you a bottle. Be aiuc aud «ive »he n___.
o f your nearest express
txnrw omc°. Address,
Prosecuting Attorney, 2d Judicial Dis- position of the legal reserve life iu- companies doing business in Oregon, taking his long ride. There was a years in the Arctic in search for up the heights after the intrenched
J. C. AYER CO., Lowell»
trict—George M. Brown, Roseburg, surance companies of this country All are alike responsible; but it is large crowd at the fort when General Sir John F ranklin, made his way Mexicans.
U. S. C om m issioners—J . H . U pton, was not occupied without years ot not too much to say that none is Miles came from the commandants’ through or over this passage, though
“On the night of the 17th I and ^jay jje T h e G r a v e O f C h ie f
Langlois ; J . H untley, Gold Beach.
Concom ly.
hard fighting and intrenching re- more prompt in making settlements house shortly after 4 o’clock this without his ship. Strictly speak­ 39 others of my detachment got
COUNTY OFFICERS.
suiting from expensive experience, with policy holder» or pays larger morning to make the start. He ing, he trade a northeast passage separate 1 from our comrades and
C ounty Ju d g e —E. A. Bailey, Gold
I t is hard to measure the part ] dividends to policy holders than was booted and spurred and wore a from the Pacific to the Atlantic, wandered around lost. Early in
Astoria, Or., Ju ly 1G.—Consider­
Beach.
common m ilitary suit. As the for which feat lie and his crew re the morning we saw a road through able interest attaches to the finding,
played
by
lifeinsurance
companies
the
Washington
Life
Insurance
Com
County Commissioners—F . H. Blake,
General started out at 5:30’ he was eeived a grant of $50,000 from the the trees and made for it. Before by workmen engaged in repairing
in the growth of thrift and the sav- j pany.
Chetoo; C. W. H aines, E rkley.
cheered lustily. He was accompan­ British Parliament. A commercial we reached the open we saw a large an E ast Astoria street, of the grave
Sheriff—J . G. W alker, Gold Beach.
P . d . LINDBERG & S O N
1
ied by Captain Sayre, of the Eighth dream of former years was based on number of Mexican soldiers. We of some Indian chief. Speculation
C ounty C lerk—George W . Sm ith,
GOLD B E A C H
Gold Beach.
Cavalry. The weather was cool at the hope to discover in the far north had come upon the National road is rife ns to the position held in life
Directors.
C aunty Treasurer—Jam es Caughell, Funeral
the start, but became intensely hot. a passage that might open a new to the City of Mexico, and had come by the unknown occupant of the
W edderburn.
Anadarko, Oklahoma, 35 miles dis­ trade route between Europe and the in behind the Mexican army.
grave, but the belief Is general
Assessor—A. H. Post, Port Orford .
tant from Fort Sill, was raached in East Indies. Against all possible
“Santa Anna was there in h s among old residents th at perhaps
School S u p t.—Wm. 8. G uerin, L an g ­ A Complete Line of Caskets, Coffins
two hours and 25 minutes. The realization of this dream the Arctic carriage, and there were several the bones of the great Concomly re­
and Trimmings.
lois.
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II. T. STEW ART, PROP.
Surveyor—D. Cuuniff, J r ., Gold Beach.
ride was made in ten-mile relays, W inter has placed an embargo. wagon loads of silver dollars. A posed there until the workmen un­
L
Orders taken for Tombstones and
MEETINGS OF TH E COVETS.
soldiers stationed along the line While the persistence, endurance regiment of lancers and some other earthed them.
Cemetery Railing.
C ircuit C ourt meets Fourth Monday in
furnishing fresh horses.
and courage of explorers may some troops were guarding this important
H o r s e s W « ll
The grave was uncovered at
P
O
R
T
O R FO R D , OREGON
A ugust of each year.
A salute was , fired as General time force this passage, it has long end of the arm y,
A lderbox.an E ast End suburb, and
<J«.i»e<t
F
o
r
.
C ounty Com m issioners C ourt meets
Miles entered Fort Reno. Heshow- been conceeded that it could not
“ Well, we 40 men began to file occupied a position on what was
first W ednesday in Jan u ary , April,
J. W. STRA N G E,
j
ed
no signs of weariness as he dis­ have the slightest commercial value. out the chapparal, shooting as we known as the Robert Shortens dona­
Ju ly and September of each year.
Hay and Grain Constantly on band. ! mounted and said:
The feat, therefore, could only be went. The Mexicans thought the tion land claim. Shortess himself
P ro b ata C ourt meets first Monday in
IJIS JV T I iS F .
Prices Reasonable.
“ I enjoyed every moment of the rewarded, if successful, by the sim whole American array had come was an Indian, and another theory
each m onth.
C U B IT COUNTY POST OFFICES AND POST­
nip and there was o n e tim e that I pie satisfaction that would follow upon them. They fled, taking a has been advanced th at the bones
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-
C O Q U I L L E C I T Y , O R E G O N . GOLD BEACH, -
M ASTERS.
_____j felt particularly good; that was its accomplishment.
path into the chapparal on the other were those of his Indian wife. Mrs.
C h etca...................................F. H . Blake.
when I came up to the men who
For almost fifty years there has side of the road. Santa Anna was Shortess committed suicide here 50'
E d n e a t e T « n r F o x v o ls W i t h r ’’t«*cskret»».
H a rb o r..................... Jam es McCutchen. Will viist Curry C ounty sem i-annually. C andy C a th a r tic , e u ro c o n s tip a tio n fo rev er.
had charge of the pack teams just been no«effort made with this spec- ¡n t|le ni, j 8t of his body guard, years ago, and her body was buried
'ÛC.2ÔC. It C. C C fa il, d ru if c is is r e f u n d mouRT
G old B e a c h .............Miss Annie Doyle.
south of the Canadian River. They ial object in view. North of the and we did not see him. We ran somewhere in tlie neighborhood of
W ed d erb u rn ......................Jo h n Hume.
had lunch ready and I enjoyed it American Continent a vast number out and captured the carriage that the recent find.
Illih e e .................................... J- IL H all.
A g n o ss..................... M rs. J. D. Cooley.
with them. It made me feel extra of islands have been discovered, he had just vacated. We found in
In the grave were many articles
O phir.................................W . E. Burrow.
named and revisted from time to there his cork leg, which he had dear to the heart of the red man.
good.”
C o rb in ......................... C has. R. W ilson.
Imm ediately after reviewing the time. Straits and sounds divide taken oft’ so that he could ride There were a musket and rifle, two-
P o rt O rford.......................................Ames Johnston
troops
at Fort Reno, General Miles, them and Winter extends his white through the thick chapparal on a large hunting knives,a bullet mold.,
D en m ark ................
J. S. Capps.
accompanied by Colonel Maus, scepter over them. Almost nothing mule which had been cut loose from powder horn and pipe. The pipe is
L a n g lo is ........ -...................................... E. Rackleff.
l
E c k le y .................................J. A. H aines.
drove into El Reno and caught a is known of them, aud the little the carriage. If we had been five pcrlia,is the most interesting of the-
that is known is without practical minutes earlier, we would have relics, for it is of elaborate design.
train for Fort Riley.
value to the world. They, however, caught Santa Anna himself.
The design is so elaborate, indeed^
J. HUNTLEY,
A W ord F o r D a d .
offer a field for seientifio exploration
“ We also found iu his carriage that old residents jum p to the con­
: which is tempting one of those the General’s breakfast—a bottle of clusion that it must RUrely have be­
Attorney & Counselor at Law
We happened in a home the other
whose ambition points in that di- wine, some cheese and cakes. The longed to some noted warrior. The-
night, and over the parlor door saw
rectien,
and when to this is added carriage resembled the cabs we see presence of these articles in the
NOTARY PUBLIC,
tlie legend worked in letters of red,
the vague possibility that the on tiie street?, but it was much grave disprove the theory that the
“ W hat is home without a mother?’’
O regon .
G old B rach
Northwest Passage may accidently larger and rougher and more bungle- bones are those of Mrs. Shortess fo»'
Across the room was another brief,
or incidently be found and forced,! gotne
even the most enthusiastic Indian
“God bless our home.”
such attractions as a cruise among , “ j carried that leg on my right woman would not have been pos­
Will Practice in all the Courts of this
Now, what’s the matter with “God
these islands affords are greatly in- ,|,oulder all the way to our next sessed of such articles as m uskets'
State.
bless our dad?” He gets up early,
creased.
Thus far the Norwegian encampment. It was sent back to and hunting knives. The Indian
Public Land Cases a Specialty.
lights the fire, boils an egg, grabs
expedition is the only one now in Illinois, exhibited there, in New custom was to bury with dead
his dinner-pail and wipes off the
, this frozen field, though a sugges- York and other places.
heroes all their personal effects, but
dew of the dawn with his boots
J. II. UPTON,
i tion that one lie fitted out in this
“ What we enjoyed most of all this rule was not followed in the
while many a mother is sleeping,
country with that object in view that morning was the Mexicans’ burial of squaws.
U . « . C O M M I S S I O N L it,
He makes thetveekl y hand-out for
awaits financial response.
Charles McEwan,an old resident,,
breakfast, which they were just pre
the butcher, the giocer, the m ilk­
NOTARY PUBLIC,
Commander McClure worked his paring. It had been a long time expresses the conviction that old
man and baker, and his little pile
way through from Behring Straits since wo had anything to eat, and Concomly was buried in the spot
L anglois , C urry Co., O regon .
is badly worn before he has been
to I the east nearly fifty years ago, we were dog tired fro.n w,irking ami just uncovered. Concomly’s burial
home an hour. He stands off the
but without his vessel. It remains from wandering iD tlie woods. We place was on a hillside in the vicin­
ilealer in Town Lots, and Im proved
____,
bailiff and keeps the rent paid up.
to be seen whi ther Captain Amund­ ate their black beans and their corn- ity of Alderbrook and Mr. McEwan
and W ild Lands.
■ '
If there is a noise during the
sen will be able to push bis little bread with all the relish in the is satisfied that the illustrious chiefs
F ilin g s.an d Final Proofs Made on
I night dad is kicked in the back and
ice cutter Gjoa through from east to world. Santa Anna’s wine and grave has bean found.
Hom esteads and Pre-em ptions.
1 made to go down stairs to find tlie
west, and thus make the mythical cakes did not go far, you know.
Concomly was a great roan in his
burglar and kill him. Mother
Northwest Passage a reality.
day.
When John Jacob Astor’s
“The
first
man
we
saw
came
G EN ERA L CONVEYANCING.
darns the socks, but dad buys the
through
the
pass
after
the
retreat
first
expedition
reached the C olum ­
—Oregonian.
j socks in the first place and the
of the Mexicans was a Texas com­ bia, Concomly was there to give
L. A. ROBERTS,
T he H istoric Cork Leg.
needles and the yarn afterwards.
mander, whose name I do not rem­ welcome to the intrepid explorers,
Mother does up the fruit; well, but
A T T O R N E Y A T LAW .
Dallas, Tex.—This city has the
ember.
Ilis mustache was white as and when, after Fort Astoria was
dad buys it all, and jars and sugar honor of claiming as one of her
M yi i e P o in t, O regon .
snow,
and
he was very much ex built, an English sloop of war mad»
cost like the mischief.
citizens the Mexican War veteran
cited.
Ail
the boys swore that he her ap pearauce off the river and
Dad buys chickens for the Sunday who, at the battle of Cerro Gordo,
was
frothing
at the mouth wheu he threatened to blow up the American
Probate business a specialty.
Hardware, Tinware, Glassware, Crockery. dinner, carves them himself and in 1847,captured Santa Anna’s cork
rode
through
that pass after the post, old Concomly, with a fiery
(draws the neck from the ruins after leg, and came near capturing the
look in his one eye, hastily visited
fleeing Mexicans.
¡every one else is served. “ W hat is “ Napoleon of the West” himself.
FLOUR and FEED always on hand.
the American camp to offer his ser­
J. M. UPTON,
i home without a mother?” Yes,
The veteran is M. 1). Tenney,
vices iu expelling the intruders.
Queen
Helena
of
Italy
is
a
royal
Orders taken for any article not in stock.
that is all right; but “ What is home and he is stationed here as a lec­
Attorney and Counselor at Law,
He was genuinely aggrieved when
lady
who
hag
a
very
practical
knowl­
Orders taken for Suits, and fits guaranteed.
' without a father?” Ten chances to turer for his church. lie has lived
the Britisn hauled down the stars
edge
of
cooking.
At
her
father's
UA ND O N , O K L G ON.
one it is a boarding house, father is for a number of years in South
and stripes and rechristened the
curiously
homely
and
unpretentious
under a slab, and tlie landlady is Texas, at Bay City,between G alves­
court Queen Helena learned many port Fort George, and correspond­
O le a u p stairs, in Eldorado Building
the widow. Dad, here's to you; ton and Houston.
ugeful things, and among them the ingly elated when, some years later,
you’ve got your faults—you may
W ith Mr. Tenney ia his wife, to
art
of cooking. The Prince of Mont­ the American flag again fluttered
have lots of ’em—but we will miss whom he alludes “as the young
GEORGE M. BROWN,
enegro
insisted that all his children from the flagstaff. Concomly loved
you when you’re gone.
lady with whom I was correspond­
should
learn a trade—a rule which, the Americans, and gladly gave i n
[To the above may be properly ing when I was in that campaign,
A T T O R N E Y AT LAW
by
the
way,
obtains in the German marriage to one of Mr. Astor’s
] added the question of a kinder­ and who I afterwards won.”
imperial
family—and
the future partners the hand of his daughter,
garten teacher to her class—‘What
Mr. Tenney is nearly 78 years of
ROSEBURG, OREGON.
Queen
of
Italy
became
not
merely a on this occasion providing her with
j animal supplies you with food and age. Both Mr. and Mrs. Tenney
—.....-
plain cook, but also skilled in the an unlimited quantity of fish oil for
¡leather for your shoes?” and a ar8 ns hearty and ai lively apparent
preparation of the curious sweet­ hair dressing purposes.
DR. J. J, CALDWELL,
bright little boy replied, “ Dad? ]
,y a„ a young collp|e.
So if the grave is really that of
meats aud patissesie of which Ori­
l ’ liy » l< - in n a n d S u r g e o n ,
— Stevens County (Mo.) Reveille,
Reveille., j Mr. Tenney was a member of the
ental* are so fond. The late King the old chieftain who did so much
Fourth Illinois Regiment, Colonel
Humbert insisted on lasting h to assist the history-makers of 100
W A N T ED:-*-Y ouko men to pre-
PORT O RFO RD,
OREGON.
D. Baker, afterward Senator
All goods not giving satisfaction can be returned, and money refund pare for Goverment positions. F in e l1 E.
5*’ 1,4
r’
j ,|aughter-in-law’s cookery, and so years ago, it is entitled to mors
opening in all departments. Good frora Oregon, an< o om pany
• | p|eage(j was ha with tbe dainty fare consideration than has thus far
Diseases of Ladies and Children a Spec- e<]. providing the goods are returned in good order.
salaries. Rapid promotions. Ex- ^ a F’ta ‘n -«d . ones. G was * lt ‘ I ghe set before him th a t ha conferred been shown it.
•»By
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aminations soon. Particulars free
and roa;die(1 an., fouglll ,1(s on her. with mock ceremony, the
T he Oregon W eekly Journal, a D em o ­
A r« Y o « r K M a o y a *
n ter-btate Cur. Inst., Cedar Rapids way
wav for 200 nules inland and un-|t>tl« of “ Lady High Cook to the P r Itobb« f l o S w p arala*
cratic new spaper. 1< pages. full o f new «—
P ill« c u r ta il kldMTIU*. flM »
a ll o f it! $1 a y e a / to any addrexa. Tha
aUiroa
a<u.
itoiU
ia
furled the Stars and Stripes over i King of Italy.”—Chicago News.
Journal, P. O. Box 121. Portland. Or.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
L I F E IN S U R A N C E .
Hair Splits
peed Stable,
T
POKT OKFORD, OKEGON,
DEALER IN
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
KEEPS IN STOCK,
GROCERIES, The Best,
1»HY
Ladies’ and Gents’ Furnishing Goods,
Hats and Caps,
Oil Clothing,
Boots and Shoes,
NEW GOODS
| Received by every steam er.
SIS and W taken is daagi {or Geode.
DOORS and WINDOWS?;
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