I.flff f:nbltt ISnriscd.
'J lie Ka.4 Oregonian gives the
following account of the destruc
tion of one of the beet known Iiob
tlorien in the northwest: '
The "Log Cuhin" eating house,
belonging to he 0, R. & N. Coin
mny, t Mcacham, Umatilla coun
ly. burned last night.
" The fire started in the kitchen,
from some unknown cause, and
when the employes were awakened
at 1 a. m. the entire inside of the
building was enveloped in flames.
Tlio furniture, bedding, kitchen
fixtures and elegant dining room
property, including some of the
most valuable silver services on the
coast, are a total loss. The out
buildings, and extensive supplies
wcro also destroyed. The dining
room was finished in polished oak;
the chandeliers that lighted it were
silver and the furniture was of an
tique pattern and very costly.
The total loss, including the
buildings and fixtures will aggre
gate $10,000.
The Log Cabin Eating House
was built by the Oregon Railroad
& Navigation Company in 1895 at
a cost of $5000. The structure
wu? built of hewed tamarack logs
cemented together. It was two
, stories in heighth, the main build
ing Wing 32x60 feet, with one wing
on the north, 20x22, and another
on the west, 20x24.
It was presided over by Grand
ma Munra, who has made it pop
ular with the public from one end
oi the continent to the other,
Tourists who pass over the Blue
Mountains have carried away
souvenirs in the shape of chips, !
. knots, pieces of bark from the
walls, and cards bearing a likeness
. of the building and a picture of
Grandma ilunra by the thousand.
It has been named tho Delmonico
of the Blue Mountain by the trav-
eling publie, and its loss will be
keenly felt.
As there is a helper station at
Kamela, six miles east of Mecbam,
and all trains necessarily- stop
there, it is barely possible the eat
ing house will be rebuilt at that
place.
Silver l.nke is Low.
The water of .Silver take is quite
low this season; in fact, there seems
- " to be less water in the lake this year
than at any former season for years
past with the one exception of the
dry summer 1899, when the lake
was entirely dried up, says the
. Silver Lake correspondent of the
. Lakeview Herald. At present there
is a large tract of fertile land lying
between the lake beach and the
water's edge, and extending the
entire distance around the circular
lake. On the lake bed thus un
covered are swarms of all kinds of
water-fowl that find a rich feed
ground covered vith insects and
fishes. Over the lake each morn
ing hangs a heavy fog, which af
fords a good cover for the hunters
of that section, and enables them
to bag the ducks and geese in great
numbers, if they arrive on the
ground before the . fog begins
to rise, about 8 or 9 o'clock in the
morning. Silver Lake, which is
quite shallow, will no doubt be
drained at no distant day, and up
on its fertile bed hundreds of valu
able homes can be built.
To Be Triod.
The Deschutes Echo, our inhisitile
exchange from the Bend country,
seems to be in tioubb. Indeed has
been for some time, and the climax
will be reached on December ltfth,
which is the data for the trial as to
whether or not that sheet is a bona
- fide newspaper. Register of land of
fices are warned not to secognize
papers which have started soley for
the sake of securing land notices and
this Register Lucas deemed the Echo
i. i j(
Woe guuiy oi anu u .,e
lav refused to iecgmze n. as :ne
'last number contains the notices of
208 persons, for which it will receive
somewhere in the neighborhojd of
' $2,000 for ten weeks service, the ques
tion is a very serious one with the
publisher of the paper. A large num
" ber of requests have been sent out in
the effort to determine whether or not
those who receive the paper are bona
title sufacriUw. Dalles Chronicle.
SUsMlr 00 ou Prutinuclnttna.
A very estimable women of Milwaukee it
an earnest momlier of a local German cinss,
but lier method of pronouncing tome of the
words, at Wast in one irpcciHc instance,
aroused the mirth of her companion. At
a recent meeting of ths class, one of the
question! in the day a nrreira waa: .Are
you not glad that you are able to learn lier
many" TliU query wm in the foreign language,
.end the answer waa: "Ja; gewiss," mean
ing: "Ye, certainly."
It o happened that thit particular woman
waa called up to read the question and
answer. She got through the question all
right, but convulsed the class by reading the
answer this way:
"Ya; gee whii!" Milwaukee SenMM.
ThasluitiviBK Worries. T
With aln4y cap and apron white,
With brow all pix kered In a frown.
With cook-books scattered left and rlsrhl
(ThankJKlvlra- goodies Shan compound).
Vy little wife, perplexed, cries: "Jack,
Do stop your work to help me nere;
Now. would, you baste the turkey, def.
With white thread or with black?"
-Abigail Stuart. In Brooklyn Ufa, iuUfl
A Selflsh rows.
Aunt Emmie Why, Alii, don't job lib
your ice cream:
Little Allie gaspingly) Xes, auntie; birt
the turkey won't make any room. Brooklyn
Life.
Where They DtsTe.
Though every dot may have hit dtty
Thar s reason to iplore
t ne turaey, wnat witn ivasn ana vtew,
Can count up three or four.
-Judge. . .j3;i
COCLDil'T VNDERSTA.JID IT.
"Worder why Mr. Oatstraw has become
generous of late!"
The Decline in treat Salt Lake.
The decline in the waters of
Great Salt Lake, Utah, which has
been in progress for the last six
teen or seventeen years, has become
a matter of concern to local prop
erty owners and of much interest
to scientists. In the fifteen years
ending with H'OO the lake had
fallen 9.9 feet, a decline more seri
ous than at. first realized, as the
lake is verv shallow, averaging less
thin '11 owl op tKc toctcm
and western shores slope so gradu
ally that a fall of a foot in the leve
exposes many square miles of hot
torn. Business interests centering
around the lake have so suffered
from the decline that within the
last twelve months a petition
signed by a number of the promi
nent officials of Utah was sent to
the United States Geological Sur
vey, requesting an investigation of
the phenomena. Some light is
thrown on the movements of the
lake in the last (twenty second)
Annal Report of the Survey, Part
IV, now in press, in which a care
ful comparison of the rainfall rec
ords since 1863 has been made. It
is found that the low water fluctua
tions of the lake, of which there
have been several since that time,
correspond in a remarkable degree
with the pei iods of deficient rain
fall, and it has further been dis
covered that one inch of rainfall
per year more or less upon the
watershed of the lake makes a dif
ference of 0. 26 of a foot in the
water level. This ratio, applied Jo
the present low water on the basis
of the deficiency in rainfall for the
last fifteen years, which amounts
to 14. 7 inches, seems to account
for less than half the present fall,
so that other causes for it must be
found. In recent years it has been
suggested that, the increase in ir
rigation of adjacent lands by water
taken from the streams feeding the
lake has caused the lowering of its
waters. Large quantities of water
are spread upon the farm lands by
irrigation, partly absorbed by vege
tation, partly to he evaporated,
and partly to return to the streams
; Qr hu ; orm of
piings. On
account of the artificial .control of
the streams feeding the' lake the
causes of the present low water
have become much complicated,
but caielul gaugings of the lake
levels are being made, and ad
ditional observations taken to dis
cover the cause of its decline and
to learn, if possible, what part ir
rigation plays in it.
fU t
AnIiwoimI Itt lit,
Claude Dunham and wife were
visitors in town yesterday. Claude
was advertising his fine stock.
Frank Hipp, who drives oho of
Frank Shumbeau's teams, came in
from Shaniko Thursday night with
a six horse load offreight for J. M.
and M. A. Robinson.
Voluey Shrum, who lives on
Cherry Creek, was in town the fore
part of this week and was sur
prised to find a growing town where
thero was a sheen ranch tho last
time he was here.
G. J. Ribelin gave a dance at the
school house last night. Ye hear
there was a large crowd in attend
ance and thev had a ritdit good
time. C. O. Sturgess furnished
the music.
C. S. McCorkle brought down a
load of fine pork from his ranch
on Tuesday, and sold it to J. V.
and M. A. Robinson. Several par
ties brought in loads of potatoes,
cabbage etc. the same day and sold
to the same firm.
J. G. Edwards and C. M. Cart
wright were in town Friday at
tending to business matters and it
is rumored that the "King" will
start up soon. Mr. Edwards proved
up on a timber claim while here.
Land Commissioner Max Lued
deman was the busiest man in town
on Friday. Quite a number of
men proved up on their timber
claims and the way the money
rolled into the U. S. treasury was
not slow.
A petition is being circulated
here asking the county court to
lay out a road from here to the
mouth of Cherry creek. This road
will be a great convenience to
everyone in this part of the coun
try and should be built as soon as
possible.
Messrs. Perkins, Leeds, Epley
and Gallagher, stockholders iu the
Red Jacket mine, arrived on the
stage Tuesday. We understand
Mr. Gallagher is a mining engineer.
Messrs. Leeds. Perkins and Kpley,
after looking over their propertv,
left again on the stage on Thurs
day. Mr. Gall:ii'lir lia boon 1. ft
in charge of the mine and as soon
as his plans are perfected work
will commence. On Wednesday
the visiting stockholders inspected
their property thoroughly, and,
among other things they sunk a
hole five feet deep on the ore shute
in the tunnel and took out some of
the finest ore that has been seen in
this camp. Those who are lucky
enough to have stock in this prop
erty, would not take less than 25
cents per share for it, though we
believe treasury stock is selling for
74 cents.
Pick and Drill.
That Throbbing Headache
Would quickly leave you if you used
Dr. King's New Life Fills. Thousands
of sufferers have proved their match
less merit for Sick and Nervous Head
aches. They make pure blood and
build up your health. Only J5 cents.
Money back if not cured. Sold by all
druggists.
Henry L. Shnttuek, of Shellaburg
Iowa, was cured of a stomach trouble
with which he had been afflicted for
years, by four boxes of Chamberlain's
Stomach and Liver Tablets. He bad
previously tried many other remedies
and a number of physicians without
relief. For sale by all druggists.
It's The Truth.
It has been said that a man's
nemies never kick him when he's
down, but that they stand aside
and let his friends do it. Do we
not pee this frequently exemplified
inside as well as on the outside ?
If your brother is down, don't kick
him; if he is in trouble don't scold
All For $3000.
I have a ranch consisting of 151 n?n s
three miles north of Ashwood. 18 acres (f
alfalfa and : 0 acres of grain land, with good
new house and barn." Fine young orchard
upbearing. 0 head of young cattle, 25
head of steers, 24 heifers, and one short
horn bull ; all two years old next spring.
Plenty of feed ami p ustuic 100 aciea of
ranch undc;- fence, This ranch is only one
mile north of the Oregon King mine.
Call ( n or addres, J. U. Poindexter
Ashwood, Oregon. !
Astounding D'.soovory.
From Conpcrsvillo, Mich., ooinua
worn 01 a woiKie.nui uiseovmy 01 a
pleasant tasting liquid that when used
before retiring by any one troubled
with a bud cough Always insures a
good night's root. "It will soon cure
the cough too," writes Mrs. 8, llimel
Imrgei', "tor three generations oi our
family have used Dr. King's Nuw Dis
covery for Consumption ami never
fonnd its equal for Coughs and Colds."
It's 1111 unrivaled lily-aarer when used
for desierato lung diseases, Uuamn
teed' bottles, 50o. and .fl.OO, at all
druggists. Trial bottles free.
Our next legislature ought to
pass a law making it lawful to
shoot "knockers" during the first
twelve mouths of each your. This
worthless and contemptible class of
two legged animals usually infest
mining camps worse than any
other place. Granite is cursed
with a couple of them that ought
to be throttled at all hazards.
Granite Gem.
Spreads Like Wildfire.
When thiiiK" nio " the host " they
become "tho beet selling." Abraham
Hare, a loading driiKgixt, of Dellvvillo,
0,, writes: "Electric Hitters ai tho
best selling bitters I have handled in
twenty years." You know why! Most
diseases begin in disorders of stomach,
liver, kindncys, bowels, blood and
nerves. Electric Bitters tone up the'
stomach, regulates liver, kidneys and
bowels, purities tho blood, strengthens
the nerves, hence ernes multitudes of
maladies. It builds up tho entire sys
tem, puts new lifo and vigor into any
weak, sickly, rundown man 01 woman.
Trice, 50 cents. Sold by all druggists.
Estray Notice.
Grizzly, Nov. C, 11)02.
Came to my place about th
middle of October. One red three
year old cow marked with split in
rifiht and uudcrbit in left ear.
branded big circle on rijjlit hip.
Owner will please call and pay
charges and remove same from my
premises or the animal will be sold
according t law.
II. L. .MtTiiuMU(Y.
For all kinds of rough
and dressed lumber.
Kiln dried flooring
and rustic, goto
A. H. LI PPM AN & CO.
Hhoes. A full line of Ladies', Gent
and Children's shoes. S. J. k Co.
SALOMON, JOHNSON & CO.
New
Call and see them and
examine their stock
A Complete and Choice Lino of
Beef, Veal, 'Mutton, Tork, Bacon,
Lard, and Country Produce.
Main st.
rriueville,
Ji. Jf. JLippman & to.
Manufacturers of Furniture
-AND DKALKHS 1N-
Fine Undertaking Goods,
I'urpeis, Stoves, HftnPH, Lom
Lumber ami JJuiKlinir Material.
Goods sold for cash ami
PKINKVIU.K, :
V'V--:
Cyrus' Jfcwelry Store
$ohn Cyrus Prop.
Dealer in Silverware, Jewelry, Watches, Clocks.
Optical Goods, Sewing machines etc
Repairing done by W. H. Cyrus.
IPrompt nltanlion Siuon mail orclors.
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Columbia Southern Jffotel
- . J$t Skatu'ko, Oregon.
Tin? Finest Hotel in Interior Oregon.
Kates 8I.0O ami $2.00 per ti.iy.
J. M. K;.Y.EVf rioptlelor.
' "Vho ftrick Motel."
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