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BEDROCK DEMOCRAT, P U B L IS H E D E V E R Y öcDrock W EDNESDAY, BY J . M. S H E P H E R D . O ffice in P ie rce ’s H a ll. T erms of S ubscription : One year,................................... - Six Months,............................... 2 50 s. M. . m ’VOL. 4. BAKER CITY, BAKER COUNTY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 1S73. P E T T E W G II j L. A CO., 10 State Street, Boston, 37 Park Row, New York and 701 Chestnut Street, PtDladefj^hia are* forr»Hge£ U f° r Pr^ urlnK advertisements for the B edrock D emocrat , In the above cities and are authorized to contract for advertising at our lowest rates, n3tf PORTLAND ADVERTISEMENTS. M ILLARD k VAN SCHUYVER, prepared to do all kinds of JOB WORK on short notice and at reasona ble rates. »O B S r D E U V E l S ” “ HUST BE PAID ItE L ItilO lM NOTIC E ». R e u o i o u s .— p i e l i e v . Mr. Newton, of tho , • h. Church, South, will preach at the fol- ^ o g U“ e£.and : Sunday in each month, at Eagle Creek, at 11 a . m ., and Sat- Prc,vi0UH5 night at Gem City; Monday mght tollowing, Main Powder River, N e w Drug Store. a . n . f f i 's i n n s T , PORTLAND, OREGON. MPORTERS a n d WHOLESALE DEAL- ers in Foreign and Domestic Liquors.— Also, I Doors, Windows, and Blind* F o r S£tlo. tf -A_. IP. Hotaling & Co. Sole Agents fo r the J. H. Cutter 014 Bonita Wifely, And Importers of Fine Wines and Liquors, 431 Jackson Street, San Francisco, urday night and 3d Sunday, 11 a . m ., H ub * AND Bell s school house: night, La Grande; Tues 25 FRONT STREET, PORTLAND, day night alter, Liberty school house; Wed nesday night, Forest Cove, Dixie school n46tf Oregon. house; Thursday night, Kindall’s school ho rose; Fnday night, Iudian Valley; Saturday nit night and 4th Sunday a t 11 a . m ., Dry cree* schoolhouse; night, Summerville; Monday night following, Uniontowu: Tuesday night, Importer and Dealer In Big creek. R eligious .—Rev, A. J. Joslyn will fill sp po; un tments as follows, until further notice: 1st .st Sunday each month at Union, at 11 a . m , N EW SPAPERS, “ “ The Cove, at 3 v. m . 2d Sunday Summerville morning and eve'ng. F K A N K L IN B O O K -8T O K K A N D SAN TA C L A U S ’ 3d Sunday, Cove at 11 a . m .; Luion 3 p. m . Headquarters, Fire-proof 4th Sunday, Pocahontas at 11 a . m . ; James’ School House at 3 p. m ., aud Baker City Brick Building, 105 Front street, Portland, at 8 p. m . Oregon. [tf nr Mondcy evening following, Rye Valiev; Tues day and Wednesday evening, Aiormou D R . J. R. C A R D W E L L , Basin; Thursday evening at Eldorado. R eligious .--R ev. G. W. Clancy, of tho Dentist Baptist Church at Wingville, will preach at ENTAL BOOMS, N o . 89, First street, the District School House, in Baker City, Portland, Oregon. The late and im the second Sunday of each mouth at 11 proved styles of work at reduced rates. Ni o ’clock, A. M. trous oxide for the painless extraction of S J M ’C O R M I C K , J Booh, Stationary, Toys, Music And D teeth. [ n29tf P R O F E S S I O N A L CARDS. W. L. O. STERNS, N otary P u b lic . T. C. HYDE, S te rn s A ttorney«* and H yde, Coiiiiftelon* A t -l.im , .A /t t o r n e y s -a t -L a w , B A K E ll C IT Y , O REG O N . : J * I L L P R A C T IC E IN ALE COURTS of tho State. Mr. Lawrence, the resi dent partner, will attend to the business in Baker and Union Counties. n50y W I. D. HAINES, AND C O U N SE L O R AT A TTORNEY Law, Baker city, Oregon« [n ltf LA/W. mo jl r a m » BAfcER,.................... .................. OREGON. Advances made on good mortgages, bonds, notes and accounts, loft for collection, when desired. [n ltf M. D. O BUSINESS NOTICES. S A D D L E R Y , ‘'W e s t e r n H o t e l . S p e c ia l t y . LAWIILM'E & IIIGU, WATKINS, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. FFICE, Odd Fellows’s BuildiDg. Resi dence, corner of Main and Park streets, Portland, Oregon. CGP” Special attention to diseases of the Eye and Ear. | n29 B A K E R CITY, OREGON. L. O. 8 t e r n s will attend tho Courts of the Fifth Judicial District, and of Idaho and Washington Territories. Water Rights and Mining Litigation a Collections promptly attended to. June 18, 1873.n6y H. MAIN ST R E E T ,........................................... BAKER CITY. R EID k FLETCHER, Prop’r. HIS HOUSE has been enlarged and re fitted, and is now the best Hotel on tlie T Umatilla and Idaho stage route. Stages leave this House for above and be low, and also for Clark’s Creek Eldorado, Gem City and Sparta. Connected with the Hotel will bo found a first class S - A L O O N t Liquors, Wines and Cigars of tho best quality. Phelan’s Improved Billisrd Tables all in good order. o---- o N. B.—Those indebted to either the Hotel or Saloon are requested to appear at the Captain’s office and settle. no5v3tf. GEORGE SALLY, PROPRIETOR, OF THE Bank E xchange, W>3t Side of Main 8treet, J. M. S H E P H E R D , A t t o r n e y -a t -L a w , B A K E R CITY, OREGON. J A S . H. S L A T E R , Attorney and Connselor at Law, Will practice in the Courts o f the Fifth Jud^ial District. Particular attention paid to Collections. April 2, 1873.-n47y. JO SE PH H . SH IN N , N o t a r y P u b lic AND C o n v e y a n c e r , Will attend to Conveyancing and making ABSTRACTS OF TITLE. Baker City. Sept. 11,1872. nl8tf B a k e r C ity , O regon . h is BAKER R CITY, OREGON, e s p e c t f u l l y in f o r m s t h e c i t - izens of Eastern Oregon that he has lo cated in Baker City, and gives strict attention to his Profession.* H 7" Office at J. W. Wisdom’s Drug Store. D y Residence at the end of the street Ibrth o f the Catholic Church. Baker City, Nov. 5 , 1872.-n26tf. T . 1ST. S n o w , M . H . Physician and Surgeon, BAKER CITY, OREGON. O ffice —A t the City Drug Store. MEDICAL e x a m i n e r F or the New York Life .Insurance Co n!3if is s u p p ie d w it h W HISKYS, WINES, CIGARS, <tc., <AC. The Proprietor o f this New Establish ment will be pleased to see his Friends and the Public give him a call, and he will try to make them feel AT HOME. Baker City, Jonc 12, 1872.-no5v3tf C. JACOBS, Wholesale Healer IN W I N E S and L IQ U O R S AND Manufacturer of the Celebra ted Jacobs’ Whisky, AT Boise City, Idaho. H r . E c IP. T i e r n e y , PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, " saloon T the very best o f BRANDIES, E DISTILLS HIS WHISKY FROM the very best of Corn and Bye. It is Pure and Uuadulterated; and he can sell it at a price that will make it an object for Dealers in H Eastern Oregon To give him & Trial. nl3tf YEW BARBER SHOP. HE UNDERSIGNED BEGS LEAVE to inform the citizens of Baker City and vicinity, that he has opened a BARBER SHOP In Baker City, in the Baker City Restaurant building, where he hopes to receive a share of patronage’ He professes to understand his business, and is satisfied he can give satisfaction. S h a v in g 25 cents, H air C a ttin g 50. n51tf XL E. BAUER. T J- P. A tw ood, M . D . (h r m/\ (h A A Per day! Agents wanted (Graduate o f the Medical Department oi thO 1 U thZU All classes of working peo PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, n23] BAKER CITY, OREGON. Itf ple, o f either sex, young or old, make more money at work for us in their spare moments, or all the time, than at anything else. Par ticulars free. Address, G. Stinson & Co., Portland, Maine. v3nl9y DR. D. D, STEPI1 E M , STOEMASQHS & STORE COTTERS the Willamette University,) ESPECTFULLY INFORMS THE CITI- zem of Baker City and vicinity that he H soon be with them again prepared to do kinds of Dental W ork, the most substantial manner. Baker City, March 12,1873.n«tf. W he A N T E u n d e r s ig n e d D w il l . pay T the Best of Wages for 10 or lit Stone Masons. Work will last abont three months. ROBERTS k NELSON. Baker City, April 2», 1873.n51tf From Arthur’s Home M JOHN JO N ES'S NEW ne. EAF, It was a dreary kitchen—the walls were dirty and smoking, the breakfast disher stood on the table in the mid b a k e r e r r r , O r e g o n , W ould respectfully Inform the public that dle of the floor, the cooking stove was open, with kettles and pans on he ha« recently received a well se lected and fresh Stock o f it, and cold ashes on its hearth, its Drugs, sooty plates awry, a pot of dishwater Chemicals, standing on top of the stove, and the Paints, Oils, broom ana poker and tongs lay just Perfumeries, where the little riders had left them Patent Medicines, when they were called to proparo for Soaps, school. Johnny had gene off crying, Wines, and his whine could even then be Brandies, beard comiug up the hollow, in the Whiskies and direction of the school house. The Cordials, milk had not been strained, and the For Medicinal purposes. Family Medl fles were buzzing abont it as they sat cines carefully prepared. Prescrlp- on the edges of two brimming pails, lions accurately compounded,' at all hours of the aay or sipping and rubbing their hands to nS night. Give us a call. tf gether in a satisfied way. Tho baby was teething, and cross, and the one D R U G S T O R E ! pair of hands that could have brought Two doors North of Western Hotel, order out of this disorder were busy trying to soothe it. BAKEB CITY, OREGON. Is it any wonder that tears were in the mother's eyes, as she cuddled her W. WISDOM TAKES PLEASURE IN • informing the citizens of Baker coun baby to her bosom, and walkod across ty that he has a largo, new and fresh assort the floor trying to still its cries? ment of— “ Oh, dear, what a life?—what a Drugs and Medicines, Oils, life!” said she; “ I try to be patient, and make the best of it, but it does Paints, Wines, seem so hard.” Just as the babe was And Liquors, growing quiet, and its little blue For medicinal Purposes. Groceries, Cigars hands had fallen listlessly upon its bosom, a shadow fell across the door Tobacco, way, and the husband entered, say Stationery, ing, “ Jane, can you tell me what the Toilet and Fancy A rticles; children did with the hatchet yester day?” Y A N K E E NOTIONS, AND “ It was out at the rock, behind And a general variety of Goods o f that Johnny’s wagon, last night,” said class. she, speaking low, and gently laying CtT"Prescriptions prepared at all hours. the baby down iu a bed that had not City and country trade solicited. [n ltf been made tip yet. “ Seems to me you’re a good while T H E N D E R S O N gettin’ your chores done; you hav’nt the knack of gitting along like Mrs. B A K E R C IT Y , O R E G O N , Leavodyke—her work is done up MANUFACTURER AND DEALER long ago, and she’s busy in the gar den. Tell you, she’s a nice garden’, I N don’t look much like our’n ; you don’t Harness, Collars, Hobbles, put the time on our’n that she does in lier'n.” WHIPS, “ Oh, John,” said tho little woman, slipping back her sleeves and tying on a big apron, and trying to keep her face turned away to hide tho Etc., Etc., Etc. gathering tears, “ with four little children, and the baby sick, and the Prices reasonable, Repairing done at three cows to milk and^alves to feed, and hands to cook for, and all the short notice. n!7tf other work to do, I only wonder that I get half my chores done in a whole day.” “ Well, I ’m sure I don’t see how it is,” said he; “ my mother had ten F . W . Bunnell living children and she managed to a k e s p l e a s u r e in in f o r m in g the Citizens of Baker City, and Public get along first rate, and do all our in general, that he is now running the owu weaving, besides taking in weav ing for the neighbors. You have Blacksmith Shop more room than she had, and you Lately owned and run by James Stewart. don’t have to carry water forty rods, He is prepared to do all kinds of Work in like she did—here it is, right at the the Blacksmitliing line as well as it can be foot of the hill; and you never have done at spij shop in Eastern Oregon, and at moderate prices. He pays particular atten to cut your own firewood, unless it is in the midst of harvest, and I tion to think you shouldn’t complain. If HORSESHOEING, and is satisfied that he can give satisfaction there is anything I hate to hear, it is with his work. Call and try m e. a growling, whining wife. Now, I F. W- BUNNELL. have to be out of doors all the time, Baker City, Jan. 22, 1873.u38tf no matter how thejsun shines, or how cold the wind blows, while you Blacksmitliing. are iu the shade and comfortable—if you only knew it. Ah! you have au HE UNDERSIGNED RESPECTFULLY informs the Citizens ot Baker County, easy time of it, you women, if you aud the Public generally, that he has opened only know it; so, cheer up. I mar ried you for a helpmate, don’t you A BLACKSMITH SHOP know. The girls will be big enough In the wagon shop of Frank Schlund, where in three years to help you, and then he is prepared to do all work in the Black- you can take times easier, and maybe smithing line as cheap and as well as it can by that time the bottom farm will be be done at any other shop in Baker City. paid for, and we’ll be able to ride in Give me a call and trv my work. W. J. CORDELLE. a carriage, like the Leavondykes do. Baker City, Jan. 27, 1873.n38tf, “ How long since you brought in this water?” said he, as he took a Mitchell Wagons drink from the tin dipper, and find ing it not fresh, he squirted it out coolly right on the floor among some pans that had slipped down off a shelf. Enquire at the As he took the hatchet, and started Wagon Shop of out to the wagon to fix the hay rig ging on it, he said, “ Jane, if you F. SCHLUND. cau as well as not, s’posin’ you have some of them new beans that grow Baker City, June 4, 1873.-n4tf in that fur lot for dinner.” “ Well, I ’ll try,” said she, hope lessly, as she slipped her shoes oft' so she might step softly and with more All we working women HE FALL TERM OF THE BAKER comfort. City Academy will open on the 9th of know what a task it is to put a disor September, 1872, in the NEW BUILDING, dered kitchen into neatness, especi under the supervision of ally when little children have been about. First she strained the milk, S. P. BARRETT, A. M , saving out a quart, with which to Late of Dalles City, Oregon. The Directors feel waranted in saying that mix bread, for the yeast was set the our School will fully retain its present high night before, and had been babbling reputation under the management of PROF. two hoars; she mixed it and set it in BARRETT, and they assure the Public that the warm sunshine, then started a no expense or pains'will be spared to make fire and made feed of B k im milk and it a first Class Institution. meal, for the noisy, frolicsome calves Mr. Barrett will be assisted by that ran in the door yard. Then she M bs . B abbett , as P beceptbess . swept and picked np playthings after tho children, hung up their coats T o i* m s x Primary Department, per Quarter, $10 00 and aprons, and set their old shoes Preparatory and Academic, “ 15 00 away, and moved their sleds and wag Latin. Extra, 3 50 ons and hoops from about the doors. French, Extra, 6 00 While the dishwater was heating Tuition Invariably in ADVANCE. she harried upstairs and made the A. H. BROWN, President. beds, then washed the dishes, and W m . F. M c C baby , Sec’y. nl7tf went down cellar and skimmed the w A. N T P L W e will give energetic milk. There wm cream enough for *» X U U , Men aml -\Vomen a churning, and the churn was scald D u slu ess th a t w ill P a y ed, and then left with a pail of cold from $4 t o $3 per day; can be pursued In water standing in it, so as to be fresh your own neighborhood, and strictly hon orable. Particulars free, or samples that and ready. By this time the baby will enable you to go to word at once, will woke and cried, and the tired little be sent on receipt o f two three cent stamps. mother was compelled to sit down Address, J* LATHAM & CO., and take him in her sheltering arms. 392 Washington Street, In half an hour or so be was ready n48M Boston, Masts. Opposite odd Fellows’ Hall, Main Street, 89 Front and 40 First street, 'V NO. 8. R A T E S OF A D V f l f i v One square or less, one Insertioi i Each additional insertion,.............t_ One square three months,.........• • r\g0 Business Advertisements by the «1 lu ^ ‘k y j Quarter column.................................. • i Half colu m n ,-----, ................... . ! One column..... ......... ............ Tea per cent. a.kutuiualou advertise«* ^ \ N to which a special position is guaranteed. • \J| C T T h e space of one Inch, up and dow n, tlie column, conslilutes a square. N. B.—All dobts dne this ofiice are payable j in Coin, unless otherwise expressly agreed. ) B L A C K S M J T H 1NG T T FOR SALE, BAKER CITY ACADEMY. T to sit down on the floor on a quilt, and she left him long enough to car ry three or four pails of the skimmed milk to the p igs—two pailsful at a time, and she went on the run. She always fed the pigs; when she asked her husband once to carry the milk to the pen, on his way out to work, he said, “ That belongs to a woman’s work; a man whoso name is out for commissioner OTiouldn’t be asked to slop the pigs, that's a little too steep.” It was no trifling job to feed those pigs; the pen had been made out of some old house logs, and the open ing through which the pails had to be lifted before they could be empti ed was so high up that it just came even with her neck, and was only wide enough to admit the pail with the bail lying down. Twice, when she was dressed up cleau, had the unsteadily poised 'pail tipped back and poured the contents upon her, from her neck even down to her little feet, drenched as by a waterspout. Withal the little mother was quite patient, and almost every day could her untrained voice be heard, even down to the lower field and the school- house, singing: “ A charge to keep I have,’, or, “ God moves iu a mysteri ous way.” But before another year a chango came. The strong, hard man, her husband, was stricken down with ty phoid fever, and for long, weary weeks he lay balancing between lifo and death. His recovery was very slow, and his confinement irksome; no prison walls could have beeu gloomier than were the home walls that held him prisoner. Day after day the ceaseless patter of his wife’s patient little feet fell upon his ear; he could hear them upstairs and down, now here, now there, her voice always kind and tender, ner hand ever ready to minister to her dear ones, her words full of consolation, and love, and cheer. John Jones was not wholly unim- presible; slowly the scales fell from his eyes, the light came, and he was as one born into a higher and a bet ter life. He drew his boDy hand across his eyes, often the sobs made him catch his breath suspiciously, and he marvelled much that he had walked beside this little woman for years aud not known that he was mat ed with an “ angel unaware.” His voice grew softer, tenderer, his great talony hands touched her forehead and her hair lovingly, as would a wo man’s—touched her as though he was afraid she would fade away into a white mist. Weeks afterwards, when he was able to ride out, the old whimsical buggy that had dono'good service in days of his church goingjparents, was made comfortable by a soft woolen blanket and an armful of sweet smel- ingjoat straw. John didn’t tell whore he was going, but he looked wise, and his mouth had a perky look about the corners that seemed to say: “ Just let me alone; I know what I ’m about!” It was evening when he came home. He was still wise as when he went away. His cup of hot tea was wait ing, and his toast, and the tender little pullet fried nice and brown. He seemed really happy—jolly. Ho trotted the baby on his foot that night, and he called his wife “ Jenny,” as in the days when he won her, and he let Johnny play horse with his boots, and there was such a contented, rich man expression on his face that his wife couldn't help wondering what hail made snch a change in him. The next morning the crazy old rig was called out again, and the soft blanket spread in it and John Jones took the lines in his emaciated hands and drove off in the same direction as he did the day before. When he returned, he was accom panied by a broad shouldered, good looking German girl, whom he intro duced to his wife as “ our girl.” She looked with amazement upon “ otir girl,” and then stared at Jonh. He soon explained things to her sat isfaction. “ The npshot of the mat ter is, Jane, that I ’ve abused you long enough; the Lord helping me, I’ll never see you make a drudge of your* Belf again. It’s a burning shame for any great lont like me to expect a frail little body like yon to be man, and boy, and dog, and wife, and mother, and nigger, and me a saving and a hoarding up money and means to leave to the Lord only knows who. I beg your pardon, Jane; and now you’ll tell this girl, Barbara Groetz, how yon want things done, and let her take your stid, and yon’ll live hereafter like a human man's wife ought to.” By the time his speqph was made, j the poor weak fellow was blubbering like a whale. Poor little surprised wife? She flew to his neck and laid her head on his bosom and cried like a baby, as sbe said: “ John Jones! you old darling!” “ No, not a bit of a darling; jost an old bear, a regnlar old heathen, to sacrifice the best little woman under the son, inch by inch, this way that’s been going on for years and years,” snuffled he, as he fumbled over her face in an aimless, loving way. Then “ our girl,” Earbara, went into Jane Jones’ harness, and it fitted her to a fraction. “ Now we’ve turned over a new lea/, go and dress up, Jenny, bles%yer«ir' said the new convert. So, with tho memory of lang syne warming her heart, Jane uuearthed her wedding dress iu the afternoon, and put it on with a pretty old fash ioned {collar, uud brushed ool her nut brown hair that once upon u time curled beautifully. Perhaps she felt foolish and girlish and out of her sphere, but »he looked sweet enough to make up for all discrepancies. She sat sewing, putting u new band on Ruby’s white skirt, when the children came home from school. Her back was toward the door. Tom cam e to a dead halt as be stepped on the sill, and then ran round to the leanto to find his mother. No moth er there, but tho smiling, pinky faced German girl, who was paring pota toes to bake for sapper. Tom bawled out: “ Is mother dead? Oh, I want my mother!” and circled round the house and peeped in shyly with wet eyes. Was that lady in a soft gruy merino dress, wearing an embroidered collar and gold ear-drops, his mother? That pretty woman l Snrely it was, for Nettie was feeling of her fuce, and was sparkling all over aud saying: “ Is this you, mother? Why where have you been?” “ Oh, ma!” said Tom, bolding her round the neck as though he thought she might flit away the next minute; “ why where did yon go, and when did you come back?” Poor little ones, how proud they were of the household drudge in her new and beautiful transformation! But this is not all. Before tho first cold blast of winter came, steps were taken to save and lighten the labors ol the feminine portion of the far mer’s household. An addition was built to tho house, new siding was put on and painted white. New win dows were added, and green blinds, and spouting, and a big cistern close to the kitchen door, aud a wide, long, roomy porch. Closet» were put in all tho rooms, the old verminy bed steads split ap and used for kindling; new chairs were bought, including a new socking and a sewing chair for mother; a new sewing machine, that was a love of a friend; tho dooryard was paled in, and the calves and colts kept where they belonged; and ever green trees, and flowering shrubbery and rose bushes, made beautiful the new yard. An easy chain pump took the place of the old moss covered bucket that held ns much as a churn. It was packed off to the barn to put clover seed in, and tho heavy wind lass was borne away forever from tho little arms that had tugged at its pon derous weight with a siok weariness many and many ¡a year. Tfio big well rope made a nice swing out un der the oaks for Tom and Bell and chubby Harry. Now that the no longer enslaved mother has leisure to mingle with her growing children as teacher, and companion, and friend, they grow more lovable and intelligent, and they cling to her like vines. They see so much in her to admire and emulate. And John Jones? That spell of fe ver was the Aaron’s rod that smote the rock of his soul and opened it for the outgushing of love, and sym pathy, and charity, and all the vir tues aud charms and graces of tho human heart; and to-day, growing broader, and ruddier, and riper, and better, there lives no happier farmer than dear old renovatod Joan Jones. L A T E NEWS . R ochester , June 22.—An incendi ary fire occurred at Mount Morris, Livingstone county, this morning, which destroyed all the brick stores between the American Hotel and Phelps’ house. Loss estimated at 880,000. D etroit , Juno 22.—Extensive for est fires are reported in various parts of Northern Michigan, aud a repetition of the disaster of October, 1871, is feared. A shower might avert the danger. P ough keepsie , N. Y., June 22.— An extensive fire is raging in the for ests on Fishkill mountains. It has already traveled nearly five miles and burned thousands of cords of wood. P ottsville , Pa., Juno 22.—Since Saturday afternoon a fearful fire has been raging in the northern part of the county, abont 12 miles from here, in the vicinity of Meiborton. a mining town. D etroit , Jane 22.—The Huron Salt and Lumber Company’s works in Salesburg were entirely destroyed by fire at midnight. Loss 8125,000. C is c in n a t t i , June 22.—The exten sive lard oil and candle factory of C. Harkness A Co. was burned. Loss, 890,000, insurance, 875,000. S outh B ethlehem , Pa., June 22.— A large tannery was burned last night. Loss, 320,000. Some parts of the country between Walla Walla and Colville are said to present a veritable scene o i desola tion, owing to the ravages of tho crickets. Several fine strawberry fields on the Columbia river are under water.- and largo quantities of the fruit 1 destroyed.