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About The Eugene City guard. (Eugene City, Or.) 1870-1899 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 20, 1886)
mi nn irn ESTABLISHED FUR THE DISSEMINATA OP DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES, AND TO EAR ill HONEST LIVING BY TUE SWEAT OP Oil BROW. X-r : , VOL. 18. EUGENE CITY, OR, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1880. NO. 23. GEN .RDc m (SttfltM City fiunrd. I. L CAMPBELL, rabllsher and Proprietor. OFFICE On the Et w'de f Willamette Street, Deiween aeveiim ami ciiiui niraw, TEEMS OF SUUSCPJPTIOX. fr annum... Mx Months... 'lire nioullii. 2 60 , t'J5 , .75 ODE OXLY RA.TK3 OF ' ADVERTISING. Advertisement inserted u follow: One square, ten line, or 1mm one luHertinn 83; each mlwequeut insertion L Cah required Time advertiser will be charged At the fol lowing rate: One square three month W Oa square ix mouth " (K un. Transient notice in local oulumn, 20 otinti p.r line mr eacn inaeruon, AdvertUiiiK billi will be rendered quarterly. All job work roiirtt be paid roa off dklivkiiy. L, BILYEtT. & M. COLLIER. BILYEU & COLLIER -Attorneys and Counsellors at Law, EUGENE CITY. OREGOX. nuAcricE ix all the courts of I thii Stat. Will K'.ve special attention to collections and probata mutter. OfNC--Over Hendrluk & Eakln' bank. CEO. B. DOBRIS, Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law, iriLL PRACTICE IX THE C3UKTS J of tiie Second Judicial Uiatrlut and in be Supreme Court of thin State. Sposial attuution given to collection and natter in nrobate Geo. S, Vashburne, Attoriier-at-I,:iv, litLJESE CITY, - - - OREGON OFFICE At the Court House. Iy8m3 GEO. M. MILLER, Attorns 'ani Csuassllor-at-Law, and Real Estate Agent. EUGENE CITY, - OREGOX. Ofl Ice formerly occupied by Thompson & lean. J. E. PENTON, ku;i:nti5citv oregox. Spec! il attention iiven to lle;il Estate Prao ics an I AlMtiucU ol Title, Orricn Over Graujfe Store. T.W. HARMS, M.D. Physician and Surgeon. OFFICE Wilkin's Drug Store. lUiidence on Fifth street, where Dr Shelton ernerly resided. - Dr. T. W. Shelton, Physician and Surgeon. K00MS-At Mr. J. B. Underwood. , EUGENE CITY. OREGON. DR. JOSEPH P. GILL, C AN BE FOUND AT HIS OFFICE or re idence when not professionally engaged. Office at the POST OFFICE DRUG STORE. Residence on Eighth street, opposite Presby tia Churoh. J. J. WALTON, Jr., ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, EUGEXE CITY, OREGON. . WILL PRACTICE IX ALL THE Court of the State. Special attention given to real estate, col ectinsr, and probate matter. Collecting all kind of claim against the United State Government, Office in Walton' brick room 7 and 8. New Barber . Shop and Bath It oms. (On door North of Post Office.) BATHS, 25 CENTS. EVERYTHING fitted up in the best of order. Shaving wd hair cutting done in the most approved tin. JERRY HORN. Proprietor. W. N. NOFFSINGER, ATTORN EY-AT-LAW, EUGENE CITY. OREGON, WILL PRACIICE IN ALL COURTS of the State. Negotiate loan. Col lection promptly attended to. Oruci-Over Grange Store. olO-tf PIPES & SKIPWORTH, Attorneys-at-Lavv, CORVALLIS, OREGON. PROF. D. W. COOLIDCE, (Fernwrly of De nolnei, loway HAS LOCATED IX EUGEXE CITY for the purpose of teaching ruxo, OBOAS d HARHONT. .All the latest method em Woyed to develop a fine technique. Room for " Preseat cor., Seventh and Hih at. olOrj- NEW mmmfl.tmmm 1 B. t3T A GENERAL isi in A large assortment of La dies and Childrens Hose at U 1-2 cts. Good Dress Goods a t lUc- Best Corset in town for 50c An immense stock of New and Seasonable Goods. Fine Cashmere in every shade. New and Nobby styles in CL02HING. Liberal Discount for CASH. A. V. PETERS, Will pay the highest Market Price for Oats and harle . Cash Or Credit roods ? Sold as Low as any House in Oregon for CASH OK The highest price paid fcr all If litis of Country Produce. Cail and see S. H. Friendly. Harness Shop. H AVING OPENED A NEW SADDLE AND HARNESS SHOP OX 8th 8TRB , west of Crain Broe'., I am now prepared to furnish everything in that line at the LOWEST EATES. The Most Competent Workmen Are employed, and I will enJeovtr to give satisfaction to ill hi mia fovcr me with a calk GOODS. BM if mi it Irimming silk and Sat ins in all shades. Moireantique Silks. Velvets in Colors. The finest stock of French KID SHOES ever brought to this place. BOOTS and SHOES in all grades- GROCERIES of all descriptions. CREDIT. ! A. S. CUIUIIE. ' JOIQI'I MILLER. The rott'i Cnrioai tnretr at i Yonnj Man in Orrgoi. a f. Post V, The papors have had much to say lately of "Joaquin' Miller and hia daughter Maud. Permit me to have my aay about "Joaquin." I was run ning a iipwnpape r in EugeiiH City, Ore gon, in 1862, and in May of that year there came into the office a Mender young man, a littlrt above medium hight, of fair complexion and c.nteel appearance, neatly dreRgtd, who was introduced to me as "Hine" Miller. Stukuly Ellsworth, the leading lawyer of Lanu county, and among the ablest oAhe W of - Oregon, introduced In'in. At that time there was a "gold exci'.e ment" iu the northern part of Idaho Territory, and Florence and tho Elk and Pierce digging were much talked of. Miller hud been there in each district. Many in Eugene City and in Lane county felt an interest in the mutter, and some had relations in thoae diggings. With the common spirit of newspaper men I desired to obtain all the information I could of the gold region. Miller told me lie had ridden the weekly express carrying packages of gold, letters, etc., between Lewiston, at the junction of the Snake and Clear water rivers, and all these mining camps and (hat he knew the country very well. Suid I: "Please sit down and draw me a rough sketch of it," and I motioned to him a chair on the other side of the table at which I sat. With a sangfroid that was overpow ering ho responded, "I will sit here and give it to you." It was to my own chair he directed his index finger I in authority and he so many years my junior. It was cheek; but also it was oenius, and I humored him lr. his sub lime nonchalance and charming im pertinence. SOME STYLE ADOl'T HIM. He worn neat fitting kid gloves, a rarity in interior Oregon at that period even in "our best society." And his, I noticed, were IiuihUoiiip, deliiately formed hnmls; the gloves a thorougl fit, Jouviu's liet. Hi. took my chair as though it was Ins, not mine, as 1 rose tJ jjive il to him, reached for a sheet of foolscap upon the table and with pencil, drawn from his own pucket, drafted for me a map of the region, with its streams, trails anil details, every lamp and all the dig niuys rli-licieil, and then, on my own narrow eilimi iiil sheet, added such suc cinct (lest riitioii of the dill'iTent ditches and mioutial relating to each as In more t lit it satisfy me. His "l:nssy" manner amusi-il me, but he morn than recompensed me by his information. Yenrs afterward, in traveling over the region he had delineated, I learned the accuracy of his rough sketch ami the fidelity of his details That nfx-rnoon I saw Ellsworth and ask el him, "Who and what is the young Miller you brought into my olliee this morning; he is a sort of genius, isn't he!" Ktukely gave an ac count of him and Miid: "Why, his father is one of your subscriliers.a solid old farmer a few miles from town, and his mother is one of the best old ladies we have in the country. Hine (pro nounced like Iliney) is n queer boy, but I guess he m all right. His father, Hulin Miller, is orm of our best men, I will make you acquainted with him the next time he comes to town, And he did; also presented me to Mis Miller, Joaquin's mother, a lady, by the way, of superior worth and intelligence. Hulin Miller was a careful, thrifty farmer, well-to-do, and respected by all who knew him. Cincinnatim Hine Miller, the "Joaquin" of whom the world knows, was a wayward lryof romantic turn aixl wild, rather than vicious. HE JOINS Till IXDIA5S. One of his mad pranks wae his run ning away from home, where he was Inved and petted, and jonrneyed into Northern California, where he took up with the Indians, the Modocs, 1 believe. Now, to steal horses is as much an In dian virtue and accomplishment as was that order of theft among the Spartan youths which prompted one of them to suffer the stolen fox concealed leneath his garment to gnaw him to death sooner than to dinclose the act which he had committed, for it was not the stealing but the detection which a as unendurable. And, if I do not err, it was in an escapade of this horse fancy ing order in which Joaquin received the bullet wound in his leg which has caused in him the imitation of tho Hy ronic limp, which sometimes still troubles him, or which ho at other times in erratio mood affects. My im pression also is that it was the late General David D. Col ton, then Deputy Sheriff of Siskiyou county, who gave the fleeing Joaquin the wound, but he didn't catch him, nevertheless. How Joaquin separated from his Indian friends I never learned, never e red to learn. Dot he was early anxng the gold hunters of tlit Florence bonm period, and from that country returned to Oregon to "settle "down." He was bright and ambitious. He studied law with Hon. N. H. Cranor, of Albatiy, and subsequently succeeded me in the editorship of the newspaper in Eugene City, the name of which he changed to the Review. In the columns of that paper he first tiegan his literary work, a story with some merit, and he chosi the non-de-plume of Do Weaver. On account of the Southern sympathy the Review manifested in those days, 18G2, the government suppressed it from the mails and Joaquin's occupation as edi tor wis gone. "MI!Xt MYRTLE." A favorite and talented contributor to the Review, in verse and prose, was Alinnie Myrtle, whose home was in Coos county. Her writings gave evi dence of that spirit of romance in which Joaquin himself delighted. A correspondence of familiar, and, finally, of loving order followed. This led to a proposition of marriage and its ao ceptance. The story goes, although I never put faith in it, that Joaquin rode tho hundred and odd miles from Lane county to the home of hi betrothed, reached the house at a late hour of the afternoon, was instantly admitted, and there in the room with his lady love, found a young man, a rustic of the neighborhood, whom he at once sua. peeled was a' so a suitor for her hand; that he immediately drew a six shooter and peremptorily bade the young man to "git," which the young man did. Out whatever the story, or the truth of it, Joaquin and Minnie Myrtle were duly joined in matrimony, and the strangely wedded pair made their wed ding "tour" to Lane county, and at the home of Joaquin's parents the honey moon was passed. Douyant and jubi lant, with more brains than dollars, the the two were alike inspired with the pridn of literature and ambitious of name and fame in the realm of letters, of authorship and poesy. There was no field for them in Orpgon. They believed there was in San Francisco, and thither departed, alike confident and exultant; they felt that a bright future was before them; it could not he behind thorn. Bret Harte was then emerging into notice, James II. Bow. man, was an acknowledged litterateur and there were other and struggling aspirants to the Mount of Parnassus, to the seat upon Pegasus. It would ie an amusing narrative of hopes and fears, of plenty and privation, of con fidence and dubiety, of shifts and makeshifts, were the manner of the life of Joaquin and his "Minnie Myrtle" in Han Francisco to be given. It was not exactly from palace to hovel; ut if it was not in basement, it actu nlly did get to garret, and more than once was their banquet a Duke Hum phrey feast. They learned, in severe practice and experience,! lie vicissitudes of fortune common to -Grub street writers of the last century, and as the roseate hues were dissipated by the chilling blasts of refusal and neglect, there came upon them the compi ling sense of the story of the Prodigal, and with grateful response to the "welcome home" of Joaquin's patents, the two hastened back to Oregon. They had been taught the first sad lesson in the curriculum of literature how easy it is to write; how hard it is to live by writing only. MILLER ON THE BENCH. For two or three years I lost track of Joaquin. In the spring of 18GG, on' a political canvassing tour in Eastern Oregon, I visited Canyon City, the county seat of Grant county, a mining camp of considerable importance. I was invited to call upon tho County Judge, and accompanied my friend to the Judge's chamlx-rs lhere sat Joaquin Miller not Joaquin then, hut Cincinnatus Hine, in strange judi cial dignity. It was a warn day. Hs "chambers in a sicall room of a low frame building, a rude pine table shelves with law lionks stored, a big fireplace and a carpeted floor. His "honor" was singularly dressed, in a great overcoat of plain fabric, vest un buttoned, pantaloons frayed at the ter minations, and on his feet slippers of thick wool, thick enough for Arctic climate. He was courtly and courte ous; it is the nature of the man. He uay affect the eccentric, but Joaquin Miller U an inbred gentleman, he inherits it, am) the quality belongs to him beyond his rjneer fancy of some, times departing from it. His home was a patten of his "chambers" ten fusion worse confounded. Four years pass. I was publishing a daily newsjxeper in Portland, Oregon. Joaquin MilVr had served his time as County Judge- of Grant county, had refused a reaomination,- which would have been equivalent to a re-election, had left tht county, and was lent upon visiting, the Eastern States and Europe. He tarried some time in Portland,, and was the welcome guest of Colonel1 W, W. Chapman, a pioneer, hose excellent wife was a relation of Mrs. Miller. His poem, "The Wil lamette' gave him local fame. It is one-of his finest. Children had been born to him. He had been an- indul gent husband and a kind father, affec tionate and mindful; but his was not a happy home. His Minnie Myrtle was neither of his order nor his taste. I do not know whether she is living or dead, She is deed, and was cared for in hof last illness by Mr. Miller. Ed. Post, and I write nothing in other spirit than that which would inspire the man or justify the writing. The two ought never to have married. He was the" more sinned against than sinning, and this is said without reproach to his wife. No imp'achmrnt of her wifely virtue is intended. They were married, not matched or mated. With all his eccentricity of liehavior and dress, Miller was a man of taste and gallant ry. He went to Eurype. He ws devotee of Byron. He visited New stead, the home of Byron. He met Swinburne, and the two made fellow ship. It was congenial.' . With his poem and writings since it is not my purpose now to deal Ho had hi admirers and his detractors, his com mentators and his critics. I am not in tho list, and I never wilt ha missed, a tho "Mikado' puts it a vMoeruL Kx-wirt But let me state some thines of Joaquin, in respect the stories about him and the treatment of his daughter Maud, now circulated, fn which is involved the relations between himself and the Minnie Myrtle of his first love, She had brought and won the suit against him for divorce in Oregon while he was a'rnent in Europe, in 1871. The children remained with her. Re mittances regularly came from him for their care, nevertheless, ample for their charge and support, Joaquin returned to Oregon as a visitor, and not witli purpose of residence. It was in No vember, 1872. He came in modest way, seeking no notoriety, although hi fame as a poet had been broadly an nounced. He was invited by the" Portland Library Association to de liver an address on the evening preced ing Thanksgiving day of that year, and had accepted the invitation. , I was at that time publishing the the Daily Bu'letin, in Portland. The evening after the announcement of Miller's lecture had been made, Mrs. Miller, accompanied by Mrs. Jane A. Dnni way, a lady who edited the New Northwest, a weekly paper devoted to the woman's rights cause, called in my room to have advertised the lecture of Mrs. Miller, entitled, "Behold th Woman," The lecture was to bff given at the Oro Fino Theatre, on Sun day evening, Novemlier 26th. I advised against a Sunday evening lecture, inasmuch as the people of Port land were not in favor of Sunday even ing lectures or entertainments, and, furthermore, that as Mr. Miller was an' nounced to give an address before the Library Association on the evening of Monday, the 27th of November, the lecture by his di voiced wife might her considered inopportune, if not indeli cate. Every suggestion and opposition was overruled, however, and the Sunday night lecture was persisted in, and duly advertised. Mr. Miller came fronf Salem to Portland on Sunday morning, the 26th. He stopped at the Cosmo politan Hotel, kept by Zeiber Hof' ton. Mrs. Miller delivered her lecturer "Behold the Woman," at the 0ro Fine Theatre that evehing. .. On Monday Mrs. Dunniway told me that from her seat on the stage she watched Mr Mil ler in his seat in, the parquet, and oh served him wince onder the scoring which his divorced wife administered in the conrao of her remarks her lec ture having been intended for that purpose. That evening Mr. Zeiber,- of the hotel informed me that Mr. Miller had not attended the lectore, and that he had spent the whole eteniiig with him in tfie offfco room of tne hoteL liar did, however, decfined1 to deliver the promised address before the Portland1 Library Association the next evening arid the reason was his consideraticrv for the woman, no longer his wife, hy her own application for divorce, but for whom he had still tender regard', as ho rWT fatherly concern - for their child rem I rememfter fittle Maud as a child. I knew Joaquin' in his early man hool I am prefty well informtd as to his "Minnie Myrtle." She married again, i Oregon, and, I think, more in the order of IW natare, that it, of com patibility of temperament. But to visit the sins of that unhappy union upon "Joaquin" Mrller is- altogether unjust, and the nonrsf fact yet remains-, that he is better than they describe' him. James O'Miara. The Pittsburg Tribune says that in that city the use of gas has-tHrown out but an average of fifteen men in each mill, or six hundred in all. There are now 24,000 men employed in the iron and steel mills of that city. Tho change to ntfural g" fuel is felt severe ly among the coal miners. The Mormons threaten to move to the Sandwich Islands. If they should do so it might drive the leprosy out of tho islands.