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About The Eugene City guard. (Eugene City, Or.) 1870-1899 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 29, 1888)
EUGENE CITY GUARD. , LUCAnrBELL, rropriMor, EUGENE CITY. OREGON. ITEMS OF CENEIIAL INTEREST. A little colored girl in Albany, Ga., is gradually turning white, the skin of her face and arms being now hardly ditd,inguisbab1n in hue from that of h Caucasian child. Her hair, too, which who jut black, has become white. Danbury, Conn., thinks it him omething valuabloin the Indian ar row and pear-head quarry recently discovered near there. Over one hun dred heads lit' perfect preservation have been found, and apparently there are hundreds more. Geo. F. Knapp, of South Bridgton, Me., is bragging considerably about his two-year-old heifer. The heifer ought to be proud, any way, for the other day she became the mother of three nice calves two rtd ones and onfl white all of good size, and all males. There is a wonderful brown and golden bird in Mexico, a species of the boo martin, that is a remarkably ex pert bee catcher. He has a way of milling up the feathers on top of liiw head, no that nls crest looks exacily like a beautiful flower. When a bee comes along to sip honey from tliis delusive blossom it is snapped up and devoured. A New York business man has ft novel method f refreshing his mem ory. When he has something im portant to attend to the next day, he writes himself a postal-card, reminding him of the matter, and, finding the card among tho mail the next morn ing, attends to it the first thing. A man of Grant County, Wiscon sin, drained off his fish-pond theothor day, and in the kit torn ho found four silver watches and chains and a large number of silver spexms, knives and forks. It is Hipposid that a burglar, finding himself closely pursued, threw the plunder in' the pond to get rid of it. Queen Victoria has now reigned over England longer than any mon arch but two Henry III. and George III. Sho overtook Queen Elizabeth six years ago, and bus outdone Edward III., who only reigned 118 days over half a century. If she lives a few years longer Victoria will have reigned longer than any Iloyal personago iu history. Mad. Victorin, who 1b known all over the continent as "the strongest woman in the world," and is some times spoken of as "tho female Her cules," is of medium height, with a girlish, graceful figure, and nothing herculean-looking about her. Yet she readily lifts one-thousand pounds, ller strength is wholly the result of athletic tiaining since youth. She lives on very plain food. John Lconardy was fishing with a oin in tho river at Matanzaa, Flu., a few days ago, when an enormous saw fish ran into tho net. The fish strug gled fiercely, and cut tho net up badly, but only succeeded in entangling it self in the meshes moro securely, and was finally captured. It was meas ured, and found to bo 13 feet and 1 inch in length. Borne of the greatest men the world ever saw were superstitious. Napo leon Bonaparte was a believer iu omens; the great Duke of Welling ton would not otter batilo on any duy that ho met or saw a yellow dog cross his path ; Hannibal used to got out of his eamp-bed backward so as to insure food luck for the day, and Frederick tho Great carried a labbit't foot to guard against evil. -' A furiosity in Norwich, Conn., is a ne-legged English sparrow which has a next on tho crown of a column in the front porch of tho City Hall. He isn't worth much at luilding a nest, but he ran help a little about hatching and making himself geuerally useful on one leg. His mate had to build the nest untwisted, but he furnished her with lively advice, and she seems to think as nun h of him as though he had two logs. The oldest merchant vessel, with one exception, now in actual service, is the schooner Good Intent. She was built by Clapp A Loring, in Brain tree, Massachusetts, in IS 111, and was originally a sloop, with tquare stem and no figurehead ; her length, -18 feet ; her breadth, 18 feet; her depth, 4 feet, and her nie-ne, 2'J tons. The home vrt of the G d Intnir, accord ing to the list of 1SS0, was Camden, Mo. NEW BORAX MINE FOUND. The Krnllng; Fleet. Mrlkliifr fcenmen. Mzlilhouae ContrarU. I m mi gration Hoard I'auipblrl. THE LICHT HOUSE CONTRACTS. The Kfullng; Fleet. The waling schooner Triumph, Capt. Dan McLean, has arrived at Victoria, B. C, with 2,.r)00 skins as tho season's catch, Tho little vessel looks trim and neat after her cruise ami made tho trip down in fifteen days, close-reefed all the way. '1 he Triumph left Victoria on May 5, but did not sail from tho west const until the 24th of May, owing to dilliculty in secur ing Indian hunters. The hunters comprised eleven Ied:ans and two whites, and one of tho latter secured fjfiO seals of the total eteh. Off Queen Charlotte islands GG7 seals were taken. Tho weather was very severe durimr. the whole time in BeUiing soa- and on August 5 the worst gale oyer known occurred there. It was during this storm that the whaling vessels were lost. Several schooners were spoken be fore and after going into the sea. The Mary Ellen on August 20 had 1,00 seals. While out hunting an Indian was accidentally killed by the hunter in the boat. The latter laid his rifle across the thwaits, and it suddenly discharged, the shot entering the In dian's side, lie died two hours after wards and his body was preserved in salt and hauled at his home at A tillab le t. Tho Maggie Mao on August 7 had f!47 skins, and the Favourite on July 25 had CC4 skins. An Indian died on this vessel from black mea sles. The American schooner Annie, of San Francisco, on the 25th of July hud 700 skins. Tho Viva, on the Ziith of June, just entering the sea, had a catch of 400. Her coiiHt catch was 750 skins. It is thought that the schooners will all have fair catches this year. Others of the fleet aie ex pected to arrive daily. Striking Seamen. Coasting seamen are on tho verge o( inaugurating another strike, and freights aro going down. Seamen ure demanding $50 for the voyago Irom Fort Townaeud to San Francisco. The schooner Win, Kenton, lumber-laden for Brisbane, is in trouble with the union seamen. 1 lie crew was shipped in San Francisco for tho round voyage to Australia at $25 per month. The union agent threatens bloodshed un less tho men are paid $5 moro per month. The revenue cutter is guard ing the vessel aud will probably ac company her to sea. water mark. The bav, which forms a rorlion of a ranch of 1,200 acres, is half a mile in width, witli good anchorage, and is protected both from the northwest and southwest A lowusite will bo laid out ami a wharf built', and min ing operations vigorously proceeded with at once. l.ltiluouA Contract Awarded. The secretary of tho treasury has awarded the contracts for tho con struction of a lighthouse nt Cape Meares, Oregon, as follows : Erection of tower to C. B. Buhrkoop, Seattle, W. T., $2,1(00; niet.il-work of tower to Willamette Iron Works, Portland, O.-egon, $7,800 ; erection of keeper's dwelling and oil-house to llobert Sea man, Seattle, $2(5,000. ' Pulling Nnuga. The government Bnag bout Willam ette, has been at work pulling snags between St. Johns and tho Portland Flouring Mills. Tho work is none too soou aud was noedid badly enough. Let them trot out the dredge and then send the old snag boat into service along the upper Willamette next. rrnnlon and l'olof f lee. Pensions tiave boon granted as fol lows : Washington Territory Origi nal invalid, Ira A. Doty, Uoekford; increase, Watson Spencer, Seattle; Daniel C. Kose, Mount Vernon, Ore gon Increase, Alexander Borthwick, Portland. Elijah McCalmond has been ap pointed postmaster at New Dungeness, at Clallam county, Washington terri tory. A new efllw has been estab lished at Johnson, Whitman county, with Elizabeth Y. Cooper as postmaster. The Mora fllur, Certain commercial circles at San Francisco aro much interested in the recent discovery of borax in the B iy of Lomer ranch, Curry county, Or. Tho ste inter Newsboy anchored in the Bay of Lomar ranch and discharged cargo and took on board tho firs', ship ment of borate of limo. This bor.ne of lime is superior in quality to any hitherto discovered, according to the analysis of Pad. Price. The deposit is volcanic, the borate occurring in boulders varying in size up to 2,000 pound weight, imbedded in volcanic mud. The area of the deposit has been determined to be half a mile in length and 200 yards in width and thirty feet in depth. The discovery is considered of importance to the commercial world, for the mine is so close to the const that a shell can be thrown from it into the water, so that tho expen sive item of land carriage, which has ban I c.ipped the borax industry of Catifurni t ai'd Ncvad.t, as well as of I aly, Aji. Minor, Chili and Thibet, no Linger staiuis in lite way. esse: d awing three fathoms of water can g j tuiiiiu three hundred )ird of Lw A !evr I'ump. A new pump for bigu service has beeu chipped from Wkport, New Yoik, for the Portland Water Works. The foundations for it are all pre pared iu the engine house at the Lin coln street reservoir. Ij has a capa city for a million ai,d a half gallons pet day, and will lift thewaur325 feet above I ho bane of city grade", which is 55 feet higher than the pres ent high service reservoir. For the present the high service will bo kept up by direct pressure during the day, and water will be pumped into the reservoir at night. There are numerous demands for extension of the water service, and as soon as pipe can be bad the liying ol eighteen milos of new mains will be begun. The city is extending in all direc tions, and water is demanded at the north end on the heights and at the south end. Next summer the city will use 10,000,000 gallons per day, and it will tax tbe pumps at the works to their utmost capacity to furnish the supply. The cot of fuel alone next year will amount to $35,000. There will be no pump in reserve as there should be, and if any accident should happen, the water supply would run short. A t'ollinlon Avoided. Tlio Umatilla arrived at Victoria, B. C, from San Francisco and reports that while steaming slowly through r fog 100 miles from San Francisco, a steamer's whistle was heard. The Umatilla whistled the unseen steamer to pass to the starboard, hut no notice appeared to be taken by tho other vessel, and in a few minutes she crossed tho bows of the Umatilla. The distance between the vessels was leas than fifty feet. An accident was avoided by the captain of the Uma tilla reversing the engines when the whistle was lirst hoard. Tho Uma tilla stopped, ad the captain did everything to save the vessel. The vessel was tho steam schooner Green wood, of San Francisco. of the negroes expressed a determina tion to have some of the water.and the white man drew a pistol and shot him in tho neck. That niuht a gang of negroes visited tho house and dared the whito man to como out, but ho re fused to do so, and aftershooting holes in his windows and doors they left. The next night a g'ng, presumably friends of the whito uiuii, vUited the negro camp and left seter.il dead bod iis as a reminder to other members of tho camp-meeting crowd. The Kprinter ltrcortl Ilrokcn. Scbifferstem, the California amateur sprinter, broke the 100-yard record 1-5 of a second, at St. Ipiis, Mo., his time being 9 4-5 seconds. Ho de feated Joe Murphy, the local cham pion, with a record of 10,tbiee yards. AGRICULTURAL Plvoikii to tmi: Intuiiktsof Fabmeiu and Stockmen, An Aacd Kleptomaniac. John Kaufman, aged about sixty years, was found dead at Brazil, Ind., having died of brain disorder. He was an eccentric character, and had an uncontrollable mania for stealing women's shoes, though ho was never accusod of stealing anything else. A few years ago ho w:is arrested and forty or fifty pairs of women's shoes and slippers wero recovered. He had buried them ou tho commons, near a blast furnace. Over sixty pairs of women's shoes alul slippers were found in his hut. Ho was a veteran of the Mexiwan and civil wars and will be buried with militaiy honors. rrnoprrtiiig; for Illack Cod. II. lleldenson spent four weeks on Queen Chailotte. islands prospecting and trading, and exploring for black cod banks. He succeeded in taking five or six barrels of black cod, the finest fish in the Pacific, in two days. Tho weather was very rough, and the fishing was done in a canoe, in 250 fathoms of witter. The cod wero lo cated without difficulty, and fish found to be very plentiful, llelden son is of the opinion that a good biu iness can bo done in deep se t fishing. Iitin(ui"hed Japanese Yoshitonu Hirasa and Nobuquosh Oi, nat ves of Japan, oh their way to Tokio, arrived at San Francisco from the East. Mr. Hirasa is u high of fioial in tho imperial bureau of ugri culture and commerce at Tokio, and whs educated at an Eogli h college. Fourteen months ago he obtained leave from tho Japanese government and made a second visit to J'.urope. Mr. Oi is a wealthy resident of Tokio, and has been in England for the purpose of obtaining machinerv for the establishment of a cotton mill in the city of Tokio. The mill will have 30,000 spindles if the enter prise proves successful. Dmcrlptlve I'umphlet. The Oregon board of immigration i issuing 50,000 copies of a panv phlet entitled, "Tho New Empire; Oregon, Washington and Idaho." It will contain descriptive matter of the state and two territoiies, and will be enclosed in a lithographed cover, lhe rover will contain a pastoral scene on the first page, a general view of lort land from Portland Heights, on tin last page, and views of tho High school aud Starr block on tho lnsidu TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. I'rom Wanlilngton. 4 The House conference report on the fortifications appropriation bill has been adopted. The bill authorizing the postmaster- general to purchase improved Mare locks and keys ha been passed by the House. Train Collision. A freight train heavily laden dashed at full speed into a circus train, which was standing at Corwin station, Ohio. Tho cabo so and rear of circus traiu was split in two, and four sleepers ahead were telescoped, rour men were killed and eighteen were wounded, and of these all were canvass men, ex cept Andy Smith, who was a contor tionist. Smith is mortally wounded, and the injuries to the other seventeen wounded are trilling. Reven Colored Mea Hilled. A fearful battli between whites and blacks took place at HaTardsville Ala., in which seven colored men were killed. The trouble grew out of the (act that a while man refused to al low bis well to bo longer used by a crowd of camp meeting negroes. One Oregon' t'erral Exhibit. Tho Oregon cereal exhibit at the national encampment of the G. A. R., at Columbus, Ohio, in charge of Col. C. E. Dubois of Portland, is now in place iu a room "ii tho third tl tor of the First National bank building. Thirteen lliiildlii (turned. A tire broke out in a store at Cath- argus, N. Y., which destroyed thirteen building. The loss is large. Death of the Oldcut Graduate of West I'olnt. Col. Edward G. Butler, tho oldest graduate of West Point, died at St, Louis. He was born in Tennessee in 1709 and admitted to West Point in 1810. Ho served uudir Gen. Taylur in the Mexican war. Kationnl Rifle Anocltlon. There was a large attendance at the opening of the annual prizs shooting of tbe National lMlo Association at Creedniore. The Wimbledon cup was won by W. M. Merrill of M itsachu setts by a score of 134 with thirty shots at 1,000 yards. l'.xpren Trnln Held I' p. The west-bjund express train was stopped by three inu-kad men at Parkers, A. T. They did not get any thing. A reward of $1,500 is 1 fie red for meir capture, and Wei's, Faigo will increase the amount. MARKET REPORT. Reliable Quotations CarefUUt , viseu aveky Week. Rule of an Opera lloune. The Bale of the Grand Opera House by tho heirs of the Davidson estate to "Lotta" Crabtreo, the actress, was completed nt fit. Paul. . The price paid was $150,000. A man near B.ing ir, Me., U trying the experiment of grafting apple twig into a 'ii.e tree, ile wants to raise pincapplis. Florida promises to become i large producer of opium. Sixteen plan's will produce an onm-p, and an acre ' poppies will yield $1,000 worth ot opium. I The whole value of fences in the United Stales may bo set down .vt $2 000,000 000, and its costs $100,000, (XJO annually to keep them in repair. Crirp radishes ore thse that grow rapidly. They should have rich, tine soil, free from stones or gravel, and the rows should he kept clean. Use them at anv tune after thev have he- come large enough, for tho longer tliey snail remain in the ground me less desirable will they be, as they uecome tougn w,tu age. To prevent birds, mice or squirrels from pulling up seed corn until it shall have become warm ; then stir in a little pine tar until every grain shall be' coated. Njw mix plnster, ashes or fine earth to dry off the corn. It will thus bo in a condition to be planted by machine or hand. It is claimed thit tho presence of the castor-oil beau plants around the house will prevent mosquitoes from becoming very numerous. As the plant makes a beautiful ornament it would not be out of place, and might therefore be given a trill with advan tage. It is doubtful, however, if there be any plants that will keep away the pests. According to an English authority, tho world consumes annually 050,000 pounds of coffee, which, at an aver age price of $400, represents a value of $2oU,000,000. Jamaica rtows the biBi cc ffrto ; next in order come Cey lon and East India, Java, Brazil, Costa Rica and the other Central American Stales. Java produces the largest crop. The American Cultivator recom mends a mixture of hydraulic cement aud fkim-milk for painting farm buildings and fences. The cement is placed 111 a bucket, and sweet skim milk stirred in until the mixture is of the consistency of cream. The pro portions are about one quart of cem ent to a gallon of milk. Color may be added if uVbh'ed. This paint is cheap and durable. Tho Massachusetts Ploughman says the reason that so many raspberry and blackberry fielJs get full of grass is be cause they are neglected during Au gust and September, and, in fact, dur ing the whole autumn, so when spring opens tho grass has full possession ; but even when thus neglected, if the (aimer will commence hoeing as soon hh the frost leaves the ground, it is not a very dillijull j jb to clear out all ol the grass. nurdered for money. Miss Ada Fly nn, a handsome and accomplished young lady, .was mysteriously murdered in her home near Glasgow, Pa., during tho absence of tho rest of tho family. It is sup posed the deed is that of a roober. Jewelrjr I. out. Mrs. rterrepont Mjtgm, of New York, and friends, while out among tho Thousand islands, were throwu into the water by the capsizing of their boat. Mrs. Morgan lost jewelry valued at $15,000 .speaking of twins, tho Philadel phia liironl states that over one hun-di-ed pairs of thein wero born in that city last year, and as grown up twins are a curiosity, it wonders what be comes of them. Tho doctors say, without suggesting any cause for it, that twins aro more apt to dio than other babies. Tho why is still a mystery. Another thing equally difficult to explain, is that moro twins aro born fn May and July than in any othor months. A pair of sparrows and a pair of robins set up housekeeping in tho samo shrub in a front yard in Canton, Mo. The robins were first to put a brood abroad, and some difficulty with a crow resulted in the death of the young ones and their father. The mother robin, after mourning bitterly for a day or two, discovered tho young sparrows, and immediately adopted them, and was found brooding them carefully while the parent sparrows brought worms and guarded the home. An ingenious builder of town flats was struck recently by an idea which he has put into effect with great suc cess in his latest building. Ho noticed that one of the first things his tenants did when they went into a house was to hang portieres in every available doorway. Ho has saved them some trouble and himself tho expense ot doors by putting a simple rod for the curtain instead of tha door in each of tho inner doorways in his latest fiats. Tho idea was novel enough to catch the house-hunting mind and ho geta moro rent for the fiata than though thoy wero Cited with doors, and has no lack of tcn:uiU. As . a pasture for cows no plant yields sweeter, richer herbage than while clover. Though its hibit of growth is very close to the giouud, it yields mom pasture than would be supposed. If not allowed to blossom long enough for seed to form, tho new herbage springs up quickly after crop ping. Its roots are near tho surface; and aro easily reached by light rains but owing to their spreading habit tho roots aro not injured by catuo tramp ing over .hem, as are those of red clover. That the plantain is a nuisance is certain, but it is scarcely unmitigated except in the sense thit where it has once gained possession it can never be eutirely eradicated. The common plantain has about two-thirds the feeding value of common hay, rank ing higher than most other weeds 111 this respect. C itile will eat in pas ture or in hay without being starved to lt.as they have to be with the dais v. Tho largo, vigorous plantains, that grow in rich giound, seem to be eaien more greedily by cows than the piiny specimens dwarfed by poverty of sou Far too few Lima beans are crowu In their dried state they are suporior lor cooking, and would be moro largely used for that purpose, did not their us'ial high price prevent. The Lima bean reqimes poling, but it is unneces sary to make the poles longer than six feet out of the ground. When the vine gets to this height, stop its growth and turn all its strength into fiuitlullness. hen raised on a very large scale the Limas are grown some times without pol. s, the vines trailing on the ground. This is a slovenly practice, but a good many beans may be thus cheaply growu. A careless or flow milfer should nt ver be tolerated on the dairy f irm. While the cow relaxes tho muscles of her udder to ' give down" the milk, the bi g should be relieved as rapidly as possibl. If the milking is prolonged tbe cow will he ld np her milk, simply because she is tired of the other jo.-i-tion. Smecf the milk will not then be secured, and remaining in the ud dtr, will have its well understood ef fect of making the cow go dry. A co-v always milked rapidly w;ll give more and maintain ih mi.k Cow loncer than if subjected to the 01 p site tr-jatment. . WHEAT Vhl,7l tl aorw Walla Walla, n 20e31 2SJ. " BARLEY- Who, 10al grouad, per ton, 25 00ig27 fx). OATfi-Milliug, 36(2380.: f. fiT.tP ""1 HAY Baled, $lCai3, SEED Blue Grow, HJaitV -t othy,9JojElOo.; lied CUerJiJ FLOUR Patent lW . Country Brand, $3 75. W 0 EGGS Per doz, 25c. BUTTER Fancy roll, per . 2,o ; pickled, 2025c; E trade, 1525 U1'e' CHFESE-Eastern, 1C20bt, gon, 14tg 16c. ; California, 14 jc. ' VEGETABLES-Beets. pvr 1111 rn.,fi ioj leuilfy. tu.r . ,.. onions,! 00: notatoeR i,n 1 , tuyjoue., rnuisnes, per Uoz., lJflii luuuuiu, Jfci iu., uc. HONEY In comb, n,., n. u strained, 5 gal. tins, pr lb. 8Jc' POULTRY - Chickens, p j !-l 0006 00; ducks, per doz., Ml 00: ireete. $6 OOfoH (Ki ... pcrlb.,121c. . ' PROVISIONS Orro-nn !,.,. ,.. per H.; Eastern. ISffiMe p' ." breakfast bacon, 12f, per lb.; it 1012c; Eastern lard, lOffillk lb. ; Oregon, lOJc. 11 1 GREEN FRUITS Am.W i 85a; Sicily lemons. 0 00, California. $3 50(a5 00 : Wv-i.,,,. 1 - w- -- 1 'MiyJllj 6 00; Riverside, $i 00; Mediu.-. nean, 20. DRIED FRUITS Sun & pies, 7$e. per lb. ; machine dried, 1 11c; pii'ess piums, lie,', Iu. prunes, 1014c. ; peaches, 121a l; raisins, $2 402 50. WOOL Valley, 17818c; uregon. yiuc. HIDES Dry beef hide?, SI. culls, 6(g7c; kip aud calf, 6(il Murrain, 10 12o.; tallow, 33: LUMBER Rough, per M, 10 edged, per M, $12 00; T. and sheathing, per M, .f 13 00; NuSE ing, per M, $18 00; No. 2 ceiling, M,$18 00; No. 2 rustic, per JU18 clear rough, per M, $20 00; clear i S. oer M. $22 50.: No. 1 fluorimr. M, $22 60; No. 1 cei, perl m 00; iNo. 1 rustic, per U, ; stepping, per M, $25 00; mi inches wbto, extra, ifl 00; Itngtba to 50, extra, $2 00; lengths W to extra, $4 00 ; 1J lath, per M, 2 : IJ lath, per M, $2 50. BEANS Quote small vnM ' pinks, $j; riajos, ?o; bullet, H Limas, $4 50 per cental. COFFEE Quote Salvador, : Costa Rica, 1820e.; li , M' Java, 27$c. ; Arbuckle's's raM MEAT Beef, wholesale, dressed, Co. ; sheep, 3c ; dro-wd, hogs, dressed, 80j. ; veal, 57fc SALT Liverpool grades cf i quoted $13, $PJ and ifu lor me i sizes ; stouk salt, $10. PICKLES Kegs quoted 1U4 $1 35. SUGAR Prices for bid-rein; G' C.6c; extra C,Ji; dry gnu 7:. ; .crushed, fine crushed, cub powdered, 7 Jo. ; extra C, CJ'-! k and boxes, $c. higher. OK GENERAL INTEREST. The managers of the racnapr Central Park. New York, sav tt good malo lion is worth $1,000: it-j $1,200; a leopard, fli"0. and m from $10 upward. Tho fenwH ci Diinzon posts io(M). Thirty years ago InsaaitT almost unknown among the S. jM neirroes. but now the DUintf' S affected in North Carolina one thousand, and the asylum for' treatment at Goldsboro' has ' enlarged. In Vermont a liquor fteller.b boforo tho courts, urged in that ho had so reduced bis h water that a man could not get J on it. He came very near pro"" ciisse, but unfortunately for hia unguarded moment he had 81,1 glussi of unadulterated wbUty fine was the consequence. Some birds have the stinct. diseretion, or whatever n bo called, to keep their net monv with their surrounding instance: When the wren bun nest near tho ground she low nest of the long, withered gm' as grows about the spot. nest is in a spruce tree she co with green moss, which resen1 a foliage of tho spruce. A resident of the town of t' Minn., in diirffinir for a ccl.r ' across tho remains of seven F, a good st.ite of preservation. were found in a kind of a mom buried with their heads do wero from seven to eight M in." and must have b-en placed feast two hundred yaw ag. l top of the mound win the sf'r old elm tree two feet in u-'1