EUGENE CITY GUARD.
I, L. ilAMPH J'Ih . lrrllr.
"EUGENE CITY. OREGON.
PACIFIC COAST.
Frost Lays Low Potato
Vines in Nevada.
THE ARID LAND CONVENTION.
Southern California Counties Adopt a
Graduated Schedule for As
sessing Fruit Tree9.
A ten-mile pipe line to Santa Moii
from tliB oil well" near I Angeles
prnKiwl.
TI Il,.iliitul lA Nl'llOol I'llilllri'II
Snokanc this year in ;i,72l . hast year
was 2,7l.
lIri'lli'u'vcH am aain committing
(li.prixliitioiiM in the eastern part of
Washington.
Moretlian l,r.iM notaries public have
lieen appointed since Washington lie
came a Male.
The Ashland Titling y that sV"Hl
luxe of arh'H will lie shipped from
that thriving locality thiH season.
Front in the iipprr valleys of Mason,
Jacks ami Carson districts, Nev., has
completely laid the otato vine low.
Various counties in Oregon are Issuing
ImjihIs for required improvement, and
these in every iniitaiice are sold at a pre
mium. The schooner Premier him arrived Ht
Han Francisco from Pirate Cove. The
ve-sel was retried wrecked, with total
loss of the cargo.
J M. Itnrke has won hi suit au-aiiiNt
the Hunker Hill and Sullivan Mining
Companvof Wardner, Idaho. It involved
title to property valued at several mill
ion dollars.
Coventor Toole of Nevada him a
iioiiited thirty delegates to the Arid Uml
Convention, which meets in Halt Lake
City September 15 to discuss the irriga
tion quest ion.
Workmen are employed in the Vir
ginia and Truckec railroad shops niiiht
and day on machinery for river nulla,
which are now running at full blunt on
(.'omstock orci.
Sixty iiimi are at work on the Hornet
reservoir in the San Jacinto Mountains.
When completed it will create a lake of
three miliars milcH, with an average
depth of thirty-live feet.
The Indians at Arriba. N. M., defy the
1'nitcd Statea authorities, and a strong
force with llotchkiss guns will probably
lie sent to make arrests of Indiana who
have been doing du .oik anil threaten
ing lives.
Warrants have lieen issued at San li
v$t for the inenilierw of the Seamen a
l iiion who assaulted the captain of the
steamer lloiitislow and cruelly heat two
other who had assi ted the captain in
securing a crew.
President Wood' nil' and lieorge IJ.
Cannon of the Mr u Church in an
Interview have defined the posi'ioil of
the church in re.'.ird to politics, which
theveiv .vill no lunger atU'inpt to seek
Hiwer in tlml way.
San lie.'o is delighted over the fact
that Prof. Kames of Pittsburg, the well
known iron manufacturer is prospecting
at the former place with the view of es
tablishing' nn iron plant there of Ml
tons daily capacity.
The llraditrcet mercantile agency re
ports tweiitv-Kcvcn fiiiluresin the Pacific
Coast States and Territories for the past
week, an compared with fifteen for the
previous week and sixteen for the cor
responding w.'ek of 1SIM.
The iroposition for an outfall to the
ocean of the sewerage of Im Angeles ia
being discussed in the City Council of
that citv. It is believed that the prosi
ailion, although twice defeated nt the
polls, will eventually lie carried.
A $UM,IUI0 endowment fund is Wing
raised lor the i'acilic Metluslist College.
lr. Kellv of Nashville, the new ly elected
President, will take charge of the sclusil,
provided the endowment is raised. Sev
eral F.asteru professors have also I wen
engaged.
Three l'itite Indiana one buck and
two squaws eonvieted in the Instrict
Court at Wimicmucca, Nev., of killing
the Indian " witch," have been sentenced
to ten years each in the State nrls.ui. II
is the ilrst conviction in Nevada for audi
an otl'ense.
Southern California counties have
adopted a graduated schedule of rates
(or assessing fruit trees, which they will
recommend to the Assessors o( the Stale,
with the request that prior to the next
.1 iliu VnMUHiuira of frillt-liro-
nninptiii n. . ,
ducing counties meet in convention to
discuss the same.
The San Antonio Electric Light and
Power Company has lieen formed to sup
ply Pomona with iiower for lighting und
manufacturing. Water wheels and gen
erators will le put in at the mouth of
San Antonio canyon, thirteen miles from
Pomona, whence jstwer will lie conveyed
over a heavy eoper wire.
In the Cnited States Circuit Court at
Iw Ai geles Judge Koss ill the two cases
of the I'nited States against the South
ern Company, lieing suits to set aside
grants ol land, has dismissed both bills
without costs. On motion of counsel f. r
the government an appeal was allowd
to the I'nited States Supreme Court.
The crop of monster turtles at Mag.la
lena Hay, Lower California, has induced
a company to exeriment with canning
the extract for exportation. The first
lot has gone to England through La Paz.
Tht inner Cui.fi'rMi'iii of Enacnada re
......1 uli II. at 'lUliitiir fitr luiir MmlM Is a
growing industry at the head of thetiulf
ol l ailiorilia, nouns mi iiir uiu um m
at M cents a gallon.
Manager It. T. lingers of the Vancon-
..... It i 1 m wur riitlmtrv has iliwltti-t!
111 l Hi VU o'll"' ....- -j
war upon Spreckels. The cause of the
war Iflileemreilloueineaciioiioi ppreca
els in sending sugar into the Ittiiish Co
lumbia market at prices not onlywav
Mow those at which sugar is sold to
1'nited States oiiita, but actually lielow
the cost of production, the object being
to swamp Ilie i.anauisn rviinrry aim
close it up.
The hill section of Iios Angeles sup-
PlleU l)V HIP ViUirui ii nn'i V inunn. ,
!..(. I ...... 1 ,.f ll,u ..It..'.
i i
by I
the Citixens' Water Company,
Ill Willi II Hi1 I'S im i.i.w in n.v . w
flue residences, is siltl'eriiig from a water
famine, the main being tisi small to
supply the reservoirs. Some hoiiw only
t water during six hours out of the
twenty-lour. Them is much alarm in
ronseqnenre, and the grass on the hills
has lieen burned In order to lessen the
chance (or a coiilbigration.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
.4 r lamia InilUna llirlnB In Hill !
Wliltft I'oiiulalliHi.
The sum of il,!M4,7HMWO has U-en
paid to the survivors of the war of lblZ.
the Mexican war ana ine war ui m. j
Revolution.
Acling Secretary Hpaulding has di
rected that the three Chinamen arrested
atlvtroit for enU-ring this country In
viola' Ion ol law snbii uo m-m
Francisco for dcortution to China.
iri l.:...uu l,..,al
l lit III Hc ,
has re.vive.1 alvicei stating that quiet
has U-en restoreil at Woo I loo, China,
and that the Chinese government has
. t . I. I l.runlra
taken steps lo prevent luruici UUt v.
Captain Colton, Commissioner of the
Latin-American department of the
World's Fair, and who is now in Hntisli
Honduras, reports to the government
that the colony has given him much en-
- ....., In roiruril tn Ills III HSIOH
and agreed to accept the invitation from
the United htates at me nexiHin"K
tlie Council.
Commissioner Morgan of the Indian
Ilureail has reelved a telegram from Hu
..,..,.1,. i, t iA il, M, nun Pueblo In-
in-i iii.i-ii'.. ii w , -- - ,
dian Schoid in Keaiu's Canyon, A. 1., In
which lie stales mat mo iiiumn
threatening to kill the whites and fore -
I.I.. ...I,.. l...ir .liilitri.il (null tll ScllOOl.
TlicCooiiniss oner referreil the telegram
to the War li -pariiiieni, who rwum
iiiendalion that additional reinforce
ments be forwarded and the ringleaders
in the present troiibln lie arrested and
held pending the dilliciilty. The present
trouble has grown out of the fact that
ii. u imliuiis are oiiooscd to having their
children attend school.
The Chilian insurgent coiiimissioneis,
it is said, have letters from Minister
Egan which will iusuio them a hearing
.. .1... m..t lii.i.iiriiiiiiiil. One thiliif the
III VIIC nimo i . . - :
commisHioiiers want to explain is that
the failure of Minister Egan'a oiler of
mediation is not due to them, as the Hal-
maceila part -bus claim, iiieyvtiu
i... i'..;i,..l uiiiii.ii in riuvmnize them as
iiht villi v. ..... r ---
lielligereiits. France and other Euroeaii
countries are readv to follow in the wake
of this country, it is said the Chilians
will ask the restoration of the arms taken
on board the Itata on the grounds that
the neutrality laws were not violated,
and that the only penalty to which the
vessel is subject is for a violation of port
regulations
F.
ti... iL......-ii.iiiiir if KtutA lifla hecn no-
1111...1 ..r il... miiuiiiitiiiiMit bv the liritish
nul l, in mi j - - -
...i lr Ciu.rcm Ituili-n l'nue I
gOVI I II II" "I 1 . .j'".'
and Mr. Dawson as agents to visit Alaska
and collect Information respecting me
seal fisheries. The statement coming
from London that these men had lieen
apHinled arbiters ia erroneous. The
negotiations looking to the arbitration of
the claims made by the United States
i ....i i ..ttiiiruuuiiil lii a mint that
hiip iin .n i ""iv' i : - .
would permit the appointment of ttr 'j-
ten", anil 111 lael me nature m me m i-
tration Itself has not lieen agreed upon.
. . .i. ii ii. ...:ii
It mav oe linn l owen aim I'ltwann m
rimrHsi'iitativea of the
liritish government iion the expert
commission, which the two nations are
bound to s 1 to Alaska, but it is alto
gether improbable that they will lie ap
pointed arbiters, as their Previous duties
might be supposed to unlit them to act
judicially in llie niauer w nere nicy iur
merly acted as partisan experts.
CABLEGRAMS.
OldilliHlinl .'retails loan Alarming Kx
lent at Ilia cillfuti of llnilsr.
The Jesuits are nliout to start a news
paper in Uome.
The lliitish Parliament will be pro
rogued August (I.
(ieneral von Schallendorf, formerly
(iernian Minister ol War, is dead.
French engineers are discussing the
possibility of a railroad across the desert
of Sahara.
The Freii 'h Cabinet Is discussing an
appropriation of PK),0R) for the Chicago
Fair displays.
The Ara' s in Yemen have again de
feated the Turkish troops and cut the
telegraph lines.
Mrs. French-Sheldon, who started on
an exploring expedition in Africa, has
returned to Ziinxilair seriously ill.
France will coinnel llavti to pay an
Indemnity to the widow of Kigaud, the
Frenchman recently snoi ny nippouie
Peru reluses to recognixe the lxdliger-
ent rights of the insurgents of (. lull not
withstanding the promise of large terri
tory. ft is claimed that the Prince of Wales,
not U'iiig anew spaH-r rentier, is unaware
of the storm of journalistic indignation
aroused by tlte baccarat nll'air.
The French millers have been canvass
ing the wheat sitnatio at home, and rc-
Hirt that Fiance will have n miori at
the lowest tl;l,tRH),000 bushels of wheat.
There are I'm) rases of ophthalmia
among the students of the College of
lioslar.liermany. The maladv has taken
an almost epidemic form, and is causing
much alarm.
The liritish government intends to
Miuiiiion the House early in January and
take its fate on the Irish local-government
bill. They calculate to dissolve
Parliament alter carrying the bill.
It appears that the Cxar is desirous of
rvpaving to England the amount of the
Kussian loan of .Vi.tHKl.lKK) tloriiii lr
row cd by Itussia during the wars against
the Ilrst NaHileon. This will lo an
Agreeable windfall to the liritish Treas
ury. The illumination of lighthouses has
been lately a subject of investigation by
special committee in England, and in
a general w ay it has been proven that
electric light ia not so well adapted to
the purpose intended as certain oils and
gas.
n entire caravan laden with gold dust
to the value of some '.M.OOO.Oou rubles
Moiigiug to the Kussian government
has mysteriously vanished somewhere
in Eastern Siberia, and is being searched
for high and low by the imperial author
ities. Sir Thomas Elder of Australia has
equipped another expedition under the
leadership of Iavid Lindsay to explore
neai ly all Australia for a westerly tele
graph line from Port Augusta on the
south, which will nearly divide the con
tinent. Sir John E. (iorst in the delmte in the
liritish House of Commons on the Mau
ipur massacre declared that Senaputty
was a mauof brains; that his real crimes
were independence and originality, and
that the government prefered amenable
mediocrity.
The grand military maneuvers are pro
jected lor 1SH2 to take place in the pres
ence of the Cxar. Tbev are to include
the investment of Moscow bv an armv
corps, the occupation of Volliynia anil
the repulse and pursuit of the corps to
the frontier.
A dispatch from Constantinople gives
an alarming account of an increase of
brigsndage in various parts of the Turk
ish Empire. In the Turkish province
known as Old Servia the brigand chief,
Mihri.ii, has established hi i self iu the
mountains with alwnt eighty followers,
and lives in princely fashion on black
mail exacted from cople aad villages.
EASTERN ITEMS.
The President Will Visit
Saratoga.
ANACONDA MINE NOT SOLD.
The Exports of Breadstuff From the
United States Wheat Crop
in Kansas.
President Harrison will visit Saratoga
in August.
There will lie forty-four stars in the
national flag alter July 4.
A Philadelphia jurist has decided that
piano-playing is manual labor.
Th Socialists and Hebrew unionist
of New York will go into politics.
Thev are beginning to talk about 00,-
000,0(10 bushels of wheat in Kansas.
Ilrooklyn gas companies are not own
ing the .aw fixing gas at fl.:!o per 1,000
feet.
The Methodist Episcopal Church will
hold its next quadrennial in May, 180L',
at Omaha.
The International Congress of Homeo
pathic Physicians is to meet in Wash
ington, I). C, in lH'Jl'.
Since the 1st of January 153 men in
positions of trust have stolen $4,000,000,
and nave oeen cauoi ni .
Ti. Transcontinental Association is
considering the propriety of reducing
freight on California raisins.
The Supreme Lodge of the A.O U. W.
has decided to meet the second Tuesday
in June, 1K'.i2, at Helena, Mont.
Mrs. Samuel Mather of Cleveland, .,
has given 76,0iO to the Western K' serve
University for its college for women.
American tin on American public
Imililinirs. This is likely to be the text
of the Treasury order at an early day.
Census Suieriiitendi:nt PorU-r says lie
has not resigned and don't intend to un
til the work he has undertaken is com
pleted. The Indians are fighting among them
selves in the Indian Territory over cattle-stealing.
One Indian policeman has
been killed.
PruHiihuit Polk of the National Alii
ance predicts a terrible civil war unless
the money fiower is gpeeuuy coniruueu
in the interest of the masses.
A shipment of Canadian cattle has
failed to pass inscction on arriving in
England, and great is the consternation
of our Canadian cousins in consequence.
It is stated that the Delaware. La ka
wannn and Western w ill help itself to a
dill'erent rate on a basis of 20 cents on
llrst-class freight from New York to St.
Paul.
For aliout twenty-one years fieneral
Hniler. S. M. Allen and others have lieen
engaged in collecting subscriptions for a
monument to MMcb Standiuh, and ffU-V
000 have been raised.
IlusinesH iu Ilrazil is reported to lie in
n remarkably nourishing condition, and
a irreat eoli'ce cron is looked for. All of
which is auspicious for the success of the
first year of reciprocity.
The First Massachusetts Cavalry As
sociation has erected a granite nionu
incut in Virginia in memory of their
comrades who fell iu battle with Mosby's
troopers near Aldice, a.
Among the rumors in Philadelphia
aliout ex-President Marsh ol the Key
stone Hank is one that he has been taken
to sea by friends and is now bound for
California on a vacht.
St. Joseph, Mo., fears that it will soon
he left two miles fro n the river, owing
lo the work of erosion bv the water on
the neck of land which separates the
river north and south at llelmoiit.
The exnorts of breadstull's from the
United States in the last eleven months
had a value of U0,0iKl,0Kl, or flO.OiMl,
000 less than the exports of the corre
sponding H'riod of the preceding year.
Judge Harriett at New York has hand
ed down a decision denying the second
motion on behalf of the Pamellites to
restrain Eugene Kelly from transmitting
any more money to the Mcliutliyites.
Several Isivs who were candidates for
a naval cadetship from a district in Mich'
ikiiiu were rejected liecauso the examiii1
iug physician found that their hearts
had been allected by smoking cigarette
The Stale lVimrtment will prolmblv
advise American Consuls lo devote some
attention to profit-sharing corjiorations
on the co-operative plan lornied in many
countries in Europe between capital and
lalKir.
Tim n.llntcritl inheritance tax Isa vcrv
good thing for Connecticut, which will
nrotlt to the extent of (4,IHM by the
death of P. T. Itanium, that Wing the
amount of the State's dividend from his
estate.
The prospects are that there will be
something to eat in tircit Itritaiu next
fall. Forty steamships have lieen char
tered in llaltimore to load with grain for
ports of the Cnited Kingdom between
June and IK'tolier.
The report that the Anaconda mine
has been sold hi a svndicate is
denied bv the owners of the property
The mine is shut down at pn sent, owing
to a dispute with the railroad concern
ing freight charges.
The corresotidence between Illaine
and Pauncefote regarding reciprocity
with Canada was partly made public
during the Canadian elections notwith
standing express stipulations that se
crecy should tie oiwrved.
The Itethlehem Iron Works promise
to have the Monterey's armor all readv
by the time the hull and machinery are
out of the contractor's bunds. The guns
for the vessel are well under way in the
ashiugton ordnance shops.
The Secretary of the Kansas State
Hoard of AgricuKure is reported as esU
mating the w heat crop of Kansas this
vear at MUXHUHIO bushels, the largest
crop ever raised. The wheat crop of
Kansas last year was .S.Uid.tKXI bushels.
An indictment for criminal libel has
been returned at Philadelphia against
Kev. J. Wesley Hill of Ogden, Utah, for
w riting and publishing letters charging
Kev. Sam Small with criminal conduct
in connection with funds of the Utah
University.
The riot among laborers near St. Louis
was not a factional right between Italians
as was at flint represented. American
workmen drove the Italians from camp,
and confiscated their gols. Several
Americans implicated have been arrested,
and a rigid inquiry ia being made.
Several of the widows of persons killed
in the wreck at llsgcrsto.", Ind., Inst
winter have been offered from &..0U0 to
fo.OOO each by w av of a compromise, but
all have refused. They will bring suit
for $10,000 each against the Pennsylvania
road unless letter offers are made.
PERSONAL MENTION.
Tbe Melropollls" .uifimri ...
. a u I full.
..nls ia Milan's Fr.-ii ""
i. ii ti;.. .1,1.11 una one of the
IOIIUIU IJ. inn , , .
class of 1841 at Vale, am takes part n
the aemi-centeiiniai ouservaiiic n...
year.
Kaiser William pitches the tunes in
Fatherland. There is a Socialist song in
Germany called "A Free Man Am I. A
soldier sang it in barracks. He will be
locked up five years.
i i..... ii.n fmni'li author and
MI1IB. AUttlU, n
magazine writer, is nearly 0 years old,
but she has the spirit and energy of a
girl. Her first look was published
thirty-two years ago.
Out in Keokuk, where Mark Twain
i .1.,. ,.i,l inlmliitantH remember
wrtB iioiii, uic v" , .
him fairlv well but declare he never be
trayed any genius as a liuuionsi wnne
he lived among them.
Count Douglas, a memlier of the Ger
man K-ichstag, who lias become a great
i ...;.i. n.u funic ror. is a descend-
lUVUlllu mm iiiv - ii
ant of the famous Scotch family. He is
now one of the wealthiest ianu proprie
tors of Prussia.
r...i.... iu...Ta itnmllv. now a memlier
of the New York bar, is attending Su
preme Court in Ohio. He is happier in
dig practice and a great deal more pros
perous than when holding the olhce of
Chief Magistrate of Ohio.
The MetroiKilitan Michael ol fervia
has given his consent to the proposed
r .K-.u'iiiir Milan. It is said
lllBIIIHKB l ; . ..
that Milan sent 40,000 francs to the tailor
of his mietresB after receiving uie i.uuu,
000 francs from the State.
A young daughter of Joachim, tiie fa
mous violinist, recently made her debut
as an opera singer nt r.iwni
made such a brilliant success mat sue
...... inimiiiliHielv enirnged for the winter
season at the Leipsic opVra house.
The Servian boy king Alexander is a
sturdy lad ol 14, with keen eyes and an
i.....o;...i.,oi f..i..i Imt lie is as sell-willed
lllieiici miw ....... -
and stubborn as any royal child. He
has la-en well educated, aim epeaas Her
man. French and English in addition to
his native tongue.
Dr. Batigh read a congratulatory dis
patch from the students of Midland Col
lege to the Evangelical Luiueran ueii
eral Synod at Lebanon, Pa., closing with
..I.. :;..., l unniiition. When he had nut
the latter phrase into English, he found
that it ran : ' 1 Here are no uies on ua ;
One would think Stanley awed enough
black men in Africa to match just one
Pullman porter just one. Hut he
couldn't do it. A porter remarked in
San Francisco the other day that when
he finished a run with Stanley tins stern
ml.irnf men yielded up to the potentate
of the Pullman just 100.
Rev. Dr. Ie Costa is left in a. suin-
n;..i.i.. inimi turinir lHiHiLion ovine uip
iiuiivij ii...... i J , t
covery that lus lioston corresiMinueiu,
nion whose statements no uaseu ihh cir
cular letter to the Iiiahops and standing
committees against Phillips i.rooks, is
no other than Miss A. A. thevaillier, a
woman who had a quarrel with the new
Hishop.
Bill Nye is enjoying himself in a coun
try village of high altitude in North Car
olina. He drives a spniiKing ieam oi
horses, and when he has the spare time
he puts it in on the new play he is writ
ing for Stuart Robs n. In a letter to a
friend William savs he can now imagine
how Shakespeare used to feel about the
time he was giving birth to a new play.
General Taliaferro, who has been tell
i.ui tim mi'iiiln of Richmond some inter
esting reminiscences, of Stonewall Jack
son, says that the great Southern leaner
num. f.ulil n iinnril of war. Ilewa a
singularly devout man. with a tendency
toward latuliein, and in me eariy ciays
of the war he was personaMy unpopular
as well with his own staff ns with the
general officers of the army.
Ellen Terry played for several years
under the management of Charles Reade,
whom she characterizes in one sentence
as "dear, lovable, aggravating, childlike,
craflv, gentle, obstinate and entirely de
lightful and interesting." During tin
progress of a play Mr. Reade would i
and watch her, and ls-tween the nets
send her little notes pointing out what
he deemed the defects and merits of her
work.
John Russell Young, who knows Sir
William (lord n dimming well, says ot
him: "A high-tempered, impetuous
brusque, outspoken, resolute man, with
capacity for instant aiier, sensitive, ir
ritable,' ready with a word or a blow, the
military temperament at times unduly
developed ; stern with men, infinite in
sympathy for dogs and dumb domestic
animals, I could imagine anything of Sir
William Gordon dimming rather than
his cheating at cards."
llcnrv Hertz, Professor of Physics in
the University of Honn, wIiobc remark
able discoveries in electricity have given
him a place in Germany similar to that
held by FMison in this country, is a
young man hardly over 34 years old.
After studying civil engineering and
finding it distasteful, he completed two
years' term of military service required
in the fatherland, and then lxgan study
ing electricity with Prof, llclniholz at
Berlin, whoseassistant he Dually became.
His researches look behind the dynamo
and the carlxm, and aim to discover
more economical methods of developing
electric energy.
CRIME AND CRIMINALS.
An Kiilnnif ( the linings nf the Kx
ri'rilliiKlr Wicked.
The general Mief is that the soldiers
who are charged with the lynching of
Hunt will be acquitted.
John Mazue, aged 13, is charged with
the brutal murder of Annie Bruuder ol
tlie same age at Delano, Minn.
S. K. Smith and William Mason, who
robU'd the di'pot safe at Occanside, Cal.,
the other night, have lieen arrested.
Sixteen hours after Antono Granado
was hung at Clifton, A. T., a respite for
ten days was received from Solomon ville.
William B. Cook, late Police Clerk of
Toledo, O , pleaded guiltv to the emliex
xleiuent of $o,000 city funds, and was
sentenced to live years in the peniten
tiary and to pay a tine of flO.OoO.
The trial of Henry K. Long, the first
of those charged w ith the murder of Os
car Crandall, at Red Bluff, Cal., resulted
in a verdict of not guilty. It is proNUile
an early trial of Rube Mitchell, Charles
Hoyden and Frank Hughes w ill follow.
Tbe well-known American specialist in
lunacv, Dr. Walter Kempler, has arrived
in Wales, where he will testify on
behalf of E. C. Duncan o' Washington.
D. C, who w ill then lie placed on trial
for having attempted the murder of his
wife.
Anton Karl, an old and trusted otlicerof
the geological survey, is under arrest at
Washington, chanted with emliezzling
fct.OOO of government funds. He asserts
that w hile there are apparent irregular-
1. . 1- .11 t l
uies oe never wua uouar nui ociong
ing to him.
Steve Ihily shot and killed John Mc
Carthy at Trinity College, Hartford,
Conn.", the other night. Ialy is a well
known athlete and trainer of'the Trinity
students. He claims he was assaulted
by a gang of toughs, and that he shot in
self-defense.
MIl'S Mil
ntOM TH DUBT Of rNHPKfXOB BTWOS.
Bj JULIAS HAWTHORNE, Author of
"The Great Bank Bobbery, "An
American Penman, Eta
rooprrlftbl bjO M. Dunham, and pubUthrf.
?AiclwloD wlUi U-eiJOa,ii.w
tad ladae.
Nothing," said she; and put the helm
over again. The boat resumed its course,
the water bubbling under the stcra Mrs.
Nolen gazing toward the island, which
was now near at hand, had noticed notb-
After a moment, she leaned toward
him and whispered in his ear: "It ia the
name of the steamer in which Percy
.aUed, and the date of the hurricane.
Some one must have thrown it over
board In the storm perhaps it U Lis
own writing. Say nothing; mother must
not know."
She thrust the bit of wood into the
front of her dress, while the judge drew
back with a grave, concerned face and
folded his arms in silence. It was a
strange event, indeed. That demijohn
had been drifting about on the oceun
currents for montlis, to be brought, at
last, to the very hand for which it had
been perhaps intended. Pauline did not
doubt that Percy had thrown it over
board at the moment when ail hope
seemed gone, and probably just before
be himself waa swept from the deck;
and if so it must have been to her that
be had in his heart addressed it.
The Incident brought the picture of
the disaster vividly before her imagina
tion; she had never realized it so In
tensely before the plunging hull, the
reeling decks, the shattered masts, the
white leaps and seething of the mad
dened seas, the deafening ehriek of the
gale, the black darkness around and
overhead; and her brother, her own be
loved brother, staggering forth Into this
blind fury of chaos to waft to her the
last message of despair. She saw It all;
and then, with a long Indrawing of the
breath, her eyes beheld the blue surface
of the summer sea, the warm and tender
sky bending over it, the green shore of
the island toward which they were softly
gliding. Her heart melted, and tears
wet her cheeks unawares,
"I am really glad 1 came," said Mrs.
Nolen, turning, round with a smile. "It
has been a delightful sail, and the island
looks so pretty I 1 hope it will be as nice
going back."
"Well begun is half ended," said the
judge, raising the centerboard as the
boat entered an inlet and ran up on the
beach.; "ana, ir llie worst comes 10 uie
worst, we have provisions enough to stay
here over night. '
CHAPTER XVL
A STRANGE WOOINO.
HE judge pulled
oil his shoes and
stockings and
jumped into the
shallow water,
and, tugging
manfully, pulled
the boat up high
enough to render
it an easy matter
to transport the
ladies to the
shore. Mrs. No
len he took in his
arms and set
down on the
beach; then he
turned to do the like service for Pauliftv,
and his heart beat at the thought of
having her for a moment so near him.
But as she stood poising herself in the
bows, light, beautiful and agile, he per-:-ved
that she meant to make a leap of
it, and, Indeed, the distance waa proba
bly not beyond her powers. She glanced
at him at that juncture, and could not
have failed to notice the sudden faltering
of his expression from its previous joy
ful expectation, she hesitated, and then,
with a faint blush, held out her arms,
saying: "After all, perhaps you had bet
ter take me."
The judge could not speak; the revul
sion waa too sudden. She had never be
fore done anything which seemed so sig
nificant, and as he received her on his
sturdy shoulder he experienced a happi
ness more poignant than be had ever
known. The action lasted but for an in
stant, but the effect was by no means so
transient; on the contrary, it kept glow
ing and increasing in his soul, and quite
illuminated his whole aspect Pauline,
too, waa in an unusual mood; she seemed
softer and more accessible than was
usual with her. The tears which she
had lately shed had brought all the
woman in her to the surface. There
were tones in her voice that thrilled to
the judge's heart like exquisite music
The memory of her brother had done
her lover good service.
A spot was selected under the shade
of a cedar, with clean white sand under
neath. Here Mrs. Nolan was established
with her cushions, and the cloth was
spread for lunch. The basket was un
packed, tbe plates and knives and forks
arranged, and the good things set out.
They had brought a jug of water, but it
had become so warm as to be unpalat
able; so the judge proposed that they
should go and find a spring; there was
sure to be one not far off. Pauline
assented and they started, leaving Mrs.
Nolan beneath the cedar.
'1 did not know whether to be glad or
sorry that I was the means of bringing
that strange message to you," said the
judge, when they were out cf earshot
"And yet 1 could not help thinking that
there must have been some providential
design in the matter. It was as if Percy
had appointed me his messenger to you."
"Oh, 1 am glad 1 am only glad!" re
joined Pauline musingly, with her eye
downcast "It puts my doubts at rest
All this time 1 could not realize that he
was gone. I knew it, of course; but it
had not been brought home to me. Now
I can feel that all ia well with him. 1
am glad it came."
"It seems a pity that so much of the
message should be illegible," remarked
the judge. "It would have been well to
know for a certainty that it came from
Percy's own hand."
"Perhaps it will become more legible
when the wood is dried. But I should
not care if it turned out to have been
written by tome one else. It is from
Percy's ship the Amazon and in that
case it is from him."
"I am a little surprised," said the
judge, after a pause, "that Mr. Martin
has not written us some of the details of
th-j affair. He can hardly have failed to
IU J 1 1 Hi M' -W.
understand that any Information how
ever slight, would have been prec o to
you. You have not heard from him. I
have youT , . , fI I
"No, and I think you are riaht He
thould have written. But 1 can in.ag ne
why he has not It was hU sugges ion
that Percy should leave New ork. He
urged him to go with him; he took that
responsibility. The least he xu d do
to guard him from harm. When that
storm came he should not have let h m
go out of his sight But. Instead, he et
him be drowned. 1 can understand why
he lias not written to mo-ho would not
dare!"
She said this with a passionate em
phasis. Tbe judge was secretly con
scious of a feeling of relief, but his sense
of rectitude compelled him to say: It
would not be just. 1 think, to charge Mr
Martin with being accountable for I er
cy'a death."
"Perhaps It Is not logically just; but
that is tbe way I feel," was her reply.
By tkis time they had reached the
spring, which trickled out of asand blull
a few feet above high water mark, and
filled a barrel tliat had been sunk in the
sand below. The judge knelt down and
plunged the jug into the cool water,
which gurgled into it with a refreshing
sound. Pauline stood, with her hands
hanging folded, looking down on hint.
The blue sea. the sunshine, the warmth
were inexpressibly soothing.
"How pleasant it is here," she said.
The judge rose, with the jug In his
hand. A moment before he bad not
meant to speak so soon; but now the
words seemed to break from him invol
untarily. "Pauline, will you be my wifer he said
She took a step backward, and their
eyes met She was startled, and the ex
pression of her face at first seemed to
Indicate refusal. But after a few mo
ments the softer look returned to it.
nifcigled with sadness.
"Would that lie best?" she asked.
"Infinitely best for mo. But it is you
who must decide. I have loved you ever
since you were a little girl."
"Does my mother know of this?"
"Yes, since last year; and she has bid
den me Godspeed. But 1 do not wish
you to bo influenced by that Decide
for vourself alone. I am twice your
years, and more; hut In my love for you
1 am young, and shall always bo."
She stood silent for a while. j';8 -vm
evidently touched b his words, and by
the manly generosity of his apieal; but
something waa yet wanting to give the
final conviction to her heart, and she
was too true to herself to commit herself
without it.
"There is no man living for whom I
care so much us for you," she said at
length; "but 1 have never thought ol
rju-irnr for vou in that wav. 1 have de
pended on you and 'rusted In you, but
to be your wife, . . . Oh, you must
givn me timet I do not kne ' ..hat 1
think, or feeL But 1 shall not He in
doubt1 will give you an answer soon.
It seems to me that if I could love you
as you wish it would be a fortunate thing
for me fortunate that a man like you
should wish to murry such a girl as 1
am. But give me till to-morrow."
"As long as you need," answered thP
judge, huskily. "It is my duty and mj
happiness to wait for you and upon you
as long as 1 live."
The breeze fell again during the after
noon. 'and they delayed their starting in
expectation of a change later on. The
result justified their forecast, for as the
moon appeared above tbe eastern horizon
tlie clouds began lo gather in the west,
and the twof the trees waved und mur
mured. The direction of the wind wns
such that, after leaving the island, they
could make a nearly straight run for
home, keeping the boom over the port
quarter. In sotting out a long tongue of
land extending on the southeast broke
the sweep of the wind, ami made it seem
much lighter than it really was. The
water was smooth and the impulse just
sufficient to make them glide along rap
idly Rut the moment the point of the
cape was passed the sudden increase in
tlie violence of the wind fairly startled
them. The judge, who was at the helm,
made the mistake of supfiosing that it
was a gust or temporary squall only, and
therefore did not put back into the
smooth water and double reef his sail,
as he should have done.
By the time he had discovered that the
wind had come to stay, they were too far
on their course to make a return advis
able. To have done so would have in
volved beating up almost in the teeth of
the gale, which would not only have
been a long job, but one which the height
of the waves would have rendered dan
gerous. To keep on, on the other hand,
seemed comiaratively easy, the wind
being nearly fair, yet not so much so as
to involve the peril of jibing; the dis
tance, moreover, was not very great, and
tbe boat, though heavily laden, was
going fast Accordingly the judge
grasped the tiller firmly, and kept her
headed so as to pass the lighthouse a
couple of points to the northwestward.
The three occupants of the little craft
were all seated, of course, close up on
tbe weather side, the spread of sail hav
ing a tendency to bear her down to lee
ward. The judge sat next the stern;
Pauline was close to him, and Mrs. Nolen
was next to Pauline, her feet being sup
ported against the sheath of the center
board. But as they sped along the waves
ran higher and higher, and began at
length to dash over the weather gun
wale, wetting Paulino's hack and shoul
ders, and running down into the well.
Tlie effect of this, after it had con
tinued for a while, was inevitably to
make the boat sit lower in the water and
thus offer less opposition to the inroads
of the seas; and it was evident tlnu on
effort must be made to bail her out
There was a tin dipper in the locker
not without difficulty the judge suc
ceeded in getting this out, and. stooping
down, endeavored to bail with his right
hand, while handling the tiller with his
left But it was impossible to hold the
I boat to her course with one hand in
such a sea, and after a minute Pauline
, took the dipper and Intimated that she
j would attend to that part of the work,
j She bailed rapidly and steadily and
j threw out a large amount of water, but
the waves continued to rise and overlap
the gunwale, so that she was unable to
! keep pace with the influx, and the boat
' settled so low that ever and anon a wave
would wash in to leeward. This was a
serious matter; it meant that swamping
was not far off; and with the extra
ballast on board she would go the bottom
like a stone. And If she did, nothing
: was more certain than that they would
be drowned. It would be impossible for
even the strongest swimmer to reach the
shore on such a night
Mrs. Nolen, after expressing, Jn the
tulaliied manner cJinracU'rTtJ"of t ,
all circumstances, her horror and dw"1
at the situaiion-lhe real kh,...1
which she was. however. proUHj'
from recognlzing-had relapsed (J '
sort of lethurglc state, half redini,..
the narrow sent, motionless, and ilT
Ingly unconscious of the water tW
dashing over her. This pussit,M1
.ImiUtliiu llll't In, ..II .... '"It
was dou lit less the best for ull
that she could possibly have
wiicwuai
Thejudgo erhnt suffered nioru
anv of tbe party; for he felt w,.
"moat
mainly responBiwe ror iioafIuir, amjii"
Idea of death stepping lietweco liiB
Pauline at such a juncture wu alC!
more than ho could bear. Pauline,
was apparently perfectly chwrr'urr;
. . ... a . . ...ium. I
composed. She even felt aplin:"
hilarotiou in uie lace or tim unmi
danger. The exertion of bailing hajZ
her in a warm glow from head to i,
and though she saw that her labor
effectual ihe maintained it with unfair
big resolution. They were nowwithji,
mile of the light lousi-.and as soon ami!
passed under tho Ice of ii they would i
comparatively safe. But it waiqu
tion whether the boat would hold out N
long, and just then an unforeseen cat
trophe occurred.
As Paulino stooped to fill the ballet
the little vessel gave a sudden lurch to
leeward, throwing the girl forward
her knees in the bottom of the bo,
Tlie judge reached out quickly to m
her from going overboard; in doing
the tiller was thrust over; the boat cam,
directly before the wind, the tail jit
and the boom, as it swung to starboard,
struck the judge on the head, uA
knocked him Into tho water. At ti,
same moment ft wave came over th
stern and deluged the seat room. Tb
end seemed to lw at band.
But Puuliue was not a woman to U
vanquished w ithout a struggle. At ih
sprang up and seized the tiller, bet
mind was perfectly clear as to what
should be douo. The boat had already
fallen off. and was broadside to the
wind; she put down the helm, and
brought her up In the winds eye, rap.
idly hauling in the sheet tu she did io,
and giving it a turn round the cleat
Then she bent her guze on the dark con.
fusion of waters in which the judge had
sunk.
It was ten to ono that he had been car.
ried to leeward and out of reach. Bit
oue circumstance, of which Pauline
not aware, operated in her favor. Thw
was a strong tide running out again
he wind; and when the judge rose tit
head appeared within u foot of when
Pauline sat She stretched over toward
him. grasied him by the sleeve of the
coat and drew him toward her. Thoujli
half stunned by the blow be had
ceived, he managed to get his arm ova
the gunwale, aial, a wave coming to hi
a-uistance, be half scrambled, half wm
tk.'own into the bottom of the bat
Once there, his remaining strength f
took him, and he lay unconscious. Pau
line did not attempt to reliuve him; the
bad her hands full of other matters, The
boat was almost m a sinking state, and
they were still more than half t milt
from port
She watched her chance heedfulljtt
come about for to ship another win
like the last one might be fatal Us
boat obeyed her helm promptly, and at
off with a plunge and a roll towardiba
destination. During the pause the had
drifted some distance to leeward, so thai
she was now sailing with the wind ren
nearly behind her and the boom far out
and although this involved soiuedang
of jibing agnin, it diminished the risk ol
taking tn water over the quarter, sod
was in so far an advantage. Pauline'i
utmost strength was required to hold iht
tiller, -hich struggled with her like I
wild creature lighting to get loose; js"
she was compelled to keep one hand upos
the sheet likewise, which might at u;
moment need hauling in. The strait
upon her nerves and muscles was ten
ble, but she clenchtd her teeth and held
on; In courage and spirit, at least sai
was equal to the occasion. Once in i
while she threw a hasty glance into tin
body of the boat. Mrs. Nolen had
ped down from her seat and had nu
aged to draw the judge's head ltd
shoulders on her lap.
"If 1 save them," said Pauline to
self, "I will accept It as a sign."
As she spoke the Ixiat gave a leapwj
was suddenly In smixith water. Thesd
barely swelled to the breeze. Theclianji
was so sudden that it seemed miniculoa
They had passed under the lee of
lighthouse, but that appeared inadn)U
to account for so abrupt and grwt M
alteratioa Indeed, Pauline alwajil
lievedand declared afterwards tliatw
gale had actually ceased, without visibl
cause, in a moment of time. The W
f slipped sluggishly through the water
an even keeL There was scarce -enough
to carry her t her moorinp
the little cove. .,
"Well, then, I will be his wife,
Paulino to herself, as they touched U
pier "and 1 think I love him nowr
(to bk continukd.
The Tacoma Athletic Club ia
quandary. It wishes to incorpora,
is told by lawyers that no organic
cin incorporate without having
8eeific object to accomplish. Thu1)
tion affects manv local organiwiw";
and the courts wifl probably be ?keii
decide it. The athletic club desirM '
incorporate in order that its officers ;
be responsible only to the amouni ,
their stock in signing contracts w r
monev.
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