Five Days Buried
In a. Well
Awful
Experience
Of a.
Canadian
Well Digger
&
OT often in the world’s history pipe, their only means of communica
has a man been buried in a tion with the entombed man, but no re
well for more than four days, sponse was heard, and poor Sandford's
with great masses of earth fate was now considered sealed. With
■ bout his head, and yet come out alive. heavy hearts the little band of men.
Buch, however, was the strange expe who had worked so heroically to save
rience that befell a man named Joshua a comrade's life, gathered up their
Sandford while at work in a well sit tools and dispersed.
uated on a farm near the town of Paris,
After all work had been .abandoned
In the province of Ontario, Canada.
a Mr. Janies Wheeler of Paris out of
On Tuesday. June 24, 1902, Sandford curiosity went to have a look at the
and several other men were engaged in well and while standing there fancied
deepening a well on a farm. The well that he heard a sound as of tapping.
was bricked at the sides and was dry. Another gentleman who was standing
Sandford waw at the very bottom of the near at once went down into the new
well. At 2 o’clock in the afternoon the excavation and reported that he had re
men above noticed that the sides of the ceived a distinct response to his rap
well lower down were commencing to ping. Without a moment's delay men
cave in. It is hardly necessary to say were hurried to the spot, and the work
that they lost no time in getting to the ers, though much fatigued by their
surface of the ground. Arriving there, previous long exertions, renewed their
they at once commenced to haul up plucky struggle for a man’s life. At 2
Sandford and would have succeeded in a. m. on Friday, the 27th, the third day
this but for the fact that when their of his imprisonment, the rescuers were
comrade was only half way up the able to communicate with Sandford
earth ueur the top also began to cave again and ran iron pipes through the
In. and with a rush a great mass of it wall of earth to convey air to him.
descended upou their uufortunate com Sandford informed the men that he
panion, completely burying him.
was ten feet below them, and they at
It did not take long for a crowd to once set to work to deepen the shaft.
gather, all discussing the terrible fate
Meanwhile willing hands, that eager
which liad befallen the young well ly volunteered for the perilous task,
sinker. Suddenly, however, a rapping toiled on unflaggingly in the new shaft.
was heard on an iron pipe that de When the shaft had been deepened to
scended into the well, and those above a depth of sixty feet and the tunnel
at once came to the conclusion that the cut through to the old well, the rescue
falling earth had in some way formed party found they were too far down,
an arch above Sandford, while the and the tunnel had to be tilled up
earth which bad caved in lower down aud a uew one cut higher up. All the
had filled up the well below him, thus tunnel work had to be cribbed with
preventing him from being crushed to timber to prevent its caving in.
death.
The hole that was now bored was
At the top of the well there was an found to lie above Sandford, but the
opening in the pipe where four and five workers toiled on, and by a lower bor
inch tubes joined, and through a crev ing he was finally reached. Sandford
ice Dr. Patterson of Paris was able, was discovered lying on his side, very
with difficulty, to communicate with pale and muttering indistinctly. The
the entombed man oell>w. Sandford fresh air that reached him caused him
was not able to reply in the same way, to revive somewhat, and after the ad
although for some time a certain ministration of some hot water and
amount of air reached him by means milk by the physicians he rapidly
of this pipe, a supply augmented by gained strength.
pumping air down.
“My body is free.’’ he explained, “but
A system of signaling was soon my legs are caught. I can move them
arranged, in accordance with which slightly, and they are uot crushed, but
Sandford would tap on the pipe a cer
simply gripped so tightly that they will
tain number of times in response to not give an inch.
questions asked. Ln this way it was
For twenty-four hours the men la
discovered that be was well, had some
bored
incessantly to release Sandford's
few feet of space around him aud was
legs.
Having
failed to succeed in what
prepared to bold out for a day. if such
a length of time were necessary to ef bad seemed a simple task, it was final
ly decided that a new tunnel would
fect his rescue.
The plan finally adopted was the dig have to be dug in order to get at the
glng of a new well or shaft about six foot and clear away whatever held It.
Sandford on being consulted agreed
feet from the old one. and this was ac
cordingly sunk to a depth In the first Io the plan of tunneling tn two feet
place of about Airty-three feet, the men below him, immediately under the im
working like Trojans. To reach Sand prisoned kg. Over him they built an
ford it would of course be necessary to arch to provide against a possible cave
tunnel from the new well Into the old in when the sand and bricks below
one. and here a very formidable diffi should be removed. Around his body a
culty presented itself. To tunnel into rope was fastened and attached to a
the old well above Sandford might pulley ou the other side of the crib
mean instant death to him. for in this I work. and above ground half a dozen
way the superincumbent mass would I men held this rope, prepared in case a
be released. To tunnel below him fall of earth did occur to adopt the des
perate remedy of attempting the pris
would also give rise to great danger.
When the workers bad reached the oner’s release by a vigorous pull.
A small opening was made in the
depth mentioned above, they were
afraid that they were not yet low aide of the well, and every Inch of it
enough, but Sandford again and again was protected. At length by the right
affirmed that they were. Finally, after , of a portaltie electric lamp Sandford's
considerable consultation, it was de trousers were seen. The foot itself
cided to proceed with the tunneling, was soon discovered wedged in lie
and carpenters set to work to erect tween an iron pipe, the bricks of the
supports in the new wall 90 as to di well and a heavy board. In removing
minish the peril run by the rescue par these obstructions Sandford slipped
ty. That this peril was a very real one down, and it is said that not until then
was soon apparent. Suddenly a loud did he show alarm. He only descended
crash was heard, the timbers cracked a few inches, however, and after some
and appeared to be giving way, and stimulant had been administered the
the men below were hastily drawn up last brick was removed and the man
to the surface. The cause of the disas was free. At 530 on Saturday utter
ter was soon explained. The earth n«v»n. the fifth day of bis entombment
above Sandford bad settled. Again Sandford was release«! after exactly
and again the reecuers tapped on the liH) ho'irs in the well
N
CHOLERA ATTACKS TROOPS.
Vsrj-inr Soil Conditions Call For a
C’ an Cnt Stndjr.
tntereatina Account From an Old
Phil.Idelphin Dully Newspaper.
I>inea«e ContriKitrd Tlirtiugl- t n war-
runted Attack on M oton .
We sow Aiss and clover seed upon
wheat in the spring, which uecessitates
sowing with some of the baud operated
machines or from the hand, says a
New York correspondent iu National
Stockman. We use a hand seeder and
the work has been fairly well done.
But when oue compares the even stand
of the drill seeding there is. after all, a
vast difference. Another spring 1 shall
see to it that the iields are sowed over
each way, using half of the seed at a
time.
Upon fertile land every small space
without clot er or ouly partly covered
means a prolific growth of weeds. A
fertile soil, like civilization, has its at
tendant evils. The thick seeding of all
slow maturing plants and a thlu seed
ing of those cultivated or rapid grow
ing may be laid down as a safe rule. I
have seen just as good a hay crop from
ten quarts of seed as from sixteen
quarts where no interference was pres
ent. It is phenomenal how large a
stool will grow from one seed. 1 would
not care to risk light seeding, however.
With wheat and oat seeding upon our
soils the contrary seems true. Light,
thin seeding of oats is far safer, par
ticularly where clover seeding is prac
ticed. Oats are a nurse crop for clover
over a vast stretch of country and zo
doubt will be for a loug time notwith
standing they are unsatisfactory ex
cept when very wet Oats require about
500 pounds of water for each pound of
dry matter, and while the thin seeding
will draw heavily upon moisture dur
ing the ripening days the clover will
have gaiued a strong foothold in the
early growtl of the plant
For some reason not explained by the
Then* was a dally newspaper in 1793.
it was published in Philadelphia, where officials Captain Derailing. with a body
the first daily newspaper appeared. It of troops, has been attacking the
Moros in the interior of the island of
was originally the Philadelphia Packet Mindanao. The ‘ expedition succeeded
Buy a Bottle of
and General Advertiser, issued as a in taking by storm the town of Baeo-
Weekly, aud u complete file of it is lod, killing over a hundred of its de Has Made People Well When
I
stowed away on the shelves of the fenders, with a loss on the part of our
Every Other Remedy
Congressional library at Washington. troops of only two. Whoever ordered
The Packet exists today as the Phila this expedition, it would seem to be an
Rub in well and
Has Failed.
delphia North American. The first issue uct of criminal aggression, for tlie Mo
If the Packet as a weekly appeared ros had not interfered with our troops
Paine’s Celery Compound cures disease 1
Oct. 28, 1771. Afterward it became a until we entered their country witii an
triweekly and on Sept 21, 1784, a armed force. Tlie United States has a It has saved the lives of thousands of sufferers.
It has made the weak strong, vigorous, and
daily. Associated with John Dunlap treaty with the sultan who rules the happy.
IT HAS CURED OTHERS, IT WILL CURE YOU
In its publication was David O. Clay- Moros, and, although that treaty is a
Paine’s Celery Compound purifies the blood
poole. Dunlap is said to have been the monstrosity for a republic to make, and builds up the nervous system as nothing
first man to have printed the Declara acknowledging as it does tlie twin else can do; it is pre-eminently the great life
Sutton's Snap Shot, tbe wonderful destroyer of *11 forma of inflammatloniD man or beast
tion of Independence. So it is appro barbarisms of slavery and polygamy, giver and health maker.
0c and 11 per bottle. R K. SUTTON, sole proprietor and manufacturenAahland, Oregon
Overworked and tired women stand in ur For ala al City Drug Store. Jacksonville. and by Dr . J Hinkle.CentraPolnt.
priate, says tlie New York Commercial yet good faith demands that a treaty
Advertiser, that we should take an ac must be kept until superseded by an- gent need of this health giving prescription to
and keep them well. All women should
count of the celebration of Independ other. It is the irony of fate that our make
i take advantage of the remarkable power of
ence day a hundred years ago from soldiers who have been ordered to the this liest of medicine for restoring vigor to the
the files of his paper, then known as front in the expedition against the blood and strength to the nervous system.
Dunlap’s American Dally Advertiser. Moros are likely to fare as badly or The all-important thing for nervous, run down,
Dunlap did not respect the Fourth of evan worse than tlie Moros themselves. and sleepless women is that Paine’s Celery
July, as some of tlie newspaper pro A dispatch from Manila gives us the Compound fortifies the whole physical system,
prietors of today do, by declaring a disastrous intelligence that the dread and by correcting digestion and regulating the
holiday for his employees and getting cd cholera has attacked Captain Per nerves, it insures sound, refreshing sleep. In
every case of sickness Paine’s Celery Com
jut no paper. On the contrary, he im ahing’s troops, five cases and many pound completely and permanently brings
proved the day by publishing in a pa suspects being reported. Tlie dispatch back health. Mrs. Mary M. Myers, Balti
triotic spirit the text of the Declaration adds, “It is supposed tlie disease was more, Ohio, saved by Paine’s Celery Compound
of Independence, with an editorial in contracted near Bacolod.”
after the failures of able physicians, gratefully
troduction which Indicates that Liberty
If the cholera extends to the other writes as follows:—
“I suffered for eight years with nervous
was not so fully established on her United States troops the loss of life
prostration
and the general debility common
pedestal as she might have been.- He may be fearful to contemplate, and tlie
to women, and had such pains in my back
Through Salt Lake City, Leadville, Pueblo, Colorado Springs
says:
sadness of death of loved ones will fill that I could not get around the house. I used
“At a time when some of our citizens many of our people with anguish that several remedies and consulted several of the
and Denver, and the Famous Rocky Mountain Scenery
are disposed to view monarchical power cannot be comforted. And all for lest physicians without obtaining any relief.
by Daylight to all Points East.
with different eyes from those with what? Only the inextinguishable zeal Paine’s Celery Compound restored me to
which they viewed it in 1776 we hope for conquest of the imperialists, who health.
“ I also want to say to all mothers that
It will uot be amiss to remind them of for a season dominate this government
the principles and feelings of the citi and who believe they can govern other Paine’s Celery Compound is a splendid medi
zens of the United States in that mem men better than they can govern them cine for their children.”
Modern Equipment, through Pullman and Tourist
orable year by republishing the Dec I selves.
Sleeping Cars and Superb Dining Car Service . . . .
laration of Independence on the anni
versary of the day which gave birth to
Where l)oe« Uncle Come Inf
For
the freedom of our country aud which
Home Use
we hope will continue to furnish a
precedent for deposing tyrants in ev
W. C. McBRIDE, Gen. Agt.
For rater, ft Idtn and other
They Make Old Cloftes
ery part of the world.”
Look lew.
124 Third St., PORTLAND, ORE,
nforosMoa, address
Then follows the Declaration In full,
Direction bock and 45
dyed
samples
free.
with some little variations in punctua
DIAMOND DYES,
tion. spelling and general style which
Burlington, Vu
would appear inelegant today. But we
have reformed our language a good
deal in a century.
KICKS FROM ARIZONA.
There is one little news paragraph
you have headaches, tongue is coated, bad breath, bowels con
about the observance of the day in the
stipated, bad taste in the mouth ? If
Breeay Item« at Sewi From aa Inde
Issue of the Fourth. There was no tele
pendent Editor.
not all of these symptoms,
graph in those days aud no steam rail
[Copyright, 1902, by C. B. Lewis.)
then some of them? It’s
road, and news came in by carrier
Giveadam (Saleh has no labor unions,
your
liver.
slowly. So there is no reference to the
no strikes andsno riots. It is only when
plans for celebration in other cities,
1 citizen puts on a high collar and a
and under the head of “Philadelphia,
red necktie and walks abroad that he
July 4,” there is only a short para
is a
wonders if thds«republlc is a failure.
graph telling that the firing of the
“You run the government, my dear
natural
morning gun at daybreak had an Gaston.”
The joke is«an our esteemed contem- ■
vegetable remedy,
nounced the birthday of American in
“After you. my dear Alphonse.”— porary again. He ensconced himself
containing
no mineral or
dependence aud that fifteen guns New York American.
the other day” behind some barrels on!
narcotic
poisons.
It will correct
would be fired at noon and fifteen at
Apache avenue and fired six shots at
any
or
all
symptoms,
make
your health,
two different periods afterward. Most
Th- President Sustained.
us as we sauntiervd past, and but for a
appetite and spirits good. At druggists, 50 cents.
of the public places of entertainment.
There is little doubt that the speech stray remark we overheard later in ths
It was stated, would be “open for the es President Roosevelt has been mak
reception of company" and the even ing in the west have thrilled the youth
ing would be closed with a grand dis ful mind, and the primary classes are
play of fireworks. “Thus,” says Mr. enthusiastic in approval. The New
Dunlap. “Philadelphia will exhibit per York Evening Post makes the case
haps the most splendid scene of any clear in these excerpts, with others of
part of the continent on this joyful in the same tone and conclusion:
troduction of the eighteenth year of
A vote taken in the Hennepin kinder
38-55
glorious liberty.”
garten at Minneapolis showed that
eOLLAPC SNARLIN'
The reason for firing a salute of fif only one little girl differed with Pres
SRESS'ORtSMCKCLESS
teen guns was that in 1792 Vermont ident Roosevelt on the subject of race
and Kentucky had been admitted to suicide.
reruizr 38-55 Marlin re-
the Union, increasing the number of
After a careful canvass of the nurs
jr, rat trafecsory and great
states from the original thirteen to eries in St. Paul it was reported that
smashing power. They can be reloaded with black powder as the rwist of the riflea
fifteen.
only three children were not satisfied
is adapted to both vektddea.
Ln the issue of the paper for the 5th with the president’s Venezuelan policy.
THC MAR UM FIR* ARMS CO
of July is an account of the local cele
At the close of President Roosevelt’s
bration. It was not complete. Little speech on the tariff resolutions of ap
scraps of this story were published proval were passed by all the infant
from day to day for nearly a week, classes. They declared that he iiekl
SOUTH AND EAST
anti the arrival of letters from New the same view of the protective tariff
CHOICE MISCELLANY
York furnished additional news, so that they did.
—VIA—
that the story of the celebration was
Buffet Cara la Japaa.
not cleaned up in a few hours, as it
Opport unity's Inspiration.
The Sanuki railway of Shikoku has
would be today, but was scattered
Hope is the matrix of victory, and
arranged
to have its refreshment cars
over two good weeks.
the great body of Democrats are grad
served by waitresses, says the Japan
ually yielding to that initial inspiration
Shasta Route
Times. Every train Includes one such
from which success is born. In hope
INAUDIBLE FIRECRACKERS
day
we
would
never
time
known
of
car. and each has a waitress as attend
are contained the potentials. Confi
i
the accident. Why not let us stand ant This arrangement was started a
A Plea For the Once Worthy Fourth dence, courage, resolve and effort are
against
a
wall
ten
feet
away
and
put
of July Featarc.
but the successive unfoldings of power.
few months since, and the girls were
Trains leave Medford for Portland
Something ought to be done to re Democracy's source of strength will lu half a day al shoo.' Ing?
selected from about thirty applicants as and
way stations at 4:21 a. m. and
habilitate the Fourth of July celebra come with the full realization of its op
having tlie following qualifications: 5:52 p. m.
tion. especially its firecracker depart portunity.
1 he Foundation of Health.
First a passable personal appearance;
8:àô pm
Lv Portland. ... 8:30 am
ment. The celebration of the present
When the people have once sensed
N >uri*hment is the foundation of second, education; third, good health; Lv Medford......... 11:45 pm 11:20 am
day Is but a pale reflection and a far- the scope and magnitude of the open he ill li— lire—strength.
Kodol Dys fourth, good conduct, and fifth, an ab
Ashland......... 12:30 am 12:05 pm
off echo of the glorious triumph of the ing which Invites them they cannot pepsia Cure is the one great medi solutely respectable past. The waitress Ar
Ar Sacramento... 5:05 pm
5:00 am
past, and the sickly, petulant pop of but be touched with the impulse and cine that enables the stomach and di es rank as officials of the railway and Ar San Francisco. 7:55 pm
8:55 am
the contemporary firecracker bears but kindled with the power of desire. The gestive organs to digest, assimil .te are under the following regulations;
sorry comparison with the detonation opportunity is visually approaching and and transform all foods into the kind First, hair to be dressed in the agemaki Ar Los Angeles..J 2.00
8:05 am
of its predecessor of a few years back. as it draws nigh widens and enlarges. < f blood that nourishes the nerves »t.vies—resembling a Greek helmet; sec Ar El Paso......... 6:00
6:00 pm
6:30 am
It is sad to see a national institution It is no mere figure to say that the and feeds the tissues. Kodol lays the ond, costume to consist of a kimono of Ar Fort Worth..
11:30 am
thus going to the dogs. But the dogs gates of victory are unfolding for the foundation for health. Nature does an improved style and a brown skirt; Ar City of Mexico.
the rest. Indigestion. Dyspepsia and
1:00 am
need not worry—it no longer frightens Democratic party.—St. Louis Republic. al'disordeis oi the stomach ard di- third, the girls to rest morning or aft Ar Houston..........
Ar New Orleans..
6:30 pm
them as in times past it did.
ge-tive organs are cured by the u-e of ernoon by turns and every sixth day; Ar Washington ..
6:42 pm
These latter day inaudible firecrack
Our Wary Attorney General.
I K dot Sold by all Druggists.
fourth, the girls ou duty to behave with Ar New York ....
12:10 pm
Philander Chase Knox quickly decid
er* are frauds, cheating the small boy
military discipline, to take no “tips,'' to
A Short JTemoa.
out of his hard saved dime. And as ed that the facts did not justify a crim
refrain from chatter with the passen
It 1» reported that a young man, be gers. and when passengers are in the
to the tail of the lion, what is it for? inal prosecution in the Tyner case. It
It is an ornamental rather than an es may be remembered that Philander ing examined preparatory to joining carriage to stand in the corner of the
sential appendage, and a gentle little quickly came to the same conclusion the ihurch. was asked, “Under whose carriage. Among the girls who have On both trains. Chair cars Sacra-
twist, with a bit of a knot or two just In the Porto Rican smuggling cases and preaching were you converted?”
entered the service are many from re me^to to El Paso, and tourist cars
•'Under nobody’s preaching.” was the spectable families, aud they have be to New Orleans ¡md Washington.
for remembrance. lest he forgot, can that he reached the same decision in
do no harm and is sure to awaken en the Manila custom house scandal. prompt reply. “I was converted under haved well and decently. The company
Connecting at San Francisco with
thusiasm on the rear benches.
Philander, in short, is becoming wary. my mother’s practicing.”
had apprehended that passengers might the several steamship lines for Hono
Did any preacher ever utter so pow behave vulgarly toward them, but hap lulu, Japan, China, Philippines, Cen
Give us back our old celebration! The Northern Securities merger de
And in the matter of the firecrackers cision demonstrated that even a fed erful a sermon as the young man em pily every respect has been paid to tral and South America.
See agent at Medford station, or
there should be legislation. The mak eral court may unexpectedly take a bodies in those few words?
them, aud the railway authorities con address
ers must be compelled by law to use purely perfunctory prosecutiou serious
sider the service a success.
W. E. COMAN, G F. A P. A.,
Another Way of Eipreaalng It.
better powder and more of it.—New- ly. and Philander is not going to take
Portland, Oregon.
•‘When Mrs. l’arvenu was p<x>r. they
York Evening Post.
chances of similar unfortunate results,
T. E. Hills of Ashland has been ap
•
cat
u>
say
she
was
a
great
talker,
but
pointed aid-de-camp on the staff of
To be on the safe side he will not iu-
Thos J. Stewart, commander of the
The Banaer of Dawn.
•titute any prosecutions at all.—Chica hiuce ¡.lie became rich it is different”
"lib ecd! What do they say now?"
Gt and Army of the Republic.
And wherever our flag comes and go Chronicle.
“
They
say
she
is
a
brilliant
couversa
men behold it they see in its sacred
tioual'it"
Exorbitant Freight Kale«.
emblazonry no rampant lion and no
The
coal
trust
succeeded
in
keeping
fierce eagle, no embattled castles or in
ti1111
signia of imperial authority; they see the question of freight rates out of the
the symbols of light. It is the bunm r strike hearing, although it was the key
of dawn.—Henry Ward Beecher.
I to the whole subject of the inquiry,
and now the power of the interstate
commerce commission and the courts
Worse Than Working.
“Are you going to take a day off on to compel disclosure of the terms of
i
the conspiracy to strangle competition
tne Fourth?"
“Heavens, no! I have three boys at and plunder the public will be resisted
and defied to the very limit. Unfor
borne.”
OFFERS CHOICE OF THREE GATEWAYS
tunately the case against the coal trust
A Sorrow of the Moment.
Is being heard by a body lacking the
Th'« Is tragic
power to enforce its orders by sum
’Stead of silly.
mary commitment for contempt.—Phil
"Bang!” said fireworks.
adelphia North American._ ,
“Ouch!" said Willie.
coffee, or any other
Oruadrxt Sowlnf.
The oat plant does not grow rapidly
at once after coming up, but if sown
thickly the ground will be covered, re
tarding clover growth. Broadcast oat
seeding either by machine or hand is
very unsatisfactory. All things consid
ered, no method or machine for com
bined seeding compares to a disk drill.
Another point: An endless waste of
clover seed takes place each year by
sowing upon soil not garden fitted. A
rich soil is not alone a qualification for
a sure catch of clover. Soil texture is
absolutely necessary. I would prefer
to throw a piece of land out of the reg
ular rotation than to seed before th'S
condition has taken placF. and. what is
more, soils full of root growth like our
own cannot be made suitable in a mo
ment, no matter how much labor is of
fered. Decomposition must take place
and chemical action go on. The more
labor employed the quicker this action
will follow. I speak from the view
point of a dairy farm not deficient in
vegetable matter. Upon soils where
successive crop growing is followed the
principle would not apply. Then It is a
question of getting more humus and
plant food into the soil. These varying
conditions of soils call for a clean cut
home study of our own farms.
POPULAR PEAS.
SoBie Good Varieties For Early. Main
and Late Crop..
Among the newer extra early varie
ties Gradua has become extremely pop
ular. The pods are very large and
filled with large wrinkled deep green
peas of the finest quality. Alaska,
Nott's Excelsior. American Wonder,
THE JUNO PEA.
Little Gem and Premium Gem are oth
er varieties of merit, and Surprise is a
fine early wrinkled variety.
Standard early and medium varieties
Include Advance, Abundance, Heroine
and Horsford Market Garden.
Of late sorts Queen, Stratagem and
Champion of England are favorites.
Juno is a dwarf, wrinkled, narrow pe,a
for main and late crops. It stands
about two feet high and needs little
brushing. The vines are very produc
tive, the pods long and straight and
lacked with seven or eight peas of
tne flavor and very tender.
Child Killed Near Roseburg
Ruth, the two-year-old daughter of
Marion Cozad, of French Settlement,
was instantly killed one night last
week by the plunge of a back from a
bridge that spans the small creek not
far beyond the Sold ers’ Home. There
were seven persons in the vehicle and
one horse
drawing in. The oc
cupants were Mr. and Mrs. Cozad and
their four children and David Grenot.
The party bad been attending the
carnival during the day at Roseburg,
and started for borne late. When they
arrived at the bridge it seems that
the h<y»e in the darxnest stepped too
near the edge of the structure, which
bas oo »-ide-railing, throwing the two
right wheels of the back off the
bridge, tipping it over in»o the dry
creek bed. together with itBioad. The
burse and wagon also went down. In
vestigation disclosed the unfortunate
child with a fractured skull and a
broken neck, while the rest of the
party had sustained only a few bruis
es.
One Thins and Another.
“The idea of calling a steamship a
tramp.”
“No word better fits the case.”
"Absurd! To think of a tramp need
ing water to get along on.”—Philadel
phia North American.
Night Wa* Her Terror.
“I [ would cough Dearly all night
long,
j, writes Mrs. Chas. Applegate, of
Alexandria, Rd., “and could hardly
get any sleeD- 1 had consumption so
bad that if I walked a block I would
cough frightfully and spit bloc d; but
when all other medicines failed; three
81.00 bottles of Dr. King’s New Dis
covery wholly cured me and I gained
58 pounds.” It’s absolutely guaran
teed to cure Coughs, Colds, La Grippe,
Bronchitis and all Throat and Lung
Troubles. Price 50c and 81.00. Trial
bottles free at City Drug Store.
PAINE’S CELERY
COMPOUND
SNAP SHOT
YOU ARE GOOD AS NETfc
THE SCENIC LINE
3 Fast lairs Daily Between Ogden and Denver 3
Diamond
STOPOVERS ALLOWED
IT fs Yow Li ft er!
For Sale at HASKINS’ DRUG STORE.
Marlmt55 H,GH P0WER
Wheat takes up the greatest portion
of its food in the early stages of
growth, stores it up and draws upon
it later for the development of the
grain.
There is no feed that puts the gloss
and the fine touch on the hair that oats
do, says a cattie feeder.
“Up to date 1 know of no disease that
has had the nerve to tackle the billy-
goat or the Angora,” remarks President
liarrington of the Kansas Live Stock
association.
The soy bean where alfalfa is not
abundant will save the expenditure of
many dollars for oil meal, cottonseed
meal or gluten meal.
Buffalo grass is the best feed In the
world for butter, according to a dairy-
nau.
Pullman and
Tourist Cars
F igprune
Cereri
sugar than tea,
i
A Sustaining Diet.
These are the enervating days,when
ai somebody has said meo drop by
the sunstroke as if the Day of Fire
had dawned. They are fraught with
danger to p ople whose systems are
poorly sustained; and this leads us to
say, in the interest of the less robust
of our readers, that the full effect of
Hood’s Sarsaparilla Is such as to sug
gest the propriety of calling this medi
cine something besides a blood purifier
Not Without Reason.
and tonic—say a sustaining diet. It
Sunday School Teacber-Weil, who makes it mucn easier to bear the beat,
was sorry at the return of the prodigal assures refreshing sleep and will with
out any doubt avert much sickness at
son?
Little Girl—The fatted calf.—Boston this time of year.
Thrice a W eek World
The Thrice-a-Week World was a
brilliant
success in the beginning and
When the stomach is overloaded;
has been steadily growing ever since.
when food is taken into It that fails
Time is the test of all things, and has
to digest, it decays and inflames the
set its seal of approval on this paper,
mucous membrane, exposing the
which is widely circulated in every
nerves, and causes the glands to se
stale and territory of the Union, and
crete mucin, instead "f the natural
wherever there are people who can
juices of digestion. This is called
read our mother tongue. TheThrlce-
Catarrh of the Stomach. For years 1
a-Wtek World for the year 1903 will
suffered with Catarrh of the Stomach,
make its news service, if possible,
caused by indigestion. Doctors and
more extensive than ever. Al! events
medicine* failed to benefit me until I
of importance, no matter where they
used Kodol Dyspepda Cure.—J. R.
happen, are reported accurately and
Rhea, Coppell, Tex. Sold by all Drug
promptly.
gists.
The su scriber, for only one dollar
Christian Register.
a year, gets three papers every week
If The Bahr I* Cutting Teeth.
and more news and general reading
Subscriptions for Mr. Brj an’s papers than mostgreat dailies can furnish at
Be sure and use that old and well-tried reme
Every city should study Its own op
dy. Mas. W inslow ' s S o O tbiwo S thup , for
The Commoner, the leading Demo five or six times the price.
children teething. It soothes the child, soft portunities for beautifying its sur
The World is absolutely fair in Its
ens the sums, allays all pain, cures wind colic
roundings and Improve them.—Hart cratic newspaper in the United States
and is the best remedy tor diarrhoea. Twenty
political news. Partisan bias is never
are
taken
at
T
he
T
imes
office.
Ove cent» a bottle.
ford Post.
allowed to affect its Dews column.
In addition to all the news the
Thrlce-a-Week World furnbhes the
best serial fiction, elaborate market
reports and other features of interest.
Ils regular subset iptiun price is only
81 00 per year: and this pays for 156
papirs. We offer the Thrice-a-Week
js
World and our paper one year for
SsvmlOfcskwscMteMttlJa^
Th»
25c.
82.00. The legmar subscription price
of
the two papers is 82.50._____
_
£
Catarrh of the Stomach.
To Cure a Cold in One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets,
for a sprained Arm, Ankle or Back
Southern Pacific Co.
A Surgical Operation
Is always dangerous—do not submit
t > the surgeon’s knife until you have
tried DeWitt’s Witch Haz°l Salve. It
will cure when everything else fails—
it. has done this iu t hou-ands of cas« s
Here Is one of them: I suff- red from
bleeding and protruding p le< tor
twenty years. Was treated oy differ
ent specialists and used many reme
dies, but «btalned no relief uolil I us
ed De Witt’s Witch Hazel Salve. Two
boxes of this salve cured me eighteen
months ago and 1 have uot bad a
touch of the piles sine*.— H. A. Tis
dale, Sum inert m, S C. For Blind,
Bleeding, Itching and Protruding
Piles no remedy equals DeWitt’s
Witch Hszel Stive. Sold by ail Drug
gists.
DON’T STOP WORK
World’s Best Medicine
THE FOURTH IN 1793.
A STAND OF GRASS.
Z
1
on every I
1
Just About
Bedtime.
Take Little Early Riser—it will cure
constipation biliousness and liver
troubles.
DeWitt’s Little Early
Risers are different from other pills.
They do no! g-ipeand break down the
mucous membrane* of the stomach,
liver and bowels, but-cure by gently
mousing the secretions and giving
strength to these organs. Sold by all
Druggists.
FARMERS, ATTENTION.
I
• cereal
coffee, the wholesome fruit
sugar contained in figs and
prunes largely supplying
this need
It is the verdict of every
housewife that FIGPRUNE
is the most economical and
nutritious of any cereal
coffee.
J. M. Hurley, the expert maul pula- Boil from 5 to 10 minutes only.
tor of harvesting machinery, will ba
ALL GROCERS SELL
in band with a first-class threshing
outfit, when the season opens. He
CEREAL
spates no tains to please and does the FIGPRUNE
best of work, as the many who have I
patronized him before will bear wit
Siiauxe Tribe of EiKimoi.
ness. i
A remnant of a strange tribe of Es
kimos has been discovered on South-
aniptou island, at the north end of
Hudson bay. These people had never
seen a white man until recently. Theii
huts are built of the great jaws oi
For Infants and Children.
whales, covered with skins. In the
middle is an elevation, on which is r
The Kind You Have Always Bought stone
lamp, used for lighting, heating
cooking, melting snow aud drying I
Bears the
clothes. The tribe is almys^GajMtj^
SUfnaturvuC
CASTOR IA
■ . arts
TKEDFORD s
imkwuohi
THE GREAT
I beikvc Thedford’s Black-Draught
Is the best medicine on earth. It is
good for any and everything. I have
a family of twelve children, and for
four years 1 have kept them on foot
and healthy with no doctor but Black. ,
Draught A J. GtiEEN, lllcwara. La. j
a »utlteK
aiMT-W
Fosar M edicine
Thedford’s Black-Draught has
saved doctors’ bills for more than
sixty years. For the common fam
ily aiiments, such as constipation,
indigestion, hard colds, bowel com
plaints, chills and fever, bilious
ness, headaches and other like
complaints no other medicine is
necessary. It invigorates and reg
ulates the liver, assists digestion,
stimulates action of the kidneys,
purities the blood, and purges the
bowels of foul accumulations. It
cures liver complaint, indigestion,
sour stomach, dizziness, chills,
rheumatic pains, sideache, back
ache, kidney troubles, constipation,
diarrhma, biliousness, piles, Imrd
colds and headache. Every drug
gist has Thedford’s Black-Draught
in 25 cent packages and in mam
moth size for 11.00. Never accept
a substitute. Insist on having the
original made by the Chattanooga
Medicine Company.
DO00
Kansas City, isM .12
St. Joseph
or Omaha,
to
CHICAGO and POINTS
l ja xtrr
/*
. >.18**1'*’« i>
Through Standard and Tourist Sleep
ing Cars da’ly between San Francisoo
and Chicago via Loa Angelea and
El Paso.
Through Tourist Sleeper each TUES
DAY from Portland to Chicago via
i8
Bit
Salt Lake and Colorado Springs.
Through Standard Sleeping Cara
daily between Ogden and Chicago.
Lowest Rates In effect always avaiLL . Fl
able via “ROCK ISLAND SY STEM.”
.
Reduced Round Trip Rates in effect ii^a3 I ivi J
on July 12, 13, 15 and 16, and August
18,19, 25 and 26; 90 days return limit.
Be aure to see that your ticket reads
via the
) -
1
Rock Island System.
The Beet and Moat Reasonable Din
ing Car Service.
For rates, folders, etc., write to or
call on
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