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AS1ILAND, OREG ON VOL. I.—NO. 25 $2.50 PER ANNUM. — PARIS. yards from the village, to meet the across the trail in tbeir rear. Cock and Not a gun was fired, not an arrow flown, come nearer and nearer, the very win- raitled, and a loose blind ktpt A SCRAP OF TRUE HISTORY. company; they would not talk the Jar i present your arms but don’t fire: as ths dusky forms of tho Indians dis dows Sir Charles Dilko has just made au time to the warlike music of the tem- address gon, which every one cf the pafty un- j ! come 1 ’’ appeared among tho green foliage of interesting to those pest, It had been a happy, restful who have on to Paris, It was in the Spring of D51 that a f I derstood, bat communicattd with the , 1 In an instant the order was executed. tho alders and into the deeper forest day, deal a municipal but it was closing in darkness and muddle. Paris, it with seems, now has party of sixteen young men left the savage iu his native tongue. A balf | Sixteen riflesand double-barreled shot beyond. anxiety. Row lonely I was, and tbi3 above 1.900,000 people among whom Willamette Valley to try their fortunes [ boars parley ensued, during which guns were bearing on the crowd of In After a short consultation it was de feeling was to be mine for the rest of are 21 000 Jews and 11,000 Protestants. in the gold mines of California. Ten timo tho guides pretended to iuterprot dians not over ten feet distant term inod that tho patty return to my life. Fred was married, home It has only 75,000 houses, as 850,000 would be home no longer with a stran apartments or Lolgewnl* are in its of the number were immigrants of the what was said, assuring the party that before they comprehended the camp, and proceed to Rogue River by ger as its mistress. AU the glory and previous year, and tix were of those the Indians were all friendly and de meaning of the movomeut. Then came the main California trail, where re beauty of my quiet life was to be high, huge house’. Loadou, twice as who were then called “ settlers.” I sired to go with them to where the gold a scene of the wildest excitement cruits could bo had from other com snatched from ma at one swoop, for large, has over 700,000 eeparute houses. The whole city covers thirty square Those who were entitled to tho honor- 1 was to be found, which, accordleg to among the savages. From their actions panies of niineis, and then proceed to Allie was soon to bo married. I wan miles. Now, the government of this able title of “ old settlers ” at that time j their story, was now only about a mile it was evident that they were enraged prospect for diggings which were still I unreasonable, I knew I was, but that consists of a Perfect and a Perfect of Were the pioneers of former years, distant. After a few minutes’ consul at their chief for permitting himself believed to exist near tho mouth of dbi not prevent my feeling wretched Police, both named by the President of and miserable. Thinking such wicked, reaching back to the time when the tation it was deteimined to proceed to be out-generaled, and a portion Jump-oil Joe. It was now near sun rebellious thonghts, I fell asleep, to be Franco, twenty Mayors over twenty wards and eighty-six Aldermen or first ox-team brought its living freight ; and tho party boldly entered the were anxious to begin the fray even set, and acting upon the decision awakened at a lata hour by a low growl Legislators. Only half the Louses have from the Mississippi Valley to settle rancheiie. Bat few Indians were to under the changed state of affairs. formed tho party began their weary from Philip, and, at the same instant, water introduced, but the street hy it loud knock at the front door. Tho on the golden shores cf the Pacific. be seen, and they weie chiefly women But the risk was to great for the dar march of eighteen or twenty miles tempest hid passed, and I thought my drant system is very complete. There The party referred to was as bold ■ a .d children. ing and aferwards famous chief to take. back to camp. They made a detour of s’ster and her escort had returned at are 4,000 police, 6,000 poor relief offi cers, and 3 000 registered prostitutes and adventurous a set of Young Amer After a short halt tho march war Well he understood the deadly effect some miles to avoid. John’s ranchcrie this unseasonable hour, out of pity for out of 50,000 at large. The five sUogh- icans as ever mounted a wild mustang lesumed, tLc two guides and tho In* of a volley from tho3e sixteen frown and reached their destination in small me. ‘‘They think I am asleep,” I said, ter-houscs, public worship, tho pawn or shouldered the trusty r 11 j ; and, as dian who camo out to meet the party ing muzzles, to say nothing of the re squads of three and four at different as I rau to the door. “ Rave you come brokers and the duties at the walls are list, truants ! ” I cried, joyfully, as all city institutions. The revenue is this is a scrap of true history I will taking the lead, across a piece of volvers that hung in the befits of many I hours of tho night, fatigued, hungry, at 1 drew back tho bolt and flung open $40,000,000, of which more than half give tho names of several of tho mem bottom land about half a mile in width of the miners ; and as well did the aDd with nerves unstrung, but not I tho door. is the octroi or gate duty, levied chieflv bers who are still retiding in this State. und covered with wild rye and clumps minors realiza that to lire would be dispirited by the fearful ordeal through (( “ Yes, hero I am,” eaid a rough voice, on plaster, fuel, win*, flour and meal. The acknowledged haler of the party of willows. But a short distance had fatal to many cf their number, for it which they had passed. After recount an’ I’ll teach yer to step on yer Lodgings al o pay tux. Sir Charles betters,” “ and the brute, with a fearful Dilke proposes to have the General was William Messer Smith, now a resi the party proceeded when an Indian, was not possible to avoid all cf the fifiy ing their adventure to their comrades oath, caught mo rudely l»y tho arm. Counci!, or Alderman, elected by cum dent of L:nn County; that is “Bill hitherto unseen, stepped into the trail arrows and gun shots that would bo who Tho dog at my side raised himself to ulative votiug of all the citizens, aud had remained at camp. Messer” was rcgardel us a sort of d.re- aud j .fined the company; soon another, exchanged for their fire. Again Bill With no roof to shut out Gods bis full height: t-tanding on bis hind these to choose the Perfect or Great devil who feared nothing and thorough then a third, appeared on the scene, Mes3tr’s coolness and sagacity were bright and spangled firmament from legs bo toworod far above ma, and with Mayor, and to break up the svstem of out a bound, sprang at tho man’s throat. sub-cities with separate C >n noils. ly understood the difficulties and dan and before half the distance across the equal to the omergency. Addresidng their closing eyes, they lay dowD, I Then camo a fearful struggle; they gers of frontier life. Tho remaining bottom had been traversed at least fifty himself to one of the treacherous “ To cl<ep perch in?e to <lre m ” roiled over aud over on the floor like A mos ’ B ook -K ecpek . — We asked members cf ihe party now living and of tho wildest, wickedest locking guides, who were now armed and fully Of loved ones iu tho dear oi l xomo two human beings, tho dog showing Amos, says the Atlantic Co.islilidiont how his boy was getting on at school. known to the writer are John Montitth, savages that ever danced around a identified with the baud, he told him three thousand miles beyond tho more intelligence tuau tho man. Tho noble dog was victor, and, with “ Pieg take dat boy. I done tuck biui Walter Ketchum, Samuel Aithuuse, I. reeking scalp were mingled ?n among in Chinook that if Juba would take his eternal mountains environing their out harming him ho held him on the ’way from that school 1 ” D. Miller, Jerry Driggs aud Joseph the party. The expression of their men away the miners would not fire, wild bivouac. ¡1 »or iu one position until moruing “ Why, what for? ” [Corel iJed text week.] Eul, of L;un County, and Dr. Hoover, faces wa3 fiorce, but they were all un but if Ledid not tin y would, and many on camo, and with it tho Leip I walked a “ Uh, oh 1 he wnz gittin’ mos’ too lung, weary mile to cbtain. of Unseburg, Douglas County. There armed, hence their appearance created both sides must die. Tais was com smart down dar wid dat book lamin’. A WOMAN’« ADVENTURE. Philip undoubtedly saved my life, ’Fwon’t do for some niggers ter be too may bo one or two others still on this surprise rather than alarm among the municated to Julia tfLo in tuxn made for the prisoner proved to be a danger edgikatid. ” seems but yesterday that be camo s;de cf Lethe’s cold stream, but moat I gold-seekers. the same proposition to the miners, to It me, ous villain long wanted by the State. “ Why not, Amos?” the dog, I mean. Allie and 1 of tuuso. uumantiuned have already B.il Messer sfil nothing, but from which B.ll Messer promptly declined. were sitting in the cool portico, the They told me that I fainted when it “ Weil, sah, jess take dat boy. frin- lusted tho problem of tho “ great un his quick glance along the liuo and Both parties were still standing with sunshine flecked tho floor and the i was all over and A lio and Paul got stanco. I nut dat boy t«r keep books ; after it followed a long and fer me ’bout de sellin’ ob de garden known.” the manner iu which he carried Lis arms presented : tho Indians had uli woedbine cast dancing, leafy shadows i homo ttdioui through which my truck dis Summer. Well, sail, he jess i’uo party rendezvoused at Santiaru rifle it wa3 evident to those who become siknt except the guide and athwart the brightness. The air was , brother’s illness wife nnrsed mu with untiring rit down charges dar in de book fer all laden with the sweetness of the honey City, iu Liun Cuuuty, aud on the 11th studied his face and actions that he an chief aud not a word had been uttered suckle, and the great sjriDga was care. How I had wronged her 1 I de truck dat 1 tuck out de gardin’, and day of March they broke c.tmp and ticipated trouble ; but no word of by a man among the miners except the starred with ihe pale, fragrant fl iwers learned to love the sweet, girlish face charges fer all dat wo eat in de bouse, stai t. d south, bound to no particular alarm escaped Lis tightly compressed now acknowltdged leader. I was puttii g the last stitches iu Fred’s ultuust as well as Fred himself. She au’ den credit hisself wid de little was so honest, unselfish and kind that ’mounis dat I let him h ib ’long at od l our dear, only brother destination, aud only having iu view bps. Several of the younger members A half Lour elapsed and the vest, “ I don’t suppose,” said I, half I was heurtily ashamed of my former ’casions, an’ den he go an’ add darn all frame ruh pLc. r where the glittering of the party were endeavoring to start situation was still unchanged, The angrily, “lliat this is the last vest I feelings. 1 yielded submissively to her up, an’ struck er baiunce, he say !’* dm>t could be collected in the greatest a conversation in Chinook with some fearful suspense was telling on the shall make for poor Fred, by any kind care, for I wa3 as helpless in my “And how did vou come out?” weakness as a child, but I could not “Come out? Tore de Good Marater, q lanii y. No iucidtut worthy of men- of tho reticent savages, while others nerves of some of the miners, who in means ! Eileu will never make one fur subdue the thoughts that crowded my I didn’t come out at al) 1 Dat boy t.oa broke the muuutony of tbeir were cracking jokes upon the uncouth sisted on either beginning the fight or him. I am sure ! Wbat he ever saw feeble brain. I misled somethiny ; at done struck me for ’bout thutty-fibo journey until they came to the crushing and not very elaborate apparel worn by retreating. But a word from the lead in that doll faced creature to love is last I remembered, it was Philip, was dollers, ’dides his wages as do book- more than I can imagine.” I was of Jump-off Joe. There their camp them. About two - thirds of the er decided the case aud silence again ashamed of the words as soon as ut ho dead? did the wretch kill him? keepab now dat’s what de figgerà was visited by two Indiana, who could distance across the bottom bad been prevailed. Then it was that Bill Mes tered, for Ellen Warrener was a very One day I questioned my sister Alice. said.” “ Well, what did yon do?” tUe Jargon, aud who claimed to attained when tho leading Indian ser gave the chief his ultimatum. With good girl ; but, you see, I did not want “ He has found an owner,” she replied, with an odd look. “ I jess burn np dat book rijht dar, Fred to marry any one. be Umpquas ; they piofessed to be stepped a few feet out of the trail ard an i xpreesion of determiuatiou which “I want to see him,” I said, bursting an’ deu scliarged de book-keepah au’ “ She is very amiable, ” said Alice. very friendly und to be in fear of the returned with a bow already strung tho savage leadf r and his braves could “ O, yes, of cour.-e, and I am nut. into tears and sinking weakly back Lire him ober agin Ur saw wood fer Rogue River Indians, v. tom, they raid, aud a quiver filled with fl.nt-pointed uut fail to road be told the guide that My path is marked out for mo, an un among the pillows of my chair. Tho his horde an’ clos.” You did ? ” were their earmies. They also stated arrows. A few rods further and he would give the Indians the time it lovely old maid io my brother’s family 1 dog was sent for; and, by and by, when I was stronger, I btc.imo ac- “ Yes, I did dat! Why, Biss, that they Lad beta down Jump-off Joo another did the same, tLen auother and would tdke him to count ono hundreJ, V/e were so happy!” and my foolish j qmtiuted with his master, a fine looking ef dat boy sah, bed kop dat book oa me tell fell on Fred’s wedding vest. to where it emptied into It igua River, j another, each one returning with a ! to go; that if they were net goao when tears gentleman of forty, with hair and beard now he ’ d done own dat hoes’ an’ gyar- “You will have mo left,“Helen 1 ” of snowy white, ami contrasting strange din patch an’ bin’ chargin’ me an’ hit and that they had found rich gold dig ready strung bow and bundle of vil- 1 he ceased counting the miners would exclaimed poor Allie, in distress. Fur an answer, I touched the band of | , ly with the youthfulness of liia face ole mammy fer bed an’ bred 1 I tell ging ther-. In proof of this they ex lianous looking arrows, or a loaded gun ' fire. Thia the guide explained to the form. He was Ellen’s half brother, yer dis byar buok-Iarnin’ is ruuin’ dis liib.t.-d a number of nuggets, vuryiug of the old Hudson Bay pattern. The i chief, while BUI Messer began slowly gold on her shapely hand and shock I and and, while on a visit tu his str puiotber, young breed ob niggers, ’us shore 1” mournfully, I aru afraid. from oue-fourth of an ounoe to twenty situation was becoming alarming, but counting in the Chinook language. my “ head Lad lost the (log. He returned to find Yea,” I replied, wiping my eyes, CorrEE P alaces .—Iu London “Cof dollars iu weight, which they said th- y not a wurd was uttered by one of tho Fifty, sixty, seventy fell in measured “ aud a brother is a brother till be the valued animal. Strangely enough, fee Palaces” are being est finished, I luvl called the dog bv Lis master ’ s h id found at the point referred to. party, yet all eyes were watching Bill accents from his lq»s, now white as marries a — ” but tho sentence was and the example is well worthy the at This story caused a great excitement Messer with expressions of anxiety marble but firm as tho.-c of a statue, never finished. There -was a stir name, Philip — Philip Warrener. lie tention of philanthrophists iu this was a scholar aud a bachelur, wealthy among the less experienced members which told plainer than words tha^ jet not the sigu of a movement was among the shrubbery, a low growl, and and eccentric, jet I have never regret country. The coffee palaces aro in a great, black, Newfoundland dog of the party, and a spirited argument ' every man comprehended tho fact—a j made by the Indians. Eighty, eighty- bounded to my side in an alarming ted that the dug or his master claimed tended for resorts for the working at once arus<j as to the propriety of crisis was at Laud. The Indiaus had one, eighty-two, broke the terrible si manner. Ila showed his white teeth me for their own, to love aud protect, classes, and consist of an immense- building, all brilliant with light in the following these Indian guides to their j by this timo succeeded in separating lence, and stiil the chief and his band 1 threateningly to unoffending, terrified even unto death. Fritz, for such was evening. Iu the lecture-room you will the dog’s name, is old and blind, but n9w discovery. At length it was put the party one from another by stepping of warriors stood like a group of bronze i ; Alice, but rested his great head on my my twin girlies twine fresh wreaths find three hundred persons listening to knee, wagging Lis tail, and looking up to a vote whether or not a part of the in between them, without any apparent images, glowering into tho muzzles of in my face with eyes that were full of around Lis neck, and nestle their curly a miscellaneous entertainment. Ta an Leads beside his, grown gray with age, other room men are smoking and talk company should go and investigate the motive, until each of'tha s.xteen miners the miners’ guns. The suspense was honesty aud goodnets. reading the newspapers and writ facts iu the case. A majority voted in was sandwiched brtwen foor well almost beyond human endurance, and , No oue knew the dog or claimed him ; with a beautiful childlike devotion of ing, ing ; in another playing bi liards ; Vr.y. N. 7 ’ . which be is well wortuv. I armed savages. favor of going with the ludiuus. a glance along the line told how terri it was a quiet country village in which still another, all sorts of games—cards, t'tj t. H lihoruc, m l'n'tl'iml Trillis wo dwelt, aud it was almoat a icy.itory draughts, chess—whitever they pleas,«, At this juncture auother party cf And now camo the timo fur the fron I I ble was tire tension upon the nerves of from whonce lie came. He persisted THE lXVENTOH OF GAS EIGHTS. for were harmless amusement. There eight or ten men arrived at camp; they tier leader, B.ll Messer, to act. Well some of the men. iu bis sudden attachment to me, how are reading, conversation nu l music were r.lso from the Willamette, and of he knew that a hasty wurd or action on Ninety 1 was spoken in tho same cold ever, and I became quite attached to i The inventor cf gus lights ia said to rooms for the women, and on the main tuo some adventurous class of, spirits tho part of a single member of tho unchanged tone, but perhaps a little him. I could think of no naura to have been a FrencLman, I’Lilippe Le floor tho great dining ball. There can which be would answer, until I chanced Bun, an eDgiuaer of roads and bridges, as those whom they overtook. At party would bo tho signal for tho In blower aud mure deliberate, and Bill to speuk the name of Philip, lie who in 1782 adopted the idea of using, be got a cup of delicious, good milk I once they entered into the spirit of the dians to begin tho work of slaughter Messer glanced along the line of miners; sprang to me with such a burst of wild for the purpose of illumination, the and loaf sugar for one penney, and a ] entei prise on Laud, and several of tbeir for which they Lad so well organized. how well was that glance under ! joy, that 1 thought he recognized it us gases diet.lied during the combustion large dinner-plate of beef or mutton off of wood. Ila labored for a long time in a joint, with potatoes and bread, for I members volunteered to go with the Being iu advance he quietly stopped stood 1 A slight, scarcely perceptible ms own, and called him by it. five pence. Music aud taught.«r are | prospecting party. And now came a at a small stream of water which trick movement of the row of guns could I Fred married aDd took his wife to the attempt tu perfect his crude inven heard iu every part of the palace, and Quebec, so Allie and I were left alone tion. ami it was.not until 17'.)'.) that he 1 serious discussion among those who led across the trail from a spring near just bo noticed, but nothing more. tor a tune. They were coming back confided his discovery to tho Institute. one feels that life is worth living when K felt assurred that the Indians were de by and in a cheerful and apparently The chief now for tho first time after ¡when “honeymoon” was over, but I In S plember, 1800, he took out a pat men women aud girls and youths can away from a bard day’s labor and ft coys sent out to lead unsuspecting careless manner, but in a voice loud the threatening count began, uttered a ■ dreaded the comtDg of a stranger to our ent, and in 1801 be published a memoir come meet thus for rest, refreshment, and ft miners into au ambuscade. Oar leud- enough to bo Leard by all he called single exclamation “ U¿h 1 ” Slowly pleasant, peacoful home. I wa3 so containing the result of his researches. the education that such beneficial asso I wanted Fred all to myself: La Bun commenced by distilling wood, ciations insvitiblv l<*% i to. ■ er, Bill MesSer, gave it as hia opinion out: and as with one accord the Indians selfish, One afternoon young Paul Waldron m order tu obtain from it gas, oil, | tint these Indiaus were not trast “ Boys let’s all stop and take a drink b< gun their^retreat, still keepi ig their came for A.lie; they were acknowledged pile:», and pyruligne ;v.s acid ; but his ' Row a G ibe got ixro the H arem .— worthy, but said ho would acco inpany of this good water.” guns and arrows presented, Nut a lovers. He n.sked to carry her out to work indicated toe possibility of ob i A few years ago an Eiglish woman, ? l ie boys if they were determined to In a few seconds tho party was to lace was tuintu, but backward, still his mother’s to tuke tea and spend the taining gas by distillation from fatty • named Tompkins, who kept a shop at Frutn 170? to 1802, Le Pera, summoned from England to aid go. Others said tho same, and gether, but surrounded by a cordon of back they moved, like spectres silent, evening. I assured them I was not substances. Bun made numerous experiments. He her in her business a young niece, who afraid with iuy faithful Philip, which the result was, a company^ of sixteen dusky demons waiting only for an order gloomy and intent on nothing but was quite true. I was not. Tying my e-tablislied ut Havre bis first thermo proved to bo extremely pretty and no mcD, all well armed, started the next from their leader to begin to impale getting away from what they knew, if a sundown beneath my chm in a good lamps ; but tbf^gis which he obtained, i less intelligent. Soon after her arrival, inorniDg for the new diggings reported their intended victims upon their fight began, must be a mutual slaugh haid knot, I looked the doors, and being a mixture of carburetted hydro ! she took it into her head to study str* lied away into the woods, with gen uud oxide of carbon, aud but im | Turkish, representing to her aunt that , by the Iudian guides. poisoned arrows. Iu the same quiet ter yard. Philip fur protector ami companion. perfectly treed from its impurities, such knowledge would be of great ad- Everything went well with them un manner and in a voice that betrayed I A full hundred yards had to be The hilbi; were wrapped in a fleecy gave only a feeble 1 glit ami iuvolved ' vantage to their trade, as the Turkish til they came within about a mile of not the slighest excitement, Bill Messer traversed in this wav through the wild mantle nf clouds and huze, but there au insupportable odor, and the result ladies would naturally prefer t> make the junction of Jump-off Joe with gave his order : rye grass, waist high, before the In was au oininouf’stillness that foretold was that but little favor was shown tu their purchases where they could be “ Boys, ” said he, “ these devils moan Rogue River. There they camo upon dians could reach a cover of balm and a tempest. We took a long walk, bat the new discovery ; the inventor died, understood without the aid of au in heavy peals of thunder accelerated ruined by hiaexperiment». The English I terpreter. As the young girl was at au Indian rancherie of about fifty to slaughter us ; we must get in their alder trees which lined the margin of the our steps, find 1 stumbled and almost soon put in practice the crude ideas of once clever, ambitious and industrious, huts, and, as vjas afterwards learned, rear and then we will have an even the creek. Almost the whole distance fell, over what appeared to be a bundle Le Bun. in 1804. one Winaor patented she soon succeeded in acquiring the here wa9 the headquarters of John, chance with them. We must act quick was made without a word or u change of rags, lying directly iu our pith, in and claime.l the credit of lighting by language, and numbers of the fem lies tL<) great chief of the Rogue Rivers. and not let them know we are fright in the positions they held when the a little grove of |mmloeks aud pines I gas ; in 1805 several sliops in Birming came to thy English shop. Ouo day The company immediately halted and ened, or we will be killed to a man. retreat began. Wntn about seventy- back of our own house. Philip growled ham were illuminated by g is manufac the pretty niece went to tho harem of fiercely, and the bundle of rags cursed tured by tho process of Winsor und Prince Murad to take homo some arti demanded of the guides tho meaning Now let no nun falter or show the five yards distant several of the miners and swore in a way that proved it to be Murdock ; among those who used this cle ordered by his principal wifo. cf beiDg lead into such a place, The white feather or, by the Eternal, if he I asked to be permitted to fire, as they I a living man. I culled the dog away new light van Witt, the inventor of Sue never returned, and when her treacherous villians replied that they gets out of this scrape alive, we will I then had the Indians at advantage, but and hastened Lome, as tho raindrops the steam engine. In 1816 the first aunt went in search of her, she received use was made of cos iu London, and it a co <1 message of farewell from the word lost, and immediately began par hang him. When I walk out of the Bill Messer forbade it and most of the came hurrying down. was not until 1818 that this invention, young lady herself, who Lad become l ’ uul and Alico could not return at lying with a stalwart Iudian who came crowd of Indians every man follow party favored keeping their leader’s present, so I tried to wait patiently for really of French, origin, was Applied iu tho fourth wi'c of the ueir appateut to. ' on borse-back, ome two hundred I I me and let us form a line two deep plighted faith with the savage chief.] them. Tho heavy thunder tjcomtj to I France. the throne. ' [Written f.-r the T iding ". 1 I I i I ( I «WJH J* — ■ 'VAT.'M I i I I ! I - ------------- -«♦ ♦ ------------------------------ -