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i Cfltmto rant VOLUME Till. CANYON" CITY, GRANT COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1886. No. 24. fli! Grant Comity lis PUBLISHED THURSDAY MORNING, BY B. I. A SB l) BY Editor and Proprietor. CQNTY "OFFICI AL jAPER Subscription $3-00 Six Months 1.50 Three Months .75 TRANSIENT ADVERTISEMENTS 2.M per iuv for first, nnd $1 per square fr each mWefxcnt iasrtion. Regular aiyerUsintf rates made known on ap plication. X certlficate Riven until all charges are paid. LODGE DIRECTORY. WOBAH LODGE, No. 22. I. 0. U 0. F., meets every Saturday rasing at their Lodge Room in 'Jaijon City. Vwitnig brothers are invited to attend. By order of the N. G. A. SWEER, tto ev-at-Law Caaj G - - Oregon. W. Parrish, ATTORNEY AT LAW Canyon City, Oregon. J A. BRACKETT. Canyon City, Oregon p B. RINEARSON, M. D., Physiian and Surgeon PEAIEIE CITY Oreg n. Q I. I1AZELTINE. niotograplie c CANTON OITY, OREGON. Dustin, Attorney at Law, John Day City, Oregon. II. KELLY. Notarv 3EtxTo1g;t John Day City, Oregon, Collections promptly attended to. L. 0. Sterna. G. C. Israel. C. W. Manvill STERNS, ISRAEL & MANVILL- Attorneys at Law, Baker City, Oregon, Mr. Israel wiU he itt attendance at each term of the Grant Comity Circuit Court, to Attend to all matters entrusted o the firm. T.V. B.EMBREE,M HARNEY CITY, Or. Professional Calls from any trt of the County will receive Prompt attention. 1LAY TOD HUNTER. Collector of Bills, Notes, and Acounls. Canyon City, Oreeon. All business entrusted to his care will receive prompt attention, and all money will he paid a test as collected. A. E. Knight, From The Dalles, has permanently located at John Day City. ALL WORK WARRANTED. 53T Is now on a professional visit to Long 'Creek, but will return shortly. J. OLLIVER' ''Proprietor of th. j JohnDay Milk Ran or Fresh milk delivered daily to my customers ia John Day and a: nir-fi mr vrm r nr. Usnyon ciuco. vio - ders. J. Oliver. F. C HORSLEY, M D. Graduate of the University of P cxnsylvaia, April 8, 1848. Canyon City, Oregon. OUice in hisDirugStore, Main Street i )rders for Irugs promptly filled. No professional patronage solicted an1 38 directioniare strictly folio wed SEVENTY MILES BY KITE. A Virginian's Astonishing Flight Above the Clouds. Amos' Evevs of Alpina, West Virginia, returned recently, after one of the most exciting adventures that lias ever fallen to any man in the United States, if not in the world. For the last half doz en 3'ears it has been the cus tom in the summer months for the boys and men in that vicinity to amuse themselves by inakihghuge kites of stout oiled paper, and flying ihem with thick cord. A worthless cur or a cat or two was usual ly attached to the tail or '"bobs," and great was ihe de light of the inhabitants when the frightened animal kicked and squirmed as the kite mounted into the clouds. It was determined this year that all prev ous. in kite making should be outdono. and three weeks ago work was begun on the monster affair. The dimensions will give an idea: Extreme height, nine feet four inches; width across the top, four feet three inches; width across the bot tom, two feet; extreme width across the middle, five feet six inches. The framework was built of tough hickory shaved thin, and stayed with one-eighth-inch copper wire. A double-thickness of heavy muslin was stretched on each side of the frame, and the place for fastei.ing the Hying cord was doubly braced with yellow pine scantling a quar ter of an inch thick. Into this was screwed a ring-bolt, which was clampod on the other side with an iron pin. The rinS itself was five in ches in diameter, and capable of bearing 400 or 500 weight ' The kite complete weighed ninety-six pounds. The tail was made of a sixteen-foot rope weighted with lead. In stead of using flying cord. ; 200 yards of closely woven manill.'i. rope, very light, but as strong as a double-link chain, were procured, and on Thursday afternoon of last week the kite was pro nounced complete and ready for a voyage in the air. Sam Weatherbee was the man who originated the idea, and when everything was finished Sam called up the crowd to liquor at Bragg's bar. The party consisted of Weatherbee, Amos Evers, BillOoks, or Blind Bill Oaks, as he was better known; Ed Walton and Spence Maynard. They drank pretty freely for more than an hour, and it was then proposed that a trial should be made of the kite, to test its powers before the great fly came oft' the next morning The wind was blowing pretty fresh from Smith's gorge, and after one kor two unsuccessful ef forts the huge frame caught the wind as three men ran with a rope down a steep in cline toward Laurel fork. One of them carried the coil of rope over his shoulder, while the other two paid out the line. As the huge kite rose in the air it required the utmost strength of all three to hold it, and finding this a difficult task, thev took a half turn around a tree stump. and in that way gradually j gave the kite more rope, un til it was seventy-five yards in the air. Just then Evers came out of Bragg's barroom. He was very drunk, but walked a fairly straight line. "There's a drink wait in' fur youse fel lers, said he, with a hiccough Better git in thar and git it, an' " lhen. suddenly espying the kite and the cord wrapped around the stump. '"Why. you've, got her up. hain't yer ? Jes' gimme the end o' that rope. I'll hold her while you licker. ' Nothing loth, the three assented, and, after giving the rope another turn, gave up the slack end to Evers and went into the bar. No sooner had they gone than Evers took one turn off the stump, and the rope began to run through and burn his hands. Be braced himself against a big stone and man aged to get a loop over the stump again in such a man ner as to form what sailors would call a couple of half hitches. This stopped any more rope from running out. But Evers believed he could do better than that. Tak ing up the slack, he wrapped it around and around his body under the armpi's, and made it fast in front of his dhest in three or four tight flat knots. "Keni out yore, Sam,'' he cried cKcm out yere, till 1 larn ye how to fly a kite. ' This is what the party heasd in the barroom, and they lounged toward the door with a laugh. As they reach ed the threshold the laugh turned to a cry of amaze ment and horror. 1 hey saw Amos Evers stoop and push the rope oil' the stump alto gether. In another instant they saw him whisked up in to the air as though he had I een a feather, instead of a man weighing 140 pounds. He was just about heavy enough to make the kite maintain its equilibrium. As he was jerked upward he gave vent to an unearthly yell. Then his companions faintly heard him cry, "Help! Help ! Fur the Lord's sake, boys '? but they heard no more, for the unfortunate man was then nearly 1,000 feet above their heads. They saw him kick and struggle and grasp the rope in front of him. Higher and higher he was borne, and fainter and fainter became his shrieks. In less than five minutes he was a mere strug gling speck outlined against the blue sky. The kite was still visible, and was rising steadily. It must have been going at terrific rate of speed, for poor Evers was stringing out behind like a pennant from a ships mast. In a few minutes more the outlines of his form could no longer be seen, and at the expiration of fifteen minutes from the time the kite was let loose he had passed out of sight, go ing in an easterly direction toward Rich mountain, a spur of the AlleghanieS. On the following morning a party started out in the di rection the kite had taken. They returned at nightfall without any tidings of the man who had been so strange ly snatched away. Two days passed and nothing was heard of Evers. Three days, four, five, six days, a week, and still noth ing. It was then generally con ceded that the man had been lost, and consolation was offered to the widow in the shape of a small keg of whiskey, a new "sled wagon' and a mule. But the other morn ing Amos Evers turned up as large as life. Two gentlemen accompanied him into the place. He sat down on a cracker barrel in the grocery, and told his atory in a few words, and without any effort at self-glorification. "After I got jerked off my feet,' he said, "I didn't know where I was for a minnit, but when that rope begun to tighten it knocked all the rum out o' my head. I guess I hollered some. Seems to me I was a mile high afoie I tried to do anything. Firdt I thought I'd cut the rope, but finding I was liable to drop too fur I con cluded to hang on and see if I couldn't ketch a tree top; but I wuz a heep too high fur that. Arter a while I begin to lose my breath like, an' then I concluded soraethin' had to be done, so I bo gin climbin' that rope with the idee of bustin' a hole in the kite. Must have taken me five or six hours to climb twenty yards, 'cos it was pitch dark, when I fels the kite wobblin' as though it had lost the 'bobs.' I wur afraid to go any higher fur fear she would drop too suddint, so I slides Lack a little way, and then she got stidy agin. Finally I says to my self, 'Better die quick and be done with it,' and I starts to climb agin. The old kite wobbled fearful. I felt that I wuz goin' down amazm' fast. I felt myself swish through a big buttonwood, but I couldn-'t git no hand hold, so I kap' on cliriibin'. The nearer I got to the kite the more she wobbled, and the more she wobbled the further down she come. After a while sbe turns kerlluminix, and I laud all in a heap alongside of :i little run, in a place whur I'd never been before. I wuz kind o' foolish, I guess, fur T didn't wake up till daylight, and I didn't know what wuz wrong. I meets a lot of people, and these two gentle men takes me up to their house and keep me for three or four days till I get right again, and after I gits on my feet I have to stay a couple of days more with some other gentlemen. Giva us some licker!" The place where Evers landed after his wonderful flight through the air was Mill Brook, Hampshire county, about seventy miles as the crow flies from Alpena. The gen tlemen who first discovered him were Henr' G. Beeson and George Hackett, both of them attest the finding of Evers in an insensible condition lying beside the huge kite. He was badly bruised and could not speak for several hours after being restored to conscious ness. They nursed him and then agreed to accompany him to his home, which they did. Evers in his terrible journey crossed seven rivers and two ranges of the Alle ghany mountains. He was sus pended in the air at least seven hoars. Ex. The Supreme Court of New Hampshire has render ed a decision denying the right of the Salvation Army to beat their drums in the streets of any city, town or village of the State. The de fendants claimed that their drummings were in obedience to the dictates of their con sciences as an act of religions worship. The Court held that this was no defence; that no act of religious wor ship can be allowed to disturb the public peace or violate reasonable police regulations. JAKEY DUNDER. His Fond Parents Anxious to Have Some InterviBws in the Cellar, f Detroit Free Pre3 1 j "After your boy Jake again ?" queried the Sergeant, as Mr. Dun der entered the Woodbridge Sta tion yesterday. "Yes, I vhas after Shake. He slipped oudt yesterday, uad I like to find him." "Made you some new trouble. I suppose." "I tell you how it vlia. I put in a telephone a few day a ag. und efery timo der h ,'i rin . m. WHO 11K6S 10 nit! UtUJ :h-TVs :. f Yesterday morning riuuke goes oudt for a leedle while, und poety soon der telephone rings. My wife runs oafer und yells hello und aomepody says: " 'Vhas dot Mrs. Dunder?' " 'It vhas.' " 'Vhell, Mrs. Dunder, how vhas you pleased mit all dose things ?' C ( 'What tilings?' 'uoi new oonnet una wrap und silk stockings dot Mr. Dnn der buys at my sthore two days ago und takes home to you-' "I vhas behind my bar vhen Mrs. Dunder drops dot telephone und oomes oafer to me und says: " 'I haf discovered all aboudt it! You vhas buying clothes for some womaus!' " 'Who was dot?' " 'Somepody in der telephone.' " 4I vhill kill dot person pefoie night!' "1 goes mit der telephone und pounds on der pox und rings der pell, und calls hello! mit all nay might uud somepody asks: " 'Yhell, who vou want?' " 'I rh&nt dot person- who vhx lying to Mrs. Dunder:' 'Oli: Pome off !' . ,-WT -i - "Una nopoay answers me any more. Mrs. D'inder ucolds und cries, mid 1 vhas so madt dot I shut oop my baboon. After u while dot telephone rinas werry sheutly. Und I listens uud I hears Shake say to somepody: " 'Sjiv, Bill, you drop down und see if der oldi, folks haf tum bled to dot racket. Dot vhas a big shoke on der governor f "Now, Sergeant, I like to see Shake. He vhas a i-chmart poy uud he vhas all right; but 1 like him to come home. I vas anxious to haf some interviews mit him. It vhas a werry good place down cellar for interviews. If you see him you can say dot I laft aU oafer mit his shoke on me. After ward, vhen you see him, you can ask if he laffs all oafer mit my shoke on him. He vhas ahust a leedle too Hies, und now, in his young dajs, vhas der time to cor rect hii habits." - 4 road line to Asia via Alaska, is now .being considered by engineers. Major Powell, who h;is charge of thu geo logical survey, reports thai as an engineering project it is practicable. The route from Montana, via the head waters of the JPeace and Yu kon rivers, to the Bearing sea, is about 2S00 miles. An Egyptian mummy was late ly dug out of the place where it had rested for 3,600 years. An English paper, giving an account of the find, says it is the mummy of King Barneses, and "was easily recognizable," The names of those who knew him in his life time and kindly identified hfs corpse are not given. A little girl lately wrote to her friend: "Yesterday a little baby sister arrived, and papa is on a journey. It was but a piece of luck that mama was at home to take care of it. " machine is There are over 3.000 visit ors in Yellowstone Park at present. Many a man is the ajchitect of his own f oi tune, but never gets money enough to build. Teacher-" What are yon scratching your head for ?" Sehol ar " 'Cos I'm the only w&n who knows when it itches." The American Ponftry -Y&rclr i?r a story of a Plymouth Rocfc roster that raised a fine family oi clucks, which had been desert ed by their mother. "Yoangmen believe in nothiag nowadays," said Mrs. Bamaboth am, with a deep sigh. "Why, there's my nephew, Tom, who was brought up as a Christian aud now he's an acrostic." A New Britiaa (Conn.) man ha been sentenced to six months im prisonment for kissing a Massa chusetts girl. He is lucky to get off so easily. Many a man has been made a life prisoner just by kissing a girl. He was a carpenter. He had lifted his hammer to strike a nail Did he strike? Not much I He paused, then returned the hammer to his box. The twelve o'clock whistle had blown. He was working by the day. A servant who prided herself on living in a genteel family, be ing asked to define the term, said "Where they keep a carriage, have three or four kinds of wine and never pay a bill the first time it is called for." Elijah," 3y, Zeke, I hash yo brudder married a rich heireas; am dat so?" Zeke "Yes: she's wuth 'bout fi' million." Elijah (surprised) So much as dat?" Zekc "Its fi' million or fi' hun dred, I dunno know which, but I know it's 'normous 'mount." "Do you allow dnunken people on the train ?" asked on old gen tleman at the city hall elevated station. "Sometimes but not when they are too drunk," replied the brakemau. "Just take a seal near the middle of the car and keep quiet and you'll be all right. A little Eighth street girl in studying her Sunday-school lesson came to the words : "And the King of Nineveh covered himself with sackcloth and sat in ashes." This was a puzzler. Finally sho said: "Papa, what kind of ashes is satin ashes, lhat the king- cover ed himself with ?" The sarcasm of destiny has been illustrated in the west. A Dakota man by the name of Rose gave his daughter the name of Wild, that she might be called the Wild Rose of the prairie; but she ran away with a man by the name of Bull the other day and her name- is a terror to the inhabitants. "The poet i born, sir," said a man haughtily, as he received a roll of mun.iscriptfroni the editor with a shake of his head. "Oh," is he?" replied the editor with a pleasant smile. "Well, when .be gets old enough to write some thing, tell him to come and see me. ijooa Dye, and ne resumed bis labors. Attorney (examining witness) "You say you saw the shots fired ? Witness "Yes sir." Attorney "How near were you to the scent of the affray ?" Witness When the first shot was fired I was ten feet from the shooter." Attorney "Ten feet. Well, now teU the court where you were when the second shot was fired." Witness "I didn't measure." Attorney "Speaking approximately, how far should you say? Wiiness "Well, it approximated to halt mile." 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