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THURSDAY, -
FEB. 22, 1894
TRAIN ROBBING.
One can hardly pick np a newspaper
nowadays and glance over its columns
without eeeing an account of a train
robbery; a switch opened at some way
station where there is no telegraph oper
ator ; a red light swung across the track ;
& rail removed, a bridge burned, or the
. track obstructed. Then follows a full
account of the masked men (generally
two), the sacking of the express car, the
killing of the fireman, or engineer, or
expressman, or conductor, and the
'amount of money taken and carried
away, generally from $5,000 to $100,000
and that the robbers escaped unidenti
fied ; also that the Finkerton detectives
have taken charge of the affair.
These accounts of the boldness of the
robbers two men robbing a hundred)
and of their success is a good advertise
ment for the business. It is an incen
tive for smart young men to go into it.
Young men whose talent and ambition
leads them to give up farm life and
farm work ; young men whose education
fits them for more profitable work; can
readily see a lucrative and safe business
opening in this comparatively new call
ing. So, also, can idle -young men in
the cities and towns see the opening,
. aad young men who have been raised in
idleness and never earned the bread
they ate. But no difference who sees
the opportunity to safely engage in this
business, or what their antecedents have
been, the important question is, how to
at once and forever stop this business
. The lives of passengers are always more
or lees jeopardized when a train is held
np and robbed. Robbers are also mur
derers when life is in the way of their
business.
The express companies should at once
Quit carrying money on trains that carry
passengers, and if they will not quit it
laws should be enacted to compel them
to quit. Money could be carried safely
from city to city on a special train mak
ing day runs, like the pay 'car, the en
gine drawing only one car, and have
that "car properly guarded, so that it
would be impossible for a band of even
twenty robbers .to take it. Robbers do
not like to be killed any more than do
honest men, and it could be very easily
fixed so that an attempt to rob a train
would be certain death. "'
It is high time that something be done
to discourage these highwaymen, reck
less of their own lives and; the lives and
property . of others. This business of
buccaneering, of land privateering, is
getting to be of too frequent occurrence
to allow it to longer exist, and the hon
est people are in too great a majority to
-longer suffer it. Wells-Fargo is getting
..plundered too often, and the company's
employes are too often losing their lives
to have nothing said or done to stop it-
- Vox populi, vox McKinley. ; Penn
sylvania's republican majority isVout of
Bight."' .
A law should be framed giving settlers
on prairie lands the privilege of getting
what little timber they need for fencing,
building and domestic purposes, from
tne iorest reserve, as it is now any
timber taken away for any purpose is
. a punishable offense, and a great hard'
ship is visited on the homesteader ad
joining, who has to go to great expense
to fence his land or make any kind of
improvements. .-
Tne Lord's Prayer In Chinook.
" Nieika Papa kla xta mitlite -kopa Sah
a le, kloshe mika tyee kopa konaway
tila cum; kloshe mika tunetum kopa
eahale; potlache konaway sun nesika
muckamuck ; pee kopetcumtux konaway
neeika mam- mook mesachie kopa nesika,
marsh si ah kopa nesika konaway mesa
hie. Kloshe Kahkwa. Kloshe Klutch
man.
Look Over Ton County Warrants.
. All county warrants registered prior
to January 16th, 1890, will be paid if
presented at my office, corner of Third
and Washington streets. Interest
' ceases on and after this date.
WM. MlCHELL,
- Treasurer Wasco County.
October 21st, 1893. tf
Winter Fnel.
. We still have a large supply of Hard
Wood,, including Oak, Ash, .Maple and
Crab Apple, all dry and suitable for,
family use to be sold cheap."
Febuary, 1894.
' ,. Jos. T. Peters & Co.
DANGEROUS SHOOTING.
Clubs More Reliable Than Guns in
Hunting .the Seal. .
Th Wonderful Effect of Music on . the
Timid Animals A Green Hunter's
Narrow Escape from Being;
Tors! to Pieces. '
.Seals are very fond of music, and the
hunters who pursue them most success
fully often make use of some musical
instrument to ' attract them. In "A
Seal Hunt on the Elasket Islands" a
writer in Outing describes an- adven
ture with seals, when a gun proved a
dangerous weapon. The oars dipped
slowly,1 O'Brien's eyes were fixed on
the caves, and the boatmen sung in
unison a weird, wild sonp in a kind of
undertone. To the writer this seemed
a curious accompaniment to a seal
hunt; but he was still more surprised
when one of the men produced a flute
and played on it a quaint, sympathetic
air, that echoed and re-echoed among'
the caves. The musical effects were
marvelous; but our author turned to
O'Brien and asked: "What is the
meaning- of all this?" "Oh, it is to at
tract the' seals. In a few minutes you
will see them basking on the water
and on the ledcres, charmed almost - to
unconsciousness by the music."
And so it happened; for underneath,
on "an easy ledpe," we saw two seals
scramble up and lie quietly listening.
"Now is our time," said O'Brien, and
the boatmen gently rowed toward the
fascinated seals, the flute-player still
continuing his tune.
Without gun or spear, my friend
sprang to the rocky ledge. He' had
with him only a bludgeon and a long
knife. Noiselessly advancing upon the
seals he dealt one of them ' a blow on
the nose and then slid forward and
killed it with his knife. Thus our first
capture was made.
"Why not shoot the poor brutes, and
so end the affair?" I asked. '
O'Brien laughed. "My dear sir,"he
replied, "it is impossible. I will prove
"it to you. You have your rifle with
you. Well, the next time we meet a
seal I will allow you to do. the work
with powder and ball, and we shall see
how you fare. -
Then we went over to Carrigduff and
endeavored with music to inveigle oth
er seals. And we were rewarded, for
far within the "great cave" there ap
peared a splendid male, much larger
than those we had before seen not a
common seal, but one of the large,
bearded seals. He was, to all appear
ance, unconscious of our approach.
The flute player continued his tune,
and the oars pushed the waters as
noiselessly as possible until we were
within a few yards of the game.
"Now, try your gun," whispered
O'Brien.
I climbed out of the yawl and got
clcfse to the seal. I feared to get too
close, lest I should frighten him off the
ledge, so I rested against the slimy
rock, and, taking careful aim at a point
between his shoulders, fired.
The din was awful. It seemed as if
the little island were .being blpwn to
pieces by some modern battery. I be
came aware, too soon, that my shot
had not killed the animal, and that by
a series ol curious spine-maae move
ments' he had come close- to me and
caught my ankle in his powerful jaws.
I nearly - fell. I was too f ear-stricken
to cry out. ' "
All this happened in a moment.' I
felt my ankle crunch as though, the
foot would come off. As swiftly as
possible I reloaded. I could scarcely
see the brute that held my' ankle, so
blinded was I from pain. And I could
not understand why it was -that
O'Brien had not come to my rescue.
But there was no time to spare. I
must lose my leg or kill the seal.
Placing1 the muzzle of the rifle
against what seemed to be the shoul
der of the seal, I fired. The. hold on
my ankle relaxed for an instant; then
came a more angry-bite on the thick
part of my leg, and I became conscious
of some one near me. A dull blow
sounded, and I fainted.
It appears that O'Brien, who was
looking on all the while, clambered on
the rock where I was engaged with the
seal and with a blow of his bludgeon
ended the battle. .-, In all likelihood he
saved me from death.
i"AST ART WORK.
A Charcoal Sketch Worth One Hundred
Dollars Drawn in Ten Minute. '
" Improvisation as an art is usually as
sociated with music, but artists also
can . "dash off" a picture when the
spirit moves them; and the spirit seems
to have been very .vigorously at work
on Mr. T. B. Hardy.whose seascapes are
so widely renowned, on a certain fes
tive evening not long ago, says the
London Telegram. There was stretched
before him, so it is credibly reported,
a sheet of paper measuring about three
feet by four on an easel, and upon this
canvas he' was invited to execute a char
coal drawing in ten minutes. The sub
ject chosen by him was "The Pool"
below London bridge, with the usual
accessories of the tower looming in the
background and barges and steamers
coming up the river on the floodtide.
So deftly did the artist's hand trace
the design already recorded in his
brain that the whole picture was fin
ished within the very short space of
time already mentioned. "Aerial and
wave effects," we read, "were obtained
by rapid rubbing with the hand or a
cloth." It might naturally be expected
that a drawing done under such trying'
circumstances would - be . somewhat
"sketchy,' and no doubt the. details in
it were rather suggested than careful
ly filled in; but the result was very far
indeed from being a mere smudge, and
the company of brother artists, literary
men and actors before whom the feat
was exhibited were loud in their
praise. Their appreciation indeed was
shown in the most practical of all pos
sible ways, for Mr. Hardy's charcoal
sketch, which had taken him only a
sixth part of an hour to complete, at
once changed hands.' for the price of
twenty guineas. -. . . :
WEIGHT OF BEES.
Some Interesting Researches Concerning
a Ratlier Peculiar Subject. ,
An interesting noteaboutthe weight
of bees appears in an American jour
nal devoted to i agriculture, says Dr.
Andrew Wilson. It seems that an or
dinary bee, not carrying any load .of
pollen, weighs the one five-thousandth
of a pound. Five thousand - bees thus
make up a pound weight. When, how
ever, the bee is carrying his load of
pollen or honey, as he returns from for-'
aging amid the flowers, his weight is
increased nearly three times. He car
ries thus about twice his own weight,
a result not surprising to those who
have studied the muscular powers and
ways of insects at large. When bees
are loaded it requires only eighteen
hundred of them to make up the pound.
Details are also given regarding the
number of bees which may exist in a
hive. From fdur-pound to five-pound
weight of bee's are found in an ordinary
colony. This means in figures of pop
ulation, some twenty thousand to twen
ty-five thousand individuals. A big
swarm, it is said, will often double this
estimate.
Talking of bees, if any of my readers
wish to indulge in a very curious and
fascinating bit of zoological study they
should read the story of what is called
"parthenogenesis" in bees and other
insects, such as the aphides or green
-flies of the roses and other plants. For
such eggs of the queen bee as are fer
tilized when laid turn out workers (or
neuters) or queens, while those which
are not fertilized at all develop into
males or drones. This is very singu
lar, because fertilization of an egg or
seed is regarded ordinarily as neces
sary for its due development. I know
of nothing more extraordinary than
the story biology has to tell regarding
this curious by-way of animal develop
ment. x
' DANGERS OF EMOTION.
The Part That Fear Plays in Rendering
People Liable to Disease.
Many violent maladies have been
supposed to have been produced under
the operation of horal influences. Sen
nert believed that fear was capable of
provoking, erysipelas. Hoffman also
made fear and the adynamy resulting
from it play an important part as the
predisposing cause of contagious dis
eases. Dr. H. Tuke believed, in par
ticular, in the influence of fear upon
the contagion of rabies. The break
ing out of rabies has been sometimes
observed after psychic emotion, says
"Popular Science Monthly. Boulcy
cites the case of a dog which went mad
after having been immersed in water.
Gamleia cites a similar case in a man,
ana anotner in a woman who was
frightened by a drunken man. In
order to avoid the influence of fear,
Desgenettes concealed the name and
the nature of the plague; and it is to
be remarked further that the Turks
died less rapidly of it than the Chris
tians. Culleh supposed . that sad emo
tions favor contagious diseases, and
particularly the plague.
This disposition to contagion after
violent emotions which determine dis
charge of the secretions may be. partly
explained Dy tne fact that the con
ditions that diminish the proportion of
the liquids of the ' blood favor absorp
tion. It, however, seems at least prob
able that the nervous discharge is ac
companied bv alterations of the blood
and modifications of the interior me'
drum which justify the popular expres
sions concerning having bad blood and
turning the blood.
EVOLUTION AND PARTRIDGES.
Singular Changes in These Birds
Canary Islands.
In the
A striking example of the effects of
environment and changed conditions
of life upon the forms of animals is
furnished by a species of partridge liv
ing in the Canary islands. About four
hundred years ago the Spaniards intro
duced the red-legged partridge from
Europe into these islands, and the
bird has continued to flourish there
but, as recent examination proves, it
has undergone modifications clearly
brought about by the conditions under
whicn it lives. -
Its back has turned'from russet color
to gray. This looks like a case of pro
tective coloration, since the bird passes
its life amid gray volcanic rocks.
Then its beak has become one-fourth
longer and thicker than that of its an
cestors and of its European relatives,
and its legs also have . increased in
length and grown stouter.
These changes are exactly such as
were needed to suit it to the life that
it is how compelled to lead amid the
rocks and on' the mountain sides of the
islands, where a more vigorous physic
al development is required than was
needed upon the plains of England and
France.
As has been remarked, if such
changes can be wrought by nature in
the animal form m four hundred years,
what might not have been accom
plished in four hundred centuries?
THE COAL TRADE.
During the last year 179,000,000 tons
of coal were mined in Westmoreland
county, Pa.
Shipments of Pocahontas coal at
Lambert's Point during 1893 to Novem
ber 1, were 1,518,080 tons. .
One of the peculiar features of the
coal trade is the importation at San
Francisco of coal from China.
The' number of persons employed in
the bituminous mines of the United
States in 1892 was 212,893, as compared
with 205,372 in "1891. This places the
total of employes in coal mines of the
United States in 1893 at a tally of 341 x-
943.
On the tipple afHoytdale mines.
Beaver county, Pa., the coal is dumped
by William Grundy, who is sixty-one
years of age. He has been on the same
tipple for twenty-eight years, and- dur
ing that time has dumped 2,520,000
tons of coal.
... If you wish to see a, fine assortment of
oranges, lemons and bananas just call
and see the display at H. H. Campbell's
next door to the postoffice.
- All Free. ."."'
Those who have used Dr. King's New
Discovery know its value, and those who
have not, have now the opportunity . to
try it free. Call on the advertised drug
gist and get a trial bottle, free. Send
your name and address to Hi E. Bucklen
& Co., Chicago, and get a sample box of
Dr. King'8 New Life Pilla free, as well
as a copy of Guide to Health and House
hold Instructor, free. All of which is
guaranteed to do you good and cost you
nothing. . Sold by Snipes & Kinersly;
See theTVorla's Fair for Fifteen Cents
Upon receipt of your address and fif
teen cents in postage stamps, we will
mail you prepaid our souvenir portfolio
of the world's Columbian exposition.
the regular price is fifty cents, but as we
want you to have one, we make the
price nominal. You will find it a work
of art and a thing to be prized. It con
tains full page views of the great build
ings, with descriptions of same, and is
executed in highest style of art. If not
satisfied with it, after you get it, we will
refund the stamps and let you keep the
book. Address - - .
. H. E. Bucklen & Co.',
Chicago, 111,
The experience of Geo. A. Apgar.'of
German Valley, N. J., is well worth re
membering. He was troubled with
chronic diarrhoea and doctored for five
months and was treated by four differ
ent doctors without benefit. He then
began using Chamberlain's Colic, Chol
era and Diarrhoea Remedy, of which one
bottle effected a complete cure. It is
for sale by Blakeley & Houghton, drug
gists. ' ' ' .
Good Chance for a Rustler.
A man is wanted by Kerr & Buckley
of Grass Valley to run their hay and
grain ranch on shares, one with some
means preferred, but can furnish all
horses, harness, plows, etc., if neces
sary, provided he pays his own living
expenses for the year.' One hundred
and fifty acres is already sown and now
growing nicely, 100 acres are plowed,
ready, to sow in the spring, and there are
100 acres of old land to plow and sow.
For further particulars address Kerr &
Buckley, Grass Valley, Or. dwtf
. A Chance Very Seldom Offered.
For sale or trade for a farm in Wasco
county A fine improved farm in one of
the best counties of Southern Calfornia
in the best of climate, close to Rodondo
beach, San Pedro harbor and railroads
Good markets, good schools and
churches. Address this office for par
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Karl's Clover Hoot, the new. blood
purifier, gives freshness and clearness to
the com plexion and cures constipation.
26c, 50c. and $1.00. Sold by Snipes &
Kinersly, druggists.
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ITS' TERRITORY. c
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Lake, a distance of over two hundred miles.
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