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Miss MaryDunlap.
BT HARRIET FI-KftCflTT SI'OtKOKK.
There were two things patent concerning
Hiss Mary Dunlap one that she was au ex
ceedingly pretty girl; the other, that ahe was
as arrant a coquette as ever bewitched a man.
She had hair whose loose locks gilded a white
forehead, but whoso heavy masses glistened
like fawn-tinted satin; she had great block
lashed blue eyes with an enchanting way of
glancing under their down-dropping fringes;
her teeth were as even as the kernels of milk
-corn; her features fine as if chiseled in ivory;
ler dimples, her smile, tho rose and white of
ler skin, were lovely and innocent as any ba
"by'; and the depth of her guile there was no
.fathoming. Not that it was very guilty guile;
jt was but a trivial sort after all. It consisted
only in making herself charming; and there
--were even those who said she couldn't help it
if she would. She felt an inteicst in every
body; feeling it, she showed it; and if people
chose to think it meant more than it did, that
-was their fault, and not licis. And there was
no earthly reason, they said, why Mr. Popison
should suppose, when half tho bively women
of an older generation had refused his hand,
that the spoile I darling meant anything but
commiseration by her tender looks of sym
pathy as he told his griefs, after bringing her
great bunches of red roses at thirty cents
piece.
The fact was. it ulinseil her that Mr. Poni.
(on, who bad once nifciiircd her tyrannical
younger aunts, should now admire her. Then
It did no harm to have. lames MeArthursco
that she could step into a pair of sumptuous
noes, anu cross mo inrcsnoiit 01 tho sj leniliil
old Fopit-on mansion over the river; and time
flew but slowly, and tho affair amused her;
nd itwouldnt hurt poor Mr. l'opison, who
was used to that sort coining.
It was a gay house, the Ihnitap. All tho
family elements combined there. Tin re woio
two grand mothers, a mother and father, aunts
on both sides, two or three cousins, and Miss
Mary Dunlap and her sisters, nnd friends and
lovers going and coming; and tho time was
hoavy to no one but Mary, and might not
have been to her had James McArthur had
tho wit to see what somo others thought tiiey
aw.
But James McArthur. a Iinndsomn. InVli.
stopping fellow, with a good business and
some ambition, had his eyes sufficiently wide
open. Mary Dunlap had touched his heart as
deeply as lio dared to lot her, for ho hesitated
bout marrying for lovo when ho might marry
for love and monoy, too, and Mary would
hnve a littlo monoy; ami he hesitated, too,
bout marrying a girl with whom everybody
elso was m love. "A coquette," said tho wise
young McArthur, "gives her husband little
peacoj" and hu had dill'ereiit vieions. Never
theless the girl could not bnuh Mm with her
garmci't without scwling tin ills through Mm,
and ho had only to look that way in church
and sec the rosv oik'o of her vi lvit. -hm.t I....
yond the pillar to feul the color Biirgo all over
his own lace, nnd tho mulilui sound of her
voico would nt any time make his hcirt cease
beating for tliu fraction of u second. Still he
hesitated.
Not so Mr. Topison. ll know what bo
wanted and meant to have it. It is true that
lie had thought so 111 more than nno instance
before; but that, he said, was in his green and
callow days; and if his hand had been refused,
he was glad of it, as that lift it free to oiler to
Murv Duiilan. Ho hail known Mmv lii,,,in
sinco sho was a baby; had given her liist
gihraltcr and her Inst butter scotches; she
iiuu ipcut ins pcuiiieHanu sit on Ins knee, had
combed his hair with her tiny lingers and
kissed his mouth with her sweet innocent
lips; ho had been her confidant, anil had
known every thought of her pure heart; and
then she had gone away to school, had spent a
winter in Now York society, and had como
back so gay nud hnllaiit a heart broiker that
he found himself the victim of a passion of
which all his oior Haines had been mockcrii s.
He. Past f0ltV-Kve. to hntin fur Urn t1... if .
irl ot twenty! Yet, hopeless or not, he
hovered round her like a moth, and only
found Janus McArthur just enough in Ins
way to hit der urging his point. Or, was it
Mary Dunlap herself who hindered it Mary
Dunlap, unable to decide whether she prefer
red James McArthur, with his bold, black
eyes, his proud comeliness, nnd aplondid
yomu, or .Mr. l'opison. just beginning to bo
bald, with his half million of money. Once,
when ahe heanl James McAithur reproach a
" nan iiuiayeu Willi a note ol tiers,
he thought Mr. I'opison's itdulgent kindness
was something desirably restful. On the other
haud, when sho looked at James McArthur's
dark Jatsle of beauty, tho daily sight of so
.plain a face as Mr. l'opison 'a soeimd a sorry
fate and l'opisou was such n dreadful name I
But Mary would not have her thoughts dwell
On more than the step before Iter. There was
something too unmaideuly in even aekuow 1
inking to herself a preference for one w ho
dldtiiot declare love for her. Yet she could
not help tho plunging in her In cost when ! e
found James McArthur'. o.e-a l.iim. ,, i..
wiui num. helium tin m that made her feed
next moment would bring the word she
Kvcn Mr. l'opison did not want to marry her
any more, sue turned on Inm her eyes, like
sapphires set with diamim.li, like violets ght
tcring with d':w, and burst into tears. It
made bis heart ache. Hut from that moment
he was a person to her of a certain moral dig'
nity, a dignity which u uld not belong to
James McArt'.nr, who neither declared Him
self nor let her alone. That month Bessie
Craven came to see tho n; a pleasant girl
with a fortune. She was engaged to Tom
Dunlap; but, through somu notion about keep
ing their happiness to themselves, it was at
present a secret a secret of which James
McAithur did not dirim. For he began
straightway to explore Miss Bessie's charac
ter, sound it depths and lake its heights, and
do its best to interest Inin'clf where it was for
his interest to be inter, ated, as Mary said.
And Mary Dunlap, looking on, for all her
Ana -Mary Dunlap, looking on, for all her
levity, hit as if a death cold hand had her
heart strings in its icy grip. She shut herself
in her on room, and suffered a month of mis
ery a room filled with fiesh flowers, fruits.
novels, candies; but James McArthur sent
none of them. When she ca ne down airsin
all was as before, except that Mr. Popison 's
visits nau almost ceateil ft mchow there wai
a dreariness without that kindly smile of his;
she found herself missing him; and when she
met him she began to say so, and then to
blush like a damask rose, nnd paused.
"You miss mit You really miss me?" he
cried, delightedly.
"Oh, unspeakably I" said Mary Dunlap;
and there was no coquetry in the confession.
"And shall you miss me if I eo away? For
I must. It is impossible lor me to stay where
you are "
"Go away forever!" It came over her all
at once that then the world would be a des
ert. Sho turned ahen. 13ut if he could gn,
shn should not let him know. "Very well,"
she said, coolly. "I want to ask vou some
thing before yon go. Did you really, as Tom
sais, lend James MaArt'mr ten thousand dol
lars when he came neir fading hut Bpring?"
"In tiiat all'" said he. "That was a trifle,
and it makes no diOercnco now that I have
lost nearly all tbo rest."
"You have lost all your money?" with a
rush of piety.
"A great deal of it. But that was nothing;
he would have done as much for me."
"Humph'" said Mary.
"Mary, I thouirht you"
uired lor James Aievlrthur? 1'erhans I
did once, just as you eared for Aunt Sophy.
ii i urn, me lire ourucd to ashes.
"And you will not many him?"
"Why, ho nc.er asked me."
"The fool !"
"Ihero is only ono pnrson in the world I
would many, anil ho declined one day to mar
ry me," said Mary, archly, and with a sudden
coinage. And then sho t embled like a poplar
leaf, and tho tears welled up,
"Mary," said Mr. 1'opiion, gravely, chang
ing tho current with lis words, "1 shall tell
your father that you have proposed to n.c,
and that I lnvo accepted you."
Sogiy, so bright, n happy, so beautiful,
WaB MfirV Tlllttlnn tli'if nt-nnt.ir et.if.it..
dancing, tripping heru and here, that evciy
ono felt sho had roturncd fiom aii absence,
and James McAl thur left Bessie Travers side
to follow her. But thcru was s imetliing about
ncr mac put ner just Inyouil him a line
H arating atmosphere, u diamond glaze.
"Why did you never tell mtS" said he, "that
IlcBsio Travels was ongi"cd?''
"Was it any all'air ot m?"
"I suppose," said he, hi terly, "it would bo
no affair of mino if you inairicd old l'opison
to-morrow."
"Ila.o vou made it si?' cried she. Ami
looking at him, she wundtrcd why sho hid
ever (iiiered before thrsa bold black eves.
that high color, that mighty in.iniitr of his, n
great gladness filling her h art to think of tho
noble breast sho had to 1c in on, the lest and
I'oinfnit of her protector. And us shn went to
Bing for some ono tho nnu ,nr, "Duk was the
d ly and dreary tho night,' Janus McArthur
fe't as if tho earth had muted n littlo under
Ins feet, ami the song wit written f. r him.
i'eilups it was because sho hid defied nun,
so that ho pursmd her now awlnlo to sio
what it meant; that ho stopped au hour next
morning mi his way down fn.m town; that he
c.iiue in at night-fall with huadacho for her
in mow mm tho cup ot t u alio used to make;
that for weeks he hum? about her. with h
old aulor kindled by thai still remote manner
of lieis, and his old siluncn enforced by doubt
ii uio iron were as ready to tall into Ins hand
as ho had thought, the doubt and the remotu
nest enhancing her value, so that it began to
seem to him there was not another woman in
tho world; and ho forgot monoy and ambition,
feeling at last that she outw eighed everything
he had ever valued, and ho was undo only
tho nmre earnest by her pieoccupations.
"Mary," said ho. ono noon, comim? in on
soino pretext, bending over her tenderly, bis
'j i glowing, ins voice nonfiling. "1 am .o
ingaway to-uiirht. Winn I come back, will
you near something i iia.o to say to you !"
"No, indeed," said slie, laughing. "Yi
IN THE BIO BEND OF THE COLUMBIA.
One of the leading points of attraction for
those seeking homes in the Pacific Northwest,
in the near future, will be that large and
undefined region lying to the north and west
of the Northern Pacific Railroad in Eastern
Washington Territory, bounded by the cir
cling flow of the great Columbia. For a dis
tance, the Spokan river, aa the map will
show, has a course almost due west, then
oins the Columbia, which comes to that
point almost from due north, then turns
to the west and northwest before it bends
south and southeast to its junction with
Snake river. What is called the "Big Bend
of the Columbia," sttictly speaking, com
mences at the junction of that river with the
Spoxan. It is matter of current belief that
within the bounds described is a grand pas
toral region capable of being converted into
farms and homes. As friends were about to
make an expedition from Cheney westerly,
out into this little-discovered country, we
started the 1st of June to join them, so as
to obtain correct information of a scope of
country that will soon become the objective
point for immigration.
It is somewhat singular that the flow of
population sent constantly new channels.
Open ateneiS paradise to settlement, and
offer a certs.t ty to those who desire eligible
home spots, aud immigration will not be pa-
tie it to nil up this region if it can hoar a half
reliable story of some newer discovered Land
of Promise. So it is with these eastern re
gions; people go about seeking something
newer than tho Palouse country, thouirh
nothing more satisfactory or reliable than the
unsettled portions of the Palouse country can
bo expected. As we have to keep up with
the times, wo accepted with klacnty the
offered opportunity to in-pect thi poriion of
Washington Territory, comnnmnrr -, rt
portion of Spokan count v. hut H...n..o,i
great .engm oi time to l . divided into sever
al counties, mere is a crudeness in forma
tion of new counties in a young Territory
budding into promiso oi becoming a State
that the future has to n ld into shape, and
Spokan county, W. 'J'., -an tome tune ir
other be divided into tin i or more populous
ilisincts that will make haud icspitable
counties.
To be prepared for i-oitingenci-.s, we took
. iwinj spring wagon llircc of us, and laid
in provisions ot tho rea ly-mailo kind, peculiar
... ..Sc, ,u t. iew Kiccneii nxtures and
to
have nothing to Bay to me cither then or at
any other time, and I shall not bo here myself
perhaps."
"I should think," aaid ho, "you wero going
to promise yourself to some one else, if I did
not iienevo it I did not know that you
loved me. Is that so? is that so? Marry
somo one else!" cried he. "1 should riso from
my grave to forbid tho bans!"
nut Hie answered by catching Tom aa ho
went by, ami waltzing down tho room in her
brother's arms.
It was a fow hours later, w Into her sister
was making live-o'clock tea, that Mary, pass
ing tho telophono aa it rang, paused to tako
its message-, aud turned hurriedly to send
Tom on an errand, in answer to which Mr.
l'opison aud Dr. Dean left arihaetoii at tho
b..iu ., mmi n nan noiir, ami came up me
tho
awaited; and she could not help just then bo-
lug especially kind 10 Mr. I'oiuson, partly
from piety, paitly from mischief, partly and
chiefly. let she betrayed herself. Life with
James McArthur time nnd eternity with him
that seemed a dream of earthly romance
and heavenly bliss. Aud yet -
"Mary," said her aunt Sophy, "yon are
wrong to encourage Mr. l'opisou so. You
certainly can't mean to marry him."
"I don't know," said Mary. "I should al
wax a like to ha.o him around."
Days and months went by, and still thimn
u'liisium ua m-j- were, .mines .McArthur
weut his long business jouruc), and 111 his ah
enco Mr. l'opisou tilled the acaut plaee; he
ratururd, and there wire the uinoulit strolls,
the sails, the rides again, and that was all. In
pito, fit the temporary pleasure of such strolls
and sails, in si.ito of lur gayety ami her merry
flirtatious with others than these, it was not a
happy season to Mary Dunlap. Her nerws
began to feel a strange agitation; eouei..ition
irritatm her; slainiiuiig doors made. Iierepiing;
small excitements set her to ijuivciiug; she
had no appetite-j she slept little; her eeilor bo
gu to Is.ie. uno day Mr. l ion said to hei i
"Mary, I lumt been obeiiug you, and 1
think pel haps 1 do )u an mjuij tu wishing
to make J ou my w ifo. 1 slull al ) i-.-,IU f
jou, nwas watch mujmi Hut 1 withdraw
that tacit oiler of mauiago. which, 111 h,i!
never formally made, jou !iao long 1xm cui
scions of,"
That rtppttl the whole. She mutt bo grow.
In.; a fright. She had lost all her charuij
veraiuin wnero mo lainiiy weie sitting.
K""'K lu irv jou nil wj a utile sur
prise," said Mary, then, demurely, "by beitig
uaiiieu eu mr. i eipisen uv.siitl-e
iv. and limn,
,r i.. .i... ........- f i , 1 '.
.-.. mi ins lumHin mr our uriuai tour across
the liver. Hut as tho telephone jmt announced
the arrival of some one ,lio will feu bid tho
lians, 1 thought wa would not wait,"
And with the red sunset pouring over the
auiared and bewildered family, Dr. Dean pro
uoumod Mr. Popison and Maiy Dunlap man
and wife, and they had gone in their phaeton
for their touracross the rivi r to the noble old
Pnpisou mansion under its elms hefi. il... -.
rival of the man who had telephoned :
"Am I sneakinc to Marv Dm, Inn" V.t I
have lost the tram, aud shill he, with v.u. in
an hour, when 1 expect a ciicuuutaiitial an
swer 'which circumstances ir-.e him! Vm
)r H'teltv,
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U lt lleiMliiuiii-trr.
We often hear the rvnitrk and justly, too
-that tho .Mi Gammon 1'umn and Whitney
i Holmes Organs are the lest, but aro high
in price. Being tho best, they aro the cheap
est. A pexir niutic.il instrument is dear at
any plica, MeCaminou makes e.ery part ot
his pianos in his own factoiy aud uudcr his
on u mpeivi.ion, There is only ono either f c
tiny in the United Mates that dues this. A
urn nno in mesa celebrated pianos and or
gans eau lis seen nt the lare iuiimc store of
o. ii u .uiinu jmui, together with the largest
slid ltst stock if small unified ii.ntiuuuii in
tho city. Also, a largei -toekof picture., frames
and mouldings of ever deniiption. o buy
all gods fit-in the Isctory. line us lour
oriKis. It w ill pay you t. go to l.eadiiuirters.
J- Hi Kunnisa Jt Ms,
No. -HO, First stivct, I'ortUud. Or. liu ,
dishes; and we had bedding at least blankets
so as to bo able to camp out wherever niuht
snouui overcauo us, and some oats for the
team, to help out the bunch grass in the way
of forage. Then wo took tho road out west
keeping along the railroad track for a few
miles. Sometimes our pine-covered Scab
land and occasionally over rolling prairie. It
was eveuinit when we startnil. hut. .--l.. r
ilays havo long hours and wo improved the
-t....s ou., uunrai mo long twilight aud
llcspassed for awhile upon actual starlight
before wo reached our destination.
We drove about ten miles, and finally
reached Malloy s Prairie, and tried to find
ill J! I tnf a Imimn (nKml. .. 1 t .
tidy, white-painted little homestead, occu
pied by a single man who was hospitably in
clmed. o drovo to tlm it nt i.o .....
in time discovered that it had ouly a day
or so befoie been" burned to ashes. So we
shouted for Malloy, and heard a response
roin a log stable near by, where Malloy and
his man had spread their blankets in the Iny
utilizing ono corner of the premisi s as kitcli
ou and dniiug room. Malloy to'.l us where
j. i.uu.1. ,.i,i. ., naysiajk, so wo ted and cared
for the team, and having hid supper before
wo left Clioney wo then climbed up the loo
w'allof thobiru with our blank, ts aud felt
about in the dark for the smooth spots to pre
empt for our beds. Malloy waked up and
gavo us n fervid recitil of the fire, which
caught from thu stovepipe and burned down
tho house while they wore at dinmr two days
before. Havinc waked in. h .1., .,:..
sho t ehapteis of personal history, w lulu we
all lay. wooing Somnns, in tho fragrant h.iy.
-Malloy was from Nevada, and so far back
as I87J. heaiuiL' that hn Vnrti. i..:.!
itailroad was tt be built and the surveys
were made, ho bid good by to N vada and
struck out for tho Pacific Noithwest. That
was how the first settlers came to the neigh
uornootl of Cheney. Years passed while ho
and the two or three others who came with
mm waited lor the coming of the railroad.
I hey planted themselves close to the survey
ors stakes, but those wero troublous time,
for the N P. K. R. Co. Jay Cooke & Co.
tailed: the comnanv had ... r.nri..,.i .it
work stopped, and all the waiting settlers
could do was to keep en waiting. I forget
what tliMit.lul t- .. - ,!. V .... P.
.. -,...,. , corn . living, nut i tliuik
they raised some wheat and hauled it to
ai sburgtomill. Waiuburg is near Walla,
Wa la and Malloy'. Prairie, by the traveled
u.i. wine., me settlers probably made as
they traveled them wax i,Prl.. i.m ...,i
They went to mill once a year, a'nd livod
twelve months ou tho urine Cn nrn.j
They had to ferry the Palouse ami Snaka
rivers, but stock men aud government trains
gavo use for ferries at desired points, an I the
way our far-off piunoers managed was to
carry along somo vei-et.ihln that thn,- ,.o.i
nil- m ti. r -- i i :."' r-V""
-.. .w ... .t..,a us U-Bai icniier, .virt as
they p.ud ferriage both ways when they
went, they knew what they wero about.
knimlit. in Ik.. .I..I .11 .
z " '- 'iiiiiium, nciiied down in
to find ponds and lakes all through the
scabby rceion. The line is often very clearly
nenneu oeiwccn ouncn gross, prairie anil
scabby timber loud. Strips of forest come up
from the canyons of the Columbia river, and
also push out from the scsbby teaches that
encircle and divide the arable prairie As a
gemral description of this country, I will say
that commencing at or near Cheney is a
splendid agricultural region that extendi
east to Medical Lakes ana Deep Cretk, north
to the Spokan ri.er, then west to the Colum
bia, just below its junction with the Spokan.
This section of Spokan county is thirty miles
east ana west along this river, and has an av
erage width of twenty miles north and south,
comprising four hundred thousand acres, and
offering homes, all convenient to transporta
tion, for over two thousand good farms.
we spent a wnole day examining the best
parts of this regio-i, known commonly as the
Deep Creek Country, but it compiises in real
ity the Deep Creek, Cottonwood and Mos
(liiito Springs regions, as all those waters
lead north to the opokan river; also includes
the head waters of small streams that lead
south to Crab CrocB. The divide between
these streams offers a feasible route for some
future railroad and extends west, or rather
northwesterly, for over one hundred miles.
This divide, of probably ten miles in width.
consists of the finest quality of agricultural
land. All this body of rich soil has two
great advantages: The whole recion is well
watered when living water not found
wells can be easily dug, and the greater por
tion of it is near timber; lumber is manufac
tured in different directions. These arc ad-
vant ges of prime consequence in & new
country.
We staid all night at Mnndnvi. This is
merely the farm and home of Mr. Ides, who
wis away from home, but Mrs Ides gave us
meals that had a strong flavor of civilization.
This n'ace is about twenty miles from Che
ney, in the midst of as fine a country as heart
could wish. The surface is rolling, without
being abrupt. The plow can lead and the
harvester can follow over all tho recion here
about, and it is claimed that just beyond
nero a wnoie townsnip lies bo tavoramy that
every acre can be plowed. There are succes
sions of basins formed, surrounded by gentle
ridges, where streams head and flow down to
join other brauches. Ihese formations are
called "draws." The spring and branches
run about ten miles north to the Spokan, and
the eood country extends almost to the river,
to where the hills break down in canyons to
wards the gorges traversed by the greater
streams. 1 he country I have described has
an elevation of at least two thousand feet
above the bed of the Columbia, and, except
ing that it has a tolerably sharp winter, the
same os the Palouso region, it possesses every
requisite. That is littlo ilisadvantaire. be
cause a good coat of snow helps tho winter
wheat, and winter will bo time when farmers
will haultheir grain and also cut, make and,
haul fencing material.
All this region north aud west of the
Northern Pacific Railroad is new newer
than that south and east of the railroad, and
up to this time has produced but little. Sev
eral years ago, when railroad surveys had
been run here, some settlers located them
selves where they thoueht the road would
come, and like Malloy, waited more or lets
"Big Bend" and Spokan Falls, to reach the
mines. But Armstrong said wagons had
never crossed the intervening rocky stretch
and we could nanny get across country in
that direction, so we reluctantly surrendered
the intention to prospect the southern route
back to Cheney and learn more of the Crab
Creek country.
Crab Creek rises in several small branches
that head up near Cheney and run south to
within a few miles of Sprague, then turns
west for'about sixty miles and drops into
Moses Lake, which has no outlet. There
are streams putting in from the north, in
cluding Sinking Creek, which joins it ,50
miles west of Sprage, and Coal Creek east of
it. The Crab Creek country is scabby, and
the immediate vicinity of the Creek is very
rocky as a general thing, though there
is some eoodl and north and south
of the creek, near by, and an ex
tensive body of the best kind of agricul
tural land lies on Coal Creek, extending from
near Sinking Creek on thu West, nearly to
Sprague. On my return I hod the good
lortuue to meet with two good men, S. M.
Shull and C. Beymer, of Dayton, W. T., who
had heard from some friend of the advantages
this region offers for homes, so they had
hired a team at Sprague, where parties can
be found who take home seekers on such
trips, and they had gone 36 miles into the
Crab Creek country. They reported an ex
tensive region of splendid soil, generally
well watered, with timber belts on all sides.
Timber grows on the north, where we hod
passed, on the east, above Snrairue. on the
south along Crab Creek and to the west
along Sinking Creek. ' This Coal Criek
country was well worth our intention to
traverse it and I was fortunate in finding re
liable gentlemen who had lately visited it. I
judged from their statement that this Coal
Creek region contains a large body of land
with a rolling surface, similar to the country
I have described north of it. There must be
six or eight townships of good land there,
divirled by a few miles of rocky surface from
similar good countiy north, east and west.
The country north of Crab Creek, west of
Cheney, reaching to the Great Coulee, is
nearly 40 miles in width, north and south,
and 80 or QU miles wide, eatt and west, and
it is fully within bounds to say that three
fourths of it can be settled and made into
farms. There must be about 1.500.000 acres
of good land, and it offers homes for ten
thousand famibes.with quarter section farms.
In tho present crude state of this new coun
try it is not necessary to attempt detailH and
give precise information. The conntry lies
open and invites settlement and the mad
must be harel to suit who cannot locate in one
of its beautiful "draws ' and go to work and
make a homo there.
The night we were at Mondovi I met a
new Hettler who had come from Kai eas lost
year and made his way to this distant spot.
He had taken the Willamette Farmer in
Kansas, before coming to this coast, and
kindly greeted its editor as a friend. Two
things had impressed him particularly. One
was the excellent character of the neonle who
settled this country, which he considered de
cidedly superior to the population of the new
States east of the Rocky Mountains. He
had read in the Farmer that we claimed this
to be so, and he found matters as we had
BATCHBLOE & WYLIE.
Successors of
Batchclor, VanGclricr & Co.,
1IANUEACTURERS OF THE
'California Spring Tooth Har
row or Cultivator.
-TOI
lvi ((lvj-tav
In the THOROUGH cultivation of Summer-fallow
these implements will save at least one dollar per acrs
each sesson and will cotrer grain equal to the best
drill. Every farmer Is requested to take one and trj
it for himself.
-ta"fcleven 8Ue Manuractaretl. Send for
Descriptive Circulars to
Batchelor & Wylie,
31 Market Slreer, - rian Francisco.
KOK BALE BY
JOHN LA.M.HTMt, A CO., IW Front St.,
mi) 19m3
LA.M.HTMt, A CO.,
I'ortland,
RAILROAD LANDS.
Liberal Terms,
Low Prices,
' Long Time,
Low Interest.
OREGON AND CALIFORNIA RAILROAD COMPANY
OFFER THEIR LANDS FOR SALE UPON TBI
following liberal terms: One-fourth of the pries
In cash; Interest on the balance at the rate of seven pet
cent one year after sale, and each following roar one
tenth of the principal and interest on the balance at the
rate of seven per cent per annum. Both principal
Interest payable in 17. B. Currency.
A discount of ten per cent will be allowed for cash
Letters should be addressed to
PAUL BCUULZE, Land Agent,
teS5 O. 4 0.lt. R., Portland, Ororon
DR. WrillVVOMBE, Y. 8.
VETERINARY SURGEON,
Portland, Oregon.
Writes Prescriptions or Dlseascsof all classes of stock
rice, tl for each prescription written. State symp
toms and age of animals as near as possible.
Offlee C. P.
Bacon's Blackhawk Stables. 0.1 R.vmrf
Db, MS. OUSTK linu U&K.
KesldCBce Cor Thirteenth and Taylor St.
patiently for its coming. These formed the stated them. Mr. Mahrt also said that ho
the folder, and. Iictrvl these "Jains 0f .y
Landloid," delivered with a touch of brogue.
I hey trow potatoes, aud had me it afoot on
the plains, raised wheat, split out puuclieona
for Moors to their log houses, and haviug lo
cated where "bull pino" grow abundantly,
thoy kept warm iu winter. The Indians
were sometimes in warlike humor, but de
spite alarms theylhed to see the railroad
built, and flow have a market at home for all
their products. There is a fascination aliout
these pioneer days that makes Insiorv allnr.
lug. We wcnttosleen with tli..... ..,...;..;
ending with and giving .-olor to less
ui,uuwi meatus i louud .Malloy a hay
mow one of the best noanlil., n.u. .A .........
mminl nl.t.i n.l -.I... - .1
-..-,. M..t, iKAiAUl UI-C.1IIIS. I urn
soiry that f was toe. drowsy to retain more of
rlii'k.s iiiijtis.nu ." ...i.- i' .
. . -i ' . r,r'- ea. sorry, also,
that the vicissitudes of life couldn't let Mal
loy rest in piace, without burning down his
hou.e. Ihero is now a good llonring mill at
Cheney, ouly seven and a half miles distant,
when the ue county road shall he cut
thiough. so Mallos lone, trips fur his an
nual grist are over.
, Uctw.eii Malloy'a Prairie and Cheuey there
is considerable scab land and timber, with
...., ;., mm. timed through. Turuinc
norlli fiom here, bolor., nor !..-, i,..i t..,. i..
I 1. -. .. "-.. ii-ii ins
...ieri. ininviiMiur, we passed thromih a
spleuilid larmini' e-ni.ntre- ,mi..l. .1 ., I....Y. :.
'. . i . r - ,, ..-... ..null i
eUimed, and ejger sptcuUton are also pur
eluuiiiij all the g.o,l r-iilioad laud. 'I his par
licular section is evcially suited for carry
ingoubothst ck-raising and fanning, vhero
w.er course, exist It is usually the ciso that
scab land adtalus, and also 1.1110 timber is
fnUIld alollL' the ttr..i,u. M.ll.... I ..
J. i . ' - -. .119 siiieu-
id outsiile ranco elo,a in- hi. ..!.;. ',...
ited to w heat-gtow iiig. h is also common
nucleus for future settlement and gave char
acter to tno wilderness. There is little im
provement yet made, except in isolated
cases, but all the government land is being
ntpiury semen upon ami claimed, and much
o( the railroad laud is being purchased. The"
population comes- from every where. The
valleys of Western Oregon furnish many who
havo sold out and removed to newer rielils;
many have come from Kansas and other
Western States, and a full minti rpiircanii.
California or Nevada. The lands nearest to
Cheney aro all taken up and settlers are
moving out towards the Columbia and Spo
kan rivers.
From Mondovi we drove west to f.'ottnn.
wood Springs, over a mignificeiit stretch of
luiiiini iuiuia uiuuu oi .vnicu lies vacant, il
is heie that the plow can drive for miles
through tho "draus" and find no obstruction.
Coltouwood Sprinas rise in on elevated
ridge mil create a creek that abounds in
speckled trout, and whicli Hows into the
Spokan Tho place already has a store and a
saloon, and pitrous ale said to live over to
wards the river, though there ore no hotists
in eight. Enterprising speculators have al
ready anticipated the future and have laid off
a town here, with boulevards and pleasure
parks suitably located. No doubt the town
wtll come all m duo time, but it is taking
time by the forelock to plan it thus early,
before the people have made homes on the
adjoining prairies; but this is essentially a
fast cotiutry.
len miles further on wo came to Mosquito
ojuuigs, met very nome ot those little pests,
.whero we uooned aud enjoyed their atten
tions while we ate lunch. Here is a stock
man's claim, planted amid scabs of rock, for
we had came into a "scab" section. The
springs are ueoutitul and there is ground
enough for n garden. After dinner we drove
a don miles over a rocky country, abound
ing in lakes, and all the moist spots along
the road swarmed with mosquitoes, which
went for us in clouds as we hurried by. This
rocky strip stretches south to Crab Creek, in
irregular form, with a width of eight miles.
which we crossed diagonally. Tbere is pine
timber growing usually where you find this
rocky surface, and scab land is ant to border
A tu.a ba A 14... -..-?. . al t.s ft
","l- ner pissing inrougu this rocky
stretch wo camo out upon a beautiful reciou
where fourteen families have settled, the ad
vanced guard of popiilatiuu. A Ian lmtto
rises here on the plain. Towards evening we
ascended this hill and with a glass swept the
whole horizon. East was the country we had
traversed, mottled with scab surface and
dotted with pino timber; south was good and
ludiUerent country, mired. Where we saw
smooth, grassy areas we knew the land was
able to grow w heat. West, iu tar as vision
could reach, aided by a coiumou opeia glass,
lay a great plain, almost smooth, eeitaiuly ot
good character of soil, stretching far away
to the (.rand Coulee, thirty miles distant.
in me uisiauce. runniiii? in a miihu,rk.
direction, a liue of high ground marked the
horizon. This denotes a ridge of upland that
uii iiiani.1 ami ieii mnea east ot the rocky
isiujuii ..nn,n as me urantl U. ulee, sup.
posed to be the aucieut bed of the Cdumbia
river, which is said to bo a walled valley one
half mile to two miles wide. So far as ap.
Cearauces indie ited, and according to the
est information I could find, all the country
west of tho butto we stood upon, occupying
tho interval of thirty miles to the Great
Coulee, is a section nt arable land that will
support a largo population.
A e.ening came ou we turned south and
luiiuneu.. wsgou track that led down Sink
ing Creek, or Wilson's Creek, tlm .-h..,f ...,.
ern branch of Crab Creek, which .. it. ..
indicates, sinks occasionally and puts in its
apiearance again below. We came in live
nines u. uie siock rtvucli of Win. Howard,
and later to tho place of another stock man,
with half breed wife aud children. Ho was
mi the lee side of a chip tire, sitting down in
the smoke to get rid of the attentions of the
myriad of nioseinitoes. According to Arm
stiong wc bad nached tho ultimate. We
!i ll" Vi, iV'ku aoro" 'oiithivsterly to the
White l-lutrroad, m-e-allcel Ucaue eart
ago it was traveled by inkers on their way
!v, - .V,1"1,' ,bo cut UP tuo Columbia to
bite lllutls, and,theu weut overland via the i
Hid not expect to find the country eoual to
our account of it, because it is seldom the
case that any country equals the accounts
published ot it) but all, the statements made
in the Willamette Farmer had proved to
be substantially correct. This is what wc
intend to always do. Simply tell the truth
about the great Pacific Northwest, and with
SIK-li eood poit.ts in abundance to tell ot
theie is no occasion for over statement.
TUTTS
PILLS
INDOPSED BY
PHYSICIANS, CLERGYMEN, AND
THE AFFLICTED EVERYWHERE.
THE GREATEST MEDICAL
TRIUWPH OF THE AGE.
SYMPTOMS OF A
TORPID LIVER.
jjoss of appetite.M'ausoa.bowels costive,
fain In theH.erid.with. a dull sensation in
olination to exertion of body or mind.
Irritability of temper, Low spirits. Lotuj
of memory, with a feeling of haying neg;-ldsomejlutywejsj-inesSjUtaatawI
Fluttering of trIeHwCInatiiDVfori) the
yes. Yellow Bkln. Heidaohe, Meatleisw
ness at night, highly colored Urine.
IFTEISEWABiriHOSAIlSUirEEESED.
SERIOUS DISEASES WILL SOON BE DEVELOPED.
TUTTS PI118 are especially adapted to
such cases.one dose effects sucha cbanre
of feeling as to astonish the sufferer.
body to Take ess riessh. Urns the system is
Bonriahed.and by thetrToale Aetloaon the
tsUi; Organs, Regular Steal, are pro.
clued. Price .3 cent. S3 -Hurray at H.T
TUTT'S HAIR DYE.
Oiuy mm or WnisKiiu ensured to O lossy
IIuck by a single application of this Dye. It
Imparts h natural color, acts Instantaneously.
Pold by Druggists, or tent bj es;reu on rertipt offl.
Office, 30 Murray St.. New York.
M Ur. 1ITTH MASCSL r T.luhl. lB.n.tlM MS
... -until wu " iBiir-1 ISIS .p
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iiririip
STOCK MEN,
ATTENTlOtN !
Make Money Yourselves.
Ana benefit our nelshborsas srel , by issulni
rosters sotting fortb the .merits or jour fine .-tal
lions. These may be bad by tending to
lines The Printer,
5 Washington Street. Portland, Oregon. He does
All Sorts
Of IMnt inn- ILw.tr Mr .1. r.- - ...1 .L...U .
anything in his line, frotnacardwlthaiingleirord
IS - ma.in.mjta rotter, you cannot do better than
to call upon or send to him. D
LKOAI, IILAXKS for sale.
S. O. WOOD.
Engineer and Architect,
151 Vlrnt Street: I'on'stid, Orcfcn
1)Ul.VS AMI SriX-IFICATIONSMADE KOn All
kind, of in.troetlou, j"-"f
S3
HA.M VKITA. M9RV1.VR
t'm ' niv little Rlrl of ill. Mm a ,u-. deaf and
tii.ini i in ti oiriitl lir Mi. no n-nv i.ilk ,-nl hoar a.
mli in luijiicxiy. I'KrKK Uii'.s. surip ramcr. Wis.
H.VtlAtllTAA A'KKVir.'I.
II i Iw n tho mi aus pf rm lue, my u ire uf i licumatlsm
J. II Ileiciiki:. lull cuius. Col.
s.vMAitrr.i.x xnnvi.vu
Mad.isiilecurcor.i iavif nu forin son
E fl. Itei.i.s lliitmuile, Kan.
SAMARITAN irailVIr
Cur. il ii, uf ieitiB ninrilKli Misiekluadache.
Mil-s. 1i, HtMiuv, Aurora, I1L
OAMAUITAN NKKVI.VE
Wa. Hip meuniuf curlni; my wife uf apasms.
Iln. J. A. Kiiib Il.'iiver Pa.
S.VM.1UITAV NERVINE
e'liml in- ofnsthini arn r spendlnjt ovor 3 000 with
i li.rilu.-loi,. s. It Housov, Sew AluaayTlnd.
HAXfAUITAN NERVINE
niTTlmli i tired mis of .ni.ms.
. ... .Miss .Jr.NNit: Wakbi.
710 Witl Van Huron, St. Chicago, IU.
SAMARITAN NERVINE
Otrnl our child of His afur Blien up to die by onr
tamiiy nhyslrlan It havln,- irnr n In SI hours.
IIenkv Ki. Vcrillla. Warren Co., Tenn.
8AMAKITAN NERVINE
Cured me of scrofula after surrcrtna for eight years.
Albeit 8iursoN, Peorls, III.
AMARITAN NERVINE
S,Tn.l.")r,ono"",'l'J!,,tSj; nnll S440U with other
uottori. j, w. Tiiocsios. c'laluom. Miss.
AMARITAN NERVINE
CimMmcrwrraanemly of epileptic nt. of a stubborn
tluracisr. liar. Wa. Mastik. MechanlcstowoTMd.
NAMAR1TAN NERVINE
m'Sti,." ""Ii"' "' ir" r '"Xi!1 '"'' 2. W) In eighteen
moatlii. Mm. & Fotms, Westl'otsdam, N. Y.
S.tJl.lRITA EHVlVf
Cured in of epilepsy of nine years" standing.
Miss Orifva Marshall.
Granuy, Newion Co . Mo,
SAMARITAN NERVINE
lljsp-nnancmly cured mo of epilepsy of many rear,
iliim-lon Jacod boTia. if. JosepalJS?
SAMARITAN NERVINE
Cun-I m-of lironeliltl.. i.lhnu nnd pcn-riil debllltr
iM7sn.Mrr.iis. lrunton, Ohio.
SAMARITAN NERVINE
i ,'S Vi'i'.V1 "" 0( ""'mi. a j srufu! i of many years.
" Jn.lln.5 ISAAf Jeitkli. l orlngton. y"
,, S.lM.HtlTVi CVINE
"1 :,X'."J '.' "'" ' '" ' ,'--'' for out four years.
in tsi-si piKn. ii 1.IM .uclass Co..fntL
NAMARITAN NERVINE
Cured a fl I, nd of inliw who Ind Uyipepila . ery bsdly.
Mlrinm.o Connor. Kldgwsy, Pa.
8AM I it IT NERVINE
llMprrasnenilrrnr Imi nf epileptic hi.
Iii'1as)ijLr. UisMalsea, Iowa.
SAMARITAN NERVINE
Cundiuj if, nfrplinsyofTe-.r.Vamling
Hkvbi Clark FalradX Mich.
.. . SAMARITAN NERVINE
turd my if . u( , , , Mvjitf isfa
K. lIUAii.iii. Korih Hope, Pa.
,. .. "AMARITAN NERVINE
ureU ni ion of a-., lie Iij. not iVd . n. ,,. .k.,.,.
, !"i Ivis. "
SAMARITAN NEJtVINE
WI'OKSttR
BY ALT-. 13RUGG-ISTS
DR. S. A. RICHMOND A CO.,
WuilV. Epileptic Imtiinte.
,, , , 8T. JOSEPH, MO.
ror sale by HODGE, DAVIS & CO.. Port
Uregon. land,
four )tars
TURWIP SEED !
r--tvAid. inic.
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Otlf. i
Brrdsu
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iXlMsj.. cmitooin rrntfinl. boldererTwVre.ore-cj
-Ufrr -M letter stanirn. I.S. JCUt-NSO.V AUU.
" .lljt.i im 'yii nivt sir
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