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Newspaper Page TextORIGINAL DEFECTIVE I - -C A 15 CENTS A WEEK. AliBAJSTY, OREGON, SUNDAY JANUARY 19t 189o7 VOL. V. NO, 46 - v"v. V n J 11 mm Absolutely Pure. This powaer never varies. A marvel ol puriiy,strcnctli and vholesomeness. More economical than the ordinary kinds, and cannot be sold iu competf. lion with multitude of low test, short weight alum or phosphate powders Sold only in e ms. Koyal BakuT ow der Co.! IOC Wall St.. N. T. Lewis M. JonxsoxVt Co., Agents, Portland, Oregon, i'uysixian TITH. DAVIS, SI. D. PHYSICIAN AND IT suieon. Can be found at his Toffies room ic Strahan's block, First street. Albany Oregon- W. MASTON. PHYSICIAN MifrlR , geon, Albany .Oregon. m II . ELLIS, PHYSICIAN AND SUItr . geon, Albai.y Oregon. CC. KELLY, PHYSICIAN AXD oUR . aeon Albany, Oregon. office in iPiercc's new block. Office.hours, from 8 A. M. to 4 r. m. J. KOSS1TER. VETERINARY SUR. J. Kcon, graduate of Ontario veterinary college andmcmber of the Ontario veterin ary medical society, is prepared to treat the diseases of all domesticated animals on scientific principles. Office at Ans Marshall's livery stable. Residence 4th and t'alapcofa streets, Aioany, Oregon. TK. I. W. STARK. PHYSICIAN AND J Surgeon, late of Hrou nsvilie. Or. OtF.cc in the Strahan-Fcarre block upstairs in the rear rooms on the main hall. Cai's promptly Mteoucd to in city or country. DR. R KOLDEWAY, VETERINARY SUR gcon, Albany, Oregon Graduate of (!J man and Americim colleges. DK.M. J. PA ' TON. PHYSICIAN AND Surgeon, Blumbcrg's lilock, Albany, Or. Female diseases a specialty. Ca-i be found in the office dav or night. ATTORNEYS. JN. DUNCAN ATTORNEY- VT LAW . and notary public. Ofice in tiie Strahan block, rooms No. I and 2. 1 . X. BLACKBIT.X. O. W. WRIGHT, BLACKBURN, & WRIGHT ATTORXK V AT Law, Albany, Oregon. Office in Odd bellow' Temple. Vill petu in oil courts nf h- ,' and give special attention to all business. WOLVERTON CHARLES E. ATTORNEY at Law, Albany, Or. Office in rooms 13 and 14, Foster's Block, over L. E. Wain's stor i TK. WEATHOKKOKD, ATTORNEY AT . law, Albany, Oregon. Office in Odd Fellow's Templo. Will pract in all the courts of thestate, and give special attention to all business. JAV.ES P. MEAD, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW and title examiner, Albany, Or. Will practice in all the courts of the state. Ab "tracts of title furnished on thort notice. Ten years experience. Land Surveying. PARTIES DRSIRIHO 8CRVSY1KS BOSS CA!f OB tain accurate and prompt work by calline upon ex-county surveyor F. T. T. Fisher. He has complete copies of field notes and town ship plats, and is prepare 1 to do surveying in any part of Linn connty. Postoffice address, Miners station, Linn cou uy, Oregon. TRJG. A. WniTNEY, PHYSICIAN AND U surgeon. Graduate of Bellevue Horpi tal Medical College. New York City. D if eases nf women a spe-ialty. Office iu Fromaa's brick, Albany Orevou. Delmonico Restaurant, OMR JllT A1 ELLSWORTH STS. The undt rsigned having purchast'd the old Herman Restaurant stand has opened under the above name a first' class restanraat. We art prepared to famish meals for-parties 6rdances oh short notice; Oysters served, in every; style, eastern or coast; all kinds of fish known in the market! ; Employ only first-class help and WBitingwiil will be prompt and courteous. Reg. nlar meals 25 ct. Coffee of ' first clas quality and a cop of" coffee aid cake at from 5 to 10 ctt'l am well known in) this city and request the citizens to give trie a call. SAM GOETS, Proprietor. ': . 0IMO5 RLKCTIIIC RBL1BP IS TBB MOST BT.. gant modicine in the world lor interna and external use. and for pain oi any nature. Yon will never find its equal. Ask, your druggist for it. Contractor and Builder fHE CNDERSIONED.UA VING LOCATED J. in Albany solicits patronage from city and country. Will contract to build bridges barns, and all manner of dwelling houses, including Queen Anne, Eastlake and Eliza be thian st vies of buildings. Will furnish plans and sptcificatins tree of charges. Satis faction guaranteed W. C. CASSEL. Piano Tailing. PARTIES DESIRING PIANOS TUNED should call upon Prof. D, Van Horn nf this city, the well known and reliable piano tuner He is we'I known to the people of Albany and the entire State, having had years of experience in this business, also in a pianoforte manufactory, and has no equal in that line of business, It always pajs to patronize home enterprise and 'the public should remember that they ran now get pianos tuned in a more skillful manner in Albany than elsewhere in the State, Leave orders at Will & Link's WANTED MAN OK GOOD SELLING ability to represent us as sales agent in this town, t200 to $20C0 per year ran be made) Address, Wanamaker Si Brown, Philadelphia, Pa - The largest clothing and merchant tailor ing house in America. INE CIGARS IMPORTED, hEV WEST and Domes!-, embracing the celebrated Flor de Madrid. Kstrtllas. Onmierors anil otherchol e lirnds in the WVII, Kar am! Western Union Telegraph o.'i'oe l):i:M:rc. fitfheniember the place. STORM AT SE A . tough Passage Experienced by the Queen of the Pacific. CALH'OKMA ROTEL BIKXKD. Jjck Pecips y Is. Toj Sick to Train-A Big San Francisco Loans Association Goes to Pieces. The Hkrald's Special Disoatcticg. I San Francisco, Jan. IS. rough passage was experienced by the steamer Queen ot the Pacific which Arrived yesterday seventy hours from Victoria. A strong northwest gale, shifting occasional ly to the southward, blew contin ually, causim? the hir iiin -,01 in a manner which was nauseating tome passengers. .Large quanti ties of water was shinnpil. Thn were fifty-thiee cabin and fiftv-two steerage passengers. A BIG SWINDLE. A San Francisco Loan Association Goes te Pieces. San Francisco. Jan. 18. Tho North American ) oan Association, 'ncorporated under the laws of the 8T te oi camornia, capital stock $10,000,000, home office rooms 48 nd 49 Flood building, San Fran cisco. California, is no more. The officers of the association are, or were, h. P. ioble, president; E. P. Schneider, treasurer: J. A. Thomas, secretary. The object of the at ociation, as set forth in the circulars, was the leaning of money in most any sum desired. Each applicant was to send $3 as an initiation fee and an additional $ 1 for each hundred desired, stating how much he was willing to pay. Several Pacific coast people, among them Benjamin Panics, of Portland, record the loss of money through the association. None of its officers can be found. HOTEL lilli.NKI). A California Town Loses its Hotel -i.oss $ro,oon. Sax Dnriio, (Cal.), Jan. is. 1 he hotvl t'asa del Mar. at Mchnnr, 1'0 mi! : north of here on the oast, and owned by Colonel J. S.Taylor, was burned to the ground yester day morning. The lire, it is suj I 'red, originated in the kitchen. The ou'y furniture saved was a few bedroom , sets on the first floor. Tbolo-s placed at $50,000,insurtd for $25,100. It is stated that the hotel will be rebuilt at once. JACK DEBIPSEY. He Denies Himself to All Callers and Is too Sick to Fight. Sax Francisco, Jan. IS. Jack Dempsey, through his trainer, de nied himself to callers generally, and :s therefore partly responsible tor what proves to be erroneous news about his health. He says the fact is he has been suffering from a seveie cold which settled on his lungs and completely stopped his training, Dut under the care of competent physicians is now con valescent and expects to be all right next week and able to re sume work. Drag Store Bnrned. Mkrced. Cal., Jan. 18. Yester day morning fire was discovered in the drug store of Ceort:e Knox, m the Olcese and Garibaldi building. It is thought to have been caused from siiontaneous combustion. The fumes arising from the Duildinir ana arugs overcame several per votie', t'-ough' no lives were lost. The- flames', spread to adjoining frkbrcsv which wprp rnnaidornhlv tftfmaged'. The tola) loss will prob ably ; reach f 13,000,'. which is most Jteljrjcovered by insurance. A; forger Arrested. San Francisco.: Jan.: 18. An- .lrew "White, a former eecretarv and : treasurer ; of : the Gold and Stock Tlepifoh Corttfteny; was ar tiMtrail thai YHite rrii2irf&-it number of Pftt y ; ior&tidt v connected .wlW;.f-'cduan.-arjliounting to fouv. Notable Dead San Francisco, Jan. 18. A dis patch from Sonoma states that Genera M. O-Valleji died at hia home' there . early , this morning. The funeral wiH be held next Tuesday,- ' Jadge Sawyer Not Eager to Retire. San Francisco, Jan. 17. Speaking of his retirement from the bench, United States Circuit Judge Sawyer said: My nltimate intention is to take a much-needed rest fmm the cares of judiciat life, but when I shall resign I have not the slightest idea at present. I think that the legislation of the present congress may have a great influence in the matter of retire ing, but, howevt . beyond the fact that I am not an uous, there is noth ing definite, and as swn as there is I will be pleased to let the public know. Millionaire Medicine Man Dead. Rocihster, N. Y., Jan 17. Asa T. Soule died thi3 evening, aged 65 He was president of a patent medi cine nncern. Soule had large interest i;i Western K-itis-i. lb- was the foundei of Soule college, at Dodge City, ar.d owner and president of the First National bank. He aleo owned restee yeweraay on a- cnarge oi forgerTVpTfcfBrred by'jth' president Of . tne 'CBlftDanw. Tt more than half of the town of Ingalls, which became the county seat of Gray county, after a violent struggle with residents of Cimarron. Soule was worth $2,000,000. COTTES DfG HI' THE BODY. A l'retty Wyoming Girl Murdered by a Rancher. L'kxvkr, Jan. 17. A Chcyenue special to the News says: In August last Edna Wilson, a pretty girl of IS, living in the Big Horn basin, left her mother's home on horseback to visit a neighbor. Her way was across a ford of the Big horn river. She failed to reach her destination, and it was be lieved that she had been swept away by the rapid current of the river and drowned. Although the river was searched for miles below, the body coum noc oc iuund. About a week after Edna's disap pearance, J. McCoomb, a prominent young stockman ef the basin, left the region. As he was the cirl's suitor and was paying her attention against her mother's wishes, it was current gossip thrt Edna had ridden to tome rendezvous, where McCoomb had joined her and the couple had eloped. McCoomb, however, returned and denied the elopement story. He sold out his ranch and left the country fer good. On Monday last D. L. Enos. the purchaser of the McCoomb ranch, dis covered the body of the eirl buried in the earthen floor of a deserted hunter's cabin in an unfrequented part of the ranch. Coyotes had partially exhumed the body and stripped the flesh from the bonet. The identification was complete, however, by the clothing ana Dy two coia rings with the mi tials tt. ihe head showed the marks of a bullet-hole. McCoomb is believed to have been the murderer. and the people of the basin have raised money to employ detectives to run uim down, OL'K RELATIONS WITH CANADA Prime Minister Macdanald not In clined to be a Good Neighbor. Ottawa, Jan. 17. During a par liamsntary debate this afternoon on the address in reply to the speech from the throne, Pope, member for Compton, denounced those who tavored aunexation with the Lmtea States and referred to the Atlantic ami Bchring sea questions at great length. Lauiler, leader of the opposition, criticized the policy ot the govern ment in regard to the settlement of internatinnnl disputes and came out strongly in favor of closer trade rela tions with the United States. Sir John A. Macdonald, in reply sam the disputes would' soon he set tied on a basis consistent with na tional tlicnity. Sir John said protec tiou was destined to be the policy of Canada lor many years to come. St'LLIVAN CHALLENGED He Offers Roles that John L. Will Reject A Stake and I'arse. New York, Jan. 17. Frank Sla vin cables from London to the Police Gazette, challenging Sullivan to fight tor I'J.oOU a side, London prize ring rules, in America or Europe, or fight with small gloves, Police Gazette rales, for SoOOO a side at the Call forria Athletic club, provided the club adds a $15,U00 purse to the stake. AN IMPORTANT BILL. Oflnterest to Owners of Govern ment Land In the Nortwhest. Washington, Jan. 18. Senator Pettig.ew will introduce a bill on Monday, providing that in all land cases which bad been proved up prior ta January 1, 1890, and where innocent parties have obtained an interest by purchase or otherwise; patents shall be issued. The Mills' intended to cleirttp.'aiargeumbfr of cases all through the Northw wnicn nave oeen uung up ror years r.nd where it is almost an impossi bility for the present bolder Jj$ make proof that the law has beett ,1 cempiiea.wiiD. .? -. ... . v WILL' SOON ISSUE. Proclamation of Amnesty to Mea Who Have Deserted. Washihgton, Jan. 16. Secretarf Prne.tor is tn-dav nrenarinir r nrnfita;' mation fer the president to ;ssue eir ing amnesty to over ; 30,000 men who have deserted tlu army since the last amnesty. ; A BOT SHOULD LEARN . Reidsville, (N. C.) Times. To build a fence scientifically. To fill the wood-box every night. To shut the1 door in summer, to keep the fiies out. lo shut the doors without slam ming. To shut them in winter, to keen the cold out. To do errands nromritlv and cheer. fully. ' To get ready to go away without the united efforts of mothers and sis ters. " To be gentle to his little sisters. To wash dishes and make his bed. when necessary. To sew on a button and darn a stocking. To be kind to all animals. To have a dour if possible and make a companion of him. To ride, row, shoot and swim. To be manly and courageous. To let cigarettes alone. Edis.'H, the wizard of electricitv. now declines to see visitors at his Meulo Park laboratorv. He is a vpih busy mau, and he cannot understand why bis valuable, golden time should l 'I- IA , , . ue sacrniceu to ueouie who s:mriiv call to "pay their respects." WASHINGTON NEWS The Funeral of the Late Walker Blaine. Til K DAY IN CONGRESS. St. Loais Wo:kirg Bard for ths Worlds Tiir in 1392 The Okhhoua Townd""", Site Bill. Special to the Herald. , Washington. Jan. IS. The funeral of Waluer Claine took place this morning, A large num ber of friends of the family, mem bers of lii diplomatic corps and people i.-i official life attended the funeral. A 'private funeral cere mony was held at the home of Secretary Blaine on LaFayette Square af 19:30 'a. m. President and Mrs. Harrison, all the mem bers of the cabinet, K. W. Hal ford, several members of the diplo matic ccrps and some intimate friends of the family attended the services, which were conducted by Kev. Dr. Hamlin, pastor of the Church of Covenant. At the con clusion of the private ceremonies the remains were taken to the Church of Covenant, followed by the family and friends in carriages. The attendance at the church was very large, many persons beine nrir able to get in on account of the large crowd. Ihe house of representatives did not meet until 1 o'clock, in order to allow the members to attend the funeral, and the .department of justice, witD whom, the deceased was officially connected, was closed during the time of the funeral. While tie department of state was not fomally closed the officers and employes who desired to attend the funeral weie permit ted to do so. THE DAY IN CONGRESS. Washington, Jan. 18. A special meeting of the senate committee on railroads was held this morn ing to listen to en argument by Collis P. Huntington on the rail road funding bill. The members of the committee were anxious to attend the fiineral of Walker Blaine, and the hearing was post poned to next week. ( IN THE llOl'SK. tITI . 1 V v nen me nouse met at one o'clock to-day Mr. Frank, of Mis souri, introduced a bill to -elebrato tha world's fair at St. Louis, and provide for the creating of a cor poration to carry on the sam e. It was referred to a special committee Ex-Governor Foraker resumed the statement before' the house committee in the ballot box for gery to-day. Mr. Kinzey. of Missouri, intto' duced a bill in relation to the nat ural isolation of alies; referred. The house theft went into a com mittee of the whole, with Mr. Burrows, of Michigan, in the chair, on tiie Oklahoma town site bill. IN THE AFRICAN WILDS. A White Woman Alone on the Dark Continent. In this nlace. writes a correa- Eondentef the New York Sua from ainby, in tbe French Consro. one of the most nncivilized narts of West Africa, an American ladV is living without white cemDanions. instructing tbe natives and cheer fully performing all the duties that devolve upon her as. a missionary. She is Miss Martha Kah of Chev- eniwounty.Jlfab. and sho is tbe V VHXtlUQIDU- tie-wit,' w&n it eventa her 'of all her comrades. - She so periri teaded : the ' house keepinc while the others wern with her, and now She is obliged, in ad- uinuu, kw accp iue ecnooi going ana direct tbe labors on the pianiatioa. She teaches school five days every week, if not prevented by sickness. me plantation was opened by Mr. Sortore,and on it is raised consider able manioc,bananas and cocoa. It is necessary to keep up the plantation, for Hiss Eab, m addition to her missionary work, must support her self, the theory of the Taylor mis sions beiog that tbe missionaries shall support,, themselves. It is marvelous how economically Miss Kah and her recent comrades lived in this savage part ot the world; and yet they have always been pre pared to entenain hospitably, any traveler wbo corses here. .. Many of the missionaries in West ern Africa live in nicely furnished houses brcught from Europe or America, and a pood deal of their food is specially prepared in Lon uon or raris lar use. la tropical countries. But the Taylor mis biouariea have to build their own houses, except that t tie iron used in them is imported. This house, ex cept its corn-gate; iron shies, waa ui.ulu l.-om nintuthits ptoauced ia j H bili IrfrW-rKali WWnWl .V the country, and by unskilled native workmen. It is difficult to con ceive how much patience and perse verance are required to build a house under such conditions. This building was erected under the direction ef Mr Sortore, with few extra wrrkmen besides those regu larly employed on the plantation. This is a faithful representative of the home of this brave white woman, who, under tbe most try ing circumstances, has been ieft wholly alone in the work she came out to Africa to do. TEMPEBAHCE NOTES. Contributed by the W. C T. U. The star in the east has appeared as the official organ of the Mine XV. C. T.U. In the new state of Washington the license ranges from $350 to $1000 a ve.ir. and vet tVi aalnnn ia tlin mnet j , j . - - - insolent institution in the land. The Cherokee maidens of Tahlequah Indian territory, are reported as tak ing an active and successful interest in the temperance deinorest medal contests. L. P. Hubbard a reformed smoker of Greenwich, Conn., sums up his testimony on the subject of tobacco as follows: "My smbking was moder ate compared with that of many, only six cigars a day at 61 cents each, equal to $136.50 per annum, which at 7 per cent interest' for fifty-seven years, amrhounts to the small fortune of $90,204.50. This has afforded means for the education of my children with an appropriate allowance for benevo lent objects. Great as this saving has been, it is not to bo compared with improved health, a clear head and steady hand, at the age of over eighty oue years, and entire freedom from desire for tobacco in any form." We do not make enough of the im portance of showing the brain deterioration that comes with the use of alcoholic drinks. We do not often put tne fact of American superiority in the line of the invention and use of labor-saving machinery with the large fact of the prevalence of total abstinerce in America. We should find rich material if we search for the rapidly increasing number of railroads that demand total absti icnce in their employes for the sake of a level head, of business firms that require it for the sake of better work, of its abso lute inditpcnsability in the handling of all electric apparatus, and so ou of many other pursuits. In the line cf inventive power, while we may make much of the ex ample of such notable inventors as Franklin, Steti:ton and Goodyear, we might profitably enlarge upon the fact that the bright educated young workmen of the present day, if they keep their heads free from the stupe fying effects of beer, aud with all the stimulus of invention around them aud in their hands, will probably de velop new inventions in geometrical proportions. Miss J aba Colman. The liquor men of Howard countv. Missouri, appear to have particular reason for disliking the W. C. T. U. The high license law of the state re quires that petitions for dram-shops De signed oy a majority ot the resi dent tax-paying citizens of the town or block. Ihe W. U. T. U. of Glas gow made a test of the word citizen before the supreme oourt of the state. the liquor men violently contending that women, were not citizens before the law and could not be counted even through tax-payers. The supreme oe art however decided that the women are citizens, and as a result the saloons of Howard county have taken their departure even without an election, there being enough tax paying women citizens to " turn the majority scale against them by simple petition. POPULATION OF HADES. A Mathematical Computation of the Nomber of Lost Sonls. Ne York Sun. In rouud numbers the earth baa a population of 1,300,000,690 of wham Raanoorinn nrnfiuun Christians, tbx other ;l,00$,0,eQQ being Mohammedans, Buddhists, Jews, pagans, and heatheB. The wnoie race, was condemned to eter nal punishment for the sin of Adam. This was the fall ot man. from which there was and is no redemp tion save through tbe death of Christ. Biblical chronolorrv o-ivea the earth a period f.nbont 6000 jearp. . .'From . Adam's ' time ta vuiiok mmm uy years, uuTlDg WDlCn period no human' souls were saved, Tbe population may then have aver aged 1,000,000,000. Three gener ations, or 3,000,000,000 men pass away in eacn century. Forty cen turies, therefore, consigned 120 000,000,000 men to eternal fire, and. fox all, we know, they. are. there now! In the 1800 - Team . 'hirh have elapsed since the birth of ennst o,uuu,uuo,0000 more of human bciogs have lived and died. If all tbe Christians, nominal and real, who have evtr lived on tbe face of the earth have been saved, they would net number more than 18,000,000,000. Now if we deduct this latter number from the grand total of 177,000,000,000, we find 129,000,000,000 of souls wbo are suffering the torments of hell fire, cs agaiDst 18,000,000,000 who have escaped. But this is not tbe whole truth. Nobody believes that more than 10 per cent' of tbe ! professed Christians are saved. Ca!vinists themselves 6ay that the elect are few. If this is a fact heaven con tains but 1,800.000,000, against n popuV.tbn in hell of 17.100(Uioo. EAST OF THE ROCKIES A Ball of Red Hot Iron Ex plodes in a Foundry. A 15,000 FIRE IN CHICAGO. Trial of the!Port!and Mnrdefer, Sandy Oldsi Set fjr Febiaary 12 Sews from the Old World. Special to the Hkralb.j Newcastle, Pa., Jan. 18. An explosion occurred at the Aetna Rolling Mill last night, in which three men were terribly burned. One of the buggies containing a ball of red hot iron upset in,a pud dle of water. The moment it touched the water an explosion oc curred, throwing huge chunks oi iron about the mill, and burning Gerald Cox severely about the waist, cheek and neck. William Duyer and Richard Meltonbaugh were also seriously burned about the waist, face and hands. . Cox will probably die, but the other two will recover. Fire In Chicago.' Chicago. Jan. 18. A fire hrnko out at 3 o'clock this morning in a inree-story oncic structure on Ninety-Second street, and spread to the adjoining buildings. The families living in the upper stories narrovly escaped with their lives. One building was totally destroyed and several others damaged. The total loss is $15,000; insurance very little. Sandy Olds' Trial. Portland, Jan. 18. Sandy Olds' trial has been set for Feb. 12. ODD AND INTERESTING. Boston has two negro councilmen The general depth of the Suez canal is twenty-six lect. Of China's 300,000,000 people, one- tentli are agriculturists. At St: Louis the Mississippi is 3500 C . t- '. .2 i X7. "t - - I. . icci. nit, aii new uneaui it is ZOVJ feet wide. There are 90,119 paupers, exclusive of vagrants and lunatics, in Loudou at the present time. It is estimated that $300,000,000 worth of jewels are buried in the royal vaults ot Constantinople. A thief stole a pair of sho-s from a Portland policeman the other night. l ne guaraian oi tne nigut was sound asitep. The llartfort Post savs its tvr j j in setting machine does more work than r j i . . luur incu aim gives uener service, The whole paper is set by these ma chines. Tomatoes were only raised for orna ment bfty years ago, anu were called love apples, and not thought fit to eat. Last year about 72.000,000 cans were put up. It is said in Washington that Sec rotary Blaine spends an hour or two a day in literary work. He is encaged upon some historical treatise the sub ject of which is not known. Mr, Blaine has been much pleased at the success of his book, "Twenty Years of Congress," and longs for further literary laurels. During the recent floods in Japan 2419 persons were killed and 155 were wounded; 90,000 were deprived of the necessaries of life; 50,000 houses were swept away or readered uninhabita ble, 150,000 acres of agricultural land with their crops were laid waste; 6000 bridges were carried away, and hundreds of ' miles of .roads were destroyed. The wife of Private Secretary Hal- ford is lying danrerously ill with eon sumption in WMhiagton.' She has, made a long fight against the disease' and has spent a great deal ef time oi late years ia Florida. She was too weak (his season to go South and hef physicians giye'lUtJe hope of her ever being atrpnger.' TREED BX 8NOW. A Colorado Miner's Unlove Bxper- lenee Above Minnesota Gulch,. Silverton(Col.)Minen. -. Many of onr readers have doubtless read of hunters being treed by bear and ether wild Animals, bnt it re- niainea ior a aaa ,i uan .miner to be driven te a tree for refuge while the sneV wi& sliding for hundreds of yards all around him. ihe hero of this incident, was Patsy Gillan, who has recently' thrown up a hard con tract on the Bed Lion mine. Last week he secured a contract to work the assessment on a claim just above Minnesota gulcn, on .Cement creek. Any one who is acquainted with that section k nows '.. that the lay of the groaad there can be viewed in winter with anything but complacency. The hillside is not very steep, but just steep onough to hold , all the snow that falls without allowing it to slide. unless assisted by a jar; then it com with an emphasis that means business, and the entire hillside appears to be moving to a lower altitude. The tim ber is limited to only a few of the moat substantial spruce, that have lived long enough to get nsed to the ctutoms of the country and strong enough to hold their own in case of acsidents. The open cut that was to be "as sessed" is situated in the midst of an open space, and when a blast was fired, Patsy had to run and hide be hind a tree. One of the men who did the work last year, who was rather slow in his habits, was on one occasion helped into his position by a flat piece of s ock, w 'z: h r.tr.u:k him in the beefy porticn of his anatomy and lifted him about ten feet Last Mondty Patsy pui in a luting hole about nve feet deep and primed it with fonr sticks of Jo. 1 giant. After spitting the fuse -he made a bee-line for the big tree, when he suddenly thought of tiie scow. It was five feet all around, and when the explosion should occur nothing could stop it from slipping. He had no time to run, and there was no way left to get out of it but by climbing, and climb he did. Patsy climbed for dear life, And just get one foot on the lower branch when off went the blast. In a moment the air was filled with flying rock and snow, followed by a loud crack, then the rumbling sound of moving snow, ac companied by the muffled crack of timbers as they were crushed into kindlind sticks. Patsv thoucht his time had come; the crushing force of the thousands of tons of snow was be hind the big tree he was in and it seemed that nothing short of a miracle could save it from being torn from its roots. All the sins of his lifetime passed before his eyes in panoramic view and he felt that he could almost forgive the vandal who robbed his cabin last week. But the alarm proved needless, the snow swept by and as Patsy came down from the tree he made a solemn vow that never 'gain would be take such a chance without first insuring his life in an old line company. GENERAL SICKLES' HORSE. A Fine Animal Taken as a Fee for Legal Services. Wherever I see General Dan Sickles bowling, over the cobble stones in a cab drawn by a very handsome bay horse, in which he always rides dowi to bis office, says a New York Star writer, I wonder how many people know where the gallant General got that cab and horse. The general answer to the question would be, I suppose that he bought it. He did not do anything of the kind, xle received it as a fee for legal ser vices. Not very many years ago General Sickles acted as the legal adviser of a very pretty young wo-, man who was engaged to be mar ried to a youcg man of a very wenltuy and aristocratic family. The young man's relatives opposed the match . The cab and horse were a present from the young mrn to his financee," and cost $1200. The ycung man was worth a million and a half in his own right, but his uuclc, a wealthy banker, per suaded him to make hirn trustee of his estate, only reserving to him self tbe icccme. An action was brought iu the. Supreme Court ' to set aside the trust, and for a time a very sensati.inai story promised to become public property. The suit was compromised, however, and the story never got into tbe news papers. As seen as thecompromise was effected the uncle shipped the young man off to Australia in charge of a private detective. The young woman traveled all over Europe in search of him. In Paris she was seized with brain fever, and when she recovered she gave up the search and came home. General Sickles acted as her legal advi-er in certain matters growing out of her troubles afterward, and she gav. him the cab and horse as a tee. SOME ORIGINS. Cottage Ilcarih. Envelopes were hrst used in 1839. The first air pump was made in 1650. The first steel pen was made in 183a The first lucifer match was made in 1829. The first iron steamship was built in 1830. Ship were first "copper-bottomed" in 1783. The first horse railroad was built in 1826-27. The first steamboat plied the Hud son in 1807. - The first watches were made in Nuremberg in 1847- . ; . , Xne nrst newspaper advertisement appeared . in " 1652. Xne nrst use of a locomotive in this country was 1819; Better Than Ever. I am now better prepared than I have ever been to suit iny custo mers in the shoe line. 1 Lave just received a large invoice of tha cel ebrated Laird, Schober & Mitchell fine shoes for ladies. There is no manufacturer who claims anything better than these shoes. . I intend to keep a full assortment of them in all prices, widths from A EE, .-nd can suit the most fastidious in it . and Drice. I also. rvnvrl another invoice of. the' popular ahno tv T P'uwt'a :n n.n.,l.ni . snd patent leather tin: - Thaaa shoes are well known in Albany as & . urBt-ciaBa . nice styie shoe. , Or ders from the country filled 'with, care and satisfaction guaranteed. Samuel E. Young. Dr. Patton now has his office fully arranged to suit every con venience and is prepared to ' treat all who may apply. Ladies suffer ing from those ills peculiar to their sex can be assured of speedy relief, as the doctor has made female diseases his special etudy. He holds two diplomas and is a mem ber of the Oregon State Medical Society. He prepares his own medicines and everything is confi dential. Consultation is free and a visit to his office costs you noth ing. Ofiice in Elumlierg's block. Deserving poor treated free.