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OFFICIAL IMKECTORY.
District OBIera.
Jndge Fifth District P. . Taylor
Pronecutinst Attorney. . . . T. A. MeBride
Deputy for Washington Co .W. N. Barrett
Leslelntlve Officers.
State Senator . . . W. D. Hare.
I D Gnbaer,
-D. Smith,
) Thos. Faalaen.
Representativea
C'SMattjr OMeer
Jadge
Treanurer
Clerk
Commieaionera
Sheriff
Surveyor ...
Aeaeatior ...
Hchool Saperinteudent. .
Coroner . .
. R. Crandall
....J,S. Waggener
J. W. Morgan
) T. O. Todd
i Chaa. Hickethier
B. P. Cornelias
L.C. Walker
T. J. Wilson
. T. T. Vineent
C. W.Raunom
T' OMeen.
F. A. Bailey
8. T. Linklater
S. B. Unaton
G. T. Led ford
K. Crandall
Trnatees
Treaanrer.
Recorder. .
Marshal...
Geo. W. Patterson
W. N. Barrett
, S.Wilam
SOCIETY MEETINGS.
HILLSBORO GRANGE, No, 7U, P. or
H. Meets in Good Templars' Hall,
second and fourth Saturday in each month,
at 2 o'clock r. m.
J. W. SHCTE, Master.
Jamb Srwell, Secretary.
T TILLSBOKO LODGE. NO. 17, 1.O.G.T
II Meets in Good Templara Hall, every
Saturday evening, at s P. M.
t
T. TOZIKU,
W. C.JT.
11 Hkamihh, Secv.
J
Meets on Saturdav on or after each full
moon. All brethren in knkI standing are
cordially invitrd to meet nh us.
F. A. BAILEY.
R. Cbanuali , St c. W. 51.
MONTEZUMA LODGE No. M, LO.O.r'.,
Hillsboro Meets every Wednesday
evening at 7 o'clock. Sojourning brethren
cordially invit s J to attend.
M. COLLINS.
It. BSAMIS, SeO. N. O.
JO LODGE, No. ltf, K. OF P., HILLS
BOKO Meets every Thursday evening
at 7 o'clock, in Odd Fellows' Hall. Sojourn
ing brethren in good standing cordially in
vited to attend. S. T. Linklatkb, C. C.
T. a. We4THkbbd. K. of It. and 9.
LKNt'OK LODGE No. , K. OF P.
T Meets erery alternate Saturday at 7
o'clock p. in., at Glenooe. Sojourning breth
ren in good .st.'indin" cordially invited to at
tend. J. W. COREY,
J. S. Jackson, K. of J I. A S. C. C.
HILI-SBORO LODGE No. 61, A.O.U.W..
Hill-ilorj Meets on the second and
fourth Tuesday of each month at 7:30 o'clock
p. m. Sojourning brethren ctrdiallv invited
to attend. R. CRANDALL,
W. p. IIabk, Ree. M. W.
PHCENIX GRANGE No. P. or H.
Meets ut Gaston, Wr., ou the third
Fridav of each month.
J. W. SAPPING ION, Master.
H. D. BavAST. Secretary.
APATO LODGE No. 40, 1. O. O. F.
Meets in Gaston on the first and
third Saturday in each month.
JOHN WERE, N. G
H. D. Bhtaxt, Secretary.
CHARITY LODGE No. 7 I. O. O. F
Tualatin Meets Saturday evening, at
7 o'clock, on o before eeeh new and full
moon. Brethren in Kd standing invited to
tttend. J. C. SMOCK.
m H. N. Pooi-a, See. N. O.
BUTTE GRANGE, No. 14H, P. or H.
Meets the third Wednesday in each
Month. :. F. TIGARD, Master.
8. M. Kelso, Sec'y.
Vf T. V., II ILLS BO RO MEETS
V? on the tirst and third Wednesdays
of each month, at : o'clock p. iu., at the
M. E. church.
AND OF HOPE. HILLSBORO MEETS
1.1 everv s
at the M. E. ehurc
CHURCH NOTICES.
HILLSBORO METHODIST PASTOR'S
Appointments. First Sabbath in each
month: Beaverton, 11 a.m.; WetUey Chapel,
8 p. ni.; Mt. Harmony, 7 p. in. Second Sab
bath: Hillsboro, 11 a. m.; Reedville. 3 p. in:
Hillsboro, 7 p. m. Third Sabbath: llills
boro, 11 a. ui.; West I'nion, H p.m.; Hills
boro, 7 p. m. Fourth Sabbath: Hillsboro,
11 a. m.; Reedville, 3 p. ui.; Beaverton, 7
P" C. M. BRYAN. Pastor in Charge.
CORN ELI I S METHODIST PASTOR'S
Appointments. First and third Sab
buths in ea-h month, M. E. tlhurch, Cor
nelius, ut 11 a. m. and 7 e. m. Second and
fourth Sabbaths in each month, Glencoe, at
11a.m. Fourth Sabbath. Oak Grove, at 3
p. m. Second Sabbath, Meachaiu's school
house, at 3 e. M. Saturday before the sec
ond Sabbath, Leisy's srhooluouse at 7 P. M.
H. B. Etwonviiv. Pastor in Charge.
C
ONGREGATIONAL PAST R'S
A I
'"j
oointiut nt-t. 1 irst Sabbath
in eac
month, Gaston, nt 11 . it.; ami on tbe lull,
back of Gaston, 3 v. m. Second Sabbath
At Hillside m;ltHl-honse. 11 a. m.: Green
ville, 3 r. m. Fourth Suhbnth HilhtUtro,
Christum olr.ireh. at 11 a. m.
Visitors to Portland
Should not fort to call at TOWNE A
MOORE'S Ss FntNcisro Gali.cht, where
may lie aen photographs of nil the leading
men and women of Oregon and Washington
Territory. Skillful operators alwiys in at
tendance, and the most mimite attention
paid to pictures of children. No trouble to
show sprciiueua to visitors. Street railroads
pass the door cv. ry ten minutes, and this ia
the neen-st Kallcry to the Ave principal ho
tels. KnlariiiK in Crayon a specialty. Cor.
1st A Morrison Sts.
7janly
A. S. VE1MEN,
Watchmaker and J eweler !
TIAS PERMANENTLY LOCATED IN
11 Forest Orove, and is prt-partd to do
all kind of Watch work. Jewelry repaired
and inudo as as in w. Fin Watch. Re
pairing a seeialty. Having had It yHHiV
exerieiu'e in the bushiest. 1 am snfe in
giving a written Kiiarantee with all work
sent out. tnl.Vif; A. S. VENEN.
Jlouey to Isonn.
1 will oan money in sums of $ 1000
and upwards. Only real estate security
sought. Time, three to five years: com
mission not to exceed 2 t per cent.
W. II. RFCKRR.
1
JanTtr
Land for Sale!
'rHE UNDERSIGNED HAS FOB SALE
JL several Farms and a large amount of
nrst-elasa, unimproved laud, lying in Wash
ington county, Oregon.
IMMIGRANTS
And others desiring to purchase land would
So well to give me a call.
Now is the time to secure comfortable
inea on easy terms.
rHOS. D. HUMPHREYS.
ffOlsboro, Jonelfthh. 1888.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
A.
W. MILLER,
Attorney at Law,
Pobtlaxo, : OsBOOBf.
Office Rooma 12 and 13, Mai key Building.
Cor. Second and Morrison streets.
Branch Offlee at Ferert Ursre, Or.
sT"All kinda of Legal Business carefully
attended to. j'itf-tf
g B. HUSTON,
Attorney at Law
and Notary Public,
HiiLsaoeo, : Omoon.
Office : Main Street,
Next Door to Buck Block
jl2-tf
W.
N. BARRETT,
'Attorney at fait
aao
Deputy IHst. PriMfvnling Attorney
IIII.I.SHORO, ----- - - nit KG ON.
Ottloe in Chenette Row, Main street.
a7tf
yyiLLIAM I. HARE,
Attorney and Counselor at Law,
HlLLHBOttO,
aMf
Ottroos.
n.
K. MILLER, M. I.,
iiOMaioi'A rnsr,
E. Corner First and Maiu Street.
PORTLAND.
MEDICAL AND SURGICAL.
1 Diseases of Women a Specialty.
Offloe Hoars 1 to 3 P. 3d. ji28-tf
F.
A. BAILEY, M. 1).
Phyirian, Surynn and Amurheur,
mi.i.sBor.o, oitiooN.
Office In Cuennett's Row. Residence
Three blocks south of drag store. Oflice
honrs From 8::) to 11 a. m., and V to ,r. p.m.
S.
T. LINKLATER, II. R, C. M.,
Physician, Suryon and Accoucheur,
nii.i.snoito, oiicr.oN.
f)flice
House.
At Residence, East
f Court
j7-tf
ILSOX HOU'LHV.
Pfiyniciatt, Surgeon and Accoucheur,
FoitKsr c.Kovr, orkhhn,
Office At thw drug stor.
Jal tf
pHOMAS II. TOXGl'K,
Attorney at Law,
HII.T-SBOKO, WASMINll VON CsCNTV, OREOOS.
fH tf
KAT.F.IOH STOTT,
JOHN M. WM.tH,
CTOTT. WALDO,
BOISE.
HKMH'l SMITH,
SAM. It. STOTT,
W. L BOISK.
SMITH, STOTT &
Attorney at Law,
Nos. i;. 7. S and 1 Waldo Block,
Cor. Second and Washington streets,
PORTLAND, OREGON
'JMIOS. IK HUMPHREYS,
Notary Public and Ctnireyancer,
iiii.i.sHoito, ouanoN.
Office Iu New Court Honse. Iega! pa
lters drawn and collections mad. Business
entrusted to my care promptly attended to.
nihil tf
W. II. Adams.
I'. S. Grant Mtav)UAX
DAMS & MARlUAM,
Attorney at Law.
7 and H MuUev Building, cor. Second and
-Morrison streets,
dl-tf Portland, Ou.
J.
V. GILKEY,
Physician and Surgeon,
GREENVILLE. - - - OREGON.
Offers his services to the ieople or Green
ville and vicinity. tif-oiu
W. 1 VIA,
Physician and Suryeon,
OtHce: One Door north City Drug Store,
Forksi GkOVK,
JJ6-l'm Obshom.
It. XIXOX,
DENTIST,
OF FOREST GROVE. !
IS NOW MAKING TEETH FOR . GO
and 7.fiO per set: lest. of ranterial end
workmanship. Will compare with sets
costing Teeth etractel without pain.
Filling at the lowest prices. All work
warranted, flrtice. 3 doors north of Brick
store, t lilice hours: A. M. to 4 P.M.
dJ-Mf
WALTER BROS.. New Yokk
D. N. Jz E. WALTER A CO., Sax Fbamcisco
WALTER BROS.
Importers of and Dealers in
Carpets, Upholstery Goods,
Wall Paper & Window Shades.
88 Tlrsvt Str-ot,
Union Block. - PORTLAND, OREGON.
o20-m
D. 8. STRYKER, D.D.S..
THE LEADING DENTIST.
Eastern Prioes. Good Sets
of Teeth. S5.00 to S15.00. Ex.
tract ing, 50 cents. Filling, f 1.00 and up
ward. Electricity used for the Painless
Extraction of Teeth. Try it. All Opera
tions Firas-Class. sT"Sign of the Tooth
107 First Street, over Prentice's,
nlO-Cut PORTLAND, OR.
I
T.'R. CORNELIUS,
-DEALER IN-
Dry Goods,
Groceries,
BOOTS,
SHOES,
. HARDWARE,
Ctficultural lmnlneant;
Y
JUI'X'O.
Agent for the
DUBUQUE - N0RV7EGIAN
Plows & Harrows!
The Ifest in the Market.
IOJDTJOE!
Of all kinds taken at the highest market
price.
Cornelias, Or.. Nov. 18, 1H.H. n!4-ly
P. M. DENNIS,'
FIRE INSURANCE AGENT
Successor to P. T. To.ier i,
HILLSHOKO, - - ORKGOX.
ALSO.
It I-'. II. EMTATE AIJKXT.
o FECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO THE !
O pnrchate and sale f Farm 1 .Minis and ;
i Town Proertv
i Va,. it...-!..,. ....... i.. m- t' 'i' ;
Torier his Insurance business, I am con
fident of beint; able to Kiv satisfaction,
since I represent the leadine Insuraiiro j
Companies. '
t"Oflice: One door South of Postoftice. '
u:si-tr
M. BROWN. O. E. JOHNSON.
JOHNSON & BROWN,
Contractors and Builders
HILLSBORO. OREGON.
1 ?.t?rS "i? s'
i
CET YOUR TINWARE
I'liOM
Tom'c Tinshop!
Roofing. Guttering and Spouting
A SPECIAL
S..
t-iFYon can le sure of a Square Deal.
Opposite Brick Block.
1! ILLSBOKt ), OREfH IN.
THOS. MADICAN.
il'J ly
SEWING ACHINE AGENCY,
FOREST GROVF, OKF.GO.V
J. W. H ADKINS, - - - Agent
DEALER IN AND REPAIRER OF ALL
kinds of Sewing Machines.
Domestic, Household, and all makes of
Standard Sewing Machines kept constantly
on hand and tor sale at lowest market
prices. au5-tf
R. SYLVESTER,
HILLSBORO, OREGON.
PAINTING In GENERAL
KaIIminer mid Ie-oraite
I'm per Ilanjrrr.
All work Warranted First Class
-VLeaTe Orders at the City Drug Store
Or TBB iNDRPBItDEXT OFt lCS. Sl-tf
SCHULMERICK.
C KOCH
CITYZ
Market
si:ioi
HILLSBOUO, -
ST RE FT,
- - ORE'jOX
ALL KINDS OF
TPTTRTT TVPl? A TQ
J? It J2i OH illJjiA 1 D I
Kept constantly on hand and sold
FOR 4
"Highest Msrket Price paid for
AND
Glutton Slicep.
Please give us a call.
SCUILMERKK & KOCH,
..... . Proprietors
Hillsboro Oct. 13, 1887. 0l3-tf
II
i
S. HUGHES & OOH.
FOREST tJKOVE. OKEUOX,
Dealers in SHELF Aim HEAVY
Saddlery Han
TOOLS !
THE
HA IX WAOX,
-AND
fink cutlery
Surh as Knives, S'iMSirs and Razors,
Fnit st Brands.
f the
We handle no ShodJy nor Cheap John
Goods; but for articles of like quality or
grade, we Uefy coiupt-titton in price.
S. 1IK.IIF.S JL NOV
o21-tf
R. W. McNUTT,
; 4 Olti:i.ll S. - - OltK4.fX.
i DEALER IX
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
Groceries,
Provisions,
Eto.
JUST RECEIVED
A larye nssortiueiit f
MILLINERY GOODS!
j Comprising all the latest styles in II A IS
BONNETS. Etc.
BRANCH STORE
At Veriouiiu. Xclialeiti Valley,
W here goisis of everv description ere kept
constantly in to-k.
June 1; 1SS7.
ji; tf
Till'. fl.ltKAT
8ock Island
AND -
Albert
Lea
!
The Direct and Popnlar Lida in connection
with the NORTHERN PACIFIC RAIl
WAY from St. Paul and MiuneniMlis
To Chicago and the East.
To St. Louis and the South.
To Des Moines, Leavenwoii,
Atchison and Kansas City.
The Only Line
'Connecting with the OREGON SHORT
LINE at Council Bluffs. St.
Joseph. Leavenworth and
Kitiisas City for
Chicago and all points East !
I
j PULLMAN PALACE SLEEPING AND
j PALACE DININC CARS
Accompany all Tlironjih Express Trains.
Tickets for Sale by all Connecting
Railways, and connection, made
in Union Depots.
j
For fall information regarding Rates,
1 Maps, etc-, apply to
'ii an. ki:m:dv,
! Groeral Agent, No. 3 Washington Street,
j PORTLAND, OREGON.
K. A. UOLBDOOK,
GetJ. Tkt. and Pass. Agt. C. B. I. A P. R. R.
CHICAGO, ILL.
H. V. BOYD,
Gen!. Tkt. .and Pass. Agt. M. & Si. L. Vy
MINNEAPOLIS. MINN.
C5
A (I'i:ntiu.
J I tDCr AUNKS II IT Id.
A wtCxrd, old and bent and gray,
Aadtjsrned in more than his booka could say,
Ws asked to nsme by a heart sick man
Oas ting wonh gating in life's toug span
Th Vizard bowed his head in thought.
And long and wisely and well he sought
Toiaanrsr that question by sorrow wrung
Frota faithless heart on human tongue.
At last, with a smile of light that played
O'er bis withered featares, the wise man said:
"Ify friend, not one bat three I name
That night tempt angels our life toclaim:
Tbe trust of a child a woman's love
And a spirit at one with its God above;
And he is blest as the world I scan
Who of these three gets unr, O luauT'
WASUINTOX LETTER.
CTroia our Regular Correspondent.
H'ASHixoTOjr," 3Inrcb 2d, 1888.
Mr. Vilas, when he took charge
of the interior department, found
the condition of business, paiticu
larlyin the V. S. patent office, very
much in arrears, ami the habits of
the employes oi the office Kimply
disgraceful. The truth is Hint a
great mauy of them were not work-
ing. had not been working, and did
not know how to work. It had Iwen
their custom to slpij;!e into the
office after nine o'clock in the mom-
ing, and to spend a great part of the
day until four i. u. in go-ip, read -
ing the newspapers and promeuad-
in' in the corridors. At lialf tast
three o'clock they lx'giui to make
their toilets for the closing hour of
four F. M.
Practically there has been no
commissioner of patents during the
present administration. Mr. Cleve
-
land's first appointee was a criminal
lawyer, named Montgomery, who, if
he had been asked at the time tode-
fine a patent, must have had re- t'1!U 'd of the platform. The en
source to the dictionary. Consci-1 gineer on the rear train was killed,
ousofhis ignorance he' left etrry-! "d a number of passengers were
thing to the employes of the office, .injured.
The employes, clerks, examiners, j " The storm is general in New York
bureau chiefs and copyists, turned state, ( onueetieut and points south,
their energies to pbv. while thirty i 1 ,om mriounding country re
thousand inrentois, paving into the; come of tbe severest snow and
patent office over a million l.I!ai x
per year, petitioned, prayed and
cursed, in vain, for action on their
cases. About a year ago all patent
ilom was rejoiced by the announce
ment that Montgomery had resign-
ed. jtfVf we will have a change.
Anything. What cie betide, wo ve !
seen the worst. The change camel
in the shape of the present commis
sioner, Mr. Hall, an intelligent, ed
I ucated, phlegmatic man, who not j
only knew how to define it patent,
but who did nothing but d. iine. re
fine, super and subterfine tliem un
til his subordinates nud patent law.
yers cannot find his meaning. His
definitions in the shape of decisions
on cases appealed to him have been'
in the teeth of the law and estab
lished usage, and have thrown the
the practice into confusion. Mean-
while the actual work of the patent
office, that of examining inventions
and issuing patents, has gone from
bad to worse. Mr, Hall, absorled
in the mysteries of abstract patent
law, appears to be unaware that the
immense force of principal and as
sistant examiners are mouths behind
with their work and are making no
effort to catch up.
This is not an overdrawn picture
of the condition in which Mr. Vilas
found the patent oflice. To picture
the chagrin, the despair and the
agony of tlie thirty thousand or
more inventors whose rights under
the patent law have been so shame
lessly delayed and neglected would
require the genius of a Dare.
Mr. Vilas Las a Neapoleonie habit
of poking about the camp incog,
and without brass-band accompani
ment. Last week he took a stroll
brough the department. IIe saw
things that are quite familiar to the
habitues of the patent office, but
which filled him with righteous
wrath. High salaried men were
reading, telling stories, joking, loll
tug with their feet upon their desks,
as oblivions to surveillance as to the
distant clamor of thirty thousand
awiudled applicants for patent.
Then Mr. Vilas inquired concern
ing the condition of u case alsuit
which the inventor had written to
him. If any but the secretary of
the interior had appealed to Mr
Hall he would have got only such
, ., i 4i . i
.I.ii.iLIa ToIiinatiiiii ."s the uef-'
icent and culpable examiner could i
make up. He prolied the matter and
found that action on the case lja,l
i. ...! 1 'ri :.!
tentor. who is a very poor mau. had !
lost several hundrel dollars. But;
this is only one of thousands of
eases.
The result of Mr. Vilas tour of
inspection was an order isued pro
bibiting reading, letter writing, gos
siping, loafing and visiting among
the employes of the patent office.
The order is excellent. But its en
forcement ! There's the rub. The
employes of the patent office oc
cupy as many as a hundred rooms,
and they work, or rather avoid work,
with cloned doors. Thay are skilled
in all the arts of evading espionage,
and if school bo vs contrive to eat
apples an-i read dime novels under!
the eyes of the teacher, what cannot
these older offenders do behind
closed doors, screens and mammoth
desks ? The wretched condition of
business under the present head of
the office and his eccentric rulings
has suggested a remodeling of the
U. S. patent office and its laws.
.senator Crordon lias introduced a
bill in the senate to establish a court
with three judges, whose duty,
among others, shall be to bear and
decide appeals from the rulings of
the comwAtsaionor of patents. Tbe
new bill has many excellent features
of which I may write hereafter.
1' 3 RE It THE SXOW.
Xew Vork Robed tit White Frozen to
Death en Ilroadwaj Cusnaltle
Throughout the Et.
;vv York, March 12. The hard
est K,,ow torni of the year is raging
; At 8 o'clock there was a foot or over
on t,,e gi'und. High winds caused
drifts which in the upper part of 4he
ct.v were three and four feet high,
j The embargo on telegraph com.
utnication is almost complete. The
; outh is entirely cut oft
AIout 7 o'clock two trains on the
Third avenue elevated railway col
lided, one train running into the
rear of a train abend. The engine
reared upon the end of the last car,
and fcteatu escaped in volumes, but
fortunately rushed upwards, thus
! "!ving th hemmed crowd iu the
j forward train, as well a those ou
wind storm in veins.
JiiisineK i-i at a standstill. Only
two trains airived with mails this
morning, and the work of the post
office is partially suspended. Hun
dreds of telegraph wires are down
The w ind attained a velocity of sixty-
'r miles an hour,
Poiohkeeisik, N. Y., March 12.
j About 8 this morning, in a blinding
snow stoim, an express train bound
south on the New York Centra! ran
into another express nt Iubb's Fer
ry, demolishing severil curs. Four
persons were badly injured.
Nt:v II r.v.Conn , March 12. The
storm in this vicinity is veiy bad.
At 11 o'clock hi trains had arrived
from New York.
Titov. N. Y.. March 12 The snow
in Western New Y'ork is about fif-
teen inches deep and is still falling
Nkw York, March 12, 7 p. m. The
storm is increasing and is absolutely
unprecedented. S ties at the stock
exchange were less than l.VtXMt, the
smallest on record.
The weather stopped the courts.
Kvery idreet car in New York, Brook
lyn and Jersey City and the elevated
trains are stopped. The elevated
roads run 3000 trains daily usually,
and never before were stopped.
Westerners declare that Dakota
never furnished New York's bliz.srd
of to-day. Of forty mails due be
tween 4 and noon, only two at rived
by 2 this afternoon.
News from Kurope is also of tre
mendous gales and snowstorms.
UIOZKX TO I'tATM.
J i. m. - There is no abatement in
the storm. Frozen ears and feet
were never so numerous. Drug
stores were filled with patients all
day and evening. A woman abso
lutely froze to death to-night at the
corner of Broadway and Fulton
streets, popularly supposed to be the
busiest four corners on earth.
In hundreds of street loaded
wagons nre abandoned, and the
horses taken to ho nearest stables.
The Astor house turned away 300
would Ih guests. 4 hher hotels have
had xitmlsr experiences.
Ten o'clock New York is abso
lutely snowbound. The oldest in
habitants never saw its eqnal. Not
one train was dispatched by either
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Something utpreeedentrd. lele-
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ri," f,l,1 '"iIe- llve tho Kai,,e
storv to tell, namelv: tlie worst
, Htom, ever known there. The police
auinonues sny
the storm has not
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ssvwtiom ABtxnoxii:n.
Midnight Owing to the treineiu
dous gale and terrible snowstorm,
there has been no arrivals nor de
partures from this port. Navigation
has been almost wholly abandoned
in the rivers and harbors. The
stoiin is unabated, but snow lifs
stopped falling. But meager re
ports are received but in the lower
vicinities, where reporters manage
to struggle through the snow, and
gainst the wind, wore than 100
fracture of limbs and contusion of
j the skull were reported. The tm
i bulanca horaa at tha different Los-
pitals were completely fagged oat
' early in the night, and calls in many
! cases could not be attended to.
Old river men say no such night
has been known in the last forty
years. Several boats sank at their
moorings at North river piers. From
four to six feet of snow has fallen on
the Delaware X Hudson company's
canal road.
Washington. March 12. The storm
that visited Washington yesterday
was one of tbe most remarkable
known for years. A heavy rain con
tinued until about 3 o'clock in the
afternoon, when It turned to blind
ing miow which stuck to everything
it touched and turned to ice.
No.uNt;:, Mich., March 12. The
two days' blizzard just ending has
been the worst of the year for rail
road men. The Duluth, South Shore
and Atlantic, Mackinaw division is
closed to traffic, with west-bound
express and snow plows all snowed
in on the eastern half of the division,
1NAIAX P.U'lf'lf MH KAM I),
Wixmpeo, March 12.A terrihle
blizzard is raging on the north shore
of Lake Superior and trains on the
Canadian Pacific are completely
blockaded. No train has arrived
here from Montreal since Thursday
A report was current here that a
trestle gave way on North bay,
throwing a Canadian Pacfic passen
ger train into the chasm. The re
port is unconfirmed.
Married Meu.
At tins juncture the coroner i
desired to show to the jury the
direction taken by the ball, and for
this purpose produced the corset
worn by Mrs. Hurkhart at the time
of tbe tragedy. ''You see," said he
and here he drew the corset
around his waist with the lace in
front "the ball must have gone in
from behind. No, that can't lie,
either, for the doctor says the ball
went in in front. Confound it, I've
got it ou wrong. Ahl this way."
(Here the coroner put the corset on
upside down.) "Now you see,"
pointing to the hole in the garment,
which rested over his hip, "the ball
must have gonei here. No, that
can't be either, for "
Here Mr. Mather, the handsome
man ou the jury, broke in. "Ir,
Stillman," said he, "you've got the
corset on wrong."
Here lr. Stillman blushed like
a peony. "Well," said he, "I've
been married twice and I ought to j
know how to rig a corset,
"Yes," said Mr. Mather, "hut you
don't. You had it on right in the
first place. The strings go in front
and the ladies clasp them at the
back. Pont I know? I think I
ought to. I've been married. If
you doubt it, look here (pointing to
the fullness at the top.) How do
you suppose that's going to be filled
up unless you put it on as I sug
gest?" "That," said Dr. Stillman; "why
that goes over the hips."
"No, it don't," said Mr. Mather,
"that fullness goes somewhere else
this way," and here Mr, Mather
indicated where he thought the full,
ness ought to go.
Here another juryman discovered
that Dr. Stillman had the corset on
bottom side up. "Doctor," said he.
"put it ou the other way,"
Then tho doctor put it on in ro
verse order, with the laces in front.
This brought the bullet holes direct
ly over the tails of his coat.
"I don't think," said Mr. Mather,
"that the bullet went iu there,
doctor"
"I don't think it did," was the re
ply. Confound it, it's mighty funny
six married men in this room and
not one who knows how to put ou a
woman's corset."
Why are tho dials divided into
twelve divisions of five minutes each?
Hear Mr. S. Grant Oliphant: "We
have sixty divisions on the dial of
our clocks and watches because the
old Greek astronomer, Hipparchus,
who lived in the second century
before Christ, accepted the Baby
lonian system of reckoning time
that system being sexagesimal. The
Babylonians wero acquainted with
the decimal system, but for common
or practical purposes they counted
by sossi and sari, tbe sossos repre-
j anting sixty and the aros sixty
times six 360. From Hipparchus
that mode of reckoning found its
way into tho works of Ptoleray.sbout
150 A. D., and hence was carried
down the stream of science and
civilization, and found its way to the
dial plates of our docks and
watches."
GENERAL NEVYS.
Itc-lid'lVir tha overworked poetoffio!
forces uf Calil'oruu hui uoiue at last, in a
Hjsicul $100,000 aprupriutiou. ' The
orxauizatioii unJ euiploviuextt of more
"wu wil1 le '"-4 oik
Th process for the uiunutucture oi
ivlluloM is little known, yet very simple,
Itjcr is r.rayd with acids until thor
oughly naturateJ, thru compressed and
wioilicJ Milli water and reduoed to a pulp.
Iu is next hles IhnI, mixed with camphor,
colored, ground uiul spread iu thin luy'Ts
on slabs, Finally it is placed under
hydraulic pressure and passed Is'lweeti
heated rollers, coining out ia olustic
olnyts.
Returns from the city assessment now
)jcirH in:l will show that Colfax has
proKjx'rod during tlie p.tst year, saya thu
Haft-tie. lTjsn a hnsis of about one
hair ca-h value the osmwament roll will
hlnntr taxable property to the amount of
nearly fl, 000.000, or a gnin of nearly
$300,000 over la! year.
IJeorge I'.Ulon, of B.Ucvicw, Idaho,
has challeiigei Major I f eiidcrhot, t lits
driuiiiiicr l of (ho appahanno;kf for
a drum coiitcst I'ur tin- elininpionNhip of
the J'acilic eot mid f2")0 a wide, the
contest to take place cither ut Denver,
Colorado, or Portland, Oregon, ICIk
stvn has di'pc-itcd $,"0 forfeit in the
bank of (, A. Mo Donald, of Belleview,
During the month of February, 172
di'Uths re iillii ially unuounceil froui
suiallMx iu llong Kniig.
Laura K. Neiidi l, of Woodhurn, Or
eyou, has l ;riiii iuit for. breach of prom
ise aulut Li'iiiu. l Walker, a well known
citizen of that place, placing her' dam
ages ut S3000. l'lainlirt" is the dauh
tr of Brown, tin ill resident; defendant
is a bacht !r, uud has hkij'pcd the coun
try, selling; out his twelve acres of teal
estate near Woodhurn, Tint puit will
! tried nt the next term of circuit court.
Big Betid Empire; In digging wells
in uml around Wiitcrville soma interest
ing diocovei ies have been niudo of dis
tinrt iuir-iuiM of maple, alder and
other leaves perfectly and beautifully
preserved in the clay, lify feet under the
ground, indicating that some time this
country had bi-cn the scene of volcanic
action, and that sonic day luaplo and
alder flourndied here,
llcv. It. ,T. WiW.n, of Ilslsey, has
rtst'iveil the appointment by the United
States Presbyterian eliurch t (f()reyou aa
suis'iiiitendt nt of tho Indian school at "
Warm Springs agency.
Harry Baltmarsh, Harry Hurley and
Fred Mi"", ag.sl 15, 13 and 10 rej)ct
ively, of lbany', stole a hk iff and startel
on a privatei iiiig cruise on the Will
amette, one day last week. They wero
urrcsted here and returned to their home.
Voung Mills mi uied to he the leader and
admitted that he had induced tho other
t(, aecoiupimy him. Their equip-
Hu nt miiM-trd of mi old revolver and six
cents in cash. It is hoss this will
prove a salutary lesson to them, lode
pclelenee West Side,
Mr. tJeurge Price has ls'en uppoiuted
postmaster ut Veriioiiia, Columbia county,
in place of Peter Brouse, resigned.
Mr, Price has purchased the sash and
door fui lory heretofore owned by Mr.
Brouse. mid will put it iu operation as
soon us possible,
Chas, Ni' ki ll, of the Jacksonville
Times, has purchased the Sentinel of
that town. The Sentinel was on old re
publican paper, having been established
in .he interest of the party nearly thirty
three years ngo.
The Heppner (iuzcttc has changed
hand-, Otis Puttcrsoti becoming the new
proprietor,
A western fruit-grower used seventy-,
five bushels of wood ashes on his straw
berry vines last season, and the crop
yielded 2."i0 bushels per aTtf. . He thinks
the ashes nlso counteracted the effect ot
the drouth to a considerable extent,
A Mrs 1 1 am in, of Caldwell, Idaho,
accidentally stepped on a sharp pointed
nail which pierced through her shoe into
her foot nearly an inch. Fearing had
results from such a wound the eombatted
against any effects which might follow.
Thu wound healed up and seemed to b
doing well, until last week, when she waa
suddenly seized with tho lockjaw.
Medical aid was immediately called, hut
it baflled their skill, death coming to her
relief nest morning.
Hon. U. B. Ilinton, aged 75 year,
died at the residence of his son a few
days a;v, iu Monroe, Benton county,
Sinking of his death a Corvallis pajsT
says; Mr. Hinton settled in this county
in 1810. He was a member of the
territorial legislature in 1857, and filled
different offices of horror and trust during
his lifetime. He was a man whose word
was always as gissl as his bond, and was
honored and esteemed hy his neighbors
as an upright, honest man. He leaves
quite a large family to mourn his loss,
among whom are Wesley Hinton, of
Monroe, nnd Mrs, Judge Burnett,
The snow storm was still raging
in New York yesterday, A number
of additional deaths are reported,
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