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l!KKJI!XUjiM vm. p tump nny OR ON "REP M I IT 0 VOL. 2. . DALLAS, OREGON", SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1871. NO 37 Is Issued Every Saturday Morning, at Dallas, Folk County, Oregon. BY 11. II. TYSON. OFFICE Mill street, opposite the Court SUBSCRIPTION RATES. SINGLE COPIES -On' Year, $2 00. Six Months, $1 25 Jbr&e Months, $1 00 For Clubs of ton or more $2 per annum. Subscription must be paid strictly in advance ADVERTISING RATES. One square (10 lines or less), first insert'n, $3 00 Each subsequent insertion 1 00 A liberal deduction will be made to quar terly and yearly advertisers. Professional cards will be inserted at $12 00 per sitTKi tn. Transient advertisements must be paid for in advance to insure publication. All other advertising bills must bo paid quarterly. Legal tenders taken at their current value. Blanks and Job Work of every description furnished at low rates on short notice. A Splendid Chance. We will send the Dallas ItRrmLiCAsr and Dem Brest's Mosthly, which is itself $Z for one year, to any person who pays us $1 Demorest's Monthly stands unrivalled as a Family Magazine. Its choice Literature, its superior Music, its large amount of valuable information on miscellaneous subjects, its practical and reliable information in regard to the fashions, and artistic illnstrations, give it a just claim to its well-earned title, "The Model Magazine of America." DETAILS OF THIS TIIKKIllLL: 11 HE AT rESIITEGO. The sharp air of early October had sent the people in from the church services more promptly than usual, although numbers delayed to speculate on a great noise and ado which set in ominously from the West. The house wives looked tremblingly at the fires and lights within, and the men took a last look at the possibilities without for many it was truly a last glimpse The noise grew in volume, and came Dearer and nearer and nearer with ter rific crackling and detonations. The forest rocked and tossed tumultuously ; a dire alarm fell upon the imprisoned village, for the swirling blasts came now from every side. In one awful instant, before expectation could give shape to the horror, a great flame shot up in the western heavens, and in countless fiery tongues struck downward into the vil lage, piercing every object that sfood in the town like a red hot bolt. A deafening roar, mingled with blasts of electric flame filled the air, and paral- ized every soul in the place. There was too beginning to the work of rum ; the flaming whirlwind swayed iu an ini'ant through the town. There is no diver sity in the general experience ; all heard the first inexplicable roar j some .. i t it aver that the earth shook:, while a credulous few avow that the heavuus opened, and the fire rained down from above. Moved by a common instinct every habitation was deserted to the flames, and the gasping multitude flocked to the river. On the west the mad horde saw the bridge in flames in a score of places, and, turning sharply to the left, with one accord, plunged into the water. Three hundred people wedged themselves in between the roll ing booms, swayed to and fro by the current, where they roasted, in the hot fcreath of flame that hovered above them, and singed the hair on each head momentarily exposed above the water Here, despairing men and women held their children till the cold water came as an ally to the flames, acd deprived tnem ot strength,. ar . . i . Meantime tne eastern bank was densely crowded by the dying and the dead- Rushing to the river in this direction, the swiriing blasts met them full in the free, and mowed a swath through the Sacir. throrj. Inbrlation was annihilation. Sccr. All beforo the fire blast. A few veto able to crawl to the pebly Cats, but bo desper ately disfigured t.:t death nrrst have been preferable. All could not reach the river ; even tLc groups that fell on the grateful da nip Gate Buffered excru ciating agony. Tfco teres blaze playing in tremendous counter carreiita above them on tfce higher ground, was su&ci cntly 6trGG to est the clothes ala-se, and tLe fiyln .and, heated ao by a furnace, llictered the flesh wherever it . fell. All that cowld break through the stifling sixers had come to the river. In the red glare they could aeo the loping back covered with the bodies of those who had fallen by the way. Jfew living on the back streets could reach the river, the hot breath of the fire cut fag tbera down as they ran. Bat here a new danger befel them. The cattle, terrified by the smoke and flame, rushed in a great lowing drove to the river brink. Women and children wen trampled by the frightened brutes, and many losing their hold on the friendly logs, were swept under the waters. This was the situation above the bridge; below, a no less harrowing thing happened. The burning timber of the mill, built at the edge of the bridge, blew and floated down upon the multitude assembled near the flats, and inflicted the most lamentable sufferings. The men fought this new death bit terly; those who were fortunate enough to have coats, flung them oter tha head of wives and childreu, and dipped water with their hats on the improvised shel ter. Scores had every hair burnt off in the battle, and many lost their lives in protecting others. The firemeu had made an effort to save some of the buildings, and the hose was run from the river to some important edifice. V- The heat instantly stopped the attempt, but not before the hose, swollen with water, had been burned through iu a hundred places. Although the on slaught of fire and wind had beeu in stantaneous, and the destruction almost instantaneous, the fierce, stifling current of intense heat careered through the air for hours. These currents were more fatal than the flames of the burn ing village. Ignorant of the extent the fire and the frijrhtful combination of wind and flame, many of the com pa ny's workmen, some with wives an 1 children, shut themselves up in the grei.t brick building, aud perished in the raiusr heat of the uext half hour. Others on the remote street-! br ke fur the clearing bevoud the wood, fmt few ever passed the burning barrier. With in the boundaries of the town and ac cessible to the multitude the river ac commodation was rather limited, ami when the animals had crowded iu, the situation was full of despair. The flats wire covered with prune figures with backs ablaze and faces pressed rigidly into the cooling moit earth. The flame-' played about and above all with au in eessant and deai'euinr roar. The tornado was but momentary, but was succeeded by maelstroms of fire smoke, cinders and red hot sand Wherever a building seemed to resist the fire, the roof would be sent whirl ing in the air, breaking into clouds flames as it fell. The showers of cin tiers, sparks and hot sand fell in con tinuous and prodigious force, and did as much in killing the people as the first terrific sirocco that succeeded the fire. The wretched throng, neck deep in the water, and the still more helpless being-; stretched on the heated sands, were pierced and blistered by these burning particles. They seemed like lancets of red hot steel, penetrating the thickest covering. The evidence now remains to attest the incredible force of the slenderest pencils of darting flame. Hard ironwood plow handles still re main, perforated as though by minnie balls, and for the main part unburnt. When the hapless dwellers in remote streets saw themselves cut off from the river, groups broke in all directions in a wild panic of flight and terror. A few took refuge in a clear field bordering on the town. Here, flat upon the ground, with faces pressed iu the sand, the helpless sufferers lay and roasted. But few survived the dreadful agony. The next day revealed a picture exceeding in horror any battle field. Mothers with children hugged closely lay in rigid groups, the clothes burned off, and the poor flesh scared to a crisp. One mother, solicitous only for her babe, embalms her unutterable love in the terrible picture left on there woeful sands. With her bare fiugcrc she had scraped out a pit, as the soldiers did before Petercburg, and pressing the little one into this, she pat her own body above it as a shield, and when the daylight came, both vere dead the little baby's face unscarred, but the mother burnt almost to cinders. r.JtbI to the Lelplcea, a stout woodman carried out on' his shoulders one ctaadly tick of fever. He burrowed frrr the helpless body a sandy acpulcre, and then hegaii the etn:gg!e for his own life. Ha had lingered too long, and his eacrcd body was fcaad near the refuge of the man hits heroism had preserved. The tornado played through the des olated K'reets, and nwept the river aud the low land adjoinine. The timber of the mill floating down among the people, made additional labor and dan ger, and daylight broke terribly on the saturated survivors before they dared drag their cramped limbs from the icy waters. The mingled crowd of men, women, children, cows and gwine had held this watery refuge sinco ten o'clock of the night before. Of the hundreds of human beings that entered the water, not all escaped; the fright-, encd cows trampled many uuder tho waters; the blistering heat blinded many who groped hopelessly about in the curreut, and finally sunk. To this day none can tell how great was the slaughter iu the waters. After the lurning heat of the night, a numbing chill followed, and the water-soaked group crawled over dead bodies ami" hot sands to the only blazing building in all the watc abofft them. d roups oi dead odies were found within a stoue s throw of the water. Families rushing downward for breathing place had been blown upon by the rushing blasts and struck lifeless. The ghastly throng huddled, shrieking aud bewailing, about the flaring embers, and the terrible roll of the missing was soon called from end to ' end of the ashen waste. No vestige of human habitation remained, and the steaming, freezing, wretched roup, crazed .by the unutterable terror and despair, plead with each other to restore the lout ones. Ihe hot blasts of the night had blinded them, aud they could but vaguely recognize one another in the murky light of tho new day. home, in the immeasurable anguish of the moment, had da-shed themselves against the sands and let out the life with their own hands that the licking flames coveted. Men, too distant from the river to hope for rescue or safety, had cut the throats of their choking children, and were found in groups sometimes un-carrcd by the flames. In the streets, full twenty corpses were found with no apparent injury or abra sion. ratuouH tradesmen, iu the sudden rush of flame, had thrown their valua bles into wells for security ; every well iu the city was turned into a flamiu pit, and the very waters half evaporated by the heat. Survivors att.a that women and children, cut off from the river, were put into wells and covered with bedding. I have looked into every veil in the ash covered clearing, aud there h no possibility that a living thing 'uuld have endured the flames which boiled aud seethed in them. For hours the unreasoning search was continued by the fuuiihed-dying rerouants, but to tittle avail ; the dead, when recognizable, lay where they had fallen in the streets ; where the houses had stood the ground was whipped as clean as a carpet, aud all hope of identi fying human ashes was idle. The next night the long prayed for rain came, gratefully to the living, and kindly to i S t fi . 1 1 fill the tieettng ashes ot the dead l he greatest dread which hovered over the bay cities and towns was allayed, and the threatened danger nearly gone. Before dark, help came to the perishing suflercrs from the neighboring villages. The wounded were taken by boat to (Irecn Bay. whence some were forward ed to Milwaukee. There are 400 dead authentically ac counted for ; there are beside half as many missing who cannot be accounted for, and probably never will be. Many of the mill hands and company's em ployees were utter strangers in the place, and the majority of them, about 100, trusting to the stout walls o the company s building, pensueu en masse. y. v. Tribune. Wrong1 Itoads. Many a man is on the wrong road altogether with respect to Iin profession. We have known an artist, w hose v oca tion was a linen-draper, and more than one tradesman with all hh head and heart in art, a very bad bargainer, but a good judge of colors, and a capital hand in dressing out a window; a so licitor, ground down to a desk, whose native road laid along the geabcach, and bet ween the storm and the flood ; c clergyman, who would havo been more at homeiu a carpenter's shop'than in the pulpit j and an actress, wIioho beau ideal of human life was a farm house docn in the country, where sho might feed her ducks aud chickens herself, and fcuperintend tho dairy and the baking . Now all these people were on Atie Krau co ng road in life consequently wf00 not wrought up m the Ore x!d never cultivate their hedge U neo and too much of the Ore- tho wron they cqu sido properly, but ereTorccd to be con tent with pignuts and blackberries,; and anything eU.e that came handy by the grace of nature J never able to raise a bushel of grain for Harvest time, or to gather their owo apples for storage. If they had been ou the right track for each, they might have cultivated every square foot of their portions and then the world would have hadso much ad ded harmony between character and circumstance, aud bo much more faith ful work heartily performed. ii ... - o , i i j ;Russia has ifmued an order reorgan izing her army, which in substance enroU as soldiers all her adult male population capable of bfirinj5 arms. strawy bum THE WOOL l'KADE. Some tiino ago Donald McLennan. tko Manager of tho San F raneisco Mission Woolen Mills, and of the Pa cific Knitting Factory, went to Aus tralia to buy wool lor manufacturing uses, and recent dispatches state that he, and! others who went upon a sim ilar mission, lately returned, after having brought over a million dollars worth of the article in that market. This is a matter which must force itself upon the consideration of wool growers and manufacturers and dealers in the staple in Oregon as well as Cali fornia. It is of especial interest to Oregon iu the particular case before us, for we learn that of this great quan tity of Australian wool now on the way, fifty thousand pounds is destined for the Oregon City Woolen Mills. When we come to investigate the subject, it seems more surprising than on first view that wool can be imported from so distant a port as Australia to a new country like this Pacific Coast, where sheep thrive m very well, and where the wool is of nuch general good quality, with advantage or profit to the importers. In the first place, the duty ou raw wool is excessive. The quality of wool now on the way from Australia his to pay a specific duty often ceuts per pound, and also an ad valorem duty of eleven per cent, on the value at the place of export, aud iu addition to this there are freight and other expenses. Wool is now quoted at from twenty eight to thirty cents per pound in this market. Of course to import wool from Australia here, the importer must have in his favor such a buying price in that market a will enable him to make a profit over and above duties, freight, aud Charges of every kind. He lUUt . -, i . . i- .i ! likewise u-i as-u red nmt iin uuponcu t wool is as g 1 as the homo product, or ! better, if iWible. To make an eti- mate on thin ba-ii, we will compute the j duty ou wool from Australia as say twelve cents jr puuiid, and for freight age and cxpeii of every kind y two cents per omi J, or a total of fourteen cent. Accept the lowest wul rjuota tiou in the home market the safest fur au estimate twenty ciht cents per pound and from this deduct th'i tum of duties and other charges on the im. ported wool, and we have just, fourteen cents per pound left as the highest possible rate the importer could have paid for it in the Australian market. Hut these figures will give barely, if any, margin for profit, to say nothing of ri.-ks aud some other incidental matters not computed in the estimate we have just made. The likelihood is that the parties who have made these large pur chases of wool in Austrlia had first ascertained that they could purchase there at a figure so much below the price here as to warrant them in all they have undertaken in connection with this operation. Wc hear from a source entitled to credence that good wool can be bought theie at from eight to eleven cents per pound, and the liner qualities at from ten to fifteen cents per pound. At such prices it is easy to discern that the importer in either California or Oregon can buy in Australia rather than at home, and re alize quite handsomely by the transac tion. The question with our wool growers must therefore be, whether they can or cannot compete with the wool growers of Australia in price, as well as the quality of the wool. It is the question which they will have to decide, aud the sootier the better. We have it from a large dealer in wool that one cause for the importa tion of this wool from Australia is the lack of wool sufliciently fine in the home market. Our informant says that the Oregon wool is becoming so graded down into coarseness, that much of it is unsuited to the manufacturing wants of the State, and hence it has to be culled rnd seut to the Atlantic mar kets, where tho coprEest qualities arc worked to a much batter advantage thpo here. The grade kcoTrn as comb- gon wool is of this grade. A finer wool is here required, aud w the home mar ket fails to furnish it, the factory own ers have to send abroad for it, and the Australian wool is the best and cheap est for this purpose. Whatever may be the causes for this condition of things we shall not under take to say whether it is true that our wool growers cannot Buccceefully com pete with the wool growers of Austra lia, or whether that wool is better suited to the requirements of oar fac tories than tho Oregon wool. These are questions, wo say, for the wool growers of this State to determine for themselves. It is important, however, that they should give the matter their earnest Utentioa. v VMin PROFESSIONAL CARDS, kC. J. 'Jfl. ISAljnLHOKE, POltTJLAXI) .... OREGON. General News Agent For Oregon and Adjacent Terrrltorles. Also SPECIAL COLLECTOR of all kinds of CLAIMS. AGENT for the Dallas Republican. JOll.V .1. DAJ.Y, AU'yV Coiiiiseller-at-ffaw, W il 1 practice in the Courts of Record and In feiior Courts. Collections attended to promptly. Office in Dr. J. E. Davidson's Building, MAIN WTKUliT, lNDCl'KNDlSNCIi. n-tf J. C. GRUBBS, M. Dm PHYSICIAN AXI SUHtJROX, Offers Lis Services to the Citizens of Dallas aud Vicinity. O'iVC'Z. at NICHOLS' Drug Store. 31 tf S . li. JLI TItII, M. !., IMiyhiciau ami Surgeon. Kola, Oregon. Special attention given to Obstetric and Distaci of Women. ltf Attorney & Counsellor-At-Law, Dallas, Oregon, Will practice in all the Courts of the State. 1 J. Si. OI,M., Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law. Dallas, Orcgou. Special attention given to Collections and to matter pertaining to Real hetate. 1 RUSSEL FERRY & WOODWARD. Itcal folate Aleuts and Real E tate Auctioneers, So. ICKI. FKOXT WTKKirr, POfllXAKU ----- OHIICON. JT. A. UPLK1TK, AtTyfc Counsellor n! Law, OFFICK IN COURT HOUSE, DALLAS, POLK COUNTY, C2EG0N. 2iMf Ml DOOR iD BLIND FACTORY, MAIN MTHKI2T, DALLAS. 1 have constantly on hand and for Sale WI.D)W KAMI, ;iazcil and I ngjazrd. POOliS OF ALL SIZKS?. WINDOW ANI noon 1'RAMF-, All of the I.cst Material and Manufacture. It-tf JAM ICS M. CAMP T. ELL. Dr. IIAIti,KS WSi,M:V, saiji.u. - - - oki;c;ox. All who require Surgical Operations on the Eyes, or treatment, are invited to give biui a trial. Thou who Jo not receive permanent benefit will not be required to ptiy for treatment. He is amply provided with all the modern nml improved Instruments, and will make thorough Examinations free ot charge. NEW rAIiVT SHOP, Carriage, Wagon, Sign, ORNAMENTAL PAINTING, GRAINING & GLAZING, PAPER HANOINO, &c, Done ia the most Workmanlike manner by XI. P. glfKIVEK. Shop upatairt over llobart A Co'i Harness Shop. DALLAS, POLK CO., OREGON. FRArtK A. COOK, BOOKBINDER, AND Blank Book Manufacturer, SALKM, OKI2GOW, jspgmm Hvk estaLlihed a First Class ljJf Bookbindery in Salem, is now r-tfTVyy prepared io uo an manner oi work known to the trade. Magazines, Kewspapen and Music Bound in any desird Style. 011 Hooks Be-Sound. ELAHK BOOKS of every description, with or without Printed Headings, Manufactured to Order. BLAHITJ of every kind Ruled and Printed to Order. PEICES EXiSOUABLS. Ia Gri wo ttlook. jtMt PROFESSIONAL CARDS, AC. DALLAS HOTEL, COltXKK MAIN AND COURT STS. Dallas, Folk County Oregon. The undersigned, having HE-FITTED the aWe HOTEL, now informs tho Public that be is prepared to Accommodate all who may favor hinj with a call, in a good style as can he found in any Hotel in the Country. Oit me a call, and you shall not leave disappoiated. 12-tf W. F. KENNEDY, Propmttr. Sad dl ery Harness. i S. C. SHIES, Main St. (opposite the Cour House), Dallas, t MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN Harness, Saddles, Bridles, Whips, Collars, Check Lines, etc., etc., of all kinds, which he is prepared to sell at the lowest living rates. 3r-ItEPAIUING done on short notice. $73 EVERV WEEfU MADE EASY, LADY AGENTS. Ve want Smart and Energetic Agents to introduce our popular and justly celebrated inventions, in every Villu'in, Tvwn and City im . the Wurld. Indispensable to every Household f They are highly approved of, endorsed and adopted by Lud.'ct, 'yi. im and Dirinet, and are now a (i HEAT. FAVOKITK with, them. Every Family will Purchase On or more of them. Something that their merits' are apparent at a GLANCE. DRUGGISTS, MILLIKEES, DESSMAXS and all who keep FANCY STORES, will find our excelled articles SELL YEH Y IiAPID L Y, gives perfect satisfaction and netting SMALL FORTUNES to all Dealers and Agents. COUNTY HI GUTS FREE to all who drjire engaging in an Hvmornblt, rytretnhte end I'vJiobU J!uiuct, at the time time doing good to their companions in life. Sample $2 00, sent free br mail on receipt of price. SEND FOR WHOLESALE CIRCU LAR. ADDRESS, VICTOEIA MAHUFACTURIHG COHPY, IT, PARK PLACE, New York. NEW PICTURE GALLERY. J. II. KINCAID has opened a Now Photographic . Gallery In Dallas, where he will be pleased to wait on Customers in his line of Business at all hours of the daj. Children's Pictures Taken without grumbling, at the same price as Adults. Satisfaction guaranteed. Frice to fuit the tiniest. Room at Lafollott's Old Stand, Main Street, Dallas, PoIk.County, Oregon, April 27th, 1371 8-U C. S. ILVE IS, No. 13, First Street, PORTLAND, - - - - OREGON, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in DRV GOODS, I'LOTIIIXG, LADIES' DKESS GOODS, BOOTH AM) SIIOF.S, I1ATS Sc CAPS, GIWCFRFSd- PROVISIONS, Highest Cash Frice paid for all kinds of Country iiocliiee. ; ie-m Kay Carpet Weaving. A LL LL PERSONS HAVING MATERIAL tor Rag Carpets, and wishing them Woven, can be accommodated by calling on the undersigned. Orders left at the Store of R. Howe Bros, will be promptly attended to. l6-3m WM. SAl'LSBERRY. C. K. PARMENTKR. I T. J. BIBCOCK. PARMENTER & BABCOCiC, Manufacturers, aud Wholesale and Re tail Dealers iu ? v. i Iwrnitiir,ef Commercial Street, Salem, Oregon, HAVE ON HAND THE LARGEST Stock of Furniture Heddiii, Window-Shades, ! Hollands, and PA PEB-H AIGIIS3 To be found in Marion County. All kinds of Ticturo Frames, Coffins and Caaketa made to order on abort notfce and at reasonable rates. PARMENTER BABCOCK. Salem, March 23, 1870. 4- tf Bargain ! Bargains ! V HAVING PURCHASED AN ENTIRE New Stock of doods, I would call tha attention of the Public to my Old Stand at Utt Brick Store. I have a full stock of Groceries, Dry Goods, Hoots and Shoes, and everything found ia a sraUciass Variety Store. My old eu.tomra will tnd it to their advantage to renew their patronage, and ntw ones ail b cordially welcomed. All kinds of Produce taicq at the bigstS mars at rates. " JgfPJL W. C. SHOW Ue