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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (July 23, 1887)
OREGON NEWS. "Everything , of General Interest in a Condensed Form. Gilliam county bus 1,020 bands of sheep aggregating 142,5S0 head. The receipts of The Dalles postoflice increased over $1,000 the past your. A lynx was killed by Henry Wil liams on Eight-Mile, Wasco county. Wallace R. Struhln 1ms boon nn- pointed Secretary of the State Board ' ot immigration. A new postoflice has been estab lished at Cnrnes, Clackamas county, with David Hunter as postmaster. A new postoflwe has been estab lished at Remote, Coos county, with Herman S. Davis as postmaster. At Pendleton the young son of B. E. Shoemaker was fatally burned, his clothing being ignited by lire-crackers. The telephone line between Jackson ville and Medford has been changed into a telegraph line and is in working order. A daughter of J. W. Bedford, of Itedfork station, was kicked by a horse and very seriously injured. The young lady was unconscious at last accounts. Uncle Jimmy Doherty, of Amity, was gored by a large Holstein bull. He was terribly lncerated in the groin and one arm crushed. It i doubtful if he recovers. Vice-President Potter, of the Union Pacific, has appointed A. L. Maxwell General Passenger and Ticket Agent of the Oregon Builway cfc Navigation Company, with headquarters at Port land. The team of Marion Thomas, resid ing near Sc.io, became frighteHed at a train and run oil a high bridge one anile below Albany. The carriage was broken to pieces, but the occupants were unhurt. Articles have been filed in the office of the Secretary of State incorporating the Emma and Last Chance Consoli dated Mining Company; incorpor ators, B. Goldsmith, S. Goldsmith, J. Bourne, Jr. ; capital stock, $1,000,000. Chas. Moore, a surveyor, was fright fully beaten while attempting to locate a ranch in Warren valley, by parties ihired by a ring of land-grabbers for the purpose of keeping settlers from locating on the public land adjacent to their ranges. Serious trouble is an ticipated there. Winunpsnoot, chief of the Uma tillas, died at the reservation near Pen dleton, at the age of 75 years. He was always a friend of the white man, and contributed much to the advanced .state of civilization attained by the Umatillas. Peo, alias Elijah Lowrie, is his only son, an ordained elder in the Presbyterian church upon the res ervation, and succeeds his father as chief of the Umatillas.. Stockmen, who have made several tests, have figured out that most of the losses of range cattle last winter was due to the short range, and not the cold snap. Cattle were forced to eat grease brush, which would not digest, the sharp points cutting the stomach full of holes. The stomachs of some of those cut open were found to bo pierced like a sieve, and to contain stiff pieces of grease brush eight and ion inches in length. Oscar M. Kelly, who murdered his -wife Clara on the night of June 10, was taken from the jail at Dallas by a ! bod' of thirty men and hanged to an j oak tree in the courthouse yard. Be-, tween 1 :30 and 1 :45 o'clock a. m., there came riding up the main street j of Dallas, from the north, a party of i over thirty men, who proceeded straight to the county jail, situated in the block north of the courthouse, and stopped I in front of the door. Kelty and his I ..guard, Harry Depew, wore quietly sleeping in separate cells, oblivious of the awful events which were to follow. The clatter of approaching hoofs and the noise of the wagons awakened both . at about the same time. Kelty, in stantly realizing what was the cause of the unusual noise, calmly said to his guard, "They're come," and asked him for his knife. Being refused ho re peated the request which was again declined. Getting up and going to the window Depew saw in the clear moon- 1 light the preparations preparatory to storming the jail. The mob was every one masked, except the one under whoso directions they seemed to be working. His face was bare, as if de- . spising the concealment of identity which the others effected. Depew was again disturbed by Kelty calling for his knife, and he stated to him that he could not let him have it. Presently the sound of breaking glass-was heard from the direction of the cell, followed by heavy breathing. It afterwards transpired that Kelty, having broken his glass lamp, had desperately endea vored to sever either the carotid ar tery or jugular vein, with the evident intention of cheating his would-be lynchers of their prey. Failing to find death as quickly as he desired, the wretched murderer in turn severed the veins of his right ankle and left in step, and both wrists. When the lynchers reached the doomed man's cell they placed a prepared noose around Kelty's neck, and the party, paying not tho slightest attention to Depew, partly dragged, partly pushed their miserable victim through the hallway, down the stairs, out into the open air and across tho road to the courthouse fence. Throwing the loose end of the rope over a large limb of a sturdy oak which branched out from the courthouse yard over the sidewalk, and eeveral seizing it, the body of Kelty, dressed in underclothes and bathed in blood, was swinging in the air, and allowed to remain uutil life 'was extinct. COAST CULLINGS. Devoted Principally to Washington Territory and California. Frank Laferillade, aged 05 years killed himself at Mariposa, Cal. H. T. Bobert8 was fatally shot by Charles Davis while hunting near Napa, Cnl. C. B. Wright, of Tacoma, will give $10,000 toward securing tho location of the M. E. college there. Herdmau, who killed G. M. Nichols, near Lewiston, I. T., has been sent to the penitentiary for six years. Mr. D. W. McFarland has resigned his position as manager of tho Wash ington School for Defective Youth. The President has appointed Harvey E. Shields, of Terre Haute, Ind., to be Receiver of Public Monevs at Olympia, W. T. Tho father of Master Ralph Lotz, who was killed by the caving of a bank at Tacoma, has brought suit against the citv for damage in tho sum wf $5,000 for the loss of the boy's life. Prisoners in the State prison at Fol som, California, attempted to escape. After other means failed, a Gatling gun was fired at them. One was killed, name unknown, and Win. Smith, a life prisoner, seriously wounded. An attempt was made to rob the stage between the Mountain House ami Forest City, Cal. The driver had his thumb shot off and a passenger named Ben Treloar was shot in the knee, and it is feared his leg will have to be amputated. A constable was attempting to stop a low in Palouse City, W. T, between some raihoad graders, when a Swede named Pete Olsen knocked the con stable down. He immediately arose and shot Olsen dead. A coroner's jury rendered a verdict of justifiable homi cide The snowsheds to be erected on the lino of the switchback on the Cascade branch of the N. P. R. R., a distance of sixteen miles, will consume 15,000, 000 feet of lumber in their construc tion. A number of bridges and tres tles will not require shedding. Some of the trestles are as high as 129 feet. The schooner Wm. Fredericks was wrecked on the beach six miles below the Clitl' House at San Francisco. The captain and three men of tho crew were rescued by tho schooner Matilda, but two of the crew returned to the ship for clothing and were drowned. The vessel was wrecked in a heavy fog. The brewery at Glendale, M. T., was burned. Schaueur, the proprietor, was sleeping on the second floor and was burned to death. He was a native of Germany, about 40 years old, unmar ried and had no relatives in this coun try. He was making preparations to return to Germany, having received a legacy of $85,000, left himjby tho re cent death of his father. A fatal cutting affray occurred at La Conner, W. T. Frank Benn, post master at Droption, while attempting to quiet a disturbance between a friend and a desperado named Sam Thomp son, was stabbed by the latter. Tho knile, a huge one, passed through his left lung near the heart, and projected through the back of Bonn's body. It is thought he cannot recover. A railroad accident of a serious na ture occurred to an extra on the North ern Pacific, run by Conductor Tanner and Engineer Evans, near Spokane Falls. The train was rounding a sharp curve in tho road when it encountered a band of horses. The engine struck three of the animals, carrying them on a trestle, and mangling them in a nor rible manner. Miuway across the tres tie the engine jumped the track and went bumping along tho trestling, tearing it up anil finally it plunged over, landing a complete wreck on the solid rock beneath. Tho caboose and other portions of tho train wero con siderably damaged. Tho fireman jumped from the engine, alighting in a rock bed, sustaining severo injuries about tho body and hips. The engi neer remained at his post of duty, but was thrown out and was found, when the motion of the train had ceased, lying between the wheels of tho tender and caboose. His wounds are very se vere. The conductor and brakeman escaped uninjured. George W. Irvin, who recently made a trip through and into the Big Lost River mining region, Idaho, tells an interesting story to tho Butto Inter Mountain: On tho stage road between Challis and Blackfoot they came upon what appeared to be a populous little town. There was a handsome hotel on the main street, a smelter could be seen, and there wero stores and sa' loons with various signs upon them. Tho town, however, seemed entirely deserted. After awhile a citizen was found who explained that tho town was Houston, and three years ago had a population of 500. Four years ago a promising copper mine was discov ered there. It was called the Big Cop per, and a company with a capital of $100,000 was formed to work it. About that amount was expended upon the mine, and a 35-ton blast furnace was erected, and on the strength of this a flourishing town sprung up. A brew cry was built, and a newspaper outfit put in. No paper was over issued, however, as tho collapse came too soon, and the outfit is still there, tho ongi nators of tho project probably never having tho money to pay tho freight out. Tho mine played out and the population decamped, leaving in many instances all they had brought with them. The entire population at pres ent is nine individuals. Mr. Irvin says that it was a very interesting Bight and he and his companions were much interested m looking over tho deserted TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY. Ad Epitome or the Principal Events Now Attracting Public Interest The explosion of a dynamite shell at Jazygia, Hungary, killed twenty-seven men and injured forty-eight others. Thomas S. Baldwin jumped from a balloon a mile high at Quincy, 111., and landed withoutinjury, by aid of a large parachute. Particulars of tho recent riot at Oak Ridge, Louisiana, places the number of killed at thirteen, including one white man. At Palestine, Tenii., in a quarrel over a money matter, Green Hill shot and killed his brother John and a man named Craig. Two brothers named Bass were killed by lightning near Nashville, Mo., and two others were wounded severely, and perhaps fatally, by the shock. In the English Parliament tho crimes bill passed the third reading, 310 to 302. The announcement of tho vote was received with cheers and counter-cheers. Tho contest for the championship of America in pigeon-trap shooting, at Des Moines, Iowa, was won by O. W. Budd, Des Moines, who killed 1)7 birds, J. H. Slice, of Illinois, killing 95. Tho rise was thirty yards. Tho (ive-storv building of P. J. Keary & Bros., New York City, dealers in fireworks, was destroved by lire. Albert A. Ellis and Gustave Hessler, both clerks, wero suffocated. Two fire men were severely injured. The trustees of the Volunteer Sol diers' National Homes held a session rtt Boston. Tho Board voted to go to California in September, to locate a site for tho next Home to bo estab lished according to act of Congress. Emil Caldwell and Claude Summers, two boys aged 11, took refuge under a tree during a storm, near Louisvillo, ky., and wero instantly killed by light ning, utner people who wero tnoro at the same time were completely par alyzed by the shock. Firo broke out on tho stage of tho Alcazar theater, at Hurley, Wis., and within an hour the entiro business part of town was in llames, while sovon- teen persons had perished in the thea ter. Tho chairod remains of nine per sons have been taken from the ruins. The less in full is $500,000. Tho Al cazar was a variety theater, frequented by miners and was one of tho resorts of unsavory repute associated with no torious dance houses m the mining re gions. The postal bulletin at Washington announces that tho Postoflice Depart ment has been ofliciallv notified of tho formation of tho following now coun ties in Oregon, with postoflices men tioned located in tho now counties, viz : Wallowa countv (formerly tho northeastern part of Union county) Arcadia, Alder, Ininaha, Joseph, Los tmo, Prairie Creek, loopy hpnng, wallowa. Malheur county (formerly tho southern portion of Baker) Bar, Beulah, Bully, Dell, Glenn, Jordan Valley, Malheur, Ontario, Owyhee and Stonovale. Daniel II. Fulton, a farm laborer for G. Holmes, of Ovid, Mich., raw ried Emma Scott, about his own age. Fulton was madly jealous of hor and quarreled about Holmes, their em ployer, when Fulton grabbed his wifo In "the hair, and, with a butchei knifo which he snatched from a table near by, hacked her brutally. The woman fought for life and the two struggled across the barnyard to near tho barn, where Fulton forced his wife to tho ground and beheaded her. He threw tho head far from tho trunk and wont back to the house, and with tho knifo disemboweled him at ono thrust. Ho then endod the horrible tragedy by cutting his throat. At Arlington, N. J., six of nine one- story brick buildings, covering an en tire square, occupied by tho Uellonito Manufacturing Co., were demolished by an explosion. Two persons wero killed and several others wounded. Tho company makes collars, cufls, knives and other articles from celluloid. Tho explosion was caused by careless handling of gun cotton by ono em ploye. His bodv was torn and thrown into a neighboring field. Miss A. T Mutchniore, another victim, was pin ned dowu by the debris of a demol ished building, and burned to a crisp by tho firo which followed the explo sion. Probably a dozen other cm ployes are more or less seriously in jured, but not fatally. At Virginia City, Nov., (tho bodies of tho six missing miners wero found in tho old drift of tho Gould & Curry 200 feet from tho winze, all lying closo together. Frank Grabnor, ono of the miners who first attempted to enter tho deadly drift, describes tho bodies of the miners as being unrecogiuza ble, as black as negroes and shriveled up like so much smoked meat. Tho first man encountered was Foster Ham ilton, lying fcquarely across tho drift, Next came Charles Dougherty, lying with his feet toward tho mouth of tho drift, and thumb and finger pressed on his nostrils. M. Tregallis lay along side of Dougherty. Jefl'reo was Bitting up oil the west side of tho drift, as if asleep. At the hpad of these four men, toward the winze, for which thoy wero making, is a big cave of rocks which stopped them from reaching their goal. Kennedy is lying on a por tion of the cavo, as if ho had slipped down in his efforts to climb to the top of it and scratch through, whilo on top of tho cavo and drift is Eddy, with a shovel tightly clutched in ono hand indicating that ho had made tremcn dous efforts to break through tho drift CARL DUNDER. The Teutonic Shrc Toll a Story of a llnrt lloj- mid Some llt'itr. If I had a leedle pov aboudt four vcari oldt to come und sit on my knee in tier cafiu'ngs und ask me to tell him a shtory. 1 should hug hhn oop tight in my arms und pegin: " ell, onco upon sometimes dero vas a leedle poy who vhas badt. He shteals sugar und preserves, und he tells lies und runs avhay, und by und by eafrybody points his finger at dot poy und says ho shall po hung on dor gallows. Dot pov's faddet hangs down his head mit shame, und his inudder cries all der time, und sooch troubles von neater see. Vholl, one day vhen dis badt poy goes avhay to rob an oldt wonians who lifs all clone in der woods he falls down a hill und preaks his leg. Dot makes him groan und call oudt und po afraid, but no body conies to help him. In place- of dot a big bear mit two leedle cubs comes oudt of her den in do hill und vhalks oop to dot badt poy und says: " ' hell, who you vhas? " '1 vhas Peter Bad.' " 'Und how vhas it you como hero?' " ! vhas going to rob dot oldt woman?. " 'Children, come here,' savs dot oldt bear to her cubs; und vhen dey vhas como aroundt her she savs somo more: " 'I like vou to know how it vhas. Dis pov first tolls some lies to his inud der; den ho shteals some sweet-cake and suugar like a tief;don he goes oudt mit some badt poys und shteals apples und peaches; den ho shteals some money from Ins nimbler, l'ooty soon ho vhas a robber, und haf somo police looking for him. If you doan' pelief somo bad poy vhill come to a badt end shust look here. It vhas shust as truo ash gospel dot der weeked peo ples doan' lit out half deir days. If dis poy whas good ho doan' want to rob somepody; if he doan want to rob somepody ho doan' como hero und preak his leg. My children, dis vhas a sadt warning to voil dot tor vhay of der transgressor vhas hardt, und now fall to und wo shall cat him oop und pick his pones so clean as a whistle.' "'Und der bears eat him oopr ' 'Yes.' " 'Und ho vhas deadt?' " 'Yes.' " 'Und his mudder und fadder doan' nefer seo him again?' ' 'Nefer again.' " Und somo tears canio mit my leedle poy's oyes und ho creeps a little closer to me, und may bo der seed sowed m his mind mid dot leedle shtory takes root potter dan all der sermons ho shall eafer hear. Detroit Free J'rcss. A COMMENDABLE START. Tlio Srhrmo of a llrlilo Who Wan Vo- termlncit to Huvo u l'encoful Homo. When Mr. and Mrs. Callboard re turned from their wedding journey, tltnv settled rirht down to houso-kcci)' r cr in sr. Happier doves novor nestled in a flnt. nnd Mrs. Callboard determined to mako homo hannvfor Charlov from tho start. No futuro misunderstandings should ariso in their domestic arranire ments, if her wisdom and tact could lirnvont. When thov sat down to their x . . first meal Xsellio helped mm to an niinnue slab of somothinr about an inch thick, that fell on tho table with a dull, sick-eninc thud, "lhero is somo home made bread like vour mother used to make. Charlov. dear." sho said, sweotlv. "1 learned how to make tliat solid circle of roller composition around tho nilddlo of tho loaf when wo wero stopping at her houso last week; if you should ever want a chango 1 can make bread whiter than snow and lighter than sea foam, but this is tho kind vour mother makes, and I thought you miirht liko it tlio urst day to Keep you from getting homesick. That nice cake," sho added, seeing him thought fnllv endeavorinr to indent with his fork a dark brown pyramid of elastic concrete, "is a cako sucn as vout- aunt Ellen used to make. I cot tho prescription from her. I don't eat it myself, but it is said to bo Harmless if not taken to excess. Iheso irregular fragments of leather belting are dough nuts, liko thoso your graiuunotner mnkos: sho tauirht mo how to make ... , - them, and I had a coroner's permit to mako these. Tnoso giiastiy remains on ttm matter aro all that is left of the holocaust; that is a chicken roasted after the favorite proscription of your Ristm- .Time. And this. Charlov. dear." sho continucd;'pQuringout a coal-black liquid, not qulto so thick as tlio Mis souri river, but far more odorous, "this is ooili'o Hko vou used to eret at home I mako all theso things somewhat dif ferent for mvsolf. and will use my own reelnos. as a rule, aftor this, but any timo you want things as you used to havo them at home, dear, I can fill every prescription In tho pharniaco- paiia, and don't you lorgct it." Ami ho didn't. That was twenty-three vcnrsnL'o. and not ono of tho six young Callboards can remember over to havo heard their father so much as refer to tho doughnuts his grandmother used to make when ho was a boy. uuracue, in Brooklyn Eagle. A Careful Calculation. Rmeft Girl Hike thatrockinir-chair. but I'm afraid it isn't strong enough to hold two. Furniture Man No, miss, these chairs aro very frail, but I thought you said you wero engaging furnlturo in advance, so as to get my bargain nrices. 8. a. I am. Wo'ro not colng to housekeeping for six or eight months F. J. Six or ciirht months after you aro married? fl. a. Yes. F. JLT. This will bo strong enough, miss. 2W-JJUS. WAYS OF LITERATURE. Interesting llrulon oit tho Origin of a Fiimlllnr Quotation. "Say." It was the snake editor who spake, and he spake with tho air of a man aweary of life, "I don't know how to uso a concordance any how. Whore do you find this quotation that goes on something about 'Winter lingering in tho bp of spring?' " An embarrassing silence followed tho question, and the album editor, feeling that all eyes were turned on hhn, said he never heard tho quotation before, but it sounded as though it might bo from tho Conventicles. "The Con-who-tieles?" asked tho be wildered snake editor. "Tho Conventicles Solomon's Song, you know," said the album editor, "wo call them tho Conventicles." "Oh. yes " tho snako editor said, greatly reassured, "I had forgotten you belonged to tho Church of Eng land. But find it for mo; I want to uo it in a Chester County moccasin item; I've yot something hero that will sot your teeth on edge." The album editor took the Biblo and tried for tho Conventicles awhile and then gave it up, remarking that tho passajo only occurred in tlio revised version. Tho commencement editor, who used to read proof on tho Chicago Wmcs, said he had read the revised Biblo clear through and was positive tho quota- tation wan t from the Bible at all. Tho voung man who does tho book notices said it was from Pope. "That's what made me think it Avas in tho Bible," said tho snako editor, "hut which Popo was it? There's morn a hundred of cm, isn t there? Tho art editor, who had twico gone abroad with Crook's excursions, said ho never saw tho quotation in any of tho European libraries, and tho obitu arv editor said ho never run across it in his reading. It was tho general opinion of tho convention that tho re mark was not a quotation at all, but was original with the snako editor. This compliment tho snako editor mod estly, albeit rather feebly, attempted to deny. "I know," ho said, I havo Boon that sentenco in print some where." "Hero it is," shouted tho accident editor, "1 know I had seen it, too, but for tlru life of mo I couldn't toll where, Hero it is." And ho held up a copy of tho Cider Valley Palladium, and pointed to tho local column: "April days. Cold nights. Burn your rubbish. Don't chango your flannels. Prime mess mackerel at Haddock's, t f. Winter lingering in tho lap of spring, A good deal of quiot followed this revelation. The snako editor was tho first to sneak. "Well," ho said: "that's it. I remember now, I was reading that paper yesterday, and I must have seen it there, but I was sure I had road that very thing a thousand times." And tho commencement editor sat down and wrote a long and confusedly able article on "unconscious corobra tion and latent impressions." JJurdett, in Brooklyn Laglc. INTERESTING RELICS. Discovery of Somo Vuluiibln Komulna orn Kxtlnut Unco. Tho island of Newfoundland, lying in tho Gulf of St. Lawroncc, off tho coast of Labrador, and belonging to England since 1853, was once inhabited by a raco of aborigines, who havo, lmwnvnr. beconio oxtlnot airos mro. Thoso havo boon known by tho names of Bothuks, or lioothles, ami wero un ilnnhtedlv red Indians. Hko tho aborig ines of tho adjoining oontlnont. Unfor tunately, but low remains oi mis niu'innt, nooiiln havo boon foUlltl. SoiUO of these romaiii in tho hands of privato collectors, and tlio remainder aro sain to bo ilonositod in tho Nowloundlani Musoum. Thoso includo a skull and a skeleton; some arrow-heads, axes and nthnr iimili'iiionts all of stone. And so tho matter rostcd until somo curious discoveries wero recently made on l'illey's island, JNotro uamo nay. Hero sovoral graves wero carefully opened, ono ot wmoii was iounu to eon tain tho skull of an adult In an excel lent state of preservation. This ex hibits all the peculiar characteristics of tho skull of a savago; but lor an mat, the skull is so woll shaned that it is dif ficult, to Kiinnoso that tho Bethuks woro nf fi vnr v low tvno of humanity: but decidedly tho contrary opinion would bo moro readily lormed, taking mo in tnlllimnt eoiitom- of tho hoad as ovi donco. In anothor gravo was found a second skeleton, which is nearly por fnnfc. with tin) execution of a fow small bones. This skeleton from tho slzo Is apparently that of a porson not arrived at maturity. Tho body was doubled together, wrapped in birch-bark, and laid on its side, and then covered with stones so at to form a cairn, bubsc Mr. tlm bodv was cxaniin cd, and when tho birch-bark was remov ed, was found to bo porfontly prosorved, almost as mucli as mat oi a mummy. Tlu4n imixmi' to have been tho onlv relies of humanity that havo boon dis covered of this ancient tribe; but many specimens of beautifully-finished stono arrow-heads, stono hatcnets or nxos, and many articles mado from wren Inh look liko drlnkimr-vossols. and, most singular of all, a model of a bark canoe. Wo should havo supposed dm dm miiHiiir nt liuiilnls of canoes or I... ...v ...... .... - any thing olso was a comparatively mOUClll 1UUII, 11HU tiiuum uuimr uuiu looked for any thing of tho kind in tho c nl n unnnlii M'llO lll'nll SO Inilf. long ago. Besides those, somo curious nnd oddly-shaped articles, mado of l.rmrv u-ni-ii 11 lsn lirnlicllt to llfllt. which IVIIH) . . w O O ' havo been supposed to bo ornaments. Uhamwrr toumui. ALEXANDER OF BULGARIA. The Dethronement of the Prlnco a Uett- eil ly lllnnelf. From the book Written by tho court preacher, Kock, which has just ap peared, wo tako tho account which Prince Alexander gavo his friends In Darmstadt of his dcthronomont. The narrative is as follows Tho 21st of August I had worked un til lato at night, and had just fallon asleep when I was awakened by the noiso which reached mo from tho cor- idor leading to my bedroom. It was about half-past ono in tho morning. Tho next morning my Bulgarian serv ant, Diinitri, rushed into my room trembling and exclaiming: "Sire, you aro betrayed they come to assas sinate vou. You must fly before It Is too Into!" I sprang from my bod and took my rovolvor. Suddenly I heard a military command, and this gave nio confidence. I said to Di initri: "I am saved; tho military hero." But he, still trembling, shouted: "No, you must fly It is the military who wish to kill you." I then hastened, still in undress, to tho door eading into tho gardon, but as soon as I opened It I was fired at Soon afterward I hoard shots on all sides. J then went through a dark corridor to tho servants' sUirs, up to tho winter garden, on tho first floor, to seo If it were still possiblo to escape. It was so dark that I could not seo my hand be fore my face, but tho line of hro from tho shots of the soldiers, showed mo at onco that 1 could not think of escape, as tho palace was entirely surrounded. Tho striking of tho bullets left no doubt as to tho serious situation. At the samo timo I hoard a shout from a hun dred voices : "Dolu Knjaz I" (down with tlvo Prince !) I returned to my room to dress, determined at least to dio in uniform. After having returned to my room I decided to make a light, btt tho soldiers at onco shot through tho window. I put out tho light and dressed in tho dark as soon as possible, drawing on my uniform without drawers or socks. Moanwhilo tho noiso, tho clashing of arms and tho clamor of tho excited crowd increased. When I was dressed I stopped into tho corridor, and was at onco sur rounded by a crowd of men. In spito of there being only on candlo hurtl ing, I could seo by tho glistoning of tho bayonets that thero were at lsast ono hundred and fifty people. Resist ance would bo useless, as I had only two body servants. Thoy wero ready to lire, but I forbado it. Surrounded by this crowd of nion, I went to tho cn tranco hall of the palace. At this mo mont I mot my brother. While stand ing thero an impudent cadet toro from tho register, which lay on tho table, a leaf, and tho wholo crowd, who, by tho fumes of alcohol among them, I know wero strongly intoxicated, demanded that I then and thoro sign my abdica tion. Ono of tho most impu dent, Captain Dimltrioux, hold his rovolvor under my nose. Thoro aro no posslbllty of reasoning with theso oxclted poplo. I could tell thom only ono thing, that thoy must writo it thomsolves, as I could givo no reason for my abdication. Ono of thom took a pen ami began to writo, but in his drunkonnos.i ho mado so many blots and unintollfgiblo sign, that ho gavo it up when ho tried to wad it. Thou I took tho pon and wroto upon tho samo paper, "God savo Bulgaria Aloxandor." As soon as I finish, thoy snatched tho papor from my hands and Captain Dlmitrioux put it, without looking at, .in his pockoL Then thoy asked mo to go to tho War Office. Thoro thoy posted sol diers as guards insido and outstdo of tho room. Besides this au ofllcor with a rovolvor In his hand walk up ami down In tho room. Whilo thoro Cap tain Bondorow, with his hands in his pocket, canio to enjoy my appearance as a prisonor. I asked him, "What do you Intend to do with mo?" Ho an sworcd: "You will bo transported to Russia." K O. Times-Democrat. TRADING IN ALASKA. A Iluilnetn Which In More PVoIltable to the JtuyerThnn tho Seller, When I ontcred tho storo of the Alaska trader at Nuchuk I found that salo and bartor had begun. Ono by ono mink-skins woro being laid upon tho counter as thoy woro oxtraotod from a soiled bag, and for each ono separately tho trador was paying two silver ton-cent ploccs. But tho monoy for ovcry tenth skin was shown to tho Indian and thou droppod into a sopa rato box this being for tho churcli. Next camo somo fox-skins; these vary in price, but tlio trader's decision as to what should bo paid was received with scarcely a protest. Tho last skins of all wore sea-ottor skins, and theso woro pulled out very reluctantly; but four piles of shining dollars wero paid for each skin, ton dollars In each pile. Tlio noxt thing was to pay all tho money back ovor tho counter and ro celvo goods in exchange. Tills took little time, and would havo taken loss If our Chuganiuto had only known ex actly how much tobacco and how much sugar ho wanted; but as tho money diminished ho kopt buying small amounts of tho samo tiling ovor and. over again, as though uncertain exact ly how much to buy of each with tho means at his disposal, until at last every thing was gone; then ho begged for a small present, and tho deal was over. On tho floor lay a miscellaneous heap of skins reindeer from tho west eido of Cook's inlet or from tho Copper rlvor, lynx, ermine, boar, raccoon, red and cross foxes, wolverines, beaver, wolf and muskrat Fortnightly Re view. Sugar is put Into cement te i creaso its strength. , village. and reach tho winze.