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emi-Weekly Gazette. NEWS O THE WEEK. Baron Fava, Italian minister to the United States, baa leit Rome on bis way to Washington. Fred Atkins, age 30, a civil engineer on the Astoria & Portland railroad, was drowned in Young's river. The Anglo-Scotia mills and lace facto ries near Nottingham, England, were burned Friday. Loss $500,000. The Pacific conference of the United Norwegian Lutheran church of America is in session in Port Townecnd. The export firm of Schiffmann A Mayer, of Hamburg, baa failed with lia biliiies of about 1,000,000 marks. The Eureka mill on the Carson river in Nevada, waB destroyed by fire Mon day morning. Lobs, over $100,000. A cyclone struck the village of Brows, Kansas, Sunday, destroying the tine school bouse and many other buildings. George H. Painter of Chicago, has been sentenced to death on June 24 for ' the murder of his mistress, Alice Martin. It is announced that Commissioner Carter, of the general land office, will probably reeign about the end of the fiscal year. , Murder in the first degree was the ver- diet given in the case of Salvador Picani, - charged with murdering bis friend Salva dore Concbilla at Tacoma. The stores of O'Connell & Glass and A. J. Lewthwaite in Oregon City, Oregon, were robbed by burglars Saturday morn ing. The robbers escaped. While picnicking on Chickamauga Creek, Saturday, three members of the middle class of the high school of Chatta nooga, Tenn., were drowned. The spring and summer meeting of the St. Louis Jockey club opened Saturday, and will co jtinue until June 24, giving 48 consecutive dayB of racing. The building containing the colossal panorama of the crucifixion, in Vienna, was destroyed by fire Thursday. The great painting Is a complete ruin. The body of Louis Schmeiz, Bheriff ol Brown county, Minn., was found in the river Monday morning. He had been despondent, and no doubt suicided. An incendiary fire Friday night in the Parker block, in New Bedford, Mass . badly damaged several hundred pounds of Arctic and Northwest whalebone. Mrs. Florence Ethel Osborne, who was sentenced to nine months' imprison ment in London for the theft of jewels from a friend, has been released from jail. Otto Sevier, a young farmer of Tekoa, Wash., hung himself Thursday because a young German girl refused to marr.i him after he bad sent her money to come to bim. A frame residence valued at $10,000 was destroyed by fire at Seattle Monday night. A. J. Anderson, the owner, jumped from an upstairs window to save his life. Indian troops formerly stationed at Fort Sherman are now marching to Fort Walla Walla. The order to march ou foot was not to the liking of the redskin soldiers. The schooner Plymouth, in tow of the steamer Arizona, parted her tow line in a gale Thursday in Lake Superior, and is suppoeed to be lost with her crew of eight men. E. T. Thcmas, signal service officer at Port Angeles, Wash., committed suicide Thursday by shooting himBelf. Family trouble and an excess of stimulants wae the cause. A car on the San Francisco & San Kateo ailroad, the new electric motor line, jumped tbe track in the outskirts of the city Monday, and three passengers were fatally hurt. Lightning set fire to an oil tank at Bradford, Pa., Tuesday night. The tank contained 36,000 barrels of crude oil. and the flames from it set fire to several oth ers in the vicinity. Policeman Kane, who was stabbed on Saturday night by Thomas Kelley, died in New York Monday morning. His brother Harry, who was stabbed at the same time, also died. The Cheyenne Indians in Oklahoma are becoming troublesome, and threat ened to kill all whites who should take claims next to them. Troops have been ordered to the scene. Every lumber mill in the La Crosse district, Wis., closed down Thursday and will probably remain so until the labor troubles are Bettled. Two thousand men are out of employment. The missing schooner Glenora of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, reported lost in last Thursday's storm, bas turned up safe, having gone aground on the Ontario shore. The crew is safe. Architect Emory J. Mills of Chicago has been indicted for manslaughter. He planned the structure on Pearce street which collapsed recently in a storm, killing a number of people. Representatives Geary and Cutting had a personal encounter a few days ago in Washington over a trivial matter. A duel was prevented by Henry Watterson, who acted as peace-maker. Ralph K. Paige, cashier of the wrecked Painesville bank, pleaded guilty to a charge of forgery in -Cleveland, Ohio, Monday. The judge withheld sentence in order to examine the case. An Indian known as Peter was shot and killed by James Lacy, a rancher, near San Jose, Monday. It is stated tqr that Peter was drunk and insulted Lacy's mother, who is 80 years of age. A culvert near Lincoln, Neb., washed out by Sunday night's storm wrecked the east bound passenger on tbe Burlington. Fireman S. P. Shriner and two tramps, who were stealing a ride, were instantly killed. William Maskelyne, the old-time turf man of Walla Walla, who was recently released from tbe Medical Lake asylum, bas again become insane, though be ap peared for several days to have been completely cured. There is no improvement to be noticed in tbe condition of the 8a Francisco coal market, the situation being weak and depressed. Stocks on band are ex tremely heavy, and receipts from North ern collieries are liberal. Fire in Pittsburg, Pa., Saturday, de stroyed the building occupied by tbe Ms Household credit company, tbe S. J. . "'Roberts wholesale paper company, and damaged a number of other buildings. Tbe total loss is 300,000. The Fox and Illinois rivers have over flown their banks at Ottawa, 111., and have done a great deal of damage. The Illinois valley from Kankakee, to La Halle is inundated. A Swede was drowned while trying to save stock. The Inhabitants of Langeac, France, are much excited over a number of fires of incendiary origin, which are laid to an archists. Six houses were burned Thurs day, and another was wrecked and burned through the explosion of a bomb. The 4-weeks-old child of W. D. Day died on the train Tuesday near Grant's . Pass. The parents were from Eugene and on tneir way to Hornbrook, Cat , and were almost destitute. The conduc tor raised $40 among the passengers for them. Last Toeedaj Dr, G. H. Horn of Van Buren county, Ark., was killed by Wm. Hal ley. An old feud has existed for years between Horn and the Hatleye, and they have had several shooting en counters, and two or three have been killed. The dreibund treaty stipulates nothing concerning the number of the Italian army, therefore the report that the object of King Humbert's coming to visit Ber lin is to secure a relaxation cf the condi tions of the treaty in that direction is un founded. Fifty deputies are still guarding the Chinese headquarters at Dayton. "Agi tators" there have threatened to raid the town Saturday and force the Mon golians to depart. No Berioiis trouble is apprehentled, however, by the people of uayton. A negro, name unknown, outraged an 8-year old child, the niece of Sheriff Anderson, of Sunflower county, near ndianola, Miss., Thursday night, and Saturday night the brute was lynched by a mob of citizens not far from the scene of bis crime. Nearly 100 heads of families left Mont real Thursday night for tbe Canadian Northwest.to found a Jewish colonv. This contingent is com posed of stalwart Rus sian Jews who arrived in Canuda this spring. This scheme is backed up by Baron liirscn. Fecundity in art, with extreme medi ocrity or worse, is shown by this year's Koyal Academy exhibition in London Nearly 6000 works have been rejected, yet the exhibition is very poor in quality. Vlany of the canvasses hnug are abso lutely amateurish. Judge Parker of Fort Smith, Ark., has passed sentence of death upon John Thornton, for murdering his daughter; John Pointer, for killing Sam Van Dever, and William Holding and John Brown, for the murder of Joseph Poorboy and Thomas Whitehead. A negro uprising is reported from Tri une, a town thirty miles from Nashville, Tenn. The news of the lynching of Epb Grizzard caused the negroes to band to gether. They are said to be in completo possession of the town, and have already killed three of the whites. Edna Mitchell, a little girl 8 years of age, was horribly mangled by a cable-car m Tacoma Wednesday. Her lace was torn so badly that her features are un recognizable. Recovery is almost hope less. A brother is employed by the Port land Motor Company. Thomas B. Knaegs has filed a petition in the court in Indianapolis asking that his name be changed to Ihomas B. West. His reason is that he is so shocked at be ing introduced to ladies to find bis name distorted into "Jags,', "Basra," "Snags," and even into horrible "Rags." It is officially announced that, the great safe manufacturing houses of the coun try, namely, Hemng, Hall and Marvin, have combined. The new company is incorporated as the Herring, Hall and Marvin Company, and will begin busi ness June 1, wit h a capital of $3,300,000 Secretary Noble has requet-ted the sec retary of war to send a detachment of troops to the Col ville Indian reservation in Washington to remove intruders pending the action of congress in the agreement made with those Indians for the cession to the government of their surplus lands. Tbe trial of ex-Premier Mercier, Hon Charles Langlier and Ernest pecuad for conspiracy in connection with the I. ang lais contract, was commenced in Mon treal, Canada, luesday. All but the pris oners, council and witnesses were ex cluded by order of the judge, and great indignation is felt at tlie action The backbone of the disastrous strike at Durham, England, was broken by the action of the miners who voted in "favor of all men not connected with the pits owned by members of the Mineowners' Association resuming work. Twelve thousand men have thus been able to go back to work: at once. Two additional persons are reported missing in the Philadelphia theater fire, making nine people who cannot now be accounted for. their names are: Geo. E. Thatcher, a machinist, and Freder ick Amper, a boy 12 years old, of Many unk. Both the Times building and the theater will be rebuilt, The Canadian steamer Glengarry, with the Bchoonerg Glaekin and Glenona in tow, encountered a fearful gale on Lake Superior Thursday. The Bteamer went ashore and was wrecked. The Glaskin made harbor safely, but the Glenona is supposed to be at the bottom with her crew of ten men The Commercial bank of St. Paul closed its doors at noon Wednesday and put a card in the window announcing that business was temporarily suspended. The cause was a heavy run on account of the failuro of tbe St. Paul Insurance Company. Tbe directors state that all the deposits will be paid in full. In tbe British house of commons Wed nesday the second reading of the woman suffrage bill was defeated, the vote stand ing 135 to 175. The smallness of the ma jority caused a surprise. The most no ticeable feature of the debate was the at titude of the liberals, whose programme included a great extension of tbe Iran chise. Samuel FleiBchman, the California pianist and composer, who was billed to appear at tbe Metropolitan temple in 8an Francisco, rushed away from tbe house before the performance began and was found biding in his cellar. The doc tor who examined him said that he was suffering from an attack of stage fright A large audier.ee was disappointed. Tbe pope has confirmed the decision of the propaganda in favor of the plan advocated by Archbishop Ireland, allow ing American Catholic schools to be taught by state teachers. Religious in structions will be given after school hours, the object being to relieve the Catholics of the burdensome expense of supporting separate scnools. Minnie Tracey, aged 14 years, com mitted suicide at Hollister, Cal., Mon day, by taking strychnine. She was left an orphan about ten years ago and has since lived with Mrs. Valentine Mat thews. Mrs. Matthews took occasion to scold her for some trifling matter in the presence of a companion, whichso hum iliated her that she concluded to take her life, A man named Dey, an engine wiper, was brought to the Walla Walla hospital Wednesday evening from Dayton, with a mashed band, ibe unfortunate man was taking tbe place of the brakeman in switching on tbe Hunt line, and was at tempting to couple the engine and bag gage car, when tbe bumpers caught bis right hand, mashing every bone in it up to the wrist A Mohammedan fatalist named Matter Baix, a waiter on the British steamer Angerton, which arrived in Philadelphia a few days ago, jumped neadiong into the huge furnace of the ship, under the delusion that his time had come. He was badly burned, but would have re covered bad he not refused to take food or medical treatment in order to meet his appointed fate. The fire in the Cayuga flats at 100 and 111 W'eBt Twenty-third Btreet was more serious than at first supposed, ine names of the two people who were found burned in tbe ruins were Mrs. William Alexander and her sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Johns. Their bodies are unrecognizable. Tbe injured are Dr. James Briggs, who was so badly burned that she will prob - bly die, and Miss Catharine, whose chances of recovery are slight from be ing badly burned. A tireuian was also burned, but will recover. Wanted, an Open Klver. From the Pomeroy Iudepecdent. Part of three of the most productive states Washington, Idaho and Oregon in this union are interested and urging that congress open the Columbia by portage railway at The Dalles. There will be between 30,000,000 and 35,000,000 bushels of grain to ship this year from the area drained by the river named and upon whose bosom that grain should go to sea. That 1,000,000 tons of grain now costs about $t, 000,000 to ship to market. With a portage at The Dalles this rate would be reduced about one-half, and thereby leave $3,000,000 in the pockets of the people that now goes into the coffers of the corporations to aid them in buying our congressman oft' from urging appro priations to open tbe river by construct ing a portage railway, as the state of Or egon has done at the Cascades of the Columbia, and thereby saved tens of thousands of dollars to tbe people on the lower river whose products are not a tithe compare! to the products of tbe upper Columbia and snake river basins. He Nver Paid the Minted . Miss Bertha Sterret is cne of the belief of San Jouquin county, Cal. James A. Spencer was desperately in love with her last winter, but Charles Wiilett won so warm a place in the young lady's heart as to rouse Spencer's jealously. While returning from adanee one morn ing in December (Jharles Wiilett was fatally shot by Guy Pyatt.- An investiga tion snowed that spencer had employed Pyatt to murder his rival, agreeing to give bim $42 if he did the job. At the recent term of court Pyatt entered a plea of murder In the third degree, and was sentenced to ten years. Spencer is now under indictment as an accessory before the fact and is in jail, where he will wait the fall term for bis trial. Pyatt began his ten years' sentence here today. He says Spencer never paid him the $42. A Woman'a Mutt Act. A sensation was created in the front of fit. Mary's Cathedral at Pittsburg, Sun day, by Mary Cameron, a crazy w oman, assaulting the Rev. Father O'Connell with a hatchet. Ibe woman struck at the priest with the hatchet, but he warded off tbe blow and seizrd her bv the arm. She fought like a tigress and tried her utmost to kill him. Father O'Connell drew a revolver, but assistance arrived and the woman was arrested. Many years ago Mrs. CameroB lost ber property through litigation, and the priest testified against Her. ibe loss turned her brain and she has had an antipathy to priests ever Binoe. She was placed in an asylum. A Terrible Revenge. A Herald special from Barquisimcto, Venezuela, says : "Dictator Palacio's al leged threat to kill the 23-year-old son ol Ueneral Urespo, so soon as the laBt named comes within a league of Caracas, has reached headquarters of tho revolu tionists, and excited great indignation. General Creppo declares if his son is put to death, Palacio will be burned to the stake in the plaza in front of the C.is-a Amarallia. The revolutionists will do all they can to prevent the dictator from carrying out his threat, but if he should kill young Crespo, Palacio may expect, if captured, to be cremated." A Fearful Accident. Thomas Sweet, a machinist, met with a serious accident at Paso Rubles, Cal., Sunday, while working in his shop. A belt which he was placing on an engine slipped, flying over his head and pulling him violently against the machinery where he was held fast for five minutes before assistance came. Each revolu tion of the wheel struck him on the bead, tearing bis scalp and crushing his skull, besides other painful cuts and bruises. There is very little hope for his recovery. Valuable Trotting Home ltnrned. The celebrated Fairlawn stables at Lexington, Ky., the property of Smith McCann, were entirely destroyed by fire Sunday night. It was one of the finest stock stables in the United States. Nineteen horses were in the stable, and eleven were burned to death. Among the number were two full Bisters to Phil Thompson, valued at $5000 each ; two Red Wilkss fillies and a Robert Mc Gregor colt. There was no insurance on the horses. The property was insured for half its value, Tbe total loss amounts to $35,000. The fire was the work of in cendiaries. To Test the Michigan Law. Colonel Duffield, of Detroit, counsel for fourteen republican presidential electors, has asked the supreme court of Michigan for a writ of mandamus to compel the secretary of state to deliver to the sheriffs a written notice, between July and Sep tember, that at the next general election electors for president and vice-president of the Unit?d States for the state of Michigan will be chosen. This action is brought to test the constitutionality of the Minor election law enacted by tho last legislature. Keeley Airald of Dynamite. Dr. Keeley, the wealthy proprietor of the bi-chloride of gold establishment at Dwight, III., believes his life is in danger from a female crank, aud has referred the matter to the police. The woman signs herself Frankie Parsons. She says Keeley is responsible for her husband's death and demands $1000. She has written a letter to the doctor threatening death, and he fears dynamite. He answered her letter to the postoffice at Chicago and the police aro now looking for her. Sliced to Death. The London Standard's correspondent at Shanghai says; One of the chiefs who took a prominent part in the Chung rebellion was recently captured and brought to Tiou Tsin to be tried. He was found guilty, and as a warning to all w ho rebelled against the government was ordered to be executed in the most hor rible and agonizing manner. The sen tence put on the unfortunate was that be bo slowly sliced to death, and the awful punishment was inflicted in a pitilepB manner. Playing Train Robbe. Two farmer boys, who were hunting jack-rabbit b, near Echo, Sunday, played what might have been a serious joke on the trainmen of train No. 7. Since the attempted train robbery near La Grande a few days ago, tbe engineers have been on the lookout for train robbers. As No. 7 rounded the curve, Engineer Bailey was startled at the sight of two shotguns leveled at him. ife pulled the throttle open, and as they new by the boys dropped their guns and waved their haw. Three Were Killed Outright. A constable attempted to arrest George Ruckerat Bayou Sara, La., Sunday for dtunkenness. Rucker apparently sub mitted, but suddenly turned, and draw ing two revolvers commenced firinsr on the officer and those present. W. E. i Mall was killed, ana witlbtewart, Pat! Hataon and Max Lawton seriously in- I jured before Kucker was killed. His j brother Wildam, who also started shoot-j i ing, was killed. Tbe Ruckers were col- ored. PAHPINO THE EVANGELISTS. Shameful Attack on a Cowboy Preacher and Hla Wife. Jacksonville Dlspau-h to the Hu-.innuh ' Newi. j For several weeks the 19-year-old cow Iwy preacher has conducted revival meet ings on the streets of Jacksonville. Sev eral complaints of adjacent property owners have been filed with the authori ties, but the cowboy still held on. The other aftenoon, as he was preach ing at the foot of Main street, accom panied by his wife, a pretty little woman, I two white Evangelists and a negro solo-1 ist, a fire engine came out and dow n to the slip for practice. It liecame whis- j uiva.l in !, ornivil that the fireman Ha. I I been ordered to drench the cowlwy if lie persisted in holding the held. Ihe cow boy watched the engine steam up, and auticipated that it was the intention to drive him away, announced that it would take all tbe water in Jacksonville to do it. The crowd was eager to see who would yield. Soon a full stream flew into the air and fell on the throng, which scat teredall except the cowboy and his corps. These Btayed and sang "Washed in the Blood of the Lamb." Little Mrs. Cowboy's voice rose up above all the oth ers in half a wail. Tbe feeling in it, manifesting suppressed Bobs, awoke the sympathy of tho crowd, who rained down quarters and halves on the nervy cowboy until he hud quite a pile of silver. In an hour the firemen relinquished tlie field. lie Wanted Vengeance. Several years ago, says the Yakima Herald, M. G. Wills had trouble at Pen dleton with a man named Frank Conolly, and later on, while Mr. Wills was a warden ot ine uregon penitentiary, Conolly was a prisoner there under a two years' sentence. Recently this sentence expired, and Conolly appeared at Yakima w ith the avowed intention ot doing up" Mr. Wills and then proceeding to Pen dleton and getting even with ex-sheriff tlouser, who had been instrumental in putting him in the pen. Mr. Wills was posted as to Conolly 's threats, and Mon day night when the latter put in his ap pearance at bis saloon, he watched him cloBely, and as Conolly was moving upon him with slungshot in hand be flashed a pistol in his face and drove him into the street. Later the police took Conolly in, and after permitting him to lay in jail over night made biin take the tie-path down the road. A Row Among- Keach-Comhers. Noah A. Edgall shot and fatally wounded Joseph Lavelle, at Port Town send Saturday evening. The affray is the termination of a family feud. Lavelle told a correspondent on his deathbed that on March 27 f'.dgell met him on the beach alone and fire five shots at him without effect. The two men did not meet again until Saturday evening, when Edgell came out of Judge Briggs' house and mot Lavelle. Some hot words passed between thorn. The two men drew weapons and fired about the same time. One bullet struck Lavelle in the right breast, and a second lodged in Lavclle's left lung. Edgell delivered himself up to the authorities. Lavello cannot survive. Edgell is a half-witted fellow, and has a large family. Lavelle is a Frenchman and has a wife and six children. He formerly lived at Van couvei and Astoria. Both are ex-soldiers and are what are generally called beach combers. Klcb Utah Find. Some extraordinary rich samples of gold ore were brought into Salt Lake City fast week irom a new district on the edge of tho desert twenty-six miles from the city, anil it is believed the strike is a very rich mine of which Brigham Young knew, hut which became one ol the lost mines of that region. The ore assayed from $2,000 to $.1,000 a ton. The man who brought it in says there is a large vein of the ore apparently equally rich. Tradition says a very rich mine was dis covered somewhere in that region twenty five years ago by a Mormon, and for some reason Brigham Young forbade the prospector to work the mine or make its whereabouts known. Just before dying the man indicated the direction in which the mine lay, but hundreds of miners have vainly sought the treasure., A 1'ec Hilar KeliKiuiiK Sect. The good people of Beldeu, Michigan, are much excited over the teachings of the Chrietadelphiitus, a peculiar sect which has recently sprung up in that district. Their prophet and leader is called Kslher. She lives with a man called Mordecai. They are not married, but seem to have Iwen joined by the hand of God as were Adam and Eve. Ksther claims to talk to God, while Mordocai reads the Scrip'ures in a rude tent, which is called the tabernacle. Esther has pronounced that the world will come to an end next Tuesday. One of their followers is call Abraham, who claims to be told to slay his son like his namesake of old and attempted it, but Esther told him that the Lord bad changed his mind, and be desisted. A Horrible Death. A Pennsylvania freight was wrecked near Coatesville, Pa,, Sunday, by a broken brake. A west-bound train com posed of a mail and express-car ran into tlie wreck. Ibe locomotive was thrown from the trjek. Harry Schnlz, the en gineer, and Harry Martin, tho fireman, wero caught in the wreck. Martin was roaeted to death, and Schulz was terribly scalded. He is in a serious condition. Several express cars took fire and were consumed. A Belligerent Itarciu. Earou Lud-.vig von Muller, a direct descendent of King Ludwig of Bavaria, is plaintiff in a suit for $10,000, which he has instituted against the Broadway rail way in New York. The suit grew out of some one stepping on the baron's foot on April 2J on u Broadway car, which re sulted in the baron's attempting to whip everybody in sight. Tlie row culminated in the baron's getting unmercifully slogged, and dumped into a puddle of mud, Altrtnptrd Murder and Sill. -Ills Joe Townee, a bartender, of Port An geles, Wash., attempted to murder his wife and commit suicide last Sunday night. He bad been suffering from de lirum tremens. About 11 o'clock he pulled out a pocket knife and taking his wife around the neck, Btabhed ber in the side and then sunk the knife four times in his own side. Mrs. Townes' corset saved her from serious injuries. Tonne's wounds are not considered fatal. They Want Their Flaga. The red flags seized from Ihe Chicago anarchists by the police last Monday promise to become a subject of contro versy in the courts. A delegation representing the offending organizations called upon Chief of Police McLaughry to demand the return of the Hags, but received instead a tart lecture. They promise to repeat the demand, and if met with a refusal will swear out a writ of replevin. A Pickpocket Killed. Joseph Lamontange, an ex-convict, was detected pocket-picKing in the crowds atching hunday s parade af Chicago. He was pursued by policeman Michael RaflV-rty. Lamoutage ran into a yard on Boston avenue, and after a desperate struggle got the drop on the officer. Policeman Thomas Howard ar- rived in the nick of time an J Bhot Lam ontange through the head, enuring his instant death. "il'EARIXa AllOCr HE.tlC-i." Here Is a Yam About One That lloat and Sailed Away. From the Memphis Appeal.Avalunch "Speaking about bears,' (jarvin last evening "J ".V X bout bears. I think I j self in a comfortable station, "speaking a nau an adventure with one not long ago that beat the record. "1 was hunting around Shell Lake, over in Arkansas, one morning. I was in a dug out and had my gnu and a little dog. The bear I have reference tornado ita appearance ou the shore aud f shot him. When 1 landed i heard a noise over in tlie brush, and, thinking there might le another bear there, I deter mined to start in to investigate. "The bear I had shot lay lifeless to all appearances, but I hud my suspicions about him, knowing the treacherous habits of the varmint, and before f went away I tied the chaiu of the boat around his neck and left the little drg to watch. "1 had not gone far in the bush before I heard the dog barking, and, hurrying back, what was my surprise to see the bear climbing a tree and pulling the boat up after him, with the dog sitting in the stern thereof and barking for dear life, the eight almost paralyzed me for a moment, but I soon recovered snd 'bed. "The bear sprang f t om the tree, je.rk iugthe boat containing the dog after him, and he pulled out for the other side. 1 had to stop to reload, and by the time I was ready to shoot again the animal was out of range. I ran around to the other side ol the lake, expectiug to catch him when he landed, but he was two sharp tor me. "He only stopped long enough to let the dog out. of the boat, when he pulled out again befere I got in range, and when he got in the middle of the lake he climbed into the boat himself and sat on hiB hunches looking at me. I never recovered bear or boat ; but there are stories tilloat, among the inhabitants of the country in the neighborhood of Shell Lake of a bear being seen frequently gliding gracefully up and down the lake in a dug-out." I NDKll THE I.AIIDKlt. s A Story Hhowinfr That Kvery Man Um Ilia Price. From iho New York Coin trier lid Avert isor. At 1 :30 yesterday afternoon Mr. Fred erick Bond, the comedian, camo out of the stage door of Herrmann's Theatre with the air of a man w ho is in a hurry. The door is at the head of a long (light of iron stairs, which run down along the side of the building to the street below. Just above these stairs there is an enormous billboard, and at the time of Mr. Bond's appearance a gentleman, with a bucket of paste and an armful of paper, was renewing the printing thereon. He stood upon a long ladder, which reached from the pavement lo tbe top of tbe bill board and crossed the stairs close to their highest point. Mr Bond started gaily down the steps. Just as be was about to dart beneath the ladder he stopped and rushed back again. "Say," he called to the gentleman with the paste bucket, "I'm in a hurry!" "Well," replied the other leisurely laying on a fresh sheet, "who's a stoppln' ye." "You are." "Me? Watcher givin' us. Ain't the stairs open?" "Yes, but there's your ladder. 1 wouldn't pass under itfor anything." "Then drop off " "See here, I've passed under a ladder twice in my life; first time broke my arm, second time lost all toy money. Won't you move that ladder for a favor ?" "Nixey. Nor even fur a fixer!" "A good cigar, then?" "That's different," said the gentleman of the paste bucket. He laboriously descended and sw ung the ladder outward, while Mr. Bond, coming down five steps at a jump, handed mm tlie promised ransom, and flew up the street. "Holy smoke!" sighed the gentleman of the paste bucket, "them actors is su perstitious ducks !" Ia Iron Rum. a Cause of Pirn? When oxide of iron is placed in contact with timber excluded from the atmos phere and aided by a slightly increased temperature the oxide will part with its oxygen and is converted into very finely divided particles of metallic iron, having such an affinity for oxygen that, when afterwards exposed to the action of the atmosphere from any cause, oxygen is so rapidly absorbed that these particles be come suddenly red-hot and if in suffi cient quantity will produce a tempera ture far beyond the ignition point of dry timber. Wherever iron pipes are cm ployed for the circulation of any heated medium, xvliether hot water, hot air or steam, and the pipes allowed to become rusty in close contact with timber, it is only necessary to suppose that undor tbeso circumstances the particles of metallic iron become ex posed to the ac tion of the atmosphere and this may occur from the mere expansion or con traction of the pipes in order to account for many of the fires which periodically take place at the commencement of the winter season. The ICeitilll, of a Practical Juke, Dwight F. Carroll, instructor In phys ics at the Lehigh university, I'enftaylva nla, has become insane from a practical joke played upon him by the students. He is a graduate of the Wetdeyan univer sity, and went there a year ago from Wallinafurd, Conn. Carroll was a good instructor, but very reserved and unso ciable. His tncilurnity xvas so marked that it became the object of tbe atudentB' jests. A month ago (he students gax'H a minstrel performance in which one of tho actors burlesqued Carroll. The whole audience applauded aud laughed in de rision at the hapless instructor. Ife brooded so much over the joke that he fell Hick from nervous prostration. When able to be about he was a mono maniac, being under Ihe impression that all persons, the students in particular, were hie enemies. The Object of Ihe Wreck. The Myrtle-Creek train w reck and at tempted robbery was well planned. The .Myrtle Creek Mining Company bad a clean-up a few days airo, and it was known the directors of the company were going to be on the overland which was wrecked. They were going to the annual meeting at Eugene, anil were to hike with them all the gold that had been mined during several months. This was generally known, and it was thought they had about $3o00 in gold. This gold was on the train, but the robbers failed to obtain it, as the wreck was inor.i se rious than they had contemplated. In PraUe of the Chin. Tlie Chinese in Australia, though they are hated by the Australians, ate show- I ing what can be done by land culture Ihe Gahfornians, in their large wheat growing tracta, produce 16 bushels of wheat to the acre, the Englishman 27 bushels to the acre, the Scotchman 35. , the English allotment holder 45 lo &h, I the Chinese, with his careful use of every available drop of manure, and his painstaking care for each clod of ground, j would produce about a hundred bushe's to the acre WHAT At-TIIOKS WOUK Foil. Their Heal Dram Hie KU'orl Are Appreciated. I from the Xew York Commercial Advertlier. j It was after the matinee, and th-ee fair I damsels who had attended the perform ance at one of the Broadway theatres I were occupying a table in a corner of the "Weren't those dishes in the second a0' i" too lovely (or anything?" chir- ruped numiier one. "I thougbtthatie.il treo with real bark was the cutest thing in tbe whole per formance," responded number two. "1 liked that, waltz they played in the overture better than anything esie," re marked the third. "Did you notice the leading lady's train was at least three inches too long ?" "Yes; and the leading man wote a made-up tie with his dress suit." "f wonder if that, diamond he wore was real." "Didn't notice; but I thought bin moustache w as just adorable, and when he said 'You have deceived me'" "Wliere does he say that?" " Why, you girls must remember. It's the most important scene in the play." "Oh, I was watching that creature in blue in the lower box." "And I xvas readiDg those funny stories in Ihe program." "Well, I was thinking whether I'd have, daisies or violets on my spring hat, but I remember that scene." And it. is for such auditors as these that the great American dramatist burns the nocturnal kerosene and lavs low for the elusive idea. I'lHK ICK. Made by Mechanical Menus It In Pre Front Impurities. From the National Provisloiitr. There sceine. to be some question in the minds of those who are not well informed on this subject as to the purity of ice made by mechanical moans, but any person who has carefully studied the sub ject will be able to immediately remove these false and erroneous impressions. Artificial ice is made practically as fol lows : The water is converted into steam in the boilers and from thence conveyed through pipes into a steam filter, where as many of the impurities aa can lie re moved from the steam are eliminated. Ihe steam then goes into a condenser and the water thtiB condensed (Iowb through another lilter into a ekunminir tank, wliere any impurities carried over oy the mechanical lorce of the steam are skimmed from the surface. Tlie water then is again reboiled and skimmed and then in turn passes through two more lllters especially designed anil arranged. after a due analysis has been made of the water to be punned, in order that the foreign substances dissolved in the water may be thoroughly eliminated. From these filters the witter passes into a cooling tank, and to make assur ance doubly sure, before entering the freezing cans passes through another fil ter. The cans are closed so that there is no possibility of the pure water being contaminated, and it takes but forty, eight hours to conx'ert the water into ice, it must of necessity he a chemically pure product, t The (lovernment an a Landlord. Fro n the N'exv York Standard. George It. Bowell, of Bowling Green. Ky., who says that the single tax is be coming popular among tlie best citizens of his region, asks if under it the gov ernment would not he u landlord on a large scale. This is the first impression, because it is supposed that the government would take possession of land ami rent it to tenants. But that is not the plan. The plan embodies all the bonetitH of govern ment ownership, such as tho application of land values lo public use, with none of its objectionable features, such as that to which Mr. Howell refers govern inept landlordism. We propose to lay all taxes, not upon land, hut upon the value of land. Hence, land without value would pay no tax. Knot wanted, it would lie as an open common, free for anybody to use it as he might like. II anyone should want it he could t ike possession of it without leave, license, or deed from either individual or govern ment; or if already in his possession, under a deed or otherwise, he could re tain possession of it without tax. Hut when others wauteil the saine l.tnd, ii would have a value; and when that val ue attached, the tax would apply accord ing to their value. Nor would this kind of land be only that which Is now without value. It would belong to a very superior class Under existing laws money can be made without labor by simply buying land and holding it in reserve for a rise. This makes land scarce and leaves only that of a very poor kind to lie had for noth ing. But under the single lax, money could not ho made in that way, and land not wanted for use would be abandoned It Is easy to eee, therefore, that land which would be open to whoever wanted it would lie in all communities and be of much higher grade, both fertili y and lo cation considered, than the best govern ment land to be had now. - - II, nv II In II, Ii l.nal X !(ll(, 000,000, Seventy-livt) years ago Thomas L. Walker, then a mere boy, plunted four walnutn by the roadside opposite bis la ther's house in tho Klcveiith civil dis trict, mar Cedar Bluff,- and some ten miles west of Knoxville. Ho died ten years, ago, yet he lived to see four wal nut trees grow to a measure of four feet in diameter, worth if nut and proiierly seasoued. at least $1(10 each. Had he planted 300 walnuts on an adjoining acre of ground his heirs, when he died, would have been $120,000 belter off. Today they would be $00,000 better ofL Had ho planted 10 acres they would be worth at least $,000,000. Had he planted 100 acres and all the trees had reached an average size of three feet in diameter, anil there is no reason why they shouldn't, as the land is fertile and im prvgnated with lime, his heirs, and there are only three living, would be worth al together $u0O,(K),0(l. If, like old Johnny Appleseed, who planted thousands of apple trees in the Northwest, he had planted all the worn out fiehlH in Tenn essee in walnut, it would he tbe richest state in the I'liion by far. Italy Will Participate. The Italian minister of agriculture and commerce has issued a circular announc ing the government will officially take part in the Chicago exposition through Ibe various chambers of commerce in Italy, but not directly. Tho government will give moral support and patronage to the exhibition of Italian pro liicte. mill a ship will be designated to transport the I exhibit lo New York. Hum Yearn Without a lllrthduy. "Sev-ii years without a biithdity" was the record of a Scottish clergyman who died nearly 30 years ago. .V writer in St. Nicholas says the statement puzzled most of those xvho heard it. At the present lime there can bp; very few, if mere are any, who have this tule to tell of themselves-, tor one who can tell it must have been lioru on the llitb of February at least lit; vears bio PmI n similar line of missing dates is now toon to return : and indeed there ure no doubt Boinr; readers t.f this page who will have only one birthday to celebrate for nearly 12 years to come. The solution of the j puzzle is to bo found in the fact, which does not appear to be very widfly known, i that the year 1S00 was not a leap vear i and 1M0 will not be. Obervftlon. Fiom flic Century. The liar deipises those who believe him and hates those who do not. 1 ho woman who loves you is at once nnft llllYtl he 18 ,,rown 'eent-and guilty after ward. Modern pessimism is ancient Calvinism with God loft. out. Some people would like to have an iu qusition to compel liberalitv and tolera tion. To tell a woman you love her without doing so, and then to love her without telling her so, is the Alpha and Omega of flirtation. How exasperating are those suunv natured people who will never allow you to complain. Many a woman makes a man perfectly wretched because she loves him so much. Iff were as rich as my right-hand neighbor, I should have his fanlts; if I were as poor as my left band neighbor, I should have his. Being myself, I have mine. A man who praisee himself meets with general denial ; a man who decries him eelf finds plenty toagree with him. Hoeiety in Georgia. From the Hill ville Bauner. We passed the liat, in church yesterday for the benefit of the heathen and got f, and sixty vest buttons. We tent the heathen the buttons. During the sermon, while we were snoring, some one relieved us of one of our boots. It'll make touirh missionary stew but let her rip ! There is considerable war talk In Rill. ville. Five hundred colonels are calmly awaiting orders to march, and our one live private wants to get out of the dime museum and join the racket; but we're holding him down. It is almost as good to be born lucky as rich. In our capacity of justice of 'the peace we divorced another couple yester day, and finding that the woman had $20 in ber own right we imposed a tine of $10 and got our brother-in law to marry her on the spot in order to keep the other 10 in tbe family. No lynching this week. Rope cut. The Zest of limiting. From the St. Nicholas. Y'ou ean never know the nest of hunt ing or fishing until your dinner depends upon your success ; you have never at tained the sublime in cookery until you ha-e epitted your lish or meat on a freshley peeled stick, rubbed the salt in with your fingers, and broiled it over a woodland fire, you watching it jealously lest it get ablaze, and all the time that meat iB browning you grow hungrier and hungrier ; and every time it sputters in the glow you catch wafts of fragrance, until you feel that you have the capacity of a dozen starving men, and wonder whether a single haunch of vension can supply your wants. PadereWHkl Lovea C'rltlea. There were several persons in the greenroom xvhen the critic of the Chicago Tribune was kissed by the great pianist. This man-kissing was to him a new ex perience ; it almost deprived him of con sciousness. Those who were eye-witnesses of this significant event solemnly aver that never before did thev see a masculine face so boiled-lobster like, masculine emotions so profoundly agi tated, nor ms.scnline soul bo thrilled as in the case of this young man. Not Her Fortune. From the linllulo Courier. "Hero, this is the third time in a week you've forgotten to pay," said the pretty waiter girl in a certain restaurant not a mile from the Star theater, as a guest bustled out of the dining room. Ho turned back and fumbled in his pocket "Egad, Lizzie," said he, when I look at you I forget everything else in the world." "Well, look more at, your money aud less at me. I'll think my face is my misfortune if I've got to pay fjr all the dinnere you forget to pay for ou accoimt of it. Go on, now." she Had No Children. Shabby visitor Can I see the editor of this n'tpttr? Editor I am the man you are looking for. What do you want? "I want to ask you if you don't want to employ my wife on your paper." "In what capacity?" "As a reporter and a newsgatherer. Nothing in this city can happen without her knowing it. She is a wonderful wo man. In fact, she UndB out msny things that do not happen at all." The Cauae of New Htara. The new stars which sp(iear for a short time and then disappear are caused by the two meteor swarms which are trav eling through space at the velocity of at least 500 uiilea a second. Their collision with each other produces an effect anal ai!ous to the meeting of two trains at s level crossing. There is, first of all, the collision betwon tho two sets of outlying meteors, then Ihe thickest part of one swarm comes into the other, then the thickest part of both comes) together. IMngiaaa. It is said that the manifestly corrupted word word "isinglass" owes its change from a foreign to its English dress to the popular fancy which, finding the Dutch term "Huizenhlas" (sturgeon bladder) meaningless in English, quietly changed it to "isinglass," aud secured its easy re membrance from association with the "icing" purposes for which it is used and the "glussy" appearance it presents. A lilt or Kepartee. The mannger of the dime museum was feeling pretty rocky when he met the snakecbarmer at dinner. "How are your snakes today?" he In quired by way of salutation. "All in their cages," she rSionded, pleasantly. "How are yours,?" And the manager went out to the flow ing hydrant in the back yard aud stuck his bead under it. Had Ilia Choice. "Aren't we ever to be married, dear?" "M'm ; I don't know." "You don't know? The Idea! And to think how often you have said vou were willing to die for nie." "So I am, darling, but not by slow starvation,." - l-'niiy to Preierlbe Fur. Urtwgist- W hat did that man want? Clerk. lie wanted something for the Hp. lrug:,'iHt -What did you give him? Clerk Don't know;'didn't look! Ev erything is good for the grip. Congratulating liltn. ' She accepted you, then"? "She did." "Well, I congratulate you, but report has greatly belird her." "Ilow is that ?" "It waH said that ahe was conceited 1 a,( would be hard to please." ... Ye HoHtnn Maid. Professor Astral (in Bostou) I under stand that your daughter is an entbnsi astic student of tlieosophy. .Mis. Hubbs - Ves ; she w as last week, I don't know what she is enthnsiantip about, this week.