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HEPPNER, MORROW COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1894.
WEEKLY rlO. 9.
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State of Oregon.
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ScrMalyuf State (i. W. Mcllride
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Morrow County Officials.
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r.,uaty Judge Julius Keithly
' Commissioners J . K. Howard
J. M. Baiter.
" Clerk J.W.Morrow
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Asseflsor J. t'. Willis
" Surveyor Geo. Lord
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' Coroner T. W. Ayera, Jr
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AN AGE OF WONDERS.
Remaraable Thincs That Show.. Bow
(ireat This Country Is.
Tliis Is a wonderful age we ftr.iv-
in- a wonderful age, and this is a
wonderful country. H is doubtful if
anv of the effete old world dynasties
eiiu produce such thing's, bui dering' on
the miraculous, as are becoming al
mo..t evci y!iiy occurrences in this land
of the free, .says the Erie Herald.
A few days ago the press dispatches
announced that some fellow out "in
Missouri had discovered coal. There
was nothing so remarhable about the
fact that coal had been discovered.
The remarkable feature of the case is
that this particular quality of coal
emits no smoke when burned. Ac-'
cording to the report, you could build
a fire of this coal in the center of yoor
parlor floor and he unable to find a
particle of smoke in the room. In the
words of Col. Mulberry Sellers,
there's millions in it."
But this truly strange case is per
haps outdone by one which is alleged
to have recently occsrred in the salu
brious climate of California. The ve
racious chronicle states that some
thirty years ago one John liahler, then
residing in Wisconsin, lost his eyesight
and subsequently had both eyeballs
taken out, the end of the optic nerve
being left as a stub in each case. Right
here is where the wonder comes in.
Don't miss it. About a year ago, at
his home in Fresno, Mr. liahler sud
denly saw the light of a lamp placed
opposite to him on the other side of
the room, and the examination showed
that new eyeballs were growing on the
ends of the optic nerves.
Since that time his sight has grad
ually improved, until now he can shoot
a rifle with considerable accuracy, aod
hopes soon to be able to see how the
foreigners pay the tariff tax.
Indeed, this is a great country, and
isn't anywhere near developed yet.
Carp milk cows and steal chickens and
green corn right here in Pennsylvania,
but the boundless west contains still
greater possibilities than the east, and
if old Europe can produce any such
wonders or special newspaper corre
spondents let her trot 'em out.
TMIHTY MILLIOH8.
Speculation Regarding the Population of
London Half a Century Hence.
The London county council has been
studying into the growth of that city,
whose population seems to be decreas
ing, because the people are moving
into the suburbs. The investigation
has brought out some remarkable
figures, says the Westminster liudget.
If we do not add any more to the popu
lation than the amount per decade that
has been added since 1381 it seems that
we should have a population in 1941 of
close upon 10,000,000. If we allow for
a growth at the rate of the natural in
crease of births over deaths there will
be nearly 11,000,000 in London in that
year. If we reckon that London will
grew at the average rate of the last
three decades we shall be over 14,000,
000, but if inner London and outer Lon
don go on together growing at the rate
they have been growing for the last
three tens of years we are to expect a
London population in 1D41 of a trifle
over 17,500,000. If we look at the mat
ter in another way and ask what popu.
lation greater Loudon will contain
when it has attained throughout the
mean density of well-known areas,
we get the following appalling calcu
lation: If greater London were onlyr peo
pled as densely as Hainpstead, it
would contain a population of 13,
000,000. If it were peopled on an average as
densely as l'ulham is now, the popula
tion would be 20,000,000.
If it were peopled at the rate of St.
George's, Hanover square, the total
would rise to 80,000,000.
Whitechapel is three times as dense
ly peopled as St. George's itsel f. The
moral is obvious.
Learning as she Is Learned.
A few of the better blunders nerne'
trated at the recent university exam
inations are given by a contemporary.
One candidate described "primogeni
ture" as a plant which bears only one
flower; anothur derived "equinox"
from "equa," a mare, and "nox,"
night, its meaning being a "night
mare;" while a third, in a paper on the
character of Henry VII., wrote: "Cath
erine Parr, who survived the king, was
going to be beheaded, but he died the
day before he signed the warrant."
'ondon Globe.
THE WESTERN PEBA0UUK.
We are in receipt of the May number
of our state school ptipt r. It exceed
any of the former numbers ic value.
Tbe paper this month oontaius many
new end valuable features. Tbe illus
trated series on tbe schools of the state
is introduced by a paper ou the Friends
Polytechnic Institute at fcUleiu, Oregon.
These papers cannot fail to be of great
value both to tbe sohoola no to tbe
public.
Tiler ate alto several fine articles
by our best writers and tbe departments
"Current Events,""SBturday Thoughts,"
"Eduoational News" "The Oracle
Answers, Correspondents," etc., eacb
contain much valuable reading for
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THE GYPSY MOTH.
A
Soma Singular Facta About a
Deadly Enemy to Troea.
Through an Entomologist's Carelessness
tbe Pest Was Introduced Into Massa
chusetts Where It Now Crr-atcs
(jreat Havoc.
Not so very long ago a scientific wise
acre of Massachusetts, who had never
had the pleasure of meeting with a
gypy moth, siuce the frivolous crea
ture had not journeyed into the old
Hay state at the time, according to the
New York Sun, sent word to a friond
in the far-away land, the home of the
insect, saying: "Please send me a
gypsy moth right awuy; I want to look
at him; I want to study him." So the
friend, who was an obedient chap,
went into his crarden, and with no
trouble caught a gypsy moth, one of a
large band of moths who were en
camped there and had eaten about
everything in the neighborhood ex
cept the house and toughest part of
the fence, and he put him in a ven
tilated box and mailed him to the en
tomologist in Massachusetts.
The gypsy moth arrivud safely at his
destination, and the scientific sharp
went to work with his jaeknife- at his
cage to disentomb him. He was so
lively that he ensily stood on his head
and scraped his hind legs together in
the air, so that the wise man might
know, perhaps, that he was glad to
know him. He was just as lively after
he had been carved out of his mummy
case, but the entomologist was light
fingered also, and he expertly caught
his visitor by his tailieathers and then
went out on his veranda to scrutinize
him in a strong light through his mag
nifying glass. Hut the gypsy moth
was smarter than the scientific man,
evidently very much smarter, and he
hadn't traveled over land and water
several thousand miles to be stuck on
a pin and to make an entomological
Roman holiday. He bided his time,
and when the learned man had flipped
him over on his back, holding him still
by the tail, but with a slightly slack
ened grip, and was about to chuck his
microscope down upon him, presto! he
suddenly gathered himself into a knot,
spasuuMlictkUy yanked himself away
from the glass, slid down to the ver
anda floor and was off into the garden
in a jiffy. The scientific man gaped at
htm incredulously for an instant and
then set off along the garden walk and
across the green sward, treading down
sweet peas and clover blossoms in a
perfectly futile endeavor to recapture
him. That gypsy moth got entirely
away and never came back, and keen
and sote was the disappointment of
the entomologist thereat.
Sore also has taeii the disappoint
ment of the old Hay state therefor
ever since the luckless escape of the
gypsy moth took place a number of
years ago. But though he is gone he
is by no means forgotten. The gypsy
moth of the scientific man followed the
Hiblical injunction: "Multiply and re-
nlenish th earth." and the point of
this history is in the fact that that lit
tie incident by which the entomologist
let go the tail-feathers of his gypsy
moth has cost the state of Massachu
setts over two hundred thousand dol
lars In the last four years. Soon after
the gypsy moth got away the Hay state
had to appoint a state commission,
whose business it was to go and find
him, together with his progeny, and
the commission found him easily and
in a large majority. Each year now they
keep on looking for and finding him in
a steadily augmenting horde. No
trouble at all. He is always on deck.
Last year's work of the commission,
according to a Springfield paper, "in
cluded the examination of four million
trees and the destruction of forty-six
thousand one hundred egg clusters,
all belonging to the gypsy moth, and
over one million caterpillars. Now,"
comments the same journal, "an ap
propriation of one hundred and sixty
thousand dollars with which to find
and fight the gypsy moth is askud, and
it is a choice between constant fight to
the extermination and the loss on the
other hand of something like one mil
lion dollars yearly by the ravages of
the pest."
Unnatural and Improbable.
"That clock," said the man who was
looking through the senate chamber,
"don't call out the hour no way, does
it?"
"No," replied the guide.
"Whose property is it?"
"Why it belongs to the union,"
"To which?"
"To theuoion,"
"An' don't strike? Noslree. Yeoau't
fool me." -Washington Star.
A GERM-lJrFsTBOYING ELEMENT.
Healthy Blood Said to He Sure Death to
Bacteria.
About ten years ago a medical scien
tist advanced the theory that, in its
normal condition, blood contained an
element that instantly killed many
forms of bacteria. In this healthy
state blood has been Injected into the
veins of diseased persons for this pur
pose, and has begun the work of de
struction. The results had not been
satisfactory, as the amount of blood
required was so great as to make con
tinued experiment unwise. Recent
investigations have confirmed the
original idea, and a series of experi
ments of late conducted at the univer
sity of Michigan reveals most inter
esting possibilities. The destroying
principle has been separated from the
blood, and with it germs of cholera
and anthrax have been killed. This
element, to which the name of neuclin
has been given, is colorless and trans
parent. The vital essence of it seems
tenacious of life, as high degrees of
heat, even to the boiling point, do not
seem to diminish its activity. If this
discovery does all that it promises, it
marks an incalculable advance in med
ical science. Injected into the veinB
of persons suffering from many forms
of germ-poisoning, it immediately tie
gins its beneficent task of riddling the
Bystem of the enemy. Thus a new
field in medicine is opened, the ulti
mate results of which even the most
comprehensive mind can scarcely estimate.
LESS RANT THAN FORMERLY.
There H Now a More Unlet Kystom in the
Practice of Law.
'There is as much learning here in
the legal profession as ever but it is
not on exhibition," said a lawyer to a
Philadelphia Record man. "In the first
place, the courts will not countenance
its undue display. In oil times an ad
vocate was allowed great latitude.
Formerly, in a case of dumuges caused
by a neglected sidewalk, the attorney
would be allowed to expound not only
the laws relating to damages for neg
lect but he might stray off into the
realms of medical jurisprudence at
great length and even perorate with an
allusion to the magna chat ic, the con
stitution and the American cujvle. At
present a lawyer must confine himself
to the real merits of his case. The ma
chinery of our courts has,.grovn too
costly to permit such waste of time.
It follows that there is less oratorical
skill displayed than in former days,
especially at the period when some of
our leading lawyers made a specialty of
criminal defense. Now few lawyers
of eminence either in Philadelphia or
the east generally undertake the de
fense in a criminal case.
"To-day the practice of law, like
other professions, is being more and
more specialized. A law office is sim
ply a business office, as you may dis
cover by visiting some of the new
handsome office buildings down town.
1 know of one office, where there are
several partners, that would remind
you of a banking office and where a
bookkeeper and a cashier are employed
to pay off clerks, typewriters ami other
employes. You will, however, still
find veteran members of the bar pur
suing old-time methods in acozy, quiet
office, sitting at a baize-covered tabic
amid a wilderness of well-thumbed
books. They carry a dark green bag
filled with briefs when they go to
court, precisely as all lawyers did fifty
years ago and as Loudon barristers
still do.
"As to young lawyers, however tal
ented they may be, if without social
prestige their struggle to advance in
the profession is sure to be a hard one.
Practice now is often inherited or
transmitted in some other way. I could
point out to you in Philadelphia law
firms that have been confined to the
members of one family or its collateral
branches since the revolution."
PROTECTION FOR THE SALMON.
Necessary In Order to Save a Pacllic
Coast Industry from Kxteruilnatlon.
There is a movement on foot to pro
tect the salmon industry, of the Pacific
coast, for it is asserted there is im
minent danger of the extermination of
the salmon unless something be done.
A Autl.hjiH.be Uvcongress. and a
petition to be Iiduses of that body in
favor of the bill is being largely circu
lated in Washington, Oregon and Cali
fornia. It seems, according to the
Seattle Telegraph, that the favorite
habitat of the salmon of the Pacific
coast is the waters of Alaska, and the
salmon fishing of that territory has be
come one of the most important indus
tries of the United istates. in twelve
years there were packed in Alaska
4,158,701 cases of salmon, the total
value of which at the lowest average;
price was 81(VW7,004. There are in
Alaska, between 55 degrees and III) de
grees north latitude, thirty-four can
neries, which have been constructed
at a cost of 825,000 to 850,000 each.
The present difficulty is that, al
though the number of canneries In
Alaska has largely increased, the out
put from the earlier locations has
actually diminished during the last
three years. The reason for this de
crease is that there arc fewer salmon,
the streams which are their favorite
haunts having been fished out ou the
one hand and so guarded on the other
witli nets, fish racks and other appli
ances that the salmon cannot get up
stream to their spawning grounds.
The petition alleges that to maintain
and preserve this great industry it is
necessary that congress should pass a
law for the regulation of the salmon
fisheries of Aluska, and there should
be no unfavorable response to such a
petition. There will be some individ
uals, perhaps, who will object to the
regulation of the fisheries, but they
will belong to the class which always
kills the goose that lays the golden
eggs. It is a Urged that any sensible
proprietor of a salmon fishery and can
nery in Alaska would rather have his
lake of fish limited for a few years
than to have his business ruined en
tirely, as will be the case unless the
salmon be adequately protected by
congress.
SIMPLE MEANS.
The Novel Implement Used to Remove
(las from a Well.
A good workman likes good tools,
but in 'an exigency he can get along
with very simple and homely contriv
ances. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat
cites a striking example,
A well was to be cleaned, but the
man who had undertaken the job was
afraitl to go down until he had tested
the quality of the air at the bottom.
He let down a lighted candle and when
it was about sir feet from the bottom it
went out as suddenly as if a whiff of
wind had atruck it.
That told the man all he needed to
know. The well was full of poisonous
gas. He took a small umbrella, tied a
string to the handle and lowered it
open into the well. Then he drew it
up, carried it a few feet from the well
snd upset it. This operation he re
peated twenty or thirty times, with
the bystanders, who are never absent
on such occasions, all laughing at him.
After this he let dow n another can
dle. It burned clearly even at the bot
tom. Before going down to his work
he explained to those wlio had been
making fun of him that the gas in the
well was carbonic acid gas, which is
heavier than air, and therefore could
be drawn up In an umbrella as if It had
been so much water.
Ureen Matbews, east side of Main
street, has a neat barber shop and does
work at popnlar prices, 26 cents shave
or hair oat. These have been bis charg
es for mouths. Don't forget bim,
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WAR CLOUDS IN EU110PR
Probabilities of a Clash Between
tbe Great Nations.
What the Effect of a European War
Would lie Upon This CountryA
Strain Thar Cannot Ite
Long Sustained.
Harold Frederic, one of the shrewd
est American observers across the seas,
notes the estimate that there are one
hundred and thirty thousand more men
under armR in Europe than there were
last Christmas, and remarks: "It is
now the universal expectation that
when the Christmas of 1894 comes
around it will find an altered map.
This strain is too heavy. Something
must give way somewhere during the
coming year."
I'-edictions of a great impending
European war have been made confi
dently from time to time during tin:
last decade, says the Hoston Traveller,
yet they have not been fulfilled, and
many will turn an incredulous ear to
Mr. Frederic, saying: "The outlook
has been as forbidding more than once
since the chief military powers began
to swell their armaments to their pres
ent enormous size, and yet, somehow,
peace has been preserved. Why, then,
is there not reason to believe that 18'.M
will repeat the story of lS'.l'l and its
Immediate predecessors, and another
Christmas come with the sword still in
tha scabbard?"
To those who thus appeal to the ex
perience of the nearer past it is unhap
pily easy to return an answer. This
answer may be summed up in Mr.
Frederic's words: "The strain is too
heavy. Something must give way
somewhere." For a long time now the
rival powers of Europe have been en
gaged in a contest which has boon only
less exhausting to them than actual
warfare would have been. They have
been putting forth prodigious exer
tions to overawe their respective rivals
with exhibitions of force, until, in
some instances, the burdens of taxa
tion under which they are groaning
have become intolerable. Italy, in
deed, has almost reached the verge of
bankruptcy;.' Kussir, despite her vast
extent, & Vmail'i.ally in no enviable
plight; while France, Germany and
Austria-Hungary, although much bet
ter able to continue the trial of endur
ance, keenly feel the effects of such
ruinous competition and know that it is
only a question of time when they will
be forced to reduce their military ex
penditures, or draw the sword in tho
hope of conquering a less troublesome
peace.
It is becoming more and more evi
dent, therefore, that a crisis in their
affairs is approaching, and one that
means upheaval. The different na
tions referred to, conscious that even
partial disarmament will not be agreed
to, know that war is practically inev
itable. Not one of them, perhaps,
feels fully ready for war, yet they
doubt if they will ever be much readier
than now, and hence all are on the
alert that they may not be taken una
wares. Mant Ilecause He Wasn't Drowned.
While fishing on the bank of Stony
creek, in Norristowu, Pa., Johnnie
Johnson, a lad of twelve years, tum
bled in the water, and sank beneath
the surface. Other boys saw him dis
appear, and they scampered away for
aid. Johnnie struggled until he reached
dry land and then took to his heels.
Half an hour later he stood on the
bridge, watching a crowd 'jf men rak
ing the water of the creek with grap
pling hooks. Ho became interested in
the strange occupation of the men,
never dreaming they were looking for
his body. He remained on the bridge
an hour until his clothes dried, and
then descended to the creek bank,
where the anxious crowd was watch
ing the dragging of tho stream. "What
you doing?" inquired Johnnie of one
who had just come out of the water.
"Eooking for Johnnie Johnson's
corpse," replied the man. "He tum
bled in there two hours ago." "Why,
I'm Johnnie Johnson," said the as
tonished lad. Then he explained tt)
the disgusted crowd of people who had
been eager to see a limp body pulled
from the creek, and bad his ears well
boxed for his pains.
HORSES, HOGS AND SHEEP.
Government Crop Report indicates That
Prices of Animals Have Declined.
The estimates of farm animals for
January, IWI4, Indicate a decrease in
the number of horses as compared
with January, 18113, of a little less than
eight-tenths of 1 percent., an iiicrease
In mules of about nine-tenths of 1 per
aeaL, a uuireaae of milch cows of
nearly four-tenths of 1 per cent, and of
oxen and other cattle of a little less
than a per cent. Sheep in the interval
between these dates have suffered a
numerical loss of nearly 5 per cent.,
and hogs have fallen off in utimbers
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nearly a per cent. In prices horses
have declined 1 1-9 per cent., mules
13 per cent., milch cows have re
mained almost stationary, but with
increasing tendency, while oxen
and other cattle have lost three
eighths per cent. There has been a
decline in the price of horses through
out the country, excepting in tho
states of Rhode Island and Idaho. Tho
range of prices is from 815.80 a head in
New Mexico, to 895.43 in Rhode Island,
the average being 847.83. The price of
milch cows has advanced in some sec
tions, but the decline in other parts of
the country has no nearly offset the
increase that the average for the coun
try remains at about the figures of
1893. The decline in the price of sheep
has been considerable in the last year,
notwithstanding the decided decrease
in numbers. Hogs have also fallen in
price, but there is every appearance of
rapid recovery. Aggregate numbers
and values of farm animals are as fol
lows: Number of horses, 18,081,139,
value, $769,224,799; number of mules,
353,251, value, 8148,232,811; number of
milch cows, 18,487,400, value, $358,998,
481; number of oxen and other cattle,
30,308,108, value, $536,789,747; number
of sheep, 45,048,017, value, $891,186,110;
number of swine, 45,208,498, value,
$270,884,026.
AHEAD OF THE COWCATCHER.
How the Klectrlc Headlight Is Now tlssd
on Numerous Kallruade.
The electric headlight is now used on
many railroads, and W. H. Sparks, who
is interested in a southern road, re
cently told a writer for the Pittsburgh
Dispatch that his company had found
it a very profitable investment. The
lights cost about three hundred and
seventy-five dollars each, fixed aa tbti
locomotive, and they cost no more
than the oil light to maintain. The
old headlight would not throw its
light on a very dark night more than
oue hundred and fifty feet, and it is
impossible for an engineer to Blow
up his train in that distance, even
with the emergency brake. Quite an
item in the expense of the road used
to be claims for cattle killed. During
the rainy season the lands along the
line of the road become very wet in
places they are entirely covered with
water and the cattle come upon the
track seeking some dry spot on which
to sleep. When the old headlight was
in use as many as thirteen cows have
been killed atone time and the damage
claims have sometimes amounted to
over one thousand dollars per month.
Now the electric light throws its rays
from half to three-quarters of a mile
in front of the engine. Obstructions
can be easily seen at that distance and
some of the engineers insist that a
switch disk can be more easily made
out by it at night than in the daytime.
The lights, moreover, do away with
switch lights, which is quite a saving
to roads that use them to any great
extent. Mr. Sparks says that the en
gines using the electric headlights on
his road have never killed a cow, and
he is confident that the saving in stock
claims alone will more than pay for all
the headlights on the road within two
years.
BRUIN WAS KNOWING AND BOLD.
It Was Airuinst Orders to 8hnot, Ho He
lUldml the Soldiers' Camp Nightly.
"When I was in Yellowstone Park
this summer," saitl a Wyoming Valley
man, "one of the gamekeepers told me
about a bear that worried a camp of
government soldiers almost to despera
tion for several weeks. Late one night
a bear waddled into camp, ripped open
a tent, put the soldiers to llight, got
what he wanted to eat, and went away.
The next night the bear came around
again, smashed down atent and stolea
smoked ham. Under the park rules
the soldiers were prohibited from fir
ing at tbe thievish brute, as well as
from jabbing a bayonet into him, and
the only thing they could do when the
bear appeared and went to helping
himself to rations was to get out of his
way. Night after night the bold beast
made a raid on the camp and ruined a
tent or two. My informant said that
the hour acted as if he knew that the
soldiers daren't fire at him, and that
on each visit he became more saucy
and destructive than before. When
the bear's raids had become unbeara
ble the commandant sent the facts to
the secretary of the interior and asked
what to do. Word came back to shoot
the bear, ami that night, when brulu
strode boldly into camp, the soldiers
put an end to his career by riddlinv
him with bullets."
Tiik mayor of Hrooklyn has refused
permits to athletic clubs to give spar
ring exhibitions, "becaiwe they are de
moralizing to the youth of the city."
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