'V THJ5 OliKQON STATESMAN: FRIDAY, UECEMBEH 23, 1887. BILL NYE'S PLAY. It Is An Operatta Entirely New. . RECHERCHE A5D HIGH TOXED. Its Same is "The Singed Cat," and It Offers Advantages Super ior to All. I have just returned from a private re hearsal of a new operetta of which I am the author, and hasten to write a fair, honert criticism of it for the press. In this criticism I Khali try to he perfectly frank to mention any defects, and yet I shall try to avoid hurting the author's feelings. I want to score the operetta with a merciless band, and yet I do not wish to give myself needless pain. The operetta itself is called "The Ringed Cat," becanse it i really so much bette than it seems to be. The manic was composed partly by myself and part ly by a count who plays on the ferryboats in summer and has his winters to him self. The orchestra opens the performance with a selection from the "Flying Dutch man." Difficult as it may appear, the orchestra makes a good selection from this gentleman, and it is played well af ter everything is ready. It takes some little time for an orchestra to get ready, however. The man who bites off the first joint of the clarionet breathes a few liquid notes, the first violin sounds "A," and the gentleman with the bassoon looks up its dark recesses to see if any cayenne or kittens have been deposited there since be played last. The superin teodent of the large violin stands it up on end and feels of its staccato. He then chalka hi bow, and the leader whispers in a low voice to the man who salivates the cornet. The snare-drum soloist gets his assortment of drums into a semi circle, hangs bis triangle where he can get at it, runs his eye over the xylophone, sleigh-bells, bird-call, picket-fence, bones, castanets, cymbals, Swiss bells, and for tissimo. The leader writes his autograph in the atmosphere with his stick, and the band goes into committee of the whole with a wild snort. The curtain now rises, and a primary school of over eight hundred pupils is teen passing in review across the ntae, Hinging a song of forty-nine verses, mean time going throuzh a system of calis thenics. In making one-night stands with "The Hinged Cat," most any prima ry school will do with a few rehearsals for this chorus. Get these children secured in advan and all their parents will come to see how the children look on the stage. I thought of this myself. A beautiful soprano now comes on, ac- comnanied bv her voice, and wonders where Felix is. She decides to sing a small suns while waiting for him. The son is an arweeio with diatonic scales on it. It beirins low and fluttering, like the err of a wounded clay pigeon, and gradually soars upward, like the price of coal, and eml with some artistic gargling which suggests a warble in the upper register. i The prima donna of the "Singed Cat" has a pleasant voice full of timbre and fine allegro movement, bordering on the andante. Mr. Kiley, who has heard her, says that when she pulls out the last joint on her crescendo and epens her upper register, her mouth looks not un like a stab io the dark. She sings with the whole arm movement.and her action is good as she goes by the judges' stand. She has a selection ia the second act railed "Back to Our Mountains," in which she starts off with a ritard in which she emits a chest note which tests the acous tics of the hall, that she is tickled to get back to her mountains, such as they are, and Is pleased with the altitude. She has assisted in "The. Damnation of Faust," bnt otherwise, her conduct has been good. She is a widow, her husband being deceased. He was listening to the none of a bazx-saw near Stillwater, Minn., in '85, and got an idea that the saw had something confidential to com municate and desired to take him apart far that tMimoea. AnvwaT. be was in that condition when they found him For that reason her music is frequently tearfnl and often solfeggio in soots. Her repertoire is very large and has a lid on it. The only criticism that I feel war ranted in making, and I hate to do that, is that she has slightly ruptured her voice by trving several years ago to sing a dnet with herself and thus draw two salaries. When the applause has died away Kelix comes in with a baritone voice and diminished triad. He thinks of the first verse while the piccolo makes a few des ulatory remarks and then he explains hn h ronld not get there when he ..r-w1 to heranse the iurv disagreed or something of that kind. He swallowed tn iraeoinar clam with the shell on it, ang begins in a low, passe roundelay which develops into a duodecimo run lie i arvomnanied bv a running mate .tnjuatinr of a (lute with a large red mnnatarha over the main entrance. Scene second represents a midnight fire in a young ladies' seminary, in which XV young women are. noticed uttering a nnmher of shrill anneals for help by the licht of the fire fiend. The music here is n adaption of "Sonnambnta Sataniea' or the "Devils Dream." Qaick fiddling by the head violinist, partially over the hridiMtof his instrument and partially across the bridge of Ihe second fiddler's nnw nnx-ftlM a eeneral pa sic on the urt rJ th haaaoon. snare drum and nnhloil It ia a he&titiful sight. defiant note from B flat cornet, indorsed on th hark bv the bass toba and a long, m!i,-Vv moan from the bass drum, ushers io Yasear College Hook and ladder com pany. No. 1, consisting of a fire organiza tion numbering over lou memoers, banded together for the purpose of res cuing beautiful but frightened girls from the burning seminaries at a moment s notice. Kach fireman wears a lawn' tennis shirt with full-dress pantaloons and natent leather Damps. He carries Eabcock fire extinguisher sound in Ros si leather and a small band-bag contain ing a nartraim of visiting cards, wnen a lire breaks oat in a young ladles' semina ry at night he dresses himself and goes to it- lie hods the janitor and sends op his card to one of the frightened students asking her if be may have the pleasure of rescuing her from the fire fiend. If he comes well recommended she tells the janitor to show him up. She then fes toons herself over his shonlder in her simple white gown, with Valenciennes lace around the throat, and her warm tears of gratitude tinkle down and tickle the back of his neck as he tenderly con veys her into the adjoining county, where her parents live on a farm. This is a good part of the operetta, making it spectacular and yet respecta ble. He must, indeed, be a creature dead to all the finer instincts of oar lost and underdone race who will not pay to see a chorus of beautiful gbls recued from a burning seminary at night. How much more lifelike it is than a militia company of beautiful women who come on the stage with as brief address as par liamentary rules will allow, snd after making a few terse remarks with both feet go away. Toe hinged Cat ' introduces a pri mary school, a seminary, an entre nous isabcock fire company and a barrel of rain-water. It contains everything enno bling, with the exception of a plot.. The scene is laid in tins country, and between the two acts, while the girls in the seminary are getting ready for the midnight holocaust, there will be twenty minutes of refined ventriloquism. Even should the operetta and the chaste music fail to accomplish any good, I feel that no one can listen to this ventriloquism for twenty minutes and not go away a better man. We have ransacked Europe for a man who can throw bis voice farther without cracking it, than any other man. We have secured a ventriloquist who can conceal his voice under an alias and then suddenly take it oat of an escritoire near by. This man will imitate also the hoarse accents of a bock-saw meandering through a bass wood plank in a way that will certainly give all humanity a keener desire for something nobler and better. The idea of introducing ventriloquism into American opera is original with me. I think that the opera should be made to teach us something, and give us some thing to look back to and .think about. The ventriloquist who can split his voice up into a dialogue between a uerman gentleman down in the root cellar and an Irish party upon the hay mow has it in bis power to lead humanity out of the sordid channels of trade, and by enlarg ing our horizon, really give us more for oar money than we have . ever had before. "The Singed Cat" will be produced at the Polo Grounds early in January. Let there be a full house. Bill Nye. THE LAST SPIKE. Driven at Ashland by Col. Crocker. GOVERXOR PEJTXOYER'S SPEECH. The Order of Exercises at the Com mercial Nuptials of the Two Paciffc Stat. POOR FELLOWS! Last Wednesday morning First As sistant roe t master General Stevenson, Colonel Nick Bell, superintendent of for eign mails, and Judge Rogers, member of Congress from Arkansas, started up to Somerset, Va., to attend the wedding of Consul General Turner, St, Thomas, W. I., and all went well until they reached Brandy station, six miles north of Cul pepper. They were gazing at the Vir ginia scenery and talking politics, when the train slowed up and the conductor yelled : "Brandy!" The three democratic statesmen jumped up. "What's Uat7 said uenerai Eleven- son, trying to be calm. "Hist! listen!" whispered Judge Rog ers, with repressed emotion and his hand to his ear. "He said brandy, didn't be?" asked Col. Bell eagerly. "Brand v!" veiled the brakeman at toe other end of the car, and the democratic statesmen, with a combined and fervent Thank heaven!" piled out over earn other on to the platform and into the station. "Where is it?" asked Colonel Bell ex citedly when they found the station n- . . - "Where's what T' said trie sgenu "Brandy, of course," replied the Colo nel emphatically. "This is it," said the agent politely. "What?" said Colonel Bell, looking around. "This. This is Brandy station, assert ed the agent positively. And the three statesmen looked at the agent and at each other, then sadly filed back to the car. Washington Critic. Col. Nick Bell, above aiiauea to, was formerly a resident of Salem, and was a clerk in the store of his uncle, John C. Bell. WEALTH OF THE ROTHSCHILDS. Having only a Gentile's knowledge of arithmetic and a fair share of Gentile dis creetness, I can neither calculate nor in quire the amount of the dowry M'lle Aline de Rothschild brings to her bus- band, Mr. Edward Sassoon. But it would seem that the fortune of the Roths child dynasty is getting scattered by the recent marriages of the Jyoung people. Now it is M'lle Aline who marries a Sas soon: yesterday it was her eldest sister. who married M. Lambert of Brussels, and her cousin, Mile Helene, who mar ried a Dutch diplomatist, Baron van Zuylen ; not long ago a M ile de ttotns- cbild became rnncees de Wagram, an other Duchess de Gramont, another sim ple M me. Ephrusst. and another Lady Koseberry. Tradition says that the old Baron James left a fortune of 830,000, OOOf , which was divided among his children, four sons and a daughter, the Baroness Nathaniel. Thuseach inherited 175,000, OOOf, which have doubtless increased and multiplied. At any rate, the marriage of Gustave's daughter was a grand affair. More than 3000 were invited or admitted to the evnagogoe. and nearly 10,000 peo ple according to Hebrew calculations passed through the sacristy to congratu late the young couple. The immensity of this nuptial ceremony was simply be wildering. A minute description would be fatiguing. It was a "grand marriage." But how terrible must be the fate of a young married couple who set up house keeping with 10,000 friends and acquaint ances merely to start with. London World. - ;.. . ' gaDon Cong n and Consumption Core ftc!f by nana a guarantee. It cure eouatt'KS, Geo, K. Good, drnggi. -To lire a hoadred year." aid . Walker, take a bottle t Vinegar Bitter every year. . AsaxaxD, Or., Dec. 17. The Oregon reception train,baving on board the Port land delegation and the invited guests of Richard Koehler, manager of the O. & C, road, amongst whom were representative Portland citizens, the state officials, the supreme court, Mayor Ramsey, and John H.Albert, of Salem, and the mayors of other valley towns, arrived on the scene of the last spike ceremonies at 10 :20 this morning, after a pleasant ride through the Willamette, Umpqua and Rogue rivQ valleys. Ashland was in holiday attire. Though the day was foggy and chilly throughout, the citizens of Ashland abated not one jot of the cordiality of their reception of their guests. An informal reception was tendered to their northern visitors under an ever green arch of welcome. The ceremonies of the Last Spike were delayed from 3 until 4 :30 p. m. by the non-arrival of the California excursion train, which consumed three hours in the run from Siskiyou station over the recently constructed roadbed to Ashland. The spike was driven by Col. Chas. F. Crocker, vice-president of the Southern Pacific railroad, shortly after the arrival of the excursion train. Col. Crocker, taking the golden 6pike in hand, made a few appropriate remarks, opening with, "I hold in my hand the golden spike,' and joined in iron bonds of commercial relationship two great states with three well directed blows, heard in San Fran cisco, Portland, ' Salem and many other cities and towns of the coast, simultane ous with the striking ef the hammer Hesitating after the spike was driven, he said, "Well, I am about run out," and was greeted with applause. Ex-Congressman Horace F. Davis, of San Francisco, then introduced Frank M. Pixlev. editor of the San Francisco Argonaut, who delivered an eloquent and aoDroDriate address. At its conclusion he presented to Governor Pennoyer golden badge. Oregon's chief executive responded warmly, thanking the Califor nians for the valuable souvenir, and then delivered the following address: "Representatives of the various mu nicipalities of California, ladies and gen tlemen, and fellow citizens : It is proper at the completion of a great work of this character, wbicn completion n as just now been signalized by the driving of the last swke which connects the uregon California with the California A Oregon railroad, and which now, for the$rst time in the history of these two states, brings them into close overland commercial in tercoorse. that the representatives of such states should meet as we are now met to exchange congratulations over the event and extend to each other the 1 right hand ef fellowship and friendly greeting. "Representatives of California, we have now a poo our own soil bid you a right hearty welcome to Oregon, coming as you do to celebrate tin completion of the railroad which will hereafter bind the two states in bands of more intimate business relations. These states have heretofore been separated by a formida ble mountain barrier and the only practi cable means et intercommunication have have been by way of the open sea. En ergy, persevere nee and capital, deserving of high credit, have now practically re moved this barrier, and from this time forward the people of the two states will be placed in nearer social and com merria) fellowship and the people of Oregon and California have every reason to feel kindly towards each other and to make every effort to still farther strengthen their friendly connections. For nearly forty years California and Oregon have been the caly two of the American sister hood of states whose homes nave been far removed from the others. If or years the people of those states were removed from their friends in the other states by a vast stretch of mountains and desert waste, and their most speedy means of intercourse were by the long and tedious travel by sea. Thus jointly isolated from the people of the other states, they have always regarded themselves as neighbors and friends, al though they themselves were sep arated from each other by the lordlv range of the Swkiyous. And now, as in the completion of this inter state railroad, the means of commercial intercourse will be greatly increased, so may the feeling of amity still further be strengthened. The cituens of Oregon, as I am assured the citizens of California do. welcome every improvement which will have a tendency to subserve the b.isiness interests of" both states. And the citizens of both states can and lo welcome them as can the people of no other portion of our country, lor the rea son that for long years they felt the need of them bv their deprivation. The early pioneers of Oregon and California, who were here a quarter of a century and more asfo. who came to this country bv the tedious route by the sea, or the still more tedious route across the plains, and who for long years have lived in compar ative isolation, rejoice at all such im provement. They most heartily wel come any and all advances in the means hv which their produce can reacn toe market, and hence tbey do, as we all do, rejoice over the completion of every new avenue of commerce which is opened up within our state. These senue should be for the mutual benefit of alL Tbey should be for the benefit of those who hnild them as well as for the benefit of those who patronize them, and under wise and wholesome regulations tbey can be so. Let ns all, then, join in congratu lations upon Luis aupicKJu wawi, which is destined to mark a new era in the history of the two conjoined states. Let us hope that this enterprise just now completed may be advantageous not only to the projectors, bnt also to the patrons of the road. Let us hope that the two sister states of the Pacific, now that the mountain wall of partition between them baa been virtually removed, may as one people move irresistibly forward in all the laudable pursuits of a higher civiliza tion, that they may hare no other con tention but that which prompts each to outdo the other in all those efforts which tend to expand the . wealth and dignify the condition of all classes of its citizens, and diffuse among all the inestimable blessings of a great and a free government." Speeches by Mr. Stevens, president of the board of trade of Sacramento, Hon. M. C. George, of Portland, John P. Irish, editor of the S. F. Alts, and Donald Ma cleay, president of the board of trade of Portland, followed. After the patriotic strains of the nation al hymn, "America," bad been rendered by the band, the entire concourse joining grandly in the chorus, a benediction was pronounced by Rev. Mr. 8 kill well, and the people dispersed. Ashland is illuminated to-night, TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY. Dec 14. Blaine stock booming. The Western Union is making more money than ever., Pension granted to Daniel Hoover, Boena Vista, and Stephen Kinzie, As toria. James Gordon Bennett, of the New York Herald, sued for $730,000 by the Tortilla mining fraud. a Balfour. England's chief secretary for Ireland, made a bitter speech at Man chester, amid much disorder. It is likely that the Pacific coast dele gation !L' unite upon Mitchell's bill for the absolute exclusion of Chinese immi gration ; but there is little hope of its passage, McLane, tried at Olynmia, W. T., was found guilty of murder in the first de- 5ee. He set fire to the hotel at Shelton, ason county, and it burned alive a man named Connor. McLane has not yet been sentenced. O'Connor and Esmonde, leaders of the home-rule cause in the English parlia ment, arrived at Washington, and were tendered a reception, which many men Bombs are bursting, congratulations be- J prominent in national affairs attended, ing interchanged, and every body is eel- I -a ebrating in his own way tne consumma- tbe distinguished representatives of the tion of the event which has been looked I sympathy of the American people in the forward to for years. cause -for which they labor; that tbey Governor Waterman, of California, I P,f r,V7w" who was expected, was not present. Gladstone. He hoped "the pleading The two excursion trains start north at I voice of Gladstone, the greatest statee- n nviow tomorrow mnrninir. Nochange I man ef the age. would induce toe rsniisn - n- m- i .. . . - ,. T li in the programme mapped out ha. been grj-aj.yogM. . . gau. annouueeu. oawrin em un icw-ucu av about 9 :15 p. m. and cause A LETTER FROM SHERMAN. When Sherman, in 1864, was on his march to the sea, a clergyman in Alaba ma, whose horse had been taken from him by a Michigan soldier early in the war, applied to the general for restitution, and received the following answer : , "Hkadq'bs Mil. Drv. of Mississippi,) Atlanta, September 16, 1864. I "Rev.J.H. Willooghby Dear Sir: Your letter of September 14th "received. IsDoroach the question involving the title to a horse with great deference, for the law of war, that mysterious code of which we talk so much but know so little, is remarkably silent on the 'horse.' "He is a beast so tempting to the sol dier to him of the wild cavalry, the fancv artillery, or the patient infantry' that I find more difficulty in recovering a worthless spavined horse than in paying a million of 'greenbacks.' So I fear I must reduce your claim to one of finance, and refer you to the great board in Wash ington that may reach it by the time vour grandchild becomes a great-grand father. Privately, I think it was a shab by trick in the scamp of the 31st Michi gan regiment wbo took your horse, and the colonel or his brigadier should have restored him, but I cannot anord to un dertake to make good Uie sins or omis sions ot my own colonels or brigadiers, much less those of a former generation. "When this cruel war is over, and peace once more gives you a parish, I will, promise, if near you, to procure out of Uncle Sam's corrals a beast that will Hawley lent his powerful eloquence, resolutions of sympathy for Lrin's c were passed. December 15. Powderly's condition critical. A heavy snow storm in western Texas. Funeral of Mrs. John Jacob Astor, in New York. J. M. Buckley, assistant general man' - . V .a n ' 1 a aster ot toe .Northern racinc rauroaa, claims his company is not interested in the removal of Washington territory's capital. A hurricane at Crescent, twelve miles north of Los Angeles, blew down a $10, 000 hotel, and injured more or less seri ously sixteen hotel guests, and killed woman and child outright. Henrv 8. Ives, the "young Napoleon of finance" vou have read so much about, arraigned in a New York court for steal ing a dratt lor I lUU.UUU irom tne Cincin nati. Hamilton & Davton railway. It appears that Ives afterward paid back the monev. Motion to dismiss the case taken under advisement. John P. Irish, editor of the San Fran cisco Alta (dem.), makes a fierce attack noon Delmas and Montgomery, two ap . ..... 1 potntees of Attorney uenerai uariana to assist in the prosecution of the Benson and other California land frauds. This occasions a stiff breeze from the west- nor'-west in the democratic camp. It is almost a gale. During the performance of "Article 47" by Clara Morris, at the Grand opera house. Washington. Annie llorton, great-granddaughter of John C. 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Bush and daughter, of Salem, are in Washington. Two women asphyxiated in their room in San Francisco. They blew out the gas. Hermann is persistent in urging his claims to a position on the house com mittee on rivers and harbors. There is talk of a war between Russia and the two German powers of Austria and Germany next spring when the flowers bloom. Mass meeting under the auspices of the national republican convention of clubs in New York. William M. Kvarts elected permanent chairman of the or ganization. There are over 700 indictments against Mormons who have violated the laws of the country, waiting to be served, in U. S. Marshal Dver's omce at Salt lAke. The offenders are hiding. Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts, has introduced a fool bill to develop the re sources of Alaska, including in its pro visions the survey of a railroad from Spokane Falls, W. T., to a harbor ou the Alaskan peninsula. I be appropriation asked is $100,000. The Kan Francisco Examiner has pat np $25,000 to be donated to charity if its new Hoe press cannot print, fold, and deliver more eight-page papers an hour than both the Chronicle's presses. The Chronicle has accepted the challenge to pay $25,000 to charity if it can PAINS & WEAKNESSES OF FEMALES. InstanUy relieved by the Cuticura Anti-Pain Plaster, a new. mm r tree able. Instantaneous and infallible naln-kllllnr Dlaater. especially adspt- ed to relieve female palas and weak nesses. Warranted vastly superior U all other plasters, and the moat perfect anuaote to pain, inflammation and weakness yet com pounded. Atall druggists. cents: five for II: or. postage free, of Potter, Drug and Chemical Co., Boston, Mass. ' Oregon Development Co.- First-class steamship line between Yaqmna and San Francisco, the trains ot tbf c Kaiiroad Company. Connecting at Yaonlna with Oregon racin Sailing dstes. FROM 8 AS FRANCISCO. Willamette Valley. Friday, Decembers, 11 a m. Eastern Oregon Thursday, " 11. t mu Willamette Valley. Wedne-Isy. " 21.11am. Eastern Oregon. Tuesday, - tf.taia. FKOM YAOUI.NA. Willamette Valley. . Thursday, Iee. 1 2 pm. Eastern reon. Wednesday. Dee. 21, t a m wni.meti Vallev. ...Tuesday. " 3. Iia, Eastern Oregon Tuesday, Jan. , noon. ! WORTH K SOW I NO. Alloock'aaretheoolvr',BUlue porous plaaters Al other so-called pr us piaster are imitations. Their makers only ret thera np te sell on the . - . r . . m V. ' All so-called Improvements aad new lagredl- enu are bembegs. So eae has ever made a a improvement ea All- cork s rorons Plaster. The company reserves the right to change steamers or sailing dates. n. . i on i. Gen. F. A P. Agent, M4 Monteomerv street. an Francisco, Cat. Oregon Pacific Railroad. X 225 MILES SHORTER. 20 HOURS LESS TIME. Wbeayooj bey Alunr-'t Foeoca PLssTCaa you oMam i the best platters made. MALAkl.t. Darby rropBvleie Fluid is held ia wide asMem aa a sped Ac and preveBtlve. Is it we have the meaaa of rendering the air aad water wholesome "Darby Fluid la a good defecator aad de stroyer of miasmatic matter." J. C Booth. Chemist. C. K. Mint. Fbiia. ' -it should be ased everywhere where Impure gases are generated from decomposing mauer. howm steel. Jt- oavsnasn. vm. CCKE FOB PILES. lies are frequently precedeJ by a sense ef welgnt tn the back, loins and lower pait ef the abdomf a, causing the patient tn suppose be haa some affection of the kidney or neighboring i organs. At time symptom of Indigestion are prevent, Batuleney, uneasiness of the stomach. etc A moisture, like perspiration, producing a very disagreeable Iteblog, after getting warm, is eomiaon attendant, blind, bleeding and itching pile yield at once to the application, of UT. dodsuio s ni Kemeay, wnico an onect ty apod the parts etreeted. absorbing the tumerr, allaying the intense itching .and effecting a pel manenteure. Price aO ceuu. Address, the Dr. Bosauko Medicine Co., riqua, O. Sold by Geo. CGood. liver riixa. re Dr.' Guna'a Improved Liver Pill for tal low complexion, pimples on the face and bil- tnesaesa. Jeer sic sea or gripe, only one 'or a dose Sample free at Geo. E. Good a. A toilet luxury In every respect, Ayer's Hairr Vigor sever fails to restore the youthful f ret ti nea and color to faded aad gray hair. It also erredieate dandruff and pre reals the hair from failing. ; Kleeyles algkta made miserable by that tern twe eougn. anuoe cure is the edy for yea. Geti . Good, druggist. Accommodation unsurpassed for com fort and safety. Fares and freight via Yeoulne and the Oregon Development Co.' stesrashlps much less than ny any otner route oetween aii hiui . in the Willamette Valley and Ssn Francrsco.. Daily passenger trains except 8u&y. . Leave Yequtaa ." a m. . Leave Corvalii 10 JW a. m. . Arrive Albany 11:15 a. m. Leave Albany 10 p.m. Leave Corral! Is 1 -f p. m. . Arrive Yaqnlna 4: p. . O. A C. train connect at Albany and Corvallia. . ;. C. HOUl'K. W. M. HOAO. Acting i. F. aV V. Agent, tieneral Manager. Corralll. or cJrKAT VIA OIM'UOX SHORT LIMv AUXIOXpACIFICK.lt. f 11 to SOtt miles the hortet and 12 to tx hour THE QUICKEST EOLTE TO THE LIST. This popular line, on sreMirt of it southern location, 1 epiliy preferable for trarel daring the winter months. It also affords an opportunity to riilt rtalt Lake City and Denver without extra charre. and aWes a choice of routes via Cohm-1 riiufTs, Omh, Ht. Joseph. Leavenworth or Kansas City. Fall Mrtieular recording route and fare nimihef on appli cation. HAAC A. MANNINU, 1-cal Fawoger Agt. Office at tTTKi9i office, -ja Otnmereial streetSalem. Oregon. , dw NEW YORK , Tl) iiiEiW Aad Seandinarlan Port Outward and pre said tickets, and Informa tion by calling en I. A. Manning, agent. M Commercial street, Salem. WZAK, UNDEVELOPED PARTS Of tba bodr eftlsrg ad sad strenrtbeaed. Fail nartlea lsrsBtse4 fraa. KKIK MEU. X.. fternto, N. 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