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About Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 22, 1888)
o - A P olk r ö l . i. C ounty O bserver . MONMOUTH, POLK COUNTV, OREGON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1888. OF liENEIIJL INTEREST. f COAST NEW S. n has a twelve-year-old girl , fe. l nuasure 15 inches in length S U IC ID E O F A P O O R W O M A N ■ ’ »eight is eight feet, and she [ 270 jtounds. i ------------- M a n I. omph I l l » O stras« A r l s o u u . A M a n W huota H l a >rth Carolina girl married two B rother. Irithi» a week. Now Both men ting for a divorce, and she finds ^ wo husbands are better than A M EXICAN M A IL STEA M ER LINE /tworher horse lias been fitted with ,cles. It belongs to Erie, and toration of its ability to see H»»- is said to have increased th s value more lliau $100. r~*~~***~*~***^~^~~*^ for a piece of laud in Wind- nil., has r cently come to light , i n . ■ . , , the fact that it bears the name tthew Grant, the first American r of General Grant. Its date il 9, 1601. j Hi p o n t a u t K n i D l o y e r . | E. Lambsou, a blacksmith of Seattle, j , W. T., was arrested on complaint of an entp'oye named O. Vitzlhum, whom I he had struck on the hand with a hammer, dislocating bis thumb. He paid a fine of $25 and tnanifcs ed sin cere »'«•pentance by offering the injured m in two weeks’ pay and to foot all necessary doctor bills, j J Lum ber M ill B urned. rein »ins of a man were foui d in the ruins. Under the body was u quantity of gold and silver melted in a mass. It is believed the remains are those of a farm hand known as “ Shoriy" Kook injured, a man from the swollen tor rent in the same locality. The bodiis of a woman and her one-year-old babe were found in a drifL An aged couple named llarrisun occupied a small cottage ne ir the Arliagtin stable. The force of the water caused tBe B old T h ie v e s. 1 building to collapse, and the wife was At San Francisco, C a l, five thieves killed. There are several lost whose entt reiQ the residence of Mrs. Padoy, names have not been ascertained, during her absence, and ransacked tile i The victims are principally poor peo- bouse, stealing a diamond necklace ■ pie, living in small cottages which worth 20,000 francs, two solitaire dia j could not s'and ig t io t i the storm. mond rings, diamond ear-rings, brooch and a large amount of solid silver B i l l e d W title H r « l * U n ( A r r e s t . plate. The total value of the loss is Charles Stokes Gilmau was shot $20,000. Borne boys saw the men ; and instantfy killed at Salt Lake. coming out of the house and gave mt There was a disturb nice in a saloon alarm, but the men escaped. and a deputy marshal uu lertook to I make an arrest. Awhile after one of M e x ic a n »»trainer L in e. the peace disturbers, Gilman, grabbed Thomas A. Valdecpano Figureo», the officer and downed him. Bench resident consul for Mexico, has re then called for help, and Bailiff Me- Two officers ceive d official notice that a contract Manimey responded. had been signed between the depart- took Gilmau to a drug store to tele- mentof the interior and Jo-quin Redo phoac for the police to turn him over fur the establishment of a liueof Mexi to them. Gilman, resistii g. tried to can mail steamers between Guayma- shake the offi ere off and struck at and Ban Francisco, touching at San them, when M Munitney drew his pis Diego, Ensenada and way points. tol and shot Gilman three times, two Mr. Redo Hgrees within six months t ' balls taking effect in his heart and one put on two steamers. The concession passing through his wrist. lie will receive is a subvention of $2,700 for each round trip, to be paid B lllc il by a F u llin g B ank . by the assignment »if 50 per cent, of While a gang of men were at wurk the import and export duties placed on the merchandise received on the on the new highway embankment at steamers of this line. The first St. Johnsburg, Vt., it fell. Thtee men steamer te make the trip will be the were killed and several wounded. Alexander. A large lumber mill owned by W. P. Dougherty & Go., five miles above Mrs Robert Milligan, of Bridgport, Boulder cr ek. Cal , was destroyed by "w . V»., gave birth to her twenty-lifth tire. Los-, $50,000. The origin of the fire is unknown. child! Thursday. The mother is forty eight! ve«rs old, and was married at! L u s t t h e Hud o f I l i a S o » « . the •¿■of fourteen. Her children— twenty one of whom aiu living— in Walter Duuleavy, a longshoreman clude live sets of twins. at Sau Francisco, had a quarrel with a j C a liforn ia I 'l t i . negro, who sprang at him and bit a pieoe i tf the end of bis nose, at which A terrific fire has been raging in There are twenty-two crematories lie made h.s escape taking the piice the west end of San Fernando valley. in EJtorope, of which ten have been bitten off with him. Over 2,000 acres of grain and hay bou t; within the past year. There have been destroyed, together with Viii havwbeen six hundred incinerations T h e W o r k or Footpads. ranch buildings aud personal proji- 11|jin Germany, and eight hundred in An Italian laborer, Angelo Arug- erty of ranchers. John Mountain, a Italy. There are seven crematories in theOnited States and six in process of hiva, going to his cabin at Truckee, ending citizen, while fighting the construction. Cal., was waylaid by two men, knocked tire, Was prostrated by the intense down and robbed of $500 and watch heat and died. The loss so far is es timated at about $30,000. Stewart, of Smyrna, Ga.,owns and chain. ■ ESJ | with three kittens. A young H trret f a r A erld en t. O u tr a g e in A r ls o n a . given her to eat ri cently, In a street car accident at Seattle, Scott aud J» fT Wilson was murdered jstead she adopted it and is rear j as carefully as if it had beeu at Holbrook, Ariz., by outlaws. The W. T., Mrs. Charles Byles was unfor her kittens. isffiirgrew out of the recent war in tunate enough to break her ankle. ATiiS Tonto basin between sheep and cattle Several others were bruised and badly ! raisers. Warrants were issued and shaken in the sane accident. japan theatrical audiences are arrests made by unauthorized persons io show their appreciation of the and the prisoners were taken across B i l l e d by a T rain . i'i! ! by throw.ng pieces of clothing—• the mountains into \ avapai county, J. Dramond, aged 2b, lost his life by Icoats, sashes, etc.— ou the stage, where they were met by a prearranged jumping from a train at Petaluma, close of the play they redeem mob of outlaws and hanged. Cal., striking his head and crushing | articles at fixed prices, the pro- _ —— ----------- -------- his skull. He was rendered uncon I going to the fortunate actor. A u A rm y o f Tram p«. scious and died a few hours later. | The streets and drives of Sicto, NO. 27. AGRICULTURAL. MARKET REPORT. o ________ R kuauie Q uotations C arefully R e Devoted to the Interests of Fanners vised E very W eek . and Stockmen. W HEAT— Valley, $1 30@$l 31 Much valuable manure may be Wfilla W.Ula, $1 20(31 22^. saved by carefullB deodorizing and BARLEY— Whole, $1 10(31 12$; composting the refuse and night soil. A mixture of five bushels of dry dirt ground, pi r ton, *25 00(327 50. and wne pound of carbolnte of lime, OATS— Milling, 32(333c.; feed, 44 added to .the sink or closet as re (345c. quired, wifi convert the whole into a valuable manure, that can be handled H A Y — Baled, $10@$lrt. as easily as that ma le in the barn yard. SEED— Blue Grass, 14$(3l6e.; Tim Prof. Roberts,of Cornell University, othy, 9$(§10c.; Red Clover, 14(3l5c. says : "A eow that makes six pounds FLOUR— Patent Roller, $4 00; of butter a week oil cold water will make seven pounds if the water is | Country Brand, $3 75. warmed.” He further says that “cows EGGS— Per doz, 18c. will drink one-third more when the water is warmed to 80 degrees than BUTTER— Fancy roll, per pound, they will at 32 degre es, and that the 25c.; pickled, 20(325c.; inferior milk will increase one-fifth without | grade, 15(325 j . deterioration.” CHEESE— Eastern, 16(<i20c.; Ore The conceit is often knocked out of gon, 14(310e.; California, 14$c. the dairyman who considers himself a first-rale judge of a cow, when he be gins to weigh her milk anil churn it into butter. It is very rare that the true inwardness of a cow can be as certained, and her real dairy value known, until these tests are applied. Weigh the milk, and keep the record. Appearances are deceptive. VEGETABLES— Beets, pvr sack, $1 50; cabbage, per lb., 2|e.; carrots, persk.,$l 25; lettuce, per doz. 20c.; onions, $1 00; potatoes, per 100 lbs., 40(350c.; radishes, per doz., 15(320c.; rhubarb, per lb., 6c. HONEY— In comb, per lb., 18c.; strained, 5 gal. tins, per lb. 8$o. Many kinds of pears grow in clus ters like cherries. Usually if these D is a str o u s O il K xploalon. POULTRY — Chickens, per do*., A 25,000 barrel tauk of oil exploded were reduced one-half or more, the $4 (X)(a;6 00; ducks, per do*., $5 00(3 crop would be more valuable. It and oil was scattered in all directions, seems a pity to cut out lhe young 7 00; geese, $6 00(3 8 00; turkeys, killing several jtersons and injuring a fruit just as it is formed, but it will per lb., 12$o. number of others at Cygnet, Ohio. pay. Nature does some of this work, PROVISIONS—Oregon bams, 12$c The explosion was caused by vapor but not enough. If half the blossoms from the petroleum tank taking fire drop without setting fruit, the orchard l>er lb.; Eastern, 13(g>13$e.; Eastern at the furnace used by laborers mend ist will do well to cut otl half of those breakfast bacon, 12$e. per lb.; Oregon 10(«)12e.; Eastern lard, 10(3}ll$c. per ing the tank, which contained 30,000 that remain. lb.; Oregon, 10$c. gallons. Two jnen were burned to Switzerland has 660,(XX) milch cows, death and several severely injured, GREEN FRUITS— Apples, $ 60 s all of native breed, and divided into two sharply defined races, the brown @ 85c.; Sicily lemons. $6 00(a>6 50 F atal B o ile r K xploaion. and the spotted. The foimer color California, $3 .50(35 (X); Navalorauges The boiler of a stove works at South varies from deep fawn to mouse gray, $6 00; Riverside, $4 00; Mediterra nean, $4 25. Pittsburg, Tenn., exploded, instantly the latter shade being held in most es teem. The brown race i-» short homed k.lling Charles Taylor, superintendent DRIED FRUITS— Sun dried ap of the works; J. R. Mills, machinist; and considered as the original tyi>e. ples, 7$e. per lb .; machine dried, 10(3 It corresponds to the remains found M. Donovan, foreman of the mount 11c; pit less plums, 13c,; Italian ing deparment; ü orgo N. Carter, on the sites of the Roman cities of the prunes, 10@14c.; peaches, 12$(3l4c.; jeweler; Wm. P. Lnnibee, of Win third century. raisins, $2 40(32 50. chester, Tenn., and Win. Watson, a Three or four good sprouts are moulder. William Gross, a machin enough for the best yield of market WOOL—Valley, 17@18c.; Eastern ist, and Rock Scruggs, a moulder, able iHitatoes of even the most prolific Oregon. 9(315c. were both fatally injured. A large varieties. Small yielders. like s»jtne of HIDES— Dry beef hides, 8(310c.; piece of the boiler was thrown end the early Eorts, may do better to have over end a distance of 100 yar.ls, and only one or two sprouts in a place, culls, 6(37»'.; kip ami calf, 8(3l0c.; tore through the side of a store and putting the hills closer together. Too Murrain, 10 @ 12c.; tallow, 3@3$c. landed against the opposite wall. many sprouts mean a great number of LUMBER— Rough, per M, $10 00; ;» | It , not . » « « thing I„, C . l „ . r . » » » l u l l of tb . wor.l looking very small potatoes and few fit for M u loide o f a P o o r W o m a n . 1iJtW&M. , . . , , .. atlp n .,rfifi„ tramps that have ever been seen here. market. It will often pay to thin edged, per M, $12 (X); T. and G. A u (Juprovokrd M urder. Mrs. T. R. Welch committed sui sheathing, per M, $13 00; No. 2 floor ^ M g s r a n t s t o l a n d at Castle Garden Ev^ train from lhe <outh corner in them out if too numerous at first. ing, per M, $18 (X); No. 2 ceiling, per Two respectable citizens of Parkers ^ ■ fa m ilie s of nine or ten children, with'every br.ikebeim bending under cide at Seattle, W. T., by swallowing a ^ ■ e recently c e iit ly a hu baud and wife, with tlje weigllt 0f deadbeats. “ mnd burg, W. Va., George Jones and John The phosphate rocks of South Caro M, $18 00; No. 2 rustic, per M, $18 00; quantity of caibolio acid. clear rough, per M, $20 00; clear P. 4 » «■ M w lwo children, disembarked here. M. Willis, were murdered by Samuel lina are so rich in phosphate that if S, per M, $22 50; No. 1 flooring, per fd ^ ^ V on ly fair, however, to mention dissolved by sulphuric acid they Hare. B u rg la rs F oiled by a W om an. Mnli-litv o f a n A ( « d M a n . 1 “* B ^ t r > that the « oman was the man’s should contain twenty-eight per cent, M, $22 60; No. 1 ceiling, per M, Burglars attempted to break into John YValhart, aged 93, hanged M rrtlou M en B i l l e d . of phosphate of lime. Few of them, $22 60; No. 1 rustic, |>er M, $22 50; stepping, per M, $25 00; over 12 ■ the residence of John Allen at San himself in his son’s barn at Depau- Near B »onville, Mo., six section however, show so high an average as inches wide, extra, $1 00; lengths 40 this. The deficiency is due to adul ________ 3 Minnie Freeman, the Nebraska Francisco. They broke open the win- ; ville. N. Y. men were killed by a freight train teration partly with worthless sub to 50, extra, $2 00; lengths 50 to 60, di w of a servant girl s room. She j jumping the track. The caboose at stances to increase bulk anil weight, extra, $4 00; 1$ lath, per M, $2 25; til teacher whom the blizzard fired three shots with a revolver, strik-1 famous, ha* decided to make ing one of the min. The latter te- TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. tached to the freight was filled with but sometimes with nitrates to furnish 1$ lath, per M, $2 60. passengers, all of whom escaped ser ammonia, which is quite as necessary |ornia her home for the future, turned the fire and the woman was . BEANS—Quote small whites,$4 50; ious injury. has received $2 700 cash from the stiuck in the thigh. The burglars es- ! for crops as phosphate itself. A M erchant B ill« a Farm er. pinks, $3; hayos, $3; butter, $4 60; ufiption raised lor her benefit, be- caped. James Hardesty, the principal mer H lu e E x p lo s io n . There is much injudicious watering Limas, $1 50 {>er cental. two costly gold watches, three Fatal A ccid e n t. "nd pins and many pieces of chant of West Louisville, Ky., shot A terrific explosion of gas occurred of plants. Let it come as the slow, COFFEE—Quote Salvador, 17c; Miss Annie Webster and Miss Annie and killed Win. Murphy, a leading at the colliery of the Mount Pleasant gentle rain, that never fails to benefit Costa Rica, 18(320e.; Rio, 18@20e.; ________ _______ vegetation. The sprinkling-pot does Owens, while going to a funeral at farmer. The cause ia unknown. Coal Company, Pa., working ruin and not at all accomplish this, unless it Java, 27$o.; Arbuckle’s’s reasted, 22c. o men were attacked in a sledge Q(KKjyear B ir> Qap( wJth a single horse destruction in the mine and causing has so fine a nozzle that the water MEAT— Beef, wholesale, 2$(S}3c.; the death and injury of a number of comes out in mist or spray rather M u rderou s F oot-P a d «. rives in the Hateger Mountains, an(1 buggy, were thrown over a grade, dressed, 6c.; sheep, 3c ; dressed, 6c.; employes. ylvania, recently. They threw fulling about sixty feet almost perpen- than in streams. Drenching plants hogs, dressed, 8 @ 9c.; veal, 6<37 g . Foot-pads waylaid Fred Sehune- all the wraps they could spare, dicularly into the river. Mtss Web- man, a well-known young man of often does harm. It packs the soil, B i lle d H is W ife. ¡while the wolves tore at their rugs ster had her skull broken so that her causing the surface to harden in crust HALT— Liverpool grades of fine Chicago, and when he attempted to Eli Kahn, a cigar-maker, GI years as it dries. If the water is cold from quoted $18, $19 and $20 for the three ned to the nearest village. The brains oozed out. di fend himself shot and killed him js have been watched for, but j _ —-------------- and escaped. The pockets of the old, killed his wife at New York. the well, as it often is, the injury is I sizes ; stock salt, $10. not again been seen. W a yla id and B ille d . murdered man were rilled, and, be- | Kalin was wealthy, and had retired greater and the chance of benefit less. PICKLES— Kegs quoted steady at ..g Stephen J. Tray, alais John Sum sides his money, a gold watch, dia from business. He was 61 years old, Asa pasture for cows no plant yields $1 35. and his wife was five years elder. The mers, was arreste 1 at San Francisco in mond ring, stud and scarf pin were! sweeter, richer herbage tli*D white ere was an Ohio man in Ameri bodies were both cold in death, when clover. Though its habit of growth SUGAR— Prices for barrels; Golden an ihtoxicated condition, and died taken. Three men ran away immed found. ca., a few days ago looking around soon after. An autopsy showed that iately afterward. is very elose to the ground, it yields i C,6|c.; e*tra C, fife .; dry granulated, more pasture than would l>e supposed. 7 jo .; crushed, fine crushed, cube and it is said, walked the entire dis- Tray’s skull was fractured, and later it A B loody T r a c e d ? . L a r g e H aw m i l l B u r n e d . If not allowed to blossom long enough |sjwdered, 7 } c .; extra C, 6|c.; halves between the two sections a few was learned he had been waylaid by a The Monroe county campaign cul for seed to0 form, the new herbage aud boxes, $c. higher. ;s since. That he only walked half-dozen robbers, who, had beaten At Faitchild, Wis., W. C. Foater’s minated in a bloody tragedy at Clar- springs up quickly after cropping e “ fun of the thing’’ is proved him on the skull. mammoth sawmill was destroyed by enden, Ark. The fay--dividg and peo Its roots are near the surface, and are te fact that immediately upon his fire. L es, $80,000; insured for ple’s candidates were to tq>eak, and a easily reached by light rains, but al there lie deposited $ 1,000 in S C IE N C E A N D IN D U S T R Y . l?hot H I « B r o t h e r . $50,000. _ _ great crowd gathered. Wm. Walls, owing to their spreading habit the of the batiks for safe-keeping. He — A machine of one-horse | iow « t Tws boys living at Elsinore, Cal., w.iite, attempted to strike one Dil roots are not injured by cattle tramp the entire amount out when the A M ilita ry C on vict B ille d . lard, when the latter pulled a gun and ing over them, as are those ^if red would keep 27,000,(XX) watches going. Te to walk again overcame him, named Alfred and Cole Dyle, were out A colored military convict named shot Walls, who fell to hi* knees, clover. — La Nature. hunting rabbits, aud on their return left for other fields. ° ♦-Typo made from paper Is the home Cole, who was in front of his Handley was killed at Fort Russell, pulled a revolver and shot Dillard There is a little nutritive value in j latest noveltj. A process has been — ------------- o brother, carrying his gun over bis Wyo., by Private Atkinson of the twice, after which he fell back dead. the first potatoes th-tt comes to mar patented in England by which largo convention of parrots will soon ^boulder, with one hammer at full Seventeenth Infantry. The latter A mob rushed on Dillard, but friends ket. This tuber at its boat is mainly eld in Turin, and a great many COck. slipped into a hole in the road, was a member of the guard in charge surrounded him and with pistols and starch, but the unripe potato has not type can be made from pul*r the —In a paper on injurion* Insects, of some prisoners, including Handley, knives declared their intention to de ed old fellows are expected to be which jarred him and ‘h*charged even that. The potatoes whose skin Prof. J. A. Lintner placed the total fend him. Sheriff Robinron attempted who made a break for liberty. He nt. Prizes will be given t-> the gun full into his biotbei » face. can be rubbed off by the hand show number of insect species in the world ran 300 yards, paying no attention to to arrest Dill.ird, who shot the sheriff singer, the brightest conversation-» ------- -—— by the fact that they are full of raw the commands to halt, and was in in the thigh. The mob fell ujkjii juices that need time to be developed ■t 00,000. Of these found in the United T w o VIII I a n « F e l l e d . aud the finest orator. A great Dillard and beat him terribly. A stantly killed by a bull from Atkin State« 7.000 or 8000 are fruit peats, and y quier storiis have been to! I in large part iato layers of starch. The family of John A. Standing at son’s rifle. stray bullet killed a negro spectator. and at least 210 attack the applo. it parrots, but the coming show Middle Orange Orchard, Cal., all in Dillard was finally spirited away. The —Scientists claim that a tide mill That the plantain is a nuisance is give the world a chance to know V e l l a w F e v e r « a a V essel. mob is after him. the East and the house is in the care of located at the Bay of Fundy would certain, but it is scarcely unmiti- isely what they have to say. Sarah Gray and J. P. Root. T h eja t- ga’ed except in the sense that where generate 700,000 liorae-power twelve The schooner Adele Thackeray had 1 trrsbepa in the tank hsuse. Two yellow fever on board aud two men it has once gained ¡tossession it ran hour* a day. This distributed electri* P o v e r t y au d W h i s k y . never be enlirel' eradicabd. The costermonger quarrel-d m < n Cut the blind and ptuhed in the Paris A. G. Throckmorton, nephew of common plantain has about two-thirds rally and «old to every State in the screen to the window in the girl a dead, on arriving at Delaware Break Union would save the coal supply. to get iquare his mother, and ________________ Governor Throckmorton of Texas, the feeding value of common hay, room. She awoke, and taking a re water. —The KUctrical Review aay* that the ged himself from a nail on the volver fited three shots. A fourth committed suicide at a ten-cent lodg ranking higher than most other weeds uselessness of the lightning-rod is be T h e H « t M prlng« D isa ster. He pulled bis hat ¿own over shot struck one of 'he men, who ing house at Denver Colo , by an over in this respect. Cattle will eat in pas In a storm at Hot Springe, Ark., a dose of morphine. The act was in ture or in hay without being starved coming so generally understood th*t eyes and held hri F’ P* ln " ,e screamed, and both lefL the agents find their vocation a trying tth, so th it she would think that building was swept away in the north duced by despondency caused by jiov - to it, as they have to be with the daisy one. Fewer and fewer rods are manu as shamming until she "rent UP end of town. The occupants, Mrs. t rty anti whisky. It is supposed that The large, vigorous plantains, that factured each year, and "the day will B a r a r l i t « H e a t h In a B a r a . lm, and so wduld be scared at find* Mattie Fletcher, and four children, he recently came from Pueblo, Cube grow in rich ground, seem to be eaten come when a lightning-rod on a house him dead. His scheme work» J A barn belonging to Mr». Spillman colored, were drowned. The husband rado, where he and his wife spent all more gree»lily by c >ws than the puny will be regarded in the same light as A ectly, and the mother nearly bad burned at Sacto, CaL, and the charted escaped. John Franklin rescued, uo- they had in sickness. specimens dwarfed by poverty of soil. horseshoe over a man’s door.” a