Broad-axe. (Eugene, Lane County, Or.) 189?-19??, June 07, 1899, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextTHE BFSOAQ AXE l-CKLISMKD WKOSCSDaYl BV J. F. Amis oi-ici-Siua m rat McCkess Boitaiao, Cm. Wiu.iMaTa 41 Btsara snt.ro R1.1 rti atraa Ktrf-, mmS ttaa atil mUr. srSSCXlrriON 8ATKS; Vt T- - - Strait BMmtbs ' . - - - SO ft tfcr bmmiIIm - - - ' -(InrarUMr la WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7. Helpltj; the Rebels. "Helping the rebel" is nor seen at the head of column after column of the administration organs, which re trying to shift the responsi bilities of the war with the Filipinos from tha shoulders of the rightful parties. "Helping the rebels is s non-1 ensical as it is unjust. This how-1 ver is ad new thing. The United! Males were never engaged in any; with -ar. except perhaps our wurs the Indiana, that we did not have , the same old cry of "helping the' enemy" hurled at those who did not sanction everything the war . 1 i I 1 I m . iurr w a n. irrit 1. 1 1 1 1 1 1 iir inuinprvni.4 In the Revolutions war thel1"'" ,J ordinary Oregon town. toriea '"helped" iu tauy ways ''the enemy." In the war of IS 12 the veople of New England as a general thin "helned tha enem v .1.. All tile I war with Mexico, the Whigs ru" "H ' wmcn of the Northern states "helped thej.,he Pr!f; ite.d of the saloon- enemy- even mere than the people! of the present time, who oppose imperialism, are "helping the: enemy." A GraTe Bobber. On TA Kin who it will h remembered as figuring in a case wherein two sisters were ' arrested for keeping a house of ill-repute: under the guise of a barber shop in F!llvnA KgA Lllr.t tin Annf the most depraved creatures imaginable. King had lived about Eugene for aereral years, his wife supporting him by taking in wash ing etc, until when those female barbers were arrested it was found that Le had stolen his wife's jewelry and given it to "Queen Lil," as one of those barber damsels was called. , This resulted in Mrs King being; divorced from King at the spring term of circuit court. But now comes the bitter part of the story. A child of this couple died some two years ago and was buried in the Odd Fellows cemetery near Eugene. A few days ago Mrs King received a letter written at Fresno, Cal, from Kiug in which he said he had taken the body of the child from the grave and placed in charge of a friend at Springfield, and that he intended to have it shipped to Tennessee for reburial. On investigation it was found that the body of the child bad been removed, but the most grievous part of the story is yet to be stated. On Tuesday last, Decoration day, Mrs King went to the supposed grave of her child, and placed flowers there to learn the next day that her deid child had been re- moved to some place unknown to 'The Saeriflee of the Shcagirl.' A well written article appeared in Brann's Iconoclast of recent date under the above heading, by Mary Virginia Channing, which calls to salad sous eseot occurrences hers La Eugene. And Ins frequency t these things have become aUrming' and sboulJ adsnonUb 'the good people of the com vanity to exert very means io their power to pro tect it, against an element which is larking like a moral pestilence in this city, destroying the honor and u virtue of young girls and bringing disgrace and inconsolable grief up on their 'parens nod relatives, be- - sides casting a shadow of reproach poa the whole city. We spare . the names of seveial young daught ers of respectable families who bavs fallen "victims recently to un principled scoundrels and given With to babies.: And these eases is wait known do not include by bum tha true number of Touns girls who have thus been morally gained, bos Isava escaped exposure imply because tbey have been in bsUef luck than their trail con. I yfcaiooa, who have given birth to & a a a a a ' . SrarerJt smicn nave oawe to ngai. T know " whereof ww ' speak, wham we bat that the eases of IflegitimsiU' childbirth mentioned, 4o not include nearly all the cases f morel rain that have vertakeu - ; run'','in 'bi c',r 1 vur cuv oiiuiui nave lor u mug lime known of numerous of immoral practices that have been carried on. and w4tich they have j tried to suppress but which thev 'present condition. , Class legisla have not exposed (or the sake of , lion in utterly odious to a large parent and friends, and for the good name of the city. However 4rvy-fUd U say that Mavor Harris City Recorder Dorris, Marshal Stiles, his night watch men and Citv Attorner Stevens ?say they are determined, to use i every lawful means in their power to enforce tho Uw against law breakers of every character ir respective of persons. Ws bespeak a careiul perusal of the article osi the outsid of this paper under the above heading and commend it to the consideration of! the reader, Pistol, Whiskey, and Crime. Later accounts say the your.g Charles Farrell spoken of ss being shot and killed last Tuesday in Albany given on the first page of P9Pr bss sufficiently recover ed to be out or danger. Sxi much for the wind up of a drunken row in a licensed saloon. Now let the taxpayers foot the cost of the affair i before the court. - Rut -"sich is ,uive a man a license to sell a young man "fire water" which makes him break the law, and KC. court for the offense, and 1 - i. : I.M1 . f . L ,sl"re y7- iirni iiuit u is; ilia council sells the saloonist the privilege of selling the unweary driuk that roaddms him and makes him com mit crime and get into the toils of the law, which causes a big bill " costs to accrue whicu the county, not the town has to pay, r - Iniustice a3 InltJ to the Teaching Profession. Mr. Editor: I hive been wait ing some time to see son.e notice iaken of certain complaints oP'grrat injustice ana maigntiv io public' school teachers" refer'red to in .h I i iw w via a uy a uutlt; a. iilmji Teacher" in the Public School News of Eugene: The article is an able one in many respects, but I cannot : . l. . i . . i . "u" writer, inaiscnooi teachers are suffering either "in- j jstke or indignity" under present conditions. Allow me to quote the complaint: "Concerning the teachers wages and tenure of office a great injus tice is done. To a large extent the law of competition prevails, and whenefer there is no way of de termining relative fitness, or a dis position to ignore it, wages will go as low as the desperate struggle for existence compels the teachers to bid or the false economy of the dis trict will offer." Now I should like to know wheth er the1 writer, above referred to, is ignorant cf the fact that the same "cooa petition and desperate struggle for existence" prevails over this whole land among toilers and largely determ incs tho price of the product of labor, whether of brain or musclef Surely if the writer is aware of this fact he does not ex- jpect that public school teachers should be made exempt frm the law cf "competition and the des perate struggle for existence" which effects all other classes. Does the writer wish for a law of this kind? Abolish district boards, appoint a county board, whose duties shall be o i this line, to select teachers for all schools in the county, fix their, the teachers, salaries and fasten such teachers Upon the people "during gjod behavior;" the county board, of course, being the judges on the "good behavior' of the teachers, allowing the taxpayers no ear in the choice of teachers, no ssy as to their "tenure of office," be cause of the indignity (?) of teach ers having to epply at the end oi the year for a renewal of engage ment to teach. I have known such a law proposed by the teaching profession, but it was not in the United States. Mr. Editor, if this would not be class legislation, I do not know what to call it. Allow me to make a suggestion: Make the qualifications required by the exemiuing board so high that the number oi teachers wilt be reduced, thus securing leas competition and possibly more efficient teachers. T-e editor of the Fublio bchool News uklls special attention to the - -i :..!..- i : 1 1 I un... a. l. HiiW VUlllim VUI l HUiN WJWII and remarks that tha suggestions rs mo I timely and tho manner c-f thir prsnttion makes thi m both near ami convincing i iki me leditor docs nolsgreo with that who claim that teachers are suffering "injustice and indignity" under 1 majority of the American, people ana III well that jl is sa. irt, I j see no other way by which the so called 'injustice and indignity" I caul entirely avoided. Being like the author of the articlo "The Public Sch'vd T acher" of a modest turn of mind, allow mo to subscribe mvself Aorioola. MISCELLANEOUS. In Poijji, Nebrask, May 31, three distinct tornadoes passed the vicinity, lirge ain.iunt of prop erty was destroved and considera ble lire stock was killed. An exchange says there is now plenty of room in the "middle of the road" for what populiuls are left, ly way of explanation of which it may bo stated that the great majority of them have taken to the b.uah. E. G. Smith Ins au order for 4X) bales of h.ps of the coming crop. He will contract for 12 cents per pound and advance five cents for picking and drying. Frank Tage has an order for 300 hales at like prices. On May list it rained stead-1 ily all day through thj . . , . " "- -whi. ui v.aiiiorni.i.( Kipening cnernes and i oernes win bo somewhat lnj'-.ried, and hav cut but not stacked will ' be des '.roved. Growing wheat and barley, howsver, will be materially benefited. Arbor day was generally oWrved in Eugene in an appropriate man ner. Bunting was displayed from tue houses'and business was sua pended. The demand rt..a 1 " n-n not mlMilliln la I ho lum.k- ! . .... .1 As for oursclf we could only aflec-! tion'ately remember the graves of.1 turned his wheel our relatives who sleen thousands across the walk, striking of miles away in our native hills in Kcntuckv. Instead of flowers' we could but decorate their graves . c w,lh lhe mort during emblem of ; ( The case agaiuU Mrs Lixzie Han rt t . n .4 klP ti .1 null la. nli....u1 w - V. .11 MUXII.l I.U11ICCTJ ... i v. i - , with manslaughter in disposing of - f . . . "- " l I.I I T . ... i orougni oeiore justice w miermie1 last Thursday. After considerable evidence had been introduced, the .. , ... , case was dismissed with the under standing that the girl would be sent to the Magdalene Home at Tort land, a refuge for wayward girls Some of the ladies of the W. It. C. have interested themselves in the case and attanded to the details cf sending Miss Hautovan to Po.t land. A special from Manila says: In formation has been received that satisfactory results have attended the movement among the members of the Volunteers regiments in Ma-i nila for the establishment of an American colony in tho Phili pines. Four thousand of the volunteers are reported to have signed a pe tition to the president and secre tary of war, praying that they re ceive jdischarges in Manila. It was explained that they believed th-i I'hilipine islands "offered rare opportunity for industrious and enterprising Americans to make homes" and dsired to remain, "for the purp ae of taking part in the development of the mining, agri cultural and industrial resources of the islands." A ease of clever swindling perpe trated a couple of weeks sgo has just come to light. A man about 40 years of age, giving the name of Henry Miller, and dressed as a miner, or farmer, came to Eugene May 8 and represented that he had just removed here from Coos county, and was working on a farm r .- it . . ... near ireweii. ne neposilcd a check for $155, with ons of the banks, for collection from a party in Coos county. He then went to several stores and represented that he v-as going to the Bohemia mines and wanted ti buy supplies. He bought goods to the amount of $200 or more, giving in payment checks payable May 15, representing that he had deposited a check for col lection, and that the money w'ould not be here before that date. On the strength of his purchases he also succeeded in getting about $') in cash, and a gold watch from merchants in exchange for checks. He then dissppesred, and in due time it wae found that he was a swindler. The goods purchased bv him are still swailimc orders for shipment.--Register, TUSSELS WITH ' OUR EXCHANGES Bryan may hung up his fiddle now, and 10 to 1 is no more. The flniudealer of Roscburg has like certain animal spoken of iu the Bible, opened Its mouth. Brother Conner, "stop dat knockln at the dc-ah.' We have, not learned whether the conductor of the lrain WatelicJ man is an editor or an editress or whether the lrain paper is a Watchman or a Wutchwoman. We have ttied to exchange with thaCVpsprr several times just to find opt some of thoe ' things, but thus far we have failed. We'll try sgain. Junction Times: Claude R Can non, f Koseburtf, has received the apjtoiutment of deputy collector of customs for Alaska. The appoint men I is worthily bestowed but at the rate Douglas county is being recognised there will r.ot be a sutlicicnt number of republicans Kft U form a central committee. They don't need a republican central committee in Douglas county Rrolher Morehead. The demo-pops are running that county now Mika kumlux? t i i- v u r. i i Judge Ctco K Nash of Columbus, j Ohio, wns nominated for Governor' . . . by the republican convention r ri-1 .... I uij auu jouii a vaiuneti '"'ithree Lieut Governor. Hho conventiouj 'adopted a strong sdnumstrstion ..i .t. n. li niHanl f.ir wnr aii.l I If. .... " ...fc.. ... v. ..... w... , expansion. ' Capital Journal: This mornir.g c ir u'i,;t . . , A. . wheelman on the walk on the I courthouse grounds, ha was deliber ately run into, the consequence of j . . ... :'. 1 .. I which will be iu evidence on his;.. .... . . . . I . . II I.....I r.. 1 . .. I re''. Hiuu in hand for several weeks. It "fnl9 lhat e young man Uelibcr square, his left hnd nJ bd'' niashing his thumb nd mangling each fingtr severely. Tlie "Vg man never stopped to i j v. .u t. i "i ouwhether any damage had in done or not, but disappeared ' . as soon as he could. Mr White j ,,,0,ved ,1,,d," V' ,Who went UDrLane. office and had l"d. BU,ed oa whtr 'e I. .. 1. I .ll the hand dressed, the thumb being , , ,, .. I severely cut, and all the fingers on ih,t km.l. Th rri,lPIt that hand. The accident will dis able Mr White for several weeks. Tk. i .ii... k... I... i i - ' , , . . . , , , .. , , , i from having bis shoulder dislocated and reset. It is a fact that before Govrrntr Geer became so bitterlv ornoeed to the return of the Oregou soldier f boys he secured the discharge of his .. I .L l - ! L l l' nepnew 'intj oruy reiauve no nau in the army. Comment is unnec essary. Oregou -State Journal. Why is "comment unnecessary," Drother Kiucaid? Let's comment just a little bit: Since we first jaaow sa itiv iivi uiiivv tt j si t . read Noah' Webster's fable of the farmer and lawyer about the differ ence it makes as to whose ox it is that is gored, we have hern pre pared to regard with some leniency tho smartness of the lawyer in de fending his personal interest. When the governor's nephew was in danger of being gored by the FilipinoVbul lets it's fair to pre sume that the governor iVanted one soldier, his nephew, returned from Manila, but when his i.ephew was out of harm's way and the rest of the Oregon soldiers who were noth ing to the governor, and w hen they were being gored by the Filipino's bul lets, whythe governor is op - posed to the return of the other Oregon' Soldiers. And this is our comment. , Closed Down. We feel gratified to announce that gambling rooms and slot ma. chines have closed in Eugene through the notice of our city offi cials to parties concerned thtt the law would be enforced rigidly against them in case of the law's infraction in this regard. Ws are glad also to state that there seems to be no disposition upon the psrt of any to disregard the notice of the officers, but that all hands have cheerfully set aside their slot ma chines and quit handling "chips." Ws are certain that the action of our city officials in this regard will meet the hearty approve! of every good citizen and wilt receive his moral support in the discharge of their duty. ,' Died, at Alpna, Oregon, May 2d, 1899, of consumption, Mrs Annie McVsv. aeed 43 years. -The re'-, mains were interred in the Dead - wood cemetery. . Bodies Brought Home. , The remains of three Oregon volunteers, who died of typhoid last summer in the Thillpines, were brought tv San Erauciseo on the United Ktatea transport Sher idan, which has arrived from Ma nila. The bodies are in hermet ically sealed caskets, and Mill be shipjod at onco to the relatives of the dead. Their names are: Private Kdgsr J. Johnson, Com-t pany D, died July 'JH.' Remains sent to Rock ford, Wash. rriva'o Rufus K. Holhrook; Coippnny C, died August 10. Re mains sent to Lowell, Oregon. Trivate Edwin C. Young, Com pany A, Second Oregon volunteers, typhoid; died August 11. Re mains sent to Kdwin Young Mc Minyille, Oregon. . May Indian 21. I, ils'J'J at ins home, alA:y Washington county 180J V Idaho Exekirl nsiley aged 75 years. The subject of this sketch was born in Clay county Kentucky in the year of 124, and remained iu thnt county until the winter - of 'PV50, when he caino to Mis souri and crossed tho plains in , that year to Oregon with a large train, arriving on Mary's river in iwnion county in iK-toier. Jte- , . , , ,. ' ' V 'UU fcV. t'FU II v lint. pmir, .v . .i...,.,:.,I i.:... wti uu m U'lllitMl'll lIIU IIU1U miles west of Eugene. In tho vcar -18)3 he married a 1 1 , Mrs. Kins who came to Oregon Missouri in that - year. The fruit of this marriago was six children, three lovs and three ; girls to-wit: Mary, wife cf James Calloway of Lane county, Martha ., , .. ... " ... wito ! George Wsro residing at fiti.M.ll f'piwiV - 1 1 1 fl t II fr.iii-ivi . , ,, , , ,. ' , , , , ' John H. and Jeff D. of Idaho. Jlrs. sarah who married a con iH i .1. utiidii no lunnicu f M .s.k -irLt tlemah of Douglas county, (name not rcmcmlrcrcd) and Leo young est son, also of Idaho. Mr. Bailey removed from Lane county in IS 75 and settled near the town of Mitchell Crook cttunty wtu.ro he , remained until shout il . - t tcun I I died alter a year s illness, tiom the effects of g'ip and old age. Ezelcicl Bailey was in every sense of tho word a typical pioneer. He Mood six feet and 7 inches in his socks, weighed 230 'pounds ordinarily, all bone and sinue, hsd a daik rugged complexion and colo brack hair when young, never knew fear, was generous to a fault, and possessed the old fashioned sense of honor and integrity, that characterised the early pioneer of Oregon. We may mention that Mr. Bailey took part in most of the Indian wars of this country, and thai no became a memrjer oi ts Baptist church many years before his death. Well, we must bring this notice of our old friend and neighbor to a close. We knew him in boy hood, in the land of our birth. We have known him in Oregon now 41 years, and little did we think through all these years that it would fall to our lot to ssy a parting word over his remains, for from any reasonable calcu lation he should have survived the writer of this. And as we lay our pencil aside, we revert in memory to the many, manv pleasant hours we have enjoyed, iogether through the Jongyears of our journeys through life.' And we can only say, as Bob Ingersoll said a while ag", at the grave of his early play mate. "It seems to me thsj some how or other we shall meet again," and un til the time when the grave shall give up it'' deed rest in peace, the ashes of Esekiel Bailey. The wool market at The Dalles is opening up quito sntisfactory. Within the past few dsys sales have been made at arices in od vsnte of 12 cents, while there have been numerous offers of 12cts for choice clips of Isst year's wool, and 10 cents has been offered for a few choice lots of this year's clip. . i Tlaindealer; Last Thursday night Frank L Smith, then und.;r the sentence of death ia Jacksonville for the murder of Peter Nelson, signed a statement to the effect that he did not kill Nelson, nor sssist sny ons to kill bim. The statement was signed a few hours before news of the commutation of 1 Fniilu'i sentence to life imprison ' v1 "ivhed Jacksonville. Mew Rork Crusher. The new rork crusher ' recently purchased bv the count v a ill be used in improving tho loads iu the south part of the county, coiumenn in the vicinity of Cottage Grove A l.Vhorse Hiwer J. I. Cnse traction engine has been purchased to fur nish Hwcr for the new crusher. Roth crusher and engine w ill be delivered at Cottage tSrove. The county will havo two first -las crushers in 0erittion during the coming season. The one now in use Is at work on ilie roads west r( Eugene. V Charnclton Mulligan rfu-d May HO at his home in Spriitgfiuld. lie was aged 72 years, 11 months and 10 days, and wns one of the enrliest, oral known ami most resH'cted r Lane county's pioneers, lie came to 1. a ne county in 11 and was' smong those who donated lands for the laying out of the county seat. They havo their storms just east of us sometimes that makes a Willainrtter say: Writ, gee whlssf Last wet k in the vicinity of Fossil it hailed down lumps of ice three fourths of an' inch n diameter, killing chickens, damaging or chards, gardens and crops. Large panes of glass were broken in the Fossil Journal office, and near Mayville George GUiIkmi lost four valuable horses by lightening. Gee whixx doesn't cover the bill. Itlarhly ftews. The crops in tho famous Lske Creek valley are looking well. .niewheat7Tiowcvtr7 is looking 7T litllo yellow, but with a little sun shine we will make a fair crop. Oats are looking will and we will have tho usual amount of fruit. I find by traveling over the valley that some of the ieach orchards will l a little short, bul I think the fault ia mainly w ith tho farmers for not cultivating the trees as thry should. Some of us are a little tardy with our gardens but what is up is looking wrll, and we are all still . planting us fsst as the weather will admit. Slashing and fence building are going on almost on every furm. From the indication now there will bo a large amount of land cleared and fenced the coming season. There will also be some who will build new residences and barns this season, of which 1 will have more to say in detail later on, for the eople of this vslley are of the kind who build up and beautify their homes. Thero hare been sev eral land salci of late, and more are now under way. Our beautiful valley is fast filling up. and all our new comers seem to tske hold as if they meant business. We are to celebrate the grand old Fourth of July, as a large crowd responded to a call on May 19 at the school house where we held a most enthusiastic meeting. Committees were apointed on all the various duties. The place selected was at the Triangular lake, one of the most beautiful places in the county. Messrs Roberts aud Tipton were elected marshals of the day which will guarantee law and order. And we now extend a general invitation to all of Lano county, and will guarantee all who may choose to come a good time except such as the C E Loom is ilk who I see by your paper, the Broad-Axe is still waving the bloody shirt. Such as he we do not want out here, and if he comes he may get what he needs, a coat of tar and sent back over the road in double quick, lie msy get thrown in the middle ot the lake for fish bait. For a man that would write what is over his name at this day and time should luck their head in shame and sneak off neve to show up in decent company again, for we hope to soon see the day when all such men are stopped from braying in public. I will have more to say in regard to our celebration in my next. Win Elachly, our niot worthy road s'.iwrvis r, will comn end) to work tin ronds soon, which are in a bed condition. Then everybody can come out and seey beautiful valley. , Isaiiih Hlaytcr wide his regular business trip to Junction City last week. Mrs L O I hompeon and ron, Owen, made the county teat a business visit last week. A union fun lr school was or gsniied last Hunday with Miss Ora Head as superintendent, which will guarantee its success. Messrs E Wolf and Win Trlnn 'UVB hfir ,,gtt mM running order, and are how turning out about 2UKXI shiuglek jh r day, and ns fine a shingle aa is mnde on this eosst anywhere and Ihry deserve thi pstmnago of every Ixly in Lnne county who niny niH-d shingles. They nun moles their shingles to lie Just what they say they are, so everybody send orders to Wolf Jk Tripp for shingles to Kiaihly, Oregon. In conclusion I want to give three cheers for the RroadAse, and its editors for their coursge 'in battling for the pvojdo's rights. We are the wage earners, and the lioiu'si ones (whst few are left)' nud for thron ing hot shot Into the w,0 ,t u-longs. The tsx- ri,l,ic Ilt.o,,i0 wi,h iheir Ursfooled children and rugged drrsd wives begin to think as you do Mr Editor in itgniu iu iMcrtiiiicy tarut auvi trusts. i i Oregon Troops Klllf Fighting. It turns out now as has been predicted. The Oregon troops will 1.. 1.. . I . L 1 . I . .. . . . II .. . not como home as given out they have lieen taken back to the front, i i ... .. auu were in a neavy Mine llie townvot Morong east of Manila June 4. in which four men were killed whose n a ints we have not lrurnrd, and six wounded. Tho hvat it is stated was in tense, and the troops suffered greatly. This news will fall on 1 t Km a r at sif mis ei a, . . 1 .a 1 ! L a -w vui "' ' s v i i sa j st of thunder eauiing many expres .ions if bitterest - disappointment. We have no words to express our surprise and utter inability to ac count for the conduct of the war department in the expansion bus iness. The people will know bye and bye. Oh, Well, Love Is Urammarlrm. rWukanl (Of.) htf M iss Mu ry " J il k li lis w edde d William Him. Howsver ungrain inntical it may be, she is Iliui's and Him is hrrs. Bfleflet. The pioneer Cs plain Rigdnn of Pine Openings was in town Mon day. We ask a carrf ui reading of the communication elsewhere in this paper over the signature of "Agri X)la." It treats of a most im portant subject. Our regular nia.hly correspon dent gives the Broad-Aie quite a compliment, and roasts "Dr. Loom Is" after the most approved style. Resd It. Anvone cin distinguish a noison D I dus serpent from a harmless ons, for a venomous snake possesses in variably a triangularly shaped head and a blunt nose, while its tail is correspondingly blunt and stubby. The weight of a car axle is but little less than that of a single wheel, ranging from 425 to 650 pounds. In the new steel cars, with a capacity of 100,000 pounds, the weight of . the axles is about IKK) pounds. each. The guaranteed life of a car axle varies Irom three to six years. An eminent physician says tnat no person should be permitted to drink tea or coffee until be or she has attained the age of 18 years. In the young those beverages nn- duly excite the nervous system, and have an injurious effect upon the digestive organs. A German professor, in giving his experience as an explorer in the wilds of Africa, says that tho best protection against lions is an umbrella, as the beasts are especi ally afraid of one when opened suddenly upon them. ( The band boys played some gay and lively pieces Isst Sunday after noon in tho city park. They were short but sweet. Boys you don't 1 play long enough so the lovers of music isyevh. Laura Donaldson, a patient at the insane asylum, committed suicide by hanging at 4 o'clock Sunday morning. She made a cord of her night dress, fastened it to a window guard and jumped off the rill. She was 30 years old. Sho was committed from Wasco county April 10, IH9. - The Noggett il busily engaged now advertising the Broad-Axe among the miners and Its readers In the south psrt of Lane, last week's Nuggett giving as a nine Inch single column npper-cut write up.- We will retaliate by swinging heavily and hope it will land on his wind. Let the good wuik go on Howard.