VOL. XVII.
GRANTS PASS. JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY. AUGUST t, 190a.
No. 36.
A Popular Health Resort in the Siskiyous.
Health Restoring Water.
Invigorating Mountain Air
Cofolfc- Mineral Springs Hotel
Rate $2.00 per Day ; $9 tod $10 per Week
Camping Privileges for Rent.
II. C. TELFORD, Propr.
I Buy Anything
THAT YOU HAVE TO SELL
AND THAT SOMEONE EI.8E MAY WANT
You may have aome article among your possession that you hive no use
for and never will have use for why not convert them Into cash. I pay you
cash (or theip. If yon are guing to move away let me buy your household
eooda I will give von good prices.
Sewing Machine fur rem and for Bale.
Goods Sold on the Installment Plo.n
Grants Pass Banking & Trust Co.
lAlll II CAPITAL STOCK
Transacts a General Banking business.
Iteceivea deposits Hubject to check or on demand certificates.
Our ruktoniei a are assured of courteous treatment and every consideration con
eislent with sound banking principles.
Safety deposit boxea for rent J. FRANK WATSON, Prea.
K. A. BOOTH, Vice-l'res.
L. L. JEWELL, Cashier.
The First National Bank
OF SOUTHERN OREGON.
CAPITAL. STOCK,
Keceive deposita subject to check or on certificate payable on demand.
Sells sight drafts on New York San Francisco, and Portland.
Telegraphic transfers sold on all pointa in the United States.
Special Attention given to Collections and general business of our customers.
Collections made throughout Southern Oregon, and on all accessible points.
it. A. BOOTH. Prea.
J. C. CAMPBELL, Vice Pres.
11. L. OILKEY, Cashier.
MARBLE AND GRANITE WORKS
J. 15. I'ADI-OCK, Pbohb.
1 am preixred to furnish anything in the line of Cemetery work in any kind
of MARBLE or GRANITE.
Nearly thirty yeara of eiperience in the Marble business warrant my earing
that I can nil your order in the very beat manner.
Can furnish work in Scotch, Swede or American Granite or any kind cf
Marble.
J. B. PADDOCK,
front Street, Next to Greene's Gunabop.
A.
C. HOUGH,
A1TORSEY-AT LAW,
Piacticr in all State and Federal Court
Office over First National Bank.
Grant Pab,
Ohkoom.
H
C. PERKINS.
U. 8. DEPUTY
MINERAL SURVEYOR,
UaANTk Pa, Obkuom.
N. E. McGREW,
PIONEER
. TRUCK and DELIVERY
Furuitsre and Piano
Moving
GRANTS PASS, OREGON.
The popular barber shop
Get your tousorial work done at
IRA TOMPKINS
On Sixth Street Three chairs
Bath room in connection
Molds Up a Coajrusman.
"At the end o( the campaign," writes
Champ Clark, Missouri's brilliant en
grnin, "from overwork, nerve us
tension, lost of sleep and constant
(peaking I bad utterly collapsed. It
teemed that all the organs in my body
were out of order, bat three bottle of
Electric Billet made me all right. It'a
lb beat all-around medicine ever old
over a drugcist't counter." Over
worked, run-down men and weak, sickly
women gam splendid health and vitality
from Electric Bitter. Try them. Only
60c. Guaranteed by Dr. Kremer.
The Latest Yarn.
A Pittabarg dmniiser tells litis yarn,
1 alway carry a bottle o( Kemp's
Balaam In my grip. I take coid easily
and a few doer of the Balaam tlwaya
make m a well man. Everywhere 1
go I apeak a good word fur Kemp. 1
take bold of my customer I take old
meo snd yoaog men, and teil them
confidentially what I do when 1 takes
cold. At drnggitts. 25c. and 60c.
To Car a Cold In a Day
Take Laxative Bromo Qnlmn Tablets.
All druggists refund the money U It fail
to car. E. W. Urovt'a il ca art la 00
ea k 00 1. JSc.
Ike M. Davis,
Front St. Second-Hand Store
2S,OOU.OO.
$30,000 OO.
II. II. BARTON,
WATCHMAKER and
JEWELER.
Full assortment of Watches, Clocks, 8il
verweur and Jewelry. A Uond
Assortment of Bracelets and
Heart bangles,
Clement' Drug Store.
J.M.CHILES
GROCERIES
HARDWARE
TABLEWARE
Fine Butter a Specialty
FRONT and FOURTH STS.
SWEETLAND & CO.
FRESH and SALT
MEATS-sx
' Phone 21
Tooth Brush
Topics
Sanitarily considered logically
lead to the conclusion that
SLOVER DRUG CO.
keeps the best st(xk of Tooth
Brushes in the county.
Our stock is selected with
the utmost care with an eye
single to the quality of the goods
we offer. We have Tooth
Brushes from 10c tip. You buy
the 10c kind on your own re
sponsibility. From 25c up, we
will guarantee the goods.
The bristles in a good brush
will not. come out. A good
brush will outlast half dozen
poor ones.
SIOYer Drag Co.
Prescriptions.
Opposite Depot,
CRATER LAKE.
That the Crater Lake region hat
been made a National Park by the act
of the Fifty-seventh Congress is a
source of gratification to the Mammas,
who were the pioneers in the move
ment, and is a tribute to the perse-
verance of Will O. iftcel, to whom
the success of the movement is largely
due. Among those who are well in
formed as to the seven greatest scenic
wonders of the United States, there
is no doubt but that there would be a
substantial agreement upon the fol
lowing : Niagara Falls, the Natural
Bridge in Virginia, the Mammoth Cave
in Kentucky, the geysers of the Yel
lowstone National Park, the Grand
Canyon of the Colorado, the Yosenitte
Valley of California and the Crater
L ake region of Oregon. Many of
these have rivals, but there has not
been " discovered anywhere in the
United States a lake which even re
motely suggests comparison with
Crater Lake. The very fact of its re
markable origin suggests a forcible
reason why such a wonderful feature
of natural scenery should be made
accessible to the tourists of the United
States and become the center of one
of the most attractive of the Nation's
parks.
To the casual visitor, even, who
makes his pilgrimage thither, the fact
that before the lake existed, a snowy
mountain stretched its peak skyward
and vied in its beauty with its sister
peaks, is a snnrce of interest and
wonder. The moderns who pitch
their tents near the sides of the lake
will have in their minds' eyes a pic
ture of the terrific eruption of Mount
Pelee, and they will listen in wonder
to the scientists who tell of the out
breaks of Mount Mazania in prehis
toric times. They will feel a sense
of awe when they realize that subter
ranean fires melted awuy that grand
peak until it fell into the cavernous
depths, leaving the deep pit that is
now filled with clear water, to 4000
feet at its greatest depth. The ancient
phenomenon would be paralleled if
the Titanic forces of nature would
truncate the peak of Mouut Hood at
Crater Rock, leave the steep sides,
hollow out the surface of the top of
the cone, aud fill this pit with one of
the most beautiful lakes in the world.
The prehistoric observer who climb
ed the summit of Scott Peak, it 1 22
feet high, a few miles cast of Crater
Lake, would have seen a snow peak
like Shasta or Hood instead of the
picturesque lake of today. Picture
his surprise if he were to return and
sweep the horizon for a view of the
mountain of this day to find that it
had literally dropped out of sight.
Geologists who have climbed about
the slopes of Crater Lake have made
estimates of the height of this peak,
then unnamed, but now dignified by
the name of Mount Mazama. They
have formed these estimates by com
parison. Mount Shasta and the rim
of Crater Lake have been found to be
of equal diameter at an altitude of
800 feet, and being composed of essen
tially the same lavas, and being form
ed in the same way, the conclusion
has been reached that they would rise
to nearly the same elevations. The
geutler slopes about the rim, however,
suggest that Shasta was the blither of
the two peaks.
In discussing the qnestiou of the
disappearance of the peak, J. 8. Diller
of the United States Geological sur
vey says :
"The question at once arises. How
was this vast mortmain nearly six
miles in diameter, and possibly 5000
feet or more ill height above the pres
ent rim of the lake, removed and the
atuiendoo pit now occupied by Crater
Lake produced? If it were blown out
by an explosion we should find an
enormous rim of fragmental material
commensurate with the basin ; but if
it sank by escape of its molten interi
or through a lower outlet, the rim
would be small and composed of im
bricated aud overlapping sheets of hiva
and fragmental material. In fact, the
rim is small and comjiosed in a large
measure of solid lava sheets. It is
evidently the peripheral part of
the mountain's base, and not due to
accumulation at the time the basin
originated. Major C. E. Duttou, who
made a special survey of Crater Lake,
compare it to Kilauea, of Hawaii,
whose origin he attributes to the sub
sidence of the material in molten
state, owing to its eacupu from some
lower leveL
After the volcanic peak, Mount Ma
zama had virtually destroyed itself by
the fierce heat of its hidden fires, and
been engulfed in the abyss, the vol
canic activity continued at the bottom
of the pit. Wizard Island, which
rises 845 feet above the surface neur
the western border of the lake and
forms a picturesque bit of theacenery,
is a small volcano, compared to the
aize of its predecessor. Although the
freshness of the lava and the alMcm-e
of erosion indicate tlutt the volcano
was active in comparatively recent
geologic times, yet the presence of so
large a grow th of fir trees proves that
the eruption must hate occored centu
ries ago. Orvgouiaa.
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THAT KERBY BILLIARD TABLE.
Among the many stories associated
with the building up of Western min
ing towns, none are more interesting
than that connected with. the old min
ing town of Kerbyville, in Josephine
county aud the story of the billiard
table that started it; the first billiard
table, so the story goes, that was
brought into Oregon. The interesting
story of the table is as follows:
The same wild stanijiedu of gold
hunters that flocked to California dur
ing the "'49 days," streamed over the
Siskiyous and poured into Southern
Oregon in 1851. Gold was discovered
along the Rogue and Illinois rivers
aud all of their tributaries. Along
every stream the gold-diggers swarm
ed and millions in little grains were
cradled from the auriferous gravel
beds in a few brief months. Towns
sprung up, mushroom like, in a night
Among these was Althouse. This
town soon beanie a seething center of
many thousand gold-excited men.
Gambling dens, saloons and dance
halls it possessed by the score. The
proprietor of oue of these was a Jew,
known as "Jako" in the camp. Jitke,
like most Hebrews, was a most enter
prising Jew. He was always awake to
new attractions for his "joint" in his
endeavor to get ahead of his com
petitors of robbing the poor miners of
their hard-earned dust.
.Take conceived the idea of getting
a billiard table for his place of
business. It would have been just as
easy to have got nil elephant, but
Jake was not the sort of a man to let
difficulties bother him. .The nearest
billiard tables were in Sun Francisco.
To get one would require its being
shipped to Crescent City by steamer
and then brought over the narrow
mountain trail ' to Althonse on the
back of a pack pony. After trying
nearly all of the packers in California
and Oregon, Jako at lust found a man
who would agree to undertake the
tusk. This packer was a Spaniard
named Martinez, called Marti by the
miners. The pride of Marti's heart
was his pack mule, Anita. Marti
said that if Anita could not bring
the table over the mountains there
would be no chance for the next one.
Accordingly Marti contracted to
bring the table over and was at.Cres
cent City with Anita when the steam
er arrived.
Anita had packed ninny loads in
her time, but she staggered tidewise
when led np along side the big bil
liard table. Tho old mule got au
idea into her head at once that she
was going to be imhiioscd upon.
Eight big men lifted the table to
lower it 011 Anita's back, but when it
came down Anita wus'ut there. She
had side-stcpiicd. She absolutely re
fused to carry the big package, all
of Marti's persuasion, arguments and
cuss words" failed to impress the
old mule that it would be an easy
thing to get the table over tho trail.
As a last resort, roK) and tackle
were brought into use. These were
fastened to tho limb of a big oak and
the table raised aloft, Anita wbs led
in under and before she was aware the
pack wns placed. Anita fairly stag
gered under her big load but she stood
up under it without a murmer. She
was started over the trail in the lead
of a train of mules, and held her place
with no seeming difficulty. When
night came she wns run up ntider a
tree, tho rope and tackle brought out
and her big load taken off. In the
morning tho reverse of this ojsiratiou
would put the puck iu place again.
All went well for three days; but oil
the evening of the fourth Anita did'nt
stop and run up under a tree as she
had previously done. She kept right
on when the remainder of the train
halted for the night. Marti did not
stop he r as he said the old mule hud a
head of her own and knew what she
was doing. He concluded that Anita
had decided on a force-march in order
to gi't through to Althouse that night.
Shu was evidently getting tired of
her load and wated to get throngh
and le rid of it.
Hut Anita miscalculated her
ability. The oor old mule was over
taken 011 the road next day, just nine
miles from All house. She was lying in
the middle of the trail, with the grunt
jack 011 her lck. asleep that long
and jsuecful sleep, from which no
mule has ever been known to awake.
Anita, faithful Anita was gume to the
last. So long as stnngth remained
site bore her heavy burden. Death
held her up nine miles from Althnusc.
Marti cursed and cried by turns
when he found the pride of his heart
dead on the trail. He couldn't move
the table any further; there wasn't
another mule in the whole Northwest
thha could budge one comer of it.
He went on to Althouse and demanded
his money, but the Jew would'nt JmT
ti. Marti had failed to deliver the
table. Marti told Jake what he
thought of him and gave his opinion
of the Hebrew race In general, but it
did no good.
An idea occurcd to Marti : It was
a happv one to him and he decided to
carrv it out. He went hark to hit
billiard table, built a saloon around
it, advertised a "grand opening" aud
got ready for the rash. With the only
billiard table north of San Francisco
aa a drawing card, the Althouse
"joints" were completely out of busi
ness. The stampede headed his way
and Marti lived in clover. Kerby
ville luilt up around Marti' saloon
and waa soon the busiest, thriftiest
mining camp in the Rogue river
country. Dennis il. Htovanl.
PAINTS CHEAP.
Pioneer white lead at H p r 100 lb.
Strictly pure linseed oil 1W cents per
gaL Now ia the time to buy before
the raise Kremer' Drug Stores.
SOUTHERN ;OREQON NORMAL. ,
The Southern Oregon Stuto Normal
School is making thorough prepar
ations for the coming year' work,
The buildings are being remodeled
and repaired, and extensive additions
to the chemical and physical de
portments are being made. The facul
ty is composed of strong teachers
consecrated to the work, and each de
partment is in the hands of a special
ist, A year's course iu Latin and in
Economics has been added to further
prepare teachers for high school work.
The training department will be es
pecially strong. A man of splendid
education and wide experience will
be at the head of this department.
Much attention will be given to ora
tory, and athletics will be made
prominent The citizens of Ashland
have guaranteed some 200 as prize
for excellence in these lines. The City
Library of 3000 well selected volumes
is thrown open to students of the in
stitution. Board and lodging can be
had at from 13.50 per week to $4. 00.
Climate healthy. Course of study
practical and exhaustive. For cata
logue of announcements write B. F.
Mulkey, president, or Clifford
Thomas, secretary, Ashland, Oregon.
AUTO ON A RAMPAGE.
An automobile belonging to Dr. E.
H. Dallas got ou a rampago yester
day in the blacksmith shop on the
corner of Grand avenue and East
Stark street. It had been taken into
the shop for reimirs. While the
blacksmith was at work the auto de
cided it was too hot inside, and made
a dash for the ojicji air. First it made
a plunge for tho side of the building
over the slough, but the blacksmith
managed to reverse tho motive owcr,
when it startled iu the opposite direc
tion. This time the auto went through
to the street, tearing the door dovyn
and running over it On tho outside
in the fresh air it became docile and
was caught. No damage was done
the carriage. Oregoninu.
INDIAN WAR PENSIONS. .
The pension office lias issued a large
number of blank forms on which
Indian War Veterans may file applica
tions for pensions under the law recent
ly passed. Copies will bo furnished
to all who make request of the tension
office, while a largo number have been
sent to Representative Tongue for dis
tribution. One set of blanks are issu
ed for survivors and another for
widows. Survivors are required to
furnish their rank, company and regi
ment, showing honorable discharge
together with at least 80 days' service
and other military service before or
after the Indian war. Personal doscrip
tion of the soldier at the time of the
enlistment, subsequent places of resi
dence aud proof that he is an 'actual
resident of tho United States is also
called for. All of this evidence must
be sworu to before a notary public,
aud must be corroborated by at leuat
oue but generally two witnesses whose
knowledge regarding the claiuieut
must bo filed with tho application.
CATARRH OF THE BOWELS.
Causea bloating after meals and large
quantities of gas which cannot lie ex
pelled, cause diarrhoea, alternating
with constipation. S. B. Catarrh
Cure has a tonic and curative effect
011 the bowels aud restores them to a
uatural and healthy condition. For
sale by all drugists. Bonk on Catarrh
free. Address Smith Bros., Fresno,
Cal.
MOUNT PITT'S GREAT BLOW
HOLE.
W. L and P. J. Hal ley, W. S. Clay
and H. M. Drako arrived home Satur
day from a hunting trip in the vicin
ity of Mt. Pitt, says the Med ford Mail.
They had lots of fun and would
liave got lots of game had the game
been less exclusive and retiring In its
habits.
While in the vicinity of Mt. Pitt
tint party ascended that famous peak.
They made the trip up in four hours
wth no serious fatigue or danger, the
dcsix-iit being made ill less than two
hours. On the summit they found
the Manama's cojqs'r box and they
added their names to the roll 11 that
society. From the summit they had
a magnificent view of Rogue river
valley and of the surrounding moun
tains and brond stretch of country to
the east- They got a fine view of the
great blow hole that is on the east
side of the mountain, for Mt. Pitt
has been a volcano and in its hist
ssm It blew a monstrous hole out
from its aide, leaving ils summit in
tact. Its explosion differs from Mt.
Mouzma, which blew its entire sum
mit off aud the indications are that
the explosion took place the same
time. Such a terrific, blast of In at
came out of the Mt. Pitt blow hole
that the surrounding ris ks are burned
as though they had been In a blast
furnace, some being burned into pum
ice and others melted into glass. In
this great cavity Mr. Hal ley states
that the snow apis-arisd to he at least
a thousand f''t deep.
Ladies Can wear Shoes
On aite amaller after using Allen's
Fool-Kan, a powder to be ibaken into
the ahoea. It makes tight or new abort
(eeletay; give Instant relief to corns
snd bunlont. It' the greatest comfort
discovery of lb age. Cure and pre
vent swollen feet, blisters, cahoua and
01 spots. Allen' Fool-Kase ia a cer
tain cur for awealing, hot, aching feet.
At all druggiat and alio atores, 25c.
Trial package Free by mail. Address,
Allen 8. Olmated, U Roy, N. Y.
DID NOT GET HIM.
Deputy Sheriff Herbert O. McCarthy
who went to Sacramento a win-k ago
with extradition papers for Edgar A.
Cooke, returned Sunday evening with
out his prisoner. Cooko was wanted
on a charge of obtaining money under
false pretenses from the J nek son
County Bank, of Modford. He had
uttered a check drawn ou a Siskiyou
County baukiug firm for $100, which
was returned to tho Jackson Comity
Hank unpaid, because Cooke had no
funds on deposit with tho Siskiyou
bank. Cooko alleged that before
swearing out a warrant for his arrest
tho officials of tho Jackson County
Bank hnd offered to let the matter
drop if he would pay the nmount the
worthless check called for, and ou
account of that action of tho bank the
Governor of California refused to
honor Governor Greer's request aud
surrender Kdgnr A. Cooke.
SEA MONSTER CAPTURED.
Captain John Bergman, of tho
Umpqua Life Saving Stut ion, captured
a fish in the ITinpqua river last week,
says the MarsliHeld Sun, which
from its largo size, grotesque apjiear-
anee and peculiarities of organiza
tions baflliug the intelligence of
Umpqua naturalists to givo it a uiime,
and for want of a better cognomen,
they have applied "Sun Fish" which
it very much resembles in every re
spect but tho tail, which is much larg
er than that of tho regular sun fish.
Tho sea monster was noticed swim
ming iu tho river with a portion of
its tin projecting abovu tho surface,
by one of the stations crew, who in
formed Captain Bergman. It wits
taken for granted ut first that it was
either a sturgeon or a shark, and tho
keeper w ith one of his men, put out
in a skitf armed w ith a boat hook and
a revolver. On coming close (0 the
leviathan they were astonished at
what they could discern of tho outline
of the fish in the wilier. They how
ever succeeded after firing several
balls into the fish in hooking it with
the boat hook mid getting it to shore.
Tho fish measured several feet in
length and eight feet from tip to tip
of tins, and ns it swum with this in
a poroiidieulnr position, it requires
considerable water in which to navi
gate. Its weight was estimtited at
1000 pounds. So tough wns the skin
of tho fish that it could not be pene
trated with the sharp end of a pike
polo. After the fish wus out of water
and in a dying condition, flopping its
fins on the sand, a man weighing 200
pnniids stepM'd 011 0110 of its tins mid
there was sufficient strength left to
raise this weight clear otf the ground.
Photographs will bo taken of the fish,
said John l.yster, our informant, mid
uu effort will 1st made to preserve it
by drying.
EL GRAN C1IACO.
Grim Chaco, tho most mysterious
spot on the American continent, and
possibly in tho world, hits claimed
another hand of victims; again the
Pi leomnyo river has proved itself de
serving of tho title given it by the
natives of Paraguay, Argentine and
Holivia River of Death.
The last victims of the unknown
place are the famous Italian explorer,
Giiidu Hoggiano, and his party. From
Asuncion in Paraguay the news has
rem hetl American geographers that the
latrty, suy a special III the Washing
ton Star, has Is-en officially pronounc
ed dead.
With the slaying of Hoggiano, Gran
Cliiieo, triumphantly keeping Its se
cret, has successfully detled live na
tions Franco. Spain, Germany, Italy
and Paraguay. Koch of them scut its
liest explorers, anil to none did their
men retnrn alive.
Crevaux of France, lbiireltn of Sjuiin,
I.istu of Paraguay, Sirvcnt of Germany
and Hoggiano of Italy till starteil from
tho borders, il i veil into tho primeval
forests of El (Iran Chaco, reached the
Pilcoinayo river nnd disappeared for
ever. No man has ever gone in nnd emerg
ed alive. What lurks in its twilight
forests that slays so surely ?
Ixxik on the map of South America.
Between the Tropic of Capricorn
anil latitude 110 south, and between
longitude 5N anil fi5 west, is a patch
that is left almost entirely blank.
That silch contains more than 75,000
square miles, alsiut which man knows
nothing.
It is tho terra incognita of the
American com incut.
Five months ago Hoggiano starteil
from Asuncion with an i xn ilition of
six Indians anil u on to follow the
Ntth that ho miiiiv others had taken
before 1 1 i 1 11 aud that bud led tin in to
death. l.s nl officials had added their
Warning without effect. Men heard
from him only once after he had h ft
civilization as he passed through
Puerto Casado. Then came a week
of silence, broken by the arrival of
two of the exs ilition. Even in that
one week hardships slid terrors bud
become too much for them, and they
had fled tow ards sett led country. They
rcjsirtcd that the line of march hnd
been through constant dangers and
through constant mysteiy. Unseen
enemies had attacked them by day and
liy night. I'lisecn iiuiinuls had prowl
ed on their trail. Unseen things had
gterrifled the Indian hi 1 rs, so that
even then Hoggiano was ilnillug It ul
inisit lmsissible to force them on.
That is the last that has Is en heard
by man of Gnido Hoggiano and his
irty. A mouth ago 1111 cxilit ion
under hxal officials started out from
Puerto Casndo to March for news of
the lost men. It s'netruted only a
few miles into the unknown hind
not far enough even to find a trull,
hut for enough to burn t hut there
waa 110 doubt that the entire ex tl i
tion had Is'cu destroyed, presumably
by the fierce, practically uuknow
Tolsta Indians.
This makes the aocoud ri-ditin
Thomas
Homes Furnished Complete.
win
Lawn Swings $7.45
k Rockers ...$1.65 to $9.00
" Hammocks $1.00 to $3.95
Canvas Chairs $1.45 .
Armchairs $1.95 up
Settees.... $2.2a
Camp Stools 25 to 45c
We'll bo glad to have you see what
wo have to suit you.
ACOHN (STOVEN Ac RANGES
Furniture
Lace Curtains
Mattresses
Cots
Linoleums
Mattings
Mirrors
to vanish within a year.
Colonel Enriquo. do Ibarctta, of
Spain nunlo his start from Sun Antonio
in Bolivia with a party singularly
well equipid equipped, indeed as if
for conquest rnther than for explora
tion, lie hud a flotilla of Indian ca
noes, each holding 13 men, and with
him were six Argentine, two Bolivian
and ono Spanish cominuiion, all woll
fitted by knowledge and experience for
the work of currying out the task of
forcing inissugn throngh tho River of
Death. Tho canoes were covered
with heavy sails nnd skins, which
wero pierced with loopholes for rifles.
When tho cxisMlitlon reached Lagu
mt Pitauo, less than 800 miles from
the. place where they had starteil, it
wus September. It had taken them
morn than thruo months to get there,
and yet the mysterious land had
scarcely been entered. And the men
were then in such extremities that
Biuret tn saw that they could not hope
to get out alive unless help reached
them They were euconiiussed by
savages. Food was reduced to a min
imum. In this crisis Colonel Iharretta
culled for volunteers to break through
the silent, hidden cordon of foe and
try to reach Formosa, on tho Para
guayan boundary, to get helji.
Of those eight men nothing hits been
learned to this day, with the excep
tion of two, who were found wander
ing in the thickets with barely
strength enough left to toll even the
briefest story. They had been hunted
headlong from mile to mile. The
forests were instinct with death
wherever they turned. Six of the
fugitives were killed liefuru a day hud
passed.
Awe holds the mull who enters the
brooding silence of Kl Gran Chaco'a
primeval places. For iu the forests,
great with centuries on centuries of
unchecked growth, there is neither
sunlight nor freedom of winds or sing
ing of birds. The waters roar sul
lenly. The air is heavy with mois
ture, and neither in the morning or
the afternoon ibs's daylight find its
way through the enormous, fantastic
masses of the eternal forest. Gloom
aud gloom ngaln never less than
twilight in the brightest places and as
black as night In the darkest shrouds
the path of the Intruder.
A hush so great that it burdens the
sense as with physical oppression
reigns hour after hour, day after day,
week after week. Like the terrifying
hush In-fore a great storm, it rests ou
the land and makes it a place of feur,
The birds flit through it silently.
Silently and like shadows the wild
beasts creep.
Only now mid nguin is that hush of
dri nd broken. A terrible cry, a wail
that rises and falls mid (louts away
awfully, resounds through Hie dim
aisb s. Then the Imliiins hastily mur
mur ineaiitutioiih for this, they lie
lieve, is the cry of a lost soul, wander
ing, wandering, in torment eternal
through the land of the devils of the
woods. It is vain for explorers to tell
them that the cry is that of a bird
fairly well known to science. It is a
damned soul, utterly dumiied, so they
urn convinced.
Souls ilumueil and Buffering the pur
gutory of ice, too, are the grotesque,
frightening, shrouded forms of ice
(hut sliiud on the slos'S of tho Cordil
lerus in that laud. Strange figures
are these, from three to six feet high,
being kept from melting by the shad
ow of tln'isnow-capi d mountains in
the day uud by icy winds that blow
iluwn like htirili urns in the night.
"Nicve Peuitcutcs, " the Indians call
them, shuddering when they sec them
from ufur.
So, too, they shudder when once in
a while a sudden, tremendous crack
ing uud splintering echoes with start
ling suddenness through this land of
foreboding sih nee. Even white men,
armored ugaiust superstitious' .fear,
feel their nerves start when that
silence of I he grave is broken thus,
though they believe it to be due only
to the siiddeu hurling downward of
some ancient tree. But the Indiuna
know it to be otherwise. It" is the
devil of the woods," they say with
the
house furnisher
PORCH FURNITURE.
Here is a particularly excellent col
lection of tie easy, "informal" furniture
that helps away the snmmer
Picture Mouldings
(Irani tawar
Tinware
Glassware
Lamp
Cutlery
Woodenwar
trembling Hps. "The devil of the
woods is uprooting a tree for a clnb
to limit with to-night"
And lie is a well-steeled man who,
surrounded by the unknown, anr.
rounded by the terror of hi livng
companions, doe not, In spite of
himself, fool tho fear of the Land nf
Mystery steal over liiin and claim him
tor ins own.
TREE GROWING IN SKULL.
A correspondent from Browntown,
iu tho southern portion of the county,
writes as follow concern ing a necnl-
iar circumstance which lately came
under his observation ; We have been
visited by three Chinese from Hamiv
Camp, California, who were on ghastly
quest, nothiuhg less than the collec
tion of the bone of all those Chinese
who had died there and around
Sucker creek during the past ten
years. Ou opening tiie coffin of one
that was buried near this place five
years ago, it wo found that a small
pino tree was about to push Itself
through the cover of the box. the
roots having made thumsolves ac
quainted with the brain of the
defunct through the eye hole of the
skull, and a a chinaman said, found
good rich manure." If every thins
animate ..and,, inanimate reproduce
iimiir,,, ..sneujfl, Have looked for a
poppy flower, for the dcjnrtcd wa
an opium fiend.
Jhaka Into Your Mioei .
Allcn'a Foot-Ease, a powder. It ains
pa.nlul, emarting nervous feet and in
growing nail, and instantly takes the
ting out of corns and bunion. It's I he
greatest comfort discovery of tn age.
Allen' Foot-Ease make light or new
shoe feel easy. It ia a certain cure tor
westing, callous and hot, tired aching
feet. Try It to day. Bold by all drug
gists snd shoe atore. By mail for 26c.
in stamp. Trial package Free. Ad
dress, Allan 8. Olmated, Le Roy, N. Y.
MEDFORD'S MARSHAL.
Eugene Amaun, who has been filling
the position of marshal to the entire
satisfaction of nearly everybody, and
Mayor Crowell, who under the new
charter ha the privilege of removing
ami appointing some of our city offici
als at hi own sweet will, have-had a
misunderstanding.
It scorns that Mr. Amaun, who 1
considerable of a fireman, wished to
respond to the request that Grant'
Pass made for assistance on the day it
was in danger of being wiped off
Southern Oregon's map, aud asked
Col. Crowell for permission to do so.
Tho Mayor was not in tho same frame
of mind, and told him that he would
go at his jhtIL The Mondial appoint
ed a deputy and went any way.
Some say that Mr, Amann refused
to resume, wearing the official star
when lie returned; while other claim
that he was denied tho privilege. Be
that a It may, Mr. Allen t filling
the place, at least temporarily.
Mayor Crowell 1 master of the situ
ation, and the appointment of whom
he names to fill the vacancy will be
con finned at the next sesslou of the
city council. .-Southern Oregon Ian
BODY-RESTORER
Food is the body-restorer.
In health, you want nothing
but food; and your baby wants
nothing but food. But, when
not quite well, you want to get
back to where food is enough.
One of the most delicate
foods, in the world, is Scott's
emulsion of cod-liver oil
When usual food is a burden,
it feeds you enough to restore
your stomach; baby the same.
The body-builder is food;
the body-restorer is Scott's
emulsion of cod-liver oil
Ws'U Mad ytsi a ttitli to tr It -m ka
geirrr a bowni, pi . KTi