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RiJcaly mala; 6 ware tist jca
possess a diabolical arrangement
called stomach. No twi dygpep-
tica-hata tna gama predominant .
eymptoins, out Trh&iever fon
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1 ' UuDg ia crbln no one ;
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, , AeUHty of thw
Stomach, '
Tjrpl foul jaaeii,
ml
L Allay Irritation, :
f AaatatDlgeetloa
'ma t th Mm
disappear ,f
Am tkree r" I
. tW afforded no relief. At tut I tried
Liwr Regulator, which cured ""
a. It U a eooi mediclw. I ""Ji'4 '
jut lt,"JMM A. Ko, Pallada, H.
It
y: onr stump m rr ,
The Mali.
Mi.ilr.apa for Pendleton. Portland, and all
poiiieast, except the Dukotas, Minnesota
nu'iKconsIn, Bt5:XU p. in. ;
IVa'.laWallajypokaneandNorth PU'
fin ll.ta k S '
ftf arrive from Pendleton. Portland ana
1 u at T.lft a in
Wal In, HpQltane ana .norm r-
I in n '
".r.-(Vnerai delivery open from 8
p.-n. Hundays, 8 to 11 ft. m. Money
lnuiv open irom wo in, iu -i jf.
B1XECT0BY
F. A A. M. NO. 80- MEETS THE
Fiwtiand Third Saturday Evening
of each inoith. . ViaitinR brethereu cor
dially invited'to viit the lodge. ;,! j
T" 0. 0. F. i NO. 73, MEETS EVERY
in ooa standing always weiuonic.
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w oiconu ina iouth saturaayi ui
lno ith. 1 . . JUA. Githens,
Eecorder.
VT'JIAX, NO. E v ,MEETS EVERY
Fmiirth Saturday! of
- mo'ith, I . ,
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1. 1 Tlmcaday
aiiHwered.
'Ottlce oft Third
ft. JOSEPH J. lJILL-jr pi 1 1
aduate M. E. o. V.A Londtii, England"
TEKNIARV : SURGEON.
al'iCome's Stable, Athena,
:on.,
inC1 dentist;
OREGON,
R. Ry. Go.
r. cotinuotlon with
HERN PACIFIC R. R.
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y (JL-Foriu
the
BY AND
BEST ROUTE
V Eastern Oregon and ashington
lKet sound Point, an well a the
pular and direct Line to all
$ East & Southeast
in Sleeping Girs. l "J, .J'.
cerb Dinning Cars.;
ree 2d-Class Sleepers.
TOCHICARO 'HISLINE
1 x ptt run-
Walla Walla, Wash,
iton; Oregon. '-"X-
lfof eVi!nectlo6 at ftunt'n Junction
l,'sern Pacinc'itmms for lamina,
ttlWtortaf B. O. ' burKh North
iort, s,' ""Me, uutte, oi
Al,. uncut
AN O A I X ' rp I NTfcf' E A$T
For Accwitodation of 'ocoona Class
" Passenger Attached to Eif-""
press Trains.
' , ' w. WAM8LEY, ' ,
G en'l Fr'l and Pass. Agt., Walla Walla Wash
W.D. TYLFB, r f
Pre, and Gen'l Manager. ,
. . ' 1. A MU1KHEAD. 1
A. w4 Alhena, Oregon.
SOMETHING; HEtfJ
Prof. Lane, the' artist, haaleaeed
rooms over the First f National
Bank which he hag converted into
. STUDIO A
and 18 now r!,fr!,-'"ti loi:-ntruct a
Iar?9 nii'".:.-r .f f ''l:r.'.3 in on
1 r.wici nraiv'
lOvUis. Prices
FATTEN OiN JeoVEiiii.
fkn&9 ft the Sign of ttie
Three BaHa
Tli Fawabrokoft Bbop M Beonre of
- Pooplo to Kwxl of Money A Bl
neM Tbftt Proiper In Hfl
' TUue .
"How much ytou
want for dat
watch?" h ajsked.;
I handotl him a. little, silver watch
that I raJ twenty dollars lor, writes
Annie Woods In the New York Re
corder. I had no notion of pawning' It,
but waa curious to know what figures I
could get on it, if I, like so many oth
ers in this sad city, stood face to face
with want. ' ".
"Oh, I don't know how you do these
things here," J. said, "for I have never
Dawned anything before." ,
-. . i AT--,.. .1
veil, X' gii. you vwouiucr ujuu u
haiif. ' -y; - '
"Mercy on nsl" I could not help ex
claiming f S couldn't part with It for
that." , " '
' I left the' place and turned Into the
next one, for there are plenty of them
down there.: There are some In tUe
Bowery, and on Grand street, but they
are as' thick as beehives down o n Park
row and Chatham square. As I (entered
the door a. woman in black paused me.
She; walktid up to the pawnbroVer, held
up a beautiful diamond ring, and asked
how muck he would give her on it; She
said she had to have fifty dollars. "My
husband lies dead," I heard her say,
Vand I haven't enough to bury him."
1 thought I detected a twinkle in hia
eye, for he knew shet would have to
take less money rather than keep the
stone, and it was a beauty. 4
"That stone's not worth much," said
the pawnbroker., , V You coulcln't get
more than $35 for it, and that's all it's
worth." wi ; -''''
The poor woman was nearly dis
tracted with grief and could stand the
strain no longer.. , "My huisband paid
$125 for that ring and . gaw it to mo
when we were engage!. 1 1 would
starve rather than part with it,, if it
were for myself, ' but he must be
buried." ' ' v
Poor thing! she was doubtless one
among . many unfortunates wno. were
wrecked in the last financial storm.
I could bear this pitiful sight: no
longer, and went on to the next shop.
Here I found a lot. ot women, With a If
sorts of things. One of them pawned a
pretty pair of iibnes, worth $i or 55 for.
50 cents. .
There was a pretty girl there with
her sealskin cape. She had it on, and
the broker turned her around to ex
amine the fur. ;
"IIow much do you want?" was his
first utterance.: - . , ,,.
"Oh, t don't know, now much will
you give?"' ; - n'.;.. t,
"Well how much do you want?"
, "I think I .ought to gt $25 for it
my father paid $50."
. "I'll give you $5," and she took it.1
While T stood watching, a man
peeped in raither sheepishly, saw the
crowd: of ."women, and went out. ,; lie
had ' large "grip in his hand, and 1
wondered what he was after, so I fol
lowed, him. I didn't have to go far,
for, as I expected, he : turned into an
other pawnshop, opened bis grip and
took out one thing after another, ;i
'"' "Sav. unclel what'll you give me for
this coat?" "v'-r.:..-;::,:.-:,:..::: v.
The pawnbroker took it, laid , it
down, turned it inside out and felt of
it, then said it was out of style and he
would give $1 for it,
"Holy smoke!", cried . the man who
was down on his luck. "Why, I ; paid
$50 for that Prince Albert," : x.
"It makes no differ', dot coat vas
only vort one thaler to me." And he
e . ' 1 j. ii it: - ,
stucictoiuf fifO M ;f .
1' . Then the man offered his watch. 4Tt
was a perfect beauty. Its works were
jeweled all through, and it was solid
gold. It must have, cost $250, ;but he
got a loan of $50. ,
"Now here's a ring," said the hard
np man, "which once belonged to Ros
coe Conkling. He gave it to my fa
ther.. I guess 'the governor' would
feel pretty rocky if he knew , I was go
ing to hang this up. ..How much for
'itr' T'""v"- ;'? r- '
"Tree thaler nnd a halt! i ' r 5
"Oh, well, I'll keep it then, for 'the
governor's' sake."' Andhe nicked up hia
treasure and went out. . i ,
After he was gone. I ventured to ask
the pawnbroker how much interest he
charged?""'""""''''"":'.: .. "';: k-.
. "Tree per cent, a mont.'' . j . , ,
While I was questioning him a wom
an came in and took out a pawnticket
and a roll of bills., He produced a large
diamond earring and they began to
dicker about the interest Their talk
was in German, hut I managed to re
member that; "alf monaten" meant
eleven months, and gleaned that she
had borrowed $35. She therefore paid
$31.65' interest If she .had kept it a
year she would have paid $34.20, more
thattJone third of what she borrowed.
Hard? Yes; but all the same the
pawnshop is the only resource of poor
people out of Work and out of money;
, Never, they tell me, not in recent
years, at least, have "the pawnbrokers
done such a rushing business, as for
the last few months.1 They are the
. , . , , . . . . . A . nil i . 1
oanKS oi trie umurtunave. J-uvy uue
over many a bitter period of stress in
the lives of those in sight of whose door
the hungry wolf always lingers.
;No wonder pawnbrokers neve, close
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A. Kara Tropical JCIower. $
f A!.flower lately discovered in - thd-
isthmus of Tehuantepec is white in
the morning, red at noon and blue at
Knight, and is called the chameleon
flower In default of any botanical
Tiame. It is probably a species of the
hibiscus mutabilis. The colors do not
pass abruptly from one shade to the
other, but change gradually from the
white of . the morning to the pink and
red and thence to the blue at night
The Tehuantepec ; tree grows to the
- d -
Stori80f
reactor.- - ...
6ize of a guava tree and gives out a
ATHENA. UMATILLA COUNTYtOREGO'N,
THE POPULOUS BAY STATE.
KauachnaeUe Baa Twenty Cities, Each
Having Over 80,000 Population.
Virginia and half of the states in the
union combined show no more cities of
over twenty thousand inhabitants than
are to be found in Massachusetts.' This
fact is not readily apparent from the
census .bulletins thus far i.ssived, says
the New : York . Evening Tost, as iu
none of then are cities having a less
population than twenty-five thousanti
ranged according to their population
rank. The fact is also so surprising
that few persons will believe it with
out proof. But there is n.0 place at all
With so many inhabitants as twenty
thousand in nine states viz., Vermont,
Mississippi, Nevadc.,; Montana, Idaho.
Wyoming, North ' Dakota and South
Dakota. Nine spates again have each
no more thaia' one town numbering1
over twenty thousand people. Those
states are'New Hampshire, Delaware,
Maryland West Virginia, North Caro
lina, Pxrath. Carolina, Louisiana, Ar
kansas and Oregon. .Four other states
-M.aine, Nebraska, Colorado and
Washington--count each only ; two
AJities that have passed, the twenty
thousand limit.' These three, classes
of states amount to twenty -two; that
is, half the whole number of the
United States, and seventeen is the to
tal of their cities with each a census
upward of twenty thousand. 'Twenty
such cities, however, are in the roll of
Massachusetts. These are Boston,
Worcester, Lowell Fall River, Cam
bridge, Lynn, Lawrence, Springfield,
Kew Bedford, Somerville,' llolyoke,
Salem, Chelsea, . Haverhill, Brockton,
Taunton, Gloucester, Newton, Maiden,
Fitchburg. Three cities of this, sie
and no more appear in the census of
Virginia viz,, Richmond,. Norfolk and
Petersburg. .. . . ..
VICTORIA'S CROWN.
It I
Worth a Million ; and a Half of
; , Dollara. , .- . . ,;
The crown worn by Victoria weighs
nearly two pounds, saya the Pittsburgh
Dispatch. .It ; comprises more" than
3,000 precious stones set in various de
signs. The most prominent gem ia the
fuby i given to Edward, the Viack
prinoe, by Pedro, king of Castile. It
is in the front of the crown, set in a
Maltese cross composed of seventy-five
iurge diamonds. The lower part . of
the crown band contains a row of 123
pearls, the upper, part 112. Between
them and in front is a large sapphire.
Back of that again is a smaller sap
phire surrounded by six' others and
eight emeralds. " Between the two
larger sapphires are designs contain
ing 286 diamonds. . Above the band are
eight moreA sapphires .surmounted by
eight diamonds, and,, the same number
of festoons contain 1(30 diamonds. ; Be
sides he Maltese cross there are three
Others around the upper part of the
crotvn containing 886 diamonds, and
between the four are four ornaments,
each with .a, ruby in the center and
containing respectively 4,; 80, SS and
87 -diamonds, i rom the crosses rise
four arches coiaposed'of oak leaves and
acorns, the leaves containing 728 dia
monds. The thirty-two acorns' are
each of a .'single .pearl, and are set in
cups made of fifty-four diamonds.
Above- the; arches stands 'the mound,
containing' 558 diamonds, and above
the raonxd.is the cross, containing a
very larB sappliire,1 four , very large
and 108 smaller diamonds. All the
stones are genuine, arid not. as in some
other European crowns, colored glass,
which has replaced the genuine stones.
The crown entire is valued at $1,500,'
000.
MARKED -BY THE DEVIL'S HOOF.
The Strange Story Told by an Old Negro
; ''In Missouri. ;.' ' ;; i -
Henry Rice, an aged negro who re
sides, or did, not more than a year ago,
at Rolla, this state, says the St. Louis
Republic,' .makes what is probably the
most remarkable claim that ever came
from the mouth, of a human being-
viz.: That he had sold his soul to the
devil and " that his Satanic maieaty
sealed the bargain by putting his trade
mark on the, negro's breast. .. In sup
port of ' this "preprosterous ' statement
Rice exhibits a deep scar situated at
rectly over the heart, which appears
to have been burned deep into the flesh
with a branding iron about the shape
and size of the hoof of a two-year-old
heifer. This scar, the- old negro de
Clares, is the print or mark of the
devil's hoof, and that it is a memorial
of a compact which he made with the
king of the sulpnurous regions away
back in slavery days, According to
the terms of the contract the negro is to
have supernatural powers over his race
during the few fleeting days that he
remains a . tenant on earth, and that
when all is over his soul is to go not to
God, who gave it, but to the devil, who
has marked it as his own.- When Rice
and the devil had settled on the condi
tions outlined above the lessee of the
neero's soul placed his cloven hoof
over the heart of the wicked old Afri
can and left, its indelible impress as
evidence of his future proprietary
right to burn the old man to his heat i
content, i t
The Hereditary Bootjack.
The-venerable countess of Rothes,
who has just died, had the right to
perform a ceremony on any occasion
when the sovereign of Scotland visiteo
( .1 4 T'' V. I .. 1 ..,.',-1.4-
the kingdom of Fife which might
have given her the title of "hereditary
grand bootjack." By an' old feudal
custom the head of the Rothes family
when' the king returned to Falkland
palace from the hunt bad to pull of
the royal . boots and invest the royal
feet in ease-giving slippers Royalty
does not often visit Fifeshire now
days, ' but . when the queen paid he
first visit to the Tay bridge the countess
claimed and was allowed her ancien
privilege. A small temporary plat
form was erected bv the side of tlio
railway a few miles from Coupar File
and here the .royal train stopped lor
few ' minutes. Her majesty shook
hands' with the countess and the lat
ter handed a pair of sewed clippers to
the oueen. the act of taking off the
royal OOOtS ueuig w .
l Xed by the presentat of the
. "siirpers- -.- 1 -
mval boots beinr' : understood to be
DEATH OfTMf LNDU5.
Tho Hereditary Chief of the Sioux
Nations .
How Toang- Man Afrld-of - Hia. Horses
- Got Hia Queer Name An Important .
" ' Figure in Government .
. Records.
There was a funeral at the Pine
Ridge Agency a few weeks ago of an
Indian chief, who was a brave warrior,
and as great in diplomacy as he was in
battle. ; :, ,
His name was Ypung-Man-Afraid-of-nis-Horses,
and he was the hereditary
chief of the whole Sioux nation. lie
was fif ty;eight years of age at the time
of his death,, and was a son of the fa
mous old warrior "A-Man-Afraid-of-llis-TIorses,"
who died in 1889 at the
age of ninety-two, and whose life is
intimately connected with the frontier
history of this country since the early
days of the century. " , ;
When an Indian wants to emphasize
a fact strongly, he says the exact op
posite of what lie means, and so the
name of the dead chief is a specimen
of Indian satire. - v
His father, in his fights with other
Indians, adopted the tactics of the
whites. The usual method of tbe Inv
dians is to ride in circles around the
object of attack, narrowing the diam
eter of 'the circle as the fight proceeds.
But tho father used . the regulation
cavalry charge a method ot warfare
that at once distinguished him, and he
was given a name which meant "a
man of whose horses the enemy is
afraid." ?, The Sioux satirist thought to
improve on this and condensed it to:
"A-Man-Afraid-of-His-Horses."
The. old man's son, the chief now
dead, continued his father's system of
actics,,and, with the chieftaincy, was
given the title: " Young-Man-Airaia-oi-
liis-Horses." , ' - . '
He was' contemporaneous as a chief
tain of the Sioux with such Indians as
Red Cloud, Sitting Bull, Spotted Tail,
American Horse, Black Rear, Lone
Wolf. Red Leaf and White. Thunder,
all of whom were men of undoubted
com-ace and natural leaders of their
people.
, He occupied a peculiar position as
chief.' His Indian subjects believed
that he had great influence with the
whites, and they were constantly ask'
ing him to have their grievances re
dressed.. . , ...
On the .other hand, Gens. Crook and
Miles recognized that his sway was
less disputed than that of any other
Indian chief, and they used nim to ac
complish results which, without him,
could only have been secured by
threats and hard fichting. ;. '..,
He recognized the great strength oi
the whites, and became a wise medi
ator,. He was alsfl possessed of excep
tional ability, and , saw that there was
greater honor to himself and benefit to
his people by living! in peace,oiuwiui'
the white And tho red men, than- in be
ing in constant conflict with them. -
At one time, he had a habit of going
out on a hunt with a small force, meet-,
ing a superior force of Crows or Paw
nees, giving them battle and' coming
off victorious. ; ' - ". '
But . about twelve years ago, he and
a band of Sioux went to the Little Mis
souri on a buffalo bunt. Spotted Horse
and Crazy Head, two of the biggest
chiefs of the Crows, were also there
with a party of thteir people. Young-Man-Afraid,
instead-'bf iiffhtinff his
hereditary enemies, - arranged a peace 1
treaty, and since that tirao the two na
tions hav been the best of friends.
He recoirwed the f aet that with the
disappearance of the buffalo the In
dian of the plains would no longer be
able to retfist the advance of civiliza
tion, and, - although a great buffalo
hunter, he made a strong effort to pre
serve that animal, l . y
But when its extermination was as
sured, he advocated peace vvitn the
whites, and was ever friendly with
them, 1 although sometimes I strongly
tempted otherwise! , '
In 1890 and 1891, when the Messian
craze was at its height, and the Sioux
were engaged in ghost dances, the
dead chief did not encourage them, and
could not see that they would get any
benefit from their actions, but he held
that no one had a right to interfere
with them unless they committed some
act of violence. ; ' , -
He was absent at the time of the
battle of Wounded Knee, but returned
soon afterward, and cast the weight of
his great influence with the Indians
for peace.
When he went bacn to ins people
after his first , visit to Washington,, m
1876, he described to them what he had
seen and heard On the journey, ne
told them about tho iron horse which
carried him. They understood all that.
It was white man's medicine.- He told
them about talking wires (telegraph),
and they understood that also; it was
white man's magic. '
But when he told them about build
ings six and seven stories high, that
was too much, and ho would have to
take it back. But he would not, and,
as they could not doubt his sincerity,
they came to the conclusion that tho
whites had given him a draught 'to
drink which had bewitched him. For
a time there was much, talk of getting
a new chief.
, -The Sioux believe that Young-Man-Afraid-of-llis-IIorses
had.some brothers
living. An effort will be made to find
them, and if it is successful one of
them will be made the chief by natural
law. If the search is a failure, there
will be an election for the chief, in
which all the Sioux people will en
gage. ; ; j .
. ' Maxlinlllan'a JRute. , .
' Apropos of the recent train robberies
an old story told on Maximilian is re
called: When Maximilian was emperor
of Mexico he broke up trai i robberies
by a, trick. He disguised three hun
dred soldiers as peasant women and
placed them on a train. A gang of
bandits stopped the engine, when the
three hundred disguised soldier? rose
and fired a volley that killed one hun-
. , , , , ,,.,,
i J J iS" "
the trams
NOVEMBER - 3 1893;
THE AMfcftlCA'S CUP. -
It Wm First Wled "for Over Forty Teara
'Ago. ,"
The first race' for the cup, now
known as the ' America's ' cup, was
sailed around the Isle of Wight on
August 32, 1S51, says the Philadelphia
Press. Of. the yachts that sailed the
seas in those days the gaHaht old
America, full of years and honors, is
probably the only one how in commis
sion. The Royal yacht squadron had
offered a cup open to competition by
yachts of all nations. The America
was lying at Cowes, and her owners
were anxious to get a match race with
a representative British yacht. Com
modore Stevens entered the America
in this open race. There were six
schooners, one a three-master of three
hundred and ninety-two tons, and
eight cutters in the race. The Ameri
ca was the last yacht to get off. She
ran wing-arid-wing,' her mainsail out
on one side and her foresail out on the
other, and very soon had sailed grand
iy' through the fleet; reaching the
schooner Beatrice and the cutters Au
rora, Volante and Arrow, which were
leading. Finally the America, "by very
skillful dodging, managed to get into
the lead. . ; -:' . -.
The Yankee boat with the wind free
had shown superiority over the Eng
lish vessels. . And 'when' ' it came to
windwardwork she proved that she was
equally superior. She worked to the
windward so speedily that by the time
the point was reached there was not a
yacht in sight from her decks. The
wind now ; died down and a strong
head tide was encountered, against
which the America made little head'
way. This gave the Meet, which had
not vet caught the full strength of
the tide, a chance to creep up on her.
The little cutter Aurora and the cutter
Arrow nearly caught up with the
America, but the rest of the fleets were
miles astern. ,At St. Catherine's the
Arrow went aground and was out of
the race, but the little Aurora clung
to the America admirably. The wind
now freshened again and the America
drew away rapidly from her plucky
little Hval. After getting by St,
Catherine's the America had a leading
wind, and easing off her sheets tore
through the water 1 in magnificent
stvle and swept toward Cowes, a re
markable winner. The defeated Eng'
lish yachts were - two days altogether
in getting into port. The dismay . of
the English yachtsmen and all Great
Britain at the terrible defeat given by
the little black Yankee is almost a
matter of international history." ' ;
Commodore Stevens hod tried ,b'
fore the big race for a match very hard
and had po6ted in the Royal squadron's
castle a challenge to sail against any
yacht for from one thousand to ten
thousand guineas, but the English
were afraid of the Yankee from his
first appearance and the challenge was
never accepted. . ,
1
. A TERROR TO BANKERS.
The Fraud Who Comoi in tbe Guise of
Humble Iloneaty Is Moat Dreaded.
. N. A. Faiabolt, of Norfolk, Neb., who
was present at the world's congress of
finance at Chicago, said to a St. Louis
Globe-Democrat; "I am more fearful of
the man who makes a good appearance
than of the Other kind. ' Men who ex
pect to deceive' bankers understand
how much Wt have to depend upon
looks. They prepare themselves ao
cordingly. If a man comes to me with
a certain amount of timidity and want
of confidence, I am more inclined to
take him at his word and give him
what his wants than if he is ready' of
speech and entirely self -possessed. As
for the theory that the confidence man
betrays hi?nself by his manner I have
my doubtsl It hasn 'to been my experi
ence with them. - Dickens is considered
an authority on human nature. Dick
ens said something like this: 'The
general impression is that a dishonest
man cannot look you in the face. Let
me disabuse your mind of that, for I
promise you a dishonest man can look
you out of countenance every hour of
the day if there is anything to be
gained by it.' My experience in 'the
banking business 'confirms that view
of it." ' ' - '" ' ' ,'': ' ,l
J. M. Dinwiddie, of Cedar Rapids,
said: "Let me add my experience. A
man came into my bank with a Check
for fifteen dollars his wages as a car
penter, lie said. He was dressed like
a workingman. lie looked like one.
In every way he had tho appearance of
an honest man. I hadn't the least
doubt he was what he claimed- to be
and cashed his check; 'Jle had forged
the signature. He cashed fsix others
like it in our city that day.- We got
him and I looked him "over earefully,
but I couldn't see anything about him
which "conflicted with my first judg
ment that he was an honest working
man. Even after he was in prison ho
was just as honest looking as when he
came to the bank window." . -
Dipping Vp Klce Hlrda.
The Charleston. News tells some mar
velous stories about the abundance of
rice birds in the dikes and marshes
back of that city. There are always
plenty of them for tho sportsmen and
caterer at this season of the year, but
never before, have they been seen in
such swarms, darkening the air as
they , flit from place to place. They
have -almost ceased to be a target for
shotguns, and are so thick and close
together that they are caught with a
dip net like so many fish. One ama
teur marksman reports that with two
discharges of his shotgun he brought
down one hundred and eighty of the
birds. The News says: "The regular
way now, however, is to get a boat
and a dip net and go among the ditches
in the old rite fields and dip up the
birds. A gentleman went out a few
nights ago and returned with one
thousand, two hundred and thirty-six
birds. It required a wagon and two
buckboards to carry them all home.
Quite a considerable sum has been
realized by several parties who em
barked in the rice-bird businea-s. They
can be bought on the plantations for a
mere song, and when taken to the
town are sold for at least twenty-five
1 pents a dozen "
IN THE CHEROKEE STHIP.
Tho
Experience of a Drummer In -tho
Rush forLand. - Y "
H Foand He Bad Made a Great Mia
take and Waa Glad to Get Out of '
the Country Alive Trlala of Other i
Would-Be Sooner.' ,
No less 'than reight traveling men
were 6educed into making a run to the
Cherokee strip in search of quarter sec
tions or town lots and the number
which returned disappointed and dis
gusted was exactly six. As I was one
of the number and hence am telling a
tale on myself, says a writer in the
St. Louis Globe-Democrat, I cannot be
accused of malice', unless it be against
mankind in general and the interior"
department in; particular. , I paid
twenty dollars for a turn to register,
and have ever since looked upon the
man who made the, sale as a remark
ably smart individual. I obtained a
certificate and at twelve o'clock com
menced to ride a bright looking horse
into " the strip. 1 .might have got a
good claim if I could have controlled
the horse. But I couldn't The ani
mal simply d?l his best to beat every
thing else in sight, taking the fastest
horse for "peacemaker aud following
with praiseworthy assiduity. I have
been under the impression that I could
ride, and if sticking on a horse's back
means good riding I have nothing to
be ashamed of, for I certainly did not
fall off. Otherwise I was a complete
failure as a rider, for the horse went at
his own gait, turned when he wanted
to and treated my desires with a
contempt which was supreme. It
was nearly ' three o'clock before
he got so tired out that ' I was
able to stop him, Bnd by that time he
had got me into one of the worst sec
tions in the strip, where the ground
did not begin to be worth tho amount
the government asked for it Whether
those who obtained tho claims got in
on balloons or wheMier they sneaked
in over night I am not prepared to say,
but every claim .with pretense of herb
age or water on it was occupied, and
oue man had a house half built It did
not take me long to make' up my mind
that the sooner I could get back into
Kansas the better, .but I had no idea of ,
the enormous distance I had traveled
until I had got well into the journey
on an exhausted horse which needed
both food and water badly. I had to
camp out all night, and finally got into
town on Sunday ! morning heartily
ashamed of myself,1 and with enough
dust on me to have started a small
vegetable garden. My only consolation
was that hundreds of - others were
equally unfortunate, and I ' believe
there was more grumbling and cussing
to the square inch; all day Sunday in
this town than anyone present could
possibly realize. '.W., who" travels for a
St. Jo dry goods house, did not turn.up
till just after supper on Sunday even
ings Exactly what happened to him
no one will know until he regains his
temper. At present he will give no in
formation whatever, and . all that is,
known is that he went into the strip
on horseback and came back as an
extra passenger in a prairie Bchooner,
or ex-boomer's wagon.- 4 Chicago man
who went in with us on horseback
from here' got hopelessly lost, and
finally found himself at Kiowa, where
I he sold the quadruped and. took the
cars back here. Another man of tne
traveling fraternity, who has always
boasted that he never got left; joined
a town-site' colony a few days before
the opening and went in with themi
Half a dozen sooners were quarreling
over the quarter section, they had.
designed to make the metropolis of tho
Indian territory when they arrived at
it, aud fell, they could do was to drive
back. ! Our brother m affliction gives
a most humorous oceount of hs .ex
perience. Three of the. number made
the run on horseback, the balance fol
lowing in wagons, , When they met at
tho coveted' spot and compared notes
they decided to camp out for the
night and come back at their leisure,
as they had enough food and drink on
hand to give indigestion, if not gout, to 1
John Cumming,
, - WESTON, OREGON,
has the
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f GENERAL MERCHANDISE ' IN .THE ' COUNTY,
New Goods
ifor v
Fall Trade,
Arriving
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10
Daily v. .. .
Dry ' Gra related Sug r.
Extra e Sugar,
10 PER CENT. DISCOUNT, FOR CASH.
".!?.W8n-Jl?55-hoa'l', KX 8We, IdJ4e,Hja,I(r4 per lb.
Best Quality Lard.iu 10lbos'iw,Hi7" ' ' " ' ' "
1 10 PER CENt: DISCOUNT, FOR CASH.
eomforts,i.25 each and upward. Blanket, $1.50 per pair and upward.
'"Miskmvor pair. Ladies wool hose, 25c per pair, men's wool undemhirfs iayi(
ern, 11.00 each.. , , v- . ,- fe ,' ; ;' ,''--. i
10 PER CENT. DISCOUNT, FOR CASH.
AND
EVERYTHING ELSE
t h , PRICES. - COME,
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JOHN CUMMING,
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the entire paq ty. A remarkable d.:U
culty then be? set them. Every inch of
ground of tl ,e vicinity nas claimt'd,
and no r.e W ould allow them to camp,
fearing lest,? it was a trick fi.r the pur
pose of seeic ring evidence iu a project
ed contest finally their resbug place
was.selecta&J on the edge of oxc of the
countless bi inches - of the Arkansas
river, and. afh W a hearty supper and
a good "wash n thet river an attempt
was made to, sleep; The darkness
brought with it, thousands of mosqui
toes and millions of ' insignificant
creeping things . wliich stung worse
than could be ima'ii led, and camp was
broken before nin t o'clock.- After
that two or three m ore attompts were
made to secure a det ent resting place,
and finally it was' decided to keep
n loving as the besvt opportunity' for
comfort, .Several mUles were covered
('mring the night, aad in the morning
the heartbreaking discovery was made
hat they were goitag south instead of
iiorth; : They retraced .their steps and
finally got back 'into town in a very '
dilapidated and ilirty condition and
with an immense amount of conceit
knocked out of t'nem. We propose to
resume our ordinary avocations as soon
as we are rested up. . , ,
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' A South American A ma ton.
Among the persons, who have had
great influence in .the revolution in
Kio Grande do Snl is a woman -Mme,
Gabriela- det Ma tos, thirty-one years
old, with lafge blue eyes and blonde
hair,1. At tho beginning of the revolt
she sold her cattle and attached her
self . to the troops of Yuea Tigre,
whose'adjutant she became. She ac
companied the half-wild leader on all
his expeditions, - clad in a uniform
which - was a strange combination of
women's and , men's attire. Across
her shoulders she carried a band on
which - were the' words:.- "Long Live
Liberty! Long Live Rio Grande do
Sul!" Many deeds of courage, as well
as kindness, are told of this unusual
woman, who believes that she is a sec
ond Joan of Arc, called to lead her
country to independence,
'OPTICAL PHENOMENON. (
Peculiar NUhouettea Seen from the Top of
a Hlch Mountain la Telemarken. , ,
! . A correspondent of Nature at Chris
tiania gves an account of a very curi
ous phenomenon witnessed from the
top of Gausta mountain (height six
thousand 'Norwegian 'feot) in Tele
marken, soutlfc, of Norway 4 "We were
a party," he ,6feys, "of two ladies and
three gentleman on the summit of this
mountain on August 4 "On , the morn
ing f that day , the sky w vs passably
clear; at noon there was a tmcK log,
Between six and seven o'clock in the
afternoon (theJ wind' being' south to
southwest) the ifog.suddeuly cleared in .
places po that'-, we could we the sur
rounding country in sunshine through
the rifts. We mounted to the flagstaff
in order to obtain a better view of tho
scenery, find thcr we at.on observed
in. the fog.'in an (easterly-direction, a
double rainbow forming a complete
circle, and seeming to be twenty to
thirty feet distant from us. . Iu ; the
middle of this we all appeared as black, '
erect and nearly life-size silhouttes.
The outlines of the silhouettes were
so sharp that we could easily recognize
the" figures Of each other, and overy .
movement was reproduced. The head
of each individual appeared to occupy
the center of the circle, and each of us
seemed, .to be standing on;the Inner
periphery of the-rainbow. We esti
mated the inner radiuk of the circle to
be six feeV 'This phenomenon lasted ;1
several minutes, disappearing with the ,
fog bank, to be reproduced in new fog
three or fourtimes, but each time more
indistinctly. . The sunshine during the
phenomenon seemed to us to be un
usually bright. Mr Kielland-Torkild-sen
president of the Telemarken. Tour-,
1st club, writes to me that the builder
of the hut oft the top of Gausta has
twice seen spectacles of this kind, but
in each case it was only the outline of,
the mountain that was reflected on the
fog. He had never seen his own image,
and he does not mention circular or
other rainbows." ' ,
Largest ,
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very lowest figures. - -
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PER CENT. DISCOUNT
FOR CASH PURCHASES !
12 pound for 11.00
17.70
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per sock
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