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VOLUME 8.
ATIIENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 9, 1835.
NUMBER 32.
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LOBGK BIBECTAKY
AF. k A. M. NO'. 80 MEETS TI1E
. Fi rat and Third Saturday Evening
f each month. Vuiting bretheren cor
dially invited to vuit the lodge. .
T 0. 0. F. NO. 73, MEETS EVERY
I, Friday night. Visiting Odd Fellow
n good Handing always welcome.
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0. U. W. NO. 104, MEETS TOE
Second and Fourth Saturdays of
month. Fred Eozenswieg,
Recorder.
ATHENA CAMP, NO. 171, Woodmen of the
World, meets 1st and 8rd Wednenduyn of
inch month. Visiting Choppr always wel
come. O. C. Obbckjt, Clerk.
PYTHIAN, NO. 29, MEETS EVERY
Thursday Night.
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Physician and Surgeon.
Calls promptly answered. Office on Third
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Iear8lrs 1 have been a tobacco fiend for manv venra snd rinrinar ih nui anH
smoked fifteen to twenty cigars regularly, every day. 'My whole nervous system, became af
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SPRAGUE IS IN ASHES.
Entire Business Portion of the Town
pf Destroyed by Fire.
The entire business portion of
Sprague is in ashes, hundreds are
homeless and the losses will ag
gregate $1,250,000. The town is
almost destitute of food, and May
or Sanford has sent messages to the
leading cities appealing for
aid. The people are appalled by
their frightful losses, and will be
several days before they will know
whether to try to rebuild the city
or not.
At noon Saturday the fire alarm
was sounded for a blaze in Byrants
chop and feed mill, corner of Rail
road avenue and D street. The de
partment responded promptly, but
the blaze was quickly fanned into
a roaring furnace, and the fire
boys were driven back from the
scene almost as soon as they arriv
ed. With lightning rapidity the
flames leaped from one building to
another, and inside of five minutes
it was seen that the entire town
was threatened.
As the flames reached the corner
of G street they forked, one branch
going north of the railroad track
and consuming on its way the
Northern Pacific grain warehouse,
the National hotel and the entire
row of wooden buildings to the cor
ner of B street. There it turned
off to the Pacific hotel and the row
of wooden building3 in the rear of
it. ; From there it jumped to the
old headquarters building, and
Porak's brewery, totally destroying
the latter and the proprietors resi
dence.
Meanwhile the southern fork,
with equal rapidity, tjonsumed
the buildings on Railroad avenue,
First and Second streets, including
the Commercial hotel, the Herbring
opera house, the city hall, R. New
man & Co.s' and the Masonic hall.
From there the flames leaped to
the buildings west of the enrahops,
and in another minute they burst
forth into flames. It was impos
sible to do anything to save the
railroad buildings, fot the water
pipes had burst in that part of the
the city.
Five minutes later a teriffic ex
plosion occurred as the oil tanks
burst and the timbers and flames
rose high in the air.
The fire was checked on the west
side by the brick buildings of the
First National Bank and of Jensen,
King & Co., the occupants of these
buildings placing wet blankets
over the windows arid fighting the
flames desperately.
.Mayor Sanderson at this time
arrived, from Medical Lake, and
ordered the building of Ben Ettle
son, on the corner of C and First
street, blown up with dynamite.
This was done, and the entire row
of -business houses on C, between
First and Second, were saved.
The flames here took a south
easterly direction and destroyed
the drug store of W. P. Putman,
the Masonic hall, the county jail,
the old opera bouse, the residences
of R. R. Jones E. H. Stanton. The
flames were at this point checked
by the blowing-up with dynamite
of the old opera house and the row
of trees in front of H. W. Bonnse'
residence, and a deluge of water.
The fire swept as far as the stock
yards, completely oDUteraurg.in
its course every residense and
business house in that port mot
the city. Fully 320 acres of land
were burned over, every bu ding
thereon being completely --iped
out.
Luck is Everything.
No better instance of got-,! for
tune coming through sheer luck
ould be found, perhaps, than in
the experience of a prospector nam
ed Mahoney, near Kaiisburg,
Mont, recently. Having nothing
whatever to do one afternoon he,
ou6 of pure' fancy, as an idle boy
would throw "stones at a mark,
drilled a hole into a projecting rock
and put in a Bhot, intending to
plow out a ton or so of it just to
see the things fly When the blast
was made he found that he had
broken into a treasure house. There
was a big pocket in the rock the
Bides of which sparkeled with al
most pure gold. There was enough
in sight to net Mahoney a hund
some sum, and if the mines proves
as rich us the surface showing
indicates he has struck a bonanza.
No More Farm Receivers.
In the United States court at
Portland Judge Bellinger rendered
a decision in the case of Wm.
Thompson, plaintiff, vs. J. Q.
Shirley, defendant. This decision
if established as a precedent, will
be one of the most important ever
handed down from the bench. All
over Oregon, foreign loan compan
ies hold mortgages on lands. Bel
linger declares that a receiver for a
farm is illegal and that crops and
profits of a farm cannot be taken
by the mortgagees until the fore
closure completed. The princi
ple whicn he lays down is founded
on "a provision in the Oregon law
as follows: "A mortgage of real
property phall not be deemed a
conveyance so as to enable the
owner of the mortgage to recover
possession of the real' property
without a foreclosure and sale, ac
cording to law."
Oakesdale Wheat-Moving.
Monday two solid trains, one
drawn by two engines, loaded with'
Walla Walla wheat enroute ; to
Chicago over the O. R. & N. and
Great Northern, passed through
Oakesdale. Tuesday three trains
passed through. This , . prompt
shipment of Washington wheat is
encouraging, as it shows a demand
for the local wheat, which, it is
hoped, will be followed by a better
price in the near future. .Oakes
dale grain dealers think new wheat
will be on the market there i.n two
weeks. This will be two weeks
earlier than last year.
Remember This.
A correspondent writes: "As
many ot your readers are off or
going to the country, where not
a few are likely to become victims
of the poison oak (poison ash and
poison ivy are its aliases), tell them
that the best and almost unfailing
remedy is crude petroleum as a
lotion. I have seen a child whose
face was terribly swollen and dis
torted, and whose suffering were
pitiable, almost instantly relieved
and kept comfortable until the in
flammation had passed away.
Preserving Fruit.
A California fruit' man has been
experimenting and finds that fruit
put away in powdered borax will
keep sweet and fresh for weeks.
He Bent a lot of pherries packed in
borax to Chicago by slow freight
and they reached their destination
in fine order, after being three
weeks on the way. He Bays his
discovery is free to all and that
the same borax can be used over
and over again. Private families,
as well as hotels and restaurants,
can have their borax bin at small
expense, in which they can con
stantly keep an assortment of fresh
fruit. .
Unique Advertising.
There is a healer down in Morrow
county who advertises in posters
as follows and it s said the doctor
does a good business and Morrow
county is proud of her physician:
"Legs and arms sawd off while you
waite without paine. Childbirth
and tumors a specialty. No odds
asked in ' measels, hoopincoff
mumps or diarear. Bald heads
bunions, corn warts cancer and in
growin two naile xtracted without
pain. Coleck, cramps, worms and
costiveness nailed on site. Wring
worm shingles and cross eye cured
in 1 treatment or no pay'
. Fruit and Vegetable Shipments.
. Large shipments of fruit and
vegetables are being made from
Walla Walla to Montana, Idaho
and other eastern points. W. S.
Offner'shipped one carload of mixed
fruit to Chicago, and the Walla
WaUa Produce Company shipped
one carload of pears and plums to
St. Paul and Minneapolis. The
t' o firms have also shipped dur
ing the past week of one carload of
vt tables to Wallace. Idaho, one
ca. ! ... ut plums to St. Paul, and
Ok load of the same fruit to
Minneapolis, one carload to Chic
ago, and three carloads ot potatoes'
to Anaconda and Helena.
Read the Pbess.
Highest of all in Leavening Power.
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FORTUNE IN A COIN.
The Owner Did Not Know It When He
Was Starving.
Frbm a case brought before Judge
Fitzgerald in the general sessions
court some days ago a peculiar ci
vil suit has arisen and is now on
the callender in the fourth district,
says the New York Herald. Chas.
Schultz was arraigned for larceny
of a coin of great rarity from Felix
Schultz. The thief and his victim
are not related and were strangers
to one another
Charles was in bad straits and
asked Felix Schultz for assistance.
Felix took him home, fed him and
allowed him to stay overnight,
The next morning Charles disap
peared with Felix's trousers and
some money and coins that were
in his pockets. Felix notified the
polioe and Charles was arrested.
When the case came up for trial
Felix begged Judge Fitzgerald to
migitate Charles sentence if he
would only tell what he did with
a certain heirloom, a silver dollar
of the coinage of 1804, that he
prized highlyj not so much for Ha
intrinsic value as for the family
association that it bore, it having
been handed pown through several
generations of Schultzes.
When Judge Fitzgerald asked
the prisoner what he had dons
with the coin Charles replied that
as the coin seemed to him to have
more value than appeared on its
face, he took it to the Scott Stamp
& Coin Company, of No. 183 Broad
way, where he was offered $95 for
it. Believing it to have more value
he tried at the Twenty-third-street
office of the company, and there he
was offered $90, which he accep
ted. -! '
The court was amazed and asked
Lawyer Thomas E. Gibbons, ap
pearing for the prosecution, what
it all means. The lawyer- replied
that it was an entirely new de
velopment in the case, and ex
plained that hia client had valued
it highly because of the length of
time it had remained in his fam
ily. From generation to genera
tion it has been - employed as a
'teething piece" for the children. :
. The prisoner, Charles Schultz,
being unable to restore the coin,
was sentenced to two years and
three months' imprisonment at
Sing Sing. On Friday he sent a
letter to Felix reierating his pre
vious Btory. When the coin was
demanded of the Scott company,
however, it it was peremptor
refused, with the statement that
they never saw either Schultz or
the coin in question. Felix Schultz
now brings suit for ita return
ngainst the company in the fourth
district court, and as the coin is es
timated worth nearly $o000, a hot
fight is expected between the con
testants. The history of the 1804 dollar is
as follows: In .1803 congress
passed a measure for the coinage
of the usual amount of money met
al, but in the bill the word "dol
lars ' was omitted. Ihe mint, how-
ever, naa coined auuuu oi tnem oe
fore the omission was discovered,
and when the issue was recalled all
but 12 were recovered. One of
them is now in the Berlin museum,
one Jin theJBritish museum, one was
sold at the Ewen collection sale in
Boston, realizing $2000. One was
sold abroad recently for $600. The
others are scattered in thia coun
try. . '
When Fsllx Schultz was inform
ed 'of the value of the coin he had
so long in his possession he de
clared: "Time and again have we
been starving for bread. We never
knew what we had in our posses-
Bion.
Foundry Contracts.
Julius Loewenberg, the banker
and capitalist of Portland, who has
secured a 10 years' lease of the
stove foundry at the state peni
tentiary, will commence operating
the works August 15, with a force
of 125 convicts with some 10 or 15
outside men as overseers and in
structors. The contract, which
was signed at Salem last Monday,
provides that Mr. Loewenberg
shall pay the state $2000 . a year
for the lease and 35 cents a day
for each convict working in the
foundry. There is an average of
about 400 convicts at the pent
tentiary all thetim. and e in ad
dition to the 125 men employed at
itart, Mr. Loewenberg is to take
on an additional 25 convicts every
six months until all are employed,
Latest U. S. Gov't Report
except a few required for other
duties about the prison? or who are
physically unable to work in the
foundry. The men will work 10
hours a nay, the lessee, of. course,
having nothing to do with feeding
them or otherwise provide for them,
their labor simply being let to him.
Vacation Time.
Is at hand and is gladly welcomed
by all especially those whose dut
ies in life have caused them to
greatly run down their- system to
meet the requirements, physical
and mental, forced upon them,
with these and others, it is impor
tant, whether at home, at the sea
shore or in the country, that some
thought be given to diet, and as "
further assistance to Nature, a good
Duiiamg-up medicine like Hood's
Sarsaparilla had best be resorted
to. Why not take Hood's Sarsap
arilla now.
Walla Walla Bicycle Races.
The Walla Walla Wheelmen's
Club have made a decision of the
list of prizes they are to offer at
the coming meet, August 21. The
total value of the prizes amounts
to $375. They are as follows: .'.".
One mile, novice First prize.
gun, value $15; second prizef muf
fler, value $5.
Half mile, class B First, shot
gun, $30; second, gold chain, $10.
One mile, class B Diamond
looket, $50; second, . leather valise,
$15.
Two miles, class B First, dia
mond Btud. $60; second, Winches
ter rifle, $25. . ; V
- Half mile, class A First, silver .
cronograph, $10; second, opera
glasses, $10. ,
One mile, class A First, 14
karat gold filled watch, $45; aec
ond, mandolin and case, $15.
Five mile, handicap, class A
First, diamond scarf pin, $50; sec
ond, guitar and case, $15.
The track is being put in splen
did shape and not a thing is left
undone to entertain the visitors in
grand style.
Timber Cases.
Investigations are now in pro
gress 'of alleged timber stealing on
the reservation, in the vicinity of
Meacham. There appears to be
two classes of people who have
been cutting timber from unpaten
ted and unleased lands in tne
Meacham district. Some who have
removed the timber, are undoubted-"
ly guilty of violating the law, and
if it is Droved "against them, must
suffer the penalty. Then there are
others who have taken timber from
unpatented lands, and have a rea
sonable basis for claiming that they
have the right to do bo. The case
of these appear to be rival in char
acter, while the former comes un
der operation of criminal law.
The Burlington Coming.
It ia the purpose of the Burling
ton railroad to ask congress for the
right of way through Yellowstone
park agreeing to keep up the track:
n perfect manner and to give all
ines desiring to enter tte park the
use or tne Jiurnngton tracics a
certain yearly rental. Once in tho '
park it ia believed the Burlington
will build into Montana and 'open
another comparatively new country
in the west.
V, Predicts Scarcity of Wheat.
Charles A. Pillsbury of Minnea
polis believes that there will be &
scarcity ot milling wheat, and h
thinks prices will spar. ' He said:
A considerable portion oil tne
winter wheat crop has already
been so much injured by the wet
harvest as to make it unfit for
milling, and it is being and will be
used largely for animal food, l tie
fact that farmers have no reserves
at all of wheat ia almost universal
ly admitted while it is true as well
that stocks of flour are unusually
low, both in foreign countries and
our own. My , opinion is tnat
Europe will be a moderate buyer
of wheat and flour during the next
three month. If this is the case
prices will probably keep down
where they are for the present, un
til after the spring wheat move
ment ia over. Then there will be
music with a full band, and prices
will sail way above, the export
.value of wheat and flour."
From returns made by Hamil
ton & Rourke Company in Pen
dleton, the present indications are
that Umatilla county's crop will
be 50 per cent of that of last year.
Dr. Price's Cream Baking: Powder
Awudcd Gold MHywinl So FriatiK
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