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A GOLD CONVENTION
Chicago, Detroit, and Indian
apolis Want It.
COMMITTEE MEETS TODAY
Thirty-one States Will Be
Represented.
The executive national committee of
gold-standard democratic conference,
which meets in Indianapolis today, hav
ing in charge the arrrangements of the
preliminaries for the conference, made an
announcement that 31 stales will partici
pate in' that meeting. The announce
ment was made after going over .. the
responses to tbe address recently issued
as the resalt of the gathering at the aud
itorium. Chicago is favored for the con
vention, but Detroit, Indianapolis and
Minneapolis are candidates.
Tbe executive committee, which met
today, consisted of General Bragg, of
Wisconsin ; J. 0. Broadhead, of Mis
souri; W. B. Haldeman, of Kentucky;
H. 8. Bobbins, of Illinois, and W. D.
Bynum, of Indiana. All the members of
toe committee were present. The advices
from 31 states, Mr. Bynum and Mr.
Bobbins reported, were such as to war
rant tbe certainty that all of them would
be represented at Indianapolis.
After canvassing in detail the corre
spondence, it was found that the gold
standard men of 19 states had already
organized and named their committee
men to tbe Indianapolis conference.
The committee thus far named is as
follows:-
Alabama J. M. . Faulkner, Mont
gomery. ;
California T. B. Pond, San Francisco.
Illinois John M. Palmer, Springfield.
Indiana John P. Wilson, Indiana
polis. Kansas Eugene Hagan, Topeka.
Kentucky Richard Tyler, Hickman.
Massachusetts Ex-Mayor Matthews,
Boston.
Minnesota F. M. W. Kutcheoa, St.
Paul.
Mississippi Edgar S. Wilson, Jack
son. --
Missouri L. 0. Krauthoff, Kansas
City.
Nebraska Euclid Martin, Omaha.
New Hampshire Gordon Woodbury,
Manchester.
New York Charles Tracy, Albany;
alternate, George Foster Peabody, Brook
lyn. Oregon C. E. S. Wood, Portland.
Pennsylvania-F. C. Bullitt, Phila
delphia. South Carolina T. F. Tolley, Ander
son. Washington Thomas Burke, Seattle.
West Virvinia H. S. Sims, Hunting
ton.'-.- : - - - - : ' ::
Wisconsin Ellis B. Asher, Lacrosse.
In the following states, tbe committee
was informed the gold-standard men bad
organized and called a conference to ap
point representatives from their states
for the Indianapolis conference on the
7th:
Connecticut, Florida, Iowa, Maine,
Maryland, Michigan, Ohio, Rhode
Island, Texas, Vermont, Tennessee and
Virginia.' , . '
The committee was also advised that
in the following states steps are being
taken which will result in the naming of
committeemen:
Colorado, Montana, North Dakota,
Nsw Jersey and South Dakota.
Two territories, New Mexico and Okla
homa, placed themselves in communica
tion with tbe committee, and desired to
be represented at Indianapolis.
A communication was received from
tbe Dennison house, of Indianapolis,
tendering free of charge committee
rooms for (be use of the committee.
This offer was accepted, and the com
mittee decided that the conference would
be held in the club room of the Dennison
hotel at 2 p. m. In addition to commit
teemen appointed from the states,
prominent democrats have notified the
committee of their states of their 'inten
tion to be present at the Indianapolis
meeting. ' : ::- ?
NIAGARA'S NEW BRIDGE.
It Will Be One of the Wonders of the
World.
The new metal arch-bridge at Niagara
falls will be noteworthy in two respects,
says the Railroad Gazette. The new
bridge is to be bnilt over tbe old suspen
sion structure, without interruption to
the traffic on-tbe latter. The span from
end pier to end pier will be 840 feet,
making it the largest arch span in the
world.
The euspeneion bridge new in use.
which has been familiar to all visitors to
tbe great natural wonder for 40 years,
will be kept in place until tbe new arcb
is ready, as it would be impossible to
construct false works over Niagara gorge
to sustain a structure ol tms class.
The span will have a raise of 250 feet
from the level of the piers at the skew
backs to the center of the ribs at the
crane of the arch, which point is 170 feet
above low water. Tbe depth of the
tmeses is 26 feet, and they will be 68.7
inches apart. The bridge will carry one
floor, 46 feet wide, divided longitudinally
into three parts. On the middle portion,
which is 22 feet 9 inches wide, will be
two trolley tracks. Each side of these
tracks will be a roadway for carriages,
eight feet wide, and outside of these,
raised six inches from the level ot the
roadway, will be footpaths.
The construction of this remarkable
span is from plans of L. L. Buck, engi
neer of the East river bridge between
New York and Brooklyn, and the author
of the plans by which tbe railroad suspen
sion bridge at Niagara was replaced by
an arched bridge.
The approaching or flanking spaos w ill
be 190 feet long on tbe American sida
and 210 feet on the Canadian side. Tha
total metal in tbe new structure will ba
about 4,000,000,000 pounds. Every con
fidence is expressed in Mr. Bock's ability
to carry out his plans. Tbe replacing of
the railroad bridge by another without an
hour's interruption of business was one
c-f the engineering feats of the decade.
Those who have not seen the great
structure at Niagara which it is intended
to replace will hardly realize tbe stupend
ous character of the undertaking.
Imagine the tusk of replacing th simplest
sort ot Druige wimout interrupting rathe,
and then add about 1000 per cent to tbe
difficulty. This will give something of
an idea oi wnat conironts engineers and
builders.
In an undertaking cf this nature tbe
slightest error might be productive of in
finite disaster. Every measurement must
be accurate to a hair's breath. Every
portion of the great arch must perform its
particular share of the great combination
that will be one of tbe marvela cf the
world.
All that is done must be accomplibhed
quickly, for in affairs of this nature time
is, Indeed, money, h-very man who can
be utilized will join the armv of construc
tion. Perhaps no work of recent years
has required, or will yet teed, more
skilled labor. In fact, in bridge building
it is becoming unsafe to utilize labor of
any other class. The bridge, when com
plete, will in truth be a work of genius in
point of construction, as well as point of
conception. .,
The work of preparing material for
the great structure has been in progress
for some . time, as little can be accom
plished in an enterprise of this nature
until preliminaries are complete. When
the .effort of placing the different
parts of the bridge in position is begun
Niagara will be one of the busiest of busy
places. .
Hazlltt Reports Again.
Hazlitt, the "pilgrim printer," a sort of
modern "Wandering Jew," who is more
extensively known among all branches
of tbe art preservative and has traveled
farther and been longer about it than
any other man in tbe United States,
dropped in at Tbe Oregonian office for a
brief call last evening. He has not
visited this part of his circuit for several
years, and says he has been in Idaho
and tbe region round about. He is look
ing remarkably well for a man of his
age. His whiskers, through which the
winds of half a century have whistled,
are snowy white, but his skin is clear
and ruddy and bis eye bright. His
figure has a suspicion of embonpoint,
which, with the negligee style of dress he
has always affected, and the distant air
assumed by his vest to his overalls, sug
gests the Dusty Rhodes type of traveler,
which is now so much more common
than when Mr. Hazlitt first took the
road. He finds things sadly changed in
many printing offices, the introduction of
typesetting machines having dispersed
his acquaintances and friends. He is
now contemplating the purchase of a
bicycle. He is older than he was when
he started on the tramp from Maryland
in 1854. In fact, he thinks he is the
oldest pioneer printer of this coa6t. He
feels that his time is getting short; but
the world is still all before him, and he
feels that if he had been traveling 10,000
years, he would have just as far to go as
when he first begun. Wherefore his de
sire for a bicycle in ordor to make the
best possible use ot the years left him.
He has been around to all tbe bicycle
stores, and is still in doubt. He says
there is either some terrible misunder
standing in regard to the good qualities
of bicycles, or the bicycle dealers are
monumental prevaricators. As soon as
he can decide which is the best 'cycle, be
will invAfil. AnH atari-, fni Thn DallAa An l
his wav back to Idaho. I
We Lay Down.
Arizona Kicker : Our esteemed con
temporary down the street is out with a
two-column sensation regarding the little
affair at the bank last Tuesday, and be
lies in the moat shameful and barefaced
manner, as usual. The facts in the case
are as follows: We had just left the
bank, after making a deposit of $200.
As we reached the sidewalk a stranger,
who had been leaning against a telegraph
pole, stepped forward and thruBt the
muzzle of a gun within a foot of our nose
and ordered us to throw up our bands.
Up they went. Under the circumstances
we were ready to throw up our hat,
shoes, wallet and everything else we
held dear on earth. The man gave us
his private opinion of the editor of "The
Kicker" (who is ourself), of the mayor,
(who is ourself), and the postmaster,
(who is ourself), and his language was
emphatic and to the point. We had
little or nothing to say. We might have
died tbe death of a hero, but we pre
ferred to remain on earth. A large
crowd assembled and witnessed our
humiliation, but we remained passive
and placid. When the kuss had bad all
the fun he wanted he walked off. So
did we. We got our guns as soon as pos
sible and looked for him, but be could
not be found. There isn't the slightett
question about our flaying down" before
that stranger. We think we know when
we have a good thing. It was a good
thing to "lay down" just then, and we
entered Into it with a great deal of en
thusiasm. Things may be different
some day, but just at present we have
very little to say , and would like to avoid
the subject altogether.
It May Have Been Dunham.
It is believed that Dunham, the
brutal murderer of bis wife, father-in-law
and four other persons near Los Angeles,
Cat., about two months ago, and for
wnoee capture a reward of $30,000 has
been offered, was in the vicinitv of Baker
City a few days ago, says the Democrat.
tne stranger brat appeared at the
Racbael mine, worked a half shift and
ate two meals there, leaving without
saying a word about his going to any
one. From the Rachael mine be went
to tbe Cyclone mine and inquired for
tbe Bradbury brothers. He was inlorm
ed where their claim was, and he went
there. He worked for" the Brad bury s for
a lew cays, and again left as uocermom-
onsly as from the Rachel. A few days
alter tbe stranger left tbe Bradhurvs re
ceived a description of the California
murderer, and at once they recognized in
the stranger the man for whom the
mammoth reward was offered. They,
of course, were more than sorry that
they had not got their information soon
er. The bird bad flown, and they had
not the If-ast idea where to look for
him.
Tbe Bradbury brothers and others who
saw the stranger and compared his iden
tity with the description of tbe California
murderer, say that they tally exactly.
Walla Walla Grain.
Walia Waila, Aof 7. Harvest is now
in full blast, and nuny farmers have
headed and threshed their grata. The
general result shows that the damago
from hot winds was not as grst as was j
believed a few weeks ago. Along tbe i
foothills and around the city full grain is
yielding heavily, while spring grain is
fair. On E tire it flat the grain ij fair,
and tbe farmers will come cut much
better - financially than they expected.
Around the foothills wheat in averaging
50 bushels to the acre, and barley 80
bushels. On the flit wheat will average
20 bushels.
In the Waitsburg section the showing
grows better, and tbe average yield will
be about 40 bushels to the acre. Taking
the entire county, fall wheat will be a
fair crop, and spring wheat has been
damaged about 20 per cent.
Typhoid Fever and Bananas.
William C. Ussery, M. D .of St. Louis,
says that the best food for those suffering
from typhoid fever is the banana. In
this disease, he explains, the lining
membrane of tbe small intestines be
comes intensely inflamed and engorged.
Eventually it begins sloughing away in
spots, leaving well defined ulcers. At
these places the intestinal walls become
dangerously thin. A solid food, if taken
into tbe stomach', is likely to produce
perforation of the intestines end dire re
sults will follow. Therefore solid foods
or foods that contain a large amount of
kinnutritious substances are dangerous
ana are to be avoided. The banana,
although it may be classed as a solid
food, containing as it does 95 per cent
nutrition, does not possess sufficient
waste to irritate these sore spots. Nearly
the whole amount taken into the stomach
is absorbed and gives the patient more
strength than can be abtained from other
foods.
Stranger Than Fiction.
The rumor that marriage in the royal
family of England depended upon the
passage of the bill authorizing marriage
with a deceased wife's sister cannot now
be supported by Jacts. But when the
Prince of Wales and his brother first es
poused tbe cause it was desired that
Princess Beatrice marry Prince Ludwig,
of Hesse, whose deceased wife, Princess
Alice, who died in 1878, was the sister of
Beatrice. There was a strong attach
ment between Prince Ludwig and Prin
cess Beatrice. Bnt the bill was yearly re
fused and after a time the Princess niar
iied Prince Henry, of Battenberg. now
that the bill is at last passed the widoweJ
Beatrice has no widowed brother-in-law,
Prince Ludwig having died in 1892. And
life onco more proves sadder than tragedy,
queerer than comedy and stranger than
fiction. . , ;
Bruised All Over.
Harvest time is .the period for, run
aways and stnaahiips. '. A runaway with
disastrous results . happened in King's
Valley, Benton county last Tuesday. A
Mr. Hubbard was hauling hay from his
field to his barn, when his team took
fright and ran away. Hubbard was
caught in tbe lines and dragged several
hundred yards before he could be released.
When picked up he was unconscious and
a terrible sight to see. His ear had been
torn off and about his head were numer
ous gashes and bruises. The tine of a
pitchfork had passed through bis foot,
and severe internal injuries, the nature
and extent of which are not known,
were sustained, says the Corvallis Times.
He was taken to a house and medical
aid summoned, and at last accounts tbe
patient was resting comfortably. It is
behoved that he will recover.
Jacob Schuman Reported Murdered.
News was received in Dayton Wednes
day rooming that Jacob Scbuman, an
old citizen of Dayton, had been murdered
at or near Jack Lowe's sheep camp on
the breaks of the Tukannon, says tbe
Walla Walla Union. The word was
brought by teamsters from Gruep's
mountain, but no particulars had been
obtained by them. David Davis, who
came to Walla Walla Tuesday said a
messenger bad arrived on the mountain
where Mrs. Schuman bad camped, nnd
informed her that her husband had been
murdered.
A Heppner Bank Closed.
The National Bank of Heppner, of
which E. R. Bishop is cashier, has gone
into liquidation. This step is taken for
the simplo reason that tbe bank can do
no more business profitably for the
present. It has no more money to loan
upon tbe security offered, and will pro
ceed to collect outstanding money as fast
as possible.
In the vicinity of Boquet, Westmoreland
Co., Pa., almost any one can tell you how
to cure a lame back or stiff neck. They 1
dampen a piece of flannel with Chamber- j
Iain's Pain Balm and bind on the affected
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pniw nuu lu uuo ui inu uays tun iruuuiu
has disappeared. This same treatment
will promptly cure a pain in the side or
chest, Mr. E. M. Frye, a prominent
merchant of Boquet, speaks very highly
of Pain Balm, and his recommendations
have had much to do with making it pop
ular there. For sale by Osburn.
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An American Missionary Ar
rested in Turkey.
ACCUSED OF CONSPIRACY
Was Once Liberated But Re
fused to Leave.
Nbw Yohk, July 30. Mrs. George P.
Knapp, wife of the missionary of the
American board of commissioners for
foreign missions, the Rev. George P.
Knapp, who was arrested at Kitlis,
Eastern Turkey, on the charge of con
spiring againBt the Turkish government,
has arrived in this country from the east.
Mrs. Knapp left ber husband in Con
stantinople to stand trial noon the
charges which have been preferred
against him.
'After Mr. Knapp's arrest in Bitlis,
where he was a missionary, he was
taken nnder a guard of soldiers to Alex
andretta, his . passport having been
stamped "expelled" at Aleppo. The
government officials gave him permission
to leave the country in safety and were,
apparently, anxious that he should
leave. He declined to depart, however,
until he had been accorded a formal
hearing npon tbe unjust complaints
against him without sufficient opportun
ity to defend himsolf. ! "
Upon this insistence the government
proceeded to secure ex parte affidavits
and depositions as to his alleged wrong
doing, with the result that charges were
drawn from the sworn statements of 22
persons whose names are attached to tbe
legal documents. These charges were
presented by tbe Turkish minister of
foreign affairs to the United States
charge d'affaires at Constantinople, and
present a strong case against tbe ac
cused. CORONER SAID IT WAS SUICIDE.
But Foul Play Is Suggested In Con
nection With Lawrence's Death. '
The coroner's juty, in the case of J. W.
Lawrence, brought in verdict of suicide.
Lawrence is the man found beside a
trail about eight miles from Union. The
two young men wbo first discovered him
at 8 o'clock Monday morning, did not get
off their hcrses, believing the man to be
dead, but corae directly into the town and
informed the sheriff of their discovery.
The sheriff obtained a coffin and, with
two conveyances started for the scone of
the tragedy, arriving there about : 1
o'clock. When about 15 feet from the
body one of the sheriff's party mado the
remark that the man was not dead, and
stated he could hear him breathing, and
such was the case. Tbe Injured man was
removed to town and died in Uuion at 3
o'clock Tuesday morning. Tbe autopsy
revealed tbe fact that the bullet bad not
penetrated the brain, but had plowed its
way between the skull and scalp. The
ekuli was fractured to some extent, ami
in the opinion of the physicians wbo ex
amined the injury, the man's life could
have r-een saved if he had received med
ical and surgical attention at an earlier
hour, and the fact of his having Deen ex
posed to the hot rays of tbe sun for a
number cf hours, also greatly operated
against his recovery.
It is commented npon in Union that it
seems very queer that though there are
about 15 houses within a radius of a mile
and a half from where Lawrence was
shot, and that he was discovered in the
morning, that no one visited the scene of
the shooting between the time of the
finding of the body and tbe arrival cf the
sheriff's party, and remarks of foul play
are freely made, as it is known that Law
rence was hot on the trail of somo horse
and cattle thieves, and it Is thought by
many that he was clone away with by
some of tbe parties he was accumulating
evidence against, as the easiest means of
avoiding a criminal prosecution.
A Kansas Curiosity.
Gaylord, Kansas, is the most remark
able spot on earth. There everything goes
by contraries. The cows lay eggs and
the bens give milk. Apples are dug out
of tbe earth and potatoes grow on trees.
Dogs wear feathers and geese wear hair.
Tbe males wear petticoats while the fe
males strut abroad in "pants." The sun
rises in tbe west and sets at noon, while
the Fourth of July comes in the middle
of January. Travelers come from all
parts of the world to gaze at the wondera
cf Gaylord. It knocks out tbe romances
of Morco Jolo and reduces Lemeul Gulli
ver to the level of a common, every day
liar. Its a living illustration if the ax
I write Insurance only with the very best Companies. When yon
want Policies written on your house, barn, or grain, see that
they are in the Aetna, Palatine or Caledonian.
Represented.
J. W.
Highest of all in Leavening
11 C i
Ao&oumsax PURE
ium that fact is stranger than fiction.
To clinch her ciaim to tbe title of head
quarters for dime meseum freaks and in
tellectual adnormalities, Gaylord recently
elected a complete set of municipal offi
cers of the feminine gender, mayor, police
judge, city clerk and members of the
common council all pretend to be women
bnt I'd liie to see 'em prove it. Their
plunging into politics is strong ciroum
etantial evidence that they are not built
on the plan of Mother Eve. God made
the he things of Gaylord hence, we
must preform, let them pass for men, but
their turning the city over to the man
agement of a sewing circle, indicates a
sad lack of confidence in themselves I
have no objection to Qaylord's . female
government I don't have to live in that
topsy turvy town; still it occurs to me
that the new set of municipal officers
would have bad more respect for their
husbands had the latter cut short their
candidacy by laying them across a mo
lasses barrel, blistered their rear eleva
tion with a board and sending them
about thoit household duties, where they
properly belong. Woman is the noblest
of the good God's creation when in her
place, and her place is not in politics.
When she begins to meddle in such mat
ter she needs a master. When she de
velops an itch for office it may be taken
for granted either that she's a vinegar
faced old vixen whom no man is willing
to wed or, hiding out somewhere, is a
pitiful little hen pecked hu?band. Of
course if the women of Gaylord are legal
masters of tbe family roosts. It were
impossible to contemplate them fram
ing and enforcing municipal laws, then
returning home and adopting St. Paul's
advice by becoming subject unto , their
husbands. Gaylord should change its
name to Hen-peck or Petticoatsville.
Gay lord? Nit I Its men are neither
lords of creation nor masteis of them
selves. They are meek littles things.
Doubtless they are very handy to have
in the house when a pair of stockings is
to be darned but men who connot trust
themselves to manage the affairs of a Jim
Crow town are devilish poor stock.
Brann's Iconoclast (Waco, Texas.)
BRYAN LIONIZED.
A Constant Stream of Visitors to His
Lincoln Home.
The stream of visitors to the Bryan
home is increasing. Bryan has received
a number of telegrams containing sug
gestions in regard to the action ' of the
populists convention, and to all of them
be responded in effect that he will act
with deliberation, and that nothing will
be done which can justly be criticised by
any of the elements who are sincerely
interested in tbe success of the cause of
bimetallism. In his replies to these ex
pression be earnestly advises all friends
of tbe cause in all parties to refrain from
harsh criticism of those who, however
widely they may differ otherwise, occupy
common ground in desiring the ' imme
diate restoration of the free coinago of
silver,
Mr. Bryan expresses tbe utmost confi
dence that a wise and gratifying solution
of the perplexing conditions will be pre
sented and adopted in due and good tune
and satisfactory to all parties. Further
than this Bryan declined to talk in rela
tion to tbe situation. Every entreating
iuquiry calculated to fathom bis plans or
purposes met with the simple . response :
"I must decline to be interviewed con
cerning tbe St. Louis convention, or its
results." However, his loquacity in other
directions was not so circumscribed and
he found pleoty of material for an enter
taining discourse.
"I received,"he said, "another, rabbits'
foot. It was sent to me by a telegraph
operator in Montana. That makes the
sixth rabbit's foot besides a great many
four-leaf clovers and a horseshoe.. I
wrote tbe donor of the last rabbit's foot,
that while I am not at all superstitious,
under tbe circumstances I can but feel
that every condition and necessity to in
sure my triumphant election has been Be
curred except the votes."
On his return from the populist con
vention, Governor Holcomb was sent to
Lincoln, conveying two very pretty birds.
They weie sent by the Kansas delega
tion. They were christened Kansas and
Nebraska. -
Some Were Dead and Others Gone.
- A number of people of Troutdale were
aroused the other day by seeing a peti
tion published In a weekly pRper for the
opening of a saloon at that place. They
were not objecting to a saloau, but when
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they found thattvmcf the signatures
were those of parties who had left and ot
another who w:-s dead, they got a move
on them. A. T. Tiller wanted a license.
The name of the sou oi F. G. Hicklan ap-
Seared on the petition. The young man
as been dead four months. Mr. Hick
lin and James Pelion appeared before
the county court and made Buch a show
ing that the license was not granted.
Some of the names on the list are said
to have been absent from Troutdale for
the past two years.
Oregon Notes. ,
An effort is being made to place Pen
dleton and La Grande on tbe regular hk.
cycle race circuit. A movement to that
end is now under way, and already purses
are talked of for a meeting at La
Grande.
' Eight carloads of wool from Heppner
were received at the Moody warehouse, at
The Dalles, Monday. The wool is being
stored. - ;
Ben Brown, who has been at the helm
of the Burns Times for the past two
years, has gone to Central America.
San Salvador will ba his future homo.
Last Thursday nigbt a westbound
freight train ran into a band of 15 cattle
that were hemmed in between a bluff
and fence, near Blalock. All of the cat
tle were either killed by the accident or
so badly maimed that they had to be
killed. ;
George Mortis who owned and lived
upon a valuable farm near Harris burg, in
Linn couney, died at his home last Sun
day. He was 78 years of age, and left a
widow and six children, jlost of the
children now have families of their
own.
Just now the farmers of the Grande
Bonde valley are engaged in putting up
bay, but the crop is so heavy that in
some sections much of it will be left
standing. Huge stacks dot the valley
throughout its length and breadth. It
will but a few days before tbe farmers
will turn their attention to the grain
harvest.
Sixteen farms in the vicinity of Pendle
ton, some in Oregon and some in Wash
ington, have been harvested, and the re
turns show the average to have been
31)6 bushels of wheat and 60 bushels of
barley to the acre, with the quality fair.
The heaviest yield so far reported is 60
bushels. This was by Philip Young.
The Black Butte Mining Company, in
Grant county, is making preparations to
begin work on a more extensive scale.
The company recently bought out all
persons with whom it was involved in.
litigation, among them being J. Brown. -Mr.
Brown's clean-up, as the result of
last spring's work, amounted to $10,000.
Tampa, a fleet-footed animal, owned by
Keeney Bros., of Long Creek, Or , wag
pold recently at Anaconda, Mont., to W.
F. Matlock, of Pendleton. The consider
ation was $700. Tampa has made quite
a reputation in Montana, winning a half
mile handicap race against some of the
best animals. She has passed Into the
hands of an experienced racehorBe man.
More emigrants than usual are passing
through Fossil this summer, going both
east and west, says tbe Journal. The
other day the biggest caravan ever seen .
passed through. It consisted of 12
prairie schooners, containing 35 people,
traveling from Grande Ronde valley to
Lane county, near Eugene, where they
purpose locating. Each wagon cover
bore the legend, "All for Oregon," and
an inquiry as to its meaning elicited the
reply that the outfit had traveled to tha
Grand Ronde last year from Kansas and
Nebraska, and being dissatisfied with
that portion of Oregon, pulled stakes and
started for the far famed Willamette
valley.
Since 1878 there has been nine epidem
ics of dysentery, in different parts of the
country iu which Chamberlain's Colic,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy was need
with perfect success. Dysentery, when
epidemic, is almost as severe and danger
ous as Asiatic Cholera. Heretofore the
best efforts of the most skilled physicians
have failed to check its ravages, this rem
edy, however, has cured the most malig
nant cases, both of children and adults,
and under the most trying conditions,
which proves it to bn the best medicine
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