CENTRAL rOINT HERALD. THURSDAY, OCTORFFR 8. IDOS.
» ’curry in, a-foot, a horse or in wagon i
and buggy.
But in these little affairs, successful
Boaestael, S. D., Oct. 1.—President though they were from the land grab-
Roosevelt has raised the curtain ami bin < standpoint and entertaining from
Uncle Sam, the Henry Savage o f onr { a national viewpoint, the killings and
national dramas, presents that thrilling, fatal accidents were too frequent to
hair raising, nerve wrecking melodrama, suit Uncle Sam.
So now wehave “ The Land L ottery,”
“ The Land L ottery.”
Place, Dallas, S. L>., on the frontier new people, new customs, new settings,
o f the rich and rolling Tripp county as thrilling and exciting as ever.
Uncle Satn a Gambler.
O LD MEN
AND
MIDDLE A G E D
Indian reservation.
Time, October 19, 1908.
Rich Strike in Bowden Mine.
Characters, government officers and
100,000 land hungry citizens, gamblers, j
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fakirs, adventure seeking' women and I James Davis o f the Blackwell dls-
Indians.
trict, who in company with Thomas Ha-
The government has 800,000 acres o f Kan ;8 developing the old Bowden mine,
land it wishes to place in the hands o f j reports an exceptionally rich strike o f
its citizens. Uncle Sam wants to give I ore on that property. On the seventy
this land away, so he pulls off a huge foot level they ran into a body o f ore
theatrical performance.
that averages from ten to twenty-four
Uncle Sam tells his people to go to ¡nches wide and assays show values
Dallas, Chamberlain, Gregory or Presho, ranging from $10 to $50 per ton. They
S. D., or O ’ Neil or Valentine, Neb., have been running for some weeks in
any time between October 5 and Octo this ore and the pay streak shows no
ber 17, inclusive. Arriving there Mr. signs o f diminishing. They expect to
Citizen must register. He must make erect a live-stamp mill on the property ;
affidavit that he is an A 1 citizen o f about the first o f the year.
the United States and never has “ home
In years past the Bowden has been !
steaded” government land.
one o f the leading mines o f Southern
Then comes the great drawing on Oregon, and to see it come into promi
October 19 at Dallas. Numbers repre nence again is gratifying to these men. !
senting all those who have registered Mr. Davis was one o f the original j
are placed in a huge wheel, the same owners o f the mine and came into pos
kind used by the Louisiana and Hon- session o f it again last summer, and |
diiras lottery com|wnies, long ago ex- .since that time has done much work ; ;
eluded from the United States mails. upon it .—Gold Hill News.
Representatives o f the government
draw the numbers from the revolving
wheel.
Adjudged Insane.
The first number drawn out entitles
t$c nolder to his choice o f any one o f
the 160 acre tracts in the broad Tripp
Fred Lundahl, manager o f the W est
reservation. The first prize is a jim ern Oregon Orchard Company, one o f
dandy, and thosuánds o f others are the largest orchard concerns in the val-
just as good. All are distributed ac j ley, and which is owned by Chicago
cording to the order drawn.
capitalists, was examined as to his
The land is not distributed absolutely j sanity last Friday and, being found
fre e . Each lucky man or woman must 1 mentally unbalanced, was committed to
ppy $6 per acre for his or her tract I the insane asylum at Salem.
Mr.
anduve upon it 1$ months
required ! Lundahl had been acting rather strange-
by the homestead law.
i ly o f late, but it was not until Thurs
But the land is beautiful and rolling, day that his friends realized that his
the soil is rich, and the climate is fine, mental condition was serious.
and what will t,he average speculative
Andrew Jackson Miller, a pioneer of
minded Am eiiran citizen tiiot do for a this county and a resident o f Trail
chunk o f mother earth, almost free?
creek, was also examined as to his
. Uutil a few years ago it was the sanity on the same day and committed
custom for Uncle Sam when he opened to the asylum. Attendants from the
up an Oklahoma or a reservation to asylum arrived at Jacksonville Satur-
Public settlement, to line up the land i j ay an(j took the unfortunate men to
hungry people on the border, tire a 1 Salem, where it is hoped the treatment
pistol at a set ¿'v.tant and Jet them all , WJ11 soatt restore their faculties.
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Some Famous S allies.
Great men have been guilty o f pnn-
nlng, and some o f the most famous of
these sallies hare come down lu his
tory. There la something melancholy
about the pun of Dr. Thomas Browne,
who, having unsuccessfully courted a
lady and being challenged to drink to
her health, as had been bis wont, re
plied, "I have toasted her many years,
but 'I cannot make her Browne, ao I
will toast her no longer."
Sydney Smith’s Jest at the expense
o f Mrs. Grote had the salt o f malice
in It. She was famed for 111 taste
In dress, and as one day she »wept by
In an extraordinary headdreaa Smith
pointed her out td a friend, saying.
"That Is the origin o f the word 'gro
tesque.' ”
Mrs. Grnte. however, had her re
venge. Sydney Smith s daughter mar
ried a Dr. Holland: When the latter
was knighted some one mentioned his
w ife as Lady Holland. “ Do you mean
Lord noUand’s w ife?" asked the 11»
tener.
“ No,” replied Mrs. Grote. "This new
Holland, whose capital Is Sydney."
When the barrister Campbell mar
ried Mias Scarlett his friend explained
his absence from court by telling the
Couldn't Help It.
j A young lady tells tine follow ing Judge that Campbell was suffering
j story o f an Englishman she met dur from a bad attack o f Scarlett fever.
ing a trip to Mexico:
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The Englishman became acquainted '
Overlooked.
with the American party while they
"I always distrust your Judgment for
j were all guesta at a winter hotel. some reason or other. John.”
Whenever the parents o f the American
“ Yes, and you have reason to. It
i girl proposed any trip the Englishman serves me right"
Immediately begged to be made one
"W hy, I cannot remember you ever
of the party. He was to be included having done anything to Juatlfy such a
lu a moonlight trip to a nearby moun d istru st"
tain. After the Americans aver, ready
“ n a v e you forgotten that I married
to start they had to delay some fifteen you?” —Houston P ost
minutes awaiting their guest's ar
rival. When he did arrive he elec
Explosive.
trified them by his comments on the
An ambitious young writer having
reason for his delay. What he aaid asked, “ W hat magazine will give me
was:
the highest position quickest?" was
“ I beg pardon for my l>eastly tardi told. “ A powder magazine, If you eoo-
ness. Couldn't help it. don’cherknow. trlbnte a fiery article.”
I had to bring my mother from the
gardens first. It's a singular horrid
There Is no frigate like a book to
bore, but one has to be kind to bis take us leagues away.—Dickinson.
mother, don'cherknow!** — Milwaukee
Free Press.
N w r U n 'l L ig h t T h —r y .
Sir Isaac Newton earned worldwide
fame by showing that gravitation. pre
viously recognized only at the surface
of the earth, la operative throughout
the universe wherever there la matter.
In another field o f pbyalcs he was far
less happy. HI» brilliant success In
experimental optics carne to b . quali
fied. though not Invalidated, by a
• ■ ! faulty Interpretation o f the facta. Ho
gave hla name and powerful authority
to the corpuacular theory o f light. In
Sir Isaac’s view, the phenomenon of
luminosity 1» produced by corpuscle»—
exceedingly minute particles of matter
—which are projected continuously
from the sun, stars and all other lumi
nous bodies. But hla corpuscles filled
to elucidate all the appearances, and
Sir Isaac’s theory was finally deposed
¡ by an explanation which referred light
| to uudulatory vibrations In the ether.
It would be some com fort for the dis
coverer o f universal gravitation, were
he living now, to realize that the mod
ern physicist is dally dealing with cor
puscles flung ofT from matter at speeds
fairly comparable with that o f Ufa It
self.
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Bread That Intoxicates.
In far eastern Russia, In that region
which lies between the sen and the
river called Mssuri, the humidity of the
climate as well os o f the soil is re
markable. Vegetation Is here distin
guished for its wondrous exuberance,
to such an extent that the soli never
dries up. The result is that the Inhab
itants In order to prevent putrefaction
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Intense that there grows upon the cars
o f corn a kind o f fungous matter made
up of micro fungi. As a result of this
sporadic excrescence the bread made
from the corn in question gives all the
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very humid climates the phenomenon
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PETITION FOR LIQUOR LICENSE.
Woodville Precinct, Jackson County,
Oregon:—
To the Honorable, the County Court
o f Jackson County, State o f Oregon:
W e, the undersigned legal voters re
siding in Woodville precinct, Jackson
Shakespeare's Name.
It has often been a puxzle to students County, State o f Oregon, respectfully
.o f Shakespeare why his name is spelled ask your Honorable Body to grant to
In so many different waya. Shake M. B. Whipple a licence to sell spiritu
speare himself la said to have aigned ous, vinous and malt liquors and fer
his name ou different occasions “ Shak- mented eider, commonly known as hard
apeare'' ami "Shakesi>ere,’' and learned
cider, in less quantities than one gallon
disquisitions have been written to
prove which ta the proper spelling. in the town o f Woodville, Jackson
None perhaps was more amusing than -County. O regon, fo r the period o f six
the "w eather" reason given In 1851 by months, from November 4, 1908.
W e hereby state in our petition that
Altiert Smith, who averred that he had
found It In the Harlelan manuscript. we each o f us reside in said Woodville
It waa as follow s:
precinct and at the signing o f the same
H ow dyd Shaksprare spell hya nam e?
are legal voters therein and that we
T e w a s lh e rv a m ay tie ya change, we aaye,
■have each resided in said precinct for
8o w rite It aa ye plaaae:
W hen ye sonne s h o n e he m ayde hya A ;
thirty days immediately preceding our
W hen w atte he took hya E'ea.
signing this petition and that.we will
petition -your Honorable Body at the
Inetaltmenta AM Around.
rattent (gloomily» -1 don't seem to | term o f the County Court on
be gaining very fast, doctor.
K ovbmrkr 4. 1908.
Doctor (cheerfully!—You can't expect
A 'B Bell, L L O den , A K Earhart, Joe
to get well at one Jump. You will have
Swinr.ey, G H Jones, 0 W Train. R
to regain your health gradually day hy
day—aort o f on the Installment plan, as I Burkhart, J H Whipple, G W Rule, C
S Hatch, Edwin Smith, Sam Mathis,
It were.
Patient (brightening up)—Well, doc E Boyd. Thus. H B Taylor. J ota W in
tor. If this thing keeps on much longer j ders. L-C Merriam, Henry Nutt. Henry
I'm afra id that you wtli hava to colleot Breeding. J M Pitman. J E Esteti, J M
I your bill in the same way.—Judge’s Sperry, Raymond Stevens, Chaa. M
Library.
Warren, O Nadeau. C W Horton, G F
W ertz, Henry la w s , Eugene Sanborn.
Why They Objected.
"N o,” aaid the fireman, who repre Joseph Buck hart, T W Conway. A J
sented the truck company that had re- Davie. Fred Mmthorn, M B Whipple,
I fused to work With a colored tmek- C B McLellan, A Kryger, N H Parsons,
man. "there is no race prejudice lu tt J M Whipple, John Thrasher, Harry
But we certainly hate ts work with a L White, DivMlo Alexander, S Eatell,
man whose face will look Just as clean J H Hart, J C Aitken. Chaa. Alix, Peter
: oo the way home from a long fire tight Meehan. F H Howell, Chts. Turner,
| as It dhl when we started, while we J R Smith. Dave Smith. Aaron Beck.
other rhaps all look smudgy."—Judge’s Jobe Perdue. Torn E Perdue. M M
. Library.
ScotL William Moxley, M W Hale.
J H Wehinger. John White. George
Not s New Species.
“ Now, what shall are name the Land. J L Cody. W V Jones. H h
b s h r ” ' Inquired the professor's wife.
Sanborn.
"W hy. this species has been named,"
answ ered the professor in astonish
ment. "T hl# is a prim ate m am m al. |
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