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SCIO. OREGON, SEPTEMBER 13, 1890.
VOL. 2
FHE PACIFIC COAST.
L. H. MONTANYE,
A ttorney
EASTERN ITEMS.
FOREIGN NEWS.
The Cruiser Charleston Ordered The Little Missouri Range Swept Lord Sackville Vents His Spleen in
a Pusillanimous Manner.
by a Prairie Fire.
to Honolulu.
Office in Strahan building.
J. K. WEATHERFORD,
L aw ,
at
Albany, Oregon.
Office in Finn block, over First National bank.
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D. R. N. BLACKBURN.
PORTLAND MARKET.
L aw ,
at
Albany, Oregon.
A ttorney
NO. 16
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An American Captain Tells of the Horrible The President Extends the Time for the The President of Colombia Speaks Well
Atrocities Committed IJpon the
Cattle Kings to Remove Their
of Present Effects of "the Pan-
Russian Exiles.
Stock from the Territory.
American Conference.
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GEO. W. WRIGHT.
The trades of Eureka, Humboldt coun
ty, Cal., are now working on the nine-
A ttorneys at L aw ,. hour a day schedule. There has been
Will practice in all the courts of the State. no reduction in wages. '
Prompt at'ention given to all business intrusted
The sale of the Silver Bell mines to an
to our care.
English syndicate has been consummat
Office, Odd Fellows’ Temple, Albany, Or.
ed by the payment of $100,000. The
mines are located thirty miles west of
Tucson..
DR. E. 0. HYDE,
The Penitentiary Commissioners of
Washington have decided to order a’ ph
plant for making jute bags in ac
Physician and Surgeon, loem
cordance with an action of the last Leg
islature.
Scio, O regon .
The right of way for the Union Pacific
between Lake City and Tacoma has been
nearly all secured. C. A. E. Naubert is
securing the right of way on this portion
of the line. The road will enter on the
tide flats near the reservation'school.
A lbany , O regon .
The steamer Mabel struck a large snag
in the Snohomish river the other night,
and sank where the water reaches her
EARL RACE, Proprietor.
smokestack at high tide. The disaster
was entirely due to the carelessness of
loggers, who a few dâys ago cut off a
: u sawyer ’’Jsnag a few inches below the
Water without either hanging a buoy’or
informing the boats.
"Several late arrivals of vessels from
Alaska bring recent intelligence from
Chignik bay. ■ Four canneries, managed
by different companies, effected a com
bination and worked in common. Fish
were so plentiful that hundreds of thou
sands were thrown away on account of a
scarcity of packing materials. The total
pack at Chignik bay was 43,582.
Board From $1 to $2 Per Day.
The Trustees of the Seatie, Lake Shore
and Eastern railway met at Seattle last
Headquarters for Commercial Men. week. A. Ss “Dunham, the Managing
Trustee, stated that the sole object of
the meeting was to ratify »some right-of-
way agreements on the new extension.
It is understood, however, that the meet
ing had relation to the placing of bonds
to the amount of about $1,000,000 in New
York, the proceeds to be used in paying
for new construction.
The United States cruiser" Charleston
has sailed for the Hawaiian islands in
obedience to telegraphic orders received
by Rear-Admiral Brown from Secretary
of the Navy Tracy, ordering the vessel
to proceed immediately to Honolulu.
The occasion of the return of the Charles
ton to Hawaii creates anticipation qf an
other revolution in the islands’ king
Corner of Oak and Main Streets,
dom. The Charleston has a large stock
of fuel and provisions for a one-year
Scio, O regon .
cruise.
The case of the Southern Pacific Com
pany against the Recorder of Fresno
BILYEU BROS., Proprietors.
county, Cal., has been decided in favor
of the company. The case at issue was
First class turnouts. Horses boarded by the the definition of “course” in collecting
day or week at reasonable prices. We run dal y fees on recorded papers. The Recorder
hacks to connect with airtrains on the Oregon has usually construed the word- to mean
Pacific and Oregonian railroads.
the shortest unbroken line between two
points; that a course begins and ends
with the streets and alleys of a block.
The Court decides a “ çourse ” to be a
straight line between two points, Whether
broken or not.
The steamship Australia arrived at
San Francisco from Honolulu last week,
bringing advices to August 29. Since
SCIO, OREGON,
the last advices the Legislature has been
principally occupied with the considera
tion of the Oahii railway bill. The
House passed an amendment giving the
company a subsidy of $700 per mile.
King Kalakaua visited the leper settle
ment August 27, and addressed the peo
ple. Orders have been issued by the
Minister of Foreign Affairs honorably
disbanding the First Battalion of Ha
waiian
volunteers, known as the Hono
Dye Stuffs, Hair and Tooth Brushes, lulu Rifles.
,
It is stated at San Francisco that there
Toilet Articles, Perfumery,
is a probability that the brewers’ trust
will come to grief. Deposits were paid
Sponges and All Varieties of Drug by the syndicate on all concerns pur
chased, but in most cases the remainder
gists’ Sundries.
of the contract has not been fulfilled.
This is particularly the case in regard to
Philadelphia brewery. A deposit of
Wali "Paper in All the Latest Styles. the
$150,(100 was paid to it to bind the con
tract. Then $500,000 was to have been
SCHOOL BOOKS AND STATIONERY. paid on the 1st of July last, $530,000 on
the 1st of August and the balance on the
1st instant. These payments have not
been made, and the whole contract is
Pictures Framed to Order.
about to be declared off. The syndicate,
however, has been given until the 15th
Prescriptions Carefully Compounded.
instant in which to pay the whole of the
purchase money. Should it fail, the
property will revert to Mrs. Wieland,
and the $150,000 deposit will be forfeited.
The barkentine Catherine Liedden has
arrived at Port Townsend from Siberia.
Her commander, Captain John Thomas,
gives a description of the Russian exile
system as witnessed by him. He de
scribes a, brutal scene, which he wit
nessed on Saghalien island, the famous
Russian exile prison. A large partv of
exiles of all ages, heavily manacled,
were heing taken to the island. A few
old me®, whose strength gave but, fell
from exhaustion. A brutal driver, act
ing under orders from his superior, shot
the unfortunate men, and removed their
chains. No mercy or discrimination was I
ED GOINS, Proprietor.
shown. Wives saw husbands killed be
fore their eyes ; mothers saw their daugh
ters outraged and insulted. The exiles
were driven like cattle, a heavy whip
heing used to urge them on. The prison
cèlls were filthy and the treatment bay
bar ou S'.
A new bridge has just been completed
across the main Umpqua river at Ump
ferry. The driving of'the last spike
THE BEST BRANDS qua
was the means of gréât rejoicing by the
people in that neighborhood, and the
exercises were witnessed by 530 people.
—OF—
Miss Maud Sham brook drove the last
spike. Speeches.were made by several
prominent men of Douglas county, and
at night a dance was given by the young
people. The structure is a combination
Pratt trust, and is 613 feet in total length
CONSTANTLY ON HAND
with one span of 300 feet, probably the
longest span in the State at present ; an
other span of forty-two feet and the rest
in approaches. The height above low
to the floor is fifty-one feet, and
Highest Market Price Paid for Grain. water
the piers are forty feet in lèngth. The
bridge is seven feet above high water,
and the total height from low water to
the top of the truss work is 105 feet. The
Farmers will find it to their interest to call cost was $23,000.
•and see us.
BLACKBURN & WRIGHT,
ST. CHARLES HOT Eb,
<<1 LIVERY,!»
Feed and Sale
STABLE,
J. S. MORRIS,
Drugs, Medicines,
Paints, Oils, Vanishes,
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Capacity, 75 Rappels Pep Day.
FLOUR AND FEED
W heat —Foreign advices are of-quiet
markets, without any improvements in
the demand for cargoes. Spot quotations
at Liverpool are rather better, and the
option market closed higher throughout.
The feeling, in local circles shows little
change, but trading is more active.
Open quotations Continue: $1.27J£ for
Valley and $1.20@1.22% for Walla Walla.
F lour —Quote: Standard,$3.90;Walla
Walla, $3.60@3.80 per barrel.
O ats —Quote: 48c per bushel.
M illstuffs —The mark-A is steady.
Quote: Bran, $17@19; Snorts, $23@25;
Ground Barley^ $32.50; Chop Feed, $25;
Middlings, $25 per ton.
II ay —The market is steady. Quote:
$16@17 per ton. ,
V egetables —The market is steady.
Quote: Cabbage, $1.75@2 per cental;
Cauliflower, $1.25 per dozen; Peas, 3c per
pound; Onions and Lettuce, 15c per dozen
bunches ; String Beans, 3c per pound;
California Onions, 2J^@21^c; Oregon,
2V¿cper pound; Corn, 8@10c per dozen;
Cucumbers, 10c per dozen; Carrots, 10@
15c per bunch; Beets, $1.50 per sack;
Turnips,. $1.25 per sack; California To
matoes, 65c; Oregon, 50c per box; Pota
toes, 75@85c per cental; Sweet Potatoes,
3@%c per pound.
F ruits —Quote: Tahiti Oranges, $4.25
per box; Sicily, $9@10 per case; Egg
and Columbia Plums,Tt^c per pound ;
Bradshaw Prunes, 2e per pound; Italian
Prunes, lj¿c per pound; Seckel Pears,
2c per pound; Bartlett Pears, lj-^c per
pound; Grapes, $1.25@1.50 per” box;
Pineapples, $3.50.@4 per dozen; Bananas,
$3.75 per bunch; double, $6; Oregon
Gravenstein Apples, 65@75c per box;
Crawford Peaches, 90c@$1.25; Other va
rieties, $1.15@1.25 per box ; Oregon, 90c
@$1.25 per box," $1 per basket ; Nectar
ines, $1@1.25 per box: Oregon Water
melons, $2 per dozen; Cantaloupes, $1.50
@2 per dozen; Crabapples, 50c per box.
• C heese —Quote: Oregon, ll@12^c;
California, 9j^@10c; Young America, 14
@15c per pound.
B utter —The market is firm. Quote :
Oregon fancy dairy, 30c; fancy creamery,
32^e; good to fair, 25@27J¿c; common,
20@22^c; choice California, 27@28c per
pound.
E ggs —Quote: 30c per dozen for Ore
gon.
P oultry —The market is firm. Quote:
Old Chickens, $4.50@4;75; young, $2.50
@4; old Ducks, $4.50@5; young, $5@6
per dozen; Turkeys, 15c per pound.
N uts —Quote: Walnuts, 13c; Peanuts,
green. 12c: Alnionds, 17c; Filberts, 14
@15c; Brazils, 13@14c per pound; Cocoa-
nuts, $1 per dozen.
H oney —Fancy White, 1-pound car
toons, 18c.
N ails —Base quotations: Iron, $3.20;
Steel, $3.30; Wire, $3.90 per keg.
THE
EMPEROR
NERO.
One of the Most Brutal Fellows That Ever
• Ruled a Great Country« .
Britanniqus, his brother by adoption,
a hoy of fourteen, is in .the way; he is
poisoned, thanks to Locusta’s art, at a
dinner given by Nero. Suetonius re
cords the popular belief that the motive
to the crime was no less a professional
jealousy of his voice than a politic fear
of his ambition. The first dose only
made the hoy very sick, whereupon Nerd
sent for Locusta and chastised her with
his own hand. She excused herself; a
stronger dose would have been a quicker
method certainly, but a more public.
“As if,” replied Nero, “the Julian iaw
had terrors for me,” and compeled her,
there and then, to concoct the strongest
and most effectual mixture she knew.
This was offered to a goat; the goat
lived five hours, to their «great disap
pointment. But whqn a draught was
produced by their joint efforts, which
proved the instant destruction of a pig,
then an invitation was sent to Britan-
nfcus. He fell dead at- the first mouth
ful. “That epilepsy has carried him off
at last,” said Nero, and no one contra
dicted him.
These were strange doings for a model
young Emperor, but of course Seneca,
the Stoic, knew of them; there was no
cause for alarm. His young pupil does
not poison only; he dances, he sings
(and that execrably,) he produces elab
orate euphuistic verse, he drives chari
ots. Strange and new as it was, what
did it matter to the populace? No more
than the murders of Agrippina and Oc
tavia, mother and half-sister, since
they coincided with schemes for remit
ting the public taxes. There is no sud
den frenzy to account for the growth of
crime within Nero; all is orderly, pro
gressive, a conscious rake’s progress,
from the good young Emperor to the
crowned« victor of Olympia among his
claqueurs. It may seem strangely per
verse tljat Nero should have been loved,
lamented, adored.
He killed his
mother, he killed men by companies;
he even, writes Juvenal, composed
an epic poem—yet he was not loathed
nor an object of repulsion. Great
criminals are mainly admired as great,
aspiring, possessed. Nero, who has
none of these, was not .admired, but
loved. “Even now,’’ says Dion Chrysos
tom, writing in the time of Trajan,
“even now the people long for him to
be alive,” And women, who could not
have given themselves up to the vulgar
brutalities of Tiberius, clung with real
love to Nero. Popprna, whom Josephus
calls^a devotee, a refined nature, with a
delicate inclination toward Jewish
piety; Acte,owhom some have thought
a Christian, Nero’s first love, and lov
ing him past death; the two nurses who
prepared his body for burial; the un
known hands that for years threw
flowers on his tomb—all these loved
him with varying but with evident love-
Macmillian’s Magazine.
• Ex-Senator T, C. Platt of New York- Russia is increasing her garrisons in
has declined the proffered Spanish Mis Poland.
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sion. .
Osman Digma has arrived at Tokar
The population of Rhode Island is with 3,000 followers.
given’as 345,343. In 1880 the population
The Prince of Wales is leading an in
was 276,531.
nocent and enjoyable existence at Ham
A syndicate of American capital-“ burg.
ists is to spend $10,000,000 in railway
The grain trade between Suakim and
building in Jamacia.
One of the largest worsted mills in the interior has been stopped to prevent
Providence has ’ been recapitalized in the spread of cholera.
England and the stock sold.
Non-union men are being put to work
A vast syndicate of physicians and on the docks at Melbourne, and the ship
others have a project of establishing a ping trade has slightly improved.
health resort and sanitarium in Florida.
Despite Catholic clerical condemnation
It is believed at Washington that Be the system of boycott is still employed
nicia, Cal., will be selected; by the gov largely as a political weapon in Ireland.
ernment at which' to establish an ord
It is reported that armed Armenians
nance foundry.
have crossed the frontier from Persia to
Mayor Frank P. Schiff bauer of Kan assist
their persecuted brethren in Tur
sas City, Kan., has been arrested and
charged with embezzling about $10,000 key.
of tlpe city funds.
A private bill has been introduced into
Official dispatches from Honolulu do the Argentine Congress to authorize the
not show anything calculated to cause leasing of 250,000,003 acres of the na
alarm. T'm report that revolution is tional lands.
rife is discredited.
It is stated that there are 4,000 cases
Quests at St. Louis hotels help' them of smallpox in the Province of Pernam
selves since the waiters’ strike, and’ the buco, Brazil, and an average of twenty
best of it is they are not so long about deaths daily.
it and they have no waiters to tip. .
■The British naval maneuvers just con-
Statistics show that the cotton crop eluded.have cost about £230,000, and the
this year is the greatest ever produced, taxpayers are complaining that the show
and that the growers are less in debt was very dear at the pijice.
than at any time for twenty-five years.
The saloonkeepers .of* St. Petersburg
The Grant Memorial Association has
been warned not to sell liquor to
already raised $15.0,000, and needs to have
operatives on credit or. entice
raise $350,000 more in order to erect the factory
proposed monument in honor of General them to drink in any other way.
Grant.
Advices from Lamus state that the
A suggestion for a second Boston me German agitator, Toppen, has been con
morial to John Boyle O’Reilly calls for a verted to Mohammedanism and is about
charity farm of 100 acres near Boston starting on a pilgrimage to Mecca.
for that city’s homeless Roman Catholic
The largest sailing vessel afloat has
children.
just been launched at Glasgow. She is
It is reported in Boston that à note of a five-masted ship of 3,650 tons burden,
the Worcester Steel Works has been.pro- and is intended for the nitrate tradd.
tested. The capital of the company is
Armouts and Montenegrins continue
$500,000, but thé Commercial Agency their
sanguinary warfare on the Turco-
gives it no rating.
Montenegro frontier, the Turkish Com
The committee having in charge the missioner being unable to preserve order.
The Merchandise Market.
adjustment of the Virginia debt an
S ugars —The market is firm. Quote:
Alexandre
Chatrian,
the
well-known
nounces that it has on deposit a large
Golden.C. 4%c; extra C, 5^c; dry granu
majority of all classes of the securities French novelist, who wrote in collabora lated, 6)£c; cube crushed and powdered,
tion with Emile Erckmann over the nom
under the agreement.
6%c per pound.
The freight brakemen on the Pittsburg, de plum of Erckmann’Chatrian, is dead.
B eans —-The market is firm. Quote:
Shenandoah and Lake Erie railroad at
Signor Dorsina, member of the Italian Small Whites, $3.25; Pink, $8.75;, Bayos,
Mercer, Pa., have gone on a strike for an Chamber of Deputies, has secured a con $4.50; Butter, $3.50; Limas, $5.50 per
advance in wages, and all freight traffic I cession from his government for the es cental.
is-suspended in consequence.
tablishment of a steamship line between
D ried F ruits —The market is film.
Quote: Raisins, .12.75 per box; Plum
It is understood in Wall street at New Italy and Mexico.
THE TEXAN COWBOY.
York that Norvin Green is about to re Liverpool seamen and firemen have mer-dried Pears, 10@llc ; sun-dried and
sign as President of the Western decided to combat the organized ship factory Plums, 8@10e; evaporated
Union Telegraph Company, He is to’ owners’ federation, and a trial of strength Peaches, 24c; Smyrna Figs, 14@ 16c; Cal He Is Bold, Fearless and Generous, with
Figs, 9c. per pound.
Nothing Small About Him.
be succeeded bj* George Gould.
with the gigantic union of capitalists ifornia
C anned Goons—Market is firm. Quote:
Cowboy life has in the last few years
Mr. Morrow is not a candidate for the may soon be looked for.
Table fruits, $2.25, 2J4s; Peaches, $2.50;
vacancy occasioned by. the resignation
A dispatch from San Salvador says Bartlett Pears, $2.25; Plums, $1J55; lost much of its roughness. The cattle
of First Assistant. Postmaster-General General Ezeta is engaged in fijtming a Strawberries, $2.50 ; Cherries, $2 ; Black barons have, discharged most of the men
Clarkson. Mr. Morrow says he will! legal government for the Salvador Re berries, $2; Raspberries, $2.55. Pie fruit: who drank, and have frowned so per
start for home as soon’ as Congress ad public, preparatory to demanding recog Assorted, $3.75 per dozen; Peaches, sistently upon gambling that little of it
journs.
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$ 1.40; Plums, $1.25; Blackberries, $1.65; is done. Cards and whisky being put
nition from foreign powers.
Tomatoes, $l."20@3.50; Sugar Peas, $1.40 away, there is small temptation to dis
The first week’s engagement of Miss
The Empress Frederick’s chronicle of
orderly conduct; so it is only when they
String Beans, $1.
Emma Juch proved the jnoat successful the ninety-nine days’ reign of her hus- @1.60.
H ides —The market is weak. Quota reach some large city, and are not on
ever known
in the u.„x„
history of
i
a Denver. band will be a most curious Jiook. It is.
The gross receipts, which far exceeded 1 said that’it will explain many circum tions : Dry Hides, selected prime, 8@ duty, that they indulge in a genuine
9c, %c less for culls; green, selected, spree. On the ranches kept under fence
that of the Patti company, amounted! stances hitherto thought obscure.
over 55 pounds, 4c; under 55 pounds, 3c; they have little to do when not on the
to nearly $30,000.
A Berlin dispatch states that Emperor Sheep Pelts, short wool, 30@50c; me drive or in brand! ng-time, the cattle
John J. Knox, ex-United States Con William is annoyed by the non-arrival dium, 60@80c; long, 90c@$1.25; shear
troller, who arrived in New York from of the phonograph promised by Mr. Ed- lings, 10@20c; Tallow, good to choice, 3 being all safely inclosed, But they
France, said that the American silver, ison, and has been trying to purchase @3}^c. Receipts the past week were must take their turns at line
riding, which means a close in-
legislation, which has caused an advance machines elsewhere, but without suc- 9,286 pounds.
in the price of silver, Was looked upon 1 cess.
W ool —The market is dull. Quota spection of the fences, and the
tions: Eastern Oregon, 10@16c; Valley, repair of all breaks and damages.
with favor in Europe.
I r-
The prospects of the Panama canal are 16@18c per pound. Receipts the past Where night overtakes them, there
•The President has agreed, upon the definitely brightening, and in the best week were 11,672 pounds.
they sleep, staking their horses, and
receipt of a written guarantee that half informed circles at Panama the matter
H ops —Quote: 25@30c per pound.
rolling themselves in their blankets.
of the cattle of .Indian Territory will be , is
■ regarded
’ ’ as practically concluded.
> —
The
P ickles —Quote: 85c 3s; 90c 5s.
These rides of inspection take days to
removed by November 1, that he will draft of- a bill is being "prepared at Bo
S
alt —Quote: Liverpool, $17, $18, $19; accomplish, for there are ranches in
extend the time for the removal of the gota to authorize the President of Co stock, $ll@12 per ton in carload lots.
Texas which extend in a straight line
remainder to December 1.
lombia to secure terms with M. Wyse.
C oal O il —Quote: $2.20 per case.
over seventy-five miles. Those ranches
R ice —Quote: 6J£c per pound.
A New York evening paper says a pe No French fleet will be present at
which are not kept under fence neces
tition is being circulated among the Spezzia at the launching of the new
sitates more work. The hoys must
stockholders Of the Illinois Central, urg Italian war ship at that port. The order
The Meat Market.
then keep their cattle in sight, and
ing them to rise in rebellion against the j for sending a" squadron to Spezzia to do
The meat market is firm. Quote:
while allowing them to graze in every
present management ^e petition says
coun- * Beef—Live; 3@3J^c; dressed, 6@7c.
direction, must see that none in the
the company is practically on the verge termanded ^consequence of a dispute
Mutton—Live, 3@3>£e; dressed, 7c.
many thousands stray beyond the limits
ot ruin.
regarding formalities to be observed on
Hogs—Live, 5@5J^c; dressed, 7c.
of their own particular pastures. They
Veal—6@8c per pound.
Two St. Louis physicians have filed the occasion.
go then in parties, scattering over
Spring Lambs—$2 each.
complaints in the Probate Court for in-
Sackville; as Lord of the Manor,
Lord Sackville,
the territory, for they must cover hun
SMOKED MEATS AND LARD.
quiry as to the sanity of Mrs. Wood- has through his agent made a claim upon
dreds
of thousands of acres in a day.
worth, the evangelist and leader of the the Stratford-on-Avon Town Council for
The market is firm. Quotations: East
Oakland (Cal.)
has
/«.n doom-sealers, who h
oa I encroachment of rent in respect to the ern Hams, 13@14c; Breakfast Ba It is not a life of hardship, and pays
has been holding meeting at St. Louis American fountain and clock tower which con, ll@14c; Sides, 9@10c; Lard, 8%(g well enough. Every thing is furnished
for several months.
was presented to the town by George W. 11c per pound.
to them free and of the very best, and
they are paid besides thirty dollars per
About a dozen scientists, archaeologists, Childs three , years ago. and which was
month. Each party stays out from two
botanists and zoologists are about to ex publicly opened by Henry Irving.
’ A Peculiarity of Celluloid.
plore Arizona and New Mexico to exam
to three weeks at a time; but they take
The exhibition of prison labor in St.
ine the remains of ancient civilization, Petersburg
Insurance men. say that when they are with them the finest of camp wagons,
on
the
occasion
of
the
Inter
antedating, it is said, that of the Aztecs national Prison Conference, which, was called upon to adjust a loss caused by with beds and bedding, cooking uten
and existing principally in the Gila val recently held there, was so successful the burning of celluloid they are abso sils, the best of groceries of all kinds,
ley, in the northwest part of Arizona.
measures are being taken now to lutely compelled to take the books of and as excelent a cook as money can
The peculiar habits ot the Zuni and that
establish
a permanent “Museum of the owners unless they have evidence employ. The prairies are full of game,
Navajo Indians will also he investigated. Prison Work.
” Greece, the Republic of to show that the books have been made and their rifles are ever handy. The
A prairie fire ravaged thousands of; the Archipelago, France and Italy have up fraudulently. When a piece of cellu life is free, fascinating, and peculiarly
acres along the Little Missouri river ten ! already declared their willingness to loid burns up every thing that is in it healthy.
-
days
ago, and ’ the great cattle range was contribute to that enterprise.
passes away into the air and disappears.
These men are exceedingly chivalrous
swept clear. The fire was put out by
The rioting at Valparaiso, Ghili, dur- The substance is made under patents, to all’ women; this seems to be’a trait
means of horses, which were killed and j ing the late strike was of a very serious owned by an American company, and it born in them, as muoh a part of their
used as drags, to extinguish the flames. • nature. There was considerable pillage, is composed principally of camphor. A moral nature as it is of their physical
The horses were split up the back and I and the police charged the .crowd with gentleman connected with the company tohave small feet, for it is seldom that a
their carcasses dragged over the country | sabers in hand. Some twenty persons which manufactures all the celluloid
by long ropes. Twelve hundred head of were killed. At one time the crowd was articles sold in this market and furnishes genuine Texas cow-boy can be found who
has not the distinguishing mark of
horses were used.
fully 10,000 strong. The arrival of the the hulk of all that are sold the world a handsome “foot, and his boots are to
cavalry
and
artillery
quieted
the
tumult,
The South Park Commissioners have
pillaging outside of guarded points over says that the produit of the com him all tha t -the sombrero is to a Mex
decided not to tender the Washington but
was
carried on ancL-many outrages were pany’s factory last year wa“val aed at ican. He will deny himself many
parkas a site for the World’s. Fair as reported.
$1,500,000. “Sup-pose now,” said the pleasures, he will go without a coat,
requested by the Exposition Directors.
person makinp-this statement,—“that and he.seen
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A new “ cure ” has been invented in our factory should burjfcer that thejiore but hisTTioots must be of the best and
They add that they have already made a
tender of the unimproved portion of Germany, which may be adopted as a in which we keep much of our finished-"most beautiful make that the country
Jackson park and will now add thereto greater novelty than the mind cure or product should burn, there would nôï~ can afford; high in heel and curved of
the improved area of that park, making the faith cure. Its basis is the harden be in either case any means by which
instep, a fine upper and thin sole, fitting
a total acreage so tendered of 670 acres. ing of the human organism, which has
A mile and a half of the frontage on the been disastrously enfeebled by civiliza the insurance company cotfid determine, like a glove, and. showing the handsome
tion. The patients imitate the noble independently of us, whether we had foot to ^perfection.
lake shore is included in the tender.
the gypsy, and the system sustained a loss of a hundred dollars'on
Take the cowboys as a class, they are
The Senate Committee on Private Land savage,and
included going'barefoot as one part of celluloid or a hundred thousand dol-. bold, fearless and generous, a warm
Claims through Mr. Colquitt has made the
One German parish contains lars.”—N. Y. Times.
hearted and manly set, with nothing
an elaborate, report on the bill’ to reim 1,400 cure.
patients.
burse the grantees, their legal represent
—The world is safe for another year. small, vioious nor mean about them,
The President "of Colombia in his The sweet girl graduates have settled and Texas need not be ashamed of the
atives and the assigns of the Punta de
Laguna Mexican land grant in California message to Congress says.: “The results every thing in their essays. — Boston braVe and skillful riders who traverse
for lands of which they were deprived of this historical conference (the Pan-1 Courier. ___ ___________
the length and brqadthof her expansive
by an erroneous survey made by the of American) are already being felt, and in I —Alice (agea nvej—"Are you very prairies.—Lee <1 Harby, in Harpar’a
ficers of the United States. The com ho distant epoch we shall see our Amer- I tired, Mamma?” Mamma—“Yes, I Magazine.
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ifornia, iw|. mineral and not reserved, in and of the development of commerce
the foundations of confidence, of ''fas
ake y°u- ” Lulu (aged as easy as it looks. I find my task a
quantities equal to the amount of which upon
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out walking when you was a little girl laughing matter when I saw you at the
survey.
egitimate interests.”
like Alice.—Demorest’s Monthly.
the ate? last night”—Washington Post
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MEERSCHAUM
IN
CHUNKS.
It Comes from Turkev svnd Is Principally
Used for Pipes.
The meerschaum conies from Turkey
In boxes. A box holds about fifty
pounds, and; is Worth from $20 to $300,
according to the size and quality of the
pieces. It look-s like plaster of paris
smoothed off and rounded. The amber
looks like beeswax or large pieces of
rosin. It comes in pieces, and is worth
from $2 to $50 a pound. Meerschaum to
make a $5 pipe costs about $2.50. Tha
amber tips,-raw, cost about one-quarter
or one-half, as much.
When an order comes for a pipe the
proprietor goes through the stock of
meerschaum to get a piece out of which
the pipe can be cut with as little loss
as possible. Four-fifths of the meer
schaum is wasted, though the chips are
often saved and made into imitation
meerschaum, pipes.
The meerschaum is first cut on a cir
cular saw into a piece a little larger
than the pipe. If the cutting shows
holes or cracks the piece is ca'st aside.
Then it is soaked in water for .fifteen
minutes and cut the rough shape-with
a knife. Then a hole is drilled through
It and it is turned with a halfunotion.
After the turning the . stem is inserted.
It is smoothed off when dry, boiled in
wax and polished; then it is ready to be
sold.
The amber is worked with a chisel
and turning wheel. The chisel is sharp
and razor-like. A clumsy operator
would cut his fingers off with it. An
old operator takes the piece of amber in.
his hand and rounds it with the chisel,
the forefinger of the left hand serving
as a guide for the chisel to play. When
it is rounded it is held against the face
of a roughened wheel until it is turned
to approximately the required size.
Then it is put in the same turning
wheeband a hole is bored through it.
This is for the more common and
cheaper amber stems, the kind that are
put in brierwood pipes, which sell for
50 and 75 cents. It does not take more
than a quarter or half hour to finish
one of these stems. A stem for a more
costly pipe will take a day. The short
est time in which a good meerschauth
pipe can he made is three days. That
is for a plain pipe. If the pipe is to be
carved that time has to be added.
Workmen have spent months on carv
ing one pipe.
The dust and chips from the amber
and meerschaum are saved. The amber
dust is melted and made into amberine.
The meerschaum dust is chopped up and
worked into a paste, from which imita
tion meerschaum pipes are made. It is
*. common idea that real meerschaum
can be told from imitation meerschaum -
by the fact that real meerschaum floats
on water, hut imitation meerschaum
floats also. Imitation meerschaum can
be made which will color better than
real meerschaum does, though it does '
not last so long and the color is likely
to come in streaks. It is hard for a
manwvho is not in the business to tell
a real from an imitation meerschaum.
The best quality of meerschaum fre
quently has air-holes and cracks in it. —
A Case of
— The worsTcase of “ice fever” that has
been experienced to date appears to be
that of a Pemaquid (Me.) citizen. He
had a big load of eighteen cakes, and got
about half way down to the wharf, when
his cart tongue came out. Not nqticing
anything wrong he kept on driving his
oxen, and just before he reached the
wharf met a team in rather a bad place.
He told the driver of the team that he
didn’t know as he could get by him with
his big load, but on being told that he
would have no trouble naturally looked
back at his load to see what the fellow
meant. His surprise can be imagined.
—Chicago Herald.
An Every Day Game.
“Say, there is a feller playing a game
on Woodward avenue this afternoon,”
he said through the telephone, after call
ing up police headquarters.«-
“What sort of a game?”
“The sweat box.”
“Where?”
•“On car No. 240.”
“What sort of a looking man is he?”
“He’s the conductor, and has just gone
up with seventy, passengers on a car
made to carry thirty!”—Detroit Free
Press.
Requirements of tlie Russian Language.
A gentleman who recently traveled on
the continent said he was at dinner one
day in Paris, and while telling a story
was attacked with a sudden and contin
ued fit of sneezing. When he ceased a
Russian gentleman at another table-
named Plitcheeke turned about and
complimented him on his excellent and
correct pronunciation of the Russian lan
guage.—London Tit-Bits.
Isaac Pitman, the inventor of phonog
raphy, is a hoary haired man with "a
scholarly stoop, and still presides over
the Phonetic institute, Bath, England.
He is rising 78, yet he supervises a cor
respondence of, 30,000 letters a year, be
sides editing The Phonetic Journal - and
compiling the numerous books which he
annually publishes.
—“I have here,” said the peddler, “a
patent window-shade, which;---- ” “No
ase,” interrupted the house-maid from
Boston; “we have no patent windows
here,” and she slammed the door.”
“Higher education of women is reducing
this country to bankruptcy,” sighed the
peddler, as he went slowly down the
»tops.—‘Harper’s Baz.ar.
‘jLurn Aoout.
Smiley—I’m going to be married to
the beautiful Miss Sharpe. Congratu
late me, old .hoy, and come and drink
her health.
Slimley—Yes, you’re right to toast
her now—she’ll toast you when you’re
married.—West Shore.______ ______,
In view of measures 'before the
United States Congress imposing duties
on French goods the press of Paris has
sounded an alarm. They assert that it
would prove advantageous for France to
rescind- the law prohibiting the importa
tion of American pork. The wine-grpw-
ers fear the loss of their valuable port
trade.