“Seems to me a matter ot names, j
Fauntleroy discovered before, his clothes
were in place. Dropping his voice, he Fauntleroy versus Overton — Overton
spoke rapidly to the boy, who answered versus Fauntleroy,” Hawkins said, fold
with winks and nods and hushed “ Yes, ing liis arms and sticking his chin in
By MARTHA M’CiULLOCH WILLIAMS. sirs. ” As the stranger made an end by the air.
The other looked at him impatiently A Resume of Events in the
pushing $1 in his palm, Jubilee said:
“Who—ee—I do my best, sir, but and said very low:
[Copyright, 18M, by American Press Associa
“Don’t fence, Hawkins. The time for
Northwest.
tion.]
maybe I can’t. The ole lady is very ex-
that is past. Tell me now, on your hon
picious. ”
At tne close of the meal the two men
Notwithstanding, when young Faunt or, the whole cause of grievance that old
went out together, pausing for a minute leroy sat dawdling over rolls, coffee and man cherishes; ”
EVIDENCE OF STEADY GROWTH
at the half open front door to watch the
“Why didn’t- you ask him? You had
chicken under mammy’s wrath
dashing raindrops vex the limpid pool boiled
eye, Jubilee’s head camo through the time enough. But I reckon you were
spread over all theyard. One of the long ful
door, Jubilee’s voice said in accents of so struck with the girl yon forgot every News Gathered In All the Towns of
summer storms had broken since morn | weary disgust:
thing else. ’Pon my life, Fauntleroy,
Onr Neighboring State- — Improve
ing. The sky was a dun cup, without
you must have rushed things. It is not
“
Aunt
Diney,
you
better
come
help
ment Noted in All Industries—Oregon»
Culled From the Telegraph Columns,
An American Citizen Shot. .
Great Success—He "Will Soon Return. fold or rift. The. slightest hollows held I
quite
common
to
find
a
fellow
proposing
me. Somebody’s knocked over your tur
such rainy runnel's as assured all who
A young man named James F. How
to a young woman he has
Eight carloads of wool from Heppner
Malmo, Sweden, Aug. 17.—The knew the lay of the land that the creeks key pen, and that old fool is huffin it to | ■ formally
Malloh Rezza, who assassinated the ard is now in the hospital in Juarez,
known
not
quite 24 hours. But if you were received in one day at a Dalles
the
woods
as
fast
as
her
young
ones
can
shah of Persia in May last, was hanged Mexioo, with two bullet holes in his newspaper Dagensnyheler has received must, be at flood It was full of sharp
i could make the riffle there—run away
at Teheran in the presence of an im body. He became involved in a quar communications from Dr. Nansen and hills, from which-the waters ran fast as go. I ran so hard tryin to head her, my with the girl—what a card it would be ■ warehouse.
breath is still clean obflusticated. ”
The graders are at work on Tansy
Lieutenant
Shottansen,
from
the
island
mense concourse.
they fell. Already above the plash of the
rel with Mexicans and shot three of
“De laws a massy, ’pon my soul, dat for our side! She’s the major’s sole heir, point on the line between Flavel and
Ben Noyer, who was arrested upon them dead. They had. attempted to as of Vardo. These communications state rain came the roar and boom of torrents
|
and
with
her
thus
well
in
hand
the
syn
suspicion of having robbed the Wilhoit sault nim. He was seriously wounded that they abandoned the Fram in the in the lowlajids. But young Fauntleroy ole hen tukkey gwine make me lose all dicate would grab at the property at our Warrenton, leveling off the space on
my Tigion, quor’lin at ’er,” mammy
| which will soon be built the car sheds
autumn of 1895 and resorted to ice.
stage, has been released from jail with f in the fight, but managed to escape.
stepped without the hall door and said: cried, making a dash for the door. It own figure. ”
i of the Astoria road.
The steamer Windward, carrying
out having been given an examination
“Major Overtón, I fee^ this intrusion
For answer Fauntleroy called to the
supplies to the Jackson-Harmsworth of mine to be so impertinent that if your hardly closed behind her when Darò driver: “Stop! Open the door!”
A Demand by Terrell.
upon the oharge.
An effort is being made to place Pen
dleton and La Grande on the regular
United States Minister Terrel has de-| expedition, pioked them up near Franz woman will return me my own gar came through the one opposite and said,
In a fight at Vodena,'Macedonia, be
“
What
’
s
wrong?
”
asked
Hawkins
im-
bicycle track race circuit. A move
tween 150 insurgents and 500 Turkish manded the immediate release of six Josef land. They expeotetd that the ments I will make my way somewhere with a rosy flush:
‘ ‘Jubilee said you sent for me. Do you . patiently as the man clambered down ment to that end is now under way,
troops, the former were reinforced after Armenians (naturalized Americans) Fram would eventually drift to the else till the storm is over. ”
I from his seat.
want
your
arm
bandaged
afresh?
”
Terrel has east coast of Greenland. Dr, Nansen
four hours and routed the Turks, fifty imprisoned at Aleppo.
The grim ghost of a smile played on
“Nothing,” said Fauntleroy, “only I and already purses are talked of for a
“No, no. Something much more im
notified the Turkish authorities that failed to reach the pole, but he touched Major Overton’s face.
■of whom were killed.
refuse to ride with a man who gives me meet at La Grande.
portant.
Miss
Overton
—
Dare
—
come
“That would -be-suicide, which is the closer, please. Lay your hand again in insult in place of information. ”
One day last week a freight train ran
Frank Farnsworth Barnard, aged 42, the further imprisonment of Aineri- a point four degrees nearer than any
other explorer has done.
worst form of .cowardice,” he said. mine. Ah, thank you for coming! I sent
a tenor singer well known in theatri cans would not be tolerated.
“You are a touchy one, ” the lawyer into a band of cattle that were hemmed
The
steamer
Windward
took
letters
“Either side of us is a stream that now
retorted, banging to the door. “Goon, in between a bluff and fence, near
cal circles, committed suioide in New
for Nansen when it started to the relief a man with two good arms could not for you because I—what I want to say Dick. I’ll give this young man what he Blalock. All of the cattle were either
Trans-Oceanic Record Broken.
York by shooting himself in the right
is
—
don
’
t
take
your
hand
away
—
I
shall
temple with a revolver.
killed by the accident or so badly
The steamship St. Paul, from South of the Jackson-Harmsworth expedition, safely pass on horseback On foot and never forget you. Your kindness, your wants.”
Mr. Jaokson expected to find Nan crippled you would surely drown.
“Very well, but be a little careful maimed that they had to be killed.
The cyclists of Olympia,Wash.,have ampton, crossed Sandy Hook in six as
help, and—and—if ever—I can straight
sen,
and
was
convinced
that
his
idea
formed a club, with a membership of days and fifty seven minutes, beating of drifting across the pole in the ice Ridgeley’s doorpaa let no man go out en all this tangle I shall come back tc I how you do it, ’ ’ his client retorted, sink-
John Richie, who lives near Pendie-
vonr
150, for the vigorous prosecution of a ! the new reoord made last week by her was impracticable. ' He was also con _ta his death,
Meantime if I can serve you—one I ing back upon his cushions, so as to look I ton, is the father of a two-months’ old
welcome
go
in
safety
’
.
”
good roads crusade. They propose to 1 sister ship, the St. Louis, of six days,
knows what may happen—you— the other full in the face. Hawkins boy that was born with ten fingers and
vinced that Nansen would return in
‘ ‘ If only yo/ would let me speak, ’ ’ the never
immediately begin the improvement of two hours and twenty-four minutes.
you are to give me the privilege. Don’t shifted a trifle under the scrutiny, but ten toes,’ besides the thumbs and great
the
direction
of
Franz
Josef
land.
other
began./A
gesture
.stopped
him.
the various roads leading out of the
toes, all of which are perfectly formed.
forget that,” the young man said dis- said:
Drowned in the Columbia.
Major Overpn had raised his hand, a jointedly, holding fast to Dare’s hand.
“You are an odd fish, Allen—nearly ' The family' physician thinks these ex
nty.
' All in Good Health.
Mark Van Bibber, a son of W. H.
The four-story mill of the Sperry
Vardoe, Norway, Aug. 17.—Dr. look of pai/unutterable upon his face.
It was harder than - he thought to as odd as the old one back there, ” nod tra provisions may be of great value
Bibber, of The Dalles, was Nansen left the Fram on March 14, After a mi/ute he said slowly, as though choke back the words of love, yet- tc ding behind them “You know I warn when the boy is grown up.
Flour Company, at Paso-Robles, Cal-» Van
was burned together with three adjao- drowned in the Columbia river near 1895, in 83 deg. of north latitude. He weighing «ach word:
speak them would be madness. She ed you against going there—as yourself,
The farmers of the Grand Ronde
“It is tot my wish to embarrass you | would leave him in affright. Yet he that is. If the old man hadn’t known
ent cabins and a blacksmith shop. that city, where he was swimming in traversed the polar sea to a point 86:14
valley are engaged in putting up hay,
The mill was valued at $35,000, and company with several companions. north latitude, situated north of the or add (o your discomfort, but surely could not forbeat raising to his lips the who you were, I’m persuaded you would but the crop is so heavy that in some
the stock of wheat and flour on hand The body has not been recovered.
North Siberia islands. No land was you mrst understand that of all men slim rosy fingers that lay fluttering in easily have got into his good graces, sections much of it will be left' stand
am the last with whom I can dis- his.own.
enough so maybe to induce him to listen
was worth $12,000, and it was a
Fifteen Horses Poisoned.
sighted north of 82 deg. of latitude or you
Huge stacks dot the valley
cuss-Jany thing. ”
to reason. You see, you are to him not ing.
total loss. There was $20,000 insur
“
Why
should
I
remember
you?
”
Dare
Twelve of the fifteen horses belong thence to Franz Josef land, where he
throughout its length and breadth. It
“
Vhy,
because
of
that
old
trouble?
merely
the
heir
and
agent
of
the
Faunt
ance on the building.
ing’ to Charles A. Worth, of San Fran passed the winter, subsisting on bear Believe me, Major Overton, whatever asked, half turning away. “Next week leroys. There’s a heap more that you, will- be but a few days before the farm
A dispatch from Egypt says: “To cisco, are dead and three more are un flesh and whale blubber.
ers will turn their attention to the
imputation there may have been in the you will forget my existence, except that almost nobody knows. ”
Dr. Nansen and his „ companions are past, I do not believe”— Young Faunt maybe as the heir to a claim that trou
show the futility of any hope of arrest der treatment for arsenical poisoning.
“Why was I not told?” the young grain harvest.
ing the course of oholera at present, The poison was administered by an in the best of health. The Fram is ex leroy burst out before he' could be si bles you. Ah, you see, I know something man asked sternly. The other laughed
The National bank of Heppner of
pected at Vardoe or Bergen shortly. lenced. His pause, when it came, was of family affairs. Believe me, I am not disagreeably, saying:
during the week before last fresh out enemy unknown.
which E. R. Bishop is cashier, has
She stood the ice well. There were no I due to amazement. The old face fronting so disloyal to our side of the quarrel as
breaks ooourred in sixty-nine different
“Well, now, it’s a bit awkward to say gone into liquidation. This step was
Daniel Pullen Missing.
sick persons aboard when Nansen left him was rage incarnate, the old hands to have come here thus clandestinely if to a fellow in plain English, ‘Your fa taken for the reason that the bank can
places and last week in eighty-seven.
Daniel
Pullen,
a
prominent
farmer
her.
During the seven days to August 1,
clinched hard. By a supreme effort Ma- I had not thought that maybe you needed ther was a thorough paced scoundrel. ’ do no more business profitably for the
1,200 deaths were reported, and in the of Lapush, Wash., suddenly became
But that’s the frozen fact of the case. ” present. It has no more money to loan
(Dr. Fritjojo Nansen, the Norwegian i jor Overton controlled himself and said, ■ne—were in pain that I could ease.,”
insane
last
Sunday
and
left
his
home
“I am,” Fauntleroy said, getting
following six days 1,700 deaths.”
“How did he prove it?’ ’ The tone was upon the security offered, and will pro
and has not .since been seen or heard of. scientist, now 36 years old, sailed I half turning away:
quickly
to
his
feet
and
flinging
his
sound
even, but Hawkins saw that the other’s ceed to collect outstanding money as
Judge Noble denied the application It is believed hehas committed suioide. from Chrstiana on June 24, 1893, on a
“Belief amounts to nothing, certainly
arm
around
her.
“
Dare!
Dare!
I
love
eyes had begun to blaze. He drew a lit fast as possible.
of the Brown Hoisting Company’s
vovage of discovery to the arotio re-j . as against deeds. It is just possible that
better than my life. I did not mean tle more away before he said:
locked-out employes for an injunction
Floods in India.
gions, and with the intention of reach [ you came in ignorance of some things you
A whale was driven ashore at Ban
to tell you just yet.. It is so sudden. But
“It’s a long story. Did you never hear don the first of last week. Captain
to restrain Mayor MoKisson, of Cleve
A London, dispatch from Bombay ing' the north pole, if possible. He that have gone before. Pray pardon me from the first look of your eyes into
how he died?”
land, from calling additional militia says heavy floods’ have been caused by embarked on board the three-masted if I ask to be spared further reference to
Hans Reed secured it, and prepared to
“He was drowned before he was 30, utilize the catch. It came on the
into -service;'to - restrain the Brown the rising of the river Kistnah. Im schooner Fram, which was provided all painful subjects. Be simply the mine as you knelt, an angel of rescue,
beside
that
living
grave,
I
have
felt
that
five years after I was born—at least that
company from arming its employes mense damage was done, and thousands with a 160-horsepower steam engine. stranger within my gate for the rest of
i I belonged to you—solelv, entirely; that is what I have been told and believe. ” beach .just above the lookout. It is
and to compel the company to carry rendered homeless. A river boat was She was of 800 tons burden, and her your stay. ”
over thirty feet long, and ten and one-
I
would
give
my
life
for
you
and
die
“Correct, not a doubt of it. In fact, I half feet across the flukes. It is of the
out the agreement made "with the capsized and 200 persons drowned.
‘ ‘.In one minute, sir. All I ask is that happy in the sacrifice. ”
sides were so constructed as to force all
saw
it
myself,
and
somebody
else
was
looked-out men on July 27.
ice meeting the vessel to pass under.it, you will believe I came simply with the
kind called Greenland, or right whale*.
“You may have the opportunity else
Regulators Sadly Needed
thus preventing all “pinohing” and ! honest purpose of trying to better a bad where,”. Major Overton said from the drowned with him. Can you guess who It will bring the captain about $200.
The cannery and machinery of the
The violent demonstrations by the screwing.
matter, a very sad one. I am not a dooi behind him. Hawkins darted it was?’
Anderson (Cal.) Canning & Packing
It is reported' that the hay crop in
“No. Not my mother?”
The Fram was launched at Laurwik, sneak They told me to approach you through it and caught young Fauntie;
Company, owned by Dan Grover and turbulent elements of Belleville, Ill.,
“Not by a long shot. She went mad Clatsop oounty will this season be a
B. T. Ryan, burned. The cannery was against the Salvation Army which near Christiana, Ootober 26, 1892, and under a feigned name, but I refused. I roy’s arm, crying out:
at your birth and. spent the rest of her very short one. In the month of June
worth $8,000. A stock of dried fruit have occurred at frequent intervals on the Norwegian parliament gave Dr. did not give my full name at first be
‘Allen, Allen, are you mad? Come
worth $700, 300 sacks of wheat and a the public square for a year past, at Nansen about $52,000 in aid of his ex cause I feared to startle the young away at once. You should never have life—10 years-—in a lunatic asylum. I there was no rain whatever, an un
don’t think Peyton, your father, ever precedented fact in the history of that
large quantity of tin was also de last culminated in a riot. For over pedition. Additional funds were lady”-----
come here, though,” turning to the old T cared much for her or she for him if the county in a number of years. The
two
hours
the
mob
surged
around
the
“
Will
you
come
to
my
office
fora
:
forthcoming
by
private
subscription,
stroyed. There is no insurance. Two
man, who stood a statue of white fury.
adjacent cottages owned by Dan Grover little band of Christians, cursing, push including one of over $5,000 from King smoke?’ Major Overton-said, as though I “I swear, Major Overton, he did not truth were told. The old folks made the grass was burned before it ripened,
I match. So it isn’t astonishing that aft- and it is probable that not enough hay
he. had not heard, leading the way to a know everything. ”
and J. T. Ryan, valued at $700, were ing, striking and creating a perfect Oscar.
bedlam of discordant noises. One of
also burned.
The Fram was in every way admir small bare room just off thè back piazza» I With one stride the old man caught | er her misfortune the sight of him set has been produced for home consump
I her fairly wild. So he put her wholly tion.
At San Antonio de los Banos, a pro the army flags, on which was the stars ably equipped, and had a crew of As the two came into it. they found ' Dare’s arm and essayed to drag her from ' out of his mind and went the pace I
The first car of fruit which left The
themselves
face
to
face
with
Dare.
She
and
stripes,
was
torn
from
its
staff
and
twelve
men,
all
of
whom
occupied
the
prietor named Domingo Hernandez,
the room. The girl shook herself free of tell you I was a lad in those days, but Dalles
last week billed for Chicago,
who was 70 years old, has been hanged trampeled upon. One of the women, cabin, whioh measured only thirteen did not flush, look conscious or seek to his hold and said, with eyes outblazing I remember
well how he opened people’s consisted entirely of peach plums,
who was struck on the head by a mis- feet square, and which was heated by evade her gi'antì'athm-'s disapproving his own:
I eyes. He drank his company blind, y< •et ; There were 800 boxes. This, it is
T.i
l4l»r.»hnrn<1. iipn.
rnmiin of tin Wtifflinh p.trwleum -Wr», ..y»
— -‘»I'-nm" 'riu vliilil,1 graudfuiolitw. Iih »e u
TioveTfy“ffieatei7*Eon3on7Tn' injured.
¿¿'¿g T lb ¿1^ bCT'hife
which consumed three liters of petro I of torn papers.’^nu stepping to the door I from you I demand the courtesy due a I went
a stabbing scene, the spring dagger
and. nearly always won. While as for plums that ever went out of The
stopped beside it to say:
leum
a
day.
The
Fram
(forward)
had
They Saw a Rarge Meteor.
”
-made for stage use- failed to act and an
women, thqy ran after him until I won- | Dalles. This is because of the pack-
“I knew you would want to smoke, woman.
“I see. You demonstrate your wom | der he didn’t despise the whole sex.
E. Simmons, wife and two daughters enough fuel on board to last eight or grandfather, so I lit the fire, if it is July,
actor was stabbed to the heart so that
I ing. There was not an overripe plum
nine
years,
and
she
also
had
a
library
by slinking thus to a rendez-
were sitting in the yard at their home
he died in a few minutes.
’ ‘One winter he went to Alabama and i in the lot,, and nearly all were pioked
and put pipes ready filled there over the anhood
of
1,000
books.
there met Margaret Overton”——
I at just the right time, a trifle green.
Senor Marcel de Azacarra, Spanish in Chicago when they saw a meteor de
Dr. Nansen’s plan was to wake for mantel.”
‘‘The major’s daughter?’’ Allen cried,
minister of war, is considering a scending and aiming directly toward the New Siberia islands and thence
“Very good. I am obliged,” Major
Terror overpowered them,
in spite of himself. The other went on:
Washington.
scheme to introduce conscription in .them.
sail directly north until the Fram Overton said grimly, stepping so as to
order to facilitate the recruiting of bound them to their seats and prevent should be imbedded in the ice. He hide his granddaughter from his guest.
Two
new
warehouses
aré to be built
[ continued .]
But fortunately
forces for the Spanish army service in ed their fleeing.
Dare moved lightly aside, drew a chair
in Garfield.
proposed
then
to
drift
along
with
the
while the mass of molten metal was
Cuba.
It is estimated that the state’s hop
ice, following the west coast of any to the corner of the hearth and said to
Why the Banker Fainted«
Miss Clara Barton, president of the 100 feet from them it burst, and the land that might be met. A dispatch Fauntleroy:
yield this year will be about 12,000
A
weU
known
banker
of
Paris
not
fragments
scattered
with
a
report
like
“Sit down, and ,1 will give you a light
American branch of the Red Cross So
was received from him at Vardien,
long ago met a man of about his own bales.
ciety, has started on her return to the a cannon, the hissing sound which had August 23, 1893, written in the Yugor- i for your pipe, as ypu have but one hand
Supreintendent Stevens has appor
age, who, in shaking hifn cordially by
been
growing
in
intensity
culminating
United States, her mission of distribut
aki straits on the second day of that now.”
the hand, said: “Is it possible, my dear tioned $3,284.57 to the school districts
“Yon spoil me,” he protested, sinking
ing relief to the Armenians having in a last dying gasp. No fragments month, announcing that the expedition
sir, that you do not remember me? We of Paoifio county.
could be found.
been ended.
was about to sail into Kara sea, and into the seat and looking straight into
met at pretty close quarters once 25
The assessed valuation of personal
Death in the Flood.
A. W. Fawcett, the reoently deposed
that the Fram, so far, had behaved the girl’s eyes. Major Overton frowned
years ago. I am So-and-so, with whom property in Chehalis oounty is $93,000
j
heavily,
took
the
girl
by
the
arm
and
A
great
rain
storm
burst
over
Pitts
mayor of Tacoma, announces that the
splendidly.
you fought a duel with pistols. You re less this year than last.
fight for occupancy of the office is not burg and vicinity, deluging a territory
Dr. Nansen entered the university of I led her through the door, saying, “Stay
member me now!”
The flagship Philadelphia arrived in
in
your
room,
Dare,
until
I
send
for
yet ended by any means, and that he several miles in extent, swelling the Chistiana in 1880, an in 1882 went as
“So I do! So I do!” said the banker. Port Angeles last week from Portland.
you.
”
will immediately carry the contest to streams into torrents, sweeping away a passenger on the sealing steamer Vi
“But I had completely forgotten the The Monterey and Bennington oame a
bridges and sending a score of human king to Denmark straits and the east
the supreme court for settlement.
incident until you reminded me of it. ” few days later.
CHAPTER VHL
John Thompson and Jay Leonard beings into eternity. The storm is coast of Greenland. It is believed that
“Indeed! As for me I couldn’t forget
By midnight the storm had sobbed out “I cannot go, Mr. Fauntleroy. I am an it easily
The prospeot of ever catching the
were killed by lightning in a violent attributed to the approach of a cool this voyage laid the foundation for the
—I was so badly scared. Why,
its
wrath.
Morning
broke
fair
over
the
storm at Sandusky, O. They were wave from the Northwest. Great dam ambition of his life, namely, that of
Overton.
I heard your bullet whistle within an burglars who stole the balolt-boxes
from a vault in the Tacoma city hall is
working on the new government pier age was done by water in various parts discovering the north pole. On his re radiant, new washed world. The rays of vous, ” the old man said through his inch of my ear. ”
said to be growing less every day.
I
at Cedar Point, with augers in their of the city. -The streets were covered turn from Greenland he was appointed dawn were struggling through the win teeth. Fauntleroy sprang to the girl’s
“
My
bullet?
”
hands, whioh attracted the lightning. by debris, car lines tied up and tracks curator of the museum at Bergen, and dow panes ere Allen Fauntleroy dropped side, caught her hand in his and cried
The Indian war veterans held an ad
“
Certainly.
”
i asleep. When at last his eyes opened,
“And the pistols were loaded, then?” journed meeting at Willapa, recently.
The body of a newly born male in blockaded. At Dehaven, a small town held that position until 1888, when he i the sun was high in heaven. His host out:
The name adopted is “The Indian War
“Major Overton, you—no man shall
“Of course.”
fant was discovered floating in the near the Wildwood oil well, six peoplo led a small expedition to Greenland I stood at his bedside, grayer, harder,
and crossed the southern portion of that
“Ah, those rascally seconds! They Veterans of the North-west Coast.”
breathe one hurtful word of her. Here
Willamette river near New Era one day were drowned.
country from the east coast to God i sterner looking' in the light of the gold to your teeth I beg her to come away vowed to me that the pistols weren’t
There are thirty aores of growing
last week. A coroner’s- inquest was
A Boiler Exploded.
head,
on the west coast, where the en day than in that of rainy skies. Yet with me as my wife—chosen, honored loaded, Oh, dear! Oh, dear! To think flax in Whatcom county and ten in
held over the remains, but nothing was
A hundred and fifty . horse-ppwer
still
his
voice
was
a
well
bred
monotone,
that I might have been killed like a Skagit county. It will be worked up
above all the world. ”
■developed whioh would tend to throw boiler at the Lockville Brick & Tile party wintered, and returned to Nor bare of all feeling.
' Dare shivered through and through. dog!”
"as soon as the scutch machinery at New
any light upon the mystery, as to why works, near Maximo, O., exploded with way in June, 1889.)
“Pardon me for disturbing you. I fear A red tide swept up over brow and
And the banker fainted with agita- Whatoom is made ready to receive it.
the. body of the babe was thrown into terrific force, completely wrecking the
A Serious Accident»
you slept poorly,” he said. “But a cheek, then faded, leaving her white, tion merely' to think of the danger
the river.
The treasurer of Lewis county has
building.
Isaiah Johnson, an en
Astoria, Or,. Aug. 17.—Henry John friend has come in search of you, and I with eyes of fire. She was so young, bare which he had run 25 years before.-—
received a remittance of over $9,000
The steam schooner Point Arena, gineer, had his back broken. He will son,' an employe at Logan’s Seaside had no choice but to wake you. Here
for the county sohool fund from the
bound from San- Francisco to Mendo- die. Samuel Snider was badly injured sawmill, was terribly lacerated yester comes Jubilee with your boots. He will ly turned 17, all this seemed so wonder Strand Magazine.
state treasurer. Chehalis district comes
cino, went on the rocks near- Point about the head and had his breast day while filing a ciroular saw. The help you' to dress and wait on you at ful, so terrible, it put her happy, careless
Glad She Elves In America.
girl
life
years
and
years
behind
her.
She
Reyes. Captain Johnson, her master, crushed. He cannot recover.
machinery was started up without breakfast Take your time. There is no drew her hand gently from Fauntleroy’s
“I’m glad I live in America,” said a in for $1,100 and Centralia for $1,400.
was on the bridge when she grounded.
warning, and Johnson was caught by need of hurry. I will take care that your clasp and said, staring straight before pretty young woman, talking to a Phil
The war of prices that has been car
Train Ban Into a Washout.
He at* once began to hack her, and
the olothing and thrown over the saw. friend does not grow impatient. ”
adelphia Inquirer reporter, “because I ried on for a year by the bakers in
her
at
her
grandfather,
who
stood
a
An
eastbound
mail
train
from
Chi
within ten minutes she was free of the
“Who is it—Hawkins? I thought he’d
A bystander, with great presence of
am never afraid to travel by myself. Spokane ended last week. The bakers
rooks. As soon as the vessel was cago on the Lake Shore road, ran into a mind grasped a knife and severed the look me up if the horse got back with shaking embodiment of speechless fury: Last year I was in London and went I came to an understanding and a slight
“I cannot go, Mr. Fauntleroy. I am
seventy feet long and thirty belt, thus saving Johnson from being out me. I bepr-jajnnot to let him get at
lobsbxied -the -waterbegant^^rus^in washout
deep near Otis, Ind , and the entire I cut to pieces. The injured man was tlia-t precious O^C£ • "bi-aixcly. He will stay nr, Overton. I cannot turnagainstmy ar ound wi t h a f 1-iond' who i s m arried, ' advance has been ■ made in the price of
through a hole in her port bow, just feet
except the day. coach, plunged removed to hia residence and medical till he drains the bowl, ” Young Faunt- own, no matter how I may be wronged. ’ ’ and we were spoken to in an insulting bread.
forward of the forward hold. Captain train,
the big hole. The engineer, James aid summoned. It was found that the leroy said in an effort to speak lightly.
“Forgive me, Dare, forgive me! You manner every time we went out. Paris
Most of the logging camps in the
Johnson headed for San Franoisco, and into
and the fireman, Michael right arm was badly out below the He was far from-feeling so. All his sleep are your father’s child, thank God! For was still worse. People speak of the Gray’s harbor country are shut down,
came up under a full head of steam, Griffin,
Roache, were almost instantly killed. shoulder, the left above and below the had been a phantasmagoria of trouble give my doubt of you, ” the old man al- French politeness, but it is only a and it is reported that there has not
the pumps being kept in action all the No one else was injured.
elbow, and the right leg at the kneo of thick clouds, .of swelling waters, with .rnost sobbed, drawing the girl’s hand veneer. The men would get in front been a time in ten years when so little
while. By the time she reached.the
his arm as though to lead her of us on every street corner and smirk
Florence, Kan., is proud of being the was torn in a shooking manner, It is Dare in the midSt of them, swept for through
Mission slip, where she was docked,
away. She half turned from him, but and ogle and chatter like monkeys. I’m logging has been done. The burning
there was four feet of water in her for residence of a humane lady,who bought thought Johnson’s wounds will not ever away, in their flood. The night not in anger, and said to her young glad
I didn’t understand anything they of the Northwestern Lumber Com
through he had not hidden from himself
prove fatal.
an ear trumpet for her pet dog.
ward hold.
lover:
said.
There are no men like the Amer pany’s plant has much to do with it.
the fact that in their all too brief en
A. W. Pile, of California, secretary
Pillaging Continues in Crete.
“Goodby. Go away, please, and forget ican men, and I never was so fully able
The county road between Svenso
counter
she
had
taken-captive
his
heart
of the national silver committee, was
“Increase of cholera in Egypt” is
that you ever came. ”
and Knappa has been opened and her
Rome, Aug. 17.—Semi-official
to
appreciate
it
as
I
am,
now
I
have
and
his
fancy.'
He
must
not,
he
could
found dead at Washington, D. C., un the principal feature of a report re vices from Canea, island of Crete, say
“I go, since I must, but I will never seen those of other nations in their after there will be considerable tra-1
der circumstances which lead to a sus ceived from the land of the Pharaohs that the pillaging continues in the not, would not go away without further give you up so long as we both do live, ” own
Besides, the girls are between the two communities. T‘s
picion of foul play. He had been mis by Surgeon-Genera Wyman, of the eastern provinces and up to the present sight and speech of her. He would not Allen Fauntleroy said. Even as he spoke treated lands.
here than anywhere else also connects Cathlamet with a throgh
sing for four days. His body was marine hospital service in Washington. time five villages and contents have startle, maybe’ distress her with any she vanished. Hawkins caught his aim on earth, better
and I don’t want to cross the road to Astoria.
talk of love. Instead he would speak a
found under the aqueduct bridge. “Notwithstanding the measures taken
and drew him away to the vehicle wait ocean any more. ”
Sixteen farms in the vicinity of ren-
been
burned.
little
of
the
gratitude
he
felt
for
her
When last seen he had considerable by Dr. Rogers Pasha,” says the report,
ing outside the door. As they took their
dleton,
some in Oregon and so¿ in
timely
aid
and
beg
her,
if
ever
the
time
Forty-Eight Rebels Killed.
money,- but- the money was missing “the proportion of the cholera outbreak
Lung Diseases.
seats in it Major Overton stepped over
Washington, have been harvested and
when the body was discovered. A sil shows the disease has got beyond the
Cape Town, Aug. 17.—Plummer’s came that she;needed help, to remember the threshold, gave them a courteous
A
New
York
specialist
on
lung
dis
the returns show the average toiave
ver watch, however, had not been dis control of the sanitary authorities. It column had another engagement and that she had in him a faithful friend.
eases recently prescribed a
But how achieve so much, guarded as adieu, then laid his hand lightly ip de treatment for a woman who course of been 31J¿ bushels of wheat ad 60
turbed. There is no evidence of sui is no reflection upon Rogers Pasha or dispersed the rebels, who twice tried
was evi- bushels of barley to the acre, win the
tention upon the reins and said slowly:
oide; Mr. Pile was the son of ex-Con- the members of the staff who are assist to rush into the bivouao. Forty-eight she was? After breakfast he must go
“Mr. Fauntleroy, I give you safe con dently far on the road to consumption. quality fair. The heaviest yielc'so fcsr
away,
and
throughout
the
meal
mammy
gressman Pile, of California.
ing him.
rebels were killed.
What he told her to take was all sorts
would certainly attend him. If he could, duct from my home. If ever you set foot of strengthening food, such as rare beef, reported is 60 bushels.
A Cuban woman and? two little girls
Greeks May Extend Aid.
Enormous Gold Production.
get her away—a voice broke through his on it again, your life will pay for it. ” cream, lots of butter, etc. Besides this
Marcus has entered the campign in
8 and 10 years old, have, been held as
A London dispatch from Athens says:
Denver, Aug. 17.—According to data musings. Jubilee, black and slim, with
earnest
for the county seat of Stevens
he directed her to eat raw eggs beaten
spies in Puerto Principe. The former ‘‘Owing to the recent Mussulamn atro collected by Secretary Parsons, of the woolly head and big upturned eyes, stood
CHAPTER IX
county. A petition is in emulation
oarried a revolver and the children cities the Greek government has decid commercial exohange, the gold protec in the door, saying:
Until they were past the ford that up in milk until she could bring herself requesting the commissioners 0 submit
to take 12 a day. This last regime alone
had correspondence addressed to the ed no longer to place hindrances in the tion of Cripple Creek in the first six
“What corrections does you have ter marked Ridgeley’s boundary line, Allen
the proposition to the voters atthe gen
rebel government in Cubitas when, ap way of arms and volunteers going to months this year was $7,256,000. He gimme, sir, ■ ’bout puttin on your Fauntleroy sat silent, leaning in his faithfully carried out has, it is believed, eral election in November, ani already
saved
another
consumptive
patient
to-
I
prehended by the Spanish in the Pttbrto Crete for the insurgents. The govern estimates the total production of 1896 clothes?”
corner of the carriage. Hawkins spoke
many years of usefulness, and it has over 300 signatures have been obtained.
Principe suburbs. AU will be court- ment considers it would be inhuamn to will be $15,000,000. That oamp pro
had been to free once or twice, but getting no answer re helped the first woman greatly as well The law requires 700 names.
Jubilee,
turned
14,
martialed. A petition, however, is leave them a helpless prey to the Turk duced in 1895 $9,199,000.
Hop contracts were recorded in Yaki
school since he was 6, and now could lapsed likewise into silence.
being signed beseeching the queen ish ferocity.”
Glory is like a circle in thte water, ma county last week for 32, C00 pounds
When they had splashed through the
spell in three letters, knew all the fig
regent to request Captain-General
The Kaffirs of Kimberly, South ures except .seven and had a great de swift stream, still flush and palely tur which never ceaseth to enlarge itself of hops and covering the product of
Weyler to pardon the children if con
A syndicate has been formed in Afrioa, are very fond of cigars, but sire to use tiie longest words he heard bid, Fauntleroy said, drawing a long till by broad spreading it disperse to three years The contracts were exe
naught. —Shakespeare.
victed.
England to work coal beds in Kent, they smoke them with, the lighted end
overcome his tendency to the dia- breath:
cuted in favor of a Cincinnati firm,
one of the few green bits of the land in the mouth, inhaling all the smoke,
“I could not hear it upon his ground,
jjis race
The prices were 6 and 6)^ cents for
Potatoes in Greenland never grow where the stain of the stoker’s trade They say that is the only proper way
The
sale
of
oysters
in
Baltimore
an
but
how
in
heaven
’
s
name
tell
me
what
Withal he was a sharp lad, as full of
the 1896 hops, 7 cents for the product
larger than a marble.
nually
amounts
to
over
$30,000,000.
all
this
means.
”
has not yet fallen on the landscape.
to smoke.
resource as of mischief. So much young
of 1897, and 8 cents for that of 1898.
Ice famine Threatened.
St. Louis is seriously threatened with
an ice famine.
Prices have been
steadly advancing since the opening
of the season until -now they are up to
the highest .point reaohed in this oity Dr. Nansen Advanced Further
OREGON
SCIO
for several years. This week there
was an additional inorease of $1.25 per
Than Previous Explorers.
ton to the .trade and another increase
may be expected soon. The price to
the trade is now $5, dr more than HE AND PARTY SAFE AND WELL
double what it was at any time last
year. Ice is being shipped in from re
Comprehensive Review of the Import mote northern points, but the demand Dr. Nansen Has Been Gone Over Three
ant Happenings of the Past Week oannot be supplied.
Years Now, and His Expedition Is a
I