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JLEBANON
.EXPRESS.
He who thinks to please the World is dullest of his kind; for let him face which way he will, one-half is yet behind.
TOL. IV.
LEBANON, OK KG ON, PHI DAY, JANUARY 1(5. 1891.
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For tickets and full Information regarding
rate, mar, eta, call on Oo's agent at Lebanon
K. KOLULKK, E. . ROGERS,
Manager. Asst. O. F. & P. Agt
DR. C. H. DUCKETT,
DENT 1ST
LEBANON, OBEGOy.
J. K. WEATHERFORD,
ATTORNEY- AT -LAW.
Office over First National Bank.
ALBANY. - ... - OREGON.
W. R. PILYEU,
ATTORNEY- AT- LAW.
ALBANY KEOOS.
G. T. COTTON,
Dealer in
Groceries and Provisions.
Tobacco and Cigars,
Smokers' Articles.
Foreign and Domestic Fruits,
Confectionery,
Queens ware and Glassware, Lamps and
Lamp Fixtures.
PAY CASH FOR EGGS.
Main Street. Lebanon, Oregon
R. L. McGLRUE
(Successor to C. H. Harmon.)
Barber : and : Hairdresser.
Lebanon, Oregon.
Shaving, Haircutting and Shampoo
ing in the latest and best style. Spec
ial attention paid to dressing Ladies
hair. Your patronage respectfully so
licited.
J. L. COWAN.
J. M. RALSTON.
Bank of Lebanon,
LEBANON, OREGON.
Transacts a General Banking Business.
ACCOUNTS
KEPT SUBJECT TO
CHECK.
TVeromtra unld on New York, San
'Portland and Albany, Org
Collections made on favorable terms
LEBANON
Meat Market
ED. KELLEJiBERGER, Prop.'
Fresh & Salted Beef, Pork, Mut
ton, Sacsage, Bologna & Ham.
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(Eoast Ikma.
Senator Hearst Is very III la Washing
ton.
Governor 'Waterman has been pardon
ing so many criminals during the last
lew weeks or his otuotai lire that we have
not space for a full list of theui.
The rain of Deo. 20 was a godsend to
the whole state. It extended all over the
state and set thousands of plows going
and started feed on all the ranges. It
was less-, than an Inch in amount In some
places, but it did more good than all the
previous storms of the season.
ALAMEDA COrXTT.
Telegraph Avenue. Oakland, is to be
bitumenized.
Highway robbery Is still a flourishing
art in .Oakland.
A shin canal passlnjr between Oakland
and Alameda and connecting San Fran
cisco and San Leandru bays will be tin-
iahel within a year.
P. J. Halm of Haywards was thrown
from a cart Dee. 49 and, his feet eatch
ing in the lines, he was dragged until
be was completely scalped and nia sxuu
fractured. He was a 49er and 70 years
old.
FRKSNO COUNTY.
Dr. Vincent, who murdered his wife at
Fresno and was In danger of being
lynched, has been held for trial.
HUMBOLDT COLUTT.
A larjre tract of land In Mattlay valley
has been leased for fifty years by oil
men who agree to pay 10 per cent of
the net proceeds of any oil they may
find.
LOS ANGELES COUNTS".
The Doetofflce at Lancaster was robbed
Dec SO.
Frank Gleneroes Rave Martin Ryan a
clubbing last November at Downey from
which Ryan died Jan. 2.
The county expanses have been reduced
$10,000 a year by reducing the number
of employes and the amount of salaries.
Loa Ansreles disposes of her srarbatra
by burniug it. Works for this purpose
have been erected near the city for
$11,000 and are pronounced a success.
They have a capacity of hfty tons a day.
MARTS COCXTT.
Ah Li, whom Stoncman pardoned for
Stanislaus county murder, has been
Indicted at San Rafael for another
murder.
A Chinese murderer from Napa county
died in the state prison In an epileptic
fit Dec. 29.
MERCED COrXTT.
J. Leonard Ula, 61 years old. wandered
In the hills back of lake Yo Semite while
Insane and died of exposure.
William Hall, a Los Eanoa saloon
keeper, was given a gash entirely across
his riirht cheek by Eujrene Dupree. a
barkeeper. Dee. 2.
KEVADA CO V NTT.
Burglars are active at Grass Valley.
John Daniels ot Nevada City killed him
self by catting his throat while delirious
from typhoid fever Dec. 29.
Alfred Almas accused Charles Dunn of
being one ot four men who attempted to
rob him Jan. 1 and the next day Dunn
shot Almas in the back, perhaps fatally.
ORANOK COCXTT.
Alexander Henry's wine a-.ed three
miles from Anaheim was burned Dec. 29
with 12,000 gallons of port wine and
brandy. Loss $10,000: Are probably In
cendiary.
PLACER COrXTT.
A man with a Kern county poll-tax
receipt In the name of Walter Leman in
his pocket threw himself from a train
between Roseville and Rocklin Jan. 2 and
was killed.
SAX BERNARDINO COVTXTT.
The city of San Bernardino has Just
completed on a public park the largest
pavilion in southern California.
The East Riverside in-ijratlon district
has voted bonds to the amount of $75 an
acre for all the land in the district,
A license ordinance was put in force
Jan. 1 which provides that no license
may be granted in any voting precinct
where a majority of the voters votin? at
the last regular election protest against
it.. Nine saloons were closed by it.
. BAN DIEOO COCXTT.
Oceanside has let a contract for a city
system of water words.
San Diesro will have an international
exposition beginnicg next November and
lasting lour montns.
A storm Dec. 30 swept ashore 610 feet
of the new wharf at Oceanside. It will
probably be rebuilt of iron.
A brewer named Wurch was lost from
the eteames Manuel Dublan on her up
trip Dec 81 and is believed to have com
mitted suicide.
BAN FRANCESCO COUXTT.
Walter 11. Leman, the actor, is dead. '
There will be an examination ot ap
plicants for positions in the postofHee
service ieo. 3.
A Madagascar mining firm has con
tracted with a local foundry for a com
plete and costly hydraulic mining outfit.
H. T. Jones, a well-to-do citizen of
Chico, started for Honolulu Oct. 29 last
with a trunk full of baggage, a valuable
chest of carpenter tools and $250 in
money. He put up at the What Cheer
house in San Francisco and was found
dead in bed the next day. The proprietor
reportea mat, ne was a poor pencu peu
dler and he was burled as a pauper,
Afterward, when his identity was estab
lished, the proprietor of the hotel in
eisted that he had no effects until an
officer forcibly searched the place and
found the chest and truni. Ihe money
nas never oeen iouno.
SAX JOAQUIN COUXTT.
A company with $65,000 paid-up capital
has bought two blocks of land at Stock
ton and wui establish a pottery, freight
ing its clay -from Calaveras county.
SAX MATEO COUXTT.
San Mateo has voted not to incorporate.
Charles G. Walker's barns and stable
and some valuable road working machines
belonging to the county were burned
Dec 29 by a probably incendiary fire.
Several of the oil wells at Lobetus are
down from 800 to 1200 feet and eaho
flowing. The petroleum has never been
refined, but is taken to San Francisco
and used in the manufacture of gas. It
is proposed to try the effect of explosives
In the deep borings with the purpose of
Increasing the flow.
SANTA BARBARA COUNTY.
A. J. Lawrence has been held for mur
dering his wife at Ballard's in November.
SANTA CLARA COUNTY.
The suit brought against the San Jose
city council by the old electric light and
gas company to annul the contract by
which a new company was lighting the
city at reduced cost has been decided in
favor of the council at Redwood city
where it was tried.
SANTA CRUZ COUNTY.
The shingle mill and houses at Olive's
Landing, eleven miles up the coast from
Santa Cruz, were burned Dec. 27.
Ramon MIrando was stabbel in the
neck and had his ear split open in a
saloon row by Gus Gleason, a blacksmith.
Two swindlers got about thirty Santa
Cruz men to agree to take up timber
claims in Washington, promising $1000
for each claim but securing from e.ach
man a deposit of $25 " as a guarantee of
good faith." Then they skipped out with
the deposits. ;
The cold, damp -weather in England
has alarmingly incwased the ' -
In Manchester and Vrm,ton "
40 in 1000 since the od we
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EMMA ABBOTT,
The celebrated singer, died at Salt Lake
Monday morning, January 5th, from
pneumonia. She was universally beloved,
and especially by the members ot her own.
company. Manager Pratt with whom she
had been eleven years, feels her death
keenly. Said he, "A better and purer
woman never walked on this earth."
Her body was embalmed apd sent to
Chicago to be cremated. She leaves a for
tune estimated at over $1,000,000.
The above representation of this noble
woman, engraved for her by Hawks 4
Shattuck, is the only truthful one extant,
and is from a photograph taken In Paris
last year.
PACIFIC COAST.
ALASKA.
Citizens of Alaska have offered to buy
the territory for $14,000,000 If congress
will not pass a local government bill and
a land law for the Alaskans.
ARIZONA.
Clifton shipped 10.541.261 pounds ot
copper the past year.
Tax Collector M. S. Bnvder was
wounded and robbed of $4070 in his
office at Tucson Dec. 30 by two masked
men.
A Fhenlx architect has secured the con
tract to build the Frog Tanks dam for
$1,100,000. It will cover 1 00,000 acres
with water, and la to be completed
within three years.
Dan Shanklin killed Dr. C. Willis at
Tombstone Dec. 30 because Willis, who
was superintendent ot the Old Guard
mine, had tailed to pay Shanklin his
wages as a watchman.
F. Nelson and Antonio Grinado. con
victed wife murderers at Clifton, are
likely to escape death because of in
formality in the formation of the irrand
Jury which Indicted them.
Adoipne verausro, a muruerer in jail at
Tucson, stabbed the Jailer thiougn the
bars with a dirk Dee. 29, broke open the
cell door, beat the jailer into insensibility,
and, taking the keys, escaped, with
Antonio Venn Sanchez, a murderer, and
Juan Costello, a grand larcenis". Yeppa
was caught, the next aay, ana several
Mexicans were arrested for harboring
him.
BRITISH COLUMBIA.
Victoria U pestered with burglars. '
The schooner Dare from San Francisco
was wrecked on Vancouver island Dec.
30 and the captain and crew were washed
ashore, more dead than alive, and saved
by Indians. .
NEVADA.
Luelus E. Muzzy was killed by rock
falling on him in an ore car at Carson
Jan. 2.
Antelope valley is so full of wild horses
that it la difficult to raise tame ones, as
they reak away and join the wild herds.
NEW MEXICO.
The Navajoes are quiet.
The laborers employed by the con
tractors to lay the Albuquerque sewers
struck Dec. 20, but their places were
filled.
OREGON.
Oregon's taxable property is assessed
at $1,142,777.
Henry A. Brown was found murdered
fifteen miles east of Pendleton Dec. 23.
Dan Sullivan, despondent at his In
ability to get work, committed suicide at
Portland Dec. 30.
Dan McCarthy and John Sheridan dug
ont of the Union county jail Dec. SO
with a piece ot gas pipe.
J. M. Babock ot Los Angeles was struck
by an electric motor train at Portland
Dec. 3D and killed.
Several families at Eugene were poi
soned by eating head cheese and it is
believed the poison was maliciously put
In by an employe at the shop when the
cheese was made.
The third bridge across the Willamette
at Portland Is completed and was opened
for travel Jan. 1. It la 1650 feet long
with a draw span of 140 feet, operated
on each side by -electricity.
At Ashland Charles Mllsap, 11 years
of age, while playing with a shotgun,
received the charge in the abdomen. The
boy walked nearly a mile before he met
with assistance. The wound is serious,
If not fatal.
WASHINGTON.
The bakers of Seattle have struck for
shorter hours.
The coasting steamer Badger has been
wrecked on James island in a storm.
A ship yard costing $1,000,000 Is to be
built on Fuget sound by the Steel Bridge
company.
Hammond, who pandered to the
English aristocracy on Cleveland street.
London, has been sent to the peniten
tiary for two years irom eaiue for grand
larceny.
A citizen of Buckley, while hunting,
discovered a fine deer behind a fallen
tree. Thinking the animal was dead he
undertook to turn it over, but at the
first touch the animal jumped to Its feet
and bounded away. It had been taking
a nap.
A man named Burr is was arrested for
arson at Dayton but discharged. Vigi
lantes seized him and strung htm up
Lec. ay to extort a comession irom rum
but failed. They warned him to leave
town but he didn't go.
Ten sailors left the American ship Alex
Gibson at Seattle, though they had
shipped at San Francisco for the round
trip, and they were arrested and im
prisoned. They complained that they
were not given proper food. They were
discharged on habeas corpus.
For over a year the city of Seattle has
been fighting the Northern Pacific to
prevent it laying tracks .across one of
its principal thoroughfares. During a
hearing the other day the attorneys for
the corporation and for the city went
down to see the disputed point, and
upon returning the city's counsel de
liberately signed away the city's rights.
This action created great excitement in
the city, and there was much talk of
bribery.
E. C. Carr, a music teacher 57 years
old, was thrown from a cart and his
collar-bone and three ribs broken and his
lung punctured by a rib.
Smokers should be smart enough to
know that- the genuine -Seal of North
; tote dealers try
Women's BHirU).
Natural History.
Why dou't more of our women, espe
cially those whose lives are spent on the
farm and the number U legion pay
atteutlou to the study of the natural
sciences? I don't mean for them to get
a lot ot books, and waste (?) hours ot
time In systematic study; but observe,
note and remember the curious, interest
ing and instructive thluga going on
around them from day to day.
Natural history holds a never-fulling
source of Interest for j'oung and old
alike, and did we but notice closely, we
would become even more Interested in
unraveling the tangled skeins compris
ing the life-hlstorlea of animal, birds,
plants and Insects than we ever were in
following the fortunes ot a pet heroine
In a fovonle novel. I do not say to dis
pense eatlre'.y with the stories, for it
certainly la a rest and a pleasure, to sit
down and forget the little, everj-day
trials atid cares that so constantly beset
ua, while we unconsciously identify our
selves with that persou, In the book be
fore us, who surmounts all obstacles and
Is at last supremely happy.
Animals, flowers and birds have had
more attention given them by the general
public than lusecta have ; yet the lives ot
the latter are more complicated, and
show even more of the mysterious ways
of an all-wWe prov.denoe.
Many have an instinctive horror of
bugs and creeping things, " but it la
usually acquired, they having been
taught, from childhood up, that all such
things ware poisonous and uncanny.
One can, with little time and trouble,
rear insects of many kinds, from the egg
to the adult, noting the curious modes
ot growth and transformation J and, if
apt at description, how many new facts
could be given to the world; for tUls
branch ot natural history, more than any
other, has hidden Its secrets so well
that one can scarcely observe at all,
without discovering something new, not
only to the observer, but, very often, to
science.
Prof. Grote, one ot the moxt noted of
entomologists, says that the science la
especially adapted to women ( or women
are adapted to It; I don't remember ex
actly which). That to be successful. Is
needed patience an! fineness ot discern
ment, and woman possesses both.
Woman can, and there are a few who
do, keep bees, and understand their ways I
enough to make the business profltaole
as well as pleasant. In silk culture, also,
she can succeed as well or better than
the stronger sex.
Now, why should it be a rare sight to
see a woman who is a thorough horti
cultuilst, an experienced gardener, a
practical, economic entomologist, a bota
nist br enough of one to be able to
recognize the plants ot her vicinity, with
their habits and properties? A woman
who is ornithologist enough to be able
to name the birds that frequent her yard,
and tell which are noxious and which are
beneficial? To be able to settle this last
point, she must know something ot ento
mology and botany, so as to decide
whether the birds are doing good or
harm, by devouring certain insects.
seeds, etc
There ar many women, whose lives
have been spent on a farm, unable to
recognlza common birds and animals,
and as to calling an Insect by a name,
they never heard of such a thing. They
" love " flowers, but so little do they know
about them, that, in the spring lime,
young flower plants are pulled out about
as often as weeds, and the children are
cautioned about playing in the grass
because there are so many "poison"
weeds, " poison " snakes and " stinging "
bugs there.
Children are always Interested in nat
ural history, and when one has studied
it enough to be able to relate some thing
ot the habits of the native animals and
birds of the colors, growth and proper
ties of plants, ot the llfe-hlstories and
changes ot Insects what a pleasure It Is
to give them, in answer to their oft-repeated
why and what and wherefore,
some true information, that Is not only
Interesting to them but really useful as
well.
A lesson read by a child from " Nature's
book," under the supervision of an ob
serving and thinking teacher, will be
remembered long after the prosy gram
mar or spelling lesson has faded from
Its mind. Woman's Work.
About Woman's (Sphere.
In answer to Miss Perkins I would say
that the spheres which are open to
women to-day are as numerous and
varied as the individuals to fill them.
If we follow first"' In duty's footsteps all
other things will be made clear and some
how we will find a way to do the work
for which we are beet fitted.
There Is one place where woman Is ever
the central figure and, sister, If some
good man and true has succeeded in
winning your heart in return for his
own, don't let ambition keep you from
the Eden you might have er.joyed had
you and he lived far back in this " spher
ical" age. Yet I am of the firm belief
that all women are not meant tor homes,
and many mothers tvhotn I can recall
are no better fitted to rear children than
was the foster mother of Romulus; In
fact, memory furnishes so many Instances
that I am convinced that although our
mission was assigned us by proxy In the
garden our Creator had designed us for
many others. Still let us not forget the
first sphere entirely;
Doubtless the tendencies of the rising
women are inclined towards extremes;
nevertheless, beneath the foam and bub
ble, there Is a tide of earnest purpose,
a desire to place women by, not raise her
to, the side of man, in accordance with
the sign, given by God, when she was
first created from the rib of Adam and
this desire is the outcome of the sup
pressed thought and feeling of centuries.
The old world, sister, has more need for
good, pure, noble women workers than
ever before, and whether in farmhouse,
kitchen, nursery, hospital, shop or studio.
library, laboratory, court or pulpit, let
us not be found wanting.
I cannot conclude this without refuting
the imputation that our literary charac
ters ate not good housewives, for I am
sure the names of Mrs. Stowe and Marion
Harland are too wall known in culinary
depai tmenta t have it thought-other
wise. There Is; not oaly one sphere for
each-of us, b' - many, and let' us do our
best for-"" " -v. A - .Voole
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jfarm Botes.
DUtrlbuliou of riant and Heetla.
A bulletin has just been Issued by the
state agricultural college, announcing
the anuutd distribution of plants and
seeds. As no appropriation for postage
and packing la available, the small sum
designated must be sent by applicants.
All packages are forwarded by express
at the expense of the receiver. The dis
tribution will be made about January 1.
Add! ess all communications to E. J.
Wlekson, Berkeley, Cal.
Seedling Olives. Trees grown from Im
ported seeds of six European varieties,
which were planted in 1992, having borne
freely this year. Some of these seedlings
promise to be of value, and we desire to
send scions for grafting to thoao tuclined
to experiment In this directions We do
not commend these varieties for pi lut
ing, but simply invtte experiment to se
cure a wider trial of them with a view of
approving or condemning them.
No. 1 Resembles Rubra, fruit good
sized, pit email, growth and fruiting
good. No. 2 Resembles Nlgerina closely,
very productive. No, 3 Resembles Pne
cox; large bearer and a strong, upright
grower. No. 4 Another strong, upright
grower and productive. No. 5 Resemblus
Atroviolacea ; early maturing, foliage
rather open. No. 6 Resembles Uvaria;
good, compact grower, frult-clusteis large
and abundant. No. T Resembles Antro
vlolacea; very open grower and fair
bearer. No. 8 Resembles Rubra in leaf
and growth; fruit of good slz. Packages
ot these scions will be sent at the rate
of 4c for each variety, postpaid.
Date Palms. Some confusion and mis
understanding have followed the an
nouncement in the newspapers that we
had received from the United Suites de
partment ot agriculture a collection ot
the best varieties of date palms. We
have received only a few such palms,
and they have all been planted at our
stations at Tulare and Pomona. In the
future there will be distribution of these,
when they prtxiuce suckers. We have,
however, a few plants grown fram the
seed of the date of commerce, which we
w 111 send to applicants in localities where
the1 1 ate Is likely to prove hardy, In order
that the local climates may be tested in
advance ot the distribution of better
varieties. Two plants to each applicant,
so long as the supply lasts, for 25a by
express.
Carobs. In view of the continued in
quiry for this forage-producing tree ot
the Mediterranean region, we have grown
a email lot ol seedlings lor uistriDuuon
this year. The Carob tree (Ceratonla
Sitlqua ) Is the true "Algaroba," or St.
John's bread of the Mediterranean legion.
and has been heretofore recommended
for cultivation in the southern part or
the state, on dry and otherwise unavail
able hillside) as well as in richer and
molster lands for the production of an
excellent milk-producing feed. (See re
port college ot agriculture of 1884. page
109. and report 1S3C, page 108. ) The Carob
is about as hardy as the orange, but
owing to Its drouth-resisting qualities
when once established, is destined to have
a much wider range than that tree.
Four plants to each, it being necessary
to make sure of having both stamluate
and pistillate trees together; 25c by ex
press. Kal Apple ( Ab rot Caffra (.The Kal
apple is a native of Natal and Caffra ria.
It Is a tall shrub, yielding an edible
fruit of a golden yellow color, about the
size ot a small apple. It Is commended
as a hedge plant, as it is densely clothed
with strong, dry spines. The leaves are
small aud of a rich green hue. The
plant grows readily from seed, but can
also be multiplied rapidly by cuttings.
using bottom heat. In this way plants
can be secured for hedge-planting with
out waiting for stock plant to leach
bearing age. We send by express two
plants to each applicant; 25c.
Caper Bush ( Capparls splnosa ). It Is
possible that the production of the
"capers" of commerce, which are the
pickled flower-buds of this plant, may
become one ot our minor agricultural
Industries. The plant is a free bloomer
with us from June to October; the flowers
are strikingly beautiful and the foliage
attractive. It is of low habit, and plants
should be set at least six feet apart.
Three plants to each applicant by ex
press; 25c. r Larger quantities can be
furnished at cost of packing to those
desiring to plant for trial on a commercial
scale.
English Oak ( Querous robur, var. pedun
culata ). Each year furnishes additional
evidence of the exceedingly rapid and
satisfactory growth of tlds tree In Cal
ifornia. It can be earnestly commended
for planting in most parts of the state,
both upon lawns and In forest planta
tions. One-year-old trees by express,
Ave to each applicant; 23c. Young trees
should be guarded from gophers, squir
rels and cattle all these animals eat
them greedily.
The average production of corn Is
about twenty-four bushels per acre. But
for the production ot the fodder the
corn crop would not be profitable.
The Riverside Press says southern Cal
ifornia needs 3000 milch cows and 10,000
laying hens, much more than she wants
eastern tourists, new railroads or a sep
arate covernment. And we say if the
government would loan farmers, who
want the cows, nens anu many outer
things, the money necessary to supply
the needs, at the price it loans to bankers,
exempt from all tax, at one per cent per
annum, the new railroads, etc, would
not lonir be wanting, xaae sne usurer
off the laborer's back and he will lack
nothing In the way of prosperity. JK.X.
erv few people are aware of the fact
that the Jananese persimmon, when
drlo. is one ot the most delicious fruits
Imaginable, inoee wno are acquaiuteu
with this fruit know that it must be fully
ripe when picked, otherwise the flavor
wui not be wnat it snouia. dui um per
fectly ripe persimmon is difficult of
handling without damage, and therefore
a considerable loss is apt to result. Ex
periments made, however, show that the
Japauese persimmon may be dried as
readily as a fig. Chronicle.
A War Cloud.
It Is reported from Washington that
seven vessels will be added to the revenue
marine force in Behrlng sea the coming
season, and that they will be armed and
eauipped to seize British poachers and
hold them against any British war ship
which may attempt to retake them
From New York comes the report that
before the sealing season opens
United States will have twenty-three
ships, 3000 men and 118 euris on tha P
clfic eoiist. -
SoJuabury
.assured . Ca.' "ihina
Current Betua.
A FIGHT WITH INDIANS.
' t jriit eristic I'lee of ltitl.kla Treach
ery. The Indians In Dakota who had re
treated to the Bad Lauds to await the
coming ot thol promised rehabilitation
In the spring have practically all sur
rendered.
When Big Foot's band were overtaken
by Major Whitesldo'a cavalry on upper
Wounded Kneo week, Dec 29, they pro
fessed a desire to surrender and came
forward, wraptmd In their blanket, and
sat down, surrounded by the troops.
Suddenly the Indians threw off then
blankets and rose, rlfUs In hand, and
began firing on the soldiers at close
range. Thu soldiers soon returned their
Qre Riid the Indian ran, pur4ud by the
soldU rs, vho shot them down as they
ran. They were B-tou sc 'Attired and hld-
de.i In the roat'h lauds, bat the soldiers
kept up their hunt as long as a live red
skiu could be found.
It Is reported that 116 dead Iudlaus
and forty dead squaws were found. The
squaws ran about with scalping knives
during the tight, killing wounded soldiers.
C plain Wallace, twenty-live men ot
Seventh Cavalry aud one Indian scout
were killed; Lieutenant Garlingtop,
Seventh Cavalry; Lleutei.ant Hawthorne,
Second Artillery, and thirty-eight men
were wounded, many of the wounds
being severe. Hospital Steward Pollock
was killed.
The same day, while the seventh and
ninth cavalry were returning from the
scene of the right a band of Indians
undt-r Two Strike, who had broken away
from Pine Ridge agency when they heard
of the lighting, attacked the wagon train
which was following the cavalry. The
troops turned back and killed thirty of
them. Cue soldier was killed and two
wounded. That any of the altacklBg
Indians escaped alive is doubted.
At latest accounts there were believed
to bo 4 too hostiles in the Bad Lands and
General Miles had them surrounded and
was parleying with them with a view to
their peaceful surrender aud the yielding
up of their arms.
Jan. 5 the iiostlies lay, sullen and ugly.
apparently fully determined on war, as
on the day previous, when a messenger
took them a letter from Miles summon
ing them to a conference they tore it
up and replied r "We want no treaty;
we eame here to fight." Miles was con
centrating all available forces In a cor
don around the Indians, to prevent, if
possible, the escape of marauding bands.
father craft, a Catholic missionary
who was thought to have been fatally
stabbed on the Wounded Knee, is re
covering. He explains the situation as
it has been explained in these columns.
He says: "General Crook brought them
hova In their despair. His death, they
felt, was their death-blow. The reduction
of rations IncreaseJ their fears. It Is
not to be wondered at I hat thy believed
n the mcwslah. Interested whites took
advantage ot this state of affairs and
howled for troops. The army indignantly
protested against the false statements,
but had to go to the seen of supposed
danger. The Interested whites persuaded
the Indiana that their entire destruction
was aimed at, and the Indians ran away
In fear and despair. Juts calmed them
and I brought them back to the agency.
and the kindness of General Brooke con
vinced them of their safety. The Gen
eral's plan to send Indians after those
still out was good, and would have suc
ceeded it the General were left alone.
Just as a tree can be traced from its
smallest branch to Its root, so can the
Indian troubles be traced to the starva
tion and misery of the Indian.1. " In
conclusion Father Craft arraigns Com
missioner Morgau iu severe terms.
The three companies of the first in
fantry who went a few weeks ago from
San Francisco have been sent to the
front. The Nebraska National Guard is
also on active duty.
A BATCH OF MURDERS.
Four Men Killed and a Fifth Wounded
in New Mexico.
The holidays have been fruitful ot
horrible murders all over central and
southern New Mexico. -First
came the murder of Simpllo Mar
quez by D. L. Tiles in Valencia county
on Christmas morning. Tiles went to
Marquez' house, called him out and.
without caase or provocation, shot him
In the abdomen. Marques died instantly,
A few miles from the scene of the above
crime in the same county in the evening
an enemy ot Irenco Chave3 called at his
resldeuce and asked him to lake a walk
An assassin was concealed near by, and
as Air. (juaves and nis enemy passed a
shot rang out In the air and the enemy
fell over, mortally wounded, but before
expiring he said:
"My brother-in-law has killed the
wrong man. Bring me some water."
In Albuquerque Christmas day a quar
rel occurred over a dinner that had been
prepared, and Samuel ucuowan was
stabbed to death by James Mullen, the
cook.
Frauk Sperling, the Magdalena dry
gtodi merchant, discharged an employe
for stealing a sack ot flour. The fellow
acted suspiciously, and on the night of
Dec. 27, with two " pals, " secured an
entrance to the store after the clerks
had left, and found Mr. Sperling was
alone In the office. He was struck on
the back of the head with an iron bar.
and ell to the floor with his scull crushed
The assassins then took a keen-edged
knife and cut tho neck from car to ear.
The Mexicans were arrested.
Dec. 31 Deputy Sheriff Hubbell shot
W. G. McCormlck at Albuquerque. Mc
cormick's legs and arms are paralyzed
Kn forcing Prohibition.
One of the largest liquor cases ever
heard in the courts ot Vermont has just
b en completed In Windsor county, Jus
tice Thompson of the supreme court pre
siding. The respondent, George F. Kib
llng ot Norwich, t.K was engaged In the
liquor trade at Hanover, N. H., until he
was driven out by the Dartmouth college
overseers. He then opened a liquor shop
in Norwich on the Vermont shore of the
Connecticut river, at the end of the
bridge connecting the two towns. The
college overseers- did not propose to be
beaten by this Yankee trick, and they
moved upon Sibling and his rum shop
so vigorously that in the trial that has
Just closed over 1000 offenses were proved J
The Jt' , however. oorprT"' " "
Qlmteral Betas,
General Spinner Is dead.
Canada wants to buy Alaska.
KliigHke the historian Is dead,
Augusta, Ga had a $100,000 fire Dec 31.
An express train was robbed of tiooo
at Albta, la., Jan. 1.
M. A. Dauphin, nrettident of th
bin a lottery company, is dead.
The consolidation of the harvester com
panies lets out 10,000 employes.
Most ot the western Pennsylvania coal
miners have gone out on a strike.
Cattle coming into Vermont from Can
ada are quarantined at St. Albans.
The striking coal miners in Alabama
are suffering and appealing for aid.
The combined steel producers have re
duced prices and wages 19 per cent.
" Blind Tom ' has become a nauoer and
an Idiot and Is dying of consumption.
The national wlndow-ff'aas trust In
complete and prices will soon be ad
vanced.
The Illinois steel works at flm-iov.
losed down Jan. 1. throwinar 15J0 meu
out of work.
The Missouri Farmers' Alliance la form
ing a co-operative factory to run against
tue narvesier combine.
There were but twenty-five more fail
ures in 1890 than in 1889, but the liabilities
were 41,ooJ,0lw greater.
Marshall. Field A Co. of Chicago hava
taken the McKlnley set into court to
test its constitutionality.
A severe drouth prevails over a lnnre
section of the wheat-producing states of
the upper Mississippi valley.
Scott Thompson's seven children at
Bay Creek. N. C were burned to deatn
In his house while he was at church.
Samuel Kerns was rertalrlnar a roof iu
Philadelphia Dec 30 when he trrasrmd an
e ice trie light wire and was Instantly
killed. -
Henry Lutz. 82 Tears old. has bees
arretted at Bethlehem, Pa, for murder
tug a whole family in Germany thirty
ears ago.
The Fifth-avenue theater la New York
uas been burned, together with Her
mann's theater and the rest of the block.
Loss $50.000.
James West, a schoolteacher, was frozen
death in Lincoln eountr. W V .
while on his way to his home to unnml
new year's day. -
John J. Reed has been sent to the Deo-
itentiary for seven years for tampering
with the switches on the New York Cen
tral railroad during the strike.
Dr. Blake White has a connmnHn.
cure In use in New York that is said to
be affecting patients in the Charity hos
pital as Koch's cure does in Bar it u.
The first conviction for rentlntr a hurnu
for immoral purposes in New x'ork oo
jured Dec 31. It was secured -bv the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children.
The Minnesota Farmers Allianra In.
dorses the Conger lard MIL condemned
oy tee national alliance, and ignores the
sub-treasury measure adopted by the
national body.
The Scottdale (Pa.1 rolling mill ami
pipe works and the Charlotte furnara
and coke works have shut down, throw
ing looo men out of work, and tho Frick
coke company has closed 13-j0 ovens.
White Caps at Mindletown. N." V saIta.!
Roswell Veruoy wnde he was visitirg a
young lady the other ev nlng, bound
him aud carried bun off. leaving hint ia
a suow bank, where he would ban
froaen to deatn 'had he not been acci
dentally discovered.
Extensive robberies of the mall hun
been complained of in New York and
Brooklyn and George Huttlemaier, 19
years old, has been arrested in Brooklyn
with stolen letters containing paper
wor a $300,000 in his Dockets. He bad
stolen it from letter boxes.
John Corbert. Frank Bennett niul
Henry Feathers tone locked the assistant
cashier of the Merchants' Exchange
bank, in Chicago, into the safe at noon
Dec 22 and went off with $15 JO lu money
and some deeds and mortgages, but they
"ure iuruwu mu captureu.
Thomas Labelle, the "klnar of ooium
smugglers," has been discovered driving
laundry wagon in laeoma and arrested
on a Jeffersonvllle, Iud indictment. He
is wealthy and has been in hiding two
years, since be escaped from officers bv
jumping through a car window in Mich
igan.
Hungarian strikers. 210 stronsr. attacked
1C0 men who had refused to strike at the
Edffar Thompson steel works at Hra1-
dock, a., Jan. 1, and seriously, if not
fatally, injured lour men and inflicted
smaller Injuries on a dozen others. The
iuu worxmen unauy drove the 2 strikers
irom me worxs.
FOREIGN.
Gladstone is 81.
Germany has recalled Emiu. -
Manv deaths bv freezing are renoi-ted
In Austria.
Mexico has removed "'the duty from
American corn.
THe Baring Brothers lost all thev had
tu lu8 recent crasn.
Two thousand colliers have struck at
Alertuyrtydoil, Wales.
The stokers and coal trimmers at Ham
burg are out on a strike.
A family of five persons frozo to death
near Cambridge, Lag, Jan. 2.
The Spaniards have burned all the
missionary buildings on Ponape.
ine bnerprooxe ( uue. I ras works ex
ploded Jan. 1, killing two employes.
There are cases ot smallpox in Guate
mala and the Indians are beinjr vaccin
ated by force.
The Glasgow railroad strikers could
not noia tneir own. xneir places were
too easily rilled.
Jews in Russia are forbidden to lease
real estate or reside outside the Jewish
sections of cities. . - ,
The Spanish cortes has been dissolved.
A new one will be elected Feb. 15 and
will meet aiarch a.
A fire started at the corner of Oueen
Victoria and Thames street, London, Dec
30, and destroyed four blocks. Loss,
$'i,uuu,uuv. .
Parnell insists on the resignation of
Justin McCarthy from the leadership as
a condition of his on retirement until
be marjies Aire, u shea.
Poor people are freezing to death in
southern Scotland and northern England
ine s t fixes nave run tne price ot coal
up beyond their reach. . , .
Famine bas devasted eastern Soudan
whole communities havtnar starved to
death. Rats, mice, lizards and the bodle?
of the dead were eaten.
An effort is being made ty the German
government to stop the emigration of
German Poles to Brazil, which has as
sumed great proportions.
Pierola. the leader of the Peruviana in
their war with ChilL seized fort Kant
Catalipa at Lima Dec. 3 and attempted
revolution, whico. was quickly quelled.
Lord Dononghmore Is to build a rail
road from La Paz, the Bolivian capital,
to Lake Titlcaca, giving rail and 6teamer
communication with the Peruvian port
of Mollendo.
During a new year's entertainment at
Wortley. Eng., a string of Chinese lan
terns fell, setting fire to the clothing of
a bevy of girls, twenty of whom were
badly burned, four fatally.
J. Tuttle of Petaluma lost 100 chickens
by a coyote who would not take his
poison untu ne pnexeo some Into the
ens of a fresh egg Jan. 1 and killed his
tormentor.
A. Wekspron accused a neighbor named
Raab of getting Mrs. Wekspron drunk
on wine near Guerneville and srave him
a thrashing and Raab fi'ed four ineffec
tive snots at r aaspron.
Amateur cracksmen bored tnt fha .,ra
of W ells, Fargo A Co. at Guerneville but
were unable to open It. They would have
niaue a men uaui u tney naa, lor there
- r it, at, to"
STORIES OF ERICSSOM.
Ha Lined to Poke the Fire So Wall
Bought Dozmmi of Poker.
Ra
t
Ericsson never changed his style cf :
dress from the clothing which be-worT -when
he landed iu this country to the "
time ot his death, lie wore woollen .
kniited underclothing1 and very long j
tucking, which were ucarlr.- fef jt :"
inch thick, both Hummer and winte"J -and
when fits friends went through the'
house after his death his clothing wai '-.
found rolled up in email bundles, each' I
n -lab led with its contents and .
m-ed awar in a number of small
bx-ki-r he i-ad in bis room. II al-
bitted no one to interfere with hi
clothing and was most methodical la
diking care of it.
The ease of a fellow conn try man of
his who was in distress came to his
ar nearl.r twenty years since, and haL
instantly helped "the man rut of hkjf
trouble. Subsequently tie found ost
tli.T. the man's birthday fell on the same
date as his own. He made no memor
andum either of the mau's name or ad
dress, but every year he drew a check
for $100, which he sent on ev ry an- i
niversarjr of Ida birthday to the poor I
stranger, and the stubs of these checks I
were found among hia papers. ,i
He was careless in money matters. '
according to the Boston G7oe,a!tbouzh
a g-ood business man in many ways.
His secretary tued to notify him when
his bank balance was setting low.
when he would dictate a letter to the
government or to Sir. De la mater for a
remittance oa account of royalties du
him. although be never troubled about
their payment except as be needed the
money for current expenses. ;
Ericsson had a habit of poking th
fire in hi Wg op-n-fire grate when h
was luiurtiog out some austrute prob
lem. ' He wore out so many fire irons
that for many years before his death he
u-eil to order pokers of wrought iron
a!mt five feet lon with which he
would pound the tire and prate till the
poke! wore away by being constantly
kept in nse while at white heat.
Ixnijriit them by the dozen at a time.
and when he was siek. shortly before
hU death, bis physicians ordered him
to take broth, corn starch and othei
I'ght fooxL
lie immediately ordered two dozen
woollen spoons, and weald sit over the
stove stirring' his food himself until the
iMMiii got what he considered too old
for use. when he would throw it away
aud lake a hew one
SEVEN WONDERS OF COREA.
All Product t Karar Kxerpt a Drop of
BHlha' 8..t
Corea. like the world of the ancient.
has its -sevea wonders," says the St.
Loui Iltpub ie. Briefly stated they are
as follows:
1. A hot mineral spring; near Kia
Sliintao. the hettling properties of
which are believed to be miracuioos.
No matter what disease may afflict
V:r. jmtient- a dip in the water proves
eflicaeiou.
2. Two springs situated at consider
able distance from each other; in fact,
they hare the breadth of the entire
peninsula between them. They have
two eculiarities. When one is fail -the
other is always empty; and, not-wilhst.-tmlinsr
the obvious fact that they
are connected by a subterranean pa-
sage, one is of the bitterest bitter, and .
the other pure and sweet.
3. 1 be third wonder is (Joid V iaa
cave, a cavern irom wnicn a wintry
wind perpetually blows. -The force of
the wind from the cars is such that
strong man can not stand before it.
4. A forest that can not be eradi
cated. No matter what injury is done
to roots of the trees, which are large
piuea, they will sprout tip again direct
ly like the Phoenix from her ashes.
' 5. The fifth is the most wonderful .
of the seven national cariosities of the
peninsula. It is the famous "floating
stone." It stands, or see ens to stand,
in front of the palace erected in its
honor. It is an irregular cube of
great bulk. It appears to be resting
on the ground, free froan supports oa
all sides, but, strange to say. two men
at opposite ends of a rope may pass it -under
the stone without encountering .
any obstacle whatever!
6. The sixth wonder is the "hot
stone," which from remote ages has
lain in glowing white heat on top of a
hirh hiU.
The seventh and last Co re an wonder
is a drop of sweat of Buddha. For
thirty paces around the large temple
in which it is enshrined not a blade of
grass will grow. There are bo trees t
or flowers inside the sacred square, s
Even the animals decline to profane
spot ao uoiy. -
. Palaces of Various Kind.
Away back in the misty past, when 5
the porcelain-makers of China com-
bined and erected their famous "pal- ?
ace of porcelain, they little thought of f
the .example they were setting for
coming generations. The ice-bound -
Russians first took the hint and erect- - ;
ed the first of the ice palaces" aa
example followed by MontreaLQaebec,
St. Paul, and other boreal Americas j
cities, who thought to boom their pros- , -pects
by advertising the fact to Che 9; ' v
worid at large that they were situated -within
the circle of the shadow cast by " t,
the north pole. With a more practical ,
eye to business, the people of the south -erected
the "cotton palace" at New"
Orleans, followed closely by the "corn
palace"1 at Sioux City, Iowa. Since '
the last-named nnique erection "pal- .
aces" have sprung np all around, lilr
toad-stools in damp weathar. N!.
bra ka has her "sugar palace, ; Cre. -ton.
Iowa, her "hav nalaoe. PW
Col., her "mineral palace, OttumV
Iowa, a "coal palace, and last f
not least the "flax palace at
City, Iowa. If this "palace ba.
is carried much farther we may
expect to hear of a "gold palace . .
Wall street, an "oyster palaee on-
shores of the classic Chesapeake, or a
yam palace" in Georgia. St. Loui
Republic
"Wet Feet. . d r "
How often do we see people trampr
ing about in the mud. with she
soaked through; and how often do sir
people when they return home sit di
by the fireside and permit their feet -dry.
without changing either stockir
or shoes. Cau we then wonder at I
coughing and barking and rheomab
ami inflammation wV"--y'--:
doctors to ride in thf.y : .-i
feet most commonly prooV- -of
the throat and lungs, anc
diseases have once taken
house ia on fire." danger y -therefore,
every one. ..-f ?
heal tli v, onght to ,
feet. -V. i. '
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