The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, January 25, 1895, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextLebanoii Express. FRIDAY Jan 18, 1885. STATE AND COAST. Taken From Our Eichingea Through, out the Horthwut. The local excitement at Nehalem ia a sheet and pillow-case ball. Farmers of West Chehalom com ii':iin of many sheep being killed by dogs. Marion county commissioners Imve reduced bounties for wild ani mals one-half. Application has been made to the Pendleton city council for a telephone exchange franchise. TheLostiue Flouring Mill com nanv has been incorporated, and citizens of that place are subscrib ing the stock. The Southern Pacific will build a hope warehouse at Salem 40x100 feet. Last season 8240 bales were shipped from that point. A tew days ago John Wyatt killed thirteen skunks, young and old, near Corvallis, and still is not quar antined by his neighbors. The Hillsboro mill has filled an order for nineteen cars of rolled oatB the past month, and has an other order for seven more. Albany has taken hold of the creamery matter in a business way and appointed committees to re port rt a meeting January 23. Thomas O'Leary has secured a judgment for $50G0 against the Pu gct Bound & Alaska Steamship company for damages, at Seattle. It is reported that Colonel Jay P. Lucas, county clerk of Gilliam countv, will resign his office in Marcjit- and remove to Monmouth. The' Tacoma Poultry Associa tion's first annual show began in that citv Tuesday with more than five hund.ed birds on exhibition. Dr. Y. C. Blalock, rearing fire chief of W lla Walla, was presented with a cane by the members of Tiger engin company Monday night. ' Mrs. Caroline B. Showers died at Furest Grove January 13, aged 61 viirn. She came to Oregon in 1877 from Iowa, and was a native of Peunsy'vania. 4Vallowa county fat the privi lege of f.iotinR the bills of a legal contest growing out of a dispute alitiut ten cents in adjusting an ac count at Joseph. The highest water ever known in Dairy creek, Washington county, occurred a few day a ago. Portions of the Greenville and Centorville bridges were Swept away. J. A. West, superintendent ot the Bumpier Valley railroad, was severely injured Saturday by ft velocipede car on which he was riding jumping the track. News has been received in Ta coma from the East that Paul ' 8h ulwe has succeeded in placing $1,000,000 bonds of the jitu.i de ditch, in the Yakima .vuntry. The Newsboy's Union of Spokane has boycotted the Chronicle be caue it will not take back unsold papers at cost price. Everybody who buys one is to be listed as a . "scab." ' Deckhands of the stemar Hoag saw in the river near Half-Moon bend an object they took to be a human body a few days ago. It is surmised that it may have been the body of Pryor Scott. Hilda Johnson, a girl fifteen years of age, living at Olalla, Kit sap county, took strychnine Sun day morning, and diedintwn houre in great agony. She wanted to livs in Seattle if she staid on earth at ' a"- The peculiarties of the Chinook wind are linwn in the region south of The Dalles. All of the now on the lngli ground, from Th ridge to the Flue mountains, has dieup peaitd, while winter still reigns in t.e toner ultitudes, ; A petition being circulated ask ing t:- iisUtiirc to Appropriate 110,000 for a state wtfron rosd int the Bohemia minion dlatrkt. the nA Irt fun (mm tihm,m flraftV Ml . '- r- ' " j Frank usffoid'd iu FtlrVtew gapl j urn n fAiinit DOWN IN A CKATEll. Wonders Witnessed by tain Explorer. Moun- I.dfcui l)rnd f a, Piiimim Kitlset Vdl . mo In the Wet Strange Ant aaftla VoDd In tho Subter ranean CnTOrna. Crater mountain i one of the Uma tilla Indians' (Trent spook depots from unoient time, Bays the linker City Dem ocrat. Ihielts that, are now white with tho hoary frosts of many wintera reo olleot lianjrinir In tho trees tightly strappad to their mining' boards, while their mothers roamed the forests in search of gome for the lords of crea tion or wood for the tepee, and from infancy love to relate how the great spirit spoke to them with the awful voice ot terrific thunder in the bowels of the earth. Many are the stories and leirends of Indian lore told of Crater mountain. One of the favorite ones is told of a great war between the Shoshonea and Umatillas. When the Umatillas had conquered their foes they proceeded to slaughter old and young, regardless of sex. One beauti ful Shoshone maiden, seeing that death was inevitable from her pursu ing foes, plunged headlong Into the burning crater, and instantly the vol canic eruption ceased, much to the consternation of her pursuers, who on the following day found, on looking down the chasm ot inky darkness, a resplendent light with the form of the Shoshone maiden in the midst of the apparition. They told It to their dusky warriors and to this day Crater moun tain is looked upon with reverence from an Indian point of view. The following is from the diary of J. A. Wright; "Crater mountian is located some eleven miles from the Camp of Cornucopia, on the south side of tho range whose eaps are tipped with eternal snow. Many chasms and fis sures have in ithe misty past cleft the mountains and left them in the most fantastic shapes. Vegetation ceases to grow after a certain height is reached, and close under the base of one of the great peaks is the famous extinct vol cano. Ashes and lava are found in great profusion and in such indescrib able masses that it makes the ascent one of peril and great difficulty. How ever, once at the top, a peek down into the blank, fathomlessabyss supplies the most morbid minds with all the sensa tionalism necessary for a lifetime. A favorite amusement was to throw rocks down and listen to the sounds as they struck on the projecting sides of the dark chimnoy until the sounds died away, leaving nothing but for the mystified explorer to guess it had reached the bottom." Many have been the stories circu lated of the wonderful cavern that ex tended from the aides of the great ehimney, A Stout cable was provided and a basket swung from a pulley, lion. Joseph, with camera and note book, was carefully lowered some three hundred and seventy-eight feet, when he 'noticed an aperture in the side of the chimney, and, by signals agreed upon, a halt was called in ms downward career, and he crawled through a cleft in the great chimney, ,md the work of exploration began. The first sight that met his astonished raze was a most stupendous chamber, from whose mighty dome hung stalac tites of great beauty, which were en hanced by the light of the candle, and fairly struQk terror to his heart, as the nickering candle seamed to possess the power of some unseen hand that made millions of -the brilliant stalactites dance in resplendent beauty. A great snowy owl blinked at the astonished Joseph. The explorer groped his way to the far end of the chamber, where he thought he heard the sounds of falling water nor was he mistaken, for squeezing himself through an opening lie found himself in another chamber ot great beauty, with a stream of hot sulphur water running into the earth. The incrustation from the sulphur water had transformed the cavern into a coral-like substance and left it in such fantastic shapes. He found in the water some lively little lizards and some frogs that change color on the slightest provocation and two large rats, who eyed the explorer with a cu riosity that teemed to bode no good, and he longed for his little gun. Maw Terror for V reach Convicts. Life in the French penal colony at New Caledonia has been pictured as so agreeable, both by reason of the cli mate as well as the leniency with which convicts have been treated, that transportation seems to have lost most of its terrors. Criminals do not con ceal their preference for a long sen tence in the beautiful Pacific island to a much shorter term with hard labor iu one of the penitentiaries at home, and when perpetrating a misdeed have sought as a rule to render their offense as serioas as possible, so as to entail transportation if captured. It is with a view of putting an end to this senti ment that the French government has now decided to stop sending convicts to New Caledonia, and is making ar rangements to deport them instead to Gaboon, the fever-stricken and most pestilential of all districts of French Congoland in Africa. Thin ri Leariietl In the Monroe. The old keeper of the morgue in this city, who has seen hundreds of un known bodies exhibited for identifica tion, has arrived at some interesting conclusions, says the Philadelphia Eec ord. If the face of the dead person is perfectly composed and natural, of course, intimate friends or relatives recognize them immediately. But, he says, if the face is distorted through pain or disfigured by injuries, a casual acquaintance can identify the body tnuch easier than tho closest relation, lie explains this by saying that people Who have known a purson well for a long time loan sight of the features and sve rather the personality reflected in tlw lines of the face, A casual ao (jualnuoee Botes the features, and gen VII IU ,tltr wU' -3-iMi:bfllin. STRIPPED bV LIGHTNING. The Rtnrtiin? 1 jerlinro or n M mmna Alan, Vh RttU Survive!! tlio HMr!(, Chnrlesll. Hoffman, of Kittle. Mont,, wiis standing at tho .mouth i-. f a, mine not lorv? c.fro when ho 1 ;..:v. vl; by lifrh1r.ir.fr. ri'lit? tlnmiloriioi.. i, . liiiiks, tir:.t. s.;viL' tile i.t;v hut l.v. v. vmir iii? imd it tot-o u hole in t'm t tlint piuit of t'iui rim. 'liwv. it t :vi. his ct'uiiiug into idiri'ds nr.tl leii. iiim nuliml. ' tioth his overalls iirv.l Dim 'shirt he won wearing1 presented the nnpear tinee of having passed through n wui Ki,i mill. Nobody can tell him why ho was not kilted by tho lightning. The bolt, he says, it fter ptniM utf 1 hrouh hia hat, Btruek him on tho shouUov nnd ran tho full lentrth of his body, burn ing the skin touevisp on the oide nnd legs. It also cut bis left foot oh tho Hide and bottom, breaking the bones of the foot, "My clothes were torn to pieces nnd thrown from my body," suit! Mr. Hoff man to a writer for tho New York World, "and my shoes were torn from my feet." He became unconscious ns soon ns he was struck by the 'lightning and did not revive for an hour imil a half. When he regained his senses Huffman was In "rent pain nnd he was confined to the hospital for nine weeks. When Hoffman's clothing was examined after the accident it ras seen that in many places the lightning had cut the cloth as neutly as if it had been ilouo with a razor. Some of the cuts were long and straight. The lightning took his clothes off quicker than he could have undressed .himself, and il threw them in a pile on one side of the track, w'ith his shoes carefully deposited beside the pile. The clothes seemed to hnvu been neatly folded until they were exam ined and found to be a pile of rap's. Hoffman's "pants" had been yanked off him without the formality of p illing them over his feet. This seemlrrdy im possible tiusk was aeeo'.upiished by the lightning first cuttiuy eaeli leg open, and then itanpeared to have tak en them by the seat nnd dropped them on the ccat, and ti finish Uie job by depositing Mr. Hofi'man's straw hat on top of all. After it got. through with Hoffman this remarkable streak of lightning ran alonp1 a nietnl traclt into the (llenrrary mine, at the mouth of whieh he had been workin;;, ran to the end of the shaft, which is four hundred feet below the sm-faee of ttie frround, nnd then it ran along? a "cross c.i V two hundred feet where it branched off and for sixty feet followed a "winze." There were several men at work at this poiut,and all were more or les.i st n nned. The bolt of lightning went into the enrth when it reached the end of the "winze." Hoffman is now known in Kutte as "the human lightuing rod." SHAVING IN JAMAICA. It Is CaneUjr e Very Primitive Proceed ing. The natives of Jamaica have no need to buy soap, for the woods nljotmd in plants whose leaves and bulbs supply, very well the plaee of that indiciisu ble article. Amoii" the best of these is the sono tree, so called, though it is more a busli than a tree, its tun.inieai name is Phnlangium Pomci-idianum. Its bulb, when ruR'ed on wet clothes, makes a beautiful hither, which smells much like tho common brown sonp. The Jamaica uc;rroes. some of whom are great dandies in their way,' make a soap out of eocoamit oil and home made lye; anda fine soap it is, smootlr and frcfrrant. This cocoanut-oil soap is used for shaving. When a man wishes to shave in the morning he starta rmt with his cocoa-nut-shell cup and hisdonkey-tail brush and a bottle. It is never any trouble to find an empty bottle in Jamaica,, even in the mountain?. At luast twenty generations of thirsty peoplu have lived there, and thrown away the empty bottles. The man carries no mirror, because he has none to carry, Not one negro cabin in a dozea has even a cheap looking-glass. Dirt nature provides the mirror tin well as the soap. The man goes to a convenient pool in the moun tain stream, where the water is still, and there is his mirror. He breaks his bottle on a stone and picks out a good sharp piece. Then lie lathers his face profusely and begins to ccrape away with his piece of glass, which works almost as well as a sliarp razor. The men rarely cut themselves in the operation. "At first," suys a New York bun writer, "I trembled fin: them, but afterward I tried tho method myself, and soon became almost an cxpertat it," WORK WITHOUT PAY. Well-Known Aatlinn, Who Decline to Ac cept Hnnuy for Their WorkH. This is true of Count Lyof Klkol aievitch Tolstoi, the famous Russian author, who,' while in the army as a member of the staff of Prince Oorts chakoff, was present at the storming of Kebastopol in IfiSS. Leaving the army, and already a famous poet and novelist, he devoted himself to liter ature, and spent a short time in the most brilliant literary and social circles of tit. Petersburg, riinec his marriage ho has lived more or less in retirement, and during the Russian famines of 1801 and 1U3 made great ciforts on behalf of tho peasants on and in the vicinity of his estates. In the latter year Count Tolstoi resigned all social standing and privileges of his rank, and he now devotes most of his time and money to good works, while livin;; as poorly as any of tho peasan try. 11c iu-iists tliat the literal inter pretation of the Sermon on the Mount is the only rule of Christian life, tad he has oxpressly declined to avail him self of any copyright iu his works or in translations of them into other languagos. Dr. John Charles Hyle, bishop of Liverpool, has written above two hundred tracts on religious sub jects, many of which have been trans luted and reprinted In French, tier- i man, JJutoh, Portuguese. Helton, , Russian, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, illndostnnl, and Chineno, and it is said ,:uuv nu mu tuner uutniag irom n lf' M,'.tfc'rtttTO Slid will nraUe no J A FOREIGN INDUSTRY. We Use MUllom of Split Steel Rln(e, But Don't Alulce Any, .... "I've handled hud sold forty thou sand gross of split key rings since 1807," said the little man in nu over coat and a white sweater, "and not one of them was uf American make." "Why, how is that?" asked a New York Sun reporter. TVUeeauso tMtti Ve' nonVnTaTio tn4 this country,", replied the. little man, with a smile that lifted one' corner of his gray mustache, "po, slr.V he con tinued, "tho making of split steel rings is an nrt that we haven't got hold of yet, somehow, and I must say T often wonder at It." . , , . . "Where are thoy made, tben?" . "The best, sir, are made about fifty seven miles outside of Paris, at a little manufacturing town whose muuo f can't just now recall. The next beat rings are made In Sheffield, England, while rings of inferior quality, made from Swedish iron, are manufactured in Alsace. I dont know that the steel iu the French rings is any better than that used by the Sheffield manufac turers, but the Frenchmen in this, as In 0 many things, have got the hang of naldng their thiugs look well. Thr. iiefileld rings are polished with oil oul emery, and that gives them a dull . ieely look, while the French rings are polished by tho dry process, with what they call 'crocus powder,' a tort of coarse rouge." "What are the extremes in size of split rings?" the man was asked. "The smallest that I ever handled," lie replied, "were three-sixteenths of an inch across. Thoy are gilded when '.hey reach this country and are used in elieap jewelry. The largest key rings 1 ever sold were two and a half inches in diameter, and those 1 sold to the wardens at Sing Sing. In fact, they are called pri- on rings. That key ring with the two little knobs or bosses through which you slip the key, is niso a French manufacture, and indeed 1 have never seen an American key ring except .that clumsy little tiling whero you have to move around a small round double plate with a notch in it, nnd then spring out the open end of the ring through this notch. I must say," con cluded the little man, musingly, "I often wonder why wo don't nmko rings over here. Even now there's n forty-five per cent, duty on them, and they could be sold at half their present mice nnd still bring a good profit. Why, just think. 1 sell over one hun dred and fifty thousand rings a year, and there must be millions of them handled every year in this country." MACHINE-MADE SPEECHES. Tnraea Oat with Marvelous ltapldltj br a lieccnt Uuvllah Invention. There is no doubt that both the type writing machine and the phonograph arc very ingenious nnd useful Inven tions, but the chief difficulty with them, says, the New York Times, is that they cannot be made to act auto matically. It is in order to fill this want that a distinguished inventor, -.'!iosc name is for the present with held, has invented an automatic writer, and, judging from tho private exhibi tion of the machine which was recently given in London to a committee of members of the Royal society, it bids fair to prove the greatest invention of this or any ago. In appenranco the machine Is said to bo not wholly unlike 8 typewriting machine. It, however, is provided with' a sort of hopper, in which arc placed : blocks of type metal, each one of which is provided with a complete word, in-, .'end of a single letter. When this a pper is filled nnd the small electric ';u;;iiiO' which furnishes tho motive p owerqf the machine is set in action it! instantly begins to print. Of course,, .what is printed depends in a good de cree upon the selection of words which are placed in the hopper, but it Is un derstood the machine can be used foi almost uny sort of composition. At the exhibition already mentioned trie hopper was filled with a supply of words relating to the English political situation, and in ten minutes after the engine had been started tho machine had printed twcfull columns, each of about the length of an ordinary col uirin of a hownpaper. When these were read they were instantly rocogniz'cd to be a speech on home rule in thegencr.il style of Mr. Gladstone. The hopper was next filled with a choice selection of the very finest words in the lan guage, and the machine thereupon printed what was at once perceived to be an essay after the manner of Mr. Buskin on political economy. More words wero added and three pages of what any critic would have unhesi tatingly accepted on- a passage from a new novel by Mr. Meredith delighted the committee. The last experiment was mado with the hopper tilled with words taken from the Slang Diction' ary and the result was a story in dia lect which was hold to bo superior to almost any dialect story hitherto pub lished, : Alore Pathetic Than ilamorouii. An aged couple living south of l!ra2il,Ind., who had devoted their three scow; nnd ten to rural life and the. iirildng of ii farm, sold their posses- j;is for the snug sum of sixteen thou dollars. When the purchaser. caH-cd with a notary to close up the deal by tailing the deed of title, the .husband having .signed nnd passed ii to the wife, she positively refused to Mgn without a consideration, paying she had spent her life in making the farm, a 1 had never realhwd anything the c uld call her own and now was her oppor tunity. The husband failed to itvti .fy her nnd secure tho dgnature. Then the purchaser asked to know whnt she rould take and tign tho deed, fearful tlattshe would lio exacting beyond his inclination to comply. After a good dual of hooitoncy oho said she thought the ought to have two dollars, which i;o pr.aaptly handed her, nnd rho ; i :;;r;cd the title. She turned over tho ' Ih'jr dollars tiir.o and timij again, Jr.s 'dii? ever her pocd ImAiK Um soldi "'.Vm, v.'cil. tills is the l&t money 1 have uini In Ely life thft I aould f-U my owp ,m noniid kits oW'WeUii mi ii . m i , i. -.ii SAVE -By-. ,3u;ng Grockory, lood and JPlour, at . PEEBLER'S CASEGROCERY AND BAKERY. v- Cash P I Santa Academy Second Term Commences January 2, 1895. Normal, College, Preparatory, Business, Primary and : Music Courses. Circular Containing Full Information regrarding Tuition, Courses of Study, Text-Books, Etc., Cheer fu'ly IVTailtd on Application. v S. A. RANDLE, Principal, LEBANON, A. H. CRUSON Paper Hanging To Advertisers. If you wish to olituin the tat returns from vour nilvm'tifienimitB Don't Forget the important fact that The Lebanon Express will givo the desired roauHs, us it Is The Best Advertising Medium in Linn County. If you want jilinlm mailo anil havn't the money Boyd will take your pro duce. ELECTRIC TELEPHONE dpt4 n vry QmLMtwarMf IM lBM Ul kMHtMllaroiiMrth. 11 luu lad dm. MllaroiiMrth. innli Bawl. from to Id tM pr tfajr, ! Qat in a rMltltntw dmhi it mId to ll thl j RMghbnri. riiia lnfUuui(i.ti, no iojt, foJM Li Ml r pi aire, pHy aieiaiiot, uumpiiM, rmvxj taw 1 WHainii'j'i.. wuwuui up in ah ut.afl. Dan Mt nut. ui. liv un SBU. ....!HaHBif!gaiaj MONEY! Your ,. .Q.roorlgf-j,.. For Produce. 1895. OREGON. f v. and Gr.i jning East and South -VIA- THE SHASTA ROUTE. OF THE Southern Pacific Ci, ExpriM trains leave I'linlnnil dally: i'i:fi r. h. : l.v,..l'orilanl.. ,..Af. !:20a. li:2.l i'. m. I.V...A ll.nny.. ..Ar. 10:li A. U. 1 Ar.Kun l''r.llciCoI.V 4:!3. H 1 7:0 r. H TIh abnvt triiiiia to itt all HlalkmHlroiii Puttluhil bi AlliHny iiioliiaivci.lao'raiifiwl-, Klicilil, HtiNi'.v, liiirriftlmrg. Inaction City, Irvinp, HiiwMic ami all ntntiona from Huh Imrg tu Aaliluiid inclimivit. HoHt'biirg malldaily r h::',0a. m. VlAav. M, 6:150 P. H. I l,v..,Pnrtliiin75r. (.v... Albany.. ,,Ar. I Ar.UomburnLv. i-Mt.u. 12:S0r.M. 7:0O..K, Liu-til 811111I11V. pasmiuger trains dully .(mtopt liHr, M. S:UI1P. M. 8:10 A. 11. 0:1X1 A. H. I.v. A lbny..",r."i ft :8I a. m. Ar...l!liuiiiin..,.ilv. I.v... Albany.. H..t. Ar... !.aba null. ...Lv. :S0A.t t:26r.M. 2:119 r. N, Dining Cars on Cgdti Xoute. Pullman Bufrjt BtsmBs AND Reeond-Ckss Bleeping Ctrl At tached to all Through Truini. MVemt Bide Ilvllon. Botwiik Fobtunp aiis Coiviuu. Mall train dally (oxctpt Bundat)! 7:30 A. K. Lv...Porlind.,,An Ar. I U.J 12:16 T, H. Ar,,.(.'orvallH 1:00 . H. At Albanv and Corvalllt conatrtt ulth trains ot Oregon Pacific railroad. , . Kxpreea train dally (xc.4 Sunday): 73b p, H. 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