Lebanon Express.
FI1IDAY, MAY 24, 1886.
STATE AND COAST.
Taken From Our Enhances Through
out the Norlhwetl. .
Indcpendence'sannual rose fair
will be held June 13 and 14.
W. W. Weatherford is hauling
8W sacks of wheat to Arlington
The Roaeburg Plaindeahw . it
against baseball game-on Decora
tion day. ...
Claude IieMaiterr iud : A, H.
Malaney will soon start a newspa
per at Ocean Park," one of the new
coast resorts. : . 1 -
Farmers in Umatilla county
have quit plowing, because of dry
weather, and growing vropt are
said to be badly uv need of more
moisture.
For a college town Corvallis
seems to be remarkably . wicked,
judging from the crusade against
vice being carried on by the Times
and Gasette. '
One of the results of the late
Pendleton fire was a; fight between
Chief EU and ex-Chief Howard, be
cause of the severe sriticism of the
fira department by Howard.
Julio Whiteakar's . farmhouse,
eight miles from CoryallU, was
burned Monday ef last week. It
wh worth nbout 1800. Kk. Had-
iuy, who occupied the' house, lost
about $150 werth Jif tnrniture.
John Whiteaker of Benton Co.,
reports the presence on the balds
of hia wheat of 4ue grain aphis'
arch enemy, arej iysent in large
numbers. John Porter, of the
fame county, makes . a similar re
port. :
' fiarns belonging to George 0.
Yoran and W. W. Williams were
destroyed by fire fn Eugene Thurs
day of last week. Mr. Williams
also lost a carriage. The ' fire
caught from the boiler of a steam
woodsaw.
The entire plant of the Scott
mills, owned by John Scott, in
Marion county, has been destroyed
by fire. The loss is $3000, there
being no insurance. Included in
the loss wis 8000 feet of dressed
lumber.
In the vicinity of the Warm
nprines reservation crickets are
becoming quite numerous, and
the Indian farniers are fearful that
this year will only be a repetition
of former ones, when their crop
have been entirely destroyed by
these insects.
Miss idu (Jannnn. living near
Grass Valley, was tiding in a hack,
leading a horse, on the 10th, when
the animal became frightened, pul
led back, and as the rope was twis
ted around Miss Cannon's wrist,
'. phe was pulled over the back of the
I sent. The wrist was dislocated,
and Miss Cannon was badly
bruised.
, The warm Spring Indians of
T Wasco county, who are members of
the W. C. T. U sent to the con
vention at Roseburg a banner
wrought with beads on tanned deer
tkin, with legendary symbols ex
pressive of native ideas of temper
ance. They are, "Pipe of Peace,"
within the coils of a serpent, and a
tomahawk. - ,!
A letter from the assistant com
missioner nf the general land office
to Kepersentative Ellis conveys the
information .that the herding or
pasturing of sheep is prohibited in
' the Cascade range forest reserve, as
being considered injurious to the
herbage and undergrowth. The
Dalles Chronicle thinks this will
be a blacker eye to the sbeep in
' ' mistry than was the removel of the
tariff.
Jacob insman, who- mysteri
ously disappeired two years ago
from his home in Dilley, has just
been heard from in Germany, and
the skeleton that was found a few
mouths since at Scholl's ferry,
though to be hie, belong to tome
one else. At the time of hi disap
pearance a thorough search was
made for him. He was last seen at
Ilillsboro. As he had some money
it was supposed he bad been rob
V:i k-'I mtudwtd or ihUitl
' AT UtST . -
Sow Oar or slbar U orosa will be llfMd,
Btaeatk vale uu victim aaa Journeyed w
knt;
g Say or stber the Hue that Is rtfted
Stall aMtody vain la toe ononis of eons.
Some flay or other the hopes early perished
bball rise Into beauty undreamed ot before:
Some day or other the hearts (o&dly ehcr-
Isaed.
The loot and Um loafed-for, the gravoaluilt
reetore. a 't .: -
3ome day or ether the double which have
haunted .
Shall all badlepelled la the light ot Bla face:
Sodm day or other tho toes who have daunted
vanquished shall be through tho atlghs
ef&ioarsce.. .
a)ooie4ay or other the toll shall be ended,
rise aaaai aaraat, the vague Taanuaf he
Htkaase tw Bias who that safely hath
tOBOOSV
The saBsasta ahaU try. "It Is Hoarse at
laail"
- A. KehHf , la Great Thoathla
PILIAR MOUNTAIN.
Remarkable Freak of Baaedtls
- Formation In Naradav
That eelearated mineral ledge, the
Coasatock lode, 1 located in a moun
tain region which is not only striking
ly 'picturesque, but which contains
many mineralogies! and geological
cvruamae, among; them what la local-.,
ly known as Pillar mountain. It .la
not mountain at all, but a curious
basaltic mound, rising from a eompara-,
lively tat dented tableland oa the
wast alone of Mount Davidson, the
towering peak which frowns down
upon Virginia. The mound, which it
tiUoup in shape, and perhaps three
hundred yards in length by titty in
idtli, is oompoaea of massive Desalt
pillars, which, generally speaking,
stand parnendlcularly on their basin in
a compaot, eymmetrioal body. At first
glaaa it look all the world like a
gigantle buneh or aaparagus.
una uianiu vauaewny in iruiasu, tow
Palisadce on the Hudson and Fiurral'a
Cat oa the Island of Staffa, off, the
cast of Bcothtnd, are famous for their
basaltic columns. Hilar mountain
psaacuca the same geological marvels.
Iteoadarooa columns are just aa won
dirful to behold and aa strildrur in the
InexpUoabU puullarity of their forma
tion.
FUlar mountain ia only a few miles
from Virginia, but few Comsteokcrs
know of its emtawe. and fewer still
a acquainted with It atraage char
acteristic. This ia probably due to
the fact that It stout of the way some
what, and oft the line of travel to
and from Virginia. A good road leads
'lmoat to the spot where its columns
.car their heads, and a drive of an
hour will bring the curious to it The
road by which it ia reached leaves Vir
ginia at the divide that Quarter of
the city which joins Gold Hill nnd
winds southward along the eastern
slops of the hill abutting against
Mount Davidson.
The irregular cluster of mountains
within which the mining camps of Vir
ginia and Uold Uill are situated Is com
posed of foothills of the Hierra Nevada
range, projected at an angle to tho
south and then spreading to the east.
On the west and south the cluster is
eneiralad by a curving vallay which
divides it from the mother range. The
upper half of this is known as Washoo
valley and the lower as EaRle valley.
On the east the group is separated from
the foothills of the Toyabee range by
toe Carson river, which 0ows eastward
through Eagle valley and winds to the
north along it eastern base, final h
swinging sharply to the east again
when it got abreast of Virginia. After
the river turns to the east at tho
latter .point it crosses the southern
ueck of a white, fiat, gleaming stretch
of sand known a the Twenty-Bix-Uil
desert, whose shimmering bosom
extends to the north till it disappears
beyond the northeast extremity of the
cluster. It will be seen by the fore
going description that these moun
tains are isolated from their neighbors
on aU aide but the north. High in the
heart of them are Virginia and Gold
Uill, the former clinging to the east
side of Mount Davidson in a cup-shaped
depression and the latter strung along
the upper end of Gold canyon, which
strikes off from the mountain in a
southeasterly direction and twists and
tome until it reaches the Carson river.
The road to Pillar mountain passes
under the brow nf a peak, surmounted
by a tower-like mass of stone. The
moral monument on the peak is known
locally as Hnicide rock, and history at
taches to It a very tragic episode which
occurred in the early days. It was in
the Wis or the "70s, perhaps, history is
not exact, that three miners were liv
ing together in a eabin in Gold canyon.
They had a claim among them, so the
story goes, which yielded very gener
ously of dust, and in time they accumu
lated considerable of the yellow stuff.
Hue day they played cards for money,
and in s short time one ot them had
nearly all of their combined wealth
Toward the end of the game the otlici
two discovered that he had been client
ing and resented it with an angry pro
test, whereupon he drew his revolve!
from his pocket, ruthlessly shot them
both, and fled from the eabiu. One of
that lived long enough to tell the
tale, and the population turned out en
tnaaas to search for the murderer.
They guarded all the trails from the
locality and searching parties scoured
the hills. He had taken to the moun
tain side and he found bis way to 8ni
eide rock. From his eyrie on the rock
he could see the country round, and he
concluded that escape was impossible,
for, on the third day after the murder,
the searchers heard a pistol shot and
saw a ring of blue smoke curl upward
from the rock, and upon investigating
his hiding place they found his dead
body, With a bullet hole in his head,
lie had killed himself rather than be
taken alive, and the tragedy gave the
rock its name.
The gradual ascent of the road as it
beads to the south finally bring it to
asaddlebaok OB the breastbone of the
Burantaiu. over which it passes to the
wwt tie lh " sMo of the mourn
skirt thoir flanks till tho rearof Mount
Davidson is reached; then it lifts to
the plateau upon which Pillar moun
tain is located. The plateau projects
from .the mountain midway between
the base snd summit of the latter, Its
surface Is Irregular, and the big bunch
of basalt shoots Its ashen columns fifty
feet into the nir from anearthou mound
on its highest spot, Tho bnsultlo de
posit is in tho shape of an ellipse, ami
is very regular in ita eonBtruetlon.lt
lias the appearance ot having been
thrust up through the earth by an In
ternal convulsion, and its gray pillars
contrast oddly with the surrounding
hillo, which nro sandy, overgrown with
sagebrush and dotted with an occasion-
kal scrubby pine. The blackened, gray
stones ere radically different in aspect
and formation from the ledges of quarts
and granite which come to the surface
in broken aeams here and there.
In the main the basaltic columns
stand side by side so closely that at a
distance the mound, from some points,
looks like a mass of solid stone marked
from base to apex with regular paral
lel lines All the upright pillars, even
where occupying re(ular porpondlcular
postures, are separated into segments
bv cnwka which traverse them hori
zontally. The segments are from six
to fifteen feet in length, and the whole
segmented column approximates six
ty feet. As the compact points
of the mound are approached the ex
terior columns arc observed to incline
inward at the top, which gives them
the semblance of strips of stone over
lying each other.
The mound has something of the ap
pearance of a great oblong amphi
theater, with crumbling walls where
the eolumns havo broken away and
fallen outward to Its base. At tho
places where the columns are broken
they He in confused masses or rear
their colossal heads singly at various
angles. It is at these places that the
ponderous nature and the symmetrical
proportions of the eolumns nro dis
played to the greatest advantage. They
are principally hexagonal in shape, al
though many three-sided, four-aided
and five-sided examples are in evitlcnce.
Borne of the broken and displaced col
umns standing upright, alone or in
groups, have the appearance of huge
monuments, and a man standing be
side them Is dwarfed into Insignifi
cance. Most of them weigh many tons,
The observer is chiefly impressed by
their massiveness and clean-cut sym
metry. They look as if thoy had been
carved by giants out of the solid rock,
and It is difficult to eonceive how na
ture could have molded them wlthsuch
regularity and precision.
it is now a generally accepted theory
of geologists that basalt is of volcanic
origin. It is composed of three dis
tinct elements; iron oxide, pyroxinc
and feldspar or some kindred composi
tion. When feldspar is a component it
is called fcldspathio basalt; when that
element is replueed by an affinity it
takes the name of the auinlty. Miner
als occur in basalt, as shown by analy
sis, but their presence is due to the per
colation of water through the basalt
alter us formation. The aouut con
nected with the origin of basalt springs
from the water which analyses have
proven it to contain.
Borne geologists have claimed that if
it were of voloanio origin the water
would have been expelled while it was
in a molten Btato in the course of the
eruption which brought it to the sur
face. This view has been overruled,
however, by other students of geologic
conditions, who point out that steam
and hot water are otten cast up by
volcanoes, and that basalt is sufilcicut-
lv com imc t to have resisted the ex
pansive force of the steam imprisoned
within it.
On the top of Pillar mountain there
is a cavity or depression with an earthy
bottom, which several local wiseacres
of a geologic and scientific turn of
mind have pronounced the crater of a
volcano. The shape of the depression
and the character attributed to the
rocks lend color to the theory.
Basalt either occurs in the form of a
dike or tn horizontal sheet The po
sitions of the columns vary according to
the character of the deposit When it
is in the form of a bed the columns are
erect. In the dike formation they are
horizontal.
The regularity of form displayed by
the columns is accounted for by a
theory resting upon Impeded contrac--ou.
When mud dries out a network
of cracks appears on its surface. In
vestigation reveals that the shapes in
the mud are genorolly hexagonal, and
show the operation of a governing
y force which determines their form. In
theory this principle controls the for
nation of basaltic columns. The theory
may be correct and simple enough, but
tho uniform shapes of the columns
never fail to strangely impress the lay
mind, notwithstanding, Ban Francisco
Chronicle.
The Ortttc Confounded.
A practice to which a large number
of men conform is not lightly to be
found fault with, for it is generally
based upon a good reason, of which the
critic is ignorant Coleridge, the poet
and philosopher, was once floored by a
Jew, a pedftler of old clothes, whom he
ventured to criticise for abbreviating a
word. The Jew had annoyed Cole
ridge by passing him. several times,
crying for old clothes in the most nasal
tone. At last, the philosopher was so
provoked that he said to the peddler:
"Pray, why can't you say 'old clothes,'
as plain as I do now?" The Jew
stopped, looked gravely at his critic,
and in a clear, grave accent, answered:
"Sir, I can say 'Old clothes' as well as
you can, but if you bad to say so ten
times a minute for hours together, you
would 'Och elo' as I do now." lie
walked away, but Coleridge was so
moved by the justice of the man's re
tort that he followed him andgavehlm
a shilling, the only one he had.
Youth Companion.
A Wise .;Precantion.;- tfhe "Oh,
Charlie, I bought you box jyf lovely
cigars to-daj, of .ray own selection."
Ue "Thank you, love. Did you get
ilfe iiimiraua paUsy t f wit) jlfx
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County Court for Una County, State of
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