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About The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 27, 1901)
HI Jfa Doelor'$ perama By Hesba Stretton CHAFTEB IX. I took crt nt t reach honja bafora tha hour whin Jail usually waat to bad. It wii quit Ti to taluk f 1mb that night. I had idea worksd mjislf oo Into that itata o); nirroua, witlai agitatioa whaa on eanaot retrain qulatly la a roam. About on o'olock I opn4 7 door softly potilble tad itola al laatly Jowaittry. I Madam wai r ftrorlto mara, first rata at ftlioB Whan ih waa la food taropar, but apt to ura Tlcioui bow aBd th,a. Sha wM In food tanjpar oplgbt, and pr!o)4 ha sari aad wMantid whta I unlocked tha itabla door. la a Urn miuatts we were going op tha Qraagi road t a moderate pace till we Mlchfd tbe oea country, i It wm !, quilt Bight I May. A few ef tbe larpr Axed atari twinkled palaly la tbe aky, but the amallar onai were drowned la tbe foil moonlight, I turned oil the road to get nearer tbe ea. and rode along laudy lanei, with bauki of turf Instead of hedge rowa, which were corered thickly with pale prlmrosw, ehlnlng with the aame hue aa the moon above them. i Now and then I came la full alght of the tea, glittering la the illvary light. I eroaaed the bead of a gorge, and atoppsd for a while to gate down It, till my fiosh crept. It was not more tbaa a few Tarda In breadth, but It waa of unknown depth, and the rocki itood bov It with a thick, hear blackneaa. The tide waa rnahUag Into Ita narrow channel with a thunder which throbbed like a pulee; ret In the Intervale of lta puliation I could catch the thin, prattling tinkle of a brook ran 8 lag merrily down the gorge to plunge headlong Into the iea. I . Ai the iqn roie, dark looked very near, and the aea, a plain of aUrery bine, teem ed eolld and firm enough to afford nt a road ecroai to It. A white mlit lay like a huge anowdrlft In haay, broad currea orer the Havre Qoiielln, with iharp peaks of cllffi piercing through. Olivia WM ileeplng yonder behind that veil of ahlnlng mlitf and dear aa Guernaey waa to me, ahe waa a hundred-fold dearer. I . But my nlght'i ride had not made my day's talk any eaaler for ma. No bow light had dawned npoa my difficulty. There waa bo loophole for me to eacape from the moat painful and perplexing itralt I had ever beea In. How waa I to break It to Julia? and when? It waa Quite plain to me that tbe aooner it waa over the better It wonld be for myaelf, and perhapi the better for ber. How waa I to go through my morning' a calli? I reiolved to have it over aa aoon aa breakfast waa finlahed. Tet when break faat came I waa llatenlng Intently for aome aummona which would give me an hour'a grace from fulfilling my own de termination. I prolonged my meal, keep ing my mother In her place at the table; for the had never given np her office of pouring out my tea and coffee. ' I finished at last, and still no urgent message had come for me. My mother left ua together alone, aa her custom .;, for what time I had to spare a va r .'! quantity alwaya with me. ; waa the dreaded moment. But ho . was I to begin? Julia waa ao calm and unsuspecting. In what words could I convey my fatal meaning moat gently to her? My head throbbed, and I could not ralaa my eyea to her face. Yet It mast be done. ''Dear Julia,' I aald, in aa firm t voice aa I could command. "Yea, Martin." - But just then Grace, the housemaid, knocked emphatically at the door, and after a due pause entered with a smiling, significant face, yet with an apologetic courtesy. "If you please, Dr. Martin," ahe aald, "1 m very sorry, but Mra. Llhou's baby la taken with convulsion Ota; and they want you to go aa fast aa ever you can, please, air." Was I aorry or glad? I could not tell. It was a reprieve; but then I knew posi tively it was nothing more than a re prieve. The aentence mast be executed. Julia came to me, bent her cheek towards me, and I kissed it That waa oar usual aalutatlon when our morning's Interview waa ended. "I am going down to the new bouse," ahe said. "I lost a good deal of time yesterday, and I muat make up for It to-day. Shall yon be poising by at any time, Martin?" "Yea no I cannot tell exactly," I stammered. "If yon are pasalng, come In for a few minute," she answered; "I have a thou sand things to ipeak to you about." I waa not overworked that morning. The convulsions of Mra. Llhou'i baby were not at all serious. So I had plenty of time to call upon Julia at the new house; but I could not summon sufficient courage. The morning slipped away whilst I wai loitering about Fort George, and chatting caelessly with the officers quartered there. I went down reluctantly at length to the new house;, but it waa at almost the last hour. Doggedly, but alck at heart with myaelf and all the world, I went down to meet my doom. ! Julia wai sitting alone In the drawing room, which overlooked the harbor and the group of Islands across the channel. There wai no fear of interruption. It waa an understood thing that at present only Julla'i moat Intimate friends had been admitted into our new house, and then by apeclal Invitation alone. There was a very happy, very placid expression on her face. Every harsh line eemed softened, and a pleased imile played about her lips. Her dress waa one hT those simple, fresh, clean muslin gowna, with knots of ribbon about it, which make a plain woman almost pretty, and t pretty woman bewitching. "I am very glad yoa are come, nay dear Martin," ahe aald softly. I dared not dally another moment I muat take my plunge at once lato the Icy-cold watera. ' "I have something of Importance to aav to you, dear cousin," I begin. ' I aat down oa the broad window sill. Instead of oa the chair close to her. She looked np at that, aad fixed her eyea up on me keenly. I had often quailed be fore Julla'i gate aa t boy, but never aa I did now. "Weill what la It?" ahe aakad curtly. The lacislvenesa of her tone brought life lato me, aa a probe aometlmea brlaga t patient out of stupor "Julia," I aald, "are you u!U euro you love me enough to be nappy with aa at my wlfer "I know yoa well enough to be aa hap py at the day la long with yon," ahe re plied, the color rushing to her face. "You do not often look aa If yea loved me," I aald at last "That la only my way," ahe answered. "I can't be soft and purring like many women. I don't care to be alwaya klsa- ng and hanging about anybody. But if. tiiiii 1 1 1 1 1 1 .1 ii j it j j iti yon are afraid I don't love yea enough- well! I will ask you what you think in ten yeara time." "What would you aay if I told yoa I bad enoe leved a girl better than I do yaur' I asked. 'That's not true," ahe aald sharply "I've known yeu all your life, and you eould not hide such a thing from your mother and me. Yeu are only laughing at me. Martin." "Hoavea known I'm not laughing," I answered lolenjnlr; "It'i no laughing matter. Julia, tkire Ii a girl I love bet ter than you, even now." The color and the gniile faded out of her face, leaving it ashy pale. Her llpa parted once or twice, but her voice failed her, Then the broke out into a ibort hyaterioal laugh. "Yoa are talking nonsense, dear Mar tin," iha gasped; "you ought net! I am not very strong. Tall me It ia a Joke.' "I cannot" I reulled. painfully and sorrowfully; "it la the truth, though t wonld almost rather face death than own It. I lots yen dearly, Julia; but I love another woman better." . There waa dead silence ia the room af ter thou words. I could not hear Julia breathe or move, and I ceuld net look at her. My.eyei were turned towar'da the window and the ialanda across the tea, purple and haiy la the dlatance. "Leave me!" ahe aald, after a very loaf stillness; "ge away. Martin." "I cannot leave you alone," I exclaim ed; "no. I will not Julia. -Let me tell you more; let me explain It all. You ought to know everything now. "Ge away!" ahe repeated, in a mechan ical way. I hesitated atill, aeeing her white and trembling, with her eyei glassy and fixed, But ahe motioned me from ber towards the door, and her pale llpa parted again to reiterate her command. How I croased that room I do not know; but the moment after I had closed the door I beard the key turn In tbe lock. I dared not quit the house aad leave her alone In such a atate; and I longed ar dently to hear the clocki chime five, and the tound of Johanna's coach wheels on the roughly paved street. That waa one of tbe longest half hours In my life. I stood at the street door watching and waiting, and nodding to people who passed by, and who simper ed at me in the most inane faahion. The fools! I called them to myself. At length Johanna turned the corner, and her pony carriage came rattling cheer fully over the targe round atonea. I ran to meet her. "For heaven's sake go to Julia!" cried. "I have told her." . "And what doea ahe say?" aaked Jo hanna. "Not a word, not a syllable," I replied, "except to bid me go away. She haa locked heraelf Into the drawing room. ."Then you had better go away alto gether," ahe aald, "and leave me to deal ! with her. Doa't come In, and then I can lay you are not here." A friend of mine lived in the oppoalte house, and though I knew he waa not at home, I knocked at hla door and aaked permission to rest for a while. The windows looked into the itreet and there I aat watching the door of our new house, for Johanna and Julia to come out. At length Julia appeared, bee face completely hidden behind a veil. Jo hanna helped her luto the low carriage, as it she had been an Invalid. Then they drove off, and were soon out of my alght By this time our dinner hour was near. and I knew my mother would be looking out for ua botn. I wai thankful to find at the table a viaitor, one of my father'! patients, a widow, with a high color, t loud voice and boisterous spirits, who kept up t rattle of conversation with Dr. Dobree. My mother ' glanced anx iously at me, but ahe could aay little. "Where la Julia?" ahe had inquired, aa we sat down to dinner without her. "Julia?" I aald absently; "oh! she ia gone to the Vale, with Johanna Carey." "Will ahe come back to-night?" asked my mother. "Not to-night," I aald aloud; but to my self I added, "nor for many nigbta to come; never, most probably, whilst I am under thla roof. We have been building our house npon the sand, and the floods have come, and the wlnda have blown, and the houae has fallen; but my mother knowa nothing of the cataitrophe yet.' She read trouble in my fa e, ai clearly at one tees a thunder cloud in the aky, and the could not rest till she hid fath omed It. I went np into my own room. where I should be alone to think over thinga. I heard her tipping lightly at the door, she waa not in the habit of leaving her guests, and I waa aurpriied and perplexed at teeing her. "Your father and Mrs. Murray are having a game of chess," ahe aald. "We can be alone together half an. hour. And now tell me what U the matter? There la something going wrong with you." She sank down wearledly into a chair, and I knelt down beside her. It was almost harder to tell her than to tell Julia; but it waa worse than uaeleaa to put off the evil moment "Mother, I am not going to marry my cousin, for I love somebody else, and I told Julia eo this afternoon. It la broken off for good now." She gave me no anawer, and I looked up Into her dear face in alarm. It had grown rigid, and a peculiar blue tinge of pallor waa epreadlng over it Her head had fallen back against the chair. It waa several minutes before she breathed freely and naturally. Then ahe did not look at me, but lifted np her eyea to the pale evening aky, and her llpa quivered with agitation. "Martin, It will bo the death of me," ahe aald; and a few teara atole down her cheeks, which I wiped away. "It ahall not be the death of you," 1 exclaimed. "If Julia la willing to marry me, knowing the whole truth, I am ready to marry ber for your aake, mother. I would do anything for your aake. But Johanna aaid ahe ought to be told, and I think It was right myself." "Who ia It, who can it be that you love?" "Mother." I aaid, "I wish I had told you before, but I did not know that I loved the girl aa I do til I taw her yes terday ia Bark." "That girif she cried. "Obi of the OUlvlenl Oh. Martin, you muat marry la your own clasa." "That waa a mistake," I answered. "Her Christian aame ia Olivia; I do aot kaow what her em-name ia." "Not know evea her name!" aha ex- aimed. "Listen, mother," I said; and thea I told her all I kaew about Olivia. "Oh, Martin, Martin!" wailed my poor mother, breaking down agala suddenly. "I did so long to see yoa la a home of yonr own! And Juila waa ao generoua, ever looking as if all the money waa here, aad you without a penny t What to to become of yon now, my boy? I'wlah I had beea dead and ia my grave before thla had happened!" "Hush, mother!" I said, kneeling down again beside her and kissing her tender ly; "it Is still in Julia's hands. If she will marry me, I thai) marry her." "But then you will not be happy?" ahe aald, with freah sous. It waa Impossible for me to contradict that I felt that no misery would be equal to that of loaing Olivia. But I did my best to comfort my mother, by prom ising to see Julia tbe next 'ay and re new my engagement, If possible.' "Pray, may I be informed ai to what ll the matter now?" broke In a satirical, cutting voice the voice of my father. It roused ui both my mother to her naual mood of gentle submission, and me to the chronic state of Irritation which hla pret ence alwaya provoked In me. "Not much, air," I answered coldly; "only my marriage with my cousin Julia Ii broken off." "Broken off!" he ejaculated, "broken off!" CHAPTER X. My father stood motionless for a mo ment. Then slowly be sank into a chair. "I am a ruined and disgraced man," he aid, without looking up; "It you have broken off yonr marriage with Julia, I shall never raise my head again." "But why?" I asked uneaaily. "Come down Into my consulting room," he aaid. I went, on before him, carrying the lamp, and turning round once or twice aaw his face look grey, and the expression of it vacant and troubled. Hia consulting room was a luxurious room, elegantly ftrniBhed. He aank dowa into an easy chair, shivering as If we were ta the depth of winter. "Martin, I am a ruined man!" he aaid, for the second time. .. "But hew?" I aaked again, impatiently, "I dare not tell you," be cried, leaning hit head npon his desk and sobbing. How white bis hair waa! and how agod he looked! My heart softened and warmed to him aa it had not done for yeara. "Father!" I eaid, "if you can trust aay one, you can trust me. If yon are ruined and disgraced I ahall be the same, as your ion." "That's true," he answered, "that'i true! It will bring disgrace on you and your mother. We shall be forced to leave Guernaey, where she has lived ail her life; and it will be tbe death of her. Martin, you muat aave ua all by making it np with Julia." "But why?" I demanded, once more. "I must know what you mean." - "Mean?" he said, turning upon me an grily, "you blockhead! I mean that un less you marry Julia I ahall have to give aa account of her property; and I could not make all iquare, not if I aold every atlck and atone I possess," I sat silent for a time, trying to take in thia piece of Information. He had been Julla'i guardian ever since she waa left an orphan, ten yean old; but I had never known that there had not been a formal and legal settlement of her affairs when she was of ige. Our family name had no blot upon it; it waa one of the most honored names In the Island. But if thla came to light, then the disgrace would be dark Indeed. ' "Can you tell me all about It?" I asked. "It would take a long time," he aaid. "and it would be a deuce of a nuisance. Yon make It up with Julia, and marry her, aa you're bound to do. Of course you will manage all her money when you are her husband, aa you will be. Now you know all." "But I don't know alt," I replied; "and I insist upon doing ao before I make up my mind what to do." For two hours I wai busy with his ac counts. Once or twice he tried to slink out of the room; but that I would not suffer. At length the ornamental clock on his chimney piece struck eleven, and he made another effort to beat a retreat "Do not go away till everything ia clear," I laid; "ia thli all?" "All?" he repeated; "isn't it enough?" "Between three and four thousand pounds deficient!" I answered; "it U quite enough." "Enough to make me a felon," he aaid, "if Julia chooses to prosecute me." "I think it is highly probable," I re plied; "though I know nothing of the law." "Then you aee clearly, Martin, there Is no alternative but for you to marry her, and keep our secret. I have reckoned upon thia for yean, and your mother and I have been of one mind ia bringing It about If you marry Julia, her affairs go direct from my hands to yours, and we are all safe. If you break with her she will leave us, and demand an account of my guardianship; and your name and mine will be branded In our own island." "That ii very cleir," I -id tullenly. "Your mother would not aurvlve It!" he continued, with t aolemn accent "Oh! I have been threatened with that already," I exclaimed, very bitterly. "Pray doea my mother know of Ms die graceful business?" "Heaven forbid!" be cried. "Your mother ia a good woman, Martin; as aim pie aa a dove. You ought to think of her before you consign ui all to ehame. Poor Mary! My poor, poor love! I believe ahe carea enough for me still to break her heart over It" "Then I am to be your ecapegoat ." I aid. "You are my son," he answered: "and religion itself teachei ni thit the ilm of the fatheri are visited on tbe children. I leave tbe matter in your hands. But only answer one question: Could you show your face amongst your own friends if this were known?" I knew very well I could not My fath er a fraudulent ateward of Julia's prop erty! Then farewell for ever to all that had made my life happy. I aaw there waa no escape from it I muat marry Julia. 'Well," I aaid at last "as yon aay, the matter la in my handa now; and I muat make the beat of It GooT night, iir." (To be contiau '.I Only Heqntrea . erve. The Forest and Stream aayi that nearly every one hat a fear of wild ani mals, and yet no wild animal will fight unless wounded or cut off from all ap parent avenue of escape. All anlmala ' will try and escape If given a chance. Thli fear It kept up by all aorta of bear, wolf and snake stories, most of I which are magnified to make heroes of hunters. There Is more danger from natural causes In a visit t wild animal : haunts than from the an' la. There la more danger of slipping off a preci pice or falling Into a river than from being hurt by a bear or . wolf. Many more people have been killed by light ning than have been ran over bj stam peding buffalo herds, or - kUed by wounded griztly bears, or by all tb oth er animals of the prairie put together. One might almost say that more peo ple have been atruck by falling meteor ites than have been killed by panther or wolves. Aad yet from day to day th newspaper continue to print bear stories, catamount stories, and wolf stories, and probably they will do so until loag after the last bear, cata mount and wolf ahall have disappeared front the land. S COAST STATES ARE UP AND DOING j REPORTS OF INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE I I CASCADE MOUNTAIN REGION FROM I CANADA TO MEXICO. I Flax a Profitable Crop. Tbe flax crop of Idaho thla season will bring larger returns to the grow er than they would receive for 1,250, 000 bushels of wheat. The industry which is of such recent date aa to al most come under the head of new business has proved so successful this season that in many cases it baa paid the growers a greater net profit than the cost of the land on which It was grown. In Nex Perce County over 35,000 acres of flax waa contracted for at about f 1 per bushel guaranteed, with the further proviso that the grow er vas to have the additional benefit of any advance in the Chicago mar ket. On this basis, some of the early arrivals were sold as high as ii.oj per bushel, the grower realizing over S1Z2 per acre for his crop. In addi tion to the 35,000 acres contracted for there was about 15,000 acres produced by other growers. Washington Leads In Wheat. The current Issue of the Orange Judd Farmer, gives some Interesting statistics showing harvest condition of tbe United States winter and spring wheat by states and the average rate of yield per acre,' as shown by such threshing results as have been receiv ed. From this table it Is sen that the average of the entire United States winter is 92.3 per cent, in which wash Ington Is 100, while the spring crop with a total average of 83.4, gives the state of Washington an average of 95. The winter yield has a total aver age of 16.1, In which Washington is 25.0, and out of a spring yield of 15.0 Washington Is rated at 29.0, the wheat condition of this state being not only ahead of any other state in the union, but far ahead of the general average as well. A Rich Copper Discovtry. An extensive copper mine, or rather mountain, has been discovered by Mo Vey & Co., on the west Bide of Sis klyou mountains, California, about 8 miles from Garretson't medical springs, 22 miles from Oak Bar, 6 miles south of the Oregon line ofJo sephine County, and 24 miles from Jacksonville, Oregon. The ledge ranges from 300 to 350 feet in width, and is claimed to be more ex tensive than the famous Iron Moun tain mine at Keswick, In Shasta Coun ty, with the likelihood of making Sis kiyou take the lead of Shasta In the annual mineral output when thorough ly developed. The discoverers have been offered $150,000 for their pro perty. Big Timber Sale. A. B. Hammond, of Portland, con summated the purchase of the largest unbroken tract of timber land still remaining in first hands in this state : the first of the month." Fifty thousand 1 acres were involved In the deal and i the land is all situated in one body on the Tualatin and Tragic Rivers. I The land was purchased from the Southern Pacific and while the consid eration was withheld, the price Is re ported to be In the neighborhood of 1500,000. Town Lots ai $14,000 Each. O. A. Kjos, a local merchant of Lewiston, Idaho, completed the pur chase of 61 feet frontage on Main and Fifth streets from J. Etchenberger, the consideration being $13,500 Mr. Kjos also paying a street grade as sessment tax, making the total con sideration 114,000. A handsome three story brick store building will be erected on the corner next Bpring to COSt 165,000. New Railroad in Eastern Oregon. Articles of incorporation have been granted to L. K. Moore, J. B. Hos- ford and J. O. EIrod, to construct a line of railroad ,from Arlington on the Columbia Klver, due south, to Con don, county seat of Gilliam County The capital stock la $500,000 divided Into shares of $100 each. The right- of-way is being obtained as fast as surveyed. The line will be forty miles long. New Smelter at Darrinjton. The deal for the site for the smelt er at Darrington. Wash., has been closed, and it is now only a question of getting the buildings up and the plant installed, when work will be be gun extracting precious minerals from the rich ores of that region. The cost of the smelter will be $75,000. and the daily capacity will amount to 250 tons. Denver capital Is behind the proposition. A Rich Cargo. Of the 3300 tons of genral cargo on board tbe Tosa Maru, recently in from China, the silk was the most precious. That was valued at $385,000. Tbe costliest cargo of silk ever brought over ran up to half a million. For the first time a shipment of concetrates was brought over from Leigh, S. J., Hunt's mines in Corea, This ore was consigned to the smelter at Tacoma and was valued at $25,000. Indication of Prosperity. . The report of the condition of the national banks of Washington recent ly published, tells Its part of the story of the present unexampled prosperity. Their total resources rose from $27, 698,277 to $31,280,168 in a little more than twelve months, and the individu al deposits in these banks during the same period have Increased by $3, 000,000. To Irrigate a Garden SpoL Article of incorporation of the Aso tin Land and Irrigation Company have been filed with the county auditor at Asotin, Wash. The object of the cor poration is to irrigate lands, generate power, buy and sell land and maintain and operate Irrigation canal. The capital stock Is $40,000, shares having a par value of $100 each. The com pany is at present constructing a canal in The Fork or Lake district and eipecta to have several thousand acre under water by next spring. nqnirea Little Sleep. The distinction among animal of requiring least sleep belonsrs to the elephant. In spite of hla capacity for I hard work the elenhant Wnm if I sleeps more than four, or occasionally five, bourv Teople never seem to pay much at tention when your enemy doe wrong. But how they b0wl when yon do wrong! When ignorance wins In.elligenc lrujs awajr Mow par. World's Largest Fruit Drier. A prune dryer that 1 expected to dry 30 car loads of eured prune this season, that will afford employment to probably 100 persons, and Is said to be the largest prune drier in the world, la to be put In operation next week at the orchard of the CorvalU and Benton County Prune Company, sis: miles north of Corvallls. About $6,000 in cash and three months of time have been devoted to the build ing of the drier, and barring a few minor details, it is now- ready for work. It has been warmed once or twice already, and has behaved satis- facorily on each occasion. It con struction and its operation are said to be matters of keen Interest to prune grower all over the state. The new plant will receive 2300 bushels of green prunes at one time. It consists of 10 tunnels, or, mora properly speaking, five twin tunnel. Each of the ten tunnels Is 80 feet long, 44 Inches wide and 44 lnche from floor to ceiling. The fruit is carried through the tunnels by a miniature railroad, th car wheels of which are four inches In height and have flange that run along a miniature track. Each car platform ia 30x42 inches and ia four inches above the floor. Each car ac commodates ten trays of fruit, and each tunnel holds thirty-two cars at a time a total of 320 cars In all or 3200 trays of about three-fourths of a bushels of fruit each. The plant is housed by a main build ing 110 feet long and 40 feet wide. An L at one end is 20x30, and accom modates tbe engine and boilers. A 22x32 room at the other end shelter the dipping apparatus, where, by In genious contrivance, prunes are dip ped four or Ave times and spread on trays ready for the drier without Inter vention by the hand of man. So fat as known, tbe dipper is the only on in use In the country. It was used the first time at this orchard last year, with great success. The prunes ar dumped Into a vat, and in a short time a screen tilts from the bottom and throws the fruit Into another vat. The process Is repeated until all ths vats are passed, when the fruit ii spread automatically on a tray, ready for the tunnel. New Route to Gray'i Marboa There Is now at work on the Hoqut am extension of the Gray' Harbof branch of the Northern Pacific Rail road a force of about 600 men and large number of teams. It Is the in tention to have the work on the 30 mile extension finished before the wet weather sets in, at least so far as the grading is concerned. Track laying has already been be gun and the contract calls for the com pleion of tbe line into the Qulniaull Indian reservation within a year. Three surveying parties are at work north of the reservation and there 1 no doubt but that a right of way will be secured to the Strait by the time the track laying on the present line Is finished. Anthracite Coal Is Found A party of prospector has located thirteen coal and iron claims In the Cascades about 50 miles west of North Yakima, Wash. George Weikel haa brought out a load of the coal and submitted It ta a test In the furnaces of that city. Ths coal is said to be the best of anthra cite and burns freely without smoka or flame and leaves no cinders. Five veins of coal have been located. They range from three feet to thirteen feel In thickness. The- coal covers large deposits of iron ore which has been traced for eight miles. Specimens weighing 100 poundi show the grade of coal discovered. To Build Salt Lake Line. Senator W. A. Clark of Montana will call for bid this week for the con struction of the first thirty miles ol his San Pedro, Los Angle and Salt Lake Railroad. This new piece ol road will extend from Los Anglei to Pomona. The total length of the road from Los Angles to Salt Lake is to be 713 miles. The cost of constructing this mileage will be paid for by a "bond issue of $20,000,000 at 4 per cent and the sale of a considerable portion ol the company's $25,000,000 of stock. The Santa Fe is having built 450 oil tank cars for the California and Texas petroleum oil trade. Will Burn Oil. General Manager Kruttschmltt, of the Southern Pacific Company, who has just returned from an extended inspection trip over the line from San Francisco to New Orleans, has an nounced that all of the company' lo comotive will be equipped for the burning of oil' Instead of coal as ex peditiously as possible. To that end storage tank with a capacity of 30, 000 barrels each will be erected at Oakland, Fresno, Mendocino and other points south and east on th line. - . Pacific Log Rafting. The mammoth log raft sent out from the Columbia River recently arrived last week at San Francisco Intact There are 520,000 lineal feet of pil ing in the raft, some of the sticks running to 120 feet in length, and at great aa 22 inches thick at the but The raft is 625 feet long and cost $30,000 to construct. It is estimated to contain 7,200,000 feet of lumber. This Cow Will Do. A cow which ta believed to hold all records for Increasing a herd ha Just added to her fame by giving birth to triplets. Three times she has produced twins, and on that account her owner. A.1 Podesto. says he would not part with her as all but one of the calves were ! perfectly formed and lived. His ranch ' is located near Stockton, CaJ. Thla last art of the cow has attracted much attention, and many people call at the place to 8ee tbe trio of calvet. A SafSotent Desijfnetioa. A humorist, wishing to test tb Inge nuity of tha Indian postal authorities, sent a letter from Bombay to a friend In Calcutta, addressed aa follows: "So-and-So, Eq., the City if Stinks and Statuee." It waa delivered without th lightest delay. German Shipbuilding In the year 18l and 1809 Germany held second place In shipbuilding, but for various reasons, American hip building In 1000 received nch aa Im petus that It has placed Germany third, Ar KUVI SUlcus Gotrox ha a great talent for making money. Cyulcus That Isn't talent; It' a bablt. Old Lady Hullo, little boys! Sliding down bill? Little Boy-Yes' ni. Can't very well slide np It If you can't afford an alarm clock for every bedroom In tbe house, let In a fly or two. Atchison Globe. Flnnlcua You can't Judge a man by the clothes he wears. Cynnlcns But yon can by those hi wife wears. HI Mamma-Oh. Willie, how often have I told you not to play with that wicked boy! Willie He was playing wlf me. Cahlll Was the shtrike a success? Cassidy It was! Afther being out tlx weeks we succaded In glttiu' back our Jobs. Puck. J Blobbs You seem to have an an- pleasant sort of cold. Slobbs Yes; I never did have luck enough to get 'a pleasant one. "This age demands men wbo have convictions,"' shouted tha Impassioned orator. "Where shall we rind them?" "In the penitentiary," replied a man In j the gallery. Hibernian Nurse Arrah, wake up, wake up! Hospital Patient (drowsily) What Is It? Hibernian Nurse If time for your sloping medicine, sir, so It ls.-Tlt-Bits. "I don't see how be can be such a popular clergyman when be abuses his congregation ao." "Easy efiongh. Ev erybody thiuks be Is talking about everybody else." Brooklyn Life, "It sounds funny to hear you talking that way. When we were at college you didn't believe in eternal punish ment at all." "I know, but I didn't have any enemies. then." Philadelphia Press. Schoolmaster Who discovered Amer ica? No answer. Schoolmaster (angri ly) Come on, speak up! Who discov ered America. Small boy Pup-pup, please, sir, it wasn't me! Boston Globe. "Yes, Mr. Bouncer wanted to send her daughter to Bryn Mawr, but she decided on Vassar." "What Influenced her decision?" "She couldn't pro nounce Bryn Mawr." Philadelphia Bulletin. First Enthusiastic Golfer-I say, will you play another round with me on Thursday? Second Enthusiastic Golf er WelL I'm booked to be married on that dav but tbe ceremony can be postponed! "The secret of happiness is to live In the present." "That' so; but my wife Is always wanting money for to-mor row, and bill collectors, you know, won't let you forget yesterday." De troit Free Press. Mrs. Newife I acknowledge that I have my faults aud am sometime cross. Jack, dear, but If I had the last two years of my life to live over again I should marry you Just the same. Mr, Newife I doubt it. Mother What! Have you been fight ing again, Johnny? Good little boys don't fight Johnnie Yes, I know that I thought be was a good little boy, but after I hit him once I found be wasu t Somervllle Journal. The teacher of a Sabbath school class approached one little fellow who was present for the first time and asked bis name. "Well," said the youngster, "they call me Jlmmle for short, but my maiden name Is James." Woman' Journal. "Just think, my boy, that we are sending thousands of American shin gles to the Filipinos!" said tbe proud American parent "Hully gee, pop!" said the young one; "do the Klllpiuums have to be licked some more? Yonk ers Statesman. "Have you sent your regrets, Doro thy?" asked mamma of ber little da lighter, who bad decided not to go to a party to wblcb she had been asked. "I haven't any to send, mamma," answer ed Dorothy. "I don't want to go." In dianapolis News. . Mistress Remember. Bridget we want dinner served promptly at 6. What time Is it now? Bridget 'Tls 3 o'clock, Joost. Mistress Well, you'd better begin to make the frozen cus tard for dessert in that live -minute Ice cream freezer. Philadelphia Press. "Do you see that poor, dear girl over there? Her cup of misery Is full. Her love affair has ended most unhappily, "You exaggerate," said Cynicus. "Her cup of misery is not really full, unless she can't go around telling all about bow It happened." Philadelphia Press. "1 would like to interest you In the greatest discovery of recent years," be gan tbe seedy stranger. "It is nothing less than a preparation to exterminate every fly in creation." "Can't Interest us," said tbe proprietor. "We manu facture horse netting. Where would we be If there were no flies?" "Then per haps I can Interest your neighbor?" "No; he sells w ire creens." Chicago News. Tommy bad been quiet for fully flv minutes. He seemed to be engaged with some deep problem. "Papa," he said. "Well?" "'Do unto others a you would have others do unto you' that' tbe golden rule, Isn't It papa?" "Yet, my aon." "And if ' pufnckly rlgt to follow the golde rule, Isn't It papa?" "Yea, Indeed." Tommy rose, went to the cupboard and returned with a knife and a large apple pie. The latter be placed before hi astonished sire with great solemnity. "Eat It papa!" he said. San Francisco Bulle tin. A Holy Brick. The Italian steamship Reglna Mar gberlta, lately arrived at Buenoa Ay res from Italy, ba brought one of the most extraordinary parcel! that hai ever ap peared In the manifest of any Teasel, L e., a holy brick. We do not mean jolly friar in boly order. II would not be manifested. We mean a rai brick, a squared mass of burned clay, declared to be boly because It was taken from the Holy Gate In th Vati can. Tbe pared la forwarded by tb Pope to Argentina as a mark of special distinction. Argentina Time, GEO. P. CROVELL, (Snccwmof to K. Tj. Smith, Oldest Established House in the valley. DEALER IN Dry Goods, Groceries, Boots and Shoes, Hardware, Flour and Feed, etc. This old-established house will con tinue to pay cash for all ita goods; it pays no rent; it employs a clerk, but doea not have to divide with partner. AH dividends are made with customer in the way of reasonable prices. Davenport Bros. Are running their two mills, planer and box factory, and can till orders for Lumber Boxes, -Wood and Posts ON SHORT NOTICK. DAVIDSON FRUIT. CO. SHIPPERS OF HOOD RIVER'S FMS FRUITS. PACKERS OF THB Hood River Brand of Canned Fruits. MANUFACTURERS OF Boxes and Fruit Packages DIALERS IN Fertilizers & Agricultural Implements. THE REGULATOR LINE. Dalles, Portland & Astoria Navigation Co. DALLES BOAT Leaves Oak Street Dock, Portland 7 A.M. and 11 P. M. PORTLAND BOAT Leaves Dalles 7 A. M. and 3 P. M. Daily Except Sunday. STEAMERS Regulator, Dalles City, Reliance. WHITE COLLAR LINE. Sir. "Tahoma," Daily Round Trips, except Sunday. TIME CARD. Leave Portland...7 a.m. I Leave Aatorla 7 a.m. The Dalles-Portland Route . Sir "Bailey GatzeH," Dally, Round Tripa, except Monday. VANCOUVER. CASCADE LOCKS, ST. MAR. TIS'8 SPRINGS, HOOH KIVKK, WHITK HALMON, LYLK and T11K IMl.LKS. TIME CARD. Leave Portland...7 a.m. I lve Dalles 8:80 p.m. Arrive Theballea 3 p.m. ArrivoHortlaud 10 p.m. Ma ml Ihm Vmry Stmt. This route haa the grandest urenlc attractions on earth. Sunday trips a leading feature. Landing and oftire, foot of Alder street. Both 'phones, Main 851, Portland, Or. E. W. CRICHTON, Agent, Portland. JOHN M. K1LLOON, Agent. The Dalles. A. J. TAYLOR, Agent, Axtoria. J, C, WYATT, Agent, Vancouver. W'OLFORD & W YEHS, Agts.. White Salmon. PRATHER & BARNES, Agouti at Hood River wo IO q Mo Oregon Shot Line t union Pacific "rl,T Ffm HooS mf. Salt Iie. Denver, Chicago Ft. Worth, Omaha, Portland Special Kanau City, St. Special 11:26 a.m. Louls.Chlctigoaud 3:06 p.m. East. Walla Walla Lewls Bpoka'na ton,8pokana,Mln- Portland Flyer neapolla.Rt. Paul, Flvar 1:27 p.m. Itilutli. Mllwau- tKio. kes.CbicagoJtk.Mt Bait Lake, Penver, '.' Mall and Ft. Worth. Omaha, Mall aad Eipreas Kanaaa City, St. Eipreas 11:42 p. m. Louia.Caicagoaud 6.42a, m, East. OCEAN AND RIVER SCHEDULE FKOM PORTLAND. IflOp.sa. All sailing datea ;Ma.sa, subject to change For San Francisco bail every I days Dally Cefvmbla Rlvsr 440 p.m. Fx. Sunday t tinman. Icgundar t:0U.TO. .. Saturday Ta Astoria and Way m ot) p. m. Land i nil 4:46 a.m. WfflaiMtta llvtr. 4:.m. ii. Sunday Oregoa City, Naw. Is.kuadar berg, Salain, Ind- Knrtrnoe 4k Way iidlnga. VOOa-Bj. MmsiHn an- Yaa- I top. m. ' Toes.. Thor. km liwi. Mon w4 and Sat. aad tti. Oregon City, Day Ion. 4 Way Land ' tnga. 4 4ia . WHta.Mli. IHsr. '., Toea.. Thr Uon.. Wed. aad 8ak Portland to Corral. aad Frl. Ua A Way Laud- tnga. t. RlparU SAsa RrTia. Lt.Lawletoa .., m. Riparta to Lewliton a.m. ,. "f datiy Fof low rates and other informatlaa write to A. L. CRAIO, General PaaseRCer 4r.L Parttx n. 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