* COAST CULLINGS The Oregon Register. PUBLISHED EVERY LAFATETTE.*’- OREGON' Devoted Principally to Washington Territory and California. ' » FRIDAY Pkkied ........................... „ California roll ....'........... ’.. do pickled....,?... » M • «4® 28 « 10 00 10 80 !» Clirsss ■ ' Bev. MONGOLIAN TARTARS. Father Gandy’s Iter-ltal or Years’ Labor wUU Them. Ten A strangely-attired Belgian priest arrived on a recent steamer from China Hets R’V. Father. A. Gundy, president of the Roman Catholic mis­ sions in M mgolia, where he has boon’ arduously laboring for ten years past. He is a man of about forty years of age, with a full flowing beard and a rich silken gown of an oriental de­ sign. Other marks of dress betoken him a resident of a land most remote from ours. A reporter sought an inter­ view with him. Said he: "Mr life work ha» been with the Ta r tars who inhabit Mongolia and the scenes of my work have been close by the great wall of China. The commer­ cial emporium of Mongolia is Kalgan, a town of 40.000 inhabitants. It is here that the Russians-come to buy chamois skins and tea, which the Chinese resi­ dents of Mongolia raise in immense quantities. ThoMongolians themselves despise tilling the ground, and as the land belongs to the» different tribes,, Jielr chiefs have been selling it off to the Chinese. “The Mongolians are descendants Of the old Tart ars, and raise tens thousands of cattle and horses.' Be­ yond this they do nothing except hunt They are a wild, 'Ungovernable race, living in tents. They are magnificent horsemen, something . like your wild Indians. ThoiF religion is Tartaric Buddhism. One of their sacred tem- pies is at Kinhnne—In Thibet—the great tomplo of U Lassa is constructed after the manner of an Indian Budd­ hist temple. Only one or two Euro­ peans have ever been admitted within its sacre I precincts. They think tho mere admission of a foreigner within its portal s would forever defile it. "The Russians who tried to invade This countryllifee years agoTtiive re-- linqitished their, efforts. They got two consulates established on the Mon­ golian coast, and they have had to give way. They now have open ports as far as Peking, but no further. All the talk you hear of invasions from the Russians now goes for nothing. Mongolia is under tho domain* of China. "The country is largely a desert, al­ though with water it Is exceedingly productive. There are very rich mines of copper and silver as well as mag­ nificent boils of coal. Mongolia is colder than China, and consequently the inhabitants, although dressing somewhat like the Chinese, put on more Mothes. They are unlike the -Chinese entirely otherwise, being more aggressive and warlike. They are not a tractable nice by any means. “Hunting the chamois is great sport with tho Mongolians. They are skilled horsemen and dead shots with their weapons, a variety of which they use. They are also skillful with tho dart. "In the ten years that I have been there we have succeeded in converting about twenty-five thousand of these wild Tartars. Though wild thoy are open to civilizing and humanizing in­ fluences; but there are so many of them, and their country is so large, that it takes a long while to make much effect upon them as a mass.” Tile reverend gentleman is accom­ panied by a wealthy resident of Brus­ sels. Viscount do Benghem, who has been making a tour of certain parts of Mongolia and studying up the habits of the natives.— San Francisco Exam­ iner. I ---- *—•-------- An Eccentric Colored Man. A man of comical characterislics is Owen Davis, the colored janitor and special polloeman of the Minnesota capitpl. In early life he hoed "de cot­ ton and do cane,4* later served three years in the Union army, and then en­ listed as a roustabout on a Mississippi steamboat. It was on the river where he received his education, and. among other sciences, the art of nose-smash- ing was not negteefed. His interpreta­ tion of the moral law prohibits even the appearanoe of fighting, or boxing, unless It is necessary. His supersti­ tions Bro his pets, and I do not believe ho would thank a person to convince him that they aro a myth. When he hunts in the basoment for a eat or a rat ha spits thr e times to insure him­ self against attack, and he believes nothing more Sincerely than that the ghost of the little boy who was killed during tho construction of the capitol haunts the dome every night He claims to hear a racket np there every time he goes near the building at night and nothing earthly could in­ duce him to climb the stairs after dark. He is a devoted member Of the colored Baptist Church of this city, and is. figuratively, the foundation, walls and roof of that society. —St — Paul - • Pioneer — JVe.'A '' : -j,. Jf'-, 80 Jl freight train on tne Southeastern branch of the Canadian Pacific Rail­ road ran itolo an open drawbridge over the Lacbine canal, near Montreal. The engineer and his fireman were killed. At the inquest on the recovered bodies of the victims of the Scholten steamer disaster, the Rotterdam agent of the steamer testified that there were 214 persons aboard, of whom 89 were saved. ( % The steamer Charles P. Chotian burned at Sunflower Landing, Miss. The colored fireman and a colored deck passenger were burned to death. The cargo of cotton is a total loss, nothing but her immense hulL ¡ruction train on the Cleve- ?ittsburg railroad ran-into a pile of rocks which had fallen from a hillside near Stepbenvill. The engi­ neer and fireman were killed, and several persons were badly hurt. Two thousand crofters on the Isle of Lewes have commenced a cam­ paign to exterminate deer in the forest. They allege that 6,000 crofters are 1 00 starving who ought to be living on 6 00 land now given up to- deer, and that 1 60 in adopting their present course they are actuated by sheer necessity. August Hatzka is locked up at Chi­ 1 25 cago for killing bis step-son, Max 14 Gilman, 11 years old. The latter came home after three months’ ab­ off. Pelts................................... io a i "Ó0 sence, and Hatzka whipped -httWun­ V eoktabi . es — mercifully- with a strap which had a 1 Cabbage, » ib.............. ® The boy was found i 00 buckle on it. Carrot«. » sack...................... dead in his bed, with his face and body Cauliflower, v dos................ 1 i® covered with marks of the strap. (Miens ....................................... Potatoes, new. » bush .... Ai —M. Regaud entered a fencing school W ool — 1« in the Rue de la Chausee Dautel, East Oregon, Spring clip.. 20 Paris, revolver in hand, and shot M. Valley Oregon, do Chazalet, master of the school, dead. Only a Brief Interruption. Some of the latter’s assistants, in try­ It was in one of the stately mansions ing tu in his with a lasoo because he could not run broken tones, “if I have said what I as fast as ordered when going from He also ought not to say, of you ought not to one tprison Jto another, charges that when he was in jail two hear; if I----- ” “Not at all,” interrupted Penelope, citizens of the United States, McCowan looking wildly about her, "but I have anil White, residents of Ohio, were robbed of $600 and murdered by offi­ oertainly lost my speotacles. Oh, there cers of the jail, andtheir bodies hauled they are. Thanks. As you were say­ away in.a car. _ ing, Mr. Waldo----- N. Y. Sun. Fire broke out in the Union hotel, at Potrero, near the Union Iron works, I San Francisco, and in a few minutes DANGERS OF BENZINE. Why the Utmost Care Should Be Exer­ the entire structure was in flames. The fire quickly communicated to the cised in Handling It. Some weeks ago in a Philadelphia Huntingdon bouse, and the entire music printing establishment, while a block was soon in flames. A heavy boy was engaged in cleaning a press wind was blowing, and before any with benzine, rubbing it with a rag, stream could be turned on the build­ the fluid blazed up; the {ad's clothing ings, flames were rapidly working up caught fire, and he was so severely over the bluff toward the next street, burned that his recovery was stated to and in half an hour three blocks of be doubtful» It has been popularly buildings were on fire. Over fortv supposed that flame, or at'least a tern- ' buildings were destroyed, and about perature equal to the white or red heat the same number of families are left of iron, was necessary to ignite ben- destitute. The loss is estimated at $75,000. line, but this is* mistake. It is a A dispatch from Bridgeport. Conn., fact little known that hard friction can develop sufficient beat to says the main building of Barnum & inflame benzine vapor, especially Bailey’s show was destroyed by fire, if the surface rubbed be varnished an alarm was sounded, and in less with shellac. Wo are informed by a than thirty minutes the building,which competent and truthful mechanical en­ was 600x200 feet and two stories high, gineer that a few years ago (while try­ was entirely consumed. Before the ing with benzine in a closed tin vessel” first alarm had ceased sounding, the whole building was enveloped in to construct a thermostat to ignite a powder giving out sulphurous gas in flames, and no one dared approach it, being fearful of the crazed animals. case of fire outbreak), he found that Three elephants were burned up, and the vapor was leaking from a minute thirty-six broke from their fastenings crack in a seam. He request«^ a tin­ and dashed through the sides of the man to solder tile leak, supposing that burning structure, roaring and trum­ a eepper soldering tool at dark heat peting in a terrific manner. Six ele­ would nor be dangerous. Tobtl Sur­ phants and a large African hippopo­ prise and that of the workman, the tamus rushed about the streets, pre­ vapor ignited, with a blue flame, as senting a sickening appearance. Their soon wml he tool approached near the sides were burned, aod great pieces of crack, and a flame played around the flesh a foot square fell off. Thirty tool like a will-o’-the-wisp. This gon- elephants and a large lion started tlenian several times experimented across country towards Fairfield and afterward and found that at a dark Easton.| Great excitement seized many heat the tool did not inflame the resident, and they have barred the vapor when at a distance of twelve windows and doors of their houses. inches from the crack, but did always In the horse room were all the ring set fire to it if within six to four animals, trained stallions, ponies, etc., inches, No matter how small the and all were burned. In the call crevice» lhere always came out room were birds, monkeys, rhinoceri, enough vapor to ignite at this low de­ hyenas, tigers, lions and all the men­ gree of temperature. In these trials, agerie, which also fell a prey to the as in the first instance, the tin-man’s flames. A great deal of valuable tents furnace was kept at»; a considerable and other property also burned. The distanoe. Wo mentioned a few months total loss is estimated at not less than since a case*in which this vapor was $700,000, with but $100,000 insurance. ignited by electricity generated in The watchman discovered the fire rubbing a flannel garment, which was while making his rounds, and started being cleaned in a tub of the fluid. to give an alarm, when some unknown This last occurrence once more em­ person hit him on the head with some phasizes the need of the utmost cau­ blunt instrument. One of the three tion in the handling of benzine in the elephants burned was a “sacred white scouring and furniture establishments elephant.’’ The lion which escaped and printing offices, in which it is so at the time the fire broke out was later generally and — Bran, ».ton............... Shorts, V ton.......................... Hay, » ton, baled.................. Chop. » ton...................... "Oil cake meal V ton............ . F resh Faumi — • Apples, Oregon, V box......... Cherries, Oregon, »drin... Lemons, California, »bx.. 4 Limes, »100............................ Riverside oranges, »box... Los Angeles, do do ... a Peaches, » box....................... 1 oo « H idbs - 13 @ Dry, over 16 tbs, »th............ 64« Wet salted, over 66 tbs.._. Murrain hides...,.,.............< one-third ot—Fire and Water. 16 and was devouring a sow. i.j. Payette valley, Idaho, is to have a paper. The travel to Salmon river mines continues unabated. Rev. A. A. Duncanson, was struck by a train and instantly killed, at Lathrop, Cal. The Yakima Indian reservation con­ tains 783,000 acres and is occupied by 2,000 Indians. A new courthouse is in course of erection at Waterville, the county seat of Doqglaa county, W. T. Frank Lewilt ahot and killed Wm. Lang, a cowboy, on the Crow Indian reservation in Montana. Judge Sullivan, of San Francisco, sentenced Frank T. Northey, convieted of an attempt to bribe a jury, to" nine years’ imprisonment in Ban Quentin. At Fort Shaw, Montana, John Gun ning, a private in Company K, Third Infantry, committed suicide in the quarters of his company, by «hooting himself through the head with his rifle. ■ • Jacob Bendorf, aged 16 years, was accidentally killed, near Grass Valley, Cal., by being shot in ths bowels. He was pulling his gun through a brush fence. At Vancouver; W. T., Patriok Clan- cey and his wife were burned to death. The house they were sleeping in took fire and burned to the ground. Their son, aged 16, barely escaped' with his life. The total tonnage of vessels now on th« way to San Diego, Cal., from foi« eign ports, is 48,636, as against 2,608 for the same time in 1886, making a gain of 46,028.___________________ John King, a young man whose oc­ cupation was that of bartender, was found dekd in his bed at Vancouver, W. T._ King was employed in a salpob and had been drinking heavily. MrsrH. E. Knight; living fourteen miles south of Cheney, raised a turnip this year, says the Senrtnel, which measured -four feet and one inch in circumference. This is believed to be thè largest turnip ever produced. The Choilar, and the Hale A Nor­ cross hoisting works at Virginia, Nev., aie illuminated by electricity. The city of Gold Hill and the underground workings of all the leading mines on the lead will soon be lighted by elec­ tricity. At Sacramento, while a man was un­ loading a load of hay, a daughter of Charles Hammon, about 3 years of age, approached near the wagon, and a bale of hay rolled from the vehicle, striking the child and crusllii g her to death. Charles Bartels, a soldier, committed suicide at Vancouver, W. T. A Port­ land fortune teller told Bartels that when a certain star reached its zenith he would not live two days. This so preyed on his mind that he shot him­ self ^through the heart with his rifle. He is the third member of the-regi ment who has killed himself since the Fourteenth has been stationed at Van­ couver. At Los’Angeles, 8am H. Rohnpfa plumber, was shot and instantly killed by C. T. Gidney, a deputy constable. Gidney was bending over a drunken man on the street at the time, and Rohn, saying he thought it was a friend of his, stepped up. Gidney warned him off, saying, "I«will shoot.” Rohn continued to advance, when Gidney fired, the ball passing through Rohn’s mouth and penetrating his brain. Henry Hoffman was instantly killed in the Hale A Norcross mine, at Vir* ginia, Nev. He was tamping powder in a drill-hole in the 1,000-foot level, north drift, when the cartridges sud­ denly exploded, blowing him eight feet from the face of the drift and tear ing aWay the front part of bis head and breast. Capt. Conway, a fellow miuer, who was near the face of the drift at the time, escaped with slight injury. The'Oysterville (W. T.) Journal says the recent storm along the coast was the most severe thst has been experi­ enced for ten or fifteen years. Cattle on the tide land across from South Bend stood in water up to their mid­ dle and many had to keep (heir heads above the water to keep from drown­ ing. Large quantities of drift wood came down from all the streams. The wreck of the Jessie Nickerson, which had become imbedded in the sand, off Bruceport, washed up and went adrift in the channel, and the steamed Favo­ rite nearly ran into it in the fog. Nearly all the traps on North river and all ths set nets were washed out. P. L. Thomas, of Rocky Bar, Idahdi was instantly killed by a tree falling cn him. He was out hunting with two companions, a short distance f®>m Rocky Bar, and they got lost And camped for the night. 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