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About The Telephone=register. (McMinnville, Or.) 1889-1953 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 24, 1886)
SEMI* WEEKLY CJ11 A L? nlJ JE VOL. I. WESTSIDE TELEPHONE.' '• TELEPHONE. *<• M’MINNVILLE, OREGON, AUGUST 24, 1886, TERRITORIAL NEWS. Boise City has 615 school children. ---- Issued----- Walla Walla is to have electric lights. EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY —IN— The assessable property of Spokane Garrison’s Building. McMinnville, Oregon, county foots up $3,250,000. — BY — Blackleg has appeared among Wm. I Powers’s herd of cattle below Endicott. Talmage A Turner Over $100,000 worth of machinery has Publisher* and Proprietors. been sold in Cneney already this season. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Wheat, it is said, will average thirty )ne year......................................................................$2 00 bushels to the acre at Eureka Flat, in Six months ............................................................. 1 25 Walla Walla county. Phree months........................................................... 7a The 14-year-old son of John Wood, of ¡utered in the Postoflice at McMinnville, Or., South Bend, W. T., fell from a swing as second-elusa matter. and broke his arm. Field fires raged last week in the of Ritzville, burning more 1 v. V. JOHNSON, M. D. neighborhood than ten or twenty miles. Northwest corner of Second and B streets, The assessment roll for Walla Walla [cMINNVILLE • OREGON. county this year foots up to $5,018,032, $10,132 more tlion la>t year. Ma* be found at his office when nut absent on pru- Millikin, the man who disappeared re Siiuual buainedd. cently from Tacoma, has been heard from. He is in Seatco, and perfectly Bane. LITTLEFIELD & CALBREATH, A party of nine are now out in the ’hysicians and Surgeons, Big Bend country selecting land for a Welsh colony. The colony is supposed M c M innville AND LAFAYETTE. OK. to number a thousand souls. J F. Galbreath, M. D., office over Yamhill County Walla Walla Journal'. II. W. Barnes Mik McMinnville. Uiegon. H R Littlefield, M D., D office on Main street, has just completed harvesting his 300- tfayette, Oregon. aere patch of New Zealand oats, and will have 100 tons to sell above what lie will need for hie own use and for seed. S. A. YOUNG, M. D. A young son of Mr. St. Clair, living near Cleveland, W. T., was thrown from Physician and Surgeon, a horse last week, receiving internal in MINNVILLE OREGON. juries from which he died shortly after wards. )tflce and residence on D street. All calls promptly uwered day or night. Sheriff Fifield, of Jackson county, Michigan, reached Tacoma bringing with him the necessary papers with which to DR. G. F. TUCKER, secure the man Alex. Brown, Jr., who is in jail there charged with embezzling T>ETNTISrr, funds in Michigan. MINNVILLE • OREGON Mr. Wagner, with his Btepson, Fred Iffice Two doors east of Bingham's furniture Airloch, was in a meadow about one and ire. a half miles above Summer in the Stuck Augbing gas administered for painless extraction. valley, mowing hay. Mr. Wagner was upon the mowing machine, and the CHAS. W. TALMAGE, knife being clogged with hay, he stepped upon the ground in front of the knife, and about that time his team started, which set the knife in motion, and be Conveyancing and Abstracts a Specialty. fore Mr. Wagner could extricate bimseif LL ECTING ATTENDED TO PROMPTLY! the knife had severed the ligaments of his left leg just above the ankle. He Office Manning Building, Third street. was taken to his residence at Puyalluo, where the unfortunate gentleman lin gered until midnight of Tuesday, when he died from weakness aud loss of ST. CHARLES HOTEL blood. f ORECON NEWS ITEMS. DAINTY DEVICES. i i NO. 21. JOHN STUMP'S GOLD. The Tenant of An Old Maryland Mau«! Suddenly Becomes Rich. PARISIAN POLICEMEN. hi \ The Police Agents, Mouehnrda anti Hua. tons of the French Capital. New parasols show two large hand- When old John Stump died in the _________ terchiefs of lace on figured, yet trans- 'arly part of the present century at his >arent grenadine, laid one over the home at Stafford, ten miles north of ither and forming eight points Two this place, writes a Havre de Grace ,ow’o,lace. one above the other, make (Md.) correspondent, his heirs were Prineville is said to be the liveliest ufTe surprised that they did not tiud piles of town in Eastern Oregon. or bIack» matching the tint of the glittering gold stowed away in the little Crook county has not a single renre- COTer' The handles are the slender, iron safe in which it was thought that sentative in the penitentiary. natural hoofs of goats or deer; or they he had been heaping thousands for they found bundles of Marion county’s court house has been ,re natural wood, covered under years. Instead deeds, promissory notes put in thorough repair. and upon the surface, so as to produce mortgages, and other papers which certified his McMinnville is improving this sum- white (pith) bark brown and cameo ef- fortune to be $700,000. Satisfied with i»F It It- la ..1 town. * * Z mer. is as u ..,^ good tecta. th s snug inheritance, they soon forgot The people of Linn county want a The straw sailor hats, rather higher their disappointment in not discovering bridge across the Santiam near Waterloo. in the crown, rather broader in the the bags of gold! When, twenty-five A fair for the northern part of Douglas years ago, the house came into the pos county is talked of to be held at Brain brim, than the sailor hats formerly session of Mr. Stump's granddaughter, ’ used, are an English production and Mrs. Smithson, of Cecil County, the this fall. not to be found in Paris, where the story of the buried treasure existed in Crater Lake explorers and surveyors are high, steeple-crown towers, as high as the neighborhood merely as a tradition. report that the water is nearly 2,000’feet ever, but are improved in shape and in depth. A few years ago Mrs. Smithson hand in the brim, which is still narrow, but ed the old homestead over to the care A Chinese prisoner in the Grant coun now slightly rolled up and widened to of a tenant named Wilson. He was ty jail committed suicide last week by one side. hanging himself. told by his neighbors of the tradition Recent imported bonnets are dainty about the buried .gold. He was too t Die warehouses on the narrow gauge | affairs, made up of tinted tulle or very in Polk county will be filled to their full I light gauze, embroidered with gold or practical to give credence to the stories, but they had a different effect upon Mr. capacity this season. with great refinement in colors, and -------------------- brother Alexander Alexander, who spent Chestnut, who was not Saunders, is finished with embroidered edge to Wilson's now a resident of Yamhill, engaged in ' match. The trimming consisted of up- his time perusing the old books and pa pers wh’ch he found stored away in the cutting bands in the harvest field. ■ right loops of “love” ribbon, with picot jarret. Two or three weeks ago, while Milton Hermann, a son of Congress edge and spray of small flowers, very Mr. Wilson was looking through a man Hermann, died at Roseburg after a line and light, on stems that quiver ponderous old book he found a slip of brief illness on the 10th. with every motion. Materials and paper which indicated the location of The grasshoppers and blackbirds have ■ trimmings are all of the same delicate hidden treasure. destroyed considerable amount of grain [tints—shades of sand color and gold, Two days later a big hole was seen by ! wood brown and pale pink, ivory and a neighbor in the garden of the old in Harney this season. water green, lilac and cream or violet Mrs. H. K. Hanna, of Jacksonville, Stump farm. At the bottom of the ex has an excellent selection of oil paint , and grey. cavation was a cavity from which a box The tncst. distinguishing items of about eighteen inches square was re ings, all her own work. In Grant’s Pass there are 135 residen dress just now are three—transparent moved. There were no bits of wood in ces and buildings used for residences. J bonnet, transparent parasol and trans- the hole, aud from this fact it is believed There are 51 business houses all told. 1 parent fan. The whole either in cream that the box must have been a metallio shades and brown and black. The first one. Farmer Wilson’s wife, to whom A son of S. B. Withington, aged about for the young women; the latter for the discovery of the gold had been re 10 years, was drowned at Cottage Grove ( is their mammas’. Black and gray are lated, had become so overburdened with in the west fork of the Coast Fork last 1 the uniform of women who are no lon- the secret that she had to get another week. The Gazette says that the Chinamen at j ger young; custom obliges them to woman to help her keep it. And the Ellensburgli have received letters for all I wear mouuing for their departed youth. lucky discovery which the Wilson fam of them to go to San Francisco. Many ! A notable example was, however, re- ily intended should be kept a secret has | cently set by the mother of a bride, now become public property. They have gone. who instead of the regulation ash, fi-areu that the heirs of Mi Stump An attempt was made to burn Mon j [ pearl or steel gray, wore a lovely dre«s would claim the money and that they mouth, Polk county, last week, but the fire was discovered in time to prevent of brown and amber brocade, com- might be deprived of their suddenly ae- I bined with amber satin, covered with I quired wealth. Mrs. Wilson »aid that much damage. Harvest hands are scarce around Al exquisite brown and amber beaded em , the amount du; ig up was $150,000 in bany. Railroad work lias given em broidery. gold, but it is generally believed by Dressy watering-place toilets are dis those who have made est mates of the ployment to many hands, and in some tinguished by a novel arrangement of instances farmers are being compelled to contents of the box that about $50,000 employ Chinamen. drapery which stimulates an “order.” was found, and certainly not more than MINING NEWS. Rev. E. Hays was charged with burn It consists of a scarf of embroidered $75,000. At any rate the Wilson family tulle, lace or tissue, which crosses one is comfortably fixed and the object of $1 and $2 House. Single meals 23 cents. Spokane is building ore cars for the ing a subscription list before the M. E. shoulder and is carried down upon the their neighbors' envy. i conference at Union, and while there is Sample Rooms for Commercial Men Spokane Smelting and Mining company, The sl'p of paper is also said to ex and the Review remarks: “It looks like seemed no doubt of his being guilty, skirt where it forms a part of the en F. MULTNER, Prop. semble. A toilet displayed recently plain why Mr. Stump buried his money. mining industry to see this class of work his character was "passed.” Dairying will in time be an immense produced a similar effect in a still more In 1812 a British fleet entered tne Chesa being done in our city.” business in Tillamook county. Grass novel and highly artistic manner. The peake Bay, and after burning the Capi Nuggets of gold, varying in size from AV. V. 1’11 KJ 1C, the head of a pin to nearly half as large grows the entire season, and of rich dress consisted of cream wool, in the tol buildings at Washington sailed for as an ordinary hen egg, were brought to luxuriant growth and the yield of hay is form oi a princess polonaise, caught Baltimore. While General Ross pre rather than draped upon one side with pared to attack that city he sent detach Burns from the Burnt river mines this from two to four tons per acre. The sheriff of Clackamas conntv offers an enameled clasp, over a skirt braided ments northward along thé western week, and are on exhibition at Baker City. The mines in this county are just a reward of $100 for the arrest of John A. in a wide-geared panel, in dull blue and shore of the Chesapeake to burn the UpStairs in Adams' Building, being opened, notwithstanding the fact Mann, who escaped from the Oregon silver. One shoulder of the undress town and private residences. A portion that millions of dollars have been taken City jail. He is charged with shooting and the sleeves were braided to match of this town was reduced to ashes and MINNVILLE - - OREGON the workmanship so fine that it looked several dwellings on the outskirts were from the earth there during the past at a man named B. M. Wilson. twenty years. Hank Vaughan, the eastern Oregon like embroidery. The polonaise was sacked and burned. Among these was M’MINNVILLE BATHS! A Baker City paper says that a man terror, has been shot, probably fatally sleeveless, and its one shoulder was the house of Admiral Rodgers, of the W. H. Folliwell did it at gathered and held by a clasp similar to United States Navy. His silver was ring bought out A C Windham, I am prepared to just in from Pine creek brings informa wounded. do all work in first-class style. tion that the ledge has been struck rich Centerville on the 10th. It will not be the one which hold the sides of the ti ken, but before the war was over the skirt upon the left, hip.— Jenny June, in Admiral captured a British ship, on lies’ and Childrens’ Work a Srecialty! er and wider than ever on the Whitman, well for him if Hank gets well. and also that a fine body of free milling Hot and Cold Paths always ready for 25 cents. which he found his stolen silver. Gov On Wednesday of last week, while Chicago Journal. VERY MAN AM A KT 1 KT. ore was discovered on tiie Stella. Tiie hauling hay on Thompson creek, Jack- ernor Trazen led the militia against the ledge on tiie Whitman pinched out BROTHER GARDNER. son county, Jasper Darneille fell off a ! invaders. Old John Stump, who was C. H. Fleming. about a month ago, and the owners were loaded wagon and had an arm broken in thon much enfeebled by age, learned Third st rec*-, near C, McMinnville. Oregon. becoming discouraged at it; but after two places by the wheel passing over it. | What the Sage of the Limekiln Club Has that stories of his famous wealth had to Say About Mottoea. fitting through a ninety-foot dyke the L. KOO T, Jimmy Hodges is published as a grand 11 When the lights had been turned up reached the ears of the British at this edge was found again, and proved to be place, and that they contemplated an —DBAI.XR IS— richer than ever. The owners will no “bilk” by the Polk county Itemizes. [ strong and Elder Toots had coughed a attack upon his house to rob him of his This paper says Jimmy is engaged to be doubt erect a large mill at once. married to a Yamhill girl while said peanut-shuck out of his throat. Brother gold. To save his money he burned it roceries, Provisions. Jacksonville Sentinel: Henry Klippel Jimmy lias a wife and child at O lympia. i , Gardner arose and said: The intended attack was never made, I is now in Portland to get machinery for “I find heah on my desk a heap of and it is supposed that Mr. Stump was Crockery and Glassware. tiie new quartz mill of Baumle, Klippel A Fall wheat in Washington county is satisfied to have his treasure remain Co. If he fails to find there what be averaging from 25 to 29 bushels to the mottoes, watchwordsan’ maxims which where he had concealed it and that he AU goods delivered In the city. wants tie will go to San Francisco to acre. Many fields having the appear hev bin gathered together by de Com- died before he concluded to resurrect it. purchase. In the meantime work is ance of not yielding more than 15 bushels ' | mittee on Judiciary wid a view of re I It is also thought that he feared a sud being pushed on at the mill, the founda to the acre are making the farmers glad [ placin' de stock now hangin’ on de den death, and to leave some knowledge USTER POST BAND, tion being completed and the carpenters with a 25 to 28-bushel yield. Two years ago two men in the Foster walls. I has bin keerfully considerin’ behind him of the buried money he are now at work erecting the building. The Best in the State. The whistle will blow before long, and settlement, Clackamas county, died very de matter in my mind fur a week pas’, placed the slip of paper in the book. Mr. Stump made his money from the epared to furnish music for all occasions at reason then the roar of the stamps will li: mysteriously, and circumstantial eviden- 1 an' I doan’ like de ideah of a change. flour-mills which he built along Deer able rates. Address ces has pointed to a man named Kisten- : heard. De pusson w ho can’t stick to one motto creek, a narrow but swift stream which Mr. H. Bailey, of Yamhill county, macher as guilty, for some time. The • -I- ROWLAND, suspected man has been arrested, and is fur mo’ dan six months can’t be de- emptied into the Susquehanna. The Oregon, is building at the new mill of D. Business Manager, McMinnville. i pended on to stick by a job fur mo’dan farmers of Herford and Cecil Counties, Layton, in the Big Bend, a current water now in jail at Oregon City. this State, and of the southern counties People a few miles south of Salem are one. wheel of immense proportions arranged “If I was out o' cash, friendless, laid of Pennsylvania brought their grain to between two long boats to operate a considerably exercised over the mysteri pump for raising large volumes of water ous disappearance of John Pamrhen, a j up in a garret wid a sore heel an' a car- the Stump mills to be ground. He was M’MINNVILLE to mine for gold on certain bars on the Prussian, recently discharged from the I buncle, an’ spectin’ ebery day to be also a slaveholder and a farmer on an Columbia river in Lincoln county, known asylum. He disappeared in June, and toted off to the poo’ house, I doan’ extensive scale. During the war of the to contain large quantities of the metal. no trace has been found of him since. know but I might furnish de world wid revolution and of 1812 his flo ir sold as The principal appropriations in which some watchwords an’ savin's, but it high as one hundred dollars a barrel. News comes from Idaho City that rich placer diggings have been discovered Oregon is interested under the River and would hev to be under sich sareum- He was the wealthiest man of the sec Corner Third and D streets, McMinnville in Long valley. The accounts of theii Harbor bill as telegraphed are: Cas stances. About a month ago I begun tion, and he dispensed hospitality with richness are almost fabulous, and they cades, $187,500; mouth of the Columbia, tradin' wid a butcher who had bung up an open hand. His home was the resort Y’aquina bav, $75,000; Upper J in his shop de motto: ‘Live and Let of the old revolutionary heroes, who GAN BROS. & HENDERSON, are said to be equal to anything ever dis $187,500; covered in the famous Boise basin. As Willamette, above Portland, 75,000; I Live.' It struck me that the ideah was gathered around his sumptuous board Proprietors. a result a general stampede from the Coos bay, $33,750. a good one. He w anted his dries, an- he and related their cxpnrien'oes, and told basin is made to Long valley. For years Harvesting in Linn county developes would grant the same toodders. In about how half-equiped and poorly clad, they mining has been going on in a small way the fact that the yield of wheat will be a week he slipped a plugged quarter had cleared out the red-costs in many he Best Rigs in the City. Orders on the tributaries of the Payette and much larger than was anticipated a few | into my change; two days later my two engagements. mptly Attended to Day or Night, south fork of Salmon river, in that vicin weeks ago. Many fields of fall wheat pounds of beef was short three ounces; Sorti' of Mr. Stump'sde-cendantshave ity, but the returns have not been very which it was thought would not produce I nex’ week he charged me up wid occupied the most prominent positions large. The new diggings are said to be 20 bushels, when threshed have made an I , de fortv-eight cents’ worf of pork which in the State. His grandson, Henry W. on Spring creek, a tributary of the Paj average of 30 bushels per acre. | I nebber bad. I doan' trade dere any Archer, of Bel Air, is one of its best- ette. Many farmers around Salem have been mo', an' mv respeck fur his motto has known lawyers, and could have been elected Governor had ho wished to re trying a new class of harvest hands I dropped fifteen pegs. Flush Times for Nevada. during this season, with good results. “A naybur o’ mine took in a motto linquish his luci ative law practice. An BILLIARD HALL. A paper published in ^Nevada prints About thirty of the boys from the U. 8. 'bout a y'ar ago. It was: 'De Airly other grandson is Stevenson Archer, ex the following in its advertising columps: Indian training school at Chemawa have Burd Cotches de Worm.' In a leetle member of Congress and now State Strictly Temperance Report. IpOR SALE—The office of United States Sena- been given employment ¡in the harvest time I niissrd my hoc. Den de buck Treasurer. Another descendant is the tor for the State of Nevada, term running fields, and so far as heard from make I fix years from March 4, 1887, is hereby offered saw went. Den odder navburs’ loose late A. H. Stumn, pre-ident of a Balti food(?) Church members to the contrary not for sale to very satisfactory help. property begun to go. We got a more bank, while two others have sat withstanding THE HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH. In Josephine county the peach crop is policeman up dar' to watch, an when on the judicial benches of the State. Neither fitness, mental qualifications, moral Apples are about he caught de thief it proved to be de ] Miss Stump, formerly a Herford County character, residence, nor previous condition of exceedingly light. applicants will be considered half a crop. The grape crop is good. man wid de motto. He was de airliest | belle, is t j wife of Admiral Le Rov, of THE ONLY REQUISITE IS COIN. Berries have borne lightly. Plums and Orphans' Home No bids will be considered unless accompanied on dat hull street, an' de way he i New York, and another member of the prunes will yield lightly. Vegetables, burd family is the wife of Mr. Murray, of the i by a certified bank cheek for 1100 000 took in de worms was sad fur us. Deposits received from unsuccessful bidders melons, corn and other products in fav ! same city. “ If dar' am any members of dis club will be returned to them, subject to a slight TONSORIAL PARLORS, orable localities will yield heavy crops. Mr. Stump's surviving heirs will make •hrinkage for Grain and hay is fully up to the average. who can't keep to work widont some no effort to recover the money which PRIMAGE. INSURANCE, Ac. motto, 'bout industry behind 'em - only first clam, and the only parlor-like shop in the Blds should be addressed to Alexander Wilson luckily found.—.V. city None hut | SENATORIAL COMMITTEE. Forest fires in Wisconsin are doing who can't paT deir honest debts widont Y. World.______ Virginia City, Nevada, June 15, 1885. some motto bent honesty above 'em — great damage and people are suffering. The loss cannot be even estimated. who can't be good husbands an' father, —Dr. Hammond assorts that wear ng Thom« G. Robinson, the deputy U. Hundreds of homes, dozens of sawmills widont some scriptural quotashnn 8. marshal who, during a scuffle on the and lumbor camps, and millions of feet pasted in deir hata, such pussons had silk hats is the causo of baldness. That 8 door routs 0« Yamhill Const, Bank Bulldlnf. 10th with M. McWorter, editor of the of timber are in ashes. Acree upon better sever deir connexvn to once.''— is the reason why the writer is not bald. M c M innville , or eoo x He can not afford to be.— Lowell Citi Marysville Democrat, was shot by the acres of ripening grain wars laid waste. Detroit Fret Press. zen. | H. H. WELCH. I Uttar, died at Sacramento. The ordinary Paris agents de police, or policemen, are neatly uniformed in blue, with military cap and heavy overcoat in winter. Most of them have been soldiers, and they are ■elected for their height, erectness and military bearing. They have a certain air of dignity which seems to render them unapproachable, but if addressed politely they are usually amiable and impart all the information in their power. Lift your hand to one of them when you wish a favor anil, you will find him devoted to your service. They pace the streets in aii erect and method ical way, not allowing their attention to be distracted by any disorder that does not amount to a genuine disturb ance. An English or American policeman rushes in everywhere where the peace threatens to be broken, and is the first on hand to assist in case of accident. The Paris policeman seems to have no instructions of this kind. He waits till the peace is actu ally broken, and if there is a runaway he permits private citizens to pick up the wounded and gather together the ■battered remnants of the vehicle. His military stillness prevents his pursuing a thief with indecorous speed. He Deverlheless quickens his pace, at the Mme time raising theory, “Stopthief!” when perhaps some law-abiding person interposes or some nimble pedestrian joins in the ohase and effects the cap ture. Very little of the espionage or dirty work falls to his share. This is done by the secret agents called agents de mœurs, or by other names, by the department, but mouchards by other citizens, who detest them thoroughly. They are always in citizen's dress, but have a badge of authority which they show when necessary. To better perform their work they as sume the blouse of the laborer, the dress of priests, the white aprons of cooks and garçons, the silkhat, portfo lio and thoughtful air of the lawyer or lawyer's clerk, or the garb of mendic ity. Their business is to watch the criminal classes and to keep the morals of the city. They have the entry of houses at all hours without other legal authorization than their official posi tion. The mouchard is considered by the honest classes of Paris as no better than a blackmailer, who will let any one whom he has arrested escape for a gratuity, that is if the arrest has not been effected under such conditions of publicity as render it impossible. He and his calling are therefore looked upon as simply infamous. But though the mouchards are num bered by thousands, and though they are omnipresent, they have the assist ance of another class still lower and baser. These are the moutons. The mouton is usually a discharged crim inal, who is allowed to co-operate with the mouchard, giving him such infor mation as he can about other criminals or aiding him in the espionage of peo ple in respectable positions who it is thought need watching. It is hardly necessary to say that no mouton will ever betray any one to the police, no matter what the offense may be, if he can make any money ont of the offend er. Not only do they as a class con stantly try to extort money, but the qusBi-otficial protection which they re ceive allows them to continue a career of fraud and robbery which the police either ignore or condone. A portion of the mouchards, all the moutons, the professional blackmailers and the class that depends on the wages of criminals are therefore closely connected to gether. They aid, protect and conceal one another, and this result, comes naturally from a policesystem in which ■ecret espionage that confounds great criny>s with small plays so important a part. The police system of Paris, far the most costly in the world, must be judged by its fruits, and those fruits are the constant increase of all kinds of crime, especially those of violence and murder. If some thousands of those who are engaged in watching the morals of the community not so much with reference to purity as their own gain were put openly on the trail of a score of unknown murderers of the past winter it is possible that a capture might be effected.— Paris Cor. San Francisco Chronicle. ial Estate aud Insurance Agent, is Leading Hotel of McMinnville. HOTOGRAPHER ery, Feel nt Sale Stables, RPHANS’ HOME” Salem is to have ice works. Work on the Salem bridge has com- menced. Morkon the capital building is pro- rnP1. • for the s'aOleint brMge8PPr0Pnated $’5’°00 rrso.parent Boanoto, Parasols aad Fans for Fashionable Women. —One takes off his hat to two good grandmothers, whose pictures appeared recently in the Cincinnati Com»<erci<iL GazeH'.. Shriveled they are. and crow foot marks show plainly, but the pion eer mothers are one hundred years old. One, Mrs. Mary Small Camp bell, the mother of two Congressmen, was born on the Juniata river in this State, on March 20, 1786; the other, Mrs. Mary Smith, was horn at Salem, just down the Delaware, on the 6th of April. 1786, and before she migrated to Ohio lived within the sound of th- old Liberty Bell in Philadelphia Though her fingers are a century old. •Mrs. Smith can knit as good a stocking as ever went westward oh the foot of pioneer.— Chicago Herald. — In the camp at Yogo, Montana, a colored woman named Millie Ringgold has quite a reputation as a prospector. She spends most of her time in the mountains, and handles the pick and shovel with as much vigor and dexter ity as a man. She was the pioneer woman of Yogo, and ran the first hotel at that place in the early days. By economy and close attention to business she has coma into possession of some very valuable properties, and is in real ity to-day a bonanza qneen. The latest reports from Yogo stab; that she is the owner of the famous Garfield miuing lode, one of the richest sil er mines in the West. - Chicago Vast. I It