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»EHI-WEEKLY TELEPHONE M’M INN VILLE, OREGON, NOVEMBER 16, 1886 WEST SIDE'TELEPHONE.! ALONG THE COAST. I Two residents of Berryessa valley, OKLAHOMA BOOMERS. 1 Napa count'', Cal., have within the ---- Issued----- Devoted Principally to Washington Territory past six months killed twenty-one Army Officer« Heartily Tired of Chasing the Plucky and Persisting Settlers. coyotes and fifty-six wildcats. The and California. EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY farmers and stockgrowers pay $30 "It is not half so much fun chasing —IM— ( apt. J.M. Foley,a initier living near each for coyote scalps, so the business these boomers out of Indian Territory GirriMD's Bondins. McMinnville. Oregon, Eureka, Nev., was blown to death by may be considered as fairly profitable. as some folks imagine,” an army offi — BY- giant powder. The Pacific Coast Steamship com cer observed when questioned on the TalHR’íf0 Turner, William Trask fell through a rail- pany and the Oregon Navigation have subject. “You see, most of them are Publisher« and Proprietor«. | road bridge at Ravenna, Cal., and dis- agreed to pay stevedores in their em full of Yankee pluck and independence, located his spine. ploy at San Francisco $3 per day of and they don’t care any more for the SOBSCBIPTION RATES : nine hours’ work, and 40 cents for United States army than they would Garfield county, W. T., is organiz On»T“r........................................................ »? S? ing — a stock-grrwers and " farmers’ pro- overtime. The present rate of wages for a swarm of mosquitoes. You can’t SU month«................................ * 1 u - --- ’ — Three month» • is 30 cents per hour, day or night, and scare an American with the army, be ••• Ta tective association. ten hours’ work. Bute red in the PostoIHce at McMinnville, Or., Enough iron to lay three miles of cause he knows that the soldiers won’t as second-class matter. Articles of incorporation of the •hoot, and so we go marching around street railroad is expected to arrive at Shoalwater Bay Mill company have in military fashion, chasing this man | San Diego shortly. H. V. V. JOHNSON, M. D. While playing a game of baseball be< n filed at San Francisco, the object and that man, until the thing gets to be at \ entura, Cal., one of the players being to carry on a lumber and milling a good deal of a farce. Norlhwoat corner of Secund and B streets. i business in Oregon and Washington had an eye put out. “What is needed out here is a police I Territory. The capital stock is $150,- M c M innville - - • oregon A broad-gauge railroad is to be built 000, all of which has been subscribed. force of about two hundred men, armed May 1» found «t his offloe when not absent on pro- | from Guerneville, Cal., into the red with clubs. If I had such a command hsJousl buahiaat- | I wood forests ill Robert Henry, a longshoreman, was I would keep Oklahoma clear until the in that vicinitv. vicinity. At a recent theatrical performance shot in the back and badly wounded Government got ready to open it. The day 1 found two or three men LITTLEFIELD & CALBREATH, in Chico, Cal., the entire audience on board the British bark Persia. other The ship was at the wharf of the Ta and worn -n. with about a dozen chil consisted of just three persons. Physicians and Surgeons, Some very rich quartz ledges bear coma mill, loading with lumber for dren, over the line getting readv to Valpariso. John Solder did the shoot settle, and 1 told them they would have M c M innville AND LAFAYETTE. OB. ing free gold in large quantities have ing. He also beat another man badly to move on. been found near Alpine, Cal. w J. F. Galbreath, __________ M. D.. office over Yamhill County “Where to?” asked one of the men. with a belayingpin. Bank MoMinuville, Oiegon. “ ‘Anywhere,” says 1, ‘so long as fl R Littlefield, M. D., office on Main street, A hotel proprietor at Pasadena, Cal., The naked body of an unknown you get out of here. You can’t stay Lafayette, Oregon. has purchased thirty-nine burros for man was found in the ocean surf, the amusement of his younger guests. about eight miles from Coloma, Cal. here." “ ‘Why not?’ says he. S. A. YOUNG-, M. D. Gen. F.A. Walker has declined Sen The only clothing on the remains was “‘Because.’ I explained, ‘this is Gov ator Leland Stanford’s offer of the a pair of gaiter shoes, and stockings ernment land and you know it. You’ll Physician and Surgeon, presidency of the latter’s university. marked with red. An inquest was Ijave to skip.’ The Young Men’s Christian Asso held and the remains taken to Co M c M innville • - - O regon . "Well, they piled all their things i Office and re6denco on D street. All calls promptly ciation of Los Angeles is trying to loma for burial. There were no means and their children into a couple of big wagonsand started north. We watched aBiwerwl day or night. raise $50,000, with which to > raise a of identification. i building in that city. James Ferry, about 65 years old, them awhile, and concluded that they going for sure, but the next day, The huge carcass of a dead whale committed suicide at a lodging house were DR. G. F. TUCKER, when we passed that way, there they ; stranded in San Leandro bay. „. It was in Los Angeles by taking strychnine. were again in the old place. The DEATIST, a blackfig whale, some sixty-five feet He left a note saying: “This world spokesman colored up a little when he has been a hard world for me. I think saw me. and said: McMINN VILLE * - * OREGON. in length and thirty feet high. W. E. Bunce was killed by a perma best to leave it. I have led a temper Offlo« - Two doors east of Bingham's furniture “ ‘To tell the truth. Colonel, I just •tors. ture explosion in the Pinto mine at ate and moral life. If there is a here thought this thing was all red tape and Laughing gas administered for painloss oxtraction. Stockton, Utah. He was an old Ari after I hope to enjoy it.” Deceased that so long as you hail done your duty was a laboring, man. Td take the responsibility of coming zona and New Mexico prospector. Two stages from Cherokee to Oro back. I didn't think you’d be here so J. L. Baker, while riding a log to ST. CHARLES HOTEL It's a run, is it?’ the sawmill at Bogus, Cal., had his ville, Cal., ran into each other. One soon. “I told him it was a run and that if neck broken by the chain giving way stage was badly wrecked and three he came in again I would have to place and allowing the log to roll over him. lady passengers were injured. One of him under arrest. Then we escorted |l and ft Ilouie. Singlo meals 25 cents, had her head hurt on a rock, him and his party over the line, and The seines of a single fisherman, them had her chin cut to the bone and watched them for two or three days flat Sampl« Boom« for C«mm«roial Men near Seattle, recently landed no less one the third received a cut six inches until they strolled away. F. MULTNER, Prop. than 18,000 salmon. Several hauls long the head, the skin and flesh “Some of the boomers are worse than were made, the highest single one be being on cut through to the bone. fleas. Plenty of them have no women ing 5390. W. V. PRICE, B. McClellan came across a large and children with them, anil they move A Chinese “boss” named Tom Kee deer in the road near Santa Rosa, Cal., About with great celerity, 1 remember has disappeared from San Jose, taking which was almost exhausted from » few weeks ago we came across an old with him, it is said. $1600 which was running. He set his dog upon the fellow away down about twenty miles due to a gang of Chinamen for pick- deer and followed closely himself, fcoiu the line. He had actually hauled Up Stairs in Adams’ Building, I >ng grapes. The deer was finally brought to bay, in lumber and built himself a little A company has been organized and Mr. McClellan, picking up a large shantv, in which he had been living a M c M innville - - - orbgon which will make a thorough test of stone, struck the deer in the head, month or two. Over the door he had I the possibility of obtaining artesian felling it to the ground. Its throat scratched with a lead pencil, ‘John Kiley's Claim.’ When s.e rode up lie water on the dry plains about Winne was then cut, and it soon expired. was sitting out in front smoking his CUSTER POST BAND, ' mucca, Nev. John Wilson, a well-to-do black pip ■ anil reading his Bible. Thomas Howell, the Southern smith, hired two tramps to work in “ ‘What are you doing here?’ I The Beat in the State. Pacific Railroad fireman whose legs his vineyard at Los Angeles. While asked. Ia prepared to furnish music for all occasions at reason “ ‘Locatin’,’ said he. able rates. Address were so fearfully crushed recently by one of them talked very entertainly “ ‘Well, you’ll have to get out,’ I j being run over by a Hat caf, died at to Mr. Wilson, his partner slipped up JN. J. ROWLAND, j Los Angeles. continued. and stole $750 in gold coin Business Manager, McMinnville. “ ‘What for?’ he asked. i Daniel Wilson, while hauling a load stairs which Wilson had laid aside to pay his “ ‘Because ths land isn't open vet, I of tanbark near Ukiah, Cal., struck a taxes, and a $60 gold chain belonging and our orders are to remove every rut in the road,throwing his four-year- to Mrs. Wilson. The pair then strolled body found here.’ M'MINN VILLE | old eon under the wheels and causing out for a walk and have not yet re “ ‘Well, by thunder,' said the old I death in a few moments. man, ‘you can't remove one side of turned. The men who robbed the section Robert Evan Sproule was executed me. Not much, you can’t.’ Stepping | house at Iron Point, and subsequently at the county jail at Victoria for the inside of his cabin, lie brought out a Cerner Third and D streets, McMinnville | robbed one at Dillon, have both been murder of Thomas Hammill, on the rifle, and continued: ‘I wore that nniform of yours five years in | captured and are awaiting examina 3d of June, 1885, on the border of there Virginia when there was some mighty LOGAN BROS. & HENDERSON, tion at Winnemucca, Nev. Kootenai lake. There has been a di tall hustlin’ going on between the versity of opinion as to the guilt of Judge Murphy of San Francisco, Janies and the Potomac, and I'm cussed Proprietors. sentenced Frink Gleicliauf to impris the murderer, he having been con if I’m going to be lassooed in this onment for life. Gleichauf was con victed upon circumstantial evidence. way: I'm a peaceful settler, a-hurtin’ Ths Best Rigs in the City. Order» victed of the murder of Richard He asserted his innocence to the last. of nobody, and if the United States Promptly Attended to Day or Night, His request that his body be buried army comes a-pickin’ on me, then all Schultz in a brewery last July. there is to that me and Uncle Sam will Henry B. Standerwick, well known on American soil was denied. a row, and it's the first time, too. Jacob Morris has commenced in the have in journalistic circles all over the You just go along, now, and let me coast, died at Santa Clara, Cal., from Superior Court of San Francisco alone.’ “ORPHANS’ HOME” lung trouble. He was 30 years old, against M. J. McDonald and others to “I didn't want to make war on ont. recover $20,000 damages for the death old soldier who appeared to be enjoy and leaves a wife and one child. BILLIARD HALL. of his son, David William Morris. ing himself, and so I gave him a week A company with a capital of $100, boy was employed by defendants to vacate his claim and p issed on. As 000 has been organized to build an The their coal mine in Henryville, Coos luck would have it, it was a fortnight A Strictly Temperance Beeert. opera house at San Diego. The per in bay, Or. He was killed by an explo before we got around that way again, Son»« good(î) Ohuroh members ta the contrary not manent title to seats therein is being sion of gas, caused by failure, it íb al and then the cab:n was gone. He had withatanrUnf. sold at $500 each, to be chosen by lot. leged, of defendants to properly venti moved it away somewhere else, but we’ll run across him after awhile. Oliver Davis, a brakeman on the late the mine. "I don’t wonder that the people want railroad, was shot in the neck by a »» As a freight train was running “Orphans’ llom e tr.iMp, at Willows, Cal. He will live, along near Belgrade, Montana, a young to get into that country. It’s the pret the bullet passing through themuscles man named Jones, mounted on a tiest in the world. We destroyed some houses near a river bank that had been TONSORIAL PARLORS, of his neck anil coming out of his lively h< rse, began running a race occupied by several families. We had mouth. with the locomotive. He had not put them out two or three times, and th« uni, first cluM, and the only parlor-ilk« shop In the Martin Hayden wants $25,000 dam gone far when the horse began buck finally, to make a sure job of it, we city. None but ages from the Sacramento and Placer ing most obstinately, and becoming burned their houses. They had a First-class Workmen Employed. ville Railroad, because, as is alleged, he uncontrollable, either jumped or fell magnificent site for a town, and h id was struck by a tiain and “ deprived backward between the moving cars. selected it f >r that purpose. Their Flret deor south of Yamhill County Bank Building. of his mind.” The case is now on Young Jones was cut almost in two leader, a shrewd young fellow, came to M c M innville , O regon . across the hips; his legs were cut and me afterward, and wanted to make an trial at Sacramento. arrangement by which he could get Ills H. H. WELCH. The mackerel caught in Santa Bar broken and his skull crushed. clamps on that particular section the Joseph Martin, one of the first bara, Cal , channel are said to be day the Territory was opened. He An Odd German lax. superior, when salted, to the Eastern settlers of Stevens county, W. T., was thought I could help him to it if J found dead in his bedroom in the wanted to. and he said if I would, he It is well known that at every Ger article, and it is probable that a busi man watering-place the visitor, in ad ness will be made of catching and Haltway house, between Chewelah and would give me my pick of the corner Colville. Parties coming to the house lots. I had to tail him that that was a dition to being required to pay liberally preserving those fish. matter with which I could not inter for his necessities and luxuries, is sub A customs inspector at Tacoma found the door unlocked, anil going in fere. jected to a "euro tax,” which varies seized two trunks which he was cer saw the dead body of Martin lying on “We meet with a good many s i the floor in a pool of blood. On ex according to locality, but is in no case tain were filled with opium, but after amination it was found that Martin cases, too, and I shall be glad when inconsiderable. The Berlin Borsen- considerable trouble they were opened had been killed by a pistol ball which the country is opened up. —Hunne Courier for the first time raises the ques and found to contain coal specimens, had passed through his heart. He well (Kan) Cor. N. Y. Sun. tion whether there exists any legal neatly packed in cases. was dressed only in his night clothes, warrant for exaction of this “cure —.sot many years ago John Hunt A man was run over and killed near which were not powder-burned, which ington tax.” and suggests that it might be was an oil ladler, working at San Jose by a freight train. He was disapproves the theory of suicide. well for some courageous forei.nerto day wages. He is now one of the taken to the morgue, where lie was refuse to pay it, and submit the mat largest stockholders in the Standard ter to a legal test. Or. since this is identified as John King, a German I If every farmer who cuts down a Oil Company, and Cleveland people He had been drinking and tree will plant a young one in its es'imate his wealth at more thas five the time of strikes, says the Borsen- Swiss. Courier. why .«hould not ail the guests did not notice the train as it came I place, the result will be a constant mill on dollars.— Cleveland Leader. at some popular watering place organ along. supply of timber and fuel as well as I --Some Earthmen from the interior ize and stride against the “cure tax?” of Africa, now in London, are only The 40 mile section of railroad west a , pro' u —London Te'ograph. The natural life of sheep is shorter four feet in height. They live almost of Ellensburgh will be finished and domestic ani-1 entirely under ground, and subsist on -wop, tney say, can take measles ready for inspection by the Usited than that of any other is the limit of of I : insects. They u<te use a sign language, from children. They are quite wel States Commissioners by Nov. 15th. mal. Five or six years ough come to them all. Measles can “go to The remainder of the line from the 40- practical usefulness, though valuable These people are the lowest in the of humanity of any yet diacov- tbs dogs," and no one will complain.— mile sectibn to the main tunnel will be breeding ewes may be kept one or two serie years longer by careful treatment. ' I «red. *’*J Boston Poti. ..nished about December 1st. The Leading Hotel of McMinnville. PHOTOGRAPHER Limy, Feed and Salo Stables, NO. 45 LAWYERS IN POLITICS. , OF ro’iilnent Public Men Who Began Ufe as Humble Members of the Bar. Alexander Stephens was admitted to lie bar when ho was twenty-two, and iis first year netted him $40). He got ■ingle fees of $20,000 before he died mil was considered one of the greatest lawyers of tho South. Thomas Jefferson was making $5,000 a year at the bar when he first began to dip into politics, and had he stuck to it he would probably have died a very rich man. Polities ruined him and he died a bankrupt. Alexander Hamilton was a lawyer, and he went back to New York to practice law after he ¡eft the Treasury. Aaron Burr was one of the most money-making of the lawyers of his lay, and he made as high as $40,000 in a single case. Hamilton made $10,000 a rear on an average, it is said, and William Wirt thought he was doing well when his yearly fees ran up as high as $6,000. There is hardly a big lawyer of to day who is satisfied with loss than $15.000 or $20,000 a year, and the fees of many lawyers amount to more than the President's salary. I saw Ben Butler in the streets of Wash ngton the other day in new clothes, and I am told that his pro fessional income is not less than $100,- 000 a year. Bob Toombs made $50,000 in the first five years of his practice. John Sherman thought he was doing well when he started out as a young lawyer and saved $500 a year. Daniel Webster got big fees, but he always spent more than ho made, and he was constantly in debt. Abo Lincoln did well at tho law, and James Buchanan made $938 the first year of his practice and increased this amount in the fifth year to over $5,000. In 1821 he made $11,000, but after ho got into politics his practioi) dropped off, and during his later years he prac tically ceased legal business. Samuel Cox got $25 for his first law case, and Spooner, of Wisconsin, was receiving a salary of $10,000 a year as a railroad lawyer before he wont to Washington. Senator Payne, of Ohio, began life as a lawyer. Teller and Bowen got their first start at the bar. Charley Felton, who is perhaps the richest man in the lower House, studied law for six months and only tried one ease. But he left the law for specula tion, and made a half dozen millions outside of tho court business. Senator Eustis, of Louisiana, is a law professor, and Bayard studied law after he found he was not cut out for a merchant. Pig-Iron Kelley has been a lawyer and a judge. Holman earned some of his first money at the law. Ingalls studied law in Massachusetts and went West to practice. Senator Voorhees is one of tho most noted of our criminal lawyers, and Hendricks was a very successful man at tho bar. Judge Hoadly was making $30,000 a year when he was elected Governor of Ohio, and Thurman worked his way up through the law and into politics. Tom Reed is a lawyer; McKinley, of Ohio, practices law. and all tho digni taries on the Supreme Bench have, of course, made big legal reputations be fore they got their appointments. Nearly all our Presidents have been lawyers, and all of them except Wash ington, Harrison. Taylor and Grant were members of the bar. Martin Van Buren was engaged to be married before he began topractico, and it was some years before his in come was large enough for him to wed. Andy Johnson studied law after he was married, and his wife taught him the handwriting in which he prepared his legal papers. Both Millard Fillmore and Grover Cleveland were Buffalo lawyers, and they both had goo 1 practices. Frank Pierce used to make as much as $8.000 and $10,000 a year at the law, and he preferred the bar to politics. At present it is not uncommon for a half-dozen Representatives to be away from Washington City at a time trying law cases Frank George Carpenter, in Cleveland Leader. SVANSTIAN BREAD. An Article of Food Which Would Defy the Dij'e'ttive Power« of an Ostrich« At la’t '.t has been discovered whore the worst bread in the world is ma le— it is in Svanstia, among the Caucasian mountains. After reading the follow ing description by a recent travelor, we ought to be thankful even if our bread should be slightly sour or a little heavy some times: Conceive a thing like a large Sally Lunn, only (latter, made of a mixture of the coarsest oatmeal and sand, very heavy, more than half sour and very wet. When you have imagined this, you have imagined the thing which the jnsoyhisticated Svan looks upon as the stall of life. Still, bad as it was. only one .if our party refused to eat of it, snd tlint one our interpreter. Platon. At lirst J wasvery angry with him. con sul. nng that as lie had been bred in the ■■vnptry, what was good enough for I u« ought to be gooil I enough for hi him. Hut h<- was right for all that, as our dis ordered digestions anil a violent attack of 'iearl-l»iirn told us next morning I'o cat the bri ad of Svanstia with im punity. even an ostrich would require to b- nourished on it from earliest in fancy. ot ierwise it would assuredly In to« tuuch even for his digestion. I GENERAL INTEREST. —Zip, Horsefly, Stiff, Shad and Fodder are high-sounding name« of post-oilices recently estabnshed in tha West and South.— Chicago Herald. —A deed covering thirty-three pages of legal-cap paper, averaging eleven words to the line and thirty-two lines to the page, thus containing eleven thousand six hundred and sixteen words, was recently recorded in Moln- tosh County, Ga. —A twelve-year-old boy in Pleasant Valley, ()., attempting to draw water from a well fifty feet deep, fell-in. 'lie went to the bottom without hitting the stonos on tho sides, grasped the rope, and was drawn out in safety by his mother and sister.— Toledo Blade. —An old soldier attending the Knights of Pythias convention at To ronto attempted to alight from a mov ing train at Canandaigua one day re cently, when ho slipped and foil iu such a manner that the wheel of the car passed over his wooden hand and severed it from the arm. —John Wade, one day recently, at Cowantown, Md., punished his vicious bull-dog with a pitchfork. The next when Wade came home he was met at the gate by the revengeful canine, which attacked him and was terribly mangling him when he was rescued. The brute was killed. — Baltimore Sun. — Ona of the greatest advertisers of ancient times was Trajan, who inserted a whole column in the Boman Forum. He put a cut of himself at the top of the column, and ordered the whole thing to run daily “tf.” The result was that Trajan sold out his whole stock long ago, and retired from busi ness.— Springfield (Mass.) Union. —A Philadelphia physician says that a great deal of what passes for heart disease is only mild dyspepsia, that nervousness is commonly bad temper, and that two-thirds of the so-called malaria is nothing but laziness. Prob ably he doesn’t tell his patients so, but there ia no doubt a good deal of truth in what ho says__ Boston Budget. —Now Mexico newspapers tell of a "norther” that passed over the north ern edge of Lincoln County accompan ied by hail-stones as large as a man’s fist, doing great damage to sheep. One man lost 3,000 killed, another 5,000, a third 4,000 out of a herd of b wv Merinos and Cotswolds. Several beeves and some cattle were killed, and it was rumored that the hail killed two herd ers also. —A table giving the price of gas in ninety-five of the principal cities of the United States shows a total range in price of from ninety cents to four dol lars per one thousand foot. Tho low est price is in Wilkesbarre, Pa., and Wheeling, W. Va., near the heart oi the coal regions, and tho highest rules in Galveston and San Antonio, new places and far removed from coal.— Chicago Times. —A sanguine young man in Now York has started what seems to bo a new line of business, lie has a lot of shot- guns, s’ngb >d double-barreled, that ho prepo lend, for a considera- ay, week, month or year. tion, by t> j -ay, yi lie reasons that in apopulation so large as that of New York there must bt> a great many people who would like to go hunting if>tliey only had guns, so he steps in "to supply along-felt want.” — In Epping, N. H., where a number of (¿linkers reside, says the Newbury port Herald, one of tho Friends was disciplined for not attending the meet ing of tho society, ami among the ohnrgos was one that he did not attend the funeral of members of the society. When the old gentleman heard this he was willing to acknowledge his short comings, and made a confession, say ing: “1 shall be right glad to attend all their funerals.” When Isaiah Thomas, of Massa chusetts. was printing his almanac for the year 1780. one of the boys asked him what he should put opposite tho "13th of July.” "Any thing, any thing.” The boy, thus ordered, returned to the office and set "rain, hail and snow.” The country was all amazement when the day arrived, for it actually rained, hailed and snowed violently. From that time Thomas' Almanac was in great demand. -Baltimore American. —A lively time was experienced by an apiarist recently at Bruce Town- «hip, Ont., when sixteert swarms of his bees camo oil' at the same time and besieged a branch of a tree, where they formed a huge roll several feet in cir cumference and live feet long. He separated them, finding out each of the sixteen queen bees, which ho put into a hive, anil gathered enough boos to make a swarm, until he had the whole sixteen quietly settled in new hives. —The new rose. Her Majesty, is so popular .hat five hundred bushels were sold at one auction during the present season in New York. Howers, like everything else, have their day of fash ion. and when the latter changes nei ther beauty nor fragrance avails. The jacqueminot rose is still a favorite, but the present craze for daisies and butter cups has impaired its sale. Last year they were retailed for five cents, but now you can buy a half-dozen for that sum, an I they are sold singly at one c. nt. — ,V. Y. Mail —A man who believes and strictly adheres to the adage. "Mind your own buxines«,” is employed in the New York Custom House. During a long illness of ha wife, to whom he was greatly at tached. he carefullv refrained, from let ting anv of bia fellow employes know that anything was wrong at borne, and when she died and he had to lay off to attend the funeral, he announced th« fact by leaving a note to ’bis «fleet on hia desk: "Gone to Auburn on busi ness.”— N. Y. Herald.