8E1II-WEEKLY TELEPHONE. VOL. I. west side telephone .1 M’MINNVILLE, OREGON, FEBRUARY 4, 1887. DON JUAN MANUEL, i -----Ibsued----- There is in Mexico a street lined by the tallest and most sumptuous build­ ings, where for years have lived wealthy Garrison's Batldiu. McMinnville, Oregon, and prominent merchants. Situated in —BY — the most populous, the most central part Talmnyfe Ac Turner, of the city, it is what we may call an aristocratic street. Pabliahsra and Proprietors. Nevertheless, its aspect is dreary by day, and by night lugubrious. The great SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One y«ar,................................................................ J? zaguans (street-doors) of ancient carved Sjxiuontha...................................................... I So wood seem the entrances to castles; on Three uiouthB................................................... 7a I tile high wails of the buildings are pro­ Entered in the Postoffice at McMinnville, Or., I jected, in a most singular manner, the as second-class matter. lights and the alternate shades of the street-lamps, and from the Churriguer- cornices of the balconies phantoms H. V. V. JOHNSON, M. D. esque appear to detach themselves, which now Northwest corner of Second and B streets, blend and hide in the zaguans, now ascend to the roof cornice, and there MCMINNVILLE - - - OREGON peep and laugh, showing deformed and May be found at his office when not absent on pro- fantastic shapes to the people who pass. lokiunal bustness. Thus to my imagination appeared one dark night, cold and windy, the street LITTLEFIELD & CALBREATH, of Don Juan Manuel. A dear friend of mine was dying that night, and I had to Physicians and Surgeons, go in search of a good priest, to bestow the last benediction which the Christian M c M innville and lafayette . or craves on the day he departs this life J F. Calbreath, M. D.. office over Yamhill County forever. Bank McMinnville, Oiegon. j R. Littlefield, M D., office on Main street, That night, at intervals, gusts of icy lafayette, Oregon._________________________________ wind blew from off the volcanoes, and now and then great rain-drops fell, S. A. YOUNG-, M. D. which the wind beat and dashed against (lie dark panes within the balconies; in Physician and Surgeon, die whole street there was no living M c M innville - - - cregon creature but a lean black dog, gnawing a bone thrown out by some servant. Office and residence on D street. All calls promptly The oil-lamps cast shadows rather than aanwered day or night. light, and the small reddish flame trem­ bled sinisterly in the black tin holder. DR. G. F. TUCKER, The watchman slept at the corner, wrapped in his dark-blue mantle, and DENTIST, the echo of footsteps on the flags of the M c M innville - - - oregon . walk resounded along the whole extent street, at once dismal and Office-Two doors east of Bingham’s furniture of the majestic, and broke the silence, now Laughing gas administered for painless extraction. and then disturbed also by the croak of some nightbird. This is the historic legend of the street ST. CHARLES HOTEL of Don Juan Manuel: In the year 1636 the street was not in the condition that wayfarers now be­ $1 and 82 House. Single meals 25 cents. hold it. Mexico was already, as it Fine Sample Booms for Commercial Men. were, planned and arranged, but the streets, with few exceptions, were not F.MULTNER, Prop. finished. There were large, fine houses close beside others of poor and defective construction; some had high, well-made W. V. rilK'E, fences protecting their gardens, while in others, in the Celada (now the street of San Bernardo) and in that of which we speak, there were scattered among houses many vacant ground plots, fenced Up Stairs in Adams’ Building, in only with wood, or adobes, or dry M c M innville - oregon dry thorn brush. The owner of the houses and grounds in that road was a cavalier called Don Manuel. He was a personage sur­ CUSTER POST BAND, Juan rounded in all directions by shadows The Best in the State. and mysteries which never let him be Ii prepared to furnish music for all occasions at reason seen in all the true reality. At night he able rates. Address would enter the palace of the viceroy, muffled to the eyes in a long black N. J. ROWLAND, cloak, and there he would remain for Business Manager, McMinnville. , hours, conversing. None would see him come forth, and some who, from curi­ osity, watched him go in, declared that M’MINN VILLE before knocking at the private door of the palace, Don Juan Manuel would un­ muffle himself, cross himself thrice, Corner Third and D streets, McMinnville and, drawing a silver-handled rapier, he would test it, examine its point, and return it to the sheath. And they LOGAN BROS. & HENDERSON, then who saw this feared that the viceroy some morning would be found murdered Proprietors. in his bed. Don Juan Manuel was a very charita­ The Best Rigs in the City. Orders ble man. It was told of him that he was once visited by a widow who had Promptly Attended to Day or Night. two charming daughters, young and fair. Don Juan Manuel bestowed $5,000 upon each of the girls, and refused even to see them. Don Juan Manuel was of jealous BILLIARD HALL. nature. It was said that his wife was an illustrious lady of rare beauty, but none had ever seen her, for she remained A Strictly Temperance Resort. shut within the house, and only left it | odm good (?) Church members to the contrary not­ to go to mass at 5 o’clock of a morning, withstanding. wrapped in a great black woolen cloak. No one visited the house, and none en­ tered there save the confessor, who now “Orphans’ Home” and then went to drink chocolate there after mass. Don Juan Manuel was brave. One TONSORIAL PARLORS, night six robbers set upon him, armed The only first class, and the only parlor-ilk® shop In th* with daggers. He drew his sword of the fashion Cid Kuy Diaz, and setting oity. None but iiis back against a zaguan door, he let First - rlnMR Workmen Employed none of them approach him until a First door south of Yamhill County Bank Building patrol came to the rescue, who after­ ward found the trails of blood made by M c M innville , oregon H. H. WELCH. the assailants, all wounded by the one man. Don Juan Manuel was not a good Well-Grounded Conviction. man, but pious; he confessed and took Most persons have opinions. Now j the sacrament every week; he disciplined •nd then a person has convictions. A himself every night at the nearest •nan with an opinion is of small con­ church; he relieved many of the poor, sequence for or against a cause assisted at the feasts of the Virgin, and •bout which he has an opinion. A paid for tapers and lamps which burned •"an with a conviction is always a day and night in the churches. Power in the direction of his convic- All this was told of Don Juan Manuel, fion. As a rule, the men who have but in reality he was a most mysterious opinions arc waiting to be led by men man, of whom it might be assumed that *ho have convictions. Commonly one all knew him, and none knew him truly. •nan with a conviction can lead, say If asked to describe him. one said he was uoni one hundred to five million, men tall of stature, very straight and stately, *ho merely have opinions. Its a with a face pale and almost jaundiced, a Peat thing to have a well grounded thick black beard, and black, sparkling, •onviction —on any subject; anil it is leep-'set eyes. Others, on the Comparatively a rare thing.— S. 8. contrary, averred that he was Times. but of ordinary height, with charitable countenance, .—“"’hat is the matter with yon. mild and •ohnson. yon bark so?” “Oh. noth- with eves expressive and full of sweet- ln-- only I slept out under a tree Iasi ,<«. and only a short mustache. Neither could all agree as to his garb, •»ihL”-_c«r( Pretzels tt'eekbt. Legislature of the State of the best informed concurring m that he ‘ *’”ra, Mexico, has exempted from all wore always black, while others had 'n"icipal taxation any ice factories I noted his elegant, hood less cloaks; but "t are or may be established withill ' ihs greatest number were unanimous in •MSlal- EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY I —IM— The Leading Hotel of McMinnville. PHOTOGRAPHER Livery Feed and Sale Stables “ORPHANS’ HOME” saying that at night he might be met tn the darkest streets, going in and out of mean-appearing houses, wrapjied in a long cloak. Sueli was the gossip of the vulgar, which, starting from a foundation of truth, poetizes and reverses things and forms, giving to them the strange, in­ definite. or mysterious character which so delights the human imagination. Thus originates the greater part of the legends and traditions of every people. Time went on and on, and every year added some particular, some new stroke to the character of Don Juan Manuel as portrayed. Suddenly the cavalier ve umself over completely to relig- is devotion, and from this he went to a melancholy so black and deep at no one could console him. His eeks became sunken, a purple circle peared around his eyes, and his clear, ute complexion turned to an opaque, my yellow, that at once revealed that wav consumed by terrible physical fferings, as well as by spiritual illness. >r some time Don Juan Manuel re­ gained shut in his house, and none had >‘ech of him. Then, in secret, and >-ith a thousand reserves, the vomen who were old and devotees declared that Don Juan Manuel had node a compact with the devil, and liey blessed themselves and showed the ross for the Evil One. The truth per Paps was that Don Juan Manuel was jealous of his wife, with whom he was madly in love; and as he could not dis­ cover nor prove with certainty who ii was who robbed him of his honor, In was on the verge of madness from rage and despair. One night the body of a murder,- man was found in that street; bur. a there was absolutely no police vigilanc- at that time, and the city was unlighteJ and robbers abounded, this niisfortun, was attributed to them. However i was remarked that a large sum of tnonej was left in the pockets of the victim. Within a week, another corpse lay ii the street now called after Don Juan Manuel. The next day another, aim another, and, periodically thereafter, others. The city was full of terror— several of the dead men belonging to the best known and most honored families in the city. The question was, who vas the author of those crimes? The vulgar answered that, entirely led away by the devil, to whom he had surrendered his soul on condition of being shown the lover of his wife, Don Juan Manuel went forth every night front his house, closely muf­ fled, with a short dagger in his hand, and when he encountered any man nerr tiie house, blinded by jealousy, he would infer that this was one of the many who were resolved to injure his honor, and so asked the other: “What is the hour?” “Eleven o’clock,” the wayfarer would answer in all innocence. Then— “Happy art thou wlib knowest th» hour of thy death!” would respond Don Juan Manuel, and at the same time strike his dagger into the heart or thio-t of his victim, whom he would leave dead and bathed in blood, while he re­ turned home, whence was heard the formidable clang of the hoavy door closing, after which all remained in silence and in gloom. me most aangerous hours were from 11 to 12 at night, and few, even if in quest of the Holy Oil, would venture to pass through that street after 8 at night, unless accompanied by two or three guards. However, some there were, who from incredulity, or from dire ne­ cessity, did pass through the domains of Don Juan Manuel, and sure it was that that night knowing exactly the hour, they would fall victims to the sanguin­ ary fury which the demon had inspired in that cavalier. The fact was that the murders were committed with fre­ quency. that the bodies were found next day with all their apparel and valuables, and that, in whispers and murmurs, Don Juan Manuel was pointed out as the author of the crimes: but the visibl“ tes­ timony was all to the contrary. Don Juan Manuel, although sad and gloomy, attended mass, gave alms, and visited as of yore his friend the viceroy. Who would dare accuse a man so wealthy and respected without even proof to offer against him? T hus all the world talked of the matter, but were content with shutting themselves within doors as soon as sounded the call for prayer for lost souls. There was in the street of Don Juan Manuel—probably about where Senor Dozal's superb building stands—a house of poor aspect, which was the property of a bcata—a devotee—of some fifty years old. One of the errors to which youth is victim, when confiding too much in the other sex, had caused Mother Mariana, as she was called, to the habit of devotee, promising, further, to recite daily credos of the Precious Blood, equal in number to that of the current day of the month; on the 25th, for instance, she spent a long time in re­ peating the twenty-five credos which fell to her lot. Thus, she never slept earlier than midnight. In that unpaved street, dark, silent, and entirely deserted after 8 o’clock at night, there was seen but one light, like a lonely, distant star in a cloudy sky; it was the light that came from the narrow shutters of the beats Mariana, who lighted a little lamp be­ fore an image of Jesus Christ, that was tied to a post, and she did not close her shutter until after she had said her credos. Nearly every night she heard a door close noisily, and that sound oc­ curring always at the same hour caused her to w itch until she was satisfied that NO. 68. *- «as vue uoor ot tne house of Lion SYMPTOMS OF TYPHOID FEVER. _ ALL ABOUT GLASS CUTTING. Juan Manuel. One night, toward the end of the i It» Hard Work—Very Expensive for Poo» Point» by Which a Common and Often month, when her prayers were long, Fatal Disease May Be it ecognized. People—Strong and Careful Workmen. while on her knees before the image, When a person becomes ill, suffering “ There are six processes for cutting she heard a moan; she put out the light, with slight chills, loss of appetite, fre­ and, approaching the shutter on tiptoe, glass,” said the manager. “The first it quent nose bleeding, irregularity of the termed roughing. An iron wheel, on cautiously put forth her head. A man bowels, coated tongue, rapid, weak was running, and another, following, which sand mixed with water drips con­ pulse, a body teni|>erature rising regu­ overtook him almost at Mariana’s very tinually, digs out the pattern. As then larly about one degree daily till 105 de­ door, and gave him four or five stabs. are only a few lines traced on the glass gree Fahrenheit is reach I, with fugi­ The man groaned piteously, and fell a whereby to go, this is a very difficult tive pains, especially iu the back and short distance away. The murderer task. All glass cutting is done by cross­ head, with progressive muscular and left him, and shortly the beata saw anu ing certain straight lines at certain mental weakness and and inclination to heard that a door softly opened, and a points. If, in glass cutting, the wheel be stupid, the presumption is vory strong moves slightly from the line the whole that the patient has typhoid fever, and cloaked man went in at it. This door was in the house of Don piece of glass is ruined. The workmen this notion is much strengthened it, are therefore compelled to keep their with the above symptoms, there be a Juan Manuel. Mariana went to her bed full of ter- eyes on their work all the time. Tin tumid abdomen, gurgling on pressure on tor, and the following day, when the glass itself is made in Baccarat, Ger the right side. body had been found, she went to relate many. It is the finest glass made. It is These symptoms may exist about four­ to her confessor what had hap;>ened, and termed metallic because a large part of teen days and gradually abate anil the told him her strong suspicious. The it is silver. It is bought by the pound patient recover, but the patient may. on priest obtained an audience with the and is very expensive in the bulk. It is, tho other hind, go on from bad to viceroy and told hint the occurrence, but therefore, no easy task to hold it free, worse and finally lie destroyed by ex­ the viceroy only laughed and told the is tiiese workmen do for hours at a time. haustion, perforation of the bowels or “ihe second process is called smooth­ bowel hemorrhage. If on examination father that all this was vulgar gossip, which should not be repeated or noticed. ing. The wheel used for this is made of of the body of oue dead under tho above Water runs cirouinstances there be found nuiuer >us Mariana, however, had told the other Scotch Craigeth stone. beatas, and thenceforth the terror in­ freely ou it as it revolves. It smooths patches of inflamed surface in the bowel creased, and the apparitions were more out ’all the rough edges on the lines known as tho “ileum" it is perfectly dreadful. It was said that from the w »ich have been dug out in the first proper to ascribe the death to typhoid scaffolds and rubbish where the cathe­ process. fever. “After this comes the different modes dral was building, came forth every Fri­ The poison of the disease, which is of polishing. A wooden wheel and day night a procession of monk-like fig­ probably a microscopic plant, exists ures, wearing sackcloth robes and black | powdered pumice stone are used first. mainly in the bowel evacuations of those Capuchin hoods that covered their faces. These take out. the wrinkles on the uur- sick of the disease. It is true that this These faces were decaying and part j face of the glass. Then follows a brush substance has never been isolated and flesliless, for these were no less than the I and putty powder. Lastly, a buff wheel, shown to men as one would show asuni- victims of Dun Juan Manuel, arisen from 1 made of nearly fifty pieces of canton ple of wheat or other seed, but it exists their graves. Those clothed in the habits flanel and rouge. The pieces of flannel all the Bame, and when a person devel­ of fitars marched to the cathedral grave­ six) loose, but the machinery causes ops the disease it is because he has swol- yard with thick tapiers in their hands, them to revolve so rapidly, about 3,000 Iowed some of the poison with his drink, and chanting, in tones that seemed to revolutions to the minute, that the most likely, and it passes along the ali­ issue from the tomb, the prayer for the wheel seems as hard as a board. This mentary canal till it finds a good soil in dead. They carried an empty coffin, last process not only polishes, but im­ which to grow—that is. in the position and, bearing it to the street of Don Juan parts a beautiful gloss to the surface of indicated, known ns “Byers’ patches.” a Manuel, they brought it back thence, the glass. Then it is finished and ready glandular formation bearing the name holding a man, bound hand and foot. tor our counters down stairs. ot a learned physician long since dead. “There have been very few changes in There was a gallows in the atrium of It is probable that some in vigorous the art of glass cutting for centuries. the cathedral, and they put within it the health might take small am >unts of this Except that we now use steam instead neck of the man, extinguished the poison into the system and escape un­ tapers, and chanted the “Miserere.” of foot?power, we have no advantage hurt. A temperature of 212 degrees, Every week this was repeated, and they over the cutters of 200 years ago. There that is, the boiling point, kills tho poison who chanced to see that awful proces­ are only two manufacturers of the of all zymotic diseases. Here in brief is sion returned home sickening of fever, rough meta! * this country, and their the sum of the prevention of the trouble: and within a few days died.—Manuel glass is of inferior quality. Workmen Maintain a high state of the general have to serve a long apprenticeship be­ Health and boil all suspected water lie- Payno. » •••••• fore they master the trade. An expert fore using. In fact it is well to use It was many years before the partial workman reeeives high pay. It is very nothing but boiled water when any epi- truth was known of what appeared to close, confining work and makes them | detuic disease prevails. be only a tale. Then Don Jose all look pale. A great many Swiss and Some typhoid fever patients will re­ Gomez de 1»« Cortina published a Bohemians are employed. The cutting cover by rest in bed using only liquid work entitled “La Calle de Don Juan of lapidary stoppers is the most difficult food. Others will die in spite of the Manuel,” from which the following brief work. It requires the greatest exact­ best attention. These last are either ness because tiiere are so many diamond constitutionally weak or received enor­ statement is condensed: “Don Juan Manuel de Solorzano was shaped figures in a email space. Very- mous doses of the poison. E iteric fever a renowned Spanish gentleman, a native few can do this work well. There is is much the better name for the trouble of Burgos, who came to America in the one old man in this country who is in question.—Philadelphia Times. suite of the Viceroy Don Diego Fernan­ 'ooked up to by all the other workmen. Benefit» of Loiughter. dez de Cordoba, marquis of Guadalcazar. They say he carries a charm. He1 is Probably there is not tlie remotest Don Juan Manuel was on most friendly the most expert cutter of lapidary stop­ •erms with the viceroy of his day, pers in the country. Not only does he Corner or little inlet of the minute blood and he was sent oil divers mis­ ■ut them all perfectly, but he gives ve.sels of the body that does not feel sions to Spain. Aliout 1636 he i hem a finer polish than anybody else some wavelet from the great convulsion married Dona Mariana Laguna, •an. He is closely watched by his fel- produced by hearty laugiiter shaking the only child and heiress of a rich miner of ow workmen, who say they have ob- central main. The blood moves more Zacatecas. After receipt in Mexico of lerved him take something from his lively—probably its chemical electric or the uprising in Catalona, the viceroy be­ l>ocket and rub the stopper with it He vital condition is distinctly modified—it came the victim of the Audiencia. which has been offered large sums for his se- conveys a different impression to all the organs of the body as it visits them on body long had sought to depose him, and ret, but has always refused to sell it. “Colored cut glass is very expensi e. that particular mystic journey, when Don Juan Manue^was involved in the disaster and reduced to prison by order The color is put on in the sam i way as the man is laughing, from what it does of the alcade, Don Francisco Velez de ilver plate, and then part of it is cut at other times. And thuB it is that a Pereira. Don Juan Manuel took his re­ iway. It leaves the blended effect of good laugh lengthens a man’s life by verse calmly and was patiently awaiting •olor and no color. Many customers conveying a distinct and additional stim­ in prison a change of fortune, when he ■ring us original designs which they ulus to the vital forces. The time may was advised that the alcalde visited his vish made. Many of them are very come when physicians, attending more wife oftener than was required by mere sid, and some are impossible to make." closely than they do now to the in­ numerable subtle influences which the politeness. Through the influence of a —New York Mail and Express. soul exerts upon its tenement of clay, rich and powerful friend, a fellow-pris­ Grace Darling'» Only Sinter. shall prescribe to the torpid patient “so oner, Don Juan Manuel was afforded fa­ Grace Darling's only sister died re- many peals of laughter, to lie undergone cilities for leaving the prison secretly at night, to investigate the truth of these ently in her little home under the at such and such a time,” just as they do reports and the behavior of his wife. ihadow of Bamborougli castle, within that for more objectionable prescriptions Several flights J)on Juan Manuel availed -ound of the wild waves that beat —a pill or an electric or galvanic shock. himself of this privilege, and on one of igainst Holy island and the rock that —Scientific American. them he killed the alcalde. The Audi­ wrecked the Fortarshire. The simple Women Abroad and at Home. encia dared not declare the murder of mil pious old lady to the last, like the The New York women are like the their chief, owing to the cause which heroine herself could not understand led to it, as it appears that the alcalde why so much had been said about the New York men. They are the best made the wife's frailty the price of lib­ plain act of duty which made the family dressed women in the world. Bedfern, erty for Don Juan Manuel. Thus the name immortal. She has been luid in of London, and Worth, of Paris, make, viceroy redoubled his efforts to save Don the seaside churchyard, close to the sis- it is true, very fine dresses, but you will Juan Manuel, and they were confident let who died so young forty years ago. find as many of them worn in New York of success, when suddenly, one morning ! and whose marble effigy lies in the sea almost as in London or Paris. The in October, 1641. his body wa« discovered wind and sun, with her oar upon the cheaper dresses of New York have a hanging in the public gallows—testi­ folded arm. A gray Btone wall divides style and fit about them which you do mony to the dark and mysterious policy the thin grass of the holy ground from not find in those of the dressmakers of of the times. The street where Din lie bleached and pallid growth of the Enro)ie. The American girl has a better Juan Manuel lived, where he had built and dunes. For the dark and strong taste as to dress than the foreign one, nearly all the hous-s, and where lie slew basalt of this NorthutnbriiKi coast, and this is so as compared to France as the alcalde, was then known as Calle into which is built the tremendous pile well as other countries. The German Nueva, or New Street Now it bears hi3 if the castle, is everywhere heaped with girls are, as a rule, dowdy. They don't rhe sands of many stormB. If ever . understand how to put on their clothes. name. ” The first part of this paper is by Man­ iliere was a “wide-watered shore." English girls wear good stuffs but their uel Payno. a noted Mexican historian. straight out of Milton's visionary mind, dresses are prim and except among the I richest, ill-fitting. The French women | It is from “El Libro Rojo," compiled by it is this.—New York Home Journal. dress better and show more individuality ' General Riva Palacio, now Minister to Heat Holiday» for Schools. of taste than those of the rest of Europe, . Spain, a book full of the historical, The Basle government has just issued 1 bloody deeds of the Inquision in Mexico. a new regulation f<« toe Hitzferien in but tiie American girl surpasses them in this and she has a better complexion to —Y. H. Addis in The Argonaut the Basle schools. When the tempera­ build upon.—Frank George Cai punter. ••Horror»” in the London Pre»». ture rises to 20 degrees (Reainur) in the If lu’ir.miul In Knrop«. No wonder that publishers of shilling shade at 10 o’clock in the morning, holi- A strange variety of taste has pre­ shockers are crying out about the flat- lay is to lie proclaimed to the scholars i ness of their once active market Why, until the afternoon. Two such holidays vailed in many conntriea in regard to | every morning the newspapers are con- were proclaimed during the heat of the mushrooms. In Russia the peasants are i verted into penny dreadfuls, full of ro­ summer, to the no small delight of the never without then. They are hung mantic and blood-curdling sensations, boys and girls, whose jubilant greeting up to dry in the roofs of the cottages, such as would have delighted a Poe, a if the announcement could be heard like oat cakes in Isincashire, and form La Fann, or a Gabori.au. It is the sheer- from the op-n windows of the Gymna­ a greatly esteemed relish to all sorts of dishes. In some parts of Germany, also, i est nonsense for purists in literature to sium.—Foreign Letter. they are largely preserved in brine for decry plots, or to say that the taste for New Idea In Knllriindlng. - cooking purposes, but in England it >• I horrors (decent horrors, that is) is on the A car called the “spotter” now goes ' >nly lab ly that llievhave come intogen- I decrease. It is a constant quantity I which never varies—that is to say, the i >ver the Central road at given periods. eral use. -L -e.lnn V i -seme taste for murders or -.isappearances, if I It is provided with a tank of colored A clerk in a men's furnishing store they require unraveling, and furnish em- fluid, and when the wheels roll over a ;