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SEMI-WEEKLY TELEPHONE MINNVILLE, OREGON, MARCH 15, 1887 WEST SIDE "TELEPHONE. ALONG THE COAST. people want to know where that goose ! AGRICULTURAL NOTES, had been feeding. ' '"«voted Principally to Washington Territory The committee appointed by the A Column Devoted to the Intereete of Farmers and Stockmen. ¡¡VERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY and California. M. E. conference of Washington Ter —is— ritory, has selected a place for the lo Hens must be kept warm and shel Farmington. W. T., is to have a cation of the university, about midway fiarrisous Building, McMinnville, Oregon, driving park. tered from the inclemencies of the between Seattle and Tacoma. — BY — Five persons escaped from ths Spo Citizens of Palouse county, W. T., weather if expected to lay in winter Talninge Ac- Turner, kane county jail. California the past year furnished are organizing a $20,000 joint stock Publishers and Proprietors. The great bore in the Cascades company to engage extensively in the one-eighth the entire fruit product of manufacture of sash, doors and such the United States, and one-ninth in measures about 3,650 feet. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: other material as they may deem ex 1885. 0M y«»r...........................................................•? S? There are on the Pacific coast and pedient. Roots are excellent for sheep in 81iuiuB<hs ...................................................... 1 ZS inland waters, 667 light houses. Three munuis ■■ .......................................... <*> The Northern Pacific Company will winter and are especially important Tlie territorial institute will be held be compelled to snow shed from thirty with heavy grain feeding to keep the Entered la tho Postofflee at McMinnville. Or., us second-class matter. at Walla Walla on the 9th of June. ot forty miles of its road in the Cas digestive organs in full vigor. The imports of raw wool into the 1 he population of California has cade mountains, and that the com H. V. V. JOHNSON, M. D. increased about 40,000 during the past pany will begin the work next sum United States for 1886 were 118,000,- mer. year. 000 pounds, and for 1885 only 90,000,- Northwest corner of Second and B streets, Dan Desmond and Dan Sullivan, 000 pounds, showing an increase of Lyman Wilson was morially M c M innville - - - oregon wounded by a blast in a mine near miners, were instantly killed in the about 28,000,000 pounds. Paradise Valley mine at Queen City, May be found at* his office when not absent on pro- Wallace, Idaho. All giant or tall-growing celeries Nev., by an exposion of a blast. It fjulonal buBtaess- 1 lie O. R. X. Co. will begin work was the first fatal accident in the should be avoided ; as a rule they are on its Prescott branch as soon as tlie mine. always more hollow, give twice the LITTLEFIELD & CALBREATH, weather permits. William P. Johnson, from Ken labor to work, and are inferior in ila- Physicians and Surgeons, The new insane asylum at Steila tucky, aged 30 years, was intoxicated vor to the dwarf growing sorts. coom, W. T„ will be ready for occu- and while leaning over a picket fence, A stockraiser found that by chang M c M innville , O regon . pancy in June. at Monticello, Cal., slipped and was ing from soft to hard water many Office over Braly’s Bunk. Full-grown figs of this season’s strangled to death between the bone diseases were avoided and cures effected of those suffering from horn growth may be seen on a tree in San pickets. Luis Obispo, Cal. Joseph Nelson, aged 21 years, died brittleness owing to the mineral mat S. A. YOUNG, M. D. A ring is on exhibition in Los An in Salt Lake city. He was herding ter existing in the hard water. geles which is said to have belonged sheep near Grantsville, Utah, and as In reply to a question as to the ex Physician and Surgeon, to Martin Luther. he was handling a pistol it was acci pediency of keeping bees over win M o MINN VILLE • - - OREGON. The steamer Idaho from Alaska dentally discharged, the ball passing ter in the center of a strawstack, Office and residence oh D street. All calls promptly brought down $60,000 in bullion from through his right lung. James Heddon, of Eureka, writes that logwered day or night. the Treadwell mines. Ship owners at San Francisco have that they would be well protected if It is thought that Elko county, raised the rates of seamen’s wages as the straw was stacked to turn water. DR- G. F- tucker , No grain should be fed alone to Nev., will in a year pay out $20,000 in follows: To bar harbors, $35 per month; to outside ports, $40; to cattle that are being fattened. A rabbit scalp bounties. 1>1C?>iTIKT, Hawaiian Islands, $30. This is an great error of many feeders is giving In Washington Territory there are advance of $5 all around. M c M innville - - - O regon . hay and grain separately; both the 985 members of the A. O. U. W.; in Office-Two doors east of Bingham's furniture A Bodega (Cal.) cow performed a grain and hay lose a large percentage British Columbia, 490. laughing gas administered for painless extraction. feat in her fright. She ran in of their food value by separating A mob drove the Chinamen out of great the front door of a house, up stairs, them. Vancouver. B. C., destroying their through a hallway into a bedroom, An authority in celery growing, tents and wash houses. W. V. KETICE, thence out on the back roof, where does not believe, with some growers, An amendment to the constitution she stumbled off- and broke her neck. that celery blight is caused by an in disfranchising polygamists in Nevada, John Logan, a teameter, was run sect, but that the insect which appears has passed tlie legislature. over and killed at Mission wharf, San on leaves beginning to decay are in- Louis Verhorgan fatally stabbed Francisco, while attempting to climb vited by the decay, and are not the Up Stairs in Adams’ Building, Lily Forest at Sacramento, Cal., after on a moving wagon. He missed his occasion of it. M c M innville obeoon having had a quarrel and fled. footing and fell in front of the forward A correspondent stales that he has A “street car advertising agency” wheel which passed over his ekull, had best results keeping grapes when has been incorporated in Los Angeles, crushing him to death. each bunch was wrapped in a piece of CUSTER POST BAND, with an alleged capital of $100,000. It is stated that E. J. Baldwin and paper, packed in boxeB holding one There are over fifty applicants for others are preparing to start a 60-acre bushel, and the boxes kept in a place The Best in the State. the position of President of the Ne flower farm on the Santa Anita ranch where the temperature did not fall be la prepared to furnish miuio for all occasions at reason vada State University. The salary is near Los Angeles. Suitable buildings low 35 degrees above zero. able rates. Address and distilling apparatus are to be $5,000. White corn is better for feeding N. J. ROWLAM), The city trustees of Carson, Nev., erected for the manufacture of per pigs than yellow flint. The grain is Business Manager, McMinnville. have been asked for permission to fumes from roses and other flowers. light, containing less fat-forming ma graze a band of sheep in the streets of Samuel B. McKee, ex-Justice of the terial, consequently it is not so heat that place. M’MINN VILLE Supreme Court of the State, died at ing. It makes a healthy growth of Chief Justice Morrison of the Cali his . residence in Oakland, Cal., of a body (bone and muscle together with fornia supreme court, died in San brief attack of pneumonia. He re the fat), while the harder, rieher yel Francisco. The cause of death was a tired from the bench on the first of low flint makes a preponderance of Corner Third and D streets, McMinnville stroke of paralysis. January. He was prominently men fat. The body of Francis Sheridan, jan tioned for the vacant Chief Justiceship. Such substances as apples, potatoes LOGAN BROS. & HENDERSON, itor at the postoffice at San Francisco, Mrs. Stewart, an old lady living at and turnips, being small, round and was found in the bay. He had been 410 Geary street, was run over at the smooth, should be cut into halves be Proprietors. missing a month. corner of Powell and Geary streets, fore feeding to a cow. But beets An petition sixty-three feet long has San Francisco, by a Geary street car. should never be cut at all when fed to The Best Rigs in the City. Orders been forwarded from Hailey, I. T., to The unfortunate woman was taken to any animal; a cow,horse or sheep can Promptly Attended to Day or Night, Congress asking that the Territory be the receiving hospital, where it was i slice of a beet to perfection, taking at found necessary to amputate both a bite just as much or little as they annexed to Nevada. want. It is stated that such sums as $20,- legs. A stock company has been organ 000, $35,000 and $75,000 were recently A. T. Hatch, of Stiisun valley, owns offered for mining claims in the Sal ized in New York, with a capital stock the largest orchard in California. It of $150,000, for the purpose of put comprises 767 acres, containing about BILLIARD HALL. mon river country. ting in smelting and reduction works A young man at Covelo, Cal., re at Colville, W. T., in the spring. Fifty 80,000 trees. To take care of this A Strictly Temperance Resort. cently thrashed a clergyman because thousand dollars have been subscribed immense orchard the labor of 60 men the church would not receive his and the certainty of the work is as is required during the winter, and 200 Borne good(?) Church members to the contrary not men are employed during the picking mother as a member. withstanding. sured. season. A. P. Hodgdon, who had been ac A tragedy took place at the vine quitted of a charge of arson, was rid yard of C. Grosjean, near San Rafael, Nut-bearing trees should be planted “Orphans’ Home” den out of town on a rail by a party Cal. George Washburn shot and on all the hill slopes of the Coast of miners in a Nevada camp. killed Jean Dandon with a shotgun, range, and instances are cited where TONSORIAL PARLORS, A woman of Santa Cruz, Cal., has and then shot himself. Washburn’s I they have yielded $500 per acre an sued her husband for divorce, the chief condition is critical. The men were nually. These trees are also less The only first class, and the only parlor-like shop in th* ground for complaint being that he laborers on the vineyard. The shoot liable to the pests that are found so ftity. None but neglected to say grace at his meals. ing was the result of a long-standing troublesome and destructive to some fruit trees. Fir«t < elaflM Workmen Employed The carpenters of San Bernardino fued. The east bound passenger train ran First door south of Yamhill CouDty Bank Building. Nitrogenous manures cause a rapid have notified their employers that af M c M innville , oregon . ter May 1st they will demand ten into a burnt bridge four miles west of growth, but they should never be used Needles, A. T. The engine was where the highest flavored fruit is de H. H. WELCH. hours' pay for nine hours’ work a wrecked and the baggage, mail and sired. The choicest wine is made day. express car and one pullman were from grapes grown on poor, rocky The twenty-two months old eliild of PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL. Mrs B C. Rowley, who lives near Ta burned. A brakeman was killed and hill-sides, and when it becomes neces two Indians and a tramp were burned sary to use a fertilizer the next crop is coma, W. T„ fell backward into a ket —Ex-President Arthur was a mem- tle of hot water and died shortly to death. Five passengers were in made up and sold under an assumed jured seriously. of the Thirteen Club of New York, name, lest the brand be brought into •nd was the first to die.—A. K Trib after. A family consisting of a woman and disrepute. The Arcon, Idaho and Olympian two children perished during the re ute. The acreage devoted to wheat-grow- —General Francis A. Walker says at are to be placed on the route between cent storm in the mountains fifty j ing in England and Wales decreased least seventy-five per eent. of the Townsend and Sitka, Alaska, the com miles east of Fresno, Cal. It is said more than seven per cent, last year, wealthy people of this country began ing spring. Weekly trips will be the parties were living in a small, and the total yield was diminished by Mature life poor. made. frail cabin. The snowfall was un 2,173,451 bushels. Within the past James Tuttle, a young man about usually heavy and crushed the build I fifteen years the wheat acreage of —Laura Bridgman, the wonderful blind woman, has returned to the In- ’ 16 years of age, employed on the farm ing, covering the unfortunates in the Great Britain has been reduced from stitute for the Blind at South Boston. of Andrew Chambers, near Olympia, snow, where they perished. 4,000,000 to less than 2,500,000 acres, | W. T., was thrown from a wagon and ' he is fiftv-seven vears of age- A train coming into Napa, Cal., ran and the prospect is that the dininution over and killed a man. The coroner’s will continue. —A ten-year-old maiden at Rose i killed. The penitentiary at Walla Walla jury returned a verdict of suicide. Bank, Md., carried oft’ a prize recently A fruit grower at Belmont, Cal., says repeating eight hundred verses from has been completed at a cost of $78r J The engineer testified that the “« Bible which she had committed to 793 90, but it will require$2.»,<WJ more | man was walking beside the track, and he has found that pasturing sheep in Memory. to finish it for the reception of pris I when the train was a hundred feet bis orchard during the fruit season away he jumped in front of the engine did much to rid his trees of that —Ferdinand Ward works a small pest tlie codlin moth. He printing-press at Sing Sing Prison, lie It is said that the Southern Pacific J and stood facing the train. He was | dreaded says that his plan was to shake the •buns observation and looks nobody in Co is letting contract« for ■’ | an Italian laborer, aged 50. trees every day. Most of the infected ’“e eye. He is thin and haggard: iriea at Truckee, Cal., which will re After four years of labor and ex breast is sunken; his gait that of quire the cutting of 10,090,000 leet of pense, the Huffman-Crocker canal is fell to the ground and were greedily j eaten by the sheep, which, he says, •a old man.—A’. Y. Mail. almost completed. At a cost of over —Preacher Callahan, of Madison. l "wL J Browning of Merced, Cal., $1.000.000 a canal of an average width do quicker and more effective work than hogs do. W ten ^,a'us °f cotton by tire. killed and shipped to San F rancieco | of 50 feet on the bottom, and calcu- J*1’ friends are making up a purse for 'ti l. season 38,000 ducks and geese , : lated to carry’ • stream of water six A most curious production of the an ' a Ideal newspaper says that I i'X di Howard Wales killed 750 I feet in depth (or even eight feet if vegetable is on exhibition at Peta *•4 'serves it because he is “honest, a It is in the shape of a necessary), has been constructed luma, Cal. tm'1-1 ani’ *las n’ne «"married daugh- d A shipment of a hundred tons of through a hilly country a distance of ' large mushroom measuring fourteen ter». —Chicago Times. hfty £ Panama by the Pac.fic mail 21 miles to a point five and a half ' inches in circumference. On the top I ,~^"hen a Mexican girl marries she l,a^ _ -,..i «everal carloads to the miles east of Merced, Cal., where is i or crown of this is another mushroom I ’iMply becomes part of her husband's HawiiUn Wand, has been made from located a large reservoir of an average ■ measuring six inches around. The I .For instance, if her name was depth of 30 feet and covering an area i stem of the latter is directly in the I ,1,1,1 Nunez, and she marries a Mr. center of the larger mushroom, where I d°*i *'**’ *8 ^eri known as Anita Nunez L' a gww w« killed recently in Lake of 800 acres. This is intended to pro it had taken root and grown as though vide a permanent water supply for j08*".' ’n O,bor words, Jose's Annie, imbedded in rich soil. Merced and vicinity. •»Jose s house or oilier piece of prop- ----- Issued------ PHOTOGRAPHER Livery Feed and Sals Stables “ORPHANS’ HOME” I iF* NO. 79 ANONYMOUS LEITERS. Why, as a Bule, a Wise Man WU1 Not Kn- tirely Disregard Them. THE RELIC CRAZE.---- A Tru* Incident Which Sounds M on Ahsurdlv Strange Than Fiction. We may, as a general principle, speak Pottery reminds me of a phase of the with very great and deserved scorn of relic craze which presented itself to my anonymous letters; but, as a rule, a wise atteution the other day. A lady, who man will not disregard them. I have has passed the summer in Europe, sent heard a public man declare that he for an artist who has done soma always threw anonymous letters into the fire without reading them. I think he admirable and successful decorative made a mistake, and that it might be work and informed him that she possible to get some good out of them. wisliod to give him a commission. She The many- anonymous letters received then had aservant bring in what seemed by leading statesmen may serve to indi to be about half a bushel of bits of rock, cate the drift of popular feeling and oement and similar rubbish, with two opinion. At the present time the police or three pebbles neatly wrapped in take the liveliest interest in anonymous paper. “These,” she explained to the communications, and at no time indeed astonished artist, ■'are the relics I have they disregarded them. A good gathered abroad, They are all labeled many of the letters are obviously written and came from famous places. I witli the deliberate intention of setting worked so hard for some of them! That the police on a false scent. But with stone came from Salisbury Cathedral. out doubt a great deal of valu It was inside an iron fence, and I had able information may be obtained this to attract the guide’s attention to the way. The ease is very conceivable tower by asking him the measurements of some of the ornaments. Then I stood where a man may be willing enough to on the foundation of the fence and do a service to the cause of justice or leaned over—and I give you my word preservation of life, without putting 1 was lame for weeks from those dr ad - himself into a dangerous position by ful pickets!—and hit it with my parasol turning public informer. Many hints till I could reach through and get it have been given which have resulted in And this----- ” And so she ran on. while the other important consequences; arrests have been made, crimes have been prevented, sat silent in sheer amazement, until she lives have beet uaonvmous said: “Now. I want all these worked into writers. The letters which Save seemed beautiful design, something sym the least noticeable have had the most some bolical. you know. You do make such important results. From the time of lovely things; and they can all be set King James ami the Gunpowder plot, I in cement or something. These peb there have been some of special use this bles.” site continued, unrolling one of way. A non vinous letters proceed from I the packages, “.ill come from Abbots persons who are willing to do a good ford. and these I sliall havo sot into turn or to do a bad turn, as the case stu ico in the shape of a heart—for may be. Letters of this sort from peo •The Heart of Midlothian,’ you know — hang it up in the library.” The ple willing to do a good turn are in an and unlucky designer stammered he knew inconceivable minority ns compared to not what, but something which he said letters from those willing to do a bad probably endangered his future wel turn. If a man has got into a vel-y seri fare. since outwardly he lied and in ous trouble at some time of his life, wardly ho cursed; wh le the lady, pay and has gone away to begin a new- ing small hoed to him, opened with an life in'a new place, how often it hap air of the utm >st reverence a small box pens that the old story is raked up; the and took out something wrapped in dastardly anonymous letter has. assas tissue. “This.” she said, “this should be the sin-like, followed him to his new friends or his new employers. Harry gets an center, for this is the most precious of anonymous letter asking him if he ail.” She unrolled the tissue paper disclosed a fragment of coarse, knows all about his Harriet’s previous anil modern, brown pottery, at which she engagement to young Dunderhead, and gazed with a reverent al air. The artist if he knows how it came to be broken bent forward and regarded it also, en oft’. A man of business gets a mysteri deavoring in vain to guess why it was ous communication asking him if he so choice and rare. “What is that?” he managed to ask knows that his most esteemed customer has made an application for a loan and at length, divided between amusement been refused. Few persons could have and impatience at her folly. "That,” she answered, "that is from known about the engagement or about Shakespeare ’s tomb. the fruitless application, and one of Ho stared at it and at her. more puz these persons must have been zled than ever. the writer of the missive. It may not “Shakespeare’s tomb?” he repeated. have been possible to find out who has "Yes," she explained with an air of been the writer of the anonymous let restrained triumph. "Whenl w-as there ter—often, no doubt., the person least a workman was doing something to the suspected. The secret is perhaps re wall, and he had a big pitcher of water vealed at last, and too late, long after with him. Somehow or other it got the mischief has been done, and perhaps knocked down, and this piece fell ex beneath the bust of Shakespeare. when both the mischief-maker and the actly Quick as thought I put niv foot over it, dupe are alike equally remote from these and when he picked up the pieces he sublunary interests.— London Society didn't see this, and I secured it. Did you ever know any thing so luoky?” Now. this is one of those things which PITH AND POINT. arc more absurdly strange than fiction, —There are two sides to every ques and very likely nobody will believe It; tion, but a bullheade I man will alway» but it happens to be a fact for all that. bet that he is right. — Chicago Ledger. —lioston Cor. Providence Journal. ----------------- ------------------------------- -- i —The pin seems to be the lode-star of woman’s existence. It’s hair-pin, roll —“Did you whip Johnnie as I told ing-pin or pin-money that she’s reach you to?” asked a Chicago father of his ing out for continually. —A prominent mathematician’s wife I wife. "Certainly I did," she replied. has presented him with a pair of twins. "What did you whip him with?” “My He has now attained the full sum of hu slipper.” “Great heavens, woman! I man happiness, with two to carry.— didn't tell you to murder him.”— N. Y. Graphic. Chicago Tribune. —Yon would hardly notice the simi —“Mother” avers in the Boston Globe, in reply to another correspond larity between them, and yet the only ent, that “a sixteen-year-old girl can difference between a little bird and a soften and whiten her hands by soaking ward politician just before election time is that the little bird pipes his lays them in dish-water three limes a day. — A crazy Pennsylvania girl who talks while the politician lays his pipes.— constantly in rhyme. has been sont to Somerville Journal. an asylum. This is a very good begin ning. Now why not tackle some of the others who are still out?— Somerville Journal. —A Philadelphia savant h s discov ered that the wrinkles on a cow's horns ind cate her disposition nstead of her age. Nevertheless don't buy a cow with thirteen wrinkles for a four-year- old.— Detroit Free Free». —Any one who has ever heard a PURELY VEGETABLE. woman talk about a tooth she has just Are You Bilious ? had pulled, while she displays the inter The Regulator nrrrr fail* to cure. I most esting souveneir to her friends, will be cheerfully recommend it to all who suffer from Bilious Attacks or any Disease oaused by a dis will ng to admit that men are not the state of the Liver. only or the best stump orators in the arranged K ansas C itv , Mo WR BERNARD. world.— Albany Journal. Do You Want Good Digestion ? —An exchange tells "how m m should I suffered intenselu with Full Htomach, Hend- eat who can not exercise. We have nehr. ete. A neighbor, who had taken Simmons Lit er Regulator, told me it was a sure cure for my never had any experience with men of trouble. first dose I took relieved me very this class, but should suppose thev ate much, and The in one week’s time I was as strona and with a knife and fork. The laws of hearty as I otter was. It in the best medicine I er er took for Dyspepsia. polite society can not be altered to suit Ric mmowd , V a H G. CRRNSHA W. any particular set of men.— U. Y. Do You Buffer from Constipation ? Graphic. Testimony of H iram W arnkr , Chief-Justice of —Once there was a hired man who Ga ; “ I have used Simmons Liver Regulator for was constantly astoni-hing his employer, Cijnstipation of my Bowels, caused by a temporary iJerangement of the Liver, for the last three or a farmer, by doing strange and unex four years, and always with derided bone jit.” pected things. One day the farmer Have You Malaria ? went iuto the barn, and found his man I have had experience with Simmons Liver Regu ‘ Looking at the lator had hting himself, stare IRfiS, and regard it as the greatent dangling body a few minute., he ex- medicine of the times for diseases pecu liar to malarial regions. So good a medi claimed: “What on earth will that fel- cine deserves universal commendation. low do next’”— San Francisco Ar- RtV. B. B. WHARTON, Cor. Secy Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. yononC. —The Burlington Free Press uny« 8« fer and Better than Calomel I “Mighty poor dogs sometimes make fine I have been subject to severe spells of Congestion «»usage-meat.’’ This shows bow far of the Liver, and have been in the habit of taktaf ■> to a . grains of calomel, which generally laid I the education of the dumb brutes has from me up for three nr four days. Lately I have been advanced within the past few years. tak ing Simmons IJver Regulator which pave me re- without any interruption to business. I A’e have no doubt that in time dogs can li.f MiDOLtworr, Ohio. J HUGO 'ne hired to perform many of the menial I duties for which we are now obliged to J. H. Ztilin 4 Co., Philadelphia, Pa. pay high wage» — The Judge. IDE GREAT REGULATOR