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SEMI-WEEKLY WEST SIDE j EPHONE. NO. 97 MCMINNVILLE, OREGON, MAY 11 WEST SIDE 'TELEPHONE. I AGRICULTURAL. | j The tedder is a tool of the greatest COAST CULLINGS, ■ value, but not yet appreciated. It is ---- IstiUOd---- If the weather does not go back to The Weapon Wielded by Captain Reid at | only a question of a little time when Devoted to the Interests of Fanners j £>g merits will be better known and its Devoted Principally to Washington EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY first principles it will not be long be the “Tliermopylie of the Ocean." fore Florida advertises an ice palace.— and Stockmen. Territory and California. —is— use general. With it clover can be Tlie presentation to Congress,through Dispatch. cured In half the time it usually tak s Garrison's Building. McMinnville, orwoi, Llichawnil the President, by Colonel Samuel C. Red Clover. and cured much more uniformly. A herder drove two thousand six Reid, of the battle saber of his father, — BY — Great excitement prevails in Ariaona A correspondent of the Oregonian, Clover should never be cut when the over the discovery of rich placer mines ¿“.red shqep into a corral at Tie the late Captain Samuel Chester Reid, Talinttge Ac Ileuth, Siding, Wy. T„ and, after banking the who commanded the United States pri writing from Oswego, Oregon, says: dew is on, and it is not best to get too near Pheomx. Publisher! and Proprietors. fire in an adjazent cabin, went to sleep. vate-armed brig-of-war General Arm Red clover is the great renovating much down at once when the weather The Treadwell mine in Alaska, pro A spark flew into the straw of the strong nt the battle Fayal in Septem plant. It is universally esteemed the is “catching.” A most excellent plan duced $75,000 in gold during ths SUBSCRIPTION RATES: is to commence mowing at 10 or 11 best plant with which to restore worn- sheds, and while the herder slept the ber, 1814, is excuse enough for reviving present month. One year........................................................... |2 oo Six moil ths....................................................... 1 25 corral and all the sheep were destroyed some incidents which have passed out out or overcropped soils. In fact there o'clock and continue till night. As The steamer Olympian made the trip as the dew is off — the __________ next morn- is no other way in which this can be soon --------------------------- Three month».................................................. 75 by fire. * of mind. The Armstrong was a little done so easily and cheaply as bv ing start the tedder and keep it going from Port Townsend to Alaska and Entered in the 1’ostottlce at McMinnville. Or., -The Prescott (A. T.) Miner has the brig of but 240 tons, carrying but 7 until noon constantly, exposing the back in eleven days. as second-cluse matter. following: -I» this reservoir water guns and 90 men. She was at green manuring with clover. Farmers grass A mine was sold on Douglas Island. to the drying influence of the who have exhausted their lauds by healthy 1' asked a newcomer of an old tacked in the neutral waters of the successive cropping with grain or sun and air. After dinner it can be Alaska, recently for $100,000, and PITH AND POINT. Ilassayainper. “Do you see that mule, Azore Islands by a British squadron, timothy are resorting to clover and put into medium-sized cocks for a day another one for $30,000. —The hat makers had a banquet ths stranger?" “Yes, sir.” “Well, ten consisting of the-ship-of-the-line Plan stock as their only hope. Commercial or two, or if the weather be uncertain William Ryan, a boiler-maker of Saa other night, and the next morning not j months ago that mule was a jack rab tagenet, the frigate Beta, and the fertilizers are out of the question, and carried directly from the windrow to Francisco, was run over and killed by bit, and drinking this water made him one of them could find a hat in his shop stoop-of-war Carnation, with a total barnyard manures cannot he procured the barn. By this plan the hay is the cars in Oakland, Cal. what he is to-day.” big enough for him.— Boston Post. amount of 136 guns and 2,000 men. in sufficient quantity. Here clover tedded or scattered while it is simply The total coal product of Washing —It appears to us that the woman’s I he use of niekel-plated cooking The British lost over 300 of their comes in as a benificient gift, enabling wilted, and we avoid knocking off the ton Territory during the first quarter vessels has been forbidden by Govern- t ie leaveB. But if left in the swath till picked men and officers in killed and the intelligent fanner to maintain or heart kept in alcohol in Philadelphia of the present year was 125,376 tons. isn’t much of a curiosity. We have no j I ment order in Lower Austria. It is wounded, while the Armstrong lost but restore the feriility of his land, and at dry enough to rake, the top is so dry M. 0. Bread, of Minnesota, was the that the leaves fall off and the stalks doubt several women have hearts. — The ! stated, as the. reason for this action, 2 killed and 7 wounded. The action the same limo replenish his purse. For pasture, no grass that I have break up, while the bottom of the man killed in the Northern Pacifio that vinegar and other acid substances has well been called the “Thermopylae Judge. Railroad accident near Steele, Dakota. —A good many fables begin “Once I dissolve nickel; and that this, in por of the Ocean,” for no naval battle in ever tried begins to be equal to clover, swath is yet damp and uncured. The Michael Kellher, residing near Ever use of the tedder enables us to get the either in quantity or richness of crop. en a time.” Oddly enough, too, when tions of one-seventh of a grain, causes ancient or modern history is compara green, Cal., while hunting wild hogs married men have been once on a time vomiting, and is even more poisonous ble with that of the Armstrong at All grazing animals are fond of it and clover in much sootier and better. It was fatally injured by the discharge of Fayal, either as to the unequal forces do well on it. I have seen hogs made 1 is a very nice point to decide when the they are apt to invent fables.— Somer than copper. hay is just dry enough to prevent too his gun. ville Journal. In a recent lecture before a Lon engaged, the unyielding and inflexible ready for the butcher on clover alone. .much heating in the mow. If it is Clover is the only grass that ought The man killed by the detectives at don institution Dr. B. W. Richardson bravery of her officers and crew, nor as —Definition of a bore.— to be sown in an orcli ird. All fine it requires a little less airing ; if Paso, Cal., supposed to have been Do you ask me what a bore 1st stated that the work of the heart in a to the grand results which followed in ever others are positively injurious, as they coarse and heavy a little more. All Olsen, proved to lie W. H. Seibert, an I will tell you who is such: healthy man is equivalent to the feat of the defeat of the British expedition extract the moisture when it is most this applies equally to the curing of innocent man. •Tls the one who knows too little, against Louisiana. raising five and one-fifth tons one foot *Tls the ono who knows too much. other grasses, though they are more The smokehouse of J. B. Rego, of The height of heroism and romantic needed by the trees, and impoverish easily managed and generally ripen per hour, or one hundred and twenty- —Tid-Bibe. the soil. But clover either pastured Kittitas county, W. T., was destroyed —The Ball family fall heirs to twelve ' five tons in twenty-four hours. Tlie chivalry were displayed by Captain oy hogs or left to rot on the ground is later. by fire. It contained bacon to the millions in Scotland. There are three j use of eight ounces of alcohol causes Reid ami his crew in the last act of this a benefit. Now, one would naturally value of $1250. Figs. extraordinary naval drama. After balls in New York that represent the the heart’s work to show an excess of expect that a plant which, in its green Figs should be picked when the skin James Smith, a recent arrival from scuttling his vessel to save her from state is bo rich in all the elements of portable property of many good f;nt>- twenty-four foot-tons. is fully checked, that is to say, when New York, wa> killed while attempt ilies.— Albany Journal. --For biliousness the editor of the capture he went ashore with his men nutrition, would be good in proportion it sh >ws small white seams upon the ing to jump aboard a freight train at —Ti'e Phrenological Journal says: I Boston Medical and Surgical Journal and arms, when the commander of the when dried, for the drying and curing surface, by which time the fruit has Sacr.imento. Cal. squadron, Admiral Lloyd, demanded “In choosing a wife, be governed by I says a plain diet of bread, milk, oat their surrender and threatened to send process only eliminates the water. reached its maturity. It must be At Selma, Cal., over 100 masked her chin.” A man is apt to be gov- j meal, vegetables and fruit, with lean five hundred men to tako them. Reid And so we find that for hay no other dried upon trays in the sun. Care farmi rs gu.ird the switch-gates of the one grass is quite equal to clover. For meat and fresh fish, is best. Exercise should be taken that it is turned over irrigating canals, thwarting all efforts erued by the same thing after he gets a in the open air. The victim of an acute retired with his men to an old Gothic milk cows nothing is so good, as all at least once a day, until the greenish to wife.— Kansas City Squib. shut off the water. convent, which he fortified, knocked intelligent dairymen know, and beef —Tender-hearted young lady—O! attack will be righted by (1)abstinence, away the draw-bridge, ran up the cattle can be kept fat all winter on tinge entirely disappears, when the Burney Finegan. a teamster, while (2) porridge and milk, (3) toast, a little fruit is ready to be taken in doors for yon cruel, heartless little wretch! to rob engaged in hauling a load of wood in American flag, and badethe enemy de good clover hay alone. I know there those poor birds of their eggs! Wicked j meat and fish and ripe fruit, thus com fiance. Lloyd quailed under the last is among many horsemen a prejudice packing. While drying the tigs should West Olympia. W.T., was thrown from never be left out in the open air after ing to solid food gradually. little boy—Ho! * That’s the old one 'at I exhibition of heroic courage, saying against clover li iy as a fodder for 5 o’clock in the evening, nor should the wagon and his neck broken. —The Gazette of Heppner. Ore., was they were demons and not men. you've got on yer bonnet. Guess she horses, but there is no foundation for thej- be exposed to the sun again until J. Halberstadt was trying to steal a not behind its esteemed contemporaries won’t care.— Forest and Stream. The squadron under Lloyd was on this prejudice, ei; her in the analysis of all the dew is dispersed in the morn ride at Colfax, Cal., and in climbing in getting a special Christmas number, —Faitli is sometimes represented by . its way to the Island of Jamaica to the plant itself or in the experience of ing, as the least moisture will entirely between the cars fell. Both legs were the figure of a drenched female cling- I and has this allusion to it: “The join the great fleet assembling there those who have used it. It is said that spoil thuir flavor and appearance, and cut off and he was otherwise mangled. Christmas edition of the Gazette is this ing to a sea-washed rock; but a better under Admiral Lord Cochrane, after clover hay will give horses the heaves. render them untit for use. Avoid The Ellensburg, W. T., schools ate personification would be a bald-headed year printed in two colors, black and ward Earl of Dundonald, who was con- Probably it will if it is spoiled in cur packing windfalls, because they are man buying a bottle of patent hair-re white, and the occasional lampblack fidentialy intrusted with the secret ex ing, so will timothy or any other hay, utterly worthless for commercial pur closed in consequence of the preva spots are skillfully secured by the devil pedition for the conquest of Louisiana. and timothy, though not musty, is apt poses and will greatly detract from the lence of scarlet fever, and the mayor storer.— Shoe and Leather Reporter. getting on too much ink and failing to The last hope of England to wrest the to be very dusty if not cut at just the value of a whole consignment—per- has issued a proclamation forbidding —Photographerfto sitter)—That gen sufficiently agitate his roller.” public gatherings. control of the Mississippi river and the right time. I have fed my horses on liap.“ lead to its final rejection. Before tleman who preceded you is the most Two sehoollioys at Tacoma, W. T., clover for the last twenty years, and — A substance resembling celluloid packing the figs should be hastily province of Louisiana from France had remarkable man I ever saw. Sitter—In have never had a case of heaves, dipped into clean, boiling - hot sea were buried alive by the caving of an may be made from potatoes by peeling been foiled by Napoleon, who, seeing what way? Photographer—He didn’t embankment of sand. One was dead neither have any of my neighbors, tell me that lie would rather have a them, and, after soaking in water, im that he had no means of protect- and they all feed clover almost exclu water, to guard against all danger of when taken out and the other survived attack from the worm, so destructive pregnating with eight partsof sulphuric the conquest of ing it from tooth pulled than have his picture taken. acid, then drying and pressing between England, ceded it to the United sively, with one or two exceptions. to the fruit; then properly packed and his injuries but an hour. —N. Y. Sun. Timothy is constipating, and horses thoroughly pressed in tin cans, her Frank Forrera was thrown from hie —Flowers of sulphur sprinkled on a sheets of blotting paper. I11 France States in 1803. On the declaration of fed on it alone are apt to have stag metically sealed and labeled. In all pipes are made of this substance scarce horse at Balinas, Cal. His foot caught war by the United States, in 1812, Eng hot shovel and the fumes inhaled while gers. Clover is somewhat loosening, cases the fig should be left in its natu they are fresl; is recommended for a ly distinguishable from meerschaum. land's eyes were once more turned to and mixed With timothy counteracts ral state and sugar or other confections in the stirrup and he was dragged for seme distance and kicked by the hors« cold in the head; but Fogg affirms that I By subjecting the mass to great pres- the coveted possession, and. after mak the binding effect of the latter, thus discarded. Theas directions must be on the head until he was dead. ! sure a substance can be made of it rival ing a demonstration against Washing he will die before he will snuff up burn making a perfect ration. I am fully strictly observed if one wishes to obtain Work will shortly be commenced ing brimstone. It is not unlikely.— ing ivory in hardness.— Boston Budget. ton and Baltimore, she assembled her satisfied tiiat the use of clover as a a choice article that will command combined fleets, no longer needed for —Erastus Wiman, who is a base-ball food for horses will rapidly increase as ready sale and top prices in the market. on the Gov rnment improvements al Boston Transcript. —Clerk (in fashionable up-town bak j manager as well as a man of extensive ! the blockade of the French coasts at the years go by, and experience proves Even our common black fig, treated I Yaquina Buy, Coquille river, Coos Bay ery to proprietor) —That tray of Ameri business interests, says that at least Negril Bay. Jamaica, to carry out this its value. according to the above method, will and Columbia river. Jetties will be built at Yaquina and Coos Bay. Our practice has been and »still is to “ astonish the natives.” can soda biscuits in the window, sir* | $2,500,000 is spent yearly in base-ball great design. The crippled condition The soldiers at the Boise, Idaho, has been there for three weeks, and I in this country. This is further evi- of Lloyd's squadron had created a de sow clover in the spring with oats, To Make Fowl» l.aj Well. barracks have been notified that they they are getting sour. What shall I do ■ deuce of the fact that Americans never lay of over ten days in repairing dam plowing the ground if possible in the Fowls to lay well should have access must wear the uniform at all times •boHt it? Proprietor—Label them En i do any thing by halves. But is not this ages, as they were occupied over three fall or winter. The seeding should be glish tea muffins.— Pittsburgh Dispatch. j thing overdoneP It would seem so days alone in burying their dead. O11 done as early as the ground will to raw bones ground or pounded up and would not be allowed to keep any —Men are strange creatures. They when salaries for good players range as the arrival of Lloyd at Jamaica a fur permit. First we sow the grain and line; ground bone lie.ing preferable, as o 'her clothing in their possession. thoroughly harrow it, which pulverizes there is lean waste and is more easily The largest locomotive in the world will waste an hour hunting a collar high as $.5,000. It is becoming a busi- ther delay of a week took place. Ad the soil to the depth of two or three digested and assimilated. If freshly button instead of having an extra sup uess rather than a sport.— N. r. miral Lord Cochrane being furious at inches. Now we sow the clover seed, ground, raw bones are more nutritious has been put to work on Tehachapi Lloyd’s disaster, which finally proved mountain on the Southern Pacific. ply and letting their wifo find the miss i Tribune. , ii WR ------------ fatal to the expedition. The fleet did using eight pounds to the acre if than when burned. If they can be It weighs 110 tons, has fourteen drive ing one. You never see a woman look clover alone is sown, but if timothy is obtained conveniently, ground or wheels and will do twice ths work of —•‘It will be a surprise to some to notfarrive off Lake Boevue until four for a pin she drops. Iler husband finds mixed, six of clover and four of timo pounded oyster shell.» are g.xxl and it when he walks around in his bare learn that there are within the United days after the arrival of Gener thy. This will make the crop thick economical to feed to laying hens, and ordinary ten-wheel locomotive. States as many as sixty-six tribes of In- al Jackson with his forces, which Charles Pierce, a teamster, fell off a feet.— Philadelphia Call. i dians, embracing over sixty-eight thou barely gave him time to make a de enough if it is put in right. We finish which, of course, should lie fed regu hay wagon he was driving at San Fran the opera ’ ion by running a clod larly on gtaxl wholesome grains and sand persons, who are still without a fense, that had the fleet arrived ten crusher or roller over the field, pre- Profits from Lecturing. food, placed in such a way that the cisco. Before he could stop the team | Christian missionary,” says an ex davs sooner, when New Orleans and fering the crusher if the ground is as birds will have to take plenty of exer the wheels passed over his body inflict the coast was utterly defenseless, an Greeley paid for Chappaqua by his change.— Chicago Times. ing fatal internal wounds, of which he dry as it ought to be. This “firms" or cise in getting it. lectures. B iyard Taylor cleared in the I —Mr. Lowell is to have a five-page easy conquest would have been made, presses the earth around the seed, and died soon. An unruly hone was the same manner $5.500 in one season. poem in the Atlantic.—Boston Travel and once in possession it is doubtful if does not cover too deep. The result is Notes. cause. Tilton used to deliver fifty lectures in ler. Let’er go, Gallagher. Westopped the treaty of peace would have been the seed all comes up and grows more In an area embracing less than one- a season at $75 to $100. Josh Billings our subscription at the close of 86.— ratified by England. Thus it is clearly rapidly than if closely brushed in. hull of the Hor-e Heaven region,W.T., demonstrated that if Captain Reid had had all the engagements he wanted at I Boston Transcript. Clover likes a firm subsoil, and only 2000 acres have been planted with surrendered his vessel against such an requires an inch or so of fine soil on Indian corn this season. The lower $100. anil he left an estate of $75,000, —A visitor in Dublin was asked by a all made after he had passed forty. I cardriver if he wanted a car. “No,” overwhelming force, which ho might the surface in which to start. Its long Yakima country is proving well Chapin made $30,000 by his lectures, said he; “I am able to walk.” "May have done without the imputation of tap root finds no difficulty in pene adapted to that crop, •nd Emerson got rich in the same man your honor long be able, but seldom cowardice, Louisiana might to-day be trating the hardest soil. Land piaster A dry piece of ground should be tinder the flag of St. George. ner. Anna Dickinson was at one time I willing,” was the witty rejoinder. sown at the rate of a barrel to four or selected in which to build the poultry To Captain Reid is not only due the five acres, if sown early in the spring, worth $15,000 made in this manner, —••Can you use this?” timidly in- credit of this victory, but its general will always insure a good crop, even house. The ground, if well under but it was lost through misman drained and prepared by putting on a the poet, as he laid a bundle 01. Results in saving a domain now more ; in the dryest season. agement. Mark Twain has made be thick layer of sand and fine gravel, k. “I think I can,” said the ed than three times larger than the terri- Clover is a biennial plant with pe will be much better than a lx>ard floor tween $25,000 and $30,000 by his lec itor affably. “ I am just about to start tory of France, and it is worthy to be rennial qualities. Sometimes it gives for the fowls. tures ami twice as much by bis books, and he knows how to take care of it. a fire in the office stove.”— N. Y. Ex remembered that this gallant sailor be us four or more crops, and sometimes It is said that a train load 330 cattle, came afterward the designer of the it dies out in three years. 80 it has to from Cotulla, Texas, which had been Beecher has received more money for aminer. — First Ward dude (at a recent social present form of the United States flag, I be renewed often, but this is no objec- lectures than any other man on the —, I have started a as adopted by Congress in 1818. His j lion, as every time we break up a field fattened on prickly pear and cotton platform record. He has been lec affair)—"Miss M— ’ Miss M. name and fame deserve to be com I of clover we have a mass of roots equal seed meal, was lately marketed in society. Chicago. Th< y attracted considerable turing for forty years, his fee having mutual admiration do you initiate the memorated, and Congress should show [ to a fair coating of manure. Clover attention, being the first large lot of — •Ah! When increased from $50 to $300, and the ag Then a deep, solemn the gratitude of the people by making { makes its growth early in the season, cattle ever fed that for market. gregate amount being estimated at a | other member?” an appropriation for a substantial and { and should be cut soon after it is in quarter million. Most of this money, stillness brooded o’er the gathering. According the San Francisco .Ver enduring testimonial to his bravery full bloom, usually early in June. chant there are now in California at however, has been sunk, and now in Elmira Ornette. ' Herein lies the only real difficulty and usefulness. — Cor. N. Y. Time». — Johnnie Hardnut gets about as his old age he Is writing about fashions { with clover, as at this time we are apt least 4000 wine growers, and the area planted in vines is not les» than 100,000 in a Sunday paper. — Troy ( A. Y) Times. manv whippings every day as there are school hours, anil yesterday the teacher — tno "Sum of $13,284,981 was ex j to have rains, and as clover is some- acres. The value of this land, with the caught him at his tricks as usual. pended last year in this State for the j what slow in curing it is frequently improvements, is not less than $60,- Friendship’» Truest Gain. “You naughty boy,” she said, "if you public education of 1,000,000 children. {damaged and sometimes entirely 000,000. Employment is found for at spoiled. To avoid this it should, lie do that you. The truest gain of friend h p is in do tin»» again • I'll ■■ whip •• ---r v ---- ” "Chest- Large as the amount appears, it is got into the barn as soon after it is cut hast 40,000, who, with their families, -- ■ ■ ■ “ Hick 1 nut, ” he replied impudently. money well spout; and more is needed, be ng a fr'end, rather than in having a as possible. To facilitate and ha-ten represent a producing population of i« better. I think. ” she remarked is better, think, r which should not lie given grudgingly, friend. Only he who knows how to re | ory ¡this curing anJ housing the various 150,000 persons. * 1 _ 1*__ -1_____knlfnOAfll • friend unselfishly and unswervingly, ! quietly, and gave him about half a cord for there are still 700,000 children {labor-saving implements and appli The Glenn ranch, in Colusa county, throughout the State who do not enjoy ances must lie resorted to. Be.-idea the Cal., comprises 52,000 acres, of which b lows what ti n r fr midship is. or knows across the back.—A’. Y. Sun. the benefits of the public school »v»tem. _ “ Must be pretty cold out your mower, every farmer who raises much 23,000 are in grain this season Of •that a true friendship s wo th. He hay snould pos -ess a good hay tedder, the 23,000 acres, 14,000 were summer , whose ci.iefest cry is, I mu t have a 1 way,” he observed to the farmer who —U-nrfflnjr.Tf rightly applied, makes . sulky rake and horse fork, and the fallowed ami 9000 winter sown. F. C. friend! is not likely to obtain his w sh | had just come into market with his ® th s d rect on: nor is he probably whiskers full of frost. “Yes. tolerable.’’ s voting man thinking, attentive, indus- { neighbors whoaie individually unable j Lusk, who has chirge is confident | • >rthv of be ng loved as a friend. But ■•What did your thermometer register? f -lo««. con' d nt aid wary: and an old {to buy their implements should co that the product this year will be 25 be who say . with all h s heart, 1 will be | “I hain't got none.” "I should think niin ch ' -rful and nt* fill. It is an orna* upe rate in their purchase and use. bushels to the acre. There are at I • friend, whatever it costs! ,s likely to i you'd want to know how cold it was. rinnt in prosneri'y. a refuge n adversity, All these things are expensive, but i present engaged in summer-fallowing m r-n'ertainment at all timva: it cheers •ompass his heart’s desire so worm far: and their use often makes the difference 10,000 acres, 80 eight-mule teams, J. H. ZEILia 4 CO., er i "No. < ‘l«n t keer much 1 k'" * Pt. b* may a so gain a friend far dreamed woith er I toll by touching my tongue to the axe n «,.]-nde. and gives moderation and i between saving a crop and losing it. j making 640 head of mules at work. rKICB. SIM. wiad m in an circumstances — Palmer. •nd derer than any lie ever c------- I a nether it’s last sunnnevor thu winter. •5 -5'..8, Times. OF GENERAL INTEREST. A HISTORIC SWORD. To Regolate