The Telephone=register. (McMinnville, Or.) 1889-1953, May 03, 1889, Image 1

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    REGISTER Established «suit. 1881
TELEPHONE Established lune, 1886.
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UNEQUALED IN HISTORY.
REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE,
McMinnville, Oregon
We Notice a Few of Our Properties
Besides Town Property of all descriptions.
We can only give a very small proportion
of onr properties. Should any thing in
this list interest you, address us, giving
number on list and we will forward you
full description.
If you wish any information regarding
our County, do not fail to write us. All
your questions will he answered cheerfully
and to the best of our ability
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VOL. I. NO. 13.
Princes Ate His Meals.
some distance, bo we went into it. It of moss which look remarkably like It is trimmed very gaudily with beads
did take us right across the lake, and beaver coming down. I also passed the and to me it is a wonder where they got
In reply to certain criticisms of M. B.
just as we reached the other side the wells of burning gas which are mention­ them, for no white men ever go in there. Roche, Mrs. Langtry's cook for a week
A Large Saw Mill Stolen and
I gave them files and knives and they and now suing the I.ily for a breach of
closing ice cracked the stern of our boat. ed by Franklin and Richardson.
Carried to Canada.
Then I went up to Great Bear lake, were very much delighted. I had told contract, Constant Meziraud, her rhef for
Story
of
His
Long
Jour
The
It was a very narrow shave, indeed.
A tremendous sensation was created
Tlie ice remained frozen solid for four­ reaching there on the 21st of July. We Hudson that I did not want him to do a year, is heard loudly in her defense.
ney in the North.
at Sault Ste Marie, Michigan, by tlie ar­
found the ice had only broken up two any trading while I was there, for I did t'hef Meziraud certainly boasts of a ca­
teen days.
rival of a deputy sheriff from Detour, a
not wish these people to get angry or reer which fully justifies his chivalry.
From there we started in the same days before.
point on the St. Mary’s river, sixty HIS MOST REMARKABE TRIP
Great Bear lake is usually called the have any excuse for such a thing, but Certainly no knight of the round table
boat to go down to Fort Smith. When
miles from here, with the news of the
| chief had a very handsome silver fox ever t: aveled half so far or saw more
we got into the lake the boat began to smallest of these lakes when in reality it the
bodily theft of a saw mill building, in­
,
which tlie agent wanted, and he kings, queens, princes or millionaires.
From i Winnipeg to Banks' Land. Thence sink, having been badly damaged by the is by far the largest, being 380 miles long skin
cluding machinery, etc. The officer
Across the Alaska Peninsula.
ice, but by strenuous exertions we got and 360 across. On the west side the , commenced to dicker, and when he saw
He said, in speaking enthusiastically
came overland with a dog team. He
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the chief was getting angry, made of himself. “1 have l»een all over the
ashore. We went down Peace river to hillsappear to be about 1,200 to 2,000 that
LOAN BROKERS, NOTARIES PUBLIC AND SEARCHERS of RECORD. says the Modes Bros., well known lum­
Smith’s rapids. It was here that I feet high. There are plenty of mountain , such earnest solicitations for me to re­ world, traveling 9000 miles on a stretch
bermen, arrived at Detour last Monday MOST EXCITING ADVENTURES.
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that I yielded. I gave them some from St. Petersburg to Alaska. I hare
started to walk across and became sep­ sheep, moose and caribou. From there turn
with a tug, two towing barges and nearly
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but they do not like our weed as seen the East Indies and hunted wild
arated from the others and was obliged I traveled on to Good Hope. Franklin tobacco,
two hundred men, and immediately be­ A Visit to the Giant Esquimaux of the
i much as they do the inside of the willow beasts on the Himalayas. In 1861 I was
to spend three days without food. I and also Richardson stopped here.
gan the work of tearing down the mill
McKenzie River.
In going to Good Hope I passed a re- bark,
j
which they smoke. Their pipes with Prince Napolean, and in 1862 I
went farther down Peace river, and had
and loading it on the scows. They bad
. very small, like opium pipes, and af­ went with him to the London Interna­
more trouble with ice, but nothing seri­ markable formation of lime stone. It are
all of the machinery and most of the
The Earl of Lonsdale, whoso remark- ( ous. It is in tliis part of tlie country apjieared as if the river were running ter
, putting in this bark they inhale all of tional exhibition. I worked for two
mill loaded when the sheriff left. The able Arctic journey from Winnipeg to (
| smoke into their lungs until it makes years at the Tuilleries. In 1863 I ac­
that I saw a very remarkable formation straight into it and when you were aliout the
mill was owned by the Moiles Bros., but Banks’ Land, and thence across Alaska, (
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quite stupid.
of salt. It is in large blocks, and consti­ to be dashed against the wall the river them
companied the Due de Luynes on liis
was mortgaged to Hurd & Ilavenstein, has attracted tlie attention of the whole j
Well, after returning to the fort I went trip around the world. In 1866 I saw
400
tutes the source from which the Hudson made an adrupt turn and goes down
.300,0110
feet
of
lumber
now
on
hand,
of
Buffalo,
for
♦60,000.
A
contract
was
No. 1—310 acres, 3% miles from McMinn- I
civilized world, arrived in San Francisco Bay company get their supply. I also rapids for about five miles. It is a very from
good timber land. Price. ♦6,000. One-
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there to Point Bathurst ami from Jerusalem and the Isthmus of Suez.
ville; finely improved, good buildings; wa- acres
:
cash; balance, one to two years' time, drawn up between the parties to the ef­ Tuesday by the Alaska Commercial com- j
ter piped to house and barn. Price, 412,000. third
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t
to Banks’ Land. There is very lit­
found mines of mica. In some of them large canyon, like those of the Colorado, there
“1 was, in 1870, with Prim e Hohen-
for
cash
or
lumber.
fect
that
the
Moiles
should
saw
5,000,000
pauy’s steamer Bertha from Kodiak f the mica exists in blocks eight to twelve The stone is remarkable, the immense tle
Easy tazma.
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l of interest on Banks’ Land. I skirted lohc, Due de Vest, 60 Wilhelmstrasw.
No. 2—210 acres. 3 miles from McMinn­
No, 50—100 acres, eight miles from Mc­ feet each season during the pendency of island. He is in excellent health, and j feet square. In this vicinity I shot rock being cut as clean as though chisel- i all around it, going nor’-nor'east. I saw
Berlin, right opposite Bismarck’s house,
ville ; well improved; running water. Price, Minnville; 30 acres plow land, balance tim­ the loan for Hurd & Ifavenstein at 42.50
in spite of extraordinary hardships, re- ( some wood buffalo. They are not num­ ed out. From there to Peel’s river I any
♦9,500. One-tliird cash; balance, easy terms. ber and pasture; 100 acres lenced, small or­
quantity of whales and I think it is when the war broke out between France
:
per
1000;
and
another
provision
was
turns to civilization none the worse for ( erous, and the Indians say there are found nothing of special interest.
No. 5- four 20-acre trai ts 2% miles from chard ; warranty deed. Price, 4900.
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the
regular bleeding place of the whale. and Germany. I immediately surren­
made by which the mortgage obtained a his adventures.
McMinnville. Price, 41,000 per tract. One-
( only two herds, one of twenty-five and
Then we came to Point Separation, ] I kept up along Banks' Land and reached dered my white vest ¡.nd apron and
No. 2, B—Furniture stock anil good will fat rake of $1 per 1000 from all logs
half down
The following summary of Lord Lons- j the other of forty.
island which the natives said was toque, as I would not cater a minute
which is the point where Franklin’s an
;
No. 6—120acres,21-2 miles from McMinn- , of business, invoice price on goods, easy sawed in which they had no interest,
dale’s journey was taken from his dicta­
viUe; well improved, buildings extra, gooil terms; satisfactory reasons for selling.
party
separated,
and
I
believe
the
last
'
In
all
respects
they
are
precisely
like
Melville
island, but I am not at all sure. longer to an enemy of my country.
orchard, land fully improved. Price, 452.50
_, B—40 acres line fruit land; two and during the pendence of the loan. tion at tlie Examiner office. The story j
No. 5,
In re]>ard to the northwest passage, 1 Then I lost 800,000 francs during the
mention made of it is by Captain Pullen
the buffalo of the plains.
per acre. One-third cash; balance, easy miles from McMinnville. Price. $25 per These papers were drawn up .September
of his fourteen months’journey, in brief,
that sometimes parties, with a l>oat war through unfortunate investments. 1
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Below the rapids they call this river in his account of his search for Franklin, think
terms
acre. Easy terms.
18, 1884, and were placed on record at is as follows:
( the Slave rfver. There I heard it was This point is about iat. 67 deg. 26 min., I like the one we had, could get through,
No. 9—83 acres, 2 1-2 miles from McMinn­
lia<l then to begin life anew, and served
’ „1 Me- the court house October 25th of the same
ville; well improved; finely locateil, near
No. 6. B—40 acres, three miles from
The purposes of my trip was merely to impossible to go any further, so a trader long. 135. Here I parted with the steam- but
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they might try a dozen times more with Lord Abercrombie for three years,
College. Price, 45.000. One-third cash; bal­ Minnville Price, $25 per acre One
Cr.c half year, During 1885 the parties had a
obtain
sjiecimens,
information
as
to
lo-
(
cash; balance, easy terms.
ance, easy terms
but I found the water had risen to er and got another boat from the Hud- ; and fail. There is a great deal in being with Banker Dunkeen for six months,
bickering time of it doing business as calities, species of birds and varieties of said,
( such a height Ilia) I could get around son Bay company.
No. 10- five 10-acre tracts, 2 miles from
lucky in expeditions of this Bort, and 1 with Lord Alfred Paget, the queen’s ma­
No.
G,
B
—
40
acres
partly
timbered
;
three
above
specified,
and
after
a
futile
at
­
McMinnville. Price. 450 per acre.
game in the northern latitudes. It was the
(
miles
from
McMinnville;
price.
425
acre;
edges,
which
we
did,
and
went
up
to
They
were
much
opposed
to
my
going
was very fortunate. There are lots of jordomo, for fiye years, and was praised
No. 11—15 acres, with good house and
tempt to settle, Hurd & Ilavenstein be­ virtually a sporting trip. I had no thought
Fort Resolution. After two three days I to see the McKenzie river Esquimaux, i reindeer and jxilar bear on Banks' Land, by the Prince of Wales in person. Then
barn, chicken hffiise, etc., fine orchard; 2 1-2 one-half cash, balance easy terms.
gan
mortgage
foreclosure
proceedings
in
of reaching the North Pole. It Mas not a tried
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miles from McMinnville. Price, 1.700. One-
to sail around the whole of the as they were very savage and seemed to I managed to shoot two boars, but they 1 went to Scotland with Mrs. Wynama
No. 8, B- 635 acres 2 miles from postoffice, the United States court, February 4,
half cash; balance, three years.
polar expedition at all, except for the lake, but was prevented by ice. This have a hatred for white people. Nobody were not very large. From. Banks’ Land
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houses,
one
barn,
living
water,
400
acres
and laird Ceslyn, and finally with Mis.
No. 12—170 acres adjoining the town of
1886. Moiles Bros, took opposing steps, sledging. I wanted to go as far as I be- .
was on Tuesday, June 5tli. We had seemed to wish to approach them on this I turned back to Cape Bathurst and went I-angtry.
McMinnville: with extra good buildings, plow land; price 415 per acre, balance time and no result has been reached beyond
large orchanl and land of best quality. secured by mortgage on the premises
lieved animal life to exist or as far as I ( every obstacle in the way of ice to con­ account, and as they said so much about from there to Whale island and then to
“Besides, I found time to write a liooli
recent denouments. To avoid further could see signs of animals. I did not get ,
Price. 475 per acre. 47,000 cash; balance,
tend with ; we were pushed and jammed them I wanted to see what sort of beings Peel’s river. I was at Banks’ Land be­ on classical cooking, and 1 am writing
No. 3—30 acres two and one-half miles entanglement the Moiles determined to
time.
my outfit, or any outfit at all, at Winni- ( and crammed. Sometimes we would they were. They told me that at one tween the 20tli of August and the 1st of
No. 13—555 acres. 10 miles from McMinn­ from iiostoffiee, house of five rooms, barn
up my memoirs and travels.”
ville; 2 houses, 4 barns; this is one of the 24-30, living water on premises, all flrstclass encamp to Canada. Their destination is |>eg. I got all my outfit from the Hud­ work all night to get from one little time a party of these Esquimaux came September. I was now commencing to
Ilis pen picture of Citizen Langtry has
on the Spanish river, on the Georgian son Bay company from fort to fort.
liest stock farms in the County. Price,
patch of water to another. The boat we down to trade, and showed how much figure about getting out, as I certainly the value of authenticity, and, according
47,500. One-half cash; balance, terms to land; price, ♦1500.
bay. Judge Steere granted an injunc­
Starting
from
the
Saskatchewan,
hard
­
suit
had was a Hudson Bay's boat and very they desired to do so by killing all the did
not wish to winter in such a place, to liis story, Mrs. Langtry has been very
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No. 7—110% acres four and one-half miles tion and the officer was dispatched with
No. 14—510 acres, 11 miles from McMinn­
ly out of civilization, I traveled 300 heavy. Once after we had worked all people at the post. However I got an and I found some records in reference to
unfairly treated by a certain press dur­
ville; this farm has good buildings of all froniMcMinnville.well improved, goodjbuild- an order for their apprehension. They miles in three days and three nights to
day until 10 o'clock at night the men interpreter and one of the company men, ; a ship having been in the Norton sound ing her trip to the West.
kinds necessary for the farmer and stock ings, school house on one corner of farm; are probably well on their way to Georg­
Prince Albert. My servant and myself
raiser; running water. Price, 418 per acre. price, 445 per acre, two-thirds cash.
“I have lieeuin a position to see much
ian bay by this time. The telegraph kept it up night and dav, never stop­ went to bed and I worked all night, and named Hudson, and we started. But in October, and I thought if I could man­
Part cash and easy terms.
of her while traveling and living with
No.
9
—
House
of
five
rooms
and
%
acre
No. 15—610 acres, 2 1-2 miles from post-
lines are cut and tliero is no communica­ ping. I started from Troj’ station and by morning, when they woke up, I had before giving the account of my trip i age to catch one I would be all light.
a little channel cut, and when we got amongst them I will quote from remarks
I bad eight Indians then and we start­ her in her palace car,” said Mons Mczir-
office. Price, 415 per acre.
in McMinnville, chicken house, barn, wood tion with Detour. Nothing in history
went to Prince Albert. From there to through we had gone just one mile after made by a man named McFarland, who i ed in packing, and we were compelled to
No. 16—860 acres, 7 miles from McMinn­ shed, etc.; price, 4650.
aud, “and intiBt say right here that there
equals
the
move
in
boldness.
The
mill
ville; alsiut 50 head of cattle and horses,
Green lake we covered 270 miles.
all this work.
was sent into that country by the com- i carry about forty |K>unds each across the does not exist a mote painstaking, and,
No. 10—20 vacant lots at prices ranging was worth ♦100,003 and had a capacity
besides liogs, goats, farming ntacliinerv.
It was now about April 7th, and the
etc. Price, $21,1X10
Oiie-fonrtli cash; bal­ from 4100 to 4150 per lot, 60x120 feet, con­
We made pulleys and ropes out of pany. He says:
mountains to Rampart house on Porcu­ at the same time, a more charming
of 125,000 feet per day.
weather turned so mikl that I was brush and baik and dragged the boat
ance, time to suit
“It is with much regret that I sit down pine river. The Indians over toward woman with her liousehold. While wo
veniently located; easy terms.
No. 17—UM) acres. 7 miles from McMinn­
obliged to travel mostly at night, when over and through the ice. The boat was to announce to you a partial failure of Fort Yukon are a bad lot, and I antici­
Tlie Plionopore.
were in Texas she was terribly over­
ville; very best valley land. Price, 445 per
No. 11—Relinquishment of claim to 157%
there was a good crust on the snow. I
acre.
worked, but showed herself to be more
acres, ten miles from McMinnville, has for
An English electrician, Mr. Langdon- went from there to Buffalo lake, an J thirty nine feet long and eleven feet my trip down the river The savages pated trouble with them.
No. 18—318 acres, well improved, water]
beam, and was patterned after a London have become very troublesome and we
My Indians made up their minds to courageous and more self-controlled than
in every field, buildings good, orchard. I improvements -large house 20x35, barn Davies, lias made and |>erfected an in­ there we hail a terrible storm, but we
barge. It was very heavy for four men have had to abandon everything but take me amongst them, but in gping any of her cruel, ungenerous critics.
. 40x65, 9000 feet fencing, etc.; price, 4600.
Price, $30 per acre.
vention which promises to be of great
No. 19—100 acres. 1 mile from poeloflice. j No. 13—House and 4 acres two and one- advantage in the service of transmission gut through it all right. Buffalo lake is to handle, and when some of the people what we could easily get away with,” down I made them take another little She lives well, but she works for it. She
about twenty miles long and six miles saw what we had done they couldn’t un­ etc.
Price, $15 per acre. One-lialf cash
river, which none of us knew anything is brave, self-possessed, calm, simple,
by electricity. At the present time the wide. Then we went to Clear Water
No. 20-62 acres, 6 miles from McMinn­ j half miles from McMinnville.
derstand how we managed to get the
about, but it happily landed us about and amiable to the extreme, and, more­
Well,
I
dressed
my
interpreter
up
in
a
ville, 1 mile from postoffice. Price, $50 per
phonopore,
as
lie
calls
his
device,
admits
No. 17—House of 8 rooms with 8 lots in
lake, anil from there to Jackfish lake; boat along. All this time I was in first- suit oi my clothes, had him sit down in ten miles below the fort and into the
acre. One-half cash.
over, she is boas, Mr. Gebhard is a
\ McMinnville. Good barn, etc. Location is of the duplication at small expense of from there to Metliee Portage, anil then
class »ndilion, and, indeed, never felt the bottom of the boat and off we started. Yukon. From Yukon we went down to mere figure-head, We used to look at
No. 21—Naw mill, 10 miles from McMinn­ ] one of the best in McMinnville
Price.
ordinary
telegraph
facilities,
but
there
ville, capacity 10.000 feet per day; all com-!
to Fort McMurray, which is at the forks better in my life,
It was very cold We passed up a very narrow inlet into Nuklakavet, and there the Indians are him as the great bouncer, and he will
plete and now’ working full crew ; orders for J ' only 41700,
are reasons for thinking that the time is of the Clear Water and Athabasca,
working in this ice. One man had frozen the large bay, and sweeping around a very troublesome also. From there we probably remain so until he gets the
coming when it will be found useful in a where the two streams join. For the
his feet, and I bad several experiences point came in sight of their village. had no trouble in crossing the mountains
grand boum-e himself.
number ot other directions. What the last twenty miles down the Peace river
of the same sort. In looking alwjut I There were about 200 men and as many and, by the way, I will say here that it is
“The stories about Mrs.
phonophore does is to utilize a species of we were traveling in eighteen inches of
found there were a great many very fine women living there and engaged in hunt­ not half so difficult in getting from Ju­ paying her employees are simply infam­
electric energy which is not brought into water, on top of the ice.
sulphur springs around here and very ing the whale. They no sooner saw us neau into the Yukon as some jieople say. ous. She never cheated any one out of a
service by the ordinaav electrical devi­
My party at this time consisted of four good, clear sulphur water.
than they set up a tremendous ky-yi-ing I talked with miners who have spent cent, knowingly, at least. When we
ces. If a telephone wire runs near a tel­ men and myself. I sent my English ser­
The ice started to go out, and we set and jumped into their canoes, or kayaks, years in that country. They say there is left San Francisco there was due mo
egraph wire, even though both may be vant back from Green lake. He was
out across the bay, which was about fif­ and swept out around us, surrounding plenty of gold, but not in any one place. ♦2460 for various disbursements as cook
insulated in the ordinary meaning of very much disapfiointed, as he desired
teen miles wide. When about half way us like a skirmish line. They paddled It is too much scattered, still some of and purveyor. As soon as we got to
that term, it is possible to hear at the re­ to go on with me, but could not. I
across the ice commenced to come back up to within bowshot when I told my them do very well, but the majority do New York it was paid me. In that re­
ceiver at tlie end of the telephone wire brought him from England with me.
again. There was a very heavy gale man to speak to them, and when he not. They are almost eaten up with lation she is a true Frenchwoman, and
the changes due to the passage of the On the 14th of April I observed the first
blowing, and we went behind a large jumped to his feet and spoke they ap­ scurvy. One can wash out colors at al­ the worthy descendant of her maternal
electric current over the telegraph wire. signs of bird life. I then saw one duck,
rock or small island and two large ice­ peared to be quite friendly and we went most any point in the sand, but 1 would ancestors who fled to New Jersey after
That is. by what is known as induction, a pintail, arrive. It was the first bird
bergs came, one on each side of us, and ashore with them. I was greatly sur­ not recommend going up there to hunt the revocation of the edict of Nantes.
something passes from wire to wire in that came into that country at all. We
there we remained for twenty-eight days prised, for I had expected to see a small, for gold.
“Sampler, her chief steward, was w ith
spite of ordinary insulation. Mr. Lang­ heard that we could not go there on ac­
without moving. We had a supply of fat, greasy set of men, but found almost
We finally got over to the Russian her for eight years. He left us in New
don Davies termed this species of elec­ count of starvation among tlie natives,
bacon and oatmeal. I lived mostly on a veritable race of giants. I measured a mission, but found no chance to goto St. Orleans and has now started a business
tricity phonoporic energy, distinguishing which, I believe, are the Crees, and
oatmeal, one meal a day, and thrived couple of the men and one was six feet Michaels. The boats have lieen leaving of his own at Staten Island, but she is
it from tlie ordinary electric current, every one was yery badly off for pro­
capitally on it.
four inches and the other six feet there in April. From the Yukon I still on the liest of terms with him, and
which cannot pass from wire to wire to visions. There was a man by the name
There is no good land around here and three and one-half inches. Almost all of crossed the mountains, took dog-sleds frequently called him to have a confer­
wire, particularly when both of these of Harper, lie of the evil face, who some
hardly any timber. The lake is called them were larger men than myself. and went to Knskoquin river and had ence with herself and me on matters of
were well insulated. He next asked time before had left a companion to
S, A. YOUNG, M. D.
Buffalo lake, and is not on any map. It (Lord Lonsdale stands six feet in his considerable difficulty in crossing on ac­ importance for her household.”
himself it it were possible to uti)ize|this starve and who had himself been eaten
is
alxiut twenty miles long and about stockings.) The men carried a number count of its getting very eold.
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Physician & Surgeon,
energy, which seems to be a property of by the savages a few days before I ar­
three to five miles wide.
We then went to Good News bay, Extermination of tlie Buffalo.
of wea|>ons and seemed to have somehow
all
electric
currents,
and,
after
making
a
M c M innville .
...
O re
rived. My weapons consisted of a Para­
While we were there a fur-trader kind­ acquired a soit of cowboy characteristic Russian mission, Nusbagak, llanna riv­
At the present time, outside of the
number of experiments, he devised an dox rifle, made by Holland & Holland of
Office an<l residence on I) street,
ly came to our assistance. His name of carrying a knife in tlie fur boot and a er, Pakwik river, Sevenofski, and finally National Park, where alsiut two hundred
instrument
which
can
be
applied
to
all
calls promptly answered day or night.
Bond street, London, and a twelve-gauge was Martin. lie helped us to get our another in the belt. I noticed that al­ downtoKokiak island, where I waited
and sixty buffaloes are now harbored,
telegraph wires, and by means of which shotgun. The rifle is smooth bore ex­
boat through, and from there we went most all the men had a number of red for the Bertha. We had a remarkably there are not over three hundred, prob­
messages can be received and sent by cept at the muzzle, where the grooves
right on to the sea. This was about the scars on their faces, and upon inquiry difficult time in some of onr dog journeys ably not as many, left in the whole
phouoporic energy simultaneously with are very deep. It is a splendid weapon
9tli of July. The Indians absolutely re­ found that when they killed a man they from place to place, men and dogs freez­ United States. The survivors of this
the reception and dispatch of messages for general service.
Practicing Physician and Surgeon,
fused to go on, as they were afraid they scarred their own faces as a mark of dis­ ing to death.
magnificent race of animals are scattered
by the ordinary electric current, one ser­
We were living on dried fish and dried would starve to death or be drowned. I tinction. After talking for a short time
You asked me two or three questions, in little bunches in several localities.
vice in no way inteifering with the other. meat. I never took any provisions with
LAFAYETTE, OREGON
took all the provisions, and when they I went into their large house and asked and 1 will answer them by saying, first, There are now about one hundred in
That is, the service by a single wire un­ me except flour. I heard that there
Jan, 21, W.
i saw that I was determined to push them to dance for me, and they did so, that I believe the north' pole can be Montana, or at least there were a year
der the ordinary method can be doubled
were some moose at a place called Red I ahead they embarked with me, but laid but wound up their dance in a way I did reached by small parties establishing
ago, some at the head of Dry creek and
by the use of the phonopore, or if duplex
DR. lì. II. SMITH,
Willow lake, fifty miles away, so I themselves flat in the bottem of the not care particularly about.
relaying-stations aud gradually working the remainder at the head of Porcupine
instruments are used the service can lie
walked up there, but only saw one little > boat. I followed the ice, and it was 1
It seems tliev always have a desire to north, but never in the old-fashioned creek. In Wyoming there an- a few
qaudruplexed by the phonopore. If the
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
yearling, and I did not kill the poor little i pretty risky for a time, as we got jammed try a strangers courage, and just as they way.
straggleis from the National Park, which,
service is already quadruplexed—that is,
beggar because I felt sorry for him and I and tossed about considerably. We were dancing around they all raised a
LAFAYETTE, OREGON.
I found some of Schwatka’s notes use­ when chased, run back there for protec­
having four instruments to a single wire
I had plenty of flour.
steered north by compass till we came to 1 yell and leaped forward at me with their ful, but 1 think he described a great deal tion. In the mountains of Colorado last
v7 49
—eight distinct and separate services
Surgery a Specialty.
I expected the ice to break up on the > the Hay river, reaching there about July knives glistening in the light, and just , that be never saw. And as to his say­
summer there were two bunches of
are possible by the use ol phonoporic 21st or 22d of April, but it did not go un­
11th. We arrived at 5 o’clock in the af­ as I expected to make a red mark for ing he went into lands, lieing the first mountain bison, one of twenty-five head
M c M innville national bank .
energy, and this in each ease at small til the 4tli of May. Then I got a boat
ternoon and at 7 o’clock the Hudson 1 some one of their faces, they stopped, white man there, why 1 saw miners, and and the other of eleven. These have
expense. This discovery is of great in­
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m ’ m INNVH.LE, OREGON.
and M’ent down the Athabasca river. Bay company’s boat came in, bound ' laughed and placed their hands on ray there are a couple in this city, who have
probably been killed. There are none
terest apart from the results already at­ The ice Mas very troublesome and the
south. They had been frozen in a basin 1 heart to see if it was beating very fast. been all over that part of the country be- in Dakota, though eighteen months ago,
Transacts a Censml Banking Business.
tained, for the reason that it may be
river was very high. We floated down near where the McKenzie river crosses. Well, I had a couple of revolvers in my ■ fore he was ever born.
thirty were known to be there. It was
found possible later on to still further
President............................ J. W. COWLS
to Fort Smith. It was here that we met
Here I found the most beautiful water­ pockets and would have made a fight if (
It is my intention to remain here until estimated in 1887 that there were twenty­
separate phonoporic from electric ener­
Vite I’n-iih nt .
I.KI. I. MGlII.I.N
with the greatest danger of onr trip, or fall I ever saw in my life. Bishop Bum­ I had been cornered, but of course would I I receive dispatches from England, and
seven in Nebraska, and s I mhi I tiftv morn
gy and utilize it for purposes for which
Cashier......................... CLARK BRALY
at least, one of them. The river Mas pus, who has traveled through this re­ not have stood any chance with so many. then I shall go immediately to Winnipeg
scattered in the western part of the In­
the ordinary electric energy does not
much swollen, and there was an ice jam ; gion as a missionary, has named them
Hells exchange on Portland, San Francisco
They amused me in various ways, via Victoria, and from there 1 shall go to dian territory and Kansas. Those in
give
altogether
satisfactory
results.
—
and New York.
ice piled up very high and the water Alexandria falls, after the Princess of running, jumping and leaping and turn­ ' England. 1 would like to take the trip
Interest allowed on time deposits.
Nebraska have since been killed by the
Boston Herald.
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made a tremendous suction under it, Wales. They are about 200 feet high, ing somersaults. They have a very pe­ • over again, or at least would like to go
Office hours from 9 a m to 4 p m.
Sioux. Of the thousands that once in­
When a boy of sixteen looks into the and our boat was so heavy that we were one and a half miles wide at the top and culiar habit of disrobing entirely in their • up and get more musk ox, as I did not habited Texas, only two small bundles
future it seems almost an eternity. not strong enough to stop it. I just narrow down at the bottom to about one bouses, men women, and children, and I quite satisfy myself in that res|>ect.
remain. Thirty-two head are near the
When a man of forty looks into the fu­ managed to get a rojie around a tree and and a quarter miles. I consider them in such a latitude it makes one feel
Batons, in the northwestern pad of the
A Sleeper.
ture it seems as brief as a rabbit’s tail.
Watchmaker
so belli the boat, or we should have much grander than Niagara. We crossed rather cold to think of it. I made several
Panhandle, and eight in the sand-hills
been
sucked
under.
We
were
then
on
the lake to the McKenzie river and from evening calls, and whilo going from
and Jeweler.
The intricacies of the English Ian- on the Staked Plains north of the Pacos
House. Sip, and Ornamental Painter
the ice, and when we waked up m the there to Fort Providence, previously house to house I noticed one man who guage are well illustrated in the defini­
river. These were seen and count cd on
Dealer In All Kinds ol Watches. Jewelry. Plated Ware.
morning the Mater had gone from us, waiting at Fort Simpson three days for had quite a number of red scars on his tion given as a sleeper;
M c M innville , O regon .
the 1st of April ot last year. This esti­
Clocks and Spectacles. McMINNVILLE, OR.
leaving us high and dry on the shore. guns, letters, etc., but the steamer came face. He seemed to have a grudge
A sleeper is oue who sleeps. A sleeper mate of the reinnant of a great race is be­
Graining,
The jam had broken in the middle of tlie back without them, through some mis- against me, and I thought to myself that is that in which the sleeper sleeps. A
lieved to lie essentially correct. It was
Paper Hanging and
night.
take, We went down the McKenzie he and I would become disagreeable to sleeper is that on which the sleeper runs obtained from reliable and well-informed
All I he Latest Novels
Carriage Painting.
We finally got in the boat again and river on this little steamer, which was each other before long, and so it proved. while the sleeper sleeps.
Therefore, persons throughout the West, ami in
started in what we supposed Mas the built by the Hudson Bay company, alid He kept following me, and I saw that he while the sle<q>er slee|is in the sleefier, part from Jiersonal observation during
Can
be
Found
at
The
Prompt Attention to Orders from
right direction, We came to a wide is called Wrigley, after the Hudson Bay had a knife in his hand, so I turned the sleeper carries the sleeper over the the past year.— Eranklin Satterthwaite.
the Country.
stretch of water, which we thought was commissioner. I went from there to around to speak to him, but he went into Blee|>er under the sleeper until the sleep­ in Harper'/ Magazine for May.
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Athabasca lake, but we were too far to Fort Wakely, 120 miles, and then to his house and I followed him in.
er which carries the sleeper jumps the Recante n Father at Seventj-
the east. We frequently got aground, Norman, 160 miles, and from there to
1 had no sooner gotten inside the door sleeper and wakes the sleeper in the
Tltree.
which I thought very strange, but we Good Hope, 162 miles, and thence to than he stabbed at me, but my left hap­ sleeper by striking the sleeper on the
PHOTOGRAPHER.
Full Stock of Musical Instru­
The certificate of birth of Jeannette
found that we were on a wide expanse of Peel’s river, 182 miles north.
pened to be a little quicker than his sleefier, ami there is no longer any sleep­
ments and Stationer}' Always
Flucker Mas filed Wednesday with the
tundra, fifty miles from » here we wanted
In
this
section
cf
the
country
I
saw
the
right,
and
down
he
went.
I
bowled
him
er sleeping in the sleeper on the sleeper.
Oppostile Cwk’s Hotel. Third Street.
on Hand.
Bureau of Vital statistics. The remark­
to get. It took us two days to get back burning coal banks mentioned by Sir over into the corner, and when be got up
able feature of this record is that her
BigK<‘8t City in tlic World.
McMinnville, Oregon
to land.
John Franklin in his expedition. What I hit him again, and must have hurt
father, David Flucker, is seventy-three
The birds were very thick here, and I timber country I passed through was him, for he lay where he fell. These
The largest city in the world is gener­
Third Street, McMinnville, Or
saw countless numbers of geese, ducks, mostly composed of balsam, spruce, wil­ people always have a watch around the ally believed to I* London, although years of age, and Jeannette is his twen­
swan, and all sorts of wild fowl. We low. fir, a sprinkling of birch and some camp at all times, and this guard saw some suppose that Hankow, in China, ty-second child. Mr. Flucker is a long­
I thought we were on the lake, for we poplar. On the west side of the river me go in liere and feariug something was has more inhabitants. But there is a shoreman, living at No. 433 West Six­
were out of sight of land, but when the the Rocky mountains commence to come wrong, told the chief, and they came town in North Carolina which far sur­ teenth street. He is nearly six feet tall,
weather cleared up and we got to where in. They call them the Harney moun­ down just as 1 knocked him out. They passed either in extent, being two thou­ no streak of gray in his hair or » hiskere,
Sample rooms in connection.
we could see land, we found that wo had tains. It was the first glimpse of pleasant were terribly angry with this man for at­ sand miles long—much longer than erect, strong and a picture of health.
Are the finest in the city. The table is
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not been on the lake at all, but simply scenery. The rest of this country is very tempting my life, and took his knife North Carolina. Its name is Henderson. His appearance is that of a man of fifty.
loaded with all the good things the
away and gave it to me, but I did not When the city was incorporated it was He is a Scotchman by birth. Mrs.
on the oveiflowed lowlands. We, how­ swampy.
market affords When you are
Is now fitte«! up in first class order.
On the banks here I saw a remarkably wish to take it, so I merely laughed and intended to extend the limits one thou­ Flucker is his second wife, and is forty
ever,
finally
came
to
the
lake,
which
This
powder
never
varies-
A
marvel
of
pur
­
in this city and want a good
sand yards in each direction from the sears old. She has born him nine child­
ity. strength and ^wlioleaouieness. More eco was full of ice. There was a large crack curious formation.
It is a sandstone gave it back to him.
depot, but the printer made the bill read ren. Flucker's mother is living in Scot­
dinner stop at the Cook
Accommodations as ¡rood as can be nomical than the ordinary kinds, and cannot be
rock
about
1,200
feet
high,
called
by
the
I
got
to
be
great
friends
with
the
chief
one thousand miles, and it passed the
House to get it.
sold in competition with multitude of low test, which I thought extended in tne direc­
ionn din the city.
short weight alum or phosphate powder-. Sold tion we wished to take, and I could see native name for “Roiling Beaver,” and and he made me a present of a very legislature without the bill being cor­ land. aged one hundred and three.— New
only in cans: ItoVAi. ;H asi > g Pownsii Co, 106
York World.
/
with the glasses that it extended for j on this rock, a sheer fall, ate little balls handsome suit which I have w th me. rected.
Wall St.. N. Y
S. E. MESSINGER, Manager.
Wm. Martin. Proprietor. i
w. T. Shiirtleff.
V
may 3,1889.
The St. Charles Hotel.
POWDER
Absolutely Pure.
LONSDALE ARRIVES