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About The Telephone=register. (McMinnville, Or.) 1889-1953 | View Entire Issue (June 14, 1889)
W. T. Shurtleff. J. I. Ksight. J. I. KNIGHT & CO., REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE, LOAN BROKERS, NOTARIES PUBLIC AND SEARCHERS of RECORD. McMinnville, Oregon. We Notice a Few of Our Properties. No. 1—310 acres, 3’4 miles from McMinn ville; finely improved, good buildings; wa ter piped to house and barn. Price. $10,500. One-third cash: easy terms. No. 2—210 acres, 3 miles from McMinn ville; well improved; running water. Price, 19,000. One-third cash; balance, easy terms. No. 5—four 20-acre tracts 2% miles from McMinnville. Price, $860 per tract. One- half down No. 10—five 10-acre tracts, 2 miles from McMiunville. Price, >50 per acre. No. 11—15 acres, with pood house and barn, chicken house, etc., fine orchard; 2 1-2 miles from McMinnville. Price, 1.700. One- half cash; balance, three years. No. 12—170 acres adjoining the town of McMinnville: with extra good buildings, large orchard and land of best quality. Price. $75 per acre. $7,000 cash; balance, time. No. 13—555 acres, 10 miles from McMinn ville; 2 houses, 4 barns • this is one of the best stock farms in tne County. Price, $7,500. One-half cash; balance, terms to suit No. 14—510 acres, 11 miles from McMinn ville; this farm has good buildings of all kinds necessary for the farmer ard stock raiser; running water. Price, $18 per acre. Part cash and easy terms. No. 16—860 acres, 7 miles from McMinn ville ; about 50 head of cattle and horsey, besides hogs, goats, farming machinery, etc. Price, $21,000. One-fourth cash; bal ance, time to suit No. 17—100 acres, 7 miles from McMinn ville ; very best valley land. Price, $45 per acre. No. 18—348 acres. 6 miles from McMinn ville. well improved, water in every field, buildings good, orchard. Price, $30 per acre.. No- 19—100 acres. 1 mile from postoffice. Price, $45 per acre. One-half cash No. 20—62 acres, 6 miles from McMinn ville, 1 mile from postoffice. Price, $50 per acre. One-half cash. No. 21—Saw mill, 10 miles from McMinn ville, capacity 10,000 feet per day ; all com plete and now working full crew; orders for 300,000 feet of lumber now on hand. 400 acres good timber land. Price. $6,000. One- third cash ; balance, one to two years’ time, for cash or lumber. No, 50— 160 acres, eight miles from Mc Minnville; 30 aeres plow land, balanee tim ber and pasture; 100 acres tenced, small or chard; warranty deed. Price, $950. Zo. 8, B—635 acres 2 miles from postoftice, 2 houses, one barn, living water, 400 acres plow land ; price $15 per acre, balanee time i secured by mortgage on the premises No. 3—30 acres two and one-lalf miles from postoftice, house of five rooms, barb 24-30, living water on premises, all firstclass land; price, $1500. No. 7—110’4 acres four and one-half miles from McMinnville, well improved. goo<i|build- ings, schoolhouse on one corner of farm; price, $45 per acre, two-tliirds cash. No. 9—House of five rooms and % acre in McMinnville, chicken house, barn, wood shed, etc.; price, $650. No. 10—20 vacant lots at prices ranging from $100 to $150 per lot, 60x120 feet, con veniently located ; easy terms. No. 11—Relinquishment of claim to 157)4 acres, ten miles from McMinnville, has for improvements—large house 20x35, barn 40x65, 9000 feet fencing, etc.; price, $600. No. 17—House of 8 rooms with 8 lots in Johns’ addition. Good barn, etc. Loca tion is one of the best in McMinnville Price, only $1700. No. 9, B—360 acres, 2 miles from McMinn ville: pood buildings, desirable'location, 250 acres in cultivation. Price, $.36 per acre; terms, $5,000 cash, balance easy payments. No 10, B—105 acres, 3 1-2 miles from Mc Minnville, land of very best quality; price. $40 per acre, one-third cash, balance in two years. 56 acres, 2 miles from McMinnville: 50 acres in cultivation. Price, $2,500; includ ing cron, good house and barn. Terms, one-half cash; balance, time to suit pur chaser 80 acres. Price, $700 Terms, cash Lots in the Oak Park addition on the Installment PLAN. Besides Town Property of all descriptions. We-can only give a very small proportion of our properties. Should any thing in this list interest you, address us, giving number on list and we w ill forw ard you full description. If you w ish any information regarding our County, do not fail to write us. All your questions will be answered cheerfully and to the best of our ability. E. K. GOUCHER. | J. F. CALBRXATH. Calbreath <fc Goucher. PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. M c M innville , ... O regon . (Office over Braly’s Bank.) Physician & Surgeon, ... WM. HOLL, Watchmaker and Jeweler. Dealer in All Kinds of Watches, Jewelry. Plated Ware, Clocks and Spectacles. McMINNVILLE, OR. S, A. YOUNG, M. D. M c M innville . O regon . CARLIN & HIGH, ID x a v m. e n. - Office anti residence on D street. All Goods of all descriptions moved and care calls promptly answered day or night. ful handling guaranteed. Collections will be made mouthy DR. J. C. MICH AUX 1 r1 ititr of a 1 kinds done cheap^MF Practicing Physician and Surgeon. LAFAYETTE, OREC.ON- typewriting. Penmanship, Correspondence, Bust less and Legal Forms practical, - taught at th Jaa.Sl, ’88. M c M innville national bank . m ’ m INNVILLE, M c M innville . O regon , F riday , Consolidated Feb. 1,1889. ■ESISTER Ettabllshed Auautt. 1881. TELEPHONE Established June. 1886. OREGON. Transacts a General Banking Business, President............................... J. W. COWLS Vice President.............. LEE LAUGHLIN Cashier........................... CLARK BRALY Sells exchange on Portland, San Fran cisco and New York. Interest allowed on time deposits. Office hours from 9 a. m. to 4 p m. J.B. ROHR, House. Sign, and Ornamental Painter Portland Business College. The thorough work done in each of our severs lepartrnents has given this insiitution a reputa Ion such as bur f w schools attain, securing t< lundreds of our gradual**» profit;« hie employ sent, both as boek-keone s ai I m « n phers Jtodents admitted at; i v lim». O ;«l«».4ue free A. P. ABJ1STR95G, Priu ipal. I’erllund, Or. The St. Charles Hotel, Sample rooms in connection. o------- o Is now fitted up in first class order. Accommodations as good as can be found in the city. S. £. MESSINGER, Manager. M c M innville , O regon . Graining, Paper Hanging and Carriage Painting. F. DIELSCHNEIDER, Prompt Attention to Orders from the Country. THE NADJY BAR! IN THE COOK HOUSE. Stocked with the Choicest Wines, Liq- ors and Cigars—Domestic and Imported. TtL« Best Bar in. the City WM. MARTIN. Proprietor. All lhe Latest Novels Can be Found at The NEWS STORE. Full Stock of Musical Instru mente and Stationery Always on Hand. Third Street, McMinnville, Or. Reliable Opposition Boot & Shoe Dealer. FOSITIVEL-y No Goods Misrepresented as to Tlieir Qxialiy. F. IIIELMIIMEIO. A REMARKABLE BEING. He Claims That In His Person Christ Has Been Born Again. •‘GARDEN OF EDEN TEST.” Schweinfurth’s Strange Com munity—Tlie Religion Rapidly Growing—How the Modern Messiah lAves witli his Dis ciples. R ockford , Ill., May 20.—‘‘Christlives. He has come to earth the second time. Behold the Savior. He is the pure one, the perfect one. He has no guile. He is God become man. By believing in him we are made pure and sinless as He is, and our salvation is assured. O, how grateful and happy are we who are re deemed. Blessed be God, that we have found Him.” Such were the expressions delivered in a quiet but intensely earnest tone of voice to a Herald reporter this morning by one of the “angels” of the Schwein furth Community. What istlie Schweinfurth Community? It is the bead center of tlie newest and-' most remarkable religious sect, of all the queer theological schools, that has found an existence and a company of believers. And tlie woman whose utterance was quoted above expressed briefly but hon estly tlie sum and substance of their be liefs. ORIGIN OF THE SECT. The sect has been in existence about fifteen years, but Scbweinfurtti has not been revealed unto them as their Lord and Master until within tlie last half dozen years. Mrs. Dora Beekman, tlie wife of a Congregational minister, originated the body of strange believers. She preached that in tier own person were the attri butes of tlie risen Lord. She was the woman Christ inspired and made sacred by the indwelling of Christ’s spirit, The band of believers grew slowly and stead ily. They located their central church at the little hamlet of Byron, south of Rockford, and by dint of besieging the meetings of all tlie other churches, and, jumping up, declaring their doctrines at all seasons, kept the poor clergymen and their faithful flocks in continual hot water. Iler husband did not believe in the new faith, and as a result he is now in the insane asylum. The Rev. George J. Schweinfurth was at that time a Methodist minister, a voting man of prepossessing appearance, lie had an auburn beard, a white brow with veins plainly indicating refinement, and a sharp eye that could look as meek as a Delaware river shad’s when circum stances demanded humility. Schweinfurth preached in the country churches hereabouts and gathered good audiences. He preached well, and had especially successful seances with the young ladies of his several flocks. It is related that thev often pretended conver sion merely to kneel at the altar where he could fondle their brows and sweetly whisper: "Dear sister, have faith ; only have faith.” Suddenly it was announced that Dom inie Schweinfurth had renounced Meth odism and become a disciple of Mrs. Dora Beekman. Shortly afterward lie was installed as bishop of the Beckman- ites, as they were called, with a roving commission to visit the different locali ties where the creed had gained a foot ing to extort and proselyte and orate and be the mouthpiece and confidential at tache of the woman Christ. But, alas! for the fate of the little band. Mrs. Beekman died and became cold clay like any ordinary mortal. Her broken-hearted believers kept her body for a week expecting that she would rise as she had promised and prophesied. They placed her body on a raised plat form and worshipped about it hourly. There were expectant disciples standing about it every moment in hope that life would return and they would witness the resurrection. The remains were never left alone for an instant, but the corrup tion of the body became so great that at the end of the week the interment was ordered by the public authorities. THE NEW MESSIAH. At this juncture came forward to the comfortless little band the shrewd Schweinfurtli. He declared to them that just as she was dying he saw a gleam of heaven “through the windows of her soul,” and from her lips came the words: “You are Christ, the holy one. My spirit passes into thine, and by this act transforms thy whole being. Go forth pure and sinless, the only son of God. Thou shalt bring all nations to worship thee and put to rout the evil one and all the hosts of darkness.” The credulous company belived and re joiced in the real Savior brought to them as from the dead. From that day the growth of the or ganization, both in financial resources and membership, has been simply won derful. The new Christ haB displayed business sharpness and a keenness in the study of human nature that has brought forth much fruit. A good old farmer named Weldon, who was possessed of 800 acres of fine land, became infatuated with the new sect and made over liis entire property to Schweinfurth as head of the church. Here the central community is located, and here I found my wav early this morning. schweinfi rth ’ s tabernacle . The home of Christ is a large mansion standing in a spacious enclosure amid a number of large forest trees some dis tance back from the main road, about five miles south of this city. It bas spa cious barns, carriage buildings, sheds, and other appurtenances of a prosperous country manse. The members of the community make the breeding of blooded horses a specialty. Schweinfurth has three imported stallions and a large number of brood mares. He also has about eighty head of fine cattle. The house is roomy and with its wings easily accommodates 100 persons. Theie are usually about fifty females there and a dozen or fifteen men. The male dis ciples do the heavy work and are drudg es. They live on the plainest food and sleep in the attic. Most of them, having become infatuated with the new religion, count themselves happy to suffer and la bor for the cause, and have given up all their earthly possessions to the Christ. RELIGION AND WEALTH. Schweinlurth possesses in his own name property which has been given him outright to the amount of $500,000 at the lowest calculation. Whenever a member of the “Church Triumphant” is found he sets aside a tenth of all his earnings as tithes for the Lord, and the the Lord deposits it in different banks in his own name. When the Herald reporter called at the community he was met by a young male servant and ushered into the front parlor. This room was commodious and elegantly furnished. The feet sank into a velvet carpet, leopard and wolf skins were spread about, and added to the beautv and richness of the surroundings. The house is furnished in antique oak, and light comes through large plate glass windows, surrounded by many hued col ored glass. From the snowy ceiling hung large and glittering chandeliers. The reporter was introduced to two richly dressed aud quite pretty young la dies, wlio gave every evidence of refine ment and culture. They answered a few immaterial questions politely, but ap peared to be reserved, and were evident ly relieved when an inner door opened and the “Savior” Schweinfurth ap peared. A bright eye and bright red English cut whiskers were the "first things one noticed and mentally com mented on. His nattv feet were incased in patent leather shoes, a heavy gold fob chain hung from a watch pocket, a high clerical collar and a brilliant blue and Sold tie suirounded his neck. He was ressed throughout in good taste, and there was an air ol gentlemanly ease and elegance from the crown of his head to his shiny footgear. When informed that the visitor was in search of information as the represents tive of a great newspaper which is read throughout both continents it seemed as if a slight shade passed over his counten ance and there was a momentary hesita tion before his reply. But it was only transitory, and in a moment he said: “Will you kindly follow me to my study! I have no objections to answer any rea sonable questions you may propound, or of proper character.” HE IS CHRIST. He led the way into the liall and thence to the two-story wing and upstairs into a room which bore the appearance of a literary man’s comfortable retreat. It was lined with books in solid walnut cases, tastefully veneered with French varnish and elaborately carved. Mo tioning the visiior to a Sleepy Hollow chair, he followed suit and awaited in terrogatories. The first question would startle an or dinary man, but it did not surprise the Rev. Schweinfurth: “Are you Christ?” “I am,” was the reply. “I am more than Christ. I am the perfect man and also God. I possess the attributes of Jesus the sinless, and have his spirit; and more than that, I am tlie Almighty Himself.” “This, then, is your second advent on earth ?” “It is, and I am accomplishing untold good. The time is not far off when I shall make such manifestations of my divinity and power as will startle the world and bring believers to me by thousands and tens of thousands.” “When did you discover first your di vine attributes and that you were the great head of the chuich?” “In 1883 at the decease of Mrs. Beek man. Three days before her death she had a light from heaven and transferred her spiritual holiness to me. Before her death outsiders erroneously called her ‘the woman Christ.’ That was not true. She was the spiritual bride of Christ, and her people were called Beekmanites. After her death at first 1 was only sensi ble that I possessed the attributes of Christ and had in my own person His spirit coming a second time on earth. The people who believe in this great truth were ‘The Church Triumphant.’ Within the last year there has been still greater knowledge, and I can now de clare that I am God Almighty. My name is ‘I am, that I am.’ ” The quiet and impressive manner which attended these words led the re porter to scrutinize the speaker closely to detect symptoms of insanity. But there was no wildness in Iris eyes, no nervousness in his manner. He sat as calmly and expressed himself as deliber ately as anyone could utter the most un questionable truism. “Can you, then, perform miracles? Can you vanish from the flesh and be in visible and pass from one place to anoth er as a spirit?” “Yes, I have unlimited power. I can come into a room with closed doors and disappear. I can raise the dead, cure disease, and do all the miraculous things which I accomplished when I was on the earth before. I do not practice them often, for I wish to convert the world to the truth without depending on super natural powers, but by the truth itself. One of the ladies you saw downstairs was in the last stages of bronchial con sumption, physicians had no hope for hei. I brought her back from the face of death with my divine power and without approaching her. Did vou ever 6ee a more healthy mortal? Physical infirmities are cured by me simply by faith, and I can cure them without even their exercise of faith if I would.” “Do you expect to live on earth for ever?” “I shall be here many years in the present body, and the world will see wondetful sights before I cast off this body. But I am incarnate, and when this goes into the corruption of death my spirit will enter another liody and live on earth. How or when the present body will die haB not yet been revealed of the Father. But in form and sub stance the identical body I now possess was the one that was crucified on Cal vary. There are many things in the Gospels that are inaccurate about my crucifixion and my life on earth, and I am now occupied in writing a new and true version of the New Testament that can be accepted as the perfect and in spired word. This in itself, when given to the world, will create a revolution among those who now consider them selves orthodox believers.” “Will you tell me something of your domestic life here?” DOMESTIC LIFE OF THE BEEKMANITES. “Well, sir, you can say that we live as a large family. There are several mar ried couples here, but most are unmar ried. The evil charge that we practice free love shows how little the world knows ot the purity and sinlessness of our lives. I am the type of the Sinless One, and those who live with me and believe be come pure even as I am pure, and in them there can be no guile. Our marri age ceremony is binding and there can be no divorce. The sexual relation is only entered in by wedded ones for the purpose of raising children, and any other intercourse for the gratification of passion is considered sinful. As for my self I never experience the passions of man, for I ain God. I know that I shall be reviled and jiersecuted, and men will say all manner of evil things against me, but I am holy, and the world will yet know it. The whole world is empannel- ed as a jury to try us, but those who now persecute us will be utterly destroyed. You and all others will have to come to believe in me before you can be saved. I might add that our “Church of tlie Re deemer” will supplant all others on earth. We shall subdue the whole earth. The so called orthodox churches are the beasts of Daniel and must be destroyed.” “If you are the same body that was crucified, where are the marks of nails in your hands?” asked the skeptical scribe. “I do not claim that the material phy sique has not changed and put on new flesh, but my features are not changed, though new material substance has cov ered the point of torturing instruments, in a general sense the same body is now before you as rose from the tomb at my resurrection. And now I will have to be excused, as I have pressing duties. 1 will escort you through the house before you go that you may see our liome. Ev june 14,1889. VOL. I. NO. 19. erything is open, and there is nothing that we fear to cast the sunlight upon." The Lord then led the visitor hurriedly through the bouse from cellar to garret. The former was will stocked with proven der. Hundreds of glass jars of fruit were arranged on the shelves, and tub after tub of fragrant butter stood in the cor ner of tlie spacious underground room. humor and besprinkled with salt of the THE LOST BRACELET. going. He went, and when he returned Attic variety. a dav later, it was only to die of innum It was evident that he was a very ex “There is a remaikable storv connect erable arrow wounds. traordinary man to be thus living here, ed with that bit of jewelry,” said a gen “Before he died he told me that he had and more extraordinary for that very tleman recently to an Alta reporter, who reached the lake just at dawn. He was parodoxical reason. the point of stepping from the under Somehow I felt from the first that I was examining with some interest a much at brush when caught sight of Multno knew this man, and from a peculiar worn silver bracelet, on which with diffi mah standing he on a log projecting over twinkle of his eye, as he led me on grad culty could be traced the letters NOMAII, the water. Her long hair fell over her ually to talk about places and people SLEPING APARTMENTS. scratched evidently with a knife. “The shoulders in disorder and a bright red well known to me, I felt that he knew On the first floor were the sleeping bracelet came into my pofsession,” said blanket hung in graceful folds alsxit her I was. figure. She was gazing intently apartments of the ladies, eiegartly fitted who the gentleman, “in a peculiar manner, slender He informed us during the conversa boudoirs. The second story cf the wing on the lake. Hany was just about to tion that he had been living alone in his and if you don ’ t mind a short story 1 ’ 11 speak her name when an arrow whizzed is devoted to Schweinfurth’s suite. They which lie had built himself, for tell you about it.” eclipsed the ladies’ rooms in elegant fur cabin, through the air straight to the lieart of nearly thiee years, and that his only nishings. There was also a large school companions were his old dog and a cow The reporter, of course, was anxious the dusky maiden. Backward she tell room on the second floor of the main build and a calf. lake and sank lieneatli the sur for the story, and the gentleman, after into the At ino, where some thirty pupils are dailv the same time Harry received Once in perhaps a month, on an aver lighting a cigar, went on with his narra face. tagght. The garret which is commodi a mortal wound. He never fold us how be went to the postoffice at Nesko ous and clean, but plainlj’ furnished, age, he got hack to the river, and we buried tive: “ 1 suppose you know that some contains a dozen beds. Here sleep the win, a very small hamlet, ten or twelve time back I was *Ior several years con him in the woods he loved so well. The miles away, where he got some newspa men whose hard work and substance Indians always claimed that Multnomah and magazines, which he subscribed nected with the Columbia river steam was have gone towards equipping the rest of pers seized by an evil spirit which live« for, and at the one little store in the vil boats, and so was often thrown amor in the lake in the form of a monster fish the house in such princely fashion. lage such other articles as he might Within the last year or two $20,000 has need. old time steamboat men, whose pioneer and devoured. At any rate her body been spent in refurnishing and remodel was never found ; but this was her brace Finally my curiosity and Bohemian and legendary know ledge was most pro let. ing the house Strange that it should have been got the better of politeness and found. Mr. Schweinfurth has complete charge I audacity recovered after so many years.” him who he was. He replied : “The Columbia liver is a magnificent of all the finances, and uses the means at asked “And that,” said the gentleman, a« “My name is Sam Smith and I know his own pleasure, never accounting for lie reached for a fresh cigar, “is why I you quite well, though I have not seen body of water, and 1 doubt if there is any said anything. there was a remaikable story con grander scenery in the world than that | The growth in membership of this re you for many years.” nected with that bit of jewelry.”—Alto Like a flash his name brought his en along the river from the Dalles to the markable sect has been astonishingly ('alD'ornian. rapid within the last few years. They tire identity back, though he has grown Pacific ocean. It is at the Cascades, very gray, has a long beard and looks now have churches at Chicago, St. however, that the country is oi the wild Birth ot a Volcano. Charles, Minn., Minneapolis, I’aw Paw, very much older than he is, though I est description and the mountains are should think he is over sixty in reality. Ill., Louisville, Ky., Leavenworth and Yzaico, in the little republic of San “And who is Sam Smith 1” perhaps dark with the gloom of dense forests or Kansas City. l?ut the central communi Salvador, is in many respects the most ty is this one here. New converts must the gentle reader on the eastern side of rugged with tremendous cliffs and fright come here and learn their duties and ob the Rockies is saying, and, possibly, ful precipices. There is a tradition remarkable volcano on eartli, first, be ligations, and those who are willing to with two other little words frequently among the few straggling Indians that cause its discharges have continued so used in the emphasis of this interroga work are assigned fields of labor. Ser tion. one now sees along the river, which is to long and with such great regularity: vices are held here every Sunday after the effect that many, many years ago a again, because the tumult in the earth s Samuel Smith is a poet and dramatist noon at 1 o’clock, and Schweinfurth al arch of rock spanned the river at bowels is always to be heard, as the ways preaches. Stenographers are em of no little success. He is the author of great the Cascades forming a natural bridge of rumblings and explosions are constant, ployed to take down his every utterance a play which thousands have seen stupendous size. One day the two great and copies are made on type-writers and throughout the world, where the English living one on either side of the being audible for a hundred miles, and sent to branch churches, where they are language is spoken by many people, and spirits got into a desperate quarrel, and in Bounding like the noise w hich Lip 5 an read to the faithful. They are strict veg which has made a great fortune lor those river mighty wrath and fury they tore Winkle heard when he awakened from etarians iu diet, never touching meat, pleasant actors, J. C. Williamson and their bridge asunder* and in its fall it his sleep in tlie Catskills; and finally, it milk or eggs. They eat abundance of Maggie Moore. He not only wrote the with huge blocks of stone the oatmeal and fruits, and sometimes use “Struck Oil,” but also “The Blue and choked Gray,” a drama much used a few years current of the river, thus forming the is the only volcano that has originated on beef suet. ago among amateurs with a professional Cascades, around which Uncle Sam is this continent since the discovery by The place is spoken of by all who visit leader, in the same way that “The Color now building a series of locks at enor Columbus. It arose suddenly from the it as a happy home life. Those who Guard” and other such plays are mous cost. Not only was the bridge de piain in the spring of 1770, in the midst have been there from motives of curios worked. stroyed, but from the mountain sides , ity come away with the impression that the angry spirits clawed off masses of of what had been for nearly a hundred He also wrote “ Tom Bell, ” a very suc there is something fascinating about the cessful melodrama of a few years ago, rock and stone to hurl at each other. years the profitable estate of Senor Don man and the place. Schweinfurth al aud he is the author of “Fonda, the Strangely enough, the mountains on Balthazar Frazo. who was absent from ways acts the meek and lowly role to Trapper’s Bride,” “California Through each side of the Columbia at the Cas the country at the time, and was greatly peifection. He was recently met by a Death Valley,” or whatever name they cades do look as if they had been savage amazed upon his return to discover that Rockford clergyman in a store here and to call it, over which Sheridan ly dealt with in some Titanic struggle, his magnificent coffee and indigo planta denounced as an impostor possessed of choose Corbyn, Mayo’s late manager, aud it takes but little stretch ot the tion, had. without his knowledge or con the devil, a lustful mocker of holy and Jack Frank Crawford, the “poet scout,”! imagination to believe that the tradition sent, been exchanged fora first-class vol- things, and assailed with terms of the are now having an interesting war of I is true so far as the natural bridge is CA"n December, 1769, the peons on the most opprobrious nature. words in the dramatic newspaperrs. and concerned. (Concluded on third page.) “But the bracelet,” interposed the re- hacienda were alarmed by terrific rumb over which they may come to a lawsuit, lings under the ground, constant tremb though nothing more dangerous need be A POET-HERMIT. “I am coining to that,” continued the lings of the earth and frequent earth looked for. Sam Smith wrote the play for John gentleman, as he brushed the ashes from quakes, which did not extend over the The Author of Well-Known Dra country ss usual, but seemed to be con Woodwaid, who a short time ago was his cigar. ..... . mas Living Alone in tlie Wilds playing “Roger” in “Esmeralda” iifone “In the mountains around the Cascades fined to that particular locality, lliey of Oregon—Something About of the Madison Square companies. A there are numberless lakes unsurpassed left the place in terror when the tremb great actor is this same John Woodward, in beautv, and many of them that to tins lings and noises continued, und, return His Life and Habits. who has beeh a victim to bis own abnor-1 dav no'white man has ever seen, so ing a week or two after, found that all The neighborhood of Xestucca bay, an mal and astonishing modesty. Wood rough and terribly wild is the country the buildings had been shaken down, arm of the Pacific Ocean, on the Oregon ward was many years a theatrical mana through which one must pass to get to trees uprooted and large craters o|>eiie<l in San Francisco in early times, and them. Some of these lakes are many iu the fields, which had lieen level earth coast, is a wild and rugged region. The ger often then he reconstructed dramas to acres in oxtent, the heavy timber coming before. From these craters smoKe and cliffs along the edge of the ocean are ex suit the day and occasion, interspersing right down to the edge of the water. ■team issued, and occasionally names alted, precipitous, rough, and beetling. them with songs prepared to catch the Clearer than the brightest diamond that were seen to come out oi the ground. In many places huge rocks torn from miners, Thus lie became the author of ever sparkled are the waters of these Some bravo vaqueros or herdsmen re once famous song, “Joe Bowers,” I lakes, and of unfathomable depth. In mained near by to watch developments, those awful battlements lie in the sea be the the hottest davs of August the water is and on February 23, 1770, they were en which begins: low, and against these the ever-recur almost at the freezing point, and as you tertained bv a spectacle which no other ,,My name it is Joe Bowers, can easily imagine, the trout in these men have been permitted to witness; ring and crawling canyons of the vasty 1 have a brother Ike, lakes are magificient fighters, and take a for about 10 o’clock on the morning ol I’m just from old Missouri. deep, dash and are bioken one after an fly with such savage earnestness that it that day the grand upheaval took place, Yes, all the way from 1’ikc ” other, and the baffled waters seethe and makes your blood bound through your and it seemed to them, ns they fled in He was also the author of the remark veins with excitement as your reel whirrs terror, that the whole universe was be foam and roai as in furious anger. Then ably popular song on the coast in these I to the first mad rush of the sturdy fish. ing turned upside down. I irst there the spent waters crawl among the notch times: Many an hour have I fished in these lakes was a series oi terrible explosions, which es, and niches, and ragged seams, and with a halfbreed boy to paddle my dug lifted the crust of the earth several hun *‘The days of old, the days of gold, granite-lipped gaps, behind the seceded The days of forty-nine.” out noiselessly through the water. Cu dred feet, and out of tlie cracks issued masses of black stone. rious, ain’t it, that those trout will never flames and lava and immense volumes of Smith called the play alluded to, “The They swish and wash, here and there, Plains,” and it was an excellent piece of take a fly unless the wind is blowing smoke. An hour or two afterwards stream, and as for”------- there was another and grander convul iu the crevices and caverns, then run work of its kind then. What the dra down “Haven’t heard anything about the sion, which shook and startled the coun- quickiy out, seaward again, as if in anx matic art of Crawford & Co. may have bracelet yet,” interrupted the reporter. trv for a hundred miles around. Kocks for it since deponent saith not, ious and hurried effort to join the volume done “That’s so. Well, one day the wind weighing thousands of tons were buried Smith came Dalifornia in the gold-dig was blowing stiff down stream, and as into the air and fell several leagues dis of receding surf, ready to return, with ging times, and in 1861 joined the Union I steamboat was waiting to tow up a tant. The surface of the eartli was ele another charge ot tlie futile, but mighty army as a private soldier, and rose up to our barge loaded with iron, Captain Kow vated aliout three thousand feet, and the force, of ocean’s green and whelming the rank of Captain. His command suggested that we go a fiishing to a cer internal recesses were purged ol masaea served altogether on the Pacific coast I tain lake some miles back in the woods. mass. About these rock great flocks oi among of lava and blistered stone, which fell in the Indians of Washington Terri We knew that no one bad fished there a heap around the holo from which they sea birds circle, flap and scream, and tory, Oregon, California and Arizona. for several years, and that the Indians issued. , . , . along their sides ocean lions, sleek and When I asked him how he eame to I never went near it, rb they said an evil These discharges continued for several homely, in squirming herds, clamor with write “Struck Oil,” he said : spirit in the shape of a monster man lived days at irregulai intervals, accompanied their prey of fish, and there they feast I went to Frisco in ’73 and was slain, and fight, roaring and bellowing the financially, in Flood’s stock deal. Then in its waters, and though sevetal Indians by loud explosions and earthquakes, while, in appalling din and reboation. I needed a hundred dollars, or any other had in bravado gone to the lake to fish which di«l much damage throughout the On the land the primeval forests of amount. An actor (without giving his none of them ever returned. After a entire republic; the disturbance was per hemlock, spruce and pine stand as deep name that will occur to the profession I hard tramp we reached the lake, and in ceptible in Nicaragua and Honduras. somber and mysterious as if the foot of throughout the United States wlienSt is a few minutes had constructed a rough In this manner was a volcano born, and man had never trod the ground upon said that he is one of the best drawing raft, pushed out to the center of the lake it has vroved to be a healthful and vigor which they grow. Here, indeed, the bo I- stars on the stage and yet one of the and thrown our lines. I never had such ous child. In less than two month« itude is unutterable, and all nature is as most homeopathic-souled men on earth) sport in my life. A fly could scarcely from a level field rose a mountain more mild, dreary and uninviting—save to left word with John Woodard that lie touch the water before it was seized by than 4000 feet high, and the constant hungry and keen-eyed trout. I in- discharges from the crater, which opened those who love her in her most awful wanted a“piece” with a sing-song Dutch-1 some moods—as where man in it, and would pay well for it, I allv, tired of sport, we determined to put then, have accumulated around its edges wrote what I thought would answer and back to shore, and, just for luck, I threw until its elevation has increased 2009 feet “The wolfs long howl is heard. when the actor came around presented it I my line once more. There was a slight more. Unfortunately the growth of the On Oonalaska’s lonely shore." tug, but to my annoyance I found the monster has not lieen scientifically ob The streams in this region are full of for inspection He flashed the light of a line was caught in a bit of drift. We served or accurately measured, but tlie big and saucy trout, and game, great three thousand dollar solitaire on me and I paddled up to it, and reaching over to cone of lava and ashes, which is now and small, is abundant in the woods. said: “It won’t do as it is, but since you’ve free the hook, 1 saw a piece of shining 2500 feet from the foundation of the This is why myself and a companion wrote it (that’s his style of grammar) I’ll I metal on the drift. I hauled in the earth upon which it rests, is constantly were down there, in that southern ex take it East to my author, Fred Maeder, I branch, and there was that bracelet you growing bv the incessant discharges of tremity of Tillamook, for a time this and if he can do anything with it I’ll I have been looking at At first I did not volcanic matter.—From "The Capitals <>J summer. notice the letters scratched on it, but fell Spanish America." One day while we were exploring tlie give you something for it.” Casually I remarked: “Blast your au-1 to wondering how it got into the lake^ deep woods, about three miles from the for certainly for twenty years past no In The people of New York City demanded ocean and six miles below a settlement thor,”or words to that effect , and depart-1 dian had been within a mile of the lake. that Gen. Grant be buried in that city, on the Nestucca bay, we suddenly came ed with my manuscript. “Captain Kow, who was 8>ne of lhe and promised to build a moument to cost Next day I watched at the entrance I oldest upon a diminutive log cabin. A patch of pilots on the river, and deeply half a million dollars if their demand was ground near by had been cleared, and oi the California Theater for J. C. Wil-1 versed in all of the river lore, took the complied with, but when the first burst around the patch had been built a rude liamson, the low comedian there, I didn’t I jewelrv in his hand and began a close ex of their grief cooled their patriotic and fence of logs, stumps, brush and what know him personally, but knew him by amination. He was, in the main, one of generous ardor likewise abated, and tlie ever other material fit for the purpose sight, so I button-holed him when he I the coolest men I ever knew and seldom monument is vet unbuilt, and probably could be found at hand. Big melons, came out. I got him into a safe place 1 showed the slightest emotion under any always will be. The I’hilladeipbia bul garden truck, a roasting-ear patch and and read that piece to him and it made circumstances. He had examined the letin suggests that Grant's remains be some annual flowers were growing luxur his eyes stick out. He gave me a bun-1 bracelet but a moment or so when I removed to the national capitol, where iantly on the cleared ground, and the dredon the spot and said if I ever got heard him exclaim, in what for him whole nation could unite in erecting fence had been built to keep deer and hard up to let him know. He made a were most unusual toneB: ‘Here, C. H.’ the a suitable monument to the dead Gener other animals of the forest—as well as a fortune by it, and once in a while he ad (that's what he always called me,) ‘look al’s memory, one more in keeping with cow which contemplatively chewed her vertises and finds out where I am and I aud see if these scratches are not letters.’ his fame than the shabby tomb where he cud as she gazed into the patch—from sends me a few hundred. looked and made them out, as you rests in the gav city of Gotham, with its After he had made a success of it the I I have, destroying the vegetation inclosed. the word NOMAH. ‘Yes. yes,’ immensly long-pursed and intensely original actor came back to the coast and The discovery was more or less aston said the captain, ‘that’s what I thought. small-souled men. hunted me up, and this conversation en- I ishing, and we started at once for the The first part of the name has lieen ef cabin intent upon ascertaining, if possi sued: by lime, but the full name was Mult “That piece “StruckOil” you originally I faced Children Cry for ble, who had come so far from the nomah'. When I was a boy I remember haunts of men, three miles from the wrote for me, didn’t you?” she was the most beautiful maiden among Pitcher’s Castoria. “Yes, but you refused it.” ocean and six miles from anywhere else, “You only got a little $100 for it from the Klickitats—and they were warriers to pitch his habitation : who it waB who in those days., had been so eminently successful in Williamson. I’ll give you $250 if you’ll “Why, captain,” said I. ‘this is quite a finding such “a lodge in a wildnerness,” sign a paper stating that you wrote it for I romance; tell me about it.” such “a boundless contiguitv of shade.” me.” “There isn’t much to tell, except that “You bavent got money enough to get We were quickly rewarded, for the tliirtv years ago Harry Sprague and my me to sign such a paper. ” bark of an aged dog brought a tall, self were just of age, and the Klickitats I’ll make you. grizzled and bent old man to the door, wete a powerful tribe of Indians, and “You can go to--------.” and he had to bend some more to come during the summer season they came in “Ingersoll says there is no such place.” large through the entrance of his habitation. numbers to the Cascades to fish We talked thus with Smith a long “Hello! Good-day!” he said, in a and gather berries. Harry and I were pieasant tone. “Glad to see you if vou time, and as the shadows began to grow on the steam boats running to tlie Cas are friendly,” he continued, and when long, we bade liim “good bve.” Lately cades, and Multnomah was a beautiul we assured him as to why we happened he has sent me for inspection a pastoral, Indian girl. 1 always thought slie must to be there, lie asked us to take seats on which is brilliant and original, and which have been a descendant of an adventur a bench outside, remarking that just ere long will be published in book form, ous fur trader, for her features were of then it was more comfortable outside the and it will astonish the literary world, so Caucasian type, and her complexion was cabin than in, as it was wash-day with able is this hermit-poet in the forests of I not more dusky than that of a Spanish h'm and he had been doing his semi Tillamook. beauty. Harry fell in love with her and annual laundrying in-doors. she with him—those things often hap- “1 must be exceedingly careful with Still Going; Out West- jiened in the early days, you know—and fire* ’ be said, “in order to prevent a all would have been well but for the In conflagration among the timber, which Old Isaac Splain, of Grundy county, dian war which broke out about that would give uncomfortable warmth for nearly three-quarters of a century a time, and the tribe to which Multnomah to the immediate vicinity, so I never resident of the state, and in his earlier belonged left the river to go upon the build fires outdoors at this season, and years one of the best hunters of Missouri, warpath. A little while before the tribe that which I have had in the cabin has was seen at the Union depot to-day. disappeared Harry had taken one of heated the room uncomfortably. Be The old man is nearly 80 years old, and Multnomah’s bracelets and scratched on sides there is an unpleasant odor of soap this morning he took his first ride on the it with his knife her name. Shortly after —soft soap—good soft soap, too, for 1 cars. He carried the same old flintlock this the blockhouse at the Cascades was made it myself.” rifle that bas been his companion through attacked, but the Indians were repulsed We expressed our entire satisfaction life. and that night we captured a young In with the situation and declared that his “I have killed thousands of deer with | dian boy lurking around the settlement explanations were all unnecessary, this gun,” said he, “and was never beat- | who knew Harry and confided to him whereat he seemed gratified and fell to ; en in shooting at a mark.” that Multnomah wished to meet him the This powder never vanes. A marvel of talking with much vivacity on all sorts of ' His three daughters and son-in-law! next night at the Lost lake. It muBt purity, strength an<l wholesomeness. More subjects suggested by the’situation. He ’ were with him. The family were bound , have been very important business that economical than the ordinary kinds, and talked well, too; used good English, for Washington territory, where they will would have induced the Indian girl to cannot be sold in competition with multi with a touch of Western dialect, and his I take up a new home on government! visit the dreaded lake; but we feared a tude of low test, short weight alum or phos phate powder. Sold only in cans. R oyal conversation was spiced with great good-1 land.— Kanias City Newt. plot and tried to dissuade Harry from dakiso PownsR Co . 108 Wall St., N. Ys Absolutely Pure.