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.