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About The Telephone=register. (McMinnville, Or.) 1889-1953 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 12, 1889)
« a— THE TELEPHONE-REGISTER Miss ysabel ECHEGUREN. M c M innvii . lc , December - 12, 1889. - H pushed back and the crossing was] A ROMANTIC AFFAIR New Information About Excelling the Brilliant Imagina cleared. the Daughter of Mexico’s tion of E. P. Roe. Street car 32 going South was de Vanderbilt. The following from the Eugene j layed fully fifteen minutes by the’ 5 S ouk * O regon . - ! I I THE PRESENT RAPID GROWTH The steamer Colima which sailed Journal is a very romantic affair, contest, and car 29, going North,. yesterday for Mexico and way ports barring the usual love affairs of ro- driven by George Lee, was delayed How a Poor German Cobbler ; carrje(j among its cabin passengers 1 mances, and is as thrilling as the about five minutes by the singular Won Fame and Fortune. Miss Ysabel Echeguren, a young ' most exciting stories of E. P. Roe, contest. Both the car drivers re Near the city of Scranton, Pa., at Spanish lady of Mazatlan, whose who gives nothing that surpasses ported the occurrence, aud the scene the outbreak of the late rebellion, brief visit to this city has caused a it in brilliancy. The heroine is was witnessed by a number of pas there lived a poor German shoe flutter of excitement among the Mrs. Wheeler, the healer, and the sengers. V The drivers sav that from what; maker named Peter Kahler. He aristocratic members of the Spanish woman who located the drowned they could hear from the railroad had his own ideas of how a boot or and Mexican colony. Miss Eche bodies at the Siuslaw. During the shoe should be made to give the guren is the only daughter of Senor war she served as nurse in the men that the engineer of engine 599 greatest comfort to the wearer, Francisco Echeguren. Spanish con Union service and had many thrill was in fanlt. The number of the which were far in advance of his sul at Mazatlan, and undoubtedly ing experiences, among them the other engines or the names of the engineers could not be ascertained. humble condition, but he lacked the wealthiest citizen of the entire following: southern coast, and as such she is She was present at the battle of the capital necessary to put his Better than Faith Cure. Spotsylvania. At the commence ideas into the shoes, and the shoes an heiress to millions. Senor Echeguren came from Cas- ment of the battle a Union officer There were five men of us and before the public. Shortly after the election of Abraham Lincoln to tille, Spain, to Mazatlan about forty rode up to her and handed her a three women, besides the driver, ago. By strict attention to package of papers with the request who were staging it between two the presidency the press of the years ' country were full of the oddities of business and with a naturally that she should keep them safe un towns in Kansas. We set out at 7 expression, witty saying and pecu- 1 shrewd and discriminative mind he til the battle was over, and then if o’clock in the morning for an all rapidly acquired riches until now he (the officer) should not live to day’s ride, and had not made over liarities of “Old Abe.” Among the many publications of he is reputed to be worth from $10,- call for them, to deliver the pack two miles when the oldest man in to $12,000,000. From his age at headquarters. the crowd, who was from the Nut that time there appeared a diagram 000,000 1 first enterprises in the importing In the course cf the fight a flank meg state, and built on Yankee of th» foot of the president, coupled he eventually Itecame identi was turned and Mrs. Wheeler and principles, suddenly he exclaimed ; with the statement that the foot trade 1 was so abnormally large and awk fied with the Bank of Mazatlan, and the rest of the hospital nurses cap “By gosh to squash!” “What’s up?” asked one of the ward of build, and covered with he obtained possession of the Guad- tured. Upon searching her person, corns, bunions, etc., that it seemed aloupe de los Reyes silver mines the papers were found, which lot» “The toothache! She’s hit me impossible for him to get a shoe near Casala, 100 miles from the proved to be the work of a Union which he could wear with any de- capital of Sinaloa and the Guada- spy, who had been inside the rebel in that ’ere lower double tooth, and greee of comfort. The statement lupana mines at Rosario, besides lines. She was at once arraigned I’m in for a bushel of trouble.” and the accompanying diagram several other smaller ones in adjoin before a court martial, and not “Just try and not think of it, sug camo to the notice of the humble ing districts. All are extremely withstanding her statement of how gested one of the women. “Keep shoemaker, Peter Kahler, and he rich, and are said to produce for- she came by the papers and repeat you thoughts on your family./ set about the making of a pair of tunes annually. In addition his ed protestations of innocence, she He tried it for two or three min shoes according to his ideas of com. property and railroad interests are was formally convicted of being a utes and a smile of affection came fort and to fit the measurements of extensive, and he bids fair to be- spy, and sentenced to be hanged at to his face. It suddenly died away that diagram. In due course of come the Monte Christo of modern sunrise next morning. She was however, to be replaced by a look time the shoes were completed and times. then taken by a guard of three of ferocity, as he yelled out: shipped to Washington, D. C., ad About a month ago his daughter soldiers and confined in a small “Hang my family, but it don’t And soon Ring of a Street Car will dressed to his Excellency Abraham came to this city with Mr. Bartning 1 guardhouse which had but one work! Has anybody got any cam Lincoln, President of the United of the wealthy German firm of Bart small aperture admitting light and phor?” States, accompanied by a note, | ning Bros., of Mazatlan and Ham air, and through that aperture she Nobody had. We hadn’t even a Valley better field for of signed by the rustic shoemaker, burg, and his wife, intending to ' saw the erection of the gallows on drop of whisky. One man had some tobacco, but the Yankee stating under what circumstances spend the winter months here and which she was to perish. the shoes had been made, and hop return with Mr. and Mrs. Bartning Inside the guardhouse there was couldn’t go it. ing that the president would accept after the Christmas holidays. Mrs. nothing but the bare floor of earth, The ache, once started, grew the shoes as a present from an Bartning will be remembered as the and two dry goods boxes standing worse, and as he began groaning a humble admirer and for the good charming Miss Fannie Lemonmey- against a wall. a second woman suggested: the maker felt suie they would do or, of San Mateo. The young heir That night one of the guards en “I have heard say as imagination ess has been the gue*st during her tered the guardhouse with a piece has all to do with pains. Suppose for him. The shoes proved to be a perfect sojourn of the family of E. M. Ca of cornbread and a tincup of water you imagine you arc sound asleep fit for the presidential pedal ex brera, of Cabrera, Roma & Co., Cal for her supper. Mrs. Wheeler spoke and dreaming of angels and such.” V tremities and pleased His Excel ifornia street, and their lovely home and the guard stopped. He then He tried it, and for a minute or few in employ a large lency very much. Mr. Lincoln on Van Ness avenue has been the retired and locked the door upon two the ache let up. Then it struck lost no time in sending to Mr. Kah scene of many pleasant gatherings 1 her again. Later on in the night him with a jump, and he seized his them are McMinnville with a capacity of Bar ler an autograph letter of thanks, in her honor. Owing to her mo she heard a voice at the aperture jaw and yelled: Flour day; two yards, with sash and a “Jerusha Jackson! but I’ll be rels which the rustic disciple of St. ther’s fears however, that she might say: “Move the small box!” She Crispin was shrewd enough to have like other daughters of affluent par moved the box and discovered an gaul durned if I hain’t goin’ to die and cheese factory, wit a one of published. The publication of this ents, be led into a hasty alliance, ’ aperture which proved to be a tun- right here! Driver, stop the furniture factory, its with of operation in letter brought both fame and for- ■ ; she was recalled to her Southern ' nel. Through this tunnel she wagon!” tune to Mr. Kahler. He soon after 1,ome> hardly beforc hcr PIeasures worked her way, on her hands and It was stopped, and he wanted to future. removed to New York, where he be- l*ad begun, and she left with deep knees, _______ for about t one-fourth of a know how far it was to a town. He came known as the presidential regret the many friends her sunny mije> when D;lc she V emerged „1C,BVU at the VIIV was told that it was twenty miles, « shoemaker and was patronized by disposition an,l girlish nature had moutjb anj found a man and two and he fetched a groan a rod long the wealthy, whose carriages were ' drawn about ahout her. Mr. Bartning sa<jtneci horses standing there. and said: to be frequently seen in front of his ' being confined to his rooms at the Mrs. Wheeler mounted one horse, “It’s got to be done! Driver, ■ door. During the war Kahler took 1 alace hotel by a severe illness, she and the man, who was disguised, come down here!” And is constanly increasing; in other cities size a government contract for furnish. we*d under the chaperonage of Mr. the other. For six miles they rode “What do you want?” surrounding is exceedingly larger yield acre, ing shoes for the army, introducing and " °hler, of Mazatlan, the on in tha darkness without speak “You’ve got to knock it out! You in the now celebrated broad-soled, (h)rnier a leading member of Mr. ing, but at the end of that time the are the biggest man in the lot, and within of than in other State. YAM » Bartning’s firm. low-heeled shoe, known as I man spoke and said: “You are I guess you can hit a purty fair She is not a stranger to San now safe in the Union lines; ride blow. Give me a lifter right here HILL County is as “Government shoe.” He made considerable money from his trade Francisco by any means, for she right on.” and the man disap upon the jaw.” and the contract and soon estab was there quite a time two or three peared in the darkness like a shad “Do you mean it?” “Sartin; and don’t waste any lished the house of Kahler A Son. years ago, when she was a pupil of ow, and she rode on. Up to the time of his death Mr. Mrs Gamble at the Van Ness Semi Mrs. Wheeler came across a pick more time. Spit on your hand, Lincoln bought all the shoes he nary. Her age is just seventeen, et who took her to Gen. Hentzel- haul off and sock me one right on And McMinnville is metropolis of Banner wore from Mr. Kahler. 1 During and 8he pretty, modest and un- man’s headquarters. on that tooth. I want it knocked 1 pretending. She has a well ma the last two years of hi8 life Mr. Last September while taking a into a cocked hat.” Kahler spent much of his time at tured mind, considering her youth, little outing at Anderson’s on the “But you will go with it.” Harvey’s lake, the Indian name of reads a great deal and, naturally is McKenzie river, Mrs. Wheeler and “Can’t help that. Now imagine which is Skandara lake, the largest a fine conversationalist, caring more her preserver met, and recognized that I’ve called you a double-bar body of fresh water in Pennsyl- for the profoundcr discussions than each other, after a lapse of twenty- reled liar, and whale awaay.” • vania and a popular summer resort. ^or ^,e frothy nothings which pass six years. Her preserver’s name is The driver drew back and then *1... I...11 _ It was while at Harvey’s lake, in | through the ball rooms or a tete-a- the well-known Dr. B. F. Russell, landed on the exact spot, and the 1888, that Mr. Kahler conceived the 1 tete. Her figure is slight and wil now postmaster at Thurston, He Yankee landed head over heels in »eheme of what he called the “Kah lowy, hercomplxeion of the dazzling was one of the three guards, He the grass. He was up in a minute, however, and he put his thumb and ler Sanitarium.” This sceme he color that marks the pure Castilian was the disguised horsman. while hew eyes are dark, melting his finger into his mouth, pulled thought would bring him much “Push of War’’ by Locomotives. soulful. out two teeth and shouted: wealth, and in the fall of that year and Both her father and mother are An incident rarely seen on a rail “Whoop! It’s one extra, but he bought of Mrs. Betsey Worden pure Castilians. Mrs. Echeguren road was witnessed recently at the that’s all right! Shake, old man, her farm of about fifty acres for comes from the vicinity of Bilbao corner of Calhoun and Tennessee and then drive on with the band $9,000, and at once had a survey and has her own0' peculiar ideas streets, Memphis. It caused the wagon! We—whoop! Toothache made, and the portion of the farm about the marriage of daughters pr.ssengers on two street cars some i gone—pain gone—happiness come bordering on the lake beautifully If reports be true, the efforts of the amount of annoyance tempered with I gfgv*! Here’s i a dollar, and if laid out in winding streets and young men of this city will avail amusement. [, ’ ■ to • brag around about [you want building lots. Finding that this naught, for she has already selected " hen car 32 of the Jackson knocking a feller fourteen feet 1 I land was not so shaped that he Miss Ysabel’s future husband from Mound Park line reached the cross-1 wonq gay a wor(] ” could complete his plans, he wanted among the young people of her na ing at the time named it was found to buy the adjoining ground, known tive province, and when the proper blocked by two freight trains with i A Samoan Deity as the “Lake Hotel” property, time comes will announce her se the two engines facing each other. I owned by the eitate of Caroline lection and the wedding will take Neither of the trains made any mo There is an extraordinary rever Rhoads, deceased, for which he of ence in Samoa for certain relics, j place. tion to move, and the car driver, fered $20,000 cash, the offer being The Echeguren family have in whose name is Thomas, inquired of notably sundry filthy old mats, one 1 refused. In the spring of the pres contemplation a Europen tour next of which, named Papo, was vener- » ent year Kahler moved his family year, and it is more than possible a brakeman the cause of the delay. ’ ated as a god of war. This sacred from New York to his Harvey’s that the ladies will make their home The answer surprised him: “Well| rag, says C. F. Gordon-Cumming. they met on the same track; both lake farm, hoping to benefit his over there. . was simply a strip of old matting, of the engineers claim the right of | health, which had been failing, about four inches wide and three with the pure mountain air. Being Tlie Deadly Blue-Gununed Negro way. Neither one of ’em will back yards long, which was always at tached to the war canoe of the high | a chronic dyspeptic, he suffered The bite of a blue-gummed ne down.” At this juncture the engineer of est chief when he went to battle. greatly until July last, when he gro is said to be poisonous, and the ------ - - — — - — died. He sunk about $15,000 in following fact would seem to confirm one engine pulled his lever and at Even when the Samoans had whole his “Sanitarium” and “Mountain somewhat the truth of the belief: tempted to force the other train heartedly accepted Christianity, one Village” schemes, but nevertheless About six weeks ago, in a difficulty back, but the effort was unsuccess of their most vexed questions was □JiuLLllvu U1 lliv JJdVVjUiG, JJUULUlo, LLUL <XLLCl UA” left a large estate. He frequently near Gosport. Ca>sar Hill was bit- ful. Then the engineers argued the how to dispose of this time-honored matter, and one suggested that they rag with the least indignity. The related with pride that he was Lin j ten on the finger by Harry Davis, coln’s shoemaker, and the autograph i colored, of the blue-gummed variety. keep the crossing blocked, to which suggestion of burning it waB scouted letter he always carried with him. ' Inflammation set in, and in a short the other replied he didn’t care if it with horror, and at length it was re time amputation of the finger was was kept blocked for an hour or solved to launch a canoe, which The Kaiser’s Modesty. should be rowed out to sea by a > deemed necessary to save the arm. two. Then the first engineer made number of high chiefs, who, having Here is an anecdote of the emper But the poison was not arrested, or of Germany, which is certainly and the hand and arm soon showed another attempt to run the oppos fastened a heavy stone to Papo, sufficiently characteristic of that a fearful progress of the disease. ing train back, and again failed, should reverently commit him to pompous personage to be true. The arm has been cut off, and yet whereupon he backed his engine a the deep. They had actually start During one of his forest excursions it is thought very uncertain whether few feet and attacked the enemy ed on this sad errand when the on the occasion of the late visit of the disease will stop before taking with a running start, but in vain. teachers started in another canoe the czar of Russia. William II. was the life of its suffering victim. It was a battle of the giants, in and begged that the war god might of this will 10 sum which afford to spend in about to light his cigar, but found which both were equally powerful. be presented to the missionary, a let true merits our This i> first edition of a Many Berlin butchers have gone that he had forgotten the knife that The engineer then signaled an suggestion that was received with ! into bankruptcy in consequence of j he used to cut off the ends. The ! engineer who was on his engine in acclamation ; so the venerable rag newspaper entirely it be j the continued prohibition of the im czar was no better provided, so one portation of cattle and pigs. An i the yard South of the crossing for is now preserved in the museum of business men, principal buildings of of the forest keepers stepped for other consequence of this irksome 1 assistance. He responded, and ran the London Mission. ward and proffered his own The prohibition is a scarcity of fat stock his engine up in the rear of the interest. emperor used it and then returned throughout Germany, and the con- north-bound train. Then both it, saying impressively, “Take back , sumption of horseflesh is increasing. engineers started tlieir engines to Children Cry for, 1 In Berlin alone, seventy horses a your knife It is now a historical day are slaughtered, the flesh being gether. and by their combined strength the south-bound train was relic.” bought at moderate prices. Pitcher’s Castorla. 4 LINCOLN’S SHOEMAKER. Both in Public and Private Improvements and Popu lation of the Beautiful and well situated CITY M’MINNVILLE Demonstrates that the Nucleus for a Great City has been formed. During the last two years in the neighborhood of $200,000 Have been Spent for Public Improvements It is the Only City in Oregon that Owns and Operates COMPLETE ELECTRIC LIGHT and WATER PLANTS. the Rattle and Line No city in the Willamette be heard. presents a the operation Capital The Manufactories of the Town Are comparatively Among the of per creamery yet in number, but still they number of people. Flouring mills, One Hundred lumber door factories in connection; capacity of thousand pounds butter per day; a infancy, but the surety increased the near Î The Population of the City is 2,500 Oregon. The being raised a radius known faster country ten miles proportion than of the same productive, a per any section of the “The Banner County of Oregon, the county seat and the county This city is receiving deserved comment from the press of the State, and it is the intention of the propri etors of The Telephone-Register a To issue on February 1st a Mammoth edition devo ted entirely to McMinnville. Her business interests and business men will each receive attention in their respective columns in the issue, together with a history of the town from its first settlement to date. The edu cational facilities will receive their portion, together with interesting statistics, Bai. king, Commercial, Ex- press, Freight, Municipal, Building, Religious and Fra ternal will given. 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