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THE TELEPHONE-REGISTER Miss ysabel ECHEGUREN.
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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’
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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.
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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
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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
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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.”
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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,
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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
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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
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hen
car
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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-
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
Articles by prominent people;
sketches of the Lawyers, Doctors, County and City of-
ficials are ! being prepared, making it, as a whole, a pa
pa-
per which should be read and distributed throughout
the State and Union in order to give the outside popu
lation a correct picture of McMinnville, the banner
town of the banner county of the banner state.
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paper
be
cents, a
you can easily
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