THE PEOPLE YOU WANT TO REICH Let Us Tell You WITH VOI R ADVERTISEMENT That the answers received to our request for addresses in the Illustrated Edition exceed those to the advertisements inserted in tlie N ew Y ork W orld , B outon G lobe and P hiladelphia R ecord . 2H1 ïrad Jhr Jtltphonr-Ärgiiter <> SURE RESULTS FOLLOW WISE INVESTMENT. Circulation Guaranteed Greater Than That of Any Other Paper Published in Yamhill County. TELH>TH08EE*E«t«bl'lshed“uUn’e.' 1886 M c M innville . O regon , T hursday , C 0 H S 011 (j 3t6 [I FSÖ. I , I 889. may 8, i89o. VOL. II. NO. 14. Monkish Epicures. gates and heaps of stones flung upon { ward his head. The executioner awaits proved by a plan whereby the length the graves. the movement ami brings down his of the rope was made proportionate to Above tbe glowing embers It is a remarkable fact that the epi­ Under the Roman republic vestal vir-; heavy sword, severing the head from the weight of the body, so that the mo­ cures of the world should be so largely I hear the backlog sing The music it remembers gins violating their vows of chastity j the body, mentum of the fall suffices to rupture Indebted to the Faeneh clergy for the Of some remembered spring; I were burned. / A very popular mode of ’ If the offender is a noted criminal his the ligatures of the spine and cause in­ luxuries they enjoy. Two inn-keeper> Back to the branch forsaken Return the jocund choir. I ith them was condemn- punishment with condemn­ head is publicly exposed in a small stant death. «■stablislied at Mont Kt. Michel are at And in the chimney waken MOST SIGHTLY ADDITION TO ing criminals to publicly tight wild i cage. Iu case no one claimes the Isxiv The hangmen of two centuries in daggers drawn to this day respecting A melody of dire Real Estate, Insurance, Collection, beasts. Drowning a parricide in a sack it i is buried by the authorities. Officers England took their name from the fa­ tlie right sort of omelet to be put liefore The sparks’ red blossoms glisten persons of note are usually carried mous “Jack” Ketch, who was the pule a hungry traveller who comes their with a dog, a cock, a viper and an ape and I And Hash their glances brief and Loan Brokers. At me who lean and listen was popular till the close of the middle to I the place of execution in sedans. lie hangman from 1663 to 168.3 and who way. One is Ridel, who holds out for And dream I hear a leaf When the chair is set down the execu­ executed William Ixirtl Russel and the the old Gallic ometrtte auxfinr» hrrbrr, ages- On some May-morning sunny. McMinnville - Oregon. I xjw lisping in the tree,— Impalement, bj- thrusting a sharp 1 tioner stands ready, anti as the prisoner Duke Jof Monmouth. “M. de Paris” while Poulard, his rival, contends that Or. in his haunt of honey. Office over Music Store his head to step out lie strikes it was a name first playfully given to the the genuine article is an omelet the stake through the body lengthwise, bends 1 A bloom-ennioured bee: was one of Nero’s devices of a horrible off. < Executions frequently «x-cur in handsome Charles Henri Sauson, who secret of which lias lieen transmitted Or ’tis the soft wind blowing death. He also conceived the plan of China, < where front twenty to fifty in his old age executed Louis XVI. down through ages l»y the antique re­ Its sw’eetness from the south,— affixing culprits to crosses, tying oom- criminals < are decapitated at the same The Sauson family furnished Paris ligious order of the place. Buch rivalry A fragrant kiss bestowing Upon the rose’s mouth ; liustibles beneath their feet and slowly time, 1 several official executioners Ix’ing with executioners for many generations is an honor to either party. 1 have Sample rooms in connection. Anu ere the spell is broken. toasting them. Precipitation was one present, j and each regularly taking his In several German states the offlie of taste«! Imth dishes, hii «1 it is difficult to Or darkness o’er it slips. o------- o I see the scarlet token of the commonest forms among early turn 1 at a prisoner. headsman was hereditary. The last decide lietween them. Perhaps that of Of love upon her lips Romans. State criminals were usually The most artistic and most horrible headsman of the tower of London died the monks is the more epicurean of the Is now fitted up in first class order. Without, the wind is bitter. flung from the Tarpeian rock, a preci- form 1 of punishmeut in China, how­ in 1861. two. It is easily prepared. The whites Accommodations as good as can be The snowflakes fill the night : pice overlooking the Tiber. < ever, is what is aptly called cutting in­ In India, during and after the muti­ and the yolks of the eggs are not mixed found in the city. Within, the embers glitter Driving a stake through the prisoners to I “ten thousand pieces.” In this ny of 1857-9, some of the captured rebels Th«1 whites are well flogged up to a And gild the room with light; S. £. MESSINGER, Manager. And in the fireplace gleaming body is said to have lieen in vogue in 1 methtxi, as in that of strangulation, the were blown from the mouths of can­ creamy consistency, to obtain which Tbe backlog sings away. the Balkan peninsula as late as 1876. victim ’ is first bound to a cross. The nons. And mingles all my dreaming much elbow-grease is reijuired; the With birds, and blooms, and May! Under Charles V. impalement was ef- executioner then advances with a < In the navy the culprit, when lie is yolks are only slightly ls-aten. The ( F rank D. S herman in S cribner ’ s .) fecteil by driving a pointed stake choice i selection of very sharp knives an officer, is usually shot; when he is a whole is poured into the frying-pan and SURGEON AND HOMEOPATHIC through the heart, while the criminal, i and begins his delicate work. It con­ common seaman, lie is hanged to a a large lump of butter put in at the PHYSICIAN. “CONDEMNED TO DEATH.” in simply slicing off the th-sh from yardarm. Shooting is the common same time. After cooking for two in open grave, was lieing slowly cover- sists : Office at B F. Fuller’s drug store. Resi­ How Criminals Pay the Penalty ed with dirt. the skeleton of the victim. The execu­ military form of execution. 1 minutes the result is s miracle in its dence, first house south of Baptist church, of the Law in Different is at all times an expert anato­ Thew were 160 capital otienses in way. Ripping out the heart of the bound tioner i McMinnville, Or. Countries. victim was a method practiced by the mist and goes about his work slowly England only a little mom than n cent­ The monks and cures of France have, Robt. G. Black. M. D. Kemmler is the first man ever legally Aztecs at the time Cortez conquered and systematically. He arranges the ury ago. Treason and murder now I say, done as much for their country condemned to sutler deatli by electrici­ the country. The invaders who were taking off of each muscle so that the constitute the list. in the pre|uiration of savory delicaeie» PHYSICIAN AND ACCOUCHER, ty. This new style of capital punish­ capture«! and condemned to death victim’s life may be prolonged as much Ill the United States five other crimes as the most renowned chefs. It ha» may, in certain instances, lie expiated been suggested that during the long ment is more than peculiar at this stage were uniformly treated to this kind of as possible. T hird S treet , M c M innville , On. death. The bowstring was the tal punishment was totally abolished One of the largest oyster parks In the highest number inflicted. So severe in 1874, but owing to a marked increase country wasstarted by Aids’ Bonnetard in the different countries. There is a tribes. Physician & Surgeon. Several good pieces have not yet been sold, and persons who want a Horrible and agonizing deaths reach ­ was the punishment that it was recog ­ in the numlier of murders, the decree large and commodious building site should call at once and secure M c M innville . ... O regon . wide difference in the way that life was ed their climax in the middle ages. nised as e<|uivalent to death. If the was again established, but up to date the cure of La Teste, whose system of roughly stoned out of a criminal in the artificial cultivation is MiHU<ersons. A practieal-iniiided French their monastic origin ill their names, of at once artistically and legally sever­ graduated weights, breaking him on who proposed it hi the convention, tradesman, who, it seems, is in want of and tlie strangest |s«rt of their pnsiuc- H. BALLINGER. ing the delicate filament of life has al­ the wheel, tearing his body asunder by reached the climax of its notoriety as a wife, has, according to the Tempt, tion is that they should I m * the work of ways lieen a study with well-organized frightened horses, dragging him at the an instrument of decapitation during just left what may lie called a pros|iect- tin* most severe and ascitic «if religious A ttorney at L aw . nations, and they have practiced a good tail of a wild horse, tearing him to death the sanguinary French revolution. It us at the isirtcrs’ lodges in a numlier of bodies. many methods in passing from the with red-hot pincers, forcing him to is composed of two upright posts, Paris houses, inviting young single Tlie elixir of Garns is (lie invention Office in Flo.cher building, Third Street, stage of beating out a man’s brains to drink slow poison, quartering him and grooved on the inside, and connected women, or widows without children, to of the Abbe Gurus. The Beziers saus­ at the top by a cross-beam. In these come and inspect, him if they are dis­ ages wen* first preprared under the di­ that of quenching his spark of life with disemboweling. McMinnville. Oregon There was the vhambre o cruee, a grooves a sharp iron blade, placed oli- posed to marry, it being stipulated in an alternating electric current. rection of the Prior Lamoreux. The Crucifixion was unanimously consid­ heavy chest, shot, shallow and line«l liijuely, descends by its own weight on tile circular that whatever expenses (sipular Bcrgougmiux sauce was first with sharp stones, in which the sufferer the neck of the victim, who is bound to they may have incurred will lie reim ­ ered by t he people who used it to be the mingksl by the Ahls- Bergougnoux. Soon Lots will be scarce and Command a Higher Price. most horrible form of death. It was was packed, and the lid, heavily weight­ a board laid below it. An instrument bursed, supposing no marriage engage­ Tlie delicate Floguard cakes an- the in­ Watchmaker the common form of punishment ed was shut down on him. There was resembling tbe guillotine was employed ment lie made. The tradesman, a wid- vention of tlie Alils’ Floguard. Even and Jeweler. among the Assyrians, Scythians, In­ the brrniclc», consisting of a mattress in Germany during the middle ages. dower with two little lioys, puts his age tbe immortal glory of the discovery of ZB u -37- Dealer in All Kinds of Watches. Jewelry. Plated Ware dians, Germans, and from the earliest on which the victim was fastened by I.atter on the Dutch employed a decap­ down at thirty-eight and his character cliani|iagne is attributed to a monk. To Clocks and Spectacles. McMINNVILLE. OR Price Ranges $50 up. For full particulars apply to I times among the Greeks, Romans, and the neck by bullocks’ sinews to keep itation machine for executing slaves in as good. He is prosperous in business, these may ls> addtsi |thc innumerable him from moving while his legs were the colonies. About tbe same time the his furniture is all that a well ordenxl J. I. KNIGHT it CO., THE INVESTMENT CO . delicacies in Isinlsiiis, confectionery and TRIPLETT & BOND, Jews. 49 Stark St.. Portland, • lr. The punishment properly commenced passed through a kind of stocks and Scotch were using a somewhat similar housewife can desire, and if, with all th«1 lik«‘ which owe their origin entirely Proprietors of the Real Estate Agents, McMinnville E. BARNEKOFF & CO.. crushed with two great logs of wood, on machine called the “ Maiden. ” these ulvantages, he sends round pros­ to nuns in the French convents scatter- with stripping the criminal and sound­ McMinnville Flouring Mills ly scourging him with a terrible instru­ the upermost of which a man was The garotte is the official method of pectuses in order to And n wife, it is lie­ tai throughout the land. T seated. capital execution in Spain. In the cause, lieing a thorough business mail, The neatest place in the city Animals ment. Into the thongs of these scourges Tlie process was repeated daily until primitive form it greatly resembles the he has no time to spare to look out for The agitation among the liarliers of carefully selected for killing—insuring the the soldiers often fastened nails, pieces finest meat Poiilirv, etc , bought and the man was dead. There were the Ixjwstring metluxl practiced among one in person. Applicants are earnestly Bombay is likely to result in their re­ sold Highest market price paid for every­ of lione and jagged bits of metal to in­ iron cages of Louis IX in which some Mohammedan and other eastern na- requested not to show the prospectus to fusal to shave widows’ heads. Of thing. crease the pain. The agony was fre­ quently so intense that the sufferer died of the condemned spent years and tions. Originally it consisted in aim­ any of his employees when they call course those who are acquainted with which were so maliciously contrived ply placing a cord round the neck of it lieing undesirable that they should native views in India will recognize under it. The eulprit usually bore liis own that every posttion, standing, sitting or the criminal, who was seated on a chair lie let into their master's little si“crets. that this intimation is not so comical as lying, was equally uncomfortable. fixed to a post, and then twisting the jxissibly this French tradesman may it memo, but has a very serious mean­ J 8 HIBBS, ... Proprietor. cross, or at least a part of it, to the place More awful still was the death in the cord by means of a stick inserted be­ lie a very worthy man, but if he is so ing anil reflects great credit on the na­ of execution, which was generally in Fresh Meats of all kinds constantly on “iron cxiffin,” wherein the condemned tween it and the back of tlie neck till mill'll engaged in business that he can­ tive barlicr. It is a relic of a system of hand. Highest price paid for Butcher’s some conspicuous spot just outside the stock city. Arrived at the place, the con­ man saw his dungeon contracting alaiut strangulation was produced. Execu­ not span* time to look out for a wife, it cruel treatment of native willows that T hird S treet . M c M innville , O r . demned man was stripped naked, his him «lay by day and hour by hour, the tions by it were frequently very bung­ to lie feared that whoever may accept they should have their hair shorn off at clothes being the perquisites of the sides creeping up and the roof creeping ling. Finally a brass collar wa« invent­ this offer will not Is* provided with a the moment of their affliction. Native M c M innville national bank . guarding soldiers. The cross was then down slowly, steadily, silently, the ed to take tlie place of the cord. It very attentive husband. journals have recently lieen denouncing the cruel practice in spite of the opposi­ Corner Third and C streets, in Braly block. driven into the ground and he was dread machinery all the while keeping contained a screw, which the execu­ An A<-tr<‘ss’s Blazing; Garter. tion of the Brahmins, who have them­ lifted to it, his feet being a foot or two the calm monotony of its march through tioner turned till its point entered the m ’ m INN VILLE, OREGON. above the earth, or else he was stretched lingering days and nights of horror un­ spinal marrow where it unites witli the The big jiear-shaped diamond pen­ selves threatened to cut the liair of the i Transacts a General Banking Business, upon it as it lay on the ground and lift­ til the final collapse crushed tlie victim. brain, and this caused instantaneous dant which Anna O'Keefe wears dang­ widows if the Imrbers refuse. This, { President.......................... J. W. COWLS ed with it. Often before the nailing or Regicides were tortured with more than death. ling from her garter in tile costume of however it is said, the Brahmins could Indian ferocity until the body was in­ If the executioner was unskillful the binding took place a medicated. drink the page in “The Brigands" has attract­ not do without losing caste. The revolt Vice President......... LEE LAUGHLIN capable of further suffering. pain was very great. An anecdote is ed considerable attention. Some one in Bonilmy is due to the excessive cruel­ was given the sufferer out of kindness. Cashier................... J. L. STRATTON Boiling to death was the punishment told of a poor Jew who bad obtained ty practiced toward widows there. Up- It was usually “wine mingled with Sells sight exchange and telegraphic myrrh,” myrrh being a soporific. This for poisoning in England until the time this dismal privilege of preliminary in the audience the other night said: eountrp, says an Indian contemporary, “Ixxrk at the chandelier |icndant little transfers on Portland, San Franco and New mode of execution finally came to lie of Henry VIII. In Germany, at the strangulation liefore being turned. O’Keefe is wearing.” In reality it is a the prawtice ef shaving the widow’s York. same time, among the several forms of After wching the clumsy way in which ! Collections made on all accessible points. regarded by the Jews as a little too tine yellow diamond which was one of bead is not so persistently enforced as Interest allowed on time deposits. lingering in itself, and they specially military executions were hunting and the executioner performed the opera­ the French crown jewels and of whose in Bombay. The liair is allowed to j Office hours from 9 a. m to 4 p in. adopted fracture of the legs first as a spearing the condemned to death by tion on tlie two wretches preceding him history the young singer is rather grow again and the widow is only ex. fellow soldiers; making him run the he said: means to hasten heath. proud. It hangs from a long gold pin peetis! to a renewal of the unwelcome gauntlet ofrods until dead, and flogging “Peter, if you’re going to do such jxxtr which is thrust through the garter, and operation when she visits a shrine of was The body of the crucified man FIRE AND BURGLAR PROOF SAFE. carefully watched by several soldiers to death with the knout. These last work on me, I’d rather be burned alive at every movement of her pretty leg s|iceial sanctity. In Bomlmy widows till death was assured. This was nec­ two methods were practiced in Russia first.” shoots forth its golden light. Site is are shaved regularly once a week and ---- ON----- SECOND HAND SAFES AT A BARGAIN. Capital executions have all along also the possessor of a Is-autiful white this causes them deep distress. essary from the lingering character of into the present century. An execution that occurred in Japan been rnarke«! with less physical torture the death, which sometimes did not sapphire and some fine opals, which, The empress of Austria is known as supervene for four days, and was the twenty years ago is thus described by a in England than on the continent. For she declares, have brought her luck, in the liest royal housekeeper In Europe. On Short or Long Time in Sums to suit. result of gradual benumbing and star­ witness: “After being exhibited all many centuries the usual mode lias fact, she says that everything that She looks after the details of the big Lowest Rates and no Commissions. vation. But for th«- guard of soldiers morning to the populace the prisoner been hanging, though in earlier times brings ill-luek to others means g>ssl for­ imperial kitchen with the same anxious SEND FOR DESCRIPTIVE CIRCULAR AND PRICE LIST. the body might be taken down and re­ was fed and afterwards brought into decapitation was practiced and some­ tune to her. Thus, Friday is her lucky cam that an American housewife lie- suscitated, as was actually done in sev­ t he jail-yard. His arms were pinioned times burning. Treason, however, was day and thirteen has no horrors for her. stows on the establishment of liar lesser Jail on or address: eral instances where the watch was lax. behind his back, his eyes blindfolded punished by hanging, drawing (drag­ Sbe also dotes u;s>n seeing the moon world, introduces new-fangled devices and he was made to kneel upon the ging at the tail of a horse) and quarter ­ Iu most cases the body was left to rot Never Fail to Protect their Contents against Both Fire and Bjrgiars. W. T. SHURTLEFF, on the cross by the action of sun and ground. The executioner stepped up ing. A woman who committed treason over her left shoulder, and really en for cooking or saving work, and is said joys breaking looking-glasses. In one to lie an adept in planning novel dishes At J. I. Knight ,t Co.'s McMinnviie, Or. rain, or to be devoured by the birds and and «arefully adjusted the prisoner’s was burned. This law was in force till respect she is a remarkabli young wo­ witli which to tickle the palates of her head over a hole in the ground pre ­ 1790. In practice women were strang ­ Sepulcure was generally for­ man—she doesn’t believe that she lathe royal husband and Ills guests. The JOHN DERBY. JESSE EDWARDS. beasts. H all s S afe and L ock C ompany , pared to receive it. Without raising led liefore lieing burned. bidden. Crucifixion as a mode of capi­ Factory. CIXCIXMATI, OHIO. coming primii donna of the comic-opera twenty-five men cook» and as many Hanging has been in vogue since the stage. tal punishment was abolished by Con­ his long, keen weapon more than a foot mon- women—who make the pastry above the head of of the con­ SALESROOMS ; ■ earliest times, but during the early and stantine (326 A. D.) and put the finer touches on theelabor- Gen. McClellan's Widow. Mew York City; Portland. Me.; Boston; Philadelphia; Cleveland; Chicago; Proprietors of The McMinnville Innumerable modes of capital pun­ demned man, he brought it down with middle ages k fell into disreput? as not rte cuisine—witli the nnmlsTlew other i,ouisviile; St. Louis; Kansas City; Omaha; Minneapolis; St. Paul; New Orleans; ishment are mentioned in the O1<1 Tes­ an aubible thud, instantly severing the 1 providing enough agony for the con- Mrs. George B. McClellan, who is attendants of the kitchen and through­ head from the body. Immediately the ' demned man. Embellishments and about to take a fine house in London San Francisco; I.o'; Angeles; San Diego; Portland, Oreg.; Nashville, 'Ie.T ’ tament as being practiced among the out the pala«', an- marshaled and kept RichLur.id., Vu.: Milwaukee. Wie Evansville. Ind.; At’anta. Ga. .Jews. All of them were most effective head fell it was siezed, carefully washed I variations were often added to increase for the season, has had a checkered ex­ at their work with the skill of a gener­ and the executioner, on a horse carried the pain, such as hanging by the heels Situated at the Southwest corner of the and most horrible in details. Among istent. Since her husliand's «leath al. And when special preparations are Fair Grounds. All sizes of the most common was stoning, which it to a mound outside the city where a 1 and hands, drawing a culprit up slowly the widow has »ought in Europe some lieing made for some court festival was the ordinary mode of execution; gallows had lieen erected; on this the till he was nearly strangled, then care­ compensation for that political glory every servant, from the pompous head First-Class Drain Tile head was exhibited for six days as a fully resuscitating him and going which was so often almost within hanging, a distinct punishment, burn­ kept constantly on hand at lowest living through the operation again, till finally grasp at Washington. On the other butler to the humblest scullion, has to (E Street, near Commercial Hotel, McMinnville, Or.) ing, in pre-Mosaic times the penalty of warning to evil doers.” prices BPWABDS rfonn- condemned. It is formed by the sui­ accommodated the crowd of spectators. common. the widow of “Little Mac” adjoining lands for which they are to Wew ZTeecl. ed by burying tlu- condemned in clay cide taking a sharp sword, especially The scandalous scenes, however, at­ will not Iic forgotten.— Indiwipoli» pay £3 an acre on long time, and are The Only Sign Writer in the County. to his breast and then strangling him made for the act, in his left hand, and tending the procession of a criminal Jonmnl. equipped with $25 and a cow by the arriagres. cutting the abdomen from right to left, from Newgate to Tyburn caused the people. If they make a living there, Hom, » fitted up in the Neatest and Most by a cloth twisted around the neck. places of execution to lx- changed from Artistic Style. •>ic -üe tie Besides these methods of capital pun­ | and then ripping upward. A French girl stole seven different more of the Vermont tanners will he Designs furnished for Decorations ishment particularly their own, the an­ Strangulation, decapitation and cut-' ' Tyburn to the are-a in front of Newgate poems from Whittier’s published ef­ able to sell out and come West. the condemned man into “10,000 ! prison. forts anil hail them printed in Paris This new stable is now open and ready for business, New turnouts, Bemeniber Paper Hanging and Inside Fur­ cient Jews adopted some of the most ting pieces” are thej three most enmuiDn i Drawing away a cart from beneath a papers and magazines as her own, and Lake Chelan, in Eastern Washing­ ingenious modes invented by the na ­ nishing a Specialty good horses, everything firstclass. Work iuk"ii by Contract or by the Day. Ex- tions of their time. Among them cru­ forms of capital punishment practiced i prisoner after the rope had been adjust- even when America showed up the ton, never freezes, although in latitude SPECIAL ACCOMMOBATIOAS FOR COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS. i |icrienced men employed. cifixion, drowning in a bag, sawing the in China. In decapitation the prisoner 1 ed about his neck was the regular nrode steal she boldly claimed that Whittier 48 degrees north. The reason given is Transient stock will receive personal attention. A share of the public Third Street. McMinnville, Oregon. that it is so deep and the »arm water body asunder, erushing it beneath iron is brought from the jail to a large lot of hanging uutil 1783. After that date stole from her. patronage solicited. always rises from the Ixittom to sujh weights, pounding it in a anti made to kneel facing the south. a prisoner wax placed not on a cart but | great mortar, scourging to death, | The executioner, with a heavy hanger, on a platform, which upon the with­ Boston has made arrangements for i plant the cold, which goes down to TUIC nADEDHonfllelnph,ladp!phia and throwing the condemned man stands beside the victim. At a given drawal of a bolt, suddenly dropped un­ an over flowing city treasury. A new warm itself. The Indians fish in th» Newspaper A«Der- from a height. Criminals thus execut- a man lifts the prisoner’s arms, der him. One hundred years after­ ordinance imposes a fine of $20 for each lake at all seasons and use salmon eggs I I niO r r Ml Enatthe Agency bf M» W. AYER A SON. our authorized agenta. ed were usually buried outside the city pinioned behind, and thus thrusts for- wards this meth«xl was further im- use of profane language on the street. for bait. I IL F. RHODES. A1 R LA M. D. L. RHODES, < NOTARY.) RHODES & RHODES, McMINNV ILLI The St. Charles Hotel. »J. D. Bnker \ 1 T)., Galloway, Goucher