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About The Telephone=register. (McMinnville, Or.) 1889-1953 | View Entire Issue (June 5, 1890)
THE TELEPHONE-REGISTER1 some of the finest residences I have bonded, but is sure to lx- a paying in ever seen and even stables, costing hun- vestment. One-fourth of one floor will . lcMixxvu.i.1:, - j dreds of thousands of dollars, and beau- be used by the temperance people and < Onxeox. IttKOOX. I tiful walks with evergreen trees and the other ten ami three-quarter« rented June • >, ld.MJ Howers blooming in midwinter. There for business offices. It will lx> fire-proof, is n fme zoological garden with animal« modern in every particular, and as well ON SALS peculiar to South America and other built as women can have it. argentine republic . to —. When completed it will lx- remarka _ ---- ;------- ! climes. On their race course can lie i< People ot that Land and | »een Prince Wilkes, purchased in Cali- ble, not only as a million dollar temper DENVER. Tlicir Tlieir Characteristics. ( Iiaracteristics. , fornja for$30,000, with a record of 2:16. ance temple, but as a monument to the In a special letter to the Grangeville Many of England’.« best thoroughbreds pluck and perseverance of a bright and t’ree Prrm, D. ('. Lester says: I left may lie seen galloping on Argentine ambitious western woman. Mrs. Carse f Puget Sound January 22d, on I »«ard a soil, which, by the way, seems to lie a is a widow, fair, plump and forty, with ST PAUL, ST. LOUIS, sailing vessel, bound for the coast of black mulch, so deep that horses and just enough money to keep her comfort cannot ................................ reach the liottom ably and two grown sons. She is en- ■ ........ She wa« nu- Hiiinvi " AND ALL POINTS Chili. himlier imtVll laden UI1U and 111V the wagons captain kindly took me along so as to I though they go many feet down hunt- thusiastic in church, temperance and i have some one to listen to his yarns. ‘"K for it, as they pass along the un- philanthropic work, and can Ixiss a I £aSt, Nortll p.r0 SoUtH, We had a very tedious trip, being eigh I pax'ed suburbs of th«- i-ouiitry. The kirmess, a carnival or a bazaar better • ty days on the way, and were twice be laud is flat and wet, so that draining is than any twenty women in the town, calmed. But I presume it was a profit neces«ary, but little of it ha« lieen done. and clear as much money it« she figures I have only been 25o miles out in the on raising for the foundlings, orphans able trip, as 1 nearly read the bible I, O-Lli-, through, and found out that Adam was <-ountry, so of course I know nothing of or cripples, j As a genteel beggar she not of the first creation; also that they ite merits or demerits. Tlie railroad hasn’t a peer. She has been in the GEO. S. TAYLOR' Ticket Agt. knew nothing of the devil until he af runs on a straight line without crook or business so long in the interest of tlie flicted Job, and sundry other interest turn: no rocks, no trees, only evergreen W. C. T. U. that she goes about it in a Corner First and Oak Sts. ing item« of information not generally shrubs in the groves around the farm systematic manner and wins every houses, which are various distances time. Her method is to make a care known. In passing under the equator it was apart, ¡1« in some localities many miles ful toilet in the nattiest of black or half, tfa have the Exclusive Control si not unpleasantly warm—and let me square are owned by the same man, and mourning, hire a coupe and a “buttons” say right here that if you an* thinking all fenced with smooth wires, about five in smart attare, and roll off to a bitsi-’ of coining to South America, and have in number, which turn stock a« well as ness firm, as s<x>n after breakfast or some friend you pity in Idaho’s cold North American lmrb-arous wire. There luncheon as ¡xissible. Buttons runs in climate, and think of making him a is no unfenced land, and land any with her card to the head of the firm present of your overcoat, do not do so, where near the railroad is worth $50 and, briging back an answer, ushers ■ her into the private office. She is an my friend. Better by far buy yourself per acre. easy, agreeable talker, has a command Cattle are worth $19 per head straight an extra one, as the ocean breezes are very cold. The northern coast of Chili through, and sheep $1. The sheep have ing appearance, a pleasant manner, | is very mountainous, barren and drear, died off so much the past few years that glowing lips and cheeks, a pair of black I and reminds one of the little lamb that they are now said to lie very unprofita grey eyes that light up gloriously in a i wandered down a steep place to the wa ble. I heard that chickens could be low half light. Then, too, her method ! ter’s edge. There is not a sign of brush bought for 15 cents in Buenos Ayres, so of shaking hands is peculiar, for, in or verdure or vegetation df any kind my mouth watered like a preacher’s for a stead of a side to side movement, she I yellow leg: but, alas, they have ad pulls a body’s hand down and sends a 1 to be seen. The chief industry of the country is vanced to $1, and as they keep the current of electricity flying up in a way 1 Anu don’t have to offer a prize to sell this Goods, for its the BEST MADE. Euery Can holdt> copper mining and as the price of cop coops well barred, 1 had to be content that can only be described as exquistely giddy. with as fine beef as I had ever chewed. per is very low, times are very hard, ONE AND QNE HALF POUNDS. wages very low and provisions high, The hens refuse to lay when eggs drop This done, she throws her matchless J. N. HENDERSON. I eyes about, talks business and current ' below 30 cents. but the climate is heavenly and serene, events, and finally temperance temples. I As L was returning from the zoologic NIC. MINNVILLE, ORE. although the earthquake’s rumble can often be heard. One day at Tocobelija al gardens, a gentleman driving a span Then she talks subscriptions and gets ' I was about to take an out-door group, of fine mares, weighing about 1000 nineteen out of every twenty asked for. I GEO. RAMAGE, when the earth commenced to shake, each, and rapable of trotting in four The twentieth man she hugs to her bosom, figuratively, and sooner or later minutes, came along and a« lit; did so and off they scampered like a bunch of painter, paper hanger, kalsonrincr and Idaho's cayuses when you are after one kicked over the traces. 1 helped gets more from him than slie does from The decorator can be found during tliedav hard them with a lariat on the open range. him out of his difficulty, for which he any one of the other nineteen. In this at work, and will be very willing indeed to estimates and furnish designs tor all The buildings are from palaces to hov qucikly offered me a dollar, which I as way she calls and calls again, two or give classes of work. On June 1. a shop will be els, and tqe latter are worse than Idaho quickly declined, telling him I was an three times a year, on the business men opened opposite the Cook house. pig pens. Tlie inhabitants range from American, and we always aimed to of Chicago, and tbe Ixxiks and the cash the most refined and educated to ten help each other, either into or out of she has to show have made her a para degrees below North American Indians. life’s difficulties. I r<xlc to town with gon for others to emulate. The lowly class are as much in majority him and he informed me that his team Almost Wiped Out. had been shipped from England and as bachelors in Idaho. I stopped in Valparaiso seven days— •nd they cost him laid down S4000. I A correspondent tells of the following ' the most delightful of all climates—the What do you think of that, you men incident which befell the United States name itself lieing Spanish for “Vale of who want to buy hones at 5'cts. apiece? steamer Richmond, when in 1877 she Paradise.” Here the evergreen flour-' They were very stylish. Such a team was ordered home from Valparaiso, ishes and flowers never cease to bloom. as Orient or Billy Baker would make Chili. Starting on her long voyage the vessel in due time entered Smith’s The lienutiful park« and flower gardens would fetch $6000. I met a man on the boat who was straits. This is a passage often taken rival description, but It was raining while I was there and I had to stay in bringing horses from Ohio here. Even by vessels bound through Magellan’s lied five out of the seven days to keep the scrub horses are as high as they are straits, as it is shorter than the outside , from chilling to death. There is not a in Idaho, and twice as ugly and mean. passage and smooth water all the way. fire to warm or dry one’s self by in the Wages are better here than in Chili, It extends from the gulf of Penas to place. It is a lively city of 250,000 in but not so good as at home, unless one Magellan straits and is formed by is habitants and the people and houses can speak both langugesand has a good lands so close together that the channel and horses are of all descriptions. The education. The ladies are twice as hand is more like a river than anything else. | thermometer does not rise higher than some, though not so plenty as in Chili. It contains some of the grandest seen-1 so nor sink lower than 40 degrees above i The Italians are the most numerous of ery in the world. Mountains, valleys,' zero, and it certainly is delightful, only ’ the foreign population, but they are of volcanoes and glaciers, deep canyons a higher grade than the dagos of the and lieautiful lakes meet the eye as the j they should provide fires. I was in the interior some. The; United States. Clothing is very cheap j vessel plows through the water. In I country is very beautiful and they raise ; here and all kinds of provisions low. I places the channel widens out and is all kinds of fruits, grain, vegetablesand : have been here now four weeks and almost lost between hundreds of small | islands. At others it flows through ; tame grass. There is plenty of timber,1 have seen no disposition to quarrel, but no fires. They are like the people | The government and fieople glide 1 narrow passages between mountains 1 of Idaho about starving their horses on 1 along smoothly. Tame grasses and all I whose sides, straight as the walls of a the range. They say it is not healthy ; crops do well, except ¡mtatoes, which 1 house, tower from 500 to 1,000 feet above to sit by fires so they hover down in a 1 do not attain a large growth and are of I the water. Such a place is the English corner with a blanket and shiver. It is i inferior quality besides, and sell for $2 a i Narrows, half a mile long, in no place ' a very fine county, but it has two draw- bushel. The peach trees are just bloom- | more than 300 feet wide, and in some ' backs; one is. that it rains in Southern 1 ing for spring. The mercury ranges I places not more than 100. Every sound - Uhili fourteen months out of the year; ■ from 85 to 40 deg. above zero. The mud I made is echoed from side to side dozens the other is that if you have two coats-and wind are about equal to the para- - of times and the report of a musket puts you must wear them both, or else you | disc of Camas prairie. It is winter with 1 a war veteran in mind of Gettysburg, will lie sure to find them on some dagos i green grass, but an overcoat is a good j Some of the officers induced the captain hack. friend. 1 to fire one of the heavy guns in the 1 As near^as I could learn life and prop- The great drawback is not knowing I narrows, something no ship had ever erty are very unsafe. They stole my . tlie language, and one feels as lonesome done before, and I doubt if any officer valise and box of chemicals fror -tnder 1 as a lone drink of whiskey. There are I present when that shot was «fired will my head on one of the river Ixr. , anil many English jieople here and in the i wish to try it again. By the advice of I was well satisfied that they left my I country in places are many of the Em- the navigator the gun was not fired un head. erald isle’s sons and daughters, most all til just as the ship passed out into the Wages are very low. A girl only gets ( rich. Most Americans dislike this open water clear of the canyon. The $4 a month. They are plentiful enough ' ! country, and say there is no place like order to fire was given just as the ship’s —about three to every man—and many1 -the United State«. One glint trouble lxiw swung into clear water. I was of them are very handsome. When I with this country is that whenever standing on the poopdeck looking back told them to go to Idaho and make they want money they just set their as the gun was fired, and I shall never some of the bachelors then- happy, they stamps and make money, like you forget what followed; roar after roar, would say “No intendo.” I must say make newspapers, The pajier money crash after crash, ns if the very moun that the young ladies are more hand is now aliout half value, and, while tains were being torn from their eternal some than our North American ladies. money has gone down, wages have resting places. Ten seconds after that As to the men, 1 did not look at them. gone up. When I have spoken of the gun was fired every gun in the ship How could I when I had only two priee of things I mean the price in could have been fired at once and a eyes—and then’ were so rtany young ' gold. Gold, you do not scent to hear man with his eyes shut would not have j I only in the money broker's office. ladies. known the difference. But it was not • Let me warn all who want to go to! | I have not been here long enough to the thundering echix-« that transfixed | any part of South America east of the give a good opinion of the country. every man on deck. Andes mountains not to go by the way Men who are raising flue stock, partic Blanched faces and eyes filled with i of San Francisco and the west coast. A ularly fine road horses, are making for-| | horror were fixed on a mass of rock- passage from 'Frisco to Valparaiso costs tunes, but then the stock to breed from i twice the size of the ship, jx-rched on $279 and from there to Buenos Ayres has to be shipped from England or the the edge of the cliff, It slowly toppled I $200, or $150 second class. As to cross United States, which requires large over, and then with the speed of light-1 ing the mountains, they can only be capital. I have not. been in any part of ' ning seemed to fall straight down on ; crossed for a short time at Christmas, the country on ray travels where land , us. 1 shook in every limb, unable to | and the railroad will not 1« finished for is as cheap as in Idaho. I am told the i move, and the next moment the ship : years. The best and quickest way is to government donates large tracts of land | trembled ns though struck by a cyclone ' go direct to England, and from there to settlers in new and better parts of the ‘ Tons of water rushed over the upper - you can get to Buenos Ayres for $100 republic—a matter I will investigate I part of the deck, everyone aft was i first class, or $40 or $50 for second and later on. I would not advise any one ' thrown oil'his feet, and the water pour-! to come here unles* they know just ed down the open hatchways into the third class. The English steamers have very good whereto go and could get into an En wardrobes and after cabins. The iru- accommodations, even in the steerage. glish speaking community, as they will ■ mense mass of rock struck the water The bill of fare consists of good soft squander a small fortune and be dis ' and disappeared not thirty feet from I bread, beefsteak, salt fish, tea,- coffee, gusted with the country before they ! the ship’s stern. All around us the ■ potatoes and soup, anti wine twice a J ' know anything about it unles« they water seemed to boil, and the swell was day, even in the steerage. The state ‘ <ran talk Spanish. as heavy as on the ocean after a storm. rooms are furnished with mattresses At this time the awful roar of those un- and blankets, and, in fact, when not A Chicago Temperance Queen. ! seen guns seemed to till every valley Mrs. Tillie M. Carse, president of the ' and ravine for ten miles around, getting overcrowded, better than Idaho Imchel- ors are used to. To make it plain, you Chicago Central Division of the W. C. ■ fainter, anil then breaking forth with are as far in dollars and cents when T. U., is pointed out to strangers in the j increased force, to finally die away in a you are in Valparaiso, a« you are when windy city as the smartest woman on ’ succession or unearthly cracks. Some at home, and while they make the run the shores of Lake Michigan. Ten of the men rushed for the boats and life ' from England in twenty and twenty- years ago, when she talked about build rafts. Engineers and fireman ran up live days, it takes over forty from 'Fris ing a million dollar temperance temple from lielow, thinking the ship had co to Valparaiso, as on the latter route in the business part of Chicago, the struck, and one poor fellow was carried they stop at every dog-kennel on the white ribbon ladies laughed at her. To against a gun by the^water and had a way,-and if you take third or second day it is a foregone conclusion, and ■ leg broken. class, they will have plenty of parched Mrs. Carse is the happiest woman in In short time we came to anchor in a j com along—and may the Lord have Elogville. A short time ago Marshall little cove about a mile below. The mercy on your soul and body. From Field, the dry goods prince, began the I steam pumps were started and the wa England many steamers are plying all erection of a warehouse on the corner ter pumped out, tbe decks cleared up, the time. of Adams and Lasalle streets. The ex clotheslines rigged, and soon filled I came from Valparaiso to Buenos cavation was made and the foundation with clothes and earpets and beddings. Ayres via the straits of Magellan on a nearly completed when his former part Next morning two boats were lowered, tine English steamer homeward bound. ner L. Z. Leiter, interrupted operations and, filled with officers and men, pull Shejmade the run to Montevideo in with a lawsuit. He lost and when the ed back to see how things looked. Each fourteen days and transferred us to one way was again clear, Mr. Field was too , boat had lead and line for soundings to twenty fathoms, but could get no of the Rio Platte boats, where we ar much engrossed with other interests to ' up bottom. A longer line was used after rived during the night. And here I resume the work. Inthe mean time wards and reached bottom at 110 fath noticed, by the way the valises-and Tillie M. Carse had been watching the oms. In the afternoon several officers made trunks were strewn about, that the |>eo- corner and begging money to build the trip to the top of the cliff: The lied ple are either more honest or lazy, as temple. Just how much capita! had . a where the mass of rock had rested was Chili's enterprising citizens would at fallen ink her beautifully gloved hand | so steep no one could go on it. By act least have examined the content« there was unknown, but she saw Mr. Field, ual measurement it was 409 feet long. of. got him to take *l<Ht,000 worth of stock What the height of the rock had been Buenos Ayres is a very lively town in the temple, give her a ninety-nine i no oue could say. Although loosened undermined by the rains of ages, it of 500,000 inhabitants, with tine build years’ lease of the property at $40,000 a ■ and might have stood tor a hundred years ings, but narrow streets. There are year and free rent until the building more but the vast rush of air driven up none of the small tumble-down shanties was erected. The temple is going up, i the side of the eanyou by the dis of the gun started the mass with of the we«t coast. In the suburbs are away up eleven stone«: it is heavily I charge the results narrated. I OVERLAND TO CALIFORNIA. VIA Soiiihtiii I’arilir (tiin|Miin's Lines, M Till WAT SMASH ROITE! Time Between Dealers In and Portland San Francisco, : m > hours : FARM MACHINERY, ETC California Express Trains Run Daily BETWEEN PORTLAND AND SAN FRAN CISCO! LEAVE _______ ARRIVE. , Portland 4.00 p m San Francisco 7.45 pm Sail Fran. 7 :60 p in Portland 10.45 am laocal Passenger Daily, except Sunday ARRIVE LEAVE. Portia.id . Eugene. S:iio a m Eugene. 9:00 a m;Portland . 2 .*40 p tu 3:45 p m Pnlliiiiin Biffrt Sleepers Tourist Sleeping Cars, For accommodation of Second Class Paa- sengers attached to express trains. The S P. Company's Ferry makes con < nection with all the regular trains on the I East Side Division from foot of F «'.reet ^AOf XVMtvr AWl z. WEST SIDE DIVISION Between Portland and Corvallis. Maii Train Daily, except Sunday LEAVE A It«’VE Portland . 7 :3t> a m McMinn 10.13 a 1U i McMinn 10:13 a m Corvallis 12:25 p m Corvallis 1 :‘$O p in McMinn* 3:44 p in ' McMinn' :: H p in Portland . H *20 p m At Albany and Corvallis cuniiei t w th I trains of Oregon Pacific j Express Train Daily, except Sunday LEAAK. Agnivt: Portland. 4 :5<l p in M< Mun S.IMipm McMinn’. ,T:4.-> a ill1 Portland. 9:00 a ill Through ti’ kets t« • all point.« South and East via California. Ticket ofliecs. No 134. corner First and le.- Oliver Chilled and Steel Plows, Scotch Clipper Plows, OREGON DEVELOPMENT COM Flying Dutchman Gangs and Sulkies. PANY'S STEAMSHIP LINE. —AND— -ÄLLZLIZTQ-ZEZe 225 Miles Shorter—20 hours let»« time than by any other route. CO., Mr Finit claw tlirongh pawengri and freight line ft om Portland and all point« inthe Wil lamette raller to and from San Franciaco. iÆciÆiisrKr’ÿrTzJr..E, oisizcs-OKr. THE PIONEER Time Schedule (exdept Sundays)* I Ix*ave Albany . .1:30 pm Leave Yaqnina 6:45 am Leave Corvallis 1:40 pm LeaveCorvallislO:3.'» am Arrive Yaqnina5:30 pm Arrive Albany ll;10 an O. A. C. trains connectât Albany and Cor* j vail is. ! The above trains connect at Y aquina with _ i the Oregon Developement Co’s. Line of Rteaui* j ehips between Yaqnina and San Francisco. N . B.—Passengers from Portland and all W¡1 aniette Valley Points can make close connec tion with the trains of the VAqriNA R octk at Albany or Corvallis, and if destined to San Francisco, shonld arrange to arrive at Yaqnina the evening before date of sailing. I Sailing Datew. Boot and Shoe Store DAYS. FROM YAQUINA. Willamette Valley, Sunday, April t»th Monday. 14lb Tuesday. • 22nd Thursday, May 1st FROM SAN FRANCISCO. I will Sell at Cost for the next Forty Days. 1 am making ar rangements logo into another line of business. Call and get bar gains. No trouble to show goods. Opposite Grange Store. Willamette Valley, Thursday. April 10th Friday, •• isth Sunday, 27th Passenger and freight rates always tbe low est. For in lot nuit ion. apply to Messrs. HUL MAN à CO., Freight and Ticket Agents, 203 and 202 Front street. Portland. Oregon; or tn C. C. HOGUE. Acting Gen l. Fit. A Pass. Agt., Oregon Pacific I R. 11. Co., CorvaUis. Oregon. 6 C. H. HASWELL, Jr., Gen’I. Frt.A Pass. Agt., Oregon Development Co.. Montgomery slreet, .San Francisco, Cal. From Tmniiml nr Interi* l’ointx Ihr ÆJ3ZDITIO.N « ARE SELLING FAST! It And. Is SnjLild.ing' TTp. Soon Lots will ho scarce and Command a Higher Price. S-CL3T itow Price Ranges $50 up. Is the Line to Take before Too iLate. To all Points East & South It is the DINING CAR ROUTE. It runs Through VESTIBULED TRAINS Every Day in lhe Year to For full particulars applv’to J. I. KNIGHT <t CO., Peal Estate Agents, McMinnville rn i: INVESTMENT CO.. 49 Stark St., Portland, Or. r. BARXEKOFF A: CO.. McMinnville Flouring Stills ST. PAUL AND CHICAGO. No Change of Cars (tiiiilKiMfl * DIMM.' CARS (unsurpassed) PLLLMAMblAWIA« ROOM SLEEPERS (E Street, near Commercial Hotel. McMinnville, Or.) 3-ATES 3c Z-ZEESTTS’E", Froprietcrs. (Of Latest Equipment, TOt RIST SLEEPI.VR CARS Best that can be constructed ami in which accommodations are for hoi ders of First or Second-cptsR Tick ets. anti KLERAMT 101 COACHES. Xsi-very, » TTc-w A Continuous Line connecting with atl lines, aflordiug direct and unin terrupted service. Pullman Sleeper reservations <-nii In- .secur ed in advance through any agent of the road Toed, Carriagfes. axùd. Satie. Tlironuli To AlllPri fr<Mn IIIIVU^II Tickets lirk!IXin , , al1 England This new stable is now open and ready for business, good horses, everything firstclass. Bild Enrol«- can lie purchased at any ti< 1 <n office of this conmany. Full information concerning rale«, time of trains, routes and other details furnished on application to any agent. <n A 1» CHAHI.TON Asst. General Passenger Agent. New turnouts, SPECIAL iriOJIMllhVUOjX FOR commercial travellers . Transient stock will receive personal attention. patronage solicited. A share of the public General OlHce nt tbe Company, No, l*il First St.. Cor. Wallington, I'orlnnd. Or. ARE YOU GOING EAST? If so he «uro and call for your ticket« via the hi?: it Mort Railway, -THE It is positively the shortest and th, ,-<i line to Chicago and the cast and «outh and i the only sleeping and dining . ,-ir through line to 3 Omaha, Kan«»a City, and all River Polat. Its magnificent steel track, unsurpassed i train service and elegant dining and I sleeping cars has honestlv ear..... I for it th«- ■ title of The Royal Route FIRE AND BURGLAR PROOF SAFE. Others may imitate,but none can surpass ii Our motto is •‘always on time " Be sure and ask ticket agent, for tickets via this celebrated route and take none others. W H MEAD, G. A. No, 4 Washington street, Portland. Or SECOND HAND SAFES AT A BARGAIN combination Locks Furnished and Repairing a Specialty. I SEND FOR DESCRIPTIVE CIRCULAR AND PRICE LIST. AfASTCEiCS HALLS STANDARD SAFES are those ptit up by Never Fait to Protect their Contents against Both Fire and Burglars Seedamen in the world. D. M. 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