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Circulation Guaranteed Greater Than That of.Any Other Paper Published in Yamhill County. M c M innville , O regon , T hursday , D ecember Feb. I, 1889. is , lsoo S8E®5JB®f5f3f?,rní!3®giajálSI5®9®IMIi VOL. II. NO. 46 HOLIDAY GOODS! Largest Assortment! Newest Designs! Lowest Prices! We want every one to call and ex amine our Goods. We are certain we can. suit you as to quality, assortment and price. Our Goods were bought in the East, thus enabling us to sell at Rock Bottom Prices. You are al ways welcome; we assure you polite attention and courteous treatment “THE VALLEY OF DEATH.” A Few Words About Albums! We have the largest and most var ied assortment ever shown to the pub lic, in Plush, Leather and Wood bin dings; and we are not going to carry them over. Novelties in Pocket Mir- rors, Nut Cracks, Gents' Traveling and Shaving Cases, Lap Tablets, Etc. Elegant Line of Perfumes FOR THE HOLIDAY TRADE! BARRELS OF DIAMONDS, riculturist wherever he may be located, ards, and of the peculiar rattlesnakes' Shrugging his shoulders, the aged have afforded me! "What delightful will know with certainty what lie with horns over their eyes which be- i scientist gazed nt me with profound hours I have spent at the loophole." ought to plant. long in that country'. There are no Pity. His peculiar tone filleel me with un A GOVERNMENT EXPEDITION TO -------- THE FAMOUS-------- A ttorney at L aw . I At the beginning the expedition will frogs there, it is supposed, but there are EMILE ZOLA’S TALE OF A (MAN “These heaps are worth but a few utterable uneasiness. Was the aged INVESTIGATE ITS HORRORS. WHO COULD MAKE ANY GEM. be divided into two parties. One of some queer desert toads that live in francs each,” said he in a hollow voice, philosopher quietly making game of Oflea in Fletcher building, Third Street, these is now at Owen’s lake, in Catifor- “washes” where there is water for part drawling out his words. “They bore me? Like a Part of the Inferno Described by ! nia on the point of starting ou(J It is McMinnville. Oregon of each year. When the water dries Unable to Trodnce the White Diamond— me and tomorrow- I will use them for “Young man,” resumed he in a dry Dante—A Fearful Furnace Month ! under the command of Vernon Bayley, up the creatures bore their way’ down Afraid of Being Murdered, the Scientist gravel in my garden paths.” voice, “I could set all the women in Where Scores of Men have Gasped out I and will begin work at the foot of Inyo DR. J. C., MICHAUX Resorts to Barring his Doors and Win into the mud deeper and deeper, and, Gathering up handfuls of the gems, the world crazy with what I have in tlielr Lives—tlie*Blinding. Pitiless Sun MEXICAN CIGARS, i above ' range to the west of which Owen’s lake when it hardens over them like so dows—-He Casts Diamonds Into tile he continued, turning toward my this den, but I am an old devil and and the Awful Alkali Below. is. Bayley will not go far however, be much brick, they simply stay there, Streets to Watch Those who find Them. friend: Practicing Physician and Surgeon, hide the gems from them. Had I lieen -------- SOLD BY--------- fore joined by Prof. T. S. I’nlmer with buried nntil the water comes a few “Valley of Death.” “Glance; at.these'rubies. I have as the least ambitious I could have been a LAFAYETTE, OREGON- Long before a white man ever looked the other party. months later to release them from their A young student of chemistry, one yet obtained none letter. These emer king somewhere long ago. Bah! 1 Rogers Bro’s. upon the direful spot the Indians of, The first thing done will be to locate baked prison. The etomologist of the of my friends, said to me a few morn alds don't satisfy me—They are too J»o.2i. ’»a. I wouldn’t hurt a fly. I am kind heart California and Nevada knew it by that | all the places where water is to be found expedition will devote his attention to ings ago: pure. Nature’s emeralds always have oil and that is why I let men live." Hundreds of people have lost their life to gathering the desert beetles, ants, name. i “I know an old scientist who has some flaw and I don’t want to surpass S. A. YOUNG, M. 0. His manner of speaking made me Imagine a narrow strip of arid plain, in Death valley through starting off in scorpions, centipedes and the like. withdrawn to a small house on the nature. The white diamond is still be suspect his sanity. i shut in between two mighty mountain the morning without knowing where Boulevard d’Enfer, that he may study yond me; I am unable to produce it, Physician & Surgeon, Bewildering thoughts coursed my MARVELS OF SURGERY. walls, the peaks stretching up 10,000 they were going to find water'at night. without interruption, the crystalliza and that’s what discourages me. To brain through, !pealing in my ears all M c M ixxvillk . ... O regon . There will be no such foolishness as feet into the air. So precipitous are So life be left in our bodies no mat tion of diamonds. Already he ha» ob morrow, however, I shall resume my the bells of madness. The elfin eyes of Office and residence on D street. All B. CLARK, PROPRIETOR. these rocky barriers that in a journey that indulged in by the exjiedition. tained dazzling results. Would you experiments. When I have succeeded the multitudes of glowing gems stared t alls promptly answered day or night. —o---- of fourteen miles you pass from an emi With every precaution a sufficient ter if they be hacked or hewed or like me to take you to see him?” my life’s crowning w’ork w’ill have been at ine with their penetrating glances, maimed or broken, the surgeon will amount of suffering wfll of necessity On the way my friend gave me some attained and I shall die happy.” Furniture of all the Latest Styles made to nence of two miles above sea level to red, violet, green, blue and pink. I I. F. CALBREATII. E. E. GOVCHER. set hopefully about the work of repair. the plain 175 feet below the ocean tide have to be undergone. Water is the information concerning tho manufac The scientist drew himself up to his had closed my hands without noticing order In Oak, Ash or any Wood The process of grafting animal tissue is great desideratum in that horrible place mark. The surface of this plain is ture of artificial precious stones. For a full height; the air of stupienty had desired. Calbreath & Goucher, composed of salt and alkali and it is im where the air is much drier than that now carried to such an extent that the long while our chemists bad lieen giv vanished from him. I trembled in the it I had rubies in my left and emer alds in my right. I felt an almost ir FINE WORKMANSHIP A SPECIALTY! possible to go over it on horseback, be of the Sahara, and the heat so great as deficiency of one creature is made good PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, ing it their attention, but the crystals presence of that wan old man who repressible desire to slip them in my by taking a piece or part of another M c M innville , - - - O regon . ---- o— cause it is a mere crust through which to put tlie body through a sort of evap A disfiguring birth mark on the face formed were so diminutive, while the could shower down on Paris such a pockets. But I dropjied the accursed (Office over Braly’s Bank.) Orders taken for all kinds of work and the animal you ride breaks up to his orating process, such as that to which of a child.was'reeently neatly cut away cost of producing them was so great, miraculous rain. stones and quitted the aged scientist’* satisfaction guaranteed. A.'all at factory knees in a thick alkali paste which eats a dried apple is artificially’ subjected. that the experiments were regarded “Don’t you fear robbers?” I asked. hovel, seeming to hear the gallop of and a patch ^of skin taken from the botn hair and hide. There are paths So rapid is this evaporation of the bod and see specimens of furniture, simply as revelations of the curiosities “I see you have put .solid iron bars gendcarmes all the way home. ily moisture that three gallons of water arm of the mother was transplanted to of science. across your doors aud windows. Such Do not buy without first seeing the furni by which one can make one's way cover the wound. A man so fright SUHGEON AND HOMEOPATHIC ture manufactured here in your own state across if one knows where to find water a day are absolutely necessary’ for each fully burned as to lose the greater part When we arrived at fthe house he precautions are advisable.” PLUCKY SPECULATORS. individual, instead of the three pints on the opposite side. and county PHYSICIAN. greeted my friend politely, uttering a “Ye*, I am sometimes afraid that the There is something unearthly about one ordinarily consumes in cold wea of his epidermis was successfully re low growl when I was presented to idiots may assassinate me liefore I have Some rorllandcra Who AAsiated Major Office at B F. Fuller’s drug store. Resi the whole appearance of things in the ther. If one were to sit down in the covered with frog skin. Recovery will him, as if I had been a dog belonging succeeded in producing the white dia Sears In an Immense Scheme Reap a dence, first house south of Baptist church, Prices Consistent with Good Work. valley, the two ranges of gigantic peaks desert all day long and do nothing but have a double meaning henceforth for to his youthful disciple. We walked mond. These stones, thougli they Rich and Deserved Reward. McMinnville. Or. that hem it in iietwcen them looking driuk he would still feel thirsty. Even him. Occulists have takeh the cornea across fa neglected garden at the back have comparatively little value, might Major Sears, formerly *t reet superin like the backbones of a couple of great with a supply of three gallons a day from the eyes of rabbits, cats and dogs M c M innville national bank . beasts and afgray haze that never lifts the blood of the traveler crossing the to replace and make good the vision of of which was the house, a tumbledown tempt my heir's; my heirs frighten me; tendent ofthisclty, received some year* hovel. The scientist had removed all they are well aware that by causing a”’» concessions of immense tract* of Corner Third and C street*, in Braly block. making everything indistinct to the waste becomes thick, the features grow human beings. That wonderful fiber the partitions'that lie might have one my disappearance they would bury land in Peru, which, with irrigation, the nerve, has also yielded itself to the Sample rooms in connection. view, No vegetation is to be seen save thin and peaked, dreadful constipation vast and lofty apartment in which be with me the secret of my discoveries, m ’ m INNVILLE, OREGON. a very’ scanty sagebrush with leaves sets in and fever threatens madness. In skillful touch of science. The nerves established a complete lalwratory, full and thus give these artificial gems you are sure to be very valuable; but not o------ o having the means of carrying out the may be patched and pieced. The Transacts a General Banking Business, that are not green but gray, with here crossing tlie valley one cannot very of extraordinary'apparatus, the use of see about you the full value the world great work» necessary to make the Is now fitted up in first class order. nerves of brutes have been successfully- well carry with him more, than one and there a tall cactus which looks in President...........................J. W. COWLS projierty remunerative, it was through to the stumps of severed nerves which I did not even try to compre puts on genuine precious stones." . Accommodations as uood as can be Vice President.......... LEE LAUGHLIN the night like a dead man standing days supply of water. The only way joined He grew thoughtful and sad. We the mingled pluck and kindness of ten men. Baldness "may be cured by hend. The scientist himself answered of ound in the city. Cashier....................J. L. STRATTON erect with arms extended. But the su to do is to hurry over and try’ to reach were sitting on piles of diamonds and the bell and opened the door. preme horror of the place is the heat, the other side—only about 15 miles dis grafting. A New York physician re In this hovel the most dazzling, the I was staring at him, my left hand Portland gentlemen who subscribed 8. E. MESSINGER, Manager. Sells sight exchange and telegraphic $500 apiece, that he was enabled to go cently repaired ravages of this kind by transfer* on Portland. San Franco and New which is unbearable. There is a breeze tant—before one succumbs for want of most blinding sight'I had ever seen in plunged into a basket of rubies, my to Ixmdon where he had scarcely plac first taking grafts from the patient ’ s York. drink. If you know precisely in which which, instead of being cool is so scorch M c M innville my entire life burst upon me. Num right mechanically sifting emeralds ed the stock on the market when bi* Collections made on all accessible points. ing hot as to blister your face. Into of the gorges of the mountains springs own scalp, where time had spared his bers of dilapidated baskets were ranged like sand through my fingers. Interest allowed on time deposits. lionds were floated and more asked for locks, and aftewards eking out the this natural furnace the sun pours its are to l>e found it is well enough, but if At length I broke the silence, ex by the avaricious Britons. Major Sears along the walls upon the floor, their Office hours from 9 a. m. to 4 p m. supply by portions taken from the you are not certain on this point you rays with never a cloud interrupting CARLIN A HIGH, Proprietors willow twigs ready to burst from over claiming: Is now in Peru and has already let a from one year’s end to another. When are likely to become so exhausted after head of another person, doubtless se flowing loads of precious stones. But Goods of all descriptions moved and care “You must lead a ' wretched life, de-1 contract for the largest dam in the I lecting hair of the proper color. These ful handling guaranteed. Collections will the famous geologist, Professor Gilbert, traveling up to the heads of one or two one species of gem was in each basket; spising men as you do! Are you totally world, and to a Scotch contractor ha* be made monthly Hauling of a l kinds succeeded in crossing the valley nearly gorges fruitlessly’ as to find nothing grafts were cut up by means of a punch rubies, amethysts, emeralds, sapphires, without pleasure?” done cheap Gates & Henry, Props. given the work of constructing a rail and included not only ’ the thickness of twenty years ago, barely escaping death better to do than to lie down and die opals and turquoises, thrown into cor He looked at me in amazement. road. Such gentlemen as Messi-*. War- McMinnville, - Oregon. from thirst, the thermometer inside his the most horrible of deaths. You will the skin, but also subcutaneous tissues ners like stone heaps along a highway, “I work," he „„ answered, . , , “and um ren, IL B. Knapp, A. 1). Charlton and saddle bag went^up to 130 degrees and not need burial for your body will not beneath, which left them fully a quar glittered with living light, illuminat never weary. V" II. CLAY BURCH, " hen I feel unusually the w.ven ((therB who not only |1jm1 ter of inch thick. Holes corresponding decay, but will simply be shriveled up then burst. ing the den with the sparkle of their gay I put some of these stones in my I A suggestive feature of the Death val to a mummy and lie there in the Val in size to those left after the removal of flames. They were furnaces, glowing pocket and stand at the further end of fidence in Major Sears’ integrity, but also in his gigantic scheme. The Wel Real Estate, Collection, Insurance the grafts, were, of course, made in the ley landscape is the color of the moun ley’ of Death to all eternity, imperisha my garden, behind .a loophole which come is happy to say, are to-day 17000 Everything New scalp for their reception. All the coals, red, blue, green and pink. They tain rocks, which are actually sunburnt ble staring up at the burning sky. and Employment Agent. looked like millions of elfin eyes laugh opens upon the boulevard. Then, from an iron brown hue. Chip off a little Here and there, all over the awful plain grafts united well, without suppuration ing on the floor amid the gloom. No time to time, I hurl a diamond into richer for advancing him aliout a year And Firstclass. to ago $-300 apiece. The land near by the or untoward results, and bore hair lux flake and you find the stone of its nat of salt and alkali are scattered the dried tale in the Arabian Nights had ever re the middle of the street.” Sears grant, is very rich in coal oil and Special Accommodations for Commercial ural lighter hue underneath, Streams bodies of men and animals, preserved uriantly. Even the bones, where they He laughed as he recalled this mas lias lieen conceded to a I xm Angeles vealed such treasures, no woman had i Travellers. flow from mountain springs down to for all ages to come. During the min- have splintered by accidept or destroy ever dreamed of such a paradise. terly practical joke. syndicate of wealthy gentlemen, by the Any business entrusted to me will receive Corner Second and E Streets, one block ward the valley, but never reach it, be ing fever in that neighborhood, from ed by disease, may be replaced with I involuntarily uttered a cry of ad “You cannot imagine the behavior shrewd business ability of their recent prompt attention, and SATISFACTION from Cooks hotel. better bones and become incorporate 1872 to 1875, hundreds of people cause the heat dries them up on the weie GUARANTEED. of the people who find the stones. They ly returned’agent, Mr. Sutherland Hut miration. way. Once in a great while there is a lost in trying to get across. You may with the complete osseous structure. tremble and glance behind them; then “ Why, this is the wealth of the In OrruK with W T Sttvarurr. I tremendous storm in the Amargosa have heard of ail “alkali sink.” That I n the light of such surgical achieve dies,” 1 exclaimed. “These gems have they hasten away, as pale as death. ton.— Welcome. I desert to the eastward, and a river a is what Death valley is. As has been ment the mysterious creation of wom an incalculable value.” How much amusement these poor fools Uh ri st ma* one week from to-day. ; mile in width flows from the desert said, the plain of the valley is below anjin the Harden of Eden loses a part H. J. LITTLE. w. T. sHumarr. its incomprehensibility. The hurts House, Sign, and Ornamentil Painter I around the south end of the Amargosa the level of the sea and the alkaline of i range and northward through the val river flowing into it at certain seasons and ailments of our poor humanity are The Only Sign Writer in the County. ley. Does it flow out again at the of the year from the Amargosa desert hel[>ed ¿and healed with a skill that McMINNVILL. - OREGON Homes fitted up in the Neatest and Most other side? Not much. It is dried up deposits its alkali in the crust througli approaches magic. As Prospero could Artistic Style. and lost before it gets that far. which the foot in stepping breaks into set. his goblins at work to grind the joints of his enemies with dry convul Such is the Valley’ of Death—itself the abominable paste beneath. Designs furnished for Decorations. It will be the work of the expedition sions, and shorten their sinews with Remember Paper Hanging and Inside Fur simply the most horrible spot in that -----ON----- great region of despair. The object of to kill and capture every sort of living aged cramps, so the good magicians of nishing a Specialty Work taken by Contract or by the Day. Ex the government in exploring it is sim creature that can be found in Death the scalpel can now undo the demoniac perienced men employed. ply to learn what kinds of animals live valley and its surrounding region. work of the goblins, who have appar there. This enterprise is part of a great Every specimen of animal life to be dis ently never left off grinding men's On Short or bong Time in Sums to suit. Third Street, McMinnville, Oregon. Lowest Rates anil no Commissions. 1 work which the department of agricul- covered there by. from a dozen to a joints and shortening their sinews. In j ture has been for some time carrying on score of specimens in the collection thesejdays of wonderful scientific dis j the purpose of which is to map out the which will be brought back to Wash-. covery the surgeon easily keeps pace GEO. RAMAGE, Made under authority of Congress by the Chemical Division of the whole United States into what are call- ington. Mammals, birds, reptiles and | with advancing knowledge.— Philadel- ine painter, paper nanger. Kaisommer ana The hanger, kalsominer and ’ ua ed “ muuiu faunal uiaw. areas.” rvi For tAcuiqnu, example, oujr- sup- batrachians will all be grist to the mill hia Record. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., and recently completed, decorator can be found during «be d» hard pose it is determined what are precise- of the naturalists. It is expected that at work, and will be verv willing indeed to , * .. lx . .. . , . -A-t Tabor. We ’ ve heard of a woman who said give estimate4’ and furnish designs tor all' ly the limits of the area occupied by many new species will be secured such she’d walk five miles to get a bottle of -Pertlaed'i Most Beautilnl Suburb-- classes of work. On June 1, a shop will be the jackass rfcbbit. When that much as are at present not known to science Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription if she opened opposite the Cook house. 15-8t I . . .. . , 1 ‘ is known it must necessarily be true The birds will be shot and the mam couldn’t get it without. That woman For the treatment of Nervous Diseases, 1 especially those suffering from nervous ex ----- ■ — | that any plant which thrives in one mals will be trapped at night. All of bad tried it. And it's a medicine that haustion and prostration, chronic diseases, itself felt in toning up the sys ■ ■■ part of that area will do well in any the gentlemen engaged in this explor makes and ail those who need quiet and rest, good ra---------------------- ■ pi tem and correcting irregularities as nursing, massage and constant medical HRMMARR AMn \AHMIAN other part. There is such an intimate ation are most expert trappers, and soon as its use is begun. Go to your care. At Mt. Tabor will be found pure air, flrijrijCAA MlUll relation between animal life and plant they will cany with them many doz drug store, pay a dollar, get a bottle, absolutely free from malaria, good water, Ufeinthis worid that> havjng found ens of small steel wire contrivances of a try it—a second, a third if necessary. heautiful surroundings and magnificent aswi lav*« Before the third one has been taken views. Ample references given if desired. For further particulars, address the physic Atf. ELSIA WRIGHT. ?ut thevarious areas inhabited by dif- sort that are found most effective in tho you’ll know there is a remedy to help :.y ferent birds and mammals, you have capture of all kinds of little quadru ian in charge. you. Then you’ll keep on and a cure OSMON ROYAL, M. D.. Carries the Largest Assortment oT learned just where each form of vegeta- peds. It is not anticipated that the will come. But if you shouldn’t feel 107 Third St.. Portland, Oregon. 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