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Yamhill County Reporter. r. H. BARNHART, Editor A Propr. J. fi. ECKM AN, A.kociate Editor. THE CARLISLE CURRENCY SCHEME. 0» L« S i’* The next meeting will be held at the residence of A. J. Apperson, Wednesday, evening Dec. 19, 1894. The following is the program: Reading from Shakespeare Miss Frances-Mann; “Growth of the Euxlish Nation”, Miss Emma Greene; Paper—“Joan of Arc” in I, Henry VI, Mias Ina Cooper; Paper—“Jack Cave” in II, Henry VI, Miss Lasira Apperson; ■Europein the 19th Century”, E. C Apperson ; “The World’s debt to Astron omy” and “Some contemporary English Novelists,” Miss Ida Scofield; “Art” Miss Etta Palmer; Character Impersona tions, Misses Luella Lynch, Ida Pagen- kopb and Clara Irvine. Table talk— Favorite English Novelists, and why. The Springbrook Frieuds have incor porated their organization. OBECOS JEW« AND NOTES. A Female Enoch Arden Turn* I p in Chicago. Astoria is said to be the largest city in the United States without a Mrs. Percis Anna Hartsig disap railroad. The Rusco & Swift Uncle Tom’s peared in Detroit eight years ago, and a body picked up on the railroad I Cabin company is doing the valley, tracks near that place, horribly This piece w ill never grow old. mangled, was identified by Mrs. Petitions asking the legislature to Hartsig’s relatives, and buried by re-enact the law permitting deduc them. A week ago last Wednesday tions of indebtedness are in circula the real Mrs. Hartsig walked into tion. the office of her son, E. A. Hartsig, Rev. Gilman Parker of Oregon in the Security building. City has been made state missionary The story told by Lewis W. Hart of the Baptist church, entering upon sig, a son of the missing woman, and the work December 1st. living at No. 1308 West Adams street There is sometimes something in a is a very romantic one. He says name. A new law firm in Portland his mother, together with his father will be known as Carey, Webster, and six children, lived together at Mays, Johnson and Idleman. The No. 336 East High street, Detroit, Johnson is W. Carey Johnson of eight years ago, and that his mother Oregon City, and Mr. Idleman is at was mentally deranged on account of torney-general elect. ill health. The family decided to Twenty-five Bohemian families ar send her to the Pontiac Lunatic Asy rived over the Union Pacific from lum, and from this place she escaped Nebraska last week, and will locate twice in two months. Mrs. Hartsig in Benton county. This is a fore was not a dangerous lunatic, but the runner of the large number of im family thought it best to return her migrants who are coming to Oregon to the asylum, as the physician had in the hope of gaining riches from hopes that they might finally restore the wealth of its soil. her reason. Her son Lewis arranged to have her returned, but Mrs. Hart Some years ago a boy named Oscar sig discovered what was about to Schellberg wAs arrested in Washing take place, and on the night before ton county for burglary, but on ex her contemplated removal she escap amination was sent to the asylum. ed, and this was the last seen of her When he was released the officers by any member of her family until a deferred taking him into custody, and he disappeared, but now writes week ago last Wednesday. from Corea, saying he is a lieutenant The family of Mrs. Hartsig notified in the Japanese army. the Detroit police of her disappear The Salem Statesman tells a story ance, and the following day the body of a woman named Margaret Brunk, of a woman was discovered dead on who has been very ill for years, and the tracks of Detroit and Michigan Road twenty miles from Detroit. whose father, although worth over The body was in a mangled condition, •20,000, and several brothers and and the clothing was literally torn sisters, all well-to-do, refuses to sup from the woman’s form. The Hart port or take care of her. The county sig family were notified, and they court has issued a citation to the identified the body as that of their father to appear and show cause why mother. A Detroit dentist also iden he should not be compelled to sup tified the gold-plated false teeth port his daughter. Forest Grove has a man who can which were in the mouth of the dead woman as those sold to Mrs. Hartsig. tell which way the wind is by The body was taken in charge by the the feeling of his feet. He served Hartsigs and given a decent burial in the war and contracted rheuma at Elmwood cemetery, Detroit. , tism. He says soberly that if the Mrs. Hartsig owned the property wind is southerly one foot hurts, and at No. 338 East High street, Detroit, if northerly the other, and that he which is valued at $5000, and her can lie in bed and tell when it will was duly probated and the rents changes. If he could only tell a few of the property have since been col days ahead, he would have no trouble lected by James E. Hartsig, husband getting a job as government “weath er forecast official.”— Times. of Mrs. Hartsig. Mrs. Hartsig, in telling her story Mr. Ramsby, a Clackamas county to her family after their happy reun citizen, lost his barn in a peculiar ion, said she traveled by rail to Ben manner. He was feeding in the ton Harbor, Mich., after leaving her evening, and had set his lantern, as home in Detroit, and was taken in usual, in the wagon seat. An owl charge by the Benton Harbor police was in the barn which flew about, on her arrival at that place, on ac striking various objects and finally count of her strange actions. The came in contact with the lantern, up authorities placed her in a sanitarium setting it, the oil ignitiug and lick at Benton Harbor, and there she ing upwards, catching the over remained for twelve months and was hanging straws of a 16-ton hay mow. then pronounced cured. But Mrs. Before one could think twice the Hartsig during her last attack of barn was enveloped in flames. In insanity had forgotten her name. trying to whip out the fire Ramsby The nearest she could come to her burnt his hands and beard. It was correct name was Anna Hartman. with much difficulty that he saved She did not even know that she had his horses. come from Detroit, and there was A curiosity in the way of acountrj’ nothing about her clothing or jewel schoolmaster is Prof. John D. Woods, ry by which she could identify her respectable and respected. He has self. She had no place in particular probably taught more terms of dis to go, and decided to come to Chicago. trict school than any man in Amer She secured a situation as nurse in ica. His career as a pedagogue be Evanston about seven years ago, and gan when he was seventeen years has remained in Evanston ever since old in the Henlrle mill school house and has amassed a small fortune in on Mary’s river, Benton county, in that city. 1854. That was over forty years Mrs. Hartsig was reading a news ago, and Prof. Woods, without ris paper a week ago last Wednesday, ing above the dignity of a country her son says, and happened to see schoolmaster, has followed the busi the name of E. A. Hartsig, which ness ever since, winding up his last was the name of her son. Hartsig school in Douglas county last Fri has been indicted on charge of forg day. He has taught only in coun ery. Mrs. Hartsig at once became ties of the Willamette valley and he possessed of all her faculties. She lacks only ten months of having recognized the name as hers and the taught 100 terms of school of three initials as those of her son. She months each. He is anxious to se went at once to the criminal court cure another school, so that he may and found that E. A. Hartsig had complete his 100 terms. He is a been released on bail. She secured bachelor and 57 years of age. More his address and went at once to room than $9,000 has been paid him for 1107 Security building, and walked his services as schoolmaster, the into the office, where she found her most of it has gone to pay debts for son and also her daughter, Rose, who indigent and unfortunate relatives. recognized the mother immediately. His last course of study was taken in BRAND THE CLAIM AS FALSE. While in the office, another son, Philomath, when he was 36 years of Lewis H., who is employed in the age.— Corvallis Times. World’s Fair Officials Expose a Capt. O. D. Crane, publisher of wholesale hardware store of Messrs. Pretender to an Award. Hodge & Homer, on West Randolph the Arcadia (Neb.) Courier, has C hicago , III.----- One of the odd street, entered, and, as he said, be located temporarily at The Dalles results of the World’s Fair is the I could scarcely believe it was his for the purpose of publishing an im claim now made to awards by some mother, whom he had not seen for migration paper. He says there are forty families on the road headed for who were not even exhibitors. Offi ! eight years. cials of the Exposition have not as There was still another person to Oregon, and that 400 or 500 families yet taken final action in the matter, whom the strange reappearance will soon start from this section to believing the quick wit of the people came as a surprise, and this was Mr. find homes in the northwest. These will detect the spurious claims. But Hartsig, the husband, He is 50 people are tired of the uncertainties to the case of a New York baking years old, and thinking his wife dead of farm life in Nebraska, and say powder, that has been widely adver had married again in Detroit. He they want to find a place where crops tising an award, the attention of the has also one child by the second mar can be grown without irrigation, Chief of Awards for Agriculture, has riage, and a very complicated state and they don’t care how much it rains at the next place they locate. been directed. He brands the claim of affairs exists in his household. of this pretender as false, declaring Mrs. Hartsig, her son Lewis says, The railroad companies are encourag “Neither the records of this depart has stated that she would apply for ing the emigration and rendering all ment, nor the official catalogue of the a divorce, so as to cause no emharass possible assistance to the people World’s Columbian Exposition, show ment to the young wife with whom who have made up their minds to move further west. This large emi that this New York Company was Mr. Hartaig is now living. gration from Nebraska is regarded an exhibitor; consequently it could Mrs. Hartsig, together with her not receive an award at the World’s daughter, Rose, is now on a visit to with a great deal of satisfaction by Fair.” her aged mother, Mrs. Dowe, who is those interested in securing immi Those who fairly won their honors very wealthy and lives in Savanna, gration to Oregon, and they propose at the Fair seem disposed to treat Ill., and Mrs. Hartsig thinks she will to use every effort to induce the this fraud as any other fraud should take up her residence at that place. people to locate in the Willamette be treated. The Price Baking Pow Mrs. Dowe could never believe her valley. Captain Crane is willing to der Company, of Chicago, having re daughter was dead, and there has furnish any information possible to ceived the highest award, say been a reward of 11000 out for the those who will address him either at they are convinced their claims, and The Dalles or to the Arcadian Courier. those of all other holders of rightful past eight years for information con Governor Lord and wife returned honors, will be fully vindicated by cerning the missing woman. Mrs. Hartsig’s two daughters, from their eastern visit Saturday. the public. Jenny and Rose, live with their bro During the visit Mrs. Lord took The jurymen in the case of Bunco ther, E. A. Hartsig, at the Mecca great interest in studying the rela Kelly, did what a good many juries Hotel, while the two other sons, tion of Oregon to eastern states, have done before, eased their con Benjamin F. and Samuel, live in De says the Statesman. “She noted the sciences by bringing in a verdict of troit The father, with his newly fact that Oregon's misfortunes are a murder in the second degree. If it married wife, lives at Coblentz street great gain to the manufacturing and was murder at all, it was of the most and Western avenue.— Inter Ocean x laboring classes in the east. The low price of wheat gives them a coldblooded, premeditated type, and there was no evidence to support a M. Murphy of North Yamhill c’nt off double-sized loaf at the same price, verdict short of murder in the first one of his toes chopping wood Wednes consequently it is necessary for the wheat farmers of Oregon to turn day. degree. The chief features of Secretary Carlisle’s highly complicated and in volved scheme of currency reform Subscription $1.00 Per Year. may be outlined thus: It allows na tional banks to issue circulating ADVERTISING BATES. Reading notices in local columns 10 cents per notes to an amount equal to 75 per line fcr first weeZ and 5 eentt per line thereafter Display advertisements, annual rates, one inch cent of the paid up and unimpaired per montu *1; each additional inch 50 cents prr capital, upon a guarantee fund of month. Obituary and marriage notices not exceeding greenbacks or Sherman currency 10 lines published free, if furnished in time to be current newa Additions: matter lucent'per equaling 30 per cent of the circula- line. 1 tion, these notes to constitute a first lien on all the assets of the bank. FRIDAY, DEC. 14, 1894. Two taxes are to be imposed by the _ government on each bank—one of T he populists are boasting that half of j cent We they cast more votes this year than haif yearly> on it6 average circula. ever before, which is a good deal like pay for prInting of noteSi a hunter exulting over the increased ■ official &upervisionand like expenses, °J.ShLOtS he had £red With°Ut aad the other ux- whith a!so ™ bitting anything. circulation, but of a rate not stated, is to provide a safety fund for note G out is usually attributed to high : redemption, the tax to cease when living. While the president suffers the fund reaches 5 per cent of the from the pain in his heel, he can ' circulation outstanding. Each bank rest his conscience in the reflection | is to redeem its own notes. When a that the people are in no danger of | bank fails, the guarantee fund is to catching the disease. I be added to the safety fund and used ■ in note redemption, but if this is R epublicans are not denying the I not sufficient, pro rata assessments need of currency reform. So far they on the basis of circulation on the are with Messrs. Cleveland and Car other banks for the sum required lisle. But they are not in favor of will be made, the contributing banks rehabiliating the old democratic state to hold a first lien for the amount on bank system, or creating anything the assets of the wrecked bank. but a currency as sound and stable This is the part of the scheme as the nation itself. The work of which relates to national banks. reforming the government finances Another feature of it permits state will doubtless fall to the republicans banks to issue circulation on nearly of the next congress, and they will the same terms as the national banks be equal to the task. after complying with somewhat sim ilar requirements, their notes to be NEWS OF THE WEEK. exempt from the national tax which was imposed on state bank circula J. B. Morin and J. B. Ford are tion thirty years ago. All notes of now business manager and editor the same denomination under the na respectively of the Independence tional plan are to be similar in ap Enterprise. pearance, but state bank notes are The Southern Oregon Monitor is to be different in looks both from the the name of a new paper at Medford. national bank currency and from the It is bright and newsy. Charles E. greenbacks and Sherman notes. Walcott is publisher. Another feature of the system pro The legislature of South Carolina vides for the redemption and retire has drafted a bill making a reduction ment of greenbacks and Sherman in all salaries of state officers to fit notes at the discretion of the secre the 5-cents-a-pound cotton situation. tary of the treasury, the surplus rev It makes a reduction of over 20 per enue, when there is any, being used cent, leaving the governor’s salary at for that purpose, the retired notes not to exceed 70 per cent of the new •2200. Soundings recently taken at Taco circulation, national and state, pro ma show that the falling of the rail vided by this scheme. The state road wharves a fortnight ago, was bank notes are, of course, designated not caused by a slide, but that to furnish the “local currency” about twenty acres of the bottom of which the enemies of the national the Sound have made a vertical drop banking system have been for so of 24 to 60 feet. Water is 60 feet many years demanding. It is easy deeper at the shore line than it was to see that the country will not take before the catastrophe. What caused kindly to the Carlisle scheme. In providing two new sorts of money it the subsidence no one can tell. makes a needless addition to our J. H. Coblentz, warden of the state already embarrassingly variegated penitentiary of Washington, com and diversified circulating medium. mitted suicide on the 8th by shooting One kind of new currency, to be himself in the head. He robbed the sure, we must have, «for the govern state in selling grain bags and keep ment bond deposit feature will nec ing the proceeds. When accused of essarily have to be absent from that his dishonesty by the governor and form of circulation, whatever it may the directors he admitted that every thing was not straight. When the be, which will soon have to be de and succeed the officer called to arrest him, he asked vised to supplant present national bank currency, permission to finish his dinner, which circulation, how- Two new sorts of being granted, he went into a room ever, is rather more than the and killed himself. country desires at present. The Ferdinand de Lesseps, builder of absence, too, of a direct govern the Suez canal, died in Paris on the mental liability for circulation will 7th. He was born in 1805. He arrouse prejudice against it. Per began work on the great canal in haps the safeguards surrounding the 1859 and completed it in ten years. circulation might in actual operation The luster which this great achieve turn out to be ample, but there will ment gave to his name was dimmed be a popular suspicion that the by the failure of the Panama scheme scheme is weak in this particular, which he projected in 1877. Recent and this feeling is likely to be fatal ly, in his extreme age and feebleness to all chances of its adoption. In re he was convicted with others of fraud gard to the state bank feature of in connection with the enterprise the scheme, the wild-cat currency and sentenced to prison. advocates will think the secretary does not go anywhere near far LAFAYETTE. enough in his concessions to them, Several families from other localities while all the rest of the country will think he goes too far. The proposi have moved into town this month. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Martin have so far tion is on the lines laid down in the recovered from their recent attack of se-called Baltimore currency plan to the extent that it bases circulation malarial fever as to be able to be out. W. W. Smith was doing valley towns on bank capital instead of on bond deposits, but it is much more com this week. “Uncle” Jim Hembree and wife were plex than that system and much less satisfactory.— Globe Democrat. e visiting in Portland last week. Mrs. W. W. Smith is very sick at her home in this place. Billy Lewie was taking in the fair at Portland this week. Gus. E. Johnson had the misfortune to lose a valuable horse last Monday night. The animal had caught his halter on the end of a pole in the barn, and in trying to extricate himself, broke bis neck. Lafayette Lodge No. 31 A. O. U. W elected officers last Friday night. The lodge will be officered the ensuing term as follows: C. E. Mitchell, M. W.; J. M. Dixon, Foreman; R. C. Henry .Overseer; Thad H. Dupuy, Recorder; R. P. Bird, Fin.; J. J. Hembree, Receiver: J. L. Hayes, Guide; J. H. Derby, I. W.; A. D. Hoskins, O. G.; and D. V. Olds. Trustee G. W. Jones has just finished setting out 600 prune trees. Hugh Carey has bought a half interest in the livery stable here. Dr. J. L. Hayes spent Monday and Tuesday in the metropolis. The 8. K. of S. Lodge is a hummer. Several candidates every Wednesday night and still they come. FICTION OUTDO* E. SOMETH ING THE AIR. Dyspepsia* Mrs. Judge Peck Tells How She Was Cured Sufferers from Dyspepsia should read the fol lowing letter from Mrs. H. M. Peck, wife of Judge Peck, a justice at Tracy, Cal., and a writer connected with the Associated Press: < “By a deep sense of gratitude for the great benefit I have received from the use of Hood's Sarsaparilla. I have been led to write the follow ing statement for the lienefit of sufferers who may be similarly afflicted. For 15 years I have been a great sufferer from dyspepsia and When editors receive unusual installments of poetry at any other season of the year than spring, they usually attribute it to some mysterious influence of the atmosphere. it has a deeper meaning. Heart Trouble. But when a merchant receives poetry, It can mean nothing else than that his efforts to please a critical public by securing well-selected Almost everything I ate would distress me. I tried different treatments and medieines, but failed to realize relief. Two years ago a friend prevailed upon me to try Hood's Sarsaparilla. The first bottle I noticed helped me, so I con tinued taking IL It did me so much good that my friends spoke of the improvement. I have received such great benefit from it that lines of goods, and selling them at figures people know are reasonable, and in keeping with the times, have met with appreciation. Gladly Recommend It. It also means I now have an excellent appetite and nothing I eat ever distresses me. ft also keeps up my that the spirit of modern and wide-awake Hood’s^Cures advertising is contagious. A customer who has evidently been reading flesh and strength. I cannot praise Hood’s Sarsaparilla too much.” M rs . H. M. P ick , Tracy, California. Get HOOD’S. our corner of the paper, Hood’s Pilis are hand made, and perfect sends the following In proportion and appearance. 25c. a box. Christmas effu- their attention to other crops. Her belief is that Oregon cannot secure very heavy desirable immigration until it can hold out assurances of profitable labor in agriculture, and that the first thing necessary toward that state of things is to secure man ufactories, so that we can keep our money at home and find a home market for farm products. She thinks that the growing of flax may yet become the important and pay ing industry of this state, and she is now seeking definite information on this subject. There is now being tested a process of preparing flax for the use of its fibre and saving the seed at the same time, which if suc cessful will make the business of flax culture a most profitable one in this valley and will be the means of es tablishing linen factories and tow mills on an extensive scale. Mrs. Lord expects to have definite in formation about it in a short time. Continued form, First Page. principle. Then, too, there was the dread that the north might not be united in the conflict and that the south would thus be victorious and the union shattered. Moreover, con gress appeared to be fairly represent ative of the popular feeling at the time. Compromise was in the air. Lincoln, Seward, Wade, Chase and almost all the other northern leaders were offering or stood ready to offer concessions of some sort with hope of preventing bloodshed. Horace Greeley asked that the erring sister states be allowed to depart rather than provoke a conflict of which no body could see the end. Memorials and petitions were pouring into con gress from all parts of the north, ap pealing for the adoption of some measures to prevent disunion. One petition was received signed by the mayor, the aidermen and 22,000 oth er citizens of Boston, praying for the adoption of the Crittenden com promise. As is well known, these offers of concessions and surrenders during the closing weeks of the thirty-sixth congress did not appease the dis- unionists. Indeed, they had the op posite effect. While they humiliated the north they fanned the flame of the war element in the south by ap pearing to indicate that the north would be too discordant and too cowardly to fight when the crisis came. While congress was talking compromise and the peace convention was gathering or in session at Wash ington, state after state was passing ordinances of secession. South Car olina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas went out within a few weeks during the last session of that congress, and Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina and Tennessee joined them a month or two after Lincoln’s inauguration. Secession had been decided on by the southern leaders when Lincoln’s elec tion became probable. In fact, in South Carolina this very outcome had for years been in contemplation, and the republican victory was only a pretext for carrying it into opera tion at that time. “Secession is not the event of a day; it is not anything produced by the election of Mr. Lincoln or the non-execution of the fugitive slave law. It is an issue which has been gathering for thirty years.” This declaration was made in the South Carolina secession convention in De cember, 1860, by Robert Barnwell Rhett, who had formerly been a con gressman from that state. “Most of us have had this matter under con sideration for twenty years or more,” said John A. Inglis, chairman of the committee which drew that state’s se cession ordinance. “I have been en gaged in this movement ever since I entered public life,” declared Law rence M. Keitt, another distinguished South Carolinian, who had just re signed his seat in congress to partic ipate in the convention which was to take his state out of the union. This was the spirit of the leading dis- unionists, and entreaties and warn ings were alike powerless to prevent them from rushing on to their doom. —Charles M. Harvey in Globe-Demo crat. sion. / Where You Should Go. As Christmas is a drawing nigh, The merriest time of all the year; Everybody should go to Apperson’s to buy, For they won’t find presents so “dear.” Not the “deer” that in the mountains roam, Nor yet the “dear” of the lovesick men, But the “dear money” the people have earned, And that they will be careful how they spend. At Apperson’s you will always find groceries find dry goods, Of them he keeps ‘ oceans.” Also a very large assortment Of Holiday notions. The “HOLIDAY NOTIONS," Are observable in our show windows and on our shelves. In hard times like these useful Christmas presents are the kind that please the most. Our dry goods stock contains a great variety of beautiful and useful presents. « Let the “dear" people watch this space for further announcements-if not poetry. A. J. A PPERSON > Frank Roeca, ; 1 TAILOR, ' HODSON'S CHRISTMAS ( Is busy as a bee making up clothing from J f new suitings. Try him for a new suit. <4 PRICES REASONABLE. W. J. CLARK,D.D.S Graduate University of Mich. Has opened an office in Union Block, Room 6, and is prepared to do all work in the dental line. CROWN AND BRIDGE WORK A SPECIALTY. L atcst M ethod or Some of the things he has to sell Kogers Bros’ Plated Ware Koasting Pans for Tarkegs. P aih Leas E xtraction . FARM FOR SALE I 330 ACRES AT $ao PER ACRE. 100 acres in cultivation; good pasture for cattle two Houses, two bams and two orchards. Will sell all or a part on easy terms, or will rent on condition that renter buys team and farming implements. The above is a fine farm situated four miles southeast of Dayton. Boat landing d?sta'mreh°USe Wlth cle<ner8 less lhnn one mile L. H. BAKER. Box 106, McMinnville, Or. ARTHUR J. VIAL, M. D. Physieian and Surgeon, ROOMS IN UNION BLOCK M c M innville , O regon . Don’t forget that we carry a fine line of stoves. HEATERS Plain and fancy sold reasonably cheap. Other Holiday Novelties.