VOL. 1. NO. 93. M c M innville , O regon , T hursday , D ecember 23 issb PRICE TWO CENTS. * Struck a Whale. pentition taught them that this would be fatal to them. They arrived at Fort Lincoln without covering to their ambulance, this protection having been blown away by the first night’s wind, and within thirty min utes from their arrival one of the animals dropped dead. It was a tight for life, and they describe the trip as a most hor rible experience, in comparison with which a march against an opposing army would be a pleas ant pastime. rarvlv recover. The state board —„ --------- of health is inclined to the opin ion that a very important dis covery may have been made in the »etiology of this scourge. A Netherland steamer, from Antwerp to New York, on the second day out slighted a whale 0. C. IRELAND. E. L. E. WHITE. I floating on the water directly in D. C. IRELAND & Co., MISCELLANEOUS the vessel > course. No attempt PUBLISHERS. was made to avoid the animal, The Daily Reporter. I as the natural impression was T hb D aily K epobteb is issued every day in the week exoept Sundays, and is delivered that it would get out of the way in the oity at 10 oents per week. By mail, 40 It declined rants per month in advanoe. Rates for ad of its own accord. vertising same as for T hb W kkxly R bpobtbb . to move, however, being fast —or - 4k JO PrtatiBff. I asleep most likely, and the steam- We beg leave to anncnnoe to the public I er’s sharp iron bow struck full that we have just added a large stock of new novelties to our business, and makes special I and fair about midway of its ty of Letter Heads. Bill Heads, Note Heads, Third St.. Gppomte There was a perceptible Statements, Business Cards, Ladies' Calling length. Kerosene v. Diphtheria. Cards, Ball Invitations (new designs) Pro shock to the vessel and an im grammes, Posters, and all descriptions of 7^*5- YAMHILL CO. BANK. work. Terms favorable. Call and be con mediate checking of her pro Diphtheria has unusually pre vinced. D. C. IRELAND A CO. D on ’ t F orokt thk P lací , gress. Passengers and deck valent in Connecticut the past E. E. COUCHER, M. D. hands ran forward to see what year, and the state board of — Where you wi>— was the cause of the trouble, and health has been trying to learn PHYSICIAN T a ND SURGEON. found that the whale was fully the reason. There has been no McMinrrnxa ... O bboon . eighty feet long, had been cut general epidemic, but the dis Offioe and residence, corner of Third and half way in two, and lay dead ease has been epidemic in Stand D streets, next to the postoffioe. . and fast, caught on the bows. ford, New Canada, Greenwich, DR. I. C. — TAYLOR. It was necessary to stop the ship Meriden and some other places. o------ | and back off to disengage the But the only report that the Late of New Orleans, La., • IN THB - Piles and Fistula a Spe carcase, which, when freed, drift board has received that has the ed astern. None of the officers merit of any discovery respect LATESTSTYLES. ciality. Consultation of the ship had ever witnessed a ing this disease has been a ver Furnishing Good« of all kind, and above l¥o Cure THE LOW EH I ERICEN. Also stranie similar occurence, although it is bal and informal one from ail Ao Pay. for the Meriden, which will be amplified HrownsYille Woolen Villi, gy Offioe with H V. V. Johnson. M. D., by no means an unheard of one. Ships have struck sleeping with a formal and detailed state Carrying a full line of nil good« made by MoMinnville, Oregon. whales before, and on several ment. It will be quite likely to these celebrated mills. ¿ as . m ’ cain . h . hublby . F. J. MARTIN. occasions have suffered damage attract the attention of all physi W. T. HAXTKK. McCain & Hurley, cians. There have been a good from the collision. attorneys - at - law Goods, New Prices many eases in Meriden, and New Firm, At New AND NOTARIES PUBLIC, the New Store of Caught in a Blizzard. some of them could not be traced Lafayette, Oregon, Especial attention paid to abstracts of title A party of army officers who to any of the causes, such as un and settlement of estates in probate. Office—Jail bniding. up stairs. arrived at Bismarck, from Fort cleanliness and tilth presence, to Huooeaaom to Al. HUSSEY, the disease is ascribed. Third at root, MoMinnville, Oregon Mrs. M. Shadden. Yates, on the 7th, gives a de- It which was noticed that not a single scription of the most thrilling Fashionable Dressmakers ride in the history of that coun fatal case occurred in the town in fjffThe Taylor System of Cutting and Fit try. They were seventy hours any house where gas or candles ting employed. were used. In every ease the A new, neat and clean stock. Every artieio Third street, Next to Bishop A Kay’s store. in a blizzard in coming from A No. I. Fruit Jara, Butter Crock», Colored MoMinnville. Or. Gla««ware, Cutlery, I’aaed Good«, T<>- Fort Lincoln, a distance of family in which it appeared were bacco. Pipe* and Cigar«. in the habit of using kerosene sixty miles, or over an hour to Treah Fruit and Vogotablee in Beaaaa. a mile. Their vehicle was an oil exclusively. Inquiries made Give ma a call. Inapect mr «lock, and I elsewhere showed the same re will guiiranU«- price» t»> »uit you. Hair Cutting, Miavlni and *ham. ambulance and was drawn by pooing Parlor. four mules. The night the bliz sults. In one case in Meriden Fimily Grocery Store. the kerosene lamps were remov 15c SHAVING 15c. zard was at its height, they ed Third Street. MoMinnville, Oregon. and candles substituted for were compelled to shovel and C. H. FLEBING, Proprietor. plough their way through snow light, and there was immediate J. Harv. Henderson, (Successor to A. C. Wyndham.) (Hneoeaaor to L. K(H*T.) drifts from six to ten feet deep, improvement in the patient. Ladies and children’s work a specialty. Dealer in But by accident a night or two DPI have jnst added to my parlor the and the continual use of the largest and finest stock of cigars ever in this goading-sticks was necessary to later a kerosene lamp was AD Freeh Soods, Orooorlo«. Hear, B mm , Mfl •ity. Try them. Q'.wwsro and Orackery. keep the exhausted animals brought into the sick chamber SAACVXX. GOTT, an<l left burningall night. The ;^"G<od« delivered to porotiMere in theeRf on the walk. The officers state patient next day grew worse and Late of Independence, having purchased the that for a time the blizzard hid kt . CHARIÆN HOTEL, TEAJfH AND TRUCKS the mules from view and that died. A very careful inquiry r BKULTMBB. Prop.. based on this discovery will be Of Logan Bros A Henderson, offers hi« but for the instinct of the ani Corner Third and B «treeta, VIINNWII.LP. * . • nxrtraft services in that line to the public, and will mals they would have been lost made. It may I m - nothing more VIC New bouse! New tarnitcre! I'naarpacBed Ciuarantee Satintaction and frozen to death. At one than a coincidence, but already in the euentry Ratee—ff I to |3 per day sp oor ding to room. Mingle mosto 2ft sent*. To all who favor him with their patronage. point they passed an Indian it has been learned that persons Lodging, 2ft to N) esxto seeordtng to roots. He will keep a wagon specially adapted to the and Ixidging. |4U> <«., par week. Twa stricken with diphtheria in the Board delivery of paroola, trunks satchels etc., for camp, but the Indians would not Fine Hsiupto Rooms for eommoreial asCB. vincity of kerosene oil refineries Give mo a call and ese for voeraelf. the aceomoaation of the public. Orders left *» the stable will be promptly attended te at give them shelter as their su- filtered in the Postoffioe at MoMinnvillefor Transmission Through the Mails as Sec i ond Class Matter. I -----------o---------- THE CLOTKIERS YAM HILL CO., ALWAYS FIND Bazier & Martin ta Fun ta ”3 « t.’a. i