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DA ( ' L r REPORTED I vol . II. NO. 13 The O'® Hy Rseporter. M c M innville , O regon . M onday J anuary Killed Which Saved the Qrccly Party From Starving. Entered in the Postoffioe at McMinnville for Transmission Through the Mails as Sec Bergt Francis Long of Brooklyn, a ond Class Matter. survivor of the Greely Arctic expedi tion, tells the following bear story, ------------------ O—— which baa hitherto been scarcely more D. C. IRELAND. E. L. E. WHITE than mentioned in the accounts of Starvation Camp. He says: "Bacon, D. C. IRELAXD A Co., «hrimpa, and seal-skin «tow, all in small quantities, had been our fare for over PVBLISHERS. two weeks and there was not a full round of rations left. More than half T he D ailt R eporter is issued every day the men in camp were incapable of in the week except Sundays, and is delivered work, but that was little matter for there was no more to do than throe in the city at 10 cents per week. By mail. 4o could handle. The steady cold made cents per mouth in advanoe. Bates for ad us all drowsy and there was the worst vertising same as for T he W eekly K epobteb . anger in sleep. If a man was allowed ■ have his sleep out he would certainly ver wake, so we had to make a rule ok Printing. at no one should sleep more than two uurs at a time. It Degan to look, with We beg leave to announoe to the public nly one day between us and starva- that we have just added a large stock of new on, as if it might be better for us all novelties to our business, and make a special go to sleep together and die unoon- ty of Letter Heads. Bill Heads. Note Heads, ous of the terrible cold and the pangs Statements, Business Gards, Ladies' Calling hunger. We had plenty of hunting, Cards, Ball Invitations (new designs) Pro hiiig, and cooking utensils, ammuni- grammes, Posters, and all descriptions of on. and all that, but what good were work. Terms favorable. Call and be oon- eyf There was no game, uo fish. vinoed. D. 0. IRELAND A CO. “art ng all our eamp we caught only .wo fish. I was the hunter of the party, and had tramped the region over and I G. W. GOUCHER. E. B. GOUCHER. over and rarely had the luok to get a shot Goucher & Goucher. at anything. “The day before we came to our last round of rations I bad discovered tbs PHY8ICIAN8 AND SURGEONS M c M innville - - O regon . teach« of a bear. 1 had followed them about until I was exhausted trying to ■sect the beast, but had utterly faded. Office and residence, corner of Third and This day a light snow fell in the morn- D. streets, next to the postoffioe. hag, just enough to obscure the trail, but still I hunted. 1 gave it up late iu the afternoon and returned to the camp. Brainerd had gone to the shrimping- ■o-------- G>und, and was still absent when 1 Late of New Orleans, La., d by my gun. Suddenly he appear Piles an<l Fistula a Spe ed, running down Cemetery Ridge as fast as his poor weak legs would bring ciality. Consultation him. We all started up and waited his Oree. No Cure coming in the most painful excitement No Pay. W’hoei J»« reached the camp he fell to py Offioe with H. V. V. Johnson, M D.: the ground ail out of breath. The men crawled to his assistance, and two of MoMinnville, Oregon. them raised his head in their arms. He gasped and looked at us wildly. JAS. M’OAIN. H- HUBUBY. “ ‘Brainerd/ exclaimed the Lieuten ant ‘what is it?’ McCain & Hurley, '* ‘Bear! bear!" was all be could an ATTOKNEYS-AT-EA W swer, in a choking whisper. ANO NOTARIES PlIBLIO, “ 'Where, man, where?' 1 cried, reach- mg fok my gun. ail trembling and Lafayette, Oregon, quivering with nope and fear. Espeoial attention paid to abstracts of title ‘•There,’ be said faintly, pointing and settlement of estates in probate •wards the ridge; "he followed after me) Offioe—Jail buiding, up stairs. be’s coming.1 •How can I toil the terrible exeite- M. ment that prevailed? The men were in a perfe t frenzy. Cruel suffering had made them worse than unreasonable. Some of them could think oi nothing Fashionable but cursing poor Brainerd for not kill y^The Taylor System of Cutting and Fit ing the bear, and were with difficulty ting employed. restrained from falling upon him to Third street, Next to Bishop A Kay’s store, wreak vengeance. He did not take ms MoMinnville. Or. gun with nim. Nobody ever did who went shrimping, and they cursed and raved at that and burst into tears at the Ions oi their last chanoe for life. Others -and they were the weakest men in the Hair Cutting, Shaving and sham, party—were for starting out at once for an all-night hunt over the snow-fields pooin* Parlor. and Icebergs. Nothing could be more foolhardy. They oouldn’t have gone beyond the top of the ridge without C. H. FLEMING, Proprietor. breaking down, to say nothing of carry ing a gun and firing accurately. The (Snooeasor to A. C. Wyndham.) Lieutenant axed hie authority and I my I Ladies and children’s work a ■p*"ialty influence to quiet the men, and at last have just added to my parlor the ths plan of the hunt was arranged It largest and finest stock of cigars ever in this was really only a few minutes, but it city. Try them.__________ seemed an hour. Jan, the Esquimau. , and I up the ridge to meet the D C. IRELAND A CO., bear 1 >ula continue towards us. ‘•Hardly bad we got a rod from the snap when a long white nose appeared roar an ioe-covered rock at the top of the hills. The men set up a shout and DR. I. C. TAYLOR. Mrs. Shadden Dressmakers 15c SHAVING 15c. Fine Job Printers, McWianville, Ore*«». isst SERGT. LONG’S LAST SHOT. ; think it nnneiued me, but it was a A Bear Book & J 17 iong-rauge sh< i. m arly 300 yards, and the target was small. 1 raised niv gun, and. taking quick aim. final. The ball missed, but it did not go wide of its mark. The bear was startled. He sassed just t<o short a time to give the fcsquiniau a chance at him ami turned tali and ran. 1 heard the howls and groans of disappointment and rage be hind me. I believe that some of those poor balf-etarved, half-frozen men would have shot at me in their anger if they had ha<i their guns at hand. •• ‘Jan,1 1 said hastily, ‘take the auarre to the left and go round the r»dge and keep Weil to the west so as to get net ween the liear ami tne w t> r. I will gL. iu th- Min way on tne east. ‘Tne faithful Esquimaumu' r-t> »1 the plan at one , and set out without a word I crawled to th« top ■.»? the ridge as fast as I could, and saw the bear a long way otii oi rang«’ st on the run. He turned round for a oml .«mi look ed back, ami then, as it satisfied that ba was pursued, ooutmued his flight. I didn’t go straight after him, but kuep- iug out of his sight as much as pos- sima, crawled, and ran, aud slid up and down the icy slopes, making all the SUM for the water. 1 was feverish with fear. It seemed as if every possible ob struction got in my wav. and many a Mae I fell to the ground, it wks a ter rible chase. May I never have another like Al “Il seems incredible now, but 1 actu ally went ten miles out of my way to gel in front of that bear. 1 knew that M would stop running when he got over bis scare and saw nobody in pur suit, and I bad to take this round-about course to keep out of sight. Mighty little of that distance was passed on the ran. Most of it was crawled. But I had no idea of giving up. 1 plugged on, and at last, two hours and a half after leaving camp, 1 gained the posi tion 1 wanted. I climbed a low hill, and there was Bruin 1,000 yards away, sitting down after his hard run, within thirty vards of open water. I bad no* succeeaea raiiy in my pian. ne coma still escape, but his back was towards me and 1 did not despair. Almost at the same moment that 1 saw the bear I discovered Jan, the Esquimau, at some distance, and we both made for the beast. With the utmost care not to alarm him we crawled over the ground approaching nearer ami nearer to our prey. We had got perhaps half the dis tance when Jan raised Ins gun and tired. I think it was bad judgment, for we might have got much closer. But there was no time for regret. Excite ment gave ‘ne more strength, and 1 ran with all my might straight towards the bear. He got up and looked at me. and seemed not to know whether to run again or stand and make s tight of it. I resisted the temptation to tire at him until I was within 150 yards. 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It wasn’t much, but it seemed quite a feast to us. The bear saved us, for just before it in its turn gave out the rescuing expedition found us.” “Ahybody that knows a thiug before it happens is called a reporter,” was the dehuiliou written on the slate of an eighl-yvar-old boy iu a Boston school ♦ lip duv Col Buttersbv. in his new book on ••Bridle Bits,” says that the bit should not be tne chief means of conveying to the horse tne knowledge of the master's will. That task should, in the main, be don. by the voice, or, in the ridden ani- iunk by the movement of the rider’s body. ine bit is an instrument of _ tor- __ ture to be reserved f«»v critical moments. • Strictly literary ventures do not seem to tlonrish in the atmosphere of Chicago That go-ahead town has no time for K-t belie relaxation. Between the ups and downs of the pork and grain mar ket, the tumults of propagandists who use the boycott and propagandists who throw bombs, aud the vicissitudes of ths base ball business, the Chicagoans man age to get on without any nterature to apeak of except the literature of their vivacious newspapers. — Philadelphia Record. "When a man drowns himself in the river at Minneapolis,” said a Minnea polis man the other day. “he floats off down to St. Paul, and when he get« within the limits of that city they fish him out and put his name in the uirec- tory to swell the population.” "No,” replied the St. Paul man to whom the Minneapolitan was talking, "you ar« entirely mistaken. The idea is ths authorities in Minneapolis want to get rid of paying the burial expenses, and so let the cadaver float over to St. Paul, where they know it will be taken care of.”—>i. Paul Pioneer l*res.i. The base ball audiences at Oshkosh, Wis.. are largely composed of ladies, who are struck on the game, and the audience makes the point never to eheor a good play of the opposition. This silence was broken, however, on a re cent trip of the St. Paul club to that place, by a traveling man from Chicago, wtio seemed to think that St. Paul was not getting a fair show, and showed hi« sympathy for the under dog by giving vent to the funniest cackling laugh ever heard whenever the visitors caught a swift grounder or made a good hit. Finally St. Paul made a tine double play. The usual silence followed, bro ken into by the shrill clarion crow of the Chicago mam His neighbor, a fair Oshkosh virgin, turned upon him with "I hate you. there!” in relating the inci dent he concluded with the remark: “I died right there.” Liszt and Paganini compared: Both indulged in tricky effects calculated to lessen their dignity as artists by their y .elding to the promptings of an egotis tical nature, lii sphe of this, paradoxi cal as it may seem, beneath tne artifi ciality of mere technical acquirement» of each, lav a deep poetic power of ex pression, which ever and anon asserted itself to an extent sufficient to move their auditors to tears. The strong per sonal magnetism of both, although of widely different tyjies. also served to en hance the impression produced by their interpretation, during inspired mo ments. of phrases pregnant with emo tional charms and sensuous beauty. On the other hand, Liszt, although exhibit ing a predilection for bis own compoei- tions, was perfectly acquainted with the works of all schools, and in his earlier days won abundant renown by his mas terly treatment of a most varied reper toire. Paganini, however, restricted himself absolutely to hie -wis^rodn»- I liona — The Keynote.