DA ( ' L r REPORTED
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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,
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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 -
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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-
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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
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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. Phen 1
stopped running, threw my cap down,
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PRICE TWO CENTS
Lieutenant gave out extra rations to the
men who assisted in the work and made
up a stew of all the scraps that wore left
of the regular rations. 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-
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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.