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KLAMATH KLAMATH FALLS, KLAMATH COUNTY, OKEfiON, MAItCJI VOI», vu. CHAPTER X. (Coutlnu«*«! > "But «lint 1« th» nature ot tbl« dsn I ger? What 1» this alternative?" "I liar« not speak now, but I may tall you soul» «line." "But—" | , I I | ( " sh!” Interrupted the prln««»«, In an abrupt, but yet kind tone. "You must not urge me beyond what I have n*»ir»<! you. Coqualla apeak« not without thought, and banco »he apenka n<«t tha second <lmu. 1 niu»t u«vt at"l> now. I know the character of sotn« of your p»<> pie, and th«4r wonls <b> n«>t conn, from th«dr heart*. Hu you might bit l««l away, nml thin'« Ktung Herpent iin-aiit a dark thing when he »poke fair. You will not forget Coqualla." With th»»» wo««!» she turuixl away, an«! sr« tho youth could detain her .h*« was gone, lie «aw th«* h«Mvy door <l<>»<* after her light ami gin oful form, ami then h» »auk down again upon th«* co|«l earth. What could I*« th« nieniilug of her vlalt? Why "h'*ul*l aha have <»mi« to him thu» to warn him of a <lai>g«r threatened hy her fath«r? It wo» a •trange «Hrcumatan«». ami afforded th« prisoner plenty *«f fo««J f«*r tho «ght. Th« morning dawned, the prison «!**< r wee opened, an.I Ktung H. rpeiil ent. re«l. an! ndih him camu two other», one of them an ol*l man. decrepit with ags. an I the other a tall, athletic man, only a littl« older than Ktung Herpent. Whit«- Hand qnh kly rerogn a d this l.itt'r Indi vidual »• the Great Kun the k.ng of »11 the Notches, not only from hi» n**hl» bearing »nd his rrsemblan«-« to hl< broth er, but sl«o from th«* rurlutialy wrought circlet of feathers, with R» elevat.d plum» of horse hair, that adorn« I his Ths youth arose as th men * iitercd. but h« did not speak. Ill» arm« were folded across Ills breast, and with a steady, calm l«x«k. ho return«*«! the gas« > that was lx*nt u|«on hint. "White Hand." epok« tho prln««, "list en to th« words that the Great Run »hall Speak to thee.” At th«»«* word» the king stepped for ward. The prisoner had »e. n many proud men, and many of th** great men among hl» people, but he had never »« en on« ’purely noble In hl» l*»«*k »ml bearing as th« Great Kun of the Natch«*. ”8<m of the pale face.l Invader," «poke the chieftain, "thy |> opl« have «ome up on u» with evil Intent, an I their f»«*t al- I ready troad upon land» not th«lr own They bsre come with smooth tmigue and smiling fsce, and whll« they whlapere«! wonls of love, they hate robbed u» of that which thu Great Nplrlt had glv«n us. Thu whltu man »ay» the Nat.hex are treacherou»; tmt falsehood was not [hers until the ahlte num came. He uay» [the Natch«*« are cruel; hilt the dove 1» cruel when her n««t 1« «le»potl«*d by the reerpent. When«* art tbou here In th«* village of the White Apple? Dual thou | know?" “No, no.” uttere«! the prluoncr. "'Tie becauau ot the evtl that dwells In the b«»otn of your people. We sought ■ child of the white man to semi him on a mission to the white man'» God, and while we »ought »ueh an one, Io! the wish wae met by one who wished to be free of an encumbrance upon him. You will Inot fear to go upon the iiiisMon we would .have you perform. Every year many of our people go voluntarily to the worlil of aplrlta to accompany their beloved r«da tlvea. Then why ahoul I you fear, since you, too, will ascend at once to the home of your God? t'hll«l of the pale flier, listen! Go tell your God that he shall Bend uo more vcng>*nn<'e upon ills Natclies for th« decile they have «lour to the wlilte man Tell him how the white man has come to deapoIl us. Tell [him thia: Once the Nat« hex were b«|>py [•ud peaceful; thrlr horn«*» were pure, «n«l their heart» Were gln«l. Plenty aml!e<l ¡upon them, an«l joy was theirs. But by and by a strange boat, with wings like a great bir«l, came over the great salt lake, end the whit« man wna In It. He came with fir« In hi» guns and fire in hia bar- rela; and when a multitude had landed [here, they began to place their foot upon kttir necks. A ik I now our Joy 1» gom*, for rottenness has crept over our homes; vice lliaa fe»tere<l like great »or«« In our Til Inges; our warriors have drunk of t II** ■CCUraeil firewater until they have lie- coni« like ohl women; our domain Is lie- coming wrested from us and sorrow alts like a black spirit brootling over our de- cay. Tell your God all this, and then ask him not to answer tho white man'» prayers when they ask for vengeance against tbe Nntchex, Remember my Words, anil forget not one of them." I Thun speaking, thu Great Hun folded bls arms anil gased sll<*nt!y into the bouth'a face. White Hand was moved— kteeply moved by tho apeech he had liearil. for there wnn a depth of pathos In It that appenloil directly to tho heart, ole knew well what each wonl of the chieftain meant, ami he knew how true It was. But beyond this there was a Bieanlng that struck terror to the youth's •mil. lie was Just upon the point of fall ing upon hia kt.... . when the Groat Run lurned away ami stalks«! from tho place. I’ale and trembling, White llnml watch ed him until ho wna gone, an«l then turn ed to tinft Herpent. I “White Hand, you have heard tho words of tho Great Hun. lie has spoken 1» you the truth. Now follow me.” I Then Ktung Herpent walked slowly from the prison house, ami the ohl man look White Hand hy th«« arm nnd sal«!; [’«.»ine!” Instinctively he obeyed tho bummona, though his steps tremtded ns po walked forth. Whin ho reacho«! the Ppen air, the prlaoner looked around, but Pot a living thing could ho sec save the Stout prince who walked on ahead and lhe ohl man who le«l him. Next to tho prison, and distant aome five rods, stood the teuiplc. White llaml knew It by tho rude Imitation of the blaz ing aim that ndorncil the roof at the ga [de. Into this temple ho waa led, nnd y re he fouml soma twenty men, eight ot Miioni wero those warriors whose duty It was to attend the ani ro«l fire. Thia Bro wna burning upon an altar, and very turloualy wrought with strange device*. REPUBLICAN. But th« youth took but littl« nolle« of the altar. Ills attcnllou was arr«*»t«d by th« spprerauce of two »tout men who stood near th«* altar with kulve» In their bauds, «nd with a largo bowl between them which ««» blood »tallied both outside ami In. ’’Now, Whit« Hand," «poke Hluug Ser pent, approaching him and placing h a broad hand upon bls shoulder, "yon will not forget th» message thnt th» Grout Him has given you to deliver to your God. and you must give It word for word; nn.l It tho Great Nplrlt of th«« white man knows nil thing«, It» will know that th« Nutidiex have only »«nt to him th«« word« of truth. You will have an easy path from th« earth, for our warriors know how to »<q the spirit fr<« without pain." With a quick atari Whit«« Ilan«! bound ed back from Stung H«*rp«’nt's touch. 1 hu whole truth now cam« upon him. 11« knew that the tempi« lu a neighboring village hail Iwen recently struck by light ning and burned to nah«*«, nil I ho hnd heard that th« governor of tbe fort nt Itoaulle ha«l profeaord to n«k bl« God to »»ml th» calainlty upon them Now tho Indians, In their Igiiornn o of Hrtlh, be lieved they coiilil semi n measage to tho offenileil God <>f tho white man, »ml that when hi* knew th« truth, hl» anger would I h * npp<*n«<'(L "llohl!" ho uttered, raising hia han I toward« the prince. "What have 1 done thnt you should take my life? From n ■mall hoy I liar« grown up here, and never. I«y thought or <lr«*d, «III I harm to one of your people. Why, th* n. •!•» you tak«* an inmxmt paraoti to »lay?'' "i’ll«* pale hoy has fallen Into our pow er, nn«l we would »«nd him on n holy mission. Not In anger or revenge do we •eek to do tbl«, but only for good. Thou art a enat-awny from those you loved, and »urely you would rather l>e with those of your people who hnve gone to th» I-**-! of »idrits before you than to have no lonie." "And you think I will carry the me»- ■ng« you wouhi »«-iid?” ert«*«! tlie youth. ’’No!’ he add««!, deeply ami aolemnly. "1 wl!l tell the Great Hplidt how I wa» a l*oor prisoner In your hand». I »111 tell him thus: In my own home I had a hit ter enemy. That enemy d«*»ire«l my ruin that h« might po»»c»< all my father ■ gold; so he betrayed me Into the baud» <>f the red m«*n. They took me with them to tbelr village, and I murmur««! not. Then they arise«! me, ns I hey would a brute, nnd murdere«! me In cold blood! Thus will I »peak unto tho God of heav en, and ask for v»ngean«’o upon my mur now. ye warrior» of the derera. Be sure. _ Nnti'he», that I wiU do aa 1 hare a.ild. I have harmed y« not." The red warrior» wer« perplexed, and for some momenta they whlaporsd togeth er In thrir own tongue. Then Kiting H«r pent approached hia pri» <n«r »ti l took hint hy the hand, and having gaaed awhll« Into hia face, ho aaidi "Do you believe Stung Serpent wouhi ■|M*nk a falsehood?" "I do not," «1» Whit« Hand's Imme diate answer. "Then listen to me. If ! •par» your life, I must »peak falsehood, for I proni- l»<*<l thnt you «boiihl not live." “To whom «11«! you mike such a prom lae?" the youth a»ke«l. "Never mind. Kueh a proml»« ! made. But I have no desire to keep It, now that you will not carry th» me»«ago we ask yon to, »ar« for mine honor." "Honor! An«! can the noblest warrior nt all the Littl« Nuns of the Nat« bra tin«! houor In taking (he life of one w ho never harmed him?” "Not In that - uot In that. Yet 1 gave my word.” Thus speaking, the old warrior walkel ■lowly to the other eml of th« temple, and then came back again, and when he ■topped, ■ ray of light ha«l «hot athwart hta <iu»ky featurea. "White Ilan*!," he said, speaking more «1« <*ply than before, "can I know that thou wdlt not »peak fnlaehoo,| to tne— that if I have a promise from thee I nvsy rest assured It will lx* most sa«*re<lly kept?” "Ay upon tny life!" repllr«! th«* prison er, bowing low. “Then If 1 »pare tliee now, wilt thou ■ wear nnt to reveal tb.vaclf to any white person who »hall come hither to onr vll- lag«*, ami thnt thou wilt not leave our village, save with my consent? Khali I have this promise fr«nn th«*e?” The youth hesilated not an Instant; but the promise was given quickly am! distinctly. "Then come with me now, and In time thou »halt see me again. But rvmcm- ber. thy promise 1» given on thy life, and Ktung Kerpetit trust» thee. Not another man of all thy people could have moved th«* Natchez prince as thou hast.” Thu» speaking. Ktung Herpent »talked from the temple, an*! the old man t«x»k White Hsn«l again hy th«* arm an I le«l him forth. On«* more he wnn con Im-t <<d to the prison, »nil without a word, the ul«t Inillan pushed him In, and th« n lucked the door iqmn him. CHAPTER XL Alone the prisoner remained until no<«n. ami then hia dinner was brought by Hn Indian whom he hail not before seen. lie naked n*> question«, hut allowed the mes aenger to »<> «ml come In «lienee. An hour afterwards tlie door was again opened, nnd thin time the light, airy form of the Princess Coqualla entered the pris on. White Hand immediately arose ami moved towards her. "My white brother Is safe, nm! Co qualla is glad," the princess uttered, ns she took rhe proffered hand. “Ah, fair princess!” exclaimed the youth, with some »adnexa In his tone; "but how long shall I be anfe?” "As long as you wish. But listen. The Natchez ap«*ak plainly when they have anything to any, for th«*y would be quick ly understood. My father has promised to kill thee, nm! in one way alone can he forego hie pledge. Ho will not kill hia own son in-lnw.” The dusky princess trembled as shi* spoke, and her hcnil was bowed. But White llnml understood her. He gnzeil a few moments upon her downcast fa«», nnd ho wondered nt her extreme beauty. Hho was dnrk, but tho youth hnd aeon faeee in his own land much darker, but never had seen a smoother, fairer akin, nor features more faultlessly regular and beautiful. Ho started nt her words, ljut It was with a strange, thrilling start, and a troubled, perplexed look worked upon his face. "Coqualla,” ho said, "thou art the only daughter of thy father?" “Thou speakest truth,” waa her reply. "Am! will thy father give me to thee for a huslmnd?” "He will.” "And bow Is th/ wish?" “Elks my futher's. 11» love» th«*e. for thou hast touched Ids heart. La»t night I hvnr«l him any thou w»«t the first on complalulng, nohl« while muu he had ever »ecu full of piiiu and sorrow. I love thee, too, sn«l can ulwuys love (h«u end hr true.” White llam! started air*««» tbe prison, nml his hi'ud was l»iw««l In deep thought. At hngtli he »tupped nud took Coqualln by the blind and led tier to wh«-r» th« ground rolleil up Into a llttlv knoll, and her«* h<> »nt down »ml drew th« prlu •<••• to hi» aide. "Coqualla,” hu whispered, ’'»peak to in» truly, now, and let not a thought of me retain your word», or mold them to You woul I aiuoothu«*»» of uttarence. marry me. 1» It for love of me, or oui/ r to save my life?" "Both," ninwerail tha fair Ciri. "But were thy Ufa all thine own. and 1 thought ! that th« «»king wouhi bring th«« to mu , forever, I’d a»k thee on my knees.” A littl«* while tin* youth hel l th«- hand 1 of th«* princess, an I g«ze<! into her large, dark eye», and thon hi* »poke. Ills word» t were low nnd carneat, uni Coqualla list- rm«! in alienee. 11» weut on. and apokz. i more freely, but still In a whisper, and I when he bail done, the prime»» pla«'e<l 1 her arm» nlxiitt hi» neck ami wept. He, too, wound hia arm» »bout th« litho form i of hia companion »nil pressed her to hl» i bosom; and from that moment their love« I were reciprocal. (’«xpislla hurried «way from th« prison, ■ nnd when »he returned, ah« brought with her tho dress of u Little Hun of the , Natchez, and an earthen bottle. Whits , Hand was soon arrayed io the In Hun i garb, an I then the princess pro. reded to > bathe hia face, urine ami feet with a i fluid that was contained In th« bottle It was a preparation of tho outer cover Ing of tho hickory nut, and some pe< u liar root, which gav» the color of th» , red man's akin. Thun arrayed and m« tamorpho«ed. Co ■ qualla took her lover by the han l nud led J him forth. Not fur from the temple wae the home of Stung Herpent. It wae, like , all tho other dw i lling», of an obleng form, the walla built of rough timber, made . tight by a cement formed of clay and I Rpaniah mows, with a roof of reeds and vine» very skillfully Interworrn upon a frame, and made tight by tbe sum» kind of cement that formed th«* walla. To thia , house White Hand wae led, and wb«u 1 be entered, he found that not only were ’ all of Htiing Serpent's family pnsnt, but also the Great Kun and hie wives. (To be continued.) EVENTS OF THE DAY 19, 1903 WILL BliAT kFXOKlL f lood In Mississippi Valley Threatens L'n told Damage to Properly. GATHERED FROM ALL PARTS OP THE TWO HEMISPHERES. .'omprehenslve Review of the Import ant Happenings of the Past Week, Presented In Condensed Form, Mos* Likely to Prove Interesting to Our Many Readers. The Pennsylvania railroatl baa a*l'le«i (150,000,000 to its capital etock The ladronea in Riza) province have lH«en scattered an«l tbe leaders captured. King Edwur«! and Qtmen Alexandra liavo celebratwl their fortieth (voiding an ni vert ary. ' Missouri Pacific passenger train No. M, tlie Fast Mail, run Into a landslide near Gaaconds, Mo., un«l tlie engine was buried in tiie mud. A big fin«l of hematite iron ore con- taining a large percentage of metallic iron anti little dross lias just been made in tiie river hills mar Wrights- ville, Pa. Now Orleans, March 13.— It la gen- erallv admittwl by government, stat«- ami city authorities that tbe M'asii- eippi river will in all probability break all records before tbe present lltxxl lie- gina to recede. Tha gauge her«* tonight eliowa tbe river to lot ju»t one foot be low the iiigh water record, and every pre<aution ia being taken to prevent serious damage and to prepure for emer gencies. All the levee lines arc l>eirig inspect ed and large forces of men are at w«,rk «lay and night. Though all the au thorities admit that a record atage is probabfb, they maintain that the levee system is higher and stronger than ever before, and that tbe banks are pre pared to witbvtaml the extra strain. The most unfortunate condition at preaent is the continuance of the ra>n,v weather. This is having tiie effect of softening tiie levees ami all I-ouisiana is praying for a return of sunshine. Kix hundred men are at work today at various pointe sacking weak |x>ints and raising tlie line of embankments. Th« u**and< of sacks of saml are l«eing distributml along the river. The engi neers rep irt the levees between South Port ami Carrollton in excellent con dition. The United States engineer officials liafe promi-cd their co operation with tiie authorili« » in carry ing on tlie fight against the flood. All tlie levee boards of tlie state may lie in continue us session and every foot of levee ou the river is under surveillance of armed guards. NO. 50. NEWS OF OREGON f WILL FIOHT TO A PINI««. Canadian Pacific Strike Spreading Pre« Vancouver Eaatward. ITEMS OP INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS OP THE STATE Session Laws will Soon be Ready for De livery New Mining Corporation Bad Boys Punished Mining Men to Fight New Corporation Tax .Law Pendleton Painters Go Into Business. Six Albany boys have been fined for stoning a Cbinatnan. Sheriff Brown anil Deputies Hempie and LaHincr, of linker county, are all confined at their hoines with smallpox. Foreman J. E. Godfrey, of the state printing office, says that work is pro greasing rapidly on the session laws of 1903, an«i that if nothing unexpected happens tbe laws will be out by April 1, which is much earlier than utual. Fifty men are working on ttie 1-ewin and Clark fair site. Ten of these are surveyors who are preparing a contour map. Twenty other men are clearing away fallen trees, logs, and dead under brush, and the rest are planting trees an«l shrubs an«l doing nursery work. The members of the Fainter’s union, of Pendleton, whom the bosses locked out last week, have formed a corpora tion and will become combined borses and union painters. Tbe bosses re fused to grant any raise in wages and 20 painters l«ecome their own managers Vancouver, B. C., March 12.—Al though it seemed probable a few «lays ago that a settlement was about to be effected between the striking employee an«i tbe Canadian ‘Pacific railway, all negotiations were broken of! today. The strikers say that it will tie a bat tle to the finish. The United Brother hood of railway employes says that the apparent willingness of the company to arbitrate for a settlement was merely a ruse to gain sufficient time in which to recruit substitutes for the striking men. There is no question of wages or working hours in the matter. Blipporting the cause of the strikers, all members of their organization along the line have been today called out, Calgary, Winnipeg and Fort William being particularly interested. The company, on the other hand, has receive«! another carload of Eastern men, and now has 125 substitutes, with which it will endeavor to carry on gen eral business. These men are quar tered in box cars on tire wharves, en trance to the wharves being guarded day and night by Canadian Pacific special policemen. The following no tice addressed to shippers and all others concerned is published: “This company is now prepared to accept ail goods offered for shipment. The same can be delivered either at our local sheds or our wharf ware houses.'* The strikers are receiving funds from unions throughout British Columbia and from Portland, Seattle and other places. From the head office of the company at Montreal is coming William Whyte, assistant to the president, who will try to settle the strike. Henry Roso, the wealthy Cuban planter, who, it is sai*l, gave tiie great- er part of his fortune in aid of tiie Cuban revolution, is confined in tbe Bloomingdale asylum for the insane. Dr. Dosang, ( liineve doctor and ex alted memlter of various Cbinese wcret socioties, reputed to 1st one of the wealthiest men of bis race in thiscoun- try, is dead at hia borne in Chicago. The Lucky Boy mining company, a cor|>oration, has been organ ¡zed under William De La Berre, director of the the laws of the state, and has succeed Washburn-Pillsury mills, Minneapolis, ed to the ownershipof the mining prop ia in Magdeburg, buying machinery for OTHER DEADBEAT NATIONS. erty in the Blue River district hereto tlie Briquette works that W. D. Wash* fore owned by the private partnership CALL FOR TROOPS. b'irn intends to build at Bismarck, N. D. Baitpin May Next Collect from Guatemala consisting of L. Zimmerman, Frank and Costa Rica. Ex-Renator Jones, of Arkansas, if and Fred Sharkey and N. B. Sandish. May Rcault from Strike Riota at Toledo— New York, March 13.— English in confined to bis tied in Waabintgon by War Among Teamsters. vestors in Kpanish-Ameriean loans and Game Warden Quimby is in receipt an attack of ia grippe. Toledo, O., March 12. — After four qnterprbes are now looking for a sequel of a copy of a report the commission No more bodies of those drowned in to tbe Venezuelan affair in some other ers of fish and game of the state o' successive attacks bad been made on the ferryboat accident at Spier Lails, quarter of the Western hemisphere, Main«- have just published, showing nonunion team-ters by striking union N. Y., have been recover»«). says the Tribune's representative in the amount of money expended by the men, a member of tlie Toledo cartage The only other conntries state for the preservation of game, association declared that be would The department of agriculture has Ixmdon. issued un order quarantining tbe state w here defaults of int«-rest and repudi and also the amount of monry brought make application to Governor Nash MAGILTON, THE APE ACROBAT. of New Hampshire because of tbe pres- ation of financial obligations are Ha- into that state by outside sportsmen, tomorrow to call out tbe state militia grant are Costa Rica and Guatemala. rhe local game warden thinks it would to protect the association's men and ence of tiie foot and mouth diseaoe. Htorr from Scotland of « Ghost «nd a The external debt of Costa Rica »a« l>e a good thing if Oregon followed a interests. The Missouri senate iias passed the Serie« nf Dream». Tolay has been one of the most excit scaled down to lower rates of interest, similar plan and appropriated suffi Romo y«*ara ago tny wife had repeated nill prohibiting tlie eale of cigarettes but tbe defaults have occurre«! on both cient money for the hiring of deputy ing in the city’s history, nor is tbe ex ami cigarette pa;*er» to children under dream« of a house, the interior arrange citement abbated by the strikers’ de the interest and the sinking fund. wardens to enforce the game laws. Tbe same bill ha* nieiita of which »he deweril>c<l minutely, 18 years of ag>*. claration that a general strike will be Guatemala ’ s debt was also rearranged Tbe mining men of Eastern Oregon called and that no Toledo freight will although no Idcn aa to Ita locality was paasvxl the house. for at 4 per cent, but t|*c interest has have decided '.o invoke the refer«'ndum conveyed to her. Subsequently, In the be handled by teamsters in any part of Tiie North machinery company has not been paid. year 18K3. I hired for the autumn from been incorporate«! at Trenton, N. J.. These countlies are exposing them against the Eddy bill, which wae en the country. Lady B— a houao In tbe Highlands, with a capital stock of (15,000,000, and selves to fc reign coercion in the in'e-e«t acted |>y the last legislature. The law The trouble b«-gan at noon when a with shooting anil fishing, my eon, who will manufacture se«*<l and agricultural of Euroean creditors. It is not proba which it is tbe purpose to repeal im mob of 400 strikers and sympathizers waa In Rcotlnnd nt the time, arranged machinery of all kinds. ble that England will join Germany in poses a tax on all corporations doing followed a truck through tbe principal the matter, neither my wife nor I hav another naval campaign against either business in this state in proportion to business vtreets, endeavoring to knock Pecause ot the unprecedented preval- ing aeon the |>ln<’e. When I went (with i*nce of glanders among horses in New republic, since the British investors in the amount of tlie <*apital stock. Tbe and pull from hie place a nonunion out my wife) to make finnl nrrange- York City, quarantine rul«*s may be so the two main Venezuelan loans com mining men insist that it will retard driver. The mob attempted to do vio lueiita for taking |H>aa<*aslon, Lady It — rigidly enforced as to work great incon plain that the effect of the alliance has the growth and the progress of the min lence to Manager Turner, of the More- waa still living In the house, and she venience to owners, particularly to been to establish preference f jr inferior ing industry in this etate. Petitions tou truck company. Both men were German claims and to create a prejudice are now in course of preparation to be saved from serious nijury, however, by toll! me that If I did not inInd she pro- those «loing h«*avy trucking business. It will re the police. I-ater tbe police gave no against the legitimate claims of bond circulated for signatures, I»«»«*«! putting me for the night Into a quire over 4.000 names in order to set tice that any further provocation given Norman Argo, said to have Ireen tbe holders. bedroom which she herself usually oc tiie referendum machinery in motion, the strikers would be the fault of the cupied, and which for some time past original Uncle Tom, is dead at Paint PLACED IN NAVY ’ S CARE. Lick, Ky., at tlie reputed age of 111 A creamery association has been or- employers and that they would not in liad been haunted by "a little lady," gtnized at Pleasant Hill, Lane county. terfere hereafter. who continually apjieared in It Aa 1 years. Argo was born a slav«*, crul le Later an attempt was made to throw was somewhat skeptical upon such loiig,<<l to General >amne! Kennerv, a Midway Islands Will Be Protected from The destruction of a large barn on a nonunion driver into the river, but tlie Roving Japanese Sailors. matters 1 replied that I should be de- we.ilthv planter of Garrard county and the Theodore Staiger farm, two miles man «as saved by the police. Not half a former memlier of the Kentucky leg Washington, March 13.— Tbe presi llght«*<l to make the acquaintance of from Salem, resulted in a loss of an hour later another nonunion truck islature. dent by executive order lias turtle«! the her ghoatly visitor, nnd I accordingly (6,000. Eight valuable horses were driver was torn from a truck in front o( A snow plow on the Old Colony Midway islands over to the navy de slept In the room, but no such visitor burned. Tramps are supposed to have tiie Moreton truck company’s office street railway, at f all River. Mass., partment. This was done at the in- appeared to me. started the fire. and at tlie muzzle of a revolver wae Hubaequently, upon my wife's arrival beinnie unmanageable at the top of a stance the Pacific cable company, which ; compelled to run for his life. A simi sl«*ep hill and, dashing down the in has asked for the protection of its prop Tne fruitgrowers of the vicinity of nt the liouae, she, to her great astonish Roving Japanese Medford held a mass meeting there and lar fate befell a nonunion teamster ment. found It to be the counterpart of cline, craalie«! into two cars loaded with erty on the islands. Five persons sustained sailors are in tha habit of landing on perfected an organization, which is within a block of the police station. her dreniu bouse, and on Inspecting It passengers. hruis«'R ami flesh wounds enough to ne the islands for tbe plumage of sea fowl *known aa the Rogue River Fruitgrow PLAJL’E OF WATER. from hall to attic every detail appeared to correspond. But on descending cessitate their being carrie i to a hos and for guano. It is probable that the ers’ union. They adopted a constitu AU Rivers In Middle West and South are again to the hall she said: "No, thia pital. A dozen others were bruised navy will establish a small station on tion and by-laws. tiie islands and American warship« will Booming All Industry Stopped. cannot be the house, after all, ns In my and cut. For the first time in the past four dream there was another suite of rooms The I«iaho legislature has adjourned. make a practice of touching there much St. Louie, March 12.—The Missis more frequently than they have done months Eugene is entirely free of every on that aide, which la missing here.” sippi river and all its tributaries are Senator Mitchell is not improving in the past. The islands are two in contagiohe disease. She was at once told that there was very fa«t. abov e or near the fiexvd stage and con numlier, Sand island, having 633 acres, aiKli n suite of apartments, not ap- Tbe stockmen’s convention, held at tinued rain through their vast water and Eastern island, 245 acres, There Minister Bowen is again at work t reached from the hall, and on being shed threatens a flood hardly paralleled straightening up tiie Venezuelan is a harbor afffording about 18 feet of Medford last Saturday, was attended taken over them she recognized every in the history of the Middle West and water. The islands are deemed eseen- by 60 of the most prominent cattlemen room. She, however, said that n bed trouble. South. The Ohio and all its tribu The new steel cruiser Chattanooga tial to the operation of the Pacific in Jackson county. Addresses were room In thia suite nppenred In her cable, which will touch there on its made by a number of well known taries, after receding for a few days, was launched in tbe presence of over are again rising, and the lowlands are drenm to I m * a sitting room, and It ap- western route from Hawaii. pcnr«*d that thia had been the case. but 4,000 spectators. I speakers, A temporary organization fioode.1 at many points. The ice itt was made, Another meeting will be the streams which empty into the Mis- that the arrangement had Just been al Conductors and brakemen on the Red Tape In the Way. held March 21 and organize perma- souri from the west has broken up and Union Paciflfic have l*een granted an tered. New Y’ork, March 13.—The state- nently. carried many bridges with it. The A «lay or two after, tny wife and I increase in wages. merit that the postofficedepartment has area covered by the floods will extend met Lady B-----. nnd I Introduced the W. R. Merriam, director of the cen acceded to Marconi’s request for tele from the foothills of the Allegheniee t wo ladles to each other, as they hnd sus, will resign May 15 to go into busi graph communication through Fal PORTLAND MARKETS. I on tbe east to those of the Rockies on not previously been acquainted. In- ness in New York. mouth 'with the wireless station at the west and from tbe great lakes to the stuntly Lady B---- exelalined: “Why, Wheat — Walla Walla, 75a; blue ¡ gu*L Tlie American window glass company Poldhu is understood to be substantial stem, 87c; valley, 78@80c. you nre the lady who haunted my bed ly true, says a Ixmdon dispatch to the At several points tbe Missiseippi has room" 1 have no explanation to offer, has close«l its plant at Irdianapolia. Tribune. The concession, however, Barley—Feed, (23.50 per ton; brew* already overflowed its banka or threat Four thousand men are affected. nor hnd my wife during the rest of her does not improve much the prospects of ing, (24. ens to break the levees and is still ria* life, ns to what some might call a re Two trains on the Burlington collided an early establishment of a commercial floor—Best grade, (4.30(34.85; grah ing rapidly. markable coincidence, and what would near Omaha, fatally injuring one pas wireless system lietween England and The worst damage, so far, has been am, (3.45@3.85. be called In the Highlands a cane of senger and three others slightly. America. Marconi has not been able done in Nebraska, where the wrecg of Miliatuffa — Bran, 1 19 per ton; "second sight." Certainly my dear wife The police of Buffalo are unable tJ to persuade the postmaster general to bridges lias stopped traffic on all rail was the Inst person In tho world to locate the nmrde-er of Edward L. Bur allow messages destined for transmis middlings, ( 24; shorts, (19.50(320. roads running west except the Burling chop, (18. give undue license to her Imagination, dick. A woman has been arrested, but sion across the ocean by wireless system ton. Oats—No. 1 white, 11.15 O 1.20; nnd, further, 1 can vouch for the fact, there waa no evidence agairnt her and to lie handed in as cable messages at From all directions come reporta of any telegraph office in the United King gray, (1.12HQ115 P®r cental. and no enn other inenitiers of my fam she was release«!. people fleeing from flooded bottom lands dom. ily, that she did undoubtedly describe Hay — Timothy, (11(312; clover, i to the hills or seeking refuge in the Two persons were killed and 75 others accurately a house which had some (8(39; cheat, (9(310 per ton. upper stories of their houses, and of injured at Montreal by the collapse of Chamberlain Sick but Hopeful. rather remarkable arrangements, nnd factories rendered idle by the floods Potatoes — Best Burbanks, 60(375c per this long before she or nny other mem a building. Several hundred people New York, March 13.—Mr. Cham sack; ordinary, 40@50c per cental, I I advancing to their boiler rooms. had gather'd on a roof to watch a horn bers of the family were even »ware berlain, who has arrive«! at Maderia, ing steamer nnd the weight was too was received there with much ceremony, growers' prices; Merced sw'ets, (2(3 Sentrlea are Fired On. thnt such a houso really existed." 2.25 per cental. great for the roof. according to the Tribune’s Ixmdon cor Colorado Springs, March 12.—Sen Poultry— Chickens, mixed, 11 (312c; Bismarck's Big Brain. The new United States monitor Ne respondent. He has suffered severely young, 11H©12 c ; hen», 12c; turkeys, tries at three points were fired on thin Prln •«* Blsmnrck’a brnln, according to vada ha» Ix-en placed in commission at from his old enemy, gout, during the live, 15@ 18c; dressed, 18(320c; ducks, evening by unknown parties. At one the Battering estimate of the anthropol the navy yard at Portsmouth, N. 11. passage. A Daily Mail representative (7(37.50 per dozen; geese, (7(38.50. point an attempt was made to enter ogist, Otto Ammon, was probably the the sentry lines and the sentry on A syndicate composed chiefly of Cleve- says that the colonial secretary is per heaviest known to anatomical science. Cheese—Full cream, twine, 16,H@ guard came near being hit. Other sen sonally satisfied with tlie results of his Herr Ammon, In consultation with laml capitalists in securing options on tour. The Cape situation is at least as 17Hc; Yonng America, 17)k@18>ic; tries stationed around the three mills Prof. Schafer, the sculptor, concluded al most all the coal mines on the Kana- satisfactory as he expected, and he is factory prices, 1(31 %c less. were fired upon at midnight. From from tho measurements taken for whannd New Rivers, West Virignia. Butter—Fancy creamery, 30(332^c reports made by the sentries and the still hopeful of the future, provided the Schafer’s bust thnt the brain of tho Vicar General Mooney is ill with Dutch promises of loyalty and concilia per pound; extras, 30c; dairy, 20(3 Hashes from the guns, the men doing old stateman weighed 1,867 grammes, grip at his New York residence. 22Ji'c; store, 15(31Sc. tion ar« kept. the shooting were located on tbe hills nnd consequently exceeds In weight surroundingAhe reduction plants. Eggs—15(316 per dozen. Illinois ranks first among the states thnt of n»y known genius. Cuvier’s Wireless Telegraph Between Forts. Hops—Choice, 23@25c per pound. Still Believe a Woman Did It. brnln weighed 1,830 gramme«, Byron’s in the n.aniifacture of agricultural im New York, March 13 —Preliminary Wool—Valley, 12^<ai5c; Eastern Buffalo, March 12.—The police cling 1,807, Krnnt’s 1,050, Schiller's 1,030, plements, bicycles, ears, glucose nn«i to the theory that a woman, and one nnd Dante’s 1,420. The average weight distilled liquors, ami in slaughtering testa of a wireless telegraph system be Oregon, 8(314Sic; mobair, 26(328c. tween the harbor forts were made today B«ef — Groae, cows, 3(33%c per from outside the house, killed Burdick. of the brnln of an Intelligent Euro and meat packing. penn Is only 1.380 grnmmes.^ fly giving to Yale’s library an excep- under the direction of l ieutenant Col pound; steers, 4@4Jic; dressed, 7%c. The examination of sewers and sluice boxes in the vicinity of the Burdick Veal—7 ^@8 lac. tional collection of Russian and Slavic onel Dunwoody, chief signal officer Ills licllanoe. Mutton — Grose, 4c per pound ; home failed to reveal any weapon literature, and more recently a small United States army, and in future the "Do you really believe In your profes that could have been used by the mur library on music, the late J. Sumner wireless telegraph will lie used regu dressed, 7Hc* sion of faith healing?” Lambs — Grose, 4c per pound; derer. Tbe police are also working to "It depends," said the man who Is ad Smith, Yale 1853, so far impoverished larly for communicating between Fort dressed, 7%c. j ascertain all that actually occurred in vertising occult powers, “on whether his fortunes that Yale graduates have Wadsworth, on Staten island, and Fort Hogs — Gross, 65<c per pound;, the house, both before and after the Hancock, at Sandy Hook, ‘ across about taken steps to raise a fun«l for the aid you mean as a medical aid or as a finan murder that night. dressed,7@7 %c. 15 miles of the lower bay. of his widow. cial Investment.”—M’ashtngton StAti