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KLAMATH VOI-. VIII. • 1 " ^«♦♦eeeve***************» * Tale of the Early Settlers of Louisiana. ! BY AUSTIN C. BURDICK J CHAPI'Kll XXI. fVowly ami paiiiftilly dragges! away lite hmir» ami Ih» day» to thi* poor »lek «ir» In New Orlvana. Dui loppa wm »< ry ktu-i. ami so wa» thè phyali'iali Yet Louise hail a vrry e».ere »Ickn ••»». imi a pali «f tli» t.m» a .» wa» o it nf I ». farad. Bui graduali^ ili** delirium p;i»» I away. ami »li» wa» at leiigtli alili* lo »il up. Tfaree week» had »Ite labi tini» tre alia i-oulil ri»» from tu r l»-d. but mi thè fuurtfa week «he wa» aldi* to walk »bolli thè room. Il wa» at ibe eluse or ili» fuurtfa week tli.ll Iter huabaud return- <1 "llnve I been away longer tbuu you • xpt.'ì.'d?" fa'* asked. "No." waa th» quiet reply. "fur I've ospected nothing «leint It." "Ali!' Uttered Him- 11. with ■how of chsgrlti "I bave fa* et» too »lek to rl|i»*-t IIU) thing." explalued Louise, **O!" uttered ih» husli.iu-l. mure luil.i- I t "Yes I hs»» been very »I k. I *•» rtl feared at on» time I should Uerer sac you again." There waa aoiuethlng so iilqnant ill th s that Simon was sure there «as »areas u lu It, but he < ho»« nut to expose bls doubts. "I. I«». *»»»• been lal'l up,” he said, after gating Into In r face fur aome mo ments. *'Ah how? I noticed yonr hand wee rolled III rags What has happened? Have you bvru lighting the wiik<-d In diaua?" Agaiu Simon bit his lip. but h<- kept calm "I have had a duel on your account." "Is It possible? How was It?" "I heard you Insulted most grossly, anl I would not bear It." “You should not have borne It. at least. If you loved your wife. But wbo »«• It f "Goupart St. Denis." Louise started. "Explain," she said, earnestly and »*■ erly. "Ha! the name tn»vra you, does II?' "Why should It Uot? You know be waa once a lover of mlue." This open avowal, so frank and b**n eat. s<em»)l to please In'liuis, aud be «ent on to explalu: "No matter what was »»l.l, but St Drills struck tue. Of »-nurse I challenged Ii.m We » hose «words. Your father was present, lie Would have stopped It It lie could, for he feared I should get hurt." “As you did." "Listen. We fi b ed awhile, an I I fouqil that the boy «as at my ni«-rcjr. Twice I refused to pro»» my point upon bls <qi.-n bosom. Finally, wheu I saw that 'twould be downright murder for me to kill hlut. I hade him put up hia sword. 11» aake.l me for what for he knew not that I only toyed with hint. 'Thia is only boy'a play,' eaid I. "Then put up your sword,' said he. I did so. and just as my point touched the ground he brought me a blow a* roes the han*l What de you think of that?" "Perhaps I ought uot to apeak my thoughts." “Surely you ought. What do you think ef It?" "Well, then, t think you have told tu« very fine story." "Eh? Do you doubt my word?” "Doubt you? Doubt the word of HI- mon l.obols? Believe that my own bus band could »peak falsehood? Never, Si mon never!" Sharply the scamp looked Into lamiee'a face, but he could detect nothing there, ear» a calm, cool expreaeinn of uttrr sim plicity; yet h» kuew •hi- was quizzing bint "But you ■liil nul Irli me how thia all team« out,” abe said. "What did you do after Goupart had struck you on the I hand?" "What could I do? My hand was pow erli-sa. I might have knocked him down with iny left hand, but I spared him. lie was beneath all notice, eave that of m<-re I contempt." I I I I I I I "Poor Gotipart! Did he know how deep was your contempt for him?" "What mean you?" "Why, simply that you could have in- flicted no worse punishment upon h m than to have let him know that you held him In contempt. It must have nearly kllle.l him!” “Look ye, my flue girl, you are ventur- Ing on dangerous ground. You may any too much!" uttered Lobule, now showing his anger. Louise bowed her head a moment, and I she seemed to think that her companion I spoke the truth, for she quickly replied, I after she looked up: "Excuse me pardon me. I have but I just recovered from a severe aicknesa. | ami my first feelings were naturally those I of joy ami gladness, am! yon know how I often yon an*l I have Joked ami pestered I each other. W» have often said very I hard things In jest, and I hnve even pull- I ed your hair till you fairly cried with I pain, and yet you never got provoked be- J fore." This waa spoken ao earnestly, ami with ■ eo much apparent feeling, that 8im*»n ■ was mollified In n moment. Let it pass," he said; "only in future I choose a light occasion for light conver- ■ astion. And now to something of more B iniportnni'v. When can you be ready ■ to go up the river?" .At any time," answered Louise. I '*‘r? well. I will lw> (he physician ■ this evening, ami be governed somewhat ■ by his advice." I Shortly after this Lobola went out, and ■ when he returned he reported that the ■doctor would come in the morning. So ■ that night Louise tvaa left with Loppa, ■ami on the next morning the do.-tor came, ■ ami with him came the anxious husband. ■ Hi<* former examined hia patient care- ■fully, nml he expressed the opinion that ■ tile wife should not undertake the jonr- ■»“■y under a week nt least. ■ ' *'''" * believe I ahull go to Biloxi. ■ I hi re is a ship ready to anil, and 1 have ■sotni* liiisini'ns to do there." Louis,, expressed her entire willingness. ■ a>* Minion resolved to go. In truth he ■ Was uow expecting soon to be master of KLAMATH FALLS, »n tiiiiiu-nae fortune, and he wa« prepar dreadful blow that has b* en inflicted up Ing tin* way to put It to luiim-illsti* it»«. on mi* " | hl» main object being to obtain a protlta- "Loiiis, my dear boy," at thia juncture I Id»* cargo Io return to Franc«, whither exclaimed Simon, having now recuveie.l lie meant to take hi» wife a» soon a« b<* Ills presence of mind sufficiently to hide I < mild dispose of the few remaining ob- hl« r*-uI emotion» of fear and chagrin. I »taeles ilnit »food In III» way 11» Start "Bear Louis, let me wi-hsune yeu bu> k ed that »•■;> ulght for Biloxi, ami h » tu our hutlie." | wife was once more left to the kind cars* Ami as In* spoke he advanced ami ea I of her »able attendant. ti-ude<l Ilia band. The youth gazed upon A week |>a»»>*d away, and her husband him a moment In stern »Hem*«. I i niii» not. Mln* had now •<» far regained "Simon Ijobols," he uttered, drawing her health that she could walk out In proudly up. "I did uot think you would > iimpany with I oppa, and the r»s» waa offer me that hand!" all back to her t lieek. "Ilow a eh?" gasped the wretch, Another week passed, and "he WHS turning pal» aguin. "You should not thus well and just as »In* began to woU ler If reject the hand of your brother in law." any accident bail happened to her bus wiiii* linn.i started band he unde hl» appearance That veiy "Brother in law?' he repeated. "Are day there was a barge to »tart up th» you mad?” river. New Orient!» was all alarm ami "No I am a husband.” ezcltemeut. The garrison at Natch*» White Haud criM»i*d over to «Tier» hail bean surprised by tin* Imllan». «» I I oiiise atiHxl an*l took her by the baud. nearly every »mil murdered! On y » x T hey whispered together a moment, an I lull escaped, and four of those bad this lb* ii the youth turned townrda Simun >ery morning reached tin* town Gov. "Villain," he exclaimed, “you forced I’erier had sent messengers up to the her to thia!" plantations ale"; on the river to pot the "She consented to the marriage," re l*'r< inh on their guard; and now ths turned Simon, triumphantly. barge, full of soldiers, was about to start St. Ih-nis sprang to his feet, lie mov- up to »i-e If any as-lslame was required ei| to Louiae'e aide, aud grasped her anywhere on the way, ami lu tbe mean band. time a council of officers was to io* held "Louise,” he said, lu a broken voice, • to deiermiue what further should 1» "tell ms all; tell me If you ga»e this dune. * man your heart; for lu the years of dark I. o I mi I s gained passage for hlmsrlf an I ness that shall follow this blow, it will wife, but they were forced to put up afford s gllmmi-r ut light to know I um with such aceommodatious as th»* others uot all furgotten by my soul's idol," had. save that a sh. Iten-il pla< a waa tlx "Goupart, b» forced me to tbe mar <*•1 for Louise, near th» stem, lit cons Id ring* »•ration of her recent illness. "Hlli-n*e!" thunilered Lobols. starting Of course the p»»»>g» up, «jrsiuat th» • * • • S. X* “ * l"lx>'t- current, was slow, th» b»-avy ba u<l as making a headway of over thro« i it'Abrr hour, »ml stopping sometimes at id I II plantations >>n the way, ao that la eu not until the morning of tbe flf it so." that they reached the establish! me to Hr..... St Julien. Hot tbe espial boat conclude»! not to g>» up to *d up. teau, so Simon and his wife Wr r», Le ed at ths mouth of Walout H» from thence they mad» tbeir wa ir bus- foot I m They had gained about half r»p tam-e when they were startled, ■ Ing a turn upon th» rlv»r's bank, Ing a «mall cauus ahead with idded dlaiM In It. aud "Why!" tittered lobols. gfter r upon th» strange acene a few u lien- "they ar» Nab hes Indians. l»u poi th, lain» mean harm here?" e<i t*>- "Ilather a small party for tbs Louise, upon wbuw uiind th» st i Nta<*hes hail not that peculiar effect mat bis pour lii-art worn* urvas, aud I »ilb it had upon her compnniuu'a. lain »rldrntly frit um uiufortable. huugb ■'But we'll wat<*h them, lies*—let us "I rrfusrd him at Aral." continued the tbe rii keep further away front the bank, ami unfurtunalv one. "aud told him I lov»-d lheu we can follow them, and tug lx Got»part St. Denis. Then be told me he seen. They surely mean to approach the had s<-i*n my father's wealth accumulate house. Come, let's hasten, ami we'll fan»» under hie care, ami ha<l looked on a part them captured, tit course they ba.l « of It as belonging to him. end be would ha ml lu the dreadful massacre.” not now si-e another come m sml suat* h loulae made uo objection to this, and that wealth away. He determined to accordingly they t<»>k the i-rosa path, ami have his share. I told him if he forced ere long they reached the garden. Half me to Iwolue his wife I would beg of way up the wide path they walked, an I niy father to give me not a sou. Then he In-re they earn» to th« closerl gate of the swore If such a thing were done, he barricade; but a few loud calls from Hi would make my life such » s*-»-ne of tor- nton brought bld Tony forth, ami they lure I ahould pray fur death to cotne were soon wlrhin the euelosure. The ami relieve me." faithful negro could st first hardly believe "Liar!" biased Simon, Ills eyes. He guard upon the "appera "No— no," calm'.y replied Izmise; "I shun." aa he afterwards call>-<1 It, ami speak but truth." Then turning to her finally a big tear rolled down bls sable llstetiers: "But 1 refused to murry him, cheek. and ou the very nezt n.ght, after mid "Mam'sel!» Louise!" he gaap»*d, extend night, two atout men cnuie and carried Ing his broad hands. “Hires heaven!” me away. I waa weak and faint th* a. With glistening eyes »lie returned the for 1 hail but just rx-overed from sick- faithful fellow's grasp and salutation, Hess. Yet they carried me away an I and thru !>uiind»<l away towards the locked me In a dark priaon house. They house, for she saw her father upon the refused me both food au*l drluk. There plaaaa; she waited not for her busliaud I cam» lugh famishing with huuger aud now. thirst. At length the villain came tu me; "Father!" ami »»"hen I liegged for a drop of water The frantic parent caught bls <4ill<! to he swore I should have none till 1 bail bls !»>som, and with streaming ••yea h» promised to be hia wife! My mind was murmured hia thanks, for In that mo fluttering, sml thirst made me frantic. ment of reunknn he forgot th« dark cloud I promised to lx his «if»! Then ho that hung over hia loved one. Before brought me bread ami milk; be took me lhe old man had found hia tongu» Hinton from the priaon, ami soon arrangements hail reached the piazza. were made for the wedding. He had ob "My father," h>* uttered, "forgive me If tained the consent of the colonial gov I am abrupt but you have heard nf the ernor, and we were married in the dreadful massacre at Fort Roaalief” church, the governor hiniai-lf being pres "Yrs." ent. When the priest put hia questions "WelL there are two Natches Indiana to me, 1 was burning with fever, and a mating their way up here In a cam-» dreadful sickness waa ii|»in me. Yet my l*erha|is they know not of our habitation mind waa not shaken. I promised to tbi* lu-t men lie sent out at one» to capture lx»t of my abilities to do all he had ask them, anil we «'ill interrogate th* lu. at ed of me. Then we were pronounced least. man and wife, ami I begged of him to That was enough for Tony, for he had hurry away, for I was faint and sick. I followed Simon to the house, and heard reached our home; the fever seized me, this remark. Kver since rtie abdm-tlon and raged for many weeks. Health of hia young "uias'r and misuila," he had came at laat, aud 1 reached my fathers longed t<> get hold of an ludlan, and here hmiss." was a chance. (To bo contla uod.l "Only two ub 'tun. d'ye aay, Maa'r Si mon ?" "That’s all. Tony." When the lUmetrre Crow. "I'll hab ’uin!" And with this the stout The feelings of some honest folk from Afri<* di»ii|i|>enred. ami in a few momenta the country when they visit a large city more he had four stout companion» at have been very accurately describe»! by his heels on his way to the river. n Chicago paper, and as tbls old farmer In the meantime, Simon followed the marquis and hi» i-hll'l into the house, an l ’says, there's very little difference be when they reached the sitting room, they tween city am! country If you only look found St. Danis there. He looked up for the things which they have In com ami saw the marquis; then he suw Simon mon. L o I hi I s , and then hl« eye rested upon "I'm all right In Chicago If I can hear that female form. He started to his feet the roosters crow once In a while," said ami tiirneil pale as death. 'Hint lo»el face waa turned upon him; those soft John, "tint w hen I don't hear them I get eyes, now swimming in tears, ivere bint pretty homesick, and want to hurry upon his own, and her name dwelt upon back to the old farm In Ford County. hia lipa. That's wiiy I always pick out lodgings "My wife, Monsieur St. Benia," inhl as close as I can get to South Water Lolads, In malignant triumph. street. "O, my soul!” burst from the wretch "1 come up here once In a while on ed man's lipa, and covering Ills face with buslucss of my own, and I f»*el at home his hands, he sank back tqion his chair. ................... med upon the point of apeak- Well enough down at the stock yards Ing, but nt that moment the tramp of In the »laytime, where the bogs grunt feet ami the sound of volcaa were heard and the cattle bellow, but I'm lonesome In the hall, and In a moment mote the at night when I can't hear the roosters. door waa thrown unceremoniously open. “I reckon If you was down on my CHAPTER XXII. KLAMATH COUNTY, OliEGON, r EVENTS OF THE DAY GATHERED FROM ALL PARTS OF THE MAY 14, 1903. NEW WAR POLI HAPPENINGS HERE IN OREGON I TWO HEMISPHERES. GREAT BRITAIN PROCLAIMS Ml DOCTRINE OF HER OWN. OOGD WORK OF BUREAU. WILL FIGHT THF. RESERVE. Comprehensive Review of the Import. Coast of the Persian Oulf the Baals ef lt| ant Happenings of the Paat Week. Harriman Lins» are Turning Thoughts Southern Oregon Citizens Readily Sign Encroachment by Any Foreign PowJ of Thousands to Oregon. Protesting Petitions. Presented In Condensed Form, Mot* Will Be Resisted - Protection of Sej G. M. McKinney, who baa charge of A zealous protest is lieing made by Likely tu Prove Interesting to Our Route to India Necessary to Predom) the immigration department of the the citizens of Joeepbine a.r,d Curry Many Readers. Harriman lines, met with the real es counties against the establishment ol Inance of British Interests. tate dea era of Salem to discuss matters Omaha hue ordered all saloons cloaed relating to bis work. Unexplained the plan of his department and talked with 'luring the big strike now on. the real estate men concerning the All warahipa but those of Austria methods of advertising that they most will lie withdrawn from Balonica. rely upon to draw immigrat:on to thi« The more serious forr-et fire« in the state. That Oreg in is now tbe most Adirondack» are now out and the re- widely talked of state in the Union is the declaration he marie, after telling mainder under ccontrol. how tl.e resource» of thia state have Mr«. C. I*. Huntington han purt-han-d been advertised through the immigra the tiew $500,000 «ix-Htory mansion of tion bureau. As an indication of «hat Mr«. J. F. Carroll in New York. has lieen done for tl.e Willamette val A French-Belgian syndicate has lieen ley, he said t at since his department formed in Europe with a capital of $.3,- has been working betwren 4,000 and 000,000 to work the Chilean mine«. 5,000 one-way railway tickets have Three thouaand dollar« of the money lieen med by Eastern peop e, who came which «a« stolen from Express Agent to the valley and did not go away Peterson, of Britt, la., last week, has ag in. He said that the immigration bureau been found Iwneath the company’« of the Harriman lines is tie most per- building. fect enterprise of the kind ever org n- In a street-car runaway at Rochester, ized in the United States, and that it Pa., the conductor was probably fatally retches in tbe most effective manner hurt, the rnotorman hail I y bruised and those pers ns who are the mott desira- six pasai-nger« injured. Wet rail« b e immigrants. Within »even months earned the accident. after he begun work his department The rivers ami harbor« committee of had p aced the literature advertising tbe house of representative« made a this state into the hands of 2,000,000 lour of llie navigable waters a trout New people. The bureau hat placed in the York to nee what improvements are field six lecturers, with stereopticon views showing scenes illustrating tbe m-cdwl in shipping facilities. resiurces and indu tries of Oregon, and The report that General Matos, the the e lecturers are addressing Eastern revolutions., leader, has landed in audiences four evenings a wees. Six Venezuela Irorn Curacao, is confirmed. immigration agents in tbe different An aeeociation for the protection of »ections of the middle We.t are giving Getmans in the enforcement of the law« tbeir whole time to disseminating in of Argentina has lieen formed at Buenos formation regirding thi > rtate, tuper- vising the distribution of literature to Ayres. those wbo are most likely to come to I’hj«icians of Iia D. Kankey, the this state, ami aiding scores of Ea-tern singer evangelist, now acknowledge the reale. tate men wbo are encouraging failure of the operation for the restora Western immigration. tion of his sight. By means of this vigorous policy the Attempts to wreck two trains at people of tbe Eastern states have lieen Stamford, Conn., are charged to interested in Oregon, with tbe result tramps, and the police are now in pur that the e is more talk of this state as a suit of »even men. desirable place for bome-seekers than Robliers wrecked the safe of the Bank theie is of any other state. of Assaria, Kan., and escaped on a BrIJge Over Santlam. band tar. It is not known bow much At a mass meeting of Linn county money they secured. farmers held in school district No. 114 Indiana has ha*I another severe frost recently some resolutions asking the which it is believe»! will practically county court to rebuild Sanderson’s kill the strawlierrv crop, plums and bridge were adopted and sent to tbe other tender early fruits. court. This bridge was carried away Edwin C. Kelley, triasurer and gen by the floods of last January. ft was eral manager of the Enamel Brick com one of the longest bridges supported by pany, of Cleveland, O., is charged with Linn county and spanned the Santiam the embezzlement of $.’5,000 of the funds river, connecting this portion of the of the concern. Kelley deciares he county with that rich section known as the forks of the Santiam. will lie able to prove his innocence. the great forest reserve, embracing nearly half of Curry ami all of Western London, Vay 8.—Foreign Secreta-y and Southern Josephine, a« well.as part Lansdowne has proclaimed a British of Douglas. Josephine would be blocked in, eo to speak, and Curry Monros* doctrine in tbe Persian Gulf, would be plac.d in a position whereby and has practically notified the com i's advancement would be a mat.er ol peting powers that any attempt on tbeir difficulty. Just at this time, when prosperity part to establish a navy base or forti seems to be heading this way, capital fied post in those waters means war is liecoming interested, new people with Great Britain. c ming in, and new ibdustriea lieing “I say without hesitation,” said tbe «stablished, it is a hard blow both to foreign recretarz, dealing with the sub Josephine and Curry, ex the citizens claim who are opposing the mtasure, ject in the house of lords, “that we • o establish a forest reserve of so vast should regard tbe establishment of a dimensions. The argum nt made that naval base or a fortified port in the streams are drying up by reason of the Persian gulf by any other powers as a removal of trees, seem« not well foui d- ed. But few, if any trees, have been very grave menace to British interests, removed in that section, not enough by and we should certainly resist it with any means to affect tbe flow of water in all the means at our disposal.’’ the creeks and streams. Even the Lord I-ansdowne preceded this ex mit.ers, who need the water the most, plicit enunciation of British policy by oppose the establishment of the reserve. Petitions, liegging that the matter of a review of the situation there, as it estab iehing the reserve ba reconsid affected British int°reste, contending ered, or that the tract be not with-1 that so far as the navigation of the drawn, are beinp circa ated in J eeph- | Persian gull was concerned Great Brit ine and Corry coun iee, and are lieing ain held a position different from that of other powe-s, both because it was liber ily signed. owing to British enterprise and ex penditure of life and money that tbe State Labor Federation. The first annual convention of tbe gulf was now open to the commerce of Oregon state federation of lai or met in the world, and because the protection La Grande this week. About 100 dele of the sea route to India ne< esesitated gatee were present. The attendance British predominance in tbe gulf. Lord Lansdowne’s attitude in this was neither as large nor as represent ative as was hoped. By far the larger matter generally meets with approval, j art of thote in tbe convention were although the answers thereto of the from Portland, while Astoria Salem, other powers interested in tbe gulf are Albany, Ashland, Baker City and Pen awaited with some anxiety. The newspapers here comment on dleton have from one to three delegatee each. Those in attendance are very the analogy of the present proceedings, much in earnest in their desi-e to take which Captain Mahan so strongly up in the convention some of tbe knotty recommended, to the United States The Westmin questions confronting organised labor policy of Monroeism. and determine a course of action in re ster Gazette bolds that tbe British mo tive, namely, the protection of the sea gard to them. route to India, corresponIs exactly with the American motive in excluding Little Change la Herd Law. Aitide from the amendment of the European powers from American watera because their territory is thereby threat law regarding the running of stock in ened. Multnomah connty, no change was made by the last legislature in the WILL DELAY CANAL TREATY. herd law. Section 61 of the new road law prohibits the herding of stock upon President of Colombia Will Not Call Extra the highways, thereby obstructing them Session of Congress. with earth, stones, or other debris, but Washington, May 8.—The latest ad his section does not prohibit herding stock on the highways so long as there vices received indicate that President is no obstruction remaining more than Marroquin, of Colombia, has almost 24 hours. decided r.ot to ca'I a special session of Clackamas County Valuation. the Colombian congress to act on the The assessable valuation of al) Clack canal treaty. Rivalry among the arnociationa of Plenty of Oold but Little Sliver. In the election in pro engineers in this country may nullify Clackamas county officers report an amas county is being doubled by gress the opposition continues to gain an offer of Andrew Carnegie to give unusual scarcity of silver. Treasurer Af«essor Nelson, who is at work on the and the prospects for a government Assessor Nelson reports $1,000,000 or more to establish a Cahill sa s gold pieces, in denomina 1903 roll. National center for engineers in New tions of $20, were never liefo e as plen thtf heretofore in this county property majority are so doubtful that President York A high official in one of the tiful as the ■ are at this time, and he has been assessed at not to exceed 35 Marroquin seems indisposed to act. Thi« year bodies says it is doubtful if al. can live finds it troubletome to keep on hand a per cent of its real value, The Colombian congress will, how in peace in one room. sufficient amount of silver with which it is being listed at double the former ever, assemble July 20 in regular ses valuations. The amount of the tax sion. At that session the canal treaty Portland latindrynien have locked out to make change. No reason is assigned under this plan will be about the might be taken up, but in view of the for this condition, save that it indicates their employes. in a suostantial way a greater degree same, since it will be cut down in pro sentiment existing, much doubt is Russia expects war with China and is of prosperity among all classes. portion to the increase in the property felt here as to whether it will be acted valuations. preparing for it. upon. Wool In Tarion County Pool. The outlook, however, does not dis Nearly 500 tenants were evicted in Insane Asylum Report. From information produced at the the New York tenement district May 1. The report of Superintendèht J. F. courage the officials here. The United Marion county woolgrowers’ associa Fifty half-naked I>oukholiors are on tion meeting, it seems probable that Cal breath, of the state insane asylum, States government has gone so far in its negotiations with Colombia that « “search for Jesus,” near Sasakatoon, the quantity of wool controlled by the for April shows the number of patients March 31 as 1,297; remaining on April confidence is felt here that President N. W. T. pool this year will lie nearly double 30, 1,298. Number of officers and em Marroquin will feel himself bound to The Merchants state bank at Free that of last year. The soliciting com- ployes, 160; expenditures for articles carry out the engagements into which man. 8. B., was raide»l by robliers. tnittee has not yet completed its work, consumed, $7,749.41; pay roll. $6 064.- he has entered. The Colombian con They secured about $3,000 and escaped. but thus far 50 members have been 66; Cost of maintenance per capita per stitution contains a provision enlarging secured, and it is ex;>ected that the month, $10.66; per day, 35 cents. the powers of the executive in < age of The sixtieth anniversary of the total amount of woo) represented will disturbed conditions, and if there is the founding of civil government on the be from 75,000 to 100,000 pounds. Eastern Oregon Pioneer. slightest sign of for» ible opposition to Pacific coast waa celebrated at Cham- Julius O. Mack, one of the best the government or of revolutionary up poeg, Oregon, May 2. Survey of the McKenzie. known residents of Eastern Oregon, rising, such as are hinted at in the Professor McAlister, who is at the died at his home at The Bailes Sunday stories from Kingston, Jamaica, and John Firman, 25 years old, living at Paterson, N. J., has two heart« beating heail of the University of Oregon me afternoon, after a short illness, from from Isthmian points, indi ative of a in hie own breast. He is a fine speci chanicai defiartinent, lias completed ar pneumonia. Mr. Mack was about 50 purj>oee to »ever the isthmus from Co men of physical manhood and constant rangements for a hyd ographical suivey years of age. lombian soverignity, the president may of the McKenzie river this summer. ly enjoys good health. arrogate to himself dictatorial power Tbe survey will be made for the pur- and go to the length of ratifying tbe PORTLAND MARKETS. A 1*11 cast by Paul Revere, that had poe ol determining the water |>ower of canal treaty without the consent of been in constant use since its making the river with a view of locating tile Wheat—Walla Walla, 700 71c; val »ongress. It he does so, the United is lieing recast at Troy N. Y. The points «here elect ic plants ansi the ley, 75076c. States government will sustain the Leominster Congregational church, in lixe may be established to the best ad- title thus acquired. the belfry of which it hung, was burned Barley — Feed, $21.50 per ton; brew vantage. ing, $23. a abort time ago. Coal Trust Admits Charges. Water Seeps from Ditch. Flout —Best grades, $3.950 4.25; gra Turkey has proclaimed martial law Chicago, May 8.—In an answer filed The irrigating ditch belonging to ham, $3.450 3 85. in Balonica. in the United States cirucit court to Henry E. Ankeny, of Eugene, ansi Mrs. Millstufh—Bran, $19 per ton; mid day, the Indiana and Illinois coal An earthquake in Chile caused heavy J. T. Henley, of Klamath county, rune dlings, $24; shorts, $19.500 20; chop, operators, who were recently made de property lose. througli tbs* town of Klamath Falls, $18. fendants in a case started by the gov Postmaster General Payne has un and the village authorities have com Oats - No. 1 white, $1.5101.20; ernment, admitted that they had been earthed a scandal in tbe Washington menced suit in tbe circuit court to se gray, $11.2vg0l.l5 per cental. acting for a time under an agreement, cure an injunction against the owners, office. Hay—Timothv, $13013.50; clover, but denied that there was any unlawful alleging that the property is a nt isance lalior troubles are seriously affecting on account of injury from seepage. $10011; cheat, $11012 per ton. combination to fix pri es of their pro business in many of the cities through Potatoes—Best Burbanks, 50c psr duct. They declared that the agree out the United States. New Road to Crater Lake. sack; ordinary, 250-tOc per cental, ment was abandoned before tbe court W. 8. Arant, superintendent °f Six passengers were injured in a col growers’ prices; Merced sweets, $30 proceedings were begun, and that even while it was in force they sold Crater I.ake national park, reports that 3.50 per cental. lision between an electric car aud a he will have the new road leading to coal below the prevailing market price. Laie Shore train in Chicago. Poultry—Chickens, mixed, 11012c; the lake ready for nne by AugnBt 1. It young, 13014c; hens, 12c; turkeys, Tragic Death. Fruit and garden truck in the Arkaan- will be shorter and have fewer bum pa Tonesta, Pa., May 8.—Standing in a MH valley, Colorado, have been serioua- and steep grades than the old one It live, 16017c; dressed, 200 22c; ducks, farm a night or two, you'd be mighty ly <lamage»l by frost. The lose is esti- will enable a journey from Fort Kla $7.0007.50 per dozen; geese, $606.50. mill pond with the water up to his Cheese—Full cream, twins, 16,v»0 neek, where he had gone to escape a glad to hear n street car gong, or a mate») at more than $500,000. math to the lake, 25 miles, in 21« 17c; Y'oung America, 17017lgc; fact forest fire, Walter Boyd, part owner of hours. steamboat whistle, or a wagon clatter Forty i>ereons have been arrested fol ory prices, 101 lic; less. ing over the stones. When a fellow has Hat's shingle mill, near Pigeon, waa Rainier Lumber Shipments. heard a rooster crow about sunup every lowing the robbery of the "eJia, Fargo Butter—Fancy creamery, 22c per burned to death. A tank of oil ex Ninety-five car otids of Inmlier and express company at Bilao, Mexico, of morning for forty years, he doesn’t feel shingles were »hipped from Rainier in pound; extras, 21c; dairy, 200 22 lgc; ploded and ths* burning oil covered the man. When the fire swept in from Just right when he gets where there are $42,000. All but $11.000 was recov the pant month. Thia does not int itule store, 16018c. ered. all points the other members of the no roosters. the cargo of 600,000 feet shipped to 1 Eggs—16017c per dozen. crew fled in terror, Boyd desidtng to "You can talk all you pions* about I Reliels in Turkey are fighting with San Tedro by sailing veaael. Hope—Choice, 18(<t20c per pound. remain until the last moment. The your clean city am! your ‘city beauti bomba, blowing up everything within Well — Valiev 12'4015; Fastern Ore Cattle Coming to Summer Ranges. tank stood on the bank ofthe pond. ful,’ as the newspapers call It, but I’d their reach. Cattle are beginning to come into gon, 8014; mohair, 350 36c. rather smell a clover Held la this town Secretary of the Navy Moody will Plague Increasing In China. beef — Grose, cows, 3l404c per when I’m lonesome than the sweetest visit the »-oast with President Roose Staikev prairie for mturner range. The Washington, May 8.—The state de pound; steers, 4 05c; dressed, 75fc. prair e summers several thousand head, flowers you've got on State strert velt and inspect naval stations. partment to'ay re.eived a cablegram principally from Umatilla and lower Veal—808 Sc. "1 recollect Parson Cross saying once, Regulations in regard to matches in down, in Union county. from Unite I States Consul General Mc- tn a sermon, that a touch of nature Mutton—Grose, 707Xc per pound; Wade, at Canton, saying that bubonic New York now provide that no one dreHeed, 809c. makes the whole world kin. Somehow without a license can sell or give them Eaatern Oregon Ueologlcal Survey. plague is increasing in Canton, Honan, when I hear a rooster crow up here, or a away. Retailers may not sell more Lambs—Grose, 4c per pound ¡Idreeeed, Shuntak, Yokung and T. B. White, of the United State« Yuenaahan sheep blent, or get the smell of a stable, than 1,000 in a box. The splints must geological survey, is in Pendleton and 7Hc. Famine is raging in Kwang 81, and an It makes me feel that Chicago people be strong, anti the heads must not fly will at once liegin work in Eastern Hoge—Grose, 70S7c per pound; American missionary reports that ■ lu't so much different from us on ths Oregon. dressed, 808S- I the body of a victim had been eaten. (Off. farm, after alL" I “Bless heaven!” cried old Tony, bound ing Into the hall at a wild hop and plant Ing himself directly In the middle of the floor. "We'a cotehed 'um, inner— we'i cotche»! 'uni, an' here »ley am!" At thi» White Hand mid Coqunlla came forward. Simon I.oboia waa the firist to re»*ognize, Iwiienth ths* Natchez garb and the walnut »tain, the youth whom lie had hoped to deetroy, an I n ■tHied cry broke from his lipa, while he turned pale and trembled like an aspm. The next to recognize the living truth was Louies, and with out* hound the brother and slater were In each other'a arina. Their stilled exclamations of joy awoke the parent to hia senses, and in a moment mors* he held “hem both upon his boRoni. "My children,” he cried, raising his streaming eyes to heaven. "O, how bleei la tliia moment! Almost It makes «is feel to bow in humble resignation to tlie REPUBLICAN /