NO SCRAMBLE FOR JOBS
RKMVKWF MUS. BROTHERTON land Scar-Face appeared tn the en
trance, rifle in hand. Upon being
Census IHrector Durand Having Hard
Editor Herald;
tailed upon to surrender ho Immedi
Time Getting Eiiiimemtors
In my acount of the rescue of Mrs. ately threw his gun to his should«',*
Brotherton, as published some time and tired point blank at Lieutenant E\|M*rlliieiits Being Made Show
WASHINGTON. D C„ Dec 30
Rich Crop for klaiiuitli
ago, and which was not concluded Boutell«, who, in the meantime, had
Applicants
are not scrambling to ob
Farmen«
our party had returned to Jesse Ap drawn his revolver. Scar-Face’s bul-
tain jobs aa census enumerators and
plegate’s place at Clear Lake. Ou the ,«-t disabled the revolver and, pass
Census Director Durand Is consider
following morning all of the original it:g through the wrinkles of the offi-
Experiments
being
mude
In
grow
ably
perturbed over the shortage of
party, excepting I. D. Applegate. John <^r's blouse sleeve, passed over his
Breconette and Geo. Flock, reinforced -boulder. Other Indians In the tent ing alfalfa seed for the 'liaike nrov* men willing to earn Government
by Mr. Hutchinson and Sivert Nelson. 1 passed guns to Scar-Face and he fired it to be one of the greatest money money. The difficulty Is In the West
Arthur Langell and David Kilgore, them rapidly, in the meanwhile the makers of the age, particularly in a and South, especially In the cities.
section so adapted to the growing of
The Job of census enumerator pays
started on our return via Laugell firing becoming general.
alfalfa
as
is
Klamath
County.
V,
■•■«
so
much per name, depending on the
Valley.
One soldier. Private Harris, was
We had proceeded a number of shot front a lodge but a tew feet few of the farmers of this section locality in which the work is done
miles and were nearing the summit of away. The gun was fired from under- have undertaken to raise seed for the and averages about $60 per enumer
the dividing ridge between Clear I-a’:e ueath the lodge sides, the bullet market, but the favorable reports re ator for the entire time required.
and I-angell's Valley* when, coming striking him just above the point of ceived from other sections would war In cities of over 5.000 Inhabitants
around a spur of the hill, we saw the hip and passing diagonally up rant a fair trial being given, The where population Is congested and
quite a body of horsemen, evidently ; ward through the heart and out In following report from Hagerman. counting is easy, the enumerator Is
Indians, coming from towards 1-an-1 tronl of the collar bone. Sergeant Idaho, will be of Interest to the farm- required to finish Ills work lu two
weeks, but In cities under that size
gell's Valley on the road we were chandler received a ball through the era of Klamath:
"That alfalfa Is one of the staple and In country districts, one month
traveling, an something over a quar- fleshy part of the breast and several
ter of a mile away. There was i i them were wounded. Most of the products of the Hagerman Valley is Is allowed.
Director Durand explains the lack
point of juniper projecting acrosv 'tiring by the Indians was from their ..hown by the amount of seed raised
tbe road nearly midway between us tents whose floors were hollowed out this year. It is conservatively esti of applicants for census jobs on the
and the Indians and we put our below the surface of the ground mated there will be from eight to ten theory that there Is so much general
prosperity that the Government jobs
horses to best speed in the endeavor while the piles of empty shells along car loads shipped from here.
"George
L.
Durfee,
from
thirty-five
are
not wanted. The time for appli
to reach the timber before the In the line where the soldiers stood gave
dians. Soon. however, we observed 1 evidence that they were all the time acres of alfalfa, sold $5,000 worth of cations for these Jobs ends on Jan
the advancing horsemen come to
time exposed lu rank and in the open, seed. Daniel Jones sold 22.000 uary 25 and Durand Invites public
halt and one solitary horseman de- Finally the Indians began leaving pounds of alfalfa seed for 12,750. W spirited and patriotic people to Join
tach himself from the main body and I their lodges, taking to the sage brush, H. Ebbert threshed 20,000 pounds of In the census work.
ride towards us. We soon recognized j some going after their horses which seed which he sold for $2,500. Sev
DEATH OF AMELIA I*OO|.
the advancing horseman as O. C. Ap- were grazing but a short distance eral other large yields are reported.
"An
alfalfa
tleld
does
not
have
to
piegate, and as he came up he in- j below, and the firing gradually ceas-
Amelia M. Pool died at her hon e
iermed us that the Indians who were
Jackson’s men, after conveying be plowed, planted, harrowed, leveled, on Conger avenue In this city at 9
accompanying him were Yainax In their dead and wounded to the river lolled or cultivated in any way what o'clock Sunday morning at the age
dians who were going with him to bank. where Dave Hill with a canoe ever, except at the beginning. It 1s of 63 years and 19 days. Death came
aid the scattered settlers.
took them across, mounted their harvested by a man with a team and as the result of a stroke of paraly
Feeling quite relieved at not hav- horses and riding back up the river a mower. It is stacked just as so sis which occurred early Thursdav
ing to battle with a body of the Mo- to the ford, crossed over and came much hay. The only labor that en morning. The deceased leaves ot.iv
docs, we rode on into Langell's Vai- ¿own to the Crawley cabin and went ters in the consideration Is a tew daughter and two sons to mourn her
days’ stacking and the threshing."
ley where the major portion of our into permanent camp.
loss Miss Alice Pool, teacher In the
party joined the different settlements
The Indians In the meantime, wh ’ »
city
public schools; Z B. Pool of
to which they belonged at their sev gathering up their ponies, pick'd u.) McUOY A COMPAÑA. OF < Hl< AGO, igerna, Cal., and Ray Pool of San
St
UtT
SSFI
I.
BIDDERS
eral rendezvous. The rest of us with •heir belongings and with their fami
Francisco. The two former were
out further incident arrived at Link- lies decamped for the Lava Beds, not.
11 resent during the last Illness of
vllle just after the arrival there of however, without first burning the
«20,000 Six Per Cent School lioiids their mother.
the dead and wounded of the fir-.t Monroe house across the river.
Mrs. Amelia Pool was tin nctiv •
Bring a IVemiuin of
fight were brought there, and the
During the earlier part of the op
church worker up until her lust sick
$1.012
writer saw the dead and conversed erations on the west side, the citi-j
ness, being a member of the Presby
with the wounded, gaining from them zens on the east side had visited the j
terian Church. She was a woman of
as also from several of the citizens Indian camp on that side, and while
Bids for $20,000 School 1)1»- more than ordinary attainments, be-
engaged in the battle, a very fair endeavoring to secure the surrender | trict No. 1 bonds were opened it'g a constant reader and posse teed
version of the battle.
of arms and the consent of the In ' at the office of the clerk of the First of a very active mind. She was also
The official, as well as unofficial, dians to yield to authority, the battle | '•'rust & Savings Bank Monday after a member of the Eastern Star, hold
published accounts of that battle are legan on the west; whereupon the noon. There were fifteen blds re ing her membership at Grant's Pass
widely at variance and. while some Indians imemdiately seized their guns ceived from the principal cities in the where she resided for a number of
praise the valor and skill of Major and started firing on the citizens. Al United States. The award was made years beforo moving to Klamath
Jackson, others, even Colonel Green, most at the first volley John Thurber to McCoy & Company, of Chicago, Falls.
indirectly blame his disposition of his (known as Jack of Clubs) was shot who offered a premium of $1,612 on
men as faulty. Among all accounts through the neck and instantly i six per cent bonds.
Born—To Mr. and Mrs. Sid Evans
there is a total lack of explanation killed, he being deaf and not hearing
The large number of bids received on New Year's morning, a son.
why the settlers living in proximity the warning given him by his com and the high premium offered is an
to the Indian encampment, and in rades to run.
other indication of the financial
which had formerly been Modoc ter
The citizens on that side being out standing of Klamath County among
ritory, were not notified of the at numbered fully two to one, retreated l>ond buyers. Bids werq also receiv- >
tempt to be made to return the Modocs to the Crawley cabin and kept up a
ed for five and five and a half per |
to the reservation, when the known ic-ng range firing until the Indians on cent bonds, but the six per cent bid |
determination and threat of Captain that side of the river mounted their of McCoy was considered the best. |
Jack to arrest any such attempt was ponies and rode away down the val
R. P. Breitenstif n. who offered a pre-1
he was wholly unaware of the pres ley, where later they massacred some
roium of $400 on $5,000 of the bonds ;
ence of settlers below the battle sixteen settlers.
at six per cent, was the only meal
ground in Linkville, before the sol
Such in brief is tbe story of the bidder.
diers arrived there that One-Armed first battle as gathered from partici
Drown and Dennis Crawley had voi- pants. Certainly there never was a I
untered to go ahead of the cavalry greater blunder committed than the
and warn the settlers so that they plan adopted by Jackson, and the
would be on their guard.
A committee of four ladles con
fact that his men were not all killed
It is also true that both Crawley I is due to the excitement of the In sisting of Mesdames Faught, Hum.
and Brown passed down the road be dians, rather than to good manage CogBwell and Hogue, entertained the
fore dark, going towards Tule Lake; ment. Captain Jack himself could! A. N. W. Club at dinner on Nev/
that they stopped at the Monroe cab r.ot have placed the troops in a better dear's eve at the beautiful new home
in a little way above Jack’s camp position to kill them off than did Cap of George R. Hurn on Fourth street.
and on the opposite side of the river, tain Jackson. Had the latter kept Thirty-two members of the club and
and while insisting that Monroe and his men mounted and formed them in their husbands sat down to w'bat was
ote or two other men who were with a semi-circle commanding the Indian | pronounced one of the best dinners
him should accompany them down < camp, and between the Indians and ever given by members of this club.
what was called the Crawley cabin, their horses, they would have been These affairs have become very pop
saying there was going to be some in a position to charge througn and ular ard each succeeding committee
kind of party there, they did not in over their camp had the Indians re- . endeavors to outdo the former, bu.
timate to these parties, nor to those fused to surrender, and by capturing j the entertainment on New Year’s Eve
whom they found in the Crawley their horses crippled their flight and is said to have attained the degree of
cabin, that an attempt was to be mad« insured the capture of the Indians' i I perfection. Prof. W. E. Faught acted
to capture Captain Jack's band by the I ' tamilies.
as toastmaster and the mental treat
soldiers. Had they done so several
Much indignation was felt by the was pronounced second only to that
there would have volunteered to ride settlers towards Brown and Crawley with which the tables were loaded.
down the country to notify the set , for their failure to notify the settlers,
MASQl ERADE BIG Sl'C< ESS
tlers.
i and it was even talked that hanging
Not until just about daylight when was none too good for them. Subsee- - Mr. Houston reports the most suc
O. C. Applegate, H. Duncan, Judson quently, Crawley visited the Boddy i cessful masquerade ball ever given
Small, A. J. Burdett, Dave Hill and bouse and reported everything un- during the past fourteen years. He
four or five other armed citizens ar | disturbed, and that the people had states that this was contrary to ex
rived at the Crawley cabin did a doubtless been warned and fled. Mrs. i pectations in view of the Elks’ ball
realization of the impending attempt Boddy always insisted on the belief1 and other attractions during the
become known. About five miles that a large sum of money hidden be week. The attendance of spectators
above Captain Jack’s camp on Lost tween mattresses on her bed di tap- 1 was the greatest of any year and It
River is a field, now known as the beared about that time, and that she j was from this source that the In
Stukel field; when Jackson's com believed Crawley knew about it. But; creased revenue was received.
mand reached this place the citizens J leave this story as one of the undis ' Three $10 prizes were awarded a*-
who bad joined his forces at Link coverable circumstances, many of • follows: Best sustained, washer
ville, returned across the river to which occurred during those troubu- woman; most original, Candy Kltci-
tn; most comical, the Whole Dam
take care of the Indian encampment , lous times.
Family. The judges were A. D. Mil
on the east side and about a quarter
O. A. STEARNS.
ler, A. L. Leavitt and Mrs. C. M.
cf a mile below the Crawley cabin.
Ramsby.
Jackson's command followed down
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
the west side of Lost River until
Fred T. Higgins et ux to Meadow ;
FIRE AT LIVERMORE
about two hundred yards distant 'rom
Captain Jack's camp, When dis Lake Lumber Co., NE% Sec. 19, Twp.
What might have been a very dfs-
mounting his troopers and leaving 38 S, Range 10 E, W. M.; SE’4 SE’4 astrous fire at the Livermore Hotel
every one out of every four to hold Sec. 24, Twp. 38. 8, Range 9 E, W. about midnight on Saturday was pre
the horses of the four he marched
vented by the prompt response of the
his men right into the center of the M.; WH SW% SE% 8W«4 Sec. 11, I fire department. The fire started In
encampment, formed them in double Twp. 38 8. Range 9 E, W. M.; lot 4, a chimney where a flue hole, not in
column just at daybreak, not, how Sec. 18, Twp. 38 S, Range 10 E. use, had been papered over. Sparks
ever, without having been observed W, M.; $1.00.
from the chimney above had dropped
by at least one Indian, Scar-Face
John H. Matney et ux to F. T. Hig and set the paper on Are which spread
Charley, who entered one of the
to the room. It was extinguished
lodges from the direction of the river gins, W’4 8W «4 and NE’4 SWtf shortly after the discovery and the
just before the soldiers reached the Sec. 11, Twp. 38 8. Range 9 E, W. M , damage was slight.
camp. Lieutenant Boutelle was or 1209; $10.00.
dered to take a file of his men and
.1 E. Pelton and wife came down
Successor Io
proceed to the tent 8car-Face was
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schallock en Thursday from Fort Klamath and left
seen to enter, and demand the sur tertained about twenty guests at din next morning for Roseburg, where
Boston Store
render of the arms of the inmates. ner on New Year's. It was pronounc- they will spend the remainder of the
Aa the lieutenant halted his men near fd a grand affair by all who were winter. They were driven to this city
the tent the flap was pulled asid<* fortunate enough to be present.
by Dave Vose, of the Fort.
NEW i sr notes of st n:xt e
GRKAT SIM>1(1 AT MERRILL
There were 1,250 men killed and
MERRILL, Jun. 3. There was a
2,189 Injured In the coal mines of largo attendance at Houston's Opera
Pennsylvania last year, ns compared House Saturday night to wlti>*«Hs one
with 1,514 killed and 2,576 Injured lot Hie best boxing exhibitions that
the previous year.
«ver took place in Klamath Count).
A Swiss chemist has succeeded III
There were two preliminaries of
transforming crude oil Into a liquid three rouuda, between Walter Qului
gas, easily transportable and easily bly, terror of Klamath Lake, und
< vaporable for lighting, heating and Sully Dcney, cyclone of Morrill, and
mechanical uses.
.lames Wiirlln, hurricane of Stukel
Aa the chemical manufacture of lllilge, and Tom llliikc, chaiiipluu
dyes has made the Indigo business alfalfa pitcher of the Offiold ranch.
unprofitable, the plant now In ruined
Tile multi event of ten rounds be
in only twelve dlntrlctn of Burma tween Frank Williams und Clyde
and there chiefly for native use.
Ward was one of the boat bouts ever
The United Staten leads the world witnessed In Southern Oregon Both
in the manufacture of nHboston pro men are game to the core and It wav
ducts, but so little In produced here anybody's tight up to the lust round
that practically all the taw material They went lit It hammer and tongs
Is imported from Canada
and all the Morrill sports wore loud
A Minnesota man lias patented a In tholr praise that It was by far the
brush In which the bristles ar» lest and cleanest boxing ever wit
mounted on a wire form In such nessed In thia vicinity.
shape that the Inside of the shoul
Mr. Wolff was referee und thor
ders of milk cans are cleaned easily oughly understood the game l.oult
The dry dock to be built nt Pearl I Gerber was announcer. Fil'd Stukel.
Harbor, Hawaii, for which the Navy timekeeper, and Guy Merrill and W
Department recently awarded the <<*. c Dalton acted as seconds. There
tract to ,i San Francisco firm, »■ »III bo a return match on February
be the largest In the world
2 2. The Merrill Athletic Club will
The first coal mined In Maanaciiu- have three preliminaries before the
setts In many years wan the fifty multi event, und will endeavor to *••.
tons of lignite taken out of Martha's a couple of the famous Pitt Rivet
Vineyard last year and used Imallv Indians for one of the preliminary
In the manulaeture of day products events,
A Mnssacl lim its farmer claims to
FOR SALE A complete threshing
have produced a hybrid vegetable
that Is a cross between the orange outfit, consisting of one 20 h.-p. Alt
and cucumber, rich yellow In color man-Taylor engine <>qulppcd for
burning oil; one 36-64 Aultman-Tay-
and possessing a pleasing taste.
In England a general migration of lor separator with Parson feeder, sep
lats Inland from the coast occurs arator is rebuilt about same us Buf
every October, coincident with th< falo Pitts with Jones attachment; has
closing of the herring season, which been run one season. Hard oil cups
provides them with food while It all over.
Ono Daniel Best cleaner that clean«
lasts.
A novelty in the trunk line Is the the grain beforo It enters the sack.
One Derrick table, derrick and
recent Invention of a New Yorker,
containing drawers so pivoted that wagon In good shape.
One side elevator, new Inst year,
they can be opened right side up
also
new draper last year.
whether the trunk Is on one side o~
Two water wagons, oil drums, ro
one und.
tary pump, two low-down water
The German Imperial Health Offi<-<
pumps.
is experimenting with an antiseptic
For particulars write
lalnt known as vltralln, which, up
W. II. JONES.
plied to walls for furniture, in said to
2t
Nelson, Butte County, Cal.
possess th« power of destroying ger n
>lf<-
A canal "across Scotland larg»
There arc 132 American education enough to accommodate the large it
al and charitable Institutions In the warships. Is being advocated ns <«
Turkish Empire, and the use of the military necessity, although It would
language Is rapidly extending Into the cost in the neighborhood of $90,000,-
interior, especially lu Asia Minor.
000.
A Great Success
Klamath Falls’ Greatest Sale opened
up big.
Hundreds of people saved
money on many items that we are
selling about cost.
Just think of
buying $5 shoes at $3.95; $3.50
shoes for $2.65; children’s $1.75
shoes for $1.25; women’s $4 dress
shoes for $2.95. Men’s fleece-lined
$1.25 underwear for 50c.; regular
50c. underwear for 30c.
Men’s
overcoats and suits at big reductions.
Women’s suits, coats and skirts at
about wholesale cost.
half price.
Underskirts,
In fact, if you have any
thing to buy in our line it will pay
you to see our reduced prices
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Boston Store
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