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NOTICE TO TRESPASSERS.

Notice is hereby given, that parties trcspass-
ing on our lands by cutting wood or taking
bark therefrom, will be prosecuted to the full
extent of the law. SoHNs ~ SCHUELE,
:. W. BRowN,
c. II. WHITNEY.
November odd lS11-3In
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GREEN PEAs-Green peas in the pod,
picked in a Vancouver garden OH the Sth of
December, 1877. This is IN actual fact--the
proof of which may be found in handful of
the peas at this Office
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Draying.

The undersigned does draying rs cheap MS
The cheapest Orders left with him will rec Give
prompt attention. Small packages taken 10
the boats free of charge FOR regular customers.
ALBERT BATEMAN.
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WEST SHoRE.-Tae November number Of
the West Shore comes to hand with hue IL
lustrations and graphic sac, ches. 1t has die
largest circulation al any rubhcat'oa III Orc
gon or Wa,hnsto ton Territory. 9cnd 81 90 t.
L. Samuel, Portland Oregon AMI get it lor
year.
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SPECIAL NOTICE.

We are selling Stoves Of the best manufac
turers at the very lowest living rates. Our
Tinvare and everything that We manufacture
is warranted to be \ |. We use the best ma
tcrial and do the most thorough work. Read
our advertisement in another column and give
us a call DANIELS BROS.
MO i6.u
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JOHN JACK is the boy to wake 'em up. He
said he came to Vancouver to stir up the peo-
pie. And he has kept his word. He ranks
any actor this town has had for many years.
He is indeed 'the popular manager" and
makes friends wherever he goes.
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Post Items.

The Indian prisoners don't like
confinement.
Ground has been broken for the
new guard house, reading room ard
chapel. Hurry up the last nail.
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LOUIS VAN VLEET, ESQ.,, formerly resi-
dent of this place, visited town last Satur-
day. He has been surveying government
land up east of the mountains. His family
now resides in Portland
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~ The National Gold Medal was awarded
TO Bradley 4 Rulofson for the best Photographs
in the United States, and the Vienna Medal for
the best in the world
40 Montgomery Street. san Francisco.
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SUNDAY was the stormiest day we have had
this winter-the rain descend ed in torrents
for about twenty-four hours. The tempera-
ture of the atmosphere has been exceedingly
mild of late
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WANTED.

A good school teacher in School District No
l6, on Fourth Plain, for II six months school
TO commence on january lst, lc1S. apply TO
the Directors of said District.
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PERsoNAL.-Mr. CORDIALLY, agent for A. L.
Bancroft and Co., of San Francisco paid
Vancouver visit last Friday He is very
affable gentleman and popular with the peo-
pie.
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MONEY SAVED.

Send one three cent stamp to Clara Duniway
Stcarns, Purchasing Agent p. O. Box $50,
Portland, Oregon, for Catalogue and Price
List Of 1000 elegant and useful articles which
can be bought in Portland, cheaper than any
where else on the Pacific coast. If
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PARLoR MAsQUERADE.-The Terpsichorean
Club intends giving select parlor masquer-
ade on New Years Eve. A pleasant time
may be expected.
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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF
THE COLUMBIA,
PORTLAND, OREGON, November S, 1877.
Special Orders,

No. 100.
WHEREAS. it is officially reported that
many officers, whose temporary functions In
connection with the late expedition against
hostile Nez-Perce Indians terminate with the
expedition itself, are IN receipt ot vouchers,
certificates, and other papers, formal and IN
formal, relating to expenditures incurred du-
ring the Indian campaign; 10 the end that
there may be recognized centre for the re-
ception, care and preservation of all such
floating and struggling papers: 1t is ordered
that book of claims be opened aud kept IN
the offices of the Chief Quartermaster and
Chief Commissary of Subsistence at these
Headquarters. in which all vouchers certifi-
Gates, &c, pertaining to these respective staff
Departments, shall he entered with a synop-
teal history of each case SO far as known or
as information concerning II can be obtained,
and the papers themselves be systematically
arranged and disposed of distinct from the
ordinary files of these offices.
1t is requested that all persons having pa
pers OF the character described, IN their pos
session, forward them To- the offices above in
dicated for the purpose OF their proper dis
posal and more speedy adjustment.
BY Command OF
BRIcApIER- G. ENERAL HOWARD:
III. CLAY WOOD,
Assistant Adjutant General.
OFFICIAL:
NJ C. WILKINSON. AIDE de- Camp
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TOYS! TOYS!! TOYS!!!

Dillon & Co. have just received large as
sortment of Christmas Toys for the children.
Give him a call, for Christmas is fast APP
proaching.
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O1n tcres Of the best timber land on the
AlO Columbia river, Is miles east of Van
couver. Good fir and oak timber, being The
west half of the Parker donation claim.
Price 81 600 Tcrms-haf cash, balance on
long time, with interest.
10 Acres of timber land miles east of
l. 10 Vancouver, on the Mill Plain road.
Being the n. w a of S. w. i and Lot Of
Section %, and n. f. \ of 5. a and Lot of
Section 80, I. = n, Il, . f.
Price $1,000; same terms as above.
~ Acres of land on 'hc Little Washougal,
~ three miles north of Parkersvillc on Che
Columbia river, in Clarke County. This has
one of the best mill sites in the county.
Price 500 cash.
For further information concerning the above
tracts, apply to W. BYRON DANIELS
Vancouver, Wash. Ty.
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Select School
FOR
GIRLS.

Miss A. LOOMS. Principal, and Teacher
English, Latin and French.
Mrs. II. Z. Nicholson. Teacher of Mu-
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The Independent.
LOCAL.

Read the new advertisements.
We publish this week the proceedings of
the Commissioners Court at the special term
held last week
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Desert Land Notice.
LAND OFFICE.

LAND OFFICE,
VANCOUVER, W T., Oct %, 1877.
Notice IL hereby given that all entries under
the provision Of the Act of Congress OF March
3, 1871, for the sale OF desert lands IN certain
States and Territories, by order Of the Commits
sioner Of the General Land Office are hereby
suspended. W II. sMALLWooD,
Register.
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Third Day.

The following claims examined and allowed,
to-wit
Fred W. Bier, County Treasurer. Sl2 40
y. Dupuis, Dr., wood for court house,. -
}. o. Smith. keeping Chas. Gilbert. - %
VIM. Ginder digging grave for a. {. Bar
low ....... 8 90
J. o. Smith, cleaning court house 90
In the matter of the Territory Of Washington
VS.. john Il. Pluss, the following bill # costs
was examined and allowed, to-wt:
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Rates Of Tuition:

Per session of ten wceks.)
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Second Day.

Bill of costs in District Court, November
Term, loil, examined and allowed Us follows,
iO-wt:
Il. T. Mcconnell, Dep. Clerk So 30
d. ii. Fletcher Sheriff ..... ..... 81 80
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Horace Daniels.
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-08-10

The necessity of mounting all captains
of infantry companies, If these o1ilcers
are to perform their duties efficiently, IS
being again dwelt upon by the French
military press. In the French army, as
in nearly all other continental forces, a
company on a war footing numbers 25O
men and, it is urged, that it is simply
impossible for its captain, however active
he may be, to properly superintend Its
working if he has to move about on foot
Extended in skirmishing order, torma-
ton which has now become its normal
fighting order, or employed as an advance
or rear guard, a company OF 200 men
| covers a long stretch of ground, and can,
it is argued, only be adequately control
led by a mounted officer. After a march
again, the captain of a company ought 10
look after the comfort of his men, visit
them in their bivouacs, satisfy himself
that they have received their proper "a
tioDs, and see that all camp duties are
properly performed. But if he Is ia
tigued by long march on foot, he Will be
but too likely to perform this work IN a
~perfunctory manner and, consequently,
his company will suffer. Moreover, now
that a short service system prevails IN
nearly every European army, the captain
of a company will generally be the oldest
man in it, and therefore not so well a6le
to endure fatigue Is the young men under
his command. For all these reasons 1t Is
generally recognized as necessary that
the captain should be a mounted offlcer.
In the German army, he is provided with
r, hor,a and in time of war even two, In
Austria and Italy the mounting OF all
captains has only been temporarily post
poned from considerations of expense, and
in France, a captain, when on the line of
march, or during maneuver in the field,
may tide, if he chooses to provide himself
with a horse at his own cost but unfor-
tunately the small pay received by them
does not allow many of the French ON
GERS to avail themselves of this permits
sion.--PaH Mall Gazette.
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-08-10

In the article the late ex-senator
Pratt was debating at the time OF his
death, this incident OF his W life is
related: at was late in the fall of 1885
that, having collected for the different
mercantile firms in Cincinnati, about
$1,000, | was sent on horseback by the
Lawrenceburg road to deliver to the
several parties interested the money so
collected. As | was passing the branch
bank, then recently established, on the
morning of my departure, the cashier
hailed me and brought out some bundles
of bank bills folded up and slowed them
away in my saddle-bags, and handed me
letters to the banks to whom the packages
were to be delivered. He stunned me
by saying they amounted to $4,000;
There was a moment, a supreme and
critical one, when the voice OF the
tempser penetrated my ear. 1t was
when | reached the crown OF those
imperial hills that Overlooks the Ohio
river when approaching Lawrenceburg
from the interior. This noble stream
was the great artery of commerce at that
day, before a railroad west of Massachu-
sets had been built. What a gay spec
tacle it presented flashing in the bright
sunlight, covered with f1atboats, with
RATS, with gay steamers ascending and
descending, and transporting their pas.
sengers in brief time to the Gulf of
Mexico, the gateway to all parts OF the
world. | had but to sell my horse and
90 aboard one of these with my treasure,
and | was absolutely beyond the reach of
pursuit. There were no t~elegraphs then,
flashing intelligence by an agency more
subtle than steam, and far outrunnlng
it no e~xtradition treaties requiring for
eign governments to return the felon
The world was before me, and at the age
of twenty-one, with feeble ties connect
ing me with those left behind. was In
possession of a fortune for those early
DAYS. | recall the fact that this thought
was a tenant of my mind for a moment,
and for a moment only. Bless God, 1t
found no hospitable Judgment n ylonger.
And what think you, gentle reader, were
the associate thoughts that came 10 my
rescue? Away, over rivers andmountalns,
a thousand miles distant, in an humble
farmhouse, on a bench, an aged mother
reading to her boy from the oracles OF
God."-T Toledo Commercial.
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Useful Family Hints.

REMEDY FOL CHILLS AND
Three cents worth of sulphur pint OF
best whiskey shake well, and take a teas
spoonful night and morning for a week
then once a day. Care must be taken not
to take cold after using the sulphur.
FooD FoR MoCKINGBIRDs.-One me-
dium-sized boiled potato without salt
and the yolk of one hard boiled egg, chop
ped together very fine when warm. In
cold weather this may last two days, but
in summer it should be made fresh daily,
CUREFoRC Couch AND SPLITTING BLOOD.
Take three ounces of comfrey roots
and six handfuls of plantain leaves, cut
them finely, crush and beat well together
strain them through q clean cloth or sieve
weigh it add the same weight in white
crushed sugar boil to syrup.
To WASH WINDOWS. - Have a pail
partly filled with tepid water, throw IN a
~teaspoonfrlof powdered bo;ax, have one
small chamois dipped into the borax water,
to wash the windows, then with a dry
channels rub the window dry and polish.
In this way windows may be cleaned in
a verv few moments, and not wet the
carpets or tire of the person.
To KEEP EGGs.--Make a solution of
blrax water, a heaping teaspoonful Of
pulverized borax TO a pint of boiling water;
let it stand until the solution becomes
warm but not allow it to get so cool that
the borax will "~-stalize; dip the eggs
quickly then; Ieepin a cool place; the bo-
tax will crystalize around the egg, there
fore keep out the air and preserve the egg
To CLEAN CoRsETs.-.Take out the
steels at front and sides, then scrub thor
oughly with tepid or cold lather of white
CASTLE soap, using a very small scrubbing
brush do not lay them in water. Wher
quite clean, let cold water run on then
freely from the spigot to rinse out thu
soap thoroughly. Dry, without ironing
latter pulling lengthwise until they are
straight and shapely), in a cool place.
To CLEAN SMvEB..-Table silver should
be cleaned at least once or twice a week
and can easily be kept in good order anc
polished brightly in this way: Hav'
your dish-pan half full of boiling water
place the silver in, so that it may become
warm then with a soft cloth dipped into
the hot water, soaped and sprinkled will
powdered borax, scour the silver well; the
rinse in clean hot water dry with a clean
dry cloth.
OIL STAINS OUT OF WHITE CLOTH
Make a strong solution of borax water
one tablespoonful powdered borax to
pint of boiling water place the cloth on
clean board or table and rub the oil stain
well, using a clean brush dipped into tn
solution if the spots are of long standin
a very little soap may be used with tn
borax water; rinse well with clean he
water, using the brush for that purpost
then rub dry with a clean soft cloth.
FLOOR MATs.--.Very nice, fine ma
may be made by stretching common cofit
sacking on a frame just the size of ms
required Ia good frame may be made
lath or split brocmhandlts nailed togetl
er at the cornen); into this draw, wit
coarse, crochet needle, strips of any mat
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-08-10
Writing for the Press.

Waste no time on i~ntroductions.
Don't begin by laying out your subject
like a Dutch flower garden, or telling
YOUR motives for writing. The keynote,
If possible, should be struck in the very
first sentence. A dull beginning often
damns an article a spicy one whets the
annette and commeuds what follows to
both editor and reader. Above all, stop
Vben Won are done. Don't let the ghost
of YOUR thought wander about after the
death OF the body. Don't waste a mo-
ment's time in vindicating your produc-
ton. against editors or critics, but ex-
pend your energies in writing something
which shall be its own v~indlcation.
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-08-10
Hearing Sounds in the Sun.

1t is not precisely correct to say that
the sounds made in the sun yesterday by
the terrible storms that rage around the
"spots" were heard in this city,, but
something like it is true. The telephone
is a little box of magnetized iron with
some insulated wire coiled around it and
a disc of thin sheet iron firmly placed a
thirty-second of an inch from one end.
The sounds heard can hardly be said to
be impaired by vibration, for they may
be conveyed through a clumsy disc two
inches in diameter and a quarter of an
inch thick, which can hardly be said to
yibrate with such delicacy as to enable
one to distinguish the different tones OF
different persons. Yet those tones can
be heard. Now the telephone is affected
by the magnetic disturbances or storms
which are frequently taking place on the
earth. And, a short time ago, a great
magnetic storm, which made itself known
also through a brilliant aurora borealls,
completely silenced the telephone for a
time, as it sometimes does the ordinary
| telegraph. Such storms accompany dis
turbances in the spots of the sun.
Prof. Bell one day laid aside the tele-
phone at his end of the line, and filling
his ear with water laid the end of the
copper wire thereon. He heard the
words uttered into the telephone at the
other end of the line!
When the telephone wire is put up
entirely independent of the ordinary
electric Geographic wires it works best,
Int even then there are delicate sounds
like light sparkling, %crackling-Or frying
for that best describes it. Now these
sounds are strongest when the suns at
mosphere is most disturbed and the ter,
r~estial magnetic urrentsare consequently
most agitated. What is it that is heard
Hartford Cournnt.
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,rrrn THE COUNCIL.

, editor Of tho Buffalo Courier, ha
paNId I"'}}fne Inst Indian ! ouncil on -
4 article on sc,ibner, for July, closing with th
re.ee,' IN 0'i''
POEM
a o.o Jrks low, the drifting smoke
Ivy ssouIy In the autumn lhHe,
Dles soat' sre the tongues that spoke
AM Tso s1pech OF other days
lho ", the dusky hosts whose ieet
Rni now yon listening thichet s''rIeui
p"a or %d Within It's covert meet
'T TSs s%Glirrel and the bird
r,o story Of the past Is tod, lana,
ING s'W9 q Valley, sweet and lionel
but INA Rainbow thou shalt hold
"i fs psmance as thine own.
HnIILis nj thine ancient forest prime
Ih9us" ,uowetimes haunt thy summer dreams,
nI sbaps 10 low poetic rhyme,
"ThS music OF thy streams
,od,,n summer filings her cloak
WIFI hr,njinr azure on the woods,
rLn ua,b0s Of q vanished i0lk
ssbalI tinge thy s%olitudes'
rsa hiIns smoke OF their fires once more
u Tar o,er the hills shall seem to rise,
And sunsets golden clouds restore
The red mass PARADISE
y,,o,ce sounds OF a forgotten tongue
'ssI%a11I cling to many a crag and cave,
IN wash Of falling waters sung,
Or uufmur of the wave
And Oft in midmost hush 81 nign,, oo,,, roar.
sail . rine the war-cry from the height
That woke the wilds of yore.
Sweet Vale, more peaceful bend thy skies,
Che airs are fraught with raTer balmi
A pc0ple's busy tumult lies
flushed in thy sylvan calm.
sweet thy peace while fancy frames
S"n idrls Of thy dwellers fed
They loved thee, called thee gentle names,
Inthe long summers dead
Duenrhed is the fire the drifting smoke
las vanished in the autumn haze
Gone. too, 0 Vale. the simple folk
Who loved thee in old days,
prt Tor their sakes-their lives serene
Their loves, perchance as sweet as OURS
a he thv woods for aye more green.
And iairer bloom thy towersl
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-08-10
The Instinct OF N Osg uitOes.

The mosquitoes, it has been discovered
by a learned professor, are possessed of
great powers of observation and penetra-
ton. Down at the seaside We have
noticed this fact ourselves. When a big
trunk was landed from an express wagon
into the entry of a hotel, the nimble in
sects usually made for it and crawled
through the kevhole for the purpose OF
taking notes. If the clothes within be-
tokened that fat person was the owner,
the mosquitoes would stay within and be
carried up to the room, where they would
lay for the fat person until bed time. 1t
the garments belonged to a thin person
the insects would pile out through the
keyhole in double-quick order. This is
an actual act.--PhAadelphja Bulletin.