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The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-02-03
TN THE PROBATE COURT OF CLARKE
l. County, Washington Territory, January

IN THE PROBATE COURT OF CLARKE
l. County, Washington Territory, January
Term, 1881.
In the matter of the estate and Guardian.
ship of Mary NJ. Palmer, Ada I. Palmer, and
Richard F. Palmer, minor heirs of Rebecca A,
Palmer, deceased.
1t appearing to this Court from the petit.
ton this day presented and filed by Samuel
w. Brown, the guardian Of the persons and
estate Of Mary NJ. Palmer Ada /. Palmer, and
Richard +. Palmer, minors, praying for an or.
der OF sale of the real estate of his wards, that
it would be beneficial to the said wards that
such real estate be sold;
1t is ordered, that the next of kin of said
minors, and all persons interested in the said
estate, appear before this Court at the court
room thereof, in Vancouver, in the County of
Clarke, on Friday, the Third day of March, A.
ID. 1881, at ten o'clock A. NJ, then and there
to show cause why an order should not be
granted for the. sale of said real estate;
And it is further ordered, that a copy of
this order be published four weeks success
sively before such hearing on said petition,
in the Vancouver Independent" a weekly
newspaper printed in said County of Clarke
WILLIAM RANCK,
Judge.
Washington Territory, "a
County of Clarke. o.
/, William Ranck,
Judge of the Probate of Clarke County, Wash.
ington Territory, do hereby certify that the
foregoing is a copy of the original order to
show cause, as now fully appears on the rec
ords of the said Court, and all thereof
-, Witness my hand, and the Seal
SEAL of the said Probate Court af-
' fixed, this Goth day of Janu-
airy, A. ID. 1881.
WILLIAM RANCK,
Judge of Probate.
G. H. STEWARD, Attorney for Guardians.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-02-03

The New Tacoma Ledger says the
Engineer DEPARTMENT. of the N. P. rail-
road is taking in supply Of snow
shoes for use in the mountains. An
installment came from Victoria, and
D. w. Perkins, of Tacoma, has re-
ceived an order to manufacture others;
all of which shows determination to
push the work, Notwithstanding the
snow.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-02-03

Will you'heed the warning The signal per.
BILE disease Consumption. Ask yourselves if
you can afford for the sake of saving fifty cts,
to run the risk and do nothing for it. We
know from experience that Shiloh's Cure will
cure your Cough. 1t never fails. This ex.
plains why more than million bottles were
sold the past year. 1t relieves Group and
Whooping Cough at once. Mothers do not
be without it. For lame Back, Side or Chest,
use Shiloh's Porus Plaster Sold by DR.. Wall.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-02-03

1t is expected that the N. Pacific
railroad will be running from Glen
dive. where it strikes the Yellowstone
Ito which point the track is nearly
laid), up the Yellowstone to Miles
City next July, distance of.769 miles.
Passengers will be carried to the yell
lowstone Park in July of the coming
year.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-02-03

Kwong Tai, the well known Port
land Chinese merchant, states that
the Northern Pacific and the o. r. &
N. Co. will need during the coming
summer 1900 Chinese laborers. Many
will be brought from San Francisco.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-02-03

AN INTERESTING MAGAzINE.-Andn now
comes the Californian for February, with a
table of contents both varied and entertain
ing. The articles range over wide field Of
humor, travels, essays, stories, political and
social science, poems, editorials, art and
music. ''The Irish Question Practically
Considered" by R. E. Desmond, opens the
number. Mr.. Edward kirkpatrick gives an
account of Andorra, the Oldest republic in
the world. Emily S. Loud tells of day ON
Guano Island. DR.. J. P. Widney enters
plea for division of the State of Califor-
MIA. Professor Martin Kellogg has a pleas
ant article on "People Would Like to En-.
dow" Prof. E. R. Sill investigates the free
high school question. In the purely liter
AIRY line there are two studies, one by A. A.
Wheeler, ON Swinburne, and one by w. S.
Kennedy, on Walt Whitman. In the way
of stories, Mr.. Morrow's "Strange Confess
sion" is continued; Isabel H. Raymond con-
tributes "a Pescadero Pebbles" and Mary
X. Higham gives the experiences of "Six
Weeks at Ilkley." For poems there are
"Moths Round Lamp" by Edgar Faw-
cett; Californian Cradle Song" by Chas.
II. Phelps; and "Alvarado of Madrid" by
Yda Adds. There are also some very bright
and entertaining things in 'Outcroppings."
1t is announced that in the next number
new serial story of early days upon the Pa
cifc Coast, entitled "49 and So" and writ.
ten by the well known author, Mr.. John
Vance Cheney, will be begun. Those who
subscribe now will be in time to commence
with this story
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-02-03

Last week fire occurred at the Cas-
cade Locks, destroying the hotel,
store, and butcher shop of Borthwick
& Co., and Rindle's lodging house.
The origin of the fire and the amount
Of loss sustained are not known yet.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-02-03
NEWS ITEMS.

The weather throughout New England is
intensely cold and snow blockade delays
trains.
A $4,000 mortgage on the Wabash st.
Louis and Pacific Railway was recorded at
Chicago.
In the Carriboo District, B. c., they have
is decidedly frigid.
The state police have discovered a new Sc
cret organization Of socialism, extending over
the whole of Germany.
The debt statement shows the decrease in
the public debt during Jan. to be IS, 3S2,-
1871; cash in treasury, S22l, 674, 525.OS.
In the year 1880 not a single passenger on
steam vessel navigating the Pacific coast or
inland waters of the coast lost his life by
and accident.
The trial of the traversers at Dublin has re-
suited in disagreement of the jury, and the
immediate discharge of its members. This
is one more triumph for the Parnell men.
Major Ilges writes that Indians are COM
ing in gradually and that Sitting Bull has
ceased to be formidable and probably will be
made to surreder uncpnditionally before
long.
A railroad has Just been built in Japan
under American management, at cost per
mile of $40, 900, one tenth of the cost of a
similar line built there several years ago by
British contractors.
The pope does not approve of the manner
of conducting the agitation in Ireland, and
has ordered the priesthood to make a stand
against the communistic doctrines which
have been disseminated.
The Nanaimo and Wellington mines, of
Vancouver Island, shipped in 1880 262, sos
tons of coal Of this great quantity As, 9l3
tons were consumed in the Province, and
the remainder, PIG, 6S5 tons, were sent for
eign.
According to the San Francisco Alta, Gar.
fields popular vote numbered 4, ABS, $40, and
Hancock's 4,437,9O2. Garfield's plurality
therefore was only 76S. His electoral
vote, though, numbered pa to SO for
Hancock.
The American bark alden Besse, owned
by Capt. j. c. Ainsworth, has been char
tered for her return "trip from China by
Kwong Tai & Co. She will sail from Hong
kong about March lst with cargo of gen
eral merchandise for the firm and 1927 China
men, to arrive in June.
The storms of the past month in England
were the most severe of the present season.
Traffic and trade in the vicinity of London
have been greatly interfered with and gen.
eral business much affected. The damage by
the overflow of the Thames alone amou nted
to more than $40, 100000.
A communication was presented to the
senate on the 10Th, from the Secretary of
the Interior, recommending an appropria-
ton of 5000 to become Immediately availa-
BILE for the survey and subdivision Of Indian
reservations, with view to the allotment
of lands in severalty to Indians.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-02-03
VANCOUVER INDEPENDENT.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1881.

Philetus Sawyer, formerly a repre-
sentative in congress, has been elected
U. s. Senator from Wisconsin. In
Tennessee on the 30th ballot, Howell
E. Jackson, state credit democrat, was
elected to the senate.
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NOTICE.

Our Descriptive ILLUSTRATED Prize.
List. No. go. of Dry Goods. etc.. vii. ne
issued about March LIST. 1881. Pee
quoted In No. 9S will remain good ua,.!
that date. Send us your name car y tor
copy Of No. 80. Free to any address.
MONTGOMERY WARD 4 CO..
327 l. 219 wabash Ave.. Chicago. Ill.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-02-03

In some newspaper gossip about the
army, the Cleveland Herald says
things that may interest many of our
readers, and we append the remarks:
"The removal af Gen. Schofield from
command at West Point as q conse-
quence of his conduct and the tone of
his report in the Whitaker case was
unsatisfactory to the same class of
Army officers that sympathized with
him in the Porter matter, and the ap-
pointment of Gen. Howard to the pos
itiOn has produced something like
CONSERVATION. His appointment was
strongly opposed by Army influences,
and was made by the President on his
own responsibility. 1t is alleged that
| before the decision was made Gen.
Towards views were ascertained and
he was found ready to undertake the
task of reforming affairs at West Point.
The contemplated reform will be, if
successful, in the nature of revOlu-
ton. At present the spirit of the in
stitution is rigidly exclusive. The
theory held is that there must be no
relation but that of superior and in
structors between the cadets and those
over him. The cadets are treated by
their superiors as mere private SOL
diers with whom there can be no pos
slble social relation or even recogni-
ton. The cadets in turn form a So
ciety OF their own, governed by UNI
written but rigid laws, and practice
tyrannies of the most CALLING Kind I'M
der the sanction of those laws, which
the officers refuse to take cOgnizance
of when cadet is daring enough to
make appeal to them. 1t is all open
secret that Gen. Howard was not ap-
pointed until his disposition to effect
radical reform in this respect was
ascertained. He will probably make
same changes in the corps of instruc-
tors, and will endeavor in various
ways to lower or break down the wall
of caste separation that now divides
the officers from the cadets, and these
from all other grades in the service.
He knows from experience the evils
of the present system, for when him.
self cadet he was socially ostracized
by his class during two years, partly
because he treated as his social equal
a sergeant on duty at West Point who
was the son of his guardian, and
partly because he was outspoken in
his anti-slavery sentiments. That
rigid aristocratic exclusiveness is not
essential to soldierly discipline, and
good fighting, was demonstrated by
the volunteer army during the war.
This is one Of the lessons that can be
taught with profit at West Point. 1t
Is fortunate for the experiment that
the volunteer general who leaves the
Presidential Office In March will be
succeeded by another volunteer gen.
eral who has seen active service.
In the same connection the New
York Herald says:
In regard to the Whitaker case
Gen. Schofield said: II do not know
how to make officers OF an army bv
lifting up the meek and lowly., I
would do all In my power to lift them
up, but II they could not get up with
out lifting l would take care not to
put them In command OF troops. The
proposed revolution ct West Point
will, II II succeeds, totally change the
character which has given the Military
Academy = worldwide renown and
placed IL graduates among the fore
most oorVanfo a the Renu6llcV
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-02-03
Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint.

Is it not worth the small price of rs cents
to free yourself Of every symptom of these
distressing complaints? If you think so call
at our store and get bottle of Shiloh's Vital
izer, every bottle has printed guarantee on
it; use accordingly, and if it does you no good
it will cost you nothing. Sold by Dr. Wall.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-02-03

We have speedy and positive cure for
Catarrh, Diphtheria, Canker mouth and Head
Ache, in SHILOH'S CATARRH REMEDY.
A nasal Injector free with each bottle. Use
1t if you desire health and sweet breath.
Price 80 cts. Sold by DR.. Wall.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-02-03

Persons wishing to buy farm will please
call on the editor of this paper, who knows
of several good ones for sale on reasonable
terms. If
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-02-03
NOTICE

All psssons knowing themselves indebted
to the estate Of n. Whittier. either BY note
o. book account must call in and ssttls the
sans within thirty days from this dsts and
therUby save costa. By order Of
MRS. a. E. WHITTIER,
Yaaoouvse, Jaa. - 1871.
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For Sale.

One OF Davis grubbing machines, new
Price, $40. Time gwen II desired.
8. B. CLOUGH,
27jan. Vancouver Nursery.
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All are DOWN "
Notice to Creditors.

In the matter Of the estate OF John ConpelI.
deceased.
All persons having any claim or claims
against the estate of the said John ConnelI.
deceased, are hereby notified and REQUIRED TO
present the same, with the necessary youch-
ers, to me, at my residence near the town of
tory, within one year after the date Of this
hotice. MICHAEL KANE,
Administrator of the estate of
John Connell, deceased,
Dated Vancouver, W. T.. Jan. %, 1881.
27janh
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-02-03

Last Friday the worst rainfall ever
known in northern California COM
menced. On Saturday nearly nine
inches of water fell in four hours.
The water came down in sheets,
flooded the country. made land slides
and all kinds of breaks. There will be
immense damages as the result of this
unusual storm.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-11-08
Not Many Like Her.

THE following story, says the Wash
Il ington Capital, is true in every de-
tail: A milliner of respeolablity mar
ried dissipated tailor, who abused
neglected and abandoned her. Several
years having passed without clew to
his whereabouts, her friends advised
divorce and her acceptance of an advan-
tageous offer of marriage The woman
persistently declined every offer, and
when she had accumulated sufficient
sum started off in the direction her hus-
band was supposed to have taken when
he left her. At Halifax, n. S., she re-
ceived slight clew, and took the steam
er to Portland, Me. Thence she followed
his track to New York, where she
ceased for many months to hear from
him. Finally she found that he was
working in Albany, for which place she
Immediately started. She was about
week too late; he had been discharged
for drunkenness. Spending her days at
lucrative work and her evenings at de-
tective service, the unwearying wife at
leuBJn ulsCONeTeu ludL ne was employed
by large firm in Chicago. She wrote
there, and was answered that her hus-
band had gone away, nobody knew
where. Not satisfied with this, she
Travelled to that city and ransacked every
concern interested in the tailoring bust
ness there, until she met fellow-coun-
tryman who said that her husband,
when last heard from, was in Omaha.
She wrote there, got no answer, but
went on. There she heard that he had
certainly left for San Francisco, where
he had obtained fine place as cutter in
a large firm. She, of course, went
thither, only to be told that her husband
had been several days away from work
and was drinking hard. He had not
been even at his boarding houses. This
led her to visit the station house, and in
one of them she ascertained that her
husband was in Jail for ten days. He
was released and prevailed on to return,
home after six years absence. All this
occurred eighteen years ago, and to-day
the prodigal husband of yore is strict
temperance man, in independent circum-
stances, model husband and father and
a respected citizen.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-11-08
The Last Snake story of the Season.


The Waterbury Conn american
says: recently the american published
remarkable tale of two red adders that
were killed in a. Cherry-street dwelling,
A sequel to the story can now be told.
1t will be remembered that gentleman
arose in the night for drink of water
and hit one of the snakes with his bare
foot, and then reached down in the dark
ness and felt it with his hand; that he
thought it felt "a little queer" and on
striking light found he had been max
ing familiar with real live adder. The
mate to the adder was found in the house
in the morning and also killed. Two
cats had worried and fought the first
snake until it had become stupid other
wise it would undoubtedly have bitten,
the gentleman who had handled it in the
darkness and while wholly ignorant of
the peril he was in. 1t now transpires-
that the two cats saved the mans life at
the cost of their own, for they both died.
from the effects of the poisonous bites of
the adder. Two cats were never more
sincerely mourned, and there are certain
persons in Cherry Street, it is said, who
firmly believe that la the feline heaven
beyond the border these two brave new
ers will have golden mice and rats of
pearl every day forevermore.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-11-08

and apply the breakes, or, IL he has not
the air brakes, he must then whistle
brakes. There is not another man on
the train who has more to occupy his at
tention or has more responsibility than
the engineer. There Is not another
man on the train which is 30
liable to have blame attached to him
from so many different quarters than
have just been enumerated. And, be-
sides that, 1t is dangerous position. II
we find broken rail the engine Is the
first to strike 1t. In a collision the en-
gine is In the thickest Of the wreck, or
the machinery may break and raise Old
Ned. When an engineer gets in trouble
make allowance for all these things.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-11-08
Rightly Served.

A young named Hardesty, of Ottumwa
Iowa, has little sense. He agreed TO
give his watch and $40 for $400 of coun-
terfeit money so we'll executed that ex-
perts could not tell it from the genuine.
AS per negotiations he went to barn at
8 o'clock at night, tapped on the siding
when a hand from the inside passed him
out an envelope at the same time that
Hardesty handed in his watch and $40 of
good money. Hardesty rushed off and,
examined his purchase, and was 50 mad
when he found that the envelope con-
tanned nothing but old newspapers cut
TO bank-bill size, that he went and COM
planned to the police.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-11-08
HE GOT IT.

ONE OF the most touching things we
" have read in long time is that
story of robber and poor lone wo-
man in Ohio. The robber came to her
house at night and demanded her money
or her life. She hadn't much money or
life either, but she preferred giving up
the former rather than the latter so she
brought her little store and placed it in
his hand. He looked it over carefully,
to see that she didn't palm off any 90
cent pieces for quarters, and facetiously
told her that he could credit her for only
"a cents on the trade dollars, chiding her
for taking them at their face value.
Haven't you anything else of
value ?" inquired the bold bad burglar,
looking about the scantily furnished
apartments "a child's bracelet, ring,
anything will be thankfully received. Z"
She had nothing more, she replied,
with sigh.
A thought struck him.
"Your husband was soldier, was he
not ?''
She acknowledged that he was, and
killed in the war.
1.-THE he must have had revolver, +"
he continued, scar ching her counte-
nance. "Ah, you grow confused you
stammer; your manner betrays you.-
Get that revolver at once and give it to
me-" In vain the woman implored him
to spare that harmless trinket, almost
the sole memorial of the husband she
had lost. She had pawned many things
when in distress, but had always hung
on to that. But the robber was unre-
lenting. Sobbing bitterly, she went to
bureau drawer and removed the pre-
cious relic, around which clustered so
many tender recollections. "Must you
have it?" said she, advancing with
trembling step toward him.
"Yes, ] must" said the robber extend
ing his hand.
"Well, then, take it," said she, gently
pressing the trigger for the last time
There was a loud report, and the robber
tumbled over dead. The community
ought to pension that woman.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-11-08

and at the first trial, too. Maybe 1t
struck something hard In the plaster.
Try another place-that's the way
managed that"
"Oh, yes" said Mr.. Spoopendpke,
that's the way you managed, and you
have punched holes enough in here to
play cribbage in. Will you gimme an
other nail Don't you see I've knocked
this one flat, and can't pry it up:again2"
Cant unpry it up again !" calculated
Mrs. Spoopendyke in very gentle
voice, handing him apother nail. 'Can't
unpry II up again Well, If that ain
grammarln
"Oh, amt 1t :" said Mr.. Spoopendyke,
with most Mortified smile. "Of course
1t amt, you old female seminary with q
cracked bell in your cupola Am L GO
ing to school to you, or am driving
nails ~
"Well, DEAR" sighed Mrs. Spoopen-
dyke, "you're surely not driving nails. 4"
mo, you can just bet I'm not driving
nails, and you can bet amt going to
try no more nails, neither. And you
can bet" continued Mr.. Spoopendyke,
with still densifying intensity, and a
war. dance flourish as he leaped to the
floor, "and you can just bet your high
muck-a muck, if you'll set that measly
old chrome of yours on the side table.
I'll throw this dod gasted thing so far
through it that it won't get back in a
century.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-11-08
sPOOPENDYKE's PICTURE HANGING.

HXkTELL, my DEAR" said Mr.. Spoop-
w endyke, with a nail in his
mouth, and balancing himself waveriDg-
ly on dining room chair, 'all you've
got to do now is to get your picture
ready, and I'll show you how to hang
the thing"
"It's awful sweet of you, pet," said
Mrs. Spoopendyke, alternately rubbing
the frame of a very hectic chrome and
sucking the thumb she had been ham,
mering for the last twenty minutes. Its
awful sweet and thoughtful of you, dear,
to offer your assistance at such time,
for / do believe never would have got
a nail driven in that stupid wall"
"Of course you wouldn't, my DEAR"
laughed Spoopendyke. "Who ever saw
woman that could drive a nail You
couldn't drive galvanized carpet tack
in 'leven pound bladder of putty. And
speaking of driving nails, I'd like to
know if you're ever going to hand up
that hammer, or meat FOUNDER, or what
ever you've been using. Think can
drive nails with my elbow"
Its the stove handle, love-" and
Mrs. Spoopendyke meekly handed up
Notwithstanding implement with
wooden handle at one end and the un-
derjaw of shoemaker's plyers at the
other.
"Oh, it's stove hook, is it ?" said
Mr.. Spoopendyke, regarding the weapon
with sinister expression. "Now, if
you'd handed me up dog iron, or
pair of steelyards, I'd have been right at
home but stove hook Really, my
dear,I ID rather undertake to drive nail
with scythe handle"
"But the wallis so soft and lovely,
dear, it really drives them beautifully
if they would only Stick" said Mrs.
Spoopendyke, reassuredly.
''Only stick ?" said Mr.. Spoopendyke,
contemptuously ''now I'll bet you
never wet the mucilage on single nail
before you started it. That's why they
didn't stick for you-ouch suffering
Moses Are you going to stand serenely
by and see me beat my knuckles into a
shapeless pulp with this dod.gasted
measly marlin. spike 20
''Poor dear, said Mrs. Spoopendyke,
consollngly. "You do act so impatient