Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-05-27

A Former Base Ranger Goes Dnn
ON an Oregon Girl.
]. B. (Johnny) McDougal will be re-
membered by most people here as a part.
ner in the dry goods business with J. P.
Moore some six or soven years ago, before
which time he had been . clerk for N. J.
Franklin. He was . little, dark-complex-
toned fellow, but as full Of life Is an egg is
Of meat. He got into . pistol scrape here
once about 0 young lady who since mar
ried an ~ex-county officer and Is now the
mother of several children. Tho following
amour will be amusing Of itself, but es-
pecially so to those who remember the
knight OF the yardstick, who turns up now
as the hero Of . love story among the
webfeet. The narrative is taken from .
Portland exchange of recent date:
About four weeks ago . very pretty, but
not voluptuous little woman came over
from Seattle to visit friends in this city,
and il a hundred such had come to this
place Portland would undoubtedly have
no use whatever for railroads, or anything
else, except collins and somebody to bury
the dead. The young lady was the recip-
lent of offers Of marriage from no less than
10 young men Of this city, and it is said
she was engaged to four Of them at last ac-
counts before she left here for home about
two weeks ago. She was stopping in this
city with q lady who keeps boarders, near
ly all Of whom are well-to-dO clerks, and
none are reported who did not fall in love
with the pretty but tickle Seattle girl, who
is about Is years Of age. The man Of tho
most extreme "goneness" was j. B. Nc
Dougal, q head clerk in the store Of MUIR
ply, Grant & Co., who formerly resided
in Seattle, and there became acquainted
with the infaming young lady. On her
arrival here he introduced to her . fellow
clerk named Dawson, and in q short time
Dawson had ''out out" McDougal. Then
. young man named Hyman Harris was
made acquainted with her, and he fell in
love with her. In the meantime two or
three others we're making passionate love
to the girl, and she was az happy
as 3 queen. Her lovers frequently
quarreled, but they never came
to blows until after the girl
returned home. 1t appears they both went
with her as far as Kalam, when they very
nearly fought to ascertain who should &C.
I company her from there to Seattle. Az
McDougal was the stronger or the better
uulluOZcEs no DlulcQ HATTle Oh, 8uu W6ut
on home with the tickle fair one, though
Harris thought he was SO solid that he tel
egraphed to this city that he was married
to the young lady, who goes by the not un-
poetic name Of Lena Andrews. McDougal
continued to Seattle, where he purchased
an interest in the firm of Tokelas & Singer
man, and will hereafter reside there. lie
returned to this city to settle up his affairs
here, and it is reported that such bad
blood was developed between him and
Harris that he hired two men to coal him
| out to the White House and beat him to
death. On hearing this, Harris had Nc
| Dougal arrested for threatening to kill.
and afterwards compromised the affair
through the Intervention of friends. But
the war Of words soon broke out again, and
a few days ago a letter, said to be in the
handwriting Of Harris and signed, "Your
Rival in Love-" was sent to McDougsl,
challenging him to fight a duel with six
| shooters loaded to the muzzle. However,
that was not McDougals mode of warfare,
30 he settled his affairs and "lit out" fol
Seattle, where his beau ideal Of female
beauty resides. We cannot imagine what
| strange power this young lady Yields that
| she thus controls the destinies Of men;
but sure it is that q dozen or more Of
Portlsnd's dashing beaux fell victims to
her lovely charms.