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The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-03-22

California has, for years, been al
most wanton in herdestruction of tim
land, by axe and by fire, and now is
beginning to suffer serious conse-
quences in the shape of drouth. Valleys
whose rainfall never was below the
requirements of agriculture, have been
growing more and more sterile for sew
eral years, and both wheat and vines
have failed in many portions of the
state, and only legislation can prevent
the further laying bare of mountains,
whose verdure ultimately affects crops.
1t seems strange that this well known
fact has failed to take shape in the
legislative halls of a state SO largely
given to agriculture, but no steps seem
to have been taken by the otherwise
energetic and wide-awake Califor-
mans, and the ruinous waste contin-
ueS.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-03-22

The story is told of y congressman
lin the far away days who mistook the
monkey of his barber for the delirium
tremens, and in alarm FASTENED to the
hills of New Hampshire to restore his
shattered nerves by IA few months of
total abstinence. Returning To Wash
ington he found out his mistake and
swore vengeance Oh the innocent cause
of the abstinence, which he deplored
a. "A loss OF time. The prohibitionists
of Iowa must feel much the same
about the Legislators who caused them
such provoking waste of time. There
will he no opportunity for legislation
in Iowa until 1854. Six years consti-
tute n long period in the life of re-
form movement Inter Ocean.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-03-22

For THE Loss OF A Cow Hun
ter had IA valuable COW killed by a tree
falling and driving herinto the ground.
His ueighhor, Kitterson, had been
burning trees on clearing about four
miles from Pogtland, on the Mt. Zion
road, and leaving the fire unguarded,
one of the trees fell just a. Hunters
COW was passing by, striking the COW
back of the shoulders and driving her
forefeet into the ground. Hunter de-
manded pay and was refused. He
brought suit in Justice Whites court,
South Portland, and on Il trial of the
facts recovered judgment for the sum
of S75. This would appear to indicate
that farmer or other person burning
down trees must Use necessary pre-
caution against danger to the life and
property of other people.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-03-22

1t is a little singular that state
which came into the union with such
extensive advertising and at such cost
to the government and To its original
settlers as Kansas, should be the first
western state from which emigration
has already begun to flow in such pre-
portions as to be termed hegira. Kan
sas is already doing more than any
other state 10 populate Washington
Territory, and correspondent writes
from old Mexico that there are at leas
5000 people from Kansas in the state
Of Chihuahua, and thousands of others
are coming.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-03-22
WESTERN WASHINGTON.

How very shallow is the common
criticism that "the sound country"
can never amount to much because it
'has no backing" AS matter of fact
the Puget Sound country has the best
possible "backing." True, it has not
great areas of farming land, but it has
enough to supply local requirements,
and it's tide and timber pastures afford
stock ranges which the people Of east
ern Washington will within a few
years lock upon with envy. Timber
ranges are now almost wholly ne
elected both i'm Oregon and Washing
tor, but they are in fact the best pas
lures we have. The day will come,
and ere long, too, whent the chief cat
tie producing sections of Oregon and
Washington, will be the timber ranges
of Puget Sound and along the coast.
In her coal and iron mines western
Washington has the resources which
have made Pennsylvania the second
state in the union. And she has them
in no small measure. Her store of
Goals is great enough to supply the
need, of II manufacturing population
of million people for an indefinite
period. 1t is practically ineXhaustible.
She has, literally, mountains of iron,
of the quantities most valuable, easily
accessible; and of the best commercial
timbers she has a supply whose extent
or value it is impossible to estimate.
1t is SO great that thirty years of reck-
less extravaganza in its use, and much
wanton destruction have scarcely left
mark upon it, These three great
materials-coal iron and wood-are
not only in great demand as raw ma
terials throughout the commercial
world, but they are the basis of manu-
facture, and the basis of manufacture
is wealth.
In her present stage of development
and perhaps for a few years to come,
western Washington will sell her raw
products, but in time she will become
| the seat of great manufacturing enter
prises. Aud not least among the ad-
vantages of the Puget Sound country
is Puget Sound itself, the finest harbor
in the world.
Another circumstance of value in
estimating u future development OF
we,ter,. Washington is its fine work
ing climate. a man can work in the
open air every day in the year, with
out distress from heat and uuharmed
by cold. Its seasons afford scarcely
more variety than is healthtul and
pleasant. The industrial conditions OF
the country ut this time are prophetic
of Il great development in the future.
Gal mines near Seattle and Tacoma
have been opened aud connected with
deep water docks by lines of railroad.
Other and more extensive coal fields
are soou to be tapped by new lines OF
railroad. The iron beds near Port
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-03-22

A very curious gun is being made at
the Empire foundry in Marysville,
California. 1t is to be used for the
purpose of bursting logs. The gun is
of steel, two and a half inches in di-
ameter, with bore of one inch. The
length is twelve inches. The breech
is very solid and has IA vent Ikea can
mons. An auger thread on the out
side of the gun for two inches from the
muzZle. In use the gun will be
charged with half pound of powder,
and then screwed into the end of the
log. a fuse being connected with the
touch hole being lighted, the gunner
will retire to a safe distance. This is
believed to be the first gun of the sort
ever made in the United States. The
idea, however, is rot new one. Log
guns have been successfully used in
Australia, it is said.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-03-22

CLAUDIA No. Claudia. we cannot rec
ommend any sure way OF winning back your
recrcant lover unless you eaniide TO us the
secret Of yeur separation. You intimate
that he was about TO propose marriage, but
there YOU stop. Tell us all. Perhaps the
sight u those horrid pimples on your face
disheartened him II so. all is not yet lost,
for Swayne'. Ointment for skin diseases will
speedily restore your beanty aud with it
your lost lover
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-03-22
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The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-03-22

Advices from the Creek Indian ma
ton say Sleeping Rabbit, one of the
principal leaders OF the Spioche fac
tion, who was arrested some days ago
10y General Porter, commander OF the
Chicotee party, was killed on Osmui-
gee last week, while attempting to es-
cape. Trouble is expected in conse-
quence Of this murder, as it Is termed.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-18
CITY GLOBULES.

The board of trade will consider to-mor-
row morning the matter of membership
seats.
The case against Gus. Carlson and E.
Kemp, charged with disorderiy, was on
yesterday dismissed.
Officer Lowell arrested a fellow last
night who gave.his name as Young, on
charge of stealing an overcoat.
The board of fire commissioners pur-
chased new team of horses yesterday
from Messrs. Hill & Davis, the price being
$3.50.
The Great Union band of st. Paul has
been re- elected by Maj. Bend as the band
for the First regiment of Minnesota
militia.
j. Mcdonald was up yesterday for try
ing to percolate the pericranium OF one
John Welch The hearing will take place
on the 21sI inst
f. Il. Welz was fined twenty-five big
dollars of the realm, by Judge Burr yester-
day. for keeping his saloon open after
midnight. lie paid the silver ingots.
Jim Bennett, discharged street cal
driver, attempted to take revenge upon an
Their street car driver last night by making
a fight on him and was arrested and locked
up for his trouble.
His name was Chas. LUcko, but being
lucky by name and nature he was little
off coIored on account of circumstances
In this instance he tried to work luncf
route and he was yanked as a nag. h
was retired for thirty days.
The plat commission met yesterday
afternoon and examined the plat OF thu
Foundry addition, which is the first unde
the new law, to dedicate a park to the city
They also approved the plat of the Yves
side annex.
The remains of Capt. John Hartley ar
rived from New York yesterday morning
The funeral took place from the residenc
of Mrs. Simpson, No. 2 Monroe place, at
O'Clock yesterday afternoon. The cere
monies were beautiful and impressive.
F. Mitchell was before hizzoner yesteT
day charged with having been drunk ant
disorderly. He tried to assault man o.
Fourth street with the evident view O
holding him up for his cash. This is tn
chap who came to the city hall last winte
with both feet frozen. He went over tn
hills to the workouse for sixty days.
In answer to an invitation MIR. ?. {
Dreis and Antoine Lafond went up t
Minneapolis to shoot friendly rifle mate
with Mr.. Joe Lafond and Mr.. Baldwin, an
left the challengers badly behind in tn
score, but at the same time managed t
set their visitors an example for hospitalit
that will be hard to beat when the retur
match is shot is in this city.
Judge Simons yesterday fled decisio
in the case of Adam Race against Georg
Schickling, William Dawson, the Mechar
les Building society of st. Paul, the G.
Nelson Lumber company and NJ.
Sprague, in which he decides thu
the plaintiff has no lien becaus
the designation of the land was defeetiT
upon which he did the work, that Mi
Sprague has perpetual lien upon tt
dwelling and the land, but that the lien
subordinate to the mortgage of the d.
PENDANT the building society. that there
due Sprague from Schickling S190.07. TT
property is to be sold to pay this amour
and the other parties are to recover the
costs.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-18
A CARD.
the Union Tank Line Patrons:

To the Union Tank Line Patrons:
Owing to the large amount of oil we are sell
ing that was formerly sold by the grocers, a
certain number of those srocers, in a spirit of
jealousy, have recently held meeting, at which
1t was resolved to reduce price on oil to nearly
cost in order to crush out the Union Tank Line.
We have, consequently, reduced price our
special brand to same price as they are selling
their grade at, VIZ: Tic pei. gallon. AS soon as
our warehouse is completed, shall bring in full
line of groceries and establish specially low cash
prices on same.
We offer thanks to those Of our patrons
who have so freely expressed their disapprova
of the disgraceful resolutions adopted by those
present at that meeting.
That injustice be done to none, let it be under
stood that many of the grocers in this city die
not attend that meeting, and heartily denOunet
the action taken by those that did.
UNION TANK LINE.
EUGENESCoTT, Supt.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-18
Custnnn Clothing.

More or less men either from habit some
real or imaginary reason imagine they must
have their clothing made ''to order" We have
made preparations for all such cases by having a
complete line of samples to show from the cele-
brated merchant tailoring house!.of Devlin & Co.,
New York city. We can make an ordinery bus
ness suit to measure, guarantee fit and war
rank trimmings and makeup, as good as any To-
cal tailor can do for SlS, $50, 1922, S24, or $50,
dress and semi-dress suits in proportion. An
inspection of our samples is invited.
Boston One PRICE CLOTHING HOUSE, Third
and Robert, St. Paul.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-18

Sale OF furniture at auction this week. Splen-
did opportunity. Read Kavanagh's column for
place and date
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-18
Ocean Steamers.

HAvRE, March 17.-Arrived off Scilly:
the steamer Canada, from New York.
New YORK, March 17.-Arrived: The Ne
vada, from Liverpool, and Rhein, from
Bremen.
New YORK, March 17.-Arrived: The
steamships Rugia, from Hamburg, and
Leerdam, from Amsterdam.
LIVERPOOL, March 1.-THE steamer
Boyne,' seriously damaged by collision
with the Glenrath, has been hoated and
locked.
LONDON, March II. - The Norwegian
ship, John Bertram, from New York fol
Rotterdam, has been abandoned and the
crew saved.
NORTHAMPTON, March 17.-Arrived out
The steamers Canada, Asyria and Donati
| from New York.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-18
DIED,

FAHEY-Of lung fever, March 18th, 1883,
Lawrence M, youngest son of Lawrence and
Mary Fahey, age months and Is days.
Funeral from his parents residence, No. 222
Acker street, at 2 p. m. Sunday, March ls, 1888
Friends of the family are invited.
KNAPP-Saturday, March II, 1888, John, son of
John and Elizabeth Knapp, age years and 8
months.
Funeral, Monday, March 10Th, at ga. m, at
family residence, S4S University avenue. Friends
of family invited.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-18
Notice to Contractors

Mr. J. #. Fenton, 189 Washington street
Chicago. Illinois, submits the following prices
for maple flooring:
Air dried maple, 1x4 strips, s35 per NJ.
Air dried maple, 1x3 strips, S37 per NJ.
Kiln dried maple, 1x4 strips, S3S per NJ
Kiln dried maple, lx3 strips, $40 per NJ
Board measure.
The above has been piled about one year Ii
tongued and grooved, matched and dressed
Delivered free on board of cars at Chicago.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-18
CONTRACT WORK
Constructing Sewer on Fourth Street
OFPICE OF THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS,
CITY OF ST.. PAUL, Mimi, March II, 1888.

Sealed bids will be received by the Board of
Public Works in and for the corporation of the
City of st. Paul, Minnesota, at their Office IN
said city until IL m. on the 26th day of March,
a. D. 1888, for the construction of sewer on
Fourth (4th) street, from Robert street to Min
nesota street, in said city, together with the
necessary catch basins and manholes, according
to plans and specifications file in the office of
said Board.
A bond with at least two t2) sureties. in a sum
of at least 20 per cent. of the gross amount bid,
must accompany each bid.
The said Board reserves the right to reject any
or all bids.
JOHN HARRINGTON, President.
Official: r. l.. GoRMAS,
Clerk Board of Public Works. 1882
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-18

Mr. John n. Gebhardt, desires to inform his
friends and the public generally, that he has re-
sumed the saloon and boarding house business,
and is located at the corner of Dale and Van
Buren, streets, where he VIII be glad to meet old
and new acQuaintances.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-18

Great sale of clothing.
Bargains never heard of before.
See the column of P. L. Kayanagh.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-18

Notice.

Commencing Monday, March 70, our store will
be open every week day until p. M, except
Saturdays, when we will be open until 10 p. m.
BOSTON ONE-PRICE CLOTHING HOUSE,
Corner Third and Robert streets
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-18
Read Kavanagh's column.
St. Paul Dental Rooms.

Third street, corner Cedar. Best teeth, per
set, $40. Tech extracted without pain, 81.
Filings at greatly reduced prices.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-18
FIRE SALE OF CLOTHING.
You Fellow,

With that Winter overcoat on, why don't YOU
drop it and get Spring coat that you will be
comfortable in? Our splendid stock Of Spring
Suits, Overcoats and Gents Furnishing Goods
is almost all in, and we can outshoW the whole
Northwest in the way offne goods at low prices.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-18
NOTICE.

Application will be made by the undersigned
to the Common Council of the city of st. Paul.
at its regular meeting appointed to be held at the
City Hall the Sd of April, 1888. at 1880 o'clock
p. m, to remove that certain frame barn from
the west half OF lot 5, block Il, of Rice & r.
vines addition, and in its place build a small
brick veneered dwelling house.
R. N. M'LAREN.
Dated ST. Paul, March 18th, 1883.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-18

Store No. 157 and 161 West Seventh street,
Seven corners. Apply to B. f. Zahm, at the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-12-22

power" If, as he testifies, a large pro-
portion OF the most painful and danger
Gus maladies OF the body are due to
@'the use of fermented liquors, taken in
tie quantity which is conventionaiiy
deemed moderate" then it is certain
that such use of themsmust result also
in serious injuries to the mental and
moral nature. Who does not know
reputable gentlemen, physicians, art
lists, clergymen even, who wer4 never
drunk in their lives, and never will be.
but who reveal, in conversation and in
conduct, certain melancholy effects of
the drinking habit? The brain is SO
often inflamed with alcohol that
its functions are imperfectly per-
formed; and there is perceptible
loss OF mental power and of moral
tone. The drinker is not conscious of
this loss; but those who know him best
are painfully aware that his perceptions
are less keen, his judgments less sound,
his temper less serene, his spiritual
vision less clear, because he tarries
every day little too long at the wine.
Even those who refuse to entertain as
celtic theories respecting these beverages
may NC 'tplc W see IudI Inere are uses
OF them that stop short of drunkenness,
and that are still extremely hurtful to
the mind and heart as we'll as the BODY.
That conventional idea of moderation,
to which Sir Henry Thompson refers,
is quite elastic; the term is stretched to
cover habits that are steadily despoil-
ing the life of the rarest frhits The
drinking habit is often defended by
reputable gentlemen to whom the very
thought of debauch would be shock
ing, but to whom, if it were only law
full, in the tender and Just solicitude of
friendship, such words as these might
be spoken: ut is true that YOU are not
drunkards, and may never be; but if
you could know, what is too evident to
those who love you best, how your
character is slowly losing the firmness
of its texture and the fneness of its out
line; how your art deteriorates in the
delicacy of its touch; how the atmos-
phere of your life seems to grow murky
and the sky lowers gloomily above you
you you'd not think your daily in
diligence harmless in its measure. 1t
is in just such lives as yours that drink
exhibits some of its most mournful
tragedies. "--Century Magazine.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-12-22
Temperance Reading.
THE GIANT.


A giant goes hunting without hound or pack
before you, behind you. An, woe aud aluc (
For the boy tIat is found in this wicked one ;
track.
When you're out with the boys at recess to
play
He follows and tempts you the first oath to
say;
Then stop, and resolve you are not going that
way.
When you're offered the fine-cut to smoke or
to chew, o.,
And told you should do as the other bows do,
stand, like brave man, to your pledge and
be true
Again, he will come with the dazzling wine
And press you, though often you bow and de-
, cline.
To taste only once" it is 50 charmingly fine.
Now these are the things that 1 bid you be-
ware,
For you are the bird for the hunter to- snare,
And Once" is the giant; SO, my boy, have d
Youths Temperdnce Banner
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-12-22
CuriOsities Of the English Pension List.

The pension list alone contains a
mine of wealth, one of the most curious
items being the payment annually
of f1,620 As. (D to the ''heirs of the
Earl of Kinnoull." The story of this
grant is as follows: In the year 1927
Charles /. gave the Caribbee Islands, in
the West Indies, to the Earl of Carlisle.
At the death of Lord Carlisle's son the
grant devolved to his cousin, the Earl
of Kinnoull, from whom Charles III.
bought back the proprietary right which
his father had granted to the Earl of
Carlisle, giving him in lieu thereof an
annuity of El,000, payable from the
~ per cent. duties levied on exports
from the islands. 1t is now charged to
the consolidated fund. But it has long
since been assigned out of the family to
which it was granted; and the so-called
"heirs" to whom the money is now paid
are persons who have bought the right
to the annuity as one would buy ordi-
nary railway shares. Another curiosity
in this way is sum of E62 9s. 3d.,
which was granted to the Duke of
Grafton by Charles ii. as compensation
for the loss of office as clerk of the pipe.
This is also in alien hands, later Duke
having been so ungracious as to sell so
curious an annuity out of the family.
Yet another State curiosity is the annu-
ity which is known as the Duke of
Schomberg's pension, and which
amounts annually to E9S4. This money
is paid to persons who are called the
"heirs of unredeemed fractions"
These "heirs" are six persons, whose
shares very from ESQ TO ESQ., Cham
berS' Journal. fr.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-12-22
Eating a Calf.

Somewhere in the neighborhood of
Aylsham lived certain Jerry Exc,
whose appetite was said to be superhu-
man, whose proves at harvest suppers
was the boast and wonder and envy of
the villagers round. 1t CO to pass
that at a farmers marke ner the
talk turned upon Mr.. Ell perform
ances, when some one presel protested
that what had been narrated was inn
possible. ''Impossible!' said another;
'Ill bet you twenty-five pounds Jerry
Exc will eat calf at sitting" The
wager was taken, and the preliminaries
were arranged The calf-let us hope
only baby calf-was killed; he bones
were cut out the flesh was chopped in
to minutest particles and apportioned
into seventeen enormous pasties, whose
outer crust was thin film of batter
made lovely and tempting to every
sense, but carefully kept from any in
gradients that cloy the palate. Jerry
was called in, he having agreed to the
wager with evident delight, and was
told he might fall to, He did so and
steadily gorged. He had made no diff
Guilty of the first nine pasties, but when
a tenth was brought in he seemed to
flag. To the horror of his hackers he
sighed and looked perplexed. 1t was
but moment; he desired only to expos
tulate. 81 say, Mass'r, l amt got moth
ing to say agin them poys, loik 'em
amazin'; but I'm a thinkin' cts abawtI
time as / should begin upon that there.
calf. "-Nineteenh Century.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-12-22

The loss of self-respect, the lowering
of ambition, and the fading out of hope
are signs OF the progress Of this disease
in the character. 1t is mournful
spectacle--that of the brave, ingenious,
high-spirited man sinking steadily
down into the degradation of inebriety;
but how many such spectacles are vioi-
BILE al over the land And it is not in
the character of those alone who are
notorious druhkards that such tenden-
cies appear. They are often distinctly
seen in the lives of men who are never
drunk. Sir Henry Thompson testi-
mony is emphatic to the effect that
"the habitna use of fcrmented liquors,
to an extent far short of what is neces-
sary to produce intoX:cation, Injuries
the body and diminisbeS the menta!