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The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-05-10


From behind the plain, broad writing
table brisk. active figure came for
ward TO greet me with bright twinkle
of the eye, sunny smile and hearty
grasp of the hand. A remarkably
youthful figure, as it first appeared to
me, and most jauntily arrayed. The
apparel was conspicuous and even fop-
pish. There seemed to be pervading
effect of gold and jewelry rather too
lavishly displayed. Coat, vest and
trousers were cut in the top OF the days
fashion. The cravat was brilliant in
color and obtrusiye in size. The gen.
eral impression was that of dainty and
airily dressed man, to whom q good
looking glass was a very necessary
article of domestic furniture.
But I was soon drawn from this rapid
contemplation of attire to observe the
features and manner of the man him
self. Never, I thought. had the art of
photography more completely failed to
catch the true Ineaments and express
SONS of its subject than in this instance.
Here before me was face aglow with
bright healthy, pink -and-white
bloom; face which, while furrowed
with heavy lines when in repose, was
yet youthful in its expressive and
changeful vivacity; large mouth,
about whose corners there seemed al
ways playing quizzical smile, and hair
and beard slightly tinged, indeed, with
streaks of gray, yet fine and tawny and
curly and arranged with studious care
about the broad white forehead, the re-
treating chin and the delicately tinted
cheeks.
But of all the striking features the
great beauty of the eyes first attracted
and held the visitor. Eyes of the bluest
blue; eyes which danced and sparkled
with sunniest merriment and yet which
quickly softened into serious sympathy !;
eyes which were brilliant and search
ing and seemed always to be kindly,
though keenly, reading the person
to whom he was talking, yet which
never hardened into sternness: eyes
in which, especially, you could discern
all the humanity and humor, the noble
intellectual possibilities and the manly
tenderness of their possessor.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-05-10
Foreign " heat supply.

Ten years ago India did not send bushel
Of wheat to Europe; five years ago only few
cargoes; this year it is estimated that its ex-
ports will be not less than $4,000, 900 of
bushels, or one half as much as was exported
by the United States last year Australia is
a late-comer in the breadstuffs market of the
world, but will this year supply probably
%, 600, 600 bushels, one-fourth as much as our
exports in 1883. Russia is increasing her
capabilities by the spread of railways and
the adoption Of American elevators and
machinery. The average exports from the
United States to Europe for the last six years
have been less than $50, 100000 bushes a
year. These facts exhibit at a glance the
serious character of the competition to which
the American farmer is being subjected and
what he has to encounter in the future.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-05-10
Louisville,s bad Boy

The most pestiferous small hoy in Louis
vile, who respects persons and property
least, and who does all the wicke1est and
most sneaking things that can occur to a
young Imagination, is not rough, tough,
square jawed, freckled, bullet-headed, dirty
little wretch, as might be supposed, but a
sweet. pale boy, with delicate frame and
ewes of "heaven's own blue" Those who
look uron m for the first time wonder if he
is not little stray angel, or at leas- the best
how in all the Sabbath-school They won
der why so peaceful child has not long since
climbed the golden stair and left his panties
here. No, he does not look bad; but all the
nsighbors are anxious that he shall grow up
soon, because they know there is going to be
q hanging.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-05-10
Henry CIay's Oratory.

y.
Henry Clay was natural born re-
publican orator. In despotism he
would have been beheaded for hfs i'm
pudence before he was 30 years of age.
No such voice was ever heard else
where. It was equally distinct and
clear, whether at its highest key or
lowest whisper; rich, musical, captivat-
ing. His action was the spontaneous
OF spring Of the passing thought. He
gesticulated all over. The nodding oil
his head, hung on a long neck, his arms,
hands, fingers. feet and even his spec
tacles, his snuff-box and his pocket
handkerchief, aided him in debate. He
stepped forward and backward, and
from the right to the left with effect.
Every thought spoke; the whole body
had its story to tell.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-05-10
The story Of an Artist.

l'NCuFCS' III 1ut6F ocean.
Six years ago the residents Of Washington
were invited by neatly printed circulars to
visit Odd Fellows hall ON Seventh street,
and witness test of the endurance Of "the
champion female pedestrian" who was at
tempting to walk 100 miles in 100 consecutive
hours The walking mania was then at its
height, and the hall was crowded with
distinguished gentlemen and ladies who
paid IS cents head to see little woman
tread a circle of sawdust. She was
the first of her sex to accomplish
the feat, and when the finishing
hour came and she won the match against
time and fatigue, bouquets were showered
upon her from fair and jeweled hands. This
week the residents of Washington are re-
quested by similar circular to visit an art
gallery where a number Of beautiful land
scapes are on exhibition. and the fashion
able people are flocking there in large num-
bers The artist is the champion female
pedestrian Miss Bertha Won Hillern, and
her triumphs are as great upon the canvas as
upon the sawdust. The money she gained by
her pedestrian exhibition was spent in culti-
waiting natural taste for art, and her genius
is recognized by the best critics OF the coun-
try
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-05-10
Ell MAHD1 TO THE TRIBES.
re Ina Dean Proctor in The Manhattan
/ have heard the Voice of the Lord,
Az fhf, Pr.or,hof hoo I'd Of old.

re Ina Dean Proctor in The Manhattan.l
/ have heard the Voice of the Lord,
As the Prophet heard of old;
For me have the blessed angels
The book of Fate unrolled;
Gabriel, holiest, highest,
Flashed to my cave from the sky,
And cried. as tIe da wn iilumed the east,
Wake! for the end is night
Speed! for It's th ne to save the saints,
And their proud oppressors slay,
And to fill the earth with Righteousness
Before the Judgment Day"
Then he was gone as the lightning goes;
And my heart leaped up as flame:
And forth rushed to the Holy Wa-
For the glory of Allah's name;
And rippling river, and rustling reeds,
And the wind of the desert sighIlg,
Echoed his cry as passed them by,
speed for the hours are fyingin
The sunbeams shone, like lauces keen,
Across the Mecca plain;
The roar Of the hosts was in my ears,
Their fury in my brain;
And vowed to the Col of the Faithful
His Prophet alone should reignl
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-05-10
Profits or Ostrlch Farming.
Exchange ]

Some interesting results of the ex-
periments in ostrich farming now going
on in southern California, are contained
in the following report: The ostriches
on the Anaheim farm laid 3O5 eggs
during the season from the 1st of Nav
last until the 1st of October The
birds have been plucked twice since
their arrival on the farm. The first
clip, in May last, yielded $500. The
clip in December yielded $500 quilts
Of all kinds from eighteen birds, and is
valued at $1,000.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-05-10
what Literary workers Are Doing.


Among the interesting literary news afioat
are the statements that Robert Browning's
new poem will appear in April; that Justin
Mccarthy is at work on political novel; that
Victor Hugo is about to publish new volume
of poems; tnat the author Of @Ginx's Baby"
is giving the finishing touches to a novel;
that Susan B. Anthony is writing book on
the condition of her sex in Europe; that
Crawford's novel ITO Leeward," has reached
sale OF $4,000 copies; that the empress OF
Austria is printing herself the sonnets which
she has written; that Julian Hawthorne is
writins novel for The Boston Sunday Globe;
that the riackwoods will soon publish
Anthony Trollope's last completed novel,
3An Old Mans Love-" that Prof Whitney
viii contribute the article on philology to the
forthcoming volume OF the Encyclopedias
Brittanica: that Walter Besant is writing
story to be called aJulia;" that the new edi-
ton of Edwin Arnold's Light of ASIA" will
be SO sumptuous that copies viii cost several
hundred pounds, that Bancroft, the historian,
Is at work In Mexico; that the Brazilian en-
peror has just headed a subscription to the
Longfellow memorial fund.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-05-10
Chicago's Basterine Production.


Few imagine the vast production to
which the manufacture of butterine or
bogus butter has grown in this city A
witness, while testifying before COM
mittee in the New York senate in refer
ence to butter adulteration in that state,
incidentally stated that some thirty or
forty manufactures in Chicago were
engaged in producing bogus butter, and
his statement is perhaps not far astray.
The state of New York bought and used
last year 100000 pounds of but
terine, and the cities of New York and
Brooklyn are credited with producing
but 100000 pounds of that amount.
Chicago may safely father the bulk of
the remainder, as well as the chief sup
ply to other sections of the country.
The reason so much is produced here
is because the supply of raw material
is 50 abundant. Chicago can find at
her great perk-packing establishments
and abattoirs o superabundance of ma
terial for butterine cow and hog fat,
principally the latter, for by odds the
most profitable dairy COW nowadays is
dead hog. The business possesses
two startling features. It has grown
to such vast proportions that it seems
likely to wreck the dairy interests of
the whole country, but particularly Of
the west. The second alarming
feature is still weightier considera-
tion-its sanitary phase. The raw
material from which butterine is pro-
duced must be, from the cost to manu-
facture, an average of Il cents per
pound, of the cheaper grades of animal
| fats. These are reduced to a pulp.
heated somewhat, and then treated
with acids. Perhaps in most cases this
raw material would not be generally
regarded as wholesome. The heat sup
piled may not always be sufficient to
destroy any animal or diseased germs.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-05-10
JOAQUIN MiLLER.s CABIN.
The Poet OF the sierras Settled in
His New Home.


Washington Correspondence.
Joaquin Miller, the poet of the Sier-
ras. has just got into his log cabin. I
called upon him in it and found tall,
well-made, blue-eyed man of 10, with
long, tawny hair flowing out from under
his slouch hat, with pantaloons tucked
into pair of fine boots, and good
natured air of western wildness, which
we'll accorded with his picturesque sur
| roundings. He received me cordially,
| and kindly showed me over the cabin,
saying that for fifteen years he had
been wandering about over the face of
| the earth, and that he was glad to feel
that he had at last place he could
| call his home.
Tie cabin is on the heights at the
head of Sixteenth street, the great
street of the Washington of the future.
| AS Waukeen says, 1.-THE president
| house is at one end of it and his hut is
at the other, but that while he has
cab n the president has only cabinet"
Sixteenth is great wide street pave
| with asphalt and lined alternately with
$50, 600 mansions and $50 negro huts.
| The White House, almost bathed by
the Potomac and faced by Lafayette
park, is its starting point, and
half way up toward Mr.. Miller's
cabin is green plat in which
a bronze equestrian statue of
Gen. Scott looks at the executive man
sion. The street steadily rises, carry
| ing with it old st. Johns Episcopal
| church, George Fl. Pendleton's man
sion, negro laborers' cabins, Senator
Cameron's great palace, and a like mix
| ture, till it reaches the boundary of the
town, where there is jump upward in
the shape of fifty-foot hill or plateau,
running back into the country. On this
plateau Joaquin Miller has bought
lot and put up one of the prettiest of
log cabins.
The lot runs almost to the edge of
the hill and the view is certainly one of
the finest in the United States. Mr..
Miller says he has never seen
anything to equal it, and that if
man can write poetry anywhere he
ought to be able to write it here.
Stand in front of the large yard of the
cabin, under one of the great oaks
which shade it, all Washington lies be-
fore you surrounded by hills which
make it look as though the nature
around was mammoth coliseum of the
gods and the national capital the scene
going on in the arena below. The
great white, classic capitol is plainly
seen, the Potomac flows along the edge
of the arena, and off on neighboring
hills you can look into Alexandria and
at the tombstones of Arlington.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-05-10
The First Duel In Kentucky.


"Feller-citizens, them's my senti-
mentsl 1t won't do for this fight to go
on! The Rargrass people, whar Squire
cents; and them bad town boys, where
Squire Harrison lives, when he
runs them out of his watermi1lion
patch will call him old fightin' 9 pence.
| like good fight better than a hot
toddy of cold night, but hate bad
fight worse than nest of yaller-j jackets.
There ain't no good In this fight,
nohow. I don't like the weapons,
nuther. Rifles is all right fer Injuns
and bars, but are awful things agin
friends. If you had painted yer eyes
black with yer fists, or even doubled
one another mp by kicks, when you
quarreled, it would have been reglar,
but to go BORN holes through one
another with rife balls like augers
through poplar logs, won't do ct
Scripter says, Thou shalt not KILL but
it don't say thou shalt not hit with the
fist, and kick with the foot when fell
ler makes you mad. I propose, thar
four that we wind up this fight with q
shootin' match, fur gallon of whisky
Our side agin your side, will shoot at a
tree the size of q man, sixty yards, at
the word, and the shot nearest the
center wins"
So soon as Sullivan finished his
speech, Thruston and Harrison who
had both been compelled to laugh at
its oddity, simultaneously extended to
one another the right hand. a hearty
shake followed, and the difficulty was
all o7er.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-05-10

While digging grave in the town
of Plymouth, Mass, for the remains OF
NJ IS Judson, sister of the famous mis-
sionary, the workmen came upon the
foundation of the Pilgrim watch-tower
ere cted in 1G43.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-05-10
A Circulating Ha.eum
[Chicago Current

IOuIIdF4O
An English educator has submitted plan
for circulating museum, containing groups
In natural history, TO be used for subject
lessons ir the schools 1t certainly is worthy
the consideration of educat ors every where.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-05-10

Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph: A preacher
who resents criticism as an outrage to his
"ciothn mistakes the century he lives In and
the land
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-05-10

Stanley has visited the Congo valley
north of the equator, and finds dense
and enterprising population Of proba-
bly, 40 600, 900.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-05-10

Indianapolis Journals An intelh-
gent ballot is az necessary as an honest
and free ballot.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-05-10

It is stated that the Salvation army
is making many converts among the
negroes of the south.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-05-10

1t Is said that when the Zulus wish to ex-
press surprise mingled with admiration they
quietly say, Il was only born today
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-05-10
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Washington, D. G., April 20. 1884.

Washington, d. G.. April 20, 1884.
SBALED PROPOSALS, ind0rsed " Propo-
sale for transportation, will be received
at 90 and Sc Wooster street, New York.
until / p. m. of Tuesday, May 81, 1884. for
transporting Indian goods and supplies.
as follows. From New York. Philadelphia
Baltimore, Chicago, St.Louis. Kansas CITY.
Omaha, and ST. Paul, to the following
agencies, viz.
Colorado River and San Carlos, Arizo-
ma; Southern Ute, Colorado; Cheyenne
River, Grow Creek, Devils Lake, Fort
Bcrthvld. Lower Drule, Standing Rock,
proposals for this Agency required also to
some point in the valley of the little Big
Horn River, about 80 miles from Custer
Station, in the event Of removal thereto,)
Fort Bclkuap and Fort, Peck, Montana;
Santee. Nebraska; Mescalero and Navajo,
New Mexico; Oursy, Utah. Also 10 the
following points, viz: Casa Grande, Ari-
iona: Cotton. Redding, San Francisco,
and Tularc. California; Bismarck, Cham.
berlain. Flaudreau, Fort Pierre, Fort Stcy-
cnson. Rockford, jamestown. Northern
brarch NsPsR R.3 Sisseton Agency Sta
ton. and Nankton, Dakota; Ross Fork,
Idaho: Nuscogce. and Red Fork, Indian
Territory, Sioux GIly Iowa; Arkansas
! CITY. Caldwell, Hunnewell, Lawrence.
Netawaka, Silver Lake and White Cloud,
Kansas. Brainerd, Detroit, Duluth, and
VermilIion Lake, tfor Boise Fort Chippe-
was Minnesota, Kansas City and Seneca,
Missouri; Arlcc, Billings, Coal Banks,
Fort Benton, Glendiye, Helena, Red Rock
I Station, utah q Northern RnilroadD and
! saltwater, MontanaEDakot City, Genoa,
/ Niobrara, Omaha Sidney and Valentine.
Nebraska; Elko and Wadsworth. Nevada.
Las Cruces, Las Vegas, Manuelito, aud
Santa Fe New Mexico; Carlisle, Pennsyl
vania; Henrietta and Wichita Fails, Tex.
qs; Park City, Provo City, and Salt Lake
CITY. Utah; Ashland and Clintoayilic.
Wisconsin: RaViius Wyoring.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-05-10

Mas. A. X. LEE left on Tuesday
for Michigan. and now A. X. be-
longs to the tribe Of SO many OF
our male citizens who have no fc-
male belongings within reach
Welcome.
Ben Butler has played possum
for quite a long tlme-has been hi
bernating, but with the Msrch
ground hog, he is out IN the field
again.
t5$"LocatIon notices. and Proof OF la
Dor blanks can be had at the LEADER Of
flee
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-05-10
Don CARLOS
A horse as near perfection,
-foR ALL PURPOSES
as can be found F..

The services Of the saddle and
harness STALLION DON CAR
LOS are offered to a limited MN
Der of MARES this season at my
''RocKwALL" RAMON, Is miles
southwest of White Oaks, and :
miles south of Carizozo Ranch.
DON CARLOS is IS hands high
and weighs 1000 pounds. He is Il
blood bay, black heavy name and
tail. Seven years old, Compactly
built. Very kind and gentle, yet
a spirited mover. He goes ALL
THE CATS under the saddle, NOV
ing very gracefully and easy. In
harness he works single or double,
pulling like an OK, when necessary,
or trotting to a buggy, a mile in
tour minutes when required.
HE rs a PERFECT HORSE.
Terms;-$10 for tho season, cash
in advance. Apply to
j. f. Sigh, White Oaks. p. O.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-05-10
NOTICE roR rrnL1cA1IoN.

United States Land Omce, Las Cruces, n.
NJ. May 9Th 1884.
Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has nled notice OF his inttn.
ton TO make final proof in support of his
claim, and that said proof VIII be made
before the Probate Judge of Lincoln county.
N. NJ, AZ Lincoln, on June goth, 1884. viz:
JUAN ALL on homestead no. "A. for the
n !. sell and II = sw a soc.l l,twp.Il s,rlf e, He
names the following witnesses to prove his
continuous residence upon, and cultivation
Of, said land, viz; Pablo Chavos, Amlrosio
Chavcs, Jose Gonzales and Manuel Luna, all
of Lincoln county. n. N.
GUtb JOHN X. CFLH Reristcr.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-05-10

THE other day Charley Kelly
was taking a walk among the Tor
lolita mountains when the sight of
four bears, blacker than any Kelly
that everlived, attracted Lila atten-
ton. He laid in wait and when
opportunity offered fired upon the
animals, and three Of them fell.
On Thursday he brought in two, a
son and daughter OF bruin, either
of which weighed over 200 h with
the pelt off and inwards out. 1t is
not supposed that the bears hiber-
mated where or near where they
we're killed, but that they were on
an excursion.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-05-10

FRANK II. LEA arrived here on
Monday, and Wednesday returned
TO Roswell, accompanied by his
wife, there to remain. Frank was
a good, an cstimable citizen, and
"a such we disliked to part with
him. EIIs wife wss the first female
settler of White Oaks, and it was
painful to her to turn her back
upon the seem OF so many expert
enccs atd the birth place OF several
of her little ones. We Join all of
our people in wishing them much
10y in their chosen home on the
remote border Of our county.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-05-10

But printers ink so black and sologp.
VIII GivC & mSn peculiar fame,
When put In this peculiar column.
UrPER Arrics tonight.
New stage, new scenery.
RRNFoHD .and his steers arc al
work in the country.
Tower ToMMA~oN came in from
BJnito Wednesday.
CotR1 meets at Liucoln on Mon
day l.. 5. Allen will be in attsn
dance.
The good looking countenance
of Ed IIoman is again beaming
upon us.
RlcH deposits Of gold lave been
discovered the past week on BaX-
ter mountain.
MARSHAL PARISH and wife came
il from their Bonito possessions on
Wednesday last.
En-. r. BoNNKLL returned hons
ON Yesterday morning, much to
the delight Of our people.
SuERTFr -Por has We
don't know where, but lie took the
stage for the r. r. on Tuesday
JAcon MILLER is another member
Of the " Stays" his wife and fami-
" having left for Missouri on yes-
tcrdsy.
EVERYBODY was delighted TO see
our old citizen II. b. FERGUSON on
Saturday last. He spent the week
with us,
j. +. SLIGu advertises III this
issue where q good and servicoable
horse of his can be seen. No
charge fer showing goods.
WkLpoS having failed to secure
requisite bail still languishes in
Jail. 1t is not thought hiS trial
will take place this term. ,
ON Thursday morning last the
wife Of Gus Bayousett presented
her liegc lord with 4 l01 b boy.
Father, mother and son arc doing.
well, the former feeling particulars
~ healthy.
Billy LANE, the best Jehu tAst
ever held horses to their work in
this county, will carry passengers
to and from Lincoln during court
term. See him if Won have to 60
TO court, and make transportation
arrangements with him.
TIE Lake Valley Aeor L'u says
that the declaration made by our
cotemporary that Dick McGinness
had skipped the country, is untrue,
and further, hat he is now, as he
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-05-10

MARRIED, at Roswell, n. NJ, ON
April Goth, Mr.. VIM. II. Cosgrove
and Miss SalIie Tucker, both of
Roswell, Rev. j. w. Salisbury
officiating. 10 couple ever united
hands, hearts and fortunes in New
Mexico mor richly deserving OF
the warmest congratulations Of
friends and acquaiutances than the
above named. Mr.. G. is an hon
orabIe gentleman and estimable
citizen, and Mrs. G. IS an ornament
to society and a special charm to
the circle in which she moves.
Long may they live to enjoy the
fruits of their union. FRIEND.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-05-10


To,NIan, Saturday, the Upper
Aftics give an entertainment at the
Town Hall. Their programme is
an inviting one, and good as the
last performance was, this viii ex-
coed il, "a the troupe has rehearsed
carefully and often. From here
they go to Lincoln whore they will
give a series OF entertainments
next week, and We bespeak for
them there large houses, aud 70
thsW patrons more than the worth
oi then money.