Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-05-02
STARTLING DISCLOSURE.
OVER TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS LOST
AN OLD PIONEERS STATEMENT.
How Fortune was Spent in Vain-An Event
full Career Rescued at Last.

icie publishes the following editorial com
munication from Captain W. +. SwaSey
the oldest pioneer in San Francisco, Il gen.
tleman well-known throughout the coast
which will he self-eXplanatory:
Editor Of the CHrOHicie SIR: Anything
concerning the history of an old Caifor.
Man, especially if he is extensively and Ia
vorably known throughout the Pacific
Coast, never fails to attract attention, but
when the circumstances attending his ca.
recr are of such a peculiar character, that
a knowledge of them will benefit the pub
lie III large, the imparting of such knowl-
edge becomes not only Il pleasure, but a
duty as well. Therefore, the writer deems
the following brief sketch not only emf
nently proper, but also feels confident that
it will prove deeply interesting and bene.
fetal to thousands who will read it,
Colonel ID. j. Williamson, the subject of
this letter, entered the Union Army in 1861
as Regimental Quartermaster of the
Fourth California Infantry, and in 1863 he
was appointed by President Lincoln, Cap.
tain Quartermaster of the United States
Army. He served with distinction to him
self and honor to the Government until
1867, at which time he left the military
service and became Il prominent operator
i'll stocks in San Francisco. In this bust,
ness he continued until 1870, when he re-
ment of United States Consul at Callao,
Peru. In 1874 he was appointed by Presi,
dent Grant, Consul at Valparaiso, Chill,
and also Charge It Affairs of that Repub-
lie, which latter positions he was COM
PEELED by i'll health to resign i'm 1873.
In the winter of 1851 =, n winter that
was unusually inclement, while on mill
tary duty at Sacramento, Colonel William
son was obliged to sleep in tents, and then
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rheumatism, from which he at times suf-
fered excruciating pain, although he was
not incapacitated from duty. After he
had left the service and entered upon bust
ness pursuits, the disease pertinaciously
chung to his system, although he re-
sorted to the most eminent medi-
cal advice and to every known remedy
for relief. When he arrived in Peru,
where rheumatism is very prevalent, the
disease assumed still more virulent type
and his sutierings became SO utterably in
tOlerable that he was obligedto submit to
the application of hypodermic injections
of mOrphia, frequently administered rs
often as twenty five times in twenty four
hours. He visited the famous baths of
that country without avail, and when he
reached Chill, resorted to the baths CO.
quenes and afterwards to the baths on
the summit of the Andes, which latter are
celebrated throughout the world for their
efficacy i'm the cure of rheumatism. He
still found no relief, however, and in 1878
his knees and lower extremities became so
pOwerlcss from the disease that he was
obliged TO resign his position and return
to California. lie at once repaired to the
Paso Robes Springs, in San Luis ObispO
County, where he received but slight TEN
porary relief, the malignant complaint
continuing to torture and rack his frame
almost without cessation. From 1878 un.
til about two months, he has been totally
deprived of the use of his lower limbs,
being absolutely unable TO perform the
most simple physical act without assist.
ance. Some six months ago he was in.
duced by his friend, Ferdinand Nassault,
Esq, Secretary of the California Pioneers,
to try st. Jacobs Oil. 1t is fortunate he did
so, for to-day, after long years of intense
agony and utter prOstration, he is able to
walk about with comfort and without the
aid of either cane or crutches. He has dis
continued all medical treatment and the
use of all narcotics, and he gratefully and
emphatically attributes this happy result
solely to the use of st. Jacobs Oil. The
writer of this letter having himself been
n sufferer from rheumatism, and having
been thoroughly cured by the same rene
dy, feels impelled by a sense of duty to
afflicted humanity, to impart this informa
ton to the public.
Yours respectfully, w. +. SwAsEy.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
Captain ". +. Swosey, Pioneer HuU, CITY
DEAR CAPTAIN Having carefully read
the foregoing cheerfully add my unqual
flied attestation to the truthfulness of the
statements contained therein. OF course
no language Is adequate to convey a real
istic sense Of the fearful suffering and
agony have passed through in the last
eight years. during which time have ex.
pended at least 5000 for remedies. med.
ical attendance, and an enforced residence
at different bathing resorts. cheerfully
add this testimony because feel perfectly
certain that a knowledge of my cure by
st. Jacobs Oil will prove the means of re.
lieving hundreds of sufferers from the
pangs of the dreadful disease alluded to.
Confident of being soon again able to re.
sumo my former active life, l remain al.
ways your friend, ID. j. WILLIAMSON,
$40 TAYLOR street. San Francisco, Cal.
A Miraculous Escape.
The st. Louis, Mo-, Post Dispatch says:
A most remarkable case has Just come 10
the notice of a reporter of this paper. who
having been informed of the wonderful
cure of Mrs. Phoebe Rice, l20S Madison
street. sister of Hon. ii. Clay Sexton,
Chief of the St. Louis Fire Department,
visited that lady at her residence. Mrs.
Rice made her statement without the least
reluctance and said that for the past seven
years, she had been a sufferer from acute,
inftammatOry rheumatism, which had af-
fected the muscles of the hands, contract
ing them so badly she could not comb her
hair, hold n needle or pick up pin, and
rendered the lower limbs so helpless she
required clutches to move about. During
ten months she was Obliged to carry the
right hand in a sling. Physicians were
called in, but gave her only temporary re-
lief. Some time ago one of her children
was afflicted with contraction of the
muscles of the lower jaw, which turned
her mouth to one side; a few applications
Ct st. Jacobs Oil restored the features to
their natural condition, and Mrs. Rice be-
gan to look hopefully towards it for her
own cure. A single application, she said,
made her firm believer in its virtues, as
the effect was instantaneous and she was
greatly benefited. The continued use of
it brought her to the happy state in which
the reporter saw her, with the free use of
her limbs and in perfect health, cured.
She was very enthusiastic in her COM
mendations of the pain relieving and cur
alive powers of st. Jacobs Oil, which she
said had accomplished more for her in a
few weeks than all the other remedies the
physicians had recommended in the past
seven years. She can now run up and
down stairs, she said, and her hands were
as useful, in every respect. as they had be-
fore!she began to suffer, seven years ago.
God bless st. Jacobs OIL" the good lady
exclaimed, as the reporter was about to
leave. Mrs. Rice has lived i'm this city
thirty years, and her statement, worthy Of
all credence, is fully corroborated by her
friends and neighbors, and by her own
children, who were fully cognizant of her
helpless condition before she began to use
the wonderful remedy.
WANTED THE EXiCT WORDS.
New York Sun.
The "New Aversion" was the subject
of recent discourse of backwoods
preacher. A Sunday school MISS nary
heard him preach it. The preacher de-
nounced the revised. version of the new
testament, and said that what he wanted
was the real words which Jesus and
Paul and the others spoke. These. he
said, were found in the common version,