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Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1888-10-15
Three Smoksrs-A Parody,

Three Rallants sat up i'm an Office fair,
In an Office fair, as the sun went down,
Each costly smoking and lOungiDg there,
And watching the bellies as they stepped
'.. down town,
For men must smoke, and women
look fine,
Though taxes are heavy and stocks de-
cline,
And the grocers' bills be running.
Three wives sat up till the midnight hour,
And longed and watched and hoped in
vain;
But the husbands, snug in their office
bower,
Were smoking dull care from their weary
BRAIN.
For men will smoke, though women
repnc.
ThOurh health and wealth and vigor
decline,
And sickness and dues be on-coming
Three corpsos We're buried from sight one
day
BY Palsy, Consumption and Fits cut
down,
And none 5uJ the doctor had ever da e say
That "Sura as great suns they were
smoked out of town.
For men VIII smoke, though death does
come,
To desolate fortune and Office and home
And grocerS and wives be moaning.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1888-10-15

A RECORDER of New Orleans has
ruled that Mr.. Seb2rt, who killed
II burglar or trespasser on his place,
after the latter had attacked and
fired on him, is technically Il muir
derer and has locked him up with
out privilege of bail to await trial.
Some burglar shouldpractice on that
recorder. 1t would assist him to see
the law rightly.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1888-10-15
NEW TODAY.
Notice.

4 NYONE HAVING A LEGAL CLAIM
y against me will please call at the store
within the next ten days.
lg7-2O3 a. MAYER.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1888-10-15
FOR BARGAINS IN
r u r N l 7 u r E
60 TO
ROTAN & WHITNEY,,
1902 Court Street, Salem, Oregon

Having bought out the remainder OF the
chair factory's stock, we are prepared 10
sell chairs lower than any house in Oregon
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1888-10-15
PRINT ING

ONE OF THE LARGEST ESTABLISH
Uments in the State. Lower rates than
Portland. Largest stock Legal Blanks in
the State, I'd biggest discount. Send for
price list of job printing, and catalogue OF
legal blanks. f., NJ. WAITE,
Steam Printer, Salem, Oregon.
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HsJ-Entcrcd as sccOnd-cluss matter at the
Salem, Oregon, pOstoIicc, June p, 1883.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-07-07
WHITE PINE CoUsrY IrEm'
Items of Interest clipped fr"m ths
white Pine News ot June 30.

white Pine News ot June 80.
A daily mail from Eureka after to-
day.
The weather during the week has
been hot, dusty and windy.
The creditors Of the Brooks estate
in this county are to be paid in full.
The Ely Gold mill is running and
making its regular bullion shipments.
MANY of the laid off miners have
departed for other fields during the
week.
Dave Jolly writes us from T~uscarora,
inclosing a V for the News. lie says
there are lots Of idle men there.
A large body OF high grade lead and
silver ore has been discovered in the
Peaslee & Browns mine at West
Camp.
The Eberhardt-monitor Company
shipped this week through Wells
Fargo's express two bars OF bullion,
valued at 81 900.
TAYLOR ~"Junction" jubilated with
| 100 guns Thursday evening over the
nomination of Harrison and Morton
Upper Town didn't waste much pow
der.
1t isn't pleasant to be woke up al
midnight by a bowling mob o
drunken squaws and white men, II
ones back yard, but this is the ex'
perience that the editor OF the New
has had in the past week. Our loca
officers should look after these mixeC
disturbers of the midnight peace.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-07-07
,oopoolsM IN eEoHGIA.
strange stories OF an Old Coiored
Doctor

A strange case Of voodooism was
reported here recently. In Sanders
Vile about a month ago the wife Of
the Rev. Tom Thomas, one of the
most religious colored men in the
community, felt a peculiar pain in
her limbs, which gradually en-
voloped the entire body. Instead o.
yielding to ordinary physic each
dose administered seemed to augment
her suffering and finally it dawned
upon Tom that his wife was be-
witched, and he sought the aid Of
Gus Cheevers, a half breed Indian,
| noted for his knowledge of occult
sciences. The old doctor as soon as
he approached told Tom that his
wife had been poisoned with rattle
snake poison by a neighbor, and
that had three days more delay
been made she would have been
dead. He could save her, though,
and for the sun of SIS under
took to antidote the poison. His
medicines would, he said, at II
| O'Clock on a certain day make her
sick almost unto death, but after
that she would get we'll.
The poison under his treatment
exuded from the pores Of her skin in
threadlike sprays of mucos. Finally
the woman recovered and is now Of
work hoeing cotton. Sunday last
the old voodoo doctor went to Toms
to find out the poisoner. This he
pretended to acco nplish with &
talismanic ball from a string
The neighbors assembled and the
ball was held up in front of each a
his name was called, until Boston
May was reached, when the ball flew
toward kim and the man, though
denying it, stood accused. Old
mar Jerry's we'll, on q lot adjoining
Toms, began boiling up last Monday
and whenever a bucket of water il
drawn it begins to foam and rur
over a la seidlitz powder, until The
bucket is empty. The wondrouI
little ball also lays this devilment tt
Boston, and the old doctor says the
cause is q little bottle of poison
placed in the bottom of the well.-
n. Y. Times.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-07-07
The Truth Wen Told.

No paper can be published with
out home patronage, says an ex-
change. III a railroad or factory is
wanted, the newspapers are ex-
pected to work for it. If a public
meeting is wanted for any purpose,
the paper is called on for a free
notice. III the charitable societies
have q supper or socisble of any
kind, the newspaper is always ex-
peeted to give all the necessary no.
tees. and TO puff it after it is over.
The newspaper must do everything
to advance of the business men of
the place, and then give them a
handsome notice when they go to
heaven. And yet, some of them
never do anything to keep up a
newspaper. Reno Gazette.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-07-07

A dense throng of people collected
on North @ street last evening at
tracted by the vision of a small man
Juggling at a firmly planted telegraph
pole, apparently e~ndeavoring to pull
it out of the ground by main
strength. He paid no heed to
questions as to his object but con-
tinued his efforts to wrench the pole
out by sheer muscular force.
After several hundred people had
gathered in the vicinity the little
man suddenly relinquish his efforts
and darted into Billy McKeighan's
saloon followed by the crowd under
the impression that the little man
was an escaped lunatic.
Billy McKeigban explained to the
inquiring crowd which now filed
his saloon that the little man had
bet the drinks he could gather more
people in the saloon in Is minutes
than the ~barkeeper could wait on in
m hour and won the bet. He got
his drink and vanished through the
back door to escape being mobbed
for perpetrating such a huge SELL
Virginia Chronicle.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-07-07
An Honest a

Pittsburg Post: when 1 was
leaving for Europe a few years age
with my wife," said William G..
Deshier, a wealthy banker and Re-
publican of Columbus, to a cor.
respondent the other day: 81
handed Judge Thurman a blank
power of attorney and said: If |
should meet with any accident i
want you to have the settling up OF
my estate There is no other man
living, Democrat or Republican
whom l would trust to that extent
but l know that in Judge Thurman's
hands my property would be per-
fectly safe. / am a Republican. and
expect to vote against Judge Thur
man, but no human being can sue
eessfully assail his honor or his in
tegrity."
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-07-07
AT FL monte

Middle Aged Matron.-Isn't this
lovely? And I've hit on such a splendid
idea, love. l make my husband sit with
his feet up at the clubhouse window
when he goes off to take his cigar, and
l know that he isn't flirting with that
bold Mrs. Spicy, who is such a f~avorite
with the men here, though for the life Of
me l can't see why, because she isn't
pretty, and she really dresses in the
most dowdyish manner imaginable.
Gay Husband-Here, you, jim; il you
want to make a dollar just watch those
boots | put on the window sill. and il
any one moves them you are a dead man,
you hear me. I'll be back in an hour.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-07-07

Mrs. Cleveland is a woman Of rare
tact and amiability.
Boston Herald: Some men are
born great, and some live in pivotal
States"
The tramps now call their WORKOUT
shoes corporations" because they
have no soles.
BY a mere transposition OF the two
first letters of his name Alger could
have made himself the most popular
candidate at Chicago.
A girl can sing and a girl can dance
She can work as well as play.
But she can't strike a match on the
seal OF her pants,
Because she amt built that way.
New Haven News: Although a
tennis match does not provoke such
noisy enthusiasm as a ball game, the
costumes of the players are loud
enough to be heard a mile"
Codger-You wouldn't think that
swell-looking fellow has to scrape fol
a living, would you?
Dodger-No, indeed.
Codger-Yes he lives from hand tc
mouth. He's a dentist.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-07-07
ZEAL
A Btt OF the Rope That Hung
Major Andre.

1917
Coiled up in the window Of q
Broadway cigar store, among a lot of
bad cigars aud chewing tobacco,
lies a curiosity hal has played O
prominent part in American history.
1t is a bit of rope about three inches
long, With nothing attractive about it.
vet hundreds have asked its history.
A reporte, who did the same yester.
day, received this interesting an
swer:
We'll, sir that piece Of hemp you
see in my window is all that is left
of the rope that hung Major Andre,
the spy. The original piece, some
six or eight feet long, / believe, has
been cut up into little bits and given
AWAY as mementos and tue piece
there is all that is left. 1t came into
my possession somewhat curiously.
Several years ago l kept a little
cigar shop 10 Albany and one of the
two men working for me was a green
hand from up the State somewhere
who had landed in Albany without q
cent. He used to board at my
house and one night he left. leaving
a board bill of so or S12 behind him
unpaid.
He also left q small trunk and a
letter, in which he asked me to keep
the trunk for him until he could re-
deem it by paying his board. kept
the trunk for nearly six years, and
then, not hearing from the man, |
opened it. Among other things l
found this rope, which the young
mans grandfather had taken from
Andres neck the day he was hanged
and kept it as a memento of those
stirring times. There was also a
little book with the rope-a sort of
ledger in which the grandfather and
his son had kept a record of those to
whom the pieces of rope had been
given, and whittier they had gone.
"Three of the pieces had been
sent to England, one to Australia,
another to an English officer in
Constantinople and the rest were
distributed among different persons
in the United States.
"Some time 1 am going to try and
collect them again and then present
the entire rope to some historical
museum. 1t will be q curiosity any
way, if not a valuable relic. As
il is few know the strange ropes
history. 1 think / shall have q sign
painted to put in the window with
the rope, so that all who see ii may
know what they are looking at."-N.
Y. Telegram.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-07-07
Embarrassed Win Riches.

The great State of Texas is troubled
with q plethora of cash. An ex-
change says its bonded indebtedness
is only 1850. 900 which the holders
will not exchange for the money,
preferring to draw the interest; and
there is in the State Treasury a sur
plus of more than 50, 000, 900. The
school fund has a surplus of S16,-
DOC, 900, for nearly half of which no
safe investment can DO fonnd. The
farmers. to whom the State has
been selling its lands on forty years
time. with only five per cent inter-
est. in the hope that they would be
very dilatory about paying the prin-
cipal. are piling in the money on
the overburdened State Treasurer.
The counties are doing the same.
To add to its misery the State has
30. 600 900 acres of land yet to sell,
which are bringing every year
higher prices.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-07-07

The Strange Career of "a Six.Year'
Old BOY.

The Career OF n NIX. n
old Roy.
The most remarkable case of
youthful depravity on record came
to the knowledge of the police yes
terday. BERTHE Warren is but six
years of age, small and delicate,
with a frank innocence stamped on
his baby face. The parents are we'll
TODD and respectable, yet BERTHE is
old in the ways of crime. He has
tapped tills, stolen purses and picked
pockets, has been arrested and
broken Jail. Incapable of realizing
the nature of what he has done, he
is always ready to tell the story of
his many adventures, and takes a
very evident pride in doing SO.
About a year ago he began by steal
ing candy. From this it was an
easy step to the tills of bootblack
stands. But sly as he was, detection
followed and he vas taken to his
sorrowing mother by @ starred
policeman. The order went forth
hat BERTHE was not to go abroad I'M
less accopanied by a member of the
family. BERTHE showed his contempt
for the expression of maternal
authority by stealing $50 and rum
ming away to Sacramento, where he
tapped a till when his money gave
out, and was arrested. His father
was sent for, but before he arrived
the bird had flown. The Jail fence
had been scaled by the modern Jack
Sheppard, who was overtaken by his
father on the East-b bound train
across the Nevada line. He was
taken home and locked up, but on
the following day a Market Street
butcher had reason to regret his es-
cape by the loss of 500 from his till.
This money was expended in riotous
living, while the distracted parents
were searching for him. He was
found by the police yesterday. at the
Ocean Beach. where he was attempt
ing to get a $50 gold piece changed.
He had distracted it from a lady's
satchel at the Oakland Ferry. After
a narration of his tale at the Office of
Chief of Police Crowley he went
home in his mothers arms.-S. +.
Bulletin.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-07-07
1T WORKED.
Belshazzar Had No Wings. but He
Got There All the ssme.


There was an object of curiosity
on the market the other morning
which quickly collected a crowd.
1t was a farmers dog of medium
size, and he had on a collar studded
with enormous tacks, leather bands
around his body ornamepted the
same way, and fastened to his fore
legs just above the feet were the
same gaffs as are used on fighting
cocks.
"You see," explained the farmer,
"every time Belshazzar comes to
town with me he is tracked and
chawed up by some of your smart
Alexis. I've got tired of it. and I've
fitted him out to defend himself.
As I've brought him all the way in
a wagon, and as I'd kinder like to
know how the old thing will work,
some of you may bring up your best
stock"
A man went across the street and
got o Newfoundland about as big as
a yearling calf, aud he had no sooner
caught sight of the country chicken
under the wagon than he went for
him. There was a roar, a howl and
a yelp. and the big dog broke for
the woods. with the little dog close
behind. One mouthful of tacks was
plenty for the big un. and his yelps
of pain and terror could be heard
three blocks.
"Come, Belshazzar, git back un-
der the wagon" said the farmer.
We've struck it plumb-center. and
the medal is ours. Jist let 'em come
mp and pitch in as fast as they want to,
We hain't no wings. but we git thar
list the same."-Detroit Free Press.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-07-07
An Absolute Cure,

The Original Abietine Ointment is only
put up in large two-ounco tin boxes, and
ia en- absolute cure for old sores, burns.
wounds, chapped hands, and all skin erup-
tions. Will positively cure all kinds OF
piles. Ask for the Original Abietine ONT
ment. Sold by John s. Capron. druggist,
Main street, Eureka, Nevada, at 20 cents
per box; by mail, 80 cents.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-07-07

A halter says American heads are
a size or two larger than they were
80 years ago. Well, no wonder.
just think how easy it is to get
mentioned for President. In thirty
years more every able bodied citizen
in the nation will be suffering from
4" big head"
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-07-07

The Austin Reveille says: me
vada voted three for Alger and three
for Allison. Hamilton. Sharon and
Foley evidently voted for the former,
and Jones, Stewart and Evan Will
Jams for the latter"
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-07-07

Our Democratic friends may
adopt a pocket handkerchief as a
campaign emblem, but they will
continue to use the back OF the
hand when coming ont OF a beer
saloon.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-07-07

If You wish to enjoy a fine smoke, try
Tansill's cigars, fer sale at the Eureka
Drug Store.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-07-07

Ladies' and childrens' shoes. you must
see. TO be astonisfe ed as TO quality and price.
at Berc's. I
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-07-07
FOR SALE.

TWO FIVE AMI ONE FoUR-YEAR-oLD
IL Jacks. Price and terms of the same rea-
sonable. CHARLES ADAMS,
Lee, Elko county, April 0. 1888. a2l-2m
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-07-07
THE FRIEND or LABOR.

That we recognize the right of all men
TO organize for social or material advance.
ment; the right of wage-workers to use all
lawful means to protect themselves against
the encroachments of moneyed monop-
lists, and the right to fix a price for
their labor commensurate with the labor
required of them, and we held that every
man has the right TO dispose Of his own
labor. upon such terms as he may think
will best promote his interest. In rela-
tions between capital and labor, the Dem
ocratic party favors such measures and
policies as will promote harmony be-
tween them, and will adequately protect
the rights and interests of both. We
freely indorse and approve the laws passed
pursuant to the demands of former Demo-
cratic Conventions making provision for
the safety and protection OF laborers aud
miners, and provision for the collection Of
their wages, and are in favsr Of all other
enactments to that end which may be
necessary and proper.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-07-07

a small amount Of coin will buy a large
at Nathan's. $50
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-07-07

Cheap and good groceries there, for no
n can afford to stay away from Berg's. I
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-07-07

For good clothing and low prices go {
Nathan's.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-07-07

Berg's.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-07-07
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
EuReM LODGE NO. n, |. 0. OF.

DUE REGULAR MEETING OF EUREKA
Lodge No. %, l. o. o. r., VIII % held IN
odd Fellows Hall every wednesday evening NJ
7:3O O'Clock.
Members Of sister Lodges, and s0Ionrning
hrethren in good standing, are invited - at
tend. NMs NAbO"fN
W. 8. BEARD, Secretary. auz'
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-07-07

Nathan's for 81 50. g"'
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-07-07

OK PER MONTH FOR AGENTS
RtO Local or travelling. Five best sell.
stamp for tsrms. Address, N, u. TURREII,
400, Somerset Mich aueiv
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-07-07
CHINESE IMMIGRATION REsraIcrED.

We commend the successful negotiation of
the recent treaty by President Cleveland
with the Emperor Of China, by which the i'm
migration to this country of Chinese
laborers has been stopped.
We are opposed to the further immi-
grafton of Anarchists, Nihilists and other
undesirable persons who have no just APP
probation of our institutions, nor the du-
prove the action Of the present Admins
tration in rightly enforcing the law pro-
hibiting the importation Of foreign con-
tract labor.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-07-07
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.

The Democratic party Of Nevada ia.
vors rules and regulations for the civil serv.
ice as will secure honest, capable and
deserving public officers; but where
honesty, ability and merit are equal, w
believe that there would be both justice
and wisdom in giving preference to those
who would harmonic in principle and
policy with the party having the respons.
bility of administration
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-07-07
H PUBLIC DOMAIN

II is the duty of the Government to re
possess itself of all public lands heretofore
granted for the benefit Of corporations
which have been forfeited by non-com
pliauce with the conditions Of the grant
and should hold the same for the use anc
benefit Of the people.
Laws should be passed to preTent the
ownership of large tracts Of Land by cor
portations, or by persons not citizens OF
the United States, or who have not de-
clared their intention to become such az
provided by law. Congress should dis.
courage the purchase Of public land in
large bodies by any parties for specula-
tive purposes, but sh uld preserve the
same as far as possible for actual settlers,
and to that end all subsidies of land, az
well as money to corporations and specu.
lators should cease forever.
LrBERALITY TO VETERANS RICO MMENDED.
The Democratic party is the faithful
friend of the soldiers, and their widows
and orphans, and in appreciation of the
heroic and unsel6sh service Of the Union
soldiers and sailors, we declare in favor OF
liberal legislation in their behalf, as a re.
cognition of patriotism, and reward for
honorable services rendered the Govern.
ment.
HYDRoGRAPIc SURVEY.
We favor the development Of the re.
sources Of our State, and approve all eff.
forts to advance its material prosperity,
and to this end indore all legitimate en-.
deavors that may be made for the advan.
tage OF the State in securing more good
citizens, and the investment of capital in
our midst.
We also favor a suitable appropriation
by Congress for a photographic survey Of
the State, for the purpose Of determining
proper methods for storing water to be
used for irrigation.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
The system Of non-sectarian public
schools established in the State is an
essential part OF our free institutions and
we heartily favor its liberal maintenance
as provided by u constitution and laws
and by such other laws in accordance with
our constitution as will bring its benefits to
every child in the State.