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stanford's Chance.
Klamath County Star.

1t looks as if a new and short route to
The Dalles was about to be opened, with
the line running through klamath coun-
ty.
A route from the railroad through Link
vile to Williamson river and Klamath
marsh, thence on to Antelope, is said to
be very practicable. The first difficulty
is between the railroad and Keno, but
this can be easily ''railroaded" by laying
the rails along the level river bank to
Jenny creek and then gradually ascend
ing the table land, which runs quite
evenly along to Keno, where the diff
Guilty ends. 1t is all prairie from Link
vile to the upper part of Klamath
marsh, with the exception of Modoc
point, little prominence easy to deal
with, and from the marsh to Antelope,
.tIce st9ths of the aody to The Dalles, the
1mpediments are said to be compal ative-
ly slight.
1t is just such a route as an enterpris-
in railroad company would gladly select,
being freer from mountainous impedi-
ments than any other route of equal
along the great Klamath Falls water
power and on through rich mineral,
agricultural and timber lands in which
are t1ourishing many industrious COM
munities, and we have reason to suspect
that it has been selected.
A Jew weeks ago there appeared in
Iinkville a gentleman named Basset.
With him came several photographers.
Neither Basset nor the photo men would
give any satisfactory account of their in
tentions and they passed on, the photo
men going on the east side of the big
lake to Klamath marsh, and Basset TAX
ing the west side to the same point.
How much further they went we have
not heard, but they returned together
and left as mysteriously as they came.
Several of our reliable old settlers say
that during the last thirty years Basset
has been one of Leland Stanford's ablest
viewers. And the fact that a road in the
direction viewed by them would pay
we'll is pretty good evidence that Stan
ford is about to take another iron grip on
a golden opportunity.
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THE WIRE WORM.

Some time ago the editor of the
CHRONICLE sent to Professor Washburn
the state eutomologist few of the cut
worms that play such havoc on our
spring grain. A letter just received says,
@'The worms you have just sent me are
wire worms or the larvae which will
produce the click beetles or swapping
beetles, so called because if you place
them upon their backs they will throw
themselves over on their feet with a
clicking sound. They live in the larval
stage Ii. e. as wire worms), for two
years. They abound in sod and clover
land and are pests not easy to get rid of.
The adult beetles lay their eggs some
time between March and September.
1t is practically useless to SOW a crop
after they have destroyed one. Burning
the stubble and destroying by burning
all rubbish stacks, etc., in field in the
fall will doubtless destroy many eggs"
The professor advises the farmer to ex-
anime field in the spring before plant
ing it and if worms are found there,
either to summer fallow or plant it in
crop distasteful to the worm. The
trouble with the first suggestion is that
summer following does not seem to di-
minish their numbers. A writer in the
american Agriculturist recently said that
''you may summer fallow land for
twenty years and you won't destroy the
worm" For fields the professor has no
practical remedy suitable to the con-
ditions prevailing in Eastern Oregon.
For gardens he suggests cutting potatoes
into pieces two inches square, and after
cutting out the eyes, sticking the pieces
of potatoes on small sticks, six inches
long and burying said pieces about two
inches below the surface, by the side of
the bean plant. By examining these
every other day a large number of them
might be captured.
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The ways of old rime Boston.

Visiting in Boston seems in old times
to have been attended with some diff
culties, and if the differences which one
would naturally draw from certain en-
tries in the old records are correct, the
authorities of the town were not accus.
toned to be overgiven to the encourage
ment of hospitality, whatever may have
been the case with individuals. For a
meeting of the selectmen of the town
held on Nov. 10, 174O, for instance, the
record begins as follows:
Mrs. Rebekah Young, Appearing In
forms that She with One Child is lately
come into this Town, from Harwich t.
Visit her Sister, that She intends to re-
turn in the Spring, & that She hath
brought with her to the Value of Two
Hundred Pounds in Money and House
hold Goods.
Liberty is Granted her to tarry un-
til the Spring, and then to return to Har-
wich with her Child or give security to
indemnify the Town"
The good folk of Boston were in a per
petual panic in those days lest they
should get upon their hands to take care
of paupers that really belonged to some
other community, and it is very likely
that they had good reason for their fear
and their precautions. One would sup
pose, however, that a woman who could
bring with her a couple of hundred
pounds in gold and gear might be of suf-
ficient Importance to be spared the for
mality of appearing before the select
men Of the town. 1t would be interest
ing to know how small an amount of be-
longings would have admitted her to the
privilege of passing the winter with her
sister.-Boston Courier.
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How They Work 1t.

The Tacoma News says that one
Washington firm of railroad contractors
has 1900 men at work building lines in
that state and mostly with Portland
capital. They are nearly all roads lead
ing from the great wheat regions of East
ern Washington and the Upper Column
bia to the Sound. Washington is fairly
alive with railroad building, mainly ex-
tensions of the Union and Northern
Pacific and the allied Gould interests
President Oakes and all the officials of
these lines with headquarters at Port
land are desperately in love with Wash
1ngton. They see to it that all possible
extensions of railroads are made in the
interests of Puget Sound, and Major
Handbury sees to it that the appropria-
tions for the opening of the Columbia
and Willamette rivers are sunk where
they will do the people of Oregon the
least good.
Every honest stroke expended toward
opening the rivers of Oregon to the COM
merce of the world is a blow at the COM
mercial supremacy of Portland and an
advancement of the prospects of Astoria.
Capital Journal.
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Anotder Invention by Edison.

AT an interview at Boston the other
day Thomas A. Edison said: ''I am at
work on an invention which I may now
say will be success, and which, while
its commercial value will be very limited,
may recommend itself to my friends as
something curious. 1t is not yet COM
plete, but am vain enough to believe
it will surprise you. hope to be able
to combine the phonograph and the
camera, and not only reproduce the
sounds accompanying any event, but
the action of those taking part as well.
For instance, if Patti should be singing,
this invention will put her full length
picture upon canvas so that the express
ion of her face and pose of her body can
be seen while listening to the song she
has sung. The eye will be pleased as
we'll as the ear. The invention has dem
onstrated its practicability at prize
fight. reproduced the ring, the two
principals, the crowd about them, the
intensely interested expressions of all,
the sound of blows, the cheers of en-
couragement and the howls of disap-
pointment. My idea is that man sit
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waco,s Wonderfu1 Ra...

Waco, Tex, is infested with rats in
countless legions. They run through
the streets, invade the stores and resi-
dences, devour grain, -four and grocer
les, and make themselves unmitigated
nuisances. which the application of ordi-
nary and extraordinary remedies has
failed to remove. While they accept al
most anything that comes in their way
as edible, they have penchant for eggs,
and the way they convey them from the
nests to their holes is thus related by
Sam Whaley, the jailer, who has made
their habits study:
81 set an old black hen right up there, -
he said, pointing to the corner of the Jail
yard where Sheriff Dan Ford's horses are
stabbed, land they carried off every egg
and broke the hen up. She went to lay
ing again in two weeks, and made her
nest in another stall. Two eggs were in
the nest, and these remained undis-
turbed, but when the third was laid it
disappeared, two still remaining. l
watched and saw the rats come-four of
them.
''The smallest of the quartet straddled
his four legs over the egg, hugged it
tight, then rolled over on his back, hold
ing the egg tightly pressed against his
belly. One rat took the prostrate one by
the ears just like boy holding the han
dies of wheelbarrow and kept him
steady, while the other two took him by
the tail, and away they went, pushing
and pulling until they got the egg to
their hole under the brick wall. Cor
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
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Silver Was Honest Money Then.
Spokane review.

At that time (1S73) silver dollar was
worth 1O3 cents in gold. According to
the single-standard reasoning. 1t was
the gold dollar then that was dishonest
If the double standard had been main
tanned, as in the past, would silver have
fallen below parity with gold? Our
criticism is that the gold men, who
were once such adorers of a dishonest
gold dollar worth only 81 cents, are now
thrown into a paroxysm of indignation
against silver dollar that is worth 100
cents, and that they should so warmly
champion the act of demonstration and
justify an effort to get away from an
honest dollar worth 103 cents by strik-
ing down its legal-tender qualities and
forcing the country to 97-cent basis.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-06-17

Several weeks ago a young man in the
Sierras caught a butterfly, and sent it off
to the Smithsonian Institution as cur
iosity. He was overcome to receive in
return check for 81 800, with request
to send all he could find at that and of
that variety. The particular butterfly
belongs to the tribe of that gauzy fam
lily long supposed to be extinct, and
great was the surprise in scientific cir
cles to see that one of the lost tribe had
been recently spreading its wings in
California.
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Don't Forget These Hints.

To extinguish kerosene flames, if nc
cloth is at hand, throw -four on the
flames. Flour rapidly absorbs the fluid
and deadens the flames.
If when cooking any kind of dried
fruit boiling water is poured on and the
fruit allowed to simmer it will be much
nicer than to use cold water.
Put camphor gum with your new
silverware and it will never tarnish as
long as the gum is there. Never wash
silver in soapsuds, as that gives it a
white appearance.
Honey should be kept in the dark or
it will granulate. The bees, knowing
this, work in dark hives.
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No Good substitute for r.a.

There has never been discovered good
substitute for tea. During the war of
the revolution our forefathers adopted a
liberty tea," which was made from a
four leaved plant called sloose strife. '
This plant was pulled up like fax; its
stalks. stripped of their leaves, were
boiled; the leaves were then put into an
iron kettle, and the liquor of the stalks
poured over them. After this process
the leaves were laid upon platters and
carefully dried in a brick oven heated
for the purpose.
Tea. favored with vanilla and rum, is
a popular drink in Germany. Tie rum
prevents the tea drinker from lying
awake at night.-Detroit Free Press.
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ting III his library at home, may be able
to see reproduced on his wall the busi-
ness of the stage as we'll as the lines of
the actor
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STATE OFFICIALS.

The Chronicle is the Only Paper in
The Dalles that Receives the Associated
Press Dispatches.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-06-17

Mr.. w. T. Foster, of st. Jo., Mo-, a
meteorolgist of note, says: Gin the last
twelve months have certainly establish
ed the fact that the principal storm
waves cross the continent from west to
east in regular succession and in definite
periods. The next fact to be established
is that the force of these storms depends
on the positions of the moon and plan
cts, and l expect that my predictions of
very great storms in 1891 and 1892 will
convince the public that the planets do
have such influences. Very soon the
way will be open for convincing the pub
lie that electricity is the cause of all mo-
ton, the motive power of the universe,
the builder of the worlds, and the life
principle of the magnet, and of the veg
etable and animal Kingdoms
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In the comparatively small country
of Argentine Republic there are as
many Italians as in the entire United
States-about 500 ,OO0-and they repre-
sent great part of the wealth and in
dustry of the land.
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ThOrnburV & Hudson.
$40 REWARD.

WILL BE PAID FOR ANY INFORMATION
w leading to the conviction of parties cutting
he ropes or in any way interfering with the
wires. poles or lamps of THE ELECTRIC LIGHT
Co. H. GLENN.
Manager
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-09
Catching Suckers.

With my own four eyes I saw It, as plain as
day, says a writer in the New York Herald.
The boy picked up stone as big as his fst
and dashed it into the eye OF his companion,
who stood not three feet away straight into
the eye, then it dropped with sckening thud
upon the pavement. TIE little fellow screamed
with anguish. clapping his hand over his
wounded eye, which | felt had certainly been
put out by that cowardly act.
! seized the little ruffian by the collar ard
shook him furiousiy, promise you, for the act
was so dGstardly that it made my blood boil,
and / felt like throttliny him. Nothing this side
of dime novel Indian is so cruel as q boy.
To my astonishuent l heard peal Of merry
laughter. 1t came from the victim of the one
whom / was ciutcnng l dropped him pretty
quick. tell you, for l know a thing or two
about boys.
AS ths pair walked grinuing away together l
heard one say dat was sood un. We caught
dat sucker easy: Now git anudder pebble and
Yves III try it again furder down "
watched the pair of mischief makers from g
! distance, and saw them eaten a fine mess OF
| suckers as they had caught this one.
The trick is an easy Each boy has &
| pebble in his hand, Boy No. l makes believe
| he throws his stone. Boy No. claps bis hanC
TO his eye with howl Of pain and let's his peb
] bic drop. The illusion Is perfect. The sucker
| does the rest.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A RECENT CENSUS of British Guiana shows a
population in the colony of about 100000. of
whom ll7,O00 are East Indian coolies. s. 600
Chinese, 1900 Portuguese. and 21.000 negroes
The great increase in the number Of Asiatic
Immigrants into the country. the coolies now
forming more than q third of the whole p1pu
laton, has been made the subject Of consider
able legislati IN recently These coolies are
imported, under contract with the British gov
erunent, to work on the sugar estates, and
only remain in the coloGy few years. The
planters make application for iaoorers and the
coolies are allotted to them as they arrive.
The law fixes the minimum daily rate of wages
at "a cents for an able bodied adult and 16
cents for any other immigrant that is young
women and children And the coolies save
enough on this pttance i'll five or six years to
make them practically independent on their re-
turn to India.
REAR ADMIRAL BEIKNAP's SURVEY of parts Of
the Pacific preparatory to the laying Of the
I trans Pacific telegraph cable indicates that ex-
traordinary difficulties will be encountered.
His Soundings,' says the Engineering and
Mining ,Joutnrl, show the existence OF a
trough or basin of extraordinary depth and ex-
tent along the east coast of Japan and the XII
rf!e islands and under the Kuro Siwo, or Japan
or Black stream. The basin exceeds any sim
liar depression yet found in any other region OF
the great ocean, In a run of thirty miles
| after leaving the coast of aJapan the waters
| the next cast OF the lead the wire broke after
| 1913 fathoms had been run out without bot
| tom having been reached. Thermometers
| specially constructed for deep sea soundings
were wrecked by the unprecedented pressures.
! The depth of the deepest cast-five and one
quarter miles, the deepe water yet tound-s
sufficient to hold two mountains as high as
| Japan's great Fusiyama, one on top of the
other and then the summit of the highest
would be nearly two thirds of mile under
! water. y
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-09

There is hustling widower in the Penn
sylvania town Of Hillsville who wants to
get married badly and he has a daughter of
IA to keep the future Mrs. Delos Terrell
from being lonely when he is ''at the
lodge" But he evidently doesn't intend
that just any female without regard to
physical qualifications shall share the profits
in his valuable stone quarry. Sure OF what
he desires he proceeds about the matter
with the same business-liks caution ard
precision that he might exercise in filling
the specifications for an assortment OF
variegated stone coping. When q number
Of Ohio women IN the vicinage of Canton
| answered his recent advertisement for
for prime good wife, gentle and kind
aud warranted 10 work in double harness, u
he went out there and carefully and thor
oughly inspected all the specimens offered
with all the calmness of critical Judgment
Mono OF them quite came up to his plans
and Specifications and he rejected the whole
| batch. Somehow they didn't seem to ex.
acty step to suit him. But he will prob
| ably get the article he is looking for yet
/ Moan while the ladies who are sound in al
respects and can go at a graceful gait that
shall appear neither too fast nor too slow
might incl0se accurate diagrams aud file
their applications.
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A millionaire Candidate.

Senator Stanford, Of California. desires to
round up his career by being President. Hs
has had a very successful ireer as a money
maker. Few other men have been 50 sue
eessful in that respect. And he is generous
with his money. The great educational in-
stitution which he has founded in California
and literally endowed is a monument that
will keep alive his memory for many gener-
atiOns
His ambition TO be President is an en-
tirely proper one, and being an excellent
business man he might make a very good
President But the probability that he will
ever reach the presidency is extremely re-
mote. He is member OF the Republican
party, but as long as that party can fry
the fatn out of the protected manufacturers
it is not likely 70 make Senator Stanford its
presidential candidate, notwithstanding he
has "bar'ln that would supply funds suf-
ficient for two presidential campaigns.
1t seems TO be the impression that he
would like to be the alliance candidate for
President. The alliance hasn't determined
vet whether or not it will nominate q eau
didate for President, although some of its
chief officers seem to think that it would be
a wise thing TO do.
Senator Stanford, when he introduced
into congress his bill TO loan money to
farmers at 2 per cent on land security, Ger
tainly made hIg bid for the support Of the
alliance. Asa successful farmer and good
business man, he must have known
that such a scheme would likely be pro-
ductive of great harm to the farmers. He
must have known the history of similar
schemes, and, assuming that he did, it
seems fair TO conclude that be did not ex-
pect congress to pass his bill, but did expect
to gain the favor Of the farmers, aud par
ticularly Of the farmers alliance.
But the alliance would have a pretty big
load to carry If it should make so rich a
man as Senator Stanford its candidate for
President. 1t would stultify itself, because,
if railroads Cypress the farmers, the senator
has got his full share Of the fruits OF that
sort Of oppression. II he is depending upon
the alliance to lift his presidential boom into
prominence, it is probable thai he will be
| disappointed. The alliance is not likely to
get up much enthusiasm for man who
owes his prominence chiefly to his money.
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Purchasers Must Paw.

Rather a remarkable decision was rea
Gently rendered by a judge of one of the
city courts of New York city. Yet when
we come to closely examine the matter in
all of its bearings we must admit that the
effect of it was but to bring the conflicting
claims and interests involved in the dispute
to just and equitable adjustment. Never
theless the suit is novel and curious
According to the evidence adduced at the
trial it appears that John A. p. Glore and
Marcus Sitter lately engaged in what they
call "a friendly game of draw" poker. For
the purpose of convenience they used "chips"
instead of money. These ''chips" were
bonght aud paid for with money or It's sup.
posed equivalent, and were invested with a
certain stipulated money value which was
designated by the color Of the chips"
During the course Of the game Glore alter
nately lost and won. But the fortunes of
the game eventually turned against him
and before he stopped playing he had given
to Sitter two checks to the amount of
| Sl44 20 in payment for chips which he
had subsequently lost In the game. After
ward Glore stopped payment on the check
at the bank for the alleged reason that b,
believed the game to have been unfairly
| played. Meanwhile the checks in question
had been Endorsed away by Sitter anC
and cashed in good faith by one Edward W
! Green who, as an innocent purchaser
brought suit to recover the face value Of tn
checks with interest.
On the faith of this testimony Justic
Ehrlich instructed the jury to find for til
plaintiff TO the amount Of $14S 20. Tha
verdict the jury Immediately Rendered
without leaving the box.
Such a verdict the judge held to be jus
on the ground that whatever might hav
been Gone with the 'chips" afterward th
sale and purchase of them was perfectly
legal business transaction and thus RENDERED
valid and binding upon the parties partici
pant thereto.
Equity seems to really justify such
decision for the reason that if a man ma,
repudiate an obligation simply because
gambled away the proceeds of the transac
ton it would by analogy tend to sustain
dishonest person in refusing to pay not
at bank simply because he had subsequent
lost the amount thus acquired at the rae
course. That would certainly not be sal
, precedent to establish.
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