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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-12-21
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wAsHTxsTos CITY. Dec 2a-in the sen
ate today Hoar presented petition signed
hv seventeen governors Of states and
many state officials. Endorsed by the iegis-
intare OF Massachusetts, aud signed by
1900 citizens of the United States. on
the subject Of good roads IL required the
efforts Of several employees OF the senate 70
"a heel the monster petition into the cham
Der. I. was referred 20 the COMMITTEES on
interstate commerce
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-12-21

SPOKANE, Dec N.-TSpecia. When
Conductor Sinclair's train reached Spo-
kane from the north at 40 O'Clock last
evening with seventy passengers the first
round trip over the Spokane Il Northern
and Nelson 4 For: Sheppard road was COM
p!ete. The arrival of the train at Nelson.
b. C., Tuesday evening was the signal for
the widest kind of demonstration. The
entire population turned ont. Five gall
Ions of free whisky was opened before the
passengers had fairly ailghted from the
cars. Free buses decorated with stream
ers took the passengers all over town,
while merry crowd followed the process
sion through the streets, making a tre-
mendous din. Everything was free in
Nelson, and good many citizens in the
town stayed up all night.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-12-21

Belle may be secured by Capt Eenspeser
10 run between the bay cities and the san
Juan islands in place Of the Dispatch,
which has been refused a renewal Of
license to carry passengers
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-12-21
Mason Coun,y.s Merry Christmas.

sHEITos, Dec. m-ESpeeiai. l--Shelton is
preparing TO celebrate the Christmas holi-
days IN great style. The lumbermsu will
receive all. or nearly all. their wages.
which will bring about $40. 900 to Shelton.
nearly all of which viii be expended here
IN various ways by the loggers. in paying
debts TO the merchants, Quitting and GEL
ebrating. F. F. Williamson paid one of
his camp crews A,6oo Monday. and has
about the same sum to pay his other crew
on the 2ed. Thomas Bordeaux will also
dispense several thousand dollars among
his men. Joe Doyle. who has about
4oo0. 600 feet of logs in tho Skoksmish.
has not YET sold anything. but his PROPOSE.
tion is first-class. and he can secure the
necessary funds until his ship comes in.
There Is considerable rejoicing in Shelton.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-12-21

Hy she sale of $500 pisess Of pnnt cloths. az .
eoss Of aaess tssn ac0 90, the market hss hesn
Fsfssye1. The FasI RIVER mslis have ia coDss-
esssn.e EeeesysA orsiers when will kssp Ehsa
running through the ~snsef, thaA pFoyidlEx for
q 40 n.iis hands and Ia sl sboHt - 90 pesso1s
depsndsot upon tss mills to- supgeFk
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-12-21

Oar display o! Christmas meats and
poultry Is saea as Sss never seen before IN
Seattle. 81 the Fulton AArke.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-12-21

Gents a0-oent line ueekssar ns H
cents. Max G. oppenheimeF. Second and
Spring.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-12-29
TeapOt Collectors.

Tea was not known in England till
the time of Charles Ii, but it is inter
esting to trace the gradual increase in
the size of teapots, from the diminutive
productions of the Elers, in the time
of Queen Anne and George l, when tea
was sold in apothecaries shops, to the
capacious vessel which supplied DR..
johnson with 1.-The cup that cheers but
not inebriates." Mr.. Croker, in his edi-
ton of "Boswell's Life" mentions a
teapot that belonged to DR.. johnson,
which held two quarts, but this sinks
into insigniicance compared with the
superior magnitude of that in the pos
session of Mrs. Marrayat of Wimbledon,
who purchased it at the sale of Mrs.
Piozzi effects at Streatham. This tea
pot, which was the one originally used
by DR.. johnson, holds more than three
quarts. George Nv had large assem-
blage of teapots, piled in pyramids in
the pavilion at Brighton. Mrs. Eliz-
abeth Carter was also a collector of tea
pots. Also Mrs. Halves, who bequeathed
800 specimens to her daughter, Mrs.
Donkin. Among them are several be-
longing to Queen Charlotte. = Salas
Journal.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-12-29
Reducing Vibration In Railway Cars.

A new invention embodies a princi-
pie which will commend itself to all
railway travellers. 1t is sought to les
sen the discomfort and annoyance of
travel on many lines on which there is
excessive vibration by the construction
of pneumatic Car (which embraces
the application of an elastic fluid as an
absorbent for vibration and oscilla-
tion." An air cushion is arranged on
the cellular principle between the car
body and the truck frame, and as there
is an equal distribution of air under
varying pressures all oscillation is pre-
vented. This elastic medium is said to
completely absorb all vibration result
ing from rough tracks, jointing of rails,
excessive speed or any other cause, and
the car is carried smoothly and steadily
along. This pneumatic system can be
equally well applied to street cars, and
instances are not hard to find in which it
unquestionably should be.-Exchange.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-12-29
A MODEL SAVAGE.
King Nhama Is an Autocrat of the Best
Possible Type.

King ~hama Is an Autocrat of the Best
Possible Type.
King Khama is model savage, if
black man who has been thoroughly
civilized by European and missionary
influences can still be called one. He
is an autocrat of the best possible type,
whose influence in his country is en-
tirely thrown into the scale of virtue
for the suppression of vice. Such
thing as theft is unknown in his realm.
He viii not allow his subjects to make
OF drink beer. He has put stop also
to the existence of witch doctors and
their wiles throughout all the Bamang-
wato
He conducts in person services every
Sunday in his large, round kotla, or
place of assembly, standing beneath the
tree of justice and the wide canopy of
heaven in truly patriarchal style. He
is keen in the suppression of ali super
stitions and eats publicly the flesh of
the duyker, a sort of roebuck, which
was formerly the totem of the tribe and
held as sacred among them 20 years
ago The late King Sikkome, Khama's
father, would not SO much as step on
a duyker skin, and it is still looked up
on with more veneration by his sub
jects than Khama would wish.
AS All instance of Khama's power and
Judgment, it is sufficient for us to quote
the sudden change of his capital from
Shoshong to the present site, Palapwe
Shoshong was in strong position,
where the Bamangwato could etfectual-
ly protect themselves from the Mata
beles' raids under Lobengula, but it was
badly supplied with water, and in dry
seasons the inhabitants suffered greatly
from drought. The change of capital
had been a subject discussed for years,
but Khama waited quietly until people
began to think that he was against it
and would never move. He waited, in
fact, until he was sure of British pro-
lection, until he knew that Lobengula
could not attack his people at Palapwe
without embroiling himself in war
with England.
Then suddenly one day, without any
predatory warning, King Khama gave
orders for the move, and the exodus
began on the next day, and in two
months time 5000 individuals were
located in their new capital, 60 miles
away from Shoshong. Under Khama's
direction, everything was conducted in
the best possible order. To every man
was given his allotted ground and he
was told to build his huts thereon. Not
a single dispute arose, and no one would
imagine today that only few years
ago Palapwe was uninhabited.
Khama, in manner and appearance,
is thoroughly a gentleman, dignified
and courteous. He wears well made
European clothes, billycock hat and
gloves; in his hand he brandishes
dainty cane, and he pervades every
thing in his country, riding about
from point to point wherever his pres
ence is required, and if he is just lit
tie too much of dandy it is an error
in his peculiar case in the right direc-
on.-Contemporary Review.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-12-29
White Blood Absorbing the Hawaiian.

The marriage of young American men
to half whites is becoming quite fire.
quent among respectable white families
in Hawaii. 1t is of no use for the for
eign parents to turn the cold shoulder.
Outlines the half white girls are fully
equal in intelligence, taste and domes-
tic virtues to those who marry them.
There will be more of these marriages,
and the mixed blood will improve with
growing prosperity and better educa-
ton, and as the primitive influences and
environments decrease with the lapse of
generations. Indeed one way that the
Hawaiian population is now decreas-
ing is not so much by the disappearance
as by the dilution or by whitening of
the blood. New York Evening Post.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-12-29
The Obliging Juryman.

Some jurymen have too low an opin-
ion of what some philosophers call their
ego and are willing to depute their du-
ties to an alter ego. When Mr.. Justice
Gould had been about two hours trying
a case at York, he noticed there were
but II jurymen in the box. PLEASE,
my lord, replied the foreman in an
swer to the judges natural inquiry,
1.-THE other has gone away about some
business he had to do, but he has left
his verdict with me. London Illus
trated News
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-12-29

"Castoria is so well adapted to children that
recommend it as superior to any prescription
known to me-" H. A. ARCHER, NJ. D.,
III So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, n. Y.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-12-29
An Eastern Dainty.

The Chinese are certainly strange
people-strange in appearance, customs
and tastes. One of their greatest deli
cacies of food, regarded from a Chinese
epicure's point of view, is "milhi, !"
which, in plain English, means new
born mice, yet blind" These are placed
alive on little trays and set before each
guest, who dips them one at time into
a jar of honey and then swallows the
tiny creatures. When the emperor's we'd
ding was celebrated few years ago,
$4,000 of the helpless creatures were
thus consumed. New York Herald.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-12-29

1.-THE use of Castoria is so universal and
its merits so well known that it seems work
of supererogation to endorse it. Few are the
intelligent families who do not keep Castoria
within easy reach"
CARLOS MARTYR, D. D.,
New York City.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-12-29
Novel Way of Selling a Corn Curer.

A gentleman who has been travelling
in France relates that in Paris the bar
Der who was shaving him stepped two
or three times upon the side of his foot.
At last the customer called out:
PLEASE don't do that any morei
have corn.
Exactly what | was trying to find
out, monsieur, said the barber bland
ly. 1--WE have an excellent preparation
for removing corns. for sale at franc
per bottle. Texas Siftings.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-12-29
Terrible Death of an Inventor.

A chemist named Liardet met a
shocking death at Melbourne recently.
He was engaged in his laboratory in
some experiments with powerful ex-
plosive, which he had just succeeded in
inventing after years of patient labor
and at an outlay of several thousands
of pounds, when the substance explod-
ed, with the result that the unfortunate
man was blown to pieces, his mangled
remains being projected right through
wooden partition. Melbourne Ga
1ette
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-12-29
A Childish Miracle.

Father-My boy. who is only three
years old, said to me this morning
Cells the same old story.
Friend-Yes. and ism t it strange that
child only years old can repeat jokes
that are at least 25 years old?-Hallo
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-08-31
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

The following Ire the transfer,
Of real estate as lilei i'll the county
clerks Office foy week ending to.
day;
Lydia Bras6eld 20 Mrs. Clara
Chandler; lot in Seal Rock Resort,
consideration, $50
5, and c. II, Finn to Minnie
Baker; two lots in Alexander, con-
sideration SIS.
j. A. Osborn, sheriff, to State
Insurance; 60 acres land; consider
alton S5ao.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-08-31

Last Tuesday Mrs, l.. NJ. Har-
mon, Mrs. Bamlord, Frantic Har-
mon and q smaller Harmon boy
started in hack for Newport, in.
tending 20 camp out = few days.
While at Beaver Creek bridge they
met another team and drove up on
the side of a bank at the road. side
to let them pass While passing
the other team the horses got some.
what mixed aud Harmou'S team
began backing and backed over a
bank, throwing all OF them out OF
the hack Mrs, Harmon was So
unfortunate as to tall under the
hack and baggage and was quite
badly crushed in her back and
chest. Or. Carter was called and
relieved her the best he could.
The smaller Harmon boy was
bruised and scratched ON the head
pretty badly, Mrs. Harmon was
conveyed TO Mr., Duudeu'S place
and afterwards to her home, AZ
ter they were thrown out The team
ram away and tore the hack all TO
pieces.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-08-31
TAXPAYER.

In answering Taxpayer" we
would say that the sheriff has done
and is doing all in his power to col
lect the unpaid taxes, but that he
cennot proceed to collect by sale of
property until the county court de-
clares the taxes delinquent and is
sues a warrant to the sheriff there
on. We do not know why the
court have not declared taxes de-
linquent, Unless the court desires
to give the taxpayers all the time
possible before adding costs to their
taxes. The extreme stringency of
the times warrants, in our mind,
the court in being as lenient as pos
sible to delinquents.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-08-31

For a short time l will give a fine
life size crayon portrait to every
one buying S25. worth for cash.
Cali at my store, or write for par
ticulars to S. N. Wilkins, tine lead
ing furniture dealer, Corvallis, Or.
----s <>-Ns' '-s,-o----
OF the four congressman and
three senator's from Oregon and
Washington all Of the former are
favorable to tree coinage and one
of the latter, the other, Dolph, be-
ing a straight ont monometalist.
The East Oregonian says: A
Boston merchant ships a three
pound package to Pendleton mer-
chant by express. The exprersage
is forty-fve cents. A Portland
merchant ships a three-pound
package TO Pendleton merchant
by express. The expressage is the
same, forty-fve cents. Is there
any justice in the latter chatge.
compared TO the former? DE- u
merchants of Pendleton propose to
remain quiet while they are being
cinched by these corporations
Don't expect an advertisement,
says Printers Ink, to bear fruit in
one night. You can't eat enough
i'll a week to last you a year, and
can't advertise on that plan, either.
People WHO advertise once in three
months forget that most folks can-
not remember anything longer than
seven days. If you can arouse Gu
riosity by an advertisement you
have a great point gained. The
fair sex don't hold all the curiosity
i'll the world. Quitting advertising
in dull times is like tearing out a
dam when the water is low.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-08-31
An Inquiry From ID Taxpayer.

ELK CITY, OREGON. Aug. 29.
EDITOR LEADER:
1 would like to make an inquiry
through the columns Of your paper
concerning delinquent taxes for
1893. As reported in the LEADER
last May, taxes were to become de-
linquent in the first Of June, and l
and q great many Of my rfeighbors
made sacrifices in order to get the
money to pay our taxes before they
were delinquent. II seems like We
need not have in hurry after all,
as here it is nearly three months
after that time and taxes are not
yet delinquent. Why is this? Our
sheriff ought to proceed to make
those slow ones pay up as well as
the others.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-08-31
DIED

BUTl,ER.-Ou Saturday, August
20, 1905, IL. P, Butler, aged g.
years, othemorrhage otthe lungs.
VAN CLENE--M Baker Civ.
Thursday Angus, a., 1908. tlc
infant child of Mr.. and Ms. Van
Cleve.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-08-31
LOCAL NOTES.

S. A. Logan launched his new
scow today.
Bonds for deeds for sale at the
LEADER Office.
d. F. Scott is sick at his home
across the river.
Squire Allen Parker, of Oneatta
IS in town today.
County Court has ordered another
city election to be held on Septem.
Der nth.
1t is reported that there is liable
TO be a shortage in the potato cror
this year,
License to wed was issued thi,
week to VIM. r. Mcgginson and
Annie Batticc.
Sheriff Lands started to Alsea
On business connected with his
office last night
Miss Nettie Mays, of Elk City,
was visiting friends in this city the
FIRST Of the week.
A new sign adorns the buick de.
pot. 1t readsi Toledo, 1danha
& 80 miles, Yaquina 9 miles" "
All the section hands except the
foreman of each gang have been
aid OFF for time. Cause, hard
times.
Salmon have begun TO make
their appearance in the Bay. A
i'w Of the boats are picking up one
g two each night now.
District court convenes at Cor
wallis in adjourned term today, and
the matter Of the apportionment Of
county school money will come up
for adjudication.
l.. M. Buffers family leaves for
Independence tomorrow when they
will engage in hoppicking. Harry
Fant and Albert Collins accompany
them.
Messrs. Stone and Fish, two
Portland gentlemen, and employees
of the Oregonian Office, have been
spending their vacation in this vi
cinity during the past two weeks.
They spent several days fishing in
the Siletz and Yaquina rivers,
We are informed that party of
bathers made themselves quite con-
spicious in the slough just below
town last Saturday, They were
not small boys, either. We hope
>that this will not occur again.
The people along the Alsea and
West-Yaquina road are ont ofluc,,.
They have donated a large amount
of work along the road, but unfort-
unately they got of the surveyed
route for about mile in length
of their road
Thos. Horning set ont fire last
Saturday to burn some brush. The
brush bumed-so did about ten or
twelve cords of wood for Squire
Hall, and some for himself also.
The fire might have been called
complete success.
+. NJ. Redfeld, of Albany, is
assisting County Clerk Jones in
the clerks office Mr, Redfeld
has been in the clerks office in
Linn county for many years, either
as clerk OF deputy, and is as well
qualified as any man in Oregon.
Mrs, Win, OF Albany Mrs.
Campbell, of Corvallis, and Mrs.
Copeland, ]. S. Copeland, Frank
Wadsworth and Ora Copeland COM
prise hunting and fishing party
that are enjoying themselves at the
Sulphur springs, on Big Elk, this
week.
Assessor Parker is busily engag-
ed in completing the 1903 rolf,
which he expects to have ready Of
the equalization board which meets
on September 2sth. Owing to the
lack ofrecords and maps for refer
ence, the task Of making a COM
plete roll is an almost herculean
one, but he is doing his very best
and the roll promises TO be the
most accurate ono in which the
property of the county has been
a,uta1 Enr vpafc
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-08-31
An Expert Asked For.

The advisory committee, Of the
Hamilton, job & Co. assignment,
consisting ofP. Avery, J. NJ. Bloss,
P. N. Zeirolf and John Priest, met
with b ssignee Bryson last Monday
to consider the proposition Of ap-
pointing all expert to investigate
the books of the defunct bank and
to either affirm or set at rest the
rumors that are prevalent concern
ing the manner in which the bank S
business was run. The committee
prepared a petition to the court
asking for authority to employ such
an expert.
1t is proposed to secure an expert
from the First National Bank, of
Portland, and one which has had
no business relations with the de-
funct instution. This move is the
best one that has yet been made, if
proper person is employed to in
vestigate the books. The deposi-
tors would very much like to know
what became of their money. By
all means investigate the books.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-08-31
MARRIED.

MEGGINSON--.BATTICE.-A
the Hotel Lincoln, ON Sunday,
August -, 1893, Wm h, Meg
giusou and Mrs, Auuie Battice.
J, ~ Hall, ] F., officiating.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-08-31
BORN

FORRESr-Near Toledo, ON Mon
day, August IS, 1903, te the
family OF JOS. Forrest, a son.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-08-31

vestigate the books. The deposi-
tors would very much like to know
what became Of their money. By
all means investigate the books.
L. J, Lewis, Of Newport, was in
the city Monday.
A bloody shooting affray occur
red last Tuesday on Alexander
Island, near Corvallis, in which
one man received three bullets in
his body and two others, broken
heads. The fracas occurred be-
tween two families by the names Of
otahlbusch and Smith.
a rumor circulated on the streets
yesterday and today that ou1 friend
Chas. Kennedy was implicated in
a serious difficulty at Marshfeld,
his present home. The rumor
when traced down proved to have
no foundation in fact, and must
have been started by some one en-
tirely void of sense and decency.
The Tillotson boys east of town
have just completed the dyking of
10 acres Of tide land just east of
town. They have built altogether
a dyke 255 rods long, and averag-
ing five feet in height. The boys
get IS acres of the land for the dyk-
ing of the whole. The land thus
reclaimed is made very valuable
and will amply repay the owners
for their work.
ID. RoSebrooks, our accomplished
young musician, expects to leave
for Portland Saturday where he will
accept position in the orchestra at
Cordray's theater for the winter
season which opens shortly. He
will either be assigned a position
in the Portland house or at Seattle. |
Mr.. Rosebrooks, though quite a |
young man, has talent which Sc
cures him a position with a good |
remuneration.
Word comes to us that Edwin |
Stanton was quite seriously hurt at
the Agency last Tuesday morning. |
He drove a wagon under the mill
shed at the saw mill to haul out a
canoe under there, when he was
caught by beam, which was low
er than he thought it was, and was
crushed down against the seat.
His back was quite badly injured
and it may be some time before he
RECEIVERS.
Considerable speculation exists
as to how much, if any, school we
are going to have in Toledo this
winter, As it now stands the dis
trict has received but $50 in county
school funds and seventy cents per
scholar from the state apportion-
ment which would amount to
SS4 90 making total school fund
of sI34. This is not a very en-
couraging outlook for a school.
We are promised another apportiou-
ment in December OF this year, but
this win hardly help matters much.
Some way must be devised by which
we can have at least six months of.
school, and really this school
should begin the first of the coming
The Wilson bill repeating the