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Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1895-04-26
PREMIERE PARTIE

Vers la fin du regne de Louis
XIV, q r6poque Cd le successeur de
Louis lie Grand en- 6tait 4 se d6fen-
Dire, ct q SO NAL d6fendre, d'autori-
ser lie pscte de famine en- SO faisant
lui-meme accaparateur de grains,
n grande misere d6solait la
France. L'hiver vint laugmentsr
encore, un hiver d'uue violence ra-
re dams nos olimats, mails qui NAL.
heureusement, devsit SO reprodui-
re quelques ann6es plus tard ct
amener les plus terribles d6sastres.
Bien qu'on fat d6ja au milieu de
f6vrier, les provinces du Nord OF
du Centre 6taient, depuis deux
mois, ensevelies sous I'm linceul
blanc; les rivi6res 6taient g6lees,
les routes impraticables. La IA
mine faisait chaque jour de terri
bles progress, surtout dams les cam
pagnes Oh Ton comptait d6ja de
nombreuses victimes. Les vi]les
avaient resist6 plus l%ongtemps,
grace a l'approvisionnement des
greniers publics; mails. peu q peu,
les resources s'etaient 6puis6es ct
la chert6 des wires avaient pris
des proportions d~6sastreuses.
L'lnquietude, disons mieux, une
sorte de terreur r6gnsit partout.
Paris lui-meme, GO Paris, d'ordi,
naire 81 anime, 81 vivant, CO centre
de raotivit6, du travail ct du plai-
sir sous toutes les formes les plus
brillantes, Paris await pris I'm as
pect lamentable. La circulation
des voitures de place ct des riches
carosses 6tait complement inter-
rompue, seules quelques chaises q
porteurs SO risquaient encore au
milieu des neiges don't il 6tait i'm
possible de d6barrasser Ia vote pu
blique. Les ateliers, les fabriques
avaient suspendu leurs travaux; la
Motto des boutlques ~restaient fer
m6es, faute d'acheteurs; on rem
oontrait q chaque pas dams les
rues des ouvriers ans Outrage,
des femmes, des enfants converts
dc ha1llons ct demandant l'aumo-
ne. La mutt venue, toutes les lu-
mieres s'6teigna;ent, il SO faisait
I'm silence lugubre. Paris sem
blait une Vile morte
-Cest vraiment bien triste, dl.
salt IN jeune seigaeur q de bellies
danes de Versailles, r6unies dams
I'm des riches salons Cd Ia nouvel
le comtesse de Barry 6talait sea
toilettes ct ses bijoux en- ohaufant
ses petits pieds devaut I'm bon feu'
-Qu'est-ce qui est triste, che
Waller, le pare ct see beaux arbref
converts de givre?
-Je trouve celia tout 3 fait poe.
tique, r6pondit une jeune ct char
mantle marqulse on 6cartant LEI
Aots de dentelles qui emprison
intent So gracieuse poitrine ct qui,
disait-elle, r6touffait de ohaleur.
I'll nest pas question de pare
Madame, je parle de Paris.
All! vous y allezl MATS c'es1
de la folie! Et vous On etes reve'
nu?
-Dieu merci, a cheval, avec
deux GU trois fous CONNIE moi, AT
risque de nous casser les jambef
Of Ia tate. Nous vouliOns vOir.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1895-04-26

-Deux r6deurs comparaissent
devant les JUICES correctionnels.
Oh habitez-vous?
-J'ai pas de domicile.
-Et vous?
Mo-, je demeure q l'6tage d'au-
dessus.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1895-04-26

aims tous les jours except6 lie dimanche
Correspondances faites aux union
Depots, st. Paul, Minneapolis OF West
Superior.
WIS ALEXANDER, P. A. ROCKWELL.
Frest. q aenI Manager. Asst Gen. Pass AIT,
st. Paul. st. PAM
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1895-04-26


six ans au plus; ellie 6talt de taille
moyenne, plutot petite que grande
pour son age, avec des yeux vifs.
des levres souriantes, des oheveux
dun blond dor6 qui enoadraient
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT son front pur,
enfn, il y await dams sa physiono-
mic enfantine un m6lange pressure
provocant de p6tulanoe ct de dou-
ceur, qul donnait q SO personne un
caraotere particulier d'audace ct
de resolution. Caminade ne SO las
salt pas de la regarder, ct, de son
cote, penfant robser,ait avec curio-
site.
Eth bien! que vous disais je re-
prit Gillaumin.
Caminade SO pencha ct vouIut
prendre la main de Raymonde. Ell
le la retira vivement ct so blottit
contre le vieillard. Go dernier 80
prit q rlre.
All dame! dit-il avec enjoue-
ment, ella est un peu savage, ellie
ne volt plus personne que moil ct
moi, je ne suis pas toujours gai.
Et puts, continue l'excellent hon.
me avec un soupir, ellie q IN gros
'ohagrin, VOLTA bientot ak mois.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-23
WATERMELON STORIES.
They Are Beating the Fish Yarns Out Of
Sight and the End Is Not Yet.

They Are Beating the Fish Yarns Out of
Sight and the End Is Not Yet.
The fish-story Ananias is not sustain
ing his reputation this summer and the
watermelon Ananias is rapidly pushing
him from his well-earned and long-held
position. Accounts of incredible melons
rush in restless waves from the South,
while the season has not brought forth
q solitary story of a wonderful catch of
fish, and that ten-pound brook trout has
not as much as shown his nose up to date.
A gentleman by the name of f. NJ. Caffey
of Hayneville, Lowndes County, Ala, has
come to the front as the hero of the cham
pion melon novelette,. 1t is stated that he
pulled watermelon from his patch during
the session of the Baptist Association
at Hayneville which tipped the beam at
seventy-three pounds. 1t is said to have
been cut and set before twenty-eight dele
gates and visitors to the association, and
after their appetites had been fully gratifed
the report is that there was enough left for
half-dozen more melon-munGhers. As Mr..
Caffey's portrait does not accompany the
account of the melon in the local news
paper, there is every reason to believe that
he is a myth and the story an Ananiasism.
OF course, this melon will be cast into the
shade at once by melon of still greater
size, and there is strong likelihood that
the business will not stop before a 100
pound production comes to the front.
The Georgia gooseberry that weighed lax
ounces knocks this Caffey melon sky
high in point of daring invention. Boston
Herald.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-23
THE GREAT GUN DUEL.
Russian Sailors Acknowledge Their d
feat by Saluting.

Russian Sailors Acknowledge Their De-
feat by Saluting.
While the flag of truce was flying Rus
sian officer of artillery went up to ask Sir
Richard Airey if General Dacres, COM
handing the English artillery, was on the
ground, says the author of ''The Crimean
War From First to Last" On Sir Richard
answering in the negative the officer said |:
"Your 6s-pounder gun that your people
call Jenny is beautiful gun, but we think
we have one as good in that embrasure,
pointing up to the mamelon, "and we
would like to have fair duel with her."
Airey took up the challenge at once and
everything was arranged for IL o'clock,
noon. next daY. When the time arrived
all tn batteries on both sides ceased firing.
A large number of officers, French and
English, were assembled at our lookout
station, behind the 21-gun battery, to
look on.
Our sailors gun detachment mounted
on their parapets and took off their hats,
sa1uting the Russians. The Russians re-
turned the compliment. The English gun
was given the first shot as the senior gun;
it struck the side of the Russian en-
brasure. Then they fred-a very good
shot, too. The third shot from Jenny
went clean through the Russian embrasure
and up went two gabions. The blue
Jackets jumped up on their parapet and
cheered. thinking they had beaten their
opponents. Not bitl A minute after
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-23
THE PHYSICIANS
OF the Hudson Medical Institute Cured
Mn. William A. Russell, MachiaS,
Snohomish County, Wash.
YOU NEED NOT DESPAIR.
A Wonderfu Institution, in Which Can
Be Found All the Latest Electrical
Appliances.

TT IS THE YOUNG MEN THAT ARE BUILD
L ing the Far West 1t is the young men to whom
we must look for great Improvements. We old
fellows have had our building days.
Young William A. RUSSELL brave William A.
Russell, lives in Washington He Is an industrious,
painst aking and progressive young man. Scarcely
81 years old, he has already achieved success in
his line of work. He Is now interested in one Of
the lumber-mills of Washington. A short time
ago he was sick young man. His own letter
speaks for itself:
April 20, 1895.
Hudson Medical Institute Gentlemen: Your
treatment is thoroughly reliable, and L ought to
crave your pardon for not giving you my intima-
ton OF the satisfactory results before this date.
shall be glad to recommend any of my friends who
may stand in need of your treatment. Please &C
cept nv heartfelt thanks for the kindness you have
done me 1 feel very grateful and happy over the
change for it has much to do with my domestic
happiness.
only regret that am not able to pay you ten
times your fee or aid to bring all who need your
treatment to obtain Its benefits. am frank to say
that it is the greatest thing of the age, and will be
able to do you great deal of good which will take
great pleasure in doing. I shall recommend the
Hudson Medical Institute to all find suffering.
Yours respectfully, VIM. a. RuSSELL
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-23
REIGN OF LAWLESSNESS.
1t Is Caused by the Great In
flux of Gamblers and
Thieves.
THE RED MEN EASY VICTIMS.
No Means Spared to Deprive Them
Of the Funds Received for
Their Lands.

PORTLAND, Or, Aug. oh. A. Hepp-
ner, who has jus. returned here from an
extensive visit to the Nez Perez Indian
Reservation in Idaho, in an interview to-
day said it is deplorable the way Poor Lo
and his money are parted by the transient
population that has crowded in for the
purpose of robbery.
Lewiston, the distributing point OF
1888, 900, the Governments first payment
to the Indians, is having a big boom.
Gam blers are flocking there and to the sur
rounding towns by the wholesale, for the
express purpose of fleeing the Indians out
OF their money.
Mr.. Heppner says it is outrageous that
there is no protection for the poor red men
who are thus robbed of the money which
will be badly needed, now that they will
have to work on their allotments of land,
build house and make living for them.
selves.
The country on the Clearwater aud
Snake rivers is infested with set OF
thieves and 1isreputables, who exert every
means to obtain share of this money en-
trusted to the Indian, who does not know
enough to care for these funds which are
given him by Uncle Sam for his future
maintenance. 1t is said there is general
reign of lawlessness, and that between
whisky and money and fights between the
vampires, whose victims are the Indians,
the reservation is a rather undesirable
place for peaceful man at present.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-23
CORRAL HOLLOW RAIL WAY,
Material for Its COnStru CtiOn
Rapidly Arriving at
Stockton.
Will Be Pushed to Completion Six
Months After the Franchise
Is Granted.

STOCKTON, CAL, Aug. 22.-Grading on
the Corral Hollow Railway began to-day,
when hundred men were put to work on
the north side of Mormon Channel. In
asmuch as the final grant of the franchise
has not yet been made the work now
being done cannot be considered as really
the commencement of the road. The COM
pany bought lot of earth which had been
dredged up from the bed of Mormon Chan
mel and placed temporarily on the wharf.
Notice was served that this earth must be
removed Within certain number of days
and it is, therefore, being used to fill up a
low place through which the road will
pass.
Last evening two schooners arrived laden
with ties for the Corral Hollow Railway,
and four carloads of steel for the same road
came during the night. There are now
due only six carloads of steel. This will
complete the first consignment of rails,
plates, ETC., which will be sufficient to
build the road from this city to the San
Joaquin River. The rails are OF the sixty
pound grade.
Director Coleman OF the Corral Hollow
Company said recently, in conversation
with A. L. Levinsky, the local attorney for
the corporation, that the road would be
completed to the coal mines within six
months after the franchise was granted.
]. M. Welsh is circulating an agreement,
the signers of which obligate themselves
to fight the Corral Hollow road in the
courts and pay their pro rata of the cost OF
the suit. Mr.. Welsh is not meeting with
as much encouragement as he had hoped
to receive, but it is expected that the suit
will be brought. The object is to drive the
road off Weber avenue, which means to
drive it out of town.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-23


bic to treat such diseases successfully at
distance, without personal examination
of the patient. Thus Bright's Disease
of the Kidneys, Inflammation of the
Bladder, Gravel, and other Diseases of
the Urinary Organs, Liver Complaint, -
Dyspepsia, or Indigestion, Dropsy and
many other ma1adies are successfully
treated and cured without personal con-
sultation with the physician.
Nervous Debility, whether resulting
from over-study, worry, disappointment,
or from exhausting drains upon the sys-
tenn caused by prenicious secret habits
contracted in youth, through ignorance
of their ruinous consequences, is sue
cessfully managed, through correspon-
dence, the necessary medicines being
sent by mail or express. Write for
question blanks, or describe your case.
send sample of urine for ANALYSIS and
enclose 10 cents for postage ON treat
Use, which contains reproduced photo
graphs and full names and addresses of
vast numbers of people who have been
cured in this way. Address, Worlds
Dispensary Medical Association. 66s
Main ST., Buffalo, N. Y.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-23
THE INGLEWOoD FRACAs.
agent Guest In jail Charged Wtth Hac-
ing Struck Ltdden.

agent Guest In jail Charged Wtth Hac-
ing Struck Ltdden.
LOS ANGELES, CAL, Aug. 2.-S. A.
Guest, agent of the Santa Fe road at
Inglewood, charged with assaulting
Charles s. Lidden, foreman OF the brick
yard at that place, was lodged IN the
County Jail at that place last night and
bail fixed at $1,000. Lidden's condition is
critical, and small hopes are entertained
of his recovery.
Guests version of the affair Is asfollows:
'This trouble commenced last Thursday.
My brother was employed at the brick
yard, and Thursday morning was suffering
from bad cold. He and Foreman Lldden
had words over some work, but did not
come to blows.
Later in the day Lidden, without CIV
ing any words of warning, struck my
brother, knocking him down. OF course
my brother did not like that sort OF treat
ment. He picked up brickbat and started
for Lidden, but one of the owners OF the
brickyard appeared on the scene about this
time and separated them.
'tThere was no further trouble till Mon
day morning, when Foreman Lldden, my
brother and myself met near my office. L
WAS W WhOh ny
came up, saying that he was going to lick
Lidden. He had car-seal in his hand and
struck the foreman on the head with it.
Lidden went to his knees, but was on his
feet again in an instant.
"a fist fight was then on between my
brother and Lidden. About this time a
number of men employed at the brickyard
rushed up and caught hold of me. | had
the car-seal in my pocket, having picked it
up after my brother struck Lidden, and
after pulling it out | told the fellows. that I
would put holes through them if they
attacked my brother and me. They
thought had pistol and let US go to our
house. This is all I know. l did not
strike Lidden."
The other version of the affair is that
Guest struck Lidden on the head with a
coupling pin and inflicted what may prove
to be fatal wound.
Guest was released at 10 o'clock tonight
on the order of Superior Judge Morrison,
bail in $1,000 being given. A warrant is
now out for the brother who, it is claimed,
committed the assault and who has disap.
peared. The officers are confident of ap-
pretending him.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-23
1t Is IneoIred in u Series of Peculiar
Legal Complications.

SANTA BARBARA CAL, Aug. 22.-The
matter of the estate of George de Capital
Martini, deceased, pending in the Superior
Court for the last year, has been engaging
the daily attention of the court since the
10Th OF this month. The case presents
peculiar complications. The estate con-
sists of three pieces of property in Lompoc
Valley which have fine future prospect
on account OF the approach of the coast
railway. The property now brings in an
income of $50 per month, and has been
recently appraised at $500.
De Martini died in 1879, leaving a widow
and two minor heirs. The widow, whose
home is in San Francisco, in 1889 sue
ceeded IN borrowing from Mrs. Mary
Green $500, giving her own note and a
mortgage on the property as security. One
year ago the court made an allowance of
$50 month to the family, dating from De
Martini's death, thus placing the estate in
debt to the widow to the extent of $4,000.
The case at last came up on a citation
issued to suspend the administrative. This
was set aside and the attempt to remove
the administrative failed.
Henry f. Price of San Francisco, Mrs.
de Martini's attorney, is endeavoring to
effect a compromise which shall do justice
to all parties, including Mrs. Green.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-23
A SECRET
Developed by an Indian Melted the
Prospector $4,000.

Developed by an Indian Melted the
Prospector $4,000.
A bit of romance will often help the sale
of mining property, and it is poor hole
in the ground to which some legend or
tradition does not attach.
''I Think said Colonel ]. w. Vroom,
"that the most ingenious story to account
for the discovery of mine was told by
Colonel j. w. Craig"
"Craig," interrupted listener, "was the
man who sent out from Fort Union, when
he was in the army, train OF four-mule
wagons which was never heard from after
ward.
Craig" continued Colonel Vroom, ''is
dead. He was buried with all OF the hon.
ors. am not telling his history, but deal
ing with picturesque incident in his ca
reer. After he left the army he went into
grants and mining. He told me that he
won the confidence of q Taos Indian by
some favors that he had done him. The
first full moon of August, the anniversary
of the revolt against the Spaniards in 1880,
was approaching. This Indian had said to
Craig that in return for his kindness he
was going to reveal to him what had never
been made known to any white man. On
the night OF the anniversary the Indian
came to Craig and asked him to go with
MIN. lney went OUT OF laos 10 q Hill anu
assembled 1t. The Indian pointed to fires
burning in various directions, some near
and some far, but without apparent signif
icance.
"Those fires celebrate the revolt against
the Spaniards in $780, said the Indian.
They are lighted every year. To the
white man they mean little or nothing.
To US they mean great deal. You have
heard that when the Pueblo Indians arose,
drove out the Spaniards, destroyed the
churches and restored freedom, they filled
up and destroyed all traces OF
the gold mines which were worked
under Spanish dominion. That is
true. but our ancestors desired to
preserve for us the knowledge of the loca-
tons of those mines. So they adopted the
plan of lighting fires every year when the
first full moon of August comes around.
This has been done for 200 years. The an
niversary fires are built on the exact Ioca-
ton of the old gold mines. Every fire
which you see burning is over what was
once gold mine. You are the only white
man to whom this has been revealed
Colonel Craig told me that he noted in
his mind as carefully as he could the loca-
ton of one of these fires and then went
back to Taos. Some time afterward he set
out on prospecting tour in the direction
where he had seen the signal fire. He dis
covered what he believed to be the place,
although most of the ashes had been blown
away. On that spot Craig opened a pros
pect hole. He sold the mine for SIS, 600.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-23
4 LADS TERRIBLE DEATH.
Run Orer by q Heartily Loaded Wagon
and His Head Crushed.

SAN JOSE, CAL, Aug. 22.-Georgie
Davenport, an eight-year-old boy residing
at 4S0 South First street, met a frightful
death at noon to-day by being run over by
heavily loaded, fruit-wagon, his head
being crushed to pulp.
John Pierson was driving six horses
attached to three wagons loaded with pears
along Julian street, and as he turned into
Terraine street he got down to fix one of
the wagons. While doing so a small boy
rushed up to him and told him he had run
over boy. He went back and found the
boy dead. The Coroner was notified and
the body removed to the morgue.
The boy, who was with the deceased at
the time he was killed, ran off and the
police have been unable to find him.
Pierson said he did not see the boy try
ing to get on the wagons. The hind wheel
of the third wagon passed over his head,
and it is supposed he was trying to climb
on the wagon at the time. The face of the
boy is so mangled that he will have to be
identified by the clothing.
An inquest will be held tomorrow morn
ing at 10 o'clock.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-23
MOUNDS IN ALASKA.
Mark the Antiquity of Native Race,
but Do Not Tell It's Story.

Mark the Antiquity OF Native Race,
but Do Not Tell Its Story.
Point Barrow, Alaska, the northermost
point of land of the North American con-
tinent, has some interesting graveyards of
its own. About eleven years ago Lieuten-
ant Ray in his report of the polar expedi-
ton to Point Barrow, recorded that in dig
ging a shaft twenty-six feet below the
earths surface to obtain earth tempera-
lures, he found pair of wooden goggles,
pointing to the great lapse of time since
these shores were first peopled. The last
number of the Alaska Mining Record says
that this country was undoubtedly inhab-
tied long before Columbus discovered
America. Of the origin or descent of the
inhabitants no definite trace has been
found, and there are no records of the past
among the people who now live there.
Their language abounds in legends, but
none gives any data by which to Judge how
long these shores have been inhabited.
The ruins of ancient villages and win
ter huts along the seashore and in the in
terror show that the country has been in
habited for centuries, says the New York
Sun There are mounds at Point Barrow
marking the site of three huts dating back
to the time when the natives had no iron
and the men talked like dog" These
mounds StanQ In the m1oQle or q marsh,
and the sinking of the land caused the site
to be flooded and abandoned. The inhabi-
tants in times past have followed the re-
ceding line of ice which at one time capped
the northern part of this continent, and
have moved along the easiest line of travel
This is shown in the general distribution
of similar people, speaking similar
tongue, from Greenland to Boring Straits.
The distribution of the race to-day marks
the routes travelled. The seashore led
along the coasts of Labrador and Green
land, Hudson's Bay and its tributary
waters. They came down the Yukon, SO
rich in minerals, to people the shores of
that stream and the interior of Alaska, and
travelled along the coast to Cape Prince of
Wales. To this day they use dogs instead
of deer the natives of North America hav-
ing never domesticated the reindeer, and
they speak different tongue from their
neigh bors across the strait in Siberia.
Some writer's on the subject have ad-
vanced the theory that the natives of
Alaska are descendants of the race of peo-
pie that Cortezidroye out of Mexico; others
that they are Japanese or Chinese in
origin, and others still that they came to
this country across the straits from Siberia.
So far as definite information is concerned,
one guess is as good as another. The lone
! ly mounds at Point Barrow mark the an
| tiquity of the race, but they do not tell its
story.