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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-12

The Georgia legislature has passed
bill to prevent the hunting or
catching of 'possums in that state
between March 1st and October lst.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-12

The author of the high theatre
hat ordinance in Chicago has in
troduced an ordinance in the city
council prohibiting the playing of
football anywhere within the city
limits.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-12

The Hotel San Marco, one of the
finest in Jacksonville, Fla, was
burned to the ground Sunday morn
ing, entailing loss of over $3.50, 1000,
with only about $4,000 insurance.
The fire was the work of incendia-
ries.
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NEWS AND COMMENT.

PETER ]. CLARK has been APP
pointed postmaster at Pulaski.
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The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1897-10-09
A NEW WESTERN IDEA.

Girls Who Give Gold Models of Their
Little Fingers to Their BetrOthed.
"Do girls here give gold models of
their little fingers to their fiances? ?"
asked the western girl of the Gotham
lite, reports the New York Sun.
Heavens, mol" answered the Goth
amite. ''It seems to me that that is
rather grewsome souvenir
'Not at ALL" answered the western
girl; ''it is decidedly dainty, and I'm a
little surprised that New York is so far
behind the times. The fad started in
this way. When the daughter of one
of our big western politicians was six
months old he had model of her little
finger cast in gold. Around the little
dimpled digit is a ring of turquoise,
which is her birth stone, and it makes
a lovely charm for her betrothed's watch
chain. He valued it so much that it
set other men to thinking, and the re-
suit is that as soon as a girl wraps one
of these chaps around her own little
finger sufficiently for proposal to fol-
low he Immediately insists upon gold
facsimile of the flesh and blood orig
inal. 1t is a pretty conceit, and is be-
ing followed by every westerner who
is in subsection to somebody's little
finger"
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THE CHURCHES.

M. Z. church, corner Fifth and Wash
ington streets, ]. H. Wood pastor-Ser-
vices as follows: Glass meeting at 10
a. M; morning service at IL; Sunday
school 1920; Epworth League 6 80; !;
evening service 80. All are invited to
attend.
At the Congregational church, corner
of Court and Fifth streets, Sunday SER
vices as follows: At IL a. m. instead of
the usual sermon the pastor, by special
request, will give paper which he read
at the state association at Hood River.
Topic, Is the church adapting itself to
the changed conditions of modern times?
Other services as usual. Sunday school
Immediately after the morning service
Meeting OF the Young Peoples Society
of Christian Endeavor at $50 p. n.
Evening service at Z 80. All persons
worshlpping elsewhere are cordially in
Vited,
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Nltrogene, the great blood purifier.
Nitrogene cures all female trub!es.
FOUND IN A FISH.
Curious Fact About the E'Murray
Cod" of Australia.

SuEIOuB faCI ABOUT lne murray
Cod" of Australia.
There is a large fish found in the
rivers of western Australia known as
the Murray Cod" This fish-which is
delicious for the tablets remarkable
for its size, sometimes weighing as
much as $50 pounds; but the strangest
thing about it is the fact that it car
ries around a photograph inside it's
body. At least the natives say that it
is "a photograph, and certainly it looks
like one.
When the Murray cod is cut open a
bladder is seen, extending along the
backbone from just behind the gills to
the fatty part of the tail. In a 30
pound fish the bladder is about 12
inches long and an inch or more in
width. Within this is film, or thin
membrane, through which. runs deli
cate tracery composed of a multitude
of little red lines, interlacing like the
frost work on a window pane in win
ter. This film can be peeled off and
spread upon a sheet of paper or piece
of cloth, to which it readily adheres.
1t then forms very pretty picture.
Sometimes it looks like a bit of
pressed seaweed; sometimes it seems to
portray miniature landscape with
dark forest backgrounds; but in most
cases it presents a surprisingly distinct
outline of single tree, the Australian
gum tree. species of eucalyptus.
To explain this singular fact the alb
origines have an ingenious theory
They say that the picture thus i'm
printed on the membrane represents
the tree which overshadows the pool
where the big fish made its haunt-in
short, that it is a real photograph.
Fanciful as the notion seems, it gains
habits of the fish, which is extremely
solitary and exclusive in it's ways. The
Murray cod really does make its home
in some forest-shadowed pool. to which
it always returns after it's excursions
abroad for food or exercise, leading a
curiously hermit-like existence; it will
allow no other member of its species to
intrude upon its domain. Here the sui
len creature spends its life, year in and
year out; it never changes its resi-
dence. Here it grows from insignificant
minnowhood until it becomes a king
among fishes, as big and heavy as a
well-developed man, andrfor the greater
part of each day the shadow of its ia
1t is little wonder, therefore, that the
untutored but imaginative savages, puz-
zled. by the lifelike picture which they
find in the bladder, conclude that the
familiar scene has become photo
graphed in the creatures very sub
stance.-N. Y. Journal.
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Personal MENTION.

Wilbur Hendrix of Dufur was in the
city last night.
Captain Lewis left on the boat this
morning to visit the fruit fair at Hood
River.
Hattie Glenn left for Portland this
morning, where she will visit friends
for short time.
Mr.. Patrick Bolton, one of the enter
prising farmers of the Kingsley neigh
borhood, is in the citv today. -
Ralph and Jessie. Fisher were pass
engers on the Regulator this morning.
goingto Portland, where they will re-
main few days.
H. S. Turner, of the Dufur Dispatch,N J
is in the city today. He contemplates
putting in a club room and bowling
alley in Dufur, and is taking notes as to
how to begin.
Miss Martha Woodbury., who has
been visiting the family of Mr.. H. S.
Wilson in this city, left for her home in
Portland this morning. Mrs. Wilson
accompanied her as far as the Locks,
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DaIIeS, Moro and Antelope
STAGE LINE.

Through by daylight via Grass Valley, Ken
and Cross Hollows.
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Wanted-A girl to do housework for
family of three. Inquire at this
Office. s24-tf
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NoTIce-sALE OF CITY LOTS.

Notice is hereby given that by au-
thority of ordinance No. 292, which
passed the Common Council of Dalles
City April 10th, 1897, entitled, 'tAn Or
dinance to provide for the sale of certain
lots belonging to Dalles City," will, on
cell at public auction, to the highest
bidder, all the following lots and parts
of lots in Gates addition to Dalles City,
Wasco county, Oregon, to-wit:
Lots and 10 jointly, in block IA; lots
z, 8, and 10, jointly in block Is; lots
z, 8, 8, and 10, jointly in block 81,
known as butte; lots 10, IL and II, in
block %; lot in block "a; lots ?, 8, 4,
8, 6, {. 8, 9, 10 and II, in block 80; =;
lots 2, 5, 4, s, 8, 10, 1 and IL, in block
36; lots 8, 4, 5. 6, Z, 8, 8. 10, IL and
II, in block 81; lots 1. 2, 8, 4, 3, 6, 8,
9, 10, IL and II, in block AZ; lots l, 2, 3,
4, 5. 8, 10 and IL, in block 43; lots / 2,
s, Z, 10, IL and ~, in bloc Al, and lots
l, 2. 3, 4, 5, 6, in block 40.
The reasonable value of sa': lots, for
less than which they will no. e sold,
Common Council of Dalles City as fol-
lows, to-wit:
Lots and 10, in block IA, $3.50; lots
z, 8, and 10, jointly in block l5, 5000 !;
lots Z, 8, 9 and 10, jointly in block 81,
$500; lot 10, in block 81, 1925; lot II, in
block 81, $225; lot ~, in block 27, $500 /;
lot 8, in block "a, 800; lots ., 8, 4, 5, g.,
9, 10 and IL, in block 35, each respect
lively 800; lots 6 and Z. in block 35,
each respectively $l25; lots 2, 3, 4, 8, g.,
10 and IL, in block 36. each respectively
500; lot 12. in block So, $125; lots 5, 4,
5, s, 9, 10 and IL, in block 81, each re-
spectively 800; lots 6, and II, in
block 81, each respectively $125 !;
lots 2, 8, 10 and II, in block
Al, eech respectively 500; lots l,
and ~, in block Al, each respectively
$125; lots 8, 4. 8, 8. g., 10 and IL, in
block AZ, each respectively 800; lot :,
6 and ~, in block AZ, each respectively
$125; lots 2, 8, 4, 5, 9, 10 and IL, in
block 43, each respectively 800; lot 1.
in block 43, $125; lots 2, 3, and 5, in
block 46, each respecti gely 500; lots
and 6, in block 46F each respectively
$125.
Each of these lots will be sold upon
the lot respectively, and none of them
will be sold for less sum than the value
thereof, as above stated.
One-fourth of the price bid on any of
said lots shall be paid in cash at the
time of sale, and the remainder in three
equal payments on or before, one, two
and three years from the date of said
sale, with interest on such deferred pay
ments at the rate of 10 per cent per
annum, payable annually; provided
that the payment may be made in full
at any time at the option of the pur-
chaser.
The said sale will begin on the 18th
day of May, 1897, at the hour of
O'Clock p. m. of said day, and will con-
tinue from time to time until all of said
lots shall be sold.
Dated this 18th day of April, 1897.
GILBERT w. PHELPS,
Recorder of Dalles CITY.
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Nitrogene cures all liver and kidney
complaints.
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The Dalles, or address
w, n. HURLBURT, Gen. Pass. Agt
Portland, Oregon
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Executors Sale.

Pursuant to an order of the County Court of
the State of Oregon for the Wasco County, made
and entered on she I'd day of May, 1897, in the
matter of the estate flames McGahan, deceased,
directing me t. sci tie real property belonging
to the estate of y. ,-eceased, Will, on Satur-
day, the 5th day une, 1897, at the hour OF
O'Clock D. M. a. ourthouse door IN ,Dalles
City, Oregon, Sc. .ublic sale. to the highest
bidder, al of t@S :ol owing described real prop
Southwest quarter of Section Eight, Township
One South, Range Fourteen East w. NJ, con-
tanning I60 acres more or less.
m5-. R. F. GIBBONS, Executor.
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DOUGLAS ALLEN, The DalIes.
G. NJ. wHITELAW, Antelope.

Stages leave The Dalles from UmatilIa House
at a. m, also from Antelope at 7:30 a. m. every
Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Connections
made at Antelope for Prinevil1e, Mitchell and
points beyond. Close connections made at The
Dalles with railways, trains and boats.
Stages from Antelope reach The Dalles Tues
days, Thursdays and Saturdays at 80 p. m.
RATES FARE
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J. S. SCHENK. H. NJ. BEALL,
President. Cashier.
First National Bank.

THE DALLES OREGON
a General Banking Business transacted
Deposits received, subject to Sight
Draft or Check.
Collections made and proceeds promptly
remitted on day of collection.
Sight and Telegraphic Exchange sold on
New York, San Francisco an1 Port
land.
DIRECTORS.
D. P. THOMPSON. JNo. S. SCHENoK.
Ed. M. WILLIAMS, GEO. A. LIEBR.
II. M. BEAIL.
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TIME CARD.

TIME CARD.
No. 4, to Spokane and Great Northern arrives
at p. M, leaves at 6:05 p. m. No. 2, to Pendle-
ton, Baker City and Union Pacific, arrives at LIS
a, M, departs at l 20 a. m.
No 3, from Spokane and Great Northern, ar
riveS at s 80 a. m, departs at S:35 a. m. No. l,
from Baktr City and Unio. Pacific, arrives at
3:55 a. M, departs at 400
Nos. % and "a, moving east of The Dalles, will
carry passengers. No. % grrives at $50 D. M,
departs at 12:45 p.
Passengers for Heppner will take train leaving
here at 6:05 D. m.
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NOTICE..

To ALL WHOM 1T MAY CONCERN:
By order of the common council of
Dalles City, made on the 18th day of
September, 1897, and entered of record
in the records of Dalles City on the 2Gth
day of September, 1897, notice is hereby
given that the following cross walks
have been declared dangerous by said
council on said 10Th day of September,
1897, and the said council will proceed
to make the Improvements as herein
after stated, on said streets, or parts of
streets declared dangerous, after fourteen
days after the first publication of this
notice, to-wit, September 30th, 1897.
and the costs of such improvements of
all such cross walks, and of each of
them, will be charged and levied upon
the property abutting, as by charter
provided.
The cross walks declared dangerous
and about to be built are as follows, to-
wit:
l. To build cross walk on the east
side of Federal street, across Second
street.
?. To bnild cross walk across JEFF
ferson street on the north side of Second
street.
5. To build a cross walk across Court
street on the north side of Second street.
4. To build a cross walk across Wash
1ngton street on the south side OF Fourth
street.
3. To build a cross walk across JEFF
ferson street on the south side OF Second
street.
6. To build a cross walk across
Laughlin street on the north side of
second street.
z. To build cross walk across Second
street on the east side of Court street.
8. To build cross walk across Third
street on the east side of Federal street.
All of said cross walks will be built
and constructed in accordance with the
provisions of the charter and ordinances
of Dalles City.
Dated this 2Sth day of Sept, 1897.
ROGER B. SINNoTT,
s30-o13 Recorder of Dalles City.
Wanted-A girl to do housework for
family of three. Inquire at this
office. s24-tf
Nitrogene cures all liver and kidney
complaints.
Nitrogene cures rheumatism in 10 days
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Through Tickets
CHICAGO
WASHINGTON
PHILADELPHIA ~
NEW YORK *
BOSTON AND ALL
POINTS EAST and SOUTH
For information. time cards, maps and tickets,
cal on or write TO
W. c. -ALLAWAY. Agent,
The Dalles, Oregon
A. D. CHARLTON. Asst. G. P. A.,
255. Morrison Cor. Third. Portland Oregon
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-13

As he did this he looked meaningly at his
contdant and said:
ON see, it's this way. The Jig is up.
They've got me and they'll take me back to
Australla. But / know what will be done
to me there, and will not go. All 1 need
is six grains of morphine. I'll go to sleep
and that will be the last of the Butler
case.''
The reporter, who had accepted the
document in spirit of kindliness, was
taken back at the implied request With
due regard for the confidence that had
been reposed in him he considered it his
duty to notify the officers of their
prisoners desperate intention, and he
spoke of the matter to Detectives Nc
Hattie and Roach. That is why guard
has been placed in Buffers cell. and every
visitor from this on will be watched
suspiciously.
1t is this last feature of the disclosure
that chafes the prisoner. He indignantly
denied that he had made any confidence
TO the Post man, or that he had spoken of
committing suicide while here.
II may have said in my conversation"
he admitted, "that if everything goes
against me on the other side l may try TO
commit suicide. The publication OF that
story will make me watched man when
1 get there, ard that is the reason it has
given me great deal of trouble" He re-
iterated emphatically that he gave the
Post reporter no papers, nor in any way
made confidant of him.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-13
BUTLER'S
LAST THROW
He Begs Six Grains of
Morphine to End
His Life.
CONFEssES THAT THE
JIG IS UP.
He Prefers Death to Facing
Australian Legal Ven.
gaance
A NEWSPAPER MAN APPEALED
TO FOR AID.
The Murderer Repudiates His Con.
versation, but Admits an Inten.
tion to Commit Suicide.
A NEWSPAPER MAN APPEALED
TO FOR AID.

Through the tangIe and confusion of
legal forms and procedure tho Australia
murderer is at last beginning to ge. a
glimpse of the fate which awaits him. 1t
is disheartening prospect, and Butler
apparently sees but one way 10 defeat it.
He will fight death with death. Rather
the deadly sleeping potion than the ruth
less hemp, and the murderer of Weller and
Preston is schemlng to accomplish his
own destruction.
Among those who have been closest to
Butler within the last week or two it has
been very apparent that his nerve was
weakening, but it was not until yesterday
that 1T became known that he had made
overt efforts to obtain the means of his
own undoing. This knowledge came to
the officers through Buffers appeals to a
newspaper man to furnish him with NOR
phine.
Among the repres entatives of the local
papers who became acquainted with the
Australian murderer in the course of num-
erous interviews was representative OF
the Post, with whom Butler became quite
friendly. This was, perhaps, largely due to
the fact that the newspaper man. plying
the apparent hopelessness OF the prison.
er's position. furnished him with news
papers and other little conveniences.
Thursday afternoon Butler addressed
note tc tue Post editorial rooms request
ing that the reporter in question be sent
to see him. This request was complied
with and Butter voluntarily entered into
a long and confidential discussion OF his
situati IN. 1t was obvious that he was
discouraged and he intimated that all was
over with him. In the course of his con-
versation he handed the newspaper man
document which he declared was his
will, together with other important papers
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-13
POISON LORKS IN FUNGI
Professor w. A. Setchell Lee.
lures on Mushrooms and
Toadstools.
How a Distinction May Be Drawn
Between the Edible and Poison.
Gus Varieties.

The sad triple tragedy which occurred
in the Pastlne family but few weeks ago
as the result of mistake in the use Of
fungi, prompted the reading OF an es-
pecially interesting and instructive paper
on Toad stools and Mushrooms" by Dr.
w. A. Setchell, professor Of botany in the
University OF California. at the California
State Floral Sociey yesterday afternoon.
After some introductory remarks, the
professor addre ssed himself directly to the
question of how to distinguish a mush-
room from atoadstool. He said in part:
botanical rule which is fairly certain, is
this: Avoid eating those species which have
q volva, q ring and white gills. The volva Is
an outer covering incloslng the whole toad
stool when young, but rupturipg as the cap
and stem expand and remaining at the base of
the stem as sort of sack. There is no mis-.
taking this structure in ''Amanita phalloides,"
but in "mcscaria," however, the volva fits
tightly to the bulbous base of the stem and Is
much less conspicuous.
A portion of this volva may be seen at ma
turity still adhering TO the upper surface Of
the cap in the form of scales The ring is sit-
uated upon the stem and is simply por ton
left behind when the cap, which In the
younger stages is adherent to the stem, rup-
lures and frees itself from it. These struc-
lures then, the ring and the volva, in connec-
ticn with the white gills, are the characteris-
tics OF the species of amanita, which are oil
with one exception, the most poisonous of all
the t0adstools.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-13
SHOT THROUGH THE HEAD.
Tho Body of William Freese Found
In Golden Gate
Park.

The BODY of man, supposed to be that
OF William Freese, was found lying near
the Six h-avenue entrance to Golden Cats
Park by Louis Dresch, who resides at 2930
Fulton street, last evening. A bullet
wound in the right temple surrounded by
black powder burns and revolver lying
near the body told the story of suicide.
The Coroner's office was notified and
Deputy Coroners Tyrrell and McInnis re-
moved the body TO the Morgue. When it
was searched a key-ring bearing the name
William Freese, corner of O'Farrell and
Taylor streets, and watch were found.
No paper or document that would tend to
throw any light on the life OF the de-
ceased or the motive that prompted him
to take his own life was found. 1t is pre-
sumed. however, judging from the condi-
tion of the deceased's wearing apparel,
that poverty was the cause of this suicide.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-13
OPIUM MAY Be RELEASED
Foote Opinion to the Treas.
ury Department on the
Subject
Special Agents Will Make Desp crate
Effort to Have the Drug Held
in Bend.

The special treasury agents who have
been working up the evidence against the
$500, 900 worth of opium that was recently
tied up in the bonded warehouses by Col
lector of the Port Wise were very much
chagrined yesterday when United States
D strict Attorney Foote reported ad-
versely on the case.
The District Attorneys action took the
form of a telegram to the Secretary Of the
Treasury, in which he stated that, in his
opinion, condemnation proceedings would
fail, and that therefore he would dvise
that the opium be released. This destroys
a months work on the part of the special
agents, unless they can convince the
Treasury Department that they have q
case against the drug.
The agents received information that
Chinese firms of this City were violating
the laws and the treaty with China in i'm
porting opium into this country and
thinly concealing their operations by
having the OPIUM consigned to an en-
ploye of a local branch of foreign bank.
They worked on the case for a time and
claimed to have dis, overed contract by
which the bank clerk acted as the agent
of Quong Fong Tai & Co., the Chinese
opium-dealers of Chinatown. They con-
suited the District Attorney, and he ex-
pressed an opinion, without having looked
closely into the matter, that the opium
could be condemned.
On the siren th of this Collector Wise
was asked to order that the last big i'm
portation be kept in the warehouses pend
ing tho settlement of the matter.
This was done. and the agents also
sezed portion of the shipment that had
been taken TO Chinatown and placed it in
the Appraiser store.
Then the agents placed the facts in the
hands of the Collector officially, and that
individual, after looking them over care
fully, placed the case officially before the
United States District Attorney, request
ing him if the facts warranted to file an
Information against the opium.
After going exhaustively in to the sub
ject, Mr.. Foote decided that the evidence
was not sufficient to render a condemna-
tion reasonably sure, and so wired the
Secretary of the Treasury.
The opium has not vet been released,
but VAL doubtless b. freed soon, unless
further inst uctions to hold it are received
from Washington. 1t is understood that
the special agents will make desperate
efforts to prevent the opium from leaving
the warehouses until the question of the
legality of Its importation is settled in
Cnnrt