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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-22
Two miners Crushed to Death

Denver, Oct. ia special to the
Republican from Crested Butte, Colo.
says: Two miners were crushed to
death in the Colorado Fuel 6 Iron
Company's mine last night, just at
quitting time, by the falling of the
roof. One was an Italian named John
Pitoni, who had been in this country
but few months. The other was
Frank Nardin, native of Tyrol.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-22

It almost exceeds belief that last
gear 100000 visitors paid for admis-
sion to the house in which Shakespeare
nved 800 years ago. Among the vast
throng OF people 40 millionaires were
represented.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-22
what Docs rhis Mean9

Things are arranged nowadays SO that
a newspaper can have any kind of an
expression Of opinion-good, bad or in
different-eonfrmed on APPLICATION. -
Petaluma Courier.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-22

In some of the farming districts of
China pigs are harnessed to small
wagons and made to draw them.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-22
An Insane Asylum Fire.

Memphis, Oct. 81 The Tennessee
insane asylum, at Bolivar, caught fire
tonight The fire was confined to out
buildings, the engine-room and kit
chen.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-22

Chicago, Oct. 19.-Fall weather to-
day displaced the prostrating heat of last
week. The drop in temperature was
general throughout the West and North
west
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-22
ONE HUNDRED DEATHS.

New Orleans Fever Fatalities Have
Reached thesCentury Mark.
New Orleans, Oct. 20.-Before z
O'Clock this evening the 100 mark of
deaths during the present period of yell
low fever prevalence had been reached.
When the board of health closed its
books last night there had been SO ia
talities. Between last night and night
fall today, seven deaths were reported.
This century of deaths has occurred
among less than 900 cases that have
been reported in to the board since
early in September, when the first case
made it's appearance in New Orleans.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-22

The location size and ventilation of
bedrooms is of far greater Importance
than OF the other rooms Of the house
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-22
Seattle Markets.

Butter-Fancy native creamery,
brick, 23 @25c; ranch, 10@15c.
Cheese Native Washington, 1O@
12c; California, 91sc.
Eggs-Fresh ranch, 26c.
Poultry-Chickens, live, per pound,
hens, 10c; spring chickens, $2.5O
@3; ducks, $4,000.
Wheat-Feed wheat, $27 per ton.
Oats-Choice, per ton, $21@22.
Corn-Whole, $22; cracked, per ton.
$22; feed meal, $22 @23 per ton.
Barley-Rolled or ground, per ton,
$2s; whole, $22.
Fresh Meats-Choice dressed beef,
steers, &c; COWS, 51ac; mutton sheep,
&c; pork, 61ac; veal, small, 6.
Fresh Fish-Halibut, 4c; salmon,
4@5c; salmon trout, SC; founders
and sole, 31a@4; ling cod, 4@5; rock
cod, &c; smelt, ~ @4c.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-22
PACIFIC COAST TRADE.
Portland Markets,

Wheat-Walla Walla, 10000; Val.
ley and Bluestem. S2@s3c per bushel.
Flour-Best grades, 81. so; graham,
$3.70; super6ne, $3.50 per barrel.
Oats-Choice white, 33@34c; choice
gray, 81 @32c per bushel.
Barley-Feed barley, $1,000; brew
ing, $40 per ton.
Millstufs-Bran, $14 per ton;
middlings, $21; shorts, $3.50.
Hay-Timothy, $12@12. 80; clover,
$10@l1; California wheat, $40
do oat, $11; Oregon wild hay, SEQ
10 per ton.
Eggs-20c per dozen.
Butter-Fancy creamery, 45@50c;
fair to good, s5@40c; dairy, 25@35c
per roll.
Cheese = Oregon, 11Xc; Young
America, 121ac; California, 90 10c per
pound.
Poultry-Chickens, mixed, $2.00@
2.50 per dozen; broilers, $1.50@2;
geese, $4@5; ducks, 1904 per
dozen; turkeys, live, 8@9c per
pound.
Potatoes. Burbanks. $50
4oc per SACK; sweets, $l. Az per Genital.
Onlons-Oregon, new, red. 90c;
yellow, SOC per Genital.
Hops-s@15c per. pound for new
crop; 1896 crop, 6@7c.
Wool-Valley, 14@16c per pound;
Eastern Oregon, 70 12c; mohair, zoe
per pound.
Mutton-Gross, best sheep, wethers
and ewes, So. 5O@2.6 so; dressed mutton,
sc; spring lambs, 81 per pound.
Hogs-Gross, choice heavy, $3.50;
light and feeders, $3 @4; dressed, So. so
@6 per 100 pounds.
Beef-Gross. top steers, $2.75@3;
COWS 80. so; dressed beef, 4@51ac per
pound.
Veal-Large, ~ q &c; small, 81 @6c
per pound.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-22
A Collector i'm Trouble.

Thirty millions of wooden spoons
are manufactured in Russia every year.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-22
Hanged Himself in His Tent.

Seattle, WASH, Oct. 19.-Swan Erick-
son, a laborer, committed suicide this
morning at Maple valley. He was
found hanging to the ridge pole of his
tent. His clothes were wet, showing
that he had first tried to drown him
self. Erickson had $145 on his body
when found. Temporary insanity is
assigned as the cause for taking his life.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-22

The first solid head pin was made in
England in 1924 by an American, Lem
uel w. Wright.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-10-02
An Old CrocodiIe.

One of the most interesting specimens
in the British museum is crocodile
more than 1000 years old. 1t is big,
well-preserved specimen, and on it's
back there is whole family of little
crocodiles. Years before the Christian
era the Egyptians worshiped crocodiles
among their animal deities, and many
specimens were kept at great expense
in their parks and royal gardens, where
they were attended by priests and given
all sorts of dainty morsels for food.
When these crocodile gods died they
were embalmed and placed in the tombs
along with the sacred mummies of
other sacred animals. This particular
crocodile was prepared by dipping it
in wax and pitch, which rendered it
hard and shiny, and it lay in one OF
the pyramids century after century.
until the Egyptian government dug 1t
out and presented it to the British mu.
seum.-Los Angeles Times.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-10-02
SAVING A DROWNING PERSON.

stroke can learn in half an hour to
turn and swim on his back, and he will
find it much easier and more restful
than the ordinary method. Indeed, he
will find that he can keep himself afloat
merely by padding gently with his
hands, allowing his legs to lie entirely
still.
In effecting n rescue the drowning
person should turn or be turned on his
back. and the swimmer should grasp
him lightly at the back of the neck with
one hand. Both should lie as deep in the
water rs possible, and the swimmer can
then propel himself with his feet and
one hand. OF course, this method would
not work where the drowning person
was frantic with fright, although IL
such n person can be sustained until he
becomes unconscious he may then be
easily towed to safety. Next time you
are in swimming try this method with
some other boy acting as the drowning
person. You will be astonished to see
how easily he may be dragged through
the water.-Chicago News.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-10-02
SMART OLD CAPTAIN.
How He Sailed and Stecred N BnlISy
Cow 10 the Fair.

How He Sailed and Stecred n Bulky
Cow 10 the Fair.
When | was down on Cape Cod last
summer heard an amusing story about
an old sea captain and his COW. Capt.
Patterson, after sailing the sea for more
than 40 years, finally retired to little
farm near Barnstable, where he settled
down, with horse. COW and two or
three dozen hens. His COW, though IA
lank and stubborn creature, was said
to come from very good stock, and when
the Barnstab!e people took it into their
heads to have n fair Capt. Patterson de-
termined to exhibit his COW. But when
the day came for driving her to the
grounds, the COW showed that she had a
mind of her own, and would not bulge
step beyond the farmyard gate. In
vain the old captain tugged at the rope,
pommeled her sides and pushed her
TANKS. The cow wanted to go to pas
ture, and was bound she wouldn't go
to the fair
Capt. Patterson's patience was very
nearly gone, when suddenly an idea oc-
Cured to him. Though he was not
COW to go to the fair, his training sug-
gested something that was. Tying the
cow to the gate post, he went up into
the loft of his barn and threw down an
old sail stepped to dorymast. Then he
put a horse blanket belt through an
iron ring, strapped the belt around the
COW, inserted the end of the mast in the
ring, and bound the mast to the side of
the COW with some 50 feet of rope. The
wind blew 'quartering,' and when the
captain united the COW and raised the
sail the canvas swelled out over the
cows back and away she went Siding"
down the road, mooing and lunging, and
trying to stop herself in vain. Capt.
Patterson seized her tail, and, using it
as rudder guided her skillfully in the
right direction. With every fresh puff
of wind the obstinate COW would be
hurried along faster, while the dust
blew up in clouds, and the sail Tapped
and tugged, as Capt. Patterson held to
the mainsheet with one hand and the
cows tail with the other.
1t was hard voyage for both of them,
but not long one, and when they came
in sight of the fair ground everybody
ran out to see the remarkable sight OF
a COW being sailed through the streets
like a ship. Cheers and laughter filed
the air, and when the captain finally
whrled his COW around at the gate Of
the fair grounds and brought her neat
ly "up into the wind" the shout that
arose might have been heard two miles
away. Unfortunately, Capt. Patterson's
COW did not take one of the prizes for
blooded stock, but the captain himself
was given special prize by the fair
commissioners for 'the best advice for
getting balky cattle to market."-0ut-
lOnk
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-10-02

what can the matter be, Johnnys so
long at the fair" into which she puts
all the possible parrot pathos. If sheis
in humorous mood she tries, "Oh, yah,
dond dot vas fine"
Besides being songster, Polly is an
accomplished talker and she can laugh
and cry like little girl, crow like a
rooster and whistle like boy, and
sometimes she jumbles them all up to-
gether in the most astonishing and
laughable manner. Her principal con-
versaton is carried on in the following
sentences:
"Good-morning, Polly. How do you
do, Polly? Pretty boy, shake hands;
Oh, Polly, where is Polly? Oh, Polly,
what's the matter. Naughty Polly.
Come here. Polly. Sing Polly, why
don't you sing, Polly?" and many
others.
Besides these words Polly sometimes
calls for "Mary Ann" in the most pa
thetic way, and if Mary Ann doesn't APP
pear she adds in teasing voice, Come
on
Polly has most romantic history.
She was born in the southern part OF
Mexico, and, together with big family
of brothers and sisters, she remained
for some time in the home nest. One
day Mexican came and took her and
all her relatives and carried them to
his home, where he fed them for some
time on soft bread and corn. Then in
company with 30 or 40 other parrots,
all crowded together in coop, she was
shipped by railroad northward into the
United States. After remaining some
time in bird fancier's store she was
purchased and sent to cripple named
Harry Marsden, who lived in n Missouri
town. Here she received the best of
treatment, and her owner became her
private tutor. She soon became very
fond of him, and when he said some
thing to her very distinctly just before
going to bed she would wake up the first
thing in the morning and begin to prac-
tice, saying 1t over and over, and in this
way she learned all of her accomplish
ments.
But one day her kind master was or
utTtu W RO W loi MS
and she was sent to Chicago, where, for
some time she swayed in cage at
Fred Kaempfer's bird store in Madison
street and astonished those who visited
her with her remarkable cleverness
No other parrot that the dealer ever
saw could sing and talk so eH,as this
one. One day last fall Mrs. Pullman
saw Polly and purchased her and since
then she has made her home in Chicago
Polly belongs to the most intelligent
of all the parrots-the double-yellow'
head Mexican. She is over foot in
length and of magnificent green color
with pale-yellow spot on her forehead
red tipped wings and cream-colored
beak. She is altogether as handsome al
she is clever.-Chicago Record.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-10-02

In the asylum because of the inf uence
OF wealthy enemies who are using and
fattening off his property.
But we pass the asylum and approach
Ciesboro Point. This little wharf, as |
was saying, is the remnant of the great
landing places for Camp Stoneman dur
ing the war. 1t was cavalry dismount
camp. That is, the sick and wounded
cavalrymen from the army of the Poto-
mae were sent here for final rest and re-
cuperation, after they began to con-
valesce in the hospitals, before they
were sent to their regiments for duty
again. You know the cavalry corps Of
the army of the Potomac was divided
into three divisions. The dismount
camp was similarly divided. The men
were sent to the divisions to which they
belonged to the field, and when fit for
duty, were returned to their regiments
down this same Potomac river.
This excursion steamer we are on is
the Mary Washington. During the war
she was hospital steamer, or, as she
was then termed, Hospital Afloat."
She carried no less than 10000 sick and
wounded men from the front, ut Har-
rison's Landing, White House Land
ing, City Point, and other base hospi-
tails, to the hospitals in Alexandria and
Washington. She has been remodeled
since that time, and is now good ex-
cursion boat.
Camp Stoneman extended clear back
to the hilltops there, and the officers
quarters were elegant. Here, on the
lawn, they used to hang Chinese lam
terms at night, and with music by the
post band they would swing the pretty
Washington girls through the mazes
of the popular dances. Here they were
all play soldiers" but the men had all
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-10-02
PARROT PRIMA DONNA.
Chicago Bird Can Sing SIX Songs,
Words md Music.

Chicago Bird Can Sing SIX Songs,
Words md Music.
There are parrots that talk and par
rots that laugh, parrots that cry and
parrots that swear, but the parrots that
will sing song, both words and music,
and keep the tune are rare indeed. Yet
such a wonder exists in Chicago, and it
has, moreover, the reputation among
bird fanciers of being the best-educated
parrot in this country.
Unfortunately this learned bird S
fame is somewhat obscured by its name.
1t is one of the Smiths of parrotdom-
Polly-and it stoops to ask for crack
err with us much earnestness as any of
it's less clever cousins.
Polly is the property of George NJ.
Pullman, of Pullman's Palace Car COM
pany. She was purchased last fall and
has since been giving daily perform
ances at his home in Prairie avenue.
She sings no fewer than six songs, both
words and music, to say nothing of
trilling the scale from do to do with the
greatest ease. One of her favorite songs
is "Hear Dem Bells" which she sings
with n delicious negro accent. She is
also fond of "Old Mother Wiggle Wag-
gle,' and of a CHEEKY whip-poor-will
song. If it happens to be Sunday she
sings I'm the Sweet By-and-By," with
an occasional variation to "Oh, dear,
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-10-02

pile of red stone, on the bluff over the
eustern branch of the Potomac, is the
st. Elizabeth hospital for the insane.
1t is a government institution, and is
spIendidly kept. Numbers of the unfor-
tunates as well as cranks of Washington
are in that asylum. There is Col. Burn
side, the defaulting disbursing officer
OF the post Office department. He is
really man with an unbalanced mind;
formerly one of Washington's foremost
citizens. In the same asylum Is Col.
Maurice Pinchover, the man whose lit
tie losses of property involved the dom
inant thought on his mind, and stamped
1t on his active brain, that he had been
swindled out of untold millions by
Tom Scott, the great railroad king.
Many a time and oft have heard Pinch
over declaim for the delectation OF the
little crowds Of curious people in the
hotel Hobbies, demanding the return OF
his money from Scott and all other rail-
road thieves, as he expressed 1t. once
he was induced to believe that he hal
been elected to congress, and that Scot'
was contesting his seat. Into the mouse
he walked, before the opening OF the
morning session. and 1t required force
TO eject him from the seat to which nc
believed he had been elected. Poor OLD
'Pinchl" He was once bright fellow.
He believes now he Is confined and kep'
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-10-02
HUMOROUS.

Ocular Proof.-Ned ~ believe
there is a skeleton in Miss Antiques
family" Ted-'T know it. Saw her In
bathing costume yesterday."-Truth.
IA Boston poet has sent poem to
one of the papers, entitled: "Oh, letme
die at home!" The editor has promised
to let him. provided he keeps away from
his office.-Yonkers Statesman.
Remarkable Coincidence.-"It's al
ways seemed q mighty strange thing
to me-" said Mr.. Wipedunks, that in
Bible times, thousands of years ago,
they called n fast driver Jehu, just as
they do nowadays."-Chicago Tribune.
An old lady was telling her grand
children about some trouble in Scot
land, in the course of which the chief
of her clan was beheaded. 1T was nae
great thing of a head, to be sure" said
the good old lady, "but it was sad loss
to him."-Tit-Bits.
THAT" said the old boatman to the
lonesome girl on the end of the pier
at summer resort, els a man-eating
shark" "Thanks!" she replied, look
ing in the direction in which he pointed.
I'VE can sympathize with each other"
Chicago Evening Post.
--"Now, really" said the Thoughtful
Man, "did you ever see woman who
was homely enough to stop clock
by looking at it?" NO" said the Nom
sensical Chap, "but have seen wom-
an stop n car by looking at the con.
ductor."-Cincinnati Commercial Trib
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-10-02
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
DoRoTHY's BARGAIN.

porothy's own dearest auntie Anne
Leaned over Dorothy's bed;
Clad all In pink. to her feather fan.
She looked as sweet as an auntie can,
With roses pink on her head.
Go right to Sleep" said her auntie Anne,
shut up your bonnie brown eyes;
I'll bring breeze with my feather fan
That will take you Off to Yucatan.
And give the flowers surprise"
Dorothy's eyes but the bigger grew:
She laughed at her auntie Anne:
" You Is big 'nuf; why. / sought you knew
Dat breezes on'y took fngs what fiew,
And Dowofy nebber tam
4" Then I'll bring breeze from a cold. cold
land
The fan waved high and fast
" To pinch your nose and nip at your hand,
To freeze you asleep with Icy band
And quilt Of snow that will last"
But like II tool. dear auntie Anne,
An to feel my fies. go cweep.
I'll s'ut my eyes II your fodder fan
Will make our baby run of wild a man.
An let poor Dowofy seep."
-Elvira Floyd Froemcke. in New Unity.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-10-02
CASHIERS BRIGHT IDEA.
Would Sell the Gold Filings In HI,
Teeth and Go to Alaska.


The cashier looked excited the other
morning and could scarcely wait until
he had opened the vault before he be-
gan:
~ say, I'm beast.y tired of working
here Like q slave when fellows are dig
ging up fortunes in the Klondike re-
gions."
There are Others" was the gentle re-
minder of the shipping clerk.
THAT doesn't help me any" returned
the cashier. THE fellows up there
seem to have all kinds of JOY and pleas
ure digging up the gold"
The bookkeeper yawned. The son OF
wealthy parents. the Klondike stories
did not appeal to him as to the others.
"Why don't you so up there?" he asked,
carelessly.
The little eyes of the cashier twinkled
md he cried, joyfully: 81 ami"
'Good walker?" asked, the shipping
clerk.
mo, honest, now, all blufIing aside;
I'm going"
Better have the auditor in in the
middle of the month. instead of waiting
until the first of next if you keep up
this kind of talk" suggested the book
keeper.
where will you raise the dust?" ele-
gantly asked the shipping clerk, leav-
ing his desk and going over to the cash
ier's cage.
"Why, I've got it all planned out"
cried the cashier, speaking so eagerly
that he fairly stumbled over his words.
"The other day read in the papers
that gold filings would drop out Of
teeth up in the Klondike. Now, you
know how much my teeth have cost
me? Well, I'm going to have those gold
filings taken out and silver ones put
in, and when sell the gold filings I'll
have plenty to take me up there, won't
II" and he looked so happy in his be-
lief that neither the bookkeeper nor the
shipping clerk had the heart t.. sug-
gest that there might be difficulty in
finding n purchaser for the gold filings
after they were removed. = Chicago
Chronicle.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-10-02

seen service, and were recuperating for
further hardships. They deserved their
little play days.
| Over there to the right, that steeple
which you see peeping over the Alex
andria hilltops is the tall tower of
Fairfax seminary. Fairfax seminary
has a history; war history, too. In
the offices of the surgeon general there
are records showing that no less than
! 10000 sick and wounded soldiers were
treated in Fairfax seminary gen sral
hospital. After the battle of the Will
derness, on May SIS, 1864, when the
hospitals of Alexandria were full, Ftlir-
fax seminary was thrown open to the
sufferers and was fitted up as hos
pital; and here the poor fellows were
brought, many of them famed into
life by the breezes from the Potomac,
which always sweep over these hills.
And now we are passing sleepy old
Alexandria, with her grass-grown
streets. There are many historical OBJ
jects in the old town, which we must
see some day. There is Christ church,
with its unchanged pews. wherein wor-
SHIPPED George Washington, of Mount
Vernon, and Robert L. Lee, of Ar.
lington Heights. There is the old Mar
shall house, up King street, where the
gallant and foolhardy Ellsworth was
killed by Jackson, the proprietor, who
was in turn shot down by Sergt. Brow
nell. Jackson's daughter, a most beau
tiful girl, is employed in a government
Department. al Washington.
Do you see that little bit of an island,
no bigger than mans hand, down the
river about half mile? There is one
tree on it and about ten feet of gress
on either side of the tree. 1t is about
20 feet square. That is Craney island.
Only few years ago it was splendid
island, containing about Is acres of
good ground, with house and out
houses upon it. The last purchaser has
lost his investment. Gradually the Po-
tomac has eaten and swallowed the
island. All that is left in sight Is the
tree which you can see. That used to be
a great place to go fishing and a splen.
did covert from which to shoot ducks.
1t is soon to be one of the things of the
past.
The bell tolls, and all steamer bells
toll, as we pass Mount Vernon, where
lies the body of George Washington. We
have had quite trip down the Potomac,
and it has been delightfully."- cool ever
since the steamer started. Now we
will stop, if you please, at Glymont.
That is one of the many landings where
the excursionist stops and spends an
hour or two in the Pavilion, under the
trees, on the water in small boats, or in
the sporting and shooting galleries.
But let us return. 1t is cool here al
Glymont, and it is equally delightful
at Marshall Hall, Mount Vernon,
Blackstone island, and the other
places where the excursionists have
gone. But as evening approaches, we
want another Whit of river air, and
return to the city Refrigerated, to en-
Joy "tired natures sweet restorer,
balmy sleep. SMITH d. FRY.