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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-09
News Of H|e R0l|O1dS.

Operator Delay, OF the Ell Paso
division, is in the city on a visit.
Conductor Jack Mangan, of the
Southern Pacific is on the sick
list.
Live Stock Agent J. II. Polk, of
the Santa Fe, arrived in the city
yesterday.
Major Hank Small, superintend-
ent of buildings and bridges of the
Southern Pacific, went up to Aus
tin today.
Two crews of the Southern Pa
cific were pulled off yesterday, G.
l.. Creech and Mike McGary being
the conductors.
Two trains of live stock arrived
over the Arkansas Pass yesterday
and were transferred to the Inter
national for Cotulla.
The International shops and
roundhouses will again work full
time, beginning next Tuesday, on
account of gradual increase OF
business.
Gulf Shore engine No. 2, which
has been in use at the Stockdale
terminus as a construction engine,
has been brought up and is now
sitting IDLE iu the yard.
A. d. Stack, the popular fore
man Of the International round
house, was up for the first time
yesterday after a struggle with
dengue.
Conductors Pete Martin and
Frank Griffin and Brakeman Nc
Elvoy, of the Southern Pacific, are
in the city from Del Rio to spend
few days with friends.
Ben McConn, a brakeman on the
Southern Pacific, was brought il
from the west yesterday and taker
to the hospital. He was caught
between two drawheads at The
gravel pit near Sanderson anC
! seriously injured.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-09
SHIPPING A CHERRY ORCHARD.
Picturesque Scene Witnessed mt One
of the Largest in California.

of the Largest in California.
Probably there is no better known
and certainly there are few larger
ranches in the state of California than
that owned by the Meek estate. 1t is
situated little way outside the city of
Oakland and it covers huge tract of
land between San Lorenzo and Hay
wards. 1t is spread over $500 acres of
some of the finest fruit-bearing coun-
try on the Pacific coast. A thousand
acres is in fruit, for the most part cher
ries. The ranch is owned and controlled
by the Meek brothers and their sisters,
how skillfully may be known from the
fact that in spite of hard times and
depressed market there has never been
year when it has not paid literally.
A full crop of cherries from this won
derful orchard will bring its owners
anywhere from 5000 to $4,000. Just
now the seasons cherry picking is go
ing on at a great rate, and little army
of pickers are toiling from tree to tree,
stripping the branches like swarm
of locusts.
The sight is picturesque. for the
picllers come by families and live in
the cherry orchard in a small village of
tents. At the height of the season
nearly $50 pickers are employed. They
are of all ages and both sexes, as the
work is of such a nature that it can
be performed as well by women as by
men, as well by ten-year-old girl as
by a grown man. The pickers are, of
coarse, boarded at the expense of the
ranch, and besides are paid from rs
cents to dollar per day, so that wife
and two or three children can make |
as much money during the few weeks
of the picking season as the head of the |
house can earn during the entire year.
After the picking the cherries are |
taken over to the packing house and
handled at once. The ripper cherries are |
sorted out and put upon local mar
kets, while the more backward are
shipped east. The force of packers can |
dispose of 425 boxes per day. Two
Thousand boxes go to the car
load and must be hurried to
their destination as speedily as posi- |
bic, for there is no fruit that loses its |
flavor quicker by overheeping than the
cherry. For the same reason the boxes |
must be rapidly marketed, for they |
will not keep many hours in the heat
of an eastern summer. There are plen-
ty of difficulties in the way of getting |
the California cherry upon the dining |
tables of the eastern consumer, but
with ordinary care and fair season
the prices obtainable are not bad. In
Chicago a ten-pound box of California
cherries can be made to bring one dol
lar if properly handled, while in New
York, though the eastern local market
comes into competition, the same quail
ty will sometimes sell for IL cents a
Francisco Wave.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-09
ANOTHER AMERICAN VICTIM.

Washington, D. c., Oct. 9.-The act
ing United States consul general at
Havana has informed the State de-
partment that George Samuel Newton
a young American, formerly a watch
maker in Havana, who was wounded
and captured by Spaniards near Bar
acoa, in Pinar Del Rio province in
August last, died in Havana Septem-
Der 20 from the effects of his wounds
and fever. Newton's father lived in
Caracas and his mother in Ogden,
Utah, at last accounts.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-09
SMALL BLAZE.

A lot of hot grease in the kitchen
Of the Elite restaurant, corner
Soledad and Commerce streets be-
came overturned into the range
last night at IL o'clock and caused
a blaze which called the fire de-
partment. The chemical engine
company quickly eXtinguished it,
the damage amounting to about
500.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-09

Concordia lodge, will give their ball at
Muth's garden october 10th. ct
TO heal the broken and diseased
tissues, to soothe the irritated sur
faces, to instantly relieve and to per-
manently cure is the mission of De-
Wits Witch Hazel Salve. e. Reuss,
102 E. Commerce street.
The dust has been settled by the
rain and the street sprinkler is not
needed.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-09
NORTHER TONIGHT.

Mr.. Gus. Duerler telephones the
Light that his neurological obser-
vations forecast a norther for this
section tonie hit and tomorrow.
The government observer also
predicts colder weather. Freezing
temperature is reported from st
Paul.
In this state rain will probably
accompany the cold wave.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-09
POLLYS DANDER UP.
Infamed mt Sight of an Offensive Bird
n Visitor Wore on Her Hat

4 Infnmed mt Sight of an Offensive Bird
n Visitor Wore on Her Hat.
A bridal couple, who put in several
days recently taking in the sights of
the capital, enjoyed themselves i'm
mensely until the day preceding their
departure. 1t then occurred to the
bride that she had not called upon
Dear Fanny" who had been her
chum during her days at the seminary.
Now, Fanny was still enjoying single
blessedness, and this may have had
something to do with the anxiety of
the bride to call upon her maiden chum.
George demurred feebly, but at last
consented to pay a formal call. The
bride dressed herself in a fetching
gown and placed upon her saucy head
Partisan dream in the way of hiatt
The hat was one of those Undesirable
creations of the milliner's art, mass
of flowers with a bird or two partially
concealed in the foliage, so to speak,
The pair went gayly forth, and in a
hotel coupe were soon at the door of
Fanny's residence. Their cards were
uluL "SuS bollNlNu 4lllO IlIC
drawing-room. While waiting the
coming OF her friend, the brides atten-
ton was attracted to- a large cage con-
tanning a splendid parrot. She CHR
ruped cooingly to the imprisoned bird,
and wished she might take him out of
his cage and caress him. George re-
marked that he looked tame enough,
and suggested the opening of the door
of the cage. Suiting action with the
word he opened the door, and the re-
leased bird calmly walked forth, and
strutted about, blinking his beady eyes
knowingly. The bride, with usual
calls of Poll, pretty POLL" coaxeG the
bird toward her, and poll proceeded to
climb up the rounds of the chair upon
which the lady was sitting, and perched
herself upon the arm of the chair. The
parrot uttered cultural cries of Polly,
polly" this word seemingly comprising
her entire vocabulary.
The bird accepted the caresses, and,
apparently, all was serene; but, with
out an instant's warning, she uttered
scream of rage and flew at the lady's
headgear, alighting fairly thereon,
and then for few minutes the air was
filed with flying feathers and bits of
flowers, while the atmosphere was frac-
tured by screams from the bride and
discordant cries from the parrot.
George attempted to come to the nes-
cue, and had his face badly scratched
for his pains. The lady finally shook
the bird loose from the flower garden
she was wearing upon her hat and
made one wild dash for the front door,
followed closely by the bridegroom.
Once on the pavement they became
somewhat composed and determined
to return to their hotel to repair dam
ages. They did not tarry long enough
to see Dear Fanny"
The sudden wrath of the bird was
caused, George thought upon reflection
during calmer moments, by the
fact that amid the flowers in his wife's
hat there nestled stuffed Caroline
parrakeet, which the parrot took to be
a real live rival, and proceeded forth
with to demolish. The bride is now
a thorough convert to the teachings of
the Audubon society. - Washington
Post.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-09
LIES OVER A VOLCANO.

New Madrid, Mo-, Oct. 9.-Yesterday
at 5 o'clock an earthquake shock was
felt here, but no damage was done.
New Madrid was the scene of a vio-
lent earthquake in 1911 when a great
part of the land in the entire county
sank several feet and was overlooked
by water from the Mississippi river
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-09

ana can shoot hole through cop
per coin tossed in the air. He goes
off on rough hunting trips, and bags
big game, and is the best gun shot in
Persia. He is neither fool nor an i'm
beetle, and is man of swift action
Cincinnati ENQUIRER,
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-09
WILL BE SOLD.

Washington, Oct. 9.-Attorney GEN
eral McKenna announces the govern
ment will not appeal the Union Pa
cific foreclosure, but allow the road to
be sold November 1.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-09
WAS NOT OF THEM.
To the Light.

To the Light.
Mr.. APPEL ;iever was a member of the
Deutscher Maennerchor, as he has been
published. Please make this state
ment in the Daily Light, respectfully,
JACOB WAGNER.
Treas. S. A. d. Maennerchor.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-09
AMERICA WON.

London, Oct 9.-The American bay
colt Diakka, Lorillard- Beresford sta
BILE, won the Duke of York stakes of
1000 sovereigns today at Kempton
park, October meeting. Fourteen
horses ran over the Jubilee" course,
one mile. Houldworth's Laveno, Sec
ond and Duke oof Devonshire Minstrel
third.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-09
STILL AFTER FAIR MILLIONS.

San Francisco, Oct. 9.-Mrs. Nettie
r. Craven, undaunted by the recent adj
verse decision of Judge Slack, will as
sert her claims as the widow of the
late Jartes G. Fair to a large share
of his millions. She intends to base
her demands on a marriage contract.
Within the next few days the first
series of the suits will be instituted.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-09

Rheumatism is due to Tactic acid in
tralizes the acid and completely cures
the aches and pains of rheumatism.
Be sure to get Hoods.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-09
ANOTHER CONVERT.

San Francisco, Oct. 9.-Advices are
received that the government of Mic
aragua will use United States gold
coins until its gold standard is estab-
lished, and will discontinue the use of
silver.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-09
CATTLE MARKET.

st. Louis, Oct. 9.-Cattle: Receipts,
500; market steady; Texas and Indian
steers, $3QSS45; cows and heifers, S215
@$3.20. Sheep: Receipts, 200; mar
ket, steady.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-09
MORE gold COMING.

Southampton. Eng, Oct. 9.-The
steamship Paris sailed from New York
today with SO, 900 in gold.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-09
DrawbncI1s of Wealth.

Weary Watkins-If I had a million
dollars
Hungry Higgirs--You'd be misera-
bic. Jist think Ct havin' to stop drink
in while ycr hTd Tc~ey to buy more.
-IrGia-a polls journal.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-09

Hoods Pills are easy to take, easy
to operate. Cure indigestion, bilious
ness. Csc.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-09
COTTON AT ca.

New York, Oct. 9.-Cotton spots clos
ed, steady, middling uplands 61a cents.
Gulf 6A cents.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-09

"A mn 6f"d at : SIS Loris hospital
recent '~~'-' -"'-'-'--, caused by wear
ing tight ~'-r~
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-09
Persia's Ruler.

The shah of Persia is brusque of
speech; he is also magnificent shot,
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-04-24
He Beat a Fakir.

Monday very obliging and affable
gentleman who makes living by the
use of his wits and by removing corns,
approached Col. Sinnott, the genial
host of the Umatilla House, and in
quired if he had any corns, in-grown
toe nails or bunions to remove.
"Corns!" exclaimed the colonel, "yes,
lots of them, but as l am working here
only for my board, can't afford to pay
much for having them removed. Now,
young mar, what will you take them
off for?" The chiropodist was struck
with feeling of generosity, and agreed
to perform the operotion for 80 cents.
The colonel entered q room with the
corn doctor, had the offensive growths
removed from his feet, paid the man
his so cents, and the fellow went away
with the consciousness of having helped
out a poor old man who had been re-
duced to poverty and compelled to
work for his board.
An hour later, the chiropodist was
seated in Parkins' barber shop when
the Colonel chanced to pass by, step
ping livelier than he had for year,
when the "doctor" asked; "who is that
old duffer?"
THAT" answered Mr.. Pal kins, sis
Col. Sinnott, proprietor of the Una
tilla House."
The corn doctor left the shop in
hurry, remarking with language not
taught in the Sunday school, that he
had just performed s5 operation on
the old fellows feet for so cents, be-
cause he thought him too poor to pay
more.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-04-24
Death of manuel Gates.

The sudden death of Samuel Gatss
comes as a great shock to I is many
friends in this community. On Satur-
day last he took to his bed and, almost
at once lapsing into the semi-comatose
state attendant upon the last stage of
diabetes, and passed quietly away on
Monday night at eleven O'Clock.
Sam Gates, as he was known to his
friends, was born in The Dalles in
July, 1859, son of Col: N Fl. Gates,
prominent lawyer and pioneer of this
city, and received his education in our
public schools.
His life and character were such as
to gain him many friends and make
him no enemies. He was an in
dustrious, honest and kindly man,
generous to fault, and ever ready to
extend helping hand when needed.
His death at the early age of % will be
mourned by vast circle of friends.
The funeral services will be held at
the residence of his mother, Mrs. Gates,
tomorrow, Wednesday, at 10 A. M.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-04-24
CYCLING IN JAPAN.
Some Queer Costumes Worn by the Native
Women.

Some Queer Costumes Worn by the Native
Women.
The all-conquering bicycle has in
vaded Japan, and is now familiar
sight in the land of the jinrikisha. The
Europeans take to it kindly and the
little brown men and women are equal
ly enthusiastic. The government, says
the Philadelphia Press, has equipped
many of its postmen with roadsters,
especially those who deliver mail in the
suburbs or in the country districts. In
each brigade bicycle corps has been
formed who are daily drilled in about
the same style as similar organizations
in the armies of Europe. The Japanese
people themselves still regard the
wheel as great curiosity, but are be-
ginning to both master and manufac-
ture it. Some of the Japanese women
have adopted a queer bicycle costume
that is combination of the bloomers
with native dress. 1t is neither jap
anese nor European. Combined with
the upper part of the Ramona costume
the Japanese ladies clothe their neither
limbs in what are neither .kniclerbock-
ers, trousers, zouaves nor bloomers.
The ludicrous effect is heightened by
the girl having national habit of turn
ing the toes in, developed to its largest
extent. All that you see when she
passes You is pair of round and pretty
heels wabbling in an uncertain man
ner, and a little body coiled up that
makes you think of gay little monkey
on the top of a pole.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-04-24
81 SCOTS BEAR HUNT.
One of the Toughest Yarns Yet Turne
Out from California.

One OF Cne IOuSneSb Yarns 1et
Out from California.
cam you never heerd about oil 81
Scott's bar hunt?' inquired an old
hunter from Humboldt, evidently sur
prised at the ignorance of Sis expert
ences, says the San Francisco Post.
''Why, he's the Oldest bar hunter in
the state. Well, one day he was out on
his little jackass, a-lookin' fer bar, an
not findin' any concluded ter take
rest. He tied the burro to a tree, laid
his oil muzzle-loader down on ther
grass and went down by ther bank of
creek to feed. He was a-sittin' there
cuttin' off hunks O. jerked ven'son
when he heerd terrible smashin' in
the brush. He started fer his gun. but
q big bar came a-amblin' out of the
brush right alongside of it. He whirled
around an run out on the limb of a
rotten oil cottonwood over the crick,
which was about forty feet to where
the rocks stuck up through the water.
''This was jest nuts fer the bar. He
walked up to ther tree, shifted it time
er two, clambered up on the limb and
commenced movin' to'ds ST, a-srlackin'
his chops an gruntin' satisfied like. 81
saw he was in pretty bad fix, an he
crep' out as fur as he could, a-hopin'
ther bar w ould consider the limb shaly
an stop. But he didn't. He KEEP com
in ST saw somethin' had to be done.
He couldn't drop without KILN hisself,
an he had never praticed bar 1ightiD'
on a tight rope. The only thing he
could do was to set up a terrible
squawklin'.
"'Go back! Go backr he yelled. Go
back an eat ther jacl1ass, you blamed
fool. This limb'l break and kill us
both
81 think that bar must understood
him or concluded that 81 was tougher'n
the burro, for he turned aroun' an
used his appetite on the jack"
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-04-24
AN EARLY FIRE.
Dennis Bunnells Residence and All Its
Contents Burned.

Dennis Bunnelrs Residence and All Its
Contents Burned
Saturday morning fire was dis
covered in the basement of Dennis
Bunnell's house on Tenth street. Mr..
Howe, who lives near by, discovered
the fire and gave. an alarm which
awoke the neighbors, and Ike Perry
fastened to the Mt. Hood hose house
and rang an alarm, but owing to the
bell being defective, very few resi-
dents on the hill were awakened until
an alarm was rung from the bell at the
engire house. The Mt. Hood hose
team got to the scene of the fire in
pretty good time and did excellent
work, though the building was all
ablaze before they reached it, and all
they could save was the walls, the in
side of the building and all the fam
ily's furniture and clothing being de-
stroyed.
The cause of the fire is unknown.
but probably caught from sparks in the
basement, as Mrs. Bunnell had been
burning some rubbish in the furnace.
There was no one in the house when
the fire occurred. Mr. Bunnell was
down the river attending to a fish
wheel, and Mrs. Bunnell was spend
ing the night with a neighbor. The
house was insured for 5000, though
there was no insurance on the con-
tents.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-04-24
SMUGGLING BY A BIBLE.
She Read 1t Devoutly, But Most of 1t WI
Filled with Lace.

She Read 1t Devoutly, But Most of 1t Was
Filled with Lace.
An old lady once humbugged the GUS
tom house officers at Dover in an in
genious way. She used to cross the
channel two or three times a week
when the weather was anything like
good
She always gave the men at the
gangway tracts, and the custom Off
GERS, too, if she could get near them.
She always carried good-sized Bible,
closed together with a broad elastic
band. One of these officials tells the
story in the Westminster Gazette.
whenever l saw her reading her
Bible, which was not often, she was
doing so quite at the beginning, some
where about Genesis or Exodus.
"At last suspicion was aroused, and
when next she came across 1 stepped
up politely to her, as she was going
away having no luggage, and said 1
should be much obliged if she'd allow
me to look in her Bible, as a mate of
mine had said was wrong in thinking
a certain verse was in the Eightieth
Psalm.
"At first she tried to put me off, say
ing she was in great hurry, and that
she was sure SO good a man as looked
to be had Bible of his own at home.
And if I hadn't she'd bring me one
down the next morning.
In the end, however, she had to give
up the Bible she was carrying, and we
found. that except for few leaves at
the beginning and at the end it was a
solid block, so to speak. made of papier
mache, followed out in the center,
where we found some fifty or sixty
dollars worth of lace"
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-04-24
The New o. R. 8 N. Time Gard.

The new passenger schedule on the
o. r. & N. which takes effect Wednes-
day is as follows: No. 2 east via. Union
Pacific and Oregon Short Line. arrives
here at 1:l5 A. NJ, departs at 1:20.
No. 4, east by Spokane and Great
Northern, arrives at 6 p. M, departs
6:O5.
No. ], west from U. P. and o. S. L.. !,
arrives at 1:2O A. M, and departs 1:35.
No. 8, west from Spokane and Great
Northern, arrives at $50 A, NJ. and de-
parts at 8:35.
Freight trains Nos, % and "a, second
divisions, will carry passengers, No. %
arrives at 5 P. NJ. and No, "a leaves at
1:45 p. M.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-04-24
a Good Word for the Exchange.

The Union Signal, an organ of the
w. c. T. U. published at Chical o, has
this to say with reference to the Labor
Exchange:
ga branch of the Labor Exchange,
which was organized in 1890, and has
since spread over 32 states, has been
established in Chicago. The aim of
the association is to furnish employ
ment to all who want it, and at the
same time to enable working people to
earn the highest wages, which are to
be paid in script issued by the associa-
ttion, and will be medium of exchange
etween the members and merchants
~ to the organization. This
dealing with the unem-
= the elements of practi-
knency, and ought to
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-04-24
Advance In Cattle.

VIM. Matlock, of Heppner, last week
purchased 100 steers in Fossil from w.
S. Thompson, Zachary Bros. and Frank
Knox. The cattle are to be delivered
at W. S. Thompson's ranch, Fossil,
May IA, next. The price paid for
yearlings was S14, for 2-year-olds $19
and for 3-year-olds S24. About six
weeks ago Coe Barnard sold SO head
of 2-year-old steers, not yet delivered,
to Mr.. .Matlock. for ST. per head which
was then the going price, so it is ap-
parent that there has been rise of at
least 81 per head on cattle within six
weeks-a remarka BILE advance, with all
Indications pointing to the fact that
the top notch has not yet been reached.
La Grande Chronicle.