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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1898-01-28
LOCaL AND GEN ERAL
NE us BRIEFS.

w. r. Payne. attorney, of WEIGH
w. Va, called on us Wednesday.
Mrs. ID. ii. Litz and children are
on visit to Mr.. Jno. Il. Iitz's.
Seafoam, Sunbeam, Lenox and
Chinese Laundry soaps at Tynes
Bros.
Judge Phil. w. Strother, of Giles
county was in the city last week en-
legal business.
Best laundry soap in town, at
Pobst d Wingo's. Try it and be
convinced.
Money saved is meney made, then
why not save Csc. by eating at Cot
fees Restaurant
Why do we go to Coffee's Restau.
rant for our meals? Because we get
the worth of our money.
Il got a hundred pounds of chop
at Tynes Bros. the best ever used"
Is what we heard man saw yester-
day.
We call attention to the profession
al card of Mr.. Ebb III. Witten in this
issue. This young lawyer means
business.
Tynes Bros. sell "Orange Blossom"
flour at $3.50 per barrel delivered
If flour is not first class money is
refunded.
Wren you come to town don't for
get to have your horse put up and
fed at Coffee's feed stable. You will
get the worth of your money.
Ed. SPOTS, of Tazewell, gave us a
call on last Saturday on his return
from the east to buy a stock of gro.
ceries.-Southwest Republican.
The Racket Store sells best gran
ulated sugar for 81 cents.
Hon. w. G. Mustard of Wittens
Mill, passed through the city Tues
day night on his way to the national
capitol.-Southwest Republican.
Nice and good raisins, &C., 3 lbs.
for 25c. Fine large prunes, Sc.
Good cheese; 125c., at the
RCAKET STORE.
Rev l. p. Martin, of Tazewell, is
receiving the congratulations of his
numerous friends on the arrival of n
young /. P.-Inter States Advert
ser.
Coffee is doing a good business
TINS week both at restaurant and
feed stable. Call and be convinced
that he runs everything in decen
order.
MIR, Uriah Mccoy and wife, late
OF this place, have opened up first
class boarding house in Pocahontas
In bodybuilding formerly known as the
Tazewell House.
Tazewell, Va.
Nice line pure fresh candies lust
received, at Racket prices, at the
RACKET STORE.
The SPOTS Bros new store will
open within a short time. A full
line of staple and fancy groceries
will be kept, and sold at the lowest
cash prices.
Capt. A. w. Landon has fulfilled
his engagement with the New York
Racket store and did it well. He
now holds prominent office in the
ancient order of "The Sons of Rest y
Dilworth's coffee, 124c, Arbuckles'.
11c., Gig land Dig, stick blueing, Sc.
at NEw YORK RACKET STORE.
Taxewell, Va.
The residents of Tazewell and
Mechanics Avenue return thanks TO
the towu council for some repairs on
sidewalk at DR.. Thompson's corner.
That bat sidewalk all along there is
IN a deiapidated condition.
Mrs. Charles Copenhaver, of the
cove IN Tazewell county, who has
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1898-01-28

rOOD'S PILLS cure Liver Ills, BIZ
.ousness, Indigestion, headache.
Easy to take, easy to operate. 25c.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1898-01-28
A Chinese Laundry.

Mr.. Hop Wah, Chinaman, has
opened a laundry in town. See his
al. in this issue OF the News.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1898-01-28
CASTo7IA
TIE fac If
'; ''s I &MAzzZSa IS! 81; !;
Partnership DISSOLVED.

The law firm of Henry Graham &
Stras. has been dissolved, Mr., Stras
retiring on account of his eyesight.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1898-01-28
Local Markets. Price ThisWeek

Below we give the local market
prices of Country produce, etc We
will keep this standing and give
changes in prices as they occur:
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-23
HOW l HELPED TO RAISE THE
 OLD BEAR FLAG
BY HENRY FOWLER. "A PioDeer of I044,

N WAS born in St. Clair County, H.,
 June F, 1922. Eleven years later
 my family moved to Southwestern
 Missouri, and in March, 1S43, my
 brother William, who at the age of eighty years, and healthy, still lives at San Ramon, this State, my father and myself started for Oregon with an OK and mule team. William had wis ited Oregon two years previously, com ing most of the way with General John Bidwell and party, and was thoroughly familiar with the route to be travelled.
 Starting with us were Peter H. Bur- nett, later the first Governor of Califor- mia, and family. Jesse, Lindsay and Charley Applegate and fanilies. Will liam Winter, William Hargrave and Captain G. P Swift, the latter two members of the memorable Bear Flag party. Peter Burnett was captain of the party for distance, when a divi- sion occurred and William Fowler was installed as captain of our division. Dr. Whitman, then noted missionary of Walla Walla, who with his wife was aftcrward killed by the Indians, joined our party at Platte River, being on his return from visit to the East.
 We reached Oregon City after a te- dious journey, and there spent the win ter of 1S4344 working for Dr. McLaugh- lin, who owned and laid out the town. In June, 1S44, We started horseback and with packhOrses for California. With us from there were the well-knoWn KelSeyS, now deceased.
 The route travelled was very nearly that traversed by the railroad at the present time. It was difficult to get through, for there was scarcely trail anywhere and the wooded sections were badly infested by Indians. We had. however, few skirmishes of a serious character Fortune seemed to smile on us all the way but it would have been otherwise had we not had some Hud- son Bay men for guides, who were dreaded by the Coast Indians at that time.
 At the Soda Springs near where is now SiSsonS, short season was passed in camp. Here the members of the party grew fat on the finest biscuit ever tasted, the dough being both mixed and raised by the use of the car bonated water. We finally trudged on and eventually pitched camp on Cache Creek, Yolo County, just below the cabin of William Gordon, who came here in the early sos and who was the grandfather of Hon. Frank l.. CoombS, now Speaker of the California Assem- bly,.
 This was the first house seen since leaving the Chehalem Valley, Oregon.
 In the latter part of A our party moved over to old Sonoma, where the male members, including myself, work ed for General Vallejo, completing his adobe houses The following year my father and myself purchased the ranch at Calistoga now owned by Mrs. Le- land Stanford. The property adjoined that of the noted Sam Grammar. We raised cattle and farmed in general.
 It was June 13, 1S46. that Sonoma was captured, the Bear Flag raised and the Republic of California created General Fremont put "Stuttering" Merritt. an old hunter, at the head of the capturing party. Some thirty or more persons went with him, each armed with a sim
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ward married one of General Vallejo's daughters, was officer of the day. On our arrival at Rio Janeiro the little girl was taken aboard the frigate Co., lumbus and christened Alta California Harris. The Emperor's birthday had occurred shortly before this and all eX- cept the American ships had decorated and fired salutes on that day, the re- suit being that a kind of strained feel ing existed. When the child was chris tened the Emperor sent an envoy and wished to know why so much fuss had been made over the birth of a com mon soldiers daughter and yet no at tention had been paid to his birthday. The captain sent word in return that the little girl might some day be the wife or mother of a President of the United States. That ended the matter:
 On our arrival here my stepfather bought the timber of the ships hunks for $60 and with half of it built the first house on Kearny street south of Commercial. It was situated between Pine and Bush streets. The lot on which it was erected was bought from a man named Cline for two calfskins, valued at SS apiece.
 The first show to be given in the town was by the .ew York Minstreis. sho .y after our arrival The ''rheater" f3T
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gle-shou rife Merritt was selected be. cause he had been previously captured and maltreated by General and Salva. dor Vallejo. Merritt was instructed by Fremont even to the language for the occasion. General Vallejo was rushed upon and Merritt said: Y-y-ou are my prisoner"
 Vallejo was dumfouBded for a mo- ment and then replied i'll broken Eng fish: By what authority?"
 I'm the authority" shouted Merritt. w w when 1 w-was your p-p-prisoner you t-t-treated me like d-d-dog; now you're my p-p-pris- oner and I t-t-treat you like a g-g-gentleman."
 The Bear Flag was made by William Tod, relative of Mrs. Abraham Lin coin, and hoisted while the prisoners were taken to Sutter's Fort Tod was later captured by some MeXicans, but subsequently, rescued.
 The original Bear flag was made of the poorest quality of linen-an under garment taken from clothesline Now the flag at present recognized is made of fair material Besides, the bear is in a different attitude, being in the original just rising on his launches, with both paws extended, while in this he is on all four feet. The original is still in Pioneer Hall, San Francisco and should be adopted. It is much worn and effaced, but the powder coIol remains together with slight traces of the red. Jacob P. Leese, General Valle- jos brother-in-laW, told me that after his release from Sutters Fort he went down to the river near by and saw a red Bear flag floating on 9 launch. He gave a kanaka 8 to steal it for him. and this and Fremont's battle-fiag, which had been stolen from the fort by Leese, were taken by the latter and left with Jacob Snyder of Sonoma. What became of the Bear flag after that I do not know.
 In July, 1S4G, Fremont named him. self Governor of the new California Re- public and organized the Loyal Ali ance. All of us Americans subscribed to the Alliance excepting one. hunter named Fallon, who declared he wanted no republic and could protect himself.
 There was gold found in California before 1S4S, but active digging didn't commence until then. I know that in 1S44 Captain G. P. Swift and William Winters of the Fowler immigrant party found gold along the banks If Kings River. In 1S4S William Hargrave and myself mined on the American River and it's tributaries, and the last day we worked took out $2000 We also mined with much success in '49. I shall at tend the Jubilee celebration and take part in the parade.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-23
GAMsLEp AWAY s7,oOo.ooo.

The alleged attempt of the Prince of Monaco to 'bleed" the Casino Com pany has led to the publication of pamphlet by a group of shareholders full of interesting reading. While every body is aware that the Casino con- tributed largely to the revenue, few people knew that besides the subsidy of the Prince. the establishment keeps up the judges, police lighting, water, postoffice. clergy and charitable insti- tutions.
 Last seasons expenditure of the principality, apart from the mainte- nance of the Casino, which was S4,1T0.- 900, amounted to $750,O00 of which sum the Prince had $25O, 900, the courts, poll ice. etc, $100,000 clergy and schools. $45,OOO, charities $30O,OOO, prizes for sports $55,000, and the postoffiee and losses $10,0OO. The dividends on the shares absorbed $2.SSO,0 900, making total revenue of $7,700,00O, which the fools of the world'' left at the Mont Carlo gambling tables
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-23
SAW WOLVES AND COYOTES
 where MONTGOMERY ST. NOW IS.

By JOHN WEAVER, Pioneer of AZ.
 ' Twas in November, 1S46 that I left
 New York on the ship Thomas F.
 Perkins, in company with my step b father, Philip Brown. my mother
 and my sister Mary. On that yes
 seI were 325 volunteers of Colonel Stevenson's regiment. At that time was Ii years of age and Mary 13. We landed at Clark's Point, near what is now the corner of Battery and Pacific streets. San Francisco then had only abou5 Z5G inhabitants.
 The only incident of the voyage worth mentioning was the birth of a little girl on the ship a short time after leav- ing New York. Her father was Ser geant Harris. Shortly after this birth Wes met the sloop-of-war Preble, our escort. Captain Frisbee, who after
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-23

the occasion was Browns Hotel. cor ner of Kearny and Clay streets. The company was organized and drilled aboard ship and was all ready for work when we arrived. Shorty" and Long" Lee and. Jack Powers were three of the performers.
 The first horse and buggy, if so dig nified a term may be used, in San Fran cisco was owned by my stepfather. The body was a wooden bath tub, dug out of a log and presented to him by Cap tain Leidesdorff after whom the street was named. He put two solid wheels on it, fitted it with shafts and other ac- cesSories. and let my sister and me r@1e in it behind an old pinto pony. On wash days 1 took Mary to the lagoon, now called Cow Hollow, and also used the cart to carry messages to father at the Presidio.
 The first wolves and coyotes l ever saw were where the Russ House stands to-day, on Montgomery street. There was a spring there we used to get our water from, and that also at tracted animals. The Russ family came on the voyage with us in the ship Too Choo. except Gus. who came in the Perkins as a servant of one of the of fcers.
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ter, Kearny and Post streets. l Mas going to ride the pony home, when father came up and took it. Just then three drunken h. dians came along and began to use quarrelsome language. At fathers re- quest l found him the limb of d tree to defend himself and ran for the gun. When l returned the Indians mounted their horses and rode away at fast gait.
 In 1S4S, when gold was discovered, father went overland to the mines and the rest of us took Sam Brannan's s sloOp, in company with Captain How ard and a family of the name of Ket- tleman, the passage costing sl6. It took us six days to reach the place where Sacramento is now located. Crossing San Pablo Bay it was very rough, and we feared greatly that we should be swamped, but we reached Mars Island safely and stayed there all night.
 I was the last one to board the sloop in the morning, and, boylike, before I did so I took a firebrand and threw it into the grass. In about five minutes the whole of the island was ablaZe and made one of the grandest sights man ever witnessed. We made moneX in
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me to go and I went. Before leaving he presented me with $200 and a suit of clothing that cost about $100.
 I was working in the Empire Saloon when the first large fire in San Frsn- cisco broke out in '49. Tom Maguira had built a three-story saloon and fitted it up in grand style, on Kearny street. At a. m. of the Saturday it was to be opened with appropriate ceremonies it caught fire and was burned to the ground, along with many other structures. Legg and l slept next door and didn't get to sleep until 2 in the morning. We were awakened a coat and myself with a pair of trou- sers. It was pretty narrow scratch. and don't you forget it.
 1 went home again after this and was sent to Sacramento, where my father had a 50-Vara lot with shanty on it during the squatters' riot of 1850 l witnessed the shooting of the Mayor during that riot. 1 went up there in the steamer Goldhunter and paid $35 for the trip. Afterward I went to the southern mines and mined from 1850 until 1853. Luck fluctuated My best claim was on Indian Creek, about four miles from Murphys, in Calaveras County. My partner and I used to go to town of a Saturday night with a bdS SiA Oi CtSnl lilCIltS lOilS of gold, lay in provisions and other supplies for a week and then go home on Monday morning, dead broke" as regularly as clock work. We rode to town on an old mule, "Greaser fash ion"-one in front and the other be- hind.
 In 1857 l entered the employ of what is now known as the George H. Fay Com pany, and have been here ever since. My sister, now Mrs. Wieland, is still living and is a resident of San Jose She. eX-Mayor Tristed of San Jose and myself are the only ones I know of as living who sailed on the ship Thomas H. Perkins fifty-two years ago. No, perhaps l am mistaken. When I heard last of the little girl, Alta California Harris. about fifteen years ago, she was living somewhere in Kansas or Nebraska I myself have served ten years as a veteran fireman.
 JOHN WEAVER.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-23

The latest accounts" from the Gold country are highly fiattering. Over three hundred men are engaged ir washing Gold and numbers are con- tinually arriving from every part of the country. Gold has been found within three miles of Fort Sacramento. and parties who have penetrated and traversed the region in which it was originally found, give encouraging re- ports of its increase in quantity-undi- minished in purity. Extravagant prices are offered mechanical labor. wages of ten and twelve dollars per day are re- fused.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-23

the mines, but mother fell i'll and we had to return. We tried it a second time, but made failure. When we returned to the city father opened Browns Hotel on Kearny street. the former one of that name having changed hands and also its name to the City Hotel.
 After this I ran away from home and went to work for a man named Wal Ter, who kept a saloon and restaurant on the corner Of Jackson and Kearny streets, where all the gamblers used to congregate. At the end of two months my mother came and begged me to return home. Waller advised
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-23
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Protest of Subscriber Against the Gold Monio iD the ColiforDion,
 May 24, I048.

: MT. Editor-The gold mines up
 the Sacramento appear to be ex- : citing considerable attention, and
 : are the principal topic of con-
 : versation in our now almost de-
 : serted town. The few wno re-
 : main are mostly those whose
 : circumstances place them above : the need of gold digging, and some few who are not easily : gulled or such as cannot raise 8
 to pay their passage. This state
 :, of things, sir, is to any reflect ing man most deplorable. What
 : evil effects may not result from ; this mania, this desire to become ; suddenly rich and the consaquen. abandonment of all useful pur-
 suits in a wild goose chase after ; gold I doubt. sir, if ever the ; sun shOne upon such a farce as
 , is now enacting in California,
 : though I fear it may prove a ; tragedy before the curtain drops.
 : l consider 1t your duty, MT. Ed
 ; itor, as a conservator of public
 : morals and welfare. to raise ; your voice against this thing. IL
 , is to be hoped that Governor Ma ; son will dispatch the volunteers , to the scene of action and send
 , these infatuated people to their
 , homes and prevent others from
 } going there. Yours.
 , SUBSCRIBER.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-23

our house had been built on the wrong lot, and while it was being moved we lived on Washington street. above Montgomery, in a small shanty. A drunken Indian came there one day, and upon mothers refusing him some thing to eat he tried to brain her with an aX, and was prevented only by the timely appearance of a colored man named Jackson, who gave the rascal a sound drubbing and fired" him.
 The only trouble I have ever had in this State from AT to the present time happened one day when I was sent after the horse, pastured in a little valley bounded by Dupont, Sut-
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-23

} e C e C . z z C e (. %> Ia <a q q e q g stuff gold and the whole afternoon we labored in carrying pieces of it home How tired We were at night and how crushed our spirits were when father returned at night and pronounced it false" gold. The visions of cakes and candy that filled our heads during the afternoon soon filled and gave way to disappointment.
 I have witnessed the transformation of California into one of the brightest States in the sisterhood
 I am the mother of five native sons and seven native daughters. Two others are dead. also have two grand- children. So I have done my share toward populating the State. My hus- band, Robert M. Reid, died six years ago. John Gregson, my father, still lives at Green Valley, Sonoma County and is upward of 70 years of age.
 The present Golden Jubilee celebra- tion is fitting one for the half-cen- tury that has passed since Marshall made the discovery that brought the world to California's feet It should be a grand reunion and serve to reunite the acquaintances and friendships formed by the sturdy pioneers in the early days. MRS. R. M. REID. tNee Gregs9r.,l
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-23
THE FIRST PIONEER" CALIFORNIA.
Born at sutters Mill, septeDDer 5, I846.

q q z q < q ~ C e e z, E1': q 2 . E z E> their homes in the East and flocked to the Pacific. Slope by the thousands.
 My folks removed to Green Valley, ~onoma County, in 1850. There my
 irlhood' was spent The mining ex- citement was then at its height, and but little attention was paid to child ren. Everything was primitive, and the boys and girls of my time enjoyed none of the toys and playthings that the children of to-day get.
 There were no cradles in California when I was a baby, and when one day the miners put me in an old miners cradle and rocked me thought min ing was the greatest pleasure on earth.
 We lived in a three-room log cabin, and with other children I attended school presided over by a middle-aged Jrishman. The school was of logs. Rough boards formed the benches and here were no desks. A shelf along the side of the room was where the child ren did their writing. The teacher was an incessant smoker and had his pipe in his mouth all day long.
 : The gold fever even had possession of the children. I remember on one oc- caslon three or four little companions and myself found some rich specimens of mica. We thought the glittering
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-23

OWe date the prosperity of San Francisco from the occupation of the country by the United States forces and the consequent hoisting of the flag, but never within the last three years has thr town presented a less lifelil e, more barren appearance than at the present time, never so inactive, so void of stir as at present.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-23

MAT necessity is mouner of invention was never eyd demOn history \ andsh The the ships
 
   while others  The oddities a
  hardly recognizable.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-23
THE CALIFORNIA STAR.
SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1848.
$ EXPIRES TO THE STATES.

We hdUe ID ide Positire 'rgements for another EItTeSS 10 teGUe thss pace for IHde- pm eace on th' S5.h Of June fteri, 0ithout Jo Postage On Letters 50 cents; Papers I242
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TaVen1g  week ordinary fy todv. Naterf from
 
  le captains could
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FRS BALL. N FLUSH TIMES M 'Aq
 From d Old Engavn5
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The the foreground built in this Many of them the shores while
 in excavatng buildings the the huk The sand and hills background crowded with build All the ships of
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1898-02-03
ROAST THE MINISTER'S.

London Newspapers Comment Very Se-
vercly Upon Withdrawal Of Demands
LONDON, Feb. 3.-Afternoon papers
comment i'll the most severe terms upon
the alleged withdrawal Of Great Brit.
aims demand for the opening Of the
port Of Ia Lien Wan. Some Of them
refuse to credit the report.
The Globe says: mo wonder il the
opponents of the ministry regard 1t as
"A national humiliation. when its sup.
porters are unable TO find reasonable
excuse for it. The public was led to
believe that Sir Michael Hicks. Beach
and other cabinet ministers meant
what they said. SO the ministers have
only themselves to thank If they lose
prestige at home and abroad through
the withdrawal Of the Tia Lien Wan
demand. England with her strength
and enormous resources has the game
in her own hands. If the ministers viii
only play it with the necessary spirit.
An official statement on the subjec
just issued is as follows:
"No communication can at present
be published concerning The Times
TIA Lien Wan report, or the negotia
tons as q whole. The negotiation
thus far are absolutely confidential
Many kilograms from China contain
statements that not only go far bey one
| the governments information, but il
some instances are quite at varianc
with known facte.