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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1898-07-08
TEE IDAHO COUNTY FREE PRESS.
GRANCEVILLE IDAHO.
FRIDAY, JULY s, 1898.
STRAIGHT FACTS.
TOLD IN STRAIGHTFORWARD WAY
Cross Eyes Made Straight in
One Minute by DR.. Darrin
Without Pain.

1t is a straight fact that DR..
Darrin will visit Grangeville, July
10 to 23rd at Jersey House, and
the afflicted should not fail to
consult this eminent specialist
while here.
Among DR.. Darrins many spec
ialties, he is an expert operator in
strengthening cross eyes and can
straighten the worst eyes in less
than 80 seconds. He will guaran-
tee any case he undertakes. No
cure, no pay. The operation is
rendered almost painless by a To-
cal anesthectic, and no chloroform
or ether used. Patients can re-
turn home the same day, with no
detention from business or occu-
patton. The follow ing references
and testimonials prove beyond a
doubt the expert skill possessed
by the doctor:
George Driscoll, Vollmer, Idaho,
cross eyed, cured.
Miss Mary Mcconnell, Genesee,
Idaho, cross eye since birth made
straight. Also her brother was
cured of consumption by DR..
Darrin.
OPEN CASES.
Pomeroy, WASH, April 8, 1898.
To the Public: l wish to state
that | was successfully operated
on for cross-eye, of which l had
been afflicted since a child. 1t
was done without pain. very quick
ly, in less than a minute. can
be seen and referred to as to the
particulars of my case; my friends
and relatives can testify to the
great change in my appearance.
They had considered the deformity
of my eyes to be incurable and
were surprised at the result.
Kate N. Kassel.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1898-07-08

The surprising feature OF
SIMPSONS fight with Cervera
is that in the naval engage
ment which resulted in the de-
struction of the Spanish fleet,
only one American seaman
was killed and two wounded.
1t was a repetition of Dewey's
affair at Manila on May /.
The Spanish battle ships, In.
fanta Maria Teresa, Oqucndo
aad Vizcaya, and two torpedo
boat destroyers were forced
burned and blown up
20 miles of Santiago.
In escaping ashore from the
wrecks the Spanish seamen
were threatened by Cuban In.
surgents who were hid in the
brush, and to save their lives
they all surrendered to our
feet.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1898-07-08
j. j. HOGAN.
Photographer.

| I'm always prepared to do
view work and make portraits
at your own homes. All in.
formation given by mail. En-
Engagements in crayon, pastel,
and india ink. Fine photos a
speciality.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1898-07-08

On July I the American
forces under Gen. Shafter at
tackled the suburb of FL Caney,
on the high road to Santiago,
and after bloody battle last.
ing ten hours the Spanish
troops evacuated the town and
it was occupied by the Ameri-
cans. The Spanish loss in
killed, wounded and prisoners
is about 1000. The loss on
our side exceeds 1900 killed
and wounded.
Gen. Shafter then advanced
his troops clear up to Santiago
and demanded its surrender.
The demand is by this time
probably complied with, as
Sampson is now at liberty to
go into the harbor and shell
the forts from that point of
vantage.
The San Francisco call., 1898-04-17
THE WRITING ON THE WALL.


colors furnished from natures great storehouses, they are to be seen every where as the first effort of primitive man to make record of the events in his life that he considered of sufficient importance to be landed down to his descendants.
 In the southern part of California are to be found paintings on the rocks with few etchings or engravings; fur ther east, along the line reaching through Arizona, New Mexico, Kan sas, Missouri. Ohio, Georgia and up into West Virginia are to be found both etched and painted records, while further north the paintings disappear and deep incisions in the rocks tell plainly that the authors of the work intended that neither time nor the ele ments should efface their story.
 Of all the hieroglyphics that have ever been found in this country prob ably that discovered thirty-six years ago by Kansas farmer in the south eastern part of that State will take pre-eminence in the matter of inn portance. The scared face of huge powder there bears the record, done in most elaborate design, of the con- quest of the country by a maritime race, who left in the center of the con- tinent the record of their ships and previous nationality.
 OII llic unOerSlQe or tnlS rock is series of carvings, which if properly interpreted might lead to some of the most remarkable archaeological discoveries ever known. It tells the story of an invasion by men who came across the sea and of the driving out of the people who builded the vast mounds and earthworks which mark their presence almost across the entire continent. The point of invasion is shown, and the line over which the in- habitants were driven is indicated by a series of bird tracks, the toes pointing in the direction of the movement The invaders were large men, while the residents were small Around the pie ture are numerous figures of mer- maids with many of the old style cheval de frise anchors. Neptune. or Poseidon, with his trident, rises from the water and seems to direct the forces of the invading hosts.
 Were it the object of this article to bring out surmises from the petro- glyphs. there is much in this one that arouses the imagination. Whether the appearance of Neptune and the mer- maids bears any relation to the inhab- itants of the lost continent of Atlantis or not will never be positively known. but it is evident that the people who etched the history of this remarkable contest knew of the sea and also of the ancient god who is the mythological ruler thereof. Nor is it in this etching
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they waver and hide while you sit with outward turned palms shading your face from the glowing heat while you watch fire pictures of white ember, and red coal, and blue blaze; and over all wreathe and writhe coils of orange flame.
 The evenings, no less than the days, in Virgin Valley are compensation for the trip.
 The valley is not one belonging to the lowlands, but lies high in the top of a mountain range marked every where by the great lava flow. Eight miles and more in length and a mile wide, it forms a beautiful meadow of wild grasses that grow rank and tall. And down it's whole length runs Virgin Creek-as yet indeed a virgin stream undiscovered by the expert fish erman and sacred from rod and fly. The lower end of the creek is warm from the waters overfiowing from one of the many hot springs common to the coun- try; but the upper end holds still pools, cold as ice, and fringed with tall reeds and taller willow, where, in the cram nies of rocks down in the brown depths, YOU catch a glimpse of waving brown fins as trout (great. beautiful fellows nearly a foot long) hang suspended be- low the still surface
 Another compensation for the trip.
 Wild rosebushes and scattering will lows border the banks, and now and then is found a tiny grove of shaking, shivering aspens, but you will find none that measure over eighteen inches in diameter The giants of the past are gone or turned to stone.
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The gullies and washes leading down to the meadow are frequently graveled with the fine flakes of wood, that, brit tie as glass, crackle and crumble under ones horses footballs.
 Most of the stumps are within dis trict of mile square, and there is one acres that is rich in specimens of knots and gnarls, and the twigs and limbs that lie scattered about whichever way you may turn. A soft earth bank of perhaps five acres shows the end of logs and stumps and roots of trees pro- truding everywhere.
 A stump eight feet high and of the same diameter stands alone in the midst of endless chips from the work shop of the Great Carpenter of the world. Another, fifteen feet tall, with it's roots easily traced for thirty feet each way from where it stands, over looks the valley from an insecure foun- dation, and one expects it momentarily to fall.
 Across a little gully made by the heavy winter rains a log lies like foot bridge, ith over thirty feet of it's larg- CT end protruding from the hillside which hides the other end. How far it may reach underground, how tall it may have been when it fell, we cannot see. The thirty feet and more that are exposed show in the entire length but a six-inch taper. Verify, there " were giants in those dayS"-as compared with the little aspens of to-day-When these stone pines lived monarchs of the mountains about Virgin Valley.
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For an area of perhaps six miles pet rified trees are found here and there, but only very scatteringly. One may ride a mile or more over low hills of white earth that yields under foot like wood ash, and see no sign of petrifac- tions, to again come on quite a grove" of standing stumps varying from two to eight feet in diameter, The average, rains eat into the soft banks of the low foothills that border the valley and year by year new stumps and logs of once noble pines are being exposed. Few are agatized, as are the famous trees of other petrified forests, and many are white as calcined bones.
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high mesas that, meeting the sky, mark a level horizon; vast area of table lands innumerable, their flat tened tops bound round with a wall of rimrock.
 The petrified trees are in the heart of Virgin Valley, and to reach the valley one is compelled to go down Hell Creek Hill Perhaps that is why the flor est" is so little known. That and the fact that the road thence is simply a "cow trail" over which but once a year the "cook wagon" of the fall TO- deo is driven when making it's rounds as the vaqueros are gathering beef for the great California cattle king whose stock range it is.
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alone that these figures are to be found. From the famous Dighton Rock in Massachusetts to the elabo- rately colored paintings in Southern California there are found many queer figures which give to the mind of the student an involuntary impression that he is approaching the borderland of that mystery that has puzzled the world thousands of years-the mystery of human existence.
 Great caution should be exercised in accepting certain figures that have been declared recent by scientists as being in reality the result of contact with civilization under Christian domi- nation. It is of frequent occurrence that the Christian cross is found en- blazoned among the grotesuue and unique figures that are etched on the rocks all over the continent, but when it is remembered that such a cross was used as the Toltec sign for the four winds long centuries before the foot of civilized man stepped on these shores and that this sign is even now used by the Puebla Indians and also some of the northern tribes in this same sym bol, it will be understood that no such significance as that placed by the scien- lists can be attributed to it with abso- lute certainty. In some instances the early missionaries carved these crosses to take off the curse of organism they thought the hieroglyphics conveyed
 Those who are interested in the study of petroglyphs need not take long trips to find them, for they are in all parts of the country. In Pennsylvania a great many detached glyphs are found. On the Kenawha River, in West Vir- ginia, the rocks bear evidence of hav- ing long been made the recording place for the race which occupied that section of the country. The unique feature of these glyphs, as well as of many in Ohio. is that they have been cut on rocks facing the river and are in such a position that the carver must either have been suspended by ropes from above or stood in a boat when the wa ters were high. In Utah are some of the most remarkable rock writings that have been found. One canyon wall in the southeastern part of the State contains rock carvings that ex- tend for quarter of mile and em- brace nearly 2O00 figures.
 Probably nowhere have more glyphs been found than in Arizona, and mo- where are they more perfect.
 On every cliff, every canyon wall and every large powder, in every cave and even in the lava beds, the writings are to be found in such profusion that the student has almost the task of a life time to decipher them all. They are not only numerous but are peculiar and
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worn books and the accumulated litter of bachelors camp.
 When the day is done and you have enjoyed such supper of broiled moun- tain trout as you will swear was never tasted before: tired from a days hard jaunt you may sit there in the gather ing dusk-your big home made chair drawn up before a great sagebrush fire that goes roaring up the chimney from the broad Jagged hearth; a fire that snaps and sparkles and crackles as it replenished from the heap of sage brush piled more than halfway to the low ceiling in a corner near by. The flames send elfish shadows skurrying into the darkening places, and there
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U U~%@a.5:. wonderful 's,''''s' forest in the
 Although the place has been
 known to cattle men and hunt CTS for many years, news of it's exist ence has just reached civilization. In a way it was discovered" last fall by a party of exploring campers, one of whom was Mrs. Ida Meacham Stro- bridge, the well-known writer. This lady, while on the trip, secured a num- Der of good photographs of the strange petrifactions, a set of which she has just presented to the Academy of Sci ences, where they have caused the greatest interest among the members. The photographs leave no doubt of the remarkable character of the locality re- ferred to, and no doubt much more of interest will come to light as the years go by.
 The most remarkable aspect of this wonderful petrified forest is the fact that many of the trunks are standing. Some of these are at least fifteen feet above the ground, and where the trees grew on cliffs, the roots can be traced downward for at least thirty feet The surrounding country is full of wonders. For miles it will be cov- cred with a bright red gravel, when it will suddenly change and become a beautiful jasper There are caves of wonderful depth, canyons with walls of dizzy height and deep pools in the bottoms, clear deep. On every side are wonders and wonders, and the more careful the exploration the more strange and beautiful things come to light.
 The exact location of this wonderful region is northwestward from the sta- tion of Humboldt-its nearest railroad communication hundred miles straight as the crow flies.
 To reach it by the shortest route one must cross more than one range of mountains and a thirty-mile wide des- ert that for the greater part of the year is waterless. Then one goes jour neying through skyland-up among
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 Calls expedition of the lost
 turquoise mines in Southeast
 ern California, with the numer-
 A ous untranslatable hieroglyph-
 ics on the rocks near the beds of precious stone. renews the in- terest that has been spasmodically accorded to the writings of those passed away races that once peopled this continent.
 Man takes his written histories and goes back a few thousand years into the past, and there he finds that his race was perfect in it's development, even as it is to-day. What transpired before the historical period has come down in fragmentary legends about occurrences during a few centuries previous and then we find that the rocks bear records of deeds done so long ago that even the memory of tra- dtion does not account for the van ished race The everlasting rocks bear the story on from generation to gener- ation and from age to age until every meaning is almost obliterated by the changed conditions and environments. These stone records are to be found in all parts of the world, but nowhere in such profusion as in the United States. From Maine to Alaska and from Florida to Southern California, they are found, constantly telling of the progress of man. Some are so an- cient that no man has even a legend to account for them, while others may have been the product of yesterdays labor
 There is no portion of the entire North American continent in which petroglyphs are not to be found. Is there a huge powder, water worn and smooth-there is found some engraved figure showing that man has utilized it for a recording place; do canyon walls rise high and sheer, presenting a suitJ able tablet for inscription-there are found etchings made with implements of obsidian and chert, showing that man has taken this as a page on which to write a '>~~+ion of the worlds his tory; on cliffs, on lodges, wherever smooth surfaces are to be found some inscription, some writing, some hiero- glyphic notation of the presence of an intelligent being who had the aspira- tion to be known to future generations, is indelibly marked.
 Either etched with sharp and flinty tool, pecked with pointed chert or ob- sidian silver engraved with heavier implement of agate or painted with
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to the perpendicular side of Hell Creek Hill that the camera might bear wit ness to the outside world that such things could be.
 This road is one of the penalties of the trip; another (which is not pen alty, but a pleasure to some; and ought to be such to every one) is the camping out-alone-afar from human voice or habitation it, at times. neces- Sitates.
 Yet it is a good thing, lying down at night in the open, where the air is so sweet and cool and dry that sleeping out fills ones lungs with new life and ones veins with a new keen delight. What better bed would you than
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IS DISCOVERED IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE UNITED

found in these various petroglyphs are representations of human bird and bear feet. With these are found pie lures of men, women and children, birds, beasts and reptiles and human hands. The sun, moon and stars are also frequent, as is the wave line which is now known to mean water. There is also to be found that mysterious fig
 ure. which is seen from the deepest jungles of Yucatan to the shores of the Arctic seas-the sign of the red hand. Tn the glyphs of New Mexico and Ari- zona the figure of the sun is always
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present and is probably there in it's mystic significance.
 The concerted effort to decipher these rock writings that is now going on from the Atlantic to the Pacific may result in bringing to light those secrets which have been supposed to be buried in the mounds that dot the country across the continent, and one day we may know the history of that mysterious people who left so many evidences of heir residence behind without giving a clue to their person. ality. CHARLES KIRKLAND.
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But whether you care for a camp bed made out under the sky or not, it will very likely fall to your lot if you find your way into Virgin Valley, for hos
 pitable though the inhabitants of that part of Humboldt County be, the ranches are scattered and far apart. Once in the valley a generous welcome is ex- tended to the traveller at the little cabin where Tom Sizer, ruddy-faced Eng
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different from those found elsewhere.
 One of the most noted petrographs is a painted record on a cliff in Santa Barbara County, Cal, which is very elaborate, both as to coloring and de- sign. This has been interpreted to be the record of trading expedition which came down from the north. The cut, which is presented herewith. can give no conception of the coloring, which is still rich, vivid and distinct be seen about sixty miles north of San- ta Barbara, on the ranch of Senor
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Orenas, in Carisa plain. This is beau tifully painted and shows a record of considerable note. In AZuca Canyon, California, is a photograph that is wonderful because of it's purpose. The canyon is one of the most inaccessible in the mountains and unless the traveller is we'll ac- quainted with the trail he will surely get lost. The photographs in this can yon have been placed there for the purpose of being constant guide to travellers.
 Among the most constant figures
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Iishman, is host-Tom Sizer, who knows the petrified forest as no one else does, and who is kingliest of his kind as guide.
 There could be no housing in the world fuller of hospitable cheer than one will find in this rough little cabin where the walls are papered with Eng fish and American illustrated weeklies, and the unpainted shelves filled with
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With the brake set and a rock of goodlv size under each wheel, in de- fance of the law of gravitation a four horse wagon, one day, obligingly clung
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to have the whole of earth beneath you and all heaven overhead?-a canopy made of infinite night sprinkled With a diamond dust of stars.
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N EEP in the wilds of Humboldt lCounty. Nevada. is the most
 wonderful petrified forest in the
 Although the place has been
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-04-21
A. GREAT HUNTING cHErAH.

Animal Is the Property Of Rajah BON.
maxieva1a Of India.
In India the wild beasts of the Jungle
are trained-a strangely incongruous
circnmstance-to hunt in behalf of
man the tanner game of the forest. The
chetah is the animal used for this pur-
pose. He is strange beast, a 1.-the,
graceful, leopard-like creature belong
ing to, the cat family, but having when
tanned all the characteristics of a dog.
He hunts with the precision of the best
OF deer hounds, principally tracking the
deer. though he is as able in running
down other animals. He is affection
ate and obedient as dog, following his
master about with great fidelity, and
obeying his slightest command. When
taken out for hunt he is usually
blindfolded by hood until the quarry
is sighted, when the hood is removed
and he starts on his merciless errand!
He never relents, often trailing deer
for miles before finally securing him.
Usually, however, he approaches, so
noiselessly that he pounces upon his
prey without the slightest warning and
brings him to the earth in short Or
der. The chetah of Rajah Bommade-
vara, Venkata Narasuntra NaiGu Ba-
hadur is the most renowned hunter in
India, and is so highly priced by his
master that it is said he could not be
bought for half such a prineipality as
that over which his master rules.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-04-21
Go be COntinued.)
Great Poets Who Were Blind.

In the roll of the great poets of the
past two, who hold the very highest
places, were for an important period
of their lives unpossessed of the power
OF visiOn-Homer and Milton. Hap
PLY these renowned followers of the
muses. made good use of their eyes in
youth; otherwise it is scarcely possible
that they could have left to us the
finished pictures Of natural scenery and
other visible objects of creation which
are to be found among their compost
tions. Homer had reached manhood
and had written a considerable por-
ton of the "Iliad" before he was at
tackled by that disease of the eyes
which robbed them of their wonted
powers. But the whole of the "Odys-
sey" was composed after the occurrence
of the great mishap. Milton is stated
by most biographers to have perman-
emily lost his sight in 1854 after a
progressive and warning decay of sew
eral years. duration. paradise Lost"
was not published till 1867, and it was
composed when the poet was perfectly
blind.-NeW York Ledger.