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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-04-12

Wheat - Walla Walla. 63@54c:
Valley, 53c; Bluestem, SEC per bushel.
Flour-Best grades, SO. 90; graham.
$3.50; supertine, $2.l0 per barrel.
Oats-Choice white, 36@37c; choice
gray, SAC per bushel.
Barley-Feed barley, $l4@14.6O;
brewing, $l7.O0@l7.5O per ton.
Nlillstuffs-Bran, $l3 per ton; mid.
dlings, $40; shorts, SIS; chop, $l4 per
ton.
Hay-Timothy, 50 q 10; clover, $70
7.5O; Oregon wild hay, $6@7 per ton.
Butter-Fancy creamery, 45@50c;
seconds, Acc; dairy, S0@37hc;
store, 25@321ac.
Eggs-1l 1ac per dozen.
Cheese-Oregon full cream, 1Sc;
Young America, lac; new cheese loo
per pound.
Poultry-Chickens, mixed, $500
$50 per dozen; henl, So. so; springs.
$2.5O@3.5 so; geese, $6. so a 500 for old:
$4.5O@6.5O; ducks, $5.50@6.OO per
dozen; turkeys, live, l0@l1c per
pound.
Potatoes-4O@55 c per sack; sweets.
2@2Ac per pound.
Vegetables-Beets, 81; turnips, coo;
per sack; garlic, &c per pound; cab.
bage, l1ac per pound; parsnips, 81;
onions, ~. 0O@2.50; carrots, 81.
Hops-B@Sc per pound
Wool-Valley, l6@lSc per pound:
Eastern Oregon, 100 loo; mohair, 27@
SOC per pound.
Mutton-Gross, best sheep, wethers
and ewes, 44c; dressed mutton, "a
INC per pound; lambs, INC per pound.
Iogs-Gross, choice heavy, $500;
light and feeders, 81. so; dressed,
$6.OO@8.50 per 100 pounds.
Beef-Gross, top steefs, $4,000 80;
cows, $3.5O@4.0O; dressed beef, 81a@
724c per pound.
Veal-Large. 1a@7}ac; small. SO
&c per pound.
Tallow-5@51ac; No. 2 and grease,
31a Gao per pound.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-04-12
WRECK CAUGHT FIRE.
Serious Accident on the Fort Worth &
Denver Road.


Fort Worth, Tex, April 7.-One of
the most serious wrecks in the history
.oi the Fort Worth & Denver City road
occurred this morning ut point just
south of Magenta, 376 miles north of
this city. AS result, two men are
known to he dead, and several Others
injured. The dead are: John F. Dane,
mail clerk ,oi Denver; John J. Kuntz,
passenger, residence unknown. The
injured are: A. NJ. Scroggin, lnde-
pendence, Ia, slightly; Frank Lane.
Fort Worth, face cut, not seriously;
James French, injuries unknown;
Herbert Bonebreak, brakeman, Ell
Reno, o. T.. fractured ribs; Engineer
Mcneil, slightly injured; Fireman
Dubbs, slightly injured.
At the time OF the accident the train
was running ut full speed, when it
struck defect in the track, caused by
u partial washout. The entire train
was ditched, the cars being piled III a
promiscuous heap. 10 add to the hor.
rors OF the wreck. a fire started in the
debris, consuming the entire mass OF
wrecked cars. Many passengers who
managed to extricate themselves were
badly injured. Mail Clerk John +.
Dane, OF Denver. was buried beneath
the mass of wreckage, and was burned
to death. 1t was reported that Ex-
press Messenger j. b. Chapman was
killed, but later reports say he is safe.
The loss to the railroad company will
be heavy. as the entire train was
burned.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-04-12

New York, April THE jury in the
case OF Olga Nethersole and others, &C.
cused OF maintaining nuisance in per.
forming the play "sappho." has 70.
turned . verdict Of not guilty.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-04-12

Menominee. Mich, April Fire
today destroyed the Spies building, the
largest business block in the city.
The loss on the building is $50, 900; in
surance, $4,000. The total loss, in.
Guiding the losses of films occupying
the block. is estimated at 5000, 900.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-04-12
Tragedy on " California Farm.

st. Helena, CAL, Apri! CIV. II.
Alexander, a farmer, shot and killed
his wife today and then took his own
life by cutting his throat with razor.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-04-12

Wool-Spring-Nevada. l2@15c pen
pound; Eastern Oregon, l2@ Ice; Val.
ley, 20@22c; Northern, l0@l2c.
Hops-lS99 crop, l2@l8c peS
pound.
Butter - Fancy creamery $50;
do seconds, 1911 @l7c; fancy dairy. 10
@l61sc;do seconds, IA q l5c per pound.
Eggs-store, 1870; fancy ranch,
1870.
MillstuRs - Middlings, $l7.0O O
100: bran. Sl2.50@ 1880.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-04-12

Oriental advices state that permits.
sion to do general business in Japan
has been refused &C foreign insurance
Companies, most of them American.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-04-12
NEARING MAFEKINC
Relief Force Unable to Reach
Besieged Town.
BOERS REFUSED TWO ATTACKS
Roberts Saving His Cavalry and Trans.
port Animals for the For.
ward March.

London, April IA special dispatch
from Lurenco Marques says sharp fight.
ing occurred April 2, in the neighbor-
hood of Mafeking. The garrison made
a sortie, while Colonel Plumer's cavalry
attacked the Beers at Ramatlabama.
Both attacks were repnlsed Twenty
Of Colonel Plumer's men were found
dead Oh the field, and six others were
made prisoners. The federal losses
were small.
Gaberones, Bechuanaland, April Z.
Colonel Plumer, with force of Brit
ish mounted infantry, started on dar.
ing march, March 20, with the object
OF threatening the Boer lines OF commu
nication. After rapid night marches
: through the Tr;.nsvaal territory, they
arrived ut dawn. March 81, within IL
miles of Zecrust, and distinctly heard
the bonn bardment Of Mafeking.
Having reconnoitered the country
with the view Of future operations,
without sighting single white man.
Colonel Plumber crossed the railroad
south Of Lobatski, which he found in
possession OF Boer force, and returned.
Then, finding the railroad hence dam
aged by General Snyman's main force,
he returned to the vicinity of MAIZE
king. Rumors reached here that a re.
lief column is approaching NIafeking
from the south.
Roberts Inactivity.
London, April 7.-Detached bodies
of Boer horse, numbering from 500 to
1000 each, have appeared at several
places to the south and eastward Of
Bloemfontein, threatening the railroad.
but communication by wire and rail is
not in the least affected. One of these
forces is near East Springfontein, on
the Bloemiontein railroad, and General
tiatacre's forces are repoi ted to be about
to engage it.
Lord Roberts, except to safeguard the
railroad, seemingly declines to send
columns chasing the Boer bands. lie
is reserving his cavalry and transport
ANIMALS for the forward march. Elk.
plantations at the war Office as to why
Roberts is inactive is that there has
been lack OF horses for remounts, but
now horses are arriving by train loads
hourly. The pressure on the railroad
is so great that private parcels and the
officers newspapers have not been for.
warded from Cape Town for three
weeks. The situation in the Free State
remains far from clear and is unsatis.
factory to British observers.
The sickness among the Boer prison
ers at Simonstown continue to increase.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-04-12

Mrs. Grant Allen. the widow OF the
novelist, is about to open u bookshop
in London.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-04-12
Fruit CaMnery.

The farmers OF Eagle valley, Or. are
about to erect fruit cannery. At a
meeting held at the schoolhouse at that
place the farmers of the valley SUBJ
scribed $4,000 for the purpose. The
total cost of the plant will be about
VI, 900, and, as this is the first meeting
held, the farmers are confident that no
trouble will be met with in raising the
full amount. The establishment OF the
cannerv will be OF much benefit to
Baker City, as we'll as to the farmers
OF the valley, where large amount OF
fruit is raised annually. The cannery
will be conducted on the cooperative
plan, and it is the intention to take all
the fruit offered by the farmers. Much
of the product will find market in
Baker City, as tive home consumption
is large and is steadily increasing.
Des Chutes to BE Utilized.
A company has been organized to
take water out of the Deschutes at a
point near the Three Sisters known as
Lava island, and conduct the water to
the desert lying east of the river. The
point of diversion is said to be one of
the best on the river owing to the abb
sence OF rocky bluffs. From this point
water will be taken east to the old
river bed, Is miles, covering large
tracts OF excellent farming lands.
Northwest Notes.
new Methodist Episcopal church is
to be erected at Cottgae Grove, Or, to
cost $4,000.
Washington papers are saying com.
plimentary things about Harry Yoe-
mons, OF Spokane. who helped Harvard
win the intercollegiate debate from
Yale.
Blodgett g. Greenbaum have begun
work to double the capacity of their
fertilizer plant at Fairhaven. WASH,
and hope this season to handle all the
refuse of the fish canneries in their
vicinity.
The sacriligious pastor of a Baptist
church at Albany, Or, took the follow.
ing for his subject Sunday evening,
"Would Jesus Vote the Republican or
Democratic Ticket" The vice of
Sheldonism is spreading.
A Bellingham bay man, named Can.
field, has big bed of pansies planted,
and will attempt to raise them for seed.
The only pansy seed product in the
West is in California, and the best
varieties come from France and Bel
GUM. II he raises as good seed as he
planted, Mr.. Garfield will get $50
pound for it.
A large number OF Washington's
shingle mills, probably IS per cent. are
observing an agreement for short
shutdown. The reason given therefore
is that 1.-THE backward spring in the
East has caused falling off in orders.
which makes curtailing of the supply
necessary to the equilibrium of prices"
The Eastern buyer may think this is
the action of u trust, but. of course. it
isn't.
The bulb farms at Fort Bellingham,
WASH, are now at their handsomest.
One man has vast number of tulips
and 3, 800 hyacinths in bloom.
A Wallowa man has brought back
from New Orleans live alligator
eight inches in length.
A carload of Cascara bark was shipped
from Corvallis, Or. Its destination is
Hamburg, Germany.
The 3-year old daughter of Sheriff
Holder. OF Sherman county, Or, was
playing with kite and matches, last
week, when she set her clothing afre
and was considerably burned. She is
expected to recover, with little dis.
tigurement.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-01-18
BOY Choir, Abroad.

From the Baltimore Sun: My prin-
cipal object in England was to make
a tour of the cathedral towns to hear
their music and study their choir
methods. The training of the boys
voices there is reduced to science,
but it is a fact that the finest music
is not always to be found in the finest
eathedrals. The choir at Oxford sur
passed any of those Of the London
eathedrals, and that at Canterbury, the
first among English churches, is posi-
lively bad. The boys at ST. Paul's,.
London, show marvellous training.
Kings college, Cambridge and Mag
dalen, Oxford. probably have the hest
trained choirs In the world. The boy
voice doesn't; seem to be well under-
stood in Germany, where heard sew
eral choira never heard worse choir
music in my life than at Masdeburx.
where visited three churches. incluA.
ing tho cathedral. Church music Ia
Germany Ii far below mar. compared
with that Of England,
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-01-18
m APPEAL. TO HUMANITY
GENERALLY,

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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-01-18
by the jets that the creature forces
from its body.
Henry Jenkin.' Long Life.

Henry jenkins, who died on Dec 8,
1870, is said to have reached the as
founding age of 1859 years. Supposing
this to have been true, he was born
soon after the end of the wars of the
Roses, and was eight years old at the
time of the death of Henry VII. He
was witness of the struggles which
characterized the Protestant Reforma-
ton in England. He lived, an old
man, through the reign of Marys and
the spacious days of great Elizabeth, y
and was 81 years of age when the Ar
mazda was defeated. He completed his
century before the union of the crowns
of England and Scotland. He lived
through civil war, the beheading of
a king, the protectorate, the restora-
ton; and he died within eighteen
years of the revolution of 1886. He
preceded Shakespeare by sixty-three
years, and survived him by sixty-three
years, and Addison was eight years
old when this man died. He was a
contemporary of Luther and of Will
liam of Orange. All of which is so
strange that one would hope it to be
true.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-01-18

1T has an aspect of scurvy and gan
creme. 1t is disease embodied in mon
strosity. 1t is not to be torn away. 1t
adheres closely to its prey. How? BY
a vacuum. Its eight antennae, large
at the root, gradually taper off and end
in needles. Underneath each one of
them are arranged two rows of de-
creasing pustules, the largest near the
head, the smallest ones at the tip.
Each row consists of twenty five; there
are fifty pustules to each antenna, and
the whole creature has four hundred
of them. These pustules are cupping
glasses.
when Gilliat entered that cave for
the second time, the octopus was lying
in wait in that hole.
Can the reader picture that lying
in wait?
mot bird would dare to brood, not
an egg would dare to hatch, not a
flower would dare to open, not a breast
would dare to give suck, not heart
would dare to love, not a spirit would
dare to take flight, if one meditated on
VAIN S3AAoISA oAopCo paLlcuIly lying Ill
ambush in the abyss
The devilfsh which, are causing the
trouble on the Normandy coast are
not particularly large in size, though
some of them are fair-sized monsters.
The majority are small, not weighing
more than ten or twelve pounds.
When Victor Hugo told of the might
OF the octopus and of the great size of
the specimens seen far from land he
got 1T mixed with the giant squid. It
is this beast which grows to such mon
strous proportions that it is believed
that occasionally it can and does give
successful battle to the sperm whale.
When "The Toilers of the Sea" was
written the giant squid hardly was
known to the world at large, though
sailors, and especially whalers, had
seen the monsters often. Now we
know that the sperm whale feeds on
this huge cephalopod and that often in
the death furry the cachalot whale will
vomit forth mighty pieces of tenta-
cles that must have belonged to mon
sters such as would justify any story
of the sea serpent as far as size goes.
. Frank T. Bullen, in 1.-THE Cruise OF
the Cachalot," tells vivid story of a
fight that he witnessed between a cat
chalet and giant squid. They kept
the sea a-foam for hours. and the
sounds of the combat could be heard
for miles.
1t Is believed that the famous cir.
cumstantial story Of the British war.
ship that reported some years ago hav.
Ing seen o marine monster Irvine
around right whale and kill him and
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-01-18
INVASION OF THE NORMANDY COAST OF FRANCE By DFY[F|SH

There has been strange occurrence
In the English channel of the French
coast. 1t is something so uncommon
that it is doubtful whether it ever has
happened before in the history of the
world, and it reminds one at once OF
Victor Hugo and his "Toilers of the
Sea-"
Devilfish in hordes have invaded the
fishing waters between Trouville and
Cape de la Hague.
They have ruined the fishing and de-
stroyed the gear of the French fisher
men, so that they have become real
and mighty menace. The men have
been fighting them with axes and
knives, and finally boiling water, but
their efforts have been of only tempo
rary avail, for the numbers of the hide
GUS creatures seem inexhaustible
Victor Hugo's devilfish was an in
mate of these same or nearly the same
waters, for it was in the island of Sark,
one of the Channel islands near the
notorious Casket Rocks, that he saw
and studied the repulsive creature
which he. described so wonderfully la
ter in his novel, when he said:
ITO believe in the devilfsh one must
have seen it. Compared with it the
hydras of old are laughable.
"At certain moments one is tempted
to think that the intangible forms
which float through our vision encoun-
ter, in the realm of the possible, GER
tain magnetic centers to which their
lineaments cling, and that from these
obscure ixations of the living dream
beings spring forth. The unknown
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-01-18
Too Polite,

1t is we'll to be thoughtful of other
peoples feelings, but in all things it
is well to be discreet. This is the NOR
al of an amusing tale found in Short
Stories. AT recent church dedication
the preacher, who was stranger, fol-
lowed up his sermon by an earnest ap-
peal for the balance of the money need
ed to pay for the building. The col
lectors went round, and promises came
in. AS the subscriptions were one. aft
er another read, a collector announced,
"The five Black children, one dollar"
The courteous preacher quickly amend
ed the statement by announcing, Give
little colored people, one dollar. -
Amidst an outburst of merriment, the
pastor hastily explained that the dom
ors were white children by the name
of Black.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-01-18

firm hold on the axes or knives or
spears that were being used to kill
them that it was found almost i'm
possible to get the weapons away from
them. The same applies to those of
the animals that chung to the sides
of the boats, sending their long feel
ers on CHASTITY exploring tours into the
interior of the craft. Scarcely was one
tentacle chopped off before another
would rise from the water and sway
horribly in the air, seeking for some
thing around which it might Irvine.
At last somebody thought of the ex-
pedient of using boiling water, and
this proved more successful than axes
OF knives" But nothing has been de-
vised as yet to annihilate the plague,
and the fishing industry is completely
ruined for The time. No one knows
how long The disgusting things will
remain.
: The occurrence furnishes a striking
proof that truth can vie with fiction
every time. Only about year ago H.
G. Wells, the author of "the War of
the Worlds" wrote what seemed then
a wildly improbable story entitled
"The Sea Raiders" which dealt with
gigantic devilfish that appeared sud-
denly in hordes off Sidmouth on the
Devon coast, and attacked boats and
bathers. Sidmouth is opposite the
Channel islands and almost opposite
the scene of the real incidents just de-
scribed.
In Mr.. Wells striking story he de-
scribes the appearance of the sea raid
ers thus:
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-01-18

drag him down was based on such a
fight. Squids that have arms fifty feet
long are not rare, and it is believed by
scientists that they grow in sizes far
beyond anything that these proper
tions indicate.
The giant squid, like all the cepha-
lopods, including the small squid that
is used for bait in the Newfoundland
fisheries, the cuttlefsh and the inkfish,
swims backwards. He acquires his
motion, which is wonderfully swift, by
squirting water out of his mouth, his
body acting as a force pump of rare
power and perfection. When he is
moving this way the tentacles stream
along behind, or, at least, what must
be termed behind, though it really is
the head. The curious tail, shaped
like a 'broad-bladed spear, often ap-
pears above the surface and disappears
again as the suction pump pushes the
animal along. The ten enormous
arms, in the meantime, writhe in
great elongated mass near the surface,
and from time to time are thrust into
the air. It is believed that such sights
of the giant squids propelling them
selves rapidly along the surface have
made people believe that they have
seen sea serpent. 1t will be noted
that most observers who report the
sighting of marine monsters generally
speak of the "mane" which streams
in the water. Scientists incline to the
belief that this "mane" is nothing ex-
cept the bunch of tentacles, which toss
and squirm in the rough water created
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-01-18
The Main Point.
Never 3!L22:llllE

Eyes. my dear,' said New York
man to his eighteen year-old daughter.
81 wish you would do your best to
captivate the heart of our coachman."
"And elope with him, papa?"
eyes, my dear"
"Ah, I see; you dear, cute papa! YOU
want all the papers to say l. am a fas-
chatting beauty and a reigning BELLE
s'Well, that would help little; but
that is not the main point"
"What is it, then, papa?"
'Why the papers will all say you are
the daughter of millionaire, and that
will enlarge my credit. See! Now, you
run out to- the stable; that's a good
girl."-Ohio' State Journal.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-01-18


see more clearly, and as. soon as the
water was smooth they saw, as it
seemed to them, the whole sea bottom
among the weeds set with eyes,.
"'Ugly swine!' cried one of the men.
Why, there's dozens!' And forthwith
the things began to rise through the
water about them. Mr.. Fison has since
described to the writer this startling
eruption out of the waving laminaria
meadows. To him it seemed to occupy
considerable time, but it is probable
that it was an affair of a few seconds
only. For a time nothing but eyes,
and then he speaks of tentacles stream
ing out and parting the weed fronds
this way and that. Then these things
growing larger, until at last the, bot
tom was hidden by their intercoiling
forms, and the tips of tentacles rose
darkly here and there into the air,
above the swell of the waters
Victor Hugo's idea of the devilish is
more striking. He says:
What, then, is the octopus? 1t is
the cupping glass. 49,.
'This creature applies itself to it's
prey. Covers it, and knots. it's long
bands about it. Underneath, it is yell
lowish. On top, earth colored; moth
ing can represent this inexplicable hue
Of dust; one would pronounce it
creature made of ashes, living in the
water. In form it is spider-like, and
like chameleon in it's coloring. When
irritated it becomes violet in hue. Its
most terrible quality is it's softness.
Its folds strangle; its contact par
alyZeS