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Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-06-22
THE OREGON PONY"
STORY OF FIRST LOCOMOTIVE
EVER USED IN STATE.
The Progress Of Invention Has Made
the Old Engine Back Number,
But in Its Day It Was
Great Worker.

Portland, Outstanding in the Ma
chinery, Electricity and Transports
ton building at the Portland Lewis
and Clark exposition is a tiny locomo-
tive, little larger than an automobile.
The four wheels Of the locomotive ap-
pear slightly larger than barrel hoops,
the boiler is about as big as an ap-
pie barrel, and the whole engine is
only IL feet long.
This little engine, which bears the
title Oregon Pony, was the first loco
motive used in Oregon. The pony, as
almost every visitor takes occasion to
remark, is mot so much to look at"
But in its day it was great engine
to work, and its history is so entan-
gled with the history of early days
in Oregon as to make it worthy of
more than passing attention.
The Oregon Pony was born in the
year 1861 at San Francisco, and i'm
mediately entered upon its life labors.
going into commission as portage
connecting steamboats, on the Colum-
bia river at place where for seven
miles the rapids made it impossible
for boats to pass.
1t was the discovery of gold at
Canyon City, Ore, that made the pony
necessary factor in western trans
portation, and the story of that discov
cry in itself forms an interesting tale
that few people know.
At about the time Of the outbreak
Of the civil war a party of emigrants,
making their weary way over the
mountains, crossed a stream which led
into a lake. In the bed Of the stream
they found yellow metal, which,
they discovered, could be flattened out
into thin sheet by laying chunk of
it on a wagon wheel and pounding it
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-06-22

vermifuge. But it gets there just the
same and the result of drinking it is
about the same as the result of drink
ing anything in France-it makes you
want to hug somebody.
At home when a man get full on
whisky, he wants to hug the man he
drinks with and weep on his collar,
and then hit him on the head with a
bottle; but here every kind Of drink
puts the drinker in condition to want
to hug. Dad says he never knew he
had a brain until he learned to drink
absinthe, but now he can close his eyes
and see things worse than any mince
pie nightmare, and when we 60 out
among people he never sees man at
all, but when woman passes along,
dads eyes begin to take turns wink
ing at them and it is all l can do to
keep him from proposing marriage to
every woman he sees.
thought l would break him Of this
woman foOlishness, so told everybody
dad was Mormon bishop, and had a
grand palace at Salt Lake City, and
owned millions of gold mines and tab
ernacles and wanted to marry thous-
and women and take them to Utah and
place them at the head of homes of
their own, and he would just call once
or twice week and leave bags of gold
for his wives to spend. A newspaper
reporter, that could talk English, wrote
for a NJ ye
to marry a whole lot and he said life
in Utah was better than a Turkish har-
EN-, cause the wives of Mormon bish-
CD did not have to be locked up and
watched by unix, but could firt and
blow in money and 60 out to dances
and have just as much fun as though
they lived in Newport, and had got
divorces from millionaires, and he said
any woman who wanted to marry q
Mormon bishop could meet dad on the
bullyvard near q certain monument, on
a certain day.
was on to it, with the reporter, and
we hired a carriage and went to the
bullyvard, just at the time the news
paper said and put big red badge on
dads breast, with the word bishop on
it, and dad had been drinking absinthe
and he thought the badge was a kind
of sign of nobility. Well, you'd abide
to see the bunch of women that were
there to meet dad. whats the matter
here?" said dad, as he saw the crowd
of women, looking like they were
there in answer to an advertisement
for nurses. I told dad to stand up in
the carriage, like powie doe0 in Chi
cago, and hold out his hands and say.
"Bless you, my children" end when
dad got up to bless them, the reporter
and l got out Of the carriage, and the
reporter, which could talk French, said
for all the women who wanted to be
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-06-22
The Bad Boy Writes More from Paris
Dad Poses as q Mormon Bishop
and They Climb the Eiffel Tower.


BY HON. GEORGE W. PECK.
(Ex7Governor Of Wisconsin, Formerly Pub
Usher of Pecks Sun, Author of
- @@s''Peck's Bad Boy" Etc.) 1:t.+-
Copyright, 1905. by, Joseph B. Bowles.) .
Paris. France.-Old Pardner in
Grimes. got your letter, telling me
about the political campaign that is
raging at home, and when I read it to
dad he wanted to go right out and fill
up on campaign whisky and yell for his
presidential candidate. but he couldn' It
find any whisky, so he has not tried to
carry any precincts of Paris for our
standard bearer. ..!.a
There is something queer about the
liquor here There is no regular cam
paign beverage. At home you can Sc
lect a drink that is appropriate for any
stage of campaign. When the NOM
nations are first made you are not ex-
cited and beer and cheese sandwiches
seem to fit the case A little later,
when the orators begin to come out
into the open and shake their hair, you
take cocktails and your eyes begin to
resemble those of "a Gagged rat, and you
are ready to quarrel with an opponent.
The next stage in the campaign is the
whisky stage, and when you have got
plenty of it the campaign may be said
to be open, and you wear black eyes
and lose your teeth, and you
swear strange oaths and smell OF
kerosene, and only sleep in the morn
ing. Then election comes and II your
side wins you drink all kinds of things
at once for week, shout hoarsely and
then go to the Kelley cure, but if your
party loses you stay home and take a
course of treatment for nervous pros
tration and say you will never mix up
in another campaign.
Here in France it is different. The
people have nervous prostration to
start on, start campaign on cham
payne, wind up on absinthe, and after
the votes are counted go to an insane
asylum. l do not know what first got
dad to drink absinthe and don't know
what it is, but it looks like soap suds
tastes like seed cookies and smells like
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-06-22

with a hammer. The emigrants were
Interested and left a blue bucket to
mark the place where they had picked
up the yellow metal, and when they
met some miners they told Of their
find. The search for the blue bucket
began in hurry. The bucket never
was found. but the men who went in
search of it found other streams as
rich as the one which the bucket had
been left to mark Certain holdings
there are named tho Blue Bucket
mines.
Canyon City has been called 1.-THE
last stand of the Argonauts." Thither
focked the "forty-niners" from Cali
fornia, pioneer gold seekers who had
sought the rainbow's end In many
places. The ''forty-niners" made the
trip overland, but when the news OF
the new find reached San Francisco
hundreds of people set sail from the
city for the north in the sailing YES
sells that then piled the Pacific coast
The ships brought the gold seekers
to Portland, then struggling town OF
about 5000 inhabitants.
Beyond Portland ocean vessels
could not sail, and Immediately The
Oregon Navigation company was
formed to put in commission on the
upper Columbia steamboats, of light
draft which could navigate the stream.
The company built steamboats, to carry
passengers and freight from Portland
to the Cascades, a little more than
half way to The Dalles, which point
was then, and still is, the head Of
navigation, and other boats to ply the
water above the Cascades. Between
the end Of one steamship run and the
beginning of the other was stretch
of seven miles Of rapids, where no
steamboats, could navigate on account
Of the rocks which blocked the chan
mel.
At first the steamboat company built
a wagon road, and made the portage
of gold seekers and their goods by
team. But the road was poor one,
and the rains washed part of 1t away
every little while. The difficulty was
overcome temporarily by building a
track with oak rails over which was
laid a thin covering of strap iron.
And it was for service on this track
that the pony was built.
The pony was found to be the very
thing needed. The engine was not too
heavy for the rails, and was SO small
that she took the curves without dit
ficulty; and she could make the seven
miles in an hour, which was not at
all bad. The first run Is made on
May 10, 1862, and for two years tie
faithful pony ran up and down With
her load of passengers and freight.
BY the end Of this period the iron railo
from the east had arrived and been
put in place, and a new engine, bigger
and stronger, took the place of the
pony. The pony, being now Of no
use, was sold to David Hewes, Of San
Francisco, fer $1,000, and entered
upon a prosaic existence, hauling sand
to fill up San Francisco bay. In 1872
the pony was retired from active serv-
ice. Mr.. Hewes agreed to send the
pony to the Lewis and Clark exposf-
ton, and stipulated that after the close
Of the fair the engine was to be given
to the state of Oregon This viii be
dops.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-06-22
Hat Materials.

In hat materials hair braid, woven
usually without regard to any pattern,
but fine and narrow. leads for dressy
hats. The glace effect Is tho most
fashionable. The hair braid comes in
all colors. Some Of these braids show
as many as five tints in the mother Of
pearl. Others show but two. One
beautiful effect is produced in silvery
green, or pale green changing to silver
in different lights.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-06-22
Concerning ColorS.

Colors, like flowers. have q meaning
Of their own. White signifies purity.
faith, joy and life; red. the ruby. typi-
fies fire, love and royalty; blue, tie
sapphire, expresses Heaven, truth. con.
stancy and fidelity; yellow represents
the sun, marriage and faithfulness:
green is the color o. hope and victory:
violet is the hue of passion and suffer.
ing; purple and scarlet are for holy
things and black is tho attendant OF
despair, earthliness, mourning and
death. ~
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-06-22
Normal Skin.

The use Of the camel's hair face
brush and pure CASTLE or olive oil
soap will free the pores from clogged
secretions, and, il the treatment is per-
sisted in, they will gradually contract
until Of AormM SixA
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-06-22

you got wheels in your head and
chunks of things came up to your Ad-
ans apple end choked you. Well, cross
my heart, if that Ferris wheel, that
looked so big to us, would make main
spring for the Eiffel tower. That tower
is higher than kite, and wheH you
get near it and try to look up 70 the
top, you think it is joke, and to-
really 20 one actually goes up to the
top of it. You see some flies up around
the top of it, and when the guide tells
YOU the flies crawling around there are
men and women, you think the guide
has been drinking.
But dad and and the guide paid our
money. got into an elevator and began
to 60 up. After the thing had been 60
ing up awhile dad said he wouldn't go
I'D more than a mile or SO at first, and
asked the man to let him off at the
3,0O0-foot level, but the elevator man
said dad had got to take all the degrees
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-06-22
Be Placid.

The first piece Of advice beauty doc
tor will give you Is to be placid ut any
cost. Anxiety acts upon the nerves and
they respond in unpleasant Inca
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-06-22
Linen Hats.

Linen sailor hats will be popular to
wear with linen gowns and when the
gowns are embroidered it IS the thing
to have q matching embroidery on the
hat,
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-06-22

Mormon wives to get into the carriage
with the bishop and be sealed for life.
Well, sir, you'd thought it was a
remnant sale! More than a dozen got
into the carriage with dad, and about
400 couldn't get in, but when the scared
driver started up the horses, they all
followed the carriage, and then the
mounted police surrounded the whole
bunch and moved them off towards the
police station, and dad under the wag-
on load of females, each one trying to
get the nearest to him, so as to be his
favOrite wife.
1t got noised around that a foreign
potent-ate mad been arrested with his
whole harem for conduct unbecoming
to potent-ate, and so when we got
to the Jail dad had to be rescued from
his wives, and they Were driven into a
side street by the police; and dad was
locked up to save his life. The re-
The Greeley tribune., 1905-02-09

pryT-ONE.HALF RIGHT IN LARl-
Il county ditch. b F. Woodruff 10?S
/, Greeley.
The Greeley tribune., 1905-02-09

damages alleged to have been done
to his land by the breaking of this
company's inlet ditch. 1t is claimed
that about 145 acres of land was
flooded in 1904, and a heavy deposit of
sand laid there. practically spelling
the land for agriculture. He asks
~, 800 damages.
1t Is two weeks ago now since The
Tribune announced that it would
take charge of donations for tho
poor in this vicinity, but so far not
one cent has been subscribed, except
by Mrs. II. A. Foley, who donates
fifteen sacks of potatoes. This. in
in spite of the fact that there were
almost numberless protests against
sending aid to Ireland under the plea
that the people would rather give
at home. From this, it would seem
that what they really meant. was
that they would not give at all.
Born-To Mr.. and Mrs. William
Patterson. Wednesday morning, Feb.
&, a daughter
II. l.. Pearson of Trinidad, who
has been visiting the family of Prof.
Bearsley, returned home yesterday.
Marriage license was issued yester-
day to Geo. Held and Katie Becker.
The Greeley tribune., 1905-02-09

Sheriff Benjamin II. Florance Wis
tied his old home town, Windsor,
last Saturday to sort OF become ac-
quainted again.
The ladies of the Congregational
church gave New England supper
at the home of Mrs. II. f. Churchill
last Friday evening.
Ladies' light calf $3.50 shoe, now
s2.65. The Phelps Shoe Store.
Miss May Moore. daughter Of Cap
tain F. N. Moore, arrived in Greeley
last Friday from Wyoming seminary.
Kinston, Pa. to stay with her cousin
Mrs. Il. ii. Johns.
We are still knocking prices tc
conform with hard times. Best hams
II cents; best bacon, l2K cents; salt
side, o cents; leaf lard. ten pounds
Al, five pounds 30 cents; best Jap rice
5 cents: oatmeal 20 cents a package,
seven pounds for 25 cents; corn. to-
matoes and peas three cans for 2j
cents. Try buying for cash and see
what you can save. Red Front.
Frank Benton, the cowboy author
Of Hardin has commenced suit in the
district court against the Riverside
Reservoir and Land company for
The Greeley tribune., 1905-02-09
FirpSt valentines at CraigS.

/. Finest valentines at Craigs.
We guarantee every shoe at The
Phelps Shoe Store.
Great big bargains in shoes for
cash at The Phelps Shoe Store.
Tatfy, nut candies, log cabin cara
mels. bon bons, hot chocolate at Nor
rison's.
If you want to buy. sell or trade,
call and see Hudson Brothers, East
Greeley.
Good board and new clean rooms,
ll29 Eleventh street: fresh supplies
from ranch.
Cream flour is the best on the mar
ket. Buy now before the price goes
higher Meyers Grocery.
Bows kid and calf shoes. sizes III
to >, now Al .55; sizes 9H to l3 now
sl.35. Phelps Shoe Store.
Hudson Brothers buy, sell. ex-
change and repair all kinds of furni-
ture and wheels. East Greeley.
A sl.l5 shoe sale on broken lots OF
bows shoes at The Phelps Shoe Store.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lyman Howard re-
turned home last Wednesday from
their visit to Mrs. Howard's parents
in Indiana.
The Greeley tribune., 1905-02-09

A SPLENDID TEAM OF YOUNG
IL, for sale well broke. Price right.
eCleaahan,
The Greeley tribune., 1905-02-09
Furnished BY A. L. Evans, State Nor.
NAL Observer.
Little Locals.
Valentines at Craigs.

Valentines at Craigs.
Smoke Smies' special segar 5 c.
Buy your sweetheart a valentine.
Craigs.
We guarantee every shoe at The
Phelps Shoe Store.
Kerosene oil, only 20 cents ia gallon
at Meyers Grocery.
If you need hat see what Miss
Bishop is Offering for 81.
Prices cut to cost and below for
cash at The Phelps Shoe Store.
A large line of Lisk's ANTITRUST
tinware. McCutcheon Hardware com
pany.
Ell. Carver, who has been seriously
i'll for several weeks, Is again able
to be out.
Mrs. Wallace, wife of the photo
grapher. is having serious attack
OF erysipelas.
Received -Beloit, Kansas, hard
wheat -four: the BEST try it. r. G.
Martin Grocery.
Lisk's imperial enameled ware.
with ten year guarantee. McCutch-
con Hardware company.
Boys kid and calf shoes, sizes l3
to >, now $l.55: sizes 9@ to Ii now
sl35. Phelps Shoe Store.
Meat goes down-buy picnic hams
while they last at only ! cents a
pound for cash at Meyers Grocery.
Ladies' $3.50 shoe. now sl.s5 at
The Phelps Shoe Store.
Mrs. II. b. Jackson leaves Satur-
day for Buffalo, n. Y. after an ex-
tended visit to the family of ii. l..
Wyman.
Miss Pearl Anderson, student at
the Normal school spent Friday, Sat
urday and Sunday at her home in
Fort Collins
We are now prepared with wall
paper in all grades, having received
a shipment of new patterns at
Stovers Book store.
Attend our spring sale on muslin
underwear for women and children.
Get some of the bargains offered. The
Golden Rule Store.
We pay the highest cash price for
furniture, wheels and farm machin-
cry. Hudson Brothers, 1921 Fourth
avenue. East Greeley.
The next regular meeting of the
w. G. Il. U. will be held at the
home of Mrs. Putnam 1901 Tenth
street next Tuesday afternoon.
Great big bargains in shoes for
cash at The Phelps Shoe Store.
Don't miss the spring sale of lad
les and childrens' muslin underwear
at the Golden Rule Store Get your
share of the bargains while they are
going.
Stop sleeping on loose springs.
Get Hudson Brothers to tighten them.
They have a brand new machine that
makes OLD springs new. l@Si rouIui
avenue, East Greeley.
oh. RAIDER has bought the Jeremy
Stimson 10 acres near the river,
north of the city for 8, MIR.
Stimson has purchased the Mrs. Il.
G. Fisher home at ll09 Thirteenth
street. Mrs. Fisher will move to
Denver. The deals were made by
Baker 4 Meeker.
Attorney General N. c. Miller
has prepared an opinion for the leg
islature concerning the right to in
vest trust funds and public funds In
bonds of irrigation districts. The
opinion holds that irrigation districts
are public corporations and cites
numerous authorities from California
where irrigation districts have been
recognized for years as public cor
porations.. The constitutional pro-
vision prohibiting the investment
of trust funds in the bonds OF stock
of a private corporation is therefore
not applicable.
The Greeley tribune., 1905-02-09

sALE-2S SHARES OF WATER SUPPLY
Storye stock. Address j. D. Vaudeville
be Black 5il. Fort Collins, Colo.
The Greeley tribune., 1905-02-09

TED PLACE TO WORK ON FARM
youDs man. Is. willing to work. II. Z
San, So S. Emerson.st., Denver.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1905-02-08
: + *+*+* $685. )
+ UNCLAIMED LETTERS. i
I ]. !. 1. j. 4 i. 4 / 4 j. ]. :. ! ]. )

List Of unclaimed letters in the
Clarksburg, W. Va. post office, adj
Ivertised, Feb. 6, 905:
Miss MIME Augun. Mrs. G.
Burns, @. L, Bonnell. Mrs. John
Barb, Mrs lven Boggs, Miss Mable
Brandon, Mrs. Martha Direher. Miss
Burgess, O. 0. Burford. Lonnie
Bray, Wm. i. Boyle, John Cook.
J. II. Conger. Joe Cunningham.
Maksi Gernieky. Mrs. Nellie Chut-
ner, Thomas ]. Coklcton, Miss Az
nep Dunbar, A. II. Davis, Lldia
Dom, Miss Mirtie Douglass, Seth
Demoss. A. G. Ensign, Mrs. s. VI.
Edmond, Miss Maggie Fulkiner,
Miss Berdie Fitzwater. w. L. Fittro.
III. n. Gordon, Geo. Goodwin, Mrs.
Emma Golf, Miss Lizzie Golf. NJ. p.
Griffin, S. T. Gordon. Adam Har-
ris, D. M. Hobson, II. G. HAYS. J.
N. Haley, Mrs. NJ. w. Hurey. Miss
Ola Hays, win Hoover, Pearl Jar
viz, T. +. Kiser, Samuel Kisler. J.
A. Lowery, Mrs. II. c. Morrison.
sylvia Matheny. J. M. Mason. Miss
Mary Nifiin, Robert II. Mead.
Fred Norman, Mrs. G. S. Pearev.
a. Prussel & Co., Frank Rager. Miss
Bette Raynes. J. NJ. Riley, Mrs.
Minnie Robinson, B. +. Stout.
Schultz, Rcinziehansew & Co, Miss
Cathcn Shinn, Miss Flora Smith.
I. J. Simpson, Mrs. Walter Stand.
Benjamin Thomas, Mrs. Emma
Temple, NJ. L. Wynne.
$. c. DENHAM, P. NJ.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1905-02-08
IRIS MEMORY L4PSES.

An esteemed contemporary an
nounces one day that the consensus
Of opinion among the writers from
Charleston i that the Saiem charter
viii pass the House and the next II
undertakes to say there is . yacl,e
foreboding that il will notpass. Thai
rs to say that the idea i very remote
that It will not pass, though the fact
Of the matter is, it really in the later
effort tries to show that it vii not
pass. "Vague" very appropriately
expresses what II knows about it any
way. 1t processes profound knowI-
edge Of the matter. and vet NJ, ii
says is merely superficial. More.
over. since it saws one day it win PAS
and the next day that it will NOT.
although no action has been taken
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1905-02-08
AL R4c1LiTIES AT HAND.

With heavily laden street cars
up and down steep inclines,
an iron bridge to bump against and
an icy creek to fall into at the bot
tom, four or five doctors residing
along the route, two hospitals close
at hand and an undertaking. estab-
lishment on the side, the boys OF
this city have every facility for The
enjoyment of up-to-date coasting on
Main street, between Second and
Clay streets. They have beeli TAX
ing advantage Of these wonderful
opportunities during the past length
ened cold spell and have been hav-
ing some fine old times. If you
don't believe it just slip up behind
some resident of equality HIP and
veil in a long drawn out howl
"Tra-a-a-a-a-acEl' and watch him
skip for porch.