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Year: 1873

Via ASHLAND Oct. i, 1873.


The hanging OF Captain Jack and the five other
members Of the Modoc tribe that were con.
demned to death by the Military Commission
is now almost assured as even should the
electric wire flash repreve TO Yreka, Ashland
or Jacksonville, the carrier entrusted with its
transportation to this place would probably meet
! with some unforeseen accident that would delay his
arrival until the sure hand of justice had done its
duty.


IL may be very well for religious enthusiasts that
nave been born and bred in the quiet comfort
"of an Eastern home to preach mercy to
peace and comfort OF the residents of this
section OF the country requires speedy and pub
Tic example to be made OF such treacherous mur-
derers as Captain Jack and his five comrades
proved themselves to be. l myself feel sorry for
Jack, as am morally convinced that IL was only the
pride OF the Chief fearing to lose the control OF his
people, that urged him to join in the dastardly act
which the dendish brain OF Schonchin and Hooker
Jim had conceived.


According to present arrangements the mur
derers arc to be hung on Friday morning nj Ton
O'Clock, sharp, and to-day the carpenter drove tho
nrst nail in the structure that Is being erected IN
meet the requirements OF the sentence Thcy will
all be suspended from one BEAM and at the
given signal viii swing INTO eternity together
The execution Will be public In order to allow the
Klamaths and other ueighborng Indians u
view OF the manner In which the law OF the United
States is meted out 10 the tTansgressor.
Year: 1873

ESTIMATED REVENUE AND EXPENSES,


At their meeting last evening the Finance
Committee Of City Council submitted the fol-
lowing report as their estimate of the probable
expenses and revenues of the city for the ensu-
Year: 1873

AN OFFICE BROKEN INTo AND SAFE Re-
MovED.-The office in the lumber-yard OF
n. Il. Ragland was broken into on Thursday
night last, aud large iron sfe removed
from the building. An entrance was made
by boring holes with an augur through the
wooden window-shutter, until a sufficient
opening was made to draw the bolt, and the
house was then easily entered. A tramway
was made from the office door some dis
tance, and on this the safe was rolled out,
but not very far before it slipped off on one
side. The burglars, unable to get it back
into the 'sway," tried to break into it, and it
was found, yesterday morning, with one OF
its hinges broken and very much battered.
The burglars found nothing in the Office to
repay them for their labor.
Year: 1873

EUREKA QuARTETTE.-This Well-known
musical quartette, who gave in the city sew
eral very satisfactory concerts last winter,
have been requested by a number of citizens
of King George to give aconcert there for
the benefit of Methodist church they pro-
pose to build near the courthouse. The
young gentlemen composing it have acceded
to the request, and are making preparations
Year: 1873

PERSONS IN WANT OF PICTURE FRAMES would
do we'll to call at the RICHMOND FRAME STORE,
next to the Dollar Store where they can have them
made ut the lowest prices and at the shortest notice
Year: 1873

LIKE REGULARS ON NDREss-PARADE.-Thete teeth
should always be scrupulously clean and free from
blemish. Keep them in this condition with the in
comparable SoZoDoNT, and when they are veterans
In the service they will still be 'good as nsw.''
Year: 1873

To THOSE WHO ARE IN WANT of PICTURES
We would advise all these who are in want Of good
pictures to 60 to CAMPBELL's well-known gallery
as we have seen specimens Of their work, and must
cay that 1t will compare with any in this city
Satisfaction guaranteed to all.
Year: 1873

curious petition for amendment to the Consii. tuon recently presented tn the Senate o the eeci

 that hereafter and throughout all time all persons. whether Of the State National Governmeu who shall recommend civil shall register their names in a book to be kept by inc Secretary ot State Washington and that when the breaks out they shall occupy the fnt ranks in hs line until the cl-es and that in default Of % doing they acknowledge themselves ready and thy io be taken out and shot at any instant that inc es dent of the United States, any Governor Of State shall so order and direct"

 Had these rules, pains and penalties been in full force previous to the year 1860, we would not now have national cemeteries, shoddy aristocracy, credit mobiller pick pockets or negro politicians. We go in for this amendment.
Year: 1873

MT. Stockwell, president of the Atlantic < Pacific railroad, is said to be smart young speculator, with no Jim Fiskian airs He is an Ohiuan by birth; of "poor but honest parentage." The company are to have just as many favors from Congress as any other company.

 The Press of St. Louis is laboring hard to establish lost confidence in the roads leading west from that city. All seem to think that the A. & r. road will soon be built

 In Texas, the work of building the Texas Pacific is going on vigorously.

 At Los Angeles, California, ground was recently broken on the Southern Pacific

 Therefore, let us of Arizona continue to hope for railroad facilities, no matter if some of us should happen to die in despair.

 The time is near at hand when some road will run through our Territory.
Year: 1873

The croak of the bull-frog has been heard in San Diego yet tine people of that ever faithful town are far from being satisfied with such music, their ears being tuned for the whistle of the tardy but long expected loco motive.
Year: 1873

1t is strange indeed that mems self.
condemnation of their coarseness and
vices should be interpreted as delicacy
and chivalry toward women. "We are
so vulgar and vile," they seem to say,
that we must continue to be vulgar and
vile, to show how tenderly we cherish,
how fully we appreciate the dear crea-
lures who are our better angels" If we
are not fitted to be women's companions,
if we go where we should not, so much
the worse for us. If women are too good
for us, it is our duty TO be better. We
require reformation, and the best reform
alton will come to us by admitting wo-
men to what we call, euphemisticaIly
enough, our recreations and our plea
sures. That these are unworthy and
rude, if not gross, for the most part, few
of US will deny. By making women our
partial partners, our associates on occa-
sion, we admit our inferiority and our
fear lest they should know of US what we
know of ourselves. We have not ad-
vanced so far beyond baronial barbarism
and Eastern indulgences as we would
fain believe, while we hold our wives
and daughters in the prisons of ignorance
and the seraglios of restraint.


1t is not consideration for women that
induces US to keep them in the border
land of acquaintance with our real lives.
1t is consideration for ourselves; It is su-
preme selfishness; it is engrossing ego
tism. We shrink from the thought that
the gentler and purer beings who love us,
and whom we love-when we have naught
else to do-should have a perfect un-
derstanding, clear revelation Of
what we are. 1t is an article of
our social creed that they prefer pleasant
illusions to disagreeable facts. This is
not without its verify; but it eyinces the
false education of women, and one of
their weaknesses that should be removed.
In this age we live, or ought to live, above
everything else, for truth. Whatever
leads thereto should be followed, though
the following dispel every deception
which, from the first, has been our most
grateful food.


The men are precious few that would
be willing their lives should be unrolled
panoramalike before their nearest and
dearest feminine friends. The thing that
they are vain of, even TO boasting, they
would hide from their wives or mothers at
imminent peril to themselves. The wor-
ship most of us receive is species of
sentimental fetishism offered under the
delusion that the idol is far more than it
seems; that it possesses powers and in
fluences linking it to the divine. Trans
parent as we may be TO our own sex, we
are opaque to the opposite. Genuine to
the one, we are shams TO the other, and
we exercise constant care that we shall
continue such. In respect, esteem, ad-
miration, and affection, we are actually
obtainers of goods by false pretences, and
are amenable to a spiritual law which
we always evade. Is it flattering to our
manhood, to our sense of integrity, to
know that to those we reverence most we
are miserable fictions and animated lies ?
=" Women as Companions" 6y Junius
Henri BrO1one, in Fs6T1Gry GALAXY.
Year: 1873

weather at any given time and pace--or
more certain than that there " ill be q con-
slant variation in the weather at such
place az compared with any other point
either on the same latitude, longitude, or
in the same hemisphere. And while the
weatheris the most uncertain and vari
able of all natural events or conditions,
the moon in its movements and relations
to the earth is the emblem of precision
and punctuality; yet large part of man
kind persist in believing there is a con-
nection between the most unvarying of
possible causes and the most variable OF
(supposed) resultsi


AS to vegetation, there is the same in.
cOngruity between cause and effect-th9
extremes of certainty. and uncertainty {;
the same teachings of individual expert
ence and the same perennial faith, which
In its details tends more to the absurd.


There is another popular belief, very
much In conflict with the teachings of
science, which still retains-though SEEM
ihgly with failing strength-a hold on the
rural mind; il is that of the transmuta.
tion of plsnts-now, In this country, mar
rowed down to the change of wheat into
cheat or chess. Though unsustained by a
single established instance, and in con.
fiict with all the known laws of vegetable
life, II is not logically so preposterous as
the delusions regarding themoon-it fails
for want of affirmative proof; but as II
lacks the absurdity, go it wants the vital
ity of other beliefs, and the moon will
hold her sway over the ignorant mind
long after transmutation has gone into
oblivion. A certain mystery surround
ing the moon, with the uneducated, will
aid greatly in perpetuating the supersti.
tious beliefs in regard 10 its influence.


There is, or was, rather, one popular
belief prevalent at the opening of the
present century, which is now dead II
was in the Information of swallows in the
mud of swamps like snakes. This was
too tangible matter, however, to long
stand the test OF observation, and it had
no element of superstition or mystery to
give it vitality. Hence its early disap-
pearance into limbo


The study of the natural sciences is
the best antidote to superstition, and will
better aid in protecting the mind from an
inherited tendency to delusive beliefs
than any other branch of education. II
inculcates and requires habits of close OBJ
servation, careful comparison and eau
tious deduction. There is no better way
of strengthening and developing the
reasoning and perceptive faculties thar
by pursuing these studies, which are
closely connected with, and in fact form
part of, the wide scope of agriculture
science Country Gentleman.
Year: 1873

A fireman was once striving to save a
person in danger of perishing in burn
ing house, but the flames leaped out of
the windows and beat him back. "He'n
never do it." cried one. "He'n have to
come down" "Cheer him." shouted an
other, and in a moment three stirring
hurrahs went up from the crowd. 1t
nerved the mans arm and strengthened
his spirit. 1t quickened his movements,
and in another minute he bore the child
down in safety to its mothers arms.


What power in that cheeringl 80 1t
often is with those who are ready to give
out by the way. They would have per-
ished but for some good stirring word of
cheer God put it in the heart OF some one
to speak TO them, Have you ever cheered
q desponding heart thus? Or have you
let the opportunity slip by with the feel
ing, "Am my brothers keeperf'' We
are all, in a sense, our brothers. keeper.
| Is there poor, down-hearted man in
| your community whom sickness and mis-
fortune have reducedP Don't give him
the cold shoulder, as is the worlds Gus
tom when person is unfortunate. Cheer
him, and see if it will not infuse new life
into his heart. Do more. Lend help
ing hand If you can. ag


What would you have done that day
your wheel got stuck in rut II neigh.
Dor had not happened along who could
lend you helping hand for five min
utesS 1t was very little for him TO do,
but it was worth great deal to you. A
little after, you were rolling along pros
perously, as If nothing had happened.
Just so little cheer and a little help often
puts a poor neighbor ON the road again
Surely it were worse than churlish to re-
fuse to give what costs you such little
effort, yet is worth so much. Country
! Gentleman.
Year: 1873

THERE Is not the least necessity of frit-
tering away much time on people who are
neither profitable, congenial, OF in any
way companionable, although there is an
immense amount of time wasted in that
manner, and deal of scolding done in
consequence.


Those who have nothing to do but
chatter, lounge about in easy chairs, eat
bon bons, and coniure about their neigh
bors, will soon seek more welcome quar-
ters If one continues the duties and la
bors of the day regardless Of their pres
ence. The atmosphere of industry does
not harmonize with chronic idleness.


How often it occurs that entire plans
for the day are frustrated by an untimely
visit from the last person one would care
to see Important matters are neglected
merely to be civil and hospitable, purely
from a cannothelp-yourself feeling.


Entertaining people without being at
all entertained or edited in return, is the
most stupid, thankless task one can as
sumo. There Is absolutely nothing to be
gained from it in the end.


The only true, successful and lasting
basis for sociability and companionship
Is sympathy OF thought or similarity of
pursuits


1t is unwise to have or permit &C.
quaintanceships which cannot prove
pleasurable or beneficial.


Now and then it may be pardonable in
man or woman to treat a consummate
"bore with consideration because he has
money, and can be induced to lend few
dollars in an emergency, but the obeis-
ance and sacrifice made to money are
generally too low, frequent and fawning.
Money and clothes are not recommenda
tions to the friendship of those who
amount to anything Intellectually, still
they are too apt to win soft smiles, gentle
words and fiattery from the masses, and
pass for much that exists only in dazzled
imaginations.


Such twaddle as people endure because
gilded with money is almost enough to
discourage the poor from seeking after
knowledge. Rich ignorance and vulgar.
ity snub impecunious culture and refine.
ment, and the people bow in submission.
"She is an heiress," or "he is rich," set
tie all questions of equality and merit,
and the poor are discounted at once.
There are few eccentric individuals
who do not regard money above all else,
and they will not bend the knee TO that
which is tasteless and uncongenial. Such
persons are not popular; but they enjoy
| freedom from the trammel Of unwelcome
guests, and cringing to the unworthy is to
them unknown, Blessed be such eccen.
| tricity, Elm OrL0u.
Year: 1873

The following was told to a Sentinel
reporter night or two ago; Some years
ago, there was q well-knOwn engineer,
whose name is not given, for good and
sufficient reasons, ran a passenger train
on one of the most popular and most
travelled roads that runs out of Indianapo-
lis. At certain place on the road, every
night for about week, as the passenger
train ran by this engineer came thunder
ing along, it was certain to be thrown
from the track by distractions placed
there. Several of these mishaps to the
train caused loss oflife, and the Company
was becoming considerably alarmed, and
the ability of the engineer was being
seriously questioned. One night as the
unfortunate train was nearing the fatal
spot, the engineer, who had been sitting
glum and silent at the throttle, turned to
his fireman and said: ''If this train
Jumps the track at that place tonight,
you follow me; don't stop for anything,
but keep close after me- Somebody has
been throwing the train OF the track,
and Pm going to catch him."


When the train arrived at the usual
place it struck misplaced rail and was
banked. The engineer, closely followed
by the fireman, jumped from the engine
and ran into corn.feld, and started up a
man that lay concealed there. Upon
bringing the culprit back to the wreck,
the enraged passengers wanted to lynch
him, but the engineer, stern, cold, de-
termined man, prevented them, saying
that he would take charge of him, and
through the inteIcessian of the conductor
the trembling wretch was left in charge
Of the engineer. The train was righted,
and was soon speeding on its way. The
prisoner, who had confessed his hendish.
ness, had been seated on the engine and
the fireman placed beside him as guard.
When the train was on q smooth piece OF
track, bowling along at a speed of twen-
ty-five miles an hour, the engineer beck
oned the fireman to stand out of the way.
The fireman stepped aside, and the en-
gineer picked up round stick of wood
and struck the criminal such blow upon
the head that it stunned him.. He then
caught the quivering form Of the poor
wretch, and, opening the furnace doors,
threw his body into the hot, seething hell
of flame The doors were shut, the train
ratified along, and never, until upon his
death bed the engineer confessed the act,
wes it ascertained what had been the fate
OF the fiend who had been in the habit of
throwing the train of the track. -Indi-
a1apOtSs Seatislet. pl rr.s 1stt
Year: 1873

WE HAVE from Troy, N. Y, the story
of remarkably bold case of abduction,
the heroine of which is young married
lady named Mrs. Williams. While stand.
ing in the public street, in the daytime,
she was approached by gentleman hold
ing pocket handkerchief in his hand, who
asked her if she had dropped it, at the
same time thrusting it quickly into her
face. She became partially unconscious
in moment, when another man Joined
the first, and the two lifted her into a
close carriage standing near by, and drove
quietly to the depot, where they got on
the train for New York. When near
Poughkeepsie, gentleman who sat near
the lady observed an occasional applica-
tion of handkerchief TO her face, and to
his inquiries as TO the cause the reply was
made that she was being taken to the asy.
um. The suspicious stranger kept such
sharp eye on the abductoIs that they left
the cars at Poughkeepsie station. The
lady soon recovered, and told her story,
saying that she was all the while sufficient.
y conscious to know what was going on,
but unable 10 speak. Upon reaching New
York she at once telegraphed to her
friends in Troy, who came on and restored
her TO her home.
Year: 1873

NEW JERSEY JUsTIoE. Several servant
girls in New Jersey had the power of the
Supreme Court of that State brought to
bear. upon them to compel amisbility and
obedience under any and all circum-
stances That Court has affirmed the
following doctrine; "Where a servant
whose wages are due and payable period
ically, as quarterly, monthly or weekly,
refuses to serve in the manner contracted
for, or is rightfully discharged at any in /,
tervening period between the days when
his or her wages are due, he or she can
recover nothing for that portion of time
during which he or she has served since
the last periodical payment of wages"
Year: 1873

of all that we have been accustomed to
regard as real. without giving US instead
anything that We can regard as perma-
nent or worthy of reliance.


Nothing will avail but for the people
to stick resolutely to their old ideas,
and fight the battle in defence of their
own rights and interests, right through
to the bitter end. When the seething
and bubbling subsidies and the thing
crystalizes. the commercial supremacy
of tie North Pacific will reside where it
of right belongs. on Elliot Bay.


The contest will resolve itself into
political one. Old dead party issues
must be abandoned, and the fight bro't
squarely on the real issue of the day.
1t is the social, commercial and politi,
cal independence of the people uersus
Monopoly, welded by rings, plotting in
secret the shackling and destruction of
every Interest. in the country. All the
ultimate resources of power reside in
the people, and it will be their own
fault if they do not take measures to
protect themselves. T. Fl.
Year: 1873

Nor SETTLED YET The terminus of
the Northern Pacific Railroad is not
settled until the report Of the Locating
Commissioners has been made and pass
ed upon by he Board of Directors and
not then, if the Company subsequently
concludes to repudiate the acts of its
duly authorized agents, as in case of
the contract of Sprague and Goodwin
with the citizens of Olympia, first en-
dorsed and subsequently ,epudiated by
the Board. In view of these facts, but
few of the outside spectators have the
fullest confidence in the stability of
Tacoma town property, Notwithstanding
the his character and solemn assuran-
ces of the Commissioners. 1t is the
testimony of all who have visited the
Tacoma town site within the past two
or three days, that the proffers to sell
are much more numerous than the prof
fers to buy. 1t is now generally con-
ceded that the fellow in the Express was
right when he claimed that General
Sprague and Z. S. Smith are the peers
of Judge Rice and Captain Ainsworth"
in the Land Ring.


There are very few settlers in Taco
ma to be bilked, and they have more
than got even on outside spectators;
but if the Company concludes to aban-
don that point. with the expectation of
quilting others, they will find that game
blocked by the entire want Of public
confidence in all persons pretending to
represent the Northern Pacific Rail
road.
Year: 1873

The WIcKEDEsT WoMAN.-This Great
ure has been discovered. She lives at
Oshkosh, Wisconsin. A cotemporary
relates this incident in her history:


She has no virtue to speak of; but she
attir-s herself so modestly, and conducts
herself with such propriety, when she
thinks it pays to do SO, that she-we
may even say She-wins all hearts,
Some Gays since she was driving out in
her own conveyance. and at distance
from town she met a couple of discon-
solate clergymen whose horse had run
away. They were glad to accept her in
vitation to ride home in her carriage,
and on the road she charmed them with
her quiet and winning ways. When
she reached the pain street of the town,
however. she evidently had a visitation
of the old boy himself. Putting her
feet on the dasher with great abardon,
and lighting cigar" we are told, "she
put the lash to the horse, and drove up
and down the street at tearing pace.
treating the crowd that came out to see
the fun to the sight Of very gay look
ing demi-monde and two respectable
but hoIrifed citizens. Four times she
drove through the street, and since then
the ma. sons have been busy in EXPLAIN
ing how it came about" There may be
hope for this woman; but SO far as those
parsons are concerned. We are confident
she will be permitted to labor for saliva
ton solely on her own responsibility
Year: 1873

ot, IT the busy place it was during several days
y, ~st week. The excitement was at low ebb,
Id business alternated with fun. There was some
brisk selling in the morning, but when the price
fell from 113A to 112 dulness supervened, and
there few sales for the remainder OF the day.
The spectators in the gallery were mostly rural


folks come up to town TO see the elephant, and
satisfied the only one worth seeing now Is that
capricious creature in Wall street.
Year: 1873

state that they still continue to receive assurances
that the recent plan of theirs for restoring theiI
business to its original healthy condition meets
with practical approval, and that old customers o.
she firm are opening new accounts.