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PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING AT

CANYON CITY, OREGON.

H. Shepherd Editor.

TELEGRAPHIC.A TraRlc Affair.

Xkw Orleans, Aug. 21. Edwin CMix. Jr., aged thirty-tw- o, was killed today by t he three iterance oroiuers, rerdinand, Arraand and Henry, aged twentv-fiv- e. twenty and eighteen, respectively. The Derances were imprisoned.Thev declare that Mix had flirted withtheir Although warned, were to find yesterday morninghe had not desisted, but continued to follow the young lady. Mix, with hisbrother. Franklin Mix. went to theresidehce of the Derances to explainthe matter, both unarmed. They failed,however, to convince the Derances, audwhen leaving were followed to thestreet, where two of the brothers opeuedfire upou Edwin C. Mix. He attenipt- -

ed to nee, but was shot down, whenHenry, the youngest of the Deraucebrothers, lan up aud stabbed him several times with a dirk. Mix leaves awife aiM widowed mother. His brotherFranklin, who was present at the kill-ing, was on the 12th inst., married to adaughter of the late Gen. H. L. Hayes.The Derauces are the sons of the lateDr. Henry Derance. one of the prominent physicians of this city.

Penrn "Win.Atlantic City, xn. J.. Aug. 21.

J3oy n ton and Fearn began a swimmingmatch to day, the former to swim twoand a half miles aud tho hitter twomiles. The sea is heavy.

Later Captain Boynton was defeated in his swimming match with GeorgeFearn. Fearn "won by a long distance.

Disaster in San Francisco Bay.Sax Francisco, Aug. 21. The scow

schooner Energetic, 17 tons, Captain 01lig Kordes, was capsized between Angeland Goat Islands in 6 fathoms of water.The captain was drow ned. The vesBelis keel up. and in line of river travel.The seamen were saved.

Death of Mrs. CIih. Ivcan.London, Aug. 21. The celebrated

actres-s- , Mrs. Chas. Kean (Elleu Tree),who retired from the stage on the deathof her husband, is dead.

The Humbled Sioux.Washington, Aug. 21. 1 he dispatch

which was received at the war depart-ment from Gen. Miles, relative to thesurrender of Situix Indians, was read inthe cabinet, but excited no unusualcomment. The general expression ofopinion, however, so tar as n went,

iu of carrying were sold,already adopted in dealing with theseunruly Indians.

The Chlcngo Conclave.Chicago, Aug. 21. The following of-

ficers of Knights Templar were appointed to-da- y: Sir tfev. Clinton Lock, of Jl

V. E. G. Pre.-- , Sir H. P. Graves,of California, V. E G. Sir B- - lr HB Stoddard, of Texas, V. E. G. Sir B :

Sir J. B. Boyden, of New Jersey, V. E.G. W.: Sir S. E. Sheldon, of Kansas,V. E. G. C G. decision to hold thenext triennial conclave tu Sanco was reached much dissent.St. Louis, Cincinnati and New Yorkwere candidate- - for the honor, but whenthe report of the committee on

made, the only objection madeby a New xork knight, who moved tosubstitute New York for bau Francisco.This beiug promptly voted down, thereport was accepted wiih special unan-imity, making San Francisco the placelor the next conclave.

It is stated that the Californians madetwo propositions to the knights. Thefirst was that California commanderieswould make Such arrangements thatround trip tickets should cost everyknight not over $20. The second proposition was that the Californians wouldpay all the fares between andSan Francisco, both coming and iroimr.Jft is stated by the coast d legation thatno positive agreement has been made,but the arrangements be privateand satisfactory to all narties. Col. W.Harneyjof Sah Francisco, says that thechief difHculty was to combat a growinginclination to make Washington Citvthe headquarters and meeting for all future conclaves.pie were able overcome this plan wascreditable alike to their diplomatic skilland geuerosity One gentleman aloneis said to have agreed to raise a milliondollars in Ca'ifornia if the conclavewould hold its session in San Francisco.me iveniucKv commanderies in acknowledgement, of the profuse hospitality of the knights from San Franciscoduring their stay here, presented themwith a silver cask of choice old bourbonwhisky.The Drown ami Johnson Case

New Youk, Aug. 21. .Max Sevilger,a collector, while wanting along inrstavenue this evening, near Forty-nint- h

street, was seized upon by two men, oneof whom seized his arms and therifled his pocket-boo- k and seized hiswatch aud chain. They then threwhim into a gutter and fled. Sevilger,who was uninjured, gave chase, whenone of the thieves discharged a revolverat him. The ball missed the objeot intended and buried itself in the neck of

boy. The young man was taken to thehospital, where his injury was pronounced fatal. The thieves escaped- -

Weaver's Movement.St. Aug. 20. Gen. G. B

Weaver arrived here this evening fromArkansas, where he made ten speeches.He will speak at Terra Jtjaute mor-row, and co thencewhere be wilhconsuit with members ofihp nniinnal He will gO to

far nose

Prize Fight Stopped by Po iceNew Iork, Aug. 22. Thos. Holmes

and Patrick Dcnun, pugilists, of SouthBrooklyn, were arrestell this morningwhile engaged in a prize fight at Wood-sid- e,

L. I. Twenty-eigh- t rounds hadbeen fought in an hour and both menwere terribly punished. Their eyeswere nearly rinsed aud their faces hUmost swollen out of shape.

Pacific Coast Postal Change.Washington, August 23. Postal

changes: LMfrntinued Silver Wells,Wasco county, Oregon. Postmastersappointed Ms. Clara Alingham, Pine,Linn county, Otegon; Wm. M. Urqu-har- t,

Chehalis, Lewis county, Washing-ton Territory.

A Horrible Charge."Lowell. Mass Aug. 23. People ten

miles distant on the Alisirinuni river.young.sister. horrified

that twin children John Farley hadbeen drowned in a tub of waterthe night. The father and mother werarrested. The children were only amonth old. The parents are very poor,and Farley is given to drink. Theyboth deny the crime, but Farley saysthat he belii-ve- s that his wife drownedthe babies. '1 iuv have three otherchildren.

Grant Going1 Home.Denver, Aug. 23. Grant and

party, after veiling the principal citisand points of interest in this state, leftfor the east via the Denver Pacific today. proceed direct to Galena.

Mexican Affair.h:xico, Aug. 14. Gonzales

has an absolute majority in congress,and has notiM g to do but declare theresult. It is v. peeled that GovernorCadera will j ronoitnce against the result upon the ground of fraud. He isgovernor of Z mt ens, and has a wellarmed ami ur.aniz-- d body of statetroops. '1 he government is watchinghim with eonsi ierable forces at SanLuis and other c mvenioiit points, withGen. Gonzalt-- s in command.

President Diaz gave, a dinner t Minister Morgan. All foreign mini ters andconsuls, with their wives, attended;also ministers.

The American companies seekingrailway concessions are the SouthernPacific, 0. P. Huntington at itsthe Mexican Conduction, headed byGen. Palmer and Jay Gould, and theBoston.

Miss Wilson'. WillLondon, Auj. 23. The part

of Miss Neils mi'm property, valued at.40,000 sterling, is left by will to RealAdmiral Hmry Carr Giyn, C. B. Edward Compiou teceives a legacy o

1000.

Tiie Lniwlon Wool Mnrftet.Lo.vdox, Aug. 2.. At to-da- y's wool

sales the spirit was fully sustained andvn AS 1 -

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I'uciile Coast.Sax Francisco, Aug. 24. The min

isterial union at a meeting to-da- y resolved to invite Moody and Sankey tovisit California.

Chief Om ty at the Point of Death.Los Pinos Auencv, Aug. 20. In-

dian runners from the souihern Uteagency, arrived this morning and re-port Chief Our.iy dangerously ill andnot expected to live. They came witha from Ouray to the agencyphysician here, Dr. Tracy, in whom hehas the utmost confidence, requestinghim to come hum diatelv. The doctorand his escort left immediately. TheIndians will furnish relays of horses,and intend making the distance, 13dmiles, in hours. Ouray went to thatpoint to assist the commission in prevailing upon the Ltes to sign the treaty.If Ourav dies the treaty will not besigned by the White river and southernUtes.

A (iooil Itlcker.

On one tho excursion steamboatsrunning from Boston a young man madehimself objectionably familiar to a ladywhom he supposed to be alone. For alittle while the lady tolerated his attentions and he was deluded into the ideathat he had made a conquest. But hisinward sense of victory was of short duration. She was only waiting for herhusband to come. On his arrival slm ir- -

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ing on. He calmly surveyed the situa-tion for a few moments, then made uphis mind what to do. Being a somewhs tmuscular shoe dealer, wearing a No. 11boot, he quietly slipped in behind theunsuspecting youth and administered tohim a powerful kick. This sent theyouth bodily upwards to the roof of thecabin m which the ceremony took placeand brought his forehead in contact witha piece of timber. The young man hadnever "before dreamed of having such ahigh forehead. When he descended itwas amid tho mirth of his fellows andwith a conspicuous wound which he willprobably wear for life. This fellow hasno recourse against the large-foote- d manwho had uamaged luni. He was playingthe iool and de .vrved the punishment he

bylaw, yet under the circumstances inwhich the Bostonian husband found himsell nobody would say that it was illegal. The mark on the voting gallant's

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A gentleman the other day saw his little daughter dipping her doll's dress intoa tin cup, and inquired: "What are vondoing, my daughter?" "I'm coloring mydolls dress red!" "What with?" "Withbeer." What put such a foolish notion

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Suicides In Paris.The last eight days have been prolific

ot horrors, anir.ng which murder and sui1 .1 rrticmes are most conspicuous. The sui

cidally inclined have been more than usually ingenious even for Parisians. Inthe first place we have the tragic story ofa corset-make- r m the line Geneta. Themonotony of artificial corsets weighedheavily upon his brain. Whalebones appeared to him of vanities and stav lacesas vexations of the spirit. He thereforepurchased a fire-crack- er of formidable dimensions, and with an amount of coolnessworthy a better cause placed it in hismouth and endeavored tc blow his headoff. But he only succeeded in depriving himself of a portion of his skull,

1 1 1 1 TT 1 1unci ne now lies in the notei ihcu. reflecting on his probable return to tradein the detested corsets. On Friday lasta woman, also weary of life, mountedinto the gallery which encircles the interior of the cupola in the Pantheonaud from this dizy height plunged headioremost down among the worshipingthrong before the altar. A womankneeling near where tho poor creaturefell and died was severely bruised.On the same day a painter and gilder.after a discussion with his wife intheir domicile on the Qu.ii Jemmapes,lost Ins temper, because he could nobring her to his way of thinking concerning their money matters, and lefther, saving. "I nm going to take a bath."He ran and plunged into the canal St.Martin, and striking his head against aprojecting beam on one of the locks,speedily found that death which heseemed to desire so earnestly. But thecares of these unfortunate people do notpresent such interest to the student' ofpathology as that of Emile Dumoustier,who on Friday killed a sub-brigadi- er ofpolice, named Koxin, in the line Mont-mart- e,

near tho corner of the Hue Abou- -

kir, one of the most crowded sections ofthe commercial quarters of Paris. Du-moustier, when first remarked on the dayin question, was walking wildly to and fro,swinging his arms and muttering men-aces between his teeth. He was in ragsand covered with dirt, aud his feet werebare. Koxin. the police agent, came upto him and was about to order him tomove on when Dumouster sprang uponhim and buried a long knife iu his breast.The unfortunate agent tried to draw hissword, but staggered back and died short-ly afterwards. The knife of the assassinhad pierced the ribbon of the militarymedal with which Boxin was decorated.Dumoustier was arrested after some re-sistance. He gave no reason for hiscrime except that ho wished to kill apoliceman; he had a vengeance to ex-ecute. He is a ragpicker, and a Pyrin- -

tan. nc jj(ti itjnoii.es. The miserable manappears to be brutalized by a long andconstant use of strong drink, and willprobably be declared irresponsible,He was a hideous and repulsive objectwhen taken to the depot, after hisstruggle with the oilicers who arrestedhi in. It is curious to not that the reac-tionist journals with their usual ingenu-ity, endeavor to prove that the Republicis responsible for Dumoustier's conductin creating the festival, at the close ofwhich he signalized himself by so terrible and unprovoked a deed.. The funeralof the unfortunate agent of police onMondav at the Eglise Saint Eustache wascelebrated with much ceremoney in thepresence of a large attendance. A youngman who appears to have occupied a respectable social position was found hanging to a tree m the Bois de Boulogne on'Thursday. On the grass at the foot ofthe tree lay a letter, stating that since thelady whom he loved had died, life had noturther charms for him. and he had de- -

ennined to rejoin her in the spiritworld. Parisian .

How ENGTrsii Women- - Duess. It cannot be denied that an Englishwoman ishe most peculiarly dressed women of the

civilized world. One does not need tocome, as I did, with only two days' in- -enm between the Pans salon, where

actresses and grandes dames exhibit daily their extravagant toilets, to the London Academy, where British fashionholds carnival, to see this and note theextraordinary difference between thereigning styles of the two capitals. InParis an Englishwoman is recognized inthe twinkling of an eye, as far away asshe can be seen, by her radical and es-

sential difference in dress, not only fromthe Parisienne, but bv reason of herthorough unlikeness, in that respect, tothe woman of all other nations. A fer-tile source of amusement to Parisiennesis tne extraordinary confused and form-less bunch of draperv that an Englishwoman wears in the region of her heels,and that her peculiarly rolling aud energetic gad; so diilerent from tho walk otContinental ladies causes toss and wobble behind her in the most ungracefuland eccentric manner. Cor.Inter-Ocea- n.

Chicago

Tun Human Fiocim. The proportionsof the human figure are six times thelength ot the feet, whether theioini isslender or plump, tho rule holds good,and deviation from it is a departure fromthe highest beauty in proportion. TheGreeks make all their statues from thisrule. The face, from the highest pointol the forehead, where the hair beginsto tho chin is one-tent- h of the whole stature. The hand, from the wrist to themiddle finger, is the same. From the topof the chest to the highest point of theforehead is a seventh. If the face, fromthe roots of the chin, be divided intothree equal parts, the first division de-

termines the place where the eyebrowsmeet, and the second the nostrils. Thehight from the feet to the top of thehead is the distance from the extremityof the fingers when the arms are ex-

tended.Doctors, cheer up! The peach crop is

not a failure.

Sagacious Horses.

Street car horses have apparently avery monotonous sort of life. One dayis so much like another, that like the hu-

man unimal under the same conditions,it would seem that the faculties wouldbecome deadened, and tho slightest evi-

dence of intelligence impossible. Thereis not much stimulus to mental activityin a life of plodding on a street cartrack, and yet instances are knownwhere horses'have taken a lively interestin the road, the methods of carrying onthe business, and especially that portionof it which involves their time and labor.They have thought it all out and haveactually been able to tell the number of. . i ii ,i ii ttrips assigned lor nieir uu.y juuur, unciwhen it ends. "When a horse is able totell how much work is required of himeach day, and when his-da- y ends theachievement passes beyond the range oof mere animal instinct and attains thplane of reason and intelligence. Horsicar drivers tell marvelous stories of theintelligence displayed by the animalsunder'their charge. A driver on one ofthe Fourteenth street cars is strongly ofthe opinion that horses know how tocount. If this rather unusual statementis ouestioned : " Well, if they don't,how are von going to explain this?" andthen he goes on to say that each carmakes nineteen trips per day. There arefour horses used, three making live tripsand one four trips. At the end ot eachtrip the car is driven into the stables andthen turned upon the turning table. Aitor the car is turned tlie horses arechanged, if it is the proper time, beforethe car starts back on the trip. At theend of the fifth trip, if for any reasonit is necessary to send the car back, it isilmost impossible to .get the horse out ofhe stable. He holds bacic, resists, and

it requires tho united exertions oi several men before the animal can be induced to more. The horse has kept astrict count of the trips, and knows thathe has finished his day's work and oughtto go to his stall. The same thing occursif the attempt is made to make the horsethat has only four trips take an additionalone.

With the drivers aud stablemen, whofrequently witness such exhibitions,there is a firm belief in the mathematicalability of horses. The street car menalso tell an interesting yarn about thehill horse that works on the hill betweenNew York avenue and H street. Histime for stopping work is very irregular,and he is sometimes taken to the stableswith one car and sometimes with another.But the horse knows perfectly well whenit is the intention to tale him to thh stable, and when he comes to the top of thehill, instead of stopping he starts on arun. If the time for his going home wastat all regular this singular intelligencemight be explained, but whether it isearly or late, the horse knows when he isgoing home. Until that time ho plodsalong steadily, and has never been knownto make a mistake. One oi the driversexplains it by the fact that the boy whohas the horse in charge usually sits onthe dash board, with feet on the outside,while gom up hill. But when the boyis going all the way to the stables he getsall the way in from the front platform.'IM. 4.1... i. 1 1 .1.xuu iiuiMU auus uuib iiiu uuj mis uiu-w-

his legs in, instead of dangling them onthe outside, and, by the inductive processof reasoning, he concludes that it lto go home. He accordingly goes. Another horse always shies when he passesa certain corner after dark, because somefour or five years ago he was frightenedat that place. Washington Post.

Heel Sugar Culture.

A number of experiments have beenmade in this country from time to timein raising beet-ro- ot sugar, but generallyon a small scale, and without any continuous energy. There seems to be noreason why we cannot make any quanti-ty of sugar of this kind, and it is notunlikely that we shall yet make it as welland as abundantly as they do in France.The sugar got from beets is similar tothat from cane; but it contains muchless saccharine matter, the proportionbetween the two being usually as 10 to18. About the middle of the last cen-tury, Marggraf, a Berlin apothecary,called attention to the sugar contained inthe beet; but Achard, the Prussian chem-ist, was the first person really successfulin extracting it. But as only two orthree per cent, of sugar could be ob-

tained, the jn-oces-s did not pay, until

Napoleon I. raised the price and intro-duced improved methods. After thedownfall of the Emperor protective du-ties kept the manufacture alive in France.

hen manufacturers were enabled toget live pounds of sugar from 100 poundsof beet, the industry revived this wasabout 1820 in Frauce and Belgium, andextended as far as linssia. It is nowlargely imported from the Continent, andis mixed by refiners with cane sugar,without which the best loaf sugar cannotbe produced. Tho imports into GreatBritain from the Continent in 1S75amounted to 24:0,000 tons. In Francethe increase has been so rapid that in1872-- 3 the product reached 418,000 tons.It is estimated that there are now in allcountries some 1500 beet-sug- ar factories.A good yield is 20 tons of root per acre,ami one ton of sugar from 12 tons ofroot. The civil war interrupted ourmanufacturing (begun in 1862) , whichnow promises to be revived. Experi-ments of a very promising kind havebeen making in Maine, and in Californiathe business is carried on with encour-aging success.

"You see," said a lively old Aberdeenbachelor, on being advised to get mar-ried, "you see, I can't do it, because Icould not marry a woman I did'nt. respect, and it would be impossible for meto respect a woman that would conqpntto marry me." j

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Genoese Boatmen.

When we went to Tivoli last week wereturned in a special train with severalhundred Genoese canotteri, who wereinvited to Borne for a boat race by thesociety here. They had been to the cas-

cades, the baths and the Temple ofSybil, but I overheard a young womantelling them, "Oh! you havo seen noth-ing if you have not s'een the Villa d'Este,but it is impossible to see all in one day."The poor fellows, who were worn outwith the fatigue 'of climbing the hills,looked rather crestfallen at this, butmany of them had brought away largepieces of the petrified leaves and twigsfound near the waterfall.

Those Genoese, though no doubtstrong and lithe boat rowers, are nottypes of manly beauty. The' are posi-tively ugly, and formed a striking con-trast to the Apollo-lik- e forms of the Bo-nia- ns

at the regatta on the Tiber. Thisregatta was organized for the benefit ofthe marine hospital for children, andwas, as usual, on Sunday afternoon.The border of the river was covered withpeople, who manifested great enthu-siasm, and a prize was awarded. to thesuccessful canoe bv the Minister of Ma-rin- e.

The king and tho aristocracyand the diplomatists and manylovely ladies were there, and, not-withstanding the beauty of the .Romans Iam afraid that tho ugly Genoese won therace. From my green terrace, near theTiber, I heard but did uot see the re-gatta. Tho music of the bands, thebooming of the cannon and theshonts ofthe people came floating up in the airand mingled with the shrieks of theswallows that circled above the flocks.The demonstrations of friendliness be-

tween tho Genoese and Bomans on thisoccasion were remarkable. They dinedeach other, and they made speeches inpraise of each other, and never tired ofshouting from the windows and oars,"Viva Genova!" or "Viva Borne!" --Eventhe harvesters on the Canipagna, reap-ing in long lines in the hot Junesun, stopped their work a moment astheir train passed to give them a friendlyshout. This is a good sign, and it iswell for Italy that the days when onecitv made war upon another, and captured the chains that protected its gatesand hung them up in their own publicplaces, have gone by. The watch-wor- d

now is brotherly --love. Liberty, union,equality, industry, putting money awa- -

for rainy days, draining and cultivatingwaste lands, plauting forests and bindingthe poor emigrant to his native soilthese are the ideals of Italy. TheGenoese are among the first to followthis programme, in which lies all ofItaly's future greatness. X. Y. EveningPost.

The Wooden Hat.

Somewhere about the year 1780millwright, footsore with the

broadest Northern Doric accent, stoppedat Soho, at the engine factory of BoultonSc Watt, and asked for work. His aspectwas little better than one of beggaryand poor looks, and Boulton had biddenhim God speed to some other shop.when, as he was turning away sorrow-fully, Boulton suddenly called him back.

"What kind of a hat's yon ye have onyour head, me mon?"

"It's just timiner, sir.""Thinner, me mon: let's look at it.

Where did you get it?""I just turned it in the lathie ""But it's oval, mon, and tho lathie

turns things round.""Aweel! I just gar'd the lathie gang-anithe-

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gait, to please me. I'd a langjourney afore me, and I thocht to have ahat to keep out water, and I hadna'muckle siller to spare, and I made meano."

By his inborn mechanism the man hadinvented an oval lathe and made his hat,and the hat made his fortune. Boultonwas not the man to lose so valuable ahelp, thus the after famous William Mur-doc- k

the originator of locomotives andlighting by gas took suit and serviceunder Boulton & Watt, and 1784- - madethe first vehicle impelled by steam inEngland, and with the very 'hands andbrain-cunnin- g that had produced the"timmer hat." American Machinist.

The Dollar Mark.

There are a number of theories for theorigin of the dollar mark. One is, thatit is a combination of the XI. S.. tho initials for the United States: another, thatit is a modification of the figure 8, thedollar being formerly called "a niece ofeight," and designated bv the character

Hie third theory is that it is a com-bination of H. S., the mark of a Bomanunit: while the fourth is that it is a com-bination of P. and S., from the Spanishpeso dnro, which signifies "hard dollar."In Spanish accounts, peso is contractedby writing the S. over the P. and placing-i- t

after the sum, The last theory of theorigin of the sign is offered by the editorof the London Whitehall Review, who re-cently propounded the question at a din-ner party in that city, at which the Amer-ican Consul was present. An no one couldtell, the editor gave the following ex-planation: "It is taken from the Spanishdollar, and the sign is to be found ofcourse in the associations of the Spanishdollar. We littered the table with booksin the course of our researches, but Iproved my point in the end. On the re-verse of the Spanish dollar is a repre-sentation of the Pillar of Hercules, andround each pillar is a scroll, with the in-scription, 'Pius ultra.' This device, inthe course of time, has degenerated intothe sign which stands at present forAmerican, as well as Spanish dollars.The scroll around the pillars, I take it,represent the two serpents sent by Junoto destroy Hercules in his cradle."