Woodland Daily Democrat (Newspaper) - November 18, 1890, Woodland, California VOL. XXVI YOLO TUESDAY NOVEMBER 18, 1890. NO. 144. A STAMPEDE OF CATTLE A WILD RACE IN THE DARKNESS WITH A HERD OF A Experience on of Sew Killing at and Only Half The After weeks of marking we hud gotten together head of the fin net tn br found on the banks of the muddy in New Mexico Two days later the rodf into consulted with his and eight ing the were chosen to drive the herd to N. A distance of 250 The evening of the sixth day clearly and of nn approach Ing were were rent a decided disposition to and Instead of walking our horses the herd we were compelled to travel at a sharp trot This continued until the arrival of the second when the increased forces succeeded quieting them the writer and bis mate camp guided by the of the camp which shone like A star on little elevation a half mite away THE We bad scarcely turned into our blan fully as with the ex ception of our when a rumble aud of the ground with hoarse shouts yelled the Jumping from his blankets every one of running to LIB horse as he i which was picketed a short distance Not waiting to don boots writer to his vaulted into the sad die and tore off alter the the flickering light of the camp fast being extinguished by the revealing the re- maining toeD hurriedly preparing to follow Guided by the thunder of hoofs the herd wan soon and In obedience to foreman's yell I to in front of The confusion of the scene Tbe tern lied snorts of the cattle were almost drowned by the clashing of of hoofs and shouts of the My oil strapped to my not had time to it j tore at the leather succeeded in loosening and turning in saddle it before the my to the dm around me Aa well try to stop the torrent of Niagara The wild race un from 1 knew that a of ho rue to throw me oi hia fall meant that J be cut to pieces by the sharp hoofs of the cattle Then an unexpected event occurred The herd into two oue oi which 1 wan the sole lender while other portion galloped off at right angles led by my two companions For a few I could hear their theu they grew fainter und and were finally lost in the gallop of hoofs around me On we thundered My throat wis raw and swollen from and my had fallen from mj hand The rain had hut I wet to the skin and bj the cool mr t til the sound of WAS oot so audits the blew n war so that t see a few yarn's in front of UIP I found that I was leading a dozen steers that had separ itetl from the I had Just thw when they slackened speed ami finally pant Ing and all the run knocked out of thpm Of what nte n of steers out nf 1 70J1 Riding off a few yards I hear no sound of my companions Becoming conscious of a ae vere HI my left foot I reached down and Chut J was literally with sharp of a cactus having through n bed of the my foot unprotected bj boots In the of the run I had not felt but now the pain was Intense I plucked inch as I could and then ated what waft best to do My lone had wandered away and I made no effort to of the undertaking THE FAILED Here was a inline at In the middle of the ami shivering with uot knowing in what direction to go to ranch and my horse blown with bin fearful run Knowing the of I dropped the bridle reins and snf him to RO where he would Me promptly wheeled around and ed off on a plovi which he kept up for abont fifteen I knew we were camped on the bink of the and sup that lie RO in that but wishing ta instinct I turned tirn from hit and to my dis- may he complied and started off in tho new direction as willingly I tested falm from every point of the and be to ID any direction just as 1 gave up in despair anil concluded to him moving until when 1 knew 1 find the Hver On he I began to the fate that ever led me to a cow puncher After I should an hour I wan de- lighted to find myself on the but then a new Was the camp before me or behind Again I tested the He would go up or juHt I pleated I through the darkness trying to look for anything that might a when afar off in 1 n light which grew to a tiny then died out Where there was a light there must be life and with renewed hope 1 galloped off in that mid about later hud the of seeing tho top of the wagon looming up before me. We were tho only two of tho outfit who camp that The like had chased the cattle until and had spent the in a vuln for camp Daylight found many of them traveling tn an entt op- polite one ten miles bin were dispatched to ranch the river and to another twenty Men were aent to OUT with n force of twenty cowboys the scattered cattle were rounded up in two and TVP continued our having lost but in the wild pede of the wild rush of were plentiful in the broken and two cjin almost to a jelly Tho poor erf had to the only to ft cnt to the hoofs of com Four they bo fore Springer wan but fortunately on with little PAID FOR HIS THE TRIPS THAT to an Clerical A prominent operator was telling of Uis experiences at Eagle Murray in the early days of the Coeur pede was a soft be a man could get the privilege of bib an the floor by payment of n of and beans straight were 81 But no one thought of ing at high prices when there was a bility of bund reds of daily the ground not every claim planned out that lu yielded any return for the And that reminds me of a little stratagem a young fellow played on a preacher over at in those The young whom will cull had been digging on hia for a month without 00 much si striking a when one afternoon the j preacher appeared upon the ing the usual as to his etc the miner replied and dip up a pan of gravel offered It to the telling him to carry It to the creek and wash it out And see for himself On the the young man took some gold dust from his pocket and the names the pan to the creek Bnd returning reports that he found Jones a. discreet though inwardly sizes the p teacher up an accomplished liar Pretty soon the preacher offers f 150 for the which Jones very promptly accepts goes to work like a never doubting but that he would realize SO a Im agine his after thorough to be unable to find a Then it dawned upon him that the ungodly young man had salted the pan proffered him with ma I gold Meeting the former owner where he was spending ill gotten gains liko a prince the clerical gentleman accused him of acquiring money tinder false pretenses you dare to throw any of them charges up said Jones as he spit on hfa I that bnt what did you Didn't you steal the he flred tie preacher into outer SpoLane Spokesman TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND TO TAKE A RACER ACROSS THE and the I have sometimes thought that the de- cline of the melodrama here in Boston has been due to the influence of the peanut in theatrical There was a certain inspiring influence exacted by this edible which is wanting in tHe tions of the goers of today It In- ft c out em illative attitude which was favorable to of plays m which the moral were appealed to to counteract the effect of the situations The dropping of peanut shells PO to the applause which followed the mouthing of unexceptionable bits oi as ft makeweight for actions Lad a decidedly vicious if not One in the the has vanished from our the class of patrons that a peculiar zest to the u ns coincident with the reicin of the There was a certain affinity between these old time theatre goers and the which were provided for their delectation that accounted for the success of a wrt of drama that it would be impossible to revive today The de- unconsciousness of conventional propriety winch was indicated by the con- sumption of peanuts and the dispersion of their shells within the dramatic temple was matched by the confiding reliance theatrical upon id sentiments and instead of upon mechanical to win the vor of nn die Boston Post Tlie of Anna lu the The manual for loading and firing musket m 1707 your hands to j our handle your blow your try your blow your give recover your Mow your jour shut your blow your cast ahout to handle your open them with your charge with charge the wads from your draw forth Uold them shorten them against your put them in the rain down your withdraw i onr hold them shorten them against your your your right hand onder poise your shoulder your rest your order your lay down your take up your rest your club your rest your shoulder ynur make give Gen Sherman in North American Review Horn antic tovo In the It would seem that romantic lovers are still to be found on the banks of the In a village culled an- other case of and His was enacted a few days A young Calcutta on being disinherited by his fattier for marrying a lady of the reformed against his father's agreed with his to put an end to their existence by opium ing They bade adieu to each other and swallowed The lady died the next the young graduate it ia under the influence of a stomach pimp and other medical after paying a penalty of for UN act of Stuart Office Boy who has just en- Boodle called while you and he waited quite a knew I tn the why didn't you dill Office wouldn't the office sir that gentleman is n Untied senator Office the reason I didn't tint to leave linn in the office air Epoch Among the new electrical apparatus for vessels has recently appeared tlie which is a powerful nre light mounted on a projector as to send ft beam of light to port or starboard to indicate to other vessels tho wdy her helm 11 for the ii to 1 rny to starboard and in there The Apparatus ia power ot tbe In and out by of the Teats of bronze have been commenced nt the Watertown under the auspices of the government to IM over to the and on Heavy of Operating Twin the larger and the What it coat to run a palatial twin racer the That IB the question which The for the en lighten me lit of Inquiring recently put to the New York of big steamship The questioner wan about to me the query with a lot of unsolved riddles of the when he strolled into the office of the There he obtained the information which had been withheld at every other The agent dissipated as well an he was able the tery that had enshrouded the little A midsummer trip of the waa the theme of his The not quite as big the boats of the White Star And Inman but her owing to the greater length of her is just as formidable The cost of running har from her dock in the Teutonic town of Hoboken to her dock in the town of no less Teutonic is about the same as the coat of running the of Paris from New York to When the starts on an ward voyage she carries nearly tons of coal tn her protected Some at this is American and some foreign soft and it costs about t3 50 a ton The stokers shovel into her roaring red between 2CO and 300 tons The expenditure for runs juat short of a or nearly for the The cost of the gallons and of oil used to keep her ponderous triple expansion ber kef merous smaller her and on combined with the coat Is quite A The salaries of the big ship's are not an unimportant factor in the ex- pense Among the 300 persons who look after the working of the racer and the comfort of her besides the cool headed S 1 engineers and 2 5 28 114 00 waiters and 22 bakers and 3 I barber and 14 skilled Tbe total wages of these for a trip of eight days ii ahout not counting Capt. Hebich receives the highest salary It varies between and a and depends somewhat on the earnings of the of which he receives a small centage This is the way the skippers of all the colossal racing craft are and it is not likely that any of them art going to cease or to be censured fov aa long as a fast trip means money in their pockets and the coffers of their cam Every hour the captain of the City of New York saves means a saving in coal alone of Next in importance to the captain of an ocean speeder 13 the chief engineer He is not as frequently visible to the cabin pas sengers aa bis gold laced and nobody makes much fuss over but he in the opinion of his a very big man He is the man who makes the great ship up and He sub daily reports of bow things are going on down below to the He tells how many tons of coal he 13 how much indicated horse power he and the number of revolutions the ship's propellers make a If he doesn't get aa much speed out of the clanking twin giants as the captain he ought to the captain pats him on the back and tells him to whoop her like a good fellow It Is essential to the captain's interest he should be friendly with the boss of the mighty machines For hifi great work tho chief engineer receives a month and his which ta equal to that of the cabin passengers Tbe chief officer receives ISO a which ia more than the cap- tains of many steamships of the second class get SALT The food and drink consumed by gers and crew during a recent trip of the cost about This is the complete list of the things that were sary to make life aboard the luxurious floating hotel something liko a Two thousand five hundred bottles of red bottles of tles of bottles of bottles of SO kegs of 400 bottles of ale and bottles of mineral gallons of drinking pounds of pounds of peas and so of of and 45 baskets of pounds of pounds of pounds of pounds of pounds of 250 pounds of ICO gallons of 400 glasses of 190 barrels of B5 gallons of ice 17.000 pounds of pounds of pounds of smoked ami of 700 pounds Of GOO pounds of GOO pounds of 500 pounds of iso pounds of 30 barrels of preserved 20 barrels of of 450 160 CO s 60 partridges and 50 From the foregoing facts figures it may be said that one trip of the nla costs the ITam American huu in it less than To tins which doei not Include the coit of the must carry many passengers and sonic The number of her passengers of according to thu reason She carries in midsummer nearly 600 second cabin and ahout 300 steerage The price of a first cabin passage is about and that of h second cabin about Tho average price of steerage is about The receipts from all classes of gorH on a good are the carries 800 tons ot w nt tho transpor tation rate of fio n. amounts to The of loading unloading this freight Is home liy the In the dull season the twin screw ships do not hut their receipts throughout ths year are large enough to warrant the declaration that they are greAt successes nml that they are the passenger ships of tho York Artificial musk to n new with an odor to bo distinguished the only by the Very odor Is not possessed by a 1 ptr alcoholic bnt it Li only brought out by dilution The new for A City you Newly Such was the remark of one gentleman to another as they stood listening to the musk on the Tacoma hotel porch the other The penon addressed had Lia lower limba encased in extra wide therefore the crookedness or ness of those articles could not gleaned liy a superficial Acting upon this remark of the ently ing who was a itor on bis way to a Tacoma Etec ord started out to Investigate the subject for himself While walking up Ninth street he kept his eyes uml what be saw indeed surprised ly a manor youth trod up tlie hill from Pacific to Railroad street who not afflicted with a bow in either or both j legs The victims were m all stages of the terrible and the eye aw ob sewer could easily detect who had but recently started to curve underneath and also he who had for years Out of fifty youths and boyn who that hill just thirty-five were bow some much so and some just a little bit so In every group of thiee i or more the carried with them bent lower Oue man almost tread one foot upon the other as he while a young a beautiful blonde stepped out in H curious conscious of the fact that his limba were beginning to turn evidently seeking to hide the fact from the general The cause of so much crookedness in the City of Destiny la a natural one and surely an Insurmountable To climb and Tacomans can not do without climbing them In some ia a strain on the limbs and gradually they give and In some cases bring hn to their owners There aro plenty of handsome young men in today who would give anything to have their i legs and as much can be said of plenty of the young ladies in Highest of all in Leavening S. Gov't Aug. 17, Baking Powder Iron from Sea Among the magnetic tors which have lately put before the public one of the most remarkable is that for the extraction of iron from sea sand It is stated that ordinary sea sand contains from 5 to 7 per cent of enough in fact to give n large excess orer cost of ex- traction The machine ts very con of a whose surface te composed of electro revolving on the inside of au endless canvas The sand is fed to the and a of trater separates tbe the iron being re- by the electro and carried off on the belt to receptacle at tlie other the sand tails into the trough It is claimed that the iron cau thus be extracted for about one eighth of its York Commer dal Advertiser A An umbrella maker has worked for rather over two years for a in She was a and vras paid by the ao that any loss of time was no loss to her employer most women in this i she was often kept hours waiting for her and was of course paid nothing for the time thus though she was fined if she did not arrive punctually Hpr fines for this and other trivial these things being of questionable shown in her wage books to amount in tbe two years and a little over to tbe sum of fis 9d. No account of tbe sums thus deducted is rendered by tbe employer Tho aii wage of this woman was about 10s, a week Comment may very well be dis- Union A The largest check ever given in this try was that given by Gould to Allen for the Iron He palil lor and be handled Allen A check for that amount upon his acceptance of his Allen looked at the paper that represented this vast sum and this a good deal of money for one man to have in one don't re- plied it is Let mo have the check Allen then handed the check and he handed It over to his office take this check to tho bank and have tbe certify to And tlie boy went out and did it G. Carpenter's Letter of In Germany wood with a mirror coming into uso for ornamental purposes in place of metal The wood is Ortt sub- mitted to a bath of caustic alkali for two or three days at o temperature of about 173 degrees dipped in of for twenty-four to after which a concen solution of sulphur is After another dip in an acetate of lead solution about 100 degrees a shining metallic surface is given by polishing dry with tin or York Tele- gram Demand for A leading iron Journal states that Im- in tbe new navy lire young men to the frout in all not the least of which is In the modern in addition ta the great triple expansion main with all complicated there tire stenm and auxiliary engines of all kinds and in widely parts of the and with the small number of en- a large and intelligent force of machinists is u pressing necessity Cork are more worthiest than thu cork oak us it untouched by man The wood is henry nud it shrinks nnd in and 1-iijndlv when exposed I is and and ireful only for tunning Treated by the hand of tlie tree produces a bark which the world with stoppers its tmd Is. in the im- and Hunt cm mid up from the What utterly hopeless barbarians the nese avel They tore up a railroad they considered it responsible for the recant floods the railroad company cut down all the timber itn aa rond land in this country olten it York Weekly for Tom an of B New York dealer who pot 1 for a fur lined poodle and in the next column is a atory of two New York that died of What do you think of that New York is a better for for PURE YOU Must HINCE IT 19 A FACT That we 1C or live we desire to to your economical on stock of KP lee ted GROCERIES m CAREFUL REASONABLE TO FRAZER CO. 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