ffARLIGHjr S S S S blieveiB^tfehe.islte^^r' gave himself npfecr* l&rorvrx ©o. ISmrk. eras I have often asked myself: Ii Ft Anfderlieider, lost. He got but one look at ^^r*stfl not, what land could Capt. "Wheaten ship, and realizing that she was driv h%wouldn,t iv-'yet believe inna nel wmreT have reached in so short a time? He a book entitled, "Adventures by ing away from mm and that he wasisland^jeeause C.H.OHADBOUH.W, it wasn't charted, ^Je knew every foot of his island and Manulacturer of |5£aiidand Sea," which I pieked Tip beyond rescue, he ceased swimming, President! CaBfcbft simply jumped to the conclusion that drew a map of it. No other island and hoped to drown at once. i&e other day,I saw a brief reference Cor. Minn, and Centra Sirs. the castaway hall suffered and en-would answer the description. He Fire, Well Building and Steepl Just then a hen-coop floated dured until his mind was off its balance. built & boat and we found it. He rto the strange adventures of Capt. A within reach, and in a second he This -was natural enough in built a raft and it bore him into the Brick, "Wheaton of the ship "Starlight. NEW ULM,, MINN. changed his mind and fastened to one sense, but when Wheaton came tracks of ships. He found gold and -Among all the fore-castle yarns I the float. He was clear on the point to show him the relies from the twohe found and saved papers and relies Collection*ant all bnstaeet perfaraiag to bulking Fine Presirea Briek for of floating all that day and far into «ever heard that story takes the med.al, prompt^ attended to. wrecks, and when the two monkeys which settled the fate of two missing the night then he lost consciousness, and when I am through relating were skipping about on deck, anyone vessels. That island was born in Individual Respoosibitiy, ornamental fronts. but did not let go his float. He remembered but an Englishman would have been tenseeonds, when the bottom of the At the reader will be as much mystitfied nothing the next day until convinced. sea upheaved. Why should it not C25 $500,000- "?2 as I have always been regarding about an hour before sundown, Capt. Wheaton" was sharp enough have been destroyed just as quickly? Hav tlic t«e8t oT shipping facilities It. Indeed, I never yet met a sailor when he opened his eyes and came to Eagle Mill Co. will pay prompt attention to mail to withold his big secret until he had It is not the only one which has come his senses to find himself lying on the $»% who did not firmly believe in the learned something of the Englishman. and gone, and the fact of its remaining sands, his float near by, and the NEW ULM, MINNESOTA. When he found all his stories and assertions until covered with timber and truth of Capt. Wheaton's every state«nent. storm cleared away. He was stiff discredited he held his tongue, vegetation was no guarantee that it I tell the story because I was Manufacturers of 8 and sore and bewildered, and he and let them believe he was light in would always remain. That's my ROIXEH FLOTTJl an actor in the first and last chapters. crawled further up to the shore and the upper story. He was taken to story, gentlemen, and if you are unsatisfied It was in October, 1859, that I went to sleep again, and it was sunrise the Sandwich Islands, as a casta way, you are no worse off than BY THE ^g 5WT1 before he again opened his eyes. ehipped as second mate on the Starlight, and thence, with money found on his your humble servant who lost all in About an hour later he knew that he ratal Betatioii EoIlsPl unknown island, he paid his passage the venture. which was then lying in the BBEWER,MALTSTER&BflTTLjBB, was on an island about three miles to San Francisco. I twas at this latter port of Honolulu. She was an old ojstei. long by one mile wide. I was well port he found me, and within **-*A| •whaler and had been sold at auction wooded, contained several springs of A Queer Cliecfc. two hours after meeting him I had NEW VIM9 ^mXM: fresh water,and there was an abundance and cheaply refitted for a voyage From the "Washington Star. ThW brewery t« one of the larjjoBt.cstabllejKinentt the story. I had no reason to doubt ef the kind in ihe Minnesota Valley and of wild fruit to sustain life. to Lima and return, in the interest its entire truth. Three or four others The following is a true copy of a •p with allthe modern improvements. Ke^, There was not an inhabitant or sign bottle beer fnrnished to any pari of the ci:_» ._ were taken into the secret, and we check drawn on a West Washington of some California shippers. short flotice. Sly bottlebeer la especially adapted of one, nor did he find any living formed a syndicate to go after the bank sixty-four years ago, and shows for family use. We left port in ballast only and thing except birds and monkeys. gold. I had a legacy of $8,000 from Country brewers and olherethat bay malt wfll how banking business was conducted -were two men short in our complement. I»d \t to their iBtereM to place tbeii orders with, an aunt, and five of us chipped in an Wheaten was not only a good seaman me. Ill orders by mail willreceiTe my prompt «t in those days. The check was drawn Capt. Wheaton was a Baraegat equal amount, and bought a schooner tBtiea. but a well educated and well AUG. JjiKLTj by a citizen to pay the judgment in and fitted her out and manned her. man and the crew all Englishspeaking posted man,and he had sailed on the O favor of a man whom he had cowhided: Something of Capt. Wheaton's wonderful Pacific for many years. There was people. For the first fortnight Jolin Hauenstein, adventure got into the papers, hardly an island in that ocean which no ship ever had better weather. Obtained, and all PA1LHT MUtotXi^b attended Jfrnrnm""^ and there was great anxiety to find he had not set foot on ^and 264 37 GEORGETOWN, June IS, ISM to for If&DriiATF FFZS Our office is The captain, as I understood Cashier of the Union Bank of oub where we were going. opposite the 8 I'ntent Office and we can obtain could recognize by sight again. After l'atents In less time than thos* remote from Georgetown pay the bearer Two hundred Mm, was an earnest, conscientious a bit he began to figure on his location,and We had ten times as many men offer WA^II^GION. Send MODEL, DXAW1&Q o* & sixty-four dollars & and thirty-seven PHOTO of invention Wo advise as to patentability man, being above the average in he had made out that he had their services as we could accept, free of Ivarge and vie ni&ko hO C'UAli.UJ£ and cents, it being-the amount been driven ashore on an unknown and when the story of the big lump UJS'LkSS PA2WfJ'i iFCVlll-l point of intelligence, and of strictly of a Judgment for cost and damages For circular, advice, terms and references to and unchartered island lying very of gold was whispered around two temperate habits. The first mate aclunl clients in jour own Mate County, City o« against me for eowhiding a miscreant close to the equator, and in longitude other crafts fitted out to follow us. irought a demijohn of whisky by the name of This judgment 120 degrees west. This put him midway We went out of the harbor on a dark mm was obtained by the assassinlike -•aboard the day before sailing, but on a northeast, and southwest and stormy night, and two or three Our brewery is fully equipped and able to fll Opposite Patent OJJice, Washington, 1) (X midnight's work of imps and the line, between the Marquesas group days before we were supposed to be the captain made him ship it ashore Bingham Bros. all orders. aid of his associates. This will supply and the Galapagos Islands. He visited ready, and thus gave them the slip. Mr. F. Grebe has charge of the bottling estab» &t once, and he cautioned the fo'castlemen the Puppy with the means of giving both groups, and as both were One of the vessels stood up the coast Usimient. that he would clap the man in a few more Rich Dinners to those inhabited at that time he could not when ready to come out, and the New Him, Minn. who combined with himself to persecute irons who was found the worse for be mistaken in his location had he other loaded for the Sandwich Islands DEALERS IN and wrong me out of this money. liquor. The men used slyly to refer gone ashore on any one of them. He and was lost in a gale. E. Pfefferle, May a Just God in due time smite found proofs satisfactory to himself "to him as "The Sunday school superintendent," As the captain had $9,000 in the and prostrate these vile Hypocrites, that the island was of volcanic origin, enterprise, and had not even waited and I believe he was and let each morsel they eat not over twelve or fifteen years to visit his family, the reader must rgood enough to have filled the bill. at the table of this degraded old, and that the luxuriant vegetation ~~n Dealer in credit him with honestly believing all LATH, SHINGLES, H00ES, wretch prove a dose of Gall & Wormwood was due to tropical climate. The he asserted. As I had an equal At the end of the fortnight the fine until they are brought to repentance birds, of which there were several SASH AND BLINIK amount invested, the reader must believe for their iniquity. I is reported weather was broken by a rousing species, could perhaps have flown that I am writing of things as a part of this money is to be Lime, Cement and Coal. gale, which struck us during my there from some of the other islands, CANNED, DRIED & GREEH they honestly looked to me. Howa donation to the Female Orphan but how the monkeys reached the *night watch, and all hands had to could I or any one else disbelieve? S Asylum of Georgetown by that spot was a puzzler the captain never There was a nugget there the papers be called. We had a hard time of it means this condemned wretch expects got over. That he found 'em there Lowest prices always* and relics, and the English captain Coring the first hour, and were finally to keep from sinking in public estimation. ^loiir sundL FeecL was proved when he was rescued, knew of the raft and lone passenger Can it be possible*? (I hope compelled to lay the ship to the there being two pet animals on the being picked up 700 miles from any not) that the guardians of that institution Opposite Railroad Depot, raft. STOXE,WOODKN AND WH-LOW^J" wind that the captain was washed known land. There wasn't the least would receive from this NEW ULM, MINS "WABE. overboard by a heavy sea which difficulty in making others believe, When the castaway came to walk miscreant a donation ot money received KEW ULM, MINIT/, either. I think we could have raised boarded us. With him went one of around his island he found the wreck in this way, when it is well Fr« Vogelpdhl $200,000 capital if there had been of the Scotch brig McNeil on the east known he is this day largely indebted the sailors, the hencoops, several need of it. The trouble was to keep shore, and the wreck of the California to many respectable persons in the spare spars and booms, and a lot of capitalists and speculators out. ship Golden Bar on the west town, who he has, in some instances Merchant Tailor, 4«3eck raffle, and by the time the ship coast. Both craft had been reported Wheaton had no sooner been rescued entirely ruined by taking the benefit v"Wd shaken herself clear of the foam lost with all on board two or three than he asked for the Englishman's of the Bankrupt Law, and is now Minn. St., New Uim, Minn. years before. The one was a whaler it was too late to render any assist\nee. lattitude and longitude. Then living in greater affluence than any Is prepared to supply the people of and the other a trader. The captain Manufacturer of and Dealer in he figured on the direction and other person in this town. Not only Indeed, it was a serious question New Ulm and vicinity with the best of not only said he found them, but he strength of the wind and the progress that but he once before failed and CIGARS, just then whether any of us had proofs again. He had the name of his raft, and he had had the location ran off from Boston, indebted to an elothing at the lowest prizes. Only rould live another half hour. The board of the ship and some papers of his island down to within five immense amount, which he still is indebted first class work turned ouL TOBACCOS, belonging to the brig. He found miles I have had miners and geologists for. This is the fellow who orm did not break for nearly and buried the skeletons of thirteen tell me that no gold was ever now come out to make donations to PIPES, riven±j hours, and the old ship was sailors, and among the debris of the found in a volcanic upheaval of the the Female Orphan Asylum of Georgetown. strained and knocked about that wreck he secured a large quantity of sea. If not, where did the captain I pray the guardians may Cor. Minnesota and Centre life was ended. The gale had clothing, -considerable money, some get that big lump? There is no gold not receive a curse of this kind look Contractor and Builder, streets. bedding, a lot of tools, ropes', boards sea rcely abated when she began to on any chartered island in the Pacific, only to virtue and aid will come from 'manL and planks, and within a week he began and he certainly could not have drifted honest sources. teak faster then the pumps could NEWILM, the work of building a boat to to or put off on his raft, from the p&row the water out, and on the Special attention given to mason Jno. Neuman, enable him to escape. coast of South America. It was easy Eighty Miles An Honr. *jmnteenth day of the voyage we enough to sneer at a story, but not work in the city and country. I always felt that the old man must Chicago, among othor curiosities liaO to abandon her. so easy to get around cold facts. have had a jolly life of it for the ten peculiar to her, is shortly to have New Ulm, Minn. Dealer in ¥hen we had been afloat for four months and over he was on what he We had a fine run to Honolulu, and the largest and fastest passenger D:R,* GOODS The North Star Lung and Throat Balsam ^SjpiJJi the open boats we were pick^d called "Wheaton Island,"but he dwelt remained there for a week to make locomotive ever constructed, which is a sure euie for coughs and colds. up by the American bark Yankee on the fact that it was terribly lonely. some needed repairs and lay in more will surpass in every way anything Hats, Caps, Notions, It went harder with him because he provisions and water. Capt. Wheaton hitherto attempted in its way. ioy. bound from Boston to San Groceries," Provisional had a wife and six children, and he there meta fellow captain named This wonderful engine, designed by H. Rudolphi, ancisco. We were then to the Crockery and Glassware, knew that they would be mourning his Briggs, who commanded a New Bedford G. S. Strong, of New York, has just rth of the equator, and fully death. He found several barrels of whaler, and without a suspicion been completed at Boston for the Gveen, Dried and Canned le hundred miles from the whiskey and a lot of tobacco in the of what he was doing this man greatly Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad, Fruits, etc, etc% MANUFACTURER OF & DEALER I N plunder, but he was not content to discouraged us. and when shipped West will aAapagos Islands. These islands forwx*~ Boots and Shoos! sit still and enjoy himself. He put be used for hauling the vestibuled I will always take farm produce 1B exchang* ty a good distance to the left of the He had just come in from a long for goods, and pay the highest market price in two months on his boat, and had train between Chicago and Ft. rue course from Honolulu to Lima, cruise, which the chart showed must kinds of paper rags. just got her finished when a storm Madison. \d at that date every one of them have taken him very near theunkno wn Minn. fc 3d N. strs., ^New Ulm, Minn. set in and she broke her moorings Jis well known and all were inUlbjted island. He had not sighted it, but the In connection with my store Ihnte a nrst-clast It has a double fire-box, with a and drifted out to sea. Anxiety and by natives who could speak log book reported that when in that •aloon famished with a splendid bkliard table a&4 heating surface of 1,650 square feet, exposure, aided by the worry about A large assortment! of men's and my customers will always find good liquors awl nore or less English. neighborhood someihing like an possessing 300 flues. Its cylinder is the folks at home, laid the old man boys' boots and shoes, and ladies' and cigars, and erery forenoon a splendid lunch. Now, as we got the gale dead from earthquake had occurred. Indeed, 19x24 inches, and with driving-wheels on his back for several weeks, and children's shoes constantly kept en fhe north, and as the send of the sea one did occur, and a new island was 80 inches in diameter is expected to band. Custom work and repaiiing All goodspnrchased of me will bo delirered tt he probably had a close call from born in the Galapagos group. The ms southward for several days. Capt. haul 10 cars over an ordinary road any part of the city free of cost. promptly attended to. slipping his cables. He got up ship rocked violently in mid-ocean, Qieaton could not possibly have at the rate of 80 miles an hour. Minnesota Street Wew Ulm, Mla« slowly, and ns he had been wasteful and a sort of tidal wave came near sen floated toward the Galapagos. All the wheels are of paper, with with his materials, he found that he being her destruction. Next day the i& mu&t have been driven down to-ard steel tires. A new feature introduced TH E CHI must turn to a raft if he ever got AND whaler encountered many green trees the equator, or possibly to£rd into the construction is the steam away. He worked at it odd hours, floating about, and he said to Capt. the Marquesas group, although pump, which so works that a great M. EPPLE, Prop'r. being ill and despondent, for several Wheaton that he had no doubt some reach any oi those islands he part of the exhausted steam is pumped NEW ULM.MIMft months, and when it was finished he MINNESOTA ST. island had been overwhelmed. He uld have had to drive for hun-^frf back and serves to heat the hesitated a full month before making had no suspicion of our errand, and mfles, and for days and JW»?w water in the tank before it goes into a start, hoping every day to sight a related the above simply as an adventure. How was a man swept over- the boiler(thereby saving a great N ?30r,lSne,5I4OT!«s in'orm the peopled sail. He had a signal flying by day, However, from that hour Ne Ulm and •iciiuty that he iias re-estabUe£ ouJ in a gale to sustain himself deal of fuel. and almost every night he kept a meat market ana Is now pre*parea io wsL we lost all heart. Figure as we oove a few hours, even if not ^.?rt«HdCU5t0me! *an Another economy in felu is the »i0 only 3 fire going, but rescue never came. would, we could not shake off the 1 «aufi*«««, RAILWAY. & lard and '^wned at once? Ask yourself these work of a large combustion chamber fcfiw?* 8 a 7 *°Pl a *rRt-class market TW conviction that it was the unknown ^e&tions, and you will answer them One day, two weeks before he set in connection with the fire-box,which Penetrates the Centres of Papulation island which had been destroyed in all others have done, and you out on his voyage, the Captain made burns up all the smoke and gas instead in the same manner it was born. '11 be as greatly mystified over'the a great discovery. In a rough, wild of lettingitescape bythestack. ILLINOIS, IOWA, fcain's story. place in the center of the island, The boiler, instead of being built with After a long and tedious run from TTTOLI WISCONSIN, nthe 4th day of September, 1860, where a mass of rock was thrown up stay-bolt, is heavily corrugated on the Sandwich Islands we finally drew 2 MICHIGAN, the English whaling ship Lady in great confusion, he found a lump the inside. near the location. Then for days tcombe was nearing' the equator, of gold as big as your fist. Aye! more The first thing observable is the and days we sailed to and fro, and MINNESOTA, r,AND ig about midway between the than that, he found masses of it so singular position of the engineer's at length realized that the island DAKOTA, BREWER •qnesas group and the time being heavy that he could not lift them. cab, which is perched up on top of the had gone. I twas not there to enrich •iS NEBRASKA and: o'clock at night, she was hailed These chunks, he said, were as pure boiler about the center, and is occupied us and to prove the captain's v. A out of the darkness, and five as his big nugget, and that I not by the engineer alone, as WYOMING. story true but still we found proofs. ainutes later had Capt. Wheaton only held in my hand, but saw the another cab built behind the boiler is We discovered more than 100 trees JOS. SCHMUCKER, Psop. board. He had then been afloat certificate of assay reading that it provided for the fireman. In each floating about as we saided this way Its THAIN SERVICE iscnrefally JpWULM, MINNESOTA was 91 per cent, pure gold. He sold is a perfect system of gauges to keep jr three days and a half on and tfcat, and after we had given up arranged to meet requirements oi it at the mint in San Francisco for track of the steam power. small but well-constructed all hope we made a still greater ,Ture beer sold in quantities to suit th« local travel, as well us to tarnish over $12,000, and that in my presence. ft, which was provided with a sail purchaaer. Special attention paid to th»*J find. The boat which Weaton The engine alone- will weigh 55 tons, the most attractive Monies fot In the course of three or four bottling oi beer, had carried him safely and buoyan had built and lost turned and with the tender, which is built to through travel between important days the Captain piled up such a estimated distance of 120 up on that vast expanse of ride like a passenger coach, will weigh TRADE CENTRES. heap of gold on his island that he HE W EM s. The Captain was in good sea. I was sighted from the masthead 85 tons. The engineer who was selected dared not estimate its value. There h. and spirits, but would answer one morning, and two hours to sit up in the new cab and 1TT Its EQUIPMENT oi Hay and was enough to make a dozen men ^nestions until he had seen the later we had it alongside. I twas run this new contrivance is G. S. McKee, CITY,p PLAMNG MILL JPariar Cars, Dining ami Palace rich for life, and more to be had with lin of the Bascombe. The sailors water-logged, but floating well of Chicago. He is in Boston at Sleeping Cars is without rival. picks and iron bars. Then the demon that he must have been enough for all that, and its finding present, and is being made perfectly Its KOAI~BEI i&perfection, oi of avarice would not let him ked, but that he should be alone was the strongest link in the whole accquainted with all its mechanism. S^&Sl* MANUFACTURES £&L 3§ stone-ballasted Steel. wait any longer for rescue. Indeed uch seeming good health in that chain. We hoisted her on board and He expresses delight over the machine The NORTHWESTERN is tha he did not want to be rescued. He fty spot was a great mystery to brought her to San Francisco to exhibit and is most anxious to have DOORS, WINDOW SASBff* favorite route for the Commercial made his craft ready, cut branches fei. Capt. Moore, of the Bascombe. to the silent stockholders in her in service. I has been named Traveler, the Tourist and the Seekers and pulled grass to hide his nuggets VENETIAN BLINDS* heard of the loss ofthe Starlight, our enterprise, and that relic was the A. G, Darwin, after the president after New Homes in $he Golden and set sail with a fair wind to "•hen Capt. Wheaton introduced the only thing we could show them. of the company designing it, and wiD Northwest. ^J*^1f? \^%f the northeast, hoping to get into the MOULDINGS AND FRAMES. The story has been told and retold leave for Chicago next week. *f he created a big. sensation. track oi ships bound for the Sandwich Detailed iniofmatioa' cheerfully among sailors in various ways, and at first taken for an imposter, Planing, turning and all Islands. He was picked up as I furnished by «& --^fig portions of it has been published,but had letters and documents in vTFirst deacon—You'v# got that C. W.ELHEIDEIIAN, Af&lt!" have told you, but he found a tough I have here given it entire and correctly work with rib-saw promptly *kets to prove his identity at horse yet, I see. Second deaconWhy t? nut in the English Captain. He had for the first time. i*§ ^a-Ehat being settled, he told shouldn't I have him? D.— and neatly executed. 1 to believe that Capt. Wheaton had ory. I have heard him tell it You are always selling or trading Officers in the survey service of J. M. WHITMAN, f|| left some island not far away, for II, C. WICKER, tl or five times over,andean relate both England and America have your horses, you know. S. D. you .. there was the man and there was the %v.{?1W 0 fiu*^nt««d. General Manager, Traffic Manajr Rates reawaJT liyiost word "for word. denied that any such Island existed, ueiue im» uu suu xcsma exiBWiu There isn't anything the matter with raft. He couldn't have madehim- •*$*. jUapt. Wheaton was swept even for a month: but I ask the read- this one.—Cartoon, C. 2EUER, Pwp'i^ :E.1\ WILSON, Gen'l Passenger Agent*/ 5