The Winchester 1890 has a feeding problem and I found that its the magazine spring causing it. Numrich has them for $5.75 so I've added it to my cart for the nest time I place an order. It would be interesting though to see if I could anneal the orgainl spring expand it and them re-temper to being it back to life.
I found out that the rifle is the Thrid version of this modle and was manufactured sometime in 1910, that make it 110 years old.