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About Bedrock democrat. (Baker City, Baker County, Or.) 1870-188? | View Entire Issue (May 28, 1873)
„ rom i l .iie b . ^ A Iss , íng caí^ps is, as » g en era ■ l f t the other r more flattering than it has bee be a. inderatad the commencement of the m nA ng'^urgejr® M A Y a « , 1873. of females ver season, for a number of years. We —then, fen the sai theory, a woman ¡D R O C K D E M O C R A T havo talked with miners from al should be entitled have two or rffest C irc u la tio n o f a n y most all the surrounding camps, not, then a large three husbands, '« b l l i h f d In Ka»ti*rn O reg o n . during the past week, and they all number of forlor: masculines would tell us that the prospect for a long be debarred the pleasures of matri j î ’ I C I A L , P A P E R O F and profitable working season is mony, and their condition would be good. as painful and distressing as that of The Counties of S hasta D istrict . the anxious spinsters of. Massachu e r and G ra n t. The big ditch, or rather canal, setts who, bewailing their life of en which rnns through this district, forced celibacy, now advocate the xdesce from all portions of known as the Malhenr and Burnt adoption of polygamy, in the hope m Oregon is solicited for the D emocrat . * communications, to receive attention, River Ditch is now furnishing from of bettering their condition. But, ust be accompanied by a responsible name. four hundred to five hundred inches seriously, tho condition of these wo Personal communications will be charged of water, which is sold to the men is pitiful; and thoir willingness special advertisements. miners at Malheur City, Eldorado to accept even polygamy as a relief, and vicinity, and enables them to evidences the cheerless and hopeless - A I M S A A D A M M I M T I O .V work a great many of thoir claims to life they are living in their native Through the politenoss of Judge L. advantage. Some o f the miners in State. If some of those humbug re ^ O. Sterns of our city, we are enabled Shasta District have made clean-ups ligious societies that annually col < t o toy the following letter before our —and the pay received for their la lect thousands and tens of thousands bor was full up to, if not over the ex. Beoders. of dollars for the purpose of sending pectations of the claim owners. The / O fe ic r A d ju t a n t G e n e r a l , ) bibles and clothes to the heathen of Portland, Ogn., M aj 20, 1873. j indications are that Eldorado and the Fi Ji and South Sea Islands, Joa. L. O. S tern s a n d O t h e r s , Ba Malheur City will be lively camps should direct their efforts toward ker C itj Oregon— G e n t l e m e n :— this season and that a large amount bettering the condition of the unfor The petition from your county di- of gold will be taken out there this tunate females in their midst, they ted to the Governor, asking arms season, and will pay the “ honest would then be engaged in a commen I ammunition for protection in miners” for the time they have spent dable work, and be casting their bread ^ase of an emergency, has been sent in watching and opening their upon the proper waters. Millionaire to me to answer. The Governor has claims. We hope their fondest an philanthropists of the East, by or directed me to send you muzzle load ticipations may bo realized and that ganizing a woman’s aid immigration ing Springfield rifles and ammunition Shasta District will prove itself to society, through which the surplus oat of those on hand, and I will do bo the friend of the miner. female population of the Eastern •o sometime this week. I have de M ormon B asin . States could find comfortable homes, layed this matter a few days in hopes The prospects in this camp are and husbands, in the Western States I could procure from the Ordinance very favorable for a lively mining and Territories, would be engaged Department 60 or 80 breech loading season. The snow on the surround in a wholesale work of charity that riflea and catridges; if I cannot get ing mountains will give a good sup would redound to their everlasting then I will send the ones ordored by ply of water to work the rich claims the Governor. I will do all in my that are known to be good, and we credit, and to the benefit of the power to procure the breech loaders. may expect good reports from this country. Those received by the State have all camp this season. OUR MORMON BASIN LETTER . been distributed by order of the R ye V alley . M ormon B asin , May 25th, 1873. Governor. I will write you again as From this camp we have favorable E ditor D emocrat :—A few brief aoon as I learn what Gen’l Granger information. The miners both in extracts from our daily journal may «rill do. quartz and plaoer diggings antici not be uninteresting to your readers: Very Respectfully, pate a good time this season. The Sunday, 18th—The storm king Your Ob’t Servant, placer diggings especially it is visited us this morning, bringing A. P. DENNISON, thought, will yield good pay to those with him a snow storm which lasted - A d j’t Gen’l Oregon. engaged in working them. long enough to obscure “ God’s We have no doubt but that the H ogem . green earth” with a mantle of snow, Governor and Gon. Dennison will The bullion we mentioned last do all within their power to remedy week as being the result of ten days giving the country, as far as the eye the mistake that was mado in the run of the Packwood & Stewart Mill, can reach, a wintry and chilly as first distribution o f arms, in which and com ing out of 163 tons of rock, pect. Monday, 19th.—Snow flakes were Baker county was overlooked. If amounted to four thousand five or seen falling at brief intervals during there were any localities in Oregon Bix hundred dollars, or at the rate of where good and reliable arms and $29. to the ton. This is good for the day. Heavy winds prevailing i ammunition should have been sent, the Summit Ledge as it is easily from the north. Tuesday 20th.—Alternate snow * our citizens claim that Baker county worked and the cost o f getting the ; is on« of these places; and they also rock to the mill is but trifling, and and sunshine. Strong winds from the west. , think that breech loaders might be leaves a good margin as profits. Wednesday, 21st.—Severe snow ► of more service here, under certain A STAR TLING PROPO SITION . squalls, wind, north, and cold. Mer . ciroumstances, than they possibly cury protracted from the wind 33|de- ( can be in the city of .Portland —if we The preponderance o f the fair sex »are compelled to use clubs, a plenti in Massachusetts has of late years grees. On the south side of City i ful supply can be obtained from our been gradually increasing, while the Gulch where the severity of the »forests. We are informed that the women, themselves, are becoming wind was felt, icicles two feet long rmnzzlo loaders referred to in the alarmed. The idea of enforced ce and two inches in diameter were . above letter have been condemned, libacy is so repugnant to their feel formed during the previous Dight. Thursday, 22d.—At an early hour -and that the ammunition has been ings that! they are casting about in this morning the sky with clouds < on hand tenor twelve years, and was hope o f .discovering some remedy was overcast, and snow began to fall. considered damaged when it was for the evil, and, as a last For some time it was difficult to dis procured. We hope this is not the resort, conclude that polygamy,— cern a horse two hundred yards.— «ease. while it may be a curse elsewhere, Since the above was in type we would prove a blessing to the forlorn The wind came furiously from the north-west. The severity of the •have.been handed the following let spinsters of the o ld Bay State. ter, ^rhieli fully explains itself: The female operatives in the Low weather causedA cessation of labor O ffice A djutant G eneral , ell factories have taken the initiatory among the miners. Onr waggish Portland, Oregon, May 22d, 1873. steps to bring this matter before the disciple of Yulcan when asked what T o G ountt J udge , Baker County: Massachusetts Legislature at its he thought of the weather, replied, S ir —I have shipped to you this next session, and petitions are being “ Its severity satisfies me beyond the .day, b y order o f the Governor, three circulated and extensively signed by shadow o f a doubt that this locality oases containing sixty rifles, with *hem, praying for the passage of an was the one referred to by Dr. Watt such accouterments as I had on hand act permitting plural marriages.— when he said ‘December’s as pleas iklso, seven cases ammunition, con They state that the law which now ant as May.’ ” Such a cold back taining seven thousand cartridges, in governs society, practically, enjoins ward spring, even at this altitude, All ten packages. I regret I could on all women to marry, but that the which is probably 4000 feet above not procure breech loading rifles for census shows it is impossible for the sea, has never been experienced y ou , I done the best I could and you them to do so, on account of the ex here by the “ oldest inhabitant.” I ndians . must take the will for the deed cess of women in that State; and The “ friendly” Indians in squads The Governor requests me to say that many of the men are “ idle, vi that your county will have to pay cious, incompetent, and otherwise o f four and five have visited our transportation on these arms, &c., unfit to be the heads of households.” camp the past two days, bartering and wait for re-embursement by ap They argue that the restricting of a dee.rskins for Uncle Sam’s half dol propriation by the next Legislature husband to one wife is only a matter lars and store i c k t a s . They made Some of these rifles are rusty, but of prejudice and custom, regardless particular inquiries for powder with can be easily put in good order, they of justice, and is unauthorized by generous offers for the same, but are a good arm, and I trust will prove the great Book which lies at the were refused. Our merchants have of service to the settlers in your foundation of all law. That nowhere the organ of acquisitiveness as largely county. Please acknowledge receipt in the Bible can there be found an developed as is generally found among that class of business men, of these packages, Ac. injunction against a plurality of and the contemplation of the Dutch Very respectfully, wives, while many examples are man’s “ one per cent probably crea Your ob’t servant, found therein recorded in support of tes as pleasurable emotions in their A. P. DENNISON, such doctrine. They desire that a breasts as anythin g this side of the A dj’t (?en’l, State of Oregon. law should be so framed as to permit Our citizens have no inclination to the marriage of a man to more than gate of St. Peter, hut this selling return thanks for these guns, and if one wife, in cases where the first powder to the Lo fam ily with the it unfortunately should become ne wife makes no objection, and where prospect of loosing the.ir scalps in cessary for them to protect their fire it is evident that the man is able to side of three months is anything but sides, they prefer to use the arms support such additional burden.— pleasant to contemplate, besides they with which nature has supplied them They believe that the practical ef are “ law abiding citizens/’ and which they know are reliable. There is no use of creating unnec fect of the passage of such a law will essary alarm about this Indian matter, be to do away with much of the so The Mountaineer of the 17th says: as “ eternal vigilance is the price of Mr. William Monroe, a member of cial evil that now afflicts and distres the last State Senate from this coun ses all communities, and announce liberty” it would be well for those ty, died at his residence near Bridge that they are perfectly willing to be having fire arms to put them in order , Creek Postoffice on Sunday last. Mr the first to engage in the great work and keep them so, in case the Indi Monroe was a clever old gentleman, ans “ mean business.” ud his many friends will be sorry of reform. Yours, &c., ’earn of his death. The Idaho W orld says; “ This is OCCASIONAL. ___ , ,| \ L n ) i i i % err- ,ble, the day unuBTally pleasant, I tempted to write a short note to tB D emocrat . ^ The nnnsnal amount of snow last winter and the spring rains of this season have produced a bountiful supply of grass; better than we have been blessed with for several years, and in consequence Grande Ronde stock are in fine condition. The ep izootic has about disappeared among the horses, and has been giving some of our citizens a call. The most of them seem to like it because it maks es them feel lazy and good. Any thing to secure rest suits an Orego nian. Union has the epizootic so bad that it will not get over it until the Indian war is over. I don’t mean to say they are cowardly or afraid to fight, far from it, for one of them went to La Grande on last Wed nesday and gave a receipt for one of the guns forwarded by the Governor for the citizens of this County, and there was only about thirty went from the Cove for the same purpose. Now who dare say Union won’t fight? The reason they do not go to drill with Capt. Smith’s Company, or attend his meetings, is because they have the epizootic, and there is no law that compels a man to fight when he is sick. Of the guns that arrived at La Grande on Wednesday —there was one hundred needle guns, and sixty Springfield muzzle loading rifles. They should be di vided among our most deserving cit izens about as follows: First our Co. Judge might retain one, then let Wallowa havo 30, Cove—40, L a- (rrande—30, Summerville and Iowa —35, Indian Yalley—8, Eagle Cr eek —15, Union—1. Union would be perfectly willing to turn out enmasse but they think it is not best for all to leave home at once, and besides, they are looking for the County Seat to be removed to this place and they all want to bo here when it comes. We are in need of a geologist, for we have found petrified oak in Ante lope Yalley, nine miles south of Un ion. The pores and each years growth o f tho wood are very distinct —and the pieces found indicate that the trees were very large. W hen ever our boys see a bear, they just “ go for him,” and have succeeded in bringing in two pelts this spring. If we may judge by the number of scholars passing to and from school each day, we would say that the sub scription school, being taught by Wm. Cates, is well patronized. Yours, &o., JO. GNOMON. A n d the]^M|ze]|s BAKER SaUNTY relieved from paying tribute to San Francisco and Port -ALSO— W H O L E S A L E EXCHANGE ! GREENBACKS. AND 0 See— First door north Odd Fellow ’s H all. in49v2tf] RETAIL HEW ADVERTISEMENTS. OUR SOLE AGENT FOR I N Baker B A K E R CITY* W. W ho takes pleasure * in in- form ing all those interested that he has a C ounty, Oregon, is THOM AS W . PORTER O f Eldorado, Baker County, Oregon, Vho always has on hand an assortment o f by 1 WILDE, D r . J . B a ll Ivory and Lignum Vitae H Y E - C U ^ . .T P S , And Myopic Attachments. rall immediately, and have your Eye Sight Restored, waste no more;Money by adjust- ng huge glasses on your nose, and disfigur ing your face. On receipt o f $6,50 I will send one pair o f Lignum Vitae Eye Cups to any address in Baker County, and for $12,501 will send one pair of Ivory Eye Cups to any address in. Baker County. Address, THOMAS W . POETER, n&'lO Eldorado, Oregon. S T O C K Manufacture the Celebrated o f the J u b ile e * B E S T W H I S K Y , (from $ 2 to $ 9 per Gallon;) T e m p le O R G A N S , B R A N D S 0 F and These Organs are unsurpassed in quality of tone, style o f finish, simplicity o f construc tion, and durability. Also, MELODEONS in various styles, and; unequaled in tone. Send for Illustrated Catalogue. Address NEW HAVEN Oil GAN CO., New Haven, Conn. Agents Wanted. n3nl6 tm " 'y M f D m " a a t. ® r s N E W SEW ING MACHINE B R A N D Y , “ V I C T O (from $ 2 to $ 1 2 per Gallon;) GIN, RUM, and • e fie s T r in e A Y i n e s ! C o m p e titio n . “ 1 U K '"Y I C T O W 'S . M . C O . r * ItilG 862 Broadway, N. ST|E MfOHS t STONE CtITTI N T E D constantly on hand, and l\ fc K It S IG N E D L A R G E I N V O I C E S 55 G^at Im p le m e n ts in Needls. Cannot be Set Wrong AgentaWanted. Address 4 ft» H e also keeps a Cdftmon ar ticle, so as to suit the Trade, R u.s very Easy, Buns very Fast, Huns very Still, a Now Shuttle superior to all others. W IL L P lY T ie B e * if Wages for 10 o r vz Mono Masons. W fr; will last about throe mopths. & LOWER PRICES WHOLESALE, C I G A R S, & which he will sell at LIVING RATES. KOBERTS NELS Ba&r City!April 2 8 ,1873.n51tf Y U P ! ! A L i pek I jns indebted to a . h . Blown apj respectfully requested to come Ipi-wai'l and fsettle their accounts, either »• Casa Dr note, immediately. [lY * Iworclto the wise is sufficient. BakeilCity, la rch 2C, 1373. n46tf Imarovi Yoikr Poultry!! It costs fto ibre tolkeep good Fowls tlan pool ones. f f l a i P o m laris, Cor. 16tli & C’lstro Sts., Oakland,Cal. S e a s d> 33 . O f 1 0 * 7 3 . f o b h a t c h O n « f r o m t h e largest i ancilBest Bred Fowls in the World, carefully Lacked in' Patent Boxes and guaranteed ao caJry safely any distance. J The variety ernprises Dark and bight Brahmas, Buff, flack, White and 1 atrldgo Cochins, Witte leghorns, Houdans, Oliver md Golden fpaigled Hamburg», Gflthnd Silver Spang*d relish, Black Spanish, fr e - ■ecoeurs. H o ik aid Aylesbury Pucks, Turkeys, amlSewight and Game, 1*“ ‘HP®- Send stam jlbr Illustrated Circular■ to Weo. 3. Bay ley, irmorter and breeder , ° p !T 0 Poultry, P. OjBox G59, San Eraaa*»» «* 0 , tgent for the Rcultrv World,a monthly illus trated journall devoted entirely » ‘J “ ? tells how to keel Fowls for profit; » ? repository of if formation on the • Subscription ( fly $1 25 a year- A wanted in everynown in the State. - P. O. Box 659, Sun Francisco. ,ttaWthis [T y * Please »tale in whatpaper advertisement — ggs E ’ 1 J U S T P U B L IS H E D ! S tra u ss’ Rem em ber the place, the V ffiD U H & BREWERY SALOON, W a ltz e s AT.W g ED as A sk jO r ; S M # . P e te rs’ E d itio n - ! Paper Copy sent, Jpost paid, for Sid > Boards,J$2. Address, J. L. PETEBS, 599 Broadway, >'. Y. Baker City, O regon. S A N G E R-FEST: (The Singing Festival^ A ll orders carefully filled, a ^ collection o il oiees, C h o r u s « , etc., ior M a le N. B . - H e has Liquors suit- • able for Medicinal Purposes. V o i c f f - ^ 50 : e Copie» mailed, post-PaKl' $15 par lo i n . Addre°'’ per ( doztn. J. L. PETEES,1599 : F a ir v Give m e a Call. r . y (V o ic e s ^ A N e w M u s ic BOOR W » ^ p lo ■ Send 60 cen ts, and we wm, Bellingham Bay stone will be used in constructing the Washington Ter ritory Penitentiary. copy April 1st. A^pUEBS, W . W IL D E . n51nl0 Baker City, April 16, 1873.n49ml 599 Ì5ró^y’ \ . . ‘V NEW PATENT IMPROVED T iH E to arrive M onthly , which he R eturned .—Mr. William Harper, who left Baker County last fall, for offers àt the Puget Sound country, in W . T. with the intention of settling perma nently there, returned to our City on last Monday morning. He in f* V ‘ forms us that he comes back to Ba A T ker County satisfied to remain here; that he would not give this County for the whole Sound country; that everything is dead there and at a stand still. In all his travels he has not seen as lively locality as Baker than Small Dialers can lay City and County. Farms on the Sound, which are rated very high, them down for at this point. as a general thing, are no better than can now be taken up in almost any a l s o * locality in Baker County, as well as in other portions of Eastern Oregon. A full assortment o f Several other parties who have been away from Baker in various direct ions, come back better pleased with our town and county than they were when they left. This speaks well IP I A f JUKI © C A E I S , for the present as well as the future prospects of our City and County. and E veryth in g in H is Line, A n O ld E stablished F irm .— The firm of S. M. Pettengill Co. commenced their Ad vertising Agency in the old Journal building, No 10, State Street, Boston, nearly a quarter o f a century ago (February, 1840), where their Agency is still located, carrying on a large and successful business. They estab lished a branch i^ New York City, May, 1872, which has grown to be larger than the parent house,—increasing steadily, year by year, until now it has the agency o f nearly every newspaper in the United States and British Provinces, and does a yearly business o f hundreds o f thousands o f dollars. S. M. Pettengill Co. have recently opened anoth er branch office at 701 Chestnut street, Phil adelphia, where they are doing a successful increasing business. They have done ad vertising exceeding ten millions o f dollars since commencing business. This firm is favorably known not only throughout this country, but in all parts o f the world. They have established a reputation for honorable and fair dealing which any firm might envy, and but few have attained to. We congratu late them upon their success. We would recom m end all who want adeertising done in any part o f the country to call upon them. The can point to hundreds o f business men who have’fo i’ owed their advice, and trusted to their sagacit". and availed themselves o f their facilities, win? have made fortunes for themselves, and they ai'O assisting others in the same path.—Boston Journal, May 8th. GOLD AND SILVER BARS, land b y the establishment o f a y -I H / vK ik I L . - Y’