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About Grant County news. (Canyon City, Or.) 1879-1908 | View Entire Issue (May 8, 1880)
or Tie Brant County Kews, Saturday Morning, May. 8, 1880. The Grant County News is regis tered at the Post-Office at Can yon City as second class mail matter; according to law. CANYON CITY LODGE, NO. 84, A. F. and A. M., holdB its regular Communications on the Saturday even ing of or next preceeding the full moon in each month, at seven and half o'clock P. M. f OB All LODGE, No. 22. IOO. fl F, meet- every Thursday evening at their Lodge Room in Canyon City. Visiting brothers are invited to at'end. By Order of N. G. MOUNTAIN VIEW LODGE, No. 33. 1. 0. 0. P., Prairie City, Ore gun, meets every Saturday Evening. Members of the order are' invited to! attend. By order of the N. G. ! . JLi JLi TOHN DAY LODGE No. 80, 1. 0. G. j fj I., meet? every baturday evening at their Lodjre Room in Canyon Ciy, Oj:n. Visiting members are invited to attend. By older of the Lodge. E. S. McComas, for severul years j editor and senior proprietor of the . Mountain Sentinel, of Union, has sold his interest in said paper to his brother ' 'Billy.. " We are sorry to lose Mr. Mac. from our circle but perhaps he has a richer and more deserving reward in store, at -least we hope so. "Billy" is a practical printer and an industrious,enterpri3 ing young man and no doubt will do well with the Sentinel. That paper has done much for Union and the people should support it well. We have received a political com munication for publication, but as the coin was left out, we will have to wait till it arrives, then the mat ter will be set up. Your name will be sacred and no one shall see your article. We must stick to our rule. We desire all to remomber that the coin must come or communications will not be printed. "The waters came and beat upon the houses and they vanished." However, it was only two China dwellings on lower street, and it was amusing to see the Celestials workicg in the surging creek to save a few loose boards, but the house went plunging down the creek in spite of their efforts to save them. The Gazette, at La Grande, has suspended and Mr. Wilson will im mediately start the new paper, call ed the Eastern Oregon Republican. This will be the second Republican paper started in the "Bunch Grass Region" this Spring, and the only two in Eastern Oregon. Quite a number of Prairie city ' people were in this place last Satur day. Among them we noticed Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Cleaver, sir. and Mrs. Flageollette, Miss Smith, Miss Set tlemier, N. W. Thornton, J. W. Mack, Mr. and Mrs. Isham Laurance, and others whom we disremember at present. The San Francisco Chronicle and its History from 18G5 to 1879, is the name of a book just received by us irom the energetic proprietors of 'that paper. It is prized very much by us as we prize everything else that shows energy. We are sorry to hear that Mr. J. B. Eddington, near ML Vernon, had the misfortune to lose his house and contents by fire, a few days since A subscription was immedi ately taken up and many dollars paid towards repairing the damage. .. Mb. Phillip Keller, an old resi dent here, was eating supper at the city Hotel on last Sunday evening, And from some cause, after a few struggles, dropped dead, in his '-cn&ir. . M. C. George, Republican candi date for congress, will orate in Prai se: city at 7 o'clock, p. m., on May tSftt, and in this city t 1 o'olook, il ,m. on June 1st. up This Standard and Willamette ( Farmer offices were destroyed by fire a few days ago. The Standard, through the kindness of the other dailies, was able to issue as usual and its subscribers will receive their paper regular. Mr. John Devine made us a pleas ant call last Thursday. He says that the Harney people have just passed through a hard, severe win ter, but the loss of stock will not be as great as was expected. A fine baby carriage for sale cheap. Inquire of Mrs. Jas. Cleaver, Prai rie city, or at this office. It cost $40; will sell for $20. Mountain View Lodge, I. O. 0. F., of Prairie city, sends the following delegates to the Grand Lodge: John Laurance and Jules Le Brette. D. G. Overholt is having a neat pailing fence put up in front of his residence; and under the workman ship of W. A. Jacobs and Sam Sired it is going to look "nifty." A petition for a new road from here to Harney Valley, was present ed to the county court this week. No section needs a good road more and the people there certainly pay enough taxes to have a good road. nr. Sam. Sired informs us that he will start, on next Monday, for Port land to attend the session of the Grand Lodge. Sam deserves to have a pleasant trip. The State Fair, to be held in Ju ly next, promises to be a grand af fair. An excursion party will come from New York and Chicago to at tend, so says Mr. Waite. 4 i - - The Grand Jury rooms are under way and will be ready for occupancy by next term of court. Died. Near this city, Tuesday last, infant baby of Mr. and Mrs. M. Dustin. "If printing paper continues to ad-v-incc," observes an exchange, "news papers will bo forced to use common white s'ltin with a plain yold border inhfcead." List nf lettfis remaining in the post nffie, at C nyuri City, and not culled for, May 1st, 1880: M. Ai.drew, H. I) A'bc, B. Hartinshaw, K. IJ. 01 .rk, 2, Henry Pea", S. D. Foster, Wjod Oilman, L. A. H'lrknes, Geo. Hulli-ry, J. V. Merucy, V. Rhile, J. N. Townsley, 2. Dyspephia is coused a great many times. By eating warm brad and hot 'fritter." And nothing so good to give you re lief As Dr. Melt's Dandelion Bitters AM persona residing on unsurveyed lands in this ounty who desire the survey of township in Mrhich they ro -side, will please call at the office of M L. Olmsted and arrange for that pur pose. Theie are mnny settlers in Grant County who are living upon and im proving claims outside of the survey; these claims are held only by light of possession, and no ti'le can be acquired until a regular Government survey is made. Again the stringent rulings ofthe Interior Department in relation to timbEr mny, st no distant time, caue great inconv nienco to settlers. An opportunity is now aff rded for obta:n ing a survey of lands along the slopes of the John D.iy valley, offer which I homestead and pre-emption claims can be initiated and timber lands purchas ed and Fecured. Mr Olmsted has ar ranged for having a survey made this Suuimtr urdei the deposit surrey act, and without any exppnss to the ifettkr. All ioterested persons should see to their interests at ones. Judge F. 3. Sels returned home from Portland yesterday. PRSOXAL. The following persons have either subscribed or renewed their subscrip tion to The News since last issue : N.S. Babcock, R. Damon, T. W. Poindexter, 2, J. A. Gordon, J. H. Hamilton, E. W. Webs'tr. Wshave just received the pros pectus of the Silverton Appeal, a weekly newspaper to be published at Silverton, Ogn., by H. G. Guild. We wish Bro. Guild success. HARNEY ITEMS. Fobt Habnet, May 4th, 1880. Editor News: It may interest some of your readers to hear that Sarah Winnemucca is here. She is on her way to Yakima for the pur pose of bringing "her people" who were taken to that place as prisoners of war back to the Malheur Reserva tion. Sarah says that people had better be careful how they talk about her in the future. The editor of the Silver State she says was shooting off his mouth about her when she was in Winnemucca, but when she went after him with a black snake whip, and demanded satisfaction in stead of giving her any, he crawled into a gopher hole and forted up. Everybody is out flour in this part of the country, and as the roads be tween here and John Day Valley are impassable for teams or pack ani mals it has to be brought from Ft. McDermit, a distance of 160 miles. Landingville is overrun with Port land drummers, all anxious to take an order at prices so low that they would hardly realize first cost, but then they wanted to introduce their goods to country customers of good standing and the merchants of Land- ingsville were the men of all others. " Taffy is cheap in these parts but it takes money to buy whiskey." Eve, this ranch is finally deserted; it is proposed to make it the scene of amusements and festivities the like of which were never witnessed in this part of the country before. The day set for the big which is at tracting so much attention and of wuich brief mention was make some time ago, is the 5th day of June. As a trial of speed and breeding this race will be the most important that ever came oft in this county. In company with a well known turfman your correspondent, to-day, visited the stables of the different owners who have their horses now in train ing at the Post and it reminded him very much of what he had seen on race courses of far greater pretentions First we visited the stables of Mr. N. Oliver. Mr. Oliver has two hor ses in training but his colt 'Pill Box' Jr. . which is entered for the main race, I tell you is a beauty. The colt is by Pill Box, a celebrated California horse out of an Imp. dam. and no doubt in the coming race will do his owner justice. Afier being hospitatty enter tained by Mr. Oliver and hh trainer, we next wended our way to Mr. John Deviue's sta ble. Mr. Devine has but one horse in truing. "Stormy," a son of the renowned Nor fork, and, I am told, he pounds the ground like a thunder-bolt. (Ji one thing I am assured, if there i anything in close at tention and good training, young Dana, who has Stormy in charge, will draw it out of him. By this time, feeling quite "horsey," 'we sauntered to the stables of Mr. James Shepherd, and now you bl your life, Mr. Editor, we met a true horseman Mr, Shep herd has two horses hi training. One is a bright bay with a white face, named ,,Fairplay," which, in my humble judge ment, bids fair to be the com ing horse of Grant County. Jhe Other is a bright SOrrel galding. brought from Eureka, Nev, named 'Pop-corn." This horse won for himself quite a reputation at Caison, Nev., as veil aa a comf -rtable buckskin purse fur his owner on last 4th of July. Although ire anticipate a good" and lively time on the 5th of June, though, unfortunately, it comes two days be fore election. We shall have several raeeg besides the one already nitntiontd aod, of eosrffswewill wis lota of mooty ! T. Republican Ticket. For Congress, M. 0. GE0KG& For Supreme Judges, J. B. WALDO, W. B. LORD, E. B. WATSON. For State Printer, For Judge of the 5th Judicial District, M. L. OLMSTEAD. Prosecuting Atty. tor 5th Jad'L Diet, ROBERT EAKI.V. County Ticket. For State Senator, J. MAGONE. For Representative, J. J. WORCESTER. For Sheriff, FRED. WINEGAR, lor County Cleric, N. RTJLISON. For Treasurer, N. H. BiLEY. For Assessor, JOHN LUCE. F'r Supt. Public Ins'ruction, GEO. RIG DON. For County Commiaioners, R. DAMON, A.L. THOMPSON. For Surveyor, W. H. KELLEY. For Coroner, DR. O. M. DODSON. NEW TO-DAY. The Arnat-ur Dram.itic Club, of Can yon City, will give an rntertainuien at Masonic Hall, Canyon City, on Friday eveuiu Maj 14th, 1880. Duora open at 7 J o'clock, K M.; Performance com mences at 8 o'clock sharp. Admission 50 cants. Children un der 12 years free. By Order of Club. TREASURER'S NOTICE. Office of County Treasurer, ) Canyon City, May 5?h, 1880. j Notice is hereby jjiven that there are funds on hand r.p'dicable to the pay inent of the following County War- rai.ti: Ch.s 4. Ni.'s. 606022633634 635671687721 722723724764. Interest oo the aboTe Warrants wilj cease fiom this date. T. W. POINDEXTER, TiO'isun-r, Grant Co., Ogn. A Horrible Deed. On the morn ing of the 20th itrst. the newa enme to to An that a horrible murder had Deen commitfel o'j rho reservation, near the h ad of Cotronw. od Creek, about 12 rndes fr-m Pen Hetou. William Li fhiw and hi vrif, two half-breeds, were fru.id in their tsot, dead, and horribly mutilati-d. The woman was found lying n her back, with her head towards the door cn the right side of the t nt, wifh four deep cuts in htr had, any one of which would have proved fatal. 3 he man was l)ing on the bed, on the floor, with three erri IU cuts in th face, oue of which cut square across th nose and eye, serrr in hiii he id. Tl y j resented a btr riblt appearance; b ud all over tl.e floor, the brains of euch exp isri, aad altogathet, it was a mout flickn'nr ppectacle. The weapon with which tbe deed was perpetrated was an axe and was found outsido the tent, sticking in the fei.ee and or e side covered with b d. The woman had t nursing bottle in her hand and her babe wat found outside the tent, crawling around and almost fami.-lied; it is not expected to live, haying gne for two nights with nothing to ea:. The man, when fi.und, was lyinc in bed, with nothing but his night clotiVs on, add the wo man had on a wrapper, indicating that the died must hare been done either on Sunday night or early Mond .y trorning. On Tuesday afternr on Dr. Lindsey summoned a coroner's jury and repaired to the place where the deed was committed, but, so far, no ev idence has been adduced to throw an light on the ce r give any cluo ib tbe perpetrators of tha horrible dees) Reodleton Independent Ti - if Measles are on the rampage at iVairie City County Court proceeding will ap pear nsfc Vesk. I Democratic Ticket For Congress, JOHN WHITEAKER. For Supreme Judges, P. P. PRIM, JAMES K EJELliY, JOHN BURNETT. For State Printer, For Judge of the 5th Judicial Dist.r L L. McARTHTJR. Prosecuting Atty for oth Jud'l Dist.r D. W. BAILEY, COUNTY TICKET, Tor Repree"tativt'r E. SCHUTZ. For Sheriff, J J. WASH, F.t Ci-unty Clerk', W. S. SOUTHWORTH, For County Treasurer, Fr County Corjimi.'sioneitf, J. II. HAMILTON, T. H. MEADOR. For Assessor, JOHN MARSHALL. For School Superintendent, J. W. MACK. For Surveyor, W. R. McFAKLAND. Summons. In the Circuit Court f.ir the Stste of Oregon, for the Countv of Grant, Rhoda CortiJ, Pl'ff. VP. Thnd ;eus S. Curtis, Deft. TTharidus S. Curtin, above nam ed defendant, you wH take notice that unless )ou appt-ar it the next tetm of the Circuit Court f the State of Ore gon, for Grant County, on the 12th day i if Jun, 1880, and answer the cnuipliint of plaintiff, fil-d in sa.d court against you, a decree of sud court wdi be taken agaisnt ynu dissolving the bunds-of matrimony nowexistingbelween you and plaintitf, and for othor relief for in plaintiff's complain. Thi notice is published by . rder of Judt.fi L. L. Mc Arthur, dated April 20, 18S0. GEO. B. CURREY, Atty for Plumtiff. SEED WHEAT. Farmers desiring seed wheat can purchase the White Australian of the undersigned. It is No. 1 wheat and seeders should securo their seed while it is to he had. OVERHOLT & MULDRICK. Tlie Oregon Kidney Tea. o Read the following testimonials, not from pi-rfoi s 8;000 miles away, whom no one knowe, but from well-known nnd trustworthy citizens of Oregon, whose names, writtt-n with their own hands, can be seen at cur office: Portland, Ogn., J.nn. 12, 1880. Having a sevt-re Hackache last Sum mer, I trn d the Oregon Kidney Tea, I u d one cui, which eff cted a radi el cure. I would n-ccomoierid it to all who are afflicted as an unfailing remedy. J ULIUS ACH. Portland, Ogn., Feb. 3, 1880. Having suffred for years with pains in my back, I tried the Oregon Kidney Tea and found iinuiarfiate re lief aid a permanent cure. I heartily rrccommend it to all aftitcted in like manner. MRS. L. COHN. In response to inquiries as to the fu ture e:mre of th San Francisco Chronicle, M. De Yu:'g aid it would be conducted in the future as in the pait, in as bold, fearless and able man ner as possible. It would s'lll be run :ia a great newspaper should be; and while the death of his brother wa3 a lot's irrepairable to ho'h the paper and his family, no tfforfs would be spared to obtain (he best possible editorial writers. He would remain the busi ness manager of the paper, and he had no f. ars but what tt would retain its pre.-ent high position. He intended to conduct the pper and shape its course in accordance with tbe oft expressed ideas of his brother. The Tribuue's Washington dispatch es conta'n the following points: The post of We t Point is likely to be at tached to t he East, as public confidence in its present m nagement has been de stroyed. Some charges in the tariff lay? are immir.ent. The commiitee on Way and Means have resolved- to ta porb a hill making mcdiGcations in the Glinting Iawa, but no very aeping charges. The cattle-men of this coun-' ty are busy gathering cattle'