TO ADVERTISERS. TH E (’OU lì I EK. W J WIMER. Publisher. *770* HIPTK j S One Year (in advance) Six Month». Three Months Bin ' - I TAX I 12.25 H_-’ 'x' An Independent Paper, Devoted Especially to the Interests of Southern Oregon. Job Printing of all Kinds —IS THB— Very Latest and Best Styles. I-ivinur GRANTS PASS, JOSEPHINE (OLNTY. OIL. FRIDAY ALGI ST’20. lSS(i. VOL. 2 —ANO AT THE— J.owest Grant's f’atM, »o named at r ■ I-h. r.il Grant, ia a county seat centrally Lxiated in Soutticrn Or«v|>ly point for a lar^e jxxrtion of country JevixiM to mining, lumbering agri» uiturc and fniit-nusiug. Climate un- ! excelled Tlie Co; 1111 h being the only paper pub­ lished in Joacpliine county, with a goxi ! circulation in Jackaon ixxmty, enables it to be one of the >x-Ht advertising mediums 111 Soullx-m Oregon. For rates, address Tm: C oi ' iukh , Grant'» i’aim. Oregon. limes pROFEMMtONAL—LEGAL. •J DAVIS BROWER, II G K I F F I S. DESTRUCTIVE FIRES IN WISCONSIN. Particulars of the Sentence of Cuttng in Mexico. Many Persons Perish in the Flamet. Coming Colonies of Immigrants. An Important Decision. It will be remembered that Gov. The locaters for tlie Welsh’ land company colony returned to this Moody made application to the U. city from a visit to some of their S. land department, at Washington, G ranì '» P a »», - - - - O heoon . M ilwaukee , Aug. 11. countrymen in Clackamas county recently, asking that all contests to (Jackson County.) OREGON, C.OI.D HILL, A dispatch from Green Bay says; Saturday, and under the auspices determine the character of the lands Will practice in all the court* of the Fire is still raging throughout the Slate. Office on Sixth street, near ,»ost- of the stale board of immigration that had lieen approved and certi­ ----- REPRESENTING. TIIE----- ottiee. woods around Eaton, Belleville and start this morning out into the val- fied to by the state of Oregon as l>e- Depere. causing much loss and dis ­ ley and Southern Oregon. They ing swampy and overflowed, and as Sugar Pine Door & Lumber Co., Grant’s Pass, Oregon, tress. Nineteen families in the vi­ S. V. MITCHEL!., are in search of 10,000 acres of land , i being hers under the swamp-land ATTORNEY AT I.AW. cinity of Woodruff’s old mill were for the settlement of about 120 fam­ grant, should l>e dismissed. The MITCHELL i LEWIS CO., LIMITED. RACINE. WIS. burned out. The Clausen family of ilies. In addition to what informa secretary of the interior has decided G rant '» P ass , - - - - O iuiuo N. five saved their lives by getting into tion the state board furnished ihcsc that after the approval and certifica­ people before they left Ohio, they tion by the department and land of­ Will practice in ah State and I ederal New Zealand Insurance Co., Capital, $3,000,000. a well. Courts, ottico on Main street. Reports from Laney and Angeli­ have been provided with ex cry pos­ fice, the character of such lands can­ — am »— ca in Shawanucountx state that the sible help to enable them to make not again Ire called in question on SAM. WHITE, fire is very bad. Five families were a full examination of every part of an affidavit of contest, which merely ATTORNEY AT LAW. ' burned out and their crops destroy­ Western and Southern Oregon. alleges that the land is not of the G rant ’ s F ami , - - - - O regon . ed. A mill near Angelica was They will investigate the eastern character granted, unless the appli- burned. A man near St. Nathan's. part of the state on their return cant further alleges fraud or mistake -i>i.:.. is : one ---- »1 of ---------- 1....:™ — ---- ... j , in procurement, By the decision of ---- o- Oconto county, lost live buildings This the colonies reported; and his crop. Svvtral of his neigh by tlie board last winter. A second, the secretary and alts of congress H. KELLEY. HIGHEST CASH PRICE PAID FOR GOOD WHEAT. l»ors suffered likewise. Bridges was a colony of about too families fraud must tic specifically stated. ATTORNEY AT I.AW. over the Little Suamico river are from Southern Missouri, ami the He further holds that a party may Building Mateial of all Kinds Supplied at the Lowest l igurcs. gone. People in the burned district J acksonville . - - - - O regon . representatives, Messrs. Ault and contest the right to such lands pr^rr are terrified. The warning roar of Hofford, arrived by the steamer yes­ to approval and certificate by alleg­ o- the flames in the woods can lx- heard Will practice in all the Courta of the terday, and will go out into the in ing and proving settlement prior to State. Oitv-e in Court H tse. two miles avvay. The big Suamico tenor of the state this afternoon. such approval, and that the land is is out of danger, but the Little Before leaving home these gentle­ not overflowed but susceptible of H. K. HANNA, Suamico is having a hard time now. men and their friends were favora­ cultivation without drainage. ATTORNEY AT LAW'. Several families were burned out in The lands heretofore approved bly impressed with the re;xirt from the town of Denmark and stripped the western part of Lane "county, a and certified to the state as swamp t >REGvN. J U-KMOXV1! 1 E, vf a ’1 their posessions. Around the by this . deci ­ portion of 1 Lmglas and the western and ’ overflow *’ . covered J »....».: a J. CHARM AN. postoffice the residents all packed sion are embraced in what is known part of Benton county. All these Office in Orth building, Oro/on Htrvet THE PRISONER QUESTIONED. t'ucii goods, and there was a regular GILLAM Jk CHAPMAN. Pronriclors. The court then turned to the pri (xiints will I k ' visited during the I as List No. 5, Lake View district, T. B. KENT. exodus to Green Bay anil Manito­ soner and asked: "Do you still journey just now undertaken. This containing about 80.000 acres. It woc. ATTORNEY AT I.AW. colonv is already formed and the is claimed by the state that the re­ Streams are drying up ami cattle stand under the protection of your people intend to start West in Sep­ maining land, not approved and cer­ J acksonville , - - - • O regon . government? ” are dying ot suffocation. Their tember. The third colony is from tified, amounts to about 300,000 "I do," replied Cutting. bodies can lie found on the roads at Northumberland county,. Penn., and acres, which will be reported to the Will practico in all the Courts of the "Do you wish to take an appeal intervals. State. Office in Court House. to tin* supreme court?” the judge Mr. Higgins and his sub agents, In-1 land office for approval and certifi­ Twelve miles from Green Bay, in asked. eators and agents will start out to1 cation tinder the taw laid down in )<>( S. W. FORBÌ», the town of Humboldt, fire is raging v lew the state early the coming week. this decision. [Salem Statesman. "1 have no appeal to make except fiercely. Several resiliences were NOTARY PUBLIC. The state lioard has only to an-1 CIGARS AND TOBACCO. | NI TS AND livre is a late receipt for making burned yesterday. Trenches and to the government of the United nonnee the arrival of a colony agent KCHnV'-ll.l ANI» Al.Tlloi‘»F, .IliKEI’HlNE ; »States. ’ ’ LEMONS, FIGS AND OTHER a g tice l>> you wish to sign the pro­ iioard that if they succeed in getting Harmony. Advertising. Cordial ceedings of this court?" MEDICAI.. the climate and soil here which they I ity. Cheap property Healthy lo- UNE LINE OP STATIONERY, WE to-day, and contributions would not IN "I sign nothing." | cation. Good country tributary. come amiss. "Do you wish to express satisfac­ ' are in search of, the exodus from Talk about it. Sp< tk well about it. ATTACHED A Through the forests in the north­ their part of Missouri will be 1,000 ern tier of counties in this state are tion or dissatisfaction with the sen instead of 100 families. So fat they Help to improve it. Advertise in and read the town papers. Patron - Circulating Library and a Free Reading Room, still ablaze, and are likely to remain , tence?” 'N. "No, sir; I have never recognized are very much pleased with what 1 izc its merchants. Faith; exhibited on fire until rains quench the flames, they find. — [Oregonian. WHEKK CAN BE Kll'ND SAN FliAClSCO, PORTLAND axi » OTHER PAPERS, I by good works. Honest eompeti- the danger to villages and towns is ! your court or jurisdiction and 1 do Olili» responde 1 fiat all hour-, day or tion in business. Help all public Poor Nellie Granì. ------------ )O(------------ over, unless heavy gales should not recognize its right to imprison night. enterprises. Elect good men to sweep down upon them. While me for one hour." Cutting was taken back to jail Sartoris spends his time in L011 office. Speak xvell of its public ’,V. II. FI. VNAG.VN, M. 1>. not over a dozen eases of human Ix ri.. A cremation are reported, it is Ixflicved and will lie sent to Chihuahua in a 1I011, carousing around til.-cafes and ; spirited enterprising citizens, and ■ A. f m-it ¡an and Surgeon, clubs, drinking and making merry ' be one of them yourself. Remem- that many backwixxis men and fami­ day or two. ----- In connection, where gui I h 1 had----- G rant ’ s F as », .... O regon . with women of little reputation, Ix-r that evi ry dollar invested in GREAT EXCITEMENT. lies, remote from settlements, can while his wife remains at an old iso­ permanent improvements is that not po sibly have escaped. The No sooner was the fact of Cut Office :;t residem-», corner Main and lated country cat year in and year much 011 interest. Always cheer fatality to live stock has been terri ­ ting's sentence known than both Thir l rtris'ls. Call attended any hour, ble. Hundreds of charred bodies of towns, on the Mexican and Ameri­ out. Many stories have been told on the men xvho go in for improve­ day or n.vli. cattle lie on the blackened tract of can side; were wild with excitement of hi a .shocking treatment of her. ment». Vour porti'i’i of the cost Lemonade, Soda Water, Ginger, &c. DR. F. \V. VAN DYKE devastation. i ever the matter. Two secret meet A gentleman said some time ago will be nothing only xvliat is just.” It is estimated that in Calumet, ings were held here, and companies that he h id seen and heard herbeg­ The ab.ix. appli. as much to Clarke, Marathon and a few adja­ ¡of minute -men were organized. ging him to remain at home, simply Grant's P.i s as it docs to ar.y other cent counties 500 families are ren­ Merchants fear harm if soldiers are to abate the scandal that was in pro­ town and should be carefully read dered homeless and destitute, and not promptly on hand, they realize gress. But no, he would not listen C. M. STONE, P koi ’ ii , will suffer unless immediate relief is that congress only can declare war, to her for an instant, and the next and studii I We lnve •■> far tried Maine Street, ...... Grant’s Pass, Oregon, sent them. Many of these people but the superior nunilier of Mexiean hour off he went with a couple of to keep the columns of the Courier C. LEMPEKT, M. 1)., free from matter detracting from the had narrow escapes from death, hid soldiers in Paso del Norte would riotous companions to London. Sartoris has 110 business; he never ¡course laid down in the abox-e item. ----- DRUGGIST AND APOTHECARY,------ lidJiLite Leipsic University,(¡er. ing in wells ur submerging them­ play havoc with the single company up to their necks in streams now al Fort Bliss, one mile from El attempts any for the simple reason fun, hitki ¡¿«»..~, mi^rry, Toilci Aiiiwu, Siculdcr Brae«, Trasses, Etc. selves with wet blankets covering their, l’aso. Arms and ammunition arc he has not sufficient brains to con The cy. Ione occurring at Oak <'all» reponileif to at all lenir», dav or heads until the fire passed. In.some not scarce, however, and citizens duct a dog case liefore a justice of Bar and \ i initj over a week ago, night Oliiee opposite Flover’s hotel. BEST BRANfiS OF ( IGAH< AND TOBACCO the peace. He lives on an allow ­ JaTk m vffr <»nwm places luc swooped down so sudden are secretly organizing, so as to act was 1111 t '.iii at Di.ggctt Creek, ance of /^7 |K*r annum given him Schoo! ’ '! Books I and I Stationery iy upun jxnjpb- tbatJlu-A Had hardly on the defensive. Their voice is by his father, with which he takes wh re the uprooted trees and debris time to seek this method of xntel>. (Unanimous for vindication <>f Atneri blown into the river, dammed the In other places the roar of theflame» ciui honor uud protection of our cit­ himself to London, lives in style for stri tin and back :1 the water nearly alxiut three or four months, ami was Eehrn for miles, and the terror- I I k E gon . A Full Line of Paints, Oils, Varnishes and Brushes. stricken people fled hndlv before izens. Mexicans, too, u, uncry at then return 1 jx.-niteiitly to his sor­ a mile before giving way. A large the tenor of our pies-, and thek’J" ' ; feet thi'-k th< flames to neig ilxiring villages pl* «re fearful of violence on axe. tint rowing wife and proceeds to borrow at b.i • was carried in the air for PUSH IANS' PRESCRIPTIONS CAREFULLY COMPOUNDED. Ml work warranted. Office at Com­ and houses. of nunieioils mess meetings ifhich some more. Then a few months of about half .1 ride, and nits of 30 to mercial Hotel. '¡'he loss cannot ever be estimat­ are being held. A iltsfiMGlrom "lile" is repeated nt the gny metro 40 feet d i p w. r. made in ’lie hill- ROBERT W K ST R < > P ed. Hundreds of homes, dozen » of Rio Grande city, Texas, says, a [xilis ami tiie second act is gone ides iluicing ■ nt the oil *o lx.-d MISCELI. 1X1'4». n, year 10.; sawmills and lumlicr camps; and heavy force of Mexican revolution­ over again amt s nt Al< ho l ino, i.i i ott Valley, —PROPRIETOR— [Eugene City Regufc, . , m:;b : of trees were blown millions of feet of tiinlx r are in ash­ ists crossed the river into Texas on ---- ----------- s _ 1 -■ New Blacksmith Shop, es. Acres upon acres of ripening Thursday night. A troop of the' New |x>in's are coi tinuall} croj» dovxn ay- fli .de l, and houses grain were laid waste. Eighth United States cavalry was ping up i.i th ■ di" us i if provoked daru~„ . 1. At Shovel LEWIS PANKEY, Proprietor. To night’s advices are that the ordered yesterday from Ringgold ’ 1>V the 1..;it. 1'.loll "1 the water rct'k Npt . • FCtbusr ««.,¡11.; otlt, C estr 11. I’oixr - - OREGON fires are abating considerable, by barracks to jicrsue and disarm them. t: 'll. 1 " I.i'- ’ 1 . d' ' id' ■'! h" 1, •cro cura|>elle<» u. to house« *u; running into clearings, and Ixiausc ib •’ scr.aunt of the^J rim- I11 the grants of land made by the Horse-Shoeing a Specialty. O regon . C entral P oint , the wind has died out. However, Deep Crater Lake. 41 Butte Mexican Government Ixfore the 'or 1 -I. I would respectfully in’orm the public fears are entertained of a repetition the ’.or:.is v.i re ¡d.o F’1'S»v. with American occupation, the ownership that having lately taken charge of the W. G. Steel, who is out on the U. should high winds prevail again lx.- more rain probably than el*ev Tir^R, Black-smith Shop at Central Point, I S geological survey of Crater Lake, of the water was particularly con­ in the emmty, as rain jxmred down fore a rain appears. Along the veyed to the grantee as part and would ask a lil>eral share if the public Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul writes to th< Alban lb'al l under parcel of th appurtenances of the nearly every day for over a week in patronage L ewis F ink tv. railway heavy rains extinguished date of July 25 as follows: "Our soil, a < much .n the rocks and trees regular tloo: al showers. The OF HAY AND GRAIN. all the flames, saving the largest boats having l.-een launched, we are thereon, CHANGE IN MANAGEMENT FURNISH THE BEST Tin . own, i hip of water storm v. a . a I > 1 ry sei 1 re at sever­ cranberry marshes in that section. at present engaged in -mn ling Cra­ went with the land to the American al other point*. a - h retofore men­ 7.*» < ’ I.-. —or the — To llnviuid < »ran Per Hoad, (Ivor Niu-lif. To -day suffocating clouds of smoke ter lake. anrd* world!" 400 feet at mid day L ewis P ankey the leading colonies of Southern Portland h ; piuveti v< ry ¿.imaging California. If it shall ever be de­ tn Mr Fenton s health, as lie is re­ The river and harbor bill as final The following is the debt state WILL. Q BROWN. a V ‘ •y agreed upon by Congress .-piid mint of the United States Treasury cided that the owners of land own duced to ahao-t a skelelou. Vester- the water thereon; and that it can day tlo ■. I< ft for Ynqiiim. to remain signed by the President cont 'ins Aug. i » k A X » » Assayer à Analytical Chemist, the folloxving appropriations in Interest bearing O vim , nun-ipal not lx: acquired by nppropria’.ors at until he shall become improved phv- OREGON NICKEL MINK, xvhich On.' n and U ishingloti are aud mterrst, $1,214,902.034; debt ^dist nice, then (tie settlement n •i illy v. ,i they will r.iii.ii mid -■ "A ¿uivid of 1 laige settle down at tiermkncul citizens. intierested Yaquina $75,000; C hh MI xvhich interest ha» ccaJMti »tnee ierrerF to4»>»» L RIDDLE, DOUGLAS COUNTY, OGN Rowing, dp. portion of its wii ’ ri a i;pp! imd if Wc lie plenj-t to Welcome Mr. Bay $33.750; Cavades $1X7,500; maturity n-*** dsbt lx-aring Analyse« made of *»uh«farr«». &■!£>■• WHJ n «rt: Chum Fenton and his most t .timabl" wife Upjxr Coltimbi 1, including Snake no intere -t S' '■ 07-1 <-99 bffr* AND DON.. river, mouth oftheColum principal and interest, $1.755.559. MINER EX AMIMED AMD BEPOBTED < POM. to our city, and b peik for them a * a - — •JX’ ~ Lia river $'87,500; lower Wiliam- 047; total debt R s available cash J . it and healtlr,• ltome. Of S. Houck. >r< gon. Central Pon.. 00 Away for ( jo M and Silver » 3 Yamhill .•o»inf? itti rixer and Columbia, lelow items, $1,4(0.293.604; net cash in Mr. Fenton v..lt follow hi-» 6 on Anaay for Ni* k»*l or Cobalt Portland $26 orx>: uj>per Willamette treasury, $80,306,32$; debt, less Smith who h is t. .di |*W«Mn .< [McMinnville Tel- o *W- A »«ay for Lead or Copper river $75.000; Coquille $20,0»»; ¡, 1 ash in treasury August 1st, 1886, Gnat 1 tii • of I,Hi,; Goxvlitz $2.000. $1,380.087,279; debt, less cash in SPEARS & ERASURE ........... «nd . M,». h.-xc in These items are by no means as treasury July 1st. 1886. $1.389.136, .,t ‘ ‘ ’ , ■ ¡" M'1 ill - K." hmil'l ’ . ***■ -nu- ^,«.»,1 'large as the nature and imjiurtancc 383; decrease of debt during month . ss M I T 11 BROS I ’nipiicfor-, House, Carriage, Sign and Or­ of the improvements to be made re­ $8,049:104; ca*h in treasury availa­ and first btrthd iv. S!,ei- a small' ,? Sixth Street, 1 >rrgon. tirant'« 1’ namental quire. but xx ill be of great benifit to ble for reduction of public debt, . m. ’ --- A improved facilities for commercial and ac u growing is the gnat benefit to It is proba CARVERS AND GUILDERS, Furnish the Best of Accommodation;; for Homes, int- he ii h -»ursc all are so anxiously looking ’ it l.vv pri [Eng*ne City Regi-tcr ----------- AT REASONABLE RATE».--------- (Jfvgnn ’Attorney at Law S Notary Public Notary Public and Agent for the Sale of Town Lots in General Real Instate Ai>ent. -(¡rant’s Pass Variety Store,/ First -Class Lunch Room Xew Feed and Sale Stable, ‘Ill s EXew Feed Staine Great Destruction of Property. A special from El Paso Aug. Sth says: As sentence was pronounced upon Cutting at Paso del Norte last evening, the prisoner turned slight­ ly pale, but was otherwise thorough- ly composed. When the reading of the sentence was finished he asked in a loud voice of the court, at the same time pointing to Medina, •‘About the $6oo? Is that creature to get any of it?” At this point Consul Brigham in terposed to stop him. “If the prisoner uses insulting language," said the judge, "I can add something to the term of his sentence.” Consul Brigham assured the court that neither he nor Cutting meant any disrespect to it. “Ix*t us un­ derstand," said Brigham, * Just ............. what this is for." "It Is for publication on the other side of the article which it is held vitiated the reconciliation made on this side.'' "And this act on the other side," continued Brigham, "was construed on this side as contempt of court." To this the court replied in the nega­ tive.