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J.
DAVIS BROWER.
II.
GRIFFIS.
CHARLESTON IN RUINS.
General Real Estate Agent.
“Grant's Pass Va’rietv Store
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NEW YORK HOF FIELDS
Grant’s l’a>w. so nauu-d after Genera!
Grant, is* county seat rent rally located
in Southern Oregon
It is • progrossivn
railroad town of 600 inhabitants, and in
the main suuply point for a Urge portion
of country dev'Xed to mining, lumbering
agnculturv and fruit-raiaing Climate im-
ex.'elled
The Cot ricr behig the only paper pub
lished in J.Mephinn county, «ith a good
circulation in Jarkaoh county, enable« it
to be one of the lie»! advertising mediums
in S»uthern Oregon. For rates, »idrera
T he C ovrikr , Grant*« P mb , Oregon
Reduction Work*.
Tim reduction works to be set up'
1 at East Portland will start iu a small
wav. Of the #50,000 capital with
P ortland , Aug. 29. tsan.
which the company begins business
(Jackson County.)
OREGON.
GOI.I) HILL,
E ds N ews Seeing that there only #10.000 will be sj>et»t at the
ill practice in all the ecarta at the
is considerable interest taken in the
A MGHT OF WRECK ANO HORROR.
^Be. Office on Sixth street, near post*
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hop crop of the cast by the people beginning for plant. It is one ot
along the coast and Sound, 1 wish the advantages of this business that
Forty Persons Killed and a Large
S. V. MITCHELL,
to quote a few lines from a letter re in increasing the capacity of estab
Sugar Pine Door à Lumber Co., Grant's Pass, Oregon, Number Injured-Property Loss
Probably $10,000,000-A
ceived
from my brother last week, lished works there is no loss of old
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Terrible Experience.
who is quite an extensive hop grow machinery, since to increase it is
MITC0ELL à LEWIS CO. LIMITED. RACINE. WiS.
G rant ' s P ass , - • - - O regon .
er near Clinton, Oneida county. N. simply necessary to add more
C h yrles T on , Sep. 1.—An earth
V., concerning the hop crop in that stamps. A modest start will be
made and if the business is found
Will practice in ali State and Federal New Zealand Insurance Co., Capital, $3,000.000, quake such as has never liefore been
State:
/Courts < lllice on Maili street.
known in the history of this city
‘ The fore part of the summer was profitable additions will follow. The
—AND—
swept over Charleston last night
works, which it is hoped to have in
SAM. WHITE,
very
dry, and now about every other operation within two months from
shortly after 10 o’clock, causing
day it is raining. The ¡xitatoes and
ATTORNEY AT LAW
more loss and injury to property,
this time, will have a capacity for
hops are certainly a failure. The
I G rant ’» P ass , .... O regon .
and far more loss of life, than the
reducing forty tons per day. They
former
about
a
half,
but
the
latter
a
cyclone of a year previously. Its
total one. There will be no hops will employ from twelxe to fifteen
—u-
Will practice in all the Courts ot the State
wrecked streets are eucumbered with
men and will consume daily from
picked this year. They arc all dead eight to ten tons of flux ,iud f te’
masses of fallen bricks and tangled
II. KEl.LF.Y,
on tin' poles 1 never saw anything Among other consumptive demands
HIGHEST CASH PRICE PAID FOR GOOD WHEAT.
telegraph and telephone wires, and
like it; they are black and wilted. will be that for a carload of lime
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
up to an early hour it was almost
You spoke of picking hops out West
Building
Mateial
of
all
Kinds
Supplied
at
the
Lowest
figures.
impossible
to
pass
from
one
part
of
J acksonville , .... O reoox .
with
Chinamen. Well. I wish we stone daily, to come from Southern
the city to another, The first shock
had
some
of them out here this year. Oregon. The plan of the company
•o
was by far the most severe, Most
is to buy its ores and concentrate.,
Will practice in all th«' Courts of the
It would not take any Chinese agi ¡.nil reduce them on its own account,
State. Office in Court House.
of the people, with their families,
tation to gel rid of them if they de as mills buy wheat aud grind it
-
passed the night in the streets,
If. K. HANNAH,
pended upon hop picking to keep However, the mill will be employed
which even this morning are crowd
them lure. Not alone are the hops as a sampler and will make when
ATTORNEY AT LAW
ed with people afraid to re-enter
blasted around Clinton, hut also in ever it may be desired to- do so
their
homes.
O regon .
J ICKMoNV11.1.E,
Waterville and all other big hop working tests of ores from any quat
More than sixty persons were
J. CHAPMAN.
J. C. GIIJ.AM.
districts.
I went down to Canoja- ter.
kilied and wounded, chiefly colored.
Otlice in <>rth building. Oregon street
WORSE AND WORSE.
hari last week, and found that they
Among
the
whiles
the
killed
and
It has lieen feared by many that
Fill, I,AN I ¿c CHAPMAN. 1’rovarietors.
H. W. FORRES,
R ichmond , Sept. 1.—A dispatch were an utter failure there also. The the enterprise would fail through
fatally wounded are: M. J. Lynch,
Dr R Alexander Hamlin anil Ains- from Charleston, dated 1 p. m say s bop buyers are very active here this the lack of ores; but the company,
NOTARY PUBLIC.
ley
Robeson. Fire broke out in at 8:45 this morning another wave season. They are scouring the state through investigations made by its
K kriiy '- ii . i . e ash A ltuovre , J okkcuine
different
parts of the city immedi swept^over^the city, conring as the for old 1 io | k , but there are not any own agents, has assured itself tuat
f'oiNTV, O regon .
ately after the earthquake, and some other did, from
. ....... the
. . * southeast,
...... ..... * and ' to lx* had. It will come hard on the supply will lx? ample Mr. Ca
Main Street, Opposite the Depot, Grant's Pass, Oregon,
going in a northwest direction, By the farmers this year to meet their rcl, the manager, inform-, us that
are
still
burning,
but
there
is
no
Collection« a Specialty. Legal Instru
danger of their spreading. There this time the people who had been expenses; it will also lx* hard on he has, contracted for and "insight,"
ments promptly executed.
)<>(
is no way of leaving the city at out in the public parks and open thousands of poor people, wlio 1 m » c ores enough to ojierate woiks of the
places all night had ventured into lx-cn anxiously waiting for hop capacity contemplated for two years
■.¡¡IO M
present.
CIG A RS
their houses to get their clothing picking."
HL'NDREDS HOMELESS.
W. F. KREMER M D„
He also mentions some hop y ards He expresses the belief that it will
and something to eat. The approach
The principal business portion of of the quake was heralded by the which were the lx.it in the state l»e found desirable almost immedi
Physician and Surgeon,
the city was destroyed, and hun usual rumbling sound, resembling other y ears, but this year arc a fail ately to increase the capacity of the
Fine, Stock of Staple and Fancy Groceries. dreds
G rant ' s P ass , - - - - O reoox . A
of persons were rendered distant thunder, till it gradually ure. The towns, Clinton, Water works. There will lie no attempt
homeless.
Men were frantic, wo approached. The earth quivered vilte and Canojaliari, are the best here to work up the lead of which
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large quantities are to l»c secured
Calla reapon.le.l tout all hours, .lay or
men were beseeching mercy from ami heaved, and in three seconds it hop producing towns in the state.
The "orks will take lip only the
night.
IN CONNECTION WITH A FINE LINE OF STATIONERY. WE the Almighty, and children were in passed, the sound dying out in the
F. P. M ok row .
precious metals and will send the
tears. The main station house, city distance. This is the only wave
W II FLANAGAN. M. I».
HAVE ATTACHED A
refuse lead to San Francisco, where
Demand for Incieasetd Pay.
hall, Hibernian hall and many oth felt since 2:30 this morning. It
Physician ani Surgeon,
N ew Y ork , A fg . 30. A demand there is a demand fi»r it. The ehiel
er well known public buildings, in was not destructive, all the destruc
Circulating Library and a Free Reading Room,
cluding St. Michael'» church, arc tion having been done at 9:55 last for an increase hi pay foi the New resource for ores and concentrates
G ki X t '» P ais , * •
O regon .
York Central Railroad employes has will lx' east of the Cascades Cour
Many people night.
WHERE CAN BE FOUND SAN FRACISCO, PORTI AND tsi, OTHER PAPERS, irreparably damaged.
Ix-eti
made dy district assembly No. | <l' Alene, Colville, Pine Creek, etc.
are seriously if not fatally injured.
Office at residence. comer Main and
The city is a complete wreck.
Third streets. Call attended any hour,
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Broad street ¡»resents a sjx'ctacle of St. Michael's church and St Phil I Knights of Lalxir The demand but a share is ¡»rojnised from the
day or nigh.
the utmost horror. Even women, lip's church, two of the most historic is for 10 to 15 ]>cr cent, advance in mines of Southern Oregon There
armed with hatchets, fought valiant churches in the ciry, are ruins, as wages, pay fot holidays and dotihlc is a difference in the quality of these
DR. F. W. VAN DYKE
ly to rescue imprisoned unfortu is also Hibernian hall, the ¡xjlicv; pay for over time. The class of cm ores by which one serves as a flux
------Iu connection, where can be had------
nates Meeting street, from Broad station and many other public build plows covered ill the demand in for the other, making a special ad
to Hazel, is a wreck and is lined ings. Fully two-thirds of the resi chides track laborers, repairers, la vantage in working them together
This establishment ought to hr
with unfortunates. To add to the dences in the city are uninhabitable lm: is employ ed by tile day, switch
the
Ix-ginning of a closer connection
men,
freight
handlers
and
ear
clean
horror of the scene many fires broke wrecks either totally or partially
Portland and the mine,
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out, and were effectually folight by It is impossible at this time to give ers. The officers of the New York 'between
Lemonade, Soda Water. Ginger, &c.
the fire department. The night a correct estimate of the casualties Central say then is no dissatisfac hereabout, and it will lx-, wc have
was hideous with groans and dying It is believed that lictwccn fifty and lion so far as they know about em 1 no doubt. It will make a direct
screams of the wounded and prayeis one hundre 1 persons have lieen ployes. They are willing to receive ' business connection capable, if we
of the uninjured. It is impossible killed, and several hundred wound and consider the requests of em clnxj.se to profit by opportunity, of
Calls reponded to at all hours, day or
to estimate the extent of the losses ed. At the time of the first .sh<x?k ployes, but they intend to resist the very important expansion. There
night
Office opposite Slover'e hotel.
of
life and property at present. Up fires broke out in five different ¡»laces establishment of the ¡tower of the are signs of a revivnl of interest in
C. M. STONE. Pi«»!’’«.
.Im ksonville, Oregon.
to 1 a. m. to day there had lx-en ten in the city, and alxiiit twenty houses Knights of Lalxir over the Central mining on the part of the business'
men of Portland
I titl ing the past
Maine Street,
-
-
-
Grant’ll Pas«, Oregon, distinct shocks.
road.
DR. CHAS. W. BEACOM,
were destroyed bv fire.
few months some interest in every
----- DRUGGIST AND APOTHECARY,------
VERY FEW HOl’SES ESCAPE.
Dctntist,
A Monster Lockout.
ini|x>rtant district in the country
THE CITV STH.I. CtT Ol 1 .
Not
to exceed 100 houses in the
N iav Y ork . Aug 50. The lock has been secured for Portland
S avannah , Sept. 1.—Efforts to
< >KEG<»N. Drnzs. Pa'.«! Medicines. PeriBiery Toilet Articles. Shoulder Braces. Trusses, Etc.
C hant ' s P ass
city are occupied at this time. Peo enter Charleston have been made out Ix'gan in earnest to day, and Among those who have made in
pie arc camjxrd in open places. All from all points, and have failed. fully 1,000 people who were at work vestments recently arc Messrs W
BEST BRANDS OF CIGARS AND TOBACCO
stores are closed and a scarcity of On the island the shock was more last week will lie idle in rouse S Ladd, J. F. Watson. Dan Nfc
School I Books. ;
Books
and
Stationery provisions is feared, because no one severely felt than in the city Peo quence. There arc in the shops Kercher, 11 Goldsmith. Van De
«•an be got to go to the stores to sell pic on the island rushed from their under the control of the Manufac I Lnshmutt, S»l Hirsh. W. R. Hon
MISCELLANEI '
them.
houses to the l»cach The oscilla turers' Assix iation alxitil H<xj cloth 1 Milan, Henry' Failing L. Blum »u
A Full Line of Paints, Oils, Varnishes and Brushes. Hardly a house in the city es- lion lasted for several minutes. The ing cutters. The rest who will lx: c-r, Capt. Gove, Dr. Rex. W. Is
WILL. Q BROWN.
cajx-d injury, and many were so lantern lenses in the lighthouse thrown out of work are tailors, Robbins, R. Ko hler. J. Brandt, jr .,
Assayer à Analytical Chemist. I’HSICIANS' PRESCRIPTIONS CAREFULLY COMPOUNDED damaged and cracked that a hard were broken, and.thc niachiiwty of pressers, trimmers and button hole C 11 Prescott, Gen. Tolman and
blow would bring them to the the lamp disarranged. The keeper makers. All have decided to do no others. The properties secured by
OREGON NICKEL MINE,
ground.
hurried up to the tower and as s«x>n more work until the trouble lietwcen these gentlemen are gixxl in almost
RIDDLE, DOUGLAS COUNTY, OGN.
KOBE K T XV KH’l KOI’.
The shock was severe at Summer- as ¡xissiblc arranged a temporary the Manufacturers' As-wx-iation and every instance, and it is lx-lie veil
ville and Mt. Pleasant, and on Sul- light, which will have to answer the United Clothing Cutter , ha that they will not long be idle
---- PROPRIETOR----
Aiialvvrs made of Complex huhntanra*.
[(Iregonian
livan's island fissures arc noticed until the lighthouse >tij»[»ly ship been settled
from which sand, apparently from a reaches here. People on the Ix-ach
MINKS EXAMINED AND REPORTED I P<»N
Th* Newt Senile
Another Bond Call.
great depth, exudes. A sulphurous ran hither and thither, not knowing
A
Assay for Gold and Silver
* 3 oo
W
ashington , Aug, 5». The
smell is very noticeable.
A» the United States Senate now
where to go, and fearing that every
*
Assay for Nickel or Cobalt
6 oo
Three or four fires started in as moment a tidal wave would sweep following w as issued this aftcin<xjl1: 'lands, with Mr. Williams as the
Assay for I<ead or Copper
.
2 oo
many sections w ith the fir4 slux'k. over. The water was agitated, and "Notice is hereby given that on the successor of Mr. Hearst, there are
(Jackson County)
C entral P oint ,
and very soon the town was illn waves rose high on the lx?ach. 1 sth <lay of September, ihn .» orally forty two iepul>licat>» to thirty font
SPEARS & ERASURE,
urinated with flames, thas leading Houses on the beach swayed to and time ¡»riot, the Department will re dem<x-rat.s. This is its ¡«Milical
)o(—
all
to believe that what was left by fro and nx'ked as if they would tall deem a! the Treasury of the United complexion till the expiration of the
House, Carriage. Sign an t Or
earthquake would l»e devoured by to peices. /\ telephone message to States, at Washington, 01 it llv of present Congress next spring. A .
nameutal
fire. However, the fire ilejiartmcnt the News from Typec station nt 4 fice of the Assistant Treasurer at summed tip by the New York Tri
was so well divided and handled o'clock this morning stated that the New York, ¡»¡lying par value with bttne, there will l»e thirty fotr ie-
PAINTERS,
FURNISH THE BEST OF HAY AND GRAIN. that the fires were tinder control bv ¡x-o|»le were still gathered on the accrued interest to the date of re ]>iibh< an and thirty-three deni»xvat
demption, any utr ille<l United it senators holding over, <-r from
daylight.
Paper - Hangers and Graners
I »each
States 3 jxT cent. Ixmds to the
To liar and * » pan l’or II <-ai I, Over N mill, 73 < "t.-.
Fully 125
states in which the re»ult iff measur
KNOTTIER NK.HT OF TERROR.
amount of not exceeding Jio.ooo,-
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ably certain. Mahonc'» trim ex
BEST OF ACCOMMODATIONS FURNISHED FOR HORSEf »tores were consumed The loss by
C harleston , Sept 1 Women 000.''
fire and earthquake cannot lx- accti
pires on the ¡th of March, and of
CARVERS AND GUILDERS,
and
children
arc
running
alxtut
in
rately estimated, but can »afely l»e
eotirse will lx* iicWeded by a dem
State
Board
of
E
«aminabon.
the open air, terribly agitateli.
Grant's P om ,
Oregon.
J. S. HOUCK,-
placed at $5oo,<>x>.
re-rat, and the next legislature m
There
are
three
or
fotir
steamers
in
As far as could lx' iscertaincd dur
From .1 circular letter issued by California will clc<'. Willii-W, aax
proprietor
CHANGE IN| MANAGEMENT
ing the night fifteen to twenty were port, including the buoy tinder, the Stiite Superintendent of Public <■•-.»•»1
Califortv 1
N-.f Jeraey
killed, and a much greater number and many of the inhabitants are Instruction it is ¡iscertaincd tlmt the New York. Indian ConhaHicut.
—orjTHK—
¡»rovided
with
lierths
in
these
boats.
wounded in all sorts of ways. The
following mcmltcr* comprise, the .Michigan and UgaMay'■▼•»•a OTO *0
losa of human life will l»e great and Fortunately the weather h.A l»ecn State Board of ln»liu< lion.
elect enalois to succeed l^vihh-
Central Point Hotel.
g<x»d
1
and
hardships
are
not
as
sc
it will take a day to get the accu
can* Net ,a<l 1 ; • d Wo»‘ Virginia
J.
W.
Johnsorl,
A.
M
,
of
State
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LEWIS PANKEY.
rate nnmlxr. .Shocks equally se vere as they might have been The University, Eugene City. W D ire to eli< t sin x'N’r ' to dc«nrx ratic
vere were felt at a distance of thirty- situation, however 1. Ix-eoming Lymin. A. M., ru<ifi- Uni' t '*' senator» Delaware, Florida, Ma
s T O V
s
Meal*,
T I N W A K E, five
mile», and have done inestima horrible. Cut off from eommunica Fort st Grose. T M G it'-h, Ph ryl.md, Mi-wdsaippl, Missouri, Tcti
hie damage to railroads and tele tion with the rest of the world, af D., Wasco litdepcit l.-nt A-ad' itr. ncssce and Texas arc xs free from
—JOB WORK, »I Cll AS—
graph
property. Charleston 1» now flirted and haunted with a prospect The Dalles J F Paton, Ex coun doubt • .ire Main'- Mas n htl •. H
Having lately ukmi hargr iH rh^ hotel
Roofing.
Spouting.
ani
Repairing
of
all
km
I»
a
#pe<ialty,
entirely isolated from the outside of immeadi ite death that,i atxmt ty Siqx-ntit' nd< nt Baker County Minnesota Nebraska, < Ihto Rho'i ■
the undcxignea would respectfully inform
the condition of this community
world.
Baker City
Thoma* Van Scov Island. VcrnwMit and VViseows:»,
the ¡xibiic that the table» will be »’ipplied
No tr ims have departed '»r arrived A. M Willamette University Sa and n<>’«optical change ma- be ex
AND DONE AT REASONABLE RATES.
A SCENE or DI.ATI! 1X1» DI.sOI.\
with the best the market afford»
here in twenty four hours. It is 1cm. B J. Hawtb'ime. A. M pe ted from those -tate«
Lewis P awket
TION.
■I S. Houck
■aid that all railroads leading into State Univefsity, Eugene City T
F frrgon
• entrai Point
It will lx- a cl'rse contest att'l mi
Two slight »hock - of earthquake the city are crippled The state II Crawford. A. M . City Superin less the republicans ¡»re d»t1y vigi
New Blacksmith Shop,
have heen felt since the first, ats.25 ment is made that all the railway tendetit Pitl>li<- S c I hm I s , Portland. l.tnt in their k-gi«lattve elections it
this morning and one at 1 40 p m.. tracts arc twisted into the ■ hape <»f I W Pratt. Princijmi of Harrison is within the possibilities tha< th'-y
LEWIF ...........
"
neither doing any further destriv snakes.
Street School, Portland J. W will low control of the upper bolt.-»'
Ç vstxal r
tion
Not even during Gen Gil
• •
W R IPI'KII IN OIXX1M
M< rritt. Ex Priwipal Puldic S< Itool*
H Nt I I H
more'» bombardment of the citv ha»
The Vrefea Fait promises to !«• -»
Cn \RLtsT0N. Sept. I - The city Jacksonville. D V S. Retd, Cottn
Horse-
there heen such a deplorable state of is wrapped in gloom and business tv Superintendent Litnt County greater success this y ear than ever
ret.
Grint'» Fa -,
Oregon
t would I
affair» here The city is literally Is entirely suspended
People gen- Albany J. B Horner. A B Prin before Over #1.700 will b* ex
that bavin.
—o
m rtiina, and the people are living erallv remain in the street», intents opal Ptibhi S< h'xri.-.. Roseburg J. pended for pnws stnd purses for tlv
Rlark-.nvt
m square» and public parks There and under improvised shelter, and B. Horner is the only holder of a races Jackson Ctninty will be well
wnnld ask
COMPLETED• OUR NEW STABLE^, XX k
IRE is a great rush to the railroad de will camp out to night, fearing an-
state life diploma tn Douglas count* represented this time
patron a«v
pots to gr t away, but owing to the other »hock The gas works are
Fofty-otle Chinese '-’gar maker*
PREPARED TO
eiithqnake. no train» are able to he injured and probably the < iU will
Subsc
Make your butter and chccsc &s from Ctilra passed through Ogden,
d’spatc'tcd from the city T-le t>e without light to-night
1 the Bößt of Accommodations for Horses,
good as (KMsihle, and then make the cn route for San Fraixdoeo, where
THE HW
eraphw ' ommuntcation i» *!'-> eu
-amc cff.jrt t > II them 1 ■» the ’ •4.‘ ’hev ire to t ike the ¡»tr'c »•(’ l'it‘n:i
off > e oei. o
nf rho
r.b'»
----------- AT REA W'ARl.j; RATE
advant» *'*
Attorney at Law S Notary Public Notary Public and Agent for the Sale of Town Lots in Great Loss of Lite and Property
ant ’ s P ass , ....
O regon .
from the Earthquake.
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telegraph company, which is loaded
with anxious private messages
It is impossible to depict the ruin
and desolation that prevails. Not
a single place of business in the city
is open, save a drug store, which is
busy preixiring perscriptions for the
wounded, It is impossible also to
give any correct estimate of the
killed and wounded, as bodies are
constantly being disinterred from
the debris of wrecked houses, < hie
undertaker was interviewed and
stated that he had furnished eight
coffins up to noon to-day. Many of
the dead are lying unburied, these
l»eing of the jxxvrer classes of colored
people, who await burial by the
county. There are not a half a dor.
en tents in the city, and the women
and children are experiencing great
privations inconsequence. As night
approaches most heads of families
are trying to construct tents out of
lxnl sheets, spare awnings and other
material that comes to their band»
The sun is about to set upon what
is feared may lx* another night of
horror, even without any other vio
lent shock of earthquake. It is cal
culated that at least three fourths of
the city will have to lx‘ rebuilt en
tirely, if the houses are t<»l»e inhab
ited.
TO ADVERTISERS
. I.Illi
A
First-Class
Lunch
Room
St;
e
AND
\ew
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Letter from a Resident of the Blight
ed District.