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About Southwest Oregon recorder. (Denmark, Curry County, Or.) 188?-18?? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 23, 1884)
Volume II. DENMARK, CURRY COUNTY, OREGON : TUESDAY, -SEPTEMBER 23, 1884. Number 4. BREVITIES. . Mr. P. Dwyer dropped in on us Sunday. ' This is the beginning of the gum boot season: i Mr. Harrington, late of Jos. Nay's mill, passed up yesterday. Solly Anderson caught a fine otter in Beaver Creek last Saturday. Mr. David Carey passed through Denmark last week on his way to the Bay. Mr. E: Clark, of Clark & Dwyer, was down from the mountains last week. . Two letters in the Denmark5 post offieo for Fred Funk and Steward J. Miller. The wild goose season is not afar off, and the sport is burnishing up his breech-loader. Passengers of the Port Orford hack line now take their noon-day meal at the Lorentzen house. S. Bernstein, of the Burnham Lum ber Company, came up from San Francisco last week. Mr. Chas, "Winsor, superintendent of Hume's cannery passed up en route .to Par kersburg Monday. Mr. T. W Crook passed through Denmark yesterday, having the racer Maplewood in charge, on his way to Coquille City. , Jos. Bassett of Port Orford is mak ing final preparations for his depar ture for-Oakland, taking his stock of goods with him. Mr. Thos. Cornwall was up this way yesterday having come for Mr. Haft's bear dog to assist him in rid ding his place of the unusually num erous varmints which are killing his sheep. T- Tame Pasturage.-W1io questions the practicability of speedily reduc ing our brush lands to good pasture, will do well to inspect the present condition of the hill -sides facing Capt Lorentzen's residence. Two years ago a garter snake would have hesitated before attempting the ascent of these slopes, so dense was the growth of brush thereon. All is . changed now, and an endurinsr crass sod occupies the space vacated by the bramble. And it has cost next to nothing to accomplish this gratifying result A little intelligent effort in in the way of setting out fires at the right time and in the' right places did the work. It only remained to scatter the seed, to lay the founda tion for excellent permanent pastur age. There are thousands of acres near here, which will be much easier reduced from unproductiveness than , were the hill-sides and slopes above mentioned; indeed were the great stretches of semi-open lands lying east of the Floras lake jlats occupied in small holdings, they can with a comparatively trifling outlay of mon ey and muscle, be made to blossom as the rose. These hill and dells will be owned and occupied by thrifty, sol vent, self-sustaining stock-raisers, dairymen, farmers and horticultur ists before many years have elapsed. Job "Work. During the past two weeks the Recorder job .office has done considerable work for Langlois & Nelson in the way of bill heads, letter heads, paper bags, etc. This firm, always abreast of the times, is not blind to the beneficent results cer tain to accrue from the persistent and 'judicious use of printer's ink, and their success is a standing rebuke to the folly of country merchants who make out their bills on straw wrapping paper and write their few letters with a "404 Gillott" on diagonally-ruled boarding-school-girl note paper. . "Varmints." W. H. Averill discov ered and shot at a panther on his place Sunday, and within two hours all the hunting bloods in the dis trict were out with guns and dogs 'but failed to trace-it up. THE BRIDGE MEETING. Saturday last at 1 o'clock, in pur suance of an advertised call , of the president, the citizens of the district interested in the building of a bridge across Floras creek met to hear the report and take action on the work of the committee elected at a meeting held the previous Saturday. In the absence of the chairman of the com. mittee, J. E Hawkins, and E. M. Blackerby, secretary, it could not be ascertained whether or not any bids had been received for the erection of a bridge at yie site selected by the committee. After some little discus sion the meeting concluded that, had any bids been received, the "chairman would have presented them; where upon D. E. Stitt a member of the committee, moved its discharge, which motion was adopted. A motion to elect a new committee of three, to report within four days, was passed, and Messrs. Peter Nelson, T. J. Stitt, Z. Boice, E. Dodge,' W. Shoemaker, W. S. Guerin and W. Cox were put in nomination, the balloting resulting in the selection of Messrs. Dodge, Cox and Stitt After some discus sion as to the probable cost and di mensions of the proposed bridge, the meeting adjourned, si)ie die. The committeehave since reported and suggest that the road, after crossing the chasm south of J. M. Upton's place, pass thence by the west foot of the rocky butte on an even and very gentle slope to the bridge site; thence along the west bank of the river until it strikes the section line, thence along said lino to the high land north of the valley and 'thence over to intersect the county road. Panthers. Old "Doc." "Wilson writes to us as follows: During the past week the panthers have played h with my sheep. I had .fifteen graded bucks in a grass lot near my shanty, for safe keeping, and last Friday night the panthers killed five of them, and crippled eight more so badly that some have sinco died. After a thorough reconnaissance of my range, I find they have been about as heavy on my little band. First off, I thought such damnablo luck as that would make a preacher cuss. Why sir, Invas mad enough to eat a dozen boiled eggs at one setting. I would have shot a panther if I could have come on to him, and had my gun, and she had not hung fire.'' But upon mature reflection, ' my chickens have plenty of meat to eat, and are running over my wooden plates as usual, and I am able to crawl round by a fight sqneeze, but it makes no difference, so Cleveland is elected. No Burns this Year. The rains have come again, which fact must dis pel any hopes there may have been entertained for Fall burning. Where the brush has been slashed and lies thick upon the ground, it will be all the better for lying over one season, as the burn which follows will be much cleaner; besides, there will be an advantage in giving the elders and salmon brush a chance to sprout, as, when the ground is burned in August the sprouts and stumps from which they issued will be effectually killed, thus hastening their decay and dis appearance. There are, however, many hundred . acres of last year's burns which, if thickly seeded this Fall yet, will produce good pasture for next season, besides "holding the fort" against the advent of noxious and worthless growths which always seek to occupy burnt over lands. There are many hundred acres of un claimed land burnt over and ready for seeding. Moved. Mr. E. M. Blackerby who has had S. J. Culver's place rented for a year past, moved his family last week to the Brown place across the creek where they will reside for the ' present COOS COUNTY ITEMS. Daniel T.! HilL late of Coquille City, died at! the insane asylum at Salem on the 14th ihst Twent7-nine boats are engaged in fishing on the Coquille, catching, in the aggregate, -1000 salmon per night Rev. G. W. Black, of the Babtist Church at Marshfield and Miss Ella Bitter, of Parkersburg, were married at the latter place, on Thursday last. Hon. A. C. Jones of Roseburg, a Cleveland candidate for Elector of this State was announced to speak at Norman's. Hall in Marshfield last Saturday night The late rains have damaged grain in Coos County. Grain cut before the storm is a total loss,- while uncut grain is so badly lodged that it will be difficult to harvest The Government steamer Gen. "Wright was in the Bay last Sunday. Capt Powell was aboard, perhaps to see how the breakwater would look from a new standpoint. Mr. John Lewis will next week commence the construction of aware house, 80x30 feet, with 1G feet sides, at Bandon, and will be prepared to take cafe of all freight discharged by vessels at his wharf. James Dyer, who arrived ion the last steamer, is here on a visit to his brother, our esteemed County Judge. Some years ago Mr. Dyer resided at Port Orford. He is now a resident of California, and is the inventor of quartz-crushing machinery of a valu able character. Mail. A. C. Frick, the man who was late ly stabbed at Randolph, is improving and it is said will ultimately recover, notwithstanding the serious nature of his. wounds. Frank Sheridan, who is accused of cutting him, is at pres ent in Empire awaiting the action of the Grand Jury. A wild - bogy weighing about 300 pounds, was killed by Philip Martin a few days ago, in the canyon at his place, near Southport. Tho beast first routod Martin's dog, and then manifested a disposition to go for him, when it was shot and killed. It had tusks three inches or more in length. Obo Smith of Pony slough, took to Empire last week a raft of 380 logs, which he anchored above town, and Thursday night the line parted and the raft drifted to tho Breakwater at Rocky Point, where it went to pieces, after which all the logs except about two dozen went over the bar and were lost The logs were worth about 1,200. Mi H. P. "Whitney has sold his real estate on the Bay, and the good will of the butchering business to Messrs Otto Schetter and P. Flana gan for $27,500. The new firm also take the stock of merchandise on hand at cost prices. We understand they have also made arrangements to take whatever beef cattle "Whitney may wish to dispose of. News. Tho Neics says Capt Reed has made arrangements to build a side wheel steamer for the owners of the Coos Bay. Her dimensions will bo keel, 120 feet; beam, 25 feet, and depth of hold, 7 feet, to cfraw seven feet when loaded. When the new steamer is finished, tho Coos Bay will run from San Francisco to this port, only, and the now boat will deliver freight at the different harbors and rivers along the Coast touching at Ellensburg, Port Orford and possibly the Coquille. Knee Cut. We are informed that a letter has been received by Mrs. O. P. Brown of this place from her hus band who went from b.ere some time since to Linkville, in Benton county, for the benefit of his health, that while engaged in getting out shingle timber he lost control of the splitting ax, which went entirely through .the block and into his leg, spliting his knee-cap. ELLENSBURG ITEMS. The run of fish still remains rather slack for this time of year. A party will be given in the now warehouse when it is completed. v Beautiful weather again, and our farmers are busily engaged in thrash ing and taking care of their small grain. Any one wishing a first class Singer sewing machine will do well to cal Ion or address, A. M. Gillespie of Ellens burg. v 'Chas. Camp still remains at the North Star in rather poor health, but is somewhat improved since last writing. There will be quite an amount of fencing done with barbed wire in this portion of the' county during the coming season. The steamer Hume came in on the evening of the 13th, and having mt very little freight either to discharge or to take away, went out on the same tide. Capt Strahan and his partjr went out to the rocks on the Rogue river reef on the morning of the 13th and returned on the same day with their camping outfit used while sealing , on those rocks during tho past season. Badger. land sales. We omitted to mention in our last issue the purchase of the Bassett land on Floras creek by Messrs. T. J. Stitt and George Fitzhugh. The tract con sists of two hundred acres, lying im mediately along the stream from Mr. Averill's west line up. Mr. Stitt gets the east half in the division between himself and Mr. F.', of the entire pur chase. . Mr. J. E. Hawkins . has purchased of Mrs. C. M. Upton, the tract of land locally known as the "Scott. Eighty." This purchase, added to the Fitzhugh place, gives Mr. Hawkins one of the most desirable farms in Curry county. By trimming away some willow points here and there, and clearing an oc casional alder grove on the skirts of the prairie, Mr. H. will possess a sol id field of excellent open bottom land of one hundred and twenty acres which can bo swept by the eye from from any point of observation within the opening. There is no crop but will grow to perfection on this place. The Fair. We learn that T. W. Crook will enter 'Jos. Nay's Maple wood in the mile race at the fair and stock show at Coquille City, on the 16th prox., under the auspices of the Southwest Oregon Agricultural So ciety. For the same race A. J. Aiken's horse, Sammy Tilden, and the "Gal lier mare" have been entered. This race promises to be the feature of the racing program, since it will serve to settle a much mooted question as to which of the two Woodbury colts is "fleetest of foot." . Some funds will change ownership on the result The Miners' Manual. Henry N. Copp, of Washington, D. C, has a little volume called the "Prospectors' Manual" a work sungested by a Col orado miner. It enables the pros pector to any mineral by the acid and blow-pipe tests given. It also gives the United States and local mining laws to date, land office instructions, and valuable forms for location no tices, miner's liens, proofs, leases, deed, and applications for patents. Price 50 cents. School Meeting. The directors of School District 0.13 met Saturday to take into consideration the ques tion of the completion of the school house, and ordered the Clerk to call a meeting of tho voters of said Dis trict to pass upon the advisability of levying a tax to raise the neces sary funds, in addition to the sub scriptions paid in, to complete the structure. The second Saturday in October was named as the date of tho meeting, GENERAL NEWS. Two Chinamen born in Walla Walla, W. T., and now of age are en titled to vote. The Tammany organization; on the 12th inst, by a vote of 810 to 87, ea dorsed the action of the National Democratic Convention. "O, for Blucher or .for night," ex claimed Wellington at Waterloo. "O, for Dorsey or for cash," cries the Plumed Knight in his soul. Frank Hutchings, the man who murdered his mistress in San Fran cisco some months 6inco was hanged in that city on the 12th inst The Nez Perces, now. in Indian Territory, are to be returned to their old reservation in Idaho. Chief Jo seph will not return with his tribe as his scalp is at a premium in that sec- . tion. It is stated that the price realized by the China Merchants' Steam Nav agation Company for their fleet of twenty-six vessels, sold, as announced, to an American Company, for 5,250, 000 taels, equal to about $6,500,000. At Pomeroy, W; T., wheat is sold for 35 cents per bushel. In Lewis ton, L T., it has been sold for 28 and 30 cents per bushel, and dull sale at that price. Millions of bushels havo been produced this year in those lo calities. It is stated that President Arthur is quietly laying wires for election to the United States Senate from New York to succeed Senator Lapham whose term expires March 4, 1885. Arthur believes 'that a Senatorship from the great State of New York is a position he could take with proprie ty, and at the same save his dignity. Frisbie, the defaulting bank clerk, was arraigned in Portland on the 16th on a charge of the larceny of $2,905 in a banking house, the complaint al leging that the money was taken on July 12. After consulting with his counsel he stated that he would waive examination. His bonds were fixed at 5,000, which he is unable to fur nish. Advices state that intelligence h as reached Canton of fearful inunda , tions in Khiang Sai province. The news is dated from King Jak, chief center of tho pottery manufacture, and one of the four great markets of the Empire. The floods lasted four days, and submerged an immense sec tion of country to the depth of sixty feet. Wrhole towns were swept away, and from 70,000 to 80,000 peo ple perished. On account of tho depression in the trade, the Edgar Thompson Steel Company, of Pittsburg, Pa, have no tified their employees that unless they accept a reduction of wages a suspension of operations would bo necessary. The firm employs nearly 5,000 men. The probability is that a reduction will be accepted, as tho number of idle men in that vicinity is greater now than at any time dur ing the past ten years. The international survey party has located the boundary between Mexico and the United States, 600 yards north of the old line. This throws a considerable portion of the town of Nosgales on Mexican soil. The Mexi can law prohibits foreigners from holding real- estate within twenty leagues of the boundary. Americans declare their intention to hold on to their property, by force of arms if necessary. General Topete will in force the demands of his Government and compel American occupants to relinquish their possessions. Trouble is expected. A Big Egg. Mr. J. E. Hawkins brought to this office last week a hen's egg, which for size beats anything ever produced in these parts. It measures six inches in circumfrenco the short way and eight inches lengthwise. s