aged $200 per day for the week. One of the big factors in the week’s business was the shipment of peaches, the daily The Blue Ledge company has pur average number of boxes running from 1100 to 1200. chased 75 tons of hay, to be delivered at the mine, for $20 per ton, baled. The name tells the story - every- b<dy knows it; everybody likes it; Rev. Ben. Valjean and Miss Edna everybody uses it-I. W. HARPER May Hatches were married at Ashland whiskev. Sold by E. H. HELMS. last Monday. They are both residents of that city. ¡COUNTY NEWS Prof. J. N. Miller, the energetic pedagogue, who got a first-grade cer tificate in Josephine countys. after be ing turned down by Supt. Daily and his examiners, several times, has gone to Williams Creek, to teach the school in that district, says the Southern Ore gonian. H. S. Van Dusen, master fish warden of Oregon, while in Grants Pass, gave out the ultimatum that the Rogue River Water Company would either have to put in a new fishway or blow out their <lam across the river in that city, it is the biggest obstruction in that stream and prevents fish from ascend ing. The Carter Land Company of Ash land has sold its ¡entire apple crop, which it is estimated will aggregate 8000 or 9000 boxes, to W. N. White, of New York. There are about two cars of Gravensteins, the remainder being principally Newtownsand Spitzenburgs. It is understood that the up price on the apples is $1.75 per box, f. o. b. Ash land. It is amazing to consider the possibili ties if the sun were some other color. If it were blue, for instance, there would be only two colors in the world, blue and black; or if it were red then everything would be red or black. In the latter case we should have red snow red lillies, black grass, black clear sky and red clouds. There would be a little variety, however, if the sun were green. Things that are now yellow would still remain that color, but there would be no reds, those cheery hues that make the world so bright and pleasant. F. H. Rice, who has been a resident of Ashland and vicinity for some fifteen years, diet! Saturday and was buried from the baptist Church of which de ceased was a member. Rice is reputed to have been a man of education and in his earlier manhood is said to have been in affluent circumstances in Massachu setts whither he removed from his nu five state of New York, lle was a lawyer by profession and served as a judge in one of the lower courts of the Bay State. A daughter resides somewhere in Massachusetts, but he had not heard from her for several tears. The Ashland Wells Fargo Express office did the biggest week's business in its history last week. The receipts aver- CALL flí G VU. CONKLIN’S Silas J. Day Oregon - Filings made on homesteads and timber claims. 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