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Church, South, will preach at the fol lowing times and places: 1st ¡Sunday in each month, at Eagle Creek, at 11 M.,'and Sat A n d Im p o rte rs o f urday night previous; night at Gem City; Monday night following, Main Powder River, Fine W in es and Liquors, at Mr. Sanders'; Saturday night and 2d Sun ™y at ningville; Tuesday night following, 431 Jackson Street, San Francisco, North l ’owder. at Riggs'school house; Wed AND nesday at Wolf creek; Thursday night, Union- town; Friday night, Iowa scsool house; Sat 25 FRONT STREET, PORTLAND, urday night and 3d Sunday, 11 a . m ., Rus n46tf Oregon. sell's school house: night, La Grande; Tues- day night after, Liberty school house; Wed nesday night, Forest Cove, Divio school house; Thursday night, Kimlall’s school house; Friday night, Indian Valley; Saturday night and 4th Sunday at 11 a . m ., Dry creek Importer and Dealer In Bcnoolhouse; night, Summerville; Monday night following, Uniontown; Tuesday night, Big creek. R eligious . — R ev, A. J. Joelyn will fill ap NEW SPAPERS, pointments as follows, until further notice: FRANKLIN BOOK-STORE AND SANTA CLAUS’ 1st Sunday each month at Union, at 11 a . m , Headquarters, Fire-proof “ “ The Cove, at 3 p . m . 2d Sunday Summerville morning and eve’ng. Brick Building, 105 Front street, Portland, 8d Sunday, Cove at 11 a . m .; Union 3 r. m . Oregon. [tf 4th Sundav, Pocahontas at 11 a . m .; James’ nil School House at 3 p. m ., aud Baker City at 8 p. M. D R . J. R. C A R D W E L L , Monday evening following, Rye Valley; Tues Dentist day and Wednesday evening, Mormon Basin; Thursday evening at Eldorado ENTAL ROOMS, No. 89, First street, Portland, Oregon. The late and im proved stvles of work at reduced rates. Ni P R O F E S S I O N A L CARDS. trous oxide for the painless extraction of J. H. Cotter 014 B O O M f lusty, S J M’CORMICK, Boots, Stationary, Toys, Music Aud D ------ --------------- -- ------- W. N’ o t a k y P u b l i c . S te rn s & H y d e , A tto rn e y s teeth. [ n29tf T. C. HYDE, L. O. STERN8, H. W A T K IN S , P H Y S IC IA N A N D am i t'oiiiiNclors A l-I.a w . B A K E R CITY, OREGON. L. 0 . S terns will attend the Courts of the Fifth Judicial District, and of Idaho and Washington Territories. Water Rights and Mining Litigation a S pecialty . Collections promptly attended to. June 18, 1873.n6y M. D. SURGEON. FFICE, Odd Fellows’s Building. Resi dence, corner of Main and Park streets, Portland, Oregon. [EF*Special attention to diseases of the Eye and Ear. | n29 O BUSINESS NOTICES. ’W e s t e r n H o t e l. MAIN STREET,.........................................BAKER CITY. LAWRENCE 4 DUGAN, R EID & FLETCHER, Prop’r. j^ fc t o r n e y s -a t -H a w , & B A K E R CITY, OREGON. -T -T T II.I. P R A C T I C E IN A L L C O U R T S V S K o f the State. NUr. Lawrence, the resi dent partner, will attend to the business in Union Counties. n50y ttorney and cou n selor A Law, Baker city, Orogon. at | n ltf L A A V . | m . A » IP E IE M IE p BAKES,......................................... OREGON. Advances made on good mortgages, bonds, notes and accounts, left for collection, when desired. [n ltf J. M . S l l K 1MI K H D , -A ttorney - at - X j a w , B AK ER CITY, OREGON. J AS. H. r n HIS HOUSE has been enlarged and re- 1 fitted, and is now the best Hotel on the Umatilla and Idaho stage route. Stages leave this House for above and be low', and also for Clark’s Creek Eldorado, Gem City and Sparta. Connected with tho Hotel will bo found a first class S A L O O N ! I. D. HAINES, Liquors, Wines and Cigars of the best quality. Phelan’s Improved Billiard Tables all in good order. N. B.—Those indebted to cither the Hotel or Saloon are requested to appear at the Captain’s office ana settle. no5v3tf. GEORGE SALLY, PROPRIETOR. OF T H E B an k E xchange, West Side of Main Street, B a k er City, Oregon. -o - h is Attorney and Counselor at Law, JOSEPH H. SHINN, N otary P ublic AND saloon is the very best of T BRANDIES, SUPPIED WITH W HISKYS. WINES, SLATER, Will practice in the Courts of the Fifth Judicial District. Particular attention paid to Collections. ; April 2 , 1878.-n47y. PEACE L e tte r fr o m R o n . M ILLARD & VAN SCHUYVER, PORTLAND, OREGON. 7 Prepared to do all kinds of JUB WORK on short notice and at reasona ble rates. POOR CIGARS, <fcc., <tc. The Proprietor of this New Establish ment will be pleased to see bis Friends and the Public give him a call, and be will try to make them feel AT HOME. Baker City, .Tone 12, 1872.-no5v3tf C. JACOBS, "W h olesale H e a le r , IN W I N E S and L IQ U O R S • Conveyancer, AND P O L IC Y . J. G. W i U o n . The following letter was copied from the New York Herald of June 2d, 1873: W ashington May 30, 1873 As a friend and supporter of the 1 present administration I cannot be charged with any act of hostility if I comment upon what I deem to have been erroneous in the management and construction of its Indian poli cy, a subject now of utmost import ance and complicated features. In common with the people of Oregon, I desire to assist the government in its endeavor to carry oat a just and hamanc treatment o l its Indian wards; but I do not w sh to assent to a policy which I deem ineffectual, either by its merits or improper en forcement, and shall only make my assertions applicable to the country in which I am specially interested— Oregon and Washington Territory. It has become a cn^om in the east to call every Indian war or disturbance on the Pacific coast an act caused by tbe dishonesty of Oregonians for the purpose of speculation, and to speak freely of their usual cruelty and in humanity toward the red man. In the formation of this custom officials at Washington have lent their aid, until now tho people of that western coast can bo branded as “ border ruf fians,” and as destitute of instinct and feeling, by official speakers be fore Washington audiences, and with out any reason therefor other than the complaint of a Digger Indian or the scribblings of an irresponsible correspondent. Twenty years of life in Oregon, and an acquaintance with probably three-fourths of its citizens, enable me to claim them the peers of any in their peaceful and law abi ding character and true humanity.— Those years have mostly been spent in official relations, which have bro’t me into a good knowledge as to how the Indians are treated there. T r e a tm e n t o f In d ia n s in O regon . The Secretary of the Interior, in his explanation of wl&t he terms the “ Quaker policy,” gives us to infer his opinion of that treatment; for he says now, “ Under its influence [Quaker policy] it is hoped that hu manity and kindness may take the place of barbarity and cruelty,” a'k though up to the golden era of peace policy “ barbarity and cruelty” had alone characterized the Indian policy. Such unlimited and unguar ded expressions teach strangers to form improper conclusions. Neither barbarity nor cruelty form an ele ment in tbe laws of Oregon and Washington Territory; nor do they enter into social ethics there; nor in the twenty years of control of Indi ans upon reservations there can an instance indicative of either be found. In the main I find no fault with the peace policy; but I find this—it friends claim that it is about to ac complish wonders, when, in fact, those very things have existed in full force and beauty for years in Or egon. In order to explain my mean ing I quote from the official e x p l a nation of the Quaker policy. The first proposition is “ to place the In dians upon reservations, &c., and provide for them as the dictates of humanity and Christian civilization require.” Is that anything new?— Has it solely accomplished this in Oregon and* in Washington Territo ry? I assert that not one single thing of the- kind has been done since its inaugaration. The Indians in all that coast west of the Cascade Mountains had been long time resi dents upon reservations, and the work of civilizing and instructing the Indians was carried on years ago as fully as now and as successfully. Tlie Reservation Plan. Manufacturer o f the Celebra Turning to the Eastern portion of Will attend to Conveyancing and making that country, the only effort to put ABSTRACTS OF TITLE. ted Jacobs’ W hisky, Indians upon reservations under that BafcsrCiJgr, Sept. 11, 1S72. nlHtf AT policy is this lamentable Modoc fail ure. Now, just as before, the roving Boise City, Idaho. H r . Ec T ie r n e y , bands of the Umatillas continue to E DISTILLS HIS WHISKY FROM PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, the very best of Corn and Rye. It is live where they please and plunder Pure and Unadulterated; and he can sell it where they can. Bands of the Yaki- BAKER CITY, OREGON, at a price that will make it an object for mas, Simcofcs and Warm Springs T V ESPBCTFULLY INFORMS THE CIT Dealers in have never been placed upon their I V izens of Eastern Oregon that he has lo cated in Baker City, and gives strict attention Eastern Oregon reservations, an they stretch along toliis Profession. tbe Columbia River from Priest’s To give him a Trial. nl3tf [^ O f f i c e at J. W. Wisdom’s Drug Store Rapids to the Cascades. The Modocs 05==* Residence at the end of the street are deserters of four years standing. north of the Catholic Church. Klamath River bands are but no Baker Citv, Nov. 5, 1872.-n2Gtf. h e u n d e r s ig n e d b e g s l e a a ' e mads. The great band of Snakes, to inform the citizens of Baker City and claiming near a third part of Oregon T * 'l j s r . S n o w , A t . I D . vicinity, that he has opened a conquered and treated with years BARBER SHOP ago, have no reservation, but are Physician and Surgeon, In Baker City, in the Baker City Restaurant building, where he hopes to receive a share held under military rule; no Quaker BAKER CITY, OREGON. policy of improvement for them.— of patronage* OFFICE—At the City Drug Store. He professes to understand his business, Unfriendly bands of Nez Perces con and is satisfied he can give satisfaction. MEDICAL E XAM IN ER trol one-tbird of Union county, not For the New York Life Insurance Co- S h a v in g 25 cents, H air C u ttin g 50. only away from tbeir reservation, nl3if n51tf R. E. BAUER. but outsfde of Idaho Territory, their home, and across tbe Snake River, J". I 3. A t w o o d , M . D . and to-day they threaten danger and (Graduate of the Medical Department ot pie, o f either sex, young or old, make more death to the setlers oi "XX allow a ! the Willamette University,) money at work for ub in their spare moments, \ alley. They have so acted for a or all'the time, than at anything else.^ Par- iong time, and, until the Modoc un- PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, ticolars free. Address, G. Stinson & Co. pleasantess arose, no peace commis I n231 BAKER CITY, OREGON. (tf v 3n !9v Portland, Maine. sion has visited them. The govern ment well knows that these bands take with them their thousands of horses that trespass npon the unpro * E s p e c t f u l l y i n f o r m s THECITI- W A N T E D . tected lands andj crops of settlers, zens of Baker City and vicinity that he ^ ■ s o o n be with them again prepared to do he u n d e r s ig n e d w i l l p a y ' and in the enjeyment of their fishery ids of the Best o f Wages for 10 o r 12 Stone rights they wrongfully bring from Dental Work, Masons. Work will last about throe months. their reservations every horse they ROBERTS A NELSON. own, until, in and about the fishery Baker City, April 2 8 ,1873.n51tf H YE W IIARRER SHOP. T $ 5 TO $ 2 0 DR. D, D. STEPHENSON, STONE MASONS & STONE COTTERS T ; 3 most substantial manner, er City, March 12, !S73.n44tf. assert that it is totallv destructive of j Now, by high order, the drums boat, the first proposition of peace policy the war horse champs the bit, the soldier dons his harness aud thirsts mentioned. for war. Tho order is tho absolute W h y T lie Q u a k e r * F a il. When the Indian refuses to go np- extermination of Modoc, bnck, on his reservation, and government squaw and harmless pappoose. In suffers him to go at large, theu the anger the government declares tho whole Quaker policy fails, for he Modoc an ontlaw, whom no ono need ceases to he in reach of the blessings challenge before lie slays. Guns of civilizing influences at the bands and ammunition aro furnished in of church members alone. Does not abundance to the settler, the Orego this doctrine place the Indian’s will nian, whom tho pnblio and peace and pleasure above the power of policy speakers so lately branded as government. The Quaker policy a “ border ruffian” and as one greedy proposed to put the Indian upon a for Indian spoil at all times, and the reservation, yet if the Indian declin government throws over him the es to go, then all tho power to com raantlo of tho peace policy, and bids pel him, under the policy, to do so him God speed to ttho carnival of is at an end, ndless the Indian pro death. If tho Oregon settlor is 9nch ceeds to commit outrages upon set a man as alleged, will ho wait to ask tlers. Crovemment proposes that af any Indian whethev ho bo a Jew or ter the wandering Indian shall have Gentile, Modoc or Simooe. Scythian taken the settlers life then he is in or Greek, before ho does his coun just the condition to be moved to the try’s present bidding? Tho result reservation and commence Iris civili will, I fear, bo a war from California; zing process; in other words, it op to Idaho, including the hitherto enly permits what it proposes to pre peaceable Cayuso and the uncompro vent. If remedy is of any avail, let mising Mofloc. Paulina, a Snake In it be in time. The doctrine is wrong dian, with eleven braves; kept all for I care not how peaceable tho no Eastern Oregon in fear, while for two madic Indian may be, he is not years, despite the United States where he belongs, and it will be ut troops, ho murdered at will. In the terly impossible to prevent conflicts samo proportion, how long will sixty daily with the settlers, and is in Modocs harass tho innocent settler? strong contrast with tho idea of in t e r fe r e n c e w i l l ! tile 1 .« i v * o fO r e jfo n . T lio ( b i a k c r P o li c y . Auother matter demands uotioe.— keeping the Indian from “ contigui Again, the Secretary says:—“ It is ty to settlements.” This delay as to In responso to tho protest of the Gov the determination of this policy to “ severity” in this Modoc caso has eruor of Oregon, I understand that see that all supplies—food or cloth painfully proven this error in poli the Secretary of tho Interior tele ing, purchased for Indians upon res cy. The Modocs had deserted from graphed to tho Commission to pay no ervations—are procured at fair and the treaty reservation^- had been attention to such protest, and direc reasonable prices, without having away some four years; bad taken up ted tho officer in command in no’ the funds of government squandered again their nomadic habit; again and event, in case of treaty, to surrender on their purchase.” So say we all again they had flatly refused to re- to tho Stato authorities any of the in one unanimons verdict. This ■ turn, and were determined to become Modocs who stood iudieted for mur statement infers that, heretofore, the co-tenants with settlers upon the der or crimo in tho Stato Courts. I f custom has been to cheat the Indian lands which those Indians had spec this bo true, theu I here enter what and squander government funds. It ially sold by treaty and had received I know will bo tho unanimous pro is a sad confession. Government compensation therefor. See the re test of tho people of Oregon against must have known of these evils at sult. Government was well posted any such course. It deserves strong the time of commission, or very in all these matters. It knew that in condemnation. The laws of Oregon shortly after, for shoddy articles last November, in enforcing a prop aro merciful and just. They declare wear out soon and complaint follows er order, Maj. Jackson was made a that overy ono who unlawfully kills from the wearer, and an inspection target for Modoc rifle practice, and another, upon proper trial and con of commercial price lists would have that within twenty-four hours the viction, shall suffer the penalty. The exposed exorbitant prices. Common Modocs had wantonly killed near Modoc, on soil to which his right sense would declare that tho confess twenty unsuspecting settlers—ma- had boon extinguished, _____________ a ______ , and whore ion is that, with knowledge of frauds, ture men and beardless boys. H4ftT’ he unlawfully was, which the Uni no effort has hitherto been made to not everything happened which, un ted States admits by forcing him interpose some check to such acts, der the definition of peaco policy, re elsewhere, commits murdor, yea, and the assertion now is that the quired the exercise of needed sever twenty murders, and thus amenable Quaker policy is alone competent to ity by the President? Had not tho to Oregon law escapes punishment reform abuses. If government has thunder been heard, and had not the by the interference of the armed mil winked at such things the people flash of lightning and the storm been itary power of the United States.— have not, and will say shame on such seen? Far from cai’rying out the The Commissioner’s first proposi failure in duty. Let the depart Quaker policy doctrine and inflict tion to tho Modocs was “ universal ments at Washington proclaim the ing necessary punishmont, tho mili amnesty upon surrender.” Thus fraudulent things done and the nam tary power was stayed, and a com the government agrees that the Mo es of the doers and the reform will mission sent 3,000 miles to find out doc shall not suffer for crime either- follow. What new reasons have what was the trouble in tbe Modoc by the general government or by the' been furnished to convince the peo country, aud determine what might Stato of Oregon. Tho courts of Or ple that the Quaker policy alone can be the cause of that trouble—a mat egon have always been strong and prevent crime and stop financial leak? ter then well known to the authori just enough to control the Indian up Can it plan out some new Credit Mo ties. From the very first telegram on reservations, and make him un bilier? Shall it be placed in Con from the Commission, March 4, was derstand tho relation betwoen crime' gress alone or in the hands of agents not the government informed in and subsequent penalty. Now, by only? Past experience in Mobiliers these words:—“ The Modocs emphat direct order and practice the Indian aud embezzlements would say “ No.” ically reject all offers and prdposi- may do anything, and tho more Can the people be assured that, with t.ions. This undoubtedly means treacherous his character—the more some new unexplained theory, gov treachery. The Commission is a fail horrid his crime—the stronger be ernment can improve upon the shod- j ure?” Yet the government declines comes his claim for tho protective dy contracts of the late war and corn to enforce its policy, and, upon con interposition of tho United States to el exact justice in administration of fessed treachery, grants delays; and savo him. from punishmont. For ndian matters alone, when such ex can the frontier settlers place the re proof, see tho terms proposed by the hibitions of dishonesty are made in sponsibility elsewhere than upon the Commission. It seems as though nearly all other places? Why not try act of government itself? The sec government was willing to pat the the plan of utterly refusing the infe ond and third Commissions are dis Morloc murderer on tho back and rior goods of a contractor, turn them solved and the four months of ineff say to him, “ The little matter of back upon his hands, and compel him ectual palaver, against advice and twenty murders is so trivial that we and his bondsmen to pay the price at protest, end in death. Men skilled hardly think you did wrong.” No which such perfect goods can be in Indian character, even members wonder that the Oregon authorities bought in the market? Leave the of the Commission, had become dis. protested, both publicly and to the contractor surrounded by his shod gusted and had abandoned the work, Department, against this unrighte dy, dishonored goods, and take from . and notified the government of its ous proposition, which allowed the him full compensation for loss. Do*1 expensive blunder. It was commission of crime and insured not reward or countenance swind- | A T r i u n i | i l i o f I m l i u i i D i p l o m a c y . immunity from punishment. Let me ling by touching the frauds of its The Indian gained everything— say, in all candor,if such is to be the creation. Peace policy elevates the time, until he would no longer have peace policy and such the defiance church member above his fellow to depend upon his caches for pro of our laws it were better that the men, and declares that he alone can visions; time, until the mountain, United States should speedily with administer right, and is alone hon sides could furnish him with road, draw their wards from the State of est. I think it is only a bid for by- | food and fire; time until the squaw Oregon, and avoid certain danger.— pocrisy—that, with the investiture of j and pappoose could be placed be In Indian treaties, and, probably, power andsthe seductive influences yond danger; time for the govern in the Modoc one, provisions are of money and patronage before him, ment to commit a fatal blunder; time made for the surrendering o f mur the church member will weaken at to have confessed treachery blossom derers, Ac., on demand. If so, why times, and be no more fitted than out into perfect success. Those In did the Secretary do violence to its others for the complicated control of dians came upon tho field with war provisions, as well us to law and Indian reservations. The past does paint npon their faces, with the good faith? Were it not better to do not proclaim the infallibility of scalps of murdered settlers dangling away with such impolitic shams as church members, either in high pla at their belts and their clothes upon are treaties, and govern the Indian ces or low and the proclamation by their persons. Government took no by rules flowing directly from expe government that 6uch are the only notice of the twenty slaughtered, rience and use of common judgment? persons whom government will trust scalped and mutilated Oregonians.— No one desires tho treatment of the is received with a thousand scruples Under the Quaker policy that was Indian to be other than humane and of doubt. Tbe government is mere not sufficient to call for severity, but beneficent, and so far all would sup ly experimenting, when, by careful when, upon Good Friday, a general port the present policy; but by a attention to existing tbiDgs, all was murdered, it waked up to the special operation it is fast losing would have been w#U. Government fact that the Modocs were hostile; caste, because its directors lose sight ignores the existence of integrity of that they needed a little severity, in of its true application, in an idea of character and business qualification the words of the Secretary, “ to teach Indian character which is both ab outside of the chnrch. Of course them it were better to go npon the normal, untrue and unjust. The In outsiders can be allowed to question reservation.” Punishment, swift dian Commissioners and the Indian such a proposition. Again, the Sec and condign, should have fallen up Department seem anxious to elevate retary says:—“ Whenever it shall be on them long before. And this great the Indian at the expense of the found that any tribe or band or band nation has been seen parleying in white race. They have ever ready a of Indians persistently refuse to go treaty with fifty murderers and beg eulogy for the red man, and excuse upon a reservation and determine to ging them to come npon the reserva for his brutai acts, by averring that continue their nomadic habits, ac tion aud get a blanket and food for he is injured and wronged by the companied with depredations, outra having been so good. Those settlers whites, but never a word of admis ges, Ac., then it is the policy of the were heads of families, and dear to sion that Western people are kind to President to treat such band or tribe their wives and children—as dear as him or extend to him word or act of with all needed severity,” &c. Tbe was General Canby to his—they were sympathy. T h e S e ttle r * D e fe n d e d . doctrince here announced is that,be our fellow citizens, yettwenty deaths fore the government will use severi in November last had not the same On the other hand, they both pre- ty, the Indian must not only have power to wake a nation to duty as sume and say that the Indian unpro- time and again refused to go upon had two deaths in April, What faith voked would do no wrong, and boast his reservation, but to his wander can a settler have in such an enforc- themselves to be henceforth the val ings must have joined outrage and ment of a policy? It is no compen ient and sole protectors of the Indian depredation upon the frontier set sation or relief that government.act against the very abundant “ despera tler. I distinctly deny the truth or ing under the conversion of an hour, does, thieves and landsharks and the justice of any such doctrine, and I turns now to the absolute extreme. border ruffian.” An unprejndic^ of Tnmwater, five miles from my honse. and adjacent points. I have seen at least four thousand horses feeding for months upon the lands claimed by settlers, and upon adja cent lands, consuming that which is the property of the whites. Yet no settler dare to pasture his stock with in reservation under penalty, be* canse the Indians complain; in other words, an Indian’s complaint pre vails over white settlers’ protest and shapes government policy. These things are fast ripening into collis ions and should have been removed long ago. The citizens will lose faith in the efficiency of a policy, which, professing to create an Indi an millenium, fails to maintain the first propositions of its policy, and fails to operate more kindly and suc cessfully than the old plan. They universally favor a policy that shall be humane and Christianizing, with out losing sight of justice to both the white and red races. The past expe rience, under the Quaker policy, on ly suggests and establishes tho be lief that justice has been laid aside, and moral suasion, or pow-wow poli cy, substituted. Therefore this lat ter generally fails, even in civilized cities and church going communi ties, and faith always evaporates when founded on failures.