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York for Bntlerizing Son;> ln^e* B report of ligence in duty? The only seeming tfl^ndian, bv law, thi^l he must ap ______ _ iw pear in proper costume, and not as- thought he might SOtae S lilver ..mission, at their late excuse is that the intoxication arising U nion , Ogn., June 22nd, 1873. spoons ri^l-Povinn1 aR rnif _ i i ^ ^ O ff Colfaxing about the matter k ! L b7 York, to be an indict- from the honors of their office had semble in solemn council, as I have E ditor D emocrat : —I am scarcely was, nevertheless, removed t st against all citizens lulled them into a protracted slum seen them, with no covering but a J. % M. SHEPHERD, E ditor . able to write to day as the weather is penitentiary, where he got t0 the Ifc the region of Indians and ber, and now, on awaking, they seek handkerchief and red paint; forbid him the use of paint; insist upon him ^Preservations, and a declara- to shift the responsibility upon Su so cold. Last night was very cool reception. B A K E R C IT Y , J U N E 25 , 1873 . to exchange his troops of horses for .-.-2 h P at “no degree of exaggeration perintendent Odeneal, and charge T o o th a c h e proceeds from acn] an! two or-three inches of snow fell uuwtc that “he seems to have supposed it cattle and other less moveable prop iTynsehood is too grcies to be unhes- THE BEDROCK DEM OCRAT on the mountains east of this valley, face, operating upon the exposed ,1Q th<i H)gly accepted by the public mind „to be his duty to remove the Modocs erty. The Indian, without a horse, decayed tooth. Rub the g^, n'e of a H as th e L a r g e s t C ir c u la tio n o f a n y and to day the sun is scarcely warm Sinst the Indian,” a deplorable ! to the Klamath reservation.” His becomes harmless—he is no longer a with the finger, wet with Johm T Usblr s J , ’ 2 >ndition of debauchery. This state; . superior or dered him to do so in any warrior, no longer thinks of murdgr. P a p e r P u b lis h e d in E a ste rn O re g o n . enough to melt it off; but still it Mr dyne Linim ent, heat the face weli ° 3. ‘^n°' ment might be pardpned in a politi- event, forci blyifbemust. Mr, Oden If he is owner of cattle he will soon seems to be warm enough in the val a flannel wet with the lin in g aDiI V yrr F r - cal learn not to make war, since it would pal n a r t l «Atl l i n t p r i m o e ■ n n f y r a p i n n c l rr n n l i o o n a r partisan, but comes ungraciously eal is an energetic, able and honest * from a board of councilors selected officer, shrinks from no duty, and involve the loss of his property. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ley for all kinds of produce, and also put a little of the liniment into » fac®’ ' e ca?- with the unusual amount of x’ain our ity of the tooth on cotton. for their gravity, dignity and vast this [attempt to dishonor him as an This alone would, I affirm, entirely The Counties of -„ 3 worldly wisdom. It is not true so officer is but on a par with many revolutionize Indian matters, and crops look very promising. The hay The Chicago Post says; <i*. . B a k e r and G r a n t. far as the Pacific coast is concerned. other improper things in that report, would be the only thing to make him said that Stokes has conceived crop will be very heavy. Grain, in The report is but an attempt to can and is in perfect keeping with the cease being a wanderer. Let no In happy idea, and will notbehuna f fon' C o r r espo n d en c e from all portions of the Cove, is heading out, and those onize the Indian, to dishonor the Eastern habit of traducing the dwel dian leave his reservation without a ter all. He has determined to ffiii an frontier settler, and extol, without lers upon tlieJPacific coast. I cannot written permit from the agent. Let Eastern Oregon is solid ted for the D em ocrat . that are out of employment will soon the example of Caldwell, and resign » w reason, a pet policy. It ssserts that silently suffer that insult and injury him learn by actual experience that All communications, to receive attention, find plenty to do in the harvest field. ir The system frequently gets out of their policy is alone competent to shall be done to a worthy man, and food comes not without labor. We must be accompanied by a responsible name. order There is to be erected in the Cove r are all weary of this constant treaty and should be at once regulated, else other civilize the Indian and reform abuses, that man, faring sumptuously at Personal communications will be charged a school house and church together, troubles will ensue; when physic is nee- and utterly ignores any good ele Fifth Avenue hotels, may recklessly with Indians in the fall of the year; as special advertisements. ment in the previous administration speak of the conduct of an officer en and haying clothed and fed them du with a dancing hall overheard, ao take Parson’s Purgative Pills; they aiea^ of Indian affairs. “It is now going during all manner of privations and ring the winter, find them decamp you see dancing will be held above wholesome, and natural medicine. F oubth of J uly . —By reference to to appoint honest agents and to pro danger in literally obeying orders ing in the spring from their reserva tect peaceable tribes from the outra they should have supervised. Again, tion; and having spent the summer another column the programme for divine service. The hall in Union has been refitt ges of desperadoes, thieves and land- this report charges that “Indians are in outrage and depredation, they the celebration of the coming fourth sharks.” “Its method of procuring shot in cold blood to excite war for come again with the yearly snow for ed, and is to be used by the Masons honest agents is to take their nomin the sake of its attendant expenditure another treaty and for more food. at Baker City, will be found. It is and Odd Fellows exclusively. B A K E R C IT Y , OREGON, ations out t>f politics and put them of money,” and that “it is an indis The white settler is tired of this pub expected that the citizens of the val At a meeting of the citizens of Un under the control of religious socie putable fact of history that, previous lic winter clothing and feeding, to ley will form committees to act in ties, the political agents formerly to the .incoming of the present ad which he must contribute, and in connection with those of our place, ion, yesterday, over $700, stock was BROKER AND ASSAïgj appointed having been generally dis ministration of the government, near addition must toil for his own family subscribed for the purpose of con DEALER honest and I'eckless of the wellbeing ly every Indian war on record owed provision. The Indian thinks work so that we may have harmony and structing a race course at Union, to unity of action in the matter, and of the Indians.” How very easy to its immediate as well as its remote beneath -him. and fit only for silly In G o ld frame a theory, brilliant in general origin to acts of injustice, oppression whites and squaws. make this one of the best celebrations be ready for fall races for fall races. ized imaginings, yet wholly barren or crime on the part of white men.” —AND— I have thus given the views which that has ever been bad in Eastern It is surprising to see Union make •of good result or even of partial ac If the Commissioners rely upon true Oregonians have as to the designs such a move. It has been so near complishment! If the Commission history for proof, then their cruel and operations of the Peace Policy. Oregon. Mr. John I. Sturgill, of dead for so long a time that it had to ers could bring present humanity to assertion stands unproven. If it be Its true merit we appreciate, but de Wingville, a yoing man of fine tal perfection • or people the world only injustice, oppression and crime for a plore the manner of application. ents and a good reader, has been either kick or die—so it kicked, and — A LSO — by the sons of God their plan might man to settle upon United States J. G. WILSON, Oregon. chosen to read the Declaration of In while they are kicking let them kick succeed, audjin no otherevent. Their lands and industriously earn his liv up enterprise enough to assist Mr. dependence, and T. C. Hyde, onslaught upon former agents is ing and competence on tlie frontier, Prescott in bringing in a ditch from young man well qualified to perform alike insidious and unjust. The braving danger in an Indian country, names of some forty agents whom I then it will stand as- proven. Why the duty has been selected to deliver Catherine Creek carrying a sufficient have personally known warrant me do not .the Commissioners cite in the Oration. Mr. Hyde, at present amount of water to water the town Office—F irst door north Odd Fellow’s Ev in saying, and the Western people stances, so that the American people, 1776 Ln49v2tf] law partner of Judge L. O. Sterns, with hose, and all, that desire it, will scout such utterances as the fee as a jury, may form their own ver is an old resident of Eastern Oregon, could have a fountain in their own blest attempt to cover over inefficie- dict? Every frontier settler will ency and failure —to whitewash the know the assertion is unwarantable having resided in Grant County for dooryard, or garden, and with a lit sepulchre of powwow policy, and ex in fact, Let me give a number of years, and is a self made tle enterprise on the part of our citU pect a discriminating public to think O reg o n T e s tim o n y . . man. From the recommendations zens, Union could be made the coz Aabjirn Canal Company?A i- there is life within. The report OF THE In 1848 (the Cayuse war), when iest town in Eastern Oregon. we have received of his ability 1 claims that “in four years this poljcy Indians unprovokedly murdered the On Monday last the appraisers of burn, Baker County, Oregi has saved millions of dollars'to the missionary Whitman and twenty-six are satisfied that all those who may government and Indians, by break companion—the very persons who have the pleasure of listening to him property in the Wallowa, left for r i H I E B E A R E D E L IN Q U E N T CPU or OUR ing lip of rings the discovery and had devoted their lives to civilizing " - t h e fo llo w in g d e sc rib e d stock,dis on the Fourth will be well satisfied that place. They are of the opinion c o u n t oi a s s e s s m e n t (N o. 1,) levied ont- prevention of frauds, the unearthing these very savages. In 1852 a com tw e n t i e t h d a y o i M ay , 1873, the seven that the Valley will be retained by am with him on that occasion. and dismissal of dishonest agents,” pany of United States volunteers ounts set opposite the names of the:: spective Stockholders, as follows: <fcc. If this be true, I would suggest went out to protect emigrants and the whites. H E C IT IZ E N S OP B A K E R C IT Y «T N o. o f No. of the giving of satisfactory reasons for punish their murderers. After bury R a c e s . —On the fifteenth of July On Wednesday, June 18th, Wallo N am es. Certificate-.- Shares: Air. and Powder River Valley intend to Cel so large an H a r r is o n OI in s te a d , 6 10 8«. ing thirty-two murdered emigrants ebrate the coming Anniversary of American there will be a match race over the wa river was higher than ever known H arrison Olm stead, 7 ii K T r u i « in t h e I n d ia n a p p r o p r ia tio n s « 10 in Modoc ground, Wright slew the Independence by a Baker City Race Course, between by the whites, and as it is 80 yards H arrison Olmstead, 8 40? 10 this year. Former squanderings o,! murderers in open fight. He had Olmstead, 30 32; 8 G ra n d ^Procession, Alex. La Buff’s horse Buckskin and wide and runs at the rate of twelve J H a arrison cob K am m , 38 #J 115 money never exceded the appropria been born and bred a Quaker, ani C. B. W a g n e r, 40 20 Reading of the 6 Ross’ mare, Maria, a single dash of miles an hour, it carries a vast D tions, and why should a larger sum adopted the true policy. In 1853 the . A . R u s s e ll, 41 9) 15 J. Myrick, be needed for the honest dealings of war in Southern Oregon begun by one mile for a purse of sixteen, hun amount of water. 25 28- 7 J . M y ric k , 32 2 8- this policy than sufficed for former the brutal murder of an unsuspect dred dollars. Each horse to carry one A large amount of drift wood had B Y AA dv.in 5.ccor<tance w ith law an d an ord annuities, salaries and stealings com ing drover and of John Ii. Hardin hundred and five pounds. This bids accumulated above the bridge, and oi th e B o ard o f D irectors, m ad e on t! M R . J O H N I . S T U R G IL L ,, bined? The fact is, the Indians are and others by the Indians. In 1865 T w e n tie th d a y o f Alay, 1873, so m anyshar fair to be tbe most exciting race ev was about carrying it away, when, oi each p a rc e l o f su c h sto c k as inav her. rapidly decreasing in numbers and and 1^56 the Rogue River and Yaki And an Oration by ssa ry w ill be so ld a t P u b lic Auction, inereasingin expensiveness. Neither ma war by almost simultaneous Indi er run in Eastern Oregon, and it is to save the bridge, A. C. Smith, C. ce th e Office o f th e C o m p a n y , A u b u rn , Bak jVTr- T . C . H y d e , C o u n ty , O regon, a n th e has anything been saved in that time an murders, committed 400 miles anticipated that large amounts of Beggs and others engaged themselv After which there will be a by the cessation of Indian wars, for upart—the third murder in the north Twenty-Fifth day of July, money will change hands on the re es in clearing it of the drift; and as I am quite sure the army has never being that of Indian Agent Bolin B A S K E T D IN N E R . 1873, o f T w elve o ’c lo c k , y sult. The track is being put in the one of the logs at which they were sa id a d t a y th . e to h o p u ay r said been busier in fighting Indians than within twenty miles of my home. In Under the supervision of the following Coro- D e lin q u e n t Ass- m e n t th e re o n , to g e th e r w ith costs of & finest order. during the last two years, and never 1858 and 1857 by the horrid murder -working gave way, it caught a hand vertising. niittee of Ladies: has tliere been such general inquie and revolting mutilation of emigrants Airs. J. W. Virtue, L. 0 . Sterns, J. B. Gard On Saturday, Jyly 26th, there will spike and threw Mr. Beggs into the P. F . B R A D FO R D , Jun, tude and tendency to outrage among b“ Snake Indians, far away east of ner, W. F. AlcCrarv, S. Grier, C. M. Foster, be a match race between Mr. Ross’ n7n l l S ec’y A . C. Ca river, and all efforts to save him were Eliza Gray, J . W. Cleaver, A. H. Brown and the Indiaus as during this auspecious all white settlements. In- 1865 by Thos. Finlayson, to act in conjunction Maria and the Sturgill horse for a in vain. regime of the peace policy. In 187D murders by the Snakes along a dis Airs. wiili a like Committee to be appointed from the /began war came to an end, not tance of 200 miles in Oregon, and of the ladies of the Valley. purse of one thousand dollars—dis The body was not recovered, and peaceably, but vi et armis. Early in the most of which I am personally FISHER’S GROVE tance half a mile. The horse that when last seen was about three hun Attorney at Law, 1871 the Apache war began, and is, I cognizant. That war closed in 1868/ Is the place selected to hold the Celebration-, wins this race will have to do some dred yards below the bridge in the (And Notary Public,) hope, just ended, not by Vincent and now comes the Modoc war and th* following gentlemen were appointed pretty running. rapid current apparently lifeless. He W E ST O N , OREGON. CoJlyer and O. O. Howard, but by a which the Commission seek to hide as the Ground Committee: Alessrs. C. B. I Fisher, H. Bamberger, S. Ottenheimer, R soldier; and now the Modoc war bids under a broad assertion that “at D. Race men are already begining to leaves a wife and two children. Will practice in the Courts of this Stater AIcCord and D r. Snow. fair to be perpetual. And interspers tempts are being made in more than Washington Territirv. Yours, &c., Finance and Alusic Committee consist arrive in our city, and from all indi ed all along these times there has one quarter of the West to excite war of The the following gentlemen: Dr. Snow, J. cations there will be a large atten Q P E C IA L ATTENTION PAID TO Lb" JO. GNOMON. been a constant burial of slaughtered with peaceable tribes of Indians,” W. Virtue, S. B. AIcCord, Fred. A. Bonali, O Business, and Collections. nl3r k dance at these races. emigrants, surveyors and settlers; and prove this by a doubtful dream W. F. Levins and James Fletcher. and where is the boasted protection of a demoralized military officer at a The Alusic for the occasion will be furnished N ew P apers . —We have received Pay Up and Save Cost. O w in g to the great length of the the first No. of a new paper publish by the of life and property upon the fron.- frontier post, who writes. “I am tier arising from the peace policy? afraid every day that some of these letter of Hon. J. G. Wilson, which ed by the Irish National Publishing OHN EPPIIVGER hereby not® The report avers that “the President’s ruffians will kill an Indian to bring those indebted to him. that ki. will be found entire in this weeks Co., entitled the “American Gael.” sold all out his Meat Market, and that they di : peace policy would have prevented on war.” This kind of proof, while D e m o c r a t , we are unable to give It is a sixteen page paper neatly come forward immediately and settle® ^ a .3 x r x > the Modoc war and its attendant de perfectly incompetent, isexceedingly either by Cash or Note, or it J our usual variety of news and other printed and edited with marked accounts plorable sacrifice of innocent blood.” feeble as supporting the formal judg will have to pay Cost. I am determine: B A K E R C IT Y Why did it not do it? There was a ment of an august tribunal. The reading matter. The letter of Mr. ability by John O’Mahony, and is settle my business. fine field and plenty of time. For truth is the Indian needs no sugges Baker City, June 4, 1873.-n4tf Wilson is an able one. and we are devoted to the interests of our Irish three years the Department knew of tion by the wrongs of others to impel satisfied our readers will be satisfied citizens. Specimen copies can be the growing trouble. Superintend him to his cherished work of death The Citizens of Union, as well as those of ents and agents had officially notified and pluuder. His superstition is Baker County, are respectfully requested to with us for giving it to the exclusion seen at this office. the authorities that the Modocs had held sacred from birth that their join in this Celebrtion. of other matter. It is interesting T he S unday C itizen , a new paper “ left their reservation without cause dead braves will arise to life, and the and truthful, and should be read by published by the IrishNational Pub Q p e c ia l a tte n tio n is calif- or provocation, were violating their united ghostly and living Indian will IO l o t h e g r e a t im provem ents everybody. treaty,” and their “marrudings” yet trample on the graves of their lishing Co., at New York is on our r e c e n t l y I n tlii«* ex cellen t Mae®3' an«l t o t h e n e w a n d elegant style* were inexcusable. Yet nothing was enemies, and they shall all become Will be given at the C a se s a d d e d t o o u r lis t. E ven .— We are under many obli table and presents a neat typograph done, and now the Commission ab lings and conquerors. His claims solutely claim that ‘ ‘neither the boar. 1 to the happy hunting grounds rest gations to the La Grande Sentinel ical appearance, and is ably conduct nor its officers, nor, as we believe, upon the number of scalps he may for the many notices it gives the B e d ed editorially. It is a large eight I N the President of the United States "have taken. In verv few instances page weekly, and is destined to be a rock D emocrat . It is nothing but nor the Secretary of the Interior, can the real Indian be so changed in or tlio se w h o prefer a B A K E R C I T Y , fair that the editor of that paper favorite with our Irish ditizens. had the slightest reason to suppose nature and practice as to become less c h i n e fe e d in g th e work aitaj , On the Evening of should notice the D emocrat - three t h e o p e r a t o r , w e n ow hove on any other mode of settlement (than dangerous than the forest beast. T he I rishman ’ s B ull .— Once up t h a t d e s c r ip t io n , q u i e t , easy■n,m Q u e stio n s R e q u ir in g A n sw e rs. the making of a new reservation) or four times where we notice his J mly F o u r th , a n d h a v i n g n il t h e other pecum on a time an Irishman witnessed the was contemplated until startled by Why. I ask, shall the Indian Com Which will be the Great Ball of the Season. paper once. This makes us even as exploits of a Bull upon the appear c e l l e n c i e s o f t h e o th er style. the telegraph announcement of the mission spend its time in fulsome ad our subscription list is.three or four ance of a train of Raili-oad cars. He first collision between the troops and ulation and adoration of the Indian Committee of Receptions times as large as his. the Indians. ” How can this thing be? as he exists in romance, and in its bellowed and pawed the earth, and L. O. S terns , A. H . B rown , A R e v ie w o f th e M odoc D iflic u lty . denum iations of this wicked, untow I. D. H aines , F. A. B onah , W e have had several fine growing when the cars came near he made a s su re to please. The collision was on November 29, ard generation of whites? There is a J ames F letcher , J. AI. S hepherd . showers during the past week. Our lunge at them, when he was caught o n e w i t h i n a tl»0«i-«a » ,,rt . tr uti1 ) 1872. Early in the Spring of that great legitimate work for it, and it S a n F r a n c is c o n o t » o rk ’ by the cow catcher and hoisted off farmers are all in good spirits in re year Superintendent Odeneal inform seems to me a plain way in which to w i l l a t t e n d t o i t without (W Ù F lo o r M a n a g e r s : perform it. Let it throw aside its ed the Indian Department that the lation to their growing crops, and tbe track. The Irishman then ex to th eo w u er. SA.Ul iJ w*** J. W. V irtue , R. H. C ardwell , Modocs ‘,by maraudings had forfeit exclusive pretensions to isolated hon claimed, “I admire your pluck, but think—the balance of the season be C. AI. F oster , S. B, M c C ord . ed all claim to consideration,” and esty and perfection, and commend ing favorable—that the yield w ill be | ^ y such judgm ent.” The Bull of on the 12th, of April, 1872, Commis itself to public opinion by active, The Alusic will be the best that can be se bountiful. the La Grande Sentinel is just about sioner Walker replied, “You are in real work. Why not lay hold upon cured. Every effor^will be made to make structed to have the Modoc Indiaus those outside, material things which, in the same fix in relation +o the s t h e o n ly í H ¿ S m > w M r . C has . G reen , a large owner B edrock D emocrat that the Irish removed, if practicable, to the res once accomplished, lead so directly this ball a complete success. c a n s e w i n more n w -- rtiD|C teed •— ■ ervation set apart for them under to the civilization of the Indian, and g a . * teUii»t5 e,| of rich quartz ledges in Rye Valley, man’s bull was with the railroad t i o n — h a v i n — g r e a t a d v a n ta g e the treaty.” Upon the suggestion of seek to change first his day life. called on us last Saturday. He looks cars. o f s e a m s , i n quiltin»’ Mr. Odeneal, that the fall of the Compel him to recognize iiis squaw well and hearty, and is well satisfied year was the best time to effect that wife as his equal, and cease to make with the prospects of Rye Valley. T he new head of the B edrock D em - object, Commissioner Walker, on the her a beast of burden only. Let his ocrat has substance, while that of 6th day of July, 1872, wrote him, first lessons in the direction of mer I T he La Grande Brass Band, con “ Your recommendations, so far as cy and justice be toward his family. the Bull of the Sentinel, is all a vain x a m in e n»® i »< Ä *-■, r n e - . F .„,< W sisting of Twelve Instruments, will and fleeting show. the Modoc Indians are concerned, are Instances are innumerable where I send lòr Circuì«' a have seen the squaw, on foot, bow approved, and you are directed to be present at Baker City on the 4th o f W o r k before yo'C”J,iK i n g M a c h in e . BV? *’ . ^ 0 remove them to the Klamath reserva ing down under loads equivalent to of July. This is said to be one of liber«! P ersonal .— Hon. J. H. Slater and M a c h in e s so ld on tion peaceably, if you possibly can, two sacks of flour and the pappoose the best Bands in Oregon. family were in our city yesterday, but forcibly if you must,” &c. Un stagger for miles beside her master der that order Mr. Odeneal acted. and lord, seated on his war horse, O ur C ity was overrun with -stran also C. M. Black, Co. Clk. of Union This whs all well known upon the decked in bright paint and totally gers and others yesterday, a great Co., Mr. King, Music Teacher, Jerry Having permanently located in Pacific coast, and during the first regardless of her suffering. The B A K E R C IT Y , OREGON, many of whom were here to attend Crowder and several others from La week in November Major Jackson, universal custom is that the squaw Ç J E W IN G n * C}}! h h % And are prepared to operate in all branches must provide and labor, the buck to the Masonic celebration on yester Grande paid'our city a visit. Mr. United States Army, informed me he of the Gitchell, from Mormon Basin; An expected to have that business to do. plan his leisure and his indolence. day and last evening. He counts his squaw for a beast, and DENTAL PROFESSION. With such a record how can this thony Moore, from Rye Valley; Mr. F rank P. D ugan is and has been Commission say such, things and I sells her for a blanket or pony. Then All work Warranted. Office at the Copers from Hogem, put in their ap r. # forbid the plurality of wives; teach n7tf BAKER HOTEL. in our city for the past few days. evade the admission of culpable ueg- pearance. rbrork B c m m r a t. X JAS. W. VIRTUE, GOLD AND SILVER BAM HEW ADVERTISEMENTS. EXCHANGE I GREENBACK DELINQUENT SALE NINTY-SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE T Declaration of Mepeiidence, I S. V. KN OX, LA GRANDE J BRASS BANDS. FLO R EN C E C Ö U K T HOUSE, FLORENCE F FLORENCE FLORE# I FLORENCE E D E N T I S T S , 1 V 1 < Ï c a r ii a e< n P q o c V t( r« s V t< ti j< V a tl b h n P ii n tl