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About The Eugene City guard. (Eugene City, Or.) 1870-1899 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 25, 1883)
CITY AND COUNTY, BRIEF MK.VTIOX. Dm CmUIIo' Klckel-Plete Ciroui Performs In this city to-day. Harvesting progressing finely. A band of gipsies are camped near town. Magazines and periodicals at McC k C's. New stock of Seaside Libray at McC 4 C'a. Harz'a barber ihop ha been painted and rt fitUd. Mr 8 F Kerni Fat moved into hii new dwelling. The brick woik cn the bank building ii completed. The Harrislurg Disseminator haa returned publication'. Work it regretting tatiifactorily on tie break Water. Rodney Scott's wheat averaged 22 bnshc!s to the acre 'I M ' ' CharlieYyood ii now driving the Foley Springe hack. A ciaor grinder ha been preanibulating our Street thi week. McC i C keep a full itock of writing ma leriat, envelopes, etc. Several Immigranti here this week talking of purchasing farm laud. Iter Mr Richardson' residence on Fifth t'treet ia about sompieted. , Tourist cau find maps of Oregon and 'WeshingtnuatMcCtC's. Ainsley Scott's Minstrels are in Southern Oregon, heading northward. Hop picking list been progressing this week at Mr, Brown's Imp yard. . A Urge number of the young ladies of Eugene are picking Imps this year. A psrty of Corvallit gentleman left for the Foley Springs one day this week. A large number of our citizens will attend the last suike celebration in Portland. . Goo Fisher and Cyrus Watkins have ('riven rnost of their cattle to a ranch iu Linn conn- Tlte steel rails on the 0 C R It are com pleted to Salem. The work it being pushed ahead. Parents should remember that the Post Ofliee Book Store keeps a full lino of school books. The Mechanic' Fair in Portlaud will begin on the 1 1th of October and continue until the 27th. A professional lieglar wa: wandering uud our towu one dny this week. An un common sight. Many Indians have arrived in town this week, and all will commence work hop picking Monday. Mr U W Boren had the honor of having the first lo.v of wheat hauled to the mills of the crop of JSS.1. Mr Thomas Belsha-v, yesterday showed us aomo potatoes of the lWless variety that was vry large aud fine. A load of watcrm-dons was brouglit to jown Inst Monday by a sou of Matt Spores the first of the season. The strike of the telegraph operator has firovon a failoro, and a number of the strik ers have gone to work. Kcv T J Morrinui. recently of Illinois, -will preach at tha Christian Church next Sunday, mornii.g and evening. We acknowledge the receipt of a box of plums from our old friend, John G Day. They were the finest of the teason. A traveling musician arived iu town Thursday via the wagon road from Portland. He left for the South the sam day. ,.GeoW Smith, who is accused of killing Mr Petch, Yamhill county, has been cap t'ured and is now in jail at Lafayette. Rev Mr McAllister, the Uuiversaliat min ister preached at the Court House last Sun day, morning and evening, to fair audiences. Perry Vickors, at one time a resident f ihit city, was killed beyond the summit of tht Cascade mountains, oy a mau uamea Steele. Some beautiful town lots nicely locate for sale cheap. Call early and got a barn,. Geo. M. Miller, Iieal Estato A The "Villard Part will numl, 500 persons, and the special t Which they will travel will ceJiiBt 0( 30 Pnllman sleeping, dining and parur car, Mr J J Walton Sr ha aeoeptej position as clerk in McQuog k J"lU,n'i store. "Pap" is a No 1 cUrk, aud thJe proprietors are to be congratulated on hvf , been able .1 as to engage him. ; . 4 a il . 1 o4a l&e uregonian says tiiai . ;f,crrflaii g circus will soon leave for Kurppi an(j tnat; it is improbable if they ever retnrn to Oregon. We hope that the UVP' may never return to this part oi the W""J(lry,l One of the youug iijjljjr, Vanderbilts .1' . A- I. sV nas aeiermioea w "Teorae newspaper re porter. Several '.WSpaper reporters have determined to bt-l iunaire. but From Mr. A. V, Peters. Mr J M Shelley, this week, received a letter from Mr A V Peters, from which the following is an extract Mr and Mr Peters are at at present iu Maryland, but will toou leave for Kuropet ., "We had a pteisant trip from Tlelpro to Washington over the Cumberland mountains they look more like mountains than any thing I have yet seen here. hen we ar rived at Washington we looked op the pub- lie builliiigs, the Capitol. White House, Smithouian Institute, etc. The Capitol is the most internting of all. and we went through it. The rotunda and dome are splendid., Ii) the Senate and Home of Rep resentative- we took note where our Senators and Representative tat. Thore is a building .called the Agricultural Department, where Oregon is very poorly represented. In a glass case representing all kinds of fruit. iu wax. woro fnr "glnri mundi" apples, the very smallest one of which being marked "Oregon." At this we vented our just indignation to the great amusement of the lady, in charge. She in formed ns that they had no samples of Ore gnu produce. Who is to blame for this! It is a great pity; for people from all quarters of the globe visit this place. let our brother Grangers see to this matter." Bridge Contract Let., The contract for the six piers comprising t'..o itnne work for the Northcri Pacific bridge over the W-il lamette has been let to Hon I) P Thompson and R M Steel, though the p ipers have not yet been signed. Cost of the stone Work will approximate SoOO.OOO. The great work qf getting the stone will commence without delay, though it is not likely that any will be laid in the river before next spring., The method of constructing piers is as follows: First, a cassiou is sunk in the river around the spot where the foundation is to be located, and the sand within it pumped out to the ilejith ot twelve foot. Then piles Mill be driven within the cadsinn as closely to gether atjioasiblc, and rut off about twelve feet below the bed of the river. They will be capped and cross capped, and then the first layer (it stone will be put on. Thus the base of the piers will be nearly ten feet below the river level. The company will build the superstructure. Uregonian. Time. So socn as the completion of the Northern Pacific shall have been supple mented by the connection with, California from Portland, trains will run through from St Paul to San Francisco, via Oregon, in the same time now made by the Union and Central Pacific from Omaha to San Francisco. The distance from St Paul to San Francisco via Portland will be 2,700 miles. It can be made in four days at a.i average speed of less than thirty miles an hnnr. Students. The following persons have received scholarships to the State University from Marion county) Misses Anna nml Emma Piatt, Miss May ifuthcrford and Miss Kate Siler, all of Marion Station; and Green Cornelius, of Turner. The fullowiog have scholarships which were granted last year or previous; A 0 Coiidit of Turner, Xliss Nettie Itrown of Gcrvais, and diss M Smith of Juffuraoi . ; Last Simke Celebration. Attention t called to the advertisement in another ciihj.Vni, f the celebration at Portland, S-ytfToth and 11th, on the completion of tbrTNortljoi n Pacific Railroad. IheOand C j; ft Co will issue round trip tiJteh atj percent reduction. This will lie one of ur.in.lest c-J.d rations ever given in OrVon. 1 ortland haa, already subscribed W,WJl to drfray the expenses of the affair. .iti'i" (1 1(1 iu iceiubiivw 'i a aj a 1, iu Willamette precinct, Wednes- Per over fain upn Henry Villard 1 t v -niynne who ever made the riffle. M ( If man d' wcr his light overcoat on rainy oay rr . jhad by the rain. If be does wat ti jight 0erooat he is drenched by Ptlf,Dir,tion. This bit of philo- wuyj im rjnjjjterl iron wis rock. r 1 Died. Wc ,Rve received the inbtlfgerSe that Mr A , Momly ot Florence,' on the Siuslaw, (1,'cd 011 Monday, August 13.' He formerly,4K.riff 0f Coos county, and waa or e of the fit i-at settlers on the f iuslnw, being engngiMj iu merchandising at that place. He was n upright citizen and was highly esteciuoj by all with whom he was acquaint ed J Coljll la.Dl nust22. 1883. by Rev Mr Emery of t' J lis, Mr Dayton Elliott of Pnneville Alias Midlie Luckev of EuL'ene City. fie wish the newly wedded couple much happiness 111 their matrimonial life. Com plinients received. For Easter m Oreiion. A party consist- ... ti 1 n t - 1 TI'.-IK nig 01 .Messrs 11 u l erxins aim u iiiiain Bramhart, left for Lake county, Oregon, Thursday, where they go to meet a party of capitalists from San Kranciicn, to show them Mr H C Owen' swamp land iu Eastern Oregon, which they are making arrange ments U buy. PfRclASKD. I'r.f J W Johnson, this week, pirehased of Mrs Phoebe Kinscy and DrT V Shelton the one ha:f block lust north r'fDr ( lean's residence, paying $720 for the lame. We are informed that the Profcsso- will build a handsome residence on the prop-rty next Summer. DweUso for Sale. -Mr S P Lowell offers fit sale a neat, commodious dwelling he has )t finished on the corner of Sixth and Hirf. streets. Anyone wishing a valu able piee of dwelling property etioum give h'.la a oil immediately. FntiTDBYER. Mr W H Abrams, cf the Cider M present His ma he will John Mill 1. nn.nnteoaeni 01 r...v. ; Norther Pi,. !A rAn. n-'d. closed the eon- ''"T1.!, shipment of one train load of . thirty rfVheatfrom Walla Walla to Mleneeu'" iJfmk u favorable for . ,biP,?( -t f nf much more. " '1 faapplnes of WJ Wd'than hi. ? i change, which U p1" "'' .rin.r Uiat coenmber ont in . man arises more from ootward nufactory, is busily ened at th me erectiu,' a large Acme fruit dryer. ine will b rely in a few days, when mmence drying plums. The machine has a div capacity of -J)0 11. OoLnracE. The g' M tack which fastened tmrethetha Union d Central Pacific rail roads hammered in on the 10th of May IRG9. the 8th of September next the .vent IU be 14 years, 4 month and 1 day old. ' SL,i.iiW W Esuev has sold to Chs Uuer ke property on Ninth treet oe'en Died bf W Cleaver' agricultural depot condition, ,bolic way mao't k -t mkt him at unhappy a 'iTiwit''re,u,i''Dd'r tbe ,roDi Thepr paid was (750. Deli ED. Prof J W Merntt,of Jackson viUe, M declined the chair of prefissor in the KoSal dspartment of the State I m venity Tht Pioneers' Excursion. Mr Joseph Watt, Chairman of th Commit te of Arrangement for th Pioneers' excur sion East over the Vortliern Pacifto, ha au thorized th following a an official announce ment: The excursion will leave Portland OctM, All will go on th sams train from, Portland, to St Paul on slow time, but excursionists may return singly or in any number they please. The time for which ticket will be good i 1 follows: To return from Chicago, ninety dayi from Chicago to New York and return,. lxtjr days. Emitrrant sleepers will be, furnished if timely notice is given, each person to furnish hi or her own bedding. Pullman sleeping cars will be provided for those desiring that accommodation. Due notice tmut be given that a sufficient number of cars may be furnished. It ite for Pullman sleeper will be 815 er double berth to St Paul, $17 to 'hieao, and 822 to New York. Special Pull man sleeier will be furnished to 1 arties desir- in ono at SiJO per day of twenty-four hours. The capacity of a car is from forty-five to fifty people. Kates of fare are as follows: Portland to St Paul and return $I0 00 Female relatives 80 00 Portland to Chi -a,'o an I return 74 00 Female relatives 04 00 Portlaud to New York aud return 09 00 Female relatives 119 00 Children under five years free. No half-fare tickets. The routes going and returning will be as fol lows: From Portland to Ft Paul and return via Northern Pacific railroad. St 1'r.id to Chicago and return via (fliicago, Milwaukee ami St Paul railway. Chicago to New York via Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago and Pennsylvania. New York to Chicago via New York Cen tral and Lake Shore. . . Pioneers east of the mountains must send 8U0 to J M liacon at Oregon City, and receive cer tificates of membership, ami iby paying the balance to the agent at The Dalles or Wallula Junction, will receive their tickets the same a.i at Portland. All persons going froin Portland are re quested to be there on Monday, Oct 1, to make arrangements for their tickets. All those who wish to take the Pullman cars must send orde's tor berths to J M liuovn of Oregon City, by the 10th of tept, together with $.0, a per notice given.' One dollar Jor each ticket will be charged for the benefit of the Association. New Varieties of Plums. Editor Hural Spuiit: I send you to-day by express a sample of four dilTervnt varieties of seedling plums, originated and grown tin my farm near this place. They promise well, and I think will prove worthy of cultivation. The lurgeidue ones look some like the lirad shaw, b'lt arc superior in every respect - being very firm meated and freestone. The one on the limli -i h smnide of thorns taken from t lie tree -is one of the finest I have ever seen by many degrees, not excepting tho Cue's G'dden Drop, which it slightly resembles. .TTie sample ;s only an average on on the 'roc, aud is full six inches in circumferejie;' H. V. Pkkkin.i. Eugene City, Or., j. i;,ls:. The siK-ciinensJiove referred to r:ime to us ju good cuir'.vd'm, and we have m hesitancy in pionotinciiig inein 1101 oniy among ine nwgesi p'.uuis we have ever seen, but they are equal to a:iy iu flavor, and have every appear nice of hardiness. Mr Perkins has been given special Uention to the production of fruit, particular ly plums. It is opined that the country will le greatly lunelitted by the production of these new varieties. T.I). I Coyote Items. The weather still ai 10, dry find smoky. A great deal of grain was cut for hay n this and Judas valley. Mr 6 Stowell, of Jililas valley,' has a horse sick with the pink eye. Harvesting itnd threshing in full blast. ( rain yielding better than expected. Judas valley takes tha lead in improve ments this season, two new barns and a hay shod having been built this sii minor. Mr D Thompson, of Judas valley, threshed twenty acres of wheat that averaged 3G bushels to the aero. The closing exercises of Miss Priscilla Harris' school, which took place at Oak Hill school house, was a very pleasant and enter taining affair. The music was first-class. Farmer. Burned. The farm house belonging to Robt Ware, and occupied by George. Ware, alwut eight miles southwest of this rity waa burned to the ground last Saturday forenoon. Tile fire was discovered by Mrs Ware and another lady, who, by hard work, saved the greater uortion of he household effects. The loss amounts to ab-tit 8100. - 1 fc Farm Sold. Mr J II 1) Heudcrson has ild his farCi of .C0 r.cres,' lying 3 miles 'southeast of Eugene, to Mr L G Drown, for the sum of 84,500. The sale was made through the real estate office of Gtorge M Miller. Horse Stoles M C Widmer had a horse and saddle stolen from his stable on his farm last Friday niglit. After several dsys search by the officers and Mr Widmori the horse was found in Mr W W Hmtous pasture, in 8;encer precinct.. TIjc horse was an old oue, aud it is thought thct the thief left the horse in the pasture the same night of the stealing. An attempt was made the same night by some rfr.e toetT'-'ct an entrance into James Huddlcstou's barn, bat was frightened awsy by a gentleman who waa sleeping in the barn. New Depot. Ecgene station is sadly in need of a new depot, the preseut one bing a disgrace to the town and also to the rail road company. The buildiog is too smal to accommodate the traveling public, many beintf compelled to stand out in the rain or sun, as the case may be. hope the railroad official will erect a new building before the rainy season begins. Many barns in town are much better than the structure that now disgraces the name of a depot. State Ujuvermtt. Th State University will begin this year Sept 17th. A much larger attendance is assured thi year thaa ever before. To Wheat Growers. EclToa Guard; In your last issue, (August 18th), I, see a challenge to me from my old irieni, w Duncan, 01 1'ayion, t;olunilia county, W T, based upon th production or th raising of th best wheat and flour. I am pleased to accept hi challenge a regard rata lug the best wheat, but th other part where he says each on to put in ten acres this fall and wait tor th trial another year would be unfair, not having time to fit niy laud for con test. I will her (how you why it would be unfair: The xitl In th, Paluuae. i all generally new, virgin toll, having raised but few crops of wneat in succession, pence clear from weeds, while mine In tht , Willamette ..Valley, ike others, ia pretty, full of wild . oats and drg fennel, aud worn more or lest, by successive wheat cnsi for over twenty years, to that any on can judge at once hit proposition would be all one sided and the test ,woud be ,rery un equal as this year I have riot fallowed any land for a fall irop, therefore It would be shear non tense to make a test, trial like that on which I would have to put In old, partly worn out and stubble lands, while Mr Duncan with his new lands would have all tht advantage. If I was going to make a contest like that I would want two years in which to prepare my land, which would be quite expensive for ten acres. A much better way for uch a trial would be a smaller quantity, say each cultivate just what he pleases and then average it tier acre and each exhibit and onmare for the most pro duction, the best quality of wheat, and bread or biscuit made by him or hit wife, ami mine the tame, from flour from the same wheat, all to be taken dowu to the State Fair held at Salem, a ieck of wheat and 50 pounds of flour, and have the committee, whoever I chosen by the Society on creals and flour, decide which is the best. That would be much more an equal contest while Mr Duncan's is not This challenge is in particular to J W Dun can, Dayton, W T, or any other one farmer west of the Rocky Mountains, which takes iu the whole of the Palmise country. Just three years ago I let friend Duncan have somo of my best seed wheat to take with him to bis new lands in tht Palouse country, and now he chal lenge me for a contest, which I have- shown above was unfair and altogether one-sided as everyone will see. Notwithstanding all that, I now challenge him for a fair and square con test at this coitdng S. ta'.e Fair, which commen ces Sept 17, 1883, as can be made by any man. , , CHALLENGE. 1. I challenge you for the production of the best half bushel of wheat raised by yourself and cleaned by macliiue, Its finest white color, thinness of brand, and for flouring purposes, to be all taken into consideration by the commit tee. 2. I challenge you for the best 50 pounds of flour, to be made f.-om spring wheat of any variety you may choose, ami bring to the fair, to have it ground in your own county, and I will do tlte same; also bread aud biscuits to lie made from the same flour, to be raised with hop yeast aud made by you or your wife, and I will do the same. - 3. J jgain challenge you to compete with six others, all to be white varieties of wheat, one half bushel of each kind, and for your own accommodation I will name some of them, Hudson liay, Chilli Cluji, Cauuada White, lied Chaff Club, Nir-ety pay and Clawson. ,, J. wouh,l name more but would be 'nuking my letter too lony the wt)eat,must hae been raised on your own farm at I have raised them on mine. ,.., 4. I now dialli ng you to compete again with twenty other white varieties tu be raised as the above, 5. I again challenge you for the best two sheaves of wheat, one to be winter and the otlier spring varieties, to be raised by us only, including the largesteads, most grains in a head, ami the Urges' grains, each sheave not to be over six inches in diameter. ( ft. I now challenge you for bos1, display of wheat; all lie challenge to be decided iqton by the Cotmnit.tee on Creals apistinted by tlte Agricultif'ul Directors of the State Fair. In conclusion I challenge you with all the above named challenges for one hundred dol lars a side, aud the ore receiving the highest number for the best wheats, flour, bread, sheave graia, t'isplay and everything else by committee, takes the money. I. will say further, that if the money part is not agreeable to you, I am then willing to make it a free exhibit at the fair, and be decided upon by the said committee, and the exhibition on my part shall lie a friendly one, but if you do not con clude to compete with me on either of the fair and square terms as the two above, It will be considered that Lane county still ho the banner onuuty soil, with my cultivation, as it has bad for tht lua(,eght years in the produc tion of the finest v. beats the world can produce Now Mr Duncan I invite you to a friendly contest of wheat. I am aware that you have rich lands, but neither the rich land nor the poor lands are capable of raising the finest wheat . U"t I Jiot you will conclude to com pete with me wkh all the varieties at the coming State Fair. It Would make a fine showing for Oregon and would probably be wor'li hundreds of dollars to the State, as I believe Uiere will lie many visitors just from the States by the Northern Pacific Railroad to the State Fair, that would b anxious to see oUr.Oregcn' wheats and all other productions that wLl be there. Georoe Belsbaw, Personal. Served Him Kiuht. A soap peddler ar rited iu this city from Salem last Satorday, and he at once oommenoed making arrange mcntt to tell bit worthiest goods on ear streets. But there was one thing that seemed to bother him, aud that was the city charged a fee of 810 for all street hawk ers, but the said soap peddler was eqnafto the emergency and escaped the tax by claim' ing that he was subject to aname'eu disease In the evening a crowd gathtrvd to hear him talk, bat before tbe crowd had, got really interested, a shower af eggs greeted tlie in dividual, one hitting him srjcarelyi in the lace, when be got angry ari't need some very indecent language, aoil jrrta arretted aud gave bond to appear Monday morning, bnt instead of waitipgne packed Iris Valise and left for Soothern Oregon via the the,0 aV C It R tie. We hope the people ef Southern Oregon will give him av warm, reception, as he it 01 te of the wont bilks that ever infested Oregon. P.EsrrrNLEs. There would c) at least forty families move iuto town th!s winder if residence could be procured. Vi'f ii local capitalist will step forwarj aod build a nam i 1 er of dwellings suitable to rent. John Stewart itabld to be upon ccr ttrcets again. Senator Dorrit hat returned home frcn Jacksonville. Frank Rankin has been at Corvallis during the past week. Geo A Dorrit and wife have returned from Kitton Springs. Mr JO Gray aud family have returned from the Foley Spring. Saint Hen Owen returned home from San Fiancitco last Tuesday. . Mr A W Stowell, of Portland, is In town visjting relatives and friends. Seth H Hammer, ot KaU'tn, has returned home from the Foley Springs. Mr R Mi-Mulholland, of. Portland, paid Pleasant l'ill a visit. this meek. George S Washburno was iu Brownsville last Wednesday on professional business. Mr L J) Smith,, of the linn of, Muith & C x, returned home from San Francisco yes tarday, , ,,, . . . , Dr N J Taj lor is again able to bo on our streets after a severs attack of the rheumatism. Judge R S Rcaii left Monday for Coot and Curry counties where ho goes to hold tarmt ef court. Mr Homer Harknesa, one of Douglas coun ty's prominent citizens, paid Eugene a visit this week. , , Miss Liraie Ilolse, formerly of this rity, has tesUned her professorship In the Willamette University. Ike Yoakum and Hen Owsn tteut to Pi rt- laud yesterday. Mr Fisher and wife, of Portland, returned home from Foley Springs this week much improved in health. Mr Calvin Clark midwife, of Southland College, Helena, Arkansas, are visiting their sister, Mrs Adair, in thisoity. Messrs II If, W R and Geo Uilfry loft Cres. well for Eastern Oregon tills week, to li ok after their stock Interests in that section. George Thurston rot 11 rued from east of the mountains one day this week, and .the next day left for his home in Portland. Kov I D Driver, J II Lambert, Mr Par sons and Clark wont to Vancouver Monday, to nttoud the annual conference of tho M E Church. Mr Geo Alexander, who hat been employ ed on this paper during the past year, went to Portland Tuesday morning to work at hit trade iu that city. We cau recommend George as a good compositor. Cottage Grove Items. KIKIM OVU SrEOIAL CORRESPONDENT. - August 22. f2 Had a littlo shower of rain Thursday morning last Quite a number pf folks talk' of going from this vicinity, to pick hop. ' Mr C K Byars went to Kitoon, Springs last week accompanied by Miss Jeunie Stouffer. The chief attraction , here of late it the skating rink conducted by Mr Scott Chrit- uian. A rcniomtianco it being circulated in Cot tage Grove in Opposition tot licensed saloou here, . Mrs Kate Spray returned from F-ast of the Mountains lost week whither she wont a few weeks ago. The new cemotery ground has been laid nut and the funoing material placed thoreon ready for putting np. At he ul of Cottage Grove items of Aug. 3th, sayt a "slight frost here Saturday even ing" it should have read light. e understand that a lot of roughs tore up the sidewalk, unict vehicles, broke a oaro pieces, besides other minor depreda tions here aud at Latham last Friday night. Mr A J Barlow has been tendered and ao- cepted a position as Wells, Fargo k Co's Exprett guard between Glendale and 1, (id ling, at a salary of ono hundred dollars per mouth. Apex. Another Pioneer Gone1, . . . '.if Paul Hr.ituln died at his residence In Spring' field precinct, latt Monday, at th rie old agtt if 81 He waa born in North Carolina, and at an e.nlv day moved from that State to Tennes see, from letinessi-e he moved to Illluol from I Ilium, to Iowa, ami from th last named State to Oregon, In tfOJ; he settled In Lao county on the f.wmlnw.i occupying at th time of his d.ittli. I'ncle Paul Brattain, a be was familiarly known, wo a pioneer In the tet th-im-ut of th Grrat West almost all hi long life time. From hi I'rttiv Ktate lie emigrated to Tennessee when that State was' a wilder nrss. The grand State of Illfnoli w a terri tory, Inhabited principally by Indiana, when he tirt moved into it; and Iowa was coasldei ed the "Far West'' when he moved bis -little family into it and settled on th broad prairiil east of Kensitqu-t. I le filled many prominent Hi.itions in his early life, rnd terlian there ii hardly another pwn living or dead who filled tlieolliei.il poi itioiiH ho did. He was a mem ber of the LotiKtitutioual Committee who framed th Constitution of Illinois, low and Oregon, three grand Stat-s now in the Unlor. He was C unity Auditor ol Lane County under the Territorial government, and he held the Kition as County Agent for many year. Paul Brattain v a truly one of the "noblest works of Goil; an honest man." H was a kind and congenial eompaiiion, a true and gn erous neighbor, it quiet and excellent dtlxen a.id a kind aud nirialtle luuduiiid and father. Ho leinet a. large "id wall nspevtod family and a, wide circle of fii-qd.- t- mourn his It Like a ripe shock of ii rr, was gathered to his fathers. His lifo'j crk was done, and in lily done, au.l now Ids riotil ft'trii rest under the green clods at the head t f 'tU great AVI! laiiimette valley. Thus the pioneer of .th great Northwcit am falling from the rank of -tho living one by one, and soon they will bet covered from our i ;lit by the green tiuf, .and then we shall know them only by their noble deeds. , , To Sm.km. 7 I'fof Thcinas Cowb n-nnd wife, Jill) Henderson, Mrs. M R piller, and Mrs J II McClung, went to Ealuih lasr Tuesday to hoar tho lecture of Rev Hem Waid llcecher. Butter. It is almost fresh butter in Eugene. almost every day trying impossible .to get Farmer are toetv to purchase this commodity. Comment ia unnecessary. . SowiNii.-Roduoy Scott has jitst.luishetl seeding 100 acres of Fall grain.. t.We. bv" heard of acvor.il of our farmeia that have been towing grain this woek." Hop Pickers. On tho 3d of September I will begin pick ing my hops on tht farm of Rodney .Scott, - six miles east of Kugeno. Hop yard con.. tains fifteen acres. Price, AO conta per box. A. J. Bv UNISON. Free Sciioi.AHKinrs. Notice it hereby given that a publio examination of appli cants to fill four vaoant free scholarships in the Stato University, for Ltue county, will be hold at the Court House, in Kugeno City, on Monday September the 3d, I8S3, ot 0 o'clock, a in. Persons wishing to enter the examination will in the meautimu submit their names in writing. , N A. W. larrERN, . School Supk. Eugene, August 6, 1833. . . A'tffl'lMm .Veitirs K K Hays, Doo John son, "Trijjjer Ahrains anil IT J u nnneaaer returned from east of the mountains tFr!day evening, hsiklng qulti) sun-but nt ard rugged. CoUMKM'Ki). Brick laying htscommenDiV. on Gilfry's ttore at Crosawell. It will be plundid building when completed. , LOCAL MARKET REPORT. Wheat 80 cents per Bushel on Board of Cars; Oats 60 cents, Nett. Euhene, Aug., 24 1833, Wlieat - 80 cts on board car. Oats -61) cts nett Hides 13. Hams 1.V3 dfi. Shoulders -10W 12. Lard -15. Butter 30. Eggs -30 cla per dox. Potatoes -81 per bushel. 10 lbs. sugar, 15 " rice, 8 " coffee, 8 " oysters, At A. Goldsmith's. $1 00, TO ALL WHOM THIS MAY CONCERN. Having purchased the KV Howard ware-f hoiiHo In this place, ono of the best . located' and built warehouses, away froin all JaiigeY ol fire and nolso of railroad, I arfi pnw ready to furnish sacks-all new ,to thone that Intend,' storing wheat this fall. Having two o.the; very best cleaners and a fourteen horse power engine, I urn able fi do work faster and more of it than any ot! or house it the couutyt Likt heretofore, I hall always endeavor to pay as . much as any other wheat buyer, and a little moro when crowded. ' N. B. Always on hand, a full and well at tortc't ttcrk of Merchandise of every descrip tion. "V : , .- . LOUIS SALOMON. Junction City, August 1st, 1883. Accidentlt Shot. Last Sunilay afternoon, while two son of Mr E 11 Nichols, recently from Prineville, who la cantied on Patterson's Island, were out hunting, ont of the boys acci dently aliot the otlier, who is about twelve years okltlirough the fleshy part pf the right arm with ajlonry rifle. Luckily no bones were brokoc. , Dr Patterson was caller) and dressfd tis wXImI, and says tht little fellow is doirg as WcII'm ceild . be expected, under the circumstances, it wu a very Barrow escape from death. The Tracks United. Mr J M Buckley Assistant General Manager of. the Northern Pacific Railroad, received a telegram Wed nesday night from Division Engineer IPS kVeeka, that the Missoula divismu, oast, and the Mountain division, west, met at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, at a point 7U1 miles east of Portland. Oregonian. To Astoria. Rev H R McLaSerty, liavht received a call from the Baptist charch at At- tori, left yesterday with his family for his new charge. Mr McLaiTerty and family have made many friends during their stay iu this city, who extend to them- their hast witJiesAiVl bote they may nim a pleasant home in tut city by the sounding sea. ,., 1 I, , School Book. Notice is- heretty giveu that tbe Poet Office Book Store hat just received oue of the largest stock of school book ever brought to lane county. The books will be sold at reasonable ratv. BlfCKLHN'S ARNICA SALVE. Tho BkmT Sai.ve iu the world for bruiser. Cuts, Sores, Ulcen , Halt Rheum, Fever Sore. Tetter, Chapped Hands, 'Chilblains, Corns.and all kinds of Skin Lruptius. 'I hi salvs is guar anteed to give perfect satisfaction in every cos or money ref11111h.1L Price 3."t cU per box Fo sale by Wii.kin'ii, the Druggist, Eugene City. Mulliolland, Juuction Uty. IV. .-Ill ...-.1 un froo Inr am IH Will Ulill .IIV UlAi". ..vv " v.. w..w J to anyone who will tend ut five new tub-, tcribert accompanied with the cash at the rate of 52.50 per omiuin for each, Money to Loan, . . 1 . -I , . un easy icnna, on upihvtsk 'irr tiwir auce etfected on alt kinds of property, iu the best i cooipupleit, , . . t V r r iv .. . In tltebuimilg formerly iJccupleil by Horsy k Humphrey. . Chas- Laies, 1 '. Belknap Spnhgs. Mr J W Hixon has rebuilt the bridge acroa the river to these noted springs and has also put the waon road iu excellent shape. He 1 busily engaged at present renovating the hetek, bathhouses, etc. Give him a call this Sum mer. - . Never Known to Fail. Mia Amy Adams who attended the SUU University here last Winter will tea.'h iu the I PortUud public schools this WiuU-r . , 1 AriNTA, Go., FeK 4, 188L "It U, Wauncr Co-: Sir-1 have rcom mended ysir S.U Kiilney and Liver Curj to many hiindn-'U p.-opla from Tax to New Vswic, have seen it lriel by many of tltetie, and liavi yet tt her of a single otute of failnsw. . CoL. John ('. W.TE