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THE flr 1 1 f1 IP M Hi1 IDj U uM Jlj CITY G Aft 0 ESTABLISHED FOR THE DISSEMINATION OP DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES, AND TO EARN IN HONEST LIVING BY THE SWEAT OF OCR BROW. ()L. 20. EUGENE CITY, OR, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1888. NO, 41 ZJxt (Sugcnc (itjt ffiuard. (PUBLISHED EVEUY SATURDAY.) . 1. L CAMPBELL, I'ublNlicr und Proprietor. OFFICE On the East side of Willamette Mreet, between Swveiith ami Eighth Street. TERMS OK SUBSCRIPTION. 1'er nnnuiii $2 M Six Month 1.25 Three months 75 01! R ONLY. KATIM OP ADVKKTIfftlNGr. Advertisements inaertd an follow: Oue square, ten line or less one insert inn 83; each subsequent insertion 81. Cash required in advance. Time advertisers will be charged at tne fed l.mini? rules: One square three months ?( 00 One square nix month 8 00 One square one ycur ; u Trnnsieut notices in loral column, '10 edits per line tor each insertion. Advertising bilU will he rendered quarterly. All job work must be paid roil on delivery. CEO. 6. DORRIS, Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law, 1VILL PRACTICE IX THE COURTS t of the Second Judicial District and in he Supreme Court of thin State. Special attention given to collections and matters in probata ' L, BILIfEU, -Attorney and Counsellor at Law, EUGENE CITY, OREGON. PRACTICES IX ALLTHE.C'OURTS OF this State. Will give, special attention to collections and probate matters. Office--Over Hendriuk & Eakin's bank. Washburne & Woodcock Attorneys-at-Law, tiUiJENE CITY, - - OREGON OFFICE At the Court House. iy8ra3 GEO, A. DOUR18. H. W. CONDON. CONDON & DORRIS Attonicys-at-Law , EUGENE CITY, - - - OREGON OmcK Over Robinson & Church's hardware store, ' GEO. M. MILLER, Attornaj and Ccunsallor-at-Law, and Real Estate Agent. EUGENE CITY, - OREGON. oniec formerly occupied by Thompson Bean. J. E. FENTON, Attorney-at-Lavr. LUGEXE CITY OREGOX. Special attention given to Probate business and Abstracts of Title, Office Over Grange Store. k T.W.IIA1UIIS,M.D. Physician and Surgeon, OFFICE Wilkin's Drug Store. Rvsideuce on Fifth street, where Dr Shelton ormerly resided. DR. JOSEPH P. GILL, CI AN BE FOUND AT HIS OFFICE or res idence when not professionally engaged. Residence on Eighth street, opposite Presby eaan Church. J. J. .WALTON, Jr., ATTO R N" EY-AT-LAW, EUGENE CITY, OREGON. WILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE 1 'ourts of the State. Special attention given to real estate, col ecting, and probate mutters. Collecting all kinds of claims against the United States. Government. Office in Walton's briek rooms 7 and 8. B.F. DORRIS, INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE AGENT. I HAVE ROME VERY DESIRABLE Farms, Improved and Unimproved Town property for sale, on easy terms. Property Eented and Eonts Collected, - The Insurance ( Vmpaniea I represent are among the Oldest and most Reliable, and in the Prompt andEgciTAlTE adjustment of their esses Stano Second to None. A share of your patronage is solicited. Office upstairs, over the Grange Store. a F. DO KRIS. J. DAVIS, Merchant Tailor. HAS OPENED A SHOP ON NINTH Street opposite the Star Bakery, whete h. is prepared to do all kiuds of work offered in his line. A Uiye stock of Fine Cloths on hand for customers to select from. One of our sp-ultif is the cutting and akin; of Ladies Cloaks. Repairing and cleaning done promptly. Sat isfaction guaranteed. Eugene, Nor. 6, 181. tf Day & Henderson, THE LEADING FURNITURE UNDERTAKING v n House in Eugene. Corner 7th and Wil. Sts Sola Agents for Eugene City, k ' m fit F0R T1IE JUSTLY CELEBRATED fsKeBtf S G0LD AMD S,LVER SH,3TS (fl haW W are stilt at the old reliable "Grange Store," Tl I I I and can sell you anything that yon want to eat I I sCTi or Wear fin I Cheaper Than the Cheapest, 1111 Have removed to Marx' new building. They have a complete dock of Watches, Clock, Jewelry & Musical Instruments. - ALSO A larsrc invoice of MARKER GUN WORKS! MS BARKER. Expert Gun Smith Stock of Guns and Am munition on hand, ElCiEXK - - - OREGO.V G. Marx. Barber Shop and Bath Rooms. Ilot und cold buthi always ready dmiug the. week. T jA-A o thaUre fretful, peevish, A3VWJ v crosS) or troubled with Windy Colic, Teething Pains, or Stomach Disorders, can be relieved at once by using Acker's Baby Soother. It contains no Opium or Morphine, hence is safe. Price 25 cents. Sold by Osburn A Cii, Eugene, C. M. COLLIER, AttorneyatLaw. OFFICE: At Court Honsi-, County Snr veyor s room. I oflVr for sale 40xl0ifeet business prnpf-r- ' ty on Willam tt..-stieet, ou which the buyer . can double his money within two years. Geo. M. Miller. e 1 - tlniMnias goods. H. It. Cochran & Son, Real E'stafe Agents. i:iit ne City, Oregon. Will attend to general Renl Estnte business such ns buying, Helling, leaning nnd renting farms and city property, etc. Office on south Bi'de of Ninth street. "NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. Land Office at Romfiiuro, Or., 1 .Tan.- 3l, ltWS. ( "VrOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT Xl the fcdlowing named settler has filed no tice of his intention to make final proof in sup port of his claim, and that seid proof will be made before the judge or clerk of the county court of Lane Co., Or., at Eugene City. Or., in Saturday, March 17, INKS, viz: Enoa Jones, Homestead Entry No. 4G79 for the S W 14 of Sec. (i, Tp. 18 S, H 1 West. W M. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivntion of, said land, viz: James Wallace, Elijah Gum, Chas Gnwner, Squire Cain, all of Jas per, Lane Co., Or. Cuah. W, Johnston, Register. H. F. McCornack, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURCEON. EUGENE CITY, OREGON. Delinquent fax Notice. Notice ia hereby given to all owing taxes, now delinquent, that the County Court at its , late acskiou onb red me to collect the same i forthwith. This is theiufore to notify all ! concerned that if they wish to save costs thy mint come forward at once and pey the same or I will be obliged to proceed sguin.-,t them legally. J. M. Sloax, Sheriff Lane Co. . All Korts of Poison. Mr. W. F. Daley AdvertUing Agent of the Brooklyn Elevated Railroad, writes: "Inflammatory rheumatism swelled my li (is and urma to twice their natural size. I suffered excruciiiting pain. Your won derful 8. S. S , uuide a complete cure. Major Sidney Herbert, editor of the Bovtltem L'liia'Mr and Dale Farmer, Atlanta, Ga.i writes: "I have fully tested iho virtue, of Swift's Specific both as a rlieuinutiMji cure and a tonic It has done cvm nioro ihuu its proprietors oluim for it. Mr. Michael Long, Jr , with the Stro bridgw Lithoprsphiu Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, w riles; " 1 surlvrod for two years with a terrible Itohirg and painful soies on my lie. k, units, bauds and tingors. No phy siciuu could help me. 8. S. S. relieved me perfectly and I feel like a now man. Mis. Amunda Ingle, of Oui-touia, N. C, writes : "My baby, when four months old, dereloed scrolulu. He had two so verc risings nnd sores on the neck. .1 sent for our family physician, who pronounced it scrofula, and prescribed 8. S-. S. for it. I gave the baby S. S S . and it s Von got the dineuse under control. Tho sores are healed, und the buby is well and healthy. I know S. S S. saved its life, and I told our doctor so. He is a regular physician, an J prescribed S. S. S. for the baby as soon s he suw it had scrofula. '1'reutiso on Blood and Skin Diseases wailed free. TUB SWIFT brKCIFIO Co., Linwer 8, Atlanta, Ga. " 'WhaTTs It! Thnt produces thnt beautifully soft com plexion and leaves no traces of its applica tion or injurious effects? The nnt;wer, Wis doin's Robortine acconiplishes all this, nnd is prononnced by Indies of taste and refine ment to be the most delightful toilet article ever produced. Warranted harmless and matchless, F. M, Wilkiim, agent, Eugene City. " ' Delays are Dangerous. You say, well, 'tis ouly a slight' cold, look nut, it may lead to an inflamation of the liuiiiu ink' of numerous nir cells of the Lungs this is Pneumonia. Or to spasmodiu contractions of the fibres of the) air iiassaues. which is Asthma: or the inflamation of the lining membrane of the throat and tubes which pass, through the Lunc's, which in the first staue is called Bron chitis, and may lead to consumption. Santa Abie is delicious in flavor, certain and perfect in its result A few doses will relieve, a thor ough treatment cure the above named diseases. Every bottle warranted by all druggists. For Salk. A lot of nico show-cases, as good as new, at t. it. lucefy & uo 8. Lambert & Henderson are the sole agents for the celebrated Superior stoves. Take your wife and look ut them. SOOTHES AND HEALS. . Santa Abie soothes and heals the mem branes of the throat and lungs when poison oned and inflamed by disease . It prevents night sweats and tightness across the chest, cuVes coughs, colds, bronchitis, pneumonia, whooping-cough and all other throat and lunc troubles. No other medicine is so suc cessful in curing nasal catarrh ns Califor nia Cut-K Cure, I bo enormous ana Increas iug demands for these standard California remedies colinrm their merits. Sold aud ab sclutely guaranteed by nil druggists at $1 a puckage. Three tor if'J.liU. harm for bale. I have for sole 220 acres of land know n as the Gilfilan farm; 2o acres good timber and the remainder all prairie. All under fence; good house and barn; good orcuard and other improvements. Tho place hag an abundance of eood spring water and is sit uated one. fourth mile from the Pleasant Hill school house, one of the best school districts in the county. Foi further particu nrs apply to T. O. HKwnnioKs. SCROFULA Idonot believe that Ayer's Sursaparilla has an equal as a cure for Scrofulous Hu mors. It is pleasant to take, gives strength to the body, and pro duces a more perma nent result than any melliclnc I ever used. E. Haines, North Llndule, Ohio. I have used Ayer's Sarsnparllla, in my family, for Scrofula, and know, if it is taken faithfully It will thoroughly eradicate this terrible disease. -W.F. Fowler,M.D., Greenvillo, Tenn. For forty years I have suffered with Erysipelas. I have tried various remedies for my complaint, but found no relief until I commenced using Ayer's Sursaparilla. After taking ten bot tles of this medicine I am completely cured. M. C. Amesbury, Rockport, Me. I have suffered, for yerrs, from Catarrh, which was so severo that it destroyed my appetite und weak ened my system. After trying other remedies, without re lief, I began to take Ayer's Sursaparilla, aiid, in a few months, was cured. Susan L. Cook, !AW Albany St., Boston, Mass. Ayer's Sarsaparllla is superior to any blood purifier that I ever tried. I have taken it for Scrofula, Canker, and Salt Rheum, and received much benefit from it. It is good, also, for a weak stomach. Millie Jane Peirce, S. Bradford, Mass. tt Humors, Erysipelas, Canker, and Catarrh, Can be cured by purifying the blood with Ayer's Sarsaparilfa, Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer k Co., Loweil, Haas. Price SI sU bottles, W. A Bad Man with n rutol- Grant County News From Rnn Erwav. who carries the mail between here and Long Creek, we learn of a serious shooting scrape that occurred in tht hitter nurc ou Tuesday morning, Jan. 31st, in which P. J. Conuolly, editor of the Eiicle, MUr known as "Pete, the Poet," was shot twice by a would-be "bad man," one shot taking effect iu tho groiu and the other in the aim, The shootist was Tom Williams, whom the shootee hniT spoken of iu bis paper as a 'hard rooster, "pistol man, ''a sloyger, etc., and nfter shooting the shootee he arm ed himself with a Winchester rifle nnd fired several shots nt Ed. Allen, who was acting as coustuble, aud endeavoring to arrest him, one shot grazing Alleu's foot aud killing the lioiso which be rode. Williams finally gave himself up, and was being closely guarded pending tho result of Connolly's wounds. The trouble grew out of an article pub lished in the paper that morning charging Williams with immoral conduct, which, if true, (and an editor will seldom take the responsibility upon himself to publish nn article unless it has some semblance of truth) would ostracize him from the society of respectable people forever. Williams was charged with snying that the women of Long Creek, iu general, were no better than prostitutes, and that Long Creek was oue Went keirse of ill-fame. Such assertions as these, if not taken up and resented by (be husbands, fathers and brothers of the ladies if Lonu Creek, would show them to be ver itable cowards, and Peter gave this fiend this mostcr in human form such a "raking down" in his paper that, smarting under the well-deserved .chastisement, he demanded "blood," and while Peter was delivering his paper to its siilmuiiuvrs, just because he had dared to voice the sentiments of a portion of thd commnnity, he must bo attacked in a cewardly manner nnd shot down like a dog. Btoceyards. St. Helens Mist: The ab sence of stockyards at Portland is a serious ibstncle to tlie farmer. A lew wholesale butchers with plenty of capital have fixed (he price they will pay for bseves, and if the producer will not accept it he may go to Jericho with them, as he cannot soli to re tail butchers, because they dure not buy. If the retail batcher buys a few head ef beef irom ins producer direct, ine uregoa yity Courier, that must have menus of snowing, says, he is informed by the wholesale beef ring that ll he does so again ne cannot buy any more from them. As he is financially unable to buy buuehgrass cattle by the car load in the winter time, when fat cattle are scarce in the Willamette valley, he submits to the tyranny of capital. The beef ring fixes the price the retailer must pay so high that he cannot make over a bare living, even when charging consumers eighteen cents a pound for porterhouse steak and thirteen cents for roast. The citizens of Portland are systematically robbed by tht beef monop oly, and as long as there is not a stockyard to compett with it, so long the ring will rob the fanner aud rob tho eator of meat. New things in surgery should always get the benefit of newspaper circulation. A switch man at Joliat was run over by an ennine and had his right arm crushed above the elbow. The surgeon concluded to try an experiment, aud proceeded to remove the comminuted bone, which represented about four inches of the original, and bringing the two ends to gether, fastened them with silver wire, and waited. The bone knit, the crushed muscles healed, and the patient is at work again with a serviceable arm four inches shorter than it was before, but immensely better than none at all. Conservative surgery like this would save many an arm and leg that is now whacked off like It would grow again. Hell is paved with good intentions, Omaha with asphalt mostly. Good intentions are very cheap, But asphalt la costly. Omaha World. Farm for Sale. A farm containing 390 acres, situated 'A1, miles from Eugene and V, miles from Irving, is offered for sale at $20 per acre. There are 130 acres under cul tivation; 80 more is open land. The rest is timber land furnishing abundance of wood of all kinds, close to market. There are three good orchards on the place. The soil Is very rich and well adapted to fruit raising. Will be divided to suit purchasers. Apply to J. J. Walton, Jr., Having perfected arrangements with par ties in Portland, I am able now to find pur chasers 'or lauds, more readily than heretofore. If you have laud for sale, im proved or unimproved, you cannot do bet ter than to entrust your business with us. Terms reasonable. Your patronage solicited. B. F. Dorris. For SALE.Thirty-flve dollars will buy a Parker shot gun, twelve boro; also five dozen metal shells cost $50. Inquire at this office. ' Absolutely Pure. Thl powder never varies. A mnrrel of pur ity. atrni(th and wholeaamenesa. More eco Domical than tHe ordinary kinda and cannot 1 1 aolii in competition with the multitude of 1" teat, ahor. weight alum or phoapha'e piwder Sold only in eana. RotaL Bakinu Powiii. Co., 100 Wall St, N. Y. Rrmiriiirrnm A correspondent of the Plaindenlcr of Feby. !th gives some facts regnrdina the early history of Lane county nnd tho reason for the miming of Butte Disappointment on the Middle Folk twenty miles abovo Engene, as follows: In the spring of in in a party of hliimatu Indians passed down through the Willam ette Valley and killed some cattle belonging to settlers that were living in the vicinity of Eugene City, and passed on and mnde trou ble further down, nnd, on tho way back, killed other cattle in the vicinity of Eugens City, and they were followed by F.lijih'ltris tow and Eliss Briggs of;Pleiisimt Hill, nnd Cornelius Hills of the Middle Fork.: 'The sbove party followed the Indians as "fur as tall creek, and muling tne creek very lull and ranidiaud the brush very thick, and be ing ouly three of them aud knowing there were twenty-four Indians they deemed it imprudent to attempt to cross nnd so turned tack. In the meantime, Eugene F. Skinner, Benjamin Davis nnd Henry Noble went down to the settlement;! on Long Tom and Muddv and raised n number of men and picked up what could be spared from home on their way tin, so that when we got alto gether nt Mr. Hills' residence ou the Mid dle Fork there were seventeen of ns, the writer being among the number. We took the Indian trail aud followed it to and across Fall creek and nn the river some miles above. It being the month of April, and the sun shining very bright nnd warm, the snow was melting ver) fast, aud when we got to where the Indians had crossed the river some days in advance, we found it ton high to ford, and so were compelled to rum back. We supposed at that time, the Indians could not get through the monutaius, on account of the snow nnd we could hem them iu. On our way back we were ridiug leisurely along and got pretty well up the side of a very promiuont but te or mountain and some one proposed tnat we go to tne top aud take a view of tht surrounding country, which we did. When we got to the top it was getting pretty well along toward evening and grass nnd water being abundant the proposition was made that we camp there for the night which we did. The next morning the sun came up as bright nnd clear bb it is wont to do, in clear weather in the spring in Oregon, aud nnfolded a lovely scene. Not a thing to mar the beauties of nature; just mist enough on tht river to make eveiy other object in view more bright; and some one of the company, I do not remember who, pro posed that said butte be named, and a vote of the company agreed to leave the naming of it to Mr. E. Bristow he being the old est mun in the company. Mr. Bristow said thut he and two others iiad, been disappoint ed a fsw days previous near tho foot of it, and that we had beon disappointed again a few miles above it, he would call it "Butte Disappointment," and that is tho way said butte came by its name. In the company were E. Bristow, Aaron Riclmrdsou, his son, and son-ln law, Rowland llinton, a Mr, Reeves, Henry Noble, John Aiken, Benja min Davis, Lewis Coryell, Cornelius Hills and Thos. Smith, I do not remember now who the others wore, IIuw Air Brakes nre Used. "I'll bet not one in a hundred of the peo ple who travel on railroad trains understand how ths pressure of air is used to apply the brakes to a train," said a railroad man. "When the air brake was first invented the air was turned into the cylinder nnder each car when the car was to be stopped, and the , pressure was exerted to force the brakes up against the wheels. But at the present day the brakes are held against the wheels by springs, and the air is turned into the cylin ders to push the brakes away from the wheels as long as the train is in motion. When it is desired to step the train, the air is let out, and then the springs apply the breaks aud stop the train. This last meth od of using the air pressure hns great ad vantages over the old way on the score of safety. Whenever an accident happens to a train, one of the first efi'ects it is apt to have ii to rupture tho air pipes leading from the engine to the cyliudor under the cars; and that of itself stops the train instantly. It is very important for everybody to understand that this matter, because a child five years old can stop a train in thirty seconds, from any car in the train, if he simply under stands bow. Yoa will see, if you look for it, that there is a sort of rope projecting from the toilet room of every car. That connects with the air nines nnder the train. If von catch hold of it and give it a little jerk it will stop tne whole train tiefore it has gone two hundred yards." Sheriff Groves, of Polk county went to Salem last Saturday and took to Dallas a prisoner named Benuewitz, who was con fined there, the court having ordered him to take to Dullas all Polk county prisoners in the Marion county tail. This would Inclndo . Landretb, the murderer, but Mr. Graves pos itively refuses to obey the instructions of the court. He was blamed severely for al lowing Kelty to be lynched, whan the county court had refused to allow him to be re moved to Salem nnd he doesn't propose to incur any more risks. One of our (Southern exchanges states tin t anybody who owns a copy of the Georgia Code and can borrow six dollars enn gain admission to the bar in that Stute. We didn t suppose it was so difficult to become a lawyer In Ueorgia. If one of tne qualifications neces sary to become a member of the bar in this Territory was the borrowing of six dollars, we should have fewer lawyers by a lurge ma jority. Lincoln. W. T., Times. "Why do yon keep up a revival all the tin e in your church?,' was asked of an Ar kat s iw negro preacher. "Has ter do it, b," he replied. "Whntdelnnd boom is ter de small town de 'vivnl is to do clinch, nn' ef it goes down do cause wine fer suffer. Tell yer whnt's er faek, ef I didn't keep duse niggers sbontin' all de time, dn'd let me starve ter def. Ef er nigger preacher lets de rope slack he's gone." Arkansaw Traveler. The New York Sun snys there are more men in New England with several wives, than there are in Utah. May be, but they don't boast of it. California wines to the amount of $."00, 000 were sold in Chicago last year. Three years ago the sales in that city were ouly flOO.OUO. Open adimuMiation of the law against Anarchists is better than all the secret cruel ties of Russia. TLe decline of Anarchy in Chicago proves this.