ADVERTISEMENTS, In T iie D emocratic T imes will be charged at . the following rates Published Every Saturday Morning BY J. N. T. MILLER & CO., > Publishers and Proprietors. JOB PRINTING. OFFICE—On California St,, over Rcames A Wil­ ton's Livery Stable. TERMS: Subscription, per annum........... Six months...................................... First insertion, (ten lines or less)................... $3 00 For each week thereafter..................................... $1 #0 A liberal deduction from the above rates will be made on quarterly and yearly advertisements. VOL I .$3 00 $1 50 JACKSONVILLE, OREGON, SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1871 ■ NO. 23 Every variety of Job Work executed with neat ness and dispatch, at reasonable ratei. J53*LEGAL TENDERS taken at par for subscription. [delay is caused must be predicated upon very Kailroad Matters—An Old Contest in a fornia through Southern Oregon and South­ ern Idaho, to Ogden,—an enterprise which ----- ! clear evidence to satisfy an Oregon public ' New Form. JACKSON COI'NTY. comes in direct competition with tte Central It is the experience of all men who engage ■ that such a course had to be pursued to oh- , F irst JrniciAi. D istrict .—Circuit Judge, P. Pacific. It is expected that the road from For some days past public attention in this in any important enterprise promising success,' tain justice. I*. Prim ; Prosecuting Attorney, 11. K. ll.mna. that some other less meritorious individual ' Mr. Elliott ■’ came ------ — to the State without a! city, and to some extent throughout the this valley, after passing through Umpqua ,lurki<'>n i'., —Circuit Court, Second Monday in February and November. County Court, first presents his claim for a division of the prof­ dollar, and his only claim towards ability toj State, has been attracted to the Elliott-Hol­ and Rogue river, would take a southeasterly Monday in each month. *1 its. Let any one inaugurate a new state of carry on such an important work was a con- I laday controversy in regnrd to the Oregon course and unite with the proposed new road Cinmtil —Judge, T. H. T>. Shipley: things ever so beneficial to the general nection with a r vtliical firm known only to and California Railroad. Of the purely per­ at some poiut in the southeast part of the Clerk, Silas J. Day ; Sheriff, Henry Klippci ; public, and opposition shows its head often himself under tie deceptive title of “J. ( sonal issues we have nothing to say ; they do State. This would fulfill the original design Deputy Sheriff. E. D. Foudray ; Treasurer, John Neuber ; A.-sessor, David Redpath : Countv Com­ from sources least expected. No enterprise, Cooke i Co.” Lct'it be understood that this ; not concern the public. But the controversy of our railroad system, as set forth by the missioners, John S. Herrin. Thomas Wright; however, is worthy the name unless it has an is not the great banking firm of “Jag Cooke in its progress and results may greatly affect Legislature of our State nt the last two ses­ Scho d Superintendent. AVin. M. Turner; Survey­ object, and no success worth striving for & Co.,” of New York, London, and other I the public interest, and from the direction if sion«. But if the Oregon and California Rail­ or, J. S. Howard ; Coroner, L. Ganung. unless it meats with opposing forces. Com I Eastern cities, ami which is now interested in is taking it is clear to any one who examines road can be stopped at the head of the Wal- h i //. i.—Justice of the Peace, I James R. Wade; Constable, N. Stephenson. petition is essential to healthy results, and the Northern Pacific, but a “straw” firm, it that it.is little else than an old contest re­ lamette valley and embarrassed either by Ì Foiru of .hict»onritle.— Trustees, James A. Wil­ when fair anl manly will receive encourage­ [ having no real existence, and using the name vived in a new form. The people of Oregon litigation or attacks on its credit so that no son. N. Fisher. Lewis Zigler. John Bilger and J. ment; but there is a legitimate competition , of “J. Cooke & Co.,” evidently with the in have not forgotten the fierce controversy of bonds can be sold, the Central Pacific Coni- H. Howard ; Recorder. I . S. Hayden ; Treas­ urer, Henry l’apc ; Marshal, James P. McDaniel and | tention to deceive. Mr. Elliot may have just one year ago in regard to Oregon mil- I pany may be able after a time to get control AN OFFH.IOVS JNTERMEPDLlXa. ! friends, but it is seldom that a man lies such ( roads, when the Central Pacific Company, of of it or make a connection with it at the head JOSEPHINE COI'NTY. It is of the Litter we desire to speak just j warm personal friends us will launch cut an California, seconded by a few mon in Oregon, 'of this valley by tho so-called Pengra route. —AND— t'ornin/ Oflirrrt.— Judge, J. B. Sifers ; Sheriff, [ unlimited sum to prosecute a half dozen suits i attempted to strike a blow at the develop II )w prejudicial this would be to Oregon can now. Daniel L Green : Clerk. Charles Hughes ; Asscs- Foley; Treasurer, Win. Naucke ; eor, R. E. F'dey; Oregon is no longer unknown to the in as many cities, all upon the same eom- ment of the railway system of this State, and be seen at a glance. To stop the progress of Commissioners, Thomas G. Patterson, II. Woud- I wealthy capitalist. 1‘eopie are llocking to plaint. Corporations frequently do such make Oregon tributary to the California cor ’Lis road would Le a terrible blow to the eock ; School Superintendent, R. R. Middles- ' these shores from all quarters of the globe. ! things, but iitdiciduals seldom. poration. It is yet fresh in the public mind prosperity of tl.e State, and would surely worth. Oregon lands are becoming valuable. There We have only touched upon some of the how this issue was precipitated on the people stop the progress of the west side road also, County.— Circuit Court. 2d Monday is vast wealth in the soil of its valleys and in | points involved in this important suit; we of Oiegon just on the eve of an important It is a suggestive coincidence that Mr. Elliott in April and Fourth Monday in Get >l>er. County Court. First Monday in January, April, July and the bowels of its mountains. Our geograph­ ! reserve still more important facts for future election ; Low a scheme was advanced which is supplied with funds to press liis suits just October. ical position in reference to other countries is (comment, our space not permitting us to say would have cut off Southern Oregon from all I at the time when the new enterprise to com- just being understood. The trade of Asia i more at present.— Democratic Era. hope of railroad connections, and thrown the plete the Central Pacific from Salt Lake to balance of the State into the elutche« of cor-; California is started. It is suggestive, too, and the Islands of tl.e Pacific is nearer our Look to the Record. ■ doors than any other American possession. p »rations ir. California ; how the scheme was 'vhcn wc see the lieraid, which contended for pushed forward here by a few persons who li,e Central Pacific’s schemes last year, enter The products ol Oregon are unsurpassed by The Herakl refers to some remarks of ours i had an interest in a land grant extending once and with so much interest upon i any country in the world. All this commer­ cial wealth must be controlled. Now who on railroad affairs, and resents our statement , southeast from Eugene City, and who hoped j this new and covert attack on the railroad JACKSONVILLE LODGE No. IO [ that itself is a “consistent organ of a Cali I to make that grant valuable by securing the interests of the State. These incidents are I shall do it? : fornia corporation.” To say thin, it declare?, j ' construction of a railroad over it; how the[il*mo8t conclusive as to the source whence the A NETWORK OF RAILROADS olds its regular meetings on I is to “maliciously falsify” its position and | Herald was subsidized in this interest and attack is instigated and the objects to be ac­ every Saturday evening at the Odd Fellow- i is the surest an 1 quickest way of arriving at Hall. Brothers in g4 stun.ling .ire invited to opinions. Well, let it be called an inconsist­ made the advocate of this plan of operations complished by it. The lieraid is the consist­ I this result. California is bound to this great attend. JAMES BUCKLEY. N. G. California St., (Up Stairs.) over Reames ent organ of a California corporation then, if which would have struck a blow at the gen ent organ of the California corporation.— THUS. PAULSON, R. See r. (network by iron bars and bolts, and great it likes the appellation better. For it lias oral interests of the State and of Southern Oregonian. & Wilson ’ s Livery Stable, JolIX B iigkr . ) wealth is fist flowing into the coffer of capi­ II. K i . ippel . > Trustees. constantly done the work of the Central Pa­ Oregon in particular, These things are all I talists owning therein. ll.V. H ui . ms , ) The great 11 lilroad General F. P. Blair, in a speech of great I cific Company, though its methods have been freshly remembered, And now that paper Regular Raltvkith Decree meeting, last Monday network of the Pacific slope will be controlled quite inconsistent and contradictory. When ha« entered the lists again as an advocate of | power on the anti-Ku-Klux bill, delivered night <>f each month, at TJ o'clock p. la. and few capitalists il , by one corporation I •* t—f Mav 1st. 1869. it says that we “maliciously falsify” its po­ a scheme by which it is covertly intended to ■in the Senate on the 13th ultimo, turned possible. It v ill not do, say they, to let sition it must suppose that we have so poor bring about the same, or a similar result. I aside for a while to pay his attentions to the <’. W. KAHLER, I Oregon build and own her own railroads inde- a memory that wc 'retain no recollection of The plan is to check railway devcl -pment in,' , “third Senator from Maine,” which ho did i pendent of California. Tiic at i 1 plains and the course it pursued las’ year for two weeks Oregon on the system on which it is now in this clever manner: Attdrnrv a- a id Counsellor-at-Law, dry valleys of Californ a do n it yield like The Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Ames) prior to the election, when it dropped politics going forward ; to embarrass the prosecution They lack moisture and those of Oregon. J ACUSON Vll.l.E, OREGON, JACKSONVILLE, OREGON. i are subj “ct to too many ci reunís'«nets to entirely and changed the whole contest into a of these enterprises ai.d finally to make the did me the honor, in two elaborately pre­ fight against Oregon railroad interests and in same combination which fought against the pared speeches, to vindicate himself from insure regular crops The climate o! Oregon favor of the plans and schemes of a California interests of Oregon a year ago master of the what he called my personal aggression, which has beeti foun 1 well suite I to the growth of consisted in the illustration that I made of 1 corporation ; that we have forgotten its gross situation. • I k » great staples of commerce. This com [the reconstruction laws by his presence in mid v imperative diatribes against Senator \\ i! The people of Oregon usually fake a prac • : this chamber. The Senator concludes his meree mu-t pay tr ibuto to t'.iliiornia as Dr. L. T. DAVIS, limns f r proposing a measure to secure the tical view of things and judge men by what heretofore. Oregon has gone on with her svmiiiotiie.il d< velopnvnt of the railway sys they do and measures by results. Mr. Elli­ last speech with an expression of this kind: stroct Office own w rk ab uit far < no tgh; it is time now terns of the State, according to the plan la d ott has of late brought divers suits designed ( “This discussion is not of my seeking or ai d demand a share that other p u tics s ‘ ep in Opposite 1 he <*Si a >af the Central the Oregon and California ro .d, to injure its! understood the manipulation of spoons pretty unless C i’ I >inia cap t ins > can control the i J.icksotii ill". Oregon. t> niv, ami Low, :if.er he ha 1 taken credit, to get it into the hinds of a receiver, well. [Laughter.] He seems to have taken r.ic’.ii , entire line. great interest in my personal history. He ¡uph ledge on tl.e subject, it deliberately advis- |>B. A. 15. OV1IRBECK J »nd to tic up the whole enterprise. This discourses largely upon my early career. lie X ,w h iw 1« thib to b: done? Don t be a — ll’ll.L l’RAt'TK E MEDICINE AND SUR ' ed I ini to dt- egnrd it at.d bran i himself I 1 in, if successful, would ;.ls •, as a matter ol t itiishe l, my friend, w en we i> ii i. it ¡hit the GERY. .. ! I will fttcn I pr-.m-tlv t i all cali# w i.h <’> shonor in order to serve the interests c. urso, cripple the west side road, and in all traces me up, having been in the Union <>n priife.-s.'in.il bu«iiics«. Ili- u.'liec aii-l re-i'let:ce Ei.I.I TT-ll 1.1. ADAV >1 IT, army, and admits that I was pretty sound, I of a e rporution which it had been laboring' probability prevent its c ns’ruction. Now! urc ut but lie says that after the war was over and The Oveibeck Hospital, now on ti'in! in I* >i llainl, is mt important ' so 1 tig and s • earnestly to promote. Do we the people of Oregon have no particular rea ­ On Oregon Street. Jacksonville. Oregon. l-tf sttp toward'« ill - b- ••m:Jio:i. FAY. know of nothing that he lias accomplished! 1 Democrats. Well, sir, 1 do not think you ! for Mr. 11 I’adav. With him a man wc that paper w ill bi denying that it ever op FAY A REV for the State. And, from the methods he is ■ could get a gentleman of his cloth to take have had ho dealing*, nor are we influenced i posed the Republican party and Senator I adopting and the course in which lie is work­ ■ such a course to obtain preferment and office. I Attorneys and Counsellors-at.Law, i or controlled by any relationship or personal Williams on railroad issues issues; -; it will be de­ ing, there seems to beeverj’ reason to believe His way of getting office was to take one by OFFICE — In Court Honse, up stairs. interest with him or any of his friend«, We claring that it never advocated the I.idd- . that he is backed in this matter bv enemies ‘¡force and sign his own commission, after * Will practice in the Supreme an I other Courts give cur opinion in this matter as en humble l’engra-Central Pacific combination in the ¡of Oregon interests. Fer a long time, as lie dictating his election to the creatures of his of this State. citizen of Oregon, having the best intere matter of building a railroad over the so- declares in the affidavit which he caused to own authority. * * * When he of our State only in view, Almost every called l’engra route and preventing the c in- *■#♦» Particular attention paid to the collection j be pub isind, he wits without moans to pros­ could find himself justified in accepting an of Claims tcaiu-t the F-.--1 ral and State Govern­ reader of our paper knows somethin g of the nection bv way of Southern Oregon, and it We are prepared to do all kinds of ecute for the recovery of his alleged rights ment*, the Entry of Lan«!« under the l’re-emption election at the hands of his own creatures, contest in the last Legislature aver the rail­ will roundly assert that .it never expressed an I Homestead Law-, and to the Entry ot Min* ral j in the east side railroad, lie has, however, road interest! of Southern Oregon. That an disapprobation of the resolutions of the Leg­ and apply and be admitted a Senatcr in this Lodes under the recent Act ot Congress. I tf. ; very recently obtained means for that p.ur- attempt was made to divert tho original line DK. W. JACKSON, islature and the pledge given by Senator I pose. Who furnished them ? The indica- body, he would be much duller than I sup­ from its legitimate course to the southern Kelly. The public will judge whether i tions are very strong that it was the Central posed him to be if he had not a sensibility boundary of the State, there to unite with we have “maliciously falsified the position which I am very glad to see he exhibits on Dental Rooms in building formerly occupied by , Pac fie Company of California. It is plain the California line, if the California Company this occasion, although my allusions to him Dr. E. II. Greenman. corner California and Fifth of the lieraid, or not. And as the editor of to see that that Company, if it can stop Ore­ completed their line as contemplated, other Streets. All styles of Dental work done on short were only in the spirit of an illustration of that paper puts on such an air of virtuous notice, at reduced prices. Particular attention wise the right extiyided into California until indignation and talks of honor and tiuth and gon railroad developments at the point now these infamous laws; and there can be no given to the regulation of children's teeth, ieeth PLAIN AND ORNAMENTAL a connection was made, Oregon capitalists kindred virtues, it would perhaps be advisa reached, might have strong hopes yet of car- more bitter sarcasm upon the Republican extracted without pain by the use of tho late method of local anasthesia. Ail work warranted. (so-called) and certain parties interested in hie for one of such “honest” susceptibilities ( rying out the schemes ah mt which there was government than that which is furnished by Satisfaction guaranteed. the Central Pacific overland route, desired to quit a position in which, as an advocate of ! so bitter a contest in our last election. That the attitude of that Senator upon this floor, nov20 3m. Nov. 20th. Istl'J. the line changed so as to pass through the I a California corporation, he lias placed him­ ; scheme is for a railroad over the so called elected in the manner in which be was lands of the Willamette and Humboldt Wag self in antagonism to the general sentiment 1 Pengra route, to connect with the Central elected frOm the State of Mississippi. It on lload Company and thence on until it of Oregon and the declared sentiment of his i Pacific on the Humboldt. Let the progress was an unparalleled outrage, an unmitigated i of the Oregon and California road be stopped formed a junction with the Pitt river route own party as expressed through the Legisla­ for an indefinite time at the head of the Wai- outrage upon the people of the State, and a or continued to Ogden on the Central Pacific. ture, and get back to the really useful and lamette valley, and the original scheme of the flagrant outrage upon all the people of thia The Democratic members of the Legislature Sac. Reporter. FROM LONDON, honorable occupation of wheeling sawdust, Central Pacific becomes possible again. This country.— -------------------- » - pledged the people of Southern Oregon that which in an unfortunate hour he abandoned i would deprive Southern Oregon of a railroad We take the following from a speech de* aving located in J acksonville , they should have the railroad as at first con­ to take control of an organ which has been inform« the citizens of this place and vicinity and force the railways of this part of the livered by Horace Greeley before the Ameri­ templated, and their oflicial orgau ought to that he is now prepare 1 to take orders for all kinds run for more than a year mainly in the in ­ State into the hands of the Central Pacific can Club, New Orleans: ot gents’ and boy's clothing at reasonable prices. maintain that pledge. The contractors on terest of the aforenamed California corpora Satisfaction guaranteed. This is my first visit to the South. I come Company. This is the aspect which the case behalf of the O. &C. R. R. Co. have expressed T.fS' C ikaxixg and R epairing dune. tion, and which lias quarrelled with mid been now wears. And we find that the lieraid, here with a heart devoted to the good of all —SUCH AS - a willingness to conform to their pledge, and repudiated by its own party on this very July 2d, 1S7#._________ jly2- tf. which a year ago was the untiring advocate people. They are not my enemies. I boar will no doubt complete the work if not pre­ issue.— Oregonian. of this scheme, uow working with as much hatred to no one. He believed the best men I vented by annoying law suits and officious should occupy the best places, without any Two members of the West \ irginia Legis­ energy as before on the new line of policy. CARDS, intermeddling of outside parties who, as we For ourselves, we are simply looking to the reference to bygones, for tho point which ENGINEER, verily believe, have adopted this course to lature lately took the sleeping cars to go to interests of Oiegon and give no heed to the □ecesitates the exclusion of some men frea cripple the Company’s credit and thus ac­ Grafton. The cars were crowded and the personal questions involved in the contro­ the ballot box no longer exists. lie opposed billheads , complish by unfair means what could not be two had to t-leep together. One was fat ; the versy. Ben Ilolladay and S. G. Elliott are disfranchisement, as no longer a necessity, done through the Legislature. Mr. Elliott other lean ; the fat man snored, and the lean 1HOICE LIQUORS AND CIGARS CON- nothing to the Oregon public, except in so far and said there would not be a KuKlux in the J stanti)' on bund. admits in his own affidavit that he had no man therefore lay awake. At about mid as their enterprise and the results thereof cause land now if there had been a general am­ means until quite recently to prosecute a suit night the insomnia legislator could no longer the public to have an interest in what they nesty five years ago. It would hare united HANDBILLS, brought nearly two years ago. If there is stand the stentorious breathing of his mate, propose, cr intend or accomplish. But if Mr. the people and healed the wounds produced that justice and equity in the claim he sets and arose and sat by the fire. An old lady Elliott has yet done anything for Oregon the by the war. For that he had struggled, and 12 1-2 Cents. jlylT-tf. up, how is it that he could not, until within entered, and wanted a place to sleep. “Go people of Oregon are entirely ignorant of it, the time was not far distant when every July 17th. 1H69. POSTERS, to my berth,” said the sardonic lean one, “1 the last ten days or so, procure from friends and they are not an undiscerning people, American would have his fair chance at the sufficient means to prosecute the matter? left my little boy asleep there ; I shall sit up, either. It would be a calamity to the State ballot-box, and the majority would rule. We do not know who are Mr. Elliott’s friends I must think of legislative things. PAMPHLETS, So the lady went to tho berth, disposed of if its railroad development should be arrest­ A T rvthfvl S aying .—Said Mr. Murray HE UNDERSIGNED, HAVING FILLY just now, but we have a strong suspicion ed ; but the Herald in fighting on the line refitted this >ld and favorite place of resort, useless clothing, and lay down. Presently in a late sermon : “Our business anxiety aad that there is more in the suit than the simple now offer« the ve-y best of liquors and segars at of last summer, seems quite anxious to wit­ the “ boy ” kicked. Then tho lady patted effort are of less importance to the world facts that may be in dispute between him and ness that result. 19 1-9 CENTS. him on the back and said, “ Lie still, sonny ; than we think. Three months after I were Mr. Ilolladay. The people of Oregon want The Saloon is commodious, the billiard tables Another consideration why the Central pa said I might sleep along with you. ” ‘ ‘ Oh, I dead, I would not be missed in this pulpit. are of the latest and most improved pattern, and a completed line of railway through the Pacific Company may be interested in check- 1 the wants of guests promptly supplied. would be filled. If any of Iou State, and it matters but little to them who ho! roared the bison—a boy no more, but a ing the growth of the present railroad system I j Its o place 'ij‘Te Tftei ¿while’ you wtnild not be bison. “ Thunder ! who are you ? I ain ’ t a BO Points of IJlltlttrdM For Drink«. And all other kinds of printing required builds it; they will sustain and defend any I’m a l member of tho West Virginia of this State, with a view to controlling it missed, even in your own family.” to bo done in the community, on / man or company of men who give evidence boy. _______ ” Legislature. ’' The lady went into a swoon, themselves at a future time, is furnished by very reasonable terms. Those knowing themselves indebted to me will of a willingness and ability to complete the nor could she be aroused till the fat man the announcement that a new and independ­ T hings that come home to us—‘‘Butcher do well to call without delay and settle, as I must c ^HBr* You who want Job Printing done, give 1 work. ADy delay will cause uneasiness, and prom ised her that he would have the lean one have money, and that soon. ent line of railway is to be built from Cali-1 Bills!” u.« a call, and we will satisfy you both in styleand HENRY BREITBAIITH. the claim set up in any court by which such impeached. price. OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. THE TIMES Dangers to Oregon Enterprise- BOOK, PAMPHLET, Business QZnrbs. JOB PRINTING OFFICE, H H NEW & FANCY TYPE, I J dentist . I WILLIAM HERMAN, MERCHANT TAILOR, H RAILROAD SALOON! MAX. BRENTANO C TOCEIS, T Jan. 11-tf.