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About The Democratic times. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1871-1907 | View Entire Issue (July 7, 1877)
J Shr fhmurratic îhr éprniorratir îms RATES OF ADVERTISING. Published Every Saturday Morning Bj CHAS. NICKELL, EDITOR ANO PROPRIETOR. OFFICE—On Oregon Street, in Orth’s Brick Building. Rntr* of Nubserf pt Ion: 83.00 2.00 1.00 One copy, p**r annum,..................... •• ' six months,....................... •* three months,.................. invariably Advaace. 4 VOL. VII JACKSONVILLE, OREGON, S. NO. 2s! Advertisements will be inserted in the T imes at the following rates : 13.00 One square, one insertion « each subsequent one....... —. 1.00 Legal advertisements inserted reasonably. A tair reduction from the above rates made to yearly and time advertisers. Yearly advertisements payable quarterly. Job printing neatly and promptly execut ed, and at reasonable rates. C ounty W arrants always taken at par. Flounce Rock, where, notwithstand with snow, evidently an extinct vol obtain a sight of which, is death to a ing his short leg, he became a famous C;»no settled down and sunk, and Dow red man. The whole scene has the look of en [The following sketch is copied from the hunter. Flounce Rock is one of the surrounded by water. An adventur A. C. JONES, FURNISHING and landmarks on the river. At present ous party descended the wall which chantment—not a fish in the water, Daily Oregonian of June 28ih. We presume ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LA>\ , it to have emanated from the pen of Judge the country al>out it is filled with cat forms the sides of the lake, and mak not a bird flying over it, not a motion J. H. Reed. Every one conversant with tle, the mountain sides and valleys be ing a raft sounded the depth as far as in its glassy surface. Men born and JACKSONVILLE, OGN., the scenery referred to will at once recog- ing full of grass. The rock itself is their fishing lines would reach, and brought up in a mountain country, nize the faithfulness of the description. Our perhaps a thousand feet at its base then explored the sunken mountain to however rude or unconventional they Will practice in all the Courts of the State. BOYS’ and GIRLS' Office in Orth’s building—up-stairs.____ people are so accustomed to looking upon above the little valley which it over its top. There is no beach to the lake, may be, are more or less all poets. the natural beauties surrounding them that hangs, and from its base to its summit the ground preserving the same incli There is many a «mute Inglorious Mil James Spence, M. D READY-MADE CLOTHING, they do not appreciate their charms, as do is about five hundred feet more. When nation under the water as above it. ton” who can feel, but can not speak those who visit and view them for the first the country was all under water, or, Jimmy descended I he precipice forty poetry, and few of that class ef men time, and their description in this instance rather, when the water was subsiding, or fifty feet to disengage a bowlder will ever stand by Crater lake for the HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN, is by one fully able to appreciate natural there were peculiar marks like water some two feet and a half in diameter first time without being silent, and BOOTS and SHOES, beauty and competent to express the truth j lines made on the rock, which were irom the soil and roll it down. We becoming conscious of their own little in a charming wav without at all encroach- | thought by the discoverers to resem limed it for precisely one minute by HoRne’t Ranch, near Kerbyville. ness involuntarily they will look up to GROCERIES, BEDSTEADS A CHAIRS, ing upon the realm of romance. Of such is ble the flounces on a lady’s dress, the watch, tracing its course by the Him in whose boiling crucible at the G. H. AIKEN, M. D., the statement following:] hence the name of flounce rock. Pro eye and by the ear when it disappeared appointed time, rocks, rivers, moun Of all the varied and beautiful coun ceeding up the river and diverging a from sight and sound, and we could tains and woods shall melt together. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, CLOTHING, try which is found lietween Los Ange mile or so from the trail to the right, hear no splash, nor could we see any JACKSONVILLE, OREGON. les and Puget Sound, none is more you come to the falls of the river. Of ripple in the water. S outhern people bold in kindly re lovely in climate, more fertile in soil, course the whole stream at this eleva LIQ.OUHS, TOBACCO and CIGARS, more varied in products and more ex The storm of the night before had membrance the names of three heroes, Ottiee—On« door west of the W. U. Tele tion (4,000 feet above the sea) is noth- i purified the atmosphere, and the sight Lee, Jackson and Stuart. Loo, the quisite in scenery than the valley of ing but a series of rapids ; here, how graph office. which met our gaze when we first head and front of the struggle, was CROCKERY, ETC., Rogue river, in Southern Oregon. ever, we have a perpendicular fall of caught a glimpse of the lake surpassed the born commander-in-chief, fitted H. K. HANNA, Jackson county, through which the one hundred and ninety-four feet. It for the conception of great campaigns, Rogue river runs, is one of the south lias the usual concomitants of all large anything that any of our party had ever wide-awake, a man of august ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR AT LAW, ever seen, and we were all old moun At E. Jacob's New Store. ern counties of the Slate. There the waterfalls, the roar, the spray and the tain men. It was not solely grand dignity by nature, calm, suave, grave, Jacksonville, Oregon, almond, the fig and tbe magnolia, the rainbow, but it has what the others taking good and evil fortune with the pride of the South, grow and bloom in have not, its stupendous forests of fir, and terrible, awe-inspiring like the same imposing serenity; in person, Orth's Brick Building, Jacksonville. Will practice in all the Courts of the State. the open air. With the Siskiyou* on white pine, sugar pine, hemlock and thunder storm, but it was grandeur one of the most noble and graceful Prompt attention given to all business leit in my care. (he south, dividing it from California, yew trees standing around as silent tempered with calmness and gentle men of his epoch, and the finest rider ness and serene beauty. There was Office in Orth’s Brick Building—upstairs. the Cascades or Sierras on the east and spectators. not a ripple or the slightest motion in in the Southern army; in character, the < oast range on the west, and its LT. OF THE ABOVE ARTICLES SOLD c. w. KAHLER. K- B. WATSON. The party moved on from the falls, the water, and the General could not simple, pure, patient, binding to him at the very lowest rates. If you don’t beautiful prairies — dotted with oak self both the love and respect of men. KAHLER A WATSON, believe me, »•all and ascertain prices for groves and teeming with grain, orch i intending to camp at a place called be persuaded that it was water that we Jackson was tbe iufaDtry leader, the yourselves. No humbug ! Union creek, tolerably near the sum first saw. He insisted ou it that the ATTORNEYS A COUNSELORS-AT-LAW, All kinds ot produce and hides taken in ards and vineyards—running up to the mit. Before reaching the place night lake had sunk. He was deceived by «right arm” to execute what Lee con exchange for goods. 42tf. foot of the mountains, it presents a extraordinary clearness of the wa ceived ; in person not graceful, in JACKSONVILLE OREGON, scene at once soft and grand, like “Beau set in. The weather for two weeks the ter and his mistaking the water line manner silent, reserved, and often ab ty sleeping in the lap of Terror.” The prior to this time had been unseason as TWELFTH YEAR. Will practice in the Supreme, District and it theu was for an old water line rupt ; cautious to counsel, but rapid other Courts of this Stale. river itself was originally called Rouge ably warm, and long before we made such as you see left by high water on and terrible in execution, going to the our camping-place the heavens “were Office on Third street. river by the vovageurs of the Hudson ST. MARY'S ACADEMY. Bay Company, then Gold river, and at hung with black,” and owing to the all our water courses, No mirror ever battle with muttering prayers on his H. KELLY, made reflected more perfectly than lips, leaving all to Providence, but last it has been doomed to bear the darkness of the night, increased ten did CONDUCTED BY lake. The stupendous banks striking with all the power of his arm ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW, title of Rogue river, a corruption of its fold by the storm clouds and the dense with the every rock, with every obelisk to do his part, and in many ways re first name. Some few years ago it was forest, it was as much as we could do and prism SISTERS of the HOLY NAMES THE peculiarity of shape, sembling the Ironsides of Cromwell. JACKSONVILLE, OREGON, rumored that at the source of the river to find our way. In fact we could not every mark and and cave were as perfect i Stuart, on the contrary, was the cava in the Cascades a lake had been dis have found it save for the sheet light in the water as they were above it, so lier, essentially belonging to the class Will practice in all the Courts of the State. Prompt attention given lo all business en HE SCHOLASTIC YEAR OF THIS covered of such surpassing magnifi ning which every moment or two abso school will commence about the end of cence that the like had ne’er been lutely covered the heavens. Just as that it was difficult to tell where the of tnen who followed the fortunes of trusted to my care. office opposite Court House. water commenced and the bank ended. Charles I., ardent, impetuous, brim August, and is divided in four sessions, seen. On one of our lovely September we reached our camping-ground and Had your name been carved on the ming over with the headlong courage often weeks each. whilst we were unpacking our things, JAMES S. HOWARD, Board and tuition, per term,............ 840.00 davs of last year it was determined to the storm culminated and the sheet wall rock you would have seen it re of a high-spirited boy, fond of bright 4.00 start out to find the lake and enjoy the Bed and Bedding................................. lightning became forked and then en flected in the water below. Every colors, of rippling flags, of martial 8.00 mountains. U.S. DEPUTY MINERAL SURVEYOR Drawing and painting........................ The party consisted of sued a scene of unparalleled grandeur fleecy cloud and the deep blue of tbe music and the clash of sabres—in all Piano....................................................... . 15.00 FOR JACKSON, Entrance fee, only once.................... . 5.00 General John E. Ross, “Jimmy” Stew- as does often fall to the lot of a man sky intensified by the water into such the warp and woof his character an irt and the writer. The General is an SELECT DAY SCHOOL. to see. Most men have to look up to a blue as never was seen before were embodiment of the best traits of tbe Josephine and Curry counties, Oregon. Primary, per term,............................. ? 6X)O old Oregonian, and has been in every reflected until you felt as if you were I English cavaliers. Official surveys made and patents obtained Junior, 8.00 Indian war from the days of «Old see the lightning flash and wait a mo « .............................. al reasonable rates. Full copies oi Mining Senior, alxive the sky looking down into it. 10.00 “ .............................. John” and his men, the heroic age of ment for the thunder, but here we L uke in K ansas . —During Laws and Decisions at my office in Jack could look around us and on a level Pupils are received at anytime, and spe Indian warfare in 1855-’56, until and The point from which we looked the B ible sonville, Oregon. • trial of the celebrated Leaven cial attention is paid to particular studies in with us and see the chain lightning down was two thousand feet above the inclusive of the Modoc troubles. “ Jim l>ehalf of children who have but limited and look into it and see it as if it were water beneath u-*, and that was tbe worth baby case, in which two women time. For further particulars apply at the my” is a Scotchman, as bis royal name claimed to have given birth to the Academy. would indicate. He has been game running down like the molten metal lowest place in the rim. You can get same child, one of the lawyers in the keeper, sailor, packer, and an old “’49” that issues from a furnace, the crash oo nearer the waler without descend course of bis remarks pointed to a THE Cor. Cal. A Oregon Sts., miner, lie is a good shot with both i and the flash beiug simultaneous. The ing the almost perpendicular sides. I large oil painting which represented 'hot-gun and rifle, l’urdy or Winches I isolation, the gigantic trees, the dark Tbe lake looked like an opal, not Solomon ordering the child to be sev Oregon. CITY DRUG STORE, JecheeaTille, ter, and in the mountains is worth half ness lit up by oft repeated flashes, and seeming to us more than a mile or two ered in halves and divided between i regimerit of men. Nothing can break finally rendered more weird-like by long and a mile broad. the two women. His scriptural knowl- ' From our standpoint, with the lake I JACKSONVILLE. that he cannot lash; nothing can hap the flames of two trees which the edge beiug small*, he alluded to Pilate DAVID DINN pen which- is beyond his resources. I lightning had struck and set on lire, at our feet, looking up tbe Cascades I instead of Solomon. The opposing There is one acknowledged weakness, | together with the sighing of the wind north, we could see at long intervals, | counsel, supposing he knew all about Keeps constantly on hand a full assortment he new ftrm of rattler bro . however, in “Jimmy’s” character. His j through the firs, and the roaring ot Diamond Peak, the Three ¡Sisters, and it, instantly jumped up and called him of furniture, consisting of have the largest and most complete perception of the right of property in I the creek over the rapids where we Mount Jefl’erson, covered with their a d—d fool; he stated that the order assortment of BEDSTEADS, dogs is not acute. He recognizes no camped, made it impossible to add an eternal snows ; and turning our faces was by Ctesar and not by Pilate. Af other circumstance towards the com east and south, we had away below us DRUGS, MEDICINES A CHEMICALS, ownership in a good dog of any spe BUREAUS, TABLES. pleteness of the storm and its sur the Modoc country and Klamath lake, ter a heated discussion they agreed to cies, save in himself. He is not alto leave it to the Judge. His Honor de GUILD MOULDINGS, Ever brought to Southern Oregon. Also gether to blame, however, for his ac-* roundings. We understood afterwards with ¡Sprague river, Williamson’s riv cided that both were talking on a sub the latest and finest styles of in the valleys ou both sides of the er, Wood liver and Annie river thread STANDS, SOFAS, LOUNGES, quisitiveness in this particular, as that mountains towards the east and to ing the desert, and in the far south, ject foreign to their knowledge, and STATIONERY, ninety-nine dogs out of a hundred will CHAIRS OF ALL KINDS. wards the west, and a hundred miles grand old Shasta, with his 14,400 feet, pointing to the painting, said that it follow him “Will ye, nill ye.” apart, people had been looking at the and his living glacier, the king of was intended to represent Herod and And a great variety of PERFUMES and PARLOR A BEDROOM SUITS, Having laid in seven days ’ provis TOILET ARTICLES, including the best and storm and wondering at its fierceness northern California. Why was not not Pilate or Cajsar. The lawyers con cheapest assortment of COMMON and PER ions we started up the river, traveling sidered tbe matter as settled and pro ETC., ETC. We wero in the midst of it and ad Biersladt there ? FUMED SOAPS in this market. for the first twenty miles through the ceeded with the case. Also Doors, Sash and Blinds always on itiT Prescriptions carefully compounded. miring it. As the lake is as high as the sum valley, by farm house and mills and hand and made to order. Planing done on 44 ROBT. KAHLER, Druggist. ! night, mit of the mountain pass where the J aws of I kon .—Morris VV’ondo, of 'reasonable terms, Undertaking a spe fields full of horses, cattle and sheep, And storm, and darkness, “Oil ye are wondrous cialty. road leads over from Jacksonville to Granville, N. Y., aged 19 years, and until we crossed the river. Then the strong, Yet lovely in your strength as is the light Fort Klamath, and as there are no weighing 160 pounds, deserves the ti ascent began which never terminated Of a dark eye in woman I” mountains 'within a great distance tle of the cbampioa «Maa with the TARTE ROCK SALOON, until we reached the summit of the Jimmy was proceeding to spread ASHLAND, OREGON, higher than the lake, and the ground iron jaw.” A lew days ago a mau range eighty miles away. Higher and our blankets between two of tbe very OREGON STREET, is descending on all sides from it, the weighing 200 pounds sat uu a heavy steeper becomes the trail, grander the A member question naturally arises, how is the table of a saloon. Waado stood on a W. J. ZIMMERMAN A CO., Prop're. scenery, and the mountains are piled tallest trees in the group. WINTJEN & HELMS, Proprietors. up as you advance in inextricable con of the party suggested that it might lake fed and whence comes this great chair and seizing the table ou oae side tusion. Sometimes the river lies be not be a safe place, as the trees tow body of water. The answer may be with his teeth, lifted it and the mau anufacture and build all low you thousands of feet, looking ered so high, to which Jimmy quietly arrived at by observing how the lake two feet clear off the floor, and held rnHE PROPRIETORS OF THIS WELL- kinds of mill and mining machinery, like a silver thread, and again you are remarked that if he had to be killed discharges itself. The plateau on them there fifteen seconds. He lifted L known and popular resort would in castings, thimble skeins, and irons, brass form their frieqds and the public generally castings and Babbitt metal. Bells cast. down on its banks with scarcely room by lightning that night he was going which Klamath Lake and the rivers a cask of whisky weighing 400 that a complete and first-class stock of the Farming machinery, engines, house fronts, between them and the mountain tor to be dry when he died, and so pro emptying into it is situated on tbe pounds, astride of which were two l»est brands of liquors, wines, cigars, ale and stoves, sewing machines, blacksmith-work, ceeded with his duties as chamber east of the mountains, is 2,000 feet men whose weight was 300 pounds porter, etc., is constantly kept on hand. and all work wherein iron, steel or brass is your animal to walk. At one point They will lie pleased to have their friends used, repaired. Parties desiring anything some hundreds of feet above the river, maid. Our fear of getting wet, how higher than the valley of Rogue river more, by seizing it by the chime with «call and smile.” in our line will do well to give us a call be the General remarked, this point is ever, was unfounded. We had all the on the west of the mountains. At the his teeth, holding it out straight. fore going elsewhere. All work done with called “Gut’s defeat.” Upon inquiry beauty of the storm and none of its toot of the mountains on the east, Three meu pulling on a rope which he CABINET. A Cabinet of Curiosities may also be found neatness and dispatch at reasonable rates. I found that the place had been thus inconveniences, It went down into Wood river, a large river, In wlnTse held in bis teeth could not budge ®er Bring on your old east iron. here. We would be pleased to have persons . ZIMMERMAN A CO. named from an accident which hap the valley and left us above it, nut waters there is never any variation, Wando from bis tracks. He has goue possessing curiosities and specimens bring Ashland, April 8, 1876. Anuie river and some smaller streams east to seek an engagement with a them in, and we will place them in the Cab pened there to an old horse belonging wetting us in the least, inet for inspection. to an old pioneer named Hi Abbot, or In the morning we pursued our at a distance of 20 or 25 miles from circus. WINTJEN A HELMS. EAGLE SAMPLE ROOMS. > the Alcalde. It seems that once when way with the animals until noon, the lake, and at a depth of 5,000 feet Jacksonville, Aug. 5, 1874. 32tf. T he country newspapers of Oregon returning from a hunt, the old horse when we took it afoot for about a mile, below it, all come out from under the C alifornia S treet , with the classic name being loaded which brought us to the rim of the mountains. They do not rise like are vastly belter than the interior pa E. RITSCHARD, Proprietor. with the carcasses of eight deer, lake. One glance repaid us a thousand pools or springs ; they come out as pers of the older Slates. Thu poorest S. P. JONES, missed his footing and rolled down in fold for all Hie fatigue and trouble we rivers with a rapid current, and the paper here, in fact, would outrank al WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER. to the river, deer and all. He was had taken. The lake first known as fish can be seen at any time swim most auy of them. The Eastern pa one but the choicest and best not drowned, however, for as Jimmy Crater Lake, but now, with our nation ming up stream and under the moun pers are generally published in one of Wines, Brandies, Whiskies and Cigars said, “He shed his pack in the river al love of dollar-store jewelry and tain where the stream breaks out. the large cities, and seul ready-iuade kept. HE UNDERSIGNED TAKES PLEAS- and crawled out.” But as IrviDg says tawdry finery, called by some Lake There is no doubt but that these to thu localities where they are to be DRINKS, 12$ CENTS. ure in informing the public that he has Sublimity and by others Lake Majesty, streams are the outlet of the lake, distributed. They have nothing til to iust opeited out in SchuuipPs building, ou NO CREDIT IN THE FUTURE—it don’t of Braddock, «his is a name forever California nbreel, where he is prepared to pay. Families needing anything in our line associated with defeat.” This Master lies at an elevation of seven thousand The whole country is lava and noth- be called local intulligeuce, thu space exmtirali work in his line in the best man can always be supplied with the purest and Abbot was one of those men created feet above the sea, measured by tnang- ing but lava, and the water of the lake i being filled up with the kind of read* ner and at reasonable rates. r i - best to be found on the Coast. Give me a for the purpose of being the fore-run ulatiou. It is seven and a half miles percolates through the lava, and finds ing uutumou iu “patent outsides.” Cleaning and repairing* watches and call, and you will be well satisfied. ners of civilization. When Jackson long by five and a half wide, and it its way through fissures and crevices Here, even, the papers that patronize jewelry a specialty. Give me a call. F. RITSCHARD. ville was a mining camp and unbap has been sounded to a depth of five until it forms the rivers above men “patent” establishments have live LOYAL W. CARTER, tized, old Hi undertook to keep the hundred and fifty feet and no bottom. tioned. There is no other visible out matter iu them, while must of the LAGER ! LAGER ! ! boys awake one night by imitating the It is in the summit of the Cascades, as let to the lake, and there can be no journals are edited with care and in PAINTER, cry of a cayote and moving his leg up we call them in Oregon, or tlie Sierras, other source of the rivers. Is it not telligence. A man can tell what is Jacksonville, : : : Oregon. and down from behind a log where he as they are called in California. The then probable that the lake is fed in going uu in town by reading une of was concealed. A fellow named Ber ground recedes in every direction from the same manner that it is discharged, ■ uur interior papers, but it is out uf the ry, not liking to be disturbed, took a the rim, and there are no higher peaks and that it is supplied by subter : question iu must other States. TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY OF crack at the cayote with his revolver in the immediate vicinity. The depth ranean channels, even from the snowy rilHE PROPRIETOR, JOS. WETTERER, informing the public that I am now from the rim of the lake down to the peaks which tower up along tbe whole «C hange cars!” is what a boot- 1 has now on hand and is constantly man prepared to do all kinds of House, Wagon, and shot Hi through the leg and ufacturing the best Lager Beer in Southern Carriage, Sign and Ornamental Painting, lamed him for life. Just about this water varies from two thousaud to four range, although they are miles, aye, black said to a Chicago mau thu other Oregon, which he will sell in quantities to Calcimining, etc. AI1 work executed with time the American idea of law and or thousaud feet, almost perpendicular. some of them hundreds of miles day, when he had fimshed one of hia neatness and dispatch at reasonable rates. -•uit purchasers. Call and test the article. In the middle of the lake stands, cov distant ? brogans. Orders from the country promptly attended der and self-government and “all that” ered with timber, a conical mountain, No Indian ever treads the bank of broke out in the camp and Hi was to. TOYAT. W. C4RWR XES, Hatchets, Drawing Knives, Broad T he Yale students pay the New fifteen hundred feet high, a perfect the lake. There is a tradition that Ham axes, Mattocks, Picks, all sizes of Ham- * FULL line of shelf and heavy hardware elected Alcade. The old fellow, after Haven washerwomen $20,QUO unuually. some years, went up Rogue river to sugar loaf, with its coucave apex filled the lake is iuhabited by a monster, to luers, «tci, lor sale by JOHN MILLER, j ¿1. for sale by JOHN MILLER. PRO FESSION AL C A R DS. Ladies' and Gentlemen's A TRIP TO < R ATER i,AKK IN NOVTH- , EKN OREGON. A T » rÜRNITURE WARE-ROOM, I a I T THE ASHLAND IRON WORKS, M ■ b N T I A / i ■■■■ ■ e i