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About The Democratic times. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1871-1907 | View Entire Issue (July 28, 1877)
Or ÿnwrntir iiinirs. SATURDAY JULY 28, 1877. W ool .—Thisjstnph» ¡-¿down again, the prices ranging between twenty and twenty-five cents. C hange of D ate ..—For the accom modation of our numerous*sub8crlbers in Sam’s ^Valleyjand on Butt? creek, the publication of the T imes will short ly be change ! to Friday. * B uilding P urchased .—L. Solo mon has purchased the Anderson building, now occupied by Newman Fisher, and w ill shortly remove there in. The price pai I wib $3,000. -..... -- — PO’TBONED—L'ne quarterly meet ing* of the M. E Church, South, for Jacksonville Circuit, to have occurred at this place to-morrow, will be held on Augii»t 19th in connection with the cam | - meeting on Butte creek. * 1 F ine W ool .—Cameron A- McCully’s wool sold at a better price than any wool sent from Oregon, bringing 32 cents a pound at a time when this staple was not at its highest. Their band comprises the different grades of the Leicester. * A sphyxiated —While digging a well for Geo. Schumpf, the other day, John CimLior.'ky attempted to light his pipe in the .shaft, cau-ing a -mlden aris ing of tool gases, which overcame him and would have proven fatal but for as sistance being close at hand, lit* was >oon resuscitated upon being brought out into the fresh air. F or C rater L ake .—A crowd coin- po>ed of Judge Prim, IL 1). Foudray, John Orth and J. Nunan, equipped with plenty of ammunition, provision* and the usual <7 c<> bras, left \\ ednes- day morning lor a few weeks’ trip to Crater Lake. We have t>een author ized to offer a royalty of $10 fur each deer-skin and $1VO for every bear-hide they bring home. — — « - -V— A “G reen ” A ffair .—A couple of tramps one day this week called at •the store of Green A Co , on Jump-off Joe, and wanted to borrow $60 in silver on a roll of whit appeared to be twen- ty-dollar pieces. To verify this belief they pulled out a genuine twenty from the corner of the rolL and thereupon -succeeded in getting the silver. Alter they had been g<»ne.some time, the cheat Was di'cuvertd and search instituted ; but, up to this writing, the rascals were still at large. ---- - —— - <------ --- T he H arvest .— The farmers are now harvesting their crops andasplen- •did yield is generally promised. Jn some instances much grain has been blown down, a portion of which will be fed to hogs to prevent a total loss. Merritt Bellinger’s ti Id -eems t;j have suffered the worst in this vicinity, sev- ♦ ral acres of his fine w heat lying on the ground. The surplus will be larger than ever this year and the prices aho letter, which ought to make a decided improvement in the finances of Jackson county. ------------ —-o--------------- C hapter lv<rii uth >.—Acting II. P., Mart. V. Brown, assisted by G. L., D. P. Ma-on, on lhe 24lh instituted Oregon Chapter No. 4, Royal Arch Ma.-ons, of Jacksonville. The follow ing are the officers lor the ensuing term: J. K. N. Bell, H. 1‘.; Akx. Martin, K.; G. \V. Isaacs, S.; John E. Koss, C. of 11.; <’. C. Beekman, R. A. M.; A. M. Berry, M. I sl V.; H. C. lihi. M. 2d V.; T. f. McKen zie, M. 3d V.; C. Mingus, Treil-s.; Max Muller, Secretary; R. S. Dunlap, Sentinel. Tiie Chapter starts out under aU-pi- cious circumstances. The members are very much pleased with the efficient manner in which the instituting offi cials prosecuted the work, ¡»lacing the Chapter on a firm footing and in good running order. _ - --- --------- S enator S aulsbury oe D ela - a W’ a RE. — This statesman passed through town Tuesday on his way home from Portland, where he was en gaged in the investigation of the charges against Senator Grover, lie was accompanied by ex-Governor Bur bank and Mr. Staig, subordinate mem. tiers of the Senatorial Commission. The Senator is a fine-looking gentle man, tall in stature, with silvery while hair, his face giving evidence of lhe intellectuality for which he is noled. His arrival here was somewhat unex pected, hence no reception was ten dered him, an honor which he no doubt would have declined, as he is in haste in returning to Delaware. Senator Saulsbury has gained the good opinion of all with whom he has come in con tact, who hope to meet him again in the region with which be felt so well satisfied. It KIEF mention . Fishing becoming popular. Harvest hands receive $1.50 a day. Another show is migrating this way. Wm. Kreuzer will soon open a Ger man school. Another party will leave for Crater Lake next week. Walter Jackson returned from Lake countj’ this week. Our genial Linkville friend, II. M. Thatcher, is in town. There is a patent for Jacob Gall at the Roseburg Land Office. Our usual mountain fires have not made their appearance as yet. I LAKE COUNTY ITEMS. Now is the day, and now is the hour, when all we want is a heavy The Kægel troupe isjiow performing shower, to cool us off and save our lin in this section. en, and thus prevent us all from sin- As a general thing, Lake county is nin’. improving considerably. ’Squire Kent returned from Califor nia Thursday. He has been superin-, The weather is cool,though consider tending the shipping of the Emeline able lieat’has been experienced. Several cattle buyers have been in Company’s retort to Beavercreek from this section and considerable stock has Yreka. been sold. Chas. Hughes, Esq., Josephine coun The winter has been favorable for ty’s efficient clerk, was in town Mon day’ on business, accompanied by-cGeo. stock of every kind, which is fat and Grotz. They returned home the fol in fine condition. The water has now receded enough lowing day. If you want to “raise a breeze” take from the swamp land to allow the cut a spin behind “Jake and Dick” from . ting of hay in some sections. The Indians are not troublesome as Plymale’s livery stable. As steppers Fred. Lay has been making sundry , they are unexcelled. Give “'Tip” a yet, nor likely to become so, unless improvements to his residence. something unusual should happen. call and he’ll warrant satisfaction. The Like county land office will Geo. Nurse, having disposed of his Senator McMillan failed to arrive on open at Lakeview on September 1st. the stage Wednesday last. The Sen interest in the Link ville store, will now’ J. R. Cameron and F. Kasshafer ator is a consistent member of the devote himself to winding up his busi arrived from Like county Wednesday Church, and a trip overland might en. ness affairs. night. courage a profanity past forbearance. Jesse D. Carr has nearly completed MARR FED. A nother R ichmond —There seems to be a special hankering after the el DA VIS-—NOLAND—On Butte creek, July loth, by L. Tinkharn, J. I’., Geo. H. Davis egant bat our boys won at Roseburg on and Mv^EHen Noland. the Fourth. First, Ashland desired to BORN. play for it, and now comes Roseburg and wants it back. In this connection ZIGLER—At Empire City, on the 27th ult., to L. II. Ziglerand wife, a son. lhe Independent assumes authority to issue the following challenge to the POSITIVE “Hatchet” dub: “If the Jacksonville club which played here on the 4th will pot up the bat again and enough money to come to Jacksonville, when the county fair is held at .that place, the Umpquas will be,pleased to play again.” In behalf of our *boys, we —AT— would say that they have no desire to put up the bat again, as they won it on the occasion for which it wa alone in tended. However, the Jacksonville Club would he pleased to meet any Club in .Southern Oregon or Northern California at any time or place upon which may be agreed, and "Invites its Roseburg and Ashland friends to con sider this proposal. SIXTY DA S' SALE! Fisher & Caro’s. SELLING OUT and NO HUMBUG F rom G alicl . C reek .—A corres hisstone fence in the vicinity of Clear Lake. He will have about 75,000 pondent., under a late date, sends us the following: acres inclosed. Times are very dull here* this ¡Sum Col. J. N. T. Miller has one of the mer. Some work is being done in the finest bands of horses in the State run way of constructing|dilches and ¡»ros- ning out a short distance from Link- pectjng qiia! tz lodes. *M r. Ankeny & Co. Quito a scare was caused by a sud ville. It numbers over 100 head. Isaac Merritt, of Oakland, Cal., is --------- •---- ■ are digging a new ditch to take waler on sojourning at the soda spring near By den and very loud clap of thunder S tage R obbers C aught .—The their claims situated on the Courtney on the night of lhe 20th. Everybody ron Cole’s. highwaymen who stopped the Oregon hill. Green brothers are also construct- II on. Henry Klippel is attending to turned over in bed, to take a new start and California stage about a mile and 1 ing an arastra to work their quartz Io the Clerk’s office in the absence of to the pattering of the rain that fol a half north of Soda Springs on lhe eated on Galice creek, near Reed flat. HIIIE UNDERSIGNED, HAVING CON- lowed. Mr. Foudray. 18th, were caught the Saturday after Wm. Bybee is gelling along very well 1 eluded to sell their entire stock of mer Only ten drummers in town at one noon following near Trinity Center by with prospecting his ledge, which i> chandise and close out business, now oiler Blackberries are selling at the rate for sale for CASH or its equivalent, at of three' gallons for $1 at Ashland. time yesterday and more on the wav. Deputy Sheriff John Hendricks, of imptovingin size and richness. Some A requisition should be made on Gen. 1 Siskiyou county, and Charles Carroll, Cheap luxury. work is being done on the Yank ledge, SAN FRANCISCO COST! M irt. V. Brown to call out the militia who took their track at the ¡»lace of the on the McNair claim, with fair pros Dr. F. G. Hearn, dentist at Yreka, j to resist the attacks of these ruthless robbery and followed it through the pects, the^quartz looking fine. I think a large stock of Dry and Fancy Goods, intends making a professional trip to invaders. roughest country ever traveled until there is a bright prospect awaiting (nothing, Boots and Shoes, Hats, Groceries, this section soon. Tobacco, ('rockery and Glassware, etc., etc. 'The Jackson ereek serenading club they got their men. One of the rob this ¡»lace. To convince the public that we mean bus George Stephenson and family have iness we quote the ju ices of a few staple ar is in full blast, and are out nearly every bers started to run, after being ordered F rom S it . ver L ake .—From Geo. ticles as an illustration : returned from Oakland, Cal., to re- , night. The members of the dub are ! to halt, and was shot in the small of the Durand, who returned from Silver main with us again. Miss Keeter, soprano; Katy Did, Mez. hack and hips, and is supposed to be Lake valley on the 21th, the Yreka GREAT REDUCTIONS : Read Dr. Danforth’s card elsewhere. zo-Soprano; C. Ricket, tenor; Ole Bull mortally wounded. The other surren Journal learns that stock is doing well, He has something to say on the Dow Frog, basso. dered, and both were taken to Trinity 14 yards of standard prints......... ............... $1.00 and that the last winter was very light White Rock and Lownsdale ell-May bond matter. The wounded man is left John Cimborsky has returned from i Center. Muslins..................................... I21ie. per yard There will he a meeting of the Jack- j Portland, where he has been in attend there in charge of Carroll, and the other in all the Southern Oregon valleys, i Dress Linen................................. “ lie has lately completed the fencing 1 Grass Cloths.............................. 12Sc. “ S' nville Base Hall Club at the Court ance on the Great Councilor Improved was brought to Yreka by Hendricks. Bed Ticking ............................... 16^( 30 “ in of land, which has to be done by Best Brands of Teas ................ 5(>c. per pound House this afternoon. Order of Red Men. Great Sachem All the money, etc., taken from the those claiming lhe land, owing to the Costa Rica Coti'ee..................... 25c. “ Wimer’s mill on Murphy Creek, Stearns appointed him his deputy for express, except $6, was recovered; And ail other articles at corresponding rush of emigrants hunting homes. All low rates. Josephine county, is now prepared to this district. also the guns stolen from the sheep the straggling bands of Indians in that The public is invited t^ call and avail grind on short notice. themselves of this opportunity of securing J. M. Strau-er is again connected ranch. -------------- • —------------- country, having been gathered up bargains beture it is loo iaie. Geo. Grotz, of Kerbyville, offers a with the Oregon and California Stage | FlbliER & CARO. L ess J awbone ani > M ore B usi some time ago ami put on the reserva new and elegant panorama for sale. ■ Company as driver between Rock Point ness .—The reply of the Secretary of tions, none of them are now’ seen there, POST SCRIPT. and Levin»,’. Joe Clough now manip-{ the Ashland Base Ball Club to lhe 1 and the country is settling up rapidly, Read his advertisement. All persons knowing themselves indebted Simuel Sawyer and lady, of Kr-rby- ulates the reins between lhe former challenge of the Jacksonville Club is making it look like any other civ by eiuier note or boox account are hereby ville, were in town last week. They place and Cole’s. notiiied to settle by >ej»teml»cr 1st next, or equivocal and seems a studied attempt ilized section. . i their accounts will be placed in the bands have gone to the Soda Springs. Chris. Weiss took a Io id of wine to to dodge the question at issue. For of our attorney lor forced collection, P robate C ourt . — rue following t hose interested will please lake notice. Rev. J. R. N. Bell has returned from Yreka Wednesday. This is a new en reasons heretofore given, to talk about i business has been transacted before Jacksonville, July 14, 1877. F. A C. terprise and, as our native wine is playing for that bat is useless. The a pastoral visit to Linkville. He ex Judge Day since our last report: earning quite a name, will doubtless Jacksonville Club will me t the Ash Mining Notice. perienced a pleasant time there. The exhibit of J N. T. Miller, ad prove successful. It was manufactured land Club in a match game for the Gen. Mart. V. Brown and lady, of U.S. LAND OFFICE, | ministrator bonis non of the estate by French Charley. championship of Southern Oregon on R osebvku , OKEGON, Mav 26, 1877. j Albany, who have been in town since ■ of W. Nus, was accepted. VOT1CE IS HEREBY GIVEN TH a T Jack Layton, of Williamsburg, was the day proposed, (the first Saturday Peter Burknolter and Samuel Mat- Tuesday, left for home this morning. The exhibit of II. C. Fleming, guar uiews, whose post oiiice address is Jackson in town the other day. He brought in 1 in August) and requests negotiations to Miss Angie Grabbe, well known in dian of the minor heirs of David Farra, ville, Oregon, have made application for some 200 ounces of gold-dust, the re that effect. If you desire to play us say so, patent for placer claims, being bounded on this county, was recently married at deceased, was accepted. and we will respond. the North by surveyed lands, on lhe East F. M. N ickerson , See. J. B. B. Club. Roseburg to George Eogle of that place. | sult of his last run. He is awaiting The first exhibit of James Jones, ad ind South by entered land aud on the West wet weather to complete his ditch, I*. S.—The Jacksonville boys are highly ministrator of tbe estate of Oliver M. by surveyed land, situated in Missouri The Ashland Base Ball Club I Fiat Mining District, in Jackson county, which will be nineteen miles iu length. amused at the secretary of the Ashland Club .state ot Oregon, aud described as follows : Hurt, was accepted. does not seem anxious to meet their l'he N. E. of N. W. ot Section 3U, Another supply of peddlers of patent ‘•claiming that bat on general principles.” Township 37 South, of Range 4 West, con Jacksonville brethren uf lhe diamond They want to know if l.e desires a delega O verland T ravel .—As the stage taining 40 acres, 't he said claims are of medicines, hair lotions, and the Lord tion to bring it to him, as ‘‘claiming it on field. record. Tne said claims were acquired by knows what else, have been preying general principles” is about as near as his . whirled by on Tuesday la-t with Sena- said applicants by location and by purchase, Reverends J. W. Stahl and J. R. N. tor Sauhbury holding to the seat will» and tbe same are now known as the Burk- on our citizens. Il is astonishing how club will ever come to getting it. Bell uill bold divine services at the both hand», reminding us of one ol nolter At Matthews Gold Dust Mining many people are continually taken in I • Claims. All adverse claims must be tiled P lan of A ppointments . — The fol M. E. Church to-morrow morning and the Roseburg Land Oiiice beiore lhe ex by these bilks, only to bile again at lhe , lowing are my appointments for the Maik Twain’s anecdotes in his “Rough- in piration of lhe sixty days of lhe Jiublica- evening. ! ing it,” we saw no arguments favor next opportunity. i.1011 ot this nonce. ensuing two months : It is hereby ordered that the above notice The gusto with which the Portland ' ing Oregon immigration depicted on Sherman & Hyde, the popular San July 29th, or 5th Sunday, at Jacksonville, • be published ior sixty days in the D emo - Tebjram appropriates our items causes ; that Senatorial countenance. That cka no T imes , a weekly newspaper j»ub- Francisco music dealers, send us the , quarterly meeting. ui to surmise that he believes iu no August Sth, or 1st Sunday, campmeeting subject had doubtless been ’ransformed j lished in Jacksonville, Oregon. Given under my hand this 26th day of “Golden Gate Lancers” and “Little near Williamsburg. into a hallucinati ;n which vanished May, A. D. 1877. hereafter. Birdie Sing and Cheer Me,” two of the WM. R. WILLIS, Register. August 12th, or 2d Sunday, quarterly not long after he mounted the stage General Postal Agent Alexander and I latest pieces of music out. Fifty cents meeting at Taylor’s Ferry, on Rogue river. Postal Agent Steele, of this State, will buy lhe former and 35 cents lhe August 19th, or 3d Sunday, canipmoeting Notice of Final Settlement. F or P ortland —Sheriff Manning at Butte creek, one mile below Eagle Point. p.tSied through town last week from latter, by sending to them at once. and Matt. Dillon left for Portland last In the County Court of the State of Oregon, August 26th, or 4th Sunday,at Jackson for Jackson county, sitting in probate lhe south. week to give in their evidence against Our genial friend, \V. F. Cornell, after ville, morning and evening. July 10, 1877. Ab. Giddings will run his new ma quite a sojourn among us, on Monday September 2d, or 1st Sunday, at Foot's Baker and Hicks, the counterfeiters, In the matter of the Estate of Baldwin Sills, Sr., deceased. creek, preaching at 11 o’clock A. m . Lecture who are now on trial in Judge Deady’s chine in this valley instead of in the , last started for San Francisco. He K. HANNA, ADMINISTRATOR OF at 3 o’clock P. M. Basket Meeting. L’m|»<pia. Henry Norton is interested went via tlie Willamette, and proposes Court. Mr. Manning was accompa • said estate, having tiled ill said Court J. R. N. B ell , Pastor. ms linal account ior settlement, and ---------------- ■ nied by his family, as also Mrs. S. Ply- with him. remaining away some time. . Wilbur ¡»raying tor an order tor setting lhe O ut of D ebt .—Thanks to the good male and Miss Laura Little, the latter also lime ior hearing the same ; therelore notice C. W. Savage and family seem to it a first-class printer, and we have no is hereby given that said linal account will have a sufficiency of the Willamette doubt of bis success wherever tie may management of her officials. Josephine of whom intends making that ¡»lace be heard and determined in said Court on county is comparatively out of debt her future home. Tuesday,lhe Till day ot August, 1877,at which already, as we learn they are on their roam. time all persons having any objections to aud has $1,500 in her treasury. But way back here. said final account and settlement must then The Sentinel office was the other day A ■ G ood N omination .—Dr. D. and a few years ago she was several thou there make the same. Quite a number of strangers are visited by a couple of young ladies, Ream, of Yreka, has received the Published in the D emocratic T imes by sand dollars in arrears. Then taxes order of Hon. Silas J. Dav, County Judge. rusticating at Russell’s soda spring who nearly lost their equilibrium at E, D. Fo’CDKAl * Clerk. were five per cent., while it is expected Democratic nomination for Senator above Ashland, which has become a perceiving “His Satanic Majesty” and from Siskiyou, Modoc, Shasta and that they will not be more than two the attending angels iu full uniform. favorite resort. All Kinds of Jot Printing this year. No other county in the Trinity counties. The Doctor is an es A team hitched to a header-wagon And now the foreman wants to lure State can boast of a better exhibit than timable gentleman, well fitted for the became frightened and ran away the them back by saying he has got a new this, and a majority of them not as position, and, moreover, is bound to be NEATLY & CHEAPLY EXECUTED AT other day, sadly demoralizing ’Squire suit of clothes. elected. favorable by far. Hoffman’s fence. A Roseburg paper says work on the - — ---------- ---------------- T hanks .—Col. J. N. T. Miller has The Times Office. A S trong T icket .—The Democra- our thanks for the annual report of tbe Cameron & McCully elsewhere offer Robert’s Hill road still progresses to for sale Leicester bucks of the different the satisfaction of every teamster and | cy ot Siskiyou county, Cal., have placed State Agricultural Society. RANI) FOR SAIÆ. grades, from thoroughbreds down, trader in the land. We hear it stated |a splendid ticket in the field. With W hile everybody about here is talking that the railroad company, with com Frank Riley as Sheriff, Iunker as about how cheap they can sell their goods rpHE UNDERSIGNED OFFERS FOR i They are fine animals. i X sale 240 acres of choice agricultural land, Gen. Mart. V. Brown and D. P. mendable generosity, is contributing Treasurer, ami Gillis as District At John Miller wishes to say that he is pre 175 acres under fence, situated in Jpsejihine pared to aud uill sell everything in his line j county, Oregon. For information, enquire I Mason, Esq., of Scio, called on us largely to the improvement of lhe torney, reinforced by Charley Lebeau as cheap, if not cheaper, than any one else of John Boll, Applegate, or at the residence LA FAYETTE ALLEN. Thursday. They express themselves roads between this place and Roseburg. as Coroner, our Democratic friends in Southern Oregon—and he is not ‘‘selling of over the line will make short work of out to close business” either. He has a Somebody has been imposing on the well pleased with our town. Oregon ChHpter No. 4, R. A. large st<»< k on the way and receiving, pur the Republican Richmonds to be sac H. C. Perkins, of Lane, with a sur credulity of the Portland Standard Holds its regular meetings monthly on chased by him personally, while on his late rificed at lhe September election. Tuesday evenings of or preceding each full veying party, will shortly start east of I local, who, in his issue of the 23d, By consulting our new advertise N. Webb, of Douglas county, has had ments you may find something of im word from the parties with his sheep portance. that they were at Klamath on or about Daniel Gaby, of this county, has the 4th; had lost about 100 head and been appointed a Notary Public by the found ice in their buckets every morn ing. Governor. Our Stock Must be Sold ! H the mountains, having secured a sur- says: “Iu Jackson county a fearful rain storm occurred last Monday, I veying contract in Lake county. The inefficiency of our force made which inflicted a great deal of damage. The water poured down in perfect tor errors in the last issue of the T imes rents and swept the grain clear out of frequent and without effort. We shall the fields and filled them with sticks ! endeavor to prevent a like occurrence. aud brush from tbe mountains. — ---------- -— S heep K illed .—Charley Griffith in forms us that, during the storm on Reese creek on the 20th, a flash of lightning struck a tree in that vicinity, killing ten sheep under it. They be longed to Amy & McKenzie. visit below, and lie in ends to stay right here and sell them and then buy more. Just call on him and see. ------- ---------- ♦------------------- ^•iTThe National Gold Medal was awarded to Bradley A Rulofson ior the best Photo graphs in the United States, and the Vienna Medal for the best in the world. 429 Mont gomery street, San Francisco. moon, at 7L o’clock. Companions in good, standing are invited. J. R. N. BELL, High Priest. J. H. II ynson , Secretary. Farms for Sale. Persons desiring to j)urcbase good farms ot any size will do well to enquire ot JOHN BOLT. Applegate, Oregon.