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THE OREGON SENTINEL
"Wednesday, : : April 16, 1879
AGENTS FOE THE 8EHTINEL.
S. M. Petteogill k Co New York
Geo. P. Rowell k Co New York
Rowell & Cbeesman Si. Louie
L. P. Finher San Francisco
D.H. Stearns Portland
Religion Directory.
M. E. Chcrcii. Relujions services ev
try Sunday at the usual hnnrs. bv the Rev
erends M. A. Williams; D. A. Crowell and
X. Hardison.
Oatiwlio SanvtcM. Services will be
eld at the Catholic Church in this place
every Sunday at the nsntl hours in the
moraine: and evening, Rev. Father Btan
chet officiating.
M. E. SuNDir School. R'enlar meet
iair every Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock
CATnoLtc Schdat ScnonL. Rejular
meeting every Sunday afternoon at 2
o'clock
Religious. Rev. M. A. Williams
-will hold services at the M. E. Church
gt.ll a. M. next Sunday and at the
Dollarhide School House at 2 p. h.
Tothe Unwashed. Go to SchunipFs
"bath rooms, pay your half dollar and
take a good square wash, at least once
n year. There is nothing more health
ful Died. Mrs. McCain, wife of Rev.
J. S. McCain, presiding elder of the
Eugene district, died at her home in
Eugene on the morning of the 7th
inst
Mat Dat. The little folks are
looking forward to a pleasant time on
the 1st There is to be a pic-nic
attended by the brass band and a
pleasant patty at Veits Hall in the
evening.
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Changed Time. The Stages of the
O. & C. S. Co. changed time on Mon
day. They will not be detained at Yre
ka or Galesville over night, which will
shorten the time between Roseburg
and Reading one day. They will now
pass through Jacksonville in daylight
instead of at night as heretofore.
Another Challenge. Lake, Sis
kiyou, Douglas, Josephine and Jack
son county runners can win one hun
dred dollars or upwards, if they can
beat Henry Mensor from eighty to
one hundred yards at any time between
now and the 5th of July. Trot out
your fast runners if you want any of
it
LOCAL ITEMS.
Chew Jackson's Best Sweet Navy
Tobacco.
The Trustees met last night but not
in time to publish other proceedings.
We acknowledge a delightful sere
nade from some of the boys one night
last week.
Elder Peterson immersed Miss
Christine Adkinson near his place the
Sunday before last
Hon. Thos. H Brents has appointed
Hiram Jacobs, son of Orange Jacobs,
to the Naval school at Annapolis.
Elder Peterson will preach on the
2d and 44th Daniel, at the Dollarhide
School House at 11 A. M. next Sun
day. If you want nuts, candies, fancy or
other goods, at the very lowest rates
go to Breckenfield's the old Postoffice
corner.
County Treasurer Newman Fisher
left last week for Salem with $10,526
in coin, that being the portion of taxes
due the State.
Mr. Sol Sachs has located in Germa
ny, having established himself with
another party in the wholesale shoe
finding business.
Jos Crain has started to Reading for
a load of freight He says that he
can make expense money by taking
down freight.
The late freshets have completely
swept the tailings out of Steamboat
fork of Applegate that have been accu
mulating for years,
Mr. SoL Abrahams, of Oakland and
Hon. W. R. Willis, of Roseburg, are
in town, in connection with the suit of
the Douglas County Road company.
Mensor, at the New York Store,
still says he will not only undersell any
one in Jacksonville but is actually sell
ing at a sacrifice. Try him.
Messrs Zimmerman Frazer, form
erly of Ashland, have removed to
Roseburg and commenced the erection
of a small foundry at that place.
Telephones are plenty now, Mr.
Presley's and Mr. Beggs' boys have
constructed one between their parent's
houses that is said to work welL
We notice considerable wool coming
into town but the ruling prices are now
so low that our growers intend holding
it in hopes of receiving better prices.
Evan Reames, of the firm of Rearaes
Bros., returned from San Francisco
Ex-Gov. Chadwick, who has been
among our mines for several weeks, re
turned per stage last night to his home
in Salem. Mr. Chadwick seems to like
this portion of Oregon and will return
again in a few weeks.
The wool clip in this county will
not be so large the present season as
it was last, owing to the severity of
the winter and the larger loss of sheep.
This together with the low price of
wool is discouraging to growers.
There are now eleven Indian prison
ers in the guard house at Fort Klam
ath awaiting their final disposition by
the Government They are renegades
from the Piutes and other tribes,
picked up as stragglers after the
late war.
When a young man is found dig
ging in the garden for her, planting
and transplanting vigorously, turning
up the unfortunate angle worms even
before breakfast, it looks suspicious but
only shows that he is an ardent lover
of flowers.
There was quite an attendance at
the last term of the County Commission
ers Court, there being considerable in
terest taken against a proposed road on
Foots Creek. The Rock Point bridge
question was not brought up, there be
ing no petition presented.
Frank Ennis is to have a telephone
from the mine to his boarding house.
He gets so hungry that he wants to
know the exact minute "grub" is ready,
and desires to hear the sweet tones of
a female voice mingled with the zeph
yrs and announcing hash!
Mr. W. A. A Hamilton, -who
sprained both ankles by falling into a
cut on his claim below Star Gulch a
short time since, has again sprained
one ankle when nearly recovered. It
will probably prevent him from doing
any more work this season.
Mr. Alex Martin one of the oldest
citizens of this county, will leave with
his family about the 15th of May.
His family will remain in Oakland,
but Mr. Martin intends going to Car
son City, Nev., to engage in stage
business. "Jerry" will be missed here.
"0 darling" said he as the beautiful
moonlight streamed down into her soft
and lustrous eyes, and the zephyrs
fanned her downy cheek, "can I do any
thing to make thee happy!" "Love thou
canst," she whispered, "bring me a
gallon of Helms' Budwaiser and a
mxnra xotts. -
It is unnecessary to explain that
our mining notes are perfectly reliable.
The reports of the nuggats found on
Briggs' creek, in the Ferren claim are
confirmed.
The "Dry Diggings" Mining Compa
ny have been piping since February
with very good prospects, but will not
clean up until their water gives out
Jos. Clough, Geo. Howard and Wm.
Nickell started yesterday for Silver
Creek. They won't take anybody's
word but want to see for themselves
The troubles of the Squaw Lake Co.
with regard to their ditch seem to be
over as they have now been piping
over a week without any break occur
ring. In the case of the Coyote Gold and
Silver Mining Co. vs. Wm. and Wal
ter Ruble, testimony isbeing taken,
and on petition of defendants Garrett
Crockett has been appointed4 river.
Frank Jnnis,raperinehTl6rMEfnre
Sterling mine, was in town yesterday
and reports everything working satis
factorily. Tfie prospects are splendid
gold being visible and plenty in the
gravel.
Tom Kohler's last clean up at the
Fort Lane digging was S90 for the
work of two hands for one day. The
week previous he cleaned up 158 for
the work of two hands six days,
ground sluicing.
Irving it Co. are opening their
claims with very good prospects. As
the work now being done on this creek
is in a newly discovert channel, and
as the creek was successfully worked
twenty years ago it will probably be a
good camp.
Sturgis and M'Kee, on Jackass creek,
have just cleaned up two boxes at the
end of a two hundred foot race and
realized S621. Considering the short
time they have been at work this is
good pay and indicates a clean up of
three or four thousand dollars for
the season.
Mr. Henry P. Macnevin, the gen
tleman who lately purchased a quartz
lode near the lower Table Rock, and
who has been examining our mines,
returned to San Francisco last night.
He will return here with his family in
about a month and will, we hope, be
come a permanent resident among
us.
ilypr Creek news is not "cfcourag-
BILTEK CREEK.
A correspondent to the Ashland
"Tidings" from Silver creek gives the
following account of that camp:
The miners on this creek have
made their local laws. A miner can
hold but one claim by location, and if
a man is lucky enough to find two no
tices over the same name he may jump
one of the claims, and the miners will
stand by him. I should be unwilling
to induce anyone to go to mining un
less I think he could make good wages,
or at least two dollars a day, and I do
not feel sure that it can be done here.
If there are any who wish to try the
mines, I would advise them to bring
money enough to take them through,
for I feel sure they will be disappoint
ed in the diggings. There are as yet
no stores, saloons or boarding houses
here. The latest novelty on the creek
is Dorothy's self shooting, fall leaf
mattress, on which we can sleep or sit
upland read with solid comfort I
liave been tip and down the creek, and
find only five claims that have been
prospected. The ground is "spotted."
One miner who has mined fivs months
has not averaged fifty cents per day.
The others have made from S3 to $4
per day.
We do not think that the creek is
sufficiently prospected to justify an
opinion, and we Jearn from other
sources that prospecting has hardly
commenced. We think it will prove
a good camp. Ed.
EDITOELLZ. DIFTICIJLTIKS,
Our friend, A. H. Burrows, of Yre
ko, an ardent Republican, has assumed
editorial control of the Yreka "Union"
during the absence of Mr. Bird. The
new editor explains, but magnifies the
difficulties of the situation. Wade
right in, "Al." and you will find it
easy. We tried it once for a week
and survived. Put on a high shirt
collar, pin back your ears, chuck the
truth out of the window, and lie like
Munchausen. If a Republican paper
says yes, yell nol but never risk a rea
son for anything. In fact, keep the
father of lies at your elbow, out-lie
him if you can and you will be a suc
cess in your new role.
County Court. The following
business was transacted in the Coni
misssoner's Court at the April term:
Delinquent tax list amounting to
85,960 was turned over by Sheriff
Let the People .Look, to Their
" Interests, K
BEAB ASD REFLECT.
Mr. Editor. It is the duty of every
citizen to assist in guarding the inter
ests of the whole peoplo of the county
and State of which he is a resident
Nor need he be untrue to himself in
doing so, for that which inures to the
interest of one is an advantage to all
in a public- point of view. These
thoughts are suggested by an effort
now being made by certain parties in
terested in business at Rock Point to
induce the county to pay from four to
five thousand dollars to aid in the con
struction of a free bridge across Rogue
River at that point A petition is be
ing circulated over the county at this
titno and citizens are being importuned
to sign the same asking the County
Commissioners to appropriate the
amount of money above named for the
purpose stated.
Bo it known that Thos. Chavner has
now a splendid now bridge across the
river, one and a-half miles above Rock
Point, where the stages carrying the
TJ. S. mails and all other travel cross
at the most reasonable rates. And
this bridge is situated on the most di
rect route from all parts of this valley
South of Rock Point leading to the
North. The road is- better in every
respect than that leading from Darda
nells to the old bridge, and it has been
rendered so by the individual enter
prise of Mr. Chavner. Every one who
has ever travelled the road knows that
near the old bridge, on the South side
of the river, it is rough and dangerous
because of its rocky condition. There
have been enough wagons broken on
that almost impassable portion of the
road in the lost five years to pay for
the construction of a bridge better than
the old one. The rpad on the South
side of the river, leading to the new
bridge, is gravelled and passable for all
manner of vehicles at all times of the
year. Mr. Uhavner has spared neither
time nor expense in making it so with
out asking the county or any one else
for a single cent Then why this effort
to add to the heavy burden of taxation
already borne by the property owners of
the county in the construction of a free
bridge. Rock Point makes nothing in
the operation, as the road leading from
Chavner's bridge North passes directly
through that village.
So far as the people of Foot's creek
are concerned they constitute but a
small portion of the population of the
county, numbering only thirty or forty
voters, amd while their interest are to
be guarded with those of other citizens
they aretoo magnanimous to expect all
School Dijticclttv A difficulty
occurred on Monday at the school
house on Applegate just below Mr.
Layton'a store. It seems that an emi
grant named D. W. Wildey pre-empted
a tract of land on which a school
house had been built Mr. Wildey
notified the Directors of the District
three months since to remove the
building, offering to assist, but no ac
tion was taken. On Saturday last he
served a written notice on the Direc
tors forbidding them to open school on
Monday as the building was in his
garden. There was no school open
ed, but at 4 p. m. a number of persons
appeared, and Wildey supposing that
they had come to move the house, went
to the school hortse when, an. at
tack was made on him with knives and
clubs. The clerk of the District, Jos.
Bricker, interrupted and saved him
from violence. Mr. Wildey came to
town and procured a warrant from
Justice Huffer for the arrest of Wm.
Sonsson, Henry Jones, Wm. Farris,
John Loomin, Joh:
Manly Rexford, Blake BaJ
old man Carr. Depnty SK-rin" Caton
started yesterday with, the warrant and
will probably bring some of the party
in to-day.
In the matter of the Douglas Coun
ty Road Co., vs. the Canjonville and
Galesville Road Company, execution
was issued .against the latt6r company
and returned no property found,
whereupon the Douglas County Road
Co. instituted proceedings to compel
the officers of the corporation, Sol and
Hyman Abrahams and W. R. Willis,
to appear before his Honor Judge Han
na on the 15th day of April, to answer
on oath certain interrogatories of plain
tiff in regard to any money, property
or credits of the company in which
they might bo in posession of. Tho
case is so complicated now that it takes
a good lawyer to understand it
A Beautiful Siamr. A view of
our magnificent valley at this time
from the summit of the Applegate di
vide will repay the labor of a trip to
that point Stretching out as far almost
as the eye can reach, it lies in emerald
beauty, the rich verdure of tho green
alternating with grove and stream and
woodland. Shimmering in the bright
sunlight the -white homes of the valley
stand out in pretty contrast totheir
surroundings, and betokertfvi't and
comfoiwa-MH.ht and