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About Lafayette courier. (Lafayette, Or.) 1866-1??? | View Entire Issue (May 16, 1873)
i r - I 1 JI —- ! áfayette courier . - * fr tñ----------- i j i! i p w . ley was censured for harboring the- accused. The speakers were listened to by one of the largest and most re spectable audiences thut has ever as sembled in Sheridan. I The new church Where the meeting was held, was well filled. The people aj>- pearod united in sympathy, and there was scarcely a dissenting voice to any of the proceedings. Upon the adoption of the resolutions, the peo ple adjourned the meeting, feeling that they had done everything in their * ■ power to clear their skirts of one of the foulest crimes that has ever blackened the fair name of Yamhill county. C. W\ H ughes , See. ÓAYTtJN. ■ ' THE MODOC WAR. INDIGNATION MEETING I Republicans, or who ,1 . . I . t Ih I 1 1 >i • J • became conspicuous in the effort to •» By oiir telegraphic dispatches The People Incensed at th.e Acquittal W h had occasion <o visit this stop their liiwlesSjiproceodings. ? « I” L ■' i* _ _ of Coxon — T. B. Hundley ’ s Conduct F DAY, MAY 16..... 1873. % - learn that the Modocs r have Denounced—The Entire Communi The negroes! of Giant, having little town last Wec% 0: nd'was sur- we <i j i. I'!»’ | h I* IT1 • •’ ty Unanimous. had their minds poisoned against prised at the lively appearance of left tire lava-beds. Bogus Charley NOTICE. Business '¿ppparecl has been seen by two or three-per the white people by the industri the place. S heridan , Y amhill Co., 1 u. ous inculcations of q fewH scallq- Oregon, May 9, 1873. y Henceforward, until further notice, selemqd brisk and everybody, seemed Jj J¡ sons on the Klamath River, and ■ * . • 1 r - r * •' , i Obedient to a call from*the most Frank C. Withers and , Frank Owen are wags and: carfict-baggers,' malig to have something to do to occu • ; ■— H >| an ex Sheriff who was sent out . to authorized ndeed to collect and receipt for sub- sub nant and bad men; were headed influential and prominent citizens of py his time. The liu^iness portion capture him, saw him and had an by turbulent dhd ilaring fellowy. scriptions tions and advertisements and other Sheridan and vicinity, the people as css of this office. call- Ward and his gang ’had a short of the town consists of tljree , dry interview with him. Bogus says sembled at one o’clock, to express bui -------------------- -- Other duties -------------- ing [ sbaU devote but little at ten ton to the time liefo^ikilled tw'o of his own goods and grocery stores, two that Capt. Jack has but thirty their sentiments in relation to the de •* pap :r in the future, for some time at least. color with kmall provocation. Hair-' blacksmith shops, one. saw mill, men left and ho thinks they will cision of the jury upon the case of ing occupied me .village as a mili April 18, 1873. J. n. UPTON. Joseph Coxon, tried at the last term poytjlthejr threaten one flouring mill, one BaslJ factory, fight till the last one is killed. tary post, Ithey began to th.__ stable, one! saloon, ope The Modocs attacked a cavalry of the Circuit Court of Yamhill coun oppo- one livery the lives ibf theirt political oj e ■ * I * r' ■ ty, held at Lafayette, for the murder r- gave > some jotiwillllJHi THE GRANT PARISH MASSACRE. non Is, frame and picture store, tore, One bnc suo shoe camp intending to stampedbj the* of them a sli of Ben; j amiti Hasbroek, on the even- I ♦ * y IL ¡time to leave the place dh pain of shop, two wagon shbps, di bps, land and w we horses; they succeeded in stamped-' of the 4th of February last, near the The Oregonian having referred death, shot ail|otwg| broke open ; ' J- - ' V ‘ think there is'a hotel there. Hqr- ing some J twenty-four of them, Willamina river. * « • L -L i _ i 1 r 1 II III to the Grant Pariah troubles as and gutted dwelling houses,driving ker & Co. jajre tlfe I enterprising which \^?e afterward recovered. Mr B. Branson was called to the ITO;STATE NEWS. - r . c r female faring been inaugurated by a women odt. aijd robbing The War/n Spring Indians attack- chair, He responded by stating the proprietors of pie die fijouripg mips Barclay, of Oregon City diecL De nocratic mob, we have taken school teacher of her jewelry and set of the meeting and by express at Dr. effects, and even rifling the coffin and will be ready tp commence ed them on the flank and drove object his residence last Tuesday. . • • t 1' . « k* no ¡little pains to discover the true of Judg&Rutlamj’s dead babe and 1 . • . them past their plunder, and cap ing 1 ing sympathy, as a citizen of Polk active operations as soon - rs thejir A horse race on the Wasco >, Co.- - tured their camp equipages and. coun aty, with those who were demand source of the troubles down there, flinging the body in the middle of Turbine wheel $vhich they ordered some of their horses. The ammu fair grounds came off on the 10th. “gj justice against a criminal whose ** and think we have succeeded even the highway. They picketed the some time since,, areivc|. aiTivctj. They nition, clothing and about two ‘ guilt t had been so clearly established. The crickets arc making sad havoc - J ■ • - 1 - to he satisfaction of the Oregonian country for miles, seizing horses 1 C. W. Hughes was elected Secre among, the early vegetables in Wasco- and firearms,ind breathing threats have a new set of bun«,; whifeh tons of provisions of the Modocs an )ur undertaking. 4^ unbiased county.t were destroyed. tary. of slaughter, sought to inaugurate they were, putting;'; in J position ;and candid accounts of the affair a reign o$ terror,: io drive out their while we were Jhet*ej anj whip)» On motion, the Chairman was au A passenger train was thrown off j Who Did It I the t rack a week ago last Monday, at •coijcnr that the Democracy had political Opponents and white peo thorized to appoint a committee to will enable thqm ;tq do custoin [ 'll A ■ L i- '•*" ' _ ' k Wilbur. No one hurt. - nothing whatever to do in the ple, and ip become masters of all wqrk. W.4S. l|owell, tl|p enter- The Modoc ‘trouble will retard draw up resolutions, expressing the * I ! ___ A * I they surveyed^ George Howe, one of the old citi sentiments of the people. G. W. the j growth and settlement of Or- in Sheriff N ash who raised getic prprietpt ¿if the Saw mill and zens of Polk county, died at Dallas a For a period these semi-barlia- and led the posse which burned the rians had' matters alii [their own sash factory at lihist placoiJs get egon, for, perhaps, many years. Branson, R. Orr, Wm. Chapman, week ago last Sunday. The exaggerated publications that Doctor Fields, J. H. Brown, J. H. c rt House and routed the ne- wav., wav.. but But the white people, whom ting out considerable lumlier of aH are daily being made have so ex Allyn and Thos. Graves were ap The O. and C. R. R. are running-, is a Republican and was they had lbn* menaced, attacked an accommodation train between kinds, and has liis sash factory fn cited aud alarmed people, who are pointed as such committee. » Portland and Salem. el ted as such and commissioned and outragedin organized lawless- successful ^potation, j An effort ¡¡a' preparing to come here, that they Wliile waiting for the committee to i ness, fortunately escaped to a safe by the usurper Kellogg. are incapable of any just concep report, Mr, B. Bransbn and J. T. .A German peddler, was murdered «1 distance.. » 4 -V- • . being made loiraise'nioneiy* to build K li — — tion of the actual state of the case. Siinpson made short addresses to the on tho road near Soap Creek, Polk t* r low we append the statement county.l It is supposed robbery was Sheriff! N^h got together a a new bridge Hros^|ilie Yamhfil The actual injury that has been audience. of the New Orle ns Picayune posse of armed men, the object. inch, to the number river at this place, wljich we thiijk donQ the State in its advancement The committee reported the follow which effectually disposes of the of one hundred and fifty, and re The Active and Athletic base ball will succeed as pii nearly enough h^s and material prosperity, is beyond ing preamble ana resolutions: '•*' 5-i ■ • ■' ¡«1 5 >r Clubs, of Portland, played their sec turned to dolfax.i 'The negroes ’M interested and false allegation td all estimate. r It is our shark' of W hereas , Benjamin Hasbrook, a been raised already. jThj j j ond game Srturday,* in which the - ’■ -i-i t S the benefits of President Grant’s peaceable, Democrats were in apy way i meantimeliadifortilied their ground honest and indus latter won by a score of 53 to 45. will be a great benefit to the town with breastworks. breastworks, and prepared peace policy. It is for this incon trious citizen was, on the evening ible for the Grant Parish the Court House for defense, defense! as well as to the farmers artd others ceivably stupid and criminal J pol of the 4th of February last, Capt. C/ S. Mills, of Portland, was'- ere: When called! calleil: oiHilMi|lpuudajr oiij | mi I: Sunday te in the vicinity. 5 *riio’ Jntird populg- icy that we must thank this Ad buried last Sunday. All the mili tary companies, as well as a number' In order that our readers may surrender! surrehde^ the thx3 CourffiMlouse Courf(i|iHouse ; and tion of this place* are ha|i ddyork- ministration. President Grant en shamefully assassinated; and ' W hereas ? We believe it to be the of societies attended his funeral. be informed of the origin and disperse, ¡ihejj.refused and a fight tered upon this mode of treatment duty of avery citizen in the vicinity ing. go ahead ¿ort of ¡ p¡e and character of the tragic events, followed. The result was, the in- Hop. Joseph S. Smith is lying very when he knew better, and whein he where the murder accurred, to aid in oris iJ." th ill Portland. His illness is caused.» which within the past ten days trenchmctits were taken, tire Court vie with each Qthcr iii, was advised different by the: ex investigating the matter, and, if pos by in hemorrhage of the lungs. His ' to improvo thèl busi nets aspects of have transpired in Middle Louisi House was luii’ned, ¿nd A perience of Generals Sherman and able, bring the guilty to justice ; and physicians fear the worst. f | ¡ [ J’ Sheridan. It was. therefore, no ana, we present a succinct resume of negroes killed.' ¡Colffix is no the place. W hereas , J. Lamson and others of the facts, as we have learned I longer a prey to the political I des- The Eugene Guard contradicts the mistake. He continued and per did, at great self-sacrifice investigate statement made by the Herald of thee and understand them, peradocs and i marauders.' In the case ^f Nixoji,’ the mi^r sisted in it with that characteris the matter; procure the arrest and 8th inst>, that a farmer of that place UnfoHunabely thgi authors and S Jerer, five of t re jadgja of the Sn tic obstinacy, generally mistaken The parish of Grant, on Red had sent to the Willamette River -i* this X:« nefarious ^u8p. by his admirers for firmnesi,' in aided in the prosecution of Joseph Transportation Company for a boat River, has a population, white and conductors off Court b New York have spite of the united protest of the- Coxon, the only one upon whom*' any and rt'ceived the answer that; if ho - - black, of about 4,500, which is nees have so far escaped ¡the con •HF iremo wanted a boat to build ono. fused to grar t n stay of jjirác^eá^i people bf Oicgbn, and long after trace of guilt could be found; and nearly equally divided. In the dign pimisltotiMit they ? deserve. Refill iJ W hereas , The prosecution pro cleation of November 4th, the de The jreopie at Louiriania are worn I. . Gov. D X declines to inter; it had failed, . This was not a V A little daughter of Mr. Miner at T duced an amount of testimony which Salem, had the thumb of her left Z utid that the judges blunder. It was a crime against clared return of the Foreman out with usurpation, jii’atienc^! fere on • I tire giiqu board, composed of men of high may cease to be a virtue.; j When and ajso that tie' Oregon, deliberately entered upon carried conviction to the minds of all hand nearly torn away and other ‘ have refused, and a' fingers lacerated, while playing with Ti character and in possession of all it becomes established that there I ' I ! fl 'T ""t 11 and persistently followed. If: we who heard it of his guilt; and I murder ' ’ was crhel, unjèst a the returns, turns, show the vote to have is sure danger to the plotters and shall indefinitely continue behind .W hereas , Jhe jurors to whom the cartridge. I / L ì !- A shooting affray occurcd on the- been: < managers .of^high-handed oppres provoked. California and other new States, case was submitted, have ^expressed 4 Ffor Governor, McEnery (fusionJ sion. thep affairs may bo fr^ed frfnn I in advancement, in populatidn and their belief, since th¿ trial, that he Columbia river, between two men named Allison and Taylor. Allison : I George Fsaijeis Train has b 514; Kellogg (radical) 405. For pestilent and fraudulent interfer least know did the killing and yet rendered a was wounded in thy mouth and side. i wealth.jwe shall at legislator, Hadnot (fus.) 522; ence. . For the ’negro victims we Jdjudgcd sand Jiy a; jnr| of verdict of “Not Guilty;” therefore, It is thought he will recover. who to thank for it.— Herald. Ward (rad.) 338. For Parish feel sorry, and an the occasion of this That this community sus ountryman afid therefore^ resj Another detachment of Douglas Judge,' Lee (fus.) 522; Osjjurnc trouble is i gfcat^ ’ to be deplored. The Republicans at Jefferfeon. tained a great loss in the death of County Volunteers left Jacksonville sible for his acts. -Se is fe i$ to be hi Marion county, are exercised Benjamin Hasbrook, and that we (rad.) 104. For Clerk of tire »•"’HI « ! !■ I HI ! '! ¡1"**—*■'" -«I----- !— I a week ago last Wednesday for the Court, Register (fus.) 424; Walk It may be that the reason our tried at an early day for /publish over the appointment of a Demo sincerely deprecate tho commission front. They number 19 and are un er (rad.) 589. For Sheriff, Shaw, good brother, William Benedict ing obscene litOi’ature der the Command of Lieut. Edmund cratic Postmaster at that place. of such a crime in our midst. Hi f (fus.) 359; Nash (rad.) 498. The Bulletin says that “the ap 2. That J. Lamson and others are Stevens. Carter, got fewer votes than ¡got any I___ __ Hadnot took his seat in the Lou i|| The Pope bus readbd ajre pointment of an out-and-out Dem? deserving of great credit for -the city isiana Legislature, and ¡Ward was other candidate in the entire TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES, ocrat to the position, wa3 wrong promptness, vigilance and persever of 81 and is| exceeding I ind O admitted into the bayonet Legisla of Corvallis, wa$ that he finally JWW to which no Republican should ance with which they engaged in the The Modocs made a sortie on May ■ una We ture. have' had te part in, and wliich investigation and prosecution of the 7, on a train returning to camp, disgorged a portion of the funds «-r‘ 1 .1 The Lynch returning board, so- stolen by him from the Grand .0 give audiei CC t< deputations should be corrected promptly by case, and we believe that they were and captured 14 mules and somcr vho desired t( tend i: their con- the Administration.” The office horses and burned the wagons. called, had no returns, and in this actuated by no personal motives; Lodge ; i 1. 0. ni IIj G. i jj T. hi After this I l lfipll : 1 i II H 11 ¡Il gratulai ions. | » is question is probably worth two but simply by a desire to see the laws case did not assume to declare the Gen, Davis and escort left Yreka j. when you steal, kepp all you got, on the 7th inst., for the front. election of the parish officers. Kel or th req dollars per month, and as t — li of our land vindicated, and the guilty for it will be no credit 1- -- to you to logg, however, undertook to ap It is thought that the Modocs have • lÆen sefe it is tire “pap” that makes the party—whoever he might be— aot y point men to what he called va surrender a portion or even all of trouble, thecitizenain that vicinity vacated the lava-beds entirely. , - . The jucstioff wtjether he brought to justice, cancies, but they did not qualify it. Learn wisdom from expei’i- had better make up the amount The bodies of Lieut. Cranston and ■ 3 re-sentâuccd’ish° be dccid- and pay it. This will save ‘the 3. That while the officers of the .according to law, and allowed the enee mv bov. f soldiers, who were killed some • J County and State, who were in any three |ff. “ time stipulated by law to pass. t to Court of Appeals. trouble of prompt action on the time sinde, have been recovered. ! manner engaged in the case, dis Kellogg then commissioned the part of the Administration, will se j The L afayette C ourier criti Bogus Charley has been seen andT officers who had really been elect cises fiercely the result of the Cox cure the people of Jefferson an ef- charged their duties faithfully, it is conversed with by white men, on tho- 10 President has appointed the firm belief that*the jurors to bed, both Republican and Fusion, on trial. What are you going to ^présent the ficcnt offices, and will prevent a whom the dase of Joseph Coxon was Klamath river, about 30 miles from: 4 4 Yreka. white and colored, except the Par do about it?r~ Oregonian. .convulsion in the Jlepubdican party. milted States at thè yidhnte submitted, either misunderstood the ish Judge, a Republican, who had ■ —Herald, * i L An affray occurred at Eugene City,, pliçe of In common with nine out of ten bositioiipjin instructions of the Judge or they did last Saturday, between two men already qualified. President Grant says that he: is shamefully betray the confidence re named R. Ware and John Browh, in ' It seems that Ward and other of the jcitiaens of Yamhill county Buren, who has been sorry tliat the appointment of Chief posed in tliem, ajid have justly mer Which tho latter was mortally jradicals, being dissatisfied at not we lament- the escape from ¡the 01 Over two hundred qnd fifty im Justice devolves on him. He further ited the censure of all good citizens, L wounded. • I Tl * ' having all the offices, came down punishment due his crime of one Lieut. Harris, who was wounded’ Xo New Orleans and remonstrated of thh most diabolical and cold migrants arrived iri iff Portland says that he will appoint a man in in thus giving loose reins to vice and I dependent of political considerations, in the lava-bed is still in a very- with Kellog. Getting no satisfac blooded murderers of the present last Wednesday! aril crime, by their verdict in the Th^Hcome critical condition^ ; tion, they returned breathing mostly from Iowa, < Wisconsiij, and whom all the lawyers in the face of all evidence and their own !" The Modncs tried to stampede some- « threatening^, organized an armed age. avowed convictions. 4 Michigan and Illinois.! , i 11 ' AI country will endorse. t of bur. soldiers but the Warn* Springs ■ I C .------ ,...^... company of negroes, and took vio 4. That the Secretary be instructed Indians got on their flank and stam p| . ! Out* good: Brother William Most men like to see themselves to furnish a copy of these resolutions, peded them. lent and forcible [»ossession of the The plans and specifications, for in print. Ladies like to see them Court House at Colfax, a small Benedict Carter, of jOorvalljs, only and preamble to some of the leading The appointment of Minister to r a State Capitol building presentee selves in silks and velvets. •village on the river, and the county got 19 votes in the 2d ward of that papers of the State, with a request Russia has been tendered to Judge Gilbert neat of Grant Prrish, and drove city, while for license the wal’d Br -Messrs. Krutnbein ¿nd •J that all other State papers, the State Pierrcpont of New York, in place A Kansas newspaper agent,; in «out the Sheriff, Nash. The ■ Sher gave d large majority.;! Our broth 0 jf Portland have been papers of Iowa and the city, papers of of Orr, deceased. a collecting tour of a hundred iff then attempted to collect a pos Portland i$ Io ¿avc k new Chicago, Ill., copy. Sentence will not be passed upon er is a tower of strength at home. miles, performed on foot, raised se comitatus to recover possession Stokes until after action has been * Tho audienoe was next addressed $2. - y taken on the case by the Court of’- of the public building thus lawless If his opponent had Sprung that car line. --------- — by Judge Lamson, Rev. A. H. Allyn, Appeals, j« \ < ly seized.' A mass meeting of the larceny question on him, fBilly Mr. Clement Bates has rijn, Bev. G. W. Bronson, Dr. Fields and Appeals. N otice .—Farmers’ Clubs that the town bell in Plymouth, Mass?, white people was proposed to ex would hardly have run- so well. A ‘ duel was fought in Richmond; others. ire now h organized ot may be Va., P. last Friday between John I*. press in a quiet way their condem Though the majority against him four times a day for forty-rivo Mordecia and Page McCarthy, The speakers called the attention of cond 1 ucs- )rganizcd by the second Tues- years. I nation of the high-handed outrage, » » the audience to tho character of the both were wounded, the former fatal wqs worth speaking of after all. lay in ¡Juife next, ‘ ■frre are I 1 cilrn- carn- IL Il Ibdl II ,14 J- I | but in consequence of violent dem i fl- h, 11 I i It...I IfL. i.l' H - I The difficulty oooured about a ard to j forward (o the murder. They denounced it as one ly. onstrations of the armed negroes A Massachusetts man latbly iady. . Capt. Hall, the great Artic ex Secre ary - of ¡ the L State , f Gon ven tion sold seventy-thtee dozen patent of unparalleled treachery.. They also under Ward, Register, Fowlers, Brantly, Snowden, Rai ley, Show, plore!, died, just after returning at ga em, name < f club, county in medicine bottles, all of which had called tho attention of the audience A little Concord chap, who» to the proceedings against the ac next door to Emerson, was en Green, etc., the assembly was giv from1 a sledge expedition, of para wfiicl it been emptied in his own family, cused, to the verdict of the jury, and gaged one day in digging a hole en lip. The poest^ailed to take lysis^ The crew experienced a club, ist dréss of • “ The custom of throwing rice to the insecurityv&f life if murderers bv the roadside. A worldly the building or disperse the mob. great many hardships; but through of after a bride is Chineso.” The are allowed to go unpunished. Judge trifler, passing by, asked him : Threats were made by the ring the assistance of the Esquimaux, custom qf throwing the poker or Lamson was highly commended for “ What are yon digging alter, leaders cf the organized negroes thev reached St. Johns, NJ B., bootjack after her is one of our tho active pa: i which he took in the little boy f” With gravity he an- , against those who were obnoxious Christian observances in America >• prosecution the case. Mr. Hand- swered where they thev now arc are. __ — who urged Kellogg to tp commis- in safety, whero Infinite.” I After the I ‘i a ■ I I if i V a o /X ’ 1 # Ì ? JF ■ a A ~ t à i ■ i n ■ ¡i ■> 7. ............................. ? t jr j I F • ---------------------- » -------------------------------- — j . :