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About Ashland tidings. (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 10, 1877)
INDEPENDENT ON ALL SUBJECTS, AND DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF SOUTHERN OREGON. ASHLAND OREGON: FRIDAY, AUGE ST 10, 1877 $2.50 PER ANNUM alte goon tain approaches. nesg connected with writing pamphlets lint and saed.— Statesman. CLEANINGS FROM EXCHANGES. I found the N. P. II. IL officials at circulars, answering letters, and set I). C. Reynolds, who left those parts T he L ost C abin .—Messrs. T. I'. ---- ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY — tling immigrants — and without any Tacoma very obliging, and willing to TO OREGON. last Spring with several horses not his -BY- impart information; but the newness, pay, too; as women are always doing, Campbell and Mr. Stump, of Polk own, and found his way to Montana, I BY WILLIAM ANGUS MCPHERSON. which is sometimes quite as appaling and expected to do. She is fully com county, have started for Southern Ore was followed by several citizens, own O. C. APPLEGATE A CO. as decay, seemed to meet you with ob petent for any kind of office work; gon with the avowed intention of find ers of the horseB, and arrested. On Land where the rays of the eunret ^OFFICE—On Main Street, (in rear Dr. Bid adieu ’o a continent vast, stacles at every turn. For instance, I drives her own turnout; rows her own ing “The Lost Cabin,” made famous by the return trip he escaped from his cap- Chitwood’s Drag Store.) And the moon in her silvery circuit was caught by hostile Indians,an»? wished to see Old Tacoma, which is boat, and is, in short, an independent, Sam. L. Simpson’s prose tale of that tors, •Sheds the etieen of her flood-light last, k 'n<j! So report says; and reports are Thou art de>r >o my heart, thougu 1 wander “just around the point.” There is no self-supporting creature. Fortunately title. Mr. Stump thinks he Las in his very often true.— East Oreijonian. Ear away from thy gulden shore, Terms of Subscription : At.d I turn with a"* e%m of pleasure regular means of conveyance between for her gratuitous work, she has a hus possession certain intelligence which One copy one year............................. ................. I 2.50 To glance hick o er the scenes of yore. The most brutal incident of the war the two places, and after hearing that band whose means are sufficient for the will lead to the discovery of this fam in Turkey is the burning alive of the* “ “ eix months........................ ................. 1.50 Ijtnd where the forests are grander, “ •• three “ ........................ ................. 1 00 it was “about a mile" over the point comfortable support of both, though ous shanty with the untold wealth bur whole population of a village in Bul And tower the mountains more Idgh; •Club rates *ix copies fur................... ................ 12.50 Where the limpid streams meinder by land, I climbed up a staircase just she assists him in the duties that pro ied beneath its rude purcheon floors.— garia by the Cossacks. The people had ’Neath a purer and brighter skv, Terms, in ad. ance. Standard. Than that where ihj brave old liber back of Mr. Blackwell’s excellent hotel, cure the support. taken refuge in a mosque, which was Reflects hick the starlit d< me. There were 193 witnesses subpemed set on fire by the soldiers. The Turk •Sweet land of lhe West, I adoie thee, with as many steps in it as the tower Mrs. S. is kind enough to tako me Terms of Advertising: Aud dream of my de ir old Lome. of Bunker Hill, thinking that when I out on the bay at sunset every day or by the senatorial committee during the ish Government makes official an I xka I Notices per line....................................... .lOCtS. Professional Cards, per year.............................. $10 00 of this horrible affair.— My home, w here the lake and the river had overcome that distance I should be two, where we glide about over the investigation. Of this number 175 ap nouncement Two indie, per quarter.................. .............. 3 o<) Uommii’gle their waters in one, Co., (Mo.,) Sentinel. 5 (N) Four “ And tie bnght. hu-d myrtle leaves quiver well on my way toward Old Tacoma. rosy-tinted waters, aDd skirt in along peared and were examined, at an aver 8 00 Eight “ Tn the raj s of rhe auiutnu tun. OLe-helf Column 10 00 Alas for human expectations! I found the luxuriantly wooded shores, either age cost of $15 each, making a total of CESNOLA’S DISCOVERY OFT1IE SITE There, the sontr of rhe spring bird i< sweeter, Three-fourths “ 11 DO An i the air breathes a fr. grant, eriume, OF AN ANCIENT TEMPLE. quite as much height remaining to be alone or in company with one or two $2,625.— 'linui'j and h:t. Journal. One “ 17 50 Rie er far than the zephyrs « f Ceylon, Waft teaward from uraigj-grcve bloom. LFOAX. ADVESTIhEMENTH Bids have been opened by the super I Long before the traditional period of overcome in a rough, sloping hillside, more ladies, watching the changes of One square (ten linee or less) 1st Insertion....... $2.50 While Columbia sweeps on to the ocem, covered with black burnt logs, brush color on the beautiful Olympian range, intendent of public buildings and the Trojan war, Cyprus had citios and Each additional inserlion.................................. 1.O0 And Willamette tl >ws spirkhng and bright and blackberry briers. Tho sun was and talking of such matters u3 ladies grounds for the erection of a granite commerco. Tlijj Phoenician colony be Through tne vdley; in ardent dtvotlon Win I trea-ii-e the glorii us s gut “powerful hot,” and I was a good deal do mostly talk about when left to thom- pedestal for the statue of the late came Egyptian for a while after the fif Job Printing, Of meadow aid brooalet and mountxiir, < >f river; e ’ en Pacitie ’ s bl e wive Major-General George H. Thomas, in teenth century b . c . Kurium had prob dismayed, but not being in tho habit selves. Yours ’till my next. Of nil description, done on short no'ic®. Tegal I’rters rnu-ic hi cbaims without e.pia’. Blinks, Circulars, Business C irds, Bil.heads, Letter F. F. V ictor . As the green shores its b igbl Raters lave. Washington. The appropriation fur ably been founded before the Egyptian of relinquishing any undertaking I heads, PoeUrs, etc., gotten up in good style at living the pedestal is $25.000. $25.090. Bids ranged conquest in 1142 r. o.; hence the ac plodded on, consoling myself with the Dear land, tbo’i art mine; I inherit prices. A BIT OF OREGON'S HISTORY. All the title to call iliee mine own, from $8,750 to $29,500. — Ycir Nurt hired. cumulation of the art of many centur- notion that when I onco reached the And to share With ti e friends of my childhood Wi bin thy «ide limitsu home. brow of the hill all would be easy A Bijr Corp on Land that has been tn Agents for the Tidings. The‘only remaining child of Mr. J ies in the treasuries of her fempies. And wi eL 1 tie 1 >st mandate is given. i Cultivation Sixty-five Years. That bills me fr« m labor to ie-1, enough. At last I came into the trav T,. Simnels, .... Portland, Oregon. I. Thompson of Eola, (who lost five General Cesnola found at Kurium All I use , save an entr ire in he ven, Jacob Thompson, • - - “ “ eled road and glanced about me. Noth la to aieep on thy bro..d, peaceful breast. children last spring by diptheria), a 8. M. Pettengiil X- Co., - - - New York, only vast heaps of ruins. The oity was. "We have just heard related the cir ’towel! Jt Cbtesaun, ... st. Louie. Ws.sr bnonE. ing was to bo seen of any town; but I. , P. Pinner, - - - - - Sin Francisco. cumstances of the settlement of one of lad about 1-1 years of ago was accident built on a bluff three hundred feet in Toon. Boyce, the road went on, up hill and down the oldest farms within the present ally shot through one of his legs, yes perpendicular height on three sides. J. R. Neil, .... Jack’^nviUe. Travels of an Authoress. dale, away into “the timber,’’and noth boundaries of the State of Oregon, and terday afternoon. We have not lc-arned The rock of the bluff was soft calcar C. 8. Serpent, ... . - Phoiuix. El. R. Osren, : - . Central Point. ing human was in eight but a wood which we deem worthy of putting on any particulars of the occurrence, or eous stone, and around the city, in the Mi<<iAllte AV. Colvig, - - Rock Point. O lympia , W. T., July 23, 1877. Petit H. Burt ..... Yonctlla. chopper’s camp in the distance. A how dangerous a wound was inflicted sides of the bluff, he found a terrace a J. M Sutton, General Agent fur J ickson aud Jose E ditor T idings :—I believe I prom good many moccasin tracks in the dust record. Somewhere about 1812 a phine count.ie-. or whether the piece was in the hands hundred feet wide, cut and hollowed ised you should hear from me while in suggested the possibility of disagree French mountaineer and trapper by the of himself or of a bystander. deep in the rock, in the sides of which T----------- —---------------- this section of country. I left Port able traveling companions. How name of Montoure, who had drifted in- j Stages leave Ashland as follows: i land the 10th, and wandered here slow ever it was too bad to turn back to this then wild region of country, 1 Mr. T. Porter Jack sold yesterday, were tombs. Among the ruins on the The O. *V C. Stage (!.•,’>• St:i<re leave Ashl m<l concluded to cease bis wild rovings and ’ 1G0 acres of brush land, without auy hill he identified the site of a temple, for Jacksonville. R ick Point anil Rose ly, from point to point, after my usual after coming so fur, I thought, and so I burg every <1 <y at 6 a. in. Mail c!o es at sauntering fashion. The first remark plunged into the unknown quantity, stopped among the Indians of the Wil improvements on it, and lying on Butte and here saw that explorers before him 5:30 a. in. I have to make on the appearance of and walked a considerable distance lamette Valley. Having appreciations creek, six miles from Silvertion, for $10 liad made excavations, and abandoned Y;»r llenlv, Yiek i and Re »«ling at li p. in. things in Washington Territory is, that without seeing through the woods, of the value and importance of the cul per acre, cash down in gold coin. The them. He was induced to go deeper M «¡1 c’o ei at 5:30 p. m. I I IL’.ti n «< Gir-ett’.- Suitre-» leave there is no so diecousolute old age, as when a farm wagon rumbled up beside tivation of the soil, ho looked around purchaser was a Mr. Illingsworth, a than they had, under the mosaic floor I «•very Mn’wlay, '.Vt ilaesday and Friday the o’d age of a n-country. Seven m? and a pleasant faced young farmer him for a proper location. Ills choice recent new comer from Wisconsin.— of the temple. At the depth of twenty lnornin"-« for Linkvilb’, and return on feet he struck a dark passageway, which fell upon the spot where Hon. Sam. 1 \irnnT. every Ti-'d.iy. Thursday and S itnfdnv, years haro left deeper lines of decay on asked mo to ride. Of course I thanked Brown now Jives, on French Prairie, in We want our name written in a book he penetrated till stopped by a low L-nve Linkvtlb-f.-r Like City. California, certain once ambitious places than sev him and cordially accepted the oiler; Wednesdays; amveat Lake Citv Situr- enty would have done bad their eaily and was brought, safely back by the Marion county. Here Im settled down, of gold as one who loves his fcllowmen, stone door. Bursting this, he found days ; letve Lake Citv M »ndays : arrive himself at the entrance of a series of al Linkville Thursdays, carrying mail and hopes been realized. Kal.nno, for in same oi l:ging gentleman, who resides and commenced in a rude way, no but fruit tree agents and men with new doubt, the erection of his future home kinds of glue must steer clear of us just vaulted rooms in the rock. The rooms pa^seugers. stance, between ll'glitid railroad pros in tbo bop-growing Puyallup valley. A. D. HELMAN, P. M. and the cultivation of the soil. Of his the same as if we were a whole cage of were full of fine earth which had sifted pects und the. high water of last year, Old Tacoma is w-ell situated on a is almost utterly deserted by business, pretty slope that comes quite down to adventures among tho wild Indians Bengal tigers with the hydrophobia.— through the rock walls. The explorer did not know where he Ashland Lodge No. 189,1. 0. G. T. and would be quite so were it not still the water, and is a pleasant little place. then inhabiting this beautiful country, I Oil Citi/ 1)< i i ick. was, but he was standing at the door of his trials, adversities, hopes, fears, Meets at the Hull of Urman & Fountain every the Columbia river terminus of the Mr. W. J. Cromwall, says the Tho mill, which is one of the most im Friday eveting ut s o’clock y. m . B others and North Pacific. Tho Cowlitz valley, portant on the Sound, and saws out his sorrows or happiness, we perhaps i.:n, while coming up the coast from way which leads the student of art into sisters in good standing are cordia’ly Invped to at where used to be, in old fashioned stag 22,000.000 feet of lumber annually, in may never know. But here be remain Tillamook, found portions of a wreck the hitbeito unknown fields of investi te»!. JOHN 8. EUBANKS, NV. C. T. ing times, the busy little towns of Mon terested me, particularly as it has some ed in peaceable posession of his home at Arch cape a few days ago below Til gation among the early Greeks and C II. H krgkdinz , Sec’y. ticello and Freeport, is now bound fast improvements new to me; and as the in the wilderness until 1826. The lamook-head. The portion consisted their Pliomician and Egyptian prede Hudson Bay Company had gained a of a box in which a compass had rested; cessors. The General soon perceived Ashland Lodge No, 23. in Rip Van Winkle sleep. The railroad gentlemanly snperintendant invited me has made a numb, r of new places along to avail myself of tho company’s steam foothold in the country, and they sent the compass was gone; a portion of a that the room which lie was to enter its route, but they are in the very poor er which goes all round the Sound and one of their trusted French employees, sky-light and a cabinet sized photo was not a tomb. Commencing to re A. F. & A. HI.. est part of tbo valley, sLowirg neither onside to Neah Bay. Tho only other Peter Depot, to the Frenpli Prairie to graph was from Marsden’s gallery, San move the earth in the slow and careful Ilolds their stated conuTiiinicitiouF Tliured.iy o7?n manner which the experienced excava ingi on or l*»rore the full moon. Brethren in gooJ the bottom lands nor prairies to advan thing I saw worthy of note was a curi establish a farm and raise grain, vege Francisco, negative No. 165. standing are cordially invited to attend. tage; and when the fravt ler comes near tables, etc., for the use of that corn-, The Turks are not getting crushed tor always practices, he began to find ous bell-tower—being no more nor less II. C. HILL, NV. M. the Sound, he sees only the gravelly than a huge fir tree sawed off at the puny. Peter Depot, on his arrival, pur out of existence quite as rapidly and beautiful objects in gold lying in heaps C. B. W atson , Sec’y. ------ ,--------------------------- border skirting it, which produces al proper height (the little church was chased Montoure’s primitive homo and effctually as the llnssophilist and Tur on the floor of the vault. Then came farm and commenced in earnest tho kophobisto have prophesied. We don't the evidence that he had opened the Ashland Lodge No.-15« most nothing. Of course this is not a built beside it) supporting a bell on fair showing for Washington Territory, top, and in a fair way to be overgrown business of agriculture. When tho see the solid columns of the invincible treasure chambers of the temple. I, O. O. F., restless American race pushed their Czar sweeping across the Danube with Twenty-five hundred years ago the and the immigrant, if ho comes this with ivy. Hold their regular meeTlng every Saturday even way, will bo considerably surprised way into this rich and fertile valley and that irresistible strength that promised priests in the temple were suddenly My visit to Tacoma was brief, and ing at tbeir bùi in Aetland. Brothers in gtxxl and disheartened. Oregon is away my voyage from there here, pleasant began to erect their homes on its fine a summer picnic within the walls of i alarmed by the rush of a besieging standing are cjrdtally invited to attend. ahead of Washington as a fanning in a commodious steamer. Olympia, agricultural and grazing lands, the Constantinople. We do not hear the j army over or through tho lofty walls of J. D. FOUNTAIN, N. G. I. O. M illek , Rec. Sec’y. country; though there is sonio good which used to be a busy place, is, since ' Hudson Biy Company gave up their clanking sabres of the brave Cossack I Kurium. In the wild haste of the un- 1 expected attack, they swept from altars Rebekah meetings on Tuesday evening, nearest grain land, and much*more grass, hop the railroad gave it the go-by, as dull ' farming enterprise, preferring to ob that was to have galloped through Cir- ’ he full of the moon eacn month. and pasture land, and plenty of good ' as tho sleepiest idler could desire. It tain their supplies derived from the cassia, Georgia and Trabizond, to give shrines, where they were exposed, the soil from the early pioneers, and turn drink to his cavalry in the sweet waters I votive offerings of generations of wor- fruit land. i can never be an active business town i The wealth of the Sound country lies I like Seattle, because half the time its ed their attention more exclusively to of the Bosphoros. On tbo contrary, I i I shipers, hastened down tbo dark pas J. A. APPLEGATE. in its lumber and coal; the latter is in j mudflats arc entirely bare, and no ves- their legitimate business of trapping v»e read the account of retreating squad sage and threw them, heaps on- heaps, into the treasury vault, closed the stone 3ttoruru and ounsclov-at-Xaiv exhaustible, new discoveries being all I sei can come up to wharves except when and trading with the Indians. When rons and flying hosts of Russians hid door, and doubtless also closed the se the time made. The Puyallup coal, to I the tide favors it. Still the Olympia this change occurred Peter Depot, pre ing their artillery in the rocks, smooth ‘ SALEM OREGON. develop which the N. 1’. II. 11. is buil* I people feel injured that tho N.P. IL K. ferring to continue the peaceable occu ed down and explained as “change of cret entrance to the passagoway. The ding a railroad from New Tacoma east did not make its terminus here, and are pation of a farmer to that of a roving campaign.” It looks very much to us ! enemy came in and hewed down the about twenty-five miles, is of a very working to get a branch to Tenino, the i trapper and hunter, was left in peace liko a reverF.c, and as though the Rus priests before tho altars, or carried DR. J. H. CHITWOOD, superior quality. The road will soon i nearest point on the N. P. R IL to able possession of his home. Here he sians had not an easy task in putting i them away captive to Asia. None was O regon A shland , be finished, when this coal will jump I ward the Columbia. The citizens of remained until 1850, when Mr. Brown out the light of this Sick Man. It looks left who knew the secret of the vault. OFFICE —At the Ashland Drugstore. right into market without further ad Olympia have graded tho road bed bought him out and took possession of to us as though the Russian had more | The temple was desecrated, robbed, I the place. During all this time, nearly than a summer’s work before him, to i destroyed, its walls and columns hurled vertising than it has had. I nearly or quite to the junction, and are I J. R. NEIL, New Tacoma is a bran new town > i waiting to get means to lay the rails G5 years, this farm has been in contin be followed by a winter of discontent. ' down in hideous ruin, and for twenty- built on top of a high bluff, with pref E and stock it. Thursday of this week is uous cultivation. It lias never been As though the dismemberment of Tur five centuries the gold of the Phoenician j^TTORXEY AT-LAW, ace to it, built at the water level, on i a “field day” on this branch; when ev- manured, nor has it needed it, and dur key and the division of its territory to • and Egyptian and Greek worshiperslay piling. A very comfortable grade of a : ery body turns out with pick and shovel ing all that time the fields have receiv Russia, Germany, Austria ar.J England ■ dark and unknown in the vaulted cham Jacksonville. Oregon. ber. From the gold chamltor, a low I quarter of a mile connects the two. to see if the grade is in order, and if ed no rest, except having been Sum would have to be deferred for a time. - doorway, two feet seven inches high • There is a wonderfully Hue prospect in not, to put it so—even the ladies, who mer-fallowed three or four times. The j E. Arjonaul. opened into the ne^t vault, which was II. KELLEY, front of this place, made up of the va go along to feed the graders. When i crops growing upon it the present year A man named Cornelius Westerfield II the silver room. Black, corroded, un Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law, rious wooded poiuts that jut out into i the road was first inaugurated the la- are as fine as any in the State; tho stabb-d another between the Dalles sightly as it is, this treasure was net the blue waters pf the Sound. The Pu ; dies did a little grading, I believe, to growth is luxuriant and the yield will and Ciseides about a week ago and J acksonville , O regon . yallup valley opposite, with the Indian I show their enterprise and determina- be as great as any previous year, not- lied, lie was arrested at St. Joe, Yam less important than the gold. For sn- withstanding its long and constant ser- hill county, arrived here last evening, cient silver objects are very rare, espec Reservation nestled in its bottom lauds ! tion. Will practice in all the C rarts of »be Stat«. Pmtn. at en iou given to all business intrusted to my care. vice. This farm and its present condi and weut up the river in custody of ially enpt and vases. There were piles close to the Sound, and a splendid view O ffice . In the buildbg formerly cccupied by Olympia being the capital, has more tion is a fair and practical illustration of these corroded into masses. But a Kahler J e Watson, opposite Court House. of Mt. Ranier, which is the finest peak Sheriff Crosses this morning. — ¡1 ■. considerable number are perfect, and in tuo Cascade raDge, not excepting I “society” than any of the other towns ; of the richness, productiveness and I Mr. Geo. Holman, of the Pioneer Oil are of tho greatest archioological im Shasta. Evidently this Las been a on the Sound. The officials have not ' durability of tho lands of the Wiliam- From this room opened Mills, received yesterday in a’letter, a portance. I. O. Miller another low door into a third vault, in much higher peak in bygone ages. In much to do but to spend their salaries, : ette valley.— rcuiy. small amount of wild flax seed from which were found objects in alabaster, some views of it you catch the outline and pic nics seem about the most seri A Sabbath-school teacher was at Walla Walla. It has a large surface, terro cotta, etc.; and beyond this vault, Architect and Builder, of a broken cone, the jagged points of ous business on hand. As boating is tempting to teach a small bey the mean but is thin, and of course not good for and at right angles with it, was a fourth GRANITE STREET - - - ASHLAND. which now give it a three-gabled ap handy and fashionable, and the drives I i which contained objects in over the gravelly prairies and through ing of wages in the passage, “The wages oil iu its present state. Possibly colei- ' room, bronze, many of which were in very WILL do anything In bis line on short notice aud pearance, like roofs irregularly joining. I uf sin is death," and usked him, “What Nation would bring out a full plump , fair preservation. From this room a on the lowest terms. n7v2.f It seems so near to you at Tacoma that the thick woods delightful, one could does your father get on Sunday night?’’ seed. Flax raising has never to our , narrow passageway descended in th® never object to this dolec j'or ui»nte exis you are tempted to try walking over to “Drunk, ma’am,” answered the boy, knowledge been attempted east of the rock, which the General explored for its foot—that is, you would think this tence, for a summer, at least. The bu without any hesitation. 130 feet, and then abandoned, because mountains, but judging from tho way of possible if you knew nothing about the reau of immigration here consists of the foul air and the difficulty of pro- our or fine choice milk cows , on deceitfulness of distances among the two gentlemen and one lady—Mrs. A. in which the native flax thrives, it , ceeding.—W illiam C- P rime , in Harp- The public debt statement show a re II reasonable terms. C*ll at n>v residence in would be well suited for flax both for ; er's Magazine for August. Ashland. LStfj LINDSAY AFPLEGAIE. mountains, or the roughness of moun H. fl. Stuart— m >' uo does all the busi- auction daring July of $818,901. 1 K 44 «< 44 44 A ■ FOR SALE. F
