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About Ashland tidings. (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 24, 1877)
F » £ *>». • INDEPENDENT ON ALL ¿SUBJECTS, AND DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OE SOUTHERN OREGON. I ASHLAND, OREGON: FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1877. VOL. IL—NO. 11. Written for the T idings . ASHLAND TIDINGS. y « $2.50 PER ANNUM. intelligent. It seemed to tho little boy hint to the stable, got him a horse and TOE SWITZERLAND OF AMERICA. I and it is probable that these charters We Never Know. a great thing to accompany this huge told him to ride ou to the village of were all ubout as badly needed as the Under tho above heading Gen. Brown creaking machine, and then be was not Bly, ten miles distant, to inform the ---- ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY---- j one at Ashland. However, this is par- writes a spicy account of his late visit We rawer know, we raver know, people of the accident and to .summon j only going along to keep Dick compa | entbetical.) Which of our loved tuay bhurtly go; I to Southern Oregon, from wLich we Whether tl.e b’ue eye? or ihe gray, the chiefs to be on hand at the earliest ny, but was even to take part ia man The little city of Ashland is decided O. C. APPLEG ATE A CO. Shall soon- t close to the 1 ghc of day— Whether tne bruwn eyes or the black aging the whole affair, and it was a moment in the morning, that they make the following extract: ly the most beautiful and romantically Tbe lustre of life shall Bootiest lack. OFFICE—On Main Street, (in rfear Dr. Leaving Roseburg, by privale cou- proud moment for him when his moth might see for themselves how the ac situated of any town in Oregon. It i veyance we ar.ived at Jacksonville on Chitwood’s Ding Store.) We never know, w* never know, er, on Dick’s assurance that he would cident bad happened. nestles in a little nook at the southern Width of our comrades here below; i tho evening of the second dav, after a Which < f the farms we dearly pr z-». After daylight I mounted a horse and take good care of her little bov, con ; limit of the Rogue River Y’alley, and ia I Terms of Subscription : Shall t»oo”e-t fade 'neatb it? native ?kie?, ! bu<7gy ri.lo cf one hundred miles over rode down to the scene of the accident. sented to his going, and he took up Lis And »tn ighten out for the snowy rob-, ! the very footstool of the giant chain of , the prettiest road and through the most That eufouls ihe dead for ihier lust abode. I found everything us represented. No position ou the top of the load. Then ! Siskiyou Mountains, which divide Ore- “ “ Mx montbe......................... ..................... I romantic scenery in the world. Tbe We rever know, we rever know, they moved on their way, first along, Indians hud yet arrived, but after | gon from California; it is carved and •• •• thrtrtj ** ........................ ....................... 1 00 When the winut* vi rne angels grow, j road winding through deep canyons, ...................... 12.50 AVb.cn mortal s ?« ul is j luniing for flight Club rates ?ix cuplets fur.................... the banks of Williamson river, skirted awhile the chiefs came to hold with me, checkered by irrigating streams which To the land of I.eil where there is u > uight. ' "beside rippling mountain streams, pat-s- Term?, In advance. with willows and tamarack pines, and the inquest; then the painted mourners ' cause every homo within its limits to To exehiii'ge its girments ol niuur» ing here, i ingover high,narrow grades, traversing l or a Ser »pu’s Bong ia a higher sphere. came, Dick with them, and made the then turned eastward into tbo great ! bloom with loveliest Howers and feed on Terms of Advertising: I glades of gigantic forests, mounting to We river know, we never know, welkin ring with the dismal death song. yellow pine forests on the Y'ainax road. richest fruits. And besides being a lit T/icil Not io? per liue....................................... .lOCtR. Torn carefully, softly, let u< go, l*role?M»>u.d Cud«, ;«r jeur.............................. «Ill 00 Then a hack drove up, in which tbe the Binnmit of lofty mount lins, und de- tle paradise of home loveliness, its uo- With a teudtr word, «nd a kail me««. The first night they spent at one of a M Tuo iocDe?, ¡»er quirter................ ............. With a baud to setve and a will ¡o blei? •« (M) those marvelous Klamath springs, a body was placed and the long caval I bcending aguin into rich valleys inhab ; rivalled water power ia busily engaged Four •’ E ic.i and all, who mortally share, K 00 Knut “ For one is un “,>nge. unaware.” stream large enough to run an aere or cade moved slowly and sadly back in ited by the tbirfiiest of ranchmen, ren in driving a large flouring mill, a wool 10 00 <)» e-h If 0« lumn T. W. B ax Lot is O bisto , Ang. 2, '77. der the whole ronto one complete suc- en factory, and other important indus 11 >0 ’Jiiree-tuuriha “ two of machine mills, cold as molten the forests, to convey the remains I! era 17 5o One " ce.'S.on of delightful surprises. tries. Indeed, Ashland may well be snow aud clear as crystal, The great to the village on Williamson river, and LfQAL At>VEsTll«FMEbTrt Jacksonville,tne metropolis of South called the Lowell of Southern Oregon, One eq'iare 'teu line? o: less) 1st lu.-eition... make unspeakably sad the heart of the I Only an Indian Boy. black forests hemmed tho little mead ern Oregon, is romantically situated in ' and is destined in time to outstrip many 1 00 E.ch udaltiotul iueeruun.............................. ow in on every side, and the night was poor Indian mother. a lcvelv little nook at the side of Rogue j of her more pretentious rivals. And, Last fall I was again, for a brief time a lonely one for both of them, but par A DESPERATE INDIAN FIGHT. •Job Printing, River Valley, and under the shadow of at my old station at Y’ainax, on the ticularly for the little boy who had so by the way, there is one thing peculiar Of all description, done on short notice. Legal Klamath Reservation, in charge of the Mount McLaughlin, one of tbe mon about that burg, viz.: Although it «12 seldom been away from tho noisy vil Blanks, Circulars, Business Garde, lhl.heade, Leiter- archs of the Siskiyou chain of moun heile, Post-re, etc., gotten up In good style at hvli g fragments of several Indian tribes lo lage. numbers some eight hundred inhabi tains, which describe a crescent ou the tants, yet it contraias ne:ther a church cated there. These were Klamaths, ¡»rices. The next day they toiled along their One of the most sanguinary fights south of that most lovely valley. The Modocs aud Snakes, with a few Pit nor a saloon I—and it is claimed to be I way, alternately over tho sandy, pine Agents fur tke Tidings. with Indians, says the Black liiils Rogue River Y alley is a large basin;al- Rivers or JZon/<rn.v, formerly held an clad bills, and down along the narrow dtampion, so far as the number of white most oval in bhape, and contains many the most moral place in the world! The L. Runtie*», .... Purtlund, Oregon. slaves by the stronger tribes. Since my J D.o i»|»*on, ... “ *• mystery to us is bow in the dickens did S. M. pefevgi I A Co., - - - New York. first acquaintance with these people, iu grassy bottoms on Sprague river, but meu engaged iu it i? concerned, that thousands of acres of rich agricultural they all get so strictly moral without Kutvel! A Cuieauiali, ... Si. I.ouie. night overtook them when they were we have any record of, took place ou land, besides having its margin cover R F. H? er,...............................8«n Fnuxiecu. the days prior to the settlement of the | yet some ten miles away from Y'ainax. Friday last, near tbe south fork of the ed wi.ii rich gold placer diggings, from having some brimstone talked into ’em T’.i«»-». Buyer, Luk? country, quite a change bad come • J. B. Neii, .... Jacky nville. or having the terrible example of a gin <!. S Sk-rgeot, - - • - P.ovuix. over them. The death struggle between j During the wholo day the wind had little Missouri. The facts, as we glean which in the winter seasons the miners El. R. Oar.n, : - - CeuTiii Point. swept with terrific force through the ed them from ono of the participants. pan out large quantifies of the precious mill daily thrust in their faces. The Mi-«- AD.e W. Cc.lvig, - - Kock Point. the white man’s civilization aud tbe Petit H. Puri................................. You:din. pine trees, tho rain had fallen in tor- I Who reached Gayville last evening, and dq»t. New mining interests are being peculiar morals of this town everlast J. M. Sum»«, General Agent for J.ickiou aud Juee- I wild life of th? "wigwam and war path” rents and the little boy was fearfully is now stopping with bis former part ipDnstautly developed in that region. At ingly knocks tbe philosophy and reason j'hme cuuutier. hud been in progress for a decade or chilled, but he could not bear the idea ner, are a;» follows: About two weeks present lion. D. i‘. Thompson, of Ore out from under us, and leaves ns in more, and evidences of tbe cut ilict were of stopping iu these dark forests all ago a party of ninety-eight men and gon City. ex-Goveruor of Idaho, has a chaos of uncertainty whether to ad Stages leave Ashland as follows: apparent on every side. Ev< n the vise against the establishment of The O «V C. Stage C',,.’s '“ti’j.re lent e Ashlmil breech-Joading rille, that marvel of me night iu the screeching storm. He plead two ladies, made up of parties from some 330 men employed in constructing with Dick to drive on to Y'ainax, even Deadwood, Gayville and other adjicuit a water •l’tcu for the purpose of work- churches or jerk an ethical discourse lor .Jn,Kx»-if. ¡lie. Rock Point an<l Rose chanical ingenuity and skill, hung ou burg every d.»y at 6 a. tn. Mail do es at though they should be all night on the earups hereab'm*.«, started from tac Big ing a gold mine tituated eight or ten against the liquor traffic. Come to tbe walls of many an Indian’s dwelling .*»-.:»(> a. in. thick of it, however, morality is only a F.>- IL-tilv, Yirk i nn«l Re tiling at 6 p. in. I beside the slender yew-tree bow and road; so they kept the old faithful oxen Horn country, with ridit.'g and pack ixirUs from Jacksonville. Tbe ditch is moving onward through tho darkness. anit'ials. One week ago yeslc r iay (Fri to bo some forly-one miles in length, precept which all men preach and but M til <•’<> e« a’ p. in. quivtr of tlinlcd arrows; gruss seed Il.'t: ti A (I ir fit’s S’x*_-e? leave Ashland I Dick all the time fearful of daDger, but day) in tbe f.fiernovii, when nearing and will cost something over one hun few follow, hence our injunction to eVfty M«»ml:iv, W. d't'xl iy ¡Did Friday meal, ground in a mortar as in tbe days abolish churches and saloons would liioming* tor Linkvill«-, and leliirn on belure tbe foot-print of a pale face Lad trusting to luck and the instinct of the the brakes of the south fork of the Lit dred fhouznud dollars. Tbe company mure servants who strained in the tle Missouri, they d'■covered a large of which Gov. Thompson is the head most probably have about the same »•very Tl’ -day. Tltni*u|¡«y and Saturday. been made in tbe land of lakes, was L • 've Linkvill»- I -r L«ke City, í'Dit«>int¡», yokes, while the load seemed growing band of Indians dismounted, tbe latter are all “heavy men,” and are determin weight with this degenerate world. Wedtx-.-day? : »uttve at Lake Citv Satut- etortd in the wigwam beside th«* liuest At .Ashland we met many old time heavier and heavier as the mud and wa having their ponies oil’ a couple of ed to push this enterprise to a success ‘I mvs ; '«• ive Luke Citv M »nd.iys ; arrive brands of Boston the spade and ttt l.’nkvilh* TLuisdays. carrying n.nil and ter deepened under their feet. At last miles from where they were seen. The ful completion at an eariy day. But as friends whose turn tum* seemed to vi hoe and camas stick leaned trustingly pa* ■»•tigers. they cauie to a deep gulch where the miners anticipating an attack, immedi they are confident there is millions in brate with ecstacy at sight of our night A. P. HELMAN, P. M. together agaiust the wall; the paper col blooming serious countenace.- Here is road was a little dangerous, and Dick lar of a far advanced civilization and the dimonnting from the wagon went to ately took their shovels, each man the mino they are not at all frightened the mountain retiracy of Hon. YV. A. throwing up a breastwork from which at tho expenditure of a few hundred Ashland Lodge No. 189,1. 0. G. T, beaded Indian necklace were linked in a I the side of the oxen and urged them be could fight to better advantage. At thousand just i:ow. Other extensive McPherson, once State Printer and therefore mnch^cussed; here is Hon. Meets at the Hall of He'inan Jt Fountain every strange companionship; the catnas root with all his might towards the upper 3 p . m . the Indians in large numbers mining schemes are being pushed for I Friday evetin» al S o'clock v. st. Brother, and of barbarism quietly rested beside tbo side of tha grade, and just at the mo Jno. McCall, at present a member of commenced the attack by several feints ward, both iu Jackson aud Josephine eieter« in good etaiHling are corlia’lv iuvi’erl to at turnip of civilization; dogs of line phy ment when it seemed that tbo danger upon the miners, reserving their main counties, and if they prove as profita the Legislature and a hospitable gentle tend. JOHN 8. EUBANKS, W.C. T. sique ar.d lofty lineage and mangy coy- man for a Republican; and here, as tbe C. II. II ibgadink , Sec’y. was well nigh past—when indeed the ota curs,animated by like feelings,howl oxen were across tho gulch ami the charge until about <5 p. m . Friday. By ble as their owners anticipate, South blooming City Marshal for whom there this timo the miners were thoroughly ern Oregon is destined to become ip ed and barked together; tule wigwams is nothing to do, is Uncle Isaac Yliller, r Ashland Lodge No. 23. nestled confidingly in the shadow of pre front wheels already iu the solid gravel organized, each one unpacking his ani time tbo real Fl Dorado of the Pacific. formerly of Linn county, and a Demo bed of the little stream, there was a mal. The Indians charged ou ihe min .kt Jacksonville we met many valued tentious mansions with glass windows crat in whom there is no guile. And loud crash and over went tbe wagon in ers on foot, at one time approaching a . f . a a . m .. friends among whom were Judge Prim here are several other Linn county and panel doors, and everywhere on the to the gulch below. Dick ran back to within 200 yards of the entrenched Holde their utated communications Thursday eveu- ami family, lion A. C. Junes and fam nomads, among whom may bo named green meadows horned cattle grazed iug? on or before the full tnooD. Brethren iu good the wreck, through tbe darkness, and miners. Tho hitter poured round after ily, Mrs. G. T. Y'ifiing, widow of the Hon. Ed. Farlow, Superintendent of with pinto steeds. Where or.ee the etiisltng are cordially invited to attend. loudly called for the boy. There was round of a murderous fire into the In H. C. HILL, W. M. late llou. G. T. Vining, who went down Public Instruction for Jackson county, •‘rank thistle nodded in tbe breeze, and no answer, only the breez? howled om dians from behind their breastworks. C. B. W atson , Sec'y. on tbe ill-fated steamer Pacific, Gen. Dan. Gaby, Jas. D. Fountain and Eliaa tbe fox dug his hole unscared,” now inously through the tops of the pine For a timo tho fight was extremely hot, Jno. E. Rosa, Col. J. N. T. Miller, Miller, all of whom got their start in "art had usurped the powers of nature” Ashland Lodge No. 45, the fox was heard do more “upon the trees, and tho brook, swollen by (ho the Indians displaying more than their Hon. Henry Klippal, Tho«. G Reams, "Old Linn,” and all of whom express immense rain, roared angrily down usual daring and discretion, but the Rev. Mr. Bell, cl al. Indeed, to at fell ” and the carrot grew and blossom I. O. O. F., an abhorrent disgust of anybody that through tho daik clump of willows to well directed and effective fire from the tempt to enumerate or name the friends ed where tbe thistle was not. Hold their r*cul.ir meeting every Saturday even won’t brag on our grand county. We wards Sprague river. Tbe heavy load well-armed miners was inces-ant and with whom we clasped hands and upon were glad to learn that they were all ing at their ball in Ashland. Brothers in good Dick Mosenkosket, a famous young of lumber was chaine»! to tho wagon etandiug are cordially iuvlied to attend. scout of tbe olden time, keeping pace and it was bottom side up on the top i death-dealing for several hours, when whose bosoms wo sighed would occupy flourishing like the traditional green J. D. FOUNTAIN, N. O. tbe Indiaus withdrew. the full space of cur valuable columns. bav horse, and expeot to “keep np with tbe march of civilization, hqd laid i I. o. M iller , llec. Sec'y. of the lumber, but it was only tho work After the fight it was discovered that To Mrs. Judge Prim {in»l daughter, their lick till they make their everlast aside his battle harness long before, Rebekah meetings on Tneelay evening, nearest i of a moment to loosen thochains,swing fourteen of tbe miners were killed, all Hon. A. C. Jones and wife and Mrs. G. ing fortunes. and had achieved the distinction of be he full of the moou eaca month. the oxen around, hitch them to tho of them, with one exception, being shot T. Y’ining we are especially indebted ing of being one of the best ox drivers wheel on tho side and draw tho wagon in the head. Eighteen of the miners’ in the Klamath tribe, On tbe occasion for courteous hospitalities. Also to C.ipt. Americus Symmestheadvooate back into its proper position. Then animals were killed or wounded suffic Mr. Hermann Helms for valuable relics which I have in mind, he was slowly of the theory that a navigable cavity J. A. APPLEGATE. springing like a mad man onto the pile iently to render them useless. One from his cabinet, of geological speei moving over the road from Klumutb through tbe earth from pole to ^ttornrtt anti tfounsdor-at-ïaiv Agency, which place is about forty of lumber, he threw it all off, piece bv hundred aud sixteen ludían bodies lay mens. Indeed, Mr. Helms has one of extends pole, has contributed 8500 toward tbe piece, in tbe darkness, and at last came on the battlefield as a trophy of the un miles from Yainax by tbe wagon road, most interesting cabinets in the world, Ilowgate Artic expedition. Bynames ' ’ SALEM OREGON. with five or six yoke of oxen and a down to the body of tbe little boy he erring marksmanship of the miners. but as he had a rattlesnake skin in most says that all the results of the previoua heavy load of lumber on tbe big wagon. had so earnestly promised to take care Ten Indian horses that were off from conspicuous view we did n’t stop to in expeditions justify his belief, and be is I of, but the spirit bad already gone to the larger herd aud eloser to tbe miners DR. J. II. CHITWOOD, He also carried his camping outfit and vestigate things very closely. The faot confident that Ilowgate will be able to the “ islands of the hereafter.” Here were picked off by tho long range rifles I O regon . several doors and windows for the new is the writer of these few lines acci enter the cavity. In a letter to the A shland , in the pitchy darknea«, with the storm i of the miners. The only portion of the Indian houses at Y ainax. Six miles out dentally and without malice afore Louisville Courier Journal he says: OFFICE—At the Ashland Drug Store. from Klamath, at tbe Indian villages raging around, he was alone with tbe miners’ bodies that were exposed were thought placed his bund upon a live “Did not Cipt. Waddell go upon a on Williamson river, there were plenty I dead. It was a dismal and fearful sit their heads, as they fired from behind rattlesnake once, since which time the south exploring expedition a few years J. R. NE1I», of noisy redskins, but from there cd uation. He felt that he was indirectly i tbe*r temporary earth breastworks. On serpent business has not been exten ago, and fouud open Polar sea, as in n>EXEY AT-LAw; through the heavy pine woods and over the murderer of the little boy whose Í Saturday morning, after a redistribu- sively patronized by the deponent. the north, and when entering it found vengeful spirit would perhaps follow ! tion of th-1 packs of the animals killed, the grassy bottoms of Sprague river, It was terrible warm at Jacksonville his compass bad reversed its« position, to punish him all the days of bis life, the party proceeded on their journey. Jacksonville, Oregon. the route was lonely enough, for “tbe —the geewbolloper climbing clear over and was pointing north when he and then tho “ white mau ’ s law ” might 1 As they are desirous of keepiug the af council fire bad long since gone out on the 100 pole—hence we drove to Ash- thought he was going southward, and not be strong enough to save him from fair quiet, so as not to discourage the tbe shore ” and where once perhaps ! land (17 miles south) by moonlight ar- I became alarmed and turned back, when II. KELLEY, the wrath of relatives who would wish several large parties now organizing thousands of redskins made their home . riving a little before midnight aud stir if he bad followed on as his compass here for tbe Big Horn couutry, the Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law, not a single wigwam was left on the to shed his blood in retribution. ring out mino host of the Ashland Ho- directed, he would have came out at Wrapping a blanket around the body fight has been kept from the public. tri, with a nervous vim which started tbe north poles, and would have prov long and tiresome route. Dick, like all J acksonville , O regon . others of his race, was very supersti he placed a door over it, unhitched Our informant was three days making several neighboring canines to how hug ed the theory true which says tbe earth Will practice in all the Court« of tbe State. Prom, tious, and when night came on he was the oxen, and started for Y'ainax, yet the return trip from Gayville. at en tou given to all hue tuet« intrusted to my care. | and came near bringing the “perlice” is hollow, aud, no doubt, habitable The fight will have the effect of dem i down on to our exhausted frame. (And within.”— O f vice . In the buildi'g formerly occupied by wont to people all the dark woods with five miles distant. Pulling off his coat Kabier 4c Wateon, opposite Coart House. • ------- ► ♦ —— wierd inhabitants and to hear their and boots he left them by the road side onstrating to tho Indians that, while by the way, that would have been a di they may with impunity and without and ran with all his might through the A dvice to Y oung W riters .—To a voices iu the soughing pines. version for Ashland, for they have bad much fear attack immigants and United storm. 1 a city government and a Mayor and Re- young writer Wm. Cullen Bryant ones At Williamson river he found a little I States troops, they miss their calcula About midnight, awaking from a corder and Marshal and the other use gave this good advice : “I observe Indian boy, a distant relative, a bright, tion when they attack a party of old Architect and Builder, less appendages of a country town for that you have med several French ex fine looking little fellow, who agreed sound slumber, I heard tbe tread of a prospectors and frontiersmen. It is It was a ! bare foot or moccasin in the room. This our candid opinion that tbo parties a year and a half and haven’t yet had a pressions in your aft’cle. I think if GRANITE STREET - - - ASHLAND. to go with him to Yainax. was singular for I did not expect Dick, here who are now starting for the Big ' single uufortunate character incarcera- you will study the English language, WILL do enythlng in his line on short Dotice and school boy, about twelve years of age, that you will find it quite capable of on the lowest unue. n7v2tf but so slender and delicate that he did but it was his voice, tremulous with Horn country cau pursue their journey . ted iu their neatly constructed cala- expressing ail the ideas you may have. not seem like a child of more than excitement, that answered my chal I unmolested, as tbe Indians are quick to ' boose. Indeed, the last Legislature I have always found it so, and in all eight or ten. He was quite light, al lenge. Then he told me the sad story discover tbe difference between attack ; was deluged with long winded bills that I have written I do not recall an in« ing a lot of men who have had experi stance when I was tempted to use a for most too much so for a genuine Indian, I of the night. Hunting him up a pair ence in that kind of warfare and those ' ganting incorporation charters to the eign word, but that, on searching, I our or five choice milk cows , on but was as straight as an arrow, and I of shoes and an old army overcoat and who know nothing about their tactics | towns throughout the Sfate, at a cost of found a better one in my own lau- reasonable terms CUI at my resilience tn Aeblauo. L6tT, LINDSAY ATPLEGA1L. j his coal black eve was both kind si*J ; gEt'.icg him a bite to eat, I vent with ¡ and are liable to become demora’izecT. 1 many hundred dollars to the Dx-payeri*, g’iag<’ - II Y— i_ T : 44 i 44 44 44 I --------------------- U- > <*- i i I 7\A I « t I I. O. Müler FOR SALE. F I