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INDEPENDENT ON ALL SUBJECTS, AND DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF SOUTHERN OREGON. VOL. II.—NO. 15 ASHLAND, OREGON: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1877. CRATER LAKE. The Day Is Done, , WE WANT A GOOD ROAD TO NAVI GABLE WATER. $2.50 PER ANNUM. EXTRA SESSION OF LEGISLATURE. I Newspaper .ll*n»g*nient in the Nev- enteentli Century. No where on the Pacific Co»6t is While other States, smaller and less third letter . In the seventeenth century there was more beautifnl scenery to be found important than Oregon, have found it -B Y— than in the Cascade range of moun necessary to have an annual session of no such term as editor, implying a liter W illiamsburg , Sept. 10th, 1877. o. C. APPLEGATE & CO. tains, and consequently no place pre their legislatures, we, in our wisdom, ary man devoted to tbe general manage E ditor T idings :—In discussing the I see the lights of the village OFFICE—On Main Street, (in rear Dr. sents greater attractions to persons who when we made our constitution thought ment of a journal, with a share in Bnch Gleam through the rain and the mist, merits of the various routes to the appreciate and admire the wonders of Chitwood’s Drug Store.) we would need only one session in two original composition as it required. And a feeling of s u I dms comes o'er me caean, by which we can find a cash mar nature. Here the scenery is varied and That my soul cannot resist. years. We could, probably, get along Wo only hear of the printer, ort at ket for our surplus produce, we should Terms of Subscription: grand. The precipitous canyons and with one session in two years, if the most, of the publisher. In those days A feeling of sadness anl longing, give all the information we have on the One copy one year................................................... $ 2.50 gorges, the numerous waterfalls, high duration of the session was extended to tbe printer fonnd himself surrounded Tnat is not akin to pain, subject. Since my last was written I M “ six months............................................. 1.50 And resembles sorrow only with difficulties, and often, from the mountain peaks, all wild and grand in “ •• three *• .............................................. 1 00 have bad an interview with Mr. Peter at least sixty days, and the time of the imperfection and simplicity of his ar As the mist resembles rain. themselves, are matters of wonder to C lab rates six copies for........................................ 12.50 Miller, of Kerbyville, who has only meeting of tba legislature was fixed at rangements, he was thrown into posi the observer ; bnt the greatest of all ’ Terms, in advance. Come read to me some poem, a proper season of the year. But the Some simple and heartfelt lay, these wonders, one that surpasses any returned from a trip towards Ellens truth is, our present constitutional pro tions by no means dignified. burg within the last two weeks, and re That shall soothe this restless feeling Terms of Advertising: The following enrious notice is from thing of the kind in the world, and And b mish the thoughts of day. ports finding tho easiest route by far vision on this subject is utterly inade ono of the earliest English newspapers Local No-ices per line......................................... .locts. one that is destined to become noted Profeeeional Ottda, per year................................ $10 00 of any yet discovered. He followed quate to the wants and necessities of a in 1620 26: Not from the grand old masters, 3 oo Two luche«, per quarter..................................... and celebrated, is Crater Lake. Thi9 5 oo Four “ •* the Chetco route to the top of the large» growing and important State like Not from the birds sublime, Eight •• “ 8 00 “The printer to the reader—We Lake is situated on the summit of the Oregon. Our constitution provides for Wuose distant footsteps tcho 10 00 Oie-hflf Oriamo “ mountain between Illinois and Cbe*co Cascade Mountains, about eighty miles Three-fourth« “ “ 14 'M) Through tie corridors of lime. only biennial sessions of the legisla should also present yon with the Frenoh river ; from there turned to the right, Ous “ “ . 17 50 east of Jacksonville, and is known by ture, and limits their duration to forty news, but for that some who neither LIGlL ADVUTIHF.MENTS For like strains of martial music, following the ridge mostly until he the different names of Like Majesty, days. At two out of every three meet know what hath passed before, nor One Miuare (ten linee or lese) let insertion....... $2.50 Their mighty thoughts suggest came to an old camp of his in years Mystic, Sunken and Crater Lake, the Each additional insertion.................................... 1.00 Life's endless toil and ende »vor; ings of the legislature a U. S. Senator how business depend one upon another, I past, from which he went to Ellens Anl to-night I long for rest. latter being the name most generally is to be elected, which business occu have patebt up a pamphilt with bro burg in half a day. On his return be Job Printing, used. In its shape it is oblong, being Read from some humbler poet. pies about one-half of the session. At ken relations, contradicted newes of came to the copper lead, on Illinois ‘Of *11 description, done on ebort notice. Legal Whose song gushed from his heart ^bout fifteen miles in length and eight these senatorial contests the greatest sea-fights, and most non-sence. Trans Blank«, Circular«, Buslocsv Cards, Billhead», Letter* river, in a day, aod thinks he coi^ld As showers from the clouds of Summer, in width, and is at an altitude of G,000 excitement prevails, and the demorali lations of matters of State, we cannot heal«, Posters, etc., gotten up in good style at living Or tears from theeyeli is start; ride from Kerbyville to Ellensburg in feet above the level of the sea. The prices. zation and animosities produced there but inform you, how you have been a day if the brush was only cut out. Who through long days of labor, mountains surrounding it rise from by, to say nothing of the corrupt influ wronged, and wee prevented, by those He reports very easy grades, and ouly Agents for the Tidings. And nights devoid of ease, one to two thousand feet above the ences brought to' bear, operate most who would trust ont any falsitie, if Still be..rd in bis soul the music two bad places to make a road over, T. Hmiuel«, - - - • Portland, Oregon. surface of the lake, and in many places detrimentally to the interests of the they were bnt porsnaded that the novel J*c«»b Thompson, ... “ •* Of wonderful melodies. and both these short. Should he not 8. M. PettengLl A Co., - * - New York. •» are nearly perpendicular. A person public in respect to wise and wholsome ty would sell it.” This in 1622. Rowel! A Cbeestuau, ... Kt. Ixtuis. be deceived, the whole distance from Buch tongs h »ve the power to quiet ..... 8in Francisco. can conoeive no idea of tho lake while L. P. Flsner, Here is an apology for news-letters The restless pulee of c >re, * Trio«. Boyce, “ Thornton’s ranch to Ellensburg cannot legislation. To make matters still omitted for want of space: standing on the mountains above it — J. R. Neil, ...» Jacksonville. Aud come like tbe benediction worse the session is held during the be more than fifty miles, and the cost C. 8 Sergent, ..... Pinen.x. Tnat follow s after prayer. the lake lying before you in its silent, “Reader, I cannot let thee have tbee term of the annual State Fair, the most Ed. R. Owen, : - . Central Point. in the neighborhood of §25,000. By Mio Aflie W. Colvlg, . - Rock Point. placid splendor and mirror-like beauty exciting feature of which is horseracing. letters for want of roome untill next Then re..d from the treieured volume Pe<it H. Burt............................................ Yoncalla. this ronte there is only one bridge — that reminds one more of a picture than a J. M. Suuon, General Ageut for J.^eon and Jose The poem of thy choice. The attractions of the State Fair have wee fee.” phine count le«.• across Illinois river. The extreme And lend to the rhyme of tbe poet reality, and is bo deceptive in its ap Notice to correspondents in olden always operated as an impediment to tages leave Ashland as follows: The music of tby vui.*e. height of this route is about 4,000 feet pearance that yon imagine that it is legislative business, and it is a matter times.—At the foot of a newspaper of above the sea, which is less than the And the D’ght 8 tall be fl led with music, but a few hundred feet below you ; but the early part of the seventeenth oen- he O- it C. Stage Co.’s Stage leave Ashland present Crescent City road by ubont of public notoriety that it has scar^ly tury an invitation to amateurs is given And tbe cure« that Infest ihe day when you descend to the water ’ s edge ( for Jacksonville, Rock Point and Rose Sb ill fold tlielr ten’s like the Arabs, 800 feet and would be passable for at ever been possible to secure a quorum in the following quaint terms: burg every day ut 6 a. in. Mail clo es at and find the bosom of the lake that but in both branches of the legislature du Aud at Silently steal away. 5:30 a. tn. least two months longer each year. “Ale persons who are pleased to a few moments before looked so smooth, L ongfellow . ring a horse race on the Fair Grounds. For Henlv, Yieka and Reading at 6 p. m. I have known Mr. Miller intimately covered with waves two feet high ; guz^ M til clo-e* at 5:30 p. nt. Thus we have been going on year after favor ns with any comical or sollid stor for several years and have no doubt of Ilett<>n «.t Garrett’»« Stages leave Ashland into its crystul waters, the depth of THE CHARACTER OF MAHOMET. year, filling up our statute book with a ies, may repair to the ‘Three Kings' in every Monday, Wednesday and Friday bis sincerity. Yours truly, which has never beeu ascertained ; see mass of piebald crudities, until the ac- ' Lndgate and they will be carefully put rnrrminirw for Linkvill»*, and return on A lex . W atts . the mountains towering above you in every Tuesday. Thursday and Saturday, In forbidding tho use of wine, Ma cumulated errors, omissions and other ‘ i in.” Leave LinkvilL- t»r Lake City, Calitornia, ITEMS FROM BIG BUTTE. thtir grandeur, as mighty sentinels legislative sins of the last twenty years, I The circulation of newspapers may Wednesdays; arrive at Lake City Satur homet denied them a gratification for staring ns in the face, demand to be be considered as having reached perfec days; leave Lake Citv Mondays ; arrive which they had no special craving; but over this greatest work of nature, even Sept. 7tb, 1877. at Linkville Thursdays, currying mail und be not only permitted, but be gave, a the most unromuutic are impressed tion when a penny could buy the sheet corrected. E ditor T idings :—Perhaps a few pa-.scugers. divine sauction to the unbridled indul with the grandeur of the Beene and are notes from this section would be ac We Lave heretofore called attention, and another penny insure its quick and A. D. HELMAN, P. M. gence of their characteristic vices. Tue thrilled with a feeling of awe which to ceptable to some of tbe readers of your in these columns, to the different sub safe transmission to any part of the us could hardly be described as pleas jects requiring immediate legislation, country. In snch a state of things it I Arab inherited a supreme contempt for sj icy little paper. ant There are several routes of de Asjhland Lod^e No. 189,1. 0. G. T. human life; Mahomet made him gratify and which cannot be postponed with becomes difficult to imagine or recall Tbe steam saw mill which Mr. Marsh Meet« at tbe Hall of He'man A Fountain every it to the top of his bent, on the sole scent, all being steep but not danger out great damage to the State, until the the difficulties which beset the obtain — one of your fellow townsmen — has Friday evening at 8 o'clock p. m . Brother« aud condition that the life sacrificed should ous, and are only found on the south been erecting this summer is about fin regular session of 1878. The necessity ing of a newspaper only a few years •ieter» in good «tending are cordlady iuviU'd to at Dot be that of Mussulman. The Arab and west banks. There is an island in ished and ready for running. When for an extra session this Fall or Winter ago. When we cast back onr thoughts tend. JOHNS. EUBANKS, W. C. T. C. II. H am . ' dimb , Sec'y. was tbe most vain-glorious of human the west end of the lake, some two or completed this will be the best mill in to pass the much needed legislation ia thirty years, we find the sheet costing beings; Mahomet told him that he bad three miles from the shore. It was southern Oregon; located on a beauti universally admitted. There is a deep four pence, halfpenny at least. Go visited by several parties at the time and earnest feeling throughout tbe back twenty years more we find it seven > Ashland Lodge No, 23. a divine right to bis self conceit, since ful site, on a feasible route to the val it was written in tbe Book of Fate that when there was a skiff on the lake, and ley, and surrounded by the best of State that something ought to be done pence, the greater part of which sum /V\ A. F. & A. IW.. the Arab race was the predestined ruler was found to be composed mostly of sugar and yellow pine and fir timber. to meet the present emergency, and the went into the exchequer. The number lava. On this island is a conical shaped of sheets printed by any journal np to Hold» their stated communications Thursday even of the world and heir to all ages. Tbe When ready to run Mr. Marsh will voice of our people, could it be heard 1814 was usually a few hundred, only a mountain, which rises about fifteen ing« on or before the full moon. Brethren in good Arab was prond of bis language. Ma push it to its utmost capacity, and on this subject, would be addressed to couple ever came to a thousand. When «tending are cordially invited to attend. hundred feet above the water. This homet said that it was tbe language of “make hay while tbe sun shines.” With the Governor in these words: If you we go back a century or a century and H. C. HILL, W. M. mountain is covered with timber, and heaven, and was consequently so sacred C. B. W atbon , Sec’y. a man of Mr. Marsh’s energy and pluck believe the present Legislature can and will a half we fi~id that all the journals at the top is found an excavation some that its use was forbidden to all bnt at tbe helm, backed up with good do the work so much needed, lei it be called were but a handful. There was not hundred feet in depth, showing that it Ashland Lodge No. 45» I the True Believers. The Arab was an judgement, business tact, perseverance, without delay. inveterate freebooter; Mahomet opened had at one time been an active volcano. and unquestioned integrity, enccess is Tbe only real question now remain one north of Edinburg in 1746—and I. O. O. F., Soundings have been taken of Crater non ©established in that city till 1718. up to him an endless vista of predatory sure to crown his efforts. When we ing to be disposed of is this: Would News was in those days sent abroad in Hold their regular meeting every Saturday even warfare, with spoils in abundance, of Lake but the bottom was only reached have men of such indomitable spirits the legislature, if convened in extra I private letters and in the gossips of ing at their ball in A «bland. Brothers in good in one or two places and that at a depth all that could fire the fancy, in case of funding are cordially inviled to attend. for borne industry in our midst, we session, do the work required of it by conversation. Tbe wandering beggar, of 500 and 600 feet. There is no evi J. D. FOUNTAIN, N. G. victory; or refreshing powers of Para should look upon them as public bene the people? Ws believe it would. We who came to the farmer’s bouse erav dence of animal life in the lake — no I. O. M illeb , Rec. Sec’y. dise, attended by ever-beautiful and factors. One such man is worth a reg believe that tbe peculiar character or ing supper and a bed, was the princi Rebekah meetings on Tuesday evening, nearest ever-youthful black-eyed honris, if he fish being fonnd in the water, nor is it iment of that class that come here,make class of legislation now so much need pal intelligencer of the rural popula be full of the moon eaca month. inhabited by ducks or waterfowls of died a hero’s death. Tbe Arab prac a fortune off the sweat of poor men’s ed, can be more certainly secured and tion of Scotland as late as 1780. In any kind. The general appearance of ticed slavery: Mahomet gave him for brows, and than go to Oakland Cali better matured, at the proposed called Queen Annq’s time to receive a regular the mountains at the lake — all receding J. A. APPLEGATE. bond slaves as many of tbe human race fornia, or San Francisco or Portland, session, than if the matter is deferred news sheet from the metropolis was tbe from that point — indicate that a moun he chose to spare after satiating bis and spend their money where it will do to the regular session of 1878. At an privilege of lords, squires and men of x attorney and C ounsrlor-at-Xaiv as tain much larger than either Mt. Hood extra session of the legislature conven lust of carnage. The Arab was grossly us no good. official importance. licentious. Mahomet gave him leave or Shasta had once 6tood over the place SALEM OREGON. A Mr. John B. Bowen from Bidwell, ed at Salem this Winter, the delibera One peculiarity of tbe newspaper to take as many wives as ne pleased, where Crater Lak^now is, and that it California, formally of this county, in tions would not be affected by political and concnbines without number; and had been sundered by some mighty deed one of Jackson county’s “old excitement, for there is no U. S. Sena management of old days is sufficiently DR. J. II. CHITWOOD, the crowning delight of A his sczsual volcanio eruption or terrible earth timers,” came np to Butte a few days tor to elect, and this is tbe "off year” obvions to any one who examines the Paradise is the increased opportunity quake, leaving this mighty basin, since and on first interview kidnaped in Oregon politics. The session would the files. There was no adequate sys A shland ,......................... O regon . which it offers for the safe gratification which, by means tLat can only be con and carried off an amiable old widowed be held during tbe balmy rainy season, tem of homo reporting. I) seems to OFFICE—At the Ashland Drug Store. of animal Insts. The Jews were jectured, has partially become filled lady of our neighborhood, and after with no outside influences to interfere have been mainly by private and arbi the first to experience his ven with water. It is said that the waters they reached Jacksonville, and the with tbe business of sober legislation, trary’means that a domestic paragraph J. R. NEIL, geance. He had fortified his earlier of Crater Lake never freeze, although necessary evidence was adduced to con- and we believe that the required work came to tbe office. An amusing illus Snras with spurious quotations from snow remains at different places on the vience our County Clerk that the gen wonld not only be done, but be well tration of this primitive system of re jl^TrORNEY AT-LAW,J the Pantatench, which be said contain banks at all seasons of the year, but as tleman was over 21 years of age, papers done. On tbe other hand, suppose we porting occurs in the Caledonian Jfcr- ed tbe same revelation to the Jews we could learn of no person who had were issued, and though in their mar have to wait for tbe needed legislation eury lor March 3J, 1724. “We hear” Jacksouville, Oregon. which he was commissioned to deliver visited it in winter, we conclude that riage they are one they are both about until 1878, we not only lose thereby says ths piper,“that my Lird Armis- in tee Koran to the Arabs. But when this must be merely a supposition. It three score and ten years of age. Her over half a million dollars in money, ton is dead.” In the-next number ap H. KELLEY, he went to Medina, the Jews denounc has no visible inlet or outlet, but in name is Swett. So she got her Bow (en) as shown in our previous ar pears this apologetic, bnt certainly Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law, ed bis quotations as forgeries, and he the mountains to the southeast of the and be took a Swet(t). A happy jour ticles, but we have no security what very awkward paragraph: “It was by ever that we will be any better off after mistake in onr last, that my Lord Ar- retaliated by fiercely accusing them of lake, from five to twelve miles distant, ney to them. J acksonville , O regon . miston was dead, occasioned by tha having corrupted and falsified their sa Anna’s creek, Wood river, Crooked Bear are rather plentiful now, and the session is over than we are now. Will pracice in all the Ciurts of the State. Prom, cred books. Denunciations, however, i creek, Seven-Mile creek and other already have several of the “bruin” i For it will then be tbe same old story rendezvous of coaches hard by bis et en ion given to all bosmets intruded to my care. lordship’s lodging, that were to attend good-sized streams flowing into Klam —In the building formerly tecupied by were not enough. Tbe presence of tbe tribe handed in their checks, aud ' over again, a session at tbe close of a NaLler A Wat eon, opposite Couit House. Jews, confuting his revelations out of ath lake take their source, the water “gone where the woodbine twineth.” heated and violent political campaign, tbe funeral of a son of the Right Hon a protracted and exciting Senatorial orable the Earl of Galloway; wherefore their Hebrew Scriptures, was a stand rising in all these cases in one body They are fat. Theologians evidently think #e are • contest, «State Fair, horse races, hot bis lordship’s pardon, and family ia ing menace to him; and he took mens from cut of the rocks, and it is the “ pure aud chaste” or else past redemp I. O. Miller. nres, first to silence them, and when general supposition that their waters I tion for they never preach to us dear weather, sickness, etc., etc. For God’s humbly craved.” that failed to get rid of them altogether. come from Crater Like. people, as a consequence of which sake let us have an extra session; and Some days ago the wife of John Architect and Builder* A Hebrew woman of tbe name of Asma ith the development of Southern young America makes tbe “welkin let ns have it during the severe and sa- Pickett, of Walla Walla made a fire iu •GRANITE STREIT - - - ASHLAND. who exposed tbe prophet and his claim Oregon will Crater Lake grow in re ring,” in the nimrod line, and all day lubripus quietude of tbe balmy, rainy tbe stove, and in a few minutes an ex 117 ILL do anythlrg in bls line on abort no’lce and to ridicule in some satirical verses, was nown, and when that time comes when long the patient anglers sit and draw season.— Record. plosion took place which blew tbe top ” un the lowest terms. n7v2if from Butte Creek’s pebbly bed those soon afterward assassinated by an agent ■ the railroad reaches this valley it will nice speckle trout. Joaquin Miller's old home is owned of the stove off and shook the whole of Mahomet, who crept ini® her apert- Several of our citizens have gone to grow famed and be visited by thou Mt. McLaughlin whortleberrying. and occupied by James Kelley, and is house. Sime wretch had loaded a ment at midnight and plunged bis dag BALD BARLEY. stick with gunpowder. The mother School will be resumed on the 17th surrounded by an endless profusion of sands and thousands of people as one ger into her breast as she lay asleep F ANY ONE CAN INFORM US WHERE A of this month. shrabberv; planted by Joaquin and his and three little children were in the •mall quantity <>( tbie grain can be eecured, they between her little ones.— MacColls Eas of the greatest natural wonders of the I »in The health of all is good with us. consort Minnie Myrtle.—Grant County room at the time, but luckily were not render a favur t>y ten ling word to the Tioisce 1 VTTK h . • tern Question. world.—.S-H/iierL Moro auon, P. I injured. —Au>' Oregonian. Times. I ---- IS8UED EVERY FRIDAY — The dty 1« doDe, and the darkness Falls from the wing of night. As a feather is wafted downward From the eagle ia its flight. I f —I------------------ i i --------------------- ’---------------------------------------------------- i X