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s « 5. / INDEPENDENT ON ALL SUBJECTS, AND DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF SOUTHERN OREGON. VOL. II.—NO. 17 ASHLAND, OREGON: FRIDAY, OCTOBER ASHLAND TIDINGS. 1877. $2.50 PER ANNUM Farm Life. THE PIA X DEliED TRAIN. that comes to maturity in about twenty ing of Oregon, and will be much below says that when the train stopped at years, attest the variety, richness, and it in five years, wbeu cultivation will Big Springs, ho sprang off and started Saw ye tie farmer at bis plow, Chas. Millar, express messenger on — ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY — productiveness of the soil. The fact bo more general and complete iu Ore for the telegraph oflice. Tho moon As ye were ridirg by ? tho train that was robbed east of Chey that fruit-trees will grow from six to gon. -BY- was shining brightly, and as he fctarted Or retried ’neith the noonlay toil, enne, gives the following statement: When »ntnnier suns were h gh ? eight feet the first year, bear fruit the The soil of the Mississippi valley is up tho steps leading to the platform O. c. APPLEGATE & CO. And thought you that l.is lo». was h; rd, When the train had reached Big two masked men with revolvers in both second and third years, and w’ouldsoon gradually wasting, the soil of Oregon OFFICE—On Main Street, (in rear Dr. And did you th-nk yeur’God kill themselves by overbearing, if not is constantly improving; and, as scien Spring ho had been asleep some fifteen hands, ordered him to halt and throw Th it you and yours were not condemned Chitwood's Drug Store.) well cultivated, establishes the richness tific farming takes the place of much of minutes, it being his usual custom to up bis hands. Ono of the fellows had Thus like a tLve to plod ? and productiveness of the soil. Wher tho present careless cultivation, it Will sleep between Julesburg and North a mask made of the lettered portion of Come, see Lim at his harvest home, Terms of Subscript ion : ever fruit-trees are planted, in tho low improve u great deal more. Tao soil Pintle when not busy, lie was awak a flour suck, and Patterson »opposing When garden, field und tree One copy one year................................................... | 2.50 Cor.spire with Homing etore tofiil est valley in the foothills or in the of tho foothills of Oregon, and ened by tho private signal used by the affair was a cowboy’s joke, laughed “ six months............................................. l.so His burn and grun.ry ; highest mountain, below tho snow hills five band red feei above tho agents of tho road at night, and which at tho ludicrous mask and walked on. “ •• three “ .............................................. 100 His beau iful chi dren gai'y s; ort Clnb rates six copies fur........................................ 12.50 ranges, they will grow and bear fruit, level of tho sea, and some us high as L-ignal, as has heretofore been staled, One of the robbers said, “We’ll show Amid the new-mown bay, Terma, in advance. Or proudly aid z 1th vigorous arm according to the cultivation bestowed five thousand feet is more productive the agent, Barnhart, had been forced you that thia is no laughing matter," His tasks as beg; they may. upon them. Some of tho finest or than the average valleys of tho Missis- to give at the door of the express car. at the same tune snapping Lis pistol. Terms of Advertising : Ti e Harvest-Giver Is h!*» frieL<l, chards in Eastern Oregon wero planted sippi. The soil and climate of Oregon Miller arose, looked out of the window The cartridge failed to explode; and as toe»«. Local Notices per line............... Tne Maker of the soil, 00 Professi*41.-J Cuds, per year.... on what was considered at tho time a aro pledges and gu »rautecs that it in the upper part of the door, saw the tho muzzle was but a few inches from Aut earth, the mother, gives them breid, a 00 Two Loche», ;>er quarter........... ... 5 LM» sand-bed—a waste of time and means wiil be, in tho language of the Hon. red light at the station and opened his Patterson’s Lead, his escape was mirac Four •’ ’* And cheers heir p iiieut h i; ... S 0» E«nt “ “ Con e j >in th.-m rouul their wilier i.ei.rth, by many—but irrigation ¡a somo cases, \V. U. Seward, “Me future •jruii'Uj <>j d<»ur a trifle. Barnhart had been taken ulous. Or.e-11-df dumo “ ... 10 uo The heart-felt pleasure see— ... 11 ¡O i 1 hree-fourüis “ “ away immediately after calling Mill and none in others, and good cultivu- the L\ft fif eou.'if." ... 17 50 One “ •• And you Can better ju lge how b’est POOR WORK, WETÎ tion, turned them iato fruitful and LIGAD ADVESTIKEMEJtTS There is scarcely a grain, fruit, vege er, but several of tho gang stood Th* farmer’s life may 1». Oo» »quare (ten H um » or lee»») let lu-ertion .... $2.50 —M rs S ioovbney . profitable gardens. table, grass, tree, plant or flower that beside tho ear, and as th® door began Tho grandest introduction of ma- ■wr'rar<MJw.!n t mwwruw 4 Each additional insertion.................................... 1 00 Th a extraordinary conservative char grow» in the Unite.1 Slates or in Eu moving open they seized it, threw it chinerv, with the consequent subdivis THE SOIL OF OREGON’. acler of the soil is soeu in this ia.por- rope but some portions of the toil of back and sprang into the car, covering ion of labor, has broken up the old ap Job Printing, Miller with tlieir revolvers. They se The soil of Oregon is the basis of the tant fact, that land that has been crop i Oregon will raise to perfection with prenticeship system; and the long Of all description, doue on short notice. T^egal cured hi.i pistol, searched his person BUnks, Circulars, Business Garde, B.Ehe tde, Letter- wealth and prosperity of the St de, and ped with wheat, oats and barley, from fair cultivation. There is no kind of training of batid and brain which a for other weapons, and then broke beals, Posters, etc., gotten up in good style at livii g fifteen to thirty years consecutively, is farm productions, in the shape of flocks eeven-years’ service with a few simple the guarantee for its future develop prices. open his waysafo and took out some almost as productive to-day a> it was and herds, horses and hogs, beef aud tools gave a boy—developing his per ment, progress and greatness. Thu $199 in currency. The coml iuation mutton, hams and bacon, milk, butter when first plowed, without apatticleof ceptivo faculties, and sending him out early and latter rains come with the Agents for the Tidings. through-safe was the next object of so and cheese, thut the soil of Oregon is plowing, manure, and very indifferent into the world quick-witted, self-reli !.. 8imue s, ... Portland, Oregon. regularity of the rising sun. TLe gen SS *• licitude on their part. It is fastened to Jacob Tnojipson, Iu hundreds of cases two und three not adapted to raise and produce equal ant and experienced, with the capacity - New York. ial sunshine, the delightful atmosphere S. M. Pelteugii) & Co., St. Louis. of the spring, summer and fali months, “volunteer’’ crops of wheat, oats and to the most favored soil of auv in the tho ironwork of tho express car, and to make himself familiar in a shoit Rowel! X- Cueesnian, Sin Francisco. L. P. Hauer, - the combination is known only to * M »4 Tuo*. Boyce, ... and tho mild and short winters, cura barley have been taken off the same world, both ia quantity and quality. time with any new mode of working— tho agents at Ogden, Cheyenno and Jack*, livide. J. R. Neil, - - - land with one plowing aud sowing, and All that Oregon wants is thut the is lost. A few weeks or a few months • - Pi leu'.x. bine to make the soil of Oregon tile C. S Sergent, Ceri mi Point. richest, the most productive and the in a few instances as many r.s five of leading facts of her rich and produc Omaha. This safe is directly under Ed. R. O<»-n, : • « now sufiise to learn tho mysteries of - Boek Point.. Mi»* Aflie W. Colvig, the folding berth occupied by the mes these “ volunteer ” cropa have been tive sod be well known to tLe outside - Youc úia. Périt H. Burt ... most certain of yitlding abundant har- running a lathe, a cutter, or a planer, of w J. M Sutton, General Agent for J.tcktou and Jose sengers. Tho robbers went directly to reaped from uue p'owing and sowing, world, so as to attract a largo reinforce vesta of any State iu the Union or auy pegging a shoe, or of setting a page of phine countie*. it ami one of them placing bis revolver and the jield iu such cases has averag ment of industrious and enterprising country in Europe. type. Upon the slightest disariaogo- Stages leave Ashlaudas follows: i The general character of the soil in i ed twenty bushels of wheat to tho acre, farmers from all sections of the Union, to Miller's head ordered him to open ment of tools, the workman stands idlu The O. A C. Stag»* C'».’s ■'tage leave Aslil mil the valleys is a dark loam aud veguta and oa*s and burity iu the j-anm propor and from all parts of Europe, to culti the sate. When tho revolver touched while another, devottd to that special for Jacksonville, R->ck Point and Rose vate her rich soil, leap her bountiful bis face Miller instiactively pushed it ty, is sent fcr to repair the damage. : ble mold, with a clay subsoil. The tions. These • “volunteer ’ crops are burg every day at 6 a. in. M til clo es ut harvests, and ei joy the abundant re- away, declaring that ho could not open The accuteness to peceive wlatis need 1 soil of the bottom lands ia generally generally seen where the farm is too 5:30 a. in. the safe. The villain said: “You will, For Kenly, Yiek t and Reading at I! p. ni. composed of rich alluvial deposits of large for tho owner, and ho cannot, or waids of their labor. ed, and pr mptnos.s to Í xecute, 4a,hick W’H yon0'’ end j-immed tho cocked M til c’o e< at 5:30 p. nt. !U1- Let ii nut be supposed for a mom- ut will not. employ sufilcieut help io c a varied experience gives, is wanting llettoii X G irretlV Singes leave Ashland decomposed eurlh and vegetable mold weapon against Miller’s upper lip with tiva'e all bis hiul that should be culti . - i ■ that, because lhe soil of Oregon is va in a large number of mechanics of the every Monday, Wednesday and Friday and a el.iy b >ttum. The soil iu t’t.e mornings tor l/inkvilli*, and ic'iirii on fuotbiils mountain lands and their vated uud somu of til* e farm is left to ried, rich and [ reductive, and appar such fi.ree as to cut through the upper present time. every Trtoday, Thursday and Saturday. take caro of it-olt. The product of ently in< xbaustibie, it is therefore a lip and gum, tearing it open so that The rapid increase of wealth, eepes- Leive Litikvill • f >r Like City, Ciliturnia, spurs, is usually compo.-ed of rich gray the blood 11 )‘.ved freely. Then began matter little importance whether the Iir.d is called, by way of distine- such Wednesdays; arrive at Lake City Satur und red loam. ially ia large cities, with the resulting a brutal fcceue. The robber repeatedly day«; leive Lake Citv Mondays : arrive ‘ ’ vol a ulcer ” (•rop- ’ , an.I comes land is merely scratched, and tickled, tion, luxury of living, is continually coiling The beaver-dam Linds are made by at Liukville Thursdays, carrying n ail and jammed his weapon, which was kept at or plowed seasonably, carefully and previous seu- from the f alien seed of into being new branches of industry, the obstructions of beavers building pabsengt-rs. full cock all the time, against Miller’s witbout plowing, sons, aud matures deep — whether the land should be ever A. I). HELMAN, P. M until a point is reached where the arti their houses in creeks, filling up tuet>e head, cutting his scalp in a dozen or lastingly cropped, year after year, with sowing or auv cultivation whatever. No zan is almost lost in the artist. For creeks aud the bottom lauds on each Ashland Lodge No. 189,1. 0. G. T. side of them by the accumulation of further evidence is needed to establish wheat, or oats, or buley, getting no more places aud e litiug his ear. Tais obvious reasons, theso higher grades Meets at lie Itali of Ce nino & Fountain every that the soil of Oregon is rich, produc rest, receiving no manure and burning abuse was accompanied by a volley cf of mechanical skill receive the best Friday eveuing at R o'clock p. m . Biothers und earthy deposits, decayed veg» t ible mat tive, and almost inexh austible, beyond the s'.raw, or whether a proper rotation the filthiest epithets with orders to pay; and there is a constant move elaters in good ebinding are cor Italy invi'ed io at ter and trees that have decomposed, of crops, reasonable rest and a fair open tho safe. Miller was pu-hed to ment upward of the best wojkmeD, tend. T ie Te np e meets every first ani tiii.d Wed have made them the richest soil known any State or country hitherto known. nesday ia.ich month. The richness of* the soil of Oregon quantity of manure should Lot be the flaor, ami then jerked up and Lis I leaving what may be called the root in the world. The accumulatiou of JOHN S. EU BANKS, W. C. T. will be more obvious by-comparing its adopted. Land, however rich and pro ho ly bent over chairs, etc., till ho was trades mainly in the bands of men in C II. TI aroaihnk , Sec’y. these deposits and the making of this almost dead. H ) was only able to pro soil is, no doubt, the wotk of centuries; average production of wheat with other ductive, without change of crops, get test that ho was unable to open the ferior in ability and experience. It so Ashland .Lodge Xo, 21*. but such lands are limited iu extent, State?. The lowest average yield of ting i o rest, no manure, and imperfect happens that these root-trades are safe, and beg for mercy, until at last, wheat iu Oregon, with very pour farm ly cultivated, will in time come to those with which we come most fre a^id confined, so far as known, to the A. F. A A. M.. ing, is twenty bushels totiie acre; what grief. It will bold good of land as of overcome by pain, ho bagged the rob quently in contact; hence onu reason Willamette Valley. There are plenty bers to kill him. Conductor Patterson Bolds their s t a tel coninutilcations Thureday even- of beavers iu tho creeks of other val is called good farming produces an all tiiiiinul life, that overworking and for the cry of poo» workmen. who was on the platform under guard, inc* on or before lhe full nioun. Brethren iu good average of thirty bushels to the acre; underieediug will bring about, sooner The frcqueüt change of styles and leys, but the currents are too strong to •taudiug are cordially invited to attend. heard Miller’» cries and shouted te liis while the average e.tn 1)9 raised by i or later, premature decay. fashions Las also tended to encourage H. C. HILL, W. M. allow of any accumulation of deposits tormentor that Millar could not. open scientific cultivation to sixty bushi Is to Ou tho other Land, no soil ia «C. B. W j . tson , Sec'y. a superficial workmanship. If a thing or obstructions. the acre, and this is accomplished by the world can be more easily or cheap tho safe His guards hushed him up is expected to last for a short time only The loam, vegetable mold, alluvial many farmers in almost every county ly cultivated than tho soil of Oregon, with threats, aod lie then told thorn all why expend much labor or pains ou it? Ashland Lodge Xo. 15» deposits and decomposed earth account in the State. In the States comprising and none where climate, rain and sun about the safe. Ills m inner was con If your house is to bo torn down, and for the richness and productiveness of vincing, and oqo of the outside robbers the Mississippi valley, sumo of them shine combine to make production so I. O. O. I-., rebuilt, when you have accumulated a the soil, aud the clay subsoil explains went in and talked to Miller's torment yield un average of ten bushels, and sure, largo and profitable. Hold their regular meeting every Saturday even little muro money, mastic will answer why tho soil retains its moisture, ing at their hall in Ashland. Brothers in good others eleven and twelve bushels, arid, The winter rains, tho early spring, or am im-mt, when the latter released the purpose ns well as stone; and a strength and non-wasting properties. i in rare cases, fifteen and twenty bush Standing are cirdially invited to at’end. the warm summer, the delightful au Miller aad sent him to tho engine, painted board fence may very well do J. D. FOUNTAIN, N. O. So that though the valleys, bottom els to the acre, so that tLo minimum tumn, and the cool nights, in connec where the engineer, firemao, Barnhart fluty for additional story. I. O. M illeb , llec. Sec’y. lands, foothills and lands highly eleva average is about twelve bushels to the tion with the rich soil, enable the and tho reporter of iho sleeping car, A great many unskilled workmen Rebekah meetings on Tues lay evening, nearest ted differ in some respects, they have all were under guard. While Miller was acre, and the maximum average does wheat aud other cereals to gradually e full of the moon eacu month. have been introduced into the trades properties in common—immensely rich undergoing this ordeal th< other rub not exceed seventeen bushels; und fif mature and ripen to the greatest per Mr. through the agency of strikes, To i1- and productive, that yield in proportion Imrs who bud entered the express car, teen bushels would bo a more correct fection. — llu-jh Suial' in h's ()r< ¡<>n ¡¡I ’ ltt- lustrate: An employer refuses to ac J. A. APPLEGATE. as the hands of industry and skill cul Were breaking open boxes und search- statement as the highest arer'/’i- yield cede to the demands of his men for an ing for valuables, but found none. of wheat in the whole of the Mississip ^ttcruoi anti tfouusrlor-at-ïniv tivate them. T olman ’ s G ravel D iggings .—Gov After Miller was taken away they increase of pay, and the men strike. The rich gray and red loam of the pi valley. lands of the foothills and mountains, i In Oregon the soil is so rich and ernor Chadwick and Superintendent found the boxes of specie, and one of The employer’s aim is to tide over a SALEM OREGON. fow weeks, by some means, until his satisfactorily accounts for them pro moldy that the average of thirty bush Brandt have ju*>t returned from a visit them followed Miller and asked him ducing three tons of timothy hay to the els of wheat to the acre can bo raised to the gravel mines on the middle fork what they contained. Ho »aid lie cn w- men are forced to return. To do this, DR. J. H. CHITWOOD, acre; clover two and three feet loug, with half the labor that the average of of Cow Creek, now being opened by posed from their weight that they eon- ho will pnt to work any one who has OREGON. that will cut two and three times in the Judge Tolman and others. They bring tained castings. They took an ax and the least idea of the labor required, aud A shland , seventeen bushels c.iu in the Mississip seasons; orchards of choice fruits; pi valley. In addition to this, the cli a good report from there. Forty Chi broke opeu one of the boxes, finding it will feo» in honor bound to employ OFFICE—At the Ashland Ding Store. wheat, from twenty-five to forty bush mate of Oregon is so mild that wheat namen, and as many white men as can full of gold eagles. They took it and him after the strike is over. On tb«> els to the acre; vegetables of the best can be planted almost any mouth of the be had, are employed on the ditch, the two others, the throe containing other hand the strikers will open wide J. R. NEIL, kinds, all tho way from 50 to 500 feet year, while in the ?*lis£issippi valley which will bo four and a half miles $65,000, away. Meanwhile tho ethers the doors of their unions, and receivo long. The company will have a bead Lad been guarding the coaches, and every one who would interfere with I above the level of the sea, and grazing J^TrQRKEY AT-LAW,J the land is locked up lor six mouths of of 178 feet with which to work. The when this gang left the express car the snccesa of their movement. Thus pre-eminently adapted for sheep, cut the year with frost and snow. ditch will be completed and the m:i- they began robbing the passengers. the master and men would combine to tie, horses and mules. Jacksouville, Oregon. Iu Oregon l^iere is no insect, rust or lower the standard of workmanship, The accumulation of earthy, vegeta mildew of any kind to injure th • wheat chiuary set ready for work within forty Miiler remaiued at the engine. When Both suffer from it, to say nothing of ble, and other decayed and decomposed crops; iu the Mississippi valley the far days. Hydraulic pipe ar.d a little gi tho whistle of the freight train was their customers; for U. KELLEY, the unskillful matter for centuries, caused by the mers live iu a constant state of uncer ant for handling it have already been heard, the robbers passel the wurfl men will probably be the most fore- Attorney and Counsel!cr-at-Law, working of beavers in many of the old tainty with regard to their wheat crops ordered from San Francisco. Dan Dev along to put the light out. The en most in urging a now strike, as they creeks of t)ie Willamette Valley, will from tho ruinous effects of bath rust ens says ho Lus purchased thousands gine fires were drenched with water, will be the first to succumb if the con • J acksonville , O regon . readily account for the depth of this and mildew, and from the frost heav of dollars worth of dust that has been and they ordered the engineer to emp taken from these diggings by the little ty the water-tanks. Mo said he bad test pro ve an obstinate one.— ILdi'j Will prac’lce in all the C aurts of »he State. Prom. soil — from fifteen to thirty feet — for the ing up the seed and leaving it bare,and ’-*t eo:ioo given to all basinets intrusted to my care. creeks that run through them. The < 130 pounds of steam on and tho engine I Land Jntr.ri'. O ffice —In lhe build!» g formerly occupied by richness of it—that will produce from the heavy rains following, wasbe.» a --------- <<»► -------------- JCahler ic Watson, oppuute Court House. company is in fine spirits aud expect to would explode if tho tauks wero emp 900 to 1,200 bushels of onions, and from large portiou of it away. The same At an Eastern Oregon wedding, tha be able to declare large dividends be tied. As evidence of the utter malevo- bride in u playful mood kicked th« 700 to 900 bushels of potatoes to the state of tLinga exists iu tho New Eng fore spring. — Shtfexman. lence of the lender of the gang it is groom’s hat off without touching his acre, and other vegetables in propor land and Atlantic States to a largo ex I. O. Miller proper to state that when he started tent, just as the tendency to drought iu head. All well enough if after a time tion; timothy hay, six feet long, and Au electrio belt for ladies, which is four tons to the acre; clover, four feet California renders the wheat crop ia ; said to have a tranquiliziug effjet upon away from the train aft -r haviug her dexterity don't take a turn and Architect and Builder, long, that will cut four times in tho that State irregular and uncertain, | the nerves, is the latest inventior. For treated everybody else with reasona kick nis head off without touching his GRANITE STREET - - - ASHLAND. season, aod where the soil is not too which drought proved so very disas I steady comfort, however, it is not like ble courtesy, and bidding them a pleas hat. ILL do anytldrg in his line on short no’ice and strong, will yield 100 bushels of wheat trous ia some of its largest valleys dur ly ti supersede tho obi popular belt ant farewell, he turned to Miller and, W on the lowest term«. n“v2tf It’s astonishiug to one who reads an ing 18G9-70-71. ts the acre. * which is composed of a coat-sleevo with placing a revolver against ; his head, obituary, to reflect how much praise hissed: ‘‘You dirty----------- , if I The average wheat crops of Great a young man’s arm inside of it. The numerous and magnificent for LLEN H. CONLAN, M. D. people will lavish upon a dead man I thought you knew that combination I ests in every section of the State, con Britain,^vith all the appliances of whom, in his life time, they might Conscience, in most son's, is like an would blow your brains out.” 9ICIAN and SURGEON. taining almost every kind of timber of science and manure, do not equal tho English soveroign, it reigns but does have*cheered aud CUCQuragcd by one M. M. Patterson, tho conductor, tenth part of it. LAKEV1EW LAKE CoUNIY OREGON. the best kinds, of immense size, and 1 production of the good ordinary farm- not govern. i jsna < i • I A I I I Ì V V,