Ashland tidings. (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, February 15, 1878, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextINDEPENDENT ON ALL SUBJECTS, AND DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF SOUTHERN OREGON. / f , « ASHLAND, OREGON: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1878. VOL. IL—NO. 36 a « Err, a rm tidings . PROFESSIONAL. — ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY — DANIEL GABY, — B Y — O. C. APPLEGATE & CO. 'OFFICE—On Main Street, (in rear Dr. Chitwood’s Drug Store.) A TTORX E Y-AT-LA W, NOTARY PUBLIC and REA L ESTA TE A GENT. ASHLAND, OREGON. Terms of Subscription : M. L. McCALL, ' One copy one year.................................................... • 2.50 1.50 “ ** six months.............................................. “ •• three “ ................................................ I 00 • ClnbyatM »ix copies for......................................... 12.50 Surveyor and Civil Engineer, Terms, in advance. ASH I. AND, is prepared to do anv work in Lie line on rhort do . tice. [no27tf] Terns« of Advertising! I .loots. Local Notices per line.......... >10 00 l'rofe».V>n<J Cai de, per jear 3 00 Two iuebes, per quarter.... 5 00 Four " 8 01 Etgut “ “ IO I» the-a If C» lumn “ 14 00 'three-four th« “ “ ....................................• . 17 50 -One “ “ LVOAL One square (teu hue» o.- lee») let lu-eitlon........ $2 50 E»cn addllKMaal ineeriion..................................... 1 00 I. O. Miller Architect and Builder« GRANITE STREET - - - ASHLAND. tn his liDe on short notice and lowest kini;. uiv2tt W ILL on do the aoythirg WIMER & WELLS. ■Of eH description, dune on ebort notice. I .egal Btank», Circular», Buelueee Card». Bil he.«dr, I^uer- heii», Poore, etc., gotten up in good »tyle at hvu g . price». Agents for the Tidings. L. Bunue’», .... Portland, Oregon J «cub £uo upSOU, • J. A Appiegaie, - Suiem M. L. Ctv.niberhu - . - - - Dr N. L. lore .... Junction City. Tnaicuer A WurJen - - - • I.tukvuie. A. F Sueiimg,..................................... L kevtaw. - - . Pl asu.x. - El. R. u«<-u, : - « Cen-ral Poirn. Mi«- Allie W. Culvig, - • K<xk Point Farit H. Burt ..... Yotic.ila. Ha H. Dyer, ...... Dairy Mi«» M. ty McC be .... A hi .I im J J. M bui«ou, Geu-ral Atent for Juckron aud J ums - , pbiM axjittie.-. <i»pt. D. J F-rrw Generil Ag-nt fi»r L ke comity .Stages leave Ashland as follows 1 Practical Millwrights. Flouring mills, saw mills, quails mills, and ab kinds ot mill machinery put up to «•rd»-r in the vory best style. All «o k war ranted. buiis'actiun guaranieed. .Address » ill.er. or both, at A-bini»d. Oregon. [29if. D. 8. »CUTT Oregon. Ashland Melg.ui«r. .... A. H.bd),....................................... B.H uz-1. • b. M. PrVetigi.) & Co., ... New Yuik. tt>/wel; JL CuceauaaU, ... St. iartlie. Ia. P. Fl», er,........................................8 m Frui.ctecu, T o«. Buyc«-,...................................... ...» -J. R. Neu, - - Jack- iiville. • <J. 8 Sergent, 1. WELLS J. O. C. W1MEB Job Printing, J. P. It).bet.a, OREGON, An abundance of good brick ulwaye on h:m<l at my AU, vLC 111 ile bufo. ui Aeia.LKl. 1 um alio piepured li»du l II kind« of b.ijk work in lue very bett m..nu»-r. Give me a trial and reel areurtd Unit I eau salitfy you.. D 8. SCOTT. v2u26-Giu T. G. WATTERS, LAND AGENT. The O A C.SlaftwC'».’.»Stage leave Ahhhnd Asbluud, Jiickt-oa < ouuty. Urugou. tor Ja'-a- HB il>e, R<»ck Point ami lio«e burg every »lay at t> a. m. M ul clo es at Will attend io the buying a»d selling ut 5:;t0 «. ui. For Hrtil v, Ytrka and Re «ding at 6 p. m. IXktacili Ob»« M vii-c^o e* at 5:30 p. in. ‘Gtirrit »V betree’i- Stages leave Ashland All business entrusted to me will leceive ••very M onduy, Wednead.iy and Friday prompt iitlcmiuii. mornirg« lor Linkvill»*, and re urn on I will direi fully answer all le'ter- of in every Tri’-sday. Tbnrsday and Saturday. quiry in ieg.«rd io ibis puitio.i oi Uieguit — >L»*.tve Linkville I ,r L»ke City, California, l.s Climate, boil, l'rucuets etc. Wedm-sdays ; ui rive at Lake City S.itur- Refeteuce given it teqnited. •Jnya; le»ve Luke Citv Mondays; arrive v2u24] T G. WATTERS. ai Linkville Thursdays, carrying mail aud p*» »etrgeri. J. W. RIGGS, A. D. HELMAN. P. M. SOCIETIES. FIIQTÇ GRATHIC AshlandLodge No. 189,1. 0. G. T. ARTIST, Meets at the Hall of He man & Fountain every FrxLy evening at 8 o’clock p. m . Brothers and sisters in good sULding »re curItaly invited to at tend T'<e Temple meets every first and third Wed nesday in eicb montn. F. WALTER MYER, W. C. T. R. H. K lippel , S» c y. a .At«hlian<l „•Lodge. No. »3 A. F. & A. M.. Hold» their stated communication» Thureday even ing« on or before the full moon. Brethren iu good Standing are cordially invited to attend. W. H. ATKINSON, W. M. J. 8. IrBASK», Sec’y. Ashland Oregon. I ¡un i ow pernmnently’h’cated in this place, nod req e.tfully asks the pattoiiag ot i he citizens. ALL WORK WARRANTED To give Emir* 8 tisfaction. " The Tm.ed. Prices to suit ttì^Cull and see Specimens. [v2ngtf HOTELS. ■ .Ashland Lodge No.45, I. O. O. F., Hold their regular meeting every Saturday even- ■ing at tbeir hall I d Ashland. Brothers in good «landing are cordially invited to at’end. A. D. HELMAN, N. G. R. P. NEIL, Rec. Sec y. Rebekah meeting, on Tuesday even.og, nearest he full of the muou each month. PROFESSIONAL. J. A. APPLEGATE. ¡Attorney anú ffouusrlor-at-ïaiv ASHLAND HOUSE HE UNDERSIGNED WISHES TO RE- mind his trieudn, aud ibe traveling pub lic generally, that be is »till to be ieuud T Ibid LONG ESTABLISHED HOUSfc, o where he Is re idy at any time, and on all occasions to set be'oi e tl.em ibe best the market affords, iu a style second to no other house in Oi egon. Dinners and suppers for special occasions, gotten up in appropriate style, ul »hort no tice. JASPER HOUCK. SALEM OREGON. P ioneer H otel . DK. J. H. CHITWOOD, Linkville, Lake County, Oregon O regon . A shland , OFFICE—At the Ashland Drug .«lore. J. R. NEIL, ^TTORNEY AT-LAW, Jacksonville, Oregon. DR. J. 8. JACKSON. PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. JACKSONVILLE OREGON. Graduate of the Belkvue Hurpital Medical College, }iew York. \ (v2ul9tf J. w. hamakar . NOTARY PUBLIC. L1NKVII.LE LAKE CO., OREGON. The subscriber is again in charge of the O ld P ioneer H otel of the Lake country, and is determined to make his gueets Comfortable and Happy. Give him a call and rest assured that he will make you feel at home [2-29tf. GEORGE NURSE. LAktVIEW COTTAGE 1 J. Pleasant and Homelike House situated —AT— Iluiuming Bird Springs, near Klamath Lake, Office in Post Office Building. Special Eleven miles from Linkville, on the road to attention given to conveyancing. [2 19tf. Ft. Klamath, Lake Co., Otegon. H. KELLEY, I jb ^- Attention paid to the wants of guests Attoroey and Counsellor-at-Law, J acksonvt . us , O rbgon . Will prac ica tn all the Coorta at the State. Prom, at ea lon given to all baeiDete intrusted to my care. Orricg —In Ibe bulldUg formerly cccupied Kahler & Wataon, opposite Coyt House. The subscriber also keeps a Good Stable well supplied with hay and grain. Cail ana see if he can keep hotel. D. J. Ferree. $2.50 PER ANNUM LETTER FROM JOSEPHINE. stream near the lake very deep, with camp. From a spur of the mountains, «------ f almost perpendicular bauks, so that we near oar camp, we had a splendid view A pplegate , J an . 28, 1878. BY CHARLES T. DAZEY. were compelled to turn northward, up of the lake and of the extensive valley E d . T idings .—Rain, rain—and haw the river. Before proceeding very far bordering it on the north. On the O 'onely day ! No Bouode are beard Save winds and floods that downward poor. we discovered an Indian crouohing un east, between the lake and mountain wet it is, too I We have had it in the night; in fact, for And timid flu.tug of a bird, der the bank, and surrounding him, range, running nearly north and south, day and in the That pipes one low note o’er and o’er. made him come out By signs, we in aud which we supposed to be a spur of about two weeks it has been raining Before the blast the base trees lew, dicated to him that we wanted to cross the Sierra Nevadas, was a beautiful great quantities, It is a blessing to The ragged clouds sail low aud gray, they are sparing no the river. By marking on his legs and meadow country, narrow, but many the miners and And all the wild urd wlatry scene pointing up the river,he gave us to un miles in length, aoross which the lines time aDd musole to improve it, and Is but one blur of driving spray. will doubtless take out a “goodly lot’1 derstand that there was a place above of willows and scattering pines aud cot O day most meet fur memories, of the shining stuff, thus adding still For muett g by a vacant hearth where we could easily cross. Motion tonwoods indicated the courses of a more to the present quantity of coin. On that which was and that which is ing to him to advance, be led the way number of little streams coming into And those wbo walk no mure on earth I It is not favorable to the farmers, how up the river about a mile and pointed the lake from the mountain chain. A ever, for they put off plowing too long And yet this dark and dreary day out a place where an immense rock little southeast of our camp there ap Some brighter lesson still can bring, and now it is too wet on the highlands, crossed the river. The sheet of water peared to be a gap in the mountain wall For it is herald of the May, bnt those on the sandy loam are not A Lint foretoken of the spring. running over the rock was about fifteen and we decided to try it on the suc discommoded ao much, for they oan inohes deep, while the principal part of ceeding day. Beneath the ceaseless beating rain plow, wet or dt’V. Earth's Scowy ehruudfast disappears, the river Beemed to flow under. This July 9th we moved up the ridge to The grain that was sown early look« As sorrow pressing on the brain. was the famous Stone Bridge on Lost wards the gap, and soon entered a Fades in a doud of happy tears. fine but is rather thin on the ground, river, so often mentioned after this by little valley, perhaps containing a hun And thus in darkness oft is w rought, travelers. For many years the waters dred acres, extending to the summit of the freezing weather having iDjared it Through lonely days of te >rs ano grief, of Tule Lake have been gradually ris the ridge, thus forming an excellent somewhat. The gradual cuai ge by wuich is btougut With some of our oitizens, feed is To shuduwed lives some sweet relief. ing so that now the beautiful meadow pass. The ascent was very gradual. - SCRIBNER. gettiugquite scarce, and the appear on which we nooned on the day we dis The little valley was fringed with covered the bridge is covered by the mountain-mahogany trees, giving it ance of the stock, in oonsequenoe of NOTES AND REMINISCENCES. lake, and the back water io Lost river quite a picturesque appearance. This this, suggests that it will perhaps be long ago made the river impassable; is shrub pecaliar to the rocky highlands, necessary to contract their proportions LAYING OUT AND ESTABLISH1NG THE OLD now probably ten feet deep over the io from fliteen to twenty feet high and to meet the present hard times, bnt IMMIGRANT ItOAD 1NTO SOUTHERN OKE i Nature, more generous than the aver bridge. in form something like the cherry tree, GON, IN THE YEAIt 1846. After crossing the bridge we made so that a grove of mountain mahogany age citizen, has kindly started the our pilot some presents, aud all sbak- strikingly resembles a cherry orchard. grass, so that the stock, by diligent BY LINDSAY APPLEGATE. ing bauds with him, left him standing About the center of the valley was a and persevering efforts, can keep akin (Continued.) on the river bank. Pursuing our way spring of cold water, making it an ex and bone together. But such is life, . ..._ « along the northern shore of the luke a cellent camping place where immi for in the midBt of these, we are—* FROM TULE LAKE TO THE STRING IN TFIE few miles, we came to a beautiful grants were wont to rest and let their nearly out of feed and credit, but hope DESERT. spring, near the base of the mountains animals recuperate after the long, tire that all will be happy in the summer, On the morniug of July Sth we left on our left, and encamped for the some march across the so called Amer provided our supply of life holds out. our camp on the little creek (now call night. Alter using the alkali water of ican Desert; for this Sierra ridge sep * Since the Christmas festivities the ed Hut creek), aud continued our, way Lower K'.amath Lake the previous night arates the waters of the Pacific from wonted quiet of our valley has been aluug the shore of Lower Klamath the fresh, cold water of this spring was those of the great basin which extends restored, with the exception of now Luke. This threw us off our course a real luxury. There was plenty of dry from the Blue Mountains far south and then a small fry dance; but moat considerably, as the lake extended some wood, aDd un abundance of green grasB ward toward the Colorado. The little of the people are now about settling miles to the southward of our last for our animals, and we enjoyed the stream on which we encamped before down to diligent work, and why should camp, and «e did not reach the eastern camp exceedingly. Sitting around our entering this pass is called Lassen they not, for that camplaint of hard shore until the day was far spent. We fire that evening, we discussed tho ad creek, taking its name from Peter Las times will never be eradicated as long camped uu the lake shore, aud the next ventures of the past few days in ibii sen, who led a small party of immi as people are too lazy and trifling to moruing, July Gth, we ascended a high new and strange land. The circum grants across the plains in 1848, fol work and make the beet of time and rocky ridge to the eastwurd for the stances of the last day had been partic lowing our route from the Humboldt opportunity. Let the farmers put the purpose of ruuking observations. Near ularly interesting. Our adventure in through this pass, thenoe down P»tt grain into the ground in good oondi» the base of the ridge, on the east, was the rocks; the retreat of the whole Mo river to the Sacramento. From the tion, fix op their fences, put up shel a large lake, perhaps tweuty miles in doc tribe in a fleet af thirty or forty ca summit of the ridge we had a splendid ters for their stock; let those wba length. BevoDd it, to the eastward, noes aoros8 the lake from Goff; the sin view. Northward the ridge Beemed to have to work for a living be useful to their employers and, lastly, let loafera we could see a timbered butte, appar gularity of the natnral bridge; the vast widen out, forming several low ently thirty miles distant, at the base fields of tule around the lake, and the ranges of timbered mountains, while and hoodlums commit snioide or go to of which there appeared to be a low fact that the lake was an independent southward it seemed to rise very high, work like men—then times will ba pass through the mountain ranve which body of water, were subjects of pecul as we could see patches of snow along better. A scene seldom witnessed, I saw this seemed to encircle the luke basin. It iar interest and only intensified our the summit in the distance. East and morning, and that was the sun sbioing Appearing practicable to reach this desire to see more of this then wild south of ns, at the foot of the ridge, on th a west side of the mountains pass by passing around the north end land. was a beautifnl green valley, twenty of the lake, we decided to adopt that July 7th, we left the valley of Tule or thirty miles in extent, and contain when it first arose, cansed by shining route aDd began the descent of the Like to pursue our course eastward, ing a small lake. A number of small on dark clouds, which produced a re« ridge, but we soon found ourselves in over a rocky table land, among scatter streams flowed from the mountain into flection. Another scene was all the the midst of an extremely rugged coun ing juniper trees. We still observed and through the valley, affording an citizens of a little Lurg standing armed try. Short lava ridges ran iu every the timbered butte as our -landmark, abundauce of water for the wants of a with rakes, pitchforks, poles, spear« conceivable direction, while between and traveled as directly toward it as settlement. This fertile valley on the and books, on the banks of a tail race, them were caves and crevices ÎDto the shape of the country would admit. border of the desert has since been call Cause: A salmon having wandered which it seemed our animals were in Tins butte is near the State line be ed Surprise valley, and now contains up to,the escape gate; but it proved to be master of the situation, at laft ao« daDger of falling headlong. The farther tween Clear lake and Goose lake, and quite a population. counts. we advanced the worse became the probably distant fifty miles from the As we stood on the Sierra ridge, we “A. W.” is wrong about “lunatics.” route, so that at length we decided to lava ridge west of Lost river, from surveyed the vast desert plains to the retrace our steps to the smooth country. which we first observed it, and suppos eastward of Surprise valley, apparently I think they are not so far gone yet, This was difficult,as our horses had be ed it to be about thirty miles away. without grass or trees, and marked by and if “A. W?’ has become an advo» come separated among the rocks, and it In pursuing our course we passed numerous high rocky ridges running cate of the “mountain climb,"'it is was some time before we conld get them through the hilly, juniper country be north and south. After deciding on very recently, for he told me that tbs together and return to the open ground. tween Langell valley and Clear lake our course, we descended tho moun money could not be raised to make a Then we discovered that one of our without seeing either the valley or tain and soon came to a little stream, survey of the “climb.” I want him to at party, David G< ff, was missing. While lake, and at noon arrived at the bed of the banks of which wefe lined with plum go some place where he is not known in the lava field he had discovered a a stream where there was but little bushes completely loaded with' fruit. and get him a wife, for I have read Com« band of mountain sheep, aud in pursu water. The course of the stream was There was a grove of pines at hand, him out of bachelorhood. ing them had lost his way. Some of north or northwest, and appearances and there we decided to noon, as the again, “A. W.” Not having had any mail for nearly the party went quite a distance into the indicated that at times quite a volume day wss extremely hot. Game seemed rocks, but could hear nothing of him. of water flowed in the channel. This plentiful about this rich valley, and two weeks, I must close this, for I do We decided to proceed to the meadow was evidently the bed of Lost river, a while we were nooning a large band of not know any news, So, for the M ac ». Yours, country, at the bead of the lake, by en few miles north of where this singular antelope grazed in Bight of us. Spend present, circling the lava beds to the northward, stream leaves the Clear lake marsh. FROM BIG BUTTE, ing about two hours among these pines and encamp until we could find our Leaving this plaoe, we pursued our which were the last we saw during our J an . 30, 1878. comrade. While we were proceeding journey through a similar country to long and weary march on the desert, to carry out this programme we discov that passed over during the forenoon, we packed up and moved across the E ditor T idings :—It seems that on« ered a great number of canoes leaving and encamped at a little spring among valley eastward After crossing the Butte Creek knight of the quill has the lake shore, under the bluffs, and the junipers, near the base of the valley we entered a very sandy district, opened wide hia heart and consented making for what appeared to be an timbered hill, and passed a very pleas where the traveling was laborious, and to write a “little piece” for “O.M which island four or five miles distant. We ant night. next ascended to a table-land, the sur wonderful production made its advent conld also see a lone horseman riding On the morning of Jaly 8t.h, we face of which was covered with small in the T idings of the 25th inst, Since leisurely along the lake shore, ap passed onr landmark and traveled near gravel. By this time most of our friend “O." can play “Old Dan Tuck proaching us. This soon proved to be ly eastward, over a comparativly level horses were barefooted, and our prog er” and is abont to suooeed with “Pop our lost friend. The Modocs had dis but extremely rocky country, and ress through the rocky country was goes the Weasel,” hia miod seems to covered Lim in the lava fields, and nooned in the channel of another consequently very slow. The country be laboring under a state of mental probab'y supposing that the whole stream, where there was a little waler was bo deBeit like that we bad about hallucination and he ooneeives the party was about to assail them from the standing in holes. On leaving this despaired of finding water that night, uotion that be must be the musician rocks, they took to their canoes. He I I j place we found the country still quite bnt just about dark we unexpectedly that “P." alluded to. No, friend “O.”, said that, seeing the Indians retreating, level, bat exceedingly rocky; for eight came to a little eprtDg. There was but it is not you, for at the time “P.” he concluded he would leave the rocks or ten miles almost like a pavement. little water, but by digging some we wrote that letter, he did not know yon and ride along the lake shore where Lute in the afternoon we came oat .into were able to get quite enough for our were the possesser of a new violin. And selves aud horses, though it kept us the going was good. We nooned in a the basin of a lake(Gooae lake), appar busy until about raid nig lit to get the now, if “O.” will don a pair of specta beautiful meadow, containing abont ently forty or fifty miles in length. horses watered Although we had met cles and peruse that letter again, ho two sections, near the bead of the lake. Traversing the valley about five miles with singularly good fortune in thus will no doubt peroeive that “P.” did finding water at the close of the first teacher” After spending a couple of hours iu along the south end of the lake, we day's march on the desert, we could not say that the “resident Knight is was a mechanic. 8moe our this splendid pasture, we re packed »Dd came to a little stream coming in from not always expect such good luck in snch a magnanimous literary genin*, started on our way towards the timber the mountains to the eastward, The 1 the future; and as we lay down in our and “O.” can produoe a “full crop” of ed butte, but bad not proceeded more grass and water being good, we en blankets among the sage brush that poetry, we trust ve shall henceforth be we could not help having some enlightened truthfully concerning gen» than a mile before we came suddenly camped here for the night Game night, gloomy forebodings in regard to the eral events; but, dear friends, do not upon quite a large stream (Lost river) seemed plettiful, and one of the party future of our expedition.— West Shore, pass over them with a “casual glance.” To be continued. comiDg into the lake. We found this killed a fine deer in the vicinity of the P» February Rain- I I I 1 f * J V < A 4M! L?