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ADVERTISING AGENÇA Beo* SI Itaohuta’ E»Ung* INDEPENDENT ON ALL SUBJECTS, AND DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF SOUTHERN OREGON. X V VOL. II.—NO. 42. ASHLAND, OREGON: FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1878. ASHLAND TIDINGS. PROFESSIONAL. — ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY — DANIEL GABY, O. C. APPLEGATE & CO. Dick Coleman’s Will, or the Dy ing from the merchants of Waitsburg everywhere you see steep hillsides un tions, and a good two story school that their business actually is made to der cultivation—the hills being the house, with a school of eighty scholars. ing Miner. and M. L. McCALL, One copy one year.................................................. $ 2.50 “ “ six months............................................ 1.50 “ •• three “ ............................................. 1 DO Clob rates six copies fur....................................... 12.50 Terms, in advance. Surveyor and Civil Engineer, ASHLAND, I. O. Miller. . lOcts. I.KGAL ADVtHTOEMtSTH One sqnare (ten l.ne« o-less) let la-ertion....... $2.50 Each additional loser don.................................. 1.00 Architect and Builder, GRANITE STREET - - - ASHLAND. In bis line on short notice and lowest U-rme. n7v2if W ILL on do llie unythirg Ageuts for the Tidings. L. fixmiiels, .... Portland, Oregon Jacob l’tioupeon, ... •• “ J. A A p; leg Ate, - - - • - Salem M. L. Ch .mberliu ----- •• Dr N. L. Lee ... - Junction City. Tnatcoer A Worden - - - . Linkville. A. F. Snehing, ----- 1<ukevv-w. J. P. ttubtr,», .... Merg^u«er. A. H«i»iy, ----- R aiiDza. b. M. Prt'engi’l & Co., ... New York. Rowel! & Curtauial!, • ' - - St. D>UIS. I* P. Fis er, - - ... 8tu FruncUco, Too«. Boyce, J. R. Neii, - ... Jack«- nville. C. 8 Sergtinc, - - • • - P* wmx. JBL R. U*en, : - « On'rai Point. Mis* Atlie W Colvig, - - Kock Point. Peril H. Burt ----- Yoncilla. C U. Dy*r, ------ Dairy. lii«r M ry McCibe ... - A»i>bnd J. M Suiion. General Agent for Jackfon and Joue- ph cuuui'c-. C m > c . i/. J Wrree GeneM A "»»nt for T> k? cnnr*y. Stages leave Ashland as follows The O o C. Stiige C'».’s Stage leave A«hl tnd lor Ja-Kx'iiv ibe, R*>ck Point und Rose burg every day at 6 a. tn. Mail do es at 5:30 a. in. For lieniv, Tick i and Ke iding at 6 p. in. M til do es a: 5:30 p. tn, J. WELLS J. O. C. WIMKB Job Printing, Of nM description, ¿one on ehort notice. T^gal Bl ink«, Circulars, Btislr.e-e Cards, BJ heads, Ixrter- 1*, Posters, etc., gotten up iu good style at livug prices. OREGON, (8 prepared to do any work in Lis line on short no. lice. • [no27tf] Terms of Advertising: $10 00 3 00 5 00 « 00 10 00 14 •0 . 17 .■>11 I « Terms of Subscription : Local Notices jier line......... Frofesei..nd Cards, per year Two inches, per quarter.... •< Four •’ << E'gnt “ One-h If Column << Three-four ths “ St One “ it I BEA L ESTA TE A GENT. ASHLAND, OREGON. WIMER & WELLS. « Practical Millwrights. Flouring mills, saw mills, quarts mills, an<l all kitds of mill machinery put up to order in the very best style. All wo k w«r- ranted. Suti.-'actimi guaranteed, address either, or both, at Ashland. Oregon. [29if. D. S. SCOTT Oregon. Ashland An abundance of good brick always on hand at my kiiu, one mile norm of Aeliland. I nm also prepared to do all kind« of brick work in tbe very ben manner. Give me a trial and rest assured that I can satisfy you. D. S. SCOTT. v2n2C-6m T. G. WATTERS, LAND AGENT. Ashland, Ji.ek-on County, Oregon. Will attend to the buying and selling of Garrett A: Ferree’s Stages leave Ashland All business entrusted to me will receive every Monday, Wednesday and Fridav prompt attemiou. inortiing-* for i.inkvill**, and re nrn on I will cheetfnlly answer all letters of in every Tn-*sd.iy. Th'irs«!ay and Saturday. quiry in leg ti<l io this portion of Oregon— Leave Linkville t >r L.ke City, California, Wednesdays; arrive al i. ike Ci:v Stlin- its Olimaie, ."oil. 1’rocucts etc. Reference given ii required. davs; leive Lake Citv Monday? : arrive hi Linkville Thursdays, carrying mail and v2n24] T G. WATTERS. patsengers. J. W. RIGGS, piloto graphic 8 O C I E T I E S. Ashland Lodge No. 189.1. 0. Gr. Ï. Meste at the Hall of Reinan & Fountain every Triday evening at 3 o'clock p. m . Brothers and •Islers in g-tod standing are corllaily inviird to at tend T e Tetno'e nieeis every tirst and thhd Wed nesday in eich month. F. WALTER MYER, W. C. T. R. H. K lippkl , Srt y. a Aslil.tnil JLoiljc No, 23 An a . r. A A. PT.. Holds tbeir s’ate.l comn unicatiOLS Thursday even ing« oa or before the full moon. Ikethreu iu good •taixling ait tordjahy invited to atr*u1. VV. ii. AIK1NSON, W. M. J. S. E ubanks , Sec’y. ARTIST, Ashland Oregon. I am row permanently located in this piece, ami resj e.itully asks tLe pairouag^ol i be citizens. ALL WORK WARRANTED To give Emire S tisf.ictiou. Prices to suit The limes. tSpCall and see Specimens. | v2n<)tf II O T E L 8 Ashland Lod^<*| No. 15, . I. O. O. F., Holl their reguhr meetlrg every Saturday even ing at their hall in Ashland. Brothers in good etanding are cordially invited to attend. A. D. HELMAN, N. G. R. P. NEIL, Rec. Sac’y. Rebekah meetings on Tues lay evening, nearest he full of the moon eacn month. PROFESSIONAL J. A. APPLEGATE, attorney and (Scunsrlor-at-Tair SALEM OREGON. DR. J. IL CHITWOOD, O regon . A shland , OFFICE—At the Ashland Drugstore. J. R. NEIL, j^TTORNEY AT-LAW, Jacksonville, Oregon. DR. J. 8. JACKSON. PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. JACKSONVILLE OREGON. Graduate of the Bellevue Hospital Medical Co’kge, New York. [v2nl9tf J. w. hamak I r T- NOTARY PUBLIC. LINKVILI.E LAKE CO., OREGON. ASHLAND HOUSE riMIE UNDERSIGNED WISHES TO RE- 1 mind his Irieuds, and the traveling pub lic generally, that be is still to be leund at this LONG ESTABLISHED HOUSE, where he Is ready at any time, and on all occasions to set be'ore them the best the market affords, in a style second to no other house in Oiegort. Dinners and suppers for special occasions, gotten up in appropriate style, at short no- [ice. JASPER HOUCK. P ioneer H otel . Linkville, Lake County, 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 guests Comfortable and Happy. Give him a call and rest assured that he will make you feel at home [2-29tf. GEORGE NURSE. LAKiVIEW COTTAGE I A Pleasant and Homelike House situated —AT— Iluniming Bird Springs, near Klamath Lake, Office in Post Office Building. Special Eleven miles from Linkville, on th? road to attention giren to conveyancing. [2 19tf. Ft. Klamath, Lake Co., Oregon. H. KELLEY, Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law, J acksonville , O regon . Will practice in all the Coorts of »be State. Prom.' at en ion given to all bueuiees intrusted to my care. O ffice .—Ia the bnildbg formerly cccupied Kahler A Watson, opposite Court House. Attention paid to the wants of guests The subscriber also keeps a Good Stable well supplied with hay and grain. Call ana see it he caa keep hotel. v2olS:f.] D. J. Ferree. suffer by the number of traveling mer best grain land. The wheat crop of People live comfortably, in good chants, or vendors of dry-goods in last year, was estimated at 00,000 tons. roomy houses, in this little burg, and packages, that canvass the country. Those, who best understood the popu seem well-to-do, aud content. It is 18 Just roll me over to the other site. These peddlers put up goods to the lation, and resources of the grainfields, miles from "Walla Walla, and 10 from And stir the str iw—yes, ’tis better so. I Smooth down «the blankets; no, the bunk's amount of $150 in packages—such I believe that there would be 40,009 for Dayton. As the larks—well, if I hear nor wide; cloths and cottons as are likely to be export Before the close of navigation as good a singdr the next time I get Bring in some water, Ben, before you go. required by families, and sell these I 20,000 tons went out of the country. out into the fields it may be impossible How long have 1 been sick ’ a week to-lay ; lots to the farmers, taking their notes, Tho increase of population, and the to restrain my rhyming propensities, Yes, that i* it; I have taken cold again; You do not kuo * how hard it is to I iy when they cannot get pay, down. Often amount used for t-eed leaves much less and the T idings may have occasion to Without a soul to st»eak to, iu such pnin. these packages prove to be a swindle, than another 20,000 to go—perhaps not regret the same. I start to morrow to Take that old coat and pl ice it ’ne .th my head, iu respect either of quality or quantity, more than 5,000. Gram is produced take a look at Umatilla couuty, Oregon. And hang this shirt just so, to hide the 1 gut; and the farmer has to bear a loss, while on sod ground in some places; thirty Yours Truly. The boys do all they can, but then the bed the more honest country merchant sus bushels to the acre; and volunteer Is not of dowu, anl euusoiue nurts my sight. F. F. V ictor . There that is nice, pull that old box up near, tains another loss, of patronage, atid wheat comes thirty-five bushels to the Aod sit a raomeut. Are the boy« iu c imp ? SAUC SAGE STRIKE» AN ACQUAINT grumbles,loudly at the imposters and I aero. Tell them to briDg my pick aud «hovel here; ANCE AND IMHlaEN What a d is- Wiiat, struck a le^d, B-n.’ wout you light the their victims together. It is not only wheat that is exported A NEW IDEA. lamp ! honest people ours has become ! One but flour also. Mr. Isaacs of Walla SEES TIIE TOWN BY «AS LIGHT. Not dark, no: dark, jaet take my hand dear really feels ashamed of the fraudulent Walla grinds at his mill from 60,000 to Ben; spirit that is abroad everywhere. And 100 000 bushels of wheat aunually. I think my he id his gone a little wrong, Before leaving the Palace Hotel, I how hard it is to bear these impositions Other mills here, and at Dayton and You do not think I'm dying low , well then that full, almost always, on those least Waitsburg ground all together as turned "round and gave that clerk such Cail in the boys, I know 1 can’t List long. All here ?—gjod-b>e; I have no will to make; able to sustain losses. What is the much moro. So that from 21,000 to a contemptible look that about a hun Yes, theie s my claim, boys; if you strike a reason of it? 40 000 barrels of flour aro manufactur dred men, who sat ’round, roar’d oat leid • Is it not because now-a-days, more ed. most of which is shipped to San laughing at him. Whetj I got out I Just give my mother something for my Bake — I I took a tramp around the high toned Tausr You, aye, with a tuousaud claims if than ever in this country, men are I Francisco as the “best Oregon”. The concern. It took me a quarter of an need. averse to labor? Granted that—then kind of wheat raised in this country, as Then a faint gasp, a quivering of the breath, why are they so averse to labor? Pri l est adopted to the soil aud the climate hour to walk around it. It must a cost ten -thousand dollars and is as high as a Aid all was quiet. Not a word was -aid; marily because hard work does not suit i is the club variety, with a strong straw We stool a moment face io face with death, liberty pole. J list as I got around, who them; secondly, because they despise that resists the winds, and, that does E ich with an Lamest sorrow for the de id. should 1 meet but Esau Mill. He’d Dick C, Jem in spoke—broad-shouldered, sun- it as not aristocratic. Their muscles not scatter out of tho husks when ripe, hardly b’l’eve bis eyes at first, when I biowntd yon th; are too weak, and their pride is too and waiting to be harvested, or moved. Long, shamb iig lunbs, and sinews tongh as ru-be<’ up and shook bauds with him. great, Everybody wants to be a gen- The smaller price which wheat brings oak- ■» “Well, Sauceto,” said he,—he alera tieman. And now that everybody wants at this distance from the seaboard en We knew his heart, hi» bravery an! his truth, calls me by my right name—“where And. listened while uis words ths siieuce to be a gentleman, and believes that ables the millers to ship flour to Cali broke. are you going?” work is derogatory, the danger is that fornia, and realize as much profit as “I don’t know any mor’n the man in “Hereby the de id, boy«,’’— ev’ry hand was raised, real gentlemen are going out of fashion, the Oregon millers who pay almost And ev’ry hat was Jifed from tte brow— the moon,” said I. “These high toned “I make my will”—bi,« brown eyes upward gazed, and an upstart imitation of the genuine double. plug hat fellers iu here have robbed “An 1 here's my | ite; he cm not s?e me now; , article taking their places, who would Squirrels are a great pest to tho far me.’’ But he will kuo v iu tne gre it worl 1 of bliss ' rath* r be frauds and humbugs, than mer in many places. They aro local I then explained how they had How I «tool by him, even uft-r death; j honest and true men, if iu order to be however in their habits, and do not ex To teip tis mother I wi i send ter this— gouged me out of ten dollars, and that tend over the whole country. Two cents He thought of her,aye, with his latest breath.” the hitter they must work. I liad started to hunt another tavern. Another thing aLo is true. We edu a scalp incites a boy occasionally to Before "he twil'ght deeper e I iu the west “Well, look ’ere,” said Esau, “come Six piles of gold dust he iped upon he tl .or cate too much. Does that sound het hunt the little rascal sjÊp .their holes and stay at my room to-night, and to Tuld how we stool by Dick—kind word«, lm- erodox? TLe facts remain, however where they may bo d riWned out. But morrow you can hunt you a room. You pressed, we theorize about the bentficial effects the most effective method is by poison E.ch give his all, a king could do no more. see you can reut a room and board at of education. Learning is only useful ing wheat for their use.—We have had I We dug a grave und lull our comrade there the restaurant.” Ou the hillride, und ranked the place when done to us in two ways—as a help to our some white frost since the fruit trees “That’s enough of that,” said I. “I With a gre it stone; our hearts were full of prayer work in the world, and as an intellec slewed their colors, but no injury done For the poor mother who hid lost a son. took my sapper at the restaurant just tual enjoyment. If a mal^ is pod>, and yet. There is apparrent a great deal —S am J ohk M icbccry . now, and they charged me seven dol has a family of children, who must be* of activity in setting out fruit trees lars and a half for it, and two and a S ’ jported either by themselves or so on new farms in this region. The LETTER FROM MRS. F. F. VICTOR. half for a room.” ciety, should we say that such a man chief and striking want is of timber. “Geruselem,” said he, “I can show should educate his family with a view To an Oregouiaa it is disconragiug to "W alla W ai la , Mar. 10,1878. you where you can get a good meal for D ear TiDiNGs:-Observing the weath to their intellectual enjoyment oply? think hauling rails, lumber, and fire two bits and six meal tickets for a dol er items in your late issues, as well as Would not a proper sense of personal wood f^in eignt to fi'teen miles, out lar.” in those of other journals west of the dignity and honesty dictate to parents of tho “Blue Mountains.” But after “Yes,” said I, "but how much do mountains, and in California, I came who could not give their children for all, it would look more discouraging if they charge for rooms?"’ to the conclusion that this is a favored tunes, the safe course of giving them a the ground were covered with forrest “You will have to furnish your own land. The winter has no more than business training in preference to a that must be cleared away before room; they don’t keep ’em.” just touched us here. A just amount “Highschool” education ?—unless in ploughing could be done. Ditch and “All right,” said I, “I’m with you, of raiD; a “flurry” of snow once or deed they could have both. sod fences do very well especially old feller.” twice; a cold fog now and then; but no | : Such, however, is not the course when crossed posts and riders We then went down a Darrow street perverse weather any of the time—no I ' adopted by the heads of families in are added to heighten and strengthen and came to a regular meetin’ house of damaging winds.no fl >ods. For the last these days. Everybody insists on a them. Now aud then a farmer has at- a building, and went up two pair of month, the out door temperature has ■ grilled school, and all the grades, and tempted to raise a hedge of osage or- stairs aud went into a nice room been good for work and travel; the sky ! that every child should go through the ange with very good results. with carpet on the floor. A great cloudless half the time, aud not very whole course, which keeps them study- There is another obvious want in I big bed and two cane-bottomed chairs i ing closely until they are—say sixteen many parts of this country aud that ÌH dull at any time. wnz in the room. He told me that he Encouraged by these symptouiB of yearH of age. Wo all know that by water. Very often springs can ba had to work that night cleaning streets spring, I made a little trip over to that time the character and habits are found, or shallow wells will reach wa- and that I could look around till I got Waitsburg last week, and was quite so far formed that tho whole life is ter under ground, but in other instan tired and then come and go to bed« surprised to tiud the hillsides, where more or less biased by what has gone ces, as in Eureka valley, there is po We sat and talked over old times till not under cultivation, covered with before. If a boy or girl has never been water. Boring at a depth of eighty be had to go to work. ’ He told me I’d pretty pink and white grassflowers. taught any kind of labor before that feet brings no better prospect than ba better go up Kearney street; that there And how the larks did «ing to us! time it will be found difficult business saltic rock, yet the laud is first class wuz more to be seen, and then took me From every side they challenged ogr bringing them to this kiud of learning wheatlaod. It will have to be worked to it and left me. notice as if glad we bad come out on a after it. They are educated to be men in one great field, probably, and water I met a thousand people. Lota of bright morning to see how happy they and women of leisure, but as they must brought from a long distance to supply were. I almost fell to writing poetry i live in the world and cannot labor, they the needs of those who farm it, while lamps all along the street put up OQ about them; and bad indeed got as far must “live by their wits.” It is this as a place for a settlement, it will not poles. Some were hanging up over as to set some words to the little, short living by their wits, that has brought do.—Horses are the mosc certain aod the doors, and it wuz as light as moon song, of one particularly musical fel about the age of frauds and humbugs valuable stock to raise iu this country. shine. People getting thicker— must low—for they do not all sing the same Would it not be better to educate the They are in demand and bring good be a horse race or camp meetin’ go Such great big notes—when it struck me that I was | hands at the same time we educate the prices, and can stand an occasional ing on some place. not likely to wiite anything half as fine . brains, and then let circumstance and hard winter better than cattle. Parties winders ! Some bad watches and jew as Shelly’s “Ode to a Skylark,” or ! natural ability decide whi-ther the in comijig here now should bring with elry and brass men and women, ala?.ost Bryants “Lines to a Waterfowl,” and dividual shall live by handwork or them everything they need, unless it naked, in ’em, bolding lamps in their not likiDg to seem a poor copyist, I headwork, or both together? That is would be farming implements. They hands Some of the winders had great contented myself with whistling the my little sermon to parents aud teach can be purchased here perhaps as piles of greenbacks and twenty dollar lark song to myself, and moraliziug si ers: and is intended as the preventive cheaply as they could be brongut bore, piecos. I saw a thousand dollar green back in oDeXof ’em. The sidewalks lently on the lesson of homely content of the prevailing hoodlumism of which and can be got on time. and genuine joyonsness, this melodious the public journals everywhere com Every boat ap the river, now, brings bad glass winders in ’em, and light groundling teaches us: “To be happy plain. If it is out of place in this let 40 to 60 immigrants who disappear in shined op through. I saw men going near the ground.” I never was—I I ter you will overlook the digression the country so rapidly that they make down and coming out of a cellar where frankly own it—bat would it not be for this once. no difference in the population of Wal there wnz some kind of musio going I have forgotten whether I wrote la Walla. I suppose many of these on. I concluded to go down and see* better could I be so? I found Waitsburg not much cbang you in some previous letter that every new comers are floating people but what ’uz up. There wnz about a hun ed from what it was seven years ago; I body iu this country is land mad. The more of them will remain, and stick to dred men drinking lager beer and stuff a little larger, but not apparently so public domain is rapidly being divided the soil. Houses are sc tree in the they oalled hot Irish Scotch. I con busy. When the county of Walla up into “claims” of every kind, “Tim towns, and small and inconvenient in cluded to*trv some of this new-fangled Walla was divided, Waitsburg was left ber” “Homestead Pre-emption,” etc.’ the country. Nobody should expect truck, and called for a glass of it. It just on the edge—and Dayton, the new Wheat ! wheat!! wheal!!! is all the cry. any luxuries up here, except pure air wnz bully stuff, I tell you. I give the town, became the county seat of the For so new a.country the amount cul and sunshine. These, and the lark’s 1 feller a quarter and he givo me back new county of Whitman. Therefore tivated is great, and increasingly great. song seem very inspiring to your cor- two short bits. I didn’t say a word business has somewhat languished in It is so comparitively easy farming in | respondent. By the way, I left Waits about it; stood ’round awhile and con town. But the country is well settled this soil and climate that real farmers burg and the larks by the roadside, did cluded to Scotch agiu;give him an up and improved, and the welfare of do their best to get in large corps; and I. not? I will go back and take up other quarter and he give me back two the little burg is assured by that fact. the claimants who take up laud for again. "Waitsburg is a town of four or more bits—gaess the feller’nz crazy. It ia the prettiest location in the valley, speculative purposes are forced to cul five hundred inhabitants, two dry I begin to feel kinder coosy and con tivate in order to hold the land. not excepting Dayton. goods stores, one drug store, harness cluded to take auotber wa!k;oome out on The rolling nature of the country and blacksmith shops, a good hotel, the street and forgot which wav I was I was called upon to observe the per (Continued on fourth page.} ipatetic tendencies of the age, by learn- would dismay an Illinois farmer; but one church, used by several denouiiaa- BY MRS. C. M STOWE. NOTA li K PUBLIC OFFICE—On Maia Street, (in rear L'r. Chitwood’s Drug Store.) 1------ I A TTOR.X E Y-AT-LAW, -BY— $2.50 PER ANNUM. I I