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7 THE ASHLAND TIDINGS LETTER FROM LIN’KVIT/LE. ‘ ‘ Our New Bridge.*’ Hash. SIKES WORDEN H. M. THATCHER. M r . E ditor ;—Will you please per L ineville , July 30, 1878. [Condensed from State Exchangee] THATCHER & WORDEN J. M. SUTTON......... .......... EDITOR mit me to say a few words concerning E d . T idings .—Having spent a few An exohange says it has received a our “new bridge,” which you so kindly DEALERS IM FRIDAY............................ ......... AUGUST 2, 1878. days visiting this, the metropolitan peace of musio entitled “Tbe snow lies noticed in your last issue? It appears town of Lake county, and making a white”. We presume it refers to the short tour into the surrounding coun that you have succeeded in discovering snow white lies of half-gone lovers.... “That Bridge.’* try, I will endeavor to give yoa a few a number of faults, defects and imper Reservation Indians have to make We call attention to Mr* Spiokol- items, whioh may be of interest to fections in the workmanship. In the mier’s letter in another column, where your readers. Linkville is rapidly ac first place, allow me to state that I do themselves mighty scarce about Pen dleton now-a days. Two that came to in he seems to shoulder the whole re quiring the consideration to which it not consider it as making undue pre town Tuesday afternoon with passes, sponsibility of our new bridge, just for is entitled as a commercial and manu tensions of skill as an architect, when I LINEVILLE, LAKE COUNTY, OREGON. to look after horses, had to be hurried the purpose of tumbling it off, onto facturing centre, for a vast region of inform the writer of that “local” that I out as soon as possible, or enraged oit- Are now receiving from San Francisco an extensive stock of goods of great \arjety the supervisor. In the “local’Teferred coantry, the chief resources of which felt myself sufficiently practiced in car izens would have made “ good Indians ” still slumber in the untilled soil. It xactly suited to the trade of the to, we attempted to describe the bridge, bas been demonstrated, this season, by pentry to have worked to any plan or of them in short order. We don’t love as it presented itself to our optics, with practical experiment, that wheat, bar specifications which might have been out comment. But now, as Mr. Spick- ley and rye can be successfully culti furnished, but nothing was presented. Lo very much now... .Citizens of elmier has seen proper to come on the vated in localities whioh have, hither The construction of the bridge was East Portland, of “a varied nature,” it been considered barren, after the left entirely to the Supervisor of this seems, were the recipients of an enter the defense, he will pardon ns if we to, native grass and herbage were exhaust tainment from Prof. Griffith last week Which they are prepared to sell at prices that cannot fail to satisfy customers. Be give a few thoughts suggested by his ed. In the vicinity of Linkville, in road district, and I worked “to his u re to call and see us and see for yourselves. ... .People going to Yaquina Bay from letter. He sayB-. “I felt myself suffi Alkali valley, at Bonanza and in many order.” If the people of Ashland Salem, are getting so numerous that ciently practical in carpentry, to work places along tbe course of Lost river, wanted anything different in the shape to any plan or specifications, which grain was sown last fall and spring, of a bridge, why did they not make it they are measured by the wagon load fair crops are now being harvested. known at the proper time, and not ....Large numbers of crickets have might have been furnished, but noth and Rye seems especially adapted to the wait until the work was completed and gone to Paradise valley, and are bask ing of tbe kind was presented.” Now soil and climate. ing in Yamhill crops, to the disgust of the only rational inference to be drawn Near Bonanza, there is now ripening then enter an odious complaint against the Granger... .Some of the “Web from this defense, is that if specifica for harvest, a field of twenty acres, the workmen? If they wanted the Do not forget the Old Pioneer Store of the Lake Country. tions had been given, showing where which, it is estimated, will yield forty posts of the hand-rails placed in iron foot” papers are calling Robinson, of Yamhill, a dirty scamp,just because he mortises should have been put for rail bushels to the acre. This field was loops or cast-sookets, planed, stained THATCHER & WORDEN. ing posts, he conld have made them, nothing but a sage plain, before it was and varnished, why did they not fur beats his wife... .Complaints are being I v2n!9tf. instead of nailing them on the side. inclosed and prepared for the recep nish specifications to that effect, not. made, just now, that there are too few gunsmiths in Oregon, or too many And if further specifications had been tion of the grain. Tbe preparation withstanding the fact that we have a given, showing which end to com consisted of cutting, piling and burn supervisor in whose hands such matters agents... .Conrod Ready is called for mence sawing off those stub shots, Mr. ing tbe sage brush, and harrowing in are entrusted? I spoke to a member of by bis brother Pete who resides in Spickelmier would have known just tbe grain without plowing, or other the Town Board concerning the bridge, Bernick, Pa... .The La Grande Gazette wise cultivating the soil. All the har after they had decided to join tbe says that the diphtheria is oarrying off One Set of Brass, Rotary Valve, bow to do it, bnt the specifications dier variety of vegetables can be one every day and is becoming more were not given, and of course he did’nt grown on favored localities. Tens of county in bearing the expense of build Over-shoulder know how. Another good point made thousands of acres of this kind of land ing it, and he said that they had noth malignant all the time....Tbe papers by the gentleman, is, that if the people are unoccupied within a few miles of ing to do with it, but were to pay one- all have it that “report says” that a and third of the cost when it was completed. cool §40,000has been pounded out in of Ashland wanted the bridge built in Linkville. That it will be settled cultivated in a few years, is as certain a workmanlike manner, they should as that it is now vacant. Now, if they had nothing to do with it a hand morter.frorn a new found ledge —no say as to the design, it was none at Yankee fork, Idaho. have said so, before it was completed The natural advantages of Linkville Scarlet fever is r agiDg in Sweet otherwise. The argament of the gen will always retain for that town, its of their business, and they who step Home valley,Linn county... .Eggs are out now and publicly enumerate the tieman, showing that it is none of the present supremacy as a trading point. cts. a dozen at Seattle, and the faults found with it, manifest a very 37% business of the people of Ashland,how All in good order, as follows: town is growing... .More improve Its unlimited water power, added to the bridge was bnilt, is somewhat its location, at the only accessible diminutive degree of propriety, and, ments are being made in Portland than Two Eb Cornets, two Bb Cornets, two Eb Altos, two Bb Tenors, ont Eb more ingenious, than his work on the crossing of Link river, together with moreover, are those who offered tbe ever before.... Dentis, look out for the Tnba, one 30-inch Bass l)rum snd rubber man, who is traveling through bridge. It would seem that Mr. other natural advantages, cannot be least assistance when called upon. If ODe SDare Drum, Oregon, trying to collect a royalty on Spickelmier is ashamed of the job, by overcome by any other looality. Re there were nothing more than a verbal the use of hard rubber dental plates. his trying to throw the blame on the alizing this, the proprietor of the agreement between the Town Board He is pronounced a swindle... .James Having perchased tbe entire interests of my late supervisor. Out of courtesy to the town site, Mr. George Nurse, an ear and County Commissioners, I must add O’Mearer is connected with the Daily partners, in the Ashland Woolen M ils, I take pleas man that gave him tbe job, one wonld ly pioneer to Lake county, and a man that it was a very lax manner of con' Examiner, in San Francisco. E. F. ure in announcing to tbe public that the Russell is at Crecent City selling a pat think that he might have done a job ducting businoss. Respectfully, ent mining contrivance of bis own in that would not havo brought reproach of abundant means, is, in company A. M. Sl’ICEELMIER. vention... .Henry Ward Beacher will on tbe supervisor, even if it had reduc with others, inaugurating several per visit Oregon......... Jas. Owens is ed his pay a little below 88 00 a day. manent improvements, which are des coming back to Oregon, soon... .They But the coolest part of tbe affair, is his tined not only to prove profitable to the INDIAN WAR NEWS. Or the nine Horns without the furnish editors ice cream at Eugene censure of the Town Board, for trust Drums for [Condensed from Dispatches to Oregonian. ] City. Yep, yep....Chas. L. Jewell, ARE NOW RUNNING AND MAKING THE ing him to do a workmanlike job with projectors, bnt beneficial to the public. B akes C ity ,July 26—The latest by cour- a member of the State Senate for four First among these is a powerful saw out a written agreement mill with unlimited water privilege,and i er from Gen. Howard's command indicates years, wounded in a recent fight with with an inexhaustible supply of timber that tbe Bannocks and Piutes have separat tbe Bannocks, is dead... .The oil mills VERY BEST OF NATIVE WOOL. Iteni* from Jacksonville Paper*. easily accessible. Vast forests of fir, ed. the former are fleeing the country .while at Salem, are soon to resume opera Address, The Mystic B. B. Club of Ft. Klam pine, cedar, etc., bound Klamath lake the latter are supposed to be making for tions. .. .A land office is to be estab BLANKETS, A ndrew M c C allen , ath, has challenged the Jacksonvilles to on the west and north. Here logs are their agency for the purpose of surrender- lished in Boise City... .Twenty woun ded men at Pendleton. .. .Ex Governor and rolled into the lake,where they Lake View, Oregon. (3-7-tf) play a match game.... Jim Sly got both cut are rafted and oonveyed to the head ing. July 25th,Howard’s command was en Curry is very sick in Portland... .On FLANNELS, collar bones broken by a horse falling of Link river by sail, from which point camped about 16 miles from Malheur last Sunday, tbe new bell on the Cath DB. H. T. INLOW on him last week... .The Times has a they are floated down the short race to ageacy.from which place they were forward olic Church in East Portland was XI>. ». FARLOW blessed. .. .Telephones are being plac the mill. The market for lumber will CASIMERES, correspondent from Alkali lake, Lake ing supplies, both from the agency and be as endless is is the supply of timber Baker City. ed between the different military of county, and from Althouse, Josephine aud fices at Ft. Vancouver.... 143 arrests the water power. Millions of feet Lieut. Ward, with an immense pack and in Portland, last month... .Curry county... .Jacksonville has just dis will soon be required annually, for DOESKINS covered that Welborn Beeson has a fencing purposes alone. Next year the wagon train,left Baker City yesterday morn county is the only county in Oregon, butcher shop in Phcenix.... A destitute company propose to erect a flouring ing with supplies for the main colum n. and who payB her teachers accordir g to AND IIOSERY. family has been found in Jacksonville mill. When that is done.it will ba but will probably arrive at Howard's headquar services rendered, and Dot according a short time until Lake county will to sex. .. .The cry at Ellensburg, is for ters about noon on the 27th inst. and provided for by the county author raise its own grain and manufacture its more flour... ,C. H. Jones has again The command under Gen. Howard found become associated with the Corvallis ities. own flour. Then, looking into the --------- ► -<---------- INLOW & FARLOW when a railroad shall tap South an old Piute squaw on the evening of the Gazette-, this time as foreman... .The The Sunday Call is a name of a new future eastern Oregon.it requires no unreason 24tb, who had been deserted by the hostiles butchers sell mutton at four cents a paper, in East Portland, which sprang able exercise of credulity, to see Lake and who was nearly s tarred. Up to the pound at Crescent City.... Early to bed Are kvited to send in tbeir orders and %s«nred that the same shall receive prompt attention. from the ashes of the Land Register-, county exporting a vast surplus of many time of tbe courier leaving the command,she and early to rise, pay your printer and Druggists and Apothecaries of the staples of trade. But to return advertise,is tbe way the modoc Indepen is published by Beard and Barnes. was obstinate in regard to giving any infor dent gets it off....Pitt river is lower It proposes to be“neutral and indepen to Linkville. mation about the hostiles. Sarah Winne. than ever before known....Tbe jory ? r The town is now being supplied with mucca was to have approached the hostile impaneled to condemn the O. S. N. dent in politics.” It’s typographical Iresb Drug* of all kind* kept couetuutly on iinnd appearance is creditable and we ex- water by means of a ditch from Flam camp last night with a view of the Piutes Co’s land at the Cascades over which atb lake, a distance of a mile and a surrendering. -AI j $O- the Government locks are to be con tend to it our fraternal greetings. quarter. IN BECOMING SOLE PROPRIETOR OF TI1E structed, valued the land at §7,000.... FJLVTN Item* from the Yreka Union. ASHLAND WOOLEN MILLS, Thaicher & Worden have the brick Major Tompson.with a detachment of men A dog fight is reported by a Portland OILS belonging to tbe 20th infantry, arrivod here burned, and are making other prepara yesterday and leaves for the agency to mor paper.... Geo Good has retired from DYE-STUFF A party consisting of Mrs. Jenson, tions for the erection of a large store the Statesman, and accepted a place on SOAP Miss Hattie Hager, J. E. Putnam and house. Several other buildings, less row,and it is expected that Major Wells and theCrueible ... .5,200 cases of salmon Aassume the late company indebtedness arM all ac Perfumery, and all kinds of C. D. Greenslet, all of Yreka, made the pretentious, will soon be put in course his command, now on the gunboat S pokane , were shipped from Astoria,this week... counts and notes due the Company 8OUTH OF Five new brick houses are beiDg built are payable to me or my order ascent of Mount Shasta, on Friday last. of construction. Linkville is the center will for the present remain in camp at Uma in Albany... .Cheap storage is what’s CANYONVILLE, only. tilla, as the Columbia Indians are in small PATENT MEDICINES To Mrs. Jenson, belongs the henor of of the system of mail routes that supply the matter of the Portland people. parties above and below town, evidently San Francisco is turning a whole swill being the first of the party to reach the the county. Chief among the routes gathering in all the horses on the range for bucket full of roughs and sneak thieves C35“PRESCRIPTIONS carefully coarq ouaded, summit....... The Scott’s valley Sun is converging at this place,is tbe tri-week- the purpose of running them across the Co- and iiuiie but genuine articles used. on them. to raise on Aug. 6th, uneclipsed.... ly service to Ashland. Mr. M.Col well, lumbia C-iUrrioee a* low ae the times will justify. The rumor of the rich strike on tbe the present contractor, on this and the W. C. DALEY, Hone Their* at Work. continuation of the line to Lake View, Authorized agent for me and has fall j>ower to H. 8. EMERY. Klamath river, is confirmed... .A gold makes the trip through with bis stages Capt. Wright’s company of Oregon vol- J. R. TOZER, transact any and al) Irasiness connected with the fciT Store one door south of tbe Postoäice—op and silver bearing lode, struck some in less than schedule time, conveying unteers and volunteers here will be dis- posite tbe Ashland House. time since, on McCloud river, is the mails and passengers. An effort charged to-morrow, leaving only Capt. ASHLAND WOOLEN MILLS. * proving valuable... .Hot weather has is being made to have this increased to Sperry’i s company of 25 men at Pendleton D r . H T I nlow can always be found a* a daily servioe, and but little doubt is Proprietors of the C hampion tbe btore, ready to attend to profession!! culls. caused the Yreka lazy club to change entertained of success. That the in in the state service, and they are absolutely its quarters. JAS. THORNTON. terests of the county demand the needed, as a band of lawless men are steal WOOD WORKERS’ FACTORY, 43tf T2n33tf] IN LOW & FARLOW ------------- > -♦ •*. * -<------------- - ing horses and ransacking homes; besides, change, there is no doubt. But this Item* from the Yreka Journal. communication is already too long. A shland , O regon , there is possible danger to Pendleton from the Umatillas, who are very troublesome The Little Shasta farmers are talk In oonolusion permit me to say to ing of forming a joint stock company, those seeking homes, that Lake oounty and exfsperating when in town. The re Manufacturers of all kinds of for the purpose of erectiug a flour mill presents attractions that cannot long tention of Sheriff Sperry’s company for a few .... P. G. Strickland offers as a special be overlooked by men, who possess the weeks longer by the Governor will enable that should characterize those law-abiding citizens to establish order and premium, a Singer sewing machine, energy Qçegen» who are landless. Me. protect themselves. valued at §50, for the best three pieces, ------------- » » <------------- Stolen Property among the Umatilla*. DOORS, SASH, BLINDS, to consist of chemise, night dress and A Japanese Junk With a Cargo •f Some of the mules taken from murdered (o) Dead. drawers,to be exhibited at the next coun DOOR & WINDOW freighters are now in the hands of Indians ty fair of Siskiyou. Are Jackson county FRAMES, The Coos Bay News, published a on the agency, who refuse to give them up. ladies in that affair ?... .Col. Stone is Marshfield, Oregon, in its issue of the Mr. McCoy, father of Ouly McCoy, who was A Large and Fresh stock of An Elegant stock of Clothing OF ALL DIMENSIONS. stocking the stage road between Yreka 17th inst .has the following report from murdered, demanded his son’s mules from Dry Goods at the at the and Redding, with heavier horses.... the captain of the schooner Parallel tbe commanding officer, also the agent, and PIONEER STORE. PIONEER STORE. T^ricTUKE frames neatly made to The army worm in Little Shasta, still which arrived at that port July 15th, was told he must have an order from vVash- --------------------------- ------------ sweep the green fields... .Oats in from San Francisoo: The schooner ingtou. Comments are unnecessary on such order. Parallel, on the 7th inst., in latitude 3V an answer from a U. S. officer and agent to ^©’’“P laning of all kinds, sawing, Scott's valley grew 6% feet high. A Fine Assortment of Fancy A splendid stock of Boots and deg. 42 min., longitude 130 deg., 26 a demand of stolen property. Goods and Notions at the Shoes at the E nlarged .—The Democratic Times min., at 4 a . m ., sighted a junk, or Jap Horse theivea AttemptHo Murder an Op turning, boring, etc., etc., PIONEER STORE. PIONEER STORE. erator. comes to band this week, enlarged and anese vessel, adrift. A boat was lower ed and the strange vessel boarded, DONE WITH DISPATCH. greatly improved. The local page is when a terrible sight met the boarders, A dastardly attempt was made to assass put up in new type, and contains a Not a living soul was aboard, but a inate the telegraph operator here last night large number of personals and other number of corpse of Orientals,who ba< by an unknown person who mistook the A^W ili . contract for the | erection of items. We congratulate Charley on his probably been dead at least a month office, and called up a man sleeping iu the all kinds of B uildings . An immense stock of the best There was no food aboard, and some o ' building below,and on his opening the door success. brands of Tobacco and Cigars at the bodies had been shackled together, struck him a fearful blow on the head with '^^.Undertakings a Specialty. doubtless having been crazed for the We learn from the Grant oounty the PIONEER STORE. of food or water, and fastened by a slung-shot. saying -‘I'll teach you how SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. Times, that “Rattle Snake Jack” has want ---------------♦ ♦--------------------- their comrades. Fin ally,doubtless, al to telegraph.” The stricken man sank to been doing good service as a scout in died of starvation. Some of the bod the floor, and on recovering bis senses, the Give Us a. Erie!. Eistorn Oregon. He has added three ies were well dressed, and a lot of fine assassin bad fled. GROCERIES, HARDWARE, CUTLERY, PAINTS AND OILii Bannock scalps to his belt. The Times silk, ladies’ wearing apparel, was DALEY & CO. JVol. Ill No. I tf.J The editor of the Modoc Independent thinks he should be forgiven for bor brought off tbe wreck, by the sailors, all made up in Oriental style. Tbe is in luck. He has been fishing “Cheaper than the Cheapest” is Our motto. rowing that horse and gan from the stench of decaying bodies, was such as and you can engage in. Klamath Indian. to prevent a thorough inspection of the has been presented with a box of fine I—/ "■ IJ 1 ’ U'l FI"XbugineR8 I '$5 to |2d per day made by I 1 I i j L y I aDy worker of either sex Bring on your Produce and Exchange for Goods. Tbe next total eclipse of the sun will vessel; bat a lot of Japanese writing is Habanaa. -■—' -*■ right in their own localities in the possession of Capt. Nelson, and samples worth |5 free. Improv occur in the year 1900. Have your whioh may throw some light on the Every man is tbe architect of his Particulars your spare time at this business. Address S tinbom t MRS. M. W. MARGARINE smoked glass ready ! k Co., Portland Ma we. [i-JO-ly. subject. ¿own fortune. v20«,-lf LAKE COUNTRY Beef Cattle, Hides and Wool taken in ex change for goods. FOR SALE THE ASHLAND WOOLEN. MIL BAND INSTRUMENTS, s CITY DRUG STORE. AV. H. Atkinson DALEY & CO. PIONEER STORE. FURNITURE, 4