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Stages lea* c Ashland as
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The O A" C. Stag** C»».’s Slave !<• >ve \Jil uid
for Ja;-K«un\¡lie. R ick Poit’t and Ros--
burg every <1 iy at b a. m. M .¡1 clo-e- at
5;:*0 a. in.
For Henly, Yi»*ki and Holding at li p. in.
M-tii cio-e» al 5:30 p. m,
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S: ig»»« l»»ive
A-ldai ii
every Monday, Wedncsd iv and i
mornings for Linkvilb*, and remrn oil
every Tuesday. Tlmrs<l >y and Satiüd iv.
L**ave Linkvill* fir Like View, Oregon,
Wednesdays ; arrive at Luke V e»v Si’ur-
davs : le ive Lake \ iew M md.iys ; arrive
at Linkville Thin.-days, c.u lying mail and
passengers.
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Ashland Ljdip No. 189,1. 0. G. T.
lleets at the ILill of He man Ar Fountain every
Friday eve.iin^ :it 8 o'clock r. m . Brothers and
risieri in ^>od rtrndirg are cori’. i ly invited to at­
tend. T e Temp’-e nne'f every iir.»i ani tLiul Wed­
nesday in etch ni«»nt:i.
J. 8. EUBANKS, W.C. T.,
K ate T hornton , St-c’y.
As'iiaml Lodge Ao.
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Holds their stated conin m icatioi * Thnrfdajr even
Ings on or before the full moon. Brethren in good
Btan<llng are cordial y invi’ed to att-i» 1.
W. U. ATKIN8ON, W. M.
J. S. E tbanks , Sec’y.
Ashland Lodffe No. «5,
fi. O. O. £ ..
Hold tbeir r«<iiUr meeting every s -.turd. y even-
1ng at their hall tn A«til.»ud. llijthere ir.
«tanC.nn are cjrluliy invneJ toixtleiil.
E. DE FEAT, N. O.,
W/W. K en .- nor , Sec'y.
Rebekah meetings oa Tueelay evening, neares
he fall of the moon esca month.
PROFESSIONAL.
J. A. AFFLIATE.
^ttornni and tëouibcor-at- £aw
SALEM OREGON
DR. J. H, CHITWOOD,
O regon .
A shland ,
river, that he would return io the Fort
satisfied, but if he was compelled to
I. O. Miller.
cross tho river, he would hold the
We copy the following hymn, frem a
tribe responsible, and would engage
Architect and Builder,
sin ’.li antii|u il”d volume in our possi : 1
i the services of a large
band of Des
GRANITE STREET - - - ASHLAND. entitled the Gospel Sonnets, pub!like 1 at
Chutes Indians to aid him in pursuing
TX7I LI. do mytlur^ in his line on short notice and Worcester, Mass., in 179w:
■” un the lowest t-rm.«.
n7v2:f
and punishing tho trib\
The tirfl Part be:r,g a ol 1 Meditation upon smoking
Early on the raorning of the next
tobaccs; and the fecou J, a New Addition to i\ o
II. KELLEY,
ImprovtmoLt of it.
d xy, the forces moved forward without
Attorney and Counselor-at-Law,
PART I.
holding further communications with
J acksonville , (I regon .
Tliis Indi »n weed now ui h^r'd quite,
the Indians, although solicited to do
Will prac’ice in all the Courts of »be State. r.-otn.
Though green at toon, cat down at night,
at en ioti given to all business intrusted to my care.
so. When they Lad proceeded about
8110 vs thy dec »;. !
O ffice . In the buildi'g formerly occupied
ten miles, they were overtaken l»y To-
All flefh is hay.
Ka'iler ,v Wut son, oppoute Court House.
Thus think, and fmolte tobicco.
lo, then known as “Old Man,” an ex­
Df. W. E. Rjyal
chief
of tho Shusta», who was very
The pipe, fo lib like ani weak,
Does thus thy mort 1 fiate befj.eak.
anxious that Lieut. Bonnycastle should
IIi9 j’ermanei.tly loc.itel in A«iilir.<l
Tu< u irt iv'n fuc1’,
go and ece that the woman La l not
Gone with a toush.
B’ ó "
iii't nndicidt I attention
been hurt. It was with some diilicul
Tnus think, and fmoke tob -.cco.
Pravi li e ot'Meii ¡vine.
tv that they were made to understand
H is bad I’ilieen Year-’ Practice in Oregon.
Ant when the f;noke aicend* ou high,
that the attempt at crime was to be
Then thou behv1 Tft the v : ;ty
< IFFICE At hi? residence on Factory S’ree*. •"> !» f
Of worldly fiuff,
punished as well as successful perpe­
Gone wiih i ¡»ail.
DENTISTRY AND ASSAYING.
tration.
Thus think, an 1 fmoke tebicco.
“Old Mau” di3p:x;ring of procuring
An<l wh>n '!:»■ i.’j » .-row» ♦*.>al wi|h’n,
D.Ì. F. G. HEARN,
a promise of immunity for old Joe,pro­
Think on thy fould»' ‘ >1 wi.h fin;
cured a promise that the troops would
For then the lire
PK K TIPA L
DENTIST.
It d> e« require.
await his return the next Jay , promis­
ALSO a > sayi : r of
Tims think, and f.-.i.ik ; tubiCC.i.
ing in turn that they would go to the
An 1 Left the n(he? c;fi aw lj;
and Bullion.
camp of the Shastas, in the mountains,
Then to thyf.lt t'.ioa mayeft f.iy,
and obtain and deliver up the fugitive.
/N FFICE on M'rwr pDe^t, n-i-th sVle Yrek», fttl-
That to the Juft
joining <’Hy Drr.^ S.ure,aud o;q o i e llu-ejiuu e
The troops camped tint night at '\V.1-
R »turn li.oa muf».
Burlwire Store.
Tune think, and f nuke tobacco.
low Springs, as agreed ou with “Oi l
T. <i. WATT El
p a n r 11.
O. R. ?!VE1
M in,” and proposed to remain at that
W..s thi* fm-.ll pl al for thee cn‘ down .’
! piuce until the evening of the next day,
So wits the j 1 n‘ of _---» it r ino vn;
so as to give the Indians ample titno to
Which mercy lenls *
p* <
fulliu their promise. B it just at dark,
F r n< l> er ea -.
TLus think, and fmoke t:<b-.cco.
however,a messenger arrived from Cot­
D i h jeiee lr.eliei’. 1 , r c»d
tonwood, with iniormation that a pack
O’ e
From Licit an'ti/i'y r»»r«-i.^ i weed .’
train bad been attacked at noon that
Then wbuth» th.» jmw’r
day, and one of two men hal bean kill-
< >f Jcli'-'« flo v’r .’
J. o. c. w i M r.it
J. WELLS
el, and the other barely escaping
T. us Link, uni f. .o’. c tobicco.
Ä WELLS.
Ehis was known to be tho country in
yv
Therr.milfe.ltxe’h» ;
Au « by I..-motfhuli
fest» d by Tipsie T-ee, and no doub's
■ «•ya
W.i it virtue il
were entorUi'iod of its being Lis
en Sh .run'
work.
Tim ?;' k. -Hi. i
wb tcc'».
Lieut. B innyeastle’s promise to“Ol I
I’> V in the uní1/.ti 1 p j e you blow;
Man” to await his return on the next
Your j !!<• iti outward me ns ; re fo,
fill be:7’a!y tire
J^y and the necessary preparation it
j. Q.
Your he .r. iiire.
required fur a campaign in the moun­
T.us fijck, -.ni 1 n,ke t bieco.
i
tains, delayed him titilil noon the next
The frn k»». ii’ e b:t” •. i c .n.'e, tow'r;
day.
The ?hat»tis not arriving up
So fhoui l a )>r iyi”u beirt of yours
ty that hour, the troopi started, leav­
V»Th ardent cries
Ao l Urofcssioîsai Piano Tti:acr.
ing their pack train under gnnrd. Each
Sur eo i it the fice«.
A shland ,
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O regon
Th i? think, and i’rbike tobicco.
man carried one blanket and ten days
rations of bread and pork. In the
scio PS OP SOUTHERN OREGON,
mjintimo, Lieut. Hood was dispatched
A N i) NORTHERN A LI FO R N : A
with a small escort, to inform Sem-tes-
HIS I’ORV .
U. B. WzVTSON.
tis, the chief of the Des Chutes, of the
ATTEMPT TO OUTRA iE A WHITE WOMEN murder oa tho mountain, and obtain
-Attorney and
clor-at-Xaiv
TOE -PURSUIT BY LIEUT. his assistance.
BY .INDIAN
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and
BOÏNV
NYCASTLE : OF rOÎKÇ .IONES —MUR-
O 1 the morning of the IS,h, Lieut,
R E. I A ES T. 1 TE. I G EN T.
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Hood overtook Lis command at the
t;> Spechi dt en ion ¡x'ven to all matters requir­
DpATII
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point where the murder had been com­
ing iu Attorney at the U. S. Lu: I OR’.ce.
WÏAMATH
FERII
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mitted, with thirty-eight well armed
L ak *: V iew , L xke C o .,O reoon .
Muy 31, 1S78.
iro-5> f
and wGl mounti»l Des Cnutes In lian»,
anxious to ail in the capture of Tipsie.
J. W. R obinson M. I».
!.. D INFORTII M. I).
On the 12;’i day of May.IS
These Indians having m tdo a long and
DANFORTH A ROBINSON. rage was attempte I on a white woman rapid march, it was deemed advisable
in the absence of her husband, bv nn
pilYSKTANS AND SURGEONS. Indian called “Joo,” of the Shastas. to lay by that day, and let them rest
and th ir horses graze.
His fiendish design was prevented by
Jiv. ksc.:» vil’e, Oregon.
At daylight,on the 19.h,the command
the heroic defense male by the woman,
xi * e P. J.
Oflice on California street, oppo-i
set
out on the trail of Tipsie, marching
•p •
it an’s s’.o e. Calls promptly attended which k -pt. back the villian until the
to. day or i.ight.
approach of soma whi'e men, when ho tint dry, a distance of twenty-five
miles, over a very rough country. The
tlid. Information was at onco dia­
H O T E L S
Des Chutes being mounted on their
patched by an Indian, to Lieut, li in­
hardy ponies, cool I ride where
nycastle, who was in command at Fort
American horses dare I not vonture,
Jones. Lieut. Hood was immediately
and the practiced eye of thorn Indians
rpiIF. undersigned wishes to re - ordered to cake’a small detachment of coul.l detect retreating Indian foot­
I mind his Iriends, and'he traveling pub­ troop.s.und demand of the Shasta chief,
lic generally, that he is >ull to be found at Bill, the unconditional surrender of marks,that a white man could n 4 Lav«
seen. From theso signs,they discover­
this
“Joe, ’ that he might bo punished.
ed that six Indians had been engaged
LONG ESTABLISHED HOUSE,
Lieut. Hood, in company with A. M.
where he Is re tdy at any time, and on all
Roseburg, Indian Agent,met the chief, in the murder.
o.Ti'ions tose; be'o e them the Best the
Late in the afternoon they reached a
market atibrds, in a s’yle m ■•outi louoo'dier and made known the demand. Billex-
Louse in Oregon.
pressed great indignation at “Jos” for point where the signs iu Heated that
Dinners and suppers fbrspeci.il occisión»,
the Indians had recently j encamped.
gotten up in apprupii.Je style, at -hort l o­ the crime he bad committed, but made
The
command immediately halted, and
a dfterminM effort to extract a prom­
tice.
JASPER HOUCK.
ise that in case ho should give him up, sent out their Indian spies, who, after
tliat he should not be hanged. But as being gone a short time, returned, an 1
ioneer
otel
Lient. Hood's orders required an un­ reported that two Indians ha l gone off
Linkville, Lake County, Oregon conditional surrender, Bill was con­ to the northward, up the valley, with
The subscriber is Again in charge strained after much he-itation to ngreo the mules taken from the packers, and
the other four, with seven horses st il
of the O ld P ioneer H otel of the to cive up the culprit in two days.
Three days having passed without a on from some drovers, two nights bo­
Lake country, , atui
and is determined
surrender, Lieut Bonpycastle left Ft. fore, had gone in the direction cf tilo
to make his guests
Jones on the 16th of May, with all his cave on the Klamath river,and that one
Comfortable and Happy.
force, for the purpose of compelling Indian had been traced going up the
Give him a call ami rest assured the surrender of Joe» On reaching valley quite recently,apparently follow­
that he will make you feel at Yreka, the command was visited by ing those with tho mules. This
two cf the principal Indians of the Indian, they believed to be from some
home
[2-29tf.
Scott’s valley band, who expressed adjacent tribe,who hal camo to visit the
GEORGE Nl'RSE.
them-elves very anxious that Joe camp where the troop were halted, end
should be surrendered, and at the same finding it desertel, was making his
LAKtVlEW COTTAGE I
.1 Picsant and Homelike House situated time renewing their endeavor to obtain way home.
The direction taken by tho Indians
a-'surance that Joe should not bo hang­
—AT—
IIuiniHin^r ISii'il Springs, near ed. B innycastle still refused, giving as induced Lient. Bonnycastle to believe
Klauuttli Lake,
his reason, in the usual contemptuous that the Shastas had participated in the
Eleven miles from Linkville, on the road to style of tho military officers of that murder, and he determined to pursue
Ft. Kl.imatb. Like Co.. Oregon.
day, that ho intended to turn him over nnd chastise them.. Pursuing their
.ZirAttention paid to tht wants of guests to the civil authorities, and that be did I trail until niglifall thev encamped, and
The sub- 'rib *r also keeps a Good StabD not expect that they would bo punish­ at daylight next morning they took up
well supplied with b iy and grain. Call ana ed according to law. Ths Lieutenant their lino of march toward the Cave.
see if be can keep hotel.
then informed tho chief that if he was About ten o’cloek, the Des Chutes
V-'ulS'f.l
D. j. Ferree.
given up before he arrived at Klamath scouts discovered tho Shasta camp,and
OFFICE—At the Ashland Drugstore.
J. R. NEIL,
TIORXEY AT-LAW,
Jacksonville. Oregon.
J. AV. HAMAKAK.
• NOTARY PUBLIC.
LINKVILLE LAKE co ., OREGON.
Office in Post Offict Buil>fin<j.
aften/itm ¡/iren to cf>nr<
[2 l!>tf.
M. L. McOALL,
Surveyor and Civil Engineer
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ASHLAND HOUSE.
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Is prepared to do any work in his line »hoe no­
tice.
LUO-M-Jj
$2.00 PER ANNUM
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SMOKING S > TR
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P R O F E S S I O N A L
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OFFICE—On Main
ASHLAND, OREGON: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1878
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returned with tho inf; rmatiou. The
¡1ERE AND THERE.
troops at once pushed forward iu the
rmi'E has ennr.b’.ed soni". nnJ some disgrace»!;
hope of engaging them before they
I. hurts nut iu itself, but a* 'tie placed.
reached their stronghold.
An intelligent panper has appeared
Ou reachi g the brink of fx tall bluff
1 i ;t.m, who can bog in ten different
opposite a similar bluff, on which the languages.
Shastas were camped, tho troops were
On account of the grasshopper
hailed by an American, who informed
plague, tho farmers of Sierra valley
them that C.ipt. G jo .1.:I1 was with the
Cui., cut their grain for hay.
Shastas, and desired to speak with
The exportation of American fruit
Lieut. Bonnycastle.
Capt. Good-
all and three other men, who bar, increased in value from $269,000 in
wero with him, crossed over to the 1872, to over $3,000,000 in 1877.
troops, and informed them that the i Great Britain is importing 3,000.000
Shastas wero very anxious to remain at bushels of grain per week, and Franoe
peace, and that tho Indian Joe had 2,000,000 bushels in the same time.
been brought into tho en np at Willow
John D. Davis has 400 acres of toma­
creek two hours after the troops left toes on his farm in Richmond, Va., the
that point. Capt Goodall further in- largest held of tbo kind in the United
forino.l them that Tipsie h < 1 come into States.
tho Shasta camp ab nit thirty-sir. hoars
California will swap her wheat this
before, and informed them of I.is mur­ summer for $70,000,000. She has al­
der on the mountain, and proposed ready b^guu to sing “This wheat buy
that they should join them in a war of and buy.”
extermination on tho whites. The
A. family of four persons was poison
Shastas knowing well tho stato of feel­
ed at New Orlexus, lately, by using
ing already existing among thecitizena,
oxalic acid by mistake, for sugar, in
and having already had some exper- cocking.
iencewith the volunteers,doelined to ex­
Thoe American agricultural imple­
cept their offer, ml for the purpose of
courting the good will of tho whites, ments at tho I aria Exposition are pro­
sot on Tipsie and bis men, killing nounced by French journals unrivaled
him, his eou an 1 his son-in-law, the in Europe.
Yellow fover in New Orleans necessi­
fourth making h's escape, and was,
doubtless,the Tudiau whoso foot marks tates quarantine, and navigation on the
were discovered following the two In­ lower Mississippi is about m good as
suspended.
dians with tho mules.
When Joe was brought into Willow
Westmoreland is the smallest county
Springs and finding the troops gone, in Virginia, but has been the birth­
he was taken to Yreka, where ho was place of three Presidents— Washington
kept two days, at tho end of vzhic’a time Madison and Monroe.
two Indians made their appearance
The San Francisco Alta tells us tba|
bearing the scalp3 cf T:pdo and tho yield of wino will probably--be
his son, and soliciting Capt Goodall’s 6,000,000 gallons— about the same as
interference to prevent tho troops from for the last two years.
ati.’.cki ng their band, as they had no
The largest strawberry farm in the
doubt that they would be led to their
world is probably that of John R.
eamp by the tracks of Tipsie and his
men. (’apt. Goodall immediatly pro­ Young, about two miles from Norfork,
cured file authorty of tho Indian agent Va. It comprises about 250 acres.
Gen. Bobert Toombs says that tea
and went to tho Shasta camp taking
growing in Georgia is not a new thing
Joe with him.
—that for the last for-ty years “tea
After hearing the statement of Capt.
trees” have been growing in the State.
Gjodall.Li *ut. Bonnycastle,sent Lieut.
It is estimated that the loss to agri­
Hood to camp, an 1 he proceeded to
tho Sba-txcjmp, accompanied by (J.ipt. culture from the growth of weeds in-
Goodall .and his mon, chief Fem tes-tie steal of useful grasses, is not less than
and two or three others. They w< re $100,090,000 per yoar in the United
received by the Shastas with demon­ {States.
strutions of friendship and confidence, ¡ The census returns of 1875 show that
After ibn talk with the Shasta In- farmers of the great State of New York
diuns the I ieut. left Joe in charge of numbered 3.51,G28, or about one-fourth
( ipt. Goodall to take him to Yreka,and of the population engaged in active
taking with him th? horses the Shis'p.s operations.
had taken from Tipsie, he joined his
Au eastern man who has been fined
command, and set out on bn return, several weeks in succession for drunk­
camping that night at the Klamath en ness.cooly proposes to the magistrate
and next day moving on beyond Yre­ that he should take him by the year at
ka. Cxpt. Goodall also returned to a reduced rate.
) ■
Yreka on the same day but for some
Miller A Lux, stock raisers and
cause had left Joo behind.
dealers in California, have 80,000 head
In the mean time tho citizens seeing of stock,own several hundred thousand
that Joe was nA with the troops, and acres of choice land, and are rated as
failing to pet uny satisfactory explana­ worth $15,000,000.
tion from tho military authorties, who
Governor A ance says: “North Caro­
seemed to think it beneath their dig
lina, iu my judgment, presents more
nity to communicate with a citizen, de­ I
solid inducements to sober-minded im­
termined to take the nutter into their
migrants, than any other portion of the
own hands and revenge the aitrocity
American Union.”
committed by Joe.
Foreign papers believe that Europe
C.ipt. Goodall, however, was sent
back, accompanied by chief Bill under can take 2 070,00' head of cattle from
authority of the agent to bring in the United States every year, the limit
Joe,
and after arriving at the
Shasta camp, persuaded all th? Indians of cattle rearing having been reaobed
in camp to accompany him to Yreka as iu many parts of Europe.
he was aware that the agent was desir­
The average w’ages per month paid
ous of having them return rofteott’s val­ farm hands in Georgia, with rations,
ley, On the morning of the 21 li, the
Indians, numbering in all, including are—in North Georgia, $9; Middle
women an 1 cail Iron, some sixty,started Georgia, $3 5?; South-west Georgia,
out with Capt. Goodall for Yreka. On $7 41; East Georgia, $8; South-east
the firrt day .they reached Klamath fer­ Georgia, $10 10; average for the Slate
ry, and encamped some two hundred
yards above, Bv this time, x company $8 03.
of volunteer1», under the command of
The Stockton
Indepettdenl tellR
Cant. E. M. Geiger and the Deschutes about the boss grasshopper as follows:
chief with his men. arrived at the ferry, “It is nearly six inches long, and its
and seeing the IudiaDs.and recognizing
among them the Indian Joe, they at body is an inch and a quarter in depth,
once attacked them, and a lively fight while its head is as big as a man’s
ensued, wherein Chief Bill was severe thumb.”
1? wounded, an 1 two Indians killed.
On the evening of the 26th, nit
The loss on the side of the whites was
number
of stock theives made a raid
one man by the name of McKxney kill
e l. The Indians escaped to the chap­ on a mule train which was eamped on
arral and secreted themselves enJ Centennial prairie, Dakota Tr., and suo..
kept up an occcsionil firing toward the
camp of the v?iuntoers. Beforo dark ceeded in driving off ten of them. The,
that evening the Indians came oppo­ predatory party was followed and the
site the ferry house and opened a tire animals recovered.
o it fortunately, however, they did no
A German citizen of Clinton county
damage.
Ha l it Dot been for tbo arrogance of Pa , posted the following notice on bis­
tile military authorities who declined front gate: “Temograts dake Not is 1.
to communicate with civilions because, Petter you not enm in mid dot gate*
as they snppnseil,they wore blue thirts, Der Big Deg is tied Loose Youst be­
or coull they have known the course
that v’is being pursued by the author­ hind der House, unt Ihavcjine mit dot
ities, this unfortunate affair could Greenback Barty. Petter you Temograts
nevelshave occ urred.
; Keep a Leedle Ont
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