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THE ASHLAND FRIDAY TIDINGS FEBP.l ARY li, 187D CA LIFO R NIA’S FORESTS. In an able editorial upon the mbject, the Sacramento Record Union tells the people of California that the subject which it to them of mure importance than any oth er is that of the destruction of the forests of the Sierras. It warns them that unless measures arc taken to arrest this destruction, California will in the course of time be reduced to an uninhabita ble desert. The destruction of the forest growth of these mountains is said to be progressing with u rapidity which will in a few years produce results which it may well appel the hearts of the people of the Golden State to consider. The axe and the torch are not the only agents of destruction. They are doing a prodigious work., but a more formidable danger is found in the destruction of the young shoots and undergrowth by the vast flocks of sheep which range over the mountain sides. An ar ticle in the Nation is quoted from on this point as follows: “One can ride for days at a cer tain elevation in the mountains «long sheep-trails without seeing outside of the rare ranch inclosures a single uninjured shrub or a seed ling tree of any sort. Everything the sheep can reach is eaten close. This means that there is nothing left of the forest but its older trees, and that it has lost or is fast losing its best element for holding back melted snow; and it means too, that there are no new trees coming in to take tlie place in their turn of their parents. As the number of animals driven to the mountains increases, forest fires increase also, set by the shepherds either accidentally or purposly to increase the next year’s feed. A forest annually wasted by fire, on which the axe is always making terrible inroads, and in which no young trees are allowed to spring up, is clearly doomed. When that of the Sierras, the noblest of our continent, has gone, nothing will stand between California and the dangers which threaten her.’’ The danger is found in the fact that the absence of the timber will precipitate the melting of the snow on the mountains and allow the winter rains, which are now held by the forests, to descend to the valleys in floods, instead of making their way gradually and performing the irrigation necessary to tho ex s ence of vegetiiiin. The Nation is again quoted upon this poiut. “It is not difficult to foretell the results. Every season, earlier in the South, later in the North, tor rents, more teriible and destruct ive than the history of the world records, will carry during a few weeks death and desolation from the mountain sides down over the foothills, covering the plains with debris and hold the cities lying along the low bai ks of the larger rivers at their mercy. And then, when this terrible rush of a few days is over, it will be found that the whole supply of water for the summer is exhausted. The foot hills and the plains will no longer produce fruits or vegetables, or any summer crop for which irri gation is essential, for no water to irrigate with will come down from the mountains. Placer mining will be a thing of the past, and ev en the navigation of the great riv ers will be either interrupted or abandoned. During the last fifty years more than one country in Europe has been visited by calam ities similar in origin and extent to those which now threaten Cali fornia, but in none of them were the physical reasons for danger so great.’’ ----------- <----------------------------- THE RESTRICTION BILL PASSED. July following. Tbe amendment being lost, Conkling devoted him- self ive nnnnsitinn tlm self to to act active opposition tn to the bill. Among the Senators re corded as voting aye, are Bayard, Windom, Blaine, Lamar, Thur man,Voorhes and Gordon. Among the nocs are the names of Burnside, Conkling, Edmunds, Hamlin, Ferry, Hoar and Bruce. Some slightchanges in the bill were made by the senate, but there is no question that the House will concur with them and that the bill will be signed by the President. ------------------ >. «. .4-------------------- Referring to the action of the Sheriff and the people of Yakima county, W. T., in capturing Chief Moses and preventing an outbreak, the Walla Walla Statesman says: “For the first time since the com mencement of the Indian troubles, in this and neighboring territories, we find the people of the disturbed section of country depending upon themselves. Heretofore during an Indian aiarm the everlasting erv has been for.‘troops, more troops,’ while at the same time the country • towns were crowded with any number of well-armed men, who thought of everything but doing the work themselves, and content ed themselves by loafing around saloons and abusii'g Gen. Hownrd tor not doing impossibilities. The conduct of some of these settle ments hus been nothing less than disgraceful, brave men were the exception that, accord ng to logic, proves the rule. The actions of our brave fellow citizens i:i Yaki ma county are in startling con trast with other portions of our exposed frontier and prove them to be possessed of courage, judg ment and determination to pur sue lo the death the murderers of their friends and relatives shot down in cold blood at the thresh old of their very w doors. PKTTTION.—A petition, nurueroualy sigued by cittz bs of Pievua, Lmkvilie aud L<»s* River pre-ciuci®, baa been seu| o the G >vemr»r. asking that ha ap tpiiot a committee to visit and ex mi e lar^e tract» of laud Ling ia the vicinity of Tule atni Little Klamath Jake«, and who »ball bare power to take testimony in referencu to tbe m inner in which these lunda have been selected by the Stale as swamp and ov.r-fl >wed, under the act of March 12ih i860.- an ! who »ball have power to investigate tbe character of said lands which are alleg ed to be swamp. The object of tins pe tition is to bring about an adjustment of tie coi flictiug claims of the Slate, ■nd bomeU'-ad and pre emptiun claim anta thereto. Tbe long and expcnaive contests between the State and actual ■ettlers on these lau Is, have been a so rious drawback to the settlement aud improvement of the country. A just se;tlt-ment of these cla ms will be a gnat relief and give a new impetus to out increasing importance, and give us new strength io bear the burdeni nee eM.rily incumbent np*>n a r.ewjy organized County.— S'a'e Line Herald ------ In the Oregonian of the 14th is published a letter written by Quincy A. Brooks in relation to the report of the investigating cominitte on the Modoc war trans actions. It is well written and places a better face upon the mat ter than it has borne hrretofore, but cannot be accepted by any means as a satisfactory explana tion or refutaron of the charges of the committee. ------- — -o ♦ J amks T h < J acob W aonkb , hx T ow , W. H. A tsimsos , E. K. A sdbbbob . Morris Baum. L 8. r. MARSH, Ashland Nursery. —i also H ave a variety of — SHADE TREES. AHLSAND WOOLEN MANUFAC- TURING CO. ■^^OULI) announce to the people of Ja®k- •oo and Lake counties that they have com tnenccd receiving Ibeir new Fall Stock, and -ARE >OW MAKING - that every day will witness additions to the argest stock of —FROM— O bmamctsal S b b r bk ev’T-blo m ng Ro»es, and am un* oí Publias. Beauti'ul ------ and ------ Main Strati, Ashland, — TH E — SUGAR MAPI E, SOFT MAPI E OREGON MA PI E. lil.Ai K WALNUT. BVriErNUr, CHE -IM I. ALI K NDS OF HICKORY, EI.MS, AT.AN.HUS. IRON WOOD, BOX ELDER, CAT.TFoR'-IA WALNUT, i INN, WARHOO, BLA' K ASH. OSAGE OR. ANGE, ETC, E1C. F lowxbixo B ushf .» Promptly Executed. A selves in h b el 'o me me reqii' S <d l ionie fvt wird and set’lc. n36-3u. J. Q. L ati a C. 11. II abgaiiink . Hargadine & Latta, OULD announce to tbe prepl» el Goof L»ke t alley and vicinity, ibai they are r».«iviug al tbe W THE VERY BEST KATIVE WOOL ----- Something New----- Of the Choicest kinds, TOILET ARTICLES, ETC., ETC., ETC. HEADQUARTERS, All kinds of Planing, Moulding. Turning, Circular and Scroll Sawing. ----- FOB— Furniture and Ornamentai Carving, Etc. Done to Order. Staple and Fa cy Goods XO'FuriHtiire. Sash. Door» Blinds and Moulding C' ti'fati'i> on bund and m d’■ to oider. BLANKETS, FLANNELS, CASSIMERES, DOESKINS, AND HOSIERY. - consisting OP HARDWARE, STOVES. WRINGERS. NAILS, TUBS Millinery and Dress Goods. Crockery, Glass and Tin- Cigars and Tobacco. 1 Come and see Us. JUST RECEIVED Ware, Shawls, Wrap pers, Cloaks. —A T THE— ASHLAND DROQ STORE And, in fact, everything required for the The largest stock of Trade of HOLI DRUGS, 51ED1C1AES —OLD AND NEW.— DAY GOODS, ETC., SOUTHERN AND SOUTH BAS-TERN Are invited to eend in their orders and are ussured that they shall receive prompt attention at ¡trices that defy competition. Perfume) y, SfMtionary, AMD - MERCHA DISE Toilet Articles. -TOYS- Ia great variety »rd of new aid virion, det'gns. Ever brought to this market. «ay totveiy metr ot They desire to -PURE WINES A'» L1QUOR»-- il:i» pxper, that, -F jt medhal purpoees- Pipe8, Tobacco -AT TBF.- ASHLAND WOOLEN MILLS, CITY DRUG STORE, GOODS SO.D AT THE STANDARD -AMI?- -Cigars.— A shland , O regon . PAINTS, OILS, VARNISH, GLASS, \QWET. MABKE1 PRICE, ASHLAND BRUSHES, F.T(J., ETC. W. II. ATKINSON, MARBLE frECKErART. CANDIX«, NUTS Will do it, they propose t» do tbe largest * bttaines» thia fall and winter, ever MARBLE WORKS, done by them in ibe Uet five J. H. Russell, Prop’r., Selling off Cheap H place and turned iny en.ire attention to tbe MARBLE BUSINESS, FINE CONFICTIONS.. PRESCRIPTION* Qutfilly V3H, otraded of the fineat drug«. positively make it to tbe advantage of every one to call upon them in Ashland FOR CASH a » d TJAVING BOUGHT THB INTEREST OF WT- H. Atkin»-n In ibe A fhl . vb Dsro Bronx, I wool I re-iec fuliy solicit < coutino nce <u tbepn run age w len hx. b-*-n au liberally expended U> ih* yre. prl-'ore la the pert. t»-24tf. DR. J. H. CHITWOOD. year», ard that they can aving again settled in this JENSEN A IFFLAND, and test tbe truth of ibeir assertions They will »pare no pains to maintain, mor YREKA, CALIFORNIA, fully than ever, the reputation of their I am prepared fo fill all orders with neat ness and dispatch. bouse, as the acknowledged DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, CLOTHING, BOOTS, TABLETS AND SHOES. CIGARS AND TOBACCOS HEADSTOiV ES -------- A FULL LINE OF--------- TO Executed in any description of M arble . AXNOUNCK Special Attention Paid to orders from all pirts THEY Alt! 0> STOVES, TINWARE, HARDWARE, SOUTHERN OREGON. OPEN FOR TRADE CROCKERY and GLASSWARE. Prices, reasonable—Address J. H. R ussell , r.o34 v3 lyr Ashland. Oregon. GEO. THAT ALWAYS -Una - PAINTS ¿ILS AND GLASS Cheaper than any other House in Ashland. NUTLEY. Lard, L ard C ans ...........15. D ollars per. 100 W ater B uckets ....................... 50 cents. WDER, 8HOT, CAPS AND WADS OF THE The Chinese restriction bill —BIST STANDARD BRANDS- reached a final note in the senate DRY GOODS, last Saturday, and was passed by a vote of 39 to 26. The debate up Clothing, Hats, Caps, Boots on it was one of the most interest and Shoes ing of the session, and was partici pated in bynearly all the Pacific Of E v ° r y Variety, coast Senators, Blaine, Conkling, STATIONARY Hamlin Thurman and many oth An exchange says: “Congress Of all Kinds and Discription ers. Blaine and Thurman sup seems crazy this winter. Upon the ported the bill. Hamlin opposed it upon the grounds that the proper heels of the pensions arrears bills, mode of proceedure was by diplo increasing the liabilitie of govern matic measures, that cheap labor ment some $50,000,000, conies a of whatever description, should be proposition from the senate finance welcomed and that Christianity committee to reduce the tobacco A LARGE STOCK OF would lead us to welcome every tax cutting down the revenue BACON, BEANS. DRIED EBUTT. COFFEE, 8U wn to our country. Conkling about $5,000,000. GAR.RCK, TEA*. SALMON, SAR DINES, OYSTER- BAL- admitted the need of such a rem VAR A i VS. CANDLES, SPICE«, FLA edy for the Chiyese evil, but con The bill appropriating $50 000 VORING EXTRA T8. PA ES f MEDIC,NBA Etc. tended that international usage for the improvement of the wagon A C omplete L ine O f requires that a treaty be not ter I road from ¡Scottsburg, Douglas minate in this abrupt manner I county, to Camp Stewart, this Ashland Factory Goods. without diplomatic correspon county, lias been reported upon dence, and offered a substitute for 1 favorably by the Senate committee FLANNELS. the bill, by the provisions of which to which it was referred. YARN. SOCKS. the President is requested to in BLANKETS, form the Emperor that the exist The members of the Maine SHIRTS and CASSl MERES, ing treaty is unsatisfactory and Legislature receive $150 a session, EVERYTHING in our line kept con» la unless the evil resulting to this and the sessions are consequently ly on band and sold at tbe country therefrom be remedied short—Looks like a good arrange Lowest Livius Rates. by a new treaty by the first of ment. January, 1880, to notify the Em The Eugene City Bine Ribbon Cl ob peror tjist this government abro I» ow unuil eie 80Ö OiVUibet» end the gates rhe ijeaty from the first of Bruwuavillc 300. ■ARGAD1NB * LATTA. in-sa MARSH & CO. A FULL LINE Off TABLE AND POCKET CUTLERY. Paints and Oils, We will contract to design and erect t*l kinds ot bnildingB. When Jetqfuble to those employing n», we will furnish all the ma'erial required for tlie construction of any building ready tor oecup *ny [ »)■ I9tl Remember Ou» do -T iO'Jth of tie U. S. Land Office, The larg-»t an 1 best »elect® 1 »lock ever offered to tbe people of Ea» ® n Orer® i. ------- « 0o ing, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps, rpilANKING THEIR PATRONS FOR JL tbei very liberal pa<rotiage oftfi'* past, bey a-sure them of their intention fo: meriting a continuance < f the same. —AND— General Merchandise Groceries, Hardware, Cloth —Evrr received in Ashland — CASH.’ v3 n 32- STREET. ASHLAND OREGON. OREGON. All of which they Bell at the very low e-4 price for MO NTT RENTS, A FULL ASSORTMENT OF FACTORY. MARSH & CO GRANITE L ixkvili . e , L akk C ounit , <> px < ion . ll persons knowing them ., FURNITURE, SASII, BLIND DOOR AND MOULD ING »' y S ingular E ffect —W** learn from Of any house in Southern Oregon. Mr George l»uaos, ol Butte Creek, that many of the ca tie ou that rauge huve a singular disease which is as cribed to the Cbapparal which they ate For they do not keep anything but forced to eut lu the ab.—neo of other G enuine A rticles fe* d and browse The fi.sl .¡(Upturns developed are similar to those ot They a!eo keep on band drunkenness in tbe tinman beu>t, and P atent M edicines a aangerously vicious di-p»sitiou C"W8 that are ordinarily gentle rush Of every description found elsewhere, madly around and try to g<>re every thing within ibeir reach, and when »x OILS, GLASS, bauattd stagger blindly to tbe ground. FAINTS, This spectacle among the brnte crea -’-AND-- tiou might be a good temperance lee lure.— Sentinel. DYE-STUFFS, PERFUMES, TELEGR a PHICBR^VITIES. J. B. LVXÉ PLANING MILL. ATjSO A GENERAL assortment of other f.Uit tre-. nu 1 reic‘1»'«, Peir», Plums, PiUDes, Cherrie-, Curr-n-.s, Grape», G wj e-benies, E c,. E c. — oo— A F. SQU1EE8, J. M. Me Call & Co., mechanics Inlow & Farlow. —----- The proposition for the transfer of the Indian Bureau from the In terior to the M ar Department was rejected by the House. This result will be viewed with dissat isfaction and disappointment by the people everywhere on the bonier where there is danger of trouble with the Indians. — Apple Trees for Sale rt the— ---------- ’---------- The Northern Pacific railroad Wheat from Siberia can be placed in company is reported to be now in England at lulver rates than American a prosperous condition, and its wheat. managers ure confident of their Jacob Schaffer is now billiard cham ability to complete the road across pion of the United States—a result of the continent in a few years by the last billiard tournament m New means of'the proceeds of the sale York. Pere Hyacinthe is regarded by the of their lands and tbe earnings of Ambbiahops of Paris a« deranged, and roads now being operated. A Min a do-adful example of divine vbastiae- nesota paper says: “The sales of ■ueut for infidelity. lands during the past four months Tbe directors of tbe City of Glasgow have been unprecedently heavy, Bank were aentenced Io lnipriiniiiiH-nt and a large immigratioii is expect —two of them to eighteen m<>ntba, aud ed to pour into Dakota at the I he other five to eight mouths. opening of spring. The company has just closed a contract with George T. Baldwin Pennsylvania parties for 12,000 tons ol steel rails, to be delivered -DEALER IN — on board of vessels at Erie, Pa., T IN,— —STOVES, at $45 per ton. The rails will be —AND— used on the hundred miles of the U& LED UÌ LSI» road to be built west of the Mis QLI REPAIRING am > JOB WuRK souri river the present year.” The governmental agricultural report of the hist year, recently issued, gives the average ¡»rice of the cotton crop of this county at Si cents per pound; value of the crop for 1878, 5194,700,000. Average price of tobacco, five and six-tenths; total crop for 1878, es timated at 393.000,000 pounds, worth $22,000,000. Horses in creased three per cent., but the price very materially decreased. Cows show an increase in nearly all the states, and sheep increased about five per cent. The price for hogs is ruinously low, while the increase is about five per cent. Mules increased about two per cent. 20,000 R emoval of the K lamaths .—Man, ALEXANDER FEACH,"«• ear'i*-»» in m^rke* and Bix Tar .el e, of Uje J.iPANE'E PERSIMMON. ot our propio, especiaLy tbo.e in the west end or ibe county, favor tbe rv <>. COOLIDGE. co oval of the Klauiutb Ind ana to a place where they may cease to trouble and give us a chance to rest. They are fullv aware of tbe difficulty, but say that the experience will be something Himtliar to tbe only -ure emo for t< otb ALWAYS AHEAD | a<-be, viz.: te expel the offending mem ber, The operation will give exei del Because they have, as usual, tbe ating pain, but a joyful rest must nec es-anly foilow, nil the more to be —LARGEST STOCK— wished aa a dual quietus t * our fears, ■nd a removal of the only barrier to a - AND- rapid -• <tlemeut of our cunutry.— Lake View Herald FINEST DRUGS ------ — ■ ------------- — — J N McCall —<«F TUX — Bacon, Hams, Eggs and Butter. GOODS -------- (0)---------- A. g IU. & a d. FOR IN FOR THLMAT1ON OF Winchester Repeating Rifles from DEALERS AND CONSUMERS _____ CON 1ST! NG "F----------- THEY WILL BAT THAT THEY KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND BOOT & SHOE STORE ■ Doeskins Flannels, —Next doario the Po-t office - Clothing, Blankets, Extra Bo ton Syrup. THANKS TO THE IUDL1C For lheir Liberal 1’a'io iiige. which be cep « >•» te^ii" o y 'I eir appre ciation His purpose is to Table and Pocket Cutlery. A LARGE SUPPLY OF Coast meres. EVERY KIND OF / Always *u lurid aod fur a«k al Uwaat price» “Grow W.th the Place.” B. F. REESER HE IS IN FAVOR OF THOSE aro ßSrTihe h'gbexl market pvie-a paid f«r-^^ Aahlaod, Oreg. Nov. 15, 1878 if, WEAR GOOD BOOTS AND AND DISPOSEOF THEM Wagon Shop. Maieiiux of nil kind«. Mich ns rpilEUNDER IGNEI) WILL BE FOUND 1 • hi- shop on Main » reel,two doo » fionitlie livery stabler, wlcehe ispiepured to do all kinds ol *4»k ¡u bi« line l the lo ve«' price. -FRENCH— AND ALLIGATOR GOODS, Aid mjihiogeiee that tbe | Lblii ir.ij 1 ire ALWAYS ON HAND, An J nil work go'ten up in tbe VERY REST STYLE. GEO. NUTLEY. WAGONS, BUGGIES AND ALL KINDS Of Vehicles Made to Order. Repairing of all kinds ’one with dispatch call 'i>d >ee □>«. BOltf. JOHN RALPH. WHEAT — OATS— BARLEY---- BACON CHEAPER —AND LARD— THAN THEY CAN BE PROCURED IUL WHERE, CEprgxXMJna COSTX3B eCXSYUD AN» rUKNISB A F1R8T CIAJ88 ABHÇLB AT THAT. - JCtUeOa. J. M. McCALL ¡i CO. --- •--- ŒffaxBa sxoKxaD ••• A