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.’’
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A F. SQU1EE8,
J. M. Me Call & Co., mechanics
Inlow & Farlow.
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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—
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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
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J N McCall
—<«F TUX —
Bacon,
Hams,
Eggs and Butter.
GOODS
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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.
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