INDEPENDENT ON ALL SUBJECTS, AND DEVOTED TC^THE INTERESTS OF SOUTHERN OREGON. 1 ASHLAND, OREGON: FRIDAY. MARCH 28,1879. VOT, III. —NO.42 THE HOLE INFERNO. Deponit« foi* Murrey«. Resting bnt two hours at Hay’s we THE PLAGUE IN SOUTH AMERICA. started with a party of twenty-one in [From the State Line nerald.] [From the Oregonten.] Mach has been written of the horrors Now, Harry, pray, don’t laugh at me, Ashland - • - - Oregon pursuit of the band of Illinois who had In Lake county are many natural A bill which had previously passt J ---- ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY---- B t wbe i yon go so late of the great famine of China, and i curiosities which are worthy of descrip­ the senate, passed the house also at OFFICE—At the Ashland Drug Store. given us the Blip the day before. We scarcely an incident of the progress of' tion. This one is situated about two I wish you would be careful, dear, —B T— the recent session, making important found them at the head of Round Pra- the plague in Europe has been allowed To never slam the gate. LEEDS d- MERRITT. JAMES R. NEIL; miles east from Linkville, and about changes in the law relating to deposit4 rie creek, and they immediately began to escape the notice of the newspapers, one hundred yards north of the road, for surveys. The new law provides For Bessie listens every night OFFICE—On Main Street, (in 2d story of ^TIORNEY AT-LAW, a retreat, going down the creek and up but the great calamity in Brazil has at the foot of the monntain. There is that where settlers make deposits in received comparatively little attention. nothing to attract the attention of the And so does teasing Kate, McCall A Bauin’s new building.) with the provisions of the stat­ Applegate river to Cheyenne creek. Some months ago a brief dispatch no­ stranger who might be parsing this accord To tell tne next day what o’clock utes, “ the amount so deposited shall We followed them until nearly dark ticed the ravages of the smallpox in Jacksonville, Oregon. They heard you slam the gate. spot, exeept the steam which issues go in part payment for their labels sib­ Terms of Subscription : and then camped where Mrs. Stevens connection with the drought and fam­ forth from the foot of the hill, and a ilated in the townships the surveying Om copy one year...................................................... $ •.jo J. W. HAMAKAR. r Twa« nearly ten last night, you know, now lives. After it was dark enough ine in one of the northern provinces, stream of hot water, which crosses the of which is paid for out of deposits, or “ • six month«.............................................. 1.50 but this and subsequent reports were But now ’ tis very late — *• three “ ................................................ l.oo several of ns started out to look for confined to generalities, and failed to road nearly opposite. In passing over the certificates issued for snch depos­ NOTARY PUBLIC. (We’ve talked about to many things): Club rates six copies for......................................... 12.50 camp fires, hoping to discover the In­ give an adequate idea of the horrible the ground iu this vicinity, a liullbw, its may be assigned by indorsement, LINEVILLE LAKE CO., OREGON. Terms, tn advance. rumbling sound is heard and one and be received in payment for any Ob, do not slam the gate'. dians in that way. Onr search was visitation. Office In Post Office Building. iSpecUl attentoln Terms of Advertising : shudders at the thought of being public lands of the United States en­ given to couveyancihg. vinlOtf. Last year when the yellow fever dos- For all the neighbors hearing it, soon rewarded by the Bight of a blaz­ ocal Notices per line........ ..locts precipitated into an unknown subter­ tered by settlers uudcr the pre emption. olated so many districts in the South­ rofes«ional Card«, per year ♦ 10 00 Will say your future fate ing fire, not far from onr camp, and raneous abyss, should the covering, or and homestead laws, and not other­ wo loch««, per quarter.... 3 on ern States, the sympathetic people of C. B. WATSON. We’ve been discussing; so I beg our “ . 5 00 creeping stealthily toward it we fonnd, our enterprising nation had steamboats, crust, give way. On approaching this wise.” tgbt “ . 8 4 ) ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR-AT-LAW You will not slam the gate! A note from Representative Willi»»» instead of Indians, a party of soldiers railroads, and the telegraph at hand to Hole Inferno un aperature about ten ne-half Column . 10 00 gives information that this bill had feet in diameter aud almost circular, hree-fourths “ . 14 M and For though it is all very true, under command of Lieut. Switzer,who enable them to render efficient service discovers the outlet for tho heat of Plu­ passed, and we presume has been ne . 17 50 REAL ESTA TE AGENT. I wish that they would wait LtOAt ADVKSTISEME8T8 bad come down from Fort Lane. The and prompt assistance. Under the to’s dominions. On approaching this signed by the president To Surveyor most favorable circumstances the ^¿rSpecUl attention given to all matter« reqnlr One square {ten lines or less) 1st Insertion........ >2.50 To canvass our affairs—until— Lieutenant told ns be was very glad to scourge was terrible enough, aud the spot, a strange sulphrous odor greets General Tolman we are indebted for a Each additional insertion..................................... 1.00 ng an Attorney at the U. 8. Land Office. Well—pray don’t slam the gate! see us, as he had but twelve men and deaths in the infected regions reached the visitor, and tbo hot steam drives copy of the bill, and also for the fol­ L aks V iew , L ake C o ., O begon . Job Printing, him to the windward. By carefully lowing suggestions as to advantage At least, not now, By-and by. two Indian scouts or guides. He told a total of nearly 12,000. But in the approaching May 31, 1878. [no-50-if Of all description, done on short notice. legal this the water can be seen gained by settlers under it, viz; Blanks, Clrenters, Business Cards, Billheads, letter­ When in “our home’’ I wait ns that the Indians had killed Jerome stricken provinces of Brazil the deaths, at u depth of about ten feet below the Settlers who are, or may hereafter in a population of 900,000, numbered heads, Posters, etc., gotten up in good style at living M. L. McCALL, Your coming, I shall always like Dyar and Dan McCue on Applegate, nearly 500,000. surface. Thero is no other outlet than find themselves outside of the surveys prices. To hear you slam the gate! (and there are many already), and who and that as he was ont of rations he Surveyor aud Civil Engineer The particulars of the great calamity a subterraneous channel, which reaches may Agents for the Tidings. wish to avail themselves of tbo the surface some seventy or eighty would not be able to follow the Indians are given in letters from Ceara, Brazil, 8. M. PsttengiU & Co., ... New York ASHLAND, OREGON, benefits of the homestead law, without yards below, pouring out its supply iu j Rowel! & Cnees man, ... st. Louis and would have to return to the fort to the New York Herald. The writer quantities sufficient to turn the ma- ' purchase, can make deposit, have their U. P. Fisher, - - - - - Sin Franctsco « prepared to do any work in bis line on short nc- Scraps of Southern Oregon His­ [no27v2tfj D. H. Stearns, ... Portland, Oregon ice. next day, but would let ns have his penetrated to the infected districts, chinery of an extensive manufacturing land surveyed, and then sell and trans­ tory. and sp3aks from personal observation, I*. Samue's, •* guides to help ns in our pursuit of picturing a scene of desolatiou and establishment. Tbo temperature at the fer their certificates of deposit to uoy J. A. A yp legate, ..... Salem Indian Hostilities in Josephine County­ M. L. Chamberlin.................................. “ the ho&tiles, who, he said, had started terror that scarcely has its equal in the point where the water reaches the sur­ one desiring to purchase their pre­ Miss Grace Hanna, .... CMvalll«. in the Spring of ’55. face is about 220 degrees Far’, R°turn- emption or homestead. Dr N. I.. lee .... Junction City. toward Klamath. We returned to onr history of famines and plagues. J. A. APPLEGATE. This land scrip will lie as good a» ing to the crater, wo will examine it Rev. J. R. N. Bell, .... Roseburg. The province of Ceara is about as Perit H. Burt ..... Yoncilla. At daylight on the morning of the camp well pleased with the polite money to any one who may wish to more minutely, and find it to bo an in ­ large as the Middle States, and was J. R. Neil, - ... Jacksonville. ATTORNEY AND COl’NSELOR-AT-L AW next day after the Illinois Indians had Lieut, and the next morning early inhabited by a class of people depend­ teresting phenomenon. The opening enter land under this law, and will bo J Wimer ic Son, ..... Waldo. Hon. W. W. F.ddler, ... Applegate, SALEM OREGON. made their raid mentioned last week, went over to the camping ground of ant on the crops of their small farms is similar to that of an irregular well, ready sale. And further, it will oper­ Alex Watts,.................................. walls of which, to the south and ate to extend the public surveys, which J. M. Smith, - . - . Kei by rille. a party of nine men under command of the regulars to take our guides for support. Thero were no manufac­ the Ed. R. Owen, : • « Central Point. west, being nearly vertical, while to are much needed, under larger qoq - DR. WILL JACKSON, W. H. Parker,..................................... Big Butte. Capt. Sam Frye started out from Hay’s and start after the Indians, when, tures, no industries, no tradi with the north and east, they pitch under tracts, thus saving the expense of a E. Dimick, ..... Grants l’a-s. other regions, few roads, no railroad to follow them into the Slate Creek behold I the Lieutenant, soldiers and no telegraph. and toward the mountain, at an angle multitude of maps, with consequent Richard B.rrett, - - - GaHte Creek. DENTIST. G. A. Hill, - ... Eag e Po nt. hills. By rapid traveling the party and guides had all disappeared. The principal commercial town on of about thirty-five degrees. By drop less cost to the government. J. 8. McFadden, .... Murphy. Jacksonville, Oregon, Miss Carrie Smith, .... Inland. came np with the Indians about ten We] were considerably astonished, of the coaBt, Fortaleza, has no harbor and ping a lino from the top, we ascertain Elitiu Waahburnc for President« A. F. Shelling, ..... Lake View. the depth of tho water to be about ten TTTILL VISIT ASHLAND IN MAY o’olock a . m ., and surprised and shot course, but their trail being plain, reports of the famine, which began in feet, when the plump will run to the C. B. Watson, ....«• [Blmond Hudson's Washington letter to Bos on Geo. T. BiMwin, ... Llnkviile. VV and November: and Kerbyville, the their rear guard of three men. One Capt. Frye, taking four men, who were 1877, were a long time in reaching the north east following the anglo and Hem Id (ltd.)] Wm. H. Robert», . - . Plevna. fourth Monday iu October each year. government or the outside world. By Dr. J. 8. Dennison, .... Klannth. slope of tho wall, llow far this heated best mounted, set out at once to learn of tho three was killed outright, and I talked this week with a prominent the beginning of 1878 the mortality Jno. 8. Shook, - - - - Bonanza. Ashland, Sept. 15, 1878. C. H. Dyar, ...... Dairy. the other two were fatally wounded, 48 the cause of the “skedaddle.” By from starvation was terrible, and the subterraneous passage continues in 1 New Englund Republican %>f great Mi»» Mary McCabe . . . . Aatiland that direction, or its condition and pro was learned subsequently. Tho sacri­ bard riding, he overtook the detatch- paDic-Btricken and starving peasants portions, no one knows. This cavern­ j shrewdness, who said that Elihu B. I. O. Müler 8. Sherman. ...... Ptu-uix. I Washburno was the ooming man. He Capt. D. J. Ferree General Agent for Ijike an x . murders.” “Well,” I asked, “how that ’ ’ can only ’ * ba appreciated .................... 6 the creek a short distance to a fort or the Pope, not quite oontentedly. by thosa bedroom. Cold mornings be thrusts a Beautiful ever-blooming Roses, and any did yon feel after reading such a book? i who have listened to the venerable Eli l out of the bed and gives the wiro jBrticular attention paid to Land Titles, Collecting stockade built by Mr. Yarnall. Leav­ * anioun’ of Dahlias. The present King of Bnrmah has “Oh,” Baid he, “I felt as if I wanted to ! Jones. “Brother Griggs, do see that a hand pull, which draws the sand-paper JMttB8DAaIUand5 of Gonxnment Claims* ing Mr. Philpot and his boy here in distinguished himself by the wholesale do the same.” “I think,” Baid Mr. j this house is better warmed this after­ across the ----- Something New---- - surface of the match ends. tolerable security,we returned to Hay’s murder of bis royal relatives. Actu­ Fields, “that the writers of such trash noon, it's of no kind of use for me to Then he snug les dowD and takes an­ ALEXANDER PEACH,the earliest in market and Principal Office, Jacksonville, Ojegon. ated by motives of jealousy, he caased deserve, to speak after the manner of warn sinners of the danger of hell other nap, while the fire gets the Bixvariate«ofu» J apanese persimmon . G ibbs & S teabx will attend to my busines ranch, reaching there about ten o’clock to be executed summarily eighty-six O. COOLIDGE, Sir Thomas Browne, pendulous sufib- I when the very idea of hell is a comfort kitchen warm- and the tea-kettle to Portland. * [v3no7t in the morning. I members of the royal family. cation.”—.Vnr Y>rk Sun. boiling. I to them.” Ashland £ i d i n tj $. o c $2.50 PER ANNUM DON’T SLAM THE GATE. DR. J. II. CHITWOOD, st 44 «4 «4 44 I tf BARBER SHOP, W . H. R , George T. Baldwin A THE ' YREKA JOURNAL I LEADING PAPER I A 20,000 I I I V. ... JU. V a .