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Alleged LOCAL BREVITIES Life Insurance Conspiracy. SJ ever before, for the men had now become desperately in earnest tuid every shot took effect. The fire from the pits was a surprise to the sgvages who came swarm ing up to them. Not exactly compre hending the turn the defense had taken, they showed symptoms of falling back. Now was tho opportunity for carrying out the plan the Captain had formed of charging the Indians. The bugle sound ed the charge, but thd men did not obey. No use; out of ammunition and outnum bered, a charge would be disastrous. Better remain in the rifle pits and be hind the breastworks. The morning advanced and the Bun was high above the eastern horizon. Thirst was consuming the men, while several of the wounded had expired. [cOKTlNftD.J Mrs. S. Shattuck, of Henley, came Scraps of Southern Oregon H js - over the mountains last Wednesday to / tory. \ About two weeks ago Deputy U. S. NOV. er 1879 Reoser received a lot of neW stoves by spend a week or more with Ashland FRIDAY.. About, ten miles east of Linkville is Marshal Stephen Booth, of Jacksonville, the last teams. Lost River Gap, where the narrow can mends, but received word next day that As soon as lie saw Mary Geisel, Brown served upon Jeremiah Elliott, Arty AIci- ■ Lines of Travel. Ed. DePeatt has something to say un her husband was taken sick, and started yon of the river cuts through a high crawled hack to his companions and told sey Elliott, his wife, Albert Elliott, J. ■ der head of special notices. ridge that runs at right angles across its them of his discovery. He wanted to back home at oncv. Al. Elliott and Frank Williams, of this; The (». & C.stages h ive Ashland as fol course. For three or four miles above attack the Indians at once, but they were Win. Smith and Mr. Fox, of Henley, lows: Going north, at < A. M.; going B. F. Myer and wife, with their son county, a summons commanding them i the gap the List river valley is a narrow not willing to fight with such odds were in town last week for flour. south, at f> P. m . Orlando, re tched home last Saturday to appear in the U. S. Circuit Court last On H. F. Philips’ Linkville line stages The Shook brothers, of Alkali valley, evening from their tour through the mid j Monday in a suit brought by the North- i cany .n with steep ridges which are rough against them in numbers, and while they leave every morning at 5 o’clock, con and rocky, but thickly set with bunch [ were debating the matter they heard dle porti ui of California. “Landy” has western Mutual Life Insurance Co., oft necting at Linkville with hacks for came in after.supplies last week. grass, affording good pasturage for the loud talking among the Indians. Listen- Lakeview and Fort Klamiith. huur- Norton s, McCall’s and True’s te un> been quite a traveler, having visited Ne Wisconsin, to recover the sum of $8,000 stock that may be seen climbing about ing intently, <>n.e of the scouts, who un horse stage on Monday, Wednesday came in from Reading on Tuesday. rdlegcd to have been fraudulently ob vada during his absence. and coming down in little bands to the derstood something of the Indian lan and Friday. On the docket for next court are nine There is talk of a public entertainment tained from said company by the parties I river to drink, or, having satisfied their guage, discovered that the main camp of criminal cases and twenty-six civil cases, of sj .' iic kind to raise funds to purchase named. WEATHER REPORT. i thirst, clambering up for a range of a day the Indians was but three miles down the In October, 1870, ATvses Elliott, then H. E. Harris, of Benton county, has a bell and swing it upon the new public or two before they again return to the river. I’jion learning this the scouts The following is the weather report raised a squash weighing eighty-two school house. About half the amount living in Clatsop eoinuy, insured his life I river. About three miles above the gap concluded that the best thing they could furnishe«l us by H. C. Hill, for the week I pounds. necessary has been subscribed, but the in the company named fur the sum of , the valley suddenly spreads out, and do was to return at once to the command ending Nov. 4th: Thermometer re $8,000. On the 21th day of June, 1871. i here is quite a little settlement, the State Supt. Powell holds a teachers’ latter half seems hard to get. and advise an attack upon tho Indian corded at 6 a . m . and 12 M. it was rep' rted that Alus» , was drowned j ranches of Jacob Bales, R. G. Galbraith, institute for Douglas county at Roseburg camp for the rescue of Mrs. Geisel and Our popular tailor, John Fraley, is in the Columbia river. Jeremiah Elliott THERMTR WEATHER DATE Jno. AIcNemar, J. H. Mayfield and one this week. her daughter. greatly rushed with work in these days. and Wm. II. Deardoff making affidavit 6 A. M. 12 M. Items From the Fort or two others, being in sight. Above After a delay of a day or two, Captains The family of our townsman J. O. C. What with uiakingBthe wedding suits, to that effect. The body of* Aluses Elli 60 40 ( ’lear............. 29 this, on both sides if the river, ranches Ord and Abbott made an attack upon 4 • Wimer returned last week from a visit winter suits, suits for AsMandites ami ott was never found, but after a search 38 67 30 Our correspondent sends us the follow may be seen here and there, some of the Indians at their camp, and killed a 39 61 to Sacramento. suits for customers in California ami ing investigation of the matter, the agent 31 38 l.b I them with comfortable houses and with number of bucks an«l captured several ing items under date of Nov. 2d. 1 1 Pleas. Fountain, who has been in the ; Lake county, he finds little time to talk of the insurance company paid the$8,(iOO (.4 60 35 Capt. Ferree and family are expected j hay sheds or barns, others with merely a squaws, but the Geisels had been taken politics. to Jeivnuah Elliott, the holder of the Willamette valley for several months, has ' 7. • • ) > 54 44 to arrive here next week. Rain............. i small cabin standing a little above the uff to another camp. 52 policy. Soon after receiving the money 38 returned home. “ China Jim, ” the murderer of Hugh Cid y ............. 1 he sheep herders are beginning td 4 1 i »age brush. At the head of the valley, About this time a dispatch was re Jeremiah Elliott came with his family to Pu'h at Hungry creek, was captured bv — ---- - - ' " ~ '--- Two more sons of Judge Bonham of I twelve or fifteen miles above the gap, is ceived from Capt. Augur, who was fur drive their sheep below for the winter. Jackson county, where he purchased G40 the Dpty. Sheriff, assisted by some China assortment of lb M oks . A large Salem, making four in all, have died N ew Jerree, I hatcher A M orden take pos Bonanza, a thrifty little hamlet, which ther up the river, telling Ord to hurry men, below Strawberry valley last week, acres of land and a band of sheep, the is becoming a trading center of consider- session of the Post Trader! on the Set school books of every variety h as just from diphtheria. up, .as it was probable the Indians were title of the land being vested in his wife. on the way to Chico. Jim acknuwlenged Fountain X' Farlow ’ ; inst. been received by The Democratic paper to be established able imjxu’tance, where the buzz of in concent rating to attack Smith’s camp, At the Auction sale on Friday cook als >, a large stock o f handsomely-bound at Lakeview will be called the Lakt the cutting, but tried to represent it as Sometime ago information was given to dustry makes a pleasant impression upon still higher up the river. Gen. Luiner- the agent of the insurance company in in self defense. authors, story books, works of the best Count'f Exam iner. the traveler who comes to it across the iek was now’ coining down the river, stoves seemed to be in demand, an old Portland that Abases Elliott was still ks of se picture books for children, books In the marriage of V. ’ i.i. C. Hale and 1 silent sage brush plains. Bonanza has a driving the Indians ahead of him, to battered one bringing $20. Mrs. R. M. McTeer and sou passed alive and had a band of sheep in South lections for public readings,declamations, through Asldand last Friday, on tho way Miss Eliza Langell at Jacksonville last W es. Manning and Undo George ' good store, kept by Handy <t Roberts; ward Smith, and there was great danger ern Oregon. Detectives were set to work, Nurse paid a brief visit to the post last etc. (’all and look at them. Wednesday Messrs. Robt. A. Miller and ■ two sash saw mills, one owned by Dan’l. that a sufficient forco of the savages to Marion county. it is now dainie«l that a man who and Tod. Cameron and Misses Nettie How i Gordon, the other by Lewis & \ an Ri- would gather to overpower Smith's com week. A B ilk . -The Yreka I iiion publishes Fresh pork is constantly on sale now has been living with the Elliotts as. a ard and Mary Langell supported the chief The boys'’ mustered for two months’ | per (and a third saw mill is being built mand. Quickened by the dispatch, Ord the operations of a bilk whose quiet and at the Ashland meat market. Saugage actors as groomsmen and bridesmaids, friend to the family under the name of just above town); a blacksmith shop, hastened to join Augur, and the two pay Friday and now anxiously await th# unexpected <lej»arture from 5 reka is an*l scrappel next. Frank William3 has been identified as respectively. where tlm busy hammer < f A. E. Wright commands proceeded as fast as possible paymaster. mourned by several parties who loaned Referring to the case, Numerous flocks of wild geese are seen I M oses Elliott. .lay Beach and family returned to this That $200 nugget reported to have j the Portland Standard says: Judge Dua t keeps the anvil ringing; a thriving school up toward the camp of Smith at Big him small sums, from $10 to $20, to be flying southward, but very few alight in port ];»,t Monday from Yreka and left the been found al Silver creek turns up peri lly has granted a tempoiary injunction I with an attendance of some twenty-five Bend. paid when a check arrived from a dis this part of the valley. odically in our exchanges. Usually, restraining all the defendants from dis i or more pupils, and a good, large hotel On his march down the river Lamer- next day for their ranch al Linkville. tant brother-in-law. The fellow is a Ger Miss Emma Nail has returned to «Jack Mr. Jo?. Beach leaves here next week. man about 5ft. 10 inches in height,s«[uare sonville from East Portland, with her about a week after it is mentioned, the posing of their jiri'i crty until the case is . building in course of erection by Matthi- ick came upon a large party of Indiana Joe is a good fellow and has many friends exchanges discover that it was a $20 nug disposed of. W hat will be done with the * as W alter. We learn that John Shook and attacked them as they were attempt built, with «lark hair and rather full health completely restored. get, or a $30 nugget, instead of the old parties aside from the commencement of i intends to open a second store in the in''to cross the river. The Indians were here who wish him luck wherever he faced. While in Yreka he gave his name to make 3, 0(H) i place this fall. also. Bonanza has a fa- routed and scattered. Several Indians g< >es. renowned $200 one. AS Wolters. He has been in Jackson , Rapluel Morat expects this civil action is nut yet known, but if , gallons of wine from his ten-acre ’ vine- Hiram Field?, post wheelwright, one I vorable location, and as the country de- were killed, the dead bodies of three be ville, and has probably gone north. The body of a Chinaman was found the company make out the case, the fact yard at .Jacksonville this fall. of the pioneers of Oregon, died of pneu ! velops ”it will continue to grow and ing left where they fell. A few squaws of some of the “ tallest, swearing ” on rec floating in the bay at Empire City on A ll S easons T ogether . Our atten The mines in Josephine county are i prosper. West of Bonanza and north of and children were captured, from whom monia Oct. 28th, the funeral taking place ord having been done is apparent, and Wednesday of last week. It is believed tion was called ti e other day to what in better prepared than ever before for a ; Lost river valley is Alkali valley, a basin the General learned that the party to an the 29th. criminal proceedings will no doubt be in he was murdered by one or more of his the eastern states wopld be regarded as a 1 good run when the rains begin. I which has n > stream flowing from it, but which they belonged were only waiting iiolijfious Notices. countrymen. It was ascertained that stituted against all the parties. Hon E. curiosity; but being common in this cli i which contains a large amount of valu- Oregon wool is quoted in New York at for those below to capture Capt. Smith ’ s mate, Would be considered by most peo from 30 to 35 cents, leading all the Pacific the body was that of Gee Sam, who had I). Shattuck, Benton Killen and I. C. able grass land. Here are the ranches of company, when they intended to come A t the M. E. CA ur < h ,—There will Morelaml appear for the company, lived in Marshfield. I ple here scarcely noteworthy. Dr. < hit coast states and territories and Texas. Win. Roberts, Ivan Applegate, Amos on up the river, after being rc.njurcedby be regular services every Sunday at 11 and I>. F. Dowell, of Jacksonville, ap wood handed us a small bunch from a At a meeting of Ashland Lodge, A. F. I Shook and sons, and several others, who those from below, take in the Generals a . M.; Sunday school at 2 p. m . The estray mare advertised by Mr. J. pears for the defense of Jeremiah, Arty blackberry bush, on which were the tin & A. M. , last Thursday evening, it was • have large bands of stock. Air. Shook command and then make a clean sweep L. L. R ogers , Pastor. 1 Bunyard in the T idings proved to be and James Elliott. The case will create iest buds of blossoms, fidl blown blos decided to have the grand supper and : has a very choice location and a comfort- of the valleys above. They told him long to one of the Roberts boys of Lake great interest among the insurance men. I soms, green berries and ripe berries. i ball on Christmas Eve, instead of Christ- able home. In his garden we found po- | I that the Indians were then engaged with IKJKlf county. And the blackberry bushes in many pla mas «lav, as at first proposed. The new Address of State Teachers’ Associa- tatoes, turnips, cabbages, beets and on Smith at the Big Bend and had probably tion. The large flouring mills at Dayton, Hall will be completed before that time ces in the valley will continue to present ions of as good size and quality as wo killed all of his company before that FOUNTAIN.— In Ashland, Nov. 1st, to j Yamhill county, were totally destroyed such an appearance in some instances for beyond a doubt, as the plasterers have j The address of the State Teachers raise in Rogue River valley. the wife of J. D. Fountain tr son. time. by fire on the 1st inst. Loss, about already begun work upon it. a month to como. • - Traveling eastward from Bonanza for a | Association to the people of Oregon AVe must now return to the attack by $15,000. DIED. mile or two, we enter Langell Valley, the the Indians on Capt. Smith’s command. The ladies of the Presbyterian church j should receive the serious attention and i H ofse R unaway . Last Saturday the That individual who shot Mrs. B. F. ' thought of everyone in the state who finest valley in the western portion of Before the .attack began the Indians FIELDS.—At Fort Klamath, Ogn..Oct. building formerly used as a blacksmith Myer s geese last week will save consid- of this place propose giving a Thanks i feels an interest in the advancement of Lake county. It is about twelve miles fawningly invited the Captain to come 28th, 1879, of pneumonia lliram shop by O. Mickleson, on Mr. Mickle- alde trouble by going to her and settling giving dinner, the proceeds of which w ill Fields, aged about 60 years. our material and moral rank among the in length by from three to six miles in out and have a good talk, and they be applied to the purchase of an organ son’s property near the public sch ol was for the same. breadth. Making a complete circuit « f would make a permanent peace. The for the church. A committee lias been states of tl'.o Union. After directing at The deceased was fora long number of being moved up the hill back of the The Jntrnal says the Little Shasta appointed, also, to prepare a social and tention to our unsurpassed opportunities the valley, we were surpri sed to ace tho i , Captain was at first inclined to go, but years a faithful and valué«! servant of the dwelling house now occupied bv Lucien mill will be in operation in a few days . for building up a grand and effective free number of new settlers that have built ; i bv the advice of his officers he declined, L . S. Government, which he loved with literary entertainment for the evening, Applegate. The s\op was on rollers and, for cracking grain, and in about a month little houses upon the gently sloping hills | | and immediately ordered his men to be- a truly admirable devotion. He was a : nd a good time is promised. Particulars ; school system, the address continues: when ¡»art way up the hill, the brakes for making flour. i “We ask that tho proas and the people on cither side. Langell valley is settling ■ I t'in to erect defenses. Packs and all sincere fnend, eminently kind-hearted, next week. gave way and the shop took a run down discuss specially tho Normal School rapidly, and we have no doubt the inimi- | I articles were seized upon and placed on generous to a fault, and just in all his Joaquin Miller, tho Oregon poet, was The meeting at Jacksonville last Fri- question. Teachers trained by sister to the road, running afoul of a telegraph gr.ttion next year will be greater than I the narrow ridge to afford some protec- dealings. I do notthink lie had an en recently married to Aliss Abbey Leland, day evening in tho interest of the Cres ■ states are coming among us; .and it isdo- pole on its way- and leveling it with two daughter of Maj. Leland, who died at cent City road project developed an • ing an injustice to our own f.ons an l that ‘if the past season. From almost I tion. His station was nn the end of the emy in rhe world. W. or three others of the nearest poles. The any point the lumber of recently-built | Saratoga last summer. ' ridge where it descended in three direc- earnest interest in the matter among the 1 «laughters who engage io teaching to give building was not damaged, and was I them no opportunities for qualifying houses may be seen, and we found sev- I j tions. The only place where he could be SPECIAL NOTICES* A baseball match between the collfgo | prominent, business men of tho pl lace. A finally put in the desired place all right. work equally with oral immigrant families just preparing to j attacked with any show of success was 1 themselves for their nine and the town boys last Saturday af committee consisting <>f E. II. Autcn- ! those from abroad, All will agree that T own E lection .—The honors and ternoon resulted in a victory for the lat reith, M. Ilanley and J. Nunan was ap- j we have first-class native talent: but build. The largest land owner in the i from above on the backbone of the ridge. NOTICE ! emoluments attached to the town offices ter by a score of 37 to 29. As soon as Smith refused to go out, I pointed to canvass the county f«r the trained teachers will take precedence in valley is Arthur Langell, who has sever al fine ranches and much st ick. Above i and the Indians saw the soldiers be- All persons knowing themselves indebt m Ashland are not so great as to lead to Messrs. Rufus and Byron Cole were ' purpose of ascertaining what may be 1 all rc-sp<insible positions. i As early as possible, then, we ask that his place are the ranches of the Wilsons, ed to the late firm of M. W. Hargadind much strife fur their acquisition. Neither b.ith in tywn last week. Mrs. Rufus deme. | gluing to pile up brcaatworks,they,as bc- at least three Normal Schools be e-jtnb- the Kilgore boys, Richard Hutchinson, is there at present any great dividing Cole, who has been sick for a long time, ■ fore stated, made a rush at the camp as are hereby notified that the notes and In the m.til sacks robbed near Boss’ j lished at convenient centers in our State. end a number of others, who all have question at issue in our town politics. In is gradually recovering her health. though intending to take it by storm. accounts of said firm having been placed In the mean time County Teachers’ station there were three registered jiack-’ Ins* itutes, lasting nt least two weeks, good places. All this portion of Lake The coolness exhibited by theoffieers and in iny hands for collection, pronrpt pay fact we all see public matters alike just A move has been made to organize a ages from Ellensburg, one from Crescent should bo held yearly. We are unani county is essentially a stock country, and men, who met the Indians with a deadly ment of the same will save ooet and now. Our new officers have been unani I pioneer suciety in Del Norte county, City, one from Smith River, one from mous in asking that two leaden’s be ap stock raising will be the main dependence I volley, seemed for an instant to discon- trouble. Busi nets is meant. mously elected. There was but one Cal. The society will admit all who Chetcoe, nine from Josephine county and point«' I competent to assist the State Su E. D e FEATT. of its inhabitants; but the idea which is I cert them, and they began to fall back, ticket in the field, and but 3.'» votes one from Jacksonville, the latter con perintendent in these Institutes, the were in the county as early as ’53. A shland , N ot . 4, 1879 3t. • for held by seine, that its present population polled. The officers elected are: Trus state compensating them reasonably i But their leaders rallied them and they taining 8450 in gold dust. An Ashland I their services. Horace Knights has s«ild his half in is anywhere near the miximum in num ! returned the attack. Several times they tee«. H C Hill, H. F. Phillips, J. H. firm had sent $500 in a registered letter For Sale Cheap I Wo are pained to sec that many of bers that the country will support is be were repulsed with loss, when at last Russell, T. O. Andrews, G. S. Butler; terest in the Forest House property to upon the stage just ahead of the one our best teachers are being compelled to Recorder, A. V. Gillette; Treasurer, J. Short A Co. for S19,009. The new firm abardon their profess'on because other ing proven by the resistless “logic of they desisted and began trying to pick 1 Ijot Sugar Pine lumber, is composed of Alarshall, Short and .Jos. Fi >bl>ed. D. Fountain; Marshal, L. B Tucker. eni’ibivm *nts are far more remunerative. events' to be utterly fallacious. When off’the men at a little longer range. I Lot Yellow Pine lumber. AVilson. -i The wheat cron of Oregon, says the Eminent ability cannot be «always re the first settlers came to these valleys the Smith set men at work digging rille pits 1 Lot Shakes. H ouse L ost . Messrs. Coolidge and td. notwithstanding tained bv appealing solely to motives of grass was so abundant on the flats that in front of his camp, but they were soon It is thought that about $l,4<*0 was ob- i Pendleton Ind 1 Lot Shingles, Drake, who returned last M nubiyfr >m a tained from the mail by the robber who the rust,is the largest that has ever been benevolence. Our legislators, judges, cattlemen were in their paradise. j driven from their work by the deadly on and executive officers as public servants 6 Tons Alfalfa hay, successful hunt in the Siskiyou», report stopped the stage near Bass'. The re produced in the'state, and. at the remu They could turn their stock loose and, slaught of the Indians. Eight had been For sale at Eagle Mills. that a horse came into their camp near wards offered for his capture amount to nerative prices paid, will bring to the are far better paid than teachers. Do I tho duties of the former demand a higher giving themselves no further trouble } already killed, and more bounded. Ashland Butte, stayed near their horses, $1,300. people of the state upwards of $1,090,- order of ability or more labor for their about it lie around idle until they felt i The day was drawing to a close and t and followerl them some distance home I the need of money, then gather^up some FOR SÄLE 1 performance. The ladies of the Al. E. church of this 000, or over $2o for each man, woman right still the murderous assault was kept up. AVe love our work, but we ask that ward. The horse is a dark bay with a relaxation, but on the contrary, place are making an earnest effort t > raise and child of the entire population. What throughout the State our labors receive beef-cattle and pocket a supply of “twen- I little white on one fore foot and one hind lloihe und lot in Ashland« enough money to plaster their church state in the Uni on can make such a show better compensation, enabling us to buy ties.” If they lost some cattle in the | pushed with more vigor each moment. foot, would weigh about 9tM) pounds when not. only bread, but books. It is quite winter, it didn’t matter, they had plenty ! qqie supply of water had been exhausted building, an improvement greatly ing of a single product. A good house, with a neat wood-shed in good condition, ha«l four sh >es on, «liscouraging to find that more promi j left. “ - grass - has ‘ been eaten ofF ■ needed. Now, the one-third of tho command had been and barn, upon a lot desirably situate«/ part of rope halter hanging to his neck. C ollege E ntertainment . —The en nence is given to the question r»f price on Main street, with bearing fruit trees the flats, and the hill ranges are the main Those who have business with Marcus killed and disabled, as night shut down He ranges in the gl ide on the eastern I tertainment nt the College last Friday than qualification’’—who will teach the upon it . dependence for stock; but it is found that on the desperate encounter. No water aide of Ashland Butte, an«! Iris become Al aver, the tailor, will find him at his evening was well attended, the receipts cheapest, not the best. This is neither For jiaiticulars inquire of Mrs. Har i the sage bru«h land will raise the best dwelling house near Daley & Co ’ s, mill, could be obtained, fcr the enemy con amounting to about $30. The ' i 11 ’ ? ., 11 ' 1 . 1 ." ,sc ’ riet Ewing, who may be found at the for tickets a __ _________ quite wilil. The owner should go after We join in asking that there bo no kind of rye hay for winter feed, and with trolled all the ground between camp and residence of Mr. O. Codkige, in Ash where he is ready at all times to do work him at once, as the horse will undoubt exercises were exceedingly interesting, distinction in wage» from difference in 12-tf a few acres of this and the hill ranges, the creek, and the wounded suffered ex land. and all who took part received well mer sex. edly starve to death before many weeks in his line. Tlv> Roseburg Indepeudefti tells of a ited praise from the audience. The Ice- I We welcome efficient teaehers from many a settler will live comfortably upon treme torture from their burning thirst. Farmers, Attention ! if left there. The snow may be ten feet abroa I: and pluvi that general efforts be the procec Is of such a band of stock as The men lay down in relays to rest while man named lluddleson who left that ture by Prof. Nichols we consider me of deep where he is in less than a month. made t > train at home all who would pre Messrs. Fountain A Farlow, at the place for San Francisco recently, leaving t his best efforts, deserving a wider hear pare tbepiselves f«u- successful teaching. 1 he can maintain.. The greater portion of their companions kept up an answering Farmers' Store, will j»ty the highest mar still unclaimed, tho higher sage land is fire, as the enemy still continued to pour Let the people confer personally with E ffect of R ist on the W heat numerous creditors to mourn the loss of ing than the occasion of its delivery ket price f<»r 1.(100 bushels of oats ana and it is quite certain settlement will their bullets in showers upon the appar furnished. The recitations and declama the’r representatives in the State Legis C rop . A Willamette valley exchange small debts. 1,000 bushel.** oli wheat. They will give lature, assuring .them of support in pro continue rapidly. Tn many or most ently doomed conimand. During the you goods at cash prices in exchange for says: It is estimated that Junction City E. Al. Howard killed a buck elk at tions cf the students were well gendered, I viding fun Is for maintaining cmnm<?n I place'', too, the hardier root crops may night the men ¿gain began on the rifle wheM And ords. ] 1-tf is 100,050 bushels short «'ii this year’s Rt ! Blanket prairie on R gne river a and the experiments in chemistry by ’ schools and countv institutes; and let be grown, and in some spots wheat, oats pits, an«i before dawn had complete'! a crop; Harrisburg, 100,000, and. Halsey slu rt time ago. The elk weighed over Pi J. Rogers, as well as the electrical ex public meetings add their approval by and all the vegetables are a sure crop. sufficient number. Some of them several NOTICE. about 120,t>00, making an aggregate of 700 lbs., and the hide when dry weighed periments by Prof. Nichols were full of appropriate resolutions. • In how many ]>arfs of the vall^’ this is rods in advance of the cuter line of In behalf of the Orcgoti it interest. about 320,000 bushels of wheat le.-s than over .i<> pound». (rue may only be known by actual expe breastworks had been strengthened as suciatii .a. L and O ffice ut Roseburg, Oregon. / last year in a distance north ami south, L. L. R ogers * G. J. Callahan, of Cole's valley, in October, 3d, 1879. ( H appt M arriage — The marriage cf riment. In many places the frosts kill best they could be by felling some trees in the valley of about 12 or 15 miles. Umpqua basin, in digging a well on his T. 11. C rkwford , Notice is hereby given that the follow- / Com. Air. 1>. R. AVillits and Miss Annie Tice the crops. 1 ut in other spots, again, good on the outskirts of camp, and by break ing-name<l Settler has filed notice of his ATus. J. A. S towell , This is tho falling off from last year's place recently, found a vein of coal b.x I took place at White’s hotel, Rock Point, gram is raised. J. T. Fulkerson has of day the pits were occupied and the intention to make final proof in wupport J. P. R obb , crop, which was certainly not alune an feet in thickness about 49 feet from the ■ raised wheat successfully and intends breastworks manned in readiness for a Of his claim, and secure final isrtry there la-'t Wednesday evening, Rev. M. A. L. j . J. P owpt . l , State Sup’t. average one. If it had not been for the surface of the ground. of at the oxjiiratii.-n of thirty days from Williams performing the ceremony next year to devote his whole attention more de*-perate assault. rust we think we are safe in asserting A nother S tage R obbery . — Another to trucking. He has, perhaps, the most the «late of this notice, viz: Sylvester ss Tice lkc , Four wedding tor It place in Yreka last There were present Mr. and Mit» During the night several attempts had Patterson, Pre-emption DecLaratory that the above localities would have come fctage robbery is reported from Northern Siin«Iav —Dan. Tesh to Louisa Fried, brother and sister of the bride, Wm. favorably located place in the valley, but been made to get soitie water, but with Statement, No. 3248. for fhe‘ S. W. I of to the front with 400,000 more bushels Chas. Herzogg, Jr. to Zulu Lemay, John Willits with Miss l/ni Anderson and California, this time on the Alturas and there are others who raise grain, and iI out success. The Indians knew that the N. W. Sec. 19, T. 38 South R. 1 East, of grain than they now represent. ! Foil to Caroline Brantlacht and J. Q. Corlies Merritt with Miss Lou Willit.«, Reading road, about 35 miles from Read there will doubtless be found other spots soldiers were without water, and left no and name* the following as his Witnesses,' from Ashland, and Alias ATay Crane, i f ing. T’lere was but one highwayman in nearly, if not quite, as valuable as his avenue fen- them to get it. They had viz; T. J. Boil, of Jackson comity, and M arried .—On Sunday afternoon last, Maxwell to Jeannette Thomas. sight, an l as the spot was only about 25 B. F/ Patterson, of J«ck*m county, The case of Tenny and McKenzie vs. Jacksonville. Fitting preparations for miles across the country from the scene farm. c«>mpletdy surrounded the camp and Oregon. at the residence of the bride'» father. were determined to take it at all risks. . W. F. BENJAMIN, Register, Major Barron, Mr. G. S. Butler was Mulvany and Bennis was tried the third the interesting event had been made by of the robbery two days before on the Real Estate Trainarti on«.-“ Overland route, it is supposed that the Mr». White, and the bridal party was I time in the Circuit court of Dougl:«. They had suffered too, in killed and . . married to Miss Alice Barron, The cer- ------------ T------------ - county Last week, and resulted in a judg greatly pleh.se I with her hospitable and sam * man committed both rohheri,'8. wounded, but not to the extent of the j L. L. Rog. emony wax performed by Rev. The following have been recorded From the Yreka Uio ’ on of tht* 1st we take in ment for plaintiffs for $1,867 50. NOTfCE, sumptuous entertainment. The party the followin'' account- of the’affair: “On less of the soldiers. Besides «pitnuul- ( era, in the presence of the immediate the county clerk's office since our last ■---- # The A'reka Union entered last weok remained all night at Rock Point, aiyl Monday afternoon the stage of Major i report: ft * Bering tha soldiers five to one, they i families and a few friends of the bride upon its twenty-eighth volume, indicat on the morrow the bride ami groom came Cu'verhouse was stopped on the Alturas LI nd Orrtct nt Roxebrtrg, Oregon. ) Ù. S. patents to A. S. Moon, 120 were fighting for their hunting grounds ' and groom. Both Mr. Butler and Miss ing a notable age fc>ra Pacific coast news October 4th, 1879. [ and Reading rea l. The ¿tage wa« on its and for the supplies in the camp of the j iibtice is hereby given that thtf follow*- Barron are well known throughout the paper. Ic^B a lively wide-awake .journal, to \shkmd. arriving -in the evening in . way down when it was encountered about acre», T 35 Bouth of R. 3 W. county, and their union has been looked and deserves the success it has achieved, season for a wedding supper at the Resi three o'clock in the afternoon hy a man U. S. patent to.^ewit C. Livingston, soldiers, and they were in all respects i4fg-nart«id settler has filed notice of hir dence of J. Q. Willits. Air. Rush Wil i wearing a painted half mask, whom intention to make final proof in support j If prognostications do not fail, in a forward to with great interest by their I eager and determined, 160 acres, T. 35 S. of R. 3 W. lits is a young gentleman whose genial, Pavne, the driver^ supposed was an In of his claim, and secure final entry there Smith’s ammunition was becoming ex I many friends. They enter wedded life few weeks, the white bonnets at church U. patent to C. H. Caldwell, 160 dian. When a short distance ir on the of at the expiration of thirty dajft from generous qualities have won him the hausted and the men were ordered to r»- with the skies of their future bright with on Sunday evening, in Ashland, will be acres in T. 35 F. cf 2 AV. •stage tho highwayman leveled th« gun the date of this notice, viz; JohnS- ¿acy, serve their fire until the game was sure. Ilumeztyad Application, No. 2334, for the cheering Learns of happiness and pros too numerous to b« successfully enumer i wannest of friends wherever he is known at the driver’s head and ordered * perity. May the clouds be few and tran ated. There were four out last Sunday. and the la.lv of his ch ice is. we arc glad him to ston and thjT.w <!« m the treasure j Maria C Jver to Frank Sisley.premises Every bullet thrown away was a serious the S. W. | of N. W. f, Sec: 5, S. J of j The Crcse. -«t Cdy i 'ill c.v o. ittce have toleuin, one .vhos«'hand he w is f rtu- box and irr>i’ bag«, w’'< h w « -1 in Phoenix precinct. Consideration, $1. Jr««. A. sient. Ou Sunday night th» wedding’ As 8 SOOT! soon flS as divlicht JHvligbt tv." sufficipnt- N. E.'lmnd N. B. / of S. E. j, See 6, i • ' Î. f, ■ • party came to town to attend church. employed J. S. Howard to make a pre s nnte in winning. After spending several Payne wa- then ordered tn continue his I T. 40," S; R. 4 East, and na^ne* the fol-' U nion S abb ath S chool ,—Every Sun lycfetr to distinguish objects plainly, lowmu as*his witnesses, viz: James Pur-» Next (lay Mr. 'Butler and wife took liminary survey of the route from " aldo days in Ashland, Air. Willits and his ' way. The road was n t’t'si which pre posse3»i >n of their w home on Granite to Crescent City. Mr. Howard ia ex- vented the driver from ¡turning back, and day morning at 10 o'clock in the Presby- the Indians made another rus1p«>r camp. vis of Jtycksen county, OgO«» al>d L*istuf wife left L t their new home on Kean ! pected to make a full report within three street—the residence recently vacated by being unable to resistth® attack, he was I teriun church. A cordial invitation ex- They were met at the riile pits with a fire G. Lacv of Jackson county, Ogn. Mr. AV. S. Hemphill. i creek, where “joy be wi’ ’em. ’ weeks. compelled to submit. from the whole «’amp more deadly than 5VM. F. BENJAMIN, RigiMer l tended to all. I I THE ASHLAND TIDINGS. Lost River, Alkali and Lan<jell Valleys. i : I I I ■ I ? the Git I I : t I I ft