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THE ASHLAND TIDINGS LOCAL BREVITIES. I Hie ertacelit City W.-i^ou Boati. i in tiie .'lountMins Fall Creek Falls. M’m. Williams hired a man to drive a { Heal Estate Trun «actions. team for him from Alturas to Jackson- ! AUGUST 6, isso FRIDAY .... Blackberries are ripe and very abund i.ie n>b. ..... -, .r.v. have becrF ville. The man drove as far as 1 rska . At a called meeting of the represents-1 On F:¡day i >-t im writer embarked fives of Jackson and Josephine counties, i ant. recorded in the county clerk s office since WEA I HEIl KEPüKT. and there sold the team to Frank Riley i upon a n.'uii e p<>ny for a voyage to the Oregon, and Del Norte county, Cal., for ! J The Lakeview brewery is said to be f >r $65, after which he dejeirted withc .it mountains tLir side of Klamath river in our I •ct issue: the purpose of inaugurating the buildmg The foil owing ist lie weather report- flourishing D. Buckalew to E. 11. Roman, prop- the region drained by Jeiuiy ciedt, tl.c* leaving directions by which he may be furnished us by H. (.;. uni, fol- the Week uf a wagon road from Waldo, < dgn. , to ' found. Williams went to N reka, proved chief object :vujH>i::t I eingtl lehigh falls of erty n Ashland. Considération, $200. The Dayton woolen mills are running et’llllg Au gust 6tll. Th«nii'mieter re- Crescent City, Cal., held at Waldo July j Lis property, and recovered it, but could which mention was made a ivw weeks on full time. G. High to Jas. Helms, 90 acres of »*uCu at ili a . M. and 12 m : 28th, 1880, pursuant to tlie call of the since. By commendable diligence in the- Woolen donation land find no clu«j to the whereabouts of the | daim. Con- A boy without fee' h is been born at WEATHER ! DATE TH EIlIKT R President of the original committee, | the application of rope —end and persua sharper. siderati< n,/-800. Colfax, W. T. there were present, J. Nunan and E. II. i sive language we succeeded in reaching • C A. M [. 1? M A correspondent uf *’c Lakeview Henry Devis to Car 'line Dev’s, quit- Pyramid Two men were drowned ili Autenreith, Jackson Co., Ogn.; W J. ' the Willits' saw mill, ou Kean creek, by Char....... . 1 54 29 79 / J Il rabl says the grain crops in Summer lake on the 15th ultimo. 3<» 58 80 Wimer, C. Hughes and N. Delamatter, supper time, and enjoyed the hospitality claim deed to loO acres on Little Butte < c Lake and neighboring valleys did not cU 31 ■ 1 • • 1 • A Wet of handsome new counters now The City Market has a large, new Josephine Co., Ogn.; Jas. K Johnson, of Mr. B. R. Willits and wife until the creek. Consideration, $600. 8ô turn out as well as was anticipated early GO ad >rn the City Drug Store. t è * » sign to direct the stejis of those who aro Edgar Mason, J. E. Eldridge, Horace next day. 8,5 The Population ®f OreffoH. 62 in the season, but about enough will be •> 80 • »7 JI «race Pelton, of Sam’s valley, made looking fur good beef. Baum & Hill al harvested to meet the home demand. I Gasquet, Joseph Clark and E. Yatis, Del The saw mill we found tube one of the 44 70 4 Norte Co., Cal. so have a large new sign over their furn «•• • 1 5<i us a visit on Wednesday. The full returns of the recent census 4 best in the country, substantially and The writer estimates the loss of stock in iture store. The meeting was called to order at 2 show the population of our state to have Miss Irene Cliitwuod returned Wed conveniently built, and in the Lest con W heat W anted .—Wagner, Anderson those valleys as light compared with that o clock p. m . by J. Nunan, President. The Jacksonville party of surveyors, of other sections, not more than one- dition for turning out first-class lumber, numbered 175,535 on the first o; June A Co., of the Ashland Mills, are now nesday from her visit to Linkville. Minutes of preceding meeting read great piles of which are stacked up in the last. This is an increase of more than under the leadership of Chas. Howard, buying wheat, for which they are paying Adam Schmidt, of Jacksonville, will fourth in cattle and one-eight in sheep. and approved. started for Lake county last Thursday. yard. The mill has- been running all 90 per cent, over the population in 1870. the highest cash market price. 2-tf. establish a brewery at Wilderviile. J. S, Howard, surveyor of the road, stiminer, and very little lumber has been The returns from the several counties are N early F inished .—The Journal of I heir contract takes them some distance Archbishop Seghers is expected to W ant M oney .—Alj those who are the 1th says: The Yreka Creek Mining presented his certified report of his sur hauled away, so the stock on Land is as follows: Baker 4,631, Benton 6,354, east of Lakeview. preach at Jacksonville next Sunday. indebted to the firm of Fountain k Far- C. Van Doreen, convicted at Yreka of Company have their ditch almost com vey, and filed notc-s with map of same, large enough to build a small town with. Clackamas 9,287, Clastop 6,025, Coos The fruit crop m Del Norte county, low are requested to make settlement j murder in the second degree in the kill- I pleted. The Chinese were all discharged which being submitted to the committee, The water in Kean creek is rather low, 4,849, Columbia 2,045, Curry 1,210, Cal., is said to Le an almost total failure. at once if possible, as we arc needing S ing of Manuel Sylvester last February, last Saturday, and most of the white men after discussion, was adopted and ap now, but the mill may be run up to Douglas 9,590, Grant 4,304, Jackson money in ou : ousii ’CSS. Wagner. Anderson A Co. are now pay has been sentenced by Judge Steele to were discharged on Monday,leaving only proved. • about two-thirds of its cutting capacity 8,160, Josephine 2,193, Lake 2,807, The bill of Jz-S. Howard, amounting tnd Mr. Willits intends to continue saw Lane 9,376, Linn 12,711, Marion 14,804, 8-3t.] Fo 1’5 TA in A- F allow . about 30 hands to finish up the work to ing 80 its. per bushel for wheat in c;ish. I twenty live years imprisonment. *Th W ill Myer retained home last Satur- I Hunters rejiort that deer are not 30 wards Hawkinsville. Water was run to $1,244.78 w;i3 audited and paid in the ing until forced to suspend work by the Multnomah 53,148, Polk 6,513, Tilla .S old . mook 808, Umatilla 9,481, Union 6,703, day from a trip through Siskiyou county. ! numerous in the mountains this year as through thd big flume to the old ceme manner following, to wit: Jackson Co., winter weather. I. Bit un. o $414.91; Josephine Co., $414.91; Del tery last Friday evening, which enabled On Saturday f >renoon, in company Wasco 10,220, Washington, 7.092; Yam No steps have been taken yet to ar- * ordinarily. The hard winter and the Norte Co., 8414.91. with Mr. L. F. Willits,we started for the hill 7,950. Total 175,535. ’ range f r the usual fall races at Lake- ruthless slaughtering of them for their the company to take off'thc guard em A proposition was made by II. Gas- falls. Our course was down Kean creek The population of towns having over ployed to watch it, from fear of being \ iew. hides have reduced their numbers. no. quet to the effect that he and his asso burned or damaged, as rumors to that to Jenny creek, and down Jenny ci eck ■100 inhabitants at the time of the taking- Senator Slater is in Oregon and will II. A. Wright, the jeweler, who has effect prevailed, and credited to former ciates will build and construct the pro Lofton, Esq., of for three or four miles, when we set out >f the census is as follows: Portland P rosperous .—T. N. stump the state for Hancock and Eng been at Linkville for sometime, came to posed road-*iccording to the plan and dissat isfied employes. over the divde to the Source of Fall (exclusive of Chinese) 16,049, East Port the western stage line, informs us that lish. Ashland last Monday, and will go into specifications contained in Mr.-Howard's I River valley are ♦he peoi.le of Sprague creek. There are some incidents and land 2,918, Salem ¿,850, Astoria (ex business with O. R. Myer, Mr. Wright O regon W heat .—J. D. Hurst, owner report and accompanying field notes, pro Dr. Royal made a donation of a num adventures of this journey that we can clusive of Chinese) 2,753, The Dalles happy and ¡ rosjiecous. A much larger is a watchmaker of skill and experience. of the W aldo flouring mills at Salem re I vided: ber of bocks to the Ashland Library List is being made than ever haR'est i f hay never be induced to disclose. How we 2,576, Albany 1,871, Oregon City 1,155, turned home last^week from the Miller ’ s The wife of Rev. Mr. Crowell, of week. 1. That the County of Josephine, by threaded and tore our way through Eugene City 1,138, Corvallis 1,128, before in that sc ction: .»nd it is said to International Convention at Cincinnati, its citizens or duly authorized officers, brush for about three miles by deer Jacksonville 839, Baker City 834, Rose <’ :!1 and see those new spring lounges Jacks niville, died on Wednesday last, be of the nir nst ex< client qualil:y. Mr. and reports to the Portland /At that the shall construct that portion of said road, trails which the deer had abandoned be burg 822, Canyon City 796, McMinnville Lofton is ii« >w • stopping in that va y- and Lands ?me boquet tables at Baum A after a k ng and distressing illness. Rev. Dallas 562, Dayton 432, Union 419. L L. Rogers went down from Ashland attendance at the exhibition was large after and in accordance with the afore cause the brush scratched them so badly, 624, and Mrs L ofton i> puttmistres:J of rhe Hill’s. This does not include North and Sot*th; and the machinery displayed the best in said survey, from its initial point in Illi I Sprague rivi er ]•• stotlice.- Hr. ni (/. while just on the other side of the creek Salem,or other precincts outside city lim Mr. J. M. Smith, of Kerbyville, will on 'Thursday to preach the funeral ser the world. He had with him for exhi nois valley to the summit of the divide, mon. (which is fordable anywhere) wa3 a clear, its proper. move his family to Jacksonville for the bition small samples of Oregon wheat, C p . d ket -> in M i » doc C ounty .—-S S. or the six mile stake of the survey, at well-used horse-trail, it would not do to Mr. J. Gum’s new dwelling house winter. Religiou« Noticss. and the millers,delegates from the United Bayley tells the .M >doc l.i'l’p'iu lent that their own cost and expense. above the district school house is near tell. [The writer doesn’t care, but Mr. » A large fire at Red Bluff, Cal., last he left his h lume one day last Wt .■l‘K, and U nion S abbath S chool ,—Every Sun-' 2. And provided further, that the Willits takes pride pride in being an ex ing completion, the painter, being now at Kingdom and all parts of Europe, pro M uiiday destroyed a large amount of I th it when lie went away he had as fine a nounced it beyond exception the best day morning at 10 o’clock in the Presby county of Del Norte, by its citizens or work upon it. It is the neatest and perienced and discerning woodman, and terian church. A cordial invitation ex- garden as was ever raised in the country. property. they ever saw. In fact, it was unex duly authorized officers, shall construct it might wound his pride to have it most convenient house built in town this tended to all When lie returned at night, it was to Miss Minnie Anderson returned home summer. celled in any country on the globe, and that portion of said road, after and in ac known.] And how we went into Mr. C losing S ermon .—Tift' Scrfnon next. find his house, barn and fences covered last Saturday from her long visit in Sail they doubted if its superior could be cordance with said survey, from Cres The report that snow still lies upon Bruce Greeve s house wlion nobody was Sunday evening by Prof, Rogers i» to with crickets, and his garden, which had Francisco. produced anywhere. Their praise was cent City to the south fork of Smith riv conclude his services as pastor of the at home ami helped ourselves to bread the approaches to Crater lake in such looked so fear in the morning, had been The wheat up the valley above Ash quantity that the lake can only be j unqualified, and because of its justico pe er, at their own cost and expense. and milk from his well stocked cupboard, Methodist Church of Ashland. The dis- stripped' f very particle of vegetation. land is about all cut and ready for the culiarly gratifying to Oregonians. .... c ursu will be appropriate to the occas- Then the said H. Gasquet and his as is too nearly criminal to acknowledge. reached by the use of snow shoes is as I io 1. He expects to preach here from D rying F ki it . From the fact that I thresher. About the middle of the afternoon we ime to time during bis Presidency of the certained to be a mistaken one. Several T hrown from a W agon .—Last Sat sociates, at their own cost and expense, Prof. L. L. Rogers has moved into jiarties have visited the lake recently. nearly .a dozen Pluminer fruit dryers urday forenoon as S.,G. Vandyke, of shall construct and maintain the balance reached the falls, and the next two or •ollege; but intends to give his attention of said road in accordance with said sur tlifee hours were spent in “drinking in »» .eri after chiefly to the school. There have been sold in Jackson county with Mrs. \ ining’s liotue, above the College The wagon road committee of Jose Eden precinct, was driving toward Ash vey between the two aforesaid points, to the scenery, as the Boston blue stockings . ill no doubt be a largo audience Sun- in a week or two it is evident that the building. phine county has called a meeting of citi land in a carriage with his wife and iay. farmers of our valle? are convinced that County Treasurer Pape has an office zens at Kerbyville on Wednesday next, grand daughter, he met with an accident wit: From the south bank of the south would observe. At the cataracts Fall there is profit in the drying of fruit. The fitted up in the back of his saloon at the 11th, to devise ways and means for which resulted in serious and painful in fork of Smith river to’the Oregon line, creek carries at this time nearly twice as NEW TO-DAY. And the said II. Gasquet and his assu- much water as is now running under the demand for dried fruits has never yet Jacksonville. building the six miles of road that falls juries to himself. As he was coming ciates shall have sole ownership of said bridge in Ashland. There arc two been reached by the supply in our home down an incline in the road just north of Remember the cantata this evening to the lot of Josephine county. road as a toll road in accordance with falls, about a quarter of a mile apart. markets, and we see no reason why the ami to-morrow (Friday) evening at Jay Beach is training some of his trot Eagle Mills the traces or double trees law. G. A. H ill , The upper one is over a precipice about D r II. T. I nlow , fruit which annually goes to waste in the Houck's Hall. came loose from their fastening Mr. ting stock at his Cascade Farm for the i And it is further provided that Jack- 100 feet in height, and the fall may many orchards in the county should not r ' fair • jaces. George Stephenson’s I , Vandyke put on the brake, and while J. P. Roberts, of Bonanza, had his leg Yreka son county, Ogn., or the citizens thereof, be called unbroken, although the wall of be made to add to the income of the broken recently by a fall while driving a horse, “Sir -Walter,” and J. A. Card- I the wagon was checked, the team went shall pay to H. Gasquet and his associ- the precipice over which the water falls farms. fractious team. well’s, horse, “Aleck,” arc also in train- ' ahead far enough to allow the pole to I ' ate« (as a bonus) the sum of not less than is not quite vertical, and the rocks, with drop. This frightened the horses, and I I tems from J osephine .—Dur Kerby- T. O. Andrews has been very sick with ing in Siskiyou county, under charge of ■ they started off suddenly, jerking Mr. i ; $5,000 dollars and as much more as may out revealing themselves, keep the water villa correspmdeDt sends its the follow typhoid fever, but is now, we are glad to Jas. Sutherland. I Vandyke from the wagon and dragging! . be subscribed by said citizens in install- churned into a white mass from the top ing under date of the 3d: Mrs. Hinton say, improving. Just received at Reeser’B, a full line ; him a short distance before he "could free ! j ments as specified in the subscription list to the bottom. The lower falls consist of Miller, aged 00 years, h:w been adjudged INFLOW & HILL, Propr’s-r , circulated in said Jackson county—the two cascades, each of which is nearly 100 J. N. Terwilliger has the job of paint of Osborne reapers and mowers, dry insane, and started on the 1st, in care of ing ami sanding the new Episcopal goods, groceries, clothing, boots and himself from the lines The ladies went ■ ■ same to be free from all demands and feet in height, and in each of which there o to him at once, and found him to be so | her husband and and Mr. N. DcLimat- church at Yreka. shoes, cigars and tobacco, candies ami badly hurt as to be unable to help him- ' I reclaiinations forever hereafter. Ashland, Oregon. are two or three benches or divisions. ter for the Asylum at East Portland. . .. nuts, hats and caps, notions, stoves, tin I I Wherefore, on motion, it is ordered From the foot of the upper cascade to self at all. About this time H. F. Phil- i Mat Williams, the painter, came in Rist we«-k a young man, s n of Wm. and hardware for sale at bed-rock prices ' lips and Capt. McCall drove up, and I i that the proposition of said Gasquet be the top of the lower is fifteen or twenty from Linkville last week, and is now at Newman, living six miles s ith of here, for C ash . Give him a call. 1-tf. TO THE FRONT AGAIN ! ! 1 work in Ashland. rendered what assistance they could. i I and the same is hereby accepted. - yards, The lower falls are much the accidently shot himself in the arm with | On motion it is ordered that tho said The wife of Melvin Marsters, of Little , Mr. Vandyke was taken home, and upon I more extensive and imposing, The road A WELL SELECTED STOCK Of Biers tadt, the renowned landscape ar- <i Henry ritl breaking the bone. He • H. Gasquet and his associates be and Shasta valley, died last week on the | a physician being called in his injuries ■ leading from Cottonwood to Pervis’ on tist, is sketching in the mountains of is d >mg well so far, and it is thought he Klamath river above Bogus. She had [ were found to consist of a fracture of the I ! they are hereby requested to form a cor- the Linkville road passes within half a will r« over from the injury without the Trinity county, Cal. MEDICINES, «L& been in ill health for sometime and had i'ium, or hip bone, and severe bruises in ! ' poration in accordance with the laws of mile of the falls just this side of Klamath JRUGS, Mrs. (>. C. Applegate came in front necessity of amputation. gone to visit relatives in that section in various fxnts of. the body. He suffers . the state of California to have its princi- river, and a person coming this way may PAINTS Klamath Agency last week, to spend the hope of improvement, but was car considerably, but is considered by physi i pal place of business at Crescent City, catch a glimpse of them from the road, M on ey S c arce . —The Lakeview Ex- some time in Ashland. ried off by an attack of lung fever. cians to be in the way of as rapid recov Del Norte County, Cal., and the follow but, as they are almost hidden by the ftmincr of last week says: So great is the rOILET ARTICLES, PERFUMERY* Harvey Walker and wife, of Manza dearth of money or its equivalent in Isaac Woolen has sold the southern ery as could be expected in one of his ing named persons are designated as di canyon walls and rocks, can gain no idea nita, have gone to Lake County, to spend rectors thereof: H. Gasquet, W. A. of their extent and grandeur. The whole Goose Like valley that hardly a day half of his lot on Main street opposite the i age. sometime on the cattle ranch. —SHOULDER BRACES passes without several law-suits, attach Presbyterian church to W. H. Atkinson ! A T own B urned .—The little town of Hamilton, P. Darby, J. K. Johnson, J. country within view from a mountain Nunan and Chas. Hughes. McK enzie & Foudray expect to have standpoint above the falls presents a ments, executions, etc. Every branch for $750. This lot has always been re Gardiner, Douglas County, was almost On motion it was ordered that the the Jacksonville steam mill ready fur scene of wild grandeur that would well garded as the finest in town as a site for totally destroyed by fire on Monday of of business is seriously injured thereby, ! map, report, estimates and field notes of grinding by the first of next month. a residence. Mr. Atkinson will build a i and unfortunately there is no reasonable last week. We take the following partic j the survey be put in the possession of repay a visit, even if the falls were not ---- and ---- C. U. Snider, of Willow Ranch, Cal., dwelling house upon'it for himself this , there. Jenny creek and Fall creek both pruspect of better times. All things con ulars from the P/ai/>deaZcr of last week: ( the secretary of this committee, by him VF.RYTHING USUALLY KEPT IN A' sidered, the <>utlo<>k is decidedly gloomy. has sold his band of 600 cattle to John season. “The fire originated from the fire pit of to be delivered to the trustees of tho cor cut through deep, rocky canyons as they E E iust -C ia BH D uci » S tobk . I Notwithstanding positive announcements Jackson, who has a ranch near Alturas. approach the Klamath liver, and high J. Clevenger, of San Jose, Cal., has the new mill, where the slabs are burned. poration. walls and ridges of loose, naked rocks to the contrary, it looks as if our busi The ladies of the Presbyterian church returned home from a trip to the Skagit , Three houses on the saw dust near the iy TERMS, CASH! No other business being before the ness men will have to continue the cred in Jacksonvill«? increase their revenue by mines, and tells the local paper that a ' mill were burned in a short time, and rise like parapets and battlements on all it system this Year on a larger scale than selling ice cream during the hot weather. man cannot make a dollar a week there 1 the cinders from them blew up in town. committee, on motion adjourned, sub sides. A mile or two to the southward i ject to the call of the President. the Klamath cleaves its way through the usual. M iss Nellie Russell, who is teaching at mining or anything else. He with 65 j 1 In a few minutes Gardiner was all ablaze J. N unan , Pres. mountains, its canyon valley visible for Orders from a distance promptly P em !i C ur L and M ildew .—At a school in Sam's valley, came home last I . others left the mines on the 1st inst. in and thirty buildings were soon is ashes. J. K. J ohnson , Secy. miles. Directly across the river the. disgust leaving about 100 unfortunates i attended to. I. <fc H. week to spend her vacation of two weeks. Most of the families are destitue and meeting of tho State Hurt ¡cultural So mountains rise, ridge after ridge, until have not the means to rebuild. The ca ciety of California in San Francisco last The Linkville road between Ashland behind them. No T own H ere .—The census men * Beef cattle look well on the ranges all tastrophe was unprovided for and indeed appear to have conspired to offer Ash an even crest line is formed lifting the Friday th«- subject of the curl fungus and and the summit is in better condition I horizon high among the clouds, and then BLACKSMITHING. mildew of peach trees was under discus- this summer than it ever has been be- through the country, but the sight of leaves a most sad spectacle. There was land all the slights ami indignities possi calves with the cows is so rare as to im- ! a heavy gale from northward, and once ble. Sometime ago neighboring news towering magnificently above all Mount siun. It was stated that a cohl, wet fore. press upon the minds of everyone who j on lire nothing could be done, and water papers were telling their readers that the Shasta glistens in the heavens. I spring is most favorable to the growth of A. E. WEIGHT Good oak and pine wood in any quan returned j After “ taking it all in, ” wc rides over the ranges a realization of the was scarce. So fast did the flames the fungus. ( ‘Id trees are more easily tity for sale cheap by Douglas Gum at I population returned for Ashland was too affected than young ones -the older the the oi<l Kilgore place in the eastern edge great loss occasioned by the winter. This spread that there was no chance to save great, some emigrants were enumerated i to John Greeve’s place, about two and a GENERAL BLACKSMITHING loss will probably be felt more a year anything except a little bed clothing here; and it was with surprise that we . half miles on the homeward way, and tree the worse the cnrl. In some varie of town. AND 51-if. i stopped all night. Mr. Greeve has the ' hence than now. ami a few articles that were picked up in ties of trees the structure of tho leaf were made aware that our town was try A Mr. Bynon, of Douglas county, is WAGON • MAKING, The three men who passed through . a hurry. The loss is estimated at about ing to palm itself upon the census books finest mountain farm in the country, and renders it very difficult for the dieease to preparing a directory for Oregon, which i has followed the dairying business for affect them, ami it is found that the is to be ready for the press in a few town with the trained bears a short time I $50,000. Thc principal losses are: Simp for a larger town than it is. Now we are OSEOOS/ I since indulged in a fight among them- ' son Hr •«., t; i buildings and mill; Gard still further surprised to discover by our several years with good success. He lias BONANZA, sweet, hard shell almond is entirely I months. i selves in Portland one day last week, and ner Hittl, Aurora Hotel, fine residence exchanges that there ¡3 no town here at j about 75 acres of rich meadow land, so free from the curled leaf under any con- All kinds of blacksmithing dofte in the The huckleberries arc ripe in the were sent to jail to repent. The profits nearly level that a single plow furrow best style at reasonable prices. of Cipt. Leeds, Burchard's store and <liti >n. In many places these trees are all. The Portland papers, in publishing will carry water over it in almost any di mountains near the Klamath reservation, of their trip from San Francisco to Port- ! goods, Nelson & Reed's saloon, drug the census returns give a list of the towns being used for stocks upon which to graft HORSE SHOEINC A SPECIALTY. and the Indians have begun to gather land were 8240. and the fuss was about j store, M nsonic Hall, school house, dwell in the State that have over 400 inhabi rection for irrigation. A large portion the ]>each. The white varieties of the the crop. the division of this. ings of Jas Graham, John Grills, Wm. tants each, and Ashland does not appear j of this has« been seeded with timothy, Wagons, Buggies, Wheel-barrows, Etd, pc i h are more subject t® the curl than : made and repaired. Plow work re Chas. II. Hill, who is now in Yreka, Observing owners of fruit trees tell us Magee, Chas. Smith, Fred Seymour an 1 in the list. We find Jacksonville, Rose ! and produces the best of hay. The great the yellow. The varieties freest from ceives special attention. j charm and value of the place is in the cur! are said t • be the Alexander, Early will probably go to Sheridhn this fall to that the fungus does not affect the ]>each- Mrs. Nichi ilson and others. [<-28 tf burg, Canyon City, and other towns water. Copious springs, clear, cold and assist Prof. Skidmore in teaching at the es this summer a*» seriously as last year, Susquehanna, St. John, Solway, Craw- S hooting at B rownsville .—Dn last down to Union (with only 419 inhabi perennial, issue from the ground in such and they think the severe winter has D iu’s Early and Jones’seedling. l‘ro- academy. tants) but no such place as Ashland is The farmers of Linn county are about been beneficial to tho peach trees in Saturday, the 231 ult., a shooting affair mentioned. The reason assigned for the number and with such a volume of water fe.'S '£ D«yme!le said that a solution of occurred at Brownsville, Linn county, that a large creek is formed by their bluestone, a teaspoon of the mineral t<j a through cutting their hay, and there is checking the growth and spread of the omission is that the enumerator failed to confluence before they pass the confines between Dick Warren and Geo. Good bucket of water, applied t<> the roots of so much of it that tlie price is down to fungus. Perhaq>s next year it w«H have man, which resulted in the’death of the keep a distinct record of those living of the farm. Upon one of these, within almost entirely disapj'eared. the tier.-, would preveut tac white mildew $6 and $8. within the corporate limits of the town. 1 a few steps of the dwelling house, a milk BLACKSMITH, Mr. Burris, who is farming for B. F. former. The particulars, as received by from attacking them. llje said the A mer- E. Dimick. of Grant's Pass, has built It seetns rather odd that our town should •private letter from that place, are as fol house is built, and to its advantages may ican idea that a {«each tree was soine- a new house, and is better prepared f r Myer, met with a painful accident last lows: Goodman was spending the even be the only one in the state thus neglect be attributed, perhaps, the secret of the MAIN ST., ASHLAND, OREGON,' Saturday. He was out in the field catch thing tl :«t would die aft rr a short term of the accommodation of travelers than ed. We are inclined to the opinion that excellence of the butter which Mrs. ing a horse, when in some way a rope ing at a private house, and about 10 P. bearing was not entert lined in the old ever before. Ashland has been presumptuous in grow Greeve sends to market. There are four Is now prepared to do* all kinds of work w. Warren called and asked to see him; ; which was fast to tho horse became countries. There the t ee< are regarded I The ladies o f tlm^I . E. Sewing Society in his line at his new shop, they went out of the house, and in the ing so fast since the List census, ami it is brothers Greeve living on Fall creek, as something like a g rr.-i'pevine. that with gave their annual social supper last twistt d arotmd one of his thumbs, ami thought necessary to give her a marked Jenny creek and Kean creek, three of o:i MAIN STREET, ON THE SITE OF KIS OLD SHOf* the horse pulled away from him, tearing interval a quarrel arose, which resulted proper treatment will List indefinitely. Wednesday evening at the residence Ui < tliC flesh almost entirely from the thumb. in Warren drawing a pistol and firing at and noticeable rebuke. We have no whom are still unmarried. We make this Special attention given to Shoeing. doubt, gentlemen of the census, that she F atal S mke B ite .—A fatal case •if Jacob Wagner. Surveyor Geueral Tolman, after spend Goodman, and then starting to run; will see the error of her way and stop announcement in the hope that some 4-32 tC The McCall and Chitwood surveying ing several days in Asliland a id Jackson Goodman then drew his pistol and fired growing at once. To the best of ourrec- damsels who have been waiting for leap rattlesnake bite occurred at the head their la ville, shu ts on thostage for Portland this at arren the shot taking effect in the i ; ollection, the enumerator, reported in ! year chances may be induced to visit the Rock Lake, near Colfax, W. T , last party will strt fur the field falls and enjoy the mountain scenery. Saturday afterno. n, si nine-year-old hoi's next week. There will be eight in morning. He rejiorted that the mem back and ranging upwards, lodged just ■ Jacksonville that our population nuni- ' Returning next nforning to the saw t ! ' bered ,_._l about ---- 222. 950. This was probably not daughter of Mr. Rawls being the victim. the party, all from Ashland. bers of his family who have been sick above the heart. The jiarties were with i deemed accurate enough for comparison , mill, we found W. A. M ilshire, who had ICS CREAM rARLOOS wandered over from Dea l Indian to meet F. ssil lake in Lake county, said to i have recovered their health. His son in about three feet of each other at the with other places. Accumtianie.l by some < tiler children, us there by appointment, and brought she was walking about half a mile from have been so thoroughly searched over “Crit,” with another young gentleman, time the first shot was fired. The pistol him home to attend to business. i home, says the Gaz<ttfJ when suddenly a* by fossil hunters that interesting speci is taking a summer jaunt through East- used by Go- d man was a No. 50 self-act P eaches .—(7. Coolidge now has ripe ---- and ---- A Card. ing revolver. Goodman was immedi j peaches of the Early Alexander variety, rattlesnake fastened its poisonous fangs mens are exceedingly scarce. t ern Oregon on a buck board. in one of her limbs, tlie wound causing To all Cham]»ions and Councils of ■ John Wolters, of Jacksonville,has rent This year has been very unfavorable ately arrested and has had a preliminary and we have had the pleasure of sam- examination, the result of which we have excruciating pain to t|ie ¡>oor girl while ed the buildings uf O. K. Mver, on Main for corn in this section—the most unfa nut heard. Both parties are well known ; pling them pretty extensively. This is C. of H.: As I have never been legally . CONFECTIONERY talking home. Upon reaching home, a street, and will open a bakery and vorable for twenty years, we are told by in this community. Goodman is a horse I about two weeks earlier than the early appointed to the office of Grand Scribe G. A. NUTLEff ProiMriGtor. an old f irmer. The cold, wet spring pre ; ductor, and lias been in Corvallis a good peaches of the other varieties ripen, and I hope you will not consider me as such. phvsician was ser.t for and every remedy cracker manufactory in Ashland. » ---- Froub Brew!, Pies u&I Cité» kájit that could be though of was tried to alle The indictment against W. H. Mat vented it from starting well, and it was ileal during the past two yehrs. Warren we should think everyone in the country I could not possibly accept J I had been | thought the crop Would bg an almost to formerly resided in Philomath, and is a étactly ou h tul. viate her sufferings, but all to no avail. I kinds m Multnomah county for illegal tal failure, but the hot weather of last painter by trade. The quarrel com who has a garden would set oat a few of legally appointed as my business would t^*Òùe dtwr north of Central Hotel. Before death, the poisoned limb turned , voting was dismissed by the court upon month brought it on wonderfully, and menced ah<»uf a w.unan.— Corvalli* Ga- the Early Alexander trees. The peaches , not permit. Very respectfully, N. A J acoba . ' black. arc very finely flavored. there will b« a very fair yield realized. : 2 tdfr. . G. A. NITT.E'áL' a demurrer of defendant's counsel. John Miller, of Jacksonville, rcturne 1 I home last Saturday from San Frau -isc . where he went to purchase new goods. Vre are indebted to Mr. Coolidge for a treat of the finest kind uf Lawton black I berries. lie has great quantités of them I n< w that are ripening very rapidly. A miner on Silver creek named James dark was found dead at l.is claim one day not long since. Heart disease is supposed to have been the cause of his death. ÍÍ i DRUG STORI?! I TRUSSES, I • I I I ! i HARRY SMITIÌ, I BAKERY, liivillll -- ------- . .-------------- --------- *. 7 ’