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¿‘>¿377 I ASHLAND TIDINGS. «. * '*■ TIDINGS. ASHLAND ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING. W. H. LEEDS. Edrtor and Publisher, TIDINGS Terms of Advertising: lbqal . One square, first insertion....... Each Additional insertion......... LOCAL. Local Notices, per line...............................lot Regular advertisements inserted upon liberal terms. Job Printing Of all descriptions done on short notice Legal Blanks, Circulars, Business Cards Billheads, Letterheads, Posters, etc., got ten up in good style at living prioes. Term» of Subscription: Jns copy, one year............................... $ i 2 “ “ six months............................ 1 “ “ three months....................... 31 ub Rates, six copies for................... [ 12 Terms, iu advance. 50 50 75 60 VOL. X REAL PROFESSIONAL CARDS. J. S. Howard, Notary Public and Conveyancer MEDFORD, OREGON. All kinds of real estate business given careful attention, and information furnished con I cerning property in the new town. Dr. John S. Parson, REAL ESTATE DEALERS Dr. D. B. Bice. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, A shland , O regon . office at the City Drag Store; residence near the woolen factory. JP" Speciai attention given to diseases of wo men. [9-1 J. T. Bowditch, Attorney and Counsellor at Law ASHLAND, OREGON. Buy and Sell Property. Will practice 11 all courts of the State. Collections promptly made and remitted. 9-4 T. B. Eant, and Counsellor at Rent Property & Collect Rents Law. JACKSONVILLE, OR. fl^^-Will practice iu all the courts of Oregon. Office iu the court house. [lO-S Al Kart. HftSMttOJXCL, CIVIL ENGINEER and SURVEYOR, ASHLAND, OREGON. Will attend promptly to any business in the line of laud surveying, locating ditches, etc., and everything pertaining to civil engineer ing. Satisfaction guaranteed. £j^*Offive at the postoffice. 10-12 DOMESTIC SEWING MACHINE, Mis3 Alena Weber, Teacher of music at Ashland College, will give Instructions in Auction and Em ployment Office. PIANO, ORGAN and GUITAR To a limited number of pupils outside her college class. Residence itt Mr. A. G. Rockfellow's on Church street. A. L. Willey, CARPENTER AND BUILDER. ( Formerly of Watertown, Massachusetts) I_ T ns located in Ashland, and is prepared X-Lto give estimates, furnish material and do labor, such as Construct Buildings, i Both In and out of town. All work warranted to give satisfaction- (8-5. E. T. Bartlett, CONTRACTOR and BUILDER, A shland , O regon . Will furnish estimates and take contracts for Buildings of all kinds. A share of putronagc solicited. [S-35 Shop located ju.it below the livery »table. DePEATT, E. ATTORNEY A COUNSELLOR at LAW ASHLAND, JAOKMN COUNTY, OREGON. Will practice in all courts of this state. Office in Odd Fellows’ building up stairs. Agent for the following named Insurance Companies: The Liverpool and London and Globe. The State Investment and Insurance Company The Western Fire and Marine Insurance Com pany. The London Com mercial ssurance Company, of London. England. M. 1. M’CALL. A. P. HAMMOND, Hamaond & McCall, REAL - ESTATE - AGENTS —— « CONVEYANCER 1, Ashland, Oregon. Loans negotiated, Property bought and sold; collections attended to; Abstracts of title fur nished. MF*Surv eying of all kimls satisfactorily and promptly done. We offer (or sale the following described real property. [”"52.] The Hargadiue property, consisting of very desirable town lots, improved and un improved; and fanning lands and stock ranches in sizes to suit purchasers, np to 6AMJ0 acres: also, A Goon H tt k R anch . 960 acres, six miles East of Ashland—good for summer or win ter range. T wenty A cres of good wood land near PWR. I i SOC1ÏTI Jis Masonic Directory, Ashland. SISKIYOU CHAPTER, Xo. No. 21, R. A. M. Regular convocations on the Thursday next after the full moou. W. II. A tkinson . II. P. A. E. Hammond, Secy. [9-36 ASHLAND LODGE NO. 23, A. F. A A. M. Stated communication ou the Thursday of or before the full moon. II. C. H ill , W. M. A. E. Hammond, Secretary.______________ A 1*1'11 A CHAPTER XO. 1, O. E. 8. Stati li meetings on 1st and 3d Tuesday in each nnJnth. , M rs . A nna C arter , W. M. Miss Anna Anderson Secretary. 1, O. O. F«« Hold regular meeting« every Saturday even ing >it their hall in Ashland. Brethren in good standing are cordially invited to attend. II. T. I nlow , X. G J. D. Fountain. Secretary, Ashland Lodge, A. O.U.W. Meetdin lodge room ill Odd Fellow'« Hull •■very hii ;* t and T hird Wednesday in each inonih.j Present hour of meeting 7:00 P. M. All Brethren in good standing are cordially invite*! to attend. A. l.ANB, Recorder. J. W. ALSVTT. M. W. Ashland. W- C. T. U The Ashland Woman's Christian Tem perance Union meets every Tuesday after noon at 3o’clock in the Reading Room. All interested in the work of the order are in vited to-nttend the meetings. Mas. S cott , Pres. Mrs. G. F. Billings, Sec. rot Man and Beast. Mustang Liniment is older than most men, and used more and more every year. ASHLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1886. RAILROADING INCIDENT. THEY HAVE A JOLLY TIME. CALIFORNIA IN 1885. The Eight Contented Judges of the United _ The superb New Year number of the [Yreka Journal ) States Supreme Court. Chronicle gives a very interesting review Our Sacramento bridge correspondent of the industries of the Golden State for sends us the following, under date of (Correspondence of the Boston Advertiser. | - for 1885, with hopeful opinions for the Dec. 27th: At the capitol, the other day, I dropped future. Christmas has come and gone. To Of the wheat product it says the yield many it has brought pleasant greetings, into the supreme court room. The but some have endured hardship and toil. nine judges were on the bench, three will probably be 20,000,000 bushels less These latter have been the railroad hands lawyers inside the rail and five spectators than in 1884, but points to the fact that in our ¡»art of the State. But to give you on the benches. I was as quiet as could wheat will not pay to cultivate and coun a detail of why it was so, I will go back be, and the chief interest centered in a sels that more attention be given to fruit. to a week ago. On Sunday last, a gentle very lively debate between one of the at It thinks that fruit will pay well since the rain began falling, which continued torneys and old Judge Miller. After railroads have agreed to transport fruit steadily through Monday, Tuesday and congress convenes and the capitol is by fast frieght at $300 per car. It says Wednesday, but Thursday the storm in thronged with visitors the court will be the chief product must continue to be the creased all day, the wind blowing in furi honored with more spectators, but the grape, as a good article at Merced will ous gusts, bringing with it, at dark, a scene of its labors is always drowsy, and readily bring $80 per ton. In 1884 the perfect deluge. The rain continued un filled with a heaviness born of decorum State produced 175,000 boxes of raisins, til Saturday at 9 a. tn., though lighter af and stiffness. The judges are all in re and in 1885, not less than 450,000 boxes. ter Thursday night. The river had risen markably good health and daily congratu Frosts affected the vines and but 10,000, all day, being at dark of Thursday, full late themselves and indulge in jokes 000 gallons of wine was made. It pre t five feet higher than at any time previous based on that fact. Chief Justice Waite dicts great success for the industry, since 150,000 acres itt in vines, and this winter. In many places the railroad has returned from Europe with very i there are now li>0,000 track is laid over deep fills, some of them pleasant remembrances of hospitable en ' thinks the 1886 product will be worth being across low places where the river tertainments, and in better physical con » $10,000,000. canyon makes a bend. These places, dition than he has been for years. H<-„ ' It commends fruit canning as an itn- when the water is high, are liable to the tells his friends that he is about rcauived ‘portant mdustry. It is estimated that I action of the current, which sweeps down to go on the retired list at the opening of 110,000 cases of apricots were canned in through these canyons with resistless the next century. As for Mr. Bradley, 1885, againBt 85,000 in 1884; 78,000 cases force, a foaming, rolling, whirling torrent, whose retirement has formed the theme of pears, against 55,000 in 1884 ; 70,000 two hundred yards wide and ven' deep. of gossip for several years, he is drying cases of peaches, against 60,000 ; 50,000 The track is several feet above high water up gradually, and is hardly more than a cases of plums, against 45,000. While mark, but a strong current cutting into a shadow, but he laughs at the idea of giv the prices of canned goods was nut high, bank or fill, cuts very rapidly, and as this ing up active work, and really does more yet it yielded a living profit. A big de is the first high water we have had since service than almost any other one of the mand is expected for tomatoes and peas. the track was laid north of Redding, it nine. He has suffered considerably from The only canned goods put up in less has tested the work and found the weak attacks made upon him in connection quantity was salmon, of which last year’s with the electoral commission, but as a output was reckoned at 760,000 cases, places. The north bound train which made the judge he ranks very high with the law against 1,180,000 in 1884. AGENTS FOR THE GOLD AND SILVER. run from Redding to the terminus of yers who practice at that bar. As for the the road on Christmas day had a very nar other judges, it would be hard to find a The mining yield was $18,000,000— row escape from destruction. I learned better preserved set of men with stronger $14,000,000 of gold .oid $4,000,000 of faces, or who reflect more unctuously the the following from the engineer, Chas. silver—the increase being mainly in gold. effects of good living than they. The Best now in the market. H. Adams. He said: The Chronicle predicts the great future It is generally believed that the presi “We passed over three or four places wealth of the mines, notwithstanding the Friday morning (Christmas) that l<»oked dent will give Attorney-General Garland restrictions ¡»laced on hydraulic mining. the first vacant judgeship. Just how bad, but as the bank held firm we were It says when the whole gold-bearing Ter in no great danger. These places were I much that lias to do with the desire of ritory, comprising 8,000,000 acres, is at the court not to encourage any withdraw all below the one at Smithson. When tacked by an intelligent force of miners, we arrived there I was running along at als I do not know. Garland is not es the bullion export may be larger than pecially the kind of man that is welcome a moderate speed, holding the ‘throttle’ ever. with my left band, and peering out ahead in that select and pleasure-loving circle. TOWNS AND COUNTIES. By outsiders the chief qualifications for as far as possible, scarcely apprehending this office are supposed to be great legal It gives many interesting figures on Now is the time for those desiring any danger there, but a low bank of rock attainments. In addition, the judges the growth of various counties and towns, roots prevented my seeing the worst homes in the Rogue River Valley to and part of the washout until I was so near themselves always do considerable quiet and says the place of Sacramento in 1880 buy good farms and fruit lands. that there was no backing out. The work to make sure that any prospective is now held by Los Angeles, whose pro extended full three feet out from new-comer into their ranks is a good sto digious growth in the last year or two is Customers will be shown any batik the end of the ties, when I came abreast ry teller, a bon virant, and an expert at one of the marvels of progress. property in our hands free of charge. of A BUILDINO BOOM. the place, but the top of the fill being whist, otherwise he does not reach the of fine gravel and clay, the water had cut standard set down in these days. How More residences were built in San a square face on the bank for about fifty ever dignified and austere the judges ap Francisco than iu any previous decade, pear in court, they are exceedingly jolly feet or more. When the forward truck i I and the appearance of the city has been The following is a partial of the locomotive struck the fill I could in their social gatherings, and they form equally improved. The total number of combination whist and law club that sales of city real estate in 1885 was 3,446, list of the property we now see the earth and track settle down, and a meets every week to crack jokes and felt the engine careening over, much against 2,857 in 1884; but the value of offer for sale: more than she ought to, although I was study Hoyle over the best Burgundy that the property which changed hands was on the low rail on a ten degree curve, can be had. I have heard some good only $13,650,000, against $13,321,519 in Country Property. which you know is five inches lower than stories about the initiation into that 1884. In other words, the sales were the opposite rail. When I felt her set chanued circle of one of the justices, chiefly of residence lots of moderate value 181 acres , 2 miles east of Ashland, 125 well known in Boston, but they might be acres in cultivation, medium house and ___ tling under me, thoughts passed through for the purpose of erecting dwellings. barn, a fine well at house and good spring my mind like flashes of electricity. I misunderstood and tend to impair the Such large buildings as Murphy, Grant at barn. All under fence. A good bargain. saw that to stop and turn back was im public appreciation of the court’s dignity, A Co’s, store, the Odd Fellows’ new $3.150. possible, for before I could overcome and and so had better go unwritten. Now, Mr. Garland is not just the kind building and George Hearst’s residence 200 acras , miles from Railroad station. reverse the motion we would be hurled 160 acres under the plow. Fine large new of a man that would keep up the time- were exceptions to the rule. Mote mort house, good large barn, well watered, fine down the bank, caving under us. So honored traditions of the court. He has gages were recorded in 1885 than to 1884 springs, excellent orchard, well fenced. In seeing instantly that our only chance was and the number of releases foot tip the fact, one of the beet farms in the Rogue to get over the fill as soon as possible, I no frills nor furbelows, and would look same, but the amount of money borrowed river vallev. Terms to suit purchaser. $6,- shoved the ‘¡ever’ ahead, and pulled the about as natural in his silk gown as a is less this year than the year before, 000. ‘throttle’ wide open. The grand old en bear. He despises society, absolutely while the amount of mortgages paid off' 1G0 acres. 3J^ miles from Medford, Jack- gine leaped ahead like a thing of life, never goes to a dinner, has never worn a is less. This is probably due to the fact dress coat, and lives in absolute contempt son county. It is situated in the garden spot of Jackson county and is well im clinging to the rails and gathering head of the little niceties which the supreme that the large number of mortgages exe way at each stroke of the piston, until cuted were building loans, while the proved. $4,000. she fairly flew, almost instantly we were court holds so dear. He likes to study diminution of releases is due to dullness :W5 acres. 2U miles from Medford. i law, to hunt and fish, but he never looks $16.50 per acre. This farm can be bought over, but back of us were those cars. I paiticularly well, nor cares how he looks. of the past year. The building engage knew that if the links would hold those ments for 1885 were 1,458, against 1,127 by paying a portion down aud the balance On the bench he would break down all can be paid in five equal annual payments. cars together I would get them over. in 1884. The amount these buildtnus $6,517,50. Several flat cars looked as if their loads the absurd little punctiliousness that the cost was $7,143,999, against $6,202,807 court has established for itself, and be in 1884, $5,261,689 in 1883, $3,896.212 318 acres, 2 miles east of Jacksonville on would be dumped into the river, then main road; all fenced, 150 acres tillable; came a passenger coach and the ca- i simply, as now, a man whose only charms in 1882, and $1,754,435 in 1880. It also balance good pasture land. 5 acres orchard, boose, each for an instant, which are those which come from a naturally recounts the growth of manufactories, fair house of 4 rooms, good barn, plenty seemed an age, careened far over big head and heart. But the judges de such iu mills making cassimeres, trunks, water. T erms :—One half cash, balance mand something more, and, without say payable in one, two and three yeari. $5,- that swift boiling maelstrom, for now ing anything, they are known to all the woolens, shoes and white shirts as a gra the bank was fast giving way, which I tification to all interested in the welfare 500. w lawyers who are on intimate terms with 298 acres, 2 miles east of Jacksonville on could see, quicker than I can tell it. them to hope that it will never come to of the city. The most important growing industry main road; all fenoed, 125 acres tillable, When all were over, I unconciously drew pass that Mr. Garland will sit in their outside of San Francisco is that of refin balance good for pasturage. Good spring a long brdlth of relief, while a fervent number. and well, new house and bam, $5.500, “Thank God,” escaped from my lips. 1 ing petroleum. In 1885, no less than 180,000 barrels of crude petroleum were 136 acbes . 3X miles north of Ashland. tell you, my friend, I felt just then as if In a Nutshell. All enclosed with good fence and all in cul the divine power was on our side, for im refined at the refinery in Alameda, which tivation. Fine house of five rooms. Good mediately after the last wheel passed The Daily Astorian usually has the has a capacity of nearly 5,000 barrels a bam, 40x60 ft. Good well and plenty of over that fill, and before I could put on knack of getting at the kernel of every day. Tne consumption is now checked stuck water. Good young orchard. We do not wish to brag on this place, but if there the air brake after shutting off the steam, thing, and the following pointed proposi by a combination effected between the ia a better one in Jackson county we would and stop the train, the fill gave way, tion goes to show that il is not losing any producers and the railway which former like to see it. $3350. Time. about six feet wide and fifty feet Ipr.g, of its force: ly had a monopoly of the maiket and was sliding into the rivur, leaving a space un In this city there are a good many, or able to fix ita own price. Petroleum is 760 acres . To any one who wants a stock ranch I think this will just suit. der the rail without anything to support a bad many houses occupied by the evidently ^otug to be a fuel in the future, There is 560 acres of good plow land. Good it, for three feet back under the ties. Chinese. They mostly live, aud work, and there is no surer fortune than a flow house and bam ana an unlimited range Had we been an instant later crossing, and sleep in t^ese houses. At night they ing oil $ ell. connected with the place—partly under some of us would not be with you to-dfty, One of the thriving industries is the extend boards and matting across the fence—good water, ana everything in just such a shape that the purchaser oan make and in conclusion let ms say, that floor, some sleeping upon these boards redwood business. The receij»ts at this money. Will make it an object for yon to although we are execrated and condemned and some upon the floor. They wash port in 1885 were 15,000,000 ft. at a price look at it. $12,160. as a reckless set, and a bad lot by many, from tin cups, throwing the water into the which averaged $14 in the rough and $23 80 acres . 1)< miles front Ashland. A you will find that railroad engineers ap street. Their food is dry fish, dessicated clear per thousand feet. splendid mountain ranch. A choice varie preciate and feel the responsibility that vegetables, rice and various prepared sea ty of fruit trees two years old and plenty of rests upon then;. And now I will weeds, imported from China, with an oc Appointments by Cleveland. berries. Good log house with box addition. ‘ switch off 1 ” by stating that we finished casional piece of pork. Their drink is tea. Good shed bam, plenty of water—good A Washington dispatch of recent date the balance of the run to Delta without Their clothing, except their pantaloons, springs. Price $800. says: further incident of note, where we were which they make themselves, is imported President Cleveland having sent to the City Property. flagged, just out of town, at the residence from China. The cost of living, includ Senate all of his recess appointments, has I of the track walker, Mr. John Koch, and ing rent, is less than fifteen cents per determined to make no more appoint A fine residence on Main street. House of seven rooms, nioe large parlor and sit treated by his estimable lady, to a splen day. In a house that jiays $40 dollars a ments during the session of Congress, ex ting room, excellent fire place in each: well did turkey dinner, to which we did am month rent thirty people have a home cept to fill the ¡»laces of those whose terms finished throughout, solid frame building, ple justice, so you sec we found a silver This is a respectable Mongolian establish stdhe foundation; 1J^ stories. Lot 67x350 lining to the cloud that had hung over us ment and presents the Chinese problem expire. He has appointed in all a little ft; choice collection of fruit trees; deeded so recently, and had a good Christmas in its most unobjectionable aspect. Let over fifteen hundred men to office since he came to the White House on the 4th water right: large bam, good woodshed us consider it. Thirty adult male foreign of Match. Possibly the total may reach with store-room obove An endless variety after all. of choice berries, fruit, etc. $2.550. In speaking to the fireman, Mr. John ers incapable of becoming citizens—not sixteen hundred. The number sent to M acre . House and lot, situated on Cummings, about the affair, he stated disposed nor placed in a position to ac the Senate since its meeting this month North Main St. Good house of five rooms, that the cool head and steady nerve of quire our language, as isolated from the has been a little over fourteen hundred; good barn, well and water right. All set engineer Adams, when he pulled tho influence of Christian civilization as there were about a hundred sent during to choice fruit and now tearing—a fine throttle open, saved the train and lives though living in the heart of Asia—tak the session immediately succeeding liis home. For sale cheap. $1000. of all on board, for, said he, though the ing work from thirty women, and there inauguration. The number whose tei ms 15 acres . Good fruit land within the place looked as safe as others we had by leaving thirty women, to sinorstarve: corpora.ion of Ashlaud. A fine chance for passed coming up, the fill gave way be sending twenty or thirty per cent of their will expire duriug the coming sixty days will be not over 300 or 400, so that his nous1 man to make money. $400. neath us, and fell into the river imme money to China for their families, and totol number of appointments during his 18 acres . 3 houses, fine fruit, water right diately after we had passed over it, at.d sixty or seventy per cent to China for and everything firet-class. Good bam, fine had we continued at a moderate speed merchandise; not liable to military or first year in office will not exceed 2,000. It does not follow, however, that the chicken ranch. Splendid gardens. $3,000. the entire train would have tumbled jury duty; not performing Any civil duty; number of changes is at all indicated by House and Lot on Manzanita street, near over into the river, where none would as criminals, furnishing far more than the college. Lot 90x200 feet. A variety of have escaped alive, as the current at that their just proportion to our prisons; all this figuie. Of the 125,000 uflices in the gift of the Government, no more than fruit trees, flowers and shrubbery; a good new house, well furnished. A desirable place is terribly strong. It makes tne male adult workers, their places to be 5,000, probably, ate Presidential offices. shudder when I think of how near we filled with other adult male workers Of course the largest official mill is at the place, nicely located. $1.350. when age or ¿conqætency compels or en House and Lot in West Ashland. An ex- caine to making that long run to where ables them to return to China; an endless Postoftice Department. The Assistant the nearest station is called eternity. Postmaster-General continues to grind ceUent new frame house. Lot 90x200 feet. The track is swinging in the air tn one chain of patient, working slaves taking out fourth-class Postmasters at ar» aver Wood-house and store-room. New picket the labor, the bread, the place of white fence, good bam, cellar, and a young or place above Delta, where the construc age rate of 100 a day, or say 2,500 a chard. $1,200. • tion train had not yet finished filling in people of our own race; incapable of as mouth. Stephenson is a tireless worker, House and Lot on Pine street. Lot l*-< with heavy rock, one hundred and sixty similation. Contemplate the future of and heartily enjoys seeing the beads drop acres; good house, living water, ouuice feet of the grade being taken out. The republican government from this stand in the basket. In the six months that fruits and terries. A bargain. $1.^M). weak places being found now, the com point; consider society from it. We do he has teen in office he has appointed at Lot on Woolen street; 2 acres all set in pany will spare n<> ¡mins to put the road not argue the proposition ; we state it. least 10,000 Democrats to office. At the choice fruit: 250 trees—300 peach trees. in the best possible repair, aud as the Treasury Department there are constant I Best situation in the place. $1,000. A Wild Story. most of the road bed is cut into the changes being made among the subordi An unimproved lot in West Ashland. 25* solid rock, it will be one of the best (Albany Democrat.] nates scattered throughout the country. aores. Good fruit land. $200. roads in the State. Construction is be In the Internal Revenue Service alone The story was "recently circulated that House and Lot on Factory street. J«ot ing pushed ahead as fast as the weather the changes in gaugers, storekeepers and 100x100 feet. Good new house: several I »ear will permit, the grade being finished to John Mackentire, who was lost four or other otticets average probably about a five years ago in the mountains, had been ing fruit trees. $750. within a short distance of Portuguese In the Postoffices seen by two young men of Lebanon in hundred a week. House » nd Lot of acre on Granite street, Flat. throughout the country, where Demo the Cascade mountains around “ Bald with stable, ditch running through lot. The mason work is being pushed also cratic Postmasters have been appointed, $500. bj’ Mr. Scobie, but have not learned at Peter,” where he was living like a wild there are many quiet changes going on. man, his hair having grown seveial House and Lot ?* acre on Granite street. what point his advance forces are now inches on his naked body, his food being In the consular service there are a g.»od $300. working. raw meat, taken with the blood. So lit many changes; likewise in various other House and Lot on Granite street 1 9-10 tle credence has been placed in the tale branches of the Governmental vineyard. acres. House, 4 rooms. $600. Enough Left fur Seed. by the people around Lebanon that no So it is probable that the close of the One ten aere lot. unimproved, in a good effort has been made, we are informed, year 1885 will see about 20,OCX) Demo It is very generous of Mr. Cyrus W. location. The test of fruit land. $650. Field to projxjse to sell the Government to trace the matter up, and people there crats in cffice itt various parts of the coun Choice vacant lots in various parts of the his stock in the Western Union at par generally believe the wildest part of the try, and the close of the first year of city. when it can be purchased at about 75. whole matter is the story itself. Many Cleveland's administration will count A good paying Hotel, all furnished. Notwithstanding the degeneracy of the communities have their era of wild man about 30,000 changes in which Democrats times, we still have left enough patriots sensations, but few of them, though, have been substituted for Republicans. Several houses to rent. ever turn out to be the genuine article. Mr. J. E. Honstou ho’ding a commission for seed. The Rev. Geo. H. Thayer, of Bour Depend on it, John Mackentire is not as Notary Public, will attend to all business in that line. now roaming around “Bald Peter” in bon, Ind., says: “Both myself and wife Rum and honey is said to be one of any form, wild or tame. Please call on us if you are Becking homes i owe our lives to Shiloh's Consumption or investments, and it will te a pleasure to the beat cough medicines for a family. , Cure.” For sale at J H Chitwood A render you such assistance ana give you The Wife can use her share of it—the Willis L. Culver of Pavilion, N. Y.. itays I Son's. such information as is in our ability to con honey— while the husband, with his usual fer. that Gilmora’s Magnetic Elixir cured him doctors cannot help you, then take self-« eriticing devotion, gets away with of a long standing throat and lung trouble. . Gil wfen mo re’8 Magnetic Elixir for your throat HOUSTON & WICKHAM. theDMty rum. For sale at the City drug store. I and lungs. For sale at the City drug store. Ashland, Or., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON A shland , O rbciox . ^»'Office for the present at Chitwood's drug store. [6-4. Attorney ESTATE. FRUIT TRADE IN OREGON. MEN WITDOIT RELIGION [Portland News.] During the year a large amount of green fruit has been shipped East by rail. The greater part of it has gone to Mon tana, Idaho, St. Paul, Chicago and New York. None but the choicest grades and those that will stand transportation have been shipped, and when the fruit arrived at its destination it was nearly always in good condition, and sometimes found a ready market at fancy prices. In others it scarcely paid for the boxes. President Donald Macleay in his annual report to the Boad of Trade, suggested that the farmers of Southern Oregon pay more at tention to the raising of peaches and other fruits for the Portland market. H. E. Battin, the well-known produce merchant and fruit shipper of 142 First strees, was seen yesterday in regard to the fruit trade. “The business,” said Mr. Battin, “has quadrupled within the past year, par ticularly in the shipments outside the State. I think the exports for the past six months, which >s the busy time in the fruit business, will amount to about $160,000 in green fruits, The country between Portland and St. Paul is settling up very rapidly, and in the near future I look for a greatly enlarged market. Tak en as a whole, the year has been very satisfatory. The Northern Pacific Rail road has given us equal rates for car-load lots as are afforded the California ship pers by the Central and Southern Pacific Railroads, and greater advantages in the matter of time. The shipping in car load lots, however, to St. Paul and Min neapolis. and further on East, has not been as satisfactory as it might be. Next season, if the producers desire to build lip a market, they must take some of the chances. The commission men will furn ish the boxes, paper and labor, but want the producers, who are benetitted by the building up of new market, to take some of the chances. “Another drawback to the green fruit business is that, with but few exceptions, it is impossible to get a car load of any particular kind of fruit in one orchard. The fruit producer should confine his product to a few choice varieties in order to make the business a paying one. An other advantage which the California shipper has over us is that they have more varieties than we have to select from.” “During the past month there has been quite a trade in apples with California. This is principally in fancy stocks, which include the Spitzenberg, Northern fc>j»y and Yellow Newton Pippin. The export fruit trade for the next four months will not amount to $1,000 a month, and is the dull season of the year in the busi ness. ” [Jas Russell Lowell in Springfield Republican.] “I fear that when we indulge ourselves in the amusement of going without a re ligion we are sustained at present by an enormous mass all about ns of religious feeling and religious convictions, so that, whatever it may be safe for us to think, for us who have had great advantages, and Lave been brought up in such a way that a certain moral direction has been given to our character, I do not know what would become of the less favored classes of mankind if they undertook to play the game. “Whatever defect and imperfections may attach to a few points of the doc trinal system of Calvin—the bulk of which was simply what all Christians be lieve— it will be found that Calvinism or any other ism which claims an open Bible and proclaims a crucified and risen Christ is infinitely preferable to any form of polite and pohahed skepticism which gathers as its votaries the degen erate sons of heroic ancestors, who, having been trained in n society and edu cated in schools the foundations of which were laid by men of faith and piety, now turn and kick down the lad der by which they have climbed up, and pel allude men to live without God and to. leave them to die without hope. “The worst kind of »religion is no re ligion at all, and these men, living in ease and luxury, indulging in the ‘amuse inent of going without religion,’ may be thankful that they live in lands where tl.e Gospel they neglect has tamed the beastliness and ferocity of the men who blit for Christianity might long ago have eaten their carcasses like the South Sea Islanders, or cut off their heads and tanned their hides 1 ke the monsters of the French Revoluticn. When the mi croscopic search of skepticism, which had hunted the heavens and sounded the seas to disprove the existence of a Crea tor, has turned its attention to human society, and has found a place on this planet ten miles square where a decent man may live in decency, comfort and security, supporting and educating liis children, unspoiled and unpolluted; a place where age is reverenced, infancy respected, manhood respected, woman hood honored and human life held in due regard—when skeptics can find such a place ten miles square on this globe, where the Gospel of Christ has not gone and cleared the way and laid the founda tion and made decency and security pos sible, it will then be in order for the skeptical literati to move thither and there ventilate their views. But so long as these very men aro dependent upon the religion which they discard for every privilege they enjoy, they may well hesi tate before they seek to rob tho Chris Land-buying Swindlers. tian of his hope and humanity of its A letter received from Oakland, faith in that Savior who alone has given Douglas county, under date <-f Dec. 27th, to man that liopo of life eternal which says: “Yesterday (Saturday) two per makes life tolerable and society possible, sons, who have been staying at the hotel and robs death of its terrors and the for tile past week, for the purpose of buy grave of its gloom." ing land, came to terms with J. R. The Silver Question. Dodge, of this place, and agreed to pay him the sum of $8,000 for his land and A Washington special says: The poli stock, and last night the papers were ticians are talking a great deal about drawn up and signed, the would-be Beck's silver speech. The silver men purchasers giving Mr. Tlodee a certificate of deposit on Mr. Tralley, a merchant of Yoncalla. They then made arrange ments to meet Mr. Dodge here on Mon day morning <>n the train, ami go down together t<> Portland and settle up the business. They then made excuse to bor row $100 from Mr. Dodge on the receipt for the money in Tralley’s safe, which, of course, Mr. Dodge advanced, the ex press agent and merchant here being satisfied as to the genuineness of the or der and signature. They each of them obtained a pair of boots from the store of E. G. Young & Co., on credit, and some time in the night the two decamped, leaving their hotel bills unpaid, but taking with them the landlord’s gold pen, and $100 which they had received of Mr. Dodge, and the two new purs of boots. It is supposed they crossed the railroad bi idge over the Umpqua, and went south. Several parties are out after them. They told Mr. Dodge to telegraph some time to-day to Mr. Tralley to meet them all at the depot at Yoncalla with the was amused ‘ by them $400. Suspicion ~ ’ not turning up at breakfast time, so then Tralley was telegraphed to, and the order was found to be a forgery. Important Land Decision. |9 00 . 1 60 praise it I ighly, and have already <uib- Bciibed for 35,000 copies of it for circu lation, chiefly in the West. They ex pect to circulate over 100,000 copies. They commend it as representing gener ally their views on the policy of the Ad ministration in regard to silver, and will imitate it in speeches in both Houses alien the matter comes up after the holi days. The recommendations of the President and the Secretary of the Treasury respecting silver will be em bodied tn resolutions which will be offered in both Houses. Mr. McPher son of New Jersey will probably offer the Administration resolution tn the Senate and Mr. Hewitt in the House. That the debate will l>e hitter may be in ferred from Beck's speech and the ex pressions of approval bestowed upon it by the other silver men. The latter claim to be stronger in both Houses than before tho President's message was re ceived, and declare very confidently that there will be no change in the law with respect to silver coinage at this session. T1 le Secretary of the Treasury will be asked to appear before the Senate Fi nance Committee to discuss his pojicy concerning silver. As to the matter of his making tin bond calls, it seems to have escaped attention that under the iaw it is discretionary with him whether to make bond calls any time before the close of the fiscal year; and, as the fiscal year does not expire until June 30th next, those who want to inquire why he lias not complied with the lat^ may be told that he has six months yet in which to do it. Mr. Warner of Ohio will bring up his silver resolution in the House as soon as he can after recess, and it is not unlike ly that the Administration will be under tire in both ends of the Capitol at once. The interest in the silver question, and the probable attitude of Congress upon it, are by no means confined to our po litical and commercial centers. Inquiries from France, England and Germany have been sent here with respect to it. The Treasury Department has pur chased 1,900,000 ounces of silver this month, for coinage into standard dollars. The silver dollar is now quoted at 791 cents. FROM THE WITTY JOURNALS. The most durable pavement is non made from Vassar birthday cake. It was the man who chewed a kernel of burnt coffee who had abated breath. A war cloud no bigger than a man's hand cannot be expected to spank all Europe. Shooting boots are extensively adver tised. Shooting boots are probably those fired at cats. When the astronomers skim the “milky way” do they ever make use of the “big dipper”? Flats are growing unpopular in New York. New York ‘ flats” are unpopular the country over. When a person is in everybody’s mouth, he naturally has a high apprecia tion of the popular taste. What this country is suffering from most, just now, is the number of fifty- cent men trying to carry a $100,000 air. It has been decided that a woman can not be an offensive partisan; but she can be just as provoking in other ways. Napoleon had a habit of whistling while in deep thought. No wonder that the enemy flod before his terrible ap proach! A Georgia man has a hen that is twen ty years old. That looks as though the colored people of that section had been basely slandered. The man whose name gets in the pa per without his consent should go and comfort the man whose name is left out when he wanted it iu. A cable dispatch says: “The name of Karageorgevtcs is ou every lip." The Servians must have a good deal of lip to sustain such a weight as that. A writer says that debt in Mexico is a very serious matter. It probably neces sitates the purchase of a silver-mounted revolver and a bulldog with jaws cut bias. Music teachers are now running away with pupils, and coachmen are talking about getting out an injunction to re strain the musicians from interfering with their business. Japanese etiquette requires visitors to re main at the place they are visiting until told to leave, A good many visiting acquaintances in the country sectn to be trying to uiake that the custom here. A Connecticut crank is out with a scheme to induce men to wear bonnets. This is simply dreadful. The purchase of one bonnet generally upsets the family circle for a fortnight, but fancy the effect of purchasing two bonnets. A Chinaman in San Francisco lias es tablished a factotw for manufacturing devils and idols. The devil already has a factory for the manufacture of idles and those other things. But this will boom the Clunatnan's business, rather than hurt it. Freight Rates from California. (San Francisco Chronicle.] The active competition between tho. Atlantic and Pacific and Southern Pacific interests resulting from the opening of the California Southern has borne good fruit to California shippers, especially those of the southern portion of the State. This will be more appreciably felt during the coming year, as there is every indication of rate changes all along the line. An important reduction was ann< uuced yesterday, the Atlantic and Pacific and Southern Pacific agents at several points in Southern California be ing notified that on and after January 1st Los Angeles rates to all points on the Missouri river and east thereof will ap ply on shipments of fruit, wine, raisins and dried fruit. The points named are as follows: Los Angeles, San Gabriel, Savannah, Spadra, Puente, Colton, Po mona, Riverside and San Bernardino. On shipments from through Eastern points the rates to the above points will tie made by adding an arbitrary charge of 20 cents per 100 pounds to the Los Angeles rates, regardless of classifica tion. This change in rates abolishes the arbitrary rate on each carload of fruit from Riverside and other points in in Southern California. The reduction may be wholly credited to the system of competition introduced by the Atlantic and Pacific. The arbitrary charge has heretofore ranged from $10 a carload from San Gabriel up to $40 from River side. In tile case of William J. Hamilton vs. the Northern Pacific Railway Company, involving the claim of a settler to a tract of land within the limits of the railroad Portland's Wholesale Trade. grant, which was resisted by the company Mr. Donald Macleay, President of the on technical grounds respecting the orig Portland Board of Trade, said to a News inal settler's qualifications as a pre reporter the other day that business in emptor, Commissioner Sparks hold that a all lines increased 20 ¡»er cent, the ]*ast settlement claim, proven by occupation year. The volume of business was far and improvement, although not placed on greater than in 1884, but the low prices record, exempts the land from with prevailing did not increase the valuation drawal, and that the railroad company correspondingly. The wholesale business cannot be held to attack the settler's quali amounts to about $42,000,000, the same fications or the compliance with the law as in 1882, 7.000,000 more than in 1884. under the public land laws of the United and $11,000,000 less then in 1883. Tho States. The principle ut this decision is ex|K*rt business by rail East, to the Sound that land occupied by actual settlers, as and coastwise, was about $12,000,000. well as land held under claims of record, Next year is exjiected to be a good one are excepted from railroad grants and in business circles and a second 1883 is withdrawal, and being so excepted at the looked for without a boom. proper time would not pass to the rail During the year 128 vessels, with car road, even if the settlemet of the claim goes valued at 6,018,709 cleared from the should afterward prpve to be iu any man Columbia river for foreign porta. ner defective as against the United States. Commissioner Sparks further holds that The Hessian Fly. the question would then be between the A Cur lo ts Pet. [From the Eugene Guard.] original or subsequent settler, as tho case | Portlaud Telegram.] Mr J. A. Patney, of Junction precinct, might be, and the Government, and can For several days past a young man called at this office last Wednesday after never be nude a questiuu between the lately from the country has been parad noon, and gave the editor information settler and the railroad conqiany. In i I ing the streets, having in to w^nd attached concerning the prevalence of the Hessian other words, that land grant railroads to a large chain a young cougar about Fly in the fields of Lane county. He cannot pursue settlers and challenge the two years old. What his purpose is ia had with him some last year's stubble validity of their claims as against the not kn >wn, but as he was seen oing ]>ulled from a field owned by Mr. Samuel United States. Meek. By cutting the joint of each from saloon to saloon, it may be he is stubble the fly was plainly visable. Mr. exhibiting him as a trick animal. Yes Advertising Romance. P. informs us that he has examined the terday he boarded a First street car, and Chicago has a paper called Heart and stubble in at least fifty different fields lashing him to the platform left him Haud whose columns are devoted exclu and found the fly prevalent in all of them there during the trip, growling all the sively to the bringing together of those thefore he is of the opinion that the fields while and making the blood run cold who desire to form acquaintance with a in Lane county are generally thus a dieted. through the driver's veins. As the ani view to matrimony. Some time since He is of the further opinion that the mal does not seem the least docile and Mr. Albert Houston, >f Sheridan, in light yield of wheat last year was caused the fellow drags him through the streets, serted an “ad with the head “Wanted, by the ravages of these insects. We Capt. Martin, of the Humane society, a Wife,” and ere long the answer came herewith give a full description of the in should hunt hitn up and compel him to from Illinois, “I Want a Husband.” secs, taken from Chambers’ Encyclope either carry him or cage him up. For a time amiable correspondence dia. passed between the gentleman of Sheri Shipping Horse*. dan and the female, Mrs. Baney, who The Doctor's Endorsement. Andrew Riggs, of North Powder, will proved to be a widow with two children. i leave in a few days with two or three I Dr. W. D. Wright, Cincinnati, O., At last the correspondence ended in Mr. carloads of horses. He will take them sends the subjoined professional endorse IL ■uston proposing, “Come my love and I to some point iu Nebraska for sale. you I'll marry,” which the fair lady of ment: “I have prescribed D r W m About the average cost of shipping to H all ’ s B alsam for the L ungs in a Illinois complied with. Last Saturday Nebraska is $180 per carload, or about Mrs. Baney arrived from the Sucker great number of cases and always with $10 per head. Last spring Mr. Riggs success. One case in particular was Stato and put up at the Quimby House, drove a hand of horses into Llaho, where Portland. By a previous arrangement given up by several physicians who h id he sold them for $50 ¡>er head :o a man been called tn for consultation with my she wore a red ribbon, while Mr. Hous named Beard. The latter drove them to ton a blue one, the only means «f recog self. The patient had all the symptoms Colorado, and has just sold them, realiz of confirmed consumption — C"ld night nition between the two. In one hour ing pretty well on the transaction. The after their first greeting they were man sweats, hectic fever, harrasaing coughs, i shipment Mr. Briggs contemplates mak etc. He commenced immediately to get and wife. On the arrival of Mr. and ing in a few days is an experiment, and Mrs. Houston at Sheridan they received better and was soon res'ored to his usual if he succeeds he will make a large drive health. I found D k W m . H all ' s B al the hearty congratulations of many in the spring.—{Baker City Sagebrush. friends. Mr. Houston is the Marshal of 8AM FOR THE L ungs the tin st valuable eXfiectorant for breaking up distressing Sheridan and the only one that has Impotency in man or womsn cured by drawn a prize in the Heart and Hand cughs and colds.' Fur sale at Chitwood Gilmore’s Aromatic Wine. For sale ct at & Hon’s drug store. the City drug store. lottery. —[Itemizer.