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A? ASHLAND TIDINGS ASHLAND W. II. LEEDS. Editor and Publisher. Terms of Subscription: One copy, one year............................ $ 2 “ “ six months.......................... 1 “ “ three months...................... C nb Rates, six copies for.................... 12 Terms, in advance. 50 50 75 50 PROFESSIONAL CARDS. TIDINGS ASHLAND ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING. ASHLAND, OREGON, FRID VOL. XI. MERCANTILE AND MANUFACTURING. EARTHQUAKES. that whereas mankind can liecome all other dangers aud can learn them, the fear caused by an earth- not abated but q u-C T ’ by * experience, -- ------------ ’ — on th^eoutrary is increased. Residents of earthquake countries dread the phen- omenon with an indescribable agony of terror. Citizens of San Salvador become paraljNed when the earth begins to trem ble; they die a thousand deatlis by an- tioijiafion. Men who would carry their lives in their hand in battle, or would face a ftniuus storm at sea with intrepid calm, tali on their knees when the well- known sickening tremor is felt, aud pray to God or saint in the extremity of pitia ble vrtnkness. The feeling, of course, arises from a sense of utter helplessness. All other perils may L>e fought aud per haps cRtereome. But God is irresistible. - When he shakes Ins footstool ]>oor human ity can but wait the event. That was an ingenious thought of Buckle to trace a connection between earthquakes and sup- and,though <4 fonrse, it will not Stand the test of scrutiny -supersti tion having been quite as rife in Russia, Centnd Asia and Canada, where disasttw- ous earthquakes are unknown, as in Spain and Centnd America, where they are fre quent yet still it is a pretty conceit. The terrors of the inystries of science naturally suggest to the ignorant mind a supernatural origin, lie who sees the solid earth wave like a cornfield or the bosom of a lake, may well seek in an ap- peal to G< m 1, who like the phenomenon itself is unknown and inscrutable, for a solace mid a refuge, which the resources of human knowledge are inadequate to afford. used (San Francisco Chronicle. I Geo. B. Cuney, SEPTEMBER 17, 1886. TIDINGS Terms of Advertising: LEGAL. One square, first insertion................ J2 00 Bach Additional insertion.................. 1 50 LOCAI.. I NO. 14. A RISE INEVITABLE. BETTER THAN SOUTH AMERICA. [Kansas City Live Stock Indicator.J [El Paso Tribune.] Local Notices, per lino............................ 15c 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 prices. EACTS ABOUT NEWSPAPERS By some unaccountable misapprehen Joseph Raper is a stockman of Laluce, It has become plain to every student Attorney and Counsellor at Law. sion <<f facts there are a large class of of statistics that no class of meat-pro Lincoln county, New Mexico. Last Sep ASHLAND, OREGON. people iu the world who think it c<»sts ducing animals, except possibly the hog, tember he came down to El Paso and in Will attend to cases in the courts of Oregon. little or nothing to rtui a newspaper, and can be increased with a rapidity sufficient terested capitalists in a scheme of his, in r< uder advice nnd prepare papers in the set- t ■ nient of estates, make applications for if they buy a copy otx*asioiuilly they arv which he and they thought there was to meet the increasing demand for it pa><-nts under the ('. S. mining laws, and regular patrons and entitled to unhmited :. uv i>e consulted on all matters pertaining money. His scheme was to go to South There is not only the increase of popula to Government lands. School and S» ' amp favors. Men ask for a copy of a new s- America, buy up land at unheard-of low tion to be met but there is an astonishing land-, and claims against the U.S. for ser- rice» or losses. paper for nothing, who would never prices, stock it with cattle that could lie increase of meat consumption in all the 110-39 OFFICE—Main street. dream of lagging a p<xtket handkerchief count lies of the world. In this country lxmgbt for next to nothing, and then Township plats on tile iu the office. Hereby inform the public that they have just opened aud are displaying from a dry gcaxls store, or a piwe of iu 1850 there were 814 cattle to the 1,000 ship beef and cattle and hides to the at their store in Reeser’s block a tirst-class stock of r candy from a confectioner, even on the population. Now there are only 772 to United States or sell them on the spot. J. T. Bowiitch, plea of having done business with them Well, last September Mr. Ihqierset out the 1,000 population. This decrease has Attorney and Counsellor at Law before. One paper is not much, but certainly occurred during the {»eriod of on his travels. He went to San Francis ASHLAND, OREGON. thirty or forty at each issue will amount greatest prosjierity in cattle raising on a oo; then to Panama by steamer. After Will practice ii all court» of the State, to something in th/ course of time. But large scale when the free grasses on the that he took in nearly every town along lb etious promptly made and remitted. this is a small drain compared with the 9-4 public lands, the vast sums of willing the coast, until he reached Callao, in free advertising a nepapuper is expected capital, and the skill and energy of the Pent. Then be went all through the to do. Some j>eople when they once T. B. Seat, ranchmen ¡md feeders all favored to the country, looking at stock. He found the Which they now oll'ei at the \ery lowest living prices to cash customers 'Attorney and Counsellor at Law. highest degree a rate of production above animals in very good condition, he says, pay for an advertisement think they are and they feel assured that ail who favor them with their patron JACKSONVILLE, OR. the average of any other period. TJie to but not in good supply. In fact. Peru stockholders in the establishment for age will bo well satisfied with the prices and quality of practice in all the courts of Oregon. tal population of the United States does not raise cattle enough for its own I eternity’. Without being represented in Offl e in til •' "'iri lio'ise. IJO-3 their goods - — Their stock consists of doubles evftry twenty-five years, but east use, but imports them from the Argen the advertising eoluums, we have had people to request us to gratuitioasly in- wf the Mwmetipp; the increase of cattle tine Republic. Albert Saxax&onl, HT't their uoti'V er draw wtircithm ro I Deciding that nothing osuld be done in ! has beep less than one-third as great. CIVIL ENGINEER and SURVEYOR, that article, with the slightest sugg<. The annual increase of the ]Aopulatiou of Peru he kept on to Chili. Here he found ASHLAND, OREGON. lion that it will uot cost you anything to the entire country is to the annual in the same state of things. The cattle \\ attend proniptly to any budines» in the put this iu, which is just as ridiculous as ■ oí land surveyiug. locating ditches, etc., crease of stock as 2^j to I}:, per cent., or were good but few, the local markets l>e- ■ 1 everything pertaining to civil engineer to ask a man to grind your axe on his ing. Satisfaction guaranteed. an excess of increase of population over ing supplied from the Argentine Repub grind-stone, and graciously tell you it 10-12 f ifflee at the postofflee. increase of stock of over 55 per cent. lic. won ’ t cost you a eeut. It is easy to see from the above data Prices of stock in Chili Mr. Raper ! « It takes money to run a newspaper as J. S. Howard, that our own requirements are more than found to be from 845 to 8100 in Chilian well as any other bnisne.-e; no jiaper can Notary Public and Conveyance; a match for our own production under currency, which is worth about forty I succeed financially that carries a dead MEDFORD, OREGON. Anil everything usually found in a first class General Merchandise Btcrc. even the most favorable conditions. We oents on the dollar of American money. kind* of real estate business given careful head system. Any mention of people's Cash buyers will find it to be to their interest to call and examine can not hasten breeding operations to Both in Chili and Peru he says there art- ..'.nation. and information furnished cou- affairs that they are anxious to see in • ruiug property iu the m w town. our goods and get our prices before purchasing elsewhere. any appreciable degree, but must content no stoers, the animals lx>utg left umnu- print is worth paying for. and when ourselves with about a slow 50 per cent, tilated until three or four years of age. printed is generally worth as much as Dr. S. T. Songer, anniud increase or a calf for every two This is done to secure a thicker hide, any other investment of the same amount. she cattle in the laud. But our home de which is much in demand for sole leather. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. The newsp»|>er business is very exacting mand is not the sole absorlier of our pro Making up his mind that nothing <>fii< i one door .south of Ashlaud House on ducts. The British population is increas coidd be done there, Mr. Raper pushed on all connected with it, the pay is com Muiu street. 111-12 A Startling Story. ing at the rate of 1,000 per day, which, at across the Andes mountains ant! entered paratively small, the proprietors nsk I Portland Nows.] the present rate of consumption, would the Argentine Republic from the west. more money for small profits, aud the . C. J Sachrist, M. D., An Atlanta, Ga., dispatch of the 9tli require an increase of meat supply of 40,- He traversed the whole country aud thor editors, reporters and printers work says: The evening papers here to-day harder and cheaper than the same num PHtENIX, OREGON. 000,000 pounds per annum! oughly investigated the stock raising printed a dispatch from Savannah saving ortl' ■ tor the present, at Dr. Kahler's <lrug In 1840 the consumption of meat m business. In that country good mules ber of men in any other profession re store. (10-40 that three steamships recently arrived Great Britain per capita was til lbs.; in are worth 820 in gold. The very liest of quiring tho given amount of intelligence, there, the captains of which state that 1850 it was 67 lbs; in 1860, 77 lbs; in horses are worth only 815 in gold Mares I training and drudgery. The life has its Dr. D. B. Bice. they failed to find the island of Cuba, not 1870, 88 H as ; in 1875. 96 |bs; and in 1882, are not used at all in that country. It is charm and pleasant associations, scarcely PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, a vestige of the place remaining. The 109 lbs. per annum. Of this 109 lbs, 56 considered a lasting disgrace for a man I known to the outside world; bu’ it has A shland , O regon . report will lie thoroughly investigated to ll>s was beef. From 1810 to 1850 the in to ride or drive one. “We would as its earnest work an.l anxieties, hours <4 Office near the bridge, next door south of morrow by parties who have important crease was only 6 lbs. per capita while it soon,” Argentine Republicans say, “har exhaustion, which are also not known t<» We keep constantly on hand a full assortment of staple and fancy goods, the lied House. Residence eor Spring st. and First Avenue. those who think the business all fun. interests on t he island. was 21 lbs. or 3*2 times as great from ness our mothers.” They kill them, how a MF* Special attention given to diseases of tvo ...................................................................................................................................................... -t: .......................................................................................................................................................... The idea that nevvepajierdom is a The Island of Cuba, mentioned in the 1870 to 1882, and the population in ever, and 6ell the hides, aud the price of men. [0-1 PLAIN AND DECORATED WARE, :i: COFFEES, ROAST AND GREEN charming circle, wherein the favored mem- above dispatch, is the largest of the An creased in the latter period 2*4 times as the mare is regulated by the value of her • • 4* + • liers live a life of ease, and free from care, tilles, or West Indian Islands, and the fast as during the former. In France the skin. IN GLASS AND STONE :t TEAS, IN PAPERS, CANS & J. S. Walter, and go to the circus nt night on a freo most important of the Spanish colonial • T consumption of beef increased from 19 “But,” says Mr. Raper, at the end of DENTIST, ticket, and to the beach on free passes i:i ixisseesions. It is located in the Carib CUTLERY AND Sil • | I ARS. SPICES & ALL lbs per capita in 1840 to 40 lbs iu 1880. his narration, “there is no chance for the summer, is an idea which should he bean sea, about 1.7) miles south of Flor A shland , O regon . There is a felt deficiency in the beef sup capital, enterprise or labor in the Argen ida, from which it is separated by the exploded. Business is business, and the KINDS OF VERWARE. ply throughout Europe. There during tine at least there is not nearly as g>xxl i iiilne iu College Boarding House. 11-8 + Bahama Channel. It is about 800 miles journal that succeeds is one that is run twenty-five years previous to 1880, the a chance as there is right here at home. HANGING A. STAND CANNED GOO DS. long, and has a width varying from 130 on a square, business footing, the san e t cattle had increased only 10 per cent., but What is the reason? Well, the principal to 25 miles, and contains 45,883 squnre as banking, building bridges, or keeping Miss Alena Websr, the population increased 22 per cent. reason is that land is so high there. You LAMPS. BOOKS AND STA 4» .. iierof music at Ashland College, will give miles. Earthquakes frequently occur. a hotel.— [Florida Dispatch. + The United States citizen requires 150 lbs cannot get a league of land that is worth instructions iu The population in 1804 was 1,414,500. It, I anything at all for less titan 812,000. of meat per annum. PIANO, ORGAN and GUITAR TIONERY, PENS AND PENCILS “r OILS, PAINTS AND BRUSHES The New Telegraph. indeed, would l>e an awful calamity if the The demand for our meat products is With land at that price there is no To a limited number of pupils outside her A Kan Fraudsoo dispatch of Sept. 8’ii island has disappeared, as reported. [It college class. All goods in our line ice will furnish at the lowest cash rates. Call and not only increasing, but this increase iB a chance to make any money in stock rais ' says: Henry Ilosener, of the BenneB- i:< ldvii/t nt Mr. A. G. Rockfellow**oaChurch is needless to say that the above was a see for yourselves. growing and permament one. Can it be ing, even with extra advantages." 'tl i Mackay Telegraph Company, is hero, purely sensational yam without any met? Probably not. Already we lack in i He states that within a week several British Boors In America. foundation whatever in fact. It would S T. B&xtlott, numbers of productive stock aud from i hundred men will lie stringing wire* be an impossibility for the Island of the West the great source of supply [Lord liratazou in the Time.. J CONTRACTOR and BUILDER, J along the coast for the company. Cuba to sink suddenly out of sight in Americans are sometimes heard to com for the last two years has come to us the A shland , < ikegon . . also stales that it will require 1,100 miles the sea without causing an immense tidal complaint of over-stocking. At first this plain of the manners of a certain class of Successor to Hunsaker & Dodge, \\ .3 furnish estimates aud take contracts for i to oomplete the circuit to tho East, and wave that would sweep the Atlantic Buildings of all kinds. was received as the cry of some alarmist young Englishmen who ought to know that it is expected to complete it before ----------- DEALER IN ------------ coast from South America to Maine, and A share of patronage solicited. [8-35 who was seeking to freighteu some timid better. They are accused of accepting Christinas. The company will oe aide carry the news much earlier than any sea Shop located just below the livery stable. people into withdrawing from the cattle American hospitality and of neglecting to afford the press and public fine fuculi- captains who might have escajied engulf- business aud to deter others from enter the conventionality of dress and etiquette i ties. Not only will San Francisco be ment within sighting distance of the lo A. L, Wills?, ing upon it, but now, after two consecu which are customary in good European connected with the East, but eventuaJy cation of the Island.] tive winters and one summer of heavy society. The American naturally resents ♦ ♦ *- CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. the idea of an Englishman doing in every city on the coast, and in fact, in An English Decision in Favor of an Ameri losses it begins to be seen that really the Unite] States, will be covered. The A shland , O regon . many of the ranches are overstocked. America what he would not do at home, can Trade-Mark. ' wire to lie used will lie principally cep- i - prepared to give estimates, to furnish mate There can be no expansion, therefore, in and very justly considers such action a [From the N. Y. Mornins Journal.] rial, au<l complete all kinds of buildlugs ( want of proper respect toward bis enter per, weighing 770 pounds to the mile. IN OR Ol'T OF TOWN Loudon, England, Aug. 26, 1886.— that direction. But an increase win l>e A T "I • Uuys ¡or eash aud sells strictly tainers. It is hardly likely that any man I The line will fin-t go direct to the terniin- . res-enable terms. AH work warranted to t I for cash. (Special by Cable) In the chancery di made in the producing areas by utilizing Xive tat[sfaclion. calling himself a gentleman would <lelil>- l us of the Canadian Pacific via Portland, vision of the high court of Justice, Lou some of our mountain regions, in divid .'liVP—ot| Mechanic street, over Youle & Gil erately insult his host. It would lie diffi ' and thence to Salt Lake. Then from roy’s stqre>-hou»e aud office. [10- W don, Vice-Chancellor Bacon has given his ing some of the large herds and grazing t cult to find a term too strong to charac San Diego it will extend across tho c< n- decision in favor of The Charles A. the subdivisions on areas neglected to the Philosophers have divided eaathquakes terize the atrocious nature of such an i tinent. M. L. M’t ALL. \. F. 11 AMMONIA, Vogeler Company, of Baltimore, Mary present on account of their smallness, “I have just ixvn over tho whole route into three classes: First, the disasttous, and an increase, aud jxAssiblv the largest offense against good manners and gentle Hammond. & McCall, comprehending all those capable of over land, in the action brought by that house increase in our beef feeding capacity, can manly breeding: the explanation is prob myself, aud there is nothing to fear from turning buildings; second, the Bevere, against H. Churchill & Co., of Brisbane, be made in the farm districts of the ably to be found in the gross ignorance . winter internipt.ons.” said Mr. Boeener. REAL - ESTATE - AGENTS GEORGE E. YOU LE, Wx. M. GILROY including all those capable of forming Queensland. The case w hich has been in country. Our farms are not producing in regard to all things connected with ! “The lino will be carefidly patrolled.'' “Have yon lines liy the Northern Pa- fissures iu the ground and cracks in walls; progress here since September, 1884, 50 per cent, of the cattle food that they America, which is sometimes to l»e met —AS L>~ grew out of au attempt of Churchill & » cific? ” was asked. and third, tho harmless,, which do no should and the combined causes of loss with in England, even among the so- CONVEYANCERS, Company to register a trade mark con “ Not yet, but we will in time,” Mr damage and whose occurrence is not al probably leave not over 50 per ceut. of called educated classes. taining the words St. Patricks Oil in Rosener replied. “The contracts of \slilaiid, Oregon. ways realized. The proportion which the The ordinary Englishman's ideas about the entire products to l>e actually utilized connection with a medicinal preparation. other conpanies will not hold water. vlisastrous variety bears to the whole num —Manufacturers of— for conversion into meat, but of these America are often hazy, aud sometimes This was promptly opposed by the Voge I I ■ a:!', negotiated. Property bought and sold; We will secure the right of way easil'. ber may be inferred from Mallet’s table, cattlemen will take advantage but slowly mythical. I hope the generation is now i .lii-« tion- intended to; Abstract, of title fur- ler Company, who, while admitting that The Pacific coast is receiving us with de records 3204 earthquakes lietween .'ibe-1. because in the first the matter will be defunct which was under the firm convic the term and device which were sought open arms. We are going to compete I860 and 1850, only 53 of which were dis- m vi, ing o, uh kind, satisfactorily aud considered as a utilization of waste tion that all Americans were black; but to be registered by the Australian firm for tho business iu a dignified way.” promptly doue. istrous. On this coast earthquakes are places, and the second involves a new and there are, 1 fear, some still to l>e found were in no respect identical to the well- Mr. Rosener is busily engageil in busj generally known less from the extreme We offer for sale the following described real improved system of agriculture and en who, when they speiik of America, pic property. P-52.J north to the tropic of cancer; from thence known St. Jacobs Oil trade-marks, con larged knowledge of the science of feed ture to themselves a country in the early ness for his company. He is ljesieg<*l The Hargadine property, consulting of to Cape Horn they are occasionally severe tended however, that suflieient similarity ing that will require time to meet. While stages of civilization. This is not to lAe by hundred* for information about the ve ry desirable town lots, improved and. un- Dealers iu— md now and then disasterous. It very existed between the term St. Patricks ap production halts at obstacles and 8]>ecu- wondered at when we consider how company. iiupruved; aud farming lands and stock ranches m sizes to suit purchasers, up to rarely happens that a disastrous earth- plied by Churchill & Co. aud St. Jacobs lates as to the probabilities the pace of meager is the infdhnatiou imparted at 6UUO acres; also, The Apaclic Captive?. piake occurs in a locality which has not as used by the Vogeler Co. to cduse con demand is neither turned nor retarded. English schools or colleges in regard to A Goon S t , k R anch . 960 acres, six milt* fusion in the minds of the public and General Howard, commanding ino oeen similarly afflicted before. The re East of Ashland—good for summer or win It is inexorable and meat must be forth the history, geography, politics or prog ter range. cent catastrophe at Charleston was a strik lead to purchasers being deceived. Ln coming cheaply if possible, but l>e the ress of this country . The result of this Division of the Pacific, received a dis support of this position they submitted ing exception to the rule. Twnm tenus of good wood land near is that some Englishmen firmly lielieve patch from President Cleveland la.-t. an overwhelming amount of evidence price what it may meat must come. Barr own. Thursday, through the War Department, Among the facts which scientific ob from English, American and Australian ing war prices meat is higher now than that a dress suit and a silk hat are un- except possibly during some short nei'essary impediments to the trausat- ; expressing great pleasure iu (he satisfac Planing, Matching and Sawing done to order. Wooder- servers have collected with a view of dis sources with the result stated. Under ever, covering by the inductive method a form the decision of the Court, Chnrchill & period wheu it has been unwarrantably lantic tourist, and consequently scandal- < ,<)ri termination of the Apache campaign, Water Pipe made to order. ize their hosts by apjiearing at dinner J H® al*** receiver! a <lispa*cli^ from Gem ula of earthquakes may be mentioned the Co. cannot register their mark and must “boomed,” and is sure to continue on its Sheridan, directing that the Apache and I ne Old Reliable existence of what may be called the earth pay costs of the case. This is the second upward tendency. The cattleman has as parties in shooting wats and on Fifth j •^“Proprietors of the Tozer & Ernery Planing Mill, Warm Spring tribes be sent immediately quake belt. So far as known, all destruc trade-mark suit won by the Vogeler Co. bright a day Wore him as any one. He avenue in kniekerlx/ckers. It is also difficult for them to realize to Fort Marion, Fla., with the exception may not realize during the next six tive earthquakes occur in a belt which, iu England within three years. of Geronimo and the hostiles recently NEAR R R. TRACK, MECHANIC St, ASHLAND. OF BLOOMINGTON, ILL., months or even the next twelve, though that a black coat is de rigueur, not only starting we may say, from Central Ameri captured. 'The latter will be taken to • r. i r<-t-nteii in this part of the country it is not impossible that he should at in New York, but in more than a score ca, traverses the West Indies to Spain Will Improve the Service. Fort Bowie, where they will be confined e coming season by E. K. ANDERSON .md Portugal, goes through the Mediter W. F. Rapley, Assistant Superintend once, but let him 6tay with his herd, the of other cities in the union, aud that under close guard until the Government JAMES THORNTON, Vice President. President. ranean to Syria, enters Persia and north ent of the railway mail service of the good time cannot fail him. Breeders are Americans are even more particular than C. S. ENGER, can determine what is to lie done wit b ern Hindostán, comee to the Straits of United States, left overland yesterday for now pushing Angus, Galloways, Here- Englishmen with regard to the little con i > i, di all on you for your orders for fall them. It is understood, however, that Sunda, deflects north to Luzon and the California. Mr. Rapley has been looking forils, Shorthorns, etc., ns if the time had ventionalities of society. The former Geronimo aud other . hostiles will lie tried ciusiss a it little unie oversensitive orriwuisiinr ni»n , ' . islands of Japan, crosses the Pacific, critically into the mail service of the come to discard anything so meritorious are. perhaps, Russian and Iron-clad Apples. of these points; but this 8houid by a mibUtry commission at that place leaving its mark on an island here nod Northwest, and thinks it is crude wheu as even the poorest breed in the list. In some ike latest aud most approved varieties of ....1 will not be t urutxl over t to -e» flw. J and the livrai civil make an Englishman only the more care- I stead of advising the pushing out of there, reapera in Patagonia, and works up compared with other sections of the Peacnes, Pears, Plums, Cherries, Apricots, »■ act which ! authorities, as the District Attorney ------- the west coast ol South America to the Union. He says he has seen r<x>m for either breed the Record will urge the fill not to lie guilty of any Grapes and Small Fruits, Nut-beaing Trees, j claims he will be unable to procure evi could lie construed into want of reejiect point of beginning. Few, if any, disas improvement in many things lie lias ob pushing of all of them forward to the Kt<-. Etc. Etc, dence against them. General Howard for either the country or his hosts. trous earthquakes have occurred outside served, and will recommend that they lie point of perfection. gives it as liis opinion that to save their of this belt, and a hypothesis has conse made, when be returns to Washington.— Summer Boarder, in Michigan. I necks some of the hostiles will turn FOR THE BEST — Earthquake Shocks. quently been suggested that along this [Portland News. He went to the farmer who had a load ’ State’s evidence. Ina dispatch to Gen (Portland Telegram. Sept.. 10.] belt the earth's crust is thinner than else of potatoes on the market yesterday, and eral Howard. General Miles states that where. Again: it will lie noticed that all The Walla Walla Ln ion: The North Portland visitors in San Francisco do said: TIN, SHEET-IRON ACOPPERWARE j Geronimo has confessed to him that he or nearly all disastrous earthquakes have ern Pacific annual election will take not feel the most comfortable in the face farm a has done great wrong, but he claimed “ I understand you have a tine . I occurred on the bonier of seas. It is place Septemlier 17th. During the last of the signal service officers' predictions few miles out. How. would you like to that he had been driven into it by Chatto doubtful if any disastrous earthquake few days it has been rumored that Presi that the earthquake wave is to reach the take a few summer boarders?” and other Imlians. ever occurred since the earth took its dent Elijah Smith, of the Oregon Trans Pacific coast within a set period. They ••Would they sleep in the barn on the present shape in the interior of continents; continental will contest with the man who are cursed with nerves are making hay?” queried the farmer. Adventure With a Panther. no such phenomenon is recorded as hav agement of tho Northern Pacific for con haste to return to earthquake proof Port Miss Charlotte Nicholls and a young ••Oh, yes.” ing taken place in or near the center of trol This is all moonshine. The North land. A lady of this city who has been brother were passing through some thick “Try to put on style over my family?” Asia, or Africa, or Europe, or America, ern Pacific officials in New York have making preparations for the past month timber near Marshfield the other day, “Not a bit” I or Australia. Hence, Bome ingenious proxies for more than 306,000 shares, and to visit the bay has concluded to post when an enormous panther made a spring “Think they’d find fault if we didn't philosopher imagined that the cause of Charles B. Wright, of Philadelphia, has pone her trip. Another Portland lady have table-napkins or chinv dishes?” at them from a tree. Miss Nickoll was tn Kt i ver's Block, Ashland. Or., Full stock earthquakes must be in some way con proxies with more than 101,000 shares, now in San Francisoo, telegraphed her “No, sir. They are not that kind of mounted, but the animal miscalculated on hand mid made to order. nected with sea water; that they might with many constituents to bear from, husband yesterday “An immediate the distance and alighted on the back of people.” be produced by a cave in the bottom of it is behoved that President Smith con earthquake predicted; will leave for home the horse, The horse reared and threw or “Won’t expect fresh eggs, cream Particular Attention paid to Job Work. oceans, letting a vast mass of water into trols ab>mt 150,(MR) shares, including the at once.” Thus most of the Portlanders much fruit, will they?” the young lady violently to the ground, the fiery chaldron seething below, and stock Ijelouging to the Oregon Transcon will return and seek a harbor of safety. •X11. h wit! ■’< d u.', in a v.uikmaulixv manuer “How could they? Those things are bruising her badly about the face and i otherwise injuring her. The young peo generating masses of ungovernable steam. tinental company, which he has power to not for summer boarders.” Plain and Fancy Cassimeres, Flannels, Hosiery, Etc. These notions, which have hardly grown vote this year. There is no likelihood of Yakima Farmer: The wheat crop of I “Well, if that’s the kind of |)®ople they ple theu walked to Marshfield. Next to the dignity of theories, may serve to any change in the management. | OVER and UNDERWEAR. - CLOTHING MADE to ORDER. Yakima valley, Yakima county, is aver are, and they’ll pay in advance aud keep morning the horse was found near the amuse scientific students. The Indians of the Umatilla reserva i aging 40 bushels to the acre. Wheat is to themselves, we might take five or six scene of the adventure. There were Office aud Sales Rooms iu Masonic Building, |>ui tlic I k . bl male rial No phenomenon is so frightful of ter tion finished harvesting last week. quoted at 50 cents a bushel in North of them at 87 or 88 apiece.”— Detroit several deep gashes in his liody made by I W. H- ATKINSON. Secretary andGeueral JUaagw. the panther.—{New** ror as ail earthquake, and it has been ob- They have alxmt 18,000 acres in wheat. Free Press. Yakima. Talent, Hopkins & Co., GENL MERCHANDISE Dry Goods, Staple and Fancy Groceries, Provisions, Ladies’ and Gents’ Furnishing Goods, Hats & Caps, Boots and Shoes, Notions, &c. Reeser’s Block, Ashland TALENT, HOPKINS & CO. CLAYTON & CORE GROCERY STORE ! In Johnson’s block, Ashland, Oregon. GBO. JBC. CTJRRE'r, Groceries and Provisions TABLE WARE AND CROCKERY. C VSH ! CASH BUYERS, Govern Yourselves AccoriinïljL YOU LE & GILROY. SASH, DOORS and BLINDS, Lumber, Mouldings, Brackets I PAINTS, OILS, VARNISHES, CLASS LATH and SHINGLES. Eastern Finit ta ISliniliiery. Bloomiregion,Phoenix, Nursery Co Ashland Woolen Mills, WHITE and COLORED BLANKETS SL F. Reeser’ NEW TIN SHOP Prices That Defy competition. B F. REESEB One great difficulty in diagnosing earth quakes arises from the necessity of sus- I*ecting the evidence on the subject. The larger portion of the testimony which has been collected is probably unreliable, and some of it is obviously false. ThuB, we are told that the number of earth quakes which occured during the 1700 years preceding the Christian Era was fifty-eight, whereas in the first half of present nineteenth century there were 3204, and the inference is drawn that earthquakes are increasing in frequency, which is explained by the shifting of the sea-level, increasing the weight of water in one place and reducing it in another. Hut the discrepancy really arises from the imperfection of former records as compared with the completeness of those of modern times. Yet even so calm a student as Humboldt seems to huve been misled by a comparison of theearthquake iats into something approaching to 7 belief that the crust of the earth was less stable than formerly. It is impossible to reflect on the evidences which the rocks exhibit of ancient earthquakes' action without being convinced that the earth quake period is drawing to a close, and that if we have fewer records of ancient earthquakes than we have of similar phenomena in our own day, it is because observers were less numerous then than now, and that they lad no means of recording their observa tions and transmitting them to posterity. There is hardly a mountain range on which geologists cannot find evidence of earthquakes—evidently belonging to the prehistoric period. In the latter tertiary and early quarternary periods, the crust of the earth must have been always shak ing at some point, and probably at n number of points simultaneously. Again: the testimony as to the destruc tiveness of earthquakes must be received with extreme caution. In the presence of sn]»ernatural danger few men p reserve calmness enough to olieerve accurately; exaggeration is the vice of all the con temporaneous authorities on which historians depend. It is difficult to bo- heve that 70,000 persons perished in the earthquake of 859 at Antioch and a still greater number in an earlier catastrophe, or that 180,000 were buried in their dwell ings in India in 893, or that 50,000 were overwhelmed by the earthquake of 1340 at Tabreez, in Persia, or that 100,000 perished in Gatisana in 1139, or that 60,- 300 were destroyed in and alxiut Naples in 1456, or that 93,000 were killed by the earthquake at Catania in 1693, or that 200,000 lives were lost at Yeddo, in 1703, or that 100,000 persons were buried in their houses at Peking in 1731, or that .10,000 perished in the Lisbon earthquake in 1755. These figures are too larga It will be noted that the biggest figures are always reported from places where there are no official records, and that the mor tality from earthquakes in places where accurate returns are made is surprisingly small. There is no record of any lives being lost in the earthquakes of 1812 on the Mississippi, though they lasted several months. The mortality at Charleston, which was described as something fright ful, seems to be covered by an estimate of a couple of score deaths. In this State we know, though earthquakes are of common occurrence, they Lave caused far fewer deaths than have occurred from ac cidental poisoning, or from lightning strokes, or from drowning.