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ASHLAND * TIDINGS FEBRVARY H. 1XK» FRIDAY c DI roll i L HOTES AM HEWS. The Merced, Cal., canal and reser voir, opened laBt week, cost 31,500,000. ------- ♦ ------- There were four deaths from small- I»ox reported in Han Francisco last week. The wife of Oliver Wendell Holmes died at her home in Boston last Mon day, aged 69 years. - Judg« J. Quinn Thornton, a pioneer of 1846, and a judge of the supreme court of the provisional government of Or.-gon, died at his home iu Salem last Sunday, in his 78th year. Ho was a native of Virginia and received a liber al education. After a residence of one year in Oregon, he published “Oregon & California," two volumes histor ical and descriptive of the territory ent- braced in these states. In 1847 he re signed his office of supreme judge of the provisional government of the pro jected state and went to Washington to lalx.r for the interests of Oregon be fore Congress. f Fifty millions cash on hand in the U. S. snbtreasnry at San Frimciu-o. ac Says a San Francisco dispatch of the cording to reports last week. 6th: The Union Pacific became tired of delays in freight, incident to the The state IsMird of Silk culture has blockade which has lasted so long within the past mouth ha.-: distributed from Ogden west, on tho Southern Pa over 10,000 mulberry trees throughout cific, aud has commenced diverting its California. freight via Portland. Friday the road Senator Dolph last week introduced commenced running all its California a bill to ceils to Oregon the four town freight via Granger over the Oregon ship of which it is proposed to make Short Line to Portland, there to be Crater Lake park. sent by steamers to San Francisco. ------ « • » ---- They expect to gain eight days time The Port Blakely saw-mill on Puget by sending it around that way, Union Sound, reported burned on Satnrday Paciffic officials say they have been last, employed 201) mon in different forced to do this as a matter of self departments, and had a capacity for protection, and in the interest of their cutting 300.000 feet of lumber in ten California shippers, who have been hours. kept out of their goods so long. • • » The New York Graut Monument A corespondent of the New York Association has advertised for de- H’orZtl says: Colonel Dan Lamout is signs for a $öOO,OOti monument, layiug pipe to secure the Democratic offering Prizes of 82.otX), 81000, nomination for Governor of New Y’ork 8500. 8300 and $2tA They should State, provided the present pro next offer a big reward for a gramme of Cleveland aud Hill fails to successful scheme for raising the $500,- work. The authority for this is a 000. gentleman from Lamout’s old home, Grover docent seem so Bitre of the nomination as he did u mouth ago, but he’ll make it thia time, «nd we ahull expect him to say in his letter of ac ceptance that he considers it wrong, very wrong, for any president to allow himself to be elected for more than two terms. near McGrowville, N. Y., who is an intimate friend of the Colonel, and whose wife is a friend of the Colonel's wife. According to him the majority of the men who will ooinjioee the New York State convention next fall have lieen materially aided in one way and another by Lamont. ••Hill being out out of the way,” says the friend, La mont could secure the almost unan imous nomination.” A corporation with 8400.IXX) capital has l>een formed in Chicago to remove the old Libby prison entire to that The Committees on Rivers and city, for exhibition purposes. The Harbors have already held a number of plan is to secure extensive grounds, and meetings, and the amount of the bill surround the prison with battle scenes after the plan of the cyclorama on ex which is to lie prepared has been discussed. Tho Secretary of War hibition at Portland. recommends that only 312,000,000 be The Oregonian of Monday had a appropriated for the improvement of dispatch from Washington bringing rivers and harbors. The Engineer-in- the rumor that Dennis Kearney is to Chief, however, recommends that 810,- I* sent to Oregon to help carry the 000,000 lie appropriated, while the •tats for the Democrats in the June recommendations of the local engi election by whooping up the Chinese neers aggregate more than 340,000,000. issue, which elected Pennoyer, the par Senator Dolph is of the opinion that ty platform being arranged to suit the the River and Harbor bill which Con programme. gress will pass at this session will appropriate about 818.000,1X10. Rep The Union Cattle Co., of Wyoming, resentative Thompson, who is a mein- have made an assignment. The assets ber of the House Committee thinks are $2,000,000 and liabilities SI.200,- that the bills will amount to about 000. Losses and shrinkage in values 815.000.000 or 816,000,000. have produced such complications that to prevent the sacrifice of the lhe supreme court of Washington property by the hasty action of some Territory has declared the local option creditors, it was thought best to have liquor license law enacted by the legis seme friendly receivers appointed. lature a year ago to be uucoustitution- al, because the legislature tuts not the According to a paper on the sugar power to delegate to the-people the tariff which has been in circulation in right to “legislate” for themselves lo Washington, the sugar Trust.which was cally u;xjn this or any other question. organized only in Novemlier last, is This is about the flimsiest foundation already paying a profit nt the nite of ever advanced for an opinion by a court 34 per cent on the actual capital in of hist resort iu this country. It has vested. Thia association comprises come to be understood that a court all the refineries on the Atlantic coast, with any sort of "judicial" talent can with the exception of two in Philadel frame a tolerably plausible excuse for phia and one in Boston. a decision upon either -side of any In response to a petition from 240 question presented, but this seems to residents of Harney valley. Governor be presuming too far upon the credu Pennoyer has requested the commis lity, apathy or patience of the public. sioner of the general land office to de No shadow of the element of justice, lay the issuance of patents to Oregon no color of republican principles is of lands claimed as swampy until after discernible iu this opinion. ------ ► ------ the settlers can have an opportunity Henry George says he regards the to submit testimony in behalf of their President’s message as a free trade adverse claims. The proposed new document, and he believes af the Dem land district will give them a chance to ocrats fight upon the free trade plat make contests. form, they will win. In an interview The New York Sun isn't drumming with a Washington Star reporter for Cleveland. In an editorial of Feb. George said, in answer to a question 1st it says: Has Cleveland a uiouo|>oly as to the posit iou of the l’rogess anil of the right to lie a Democratic candi Poverty party: “Well, just at present date for President? Is it a sin to there is a little division. The tarriff doubt his capacity to administer the question has come among us, and affairs of the Government fonts great there is some difference in opinion as est possible public benefit? Is it an to th«« free trade policy. By far the offense against good morals to sup majority of our folks believe in free port Hill, Randall. Hewitt. Coleman or trade, and absolute free trade, but any other conspicuous Deinocrat in some of them think we ought to hold to protection for a while yet." Will preference to Cleveland ? you put a presidential candiate in the Delegate Gifford, of Dakota, was field? “I think not. I do not think heard the other day by the house com it advisable. I think the majority of mittee on territories in favor of the our people are opposed to having a bill to admit North and South Dakota presidential candidate.” as separate states. He said the pro » ------ posed states contained each nearly THE PROPOSED MT. SHASTA 75.000 square miles. Gifford read sta PARK. tistics tending to substantiate the (San Francisco dispatch, Feb. 2.1 claims that the proposed states ¡»os- The scheme for the reservation by •eas in an eminent degree all the con ditions requisite to entitle them to the Government of a tract of land admission into the sisterhood of near Mount Shasta for a National park, of which mention was made a states. month ago, has been elalorated upon The American Horticultural Society, by its projectors, until from a mere while in session last month in Califor strip of territory a mile on each side of nia, adopted a resolution to the effect the Sacramento river, from Delta to "that any reduction by congress of the Edgewood, the land which it is pro •listing tariff on green and dried fruits, posed to have reserved, has spread its nuts, raisins, prunes, wine and other boundaries to include ten townships, horticultural and agricultural products or about 200,000 acres, all in Siskiyou would injure all and destroy many of county. these industries.” The resolution was The attention of Senators Stewart opposed by a few Eastern mend»ers. and Stanford has been attracted to the but was adopted by a large majority. movement, and it is said that they are A copy was ordered to be sent to each highly favorable to it. Charles Crock senator aud representative in congress. er is quoted as having said that for his part he would willingly relinquish all The state l>oard of land commission right acquired or to be acquired by the ers, st its last session, reversed the railroad company within the proposed rulings of former boards in one very park. important particular. It ruled in the No objection is raised by the settlers esse of an applicant for a deed to 12*0 acres of state laud for which certifi as it is not proposed to disturb their cates had been issued for four other title in any way, or to infringe upon parties, who made an assigument of their rights. A bill is about to be prepared for such certificates to the party applying presentation to Congress during this for t’’C deed, that such deed could not be .»sued to him. as under the law the session asking that all rugged mount amount of state land liable to be pur ain and forest land watered by the chased by any oue party is limited to streams that form the headquarters of I the Sacramento river, except that be 82U acres. • longing to private parties, be set aside Haye the Portland Sunday IVef- forever for public park purposes, that come: Inspector Hoblie, of the Lin its timber and game may l»e preserved, coln, Neb., land office, who caused nine and that its natural picturesqueness indictments to be found against L. W. may not be destroyed. The region Hannon, a prominent Penna lawyer embraces the whole of Mt. Shasta and and politician, for fraudulent entries outlyiug (>eaks, and portions of Squaw in Colorado under the timber laws, in mountain, and the Sacramento ranges, the names of non-residents of Color as well as Castle Rock, Giant's Dome ado, who were led to make oath that and other attractive features of this they were residents of that State, is wonderful region. The California 4 needed in this section of the country Oregon Railroad runs through the pro to indict the men who hired Portland post'd reservation near its western toughs to falsely swear in their inter boundary. est at a Washington Territory land of- San Francisco consumes four tbon- fkw located in Vancouver. sand tons of coal a day. WILL BOOM THE NORTHERN PART. THE COUNTY DEBT. The editor of the Medford Tran- script recently called a meeting of the “heavy taxpayers" of the valley to be held in his office last Saturday, for a consultation upon the proposition to resolve the 'ounty debt unconstitu tional. His report of the meeting in Tuesday's paper is as follows: ■ It is reported that the Union Pacifio Railroad will systematically begin the “booming” of the Northern part of California this season. As this means, at least indirectly, benefit for Southern Oregon, as well as Northern California, the following is copied from the San Francisco Chronicle as matter of in Pursuant to the announcement in terest to people here: this paper, a number of the tax-pnvers •-Vis. your pajier is right,” said Gen- of this county met at this office on I Traveling A .'••nt J. A. S. Reed of Saturday to consult ns to the best meth'xl of reaching some definite ami the Union Pacifi • to a Chronicle re- satisfactory conclusion as to the coun I li ter. "Our company baa concluded ty debt matter. After a canvass of the matter it was decided by a vote of to give Northern California a boom. I those present to empower Hon. J. I). have lieen visiting different (airtions of Whitman to obtain the opinion of the State to look over the ground and i'omj>etent and reliable legal authority • sound f he people on the subject. The as to the constitutional status of the- county debt. The action of those in San Jose Board of Trade, aud other terested will depend wholly upon that organizations will supply all the print decision, and until that is made, the ed matter that may be needed to fully matter rests. advertise their section in the East. It The Hon. J. D. Whitman, or any other business and agricultural centers other man who can read English and do the same thing there will be no has access to ¡1 copy of the constitu trouble iu getting people to migrate tion of Oregon, ought to be able to hero in largo numbers. The Union settle this question without appealing Pacific will work hard during the com to any eminent legal authorities. If ing season to secure immigration for plain language means anything, then the upper part of the State. It will the constitution of Oregon clearly for send excursion agents through the bids any county in the state to incur country, and drum tip all the business au indebtedness in any form which there is in sight. “I have traveled extensively through shall exceed iu amount the sum of S-'iOOO added to the amount of debt of the Eastern States during the past few said county at the time of the adop months, and also in Iowa, Illinois and tion of the constitution. The matter other territory, and in all that country for inquiry, then, iu ascertaining what I have observed as great a ‘California proportion of the present indebtedness fever’ as ever liefore existed there. It of Jackson county is unconstitutional, will do a world of good to send out is simply, how much did the county agents to work up immigration. A man owe when the constitution was adopt need only to say that he is from Cali ed. If the county was at that time fornia to get an audience anywhere out of debt, theu there is no constitu back there. Information regarding tional authority for it to incur a great this country is seized upon with avid er indebtedness than five thousand ity. There is going to be a great rush dollars. No one can dispute this, but next spring to this coast. Those fam what of it? What do the taxpayers of ilies whose lands are in equity or who Medford propose to do as a remedy? have from any cause liecome disap Can they absolve the county from the pointed with the section iu which they payment of its outstanding obligations are located and who are getting ready in scrip? Suppose the matter were to ‘move somewhere,’ are seeking that taken into a court of equity. What a somewhere in California. host of perplexing issue's arise at once “Now, as to the chances of Northern to involve the plain question of, “con California lieside Southern California stitutional or unconstitutional?” Who for immediate immigration, I may say is to suffer? The scrip issued after that so far as I can see they are the constitutional limit of indebted equally gixxl. What has stood in the ness was passed was transferred from way of Northern California as much band to hand, and from time to time as anything is the popular mistake has lieen redeemed, to lie replaced with back there that tho climate is much scrip of a newer issue. Shall the colder than it is in the lower part of Imnilsmen of the county commissioners the State. The idea is a natural one, lie held? We call up at once the ques but. of course, it is entirely erroneous. tion of limitation of their liability. If The word ‘northern’ conveys to the the county officials' acts of so public Easterner the sense of cold and bar and open a character as the ordera for renness. but it should be fully ex the issuance of scrip from time to time plained that when applied to California are to be put to the test of constitu it is susceptible of an entirely differ tionality, must it not be done within a ent meaning. During my stay in Los reasonable time after the commission Angeles recently I came to the conclu of such acts in order to hold the bonds sion that the high price of land in that men responsible? The constitutional section would send many of the land debt limit was passed many years ago. seekers who go there farther north. Has every dollars' worth of scrip is Meantime we will work land-buyers sued since that time lieen unconstitu into Northern California direct, and I tional? It would appear to lie so un am satisfied that a wonderful develop der a strict construction of the funda ment is in store for this part of the mental law, for if it be prohibited to country.” contract debt in excess of a certain sum for any purpose, then the scrip NEIGIIBORIM. OOUXTIES. issued to pay current expenses of the KLAMATII COUNTY. county, though they were not in ex ! Linkville Star, Feb. Z.I cess of the current income, would be There are yet about 815,000 due and unwarranted. Tho only constitutional owing on county taxes. plan would be to pay out for expenses Stock of all kinds, in Title lake and only cash as it should lie taken into vicinity, are doing well. the treasury. The whole issuance of The ice on Linkville lake has very scrip from the first day the debt ex nearly disappeared. ceeded the constitutional limit till to Farmers in Tule lake vicinity have day is in vol veil iu the same legal commenced ploughing. doubt, and the equities of the case Harvey Mack, who recently proved would make it simply impossible for up on his land, which is situated be the people to escape payment of the tween Bonanza and Bly, sold the same a few days ago to a gentleman from, the county debt. East for $2000. The matter was freely discussed somo Dnily coaches commenced* running years ago. The T idings called atten between Linkville and Lakeview Sat tion to the provisions of the constitu urday. Linkville now has good mail tion covering the case at the time of facilities, and when a tri-weekly is es the first public proposition to build a tablished—which we hope will be—to new court bouse. A public meeting Clear lake, we will have better. composed of a large number of the rep resentative tax payers of the county was held at Central Point to consider the advisability of suing out an injunctien against the proposed action of the county court. It was determined to take legal steps iu the matter, but when it came to contributing money for a legal fight, the enthusiasm of many of the representative taxpayers began to wane, and they finally allowed the de struction of the old court bouse and the construction of the ne4 oue to pro ceed without any legal protest. They preferred to acquiesce in the unconsti tutional proceeding rather than take the trouble to fight it in the courts. The whole matter has lieen understood by the citizens of the county all the tune, but they have continued to coun- teuance tho nets of the county courts, have paid their taxes without legal pro test, and of these citizeus and taxpay ers the men of ordinary, common hon esty would not under the circumstances seek to escape now the burden which they have helped to fasten upon them selves. The idea of repudiation is nonsensical, whether dishonest or not. and will lie a barren one. There are other counties than ours in Oregon in the same situation, but no one expects to see any attempt at repudiation suc ceed in any of them. O. T. Brown and family have re turned from their visit to the East, and are at present established on the ranch Mr. Brown recently sold to Sam Colver. He will build in the spring, we understand, lieing satisfied to make Klamath county bis home. Mrs. Theodore Pouch died very sud denly at her home iu ^lkali valley, Tuesday evening, Jan. 31. She was feeling perfectly well until after sup per, when she complained of being ill. She went to l»ed, thinking that she would feel lietter soon. Presently she I was heard to call: “Come lift me up; I can’t get my breath," and expired. She was highly esteemed, leaving a husband and a wide circle of friends to mourn her untimely loss. LAKE COUNTY. A Creating Hinge Is dry and i >,s hard, until oil ts applied, after whi.h :t moves easily. When the joints, or hiagos, of the body are stiffened end inflamed by Rheumatism, they can not be moved without i ausing the most excruciating paina. Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, by its action on tho blood, relieves this condition, and rest’'res the joints to good working order. Ayer’s Sarsaparilla has effected, in our city many ju. i. mar',able cures, in »axe, v.ii.ch li,:i.,.l the efforts of the •' '.x. '■••.! I y .■ i..ns. Were it i. c -a.y, i <; ;ld give the names of ituiny >r<;ivi-1it.t!n who have been cured by taking this medi' ino. In my case it ••as worked wonders, relieving me of RED HOUSE COLUMN. Oregon & Calita R. R. And Connections. GRAND PRIZE DRAWING BETWEEN i’OHTLANHiSAN FR.INCISl’i) < aliforni i LEAVE. ----- At the------ RED HOUSE, The O. À. (’. R. R. l’crry makes connection with all the regular train* on the East Side l)iv. from foot of F St. West Side Division. Mall Train. LEAVE. Saturday, March 31,1888. | ARRIVE. Portland....7:30 A. M Corvallis. 12:25 P. M. Vorvallia.. ..L.JOP. M.|porllan<l....6:15 P. M. At Albany and Corvallis f-ounect with trains of Oregon Faeitie Express Train. LEAVE. I AKRIVK. Portland ... .4:50 J’. M. McMinuv!ilvx.'Mi p.M McMinnville 5:15 A. M|Portland....0:00 A. M. For information i- gar-ling rates, maps, etc, apply to company > agent. R KOEHLER, E. P. ROGERS, Manager. G. F. <k Pass. Agent. The h VALUABLE Presents GRANITE HALL On the evening of 10 UNKNOWN presents, viz: ------ AT------- G F. ijLVJO. No. 310. 520 »ere«. 520 acres near Antelope creek. 100 acres fenced Small house and outhonee«. One xr.d a half miles to school. 84OIW. No. 382. I*® »ere». Farm of 100 acres. 2J,' miles from Talent, on county road. All fenced. 250 fruit trees and vines. Comfortable house. 2X miles to li. K. station, 2X miles to P. O. 82000. No. 272. 23« acre«. «0 acres farming land, balance pasture and wood land. Good outside range. Watered by creek and irrigating ditch. Variety of frait growing. Small house and barn. Six miles from Ashland. No. 270. $1200. 35 acres. Near Ashland. No building«. No. 271. $5000. 4:1 acres. At Talent. All cultivated. 7 acres bottom land. Gixxl buildings. A fine home. No. 22. 320 acres. In Sam's valley. A good investment. Price $7500. No. 368. 200 acres. $lf*00. Near Talent. 100 fruit trees on place. All fenced. Fair house*. 1}^ miles to school. miles to fxistoftice. No. 46. 246 acres. 2)-f miles from Talent. 125 acres gixxl tillable land. Good springs on the farm. fjo. 275. 160 acres. 1’rioe $3000. 80 acres rolling. «0 acres level land. Black loam soil. Watered by ditch from creek on the land. S>me f ait. Five room house, covered with rustic. Barn 20x3.' and sheds. Log xtore-l < -e. 4 miles to 1 postofficc. Some stock and tools go with the place. No. 820. 160 acres. Price $1200. 60 acres fenced. 20 acre- natural meadow, i 10 acres more tillable. 6 miles to railroad station. No. 311. $1100. Comfortable house and lot, in good location. 50 fruit trees I growing on the place. ASHLAND STATE No. 316. $400 2 acre lot, all cleared: no buildings; in desirable part of city. NORMAL ” SCHOOL. No. 440. $750. House and % acre lot: pleasant view from the house; cheap at the price asked. No. 246. $100. One acre lot and small Louse, in north part of city. No. 257. $1050. House anp lot, close to business, and a cozy home. Factory- st J s SWEET. P resident . No. 247. House and lot in Iowa addition to city. alhematics. Psychology, School Economy. No. 247 Two houses and lots on Willin'* block, near Ashland btate Normal JULIA M <.<»<>!»YEAR. School building. $1000 and $1200. English Grammar, Rhetoric aud Latin. No. 44. $2700. House and large lot on Main street. Plenty of full sized frui <• F NESSE. ees on pl ace. l’euinansliip and Executive Work. MRS. G. U. EDDINGS, No. 333. $1500. House and lot on 1st Avenue. Water and fruit in abundanc Instrumental Music. No. 25. $550. Vacant lot on Church street. 350x200. MRS. LOTTIE D WILLARD, No. 309. $1500. Lot and buildings on Main street. Suitable for meat market Voice Culture. EMMA TOLMAN. Drawing and Painting. J A M<< ALL. Ualistht nics Call on or address ’¿47' l'or infornilai hi :-l for cata! ig'.-1 to J. S. Sweet, A-litaii L Oregon. JI G W. N. l.rCKRY. H. JUDGE, LUCKEY & CO., No. i. i Tea set, 44 pieces. No. 3. 1 Tea set, 44 pieces. No. 4. 1 Unknown present. Saddle and Harness No. 5. 1 Tea set,44 pieces. MANUFACTURER, REAL ESTATE AGENTS, KeepH the Largent Stock of FRUIT, SHADE, ORNAMENTAL and NUT TREES, Ashland, - Oregon. VINES and SHBUBBERY, Will Sell, Rent, Lease or Handle Real Estate In the Northwest. No Insect Pests on Trees. No. 6. 1 Unknown present. Keeps constantly on hand a full supply of everything in above line, which will be sold at prices as low as can be offered anywhere. ALL ORDERED WORK No. 7. 1 Barrel of Roller Mills Flour. No. 8. 1 Unknown present. No. 9. will be made to give entire satisfaction Repairing Neatly Done 1 Very Elegant Plush Al bum. No. ifo. 1 Unknown present. No. 11. 1 Pair of Vases. HAY FOR SALE. No. 12. 1 Unknown present. ---- In Large or Small lots----- No. 13. 1 Bisque Doll. LOOSE No. 14. 1 Unknown present. No. 15. 1 Stand Lamp. No. 16. 1 Unknown present. No. 17. 1 Toilet Set. No. 18. 1 Unknown present. No. 19. 2 Mush Sets. No. 20. 1 Unknown present. at low rates, and all work done promptly. H. JUDGE. [9-48 ON COMMISSION. ----------- o------------ Semi for catalogue ami price li^t to Ashland & Linhille. J. T. BOORM Notary Public. Tickets, Including Supper, $2.50. No. 2. 1 Unknown present. .Zfl- A general invitation is extend ed to all. - ASHLAND, OREGON • <JUicc near PoHtoffice. » RECEPTION COMMITTEE G. F. McConnell, C. F. Hasty, J. R. Norris. floor managers : Geo. E. Youle, L. L. Merrick, J. H. Real, C- C. Walker, E. B. Barron. Music by Prof Willits’ String Band. BILLINGS! BILLINGS, J. H.SETTLEMIER, Woodburn, Oregon, Any Person wishing to buy or sell property will find it to their interes to ca1! and see us. ROPER, GALET & HELM. ——Or in------ COMPRESSED Bales. Inquire of MERRILL&BAKER, Medford, Jackson Co.. Or. CENTRAL HOUSE. S E. Brightman, ASHLAND, - - OREGOli And to the person holding the largest number of tickets, Shak- NEWLY FURNISHED. speare's Works, complete, in 13 Outsiders may lie interested in know A good sample room for commer volumes, bound in cloth. Renovated throughout, aud ing that there has been no loss of cial travelers has been fitted up in connec stock in Lake county this winter. tion with the hotel. Billy Carll is the victim of an un fortunate accident. While he and Horace Dunlap were leading two new horses (to be used on the increas ed mail service) Monday, from the weighing scales, the horse Horace was leading became frightened and jump ed on Billy, knocking him down and breaking the large lione in his right Having one of the best skylights in Or forearm and fracturing the small bone. egon, and knowing how to use it, Billy has handled horses all his life, I GüARAXm GOOD WORK. and this is the first time he has been hurt by one. He is getting along . M. E. TYLER, nicely, able for his usual rations, and A shland , - - • O keoon . The county debt, however, is a mat we expect sixin to see him out, jolly as of vore. Myer ’ s Block,east side Main street. ter in which the taxpayers should take Farnsworth Poet, Na 43, G. A. R., more interest than they do, and when Department of Oregon, was perman it comes to the question of how to pre ently organized and mustered Satur vent its growth—how to begin its de day, January 21st, 1888, by Col. Bayley, crease, tho T idings will always lie Commander Robert Andereou Post, found ready to encourage discussiou, Linkville, Or. The following officers were duly elected and installed: Will and to further so far as lies in its pow T. Boyd, Commander; A. W. Charlton, er every feasible or promising plan of Sr. Vice Commander; T. J. Magilton, Jr. Vice Comander; C. C. Maltby. solution. Quartermaster; T. H. Stewart, Surgeon; ♦ •- — Tin»;. Dickson. Chaplain; Ed. Patchen, The secretary of the interior sent to Officer of the day; W. H. H. Renfro, the senate Monday a statement in re Officer of the Guard; T. C. Little, my business, I will offer for the next gard to the amount of land each of the Adjutant; A. Stamps, Serg’t. Post meets every Wednesday evening at the states has received from the United court house. States for school purposes. Califor —My entire stock of— nia has received 5,610,702 acres; Nevada. 3,905,462 acres; Oregon. 3,387,520 acres. If other states received an equal nmouut with the new states in the West, At Cost Price, at private sale and auction. it would take 26,474,688 acres. ON 8ATVKDAY OF EACH WEEK there will be public auction between A Fund ItaiMxl for Heroic School Teachers. the hours of 1 and 3 P. M. A special to the Omaha Bee of Feb. 5th from Norfolk, Nebraska, says that Miss Lotuse Royce, the school teacher, H. 8. EMERY. COME ONE, COMS ALL I three of whose pupils died in her arms during the recent blizzard, will lose And you will see that I mean both feet aud a portion of one arm as a result of her exposure in the bliz zard. Nearly 84000 has already been contributed to the Bee fund for the three teachers, Miss Freeman, Miss ty Would further say that all per Royce and Mias Shattuck. Over 83000 Full supply of coffins, caskets, sons knowing themselves indebted to robes of all sizes, gloves, of this goes to Miss Shattuck, who loet the undersigned are respectfully in both her lower limbs. Indications are vited to call and settle the same at crapes, etc., etc. once, and save ooeta. that the fund will reach between $8000 Office sud Manrooms at railroad crosalnj and 810,000. of Uelmau street. A. P. TALKNT. I N SOUTHERN OREGON Bought and Sold on Commission. Special Bargains. 200 acres iu lots to suit purchasers in the city of Ashland are offered for sale at fair prices aud on easy terms. :1000 acres. Good stock ranch. Twenty miles from Ashland. $3 per acre, Customers will be entitled to One Ticket for Each Dollars’ Worth of goods purchased, 160 acres. Good farm. Improved. Four miles north of Medford. Price, $20 per acre. ¡’•20 acres. Splendid furm and fruit land. Goixl improvements. Desirable Io cality. Six miles from Grant's Pass. $25 per acre. Sixteen ten acre lots one mile from Ashland. Good fruit land. $75 to $loo |xr acre. Forty serin adjoining Ashland. Splendid location for Frait Orchard. $<X) per acre. Fifty gix d residence lots .'■0x150 feet, iu Ashland. Price, from $40 to $75 per lot I FAfAfA ACHES in five, ten and twenty acre tracts, adjoining Hiid near Ashland ILJkJxJ Hit- best quality of frait lauds, and most desirable situstions, are now offered for sale at this office. Fruit and farming lands in tracts of from 40 to 100 acres, near Ashland, »ud along the line of the railroad, can be purchased at this office. reasonable commission will l>e charged iu all eases for buying or selling real < ► tale In Jackson awl Josephine and Klamath counties Titl cs will be < ar< fully iuves tigated; abstracts furnished; conveyancing done: SIXTY OR NINETY DAYS General - Merchandise, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM! OFFICE NEXT DOOR to BANK of ASHLAND PHOTOGRAPHY. ASHLAND, OREGON. Excursion Sleepers for Second Class Passengers on all through trains Free of Charge. BETWEEN PORTLAND AND CORVALLIS I Lakeview Exunilner. Feb. 2. | No snow in Crooked Creek valley, and the farmers are plowing. laical I’ua'gcr, Daily except Sunday. PULLMAN BUFFET SLEEPERS ------- And------- FEBRUARY 14. ARRIVE. I EEAVE. I ARRIVE. Portland ... >:00a. in. j Euuvnc....... 2:40 p. in. Eugcm.'....... 0:00a. in.|Portland... .3:45 p. in. Granite Lodge Will give their Tr :in-» Kun Portland...... !:<•<» p. ni.: a. in. Ashland... .'.LW a. in. iSanFr'neisco”:40 a.m. SnnFr iif’iscf»'»;:a> p.m.i Ashland... ■’>: io p. in. Ashland 40 p. m. < Portland. .10:40 a. in. Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, Prepared by Dr .T, C. Ay< r& Co., Lowell, M m ». Sold by all bruggiets. Price >1; bottle«, $5. TH L MT. SHASTA ROUTE » Rheumatism, after being troubled with it for years. In this, and all other diseases arising from impure blood, there is no remedy with which I am acquainted, that affords such relief as Ayer's Sarsaparilla. — R. H. Lawrence, M. D., Baltimore, Md. Ayer’s Sarsaparilla cured me of Gout and Rheumatism, when nothing else would. It has eradicated every trace of disease from my system. — It. H. Short, Manager Hotel Belmont, Lowell, Mass. I was, during many months, a sufferer from chronic Rheumatism. The disease afflicted nie grievously, in spite of all the remedies I could find, until I commenced using Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. I took sev eral bottles of this preparation, and was speedily restored to health. — J. Fream, Independence, Va. ft REAL ESTATE COLUMNS. MISCELLANEOUS. IT HAS BEEN DEMONSTRATED Plan of Drawing same as here tofore. Largest stock of goods in our line in Southern Oregon. BUSINESS! CKO. ENCLE, Proprietor. That frait growing, including peaches, nears, prunes, apples, cherries aud ber ries in and about Ashland is more profitable than in the favored sections of Cal. That an orchard of these fruits can be made to yield a crop worth from $100 to to $7 j 0 per acre within three to five years after planting. That there is ample room and sufficien t extent of country adapted to fruit rais iug within a radius of ten miles of Ashla nd for thousands of energetic, mdustriou and intelligent people. That our climate at Ashland aud in the Bogue River valley is unsurpassed any where for health, comfort and pleasure throughout all seasons of the year. That all who have desirable fruit and farming lands near Ashland for sale at a fair price can find purchasers. That the best class of people will congre gate together in towns aud cities wher labor finds profitable employment, where capital can be invested to good ndvan tage, where good health prevails, where good schools, good churches and pl» asant surroundings are to be found. That Ashland and the valley of the Bogue river are enteriug upon a Boom. No the boom of speculation and speculation merely, but an awakening to the rta value of our soil, climate, situatiou and splendid resources. 12--------------- 15 We shall always be prepared to give anv information desired ooucerniug th. needs, resources aud prosperity of Ashland and Southern Oregon, and will t»k. pleasure iu showing the property we offer for sale. ROPER, GALEY & HELM,