L P Fisher Box 2341 ASHLAND TIDINGS ASHLAND ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING. W. H. LEEDS. Editor and Publisher. Terms of Subscription: Dno oupy, one year.................. •• *' six month«................ " '* three months............ Club Rates, six copies for........ Terms, in advanoe. I 2 TIDINGS 75 13 50 MARCH RED HOUSE COLUMN. REAL ESTATE. MISCELLANEOUS FRI DAY. OREGON, ASHLAND, VOL. XII HENRY KLIPPEL, I 1 Attorney and Counsellor at Law ASHLAND, OREGON. r Will practice lx. all court« of th« State. Coilccliotia promptly made aud remitted. 9 4 •UCCXSSOR TO WILLARD A URBANK*. GRA T ASHLAND, OREGON. ▲ND T. B. Kort, ZVotnv.v l’tiBli«*, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. JACKSONVILLE, OR. I JACKSONVILLE, OR. D^*W1U practice iu sit courts <»f Orefou. Office, Califoruia »< • oppo*,t** J" Nunsn’s store, .’»I'kaouviile. Or. {¡0-3 CONVEYANCING is ALL ITS BRANCHES. ----- DEALER IN----- J. S. Howard, STORES, TIN WÄRS, GRANITE MÄRG Notary Publio and Conveyancer MEDFORD, OREGON. PUMPS, BLACKSMITH COAL, All kind» of real c«tnt6 busine». riven care ful attention, aiel information furnished enn«;erning property in the new town. ? Finding their business increasing, have-just been receiving heavy invoices, and now have their Shelves Full of New Goods Office oue door south of Ashland House on Main street. 111-12 We aim to keep always in stock, the choicest staple brands of the AND SURGEON. - - BKST ASHLAND. OREGON. Special attention given to the treatment of chronic female diseases. Otlice consultation free where profession al services are required. Office in Masonic Block, over Chitwood's drug store, residence on Oak street. n23v!2 >3noo No. 37. 160 acre«. Lu> aerva fcactM^ADd voder cultivation nnd two good spnn<« on the place. Thin in choice grain and fruit land and is situated live miles from Jacksonville. ft*) per acre. No. 38. 350 acres. Inis body of land adjoint» Jacksonville and is level’, rich «ruin, fruit and vineyard land, and ia fenced in five ficlda. There is on tho place a dwelling*houae, apriug- hotiKc with fine apring, barn and outhousea. and a good orchard. Terms, half-caRh, and the balnuce on two. three and five-year payments. 110.000. No. 10 . 392 acres. 22.5 acres under cultivation and fenced into five field* which are level, rich, mead ow, grain and fruit land, an 1 40 acres in al falfa. There are on the place a large and thrifty orchard, two dwelling houses, two large barns and «> 12 of an irrigating ditch, carrying 300 inches of water. $1000. No. 41. 10 m acres. This land is unimproved, though 80 acres of it is good fruit and alfalfa land and the balance tine timber ¡and. There is a stream of water running through the place. Situ ated three miles from Jacksonville. 1110. No. 42. 200 acres. 20 acres of unimproved land. 30 acres of which is prairie land aud the balance good timber land, all good fruit and grain lund, with two living spriugs of water. Four miles from Jacksonville. 11500. Ne. 43. SO acres. 60 acres of choice grain and fruit laud un der fence, with new dwelling-house and barn, and water for stock. Situated one mile from Gold Hill depot. 360U No 59 200 acres A splendid farm 1U miles from Wood ville; new two story dwelling and outbuild ings; excellent orchard of 750 trees; i.’»0 acres fence<i ; a beautiful location and first class bargain. 8 . No. 46. 160 acres. Unimproved; well watered, and first-class place to make a home. 2 "»00. MO. 51. 320 acres. 60acres fenced; 10 acres meadow; large thrifty orchard, an iirigating ditch; large commodious house and barn; a splendid stock farm. 22 . no , 52. 133 acres. Adjoining Jacksonville: all choice fruit and vineyard laud; will be sold in 20-acrc lots if desired. 500. No. 53. 160 acres. Timber land unimproved, running water; 10 acres cleared; 6 miles from Jacksonville. 1000. No. 54. 1G0 acres Soil a rich dark loam; 25acres fenced and other Improvements; 9 miles east of Cen tral Point. I4500. No. .55. 400 acres. Unimproved, level rich grain fruit land; running water, title donation claim. A great bargain; 7 miles cast of Central Point. 32. No. 56. 200 acres. 100 acres fenced in and in cultivation; house, barn, smoke house and other out buildings; thrifty young orchard of a choice variety of fruit; one-half mile from postoffice ana school; good roads; summer and winter; in Table Kock, 9 miles from Gold Hill station, O 4C R R. |40 per acre No. 76 476 acres This splendid tract of land is all fenced: 300 ucres under cultivation. It Is situate in the fertile rf . lt on the west side of Rogue river valley, ll-3 miles west of R R depot and 3’a miles east of the county seat. The soli is free. rich. bUck loam, all first quality fruit and grain land. The place has a house aud large baru and first class fences on it. It is a great bargain and will be open for only thirty days. 119 No. 77 19 acres Fenced and in cultivation. Boil rich, dark loam; every acre of it first-class garden and fruit land, and will grow alfalfa without irrigation, adjacent to Jacksonville, 41^ miles from either Medford or Central Point have Great Bargains to offer and it wflTpav you to keep a close watch on this space for the next six months for Special Bargains. If you have any property for sale, come and see me and I w ill do my be^t for you. Office on California street, opposite Slav ■ House. ? ASHLAND, OREGON. • Chas. E. Beote, M. D„ And to make it to the interest of people to deal wity them. C. J. Sachrist, M. D., TRY THEM. PHŒNIX, OREGON. ffice at residencc-w»late at Eagle Bros.’ drug store. [10-40 J. S. Walter, M. D. S., Will practice hisprofessionof Dentistry —AT— A shland , O regon . 11 8 A. C. Caliwoll, School Books and Stationery Mechanical and Operative Dentist. ASHLAND, OREGON. Nitrous Oxide Gas administered for the painless extraction of teeth. ¡aif~ Office over the Bank.—[12-33] K It K S LI AT I A > W EST PRICES Ganiard’a Orchestra, Of Ashland» Oregon, (late of Cal. * ▲re now prepared to furnish the best of :nusic for public or private Parties. Balls, Picnics. Ac., at any point on the coast. All the new popular music is played by ibis Orchestra. Having employed a large number of mu sicians. we arc able to furnish any number of bands. Any instrument or a caller fur nished to other bands. All orders by mail or telegraph promptly attended to. Terms «¡ways reasonable. Address 12-151 Prof. Gaillard, Ashland. Or, Successor to Hunsaker & Dodge, ------------DEALER IN------------ Groceries & Provisions TABLE WARE AND CROCKERY. C. W. AYERS, C7VSH ! Cuy’,or Architect and Builder. MANUFACTURER ANO WOOD WORKER,* •hop on First Avenue, near Main St. Will make estimate« and bids on »11 buildings, publio or private, and iirnish all material, plans and «peciti- jataoos for the construction of the same. TSF'Saxli. Doors nnd Mouldings on nand and for sale at lowest rates. ’^"General shop wo.k done in short Trder. J-S^Stair building a specialty. work gnaranteed to be first- ilmw, and of latest designs. V. H. ATKINSON, President. M. L. ALFOBD $50,000.00 1 JOHN S. MILLER. ? I :o: M K D F O 11 D THE FINEST LINE OF rr • :o: Li Should you desire to sell, you will do well to place your property in our bunds. ■W To be found in this city. WRISLEY & MILLER, è Medford, Oregon. Also Full Line STAPLE and FANCY GOODS, NEAV FIRM GENT’S - FURNISHING - GOODS, INSURANCE No. i No. 2. Tea set, 44 pieces. I Unknown present. I Tea set, 44 pieces. I Unknown present. I Tea set,44 pieces. I Unknown present. No. 7. I Barrel of Roller Mills Flour. No. 8. I Unknown present. No. 9- i i Very Elegant Plush Al bum. Unknown present. No. io. I No. 11. I Pair of Vases. No. 12. I Unknown present. No. *3* I Bisque Doll. No. *4- I Unknown present. i Stand Lamp. I Unknown present. No. »7* i Toilet Set. No. IS. i Unknown present. No. 19. No. 20. 2 Mush Sets. I Unknown present. And to the person holding the largest number of tickets, Shak- speare’s Works, complete, in 13 volumes, bound in cloth. General Real Estate Which 1 am offem at I’ BUSINESS. Ancone wishing to buy or »ell pmperty ill do well to call on or aildreas ANDEKSON DePEATT & KYLE, Vice President. President. io UNKNOWN presents, viz AND BOOTS and SHOES, HATS. ETC., ETC. JAMES THOllNTON The ti VALUABLE Presents I No. I5- i No. 16. We have opened a real-estate office in I wish to announce to the public that I have now on hand : .March 31,1888. JOHN B. WIUSLEY. — :<»o: Ì RED HOUSE, HENRY KLIPPEL. O dd F ellow ’ s B lock . TheBankof Ashland Paid Up Capital, -».,ells *lricüï CASH ! CASH BUYERS, Govern Yourselves Acttiioilj. r. H. C ARTXR S. V. CARTER Viee-Pre». Cashier ASHLAND, OGN. At the Mining ratent, obtained at reasonable rates, and wit 11 dispatch. Trompt attention given to all business connected with the land office. Office »t residence on Main street, next door to Presbyterian church. [11-42 AND SURGEON. PRIZE DRAWING LAND AT BEDROCK PRICES. Dr. J. S. T&rion, Dr. S. T. Songer, I I I I AMMUNITION, ETC. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, A shland , O regon . Office a residence. ftrzt Insertion.... insertion....... Real Estate Brokers. Does a General Banking Business. Office in O<1<1 Frllotv’s Block, Ashland. Customers will be entitled to One Ticket for Each Dollars’ Worth of goods purchased. ’olleitions made at all accessible points on favorable terms. Sight exchange and tolegraphie transfers Hurtlaud, San Francisco and New York 1<4d dn.it bnwjht at standard /trices. TOWN - LOTS This Space Reserved for -----In the town oi----- M. L. McCALL, MONTAGUE Estate Agent and Surveyor Siskiyou co., Cal., A shland , - - O regon . Plan of Drawing same as here tofore. For Sale on Easy Terms Oue-fonrth down; balance within six. twelve and eighteeu months Sec map at tho RaP^'ad Di pot for «railed prices, etc., or address P H. HASKELL. Town Site Agent C. P. R. R.. San Francisco. Californl». IW-n The New High Arm Davis sewing- machine. just received at Messenger 4 Smith s; and they are beauties. Call and see them. Gold band ware and other fancy styles to select from iu the immense stock of glassware and crockery at Geo. H. Curry’s. * Now is the time to make your pur chase* while Blount is reducing h» to mak* room tor spring good*. C. A. NUTLEY, Largest stock of goods in our line in Southern Oregon, MAM FACI UR KI. S OF WHITES COLORED BLANKETS, I MERCHANT. Plain & Fancy Cassimeres, Flannels, Hosiery, Etc., Ashland, OVER and UNDERWEAR. - CLOTHING made to ORDER. Office and Sales Rooms in Masonic Building, w. H- ATKIKSOM, ■•erwtary and O«s»r»l Manager. Main street, - - Oregon. NTAll kinds of produce bought or »old on cummis»lun. (12-11 Agency for Eagle Mill*-Flour, feed, etc, for sale at wholesale aud retail. CEO. ENCLE, Proprietor. 23, THE DISCOVERY OF LOCAL. 1888 CRATER LAKE. V (fl . 1 rfl Local Notioes, per line........................ll«e Regular advertisements inserted upon liberal terms. Job Printing Of all descriptions done on short no Uce. Legal Blanks, Circulars. Bust neas Cards Billheads. Letterheads, Pos ters. etc., gotten up in good style at living prices. 50 J. T. Bowiitch, PHYSICIAN oebvngt 1 .50 PROFESSIONAL CARDS. PHYSICIAN ASHLAND TIDINGS THE SEATIXEL’S VALEDICTORY. :H0W MCt'II Lt.Mi FOR A LIVIMiff HOW TO CROW SWEKT FOT A TORS. P levna , Or., March 7, 1888. Last w(>ek we expressed a desire to Experlczee With Small Tracti. Well Tilled. tian Lui» OblipoTribune.J E d . T idings :—In your last issue ap make particular mention of the many [San Jone Mercury.] Visitors to our fairs last year Boled peared a letter from J. B. Wrisley, de men who had tilled the editorial chair Perhaps no subject produces more the splendid exhibit of sweet potatoes nying tho truth of the stnt«>ments j of the Sen find siuce it was founded «liv.-rgent views than the question as from Arroyo Grande, the country be made in my letter iu the Klamath j in 1855, but we find that to do them I to bow much is [necessary to sup tween here and Avila, and from other Star relative to the discovery anil nam I justice it would require many issues of port a family. land There are pla«Ts where points iu the county, and it is general ing of Lake Majesty, or, as it is most i the paper aud exceed th» ordinary lim ' a million acres would hardly pasture a ly agreed that for quality and Havor generally called, Crater Lake. As Mr. its of newspaper articles; we shall 1 goat or a reindeer, much le6»''support there are none in the world finer. W. not only imputes an unworthy mo therefore have to lie reluctantly con a human being. Nations who get n Noting tho elalxvrate instructions tive to me in writing that letter, but tent with a kaleidoscopic view of meu | . living bj the chase,; re-pure a large given in some of our Texas and other Becks to deprive Capt. Sprague anti ins and events, as they pass rapidly before The v.b' le Indian |>opulatiou of Southern states exchanges «vmcerniug company of well-earned honors, I ask us in the hour of the Sentinel's final 1 . an-.-u space to explain liow my name np- j dissolution. The first editor of the the presint t<*rritoiy <f the United the culture of this vegetable, we asked States did no! amount to a million, an old subscriber who is uoted for peared in print in that connection, as i Oregon Sentinel, Colonel W. G. , j yet starved every season, his success in the culture of fruit aud well as to emjibaeiz«' aud prove my I T’Vault, also conducted the first uews- j The hundreds old Spanish colonists thought 46.- vegetables whether the raising of sweet to- tner statements. ' pa|a-r The Sjieetator that was ever acres necessary to tlie comfortable potat«x3s was attended with uuy special The letter of mine iu the Star was published in Oregon, a little sheet 1 ' 000 of a family. The Americans difficulty in this county, to which he a private letter not intended for publi- ■ id out the size of congress letter paper, i support «xmsiilered n quarter section in grain replied: “It is no more difficult than cation, but to furnish Mr. Halton with , but to the first settlers of Oregon, then sufficient. finds ten to raise cabbages. My method is sim data for an article lie contemplated under provincial government, it was as acres quite A : ls fruit-grower profitable as did the ply this, and you will see for yourself writing to correct the generally ao- 1 I gladly welcomed, with it« six months owners their larger tracts. th it it is a very easy matter: cepted error of calling the lake Crater ' old news from “the states" as the daily Much dejionds upon what is raised, At any time during the month of Lake instead of “L-ike Majesty,” as it Oregonian of to-day, with its news of also the style in which a man feels it is January or the first of February, make was first named. Mr. H. was himself I European events that have transpired h.s right to live. Three or four fam your botlx*«l by digging out « place as under the wrong impression that I was 1 yesterday. Later with the gold excite of Italian gnrd«*ners will thrive | large hr wanted, from fonrteen to six the first discoverer of tho lake, and it ment of the fifties Col. T’Vault came ilies rich on ten acres. Throe or teen inches d«*ep. Fill it with stable was partly to oorrect Hint mistake, that to Southern Oregon and launched up and grow crops are raised in n season. ! manure (the best not over two weeks I wrote the letter to which Mr. W. on the tide the Table Rod: Sentinel, four When h crop, whether pens, besua or obi; witliin about four inches of the takes exceptions, but which I now re that has breasted the storms of Ludían tomatoes is well to bearing, another is top; pack well, fill in dirt to nearly affirm to lie substantially truo and wars, international strife, the fluctua planted between, which is half grown challenge Mr. W. or any other person | tions of mineral wealth, aud agricul when the first is finished. This plan level with the surface, lay on the po to disprove by recorded (not tradition tural aud commercial development, un involves plenty of water and rich soil. tatoes (carefully selected) and cover al) evidence. No doubt tho partie's I til it has accomplished a 33 years span, Almost every town of any size in Cal with not more than three inches of named by Mr. W. as among the origin- j marked at its beginning by un adven ifornia has one or two such gardens in soil, making the roots more hardy than al discoverers, were the persons to ' turous rush of excited gold seekers, ^8 vicinity. Instances are known of a those grown through five or six inches whom that credit belonged, but I am i imbued with a generous chivalry that man living for himself off a piece of of ground. When the bed is com pleted the surface, being a little above sure they will not claim the honor, as i s would have given their last dollar, or land less than Its I feet square, raising does Mr. W. for them, of giving it the their last drop of heart's blood to sup Btrawlierri'M aud vegetables. About the surrounding ground, prevents name of Crater Lake. Nor wouhl any port and protect the women and chil thirty years ago a Frenchman, a baker water standing on the bed, which of them claim to have located it or de dren, who had followed husbands and by trade, in Poverty Bar, Calaveras would tend to rot tho potatoes. Ths scribed its locution so uccuratt'ly that i fathers to plant the standard of civil comity, commence«! cultivating a little top of the lx*d should be kept loose a man, as skilled in Indian warfare and I ization iu the disputed territory of a patch back >f his shop iu vegetables, and entirely free from weeds, by oc casionally working with a garden rake; wooticraft as Mr. W. is presumed to worse than savage foe, whose signal th«' products to the miners with keep moist by sprinkling. No other be. couhl have found it without aid fires blazed with fitful glare from the selling bis bread ami pies. The business pay from some of that .party, as up to the surrounding mountains at each re ing wi ll, ho extended the ground to preparation of t he ground for setting time of Capt. Sprague's initial steps to turning fall. But like the fieme llame two acres by l urehase and otherwise. slips 16 required than for tho raising of blaze out the route for the wagon road of the fated fireworshippers, savagery He also set out two or three acres of other potatoes. Flowing carefully a good depth, thus making the soil loose, he nml his company built, there was lighted its own funeral pyre, which In twenty years from that beds are not required to l«e thrown no road or trail within less than twen was soon extinguished by tbouni’um- grapes. tiim he aecumu., icd enough to make above the level. Set the plants four ty mid miles of the lake, and its exist iug tide of civilization and progress, a large stockholder iu the French teen inches apart in rows stout three ence wus only known to the few per aud the Sentinel then under democrat him Bank at San Francis•«>. He always 1 inches apart. Make small holes with sons who had first visited it, and those ic management faithfully chronicled kept to whom the story had been related. the passing events of pioneer history, team. th«.* road with bis wagou and th«* hoe put in the plant and carefully pn ss in with the hasd. If tbs ground Mr. W. has apparently confused the written under the experience an 1 in the profits might have been larger is moist when slips are transplanted original story of the discovery of the spiration of a common danger that tb« As L than now, take a more recent one. (which should be toward evening) no lake, with the published account of a took the partisanship from politics Mr. l’aget. on the Lis Gatos creek, water is needed; o’herwise if the visit by James Sutton and party about and made all men brothers in a time a A few miles from here, has three and a ground is dry leave a slight cavity 1869 or 1870, in which account Mr. of common peril. Many of the events acres of blackberries which yield around the plant and put in about eue- Sutton claims to have launched the of pioneer history written by the for ha'4 him about $1200 per year, and berries half pint of water to s slip, or enough first boat (»canvass oue, I believe) and cible and elegant pen of Col. T’Vault selling at an average rate of three and visiting Wizard island, discovered the in the Sentinel are destined to grace a half cents per jtound. This black- to settle the dirt well arounl tbs roots. crater in its apex, aud from that cir the pages of Oregon’s future history. lierrv patch eugnged the labor of two Keep them free frem weeds. The cumstance called the lake for the first Before the Union war ’lie Sentiml men only a part of the year. During harvesting of a crop < f sweet potatoes lie «lore with the spade, as they time Crater Lake.” passed into the hands of B. F. Dowell picking time some help was required, must to too great a length to be suc In August, 1865, shortly af'.er our and became the Oregon Sentinel. In as one man had to lie on the road grow plowed out, often growing visit and christening tho lake, the Sen- tensely loyal to the Union it gave to mu li of the time. Similar cases may cessfully to twelve and sixteen inches in length, tinel published a letter from Cant. its patrons an epitome of current be seen almost everywhere. many of them weighing frcui four to Sprague describing the lake, ouriffie- events of the war from the time the Let ns see bow ten :icree would em six pounds. The amount rawed to the scent to its waters, and claiming for first gun was fired on Fort Sumpter ploy a man and family, with, say — acre here, vsries from 150 to 2H0 sacks. myself the honor of being the first to until the rebel cause was surrendered The gathering must be done, if possi a<-r** in orAwb« rrie-. ami «*»titnat- descend its walls ami giving it for the by Lee into the hands of General on-* iDg at a low j ii-l<i ...................... <250 ble, before the frost has killed the first time a name, that of Lake Maj«-s- Grant at Appomattox court house. It Bln kberries <»m* h ‘ r ........................ 250 as it is liable to injure tbs po ty, by which name it was known until recorded in He columns the emancipa Cherries, one acre...................................... 250 vines, tatoes. There are various ways for Peaches, one acre...................................... Mr. Suttou renamed it Crater Lake us tion proclamation of the immortal A|«ri« i4-. tws actes.................................... 2.50 500 saving sweet potatoes. Some have above related. Shortly after the pub Lincoln, tha^cleft the chains of Af Pear*, oue acr«‘........... .'................................ 200 tried to keep them by merely piling lication of Mr. Sutton's letter, ap rican slavery, and flung the stars and Altmimls ami nuts, on«* a< re.................... 100 ami covering well with corn-stalks peared another letter from Capt. Btripee unblemished to the breeze the Total.................... *.................................... 11*00 or some light niaU-rial, keeping them Sprague, then in Ohio, in one of the real emblem of American freemen. This leaves two acres for buildings, dry and allow ing no air to pass through, Jacksonville pajiers, in which be pro The literary labors of the lateWm. M. no dirt beiug used. Others simply tested against the renaming of the Turner who for more than a decade cow ami hors«*, chickens, drying pack them in dry sand, in barrels or grounds, etc., making the whole gross lake as an injustice to myself aud filled the editorial chair of the Senti Tho latter has proved ths those present with me at the’first visit nel is the inheritance of the present proceeds nearly $20(10. The horse is boxes. During the 23 years, or nearly, that generation aud to a more gifted pen necessary for the business and the cow most successful with me. have elapsed siuce Capt. Sprague’s Bhall be allotted the pleasant duty of and chickens will pay for their keep. A “Tony" Chinaman. first letter was published there has paying fitting tribute to his talents These estimates are even one-half never before to my know ledge lieen a and bis worth. Not alone did the lower than extreme cases, which some iS. F. Chronicle.; question raised as to the truth of bis emanations of liis genius shine in the times reach $1000 per acre. Il will be < Except the principals, the leading statements, nor of the fact of my be columns of the Sentinel, but to many noticed, too, that almonds pay les6 counsel aud Mammy l’leasauos, no one ing the first to give it a name; aud all of the popular periodicals of the East than the other fruits, though they do figure stood out more prominently it the honor of bringing the lake into and West he contributed literary con not pay like other fruits, they never the late Sharon vs. Sharon divorce suit public notice and rendering it possi ceptions, tenderly, truthfully, beauti drive one as do the perishable produc than did Ah Ki. the Ixxly servant oi ble for pleasure seekers to visit aud ful, touched by the refined inspiration tions. The estimate is made on a basis of t he ex-Senator. So close was the Mon admire its wondrous beauties, is due of a nature east in the highest mould, golian to the millionaire defendant only to Capt. Sprague and liis com aud breathed upon by the exquisite ten acres, with fruits through the sea that he accompanied him to Washing pany. It certainly is in very bad taste Íathos of. early pioneer experience. son, so ns not to crowd the whole labor ton and elsewhere, and was bequeathev. for a resident of Rogue River Valley, 'ho Sentinel has marked the progress into a month or two, as any oue fruit $10,000 by him in his will. Upon the for whose Ixuetit the road was built by of advancing civilization from the days might do. In this way a farmer may death of his master, Ah Ki declare« the ill paid volunteers, to try at this of the pony express, Hying Indore the do hie own work much easier than he that he was heart-broken, packed hii late date to rob them of the honor to arrows of blood thirsty savages with ceuld on a gram ranch of 160 acres. baggage and departed for the Hower which they are justly eutitled, aud its precious burden of news, until the No farmer raising grain solely can kingdom, where he appears to hav. which was their only recompense for shrill whistle of the steam euginAs keep more than half his land in grain. overcome liis grief. The legacy, wit) their labor, so far as Jackson county proclaims us liound by riba of steel to There must lie grain sown, pasture for wbat other money he had managed t contributed. the commercial marls of the world, his cattle, ami numerous other pur get together, rendered Ab Ki one o Now, while I do not wear th«' buck aud brings to us daily the passing poses. Ten acres in fruit is lietter the wealthiest Chinese who ever n skin badge of the Southern Oregon events of yesterday from the countries thau 160 iu grain. turned home after years of labor in t Pioneer society, though eligible to the of the old world. It stands at a new foreign land. Value of a Cannery. honor, nor do I claim to have era of agricultural aud commercial Ou his arrival at his home, which i We fiml some figtiros in the San iu the Canton province, he became r come to Rogue River valley while progress and views from the top of it was yet a lake, and Mount Mount Nebo the goodly land that is Jose Mercury as to the amount of sort of divinity among his people. Hi Pitt a-hole-in tlie-groiiml. I did ar the inheritance of the children of the money left hi a neigliliorhixxl by a big knowledge aud wisdom were Bougb rive there with my parents iu the fall of old pioneers. It leaves the parly whose cannery. Re:ul them carefully ami upon all of the great problems of Ilf 1853, a small boy as Mr. W. very de- principles it has faithfully advocated s«x< what such an institution would do and death. This consideration th precatingly says, but with the average with an invincible majority in the for this part of the valley. cunning Mongolian courted rathr The San Jose Fruit-packing Com than repelled, prided himself upon th small boy’s keenness of vision and im state and full representation in Iwitli pressible memory, and Mr. W., or at bouses of congress. In this largely pany, was originally founded in a small attentions which be received. But I least his family, were then living on democratic district it leaves a Republi way by individual endeavor in 1870, its in the mean time had an eye to bus: Wagner creek, at the house of Jacob can judge, peerless among his demo subsequent history has been one of neas. After all the laudations ha Wiiguer. where they with other fami cratic predecessors, and a county com singular aud most marked progres». lieetowed and received. he set to lies bad been fort5«l up for several missioner that it will lie an honor to In 187.7 it was organize«! in its present been work, after the example of bis lat mouths on account of Indian hostilities. the county to re-elect, ami in the light form, th«' capital st«x'k being placed at master, to invest in the real eatst- I remember that Jacksonville, on my of these events it feels that us a party $200,000. At th«* same lime they en business and to buihl houses tbereo: first visit several months later, whs a organ it has not lived iu vain. At the tered their present buildings. These on an improved plan, somewhat dif small village of rude shanties, tents close of this article it cherishes the cover no less than three and one-half fi-reut from the mud hovels of the plao and a few more pretentious frame wish that the Republican party may acres of gronnd, ami constitute tho Ki’s buildings liad chimneys, stain buildings; that at that tune little min see its duty by the light of this expir largest aud lx>st-e«itiip|>ed plant, it is glass windows and other Caucasian in ing or prospecting was being done ing taper, that will impel it to give to claimed, in the world. Buildings and which gave them a snperio outside of the near vicinity of that the patrons of the Sentinel a paper yards cover the entire city block be ventions, appearance and created a wonderfu town; that there was then, no news that will meet the exigencies of this tween Fourth, Fifth, Julian an«! St. excitement in the village. Harin, paper puplished south of the Calipooia important political year. In conclu .Tamos streets aud arc a conspicuous built a couple of hundred of such ele mountains to chronicle the discovery of sion we take a kindly leave of the pa feature of that part of the city. The gant houses and rented them at i Crater lake, and give it a history and trons of the Sentinel for whom we names of the officers are: H. Bendel, good stiff price of probably $5 a yeai notoriety, had it beeu as W. says dis have labored to the best of our ability president; W. IL Wright, treasurer, In* started to bmld Imnaelf a palace covered before my arrival. Though my for the past few years, trusting that aud J. W. Nelson, secretary. This edifice he has finished and furn education was not yet completed I the near future may give ns permanent The pack of fruit for 1887 exceeded in the most luxurious costly style . knew enough to subtract 1853 from newspaper identity with them, ami 14O.00I) cases. There are two dozen ished carpets, furniture, laoe curtains. - 1865, and give a correct remainder. If that the party for whom we have la cans in a case, making a total of 1,- The bedding mid all the other ac frieuti W. can spare the tune to ex bored in past may long enjoy the pres 680,000 cans of packed fruit. It might curtains, companiments which go to furnish ar amine the old files of tho Table Rock tige of its proud position in this state. seem that such a vast amount could American's residence, wore ordered Sentinel, Oregon Sentinel, Democratic never be consume«! yet the fact is that from Hongkong esjiecially. The bouse Times, or Jacksonville Timesund pro every can was sold or contracted for has large plate glass windows, while Candled Fruit»*. duce any printed account that clearly before the close of the season. The an American stove ami cooking uten disproves the substance of my letter in (New York Mall and Express ) cause of thia is plain. The company sils bought in San Francisco adorn his tho Klamath Star or what this letter is determined to hold up the quality of Until quite recently all the candied the goods, ami relies upon a g«xxl repu I kitchen. He diuos by himself, and states as facts. I will agree, upon his uses a kuife ami fork, much to the as first visit to this part oi the country to fruits that were seen at the Broadway tation for a fair profit upon them. tonishment of those of his servants give him <is good a dinner as b«' wants fruit stores and confectioners were im The expenditures of such an immense who have the distinguish««! honor to to sit down to,and present him with such ported from France. Now most of business are of course enormous. The be allowed in his presem*« on inch an assortment of samples of Klamath them come from California. The bill for tin and solder alone for last occasions. His household servants county productions to adorn liis of French fruit is put up in a more showy season was over $100,000; for sugar, number over twenty, six of them be fice with, ae will convince him that manner ami brings a higher price than $40,000; for lalx«r, for fruit, ing strong, athletic, raw-boned coolies Klamath county is not, as Lish Ap- the domestic fruit. Bitt the California over $110,000. It will thns lx» seen who trot under the jtoles of the sedan ph'gnte declares, “only fit for the habi product is just as good eating, aud that some $300,000 was distributed chair which contains the body of Shar tation of men like the patriarchs of old with a little practice, will equal the im throughout this community during on's late lackey as he goes from one the past season by this great company, who depend««! on their ftocksand herds ported fruit in appearance. The method of preparing tho fruit going to our fruit growers ami our la- village to another, or among ins ten upon a thousand lulls for sustenance, ants. But should he wish to visit Can aud is too frosty and sterile to grow is simple, but require* good judgment Ixiriug {xipulation. The usual force in ton, which is about twenty-five miles eolith of to lie successful. In the tho busy aeiis« hi is from six to seven black eyed {»eas." Yours for the facts, in- hundrol. consisting of men, women distant, an additional sqnad of state France it has grown to be a great _ O. A. S tearns . dustry, as nearly all of Europe is sup and children. These earn from fifty coolies is engaged for the occasion. The Son-Participation of the Administra plied from that Section. In preparing cents to three dollars a day. The lat A San Francisco Chinese merchant, the fruit, pears, pineapples and quinces ter are wbat are called piece hand«, who is a cousin of the magnate, and tion in Politics a Sham. Washington Poet (Ilem.) are pared; citrous are quartered, aud who have become so expert ami rapid who knew him well, visited him about months ago at his palace, and gives Mr. Don M. Dickinson missed a the pits of cherries, apricots and as to prepare an immense quantity of six a most ludicrous account of his grand great opportunity on Wednwday. Ho {teaches are removed. The fruit is fruit for the packer«. eur and the style which he puts on was one federal office-holder whom the then immersed in Imiling water, which among the benighted people of liis Prune* at a Profit. country' expected to see sitting in the quickly penetrates the pulp, dissolves own race since his return from Amer national committee aud voting square and eliminates the juice. Then the Last year a farmer cleared 81,800 ica. ly and positively every time his name fruit is removed and the water drained from three acres of matured prune was called. But ho was not there. oft. leaving only the solid portion of tree« in the vicinity of Vancouver, W. Oregon Ensilage. Like the others, he had his proxy. pulp inact. This is thon immersed in T. Within five years there will be Oregonian large earthen pans in a syrup made Like the others, his proxy did liis bid fully 500 acres of land planted in these Mr. Jackaon. who lives in sight of by dissolving sugar in water. The trees near that place. There are but ding. Now. what is the difference? Where syrup in turn penetrates the pulp and few counties where the soil and cli Oregon City, called this week »nth a is the virtue m this sort of political gradually replaces the fruit juices. In mate are lx>t h adapted to the success epecitnen of eD«ilaj(e, that he made on self-abnegation? The postmaster-geu- about six weeks it is thoroughly im ful growing of ¡«nines. Prunes now his farm and is fenling with snccess to eral is still a member of the democrat pregnated with sugar, and is taken seil for 14 and 15 cents per pound. hia stock. His silo is 12x20 feet and high enough to bold a large quantity. ic national committee, and so is the out and washed with pure water. If They are a goo«l crop at 8 cents. He will write tiarticulara for publica secretary of the interior. They hold it is to lie glazed, it is dipped into a tion and give his plan for making it. Isith offices and they have no inten thick syrup aud left to harden in the Xo Discount on This. The specimen left is English rye grass tion of discarding either. How much open air. This produces a transparent Beal name of the next democratic that was put m whole aud is preserved honest criticism do they escape by coating. If the fruit is to bo crystal in good order. It is fragrant, and cat setting up a dummy iu one place and lized, it is dipped in the syrup and candidate for the presidency: tle like it. He ensilage«! a large quan C’lcveianD, controlling his motions from another? then dried slowly in a kiln heated to tity of corn which is all fed out or he VoorheEs, There is no consistency in this sort ninety degree«. This produces a would have bro'igbt a sample of iL It McDoNald. of thing. If that is what they seek, granulated appearance. If properly lias proved a complete success with RaNdall, both Mr. Vilas and Mr. Dickinson done, candied fruits will bear trans him, and he thoroughly endorse* ths Higgins, should resign from the committee portation to any climate, aud will pre interest the agricultural department of St. John. forthwith. More than that, they serve their quality and fiavor for a year. the Oregonian has tak«<u in regard to The imported fruits are put iu neat should have resigned the day they bonbon boxes with glass fronts. Cali took the oath to administer their de Catarrhenred. health and sweet breath it. He will write in full concerning partmental offices according to the fornia fruit is assorted and placed in ««•cured. by Shiloh's Catarrh Remedy the way he preserved the fodder and constitution of the United States and fancy paper boxes, bolding one or two Prioe 50 cents. Nasal Injector free, at the kinds of feed be preserved. Buch «xaumuiiicutions will be welcome. T. K. Bolton's. pounds each. the whims of President Cleveland.