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About Grant County news. (Canyon City, Or.) 1879-1908 | View Entire Issue (May 10, 1879)
VOL. 1. NO. 5. CANYON CITY, OREGON, SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1870. TERMS: $3. PER YEAR. V. f . The Grant Coity Nets. PUHLISIIED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING in: S. H. SHEPHERD, Ei)iT)U AND 1'l-KIJSIlER. SUBSCRIPTION: Ppr Year, : : : $3 00 Six Months, : : : 1 INVARIABLY L ADVANCE. 0 RATK3 OF AD VERTFS1NG. Noiiftis in local Uohunii, 20 ceuts per lire, each insrr'iou. Transient advertisi-ini'iiis, p--r squ-ire or 12 lines, 2 00 Tor iir t, and SI for each sub- quern, it.scr i.n in advance Loi.'d idv rtisoin nts charge I ay transient, and must, be pair! lor upon expiration. No ecMtifi.-ato of publica tion given un'il the fee is paid. Ye.nly adv' r:i-eiutit on very liber-ti-rms. Prt)V.s.;iona Cards, ( one inch or less) SI 5 prr :m:iuni. Poroul and Political Couirnunica'ion' charg d as advertisements. The above rate?, wi I Ijk strictly adhered to. I PROFESSIONAL CARDS. TV. Parriij. ATTORNEY AT LAW. Ca.n'yon' City, Oueuox. M. L. OLMSTKAB, ATTORNEY AT LAW, " Can von Citv, OiiKtsox, "WfLL ATTEND TO Af.L LKOAL Ut'SINKSS, Land and mining claims a speciality. . ClJKJlKY, "V djt Law, m. HusTi?!, Attorney at Law, Canyon City. Orcgur. F. C. HOUSLEY, M O. Okajhjati: of thi: itviveksity of pknn pylvauia, April S, 1878. Qanynn Cit', Oregon. Ofiice itj his Drug Store, Ma:n Street Orders for Drus pronitly filled. No professional patronage solicited unless direQt ions :vi s'rieflv followiMl- .7. W. HOWARD Il. 7)., 0.3SDQDS0N, M. J)., i ' if. II . BOLEY, -S3XTTIS rr oma, Opposite tbe Methodist 'ty, Oregon. OX", CANYON CITY, OREGON. J. H.FEDERBACH, Fashionable Barber, YTASIIINOTON ST., opposito City BreworyNl HAIR CUTTING, SHAVING, v. AND SHAMPOOING, AND RAZORS HONED With the utoust tkill and caro. GEO. SOiLMR, o isr o 2xr city The best of Milk furnished to the citizens of Canyon City ev ery nio'-ning, by the gallon or quart; at reasonable rates. John McCulbugh. Di-nisMcAulhT. Eltl Bl OFFERED BY Pliii. Metsdian &JDo. SUCCESSORS TO M. S. BELLMAN. Having purchased the entire and well assorted Stock of Gen eral Merchandise of M.'S. O el man, in September last, "and we being then desirous to wind up the business as speedily as posssible. we have been selling it cost ever mm. We are now de.ermined more than ever to settle up our. bus iness at once, and herebv offer Superior inducements To our Patrcns ami the Public Geir . all, which be greatly to their Interest. to Come, Examicc aud Pj-ice our Goods uc : i i . PHIL. METSC'H AN & CO. Canvon City, Ogn., April 10, 1879. JOHf WOOISEV. OKO. H USHAR. WOOLSEf & HOUSMAN, CANYON CITY, OREGrOJT. rpi'IK BAR Ir pqpplied with puro Winos and - Liquo-8, Bier. Ale, BUtorf and CRr?. FINE BILLIARD TABLES In tho S81ood. S?Give ua a call. i. ii. wood. j wr. CHtmcn. WOOD & CHURCH, LIVERY STABLE -AND FEED STABLE AND COR KAL. Good buggy teams and nice Saddle horses furnished at all hours of the day or night, at reasonable prices. Particular attention jaid to boarding and (frflflinmir t io nulnnf ofrlr ENTRANCE On Vi,:n ar.d Washington Sts., Canyon Citv. Oke; -m. EAXEIt CITY ADVERTISEMENTS. A.B. ELMER Watchmaker and Jeweler, BAKER CITY, OREGON- O All work done promptly, and warranted to giro n9tifWMoo. Has constantly or. band i fnll and non:p!ete stock of Watches, Clocks and Jawolrv, fr enle Chnop for Oixb. All pood snrrrnfed r.s rrprr.eontod. Watcboi and all o'Iip.- nrtif'ns for ropnirs may be left with S H. Shepherd, will a".inl to ffrwrding tho fi-vmo. A. B. ELM Kit. WM. GOOS, BAKER CITY, OREGON, CIGAR MANUFACTORY, ALSO Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Tobacqo and Smoking Artie os. T.0. HYDE, ATTORNKV AND CftNSELOH AT -LAW. Baker CityOregon. Office corney of Cobu;t vAvenue and Liberty Street. Haines & lawrencS? UAKKR CITV, OttEOO.V. P Will practice at lowln all courts it and Idaho. ' Oaegoa Pliil. Metscban. F. C. Sels. mrmm tttaMts GETTING HIS EDUCATION. He made his appearance at one of the Union schools the other morning, O and arriving ahead oftime.he prevented anv feeling of loneliness from seizin" him, by licking three bo3s and riding the gatt! oft its h meres. He went in with the caowd when the boll rang, and, finding no empty sent, he perched hinis.df on the wr-od-bov. When ti e children repeated the "Lords Prater' in concert, the new boy '-kept time'' with his hoc!, and when ther came to sing, he argued that variety was tho sjii.ee of song, and attempted to sing one of hU ..wnot.e abnut a nn le.man nameu Daniel Tucker, who dreiUlied that he was di-ad, and so forth. The teacher wtfrned him to keep .till, and he replied that he wouldn't come to that school if Iiks musical qualifications were to be overlooked. .When school ijnaly opened, the teacher secured hi name, and began asking questions, in order to fiud out how he should be gr.ided. " Can you spell" she asked. "VYn'at kind of spelling" he cau tiously replied. ".Spell 'lnuse1, if you please." "Frame or brick house ?' he said. " A n)? lnhDInjuse." '-With a morttr)ie on iV "You may spell 'iuan,' if you will," she wd, giving him a severe look. 'Man V' - "Yes." "I don't care much about sped ling 'man' this nvu-iiinir: but I will this af ternoon. I've Kpelbtd it with my eyes .-hur." "Do yon know your alphabet T' she asked, chamjing the s'lbjec't. "Ni:ver had any !" was the prompt reply. "D.) jou know anything about rond- '1 read like lightning," he answered. She hund,d him a.reader, aud said: "Let me hear you road." "1W right out loud r t;'(;s". "Linatra-d it woui i a.sturo tne children, he whispered. jm uii, mi.!. jvu iiiv- j i..v.. -t tiiil I n t inn Iwi n- nn rnnrl I lie looked carefully at the page, flf'ivcinri hi lirnw .v( ri!nl w " - , , . . XI L W.IO ItllllU UUJ ) tlll.l UllJIl b b any peanuts in my stocking Christmas, duni my eyes! but I'd make things jump around that house next morning " W He handed the book back, and the teacher asked: "Richard, how many are three and three?" 'Three and tluee what" heinquited "Any! hi ng." "it's a jzood deal occording to what it is, " he replied, as he settled brick. "I know that threo and three cats dnn't make a uog." "Did you ever study get 'graphy, Richard?' "Yes. ma'am "Wh:it is geography V "It is a book' "Is the world round or flat " "Flills and hollers," he replied. "Richard, can you write 1" "Write what ?" ''Can vou write vour name 1" "I could, I suppose, but I'vo got my name without writing it" "Can you write a letter t" "Who tol" "To any one" "Yes, I could, if I had money to pay the postage." Well, Richard," she said in despair, "3'ou'll lnve to go into the lower room, Independence, cut ade p and itisjfear if'you wanj, to come to school here." ed dangerous gash in her right breast a "I druther stay here." "Butyuu can't. "I bet you this knife agin ten cents I Can." She took him by the arm to remove him, but he laid hs hand on her shoul- der, and said, in a warning voice: "Don't get me mud, now, or I'll let myself loose. She called . the principal down, and as j he approached the boy he demanded: "Bny, what are you doing here 1" "Gitting eddicashun," replied Rich ard. "You ?o riiiht down stairs, now!" continued the rincipal. "Well, don't sass ine, for T never was herG bciforo roPlied Ric,mrd' ro uloT1" llls lcs 8 l c lnent to get aown Tho ?rinciljal took him b? the feo,1r ana JerKea hlln arounrt K,CKeU 011 We sMn and bifcten 011 tho W and fim0' ,an(kd ,he vounS tud- 00 sl,J0 W:''' "Ntnv vmi S h(mc-" he touted, as Mc iriod o recover bis brejith." X in I rki l '? i n rt n l rrwl T?irTiorl "You seem to be." "Gimme a diplnmy, then." "You clear out or I will have you ar resto(. " Hain't I a scholar in this school no more 1" "ISTo, sir." ' "Who owns this school-house V de manded the hoy. .N. mattrr; you clear our. 1ltl( nnniA fllf 11 fr Vl n lrunfl tinV. If ill VUll JUJIIU UUt 111 UilU dIU, 11C1C J J 1 (1JIL1 U UU UUII U Millie UU .HIYUlllli t J asked Lho buy. J Deg..iiM, i snt. flTV . .1....... ..i L....'n.. " luu"inuu u-i.iu-jc. u.. u.. warned the boy, as he backed oft; "nor 1 i it I !lL noil c LnniK you can scaifi ine witn any J J or your bowie knives. i it The principal walked in and shut the duor, and after the new boy had stood there lonpr enough to show that he was't afraid, turned and walked ofT growling to himself. "I'll et the foreman of No. 6 to pound that feller afore he's week older." -De-roit Free Press. Plunders Oregon Blood Purifier is not Birters. An Anxious Mother. -'Ephraham come to yr mudder, boy; whar you bin V -Pluyin' widde white folk's chillun." "You is, oh V See hyar, chile, you broke your mudder's heart, and brung he niy liars in sonow to do grave wid 1.1 , ... . . n nr.rl I your i ecKiuuiiit:M an ciurjui uu mu your ebil assoayshuns. Habn't I raised A. i..,n olmul.l .Miirlif in I 11(1 U U ill ltclV VWU OIIUUIU V'ULilU W I (TQ "Yessum." "llabn t I bin kino an' tender wid Vou. an' treated "vou like inv own chile ,r , J V , which you is " "Yessum.'' "Habn't I reezened wid you, and plored the Lord to wrap you up in his buz.tim?'' Yi-ssiim." uAnd isn't I jer nateral detector an' V t i m v m I "Yessum." "Well, den, do yon 8 pose I'se gflrinc to hab ycr morals ruptured by de white trash? No sab! You get in de house dis instop; an' if I eber catch you mud- eating' wid do white trash any mo', fo' -de Lord, nijger, I'll break yer black wid a brick!" "Yesstira." Yuma, April 24. A special from the front to the Arizona Sentinel says: The track is l ud to a point one-half mile east of Maricopa, 155 1 miles east of the Colorado river. A side trac, turn ta ble etc., will bo finished to-day. Tht tijack between Gala bend and Marico Pa M bo turncd over t0 thc Porating aeparimeni on ounuar, -tvprn Aim. clauthter of Mr. Wm. Lemons of few days ago with a pocket knife. Salem's new postmaster, Capt. L. S. Scott, took formal possession of the nnhofliPM 21 fn.w wpnks Kinnf Tho fnr mer employes Sam. "W. Church and iMis3 Thatcher will be ietained. rio, -n ivrnn-nnnolrl trHl lnf.nrA of S;lIem in the Opem House in abont a week, en "Thirty Years on the Bor- jor AMONG OUR EXCHANGES. From the Weston Leader. Mr. Smthworth has finished her fiftyninth novel. The bounded debt of the city of New York on the 21at of March was $115, 125,292. No less than eighty members of con gress express a desire to Bpeak on the army bill Tho sponge trade of Cedar Keys, Pla. since the first of Januaxyamounta lo 176,500. Fernando Wood of New York, is the chairman of tho Ways and Meaus Committee of ths House. All the iron rolling mills in tho country report increased activity and employment of many extra hands. A canoe with eight men, jiolonging to Etchemin Canada, returning from Quebec, upet, aud six men were drown- ed. The loss by fire in Philadelphia oc tbe 6th inst., was 750,000. One fire- I man was killed and three others se- y bruisei by filling avails I I A 111' .1 1 It A cable dispatch reborts a revolution ' rt 11 i 1 .-!. in Panama fourteen hours liuhtm 4l . . , -,r in the streets occurred. Many were kille(j Quiet .s now rcstm.ed I Doctor Chalfant. who killed John B , B h x h ht l . . 0 v . , into 1 olice court, waived examination i ' aud was committed with bail. It is eaid in Omaha that 50,000 ex cursionists are expected from all parts of the union, to meet General Grant at San Francisco when he returns from his foreiirn tour. "Wm. Young, proprietor of the New England Hotel, at Olympia, was found dead in his dead in his bed with a cigar in llis mouth and a coPy of the Polico - !! 1 ii t.! uazette m nis nanu, on me itn. A little eirl once heard her mother remark that she thought a certain ladv.s qaughlera maue veiy poor matches. tWcl)j the mnIUIua inquirod the hopcfuif .why doa,t they get better sluD10r?" sulohor? The inventor of the Gatlen gun con . , , , . , - . ... 4l. G IT about a seed planting machine which ho wanted for his f.ither,s field,s Al . , . 11 - . though nominally a Connecticut man tnoU"n nominally a uonnecticut man Gatlin gun belongs by birth to the South. From the Idaho World. Two more companies of troops have been Bent to Yackima. Maud Miller, dauphttr of Joaquin 1 1 - Jobn Wilson, a Umatilla convict nas suet or 529,0(10 for their impris- oilmen t, S. J. Randall. Sneaker of tho w - J - House of. Representatives, will visit the Pacific coast this summer. The Iowa Democratic SUto Con- vention is to be held on May 21st. That little band of Democratic of Black Iowa are "bound to toot their horna if they don,t sell a claim!". It is stated that a force of Albanians lately took possession ofKurshulie and massacred tho Christain inhabitants. Scrvain troops have been sent toe it oli their retreat across the frontier. The foolish man foldetli his hands and saith: There ib no trade; why hould I advertise! But the wise man is not so; ho whoopeth it up in Jthe newspapers, and verily ho draweth cus tomers from afar off. The Secretary of war having ad dressed a letter to General Sherman directing him, in case Sitting Bull or any of his feUowcrs crossed the fron tier to hold them as pissoncri of war, the duskey savages have voluntarily placed themselves under tho British Government, and ceased to be subjects of the United States. They will not be allowed to again enter the United States nnder any pretensions. The great beauty of being engaged to a girl in a boarding house is that. you don't have to cjltv a niifht-ker.