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About Grant County news. (Canyon City, Or.) 1879-1908 | View Entire Issue (July 26, 1879)
-"ft rant mi i- VOL. 1. NO. 1C. CANYON CUT, OREGON, SATURDAY, JULY 2G, 1879. TERMS: $3. PER YEAR. K Coity I PUBLISHED 5VERY SATURDAY MORNING S, H. SHEPHERD, Editor and Publish ek. SUBSCRIPTION Per Year, : : li)0 00 75 Six Months, : : : $1 INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. RATES OF ADVERTISING. Notes in local Column,. 20. cents per line, each insertion. Transient advertisements, per square of 12 line?, 2 00 for hVt, and 81 for each subsequent insertion in advance Legal advertisements charge i as transient, and must bo paid for upon expiration. No certifi- ate or' publica tion given unil the foe is paid. Yearly ad vorfi -emmets on very liber terms. Profession.-. 1 Cards, ( one inch or less.) 15 per annum. Personal and Political Communications charg cl as advertisements. The above rates will be strictly adhered to. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. C. Y. Parrhii. ATTORNEY AT LAW. Canyon City, Okeoon. M. L. OLMST 10 AD, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Canyon City, Ouecox, Ceo. B. CrnKKV, Canyon City, Ohegon. M. Dustin, Attorney at Law, Canyon City, Oregon. F. O. HORSLEY, M D. GRADUATE OF THE UMVE'.tSITY OF I'ENN- sylvania, April 8. 17 Canyon Ci'y. ' hgon. Office in his Drug Store, Ma'n Street Orders for Drugs nromt.lv filhid. No professional patronage solicited unless directions aie sriet'v followed J. W. HOWARD, M. D., Canyon City, Chant Co., Okecon. 0. M. DOBSOtf, H. D., E'rairio City, - Ogn.. N. H. BO LET. 3Z 25 3ST 37 X 3?. SSrDental Rooms, Opposite tho Metbodiat Cburcb. Canyon City, Oregon. G. I. IIAZELTINE, Fltotograplior, CANTON CITY, OREGON. GEO. SOLIMER, O 3XT "ST O KT CI T "52" MILK-MAK The best of Milk furnished to She citizens of Canyon City ev 2ry mooring, by the gallon or quart; at reasonable rates. JOHN SCHMIDT, Carpknter and Wagon Makek. Canyon City, Oregon. Dealer in Hardwood, Spokes and Felloes, Furniture, CJhairs, Paints, Glass, and Window-sasu. Tie Brant ews A Runaway Wife. It is not every man who will take the trouble to pursue a runaway wife. It is not always that they am worth pursuing. It is true that women some times leave their husbands from per fectly legitimate causes, but it is very rarely that they do so in company with another person. Rut an incident of this description is related by a conduct or of the Kansas Pacific Railroad as occurring on his train, during a recent run in the direction of Denver. A couple were occupying a middle seat in the ladies' car, having got on at a way station. Probably attracted by that invisible fascination which never fails To bring about a contretemps, a genleman in a rer car came in and took a seat immediately behind the amorous couple. There was a shock of surprise as his eyes first fell upon then), and a deathly pallor overspread his countenance. But this was for an instant only. Then a flush succeeded, and a queer smile began to play around the corners of his set, deter mined lips. An hour passed. The billing and cooing went on, and the man was a patient and evidently an in ter.'Stel litener. The people in the . car bean to perceive that something j unusual was roLnir -n. Perhans that! 1 sulnle sympathy which makes in ln teroMcd in strange incidents h.-sd taken buld of thorn ami had evoked its influence. Anyway, thy looked like people who were expecting something unusual to happen. And they were not (lis ippointed. The man leaned forward with that j-trange, pe culiar smile still hovering about his lips, and raid. beg pardon, but you do seem to be njting ymusclves immensely.'' The lady arof-e with a stifled scre'im an d v.'iU'eliug round confronted the stranger wnh pallid face and great .-taring, scared like eves. Her corn- panion was no less disconcemed. He tto had risen 1 1 Ins feet, and stood un easilv looking at the'-ur ruder, flushing and piiling by turns. "My C"d, it iuis come at last!" wail ed the woman. The stranger was cool and imperturb able. "You did not exp'-ot to .ee me. did youf and his fac took on a sneer that was bitter j.i it- .-cni and contempt. 'IIcin-Mi knows 1 did nt!" exclaim el the lady, from whose eyes the tears had alreadv begun to trickle. "Well, its nor. unusual People of ten meet under peculiar circumstance-. I suppose you are on your bridal tour." The lady covered her face with her hands and sank back into her seat. She had already begun to sob hysteric ally. The scene had 1 ecome sn thrill-! ing as a tragedy to the spectat"rs in the car. S une had begun view the spectacle with scared faces. Others, and they were the worst part of them, appeared to enjoy the humiliat ng episode "I happened along this way by mere chance," continued the stranger. T am going west to Loadvillc I thought I would trT to do something for the children, inasmuch as you have left us. But I trust you will not let this accidental mee'ing disturb your enjoy ment." The woman was moaning in her abject misery. "I wish you all sorts of happiness, and will no longer intrude upon you. This, ladies and gentlemen," facing around to the spectators with a sweep ing wave of his hand, "is my runaway wife and her lover. Thoy are very nice people," and then turning away he stalked back, leaving the guilty couple alone in their humiliation and shame. At the next 6tation the elop ing pair left the train. Denver News. Rev. N. Lee, an old resident of Polk county, died on the evening of the 11th at his home in Dallas. OREGON. From the Oregonian. The new Monumental mill will be running in a short time. Hay in the vicinity of Pcrrydale is suffering greatly from late rains. The stumpage on some timber lands in the vicinity of Astoria averages 100 per acre. A terrible storm raged on Clatsop plains on last Friday. No very seri ous damage has been reported. Jack Spansel has bought the old Proebstel store building in Weston for $2-100 and will turn it into a breweiy. A new trail from John Day settle ment to Astoria passes through some splendid land. It is a route over which a wagon road can be readily made. Engineer Thielsen is now making examination of the route over the Blue Mountains by Ruckle road, with a view of ascertaining its practicability for the proposed railway line. Miss Lilly Jennings, on the 3d insr. running down the steep path that leads from her father's residence, in Oregon City, to the wharf, overreached her strength, and was forced to leap into the Williamette river. The timely aid j. .i i . p. ii m:r M.-ior s;ieu ncr lroiu a waiery grave. John Wetherby, while trying to "cut a caper" on horseback, at Centerville, in Eastern Oregon, was thrown. His horse kicked him in tho breast a few times and in the face, knocking out two teeth and spliting two of his dou ble ones, and cutting a fearful gash in his tongue. Salem Stifemau: Last Sunday a little son of Mr. Gosling, living near Sugir Pine mills, was viciwuy at tacked by a savage dog. The brute cut a deep gash in the child's face over the It ft eve. and knocking it down literal ly tore the boy's left ear from his head. The child though bully hurt will prob ably recover. About two weeks ago a Umatilla county prisoner tore down tho flue leading from his prison room and made off. Tho deputy Sheriff made after him and brought him back. The hole was stopped, but on the Gth insr. the same prisoner again opened it and again escaped. The deputy .sheriff again followed and cauirht him, and this time proposes that he shall stay. The teamer Anjnie Pas ton on her last, trip down Snake river, Saturday evening, duly (hh, caught undEr the wire, rope of Central Ferry, tearing off the smoke stack even with the deck, smashing in the pilot house to some extent, and doing some other damage. This is the second accident of the kind that has occurred on Snake river within tiie iasc month, and the pro prietor of the ferry will have to pay about 290 damages. Telegraphic. Prom the Oregonian. British Columbia. An earthquake shock shook up Vic torians at 3:15 this morning. The motion w.-is from east to west, the shock lasting ten seconds. No damajre was done. A oung fanner, named Robert Johns, had his arm completely severed from his body while using a reaping machine in a field near town. All the appurtenances intended for the construction of the Canadian over land telegraph line will be sold on the 26th inst. Advicos from pcints in the interior and in eastern portions of the state indi cate that the storm of last evening wis a verv severe one. The damage to crops will be very great At Degraff a number of houses vere blown dowli and the whole country covered with water. Crops Were leveled. The exports of the province for the quarter ending June 30th have reached 8445,155. Cincinnati, July 12. At a meeting of the common council last evening at the suggestion of the health officer, 1G,000 was appropriated for placing the city in the best possible sanitary condition and to fill in all outlying ponds liable to breed miasma and cause disease. Cairo, III., July 12. The fateamer City of Helena, from Yicksburg, was not allowed to land last night. Quar antine regulations will be enforced against all steamers and trains from Memphis in accordance with resolu tions adopted by the board of health. The crop propects in the neighbor ing State of Oregon are better than they have been for many years. The grain yield will be immense. Oregon has a promising future, and with the certainty of additional railroad enter prises being undertaken soon within her borders, it is reasonable to predict that her population will be doubled within the coming five years. Ava lanche. Although a printer maybe sitting all day, yet in his own way he is a great traveler, or at least his hand is, as we shall prove. A printer will si-t S000 ems a day, or about 24,000 let ters. The dit: nee fiavcled over by his hand will average one foot per let ter, and of course returning makes two feet for every letter he sets. This would make each day 48,000 feet, or a little more than nine miles; Mid in the course of a year, leaving out Sundays, that member travels about 8000 ml'e. This does not include the distance his hand travels iiu dis'ribu ting type. Abuit two weeks ago Mr. Owen, who has been carrying the mail be tween r"lo-euce and Gardner, was driv ing horses when the animal he was riding threw him on the pommel of the saddle. He complained at several times that his side pained him, but thinking it was nothing serious contin ued to carry the mail until Sunday, the 18 ultimo. When he came from Gardiner on that day he complained of being sick, and Mr. D. Morse, Sr., ad vised him to lie down, while Mr. Myer prepared some medicine, but before the medicine was ready Owen was attack ed with spams and died before a physi cian could be called. The Boss Crop. From the Inland Empire, July 12th. J f ever there was a doubt concerning the success of agriculture in the rich and picturesque valley of theColumbia river, the appeirancc of the grain fields about Walla Walla this summer is calculated to put an end to all conject ure. List Wednesday week wc drove out with a party of gentlemen in an ele gant rockaway behind a pair of spank ing bays, leaving the Queen City at 8:30 in the morning. It was nearly 5 in the afternoon ere we reached the cool colociades of poplars in which the city is nestled: and all that time we were among fields of waving grain. The uplands produce the finest grain, not only in weight but in the number of bushels to the acre. It was a sight never to be forgotten, the ears of wheat waiting the sickle of some rustic Ruth, and waving in the balmy breeze like ocean billows. In all that vast grain garden, through which it took us all of eight hours to drive, we saw not a single field whi h would cut less than 32 bushels to the acre, and from that to 50 bushels! This distances anything we have seen in a residence of 26 yeaas on the Prcific coast. The vicinity of Chico in California was always our pet locali ty for big wheat in past years, but there is as good land as the Chico belt for a hundred miles above Walla Walla. There is no flattery in call ing it the boss crop. List year, -with less than 70 per centum of an average crop, the boats brought down 21,820 tons of wheat and flour from Wallu la alone. This ye r there is an in crease of acreage sufficient to justify the belief that, with the augmented product of these fields, the export from Walla Walla will not fall short of 3S.0O0 tons. There is no good reason why Wasco county should fall far behind Walla Walla. Granting that our lands are less fertile, which is by no means clear ly proven, our closer proximity to mar ket should make grain farming here equally profitable. In our county, within twenty miles of the main ar tery of the Pacific slope the Columbia river can be had 70,000 acrs of land capable of ptoducing an average of thirty bushels to the acre. These are to be had either by preemtion, home stead or purchase from the Military Wagon Road Co. There are no Mex ican land grants to be revived by scheming speculators, that the tiller of the soil may be despoiled of the fruits of his labor. It cannot always be dull times ir this section. Five years hence every hill between here 'and Tygh valley will wear an emerald hue with the sprout ing wheat. Our grain will go to feed the famished poor of the Old World, and bid them save their earnings that they may come among us and partici pate in the many blessings which we now enjoy. Moue "Good Indians." On Mon day of this week a party of eighteen. Indians made their appearance at tho old Leonard bridge on John Day river, kept by James N. Clark, who was, as is well kuown to most of our readers, a hard lighter in last year's war. The redskins hate him for it, and would doubtless relish a sly shot at him. These eighteen rascals grew very saucy and abusive, but were finaly persuaded to go away. Six of them were Uma tillas and the rest of them were from the Warm Springs reservation. Now why, we ask, cannot better care be taken of these red scamps'? They have no business off their reservation and Capt. Smith knows it. Empire. Disappeared. Judge F. C. Sels, of Canyon City, arrived here last) night in search of G. C. Saur, who left The Dalles for this city on the 6th or 7th of May and has not been heard from since. Sauer was formerly a traveling agent for an eastern agricultural house, aud latterly has been taking orders for farming implements at Canyon City. Sauer left Canyon City early in April, and rode horseback to The Dalles, making collections on the way, and paid over his collections to parties at The Dallies. He has not absconded, as he had only $75 about him when he left. He has a wife and one child at Canyon City. They left on the last trip of the State of California for San Francisco. Sauer has always borne a good reputation, and Judge Sels fears that he has been fouly dealt with. Or egonian. The Mountaineer says: Sta tistics go to show the quantity of wool raised in Oregon has increased 750 per cent, in the last eight years, and as it is reasonable to suppose the -ame increase will follow in the next ten years, the production of wool will amount to nearly 59,000,000 pounds, or 29,500 tons. This amount of wool at only 15 cents per pound, would make the sum oi 8,850,000. Columbus, O., July 15. In the trotting race to-day Pow ers made a mile in 2:144.