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CANYON CITY, OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST? 9, 1879.
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
O. W. Parrisil
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Canyon City, Oregon.
M. L. OLMSTEAD,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Canyon City, Oregon,
Geo. B. Currey,
Attorney ast Xj,cer,
Canyon City, Oregon.
M. Dustin,
Attorney at Law,
Canyon City, Oregon.
F. O. IIORSLEY, M D.
Graduate of the university of penn
sylvania, April 8, 1878.
Canyon Ci'y, Oregon.
Office in his Drug Store, Ma;n
Street Orders for Drmis promtly tilled.
No professional patronage solicited
unless directions aie s'rictly followed
J. W. HOWARD, M. D.,
Canyon City, Grant Co., Oregon.
0. M. D0DS0N, &. D.,
Ex"lirlo City, -
N. H. BOLEY,
ZD JEHlSr 1 X S3T,
ajDoDtl Rooms, Oppoiite the Methodist
Church.
Canyon City, Oregon.
G. I. HAZELTINE,
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CANTON CITY, OREGON.
GEO. SOLLINGBR,
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MILK-MAN.
The best of Milk furnished to
She citizens of Canyon City ev
3ry moaning, by the gallon or
quart; at reasonable rates.
JOHN SCHMIDT,
Carpinter and Wagon Makek
O&nyon City, Oregon.
Dealer in Hardwood, Spokes
and Felloes, Furniture,
Dhairs, Faints, Glass, and
Window-sash.
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News
STATE NEWS.
From the Portland Standard-
The young wife and mother suffering
from weaknesses and irregularitit-s can
find nothing to equal Pfunder's Oregon
Blood Purifier.
Trout are abundant in the vicinity of
Sheridan.
A doctor and a druggist are needed
at Cornolius.
The Ashland glove factory wants a
a kind re 8 er.
Big crops in the neighborhood of
Oakland, Douglas county. m
Oats and barley are Toeing harvested
at Amity, Yamhill county.
Jackson county shipped over 300,
009 poundsjjof wool this season.
Ashlanders amupe themselves spear
ing salmon on Bear creek.
Water will probably be brought to
Roseburg from Brown's springs.
Prof. Hoffman, of Roseburg, is said
to "take the cake" as a cornet player.
The first peaches in Jacksonville
from the Applegate sold for six cents a
pouod.
Levi Smith's Burton wheat near For
est Grove will average 50 bushels to
the acre.
Large quantities of fanning machin
ery is being distributed through Yam
bill comity.
Cornelius is to have r church built
by contribution. Come brothers, help
along the good work.
John Benson and Charlie DeBoro
saved a little boy from drowning in the
Tualatin last Sunday.
The oat crop at Sheridan will be
double the s:ze of last year's. The
wheat crop is one-third larger.
The wheat prospcet is generally gocjd
in the vicinity of Amity, although the
blight has struck it in some places.
Mr. S. Stephens of Noti valley,
Lane county, was thrown from a wag
on the other day and had a legkbroken
by the full.
The dispatch thnt a white man bad
killed an Indian on Wild Horse creek,
Umatilla county, turn out to hs a
fakehnod.
AH year old. boy named Jone liv
ing 4 miles southwest of Salom was
drowned while bathing in the Willam-
ette on Friday.
9 wo respectable Roseburers fousjht
six rounds in a prise fight the other
day, and were separated after each had
received a good thumping.
Mr. Turner, Editor of the Jackson
ville Sentinel, has gono to San Francis
co to undergo an operation for the re
moval of a cataract from the eye,
which now makes him almost blind.
He will be gone about a month.
There have been four or five Snake
Indians on the Umatilla reservation
lately, who say they are after their
women captured last summer, but the
supposition is they are there for the
purpose of stealing horses.
Arthur Maguire, aged sixteen, was
thrown from a wagon in a runaway
near McMinvillo on Thursday, and
although caught in the reins between
the wheels, escaped with nothing more
serious than some painful cuts and
bruises.
The man who resurrects his soare
crow suit, gets his fishing tackle all
loady, buy hisgumboots, digs his bait
and fills his portable reservoir with
snake poison, about twice every week,
and then comes around to the party
and sayR, "Well, boy?, I can't go,"
is hereby nominated for the presidency
of the Cant-Get-Away Club we are
"hold over" treasurer.
New York, July 25. Mem
phis specials still encourage
the belief that the fever is not
likely to assume the malignant
epidemic lorm of last year.
General New.
The coopers of St. Louis are engaged
in a strike.
Six hundred Mormons arrived at Ne w
York from Europe July 9th.
August Landberg, a Swede, was
drowned near Omaha. July 15th.
Cyras Wolf, a barkeeper, died of
sunstroke at Memphis, Tenn., July 11.
The miners in some places in Penn
sylvania are striking for higher wages.
The crops throughout Nebraska look
encouraging, corn is particularly good.
Half of the town of Coulterville,
Maripoia county, California, was: burn
ed July 9th.
A fire in a colliery at Centralia, Pa.,
July 15th, did damage estimated at
250,000.
A cotton and woolen yarn mill at
Manayunk, near Philadelphia, burned
July 15 th.
A late dispatch from Union county,
Dakota, says the grasshoppers have the
wheat and barley.
Rev. Dr. S. S. Harris has been con
secrated Bishop of the Episcopal Dio
cese of Michigan.
John B. R. Spaulding, a telegraph
operator of Memphis, Tennessee, died
from sunptroke July 14th.
Agricultural implement manufactur
ers report larger sales and a brighter
outlook than for years before.
Afire in New Orleans, July 15th,
caused a loss of $30,000. A j
R. M. Chapman, aged 64, Treasurer
of the Biddeford savings bank, Biddo
ford, Maine, killed himself July 14th.
Monk's elevator, Lawrance, Kansas
burned July 15th. Loss, $15,000.
John Jacobs ioll from the fourth
atory of a hotel at Stillwater, Minn., on
the night of July 10th, and was -killed
Mis Josic Dunbar was burned to
death July 4, some boys having igni
ted her clothing with firecrackers.
A fire at Greencastle, Kentucky,
July 11th destroyed property estimated
at from S25,000 to 835,000. Origin,
incendiary.
As a hog market, Indianapolis rinks
next to Chicago, and her trade in cattle
and sheep,, hasalso reached fair propor
tions. Nebraska will yield 30 per centum
more produca this year than ever be
fore. The hog crop is 100 per centum
greater than last year.
Give the editor particular fits! Shoot
it at him hot ! He deserves it all,
because he sometimes fails to "expla
torate" on something that somebody
knows about, whether he knows any
thing about it or not; because he
does not champior everydody's prej
udices, nurse everybody's enthu
siasm, ride everybody's hubbies,
tickle everybody's fancy, "blow up"
everybody's enemies, &c etc., ad in
finitum. Ad editor is about the only
infallible being that inhabits the coun
try, hence, when he commitsany of the
above depredations he is guilty of will
ful affront, and deserves to be reproba
ted at onco. Please pass the brim
stone. Yamhill reporter.
Our Boom.
The East has many booms the
Grant boom, the Sherman, the Blaine,
the Conkling, and the groat TJnknowo.
But the great Northwest out-booma
them all in her great wheat crop. Our
boom is wheat, and we propose to keep
on boomitg in that line till the hungry
world is supplied. Statistics have
proven that Oregon and Washington
Territory raise more wheat in propor
tion to population, than any other quar
ter of the globe The future is indeed
bright and glorious. Our clouds now
possess a silver lining, and future de
velopments promise greater results.
The writer has but recently returned
from an extended trip through Eastern
Washington. In every section which
lie has visited, the yield of the present
harvest will be immense. Hundreds of
acres which, last year, were a howling
wilderness, have been sown, and the
increased acreage and the present fa
vorable season give promise of a pro"
digious yield. Our country is also
showing a greater tendency to agricul
tural pursuits, and we shall soon be
able to chronicle the results of agricult
ural development. Lands which have
hitherto been looked upon as worthless,
have been proven capable af raising the
finest crops. Our hillsides aud gentle
slopes will soon present: to the passer
by fields of waving grain. It is destiny,
and we accept the agreeable fiat that
Eastern Oregon and Washington are
destined to be the main feeders of the
world.
We are fortunate in another respect
also. A majority of the immigraiton
now seeking the promised land ot our
section are men of industrious and fru
gal habits. Men of muscle and intelli
gence just theclaBs needed to develop
our resources. They come with their
families and to stay. They possess the
energy necessary for the development
of a new country, and five, nay, two
years hence, will witness the glorious
advancementof our section to its desti
ny. The cynic may sneer at ourproph
ecv. bat the iuture will tell os its
truth. Inland Empiie.
Some very foolish people have an
idea that it is morally and legally
wrong for newspaper editors to exact
pay for their services. They look upon
the editorial fraternity in a very differ
ent light from that in which they re
gard the medical or legal. The latter,
they 8Qem t think, are men who have
right to compensation, and they expect
to pay them when they require their
professional aid. Newspaper men they
want to handle another way. Though
they continually give ventro contempt
ible, sneering hints about bribing and
purchasing editors, they have no idea
whatever of attempting to do anything
of the kind. If they want editorial
commendation and aid, (and who does
not?) they can only think of sponging
it.
Established Railroad- Route.
Mr. Campbell, one of the assistant en
gineer who has been surveying the
different proposed railroad routes be
tween Ogden and the Columbia river,
has returned to Portland. He informs
us, says the Standard, the routes Pur
veyed are practicable for the construc
tion of a railroad, and that the differ
ent engineers have so reported to head
quarters. Mr. Campbell is of the opio
ion th.it the directors of the railroad
company will soon establish the per
manent route, and that the construc
tion will begin without delay; ho is
also very mach pleased with the char
acter of the country to be traversed by
the proposed route, especially that in
Idaho.
The largest diamond in the world
has recently been discovered at Partea
li, India. Its weight is said to be four
hundred karats, which is thirty-three
karats larger than the Rajah of Mat
tan's celebrated diamond, and nearly
three hundred kurats larger than the
"Regent" atone, for which the Due
d'Orleaos paid 8650,000.
To Sacramento. Messrs. Dunn
and Cecil, of Harney, pased through
the valley this week, en route to Sac
ramento with their band of fine beef
cattle. State Line Herald.
"The 1880 Sweepstakes" published
in the Boise Democrat and credited to
the Wlla Walia Statesman was first
printed in the blooming Standard office.
The Mountaineer says: After giving
the question due consideration, we
have come to the conclusion that the
Dalles will be the terminus of the Ore
gon Pacific Railroad, if not permanent
ly, at least for a number of years.
Seveal persons have asked us why
we did not give the particulars of the"
La Grande scandal. The reason we
did not was because we knew nothing
but "hearsay;" hence we did not copy
the scandal no'e.
The following cards need ho expla--nation
from us.
3ENIAL ANiJ MfiT&AdTXON,
La Grande, July 27, 1879.
To the "Editor of the Oregonian:
I inclose yot wo cards which will
explain them-elves. Will ou please
publish thnni, accompined with my
own emphatic denial of the truth of the
statements' made. They are totally arid
absolutely false, and no responsible men
will be found to affirm their truth. Ifl
were to write at greater length I could
not say more. H. K.- HINES.
ACA&D.
Knowing that I, more than any one
else, and more than all others am re-
ft
sponsible for the circulation" of tho l ite
scandal in regard to Rev. EI. K. Hinetf
and a lady, who is my sister, I owe it
to the parties and to the public to state
that what I then said was through an
entire misunderstanding and was re
tracted by me in a few moments there
after. I am morally certain that there
Was not ihe slightest foundation for"
what I said. I desire all papers that
have published the scandal to publish
this, my emphatic retraction of it.
La Grande, July 25th, 1879.
JOHN BAKER.
A CARD.
Whereas, it has been widely report
ed through the newspapers of the State
and otherwise, that therd has been
criminal intimacy between my wife nd
Rev. H. K. Hines, I desire to publicly
contradict all such statements. I have
never said or believed any such thing,
and no such statement was ever made
on any authority whatever.
La Grande, July 26th, 1879,
A. C. HUNTINGTON.
In the 2:26 race atce at Cleveland
on the 30tb. Monarch Rule won; best
time, 2:22J, The 2:22 race was won
by Darby; beat time, 2:18. The pa
cing race was won by Lucy. Slaepy
Tom paced in the extraordinary time
of2:13.
Thirty immigrant wagons
passed through town last Thurs
day, some of whom will re
main in this part of the coun
try. If forty or fifty families
would form a colony and set
tle in Little Salmon valley,
they could soon have good
homes and a pleasant neighbor
hood. Idaho Democrat,
TERITOBIAk
The Keeler family in playing at
Boise City,
Miss Anuie Curtis was badly hurt in
a reoent runaway at Boise City,
The thermometer reached 100 in
the shade at Idaho City last week.
A company has b en formed in San
Francisco to operate the mines at Boie
county, L T.
A new town called Crystal has been
started 25 miles south of Challis in
Lemhi county, L T,
Twenty-seven wagons loaded with
immigrants passed the Boipe Democrat
nice in oue even ng la.t week.
The employes of the Seattle Cal
Company at Newcastle, with one or two
exceptions, have been paid up and dis
chraged. A quartz lead eight feet wide on the
surface which can be traced three miles
has been found eight milea from Boi.-e
City by Jacobs and llimrod. It is
called the Palmer lead.
Hay crop on white river is good.
Early potatoes on lower part of the
river are being destroyed by blight.
A cheese factory is about to be started
vl Maddock&ville. Three cases of diph
theria in the vailev.
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