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About Grant County news. (Canyon City, Or.) 1879-1908 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 25, 1879)
01 -m Schauta TSxo KEG IS TEREB At the Post-Offlce nt CANYON CITY, OGN. AS A cr js News-paper. i VOL. 1. NO. 29. CANYON CITY, OREGON, SYTURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1879. S3. PEE YEAR. If 111 Hi- i J iiiiQni n nnn-frr TtfnTrrri ; Mill It In : V VhW i . V Mi lljLX l UUUlll X I I'l'UMSHED iSVEKY SATURDAY MORNTNG BY-L E):T"U a- :j PtULisiiEit. SUBS RLPUON: Par Year, : : :- $3 00 Six Months, : : : $1 75 INVAKJ i'.l,V IN ADVAICCK RATES OF ADVERTISING. Notices in local Column, 20 cents per line, each insertion. 'Transient advertisements, per square of 12 line?, $2 f0 for firt, and SI for each subsequent insertion in advance Lend advertisements charge 1 as transient, and must bo paid for upon expiration. No certifi. ate oF publica tion given tin' il the fc is paid. .Yearly a iv r'i-emet.ts on very liber tarms. Profession:. 1 Cards, ( one inch or-less ) SI 5 pr annum. Personal and IVditiol Conin'iMiea'ion ohnrg d as advernr,"iiief.ts. Til- b ve rates wi 1 b strictly a li ord ;o. ITtUFKSiONAL CAitP.- 0. AY. Pakrhii. ATTOKXKY AT LAW. Can von Cstv, Ohscun. M. L. OLMSTKAD. ATTORNEY AT LAW, CiXKVOX City, Omwos, CrKO. B. Ccrkby, Ca.vvox City. Okkoox. M. Pustjn. Attorney at Law, Gwyon City, Orrn. F. C. HORSLEY, M D. Q N AUUATK OK TifE 1 IVCKSITY OF PSSX ?vlvmiin, April o. 11-. ('inynn Cry. Or'jrwi. Oifiee in hi.-s l)ru Sioro, MVa Slircnt (tr ie's for Pnus promy itU. j$Q profusi jrttl'onjit McitJ uulns directions ao r riot'r followed j. vv. rrowAUP, Af. a. Canyon City. CJ:i.vnt CV., Orbkow. 0. K. DODSON. M. D., SF'x'ixix-io City, - Cs22- H. H. BOLSY, 33 3H T Z S T. ?-;. Canyon City. Okkrox. G. I. UAZELTINE, 2?liotosrxiplior, CANYON CITY. Jl.E1'0" GEO. SOLLIfffi, MILK-MAN. The best of lilk furnished to the citizens of Canyon City ev 2ry moiling, by the gallon or qMirt; at ra.i s:.v.ible r.i tes. JOHN SCHMIDT, Carpenter and Wagon Make. Canyon City, Oregon. Dealer in Hardwood, Spokes and Felloes, Furniture, JHAIRS, I AINTb, vjLAbo, uiu General News. In the annual session of the United St-Jtes Grand Lodge of Odd Fellow, held at Baltimore, a resolution was adopt d that membors deliiKpicnt as seiSinonts or dues, be retired from ac live to dormant member, and be de-b-tned from voting or otherwise acting with lodges and encampments. Alem lers Iierotofore drooped or suspended fur nonpayment of dues are restored as dormant members. A correspondent tells the Salem Town Talk that the "ll-.ttk'-Snulce Jafk" now in the penitentiary, was born at Pairview, Polk count v, Uivuon and that his jiht name is 1. 13. White. has bt-en half crazy since his birth, and duly inheei.'ed it. We always thought the blustering bragsart an idi- t and now we are sure of it in fact mo-t of the "hold, bad men" are more or less me tally unbalanced. In nine cases out of evey ten, Coughs, Colds and C.it-nh proceed from and onuina'o in the .Stomach and bowels. Pfundcr's .Blood Purihvr is a certain cure. Y How Jieket lex is an sssessment f SI. sS'i nt v myQS of e'low fever renrt- 1 at M- mtiis on tht M th: ten ch at its. T..- h on Friday underwent :il Uziu surgie-d operation btui-j not o;n fined to his bed. The P. fx S. Co. a jwr. steamer Go . K. b arr in idc 15 knots an hour her trial trip. Vfju. AIvuh! wis fleeted President f the Pnv k f Calilbrniain San Fran-ct-c) on tlie 1-Mh. The U les will be comjjcllpd to uucon ditio?il v surrender no other lenn.s will he likened t). A' Lilian njiine j.iudaitto was hniuod u Ne .7 Wo-tmin st r, R. ('., on the I Uh: f r t'e muf d- r of a Onina- TiM bo rd of hp. 1th report six ea-es of vol low fever at Forest City on the 14th. Kur of them have died within the pat ix day- An iuviUot of exnlwivs and hi- as siKtiiU nailed Klwii-d Wha!en, we:v hhiwu t-s ni'cs on the 1-kh while ex jMjrimtinu: down Bo.-toii hurbor. 3L T. Ward, the Oregin nilrotd eoiiT.tc'or, v.:. put nmh r l!00 bonds to p tho p-a:e. on complaint of the editor tli-i S.'attirt Int diigentvr. Cyiuhin Hodden, ab'rbi'uLs, who h:-..rjjt on the detth of Airs. .Mary D wo or Sin Fr ncisco, was found L'uil v of mur b r in the Svend d.'ur- e. The lof-oaiotivo A. A. Ofiiny with 15 cai"S was thrown from the track near Kewcaslle, W. T., on the Mth. The locomotive and cars were bad'y wrecked Iowa, of cour-e, has gone Kepubbcan, ad Ohi .-upp'iscd to have gone the same way by .-ever.d thousand majority. The Ivepnb'ie.ans claim the legislature. V.'hile John Lawrence, rigger, was a the lop of the flagtaffin front, of the iniiine ha ranks, at iMare Nland. fitting n-tt s'ays, the .-tali broke at the ground and fell. Lawrence was instar.tly killed. The Coins tock companies have paid the Sutro Tunnel Company S-4,31o on the iSeptember account, of which S?, 243 was from the Bonazi mines, for royabty on ore t'iken out, and 81-1,070 from the Savage company on account of lateral tunnel onstruction. The ladies' walking mateh closed in S.m Francisco on the 14th iu the pres ence of 0,000 spectators. The conclud ing scores are as follows: Sherman? 337; Sadie Donly. 321; Maynard, 308 and 3 lap; Alice Donh-y, 2SG and G laps; Grienleaf, 253 and 2 iaps; Tour-tiboit-, 212 a..d 7 laps; Wiley, 202 nod 7 Pj.s; Juntos, 177. 0;iy n 0,770 Frenchmen have sot- t!.d n A.m.rrca tor the past tlnrt-two oar. Jliui ,:ftilill umi)cr 109,002 were 1 Catholics. The Smallest or Cades Mrs. I Two hundred and fifty tons per day is George Fromm ol 43S West Fit'ty-. the fpiantity of ashes thrown into tSie fourth street is the happy mother i.f a j x0.w York rivers and harbor by steam fully developed boy baby born on Sun- j boats, tug, etc. day, and weighing eleven ounces and lKW,)dtnvQ of lhn London three epiarters. The head of the child, j Sch((j Jjig ye;ir is estiniateii at although smaller than a small .pple, S3.000.000, involving a rate of 5 per covered with an extraor.iinarv growth of light brown hair. The features are j regular, the eyes bright and clear, and the skin is fine and delicate. The arms are the thickness of an ordinary li'tle linger, and the fuieis are the S'zc of ex tra large pencil leads. The imv'ls. al though not much bigger than a good sized pin-head, are perfectly formed. An ordinary luncheon basket is an am pie er idle, foi the babe. His height at birth was T).1,- inches and breadth across! the shoulders 2 A. .Mrs. Fr.'inm is a pleasant-featured Go: man woman, f foer 7 inches in height, weighing 135 pound--. Geoige Fomm, the fa' her, wei;ih 175 pounds. He is an ex-car driver on the Third Avenue Hoad, and out of work. They have been m-.rrird eleven yeirs, and have had five oi her children, all of the ordinary height and weight. Phyi- cians and otl.eis who have examined the tiny babe, already nam'd Geoigie, s-y that hv is considi'rab'y sni d'er than, either of the midgets at the time of birth, and that if he lives he will take the pa'm as the stnalbst in the world. The child is to be babtised two weeks froiN next Sunday in the German Pro testant Church, at Firty-thiid Mri-ut and Ninth avouue, of which Mrs. F.omm is a number. The. father said: 4,I hope fhu minister won't let him. tali m the tint. He'd drown in a beer-mug you know." New Vork Sun. Five handled tenants ol the MiTjui- of Sligo and Karl of L'lean, near Wos por county of JMayo, s denmlv plodge themselves to pay no rent, until a re duet on should no gran'ed i ronortion ate to the yret fall of irices of all kinds of arrieultural prodtic. Notiee was ji sld at Warren Point, county Down, that any man eominir into the county to p:?y more than a pound an acre for land may bring his eeifin with him. As compared with 1877, there s an iucivase iu English piuperism of dx jut cut, and as compared with I S7S, of nine jicr c- nf. Tiie bankruptcies in the "wholesale trade" in Groat Brit'tan and Ireland O IT-') IftTT o 17Q ..,,,1 j The Sm Fr.imdsco Pulle'in believes that 10.000,000 would be required to make, good the bank losses in that city brought to litfht within the l ist four yais. It attributes them nearly all to incouijietent or dishonest banking. . LaM year the aggregate steel pro-. duction of the world was .somewhat over 2,n00,000 ton. Of this quantity the United States made 782,220 tons, Great Britain S07.527, Germany 240,000, Fauco 140.000, Ibdgium 75.000, Swe ded 20,000 and Austria 25,000 The Sandwich Island alphabet has 12 litters; the Burmese, 19; the Italian, 20; the Pengalese, 21; the Hebrew, Syriac, Chaldce and Samaritan, 22 each the French, 23; the Greek, 24; the Lit in, 25; the (Jerman, Dutch and English, 20 each: the Spanish, 27' the Arabac, 28; the Persian, 32; the Russian, 41; the Sanscrit, 50; the Ethiopia, 202. The value of the American cotton cropoflS7S was 82GO,000.000. William H. Vanderbilt employs twenty-seven thousand seven hundred and six men. Thus far this year 1,476 miles of rail road have been made in the United States, against 614 in 1875. The S-ate of Ohio stands fourth in man- ufa.tures, the value of the annual product neing valued at 8270,000,000. Portland letter-carriers now deliver on an average of 500 letters per day. . . i cent, on the pound sterling. The valuation of one hundred and liftv-e:ght cities and towns in Massa-chu-etts for 1879 is 8200,835,008, s compared with 300,432,307 last vcar. The annual rate of mortality in Eng land and Wales was 22.20 from 1S40 to 1850; 22.24 from 1850 to 18G0; 22. 51 from 1800 to 1870; 21.04from 1870 to 1S77. The deaths from violence by mur- j der, accident, e'c. are four times ureal- er in England than in Italy, although the latter has a larger population. Thi is due to the number killed in mines in England. In the first six months of the present venr 10.957 iminigrints entered ihe Argentine Itepublic. This was an in crease of 4,375 on the crn-spending , jlajr 0 .ist v;j!.. Most of the immi- grants engage in agriculture. Canada has already paid bounties to 2,412 survivors of tho war of 1812 from the grantor S50.000 made by the House of Commons in 1S77. Som'diow, to have fought iu that war seems to have bee:i a great aid to longevity on both tddes (f the line. In a shoot in . z scrape at Bo'se City, about some cat'le, between Henry Yaiiiihn and Pitt Smith, the hitter re co:vd a li.sli w.niucVin the the thigh. VauIm was dncharged as he shot in so If deion-e. I;e had an auburn-haired gilT and promise 1 to take her out riding. She met him at the door when he drove, up, and he exclaim, d: "Hello! ready?" She misunderstood him. and they don't .j)0ik now. Tlm-s s'ang makes anoth er slap at. love's young dream From the Idaho Democrat. The 'Sjiokan" i.- now the only boat navigating the Snake river. A. eitizni i.f The Dalhs, Or., has raised a tomato weighing three pounds Ten thouard shingles arc manufac tured daily at Sjokane Falls, W. T. The salarie- of light house keejcrs on Puget Sound have been reduce : from SI. 000 to 8300 J. Al. Sa telle is publishing a tour- colunm pijier in connection with his h fu ji6 j lc(Mjn, forit,na. A two-story brick 100 by 33 feet is going up in The Dalles where forme' ly stood the Walla Walla hotel. The Dalles Mountaineer says that a foot of snow fell on the mountains ten miles south of there hist week. The Bine Mountain University at La Grande, Or., opened on the Gth. Forcv-sevcn pupils are iu attend ance. .John Holmes, of La Grande, frac turcd his right arm in three places in jumping fr m a wagon last week. Thirty tons of a first class article of hop? are stored at The Dalles. They were raised in Yakima valley, W. T. Special trains, loaded with California harley for brewers in Illinois, Mi.-souri and Wisconsin, are now pas-sing over the Centrd Pacific. About 30,000 tons of rails will soon anivc at The Dalles for tho Northern Pacific R. E. and will be immediately forwarded to Snake river. Senator Slator, of Oregon, declines nblic receptions but receives hii friends in a quiet, social way at the hotel par lors like a sensible man. Fi ancis H. Conk has been elected Pre- s-1(ont Council and C. H. Stewart Speaker of the House, of the Legisla ture of Washington Territory. Subscribe now for the News. The Medicine Max. A colored man known as Uncle ncpiills w;sye ter day circuiting ar uind t'te City Hall with a ba-ket of pop e rn, warranted to cure dy-jiejjsia in it nust aggraved form." He had prct'v fair luck for a while, but ut length came across an offi cial, who nibbled at the com and re marked: "Uncle Squills, I had always suppos el you to be an honest man." 'So I is so I is". I'm afraid not. Here you are sell ing pop-corn under false pretences. You know j etf -ctiy well thst this corn won't cure dy-pepsia ' "Wcli, sab weir stammerd fcba old man, as he s-iat;'h-d hi bead. "Com--, n w, Un-di Sqndls, ownrig-it up that the .-tnlf -v -n't euro dsp ysia," urged the official. 'Well, sah.' rejiHet the old man, after a ureit mental struggle, "lam not dun certain 'bout thedishpepsy biz nes, bur, fo' the Lawd, I do believe that this co'n will turn de wuss case of coo sumjjshun wreng side out in less'n free das by de clock ! I'll sort o' weaken on dispepsy, sah, but I'll stick to con- sumpshun right frew de season, sale or oo sale !" Free Press. Our sorrows, like the passing keels of vessels upon the sea, leave a silver line of holy light behind thorn, "aftei wards." A Springfield, Mass., nun has named his four boys Ara, EraIra ami On, and thev ar; "all alive and michievious as if nothing had happened." It is a singular fact that a man who is second in command at home always Wants to rule the u hole of creation when he gets ou. side his yard gate Off eou China. Ytsterd-.y afterr noon the bark Alden Bcsse left in tow of the Dixie Thompson for At ria, and thence to Hong Kong, China. Tho vessel takes 341 Chinese passenges, and for several hours prior to her sailing a lively scene was pr Rented about her dock- One would have surmised that all Chinatown was there, amid a bed lam of muses the departing celestials were at l is' showed away and the Bes-e swung out in the stream. Many of the Chinamen go only for a short visit, ful ly intending to C'-me baik to the coun try that to them is a field of fortune. In addition to ihe living freight the bark also took the bones of a number of defunct mongolian to be fiuallv in t erred in the rca'uis of Confucius. Two more ves-el will leave this mouth with about 1,000 heathens fir China. Ex. Mr. H. Theil-on, Chief Engineer of the O- 11 &. N. i o , Lft Portland on the 16th, for 5sow York, t-i consult with Mr. II. Yilhud, the President of the company, nb mt railroad building in this country. The Oregon City Enterprise says: A married lady from Sandy saw a town foi the first time in her life when she attended the Grant jubilee in Portland The dwelling house of Chas. Weeks, in Polk county, was destroyed by fire a few evenings since. One hundred bushels of seed wheat was also lost. Total loss about 500. In a letter from L'eut. Farrow, dated Oct. 2nd, to his brother, E. W. Farrow hesas: "I am n v in the S'llmo. river Country with mv eomnn" -m ! Vancouver via Wa-a W i. ;.n the Un.atil'a Agem: . I h sve 57 lndan captives, 39 of which were c-jnuied in one h t, 4 in am th. r, 3 m a no her and 11 in another, together wi'h their horse-, equipments, ike. Am now about 100 miles from Warren's. Ex pect to reach that place in about five days. Have tD move slow on account of the prison rs; and the men and horses being very tired. Command all well. Have lost no men during the Campaign." Pendleton Independent; A Dublin newspaper says: A num hor of deaths ore unavoidably postpon ed. 1 X WlNDO-V-SASH.