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About Grant County news. (Canyon City, Or.) 1879-1908 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 14, 1880)
VOL. 1. NO. 45. CANYON" CITY, OREGON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 34, 1880. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. 0. "W. Parrish. ATTORNEY AT LAW. Canyon City, Oregon-. M. L. OLMSTEAD, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Canyon City, 0 keg on, Geo. B. Currey, . Attorney atXiaw, Canyon City, Oregon. M. Dustin, Attorney at Law, Canyon City, Oregon. F. C. HORSLEY, M D. GRADUATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENN- sylvania, April 8, 1848. Canyon City, Oregon. Office in his Drug Store, Main Street. Orders for Drugs promtly filled. No professional patronage solicited unless directions ate s'rictly followed J. TV. HOWARD, M. D., Canyon City, Grant Co., Oregon. 0. M. D0DS0N, M. 3)., ZEPx.cv-o City, - 531. N. K. BOLEY, X 33 TO" TIST, Booms, QddosUq th athodizt Cburob. Canyon City, Oregon. C. I. TTAZELTINE, 3?iLotosraplior, CANYON CITY. OREdON. Ml O .23l 1ST "TT CD 1ST O jC "3? "3T The best of Milk furnished to he citizens of Canyon City ev- 2ry mciing, by the gallon or quart; at. reasonable rates Frank EcCaSIum's Variety Store, John Day City, - - - Oregon. DltXLHR 1H CHOICE GI10CEUIES, TOIJACCO, CICiAUS, STATIOKKKY, NUTS AND CONFECTIONERY, ETC., ETC. Wnuhl rosiiectfully solicit a share of the patronage of the citizens of John Day and am rounding country. MAIN STREET, JOHN DAY, - - - - OIlKGON. PHMETSCHAN & CO, Announce that they have re ceived a full and well assorted Stock of GENERAL MERCHANDISE, which they offer CHEAP F CASH. Havin" bought for Cash we f)CC preparuu lu our vauuus ( Reaper than they were ever , , ,. ... ,r , , Lsfore sold m this Market. GEO LU ifltsTO un Canyon City, Jan. 16. 1880. jprietor. Hotels. V N. Rulison, A. II. Grotu. CITY HOTEL Canyon City, Oregon. RULISON & GROTE, - - Proprietors Beg leavo to inform their friends And the Public Gor.oi ally1 That they can bo found at the OLD STAND, And are alwaws road; to furnish good Board and Lodging AT MODERATE PRICES. GOLDEN EAGLE HOTEL, Canyon City, Orogcn. The undersigned takes pleasure in announcing to bis Putrons and the gen eral public that after a trial of nearly u 1 .m. -m year, lie leois coulident on success m Hotel business. I shall endeavor to gain the esteem cf my guests, and give thorn their mon ey's worth. Terms of Board and Lodging, fiivar- lably Cash: Board and lodging,per single day.$l:50. " without lodgingjier simile day, $1 .Hoard and lodiing, por week, $7 " without lodging, per week, JOHN SKGERDAHL, Proprietor. Gani?o Hotel. 85. PRAIRIE CITY, OREGON, J. II. Uardman, Proprietor. Tho accommodations at the above Hotel are gnoil, and ecory cere will be taken to guests foel at hotno. nuko Comfortable hod,, ond .1 go.d . table ft j,, p0.r Fort niniev. now lo the usrlfct tffjrds furnished ut retsonablo . , " as Jatei. J 61 SW SJB n Fort Harney, S. OUVEIt. OregOll. Projrieior. Having completed my Hotel 1 am prepared to entertain the traveling public with care and comfort. The table is supplied r 1 U1L ULSL L1 1L nia uicr. aiioi ub. ijiu ueu siru nuiit iniu cieiiii. DALLES AND BAKER CITY" STAGE LINE, Yaile & Co., Proprietors, Departs from Canyon City fur TIn Dalles and Baker City, Daily. . . -i Arrives from the same points, Dailv. JL a Williamson, Sup't. CANYON CITY fc McDERMJT STAGELLVE, FRANK McBEAN, - - Proprietor Departs from Canyon City On Monday, Thursday, and Sat- urday of each week. Arrives at Canyon City 011 Sunda' Wednesday and I ri- day of each week. IY T tfs9ee nRel Put up expressly lbr Family Use, in three pound cans. Warranted, finer, better and cneaper man tlie imported iO- matoes,J By (x. W. Houston, Canyon City, Oregon, lor shuu uy a nil, iuecscnau lx, vu., Qundlach & Bro and the Pro- Jill I Ure A UCO AN OPEN LETTER FROM THE CIT IZENS OF GRANT COUNTY TO GOVERNOR THAYER ON THE INDIAN QUESTION. Canyon City, Grant Co., Ogn. ) Feb. 10, 18S0. j W. W. Thayer, Governor of Oregon: Sir, we, the undersigned citizons and residents of Gvant County, Oregon, most iespect fully .all your serious ooo.-ideration to our exposed condition, as & people. You are aware of our isolation, and the distance wo r ru located from any con siderable body of whito settlers that our only mean o2 transportation ij the freight wagon; that nil roads reaching this region travera barely passable mountains. That our usual lines of truksportaL'Oii is from The Dalles, on the Columbia, a dUttmca from hcra, of g.io hundred and eighty miles. Tbut our nearest rtilroad, tho Ceatral Pacif ic, at Wii.noinuoL, Nevada, is nearly three huudrod and fifty miles away. That tho nearest tolograph stations uro at Boide City and The Dalles, ona two hundred and tho other one hundred and eighty miles distant. That diffi cult mountain paaaos and inhospitable waste guard, ingress and egreca to or from our region. Thua uitutsd ro view with alarm and no ordinary folie- it .do, events now transpiring at Mili tmy Head Quart-rs at Washington, and ut tlis Depatttnent of the Interior events which deeply snddirecily iutor est us and tfompsl un ts citizens and men to take into consideration the ante- ( f our property, ourselves and our families. e n avn with uiaujav, it i i li 1 1 I . I. TT n aiivauy ueen uetermmea uy mc u. S. Military authorities to abandon, ws Cfitod on vna Jb.ei.uur Indian Keserva tion iu this county. This will leare ail the scattered ucUlovjenU of this coua tectiou from the vriley achemes r.ud murderous practice! of ru Indiau pop- nl;ifinfi nii.i-.i TMiTMPivtne Hi ,n iha whites. ith no ntLrt uf XL LT Arrav withiu two hun(Jred miU. ofu. Succor h-om of the 1 emote U. s (jarrif.as caa rch us only by the roat3 an(j j,a93i olr c)aractor lu$lm cate(l above. Vbas rendering it cer- tain that troop commanded by ener getic and wdliag b'adrs ;annot reach any port of our oxpssed border short of tea days bard travel, after intelli gence of trouble ehuil bare reached them. Ilovr lou it m.ny take to cota- municate "vritb the distant uiiiitary is uncertain, depending on many eoutin- genciee and chances isseperaol from jnu,ao e x.inmr ro planing the removal of all troops ana muiiinou ui war irom our region 01 en.,nfrv tho ner!artmCntc of ih Tvteru or exhibits reoaarkabls zeal and energy jn gmheriog upoa tod within ur bor ders a lare ovuaber of wild Truylike Indians. From late advices -sre leftrn .i i . j i j r i Jt w tn oorror ana ureau ioreuomnga, that the 5iute Indians, -who so late sa the summer of 1878 raided, -without provocation or peetensc of provoca- Tion on the part eftha whito oittien of our county, destroying and carrying off our property, burning our homes and murdering our citizen. These Indians go back, unpunished to the place vhero they formerly plot. ted war and oranitod their devastatin?; ' raid upon our unsuspecting citizens. They return upon termn dictated by themselves. Having gained by diplo-; macy, with the Department at "Wash- j ington, immunity from past crimes, j and concisions, yielding to them all j ther demanded. Victorious in all their plans of war in 1S78, so far ab the whites were opponents, and now again successful as diplomat's. They are now tola oy our govcrnmeuui omciaia to return over the region made deso- late by their arms and burinng brands to their old haunts there to again brew war and plot mauradings and murder. And returning they will be- hold the departing soldiery, und com placently calculate their incroased chituceB for another sucee.SMiUl raid. If in 1878 many houses vere buroed sooro3 of citizens killed, und more than two thousand horses killed or captured by them, now that the U. 3. Army has abdicated in favor of the Piute?, their future raids will be doubly profit- aide. It is well understood, by all convers ant with our Indiau pop. that the prin cipa.1 grievances of which, the Indians have complained cud tho prima oause of t!u wars ff 1877 and 1878 wore ihe r gulatious of the Indian Department requiring Indians to reualv on their Ke-ervaiioi!S closer than iu former years; and that ti ablo-bodiod male Indians should work'. J3y the tonus of the ?ettlemnt with tho PiuieSjb tb those objectionable turej of llesarvitiou lif-j to the Indi.tus vera abaudonod by tho Departniont. The Piute cn nyw stay on the ltoier vatinn, if Ue 8o d'-aires, i? net under the pretext of working for some uuagiusry whit person, with gun and b'trc bo oau roam at pleasure a ventle'aan of leisure of tho Kob Koy style, while tha United Stated provitioos his family. With his iuaate lore of v?ar, the in heritud hatred he bears the whites, bis foudoess for murading, and pasioa for stealiag konss; is thore any reason able piobubility th Piute will tang remiu au idle, hcrmbsj loafer cf die plains or au iooileus.ve loiterer in the mountains. Tt is au prmi bri;aMd and hereditery fa? that prop sen to ttlca petition upu our bordor. The triibdraral of ht Jforfc Humey gani soc leavs this brigar s and iHpeace r.bie foe in full ponasi-iou. of the coun ty, unices the citizens A (tit stud dispute his right te derpod, kill &ui plunder tt will. He is mora tit&M & brigand. for be is shore the lav, auti way iu (he fnture, k the attt defy our lavr and troat with contempt warrants frem our courts. We tried tr invoke our law against hiui iu 1878 with what suocpsa let the metuu.vs of oul of- Gocru declare ho IndisoH were arrested, though uaay "were ike usurdors they eoniruitted. Tun oup.stlo iBftde to the Piute ioercusos our suger i d si;iuetits our solicitude by rsssnn f tkfir affeats up on surrouadi&4 tribes by xnoouhagimu theia io emphasise TULir. dowands for fre3 license W lonf, by organising & raid upoa our people Without the raid ef 1873 does any Varm Spring, Klamrtth, Batiaock, Umatilla, Coluuibi rirer. Duck talley or Csyuie Indian, for a moment sup pose, the late teross, so fmlisfacUry lo the Piute ladians would hare beanpna. sible. Of she siz er seren tkouaa&d Indian wa7rierB now wirhia raiding dis tance of Eustera Oregoa, not one ef them is so stupid fts &ot to coat prcheod tkeAcr that no nrguraent suits so Indian's purpose so well, r is com parable, to tke fnct that he or his tribe is tite UEite ef a rid er massacre, therein tvttiemRta have beei dcrasta ied, people killed, and all sorts of fiend ieh barbarities perpetrated npom white settlers. If the Indian is only careful to kep bis temahawk ont of efficial braiss, his kloody werks are his bast arguments. With a koli full of citi- D and soldior'fl ocAlps the ashes f mined homes npo his feot, the diplo matic ropresentatirc of a tribe ofthieTs murderers eatera by request, and t tJ, nations expense, the council chambers in high placou tha National Capitol; and after much coaxing and official palarer, his grim and murder. ons highne condescends to prenounce his DI3IASDS, v.'htch ar quickly, if not gladly conoecdad by mighty potentates and honorable Secretaries. The lives of pioneers are thus the -pawns on the bloody board on which the "Indian problem" is now being played. With the Piutes swarming and mau rading to ou east and south the Warm TERMS: S3. PER YEAR. Springs rucruiting their ranks or in open revolt tho Uiuatillns on our north seudioo- their old men and worn en to niaa, and their young men to vaylty and murder our pa.iple, you can perceive tho settlers of Grant County will be girted with a oorJou of War like ?avutrts. Our communications will be cut of'. The outside world can know uotbiog of the coi.iTo!; within Owing to oui scattored settlements, tho process wilue a ooucentration of an overwhelming mass of Indians upon one weak sottloment after Jiuother. Tbis oniiibinatioh of Indians against us is not only possible but more probable from tho known temper of surrounding tribes. The question u.iw being scri- ously e o?idered by rery many of our mo-t thoughtful citixous is, "Shall we await the ot iisucoatiou of this combina Li ui for our ruiu, or shall we, acting in defence of our livgs and f.iuiiiie?, try to lessen the danger by meut:n!: it half way ' An I instead (f permitting the ludians the choosets of tho time and pines of oommoncirg hostilities make our own choice. Such a oour?o w frougbt with dinger; vrhich we fu!lj comprehend. Wo knr.w by iakiiiir the 'miliary stepa we will be denounced y pero:i who kaw nolhiui; of frouiiar life, its dan gers und responsibilities; but we have concludud that it is better to live and he deuoisn'-od by a distuut poopic thin to pioe lube o ourselves and families aud be aca'ped by ur red neighbors. Vt reirret ths nocossity which compote our people to arriva at such a resolu tion; but He is as dear to us, although we be pioneor-j. aa though we securely walked the paved streets of TTaahing--tou wruppad iu ollioial robe. We feel impeled by oivcuuistuoccs, which w& oannot coutro', to act for oui own pres ervatiou. Therefore wa frankly advise you of our situation aud straights to which wo are about to ba reduced, with some hopo that you, a the Governor of the State, mvy find soui way of roaehng tho" Ottis and tuueSiing the uuders'anding of those hiiTins: control over the mat ters about which wo have writ'en you, that if pnsaible we may Im released frou the utcsfiity ri piotecmig our telvei", our property and families. Yery Koa olfully, Yours, etc., OKO. B. CI' 11 HEY, Attouney. M. L. OLMSTED, Atty. D. G. OVJERHOLT, Merchant. JOHN MVLUHICK, " Vr. S. SOUTH WORTH, Co. Cleriw T. r. POLNDEXTER, :' Trias. JOXHJ. WASH, SHKRirr. R. LOCKWOOi). Dept. Sukrifit. S. II. SHEPHERD, Editor 27s ws. Your County Papkh. 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