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
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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. One
of the first duties of a croodcit
izen is to aid as far as he can
in supporting his county paper,
for that paper can do more to
promote the moral, intellectual
and material interests of his
county than any other, or all
other, agencies.
Show us a country which
j liberally supports a new.-paper,
and we will shovr you a coun
try whose people are intelli
gent, enterprising and prosper
ous A good newspaper flour
ishes only where the people of
the country are known abroad
for their intelligeNce and pros
perity in all their pursuits of
life. About the befct county
to move from is one thai does,
or supports indifferently, its
county newspaper. About the
best county to move into is
one which does support, and
supports liberally, its newspa
per. Louisville Courier Jour
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