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VOL. 1. NO. 49.
CANYON CITY, OREGON, SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1880.
TERMS: $3. PER YEAR.
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
C. W. Parrisii,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Canyon City, Oregon.
M. L." OLMSTEAD,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Canyon City, Oregon,
Geo. B. Cur key,
iLttornoy et,-t Xj"Gr,
Canyon City, Oregon.
M. Dustin,
Attorney at Law,
Canyon City, Oregon.
F. C. HORSLEY, M D.
Graduate of the university or i'enn
sylvania, April 8, 184S.
Canyon Ci'y, Oregon.
Office in his I)rug Store, !M"a:n
Street Orders for Drugs prom tly rilled.
No professional patronage solicited
unless directions aie strictly followed
J. W. HOWARD, M. D.,
Canyon City, Grant Co., Oregon.
0. M. D0DS0N, M. D.,
Frairio Ct-y, - Ogn.
N. H. BOIiEY,
IE 1ST T.X J3 1
T-DnntHl Rooms, Oppniite tbt ethodiit
Vluteh.
Canyon City, Oregon.
0. I. TIAZELTINE,
DPIxotogrnplior,
CANYON CITY. OREGON.
ECLKCTIC PHYSICIAN.
P-osdonco--John DoYf Grant Coun
ty Oregon.
T. C J I YD K,
ATTORNEY AND CUNSKLOlt AT LAW,
Baker City. Oregon.
Office corney of Court Avenue and
TJborty Street.
Frank IllcGalium's
Yaricty Store,
John Day City, - - - Oregon.
DRAI.Uk 1
CnOICE OHOCKItlKS,
T011ACCO,
ci r; a its,
STATIONERY,
Nl'TS AND
CONFECTIONERY,
ETC., ETC.
W uld rcfpoctfnlly solicit a share of
the patronage of the citizens of John
Day and sui rounding country.
MAIN STRBKT, JOHN PAY, OREGON.
PHIL METSCHAN & CO.
Announce that they have re
ceived a full and well assorted
Stock of
GENERAL
MERCHANDISE,
which they offer
CHEAP FOR
0-A.SH.
Having bought for Cash we
,i re prepared to sell our Goods
Cheaper than they "were ever
hefore sold in this Market.
Canyon City, Jan. 16. 1880.
Hotels.
N. Rulison, A. H, Grotii.
CITY HOTEL
Canyon City, Oregon,
RTJLISON & GRGTH, - - Proprietors
Beg leave to inform their friends
And the Public Generally
That they can be found at the
OLD STAND,
And are alwawe ready to famish good
Board and Lodging
AT MODERATE PRICES.
A fir nnd hnml.ar nrnnF Qf W
been nked in th hnncp fnr tlm nnnn,.,.
modal ion of guests.
GOLDEN EAGLE HOTEL,
Canyon City, Oreffcn.
mi i ? i.i i
j. ne unuersignwu rases pleasure in
announcing to his Patrons and the gen
oral nublic that after a trial of nearlv a
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vear. he feels confident oi success in
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llvMUl UUS1IIC8S.
I shall endeavor to gain the esteem
of my guests, and give them their mon-
ey's worth.
Terms of Board and Lodging, Invar-
lahly oash:
lioarp ana ioiiging,per single aay,l:OU.
" without lodging,per 5in:le daT, SI.
IJoard and lodi:in:. Per week. S7.
without 1'Migiriir, per week, o.
JOHN SKGERDAIIL, Proprietor.
Grange Hotel.
PKAIIUK CITY', OREGON,
J. EL Uardnian, Proprietor.
The accommodations at the above Hotel are
tjnod, and every care will he Ukon to moke
guostp feel at homo.
iSCoroforlab'o bedj, nnd as pood a table
ap the market affords furnished at reasonable
aates. "si
R ARMEY HOTEL.
Yort Harney,
OTPcron
W2.IVi-;i2t jL'roprlctor.
Hsivinir coniDletod mv Hotel
1 n, mnnroil Inmifprtmn thn
tr.ivliiifr nnblift with o.are and
r i m . i i 1-t
uuunui L. i nu uiuiu is aupnuu
with the best the market affords.
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nit: ueus urn iiuiiu 'tiiiu cictiii.
DALLES AND BAKER CITY
STAGE LINE,
Yaile & Co., Proprietors.
Departs from Can von Citv for
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Dalles and Baker City, Daily.
Arrives from the same points, Daily
It. C. Williamson, Sup't.
CANYON giTl" & McDERMIT
STAGE LINE,
FHANK.McBEAN, -
Proprietor
Departs from Canyon City
on Monday, Thursday, and Sat-
uraay oi eacn wreen:.
Arrives at Canyon City 011
Sunday, Wednesday and Fri-
day of each week.
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TOMATOES.
Put up expressly for Family
Use, in three pound cans.
Warranted, finer, better and
cheaper than the Imported To
matoes, By G-. W. Houston,
Canyon City, Oregon. For
sale by Phil, Metschan & Co.,
Gundlach & Bro and the Proprietor.'
MY MIDNIGHT PERIL.
The night of the 17th of October-
shall I ever forget its pitchy darkness
the roar of the Autumnal wind through
the lonely forest, and the incessan
downpour of the raiu 1
"lhis come0 of shorr. cuts, I mut-
teretl petulantly to myself, as I plodded
along, keeping close to the trunks o
the trees to avoid the ravine, through
which I could hear the roar of the tur
bulent stream forty or fifty feet below.
My blood ran cold as I thoight
what might be the possible consequences
of a misstep or move in the wrotig di-
w" " uy " 'U CODieiH-
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ed to keep in the right, road ? Hold
on ! Was that a light,
or are my
eyes playing mo false.
I stopped, holding on to the low, res.
inous boughs of a hemlock that grew
on the edge of the bank, for it actually
seomed that the wind would seize me
bodily and hurl me down the preeipi
tious decent. It was a light thank
providence it was a light, and no ig
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nis fatus to lead me on to destruction
aua death.
"Hallo-o-o V
ty voice rang through the wiods
like a clarion. I plunged on through
tangled vines, dense briars and rocky
banks, until, gradually nearing, I could
perceivo n figure wrapped in an oilcloth
cape or cloak, carrying a lantern. As
the dim light fell upon his face I almost
recoiled. Would not solitude in the
woods bo preferable to the companion
ship of this withered, wrinkled old man 1
But it was too late to recede now.
"What's wanting," ho snarled, with a
peculiar motion ot the lips that sceuu-d
to leave hia yellow teeth all hare
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'I atn lor in tins woods; can you di-
rue i uiv uu lv uwiiitm i
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station is twelve miles
from here."
''Twelve
milea ?" I sto':d aghast.
''Can ycu tell mo any shelter I could ob-
mm iui tut; inriji :
''Where are you going
''To J)re,lV duWI1 b' the m3l)le
SWtt,,lP-
"Is it a tavern"
"No."
'Would they take me for the night?
I could pay them well."
His eyes gleamed the yellow stumps
stood revealed once more.
"I guoss so; but fulks don't stop
there."
' Is it fur from here V
"Not very; about half a mile."
"Then make haste and let us reach it.
I am drenched to the skin."
We plodded on, my companion more
than keeping pace with me. Presently
we loft the edge of the ravine, entering
what roemedatracklesi wood, and keep
ing straight on until lights gleamed fit
fully through the wet fuliage.
It was a ruiLous old place, with the
window all drawn to one aide, as iftho
lofiiidation had settled, and the pillars
of a ruda porch nearly rotted away. A
woman angered my fellow traveler's
, nr . . . , , ln to
me wi,h smoothj ro,ubl8 wordg of wel.
ghe resetted tho poverty of their
accommodations, but 1 was quite wel-
come to them, such as they wore.
"Whore is Isaac ?" demanded my
guide.
"He has not come yet."
I sat down on a wooden bench boside
the fire, and ate a' few mouthfuls of
bread.
"I ohould like to retire aa soon as
possible," I said, for my weariness was
excessive.
"Certainly."
The vroman started up with alarcity.
"Where are you going to put him V
asked my guide.
"Up chamber."
"Put him in Isaac's room."
"No."
'It's the most comfortable."
L tell you no !
But here I interrupted the whispered
colloquy.
'I am not particular I don't care
whore you put me, only make haste."
So I was conducted up a steep ladder
that stood in the corner of the room,
into ao apartment, ceiled with sloping me. What a den of midnight murder
beams and ventilated by one small win- ers had I fallen iuto ! and howfearfully
dow, where a cot bedstead, crowded
close against the board partition, and
pine table, with two or three chairs,
formed the sole attempts of furniture,
The woman set the light an old lamp
on the table.
"Anything more I can get for you,
SIT:
'Nothing, thank you."
'I hope you will sleep well, air.
When shall I call you ?"
"At four o cloak in the morning, if
you please. 1 mint walk over to R
station in time for the soven o'clock ex-
Pres3'
1 11 bure to-ca.I you, sir.
She withdrew, leaving me alcne in
the gloomy little apartment. I sat
down and looked around with no very
agreeable sensation.
"I will sit down and writs to Alice,"
T 1.1 l.i. iiiL i ;n i i-
wuugui; -time win sooine my nerves
nnd quiet me, perhaps."
I descended the ladder; the fire still
glowed redly in the hearth beneath; my
companion and the two women sat be-
side it talking in a low tone, ;md a
third person sat at tho table eating; a
short, Ltout, villianoua looking man, in
a rud suirt and muddy trousers.
I asked for writing materials, and re-
turned to my r-om to write to
wife.
"My dariing Alice-
1 pained and laid down my pen as I
concluded th words, half smiling to
thiuk -what she would say, could she
now of my strange quarters. Not till
both sheets were covered did I lay aside
my pen and prepare for nlumber. Aa I
bided my paper I happened to glance
oward the couch.
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Was it the gleara of a human eye oh- beside her reading. It was late the
serving me through the board partition ciock had just struck one when all at
or was it my own fancy ? There was a once she seemed to faint away, growiDg
crack there out only blank darkness white and rigid aa a eorpse. I hasten
beyond, yet I could have sworn that ed to call assistance; but all efforts to re
somcthing had sparkled balefully at store animation were in vain. I was
me. just about sending for ho doctor when
I took out my watch it was one her aeuses returned as suddanly as they
o'clock. It was scarcely worth while had left ker, and she sat up in the bad,
for me to undress for three hours sleep pushicg back her hair aad looking
I would lie dowo in my cloth and wildly around her.
snatch what slumber I could. So, " 'Alice,' I exclaimed, "how you hare
placing my valise at the bead of my bad terrified us all. Aia you ill ?"
and barricading the latchlesa door with " 'Not ill,' she answorod, 'but I feel
two chairs, I extinguished the light and ao strange ? Gracie, 1 have been with
lay down. my husbiod i'
At firt I wm very wakeful, but ''Aud all our reasoning failed to con
gradually a poft drowsiness seemed to tince her of the impossibility of her as
steal over me like a misty mantle, until Sertion. She persis s to this moment
all of a sudden sonio startling eleetrif that she saw you and was witk you on
thrill coursed through my veins, and I the morning of tho 18th of October,
sat up exeited and trembling. Where and how ahe cannot tell, but we
Aluminous softness seemed to glow think ifc must have been a dream. She
through the room no light of the moon it better now, and I wish you could See
cr staas Was ever so penetrating and how fast she is improving."
by the little window I saw Alice, my This in my plain, unvarnished tale,
wife, dressed in floating garments of 1 3imply relate facts. Let pschologists
white, with her long golden hair knot- unravel the labyrinthical skein. 1 am
tod back with a blue ribbon. Appar-
ently she was coming to me with out
stretched hands, and eyes full of wild,
anxious tenderness
I sprang to my feet and rushed to
ward her, but as I reached the window
the fair apparition seemed to vanish
into the stormy darkness, and I was
left alono.
At that moment the sharp Feport of
a pistol sounded I could see the jagg
ed stream of fire above the pillow,
straight through the very spot where
ten minutes since my head had lain.
With an instant realization of my
danger I swung myself over the edge
of the window, jumpiog some eight or
ten feet into tangled bushes below, and
aa 1 crouched there recovering my
breath, I heai d the tramp of heavy
footsteps into my room.
"Is he dead V cried a voic up the
ladder the smooth, docaitful voice' of
the woman.
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"Of course h is," growled & voice
back: ' that hari?e would have killod
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ton meo. A light there, quick, and
tell Tom to be ready."
A oold agonized shudder ran through
narrow had been my escape 1
a With the speed that only mortal tor-
ror and deadly peril can givo, I rushed
through the woods, now illuminated by
a faiut glimmer of starlight. I know
not wlmt imnulse miidfid ihv footstani
I never shall know how raany times I
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stood to the brink of the deadly ravine,
but a mercitil Providence encompas3ed
me with a guiding and protecting oare
for when the morning dawned, with
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faillt reti UJira 0f orient light against the
normv eastern akv, I was close to the
high road, some seAen miles from R-
Qoce at the town I told my story to
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thn police, and a detachment was aeufc
with me to tho auot. After much
searching and many false alarms we
sncceeded in finding the ruinous old
,,hisq! l.nt it waa emDtv our birds
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had llown; Bor did 1 recover my valiser
and watch and chain, which latter I had
left under my pillow.
"It's Drew's gang," said the leader
0f the police, '-and they've tr uibled us
these two years. I don't think, though
they will coma back here just at prcs-
eot.
or did they.
fint the atrangest part of my story
ha yet to come. Some three weeks sub
sequently I received a letter from my
sister, who was with Alioe in her Eng-
homo a letter whose intelligence
filled me whh surnriso.
ui musfc 11 you something strange,,f
wro$Q my gter, "that happened on the
0f th9 igth of Octobsr. Alice
not been well for some time; in
fact, she had been confmtd to her bed
for nearlv & week, and I was sitting
. not superstitious, neither do I believe
in ghosts, wraiths or apparitions; but
this thing I do know that although
my wife was in England in body on the
morning of the 18th of October, her
spirit surely stood before me in New
York in the moment of deadly peril
that menanced me. It may be that to
the subtle instinct of a wife's holylovo
all things are possible, but Alice surely
saved my life.
If Vic. Woodhull runs for
President, Lize Pinkston will
enter the field against her, a
an Ohio man.
Several citizens of Albany
have invested in land in East
ern Oregon.
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