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CANYON CITY, OREGON, SATURDAY, MAY 1. 18S0.
TERMS: 3. PER YEAR.
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
C. W. Parrish.
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Canyon City, Oiuxjon.
M L. OLMSTEAD,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Canyon City, Oregon,
Geo. B. Cuuiiey,
Canyon City, Oregon.
M. Dustjn,
Attorney at Law,
Canyon City, Oregon.
F. C. 1I0RSLEY,M D.
Graduate of the university of penn
lylvanin, April 8, 184S.
Canyon City, Oregon.
Ofiice in his Drug Store, Main
Street Orders for Drugs promt ly filled.
No professional patronage silicitl
unless directions ate s'rictly followed
J. W. HOWARD, M. D.,
Canyon City, Chant Co., Oregon.
0. M. D0DS0N, 3SL D.,
2?rairio City, - Qs--N.
H. EOLEY,
CcaT'Dental rooms first donr south of
Dr Howard's Drug Store.
'Canyon City. Oregon.'
G. I. IIAZELT1NE,
CANYON CITY, OREGON.
TJW. JIT1. I3r?L"Cr3ED23ISr,
ECLECTIC PHYSICIAN.
csidenco--John Day, Crant Coun
ty Ore-son.
PHILHETSCHAN&Cfl.
Announce that, they have re
ceived a lull and well assorted
Stock of
GENERAL'
MERCHANDISE,
which they offer
sua
8C9
Having bought lor Cash we
T-e prepared to sell our Goods
( 'heaper than they were ever
l.efore sold in this Market.
Canyon City, Jan. 16. IS 80.
The cheapest placs to "buy
PA fi NTS, OILS,
TURPENTINE,
CLASS, PTTY,
VARNiSHES
And AT ALL PAPER
Is at Sam. Sired' s, orroosite
the M. E. Chnrch, Canyon :
City, Oregon. nl2tt j
HOWARD & COBB,
MEAT MARKET.
JOHN DAY CITY, OREGON-
We keep the best qualities of
TEAL, CORNED BEEF,
BEEF, MUTTON,
PORK HAM, BACON
LARD, SAUSAGE,
ETC., ETC.
Constantly on hand and for sale at the
LOWEST MARlvET RATES.
Jbhn Day Oct. 30th, 1879.
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Hotels.
N. PtULISON,
A. II. Grot ii.
CITY HOTEL
Canyon City, Oregon,
RULISOtf & GROTH, -r. Proprietors
Beg leave to inform their friend
And tlio Public Generally
That tbej can be found at tho
OLD STAND,
And are alw&ws ready to furnish good
Board and Lodging
AT MODERATE PRICES.
A fire and burglar proof safe has
been placed in the house fur tite accom
modation of Ernests.
(Hinge Hotel.
I'RAIRIE CITY, OREGON,
J. LL llardnian, Proprietor.
Tho notBaoilRtinnp at tho abnve Hotel ?rC
cm7, and cry c:ira will ba taken to uiike
eui''p '.to a home.
- .rmioTinWe bnd?, and as good a table
as the ti3irf;o!t affords furn-r.bed at reasonable
UfktiMEY HOTEL,
Fort Harney, Oregon.
W. JOIIXSOX, Proprietor.
Having completed my Hotel
I am prepared to entertain the
traveling public with care and
comfort. The table is supplied
with the best the market alibrds.
The beds are neat and clean.
DALLES AND BAKER CITY"
if--
- JU ti-U JT Bl 1 iio
Yaile & Co., Proprietors
Depait frnrn ('an on City- for Th -!)rs
and Link or Cite, Oailv.
Arrives from the samo points, Daily.
R. ('. Williamson. Sup'r.
CANYON CUT it J.EcDEIOI IT
STAGBUNE,
YRAEK lacEEAX, - - Tropristor
Dojiarhs from Canyon City
:n Monda', Thursday, and Sat
urday of each week.
Arrives nt Canyon City on
Sunday, Wedncsdiry and Fri
day of each week.
I 0LiilIE &
Proprietors of the
John Day mk Ranch
Will furnish Iho people of John Day
and Canyon Cities with milk hy the
gallon or quart.
..Wb sell the best of milk, -anil our
eharires are reasonable.
J H.f nr.OlSEY. (!!''. HOUSJtAN.
WOOLSEY & IIOUSMAjN,
CA2JY033" CITY, OREGON.
TffHE BAR is supplied with pure Winos nnj
LiquorB, Beer, Ale, Bitters and Cigars.
FINE BILLIARD TABLES
In tbo Soloin. -Give us a call.
Put up expressly for Family
Use, in three pound cans.
Warranted, liner, better and
cheaper than the Imported To
matoes, By G-. W. Houston,
Canyon City, Oregon. Eor
sale by Phil, Metschan & Co.,
Gundlach & Bro and the Proprietor.
9 O jJEtidio
The Newspaner Advertising Bureau.
To Ge-i. P. Rowell ct Co's Newspa
per Advertising Bureau, 10 Spruce
A.
Sl, Is ev York, the press and the pub
lie are indebted for most of the statis
tics of American Newspapers. When
this firm commenced business in 1865,
there was not accessible to the public,
anything which approximated a com
plete Newspaper List. It was the cus
tom of the advertising agencies to keep
their's secret, believing that they there
by made it necessary for advertisers to
consult them. In 1869, Messrs. Geo.
P. Rowel 1 & Co. issued tbe'fif- Amer
ican Newspaper Directory. In the
preface of that work occurro 1 this par
i agrapu:
"We have always believed, and la
bored in the belief, that, as Advertis
ing Agents, it was and should be in
our power to be of material service to
both advertiser and publisher, and we
know no better way to convince them
of the value of our services than by is
suing this book, thus enabling them to
com m unit-are withtut our aid; this we
do in the belief that we shall thereby
persuade them ct the utility of employ
ing and encouraging our Agency."
The result showed the position to be
well taken. "Within twelve months
their firm was in receipt of a patron
age larger than had ever before been
accorded to an Advertising Agency.
It is a fact, frequently commente l
upon, that there is no other business
iuteiestcf the country, tho stitistics of
which are so th.. -roughly set forth a-ui
made public, as that of making News
papers: and for this the American
Newspaper Directory has the t-ntiie
credi.
hi 1S7G, at the World's Fair at Phil
adciphia, Mtssrs. Geo. P. Jiowell it
Co. erecied a building in which were
received, iikd and exhibited, late cfp-i-s
of every American peirodical pub
licaiion, numbering a', that time eight
thousand o?.e hundred an 1 twciry
nine. Of this i-ntesprise, th..; London
Tlmks correspondent, in the open l tig
paragraph of his letter of July 10th of
that )cr, writes as follows:
''I nave Ircqm nrly hid occasion to
notict; the big way in which the Amer
icans do thing-, and I do not know
that ib Would be easy to. fiud an apter
illustration of it than that furnished
by the Ncw-papi-r Building in the Ex
hibition ground-'
Mo-sis. Geo. P. Roweli tt Co. point
with s tisfaction to the two years in
which they inclined tlu gmitdst ex
pense for extending to the public
broad sources of information concern
ing tho business in which they are en-g-iL'ed
(18!;!), 1875), as the two in
which, notwithstanding the extraordi
nary outlay, did actually produce for
them a net income in excess of any
other 3 ears of their business career.
One of the strongest holds which
this Advertising Bureau his upon the
newspapers is, obtained by their avstem
of making prompt payments for work
done. Newspaper men who have com
mended this feature, when visiting the
oftice in New York, have been invited
to the cashier's desk and shown a con
spicious notice posted there, which
reads:
ALL BILLS RECEIVED BEFORE TWELVE
o'clock MUST BE EXAMINED AND PAID
TO-DAY."
The Advertising Agent avers to his
pa iron, tho advertiser, that he will pro
cure f -rliim the lowest possible rates, j
IJis profit comes from a commission !
from the publisher. To take the ad-j
vcrtisement at a reduction from usual
rates, and pay the agent for securing
it, is not always pleasant for the news
paper men, but the reflection "we shall
surely get the money the day we send
the bill," has often decided him to ac
cept an offer far below the price he
ought to have received. From those
newspapers which have one price for
everybody, and require everybody to
pa)r that price, it is unnecessary to say
that Messrs Geo. P. Rowell fc Co. ob
tain no advantage! beyond the estab
lished commission; nor do they desire
anv'. What they wfnt and nnut I ave
for their patrons, is the lowest price,
and when thoj have that they are sat
isfied. They are quite well aware
that the best pipers are. as a general
rule, the cheapest.
"War Department, Washing- )
ton City, April 5th, 1880. J
Hon. J. II. Slater, I' kited States
Senate,
Sir: I am in receipt of your letter
dated tho 19th of February, last, pre
testing against tlu abandonment of
Fort Harney, Oregon, aud in reply
thereto, I have the honor lo invite )OU.
attention to the enclosed copy of report
of the Commanding Officer of the jYIil.
itary Division of the Pacific, dated the
20th ultimo, and accompanying papers
on the subject, fr m which it will be
s-en that General McDowell advises
that Foit Harney be abandoned an
that its garrison be sent to Boise or
elsewhere.
The General of the Army, whose
views on thissubp-et are concurred in,
submit General McDowell's leport
with the rcccornmendation that thnt
officer be allowed -it his discretion to
ibandon Camp Harney and use the
iroops elsewhere.
Very Respectfully,
Your obedient Servant,
ALX. RAMSEY,
Secretary of War.
Head Qr3. Mil. Div. of the Pa-
cific and Dept. of Calif -r via, (
Presidio of -San Franci-co. 'Cal., (
Mahch 20, 1SS0. )
To the Adju'rnt Genera!, LT. S. Ar
my, Washington, D. C:
Sir: I have the honor to state for
the information of the Generul of the
Arm' in refpect to the Honorable Jaa.
11. Slat r's protest against the abir.
donment of Fort Ilarnev, Otegon, re-
feivd to m . for lvporf; that the aban
donment of that Po3t has long b-en
urged upon me hy the commanding
General of tho Department of the Co
lumbia.
This desu-e I have I have refused t
consider so long as the Malheur Indi
an Re.-rrv;. thin uou which the Post is
situated, was maintained by the Into
ri-r Departmont fr an Agency for
Oits and Egan's Piute s, and the place
where the Piutes, of Winnemueca, and
Ochoho's Bands might be collected.
I invite your attention to in re
marks on this suhj ct made on an en
dorsement on an inspection report, for
warded December 31. 1879 and to the
report of M'j r E. C. Mason, 21st In
fan'ry, Acting Asst. Inspector General
of the Department of the Columbia.
Since these rep rfs were se-1 you
the Interior Dcp-tittncnt has decided to
permit the Indians of Winnemueca
and Ochohos Bands, now the only In
dians in all that country, numbering
some 550 men, women and children to
remain as now, to wo'k and be absrb
cd in the communities where they are,
in their own country, and more than
350 miles from the Maiheur Reserva
tion. Ochoho's people are near Port
iSeDermit
It is ttue the Ionian Department
has al?o authorized Leggins, Oits, and
Egan's band of Pintes 509 persons,
now prisoners at Ysikima, Washington
Territory, as well as the bands of "Win
nemueca and Ochoho, all Indians who
have heretofore been entitled to live
upon the Malheur Reservation to re
turn and make permanent houses there
receiving in severality 160 acres of
land, and in a recent communication
from the commanding officer of Fort
McDermitt, he reports 70 Piutes call
ed upon him asking for food to main
tain themselves till they can remove to
the Malheur Reservation uud r this
privilege.
From this it appeals that some of
Wiunetnucca's band have the intention
of accepting tho offer of the Interior
Department, and make homes upon
the Malheur Reservation, not" however,
a- a communistic tribe, but aided by;
the Goveanment as individual tillers o
the soil.
How many of Ochoho's and Oit3
people will accept the offer of the In
terior Department is not known.
But if all did go to the MalheUr,'
there would he less than a hundred
and fifty Indian families to iittle upon1
the Reservation, for Winoemucca's
band, the lurget of the three, has but
33 families.
2sTow 1 concur with the commanding
General of the Department of the Co-,
lumbia, that to tYiafntain a ga' rison of
three companies at Fort Harney, ex
clusively to allay the fear? of tl e whitoi
in that section concerning 150 families1
f agricultural, peaceful Piutes, scatter
ed over th Milheur Reservation, is
d ing too much for a commuo i; w " efi
24S white men can be found to sign a'
petetion seo accomp'ming papers to
have the Post rctiined.'
it is nor the whites who have any
thing to fear; it is rather the Indians,,
and they to dec'are. (See letter of
Commanding Officer of Fort. McDer
mitt) But the objection to keep t g dir
garrison at Fort Harney is that it is
for the ostensible protection of the
wlrtes by overawing the Indiana at and
near the Agency, and this it cannot do,
and never has dene. The Ar.s c i
50 miles from the post, and therefore,
ir any restraining effect upon the In
dians, a larger bedy of troops twice
that distance away would have as much
influence and bt m re effective if call-1
fd into action.
So far as a jiarrison can effect tho
minds of the Indians at the Agency,
or render aid to the settlers in case of
an outbreak, it might be just as welf
at Boise.
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And considifing the qiiest'on of
maintaining the troops for use in that
part of the country in its widest, and
in it? economical asptct; the troops
should be sent to Boisa. There all eup
plies are much cheaper, and with the
tvvn commands united, a much more:
effective force can be sent vrhen re
quiied, whether towards Fort Bidwell
or Fort llall.
A lirge garrison at Boie would dom"
idate twice the area of country th two
small garrisons at Boise and Harney
do now.
The few troops I have at my com-'
mnnd in Southern Idaho and Eastern
Oregou, five companies in all, cannot
only bo more cheaply supplied andr
maintained but will be more efficient if
all logo t her. 7than if divided into two
garrisons.
I have always desired this concen-'
tration for the good of the Military ser
vice and for the best protection of that
country, but so long as the Interior
Department kept up the Malheur Res-
ervation I have not felt at liberty to
urge it.
Now that 100 acres of land of the
Reservation is to be giveu to each head
of a Piute family, who will go there,
and the rest of the Reservation sold for
their benefit, to the public, I have no
hesitation in advising that Fort Harney
be abandoned and its garrison sent to"
Boise, or elsewhere.
Your decision in this matter I re
spectfully request, be sent me by tele .
gram, for the garrison is now out of
fuel, aud its supplies of suosistence,
will bo oui before the end of Juriei If
the Post U to be maintained it will re
quire a large expenditure of money to .
put it in repair, for originally built of
logs by troop?, it was poorly construct
ed, nd in anticipation of its abandon-'
ment, it has run down to as to be al
most uninhabitable.
Tery Respectfully
Your obedient Servant,
(Sgd.) IRWIN McDO WELL,
Major General,
Commanding D. W. and Depft
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