i 1 V . Grant Connty Ms PUBLI8HKD TIIUR8DAT MOBNIHQ, DT . D. I. A SB V BY Editor and Proprietor. C 0 U N TYJD'FFI CtAL PAPE lt Subscription $3-00 Six Months 1.50 Three Months .75 li Grant Connty if ESTABLISHED IN 1879. jjj LODGE DIRECTORY. HOBAiJ LODGE, N. 22. I. 0. 0. F., meets every TUureday evening u their Lodg Room in 'JuoTon City. Visiting brothers arc inrited to attend. By order f the X. Q. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. Q A. SWEEK, tto ev-at-Law Caj C - Oregtm W. PARRnir, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Canyon City, Orkcox. J7J A. BRACKETT. Canton City, Oseook Q I. HAZELTINE. CAXYOl! CUT, REOOX. JJ Dustix, Attorney at Law, John Day City, Orugou. Yfm H. KELLY. JTotarr "CiaIollo, John Day City, Orc:n. CulUeiioni rotn)tly attcsdtd U. JLA.Y TOD HUNTER. Oollootor of Bills, Notes, and Acounts. Canyon City, Orec ' All bvtUctf cutrmtnd tt Mi eara H raaalya prompt attention, And a.11 an oat 7 will fca fit m fiat u calUctMl. A. E. Knight, DBNTIST. Trent Tim Dallci, bax permxumtly lctpd t John Day City. ALL WOBrWASHAKTlD. PHYSICIAN xaa SUROBOK XONO OKEEK, - - Oretf.B. Will promptly rfepud to profes sional cnllg to any portion of th county. 21T L. 9. Sttnu. O. C. Iirael. C. W. UictIII. STERNS, ISRAEL I MANVILL. Attorneys at Law, Baker City, Oregon, If r. Uriel wi'l he in aVUtxlance at rach ttrm af the Cunt County Circuit Curi. U atttaa" U kit cittun ctitmauJ 'oi'm fin. T.V. B.EMBREE.MD. HARNEY CITY, Or. rrfe?rinl Calli front any jJirt cf tka Caaaty will riiieirc rr-mipt atUnllra. Attorney-at-Law AXU Notary Public. Fk.ukip. City - - O.RKOOX. Also Agent for the sale of School IukIk. 5-30tf p B. RINEAIISON, M. D., Physiian and Surgeon PRAIRIE CITY Orcg n. J. OLLIYER. Proprietor of t!i i JohnDay Milk Ran or Fresh milk delivered d.tilv to my customers in John Day and Canyon' cities. Give me your or ders. ! J. Ouvru. F.jC HORSLEY.M. D. GllApUATL OK THE U.V1VK11SITT OF PKSsrLVA.fiA,April 8, 1S48. Can von Citv, Oregon. V) 0Hce in hisDrugStore, Main Street vlrders for Drugs promptly filled. r No professional Datronao aolicted lnlossjdircctioiiftare strictlyfulloved Prairie City liVery stable AND Feed Corral, PRAIBIZ CITY - - 0KCG9X Jules Le Bret, Proprietor. Jlrtt-dai Bntxr Teami and SaJdl Iloraei urnli kedat rauonable later, at any that of day r sight, and aatiifactlon f oarantwd. Tran Jest fttk will rIr tit Uit f U4 aaJ reetaLBf. VOLUME IX. OFFICIAL DIRECTORY: Co. Judge N. R. Maxcy. ! Clerk J. T. Mael j reusursr . juluh. t' V XJ-11 Commissioners T. A. JfcKitmon H. Meador Surveyor J. H. Neal Sheriff A. C. Dore Assessor M. D. Cameron School Supt U. F. Dodson Dist. Jndye L. B. Ison Dint. At'orruy M. I. Clifford MISCELLANEOUS. E. HALL, Co. Troao'. Offloo, AT THZ- Oid PostOffice Building. DK1LLXI IK Rogers Smith's Plated Ware, WITCHES, JEWELKY, CUTLERY f ?tiol Ooodi axd SUtioaery. SaVtcrlptium le.tirtJ at rublUker't ratei for all tkcMeaJia? l'itri mtd yaasiues publiilteJ jn tl Vaitril titaiai. CAXYON CITY TIN SHOP, Louis Evertsbusch PROPRIETOR. tot m, Titiwara, Hardware, GralVs Iroawart, Cuilerjr. KxrkJ 'ac Mir, all kimln of Jlr.ghi acJ Auttlil Wir. Slc.,:Sc. JOB WORK AH 3 REPAIRING S. 1. HK1LNKR, Forw'iiflci'CoiiiiiissiBi Baker City, Baker co. Or Will ulwayn wadcavor i obt.tin the highest market pricHtf oa YooI.s, etc., for partiea coasigning ta mn. storu, hold or forward tba same ac cording te their desire. MA UK ALL GOODS: BAKER CITY S. A. HEILjYEB,. CANYON k MONUMENT Stage Line. John Fish, Frop'r. Carrying Passengers anil U. S, Mail via. Fox, Long Creole and Hamilton. Stae leaves Canyon City on Mon day and Thursday, at 8 a. m., nnd arrives Wednesday and Saturday. TI1K- Harney Stage ien. I- Jewelti Proprietor. Till route leoj" from Caayoti City t Hurni. In lhirii-r , i-rry:iif U," t. Mil and trtllt, Farto Co 'a Kz;rer. Stjeltivi Canyon ilonJiy ud TliurmUy at U:3U a. in., a:iJ leaves tturua at 9:3U ou tUe :nc tlay. I'&xirticriaiiJ Frtifclit at rraianaU r.le .n -it ftxritnc in tb ).rrra'.on of taar 1 t.r Fdrtr run Tuotjni T "ll"1' pat"1 lh4 LtiU! Mtti iU rwlia eoaa. lr.. in itt itb.ri ml tha SeUatifia Aretrua .val.nu ! a aolleitora fr i.tni. t. tr.!-rarki.apy- "V" . ' !T.,.. Mt.l.. mmA ? la un. .ya..a cd th.r t c.HUt. ar ua l'DrVii:r ail t?-l.cxf . I r?aril aJ la4 ra.n.fa... : itrrf r ft:natlon uf W01U lh.:rc--it -tftiU'ionandwifcam-at inflntat at i,.-.,h..t of Mi kind fnWUhtd I tb world. Ta'a iant(a t-f auch a totiea atarr patal 1 r.l.nJM'r i'.:trua aawipapar It pubti.atd WKXCICI.V at U a year, and U aiinu.rf u b. lh -arr doUd to aeiaaat. isrkau. inliant. nciuri3C orta. a a 4 thr S?rm.-ia cf li.l4trit pratrtM. lia d in ar "orlry. It ejntalna tba namaa ! all talt a-.l tale cf r intantiaa patiaU4 ..fh wV. Tr H fonr moatba for aaa olles So'dbr tl r.2tUr. If hua n Ur.ntmn W fataat wriU tl Kuril Jc V. pnbli.hara f ScttaUA Attarlaao, HI BraadwtT. N York . Uaaidbaak about vtaata maild m. CANYON CITY, GRANT WHAT KILLS AMERICANS. Fatl.tvlsc Rerbleaa ITollnjr UatA DrlnU- iai roor SleaplMK Sorlavl Jcalonay t PslUIeeJ Aabtdou Violent 1'ouiviU -J- . Ttie ltaco for Jloucy. Tbe nl aiming disease ol tliic country is nervous debility and prostration. It goe3 under many names but it is essen tially the same complaint. Hospitals and private institu tions for nervous patients are crowded. The average of life in the United St:$e3 is cTe- creasing every year. Sudden deaths from nervous collapse among our business, profess ional and public men ore so frequent as scarcely to excite remark. The majority of sui cides, committed without ap parent reason, or under so-called "depression of spirits," are really prompted by nervous prostration, which is a fruitful source of insanity mid crime with all their grief and horror. These facts are startling. They threaten the very life of the nation. They assail the springs of its power and pros perity. They wreck manhood's strength and woman's useful ness and beau I y. jiveiy one should know the causes. "What are they? The answer is easy and lerriblv plain: Our vicious persona' habits ; our ca; clo.? and lawless eating and drinking; the in tense mental and physical strait, arising from our mad race after money, position r.ud influence; the fears and ctrupfglcs of pov erty; the use of narcotics and stimulants; cur fashion of turning day into night and night into day; and, briefly, our desperate willingness to pay any price for an hour's pleasure or success. So we buni life's candle 'at both cuds and Hil the lunatic asylums an 1 the graveyards. The disc.'tse from which wc siiiTer and die is, in plain Eng lish, Nervous Jiyajicjysia, as it is seated in t!io Kerves and in the organs of Diction, Assim ilation and Nutrition. Iiedthy digestion hemi;' impeded or des troyed, th. v. hole body, nerves included, is Utcrcdhj starved; even i hen there is no emaci ation to tell the sad story. Nervous prostration send. out its warnings: headache in the morning; a persistent dull heaviness or aching at the base of the brain ; wakefulness ; loss of apK lite and disgust with food; loso of mental energy and interest i:i ordinary dutiej and business; rc?tlesw&-3 ard anx iety without any :.3.c:ignablc r eason; eructations ; bad breath; foul mucous on the teeth; occasional Hddiness; palpitation of the heart; snl lowness of the skin; coated tongue and ciadual failure of strength and ambition. The :: 'ed . h a total aban donment of the habits and cus toms which cause the disease in each individual case, and the use of Shaker Extract of Foots (Seigel's Syrup) to cure the mischief already done. This great remedy, prepared by the Shaker Community of Mt. Leb anon, N. y., i. especially adapt ed to eradicate Nervous Dys pepsia. To do this it acts directly and gently but power fully upon the disordered stom ach, liver and kidneys, restor ing their tone and vigor, pro moting the secretion of bile, ex peHing waste matters from the system,and purifying the blood. Upon tl.o nervous system Shaker Extract (Seigel'sSyrup) acts as a safe and wholesome anodyne without the slightest narcotic effect, and then leaves the nerves to regain their nat ural tone and strength through its wonderful influence upon the function of nutrition. It is safe to say more nerv ous dyspeptics have been re stored by it from the depths of misery to a fresh enjoyment of life and labor than by any or all other forms of treatment combined. tit COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1887. A Dnck Hunter's Story. , ,. rill, "speaking of duck shoot - ing on St. Clair Flats," sigh. d and old citizen, as he look 1 a seat in a gun store yester day, "I don t think there are , , as many birds up there as there were ten or fifteen. years ago wtiy .-sir, the a! . t chanceta used to be ?ust black - with ;em, and they jwere so tame that Jou could knock 'em on the head." Everybody sighed to think those good old days and duck could never return, and the veteran hunter continued: 1 1 remember I was out one day in April. I got in among the bipeds, and how many do you suppose I count- ed?'' "Three hundred' ventured one of the audience after a long interval. 'Three hundred? Why, I always killed over a thous and ever'' time I went out! No, sir, I counted over six teen thousand, g"eat, big, fat? plump, delicious duck, and then I had only counted those on one side of the boat !" 'Ilow long did it take you?" " I don't know, sir, I had no watch with me. Time is nothing to a man counting ducks. I counted aloud, and when ducks were too small I two for one. By and by I got li'?.;d of couia'ing and got reach for the slaughter." "How many did you kill?" "Well, now. I suppose 1 could lie about it and say 1 killed nine or ten hundred, but I'm getting too near the grave f.r that. No I didn't kill a blasted one, and that's where the si range part of the story comes in. When 1 began to lift that gun up. those din ks knew what I was up to jus as well as a hu man beinu; and what did they do? Why, sir, about two hundred of 'est made a sudden dive, swam under the boat, and raised up on lie: port side at once and upset her! Yes, sir, they did, and there I was in the north Channel, in ten feet of water, boat upset, niht coming on. and I in my wet clothes."'' "Well?-' "Well, 1 climbed up on the bottom of the boat, float ed five miles, and was picked up by two Indians. We tow ed that upset boat to an island, and here ano;her curi ous thing comes in. Under the boat were two hundred and sixty-four large, plump ducks. They had been caught there when she upset, and all we had to do was to haul 'em out ai.d rap 'em on the head." Why, why didn't t1Cy ii dive down and get from un der the boat?' asked an am leur duck shooter, "Why didn't they, nr?r' why didn't they? Well, sir. 1 might have asked 'em why they didn't; but it was late, a cold wind had sprung up, and I didn't feel like talking! All 1 know is that I counted over sixteen thou aud ducks, was upset, cap tured two hundred and sixty four, aud have affidavits here in my wallet to prove e very- thing I have stated. Does I tiny man here want 1 . t n ' the do umeiit5 ? ; to see No man did. They ail i looked out of the windows 1,1 . . J he tint way when had pass- 1 T X 1 11 jar j mine cany clays ot uenver i t good deacon Smith used to preach at the meeting house when the congregation was loo poor to pay for a preach er, which was about nine months out of the twelve. On a certain Sunday some body rushed past the church door crying, "Fire," just as the deacon had reached tho point where he intended t j clinch his remarks. A dozen :r more of the congregation j and made for hedcor. "Do not leave the hou&e of God in this un?cenily man ner,' thu idered the deacon. "Rut," sold a mr.n at the door, "it is your hoiuc, dea con." "Then run, run, for God's sake run, 'cause 'tain'i injured." A man has been cremated in Buffalo who will fiijd it difficult to prove his exact affinity in the next world. He was born a Jew an 1 marri'.'d in that faith in Sr. Louis; then he went to Utah and became a Mormon and married two wive. His first wife got a divorce and pretty soon he got one from the other two and joined a Prot estant church in Omaha. This didn't suit him and he became s Spiritualist, and af ter this he became an actios tic and died. A laughable is.cidcnt oc curred at a meeting in sup poit of the women's jubilee ofletitiiT some time ano in Sisw ullage. A speaker, In answer to a question, ex plained with due importance that the monev was being collected to enable II er Mai est y to abdicate in favor of th-' Prince of Wales. The assembly th mght the idea a first -rate one and more than one speaker "hoped thai enough money would be ob tained." -. - When James Cordon P ci vet was in Pan the other day, a talkative nuisance at the club was boasting of his wonderful i-ho'jting experi ence. Seeing no other way I . i scape a tragic fate, Mr. Hennet awned and said: "1 myself, had a narrow escape the other day. 1 shot at a wild boar, and missing him, kilMed my dog. The boar at once turned and brought back the body of my dog, laving it at my feet. The t orv icller retired. A friend was condoling with a man who was very ill, md the sick man said: "Yes, I feel it very much to have ! tojve my poor wife and UIHIMI VUj A w I i 111 I II 14 It?! said the wife, "you just go mm with your dying; we w.ll gel on very well." Tl,.rlaUi.m.Snil.ad,uur.u,rid.Hll.al Ilocitcr'aStj.-iuca IJ.tU-rj l a nip.liolnal Ufrguinl a n..! t u iSiealthf.il i ..'.iwiicm, prevmU tna cffls i.fiti:ilcl min xplirr-. ; water, or cither comlitioiii m.f.ivonilib tu health. On hinfe'voyngci, or Journey in l.iti- tu.icsnaiac.-nttt.iet(,ii.itor. itidMirt-iBii7 useful a niircventlvoot the febrile comiilainu and ilisonlerd oT the fetoranch, liver atul bow ib, whlcli arc apt to attack natives pt tho tern icratc rone aolournliiK o r trflTcluijr " snch rcgioii3, ami it U an excellent lin.tertlon BirHiiist ilin Influpnrc of extreme cnlil. auiluen change! of temperature, exposure toilainpor extreme fatigue. It not only prevent Inter mittent ami remittent fever, anl other ills eases of a malnriiil type, but eradicate them, n fact whldi hai been notoriom fi.r yearj pail In North and South America, ilexlco. the WcatladicSi Atistralla, andoilicrcouuirlM No. 5 Proving the Soundness of an Eye. Iii a large factory in which were emploj'ed several hun dred persons, one of the workmen, in wedding his ! " : hammer, carelessly allowed . , , .. . , T. it to slip fioiu his ha-id. It i llow half w.ij acros the room, I .a ami .slruek a lellow-workman I i-j the left eye The man javernvd that his was blinded by the blow, although a.ire lul examination failed to re veal an injury, there being not a scratch visible. He brought a suit in the courts for compensation for loss of half his eyesight, and refused all offers cf compromise, Under plaintiff's loud pro test of his inability to see with his left eye, the ocu'ist proved him a perjurer, and atisfied the court and jury 10 the falsity of his claim. And how do you suppose he did it?" Why, simply by knowing that the colors red and green combined made liloj.l T T t r t-wi A a l,liirtl- I card on which a few words were written in green ink. Then the plaintiff was order ed to put on a pair of spec tacles with two diflcrercnt rla3ses, the one for the riirjit eye being red and the one for the left consiting of or dinary gla?s. Then the law. tlu owner of the factory was a responsible for an injury re- sultfjig from an accident of i thus kind; and al. hough he be lieve I the mui was sh im ming, an I tint the whole casj was ar. attempt to swin dling, he had about made up his mind th.it he w uld be compelled to pay the claim The day of the trial arrived and1 in open c mrt an eminent oculist retained by the de-fv.-ne examined the alleged member, nn.l gave his opin- ; Uufou lh kncJ ;uul gQ mi for ion that it was as g.-od as the j :uvhi!o Thc car;n,w. morc awl. right eye. Upon that the morc crou-i!cd, and a good-iook-card was haiid 'd to him, and"! jn.r vor.Hg woman, seeing no he was o.tdered to lead the ! vacant sear, stared rather imper writing on it. This he did j tincntly at Travers, as thoagh without hesitation, and the j expecting him to rise. II i eyes cheat was at once exposed, j twinkled in charaeleistie fhion The sound right eye. fitted with the red glass, was un able lo distineulsh 1 lie green writiuiron the black surface of 1 ho caid. while the left .n-i itlil,ti lirt nriif'.Jiirlitfl wn I , V , 11 lllt.ll lit-. 1,1 ..V...V. . r , . si-dilless, was the one with ! AVh(i:i l!ie fsimous h!,flwWl which the reading had to be f--dress ball was occupying tj0,)e i.'x : the attention of all Now orK ,.3 i there was much diseu.s"o 1 in The ring presented by the WaUstreet as to the appropri- pope to the new cardinals ate co?tume:. and so fortii. A consists of a large sapphire, bald-headed broker asked Trav moun'.cd in plain gold and ! 01.3 to give him an idea foia engraved on the metal sur-! c1:iralCe..a face of the inside with tuc j I w--w;ll, said Travers, in arms of Leo XII 1. Thc sap- , hu m(iit seJ.ioua wwfi phire is employed because it t V01U. vom. altt, .., u of fidelity and royalty actual value is about i2o. When Im1j- w aici, nve het Caatorla, JVliea aha waa Child thc crit.l for CaaUrk. Whn ske tattune l!Iis,huclur.ff toCartcria, ;ln5i'tAl,'Hlllru,ih-ae their Caatoria A. COIllllieiOl.il . 1 r'lV -lcrM UvishitMr t() take a I1SC Ollt of j , ltninn U.1IM ,)(,,lln;(,l i the SaillC COiniiai UUnt a-KC 1 . I l,.m ,f Jm JjaJ CVCr UCirU that ; . " n . 1 in Par.s as often as a priest , was banned a donkey was hanged at the same time. The victim of the joke replied in 'his blandest manner: "Weii then let us be thank ful we are not in Paris." j TRANSIENT A D VKRTISKM E NTS fiJOpn ' square for first, and 1 per aquaro for cue aiibiequtnt lii'cruon. Ri;nlnr sdrcrtuin rates made known on as illc:itin:i. No t Jliicits uitca nntil all ch.r;es are The Dead Eroker. Travers was a fjreat stutterer. When one of his Tello-v-brokcrs incurred his ill-will he managed to make the offender feel it. 'L-l-look there," he exclaimed one day in a state of w.-llfeteriud excitement, pointing directly at a man and speaking so the latter could hear him. "T-that isn't D-d-dash, is it?" 'Yes, it is,' was the answer from a friend. 'But why 0 you ask' a 'W-w-why?' came Lack the words with cold precision. 'D-d-doif t you see he has ff-eot his hands in his own p-pocketsT Driving in a light buggy one day he saw a well-known editor, who weighs a irreat above two j hundred pounds, on the side I walk, and drawing up, asked x'nn to aQnlu I don't know about that.? said the editor, eyeing the buggy suspiciously. '1 am afraid I am too big for that trap of yours.' Oh, get in,' said Travers, p-peraiips 1 you're n-11-iiot so j b-b-big a? you think you are.' ! The tditor iot in. Here is the reply which lie made to a Baltimore friend who met him on Broadway not !o:iv after his removal to that citv.: Tt was known to the Baltimoreair that Travers had 111 1 1j desper ate efforts to conquer the stam mering habit, and it was once rumored th.it he had succeeded.. As they conversed a moment,. his friend noticed that the habit, instead of being conquered was in reality asserting own 11ms"-- t-jry over his friend. " 'Why, Bill,' he said, not in the most delicate way, '3-011 stut ter worse now t!n:i yon did ia Baltimore.' 'II have to, answered Sr. Travers, laconical I v, 'b-b-hiiror city. Seated in a street car once, with his little so.i, Mr. Travers'5' edged gradually up as seat after seat was taken by incoming pas- .uni.rcrs- Fnnillr ho lifted tliil as lie turneu Jus iacc to n:s uoy and said, audibly: 'G-g-get up, my son. and idve the 1-1-lady your SSitt.' The boy got up, h 7 J, T . 1 J 0 lady didn't sit down 1 -t JO - A t.e.icher in a Suj-.day I school, wihihg to impress his class with the n- cesi-ii'y of faith, asked the class why did Moses lift up the serpent in the wilderness? None of the class knew except oue. He said Moses lifted it up bccatLC llC kn W it Wouldn't , , bite. U VaS IflC same UOy ""u c"iV' " gilJe t Cait . . t iiifhrt have .ueC'in-'e tn-y joldenouo:h to make a whole cow. It is reported that an Eng lish steamer has fonnderedvdff BouaHcio, Corsica, and thatfioO lives were lost. 1 s gag. lg ,i,.. ..v-Sj Yirm i