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About Grant County news. (Canyon City, Or.) 1879-1908 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 17, 1887)
earn . v i Jk i.. av m w-im&mx . '-&M PUBLISHED THUB3PAY MOItNINO, BY D. I. A SB V BY Editor and Proprietor. COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER Subscription S3 00 Sis Mouths 1 50 Throe Months 75 ' '' OFFICIAL DI RECTO 11 Y: - , Go. Jiulge N. R. Maze jr. Woffc J. T. Mael JTnousuror E. Hall. Oonnirinrionars J fKijinon (I. II. Mentor Ffcrvoyor.. J. II, Neal S&otiiV A. C. Doro Amewr M. D. Cameron School Stijt II. F. Dodson Stock Inspofctor J. C. Luco Dint .1 mlge . . v L. B. Ison Dim. At'orney M. l. Clifford X G. W. BAUBEK Physician A Surgeon. C--y CUj- .... Oregon. Formnrly tf Iowa, lm-. located licrc. and will attend I'toUm-IuI calls day or nijfht. t. OHIee o)Kite Nkws OiJlee. L. KEARNEY Attorney at LnW. CbucroK City - - . Oituuo.v lA&A liWiiliiLi t.f Mil kimU promptly atteuilil . t. MMmtie a HtHntM'.ty. 11. ixn.i:v. I3ontist Cnnvon Citv - Oregon Office in City Hotel. G. I. JIAZELTINE. 3?iiotosraplio c CANYON CITY, OKEGO.V. A. E. Knight, From The Jul left, him permanently located at John Day City. ' ALL WOBK WARRANTED. Q A. SWEER, ' P ttoj ev-at-Law Caa? C - - Oregon. jyARRISH k COZAD. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Canyon City, Oregon. li. 11 IN E ARSON, M. D., Physiian and Surgeon PRAIRIE CITY - - Oreg n. .7. 71. NEAL. COUNTY SURVEYOR TiwJxr t -u't-ir anJ I're ciiiptitia filing!' ami fff:M-li 11 fir It-jvIC-t. lands and telool lalidn p fKUd P. O. VIJrf. J m I.y. tlwnt Co., Oregon. "1LAY TOD HUNTER. Colloctor of .Bills, Noles, and Acounls. Canyon City, Orec At! tn(NeF c:nited to )ii care wil receive pMWii(it attention, and nil money will paid a fnia cj!!--ct.il. Attoi-iisy-at-Law Notary Public. AND PllAlKIK C-ITV OllKOOK. Also Aonl for the sale of School Lnnds. 5-30tf W. A. Vji..!r. J. Nat. IIi'tiRox. IikevtcH-, Or. linrns. Or. . WiLSHIRE & HUDSON Attorneys at Lmr i.akkvii:w AN" I ItniNS. OKKC.OX. ; WW iv-U- in tl.r Cirrnit Court at Canton ' Oky. ftul Ix-fort the I". S. I.111J Ofiice at La'ke- . tlew. j Ay lfhi- in fir Lam! OtJire entrusted to ut wHi rccehe thr iMwt irmiit attention. j t& Isil c.!.- coiicitvd. ! J. QUIVER, ProprietDr of the JohnDay Milk Ranch Fresh milk delivered daily to my customers in John Day and Canyon cities. Cive me your or ders. J. Oliveii. P. 0 HOUSLEY, M. D. GlUDL'ATK OF THE TJXIVERSITY OF P n.vsvi.va.via, April 8, 1S48. Canyon City, Oregon. 0 lice in his Drugstore, Main Street bders for Drugs promptly filled. No professional patronago solicted n is diroctionsarostrictlyfollovred CAM NEW CANYON CITY ta is a FIRST CLASS Hotel, tho public that here they will receive onubl e rateB. T'bZ. X MBS. MARJORY HERBTJRGER, Proprietor Patronage respectfully solicited. City Brewery AND SALOON, Washington St., Canyon City, Ogn JOHN KUHL,Prop. Successor to F. C. Sell. All order for beer in fire or ten fUou ktfi will leccire prompt attention. l'p Ec Sc IlaycH &. IcCIain, Prop'rs. Drewsey, Oregon. A Full Stock of Fancy Wines. Liquors, Clear and liittcrw. Moan live tt hume, : at work fur us. I tliNuxrld. C-pitJ and moke mure n out than ut auvtiiu tl i n ipital not nri-drd; Jim are itarte.l tree. Both excr; all a'ts. Any on can do the work. Ijre earnings tturo fro,n the first start. Cniti you notniiu' to nenil us your addresp and llnd o'ut: if ou are wife Vu wil do to at once. II. llAt.Lr.Ti Co., l'ortlnnd. Main CANYON MONUMENT ; Stage Line. John Fis7l PrP'r. Carrj-ing Passengers an1 TJ. S, Mail via. Fox. Lonsr Creek and Hamilton. Stage hiaves Canyon City on Mon day and Thursday, at 8 a. m., and arrives Wednesday and Saturday. II A K EH aud CAM' ON CITY STAGE LINE, PARCEB Sl MoCUEN, Propr. Stauc Imrra Canyon City ereir morning except Sunda, arritinc kt HAir the neat day. Good Irani", jjood cnvcyanccs and faiit time. Kterjr attention ivrn to t'ae comfort of pa I iciigt-r. CHarcoa Reasonable. Prairie Cit LIVERY STABLE -AND- Feed Corral, PRAIRIE CITY OREOOU Proprietor. Jules IiO Bret, unit raw wunro ill - is this Dls-ass 'j 1 WW CITY, GRANT COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, HO TEL! 3P and the proprietor desires I' rin the beat of board and lodging at MA1UOHY HKLURG R !. H. WOOD Livery Stable, AND CORRAL, and FEED STABLE Uood buL'y tea' 11 and nice Saddle IluHe furuiihvd at all hour of the day or, tiiu'ht a reaouable price. Particular atteutioti paid to Loardinir and grooming trauicnt tock. ENTRANCK Main and Waihlugtoii itrcott. E. HALL, Coi TroAs1 Offloc. AT THE Old PostOffice Building. DEJLLLR IN Rogers Smith'g Plated Ware, V( ITCHES, JEWELRY, CUTLERY Optical Goods ani Stationery. SubBeriptioui r:elTcd at Publifher'i ratra for all the leading Paper and Ua'azluei published in the Unit .-d States. 9 JOEJi SOL INGE R, Canyon City, Grant Co Or. OENERAL I. Carriages, Wagons, Hacks, Bug gies and Buckboards repaired or built to order. Everything done in a workman like manner, and wurrnnted to give satisfaction. CITY HOTEL MAIN BTRKET Canton City, Oregon, N. RTJLISON Proprietor. Traveling men will find this a pleasant and desirable place at which to stop. Give uie u Call BIT SALOON!" CANYON CITY Oregon Chas. Sinith, prop'r. A Full Stoclc of the Puret of Wine and liquor. The Beit cigars In the Market. A itrictl; orderly house oonduited. 31 HosBShoem i A TOUGH- YARN. A Wild, Weird Tale About a Man, a Snake and a Fire-Proof Safe. t The Remarkably Thrilling Experience of an Unrivalled Snake Liar, as Toldjn a New York Paper? Xew York Sun. Twenty years ago I was man aging elerk in an English mcr chant' office. My work was heavy. Many nights I 6at at my books until the small hours of the morning. Once or twice I actually dozed olf into sleep, to he awakend by th the woman who cleaned the various rooms coming to her work. The house I was connected with had a branch establishment in India doing a large business, and many curious consignments of goods, quite outside of our usual articles of commerce, pass ed through our hands. Price less cloths and native fabrics, brass and gold ornaments set with precious stones, collections of stones, botanical specimens, birds, animals everything, in fact, until at times the contents ! of the cases, if opened and spread out, would have made a very average museum. One afternoon a largo box was delivered from one of the ships, labelled "To be kept in a moderately warm place." T was away from the warehouse at the time of it arrival, and placed it in the outer ofiice. On my return I casually noticed the case in passing, and saw that one end was slightly crushed, as if by some heavier case falling on it. 1 Jus was a mere acci dental observance. My private ollice was just four walls, hung with maps and charts. A writing bureau in the the centre of the lioor be hind the door: behind the bureau a large iron lire-proof safe some six feet high and four feet square, standing twelve or fourteen inches from the wall, and a case of books and three or four chairs completed the in ventory. I was going to work late, and in a short time 1 was alone in the large building. I worked steadily till mid night. I arose and paced about the room a few minutes. A sound, as of a chair being moved in the adjoining room, startled me. I stepped to the door and opened it. The light from a street lamp lit the room fairly well, and af ter a o-lance I conclude 1 it must have been a fancy, and returned to my desk, leaving the door open. A few minutes afterward :. faint, harsh sound came from the same direction, a curious, rubbing sound, undeniably mov ing toward the door leading to wher I was sitting. I rose to my feet, and as i did so the he and neck of a huge snake protruded through the doorway into the well-lit room. I stood transfixed with horror. When the reptile saw me it stopped for a second, its eyes ! grew more and more aflame uu o til they resembled two lurid balls of fire, its tongue darted in and out of it mouth, and the head raised higher and hitrher until nearly level with my own. I could hear itsbody coiling and recoiling in fury in the dark- ness beyond, and there I stood powerless, unarmed and appar- entry unable even to move. I looked once around in a de- spairing search for some outlet to escape, and, as I took my eyes from thotse of tl e horrible reptile, it lowjred its leal and 1 chirteu toward me. Another second it would have cnuo-ht me, when, seeing the open .safe, 1 rushed in and shut the door. A small petty cash book fell to the lloor, half in, and half out of the safe, holding the door open about half an inch. Uut for the book I wotild have speedily been suffocated. Not thinking of that. I stnoriml o ' 1 and tried to draw the hook in side, but the snake, moving simultaneously with myself, had dashed itself against the safe, and its brute fury, thinking the safe part ami parcel of mysoif, had thrown its coils around it, gthe doorsotiVhtly compressiiii that 1 fortunately could not re- : move the book, which was my sole means of ventilation. Half crazed with friyht I nulled and ' 1 j flwrrnl .1 If tfif!uf .i,.itl 'PI... The perspiration rolled down face, my heart beat almost to bursting, and even with the book holding the door ajar I t seemed to be at the point of suffocation, (iasning for breath, and utterly nerveless. I fell" ,t.,v ,1 1 ,k.i 4 r : lloor in a dead faint. ' How lonrr I remained so I cannot tell perhaps a few minutes, perhaps an hour. At hist my senses returned, and al though dreadfully cramped by the position yito which I had subsided in fhe narrow space, I felt 1 had not the power to rise, and lay gazing through the nar row opening at the two folds which encircled my refuge, feel ing a horrible fascination that 1 shall never forget. I even pass ed my linger out and touch ed one, feeling quivering move ment that told me the reptile had drawn its coils to theif ut most tens-ion, in the hope of crushing the shell that held the precious kernel of myself. Uy an effort I collected my ideas, and, remembering the box anil the crushed end, could readily account for the intruder I knew it was customary to feed them to satiety before ship ping, send them off. aud as a rule they arrived here still in in the state of stupor. This one might have had a long passage, and coming off the sleep wanted water, grew furious buivt the weak end of the case, and finding me attacked me by instiuet. I grew calmer and investigat cd my position thoroughly. I rose to my feet, and as I did so mv foot rested on something un even. 1 picked it up and found it to be one of those long in'; erasers, having a blade about four inches long, sharp as a razor, tempered like a Damas cus blade, the handle beiw about five inches long and flat in shape. It must have fallen out of the cash book, these knives frequently being shut in the books by the careless clerks. Taking the knife in my right hand I thrust it into the thinest fol(1 with all my strength. T,,e!'e WRS 51 n-ie, sickening, l. til 1 11 CUM UU UlVt II 1 1L1I- drawing the blade, I thrust it again and again into the folds, r r 1 until at the third or fourth stab I saw the folds relax an go sliding down fhe sides of the safe to the iioor, lying there squirming and writhing in con vulsions. 1 dare not move for nearly No. 34. 1 r , an hour, until all seemed quiet; then opening the door, I ! dashed across the room into tho outer olh'ce, banged the door, locked it, and, hatless, rushed j to the nearest police station, At iirst my story was d'sjred it- el. ar.diw.is almost locked up as being dmnk, bu t eventually four officers armed with revolv ers came with me. We found the reptile nearly but still tremulous when touch ed, the cuts with the keen knife. owing to the extreme tension of the coils, having nearly severed the body in half. It measured 3;J feet 5 inches from head i 5o tail. TWINS IN A BARBER SHOP. j A Tonsorial Artist Puzzled by a Sud den Growth of Whiskers. Stories of mistaken identity ate plentiful enough, but they also amusing, so that there 1 is sun excuses lor lening incm A g1""" hi Boston, .Mass., iono 'rn.ng recently, went to a barber and was shaved smooth- iigimy. iveiurumg j ! and tightly. Ketui i home, he found that during his absence his twin brother had ar- i rived from California, travel- 'stained and unshavc.i. The traveler was directed to the ",uu' " une barber-shop, and thither 1,0 went Seating himself in me Dig cnair nc waireti ior ine barber's services. That fune- t.onary, however, while regard- ing the visitor with surprise, made no sign of approaching him. For five minutes ; lie trav eler sat in silence., and then his patience being exhausted, he in quired with sonic" asperity:- 'What in the deuce aiv you waiting for? Can't a man get shawd in this shop?'' "What'a the joke?" respond ed the barker. s-lve just shaved von." "Much you did." retorted the -u.-tomer. "Look at my face." The barbea looked witii aston ishment at the big black beard of a week's growth, felt of it to assure himself that his eyes vere not deceiving him. and at ength burst out: "If you can raise a beard like that in twenty minutes you'd better go into the nnttress busi ness and get the hair oft your own chin. A Bright Postmistress. A South Florida town has a young lady postmistress. She complained to an inspector that stamps were bought from her and then letters mailed on the train, thus robbing her of the fee for cancellation. Long did she revolve various schemes to prevent this, and finally she can celled the stamps when sold, and as they were good nowhere e'sj the letters bearing them were dropped in at her ofiice. This is a new way to remedy an old evil. A young man entering o the hotel at Franklin, Pa., recently, ' was taken for the governor and l thatevenii''; the band serenaded ' him. lie was saluted as Gov.; IJeavcr, to his surprise., but he did not give himself away. Stepping out upon the balcony, he placed his hand upon his breast and made a bow. dignified "Geot ,'t,' he : aid, manner r:vd . n ;t:i an 1 l.er -it. has come over pa ) t lr'?;.t! yo.i e d v .tixi eridet.tly tries to a. 'uid you." "He 1 orrt.wed S10 of me a coiq.le of weeks ago," explained George. 1S87. is this Dtseas T .V Unnn Us ? Like a.tliief at nigbaiwealiv n imon ns imavai'es. Tiie DO- ienta have pains abaAfe'iev ', chest and sides, and sometimes" jfc,. in the back. They feeiAdull and sleepy; the mouth liiras liad taste, especially in "'Ihe morning. A sort of sticky slime collects about the teeth. The appetite is poor. Then is a feeling like a heavy load on the j stomach; sometimes a faint, all crnnn Kf7iaf!nn fih flip, nit of thft & "v v stomacli which food does not satisfy. The eyes arc sunken, the hands and feet become cold and clammy. After a vliile a cough sets in, at fu-st dry, but after a few months U isiitteml- ed with a greenish-colored ex pectoration. The patient feels tired all the while, and sleep does not seem to afford any rest. After a time he becomes nervous, irritable and gloomy, and has evil forebodings. There is a giddiness, a sort of whirl ing sensation in the head when rising up suddenly. The bow els become costVe; the skin is r drv and hot at times : the blood becomes thick and stagnant; the whites of the eves become tinged vith yellow; the urine is scanty and high colored, de positing a sediment after stand ing;. There is frequently a spitting up of the food, some times with a sour taste ami sometimes with a sweetish taste; this is frequently at- -tended with palpitation of the heart; the vision becomes im paired, with spots before the eyes; there is a feeling of ijrott prostration and weakness. Art of these symptoms are in titxn present. Jt is thought that nearly one-third of our Km lafcion has (his dLsonsu in soiiw of its varied forms. It has been iou:.d thai p3by s:ician have mi.- tak. n (lit; CJWi.Kt of this disea.-k;. Some have f reatet I i t for a liver cow&g k others for kidney disease, ekv, etc., but none oi these kimlf. treatment have been a-leiit";' with sti ves.; f.:r it is rau. . constipation and dyspepsia. is also buui.l t!!:i Shaker 1!. tract of ilwts, ;: Mother . " gel's Curative Bvnip, whi prope tuts itise.uv in alt in all its siajft Care must k: taken, howevei, to.seeure th r:vntiiie nrtiek. IT WILL 5KLL KKTTEIi TMAJT JIr. John ('. 1 1 em p. install, of CJhiilafirmee, C'leburn (Jul. Ala., writes: "My wife lis been so much benefited h Shaker Kx tract of Hofs c SeigeFs Svru l!:::t slio sftv- w I she would rat iter be witho;:1. part of her food liian withoa the medicine. It has duueh:r more good than the doctors auU all other metlieines put toselher. 1 Avould ride twenty miles U get it into the hands of any f.'rer if he can get it in no other way. I believe it will soon sell in this State better than" cut ton. TESTIMONY FKOM TEXAS. Irs. S. E. Barton, of Varwr. ttipley C'o., Mo., writes y--; iie had been long alHieted viX dyspepsia and disease of ih s urinary'organs and was em by Shaker Extract of Root.;. Kev. J. J. McGuire, merclnuit, of the same place, who sold irs. Barton the medicine, any: he has sold it for four yeiu and never knew it to fail. SHE WAS ALMOST DEAD I was so low with dyspep sia that there was not a pb sician to be found who co- do anything with me. I ha li:!ttering of the heart ir swimming of the head. Or.. day I read your pamphlet called "Life Amortfj the Shaker?' which described my -disease In-tter than I couhl myself. R tiied the Shaker Extract ci Loots and kept on with it mitt? to-day I rejoice in good health, Mrs. M. E. Tinsley, Bevkir,' Jluhlenburg Co., Ky. For sale by nli Lm jisU, c r address the proprietor, A. ). White, Limited, 5-1 "Warren St., New York. L 3 is-? -1 1 -44 1