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3 r ' 1 1 ' 1 1'- ' ' "m " " ------- "i , TfJ YoluniiG X. CAjYYOjY CITY, GRANT COUNTY. OmgON, THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1SS8. Nujnbci' 4- WW- 'V Granl Co. News. I'UULISHUD THUIISDAY MOUNIXO, X1Y D. I. A SB DRY Editor and Proprietor. COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER S inscription S:J 66 Six Months 1 50 ThroG Months lb TKAXSlE.VT ADVERTISEMENTS LSO mr i-quirc for flrt, and 41 per. iqiure-Ir uch4 Utjular advurtitin cs made known on nt No cutti.'ie-Uc iven until all charis a till All Heading Notices in Local 'Jolumn will be charged at the rate of 20 cents per lino for first, and 10 ets each subesquent inser tion. J3r Special rales to regular advertisers. WE AJtr. I'llEI'AKED TO EXECUTE FioeMPfiniif OF EVEKY DESCItM'TJON, CHEAPLY Posters, Dodgers, Billheads, Let terheads, Noteheads, State ments, Invitaitions, Tickets, Cards Etc, etc. PRINTED TO OitDEIt. OFFfCIAL DIRECTOR Y Co. Judge N. Ofarlr ..." Treasurer U. Maxcy. J. T. Slue! ..E. Hull. Commissioners (T. A. Mcls (T. JI. Mer McKinnon Meador fcarveyor Sheriff Ajwoiwor School Sq)t Stock Inspector. . .... J. H, Neal .... A. C.'Dore M. D. Cameron ..IF. F. Dodson . . J. C. Luce Dhvt. J llllgoS f L. B. Ison I G. W. Walker Dm. At'orney . ... iM. I. Clifford PRO FKSSI ONAL CAB DS. OlUi, M. D. Canyon City, Ogn. OJMsm en Jlaln Strct In ltetwi: (erwtrJv ou. M lr. liowsrJ. D It. G. W. KAKBEK ZZZ Physicisui Atiurcou. Cny City .... Orn. Frwrl.v of lwu. hf locatcl here, .ind will attend l'rifuti.-itnal calU day or tiitit. q II. IJOI.EY. TJoxntist Canyon City - Oregon Ofiice in Citv Hotel. Q I. IIAZELTINE. Fliotosraplio c CANYON CITY, OREGON. A. E. Knight, 3D3EISr,X,XST. From The Dalles, has permanently located at John Day City. ALL WOBK WARRANTED. Q A. SWEEK, tt ey-at-Law Cany C Oregon. pARRHll fc CoZAD. ATTORNEYS AT LAW Canyon City, Ouegon. p I). IUNEARSOxV, M. D., Physioian and Surgeon PRAIRIE CITY Oreg n. JLAY TOD HUNTER. Collootor of Bills, Notes, and Acounls. Canyon City, Orec All liH.ijp.? eii!rtel to liis care wil rrcolve lrtimil at tent in. ami ull inoiu-y will lo panl (h a- c j'li'ctjl. ST. W. IVTttolx.. Attornsy-at-Ijaw asp Notary Public. Phai i:ie City - - - Oeeoox. Also Agent for the sale of School Lands. 5-30tf Saddlery and (Next door to Front Street, Canyon City repairingT specialty. vcrholt 4 -DEALERS IN- GENERAL MERCHANDISE, CANYON CITY, Or. J4 PRAIRIE CITY, OR. J. If. BATES, Proprietor. The Ctiliunrv D r. . , ; , w uo, .niu ojimu iiu i.iuur iu u'i r ,, , THE F3 f In Connection ivith this Popular Hotel is at all times supplied with the Best Brands of Wines, Lienors and (.'ig us. SAMPLE KOOMH Folt W. A. U iiiiike. Lalevton-, Or. . Nat. IlrusuN " llurim. Or. WILSHIRE & HUDSON ' Attorneys at Law LAKE VIEW AND ItlKNS. OKEOoX. Will practice in the Cirrnit Court at Cainon City, anil before the U. S. UtiJ Ollicc at ljkc view. Any liusincx in the Ijinil OUicu cntrutoJ to will receive the incvst priitupt attiaion. tST" I.tml ctses toiioltatl. F. 0 1I0RSLEY,M. D. GltADUATEOF THE U.SIVEHSITY OK P WN.svLVA.f ia, April 8, 1S4-S. Canyon City, Oregon.' 0 lice in hisDrngStore, Main Street hder.s for Di ngs promptly filled. No professional patronage solieted ml iss direetionsare. strictly followed Propri t)f )f tli ; JohnDay Milk Ranch Fresh milk delivered daily to my customers in John Day and Canyon cities. Give me your or ders. J. Omvek. KAKK3 anil CAN VOX CITY STAGE LINE, MoCUEH &. GRIFFIW, Proprs. Stage Iave Canj'fui City every mornitij; except Sunday, arrhin-cat Il-iktr the next day. Guud tennis, kih1 conveyances and fnxt time. Evtry attention rIvcu to t'.ic comfort of pss renders. Chargos Reasonable. Caiiyon-Mitcliell STAGE LIXE! Jewett & Tracy - Proprietors. Stage leaves Canyou City with the U. S. Mail at 4 m. on Tucsdaj, Thursday and Saturday, and nr rivoa Alonday, Wednesday and Fridav. 9 emery AND SALOON, Washington St., Canyon City, Ogn JOHN KUHL.Prop. Bu-ccor to P. C. Soli. All orders for beer in five or ten gallon keg will icccire prompt atUiutiun. City Ms Harness Ware. Wood 's Stnble) Oregon MuMrick, ....p.. ... v,w,rigi ,lu i-umiueu iiunor to 'lie palates 01 Hie rtiulie f'oMMI'Kt'l A I. Til.VVELKKS. j Popular Seeds a Popular Prices 5 C'K.VTS per PACKAGE. (lard on, (Irrtss, Flower (nid Tree Seeds, Whole sale and Retail, ('dialogue Free on An- I pile a Hon. .Ld dress I GEO. STARRETT, Walla Walla, W. T. . HT Walnut Trees for or tie- K. HALL, Co. Troas'. AT THE- OCQoo. Old PostOffice Building. DEALI.lt IN Regcrs Smith's Plated Ware, W ATCH KS, ,! E W E L 11 Y , C U TL E !l Y Optical Goods ani Stationery. Stibrrrittions re-tiviil at rnhii-hcr1 riten for a'l the leaclin I'.iji.th and Ma-izinei ul)lishd in the I 'nit d States. BAKER CITV FULL ROLLER Flouring Mill. Littleton & Palmer Bros. Proprietors. Try our Flour aijd bt-eosae con vinced that it is First-class in ev ery jmrlicu'ir. Ordorn From a. I istauco Promptly Attnloi ti. CITY HOTEL MAIN STKEET Canyon City, Oiikdon, C ROT If iv TJIOJIPSOA Proprietors. Traveling men will find this a pleasant and desirable place at which to stop. Giie iih a Call "soPARKER'8 QIKOER TQM 10 without deU i l raru n-liciiial coitixunti ttiatcumt when all clcefaiJ . )n.i.IM.1thnwnKriMu..nP.....I. ,, I. . . . ndl?r1iim. Inward l'ain Exhaustion. InvoluabU fi tlM-miintUiii. Keinalo Weakness, and all pains and dl rdera of tho etoruacb and Uowcla, 60c. at DruKlU tui all iln. :ntircs romforl to f!h (ret! KerrSj ocurv. 14cvaUfttiruygtJU. UtiWX CO.. V. Y, 3A;XEn'3 YITAL RECEN ERATO J NERVc TOHI J removes all ctmseciuenccs UynnJ uzce; renenstu. -rr,courocaondTl fioutu. Cures weuknej of mind and body;Nern mbllitjr. Spinal ExhauHtion. 1cmt Manhood, etc owerful nerroui inlfrorator and rmtoratiTO. Tar' law fi u. JJAiER Hr.ll. CO- box IM. Uaffalo, Ii. r Stories of Those Who Met by Chance and Made Life Partnerships. Marriages are often the result of accident It seems strange, but the rhost prudent persons will sometimes conceive an irrc- sistible attachment, at the sug gestion oPftiWord or look. When once tinderthe spell of the verb ' to love" thfey go throug all the forms and finish the conjugation of the verb Before the altar. The few may givefcthe subject the con sideration 'si?aF many, there is fear, are guided by impulse. A skipper of a coast ing vessel called at the village inn and asked the landlady, a young widow: "Do you know where T can get a mate? I have lost my mate." "I am sorry for you. Mr. ," she said, "1 want a mate, too. and cannot get one. I'll do; if vou'll be mine, I'll be vours." He closed the bargain, and the wid ow keeping her word, he is now supplied with two mates. A voting man at a church I bazar was buttonholed hv a ladv; nhc would nnf lif lii tii ti unfit )u 5. . . i ougnr sometmng. He looked l O at her stall, which contained fan- cy work of various kinds. "Why," he said, "1 see nothing here that would be of the least use to me. a bachelor, exeent ; yourseu. i lie rest would ie dear to nie at any price." "T will be cheaj) enough," she sai.d coaxingly. ulf you could be dear enough, perhaps " "Oh, come; you are just the man want," taking him by the the arm. She sold him one article after another, keeping up an agreeable conversation the while, and before all was done he had purchased everything on the stall. Then at settling up there was something said about discount. "1 cannot return any money," she said blushingly, "but if you think me dear enough, there's mamma. She can give you my hand." The bargain was accord ingly concluded. An eminent doctor, who bad saved the life of a lady, a person al friend, was asked bis charge. He said he generally allowed bis patient friends to remunerate him as they thought befitting. 'Tut don't you often get dis appointed on these terms?" she inquired. "I may say, never." "As you are so easily pleased here," and she playfully gave him her empty hand, while in the other was concealed a check for a handsome sum. "How eas ily T could have taken you in," she added, producing the check. ''But you have only tuicceeded in drawing me out," he said, de clining to relinquish her band. "Don't insult me with a check. 1 am most generously rewarded." Perhaps she understood the doctor's dilliculty, and wished to help him out of it. At any rate the giving of her band led him to oiler his heart. This is how a gentleman got his wife when in a tobacconist's shop he asked the girl behind tiie counter who happened to have red hair, if she would oblige him with a match. "With pleasure, if you will have a red-headed one," she promptly replied, with suggestive, demure smilp that eventually the read-headed match was handed over. A lady with fine figure having taken a fancy to a valuable ring which she saw ticketed in a shop window, went in side to examine it. "Jt is ex ceedingly lovely. 1 wish it were mine," she said, on satisfying her self. "What smaller figure will tempt you?" "No other figure than the one before me," he said, giving her an admiring look at the same time. ''It is exceedingly lovely. I witih T" i " .. r ji mi i i .... i x nun i ii uuce it, she said, laying down the money amid blushes. Of course he accepted the money, but getting her ad - divss. he made such eood use of - j the hint that the next ring which Mje got was givrn by him m ('m,r'h- - i ..... Quito as singular was the be ginning of the courtship of a man who went into a shop for a pair of shoes.. "T want them wide, please," he said to the girl in attendance, "as I have a good broad under standing." She laughed at, his reference to the Lrcdth of his feet, and said: i. good thing, too, in a man, but not in a woman." "How do you make out that wlu.t is good in one sex is bad in the other?' "Ah. it is quite simple. Vou see nature intended man to be supported by a firm soul, but wo- an by a yielding husband.' Whether he m.-wli m violilliwr i , , i misuancl or not, report, at anv repor mat I ,...4. 1 .1 l l .-London j mi-, tMi tiuii in- iuaue ner ms Tid-Hits. A Lost Coffin. A horseback traveler in Geor gia upon meeting a man on a lonely road, was startled by this question: "Hay. mister hain't seed noth in of a coffin layin' around no whar, have you?" "A coffin!" the traveler ex claimed. "Yes, a plain sort of evervdav coMin. You see me an' Jim that's my cousin wuz sent up here about six miles to a wood work shop to git a coffin fur a ole fellow named (tiles, that died in our neighborhood vistidv, an' comin' back, me an' Jim got down from the wagon to git some water outen a spring. Well, sir, whut should we find lyin' right in the edge of that spring but a quart bottle of lieker. Jim says 'tap he' an' 1 says 'tap her,' Jim says 'try her' an' I says 'try her. Then Jim says, 'he'd be dinged ef he didn't.' and he did. Then I tried her, and Jim says, 'let's take her along,' an' we tuck her. We driv on an' ever onct in a while we'd tap her. till it 'peared that we wuz goin' altogether too slow for such nachully brash fellers, so we whupped up the bosses, an' in runniu over rocks, we beam the iig the coffin was dancin' an' we laugl c 1 powerful. After awhile the blamed bosses ran away, an' we beam the cof fin doin' the buck an we hollered awful. 'Pout that time I 'gun to los' my reckoleekshun an' the next thing that took hold on me wuz the fact that I wa'nt in the wagin at all but. wuz lyin' up agin a tree. I'd been there a right smart time I reckin. I got up an' sot out to look for Jim. I found him sittin' side uv the road, wondcrin' whut had become of the team, the coffin an' me. We knew 'twouldn't do to go back without that coffin, fur the ole man wuz a-ncedin' uv it. So ez we didn't know where we'd been drivin' Jim sot out one way, an' me the other to look for it. To you ain't seed nothin, of an ordinary coffin have you?" "No, I have not." "Jest a plain everyday coffin?" "No." "Cheap, made out o' pine an' intended to fit a man that'll weigh 17.." "I haven't seen anything of it." "Didn't know but you might: have seed it lyin' 'si(le the road. Must have jumped out when we wuz drivin' over the big rocks. If I rickolleck it had a knot hole in one side. I spoke to the fellow but he 'lowed, he did, that a man had to have a'r. I hate mightily to go home without it, fur them fellers at the tanyard will guy the -icoum tempt you with the , life out o' me, an' the dead man's I we will be mad 'nough to fling ...... c o j bilen' water on me. Whv, bless my soul, yandcr it is," pointing at something lying near the road, ! "I nllust did think I wuz the ; luckiest f..lW in tli..,-i.i m.. j ter, if vou will git down an' he'n I . j me with it upon my shoulder I'il keobleegcd to you. Wouldn't kcer you see, but the 1 oys might guy me. Arkansaw Traveler" Human Nature. Human nature is delicate in the strongest expressions, yet in all its various forms sensative, and clings with great tenacity to the garment of human kindness. Character, that positive standard nowledged the quickest buffalo which acts in conformity with ! skinner on the range; he could human nature, may present an j easily skin forty-live buffaloes in inanimate appearance, but down j one day, a well proportioned six deep within the silent recesses of , footer and the best horseman I the heart will brilliantly sparkle at least small rays of human sympathy. The higher natures sul ordinate will rewal and p-o-tray regardless of mechanical effects the great living principle love which animates and brings to light the inferior as wen as superior qualities, svm - ii . ... pathetic with each nature. The I evening in camp the subject of unselfish and unrcquiting hive ' breaking horses and wild ani that binds human I icings to each j main to ride came up, and Dick other, and instills within them a ! fiered to bet fifty dollaJs that confidetinl relation is easily de- j ! could ride a buffalo. Ilia based, ami selfish instincts trans- form such affection to nerve in difference and regard the pleas ure and welfare of others of little inifwirtance as the age progresses with its varied inllii''nces. instills with each mind a certain degree ofeb-vation or degrading ideas upon our natural instincts and desires which govern us in the selection or rejection of that which is a companion to our principal natures. Tims the character fa formed. Though with the culti vation of higher thou hts and noble companions the charact r may be changed, but without the basis of a true and noble nature the character formed will fluctu ate, and the jxnver of will may exert its highest wishes, ami yet fall short of transforming that which is implanted and fully constitutes the Icing inanimate. The associations of life in time will cast a shadow dimly or bril liantly upon all its companions. The human family, by nature, hasbten endowed with various ' liilluences. .Nature exerts on each other an excellent power, a strong or feeble force, yet during the sunlight or storms of life. without perceptibility, intiuencci ! are exchanged, stamped and im planted within each nature, and when least expected will appear and exert themselves as the true nature of that living. Conse quently, the conscience with a decision of right or wrong wil. come to the rescue of one whose true nature has not been contam inated by lower influences by be ings who, from childhood up. have driven aside the most ele vated thoughts to seek associates that are in complete sympathy with their lower natures. Nature in harmony with itself, will relieve the character of the being thrown in contact with. There is placed upon each a re sponsibility which should I e guard ed with the greatest care, for none are perfect, and to err is human. Let divinity control and the heart pure. The nature assertfi 1 a good influence and the cbarac- ( ter assumes a modest and admir- j able form. Then so live that the I past may always reflect pit always reflect pleasant ! hodows upon the present. CONSUMPTION SURELY CURED To tiie Editor Please inform viiiir renders tl.nb I have a nosi- tivo remedy for the above named disease. I5y its ttitely use thoit I sands of hopeless eases have I een permanently cured. 1 shall ne glad to send two battles of my emedy fuee to any of your readers who have consumption if they will send nie their express and post office address. Respectfully, T. A. SLOCUAr, M. C, U86mo 181 Pearl at, New York. RIDING A BUFFALO. In November, 1S82, North of the Yellowstone river, between Dry Fork and Red Water streams, the bufialoes were very plentiful, and the slaughter of them wa prosecuted with unrelenting vig or. That was the section where Vic Smith, Doc Yahl, "Missouri Tim," Jim Blake, George Brown and uiany .others followed the buffalo like an .ivenmnT "Unmade i I I nnd n,1 en,. i.. 1' f til this noble game was wiped - out. At that time a young man ! named Chas. W. Rock, better 1 known as Dick Rock, was ack- ever saw. He claimed that he could ride and "stick" anything that wore hair, unless it was u grizzly bear. It was seldom that he spoke of his powers unless bantered by some of his compan ions. At that time he was hunt ing on a tributary of Dry Fork, i. . . . ! close to Vie Smith's camp. One i monev was quickly covered and Sam Bicknell chosed referee and stakeholder. The conditions were tint he should ride a buffa lo half an hour, barring accidents, such as the buffalo falling down or running under limbs of trees that skirted the small streams. The next morning one of the boyB rede over to Smith's camp and acquainted him with the wager, and required his assistance in se curing the animal on which Kock was to ride. Vic acquiesced, and soon all hands rode out in search of the game. They approached within about two hundred yards of about a dozjn bufl'aloes, and all hands stopped, with the ex ception of Vie, who crawled on hands and knees within one hundred yards and, selecting a fine fat cow, took careful aim and accomplished what was intended that is, shot her through the muscles of the neck and knocked her down, a feat that is called "creasing.4 At the crack of the rifle Hock on his horse sped like the wind to the fallen cow, and quickly dismounting, sprang up on the brute's back, which nad already recovered consciousness. and away they went full tilt after the balance of the heard, which were about a quarter of a mile distant. His large spurs which he had sunk deep in the cow's sides, served to enable him in retaining his seat, while it served alo to irritate the brute; she bel lowed and bucked in a frightful manner while Rock applied the "quirt." They were soon among the heard of buffalo, and remark ably as it ma' appear the other bufialoes did not seem frightened at coming in contact with the, man, but on the contrary, en deavored to unseat him bv hook ing viciously at his legs. The i alance of the boys soon sepcr ated Iiock and his animal from the rest of the herd and ran them in a circle until the time was called, when a half-breed Bap- shot the luftalo, and Rock laid down on the ground for about twenty minutes to search for his ..i ,t t i . IU? " ' . T ' Pu.mPea j out of him by the terrible buck j ing and jolting that he had re ceived, llis legs were badly bruised from the horns of the hcrJ- IJut thereafter ha ability to ride was never questioned and the palm was accorded him as the "boss" buffalo rider. BillingH (M. T.) Gazette. The fishing season approaches, and tlic Ananias clubs are in creasing in membership. r I 1. V1