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fclr L P Fisher VolumiG X. CANYON CITY, GRANT COUNTY. OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 17,1888. Number 8. 1 1 THE COUNTY IP" r Qranl Co. News. I'UULISIIBD THURSDAY JIORNINO, BY D. I. A SB V BY Editor and Proprietor. COUNTY OFFICIAILPAPER Siibs'-iiption S3 66 Six Months 1 0 Threa .Months 7.1 TRANSIENT A D VERTISEME NTS S2.K) per Figure fur flrnt, and 1 per square fur uuli tMitciit liiMjrtlon ItiKUlsir advertuin e made knoivn on ap No ccrOftfttc -him until ail charges il All Reading Notices in Local 'Jolumn will bo charged at the rale of 20 cents per lino for first, and 1U cts each subesquent inser tion. 5?r Special raits to regular advertisers. WK A HI. lKi:i'.vi:Kl) to execute (Fine Job Printingg- OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, CIIEAPLV IPostors, Dodgers, Billheads, Let lorheads, Noteheads, State ments, Invitations, Tickets, Curds Etc, etc. 1'RINTEI) TO OltDEB. OFFICIAL DIRECTORY Go. JJutle N. R. Maxcy. $ai-k J. T. Mael 'Jaewgurer E. Hall. (Wnaaoners J J A-McKinnon ( J. J J. Meador Surveyor J. If. Neal Sheriff. A. C. Dure -AsRossor M. D. Cameron Suhool Swpt If. p. Dodson Stock Inspector J. C. Luce nicf i.i.i .c f Ti. I. Ison D..,t. Juds .( q w Walk(ir XVrsr. At'oittcy M. I. Clifford PRO FESSl ONA L CARDS. OKI?, M. D. Canyon City, Ogn. OfB- Main Street in ltKiiiri formerly ocu 4il b lr. 'toward. K. (i. V.' i:XBER 'Physician tfc Surgeon. C..wvhi rity .... Oregon. Vntmnif of Iowa. U.xrf latel here, and will hUh4 Prsteeluiwt eulW day or nlht. ' OtSIc jtps4te .N'kws Oillee. N. LT II. IWLEV. Dontiet Can von City - Oregon Oflice in City Hotel. I. HAZIiLTINE. ?liotosrap3io e CANYON CITY, OREGON. A. E. Knight, r-Yoin The Dalles, has permanently loctfd at .lohn Day City. ALL WOBK WARRANTED Q A. SWEER, P It'- ev-at-Law Can? C - Oregon. 'JA!IRH1I & CoZAD. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Canyon City, Oregon. P . RiNEAUSON, M. T., Physician and Surgeon PRAIRIE CITY - - Oreg n. (J LAY TODI1UNTER. Collector of Bills, Notes, and Acounls. Car.ycn City, Orec AM b'urfnvs ontriKtwl to lii care wil recrlvc prwnH ttnrw.n. nud all money will be paid ci fust as c !1- o". W. TAEo-clE., Attornsy-at-Law AND Kotary Public. Thai mi: City - - - Oregon. Also Again for the sale of School Lands. 5-30U Ward $f Jfolinson. Saddlery nnd Harness-Ware. (Next door to Wood's Stable) Front Street, Canyon Cily REPAIRING Overholt 'Sf -DEALERS IX- GENERAL MERCHANDISE, GJJVTOX CITY, Or. '5 o PRAIRIE CITY, OR. J. W. 'BATES, Proprietor. The Cnlinnry D.-partment is in charge of Competent and Exj e Coks, who spare no labor to do honor to '.he palates ofthe In Connection with t Lis 1'optilar Hotel is at all times supplied with the Best Brauds of Wines, Liquors and Cig.;rs. SAMPLE BOOMS' FOB COMMI lU'l AI. TBA VKI.KBS. Sf .Z g S. DENNING. Alioruey-at-JRTT. Long Cheek - - Oregon J. McCULLOL'OH Xotary Public. Can-yon City - - Oregon EgrOfHce with ai. D. Cliff rd "6a I.nd filiiiL-s and ColliTtions prom lit lv sttf n- d?d lo. l)ccN aiul Moiti;ue drawn, and i'lttt;ti reatioiiable. W. A. WtLfilUKE. Lakeview, Or. Nat. Hi iisox. Burn", Or. WILSHIRE & HUDSON "Aftorney.s at Law LAKE VIEW AND BURNS, OREGON. Will practice in the Circuit C'.wirt t Cannon City, and before tlie 1. S. Lain! Ollke at tjike vic'w. Any lHisinoH in tlie Land OHir-e entnisto l to u will receive tlie iimmI romp', attention. IjBT" Ijtid cases coiicited. F. C IIORSL-EV.M. D. Graduate ok the University ok Pennsylvania, April 8, 1843. Canyon City, Oregon. O.lice in hisDrugStore, Main Street )rders for Drugs promptly filled. No professional patronage solicted ml iss directionsarestrictlyfollowed J. OLLIVER, Pi-oprtofcor of th i JohnDay Rflilk Ran 2 Fresh milk di-livcred daily to my customei-s in John Day and Canyon cities. Give mo your or ders. Oliver. Canyon-Mitchell STAGE LIXE! Jewclt& Tracy - Proprietors. Stage leaves Canyon City with the U. S. Mail at -1 a. m. on Tuesday, Thursday aud Saturday, and ar rivos Monday, Wednesday and Fridav. Wotioo Lumber for Sale, -AT TUB BEAR CREEK MILL Rough Lumber can be had at the abovemill during 1SS8 at 12.00 per M. for CaSh. Parties wishing to buy on credit can purchase at S14.00 per M. by giving approved notes therefor. H. D. WILLIAMS, Proprietor. Oregon A SPECIALTY, Muldrick, noticed Public K. HALL, Offlco. -AT TUE- Old PostOffice Building. DEAIAB IN Rogers Smith's Plated Wftre, WATCH KS, JEWELRY, CUTLERY Optical Good3 and Stationery. Sitln-oriptions re -t-irf! at 1'iibiHier'a rales for a-I tlia it-adin-; I'.ipers and Masr.ineJ pr.liluhrrl in tlic l"nit - d St.ntc.i. BARER CITi FULL ROLLER Flouring Mill. Litlleion & Palmer Bros. Proprietors. Try our Flour and bt-eoiur c in voiced tlmtit is First-class in ev ery purlieu u-. OrderB From a I istnnco Promptly CITY HOTEL MAIN STREET Canyon City, Oreuon, GltOTir $ THOMPSON .Propriror;-,'. . Traveling men will find this a pleasant aud desirable place at which to stop. CJito iih ji Call CLIMB"-AXE" TOBACCO. I TALE OF THE BORDER. Tombstone, a mining center in southeastern Arizona, is the grave of more romance and ad venturo, hair breadth eseapes and deeds of daring than any other region in America, perhaps. Tombstone is about sixteen miles from the Mexicnij boundary line, and for four or fie years was the headquarters of ill the leading desperadoes of the West. .-Xhe. four Earp brothers, toughs all; Doc Halliday, Frank and Jack Stilhvell, Ike Clunton and his brother Billy, Jack MeLowry and his brother Bob, Jack Ringo, Hill Dodge and several gentlemen known as Curly, Slim, Shorty. Texas, Buffalo and similar cog nomens were frequently seen on the streets together. All had a reputation to sustain, and some were so eager to do themsolws justice that they would not rely upon the ordinary -M caliber re volver, but had the barrels of a shotgun cut of! to about a foot in length, and, thus abbreviated, that terrible engine of destruc tion, when properly loaded, Lo carno a part of their personal adornment. There were two fac tions in Southeastern Arizona in LS79, one being known as the stage robbers and the others as the rustlers. Tlie Earps and Doc Halliday were recognized chiefs of the stage robber faction, and IkeClanton and Jack Ringo were the acknowleged 1 osscs of the rustlers. The factions came into frequent conflict. One day the McLowrys and Frank Stilhvell rode into town and put their horses up at a corral on Fremont street. Just as they emerged from the corral the Earps and Halliday confronted them ami in a minute the two McLowrys, Hill Clanton and Stilhvell were dead. Word was sent to their friends, who were camped in the Huaehu ca mountains, and they prepared to march to Tombstone in force to clean out the Earps. The Earps recruited and fortified in tin adobe building in the West end of the town. The rustlers, thirty strong, under command of Ike Clanton and Jack Ringo. marched to town and took up headquarters in a corral at the extreme end of the town. The writer of this was the city editor of a Tombstone paper at the time, and he visited Loth the camps daily, and was made the medium of communication be tween the leaders. The rustlers circulated through the town, and the Earp, or stage robber faction, confined themselves to their camp. Ike Clanton, the rustler leader, sent several messages to Wyatt Earp, the leader of that faction, daring him to come out and show his nose. Earp sent back invita tions to Clanton to come and vis it him. This thing continued for three days, and at last the Earps began to get tired in fact their liquor was exausted and they were on the verge of a thirst fam ine. Warren Earp. one of the brothers heeled himself properly with two revolvers and a shotgun, and walked uptown one evening about eight o'clock. He went in to a saloon, took a drink at the bar and walked back to the faro department in the rear. He hadn't bucked the tiger in t days and his appetite was whet ted. He sat down in front of the dealer, pulled out a handfull of $20 gold pieces and coppered the queen. Just as he did so a re port was heard, and Warren fell off his stool dead. A bullet had penetrated his brain. When the report of his death reached his friends they rallied out in force. They were met by the Clanton party on Allen street, and an ex change of shots took place. The casualities were meager, only three killed and two wounded. The EarpB retreated and skipped the town. When they had left, and there was no hope of catch ing them, the sheriff of Cochise county became energetic. He or ganized a posse to give pursuit that subsequently cost the tax payers of the county ;.7.000. The ! i Earps being absent, sympathy, of course, was against them, and they went to Colorado, where they remained for some time and then went to California. The rustlers then had supreme com mand of the tough element of Tombstone, ami thein1mF?l the leaders quarreled and gradu ally killed each other. The hates of the factions in those days were something ap palling. All the tough element had to take sides, but the respec table portion of the community was never bothered. The rustlers were cattle thieves. They stole them in New Mexico and sold them in Texas; they stole in Tex as and sold in Arizona; they stole in Arizona and sold in Mexico, and stole in Mexico and sold in California. They spent the pro ceeds of their forays in Tomb stone. They were a royal set of thieves. When they were flush they scorned to drink anything but Roeder and Pomnier sec, and the markets were gutted to pro vide them with luxuries. The leader of the gang. IkeClanton, was a handsome fellow, six feet high, with yellow curling locks, had a eompleetion, in spite of the Arizona sun and regular expo sure, that a Lelle would envy, lie was a ready and straight shooter. He faced death a hund red times and met it at last. He hated the Earp brothers with all the intensity of an unbridled pas sion, and loved their sister with equal force. Jessie Earp was a beautiful girl of IS) at the time. She had the courage and grace of her brothers, and was, of course, a partisan of theirs in the faction al fight, without being in sympa thy with their habits of life ami! career of rapine and murder, ike Clanton and Jessie Earp met at a dance at Tombstone. Ike and the Earp boys were then at war and carried guns cocked and primed for each other. Retween I Mild -fl'S-ill it. V!!Q !1 ,!lfil lit" love at first sight. Her brothers! Lecnme furious when they heard of it, and Virgil, the oldest of the family and the keeper of the fam ily headquarters, wanted to turn her out of the house and disown her. Rut Wyatt, the brains of the family, said this would be play ing into the hands of the archen emy, Clanton. He would imme diately marry her ami both would be happy. This would not suit the Earps, and they resolved to keep the girl away from Cianton and prevent meeting or commu nication between them if possible. The girl was a real heroine. She was educated in a California convent; and while as full of ro mance as an egg is of meat, she had a sense of honor that male j her sustain her family in the J quarrel with the faction of which her lover was the chief. It was a marvel to many people why the Clanton gang did not attack the Earp headquarters immediately after reaching Tombstone to avenge the death of the MeLowry hoys and Hilly Clanton. The reason was that Jessie was con fined in her brothers' headquar ters, and Clanton would not run the risk of killing her. When the Earps retreated from Tomb stone they took their sister with them. This was the reason, per haps, why Clanton refused to be come a member of the sheriffs posse and join in the pursuit of his enemy. Three months later, however, when the Earps were i i ; . f..-w ...-.il tF i living ai uunnif.oii, vuiu., mu m , course, were running tne iow.i, their sister mysteriously disap peared one night. Tho result of inquiry convinced them that she had lied in company with Ike Clanton. This was pouring salt .1 . and vinegar into their festering wounds. The whole band, com prising Virgil, Wyatt and Julian Earp, Doe Halliday, Curley Bill, Sam Saunders, Texas Ike, and Monroe Tucker, armed, mounted j and pursued. The lovers had about four hours the start, but they were easily trailed. They headed for Arizona. They ex pected pursuit and lost no time. They reached Lake City, eighty Ouray, 100 miles by regular road, but, getting afraid of pursuit, they left the road and crossed over the trackless mountain, go- ing 1,,UUU feet above sea level, and finally reached San Miguel thirty hours without food. Here they rested for two days, being convinced that the pursuit they expected was off their trail. They were lo a certain extent right and to certain extent mis taken. The Earp party wmt to Ouray, and finding no trace of the fugitives, 1 eeamo convinced that they had made a short cut to San Minguel. From Ouray to San Minguel is less than thirty miles, but the way is over a path less, precipitous mountain, yawn ing gulches and impassable can yons. The Earps. however, tack led the journey, and made it within twenty-four hours. They reached San Minguel about ten o'clock in the morning, and as they rode down the winding trail the fugitives saw them. Cianto-i and the sister of his arch enemy had been man and wife about twenty minutes. They were married by Dr. Hoge an Episco pal clergyman, whose name is held in grateful rememberanee by even person familiar with tlie early days of Colorado. When the newly wedded pair paw the horsemen approach, they recog nized the situation at a glance. Clanton, though as brave as any man, knew that it was hoix.'less to join in combat with sevesi or eight men practiced in the use cf firearms. But, being accustom ed to danger he knew how to act. He grasped his trembling bride, rushed from the cabin where thr. were resting and mad his way to the nearest mine tunnel. Tho minors were just changing shift, and .were rurprised at the iiaste of tho visitors. Clanton told the minors his story as sin cerely and eloquently as he could. The minors were all Irishmen, and Irisnnien love lovers. They became partisans of the fugitives without thought or consideration. Clanton intrusted his bride to one of the minors, who took her into the bowels of the earth, away from all danger. Soon the Earps arrived and demanded the fugi tives. The minors answered with more spirit than politeness. The Earps invited a parley, which the minors granted. The Earps s:1id that Clanton sought to (lis honor their sister because of hat- red for them. Clanton. who stood in the tunnel, within easy com munication, sent back wo:d that the lady they sought to dishonor and reproach was his wife. The Earps tried diplomacy, which failed, and finally they announc ed their determination to storm the mine if the fugitives were not surrendered. In those davs n: nrniorv w:i n neee.-sarv de- lii iU Ulltill 1.1 I. 1 1.1 ) Hill numn.u , " . . , . , mine, ami mo mine in wmcn Clanton and his bride sought refupe was no exception. Tlu ,.'j3sj,y- ' J j put: one Jiuuureu A . illlWO I1UI1J LI LllllllXlil- III IM'( I ninl rm . I n 1 i. J l r . . i From Lake City they started to proaceTeilDlhwinfl,ftoi MHflHRSIefl minors presented arms and an-1 CONSUMPTION SURELY CURED nounccd tiieir readiness to recieve ' To the Editor Pln.ise inform an attack. The Earps tauntel your readers ttrnt I have a posi them with sheltering a cowan1, ' remedy for the above named who' had to seek the bowels of i ii in... : i., .1. ' earin use a fquuiin tu wwihujum, , punishment. Clanton sent back word that he was ready to meet ril ... combat. The Earps held a con ference, and Julian, the youngest and bravest of the tribe, volun- leered to fight Clanton. It did not take long to arrange the preliminaries. The Earp party were required by the min ers to move off about a quarter of a mile and the miners in turn obligated themselves to remain in the tool house, from which the tunnel cut into the hill. When all was ready Clanton emerged from the tunnel, pistol in hand. Julian Earp was awaiting be- elevated- When thev were with- , in twenty paces Earp fired and missed. Before the report of his , shot had ceased echoing Clanton fired and lodged his bullet in the. heart of his enemy. Julian Earp fell dead. Clanton retired lo tho tunnel, and forty miners fully armed turned out and served no tice on the Earp party that Clan ton had proved his bravery and sincerity and they were ready to defend him. The Eariis Lurried their dead, the good Dr. Hoge officiating at the funeral. Then the miners-held a meeting noth ing can be formally done in a mining camp without a meeting passed resolutions sustaining Clanton and ordering the Earp party to move out of town. Tho Earps, understanding the minerB and the characteristics of tho people they were dealing with, retired. When they v. ere out of j f-ijht Cianton and his wife came , out of the mine and took their departure in the direction of Rico. The Parps, though n aking a promise that they should return, mir-lymadea circuit, and rode round San Miguel, striking the Rico road about ten miles from the former place. They found fresh horse tracks in the road and concluded that those they were in pursuit of were in front of them. Thev followed on with haste and overtook Clanton and his wife at Rico. The Earps reached town while Clanton and his wife were at suppjr. When they discovered tl.em they fired a volley through the window of the hotel. One bullet struck the bride and the husband escaped. He grasped his wife in his arms, rushed to the lack yard and from there to the corral where his horses were quartered. He mom.ted the first saddled horse he met, and with his wife bleed ing and insensible in his arms, he rode into the night. It was in October, and already cold in that latitude and altitude. He role all nLiht, caring for tho precious burden in his arms, and at sunrise next morning she died. Two years later Ike Clanton and Curley Bill, a cousin of the Earps, met accidentally in a gambling room at Socorrro., N. M. Two shots were fired simul taneously, and ten minutes after ward Curley Bill was a corpse, Clanton was injured. About a year and a half ago Clanton went to Phoenix, A. T. There he met Virgil and Wyatt Earp. The moment the old enemies saw each other they began to shoot. Clan- i ton was killed, and Wyatt Earp was so badly wounded that he is no longer numbered among the desperadoes of the west. St. Louis Republican. Pennsylvania fairr.er3 manufac ture ovt-r 2,OUO,000 pounds of iua- 1 le suar every sjiriliy The bulk cf tLis suiirde in the counties on ai d wast f the Alleghany moun- tains. IllM'IISt'. X JIK blUJC'O IIUU IUOU a;iuin ui iiwijaL-SB vuauc unc uciu . J . f 1 1 U 1 permanently cured. 1 shall Do glad to send two bottles of my etitt dy free to any of your readeis ,v:to nave consumption u tneywm . it Ml me their express and post office addresa Respectfully, T. A. SLOCUM, M. C, dSGmo 181 Pearl st, New York. "5 ft J 1$