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About Grant County news. (Canyon City, Or.) 1879-1908 | View Entire Issue (May 16, 1889)
Grant Co. News. LOCAL BREVITIES. Harvey Fields intends starting in alwut a month to Montana with a iKind of cattle and sheep Johnny Jones and his sister Sue, them two, (this is poetry) tender thanks for a sweet boQ, hee hoo. Postmaster Cresap took his de parture Friday for McMinville, a delegate to the I. 0. 0. lodye. F. "rand Max Metschan of Tacoma, who has been visiting here for some weeks, departed for his home last week. Wish some fellow would allow us to look at his dollar; this print shop lias forgotten what money looks like. K. J. McKinnon reports crops in Harney valley looking well, with the prospect of an abundant grain yield. exceedingly favorable. Judge Ison is home from his Cal ifornia trip, improved in health. He will probably hold court at Har ney, which is to convene next Mon day. Jerry Chamberlain who resides on Mountain creek says the stock range is in splendid condition, and that horses and sheep never looked better at this season of the year. Durkheimer tfc Co. have purchas ed P. F. Stenger's stock of goods at Burns, and will put in an addition al lot and run a store at that place, besidiis the one at Canyon City and IVairio. Mr. G. Topken who owns a fine little ranch up the creek, informs us that he intends engaging in the dairy business next year, and suj plying this market with butter and cheese. Itoht. Hall, a prosperous stock man of Drewsey, Harney county, was in the city during the week, wearing a cheerful countenance be cause of the fine bunchgrass that lias grown this summer. "Win. Miller has moved with his family to Harney. Hilly is ac knowledged by both the circuit judges to be the best circuit court clerk they have ever met, and what is Grant county's loss is Harney's gain. Peter Schnrff and Timothy Don ovan were both admitted to citizen ship at the late circuit court, hav ing foresworn all allegiance to for eign powers. They now belong to and will help sustain the best gov ernment on the earth. Sheriff Cray and Peter Kuhl started for .Salem Monday with the Frenchman, sent up for the shoot ing of Kinlev McRae. Mr. Kuhl is ! also a delegate to the grand lodge of Odd Fellows which meets at McMinville this week. lousiness is awful quiet in the justice's court for this precinct just now. A few extensive lines ad ministered in the past has had a good effect on the morals of the 'community, as well as lightening the burden of those who pay taxes. We cheerfully give publicity to ! the fact that we have had more niin this week. This will be news to our three subscribers on the oth er side of the Atlantic, and will re mind our 47 subscribers in this county that they ought to fuel hap- py- Jus. Lofton's team and wagon loaded with wool broke through a defective bridgo on Bridge creek near Mitchell onii day last week, while on the wa to The Dalles, damaging. the -vagon considerably. Cro"k county is Liable for all dama ges, however, as we understand it was a county road. David Dietz has completed a successful run of near three hun dred cords of wood down the creek. Dietz and Byrum have alwut five hundred cords cn the yard, and this together "with what will be hauled from the mountains will sup ply the town with, wood during the winder, be the weather ever so cold. The district attorney, or who ev er formulated -the report of the grand jury which is published in another column, wants a "petition" put up in the north end of the grand jury room. A "petition," according to We bster's unabridged, means a prayer. For what does he desire a prayer puit up in the north end of the gr.and jury room, and who does he wan t to pray therel Good reports ( :ome from the head of Canyon creek and between that and little Pine. Frank Markham lias a mine there that assays ninety dollars in gold to the ton, and a number of othni locations have boon made. This camp is about fifteiin miles ov er the mountains from Canyon City. The discovei ors have not made much stir about it, but it the imernl opinion they have a good" loctvtion. T J Sl.iVlf.'s. iudge of Harney county, was in twn last week con ferring with Jud.ge Maxcy, trying to determine the amount of money which Harney count shall pay to Grant and the amount to be de deducted for the value oi J5?""' property, as provided in the .bill for the creation of Harney county. They failed to come to an under standing, and Jadge Fee was called upon to make a majority on one side or the other. He has not ren dered a decision ? bit will at an ear ly day. Mrs. Bird, of Pendleton, daugh ter of Mrs. llobt Xeece, is visiting here. We notice Ben Erway now guiding the U. 8. mail coach on the Mitchell route. A Minnesota farmer claims to have a horse that can talk. Some men are born to lie. Mineral discoveries is doing its share towards encouraging immi gration to this country. There are 00,795,300 acres of vacant public land in Oregon. Here is plenty of room for the immigrant. The fellow who is always wait ing generally finds before he dies that he is about forty years be hind the time. One gambler named Sandy Olds killed another gambler named Emil Weber at Portland the other day. Cattle are selling for no more than 2 and cents per pound, j rather a discouraging price for J stockmen. h. O. The fellow who thinks that ev ery man is dishonest is generally the biggest rogue in his respect ive neighborhood. A Chicago lady makes more money teaching whist than all the preachers in the city make teaching religion. Ed. Walton and Chas. Math ews started Wednesday morning in the rain for a trip to Harney, lasting a few days. The Baker City Democrat evi dences its prosperity and enter prise by the purchase of a new cyl- ender press with steam fixtures. McKinnon's three six-horse teams passed through town Tuesday on their way to Prairie City to load for Durkheimer's store at Burns. An exchange says that it is one of the peculiarities of thing in general that the freshest men generally tell the stalest stones. Teachers throughout the coun try should bear m mind that their certificates may be revoked for not attending the teachers' institute. A lawsuit has been pending in the circuit court for Jackson county over a .$40 horse, in which the costs arrogate over $1000, and the end is not vet. The farm crops in this country were never in a more promising condition than at present. The prospects are that this year's harvast will surpass all others of former years. Morrow, Crook and Umatilla county sheep are on the move now, headed for the ranges of old Grant. Come on, ye pirates, and eat our . t r Ml grass; tnese une rams win cause more to grow. , w ! It is said that a circular saw cut an Indiana man in two while he was talking politics, and he was so absorbed that he didn't notice the little incident until he had finished hiB argument. L. J. Mills, of Arkansas, has been awarded the contract for carrying mails on the route be tween Princville and Silver Lake. The distance is 102 miles, and the contract price is $1,300 per annum. Wool growers who are well in formed on the subject think the wool market will not open up with any degree of briskness un til the 1st or 15th of June, and that thc""l)cst prices will not be realized until about the 1st of August. Miners have a superstition that rich gold diggings are always found every ten years, and the record, thus" far, fairly sustains the notion, as the historic "big find" in California was in 1840; Pike's Peak, 1859; Nevada 1809; and Leadvillc. 1879. J. L. Cummings, a pioneer of Grant county, returned last wecK from an extended visit to his old home in Maine. Mr. Cummings will gather up his band of horses, and perhaps take a number back witn mm, as it is nu intention to return to Maine during the sum mer. Yesterday was another big day in handling wool that is big for this early in the season. At the Wasco warehouse they took in 120 sacks, and at Moody's ware house they were too busy to stop and figure up just how much they had taken in. Mountain eer. Idaho has an element that is not wanted in the Union, and mav make trouble if the territory becomes a state. The white peo ple of Idaho, as a rule, are bitter ly opposed to Mormon principles, and wish to incorporate such pro viso in their state constitution as will bar out all polygamists for ever. At Astoria is a British vice council, named P. L. Cherry, who usually cannot be touched with a ten-foot pole. He was summoned before the U. S. dis trict court, the other day, but told the marshal to go to "balla hack." Judge Deady then issu ed a warrant for his arrest, and i.he Inch-headed eentleman paid for the high estimation he had of himself. Jay Gould gives it as his opin ion that the accumulation of money in the hands of a few in dividuals is a benefit to the nation. J. B. Huntington is waiting for his commission, to open the Drewsey land office. Mr. Hunt ington will make a first-class reg ister. Several of the fellows who went to Oklahoma with the in tention of growing up with the country have been alas! already planted. Chas. Hyde, an attorney from Baker, and Messrs. Parsons and Bowick of the Monumental mine were in town during the week on lejal business. Ninety-five per cent, of the towns in Nebraska have declared for high license against prohibi tion. That state has tried high license and found it effective. Exceedingly large quantities of oleomargarine are shipped from this country into Mexico. Grease for the greasers! Well, there's something poetic about that. Yellow fever opens the season by appearing at Santiago Chili. It is not yet known whether the epidemic contemplates a tour in the northern hemisphere this year. If the bustle is an invention of the devil, as Kate Field says it is, the old boy nrtist be making money enough to keep himself in brimstone for several centuries to come. Walla Walla Statesman: A big Indian chief was in town yes terday, dressed up to kill, with two wives, a pair of twins and a satchel full of twenties. He was a regular tyee. When the wheat crop in Min nesota fails, the farmers wage war on the grasshoppers, for which a bounty of $1 per bushel is paid. Last year 17,000 bush els of these pests were harvested. Any information of the where abouts of Mr. Michael Smith, a barber by trade, who was in Portland three weeks ago, will he thankfully received by his broth er. John Smith, The Dalles, Ore gon. The fourth annual convention of the Oregon Stale Sunday School association will be held at Corvallis, commencing at 2 p. in. on Tuesday, June 4 th, and clos ing at 12 m. on Thursday, June 0th, 1SS9. The Reveille intimates that Pat MoGinnis, who was hanged a couple of weeks ago, was inno cent of the crime for which he died. Rats! Innocent men don't get hanged nowadays. On tario Atlas. Society note in Oklahoma Herald: "The accomplished Miss Lulu Gady, late of Witehi ta, is making a short stay with friends from St. Louis, in the red wagon in the hollow over north of the creek." Nevada Silver State: It is learned here from reliable sour ces that Todhunter & Devine have sold their ranches in Oregon, to Miller & Lux and Mason. The consideration is said to be about $1,000,000. The "oldest inhabitant" tells us that he has never seen so much blessed rain in Eastern Oregon as for the last month. An abundance of every kind of crop is promised, and pasturage is without precedent. Tt takes thirteen cabinet offi cers, with an aggregate annual pay of 150,000 to carry on the government of Canada. The United States manages very well with eight cabinet officers, who cost every year $04,000. A Tennessee carpenter arose in his sleep and went into his shop and began filing a saw. The noise woke him up, and he was niightly puzzled to find himself engaged at such work at 2 o'clock in the morning in a dark shop. It is to be earnestly hoped that the work of completing the sur veys of public lands in Oregon will be undertaken at once under ! the new schedule of prices adopt ed by the general government. The development of the country would be greatly accelerated thereby. The Apaches in Arizona are again committing depredations. Their horribly brutal manner of torturing and mutilating their victims is causing great excitc mentt in that country, and it is quite probable that a resump tion of their atorcities will result in an entire wiping out of the tribe by the justly enraged set tlers. There was quite a deep fall of snow in the Siskiyou and Sierra Nevada mountains last week. The depth on the first-named range was about two feet, while along the line of the Central Pa cific railroad it was found neces sary to use snow plows to clear the way through four feet of snow on the track the first time in the history of the road that snow plows were found necessary 1 iw May- CIRCUIT COURT. Cases disposed of and contin ued, from last report to the final wind-up: criminal. State vs J D Hunsaker, con tinued. State vs Le Blanc Francois, sentenced to one year in the pen itentiary. State vs Murray Bros, Dismiss ed on motion of district attorney. State vs J D Hunsaker, No. 2. continued. State vs W. E. Warsham, grand jury return not a true bill. State vs Geo M Cleaver, not a true bill. Slate vs Clayton Hinton, con tinued. Stale, vs Win Mascoll, case dismissed. law. Polly Wilson vs Thornton Williams, continued for the term J J McCullough vs J T Mael, dismissed at plaintiffs' cost. Ilaptonstall & Dart vs J T Mael, dismissed at plaintiffs' cost Lucinda Harper vs Grant Co., dismissed on plaintiffs motion. M F Thompson vs W. P. Gray, continued. A. Ilacheney vs C E Aldrich, continued. II A Cupper vs T M Godly & L A Kimberly, continued. M D Clifford vs 11 L & W A Campbell, judgment vs 11 L Campbell by default. The following bills were audited and the respective amounts al lowed : J L Band Dist Attv $92.50 P Metschan clerk 139.90 W P Grav sheriff 30.1)0 M A Lucas gr'd jury bal'ff 3(5.00 Geo Baker jury bailiff 3.00 Jas Robinson court bailiff 37.80 W II Kelly jurv bailiff 37.80 Thos Reynolds jury bailiff 39.00 $325.90 Important Lawsuits. Two important lawsuits in volving large amounts of money have been commenced, one in the circuit court of Grant county and one in the United States District court. C. S. Miller, superintend ant of the old monumental Min ing Company, has brought action against W. E. Parsons, of New York City, for the recovery of the sum of $100,000 alleged by Mil ler as having been withheld from him while acting in partnership with Parsons in the sale of the mine to the present company op erating the property. Miller has also commenced action against the Eastern Oregon Gold Mining Company (the Monumental) for the recovery of $24,000. This action on the part of Miller is to be regretted as such transaction has a tendency to block enter prise and drive money out of the country. Still he may have good ground for complaint and we suppose he believes he has. Baker City Democrat. Cash advances made on wool for consignment to Christy it Wise, San Kr.inci.seo. Collin, it Mel'nrland, Agts. tf. Arlington, Or. The commissioners are view ing the route of the wagon road from Pendleton to Canyon City for which a state appropriation was made. A terrible crash! A fearful disas ter! A mine explodes under the nose of old fogies, Basche it Company of Baker City the cause and their low prices the effect. Cats are being bought up in Iowa and shipped to Dakota, where they are in great demand for destroying the mice which swarm by thousands around the corn and wheat bins, doing great damage. "So you are going to keep a school?" said a young lady to her old aunt. "Well, tor my part, sooner than do that I would marry a widower with nine chil dren." "I should prefer that my self." was the reply, "but where is the widower?" - - .yftUP-fllG Combines the juice of the Blue Figs of California, so laxative and nutritious, with the medicinal virtues of plants known to be most beneficial to the human system, forming the ONLY PER FECT REMEDY to act gently yet promptly on the KIDNEYS, LIVER AND BOWELS AND TO Cleanse the System Effectually, 50 THAT PURE BLOOD, REFRESHING SLEEP, HEALTH and STRENGTH Naturally follow. Every one is using it and all are delighted with it. Ask your druggist for SYRUP OF FIGS. Manu factured only by the CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO., Sax Francisco, Cau Lotjsyius, Kv. Niw Yo, N. Y. s ELECTRIC POWER. Development of electric power is yet in its infancy. But it has made progress enough to indicate very oleary that it is destined to produce more changes in the in dustrial affairs and economic conditions of civilized life than have been produced hitherto by any agency of force that has been brought under the control of man. The progress that has been made so far in turning elec trical energy to the service of mtyi makes it certain that its use will become practically il limitable. Its possibilities are yet, and probably will remain for a long period, beyond human forecast. Oregonian. The application of electricity to the arts and sciences is no less marked than that to the human system. Dr. Darrin has made the subject of electric treatment a study for years, and has "har nessed and driven" to the great benefit of suffering humanity, until his name has become a household word. That he does cure, is attested by the many cards handed us for publication, a few of which we here submit. ENGINEER JC3LIN REJOICES. ' Dr. Darrin Dear Sir: For twenty-one years I have been af flicted with a disgusting dis charge of the car, from the ef fects of diphtheria and cold in the head. You cured me with one treatment by electricity and home treatment by medicines. I am engineer of the O. II. & N. road between The Dalles, Or., where I can be referred to. IS. E. JOSLIX. ANOTHER LIST OF CURES BY DR. DARRIN. Geo II Papenberg, Tualitan, Oregon Deafness 10 years so he could scarcely hear a sound, cur ed in 20 minutes. Mrs. John McGinnis, Vancou ver, YV. T., paralyzed arm cured 1G years ago by Dr. Darrin, while in San Francisco. Ex-Mayor C. II. Hill's son, of Albina, Oregon Cured of an of fensive discharge of both ears since 5 months old. John H. Dougherty, Roche Harbor, W. T. Hydrocele en tirely cured and removed by one operation of o minutes. Mrs. S. A. Wooden's girl, 91 Fifth street, Portland Nervous debility and malarial fever and discharging ear, restored. Win Altnow, Drewsey, Grant county, Oregon Catarrhal deaf ness and ringing in the ears for 20 years, perfectly cured. Mrs. S. W. Metzger, Gresham, Oregon, dyspepsia, liver com plaint and pain in the stomach 23 years; restored. Mrs. C Magenson, Merchant's hotel, Portlannd, rheumatism, neuralgia and female troubles, cured permanently one year ago. YV F Ogle, Seatco, V. T. Liver and kidney complaint and dyspepsia, also deafness and whole system run down, cured. William Little, Seattle, W. T. Pain in the chest of over eight years' standing, entirely cured by electro-magnetic treatment. .1 W Zunnvalt, Albany, Or.. (formerly of Moro. Wasco county Or.,) cured of an aggravated case of rheumatism and spinal com plaint. F P Sawtell, Independence, W. T., dyspepsia mid kidney eomylaint. pronounced Pright's disease by some physicians, re stored. A T Seoeps' daughter, proprie tor Northwestern hotel, corner Front and Clay streets, Portland, loss of appetite, liver complaint and rheumatic neuralgia for six months, cured. Dr. Dan-ins' Place of Business. Drs. Darrin can be consulted free at 2,35 Fifth street, corner of Main, Portland. Oregon, and Oc cident hotel, Astoria, Oregon, until further notice. Ofiice hours from 10 to 4 daily; even ings, 7 to 8; Sundays, 10 to 12. All curable chronic diseases, loss of manhood, blood taints syphilis gleet, gonorrhoea, stricture spermatorrhoea, seminal weak ness or loss of desire of sexual power in man or woman, catarrh and deafness are confidentially and successfully treated. Cures of private diseases guaranteed and never published in the pa pers. Circulars sent free. Most cases cn receive home treatment after a visit to the doctors' ofiice. Want Some Butter? The editor had occasion last week to become the proud recipi ent of some gilt edge butter from the dairy of Fall creek ranch, which cannot be excelled in Ore gon. The proprietor, Mr. J. W. Powell, will be in town on Satur days, with the same kind of but ter" for sale. Get some of it. Hay is growing. The Ladies Delighted. The pleasant effect and the perfect safety with which ladies mav use the liuuid fruit laxative ! Syrup of Figs, under all condi ' tfons make it their favorite reme dy. It is pleasing to the eye and to the taste, gentle yet effectual in acting on the kidneys, liver and bowels. REPORT OF GRAND JURY. In the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon, for Grant county. In the matter of the final re port of the grand jury. To the Hon. Jas. A. Fee, Cir cuit Judge. We your grand jury duly em-1 : paneled and sworn on the 2nd day of May A. D. 1SS9 respect fully submit the following report: That we have bem in session in all seven days and have found and returned into open court two true bills of indictment and two not true bills. That we have examined into the condition and books of the sheriff's ofiice and jail and we I unci xne uooks neauy Kepi anu j,orHe forward. The sky crows in accordance with law, and the suddenly dark. He decides jail comfortable and clean and ; t0 Beck shelter. The storm in ;n,ofno -..,.;.i,i r- creases m its fury. The rider I .1 I I At 1 - 1 ,...io mv... iv,. We find the following to be the ntnnnnt nf il..Iinnnint tnv litwnl- . , . .... . lectcU ana still due Urant coun- tv: Delinquent tax for 1SS2, $1,- i Ao r Vo- doU i oo i 0I,e wln he learns that he is suffcr $ Hoo.08; for lbSo $.il34.33; ; injj from an advanced Kidnev Dis- 1 onii iMorrt no. i-U'D- t!Ck ' nr.,,-. ...! :.. :..f I i ? IOr lOOO T lOOU.uo; IOr lOOl Ti.- 951.55; for 1SSS $10G84.4(i; to tal delinquent tax to date $23, 35G.13; transferee! to llarnev teountv 1SS5 $337.33; for 1S8G $458.87; for 1887 $1031.40; for 18S8 4807.81; total transfered to I lamer county $tiG35-41: leavinir delinquent tax still due Grant county after deducting the amount transferred to Harney county $10720.72; a large amount of the delinquent tax for j the years 1882, 183, 1884, 1885 and 1880 is uncollectable, and should be struck from the delin quent tax roll. Since the 1st day j of October 1888, we find our sher iff has collected $05278.09 in tax es. We consider this to be a splendid showing for our sheriff and it argues for the prosperity of our county. We have examined into the books and the condition of the ofiice of the county clerk, and we find everything arranged and kept in excellent condition; ma ny new and necessary books have been procured and many new records have been establish ed. We find from the books of the clerk's ofiice the following statement: Outstanding and unpaid county warrants $7227S.9I) E-timated Int. thereon 3500.00 Total liabilities $75778.99 Total funds applicable tojpay ment Co warrants $23777.34 Unpaid current taxes. 4000.00 Total $27777.514 We find that since July 1st 1S88, there has been redeemed Jf 44000.00 in county warrants of this county. . 1,.,,.,, nvntn nnt itlfn f hi hoods of the county treasurer and we find his books neatly and ac curately kipt and showing a true statement of the affairs of the county; , from the treasurer's books wo find the following: Amount general fund on hand 180G2.f)4 Amount State fund on hand $3421.03 Amount County fund on hand $3740.42 Amount School fund on hand $11108.48 Amount Huilding fund on hand $344. 112 Amount! Kstrav fund on hand $4.25 Amount from saU-s fund on hand $4.44 Total amount fund on hand $1 8002.54. We find that the semi-annual statement of the sherifl', clerk and treasurer have been made in all things as by law required. We have" visited the county poor house ami find one inmate thereof who is well provided for. We would recommend that the ofiice of the county clerk be en larged, and inasmuch as it is al together too small for the needs and use of the clerk and as it has been frequently recommended by former grand juries we earnestly ask the serious attention of the county court to this matter. We" would also recommend that a petition be put up in the north end of the grand jury room providing a hall-way so the p?tit jury can leave their jury room without going through the court room. We desire to express our sin cere thanks to your Honor for the courtesy you have extended to us, and to J. L. Rand, our district attorney for the assist ance he has rendered to us and to M. A. Lucas, our bailifl', for the attention and promptness he has given to our needs and de mands. And now having complet ed our duties to the best of our abilities and in accordance with the oaths we have taken, we beg to be discharged Dated at Canyon City in said :ountv this 9th day of May cou 1880 David Magill, Foreman. Settling a new country is not the fun some people imagine. The tide is already setting back from Oklahoma. A man who can not stand lots of discomfort has no busiuess there yet. LOST IN THE STORM. One of our local editors clipped front a lendin magazine extract! froai c vivid description of a western blizzard which we liavo taken tha liberty to publish and at the same time suggest to II. II. Warner it Co., the proprietors of the celebrated War ner's Safe Cure, the feasibility of tak ing therefrom an extract for the intro duction of one of their telling adver tisements. The following ia the des cription : "At the close of a dark day in January a Bolitary horseman wends his way across the open prairie in one i of our western territories. Ho passes at long intervals the lone cabin of the hardy frontiersman. Two or three ' old settlers, of whom he has inquired the wav, have warned him that a storm is approaching, and one of them, with true western hospitality, urcs him to find shelter in his cabin for t! o nisjht. But he declines the p p offered kindness and urges his tired dismounts to warm hU fast phiUin.r I limbs. Can scarcely breathe. t Blindness Comes Cn lJrowsiness i ctiviln ni'flr liitn Tlin nml im imir iieV i;iB 7 hV,l " There is no doubt that the torrnr which seizes the bewildered traveler I uu b iuivum-.il unit uu is m the Icststages of Bnght's disease. At fir-t he is informed tuat he lias a slight kidney affection. Later he begins to fee! lired. Slight headache. Fickle appetite. Failure of the eye-? ZSSSiJ. Failure of the eve-pight. aue- ncrvonsness. ! casionally pain in ;he hack. Scantv. S dark 'o1 b;.. with, riding sensation. Gradual failure ofstreneth. .Any ot the alwvc symptoms -hmify Ki'iney Affection, but he is told that he is all right. His physician treat3 him for Hvmptoms and calls it a dis ease, when in reality it is but a symptom of Kidney trouble. He may be treated for Rheumatic or Neuralgic pains, heart affei tion, or any other d;.-east which ho is most susceptible to. Finally the patient has puffins; under the eves, slight bloating of the ankles and legs. Ilia physician may inform him that it is but the accumu lation of blood in his ankles for want of proper exercise. The bloat continues and reaches his bo'ly. Then he is info med he has dropsi cal troublos and is tapj ed once or ( twice, lie notices it is uitheult to ; breathe owing to irregular action of ! the heart, ami finally is informed that ! he has a slight attack of Bright's Dis i ease. Soon his friends are notified ! that his is an advanced case of Uright's Disease, and that he can live l but a short time. Ilia honorable anil ' dignified physician asks for counxel. It is too late. Mill ho sticks to the old family phypHan, and the physi cian knows ai.d has knevn from the beginning that the path nt ha3 been stricken with death for months, for he knows full well that the profession acknowledge thev have no remedies for the cure of Kidney Disease. At last the patient hiiffooates is smothered and dies from dropsical trouble. Or perhap - t!irt disease may not take the form of a d-onsical ten dency, and the patient dies from apoplexy, paralysis, pneumonia or lieart trouMe. Or it may take the form of blood jwiFoning. In each form the t-nd is ih: same. And yet lie and his friends were warned bv . the proprietors of the celebrated remedy known as Warner's Safe Cure, I l "e lurking dangers of ashgM kul- ne.V BUUUU'JII. The newspapers have published the j dangers. Column o: facts have been ' printed of men dy. tig from advanced ICdney Disease or JJriht's Disease. . 1 1 is f: lends and physi. i.m jook around with horror and ie?ret for seeming neglect, hut li? U !.... He did not heed the warning thar a storm wag 'approaching. H defined the prof : fcied hospitality, and reeklop.-ly went j forward into danger. He struggled manmlly for a time, b'i: his Mrength failed, lie grew gradually weaker i-ntl , lie was lost to th wond. Not in a j blizzard, but fro.n th t-rrible malady I which is almost dady occurring iu i pvc-v community, avd which is doc tored as a symptom i; s-fad of what it is, a mortal disvi-c unless prop erly treated. Knmsby & Angell. at the Mt. Vernon Race course will break horses for $10, and furnish feed while the horses are in their care. They will also train horses on the track to trot or run. If you want your animals handled by experienced trainers, write to them for terms of training. Ad- i Ti i. r. 11 M ! uress uamsny .'vngcu. .n. I ...... h T . 1 . . . T)a. (.fkrrjtti ennui ui .iuiiii i.v , vitvu. Mrs. C. S. Lock wood is agent for Spoil's' .steam Cooker, Shepurd's Stove Pipe Shelves, Brewster's Safety llein Holder, and the Favor ite Fluting Iron. These articles are of inestimable worth to every housekeeper, and the rein holder cannot well be dispensed with by those who ride in carriages. 2tf Look at These Prices. A lieautiful top buggy only $05 An elegant buckboartl, on.y 70 A dandy cart, only 40 Bought at hinkrupt sale in the east and ollered at these tempting prices a short time only by Basche & Co., Baker City. Buy now liefore it is too late. Notice for Examination of Teachers. Notice is hereby given that for the purpose of making an exam ination of all persons who may offer themselves as candidates for teachers of the schools of this count, the county school super intendent thereof will hold a pub lic examination at Prairie City, commencing at noon of Wednes day May 20th 1SS0. Dated this 0th day of May ' f- J 1'ES' ! '- School Supt, Grant Co., Or Nu'IICE. All persons knowing themselves indebted to us by note or account must settle the same on or before June 1st 1S89, a3 wo will close out our business at Mount Vernon at that time, Taylob & Co. Mt. Vernon, April 15 18S9.