it gets no further than the Dram office, and a t Seaton the sa
ed clean off the ranch, and th a t th e ne^t
ill,“e Uav ,,.. .
as Cornwall, the Scottsburg carrier, re p. in.
• *'.... .
gust of wind lifted the shed and let it
mail which he th in k s
The Florence Mission
down gently in an o th er place. Of la«es to carry
give
th e ir regular qIlar..,r| ^ ’y
.
.
,
.
i
»1
„y
m
,.
r
is
ought
to
coine
over
the
other
route,
-I'CRLIMIIED KVEUV F R ID A Y MOBWINU.— course, it is understood th a t Air. ( . is u o
th
e
Presbyterian
ehurel '
now a resident of Florence, Oregon, and
-C a p ta in
William S m ith, called
v'<urcli on p| .•
— AT—
lr‘sta,
it is probable th a t he lias charge of a Billy for short, has accepted a position n ig h t
Fl.ORKNCK,
O regon
L ank C ounty ,
I portion of the Boreas column of the pa- with
Captain Bergman s li.'e-savmg j A t th e Presbyterian chnrol „
per there —Biggs (Calif.) Argun.
| crew at G ardiner, and left tins week for on C hristm as eve will
i i
A l . l . n AC IIL IT O X ,
PuM U her..
_ „ W1
di(1 , you get th a t” ----- Mey- that place. Mr. Smith is an all ’round mas
e together w itli
" a ^fii
mas tre
tree,
*W <W *,
er A Kvle have as fine a line of bats as j good man any place yon.can pu t him . ercises.
B. F. A lley ,
. . .
E ditor .
ever brought to Florence. As a | end It ie nrore then probable he will no t
I h e M ethodist people arm
A. S. B i . iton , Local E d ito r and M anager.
„ „ t i e r of fact, they are ju st a little Impair Ida reputation m bia new coca- have a C hrist,„as tree in ,
C h ristin as eve. The evp
1
slicker than any thing th at ever showed j tion
slot
of
reading,
«
c
it
a
t
io
n
^
’
®“
j
—The new sidewalk connecting W est
up in th is m ail’s town.
-T erms : $2.00 a y ear in advance.
LO CA LS f r o m ACME. '
—M. F. Parker is m aking m any im Florence to the town proper was com
pleted
this
wiek,
and
its
usefulness
is
provem ents in th e interior of his West
E n tered at th e post-office at Florence,
remarked upon by all who pass over it.
M. E. Saubert & Co. are h
laine county, Oregon, us second-class Florence residence, fie is keeping very There was some little dissatisfaction
tim
b e r for the government tT
close to himself regarding th a t five and
m ail m a tte r.
which
came
from
one
or
more
sources
as
th e m outh of the river.
Uj
a half foot door which he made to fit a
to
the
advisability
of
building
th
e
walks,
six and a half foot frame.
Go'urney & E rbart are ...
ADVKKTIS1NG MATES MADE KNOWN ON A P -
_ J n o ,] r a ( , c o l u m n 8 t O -daV a p p e a r but as yet T he W est has failed to notice
them selves very , wifu,
PLICATION.
I
,
.
. T it
«» n i
any of these disgruntled ones going
T hey a re p u t,i„ g ¡„
l.(M«i notice», s eenm j»er line, each insertion, the advertisem ents of J . ft. McClung,
to 1
I s . If. Friendly and E. H anson. These more than a block out of th e ir way to th o u san d feet of logs a day.
avoid walking on the walk.
W E S T L IN G S
are ad Eugene business men, Hnd th eir
- S i d W alt has s „ . , w ,
—August Schulte was about town yes T a llm a n ’s, and „ill bri„ J '
_____
’
ads we Jiojie will be read with in terest
terday soliciting aid to procure transpor- dow n
—C hristm as will reach here one week by o ur people, and to th eir profit.
and rest ....... b '
until spring, j
tation
for E. A. West from Florence to ,
1,1,111
from next .Sunday.
i —The citizen property owners of Flor-
Portland, at which place he will e n ter a r.ih- P? , .Hl ’ O’°°o leet of loggandj
—School vacation during holiday week ence are requested to meet at the school hospital for treatm en t for cancer. T he P‘" “ g “ " 8 8ea80" ’
and th e week following.
house on Thursday evening next, to as
Jo in , H ew itt „ „ t win, , (K.
gentleman has been in poorer health
— The line w eather continues—uud we sist in fram ing the incorporation a rti
dent
th e Sinehnv R i„ r Lbi¿ "
cles for our town. Come out and give than usual for the past few weeks, and
«»tight to be thankful for th at.
to prolong his life for any length of tim e nul . by a block from » tri,„me[
<ilcnudu is going to have a stri| of your consent or your objections, or for it was considered necessary th a t som e « trik .n g him in the fa™
ever hold your |>eace.
sidew alk—south from the church.
hole through his upper lip.
! —Canvas-hack ducks are q u ite plenti- thing he done a t once. He expected to
I'rank Fox has accepted a position
H e n ry G ates has been in Florence
leave hv this m orning’s stage.
I f ill on th e G reat »Siuslaw. Jim Tronson
as engineer nt the governm ent works.
som
etim e, a t work on MerchantHun
—Amos H aring is doing considerable
and Bert M inaker took a run up th e riv
new d ru g store, but has now returned
—A new channel is being cut out nt
er yesterday, and in less than tw o hours fixing up about his fine N orth Fork
th e m outh of the liver—so reported, and
Acme an d is ready to tackle a ganie
they returned w ith ten very line ducks. ranch,a new chim ney and fire-place being
stra ig h t to sea.
Jim “ shooed” th e m ud-hens ivvay while I un,on8 tbe improvem ents. Mr. H aring crib a t th e drop of the hat— and
Jo hn,iv Weaver is hack from N e -[ Bert laid low th e canvas-backs.
has as tine a ranch as any in the valley, aw ay th e laurels as regular as any of tl
Iiraska and is now w aiting on th e table
m, • ,
,
,
. ..
and he lias gone ju st a little further than boys.
a t H otel Morris
I ~ T 1,e force
wo’'kl,le,l Ht th e govern
C h arlie Cox, Martin Noffsinger, R
m ent rock q u arry is to be laid off to- most of his neighbors and stocked it
with
forty
head
of
cattle,
many
of
which
.d
ills,
\ \ . A. Cox, Johnny Morris,
J . H . M cClung, th e Eugene mercli- night, for a few day. This is done he-
m it, quotes prices. Read his ad else cause of the w ant of a boom stick of tlie are milch cows. The gentlem an makes and Tom Neely all brought logs to tl
where iu this pa|>er.
right dim ension which E ngineer Kick- a great am ount of hotter, all of which Siuslaw R iver Lumber Co’s, mill
- Mrs. A. M cDonald, wife of Forem an sacker is endeavoring to get hold of and meets a ready m arket a t a good price week. J oh n ny Morris walked away wt
per pound.
th e whole bakery, so to speak, and fli
McDonald at the governm ent works, has w ithout which work cannot progress
lieen, and in fact still is, q u ite ill.
—Rev. Moys is a m inister of th e gos- ed in a raft of five logs which
—M. F . P h illip s’ new house is the
l,e
d ,e M ethodist faith, b u t it is 10,362 feet, and which brought him
H arper W orkm an, who has been envy of m any river people. It will he
quite i l l at the Florence hotel for th e one of th e best and most convenient quietly given out th a t lie performed an th e neat sum of $41.48.
T he n e x t schooner to arrive will
past three weeks with lung fever, is re- ! dw ellings in Florence. Mr. P. is now a t act this morning which is more in ac-
ported to lie im proving.
work p u ttin g on th e first coat of plaster cordance with tl,e B aptist faith
th an th e F ree Trade which w ill load at
-S c h o o n e r Free Trade has sailed from Tl,e in te rio r w ill he finished iu natural "7 th ,the ° ne t0 w l,id ' 1,e adl,ers n,ore E . S a u b e rt’s mill. The schooners
San !• rancisco, and unless she breaks all wO°d, n»d th e ceilings and walls iu hard C 0801-v > 1,1,1 insomuch as the perpetra- ielson, McCullough and Chetco will
previous records she may he expected to ,,n ’Hh plastering.
h o ” ot the joke was upon himself, there tu rn so soon as they discharge t
—T he W est job rooms are having a | i8n’1 a n .v kick coming. W hen about to p resen t load of lumber in San Francii
a rriv e m a bo u t t h ir t y days
big
run of work this week. U tte r and I 8t®P *7t0 1,18 boat bis bead got " ,ixed UP and will reload at the Siuslaw Lum
—N. H. Bjeldanes has moved, with
his family, from th a t pleasant North hill heads for Know lee & G ettys and Si- with C olter’s wharf piling, which upset C o m p an y ’s mill. The Chetco cai
f ork ranch to Florence to rem ain the uslaw L u m b er Co., hill heads for him 86 completely that he lost his bal th e largest and most valuable cargo
stea m e r C hance, ami w here we glisten ance—the water right at th a t point is lum ber th a t has been sent out oí I
winter—in N. E. B erkrem ’s house.
about seventeen feet deep, and wet and Siuslaw riv er this season.
— At what ,m int can Florence people, th e m ost b rillian t is on th e Odd Fellows’
cold
every inch <¿1 the way—Rev.
who attend church in G lenada, get off in v ita tio n s—sm oother th a n silk and
Moys is our authority for the statem en t,
—Florence needs a good grocerysto
’ hat they may hit th a t new sidewalk done in th re e colors.
and he ought to know
For
term s, ren t on store building, etc
which is being built “ south from th e' ,
........ ..
, ^ m h er
..............
entire
distance—both
church?”
w rite Geo. , M. Miller, Fairmoui
1st to w re c k th e n o rth bound fre ig h t
ways.
He
caught
onto
his
boat's
p
a
in
t
Oregon,
— C a p ta in C ox is busy up nt Acino tr a ,n ’ n e ar
11 >« «»id th a t a
er as he came to the surface and made
th e s e t im e s g e t t in g ( , „ t „ a w lo g s , th e rail bad been rem oved, and was diseov-
a
successful climb onto the wharf again,
same to Is- sawed and shipped to San ' ‘red by a ’" an living nea,‘ th ere " h o ex-
S T R A N G E THINGS ABROAD.
I'ram iKe,,. He expects to get ou t about lK‘cted l,ia d a u g h ter to return from a very wyt clergyman, but none the
A country ja il in Mexico is (aid
<»00,000 f»>et.
' “ Pass on th e train and had gone worse for his early morning plunge.
G ra n t’s
co
n sist o f a live-oak tree, with a eh
A ny and all kinds of building niateri
~ On tin* 4th Saturday of th is m onth, to th e statio n to m eet h er.— /'Zatndeafrr.
an d sta p le attach ed .
al both rough and dressed, at David it
— Buy p aten t m edicines at Meyer A-
A t th e d e a th of Queen Elizabeth S.t
. r , ? " ” " iH " ,vvt
u '<‘ evening at
Son's Gleiladi, saw-mill.
dresses
w ere in h er wardrobe, ofwhn
K
y
le’s—big
stock.
You
are
not
sick
a i"i work. I he Dispensation
tw
o
o
n
ly
w ere of silk.
-as arrived, and nothing is left to do now, b u t you may lx». I.ay in a stock
A PECULIAR DISEASE.
A
new
iron
bridge over the Fam
nut go torwur«!.
for a sick day w hile the assortm ent is
From the Kugene Register.
in
S
tra
th
g
la
s
s
. Inverness, lately c"
II,
good and prices out of sight.
C. M. \o u n g has lost another colt. 1 lapsed th ro u g h a e art of about one u
th is week
It is q u ite probable th a t m any of the The last one died a lew
The rivets were cuti
lie has
T H E
W E ST .
*
..... .
«»rewsier, on two mines in this way
fall. They
’ lent lake, and th e one tu rn ip m easures art* now pretty near all
gone
and
he will
T he
just an even yard in eireum ferenee.
have to stock up again.
P agin
16-page jo u rn a l will be sent in*
M innesota H otel, in Eugene, is one
RELIGIOUS NOTES.
block from depot. Kates, $1 per ,|a v J
all the Kiibserilmrs of T he W
All w hite help. This hotel has been r e - ' Sacram ental services will be held «it
who pay one year’s sulwrip1'*
littvil and newly furnished, l ’a tn ton use th e Presbyterian church
Christmas
it.
m orning.
c tses canned.-
in advance. This lil»er#l offer
— It IS given out th a t now only 1,^1
T he Point Terrace Sunday-School « ¡it
- • K. B Colvin reports to the
, plies alik e to all eld !1!‘ * ein
th a t d u riig th e revvnt heavy wind a mail is carried on th e Florence-Eugene I j° ‘n «'»*» the Florence Pivsbvieri
*
wagon, buggy and a year old call w ere m ute. The m ail which formerly cHtne S unday^ehool in Chri
11st mas tree exer- new patrons. Remeiahcr d
Mown from under a shed e n “ I hid” over th is route goes to Drain where it ¡„ rises.
you only two dollars for h'°
.O b o , ™ , , , ™ , , „
lln<in. |
Rev Moy> w j|| ( w i h
(
E ic h e r s p h n v on th e n d hills am
!
am! lami
p<‘rs. Sam ple copies
’ . • 1 ’ *t
,va<’’1
a * « <u.
I’M t true,
f min i , race next a o Sunday
V» route,
e, but
nut ¡Í rvrw.rtïi
reports lu
l»e
11 o’clock
a. m. at this ofliei*.
•mw erecting M ti„e dwelling house.
The re p .rt of t|„. , , r eyou state
'-.Mitd of list, ......... .
shows that
IheSt.ndaw liver sbsal next to the Co-
himlmi river lor the season ,,f ix«».»
$72.-
IHW) Is ing th e e stim a te d value >f
18,000
American Ecii'in>'r'