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IIj Kurii'jjiN Ej III SI \K.SS « i l£ Z> M. M. M U R P H Y , M. D P h jsiciau nnil Surgeon. Office over Dr. Leneve's Drugstore. C o q u il l e C it y , O kegon . S- N. A. DOWNING M D Physician ami Surgeon, (Vtqiuuii C i t i , O bkoon . Cali»—day t*r illuni — Promptly attended L. F. L ane . J ohn L ane L A N E & LAN E, Over the world laughs the s*.i•».»ivli■; 1 1 r. Yet over ■ v her.rt there is gloom Like that which wrap me here in the night j Of my and, dn ar, darkened room. I doubt and 1 po: der and dr» am; I hope, though a hard fate defies, For cone s in niv visions the gleam Of my dar ingks dear ».yes. | [ feel she stands here at niv aide, As light as a bird is h< r pos ■; , She is dressed in the gown of a bride, Hed glows at her bosom a rose. I Sweet her mouth, and her lips smile so f; ir. While blushes in «oft ehe< ks arise On ni '. from tieiieuth flowing hair. Gleams the light of my darling's dear eyes. Ah! con hi I but hope in my heart To win her. i'd love her for nve; Land Cdses a Speciality. For» ver my gloom wonld depart. Odo« «n Main S 'ree», opi* >iie (Vsnmpolit.m I As night before dawning of day; Hotel. I For trouble would ilee as a dream. Roseburg, Oregon, i Ami smiles would replace the world’s sighs. If 'mild them l can -lit. but‘.he gleam J. M. SniLtN. Jons A. G b . vy . j Of my darling's, my denriing’s dtar eyes Samuel William« Cooper. Attorurys au<i Ci iins, lors ni Law. Siglin & Gray. ItUrifysaid Coniwlors At Law, lU K Marshfield, Coos county, Oregon. O f » » » — Holland building. opposite Hitman Hotel._____ ______ Vinea O Attorney and Counselor at Law. M ibhhfikld , Oon. S- H H A ZA R D . Attorney and Counselor at Law. E mpìbk C ity . O í a . J .:W . B E N N E T T . Attorney at Law. M abshfikli ». O ukih * x . D- X*. W ATSO N . Attorney and Counselor ai Law K k i ’I bi : C m , i >i;uoos. J. H . N O SL E R , Notary Public ('oviuii.LK C ity . O i < s . D L. STEELE. M. D-. Dentist- M a r s iH le ld , j the'inlVor j iniseonce is wronglit iut-> hi-ti>r\. O r e g ; n , > the e!)se a.„ , lmimation nf the BU. O. E. SMITH. :eon Dentist. othce M ARSHFIELD, OREGON. villi. 1 H . W r iill, AND JEWELER. 0 © Q .u A lle C i t y , O g n . n r w u r k ef all description.» done at short notice »nd extremely low prices. vani* C o q u il l e C it y , O r eg o n . GENERAL AGENCY for the sah- of City property, houses ami lots, timber, farms, ranehea etc. OiKce in Herald huildmo- re t im - ijuanti- living s [In k s, ils atìt* ung l^a- lies, d o n t « CLildrens il fu r ili*; the liigh- produce v in i . 1,1 C o m m o d io u s <11- and distribution <>f his matter, or the faultless form <>f workmanship in w hich the volume appears, the conclusion must al ways be that this Qf.nt supercedes all others yet made to give us a history o f Oregon; nor is any other effort likely to be made that will compare or compete wi ll it. No one except Mr. Bancroft has the resources for prod .ction of such a work ¡is this. The founda tion of it is laid in tiie great and extensive subject upon which he has so long been engaged— namely his elaborate history o f the Pacific states o f America, aud to the vast materials collected for this work and to the fountain of general his tory which they afford, applicable to Oregon as or e of the parts or divisions o f the whole subject, he has added an immense mass o f new matter, collected under his own direction; and as we turn over tiie volume before us we penvive at once that his statement that it is wrought out largely from original . ho com- , l b ..« ., V \ v , . ma c. to go he has b e » And ns Burke pro- out shopping or something o f that oppi the moutn upon ¡^ mission to the Indians w est: foundly says: They who do not sort He went on through the o f the Willla Walla rlver>il,hl tnuU ° f the. n ' * k> look back to their ancestors ’•'•ill ‘ house ‘ into the back yard, and there, ing posts on the Spokane, on Fend direction o f the American board, j never look forward for their pos- j under an ople-tree, were the little d’Oreilie lake, on the Okanagan Dr. Marcus Whitman, of Bush- ferity.” | fellows playing. They had a bench and the Kootenai; and more im- ville, \., was designated by tiie , ()c the contention with Great and some bottles and tumblers and Parker's associate, and and ( Britain over territorial rights Mr. | were playing ‘keep saloon.’ portant than all these, and second , board as P arkers associate, He onlv \ ancouver.a f -i at (olville. , the two met at St. Louis in April, | Bancroft gives us a comprehensive j noticed that they were drinking ,,,, ... ■ lh ere was likew ise a p or the i ]S:G. u hitman, however, did not [ and lucid account. Tho great i n - : something out o f a pail, and that Hudson’s Bay company <>n the come through that year. Inter-1 cident o f our early history, the j they acted tipsy. The youngest Snake river near the mouth of the course w ith the Indians on the j Whitman massacre, becomes in liis I wlio was behind the bar, had a Boise. American occupation of plains led him to the conclusion j hands an episode that once more j towel tied around his waist, and the country was far more limited. that teachers were wanted among j chains the attention; and the an- was setting the drinks up pretty It was, in fact, nominal only. All them, and after com ing ¡is uu ^ as | thor’s observations on its causes ; f ree. Smith walked over and look- told there were about thirty-five , Green l iver he turned back, 1>ar- ! and consequences are conceived in j ej i „ the pail. It was beer, and white men in the country west oi ker came on. but did not remain in | a j ust and philosophical spirit. ; two o f the boys were so drunk that the Blue mountain who did not the country long. | The Cayuse war is also the subject j they staggered. A neighbor’s boy belong to the Hudson's Bay com -j l pen Whitman's retilin to the ¡o f an invaluable chapter, since it a couple o f years older lay asleep itti the [ >arty was organized which puts in form for permanent preser behind the tree. pany. Nathaniel J. Wyeth, an 1 bast American, had \isited Giegon with i has ma»ie \i human s name so fa- j vation a history o f much o f winch “ M y God, l>oys, you must not. a patty for the puiposo of estab- moos in the history of Oregon. | already becoming misty or drink that,” lie said, as he lifted lishing *rading posts, and had re- The narrative o f its work is pre traditional, and would soon have the six-year-old from behind the turned to Boston to send out a scnteil by Mr. Bancroft with re been lost but for such work as has bench. vessel with goods, and several o f , markable compactness, clearness neon expended by Mr. Bancroft in We’a playin’ s’loon, papa, an’ I 1 ^ his men Imd remained in the coun ml fidelity. r i T' ne illude survivor bringing its materials together and was a sellin’ it just like you.’ said try. Wyeth was to return to O .e- o f this company is the venerable sotting them in attractive form o f j the little fellow. Smith poured i f . <» im y , h Í A sto r ia . T’ li»* 1 g ui across the plains in 1S3Í. narr;*! i ; ve. out the beer, carried the drunken party an ived B a l i a ; at F o i W a lla The failure o f tho Aster scheme o f T h ( »tv! the book is per- bov home, and then took his own f k >•>/ * • >. 4 1 * had left Oregon almost entirely in in Soph . 11 U*!'. sp iciv s and easy, though the con- boys in and put them to bed. Mr. F. ; nero f f s no: ;t cliap te r ¡ifio r ten ts . e the fruit o f incalculable \\ hen his wife came back she ,r the English tor ¡i mg the he period. It was the call for m is that relut ing t ) the 'F h iim n ill eX - ; la b o r : t is accurate, forcible and found him crying like a child. He sionary woik among the Indians pediti- 1 . give an 'account oi till ' j sustained, alike avoiding studied j came down town that night and that finally did most to attract the ! i illametle ( ’ i t i l e company, an : pomposities and careless trivialities j sold out his business, and says he attention of Americans to Oregon organization thnr. »h which the | o f expression. Looking at tins will never sell or drink another ’t «vi of patth carile* was supplied I y their work as one that Oregou wants and drop of liquor. His wife told mine again. About the year 1832 four warn native chiefs from tlu* region introduction from California. Thè * needs, we find it difficult to say all about it, and she broke down crying around the headwaters o f the ( ’»>- ut .s an important episode in the we desire in commendation o f it. while she told it.” lumina appeared ¡it St. L ¡us, ask early history o f Oregon, and the It ought to have a large circulation j This is a true story, says the ing for Mr. Clarke, o f tin* Lewis echoes of the event wer« heard ! in Oregon, particularly among the Pittsburg Dispatch, but the name and Clarke expedition, then Indian agiMit at that place. Tlieii fathers had told them of his visit to their nation. From various sources, Irorn the praisi <»f pious travelers and tlx* »»atiis o f impious trappers, they had Imard o f the whit** mail s G od,and the hook which he hadgiv- j ¡during many years afterwards, in litigation find politic Reinforcements came for the missionaries, and talk about Ore gon, resulting chiefly from mis- work in the East, began hither tho .attention of I , early settlers and their descend- was not Smith. -e -< ; ¡nits. From its mention o f those I : A G ood O l d I n d ia n D e a d . — I who had part in the making of EacT I ©Id Indian Jo., who for thirty J . P. E A S T E R , M. D. Oregon none are omitted, years or more resided on a little P hysic u s , S uboeon and O bhiktbu m n . has his place in the regular move Special attention ^iveu to dint-uses of wom farm a few miles below Vanney’s ment of the narrative, and the en and children, and nil chronic forms of old ferry, in Josephine county, was dieeatte. C bhab of obstetrics ¡f 10; teeth ex copious notes supply what further tracted for 50 cents each. Si>eciiil treatment considei.d’ie numbeis not connect- information is needed for compie killed by bis son-in-law last week. fer ltheuuiatinm and Neuralgia by the ined- Jo. aud his son-in-law had been ieated vapor bath. ; eu- Vl1,1 " ,,w " ’»mid th« great white <'d with the missions, In 1840 a tion of personal sketches. Of Offloeat reaidence in Coqnille City. drinking freely, when ¡1 quarrel | 8mnt their prayers and send party of young men arrived course the record is not complete I. O. G. T. followed about the killing o f tho j n ‘ligi‘ »is me., to point their people | IV on »» l!1 * tllfl oljly survivor o f in this volume, which comes down Morning Star Lodge the way to heaven ? This reads j " Imm 1 « Amos Cook, of Yamhill only to 1R48; hut it is speedily to ol<? f doB- The son-in-Uw No- 464, 1 m > followed by another. emb<xlving i »».»ed lns shotgun and fired three like fiction, but Mr. Gancioft says M««tn at Coquille City every Thursday that the story as he presents it has i I ne Catholics also began to send j ^j]e more recent history on the shots into J o ’s body before the old evening. Visiting member« of tliiH order, in good Ntanding, are cordially invited. A f simplified missionar es among the Oregon sjime plan. At this time we can Indian could get to his gun. sources, and that a great p ro p o rtio n been condensed aud ter securing it he turned and fired of the facts had never before ap from many conflicted and yet eon- Indians at au early day. lh o lirst only add the further remark that at his son-in-law, killing him upon I. O. VHg0S> o. F . peared in collective form, or even curriug statements, and lie has no j party, under direction o f the late Oregou’s debt to Mr. Brncroft for Jo. died a few minutes doubt o f its substantial truth, j Archbishop Blanchet, arrived in his work is immense. Hereafter the spot. in print, is fully borne out. To Coquille Lodge No.53 Old Jo. was well known by Wlmt followed gives the story ad- 1838; and soon after there began wo shall have frequent occasion to later. Heel* at Coquille City every SatardAy even get the result, he has worked over ing. Visiting brethren, in ¡¿ood standing, ditional credibility. “ The incident, that jealous rivalry between the make reference to various parts of the old pioneers o f Southern Ore ar. immense mass o f crude material, cordially invited. gon, ami highly esteemed by them J. C. Laird, N. G. a large part o f which he lmsjlerived heralded through the press, elabor- Catholic and Protestant mission-| ........... j for his many acts o f bravery in do- from personal imrratives; amt tlm 1 nto'1 *’ * 1 lll> l’ull,it. 111111 " ro»K1't i n - : “ l ie», " lli« 11 l*e«»me the source o f , A. F. and A. M. A gentleman who was for a long fense o f the early ettleiiient o f Chadwick Lodge, No-68- skillful comimrisou o f these ,mrra- ! to .livineand spiritual forms hy ; tho controversy which has iilleil so | time a resident o f Lima, Peru, j this country. During the war o f U m u at Ouquill. City on Saiiminy «ven 1 tivcs, with happy combination ,,f fervid religionists, who saw in it ¡ large » place in our early records. th efin " g erof * *' God 1 pointing * west- ‘ lA Mr. , ■• Bancroft ” ............n -------- goes n through ............ 11 this ' said, while speaking on the subject 1855-T», Jo. proved himself .a true Ina ob or bkfure the f.tlliu.K.n in each coincident portions o f them, under 1 11“ month o f earthquakes: “ In Lima there ( friend to the whites, by acting ns .John Goodman, a critical judgement that has re ward, awakened general interest in I portion of our history in a judi- He is a constant shaking of the ground. | their spy and warning them o f ap- W. M. jected what was merely inconse tliat direction.” The missionary cious and impartial manner. Many o f them board o f tho Methodist Episcopal weighs all the statements, makes The houses are uniformly three j proachiug danger. quential or irrelevant, has given us G. A. R. tories in height. The first story j owe their lives to liis fidelity, cour- a result which the people of Ore church at once took an interest in i sagacious comments, and diaws, so Gen- Lytle Post No- 27 ^)r' ck or stone, the walls being age and vigilence. Indeed, were gon have but to see to appreciate. this appeal, and Jason Lee, o f far ¡is we can judge, just conclu- j Meoti at Coquille City, <>n ©very lirst Stanstead, Canada, and liis nephew, | sions. The fair minded reader fully three feet thick. Tho upper his life written up, it would be h Wodnemlav. Vistint; oomrads, in good W hile the text maintains the easy atandina, oordially invited. dignity o f a continuous narrative, Daniel Lee, offered their services j must, we think, give him credit for two stories are made o f bamboo very interesting and highly appre A. H. Writiht. Commander tlie foot notes contain a prodigious as laborers in this field. They were ; ¡in even balance o f judgement in lashed together. It takes a pretty ciated book by our people. About severe earthquake to destrr y one Coquille City Command, wealth o f minor incident and bio accepted, and with them were en his treatment of this difficult por o f these buildings. The pecular three years ago ho had a son killed by Georgo Justus at Grant's Pass, graphical mention. Lei us try to gaged three laymen as assistants— tion o f our history. USTO. 1 , O. XS. O., and the loss o f liis boy seemed to Orgamzation of tbe Provisional 1 *!,inK ttbo,,t “ ehake is tlmt Cyrus Shepard, o f Lynn Mess., Meets in thisplaoe every first and third give a brief outline o f the matter in p time you get one you are apt to Many Courtney M. Walker, o f Missouri, Government,” and “ Oregou Before take it coolly. The next time you weigh heavily upon him. Tnaaday in each month. All mend»en» in the volume before us. ood taandig are oordially invited. The narrative oiiens with ?i de- and Phil L. Edwards, o f Kentucky, j Congress, follow as important are afraid, and over after that you who knew him noticed a great A. T . Lillie. Commander. H e lost scription o f Oregon as it was in the Jason I^ e left New York in Mjuch, chapters in the history o f the mak- ore demoralized. Earthquakes are change in the old man. something that no man can become i his usual good nature and became , year 1834, when tho territory then 1SH lecturing by the way. At the | ing of Oregon The clearness of g joined by ' nn angement mul fulineSH o f state- ^cUBtonKvl to In countries where moi-e and more sullen and sad. | known by that name “ embraced the Missouri river lie was j tjj , « they are prevalent the people rush H e had a host o f friends among Pure bred Brown Leghorn and Plymouth Ja m l lying between the R ocky , the «thor members o f the e x p e d i- j ment lea\e nothing to be desired. at once ijjto the middle ______ o f the __ the settlers in Ins \icinity who second As the present volume brings the ! street, Hock Poultry for sale by la r*ard R. Cart-I a n ,j P a c ific o ce a n tio n . W y e t h , m a k in g h is seco n d A s th e p re se n t v o lu m e b r in g s the* ! street, w h ich is a lw a y s tho sa fe st•* will a b r a y s fo e ’ oron tfn l to H i«; Yoneolla, Douglas ( County, i ei)(|jng a ;— h isto rv dow n tt» 1848. th e n ntiior i » ulace.” ( uiu o u t true lu u in u lile m t.iliX Yooeoiia, . a m J J au(j i ex^ northward indefi- I Urip L-»». for U>a the purpose o f aufoLliuhincr establishing I 1 history down to 184S, the author place. — E x . BLOODED gP ¡F'*gr ’ Of O re 'o n In two volumes o f his great work he had aireadv treated of the dis- : cover y and exploration o f the Northwest coast, bringing down the narrative to the time when ac- , , , , . . , . tual settlement may be said to ! have begun. He now takes up what is distinctly called tlie Histo- ! ry of Oregou, the first volume of which, covering the period from ; 1834 to 1848, n bofere us. It would not be easy to overstate the attractions and merits o f this book. Our examination o f it has produced increasing satisfaction j and approval; so that, whether we i consider the vast variety and w ealth of material; the skill with w hich it is sifted, the manner in which rem- Office in HolUiiul building, opposite , Blanco Hotel. Laa^bini» cas I.aivhiu»' aa H and other M*101 ^ *niesth«ticH adminLUrtil for tlu painless rangemeut extraction of te» tb. v in i WATCH-MAKER OF trading posts on tint Columbia, gives us an account of the several * Temiii nuiee serm on, was awaiting them. The party ar- j immigrations into Oregon down to j ,»j j]0ar tjmt Smith has sold out rived a Fort Vancouver in Sep- j that year; anil herein we have per- y 8 sa]oon ” sajq one o f a couple o f tember, and W yeth’s v *ssol, the ; haps in even a larger degree than j m i^ le -a g e d men who sat sipping w T M ¡vl'l Dacie from Boston, with j elsewhere in the volume the result j their boor aud eating a bit o f cheese g a^tls, t< » ils ml provisions, was j of Mr. Bancroft’s labor upon origi- j ¡ u R Ha]oon already in the •» Yffumbia river when , ual materials. He has collected a “ Y ts ” responded the otlier rath- they arrived. j vast amount o f valuable matter er gjOTVjv Wyeth established a trading post J which, without labors, such as his, “ Wlmt was the reason? I on the uppei Snake river, which he was sure to have been lost; and he thought he was just coining money called Fort Hall, and another on j has put it in a form which will there ” Sam e’s island, which he called permanently preserve it. N o ser- J The other nibbled a cracker ab- Fort William. His purpose was vice that one can render in writing j gtractedly for a moment, and then not settlement, but traffic; and o f i the early history of states is more j saa] . “ Jpg rather a funny story. course the chief object o f the m is -, valuable or more entitled to grati- j Smith, you know, lives on Mount sionanes was religious work among j tude than the collection and lia r-, tf'ashington, right near me, where the Indians. The results in either : monious adjustment o f the mass o f | jje jiag an excellent wife a nice case did not justify expectations, j materials o f this description, which , jj0ine> aiu] ti,ree as pretty children Tin* chapter on “ Methodist Oc would soon disappear without la- ag ever played out of doors. All cupation’ is followed by a chapter bor like this. Some may ask, in- b0y g> you know, the oldest not on the “ Coming o f th e Presbyterr- deed, why such materials should be over nine, and all about the some ! ians.” The appeal made in behalf preserved. Not, indeed, merely to 8jze Smith is a pretty respectable o f the Indians o f the W est was [ gratify personal vanities, but to l e t ' citizen, never drinks or gambles, heaid and considered by many o f posterity know what the spirit o f ant] thinks the world *»f j«5- p » i'\ j the church denominations, and in , its ancestry was. Man can t tell “ Well, he went le »me 1S31 iiov. Samuel Parker, o f what he is unlessJie knows what j noon last week, aud found his wife Bancroft has reached the division with that stream . . . , . . , • , i • ,, pany also had a post ¡it regon . T. G. O W EN . II I M O K A only other post o f the .Hudson's Bay company, i.. what is now Ore- In the course o f his labors on gon, was situated on the l mpqua his colossal work, “ The History of river, near the confluence o f Elk General Inauranee and Heal Estate Agent, C o q u il l e C i t y , K O IT S nittily from the fortv-secoml paral- lol o f latitude. There is a brief but clear and sufficient description of the physical features o f the re- <M<»n: a!bl from this tho author pro- ceeds to ¡1 review of the situation ¡is presented under tho joi it occu pancy o f tin1 territory l*y the Fnited States ;iml Great Britain. The most important post in the country was Fort Vancouver, headquarters o f the Hudson’s Bay coiopany, under Dr. John Me- An inter- Lough!in as n governor. b psting picture o f life at this place is presented. Fort George, the Astoria »»f twenty-five years before, Fort X was alm ost tm an ties <i post quail)', on Fuget sound, v o f considerable importance, am .1 ¡iway to the North ill British Co- lumbia were several others. The OREGON. w . SINCLAIR, Attorney at Law. levis NO. 1(5. COQUILLE CITY, OREGON, TUESDAY, NOV. 30, 188(5. vol . FOWLS. 1“*Ji!*n