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About Ashland daily evening tidings. (Ashland, Or.) 1890-1890 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 14, 1890)
« i-' ■ . '.vT Daily Evening o Tidiniis o To-Day'« Trains. / i»EA i ¡Nu A BLOCK A ÎXE. mspectiäg the liae . I he train which went dowfi to iiran t s Pass hist evening was expected F riday , ............................ Fin. II. 1880 B. R. Davis, Superintendent of con back by 8 a. pi. to-day, but. was. Tatar Fifteen Bays from Yreka struction of the W. U. Tel. Co. on than th at in coming, auil finally hud to Portland. brevities . this coast, was in Ashland this moru- to wait at Central Point for a special | Hig on his way northward. He is m ak Work on the (laniard brick opera tram from ¡Sisson to Cow creek with VK. “ BOOTS” MUST BE HAPPY. ing a careful inspection of the line be railroad men. 'The local arrived here house block, suspended in December tween San Fancisco and Portland, and about half-past ten and the train from on account of the stormy weather, v, jib resumed this morning by the cun here to Sisson pulled out soon after For . He is Successful, at Last, in walked over the road between M ott tractor. G. W. Ayers. W walls X i«ali.io the Big Blockade. uni Sisson two or three times. On ward. The special train had a lodg up above the joists of the second floor one of his trips he saw a big tree full ing Our rind day coach and twenty oefore the work stopped, and it will not take long to finish the bricklaying. bridge carpenters aboard, ten of them Rough Kvperienee of Schwatka, of Yreka, across and break the wires, and con J E. Fenton, from Port land, and oth gratulated himself on being there so Coffee drinkers won't have to “swear in charge of W. It. Skedd. from Sisson, ers on the Trip through 10 Portland. that be could repair the break at onoe. inflv o ? .b L / KeB.'d House received an and the others Comstock’s men from Mi. Davis has just come from South S i fr° m th * *outh yea- Oakland. They go to increase the P ortland . Or., I ’eb. 13.- A. E. force at Cow creek. ern California, and reports that the S -liwatka, who left l ’reka .Jan. 30th, whole Soledad canyon, along the *fint off to*d ar the Wells during the heavy snow blockade, for fnr i ’ubv Co’ HexErei» w aiter, booked southern route of the S. P., has caved Over From H ornbrook. ror California points. Portland, arrived here to-night, and I ’avid Horn, of Hornbrook, came the story of his trip is ,u, interesting 111 to such an extent that the railroad A large quantity of new plank side walk will be laid ,u Ashland as soon as over on the train last evening, to get one. He had a rough expenence, and company will have to build a new roqd, f c pn" i”“1 f° r t*'« purpose. a few supplies for his hotel, returning met obstacles which would have de and have selected a route ou the oppo site side of the canyon and higher up 11,2 1 ‘‘tte™on has contract« to lay by the south train this morning. layed most travelers. than the old road. When Mr. Davis owners “ I" l,“ bvr of PrtW i From Yreka he reached Montague took charge of the telegraph lines ou Mr. Horn says the reports of dam by rail, 8 nulAs. over the Yreka branch It is reported that a special mail ser- this coast he made a careful examina c re V Ot|ri‘thSfer ,hH malLs “ round the ages to properly in Siskiyou county railroad; thence he walked to L aird’s tion of the country, and, fearing such great obstructions in the Cow creek will probably be found pretty nearlv th* same day. Next morning he set burc"nt’ 18 J**“* »'•'•auge.l for a t Rose correct, though in many instances I he. out for Hornbrook, where he pro a disaster as has happened in Soledad burg. to begin operations ns soon as real injury to the country is not so canyon, lie had the wires moved to The result has ap land T |r ',U h ' h '"' P° iut from P ” rt - great as m ight be supposed by simply cured ¡1 saddle horse, and rode on to higher ground. the Lower Cole’s (the old stage sta land. Uien the trams will earn- the proved his judgment, for the W. U- mails again from Cow ereek to Mott looking at the figures. Many build • or all the way to ’Frisco, ns soon ns?he ings that were injured bv snow tion;) thence he walked to Upper hues were not disturbed m the great obstructions at tunnel 9 are removed. throughout the county were pretty Cole’s, (the soda springs station) and caves and elides that destroyed the remained all night. Saturday he left Paper festival at Congregational nearly past their years of m-efuliies -, Upper Cole's, and at the mouth of the railroad. church, and Mother Hubbard oaiiv anyhow, and the owners in the ma Siskiyou tunnel he took a guide to at Granite Hall this evening jority of cases will he able to replace Dollarbide’s, having to get through a Weekly Weather Report. The slide north of Canyonville re- j or rebuild I hem and the country will section of a few miles where the snow ported by a correspondent at that 1 Following is the record of weather place was not quite so serious as he really be improved in that respect. was piled and drifted from six to fif observations, for Ashland, made by F ’wpatwl It took out the Postal teen feet deep. From Dollarhide’s he S n , ; vver,’. ° l,f!Lrver for the Oregon telegraph Co.’s lines, hut the Western About half of the Klamath City walked to Barron's, where he got pas- Slate WeaLher Bureau, for the week Union wires were not touched, and ti e dam still remains uninjured, hut the sjige bv team and buekboard to Ash ending Feb. 12, 189b: I 'ostnl line was <). R. by evening. loss of the part that went ou t is only land. On Febuarv 2d he left Ash. h v ’i l l ' ¡'avi,Jii, Been received here i £ 1 8 -5 1 O p o c- I 0 I 0 3 1 » a part of the damage sustained, for land 111 a buggy and reached Central » I 5 M ' ¡1 the led ? ,iiO A C<‘ 8 i,Rebt to K‘,n‘t ■ 1 -B ' 1 .dl th e light express matter for Frisco the river bank at the south side has Point (1(1 miles) where be found the Eeb. 6 42.5 35.5 .03 Clear Ca,lforuia points, it is ex- washed away considerably, and the water too high to make further pro 7 50 VJ 36.6 .00 Fair 8 51 ;w Rom San F W1" be eXpretw matt*r dam will have to be larger a n d more gress by wagon road. H e remained 35. .Of, Fair 9 42 31 from ban Francisco on the train to 34 .07 Fair 10 49 costly than before. The water couldn’t 24 there one day, and on Tries., Feb. 4th, 35 01 Clear morrow evening, hut Postmaster Far- 11 51 38. 42.5 .00 Clear '" '-" " » ¡¡o . " f find room enough as the dam was was joined there by a party of four 12 48.5 2«. 81. .00 Ci’dy Afoii i f cora,nR from lieyond built, and was running against and from Medford, J. E. Fenton, Stephen Mott, and doesn’t look for any to over the piers for two days before the ‘-.chea Cnndirt, T. W. W inn and Daniel morrow. • 35 6 e ' “ ‘KHCjtôl. lx,w est,24. Mean big rise came. More room will he left Sternberg, who also bad started for No very definite news is received when it is rebuilt. Portland. here yet of the condition and prospect «O K N . The party started frdrn Central of affaws at the big slide in the Cow r The Blue Gravel Mining Co. was Point on a hand oar, b u t only went Hn i^ R/ Niî 'r 0 N - In b o u n c e foX k|CuSvny<| U' *' 18 r°Po>ted that ef- Rock pre ein ct. Jan. 16th, to Mr. and Mrs. tVm, I ,th/ ' ' ‘'o been untiring to blow Ont not damaged by the flood, and Mr. four miles when they were obliged to H errington, a 8uD. the h r,, with dynamite ami drain the .Tillson is piping with n good supply abandon it on account of a land slide big lake formed, but that the water waler of water from the gulches above his They walked to (Told Hill, crossed the can only be lowered about five feet in ditch. railroad bridge over Rogue river and w^ k- T ‘y‘ ft WiiJ rptinire several weeks to remove the .obstruction, and continued on afoot to Woodville, b o i ? ifor?,I,,irPmfn' Snre ’U There is no way of crossing the where they stopped at B r. Stanley’s I 1011 tor transferring passengers and Klamat h river with horses and wagon* house on Rogue river. Next morning •nails there, we don’t know yet. i vet, ;ill the bridges and ferrys having they walked to G rant’s P a8S, where been torn ou t by the flood. Foot they rested six hours, then took a tersonal . passengers cross on the railroad hand car and proceeded as far as tu n The Ashland Mills will I bridge. nel 9, where they were compelled to Tanner arrived on hist even- j mg s train from Mott. atari, atoot again. They reached L e pay five cents apiece for The fair weather is favorable to land Thursday evening, Feb. 6th, and all of their own brand of la **«’“ • w . Colvig. Of G rant’s Vass is m the city to-day. Mr. Colvig is a | livestock interests on the Klamath, the section boss lefused them admit- flour sacks, uninjured, de Z n " b<‘r|?' t heS,tn^ 1{aiJ' ”ad Commis- 1 and Mr. Horn thinks the loss will not, tauce to his house. They undertook livered at the mill. wiih’ ,,n ? h<‘8 ‘tad Uo Com“»"u>catiou be heavy unless hail spring weather to pass the night in an old car on a with other members of the Commis comes, though hay is very scarce. HR.e track, b u t froze out, and at 2 sion in regard to the railroad situation o’clock a. m. they started on, finding diroughout the state since the recent About the Weekly Edition. destructive storms, but will gO to Glen H R early breakfast and a good fire at The weekly edition of the T idings dale on the train that leaves here to- a farm house about four miles north. moirow, and thence to the big slide in this week is made up entirely of the the Cow creek canyon, to investigate m atter that has appeared in the daily Sternberg was taken siclf m con the s itu a t ion there. edition since hist Friday, and will con sequence of the exposure and over- \ Mr. O IT. Allen, who has been p u b tain nothing new to those who have exertion, and his companions earned h s h in g a pjiper in Fall R iver vnllev mm to Glendale, where they all re al.. arrived yesterday from Sisson’ read the daily. The supply of paper Here they were o f the size of the weekly is very low mained o v er. night. Haying one of the best skylights in Or joined by G.’ S. Miller, of Oswego, in this part of the country, and we egon, a n d k n o w i n g h o w t o u s e i t Lamp shinies ¡ill colors and bouquets I OUARANTKB GOOD WORK. of handsome paper flowers for side at were obliged to print less than the they procured saddle horses and th f festival. usual num ber, cutting off exchanges made M yrtle Creek by 7 o’clock p. ,n. M. E. TYLER, I’resh Gaudies, Figs. Nuts, hates, and others from the mail list. A num Next morning they started on again and valentines just received at the ber of Ashland subscribers were on foot, and reached Roberts hill by AMiLAND, . . 0 m q o ii Soda Fountain Store. * missed t his week for this reason - -the 3 P- ni. (sixteen miles.) Here they The undersigned has again leased ! aim being to miss only those who have found a construction train and rode Myer’s Block.««, side Main streak the saw mill on .Ashland creek, and ! read the daily. If any of these sub- to Rosel arg, where they remained all obu h l promptly all orders for s id e -‘ seribers want a copy of the weekly, night . N, text day they started on a walk lumber x u il, train tfhich brought however, they can have it by calling constru«|ion B. L. M KasENoicic. them a / f a r as the H arrisburg bridge. at the T idings office provided they flimlets, gouges, Lweezcs, pliers, They again walked, b u t only four call before the papers are all gone. Carry th e ia r g e.t and beat s e l e c t « ? I ots and kettles, pans aim friers, All things for all sorts of buyers miles, when they found a hand car stock of At hardware «tore o f H. C. Myer’s* M. E. Quarterly Meeting. ou whi.jh they went to Albany, and I allies, it will cost you nothing to I Regular quarterly meeting of the thence to Salem. They crossed the loot at the lac© curtains at H unsaker’s ' Ashland M. E. church Saturday (Feb. W ilkm ette river in skiffs and were In Southern Oregon Alao and you may find something to please WALL PAPER, FRAMES AMR you « 1 15.) and Sunday, preaching both morn taker, on board the train. Schwatka MOULDINGS, OMILORRN*« «AOONS ing and evening by the pastor. was on the road thirteen days, t n -: ™ Ha;, you men that wear 9, 10and II boots better look out what Hunsaker The war still goes on in the cloak says, b r he sells ’em cheap and they department, at Hunsaker’s. with no at ’’rim A T rofiette® for wai; decoration THT' Dha’ 19 8® *ln « M achine, ars sore to go, * signs of pence. <♦ t nd th pi p Save Your Flour Sacks. > photography . Smith «c Dodge F U R N IT U R E ! " " ( " ' ». 3 i ?
