Sagel Brei VALLEY RECORD VALLEY RECORD FINE FEINTING OF EVERY —MÉKDESCRI ption NO MONOPOLY VALLET RECORD. PRICES ! ASHLAND OREGON, Chief of the County Papers Published every Thursday. E. J. KAISER, Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year............................................. $1 75 Six Months.......................................... 1 OU Three Months....................................... rM Advertising rates given on application t — Give us your order fore Letterheads. State­ ments, Envelopes. &c. VOL. IX ASHLAND, JACKSON ’ COUNTY, OREGON, ’ THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1896, NO. 7. ■ Death of Jacob Grob. Professional Cards Jacob Grob, stepson of Peter Britt, died at the family residence in Jacksonville on Sunday, July 5th, aged 42 years and 26 JQR. J. S. HERNDON, days. Mr. Grob was a native of Switzer­ land and came to Jacksonville with his mother when a little child. His mother PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. soon after became the wife of Peter Britt A shland , : : : O regon , and died several years ago, leaving two her second marriage. The Golden Fleece Mine Again. There was a slight febrile disturbance in HINMAN. D. D. S, the chronic state of litigation which afflicts the Golden Fleece mine. Last Saturday R. L, Shannon was arrested and brought to town for disobeying the order of the DENTIST. court and its representatives in charge at KV’ln th Masonic Building tip stairs the Goiden Fleece on that day. Shannon has been superintending the work at the over Post Office. Golden Fleece and had made a partial cleanup when the attachments upon the property was issued and further work re­ J^R. S. T. SONGER. strained. The dust was included in the attachment, but Shannon captured it Satur­ PHYSICIAN and 8URGEON. day and also ordered his men to start the giant running in defiance of the orders of Novelty Block, Opposite Hotel Oregon, the court. Sheriff Patterson arrested him A shland , .... O regon . but upon consultation and a promise from Shannon that he would desist he was re­ leased. J^R. C. W. BARR. Do Not Do This. Do not be induced to buy any other if you have made up your mind to take Hood’s Denial Parlors in Odd Fellow’s Block. Sarsaparilla. Remember that Hood’s A shland , O regon . Sarsaparilla cures when all others fail. Do not give up in despair because other medi­ All work pertaining to modern dent- cines have failed to help you. Take Hood’s Sarsaparilla faithfully and you may istrv. Painless operations a specialty. reasonably expect to be cured. JJ M. BROWER M. D. PHYSICIAN and SURGEON, O regon . A shland . Office—At Residence, intersection of Me­ chanic, Laurel and Main Streets, SOCIETY DIRECTORIES. G. A. R. BURNSIDE POST NO. 23. Meet in Masonic Hall, on the 1st and 3 with doubt and misgiving at tbe with her Ashland friends. signs of the times; that they questioned Ole Hansen, the Pokegama mill fore- < of each other gravely whether selfishness man brought over a big party of young had usurped the place of civic virtue in the majority of the people. Tbe answer people Friday for the celebration. D. H. Miller and family and D. P. to ' these inquiries time alone can divulge. — Tbe Oregonian. Sears and daughter of Medford went up to Colestein Friday to spend a few days. Tbe Way to Talk to a Goldbug. Sherin A. S. Barnes took possession of Hon. T. J. O’Donnell, delegate-at-large office last Monday as did also the other new officers also the recorder, treasurer, clerk, to the Chicago convention and a promi­ etc. nent citizen of Colorado, before leaving Mrs. M. Parker of Klamath county came for the convention received a letter from down from Salem by Friday,s train en N. W. Harris & Co., big Chicago bankers, route home. She is much improved in urging him to work for a financial plank health. to maintain the gold standard giving as Miss Mollie Reames, Miss Genneyive their reason that the firm had $777,000 Reames, Miss Mollie Barneburg and Miss invested in Colorado and stood ready to Mabel Kessler came up to the ball Satur­ make further investments when the finan­ day night. cial question was settled. In his reply W. J. Carter of Indian school department to tbe bankers the delegate Bays : “Your at the Klamath agency, and family have draft upon the principle, patriotism and been guests of G. R. Gallant tor the past integrity of theDemocracy must be refus­ few days. ed. No authority to draw; stranger to Mrs. Thomas Way who has been visiting us ; no confidence in your resources of M. Carev’s family for a few days, returned ideas or political tenets. You cannot home Monday to Klamath House on the purchase the sovereign right of tbe people Ager road. of Colorado to take that part in tbe gov­ T. D. Gilmore and bride nee Hackle de­ ernment of the Republic guaranteed them parted Thursday for Riddles, Or., their fu­ by the constitution for $777,000. A dupli­ ture home. They were accompanied by cation of your boasted total investments Mr. Hackle. of $110,000,000 in the West and South Mrs. Grace Turner arrived in town will not serve now to swerve the Democ­ Thursday evening from Dunsmuir on a racy of those sections one iota from the visit to her parents Mr. and Mrs. A. P. straight path of duty. The government of this country has been left too long in Hammond. Mrs. M. J. Wilkinson and Miss Nellie the hands oi bankers and bond-dealers. Foss arrived from San Francisco Monday If anv additional reason were needed to to visit Mrs. O. Coolidge and other relatives justify their decision it would be furnish­ ed by such letters as yours. I leave to­ for a few weeks. night for Chicago to assist the militant Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy cures Democracy of the South and West in pre­ colds, croup and whooping cough. It is paring a declaration of independence, pleasant, safe and reliable. For sale by which shall be free coinage, 16 to 1, re­ Ashland Drug Co. gardless of any other Dation on earth or Daniel Brooks, the tinner of Medford, syndicate of bankers and money-lenders. after a sojourn of a few days in Ashland, taking in the celebration, returned to his A Plea For Cuba. home Monday evening, Additional verses to “Old Glory,’• sung Robert Vining and Fred Houck came up Miss Carrie Roper at the 4th July exer­ on the flyer from the city last Friday to by spend a time with Ashland relatives. Mr. cises. Vining went down to the city from his Just off our south shore, lies a beautiful Tacoma home by steamer. Jas. H. Lodge, an attorney of Yreka was one of the visitors to Ashland last week. He thinks Ashland is about the best place all around in tbe country for a Fourth of July celebration. Orville Curtis and wife arrived from Omaha, Neb., Monday and are stopping with Mrs. Eugenie Atkinson who is Mr. Curtis' sister. They are here in search of health and may rem ain for some time. Gold Hill Miner: Miss Ella Griffis, who taught very successfully the past year in the Grants Pass public schools Is spending her vacation at home. She is en gaged for a position in the Ashland schoo Is for the coming year. DIED. Meet in regular review on the second and fourth Thursdays of each month at Odd COAKLEY—In Ashland precinct, July 5, Fellow’s Hall, Ashland. Visiting Bi: 1896, Jas. W. Cookley, aged 58 years. ■Knights cordially invited. Tbe deceased had beep seriously ill for G. W. C rowson , Com. some months, hopelessly afflicted with 'C has . H. G illette , R, K. Brights disease of tbe kidneys. He was a civil war veteran, having served with Co. D. 104th Pa Inf., and was a member of Burnside Post, G. A. R.. of As land who assisted in caring for their comrade and conducted the funeral which took place Monday at 10 o’clock. Contracting & Building House Raising @ H O @ S and Moving. ( C. I. Roberts and J. G. Pierce the editor ol the Express came in on Thurs­ day on their bicycles from Klamath Falls making the 65 miles in 15 hours. They came over to enjoy the Fourth and spend a week or more in the valiev. A. A. Williams, wife and daughter arrived in Ashland Friday from their Nebraska home to visit Mrs. William’s parents Mr. and Mrs. D. L, Minkler, Mr. Williams is the court reporter in his town and a Nebraska populiBt. The greenery placed on th'e streets for the celebration was so pleasing and afforded such an inviting shade that one is moved to suggest that similar use be made of it during the hot days whether there be any holiday occasion for it or not. About 30,000 sheep are now being gather­ ed in Crook county to ship east. The ewes were bought at $1.25 and the wethers $1 50. About $100,000 worth of cattle are also be­ ing shipped out of that county and the market price of two-year-olds being $17 and three-year-olds $22. Republican: H. Duncan was in town from Langell valley yesterday, Mr. Duncan says grain in his section looks well, especi­ ally early sown grain. The wild bay crop in his section will be abundant. The range is excellent and Langell valley will have some fine beef for the market this fall. P. T. Parish arrived from Klamath Falls on hie wheel Friday. His family arrived by private conveyance same day. In the same party who came over to enjoy the Fourth were Mrs. Hamaker, Guy and Roy Hamaker, Mrs. J. A. Houston and daughter, Robert Baldwin and Walla Wilson. Miners’ supplies at R. 8. Barclay & Son, Talent. Cheap. I $ Dealer in $ S Cripple Creek, C ¡1., was tlie scene of an attempted burglary that resulted Zj _ i _ I _ - I - I - I - I - I - I disastrously. Patrolman G rdon Bish came upon the burglars, one of whom Granite, Marble, shot and killed the officer. Citizens Almost everybody takes some laxative joined in hot pursuit of the murderer Freestone Monuments medicine to cleanse the system and keep the and when they cornered him in an out­ pure. Those who take SIMMONS building he shot himself dead. He and Copings. b.'^od LIVER regulator (liquid or powder) turned out to be a local expressman of get all the benêts Of a miid and pleasant hitherto good character. Also agents for IRON FENCES. laxative and tonic that purifie» the btopd A Portland, Or., detective, Joe Day, Satisfaction guaranteed and strengthens the whole system. ' And more than this: SIMMONS LIVER REGU­ . while visiting at Vancouver, Wash., P, O. Address: YREKA, Siskiyou Co.. LATOR regulates the Liver, keeps it active saw three notorious bank hurglars in and healthy, and when the Liver is In the park. The detective sought the city Cal. good condition you find yourself free from marshal and the two captured the trio, Malaria, Biliousness, Indigestion, Sick- who proved to be professionals, ex-con- Headache and Constipation, and rid of victs and were loaded with tools and that worn out and debilitated feeling. weapons ready for a job. These are all caused by a sluggish Liver. Jackson Crooks of Oakland, Cal., Good digestion and freedom from stomach troubles will only be had when the liver While dressing for a ball at a Santa Cruz is properly at work. If troubled with any hotel, let a loaded revolver drop on the of these complaints, try SIMMONS LIVER floor and now his funeral is to occur. All work entrusted to my care done with dispatch, and on terms to suit the times. See the undersigned be­ fore letting contracts and save money. Oak Street, Ashland. Q ALLEN J. B. RUSSELL. GOOD FOR EVERYBODY REGULATOR. The King of Liver Medi­ cines, and Better than Pills. VOR SALK BY ALL DRUGGISTS. ........ —■9 PRESSED BRICKS. j^-EVERY PACKAGE'S^ Has the Z Stamp in red on wrapper. * J. H. Keilia* Co,, Phil*., Pa. f Die 17, S, Qov’t Reports ehow Royal Baking Powder Werter to all otoera. / island, Her brave sons for aid and for sympathy plead, In their struggle for freedom, they are gal­ lantly fighting, And every American hopes they’ll succeed. Poor Cuba writhes under the lash of op­ pression, And her life blood she’s shedding for sweet liberty, Uncle Sam should accord her a prompt re­ cognition, She’s our braye little sister and deserves to be free. It is said that John Bull has his eye upon Cuba, And that unhappy Island be is ready to buy And that Spain is quite anxious to sell it out to him, She can hold it no longer 'tis useless to try; He also demands a large slice of Venezuela, But in both of these matters he had better go slow, His presence so near us would endanger Old Glory. And Uncle Sam can’t and won’t stand it you know, Mister John Bull you have surely forgotten Tbe troubles you* had with us some time „ ago, You’ve forgotten our Washington, Paul Jones ana old Hick’ry. Did you ne’er hear the doctrine of our great James Monroe? We 11 run up Gid Glory if you don’t quit your fooling, We’ll call out a small squad of a million or two, And we’ll give you some more of the same kind of schooling That you’ve had twice before from the red, white and blue. The Situation I» Critical. Only a short time sines I received a letter from a western farmer, a level headed, conservative American citizen, who, after recounting his woes, said that he was through and was “now ready to shoulder his gun. ” A prominent member of congress re­ cently recounted to mo tho condition of western agriculture and the outlook for our farmers and wound up with the ex­ pression, “There is something ‘rotten in Denmark,’ and the peoplo know it.” The chairman of the house committee on labor, a wealthy, conservative gen­ tleman of high character, stated to me a few days ago, in a serious conversa­ tion, that “if matters were allowed to go as they now are our republic would not stand 25 years longer. ” Scores of thoughtful men in all par­ ties believe tho same. In the face of this can we longer debate with ourselves as regards duty?—Senator Kyle. There’» Mischief Brewing. The Democratic party may declare for free coinage at Chicago and nominate a free coinage candidate, and it may do so in good faith. If it docs, thé goldbugs will not support it. Should they ac­ quiesce in the nomination, it will be proof positive of a secret and corrupt bargain whereby the nominee will bind himself to maintain the gold standaid and the country will he sold again. And now Senator Gorman and others of his ilk are booming Vice President Stevenson for the Chicago nomination. There’s mischief brewing and treason in the air.—Cincinnati Enquirer. THE X ASHLAND X HOUSE The Pioneer and Old Reliable Hotel of Ashland, is now Under tlie Management of A- ♦ ADOBE BUILDINGS. Architectural engineering is a branch of the gentle art of making mud pies in the land where the adobe houses grow. In the land of sunshine, where a rainy 18 80 raro thut is marked with a red cross, the native contractor and builder wastes no time figuring on the strength of material, the crushing limit of tubular columns and the wind prcs- supe per square foot of elevation. He does not pore over blue prints of plans, cross sections and elevations, nor does he whittlo down his figures to the finest point so as to come under some other contractor’s bid. He simply rolls his trousers up above his knees, digs down in a favored ditch or pond until he strikes the “dobe mud,” and in a short time he is ready to begin constructive operations. Adobe houses are brick houses, but the brick is sun dried and made with straw. The clay or mud of which the brick is made is a natural cement pe­ culiar to the arid plains of New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and that belt of states and territories. It is turned out in the most primitive manner, and the Blue Island brickmaker who might happen upon a half br^ed or Mexican ’dobe brickmaker would view the operation with amusement or disgust. Kiln burn­ ed brick, made of blue clay, however, would not meet the requirements im­ posed by the climatic conditions of those countries where adobe brick is used. In summer an adobe house is cool; in winter it is warm. Its thick walls ab­ sorb the occasional rain, and, although the sun dried brick is soft compared to the kiln dried article, it does not crum­ ble, and it stands for ageB. A man who recently traveled through New Mexico was much interested in the ’dobe houses. For weeks he inquired and searched for a ’dobo house in the hands of the builders. At length in Santa Fe he stumbled upon a couple of men stamping with their bare feet upon clay in a wooden frame. He inquired and found that he was looking upon two Mexicans making adobe brick. In de­ scribing the process he said: “The men actually dug up the ’dobe mud from the bottom of the ditch which skirted the road. They mixed it, or, as we say, ‘tempered’ it with water until it was of a stiff, clayey consistency. Then they chopped alfalfa hay into short pieces and mixed it with the clay, and their material was ready to moke into brick. A wood frame lay on the ground. This frame was filled with the ’dobo mud mixed with hay, and one of the men got into the frame and stamped the mud down with his bare feet, at the same time tamping it with a stick. After the framo was packed hard he scraped the surplus mud off with a stick, so that the top surface was level with the upper edges of the frame, and then lifting the frame from the clay he carried the brick to one side of the road and stood it on its edge. Tho next brick he made he leaned against the first one, and soon he had a dozen large bricks— each twice as wide and long and thick as an ordinary brick—drying in the sun. One of the men told me that the bricks would be ready to lay in threo or four days, and that they used the mud which tho bricks are made of for the plaster. “The walls of an adobe house are very thick, sometimes two or three feet, and in the ordinary one story adobe house, which is characteristic of that region, they are built up perfectly plain until they reach the roof. The roof is support­ ed on wooden beams, laid edgewise on the walls, and the bricks are built up level with tho top of the beams between the timbers, leaving the edge of the rafters exposed. The roof has a slight slant, and is mado of adobo bricks. When it rains, the water soaks into the roof bricks, but does not begin to drip down into the rooms below until the rain is over. Then the family moves out until tho water is through with its dripping. I saw an adobe house in Santa Fe which was built in the sixteenth century, and, so far as I could see, the walls were as strong and good as any house around there. “Walls are built of stone, plastered with adobe cement, if I may so call it, and such walls are strong and solid. 1 suppose if that country had half as much rain as falls in Chicago tho ’dobe houses would after a time crumble away, but the average year in New Mexico is made up of 187 days of unclouded sky, 139 days when sunshine predominates and only 39 days of cloud, so that the rainfall does not amount to much more than a good sized fall of dew. ” It is estimated that an adobe house costs about $100 a room, but there are mansions built of this material which cost not less than $30,000 to construct When the "Americans” settled in New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, Nevada and the lower part of California they accepted the treeless condition of tho country and built their houses of ’dobe mud. — Chicago Record. Bucklen'e Arnica Salve. The best salve in tbe world for Cuts Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheuni, Fever Sores, Tetter. Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all 8km Eruptions, and posi­ tively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale bv E. A. Sherwin Kentucky’» Name«. Kentucky is Jinown as the Corn Crack­ er State, from a game bird enjoying the same name which v. as formerly found in great abundance in most parts of tbe 6tate. It i3 also called the Blue Grass State, from the belt of land running through the center in which this variety of grass grows to great perfection. In the early dr.ys of gut history it was known as the Dark and Bloody Ground, being so termed by the Indians. It was then a debatable land between the In­ dians living north of the Ohio and these living in the mountains of Tennessee and Georgia, a sort of battleground for List of Letters Remaining uncalled in the Ashland P. these tribes, which fact gave it the uame long before it was settled by the O., for July fi, ¡8^6: Dunn, JR De Strahle, E whitey Lynch, F (3) Oirion, B Turpin, John. The “Record” is prepared to do work in Persons calling for same will please say »H^Hnos oi printing, and satisfaction guar- “adYertiied,” W. H. B runk , P. M« Public Debt Figures. Statistics prepared at the United States treasury department show some curious facts in regard to the national debt The most curious fact of all per­ haps is that we have already paid in principal and interest the whole debt 1 8-5 times, counting the debt at its highest point It was not at its highest point imme­ diately at the close of the war in 1865. At that time no systematic provision had been made for its rapid diminution, and it grew till 1867, when it w«s in round numbers $2,500,000,000. That was its high water mark Then we be­ gan to pay it We have kept up the in­ terest on it and paid on the principal besides $1,505,109,858. We began wip­ ing out the principal in 1867, and that year paid $84,000,000 of it, besides the stupendous interest charge of $138,000,- 000. It was a great gratification to honest minded General Grant after he became president in 1868 that so much of the debt was wiped out during his two terms. The highest amount paid in any one year was in 1882, when the principal was diminished by $175,000,000. The debt reached itM lowest point in 1892, when it was $585,029,880. Since then it has been increased by $231,100,000, arising from the bond sales to maintain the gold supply. Finally on that debt, amounting to $2,500,000,000 in 1867, the people of this country have already paid in prin­ cipal and interest a sum slightly less than $4,000,000,000. Resuscitating the Drowning. An important part of the instruction now given in swimming schools deals with the rescue and bringing to con­ sciousness of those who are drowning. The removal of clothing in the water is a feat that swimmers are taught to ac­ complish. Another achievement is that of preventing a frantic individual who is struggling in the water from grasping his rescuer and so drowning both. A correspondent of Tlio Cincinnati Commercial Gazette says on this point: In this case there is no way but to overpower him first and then turn him over on his back, so that his nose will stay out of water. The rescuer then turns on his own buck, with his left hand under the chin, holds the victim’s head firmly on his own chest and swims ashore thus with tlie use of both feet and one hand, t The person in tho water can bo made “rea­ sonable” either by being stunned by a blow with the fist or by being ducked until he 1 b half drowned and Insensible. Tho methods of resuscitating half drownod persons taught La the athletic clubs and in tbe “first aid to the Injured” courses everywhere aro pretty much the samo. Tho victim is first turned on his face and drained of what water will rim out of his noso and mouth. Then he is turned on his back, his mouth pried open and by a hasty sweep of the finger cleared of the froth and slime in the throat. Tho chest is then pressed to expel tho air; then tho arms are pulled high above the head, when tho chest, tho pressure being removed, again expands. Tho arms are then brought down by the side aad tho chest again coajpresscd. Repeating these movements produces somewhat tho eft oct of natural breathing. They arc combined with rubbing, chafing and beating the 4 ly to re­ store its natural warmth. Stimulants come later. Wonders can be dono in resuscitating the ap­ parently drowned. There is one man alive in New York today who was “drowned” two weeks ago and actually taken to the morgue for dead. There ho was discovered and re­ vived. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ M ♦ ♦ F. M. Stephenson, An Experienced Hotel Man of California, and has bee n Completely Renovated and Improved and is Ready <^^aa^for the Traveling Public. RATES, $1.00 to $1.50 PER DAY MEALS, 25 Cents. ♦ ♦ 2^£Chinese^mjjlo^e(l ♦ ♦ A- ♦ -A. FIRST-OLASñ BAR IIST OOJSTJSTBC- TIOJST WITH HOTEL. ASHLAND MILLS CÖÜiTX PATENT ÏFLÔÜÏ VIRGIN & C©., PROP’S. 4-4’4-4-4’4’4-4-4’4-4-4’4-4,4'4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4’4-4’4-4-4-4’4,4’4-4-4-4’4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-.’. + + ❖ 4* i H. C. MYER + + Ashland, Oregon. t 4- •> 4> ! HARDWARE and TINWARE | •> + + + ♦ ♦ V f t ♦ ❖ <• * i❖ i .... 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