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A Mining Deal. WHAT IS REASONABLE PAT? MUST REFORM OR FALL. After many months of work T. James has finallv succeeded in getting the Hope A ttorney G. W. W hite B rings O ct R E. O'Brien, Who Came Within a and ^hortv mine under one head, and now Halr'a Bread'h of Being County S ome F acts T hat T hrows L ight on ASHLAND, Or...Thursday, Nov. 19, 1896. has them both bonded. He made the first Recorder, Suites the Case of Popu* JACKSON CO. ’ S DELEGATION. W hat is R easonable C ompensation . Iu this issue we Drint several letteis Çav tn ent of $2500 on the Hope yestercav. list Duty his will cause active operation to be begun from different parts of the county on the A pplegate , Oa., Oct. 21, 1896 and the base ores will be treated by a new Senator Holt In Favor of Pruning. E ditor V alley R ecord : question of the reduction of the salaries Your request for my views of the peo E ditor V alley R ecord : — concentrating plant. PERSONAL AND SOCIAL. P hoenix , O r ., N ov . 9.1896. ple’s party plank in the county convention of our county officers, The legislature Having read your letter to the public in Mnsic hath charms to soothe a savage, no E ditor V alley R ecord :— with reference to the salaries of county regard to the salaries of the county officials. Dr. Barr, Dentist, I. O. O. F. Block. meets the first of January and between doubt; but the Schubert Symphony Club Your favor of yesterday at hand, inform Mrs. Will Rice came ont from Portland and Lady Quartette are not traveling for now and the time it adjourns is the ac ing me that you will again open up the officers is received. I am now and was at I will say that you have taken the right the express purpose of soothing savage«. cepted time for the tax-pavere to press Sunday. that time heartily in sympathy with that discussion of the salary question and ask- part of the platform. I believed then and stand in this matter. Neither are they trying to educate the peo The salaries must be reduced. Joe Weininger came oyer from Klamath ple. They are entertaining the public, and this question in — a - practical - r---------- way. The' ---- ing me to write you in regard to what I river yesterday. Our last populist county convention in a manner that is thoroughly enjoyable people of this countv have beard a great wish to do with the platform adopted by still believe that the salaries of the county Frank Williams went to Portland Tues from first to la-t. Their program i« hill of deal of ccmplaint about high taxes and our last county convention. I suppose officials of Jackson county is greatly out of placed fair salaries for those placed in nom novelty and artistic elegance, besides giv proportion to all other kinds of legitimate day on a business trip. ing our readers many opportunities to in excessive official salaries. The people’s you have special reference to the resolution income, that is the following salaries, I ination. Our officials can inaugurate the necessary For trunks and traveling telescopes call dulge in the world-famous American laugh. passed by the convention in reference to think, should be reduced:— on J. P. Dodge at Opera House. If you want to be happy on the evening of party has made a specialty of presenting reform by reducing their own salaries. «alaries of county officers and district at November 26th. you can be, by going to The county clerk’s salary ought not to The aim of the majority of the rank and Evangelist E. A. Ross will begin revival hear this company’s entertainment. Under the wrongs of the people on this line. torney. You will doubtless remember ths exceed $1000, and he should be allowed two meetings in the M. E. church Nov. 28. the auspices of Granite lodge. No. 23, K. of Yet when the party had the absolute say just before I took charge of the convention I deputies at a salary not to exceed $600 I I file of the people’s party is for reform and in the naming of the salaries for Jackson if our officials do not carry out the wishes The DeMoss family played in Jackson P. as chairman I publicly requested the con county this week, going south yesterday. of the people, the people’s party will sure county in the general salary law that vention to take action on the salary ques each. Religious News. The sheriff should not receive to exceed ly fall. Mrs. M. M. Cooksey was up from Cen passed both houses and became a law at tion ; and in taking action on said question The Salvation Army in Ashland still $1500. He should have one deputy salary tral Point this week visiting Ashlaud My oppinion is voiced, I believe, by a holds on and increases its grip. A new the last session of the legislature, the the convention plainly stated the various of not over $600, with provision for such friends. majority of the people of Jackson county. cadet. Miss Hurt, arrived at the barracks same old burdensome figures were re amounts at which it desired the salaries , additional help and pay if necessary as the II Ashland Hose Co. No. 1 will give a grand Saturday and is adding new life to the Yours Truly, placed there. Not one office was lowered, of our officers to be placed, and pledged our | county court in their judgement may de-! Masquerade ball in Ashland Christmas army. R. E. O BRIEN. members of the legislature, if elected, to night. The Y. P. 8. C. E. ot the Presbyterian and one office was raised. The populist demand the same. I therefore consider it j cide. It should bo borne in mind that the ' IN OTHER COUNTIES. i sheriff is paid by the stale for conveying A. W. Wille of Trail creek was here church have elected the following officers: county officials never reduced the expen last week and returned home with Mrs. M. President, F. D. Bobbins; vice president, ses of the county one cent through their my privilege and duty to use all honorable convicts to the penitentiary and insane and means at my command to fix those salaries idiotic persons to the asvluni and that the A. Hull. Lora Colton; secretary Genovieve Tiffany: The following rich and opulent salaries. Thus the as demanded by our convention. I feel county pays for boarding all prisoners. It A Visiting Leader From Clackamas Wm. High, wife and daughter were in treasurer. Leslie Rose. Tells What the Populists Did There from Butte creek, Cal., this week visiting chairmen of committees were appointed: populist party of Jackson county stood that the least that could be said in justifica would seem that the county treasurer’s —They Consulted the Parry and Praver meeting, J. C. Haworth; lookout. convicted not only of continuing a rob tion of that action of our convention is that relatives. Mary Silshv; flower and calling, Genevieve salary of $800. considering the responsibil the PeoDle and Instituted Reform it was a step in the right direction. bery of the tax- payers, but of a shame Ex-Conductor Fred Wall has gone into Tiffany; missionary and information, Fan ity , is none too high , While that of county Right From th© Start—What Mo the grocery business with Lon Zeigler al ny Fox; social, Daisy Mingus; music, Char ful surrender of its principles to greed, Yours Truly, superintendent is regulated by the county doc County Will Do. Roseburg. lotte C'oltou. 8. H. HOLT. selfishness and the unholy ambition to board and I believe good material can be Ashland, Or.. Oct. 5,1896. Crit Tolman, who has been purser on an Rev. G. N. Anne« will preach the Thanks live off the sweat of other men’s brows. State Senator for Jackson County. had to fill that office for $700 per year. Alaska steamer all summer, returned to giving sermorn in the Presbyterian church E ditor V alley R ecord :— Ashland to winter, next Thursday at 10:30 a. m. A collection Nothing but an upheaval in the party in Representative Schrnultleln 'Wants The office of county judge should be run At your request I make the following be taken for charity work in Ashland. the spring saved it from an inglorious for $800, considering that the judge is not statement as to the action of the county Coanty Judge Cut Down. Mrs. Dr. Gil! of Dunsmuir paid her will Eatables will be received and distributed daughter Miss Grace Gill, the express by a committee All are invited. debarred from practicing in any of the officials of Clackamas county (all Populists) W oodville , O ct . 7, 1896. defeat. In face of the facts and the i ec agent, a visit Sunday. courts outside of his own, elected at the June election, 1896, with ref ord the populist party, through the ac E ditor V alley R ecord :— Chas. Young, wife and heir returned Thanksgiving Dtnuer—Hotel Oregon. tion of its officials in the court house, has The way I reason on these matters is by erence to their pledges to the people to I want to say a few words in regard to home to Gold Hill Saturday from a visit 12(roon)to2 p. in, Nov. 26, 1896 the reduction of county official salaries and comparison, taking the legal fraternity of inaugurate a reform in the mattter of with the folks in Ashland. The menu will he everything that can started to again defeat the will of the let the people of Jackson county know just the county and average their yearly pay, salaries. John Coleman and wife have arrived be had in the market». Roast turkev, people. It is the intention of the R ecord where I stand. I will say that I was elect and it is less than $600 apiece. Some of my The county platform did not pledge the from Dixon, Cal., to spend the winter. Air. dock and chicken, fresh eastern oysters to keep up the agitation of this subject ed to carry out that resolution and I intend brother attorneys may say that I estimate candidates to reduce their salaries volun Coleman will clerk for Vau Sant. in can and shell, shrimp, crab and lob and keep the public mind upon the to carry it out. I promised the people’s t iis from my own prsctice. Not so, I have tarily, or in advance of legislative action: Prevent sick'-ess and save doctors’ bills ster salads, and evert thing to make up a people’s party, its leaders, its court house party if elected that I would do it, and 1 conversed with a number of attorneys and but did pledge them to do all in their pow at this season b' IV keeping vour blood rich first-class spread. Dinner, 50 cts. officials and its representatives in the intend to make my word good. find this to be true. Take the male school er to procure legislation which should re Hood’s Sarsaparilla. and pure wish Hood Old Fulks' Concert. t:achers, from whose ranks can be found duce the salaries to the figures named in legislature—all of whom are directly or Every reasonable person m Jackson coun D. R. Jones, a prominent man in Lake Program of the Old Folks’ Concert, at county, arrived this week with his family the opera house, Nov. 21st, (Saturday eve morally responsible to their masters, the ty knows that the salaries of county offici the best qualifiied material to fill all offices the platform. That was all. to spend the winter in Jackson county. After the entire people’s party ticket was people and the tax-payers. So that if als are too high in proportion to other pur and deputy-ships, and their pay will not ning) by home talent. exceed $250 per school year. Take the elected, and the officers-elect had qualified Mrs. Nellie McShane of Lakeview was Chorou«, “Ye-Old Folks at Home” (illus the official representatives of the people suits. trated) ticketed to Wa-hington, D. C., last week I have heard more than one man say that business men with their capital and but few and were sure they would have the offices, bunco or "flour-bin”, this community Recitauon—Mother Wai rad. over the O. R. & N. by Robt. Leonard, they would be glad to take the county are accumulating $500 per year. The farm they voluntarily held a caucus with the Violin Solo—Mr. Bagl<*y. again it will he done while the public The Ashland republicans having given up Qu irtete, “Refuge”—Mesdames Thornton, judge’s office for $800 per year and be satis er-average them up and $200 will catch leadin g people’s party men of the county attention and eye has a full view of the their proposed celebration the republicans Austin, Berry and Trefren. fied, and I thing if all the county officials them all. And a great many of all classes to see if it were not possible to inaugurate at Jacksonville “bluwed out” last evening. Recitation—Mrs. Engle. operation. were cut down to the way that resolution are not making a living. a reform right from the start, and not Harry Barbour was in town Sunday. Quartet. " The Tar’s Farewall.” [We had intended making some re reads they would still do well enough, The people's party convention assembl wait for the legislature to enact a law re Vocal Solo. "Oh ye Tears, ’ ’ Frans Abt — His crew of 17 men are now located on the marks upon the subject in this issue, but ed demanded of our represeutatives at the ducing salaries. The result of that caucus Yours Truly, Mrs. Beach. Siskiyou for a few week^repairing bridges. coming session to reduce the«e salaries, the was that every county officer pledged him Character Song and Tableau. our correspondents have taken so much G. F. SCHM1DTLEIN, Mrs.M.J Canning, formerly Miss Ida Quartet, “Drifting With the Tide”— people elected two members pledged to do self that he would conduct his office for the space that we will deal with the question Representative for Jackson County. Prim. passed through Saturday from Port Mesdames Beach, Austin, Messrs. Tret- all in their power to accomplish it. Will salary provided by law, and pay all deputies land to San Francisco to spend the winter. later on. Everybody ¡8 invited to dip ren and Wahworlh- The Lone Republican Means Busi they do it? I believe they will; it ought to and other expenses ot doing the business of in. Opponents of the idea are especially New stock, mixed pickles and sweet pota Tai>!eau—"16 to 1.” ness. be done. Along this line the county con his office out of his salary, and not ask the toes in bulk, raisins, nuts, candies, lemons, Original Poem, by a Gravbeard. invited. We have extended a personal J acksonville , O r ., N ov . 12, 1896. cran berries, etc. at D. L. Minkler A Sons. Recitation—"An Experience”—Mrs. Annes. vention passed another plank or resolution county to bear any portion of it. These invitation to the court house officials, bat E ditor V alley R ecord :— Comic Quartet. that had my hearty approval then and now reforms ttie Clackamas county _ officers ______ Mrs, Lou Geitner and her daughter, Vocal Solo, by an octogenerinn Complying with your request in relation that is, for one term of office. So our leg-j instituted on taking their offices and are Miss Mattie Niles, arrived last week from Ladies Quartet, "Last Rose of Summer.” they don’t seem to have anything to say Sacramento to pay relatives and friends a Vocal Duet, Life’s Dream is Oe’r — —to the public—on the subject-. Their to my views respecting the reduction of the islators cannot be hampered by a paid ; to-day carrying out; making a saving to visit. Mesdames Roper and Norris influences will be at work in some other salaries of our county officials and other loby from present incumbents, to prevent J the county for the first month (July) over Elder Levi Troxel of the Dunkard breth Tableau—"Free Coinage of Silver”. » * In «<* z* « » L. C il___ __________ • direction and the methods applied will means wberby taxation may be reduced, I Q a TOilnnfinn reduction, f/iv» for fkn the rnnenn reason ¿V the uncertain is 4kz* the same month of the previous year, in ren, is holding a series of evening meet Chorus—God Be With You Till We Meet have only to say that I am and will be not be those that are commonly used to Again. ” removed. I have known in other states ings in the Baptist church. Everybody in- the matter of salaries to deputies alone, General admission 25 cts. yited. sway the mental and reasoning powers, ready at any time to confer with my popu the several county sheriffs and other officers amounting to $258.65. All pupils of the State Normal school and list colleagues and do all I can to bring to organize and bring to bear upon mem _________________ Previous to the advent of the peoples par Col. W. H. Hurlburt, the efficient gener Ashland public schools will be admitted either,] about that end. al agent of the O R. A N. at Portland, was for 15 cents. bers of their legislatures all the influence ty officers in the county.the deputies of their SOUND POPULISM BY J .B. WELLS. on Sunday’s train for a business trip to It will doubtless be remembered that they could to prevent the cutting down of republican predecessors were paid by the San Francisco. during the last spring campaign our pop salaries, If they could not expect a second The construction oi a steel plant is •'---------- --------- --------- 1----------------------------------------- | lUUH county, instead KZ*. of uuv the UUIVUia officers VUll out UL of their A pplegate , O r ., N ov . 14, 1896. ulist opponents promised the people to or third term it would make no difference I salaries. Permit me to add that the prompt If tbe hair is falling out and turning gray, among the many new enterprises pro E ditor V alley R ecord : th. gl ands of tbe skin need stimulating posed for Los Angeles in the near have a further reduction of the salaries of and color-food, and the best remedy and i future. The manager of a local iron In response to your letter, I will say that our county officers. Therefore the taxpay to them. I believe there is less corruption effort« of the people’s party officers to re in office of one term than in several and , duce taxes and expenses, has cemented the siliuulantis Hall’s Hair Renewer, and steel company says that this will the people of Jackson county surely ought ers will expect them to fulfill their promise better service. j party together as nothing else could have R.E.Young.repre-enting Carius, Reynolds to appreciate your efforts in the way of re in this respect and while I made no prom Respectfully, done, and insures them an easy victory in & Prather of Oakland. Cal., was in Jackson involve an outlay of $30,000. form, and do all they oan to assist you in county this week to buy beef cattle and G. W. WHITE. The railroad station at Diamond their execution. You seem to stand firmly ises of that character yet I feel it my duty 1898. It dealt a fatal blow to republican feeders. He goes to Klamath county from Springs, Cal., was robbed, by highway to do all in my power to relieve the tax couirol hereaiter, Republicans stand and solidly for their rights, their liberties payers of our county as well as the whole here. men, who presented revolvers at the and their absolute independence so far as SAMS VALLEY HEARD FROM. amazed at the sincerity of populists in car For first-class dental work see Dr. A. agent and compelled him to open the state. rying out reforms, but they have to ad •• just laws are concerned. Hinman, Masonic block. I am glad to see the R ecord take hold of mire. The Populists of Clackamas say that •F safe. + I know not whether you are one of those, The Klamath county grand jury returned this matter and keep it before the people This Hot-Bed of Populism Pals Some “the way to reform is to reform.” • • John Sheilars, a juryman in a mur who believe hi rushing the whole people’s Talling Truths Right From the ten indictments principally against gamb • • Respectfully, lers and that line of offences. Their work der trial at Sacramento, failed to res party train into the Democratic or Repub and at all times expose insincerity and by- Shoulder. <• pocracy wherever it may be. looked more like a meeting of the W. C. pond to roll call and it was found that lican camp, as prisoners of economics, every • • D. W. SMITH. E ditor V aller R ecord :— • • T. U. Very Truly Yours he had died an hour before court time one or the other of said parties steal, • > I am pleased to see that the Record is N. LANGELL. Orders have been received at Vie* Mrs. Nellie Jeffrey, wile of the tram dis- opened. in this later day, a plank or two from the itatcher, C, 8. Jeffrey, of Dunsmuir, died Representative for Jackson County, calling the attention of the Populist county tori a, B. C., from O.iawa lor the Do people’s party platform. This idea should n Sacramento on Nov. 10th. They have officials to the resolutions adopted by the minion government ilearner Quudra to < A Pincushion Tree» been residents of Dunsmuir for several be most determinedly quelled. To us, Représentative J. J. Howeer'e Views. convention that placed them in nomination. go north and put a slop to fishing by . i One of the oddest trees in the world fusion gains nothing; it is indulging merely years past. Those resolutions were not passed for bun- American halibut uchoonerD ou the E. N. Williams, who has been working a is the yucca palm, which grows in the in the illusions of hops, and gives only the oumbe, but were'a pledge and promise to bank within the three-mile limit in the placer mine on Sardine creek for the past southwestern part of the United States momentary pleasure of a sweet and pass the voters who were asked to support the vicinity of the northeast end of Van three years with considerable profit, was in and in Mexico. It may well be. called candidates nominated. town Friday en route to San Francisco on the pincushion tree, for the Indians ing dream. True financial reform does not couver island and southern end of lie within the horizon of either of the old a business trip. With one exception the nominees were Queen Charlotte island. Most vessels who live there cut the palms down, saw parties existence. Their game has always present when the resolutions were being fish outside the tine -nflo limit, but J. W. Wiley has quit farming at Phoenix them into sections a few inches long been to hypnotize the American people by and moved to Medford -his week He will discussed and acted upon, and there was they come inside to clean the fish be hereafter engage in tbe busine-s of buying and round over the white pith inside word, in most all their elections, and in no objection offered, Th<ry all knew what fore putting them on ice. x and shipping live stock in which he has and sell them for pincushions. Pins and most all their legislation on matters ot the party wanted and expected and having been quite successful the past lew years. ; needles stick easily into the spoDgy pith, The coining year promises to be one ♦ finance. How then can we ever expect accepted the nominations under those con Wm.C. Deniff, the well-known placer and it is said that it helps to keep them true reform, on matters of finance, to ever of great activity in the line of railroad ditions they are in honor bound to com - miner of this county, was over from Squaw bright and clean.—Chicago Record. construction in California, as both the spring from their ranks? Old parties must ply with them. lake this week showing a San Fraciaco putrify, disintegrate and die; new ones mining man some placer propositions in If the populists of Jackson county want San Joaquin Valley and the Southern THAT PO PULI'T PLATFORM. this country. He took him to tbe Hungary must be born, grow and have their matur to retain the confidence and support of the Pacific Co. will resume the construction cieea district. ity; new party names must brighten the voters they must put into practice what of ¡new lines. The former expects to The following is the result of the late I R esolved , That owing to pages of history, with its every act, as extend its line from Fresno to Bakers th *y have been preaching. teachers’ examination: First grade— a nna patriotic, and as pure as General Reed’s, of field and from Stockton to San Fran the depressed condition of the Good resolutions by a nominating con Rodschow. Lydia Owen. Second trade— Mrs, Alice Bacon. Miss Elsie Roof, W. H. country, the low price of labor Revolutionary fame, before we can have “a vention does not lighten any of the burdens cisco, while the latter will exteud its government of the people, for the people TREASON TO THE ELECTORS. of the taxpayers. "It costs them just as 1 coast division from the present termi McDaniel. Third gtade—Jessie Gregory, Viola McKnight. and the products thereof, we and by the people.” much to pay excessive salaries to populist i nus on the Santa Ynez river to Santa Now kindly permit me to say something A Delegate to the Convention Des officials os if they were republicans or dem- . Barbara, thereby completing the new Call on M. H. Howell when you want deem the salaries of our county your understanding built up for this weath in respect to salaries. cribee the Attitude of the Court ocrats. The schedule of salaries recom coast line. er or need a new foundation for your pedal officers to be in excess of the in I believe the salaries of the officials of mended by the convention was a liberal one. House “Push.” extremities. Howell has returned to Ash land and opened up next door to hi3 old come derived from other legiti Jackson county should be whittled down. If any candidate before that body had ex G old H ill , O r , Noy. 11, 1896. I believe the salaries of our President of stand, opposite I. O. O. F. black. pressed dissatisfaction, for a certainty he mate business enterprises. the United Stales and other officials should E ditor V alley R ecord : F. 8 Gwynn, known along the railroad would not have been nominated. If he Know The Good We therefore pledge our candi In reply to your letter requesting my be reduced. was ar- and at Montague as a cattle buyer, was not willing to accept only the stated 24 head opinion regarding the resolution adopted rested tnere charged with stealing Why ? because there are too manv office- date? for the legislature, if amount, he obtained votes under false pre of cattle in Modoc county and driving and seekers; and wby do they seek office? be at ths last People’s party countv conven selling them at Marysville, in connection elected, to demand that the cause there is good pav in it. This reason tion recommending the reduction ot coun tenses. with Ed Robinson, who was still at large. The pay of county commissioners was Uwynn was well known about Marysville district attorney and county alone, to me, is sufficient for the reduction of ty official salaries, will say that I have al not referred to but it seems to me the prun ways understood that the people’s party ana has a nice family. officials be paid the following salaries. ing knife should be applied in their case Another reason why I am in favor of a was strictly a party ot reform and as a new also. The per diem in most of the counties - A three-year-old son of E. R. C. Williams stated salaries: of Langeil valley. Klamath county, met reduction ot salaries, is, that under our U, member of the party I was heartily in ac of the state is $3 per day. That rate is with a fatal accident one day recently*. County clerk, $1200; one 8. Gold payment system, interspersed with cord with the resolution. While warming himself before a fireplace The strongest recommendation to me of enougfi. The ten cents a mile is pretty a little silver doled out, as if too much his skirt caught tire. He ran out of the deputy, $800. good pay for the plugs they ride in view would give one the dyspepsia, the salaries the peole’s party as a political home was its house to his mother, who was drawing Sheriff, $2000; one deputy, of all these officials are out of proportion in strict adherence to reform principles in of the present price of horses. water from a well. She soon extinguished I heard our worthy Judge say in an Al the flames and aroused the neighbors, but $1000. the face of oontinuous defeat and despite price as compared with other things. the child died next morning. the ridicule heaped upon it by the “silk liance meeting, that the streets of Jerusa I I say 1 am in favor of reduction of salar Recorder, $1000. Milo Walker is chief cook for Judge Tol ies; but I mean were it in my power, under stockings” of the country. Now that we lem were kept clean because each man man this winter at Tolman’s celebrated County judge, $1000. the present condition of things, I would re are in power in Jackson county the oppor kept the space in front of his own door springs in the Siskiyous. Politicians who tunity offers to carry out the principles of clean. Now let our oounty court set the District-attorney, $2000 for duce ihem. have strained or lied themselves up in a Wby, the laboring man’s wages have the last party convention, and those who good example. knot by soiumvr-au ting during the late fkr, Hiutriet for nil nnrnntiM campaign cannot do be ter than go to Tol- rilG (HSirlCL IOT all purposes. come down. The employer cuts him down have the power to do so to refuse is not only Come gentlemen follow in the footsteps of man’s springs to get them-eives straighten- i our brothers of Clackamas county and let treasonable to the electors who gave them : and the Gold Bug, through his Gold The people’s party carried Modoc ed out. These springs can cure anything. . Standard system, cuts down the price that power, but despioable in the extreme. us show the world that our professions of Hot and cold baths at Storey’s barber county, Cal , at the recent election. Their of everything the employer produces by his I think that the question should be agi retrenchment and reform mean something county platform contained the economy shop. Opposite town hall. tated to the fullest extent and the county . besides empty promises. hoarding, scarce-making money system. We have had on band fur sometime one plauk that represents the populists sen P opulist , officials forced to declare themselves either EART DISEASE, has Its victim at a The merchant gets less for his goods ; the ti Rawlings’ Present Owner County Maps . timent and fai h throughout this western Table Rock, Or.. Sept. 28, 1896. as representing the party platform or emu disadvantage. Always taught that and after thoroughly examining it we can- , country. As the populists won out in mechanic for bis toil and the brick-mason heart disease la incurable, when the for his masonry, and the worst of all is, the lating the two old parties and playing the TRAIL CREEK WANTS REFORM. net see how we ever got along without it. | symptoms become well defined, the patient The map fills a long felt want and this of- j Modoc, which is just, across the s'ate opportunity to get work is stinted. game of grab. becomes alarmed and a nervous panic takes hce wouldn’t be without oue for $50. Mr. line, we append their platform. The Yours Very Truly, Then why not whittle down the salaries Everybody That Was Asked Signed place. But when a sure remedy is found Kawongs is selling the map for the small S. D. JONES. Thia Statement. sum of $3 and everybody having any inter meaning and intention is the same as the of government officials? Are they any and a cure effected, after years of suffering, est m the county should buy one before Jackson county document, or every pop better than a day-laborer, a merchant or a T rail C reek , Jackson Co., Nov. 3, 1896. there is great rejoicing and desire to “let they are all gone. A STRAIGHT POINTER. the whole world know." Mrs. Laura Wlne- ulist platform’s utterances on that sub mechanic? Are they any better than a E ditor V alley R ecord :— inger, of Selkirk, Kansas, writes; "1 desire The representatives of the U. 8. fish de- , ject, but the wording states the case more farmer, who, from early morn to late at In reply to your circular let'er in regard partiuent—Alexander and Meek—have re- , eve, toils hardly to raise fifty-three cent Hon, E. F. Walker bhowa the Way to the salaries of county officials, we, the to let the whole world know what Dr. Miles’ turned from their examination of the fish fully and completely • Heart Cure has done for Out to Get at the Justice of the wheat? undersigned, legal voters of Trail creek, do Dr. Miles’ in Klamath lake. They could find no evi R esolved . —That we demand retrench me. For ten years I had Case. Yes, let us whittle down the salaries in a dence of the existence of the white fish put ment, reform and a strict and economical fully endorse your position ou that ques pain in my heart, short Heart Cure M edford , O r ,, Noy. 7,1896. in the lake by the government several years administration of all the business affairs direct ratio with the enhancing price of tion and will assist yon in every way we ness of breath, palpita ago and presume that those Kind of high : gold, and the decreasing price of all pro E ditor V alley R ecord : tion, pain in my leftside, can. Restores toned fish will not live in these waters. I i of this county. We demand a reduction I see from your hand bills that you wish H RICHARDSON |J. L RAGSDALE oppressed feeling In my Other fish, i, particularly the rainbow trout, of taxation which may be easily accotn- ducts, not specially favored. Health....... chest, weak and hungry The people’s party should have done this an expression from the people of the coun DANIEL FOELLER'G. W WEEKS thrive there ire in ___ great abuudance. plisbed by au economical administration D. HODGES spells, bad dreams, could not lie on either King _____ ’s ______ Daughters meet in ____________ Masonic Hall.i°f _ our county - affairs. • demand a some time ago, as that was one of their ty on the line of reform and inasmuch as J G. BRISCOE H. L. HILL Saïurday afternoon, Nov". 21st,'at 2:30. AH reasonable reduction of the salaries of main cries, but friend Kaiser, I have a “sort we have failed te elect Bryan I think we L. J. MARCK side, was numb and suffered terribly. I took C. T. SKYltMAN members expected to be present as business | county officers to the extent of a 25 per of a leaning of feeling” that the people’s will have to commence at home and build H. VOGEL1 Dr. Miles' Heart Cure and before I finished J. C. HANNAH 8. WILSON of importance is to be discussed. Mrs. E. , cent, cut and demand that the nominees party is ruled by some selfish and design up. the second bottle I felt its good effects, 1 feel S. P. OLIVER T. B. DAWSON W. Goff, Pres. Claudia Virgin, Sec._______ of tbi8 convention ba pledged if elected to now that I am fully recovered, and that Dr. I think the best way to do it is for our L. DAWSON ing leaders who are not entirely free from Miles' Heart Cure saved my life." county officials to voluntarily reduce their i Good _ advice: Never leave home nv. on a • R esolved . — I hat we demand that that onr our the old rot of greed and avarice so promi Dr. Miles* Heart Cure Is sold on guarantee auimey wit h a b e o' C joint assemblyman from this county and nent in both the old parties. I am sincerely salaries as low as they would take them at that first bottle benefits, or money refunded. sin s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Rem- he county of Shasta be instructed at the of the opinion that the plank in the people’s a bid if they should be put np for the low Awarded edy. For sale by Aehland Drug Co. next a8e/mbhnK of tbe ]egiBiature to party platform, most hated and despised, est bidder and let the world know that we most ridiculed and most bitterly opposed are in earnest when we say reform and Highest Honors —World’s Fair, For Dyspepsia place this county in the class to which and Liver Complaint you nave a printed her wealth and population assigns her, by the old parties, is the only panacea for all prove that we are not afraid to take our Gold Medal. Midwinter Fair. own medicine. However, I am aware that guarantee ou every bottle of Shiloh's Vital- ; and that the reductions of salaries of this rottenness of State. izer. It never fails to cure. For sale by T. j county officers be tirade as provided for How long would it take the people to re it is rather hard to let go of a good thing K. Bolton. duce the salaries of our county officials, of when money is so scarce and our needs are in the foregoing resolution. I our stale, and of the United States, if they so numerous. Tlio Burden of Bonds and Taxes. But still we wish to take in the whole sit bad an opportunity under the initiative Rnd Dunsmuir News.] uation and look at it from the tuxpayer’s referendum, when they thought it necces- Our tax this year is something dread <4* and common laborer’s standpoint and try ful. The school house bonds is running sarv. t* We are spending more t up in the neighborhood of $2.60 or Most of the people now think it necces- and have all things as near equal as possi $2,70. The assessor has assessed prop sary; but our representatives, porhaps, do ble. •fr than our profits on Schil erly for a little more than it is worth, so not. Yours for Justice and Harmony ASHLAND - HOUSE - BLOCK, might as well be prepared to We must admit, however, under the ini * E. F. W’ALKER. ling's Best tea to get you to a pay person out all he has made, or a little m ore tiative and referendum, the people might ; for taxes. Before we got through pav change their financial system, so that the To Offer a Reward of 1OO Dollars + ? try it—just to try it ing our old bonds wo have had $2,000.00 present salaries might stand, for the case of catarrh that cannot be cured, Latest Styles . . more slapped on ns. It is a good thing Your money back if you [ that Our present system breeds too much amounts to nothing except to sell article. ♦ + we are no better off. Do you know of any such reward being IN selfishness. Yours Truly, paid? Ely Bros, do not promise rewards don’t like it. J. B WELL8. in order to sell their well-known "Cream Balm ” They offer the most effective med- Fashionable Millinery At grocers’ in packages. When you drink tea get the best—Ito I icants, prepared in convenient form to use. ;Most Perfect Made. A Schilling A Company Blend — it will please you. Take no other, which is absolutely free from mercurials or • • *M Franclacn 40 Years the Standard. J. K, Van Bant. Ashland. other harmful drags. drugs. VALLEY RECORD THE SALARIES OF COUNTY OFFICERS. Sweetness and Light Put a pill in the pulpit if you want practical preaching for the physical man ; then put the pill in the pillory if it does not practise what it preaches. There’s a whole gospel in Ayer’s Sugar Coated Pills; a “ gospel of sweetness and light.” People used to value their physic, an they did their religion,—by its bitterness. The moro bitter the dose the better the doctor. We’vo got over that. We take “sugar in ours”— gospel or physic—now-a-days. It’s possible to p?ease and to purge at the same time. There may be power iu a pleasant pill. That is the gospel of 4yer’s Cathartic Pills More pill particulars iu Ayer’s Curebook, ico pages. J. C. Ayer Co., Lowell, Mass. SUer xTKzirx9 FLORAL CREAM "smooths the chaps’’ and makes the skin like vehet. Sa amt in • s» Pearl White TOOTH POWDER—Nothing like it. Sherwiii’s RAPID HAIR GROWER is guarantee! for dandruff and falling hair. StierwiiTs WHITE PINE and TAR SYRUP cures colds. 20,000 SHERWIN’S HEADACHE TABLETS have been sold in two years. Ask anybody if there’s anything wrong with ’em! Sherwin RECOMMENDS THEM. groceries) ia a v az a Let The Whole World Dr.Miles’ Heart Cure Docs H •DIV tmr I Mrs. E. Fo)$ Included in our stock of Teas, comprising all of the best grades of Oolongs, English Breakfasts, Young HysonB, Gun Powders, Japan’s, e c , we have a package Tea called, "Pride of Japan,” (which we have put up for us and shipped direct from Japan) in 1 lb. and % lb. packages, with our name on every package, and which we guarantee to bo the best ABSOLUTELY UN COLORED JAPAN TEA that can be bought in the market. We have always sold this Tea at 50c per lb., but owing to a large cnffslgnment being shipped us by mistake, we will sell for the next 60 days at 40 j for the 1 lb. packages and 20c for the Lj lb. packages. Every package guaranteed. If you don’t like it, bring it back, and get your money back. D. L. Minkler & Son. ♦ The Ashland Hotel Under New POWDIR 5 Management. RANSE ROUSE. Proprietor FIRST CLASS kccoxo CLASS PRICES. 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