Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, June 18, 1886, Image 5

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Newspaper Page TextTHU DECA YEI>. COWBOY. -ERA HE AS HE IE OF TOM' NO INJUNCTION J HAS BEEN 1*I,A<’ED ON w II. GRIFFIS RIDDLE, Washington special: The fol The festive cowboy has lieen quite numerous around the buly lowing unique letter was received vards this week. but like the baron, recently at. the post office depart his glory has departed. The heels nient from a citizen of New- Mexico. OREGON, (Jackson County,) ReHtrain Ilim frotn Selling hin I.arge and Well-selectcd StoeK of GOLD I11LL, of his boots are as high as of yore, It is given verbatim. It is only- To but when he sits “straddle-legged” proper to say that old Potn will net <m the corner of a monte table now be appointed: KE1REHENT1NU THE "Ass t I’. M. Gen. Stevenson, re he "blows in” a quarter where for spected Sir: Old Tom Rodforni is merly be staked a note, and though ■<)• he still damns a sheepman, he no circulatin a pajier round town askin Sugar Pine Door à Lumber Co., Grant’s Pass, Oregon, longer rolls his profanity under his to lie made postmaster at this place tongue like a sweet morsel, but and I have sined it but I don't want ------ He is alno Agent for all Kinds uf------ wears the look that indicates blit it to count and when it comes ih MITCHELL & LEWIS CO.. LIMITED. RACINE, WIS. too clearly that the barbed-wire pleas scratch my name off as he is fence ami the “man with the hoe’ no more fit for postmaster than I am New Zealand Insurance Co., Capital, $5,000,000. had done him up. Farewell festive for the minister of the holy gospel. Tom is an awful ruff cuss, drinks, cuss, and as you “pull your freight •Sold by Knapp, Burrill <i Co., Includirg th? — AND toward the setting sun. you tnay swares, fites and would belt hell out find in the land of the Montezums of nie if he knew of this letter. WAGONS AND RACINE HACKS. long eared Mavericks and dark-eyed Pleas burn this and don't give me CELEBRATED BAIN señoritas to console you for your away, and has no eduashun nor o- enforced expatriation, and may you enny manners would whip enny re never be forced to herd sheep, edit publican in town if he had that offis ■o- a newspaper or rob stages, as some and I believe would steal US poor Alno Agent for Park A Lacy, Portland, Dealers in of the rest of us have to do to make in four years, He is a retch of the HIGHEST CASH PRICE PAID FOR GOOD WHEAT. an honest living! What though in first water and every one here is ENGINES, WIRE-ROPE. your palmy days you were a trifle frade of him and would put on more CAR TRUCKS, DRILLS, “handy with your pop" and had a ' airs than a french dancing master STEEL, RUBBER HOSE. Building Mateial of all Kinds Supplied at the Lowest Figures. deep seated adverson to eating and drive every republican out of PUMPS, ROt K BREAKERS your own beef, you were ever gentle the town I rite strong because we with children and treated women have a very refined community and BATTERERS, GIANT POWDER, CÍ with a chivalrous courtesy worthy don't want to give him that offis MACHINISTS’ TOOLS AN I) a night of the Middle Ages; quickly unless you want to dysorganice this lured by the song of the sirene and community for he is a holy terror Supplies of Every Description on Demand, an easy prey to the wiles of the 1 and you may depind on it. We Mining sport, you never "roared” when look to the honorable postmaster they “tapped your game” or pro Gen. to save us from a hooribel AT HIS STORE. GRANT’S PASS, OREGON OF ALL KINDS FURNISHED ON DEMAND. pose to a newspaper man to "shake" doom, yours respecty. S. K. B ower . as long as you had a quarter. Fes J. CHAPMAN. Justice of Peace. J. C. GILLAM. tive cuss, farewell!”—San Angelo P. S. others would sign this but Enterprise. : are frade as hell of Gid Tom. CJILBAM & CHAPMAN. Proprietors. BCRDEX I 7*O n T< UR ICC LT I ItE GEO GENER1L MERdllMIISE IT BIITTOH PUKES. AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY General Real Estate Agent. DRUG STORE. ARRIVAI. AND DU’ARTUE MAH--» PROM GRANTS PAM R> CREAMT CITY. Lv. Grant's Pus». Ar. (Ant’s Puss, Monday. 7:90 a in Wedns'y . -'IMI a hi Friday . 7:00 am ruoM OKINI-S VABH T. GagCB. leaves Aiturilay ■ I 6:00 a ni Arrives. Kam-day). ■ , 6:00 Din orrtce uouus.1 OlBvv open every <lay exi\^ Sunday, from 7:30 A. s. to 4:30 r. M. 1 ipen Sure dav from 8:30 to 10 a . m . J. W. How.un p M. s<M IETY NOTICES. G rant ' s P aks Dinin'. No. R4,.y F. .t A. Mz—M ik -I k in their hall. Old lellow's building, Friday evening on or I afire the full mooir. Visiting brot tiers i <rf4aHy invited to attend. J. W. H oward , V. M. J. T. G alvin . See’v. G olden R vi . b , I. 0.0. F.—Meen every Saturdnv evening at 7 .30 at tlieir hall on Sixth street. Visiting brothers oniially invited io attend. C. K. C hanslor N. G. J. A. J enninök , Sec’y. K erhyville L odge , No. 55, 1.0. <>. F. —Meets every other Saturday evening. Visiting brothels cordially invited to at tend. D an ’ l H une , N. tì. S. W. F orbes , Sec’v. P. of IL Josephine Lodgr, 179, meets at Grant’s Pasa, first Saturday of each month at 11 o’clock a. m . W. M. P olks k , W. M. B anner L odge , I. O. G. T.,49.3—Meets every Friday evening at Dale’s hall. JR H ale , W.C T OVERLAND TO CALIFORNIA —VIA— Oregon A California R. R. AND CONNECTIONS. —Time, 2 1-2 Days.— DR. W. F. KREMER, Prop'r, i THE BORE. A mortgage is a blessing when it Fare from Portland to San Francisco. $32.00* enables a poor but industrious He was positive and emphatic, ami Fare fram Portland to Sacramento, $30.00. young man to secure a home and a could talk a man rheumatic, Grant's Pana, Oregon. Main Street, profitable business and to pay for it for his thoughts were quite in Main Street, Opposite the Depot, Grant’s Pass, Oregon, Close Connections made at Ashland m sure and easy installments; it is sufferably unique; with the BtageH of tlie California, Oregon a withering curse when it makes He could spout forth like a geyser, à Idaho Stage Company. )<>( production dear anil difficult, con or a circus advertiser with his (DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAYS.) sumes a crop before it is made and vast untraveled solitudes of CIGARS’ AND TOBACCO. | NUTS AND CANDY. | ORANGES. E ast S ide D ivision . renders indebetness hopeless. The cheek. LEMONS, FIGS AND OTHER FRUITS. • BETWEEN PORTLAND* ASHLAND* system of advance by merchants or He would yank into the sanctum, —DEALER IN M ail T rain . brokers upon growing crops is es where so many cranks had : LEAVE. - ARRIVE. pccially dangerous and disastrous. propound his yanked ’em, and A Fine, Stock of Staple and Fancy Groceries. Portland 7:30 a . m . Grt's Bass 1 :15 a . m . Drugs, Patent Medicines, It is not usually a prevalent prac wealth of proud preposterous l.r'tsPass 1 -JO a M Ashland 4:15 A. X* tice except tn districts where a —)o(---------- I Ashland. 9:30 P. M. Grt’s Buss 11 :55r.M* lorek Chemicals, Paints, Oils, single crop denominates rural indus While the editor atul devil lost their Grt'i I’a«8 12 :00 M. 1’ortland 4 :2j r. M. IN CONNECTION WITH A FINE LINE Ob' STATIONERY, WE try and brings ready money at any perpendicular level and rolled Perfumery, Toilet Articles, time, rendering Ixirrowing easy and ng borrowing A lbani E xpress T rain . in writhing torment on the HAVE ATTACHED A i the habit of spending encouraging 11. LEAVE. ARRIVE. Shoulder Braces, Trusses. floor! Portland 4 :00 r. m . Lebanon 9:20 p.x. before earning, It has been preva- i He would go and bore his grocer, Lebanon 4:45 A. m . Portland 10:05 am . Circulating Library and a Free Reading Room, lent from time immemorial—at least who couldn't answer “yes” Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars daily I*- for forty years, from personal know nor “no sir," for he gave no WHERE CAN BE FOUND SAN FRUISCO, PORTLAND am . OTHER PAPERS, tween Portland and Ashland. ledge of the writer in the cotton time for parley or reply; The O. A ('. K. It. Ferry makes Con States and it is to this very habit And sinner, saint and deacon, when i nection with all the liejularTrains on the )O( that those States have owed their , East Side Division, from foot of F street. he came at once would weaken, -O' greatest drawback. It is to lie ami extend their folded white I hoped that the producers here will W rht S ide D ivision . wings and sail away to die,— never allow themseives to lie trapp Lynn Union. It ETW E E N PORTL A ND A CO R V ALL IS Pure Wines and Liauors for Medical Purposes. ed by the money loaners. To some M ail T rain . In connection, where can he had------ leave . arrive . extent the wheat and wool growers •O’ .1 l.A Itili AHLE EMBOBE. i 1’ortland. 9:00 a . w. CorvalHn 4 :30 i -. m here have formed their reunions Corvallie. a :30 a . m . Portland It was during the pursuit of Mor custom, but it is to I k - hoped that OYSTERS, ( LAMS. SARDINES. CORNED BEEF. PIES, CAKES. Exrn**H T rain . * Physicians’ Prescriptions Compounded Day or Night. the year I8H6 will I k - the last. gan through Ohio, when both ar- CHEESE, E tc ., E tc . ALSO LEAVE. ARRIVE, ' mies were enshrouded in dust like Portland 5 :00 r. u. M’Mn’vlle 8 SM) r.w. a canopy, and the rebel forces could M'Mn’ville 5 :4o a . m . Portland 3:20 a . m . Lemonade, Soda Water, Ginger Beer, Ac. i not be distinguished from the union A FINE LINE OF CIGARS ALWAYS KEPT ON HANI). laical ticket» for Hale and baggage “Indeed, inarm, and I've come to a clUzvII of Ohio, a well known checked at Company’s uji-town office, .-orner Stark and Second streets. Ticket!» give ye warnin'," said the help of and succ, ssfui farmer, rode up to “HURRA FOR GRANTS PASS, HURRA!” lor principal points in California can only an up town Peoria lady officer Holbrook, Holbnxik, of the Coldwater l is- procured and baggage checked at the “Why, Bridget, what's the mat Batten of Artillery, and . Company' h office, ter?” said Mrs. Mejones. CAMPBELL à TU FF C. M. STONE, P rop ’ r , , announced himself in sympathy Corner F and Front streets. Portland, Oregon, “Bekase I’ve been inaoolted." with the Morgan raiders, for which Maine Street, ...... Grant’s Pass, Oregon, Freight will not le received for ship’ “Who insulted you Bridget?" ............ .. ..... ..... .... ........ ............. CAN HAVING Tilt he mistook the union forces. He inent after 5 o'clock r. m ., on either the “An’ if ye must know, it was d^uJid himself "a inemlwr of the ----- DRUGGST AND APOTHECARY,------ East or West Side Divinioiis. 11 none other than Mr. Mejones ” Golden Circle, and .said his (laugh- R. KOEHLER, E. P ROGERS. FINEST STORE ROOM IN SOUTHERN OREGON. Drags. Patent Medicines. Perfcisry, Toilet Articles. Shoulder Braces. Trusses, Etc. Manager. G F. A Paas ,Agt. Bridget, you astonish me. In jers wvrv amusing themselves in what way did my husband insult lnilkmg a rebel flag, etc. He also o A NEW ERA.” FOM * said there were many more of his BEST BRANDS OF CIGARS AND TOBACCO “Well, he came in this mamin way of thinking in that neighbor- THE BENEFITS OF THE andhe sais tome, s.nsln lindget |b„„| ^oy, ah Ki) ea I School I Book3. I Books I and I Stationery ______ ____ but were in too have ye washed yer face, ' Av| Av joyed the joke, course I told him 1 had. Well, much of a hurry just then to stop A Full Line of Paints, Oils, Varnishes and Bmshes. Bridget, have you combed ’ vct and punish him. as they should have On their Cheap Countern in all such linen m. ■ (> ■ ■ —IN AMERICA— i'll. Il done. He left them believing that hair ?' Av coorse 1 ll.id DRY GOODS, PHSICIANS’ PRESCRIPTIONS CAREFULLY COMPOUNDED said he, ’Bridget, wipe of yer he had seen the genuine Morgan Concentrated in one Bottle without the DRESS GOODS, mouth.’ I did so. 'Bridget,' says the Exnense of an European Journey. he, ’throw ver arms around me neck The fish wheels at the Cascades HOBKllT WEST H O P, CLOTHING, and turn up yer lips toward mine.’ are catching a great many blue HATS AND CAPS, I didn't know what he was atther, black salmon now, and, unfor —PROPRIETOR— but I did it. And then the mane tunately, they are also catching a BOOTS AND SHOES naygar put his thumb up to his grvat many young chinook salmon GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS, none an' wiggled his fingers and of three or four pounds each. This GROCERIES, said, ‘April fool, Bridget.' An’ is causing coinplaint against the faith, marm, an' I'm not goin' to fish wheels to lie renewed The PROVISIONS. stop an' lie insoolted that way by legal size of the mesh in the salmon C entral P oint , (Jackson County) CROCKERY, any man.“ Peoria Transcript. nets ptevents the capture of small fish, and if the fish wheel would be TOBACCOS, made so as to catch blue backs and SIXTEEN HT.XDREn Ml I. EK CIGARS. ETC. not catch the young Chinooks no A public telephone test w.is gri one would coinplain. But if the old en this afternoon between this citv chinooks arc seined and the young All our goods are entirely new and will l>c exchanged for cash FURNISH THE BEST OF HAY AND GRAIN. and New Yoik bv Count Mit ones caught in the wheels, this or farm produce. CAMPBELL A TUFFS, kiewcc/, representing a Baltimore noble fish will Mxin be exterminated. To Hay and (Iran Per Head. Over Ni«ht, 7.5 ( ’ts. Grant's Pass. Josephine County. Oregon invention. The wires were made Fishmen say that no chinook weigh so as to make as long a distance as ing less than ten |x>unds should be BEST OF ACCOMMODATIONS FURNISHED FOR HORSES SAL—MUSCATELLE possible, and cover a circuit of i,6oo taken ; but how this can be arranged ' The ervstallized salts as extracted from miles A very large and select without interfering w ith the catch it.aiH'H and fruit; a most tnonderful pro* duel from Nature's labratnry ; the great* J. S HOUCK, party of capitalists, etc., witnessed ing of blue backs is difficult to itn est sovereign preparation ever placed be the test, a special feature of which agine. Oregonian. fore the American public ¡C orner M ain A- F ront S th . G rant ' s P ass , O regon was the singing of Miss Emma Ab rROriUETOR Sal-Muscatelle is nature’s own product; The Deep Sea Fishing Company bott and Miss Beilina, of the Ab it supplies to the weary svstein the want F- of sound, ripe grapes and fruit; it keejM Ix.tt Opera company, l»>th of w hom sent up fifteen boxc-. of fish, nearly Having opened a Family Grocery, I hereby announce to the public that the blood pun-and the brain clear; ia a were interested w itm sm - s of tin- test all of which were rock cod. The I have a new and well selected stock of natural bfeasing to the fagged-out and Seven receivers were attached at shipments heretofore have consisted ■ weary, an imperative companion to buei- one time, so that that number of of an assortment, and it would nes men, Indies and children, Have itm —DEALER IN— persons could hear at the same naturally l>e supposed that when a GROCERIES, COM HTIOM KIES AND TABLE AVARI . v-air homea. travels, summer reeorta awl sea-side cottages. time. Songs were also sung by trawl was dragged around the bot the parties m New York, all of tom of tile sea a very mixed tness Bought since the Sweeping Reduction in freights. from the East, and THE TOPIC OF THE DAY. which was most distinctly heard by would be hauled up. But from the marked down at Bottom Prices. I also sell the —JOB WORK. SI CH AS every one .it this end A test across shipment sent up yesterday it would Sick Headache and Dispepsia the Atlantic Ocean will be made as seem as if the fidi go in schools out soon as parties who are now on in the sea, and sometimes the traw l Roofing, Spouting, and Repairing of all Kinds a Specialty Sal-Mnscatel!e Cure. which has no equal in ease of management and great range of work. is the best preventive their way teach Liverpool with the runs across one of these schixds and and cure for all functional <iernngviiientM catches only one kind of fish. It; instiuments Cleveland Leader Mv object is to make it to the interest of those having cash or pro AND DONE AT REASONABLE RATES. of the liver, bili'>m> leas. si. k headache, appears singular that such fish as duce. to trade with me temporary crwigestion arising from alco C A Gow showed an Oregon .in the hake, rock cod. cod and others j holic beveraien, giddiness, oppretwrion, J S Houck. J. M. (’lllKEH. Central Point, Jackson Co., Oregon. vomiting or feeling <4 melancholy, error, reporter recently a specimen of the which are lively and fa-t swimming is diet, eafiny nr drifting; for all accidental product of a saltpetre mine located fish should be caught in a sack indigestion arising from hastv meals, ner ASK FOR TH1 in Baker county, about five miles dragged along the bottom. It is vousness, impure blood, nettlerash, itch from the O K & N. road. The aim--st as reasonable to think that ing. or any other over acid state of the blocs!; boils, skin eruptions, commen<-e- rock looks like bastard granite A snipe could l>e driven into a sack— j ment of diphtlwria. th.- effect of mercurial erode method of reducing it to salt Oregonian. ss NI I T 11 B R O'S PiN-»prietoiN*. poisons awl at the beginning of all fevers, petre is to dissolve it in water and measles, chicken pox. prickly heat, rlieu. Jes«e D. Carr’s foreman, Al. then evafiorate the liquid. This tnatic and gouty poiaua due to impure Sixth Street, Grant ’ s rase. Oregon. blood, and e-mmeas of stomach. was done with one of the spect Wetherell, met with a serious and AND mens, and the result was a very probably fatal accident a few days Prepared by the ■O' strong saltj*tre of a dull orange ago at the Can ranch on Clear ’.ike L oxdox S al - Mt scatxllx C o . HAVING COMPLETED > OUR ■»lor. It sells in ¡New York from by the fall ot a horse he was ruling Stiuiil. ir< I White SI lil t s». NEW STA BLES. WE ARE LONPOS, ENGLAND. 4bi to 5 cents a pound Its princi The horse fell upon him. mashing Beware of imitations The genuine in PREPARED TO “14ue wrappers nelv,” pal use is tn the manufacture of him in a terrible manner, and at Send for cirrniare u> G. EVANOVtTCH last accounts he was hardly ex THEY gunpowder ARE THE BEST AND TAKE NO OTHERS. • •«■neral American Man «ger. F. <>. B«,x Fumiflh the Rest of Accommodations for Horses, pected I *iN->roer from his injuries 1988. New York City Mention tMepspe* -SU: Vubxnhc for the C ockier OKUCON NEI'STADER BROS roRTT \ND For safe by W F Kremer. Grait's ----------- AT RF \SON IME R ‘.TES______ Ba»« Or-ori zGrant’s Pass Variety Store,= Druggist and Apothecary, SCHOOL lilIOkü, HOOKS Dll STITIIMRL A First-Class Lunch Room ecity drug store . Bargains ! Bargains ! Bargains g rape Cure al Point Tin Shop,— S T O V E s AND r I N NV A R E, CELEBRATED DAVIS VERTICAL SEWING MACHINE, Feed Stable!- Boss of the Road Overall.