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HE COURIER Publisher. SUBSCRIPTIUN RATES, O m Year (in advance) >2.25 ' ■a Months......................................... >126 Three Months ................................... "6c tingle Copies .......................... _•___ 10c BOGUE RIVER COURIER. Job Printing of all Kinds —IX THS— Ven Latest and Best Styles. — and at th «— Lowest Living Kates. An Independent Paper, Devoted Especially to the Interests of Southern Oregon. GRANTS PASS, JOSEPHINE COUNTY. OR.. FRIDAY JULY 9. ISSO VOL. 2 rBcrEMIoXAL—LBOAL. A FINANCIAL SUCCESS, NO. 15 TO ADVERTISERS Grant's I’m*. bo named after General Grant, ia a county Beat centrally local«! in Southern Oregon. It ia a progreaaive railroad town vf eno inhabitant», and is the main mi ppi y [ km nt for a large portion ! of country devoted to mining, lumbering agriculture and tniii-raisiiig. Climate un- . excelled Tlw C oi ' bikb living the only |«tper pub lished in JiMepliine county, aith a good cin-ulation in JacluMsi c-xinty, ena>>lea it to tie one of the lusit advertming nxsliiuns in Houthem Oregun. For rate«, sddreaa I T h « CofBlKB, Grant’» Pa»», Oregon. tender heart, and Ifelt then, as I excited by what I heard. I was up a sight I am with my wartyLcotn- __ pray I never feel again, secretly early, and after breakfast I asked plexion." Mother and the girls were going ashamed of my own face and person, Mrs. Brayley, as she said her name I "How can you say so? Your Attorney at Law & Notary Public Notary Public and Agent for the Sale of Town Lots in to the seashore. I was to be left out, Mabel had been gone but a few was, if she knew where I could get cheeks are like roses, and your eyes tiUAXT’t P am , - - - - O bboom . as usual, and we were having a minutes when papa came to my side, work. as bright as stars. I never saw you —— (Jackson County.) ORFGON, GOLD HILL, “Abbie, I have been thinking of "Can you do house-work?” look so well." family talk over it at the breakfast Will practice in all the courts of the something. Now you know your "I never have, but I would work table. "Thank you. My horse has got gtate. Office on Sixth street, near post- - -------- REPRESENTING THE-------- I think I will "She will never amount to any mother will never give up| a plan very cheap if I could get a place." over his pet now "Why didn't you try arouud start on." thing, Mr. Gladding; there's no use about your going to Susan's,J but I 8. U. MITCHELL, Sugar Pine Door à Lumber Co., Grant’s Pass, Oregon, in taking her. She is only fit to think as you do. that it is not right home?” "Not until you have promised me, "Because I thought I would like Abbie, that you will return home become a farmer's wife, and I only to ask her to care for you every ATTORNEY AT LAW. i nut n win keep Keep a sc se- strangers better." wish some plowman would take her . summer, Summer, but if you will with me to-morrow.” MITCHELL à LEWIS CO.. LIMITED. RACINE. WIS. G baxt ' b P ass , • • • - O bboox . I "It ain't a very gtxxl sign for off my hands, I«ook at her—her cret I have something to give you.” "I cannot promise. You may | I wondered what it could be as I young girls to be trampin' around give my regards to mother. Mabel, complexion is just like a toad's" Will practice in all State and Federal New Zealand Insurance Co., Capital, $3.000,000. "A toad carries a lewel in his fore- promised, Papa st» generally sec alone. If I knew you, now, I and your wife, but that is all.” Courts Office on Main street. might give you work. My old man onds mother in everything. head,” I replied, carelessly. "My wife! why, Abbie, I am not —AND— SAM. WHITE, "Be sure you remember not to buys eggs front the farms around married." "Retta, that is no way to speak of our daughter." said my father, in tell, now," he cautioned me. "I here—if I had some one to do the “I thought you were Maud's hus ATTORNEY AT LAW. feeble expostulation. "Abbie may have a hundred dollars which I will house work I could go around with band.” U bamt ' s P ass , .... O bboox . not be as handsome or as attractive give you, and you may pay your the cart.” "I am not, nor do I intend to be." Mv face fell. I would have to as Maud or Mabel, bnt still she has board to your aunt, That will "Then I don't see what you are Will practice in all the Coarta of the State ■o many of the family traits, and we make it all right, and mother will learn everything I was set about. after me for." H. KELLEY. A th<x»ght struck me. should not forget that she is a Glad never know.” "I do. I am after you for my HIGHEST CASH PRICE PAID FOR GOOD WHEAT. "Why couldn’t I go around with i wife." ding." He looked so relieved at getting ATTORNEY AT LAW. Mr. and Mrs. Brayley were aston Building Mateial of all Kinds Supplied at the Lowest Figures "Family traits' I should like to out of the deliintna so easily, that I the cart?" I asked, quickly. J ackboxtillb , .... O bboox . I have you point them out. Do you hastened to assure him that it was "Wall, you might go, p'raps,” I ish«! to see me return with a gav o- call freckles and tan family traits? just the thing. He counted out the said the man, speaking up for the cavalier by my side, and a handsome Will practice in all the Courts oí the | If there is anything in a girl that I money and gave it to me then and first time. "But I'd have to trust horse drawing a sitver-mounthd dog State. Office ill Court House. | dislike, it is the heedless indepen- there. you with my horse and wagon and cart tied behind my wagon. H. K. HANNA, deuce which Abigail exhibits. I “Now. make it up with your my money—what if you should run They always knew it would turn am ashamed to have her about with mother and the girls; tell them you away?" out so, they said, joyously* happy ATTORNEY AT LAW. OF ALL KINDS FURNISHED ON DEMAND. | me." I are ready to go to Aunt Susan's,) "Oh! I wouldn't do that!" I re because my friends had sought me J a CKBONVII.LK, .... O bkgo . x . Poor papa quailed before the anger but don't let them know I gave yon turned earnestly. "Besides, I could out. They had seen papa's adver J. CHATMAN. J. C. GILLAM. . which scintillated from my mother’s that money." use my own money. Ik» let me try.” j tisement, and knew me to lie the lost Office in Orth building, Oregon street eyes, and Carl, my languid brother, : Poor papa. I was sorry for him. ! "What ye say, Hanner? It girl, long before M j . Ingersoll came. GILLAM & CHAPMAN. Proprietor«. ! tried to say something in my behalf. If I were a man I would not be wouldn't be much risk. Kin you They were all very kind to me at T. B. KENT, "Come now. mother, don’t be so afraid of my wife and daughters. drive a horse ?" home when I returned, hut very ATTORNEY AT LAW. hard on Abbie. She's a rather good How rich I was. The real owner It wouldn't do to t»e too ignorant, anxious to forget tny exjierienee as JaCKBOXVILLK, • • • • O b ZOOX. sort, if she does give us a drill on of a hundred dollars. so I answered quickly: ' egg-gatherer, but I have always the sword exercise every time she ( I secreted my money and followed "Yes." believed it was because I was Mrs. Will practice in all the Courts of the Main Street, Opposite the Depot, Grant’« Pass, Oregon, eats. ’ ’ ' mother and the girls into the parlor "Wall, 1 do believe you'd do the Ingersoll and a "Financial Success." State. Office in Court House. I laid down my knife and fork in with an exultant heart. | square thing. Hanner, you go out | -------- )o(--------- AN INNOCENT MAN. despair. I had been using them Mother frowned, Maud scowled ' with her and help her hitch up. I I 8. W. FORBES, rather rapidly while this flattering as I presented tnvself, while Mabie guess she kin try." r. NOTARY PUBLIC. CIGARS AND TOBACCO. | NUTS AND CANDY. I ORANGES, conversation had been going on,but pretended to be busy over her em "Hanner" did most of the hitch- i Why a Dakota Court Considered a Charge of Murder Mallcioua Peraecution. K b BBTVILLB ANU A i .THOI'SK, Jo»«rxtXK I do not believe that I had put my broidery, but still kept a watchful ing up. In a few minutes the ohl! LEMONS, FIGS AND OTHER FRUITS. The trial of a man for murder had ColXTY, O b BUON. knife to my lips. j eye upon me. fearing most likely j gray horse was brought around, and : just commenced in a Dakota court I went to Mr. Brayley for instruc- ’ J "Yes," remarked Maud, a little : that I was about to begin hostilities, Fine, Stock of Staple and Fancy Groceries. emphatically. "I never felt so hu when the attoni :y fot the defense Collection» a Specialty, legal Instru- , "Mother," said I, as meekly as I tions. arose and said: menta-promptly executed. "Wall, now, my girl," said he, miliated in my life as I did the day was able, "I have decided to go to -------- )o(--------- "If the court please, we have no ' kindly, "if you use vour own money . Mr. Ingersoll took dinner with her. Aunt Susan's." MEIHCAL. IN CONNECTION WITH A FINE LINE OF STATIONERY, WE He watched her every movement— Her brow cleared a little as she I will buy your eggs,of you a <?ent fear as to the outcome of this trial. advance on every dozen, and give | In the testimony we shall prove that taking note of her gaucheries, I i said, half fretfully. W. F. KREMER. M. D., HAVE ATTACHED A "I knew’ you could be sensible if you board and ltMlging. What do! the murder was committed four presume.” Physician and Surgeon, mites from town at 2 o’clock in the you liked. Next Summer if you you say?” "You are mistaken, sister, ” I put Circulating Library and a Free Reading Room, afternoon. We shall also establish G baxt ' b P ass , .... O bboox "As you please, Mr. Brayley,, I'll are careful of your complexion I in. defiantly. "It was a case of the fact that there was a circus in may take you to the shore -that is, do the best I can." WHERE CAN BE FOUND SAN FRACI8CO, PORTLAND axd OTHER PAPERS, mutual attraction." ('alls responded to at all hours, day or "I believe you. or I shouldn't) town that day." Carl laughed aloud, at the impos if Mr. Ingersoll proposes to Maud, "Hold on," said the judge, ex -------- )°(--------- night. sibility of the idea I suppose. Mother as we hope lie may do. I can't trust you with mv old horse.” citedly, "yotfsay there was a circus Then followed the instructions as i take three girls around with me." looked carving-knives at me and W. H. FLANAGAN, M. D. Eveiytliing was amiable after to which roads I was to pursue, and in town." ' Maud reddened as much as the pow "Yes, sir. the Anti-Europcan Physician and Surgeon, der on her face would allow, and that, and in two days I started for I put on my hat and gloves, mount In connection, where can be had----- eti the rickety old wagon, and start Conglomeration showed there that Aunt Susan's as they thought. , said with a pepperish sniff: G rant ' s P ahs , .... O regon . day." I was to travel thirty miles by ed out in business tor myself "I don’t care, mother is in the OYSTERS, CLAMS, SARDINES, CORNED BEEF, PIES, CAKES, The first day I bought a hundred , "Yes, I've seen it—two rings, a right to have her at home; we ara rail, and the remaining twenty five Office at residence, corner Main and CHEESE, E tc ., E tc . ALSO Third streets. Call attended any hour, I all ashamed of her looks, and Mr. , by stage. I had no escort, for I had and seventy dozen; and after that, spotted grave digging hyena ami dav or nigh. Ingersoll will never countenance ill often made the journey before, when some days more anil ««»me days less seven lady bare-back riders. You Lemonade, Soda Water, Ginger Beer, &c. Mr. Brayley chuckled «»vet tnv say the man was killed about two manners. We might as well give mother and the girls had wanted to DR. F. W. VAN DY k L success, and paid me regularly »-very o'clock?" up going if she is to go with us. I lie rid of me. "Yes, your honor." G rants P am • • O beoox . No one knew the tumult of emo day. am quite sure that she would dis "Just the time of the ring par __ _ I "You do lietter than I ever did," | lion raging in my breast when grace us all.” ade?" English and German Spoken. "Poor Maud, how she will feel parted from my relatives. 1 I was he said, ami proved his words bj when Mr. Ingersoll refuses her the outrageously angry at Mand, I could going to work in his garden when ! "The same time." Office on Main street, near drugstore. C. M. STONE, P rop ’ r , "While the elephant ami double light of his countenance on account scarcely tell why, and I thought my he recovered, and leaving me still humped camels w ere going around?" Maine Street,....................................................... Grant’« Pass, Oregon, of her ill manners. When one is mother so dreadfully unjust that I in possession of the cart. C. LE.MPERT, M. D., "Yes sir." The summer went*by pleasantly. twenty-five how sad it must lie to see never wished to see her again. My Craduate Leipsic University,Ger. j ------DRUGGIST AND APOTHECARY,------ one's last hope scramble from sight, ; purpose was to stop at Camwood, The farmers’ wives gave me butter >, "The prisoner is discharged. like the beaux from our sister i the town where I was to take the milk to drink and fruit to eat, as 1 Trying to prove that a man was Druzs, Pilent Medicines. Perfumery, Toilet Articles. Sh ulder Braces. Trusses, Etc. miles away from town on such Calls repond«! to at all hours, dav or 1 Maude's over anxious pathway." stage and look for work. My hun- j went about _ gathering up their eggs, four an occasion is looked tt|K>n as mali night Office opposite Klover's hotel, There was another laugh, in which <lred dollars was safe in my jxK'ket. and I gained ncarl> one half in BEST BRANDS OF CIGARS AND TOBACCO Jacksonville, Oregon. cious persecution by thiscourt. The even Mabie joined, in spite of moth and I meant to keep it. add some weight. gentleman who was School I Books. I Books 1 and I Stationery er's frown, which was as black as more to it, become independent, and ' I often laughed at tnvself as I unfortunate DR. CHAS. W. BEACOM, at length, after I was utterly forgot- ' thought of mj mother, ‘ What found dead without doubt commit soot, as she said angrily: Detntist, "Stop this senseless behavior! Mr. ten, return to my people and aston i i would she say if she knew? Well, ted suicide when he realized that he A Full Line of Paints, Oils, Varnishes and Brushes. O regon G rant ’« P am Gladding. I should think you would ish them i with my magnificence, I did not intend that she should was in that kind of a position him- [ l-'.-t« lime i I>. T Bell. know. I never would iuform her of m M know better than to encourage her which none of them might share. i nty whereabouts at any rate. I can laugh at n.v feellugs now, PHSICIANS’ PRESCRIPTIONS CAREFULLY COMPOUNDED. by laughing at her. You know how All work warranted. Office at Com- z\ bill enabling women to practice ■Mrcial Hotel. I extended my business trip one in New York courts having been anxious I am to have the girls make but they were terrib'y real then. My attempts to find a situation day almost to Aunt Susie's. I had approved by the Governor, we will a financial success when they mar M1BCBLLAXBOV». ROBERT WEHT HOP. ry. Now, no gentleman of fortune would lie only the old, old story, so been longing to hear from some one now see if our fair divinities prove would notice a young lady whose often told, so little realized by those I had known, and even the sight of as skillful at courting as in being ---- PROPRIETOR- J. D e FLANNEY, her house did me gocxl. But 1 courted. There is no provision in sister has no regard for decency, a who read it. I failed utterly. My inability to do common house turned resolutely alx»ut when I had the bill against lady lawyers taking female clown in fact. She has scaled House and Sign Painter, 'N 'N _ her own fate, she goes down to Su- work told against me in many places, gazed on her aliode, when William embroidery or crazy quilts into court C bxtbal F oist , ... O bboox . for my mother ha«l taught me that —such was the name of my Buceph and working on them while exam j san's for the summer." "I shall not go to z\unt Susan's it would spread my hands if I at alus- decided to rest his stately form ining witnesses. Nor is there any tempted to wait upon myself. My for a season In vain I tried to urge restriction of beauty or of tears on this Summer." O regon . (Jackson County) C entrai P oint , Alt Kind« of Work in my Line "You will go." said mother firm dress - the girts' worn-out finery him on; he braced himself for a con their part. This latter is to lie ly. "Though however she can made over—was looked iqxm with test and would not stir. ------------- )o(-------------- WELL and PROMPTLY DONE viewed with alarm, it is likely to These performances did not work no end of injustice Given a suspicion in others. countenance you I cannot see. ' —Having Completed my new Stahle 1 am prepared to— At the end of a week my resolu frighten me any. I was becoming jury of twelve susceptible bald "Why do you not wish to go to CHANGE IN MANAGEMENT your aunt's?” asked papa kindly. , tion was shaken a little. I was wil used to them, so I philosophically heads, a Parisian figure and a bo- —or th «— ling to start out on the road to z\iint ' pulled a novel from my pocket and quet of flowers, a deliciously pretty thought you liked it there.” FURNISH THE BEST OF HAY AND GRAIN. "I "Because Annt Sue liar- all she Susan's looking for work at every began to read. face, liouid voice and weeping eyes Central Point Hotel. My attention was drawn from my pleading liefore them, and what To Hay anti Oran Pei* Head. Over Niuht, 75 C’tH. can do without me thrusting myself farm house, and. if 1 couldn't find LEWIS PANKEY, • Propr upon her. I know Unde John it, as a last resort I would go there. subject by an approaching carriage, show has the bespectacled old bar REST OF ACCOMMODATIONS FURNISHED FOR HORSES. thought I ought to lie at home in It was twenty-five miles, but I and it had come out of Aunt Susie's rister w ho represents the other side Meal«, - • 25 Cent». stead of mooning around there last thought 1 could walk it, and I gateway. A moment later I found of the case? Why, a New York "boo myself sitting stock still in the road, dle” alderman would escape convic summer, when I was not wanted. started. J. S. HOUCK, I found the country people less but plying the whip in a vain at tion with such a chromo-advocate There is nowhere in this world where Having latclv taken charge of this hotel the undesigned would re»pe<tfnll» inform 1 am wanted. I have no home, but suspicious than those in the town tempt to escape from I/iren Inger defending him. This enabling bill PROPRIETOR ths public that the tables will be supplied soll, my sister Maud's intended. should have drawn the line on cos I know I will not sponge my living and kinder hearted in every way. With the best the market afford« -A • My eggs were certainly in danger, metics. flowers and especially tears, I found a p!a<*e to stay over night, out of my poor relations, ” I replied, L ewis P axkey desperately struggling with the tears about eight miles from my starting for William showed a disposition to in the court rooms. place, with a poor woman who dwelt |overturn me if I did not desist. I which were determined to come WILL. Q BROWN. A scientific exjjedition under the in a dilapidate«! house, and whose did so. anil Mr. Ingersoll exclaimed: Mother shrugged her shoulders, —DEALER IN— "My darling zXbbie, you are found direction of Pros. Scott has ’eft A«sayer & Analytical Chemist, and sailed grandly from the room. htisban«! was lying helpless with a Princeton, New Jersey, for the Wcit, at last." Maliel alone stopped to comfort me br«>ken limb. OBBOOX XICKBL xrxi. the main object of the expedition “I have never been lost." z\ft«?r I had retired to my little ' There, there. Abbie, do not get "Why, Abbie, didn't yon know being to make a geological survey —JOB WORK. St'CH AR— up a scene Mamma will take you r«»>m over the kitchen I heard them R1DDI.E, DOUGLAS COUNTY, OON your father was spending money of the Uintah mountains in Western around with her when Maud and I talking t«»gether. Roofing, Spouting, and Repairing of all kind* a «|>e< laity, are mame'i "Poor gal, she's s«» young, and like water to find von; that Carl, Utah ami Wyoming ami also to col Aaaly««» «»«4« •« <<i«»pl*B ■ •»«Itaoi "I am afraid I shall never lie taken l>K»ks ao tired. 1 wonder where and your mother and sisters are al- lect fossils in these parts and petri AND DONE AT REASONABLE RATES. WIXBB BXAMIXBO END BBtoSTBU ITOX. she's trampin' to’" "She ain’t no moot insane upon your account, and fication« for the college museum. around, then.” <»< hk 1 tillage is the strongest wea " There ' " ex< laimed Mabie tramp; she’s run away from some I have tier'll looking for you every I 3 no J. S. Houck. Away for Gold and Silver Oregon Central Point, Jacknon Co., pon w ith which the fanner can light "That’« just the way you lose all where or nother Just Irxik at them where." t> 00 A*«ay for Nickel or Cobalt “I did not know it. I am scarce hard times and gain snccew. Im your friends,” and then she too left baby hands of hern, and at that silk 2 no A»»»y for I>-ad or Copper ly worth its much trouble as that ” perfect culture, on the other ham., dress." me , "Abbie, you arc," he returned in will scarcely enable him to gain ,t "If she wasn't a stranger, Tildy. I/x>king back at it now, I do not CITY BAKERY "You have al living from the richest soil, will de- suppose they really meant to lx* un I would hire her to do the work, a plaintive voice GEO. GLE1SK.MAN. Proprietor, m«t broken our hearts. '' while you w«mt round with the wa tenorate rapidly in quality from kind. Mother had all she could «Io M M I T 11 B KO'S» I’lNipriritoi-M. "They must lx? very brittle," I «uch treatment lieside. We're Ruin' heaps of money to provide for the wants of my gon G baxt a P abs , * * O bboox Sixth Street, Oregon. Grant's Paes, brother and fashionable sisters and by this leg o' mine. Eggs is cheap returned, thinking that likely he An old house, in Mannington W. she realy had an antipathy to every now an«! plenty, and we coul«l lay was married to Maud bv thus time V., was being demolished recently, Th* Proprietor take« pleasure in inforni homely jierson I was plain and down a sight of them if I coul«l only "Well, you may tell them that I when the workmen came upon six h>< the pnbli.- that be ia prepared to fur HAVING am comfortably situated, and intend teen human scalps, evidently those COMPLETED OUR NEW MT ABLE,“. WE ar ?: outspoken, regardless of people's get around." nish the beet of "Mebhc we might treat her." re to tak<- rare of myself for the re«t nf of Indians, male and remaia. opinion, and mv sharp tongue la«h«*d PREPARED TO turned the woman. "I ll say «tith my life." my sisters unmercifully. Heavy rains in «everal portions of Fresh Bread, Pies, Cakes, Etc "Abbie! When your mother is the South, especially ea»tern Ten I suppose I dewvl a part of it. in' t«» her in the morning.” Furnish the Best of Accommodations for Horses, weeping dailv for the sight of you. ” Tired as I was I c*«»ul<l hardly bnt oh' di'l I deserve it all’ Under 4* «nd debiere I ’-er of charge nessee have gre i»»f»ir»M »he She must have forgotten nh.it all mv «erming itni'oti-xrn 1 had i -k-cp tb»t night, nv. h'»pe-« ver« «o (¿F** *»f »»••• • * ---------- KT F.F tMn\‘ ari . e RATE.*.--------- »' lic it cnq»». '‘T J. # DAVI8 BROWER, GRIFFIS, H General Real Estate Agent. WiGONS, PLOWS IND FIRM MKHINBRY —Grant’s Pass Variety Stored A* First-Class Lunch Room CITY DRUG STORE. -New Feed and Sale Stable,- Central Point Tin Shop,— S T OVES A N I) T I N W A R E, Feed Stable!