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[HE CO FRIER. W. J WIMER. Publisher SUBSCRIPTIOS RATES, One Year (in advance Y2.25 Six Monili«. F',« Thr-— Month* ,at’ Suu*.-- Copie» *«-' ROGUE RIVER COURIER. An Independent Paper, Devoted Especially to the Interests of Southern Oregon. i Job Printing of a —IN THE— Very Latest and Best Styles, —AND AT THY— Lowwt I.ivinu Rail's. NO. 19. VOL. 2 PBOFEMM »MAL—LEGAL. TO ADVERTISERS Grant’» I'*»», so nauieU after General Grant, ia a county seat centrally located in Southern Oregon It ia a progressive railroad towfl ol *00 inhabitant», and ia the main supply point for a large portion of country Jevdted to mining, lumbering agriculture an<l fruit-raising. Climate un excelled The ('ocnitx being the only paper pub lished in Josephine county, with a g<jod circulation in Jackson comity. enat>iea it to be one of th«- beet advertising mediums in Southern Oregon. For rate«, address T hk C ocbikb , Grant's Pam. Oregon. LEQALIZEO ROBBERY. those who give bonds. Giving sential to their prosperity and to the | welfare of the State bonds does not make men honest, (A.' uq «»< State Journal.) Another matter of great public i 1 and does not prevent defalcations, Attorney at Law & Notary Public "Uncle" Jesse Applegate, a pio one time tn a thousand. It does no concent is the reorganization of the Q aàxt ’ s P ass , - • - - O bkoox . The following proclamation was Supreme Court. The existing svs neer of Oregou and one of the ablest good. Its tendency is wholly bad. -------- .... . (Jackson County,) - ORFGON, issued by Goveruor Stoneman July | ^m has not given satisfaction, and and most influential among the ear It perverts justice, and sets a bad GOLD HILL, Will practice in all the courts of the , the evils are growing worse It is ly settlers of the Pacific Coast, was example, by punishing the innocent 16tli: REPRESENTING THE State. Olfire on Sixth »treet, near post- cumbersome to a degree. The busi- committed to the insane asylum at that the guilty may escape office. S tate of C alifornia , ) I ness is in arrears, notwithstanding Salem Ixst week. He was brought We suppose that Governor Gro E xl ’ citivk D epabtm ' nt , - the creation of a commo sion to as- to ais present unfortunate condition ver simply executed the laws with 8. Ü. MITCHELL, S acramento , July 16. ) I sist the judges. The plan of di vid - ' by ute Stats, of Oregon and indirect regard to defalcations.— [E d . ATTORNEY AT LAW. To the Senate a/ui Assembly of the ittg the court into departments has ly by the extravagance and dishon- MITCHELL * LEWIS CO, LIMITED. RACINE. W1S. G b ant ' s P ass , - - - - O regon . POSTOFFICE ROMEO. State of California: In my judg- not worked well. It leads to the 1 esty of Sam. E. May, who was ment an extraordinary occasion necessity of hearing cases twice 1 elected Secretary of Oregon by the Th*s Mlnneappolls Post office» Rob Will practice in all Slate and Federal New Zealand Insurance Co., Capital, $5,000,000, has arisen which renders expedient over A litigant defeated liefore a Republicans in 1S62, re-elected in bed of *20.000 In Money and Court» Office on Main street. ______ minority ____ ___ ____________ _________ and _________ necessary for _____ the public welfare of the court appeals to the 1866, and served eight years. Jesse Stamp«.-The Robbers Make — axl >— Good Their Escape. • HAM. WHITE, that the Legislature should be : judges in bank, and the whole work Applegate, w-ho put May forward in called together. ____________________ must be gone over. The system is ! the Uniou Republican State Con ATTORNEY AT LAW. The postuffice at Minneappolia 1 The Supreme Court of \he State. jierplexing and unsatisfactory to vention that nonnuateil him in the July 9, was broken open and robbed (jaoi'i P am , - - - • O bkoox . in a recent decision announced that everybody. And. furthermore, the court house in Eugene City in 1862, of $20,000 in money and stamps. I the riparian owners along the un- salaries paid to the judges of the an<l again in the Convention that No clew to the thieves. Laraway Will practice in all the Court» of the State navigable streams in California Supreme Court are too small. Law- re-nominated him in Corvallis four arrived in the city on the early H. KELLEY, owned the flowing waters in such yers eminent in their profession can- years later, was his surety, with B HIGHEST CASH PRICE PAID FOR GOOD WHEAT train from I^ike Minnetonka and .streams, and are entitled to the ex- not accept the places without tnak- T- Dowell as his associate surety, ATTORNEY AT LAW. not aware of the robbery un Building Mateial of all Kinds Supplied at the Lowest Figures. elusive right to use the same The ing a sacrifice, which the State May was extravagant, and lived j was J acksox villb . - - - - O bkoox wibespread disaster which this de- ought not to require. But the com-1 luxuriously, so that soon after lie til he arrived at the office. The lobby of the postoffice wxs open all -------------o------------- cision threatens to the agricultural pensation now provided cannot lie had left the office and removed from night and the safe blowers had no Wil! practice in all thè Court» of thè interests, and the subsequent gen-, increased during the incumbency of the State, it was ascertained that he State. Office in Court House. , difficulty in opening the stamp era! excitement aud apprehension the present judges. In my judg- had stolen and squandered a large ~~ H K. lì ANNA, make it proper that the Legislative ment the court should lie reorgati ’urn of the people's money. He window, where one crawled through and opened the door from the in and Executive branches of the iz.ed. The system of departments was arrested, brought back, and OF ALL KINDS FURNISHED ON DEMAND. ATTORNEY AT LAW. side. The safe was near the win I r Government should take prompt should I k - abolished. A court con- tried in Salem, but through the in J ackbonvillb , - - - - O bkoun . and efficient action to prevent the stituted of a‘compact body of judges fluence of the "society” jieople, who ' dow. but as the glass wxs painted J. CHAPMAN. J. C. GILLAM. injurious consequences which will will accomplish more. Their pay l'a,i helped to eat and drink up the they could not be seen from the Office in Orth building, Oregon slret-t otherwise inevitably flow from th? should be increased so as to secure stolen money, he was released, and street. The work wxs by profess GILLAM CHAPMAN. Proprietors. establishment of such 1 a rule of law the best talent in the State. has since lieen living on his wits, at ionals. They drilled a hole four T. B. KENT, by the highest court of the com- Now, therefore, I, George Stone-i th? expense of a suffering public, inches into the safe between the ATTORNEY AT LAW. mon wealth. 1 man. Governor of the State of Cali- ><> California, Nevada, Utah and handle ami combination and then J acksonvillk , ... - O bkoox . Under the sanction 1 of the laws foniia, deeming that an extraordi- ‘ Chicago, where he was at last ac- picked the lock Laraway estimates and customs which prevailed _ _ occasion has arisen, . by virtue ___ counts. Applegate tried to escape there was about $20,500 in stamps in nary Wil! practice in all the Courts of the Main Street, Opposite the Depot, Grant’s Pas», Oregon, by deeding all of his valuable lands in the safe and of this amount $18,- California when it was acquired of the power in me vested by the *>>' State. Office in Court House. from Mexico, under the protective constitution of the State, Slate, do hereby at Yoncalla, which had then been 090 was taken, they having left --------- )o(---------- policy of the National and State convene the Legislature to meet famous all over the Pacific coast for $3,500 in i cent stamps. All the 8. W. FORBES, Governments, and in harmony with and assemble at the state capital on nearly a quarter of a century as the currency in the safe, amounting to NOTARY PUBLIC. CIGARS AND TOBACCO. | NUTS AND CANDY. I ORANGES. the climatic and physical character- the 20th day of July, 1886, at 12 home of "the Sage of Yoncalla," to $too, was taken. After the roh- 1 K skbyvulk and A ltho VW, J osithink istics of the country, a splendid o'clock m . of that day, and I do bis children. Governor Grover lx:ry they made their exit through LEMONS, FIGS AND OTHER FRUITS. the door of the office and took a Cot'XTY, O b EOON. system of irrigation has grownup hereby specify the following sub placed an«ttachmcnt on all the pro- since the American occupation, jects upon which it is assembled to fx*rtv of Dowell and reduced him mail carrier’s horse, and Rickey, Collections a Specialty. Legal Instru 1„._: | and his family' to absolute want for Middlewise & Taylor's delivery The flowing waters were deemed legislate: ments promptly executed. --------- )0(---------- public property and were considered ; First—To projose and submit to 1 period of ten years. The writer wagon and carried the boodle off. As near as can lx- ascertained the as dedicated to the use of the peo the people of the state an amend of this had loaned him nearly a MEDICAI . robbery wxs committed between 1 OF STATIONERY, WE IN CONNECTION WITH A FINE LINE ple. The right to appropriate water ment or amendments to article 14 thousand dollars, as an accomoda- ' and 2 o'clock. The office does not W F. KREMER. M. D., for irrigation was regulated by cus of constitution of the State, relative <ion for a few months, and was HAVE ATTACHED A From the compelled, by the action of the employ a watchman. tom and by statute law. Most of to water, and water rights. Physician and Surgeon. looks of the stamp department, they the soil of California was public Second—To propose and submit ' State in confiscating all of his pro- G baxt ' s P ass , ... - O bboox . land of the United States. But to the people of the state such |>erty, to wait about ten years for its left in great haste, leaving five steel WHERE CAN BE FOUND SAN FRACISCO, PORTLAND and OTHER PAPERS, Congress expressly sanctioned the amendment or amendments to the [ payment. Other creditors of this drills and a large sledge and pick Calls responded to at all hours, day or custom of appropriation and diver constitution of the state, as may lie victim of the State were wronged axe, also a silk handkerchief with a mark on it, which will be a clue night. --------- )o(---------- sion of water, and expressly author necessary or proper to secure to the ,utd injured in a similar manner, to the detectives. At the time the ized it upon the public domain. people the right of appropriation, through uo fault of Mr. Dowell, but W. H. FLANAGAN, M D. robbery was committed a heavy The practice of irrigation was thus diversion and use of flowing water ' on account of the State robbing an rain was falling, and then. >vas not Physician and Surgeon, allowed to become general, and for irrigation or other beneficial pur i honest man to pay the debts of a ------ In connection, where can be had------ C . atT's T abs , - - - - O bkoox Applegate and a policeman to lx: found anywhere marked th«: progress of the agricul poses xs may lie necessary or proper dishonest one 1 in the neighborhood. The robbers OYSTERS, CLAMS, SARDINES, CORNE11*BEEF, PIES, CAKES, tural development of the State. The to protect all such rights in the Dowell were ruined and their fami went to St. Paul and left the horse Office at residence, corner Main and lies reduced to want, not be^stiae larger part of the great valley of courts of the state. and wagon, which has been found CHEESE, E tc ., E tc . ALSO Third »treets. Call attended any hour, California, and most of the south but be Third—To enact all laws neces they had done any w by the police. day or nigh. ern portion of the State, were in a sary or proper to protect the people cause an officer c ' - State, elected Lemonade, Soda "Water, Ginger, &c. desert condition, owing to the aridi of the state in the full and free en by the j»eoplc, had stolen the money Three Thousand Chinamen toLoavs Cort DR. F. W. VAN DYKE ty of climate ami soil. Irrigation joyment of the right to appropriate of those who had selected him as land Within the Next Two Montha. G rants P ass - • O bkoox . has transformed large areas of this divert and use flowing water in the their agent and who should have I splendid domain into luxuriant ’ state for irrigation or other beneficial borne the loss. The action of the Young Coey, an intelligent Chi English and German Spoken. fields, vineyards and orchards; hun purposes, and so as to fully protect State did not even stop at the ruin nese merchant, whose place of busi C. M. STONE, I’ roh ’ k , ■of these victims of its arbitrary ness is on Second street, near Stark, dred* of millions of taxable prop all such rights in the courts. Office on Main street, near drug »tore. erty have been created; many thou jx>wer, but it went beyond them informs a News reporter hat Wing Fourth — To rejieal section 1422 Maine Street,.......................................................... Grant’s Pass, Oregon, C. LEM PE KT, M. D, and distressed and injured their Sing, a Chinese contractu* of this sands of happy homes have been of the Civil Code. planted; colonics villages and towns | Fifth To propose to the ]>eople creditors and others who depend city, has lieen awarded the contract ----- DRUGGIST AND APOTHECARY,------ Graduate Leipsic University,Ger. ltavv sprung up, and an intelligent of the state an amendment or amend upon them After laying about ten for furnishing 1.000 Chinese labor Drw. Pateat Medicines. Peffiiiery, Toilet Article«. Si alder Bricei. Trail«, Etc. and industrious population has 1 inents to article 6 of the constitu years and suffering great.losses and ers at North Yakima to work at Calls repondel to at all hours, dav or ; been invited from abroad to develop tion of the state relative to the Ju hardships, Dow-ll broke the Apple grading on the Cascade branch of night Office op|«x»ite Klover's hotel. the resources of the State. The dicial Department, so far as it re gate deeds and bid in the Yoncalla the Northern Pacific. The Celes BEST BRANDS OF CIGARS AND TOBACCO Jacksonville, Oregon. agricultural prosperity already lates to the Supreme Court. property to reimbuise him for what tials will begin leaving this week in Sixth To enact a law to provide ! be had paid for Applegate on the gangs. Coey also says that he has DR. CHAS W BEACOM, achieved, and the future possibili --------- o--------- ties of Southern California and of for submitting the constitutional May steal ’ Dowell has at last’ submitted a bid for furnishing 2,000 Detntist, the great valley which comprises amendments proposed to a vote of recovered from th? ruin inflicted up more Mongolians for the same kind O reoon . G rant ’ s P ass on him by the State, but Applegate of work and expects to secure the much the larger part of the arable the people. land of the State, have depended Seventh -To provide by appro- too old to begin life over again, contract. He will know definitely and will depend upon tire ability of’ priation for the expense of holding I'he State is responsible fot his ruin soon. Whoever gets the contract All work warranted. Office at Com PHSICIANS’ PRESCRIPTIONS CAREFULLY COMPOUNDED. marciai Hotel. the people to use the waters of the an election for the ratification or and retributive justice requires that will send the Chinamen from here. rejection of such proposed amend- it »hall lx: to the extx-n.se of earning So it will lx-seen that within two i State for irrigation. ROBERT W ESTROP. MIBCKLLANKOV8. The majority of the Judges of the ments to the constitution. for its victim and others like him. months Portland will lie rid of j;ooo ----PROPRIETOR---- Supreme Court have announced In witness whereof. I have here- The whole system of requiring an Mongolians. They will all swarm that any riparian proprietor may unto set my hand and caused the innocent |x.rson to suffer for a guilty back here when the branch is fin obtain an injunction against any great seal of the State to lx- affixed one is wrong. The Stale has the ished in aliuut two years. - -[News. LEWIS PANKEY. Proprietor. person not a riparian proprietor, to at my office in the city of Sacra |x>wer to doit, but the exert isc of A New Postal Division. C kxtkal F oist - • O bkoox ’ prohibit him from appropriating. [ mento, this 16th day of July 1886. that power is not only wrong but cruel and wicked in the extreme. I diverting or using waters from the G eo . S toneman , Chief Inspector West, of the post Horse-Shoeing h Specialty. O k K oon . 1 stream alxive his land. Under this There is no justice in it. There is (Jackson County) Attest: Governor. C kntral P oint , office department, says: "The Pa I would respectfully inform the public no equity in it. There is no moral ruling the ditches and canals, which T. L. T hompson , cific division embracing California, -------------)0(------------- that having lately taken charge of the ity in it It is legalized robl-ery are the arteries of the agricultural Senretary of State. Arizona, Oregon and Washington, Black-smith Shop at Central Point, I a relic of heathenism. When the life of the State, may lx- closed by Wyoming, Idaho, Montana and —Having Completed my new Stable I am prepared to— would axk a liberal share of the public ‘ writs from the courts, and that, t«xj Increased Appropriation, Mad« by th« jx ofde elect or through their agents Utah terretorie 1, is the laigest tn L ewi » P axkey patronage up-'ti exparte application, without 1 appoint an officer they should bear Sanate. the loss if the officer prove dishon the department, and the foie« is in notice or warning or opportunity of CHANGE IN MANAGEMENT adequate to attend to all the busi >»eing heard until after irretrievable The following amendments were est or unfaithful, and not shift it which crops up in smaller of —or thi — To Hay and Oran Per I lead, Over Night, 7«*> < '• H. damage has lx-en done. .Many such added tn the General Deficiency Ap upon some friend or acquaintance of ness fice*. 1 intend to look into the the officer. The- officer is the peo suits are now pending. Writs of Central Point Hotel, BEST OF ACCOMMODATIONS FURNISHED FOR HORSES. injunction have been asked for and propriation bill in the Senate July ple's agent and they should licar question of dividing the division by 26: For macadamizing one half of fonuiug Oicgou aud Wx.Luugiou, LEWIS PANKEY, - Propr in some cases obtained, but have J the two streets adjacent to the Post- the loss caused by their agent if Idaho and Montana territories into not been obeyed Should an at- office building at Portland, Oregon. there lx any. Let the penalty for J. S. HOUCK, Meals, - 26 Cents. a separate division, with a head of ; tempt lx- made to enforce them and $1500: for approaches ami beating dishonesty, whatever it may be, fall fice at Portland, leaving California, others which are likely to issue, as apparatus tn and from the public upon the dishonest officer and not PROPRIETOR Having latelv taken charge of this hotel Arizona, Nevada and Utah to form i is apprehended, serious trouble may buildings at Port Townsend, W T . tijxm innocent fx-rsons. If the law the undesigned would respectfully inform another division, with headquarters ths public that the tables skill be supplied ensue Iweatise the people may resist St7.000 The appropriation for the is not severe enough let it be in San 1 .-.uiciscu. At present 1 can with the beet the market affords to prevent the desolation of their lighthouse on northwest seal rock, changed I.ct each officer serve Lswi« P axkey not say any thing definite in regard homes, farms, vineyards and or off point St George, Cal , is in without bonds, and let the law conic to this matter until I return from — PEALEK IN — chard». But if they should not; if |, creased from $50,000 to $roo,rxx> down ufxm him with a heavy hand WILL. Q BROWN, my trip north, except that it mi cun they should peaceably submit, still In the appropriation for establishing if he steals the public money. The templated.’ [Statesman. Assayer S Analytical Chemist, the injury to the Slate would l>e and maintaining post lights on present system encourage» rascality. ! immeasurable. To suspend irriga rivers, the Willamette and Colum The dishonest man knows that if he OBKOOX X1CKKL MINK, * Mt.-- Snodgrass, daughter of — job work , seen a »— tion for one season would destroy bia are included, amt in order to can rob the public treasury the Perry Snodgraxs, aged 15 years w.is JUDDLE, DOUGLAS COUNTY. OGN thousands of homes and millions of meet thia additional •:xpci:sc the bondsmen will be called upon, while thrown from a pony in Tygh valley, Roofing, Spouting, and Repairing of all kinds a specialty, property. appropriation for thi» service is in he can go away almost unnoticed. Wasco county, a few days ago. Her Aaalyvaa ■»»*« »rCowplas Sahatasva». Other Western and Pacific States , creased to $20,000. The sum of The people can »urely trust their boopskirt caught in the horn of the AND DONE AT REASON\BLE RATES. MTXBS BX AMIVI D ABD BirOBTtD fPOW having an arid climate similar to $22,<xx> is appropriated for the com own officers, and liear whatever 1 >ss- saddle, and the horse besoming Oregon. our own have conform«-«! their at- pletion of the iron crane at the navy es may I« caused by them. The frightened, rati away furiously, drag Jackson Co, Central Point Anas y for Gold and Silver I 3 00 J. S. Houck, ganic and statute laws to the neces yard at Mare island, and $30.01x1 for people pay them for their services, ging tli«.- unfortunate girl alxiut Aaaay for Nickel or Cobalt sities and requirements of tbeircon- the survey of public lands tn the get the benefit of their sen ices, aud a mile and a half oxer a very rocky Aae»y for I^ad or ( opt*r have no moral right to a->k any citi road. Finally tli« sadiik became de dition in this regard Manifestly State of Nevada SPEARS & FREASURE, zen t<> become personally liable for tached by the breaking of a stiap that course is demanded in Califor nia | One thousand ton» of steel rails, any losses caused by them. The that served as a cinch MissSu-.d- In view of these considerations, 11 fish plates and fastening», for the P. whole people are better able to bear grass wax found in a field, her clothes House, Carriage, Sign and Or H M I T H BHO'H Proprietor*. and particularly of the ruin and (( Sr W. V. narrow gauge road, arrived losses caused by public officers than almost literally torn to sb rede, and Oregon namental Sixth Street, Grant's Paes, disaster which seem likely to flow ( at San Francisco yesterday and will individuals are, and justice requires her body coveted with bruises. The from thr enforcement of the doc- 1 I k forwarded here without delay. that the tieople should War all loss head wap almost crushed to 3 jelly, —O PAINTERS. trine recently arnounced by the Other ( material will follow and be es caused by their own officers aud Paper - Hangers and Granerà HAVING COMPLETED I OUR NEW STABLES, WE ARE Supreme Court as to water rights. , ] here a» soon a» needed. The road agents. There is no < putty tn re and the tips of her finger» were worn to the bone." it seems to me imperative that tbe from | Dundee Junction to Elk Park quiring bonds to be given by public PREPARED TO —ALIO— Executive and legislature should , trill be ready for the rail» upon their officers and no necessity tor it. take immediate action to confirm ta ( arrival.—(East Portland Star. There are many officers, local. State carvers and guilders . the people the right to the free use and National, who do not give -------------AT REASONABLE RATES---------- bonds, aud they are as I k -. .est u' cf tbe flowing waters which es Sub* rib r Corme» Grant's Pass. Oregon J. DAVIS BKOWEK, II. GRIFFIS, A POLITICAL SURPRISE. Notary Public and Agent for the Sale of Town Lots in Sugar Pine Door à Lumber Co., Grant’s Pass, Oregon, General Real Estate Agent W.ISOXS, PLOWS 1XB FIRM MURHERY ^Grant’s Pass Variety Store,— A Fine, Stock of Staple and Fancy Groceries. Circulating Library and a Free Reading Room, A Lunch First-Class School I Books. I Books I and Room I Stationery A Full Line of Paints, Oils, Varnishes and Brushes. New Blacksmith Shop, FURNISH THE BEST OF HAY AND GRAIN. Central Point Tin Shop,—.- STOVES \ N D 1’ I N W A R E, Feed Stable! Furnish the Best of Accommodations for Horses, ThwCovernorCalla an Extra Session of the Legislatura.