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Til E (’OF R I E R. TO ADVERTISERS Publisher W. J WIMER. HITES, »2.2» »1 25 ÎÔC 10c One Year (in advance) 6i -v ’ 1 ’ : ■ - ,Jhr Months Simile Copies An Independent Paper, Devoted Especially to the Interests of Southern Oregon. Job Printing of all Kinds —IN TUB— Very Latest and Best Styles lavinu (¡RAM’S PASS. JOSEPHINE (’OUNTY, OIL. FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 3. 18S6. VOL. 2. —AND AT THE— *X,( nvest Kates. PBOBBMIONAL—LEGAL. J DAMS BltOWl.!;. II G R I F F I S, EASTERN NEWS. Mining Notes. NO.‘23. TWO FEET OF TROUT. Grant’s Pass, su named after General Grant, is a county seat centrally located in Southern Oregon. It is a progressive railroad town of 600 inliabtiants, and is the main supply point for a large portion of country devoted to mining, lumbering agriculture and fruit-ra sing. Climate un- excelled The Cot KtkiK l»-ing the only paper pub lished in .hwephinv county, with a good circulation in Jackson county, enables it to he one of the l>e><t advertising mediums in Southern Oregon. For rates, address Tilt Cot BIEB, Grant’s Tutu, Oregon. their dewy glitter and matchless savor on them. But if any one had told me that even a four-foot-anda- half water snake had such blissful command of impudence, or such a persistent and elastic appetite, I’d have set him down as a----- .” The school director’s friend led him gently away, and the current rumor is that they went in and tam pered with something. —[Dent’s Creek (Pa.) Cor. N. V. Sun. [ I’iC/c- u (■■</.[ The Remarkable narrative of a Il has been reserved for a German Truthful Man Who Went Fishing. XG baxt ’ s P nm «, - - • • OttEGOX. chemist in Philadelphia to produce School Director Janies A. Blan aluminium metal of the average chard, of Williamsport, lias been ’’ Will practice in .ill the courts of the quality and purity usually dealt in up here gathering in trout. The 8t.it-. Office on sixth street, near post- and at present usefj in commerce, in other day he came in with a pecul Kce sufficiently large quantities to make iar, far-away look in his eyes. He the new process of genend cotnuter sat down without removing his 8. U. MITCHELL, cial value, and at a probable cost of basket from his shoulder or taking ATTORNEY AT LAW. not over $1.25 per pound, i-i.’th of off his gum Ixxits. He didn't say G bast ’ s P ass , - - - - O bkgon . that now ruling. Aluminium is a word to anylxxiy, but seemed to Horte Talk. imide only from its oxide, alumina. be trying to solve some point that Will practice inali Stato and Federai This is found everywhere, there be puzzled him by gazing into vacancy. Never drive a horse fast on a full ConrtM. Office on Main utroet. ing more in the ground . than there "Hallo! Blanch," exclaimed a stomach. Hurry by going slow the ...... . _ ____ 8AM. WHITE, is of iron. The French clay, battx- friend, slapping him on the back first few miles. [te, and the English and Irish alum ATTORNEY AT LAW. luck to-day?" A pail of water at a time is all a cla\s, all existing in inexhaustible "What The school director withdrew his horse should have in an hour it ’ G rant ' s P a »«, • • - - O regon -. quantities, contain very high per- inquiring gaze from vacancy and — may have more. tentages of alumina, and can l>e laid looked up at his friend. Will practice in all the Courts of the State down in New York at $8 per ton. best fly-net lot faun norset "Luck?" said he. “Singular , is The qqle uses of g)c lnvtal aie almost il not a but a white cottou sheet 11. KELLEY, luck. I'm here, ain’t I; and this is | i strapped net on over the harness. limitable. Being only about one- you?" ATTORNEY AT LAW. quarter the weight of other metals, If possible shorten the hours by a He was assured he was right on J acksonville , ... - O regon . it will be substituted for these in both points. longer rest tn the noon heat, and countless other ways. Eor light "Then it ain’t a drcam," said he, unharness the horses that they may ’ Will practice in all the Courts of the ning rods, telegraph and electric "and it ain't the jim—but no matter. take their dinner in comfort. State. Office in Court House. light wires it will come into use, as, 1'11 tell you how it was. I fished Maud S., “thequeenof the turf," IL K. HANNA, with the exception of silver, it is the an hour and killed one trout. Fact is in training in Murphy’s hands, best conductor of electricity known. of the matter is, whatever the fish and promises to do some very fast ATTORNEY AT LAW. Already, notwithstanding its cost, had Ixx-n feeding on, it wasn't miles as soon as the fat is worked < iBEGOX. J acksonville , it is adopted for the metal buttons, yeast. They didn't rise worth a off of her. buckles, mid, in fact, all the accou cent. But I killed one in an hour. Maxey Cobb, the champion trot Office in Orth building, Oregon street trements of the uniform of the sol It was in good condition, and I ting stallion of the world, died the dier, the weight of these being less haven't tlie least doubt that it was 8. W. FORBES, ened so greatly that he is enabled to all of six inches long. Well, 1 got other day at Philadelphia. He had NOTARY PUBLIC. carry from thirty to forty additional tired and lay down by the side of a record of 2:15'3, never equalled by any other stallion, and his own The Farmers' Congress. K khbvili . i : ash A i . thoisk , J osephine cartridges without increasing the S t . P aul . Aug. 26.—At the af load hitherto borne. It is non-cor the creek in the shade and went to er had recently refused $40,000 for Corxrv, O regon . ternoon session of the farmers’ con rosive and will not tarnish, and sleep. 1 slept half an hour or so, 1 the animal. Main Street, Opposite the Depot, Grant’s Pass, Oregon, Good blood is appreciated ntore vention a lively discussion took must eventually supplant other guess, and woke tip in a better Collections a Specialty. Legal Instru Til.ii'e iYii lhf* rPMohition hhhioii <I - metals for domestic uses. It will humor." ment» promptly executed. and more every year by those who place on the resolution recommend- )<•( "1'11 give ’em another cluUKv," buy horses for city purposes. The ing the restoration of the wool tariff ;1 [ s0 b e use d for subsidiary coins. MEDICAL. 1. "If they don’t take in this farmer who has the best bred ani , of 1867, amended to include sugar Specimens after handling for months said CIGARS AND TOBACCO. | NUTS AND and rice. The vole was; yeas, show • ' ~ wear, and are a- gang of flics like crazy bait," said mals to sell generally fares the best. W. F. KREMER, M. I)., no signs of LEMONS. FIGS AND OTHER i56!4z;nays, 116'4 ; Southern dele bright as the day they were struck. I. "then these Dent's creek trout The breeding season is the time to Physician and Surgeon, think of this. gates voting solidly no. The con- As an alloy, however, it will prove ain't the trout 1 think they are." Fine, Stock of Staple and Fancy Groceries. ' grew indorsed the oleomargarine of the greatest value, especially "So I tickled the gliding ripples] If you have a good farm horse, G bast ’ h P as «, ... - O regon . bill, and urged that glucose be when combined with silver and cop some more with my cunningly de keep him. The difficulties in the -------- )«(--------- placed on the same footing. It also per; giving to these metals its non vised feathers, and tossed them way of securing a g<xxl horse can Call« responded to at all hour«, day or deftly here and there upon creamy night. ; IX CONNECTION WITH A FINE LINE OF STATIONERY, WE fav ored the creation of a new cabi corrosive and non tarnishing quali foam flecks, but niy single trout not lie realized until the animal is net position, in the department of ties, and greatly increasing their really required and attempts arc W. IL FLANAGAN, M. D. HAVE ATTACHED A agriculture. It was decided to hold tensile strength. Aluminium bronze, was tossed from side to side in the made at purchasing But few hors the next meeting at Chicago the which is made from ninety parts of lonely depths of my creel for some es are exempt from defect of some Physician and Surgeon, Circulating Library and a Free Reading Room, first Tuesday before the opening of copper ami ten parts of aluminium, time before I got a companion for kind. [American Fanner. G hant ’ s P ass , - - - - O regon . the fat stock show in 1887. The has a tensile strength of three ton-- him. In fact, I was so long in get WHERE CAN HF. FOUND SAN l RACISCO, PORTLAND am > OTHER PAPERS, Dairy Dot». congress will conclude with a brief l>er square inch more than Bessemer ting him a comrade that 1 imagined that he had come to life again, and 1 -------------- )ll(--------------- scsssion Monday morning. steel. Ilian cools the blood of the cow. was flopping with indignation and 'Aitor Satan. disgust in the basket. By and by. The shipments of bullion from Running the cows make bloody L ravenworth , K an ., Aug. 26. —The Salvation Army has struck Granite Mountain, Montana, during though, I landed another one. He milk. In connection, where can be liad A little milk and meal will keep Leavenworth in full force, This July amounted to $97,900; so far in [ w is, may lx-, a little short of l>eing morning a hundred came in, and August, $59,400; and in 1S86, $898, a halt pounder, but he was as [>luin)> the calf growing. as a gosling, I shoved him down] Resting and talking should be ■ an hour after flaming dodgers were 400. scattered over the city, saying that From the Tombstone Mill and through the ojiening in the cieel lid done between milkings. the army had come to attack the Mining Company official advices and fished on. Well, not to weary If yon want to raise "stunts" Lemonade, Soda Water. Ginger, Ac. , stronhold of Satan. To-night a show that the product for June was you with a long recital, 1 managed keep the calves in the patch with (’. LEMBERT, M. D., to get three more in another hour largely attended meeting was held 308 ounces of gold, 104,719 pounds the pigs. fraduate Leipsic University,Ger. A ■v at Laing's Hall, where speeches of lead and 55,274 ounces of silver. or so, ami they were all good ones. A cow is a milk-producing ma- Then 1 couldn't get another rise -N were made by various captains and chin? and an exceedingly compli 7» and 1 gave up in disgust. I sat lieutenants. The army expects to Hop Picking. Calls reponded to at all hours, dav or cated am! sensitive one at that. down on a moss-grown rock." 1 raise such an amount of religious night Office opp.sitc Klover’s hotel. C. M. STONE, P iiop ’ b , ,‘Wcll,” I said, as I wiped my Heating curd to suddenly causes From the present indications it Jacksonville, Oregon. enthusiasm here that the 170 saloons would seem that there will lx- an brow and held it up to the cool the [Hires to contract so that the Maine Street, ...... Grant ’ s Pa««, Oregon, will parish from lack of patronage. DR. CHAS. W. BEACOM, abundance of hop pickets in the val breeze that came tremblingly by whey and gas are not sufficiently Texas Fevor. ------ DRUGGIST AND APOTHECARY, ------- Detntist, H ii . i - sboro , 111., Aug. 26.— ley this fall, and that all of them ami coyly kissed it, ,,well,” said I, 1 liberated. A tal>lcs|M>onful <>f dear lime wa What is thought to lx? the Texas will be satisfied with the going price "I've fished more than two hours, G uam ’ s P ass O regon . Drugs, Patent Medicines. Perfumery, Toilet Articles, Shoulder Braces, Trusses, Etc. fever has broken out among a large for picking, which is genctally un and 1 guess I've got more that two ter. or a law egg put in the milk at — ■ ()- - - - - - - herd of cattle on the Peck firm in derstood to be $1 |Kr box. This is feet of trout. Two feet of trout," 1 every feed will cure scours in calves. All work warranted. Office at Com BEST BRANDS OF CIGARS AND TOBACCO Roundtree township, this (Mont an advance of 25 cents over last llltised. Yott cannot tn.ike good butter mercial Hotel. "Then, presently, I thought I'd from [><>or food any more than you School 1 Books. I Books I and I Stationery gomery) county. Ten head died year’s prices, and shows that the take a l<xik at 'em. I unfastened last night, and about twenty-five producers are willing to do the MI.SCBL1.ANEOVS can make a ilk pui m out of a tows more are sick. The farmers in that square thing with the pickers. Some the lid of the basket, opened it, and ear. lookcil in. That gaze was not one Oils, Varnishes and Brushes. locality are greatly excited, fearing parties interested have caused to be second Souring cream too much before New Blacksmith Shop, A Full Line of Paints, in duration. If the lid to -------- o-------- I that the disease will spread. The circulated among the lower Sound churning, causes a s< [citation of the tl»at basket had been [Milled down Indians the story that there was LEWIS PANKEY. Proprietor. PHSICIANS’ PRESCRIPTIONS CAREFULLY COMPOUNDED. State Veterinarian lias been sent butler I its an I does not add to the for, and if he pronounces it the smallpox in the valley, in order to i>y a ten horse pu rer spring it quality of the butter. C entr . u . P oint - - O regon couldn't have goue shut quicker Texas fever the entire herd will lx- deter them from coming. This mis All profit from a dairy cow comes representation the News desires to than 1 shut it, and if I had been I< OH E H T XV EMT Hop, killed. Horse-Shoeing a Specialty. sitting on a ten-tun dynamite cart from the to.xl over and alx»ve that contradict. I11 short it is an absu Fairchild on Landing Mormons. I would respectfully intorni the public which i nc .s.arj- to sustain the N ew Y ork , Aug. 26. -Secretary lute falsehood told bv those who ridge, and it had explrxled. I don't mere functions of life. that having lately taken charge of the think I ’ d have got up from that would seek to engage the Indians Fairchild has written a letter to the Black-smith Shop at Central Point, 1 Gr.r s i. of tin- first importance in Board of Immigration in which he down tin- Sound in salmon fishing. rix k much sooner than I did. Wlr. would ask a litieral «hare of the public replies to two letters written res[>ect- The story, however, is too thin, and Because 1 was surprised. There dairying o]x.*rations. The qtinlity* L ewih I’ askkv . patronage ivcly by Mr. Stevenson, the former won't have the desired effect. Many wasn't one of those trout to lx- seen and quantity of butter ami cheese is CHANGE IN MANAGEMENT protesting against the bonds taken Indians are now en route for the in the basket not one. But they largely traceable to the pasture. < IRI.GON. C entral P oint , (Jackson County) in the case of paujx-r immigrants valley from the Nooks.-v k. [Taco were there, and instead of there be-1 An inferior animal will make an —or the — ing two feet of them there were four inferior use of the food she eats. A and the landing of Mormons, and 111a News. )•>( feet and a half of them, gixxl meas g'H>d animal will make a more profit Central Point Hotel, the latter criticizing his colleague's ure, I fear 1 am wcaryin., you," able use of the . line or< ven a great Etirojte is in a fevered state of letter about the Mormons. Fair —Having Completed my new Stable I am prepared to— LEWIS PANKEY, - Bropr child says: "With reference to the mind. One of the latest news items said the school dire« >r to liis friend, er quantity of food. Meals, - - 25 Cents, point urged by Mr Stevenson that by cable states that Prince Alexan and lie rose to go. corrals will cause the milk FURNISH THE BEST OF HAY AND GRAIN. our immigration laws should be in der of Bulgaria, has been suddenly "N<>, no!" said the friend, re to Muddy fall off. When cows arc com Having latelv Liken charge of this hotel deposed. The story of the depost straining the nngli-r, and lookiiq; pelled to stand knt>. <k.p in mud, voked for the purpose of excluding 75 « 'is. the undesigned would respectfully inform Mormon immigration from our lion is told .as follows: Kara .’doff, nt him anxiously. "There were no with their In dies plastered over with the public that the tables will be supplied shores, it is sufficient to say there prime minister, entered the palat • trout to lx- accti, you say?" contin it, diit will find its way into the HORSES. with the licet the market afford* L ewis P axkby is no warrant of law for such course at Sofia .and explained to Prince ued his fticn.d. "No trout to be pail, while additional food will be ■ of procedure. If it be found that Alexander that public opinion of seen, but still they were there, and ncccs ary to supply tiiat lost from WILL. Q. BROWN. J . S. HOUCK, the Mormon immigrants are of a Bulgaria was dissatisfied with his instead aggregating two feet in cold and exposure. class proscribed by the immigrant policy and demanded his deposition. length hail a total of four feet aftd Assayer & Analytical Chemist, The Unite I St.it'.-: could not do PROPRIETOR laws, they should be dealt with ac Alexander said: "I sec no friends. a half! Blanch, old man," said the better than copy Fiance in dealing friend, "you're worn out. Let's I cannot resist." Public meeting» 1 «BEGUN BICKEL MINE, cordingly as Ix-ing such a class, with butter adulteration. If a deal without regard to the fact that they have been held in Sofia and else go tamper with something." RIDDLE, DOUGLAS COUNTY, (XiN. er is convicted of this offense lie is "No," said the school director. where, and in all of them the pro arc Mormons. n it only put in durance vile, but his "I.ni all right. Those trout were clamation of the change of govern Analyse* made <»f Complex Nta but ance* • G alveston , Aug. ?*> —A special ment was received with favor. there, but they were nowhere to lx shop is clo-'.-d, the •'cntcnce of the MIXES KIAMINED AND MtPOSTED IW. to the News from E .cl Pa s says: Alexander was <■ >mpk-tcly surpti . seen. After a while I recovered court aaited there on as a warning T N N W A IJ E. E Allx-rt. superintendent of the cd Germane, France, Russia and from my surprise, end then opined an 1 his trading patent forever with Aanayr for Gold and Silver f 3 on U'Mihuila mines syndicate, makes England are jn excitement over the the- li<l of the basket, turned the drawn. 6 on Amav for Nickel or Cobalt —JOB WORK, M CH A«---- complaint to Consul Lynn of con sttadcnollap.se and dethronement trout out on the ground, an I never "There ii no money in dairying," 2 00 A may for Le» I or Copper stant and persistent annoyances in of the Pr ix offered to ¡ireven'. then as they made often means that the business does Roofing. Spouting, and Repairing of all kind flicted ujH>n the mining company by SPEARS & ERASURE. way to the lirrxik and sprang in not x i< Id a fortune in a certain time, Mexican officers at Cantro, Ciene- The Chicago and Northwestern They svram away aud I saw them or that it dosen’t coin? up to the AND DONE AT REASONABLE IL gaa and San Pablo, imposing unjust railroad, it is state«!, have resolved no more. I go home to-inoipjw." wild expe tatio.n of the num who House, Carriage, Sign and Or- J. S Hou k, Central Point, • tregon. fines for floating the American flag on the construction of a through There was <ib n<’<- for five min makes the remark. The saute thing Ja< kaoii Co., namental on Amer:- an property without first line to the Pacific coast The line ute«, during which the ex pre stnn can I k ? said of ntij am! < ■.ere bu>i abtaining permission from the au Ins already reached the town of on the «cli«x>l director’s friend's face nesa by th->--.- wlio have not sttcx-cd- PAINTER S. thorities at San Pablo, for which of Douglass, situated aloiit seven was p.d.rfiil to see. z\t last tile ed in it. Paper • Hangers and Graners fen-« the company was fined $20, mil' s from Fort Fetterman, on the tired angler said, musingly: It is a go.id cvw that will [my her and »topping mining operations on banks of the North Platte river, in "There is no doubt but what cost in a year’s sale of butter besides —ALSC several occasions for trivial causes. Wyoming territory, 700 miles west got in while 1 was s!eeq>ing in H Ji O’H 1 ’it>j>rit-t<>i furnishing milk fer family uac. But Albert states that since the Cutting of the Misamri river, In two tears. shade at the brookside. No de CARVERS AND GUILDERS it is only such cows that a fanner Grant’s I’ass, Or* "on and Aresiires affairs the annoyance it is said, the line will lx-l omj'L —2 Icted k<-< ping but one animal can afford has been more constant, and the ill to extend from New York city on Oregon. •o Grant’» Pas*. to own. Usually [»«ir families keep treatment of Americana in his l«x-al- the Atlantic ocean to Yaquina hay gobbled that lonesome tux meh ing only one cow. have that of su HAVING COMPLETED > OUR MW '«TAB!. ES WE ARE ity more persistent. Albert repre on the pacific ocean, and will c m trout of mine without a murmur. perior merit, in large herds owned sents a Philadelphia company that nect with the Donaluie line to com Thcu lie laid low while 1 tempted by slow farmers there svilt be ■ nutn Subscribe for the C ourier . PREPARED To han «pent a large amount of money plete the system to S.01 Francisco. the four other denizens ol the pool her ot culls, which, like the lean C 'intro. Cienegian and San Pablo. fr<>ia there pe|ucid han its kinc in.Pharaoh's dream, eat up the |THI P10NEFB AND ONLY NEWSFAFE2 Furnish the Best of Accommodations for Horses. •it Hit stateme-.it> are corroborated l*v If voti whip the borie for »I mowed them away sue bi i-iofit-. from the otiiers.—f American Published in Joaephiae Cenntv, ----------- AT ti FAMOSA IME B their. ill t.» tn « are Krtiw tiw- 1-. .b.t wrw- Anti-Convict Labor Association. Attorney at Law A Notary Public I Notary Public and Agent for the Sale of Town Lots in W C hicago , Aug. 26.—An organi zation was effected here to-day to l>e known as the National anti-epn- (Jackson County.) GOLD IIII.L, ORFGOX, vict contract association. The ob KEPBE8EXTING THE-------- ject is to be a thorough investigation of the subject of contract labor, for Sugar Pine Door & Lumber Co., Grant’s Pass, Oregon, the purpose of discovering and se curing the adoption of a method of employing the prison population MITCHELL & LEWIS CO., LIMITED. RACINE. W1S. the least burdensome and oppressive to free labor and the manufacturing New Zealand Insurance Co., Capital, $3,000,000, interest of the country. G. T. I^ew- is, of Racine. Wis., was elected pre —AND sident; Christopher Holz, of Chica- go, first vice president for Iowa, Charles I.. Bradley tor W isconsin, and H. M. Kinney for Minnesota, co \ ice presidents for the other states ■O' will lie appointed by the executive committee. < committee.Congressional^ enact- HIGHEST CASH PRICE PAID FOR GOOD WHEAT. ment prohibiting the sale of convict goods outside the state in Building Mateial of all Kinds Supplied at the Lowest Figures. labor which they are manufactured was endorsed by the convention. Reso •O' lutions were passed asking that the government I k - required to withdraw federal prisoners from state prisons worked upon the contract system, OF ALL KINDS FURNISHED ON DEMAND. and that the purchase of prison la bor products for government use lie made illegal. A committee was ap J. CHAI M \N. J. C. GILLAM. pointed to formulate a method of employing convict lalior less oppres GILLAM (’IIAPMAN. 1 ’romietors. sive to industrial interests than now. Adjourned. (¡encrai Real Estate A<>ent. «IKONS, PLOWS IMI FIRM MKI1UERÏ ^Grant’s Pass Variety Stored A First-Class Lunch Room “CITY DRUG STORI Central S O V E S 1) T 1 New Feed Stable! E,