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UOUR1 EK. r- ■T THE ------------ -------- W J WiMER. TO ADVERTISERS Publisher. /.’/e/ /' - a 1: tr/N On. Fear (in advance) Six Month». Tlir Siu An Independent Paper, Devoted Especially to the Interests of Southern Oregon. Job Printing of all Kinds —IS the — Verv Latest and Best Styles, —.»SO AT THE— Lmvest Eiviinr Rates PROFESSION AL—LEG AL. GRANTS PASS, JOSEPHINE COUNTY. OK.. • * FRIDAY OCTOBER S. ISS6. VOL. '2 SUGAR PINE DOOR & LUMBER CO. N ( ). 2X Gnuil'a }’*»», *0 naiueii aityr General Grant, is a count) »eat centrally located in Southern Oregon It is a progressive railroad town of eoo inhabitants, and is the main sue ply point (or a large portion I of country devoted to mining, lumbering agriculture and fruit-rais'mg. Climate un- e «celled The Cot air.« befog the only paper pub lished iu Josephine county, with a go>xi circulaticn in Jackson county, enables it to Iv one oi the beet advertising mediums in Southern Oregon. For rates, odd e»« Tur C ockier , Grunt's Pass, Oregon. tor the actual settler an I home seek- cattle which had just arrived over New York and Boston hurrying to ' er, and one who will and does be- 2,000 miles by rail; and some of her side with all sweet offices and Outline of the Address of Hon. Bin conic a bona fide citizen of our these looked to me very much like ministrations — this is a spectacle to Attorney at Law & Notary Public ger Hermann, Delivered at the — MANUFACTURERS OF— country. I had the pleasure to vote our Coquille cattle. To the Oregon fill mankind with gladness.—New Coos County Fairat Hall's U« IS'T'S 1‘lHS, - • - - O reoox . for the passage in congress of a bill farmer then we see in this a sugges- York Star Prairie. Sept. 8, 1886. Lumber, Doors, Windows, restricting aliens in the purchase of tion to make cattle raising at least Our Neighbors. Will practice in all the courts of the The following is a meager outline ^,c public domain, Tn the interest one of the industries of the farm Stat“ Offie® on Sixth street, near post- Brackets, and Mouldings. {A'Mintl Tulin'p.y of the address of Mr. Hermann. The of agriculture, in the interest of our and thus to equalize that labor now offit. audience was large ai d listened with republican democratic form of gov- exclusively devoted to less profita Gen. E. L. Applegate has taken 8. I’. MITCHELL, it * is * high — ISO ALL RINDS OF— attention to the remarks. The ad- ernment, * I believe * ~ time Ide attention. In this connection a land claim on Ashland creek about I ATTORNEY AT LAW. dress was able and forcible and con for such restriction and I feel proud may we hope that the annual fairs three miles above town and is mak to be held at this beautiful l<x.'ation ing some improvements upon it. tained many statements calculated t° have cast that vote, G» ant *« P am , - - - - O regon . Agricultural associations nray lx? may induce the enterprising stock to awaken reflection and interest.— It is reported that the work of set The speaker urged persevering ef said to be schools for the teaching men of the entire state to exhibit ting poles and stretching the wire Will practice in al! State and Federal fort in the matter of a fair and said: of practical agriculture, and in learn-1 here their best grades of cattle, and for the new Mackay- Bennett tele Cour:«. < »dice on Main street. “There is no excellence without ingin this school we are being thus the more directly encourage an graph line will begin in this valley SAM. WHITE, —The Introduction of— an effort, and perseverence brings taught what is of infinite value to enthusiasm in this industry, to the next week. I ATTORNEY AT LAW. its own reward: The society is to the American farmer- the necessity profit of the exhibitor as well as the Rev G. Nutley and family have community at large. In this sug- be congratulated on the success of of mixed husbandry. G rant ’« P am , - - - - O regon . moved up to their stock ranch in At these exhibitions we are shown gestion I desire to include homes, this second annual fair. This insti the Cascades, and their dwelling tution should secure exhibits of not only thewheat, but the barley, 'sheep, swine and poultry, Will practice in all the Court« of the State house in town has been leased by HAS ENABLED THEM TO REDUCE PRICES FIFTY PER stock, fruits, grains, vegetables, la oats, rye and corn, the vegetable, ! The lesson which these facts teach Mr. Millsap. IL KELLEY, the fruit and the grass, the butler is uiunislakalik'. All natural re dies’ handiwork, and mechanical Little Hauk Emery, whose fall ; ATTORNEY AT LAW. CENT BELOW ALL FORMER RATES. work, and should be what its name and cheese of the dairy, the pre sources should l>e utilized—the from a tree at the north school house serves and jelly, the wines and cider glassy glade for the dairy, the hill implies. Each citizen should take J acksonville . - - - - O regon . 8u»“ For Price List, address, S. P. D. &. L. Co. and feel an interest, for his own suc of the fruit, the bread of the grain. crest and slope for fruit, the bottom was mentioned last week, was not cess is involved. These exhibitions We beheld the advance in animal lands for peas, corn and clover; tilla seriously injured, and is all right Grant's Pass, Oregon. Will practice in all the Courts of the State Office in Court House. advertise the county and induce en- industry. From the various ¡tor ble uplands for variotts crops in ro i again now. It was feared for a , terprising people, capitalists and tious of the state are brought to tation, and no great district should time that he had received internal H. K. HANNAH, grades of be restricted to one product, wheth injuries of a serious nature. ; manufacturers to come and visit us gether the best imported . _ The preliminary examination of and stay with us. the horse, cattle, sheep and swine. er grass or wheat. Such restriction ATTORNEY AT LAW. Agricultural development flour A careful study is given to each as will in one generation lead to pover Fritz Munz for the killing of the In J.UKB0NVILI.1:, < »KKUi’N. islies best among the small land to the adaption to the different uses ty of land and ixople. All natural dian near Bly last week "resulted in Proprietor. J. JORDAN, owners. That nation which has the antl counties. The quality of the resources should lx? realized—the Munz being held by Justice Bow- Office in Orth building, Oregon street greatest number of laud owners, in horse as a racer, for draught, for all timber land, the underlying orc, the doin for murder in the second de GRANTS PASS. OREGON. 8. W. FORBES, proportion to its area, is the most, work; the grade of the cow for beef, coal, lime, building stone, salt gree; his bonds living fixed at J6,- prosperous. Look at France with and for butter; the sheep for mutton springs—beneath the soil as well as 000. John Gliem and John Frieze NOTARY PUBLIC. her limited area and her farms, large °> for wool, and the swine for ham tin. soil itself. This use of nature, furnished the security required, and KkHBY'ILI.E VXD AlTUOlSE, JOSEPHINE : ly in quantities from a few to twi n a,l(i lard, all these, «re critic.illy in so varied and comprehensive, can Munz is at liberty. THE COMMERCIAL HOTEL IS THE C ovnty , O regon . ty acres, (a 100 acre i<um being a •I'eeted by competent judges and alone secure the full utilization and Alxmt three fourths of the 200,000 rich principality') and yon find the their excellencies or deficiencies productiveness of labor and the high pounds of grain shipped from the Collections a S|s‘< ialty Legal Instru- most prosperous people on earth.— made known. Rewards are offered est averaged wealth and culture. I Willamette to Fort Klamath has •taunts promptly executed. Loaded as she was with an enorm- as au inducement for the highest predict the highest future prosperity, already been taken from Ashland by M EDICAL. ous foreign indebtedness, produced P perfection and thus the s_ specialist , I in<<\ . be pardoned . to mention Ill tn the Indian teamsters ’ Many of the In This Part of Southern Oregon. bv the the Franco-German Franco-Gentian war war and and ' has a double incentive to coinpeti- this countction the great importance teams have lx‘en coining in bv W. F. KREMER, M. I)., seemingly bankrupt by the terms of tion, and the highest results are de- which I conceive the darying inter- Rogue river road, and bringing loads ‘ has ‘ ’■ velopcd; the public mind is liberal- , est cotild be to this \ alley. n.itui i’.’» of lumber from Aiken’s saw mill to the German conquorer, ’ she made Physician and Surgeon, her payments on the indemnity at a 1 ized and diverted from following in so rich in its grass }>rouu< ing capa Ashland and Medford. G rant ’ s P ass , - - O regon . rate that lias astonished the civilized | one narrow rut, to the great import city. In the east those farms -.' hich The Ashland cit\ council received ance and value oi encouraging in engage laigely in either butter, two bids for the $6,000 fire bonds. Calls responded to at all hours, day or The 'Fables Supplied With the Very Best in the world. There are between five and six every form the growth and produc cream, cheese or milk tnarx^’ing en On. was from Ladd K. Bush, of Sa- night. Market. million farmers in the United States tion of various industries of which joy the highest prosjx'rily, and dri« ’em uf one per cent, premium.— \V. II. FLANAGAN, M. I». is shown in the wealth of the traffic The other w«.. from Ladd & Tilton, who are without any interest in the the farm may lx.' capable. AND THE ROOMS ARE FITTED Ul> WITH A VIEW TO The owner of large herds of cattle as shown by the statistics. The ot Portland, ’ > oiouc per cent, pre land farmed. We have to day, in Physician and Surgeon, our nation, a quarter of a million who has no milk or butter; the annual product of the dairies in but miltm, ami wxs pted. The CLEANLINESS AND COMFORT. G rant ’ s P ash , - - O regon . more tenant farmers, paying rent to wheat grower who has no potatoes ter. cheese and milk is estimated at money will probu’dv lie de»x sited in —o— landlords, than the three kingdoms or vegetables; the farm that is with $565,000,<xx> and this is over four the Bank of Ashland this week Office at residence, corner Main and of Great Britain. Ireland and Scot I out an orchard may have done in times the value of the oat crop, ami Rev. W. S. Ho|t, rd Ponlawd, Mt. z^Rird streets. Call attended any hour, land. We have three times more ■ former years, but iu the full light £i 50,000,000 more than the value and Mrs. E. G Wheeler, from the day or nigh. 1 of the present is regarded as 011 the of the entire wheat crop, three times tenants than England and Walt ., —o— East, ate to assist in the Sunday and twice as many as landlord-rid I retrograde. To no part of Oregon the value of the cotton manufactures, School Convention br be* liild at PR. F. W. VAN PYKE When you come to G rant ’ s P ass , stop at the C ommercial den Ireland. j should mixed fanning be so profit and more than twice the value of Jacksonville, Wednesday p. m., and G kimh P a »« - - O regon . Of about 8,000,000 of people en able as to the soil and climate of the combined iron and steel product. Thursday (Oct. t> and 7.) The H otel , and your wants will l>e properly supplied. J. J ordan . gaged in farming in the United southern Oregon, the Coquille val The capital invested in milch cows present indications are that the con English and German Spoken. States, only alxnrt 3,000,000 are ley in particular. Here almost every in our nation is greater than that in vention will be a success. Every A K Office on Main Htreet, near drug »tore. registered as normal owners of their ' condition exists and every fruit, vested in national bank sl<x?k. It one interested in Sunday Schools holdings all the rest being tenants. grain and vegetable adapted to the provides the extra necessities and cordially invited to lx* present. T _________ (’. LEMPEUT, M. »., In France, out of a population of temperate zone can be grown here. simple luxuries for the log cabin, ♦ ♦ Jackson County New«, It is an axiom “that other indus and the larger profits for the elegant 12,000,000 less than the United Graduate Leipsic University.Ger. C. M. STONE, P rop ’ h , States, there ate in round numbers, tries increases farm values.” In mansion. [Coast Mail Fires still rage in the mountains. dustry, not population, creates Maine Street. Grant’s Pass, Oregon, 5,000,000 rural proprietors, each wealth. A country is prosperous Calls rejMiuded to at all hours, dav or The Great N. P. Land Sale. Wool is selling at 20 cents [>er holding less than 20 acres, and cul night » Ittico op|K)site Slover’s hotel. I pound. only as those engaged in agriculture tivating the land with hisown hands. Jacksonville, < >re ron. DRUGGIST AND APOTHECARY, 'fhe recent sale made by the J. Cary is erecting a store at Cen These facts astonish us the more are in proportion to the aggregate Northern Pac ific Railroad Company DR. CHAS. W. BEACON, all other occupations. tral Point. Drugs. Pilent Medicines. Perfcniery. Toilet Articles, Shoulder Braces, Trusses, Etc. when we reflect on the boundless iu The of all their lands in Dakota east of former who for a long while generosity of our nation in provid T. T. McKinzie who has had Detntist, the Missouri River, presumed to lx? ing free homes in the great west for engages exclusively in any one in .!,400.000 acres, is the result of a erysipelas is arouml again. O regon . G p W t ' s P ass all who choose to comply with the dustry, as in wheat, will find to his negotiation which began over six BEST BRANDS OF CIGARS AND TOBACCO R. K. Sutton has discovered ex law. As the anchor holds the ship sorrow that stagnation and poverty or eight years ago. 'Fhe sale is to cellent coal near Ashland. All work warranted. Office at Com School I Books. Books I and Stationery in quiet as well as .stormy waters, so is the result, ami that only is a va a syndicate of capitalists, some of Ni irly 350 pupils me enrolled in mercial Hotel. an interest in the landed home, how riety in agricultural industry the - whom have handled successfully the public sehixils of Ashland. --------- o--------- ever humble or small, is the tie life of business and the secret of many thousand acres of Western MISCELLANEO!'*. H. T. Pankey is buildinga dwel Pennsylvania, which A Full Line of Paints, Oils, Varnishes and Brushes. which binds the citizen more indis prosperity, lauds The syndicate agrees to ling house near Centi al Point. was first in rank in 1849 as a wheat solubly to the organic law. lie re open up these lands to settlement, MILL Q. BROWN. Mi Beu Vinecut raised tin. alizes a direct, intimate and sensible producing state was tenth on the to send agents abroad to induce year, cucumlx-rs four feet long. relationship to the strong arm of the list in 1879. Abater it Analytical Chemist, I’HSICIANS’ PRESCRIPTIONS ( AREEl'LLY COMPOUNDED. municipal miall colonics from dillerciit parts Were it not for the great home government. It is the Elmer Stephenson has sold his of Euroix: to '-ettle on these projx’i OREGON NICKEL MINE, tie which produces a mutuality of market in our nation consuming <><> tics. The syndicate will build ranch on Applegate to Hank y & Co. being—of allegiance on the part of per cent, of our surplus productions, houses ami break up small tracts of BIDDLE, DOUGLAS COUNTY, OGN. K ( ) B E R T W ER T K O I». “B’.l» Wealrop still goes ahead the citizen, and of protection on the the over production of wheat would land on the different sections, and with inipiovcment'. at Central Point. —PROPRIETOR— An»lyif* mad«* of Complex Substance*. part of the state. It is the future soon be so far in excess of the de offer many inducements that the Tin Baptist church building on safeguard for liberty, and the guar mand that conlintted depression | railroad company could not do. MINES EXAMINED AND REPORTED I POM. Antelopi ■ reek will soon lx- finished. A antee of free government in America. would result until a complete change They will build blanch road: 1 to The < tigine of the Wagner creek A shuv for < »old and Silver I 3 no As to the young man he who is should occur in our system of farm (sninect with the main line of the r> 00 As*.iv for Niuk**l or Cobalt now, or soon is to exercise an indi ing. While population doubled in Northern Pacific. Settlers will also saw mill broke down one day list Assay for Lead or Copiier 2 00 vidual sovereignty to hold the 27 years the wheat area doubled in lx.' invited to settle on the even sec week. (Jackson County) • > ui :<; on . Prof S. P. Williams will organ C entral P oint , plow ami thresher, and to manage 15 years. We now produce 12,<xx>, - tions owned by the Government, SPEARS & ERASURE, the stock, the field, farm or garden. o<x> acres of wheat in excess of the and furnish aid to such settlers who ize singing hools throughout the )o(----- I say encourage him while it is yet countries wants, and must find our prefer to enter on the Governin' it county. House, Carriage, Sign and Or time to acquire a home. Soon a market abroad in competition with lands under the pre eruption act. Mi .I Monisoti ie Long from —Having Completed my new Stable I am prepared to— namental home on the public domain will lx.- the cheap labor of Russia, of South In view of all these pledges nride Tenne-cc ar< at Ph<x.'nix where thev a thing of the past. It is no longer America, of Australia and India. by the syndicate to the railroad projxisc to locate. P A INTER S, FURNISH THE BEST OF HAY AND GRAIN. a question of to-morrow it is al It is shipjx d 3 500 miles by sea, and company, the latter was induced to G. E Burge., the hunter and from California more than half make the sale. The sale is suppos trap) er add a load of skills in Jack Paper - Hangers and Graners ready a question oi to-day. To Hay ;in<l Gran Per Ilead, Over Nitrlit, 7." < 'Is. According to the reports of the around the world to compete with ed to retire upwards of ^.|,rxx),<xx> son county 1 uit week. the slavish ryots of India. Should of ¡»referred stock, which will re BEST OF ACCOMMODATIONS FURNISHED FOR HORSES land office, the diminution of the Capt. Caton ha. bien unwell. — public lands, surveyed and unsur our home market fail by the sus dticv the entire outstanding stock, CARVERS AND GUILDERS, Frank Ka- af. r has charge of the pension of our manufacturing in veyed, is taking place at the rate of to some S.yy.’xxs.’x x>. Criterion in his place. Grant’s Pas“. Oregon. 20,000,000 acres .a year Said the dustrics and the harvests of Eurojx.- HOUCK,- The company still own east of tin J. S T H and I G. Stimpxon and J. lie extra, we should suffer calamities Missouri River Land Commission report 1880 in numlier some CHANGE IN| MANAGEMENT “It was estimated June ,p>. 1879 of untold severity. We shall lx: 1,600,000 acres, There have lx-en W Smith an going to engage large PROPRIETOR that the laud. over which the sur compelled to reduce our surplus overtures made by a syndicate to ly in canning vcni.*m. —<>r rnE— J H Rial lia establish' d a new vex ami disposition laws had been and limit it largely to home con purchase the entire Ixxlv of land, ), extended, lying in the west, the sumption. It beh’xives IIS then to but front the fact that many ot the dairy on Bear creek and i , -upply Central Point Hotel. United States did not own. of arable encourage a more espial pr>xluction lands contain valuable timlier, the ing Ashland with milk. LE’VIS PANKEY, Propr —DEALER in — agricultural public lands, which in other industries. II inky & C<>., hipped ticarlv z\ leading industry in our country company have declined any offer for i.x> hi.id ot cattle f: >m Central could Ire cultivated without irriga Meals, 25 Cents. the whole. These latuls air also tion or other artificial appliances, is that of cattle and it will long re applicable to retire preferred stix'k Poin , to Portland lately. ,? more than the area of Ohio, about main so in vie-v of the conditions when sold. Judge Hannah has Ixcn appoint 25,000,000 aip s and of these over existing in other countries. In 1883 Having lately taken charge >>f this hotel The company is now making • lies ed agent t<> sell the pr >|»rrty belong w< c •. !>• ab I to iff n ■ ■ amti I- ■ 7,000,000 acres were taken up in the uri’lc«i_ 1 w. u! 1 r> «;» -fullv inform of irrigating lands in the Vakinia ing to tin- late James Cluggagv. over $i7,rx.x>,ooo worth of cattle, one year 18X0. the public that the table, will be supplied section of the country, and have Ashland college is said to lx: These are facts worthy of our pro and nearly $5»»,000 worth »»1 horses. made to parties who intend to carry AND DONE REASONABLE RATES with the beat the market affords closed until another principal can Even the Atneri' an home market found attention A ml again Lrwi« P ankey out a system <>f irrigation -u< h as be found to succeed Prof. Royal. J. S. Houck. There has been no greater curse will find the supply diminishing was successfully carried out in Col Jackfton Co., < Oregon. A. Alford, of Talent, J. T. Row in this republic than the facility af unless the small farmers change orado years ago. [Phi 1. Railroad New Blacksmith Shop, ditch and A H Boothby of Ash forded alien proprietorship in Ameri some of their wheat land» into grass. Record. LEWIS PANKEY. Proprietor. land visited J.u'k son ville last week. can land- Over 2o.<x»o.oao acres The immense tattle ranges and W M. Richards of Big Butte has are now owned by foreign syndicates water monopolies of Wyoming, What a moving and sublime spec Climat Poorr - • Oaroow Montana, Texas, Nevada, Nebms- tacle is presented to the world to taken the contract to <iw a large and individual h lit ka, Dakota and Kansas are long day! Charleston stricken and crush amount of lumber at Aiken Bron., .almost incredible but it is Horse-Shoeing a Specialty. H NI I T II H If < >’H 1’i‘iiprn f<>r.-. encroached on by the ; actual settler, cd. stretching out her arms from the mill. there are now in one of tin I would respwtfully intorni the publw Sixth Street, ( )r<-g«»n Grant’« Pax*. anti thus by degrees <1 i-ix ing toother dust and ashes of the ruin ’hat has this union two English sj Ab. Giddings is that hivinp lately taken rharye of the fields the immense herds nt .v sup fallen around her, ami her si .ten of contract to furnish one holding 4.500,000 1 o- Blark-Muith Shop at Central Feint, I plying the markets world. the North and East hastening to tatoes and 8,000 fb < the other exo acri w.xild a-k a liberal share of ’he public The Chicago stock patronage Lxwia P an KRY re even her succor, with wet eves and loving Klamath. HAVING COMPLETED • OIR NEW STABLES, WE ARE now biddiux for 1 n held In- Hritidi 1 T1 ,e Mcnser insurance case has band PREPARED To Oregon, an I I had the pleasu 1* ft Subscribe for the C ockier . 1 tin d irch that el»cl not I .it titled. It is thought Men few weeks ago, wl le visiting the iat th from whose < Iit ■It fir tbolt ili have to sue the compatii«.'«, Furnish the B 3t of Accommodations for Horses, TBE PIGMEE! AND ONLY NEWSP a PEB wonderful » lock - id. in Chi igo til again M1 hurl ion th mm tchriK A wiivu il will I Fubiuhei tn JixerLiM Cc-jn‘ -------------A T P. E A ON AIL F. P. AIL---------- to ice a larze Kim ,f t-,» <»« UWD U.’JJWER, and Store Finishings. o The Latest Improved Machinery, COMMERCIAL HOTEL. Largest and Best Regulated Hotel GUESTS Wil l. ALWAYS EIM) TERMS REASONABLE. CITY New Peed and Sale Stable. -Central Point Tin Shoj s T O V E S A X 1» T I N \V A K E, Peed Stable! ADDRESS OF HON. BINGER HERMANN,