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GRANTS PASS, JOSEPHINE COUNTY. OK.. • * FRIDAY OCTOBER S. ISS6.
VOL. '2
SUGAR PINE DOOR & LUMBER CO.
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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
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(’. 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.
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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‘
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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,