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r ------------ r W J WIMER TO ADVERTISERS. Publisher X I li SC 'RIP TION R .4 TES, One Year (in advance) 12.25 Six Months. »1.25 Three Mouths . 75c Single Copies Ilk- An Independent Paper, Devoted Especially to the Interests, of Southern Oregon. Job Printing of all Kinds —fX THE— Verv Latest and Bust Styles, — ,%MD AT THE— Lowest Living Rates. —------------ ------------------------------- raerENIO?) At.—I.EO ,L. VOL. *2. (¡RANTS PASS. JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OIL, FRIDAY OCTOBER •2-2..ISS6, • 9 SUGAR PINE DOOR & LUMBER CO. Communication. NO. 30 (»null’s Paas, m named after General «■rant, ix a rountv scut centrally located, in Southern ««regon. It is a progressive I railroad town of HOD inhabitants, and is- the main supply point for a large portion, of country . l.-V’Hed to mining, bnnliering agriculture :uid frait-raising. Climate un- | exeelle,» Tlx- Cot ktf . k 1,-eing the only napat pub lished iu Josephine county, with a gixxl cirvulat»« in Jackson county, enables it to be on« of tlx- lieat a<hertising nwdiuma in Southern HregiMi. Fo« rates, address- T he C oi xier , Grant’s Fasa, Dregou. ■ finding the latter also. So it is Geronimo'» Pedigree. WIPED OUT OF EXISTENCE with the writer. I ater Report« from Sabine Paes say P ortland , Oct. 9, 1886. By his prominence incoe of the Much of error has been discover Attorney at Law & Notary Public Over IOO People Were Lost. —MANUFACTURERS OF— E d . C ourier :-- In casting about ed in both the religious and so most remarkable Indian campaigns G rant ’ s P ams , - - • « O regon . B kaumont , Texas, Oct. 15th.— in the mind for a subject upon which cial world, together with some truth, in our history, this chief's name is now not less familiar than was that First reports <4 the great disaster of and it is proposed to knock off all to write, an abundant stock of ma Lumber, Doors, Windows, Will practice in all the courts of the terial is found, but the question of the tumors, scabs, barnicles and of the Sioux Chief Sitting Bull, who Sabine Pass were not in the least State. Otfii-e on Sixth street, near post- what will lie most interesting and blisters, which so generally afflict was the leader in the Custer mas exaggerated. In fact, they under Brackets, and Mouldings. otfiee. •instructive to the readers of the society, regardless of whos corns are sacre, and who left a trail of blood estimated the number of deaths S. V. MITCHELL, C ourier is not so easily determined. hurt, regardless of whos head is through the Northwest. Now that caused by the storm. The death — AND AU KINDS OF— fiend Geronimo has been caged, roll now reaches ninety, with a large ATTORNEY AT LAW. It should I k * the aim of every wri ensconced under a beautifully pol a the brief view of his blood thirsty ca numlier still missing. It is thought ished but artificial head, of hair, ter proposing to treat upon subjects G rant ’ s P ass , - - - - O regon . fully 100 persons met their deaths of interest ami real importance to which must be knocked off in order reer will lie read with interest It on the night of the gale. A relief is generally believed by those who to the discovery of the fact that the public, or to man in his individ Will practice in ali State and Federal know him (tersonally, that he was party went down on the railroad and baldness exists. Our motto is, "Let ual or corporate capacity — to pre Courte. Olin e on Main street. are still there. The trains enuld pare such mental pap as shall be, truth’be told though the heavens not an Apache Indian, but a full- not get within twelve miles of the SAM. WHITE, —The Introduction of— not only palatable, but also of real fall," In the diagnosis and treat blooded Mexican, who was captured ruined town * ATTORNEY AT LAW. lasting benefit to his fellow man. In ment of all these society afflictions, and carried into the mountains while N ew O rleans . Oct. 15th.— The a yonng boy. But the unwritten short, the purpose of every writer whether religious, political, social G rant ' s P am , - - - - O regon . wishing to lift mankind up to a high or economic, no pains will be spared; archives of Indian ancestry are so relief boat I.aniar has returned front P ass Only two houses are er and purer plain than that on the only object being to do good.— uncertain and unsatisfactory that Snbine Will practice in all the Courts <>f the State left in the latter place. One hun l’ER which the world now moves, should 'Short sermons, brief lectures, gen we will forever remain in doubt as dred and one persons are missing. HAS ENABLED THEM TO REDI CE PRICES FIFTY . H. KEl.LEY, eral epistles and moral essays on to his nativity. We do not care be to bring to the light—Truth. ANOTHER RltPORT. ATTORNEY AT LAW. CENT. BELOW ALL >ORMER ffATES. Truth is Light. Truth makes the various subjects may follow should much whence this wild beast ema nated; we onl> remember now that the C ourier deem such worthy of N ew O rleans , (kt. 15th.—The possessor thereof free! In what J acksonville . - - - - O regon . S. P D. &. L. Co. Eor Price I.ist, address, sense? Free from all error, then are space in its colutns. Quacks, shys he has caused the murder of ban latest reports from Sabine Pass place ters. hobbyists, demagogues, selfish deeds of men, women and children the lo-s of life at over one hundred, we happy. Grant s Pass, Oregon. Will practice in al! the Courts of the In thus prese iting truth, the or and cranky pretenders of every class after the most horrible torturing pro and not one house is left standing. State. Office in Court House. der of the bitter and sweet, as found and nature are warned to stand from cess, ami we h<qx* that he will lie Even the light house is in a wrecked H. K. HANNAH, wiped out of existence right speedi condition. Many vessels are ashore ODYLIC. in the case of eating of the little under. ly, and that his name will disappear miles from the water. Relief par j book by John the revelator (Rev. x, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Doastrous Cattle Drive. forever from the newspaper columns. ties are at work, in all directions. 1 10.) must, in many cases, be revers J acksonville , - - - - O regon . ed; for. because of the long imbibi Some months since Mr. Neidring To those pa|H-rs who are so much The loss of life at Johnson Ixiyou is Proprietor. J. JORDAN, tion of error by the many, both hans, of St. Louis, visited this city interested in the history of the fiend, 1 also rejKirted great. The effects o. Office in Orth building, Qregon street teachers and laity, truth will at the in the interest of the St. Louis cat we would suggest the hyena, the the slot m is severely felt over a large GRANT S PASS, OREGON. 8. W. FORBES, first be quite bitter to the mental tle syndicate, of which he is a promi vulture, the shark and the rattle section of Texas. palate of such, but it can safely be nent inemlier. His object was to snake as the possibilities of his an NOTARY PUBLIC. Blare» in Hia Eye. predicted, that, in the end it will collect cattle to lie driven to a vast cestry, if the "evil one" himself was K krbyvillk and A ltiiousb , J osephine , not directly responsible for the is S tockton , Oct. 15.--The Stock- range which the syndicate had leased become sweet and very desirable if THE COMMERCIAL HOTEL IS THE C ounty , O regon . partaken of freely, and I k * instru- in British Columbia at a nominal sue. The hundred thousand jx/ople ton Mail last night sent a re[x>rter Arizona are thankful to the sol to investigate the phenomenal do 1 mental in producing great and last- rent. He sent out agents in differ ot diers for having capture«! the thirty ings of Willie Brough, tin- boy with Collect ions a Specialty. I .egal Instru ent parts of the state and they col . ing happiness. ments promptly executed. bucks, in which proceeding the As I am but "a pilgrim and a lected a large number of cattle, thousands of cowboys, rustlers, fire eyes, who is amazing the neigh borhood of Turlook, and is being finally reaching Montana with a MEDICAL. stranger here," and feel greatly more gamblers and hardy frontiersmen In This Part of Southern Oregon. interested in man's spiritual and fu band of 40.000, which were started took no part a queer commentary followed by mysterious blazes wher W. F. KREMER, M. D.» ever he goes. The preliminary re ture wellfare than in his temporal along through that territory for the upon border self-reliance.—I !-.x ports received from the reporter this British possessions. The Walla and physical, I may I k * excused for Physician and Surgeon. Walla Union learns from a gentle What Shall We Do With Our Boya. morning verify the published stories. treating more largely upon such G rint ’ s F ish , ... - O regon . Leading business tncti of Turlook, GUESTS Wil l. ALWAYS FIND topics as jK-rtain to man's future man just arrived from Montana that and [tersons who have seen the phe A corresjiondeiit asks to what the scheme has proved a disastrous state, and such as indicate the prop Calla responded to at all hours, day or The Tables Supplied With the Very Best in the trade we would recommend hint to nomena, assert its truth. failure. For a time the drive pros- er course of life here, in order that Di^ht. Market, the future shall be all that we can pered finely, but as the unusually apprentice his son. Our answer is, Idle Men. W. II. FLANAGAN, M. I>. wish for. Our future state, how dry season in Montana progressed to none. In the old days, when I AND THE ROOMS ARE FITTED UP WITH A YIEW TO men went on foot and in stage S an F rancisco , Oct. 15.—It is eyr, is so largely shaped by what the grass became scarcer, streams of Physician and Surgeon, coaches, it would do to grind olit a 1 estimated that fifteen hundred men water fewer and farther between, : we believe, say. ami do in this life, CLEANLINESS AND COMFORT. G rist ’ s 1’ asx , ... - O regon ; that the one cannot be lengthily the stock began to weaken ami fall few years in the manifold drudgery ■ ire out of employment on the water —o— treated without consideration of the by the wayside, and as days passed of an imposed task, but in these front, which number will I k * increas- ^llfiee at resilience, corner Main and by f<xxl became scarcer and the ani days of quick communication the . cd to three thousand when the whal other 'AM.l streets. Cull attended any hour, TEEMS REASONABLE. mals died by the hundreds. The news of the day at almost every ing vessels are all in. The cheap Some may think such articles out day or nigh. herders even suffered grea{ priva hour, and the opportunity for boys |sisscnger rates liast may cause of place in the secular press, and —o — ask why your "religious effusions" j tions for water, and so desperate di«l to see and know what is going on many to leave the city, and the new Hit. F. W. VAN DYKE When you cotne to G rant ' s P ass , stop at the C om MERCIAI. ■ are not sent to a religious pa|K*r, the situation lieeonie when nearing around them a thousand fold lietter railroad lines now contemplated will G rants P ass - - O regon . where those inclined to feed upon the British line Mr Neidringhaus than their fathers did twenty years give many employment. H otel , and your wants will be properly supplied. J. J ordan . such mental pap may do so without ordered the drive abandoned and ago we say emphatically, give the A Mink Farm. English an i German Spoken. disturbing the placid current of af- the l»er«lers to reach the Northern boy a voice in the matter. Let him "There arc some mighty green Office on Main street, near drug store. I fairs in ottr channel? Ah whv in Pacific railroad as lx-st they could. h>«»k and choose. If he have a ma -4 indeed? Supjiose 1 answer that one The scene alxiut tile drive was a nia for robbing bird’s nests and lit men in this world," saubthe pas C. LEMl’EKT, M. D., painful fact -truth to be brought most pitiable one. The cattle were tering up his room with them, put senger from the West to a Chicago to light, is, that too much religion, reduced to skin and bones and were him in the wav of liecoming a 11a I Herald man, "and I struck one of Graduate Leipsic University,Ger. C. AL STONE, Pnoi-’it, j and not enough truth, is found in so weak from fatigue ami want of turalist. If he l>e forever c-xperi 1 1 'em a week or two ago. If 1 hadn't nourishment they would stand still minting and whittling, and trying 1 wouldn't lie here now. I went Grant’s Pass, Oregon, the columes of the religious press, until they fell in their tracks to die. to do something which he cannot out into Western Nehiaska and ( ’alls re|K)n<lc(l to at all hours, dav or Maine Street, and the writer who has the temerity night ( Mlice opposite Slover’s hotel. to intimate such a thing sees at once Their moanings and bellowings do for lack of means, let him visit homesteaded a quarter section. I Jacksonville, Oregon. ------ DRUGGIST AND APOTHECARY,------ the bristles rise all along the spinal were fearful to hear. A cold, dry. machine shops of various kinds. If hadn't seen the land, but took it DK. CUAS. W. BKACUM, column of said religious press, and piercing wind, which was sweeping he wants to know how a tiling can sup|x>siiig it was all right. Bui bruti, bien M ukiin . hrliitn. Tuie! Artici«, smittr Bi'au*. tees, Etc. ; his "ettusiou iluds ready quarters* over the country, «lid much to com hap]x.-n at midnight, and descrip when I got then- I found it alrea<ly Dctntist, plicate the situation. Cattlemen lions and pictures of the e^ nt and inhabited. Aliont a hundred and in the waste Imsket. O regon . I ire ot the (minion that the syndicate its surroundings l>c given to fifty fifty acres of the one hundred an<l G rant ’ s P ass The religion« press — as a rule BEST BRANDS OF CI g AR« (k’D TOBACCO will not have 200 head of st«xk millions of people liefore seven o' sixty wete covered with a prairie- 1 is more denominational than iil.g All work warranted. Office at Coin- School I Books, I Books I and I Stationery ious, as religion 1« defined by the ' next spring out of the immense dyck in the morning, let him visit dog town Web, k ■.uuUjj<.|ed_t<> inxr.-inl Hofei. Apostle Janies, (Ja's. 1, 27,) hence, band driven from this country. a well organuxu printing office. A settle down and see what 1 could do. I 1 '.rd 4 «1'1 “-Tlity glad now that I all communications, to find favor Their loss in that case will re ich far dose* of this kind ot MINCE 1.1. ANEOVM. will show what path 01 .tie the Idid About two weetx ago I wss $250,000. 'Die sitn.itioH through and publicity through such a chan A Fu¡l Line of Paints, Oils, Varnishes and Brushes. nel must I k - careful not to tread on out Montana for cattlemen is very mwnun will I k * likely to travel ! tip to the railroad s'.iTWli the corns of the particular denomin gloomy. In his annual report to with the l>est s'dr^SS By all means get trusted for some bacon 1 nd flour NEW TIN SHOP; PHSKTANS ’ PRESCRIPTIONS REI'I'LLY COMPOUNDED. ation to who's press the communi the interior department Gov Haus give him the opportunity to ■1'*»^. and tcrbackcr, an' feeling right O. H. STARR, I’ rc - i - hiktor , cation is sent. This makes it ex er implores the government to allow ami, when he has made his choice, smart discouraged. I was out of —Dealer In— ceedingly «lifficult to bring out the cattle to lx* driven on Indian reser encourage his efforts, apd do not money ami grub, and the winter truth in all cases, in that clear, bold vations for the winter, as most of grind him down by ■ servile appren was cranin' on fast, an’ 1 couldn't Stove?, Tin-Ware, Pumps Pipe.'. HOHER T \V E S T R < I I and forcible manner which will the living streams have «Iried up ticeship in which he takes no inter see my way out of it but to eat prai Etc., Etc., Etc. — proprietor — make it effectual in the displacing ami not a spear of grass remains on cst, and where nine tenths of his rie «logs, an' they're mighty hard of error. To this rule there are no the public domain, the result of an time is spent in making money for to catch. But that day was the JOB WORK DONE ON SHORT ble exceptions to I k - found among unusually dry season. [< hi-goman his "master" without benefit to turning |w>int m my tuck. While himself, (The Printing Press. I was at the station an Englishman NOTICE. religious papers, lor we have in our The C. A 0. Will be Built. got off th«1 cars an’ said ns how he , country undenominational publica A Portlander, who returned from Recent x-vents in this conntv have Prices Modernité. tion houses; vet the writer confess S in Francisco yesterday, says there emphasized and given new force to was out West lookin' for a place to OREGON. GRANTS PASS. ( I regon . (Jackson County) C entral P oint , es that he has never yet read the is not the shadow of doubt that the tile old addagc. "Honesty is tile make an investment. Said he’d publications from any house in the California it Oregon Railroad will liest policy," Thes« same events heard o' the fur business, an' want . WILL. Q. BROWN, )o( country wherein there seemed to I k * I k - built to a c<mn<'< ti«*n with the have- doubtless caused more* than e<1 to know 'f lie was out in the fur a total absence of bias or prejudice Oregon it California and at an early one thoughtful man to consider seri country yet. Assayer & Analytical Chemist, —Having Completed my new Stable I am prepared to— "‘Furs,’ says I, 'there hain't no as against all denominations date. He alsosays that the Central ously tile pn ent state of commercial OREGON NICKEL MINE, Another may say, very well, but Pacific Railroad hss made a projxi morals, ami ask himself: whither f an’ just then an idea struck me, tune. ’Furs,’ RIDDLE, DOUGLAS COUNTY, OGN. FURNISH THE BEST OF HAY AND GRAIN. we have no interest whatever, in the sition to lease the Oregon & Call are we drifting? We are not of that an' I changed niv tunc subject of which you speak. Our fornia, but th<- latter company would gloomy class who arc mourning for says I, ‘there hain’t no lictter fur To Hay 11ml firan Per II cik I. < )ver Niirlit. «•• ' '».*«. interests arc all centered in things not lease its property, fearing it a return of the days of the past, and country than this on 'arth. Just Analy««*« made of Complex come out to my place till I show MIMM EXAMINED AMD BBPOBTED VPOW. BEST OF ACCOMMODATIONS FURNISHED FOR HORSES. of to-day and of this present age; could not <fr> so legally. The terms, who seem to think that our country, you my fur farm.' and we are willing that the future however, were satisfactory to the our institutions, our public and pri » ,3 OO Assay for «role! an.l Silver . •'And he went out with me, and shall l<e left to take care of its self <> it c. Th' genthman bad a vale morals are on a fearful down II oo Assay for Nickel or Cobalt True, my dear sir. that the future long talk with C P Huntington grade, which only ends at the pre< i I showed him the piairie dog town, Assay for Ix*o<l or Copper 2 00 J. S. HOUCK, will take care of the things thereof, who confirmed the report that he pice of complete annihilation: but an*, as luck wonld have it. it was a but no man can truthfully assert was about to bttihl a Rail Road we can see a crying need for .1 high bright sunny «lav. an' the dogs were PROPRIETOR CHANGE 1N| MANAGEMENT out scootin' around by the hund that he is not intercste«! 1 whether he through Klamath county and South er standard of commercial honor 5 —or.’THK— so feels and thinks or not) in the eastern Oiegon to a junction with We want mote of that homely, reds. " 'Talkin' al«>nt furs,' says I, discovery and promotion of "truth" the Northern Pacific at Wallula. scrupulous, every day honest\ Central Point Hotel, ‘what d’ye think of that? I’ve been in every department of life. To which makes a man as just to his Dutiable Good«. six wars grwwing those mink, an' —DEALER IN this, it may lx- replied, that he is a rropr fcllowman as he is to himself. hain't sold a hide. It's all natural lxild man indeed, or one full of pre The S«-< retary of the Treasury, in We iM-lieve the business mail of I N A E, sumption and egotism, who claims answer to a question propounded by to «lay has a higher sense of honor increase. Guess they'* bout 7.orx> 25 Cents. S s Meals, A 1) to have discovered that, for which the Collector of the Port x»f San than his predecessor, but the tempt of ’em now. an' they double every —JOB WORK, RUC’H A the ages have sought in vain, that Fran« isco. «lecided that certain f.d> ations to dishonesty have incre.i-ed. year. How many will there be in Having lately taken charge nt this hotel for which giant intellects have look rics. known as "Peking velours,” The demands for h’gher < du< i«i<>ii ten years?' Roofing, Spouting, and Repairing of all kinds a specialty, ed "Yoti oughter aee that English- the tmdeoigtb 'l would respectfully inform and fell short of. in the past. which are composed <>f cotton ramie, for his children, for liettcr dress for the public that the table» will be supplied ' “truth," pure, unadulterated truth' and are similar in character, appear his family, for all that goes to make man's eyes rq>en as he look out his AND DONE AT REASONABLE RATES. Not too fast, please I do not claim ance, etc., to cotton velvets, are held up our imxlern life are constantly ¡ k ’ ik i I and figuied it up. He made with the bext the market affonie I.rwia P ahkey to be the fortunate discoverer of this to I k - dutiable at the rate of 40 [ kt pre- mg Bpou him We are not it 7, i6A,ooo mink. Oregon. J. S. Houck, " ‘Well,’ says I, ‘call it 5.000,000 hi«l«len mine, but only to have dis cent, advalorem un«ler the provis sure that reform ought not to begiif ions in the schedule of cotton velvet. tr> lie on the safe side, It won’t New Blacksmith Shop, covered "leader*." thereto. at these things, but in any e.ift- cost a dollar to keep ’em, either, Attention has iH-en c.,lle«l to the A fanner wishes to find water on there is abundant need for teachers LEWIS PANKEY. Proprietor. his place- for his stock, and he wish fac t that when the California ik and parents to give greater promi an' if they’re worth a cent they're C intrai . P oint • • O regon es to get it as cheaply that is with Oregon has been extended north nence to teachings on tnithfulncss, worth a dollar apiece. There's mil as little digging as jiossible. He through Eastern Oregon as now hon»*r and honesty. Ixt the rising lions in it. SMITH Hit O'S I *!•< »print or.« Horse-Shoeing a Specialty "Then we got right down to bus selects the place and liegins sinking proposed, there willpract, all) I k - a generations l>c schooled in these i>r< gon Sixth Street, Grant's Pass, his well. Ten. twenty, thirty, forty new overland line. The road is to matters, that its effects may I k * visi iness an' In less than an hour I had 1 would inform th* poWk' feet and no water Now he is sure eventually connec t witn the North ble in a higher standard of connncr sold out for $7,000 cash, an' the that having iatelv t«<k*n charge th* •«>■ next da*’ 1 na*fl »I,«* hi,,,rived nnd 1 that He was in error in making the ent Pacific, which means tlie mak rial honor — I Drain Iwho. Bus.li-Miniti Shop at f entra! I twenty dollars for the homestead at would ask a liberal share of th public HAVING ARE selection of locality which he di«l. ing of a traffic arrange ui< nt lx tween MPT.ETED OUR new STABLES WE patronati* L xwi »P* srrv I e does not yetkn'iw where the that line and the Southern Pacific1 got my patent, trans the land office. gc PREPARED TO took the first fared it to him that runs nearest the surface company, by which I Subscribe for the C ourier :ep into the , train for the place is xhippe i to Montana, Furnish the Best of Accommodation^ for Horses, and tai , buffer, with Mmnew.ta poinfs fro 'h «covered. but erro« be has THE P’ÜWEIB AND OKLY NEWSPAPES a drink.’* b* * *» in V. .iy of mu' h less time than 1 ■ — ■ «T RE a . mi NABLE RAIES———- Put.«bed in Josefina« Cvuaty. DAVIS BROWER, House and Store Finishings The Latest Improved Machinery, 1. HOTEL. COMME Largest and Regulated Best Hotel t; New Feed and Sale Stabled T O V E N T W R