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1»\VI> BROWER^
Will practice in all the courts of the
State. Office on Sixth street, near poet
office.
S. I’. MITCHELL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
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Courts. Office on Main street.
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win re.
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
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IL KIT.LEY.
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
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GRANTS VASS. JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OR.. FRIDAY NOVEMBER 12. ISS6.
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Office at residence, corner Main and
Thirl streets. Call attended any hour,
. F. W. VAN :>YKE
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House and Store Finishings.
The Latest Improved Machinery,
STORED
Calls rcjsmded to at all hours, dav or
night
Ollice opjxndte Slover’n hotel.
Jacksonville, < »regoli.
DR. CHAS. W. BEACOM,
Dctntist,
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All work warranted.
mercial Hotel.
Office at Com
MISCELLANEO!’»».
NEW TIN
SHOP!
O. II. STARR, PnorRIETOR,
—Dealer In—
Stoves, Tin-Ware. Pumps, Pipes,
Etc., lite., Etc.
JOB WORK DONE ON SHORT
NOTICE.
Prices Moderate.
GRANTS PASS,
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WILL. Q BROWN,
Assayer & Analytical Chemist,
OREGON NICKEL MINE,
RIDDLE, DOVGEA8 COUNTY, OGN.
Annlyars mad*» of Complex Nubfttances.
MINES EXAMINED AND REPORTED VPON.
Away f<»r Gobi and Silver
Assay for Nickel or Cobalt
Assay for Lead or Copper
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6 00
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CHANGE IN| MANAGEMENT
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Central Point Hotel,
LEWIS I’ANKEY,
Meals,
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25 Cents,
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Having lately taken charge of this hotel
the undesigned w"iild respectfully inform
the public that tie" tables will be supplied
with the lient the market affords
L ewi » P axkby
New Blacksmith Shop,
LEWIS I’ANKEY. Proprietor.
CrxTRAt. P oint
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Horse-Shoeing a Specialty.
I would rexpBrthtlly in’orm the public
that hiving lately taken charge of tic
Rlack-swi’th Shop at Central Point, I
would ask a lilieral »hare of tie- pu’ffic
patron, is*
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THE PI0NEE2 AMD ONLY NEWSPAPER
Published in Josephine County.
NO. 33.
Grant’s Vass, hw named after General
Grant, ia a eviuity »eat centrally located
in Southern Oregon. It is a progressive
railroad town of QUO inhabitants, and ia
the main xutiplv |>oint for a large |>ortion
of country devoted to mining, luudwring
agriculture and fruit-raising. Climate un-
■ excelled
The C ockikr I «ing the only paper pub
lished in Josephine county, with a good
circulation in Jackson county, enables it
to be one of the liest advertising mnliuma
in Sxitliem Oregon. For rates, ¡»hlress
T ub Cut rub . Grant’s Pass, Oregon.
“Some Pumpkin«.’’
! gone beyond the instructions of the
To Abolish Poverty.
master?
\V. F. Songer takes the premium
P ortland , Oct. 30. 1886.
If the sjieech made by Powderly
Read John t 13. 16, To make »i»v-
my . I
for big pumpkins this season. From
at
a
George
meeting
in
New
York
En.
C
ourier
:
—
I
propose
to
day
self
fully
understood,
I
ask
a
care
—MANUFACTURERS OF—
to speak on the question of “prohi ful consideration of all that the Lord on Monday night was correctly re one hill, having only two vines, he
ported the chief of the Knights of raised 707 jxninds of pumpkins in
bition" as the public mind through Jesus said and done lx aring upon Labor talked w ith much less sense his garden in Ashland, and one
Lumber, Doors, Windows,
out our country seems greatly ex-', the question under consideration than he has been given credit for large one on the vine was injured
Brackets, and Mouldings.
ercised over this question at the whilst yet in the flesh and instruct hitherto. “George and I." he is and decayed before the others were
ing his diciples. The first miracle
preseut time. Indeed, asa political performed by the Lonl Jesus after reported to have said, “agree that picked ,.r.d weighed. The largest
—AMD ALL KINDS OF—
question it has assumed a promi lie entered upon his ministry was poverty should lie abolished.” The one weighs 142 lbs., and is now on
idea, of course, was that poverty exhibition in the window of Bil
nence second only to that of tariff to make wine; John 2, 7-9. To was to I k abolished through the ac lings's real estate office. The seed
(high protective'! reforms, and, pos claim, as !□ many Christians and so tion of government; and, as a means was received from the East last
sibly, the labor question. I ain not called temperance advocates, that to this end. Mr. George and Mr. spring. Mr. Songer says he did
this was not fermented wine and.
quite sure that I do the question would not intoxicate if freely par Powderly were pushing a political not know the vines were going to
yield so well, or he would have
justice when 1 place it secondary to taken of, is to intimate (to put it campaign.
—The Introduction of—
Now it may be a good thing for given them more attention earlier
the questions mentioned. That mildly) deception on the part of the ’ a man to conclude for himself that in the season, lie is confident that
any question of vital importance to master. That the wine made on poverty should be abolished; since he could have made a large increase
the public weal, may I k - settled at this occasion by the Lord was not thereby he may I k induced to make in the yield if he had undertaken
the polls without undue bias, and fermented after the methods of pre- special effort to abolish it in his own the forcing proceas.—[Tidings.
without doing violence to the “in- paring wine in those days is cer- case- but if the dictum should lead
HAS ENABLED THEM TO REDUCE PRICES FIFTY PER alienable
Why You Shouldn't Snub a Boy.
rights" of citizens, in a tainly true; yet that the wine was him to the co-.vlu;i->u that govern
republic
like
ours,
may
not
lie
ex-
not
in
all
particulars
absolutely
the
CENT. BELOW ALL FORMER RATES.
ment can abolish poverty, or should
Don’t snub a boy Treatise he
jiected unless the voters have the same as the very best wine of the cause him to dejKnd on this notion
ohes. When Ed
Bydr For Price List, address,
S. P. D. & L. Co.
merits of the question plainly before times does not admit of a doubt, and to set up as an agitator for it, wears shabby
ison, the inventor of the telephone,
them,
and
have
been
enabled
to
,
Such
was
the
verdict
of
the
gov-
Grant's Pass, Oregon.
why then it would I k bad, because first entered Boston, he wore a pair
view it with calmness and consider- ernor of the feast, who was, no utterly fallacious.
of yellow linen breeches in the depth
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ation from, not only a political, but doubt, a connoisseur of wines,
There is no way to alxilish pover of winter.
a
moral,
religious,
philosophic
and
That
wine
in
the
time
of
our
Lords
“HURRA
FOR
GRANT’S
PASS,
HURRA!”
ty in general. Earnest personal ef
Don’t snub a boy because his
social standpoint. Unfortunately earthly ministry was judged and fort often abolishes poverty in nidi
for the success of real reform, it is pronounced good or bad according vidual cases; and never can poverty home is plain and unpretending.'
CAMPBELL & TUFF
too often the case that many of the to age, body and life, very much as I k abolished in any other way. It Abraham Lincoln's early home was
advocates thereof become, or are is done to day in wine producing would I k a matter of real curiosity a log cabin.
Don't snub a boy because of the
CAN NOW BOAST OF HAVING THE
from the first impracticable enthu countries seems clear when we give to learn what specific Mr. Powderly ignorance
of 1ns parents. Shakes
careful
thought
to
the
words
of
our
siasts; and instead of presenting to
and
Mr.
George
have
for
abolition
peare,
the
world's poet, was the son
FINEST STORE ROOM IN SOUTHERN OREGON.
the voting mass for consideration, Lord, Mathew 9, 17, in connection of poverty in the case of those who
the accumulated facts and exi>eri- with the words of the governor of are intemperate and indolent; of of a man who was unable to write
ence of the past ages and of all ]>eo- the feast at the marriage in Cana those who are inefficient either in his own name.
Don’t snub a 1 k > v liecause he
ples and nationalities, which have of Galilee.
their natural or acquired powers; of
1 find I cannot do more than just those who are not vigilant in mak chooses n humble trade. The au
bearing upon the question under
consideration they expend their enter upon this part of the subject ing the most of opportunities; of thor of the Pilgrim’s Progress was
time in platitudinizing, so to speak, in this letter, so defer futher eon those who are not provident, econ a tinker.
Don't snub a boy because of physi
or
in making appeal to the baser sideration to a subsequent letter.
letter,
omical and self-denying; of those cal disability. Milton was blind.
On their Cheap Counters in all such lines as
O dylic .
passions of our mortal makeup, pre
who have increased their families
Don’t snub a boy because of dull
DRY GOODS.
judice and unreasoning ambition.
From a Polk County Farmer.
beyond all the limits of prudence ness in his lessons. Hogarth, the
History, sacred and profane, is
DRESS GOODS,
and lieyond all means ot support celebrated painter and engraver, was
too often mutilated, misconstrued,
M c C oy , Or., Oct. 16, 1886.
that could reasonably lie expected. a stupid boy at his books.
C THING,
and made to appear evidence in To Kditor fhf Oir<i‘ini«n:
These are the general sources of
Don’t snub a boy because he stut
IIATS AND CAI’S,
support of a position utterly at vari
l’lease allow an aged farmer to poverty, and when the philosophers ters. Demosthenes, the great ora
with
facts
in
the
case.
Can
ance
express his opinion on various sub have succeede I in abolishing pover tor of Greece, overcame a harsh and
BOOTS AND SHOES.
such charges lie against any, or all jects engaging the attention of the ty in such cases they will have suc stammering
GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS,
voice.
of the advocates of “prohibition?" people at the present time.
ceeded also in suspending the law of
Don't snub any one. Not alone
GROCERIES,
I answer, against many, yes. Now
1 have of late seen several articles cause and effect, of overthrowing I liccausc some day they may far out
I hear all temperance readers say in the papers of the state about the the principle of gravitation, and of strip yon in the race of life, but lie
PROVISIONS,
"Odylic is a whiskey mail.” Beg Oregon state fair. If the state fair reversing the law which declares cause it is neither kind, nor right,
CROCKERY,
pardon, but whilst differing with was originally designed as an exhi that whatsoever a man sows that nor Christian.
TOBACCOS,
the chimerical enthusiast for prohi bition of the various productions of shall he also reap.
Stray Sunbeam.,
The man who really sncccetls in
CIGARS, ETC. bition, as to the better way in which the soil, then it’s certain of living
to tiring aliout the much needed at present a misnomer; yes, worse, abolishing ]»>verty will I k found in
Some things are more valuable
and devoutly desired reform ill rela a burlesque, on the farmers of the every case to have accomplished it
when they are upside down. A
tion
to
the
odious
(as
it
exists
in
\]1 our goods are entirely new and will !>»’ exchanged for cash
state. It is at present nothing but by pursuing the methods of provi
1 our midst to-day) whiskey traffic, .1 gambling and racing establish dent industry and letting those of figure 6, for instance.
or farm produce.
CAMPBELL <fc TUFFS,
I am as far from being a “whiskey ment, and the mailer woman who charlatanry severely alone. [Ore | The eagle is a tough bird, but
Grant’s Pass, Josephine County, Oregon
when it is put on the back of a dol
man,” as the term -is usually ap does not delight in such entertain gon i an.
lar it is legal tender.
plied, as the most ultra “prohibi ments can see nothing but a lot of
Our itosources.
“Are cigars offensive to you,
tionist.”
disap|x>inte<l people, like them
In this and subsequent letters I selves.
madam?
” he asked. “Them five
Our county is full of the latent
| shall jKiint out a few of what I con
It will lx? a very cold day for one elements of wealth, and when one cent kind is." she replied, with her
ceive to be errors and inconsistencies Polk county farmer when hesirends of these elements becomes developed nose in the air.
C. M. STONE, P rop ’ h ,
on the part of the advocates of "pro another week at the state fair, as so as to show what its real value is
He “You are the only college
Maine Street,’..................................................... Grant’s Pass, Oregon, hibition;” and in a future letter pre- at present conducted.
it gives encouragement to other in girl I ever liked.“ She “Why.
' sent my own convictions as to the
"Uli, the others all
Let the race gamblers have the dustries, and leads to new develop how so?" Hi
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powers and duties of our own state grounds, but please don't call it ments in other channels. This is know so much.”
.
and federal governments in dealing hereafter “The Oregon Agricultural particularly true as applied to the
After much research and investi
Drugs. Patent Medicines. Perfumery, Toilet Articles, Shoulder Braces, Trusses. Etc. with an interest of such magnitude State Fair.”
working of the limestone quarry at gation we are convinced that board-
as that of the manufacture and sale
In concluding this subject, let me Gold Hill. Started as it was. in a ing-house chickens arc hatched from
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, of alcoholic liquors.
say to our representatives elected small way, merely as an experiment, hard-boiled eggs.
BEST BRANDH GE CIGARS AND TOBACCO.
First then, I consider the motives that it they vote another dollar for it has gradually grown and assumed
Kentucky will raise 4,800,000
actuating the advocates of prohibi the benefit of the "State Fair," so- a magnitude sufficient to drive for
bushels more of corn til’s year.than
School I Books. I Books I and I Stationery tion, as by themselves enunciated called,
out of the state treasury, eign lime from the market. The
a desire to promote public morals they may exjK'ct a good airing here owners of the Gold Hill quarry now she did last. Kentucky will man
by removing the greatest and most after. The people of Polk county intend to prepare to burn all their age to distil a good deal of comfort
A Full Line of Paints, Oils, Varnishes and Brushes. powerful tempter to immorality, tb decline to be taxed for the benefit lime on the ground where fuel can from this.
“Why do you drink that vile
make men and women better as in- of )1()rsv racing.
be obtained in endless quantities at stuff?” said a temperance man to a
dividuals than they are, to lessen
In
a
recent
number
of
the
Ore
reasonable prices, and when con
PHSICIANS’ PRESCRIPTIONS CAREFULLY COMPOUNDED. taxation by lessening crime, and to
“Because, my dear sir,”
gonian the editor asks the pertinent nection is made by rail with Cali toper.
provide greater security to life and question, "If our merchants and fornin|the company will have a mar was the crushing reply, “it isn’t
property. In a word, the claim is manufacturers can and do sell g<x>ds ket lx>th north and south. The thick enough to eat."
no B E HT AV EST HOP,
“Well,” said one Chicago an
that the world would lie much hap and wares abroad, where they have store of limestone is practically in
archist
t > another, with a sigh, "it
pier
and
purer
if
the
manufacture
no
protection,
why
should
they
fa
exhaustible, and so situated that the
—PROPK1ETOH—
of alcoholic liquors of every kind vor protection at home. The an owners say that the stone or tin flight have been worse.” “Yes in-
were universally prohibited.
swer is obvious; they desire to make burned lime can be placed alxiard (led," was the reply, “it might
Since there has never been a time a great profit at home, and arc sat the cars at less expense than from have been imprisonment with hard
I labor.”
from Noah to the present day that isfied with a reasonable profit any quarry in the United States.
distilled and fermented liquors were abroad. They ship their goods to
The conductor exclaimed angri-
What has been done in the lime
not made and used by man, it can Mexico and sell them at 25 to 35 trade may also tx- accomplished in ‘ b" “Here, don’t do that. You're
C entral P oint ,
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(Jackson County)
• ' O rkgojl
not with any degree of certainty be ]x-r cent, less than afliome, lx i:t ■.- the iron indn drv. For, lil e the ringing the hell at lxith ends of the
stated
just what the effect upon the there they meet the German and lime, there is mountains of it, and car.” "That is all right. Bcdad,
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world would be of the absolute the Englishman as competitors. that too within easy reach. I/ t Ms an’ 1 want both ends of the car to
striking out of existence of all such But our protective tariff is doomed hope that Jhe iron and many other ' slitop.”
—Having Completed my new Stable I am prepared to—
agents. I reply therefore to the and is bound to meet its fatal blow resources that now lie dormant may
Mr. Litewaite —“You must ex
first proposition, that to remove
long, liecanse the people spring into life and infuse new cour cuse 111c if I am a little dull. I am
FURNISH THE BEST OF HAY AND GRAIN. front the reach of a thief all your before
have their eyes on it and it cannot age into our citizens. Much may always stupid when I have a head
To 1 lav anti < ¡ran Per I lead, < Tver N’ijglit, “•» < 'is. jewels will not prevent him from liear close inspection. And if the lx- done to further th» -^enterprises ache." Mis-. Keene “Dear me!
stealing other articles of value to republican party should follow Mr. of public importance by giving aid It must lie dreadful to have a head
BEST OF ACCOMMODATIONS FURNISHED FOR HORSES. you. If to this you reply, “remove Blaine’s advice on that question anil and sympathy to those who arc wil ache so much of the time.”
all articles of value from his reach advocate a protective tariff for the ling to undertake such works.—
There is a woman in Camden,
by putting him in prison,” I say sake of protection, then the repub [Monitor.
Ohio, from whose body, at different
very well, but you do not secure lican party is sure to land where
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Oregon v». Illinoi*.
prints. there have been taken gold
yourself against the ravages of oth the old whig partv landed liefore
bar;, 01, rather, needles. These
PROPRIETOR
er thieves yet at liberty anil to come the war. No man will soon enter
During the week we met J. II pieces have varied in length from a
tip with every succeeding generation. the White house with “Protection
of Medford, Oregon. Two half-inch to four or five inches, and
To the second proposition I reply; for the sake of protection” inscribed Stewart,
years
ago
Mr. S. came out from Illi in thickness, little larger than a
the assumption here is to do, by on his banners. The fanner’s bushel lmis, and in
a home visited darning needle. The only solution
legislation, that which no mortal of wheat to-day would have a pur about every selecting
section
<>f
—DEALER IN—
offered i; that in early years she
power, or work of man can do, to- chasing capacity of 87 to 90 cents, He »letcrmined to settle the in Pacific.
South- sw illov d a -siltl c -ill, or piece < f
wit:
Malte
mankind
better.
Man,
were it not for our tariff laws. They
S T O V E S
AND
T I N W A R E,
< )ri on, nd
-.i tl: r tb s. gold, which, by sonic action of the
in his natural state is as prone to are the greatest curse that hangs '•rn
he
has
none
he
has
now
10.000 fruit gastric juice of lire stomach, was
evil as the sparks are to fly upward to-day over the heads of the Amer
—JOB WORK, St eli AS—
Amer- trees out, and will - x>n have out desolvcd
and circulated through the
and to remove from his reach one ican ]>cop1e.
E.
5,000 more. * But for some '■( the system, then, by some action of the
Roofing, Spouting, and Repairing of all kinds a specialty. agent with which he may do evil,
other things: This season be raise»! blood, precipitated.—[Ex.
and yet leave him in the power of s .Following i«> a stininir.ry
six watermelons that a;
wgjgwg ited
This is a valuable woman. She
AND DONE AT REASONABLE RATES.
his natural propensities to evil, is public debt statement made Nov. 1 i</> pounds. He h;- - wn rxlnb;ti|on
but to force him to turn to, some Interest tieariug debt, principal and in the »ifli> e of the B xi: d of Innui should at once be brought to some
J. S. Houck,
Central Point,
Jackson Co.,
Oregon. other agent with which to carry interest, $1,162,436,675; debt on
ofAlic S' utber n (tregon e mnticsand
grition 12 ears of corn that weigh
which interest has ceased since ma 17 pounds. Twpc.ir- of ccirn r v < -1 fed on <>ur rich black :»md. The
on his evil work.
I think I may safely assume that' idrity, principal and ttitere-t, $12, by him weighc»! t}« |x«rmd-,.wjii< h chances are that she would prove a
the majority of active prohibition 548,927; debt 1««nng no interest, knock’s out Illinois’ record. Mr. veritable geld saving machine. Tn
e«s<- her supply of gastric juice
ists are Christians, professedly, and prmeqial, $540^33,862; total debt,
is pleased with < tregon. gm! should give out, a supply of C om
claim to have the approval of God principal. $r.* 15.193.409; interest Stewart
Ix-licves his se'-tion will lx- tin.- finest
SMITH BRO’S Proprietor#,
the Father and the Lonl JeMlS 59.226,053; total. $1,734419.462; fruit f»iuntry in time, on thia coast. county bug juice would answer the
ptyjKisc as well or better. By a lit
ca Ji items,
Christ in their work, I WT h the total d<-bt, less availableca
Sixth Street,
Grant’s Paw,
. Oregon.
[ Rnr.il Spirit.
tle imukivcmi nt she might
trans-
as
friends of temperance, who are sin- $1,407.131.147; net cash in treasury,
♦ ♦
Paint applied td finiJiHng , ,ti au formiMnto a mint, and yield the
cere in their desire to promote the $52,783,199. I tecreasc of debt dur
.'..rst Jr.iRf n alrca.dy coined Whoknowi
same under the instruclions ot the ing the month 0: if October. $13.201,-i tumn after rains have
HAVING COMPLETED OUR NEW STABLES, WE ARE great teacher, would give strict 516. Total ava lilable for reduction I out of the atmmpherc and frosts rf
is the proper solution
nd pmo’etn. It would
h«-d to those instructior is. searching of debt. $217,38 <,315. Total cash have driven winged insects to se- of
PREPARED TO
n improvement on the
diUigentlv the word lx-fore answer- in treasury, as si ho’.vn by the treas cure retreats will lc cleaner and 'I1 ,lbt
1 introduced bt the
Furnish the Be3t of Accommodations for Horses, ing the following <pic?;tion: Isn’t nrer’s generiti a account, »451,068, brighter than when ajq«lie«l in sum- ma<
s. [Cuuuillc Herald.
tiler.
‘ Lur
tlxTe danger that the .rvauts ba\c 033.
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SUGAR PINE DOOR & LUMBER CO.
Attorney at Law & Notary Public
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G baxt ’ s P as »,’ ....
VOL. 2.
TO ADVERTISERS.
—ENew Feed and Sale Stable,EE
—=^(unirai Point Tin Shop,EE-
—EE New Feed Stablei
Correspondence.