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H) ADVERTISER ( OJ R 1 E IL Publisher. Year (in aJvam .• i riiFis. . Months printing of all Kin I —is riiz- • •• 'ly to the Interests ci Southern Oregon. Styles, RANfS PASS, JOSEPH i\E ( OTNTY,OIL, FRIDAY FEBRUARY H, 1SS7 Raten. HorcMK>X*L—LKOAL. Att;«rm-vat Law & Not.in’ Public O beso : G rist ''’ P ass , Will pr.ictice in all the court» « f the ;tice on Sixth street, near post- S. V. MITCHELL, attorney at law . l.mM1» P a »*, . - - - Orno, o. BAM. WHIT!:, ATTORNEY AT I.AW. G bamt ’» 1’ am , - - - O heu '. x . - iRTin pra t. ■ ■ ta all >i • <kmrta of thoState 11. KELLEY. ATTORNEY AT LAW. J a < ISOXVILLK. O regon . - ... Fine Fruet Lande, woman, who has si ways live-1 quiet ly, anil when she realizes that hun (Southin'* Ortgor.) S alem , Ogn., Jau. 31, '87 dreds of pens are waiting to para Fine fruit lands can Ire had in W ashington . Jan. 22. ’87. Et>. C ourier : -I have l«een too graph her, it is not surprising that tion at very low figures Coiigte-.; began the week with she shrinks from the public gaze. this ! 11 bi;./to write you any thing about Land that cut be bought to-day for The wives of the other Cabinet of s mte sweeping jiension legislation. legislative matters, but I see by the Its attention was then turned to fivers tell the Secretary of the 10 and 15 dollars per acre, will iti Cor p ier that you are keeping up matters of local interest. Appropria Interior now that they believe his a war or m > readily bring 30 to 40 <: 'Li The jx pie are slowly wak with us. It is an unfortunate tTing tion bills, miscellaneous businc's, bride is a myth. ing tip t.> the fact that they have a the J eople that there is not an and the discussion of the bill for, From Althou re. source of wealth at their very doors urn ouutable barrier in the way establishing Agricultural Experi ■ttr amateur statesmen, so they ment Station«. It became stirred i This being _ a day of storms, quite m ’« h they have Ix-ett overlooking, Id :i t ini', o luce any bill after the for a «lav over the question of iuves unfit for man or beast to I k * o it in but wilt, in the near future, take le session. There ' tigating the management of the 1 concluded I would devote it to .1 dv.1nt.1v e of. What product of the 1 on the par. of I'acif. Railroads; and the House the service of ye county’ pijx?r. s il | ys I etter than fruit. We say, to introduce int’-oducc a finally settled down to delilierat, Fit. 1. then. I will give the notices taking it one year with another, We do not mean that us, thinking to et a over the Interstate Commerce bill, of the societies and their newly in nothing ut man statesmen, thus en- which the Senate passed la t week. stalled officers: Belt Lodge No.\8, you can plant your trees and pay no further attention to them and the calender and ob- When the President sent «special A. F. and A. M , meets each Satur : " r. -■ c t • rrfefk d leg isla me- ge to Congress asking that ■day, on or before the full moon. gather a I untiful harvest; but the «..e bills are generally, or tit.il le action be taken for eelebra- The following newly elected officers one that tills and prunes his trees often, without merit. Some '.in«g the Centennial of the adoption ¡of that order were installed ou Dec. properly, is sure to find it a profit able investment and a pleasant oc- u are L t mere buncomb ■ h (Jail f ■ - F Floj 1. W.M.; < ignderiug to a suppo^pd popu- States, he was careful not to < ini S. M s’. A u - m, S. \\ ; Chas. A.. ctipation. We have not the orange groves ar clamor, many of them cleir- mu h li cit' to any sjieeial time or I derson. J. W.; S W. Forbes, Sr y inconsistent with tbe State hxality. He hoped that in a spirit Chas, Anderson. Treas.; A. J. Ad of our adjoining neighbor, but we and United States constitu if patriotic co-oper:iti;>:i, rather than ams, S. 1).; Wtn. Sawyer, J. D. ; have the apple groves which pro ■ duce the finest apples in the world, tions. Many of them were sin ply of local competition. Congress avou I«! An drew Johnson, Tyler. for which we can always find a mar inf > hi \d for th.- akc of intro uc- proceed etc. But the committee of Kirbyville Lodge No. 55, I O. ket. ti ':i. I ■ :< ! members about seven . Seniors, who ..................... had the. ... .... .......... - | O. F., meets at its new hail every Fruit trees are healthy and free their bills in which I could see n «, audacity to declare that Washington ¡Saturday evening. The following merit, and have been surprised that was the suitable place tor holditg newly elected officers were installed from moss, which is common to trees in the more moist climates further they have no object whatever that this celebration, have come in for Saturday, Jan .Sth: A. H. Platter, north. 'Filey usually begin bearing he they ex|x?ct the bill to accomplish la ... h tre of crlti isi 1 from rival N. G.; Peter Hansen. V. O.j S. W. it 2 or 3 years from bud or graft. if it lx omes a law, and no argu cities I’l-'otlx -. Sc. ; R. P. Gt trge, Treas ;l ' The writer h is never seen a worm ment to effect w iv it should become a lav . Om if 1:. fatal mistakes where every Am.ncm is at home Con.; C Hart, R. S. N. G.; Geo. of th-.-.-vs.-ioti l.s the failure of the and in which lie feels the pride of 1 Hatiseu, L. S. N G.; A. J. Hender ■ of Oregon. California fruit stands and gro as-< ,,mmtt and taxation bill, by ati American citizen's ow'iersliip. son R. S. V. G.; C. Dtiucan, L. S. rc tsou of the unfavorable report of and the Exjsisitioii will lie given t.. ( V. G., Chris Kruse. 1. S. ,G. The; cer«. houses advertise our fruits. the standing committee to which it Washington without a <lou’«t. It tiustees for Kerhyvllle Lodge fori Why? Because we have the finest was referred. This bill should have will last from ’89 to '92. There the present year are Forbes, Hansen m l best flavored fruits that grow. Think of it, and make capital out becirne a law, and I have been uu need not be a continuous rush and R. P. George. of it. able t > fuvd any good reason for the racket and carnival for three years, All our societies for the past two St. Paul and Minneapolis want committee so rep ¿ling it. The on as there would be over a public ly matter that h m taken political affair of this kind in a great com years have felt the general depres our fruits. In, talking with a gen <• mph ction is the ap}x>rlicumeut inercial mart, Washington is not sion which a scarcity of coin inflicts tleman from St. Paul. Minn., a few 'KJ upon any town or county. But 1 ■ days ago,lie made the remark that Lili, both parties having appointed that kind of a city, It cultivai« s mt pleased to he able to say that S uthern Or ; n fruits were sought sm i.,1 caucus committees for its G:)!»DS SHIPPED DIRECT ¡«'ROM THE FACTORY and .sold tranquility of deportment, and has the ti'le h is changed and the pros- i to '.lie L iner it from 25 t > 50 per cent, less than indiar Good«- con iderali >n. The Republicans are : •uflicient breathing spm-e to enjoy |x?cts for new life, new work and I ifter and preferred, to those of any i ■'■ r section, on account of their figuring on the likelihood of the everything in a quiet way. It i- are sold at. Our PLOWS are given to the Fanner on a l'-ov. ;«r’s veto, if they pass a u icd to crowds and gatherings of all gixxl material to work with, are tine flavor. There is no reason why ; flattering to those who are earnest we should net furnish the aliove >-1 .grossly unjust bill, and argue that kinds, indeed it ought to lx?, lb: workers in the fields of F. L. and T. n.imi d cities at least, with a portion i \V( i Lev iie E i tern Oregon a little -is: National conventions are being and F. Il and C. I of the fruit they consume. bet:;slu.rv tima they have now, he liild here during the present week. i>.«- For further particulars of Price:- Etc., c 1 ur The great excitement of the times What the Stat Board of Immi wili .mt il ■ - face the storm that a Some members of Congress have GEO. W. RIDDLE. : Veto would : rise; but they are reck •aid that the- principal object of the in these parts, is the horse-race gration says aliout it: 1 DR. J. HINKLE. C There is no portion of the State oning too f.m. •■ ■rnor Pennoyer G ivernment in the I’aeiti ■ Railroad which will lx? run on the first Sat- A. DI NLAP. Plioen will veto ay measure which is un matter, was to get what tyas owing iuiitay in Febiuary for a hundred where fruit attains such a degree of C. FARNIIAM, Ashland. fair, unjust and unconstitutional. to it. Of course it is desirable to dollars a side. Many bets of from a perfection, where the trees are so They-I«« r.ot ■ e to follow the save $200.000,000, or a much of it | I chicken cock to a fifty dollar ring rapid in growth, so thrifty and so ; of til” 1 • m :««11 but will as can be recovered, from those who; j have been made on the outside. prolific. The flavor of the fruit is lump •cnntoi -raun.l to all the Lave no right to it. but a iiiinibcr of I The young girls aie also divided al just as fine as it can lx? and the size ph ino C olo ify, Or. 1 cunties wlridi have the full ratio 'hough th „are, on the whole, 1 1 <>f ]x'.iche- apples, plums, ]x*ars and 4°-1 y J men in both branches of Congtes-. unit, and will then put the smaller feel that the main thing to l>e at favor of a union. But riblxms and berries, is something phenomenal. com,tii ' an 1 fi.-.cti :is together to tained is the moral effect of rebuking gloves will lx1 in demand soon. l'>-'.m the Oregon Sentinel make up the list to the best politic corruption. The Government can Friend Platter says that blood will James Birdscy who returned this al advantage. One of the beautiful afford to lose the money, but it can tell, and Hansen is quite as confi week from his hydraulic claim on dent of the staying powers of the I schemes is to put Josephine in with not afford to agree to a theft, if such Douglas county or else with Coos there has been. The desire to in little black, if the weather is fa l,i Key creek informs us that Lance, and Curry. So Ixild a dash as that vestigate the management of the vorable the race will be a fair anil Duftield & Co., are running their Ask your Gr«icers for it. Dont 1 . put off by King will certainly how the hoof of the Pacific Railroads is not, therefore exciting one; they have made a good hydraulic night mid day with plenty told that anything else is as good. Every sack oi (beast so plainly, that nieu who have Ixiin of a spirit of persecution; it is track, have had the roller U|xm it for of water. Also R Cook «Sr Co. are this Flour warranted to make a spark of honor or pride will blush ■■.imply the duty of Congress to go sometime. All the valley, with un busy night and day. All argue cles. cousins and aunts, will lx' there that this w nt i • the best mining to have a hand in the consummation to tite bottom of this matter. to see the sjxirt. .Many other match winter they have had for many of the plot. I think the Democrats Although the Senate voted to races will grow out of this one, and years. are ilispo. -d to assist Eastern Ore- ]xn-ion tin widow of Senator Logan B r X* Fac-siinili of Brand displayed where on .-.ale. it-t > gon to get her full share of repre at $2,01.1 a year, the bill has come wtlio can tell wlia‘ this corner of lit John McK, ?, who has a mining sentatiou. Job; are not favored by to grief in the House Committee on tle Josephine can show in the shape claim on Jar kas creek, was one day Ashland, Or. this s,i.,n: nl 1 ¡. «'dirt that the pensions. It is claimed that to of horse flesh. thi > week, t-tirpri-ed to see a deer 43-3U1] Chas. Felt is still quite unable to come botimling in Iris claim where intended wholesale raid on the treas I,fusion Mis. Logan would co»t the ury for appropriations will get a very Government eventually half a mil work in the mines. lie was standing holding the joint S. U. M itchell . Chas. Beach is fast recovering of his liydiaulic. He instantly lion by encoragiug every widow whose husband had ever liecn in fi om the effects of his late accident. turned the water on the deer which Ft iucticii Work*. the army. But it ap]«ear- that the It was a close call for him and kmx'ked it down and liefore it could bind pniviiled for Mrs. Logan by should remind him that he has get up it was secured. A dog had MAXI i ACTt't chased it into the claim. tin friend - and admirers of her hus passed the days of youth. The miners of Allhotise and Suck band ha.-> now reached $70,<xx>, with T. J. Kenney, the largest dealer Lumber, Doors, Windov a pto-.pi t ofrising to $100,000. er creek are uoav blessed with plen in hides in Southern Oregon, in .. . 1 this will obviate all necessity of ty of water. All are at work am forms u> that he has purchased in B 1.lining pension precedents s«> as are driving the rocks ami slum oft two months, 3,078 pounds of «leer bipiovide foi herby act of Congress. at a lively rate. The Spring will h des. It would icqttirc about — and The citizens of Chicago have also come before they will be able to tell 1.31»» <l-.'.r to make that weight. contributed $13.1*0 for the pay anything about the profits of their We m iv sifely ay that the same ment of encumbrances upon the seasons work. amount was purchased by other home of Mrs. Logan in this city, Roney, who returned here some parties, Tillich would require 2,600 l'hc notes have all lx.-en pair! off in two years ago from a residence in deer. The question is, liovv long t! - j .«.st few «lay«-, mil Mrs. I.ogan the State asylum an«l who has will our deer last at that rate of clerk : now owns the house known as liecn .1 charge uj»n the miners of the killing. No doubt htiundteds of .ration Calumet Place in her own right. 1 reek and the county ever since, is these deer were killed for their jx-lts, The bill p.is d by the House fast Ix-eniing even worse than he was in direct violation of the existing i en-ioning dependent soldiers and liefore they sent him to Salem. He law. -ailors, who were not disabled in n«iw dedans he will have the hearts Information has reached this place in the -ervicc, but who are now too bhxxl of th«? man who has, |>erlia|>s, purporting as coming from gixxl CENT BELOW ALL FORMER RATES ■ .1<1 Old too feeble to work, and also done mote than any other in the authority, that the right of way can Price List addn -«s, S. P. D, & L. Co in t pensioning the dependent parents way of helping him. The man ought lie «■ tired from this place to Central .Idiers and sailors, has fnghten- to lx- in the asylum again. Tin, is Point for nothing. It i.sa.l the ’s Pas*. On losc who are opposerl to pension- not a fit place for such as lie it, for land owners along the line will do «■vgrybody who ever 1 ad anv we do nd know from one hour n ite the land to the company, and HURRA FOR GRANT’S tiling to do with a war. They fear to tl.e other what lie may become. that the citizen* of Central Point Congress will next undertake to F. will take three or four thousand pension life long non combatants dollars worth of (■ k. Central From a private letter, from Mrs. Point seems to h ive wakene 1 up at > have incurred physical or tncn- disability in writing war articles B. F. Bonham, wife of the U S tin- l.-t hour, an 1 is coming t«> the the papers and magazines. The Consul General at Calcutta India, front in this matter. Should this mentioned bill applied to A'e dated, Dec. 7, iMO, it is learue . I« -true, the committee will certainly of any Avar. Seminole. Black that the thermonietor at 7 a. in., on lake such action in the matter a* Mexican, war of the Retx-l- Dcctnilier 6, stood at 76 degrees our interest demands. nd gives a uniform allowance Fahrenheit, and at 3 p tn., it stood a month front the time of at 84 degrees, ami at 9 p m it was FREE TRADE a. tn. age ot the bill. at 7>degrees. < )n the 7th a The r uliu tion <4 ¡nt. rnal re me and g tn. , rhen there is a proposition to it stood at 69 degrees, at 11 th** takiim olT <»i r.'V 11 * staiupa I mm n ol'iul.t han larizi*- tension Walt. Whitman, which, it 79 degrees—all in the shade She l’r<»priHary Nb- li-i ted, would >]*n the Tti-asury reports many deaths from c Bolera ly ht‘nvHU»f| tbe <• 'n»'inirn*, ns wail M ru- itFvim llif lnir.l 01 oi lieto«« iioouifactur- loor* to an army of 5O,cxx> new principally among the native,. It mu , ILts'iially is tliis the caM with claiming that they is stated that there were 205 deaths <*iwit ,tiers, • ,l««7 I / r ill «I /.’ ■> «..fb t.br- Y/r»;., .r’. 111.' risiili tion e( 1hirtv-»ix ntirr-e I some soldier somewhere from cholera alone in the las', two evnts per <!< 11, It is be.-n titillisi to lu war. Th- if tilo M.ze <rf the liottlrM containing ought to have $25 e rvtrioilio», tb< rvbv giving one-flitli i ;< u »I >s. c^or Pm ific railrord com- Hit* The ( )regon Bart; n ought V, ft•<ii «« iii.sli.'ino in ths* 7ft «vol t*izo. The > elegant steamers on GROCERIES. ? tW' .4 M- s»t II uint For Dy*|N'poi.i ami Liizr tipi.tit’I an«l the (irrwnH .St,rap for the wa; rom New York, which are PRoVjs igh ami Lnt.g trouble*, have pernap*. cd o 11 the route between l.ir . -t sh I h any tt.eilii-lne* In the ’ratio*. <» an«l Vaqttina. Th«w th»* worM lite a«h*ntagr nt Im-maMsl *iz*. lined re«t [>ectively, "Wilamette .f ti». Is.t'ii s will ( IS silly appmciaic'l y" and “ Eastern Oregon." by t! • ri. L an.l utils 0*1, in e««Tyl<twn •'Eastern is I lit igo in civili*« 1 conntris's. Hunt- nevera 1 of the The former veisel left New York ■ •: «• Itollhw 1 >r t() contt roti.aiti the saut«« Lave called to last week, and the latter left yester-, •iz day. They will both lie here in’*' *. c for the spring trade ■ Gov. Penn ¡ver his apjiointed W. A Mtntlv a. hi HIP, HIP, HU ÍRAHÜI DAVIS BBOWEK. Will pra. tiee in all tbe Coartici the i lilice in Court lloiis... SOLID COMFORT SULKY PLOWS GUR WALKING PLOWS IL K. HANNAH, ATTORNEY AT LAW. OiEO' >.' J W KauK VILLE, ll.lice in Orth building, Oregon street S. W. FOKP.ES, NOTARY PUBLIC. *sn A ltik . vse , Josunnx». C<M NT'.', 01 .i.uuN. K kbjvtli . k T "ECO NO W1IST' Have Reversible Points and Shares. MEbi< *!.. ill hj'.ir1, day cr U:i»w reap'M . II. FLANAGA5, M. D. riivsii.; in and Surgeon . bast ' s P ar *, - - - - O bei > P\5 lglifh and German ( nuce on Main si. ■ t. > Daws’ 'Test Trini. WIMER & MEE, DR. F. W. VAN DYKE « ■ Spoken near ill drugstore. LEHI 1 Ki', M 0 \shland City Roller Mills Snow-Flake Brand — I ho Best in the Market. (.‘alls r v«.i. L-. 1 igt»t <>r bwknonvi!l. at all hours, «lav or ta Ölover'» hotel. White, Light, and Sweet Bread. E. C. LAN DICES, on Main SUGAR PINE DOOR & LUMBER CO WIMER & SON. HOUSE and STORE FINISHINGS. Git’ Honest Welrtt and Messere. TRAVELERS MINERS AND FARMERS' SUPPLIES. ( UF Af l oll CASH OR PRODUCE. < iregon. Waldo. Nsw Store New Goods J. B. MARSHALL Nt SON Wish to inform the peni le ■ f Gr.int’-« Pas* au l »urrounding country that thev have openc«l a new »lock oi Gracsiias. Candies, Tobaccos, They have al« ( in a FIRST-CLASS RE- 1 Al RANT where they will lev! the hungry. Flour ami Subscribe for the Cot RI HR. THE PIONEEB AND ONLY NEWSPAPER Grant - P*»s. *o named after General Grant, i» a county »eat centrally luc«:ei in Southern Oregon. It m a pm^ressivo i :i!o«a.l town of 1.... ^tilu. itant*. m 1 w the ms’n su| ply point for a largo portion nf country de vote« I to mining, lumbering agriculture ami fruit-raising. Climate un excelled Th - C< kier being the only paper pub lisli« i in 'os phine county, wm> a g«x*t cin'illation m laikson county, enables it t«> 1.« one of the b st .i lvertiHing mvuimtns in .-«''. hern Oregon. For rate*, aJdrues 1 Co« Grant'* Paa*. Oregon. The< Latest Improved Machinery CAMPBELL à TUEE Ba trai h Salem Correspondence. .?» au 6VjFL'/itr i'.. WASHINGTON LLTT..Ì. )