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TH E cor |{ I ER. ■ ■ I TO ADVERTISERS “C ■ WIMER. Publisher. sfUSt'Rll'Hoy R ITE.S, One Year (in advance) ....... ♦2.» Six Month«. »1.2S Three Months Ti Single (’opk-a lt* W J Ï lì ÏT V Li ». 1 1 I i / Job Printing of all Kinds —JM TIIX— An Independent Paper, De*ote.i Especially to the Interests of Southern Oregon. Very Latest and Best Styles. —AND AT TUB— T j »west I'dvinir VOL. 2 Rates. raorxs.'io.xAL— leu al . GRANT’S PASS, .l(i>l¿rHlNE COUNTY. OR, FRIDAY MARC II IS, iss? ==HIP, HIP, HURRAH!!! IN NO. 51 Grant’* Pass, no nau.jJ after General | < .rant, is a county neat centrally l<x-ated in Southern Oregon. It ia a progressive railruud town of 1«MM> inhabitants, and is the main s-iuply point for a huge portion of country devoted to mining, lumbering agriculture and fruit-raising. Cli&ate un excelled The C ovbieb being the only pai>er pub lished in Josephine county, with a gcsxl i circulation in Jackson county, enables it to lie one of the liest advertising mediums in Southern Oregon. For rates, address f.iK t'oi xixH, Grant’s Pass, ttregmi. head like our friend “Four Kings." hours away” beyond the call of anx- would yield too per cent., and he is I ions friends and relatives? Ah! FRONT iTItSKT. .«rwla Fa«». Orrjoa. , how many times have I watched the one espial to the occasion. ---------- { FOR THE CELEBRATED}---------- Attorney at Law & Notary Public \ little face Two notable deaths occurred hcie them, as they manoeuvered around — »BALKR iM — Moat pure and fair, and delicately slubtcl, G iis NT’» P as «, .... O keoox . Wee lettering feet whoso music had in- early last month, A. W. Fitts, our to get within the tent unseen; but i> ended county judge, and Janies W. Evans, 1 it was no use, for the eagle eye of Will practice in all the courts of the Each 1100k of liitne and heart, your correspondent, always alert, Plats. Office on Sixth street, near poet- Soft b*bv hands wlioss clinging touch well and favorably known through offic% out the State. The former was an perceived them, and spoiled their hrought nearer All precious things that earth or heaven Odd Fellow, and the latter a Mason ! little game. Such thoughts crowd S. V. MITCHELL, TOBACCO, can know; in high standing. upon me as I write, that it is a re This was our darling and all love deem -d Attorney Charles Cogswell has lief to me to shape them on paper ATTORNEY AT LAW. CIGARS, dearer, been appointed county judge by the and give them from life, in my fan- CANDIES. Q uant ’ s P ass , ... - O reuon . Bocatw we loved him an— Governor, vice A. W. Fitts, de ' cy once more. Our Baby NUTS, ETC. Sonic of the happiest moments of ceased. The ap|x>intmeut is one of Will prartlcs in alt Stat > and Federal A little grave *W Highest Cash price paid for Courts. Officsj on Main street. Ob, little life outgrowing all, and wearing the best that could have l»een made. my life I spent with those friends I The new M. E. Church was com left behind at the Pass, and time soon the robe of immortality ; Country Produce. Hides, Furs. So S5ÌÌ0 ' 8AM. WHITE, Yet earth abide* though earthly liopea pleted a few weeks since and dedi will not erase the favorable impres I it«! . bit«’. have perished; ATTORNEY AT LAW. cated by the Rev. Colin Anderson sion of the most hospitable and While we are tuotiruing for one blossom on the last Sabbath of February. friendly people—friends—in the Give me a call and be Convinced. G baxt ' s P ass , • - - • O regon , eiierislio.! I Hitt Interesting exercises were indulged world. I shall never forget their So tenderly in vain— Our Baby. goodness to me their pleasant words, in to the gratification of all. Will practice in all tha Court* of the State S. A. GREENE & SON, The Lakeview fire department, kind advice, and above all, their Yet he is our* ; H. KELLEY, with their beautifully decorated en ministrations to me when I met Main St., - - - Giant's Pass, Or. The myst'iri -* of the valley intervening ATTORNEY AT LAW. Have grow n less dim since lie w ent eafelv gine and host-cart, drawn by f ur with the accident by falling in the (Opposite the R. It Shops.) through; coal black chargers, headed by the well, spraining my foot. To this J acksonville , .... Oataox. j. yjv How brief th? pathway to that open do lr Lakeview band, paraded the princi day my ankle has never recovered, Where he will wait to welcome those who pal streets, and presented a very and at times I suffer intensely with loVe him Will pra etico in all the Courts of the \n,| we shall find once more— tlashy and neat appearance. On lit. Rato. Otiice in Court House. — Dealer* in — Our Baliy. the evening of the 22d ult., the I There are so many subjects to H. K. HANNAH, Guns, Revolvers, Pistols and company gave a ball, which was write upon here tha', as the week (Ajss-iiil Oirrvapoa<feMrr to the Cmtfier.) very well attended, considering the is drawing to a cc *e, 1 shall not l>e ATTORNEY AT LAW. A M INI T I O N able to give you more than passing cold snap. LETTER FROM LAKEVIEW. J a CK« o XVII.!.E, O iieuos . FisbifiE-Taclile. Cutlery, Fin-Worts, 4c., 4c. The l-lorse Swap-Enterprising In- Frequent complaints are heard in notice of events; but in my next, I almost every quarter in regard to shall try to interest your readers in dians-Efforts to "Boom”-Lake Office in Orth building, Oregon street I, REPAIRING, A SPECIALTY. view. Its Future-Two Notable I the closeness of the times, the dull | a subject of much importance all Deaths - Appointment of Judge ness of trade, and the general scarci over the southern portion of the MT All work guaranteed uä 8. W. FORBFe, Cogswell-the now M. E. Church ty of money. (14tf It is no doubt a fact State, and shall attempt to show NOTARY PUBL’.C. -thu Fir. Company and Ball- that there are considerable funds the comparisons, differences and re Signs of the Tlmes-the Beautiful K ebht '- ili . i : axi > A ithovbe , J oski - ihm lu-re in the hands of a few; but it is lations other parts of the State l>ear PIGNEY & COOK, Snow -Accidents, 4o. Cm xt r, O regon . confined strictly to iron safes and to your wonderful section. I shall G rant ’ s P ass , - - - O regon . D ear C ourier : In the distant barred doors, and in consequence, also attempt to give your readers a Collections a Specialty. Legal Instru past I promised the dear C ourier but little, if any, is in general cireu- resume of the wonderful resources ments promptly ex -.-uted. that as soon as I reached my base of 1 ition. What a contrast to last fall! of Lake county. For if ever there operations, I would pen a missive of Everything then was in full bloom; was a county slighted by the press M KDXCA!.. Wagon aal Muctine Repairing a Specialty. of current events transpiring in and saloons, hotels, stores and people of Oregon, it is this one in particu about Lakeview, and Lake count) were taxed to their utmost capacity i lar Not even our own paper makes -------------------c 000)------------------- AGENTS FOR THE generally. I11 the fulfillment of to do anything like justice to the j mention ofrtlie fact that such things GOODS SHIPPED DIRECT FROM THE FACTORY and sold John Deere Moline Walking that promise, I send you the follow increased demand of the times. But exist a* a county’s resources. There to the farmer at from 25 to 50 per cent, less than similar Goods ing which you can digest as lx-st how different now! Everything is I is room here for a good, wide awake — and — are sold at. Our PLOWS are given to the Farmer on a you may, for the benefit "of your at a complete standstill, with no in newspaper man; and a man of en C.-tlis respond?d t<> at all hour*, day or dications for a change until spring terprise cctild make a handsome Riding Plows and Cultivators. readers: night. Ah! how thesuppre sod emotions The "beautiful snow" at present profit, too. If a weekly letter from SHOP ON II ST., NEAR 6TH. C«y For further particulars of Prices lite., call upon our local agents, swell within me as my mind reverts lies dormant on our streets, and this point w ill lx? of value to your [26tf to the time when Yokutn and my slowly disapjieais as each strug enterprising, newsy paper, I shall GEO. W. RIDDLE, at Riddle and Grants Pass. self was coni|K-lled, through force gling, momentary ray of sunshine only lx* too happy to undertake the DR. J. HINKLE, Central Point. ■ of sheer circumstances, to swap blows its warm breath on the van task, as I feel assured there are in A. DUNLAP. Phoenix. horses, after crossing the stream ishing crystals. The enjoyments of your section, many who would like C. FARNHAM, Ashland. Office nt residen.-?, corner Main and ' ( Rogue river). During that memo sleighing have been splendid, the to hear from this place. More anon. Or Address Third streets, ( all a'tended any hour, rable “impedimenta," our horse, skating excellent, and the coasting F rancis M. D rum . rtay or night. L. S. SMITH, - - Proprietor. "snuffing the difficulties from afar" more exhilorating and exciting than Our Wealthy Men. Murphy, Josephine County, Or. j refused to budge, and I might say even Canadians, with their unap Dit. F. W. VAN DYKE GB ANTS l-ASS, OREGON. hereby way of parenthesis, that no proachable tolxiggan could wish. Much has been said in newspa G uax . j P ass • - OaEiiox. amount of urging (lambasting) Yet withal, but two serious acci SAKE and PAST would act as an incentive to make dents occuried, and those accident pers of men who have made large fortunes in comparatively a few English and German Spoken. him move, so realizing our dcspe- ally hap|>ened to a young school- years in various business industries. miss, by one of the sleighs running 1 rate situation, and a lone horseman Office on Main rtroet, near drug store. INC’FACTURIERS CI Many of these articles are written passing us nt the time, we prevailed against her, breaking one or more by correspondents of prominent Fine Buggies, on his good ipialities to unsaddle ribs, mid other injuries, and the Lumber, Doors, "Windows, newspapers, ami copied into others and help us out of our dilemma, other to a young man who had his of lesser note. Correspondents gen Hacks and Cart3. which lit- did. After our discovery leg badly fractured. The coasting erally are seldom men of business Brackets, and Mouldings. of the animal's constitutional weak hill is almost perpendicular with Special Terms to < ommercial ness, (another term for downright a slight incline, and the fearful rate qualifications and wrongfully pic —AND ALI. KIND* or— ture these men and their business laziness) we broached a trade to the the improvised tolxiggans and rus Travelers. as a thing of accident; this is not stranger, which he accepted, by tic sleds descend is almost enough the case with those we have met. Hom-s Boarded Iti-iiKoiiubly, and | ourselves giving hint >5 with the to take ones breath away. DR. CHAS. W. BEACOM, Wc find that where men have made Sati.“f:n tion guaranteed. ‘Ki trade. Although it ha? Ix-cn six Will the C ourier allow me a di 3Stf) large fortunes by their own business Dentist, months since the above occurrence gression, (parenthetically shaking) talent and industry, they chose with O regon . —The Introduction of— took place, yet the memories of that to enable me to pass on that which G kaxt ’ s P ass sagacity an I forethought such busi farcical burlesque will ever remain is of paramount importance to the ness as would lead to success when indelibly imj»ressod on my mind. young and beautiful ladies of (¡rants handled with business judgement. Ail work warranted. Office on Main _ mtr-et, above Post irli ■•?. Wc h id a delightful trip until af Pass? Yes! for I feel your honest I No man has Ixien brought before ter we reached Linkville. After thoughts in this particular, run in HAS ENABLED THEM TO REDUCE PRICES FIFTY PER the public as an example of success-, Our Mr. Olds is now Forwarding our leaving Bonanza, we took the wrong happy accord with my own, and no both in wealth and magnitude of CENT. BELOW AI.L FORMER RATES. , road, and notwithstanding scientific doubt pervade your Ix-ing just as his busine ss (outside of stock and precision and accurate astronomical jealously and sensibly as my own. J. WIMER & SON, Ofao~ For Price List, address, S. P. D. & L. Co. 1 railroad men) more prominently bearings, we succeeded in guiding If there lie truth in impressions of r than Dr. G. G. Green of Woodbury, Have the larzwt store in Josephine ourselves into a yawning cavern the past, then I have before me (in Grant's Pass, Oregon. V N.J. He is at the head of many county, which is fiox.32 fe -t, and two an almost perpendicular canyon fancy) the sweetest, innocent, yet large bu im s imhi-.tries, and yet «torfe«, tilled with where progress was moil almighty cultured faces of hundred ; of ladies comparatively a young mail. When slow and our surroundings peculiar. I have seen at Grants Pass They the fact that August Flower, for But after finding ourselves once seem to ¡x-cr over my shoulder as I ilyspep in and liver complaint, and more, we started in pursuit of the write; dance Ix-fore me in a flitful Bo-chce’s German Syrup, for cough serpentine Bly road, which we procc ;si.m of true womanly beauty We have constantly on hand Snow-Flake Brand — The Best in the Market. and lung troubles, has grown to a reached with no small amount of and forms of symmetrical exquisite wonderful sale in all parts of the Ask your Grocers for it. Don’t be put off by being difficulty. ness that seem prone to dwell among world, it proves that it was not an told that anything else is as good. Every sack of Although wc received a great the nymphs and naiads of Ixihen accident or spontaneous strike nt this Flour warranted to make many impressions of the |>eople, the grin’s Ix.wer of beauty! Do not wealth, His medicines arc recog country and the land, in no instance understand me to say that all the nized as valuable atid established White, Light, and Sweet Bread. TRAVELERS,’ MINERS’ AND of Gooda that we thr<on the market at was it ¿nor. strongly * > than on • ur beautiful ladies in Oregon are cen remedies and the business has Va»- Fac-simili of Brand displayed where on sale. "®k tour through the Sprague river tercd in and around Grants Pass. ¡grown gradually and permanently FARMERS’ SUPPLIES. country. It lias Ix-cn our go«*l for No, no. But I do say, and wish to during the last eighteen years on ----- T~ tune in days gone by, to have wit have it so under>t<xxl that for pure, account not alone of Dr. Green’s 43-3rn] Ashland. Or. nessed the mantlets, customs and unadulterated Ix-atity (the genuine We keep everything needed by the abilities as a business man or his traditions of various trilx-s of In article), no powde»*and paint imita ¡>eople. j "good luck,” but on the actual dians in different parts of the Union; tion, where nature In her wisdom merits of the two preparations.— but nowhere have we witnessed such has penciled the rose-tint of health [Copied from the N. Y. Weekly Sun CHEAP FOR CASH OK PRODUCE. thrift and enterprise on the part of in the cheeks and lips of cherry Of iJcc. 23, iM6. Rampies Kent on application and Waldo, .... Oregon. the red man a.» along the Sprague crimson, the arched brows and long river. Here may be seen excellent sweeping lashes, and luxuriant Rom 'Z. .IV i A' i "/ Tulin.j»; f¡ rant ’ s P ass . O regon C > knf . r M ain & F ront S ts . ORDERS SOLICITED. ranches, and thousands of heads of tresses, the angelic beauties at The State allowed Jackson coun -t<x k in the best ]x>ssil*!e condition. Grants Pass takes the plum! Wi ■ o ty ’s bill for keeping state patients, Their houses are marvels of neat ll ive some types of beauty here; but Having open' d a Family Grocery, I hereby announce to tl.a public that tiess and design, and stand out in they arc not so pronounced as in amounting to over >2,000, which I have a new and well selected stock of 186 First Street, - - Portland, Oregon, bold contrast to the flim> structures your section. Ata party here not has been applied to our state tax. J. B. MARSHALL & SON Ge<> Chase and Fred Clift went ■il»-1 y of their Indian brothers. The In long since, surrounded by a l«vv Wish to inform the pwple of Grint’« GROCERIES, CONFECTIONERIES AND TABLE WARE. dians lx-long to the Klamath and of young ladies, the nbjc< t drifted through from Litikvillc to ths rail I'.is« «nd «tirroun'linjr country that they havo opened a new stock of M'xloc tribes, and are indeed a thrif to Ix-autiful women. I was called road last Sunday on the first trip Bought rince the Sweeping Reduction in freights, from the East, and ty and enterprising jieople. on to decide, and because I awarded with their stage. marked down at Bottom Prices. I also sell the Charges seriously affecting tha The solons of Harney valley and the ¡»aim to Grants Pa>. i the upper Lake county are making "Eden of Beauty - among l.idie-.) in integrity of Mr. Wild -r. superinten CELEBRATED DAVIS VERTICAL SEWING MACHINE, I. ( J )A\’I I )S()N, strenuous efforts to lxxnn the coun Oregon" they felt sore!)' -d'ghted, dent of the railway mail service of ------ AND CIGARS.------ which has no equal in case of management and great rang* of work. Ix-a ling Portrait »ti'l LanilMia:«* try in advance of the projected tail and. I believe, have given me the the Pacific coast, have been filed road to that section. last invitation of the ea-on. I in with the Posini.i-dcr Genera, and Glass-ware and Queens-ware. My object into mako it to the intercBi of these Laving <a*h or pro formed them if they doubted my made the basis for a request from Lakeview has a promising future duce, to trade with me. i before her. What with the erection veracity, to take a run up to the leading Denux-rats of Califoania for They have also ill Connection a J. M. f’llHJX 125 First St.. Portland, Oregon. Postmaster General of the projected buildings, the plac pass and discover that "living real hi? removal. iOpp</:*it4’Fir?t S.itjHiiil Dank FIRST-CLASS RESTAURANT ing of her fire department on a solid ity” for the twelves. Wc don't Vilas has the matter uudci consid FIHS’I -< I.AH.'; WGIIK footing, the application by her citi speak now. eration. when- they «ill feed tl.e hungry. GO TO THE SUPPLY STORE zens to the legislature for incorpo In all Brinrhe« of Mr. Editor, do inform me wh it '¡'he D-M<- ■ family who hive ration, the wonderful growth of the ever has I ccoine of that chronE- in ICE-CREAM ! ICE CREAM ! ! been in Ro-eburg for alx>ut three « I’ 11 (>'E< >< » Ji A I ’ 11 Y. town, the startling inipctit.« to buri «titution the ••Inebriates’ Home." Once, Twi-e or Three times a Week, and niontl s, left Wednesday in num;. ness this spring will have, wc may Supplies Etc,. Etc D'x-s the "sjiirit" still pervade the General Mining ! s Enlarged in will furnish Ice-ciemn for Festivals I h.le licie they have made many l<>>k for great reaulu, for whett the canvas inefosure, and does the can and all Public Gatherings. Prop’r. CHARLES DECKER, friends will be pleaxed to hear India Ink, Water Colors or people once become awahened here dle of the devotee's—the worship of their who succi s wherever they may BEST BRASI».« OF WINEH, LI'fCOR« OD < IHARS KELT IN STOCK —rnrr also dial nr— there i-> no khowing where th<-> will tiers of Bacchus till hold out to CRAYON. stop or what they w ill do. Thi. is burn’ Do thi-y ti.l <f ■1 nt<> th • go. [Review. Vloiu* and 1 ’l-o visions. IK H’HE! a g«xxl place for a No. silent fold- of the tent, loots m l .11, Ah si 2000 men are scattered (VEUNG I'Ulil.IC WILL OUT DOOR GROUPS. er. like our friend I acorn. In the- and toll over into the abt * <-t dung tire works from the Salt Works Subscribe for the C ol R ier . l> ATTENTI«». RESIDENCES, ETC., brick line there is n -vide range for to a ake and hunt to Klamuth river, and the forces are IE PIONEER AND ONLY NtWSPAFEi talent; a brick yard ere v.-ouM pay INSTANTANEOUS PROCESS. SI14, their grief: being in.Teased by new r? ruits, w«H, aid w¡th a b. k uuk< r at it? * JOaku Livery Stable in Connection. Wjido, Oregon. drcam the h.fIv iriuoq , "y Si-kiyou L yi. ftblúdwd in JusepMae Coss*) DAVIS BKOWEK, t E. A. ESTE S, SOLID COMFORT SULKY PLOWS’!!! Tropical fails, Staple and Fancy G ROCER1SE, GUNSMITHS. OUR WALKING PLOWS T h e ECO N O M i S T Have Reversible Points and Shares. Blacksmiths and Horse Shows, All Two Dnys’ Test Trial. tilt AMS PASS LIVERY STABLE! WIMER & MEE, SUGAR PINE DOOR & LUMBER CO T ICAXIS. HOUSE and STORE FINISHINGS. The Latest Improved Machinery, NEW ARRIVALS’ Spring' .JOB LOTS E. C. LANDEKS, and New G s New Store New Goods. OLDS .k KING. Groceries, Candies, Tobaccos, PHOTOGRAPHER For Dry-goods ; and Groceries 1 BY T. F.