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• K W. J. WIMER, ’- J SVliSCRIPTHJN n ATES, One Year (in advance» Six Month* . tl.-.'i Three Months . . .......... 7Sc Single Copies ............... ............ 10c : & Job Printing of all Kinds —IN the — An Independent Paper, Devoted Especially to the Interests of Southern Oregon ----AND AT TUB— Uvinir S' / Very Latest and Best Styles, Lowest TO ADVERTISERS. $ Publisher. VOL Rates. •) FBOFEUIOSAV—LEU AL. (¡RAM’S PASS. JOSEPHINE (OLNTV. OR.. FRIDAY MARCH 25, 1887. HIP, HIP, HJJRRAH!!! E. A. ESTES, THE PACIFIC COAST. Nt ». 62 A,.— Grant’s l’a*», so named after General ■ Grant, is a county seat centrally located in Southern Oregon. It is a progressiva railroad town of IODO inhabitanta, and is the main supply point for a large jxirtion ■ >f country devoted to mining, Turn I wring agriculture and fruit-raising. Climate un- excelled The Cot air.a ¡.ring the only paper pub lished in J.Mephine county, witli a good circulation in Jackson county, enables it to lie one of the bast advertising mediums in Southern Oregon. • For rates, Tur: C oi mra, Grant’s Pass, Oregon. once “far off” sunset land—the rar -x-ople Iwlieve it’s a genuine bill, est and choicest spot of earth—the then your hotels will be crowded FRONT STREET. ¿rant« Pa««, Oregon. glad tidings of the existence of just and your spare lands all sold, and Attorney at Law & Notary Public --------- -I FOR THE CELEBRATED II such a place, of strong I iojk * for the you will have money enough and — DIALIM IX — G rant ’ s P ass , .... O reqon . ! ’ick, and immunity for all from cold some to sj>are for an occasional ex and storm, with an abundance of cursion with wife and babies or with .1. fJ*. /ex'^i/tfAxr, in .l»A6iixf Tiding. Will practice in all the courts of the Stilt*. Odiee on Sixth street, near post choicest fruits the world can pro sweethearts “down by the sea,” or Having journeyvd from Ashland office. duce. And what is Ix-tter still, the for a visit to the old friends in the to San Diego—from the northern GROCERIES, invitation has gone out to them to old home, if, indeed, there be any S. U. MITCHELL, end of the Golden State to its junc come over ami help us to possess TOBACCO, of them left there. tion with Mexico — we have seen ATTORNEY AT LAW. the promised land. Not to fight California, as ha.-: ixeti shown, is CIGARS, that it is a grand country, and that and pour out blorxi for it—that has warmer than Oregon and Washing G rant ' s P ass , .... O hkoon . CANDIES, it is making gigantic strides in the ¡already been done—but simply to ton. But that it can base claims of « NUTS, ETC. race of civilization (whether mental I come and pay us a small amount of sap.riority ujx>n tills is an open Will practice in all State and Federal or moral, artistic or .scientific, me i their filthy lucre for an interest in question. It may be better for me Highest Cash price paid for Courta. Office on Main street. chanical, agricultural or commer- the rich inheritage. The invitation but not so good for you, so long as Country Produce. Hides, Furs, ; cial.) SAM. WHITE, has been accepted and the people you are not pierced with cold or in And now it is my purpose to pre- I ' are already beginning to arrive. terror of flood and devastating tor- Etc . Etc, ATTORNEY AT LAW. sent you with the whole Pacific , Give me a call and l?e Convinced. We that write ami we that read to | nado. California has its grand and G bant ' s P ass , .... O biodn . , from th.. British possessions • _____ » day see the van guard, but we cxhaustless mines; but so also have to the Mexican Ixrrder, as a health ' shall m»t live to see the rear guard 1 Oregon and Washington. Califor- Will practice in all the Courts of the State and pleasure resort and refuge for of the coming hosts. S. A. GREENE & SON, I nia lias its splendid agricultural dis- II. KELLEY, the people of the Atlantic States But the influx will not be con 1 tricts and so have Oregon and Wash Main St., - - - Crant's Pasa, Or from the rigorous winters and stormy ATTORNEY AT LAW. fined to any jwricular locality. All ington. California hr.s its wonder summers of that country. (Opposite th« R. R. Shop,.) along the line from Mexico to the! ful fruit record and so have Oregon J acksonville . - - - . O keqon . J. »A*- In order the more forcibly to es British possessions, from high up and Washington. But California tablish this view it will lx.* necessary ’ I in the Sierras ami Cascades to the has its tropical fruits which Oregon Will practice in all the Courts of the for me to briefly refer to the country j'lacid watersofthe Pacific, wherever 1 and Washington cannot boast. State. Otfice in Court House. — Dealer* in — as it came from the hands of its the coveted fruits will grow, where These, *.****^*v>, however, have «,.* as <».■ an v offset. Ui>v», H. K. HANNAH, Maker, as well as to the great pro the dreaded cyclone never cotnc > superior apples to those of Califor- gress it js now making in the civil ATTORNEY Al' LAW. and where the rigors of an eastern | nia and a much widet range of pas- »» A M U N 1 TION ization above referred to. And while winter are unknown, ,i... | toral lands with more extensive for- ..................... there ...in will the J acksonville , .... O regon . I must speak of things as I find them FBilM-Tittle, Cutlery. Flra-Woris. 4c., &c. I cannot afford to parade one section anxious millions go. And even to I ests, and so far as yet known im day if there had been no preventing measurably greater coal fields. And Office in Ortli building, Oregon Htreet REPAIRING, A SPECIALTY. as par excellent above another sec cause, this country would have l»een so the parallel presents but little tion. believing as I do that the di S. W. FORRES, All work guaranteed 'v*a well filled with a prosperous jieople. advantage of section one above the versified climate and jiroductions ofl [Htf A terse writer said a few years ago other, and while it is not possible NOTARY PUBLIC. the whole country are all needed to in writing of California, that “if tor us to lie able always to make meet tile diversified tastes, desires K mbytills and A ituui s ::, J oskpuixx there were no draw-backs to this the proper selection, if you and I ami real tvants of the jieople who C ounty , O kedun . country there would not be stand have lx>th made a mistake it can be G rant ’ s P ass , - - - O regon . arc to possess it. ing room ior the people that would easily corrected by uii exchange of This whole territory, then, (as Collevtioiie a Sjiei-i.dly. Legal Instru menta promptly executed. bounded above) is under the influ come here.” But the “diaw^hacks” places. were many of them imaginary, while In twelve months from this writ ence, thermally, of the Pacific ocean. | MEDICAL. the real ones arc fast disapjiearing. ing, Feb. lo. 18S7, We call send you derives its mild teinjK-rature With the advent of tile railroad he in 24 to 48 hours all the oranges, Wagon and incline RejiLins a Specialty. ami from the warm water and air cur W. 1". KREMER, M. 1»., gan a new order of things. Men of lemons, limes, figs, raisins, olives, ------------------- (ooo)-------------------- AGENTS FOR THE rents coming up from the southern capital, men of enlarged ideas, am etc., you may order, and on return Physician and Surgeon, GOODS SHIPPED DIRECT FROM THE FACTORY and sold ocean in their various courcses, so to the farmer at from 25 to 50 per cent. les-, than similar Goods that its mild climate is not the nor bitious and shrewd men, came to train you can send us value received G rant ' s P ass , .... O seoox . the country, saw and were overcome 1 in your sujierior apples, or if we do — and — ni.il but a modified condition of the are sold at. Our PLOWS are given to the Fanner on a by its possibilities and the result is, I not want the apples al the time we latitude, though the normal condi I new life is everywhere manifest. I Calle responded to at all hour.», day or will be glad to take your lumber night. tion so far controls, comparatively, Magnificent schemes for the (level-1 and coal in exchange. as to leave California warmer than (opement of the country were con SHOP ON II ST., NEAR 6TH. r .»--------- Prinpq y.,fc call UPOU OUT 1OC.11 agCiltS, Oregon and Oregon warmer than A’ oni the AM-and Tiding*.’ Washington. This influence, how ceived, crystalized and set at work , A «icit.iding party of young la- ns if I y magic. For purposes of ir ever, exerts but little force lieyond the Sierra and Cascade mountains, rigation , ast reservoirsarecwnstruct- <bvs favored some of their friends cd in the mountain regions to catch with charming vocal music last Fri- and leaves the country east of them and lore away the winter snows ¡day evening. Good voices make i climatically in its normal condition, and rains for summer use in the val- sweeter music in a night serenade from twenty to 6o degrees colder in leys and on the hillsides when it i than at any other time. wintei d.7..'<9 ’»> 3° degree waste places] More than six hundred pupils Are warmer in summer. in the Ashland public The cooler weather of the Pacifi auid the nttend- is now (in summer) the result « ocean and mountain influence con pri-< nil pltf^- t» <W«ir for thia end jointly. The mist, or vapors, aris of the country . and what it i- don ttB' 1 e ing from the ocean cools the heated here it will yet do in your section. i anywhere in atmosphere in its passage over the C. LEMFEKT, m . V., You little dream of the possibili 1—.viinucr, », vv inuuws, waters, and sends it laden with /st A ../< T^anf. * ties of your country. I could find I" Graduate Leipsic University,Ger. who 1 io ^ m |^H rr freshness and new life over the jilains Brockets, and Mouldings. a score of men in San Diego to-dav — and up to the mountain top# where to any half dozen of whom you .1 few days at his mine St Hay Special Terms to Commercial it is again cooled by contact with might well afford under your pres Flat, came in on Wednesi w. Calla reponded to at all hour’, dav or — ANI> ALL KINDS OF— night Office opposite Klover's hotel. the higher currents and eternal ent policy to give hall your jx,s .es- reports everything lovely Travelers. Ja. kaonvillo, Oregon. nows of the region, and then sent sions for their stipulated services in mine; snow going off and the untie I I t - -s Boarded IL' i-onuhly, and back down the mountains to bless DR. CHAS. w. BEACOM, your behalf. They would hastily running night and day. Satisfaction tf lar.inteei' Zjt/ again and make comfortable the re div ide your broad acres into town We attended church on last Sun 331 f] Dentist, giou lx.dow. Ami so, alternately, lots, five, ten, twenty and forty acre day evening. There is nothing* in up in the morning and down in the O regon —The Introduction of— G rant ' s P ass lots; go to the mountains and con this assertion to create surprise, but evening, the work of modifying nat struct reservoirs for stowing away we make a note of the occurrence XEW A RBI VALS! ural conditions and making the re All work warranted. Office on Main your snows and rains; survey and for the Ix-ncfit <>f ottr friend brother gion not only tolerable, but com »tract, above Post Office. dig ditches and send out all over Wiley of the Arcata Union, as he fortable, becomes perj»eUtal. IIAS ENABLED THEM TO REDUCE PRICES FIFTY PER your country in living streams water advised us to go often and perhaps MlM.'EI.LANSOl'H. As the result of these modified Our Mr. Olds is now Forwarding our ' conditions, we have in onr wide enough to irrigate every foot of His Reverence, Wible, could beat CENT. BELOW ALL FORMER RATES. your agricultural and horticultural some religion into us. field, climate to suit almost every lands, while you are lying supinely J. WIMER & SON, I'or Price List, address, S. P. D. &. L. Co. variety of fruit, flower and agricul on your backs and deploring the Arrangement have been made tural jmxluct grown in the temjxT- Have the largest «tore in JoMphine Grant's Pass, Oregon. •■earcity of the life giving element. by T. F. Sinclair & Co., of Port ate zone, besides an attractive array Bounty, which is 65x32 feet, and two “Store it uj> in winter for summer Hanev, 11. C., for shipping frozen of those belonging to the tropics stories, filled with use” did you say ? Yes, store uj> for salmon t<> Montreal, over the Cana > and with diversity equal, also, to use when it is needed. How much dian Pacific. The firm is building the requirements of every variety of think you, of your water runs to a ficezer with a capacity of one hun humin constitution, <le .ire and need. waste while you are waiting for it dred and fifty thousand pound# of But this is not all; we have a soil to get out of your way and then fish, and expects to liegin shipments We have constantly on hand as rich ami varied as the require mourn over its departure ? Ninety- as soon as the salmon commence ments of its products; and those are Ask your Grocers for it. Ik>nt be put off by being nine one hundredths ? Nay, but running. Seven hundred tons of to-day the wonder and admiration told that anything else is as good. Every sack of 999 io»x> run to waste every year to icc have been stored for use in the Gin Honest Weliit al Mearat this Flour warranted to make •I of the world. swell the great ocean from whence business. This business has been Our innM»»4.i. simply j>r<xligotis, it rises in vapor# and flows back carried on quite auccrssfully on the amt cm! nice gold, silver nKMct, Uu, J^^arrytng zephyrs to again Columbia river for the past two TRAVELERS.’ MINERS’ AND oi Goods that we throw on the market at 'iu:'!.--i ver, «.vpper, kad, qhr.ome, Ik»" Fac-simili of Brand displayed where ou sale. Ara ' liZllX ()f ‘»almon having the thirst ot »<« FARMERS’ SUPPLIES. non. ci it, oil, graphite, granite and ILL instead of being caught >w«M «tipped to th« freestontThm! flre-Hav, etc. E. C. LAN DEBS* For purposes of commerce aif^' up in ditches dug for ll.e puQ.o-e ■ego, New Yczk ar.d u U mm Ashland, Or. 43-3’n] We keep everything needed by the ..nd eff **"•«» to resen lire made •hies.—[West Shot«. travel we have the Pacific ocean all along j our foot hill ■ ♦♦•nelv people. with its magnificent harbors on the 'f* Hnti it is preparing use, it is allowed to collect in wash west, ami our grand rivers ami an extensive addition to his wharf outs and ravines; and .<» more than CHEAP FOR CASH OR PRODUCE railroads ramifying the interior in half the water of every summer rain which will run from the lower cud every direction, north, south, east Sample# sent on application and Waldo, .... Oregon. goes unbridled and unused to the of the cannery wharf down the river and west. pest l;is store, butcher shop, and mother ocean again. With these natural advantages to C hant ’ s P ass , O hkoon C orner M ain <t F ront S ts , ORDERS SOLICITED. It is high time you had an awak lower warehouse to or near the Bay our credit, it would seem sujierflu- cuing from your Rip Van Winkle Yiew hotel. When completed he ■ o ous to advance other rea »on# in sup will erect another large warehouse slumber.». Goto work and make Having opened a Family Grocery, I hereby announcn to the public that port of onr position, ami so I will and other necessary buildings.— your country a paradise and you I have a new and well selected stock of rest the case and proceed to inquire [Gazette. J. B. MARSHALL & SON 185 First Street, • ■ Portland, Oregon. will have uo time or occasion to if the people are really coming. 40-1 y cast disparaging insinuations -rival Wixh to inform tin (xxiplc of Grant'« GROCERIES, CONFECTIONERIES AND TABLE WAKE. One of the heaviest wind storm# Now we are to remember that l’ax’ an'l surrounding countn- that towns one at another. Your country that we hive exjierieni ed for some there are hundreds of thousands of they have opened a new sUx-k of will soon l>e all '.own. You m. • ! years <x ettrred on Thur day night. Bought flinre th'4 Sweeping Reduction in freight-s from the East, and people in the Atlantic States who not call on Saudiegans, though, to The odd Fellow's flag which was marked down at Bottom Pric«*s. I also sell the arc wholly dissatisfied with that country. They are sick of body’ and do tins work. You can do it your hoisted half mast in respect to the selves. And, know ye not that death of Wm. M. Turner, one of its CELEBRATED DAVIS VERTICAL SEWING .MACHINE, sick of mind; sick of cold and sick when you make room for the j>eoj»lc most honored in I respected meni- AND CIGARS. of heat; sick of tht storm cloud, which has no ecpial in ease of management and great range of work. they will come? Well, they will. l«rs, was torn to pieces.—[Sentinel. even—the dreaded cyclone is a con The vanguard, as said above, are Mv object is to make it to the interest of tho* having cash or pro- stant menace and Terror to them ENJOY lift ; clnce, to trade with me. » and with anxious gaze and longing already at our d<x>rs. The iron horse with “ rider up ” is already* They hat e also in Connection a Wlmt a truly Is-antiful world wwlivsin! J. M. < Mil J.EH. 123 First 31., Portland, Oregon. desires they are looking away from moving up and down the track .turn ei'o s 11« grandeur of ii«>ui>uun.’, (Oppofiite F ’ ir*t National Hank.) the Fatherland for wme haven oi FIRST-CLASS RESTAURANT. equipped and comparisoned for hi* .■!< and ocean*, and Ilwni-an-Uof menus repose. ii «-nf. AV» i,u!i dtsiro no Ix-ili-r FIHST-d.ASH work part of the work, while the low <i where they will feed the hungry. GO TO THE SUPPLY STORE nlu n in r. r|. t hv.Ltli , but how often do WIi.T.« life hi.iy tx> l,-nx>br>n«"l nM » hil l murmurs of the tides in the distance th<- majority of ,x .pie fiw'l like giving it In ail Branch«^ of hiMMj r»”<fi»r‘ b ii rj atul worn are but the faint precursors of the np .1. tw.ii .ri I, diso uraersl ICE-CREAM ! ICE CREAM ! ! And dimmer 4h<i winter are ne\cr<b - f* II < >T< Hi I{ A I ’ I I Y. great tidal wave of immigration o.twith.i ■!*<•. wb< i then* is no octa- ph«r»*'l ; Once. T»i.... r Direr tini • a \V.x k. MV I f<-r i is l. vltfiz, <’ every »ulfen r can Whrro life on th** mountain or lift* on tho that is to sweep over all this fair »ion General Mining Supplies Etc,. Etc., will hirniMi li-e- team l<>r >o*tiv»!A Fir ore» Enlarged in •s»i!y • ' t.iin -ali’.ai'totv puxd tlmt pl tun Lind and people it until we shall and all l*ublic «iathering». it. ■■o’« Ao.-i-t Flower will make them CHARLES DECKER, Prop’r. i’ont«pir«» Io return them their lout health ready to erv out, “hold! enough!”’ < fr>s- t'roiii ■It-a<y. as wlv-n horn. Dyx- n j.iin; ¡GARS KE1T IN STOCK. l ’ . P>T BRANDS OF WINEM. LlQUOIL* AND ( f» ‘t*i* it'd I o'er < o|,.plaint are tile di- —THEY A 1*0 DEAL IX— Where lal>or in honored with fruit»» of the 'Tis enough! >» » of r.oentl 't'ne I er cent of m / i I * If you would no longer be lag r - i. ti Flour and Provisions. It niabulie’as Bii . i.'.n. <», ItiaLp-ati ,n, DEX’KEll B< »AHD1XG And r.uhh r >w«r«l«*d the |M*np!v of t->il; gards in the r.a.e, yon must not HvulielH*. t'o tiien.-wi, N iwvoim OUT-DOOR GROUPS, Where bmr >d tn • hurri* «inu never-toore only send out your card# of Invita s.ek KEPT IN' HR'T-ri.l^ «TYI.E, AND THE Th i'r . 'rat. . D.-<in «« ot tile lta»L I'ul- Subscribe for the C ockier . MEET WITH EVERY KINDNESS AN RESIDENCES, ETC., An-! people dwell udvly in i-caeft at tii<*ir tion, but you must send a goml bill pilation .rf the iteart. and oth».w dixtrv.is- nyt>i|rtoniii. Three of Angw’t home* mTAAITANEOUS PROCESS. of fare with them. Wh.it you put lti»4 THE PÍÜNEE1 AND ONLY NEWSPAPEB I lower will ,«ma it* w t.timl < tlecl. To such there come* lruiu the «Mk ><u forth a g<xel bill > fare and make »».imp!« bcttle*. tOswnta livit Published in J.^phia, County DAVIS BROWER, ZZZZZZ SOLID COMFORT SULKY PLOWS'! Tropical Fiuits, Staple anJ Fancy GUNSMITHS. OUR WALKING PLOWS Guns, Revolvers, Pistols and e "E conomist ’ PIGNEY &-COOK, Reversible Points and Shares. All fflactoilhs and Horse Shoers, John Deere Moline Walking Two Bays’ Test Trial. Riding Plowsand Cultivators, Hacks and Carts. HOUSE and STORE FINISHINGS. The Latest improved Machinery, Ashland Citv Roller Mills Snow-Flake Brand — The Best in the Market. JOB LOTS White, Light, and Sweet Bread, Far Less Than Regular Rales. New ire and New G s. New Store New Goods OLDS à KI ML Groceries. Candies. Tobaccos. PHOTOGRAPHER For 1 )ry--goods i u id Groceries. India Ink, Water Colors or CRAY« )N. Livery Stable in Connection. Waldo, Oregon. / I*« Cla'mv aw a Health and Plaasuru Resort and Place ot Refuge from the Rigorous Wlntors and Slot my Summers of the Atlantic Slates.