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. ......................... ■ ■■« THE (OU ---------------- R I E R. r* W J. WIMER. *- Grant'» Pas», so named after General Grant, is a county »eat centrally located in Southern Oregon. It is a progressive railroad town of 1000 inhabitants, and is the main supply (mint for a large portion of country devoted to mining, lumbering agriculture and frult-miaing. Climate un excelled The Cot RiEti being the only paper pub lished in Josephine comity, with a good circulation in Jackson county, enables it to be one of the beat advertising mediums in Southern Oregon. For rates, address T he Got kier , Grant's Pa»» Oregon. One Year (in advance: Six M'Hxhs. fl 25 Three Months 75c Single Copie» ................ Ilk- Job Printing of all Kinds| r- —IN TUX— An Independent Paper, Devoted Especially to the Interests of Southern Oregon. Very Latest and Best Styles, —AND AT THE— Diving an TO ADVERTISERS. Publisher. SUBSCRIPTION R m;.s', Lowest i Katos. FSorEtaiON IL—LEGAL. HIP, HJP, HURRAH!!! DAVIS BROWER, E. A. ESTES, ( AVo.n our i '.tr WASHINGTON LETTER. From Althouae. Th« Razor-Back Hog. March 26, '87. To the travelers in Texas, otic of FRONT STKKKT. CrMia !-»••. Or»,,» Attorney at Law & Notary Public ----- ■[ FOR THE CELEBRATED ¡----------- W ashington , Mar. 25, ’87. The health of our people is pretty ' tlie strangest and most jxtculiar fea — Dacias in — AiR.iNT’ii P a U j .... O regon . There was a time, not many years good. Money i s scarce but we are tures of the landscape is the razor II I back hog. He is of the swiss cot ago, when the adjournment of Con hojieful for the future. Will practice in all the courts of the gress was a signal for Washington Spring has come and farmers are 1 tage style of architecture. His phys State. Office on Sixth street, near post to fall into a comatose state until busy plowing and planting, with 1 ical outline is angular to a degree office. the dawn of the next session. It is prospects of g<xxl returns for their unknow n outside of a text book on 8. U. MITCHELL, not so now. The growth of the city labors. the science of geometry. His ears, TOBACCO, and the fact that it has become a i The miners are not overly pros or the few rags and tatters of them ATTORNEY AT LAW. CIGARS, great Mecca of travel, visited by perous this season, so far as I have that the dogs have left, are curled G rant ' s P ass , .... O regon . CANDIES, thousands every week in the sum iieen informed The snow lasted so back with a knowing, vagabondish NUTS, ETC. mer and winter, have made the pres long that the season is now so short air. His tail has no curl in it, but Will practice in ali State and Federal Highest Ciuih price paid for ence of Congress quite unnecessary that the miners cannot work the it hangs aft. limp as a wet dish rag Courts. Office on Main street. maintenance of activity. [ground where they expected to get' hung out of a back window to dry. Country Produce. Hides, Furs, to A the SAM. WHITE, The highest jieak of his corrugated ’ou may come here at any season 1 their winter's pay. Ktc . Ktc, of the year you prefer and there ATTORNEY AT LAW. Improvements can lie seen on ev back is six inches above the level of Give me a call and be Convinced. will l>e something for you to see or ery hand and much new land v.ill the root of his tail. He does not O baxt '. P ass , - - - - O bbuom . hear or attend, something to inter ' this year be brought under cultiva w.ilk with the stow and stately step [lf.tt est you, either of a political, scien tion. Friend Platter has put under of the patrician Berkshire, but usu Will practico in *11 the Coarta of the State A. GREENE & SON, tific, religious, artistic, educational fence quite a patch of new land, I ally goes into a lively trot. He II. KELLEY, or social character, and perhaps all most of which the plow has already leaves the impression that he was Main St.. - - - Grant’s Pass, Or. at the same time; for Washington, broken up and I presume potatoes late starting in the morning and is ATTORNEY AT LAW. (Opposite the R. R Shop».) as the capital of a great nation, is will be the first and most profitable! making up for lost time, or is in J àcksonvillr . .... O seoon . doubt about the payment of that the center of man;,' national inter crop. ests But all this does not recon cheek, and is hurrying to get it Will practice in all the Courts of the The Kerbyville Lodge of I. O. O. cashed before the bank closes. cile its citizens to the departure of Rtata. Office in Court House. — Dealers in — ------------------- (poo) the lawmakers. Their absence is F. will celebrate the sixty-eighth The country razor back prowls li. K. HANNAH, Guns, Revolvers, Pistols and always regretted, and their return anniversary of the order in Ameri around in the woods and lives on ca on the 26th of April. They will acorns, peanuts and roots; when he joyfully welcomed. ATTORNEY AT LAW. A MUN ITION’ The beauty and desirability of give a public reception at their can spare time lie climbs under his room and a ball iti the even owners fence and assists in harvest J àcksoxvillr , .... O regon . Fisiiii-Taclle, Cullen, rirc-Worts. 4c„ 4c. Washington as a place of resilience j lodge ing, to which all are invited to 1 ing the corn crop. In this respect rung on many changes, Ixjth bv Offloe in Orth building, Oregon street REPAIRING, A SPECIALTY. citizens and visitors. Hon Arthur - come and enjoy themselves. The he is neighborly to a fault and, MacArthur, Justice of the Supreme I supjier will lx? provided by mine when his duty to his owner's crop 8. W. FORBES, All work guaranteed'to* Court of the District of Columbia, j host F. I>e«singer and his lady. will allow, he will readily turn in (litf NOTARY PUBLIC. who had just laid aside the ermine, ' Further comment is unnecessary. and assist the neighbors, even work K mbbt - ili . b axo A ltuovsb , J obepuink Dr. Spence is putting out alxmt ing nt night rather than see the crop expressed himself enthusiasticalh PIGNEY & COOK, CoCNTY, O b SGOX. on the subject. "Washington will' j eight acre* of assorted apple trees I spoil for want of attention. He km ws | G rant ' s I’ ass , - - - O regon . continue to be my home" said he. This firm will at no distant day lie not the luxury of a sty. He never Collections a Specialty. Legai Instru it is the prettiest and pleasantest one of the most valuable in this sec gets fat, and from the day of his ments promptly executed. place I know. In fact a residence tion, as hard work and a due ob birth, sometimes two years roll into ol a few years here disqualifies a servance to the adaptability of the eternity lx fore he is big enough to MEDICAL. Wagoa and Sladiine Repairing a Specialty. man for residence anywhere else." difierent soils for different crops will kill. W. F. KREMER. M I»., Judge MacArthur has served on the lie profitable to the farmer. It is use Crossing the razor-back with the ------------------- (000)------------------- AGENTS FOR THE District bench seventeen years, am! less to expect a gixxl crop of pota blue bloixl makes but little improve Physician and Surgeon. III GOODS SHIPPED DIRECT FROM THE FACTORY and sold retires under the statute which al | toes off of poor or worn out land ment. The only way to improve “LL to the farmer at from 25 to 50 per cent, less than similar Goods John Deere Molino Walking lows a federal judge to resign on One acre of new mellow ground is him is to cross him with a railroad O da . vt ' s P ass , - - - - O bboon . — and — are sold at. Our PLOWS are given to the Farmer on a full pay for life at the age ofseventy , worth ten of that which has been train. 1 le then becomes an imjxirted Calls responded to at all hours, day or after he has served ten years. He ! cropped for years. Care must also Berkshire or Poland China hog and Riding Plows and Cultivators. night. said lie would retire while he knew be taken in irrigation where such if he does not knock the train off SHOP ON II ST., NEAR 6TH. how. He did not want to stay un is needed, as much of the tubers the track the railroad company pays fef For further particulars of Tiices Etc., call upon our local agents, W. IL FLANAGAN, M. D. (Mtf til he got so old that people would now raised are not fit for people's for him at the rate of about $1 j>er GEO. W. RIDDLE, at Riddle and Grants Pass. Physician and Surgeon, j use because of bad irrigation. say, "why don't he retire?” |x>tmd, for which they are allowed I)R. J. HINKLE, Central Point. F. i the mournful privilege of shovelling Washington has lx'en called the GRANTS PASS G rant '» P as », .... O regon . A. DUNLAP. Phoenix. ' most polite of American cities, the 1 the remains off of the track. C. FARNHAM, Ashland. Rich Gold Quartz. most intelligent, well bred, hospit The ham of a country razor-back Office at rrsidence. corner Main an 1 Or Address Third streets. Call attended any hour, able and gracious, but it is also un- Says the Husbandman: The rich is more juicy than the hind leg of day or night. L. S SMITH, - - Proprietor. ! derstixxl to lie the most immoral. est gold bearing quartz ever found .in iron fire-dog, but not quite so So much has Iieen said to its dis in Montana, was lately unearthed fat as a pine knot. [Texas Siftings. 40- 1 y] Murphy, Josephine County, Or. I)R. F. W. VAN DYKE GRANTS PASS, OREGON. credit in this last particular, that by five men, near the old town of| The Brave Act. many people of the country are of New York. The lead 1.as Iieen sunk Ga ant »'P am - - O regon . SAKE ari<l FASI ! the belief that no good can come to a depth of twenty-eight feet. The A storia , Oct. 7. The Shnbrick English anl German Spoken. , out of the national capital. The walls are well defined, and the left this morning early w ith supplies . character of petitions and mcmori ds width txitween them is eight feet. Office on Main street, near drugstore. — MANUFACTURERS OF for the Tillamook rock lighthouse, relative to the District that are laid I11 richness the ore far excels the Ix'fore Congress also show the ex Drum Lummon or any other mine A rough bar convinced Capt. Greg C. LEMI’ERT, M. D., Fine Buggies, Lumber, Doors, Windows, istence of erronenous impressions yet discovered in the Rix'kv moun ory that it would lie impossible to land the supplies to-day and the Graduate Leipsic University,Ger. Hacks and Carts. on this subject. tain region. It is decomposed and steamer turned back Off Clatsop Brackets, and Mouldings. Again, Washington does not con assays from $20,000.00to $25,000.00 George Rowe, assistant engi Special Terms to Commercial sist of Congress as in times past, per ton. The vein is literally filled spit, Cails reponded to at all hours, <1iv or — AMD ALL KINDS <»F— neer, sighted a boat in the breakers night Offi-n opposite ."lover's hotel. and there is probably no American with this kind of rock. The hard Travelers. and going aloft to obtain a lietter Jacksonville, Oregon. city now where church life is so in est portions of the ore are held to I <<T’ loraes Boarded Kcasonably, nnd tensely active as here. Agencies for getlier by wire gold. The fortunate view, he informed the captain that DR. CHAS. W. BEACOM, a man was clinging to the Ixiat. Satisfaction guaranteed, ifîr J reaching and improving the condi owners are all steady, enterprising Gregory stood 111 as close as he ."."if Dentist, tion of the working classes mentally, men. They projiose working the dar'<l for the safety of the steamer, morally and spiritually, are busy at propertv and have no desire to sell O regon . G rant ' s P ass —The Introduction of— when the man and boat were a work in every quarter of the city. any portion of it. They are sinking The quarter of a mile distant, Chapels for sjxrcial purposes arc deejxT, and contemplate leasing the All work warranted. Office on Main weather life boat was lowered. and springing tip. meetings are held for etra.-t, above Post Office. mill at New York for working the workers of different kinds, homes ore. They can make excellent First Officer Richardson and five HAS ENABLED THEM TO REDUCE PRICES FIFTY PER men bravely risked themselves and M’.M?KLLANSOLK. are Ix'ing made for friendless chil wages by the Use of a hand mortar. j pulled the Ixiat thre ugh the heavy dren and fallen women who want —[West Shore. CENT. BELOW ALL FORMER RATES. breakers and rescued the man, ex ■ to lead lietter lives, and careful work And ladies are liegitiing J. WIMER & SON, hausted and speechless, who waa An Item for Buslne»» Men. I'j' For Price List, address, S. P D. &. L. Co. is done in hospitals and asylums. to think of Dies es, and I conveyed safely to the Shubrick. Have the largest store in Josephine These are only some of the forms Grant’s Pass, Oregon. The nnn w ho places a ten dollar Gregory administered stimulants the thousand-and one arti- eounty, which is 65x32 feet, and two that the church work takes, and all notice in his local {«per and flatters and had him stripped and rublied cles.that mustjie procured stories, filled with is done systematically and thor himself that lie is a lilx-ral advertis and placed in warm blankets. Ar for the season w hen all na oughly and with an earnest zeal er, will l>e surprised to learn that a rived hi Astoria lie revived suffi that is making itself felt for great yearly advertisement, one column ture dons its loveliest .gar ciently t > give your correspondent gixxl. It is creating an influence ments. in length, in the Chicago Tribune a statement. His name is Olaf A. that will exert untold power on the costs the advertiser $26,<x»>. The Christopherson. He was formerly Snow-Flake Brand — The Eest in the Market. WE BUY FOR CASH, We are now daily receiv thoughts and lives of the people of New York Herald receives for its Ixtok keeper in this city for Warren the future Capital AND SELL FOR CASH, Ask your Grocers for it. Dont be put off by being ing these article-, and ever) - lowest priced column $39,<x»>, and & Thompson, and is now employed One peculiarity of Washington for its highest #48,1»«); the New- told that anything else is as good. Every sack of thing connected with tilt at the Bav View cannery. He left Gire Ueoest Welsit and Measure. life is the fact that so many of the York Tribune for its lowest $28, this Flour warranted to make Skamokawa for Bay View in a skiff six'iety people find time to interest 7 St; and those pa|xrs, it is iated, last evening at 8 o'clock. He White, Light, and Sweet Bread. themselves actively in church work ire never at a loss for advertising TRAVELERS,’ MINERS’ AND stojiped pulling to light lii.s pipe, not merely by liecoming patrones-e» Fac-simili of Brand displayed where on sale. •fta to fill their columns, 'Die fact is and both oars slipped from the oar FARMERS' SUPPLIES. trade, and thereby antici of this and that thing, but by giv that careful, lilx-ral advertising locks and disappeared in the dark- ing personal attention and lalior to pating the wants of Ladies. pays. Nothing lietter illustrates , ne-.s. lie had nothing to paddle them. It is usual to find those this great truth than the rush now Ashland, Or. 43-3>n] Ws keep everything noedod by ths whose names arc daily reported as to California. Two years ago the with and was hoplcssly adrift. At Samples sent on applh a 4 a. m. he came abreast of Astoria, people. l>eing socially distinguished, work southern se< tion of the state organ tion, and but too far off to make his cries of ing with the clergy among the jxxir ized to advertise, and they man . distress heard. The strong ebb tide CnF.AP FOR CASH OR PRODUCE in relief associations, and in the ORDERS SOLICITED. aged it well. The northern section many forms of charitable work, s<x>n took their cue. To-day the 1 drifted him 011 and on, past Tansey Waldo, .... Oregon. and jxiint, and at 6 a. m., past Fort making their influence f it forgo<»l hotels of Southern California will Stevens, in the jaws of the hungry and doing g»»xl in a most self deny G rant ’ d I ’ a » s , O regon C orner M ain A F ront S ts . not aceomixlate the visitors. Sail i breakers on the wide ocean. ing way. Congress, the Cabinet, Francisco hotels registered last week Young Christopherson says lie ■ ■■ n — ---- Army and Navy, Bench and Bar. over 5*xx> guests.—(Ex. 186 Ti. at St., Poit’.Aud, Or. , 1 saw the Shubrick going out ami as Having opened a Family Grocery, I hereby announce to the public that can each show a list of the names he made no stop, concluded he was I have a new and well Delected stock of of noble men and women who are J. B. MARSHALL & SON A fire at Chaiitaqua assembly zealous in g<»»l works of which the grounds early on the morning of the not •< n and his last hope was gone, Wish to inform the people of Grant'» GROCERIES. CONFECTIONERIES AND TABLE WARE. Several times the breakers washed outside world knows nothing. Paes and »urrounding connin’ that 2 1 st destroyed eighty buildings in him from his hold , and he had to they have opened a new stock of eluding several large boarding hous swim sometimes forty or fifty feet Bought since the Sweeping Reduction in freight», from the East, and The total nunilx r of laws enacted es, among them were Eckeit & to regain his Ixiat. marked down at Bottom Prices. I also «ell the by the last Congress was about Parkhurst's houses and content*. The waves were so high that the 1,590, while 152 v.ere vetoed bv the The total loss will probably exceed rcscii'’’' party could only on the CELEBRATED DAVIS VERTICAL SEWING MACHINE, President, making twenty-one more I. < r. 1 )AV1 I )S< )N, $roo,rxxi. The buiMings and cot crest of the breakers, c.itch an occa ------AND CIGARS.------ instances of the exercise of the pres which has no equal in ease of management and great range of work. tages were <>f wood and close to Jzwlir.g Portrait and Landtcagie idential prerogative of veto than gether. The fire spread rapidly to sional glimpse of the capsized boat, Glass-ware and Queens- ware. My object i.« to make it to the interest of those having cash or pro had occurred from the foundation adjoining voltages and the lack of a bat were directed where to steer by hand signals from the rigging of duce, to trade with me. ! of the government down to the be fire apparatus favored the flames. the Shubrick. Christopherson ev They have also in Connection a J. M. CHIIJ.H. ginning of this Congre.-. Only one 125 First St., Portland, Oregon. LiOit National Bai.k priv.-.t ’ jen«ion bill and tint publii Women do not swear, but the idently wa< not ixirn to lx.' drowned. FIRST-CLASS RESTAURANT. bill, namely that providing for a profane-t man in Ar.uiiea would FIIIKT-CLAHS WORK It will no doubt make Bismark's where they will feed the hungry. GO TO THE SUPPLY STORE government building at Dayton. give five dollars if he cotild imitate eye w iter to lx informed that tl.< In ail Branches of Ohio, sin-cecd rd in passing lx>th the expression of a gcxxl woman tnlitia strength of the Uuited State ICE-CREAM ! ICE CREAM ' ' houses over the Pre-ident's veto. when she hits her thumb with the is « ril(»T<»G HA I’ll 'S'. men; and if the Germai. (World. Once, Twice or Three time« a Week, and hammer and says "Mercy 0.1 me"' Chancellor ever saw a militia com General Mining Supplies Etc,. Etc., will furniah Ice-« team for Festivals Picture» Enlarged in [Burdette. pany in line on minder day be will A special di-patch to the Herald and all Public Gathering«. CHARLES DECKER, Prop’r. k.iow wli.it th« -e figures mean to under date of M itch 19th says India Ink, Water Colors or BEST BKANDS OF WIXF.H. UQl*OB8 AND CIGAR8 KE1T IN SPOCK —Tnr.T ALSO DEAL IN— any nation that --.hotild nt^empt t< New freight rates to govern Ix.tli ruffle the pinions ol the Americai CH A YON. cast and we«t bound shipments, Flour and Provision*. DD’KEH BOAKD1NG IIOI’HE! eagle —(Ex. have been re ieved bv agents of KEIT IN FlII'T-CL t>* «TYLE. A5D THE TRAVELING PUBLIC WILL OUTDOOR GROUPS, transcontinental lints in this citv. Subscribe for the C ourier . MEET WITH EVERY KINI'M -s AND ATTENTION. RESTD ES, ETC., There are ten classes, the highest THE PIOKIU AND ONLY NEWSPAfEB of which is $4-70 per too B>«. gad INSTANTANEOUS PROCEiS. iK Waido, Oregon. Livery Stable in Connection. 3M« the lowest $4 • 5 m J.xwphia# Coenty. COMFORT^ SULKY PLOWS Tropical Fruits, Staple and Fancy G HOGE RIES, GUNSMITHS. OUR WALKING PLOWS T he ’ECONOMIST’ Have Reversible Points and Shares. Blacksmiths and Horse Sheers, Two Days’ Test Trial. LIVERY STABLE! WIMER & MEE, SUGAR PINE DOOR & LUMBER CO T ECAMS. HOUSE and STORE FINISHINGS. The Latest Improved Machinery, 1 Gentle Sprin Approaches! Ci tv Choice Goods io Every Line. Dry Goods E. C. LANDEKS. )re New G b. New Store New Goods CLDS & « T Groceries, Candies, Tobaccos, PHOTOGRAPHER For xxls and Groceries.