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THE COVRI Ell. ou vier. ---------------------------------------------------- r W. J. WIMER, Publisher. SUBSCRIPTION RATES, One Year (in advance)................ 12.25 Sia Month*. .............. ♦1.25 Three Month* ........... 75c Single Copies 10c Job Printing of all Kinds An Independent Paper, Devoted Especially io the Interests of Southern Oregon —IN THB— Very Latest and Best Styles, —AND AT TUI— Lowest Living Rates. rB<>rE«MUXAL—LAG AL. VOL. 3 NO. 4 Z==HIP, HIP, HURRAH!!! = 8. U. MITCHELL, E. A. ESTES, (J Vu*» w Rrqular (orrni.i. WASHINGTON LETTER. Th» Triel of Marple, th« Murdtrer. TO ADVERTISERS Grant’s l'axx, so named after General I Grant, is * county «eat centrally located in Southern Oregon. It is a progreaaive railroad town <4 1000 inhabitant*, and ia the main supply point for a large portion of country devoted to mining, hunbaring igrieulturv and fruit-raising. Climate nn- | excelled The Cot'BiKB lieing the only paper pub lished in Jinephine county, with a g««xt circulation in Jackson county, enables it to he one of the beat advertising medium* in Southern Oregon. For rate*, address T he C ovkiu , Grant’s 1‘aa*. Oregon. Correspondanc«. M c A llister , Apt 12, '87. The trial of Marple, the murderer W ashington , April 5, ’87. E d . C ourier :—I noticed in your of I). I. Corker at I<afayette, is thus — DKAI.KK IN — issue of the expulsion of four stu G baft ’ s P as *, .... O kkoox . 1 lie fears expressed by^a W ash- described by one who was there: SOLID COMFORT SULKY PLOWS Ill dents Horn the Eureka High School, itigton physician, that President Court convened at 9 o'clock, and for the crime of flirtation or, in the Cleveland is liable to die from apo Judge Will practice in ali State and Federal Hurley began the closing ar- Court*. Office on Main street. plexy before the emi of his term un- 1 , gument for the prosecution. The language of Prof. Robinson, undue G ROC Ell IES I less he changes his habits of lite, court room was crowded, a large familiarity. SAM. WHITE, Now, Mr. Editor, there are two are not shared by the President's number of ladies being in attend TOBACCO, ATTORNEY AT LAW. sides to this matter; and we, the private secretary. Col. Lamont ance. CIGARS, undersigned, beuig two of the four G bamt ' s P a » b , .... O bbgom . thinks that Dr. Sowers’ warning is Counsel begun by calling the at CANDIES, based entirely oil the assumption tention of the jury to the solemn students alluded to, respectfully ask NUTS, ETC. that the President is gaining flesh space in your valuable paper to Will practice in al! the Court« of the State nature of the duty which they had make a fil'd and fair statement of lligheat Cash price paid for and taking no exercise. This, he , Ixen called upon to perform; spoke H. KELLEY. says, is not the case. Mr. Cleve of the fiendish character of the crime the facts in the case. This we feel Country Produce. Hides, Furs, ATTORNEY AT LAW. land weighs less than when he first which had been committed, and our duty to do, in justice to the Etc . Etc, came to Washington, and takes as drew a graphic picture of the dis- young ladies who are of the number J acxsonvillk . .... O meoon . Give me a call and lx Convinced. much exercise as most men. He cover? of the murdered man, and expelled. First, it will be necessa does not walk about the streets of the ghastly wounds which Ind ry to mention a certain rule, edict I Dili Will practice in all the Court« of the 6tate. Offico in Court House. tl’.e city, but lie walks about his caused his death. He spoke of the I or mandate issued by the Professor, A. GREENE & SON, little farm late in the afternoon manner in which Marple first came to wit; That young ladies and gen IL K. HANNAH, when the weather permits. Then into the to« 11 in the night and slept tlemen, students of his school, Main St., - - - Grant** Paa*, Or. ATTORNEY AT LAW. the Colonel suggests mysteriously in a barn, of his having inquired if should not keep compauy together; (Opposite the R. R Shop*.) that the President has other wavs Coiker slept alone in the store and should not hold aocial converse to J àcksu N vili . b , .... O rboon . of taking exercise, which, it would the expression used bv Marple, that ■ gether; not lx allowed to sit on the seem, he thinksit would not lx dig "it would be easy to get away with same seat together at church, Sun- Office in Orth building, Oregon „ireet nified to mention. Can it be that him,” and of his having told Corker ( day school, or any other gathering — Dealer» in — 8. W. I’ORBES, the President lias a private gymna that some one could come in there, I : at which they might lx present. Guns, Revolvers, Pistols and sium in some corner of the White 1 crawl over the partition and beat; A violation of this order was de NOTARY PUBLIC. House which the world knows not his brains out. He reminded the ; nominated by the Professor, "undue KRBBT”ILtK AXt> A l THOISB, JoSEl'UlNE A MUN ITI ON of? It must lx so. At any rate jury of how defendant had endeav familiarity," a phrase brought with CoiXTY, OSEGoN. front Bolivar, Texas. he Fislilii-Ticltle, Cillery, Fire-Works, tc„ ic. Col. Lamont says he keeps himself ored to lure people aw*ay from the I him in good condition by physical exer tracks they were trying to trace lip, I Now at the Ixginnitig of the Jan Collecti inn a Np.vialty. Legal Instru REPAIRING, A SPECIALTY. cise and that there is 110 occasion recalled the fact of Marple having' uary term there were enrolled some ments promidly executed. for apprehension in regard to his l>een in Corker’s store and having j 35 names, young ladies and gentle r“---------------------------------------------------- Etfr All work guaranteed adh man of the best families of the coun health. MEDICAL. lUtf seen him pour the money out of his The National Drill which will purse the morning before the mtir-' ty, and young persona who would W. F. KREMER. M. I»., commence in this city on the 23d of der, and the attempt of the defense 1 have spurned an impure action as PIGNEY & COOK, May, will end on the 30th of that to disprove this; of his having been 1 they would Satan. They were from Physician and Surgeon, diffcrcut neighborhoods and were G rant ’ s P ass , - - - O regon . 'month. "Decoration Dav.” with a 'T bant ' s P ais , .... O regon . in there on the evening liefore the 1 «Xi- i grand combination parade of the crime was committed, a fact not dis- ' 1 comparative strangers to each other National Guardsmen and the Grand pitted when he was probably spying I at the beginning of the term, and it Call» responded to at all hours, day or 1 Army of the Republic, There will out the location of the articles to be ' was but natural that they should rffirht. 1 be $26,500 in cash distributed in used in the commission of the mur : cultivate an acquaintance and, in a Have Reversible Points and Shares. I Wagon and MicMie Repairing a Specialty. word, act as young folks usually do W. H. FLANAGAN, M. D. 1 prizes, besides stands of colors, gold, ---------------- (000)----------------- He explained why no expert under similar circumstances, but AGENTS FOR T11E silver and bronze medals, special der. had been engaged to make an analy | always conducting themselves with Physician and Surgeon, 111 GOODS SHIPPED DIRECT FROM THE FACTORY and sold I *! medals and plate trophies. HLL to the farmer at from 25 to 50 per cent, less than similar Goods John Deere Moline Walking '1 The grounds of the camp are those sis of the bltxxl on Marple's coat by gentility and propriety. G ba XT’ h P a *», .... OREGON. showing that it was impossible for! — and — lying around the Washington Mon ' any analysis to detect the difference | For a short time everything went are sold at. Our PLOWS are given to the Farmer on a smoothly and hade fair for a Offie* at residence, corner Main and Riding Plows and Cultivators. ument; and the ilrill ground is the between human blood and the blood ' ; on Third etreets. Call attended any liogr, quiet and successful term. After a , level ellipse lying just South of the ' of any animal. He recalled the diff- ■ ¿ay or night. SHOP ON II ST., NEAR 6TH. : Presidential mansion, known as the | erent theories given in explanation time the very harmony and good For further particulars of Prices Etc., call upon our local agents, [20tf White Lot. This level plain, which of how the bltxxl came on the coat. . feeling seemed to annoy the Profes DR. F. W. VAN DYKE GEO. W. RIDDLE, at Riddle and Grants Pass. is one half mile in circumference, He criticised the attempt of the de- sor and he began to pick and fret DR. J. HINKLI* Central Point. G rant * P ass • • O skgox . GRAMS PASS will lx* fenced in, and stands suffi 1 tense to prove an alibi through the at the pupils, so that by the time A. DUNLAP, Phoenix. cient to seat from 30,000 to 35,000 testimony of the wife and mother of the term was half out, his manner C. FARNHAM, Ashland. English and German Spoken. will be erected. The grounds were I the defendant, which lie claimed seriously affected the government Or Address granted by the Secretary of War on had fallen to the ground through of the school. He began by an ac Office on Main street, near drug store. L, S SMITH, - - Proprietor. 1 approval of Gen. Sheridan, and the the natural incoherence of premedi- cusation against a young lady and C. LEM PERT, M. 1»., cuiuiniltee have given bonds for 1 tated padded-up falsehood, as was gentleman student, of undue famil 40-1 y] Murphy, Josephine County, Or. GRANTS PASS, OREGON. their return in perfect order after ¡shown by the old lacy’s statement iarity. After lecturing them in a Cradnate Leipsic University,Ger very unprofessional manner and the drill. in regard to the moon seen by her Daily contests «'ill here be held when adiuit'ing her son to the writing out their discharge, he sub mitted the matter to the school, who C a ’1» reponded to at all honra, dav or to prove the excellence of the citi i house. night Office oppoaitu Storers hotel. with their vote, unanimously sus zen soldiery and infantry; artillery, He claimed that the traik found Jacksonville, Oregon. — MANUFACTURERS OF — cavalry, and zouave tactics. Cadet leading from Corker’s store toward tained the young folks. He then Corps of military schools will drill Marple's residence were one link in i,.'. '! *d his spleen against the young DR. CHAS. W. BEACOM, Fino Buggies, l.nlits alluded to in your issue of Lumber, Doors, Windows, for prizes as well as the champion Dentist, Hacks and Carts. companies from thirty-six States, I the chain of evidence tending to April ist. watclied them in all their Brackets, and Mouldings. fasten the crime on him, and showed O regon . and bands and drum corps will lx the futility of attempting to prove action», and until the la»i day kept G» axt > P ass Special Terms to Commercial in attendance from East, South and ! that the tracks were made by Mar up a continual peeping at t'aem. — ANI) ALL KINDS Of— West. Each evening there will lx ple. He dwelt at some length on The !mal tic-1: tot th’it misdemean* All work warranted. Office on Main Travelers. street, abovo Post Office. a grand dress parade, and on Gov the presentiment of Marple that 1 or was their taking a seat at recess llorsi". Buarded Reasonably, and ernor's Dav and on Memorial Da\, i on the boys side of the room and ---------------------------------------- HOUSE and STORE FINISHINGS. 1 something was going to happen, and miscillankour Satisfaction guaranti'-l .¿a’J the entire army corps from Camp that when lie saw Coiker he knew we, the writers, sat down in front 33tf] George Washington will parade on I that lie was to lx murdered, and on i of them on the next seat. After NOTICE. . the broad, asphalt avenews of the the fact that the murder was com si hool was called the Prof, lectured —The Introduction of— them in a most ungentlemanlv man city. mitted exactly in the manner Mar ner, and the girls, unable to bear it Strived or Stolen, from tho range, one Bay Filley 3 years old in the spring, and pie had predicted. He spoke of the any longer, packed their Ixxiks ami Tho Injured of the Stultz Company. one Black horse colt 2 year« old in the cunning displayed by defendant in left his school forever. A few min spring, with etar in the forehead. Any The accident which the Stuttz the scheme he proposed to young utes afterward, Mr Robinson played one knowing of their where») out* will lie HAS ENABLED THEM TO REDUCE PRICES FIFTY PER Company met with on the Siskiyou Ely for securing a suit of Chinese the farce of ex|x-lling them for un reasonable rewarded by writing or send CENT. BELOW ALL FORMER RATES. ing word to 1* Bl KKHAJ.Tp.lt, clothes and sin.siring them with due fimiliarity with the boys. mountain last week, was not exa And [ladies are*|bcgining Applegate l’ostolficc, Jackson ( <>., Or bloixl, to lx- afterward accidentally gerated by the first reports as were One thing more: The entertain Bi' For Price List, address, S. P. D. & L. Co. [46-2m to think of Dresses, and published in our last issue. The ' discovered, by which a Chinaman ment at the close of the school was Grant’s Pass, Oregon. the thousand and-or.c arti accident was due to a vicious horse would lx* convicted instead of liirn- given under the management of i which l>egan kicking, frightening I self. He closed by saying if the Professor Whitelaw and not Robin- cles thatjniust I k * procured the other horses and causing them jury failed to convict Marple, the on. as the latter was not altogether for the season when all na to tun away down a steep incline, murderer of Corker would never l>e favorable to and did not pay a cent ture dons its loveliest ¡gar overturning the coach. The occu punished, but would walk forth of tl’.e cost. Mr. Editor, we have stories, filled with ments. pants of the stage were J. G. Stuttz, from this court free, to lie a curse avoided personalities in this article wife and daughter, Mrs. LeCompte. on the community, as he had here .. . fir as possible and have stated Snow-Flake Brand — The Best in the Market. We are now daily receiv H. L. Weidner and wife. Mi--. Julia tofore been. nothing but what is literally true, ing these articles and every Ask your Grocers for it. Dint lx; put off by Ixing The judge then explained the and can lx proven by the school. Hazel and Mis» Jessie Booth, the told that anything else is as good. Every sack of thing connected with the R CASH, other mentliers of the company lx* different degrees of murder, and in W illis G rifpin . this Flour warranted to make ing in another stage. Mr. Snlttz ‘.tructed the jury as to different ver AND SELL FOR CASH. A lbert C row . aimed to save his little git 1 by throw diets that might lx rendered. He White, Light, and Sweet Bread. Ein Hwst Weliit ni Mciscrt. ing her on a clump of bushes, but spoke of the necessity for the la«* Resurrecting an Estate. t^r Fac-siniili of Brand displayed where on sale. “Wi lieing administered impartially, and she fell short and struck on a pile traile, and thereby antici TRAVELERS,' MINERS’ AND Among the estates in course of <>f rocks, receiving painful injuries. how an agreement could lx arrived E. C. LANDERS, patilig the wants of I.adies. FARMERS' SUPPLIES. Sunday xhe was able to walk with at 1 y the jury, and »poke of the de settlement before the Probate Court Ashland, Or. ♦3-3m] the aid of crutches. Mrs. LeCompte sirability of an agreement Ix-ing ar is that of Owen F,. Farley, once em We keep everything needed by the Samples sent on applica mother of Mrs. Stultz, had her col- rived at, so that the scandal might ployed as a wool sorter at the Mis people. tion, and lar-lx>ne broken Miss Hazel, the not go abroad that a jury could not sion Woolen .Mills, and who lost pianist, received an ugly wound on agree and justice could not lx ad his life at the time of the wreck of CHEAP FOR CASH OR PRODUCE. ¡ORDERS C0LICI1ED. the forehead. Mrs. Weidner was miniatered. The fate <>f the prison the steamship Brother Johnathan, also severely injured and none of cr was cornmitte 1 to them, and all off Crescent City, July 30, 1865. Waldo. .... Oregon. and the occupants esceped v ithout inju they had to do was to dotheir duty 1 lie body of deceased was not re G rant ’ s P ass , O kboom C orner M aim A F ront S ts , covered and none of his many rela ry more or less severe. The stage fairly and conscientiously. New Millinery Store. tive w'r< av.tire that be L-ft an es was completly wrecked and one GUILTY AS CHARGED 186 lint St.„Portland, Or. horse killed. The driver, Jasper Having opened a Family Grocery, I hereby* announce to the public that At 9 o'clix’k in the evening the tate consisting of a lot of land nt MRS. FLANAGAN & M. TUFFS Cunningham, is still ia a very crit Jury brought in the following ver S.tn Jose and $400 in the Hilxniia I have a new and we]] selected stock of Bank, and it was but recently that ical condition. z\ portion of the in dict : Have opened a new this fact was discovered. The lot jured actors reached Yreka Tuesday Slate of Oregon vs. R. E. Mat Millinery and Dressmaking GROCERIES, CONFECTIONERIES and TABLE avare , evening and the others are expected pie. We, the jury in the above en nt San Joe was long since sold for to-day. They are all recovering titled case, fin 1 the defendant guilty taxes, an 1 the interest added to the Bought sinco the Sweeping Reduction in freights, from the East, nnd ESTABLISHMENT and the company will positively ap as charged in the indictment, and original deposit in bank has brought marked down at Bottom Price». I also *»*11 the |>ear at Kessler’sOj»cra House Mon recommend him to the mercy of the that sum up to $1,300.—{Alta. Opposite Campbell * Tuff»’ store, 00 Ath We have a list of all the persons day, Tuesday and Wednesday even 'court. CELEBRATED DAVIS VERTICAL SEWING MACHINE, street. W. C arl , Foreman. I. O. 1 )AVi I)SON, whu« bodies came ashore in Del ing», April 18th, 19th attsl 20th. HAIRWORI aai STAMPING Jtîtlr dene which ha» no equal in ease of management Rnd great range of work Norte county, where the name* Leading Portrait and Landscape Monday evening in ,‘‘Under Two (27-6in could lx? ascertained, and no one by Flag»" ami Tuesday evening in My object is to make it to the interest of those having cash or pro- that name was known to have been PHOTOGRAPHER F "The Pearl of Savoy." If the con found; but as many bodies had noth dition of little Ivy will permit, "A MRS. M. HYDE ' dnee, to trade with me. J. M. CIIILFX I2B First St., Portland. Oregon. ing about them to identify them by, Celebrated C ■e” will be presented First National Bank.) MAIM »T., I* front of tho Factory, Farkv may have been among the w<lay. In this play she on Wein day lias a new lin* of FIKHT-f ’LASS WORK carries a prominent part. [Yreka di.v unknown.—[Record. GO TO THE SUPPLY STORE GLOV17* nOIR-FTo, Union. In all Eranrhe* of last KUCHINGS, PLVMF.8, > f<»r ♦ rnoTou it a ph v. The President appointed Charles TIPK, RIBBONS, BONNETS, on W. Irish of Iowa City to lx Survey General Mining Supplies Etc.. Etc and HATS. <niAt or Genera! of Nevada, and Wm. C. LADIES’ and CHILDREN’S CHARLES DEC k EH, Prop’r. Hail to be Secretary of Utah Tern India Ink, Water Colors or COLLARS, VELVETS, SILKS, BF^T UKANI’S OF WINES. LIQl'oIL- AND UK'AW KI tory. He aLto appointed the follow The new road bill passed nt last supported by RETINS, INF INTS, LACE BON ing Receiver* of Public Money« session of Legislature, provide« that CRAVON. ■1 the president to appoint Hy- NETS. LADIES' VNDERWEAR. DECREE BOAEDIXG I !< Benjamin Burch, at Oregon City; Road (he ’ M'cT > vrill lx elected at te* Alnanvi os culkctor. — [Baker mat — and — KEPT IN URST-CLA** STYLE, AND THE TRAVELING Pl'BiJC WILL ( X’T-DOOR GROUPS, Thoa. W. Slausher, at The Dalle-. genernl election in 1888, and inct e Democrat. LACES OF ALL KINDS. RESIDENCES, ETC Oregon; Henry O. 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