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lJLE_£<21JLLEn » i I w J WIMER, SUBSCRIPTION R.Ì TES. One Year Ks Months (in alvine*: •I 25 75c 1 W Three Months Single Copies • Printing of all Kinds —in S ue — very Latest ani Best Styles, —IND AT THE— ---------------------------------------- 1--------------------------------------------------------- Job Lowest I.ivinit I?-it<*s. LINES OF TRAVEL. An Independent Paper, Devoted Especially to the Interests of Southern Oregon. vol.. 3. NO. 16. TO ADVERTISERS Grant's Paaa, so named after General Grant, is a countv seat centrally located in Southern Oregon It is a [xvarreasive railroad town of 1000 inhabitants, and is the main supply point for a large portion of country devoted to mining, lumbering agriculture and fruit-rai*>ing. Climate un excelled The C ovriks be’ng the only paper pub- I'shed in June] hi e county, with a g«xxi circulation in Jude on county, enables it t > be one of the lee advertising inediunis in Southern Grego 1. For rates, address Turc Covaixs, Grant’s Pass, Oregon. C»:nsga at the Mint. ' rope over a large limb of a sturdy oak which branched out from the (Afiaixj ami Induntrial Advocate, Jaly “tkA Ayer’s Hair Vigor keeps the hair »oft yard over the sidewalk, CAMPBELL à TUFF Coinage at the United States The Wife Murderer Taken courthouse and pliant, i in parts to it the lustra and and several seizing it, the prepara CAN NOW BO 1ST OF HAVING THE Branch Mint of this city ceased, in fre»hn«'M of youth, causes it to grow tions for the final scene in the tra From Jail and Hanged! luxuriantly, eradicate« l>auJruff, cures accordance with the annual custom gedy were complete. FINEST STORE ROOM IN SOUTHERN OREGON. all «calp diseases, and is the most clean at this time, on Saturday last. This LYNCHED. HE TRIES TO KILL HIMSELF. ly of all hair preparations. regon is preparatory to the aunual settle —O' AILROAD Stopping further action for a mo ment that takes place at the eud of nly AVPR'Q TIrtir Vip»r has giveu me Thirty Masked Men Beat Inthe Pris mer.t, Kcltv, already nearly dead I Lil O |u rfect satisfaction. I was icturesque 1VANGES (each tincal year of the Treasury De - VER on Doors, While Their Victim nearly h«|d for six years, during which from loss of blood, mumbled a few 1 partment, which ended with the time I used many hair i»reparations, but 225 MILES SHORTER! Cuts His Throat With a CD CD CD words, which were too indistinct to month of Juue. The figures of the without siieutss. Iiuleeu, what little Broken Lamp. hair I had was growing thinner, until 20 HOURS’ LESS TIME! lie heard by I>epew. who had taken whole year’s coinage are not yet On their Cheap Counters in all such lines as 1 tried Ayer s -Hair V’igor. 1 uaed two i. July 7.—This morning his station to watch proceedings in compiled and will not be given out Accommodations Unsurpassed for Com botiles of the Vigor, ami my head is now DRY GOODS, fort and Safety!—Fares and Freights w ell covered with a new growth of hair. at 2:15 o’clock, Oscar M. Kelty, the lower door of the jail. When for several days, or until after the — Judsou B. <. hai»eL Peabody, Mass. via. Yaquina and the Oregon De who murdered his wife Clara at he had finished the ro]>e was drawn annual settlement 6f Superintendent DRESS GOODS, velopment Co ’s Steamships LIL iD that hx* become weak, gray, McCoy on the night of June 10, by a dozen hands, and the body of Lawton with the Treasury repre riPlili auj fa.ied, iua\ have new life Mi en less than by any CLOTHING, and color restored to it by the use of was taken from the jail at Dallas Kelty, dressed in underclothes and 1 sentative, which will occur during other route between A \ . i kH )T \ ■ ’ W M thin by a body of thirty men and hanged bathed in bl<xjd, was swinging in 1 the coming week Since January all points in the HATS AND CAPS, faded, and dry, and fell cut in large Quantities. Ayer’s llair Vigor stopped to an oak tree in the court house the air. BOOTS AND SHOES last, however, the new system of Wllluette Valley and San Francisco!! the falling, and restored mv hair to its yard. This .nortiing between 1:30 After the suspended murderer had transferring the coin has been in use, GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS, original color. As a dressing for the and 1 45 o ’ clock there came riding DAILY PASSENGER TRAINS hung for ten minutes, some one of hair, this preparation has no eonal.— by which all gold pieces delivered GROCERIES, Mary N. Hammond, Stillwater, Mian. up the main street of Dallas, from the mob said: (Except Sundays) by the Coiner’s Department are put PROVISIONS. the north, a party of over thirty VlisllR beauty, in the “Come, let’s lie off, boys." Lear« Leave up in sacks of {5,000 and a record VtUUn, Hp|a*aran. of the hair, may CROCKERY, men, who proceeded straight to the Yaquina 7:00 a m "No, let'sseethat it's well done," kept of the net and gross weights of Albany 1:30 p in l»e preserved for an indefinite period by Arrive. -I rrire. the use of Ayer's Hair Vigor. •• A dis county jail, situated in the block said another; "let’s feel his pulse.” TOBACCOS. each when sacked. The gold coin Corvallis 111 :38 a m ease of the scalp caused my hair to be north of the court house, ami Corva'I is 2 : '2 p_ □1 "What in h -11 do I know about sacks are also sealed with a leaden CIGARS, ETC come harsh and dry, and to fall out Albany 11:10 am Yaquina 5:40 p tn stopped ill front of the door. The freely. Nothing I tried seemed to do his pulse," returned a third. seal, through which the tying cord O. A C. trains connect at Albany and me any ecmh I until I commenced using jail is a small structure with a base Twenty minutes from the time he is passed, and stmek flat with the Corvallis. Ayer's llair Vigor. Three bottles of ment about ten feet in height, aii'l f A 11 our goods are entirely new and will lx? exchanged for cash was taken from the jail the aveng this preparation restored my hair to a Fare« between Corvallis a- d Albany die on a small an healthv condition, and it is now soft an upper story in which are situated ers, satisfied that justice had been Superintendent's and San Francisco : or farm produce. CAMPBELL A TUFFS, vil. Tags are also attached to each and pliant. My scalp is cured, and it On each side of the vindicated, left the body of Kelty Rail and Cabin f 14 0 1. is also free froiu dandruff. — Mrs. E. K. four cells. Grant’s Pass, Josephine County, Oregon Rail anil Steerage 9 OJ. Foss, Milwaukee, Wil. door of the basement are two win swinging to and fro in the bright sack, giving the denomination, amount or value and gross weight. WM. M. HOAG, one of them crossed with iron moonlight. : Since January tst last there has been Ayer’s Hair Vigor, dows, General Manager. bars and the other containing only Depew, who had remained a pass- I transferred from the Coiner’s De Bold by Druggist» wid Perfumer». CHAS. C. HOOUK, an ordinary sash and window. ive spectator of the tragic scene, af partment to tbe vault of the Cashier A. G. F. A P. Agent, Corvallis. A dozen of the party, dismounting ter he had become well satisfied that of P erfect S afety , prompt action, and the Mint, 1,606 .sacks of half — manufacturers of — wonderful curative properties, easily »went to the wagons and buggy his life was no longer in danger, Oregon Development Company. place Ayer’s Pills at the betel of the IHt- which accompanied them, ami took hastened to notifiy Sheuff Grove of eagles, of an aggregate value of $8,- 030,000, and 702 sacks of eagles, of popular remedies for Sick and Nerv therefrom a number of guns and a Firot-UkisH Steamship Line lietweou Lumber, Doors, Windows, the occurrence. Hurrying to the making {3,060,000, a total of {11,- ous Headaches, Constipation, and all ail sack which contained heavy iron or ; Yaquina and Sn,n Francisco, ments originating in a disordered Liver. steel implements. The front of the court house yard, and seeing beyond 1 690.000 in gold coin. Brackets, and Mouldings. Connecting at Yaqnina with the trains of doubt that Kelty was dead, the the Oregon Pacific Railroad Company There have lieen no standard sil I have been a great sufferer from jail was approached and an assault sheriff notified the coroner, and af- : ver dollars coined at the San Fraa- 11« adaehe, and Ayer’s Cathartic Pills — AND ALL KINDS OF — From San Frumtuto; are the onlv medicine that has ecer made upon the barred window, but ter daylight the body was cut down i 1 cisco Mint so far in 1887, but a given me relief. One dose of these Pills without effect. Their attention was Eastern Oregon, Wednesday.. June 21) and a coroner's inquest held. will quickly move uiv bowels, ami free Willamette l alley. Tiiemluy July Ö. remnant of the coinage of last year, then directed to the door, which my head from pain. — William L. Page, This afternoon the Ixxly of Kelty ( and 11. Eastern Oregon, Monday amounting to Jt6,ooo, has been de 44 Richmond, Va. tT was fastened with an ordinary lock, was taken to McCoy by his parents, j 17. Wiliam "tic Valley, 'S unday and it soon gave way before their and will probably I k * buried there. livered to the Cashier's vault. A 23. Eastern Oregon, Saturday Ayer ’ s Pills, 4 bright spangled coin when new. 3 ). Willamette Valiev, Saturday fierce attacks. Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer &Co.tTx>well, Maas. THE MOB. but otic difficult to count, because Bold by all Dealers Iu Medicine. Crowding into the basement, the Pram Y'a'piin'i; —The Introduction of— There is much speculation con of its size is the dime. One hun stairway leading to the second story July Eastern Oregon, Wednesday Willamette Valiev, Tuesday was quickly ascended by a number cerning the identity of the mob. dred thousand dollars in dimes was Eastern Oregon, Tuesday Machinery, of the crowd. At the top of the as- One theory, which is doubtless cor coined in May last, and the total of 44 Willamette Valley, Sunday • 4 ceut, however, a heavy wooden door rect, is that they are from the vicini the handy little piece turned ou* Eastern.Oregon, Friday HAS ENABLED THEM TO REDUCE PRICES FIFTY PER ribbed with iron and studded with ty of McCoy, Pcrrydale and North from the dies of the press room Willamette Valley Fridav Aiu. Arrivals. nails, stopped further progress Yamhill. Indeed one young man since 1887 began amounts to {119,- The Company reserves the right CENT. BliLOW ALI. FORMER RATES. Without ceremony a storm of blows from McCoy, who pixtbably knew1 160.20.. Dimes arc put up in sacks change steamers or sailing dates. Française Silks. was rained upon the door, but for what lie was talking alxiut, stated 1 containing {500 in each. No other S B TOBY, Gen. I-'. & P. Agent ttiT For Price List, address, S. P. D. &. L Co. Summer Silks. to-day to a Statesman reporter that1 denominations of any kind have ■-"H Montgomery St., San Francisco, Ci! a long time without visible affect. Black Silks. the avengers were first organized on been coined since the last annual [4111' Grant’s Pass, Oregon. KELTY AND HIS GUARD. Albatross Cloths. last Sunday . It was their intention settlement. At the hour when the thirty men | to lynch Kelty on next Sunday | i Ortyon SrntinA: ♦ ♦ Etamine Cloths. arrived, Kelty and his guard, Har night, but that a report to the effect i Super Cloths. —MA— ry Dc|x-w, were quietly sleeping in that he was about to lie removed to ' Dr. Flanagan and Walter Kinzer Krinklcd Sursinkcr. separate cells, oblivious of the aw Salem for safe keeping, hastened1 came to Jacksonville on Thursday, Lawns. Oregon &. California R. R. ful events which were to follow. thefn in their purpose. The rendez both taking degrees iu Royal /Arch Battistis. AND CONNECTIONS. The clatter of approaching hoofs vous was probably McCoy. Return Masonry, and returning to Grants Foil Du Nord. and the noise ot the wagons awak mg, the party came by way of Dixie. J [ Pass on Saturday. Laces. st- Tuf. Idi. 3IIASTA ROUTE. Mr. Britt infonns us that the ened both at alxmt the same time. Throughout the whole affair no Lace Flouncings. Kelty instantly realising what was violence was offered Depew, except amount of rain fall is from one- ( I.»- Connections made at Ashland PA RAS< >1X the cause of the unusual noise, calm that when the party first entered fourth to one-half inch less, so far «ith the rta;<ea of the California, Oregon Having opened u Family Grocery, I hereby announce to the public that We are constantly receiv lv said to his guard, "They're the jail guns weie ]x>inted at him, this year, than it was for the cor A Idaho Stage (kmipani. I have a new and well selected stock of ing come," and asked him for his knife. but he did not make the slightest responding time of last year. Only 20 Milej of Staging. Being refused he repeated the re resistance to their movements. The new <;oons P. W. (»well of Phienix has pur quest, which was again declined. Time between Grants l’.isa and San Fran arrival of the party at Dallas was chased of W A Bodine, who lives in the latest st vies and de cisco, 27 hour.!. Getting up and going to the win noted by two other persons besides alxmt 3 miles north of Medford, Bought since the Sweeping Reduction in freights, from the East, and signs from the best East dow Depew saw in the clear moon Depew, and the scene was witnessed .pxx> boxe« of {tenches Mr. Olwell ern markets. marked down at Bottom Prices. 1 also sell the CALIF'JPXIA EXPRESS TRUSS DAILY . light the preparations preparatory from a distance by one of them, will ship them to the Portland mar Orders filled promptly— North. Knuth. From May 1, 1887. to storming the jail. The mob was Several of the masks were found ket and brand them Southern Ore CELEBRATED DAVIS VERTICAL SLAVING MACHINE, Send for Samples. 4 00 p 111 Lv, Portland Ar. 10 :4) a in every one masked, except the 011c along the road, and other clues have gon peaches. <> .4 lam " Grants P ass L v . X :05 |> m which has no equatin ease of management and great range of work. under whose directions they ap tx*en found. One young man nt The local telegraph line between 6:00 “ 6:31)am Ar. kshlaml " peared to be working. His face McCoy yesterday torn George Kelty, Jacksonville and Medford is now in My object i.- to make it to the interest of those having cash or pro rnllmii Bnffelt Sleepers was bare, as if despising the con brother of the murderer, that a mob operation, and ready for business. duce, to trade with me. cealnient of identity which the oth was alx/ut to take him and hang Messages will l>e carried over the l>aily Ix’twecti Portland and tshland. 186 First St., Portland, Or. .1. NI. C’HII.IX ers effected. • him. He was prevailed upon to go line for 15 cents for the first ten The O. & C. R. It. Ferry makes Con ( Ik-jiew was again di»turl>cd by to Dalias am) notify the authorities words or less, and one cent for each nection with all the Regular Trains on the Kelty calling for his knife, and he He started but never Arrived. It additional word. East Side Division, from foot of 1 street. stated to him that he could nvt let may I k * that lie was intercepted on Through the kindness of H< n W est Smr. D ivision . him have it. Presently the sound the way. Binger Hermann, we are pleased to of breaking glass was heard from BETWEEN PORTLAND A CORVALLIS ACTION OF THE AUTHORITIES state that the mail service between the direction of the cell, followed M ail T rains D aily ( ei ' cept atxiiAY.) District Attorney Belt was this Jacksonville and Medford will lie (Wert of Depot, on Rvilroad Track.) shortly by heavy breathing. It af 7:30 am Lv. Portland Ar. 6:15 pm morning notified of the event, and I increased to fourteen times a week, terwards transpired that Kelty. hav ASHLAND, OREGON 12:25 pin Ar. Corvallis Lv. 1:30 “ immediately left for Dallas to sec commencing Monday next. ing broken his glass lamp, had des EXPRESS V KAINS DAILY tEXCEIT M SDAV.) 0. GANIARD, - Proprietor. perately endeavored to .sever either just what was liest to do under the Several parties were in this vicin 4 :30 p in I.y. Portland Ar 6:00 am the carotid artery or the jugular circumstances. It has been decid ity during the week looking fof 6:00 " Ar. McMinville Lv. 5:45 “ Pleasant Ar< < mmodationR for l amiliei«. ! vein, with the evident intention of ed to offer a reward for the appre fruit land. It is just a question of PasKcngers carried to and from the I ¡••tel At Albany and Corvallis connect with cheating his would I k * lynchers of hension of the lynchers. Officers time when the bills around Jack trains oi Oregon and Pacific railroad lor H:ll O| < II IBG1 ,i¡y •£ » , their prey. Failing to find death as are now busily engaged iu looking sonville will I k * covered with vine- Yaquina Bay. Patrons will he aupplied \\ith ll«»t and quickly as he desired, the wretched into the matter, and are confident yarda ami orchards, this district fx- (’old Bath* from the I amoua R KOEHLER, E. P. ROGER*. that they will l>e able to discover > ing especially free from frost. G 1'. A Paas .Agi. Manager. WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS. murderer in turn severed the veins the |>erpetrators. Every effort will Now that tourists are beginning of his right ankle and left instep frt-3- Im lx made to successfully prosecute to pour into Southern Oregon, it and Ixith wrists. the lynchers if captured. Whether would I k * well for all good citizens, FOR SALE. THE MOII ENTER or not they can I k " convicted is an especially those who compose moun After halt an hour’s work the con other question. My Fine Stork Hunch ami Hock, situ- tain parties, to guard against the J WIMER & SON. atrtl 4J5 uiilcM from Grant* I’ hmh on Ko^ue tinued efforts of the mob to burst spread of mountain fires. Aside river. Tin* ranch «a* formerly knoanuN the d<xir prevailed. Following the Ashland Normal School. from the wanton destruction of val Have the largest store in Josephine the Northrop Stock Rang«* I have 04) corridor around the location of the And buy a New Set of Hand-made h*a»l oi licef < .title from 3 to 7 vrar* old, At a meeting of the stockholders uable timber, and the drying up of county, which is 65x32 feet, and two cells of the guard and the prisoner, an<J IM) head of Mock <attlr. Th© winter H arness , or a S addek . of the Ashland Normal School, a water sources, it is specially desir stories, filled with range ia <5 mi lea wtpiare; arrts *ur- the leader of the mob presented able that our grand scenery and veved (subject to entry, ami will krapSJV himself with two or three followers (ward of nine regents were elected, I keep everything in the Harness and Saddlery line, and have one majestic forests .should not be ob G. F Billings, W H Atkinson head of M«*k through the winter. The before Depew, who was unarmed of the best stock of goods ever brought to Southern Oregon. scured by smoke during the summer summer run ye i- • aj-ahle of keeping from and D R. Mills for three years; I use nothing but the BEST leather. 500 to WM) hea l There i" »I mi Rome farm- except with a pocket knife. The Capt. Tlios Smith. Dr. J. H Chit season. To the overland traveler, if»l* Lind. a jpiod ho:i*e, i‘iO l^arinfr fruit leader said Onl< Harness Nfade to Order. wood and J. D Fountain for two from the dusty and withered plains tree». 2 head of home« and the nrerM»ary "We want our man." WE BUY FOR CASH, of California, the sight of the green farming implom^nta For frirthar par A. J. STROHECKER, - - - Grunts Pass, Oregon "Well," said Depew laconically, years; W. II. Ueds, J. M McCall fields oi Rogue River valley is a AND SELL FOR CASH, and Prof. J. S Sweet for one year; A-27tf ticulars, apply at the <’oi hieh office "I suppose you want the k.-y»." JOSEPH YOUNKE4. The board then elected President, standing plea iu our favor. Already "Yes, sir,” was the answer. 5-2O-3m J« the contrast is Ixginning to produce Gire Hones! Weint ani Messere. After he handed them over the Dr J I! Chitw/xxl; Vice President I ]{/ marked commercial changes. And J M McCall Tr<i*tr'-r. \V 1.. unmasked leader evidently changed P A i IN T S it will l.e hard fur the emigrant to Atkinson; Secretary, Prof J S. Obtain»-'!, ai d i'i PATENT bu*in< mm at- Iris mind, for be then returned them At a subsequent meeting see why 1 md in California should U»n»b‘»l to promptly and for Moderate free. and directed the guard to unliK'k Sweet. TRAVELERS.’ MINERS’ AND range from fifty dollars to a thou Otir »»die»- I* o|»|»o»ite the I’. H. Patent Depew did so, and the of the lioard, Prof J S Sweet was sand dollars an acre when ‘.he .same Ofli»*e, ami ae can obtain Patent» in lew» the cell. elected preside nt of the Normal SHOP. FARMERS SUPPLIES. time than th »**» remote from Waehington three entered the cell, where Kelty land in Oregon ii only worth from .Send Mo»lid or hrawing. WeAdvineae was found lying in his lied in hit School, with p >wer to conduct the ten to fifty dollars per acre. Again, -chcol and cho.se his assistants. — to tMtentiibility fre«* of charge; and w* SMITH BROS., - - - Proprietors. makr no t-harge iinleaa ¡»atcrit i.< «wctired. underclothes, sweltering in his own ¡P.x the revenue from tourists is de .tilled blood. We keep everything needed by the We refer, here, to the Pnafma*»ter, the 6th street, Orante' Pass, Oregon. to be of some importance; it is sife "Dam you, we are too much for Feather river is almost solid with to predict that several thousand dol 8 ipi rim •• !• i ■ m ' »• i- r i1 . f | ......... O — people. to official* <»i the I’. 8. Patent Otfaa» F»»r you!" exclaimed the lerder upon cat-fish George Baker, one morn lars will be distributed by those circular, advice, tertn a and r»*ferrmiH Io sight of his victim. ing lately, near the bridge, on rais visiting Crater Lake, the J-isephine AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED Mi*tual i-tient» j»i your own Stale <»r < «ain- (HEAP FOR CASH OR PRODUCE Turning to a companion he di ing his net found juj catfish in it county caves, the Siskiyou« and tv, write to C. A. SNOW X CO., Waldo. .... Oregon reeled him to bring the rope. When weighing from half a pound up other of our justly famons moun Mitchell and Lewis Wagons, Hacks, Buggies and Carts, OpfMiftitr Patent Office, Washington. I ’ < the ro’ie had been hail led to him fit- The boy about town daily carry tain resort«. It is plain, then that ----- Also, Agents for ----- placed the prepared nnose around enormous string» of them home, all are interested in seeing that the Kelty * neck, and the party, paying caught with h'xik and line Their country is not enveloped in »moke. FA R MI NG IMI ’LEM E N TS, 9 DOH THE BEtl not the slightest attention to De ntun!<er is legion and their biting Sec to it that none are so circles 1 pew, partly dragged, partly pushed qualities immense, and their appe or criminal as to start f »rest fire» Washing, Ironing and Fluting. Any of which we will exchange for hay and grain their miserable victim through the tite equ -1 to both. If these fish con A word to the wise is sufficient. All kinds of plain and fancy work done Having compieteti our new Stables we arc now prepared to furnish hallway, down the stairs, out into tinue to prosper as they have in the gA TISFACTION OUARANTEED. the '/pen air and at toss the road to pa»l they will yet stalk over the The trial of Hong Di. far th the best of accommodations AT REASONABLE RATES. Will also take contracts tor wood chopping, the conrthouse fence. fields devouring the sustenance of murder of Mrs. Billiot), began at clearing, etc. Taroving the !<-— end of the the f'c-qd'- [Sutter Cn Ferhter Coltimi • >u Tue- I:n last. (I n >n. Horse Shoeing and Wagon Repairing a Specialty. Wa«h-hon<e on Gilbert creek “HURRA O FOR GRANT’S PASS, HURRA!” For Toilet Use. Barmins! Barmins! Barmins! SUGAR PINE DOOR & LUMBER CO. 11 <4 HOUSE STORE FINISHINGS. Ths Latest improved I 1 New While Sulphur Springs Hotel. BLACKSMITH SING LEE KELTY LYNCHED.