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About Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 7, 1897)
ROGUE RIVER COURIER. ON THE PACIFIC SLOPE. Chrlaluaaa at Muautaln View. The people ol thio district assembled at the school house at 1 o’clock on Dec. 24th to spend Christinas in the go»>i old fashioned way. The committee on dec oration compose«! of. Mrs. 8. A. Carter, 1 Miss J. Wendte, and Mias Frida Wendte UtUI FiKr at lauiliu emir, orini. worked patiently all the forenoon, and the fruits of their toil confronted 0», oa .-nt.-ring tb«- IteNMO« m tb«- rh n uf a beautiful tree. Festoons of popcorn, T hursday , J anuary 7, 1897. colored chains, fancy sha|>ed cakes, and big red Oregon apples hung in profusion, its dark green branches. Two large $2 a Y ear , or $1 50 in A dvance . from lieautiful branches of mistletoe hung overhead, causing much consternation the young ladies who shyly Bept T he manner in which several big among their seats. Miss Wendte, our plucky dai.to of the,Pacific coast support little “ school main” gave uh a real treat. She Lad taken great pains to the infamous Funding Bill by tacit have her pupils trained both in singing conaent, bodes ill for the people. and elocution. A fine programme was prepared for our entertainment including The only large newspapers openly music on the zither, after which the opposing the irteal are the Examin windows were darkened and the many colored ta|>ers were lit and we eajoyed er and Call of San Francisco. 1 he splendor of a lighted Christmas There is no reason» why the govern tree while all the little folks were wide I awake and ready for fun. ! ment thould not foreclose and take H. 8 Woodcock took Santa Claul* | place ami cut the presents from the tree possession of the road or make the to I m ? distributed by Miss Znhamia schemers pay these $70,000,000 in Wendte and Mrs. 8. A Carter. After i to the United States treasury. If all had been served w ith ChriatrnaH dain ties and presents, Dr. M. A. Morrison the Funding Bill passes in Congress a*ked the vote of the house thanking it will only be another step toward M inh Wendte for th«* careful manner in which she had trained our children. It the great struggle all good citizens was given with a vim for rhe is a fine ; teacher and «apuble of greater things I would like to see fought by the bal- than teachiug a back woods country lot rather than the bullet. Debts Mch«K>l. Our ChristmaH tree wan a thing are piling on the common jieople of the past before «lark, and th«* little ones safe at home before the sand man and are being dodged by the rich overtook them 8onie members of the antil wholesale foreclosure or repu neighborhood look arlvantage of this ami went t/j see the tree in Kerby, but could diation will be necessary. Then not be convinced that Um K«jrbyites beat uh a little bit. people will uot stand by and see 8. A. G. J. NUNAN, P ublisher . iMuetl Kvrery Thur»<liiy What Has Happened During the Past beven Days. Bakersfield,Cal.,haH just voted against incorporating. This is the largest un- incorporate<l town on the Pacific Coast. Thieve« which entered the store uf J.N. Rulwrts at Artesia, Miss., kilie«! John Roberta. G. G Coker, a supervisor froin*Placer county, Cal., was robbed at the Grand Hotel in San Francisco, while he slept. Hneak thieves got his purs« containing all the coin he had at that time. J. J. (ohalen of San Francisco, en gage«! in a fisticuff on New Years day ana was severely whipped. He felt so 1 badly over the affair that he cut his throat wIOi a pocket knife. Fresno county (’al., Stockmen have petitioned the legislature to reenact the 1 loyuie scalp bounty as they claim tb«.jr losHes of stoc k art* heavy. P< talu.; u merchants are waiting the return of “IL L. Holden, <4 New York” whose checks th«*y obligingly cashed. Captain George Caleb, a mariner i who lias had many hairbreadth es capes on land and sea, «lied ut the county poor house at Ban Diego a few days ago. Haa Franriaco as likely to hav« another sensational church quarrel. The pastor of Trinity Episcopal church, Dr. Walk, became furiously angr) at the furisral of Kate* Field on Sunday, because a photographer flashed a light in the church to take a photograph < j / the floral decorations. Tha minister lost all control of his teniper aad «!•• nounced Judge High ton, the under taker, pallbearers and apparently everybody elae. The end is not yet J. D. McMaater of tin* Hix Brothers Gold Mining Company lias returned from London, where he succeeded in selling a three-fuurths interest in the Caledonia gold mine to a syndicate of English investors for $575,000. The Arixona territorial penitentiary coLtainH more inmates at present than ever before in the history of the tnsti- ti.’tlon. Mrs. Mclvur, uged 01, became the blushing bride of Maater Stark, aged 21, at Kukiand, Wash., last week. In San Diego county thousau«ls of rabbins have arrived from the south. Tim birds are now journeying north ward. A gang uf about fifty men who were employed by the McCloud river lumber company nt Vandal« were laid off last week. Bicycles have reached the Arixona Indians, und people of Phoenix recently note a Pima riding his wheel along the road. E<! ward Erickson a musician a ho, un able to g« t worn, smashed a letter lox A scheme is said to be on foot to have to get into prison to be f«*«l was N«*nt to th«j State Capitol at Washington moved state’s prion from Sun Framisco for from Olympia to a paint about half way between Seattle and Tacoma. one year. San Bern art lino taxpayers think they The Pacific ( oast Commercial Trav elers Association held its annual con are paying too much for county govern- vention in Ban Francisco on the 30th nient and they are organizing a reform movement to cut down expt-uses. Inst. their homes confiscated through 8«» many dairy cows have been killed The Farallooe Islands are to have a the rascality of those they placed Christina« was Hp«*nt at the Lovelami school by having a tree and party at public school, Mis»* Daisy IXjud having by order of the authorities about Kan in power. They will fight first. the residence of E. Doney. Nearly all b« un appointe«! teac her. There are ten Jose that the price of the remaining This ia not a cheerful prophecy, the pupils with their presents were pre« children lining on the barren rocks, heulthly cattle I ihh advanced about 30 Singing and «peaking by the p iptG being in Hie families of the light house per cent. but the trend of the times runs tow ent under the supervision of Mrs. E. Done) keepers. (¿nite a number of fishermen along ard these lines and there is no use wax the programme of the evening All Th«* munglcd body of John Conlnn the Columbia ar«* now engaged in fish enjoyed theniHelveH and all were teinetn- in blinding ourselves to it. bered bv the good Saint, on Ids v«>y«ge was found on th«» track* of th«* Ala ing for steelhead «almon. The fish are meda local E. P. track. A buckshot in demand for whipping east in a frozen around the w< rl<l. was found in the head, whi< h indlcat**« condition. T hk Cuban war is the up|>erin<>.st Many merchants are well a*ar«» that murder and the laxly was apparently A section hand named Burks was questiou in American affairs at pres their cuMoinei n are their bei»t friends an 1 left on the rail to be mutilated to hide robbe<i of a months pay and bound to a ent, all internal problems having take nieasurb in Klipplying them with thf* crime. hand car on the track near Rens, and the In1 st good* obtainable. As an ilk The San Francisco board of health left to be killed by the first engine to been settled for the time being by stance we mention Ferry o Cameron, has «lecidfjd to abandon the county ho«- pass, lie was discovered by parser« the election of Nov. 3. Amongst prominent druggiMlK oi blushing, Michi pit al, which is declared a breeder of and released. gan. They way . “We have no h« dila such whirlwicds of contradictory re tion in recommending ('liam I mt I hiii ' n disf*aH«*N »»wing to luck of drainage and Colonel Ixaac W. Smith, chief vngi- ports it is hard to arrive at anything Cough Remedy t«* our customers, a it is other neceHaary sanitary feature!«. neer of Portland, Or. , water-works, bust cough triedicine we have ever Ix vin Brothers, who conducted five die«! on New Years «lay more definite than that Maceo is the sold, and always gives Hatisfa« tion.” retail groceiy stores in and around The southern Pacific will build a really dead, and that the number of For Hale at 25 hix I 5<> cents p«*r bottle by Sna Francisco, havu failed for about branch line from Mojave to Rands all <1 riiggiMtH. filibusters leaving American shores $75,000. The firm claim their money burg, the new mining town. Simon Goodenough's bond on 8.00) has been mude away with by em for the battle ground, ut rather the acres The value uf the mineral output of of Illinois valley land expired on ployees. Montana for the past year in uh fol bushwhacking ground of Cuba is Jan. 1, but liepias not been g<M)d enough J. Ross Jackson a well known new,- io wm ; (kipper, $22,400,000, Hilvvr, $10- constantly increasing. Spain is nat to come to time with his part of the agree paper man of Kan Francisco died of 72.5,000; gold, $4,500,000; lead, >675,000; merit. cancer on the 30 inst. He leaves u tot al,$38,300,000. urally alarmed and indignant at wife an«l One married daughter. the resolutions presented in the Ain- A jury at Sacramento has placed the Tim Sultan of Turkey objects to the Adulterated tomato catsup is said to value of a husband at $3.000. Mrs. eric«n congress favorable to the in int<*rferonce of the powers with hi« be abundant in the San Francisco trade. Fred Gluecke had sued Adolph Schell surgent. After McKinley’s inaug methods of conducting his government. No h ms than sixteen out'of twenty- for $25,000 damage« for having acci The Venetuulan government in three samples have been found a«lnl- dentally kille<! her hnslmn«! while uration on ti.» 4th of next March, practicing at a target. The verdict ob it is likely some settled policy will somewhat wartr kn accepting the ar turated. K rangement Imtween this country and l’«*t(*r Frederick, a Seattle commission l>e announced from Wnsi,;n^ton and (¡real Britian on th«* arbitration qu«*N- merchant, went to San Francisco to tained whs for th«: amount stated. G. W. Rigdon, state organiser of the the outcome will probably be the tion. submit to a surgical operation. Being California Labor Exchange, «lied after By the subsiding of a bog in (’minty tohl that th«* chances of surviving were a brief illnrsN. freedom of Cuba in the natural K rry, Ireland, a family of ten people siiiu, Im bought a coffin and paid the i course of events. It would lie a dixapprared, <ieorgt* Winters a deputy city clerk leaving no trace of its undertaker's bill in advance, submitted good stroke of business policy to fate. to the surgeon’s knife, died, and was at St<>( ktou took five shuts al his own head a lew «lays Hgo, but oa>) huc - Judge YvrkcB (,f Pennsylvania in try shipped hack to Beattie In his coflin. pay Mr. Claveland off in full and cet-ded in inflictlu»' ' !•*”’ slight i (juries. ing a case where a young man had Th«* licenMc liMN been revokt«d of Gap-i let hiuigo now. Hari.r i, *•»>«>, <»-. g his furgud a «heck to buy * wheel, the tain Smith ami f irst Officer Zailin^of i Judge declared the bicycle *to llt. the th i wreaked st«*am«»r San Benito, ». ni« h j birthdav at 8au F rancfsco, urn \’o.<k A M ethodist missiotiary of the greatest promoter uf crime in mod« m was recently run ashore near F Point ♦o go f«> him ruoip. in « hotel, over the balUiNtrado from the times. krona, declaring the mishap due • to M. E. Cliurcli lias been engaged tor »»^MkillfulnvH, of thu floor ami ruu«‘.ivsd fatal injuri. - The report is sent out from Hartford cai J pmiiuvm I iBccrs In oporation. «•n veara iu traiihU ng U ac 4 b rnuq Rndckman Is .»i tb« n»^ < I L. tb « a ft » di ) nr is« ). v ith a pistol I * * T»e La* » o im* to tin tbff** tr •V • A.3 t he « J* ■ «ors of Santa U rus m whom “Iu «P alarm ' bavt> at last ac'crp.H. ikx ■* go bark to 4,54« years he torr Christ J use of cocal qe as a slightly injured ai;,< Ing eitsuL 1 house horn the contractors. aS? was L>Oia, dud tb«t ’In 1 •’ • New been much delay and rontroveray over i Tin all! of the well knoM « were in mlHaion of the world is lost in tradition. York . publisher, Williuin I ii I hoii , I n tiie a«««■ plan«-«'. Ht (JukiMini a few* da; 'Ihe steamship Aswaulcy has just Mr will cumplete the history in fif being contested by relatives who wi»r<* instantly killed. Th shut out In his division of his wealth. saih»d from P«>rtlaml, Or., for Australia teen yearsuJore ami it will eontuin more or hss injure The Deadwood, S. D. gold fields are with 46,688 barrels of flour and 10,.361 over a million wuki ®. v He himself tl>«* scene of renewed i-xeiti-ineiit over btishela of wheat ■ •A A A 4 At the state hospital of th«» insane nt is the son of a Methodist miftliiHjJ*’’)’ recent rich finds, In thv^RagKi'd T -p Mi*«lh al lak«», Wash., the steam boiler | of Canton, who married a Chines«^ district. 'Tt G ^mot t od that Secretary Olney exploded and fatally scalde«! Fritz I rmjnnr wife, aud so he is therefore in a has mn«lW£n MgreSifmiW witii Spain Thlelnian the fireman. good position to bring history and looking to tho end of th«* war In UTThn;-« ,^>l. M. E>tue, u well known California legends to the civilized world in Th«« «tonble dorlce«! ferry hmit of v ineyart^‘*r akud jAGlitician, has fortne«! Pennsylvania R. R. at Nvw York wuh an incorporated coinpariy, cilini'rtAurjJ book iorm. Ifhe is smart enough at a half million of dollars his vineyard | burned on Momlay, loss >120,000. to divide history from legend he A six «lav cycling rare is In progr«*xH property in Napa count). will beat all the famous historians In Washington D. Judge IxigHii of Santa Crus, dei Only eight Hie motion to «lisinisa the suits o who have sjx-nt their lives in tracing hours a day will he run Innfeml of hr at the r«u«’nt exhibition at Madison Elisabeth Peck, a«lininistratix of the history of civilized nation» to Square Martina fbtstro Ikptaux rut Garden. their source. A r«*p<>rt fr«un Rome Mavs a iHndslidv against 800 «leftuidanta on th«» gro latest in flying machine newt is that Prof. Latn^r» h 11 nn aerocirotse" perfected that will mount the air anti tail a mile or >o, until the steam is exhausted aud theu it settles down to earth again It doesn’t carry anybody yet anti the preieut ni.kchttie is the autu-to tai of some 15 years of Prof. Lang* ley’s patient “scientific research.” He has not yet discovereti how a , turkey buzzard can soar amid the clouds with little or r.o motion of wing. He »imply whirls some cir cular fans and the machine govs as long as the limited |>>wer lasts. Hia •xperiinents are conducted on the Potomac, 30 miles Itelow \V»«h ingtoa City. All the other living machines seem to have disapfiearvd from view. T he P ortland , which eschews prize fighting, assemblt s 5000 persons to witness the more brutal contest of fooltrall, which is merely a rough and-tumble scramble for a rublx-r bag More injuries are received, more "towghs" graduated ami far less sense shown in the modern gal».« of football than iti the prize ng It is time the res|^s-table [x>t a of out people had tabooed this /t la<l of the colleges Boat ra- ¿¡jf,. plsyinK and whiskey ’ 11lg UIV • KiilllC 1 i«V » • 1.. • *• 'trenched in the higher college ition. but foot bill cannot live ( ent people outside the colleges ..«use to attend these worse than foolish contests entirely destroyed the villagt* of Santa Ana <le Pelago, «Irniolialiin 118 h.>u-*«** and rend«»ring 150 fninllivR hemelosN. There WHN ho I ons of life, Tl ie WNsou line steamship X’ulo I n a total loss at Wingii, on the coast of Sweden. Theoiww and passenger« wer«» sa\«*d. The was a screw stwain- ship, built ut Hull In 1880 and r«*guiteir- ing Ml tons not. The bub*»uic plague in India is in- ereusing, thor«* having be«m 2UIM deaths from that uausa up to date. l'he exo* du« eoutluues, and the newspapers threaten the natives with martial law uulewi they couform with the sanitary regulation«. William Roe of Cloverdale, C h I., received a Fen ence to do «lavs iu County Jail for stealing a kiss, seized a young w«>man on her way masquerndv ball and kiaae«! her. Interesting Items Culled From the Dispatches. The Nebraska republican »late league met to devu< ways and means for re gain ing control of state* political The American tobacco company has de da red a diMdend of 2 per «"ent on preferred siook and throe per cent on common stock. The commercial dub of Omaha, NeK, has determined to organise a company to build a Leot «agar factory In or near Omaha. Governor Bradley of Kentucky haa issued m proclamation offering |250 for the arrest and conviction of any of tiie Owensboro mob that lynched the negro Holt. The board of directors of the Denver th a in her of commerce has decided not Io send delegates to the monetary con ference that is to be held at Indian apolis shortly. The annual meeting of the* w«-stern surgical and gynecological aaBotiatiou closed at Topeka with the election of officers. Denver wee chosen for the meeting to l»e held December 28th and »th, 1897. The Crow ( reek Bioux delegation of South Dakota to Washington has not gained its announced object of securing a per capita cash payment of $187,000 now to their credit in the treasury. A n ecelver ha« been appointee Witherbee, rbee. Sherman A Co., owners .. extensive iron ore mines and furnaces nt Port Henry, N. Y., The receiver ship is for the purpose of selling the property and terminating the partner ship. An autopsy on the Inxly of Thomas Blakely, one a prominent journalist of St. Paul, and late manager of Sousa’s band, was bold In New York. The body w as so badly decomposed that it wdll l>e six weeks before the cause of death can be determine«!. The Wyoming development and trunsjsjrtatlon company has filed a trust deed in Rawlins, covering their mining property in the Gold Hill min ing district, the right of way and all franchiMOsJof a raHroa«i from Fort Steele. The amount of the deed is $3,000,000. Th«* international trust company is the trustee. Governor Bradley of Kentucky, re- fnscfl to discuss tbe published rnnior that he intends to r«Hdgu the office of Governor soon, lie admits that he did writ« to Major McKinley a letter wv- eral weeks ago in which he informed the PreNident-elcct that there was no office within his gift which he (Brad ley), would accept. A Give stove «aused the death by as phyxiation of the entire family of Jo seph Bcltx at Struthers, Ohio. Four boarders in the house were unconscious when discovered. A passenger train on the Keokuk and Western railroad in Iowa was wrecked near Norwalk, caused by spreading rails, and seriously injured a number of people. 8. D. King and D. R. Allen, both prominent planters in Quincy, Miss., fought with revolvers, and King was killed instantly. A New York Club was holding a New Year’s vaudivHle entertainment with dances in short skirts, when a squad of ’ipposefl policemen raided the place arrested the fierformerfl and mana r the club. The raiders were of the club «liaguised as otti- lx>mp<M , Cab, daitna the «mallr»t tax rat«* of any town in th«» Fnited Stat«»«. The prison at IVlson», ('al., has the lowest li»ath rate « f any penitentiary know n. The Broa«lway hotel at S«uth lkml, Wash, ww- burned Christmas night. Ixtst«, $]o,fkz>, insurance, flOUd. The British '»tuamship Sardinian Pnncr went ashore near Wa»»h Woa<K N. C., during a fog. She wh - ii A.ed again and proceeded apparently un injured. Tucson, A. T., is building a $tk>,(MX) taihe«lral. a sun ee- The Government of (bluinbia has taken is to i U own bends the ( _ a uca railway, which it K umlen»to«»d « to bo •oM to a British sy «dkale. The «ecurlty mwrtgas« and trust cvn- of Tvi.k*. has failed. It is sutr l that the liabilities arc over a uiilfinn and a quart« r dollars. Resolved—that we. the brothers J Gohlen Rille lodge No. 78. 1 0.0 F.. in the jurisdiction of Oregon, bow w ithsub- ii)i--i-jn t<> the will «! our Hc.ivn.v Grand Master, xml contemplate with profound sorrow tiie dealii of our beloved brother, L. S. Smith, and we sincerely ¡jpurn the loss nustaiued. R hhu Iveil- That we tender to the fam 11 v and friends of our deceased brother our fraternal spmpathy. B ark. At ( ara. *.s an actor was arretted and ut in jail fv refusing to sing an en- the <XW»' i when « al I rd, upon by the audience, Isen- Tl i* hard Hmea in Chicago art* given hat- ». Il r cause far ltXtfi aaio^ns going «Rit unty i 1 <d b in the past three month*, Tl.® be short about Iv.M.OOu • uta la II "Vnly XXX) m I qqm remain to th rriuark- Bugiami ant^n’s rv«i«lrno Urna was robb«M and jtwvh t taken a few days «r was arri» Is I MalwlMlBthOTWDecataN Iud dwl a f. w day» as - nf atarralioa. He had rr>u»l Fxxi fi< riflit moatha, and wa< kept alm by »rtittvtal mraaa M b llenrr Ward Bwh.r___ It- ta< hrd with .1 aayw«aa aud fell brvakiag hrr hip st. «Hi u«v*r b® able to walk agaiu withodl ¿ntuha*. le *. F. FETSCH & G Elder Wm. Tennison I OF BUFKIN, IND., Tall« of the Qrsat Bsnsfits Derived From FOR PURE FRESH DRUGS Dr. Miles* Heart Cure. CITY DRUG STORE J. E. PETERSON, Proprietor. ALL PRESCRIPTIONS filled by Mrs, C. M. Stone, a registered Phai macist of twenty-three years’ experience, aud Patrons cau rely . upon oeing served with accuracy and promptness. | Ve F/H. SOEL1ÆIZDT, ry • I MX... EART DISEASE of long standing not easily emC but it is curablx . Elder Wm. Tennison writes: "I was afflicted for tbirty-five years with tieart dis ease, la fact, troubled with it nearly all my life; I think it heredi tary as my father was afflicted with it. I have suffered great distress, my heart palpitated to such an extent as to shake my whole body. So distressing was It I could only with great- estdifflculty compose myself to sleep. About two years ago I began taking I>r. Mlles* Heart Cure. The first bottle gave me no perceptible benefit, but after taking the ♦ hird I began to feel much relief and I con tinued for some months. I have good rea son to believe the cure is permanent. Dr. Mlles’ Remedies are sold by all drug gists under a positive guarantee, first bottle benefits or money refunded. Book on Heart and nerves sent free to all applicants. DR. MILES MEDICAL CO.. Elkhart, L&* H DEALER IN---- 53 Agricultiiral^Impleinents, Corner Sixth and I St^.,,Giant’s lass, Oiegcn. HARDWARE and am MINERS Fitted Out on Reasonable Terms, “fca Cheshire Bros. Williams Creek, Oregon. Having leased the Gotcher Mills, about 1 mil from the Williams postoffice, we are prepared t<^p furnish rough and dressed lumber of all kinds a reasonable prices. rj? \ All kinds of Hardwood Timbenio> 3OI. CHESHIRE BROS eom ^ood -ÍOTEL JOSEPHINE Oilr Teams are always on hand to move Merchandise, Household Goods, Bag* • ice. Pianos. Safes. Etc. at I >w rate«. N orth S ixth S tiekt , G rant ' s P ass , O r . 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Tho C jiw ’ s Gift Times are hard, an twe ‘ Hid treat.” We to make each of our subscriben gift that will last year. 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Iraa tiled notice U hi. inu nliun 1.» iHAke final proof in »up|ort of hi« (|«ini an t that «aid proof will fa* made liefuro John «.»alell, n.iinly clerk of Jotiephin«. < o.. Or., at <.rant's I’«««. Oreaon. on Eel.rnary 13. ISV', vi. Elitabeth Cox, widow of William A Cox, deceased, on II. E No ttT.SO for the SiV l. X W t W1., >W snd X *' l. >\V ..v 14 K, 35 S K n\Ve«t she name» the following wttne.se« to Move her eoulinuousreaidence upon ami ewitivation of, kui I land, via: Wdliam M. Co« Joseph M.t'*,lin, I .me» Neeley and William Pad Ira k all Mellin, Oregon R M \ ««Ten. Ketfistey 1FS IOC LUMBER MANUFACTURERS fioneer Tiuck anti iTeiinen 0Tl1 I-. IS lib KEBY OlVEN THAT the Collowina-nHiuod set tier ^a» 1 WAGON MATERIALS, »t a I n L arge V arikt » . and N. E. McGrew \ illiii elov hen oubi IRON and STEEL, Dress Making ! L mc wu’ily, Kaunas, has been de clare«! iRMvtnt. its bonded ifwiebtrd- ne-s I n tn..«Uy in aid ■ f railroad «•i tn- »r titre«* <»h loan. 20 per Cent off ! During January On OVERCOATS, MACKINTOSHES, . OILSKIN CLOTHING, BLANKETS and QUILTS at lte*ol u t Ion* «>t Respect. Skerrett, Wash- Two Grund Rapids, Mich., (nil iceman were pounded half to death bv a crow.I of toughs, and two of th«*ir BMUMiants and weiv shot. The Prohibition State Central <\.m- died ndttce of Missouri, «!♦•< t<L-d t«» place spa nkers in the field at once fur the purptMw of building up the organisa tion of the pert). iu I >r«itríTÍHt A Si HSCK1HEK. The l’ennaylvania railroad company la backing a new «»pre« ooni|«ny to 1.« know aa the Manhattan Eipratw Com Land Office at Roseburg, Oregon, pany. • I r Dn-eniber 2t», 1896. Jam«»^T. McMullin m Chicago capi- Notice is hereby *nven that th«» follow wtalhtf an«! vice-president of the Ubk ago ing-named settler has tiled notice ol his and Alton Railroad, is dead. intention to make final proof in suppirt Governor-elect Tanner uf Illinois, of his claim, ami th it said proof will be w hn maiHed to Mrs. Cora English, at made Iwiore J. M. Chiles County Judge of JotM‘pliin<* county. Or* gon. at Grant’s Springfield, Ills.» on the 3l>th mst. F inn . Oreg. n.on February 6, 1897. viz; Edward Wright was hanged at Wil Wiliiam i Hovwrna, oh H. !. No 1649 mington, D<»1., for the murder of a col for the 1. ui sec. 4, Tp 37 8., k 5 or«*«! woman. West. Ile liâmes the following witii »>N?s to IL P. Miller of Milan, Tenn., was mur- prove liis continuous n»si |.*nve u | k > ii and drre«l by burglars on New Years «lay. cnltivuti«'ii of, said land, viz: Robbery whm the object of the crime. U F Gentner W, F I’.ir is, Theodore BartIvit, a*i ut 1 ¡rani’s I*.ins Sankey ('unnlnghain was henge«! at M«>it ami Albany, <>a., for an assault upon Mian ( Iregon. Katie Camp. Cunningham confesse«! his guilt. A letter has been re«x»ived at Kan Diego from t. Potter of Chicoga, which givfia news regarding a move ment to build a direct Eastern road intv San Diego from Chicaog, via Deming, with a branch from Galveston to Detuing. He say a this will keep th«» proposed Japanese steamship line free from alliance with the Santa Fe. FOR SALE BY The old way of delivering messages, by post-boys compared with the modern telephone, illustrates the oid tedious methods of “breaking” colds compared with their almost instantaneous cure by One Minute Cough Cure. Dr. W. F. Kre. iner. , W. J. Homer has departed from Sacramento after basing borrowed money from aa many people as he chanced tu know. All the Leading MRS. C. S HOBBS has opened dress •igar of Indiana, a making parlors in the McArthur build in of tiie peliti- ing on Sixth street and will be pleased to have the Ladies call upon her. quested by lier Satisfaction guaranteed. «einen of the 3 account of nign. u. 8‘ y of hit. bou* a b. . - n. th® tli'i i anu o killed. He was ill anil <lea- ' poiident I E d . Cot hikb :— In ai.iier to the coniuiuuicatiou of Dee. 31, waned “Hubacriter:'* It seem, to be a good deal of a one-sided »t.te- ment. about like the Christ mas tree for it is not often that Christiana throw peo ple out without cause, which they at- tempted ___ _ ... in thia .1.1________ case and Z failed " ’ and * — now r they are trying to get out crawfish style with a little clean language aud such ex- ex l..*,*..■ than I h <1 n brutes L.iituK ” pression« “A little better Yes Bro. Hunter was compelled to re move Fred Robertson, it seems that the ‘’Subscriber” is able to s«e more and know more than good reliable men who mw ttee whole aii'air. We are of the opinion that the “ *ub- scriber’s” mind, never strong, is show ing its luminous light ami it shines on people that believe in law and order in the shape of a falsehood, as can be shown eithei in law or by reliable wit nesses. Hoping that the subscriber w ill not “strain at a gnat and swallow a camel” We remain yours for truth. '-elector Linton of Kansas, congress to remove the -tion which still Manda ' on the war records. > be correct «roj s e d IlllH the Riat tai u M Maian>i«*r du Ffvsu«»y, formerly director of tho Far a opera, is dead. H»* Los Angeles now I hmu sta of the finest was Lorn In 1819. appointed tirv engine bous i- on t he Floods have occurred in tho Uviada coast or west uf the ■ K.s I y u>< »inl districts In Gr«*«*co. Thor have been talus» a«*coinpauled by sonn- loss of Hfa. W. <1. Peters ef Ta«x H Hun« t *hang ts introducing innova tions in t'hlna, among whi«di Is H SChlH’l of the Columbia bank. 1 at Pekin to teach the English language to g ie »tronar L n«l\ lirroioierrd At Hamburg, Germany, a consign- S' ltatea luarehi m«*nt of 24,000 bags of Brasil! Ian co A n * A hrm«t of was *«»¡<1 bv the Rothschild* to whom c!—AM 1.0 h had Ixw’n «’on-egnrd t«> pay inter»-! On New Years da* Frank >. was InangurntiHl g York. au«l H S. Pfn gox ernor of Michigan ni«ed te* w hatever Profepe land. Vp . hM ' -•» i. <. •tty of n ÍM, pl. I, . X . • extended »UL “Ua.t Minter I that the Al io a hiw »late •rating an r , e iert'e-^ iHidiaJi* Mimil«r I pr •< M>l i utt-h» fir«t bo'tle ■ t «a. vnabirA ¿lie «-.nnd iale .1 :• > rncxxtr «.I of lati that an appeal has been taken to Supreme Conit. M. Clemenceau, th«* distinguiMhed French ststvsmau h seriously ill. !{«* w as born in 1841, and in 1888 ran against Th«» usual wars among the Chinese M. Meltin' for the presidency of the chsinberof deputies, receiving 1«>S votes clans hav«* broken out afresh in San An unknown Ulan was to 188 votes cast for the latter, who was Franciavn. «lerlared elected ou account of his sun- found hanging In a shanty in China town, an«l street shootings are of fre ieriiy. Tlio armonred eruiser R.»aaU, of If,- quent cocurrrnce. 18»1 tens displacemont. the larg« st ves sel tn the Rmudiih navy, which ian on n sandhnnk In the Ix ginningof \.>vcui her and bus been fr«»sen in ever since, has bwoa rvtloaled after fifty ■ *nu «lay« of incessant labor with steam Mild h«- breakers. Burbot, the French tenor, sang < hmnLMl’s “ Faust,” is de Mt Í That Ciarlainiaa Tree Riut OVER THE GARDEN WALL. nej ayiti; all arrears aud $1.50 for one year'»» *e : will send one of the a love named’ 8 and one ol Fake a<ivan! u ■J<.r at once, idre* R ogge R iver C ovrirr . Grant s Pass. Or. Be TE