Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, May 27, 1897, Image 3

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Newspaper Page Text% I T hursday , M ay 27. 1897. Strawberries ! The opera house was crowded to its Hood River Berries reported as not extra nice. Indications are that well-filled baskets of choice Berries will bring good prices. Tin Top Berry Baskets and Crates are cheap this season. GET OUR PRICES Before Buying. Burbank Potatoes just arrived! 90c per Cwt. BULK. isa Fact Yes it I We arc HEADQUARTERS for Snowy Butte Flour rTli<‘ 11. jiik I M.GHOCHRY. Notice to Horse Breeders. Save Your Grain. Few realize that each squirrel destroys fl 50 worth of grain annually. Wake lee’s Squirrel and Gopher Exterminator is the most effective and economical pois on known Price reduced to 30 cents. For sale by -M. Clemens, sole agent. Indian creek seems to be coming into favor with placer miners. It runs near ly east ami west along the California boundary and mines have been staked off high up amongst the snow thia spring. The gold needs a pipe and hy draulic to uncover, as the early-found nuggets were taken by earl v dav miners. Indian creek is about 15 miles from Browntown Oregon on one side ami 20 miles distant from Happy Camp, Cal on the other. I Itir lseye «as down from Fool’s Gdit Fallows' Hall Falls Before the Fir» Fire Fiend. Fiend. ! creek Saturday. -------------- 1 Mrs Chapmau ami »laughter cauie in At 10 minutes io 2 Wednesday inorn- Sweet Cider at Bartlett’s. from Williams Saturday. ing of tins week ths tire bell alarmed I lS||IN(a TACKLE at Cramer Bros. the towu and quite a blaae «as seen R. A. Booth «as on a visit to friends reaching skyward from the rear <>( Ter Kitchen safes $2.75 at Hale’s. at Albany an»l Eugene last week. rell A Son's furniture store in the Odd Men’s furnishings at cost at How- 8. F. Cass and family returued from rello»»' building, corner ot Sixth and , ard’s, Sumner Iowa Saturday. II. streets. The fireman were promptly Will Jackecr. resident dentist. Mrs. P. Hasksll moved out to her farm on the ground and would have kept the blase contineu vo the southwest corner I BAB5 CARRIAGES at Cramer down Rogue river this week. of the bull iiug, had not the hoee burst, Brue. Frank Dessinger got back from Grand making it necessary to shut the water off Ixxlge of O. F. Saturday morning at the hydrant ami uncouple and con Buowy Butte flour at Cornell’s. Father Desmairats will leave for Mon nect again, during which interval the Josephine county has 1,297 buys and treal tuis week on a three months vaca tUmee gamed great headway ami it was 1,2:16gills of Schoo! age. decided that the building as well as the tion. warehouse belonging to Jack Layton, Boots. Shoes, Hats and Cai* at coat at Wm Har|»erthe Wuodville farmer and were doomed, lu the latter building Howard’s. fruit raiser was m tbe city Saturday. Jewell A I'o.ige had a large stuck of B. A M. handle Snowy Butte flour. Mis« Alice Haruion went to Portland wagons, buggies, mining and farm ma- evening to speml a few cbmery, all of which with the except on Howard ia closing out his piece g«xxls Saturday of suiue buggies and wagons rolled out at Lredrock prices. Call before they are weeks. by willing hands, were destroyed. all gone. J T. Breeding who has a goo»l pros The fire alao destroyed the building (reel on Jump » ff-Joe was in town Mon-’ known as Ben's Bicycle den, but the losa Sweet and sour pick’es at Bartlett’s. day. here was merely nominal Calhoun Bros, for Snowy Butte flour. The conflagration raged for three quar .Messrs. Tebbs and Howard went out GARDEN IIOSE, lawn sprinklers i at to do some S’irveyilig on the Gold Basin ters of an hour and made it intensely Cramer Bros. hot for the boys who. at one time had 3 mine last week. streams plaving on adjacent houses. Fresh nuts and raisins at Bartlett’s. George Wilson has traded for the Mc A'. E. Dean's residence had a close Master's place near town and will pro- call All the furniture and household Snowy Butte again leads the market. | ceed to improve it. goods were rushed out, but the streams Clemens, Druggis», opp. Opera House. Mies Maggie Chiles finisliejTler school bv the fire boys ami the garden hoae by G. A. R. Encampment at Gold Hill, at Williams Thursday and came home Mr. Dean himself saved the structure, which was badly scorched. Sept 13 to 17 inclusive. ; for the vacation. Terrell A Son’s loss ia probably »3,000 Have your dealer keep Snowy Butte. Mrs. Ed. Tynan, daughter of Dr. Will with |2S00 iusurance. Quite a lot of fur McGrew’s ice is cold ami solid ; enough Jackson came over from Roseburg Mon- niture was jerked out by the populace and set in the middle of il. street, more of it would cause the finest day to cloud j day on a visit. or lees damaged of course, by rough han up and raiu, and he -vlH it t heap and Presiding Elder Reagan of M. E. dling The firm has resumed business delivers it free. I church south was here this week hold- in the Rebkoff building, just oppo Parties wanting to rent houses call on ' ing quarterly conference. site Lister A Calvert’s. Billy Saunders. Mrs Prater, grandmother of Mrs. G. Jewell A Dodge's loss is probably W. H. Flanagan, physician surgeon S. Calhoun apent a few days visiting »1,500. They had just stored a earload of wagons in the warehouse; their in from Ashland last week. and dentist. surance on thia stock is »1,000. Mrs Delia Evans, daughter of R. D. The flyer north bound Monday after The city hall was damaged probably noon had 8 coaches. Four of them were Cole went to Oregon City Monday night »250 on the rear end and in the cu|x>la. < on a visit to a sister there. returning conductors. At one time it looked as though Lister Charley l’ernnglon fireman of tbe flyer A Calvert’s stable would go too, and all BICYCLES RENTED AND REPAIR wa« up from Dunsmuir last week visit the horses were moved out in a hurry. ED at Cramer Bros. The city hall is insuied for 5,0 <0 ing friends iu this city. Go to the Novelty for fine candies. The Hotel Layton, just being fitted up Geo. Dean, Thos. Perry, Dick Walker by Johnson Bros., suffe.ed some on ac Conklin building. and Ad Wells returne.1 from a prospect count of the beat smashing the windows, Tiie ladies of the Presbvterian church ing trip to Indian creek last week. but the new furniture owned a« yet by will hold an ice cream sale in the church J. 8 Denise and family were in from J. R. Hale was only injured slightly. parlors Wednesday evening June 9th. The water supply was splendid though the Lower Applegate Saturday. Mr. I*e- Wall paper 10 cents double roll at Ter nise is running the Sterling farm thia one could hear croakers who said it was rel! <fc Sons. no good, as three beautiful streams were year. plaving at a height of 70 feet and even Eighteen young people held a picnic S. W. Forbes, postmaster, mayor, mer into the bellry of the city hall which ba l i at Savage rapids Sunday. chant, notary public ami «avant of caught tiie. Come and see the 1897 Whitney Baby Browntown came in Friday on busi The alarm was given by Claude Cass ness. carriages at Terrell’s Furniture store. who was returning home in company Janies Calvert returned from Eastern with Miss Alice Thornton, from a re (io to Howard's for trunks, valises, traveling bags and telescopies. Prices be ¡Oregon last week, after 4 months ab ception given Mr. Cass in the Workman's sence. He thinks time« are better there hall. Miss Thornton alarmed the folks low competition. ill her home while Claude rang the bell . than in Southern Oregon. A meeting of Free Silver organizations manfully. G. W. Blalock wa« in town Thursday has been called for next Saturdsv, at 2 Mr. O C. Terrell was struck on the and called on the Coi hick The seas shoulder by a falling secretary which P. M. City hall. | on'« run on the Grave creek placers, Mr. was hurled out of the up stair« window Advertising is like breathing You I B. says has been “all right.’’ by some person who had evidently lost can’t do enough of it in a day to last a Harry laswis spent a week in the In Ins head in the excitement. Mr. T was month.—Cambridge Chronicle. dian creek country recently ami thinks net badly hurt however. Terrell A Son can sell caskets and cof the gold is there all right, but it will take John Hackett’s stock of harness «as fins as cheap as any home in Southern labor and capital to unearth. hurriedly tired into the street, but the Oregon. building was «aved though the front Mrs. Wm Bingainon of Williams val Henry Zimmerman enriched the city ley returned from Missouri last week al allow« hli«twrn now as well as the fronts treasury $10 worth for assaulting Jose ph tar an ab«ence ot several months. She of Mrs. RelikotTs and If. Thornton's buildings. Dveert Monday. expressed herself as being gla«i to get The evening was calm and a light frost Plenty of ROYAL COACHMAN home to Josephine county again. was in the air, making the bystanders i FLIES at Cramer Bros. Wm. F. Cameron of Castle Rock, Col. chilly who were at any distance from Howard is sellingout his dry gooils at lias Ireeu engageil to succeed Prof. Pries the blazing building«. The firemen worked nobly. Anyone cost Call at once and satisfy yourselves as principal of Grant’s Pass schools at a salary of »S3 per month. School begins who save they didn't can get a tight out that he means what he says. of tbe Col rikk ' in September again. All organizations taking part in loco No one knows how the fire caught. A ration Day exercises are called to form The Weather lot of excelsior for mattreSHea wa« stored in line at the site of the Odd Fellows’ in the shed where the blaze was first hail at 1 P. M., next Saturday. Saturday was warm, the quicksilver seen. A quantity of giant |>owder wa« stored Plenty of barley, hay and feed of all reaching 96 in some shadv places about kinds at lowest prices. ~ Kott Griffin up town. Sunday was cloudy and some in Jewell A Dodge's warehouse, but it what damp, though there was no rain to was all on a truck near the door, aud posite Court House. speak of. Distant thunder could be Mr. iH-an at once rushed this off to a Strawberries have been coming in heard on the mountains, place of safetv before lie put on hi« from the fields pretty freely ___ „ ___ this ______ week. Monday was cloudy ami the afternoon boots. They retail at 5 baskets for a quarter. The odd Fellow«' building and con I was very like coast weather—heavy roll- Breeders of horses will be pl earns 1 to ' mg clouds coming in from the ocean tents were insured for »I,.'KM1; the loss is notice that the service of Mr. Cass’ | with a regural 10 knot breeze but no probably »1,500. 'Die paraphernalia and horses has been reduced to meet the i rain. Tuesday was cool and cloudy but fixture« were destroyed, though some of the records were saved. The encamp times. Now is a good chance to get a ' dry. ment was insured for »250, ami the Re- good colt cheap. bekas for »200, which will probably Judge Chiles has 8 men improving the cover the loss. county road to W illiams creek near the To the Hon. mayor and council of the Gray place these days. Sluh-e* ItohherN Shot. city of Grant's Pass: We your ¡letitioners respectfully ask Croup and whooping cough are child The Kerby stage driver brought in hood’s terrors; but like pneumonia bron the ordering of a granite sidewalk on the chitis, and other throat and lung trou west side of Fourth street from F. street word Sunday morning that a miner who hies, can lie quickly cured by using One ta Evelyno Ave. Walk to be 6 feet wide goes by the name oí Chatu l’ayne had shot two sluice-box robbers Saturday Minute Cough Cure. Dr. \V. F. Kre 6 inches deep of white granite material A I«empke mer. August Fetich night at the Gilmore Bour placer mine C K Root Theo P Cramer on Indian creek, just over the California The Johnson brothers are busy fitting John I> Frv KI.' line. It ap|>ears that the sluice« had up the Hotel Laytcn for immediate bus Robert McLean S A Greene been robbed a week Irefore, some $400 iness. i’ll Sampron worth of amalgum being extracted, am) A 8 Greene N P Dodge W 8 Barrie at bo Payne was detailed to watch Fri'lay evening’s north bound passen night. ger did not arrive till 5 Saturday morn He observed two men approach the ing on account of a freight collision on boxes, and after turning the waler off the Siskiyou«,in which an engine was ditcher!, but no one was killed. The con Don't MI hm This Good Opportunity they sat down to wait till the sluice« To Buy Goods Cheap were dry, when one of them proceeded ductors special bound north came in on Saturday inoruing a few minntes after. J. W. Howard is putting all his large to pry up the riffle« with a crowbar Then Payne fl re« I Ins Winchester at a Not oniy piles of the very worst kind stocks of Dress Goods. Boots and Shoes, distance of 15 to 20 feet. Both robbers can be cured by De Witt’s Witch Hazel < »ent’h Furnishing Goods, Hats and Caps fell and Payne at once came into Kerby Salve, but eczema, scalds, burns, bruises, on the market at actual cost, as he wish and reported. Tom Gilmore headed a bulls, ulcers and all other skin troubles es to get out of thet-e lines. It will pay posse and left for the «cene Bunday mor- can l>e instantly relieved by the same intending purchasers to call and exam ine his goods and get his extiemely low ■ remedy. W. F Kremer. I he diggings are some 30 miles south Don’t mi«« this sale. prices of Kerby. The names of the men shot The Sugar Pine has received the priv- are Gene Kerr and Fitzsimmons, both of ilege of sailing iumlier to the citv for whom are known in Grant’s Pass. $7.06 per M the ensuing fiscal ) ear. THE WEEK’S JOTTINGS Oregon Herr es quoted in Port land at from $2 00 to 3 00 per crate No. 1 Sweet Pickles No. 1 Sour Pickles Moak IL, IS, 100. standard bred Ham- bletonian. Martiuff, 1.486 pure blood Clydesdale will make the season from April to July at Lister & Cal vert's . bal- ance at niv stock barn. Season service* Moak H. $20.00; Macduff $10. S. F. C ass . Subscriptions taken for the San Fran cisco Examiner at the C oi ' rucr office. Th“ Weekly Examiner is $1.50 a year and you get ail the advantages of their pre mium offer. Bucklln’t» Arnica Salve. T he best salve in the world for cuts, bruises, sores, salt rheum, fever sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns, and all skin eruptions, and positively cures piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give good satisfaction or money refumled. Price 25c (»er box. Five acres of tine orchard, six room For sal« by Dr. W. F. Kremer. house, bain and outbuildings, fruit trees For Sale. now bearing, only ten minutes walk from depot. Price $120) Apply to The Rogue River Brewery in (¿rant’s T. S. Cl NI)Y. Pass with 10-barrel Copper Kettle, Kegs, Malt Kiln and modern Bowling alley. Proving I' p. Duelling House of 8 rooms, Stable, Gran Settlers desiring to make final proui ary, etc. There are 83 fruit trees in gar on their claims can save trouble and ex den. Tlie pre pert v contains 4 acres, or pense by pending in name and number 26 building lots Inquire at this office of ciaim with description, and name« of or of Mrs Geo. Walter, Grant’s Pass. four witnesses Applications made out tree at the Cot kier office. 32 Mr. D. i*. Davis, a prominent livery “Thev tr»« dandies” said Thos Bowers, man and merchant of Goshen, Va , has of the ( rocket, l exa-, Enterprise, while this to say on the subject of rheumatism : writing about De Witt’s Little Early Ris “I take pleasure in recommending Cham berlain’s Pain Balm for rheumatism, aw ers, the famous little p its for sick head ache and disorders of the stomach and I know from personal experience that it will d<> all that is claimed for it. A year liver. W. F. Kremer. ago this spring my brother was laid up Sheriff Newt. Livingstone, of (»rant in bed with inflammatory rheumatism county, and guard arrived in Salem with and suffered intensely. The first appli John ’McMahon and delivered him over cation of Chamberlain’s Pain Balm eased to th»* penitentiary authorities. They the pain and the use of one bottle com were 12 days on the road, the trip being pletely cured him. For sale by all made via Heppner, as the sentencing druggists. judge thought there was danger of the prisoner being lynched if taken by flu There are letters in the Grant’s Page regular route. Two guards accompanied postofliee for : the sheriff to the railroad. McMahon is Babcock F D Kennedy J B convicted of murder in the second degree Brown Frank Norton T M ami st ntenced to imprisonment for life. Burk Samuel Smith C L The ex|M*nses of conveyance was $285.45. Gulbraith Mr?. H. Mayer« L E no charge being made for ‘.he extra dis For every quarter in a man’s pocket tance ami time required to come bj' was there are a dozen uses ; ami to use each of Heppner. one in such a way aw to derive the great Bick headache can lx* quickly and com est benefit is a question every one mujst pletely overcome by using those famous solve for himself. We believe, however, little pills known as ” De Witt’s Little that no better use could b»^ made of one of these quarters than to exchange it for Early Risers. W F. Kremer. a bottle ot Chamlierlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, a medicine that everv family should be provided with. For sale by all druggists, The jury that tried Russel in Coos county disagreed, eight being in favor ol declaring him insane and four for mur der in the second degree. Russel was Whitney rubber-tired BABY CARRI- trie<l for killing his eon in-law. The old man climbed on a bed. pushed his gun AGEB at Cramer Bros through a partition wall, an I deliberate A W. L. A P. pule rotten at its founda ly fired at his son-in ’aw. who was seated tion fell against the building occupied on a chair in an adjacent room. by Fetsch Bros Monday night and knocked several bricks from the cor Don't neglect a .•ouafi beca'iae the nice. weather i. pleaaant; before the next Two dollar capital prize for highest «’orni roll« around it mav develop into a rerioua ditfieiiltv beyond repair. One average in 4 games at Jackson's bowling Minute t.’ough Cure is ea»y to take and i alley, every Friday evening. For ladies »ill do wliat it« name iinp'iee. W. F. or gentlemen. Kremer. Walt Eastman, a boy of 14 went to Central Point Monday and in trying to ride a race horse , was thrown and had his head bruised. Rev. Father Newell, of Portland, is holdings mission in the Catholic church in Jacksonville. A mission will begin in Ashland, Mav 26, and one in <»rant’s Pass June 2. In oixLr to clean up our stock and to place before our customers EXCEPTIONAL VALUES We arc now offering our entire stock ol ladies $3.50. $4.OO, $4.50, .*5.00 and <$5.50 WOOL SKIRTS at 952.95. Two young men in gray bicycle suits passed through town on wheels Friday labelled “Post Intelligen<*e from >eattle to Kan Francisco on a Fowler.” They got as far as Bloody Run when one of them ‘‘took a header” and smash «-«I his wheel. They loaded their bicycles on to the tram Saturday morning and took it the rest ot the way on Mr. Hunting ton’s set of wheels. Redfield's ice « ream parlors are pat' ronized extensively by ladies am! families as well as gentlemen who have a tooth for sweet delicacies Being m »st con venienlly situated it is easy I r every one to drop in and partsk- in the coxy quarters set off for that purjioffe. Mrs. Redfield fits charge of the cream ill ak- ing and serving and patron« can rely on lieing treated so well that they will ‘‘come again.” Deafness Cannot be Cured and $8.50 CAPES AT $4.95 1> »n’t mi— the yrcat bargains we are offering in STRAW HATS. . L. COE Clowe of *<-h»M»l PERSONAL by i oca I applications as they can in t reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to < ure deafness and that is by constitutio nal remedies. Deaf ne«e is caused by sn inflamed con dition of the muocis lining of the En- sis* hian Tube When this tube is in- flame«! you have a rumbling sound or impert»*ct hearing, and when if i« en tire!/ «losed, doafneM is the result, and unless the in flam mat« on can be taken out and Ibis tube re«tored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroy««! for ever; nine casew o il of ten are cause«! by catarrh, which is nothing but an in UC flam»*«! condition of the mucous surfaces. We will x ve One Handred 1 dollars f #r any case of drafnees <-aused ‘ ’ that cannot t* cure«! by Hall Cure Hend for circulars, fr F. J. CHENEY A G Sol«! by druggist« 75s. U Pill» »r« All Wednesday night of last week Grant’s Pass was the headquarters of the great Southern Pacific svsteni of rail roads. It had power to dictate fares and freights for three million of people on the one hand and the wages of 15,000 employees on the other. It had San- Francisco and the whole coast from Eu gene south to San Diego in its grin. It owed the government of the I nited States $70 000,OM), which it never intend- ed to pay. Its power was felt in politics in 5 states and 2 territories from the election of the U. 8. senator down to county assessors. All this because C P. Huntington •’Uncle Collis” president of the road loitered over night at the depot here, in his two traveling palaces Oneonto and “Oneonto II.” His wifeand H E Hun tington were also aboard, They were making daylight rides over the coast. Mr. Huntington is a well-preserved man of some 70 winters, the past 30 of which he has spent log-rolling bills through the halls of the American con gress with more or less sm eess—mostly surcesi*, because be bad the money to push his interests while the great Am erican people, who do the work ami pay the taxes, simply relied on the honor of their representatives—an unknown quantity. The train of 4 coaches left for the north at 7 Thursday morning, long before I’n* cle Collis had thought of arising from his luxurious couch and taking a glimpse 11 . offl< lais of the Oregon roads, .Mr Koehler ami Mr. Fields, were on the same train, How to Treat A lie From Fa< rifle Health Journal First, get a wife; second, lx- patient. You may have great trials «nd perplexi ties in your buri news, but do not there fore, carry to your home a cloudy or contracted brow. Yonr wife may have trial- which, though of less magnitude, may be hard for her to bear. A kind word, a ten ier look will do wonders in chaffing from her brow all clouds of eloooi —To thia we would a»id always keep a bottle <>( Chamberlain's Cough Rerne»Jy in the house It is the best and is sure to be needed sooner or later. Your wife will then know that you really care for her ami wish to protect her health. For sale by all druggists. capacity Thursday eveniugon the occasion of cummenceiuent exercises which consisted of essays by th« gradu alee, cf whom there were 7—Myrtle Ire land. IH-ssa Freed, Anna llbltg, Ida Ed- gerlon, Helen Crowe, Sara Morris and Maude Collin«. The reception tendered bv the gradua ting ciara oí W at the opera house Fri day evening wav a pleaaant affair. Some 2tW guarta were prevent. The ball had been tastily decorated with flower» and moltoea and the chairs were ranged around the room in parallel tier«, in the center, tablea were apread for ice cream and cake. The alumni cunaiatingof all the gradu ate« of the Grant'» Pa»« high aehool eine« the tirat in St), who are now in our midst, held a jolly meeting oil the stage and elected officers. .Miss Lillie Barrie was chosen (»resident and the young lady read off the program, consisting of music essavs etc. for the edification of the guests Some 75 graduates have gotten diplo mas in the Grant's Pass high school, mostly young ladies. A'ready they are making history ; some are in business for themselves, others are married ami some as Prof. Price humorously auggest- ed. are wanting to be. while others are perfectly oblivious of all feeling in the matter. The vacation will last until about the first oí September. Prof Price will not act as principal but it ia not vet k nown who will be his successor. W M Ross, a fifteen-year-old boy of Camden, N. J., committed suicide lie cause his father chided him for using eigan-ttes. One man was killed and one fatally wounded at Joe Ixzwe’s roadhouse, near Ih»nver, (’ol. Lows l»a»l trouble neighl«»r over an Irrigating ditch which led to the «hooting. Twopersons were killed and three riousl v injure I in a fire in a four- story teiiament house in New York Several others narrowly escaped death. The Eriiish commission which went to Argentine to buy a great quantity of h««rs**-> fu. cavalry purple« Cap« Colony his made several la pur- with cliHM s. 1 wo steamers ioa«l < ap« h, r-- 1 have already wailed I fxdony and negotiations for i ther purchases are under way. At t. Ixiui", May 21st, an explosion of gasoimi restii»»«'! in the death »»f Mrs. Ada Mohr, 3.3 years old, her 1 Il- monthe-old Imby, Hugho Howard, 15 months old, and WilLam Howard, 5 years old. Mr». Bessie Howard was fatally burn hi, while Max (ill Ripe I ami Henry Burn an wave Imdly turne«!. In order to ma' e the Are ia the nuokstove buri, . tu - Mr«. M-»hr poured gasoline over the Wi, -1 “Mrs. Hunter! M ra. Hunter I M-i-a- s-e-wa-s ii-u n l-e-r-r-r ! Where in the name of common sense did you put them tacks that I gave you a few minutes ago?” Mr. Hunter was tacking down a strip of twenty-five cent crash across a twenty-five cent carpet to keep the car pet from getting tracked up, and Mrs. Hunter had been boaeing the job until there had almost been a family row, when she went upstairs and left Mr Hunter to finish the job in peace. “Them tacks? P dunno jest where 1 lay ’em. You set down a minute till I get down there and I’ll find ’em for you” answered Mrs. Hunter from the head of the stairs. Mr. Huuter pulled out a chair from against the wall ami eat down. At the same time he found the tacks. You often find just what you want in unexpected places. Il is some what different at our store, you come expecting to find anything you may hap|»en to want in the edible lire, and you find just what you want. The find -I. .. pleasanter I ~ than » I. .. .. Mr. \! r lllllltur'u is ....... much Hunter’s experience in finding the carpet tacks, and you will soon find that ours is the place to buy groceries. Our latest this week is FIRST NATIONAL B .A. jstik : OF SOUTHERN OREGON. $50,000. Receive deposits subject to check or oa certificate payable on demand. Kells night drafts on »>ew York, San Fran cisco. and Portland. Telegrauhic transfsrw sold on all points in the Lulled Stutea. Special Attention given to Collections and general business of our customers. Collections maile throughout Bouthen ( »regun, and on all accessible points. J. D. FRY, President. J. T.TUFFS , Vice President. R. A. B ooth , Cashier. REUL IM) NURSERIES. BIX MILES SOUTH OF Murder or Ncthing John McMahon, who killed Lewis Gutridge at Granite, in Grant county, was found guilty of murder in the second degree in Canyon City last Friday, the jury being out only four hours. Satur day night Justice Clifford sentenced Mc Mahon to the (»enitentiary for life. Ou the 21st of last month McMahon sh<»t and killed l«ewis Gutridge, and badly wounded in the face Samuei (autridge. a brother oj Lewis, and postmaeter of Granite, who also would have been killed but for Mr. Gutridge's wife, who ran out and grabbed the pistol as McMahon was in the act of firing at her husband a sec ond time. Gossip about McMahon’s sis- sis ter is said to have been the cause of the Justice has seldom been shooting. ___ swifter in Oregon than in this case,” says an exchange; but we do not call t hat justice. McMahon should either have been hanged or set free. He was guilty of murder or nothing.—Fossil Journal. R. E. Wrenn, a cattle-buyer from Mon tana, whose headquarters are at Pendle ton, accompanied by Nate Cecil, w as in Fossil, Gilliam county, offering belter than ruling prices for cattle, says the Journal. He bought 60 head from Alex Beard, paving $15 for yearlings, $20 50 for 2-year-olds and $26 for 3-year old steers, delivered at Arlington about June 1. He also bought six head of 3-year- old steers of Charles Palmer, of Rowe creek, at $26 per head, delivered at Ar lington. Mr. Wn*nn is also buying cows. O regon — CONSISTING OF — APPLE, PEAR, PEACH, PLUM, PRUNE, CHERRY, APRI COT, NECTARINE AL MOND. CHESTNUT, shadr and O rnamrntal T reks . We have just in a large quantity of full cream young America cheese made at the celebrated — Aleo — San Justodairy, Hollis Strawberry Plain. Blaclberj Pim: al ter. (ial. This is the kind BnneTlin. that suits the taste of OUR NURSERY those who do not like a — IS GROWN ON — cheese cither too strong rtea Hill Land, or too mild, its just right WITHOUT IRRIOA'i uW. They weigh from 6 to 7 do not handle, cultivate, or pounds, l*rice 90 to 95c attempt We to propagate any varieties or kinds of fruit, until «ati«fied that they each. We slice the same are well adapted to tiie soil and climate peculiar to Southern Oregon Write for k ind at 15c a pound. terms to A. H. CARSON & SON, G iiants Paas. Oasuos. Some for ten, some foi twenty and some for thirty years have suffered from piles and then have been quickly and permanently cured by using De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve, the great remedy lor piles and all forms of skin diseases. W. F. Kremer. W. B. Johnson, Newark, (>., Bay«, “One Minute Cough Cure saved my only child from dying by croup.” It has saved thousands of others suffering from croup, pneumonia, bronchitis and other throat and lung troubles. W. F. Kremer. The wheels in th© power-house of the Pioneer Electric Power Company of Ogden, Utah, were put in motion a few days ago, thus starting a power system second only in size to that of Niagara. The Court of Appeals in the case of Hallie Omberg vs. The United States Mutual Association, decided that the lower court w as wrong, ami that she was entitled to $5,600, the amount of an accident policy carried by her hus band, who died ns the roauit of a mos quito bite, th»* Court holding the latter to he an “accident’1 in the meaning <>f the law. T ekkihi . k A cvidknt .—It is a terrible accident to la* burned or scalded; hut the pain and agony ami frightful distig- urments can be quickly overcome w ith out leaving a mar by using De Witt’s Witch Hazel Balve. W. F. Kremer. VIA. Library-Car Route Do you want really good butter, better butter Meals in oek Dining allant than the ordinary butter Car a In you get at the ordinary Carte store? We have it. We believe our butter is su THK ALL-RAIL ROl’TK perior to any other but TO KOOTKNAI MIMNlJ DISTRICT, —VIA— ter sold in Grants Pass, MKATTLK AND SPOKAJfg. Try it and we will have your butter trade, 20c Shortest and a pound. Quickest Line to Minneapolis, St. Paul, Chicago Duluth, ANl) ALL POINTS EAST. Wonder it the boys and girls read our ad last THROUGHPALACEandTOURIST week, we haven’t heard SLEEPERS, lHNINO and LIBRARY from them yet. OBSERVATION CARS. IXlllN. Daily Trains : Fast Time FKTZNER In this city May 2.3. to Mr arid Mrs. Joseph Felzner a daughter. LOWRY BELMORE In this < ity May 2.3, J. W. ixjwry and Miss Julia Bel more. WALKER -GROVE In this itv May 25 . Edward Walker amt < lara Grove, by Jua tice Holman. LIBBY—HEY FER TII In this city May 21. Chas. IL Libby and Minnie H Bey- ferth, by Ju«ige ( biles. RU.HhEL-BRIhTOW-ln this city Ma) 19, Fred Russel ami Millie M. Bristow II \ RROM MA Mi' In til 20. J. W. Harmon ami Eva Masters. BROWNING KOBE Al Placer Jose phine <’o. Ore . May 19 1M97. David L. Browning and Meda Rose I. 8. W. Hmitli Juslieeof the Peace ofllciating. ---------- r~ 1 During his lifetime Edward L. 8chieff lin, the noted prospector, who discovered | the mines which made Arizona famous, • Mi i 'I.I’NG On Hlate creek, May 6, Eliza often expressed the wish that he I m -{ wife of J. W. M» < 'lung, a native of Ar placed to rest at Tombstone, the town be i kanban, aged 55 years. founded and christened. His hotly was ■hipped from Oregon. It arrived in 1 J. R. W alk , Undertaker, office op- Tombstone on Sunday, and the funeral | posite Kremer's drug store, where took place on Tuesday. A grave has been chosen upon a knoll, | he may Tie found, either day or night three miles from rornbstone, near the Grand Central mine, an I there a monu ment will lie erected to his memory. The funeral was in charge of Augustus i Browne, a miner and an old friend of the dead man. In thirty days the com mission ers ap pointed by Governor Budd to select a site for the state normal school at Ban Diego rnuat by law report their decision. It is believed that either the site on University heights or that on Pacific beach will he chosen. The Paoific tieacli site has the advantage of having buildings already erected, which will be given for aclrool purposes. He Found ’Em. HKUVll K ANU M'KNKHY VMIql’ALB». CALHOUN BROS. For ticket« and full information oil on Ol a. Id re B in A. I xiwki . l , A «ent Woodville. B. A. B. DumrroN, S txvfn «. C P A T A, Portland Or. <1 W P A. Seattle, Warh. McCormack Ahead. MONEY TALKS Wc will give you the best Mower, Harvester, Rake or other machine or implement at the lowest price in Southern Oregon. JEWELL & DODGE BLACKBURN’ HOUSE BLOCK SIXTH STREET < '¡ i *411 Having made arrangements to buy from a factory outside of the combine, we now sell our entire line of Coffins and Caskets at one- half the former prices. We carry bv far the largest stock to select from in the county, and | the Goods are equal to any on the . market. We will not be under sold on Undertaking Goods ai.d will furnish our elegant HBARSE to our patrons URKE. J. R. HALE. Notice for Publication. UMITKhSTATEH LAMP O f VK E, R om ^ mi ko , Oregon, May 13, 18V7. otice 18 hereby given that the following-named settler has filed noticoof his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, ami that sai«l prod will be mad»* before J. M Chiles, County Judge of Joaephine (b., Or., at Grant's i*aas, Oregon, O»l June, 24 UM7, vis : I kkomk B. B knno .*« on homestead entry No. 6839, for the -I t . '-I - I •• \v. IInamsa the following witness»*« to prove hie continuoua residence U|»on and cultivation of »aid land, viz Calvin Wells, J. Frank Mee August .Meyer ami < »»«orge L. Yonker, alt of Grant’s 1‘aws, Oregon. N R I \ i re \ lcd ici nets National Drug Store,