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ROGUE RIVER COURIER PLBUSHBD BVBBY till BSI»AT, PRICE A VOORHIES, X.Ä EDITOBS AND HB'H'KIETOIU». RATES OF BVBM MHT1OM : One Year, in advance, - - SI 35 Bix Months, - - - - .65 Three Months, - -55 Th« date opposite your name indicates the time to which yo«r subscription is i»aid it is v«»ur account with the C<»( ait • When you pu\ your subscription *ee that the date is changed. Advertising rates on application. Copy for change of“ ad’’must be bunded in before Tuesday noon. Entered at tbe*po«t office nt Grant’s Fas« Oregon, a* second-class muil matter. T hursday , D kcembek 23, 1897. There ia a revolt in Hayti caused by the Leuders indemnity trouble. The Populist alate con veut ion to nom inate state officers will lie held in March The government will make an appro print > jn for the Klondiker«, but will it all reach them? Klondike ia far, far away. "ft < iai . r Several ;>«• ’ ru|e the II1 1 p U-ANTI I elk, eanb.» O. tssar in Northwteter. s.Hwy ’"'hied «.th the lova • * gell'' young iuan » ■ * » in thia cane took Mwis to one side and 1 to the dark winter days and night*,made 1 t ask. The . oast nai ve, kill leopar. the proapwetor. are de'Kb«“ * »ire to meet Araugueren to have a con- that three or four men who live in town Apply at th!» office. ’ »'• whiiqjered in his ear instead of arresting I it inky dark during ths storm . and the and Other hair -eal. and lake Ir weather we have been having combined to fleece a countrymen out of veri-alion. The latter »aid that he «at force of the w ind was so great that dog*, j 1 them and trad* lor furs to the >^rr' We were told on the street «led« and drivers would have heen tarn- WANTEP TWO YOl XG perfectly willing to meet hi» old friend a sum of money at the gaming table. him. Eskimos snd Indians. Wslroa ’’ <•> ■ that Mr. lewis went into Cramer bled into a Leap in no time. ha<l thev 1 silled also for their hides, tneks, fl They were suicesaful in obtaining the for a friendly conversation, but nothing .(U.-tz IUIII« near a quartz luuf Bros's hardware store Tue^iay evening I venture«! out. From mv barabaiB (but) i : .nd oil. On some Of the «**“£ “'‘j* h.. Cue Mi EM office. *’ muat be »aid about autonomy, for hr man's money but with them the uitflcul- and bought a pistol and cartridge« when | to the little he igloa, where uiy tber Behrmg ma Polar bear. ar. to te> foun t ber.com. wit* under orders iro n his chief that he ty came when they fell out and began to mometers. sun-dial and other Instru notsblv on the islands of St Lawren IVAN I EI> 1IU >r« , mv be was drunk. The U ochiek man went , ments were kept, was only a few yard», wa» bound to obey and that is, put to fight over the division of their ill-gotten . i • at once to Cramer Bros to get the facts but I have several time« had to forego and St. Matthaws. responsible, established hou^ death any one who went into the insur gains. Two ladies who were in the act "All game birds of the Arctic are tery Monthly »tiA and .xpense» po.,.' making observations for the day. fearing in the case and we are sorry to say that tame, ami can often be killed witli puses gent camp with terms of surrender. Not of passing this place of disorder and con Reference. Enclose »ell-addn-ssJf'1 '' they informed us that the rc|>ort was in I to venture a battle w’th the gales for ol >ce br stone». The natives use * « tusion were startled at the outburst of -neelope The Dominion I that Arangueren loved his friend lees, even tlie short distance ’hat intervened Y.i'bi.'ar>, ~ “** a measure true, though not so drunk as between my cabin ami the observatory and arrow, mostly for small asase, first, but that he loved Cuban liberty more, oaths, and they turned and ran back. (or the reason tost powder ami shot * reported, yet under the influence of “No eye-glasses or spectacles < an b« The language used was enough to make Educate 1 our Bowel« With <• is why be put hiiu to death. ' Candy Cathartic, cure mn^ nat****^1*- The gentleman told Cramer used out of doors during tlie very cold as good results can be had ■ wi th the inhabitants of the infernal legions liquor. bo lOe.tec. IfC C C f. weather, as, in the first place, the lenses Attorney Deiiprey and Judge Bal»r»J blush with shame ;,and this took place in Bros, that he wanted the pistol to take and stones . coat over in an instant with frost from arrows "Klondikers snd others engagedJ" the former the leading attorney in the the brewery where the proprietor no home with him, that he wan bothered the breath aud become opaque, and be Dos* I Tuuacev Spu auti twauke Ywar Ufe mining or other business tn side«, th** intense cold acting upon th« A a.ka are likely to fall into some of the , Durrant case and the latter, superior doubt < aims to 1« running an orderly with parnea trying to steal from him To quit U.baccc euailjr uud tortver aetic. full of life, nerve and vigor, ta judge before whom the pris«jnei ba«i to' bouse. The marshal knew about it and Mr. George Cramer sob! him the pistol brass, silver, gold, stoel. or other metal ■ customs and habits of the Eskimos sml come Strong and Hea.thy. Bac, the wonder worker, that make* forming tlie rim of tlie glares, would will soon learn the value of the beat pro appear many time«, have had some was present a portion of the time and with the understanding that he was go- strong. All *-X or t’u «1 van all run down, blood in terrible soon burn into and blister the nose and trouble. Bahrs said that the attorney tried to prevail upon the I men to quit | >r‘g boms immediately, buj Mr, Cramer cheeks. Tobacco pipes can’t be smoked during qualities of seal oil and »eai me* • condition and 1 was troubled with a weere U»d Booklet aul sample free. Remedy (a Cu.< or Nsw y1 trie«i to deceive him by filing an affida their rowing and “Ptautgu hamt. ’’ These would not let the man have the pistol, out oi d<x>rs «luring the very cold weatb- The seal Wood, which is ^rofuloua humor wb: I. caused me great producer when taken for mod. »i • as we understand, until be went into { er, as tlie moisture that is always con PKlt vit other than tbs original one read iur- are very pleasant words, but it was no I took medicine for a iong AGENTS »2.-, TO ! course, not be need bv white men, but F D. A L. Co.’s store and ob tained in the stem with the nicotine will is tn.- best 'kew-kow’ the natives have, time but received no permanent beuedt. .A easy' \ on work r ,hn ar. iof tlie court session. I>euprsy in re place for such words; instead there the 8. P freeze tight in a few moments, and ob ami what thev prize the moat in wieter A brand new thing. Write t<> u, Mr. Crarner At thia time I wm working in a Kvae^1 ’ You will I* -urprised at how ea«v it '|UI joinder says that the judge is a liar and should have been a good hickory club in tained the credit b<x>k struct the passage of smoke. An ordin " Row kow’ is the generic term lor»u .¿re and I thought I would look over he done. Send us your address anv*2?' r that Bahrs will have to answer personal the hands of a marshal who is not afraid had no intention of making a mistake ary clav pipe if use«l in the open air will food with tlie Eskimo, and drink as wen will l«e to your inleresi to invR,.j/ *L It ly for w hat he haw done, and besides be to do bis duty, lie should have arrested when they sold the man the pistol but fr«*«ze up at once, the stem will cra« k AU sorts o( white men's food 1» in ue- tuedicines and see if I could find Address, "People's,' ,;,o >, ami pit«, tobacco and all fall to the mand among the Eskimos, emi tbev,*11 that would hit mv case. I read an adver I | today. Pa '«ket the proprietor for keeping a disorderly I m our judgment it is a decided error for street, Philadelphia. Pa. subjected to a damage suit, while the ground. Haement of Hood'a Saraaparilla and con one man to Hell a drunker; man shooting trade for limited quantities of it. lbe>f -1-“ - ---- - -....... Judge, after the Durrant case is over house; he should have arrested the men , FOOT GEAR FOB TRAVELING \ -M \i i. Bl arms of any kind. There im no siatutory demsud for. ami ability to consume cluded to try it. The first bottle helped |.’ ■. - \: i farm three miles from to may bring up the attorney for contempt for gambling, rowing and fighting; and law against anything of the kind but th« *‘Our foot gear consisted first of the whiekv kow-kow is unlimited, and there nie wonderfully and I continied Its use * mg 32 acres, mostly ri< h, ri of court. Thus the Durrant case will lent,but not least,heshosld have arrested moral law would certainly forbid anyone Arctic hare, or rabbit, one skin on each is nothing they will not trade lor it. until I had taken nine bottles. By this land. A part of it’is beaver ,iaI„ end but its influence will not end. hiniHelf for not deing bis duty, than welling to a drunken man anything with foot, turned hair side to the flesh. Over Men. women and children all time I felt like a new man, andi since especially adapted to raising vee... “' the hare-skin a heavy wool sock or stock have an innate taste for whisky and to There is on the place a line march the entire combination to lhe which he in liable to injure another then have not been sick a day. Thebe gentlemen are intimate personal ing, and over that a pair of long stoi’k- bacco prune orchard. Ibis place is ofiere.1 7» THAT ORDÌ NAME. am now strong and healthy and 1 have sale simply besause the owner . city jail, hire Home man to put them in, friends of ours and we know they are ings made from the Oianic 'reindeer f "There are no rules for writing or ,uch confidence in Hood's Sarsajiarill. that hair side turned in. and la-t of all a pair lock them up and then — we were about | attend to it. For terms en.|iiire at m, gentlemen, but the C oibjek must H,«aking the dialect of the Eskimo, am I h that ordinance pasted by the city ais oi long boots made from the leopard seal it is very difficult for n white mun to ac j recommend It as the best medicine on office. council Home tune ago prohibiting bicy to say throw away the key, but we will Hjieak what it believes to lie right. We know that somebody «ell« liquor with hair outside and soled with tanned quire much of it. I'll give youi s speci earth.” J ohn J. L ittlk , Munnsville, N. Y. ^TRAYED OR STOLEN -A • v deriding on the Hide walks in certain say tliat they should be kept there until | to druken men and to boy a, for .Monday walrus hide, ami sewn so cloaelv as to men or two, phonetically •Chsnook- old l ay hIley, wuii white right i„,.t part« of the city a just one? Yes, w« they could comply with the laws. night wax evidence of it, when bo vs make them perfectly water tight The took’ »leans to sleep,the »sine word long | foot. Disappeared from Brigg-., reek „ , ‘, We obtained our first information con | boots r«ache«i to the knee« and were under 10 year« of aye were roaming th« drawn oi t and pla ng the teft hand to I. the best - In fact the One True Blood Purl- I July 1st. send information to this oib.e ' think that it in, for reanonH which Mem drawn tigtit with seal skin thongs or la rj^Lfidsta. 41. »or«- to uh good and sufficient. The forbidden cern ng the affair from » saloon keeper streets drunk a* fools. Where thev got res. Rather a clumsy makeup of foot th. side of the head, with tb'- back ot their liquor we do not positively know, tlie hand out. means to die. ‘Shinakook- who was thoroughly disgusted with the, Everybody R»y. ground or walk extends from Hotel Jo wear to travel in, you will probably say, took’ tneaiiB to travel .. • 1 1 »re pufb' vegetable, re if we did our reader« would know. • Moot'or'lnute Cascarete Candv CaUmrtic. tlm mi s r, In conclusion we will aav to th« mar but nothing short of it will do in that means man. as 'malong mute white fi OOdS P111S liable, benelkiaL 25c. «ephine to B. McArthur’« corner on marshal for allowing such conduct and derful luedicul disco.erv of n., Any Hbal, “If you Jo not do your utmost to country, and the gear is light and com man) ‘Chowick’ means iron, or any im dxth street and fiom Gilbert creek he denounced it in bitter terms. ant and i cfiesliing to the las 0, , bieak up thia gambling, drunken de fortable for travel, with nothing lubberly plement or thing made of iron -'nd saloon keeper w ho has the least idea of and positively on kidneys, liver unit bridge to 'eventh Htreet on Front street, about it. With the long boots worn in now I must say ‘pocknnimniie chenook bauching bu«iii«ss, or une your greatest cleansing the entire .y.b ni, dtai..-l , .¡7 ibis the council deemed sufficient, since trying toobey the law» will denounce it, endeavors to do ho , the C ourier will summer, which reach to the hips, [‘have cure lieadnohe, fever, habitual ■ onstinnion took’ (I goto sleep now.)” likewise any man who has any respect and biliousness. Pleaae imy and tn a traveled for many miles, and would go everlastingly ‘roast’ you. It is abomin it covers the principal business part of of C. G. C. to-dav; 10, i’., ’.(G-enta. Ku.dS into camp «lrv footed at night, after wad Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic is a per the city. It was not passed until severs} lor I lie people of the town in which he able, you must do your duty.’’ guaranteed to cure by all drimgistt. ing over tundra, and in the mush ice all fect Malarial I.iver Tonic and Blood persons had been either knocked down lives will denounce it, c I hc be is partirrpt day and part of the time up Lo and over purifier Removes Bi iou»ne»s without Stockholder» Meeting or almost run over by some careless or ntmmut. One man who told us about the my knees. purging. A h pleaHSSl a» Lemon Syrup. Writim I some of the features of the “The Eskimo is careful with his dress It ia as large as anv Dollar tonis and re recsIeeH rider, ft was passed to protect circumstance»— anil he does not belong to j The annual meeiing of the sGx-kholJ. FOR YuUR BEST GIRL extreme » temperature of the winter and particularly with his foot wear I tails for 50c. To get the genuine ask ere of the Sugar Pine Doo. and Lumbw (»edeHtrians from these reckless riders t!;e Law and Order l.eague either—»aid, atmosphr • st and beyond the Yukon have never seen severe cases of frost bite One of tho-. tine Gold Pens, Company will lx* held at the Company1, for Grsve’s' who, it is true, are not the represents " rhis outfit should be thoroughly roast- i river, we, by permiHNion, quote from a among them At times natives have I office in Granta Paas, on Wedn- - iav A pretty Shirt Waist Set. letter of (’apt A M Brown U. S. A., to come into camp with blistered ears, tivej of the bicycle force. The number cd.” William* Items. ■ January 12, 1898, at 2 o’clock p. m. - Those l.a'Iie«’ Watches are Beauties. Ye voters of Grants I’ bhh who put this a friend in which he says: “The only cheeks or chins, from effects of frost, of people who walk are many time-the II C. K innev , PreHi.lent. " H.A.Congle was in ths city Saturday man in office, we feel confident that you difference between th« Upper Yukon but that occurs very often in all the East HE E'S SOMETHING J . H B ooth , Sec etary. number who would ride through the bus Lave long ago repented, and we believe country and Northern Greenland is that ern and Northwestern states with people Miss lfvrtle Anderson i» visiting ber Grant» Pa»», Or , Dee. 17, go ;. FOR THE men : ineMH center, provided there waa no ordi on the Upper Yukon, winter lasts only and hope that you may never again cast eight or nine months, while in Northern who ride, drive or walk out with uneov- parents of Williams. How alwut a nice Briar Pipe? nance against it The distance cyclists ered faces about Christmas time. Snow Notice to Shareholder.. Miss Grace Bigelow* is expected hottie your votes for a man who will n<d do hi» Greenland and in the vicinity of the blindneMH or inflamed eves is more Meerschaums, too -lot. of 'em have to walk ih not ho far but what the.’ to spend the holidays. The annual meeting ,,f (lie sharehold duty. The Cot Rich does not mean to | North Pole it is winter all the lime. It troublesome than frost bites, ami I was And say don't forget our Xmas ; can du ho in a short time. Business Antone Rose is quite tick. Dr. Van ers of the First National Hank of » .mh. spar« the proprietor nor the men who gets just a« cold, however, on t e Upper called on very frequently bv natives who Candies. need not be ho rushing that a man must Yukon ac it does in Greenland, or at had traveled from villages and carnns 1 Dyke was called last Saturday I ern Oregon will be held at the r.tli. <• of REDFIELD’S. were in the row but we know that if the the Pole. Ths atmosphere of those many mile« distant, to prescribe for I said bank on Tuesday, .lamian 11, ls.is go tearing along the side walk at such .Mrs Ingham and Mrs. Benjamin went maralial would do hi» duty such abom high latitude« is very «fry, ami the them. .Mv medicine chest contained no to Medford the first of the week at 1 o’clock p. nt. R. A B ooth , break-neck speed. Some will Hay that winter snow falls are light. When the inable thing» are not so apt to occur. great variety of drug*, but 1 had in it a Miss Eva Sill closed her school Friday, it would be far better to punish thoHv cold winter freezing sets in. it does so little bottle of sugar of lead, and as resi ' December 10th at the Provolt acheol The reputation of thi» place of busine»s is who ride rapidiy on the side walks than with a clear sky, and tin* quiet of th« such that the people should demand that grave prevails for days, when the mer dents of Alaska and Siberia are tea ¿house. drinkers, tea leaves to put on the eyes to prohibit all cyclists from riding on Miss Noah Sliehan closed a four the license be revoked and none other cury soon fails to aero ami below, and is were plentilul in camp, and no one came the walk. We think it much easier io then frozen, and remains ho until the to me with snow blindness that did not month's term of school I ridar, Decent- granted the proprietor. convict for violating the present ordi her 3rd. Last Tuesday night before the law breakup of the spell comes with a north in a few «lav« return to their homes or nance than it would be to convict for Mrs Tom Dal! and son Jam«« were in east gale of wind which usually lasts for camps perfectly cured. abiding people bad ceased to condemn three days, at the expiration of which “Game of all sorts migrates from the Grants Pass Saturday, doing their Xmas rapid riding. We are decidedly in favor the recklessneH» of Monday night, there time, and cessation of the gale, the tem North by .or about,the middle of Septem I shopping of the bicycle, but we stand with a ma was more trouble It seems that one Mr perature will have risen to zero, or prob ber an«) returns again by the last of May i Chas. Hoxie caught another bear last jority of the wheelmen in believing that or early in .lune. The Arctic hare, a week iu his trap which I k has in the Lewis who is night watchman for the S. ably to 10 or 15 degrees above. the present ordinance is all right and •‘During the winters of 1891-2, at a large white rabbit, and the ptarmagen, a , mountains. P. I).A L. at Meilin,came to town to lay point 45(1 miles northwest of St. .Michaels specieH of grouse, remain all the year, should be enforced Mr. Meskey, from the Baltimore dit- in his Christmas stock, whatever that or month ol the Yukon, and between and are distinctly Arctic animals, and 1 ' ■» — ■■■■ i. : trict, went to Grants Bass last Friday The natives take the with a load of produce. might be,but before he had been in town Port Clarence and Gainvine bay, near are good food. PLEASE GO HOME. long, he inbilx-d too Ireely of corn juice the Behring strait, I kept a metorolegical hare with nets, and catch hundreds of The Punch and Judy performance bv record for many months, and noted par them. Trie pti r nagen is taken in the Commencing last Monday afternoon and it is said got into a gambling den ticularly the influence of the northeast same manner. The flesh is dark and Mr. Shat uck, ex-sheriff, was quite a fi and lasting just how long wa cannot tell, somewhere back of Ben's Bicycle Den. sales on the atmospheric temperature. dry, but is desirable for foo<i for all that, nancial success at Williams considering there was a drunken, debauching, gain ti Tlie rest anyone can easily guess, Any We had such gale« about every 10 days, as they with the rabbits constitute about the newness of the play. .Messrs. Sharp. Hustler Morris, own ling revelry in town which originated and way ths row ended up in a shooting starting in September, and continuing to ail the fresh meat one gets iu the winter the last of May No dog sledge journeys in the Arctic, unless he is on the coast ers of tlie Powell’s creek mining proper- MAIN STREET, ended in Kienlen’s brewery near Gilbert »crape, but w<- believe that no one was could be made during the prevalence of when seal and walrus can b« had. There | tv, were in town baturdsy, completing creek. We have it from good authority hurt. We are informed that the marshal a gale, as the drifting snow, in addition is very little large game such a* rroose the sale of ttvir mines. __________ Our article on the country’s financial condition will appear next week. Our readers must not think that we have given it up, for that the Cot kiek will not do until the whole ground is covered Every voter in the country should know the situation, and then when the lime om< h to elect men to office, vote ac cordingly. _________________ The Portland Tribune of the 18th.con teine « leading editorial which must lx conni mill a. un index lo alia*, in to b< the policy oi that pa|>er. The editor comet! boldly out and rays, in substance that a certain amount of corruption is enHenti.il lu Portland's existence. The English language fail, uh in word. Hiifli cient to denounce .udì pomicioni teach ing. The editor should be compelled to place at the bead of >uch prescriptions the iiruggist’» sign of warning and that ■ < the ulf and rronJHa.tr. When the time for our next issue comes w» will have passed over the Christ birth day, a day which ought to remind the world that nearly HriO years ago the angels sang "Peace <>n earth, good will to men.” Then was a king born who**' kingdom ia everlasting, whose doctrine of love mnst eventually perme ata the whole world. Would that men had more of this spirit that he taught and practiced to perfection, more ol the “l>o unto others as you would that others do unto you” and the land would need less of man's law The Indomitable spirit of the Cuban leaders manifested itself recently when Colonel Joaquin Ruiz, aide to General Blanco went into the insurgent camps with piopovals of autonomy. It seems that Colonel Ruiz and Colonel Aran- gueren. an insurgent leader, were warm friends, and they had hud some correv- ponden.s in which Ruiz expressed a de- w " ä - ____ ____ _ Scrofulous Humor Hood’s Sarsaparilla Look at These for Xmas Presents FRESH OYSTERS Cooked as you like them R. 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