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JdUTOf am iMDiriNncMr I' àik ., D kvotkd E.rxcuu.T tu rax lnuin. or S oi ' tucu O biuom . GRANTS PASS, JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOYEMBER 9, 1899. Apple Growing for Profit. the bustne»** is sure to yield a profit, re him as being about seven feet tall. Probably be looked seventeen feet tall, Ei oink , Or., Oct. 27.— To the editor gardless of the man engaged in it. Southern Oregon has special advant but the victim waa aware that the public —Apple growing in Southern Oregon h becoming one of the leading industries. ages in the production of apples that will would not accept »ach a measurtmert, Bicycle hospital for all repairing at It has passed through all of the rxpvn surely make it a great field of horlicul- to be cut hi* estimate to the lowest notch mental stage* and is permanently estab 1 ture. First, it is as regular in its crop hit conacience would admit of.—Eugene Cramer Bros. production as any apple aectiou in th* Guard. lished on a profitable lutsis. R. A. Booth and A. C Dixon •( the S. Perhaps you have noticed the chill in the air these crisp The principal apple-growing district of world. The alienee of winds and des* P. D. 3c L. Co., left on Thursday for San Th« bicycle is like the animal that mornings and cool evenings --that calls for some warmer Southern Oregon is in Douglas, Jose , tructive Horns, the regularity of its rain Francisco lives on both laud and in the water. It phine and Jackson counties, in the val fall and uniformity of its season, the under ware. Come to our store and we can fit you out The cash register oi Asiilai d hotel leys <»( the Umpqua and Rogue rivers climatic conditions that exempt trees < lives on the sidewalk and in the road, comfortable wear. in Ashland, was robbed of about $28 on and their tributaries. At these valleys I from injury by freezing, and prevent in- l and you can’t make anything else out of . it is not like the wagon Thursday night. have condition* of soil and climate near jury to fruit by fungus, the abundance of 1 ** and yet it is entitled to the road just as The district school at Placer opened ly alike,so far a* apple production is con lime and potash in the soils, all lend to I last Monday in the new school house cerned, they may be treated as one sec make it an ideal locality for the broduct ! much. It is not like the pedestrian and yet it baa certain rights on the sidewalk. ’I • with Mies Ethel Hackett as teacher. tion. There are many important points ion of a high class apple. Imparts that peculiar lightness, sweetness, The old home orchards, from which If always ridden by reasonable people of difference between these localities and Mrs. Robt. I-eslie left for Chenoweth there would never be any trouble, but Will soon be in demand. We keep a full stock of them. and flavor noticed in the finest cake, short Park on Friday for a 10 day's visit with other parts o! Western Oregon in the the markets have heretofore been sup hoggish people ci eate trouble.—Albany Better come and get a pair before the rains set in and you plied, must givs way to the commercial ! matter of apple-growing, so this area the family of her brother Mr. Stewart. cake, biscuit, rolls, crusts, etc., which ex Deaiocrat. may prevent a hard cold. Miss Nellie Dicker of Ashland went constitutes an appl»* belt of it* <*wn,clear orchard anb the great increase in apple pert pastry cooks declare is unobtainable last week to take charge of the district ly different from others on the coast. consumption that will come to the Facif- | Now the wjinar, admirers of Admiral 1C coast from the islands of the Pacific ’ Schley are going to raise a fund to buy by the use of any other leavening agent While there are some variations even school at Prospect on upper Rogue river. hiiiiix with his hi» gracious ar.i'inna approval .iinniLal between the valleys of the Umpqua and orxan and Asia, will make a strong mar him a * home, E Fossman, a mining man from Ida which later (act is net auy Rogue river, they are both equally good ket in the future lor the Oregon apple. jD ho, arrived here Thursday to examine for the production of winter apples, and \\ hoever enter* this field of production reasou why contribution* should flow in the mining resources of Southern Ore Opera House Block the variations need be taken in account must understand that, if he succeeds, he tnore freely. It would have been a gon. will have full use for his best intellectual |K>int more in the admiral’s favor to only in the selection of varieties. I*!».*».**, F Geo. M. Williams, a mining man form The cost of planting and canr.gforan and physical energies.— H. B. Miller in most courteously but resolutely decline. MSFWMF W W W W W erly of Spokane, went out to the Waldo apple orchard, and the profit it will Oregonian of Oct. 28. ROYAL BAKING POWOIR CO , NEW YORK. It looks to a great many like putting a I district on Friday's stage to examine yield, are matters worthy of careful con hero in the voluntary attitude of a recip 8cli«»ol Training. mining properties in that section. sideration. Good apple land can be Teachers wbo need training in the ient of public charity. In papular The Weber Dramatic car, which has Mining Transfers. (»ought for $60 per acre. Other items of use of the new state course of study for estimation Schley stands next to l>ewey launching of the torpedo boat Shubric. 0EORGE H. BINNS, Notice. He couldn’t 'stand the temptation of t»een a familiar figure in Grants Paas ail outlay are: 70 trees, $5 per acre; pre t Recorded since Oct. 31.) among our naval heroes, but in official To whotu it may concern: We, the public schools, can get the same by lunching elbows with tne Virginians, J. F. Wickham to the Big Yank Min summer, departed for St. Ixjuis, Mo. on paring ground aud planting, $5 per ASSAYhR, Undersigned have dissolved the partner attending the, State Normal at Ashland circle* Sampson is« entitled to more credit when invited to ing and Milling Co., '• Pearl" quarts do so, It is doubtful Friday lust, haying been sold for $150. acre; care of trees, at $10 aunually for ship heretofore existing by and l»etween The Normal training school represents and honor than Schley. Ho won't claim in Yank mining district, con Any one desiring to donate fruit to the six years, $<>0; total cost of orchard, $130 the country graded school; and this is Sampson have to be provided with a whether we ever had a President who sideration........................................ $ 1 us this 24th day of October, 1899, by enjoyed mixing with the people as Good Samaritan Hospital, at Portland, per acie at six years, F. L W right . of special int «rest to country teachers home next? And I then Watson, and much as Mr. McKinley does, or who so G. b. Folsom to J. <). B Gunn, G uanti P ass , - - O regon . mutual consent. Crops grown between trees up to four Evans, and Clark, , and Hobson, and — can get empty jars at St. Luke's Rectory. quartz claim "Folsom’’ in Althouse S. H arris . who must know how to use effectively freely acknowledge« that he obtains mining district, consideration......... 10 The fruit can be lefi there until sent oil years oid should pay interest on this in- ■ the course of study, as well as how to where can the list stop?- Telegram pointe re by *o doing. Those who criti vestment. The trees might bear a crop grade Hie children of the mixed schools. A. II. Lewis, of the Columbia min«* at about Thanksgiving. Chas. M. Gunu to J. O. B. Gunn, A C. HOUGH, Waehingluii Letter. cise hie so doing, are likely to find out quartz chins, "Gunn" in Allhouse Placer was in town several days during Wm. Bybee, of Jacksonville, is making at six years from plauting; in fact, 1 Miss Applegate, who is principal of (From Oar Regular Correspondent.) sooner or later that the masses like him A1TD rn ey - at la w , mining district consideration......... 10 the past wee k. bi* annual hog drive to Happy Camp. have known some varieties to produce the school, is well known heie and at W ashington ,D. C. Oct. 30th, 1869. ail the better far it. It is an iin|>osel- J. T. Scott to J. O. B. Gunn, quart* two bushels ttie the tree at six years, P. eelice s in all State and Federal Courts An attempt was made last Thursday He started a band of 120 fat bogs for the Monmouth State Normal, and her Uncle Sam will help John Bull, if he bility for a president to get too close to claim, *‘Bcott", in Allhouse mining but it is not a lair calculation to count work shows for itself. Off- ;e over First National Bank. night o b rg ilar z • tl e s ore of Vatipe) that pla< e last week. He has supplied i* attacked by any European nation the plum everyday people, something < lint riel, consideration.......................... 10 on a crop before seven yeais, and with P ass , • - O rkgon . Q bakt ' Norris an<I Drake in Ash<and. A w in Happy Camp and vicinity with pork for The tuition expense for the actual while he is engaged in that South Afri that the president’s immediate prede W. 8. Dodd to J. O. B. Gunn, quarts some var ieties and localities I have ob teaching and training is dow was broken in but the inside shut a number of years. 16.25 |>er It rm, can war. That is, stripped of ail ver cessors, Gen. Harri*on and Mr. Cleve claim, "lkxld", in Allhouse min served that they will not bear before 12 and some other line of ters prevented entrance. study may be J. JENNINGS, If Shiloh’s Cough and Consumption years old. These are matters that sbou d ing district, consideration............... 10 biage, the sum and substance of the land, never did. carried along with the training if desired, cure, which is sold for the small price ol be examined into before planting. Gen. Fitxhugh Lee is in Washington, opinion held by about nine out of every RESIDENT DENTIST. without extra expense. Nor informa 26 cis., 60cte. and $1.00, does not cure Real Estate Transfers. ten men in Washington, including the an route from Cuba, to his home in A safe calculation of production and take the bottle back and we will refund profit alter the bearing period begins is tion, address ttie president of Hie school. members of the diplomatic corp*. And Virginia, He is on furlough and will 30 Years F. xpenence. Recorded since On. 31.)• return to your money. Sold for over tifty years on as follows: Cuba shortly. Ue is looking Walter and Mary Simmons toO. I* The feK-lsaurs. (he very fact that such an opinion is • ffi. < nOpera llou.-e (.lock ; see the *ign well, but pleasantly declines all iuvita- this guarantee. Price 25 cts. and 50cts At seven years, two boxes of market of The I ig Tooth. Harvey, lot 50x 115 feet on N. W General Yule has been promoted to a generally is in itself sufficient to make corner of block 2, M illers addition tious to discus* Cuban affairs for publi — W. F Kremer . able fruit from each tree, 140 boxes U baki - I' ahk , . - - OxxttoN. major geneialship for hi* retreat from any nation think, not twice, but several to Grants Pass, consideration, $ 7b at 40 cents per b<»x on the tree $ 66 Glencoe aud Dundee. According to that, times, before deciding that the present cation, further than to say that the Cu" Gilbert Gilbertson, a Swede, was mis Cost of cultivating, trimming and ban*, a* a ¡»eople, are better than they Victoria A. Mitchell to Cora A. taken for a bear and shot by a fellow is an op|>ortuue time to eyen up any old General White ought to be safe (or b 7 Z J spraying.......................................... 15 Turner, lol 4 black 1 in Merlin, . ■f P. DODGE, hunter, near Glendale on Oct. 29 The ■«cores with Great Britain. It must aot are generally credited by our people peerage.—S. E. Bulletin. Oreg, consideration,................... 20 with being. His son, 1 .leu tin an t Geo. Net, |>er acre ................ ... $ two had separated and agreed to meet at !»e inferred from this that any member INSURANCE and O. A C. R. R, Co. to the Pleasant M. Lee, has l»een ordered to accompany a certain point. Gilbertson reached the Counting crop every second year— Our local sportsman wU<* have been of the administration has been "leak REAL ESTATE Valiev Cemetery Aasociation, place first and sat down to wait. Chris At 9 year* old, 3 boxes per ,tree 210 NW'4 of SW'4 of sec. II, tp .35 feasting on China birds for the past ing" a* to the intention* of this govern the 47lb. Infantry from New York to the boxes at 40 cents .................. Life, Fire and Accident Insurance. south, range o west, censider- Hagan his companion, coining up, mis Expense for two years............ mouth are now kicking vigorously al ment, incaset here should t>sany Europe Philippines, where he will join hie own Otfi* • w ith Price A Voorhies. alion............................................... 140 took him for a beat and shot him in the scarcity of birds. In some localities an attack on (¿real Britain. Ou ths regiment, the 39th. Infantry. The Census Bureau will eudeavor to II. B. Miller to Elizabeth Tucker, Net, per acre ....... G ilani P asm .. I 54 there seems to be a total absence of tin* contrary, every member of ths admin the shoulder with a 41 calibre Winches all of block 78, in Grants Pass, ter. Gilverlson, if he survives, will be a Or, for each year, per acre . ....... 27 variety ol game birds, and they are not miration has refused even to discuss the make mining and manufacturing statis < >regon, consideration.................. 1000 tics to lie taken next year, more com At 11 years old, 4 boxes |»er tree, 280 cripple for life. possibilities in that line. It io nut be- overly plenty in any part of the valley— J^OBIiRT G SMITH, Margaret F. Mattson to J. M Rus boxes at 40 cents. . . 1112 plete than ever taken. Director Merri < ause of anything officially said that the sell, W'j of NW't and NE‘< of Expenses for two year* .... 40 Saiitiam News. Thanksgiving Dainties. H D. NORTON, opinion of the willingness of the 1 . 8. am Haya the charge that these statistics NW’4 of sec. 22, tp. 35 south Halloween has retrograded in large to help Great Britain, if help be needed, will be gathered for use in campaign On Tuesday Nov. 28, two days before Nel for 2 yearn............. ....$72 I range 6 west, oohoideratien......... 500 Thanksgiving the ladies of the Pn sby- Or for each year, per acre .... 36 part, to a convenient tune for hoodlums s s<> generally held, but Irecause that is documents of the presidential campaign A. K. Miller to D.W,Mitchell, W'V A ttorneys and C ounselors to du a lot of malicious mischief, fur the only logit al attitude for this coeutry could only have originated with some terian church will have on sale at Mr At 13 yean* old, 6 botes per tree, 420 of N W ‘4 of sec. 16, tp. 35 south, A cts gently on the at L aw . boxss, at 40 cents Bobxien* White House Grocery, a large $ltt which they ought to Ire lined or put in to occupy at this tune, owing to the one who wa* ignorant; that the work of range 6 west, sonsideration......... 50 Expense fur two year* ............. 50 taking this Census will not begin until jail, ¡ here it* a vast expanse between general feeling of gratitude to Great supply of home made pies, cak«»« and Andre bevversen to Jas. T. Kenne Office in First National Bank Building. the border-land of practical joking of the Britain, for having said "hands off", from the 15th. Io the 30th. ol June, and good things for Thanksgiving. Be sure dy, SW'4 of HE'4 and 8E«4 of Net, per 2 years.............. «118 O h i gon G un i~ 1' ahh , 8 W '4 ol *ec 14, and lots 2 anq 3 and leave your orders early Or, each year, per acre ... .. 59 mm cent kind and vandalism of the ma when several European power* wished after the information i* gathered, it will in sec 23, all in tp. ¿18 south licious kind.—Oregon Statesman. At 15 years old, 8 hose* per tree, 560 to interfere with our little scrap with require nonths to classify and print it, range 5 we*t, consideration......... 580 boxes, at 40 cents............................ $224 making ita use hi the political campaign Trouble on the Hoad. Spain If Groat Britain is interfered ASSAY ER, f .EANSES THE ^YSTEM Expenses for 2 years per acre ......... 6o Reports from the South African battle D. W. Wilber, et al, to Myron Wil- of next year, impossible. More than with, it will not bo a question of what An extra freight train, north bound, W. G. Wri^lit, bnr. 10 acres in sec. 1, tn. 38 for 2 year*, per acre....... $1<>4 field have ail the delightlul interest ol the present administrators of thia gov two thousand Special agents will he em south, range 5 west, considera EFFECTUALLY was wrecked two mile* south of Roee- Or, Net, misinformation. The military authori ernment would like to do, but of their ployed together this clas* of informa Uen’l Airt. (ar Orriton for each year, poracre ............. 8.. tion ........................................... 50 h d s ! burg on Wednesday, evening about five After the trees are 15 yean* old, the net ties at Londun are evidently manipulai having to obey the will of the American tion in the 1 571 cities of the country. Janies M ac A k nit r -F okkk ** t C yan dk 1’ koc esb . DiSp-£?n,oS'- Abegg to the General Con c°."HEAD^f£VE--- o’clock, at the place where a holdup oc mg paper anules while the Roers are people. Brigadier General Guy V. Henry, of ference Association of the Sev Cyanide ami Chlorination treatment curred two years ago. The engine was profit ih not likely to increase much, al making vacancies in the roll of British enth Day Adventists,lot 4.block OVERCOMES1.' The Philippine commission held its the regular army, who died hi New No 1773, on which Steve Willis lost his though if planted on the best soil, the M. in Grants Pass. Oregen, con Bellion Refined an I Shipped abitual co ipadon , life in Cow creek canyon. The accident qiiantiLy should increase for se vara I officers on the field.—8. F. Call. first meeting today, with Admiral Dew York City, nsveral day* ago, was buried sideration .................................... 200 ey, Col. Denby, and Professors Schur- m Arlington Cemetery today with mili hap|»ened on a curve, the engine not tak years. These are very conservative KA am - P as ». • O regon . 'PERMANENTLY ing the curve, but going straight ahead i figures, and represent the average profit That destructive pest of the stock men, loan ami Worchester in attendance, it tary honors. The death of Gen. Henry Oregon Midland Railway, ,T5BtHEfmEffECT& ami plunging into the ditch. Engineer I lipe. 1 know of several orchard* pro* thecojotes, have liegun their depreda i* understood that daily meetings will add* another to the long list of high A new company has been incorporated jg C PERKINS, military app >inlmeiits, which Presi lent tion in the Highland vicinity. A num I m * held until a preliminary report has \nderson and fireman L ister jun»t»ed as ducing a profit of from $30 to $40 (»er acre McKinley has had the making of, many at Ashland under the name of the "Oreg the engine left the track. Tne fireman at six years old, and $75 to $10 Iper acre her of the animals have been seen prowl been agreed upon, and probably that a on Midland Co the incorporators be Buy Twf Gtf*Ui**t - M AN r □ By U R. DEPUTY was practically unhurt, but the engineer at »even year* old, ami $40 to $50 an ing around there lately and it is reported lull report will not be made until after more than any president since Lincoln i ing < ieo. T. Baldwin and R. 8. Moore of has had. It makes two vacancies in the MINERAL SURVEYOR, that last week R. Strickland had nine another visit to the island* by the three was quite badly bruised and cut about ‘ acre again at eight yea»*, and then again Klamath county; David Horn of Siski I I have known orchard* not to produce tine Cotvwold sheep killed by them. civil commissioners it is hardly likely rank of Brigadier General in the regu you county ; L. W. VanHorn. W.J. ; the hand«, arm* and body. CA*C**C O kkoon . lar oerv ice. It is believed in Washing Five empty fiat cars and two loaded a cent of profit until alter they were 12 The sheep were in the pasture when that Admiral Dewey will l>e asked to ge Woods an<l J. A. McCall, of Jackson fCft SAU BY *u F»U Xk «U SJTHU they were killed.—Oregon City Enter (here again. It had been arranged that ten that the vacancies will go to Lawton county. ' box cars followed tne engine into the years oid. and MacArthur, both Colonels in the prise. In apple growing, a* in all other in £X)SliOW& SHERIDA N, the coesmissien should bold its meeting!* Glitch, making a terrible mixup. Head The company is organized lor the pur regular army, and both now serving in Brakeman Robinson went into the ditch dustries, there I* a no-profit line all the The little steamer Ralph, taken from at the department of State, but at the the Philippines as Major Generals of pose of constructing a standard gauge MINING ATTORNEYS, with the engine, which roiled over on its time for a certain class of producers. this river some month* ago to run on the last minute it was decided that then- road from Klamath Falls to Klamalhon, ial attention given to Mining back, but he wa* able to climb out , Tpose who have the knowledge and skill (’m|Mpia, went ashore near the mouth was no room that could I m * spared in the volunteers. wasre the Southern Pacitfic road crosses ind Laws, and Land Office practice. through the cab window, sustaining only to select suitable land ami varieties ad ol that river a fev^ day* ago, and all department building, ami the name Tolrdo Weekly Blade. the Klamath river. The distance is a* apted to the toil, climate and market efforts to get her into the river again room in a nearby hotel, that was occu O kkgon . • light injuries. Ot-HKl KU. The Toledo Weekly Blade ha* a large I»out 60 mile*. The company will also Al»out 100 feet of track was torn lip condition*, and who are diligent ami faded. The machinery will be removed pied by the Anglo—American High circulation throughout the county and construct and operate boats on the lakes but was repaired so that trains were en painstaking in production, will reaps and saved, but the hull is a wreck. The Joint Commission, for its sitting*, was there are, no doubt, a large number of ami rtvera of Klamath county. pRK E A VOORHIES, abled to pa** over it by al>out nine profit while those who select impro|»er Ralph wa* built at Myrtle Point by the secured. The meetings are, of course aubscribvri* in Josephine county who The amount of capital stock is fixed vanelies or soil, or those ano negle. I to | late Capl Clark Bullard, in 1897.—Co- field behind cloeed doors. o’chs k on Thursday morning. REAL ESTATE, and wish continue their subscription. The at $1,0)0,000, which is to be divided into Although the president is yeiy busy publishers of the Co< kirn and the Blade lo.OoO non a»»essable shares, at a par Friday’s passenger train, due here at Lake care ol their orchard* in any way. quille City II raid INSURANCE. will be on the marginal co*>t of proiu< on bl* annual message to congrees, he oiler both for one year for only $1.25 to all value of $10o each. 9:30 A. M. was delated several hour* by Representing the most reliable com- A highwayman held up several people has arranged to lake a day off', tomorrow new subscribers or to those who pay up the engpe's leaving the rail* about six tiou that gives no profit, it >• a great Aitive work will be tiegun immediate panic- i existence, both fire and life) in ies »his Side of Roeeb irg No one mistak*« to imagin'* that all me.» will | at Pendleton the other evening. Very and go to Richmond, Va , accompanied on all arrearages to the Cut hi » a and ly, ami surveyors will be on the ground Rotarv Public. ii ake a profit in applegrowing, or that naturally, one of t *e victim* describes by six m*-mtiers of hi* cabinet to eee the year in advance. w h * injured. < >KEOON. in a few «lays. tiKAN i - P ass , local toappcningg “I Fall Underwear ROYAL BAKIN« POWDER Boots Welch’s Clothing Store, Maae from pure, grape cream of tartar. J^R K idneys , L iver and B owels -:, ES ' H ' NST GUf9PNIA|TGfSvPVF(S The Bci-t and Most Economical Trading Place in Southern Oregon. WALL PAPER, PILLOWS, FURNITt RE, CA RPETS, TINWARE, cors, (iRA.XITEWARE, EAMPS, CHINA WARE. M ITTI NG, MATTRESSES. r T L GLASSWARE, T I > T 1\ A 1 i 1 T Livi TT > V HOL SI WOODENWARE, MIRRORS, IIA RI)\V A RE, FURNISHINGS These Prices are not Printers’ Blunders, but Straight Figures Furniture Department. I Never before in the history of Grants Pass has Mu h • lit of Rockers been shown as we n. w carry and will eoutiuue to show; you will be surprised to see w»:at >ou cat buy tor ft 50. ft 65. fl 75, f) 75 fi <>- and inter ^du'.c ■ a In Suits we are continually adding to the line, in 4. staple goods—no trash. ¡run beds have taken another jump, but we bad a big Bo. fc tow prices. on prices. These figures will make busy times in the Blanket Department. IO Per Cent DISCOUNT. Four pound All-Wool Blanket, 58 x 78; actually worth fi 25: our price $3.50 less 10 percent; making them f j 15. Five-pout^ 1 While, A!i-Woo1, 66 x 80, actually worth «6 <>ur price 1 cm io per cent making them n 95 Five pound Mack iuaw W<x>I Blanket for miners and proep ctora. hctualljr worth fs »5 oar price $4 50 lev 10 Unprecedented Blanket Selling. 05. Search where you will, you ll find us headquarters per cent makiug them 1 •Ar Laec (urtaios. Picture I raines China Department. New arrivals in Tea Puts. Jap Tea Pots ijc. Gen It will !« a revelation to picture lovers to see our uine English Colxleti Tea Pots, handsomely decorated, new line of Mouldings; Mime beautiful goods, and a big popular prices. CUT IN TWO. assortment of them; the price will suit. If you want any kind of a Picture or Portrait Frame, come to us; we can Lamps. No where in Southern Oregon can you match us. We ' give you both style and prices. Glass Hand or Stand Lamps, ¿5c, joc, j$c. have ju*t received another lot, and although they coat A handsome Vase Lamp, « mplekwith shade and more, we promised a lot of you that if we could, we chimney, tinted and decorated with sprays and flowers, would make the same price on this lot as the last. We Boys Caps. for 11.85 up don’t want to disappoint you, so here they arc while; New Bracket Lamps jtut in; also U'affl« Iron«, Tur. To close out — worth from aoc to each, your they last, key Roasters, Granite and Tinware. 25 CENTS EACH I choice for foe.
