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miter VOL. XX. GRANTS PASS, JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1904. No. 32. T T 4 v .1 H 1 1 Our Line of IAN0S KNAIIE EVERETT STECK VOSE&SONS FISCHER LUDWIG SUITII & BARNES HAMILTON KINGSBURY WELLINGTON IIARDMAN CONOVER CABLE PACKARD OUR ORGANS PACKARD, ESI EY and CHICAGO COTTAGE EASY TERMS ALLEN & GILBERT Ramaker Co. I.O.O.F.BIdg. Grants Pass J. M. Ward, Manager Special Excursion to Si. Louis. ' August 8, 9, 10, September 5, 6 and 7 aud October 8, 4 and 5' are tho re maining dates opon wliicli tickets will be sold at the re-laced rates to the St. Louis Fair. These rates apply over the Denver & Kio Grande and Mis souri Pacific. For the patrons of these roads special excursion cars will be run through from Port Inn J to St. Louis without chongo. ' See the niany points of li terest about the Mormon capital and take a ride through Nature's pciture gallery. During the closing months travel to the Fair will be very heavy. If you contemplate going write W. C. Mo Bride, general agent at Portland for the Denver & Rio Grande, for partic ulars of these excursions. A Round Trip on the Hoist Cag'e, Dennis H. Stovall in Daily Mining Record. Of Special Interest to House Furnishers P mm IANO TUNING ' Join tho clulj by September 1st and get special rates. J. M. WARD. Tuner. Grants Pass Banking & Trust Co. .Mill I P CAIMTAIi STOCK 925,OUI. 00. Transacts a Uenerul Hanking business. Receives deposits subject to check or on demand certificates. Our ru-lomeis are assured of courteous treatment and every consideration con si.tent with sound banking principles. Safety depo.-it boxes tor rent. J. FRANK WATSON, Pres. It. A. BOOTH, Vice-I'res. L. L. JEW KM,, Cashier. The First National Bank OF SOUTHERN OREGON. CAPITAL STOCK, - . - SIIO.OOO.OO. Keceive deposit? subject to check or on certiticate payable on demand. Kelts night drafts on New York San Francisco, and Portland. Telegraphic transfers sold on all points in Ihe United (Hates. special Attention siven to Collections and general business of our customers. Collections made throughout Southern Oregon, and on all accessible points. R: A. IlOOTll. Pres. J. 0. CAM I'llKI.I,. Vice Pres. H. L. Ull.KKY, Cashier Fruit wrapping paper can be se cured at the Courier office. L. G. HIGGINS Assay Office CHARGES: Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, $1 each. Gold and Silver, $1. GOLD DUST Bought aud Refined for Dental Trade. &tcli aud every assay done with the idea that it may be checked. JIRED'RD. STRICKER, M. D. - HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. Masonic Temple, Rooms 2 & 4 Grants Pass,- 'Phone 633 O11KGON. Jr. II. DOUGLAS, M. D. Phvsician-and Sckgkon cor. Oth Ofllco: Pigney's residence, and K streets. Day and night phono No. 0.11 Grants Pass, Ore. J) P. LOVE, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Ofiico in Williams Eros, block, over Grunts Pass Grocer. Residence Phono 414. Office Phone 141. (ihanth Pass, . Oiimion ill. C. FINDLEY, M. D. "Ding! ding! dingl" It was the engineer's bell sounding tho alarm in the hoisting room to "down cago." We stopped aboard the uarrow platform that hung by a leng cable at the collar of the dark shaft. Then one of the miners who accom panies ns closed a little gate, and we were penned in like cattle on a ferry. "Dlug! diug!" Instantly the platform dropped from nudcr us, and we two tender feet grasped wildly about as for something to clutch. The first thing I fouud was my stomach. A rugged minor gave a very loud aud most un prntty laugh, as if amused at our dis comfort. We had gone op aud down on elevators before, and swift ouei at that, but never before had we been dropped from under our hats. Two good breakfasts came very .nearly being spoiled right there. "Klickorl flickor! flicker I" And every flicker was a statiou lighted by elcctrio globes, and every statiou was 100 feet none of your 13 foot stories iu a . skysotapi r. We were going down into a ml 110," one of the very biggest mines iu the state of Oregon. Down, down, dowu, we went, 100, 200, 300, 400, aud on to TOO aud finally en me. to a stop with a Blow jerk, just as a boat docs when run ngaiust a mud bank. We were at the 800 foot level. Here tho gatu was opened aud wo ecrnpibled out of the cage, two at 1 ant very glad the trip wus over. It was 7 o'clock in tho morning and we had come dowu with the first of tho day shift. The lower level is manned first, then the otie aboie, and so on till all are mi'iiued for the day shift. Through tho kindness of the shilt Loss, a great big man, with lantern jaws una steel gray eyes, we were showr, through the mine. He gavo us each a candlo and a miner's candle stick, and led the way. We took a candlestick, with its hook aud Bharp beak, held it out before us and fol lowed. The boss turned on us aud id: That s not tho way to hold a stick I That was tho way you car ried one when you went upstairs to bed several years ago, but it won't work dowu here. Lookyl Sec, put your thumb through the loop, throw tho beak over your wrist, and carry it that a-way. " , Practice limited to EYE, EAR, NOSE und THROAT. Office hours !l to 1-'; 1 :: to 5 Evening hours Tuesdays and Fridays 7:30 toll. Telephones 201 and 77. Grants Pass, - Okloon. C. HOUGH, ATTOKNKY-AT LAW, Piacticesin all Stateand Federal Court Olhue over First National Bank. j ha NTS Pass, OltKfiON MARBLE AND GRANITE WORKS J. B. l'ADF'OCK, Pbopb. i am prenrred to furnish any tiling in the line of Cemetery work in any kind of MARBLE or GRAKITE. Nearly thirty years of experience in the Marble business warrants my saviny that I can till your orders in the very best manner. Can furnish work in Scotch, Swede or American Granite or any kindcl M"h'"' J. B. PADDOCK, front Street Next to Cirfene'a Oot.stiop , Newell Bros, Racket Store,,. TtiUW IliiiltHuir, Hlxtli Hlrt't't .AMERICAN BEAUTY CORSETS. In all the latest styles. Light Weight Summer Corsets. SWEETLAND & CO. FRESH and SALT MEATS.-g PilONK 21 N. E. McC.REW, PIONEER TRUCK and DELIVERY Furniture and Piano Moving GRANTS PASS, ORTGON The popular barber shop Get your tonsorial work done at IRA TOM l KINS' , On Sixth Street Three chairs Path room in connection We did as commanded and followed dowu the black gloom of a tuuuel. The first sensation that creeps through the beiug of a tenderfoot, aud stirs up the muddy depths of Ills soul, ou his first visit into a mine, is the foar that tho timbers above his head may break and lot tho mountain down on him. Thou, there are loug stretches in the drifts whero there are no timbers at a!( just harrows iu the rock. The tenderfoot cannot holp treading cautiously, afraid that if lie lets his foot dowu too severely something might bo jarred loose, and down would come the mountain, and out would go his light. By and by he ventures the suggestion, meant also as a question : "Wouldn't it be awful if these Mm- burs should break and the tunnel should cave?" "Naw", says tho boss, Willi tho promptness of one who knows. "We'd never feel fK. it would be just like puttiu' your foot down on a spider." On the floor of tho tunnel Is a small stool track, like a tiny railroad, and frequently a dnli roar, that increased to a rumbling thunder, catiio from ahead, aud wo stepped asidn to let an ore car pass. The tracks wind and curve about, with hero and there a switch or a crossing, whero other tun nels on tli" hiiuio level, cross und lead to other parts bf tho mine. Near one of the oro chutes, which had "No. XIII, Level 8" tackod In brass letters on tho spout, tho boss mounted a ladder that led aloft into tho gloom. We clambered after him and came suddenly into a wide slope whero many miners wero already at work. Tho stupe set at nn angle of about 45 degrees, representing tho dip of the vein, and had a height, or width between walls, of about five feet. "Pink I pink! pink!" sounded tho regular blows of the jacks on the drills. Aud away off from tho end of the stipo came Uin wild clatter of nn air drill, and others followed suit from the drift below us. All through the dark depths of the stopo the caudles flicker like so nmny stars, revealing by each tho swarthy face and muscular form of a miner. With his sleeve rolled back, and his arm bare to tho elbow, he swings the jack to and fro, striking tho drill with unbroken regulnrily, und driv ing it deeper and deeper into the hard quartz. Near by, his caudle, in its stick, clings by the hook to a jag ged piece of lock. The holes, an inch or more in diameter, are driven into the tough quarti to a depth of 13 or IS inches. The giaut powder, at "shot time" and at the close of ' the shift does the rest. Frequently the mucker comes with a load or sharpened drills from the blacksmith shop above, dropping them with a ringing rattle at the foot of the slope and gathering up a load of dulled ones to return. The ore here, as in nearly all Ore gon mines, is removed by overhand sloping, the miner working from be low upward. As the stopes are work ed out, they are timbered firmly, by driving stalls eight or teu luetics in diameter between tho walls. These timbers are cnt the right size and length before beiug brought down. We finally found our way back to the station level, aud in a momeut the shaft cage dropped down through the gloom. "This is a dooble-compartinont shaft," said the boss to us, with a quizzical din lie, "and there is a lad der running up you can climb if you prefer. It's perfectly safe." Climb 800 feet up a slippery ladder 1 Not (hat day I No, wo would go up iu the hoist, even though we died in tho attempt. We bung up our candles aud stepped aboard, instlnu tivuly caressing our waistbands. The boss pave tho signal and up we shot. Tho going up wns not as bad as the going down, but wo wore almost uuido bow-legged by the weight of our bodies dnring the swift aacout Iu a little while we were out iu the bright sunlight aud loft the old clothes we had donuod in the "change room." Tho foremau took o iu charge to show as the mill and the outer works of the mine. Ho was a little, m.tu with a blonde mustache, blue eyes, and a smile that was war ranted to withstand the wear and tear of time. Ho at once impressed us us being much more of a gentle mail thau the big bos', who had In ugh ad at us every time we made a mistake. But, then, for all his rouhguess and his bigness, lie had a warm heart, that boss. Men fear him, bnt they never hato him. So our dislike of him is cordial, very cordial. THINKS IT ISA TRUE VEIN Dr. Flanagan Interviewed in Portland. THE TAKILMA SMELTER HE WANTS BETTER ROADS Will Soon Be R.endy for Turn intf Out Matte. Men's Working Gloves.. MiWICLIi BROS. House Moving If you have a luiiltling that you want Moved, Raised or LevtUcd up, Call on or address Work roasot.uMy and prom ptly done. llesltlei re 2 mi in west of Grains Pass. A. E. Holloway. nojHHUWll"ir;t III 1 1 II HIIEB IflMHI IMBMMg ; gcgam B H lra 1 1 1 r r t. A. WAUt DIXY GOODS, I UXDERWEAK. I NOTIONS. Etc. I Front Street, west Palace hotel GRANTS PASS, ORE. K REAL ESTATE I BUY AND SELL REAL ESTATE OWN YOUR OWN HOME No. 243. 200 acres; 140 acres cleared; 15 acres in alfalfa; 100 seres iu iirain; 25 acres iu pasture, Good water right, and good boose if nine rooms. B iru 40 x 80 feet. Orchard with all varieties of fruit Price.t-'O per acre. No. 244. SC acres; good water right; no improvements. Must be fold soon. ' Cash fVM. No. 22.1. l''-0 acres about 13 miles from the city. Good house cot almut 1400. Abont floo.000 feet of good saw timber. Will sell for fciouu Stop payiuz rent, f 10 down aud $ a mouth will purchase a lot in almost any portion of tthe city. Call on or addrem ' - JOSEPH MOSS IIeaJ'uarWr lor Real Estate. Office on E Street, betaecn Fourth and Fifth Street, GRANTS PASS. OREGON. It. I, 3I.isoii, Carieuttr, Contractor and Architect. All work done with neatness and dispatch and in worlctuanliki manner. Job work a specialty Give me a cull. Am prepare 1 to re j air, or raise build logs and jut lu uuder( inning. Front street, bet. 3rd and 41 h. Dr. Wrll. Flanagan of Grants Pass, who camo to Portland Sunday to se cure special treatment for his wife, is well-known in tho milling indus try in Josephine county. Recently ho sent an agent to Sucker creek to investigate the Briggs mine and ad jacent territory. The mine has been secured under a bond salo contract by au Ashland man, formerly a miuer iu Alaska. It is understood that the consideration was $100,000, and that ho paid tho Briggs family f 1 0,000 siot cash aud is to pay the balance of the purchase price iu installments as tho gold is taken out. "From what my ogent reported," says Dr. Flanagan, "thero is nearly fiO.OOO in sight lu the mine. The new owner lias gone to work in a rational way and is sloping and sink ing a shaft. The amouut that the Briggs laiuily took out of the mine with jack knives and a pick before they sold the property is variously estimated at from I15.0U0 to 10,000. Nobody but themselves and their hanker know just bow much it was. " Thete aru now about ,100 men pros pecting iu the district aud other strikes are expected. It is known that Grayback mountain, ou winch the Briggs mine is located, is heavily miucralixcd, and for years a man named King has been working a rich quartz mine on the California side of tho in untain, supposed to bo a branch of the same rein. "I am still inclined to bclicvu It is a true vein," says Dr. Flanagan, "aud if it proves to be such this dis trict will become one of the big min ing camps. " Brlgfs Claim in Two Stales. As to the much mooted point as to whether the famous Briggs discovery ii iu Oregon or California, surveys have shown, E. T. Staples says that the ledge runs from south east to northwest and that the projs-rty Is jiartly in Oregon aud nartly iu California. When he aud Ids cotuiiauiuns are gathered about the din.ier table In their ramp one of tb.ai is mated across the line iu California, while the other three (re eating in Orcgou. The Wounded finck claim, which is acontluation of the Briggs discovery, is altnost wholly over the state line. Curt Scutka. IUv. W. L. Riley, L. L. I)., Cuba, New York, write: "After 13 days of excruciating pain from sciatic rh umitism. under various treatments, I was induced to try Ballard's Know Liniment; the flr.t application (living tuy first relief and the second entire relief. I can tive it unqualified rec ommendation." 2, Wic, fl.OO, at Motel Drug Store. Trimble & Cook now cany a stock jf buggy and hack wheels In all grades. The prices are right. A Correspondent Suggests Drain Ins the Water Off A. II. Geyor, who siuco the middle of May has been doing blick and stone work lu tho const rnctio i of the smolter now being put up at Takilma, near tho Illinois river three miles from Waldo, was in Jacksonville Tuesday, says the Sentinel. Mr. Geyer states that tho buildings are up and tho machinery set and only a tittle work remains to he tlouo to have tho smelter ready to start, w hich is expected to be about tho first of Sepleiuber. This micltir will have a capacity of 100 tons cf ore per 24 hour and while a small plant, as smelters go, will bo complete in every detail. Three engines will supply puwer for tb ore orusher, blower, dynamo, elevators, etc , and water for the boilers uud for the smelter will bo supplied by a six inch piie under a 100 foot pressuro. Both charcoal mid coke will be used' fur fuel. The company is having charcoal burned ou their timber land near tho smeller whero also w ill be hud thu cordwood for the boiler fur nace. The coke will ho hauled ftoiu Grants Pass, 41 miles distant, by wagon, tho comjiany to use eight six mule teams. These teams will haul out the copper uiutte, which will be shipped to u refinery where the gold, silver an! othei mrtu.l will he separated from tho copper. The com pany "lias the bios at the suieltur full of ore aud over 2KK) tons on Ihii dump at the mine and a force of miners are blocking out moro oro reudy for de livery. The mine Is up iu the hills nue and three fourths miles fruin the tmoltcr aud for tlm present, oro Is hauled by team, tho grade being so gieat that the load of org is only governed by tho size of vehiclo that WINDOW SHADES Our Special is a good one. Send 'us your orders for special and large sizes. LACE CURTAINS In great variety, 45c to 86 a pair. CURTAIN POLES and fixtures; all sizes and prices. PORTIERES An immense assortment $3 75 to $10 a pair. CARPETS AND MATTINGS 15c to $1.35; large variety and of the kind that wears. Ncne better, and few as good. RUGS Exceptional values; 30x60 for $1.50 tip. REFRIGERATORS at cost. ' HAMMOCKS Regular $1 goods for 60c. t A lig reduction to close out. TENTS Big sizes at little prices. WALL PAPERS and Wall Paper Paste A new idea and a great invention. GLASSWARE and Semi-Crockery going at little prices. R. Thomas . Co., &)a Housefurnishers Grants Pass, - Oregon. 44W44T I M. Ur. taV. W. MUUUUII , j The W. 0. T. U. will meet in the League room cf. the Methodist church, Friday afternoon, August 2rt, at 9 :S0 p. m. It is important that every member be present. tile team can haul lurk. The com pany expeuts to put in a railroad to connect the. mine with the smolter. It is expected that by another year a railroad will he extended from Grants Pass to Takiltna and eventually ou to the ocean at Cruncmit .City. In order to make the wagon road nassablu to their heavy freight wagons, the com pany will go iu with Joscv.hiiie county tj improve tint road from Grants Pass to - Takilma and a bridge will be built across the Illinois rivet as that stream is not fordable at a 1) seasons of the winter. The company has laid out a town site which they call Takilma and a large town is expected to grow op, eipecilly if the mine proves to bo as extensive as it now indicates. Mr. Ueycr was on hn way to Sterling creek where lie expects to locate a quart claim, the hi lg of which he discovered wheu mining on that creek 21 years ago, tin at that time owning the bailor gulch placers. Mr. Geyer's ledgo is located on the headwaters of Hu rling creek ou the north slope of Sterling mountain. V try 3 Blue Ribbon, S-cent cigar. To the Hnguo Itiver Courier, tor 101110 time past I have seen long articles iu our state and county papers iu regard to the making of good, permanent roads, all of which is highly commnnduble and if properly carried out on the lines spoken of by those who have bad ex perience in such work iu the older fates, would In a few years give Orcgoa highways to brag about, but just so long as peoplo are permitted to male irrigating ditches of our county woods and build houses upon what has boon county roads for the past AO years, wo mav safely conclude that Oregon will be out of tho race for good roads to the end of the chapter. Home few years ago, all the work done in district A aud 7 was put iu no the road hetwoen the Holland and Gates ranches and extending north westerly to the old Bone ranch. To day you can scarco see whore the roadbed was on the southern aud worst part of where the road ought to he. Why is this? Because the waters of Sucker creek and Qualvania gulch is conveyed lu ditches there from to the several ranches oil the route tu the Beach and Platter rauch, where, finding nn outlet it accumu lates and forms a large swamp, the spur of the mountain breaks down to the uortbw's', forming a big water shed during the wluter season, makes this section of the county road almost impassable for several months out of Ihe 12, and I woudor that our citizens tlo not suffer with very much more sickness than they do, through living so near a swamp. Now this could be easily remedied by putting iu culverts under tho road bed to carry tho surplus water through to tho Platter ranch, where it would find a natural outlet Into the gulch proper, thence dowu to where we see the smaller streams enter Althouse and Sucker creeks below. F. Cholera Infsatum, This disease has' lost its terrors 1 1 nco Chamberlain's Colin, Cholera ami Diarrhoea Remedy came into general use. The uniform success which attends the use of this remtdy in all cases of bowel complaints iu children has made it a favorite wherever its value has becomo known. Fur sale by all druggists. Short Stop Temperance Wisdom. The gin mill ia a legalized Infamy. Hatf-hearted men uever win a battle. Remember that a fact is a tremen dous thing. .. . Prejudice is the product of Ignor ance and dishonesty . Ouly real Christianity ever makes itself felt iu politlos. It Is everybody's business that nobody drinks whiskey. . As ye go preach the gospel of pro hibition to every creature. Drnuketiuesa is usually in propor tion to the facilities for drinking. Where questions of morals are in volved, neutrality is exaotly equal to immorality. All battles for hotter laws must be fought and won in the areua of practi cal pontiles. It often requires more strength of oharaoter to deoide to do a thing than it does to do it. The promise is: "To hlra that overeometh will I give to sit down with me in my Father's kingdom." It is ouly now and thou that tern perauoe men havo rights which liquor men feel bound to respect. True Christianity Is to hear poor humanity's cry, and hasten, in the Masters' name, to save aud help. When the liquor trafllo Is dead and n its grave, we may place upou its tombstone: "KlUod by Its own greed. " We can ouly free oarsevles from rospouslbilit) for the liquor trafllo by doing our very best to kill that trafllo. ' Every question which is iu any way connected with government and law making, is distinctivlry a political question. No political party will ever oppose the saloou so loug as the enemies of he saloon support that party wheu it does not oppose the saloon. Take the sanction of law and the protection of government away from the trafllo, and the people will soon trample the vile thing Into the very dust. The Cornerstone. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. lost all Its typewriters In the recent disastrous fire In Batllmore. They had a nuinlier of different makes in one, but whim refurnishing their offices with machines they purchased one hundred aud fifty Visible Writing Cudcrwood TyMwriters. The agency for this state 1s located at OS Front street, Portland. Ask for a ctaalogne. Old newspapers for sale at the Cuu rier ofllco. helped of Ood, shall wipe it out, and that the tears and prayers of holy women shall prevail. Chaa. A. Orane, D. D. It is uudertsood that Oregon has now as good a local optiou law as oau be framed, and that it also has a superior anti-gambling law; both of these give the people of this state an excellent opportunity to have olean administration and levatiug moral fftnicsjhere in every commu nity. There is just now au earnest effort being made by the proper officers to enforce this anti-gambling law in the city of Portland, and every good citizen, every voter who in favor of olvlo righteousness, should give every encouragement possible to these officers in enfomiug the law to Its fullest extent Ho one oan question the rightfulness of laws against gambling. Every one must' appreciate that it is wrong for a wily man, whose time and thought is given to the manipulation of cards or other devices, by his cuteness and wlllluess, to secure the money, which list been earned by another without making any return. Ho possible good oan come to any cily or auy commu nity by -having gamblers ply their dishouest mothods in it. Let all our poeple eucourage these officers by a word of oheer In their difficult tasks, either spoken or written, aud let us, by our conduct aud conversation, cul tivate the sentiment in favor of the enforcement of all law, for one law ignored euoouragea the criminal In believing that all law la unimport ant aud unnecessary, aud therefore should be violated with lmpnnnlty, aud resisted if need be by deception, cunning and fraud. DROWNED AT GOLD HILL Wm McKnlsht Falls In Ihe Water While Fishing. . 'Do yon smoke cigarettes?" Is one of the first questions put to boy ofTmidurs In the Chicago Juvenile Court. The New York Evening Post per tinently asks: "If beer close at hand Is really a cure for too much beer ootsldo the barracks, why should we not hear next of a little gambling in the post cure the passion for a great deal In civilian resorts?" The idea of curing vices on the hair-of- the-dog tbat hlt you theory has done too much duty iu the discussion of amusements as well as liquor. Though the legalized saloon bs as blind as fate, brutal as tyrauur, and merciless as death," I am yet firmly convinced that good men, William M.'Kulght a well kuowu resident of Uold Hill and Foots Creek, where he has resided and mined for a n amber of years, was drowned In the waters of Rogue river Sunday afternoon, while fishlug In the stream at Dowden (alls, be tween Uold 11111 and the Ray dam. No one was with McKnight when ho met Ills fate, but a man ou tho opposite side of the stream some dis tance away, saw him fishing and says that he had hooked a big salmon aud in trying to land it, became eutaugled iu the lines, lost bis feet aaaiwas swept Into the rapids, while he was powerless to give any assistance. Ilia body was, found nearly a half inllo down the river, where it had bden carried ty the current. The deceased was aged 41 years. When Mi Knight's body was found, the fishlug line and rod were still at tached to it, the Hue wrapped arouud the beel of oue of his shoes. It is thought that wheu ha hooked the salmon, the fish came toward him faster than he conld reel the line iu aud swinging round iu some maimer, the alack line caught iu bis heel, when another dash of the fish tight ened the lino and throw him off his feet Into the deep water. Ho was seen to attempt to iwlm to shore but the fish apparently pulled him dowu aud he sink out of sight. Tidings. Hot Rolls, hot muffins, hot cakes, made with Royal Baking Powder may be freely eaten without fear of indigestion.