The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1880-11-20
SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 20, 1885,
SOUTHERN OREGON NOTES.


Weather clear and frosty.
Mr.. VIM. Erwin of Ten Mile, gave US
q call this week.
For this season of the ) ar South
Umpqua is very low,
The last number of Harpers Weekly
has number of nipping Cartoons.
one hundred different styles lamps
for cost price at Caro- Bros.
Our street and roads are getting
dusty. It beats the oldest inhabitant.
Before the next issue of this paper
many strutter of the gobbler species
will have strut his last strut.
Tbefe yill he marriage not over
Ten Miles from here in few weeks.
Ed, call around end see us.
Mr.. and Mrs. O. C. Perkins returned
from Portland last Saturday, much
improved in health.
A large assortment of jewelry for less
than cos, at Caro- Bros, as they are
bound to close on. their stock.
J. NJ. Rowley is In town; he has got
q new hat, shaved off his chin whisk-
ers, and now he is not-an altered
man.
We had pleasant call from Mr.. L.
g. jackson, who is ia the city on bus
mess connected with the New Idrian
mines.
Hafenden Bros. have on hand io'
of new barrels, just suited for saiting
down your winters meat. For sale
cheap, for cash.
Il. Singer, of Canyopyille, has pur'
chased the billiard table which was
forrerlv used in the now defnnct
Bureau saloon, and taken it to Can
yonville.
Thos Whltsett, of Deer Creek, los
his little child, aged three years ant
six months. by that fell disease bron
chitis, on Wednesday morning; it wa
buried on Thursday.
Messrs. j. G. Floed, Sr.i ana ). !
Fullerton have requested US to an
nounce that they will pay Myrti'
Creek visit, professionally, on Mon
day next, and il there successful vii
continue oD to Canyonviile.
Hon. A. G. Stanley. of jackson
cunty, says he was informed b.
Joseph CASTOR that the compan.
he represented was favorable to build
ing narrow guage line to jackson
county, TO connect with the prop ose
road from Winnemucca to Oregon.
Papa says that the democrats ar
aRepudiatists.u They made a fai
contract with him, at five do liars pc
day, to smile for them after election
and when he called at headquarters
" for his pay, after the news came fror
New York, they repudiated the cor
tract. He has worn seven-by-nin'
countenance ever since.
County Treasurer Wright, on las
Saturday, forwarded to the State treas
urer, at Salem, 1900, making $500
sent in for the year 1880. Mr.. WTigi
informs as that this amount has bee
forwarded earlier this year than
any time since he has been in ofiic
which speaks well for the taxpaye
Of Douglas county.
Those papers that have b cen sianue
ing Robert Bruce, the dog belongir
10 Haffenden Bros, had better fir
something else to do. Bruce did carr
q Transparency the night before eie'
tion. on which appeared Hancock I
Bust, but no republican caugl
Bruce and changed the sentene.
Bryce Is still for Hancock, and wi
rive puss to any one who asks hir
for 1t.
An unsofisticated, lantern-jawe
slab-sided, big-footed, bull-whacke
walked into an sp-town saloon ii
other evening. where a game cailt
ublue-lay', was ia operation, and aft
watching 1t for 4 while planked dow
: half: the dealer took It in, he pt
down another, which was also take
in. and kept on until five dollars h'
disappeared. The dealer sang out Il
die Is cast, the game is made, twh'
tho voutll asked him "what he Gale
that pame2 ssBlue- jay was u
repIv. .sIslueAjay be did, its tough
than turkey -puzzard We lrled % e :