mmmnm m Vol. XXXV ROSEBURG, DOUGLAS COUNTY, OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1903. No. 82 S i. tx rvr a ti Fnn FSWF ri'FFP.TlftVFDV ilUKi lAn and ICE CREAM PARLORS lJ Fruits, Candies, Cakes, Pies, Doughnuts and fresh Bread Daily 1 Portland Journal Agency. Hendrick's Block, Opp. Depot i 1. J. NORflAN & Co. Prop. Jfi FARMERS' CASH STORE, Q. A. WOOD & CO, Props DEALER IN Staple ane Fancy Groceries. Highest Price paid for country produce. Fresh bread dairy. Your Patronage is respectfully solicited. Private Free Delivery to All Parts of the City TROXEL BLOCK OPP PASSENGER DAPOT HELLO 55 Bring Us Your EGGS, BUTTER, FOR CHSH OR TRHDE. 6 J. F. Barker & Co. Heating Stoves Cook Stoves, Stove Pipe Stove Boards. AT S. K. SYKES, Roseburg, Oregon Hints to Housewives. Half the battle in good cooking is to have good FRESH GROCERIES T And to get them promptly when you order them. Call up Phone No. 181 for good goods and good service. C. W. PARKS & CO. Feed With a drain of Common Sense. " . ji rievfflnnl Vous III.,. ,11, . I i . - . . niu uuim, (iiuviuiug uvuryuiing 18 lav I i J. M.gWeatherby T. A. Bury D. L. Martin Roseburg Real Estate Co. Farm and Timber Land Bought and Sold Taxes Paid for Non-Residents. Timber Estimates a Specialty. List your proper ty with us. SA. C. MRSTERS& CO.S DRUGGISTS We Want Your Patronage and as an inducemeut-we offer U. iS. P. Standard Drugs, Fresh Patent Medicines, High Grade Perfumes, Soaps, Toilet Arti cles, and Specialties i p. tin ot c:nmon lo advantage nt nil In feeding awin. sense can be uf-I times. Dou'i ai-i raitltil li cauiJi- of tlio multiplicity of now friils mid now com binationi lh.it arc rutin ;iu;:ily platvd bo fore you. Tlio first tiling id to lake iut ) coiiBid eration the object that is to be obtained. If you are growing pigs for the pork mar ket yon can push them with strong feed continually, providing you keep them in good condition with sharp appetites and active digestive organs to take care of the feed that is given them. It is not always a question of the rich ness of the feed, but its cost must be reckoned with at the same time. Hog raising for pork purposes is car ried on for the profits that it brings, and the cheaper you can produce tho pounds of gain or growth tho more profit you will have in pork raising. Usually rapid growth is the cheapest production. Tho rapid growth is always accompanied with a grain ration or with something that furnishes plenty of protein nutri ment. This ration is usually a grain that you can produce upon your own farm, that must bo accompanied with as much grass as you can got them to eat. Home produced ford is, generally speak ing, the cheapest feed for the feeder. A portion of the feed, no doubt, can be used to advantago and benefit in the cono ntmtod feeds that are offered as by-picnli;ii from the packing houses or glucose factories. But one must; de pend upon cheaper feedB, and this is where his own productions, on which all freight charges are eliminated, and es pecially must he rely for cheapness up on his succulent pastures. There are a number of so-called stock foods, which are a misnomer, as they are not intended to supplant the place of grain or other feeds, but merely as a conditioner or a tonic to keep the syst m in the beet poeEible shape for eagerly eating and properly digesting the foods that are given them. Every feeder has to watch his animals. A variety of feed helps to keep up the appetite, but a sudden change Ehould not be made. It does not do to overfeed, to crowd too far; the hogs should never have more than they will eat up clean. It is better to go a little bit unsatisfied than to have more than satisfies them. Feeding for breeders, and especially feeding brood sows is one that is oftener overdone than any other. A leading breeder of Duroc-Jerseys who has been successful for many years as a great feeder and breeder, producing large smooth hogs, and whose culls have usually topped the pork market in Chi cago, fed his large herd of brood sows lost winter coarse wheat shorts poured into a V-shaped trough and let water soak it, and when he had the feed that he was satisfied would be eaten np clean poured into the trough the hogs were given access to it and did their own mix ing. He, on account of a poor corn yield last year, from early frosts, fed them no corn and was a little bit fearful that his feeding was too plain, but the results were the best he ever had. His hogs never did better nor showed up a better lot of pigs in stronger condition than from the present feed. The sows also had a large range of pasture and were fed clover hay in ad dition. This shows that a great many breed ers who are anxious to give their pedi greed brood sows something extra, were really doing them an injury, and the re ports ol many failures of brood sows having indifferent litters or diseased lit ters were invariably accompanied with a statement that they had fed them a variety of rich feeds mixed together. It shows that like the plain bread and milk diet for children is the best, so plain feeding for brood sows is the wisest and more uniformly accompanied with success. Swineherd. n Jl If you want to buy a farm If you want furnished rooms If you want to buy a house If you want to rent a house f 3'm want to build a house If you want to move a house Ff you don't know PAT Gill n or address... F F. pattern, Resebnrg Oregon. List Your Ranches and Timber Lands with me. : : i ' R. R. JOHNSON, I HAVE EASTERN CUSTOMERS OFFICE IN MARKS BLOCK, AND CAN SELL ROSEBUKQ, UK. Farming Means Something. A writer in the Kural World express es himself most intelligently on the sub ject of education for tho farmers' boys, as follows: 'Who is to blame for the large num ber of farmer boys going to the city in stead of remaining in the country, the city man, school teacher, or the farmer? This is a question being discussed fully all over tho country. Tho day when the farmer needed no education is past, The farmer of today must know some' tiling. .Boys in tlio rural districts, are the ones who need an agricultural edu cation moro than any others. Tho men are too old to learn much of the funda mentals of agriculture, and besides they have their families to support. The old er boys, at least a majority of them, think it too babyish to study plants and how they grow. So it is left to tho ru ral school boy to learn tho fundamental principles of plant growth, etc., and get interested enough to stay on tho farm and follow out the things he first learned in nature studies. Practically all the education tho farm er boy gets is in the rural schools. Does ho learn things here to inspire within him a desire to stay with naluro all his days? In most cases, no. Then why does ho leave. the farm? That's why Nature studies and connected subjects are too often looked upon by school di rectors as humbugs. Tho brightest boy in the family is the ono who usual'v gets the most advantages. When he unifies l lie rural school course ho goc3 to the town graded school. Ho is often laughed at and in ado fun of because ho is 'from tho country,' but ho is bright and soon leads his class. His teachers encourage him along these lines, and i'H soon as he has finished, they aid him in getting a good position in tho city alonj tho lines in which they have educated him. Or maybe ho goes on through college, and, if ho should take an agri cultural course, there is always sonio good position awaiting him as eoon as he graduates. Again, why docs ho leuvo tho farm? And tho brothor left on tho farm to work and help send him through school soon grows envious and will not stay at homo and work whon denied tho privileges given his brother. He has littlo or no interest at all in tho farm, never having had any ono to explain tiio 'whys' and 'wherefores' of fanning in such a way that ho understands it and takes an interest in what he is doing. This attitude toward rural education is gradually changing, wo are glad to noto. Tho agricultural colleges encour age all their students to go back to tho farm, but the big farmers, dairymen, and ranchmen know a good thing and are also anxious to get such men. With all these hindrances to tho farm er's education, if he so desires ho can obtain a valuable knowledge of agricul ture. Besides tho colleges of agriculture which tho farmer cannot bring to him self, there are tho farmers' institutes, which are held but a few miles from his home. The United States Department of agriculture, and several states indi vidually, have farmers' reading courses, in which valuable agricultural literature is circulated through tho different com munities. For the younger generation some agricultural colleges have estab lished boys' and girls' experiment clubs, or some similar organizations, and most others aie trying to get some such plan in operation. Farming has now become a skilled calling, as much so as any other calling, and should rank with all other profes sions But this will not be until the fisrmer boys have been educated to the business and have risen above being sneered at by the world with "Only a farmer.' " Sheep in Orchards. Very often we see orchards that have been set 40 or 60 years with dead limbs and decay stamped on the trees Ask the owner what is tho trouble with the trees, and the answer almost invariably will be that it is old age. It is not old age, but it is starvation that causes them to decav. Some of tho best and the most profitable trees that I have are 00 years old from the seeds (which I plant ted, and the most of them are good for 20 or more vears. On the farm adjoin ing mine are a number of trees, nearly all natural fruit, that were s-et by the present owner's great-grand fatlu r 130 years ago, ami the trees are in a fair slJte of preservation, and produce fruit. It is conceded by all that hay is the most valuable crop that Maine produces, and I am quite sure if the orchards were all properly carol for apples would come, next to hay, as a net cash paying crop. With the experience that I have had, I am convinced that there is no nay that the fertility of the orchard can be kept up so clearly as by keeping a Hock of sheep. If the farmer has a pasture ad joining his orchard, where the sheep can have a run in the orchard and pasture during the day and be yarded in the orchard nights, 40 sheep and their lambs will keep two acres rich enough to produce large crops of apples annually. If he has no pasture adjoining le him put four times as many sheap in the orchard, as it will produce grass for them and make up the deficiency in grain. Mr. Woodward, one of New York's great orchardists, in giving his experience in the different methods practised by him in keeping np the fertility of his or chards, says that the orchards where he kept his sheep and gave them grain produced the bent apples and were the freest from worms, and the net returns were better than by cultivation or any other treatment. It has been nearly 40 years since I began keeping sheep in my orchard, aad I can Eafely say that I know that the benefit derived in the in creased quantity and better quality of the fruit has fully compensated me for wintering and pasturing the sheep, and the wcol and lambs have been clear gain. Seventy years ago nearly every farmer kept from 25 to 100 sheep, and on a few farms 200. Wool brought a good prico, but Iambs sold from 1 to $2 each, or about one-half what they bring now. In thoso days all of the sheep were washed before they were sheared, and the washed wool brought from 3 to 50 cents a pound. A flock of sheep now will net as good a sum of money in wool and lambs as they did in those days, and it is surprising to me why more farmers do not keep them. For the last SO years nothing on tho farm has given the net returns an acre that orchards have whero they have been properly cared for, and if those who havo orchards in a starving condi tion would keep a fleck of sheep in their orchards, or mulch tho trees, or culti vate, they would soon find that tho in come of their farms would bo nearly doubled. Main Farmer. Better than Pills. Tho question has been asked In what way are Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets superior to tho ordinaiy cathartic and liver pills? Our answer is They are easier and moro pleasant to take and their effect is so gentle and so agreeable that ono hardly realizes that it is produced by a mrjicine. Then they not only move tho bowels but inv prove tho appetite and aid the digestion, For salo at 26 cents per bottle by A. O Marsters & Co. Notice. At a regular meeting of tho directors of school District No. 4, tho clerk was authorized to open books for subscrip- t on to warrant loan of f 20,000, said books to bo opon Oct. 1st. Subscribers can subscribo for amounts of (50 or mul tiplca thorcof. Warrants will draw in torcst at tho rato of 4) per cent per an num and will bo payablo as follows $2,000 each succeeding year until all nro paid. For other information apply to 75-tf Cmra Dili-mid, Clerk. tho (Left over from last issue.) Wo havo had some fino weather past week. Max Weiss, the Hoseburg brewer, and two of his hired hands were tho guests of Mr. Adam Doernor last Sunday. Alfred Woodruff was visiting friends and relatives in Melroso Sunday. Mr. Louis Hahn, who was taken ill a week ago Monday night, is able to be around onco more. U. W. Alderson is hauling his oak grub wood to Roseburg this week. Mr. Pavid G. GocJ was working for . T. Woodruff last week. Mr. It. W. Marsters and wife and daughters, Vivian and Ruth, of Roee- burg, were visiting relatives in our burg Saturday and Sunday. Come again, Ruben. 'Undo Ownio" Emo.-v, of Coles Val ley, was on our streets tho first of the week. Mort Woodruff and wife, of Melrose, were visitjng relatives here last week. Sherman Forlin, of Coles Valley, w ho has had tho old Jones place, of Melrose, rented is making preparations to move to Coles Valley again. Give us a call when you come through, Sherman. Mr. John Thorn, of Roseburg, was out to his ranch the first of the week. The roads are in fine condition for hauling, after tho rain. Simon Negus has been hauling home baled hay that he purchased of A. E. Clayton, of French Settlement. Edward Von Pessil has been one of our best road supervisors and we are sorry to have him leave us. Mr J. Toolcy was out the other dav, trying his new team. Mr. Bacon, just across the river, in Garden valley, from Cleveland, who built a new Kirlz dryer, had a long run this year with which to dedicate the drvcr. Sam Evans, of Umpqua Ferry, pasted through our village last week. Since one or two parties havcu't run any deer with hounds, they have been een quite often down here in the last few months. L. A. Marsters and A. Doernor expect to put a big dam in the creek that runs through the former's place, for irrisat ing purposes. Hallowe'en is nearly here, so look oat for things and put them under lock and key. tiuy Wilson, of Coles Valley, passed through here last week, toward Roseburg. There has been some fine trout fishing n the river here this fall, some caught weighing three to four pounds each. Adam Doerner received a letter from his brother, Henry, now in Cape Nome. He says he will winter there this winter. J. II. Pierce went to Roseburg one lav last week. E T. Woodruff ran his chopper, Mon day, to grind horse and hog feed for the winter. David Good was the gueit of Willie Scott last Sunday. Mrs. Miller, our school teacher, spent Saturday and Sunday with her sister over at Wilbur. L. A. Marsters, who has had his un cle's place rented, is going to move to his own place up on Cleveland creek this fall or early winter. Our woodshed at the school house looks 34 if it needed a little repairing sometime, or the schoolma am would have wet wood to burn this winter. Mr. Frank Conn, one of Melrose' most prominent business men, was a visitor here Tuesday. Mrs. Edward Von Pessil, accompanied by her sister, of Coles Valley, was visit ing friends hero the first of the week. Mr. Asa Gurney, of Rest on, passed through here Tuesday, en route for Hubbard creek. Mr. E. T. Woodruff went over to Gar den bottom on business Wednesday. Messrs. Will, Frank and Conrad Long were out with some dogs the first part of the week, but failed to start anything. James Dawson was a Roseburg visitor Monday. The people around "here have been busy gathering in their winter supply of apples. How aro the roads down toward tho valley, for a wheel, Budd? We are glad to hear that the Plaix- dealer is on its feet once more and hope it will prosper. Mr. Frank Friman was doing business in Roseburg the first of the week. Goodbyo till next week. Hoodoo. tho docks, providing orahle. Miller Humphreys received a letter from his son, Jesse, a few days since, written from Queenstown, Ireland. About two months ago Jesse shipped as a hand on a vessel out of Portland bound for the Orient and ho is now in Euro pean waters, and will put in at tho British Isles and European cities. He writes, however, that he already has had enough of a sailor's life. Mr. P. L. Martineau, of Bordeau, France, has been spending sometime In Myrtle Creek, in the interestof a French firm that is buying a great amount of prunes in this country. The French people consume a great lot of prunes and they look to Oregon to supply a good part of tho demand. This is a natural prune valley, and eome growers say the French prune doea better here than it does in its native country of France. Dr. Whitcomo was showing the peo ple, Monday, a bunch of ripe straw berries, some ol those ho is growing in his garden. They are nice berries, and aro some of thn first to ripen. The doctor has made an effort to get a berry that grow in the winter and he thinks he almost has it, and says he will have strawberries galore at about Christmas tide. Charles R. Potts ha? beon appointed postmaster at Nugsjet on South Myrtle. Ben Sanders, the former postmaster, bad resigned before his accidental death. Mr. Potts has already assumed his ardu ous duties and we congratulate him on getting such a lucretive government position. One day last week as Etfie Weaver was in a car at the depot, she fell to th ground by accident and broke the clavi cle or collar bone. An! a little son of Mr. and Mrs. Du Der fell from the flume breaking his ulner bone of the forearm. He was brought to town and I'r. Whitcomb reduced the fracture. Congressman Bii.ger Hermann and son, Elbert, were guests at the Overland hotel Monday and Tuesday nights. Mr-1 Hermann was ool for a rest previous i to his departure for Washington. He visited friends at Canyonville, near which place he started his Oregon car eer as teacher in a country school. While here he was not unmindful of his official duties, and sought to know the peoples' wants in things national. He seemed to have a pleasant time and met many of his old time friends. Willis Kramer went to Roseburg, Monday, and started action against the Johnson Lumber Company in an injunc tion suit to restrain the said company from interfering with the water supply ! of his flour mill that is operated by i water power. The complaint al!edges:i That during the present year defendant constructed dams and reservoirs in Myr- j tie Creek, the stream from which the i mill race is constructed, above the plain- j tiff's mill, for floating logs, and the water to restrained failed to reach the j mill for several days, rendering it idle ! from loss of power; that at irregular I intervals defendant opened the gates! of said dams sending so much j water at one time that the plaintiff was unable to conserve it for the mill; that defendant constructed a flume into ! which he dirverted the waters of the stream to within 100 yards of plaintiff's mill where it is ducharged into the race ; that water from said flume is filled with sawdust, bark, sediment and debris so as to clog the rack and gates of the mi 11 wheel. Plaintiff further alleges that by ntcrmittent stopping of the mill for the reasons set forth much of his trade has been lost and that the continued inter ference will depreciate the value of his mill. Damages that may seem equit able to the court are asked by the plain tiff and an injunction agaiust further interference. R. W- FENN, CIIL- ENGINEER (Lately with the government gographical and geological survey of Brazil, bouth America.) ' United States Deputy Mineral Surveyor. OfllceoverPostoffice. HOSEBURG, OnECOtf. Correspondence solicited go to THE ROSELEAF for CIGARS, TOBACCO FCND SMOKERS' SUPPLIES, Jackson Street, - - Roseburg, Oregon Attention Rheumatics!! Why pay the Rail Road a lot of money to carry you to Springs of unknown medical properties when you can be guaranteed a cure at BOSWELB SPRINGS near home. ELATERITE la Mineral Rabber.l YOU MAYriNTEND BtlLDISG or firm It necesHury to RF.PUICE A WOHJW)CT HOOF ELATSSRITS ROOFING THE ELATER1TE ROOFIKG CO., "Worcester Building. JPO RTLuVN'D LADIES!! Have you seen our line of Jackets and Furs. We do not claim to do all the busi ness, what we want is the pleasure of showing our line. The Goods will do the rest. We are confident that vour Jacket or Fur will be bought of WOLLENBERQ BROS., Phone 801, A. SALZ MAN, Pratical WatchmaKer, Jeweler, Optician. Watches, CIocKs, Jewelry Diamonds and Silverware Watch Repairing & Specialty. Myrtle Creek Mailings. Gahbert gono to and Mildred Portland for a The new general staff of the army has decided to send agents to South America to study militaiy conditions there as a preparation for war in volving the United States which might be fought in that part of the world.' This policy is based on the conclusion that the next conflict of the Ameri can government will be for the main tenance of the Monroe doctrine. It is to be the opinion of the general staff that hostilities will nltimatelv come with one or more European powers over the principles embraced in the fifth President's famous mes sage. Several army officers will start for South American capitals before the end of the month. They will be accredited as militaiy attaches to the United States legations at these capi tals. The officers who are to go have been selected from among the young er men of the general staff, whose membership comprises the pick of tho army. Notice to Con.racto 3. Sealed Bids will bo received by the Board of School directors of Dist. No. 4, Roseburg Oregon, until 2 o'clock p. m. Nov. 2, 1903, for tho erection and conv pletionofa High School building ac cording to plana and specincations, pro- pared by Chas. Burggral, Architect, Albany .Ore. All bids must boaccom panied by a certified check payablo to school District No. A, Koseburg, Ore gon, lor tho sum of As a guaran tee that in the event tho contract is awarded, tho contractor shall furnish nn approved bond, equal to 75 percent of tho contract within tun dnvs after tho awarding of tho contract. Proposals for tho snmo, plans and specifications, may bo seen at S. 0. Flint's, liosoburg, Oregon, or nt the architect's office. Tho building shall bo comploted by September 1st, 1904. Tho board resorvea tho right to reject any or all bids. Sigurd S. 0. Flint, tho way Chairman, Board of Director Dis. No. 4 Miss Etnel Kramer, havo weeks' visit. Undo ' Joe l.mo had a small sized blazoon tho roof of their houso this morning caused by a defective Hue. Mr. and Mrs. George Dement, of Port land, arrived homo last week and will, perhaps, mako thero homo hero this winter. Dr. T. V. Hall, a practicing physician of Lakeview, is hero on a short visit to his mother, Mrs. John Hall, and other relatives and friends. Tho Myrtle Creek Prune Association, has shipped 2S cars of packed prunes to Franco already this fall, and expect to send out nearly as many moro. E. A. Strong, of Portland, spent a couple of days hero this week. Ho was brought hero as a witness for tho John son Lumber Company in tho hitter's suit with Mr. Kramer. Attorney and Mrs. C. I. I.ovcngocJ were hero, Tuesday. Mr. l.uvongood is counsel for Mr. Willis Kramer in tho tatter's suit restraining tho lumbor com pany from interfering with tho Hour mill's wator supply. Havo you noticed how tho lumbor is piling up over at tho lumbor yard? Thero aro about 30 piles started and it is coming down overy day. Mr. Joluuou has a f 1,000 planing mill on horo that will bo installed to do work at Claua Dillaud, Clerk. 75-N2 CX000COCOX00XCO0 ooooo F. w. BEN50X. A.C.MARSTKBS. Viee President. Douglas County Bank, KataJWissIieci 1883. Incorporated 1901 Capital ,Stock: $50,000.00. BOAHD OF DIRECTOR. F. W. BENSON. It. A. BOOTH J. II. BOOTH, J. T. BRIDGES J. F. KF.IXY, A. C.NAHSTKRS K. L. illlXEK. A general banking limine transacted, andjeustomers riven everr acconimo-lation consistent with safe and conservative banking. Bank open fnn nino to twelve and from one to three 000000000000X n.c.GALET. O Cuhler O O c o c 0 o 0 c O c r o Germany against Monroe Doctrine. "In Germany the word has gone forth that the fatherland must havo a navy as strong as any other power, and that colonies mast be founded to drain off tho surplus population without denationali- lation. jlv lmnression is that German v is looking to South America for tho es tablishment of these colonies, 'and' will not permit the Monroe doctrino to stand in tho way, if it comes to tho test." Speaking dispassiouately. Representa tive Alston G. Dayton of Ye3tVirgiuij, second Republican tuembor of the naval affairs committee, who has just returned from an extended studv of naval affairs in Germany, England and France, made tho above statement, and followed it by ileclaring for a systematic programme of naval increase in this counirv. ' He said: . "Tho shipbuilding programme" which will give Germany thirty-eight modem battleships will bo completed by 1910. The effort to complete tho programme by 1906" was a task even boyond their remarkable enercv. "Germany is making rapid naval prog ress. England is standing still. Franco, with poor naval administration, is in dulging in flotsam and jetsam expeti- ments with torpedo craft and going backward all tho timo." tion. Those upon whom our institn tions cast the initial duty of bringing malefactors to the bar of justice must be diligent in its charge; yet in the last resort the success of their efforts to purge the public serrice of corruption must depend upon the attitude of the courts and. of the juries drawn from the people. Leadership is of avail only so far as there is wise and resolute public sen timent behind it. In an address declivored last weak n Now York President Roosevelt said 'Remember that in popular govern ment we must rely on tho people themselves, alike for tho punishment ;of corruptionists and ior, the relorma- $100 Reward, $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to euro in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. 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