NEW NAVAL OFFICER IS
VETERAN IN SERVICE.'
.CAPT. WILLIAM S. BENSON.
WHO HAS BEEN APPOINTED
TO THE NEWLY CREATED PO
SITION IN THE NAVY DEPART
MENT CHIEF OP NAVAL OP
ERATIONS. HE WILL HAVE
THE RANK OP REAR ADMIRAL.'
HE HAS BEEN IN THE NAVY
S8 YEARS.
WKKKLY IXDISTItlAL KKVIUW
SALEM, May 31. Salem hospital
association WM erect $25,000 hospit
al. .
Tho Dalles June 3 county court
opens bids on $20,000 highway work.
The Moser cherry crop has been
sold at $90 per ton.
Pendleton orders four additional
streets paved with gravel bitulitbic.
- North Bend orders Virginia avenue
improved to cost $11,000.
Industrial accident commission cost
'to date: Surgical and hospital bills
$56,858.81; salaries and expenses
$59,267.33; paid for workmen's in
juries $97,880.65. Set aside for de
pendents in fatal cases $140,573.71.
Child industry Instead of only re
straining children give them some
thing to do. I
Mutuiir insurance companies should
be required to publish quarterly
statements.
Baker Eagle river power plant
completed to operate Virtue mine.
Eugene factory promotion commit
tee considering manufacture of boil
ers. Coal Is being mined in quantities
near Toledo, Lincoln county.
Total per capita taxes at Portland
?45.41. Total taxes $36,328,000.1
County Assessor Reed estimates this!
sum would buy food and fuel for 82,-
380 families of five persons each forj
one year. The tax burden equals the
labor of 29,230 men for one year.
Winchester Bay Is a new townslte
near Gardiner.
Albany J. P. Wallace is putting in
foundation for brick block.
East Portland has $1,500,000 j
buildings under way.
Cottage Grove Ore stamp mills in
Bohemia mines make record run.
Manufacture of Ink established at
Salem.
Commonwealth conference at State
University gave great prominence to
PInchot conservation policies.
Labor leaders favor state printing
common grade school text books.
Suit of workmen Injured on log-
Letl"Kel!y" Do Your Moving, Hauling
ROUGH DRY
Will Be List Prices From
This Day on, May 27th .
Roseburg Steam Laundry
'SA.VE YOUR HANDS"
gluing train for $2500 damages dis
missed by Judge McGinn, as man got
$84 benefit under Industrial com
pensation act.
The new state insane asylum build
ing at Pendleton Is to have a corner
stone of Oregon granite. The rest
is probably Imported.
Resolution was adopted by regents
of Multnomah normal school that
new $50,000 training school building
be built and equipped of Oregon ma
terial and manufactures, and that
trimmings bo of Oregon stone.
Salem school board refuses demand
of central labor council that only
union labor be employed In erecting
new school buildings.
Portland East Alder, Water, Clay
and other streets to be paved.
While Oregon voters defeated all
laws submitted to ?hem at the No
vember election, and enacted, only
four constitutional amendments, the
legislature enacted 351 chapters of
legislation, besides 43 joint resolu
tions and memorials. The legislature
initiated only one new amendment' to
tho constitution to be voted on In
191G. It looks as though there would
be a let up In direct legislation.
Rainier H. C. Mowrey has pur
chased plant here and will be known
as Mowrey Lumber and Timber Co.
Planing mill being Installed, dock fa
cilities improved,' sheds being extend
ed, and plant to operate soon.
N Wheelor Balloy sawmill plant be
gins operations this week, cutting
50,000 feet a day.
Fossil I. A. Johnson will erect a
stone or brick store building.
Beaverton L. L. Gilbert will erect
two story brick building 40x100 ft.
The O.-W. R. and N. announces
that construction work, entailing the
expenditure of $1,000,000 will be un
dertaken immediately. It will in
clude new terminal facilities at Walla
Walla, new division headquarters at
The Dalles, completion Coyote-Echo
cut off in eastern Oregon and the es
tablishment of another terminal at
Pilot Rock Junction near Pendleton.
Salem Snook and Traver awarded
McKlnley school at $20,128 on open
shop basis. Building Trades Council
demanded that board accept higher
bid and employ only union labor.
Eugene Oregon Power Co. em
ploying 25 men laying gas mains;
$40,000 city hall bonds sold at prem
ium. Tho Washington-Oregon Corpora
tion, formerly managed by A. Welch,
Portland, has been reorganized on a
plan to become operative July 1, 1915
under a new management with head
quarters at Vancouver, Wash. Earn
ings for 7 months ending March 31,
were $168,637 gross, $61990 net.
The company operates at Vancouver,
Sifton, Centralia and Chehalls. The
new company handling the properties
Is understood to have considerable
financial strength.
KILL 'KM NOW.
Don't feed your grain to the
squirrels. Our poisoned grain has
been tried out for years, you always
get results. You get quality and
quantity. You take no chance. You
get value for your money,
385-tf MARSTERS DRUO CO.
When you are In need of windows,
doors, window screens or fence lum
ber, see what Page's have to offer.
Call it "their mill on North Jackson
street. 489-m31
CITATION
In the County Court of the State
of Oregon for Douglas County.
In the matter of the Estate of
Walton Gray Hughes, deceased.
To W. L. H. Osborne, administra
tor with the will annexed of the
estate of Walton Gray Hughes, do
ceased; Clegget D. FltzHugh; the
Convention of the Protestant Episco
pal church in the Diocese of Mary
land; the Hospital of the Good Sa
maritan of Los Angeles, California;
Right Reverend Walter Sumner.
Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal
Church In the Diocese cf Oregon:
Louisa Bains; Edwin Stewart Berry;
Lucy Gray HittsLeson Oshorne;
Laura Hughes Hutchinson'; Hagers
town Trust Company; Samuel Hughes
Dorsey; Henrietta Maria Stockton
Lelper; Lydla Holllngsworth Ken
nedy Edwards; Mary Owen Hnn
cock; Lucy Gray Owen; Henry
Hughes; Mahlon Hutchinson; Dan
iel L. Hutchinson; Charles Osborne;
Walton Osborne; Gilliam Osborne;
Virginia Osborne (now Virginia Gib
son); Washington Berry; William F.
Berry; Thomas C. Berry; Antoinette
Dorsey Stephens; Ros Dorsey Haber
sham, GREETING:
IN THE NAME OP THE STATE
OP OREGON, You are hereby cited
and required to appear In the County
Court of the State of Oregon for the
County of Douglas at the Court room
thereof at Roseburg, in the County
of Douglas, State of Oregon, on the
23rd day of June, 1915, at Ton o'
clock In the forenoon of that day,
then and there to Bhow cause, If any
you have why the probate of the pur
ported will and testament of Walton
Gray Hughes, deceased, with codicils,
as shown by an order of the above
entitled court made and entered on
the 26th day of May, 1914, should not
be revoked and set aside and the let
ters of administration with the will
annexed heretofore Issued to said W.
L. H. Osborne, annulled and an ad
ministrator appointed for said estate,
and why an order should not be made
holding said purported will and codi
cils invalid and ineffective to pass
title to any property In the State of
Oregon, for the reason that said pur
ported will and codicils are not exe
cuted in the form and manner requir
ed by law In the State of Oregon.
WITNESS, The Hon. R. W. Mars
ters, Judge of the County Court of
the State of Oregon, for the County
of Douglas, with the seal of said
Court atflxod this 8th day of April,
A. D. 1916.
ATTEST:
(Signed) E. H. LENOX,
Clerk
By BLANCHE REED,
(Seal) Deputy.
The above citation published by
order of Hon. R.' W. Marsters, judge
of the above entitled court, made and
dated April 27, 1915. Date of first
publication May 3, 1915.
B. L. EDDY,
Attorney for Elizabeth P. Smith, Pe
titioner. 450-Jnl4
and! Transferring
The
French
Transfer
Company
Phone 220
THONE INVENTOR
GETS EDISON MEDAL
- iix'i J
Dr. Alexander Graham BelL
Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, in
ventor of the telephone, has just
been awarded the Edison medal for
meritorious achievement in electrical
science. The medal, which was
awarded to him in New York at the
annual meeting of the American In
stitution of Electrical Engineers, is
awarded each year to a resident of
the United States or Canada and is
provided for by a trust fund estab
lished by friends and associates of
Thomas A. Edison. I
1 Dr. Bell is most famous for his,
telephone invention, although many'
other things can be placed to his.
credit He has just celebrated his
sixty-eighth birthday and lives most
of the year in Washington, spending
his summers in Nova Scotia. ,
SOUTH DKKIl CREKK
G1IANGK PLAIT AND DA VC1'
On Friday evening, Juno I, South
Deer Creek Grange will prosmt at
their hall on South Deer creek, the
rousing four-act play, "The Daugh
ter of the Desert." This is a western
frontlor play, replete with comedy,
blood-curdling experiences, and hair
breadth escapes. Twenty people are
in the cast. Lots of Indians, cow
boys and pretty girls. Come, bring
your neighbors and enjoy an evening
on the frontier. Good music.
Refreshments for all after the play
followed by dance.
Admission, adults 20 cents, chil
dren 10 cents, or $1 for play and
dance. 576-jn4
UNCALLED FOR MAIL.
The following letters and cards
remain uncalled for at the Roseburg
postofflce:
Bradford, Willie; Brown, Mrs. B.
N.; Dumond, Frank S. ; Gilbert, J.
W.; Keeler, W. H.; Mnrtin, Louis;
Parker, Guy; Pratt, Mrs. Al; Ray
mond, M. E.; Ttodky,.W. O.; Smith,
Harry; Wolvorton, Arthur.
Curds.
Huff, Mrs. Etta.
L. F. REIZENSTEIN,
Postmaster.
The genuine guaranteed Weyer-
hauscr silos are for sale only at
Page's. The Page Investment Co., N.
Jackson street. 489-m31
v5m
ON THE JOB
keeping up with our orders at
all times. We can'e classify the
many features of our workman
ship which have gained us so
much prestige. Suffice to say
that nearly all building con
tractors utilize our product.
Hargreaves
Door and Lumber
' Company
Not a New Store!
But an old Store with a New Line
A Complete Assortment of
"ROYAL CLUB GOODS"
The line that makes good wherever its put.
Wright and Riedel
"THK SQUARE
Corner Lane and Sheridan Streets
A Full And Complete Line of-
Plumbing, Steam & Hot Water
Goods Always on Hand. Gutters, Valley Tin
Tin Shingles, Hip Shingles, Down Spouts,
Galvanized Iron and Sheet Metal Work, Pipe
Fittings, Valves, Sewer and Drain Tile.
We have special bargains In complete bathroom outfits. Let
us estimate your work. Repair work given special attention.
Roseburg Plumbing & Heating Co.
Res. Phone 64-J. C. W. Hughes, Prop. 220 W Oak. Phone 1B1
Douglas County
Fancy Creamery Butter and Ice Cream
Prompt Attention Given Out of Town Orders
REPUBLIC TIRES!
Staggard Tread, the original non-skid
tires. The tire that makes good in
the Caliofornia deserts. Guar
anteed 5000 miles. You do
not have to wait for
adj ustmets we take
care of you at
THE MOTOR SHOP
SERVICE IS
444 N. JACKSON STREET
Just Arrived A
champion & Mccormick
'BINDERS, MOWERS, KAY RAKES, TEDDERS
4We get our machines direct from the factories
and always have the latest machines made .
at the VERY LOWEST PRICES
I. F. BARKER COMPANY
.... Implements and Vehicles
ROSEBURG :: :-: OREGON
DKAL GUOCKUS"
l'hono One-O-Tliree
Creamery Products
THE KIDDIES LOVE IT
so do the' grown-ups. There
Is something about our pure,
rich Ice cream that makes
you want more. And the chil
dren! Well, let the little
darlings have all they want.
It can't hurt them Its pur
ity safeguards It. Take some
home with you for dinner.
PHONE 340
OUR HOBHY
PHONE TWO-SIX-EIGHT
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