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Newspaper Page TextDOUGLAS COUNTS ORCHARDS II ELD ANNUAL CROPS RMNQINT) frROM 10i TO 500 PER ACRE. CHOICE ORCHARD LAND CAN STIL L BE BOUGHT CHEAP. AN INVESTMENT NOW WILL QUADRUPLE IN VALUE IN FIVE TEARS' TE3. KEEP WELL POSTED On the ourrent events of the world's progress by reading the Daily Rivmw. Delivered by carrier, 60 ent month. ROSEBURG PROFITABLE INVESTMENT Advertiserr get Hood returns from an nouncements plaoed in live papers the Daily and Twit e-a-wek Kivisw. Try them inert' ii'inp other so good. VOL. XL ROSEBURO, OREGON, FRIDAY. EVENING, JANUARY 20, 1 000. NO. 280. Review Extends From Northern Texas to North' Dakota ZERO BACK IS MINNESOTA Oregon Farmer Kills Daughter's Lover Who Ignored Warning Never lo Return to His Home Special to the Evening Review. CHICAGO, Jan. 29. One of the worst blizzards in recent years is sweeping Nebraska, extending north ward into Minnesota, where the mer cury has dropped below zero. All wire communication between those two states is almost entirely cut oft. 40 Miles An Hour Hero. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Jan. 29. A wind storm reaching here today from Okla homa is blowing at the rate of 40 miles an hour. Extent of the Storm. DENVER, Colo., Jan. 29. A tre mendous gale of wind Is still raging east of here. All wires between Den ver and Ogden east are down under the weight of heavy sleet. The storm extends from North Dakota to north ern Texas. So far. railroad traffic is uninterrupted except on the eastern Blope of the Rockies. Linn County Killing. ALBANY, Or., Jan. 29. Charles Powell shot and killed A. Rupert as the latter was leaving a dance last night on Powell's farm, 22 miles south of Brownsville. Two months ago Rupert ran away with Powell's 15-year-old daughter, and Powell sent them word never to return to his home. Ignoring this warning, Powell and the girl appeared at the dance last night, and the tragedy was the result. Powell surrendered him self to the authorities. Women Murderer Hanged. SAN QUENTIN, Calif.. Jan. 29. Charles Baldesar, game to the last, was hanged at the state prison here this morning for murdering his wife and mother-in-law in Stockton, Sept. 30, In a fit of Jealousy following a debauch. Baldesar had been married only' six months at the time. As he weighed only 129 pounds his drop through the scaffold was one of the longest on record. He was pronounc ed dead In 30 seconds. Bombskl-Bangt BAKO, Russia, Jan. 29. One man was killed and 11 others Injured to day; when a bomb was thrown into the shop of M. Asrleff, a wealthy merchant, who refused to pay anar chists 10,000 roubles. "What Heney Got Only Worse." LOS ANGELES, Calif., Jan. 29. United States District Attorney Law ler Ib threatened with death in a let ter received today supposedly from sympathizers of alleged Mexican revolutionists who have . been im prisoned. The letter Bays that un less the Imprisoned men are liber ated Lawler will get what Heney got, only worse. 4..CAXYONVII.LK SAFE WITHSTANDS POWDER. CANYONV1LLE, Or., Jan. 28. The general merchandise store of Thos. Wilson was en tered by safe crackers early this morning. They gained en trance by prying a window op em The tools were obtained from two near-by blacksmith shops. The combination of the Bafe was broken off with a sledge, powder was Inserted and a blast set oft, but without effect. They then pried open the money till, taking what change tt held and left, leav ing no clew. The safe cost 400 and cannot be opened. GREAT TUNNEL BURNING. Men Nearly Lose Lives Fire Creep, lug Into Comstock Mince. UOSUni'IlG THANKED FOR SUBSCRIPTIONS. E. N. Ewart, secretary of the local committee to raise funds for the Italian earthquake Bufferers, today received the following letter 'from Portland: . "On behalf of ithe Italian Relief Committee I desire to return to you their sincere thanks for your check for 95.60. collected from the gen erous citiens of Rjpseburg. The amount you sent is the largest sum collected outside the City of Port land, with the exception of Salem. Again thanking you, I remain, "Sincerely yours, DAVID M. DUNNE, "Treasurer." Lizzie Kelley was named admx. of the estate of -Charles Kelley. de ceased; said estate being of the probable value of $1500. Patronize Review advertiser. VIRGINIA CITY, Nev., Jan. 28. Fire In the Sutro tunnel in the Com stock mines, which started ait the Junction of the north and south lat erals, nearly cost the lives of 20 men, who were dragged to safety after the most heroic and hazardous efforts on the part of their comrades. . The fire this afternoon Is working back down the tunnel toward the en trance. Water has been shut off and the only hope of saving the mines is to get a hose down the combination shaft. The miners have formed bucket brigades and have divided the work Into sections, the different creWB fighting the Are from different direc tions. The Are is hard to reach because of the gaB and smoke which knocks out a man sb soon as he gets inside the danger zone. All the superintendents are on hand and are making every possible endeavor to prevent a com plete shutdown, which is inevitable it the pumps are put out of commis sion. The timbers are burnrng rapidly. House Excepts Only Voting Machine Measure THREE OTHER BILLS PASS Abraham's $1,800 State Llbrarlai Bill Killed, and Same Fate Awaits ' His Normal Bill extent as to make it of no practical value whatever. The bill wus designed to authorize the sterilization of the criminal in sane, and confine criminals so that the transmission of insanity and criminal tendencies shall be restrict ed. The committee on penal Institu tions obtained the adoption of an amendment which provides that ster ilization shall be resorted to only in case of insane persons whose mental the bill, will be permitted to secure such number of convicts for labor upon Its public roads as in the Judg ment of the bonrd It may be able properly to guard and employ. Ap plication by any county for convicts tor this purpose shall be made to the Convict Labor Hoard through Its county court. The bonrd also has the power to revoke all such orders ; whenever, In Its opiniun, the state s charges are not properly guarded and cared for. The county so employ- condition will probably not Improve lng convicts shnll pay all expenses in- AGBE-KERNAN Co. can sell your property. Abraham building, dsw THREE DAYS MORE THAT'S ALL BUY NOW AND SAVE ONE FOURTH ON All Mens Clothing AljBoys' Clothing . All Men's Wool Underwear All Cloaks and Suits All Skirts and Waists Mjilk Rain Coats All Umbrellas And many other seasonable items too numerous to mention. SINCE 1877 weVe been treating" people square" Special to the. Evening Review. SALEM, Or., Jan. 29. All vetoes filed by Governor Chamberlain after the adjournment of tne last session of the legislature were overriden in the House today, except the Beach bill providing for voting machines, which was indefinitely postiwned. The House also passed a bill creating an additional judge In Multnomah county at a salnry of $4000 per year. At 1 o'clock this afternoon the Houbc adjourned and allowed the Oregon Idaho Development Congress to oc cupy the chamber. In the Senate today, Smith's bill creating artesian wells in eastern Oregon passed with 27 votes In Its favor. Mullt's bill exempting all pub lic bonds from taxation passed after belnc amended so that It would apply only to all future issues. Woman Suffrage Put up to Voter of Washington. OLYMPIA. Wash., Jan. 29. Af ter spending considerable time on a proposition to save $6 on a printing hill, the House this morning tackled bill nrovldlng that the question or woman suffrage be submitted to the people at the next general election. The bill passed by a vote of 70 to 18. Several women present made "God bless you" speeches. and In the case of laplsts and other criminals serving a third term in the penitentiary. As amended, the bill applies to very few criminals, for the number who go to the penitentiary a third time is exceedingly small. So far as the Insane are con cerned, the bill is now equally Inef fective. Those persons whose mental condition cannot be Improved will not be discharged from the asylum. Those who may Improve but who can not be entirely cured, are the ones discharged and they are the ones who may transmit insanity, to their descendants. The Senate committee on medicine today reported favorably Senator Cole s bill requiring a medicnl cer tificate as a prerequisite to securing marriage license. Tills certificate must show that the applicant is free from venereal diseases. The senate committee on penal in stitutions today submitted an nmond nvent to Kajf's Bennte Dill, which bill required that convicts be conveyed to the prison by prison officials. The mendment provides that the con victs Bhall be conveyed by sheriffs, who shnll receive $3 a day and actual expenses. New Rills in Hcnnte. Merryman County clerk to pro vide each voting precinct with two ballot-boxes, one for county and one or state and district olllces. Hart To create tho Oregon Con servation Commission, composed of seven memberB appointed by the gov ernor, to serve without salnry, but with $1000 for exponses. Bailey of Sennlor Abraham's Hills go to the timveynru. SALEM. Or.. Jan. 28. The Sen ate Judiciary committee received 11 sovere scoring from Senator Abra- am of DouKlas this morning, wnen tho committee reported adversely on braham's bill making it manslaugh ter to kill a human being by mistake for a deer. Chairman Hart, of the Judiciary committee, submitted the adverse renort and moved the in definite postponement, which carried. Later in the day the senate judiciary committee in particular, and the legal profession In general, enme in for another trouncing at the handr of Senator Abraham of Douglas, him self a lawyer. The Sennte this nftcrnoon defeated Abraham's bill proposing to Increase the salary of the stnto librarian from 1350 to $1800 a year. The vote was IB to 13. and since 18 votes are nee- essary to pass a bill In the Senate the measure failed.. Abraham's bill creating five nor mal school districts is a measure thai as no chance of escaping the lndefl. He postponement route to oblivion Some kind of normnl school bill will be pin sod, and It will very likely pro- Ide for two or three normals, yet Smith of Marlon ml.jht succeed in his ffort to have tho number reduced to one. Kny's Itlll Killed. The second and more severe d nunclatlon came when the revision of laws committee reported against Kay's bill providing, In effect, thnt when a man has been indicted for murder, convicted of manslaughter and given a new trial on appeal, he shall be tried the second time on the original Indictment, and may be con victed of murder. The revision of laws committee was divided and motion Was made to re-refer the bll to the Joint committee on Judiciary and revision of laws. Later a mo tion to postpone Indefinitely carried 1'awHil by Honnie. Among the Important measures passed by the Senate today was Bfng ham's bill,- prepared by the State Dairy Association, regulating the sale of milk and cream and requiring that cream separators be washed Ithin three hours after use. The bill carries an appropriation of $6000 for two years for additional dairy In- sjiectors. Other bills passed were Judlrlary Committee Making It unlawful to iiermtt a minor to tnk part In games of chance In publl amusement resorts and making It un lawful fur a minor lo misreprescn his axe. Bowerman Giving consent ror tn United States to acquire title to and jurisdiction over lands for erertlo of federal buildings. Passed by House. Miller Requiring plaintiff In civil suits to give bonds for cost when such suits are filed In county of which defendant Is a non-rest dent. McKlnney Admitting a evidence In other than murder cases the d claratlon of a d;lng person. Kenalf t'ommlltif Report. The senate committee on penal I mltntlons has amended Dr. Owens Adair's sterilization bill to such an cident to tnkfng and keeping tho men from the time they are taken from the penitentiary until they are returned to that institution. Provision is also given the board to establish three central stations one in eastern Oreg&n, another in the Willamette Valley and the third In southern Oregou whore materlnls for road construction work shall be prepared. The materlnls bo pre pared Bhall be disposed of -to the various counties at actuul cost. The bonrd is authorized to employ and discharge such assistants as mny be necessary, and to purchase supplies to carry on the work. It Is also pro vided that tho board may prescribe rules for giving crodlts to convicts for good work and conduct and for forfeiting such credits by reasumtble rules and regulations thnt may he provided for their government. Con victs who refuse to porform the work assigned to them, shall bo placed on a -diet of bread and water. Monthly reports of the board are required to be made. SHIPPERSAPPEAL Want Coast Line of Steamers to Canal Zone HARR1MAN SERVICE IS POOR Ak For 75,000 Tons of Government Freight Annually Wool Maiket .. Opening For 1909 Clip MKN' At'TF.H LIKIO 11HASTS. New Yorker Thought II Is Life Worth That of n Hundred Women. PITTSIUTUG, Pa., Jnn. 28. De claring 'that she believes the death lint in the HepubJIc disaster last Saturday waB greater than announced by the officers of tho wrecked liner, Mrs. C. A. Severance of St. Paul, who Is here today with her husband also said that stories of bravery told by somo of the men who were on tho -County officers tn keen fee ship were purely Imaginary. Sever- books and turn fees into the treas- ry monthly, but the sheriff need not turn in fees rocclved for the care f property. Coffey To create a code commis sion to codify the criminal laws of the state and to designate C. U. Gnn tenbeln and John F. Logan as such -commissioners. Appropriation $-1 00. New Rills in House. Brooke Providing for free Inspec tion of all state, county, school, city or town records. Abbott (request Stnto Board of Forestry) Creating chief fire mar shal and appropriating $15,000 for exjienses of department. To Prevent Inheritance Tax. Representative Purdln todny In troduced In the house Uie following memorial to Congress: "That the legislature of the State Oregon hereby respectfully re quests and urges the senators and representatives representing the State of Oregon In tho Congress of the United States to support a prop erly-drawn joint resolution when pro posed for adoption by the two houses Congress, declaring it to be the policy of tho federal government to refrain from the taxation of Inherit ances for federal purposes, and to re serve this source of revenue for the exclusive use and bene'ilt of the several states.' House Itlll Favors ltwr. Some locnl pastors and local op tion supporters are said to bo in favor of House bill No. 167, which calls for a separate vote on beer and whiskey and ultimately prohibition Hopmen who have been lobbying for the bill clnim they have lined up a number of local option supporters, CorMi-ntlnn Rills Withdrawn. In the house this morning, Rep resentative Orton was grnnted per mission to withdraw two bills he had Introduced yesterday, proposing a tax on' the gross earnings of express, sleeping-car and refrigerator-car companies, telegraph and teleplioiif companies. In explanation of his ac tion, Mr. Orton said that the friends of the measures were afraid that any attempt on the part of the legisla ture to enact those bills at this time might prejudice the United States Supreme court in Its consideration of the appeal that has been taken by he telehono company to test the constitutionality of the Initiative and referendum amendment to the Ore gon constitution undur whlrh a slm liar tax on these corporations was adopted by the people under an lni tlatlve bill In June. 1906. To Work Convict on Roads. Employment of convicts on the public roads, under the direction of a convict labor board, consisting member of the State Highway Com mission from each of the two Con grenslonat districts, a state road en gineer and the sujierlntendent of the state penitentiary, is proiiosed in bill that will be Introduced In the House tomorrow by Representative Clemens. Tho bill provides that all such convicts shall be employed in this manner, with the excptlon only of those required around the penl tentlary building and farm that Is conducted therewith. It also rfnr all laws which provide for contract ing labor of convicts in any other wy. The bill carries an appropria tion of $80,000 Each county In the state, under mice Is an attorney for tho Interstate Commerce Commission and is well known on tho Pacific const. Two men died in my arms when I was assisting nH a nurse after the accident," said Mrs. Sevornnco, whe was a passenger on the Republic "and I am sure a great many more wero killed thnn tho officials admit 1 snw not a few dead under blan kets While It hns been generally re ported that everybody on the ship behaved bravely I must say that the reports have been misleading. Borne of tho men wero cravon cowards. One of these, whom I understand to bo a prominent New York clubman and financier, snld he thought ho ought t'i bo taken off first. Ho was heard to say: ' 'My llfo Is worth more thnn that of 100 women.' A young man named Phelps, mere boy, who had been made a spe cial officer by our rnptain, held this mnn back at tho point of a pistol. My maid found one man crying ns If his heart would break, and begging women for a life proservcr. The women gavo It to him. Two other men, both of them prominent, had to be knocked down to keep them from rushing Into the bents before tho women and children 'Another man, who almost jumped Into tho boats on the heads women mid children, Is now hnvliiK himself written up on his acts brnvory. I wish I could meet thnt man face to face for a few minutes. 'LACING PARTY AIIOVU PF.OI'I A few only a few ncwspnpcrR have made remarks similar to this from the Tlllnmook Hendllghl: "Ore ton need not oxpeot any. favors from tiio republican administration now hat It has sent a democrat to th United States senate to opposo th Tnft administration." n the first place, It Is a grntultnii assumption to say that Chnmlios will oppose the Taft administration n most resjiectH he mny supitort th sdminixtrntlon. In the second place, if we have a government that would wrong a state and -take a spiteful re venge upon It because It rhose ki end a man to tho senate who differs In politics from the admliilslratlo and the majority In congress, (lie the sooner and faster ttie peo ple get thnt ndmlnlstriitl out of tower, the better, This ough to be a government of, for and by th people, not a party, and any event like the election of Chamberlain, tliat ds In bringing this about. Is to he welcomed ned npprnved. Journal. WASHINGTON, Jan. 28. Rellof for Iho merchnnts of the Pacific coast being considered by the"" govern ment, after many appeals have been made to the officials as the result of the Insulllclent service between coast points and Panama. An extondod conference has been held by Secretary of War Wright, . General Edwards and Cnptaln Doggs ' of the Canal commission; R.-R. Rog ers, nttornoy for the Panama rail- , rond; William R. Wheoler, assistant . secretary of commerce and labor; r Vice-President Drnko of Panama and . I. S. Bates and William N. Bunker, . of San Francisco. . . The Snn Francisco men outlined tho plan of tho Merchants' Associa tion for tho proiwaed steamship line. Tho morchnutB allege In their petl Tho merchants allege In their petl Ion that Blnce tho beginning of gov ernment control of the Panama rail road line and tho breaking of the contract between the .railroads -and llarrlinnn's Pacific Mall Steamship Ino, tho Hurrlman company has giv en the poorest sort of service. The petition sets forth that the Infre- quency of the Ballings makos It Im possible for Pncific const merchants to bid for a sharo of ithe contracts for supplies for the cannl zone. Tho San Francisco merclinnts offor to establish a steamship line to ply regularly between coast ports and a ii a inn If the government will guar antee them 75,000 tons of freight an nually. The present annual ship ment Is 35,000 tons. It Is understood that canal com missioners and Secretary Wright look upon the proposition favorably. No statement was mnde, however, except that the proposition was being con sidered seriously. WOOL CONTRACTING! IN 1009. Outside of Montana, About 20,000,. OOO Pounds Have Been Kngtigcd. n regard to new wool clip con tracting, the Boston Commercial Bulletin of January 23 says: Id Is estlmntcd that outside of Mon tana from 15,000,000 to 20,000,000 pounds of the new clip have been contracted. The largest operations to date hnvo been in tho triangle sec tion nnd prices hnvo ranged from 16 to 20c. In Nevada sales at 15 and 6c are reported. A well-known Ari zona clip hns been contracted by Bos ton nnd ilartrord firms at 20c. Mon- . tana growers. It in suld, have turned down bids for 20c, but have sold at 21c. Business In territory wools In the enst wns not active in tbo past week. The most Important transaction Is one of 50,000 pounds half-blood Monfnna at 25c. The scoured cost Is placed at 63c. Other transactions are: 200.000 pounds Colorado at 0e, 50,000 pounds Nevndn fine at liOc and 250,000 pounds Utah, Wy oming, Idaho and other kinds at 55 to 60c. On the sales of cloth ing wools, grease prices have ranged from 16 to 1 Sc. Small lots of med ium sold at 20 to 23c. Stocks of all grades are small, particularly medium. When Listing Your Property Try Us For Quick Sales E.D. Mowery &Co Timber and Farm Lands Irrigated Fruit Lands a Specialty. Roteburg National Bsnk Bld'g ' Cass Street. K. V, Hughe. Jos. IMronl. ROSEBURO SODA WORKS I'lMi ( Altll)N.Ti:i lll'.Vl:llAil OF ALL KIXHM , CllllOHS AM) SYltl'PS. TANKS ( IIAIi;l;l. AGF.NTH FOR MQl'ID (IAH. Will Im ready for IukIhc nlxut F. b. 1t. All order promptly all. nih il to. Phone No, jtltS. F.hW. Ml'DKF.MAX. Manager.