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Newspaper Page TextUdtf&AS CdUNtV FRUIT LANDS AfcE UNEXCELLED ANYWHERES. THIS LAND WILL fttfLTlPLY ik VALtffi f THE N'E'itf fE'W YEARi BUY NOW FOk 6EST RfiSULf 1 KEEP WELL POSTED On the current events nf tlio world's progress by reikiing the Daily Rkvihw. Delivered by carrier, BO eut mouth. ROSEBURG PROFITABLE INVESTMENT Advertlserc get pood returns (ram an nouncements placed in live papers the Daily and TwKK-i-WBsi Rivuw. Try them there's none other so good, . VOL. XII. ROSEUUKG, OREGON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 30, 1000. No. 200. Review. Piocbot Offers No Apology For What Bureau Has Done COURTS ARE ON HIS SIDE Law Good Enough For Pasl Conditlors, bat Cannot Apply Favorably to Present and Future Special to the Evening Review. NEW ORLEANS. La., Oct. 30. Gilford Plnchot, chief of the United States Forest Service, was the prtn ciapl speaker at the openiug here to day of the Fourth Annual Convention of the Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep Water way Association. President Taft will address the convention tonight. While here the President Is the guest of Archbishop Btenk. A grand parade, in which 500 carriages were In line, was held this morning. In his address today Pinchot of- fered no apologies in behalf of the Forest Service for not keeping strict ly within the letter of the law, and while he did not criticise the limita tions of the law he pointed out that it could not advise on such future actions as the Forest Service felt compelled to take in line with its conservation policies. Mr. Pinchot spoke in part as follows: Mr. Pinchot said, "The connection between forestB and rivers is like that between father and son. No a forests, no rivers. So a forester may not De wholly beyond his depth when he talks about streams. The con quest of our rivers is one of the larg est commercial questions now before us. "Certain newspapers have said of late that the Forest Service has gone beyond the law In carrying out its work. This assertion has been re peated so persistently that there Is danger that It may be believed. The , friends of conservation must not be led to think that before the Forest Service can proceed legally with its present work nil the hazards and compromises of new legislation must be faced. Fortunately, the charge of illegal action is absolutely false. The For est Service has had ample legal au thority for everything it has done. Not once since it was created has anv charge of illegality, despite the most searching investigations and the bit terest attack, ever led to reversal or reproof by either House of Congress or by any Congressional Committee. Since the creation of the Forest Ser vice the expenditure of more than $11,000,000 has passed successfully the scrutiny of the Treasury of the The shape of a Sincerity Suit at the start is the shape on the day you stop wearing it. That's one of the big things our label pledges. Only stretching can spoil shape and we've shrunk out all the stretch before we make the cloth into clothing. m .1 lapeis are as nai anu smooth- next month as they are to-day at your dealer's. Sincerity Col lars don't leave the neck; style stays in Sin cerity trousers. You may not find Sincerity Clothes in the first shop you pass but it'll nav you tn pass on until you do find them. The Sincerity Style B o o k is free but that doesn't mean it isn't worth something. Filled with pictures of men's and young men's suits and overcoat. Kututlathatt t FUthsr to. CHICAGO Sincerity Clothes are sold in United States. Most significant of all, not once has the Forest Servict been defeated as to any vital legal principle underlying its work in auy court or administrative tribunal of last resort. Thus those who know; the law and those who Interpret it Beem to agree that our work haF I been legal. People's Aid Needed. "President Taft's recent utterances In favor of conservation have gone far to increase the public apprecia tion of Its national importance. Every public officer responsible for any part of the conservation of natural resources Is a trustee of the public property. If conservation Is vital to the welfare of this natior ; now and hereafter, as the President j has so wisely declared, then few positions of public trust are so im portant, and few opportunities for j constructive work so large. Such : officers are concerned with the great est issues' which' have come before this Nation since the Civil War. They! may hope to serve the Nation as few j men ever can. Their care for our forests, waters, lands and minerals is often the only thing that stands between the public good and the somethlng-for-nothing men, who, like the daughters of the horse leech, are forever crying, Give, Give. The In telligence, Initiative, and steadfast ness that can withstand the unrelent ing pressure of the special interests re worth having, and I am proud to belong to a service that has given nroof of all three. But we need the -ou nter pressure from the people In heir own interest far more often han we get It. "The Forest Service proposed to tse the tools obey the law made lty the representatives of the people, "tut the law cauuot give specific direc ' ions In advance to meet every need Mid detail of administration. The 'iw cannot make brains nor supply onscience. Therefore, the Forest Service proposes also to serve the eople by the Intelligent and pur noseful use of the law and every 'awful means at its command for he public good. And for that In tention it makes no apology. Acts I tacked by Taw. "After the transfer of the Nation U Forests from the Interior Depart nent to the Forest Service in 1905, some things were done that had lever been done before, such as in itiating Government control over water power monopoly In the Na ional Forests, giving preference to he public over commercial corpora ions in the use of the Forests, and trying to help the small man make a 'ivlng rather than the big man to make a profit (but always with the effort to be just to both). Always mid everywhere we have set the pub lic welfare above the advantages of the special intersts. Bcause It did these things the Forest Service has made enemies, of some of whom it is justly proud. It has been easy for these enemies to raise the cry of illegality, novelty, and excess of zeal. But In every in stance the Service is fortified either by express statutes, or by decisions of the Supreme Court and other courts, of the Secretary of the In terior, of the Comptroller, or the in Roseburg at Harth's Toggery Attorney-General, or by general prin ciples of law which are beyond dis pute. If there is novelty, it consists simply In the way these statutes, decisions, aud principles have been used to protect the public. The law t officers of the Forest Service have the Nation for their client, and they are proud to work as zealously for the pubHc as they would In private practice for a fee. So I think the ghost of Illegality In the Forest Service may fairly be laid at rest. But It Is not the only one which is clouding the issues of i conservation in the public mind. ! not her misconception 1b that the friends of conservation are trying to prevent the development or water power by private capital. Nothing could be further from the truth. The friends of conservation were the first to call public attention to the enor mous saving to the Nation which fol- : lows the substitution of the power of falling water, which is constantly renewed, for our coal, which can : never be renewed. They favor de- velopmeut by private capital and not the Government, but they also favor attaching such reasonable conditions to the right to develop aa will pro tect the public and . control water power monopoly In the public inter est, while at the Bame time giving to enterprising capital its full and just reward. They believe that to grant rights to water power In perpetuity Is a wrongful mortgage of the wel fare of our descendents, and to grant them without insisting on some re turn for value received is to rob ourselves. 1 believe In dividends for the peo ple as well as taxeB. Fifty years Is long enough for the certainty of nrofltable investment in water power. and to fix on the amount of return that will be fair to the public and the corporation Is not Impossible. What city does not regret some ill- considered franchise? And why should not the Nation profit by the experience of its citizens? "There la no reason why the water power Interests should be given the people's property freely and forever except that they would llko to have it. that way. I suspect that the mere wishes of the special In terests, although they have been the mainspring of much public opinion for many years, has begun to lose its compelling power. A good way to begin to regulate corporations would be to stop them from regulat ing us. "The sober fact is that here Is the Imminent battle ground in the end loss contest for the rights of the people. Nothing that can be said or done will suffice to postpone longer the active phases or this fight; and that is why I attach so great im portance to the attitude or adminis trative officers in protecting the pub lic welfare in the enforcement of the law. "From time to time a few strong leaders have tried to unite the peo ple In the fight of the many for the equal opportunities to which they are entitled. But' the people have only just begun to take this fight In earnest. They have not realized un til recently the vital importance and far-reaching consequences of their own passive position. "Now that the fight Is passing Into an acute stage it is easily seen that the Bpecial interests have used the period of public indifference to maneuver themselves Into a position of exceeding strength. In the first place, the Constitutional position of property In the United States is stronger than tn any other Nation. In the second place, it is well under stood that the influence of the cor Iorations In our law-making bodies is usually excessive, not seldom to the point of defeating the will of the people steadily and with ease. In the third case, cases are not un known In which the special Interests, not satisfied with making the laws, have assumed also to Interpret them, through that worst of evils In the public body, an unjust judge. "When an Interest or an enemy is entrenched In a position rendered Impregnable against an expected mode of attack, there Is but one remedy, to shift the ground and fol low lines against which no prepara tion has been made. "Fortunately for us, the special In terests, with a blindness which nat urally follows from their wholly commercialized point or view, have railed to see the essential fact In this great conflict. They do not un derstand that this Is far more than an economic question, that In Its es sence and In every essential charac teristic It Is a moral question. "The present economic order, with its face turned away from equality of opportunity, involves a bitter moral wrong, which must be corrected ror moral reasons and along moral lines It must be corrected with justness and firmness, but not bitterly, for that would be to lower the Nation to the moral level of the evil which we have set ourselves to fight. "This ii the doctrine of the Square Deal. It contains the germ of indus trial liberty. Its partisans are the many, Its opportunities are the few I am firm In the faith that the great majority of our people are Square Dealers. WIRE KKXCK JIST RECEIVED. All persona who Lave onWd woven wire fence or wish to -place or ders for the same are notified here with that a carload of the wire baa just been received at Roseburg and fa ready for delivery upon applies tion. H. u. CROUCH, Roseburg. dawtf CLOSING JTS WORK Equalization Board Sustains S. P. R.R. Assessment BASIS OF $38,000 PER MILE Company's Timber Stands at $7.20 an Acre Few Reducnioris Made in Assessor's Figures s. r. it- n. VALUATION SUSTAINED 11 UOAlU. Late this afternoon Couuty 4 Assessor Calkins' colleagues $ I on the Board of Equalization $ sustained his valuation of 4 $38,000 per mile ou the South g ern Pacific right of way and rolling stock in Douglas couu- ty. This action ' was - taken I after replies to Inquiries by telephone had been received 4 atatlug that assessments of a similar figure has been sua- tained by the Boards of Equal!- zatlon in Jackson. Josephine 4. and Clackamas counties. 4 After a session of two weeks, the Douglas County Board of Equaliza tion will close its labora this after noon or this evening by taking some action on Assessor Calkins' valuation of $38,000 per mile on the Southern Pacific K. K. company's roadbed ana rolling stock, applying upon the com pany a 116.16 miles of road in this county. The board 1b comprised of Assessor Calkins, County Judge U. W. Wonacott and County Clerk E. H. Lenox. White no authentic Information as to whether the assessment would be sustained or reduced was obtainable this morning, it was certain that Calkins, at least, would stand for the $38,000 figure fixed by him. On part of Wonacott aud Lenox there appeared to be some disposition to be guided by the action of equaliza tion boards in certain other counties in Western Oregon where assessments of a similar figure have been levied, pursuant to a previous agreement among the assessors, aud thus avoid possible litigation. From these coun ties nothing has been heard so far, hence the delay of the Douglas Coun ty Board In acting on Assessor Calkins' figure until the last day of the vesslon. Marion, the only west ern Oregon county reporting, has sus tained Its assessor b valuation of $32,000 a mile. The Southern Pacific Company haB petitioned for an assessment of $20, 000 per mile in thiB county. This is $10,000 less than they were asses sed last year. Calkins colleagues on the Equali zation Board have upheld his valua tion of 17.20 per acre upon the Southern Pacific Company's timber lands. The company had petitioned for a reduction to $4 an acre. Valuations Sustained. , The assessments levied by Calkins upon two other big corporations have been sustained by Wonacott and Lenox. One of these Is the Pullman Car Company, assessed on the South ern Pacific mileage, at $000 a mile, an increase of $200 over last year. This company asked for a valuation of $180 per mile, basing the petition on Its returns to the assessor. The Wells Fargo Express Com pany Is the other corporation that registered a vain complaint before the board. The personal property at Its agencies in this county was assessed at $1,505, which the com puny thought was excessive. The board didn't think bo. Last year the express company waB assessed on the Southern Pacific miteagt, but this was held by the courts to be illegul. In eight other Instances the board upheld the assessor's valuations against complaining petitions, pre sented by the following persons: H. S. Giie & Co., $2,000 on two cars of prunes. Stella Smith, $500 on a building In Rosoburg. J. C. Fullerton, $750 on household good. Geo. E. Houck, $750 on an auto mobile. F. L. George, $1,920 on a 320 acre timber claim. C. W. Goodail, $2,800 on a 320 acre timber claim. Harriet N. Hodge, $700 on a 320 acre timber claim. VuluiitionH FUfluced, The board cancelled the assess- mcnl on 800 acres of timber upon petition of the C. A, Smith Timber Company, because the land Is under contest. The company also asked for the cancellation of the assess ment on 1.080 acres of other timber land, on the ground that patents had not yet been received, the claims having been acquired with scrip, This petition the board denied In several other instances the , board reduced valuations on land because It was disproportionate with assessment of neighboring land of like character or for the reason that it had been classed us tillable when in reality It was of non-tillable char acter and worth proportionately less. The assessment of $1,000 levied on W. R. Vinson's sawmill at Coles Val ley was cancelled because the mill was subsequently destroyed by fire, with no insurance to cover the loss. Here la the list of reductions made in land valuations: Annie Kent Richardson, 75 acres, from $8,200 to $4,700. W. C. Winston,' 60 acres, from $6,620 to $5,000. H. D. May, 70 acres, from $3,500 to $2,600. Adam Knobel, 10 acres, from $826 to $725. E. T. Woodruff, 160 acres, from $6,000 to $3,550, W. S. Hamilton, timber claim, from $1,905 to $995. Grant Edland and Stella Gray, 40 acres, from $6,000 to $4,000. Increases. In two Instances the board voted lucrensea in assessments, and both were heavy, E. G. Young ft Co., bankers, of Oakland, were ralBed from $22,465 to $28,815. On 80 acres of land belonging to John Stnndley the valuation was placed at o.ouu at against the original assess ment of $3,700. Three taxpayers represented to the board that some of their personal property had been omitted from the assessment roll. Valuations were accordingly fixed, as follows: F. M. nd J. W. Conn. $600; R. A. Wood ruff, $1,340; O. W. Jones, $625. JAP CAUGHT STEALING PLANS OF AIRSHIP Special to The Evening Review. PORTLAND, Or., Oct 30. That Japan is trying to secure data that would be valuable In preparations for war Is the belief created here by the discovery yesterday In the Ameri can Iron Works of a Japanese sketching plans of an airship. Sketches and notes were found In the Japanese's pocket and were con sumed and the man ejected from the shop. Guards have been stationed around the works to prevent any further intrusions. More Than Enough Is Too Much. To maintain health, a mature man or woman needs just enough food to repair the waste and supply energy and body heat. The habitual con sumption of more food than Is neces sary for these purposes Ib the prime a u Be of stomach troubles, rheuma tism and disorder of the kidneys. If troubled with ludigestion, revise your Hot, let reason and not appetite cou trol and take a few doses of Cham berlaln's Stomach and Liver Tablets and you will soon be all right again. For sale by all druggists. C LOCAL NEWS. C. L. Beckley, of Oakland, was in this city today. Atty. C. I. Leavengood was down from Myrtle Creek today. Claude A. Puckett, of Canyon- vllle, and C. W. Jackson and J. L. Wright, of Drew, were In the city today. After being closed for eleven days the Deer Creek bridge Is again open for traffic. A temporary floor has been laid on part of the main span and it will be a week or more before the new bridge Is fully com moted. This structure will have 24-foot roadway, with a six-foot sidewalk on each side. A splendid photograph of the Luce Land & Development Co'a. special car and party, as they ap peared at Sutherlln, has been re- elved by The Review. It gives a fine glimpse of the town and valley, also. The formal opening of the new Sutherlln Inn, which was to have taken place tonight, has been post poned until a little later. Two Hallowe'en parties were en- Joyed In this city Friday evening One was at the High School where the Freshmen entertained the other classes with a masquerade Bocial. The other was given by the Presby terian Christian Endeavor Society at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Saw yers. The decorations were very appropriate. Including lack o' lan terns, figures of black cats, etc, Appropriate games were also en joyed. FARM FOR BALE. I bare 960 acres improved land two miles from good R. R. station, 100 or more acres under cultivation as good fruit land as there Is In Ore gon. $1,000 worth of peaches, ap ples, grapes etc., sold this year. Several million feet or timber on the land, fir, hardwood and cedar; fine water everywhere; can be subdivided but will sell the whole tract for izo Mr acre if taken at once. Also good oil prospects on same land. IX P. Fisher, 121-123 West Oak street Roseburg, Oregon. dtf, CRZ3CENT Vra. 00. Makers of MAFUUNI Rata. Uia dough SjMMR and complies with Wvtlv all purs food laws. JSJBfigffJf oral Others Fatally Hurt in Fire in Vermont Town ANOTHER FIRE COSTS LIFE Murderers Rob Victim and Pat Bod; on Railroad Track Man Ont of Woik Suicides Special to the Eveulng Review. ST. JOHANSBUHO, Vt., Oct. 30. At least nine persons were burned to death or killed In attempting to es cape and 12 other persons seriously injured when tho Citizens Hank building and several other neighbor ing structures were burned today. Some of the Injured will die. Tho lire spread so rapidly that It was difficult for those on the Inside of the buildings to escape and , practically mpossible for those on the outside to aid them. The known dead are Charles Hun- lott, I. E. Darling, Mrs. Rosa Masscy, Mrs. May Sleeper, Herbert Tanner and wife, Stephen Cushman and wife and their 9-year-old daughter, Ber- tno. Fireman Killed. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Oct. 30. One fireman was crushed to death nnd two others seriously hurt under a falling wall of the Gnndy building, which is burning. Murdered nnd Robbed. RKNO, Nov., Oct. 30. The police of this city are searching for the murderers of Joseph Kohl, a young man, of Salt Lnke, whoso body was stripped of clothing and placed on the Southern Pacific tracks after ho had been killed and robbed laBt Thurs day. Whon he lert Salt Lake, Kohl had a large roll of bills. Tho money disappeared with his clothing. Despondency Relieved. LOS ANGELES, Cnl.. Oct. 30. ollowlng fnllure to Induce his wife to Join a Bulcldal pact, Van Lewis Gelger, said to be a member of a prominent Deliver family, Is (lend and Mrs. Geiger is in a state of hysteri- collapse. Mrs. Geiger said her husbnnd was deRpomlont bocauso of AYEH'S HAIB VIGOH Stops railing Malr An Elegant Dressing Destroys Dandruff Makes Hair Grow Does not Color the Hair Composed of Sulphur. Glycerin, Quinln, Sodium C hlorid. Capttcum, Slflc, Alcohol, Water, fertuine. Ask your doctor hit opinion of uch a hair preparation. J (' ATI M Cnvuvt J .v.M.Mn L GRAND HALLOWE'EN Sheet and Pillowcase Masquerade Ball At the Armory Monday night, Nov. 1 Given by Roseburg Orchestra Dancers not in costume will not be allowed on the floor until 11 o'clock. Admission, gentlemen dancers $1.00. KMTtatrH 25 CentH. Ijidy Dancers Free. Armory, Nov. 3, '09 FIRHT KNTKUTAIVMKNT OF i.vcF.r.M x)iitsi:. Senator LaFOLLETTE op wiscoinsiin In one of his Great Lectures Under direction of the Roseburg Lyceum Bureau Admission 75 c and $1.00 Course Tickets, Five Entertainments in all, only $2.50 Inability to secure employment. Gelger handed his wife a bottle ot carbolic acid and asked her to drink halt ot the contents. She re fused and ran away screaming. Then she heard a shot and rushed back to nnd her husband dead from a bullet wound lulllcted with a revolver. Mutiny Quelled. ATHENS, Greece, Oct. 30. The naval mutiny ended today, the gov ernment taking possession of the ar senal at Salauits, which the rebels, under the leadership of Lieutenant Typaldos, seized yesterday. Eight ringleaders were arrested and will be courtmartlaled. The arsenal was gained by the government after an attack by a fleet of loyal ironclads and a flotilla of torpedo boats. As the result of the affair a chaos exists In army and nnval circles, and the government will probHbty declare military dic tatorship until tranquility Is restored. OREGON TRl'HT MEN Atil CIIKOITOU INDICTED. Spectnl to the Evening Review. PORTLAND, Or., Oct. 30. The grand Jury today filed the expected iudlctmonts against Walter H. Mooro, president, W. Cooper Morris, caRhler, and Henry A. Mooro, Leo Krlede nnd Elinor E. Lytle. directors of the defunct Oregon Trust and Sav ings Bank. The charge Is accepting deposits when the bank was kuown to be Insolvent. An Indictment al leging conspiracy to defraud was re turned against Gus A. Lowlt, pro prietor of the Golden Eagle depart ment store, ono ot the bank's largest creditors. KlllOPIOIt ()!' It IX OKI H AND HKA1.S FOR SSI YEARS. Special to the Evening Review. NASHVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 30. R. L. C. White, for 22 years keeper ot records and seals of the supreme lodge Knights of Pythias, died today at the age of 67 years. He had been 111 five weeks. How to Treat a Cold. He as careful as you can, you will occasionally tako cold, and when you do, get a medicine of known rollabil , ity, ono thnt has an established rep- utation and that is certain to affeot a nulck cure. Such a medicine Is Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It has gained a world wide reputation by Its remnrkable cures of this com mon nllnient, and can always be de pended upon. It acts on nature's plan, rolleves the lungs, aide expec toration, nnnnn the secretions and aids nature In restoring the system to I a healthy condition. For salo by I all druggists. O Patronize Review advertisers. Robert M.