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Newspaper Page TextAV K.Vi'iiUI I'AlkEU OP THIRTY V EARS' EXPERIENCE SAYS DOUGLAS COt'NTT APPLES Alt! THE fiEST HE EVER HANDLED , DOUGLAS COUNTY HAS THE BEST ALL-TKEYEAR-ROUXD CLIMATE, AND THE bARUESt PRUTS AST BERRTM KtEP WELL POSTfcD On the currant everi.tjnl the world's trotrrtiH by ri limt tlm Daily Kkvikw Deiivurml by unrrinr. mit month ROSEBURG Review PROFITABLE INVESTMENT Advertiser, let food retarni from an Doaaceinentt placed in live laperi the Daii.t akd Twicje-a-wiu Kniif. Try them thera',1 none other so good. VOL. XIU. KOgEHUKG, OREGON, THURSDAY EVENlXfi, DlX'l-.MItlCIt 22, 11)10. No. its I. If) CREiT FIRES; 48 KILLED, I ' MISSIVG Nelson Morris Co. Wardmuse in Ashes; 30 Firemen Dead CHIEF HORAN AMONG NUMBER BaroiuM ol Liatlur Factory Cjus-s Deaths of 17- Policemen and Fircrccn 325 Die In Coal Mine Special to the Evening Ttevlew, CHICAGO, Jjee. li'J. Thirty live-1 men ami, one rullnmd employe were i killed today in the dest.rtirtiui. ot a ! warehouse of the Nel-Jon-.Yt orris Com-' puny at their stockyards through Hip explosion of a tank of ammonia thai ' was reached by the flames. Thre laborers known to have been in the warehouse nre inissTng, but whether they perished will probably not hp known until the debris is searched. The loss is about $ I ,"00,000. Among the dead are several com manding officers of the lire depart ment, including Chief Horan and his second assistant. Burrows. Others .are Captains Collins and Doyle, Lieu tenants Fitzgerald and Strum. Truck man Crane and Pipemen Murawski and Webber. The railroad employe who perished Is Stephen Lane, of the Grand Trunk line. The tire was gotten under control this afternoon, after a ten hours' fli'.ht. into which the entire fire de p.Ttnient was ultimately called. The HiVmen. were working Inside thp warehous which whs four stories hfsh and occupied an entire block, when the explosion occurred. The roof was blown into the air, the walls collapsed and tho men beneath were crushed. Those outside who escaped the force of the concussion "were overcome by fumes. From the warehouse the (tames were communi cated to thp tallow house, a structure of similar si'e, by the strong wind prevailing. For n time it appeared as if every building In the yards was doomed, brt the prodigious efforts of the firemen finally subdued the flames. Destruction of leather Factory Car rles Death to 17. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 22. .Sixteen firemen and one policeman dead, six fireiyen and einht. police men missing. 2 1 injured firemen and policemen in the hospitals, with the liklihond that several will die and the D. Friedlander leather factory n heap of ice covered ruins this Is the summary of a fire In Philadelphia that started last-night and en den at 3:. in o'clock this afternoon, when Ibe remaining shell of the factory colalpsed. Hundreds of men nre now at work clearing nwny the debris to recover the bodies of the victims A cursory examination of the ruins by the coroner shows that tie fnetory was set on firo in se-cra! places simultaneously, indicating an apparent, plain case of incendlarUm. During the operations of the firemen the air was intensely cold ind the nose had to be wrapped in blanket to keep from freezing. .123 Perish In Mine. MANCHESTER. Eng.. Dec. 22 According to the estimate give" out today by officials. 325 men perishe ' In the Pretoria mine explosion, near Leigh, yesterday. Resc-iers search ing for anv survivors in the fum filled shaft were halted Ai'hiu 80 ftet of the mine center today "n oc fmtnt of suffocating gases. No explanation is given as to the cause of the exp'oslon. -vhich oni pletely wrecked the mill". This Is the second great mine dis aster in England this yer r.n explo sion having occurred in the '.Vrllinii to eollierv at Whitehaven, (,'uniher- Ici.d. on May 12. In which lllil minors were killed. Disasters Within -3 Days, At Chicago Fire and explosion Jdlls 31 men: 3 others missing. !At Philadelphia Fire kills 17 -men. Injures others fatally; 14 men missing. At Cincinnati Fire kills 2 men. At New York Fire and explosion kills 1 1 persons. At Leigh. England Coal mine ex plosion and fire kills Al hoys. men and Oiiklaliomn Town Suffers. WALTERS. Okla.. Dec. 21. Fire In the hnsinejs district of this town today caused a loss of $200,000. The price of foodstufls has come ' down at the North Side Grocery, dtf SCHOOL HOARD MINORITY DEFENDS ITS POSITION. IT Editor Review: As the minority of the school,"1 h in rd iu tile mutter of the locution of tlie" new high school building, we' wish to give to the nubile our reasons , u r tne position we nuve luiten. The object of the: board in asking the voters for additional buildings w:ts primarily to relieve the con gested condition of the high school. T-ie assembly room there is small, and at the beginning of the year it was crowded to its fullest capacity. At the beginning of the second sem ester another chiss will be added the mid-winter eighth grade grad uating class. Our high school Is grow ing rapidly, and next year we will re quire at least a half more seating capacity in the assembly room, to accommodate the Increase in attend ance, livery year a larger class of eighth grade graduates come to Itoseburg from the country districts to continue their educational work In our high school. Many of them work for their board, or work In offices or stores after school closes in the af ternoon. Our high school is now recognized as the educational center of the county. It is true that the grades are also congested. But by erecting a new high school building, a building large epough to meet the growing needs of the district, one large enough to provide sufficient assembly room to accommodate at least four hundred high school students, we would not only relieve the congested condition f the high school, but of the grades ?s well. It was the plan of the board' to build a eood. modern hleh school building, and then use the presfefit hih school building for grade pur- s only. Then for a year or two we could locate three or four grade chers in the new high school build . pud in that way not only provide for ths rapidly increasing growth of the high school, but also provide wulllcient room for all grades. A meet tug was called and we went before the legal voters of the district tsking for bonds to erect such a building, and the people of Rose burg, ever ready to respond to such rails, voted $75,000 for that purpose. It was not until recently, long uf-, tor the bonds were voted, that we! heard of the proposition to erect In North- Roseburg a building no larger ihan the present high school builu ;ng, use It temporarily for a high school, and then later use it as a ward school and erect a high school building elsewhere. To our mind i hut would not relieve the present necessity. A building no larger than the one we have now would not help matters. It is more assembly room that we want, and the assembly room u our present high school is large enough for the sine of the building. We could not hope to have a larger one in a building of the same size in North Roseburg. More than that, an assembly room Is not necessary in a ward school. And so far as grade pupils are concerned, it would not help North Roseburg. Our high school is growing to such an extent that the building would' have to be used entirely for high school pur poses, and the grade pupils of North Roseburg would have to go to the Lane school or to the present high school building. We would have only a temporary makeshift, and would not relieve the necessities of the high school. In such a building we could not provide sufficient assembly room, could not provide a room for athletic sports, could not provide lor an in dustrial training uepai imeuu. m fact, we could do nothing we con templated doing when this move ment was begun. The people voted to Duua an up- to-date high school, one that will meet the needs of the district for several years to come. Nothing else was talked about, ana we dbhuvc that we should keep faith with the r Hair Ornaments, Back Combs, Hat Pins, Neckwear, Hand Painted China, Christmas Novelties, Hair Goods ROSEBURG BEAUTY PARLORS An Excellent Line of Dolls at Your Own Price. t444444-444444-4' HIGH SCHOOL GOES J. IX. .NORTH ItOSKIIl'HG. - . .11 a meeung or me nose- rf. buig school board lute today, u majority of the members j. voted to accept as ""a site for tho proposed new high school one of three tracts offered by Al Creason for a price of $l,-J 000. The site in question is - block No. 91, situated north of the rock quarry in Kinney's Addition. Those voting to buy this site were Kullerton, Marshall and Nichols; those against were Buchanan and Dillard. 4" This division of the board 4- twas also recorded in the adop- tion of two other propositions: ! (I) Instructing the district 4 4 clerk to advertise for plans $ 4 and specifications for a high 4 school with a seating capacity 4 of 400; (2) authorizing the 4- 4 clerk to take preliminary steps J- 4 toward the flotation of bonds 4 4 necessary to carry out the pro- 4 4 Ject. 4 4444,r,44444i44r) legal voters of the district, from whom we received our Instructions. We believe that with the funds pro vided we should erect a building to cost from $50,000 to. JS5.000, with a large auditorium, a hall for ath letic sports, and sufficient room for an industrial training department It is our opinion, also, that such :i building should be centrally lo cated, to afford the greatest good to the greatest number. It should be as near to the center of the district as we can get it, and in the center of the system of ward -schools'. Then all of the people of the district would have an equal opportunity, without special inconvenience, to visit the school (and they should do more of that) and to attend all evening en tertainments held in the building, whether they might be games .in the athletic hall, or debates, lectures, or graduating exercises held in the audi torium. We believe that the reasons for such a building, since we must have additional buildings, and for" a central location, are so obvious that they need only be mentioned. We have an opportunity now to place our high school In the front rank among the high schols of the state, and to erect a. building for Its accommodation to which every pat ron of the district can point with pride, and which they can exhibit to strangers and home-Beekera as cur greatest asset. Or we can erect an inadequate temporary Bfrructnre in one corner of tho district, and thus retard the advancement of our high school for years to come. We favor the former proppsltlon. S. L. DILLARD. J. A. BUCHANAN. A TODAY SHORTEST J. DAY OF THE YEAR. 4- Today le the shortest day 4- In the year. 4. Officially the sun set at 4:53 4. In the afternoon. The sun rose 4. at 7:53. This will give us 8 4 4. hours and 36 minutes of sun- 4 4. light, the briefest period of the 4. year. The difference Is so little ! from the day before and the 4. day after that it is only a mat- 4 2 ler or a seconu or possioiy a .j. part of a second. But It gives 4. sufficient authority to call the 4. J. day the shortest in the calen- A 4- dar. 4 4 4. .fr 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. John Nonme bogght a rocker for jhla three-year-old daughter, Beatrice. 1 at Strong's today. dtf GLEAN SWEEP SALE OF ALL HOLIDAY GOODS LOCAL NEWS Cottage Grove Leader; Mrs. W. V. Dewald received a severe stroke of apoplexy Monday night. Mis. J. W. Perkins leaves tomor row night for Portland to -speud Xmas with her parents., Daniel C. Bruce, of the Soldiers' Home, went o Junction' today on a furlough that will be spent with his daughter. ' Two horse blankets, worth about $5, were stolen from Smith Bailey's barn last night. The thief has not yet been located. Miss Emma Ueland, student at the O. A. C, Corvallis, arrived hero Wednesday to spend the holidays at her home in West Roseburg. Too near proximity of Christmas, and other matters, prevented a meet ing of the Rose Club Wednesday night. A meeting will probably be held at an early date to take up the coming season's work. Fruzier Ward, Geo. Crane, James Ionian, G. A. Swan, Looking Glass; C. H. Brown. Oakland; J. J. Thorn ton, Onk Creek; N. Nelson, Peel; Clarence Brown. Chas. MurBhman, N. L. Conn, Melrose; Chas. Belieu, Camas Valley; Lillian lmrle, Corval lis; J. B. Estes, Alturas, were among the Roseburg visitors today. Geo Neuner. representative-elect. is drafting a bill to he presented to the coming legislative session, to pre vent the depositing, of debris or re fuse matter in the North Umpqu River or Its tributaries above Win chester, so as to prevent any possible contamination of the Roseburg water supply. There has been no trouble from that source and this step is to prevent any arising In the future. Frank Murphy, a cook, who claims Sutlierlin as his home, plead guilty to a charge of drunkenness In the police court this morning and was sentenced to 6 days in Jail. He was in-rested by Officer Williams on the "Barbary Coast" last night, after making himself very disagreeable to different persons, one of whom knocked him through a plate glass window. Lee Willard made such a big hit In his rurftl monologue at the Gem Theatre Wednesday night that Man acer Bernell engaged mm -lor an other skit tonight. Mr. Willard will be seen in something different, how ever an excerpt from "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." in which his strong dramatic talent will be given an op portunity to show Its full worth. Ends Winter's Troubles. To many, winter is a season of trouble. The frost bitten toes and fingers, chapped hands and - Hps, chilblains, cold sores, red and rough sklus. prove this. But such troubles fly before Bucklen's Arnica Salve. A trial Convinces. Greatest healer of burns, boils, piles, cuts, sores, ecze uia and sprains. Only 25c at all druggists. TRESPASS NOTICE. Notice Is hereby given that all persons are warned not to cut shrub bery, evergreen trees or otherwise trespass on my place, commonly known as the Bowen or Cobb prop erly, on hill at east end of Washing ton street. ROUT. T. ASH WORTH, ttrtSS Owner. Advertising Is the silent drum mer that tells the public what the business man wants it to know about the goods he has for sale an In jection ot advertising Into the veins ut trade grows the business heart. FOR SALE CHEAP. Warranted grape roots; sweet and very Juicy; good shippers; good table grapes, and the best for wine. Roots two, three and four yenrs old. Address John N. Stock!, Roseburg, Or. sw Patronize Review advertisers. Al Ueney's Request, Indictment is CASE ON DOCKET 6 YEARS Prospect For Settltmpnt of Dispute Between Engineers and Kail roads Bright . Special to the Evening Review. PORTLAND. Or., Dec. 22. United States Judge Wolverton, at the re quest of Prosecutor Francis J. Heney, today dismissed nil indictments in the so-called laud fraud cases this after- noon, save one against ex-Congress- man J. N. Williamson, who has asked I to be brought to trial, us he wants vindication. Among those ag'ilnst whom indictments were dism'ssed was ex-Congressman Dinger Her mann. This ends famous cases which have dragged along for several venrs. Hermann was Indicted by the Fed eral grand Jury on. February 18, 1905, charged with conspiracy to de fraud the Government of its public lands in connection wit It the- Ulue Mountain forest reserve case. In dicted with Hermann were ex-United States Attorney Franklin Pierce Mays and Willard N. Jones, former mem bers of the State Legislature, Mays and Jones were tried separately from llermauu, and were convicted. - The late Senator John II. Mitchell, ex-Congressman J: N. Williamson and Geo. Sorensou were also In dicted jointly with Hermann, and nil were convicted and sentenced. Wil liamson's case is still pending. On January to, 100!), Hermann wus placed on trial, and the result was a hung jury that reported Into court on lliruury 111, after a throe days' deliberation. They stood 1 1 to t against the defendant. Under an agreement between at torneys for Hermann and Mr. Heney, It was stipulated that the former should not be tried under any Oio gon Indictment until after his trial at Washington, D. C fur the al leged destruction of ;if letter-press copybooks belonging to the (ieneral Lnnd Office, of which offense he was acquitted in April, 1907. Strike Not Now I CHICAGO, Dec. 22 oltnhle. -A lengthy conference between Labor Commis sioner Nelll nnd representatives o? the Brotherhood of . Locomotive En gineers being held today is regifrdr-d as foreshadowing the peaceful settl -ment of a threatened strike. It is believed Hie railroatl managers con cluded t tint tho engineers were not bluffing in regard to a strike nnd have granted more concessions. What these were is as yet. unknown. It is said the railroad managers were pre pared to offer a at 10 per cent in crease, not only to the engineers, hut to the trainmen nnd conductors as widl and end the entire controversy. Not Yet Assimilated. MANILA, P. I.. Dec. 22. Private Holt was killed and two other sol dlei-s wounded In a sharp skirmish between tribesmen and tho Third In fantry at Dnvuo River today. The natives retreated, nHer a n miliar were killed. Ak More Money for Foresters. WASHINGTON. Dec. 22. Presl- dent Taft Is urged to secure an In crease in the forest service appropr'a- Uou sufficient to Insure protection from fires, in a resolution adoiited today by the Conservation Associa tion, representing Oregon, Washing ton, Idaho, Montana and California. ODD KKLIXUYS EXCURSION l-ROYKD A IHO SUCCESS, One of the notable fraternal events In the history of the county was the big gathering of Odd Fellows at Oakland Wednesday evening. Over 100 members went over on a special train, about 30 came from Yoncalln, and many other places were also represented. This meeting waB graced with the presence of per haps the oldest living Odd Fellow on the Pacific Coast or possibly the old est In the world today In years of membership. This distinguished member Is Judge J. T. llloomtleld, of Oakland, who has been an Odd Fel low for 65 years, and Is still enjoying fairly good health, nlthough now in the 86th yeur of his age. Judge Dloomneld waB one of tho earliest Odd Fellows to locate on the Pacillc Slope and he was Grand Master of the Oregon jurisdiction in 18X7 when the jurisdiction extended over all of what is now Oregon, Washing- ton and Idaho, His enthusiasm hus not waned with the pnsslng years and he remained nt this meeting through out the entire ceremonies of con ferring the several degrees, although the work was not completed until four o'clock a. 111. At the opening of the last degree, when he was escorted to the head of the lodge room by Grand Patriarch L. Wlmberly, the hall rang with npplause for severul minutes: to which greeting Judge Hloomfield fittingly responded. Upon this occnslon the Beveral de grees were conferred by the degree teams from Roseburg. and a class of 20 members were instructed In the work of tho order. A fine banquet was served at midnight by the Re hckalis of Oakland, and upon this feature thoy won universal . praise from the large number of .visitors and members present. In fact the visitors were royally entertained hoth by the Odd Fellows and Rebekahs ot Oakland, and the arrival of the special train from hero was greeted with music, by the Oakland bnnd. Tills was the first large assemblage of the members of the order In the new I. O. O. F. building erected In Oakland the past year. This is a substantial and coinmodloiiB two- story brick structure, with the lodge room, puraphernalla rooms, banquet room and kitchen on the second lloor. These are well urrnnged and fitted with nil tho modern conveniences, The members there may well be proud of this structure. That It Is also appreciated by the citizens of the town and surrounding country Is shown by the fact that the lodge membership has practlcnlly doubled since this building was commenced. Enroute on the speclnl train the members enjoyed a unique social session. Anyone caught "minding bis own business" was promptly haled herore the presiding magistrate by the Peace (of an) Officer, and promptly found guilty. The extra ordinary and rapld-flro "sentences" Imposed kept the party 111 an uproar or mirth. All had a good time throughout the trip and also materi ally advanced the spirit of fraternity in the order. What makes Sapolto a household word? Continuous advertising. You are never allowed to forget It, Hair Help the color in any way. But greatly promotes growth. But it J. MRS. EASTOX LOSES , J. IU DA..MGE SUIT.'.'. 4 Mrs. II. Easton has lost her 4 $7500 damage suit - against " Kendull Brothers, owners of 4. 4 the locnl water and light sys- 4- terns, for tho death of her son, 4. James, a telephone lineman, 4 who was electrocuted on top of 4. a poie in tniB city on September i 22, 1909. A telegram received J. thU afternoon by H. J. Frear. 4 announces that a jury In the 4 Federal Court at Portland, 4 where the caBe was tried, 4 J. brough In a verdict for Ken- 4. 4 dall Brothers. Contributory 4 4 negligence on part of the de- 4 4. ceased was the defense against .I. ' tthe suit. , 4 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. PHONOOKAI'H yl'lETS CHICKENS. PORTLAND, Or., Dec. 22. Poul try fanciers of Vancouver, Wash., have solved the problem of how to keep blue-blooded fowls on exhlbl Hon from crowing and squawking bo that visitors cannot hear each other discuss the line points of the birds. It is a simple remedy, too, and was. discovered quite by accident. A . phonograph turned loose In the poultry exhibit soon put a quietus on ' the cackling hens and crowing roost-. . ers. The Vancouver show houses about 500 fowls, The continual racket from the Bhow pens became almost unheiiriihln nnd nultn hv Hreident the' remedy was hit upon. A largo bho- ' nograph was Installed to distract (he attention of the visitors to Borne ae gree at least from the . chattering ,,' chickens, but before a dozen bars of -' the popular tunes had been ground '. out, the fowls decided that they had , had enough and withdrew from the. competition. .... So the canned music will be kept.. going -through the -show - and lt .isV-. promised there will be complete relief from the noise of the feathered aria- -' ' tocrats. - v 7 o 1 ; ' f ' One of the prettiest features of the Pasadena, Cnlif., Tournament of ". Roses for 1911 will be the floats enT, j tered by the public schools. The school children lump their efforts and each year put on a floral alegory. . . The theme is kept secret until the entries appear In the parade. Last . year the four seasons were portrayed -,0 winter, spring, autumn and sunir.i.j mor awhile the high school Is usual-, ui ly a whole parade in Itself with about 1000 participants. One of the cleverest entries In recent years was an elephunt made or manual training pupils. This elephant' walked,-blew A water from Its trunk and- "minded" ' Its driver like a circus performer - The animal was entirely mannfnc- ' tared by the boys. j - ( - ' J r . , 'I . The Christmas exercises of 'the. -Presbyterian church will be held Bat urdny evening, at . 7:30 o'clock. Everybody welcome. . 4.444b44444a4a44a44 4. 4. All persons wishing cream 4. 4. for Christmas must place -or-- 4 4. derB not Inter ihan Dec' 23.. 4 U Douglas County Creamery, JU ' 4 Phone 340. . '1 dtd '4-j j 4 ' ' 4" : 44444444444441' Ayers Hair Vigor has no effect whatever upon the color of the hair. It cannot possibly change promptly stops falling hair, and Ask your doctor first. f;.f 1-