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Newspaper Page TextOREGON Is the Best If you want to Mine, Saw Lumber, liaise Fruit, Grow Stock or do most anything else yoo will find your opportunity here1, THE flAIL tells about it part of tho Udted States. E E1V ER VALLEY is the best pa it of Oregon MEDrORD li In the esutar ol th valley and THE MAIL th U paper VOL. XVIII. MEDFORD, JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 26. 1906 NO. Mmii, The Sunday school workers of the Rogue River Valley were called tr gether at Medford Wednesday even Ing, January 17th, at 7 :30, This convention grew out of the Suuday school institutes beld by Mr. James Edmunds, tbe Sunday Bohool missionary for tbe distriot embraced by Oregon, Washington and Northern, Idaho, . Air. Edmunds is esteemed as one of the very best most praotical and mos suggestive of the Sunday sohooi lead ers in tbe United States. He is an enthusiastio and inspirational teach er. His llluetratious are most help ful, beoauee drawn from a large and varied personal experience. Tbe institutes were held in Merlin, Grants PaBS, Selnia, Kerby, Central Point, Eagle Point, Ashland and Tal ent, these all oulminatiug in this con vention. ' . : ' Delegates were present from points that had been oovered by the Instl 'tutes. Eutertainmont 1b furnished by tbe liuptist obnrch of Medford. All the sessions are open to those who are interested iu Sunday sohooi work. Teacbers and officers of all Sunday schools are especially invited to be present and participate in the se; sious. . The praise servioe, opening ihe con vention, was led by Rev. J. O. Austin, of Grants Pa68. Words of welcome were spoken by Mr. Win. Davis, superintendent of the Medford Baptist Sunday si-hool. The address of the eveuing was made by Mr. Edmunds on "Points of Weakness in the Sunday Sohooi." Some of the points were: 1. The lack of officers and teachers ; not only trained teaohera; but teach ers. 2. The laok of boys and young' ..i i.. .1.. i men s uiuusuh iu uid euuuui. 3. Failure to lay hold on and utilize modern methods in the Sunday sahool. 4. Laok of aggressive work to en large the Sunday school. The session Thursday jiorning was begun under the leadership of Mr. Edmunds in presenting, "A Model Sunday Session." The program of a session of a model school wsb carried through, consider ing all present as soholars. Following this oxeroise,disoussion and oritioisms were presented, setting forth many helpful suggestions and emphasizing those points that were considered best. ' . An address on the "Preparation of the Lesson for Teaching" i was given bv J. B. Paddock at 10:30 that was full of helpful hints. Following the discussion of this topic, Kev. C. H. Forrell, of Talent, gave an address on, "Teachers' Train ing and Substitute Work." . I ' This topic oalled forth the most lively and interesting disoussion of the sessions, inasmuch as this ques tion Involved one of the most impor tant problems of all successful Sun day school work. At 10:10 a. in. temporary organiza tion was formed by eleoting Rev. F. N. Baker, of Ashland, ohairman; and J. B. Fravis, of Grants Pass, secre tary. . ' . . it was moved and seconded that we declare it the judgment of this body that it would be a wise movement to Jorm a Baptist Sunday School Associ ation. Carried. It wsb moved and seconded that a committee be appointed to submit a plan of organization and basis of membership at 10:25 Friday. Carried. : Committee appointed Travis, Cars tens and AUBtin. THURSDAY AFTERNOON. The seasion was oalled to order by the chairman. After singing, tbe congregation was led in prayer by Rev. Shields, of Medford. Repoits from the Sunday sohoolB were presented by J. B. Travis, so far as they have been prepared. The "Boy Problem" was to have been disoussed by Mr. Harry W. Stone, Y. M. O. A. secretary, of Port land, but owing to unforseen oontln genlces he could not be present. The committee to fill vacanoies reported that Mr. Edmunds would talk inform ally on the toplo. This was done to the great interest of the congregation. Rev. J. O. Austin then spoke in re gard to "Music in the SundaySchool," maintaining that tbe old hymns are far preferable foi use in the school. The question as to whether we should organize a Baptist Sunday Sohooi Association was presented by Rev. F. X. Baker, of Ashland. F. W. Carstens then led an open parliament, in whioh suggestions were made as to an organization. -THUSRDAY EVENING. The session was opened under tbe direction of Rev. W. A. Wright and a praise service of thirty minutes was conducted by bim. Tbe chairman tben called for the address of the evening by Mr. Ed munds on, "The Child's Religious Life," dealing with: I. The child at birth. II. Period of non-acoountabillty 1. Extent. 2. Characteristics. 3. At mosphere. III. Metbod-1. Nurture. 2. In ouloate. 3. Initiate. FRIDAY MORNING. The session of tbe oonveutiou was oalled to order by Bro. Edmunds, who then prooeeded to oonduot the model Sunday sohooi session. Disonssion of methods was carried on proiltably until time foi the topio, "How to Make a Sunday Sohooi Grow," by J. B. Travla. Five points were set forth.: Purpose It, Fray for it. Plan for it. Prepare for it. Push for it. The oommittee to report a basis for the organization of a Rjgue River Baptist Sunday School Association presented a partial report through J. B. Travis. Owing to conditions whioh had come to light, it was thought wise to postpone aotion-uuti a later date, so it was, f V Moved and seconded that the pres ent officerB on the committee on or ganization oontinue for the year and arrange for a similar gathering next year, at which time the committee Bhall report. 1. Name, tbe Rogue River Baptist Sunday Sohooi Association. , 2. Purpose, Its purpose shall be the mutual instruction and training for larger and more effeotive service in tbe Sunday school. 3. Officers. The officers shall be a president, vice president, secretary and treasurrr, whose duties shall t be such as are usually performed by suoh officers, provided, however, that such offiaers shall be members held in good repute iu a Baptist cburoh cf the Rogue River Baptist As&ooiation. 1. Members. Any person of good moral oharaoter, embraoed in the membership of an evangelical churoL of Jackson and Josephine oouutieB may become a member of this associa tion. .1 Pastor, Ft' W. Carsteus then spoke about "How to Hold the Young Peo ple." . . 1. Be interested in them. 2. Be ' . . 3... Give them something to do. I 1. Furpoee to lead them to CbriBt. "What Part Should the Pastor take in the Sunday Sohooi," was presented by Rev. J. C. Austin, aasooiatlonal missionary. .' " . ; Rev. J. Merley, in presenting the topio, "What Kind of Sunday Sohooi Literature should be UBed in a Bap tist Sunday School," said'the only kind of literature to be used In a Bap tist Sunday school is BaptiBt litera ture, of oourse. , Disousdion of the various topios presented was then participated in until the noon hour. The session then adjourned, . after prayer by Bro. J. Merley. FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The session was opeued at 2:15 by Bro. Edwards. , The lesson, the tem ptation of Jesus, was taught by Bro . E. M. Monroe, of Medford. . ,, In the absenoe of Prof. Ritner, Mr. Edmunds spoke in legard to tbe Im portance of the home department. . "Wby Have a Cradle .Roll," was the subject of the paper preBented by Mrs. J. B. Travis. The question box was conducted by Bro. Edmunds. On motion the convention expressed its hearty thanks and appreciation of the entertainment ' extended by the Medford church. Carried by a stand -ing vote. , On motion the session ad journed after prayer by Bro. C. H. Ferrell. , . . , . ' Shot with His Own. Rifle. EUGENE, Or., Jon. 22. John R. Goldson, residing at Goldson post office, twenty-five miles west of Eu gene, was accidentally killed by a shot from his own rifle while fighting with a wounded oougar in the mountains five miles west of Goldson, Sunday, about noon. Goldson and a party of ton other men, including two brothers, were out bunting and Goldson beenme separ. ated from his oompanions. Soon af terward they heard several shots in the direotlon in which he went, and immediately after that heard him call for help. Another shot was heard, then all was quiet. In a few minutes Goldson was found dead with a bullet hole through the chest. A badly wounded oougar was found up a tree near by, and quiokly dispatched. The butt of Goldsou's rifle bore marks of tbe cougar's teetb and bruises were found on the animal's head, indicating that the man bad been olubbing the brute with hia rifle, It is supposed that the cougar at tacked him and that, thinking be bad emptied the magazine of the rifle. Goldson defended himself in this manner when the remalnng cartridge accidentally exploded) oauslng his deatn. Goldson waa about forty years old and leaves a wife and one small child. He was engaged in the sawmill busi ness with his father and brothers. Repair Shop. I have opened a sun, bioyole and general repair shop in the building occupied by D. T. Lawton, on North B street. All work guaranteed first class and charges reasonable. MORT LAWTON. IT The young people have been enjoy ing a season of coasting for the first time in several years lately. Coast ing parties are made up and go by train to Colestln, where tbe Bport can be enjoyed to perfection.. There Is plenty of enow, steep bills and good tracks there. 1 The ladles' night sooial given by the Ashland Elks last Saturday night by a large number of members of the order from all over the valley was a success in every way. : The money order department of the Ashland postollice handled approxi mately 8118,000 in 1905. The oity of Ashland is to have uut-jl line maps of its Eewer and water sys tem, and the oounoil has entered into a oontraot with J. A. MoUall to pre-! pare the same. , ' i The postal department has oalled for bids for carrying the mail from Ash land to Pelican, Ave months in tbe. year, June 1st to October 31st. No satisfactory bids .were received at the former call. BidB will be received on ly from persons living along tho line or coutinguous thereto. Bids will be reoelved at the Ashland office for transferance to Washington up to February 0th. ! Suow was twenty inches deep at the Toll House ranch on tbe Siskiyous during tbe late storm. Chanted 'the Constitution. j The Salem Statesman has a story of the man who was referred to in a ref cent law suit as the man who had obanged the constitution of the Unitea States.v ' j The occurrence ' happened forty years ago and the man was JudgO ThoB. H. Brei tz, of Walla Walla. In 1866 the 11th amendment was sent nnt: tn th. various legislatures for ratification and It was very essential rhat Oregon's vote should be recorded for the measure. Brentz at that time j was oounty clerk of Grant county and alBO a Republican candidate for the legislature The vote was very oloBe throughout the state with chances In favor of a Demooratlo legislature. When the returns oanie in Bientz saw that there were irregularities iu sev eral preoinots whioh would defeat him. He refused to oount the ballots and issued oertifioatea of election to himself and his oolleague. They pro- j tactics, angered tne irencn goveru oeeded to Salem and were sworn in. ment, and a fleet was sent to Martini After a bitter tight the amendment que. ' . ; was passed by a vote of 25 to 22, and However, his indication of France's two days afterward Brentz and his determination to push the matter nn ro nuatod and Democrats i did not have the desired effect. Then seated, but the amendment had been Oregon was the last state to ratify and was tho one needed to make the neoessary two-thirds, venereum Buuiunutu iu Brentz' action made possible the rati- 'Mm to return aBhore. Although teoh ncation, bo that he may be truly said . uioally this was not a forolble expul n h... nlmnand tho nonstitution. ' sion it amounted to an act of hostil Horse Over the Grade. : From Coast Mail. 1 ,; While ooming in with Sunday's mail, one of the paok horses fell over a giade not far this sido of Brewster valley. :'.,! i In the fall a part of the pack was dislodged and rescued, but tbe remain ing sacks of paper mail wore lost : in a river which the hoare swam. ; The animal was found the next day feed ing on the other side of the river,sofe and sound. . As the preolpioe over which it fell was forty feet high, the latter statement might sound flahy, if it were not for the faot tbut in the mail Back whioh the horso oarried, re posed a dozen paokages of B'lesoh mann's yeast oakea, which it Is re ported rose to the occasion and not only preserved the horse from being injured by a sudden fall on the rooks at the foot of the abyss, but buoyed him up bo that he wos enables to safe ly swin the swollen river encumbered as he was with the heavy mail. Tbe weather is exttemely rough now and the road are bad. It is really wonder ful that so little mail is lost en tran sit. Under the elrounistanoes it would seem almoBt a piece of wisdom for all paok horses to be proided with a little yeaBt. Caught at Roseburg. : For the second time within a few months eloping couples from Cali fornia have been cajght before getting far into Oregon. The latest oaBO waB that of J. L. Langley, aged forty seven, and Teresa Maze, ,aged four teen, of Martinez, Calif., who were ar reBted on northbound train No. 16 at Roseburg Sunday night. Tiny were both prominent workers in tho M. E. ohurch at Martinez. . The girl claimB the elopement was voluntary. It is said tbat the girl has a record in tbe eloping line, having ran away with James Duffy about six months ago, and Duffy is now serving six years In San Quentin as a oonsequenoe. Notice to Stockmen. ThA nnnnal meeting of tbe Jackson County Stockmen Association will be held at Ashland, February 10. 1000, at 10 o'clock a. m. It is desired that all mam hprn be Dresent. as there is im portent business to oome before tbe meeting. DAVID HOIHN, Prosldent. L. L. DAMON, Secretary. , The aooommodatiou train on tbe Klamath Lake railroad, whioh le t Tbrall Thursday morning was blooked by heavy snow at a point six miles from the terminus of the road at Po kegama, until Saturday evening. President Campbell, of the State Uni versity, was trying to get to rilamath Falls via this route to fill an engage ment at the county institute 'there and was caught in this blockade, whioh detained him until too late to fill his engagement, so he returned to Ashland via, Tbrall Saturday night. A dozen passengers were on the blockaded train and they .made the best of the situation for the three days and two nights. Fortunately there was a supply of canned goods in the freight aboard the train and a settler near by, Mr. Frame, and fam ily were very hospitable to the snow bound traveleis. Tho delay to outward bound traffic: was also complete for several days, A youug lady en route to Sau Fran Cisco to be married was frantio ovei her inability to get through in time; to roach there at the appointed tinie.i Crisis in Venzuela. If Franco makes a deoislve move in retaliation for Venezuela's treatment of her representative, Caracas, this week will be tho world-center. Veu ezuela, under the Castri reglmo, has been an interesting problem, but the Monroe doatrino, although neoossar ily involved in It, is so thoroughly understood by all tbe European coun tries that the state department antio pltes no untoward action on the part of Franco. . . , - . The most recent Franoo-Venezuelan double began with tho expulsion of M- Brun tne representative of the Frenob Cable Company at Caracas, ad Charge d'Affalres Taigny's pro- " hbhusi, uuuiuu, Venezuela beld that its position was correct and refused to treat 'further with the French ' government throughg M. Taigny. Then there was a long period during whioh, owing to the good offios of United States Minister Rus sell, an opBn rupture was avoided.. President Castro, by his dialtory ! followed M. Taigny's aotion in board- lug tne sceamer Martinique to oocain . aispatones ana me reiusai uy me ity, ana iu. luauopurguer, wie tuurge d'Affalres of Venezuela, was then expelled from French,. , territory. Three French warships are now off the Venezuelan coast, and a naval demonstration is expeoted, Increase in Taxable Values. The total value of taxable property n the state of Oregon, sb shown by tho assessment rolis of 1905, , is 8309, 15G,615.19,ss oomparod with 8188,058, 128.11 in 1901, an increase of 82,000,- 000, or ndarly 70 per cent. Nearly all of tbe counties show some increase, and a few very heavy advanoes in as eessed valuations. i Multnomah oounty takes the lead in the amount of inoreaie, the total for 1001 having been 856,627,577, while the 1905 roll sbows 8113,860,258, an in crease of 160 per cent. Columbia made an inorease of 81,500,000, or 60 Der cent. Coos oounty advanced its assessment from 83,677,000 to 89.239, 000. Jackson oounty raised valueB from 81,615,000 to 812,712,000, or an incease of 180 per cent. Josepbine doubled its assessment in 1905. Mal heur oounty increased its assessment 50 per cent, Sherman nearly 60 per cent, Wallowa over 100 per cent, Was co nearly 30 per cent and Washington 100 per cent. ' t The order of tbe leading counties under the 1905 assessment is as fol lows: Multnomah, Jackson, Washing ton, Umatilla, Marion, Clackamas, Coos, Lane, Linn. W. C. T. U. Items. The weather was so cad January 18th that not many of the whlto rib. boners mot at the home of Mrs. Hop, kins. Those who did spent tbe wbole time in sowing for the needy. "Why is it, if oloBing t saloonB drives trade away from towns, that where tbore are no saloons the town soon grows into a oity and the oity is filled with better class of people? Why is It, tr there is just as much liquor sold with saloons, the arrests for drunkenness were reduced from twenty-one to seven the first year after saloons wore closed. Liquor men claim the 'right' to sell drink; but outraged boyhood has an undeniable and Inherent right to demand protection from ddrink. The Union will meet at Mrs. Hopkins January 2511 PRESS SUPT. Ask your grocer for Rogue River creamery uuiuur iv vuuw )ni hiuqiq. LETTER FROM I ROSEBURG, Ore., Jan. 10, 1006. Mr. A. S; Bliton, Medford, Ore. : ' Dear Sir and Friend : I believe my tlmo on your subscription liBt has about expired. Enclosed find postal order for 81.50 for oontlnuance for another year. I feel that I onn't do without the old reliable Medford Mail. It's like mooting an old friend every week to tell me the happenings in JaokBou oounty. My health is very good considering age and infirmatlves lnoldeut thereto. I am wintering well and as the stook men say, expeot to be In good condition to go on the range when grass oomes in the spring. My detail work is looking atfer the cemetery. For the year of 1905, nine, teen comrades died, of whom seven. teen wore buried here and the other two were sent to their friends. ' So far this year, only one has died, Luther S. Rogers, an old pioneer and Indian war veteran. Ho was promi nent in Masonic circles iu erly dnys, was the first master of Eugene lodge He was burled with the rites of tbe order, Abo Bowman, an old Sterling and Applogate miners and an Iudian' wnr voterau, waB received here about' two weeks ago and he takoB to the borne like a youug duck to a pond of water. My old friend and: Mexican war oomrade, Wm. Hunter, of Phoe nix, iB wintering well cud enjoying, bimself. 1 Loui Pfeil, of Gold Hill, la in the hospital. He feels well, but is growing feeble all tbe time. He is over eighty years old. Charlie Good win is also In the hospital. He has paralysis, but still holds his own. Comrade Bright, who formeily resid-1 ed In Ashland, is also In the hospital with a bad oancet in the fiice, which is gradually destroying him. John Benson, eon of the old pioneer preaob or of Jacksonville, is lying very low with dropsy and is expeoted to die soon. This includes about all the comrades troni Jackson county that I oan think of or know of. This oloses for the preBent. Give my kind est regards to all enquiring friends, With many good wishes for your fu ture welfare and the continued pros perity of tbe Medford Mail, I remain, lours truly, R. S. DUNLAP. Blue Ledge Sold. The fnmouB Blue Ledge copper mine,, whioh bns been sold, re-sold and tben sold some more, every two or three moutha for the past year or more or every time somo mining writer ran 03t of oopy, is at last ported to have really and truly pussed out of the hands of the original own ers into the handB of an: eastern syn dioato headed by Robt. ,S, Toarne, of New York, ouo of the big copper op erators of the oouutry, for a consider ation not given out, but supposed to be in the neighborhood of six figures. The property, whioh comprises some twenty-eight claims, is said to be one of the largest and rioest undeveloped bodies of copper ore in the United States. . It is Bald that the new own ers will at once commence extensive development work, and thiii tho mine will now be worked in earnest. The opening of this vast copper de posit will moan muoh to every In dustry In Southern Oregon.: Large numbers of men wilt bo employed. Those men must eat, and consequent ly a ready homo market is 'afforded for a portion of our produce. ; Tho success of thlB enterprises entails the establishment of more of like charac ter. More mines will be dicoovored ; mines already discovered will be do veloped and Southern Oregon will take its plaoo portty close to the bead of the oiass of mineral produoing seo tlons. F. VV. Cannaban, lately from Mexi co, wiil.be superintendent of the mine, and has gone there to put a foroo of mon at work. It is said that a largo foroo will be put on the at once run ning a tunnel on the lower level. E, L. Jonos bos oharge of the tuunol gang. E. V. Frotbinghani, attorney In fact for Mr. Towno, is now ut the mine making construction contracts. Great is the Blue Ledge; groat are its pos sibility and great will be Medford when the M. & A. V. road la built to the mines. Installed New Officers. At tbe last moating of Camp No. 90, Woodmen of the World, tbe following officers wore installed: It. R. Moiey, C. C. ; J. O. Smith, A. L. ; F. E. Payne, banker ; W. 13. Jackson, olork; W. li. Maultwby, es oort; J, W. Smylio, watchman; J. U. At well, sentry; B. J. Trowbrlgo, man ager. Chrysanthemum Circle No. 81, Wo men of Woodcraft, have installed the following officers: Ella Carney, A. N. ; Maude Day, P. G, N. ; Ella Arnold, manager; Ella Ferry, Att. ; Ularn Barksdull, I. and O, Sen, ; Ada Mill, musioian ; Flor ence Bntlor, C. of G. ; Besslo Lums don, banker; Prue Angle, olork; Flor ence Butelr, Viola Beokett, Ella Perry, managers. TALKS APPLES . f ., i :.'.. . From Portland Jonrnal: "; "You do not hear ' much about the Kogue river orchards,' but they are shipping, hundreds of .carloads of ap pies to New York, ' England' and the orient every year," said John D. Ol. well, of Medford, at 'the Imperial hotel. He 1b a member of itho board of regonts of; the state agricultural college, served in the legislature and is a member of one of tbe largest ap pie exporting flrnis in the slate. "We are like the Hood river people in the respect tbat wo only ship the Spltzenberg and Newtown Pippin1 to the east. The former go to New York and the latter to England. Inferior grades of other varieties find a ready market in the orient. It waa only a few years ego that the orient proved a market for apples. Sinoe then the demand has been growing, but only for the oheaper grades. The natives of China and Japan are not lnollned to pay much for their apples, henoe we only ship the oommou varieties, Not so with the fastidious Nev York- and the wealthy Englishman. Tbey want tbe beat the market affords and it oomes from Oregon. And the Rogue river valley produoes it. The other large oities of the United StateB mako a bid eaoh, year, for the apples of our orohardB, but they do not get them because the commission merchants are not willing to pay tho prices that we got iu New York and England.. . Tho demand is greater than the supply, hence the flguros ob tainable. .... "The Rogue river valley oountry is growing very rapidly. We are setting out an on an average of about 3,000 aorea of land a year iu new orchards. That has been going on about six years. Results are just beginning to show in the increased output of our sootion. 'I am now on my way to New York to study the fruit markets of the east and learn more particularly just what the New Yorkers want in the way of speoial brandB of apples. Oregon is faat forging to the front as an apple produoing state, and at the present rate bids fair to beoome the' greatest in the United States in the yield of speoial varieties." : , Surprise Party. On Frldny ovenlng of last week a surprise party waa given .Mrs. D,' R. Andrue, at her home, on Onkdule ave nue. These surprise parties have been going the rounds out that way of late, but sometimes, bb was the oaso last Friday evening, the surprlBers are themselves surprised. , A neighbor lady had purposely spent the after noon with Mrs. AndruB to make sure she stayed at home, and to Burt o' oauso her to th'nk that nothing but of the ordinary was going to tnke plaoe, but when tho orowd arrived and Mrs. Andrus bade them enter, saying they were late and that sho had been ex peoting them for sometime, the sur prlsors wore surprised. After a short time spent in sooial converse, all gathered about tabios and took a hand In playing flinch until ton o'olock,when all were served with cake, pop oorn, nuts and home made oandy, and after partaking thereof the guosts were entertained with musio and much gaiuty from tho youug folks until too company de parted for home, profuse in their thanks for the pleasant evening. Those present were: Sndie Whitman, Fannio Whitman, Thomas J. Williams, O.. W. Snyder, W, P. Dodgo. Mra. E, Muulo, Mrs. T. J. Williams, Mrs. Chas, Snyder, Mrs. W. P. Dodge, Jennie Dodgo, Roy Maule, A. L, Maulo, Eleanor Mnulo, Julia Dodgo: John Maule, Adelburt Snyder, Blanche Maule. Elsie Sny der and Harold Snyder. ' XXX. Land Open for Filing. OfHoiul notices are being sent out from the Roseburg laud office giving locations of certain government land wbloh will be open for filing after March 0, 1906. The laud thus desig nnted is: Township 28 South, Rnngo 1 Weat, Township 27 South, Range 1 West, . Seotions 1-12 and 13, Township 30 South, Range 1 West, i ' All of tbeae lands are in the Rose burg district, but none of them are in Jackson county. Commercial Club Meeting. . There will be a meeting of the mem oers of tho Medford Comtneroinl Club, at tbe club rooms, on Friday evening of thin wook, at 7:30 o'clock. It Is desired and expected tbnt tbore will be a largo attendance. Mattors ap pertaining to h more thorough and effectual means of ndvotriBlng Oregon will bo disoussed by gentlemen from the northoin part of tho state and by members of the olub. J. A. PERRY, President. Guaranteed Forest Ho6orvo acrlp for sale, in large or small quantities, by Frank E. Alley, uuatnirs over Land Office, Roseburg, Oregon. Will place lame for non-resident purchasers, WRECK. The steamer Valenoia, wbloh was en route to, Viotorla from San Franoiaco with 91 pasaehgerB and a orew ot 00, went ashore, at midnight Monday night dui ing u thiok fog, at Cloo Ose, near Carmanah Point, and a large number were' drowned when attempt ing to leave the ship. , The steamer la on tbe rooks against a high cliff, and ia likely tojgo to' ; pieces' at any time. Tbe Valenoia Waa taking tbe 'plaoe, of the Bteamer City ot Pueblo, recent ly disabled, on the tun from San Fran oleoo to Fuget Sound and northern ports. She left San Franoisoo Janu ary 20th. The steamer, carried a passenger liBt of 91 and a orew of 60, A number have been drowned and those on the wreok are in great peril . from aiheavy sea. i'i j I 1 Missing her oourse in a fog, tne vea sel piled up on the rooks at the foot of the cliff on Vanoouver Island, near' Cloo Ose, fire or six miles from Car manah Point, 05 miles from Victoria, B. C, at midnight, Monday. A boat load of survivors brought word of tha disaster to Cape Beale, on Vanoouver Island, at the southern side of the en trance to Barclay Sound, 120 miles from Victoria. The steamer .Queen aud wreoking steamer Salvor left for the aoouo ot the wreok Tuesday afternoon. i : One boat's orew reached Cape Beale at 3 o'clock this afternoon and nine men got aBhore near tbe telegraph huts, about fifteen i miles from light house, '.li Two men are , prisoners on the face of the cliff aear which the Bteamer went ashore and oannot get up the olff nor return to the wreok. The sea will probably reaob them when the tide is high. .- , Some painful soeues ' are reported. One womau dropped : her child .into the sea when trying to band it to hor husband, who waB In one of tbe boats. When the boat's crew left there waa a little boy running about tho deck crying for his mother, who was among tbos drowned. ,., When the six survivors who have arrived at Cape Beale left the Valenoia she was lying head-on to the sea, aud was out thirty yards from the hioh bluff on shore, with the water over hor main deck. What were left of the paasengera fnnd a large number had been previously drowned) were hud- uieu oil tne suiuuu uuun. When the boats were lowered, soon after the vessel waa driven into the shore after she began to sink, there was a great loss of life. The boatat filled with women and children wore smashed against the side of the steam er and all In them were lost The lights had gone out by this time and .the orew oould not see to work. . Seven boatB and three life- rafts were lowered. Only two of them have been heard from.. There were thought to be about one hundred persons still on the wrook, end tbe survivors who roaohod Rape, Beale say at least fifty were drowned olongsido tho steamer before tbey loft. The boatswain and five seamen wore sent to secure assistance, and aio tho only ones that roaohed Cape Beolo arriving there about 3 o'olook. ' AdviceB at 12:10 o'clook say tbnt tbe Bteamer was reported to be break ing up. Hor main deck wbb awitsb, aud seas threatened to demolish the uppor works where the survivors wore huddled. Mauy must have died from expoaure and if the wreck broko up as was expeoted not more than a quarter of those on board would be, ashed ashore. THE LATEST. ' SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 21, A speo ial to tbo Times from Bamfleld says the Valonoin has gone to pieces and all on board are lost. TACOMA, Waah., Jan. 21,-The steamer Salvor is returning to Vio torla with sixty corpses from the Va lenoia disnstter. The vessol should reach Viotoria about 1:30 tbis after noon. VICTORIA, B. O., Jan. 21. (2:10 p. m. ) Confirmation has just been re ceived that all on board tho Vnleaola have boen lost with the exception or the llftoen men who reached Capo Beale. ; . Card ol Appreciation. Having sold my stock of groceries, obinawaro, oto., to Roberta & Rct'gnn I tako thlB opportunity of tbnnkii'H the general publlo for the splendid support you gave me In mv ti lea years In business, Coming be j a stranger you took me into your "Ou udence and gave mo a splendid Iri.cio. I approoia u all this, and trust jout will glvo your support to the new tlrui. Yours in appreciation.' O. D. OWEN. Gets Six Years. Leon G. Vial pleaded guilty in tho oiroult court at Roseburg last week to a oharge of assault with intent fu kill and waa sentenced to six years in the penltoutlary. Viol shot a Mra. Du m bloton sevoral months ago, and jump, ed his ball. lie recently gave hlm solf up.