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t V o lu m e o i n o u i ) . p o u t 11. O K K O O V W l^ -E H llA Y . F E I I lir A K V 95, 1003» TVn m l » e r -t-4 A g a in s t A ‘ W id e O p e n ” T ow nr B ig In v a s io n o f I m m ig r a n ts . to the pocket below. The pocket -OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. hunter will tell you that he believes After an absence of three years, In its war upou local gamblers end if it were possible for him to have state and district orPiCEua: B. S. Hague has returned to Port lawless saloons, the Nashville removed the nuggets without dis American is doing some effective If. 8. Senators— J>hn H . M itchell and turbing the pocket, ho could have land, where he will practice law. Joseph Simon, both of Portland. work in the uprosPng the fallacy returned after matiy years and Everybody kaows Pague, as he was “ I hid a terrible cold and could C ongressm an, F irs t D istrict—Thomas that “ wide open” conditions help hardly breame. 1 then tried Ayer’s in the weather bureau in this sec found it filled again. H . Tongue, of H illsboro. Cherry Pectoral, and it gave me im lb* growth of a city. Among other G overnor—Geo. E . C ham berlain S a Tli* pocket-hunter left the main tion for 1-1 years. The weather de mediate relief.” bits of American municipal history W. C. Layton, Sidell, 111. lem. camp regularly every month qr so, partm ent transferred him to De with which it braces its argomente S ecretary of State—F . I. Dunbar, 8a- leading his pack pony, laden with troit, Chicago, Buffalo, Charleston it prints the story of a sim ilar fight lem. How will your cough Providence and Washington City pick, shovel, pan and grub kit. State T.Oasurer—C has. S. Moore, Sa in Atlanta, told by a correspondent be tonight? Worse, prob These were his stock in trade, his after taking him from Portland, and lem. as follows: ably. For it’s first a cold, S u p t P ublic In stru ctio n —J. H . Ack implements; he needed nothing had he not resigned from the service A young man by the name of then a cough, then bron erm an, Salem. more. Far out in the mountains he there was a prospect of his being Connally was appointed by. the S tate P rinter—J . R. W hitney, Salem. chitis or pneumonia, and plautcd in Helena, Montana. halted and struck camp He fol A ttorney G eneral—D. R. N . B lack at la st c o n su m p tio n . “ Thoie will be a big invasion of board and at aconferenee which lm- lowed the stream and panned the b u rn , Salem. mediatly followed, the new chief was C o u g h s alw ay s te n d dirt, washed each pan carefully i people frem Kansas, Iowa and C le rk State Land B o ard —M. L .C h a m asked how long it would take him dow nw ard. S to p th is berlain, Salem. down and eagerly scanning the res other states within a lew weeks,” t i run the gamblers out of the city dow nw ard tendency by J o in t Senator fo r Coos and Curry—T. predicts Mr. Pague. “ When in idue for colors of gold. If a little of Atlanta. “It will take ab6ut two taking Ayer’s Cherry Pec M. Dimtnlck. string of yellow followed in the ¡Chicago a railway man informed Joint Representative for Coos an d weeks, or possibly it may be done toral. corner of the pan, close at the heels me that the companies were »on- C urry—R. D. Hume, W edderburn. Three *1 m s : t5c.. 5k., SI. All AraKtcte. in ten days,” said Connally. “That» of the black sand, the grizzled fea |dering where they would he able to Ju d g e , ad Ju d icial D istrict—J . W. to long,” said Mayor English. Consult your doctor. If he sa rs ta k e It, ■ secure enough cars to handle the H am ilton, Roseburg. th e n do as he says. If he te lls y<*« not tures would brighten with a smile to take tt. th e n don ’t ta k e It. He k now s. “ We will give you until d a / after Prosecuting A ttorney, 2d Ju d iclal D is L eave It w ith him . " « are w illin g. of happiness. T hat little string of people that w ill sta rt for Oregon J . C. A Y E U CO.. L ow ell, Maas. tomorrow night at twelve' o’clock trict— George M. Brown, Roseburg. yellow was particles of gold,and the I when the new rates takes effect, U. S. C om m issioners—J . H . U pton, and if you cannot do i t ' by that T h e P o c k e t H u n te r . black sand to which it closely hung j February 15. There is great inter- Langlois ; J. H untley, Gold Beach. time your resignation will be ac | est felt everywhere in the east in was its inseparable companion. In ] county officers . cepted.” The young chief was in Oregon, Idaho and Washington, In the gold fields of Oregon, as in nature the two are associated, and j ■County Ju d g e —E. A. Bailey, Gold structed that he needed only a ths entire west, the pocket hunter the pocket-huntsr will tell you that and the states have been well ad Beach. crowbar, an ax and a small number has found his last “color” and struck they are ju st like Mary and her lit vertised. I met a farmer and cat County Commissioners—F . H. Blake, of policemen with nerve and"a few tle dea+er from Kansas who was Chetco; C. W. H aines, Eckley. his last “trace.” The advent et tle lamb—where one gees the other Sheriff—J. G. W alker, Gold B each. headed for the W illamette valley. side arms at each place. Ils ad- modern-day giants of gold-getting, is sure to follow. C ounty Clerk—G eorge W. Sm ith, dopted the suggestion and made his the complete taking up of a once free If the pocket-hunter strikes good I told him that he would find it a Gold Beach. raids simulaneously at the well domain, has forced him to pack his colors he pan* again near about; wet season coming at this time, but County Treasurer—Jam es C aughell, known places, fiirst providing wag he said that there are hundreds of grub kit and hie into the dim and then pans again, ajid if he finds the W edderburn. ons to haul off the stuff, and con Assessor—A. H, Post, Port Orford . fading past. The hunter of pockets, colors growing better with each pan people coming here from Kansas veyances for the prisoners. The Htkool S upt.—Win. 8. G uerin, L an g the “coyote miner,” the surface he smiles more happily, for then lie when the low rates are made next lois. scrateher, has passed the age of his knows he is on a “ trace,” to follow month, and he wants to get on the prisoneis were taken to the jail and Surveyor—D. CunnifT. Jr., Gold Beaeh. locked up, and the stuff was taken usefulness. There was a time when which correctly will lead him to a ground a few weeks in advance and MIST!*«» OF THE COl'RTS. to the square and burned up, the select a location, 1 met a dealer he was a necessity. During the pocket. W ith each pan he pours C ircuit Court meets Fourth M onday in Chief of Police pouring on the oil from Iowa who had sold out every days of the age of gold the the little yellow particles into his August of sach year. Hardware, Tinware, Glassware, Crockery. palmy and the Mayor touching the'm atch. pocket-hunter played an important rough palm and examine them care thing he had there and was com C ounty Com m issioners C ourt m eets This was in 1881, when Atlanta was first W ednesday in Jan u ary , April, part; and to his credit let it bo said fully. He knows at once whether ing here with $13,000 to invest and a town of less than 50,000, I am Ju ly aad Septem ber of each year. establish himselt. Ho too, prefer!’ FLOUR and FEED always on hand. he played it well. He blazed the each came from the same source. told, and 1 notice from the Atlanta P ro b ats Court meets first Monday in ed coming a short time ahead of the trail that led to the fields of gold. There are no two colors alike—to Order« taken for any article not in stock. each m onth. News of January 20, 1903, that the His shallow diggings were indica him. He knows his business. He rush in order to secure a good loca cu bb y COUNTY POST OFFICES AND POST new city directory ju st being issued Order* taken for Suits, and fits guaranteed. tions of ledge-ribbed mountains, of would know those colors again tion. And so with many others.’ M ASTERS. at thia time shows the present hidden treasures beyond his shovel should he find them in the moun . . . .F. H . Blake. W h a t A m e r ic a n In v a sio n is l i n population to be 139,980. This is handle’s iength, which was his lim tain depths or washed across a city Jam es MoCutchen. H e rb o r........... in g . not a had showing for a city. More ....... Miss Annie Doyle. Gold Beach itation. pavement. That is one of the many than 200 per cent in twenty years, ................John H um e. W edderburn In Southern Oregon, where sur tricks of his trado th at took him (From H arper’s Weekly.) . . . J . R. H all. and it has done that without gaaa- Tilth«« face finds were unusually common, years to learn. The proofs of the exteut to which blers. .. Mrs. J. D. Cooley. A g n e ss....... . the pocket-hunter during the pock Once on a “ trace” the pocket-hun American manufacturers are invad ....... C has. R. W ilson. C o rb in ............ et-hunting days, was a man not ter is like a hound after a jackrab ing the globe continue to accumu . . . Ames Jo h n sto n The Senate passed a bill increas P o r t O rfo rd ... .. J. 8. Capps. much despised. His was a vocation, bit—there is no stopping him. late. It is not indeed particularly ing the size of homestead in Alaska D en m ark ....... ......... E. Rackleff. L a n g lo is ....... an art, ¡terhaps, gained only by- Madly, excitedly, yet cooly and de surprising that we should now be to 320 acres, and permitting the E c k l« y ........... .................J. A. H aines. years of experience. His weather terminedly, be works till the treas sending locomotives to Guatemala entering of unsurveyed as well as 1 beaten face, his grizzled features, ure is either found or hopelessly lost. and Brazil, agricultural implements surveyed lands under this lew, J. H U N TLEY , his wearied eyes, with the “crows- Finding pockets was not "luck.” to Argentina and harvesting ma provided all entries are rectangular feel” in their corners, his horny It was hard work, and the many chines to Fraece, electrical appara in form and not more than one mile A t t o r n e y A C e u n s e lo r a t L a w hands—all of these told of frosty treasures found in Southern Oregon tus to Japan, a shoe-manufacturing in) length. No homestead* in All.good. not giving ..Refaction can be returned, and m on.y refund snows, of biting winds and long during the early days and even in plant to Mexico and mining ma Alaska are to be commuted, five NOTARY PUBLIC, journeys over the granite hills, up more recent years were far more oft chinery to Johannesburg. We may years’ residence being required be ed, providing the goods are returned in good order. mountains steep. the Jesuit of hard, systematic, per- well open our eyes, however, when fore patent will issue, and further ; : O kkoon . G ol » S sacu Hunting gold pockets during those serveriag tail than of accident. we learn that engineers from Cent more, all entries must be privately days was a good business. Many Most of old-time pioneer pocket ral Asia are expected soon to reach surveyed before approved. The bill Will Practice in *11 the Court» of this made money by it, and as many huetere have gone over the Great this country for the purpose of plac also contains a provisien lim iting State. more laid foundations for latei Trail. They deserve to etriko a bet ing contracts with American firms the widtli of rights of way for wag Timber Laud, Act June 3, 1878,— Pablic Lend Cases a Specialty. fortunes. ter "trace” and find a richer treas for cottonseed-oil millrf. Strange on roads in Alaska to 200 (set. MRS. E. W. JEN SEN , Notice for Publication. The pocket-hunter must not he j ure than they ever found over here. to say, too, the German Govern The House public lanjls committee fine millinery U nited States L and Office, confounded with the ordinary pros And perhaps they have. W ho ment is purchasing from the l’hila- has signified its willingness to ac J. H. UPTON, R oseburg, Oregon, November, 7, 1902. pector; that would be a breach of knows?— D ennis H. S tovall , in I delphia Pneumatic Tube Company cept the Senate amendment* to this Notice is hereby given th a t in com U .S S . C O M M I S S I O N E R A complete line of Ladies and Chil pliance with the provisions of tlie a c t of respect to .he latter and a diie in pneumatic tubes for the imperial bill, which insures its final passage Congress of Ju n e 3« 1878, entitled An sult io the former. The prospector Sunday Oregonian. d ren ’s Trim m ed Hats. t navy-yard at Kiel; American capi and siguing by the President. It act for the sale of tim ber lands in the NOTARY PUBLIC, Ready tc W ear H ats and Sailors con States of California, Oregon, Nevada, was content with a “color,” or even Hereafter all executions will take j talists have started a factory in Glas may possibly be sent to coaference and in Washington Territory ,” as ex an “indication,” in tny form he place at the state penitentiary and stantly on hand. L anqloib , C ubby Co., O regon . gow, Scotland, for the manufacture far final adjustment. Hats trim m ed to order on short notice. tended to all the Public Land States by found it, but with the pocket bun-1 not at the county seats. This is act of A ugust 4, 1892, Peter O’Connor of goff balls; large engines for Bril Idaho is a small state, In point of d e a le r in Town Lota, and Im proved of Ely, county of St. Louis, b tate of ter thia was not so. He ignored on* of the most meritorious measur P o r t O rfo rd , O r e g o n . ! ish blast furnaees are about to be population, hut it has some “great Minnesota, has th is day filed in th is of and W ild Lands. fice liis sworn statem ent No. 3894, lor sulphides and all other “ phides. es passed by the present legislature. [ shipped by a foundry and macliiue E. W . JE N S E N , men, a t h ast physically. Senator the purchase of the Southeast quarter They were entirely outol his cate The hanging of a criminal in the Filing* and Final Proof« Made on company in Philadelphia, and King Ueitfeld, whose term is about to ex JU S T IC E O F T H E P E A C E , (S E 'i)o f section No. 34, in Township ’ No. 31 south, range No. 14 west, gory. He wanted nothing but the community where he is known aud Edward V II has requested a P itts Homesteads and Pre-emption«. pire, weighs 280 pounds, but Hey lan d will offer proof to show that pure article—the monumetal, u n a l where the crime was committed a l AND burg liriu to provide the charging burn, who has been elected to suc the land sought is more valuable G EN ERA L CONVEYANCING. N O T A R Y JP l l t l - I t f . foi its tim ber or stone than for agricnl- loyed, pure, smooth and glittering. I ways create a had effect upon public station for liis aulomobilies at Sand ceed Hcitfehl, weighs 380 pounds— tural purixjsea, and to establish his claim to said laud before th e Register He wanted naught but the gold, morals and tends to make a hero, ringham with the electrical portion or claims to, and nobody cares to L. A. ROBERTS, lan d Receiver of this office a t Roseburg, and he wanted it bunched close. or a subject of sympathy of the of the apparatus. dispute the fact with him. H ey | Oregon, on Monday the 2 jth day of agent eyes of hundreds of people. The He wanted pockets. A T T O R N E Y A T I .A W It is well kuowu that the fisur burn, it it said, has been making i May, 1903. Ask a professional pocket-hunter semi-public executions, ns hereto qualities of weinen's shoes, which He names as witnesses: G e r m a n A m e r ic a n inquiries about the Senatorial Grant McMahan, M lUiam L abeau, of M y r tle P o in t , O r e j ó n . I n s u r a n c e C o m p a n y , Klv M inn, A. E. Peck, of M utavllla, to define a pocket and be will do it j fore carried out in this state have j used to be mail« exclusively in chairs; lie doubts whether one of Oregon, E. 8 . Wells, of Olalla, Oregon. with a twinkle in bis eye, and very i an especially dangerous effect upon ■ France, are now manufactured so Any and all persons claim ing adverse them will contain him ; but a* long L IFE, FIRE AND MARINE. Probate business a aperialty. ly the above-described lands are re simply, too. Ill« definition will be boys, whose minds are already much more skilfully in the United as Ueitfeld has not complained of quested to file theirclaim *in thieoffice a picture of his ideal in the pocket i afiaiued from cigarettes and dime States that they have driven the being pinched, Heyburn tbigk* ha Real Estate and Conveyancing. I on or before said 25th ' J .T . BRIDG ES, Register. line. He will tell you to imagine novels. W ith the executions tnk French products out of the lashioo- may possibly accommodate himself. P o r t O rfo rd , - - - - O r e g o n , J. 14. UPTON, a hornet's nest made of clay, any ing place within the walls of the able shops in Paris itself. For But think uf a wan weighing 380 IT imukb L and , A ct J une 3, 1878, size from lh a l’of a goose egg to a penitentiary the public will know cheap watches we used to have lo A ttorney and Coan»elor at I a w , p . J . LIN D BERG , ' pounds! T hat is enough to make N otice fob P ublication . hogshead; fill this with gold nug little of the affair, for there would go to Switzerland, hut now hatches Grover Cleveland blush—or, per B A N D O N , O R E G O N . gets, set it in the ground, or even not he the opportunity for the pap can be made nowhere so cheaply as haps, on the other hand, turn pale United States Land Office, U N D E R T A K E R . Roseburg. Oregon, December 20, 1902. hang it to a rock, and you have a ers to fill whole coluins with the in the United States. There is with « n W . Notice is hereby given th a t In com pli pocket. O Se* upstair», ln Eldorade Building details of the preparations and of scarcely any product ef human in A Complete Line, of C ask ets, Coffins ance with the provisions of the Act ■of Congress of J une 3, 1878, entitled ‘ An If you ask that same pocket-bun the hanging, as there would be were dustry, from,a battle ship to a gim and Trimmings. act for the sale of tim b er lan d s in the ter how the gold accumulated in it carried out in the court house let screw, as to which til« American States of C alifornia, Oregon, „N ev ad a,1 GEORGE M. BROWN, Order* taken for Tombstones and and W ashington T erritory,” as ex th a t pocket lie will speak up very yard.— Medford Success. inventor does not outstrip his com tended to all the Public Land î-tates Cemetery Railing. knowingly and tell you it grew 'pelitors. Il is Hue that our war bv act of A ugust 4. 1892, Fred A T T O R N E Y a t la w Salem, Feb. 10.—With eight dis A Mehl, of B u n id' io n , county of Coos, there! Alter yeu have recovered PQ PT ORFORD, OREGON. ships cost more lo build and more »anting votes ami live members State of O regon, has th is day Too mm mrtr* y»»wr h*» from your ehock, lie will cite an la- absent, the bill appropriating ap to run owing to Ihe higher wages ii * m « H e* R H seat • » 0 8 M C M , OREGON. filed in thi*office hi* sworn ttivl MR UMlf h M Win» br No 4168, for the purchase o f t h e N t J etauce. He will tell of a pocket lie proxinmtely over $165,000 for claimed by Amerisuu labor. On u a iix E C R K M H «»> J . W . ST R A N G E , i n e n a W 11. T on <*• of section No. 19, in Township No 31 I the other hand, there is reason to Ms Uil»~roak«ff south, range No. 14 west, and will offer discovered once up a time- -a pock portage railroad between 1 he Dalles laM tw in» Ml loQff M M WALTER SUTTON, orúüxartty woolO. proof to show th a t the land so u g h t i* et about lbs size of a hornets nest, and Cclilw, covering a distance of 1 belleve’thal the »hips are b tier. D E V H n t more v aluable for Its tim ber or stone : about 8 miles, pas-ed tbs house tin* Representative G.-osvenor hasj N O T A H V V I ’H L K ' th a n for ag ricu ltu ral purposes and to and banging to a jagged piece of morning. Representative Gualt, of C O Q U IL L E C IT Y , O R E G O N . establish hl* claim to mud land before quartz on a steep mountain side, a* presented in C ongress a very curious , Wasbingtoa county; «ho has led the U 8. Commissioner, at Bandon, claim preferred by Jacob Itiltersbacli PORT O R FO R D -- ORRGO* Orégon, on Monday, the 9th day of a hornet’* nest bangs to a limb many a forlorn hope in the house I w!io wants pay for a kit of carpm ler | W ill « list Carry County semi-annually. i March, 1903 He crept up gently and peeped in. this session, was the only member tools lost or stolen in 18oo. lh»| He nam es as witnesses : Amos Oor- nwikw M p eor ktob’iH to make any serious argument U M II»« n ew . M«d> aT son, Simeon N. B. Hunt, W illiam O. Lo! the pocket was filled with bright OR. <1. J . CALDW ELL, pure, h eavy hodlatl oil, against the hill. He charucterizrd claim ant says he was a stage carpent-1 C arroll, Jam es Denholm, all of B an peel ally preparad to witta» and glittering gems'. And clinging the |>ropo*e<l appropriation a» u«®-. er at Fords Theater, Wnshingtou, on .f W Port O rfi’rd C *rop ■laud th e w eather. V la y m lo i» « * a n d S u r g e o n , Oregon. . ♦ t j l TV • 609, Woodmen of the don, the night when Lincoln was s h o t ,1 Bold everyw here Any and all persons claim in g sa- to a piece of quartz; like a drop of expenditure of statu funds in World, will m eet at th eir Hall on the verselv In c a o e - a li *Uee. and that he was arrested as a the above-described land» are PORT ORFO RD, O R E G O N . second and fourth Saturdays of each requested to file th elro laim * in th is of water quivering with it* last desper view ol the fact, as be deelared, witiivsr and lisld thirty days during Made lj STANOARD OU TO. month. All members in good standing fice on or before said 9th day of March, ate hold, was a tiny, sparkling nug that the benefits expected would which time liis tools disapeared are invited to attend. I ItM l'l not be derived. Diseases of Ladies and Children a Spec get ju st on the verge of dropping in E. C. MARSTER8,, C. 0 . Colds PORT ORFORD, OREGON, DEALER IN GENERAL MERCHANDISE KEEPS IN STOCK, GROCERIES, The Best, Only, K R Y G OO D S. Ladies’ and Gents’ Furnishing Goods, Hats and Caps, Oil Clothing, Boots and Shoes, N E W GOODS Received by every steamer. is esta for DOORS and WINDOWS. . Soft Harness o . EUREKA Harness M W ialty A. S. J oh - wstom , Clerk. J. T. BRIDGES, Register.