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P O R T O K F O lìlh O R E Ö O X W K O N E H R A Y Ai l is pouring in from outside points. Senator Stewart, of Nevada, tells The wreckage is being burned after a new story of Mark Tw ain’s a p STATE AND DISTRICT OFFICERS: having been searched for bodies. W ithout other warning than a prenticeship. The humorist win) V S. Senators—J ilin H . M itchell anil few preliminary claps of distant My hair was falling out and Joseph Simon, both of Portland. Ione, June 16.—Leslie Matlock, was to make the world laugh was turning gray very fast. But your thunder, the worst calamity that C ongressm an, F irst D istrict B inger Hair Vigor stopped ....... the .................... falling and a stockmon of Morrow County, is then employed as a reporter in Car- Vi ever came to the Pacific Northwest H erm ann, ol Kosebnrg. restored the natural color.” —Mrs. sou City, and was on duty one eve E. Z. Benomme, Cohoes, N. Y. G overnor—Geo. E. C ham berlain S a descended upon the towns of Hepp credited with saving the lives of ning in the City Council when the more than 200 people living be lem. ner, Lexington and Ione, almost tween H eppner and Ione by his session was presided over by a S ecretary of State—F. I. Dunbar, Sa It’s impossible for you wiping them out of existence. Ter municipal statesman of exceedingly lem. not to look old, with the rible loss of life is known to have wild ride of Sunday night. W ith pompous manner, who cherished no State T. oasurer—C has. 8. Moore, Sa the roaring torrent behind him, color of seventy years in resulted and by some is estimated lem. Matlock galloped down the hanks great fondness for young Clemens. your hair 1 Perhaps you Supt. P ublic In stru ctio n —J . II. Ack- at 500, although details are impos This councilman, ordinarily of no of Willow Creek, shouting: PORT ORFORD, OREGON, are seventy, and you like erm an, Salem. sible to obtain. Rough estimates “ The flood is coming. Run for intellectual resources, became hope State P r i n te r - J . R W hitney, Salem. your gray hair! If not, place the property damage at more lessly confused in a parlim entary A ttorney G eneral—D. B. N . B lack your lives!’’ use Ayer’s H air Vigor. than a million dollars. tangle. Finally a motion was made b u rn , Salem, He passed one stock ranch after In less than a month your Heppner, June 16.—This city is C lerk State I.and B o ard —M. L .C h a m another, where the inhabitants to expunge from the records a cer gray hair will have all the a heap of ruins. Twisted tree trunks berlain, Salem. tain matter which the presiding of- J o in t Senator fo r Coos and Curry—T- dark, rich color of youth. against which are piled masses of were peacefully gathered beneath floer was extremely anxious should $1.00 a bold;. All drojjisn. M. D imm ick. I wreckage mark the residence dis their roofs, listening to the patter not become part of local history. Jo in t R epresentative for Coos and If your (Irtiffciot cannot supply you, tricts. Scattered throughout this of the warm rain, so welcome to The motion, having been seconded, C urry—R. D. Hume, W edderburn. send us one dollar and y ' 0 will express I wreckage are the bruised and dis the stockmen of that region. They was eagerly passed. vou a bottle. Bo sure and g iro the name Ju d g e, 2d Ju d icial D istrict J . W. of vour n earest express offlee. A ddress, 7 J . C. A V EIt CO., Lowell, Mass. torted bodies of the dead. The death heeded the cry of the her-eman H am ilton, Roseburg. “The matter has been ordered ex and without waiting to save any Prosecuting A ttorney, 2d Ju d icial Dis- list will number about 300. punged,” declared the presiding valuables rushed for higher ground, tric t—George M. Brown, Roseburg. W h a t is t h e M a tt e r W it h O u r The advancing flood swept down only to verify the tru th of young Councilman, gravely, “and tho U. S. C om m issioners—J. H . U p to n , I P u b lic S c h o o ls ? KEEPS IN STOCK, the main streets sweeping all before Matlock’s warning—and still the Clerk will proceed—to expunge. , l t Langlois ; J. H untley, Gold Beach. , should be effectively wiped out, COUNTY OFFICERS. If the public schools are not good it. Buildings collapsed like houses rider dashed on. obliterated, and totally destroy of cards, and were broken to kindl C ounty Ju d g e —E. A. Bailey, Gold J enough for the children of the rich, The brave stockman knew that ing wood while their inmates, over ed.” He paused to notice the effect Beach. , , cultivated and refined they are not the home of his parents in lleppner I I H Y <J< » O l » » , County Commissioners—F . II. Blake, whelmed by the sudden catastrophe, of his sentence of annihilation. good enough for anybody, unless had just been carried off by tho C hetco; C. W. H aines, Eckley. could be seen fighting for their lives Where gentlemen,” he asked, “ will we are to adopt the repulsive theory flood and he was sure lie had lost Sheriff—J. G. W alker, Gold Beach. in the mad rush of waters, while you have the expunged matter de that they are charity institutions. C ounty C lerk- George W. Sm ith, relatives dear to him as lile itself, Gold Beach. If a growing number of persons many persons on higher greund but he also know th a t the people posited and placed?” County T reasurer—Jam es C aughell, Mark Twain caught the attention who can afford pri vate schools neg stood by helpless to save them. along down Willow Creek could The scene of desolation and ruin W edderburn. of the councilman nearest him. lect the public schools there is still be sa’'ed, and so he lost no A ssessor-A . H. Post, P ort Orford . is indescrible. Wreckage and “ Let the expunged m atter be worn something wrong about these. The time in making up his mind what School S u p t.—W m. 8. G uerin, Lang- original theory of our free-school mud is all over, while the air is to do. Were it not for his under the Chairman’s hat,” he sug Surveyor—D. Cunniff. Jr., Gold Beach. system was that it should afford heavy with the smell of preserva presence of mind and selfsacrifie#, gested; “ no one would ever think of meetings of y if . courts . the best education so far as it went, tive chemicals. The homelese are the list of dead and missing would looking there for anything.” C ircuit C ourt meets F ourth M onday in leaving those ajile to pay for being cared for in the courthouse, be much greater than it is today. Salem, Or., Juno 17.—The United H a rd w a re , T in w a re , G la s s w a re , C rockery. A ugust of each year. education of their children to carry schoolhouse and in the residences of The night was dark and the road States Indian Training School Band, C ounty C om m issioners C ourt m eets them on after the public schools those whose homes did not stand in down the canyon was rough and of Chemawa, will start on a big first W ednesday in Jan u ary , April, FLOUR and FEED always on hand. were done with them. Up to the the line of devastation. The cour stony, but still the rider kept on. conceit tour of Oregon and the J u ly and Septem ber of each year. age of preparing for college child ageous workers of the town are re “ Flee for your lives; the flood is Pacific Northwest next Monday. P robate C ourt meets first Monday in Orders taken for any article not in stock. ren of rich and poor, educated and ceiving the bodies in Roberts Hall, coming; don’t wait to save a thing 1” each m onth. On tho south trip it will give Orders taken for Suits, and fits guaranteed. CUBBY COUNTY POST OFFICES AND POST ignorant, humble and refined, and cutting away their clothing And. the roarinn torrent „close be concerts at Albany, Eugene, Rose MASTERS. rubbed elbows in the public with sharp shears they wash the hind, emphasized his pleadings. burg, Medford, G ran t’s Pass and mud from the bruised and battered C hetce................................... F - H ' B1»k e- schools, to the advantage of both, He readied Lexington, nine Ashland, and on the northern trip H a rb o r.....................Jam es McCutchen. one gaining grace of manner and dead and when they are identified miles away, ahead of the flood. it will stop in Portland and all of G old B e a c h ............ Miss Annie Doyle. the other breadth of view. The they are placed in hastily constructed Here a number of cozy dwellings, W ed d erb u rn ...................... Jo h n Hum e. the principal points in the Puget public schools were as democratic rough board boxes and hurried out church and mill lay in the path Illih e s ................................. J R. H all. Sound country and as far north as to the graveyard, where a body of A g n e w .................... M rs. J. D. Cooley. as the churches pretended to be and the torrent must take. Had it not Victoria B. C. The tour is expect citizens are serving ns a burial O phir................................W . E. Burrow. more democratic than any associo- been for Matlock’s ride at least 50 ed to extend about six weeks. The C o rb in ........................C ms. R. W ilson. , residents of Lexington alone would tions of adults could be. Is it so 8q“^ i P o rt O rford....................................... Ames Jo h n sto n Eighty-three were identified and I , . , . , , . band will be accompanied by Oscar now? Let any one old enough to * have been carried away with then Norton, the celebrated fullblood D en m ark ................................ J- compare one generation with buried yesterday. Here and there homes that are now piles of L a n g lo is ..................................................L. RacklelT. Indian high tenor vocalist, who E ck ley ............................... J- A. H aines. another recall the public-school the searchers observe a bit of color driftwood in the waters of the will render operatic selections at in the wreckage and pulling away associations of his childhood and Columbia River. every concert, and by tlie two then observe the' associations in surrounding debris they discover a Below Lexington many pros Pliilipino boys, Manuel Robles and J. HUNTLEY’, child; or a mud-stained bit of linen which the education of hisand his perous stock ranches stood, and at Cence Rodrigue«, who came from All goods not giving satisfaction can be returned, and money refund neighbors’ children is carried on. marks where a body has lodged in lM tysville quite a galhering of Manila with the Second Oregon Attorney & Counselor at Law the e drift. of m the e rccov- recov- . d ritt. When ivnen one oi I t is notorious that the rejgn of th ed, providing the goods are returned in good order. , , i . i .1 uti l dwellings are clustered. And the Volunteei Regiment, and are a t bodies happens to be the child - . , academic pretense, sham accom ered , . ■ in tre p id rid e r k ep t on. 1 lie n ig h t tending the school, who will give NOTARY PUBLIC, of one the e seaehers the silillt sight is I 1 th , .. , plishment, industrial faddery and n fn , n fl of , i i i i darkened and the rain co n tin u e d , an interesting exhibition of l’hili- sad and pathetic beyond descnp- O reu o n . tyannical routine is driving out ol G ol » B rach but there were scores ot lives yet to pino specialties. the public schools not only the lion. be saved and at Ione Matlock Coffins are in evidence, and ex Timber Land, Ad .fune 3. D P s—No best teachers, but the children of Because Rear Admiral Coghlan reached a telephone by which tho Will Practice in all th e Courts oí this tice tor Publication. MRS. E. W. JEN SEN , those persons best qualified by press wagons are being driven peopls between thero and Douglas dumped into the sea $40,000 worth State. their own education to judge what rapidly up, containing the dead »8 were enabled to save themselves in of gunpower from the cruiser U nited S tates Land Office, FIN E MILLINERY. Public Land Cases a Specialty. Skinner Fork, Roseburg, Oregon, January 31, 1903. I mev y wbijv w an t tor for th e ir vuudren. ch ild re n . N ot they are recovered. vuwir plenty of time. Ione itself had a l Olympia, an expert investigation x- .. is hereby . n given v o i i ♦ th 11•»f r ttr t. I J - . Notice at i n in n coin- Stevenson’s Canyon and Balm Fork i „nmnlete line of L adles and Chll- pliance w ith th e provisions of th o a c to f o n ly th e ch ild re n o f th o rich seek ready been warned by tho brave having shown that the explosive a r X X m e “ H ats I iongress * of June-3’ J. H. UPTON, Ju n e 3, - 1x7« entitled “.4 "A n " n riv • ale . sehoo schools—th at might be all empty into Willow Creek. Three Kcrnan, whose heroism had cost bad deteriorated so seriously as to dren’s Trimmer! nais. I act for the sale of tim b er lands in th e Prlv a le 8U,O° 9 . roaring torrents poured down these U . S . C O M M I S S I O N E R - Ready tc W ear H ats and Sailors con- ; stateg o{ California, Oregon, N evada, mere v a n ity — b u t persons ot CUll- him his life. The telephone nnf- threaten the safely of the vessel, he ’ stantly on hand. X ^ ' M ^ P u b l i u X ^ d 8 t a & « « who can ill afford it practise three streams to form the white wall sa^e could go even faster than the is to be censured by the Navy notary pu blic , Hats trim m ed to order on short notice. ))y a ( t o[ August 4, 1832, M ary F. selfdenial to give th e ir ch ild re n th e of water that caused the destruction, brave rider, whose horse was by Department for wasting govern P o r t O rfo rd , O reg o n . of fmTThVs day I advantage of the best instruction desolation and ruin. this time well-nigh exhausted ment properly. It is interesting to L anglois , C urry Co., O regon . Hinton Creek furnished a 10 foot filed in this office his sworn sta te m e n t1 a n d the best associations. This hero of the great Oregon s peculate upon the probable action No. 4384,for th e purchase of th e Lots 9 Tj j , j be no great m atter if flood to join in the work of de disaster is a Morrow County boy. of the department in case the E. W . JEN SEN , Dealer in Town Lots, and Im p ro ied and 10 and NJ of S E I, of Section No. I ? One of the incidents J U S T I C E O F T I I E P E A C E , * in Township No. 32 South, of R ange noth in g m ore w ere inv o lv ed th an struction. and W ild Lands. His father was E. L. Matlock, powder had been allowed to remain that stand out is the heroism of No. 14 west, and will offer proof to show the h money cost t to t pur90n» w persons who Sheriff of Morrow County, who in the Olympia’s magazines and an F ilin g s and Final Proofs Made on AND th a t the land sought is inure valuable Lester Matlock, who, with Bruce for its tiinlier or stone th a n 'f o r agri abandon the public schools. I t is died a few years ago. He has two explosion had sent her to tho > O T A H Y W I 5 I .I U '. Hom esteads and Pre-em ptions. cu ltu ral pm purposes, and ---------------------- to estab lish his small hardship to have to pay for Kelly, rode down the valley warn jioov«,---- sisfers in Portland, Mrs. A. A. bottom.—Daily Journal. I C claim said ----------------------- land before th Register I O I 1 I 1 to OA.AVA - - - e - ---------------- ing the ranchers ami residents of ii nd Receiver of this office, at Roseburg, an education. Like other things, GENEP.AL CON VEY AN CING . Roberts, wsfe of United States Oregon, on Tursdav, the 9th day of it is valued in proportion to the Lexington and Ione of the approach Deputy Marshal, and Miss Bertha Covered with dust and mud, the agent Ju ly , 1903. She names as w itnesses: ing destruction. Lexington was Edward Wells, of Cantus Valley, Ore- effect required to get it. But see Matlock, who is at present visiting ouly fueling inspired by the Chinese L. A. ROBERTS, German American ----- ?.hy '?f A'1? “ ’ 9 re,?,oni the effect of the abandonment upon badly wrecked, but Ione escaped in at her sister’s residence, 210 Seven beggar is th at of disgust. In ^the John M urphy, Charles H aines, both of 1,10 c , a T T O K A U V A U I ,A W jury. Insurance Company, E ugene, Oregon. the public schools themselves. th street. Al Roberts was at Pen m atter of diet he is not fastidious; Any and all persons claiming adverse- T licy w jjj Kraduallv lose the I George Conner and wife, with Dr. dleton on ofllcial business when the he may often be seen fighting with — •■ j ....---- r ----- .- tuev wm gradually M yi le P o in t, O regon . LIFE, FIRE AND MARINE. i ly the above-described lands are re- - R J quested to file th eir claims in this of- democratic char-actor which has McSworil and John Ayers, were at sad news of tho Heppner disaster tho dogs and vultures for his lice on or before the suid 9th day o f, bcen their chief merit, not only as ■ Conser’s home. Seeing the ap was received, and he immediately dinner. Ilia ruling passion is Probate business a specialty. Real E state and C onveyancing. Ju ly . 19H3. j t ________ b k h x J ES, R egister, social and educational, hut as i preaching flood Mrs. Cotiser begged started for the scene. u _____ gambling, and frequently may he f o r t O rfo rd , - - - - O r e g o n , T imber L and , A ct J cm : 3, 1878,— 'political institutions, prepairing them all to seek safely upstairs. Ione, Or., June 16.—As a town of be observed in company with four N otice FOR P ublication . ] for citzensbip. Moreover they | i)r. McSword and John Ayers ran homes Lexingtou is gone. T hir or five of his associates, feverishly p . J. LINDBERG & SO N J. M. UPTON, will lose the wholesome influence from the bouge, Mr. Ayers to try to teen families are without shelter playing dice or dominoes, the stake U nited States Land Office, . . . . , ----- ------- Attorney anti Counselor a t Law, Funeral Directors. Roseburg, Oregon, Jan u ary 21, 1903. as critical or appreciative patrons gave his family. Both were swept .p t thal rovjrie,| |,y vbe public being usually a handful of rice. F i^ w iu h b e " ^ “ ^ of those persons of education who away and drowned. Mr. Conser and , whero vhay hav0 taken The beggars of Pekin are a power. B A T N l íO N í, O R E G O N . —---- ance wmi u Congress of Ju n e 3, l«;s, entitled “ An in th e m a in p ay tax es for th e ir w ife n a rro w ly «scaped d ro w n in g . )eil. abode sin es th o flood of They consitute a sixtli of the total A Complete Line of Caskets, Coffins Congress of . ! r»r»t fnr til« ^ B ' ^ n i r o ^ K ’ Nev^a: ^ r d C | Th‘',r ',OU9: W M I last Sunday night. Th. monetary population. They form a society, Olflc« upstair», in Eldorado Building and Trimmings. and ill W ashington T erritory,” as ex- w ould los« a g re a t d eal o f th e ir a q u a rte r of a m ile and lodged alo n g , . .. loss is comparatively nothing when headed by tbe “ king of beggars.” Orders taken for Tombstones and tended . to States Au“g • iiS .- Land H uW 'M Mul- u by i- F « " ' " ' . . p i . . « Americani char lhe bank, allowing Mr. ^ d M rs.: .. . His autiiority is recognized by all . all o the . ; n . ; Public ties are so suddenly Cemetery Railing. Iligan, <4 a after they j ligan, of Vancouver, county oi c te r ¡f it tn e y became uccauie chiefly cin eiiy the me Conser conser to eecape. escape, Some .-sm.» remarkable leum. W hen th e torn GEORGE M. BROWN, torrent came his subjects,over whom heorrogates P O R T O R F O R D , O R E G O N . (C lark , S tate of W ashigton, has this i r(;j-u„e o[ j those who CgCapes are reported. Robert H Ilynd ' j. bo can command cgcapeg ynd ' *' , . I dav llleil in th is office his sworn state- re lu r> ” , . 1 J . „ • „ d o w n Willow Green, it l«ft the to himself the power of life and A T T O R N E Y a t l a w , m ent No. 4350, for the purchase of the no ot her means Tif education. It is anll \V. W. Lipsett, after floating ,nuin and passed _ channel _________ >ed through death. He divides the city into J. W. STRANG E, ,,S,WTBM. , lic center of the town sweeping districts, which he apportions out i o n , i H - j S t ; W \V L ' a S n W -iw ^ iir oSer proof to the interest inteiest of ol all an Americans to down on some drift u n i t two t w o miles, i n u u s , were n o . o i tbe ROSEBURG, OREGON. i v{*«how ^ l ’. ...... . .1,, i is u more .. > . . , a, »I,, a I to ,. o check k V n nt t t the h e o outset u t s e t s every v s r v a, , „Iz mitt, ,n 11 n ct w reck a II e. Ylr. thing in ts P-l 1' th a t th«land sought strive »truck with It, floating wreckage, Mr. ,,vMrv everything iq I its path. I '• t’y to »ulsjrdinates, whose July it is to valuable for ita tim ber or sL.no than ( j , to , ead , h em drowned while M r.! homes were ruined In thei W inkle D IS T V T I S T . for agricultural purposes, and L. e s ta b -, w .nacu y utiree.» * , . . • i ,,n evo and orchards which had extort money from lhe inhaoitanU. H«h bis claim to said land before lhe i in ahis direction. The public i Hynd escaped with some injuries. „f r lo get to per- Tho shopkeeper who is visited by DR. J . J. C A L D W E L L , C O Q U IL L E CITY’, O R E G O N II,A ster and Receiver of this office nt ^hools should be made attractive , ( j ( Matlock was swept down and wera r„oted o u w.riiiiig t just ns ^ » ^ l % r UedneidBMhe - those who have f ^ L a l . y iodged in the drift hnd e. , ^ y of one of these mendicants rarely P h y s i c i a n a n i l H n v |g c o i i , fails to accede to his demands, He Dames as w itnesses: choice. lie poop e , , . , ne(l young Matlock saved many lives lie is aware th at if he refuses a W ill Viist C urry C ounty sem i-annually. POUT ORFO RD, OREGON. W. H. Boren, ol Roseburg, Orecon, should be made good enough for cape i. k „ i L n th e n there were many crowd of beggars will call upon John d .n h e rr, i H i a arry U b n U r Wff anybody.— Minneapolis Tribune. (Ine young lady caught a horse. . ( bU. I* t --------------------------- John Js ix-nniierr, r r y u e o n u e ir , him next day and, under a threat ---------------------I ¡tail and was dragged ashore by tho c l o s e bi(.,(1 driftwood of o'' bun i ig his shop down, demand Port Orford Camp liarn L elm h err, of C am as »alley, J r Diseases ol Ladies and Children a Spec . - _ _ 609. W oodmen of th< ' ‘ Any and all persons claim ing a d -' _________ __ After all, the most im portant gtragglJ„g animal. ¡every description lodged against ' 20 times as iime.h. Complaints to ialty World will m eet at th eir H all °n ‘he ils'""ia."h> knowledge wh.ch which can «an be be imparted imparted to, to 7 ’ ‘ “ ........- - a r • e ’ ' ■-■»„wledwe A g(Kx| m#ny of tbe dea(, are ¡ ^ , ?,ncct ln „ a few ...... ...... 1 ibe polie« ................................ seconds meet with the invariably . . ’ , • I I U -- I f t I X r t . m ^ i ^ ' i " ^ ! s e n d in g requested » ‘- y is an a P I - c i a t l o n o f tlm tim e ’. ¡ 5 b n O « ,.., » J » i h l o , „„-111....... .. « "J b"“ ',,C' 1 ............................. B ¡Inquirer. T h e O r ea o n W e e k ly J o u r n a l, a D e m o tareinviterltoatten.l.RsTER^ c c J. T. BKIDGEH. Register ; tho time when he ha» »aid enough. | buned without identiftc<ition. [ gh. I* c r a tic n e w sp a p e r , 1« p a g e s , fu ll o f n e w s D e s tr u c tio n u n ti D e a t h w here. FICIAL DIRECTORY. DEALER IN GENERAL MERCHAHD1SE GROCERIES, The Best Ladies’ and Gents’ Furnishing Goods, Hats and Caps, Oil Clothing, Boots and Shoes, Received by every steamer. HIDES ui W to is far Goâ DOORS and WINDOWS. 1 W of W a ll o f It' $1 a y e a r t o a n y a d d r e s s. T h o B o x U L P o r tla n d . Or. Journal. P- o. ! A. 8. J ohsstox , Clerk. E v ery