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Pi!jnifitidLibtfiry 4- Vol. XXVI. ROSEBURG, OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 1895. No. 43. TELEGRAPH NEWS. Berkeley Hazers at Work. ttK. lhy. Aug 15 Tho annual sat urual .t ii -lix Mophomores at tho univer nt nt 1 ii'rt i iroini? on this week, ami l.i- 1 MitMi are nursing tore evenge. Tho first w ek mi U the limodovoted ulled hazing", and th i j oieniug. ' i'..ied i Ufa week aro l tK-cause the sopho- miii -iiv- 1 .ii-uallv able to de-vi- , - ' uf moro than tbo 11- - niifii came this year I in. Haw students ii.iu the gymnasium . ii.iinorue, compelled to do nu ii :ii t-iea anJ fcubuiit to harrow ing ex,.u a eo For instance, some ol ttieiu are nude to Bland for an hour un der cold showers, then covered with blue paint. All this timo tho freshman is led to believe that he in in the hands of pro-ht- v indignities heaped U . 1 merely to test his po 11 . ?ing explained to 'i if at tho university i; i -illy thoso who cau wi i iv equipjicd phys ic. 1 tiounies of study. Y . ' x-mugmea from Pasa d 1 m for the recorder's of- fic u -res took them in hand and i iin utmost courtesy in-foruii- - tut they would havo to nnileii.-. 1, ihxrical examination beforo thi-v ul fi-rulled as students in good ! ei'r, iiuui suspidou tho two! m.m e 1 f .liuwed tho marplots of tl. i . otho torture chamber, wh-i- -i M'pliomorcs wcro waiting. Th- j.( "I unt-another as professor dehtvr ; ii)ii tbo two applicants, and then infuiiurd ibem that it would bo necesarv t.ir them to take off theircluth ing "down to the ultimate inch." Tho bo a stripped and tho torture be- j gun. I bry puCeu anu pinched luo unre sisting strangers and twisted their wrists and prodded them with sharp instru ments nntil the lips of the unfortunates quivered with pain and tears started to their eyes They were grimly informed that anv outcry or resistance would be . an indication of neikness and tuicbt for- fett their rijcht to enrollment as regular students. After exhausting the various torture methods the sophomores informed their vttuitbt it would be necessary ; for thr-mt., stand for an hour under tbe i show-. .a.b The cold water ran down upua n t-riaiuirs nnui meir teciu cbalttr'rd ami iher began to gasp. Then they were compelled to sit demurely in a chair, whuV their tormentors covered them with nine, red and green paint, the purpose bf ing, so it was explained to them, to prevent them from taking cold. After being piutered with paint the young mm were objected to an oral ex amination. ht?y were made to disclose all their private affairs and were then released At Emmanuel Church. San Fjlixcisco, August 15. People who live in the vicinity of Emmanuel Church, where the brutal tnunlera of Blanche Lamont and Minnie Williams were committed, are much mystified by the fact that the police are again paying mysterious visits to the church. Just what this renewed activity of the police at the church means cau only be conjectured, for the members of the de partment are close-mouthed, and even deny at times that they have been to Emmanuel more frequently of late than usual. Detective Cody, who appears to be leading the van in this latest descent upon the hapless church, says he was Eimply engaged in securing accurate measurements of the building, to be used as evidence during the trial. But why half a dozen police officials should also be engaged in the same business along with him, he does not say. Rumors are plentiful. They always! were, ever since the two lifeless bodies j were found in the church building. The statement is made on good authority, however, that the present movement on the part of the police is to forestall some evidence which will be introduced by the defense, and upon which it is said Durrant's attorneys will take their firmest stand and make their bitterest fight. This evidence will be to estab lish, if possible, as true Darrant's state ment that he was at work on eome de fective electric wires in the loft of the church on the afternoon that Blanche Lamont was slain, and that the di sheveled appearance which he presented when seen shortly afterward by Organist King was the result of being overcome by gas, which had escaped from the pipes. King, it will be remembered, made the statement that on that afternoon he went into the Sunday-school room of the church to practice nome selections he was expected to render at the next meet ing. He thought he was alone in the building. After remaining at tho piano several minutes, however, he was startled by the sound of some one open ing the door which led to and into tho room from the hallway to the church auditorium. Turning, ho saw Currant, pale and apparently exhausted, his hair dishcqelcd and his clothing disarranged. Upon leing asked what ailed him, the man who is now on trial for tho mur ders eaid that while endeavoring to re pair tho electric wires ho had Ufomo overcome by tho escaping gas. King told this etory, and Durrant, when ques tioned regarding tho matter, admitted tho gas story, but declared King had greatly exaggerated the description of his appearance. Long-distance Champion. Cluvklaxm, Ohio, Aug. 15. Louis Gimm, who startsd yesterday at noon to beat the 24-bonr bicyclo record, is now tho champion long-distanco rider of tho world. At 8:42:17 o'clock this morning Gimm bad equaled tho world's record, 407 miles &l yards for 21 hours, held by Lyman, of Indiana. After a rest of 15 minutes ho started out to complete tho 21 hours. Ho mado 433 miles 1700 yards nnd rode tho last 10 miles in belter than a 2:30 clip, running away from the laeo-uiukers. He scorned as fresh as wheu ho started. Tho American long distauce championship was previously heid by W. B. Lynian, with a record of 407 miles S4 yards. Diaz Will Not Allow It. El 1'.m, Tex., Aug. 13. Today M. T. .McLean, a prominent sporting man of Chicago, who canto here a fow days ago to sec what arrangoments could be made to have the Corbett-Filzsimmons light come oil' in Juarez, Mexio, in case it was stopped at Dallas , received a telegram from Joe Hauipson, a big railroad con tractor of Mexico, statiug that President Diaz wonld, under no consideration, a! low the tight to take place on Mexican soil. Billy Smith, a pugilist, has been sent to the City of Mexico to give a box ing contest with Jimmy Carroll before President Diaz's cabinet to show them the sport is not brutal. In the Yorkshire District. New Yobk. Aug. 15. Titus Heard, ex-speaker of the New York assembly. and a prominent wool manufacturer, has Sliendlug mm0 weeIi8 in York. elliro aistrict of England, studying (he xnSOQ.GotmUx methods of operation. Ho says that all the woolen manufac turers in the York shire district have been running over time recently, and many of them worked day and night without intermission. At "the Breakers." NrwrosT, R. I., Aug. 15. The new and elegant villa, "Hie Breakers," built by Cornelius Vanderbilt on tho site of the residence destroyed by Cre two years ago, was formally opened last evening with a dinner, follov.ed by a ball, the most elaborate social function ever given here. Tho occasion was most select, only 30 rotations having been issued to 1110 uinner anu itioso to lue oaii were limited to 150. The large ballroom which runs across tho building, was the sccno of the dancing, The cotillion, of which the favors wero trinkets of foreign workmanship, was led by Hon Lispen ard Stewart and Miss Gertrude Vander bilt. Mop Growers' . Despondent. Sacmamentu, AjSttst 15. The hop growers along the American river bot tom met at Perkins on .Saturday, August 10th, and organized for mutual profit and protection. The price of hop is so low that it will hardly pay this season to gather them, and some growers have decided not to do so and will allow them to rot in their yards. llie growers startcl m by giving to cents per hundred last year and then raised it before the crop was gathered. This reason they will stick to their original offer of 70 cents. They have sent out communications to ali the growers in this and Yolo counties and expect to obtain a complete concert of action. Politics In Canada. Bostox, Aug. 15. Hon. Charles Langelier, cx-sccratary of the province of Quebec, Canada, and G. Melville de Cane, M. P. for the county of L'Islet, P. Q., ar rived here en ronte to"the conference of French Canadians at Riverside, R. I. Hon. Mr. Langelier expressed himself on the political situation in Canada as follows: "Political situation in Canada is in a state of chaos, and judging from the pop ular sentiment expressed by the peoplo throughout tho Dominion, the conserva tive party is on the eve of an overthrow, and a general election, which must como off within tho next 12 mouths, will cer- taiuly result in favor of the liberals, uu- der tho leadership of Hon. Wilfred Lau rier assuming tho reins of stale. This chango in public opinion is mainly brought about on account of the general dissatisfaction experienced in tho national high protective policy. The Manitoba school question is another thorn in tho sido of tho prcsont Domiuion gov ernment which is likely to help causo trouble and defeat. The Dominion con servative government is placed in n very awkward position, as it has been dele gated tho duty by tho privy council of England in compelling tho Manitoba legislature to bring down n remedial incisure. Tho Dominion cabinet cannot plcaso one section without, causing mor tal oflenso to the other, so, between tho two tho successor of the late Sir John Thompson finds liiiutolf ui si very em barrassing predicament." A Bloody Battle J-ought. NiiiV Yoiik, A;ig 15. One of tho bloodiest battles fought in Britialj Hon duras in many day.-, says a teller from Belize, just received nt Trenton, N. J , occurred last Thursday ut Stnium creek and Miillins river, about thirty miles south of Belize, between 7,000 Caribs and 4,000 Jamaica negroes, employed by Engluh planters in huiKliug a railroad. The Caribs began to tear up the rails and the Englishmen ordered their lien roes to tight. Tho moment the negroes raised their weapons the Caribs rushed rushed upon them ami with machetes hacked and chopped tho negroes to pieces. Between 500 and GOO uegroea were killed and almost as many i jurcd, while the Caribs had oOO killed and twice that number wounded, some 111. r tally. After the negroes wore forced to retreat the Carib3 tore up even the foot rails, and damaged many English plantations, destroying fruit and niblor to the valno of many thousands of dollars. Corbett to Marry. Asncuv Pakk, N. .1., Aug. 15. It is anuounced that Champion Jim Corbett ia to marry Vera Stan wood, co-respondent in the divorce suit recently won by Mrs. Corbett. MADE HIS GRUB STAKE. A iMlner Who Scorns Hops, Prunes and Farm Life Generally. C.IXYO.WIUX, Alt!. 15. Emron Plaindualkk: I am. the miner that struck you onco for sow belly and beans and gum boots, and oiTercd to go snooks with you iu a mining claim. You remember me, don't you? Well, you slipped your cable when you gave me nothing bat gum, for I struck a daisy and havo a ouch of yellow boys hid under a tree. But here is what I am getting at, why don't yon turn yourself loose and write a hot ono about mining. Give 'cm one from the slioulder about their gab about miuing being risky. Risky ! that takes the cake. Some old hayseed goes to deep iu his apple orch ard and the worms swarm on him and pack him into the cellar. That i a dead easy game. Hop lice cat up the polas. WeaveU waltz through the wheat, the sheep run away with the shears and hogs grunt at midnight. Money making rackets, all of them. Farmers grunt and sweat all summer and tell how- much j money they have lost all winter. Tut::h 'em ap about something that has sttlc to it. Start them out with a frying pan and shovel and pnt tl.e grubbing hoe to soak. Get a combination on their understand ing and tell them that more money was made in Oregon iu miuing last e:tr than in wheat. Hons, did you say --welt they arc corkers, they arc icgitiniale to the queeu's laite. Oh. they arc sostile! You tumble to the ratket that if every thing wasn't so dead sure safe the farm ers and merchants and lawyer and ! editors wouldn't bo so immensly rich If you ask any of them 0:1 Saturday, to stake you to a gold pan, they will pray for you all day Sunday. Last year that other paper in Kose bnrg touched oil" its ga bladder and it blew up something about mines not be ing in it, that prunes was boss. I wouldn't say a word agaiust prunes, on the dead I wouldn't, for it will pay to raise them to feed to hogs. What was the use of saying anything about mines, humming birds or county printing would havo shook folks up nil right. Try your hand at something new, don't be afraid, for u whole lot of boys in tho gulches will lend you a ha ud if you'll roll oil' the !ercli and treat them right. Write some thing about tho mine!,' and when you como to see ns we'll give you something soothing to drink that will maku you feel like a ricli Jew. Gold Pan. 1 The fire iu the mountains on the coast range uorthwes. of this city must be very extensive. Tho atmo?phero hero is sur charged with Muoku. One of our citi zens, who came in from ISrowslcr valley just over the coast range west of us, says tho air there is free from smoke. BRIEF MENTION. From Friday' Dally. . Chas. Mooro of Bandou is at the Van Houterj. S. EDalo of Chicago is registered at tho Van Houteu. J. F.iElliott of Elk creek is iu the city today on business. K. Carmen of Grants Pass is registered at tho Van Houten. The Review is the little buzzing bee that gets out of the hornet's nest. C. L.Hadloy nnd wife have leturncd from their trip to'tho coast country. Mr, ilouck and three children of Gold Hill are guests of tho Yati Houten. Miss Dilley, who has lcen visiting her mother here, returned to Portland yes terday. Curtis Shaw, meat cutter Casa street market, left this afternoon on the freight for Glendale. .Stilley, Riddle of Riddle was in the city on business yesterday. His fruit dryer is nearly completetUorJjtisiness. The rheumatic 'disfigurations of the Review, so noticeable of late, may be at tributable to its gettiug its feet wet when it fell otrUie fence into a monopoly water trough. The Douglas County Agricultural Asso ciation has quito a number of men now at work putting the track on ..the fair grounds in proper condition for the races next month. John Churchill's team ran away yes terday in Oakland. Mr. Churchii es caied with slight bruised, but one of his horses broke one of his legs so badly it had to be killed. Judge Steams, Mr. Alexander, B. W. Strong, Mr. Churchill aud Chas. Hadley and their families returned today from Bandon beach where thoy have been fur a three weeks outini:. Roland Agee came in from the ranch and laid iu G dozeii fruit jars aud 12 dozen fruit cans, thinking that those wonld contain fruit euough fur himself and wife for the winter. A..Salzinau and family ami I. Thorn ton and family have just returned from Brewster valley, where they have leeri for several days. They report no smoke on that side of the range. .Mr. and Mrs. .SM.Waiteuf Round Prairie were doing business in the city to-day. Mr. Waite reports that grain threshing is progressing1 finely, and the yield is fair and quality is excellent in his section. Mrs. George Hall and daughter Eva, Mrs. J. C. Garnet and family of Driver Valley and J. R. Medley and sister, Mrs. King and daughter of Fair Oaks, are in the city to-day on their way to Bandon, Coos count. A. M. Hammer, of the L. E. Blaine Clothing Company of Albany, and his wife, Mrs. Kate Medley and Z. L. Dim mick of Oakland, are in the city to-day. They came over by team on a pleasure trip and to view our city and chat with our citizens on topics of general in terest. Judge Stearns, who while at Bandon made the acquaintance of Lord Bennett, speaks in the highest terms ot the liber ality and hospitality of his lordship, and justly he may for we have had an occa sion to test his fraternal greetings and urbanity a do?eii years ago. Here's our gjg my lord. S. A. Clark, the fruit culturist and penological essayist of considerable note of Salem, is looking after the fruit in terest of this locality. Mr. Clark is an old pioneer in the fruit culture of this .-tale, and his long exjerience iu that line has fitted him for giving valuable information on that aud cognate sub jects. TJie company consisting of Billy Tay lor of this city and Alliert Abraham, his partner, young Bellinger and C. Dolph of Portland, who went several days ago for an outing on the North I'nipqua, re turned from that place of rendezvous, Whiftler's lend, to-day. They report having caught 700 trout. A pretty good fish story, that is. Old Mr. Lyous, a former resident of JScottsburg, was buried in tho cemetery of that placo on the 14th inst. lie, for many years, was proprietor of tho Scotts burg hotel, and although bliud, lie had wonderful powers of sound aud location not found iu people with eyesight. He leaves a wife aud threo daughters to mourn for the one gone before, as well as numerous other relatives. Mr. Alfred Stillmau, chief surveyor for tho underwriters 011 this coast, is now iu the city investigating the condition of risks iu this city. In consequence of the Roscburg Water Company's action in disconnecting the hydrants from the lire mains, ho has decided tiou, aud recom mended an increase of 15 percent iu the rates of assurance iu this city. This is oni of the beauties of a corporation own ing tho water works of a city. They say to the city, como to our terms or 6uffer all the evil consequences that may possi bly result, Three families from Fresuo county, California, are camped on the bank of tho Umpqua near the R. R. depot. They aro in search of work and a loca tion. Will go to the Willamette valley before making a permanent location and settlodown to biz. They eeem intelli gent and enterprising people. More will follow them from California. Let them come. Oregon is the placo to make a pleasant and happy home. Fertiio soil, healthful climate, and certain crops arc what contributes to the health and hap piness of man. All these arc found in Douglas county. Rates on Canned Goods. Eastern press dispatches indicate that orders for canned goods ore being held hack in anticipation for further reduc tions of eastbound rates. Mr. E. P. Rogers, assistant general freight agent of the Southern Pacific Company, says that while his company has roceutly put into effect a rate of 50 cents on canned goods in car loads from San Francisco to New Orleans and New York, there is no prob ability that any reduction will be made on shipments destined to other lioinls. The 50-cent rate was mado to meet com Ietitiou, of course, does not exist at in terior points. There is no prospect that the rate to Chicago of 75 cents will be re duced. The Santa Fe line has just announced a rate of &5 cents from poiulsoa its line iu southern California to Missouri river, Chicago, and as far East as Pittsburg. The Southern Pacific does not intend to meet this rate, as the revenue derived from this traffic after deducting tho di vision for other lines, would be less than that obtained on business to New Orleans and New Yark at 50 cents, The present rate from Astoria and Columbia river points over the Southern Pacific Company's line from Portland to New York, Boston, and other Atlantic scabord points, is 75 cents. As the new rate from San Francisco applies to New Yoik City only, and shipments destined beyond will bo subject to a transfer charge at New York and local from thence to destination, in very few cases could a lower rate be obtained by ship ping by steamer to San Francisco to take advantago of the rate from that point. To tbe interior territory the rate is the same from San Francisco as from Portland and Astoria. New Law Firm. Business is reviving under this demo cratic administration. Our old and es teemed friend, Mickey Fullerton just "Mickey" for short, in order to take time by the forelock, has established a law library and reading room in West Rose bnrg. The rooms are nicely fitted np with all modern conveniences, such as shelving for books, desks, tables, chairs, settees, newspaper files, etc., etc. In or der to have tho least possible annoyance, this modern room and fixtures are under tho house instead of in rooms looking out upon a busy thoroughfare, ".Mickey" has already one student enrolled for a course of law reading, viz, B. Brockway. That the rooms may be kept in order, tioors swept, desks and turniturc dusted, and fires, when needed, kindled, and the whole arrangement kept neat and tidy, he has secured as janitor, M. C. Ruckle. This fact speaks volumns for the success of the enterprise, as neatness and quiet tude is one of the essential adjuncts of an icstitntion of this character; and none but "Mickey's"' fertile brain would conceive so ellicient a scheme for turning out modern Websters, Clays, Calhouns, Jacksons and Lincolus. It is under stood that several of our city attorneys contemplate taking a course of reading with "Mickey" to fit them for practicing before the United State's courts. If they will take a course under "Mickey," they will get points in political economy they never dreamed of before. A Bright Crook. A man by the"namo of Frei who was recently incarcerated in the Latah county jail, on the charge of stealing a watch, made his escape in a novel way. There were two or three brooms in the jail and from these Frei proceeded to unwind the wire, which was afterwards used in splicing the handles together aud in fastening a wire hook on the end of the spliced handles. With this he readied through the jail door to tho drawer of the desk in the sheriff's otlico w hero the jail keys wero kept aud have always been kept. It was an easv mat ter to open this, catch the keys on the wiro hook and bring them within his reach. It took nut a moment to unlock tho jail door and walk out into the otlico aud thence iuto the ojhiii air. Frei slopped long enough iu the sberirPs ollice to appropriate two revolvers which lay in a drawer, and also forgot to leave the key to the jail. Frei made good bis tscape and has not yet been captured. Telegram. A Good Advertisement. Oregon and Washington people have lately started to boom their state products for Eastern consumption in a large way. They are particularly anxious tc sell frnit in the East, because there has been a notable development iu the fruitraising industry of their region of late vears. Thoy are making the novel claim that mucu 01 talilornia's reputation for fine fruits has been made on Oregon and Washington products. Great quantities of frnits from these states have been sold to California buyers, and, it is alleged, shipped East as California fruit. A ro cent case offered in proof is the receint of an order by a Salem, Or., cannery from a t-aiuornia trnit-packing house for 500 cases of canned cherries, "to bo shipped without labels." The inference is that the fruit would be labeled as California product and sent East. Under tbe new policy of booming their own state the cannery managers declined to fill tho order. New York Sun. INCREASING OUTPUT OF GOLD. The Effect it Will Have on the Monetary Question. Editor Pxaindzalkk: No writer whose articles I have a3 yet seen appears to have considered what effect the in creased aLd increasing output of gold will have upon the monetary question and prosperity of .he world. Those who advocate the free coinage of silver seem to do so on the assumption that there is no sufficient gold being produced in the world to meet the re quirements.ofj exchange and hence a single standard is impracticable, but on the ether hand statistics prove that the output of gold for the year 1S01. exceeds $1SO,000,000, sixteen per cent more than the preceeding year and double that of 1S37-, and.'more thanlthe total of both gold and silver'mined in any year of the fifties, and. everything indicates that for the succeeding decade the increase will be in a far greater ratio, for there is ten times as much gold in sight now, not yet mined, as there was two years ago, and this without taking into account the renewed activity in the old fields, many of which are nt the present time by the impioved methods of extracting gold from rocks and alluvium yielding more than in their palmest days; but it is tbe dbcovery of new fields in Africa, Tierra del Fuego, Siberia and Alaska, from pole to pole and in the tropics. Now who can say what the product for the future will be, and can the demand for a circulating medium keep pace with it, or 13 it not possible that ere the lapse of many years the increase in tho production of gold may cause it to teoriate in value, just as silver has? ali events it is not unreasonable to de At ex- pect that for screral decades to come tho yield will be equal to all the re quirements of the world and there will be no occasion to seek fur a less val uable circulating medium. J. F. E. Notice. .Sealed bids will be received at the countyclerk'sofiice up toSeptetnber 4th, at 1 p. 111., for the ruuningand keeping in repair what is known as the Lone Rock Ferry on the North Umpqua river, near GliUe, for the term of three years from October 1st, 1S05. The boat and rope now used furnished by the county, In case the present outfit should In: lost or accident occur, and in such case the contractor to replace articles furnished by county. Bond and agreement similar to other ferry contracts now on file at the clerk's office. A. F. Stkakxs, County Judge. Tho Pl.vindeai.ek acknowledges, by tho hand of S. A. Gurney the mail car rier on the Millwood route, a box of figs from W. B. Clarke of Millwood.- We are not perhaps a competent judge ot the quality of figs but we arc a good judge of pleasant tasted fruit, and we pronounce these fresh figs from our esteemed friend Clark, of the Millwood Times, as excellent. The fact that such figs may bo grown in Oregon disproves the often repeated statement that figs won't giow in Oregon. It is a fact that figs will mature in Oregon. Then why not grow them extensively. A carload of pears was shipped from Green Station this morning for the east ern market. A starter for another luad of cars is now at the Roseburg depot to be shipped early next week. As there is ostiveiy 110 other caudi. 'date in sight, democracy may have to take tho third-term movement in order to gut a uiovo 011 at ali.