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Vol.. XXVI. ROSEBURG, OREGON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1895. No. 70. TELEGRAPH NEWS San Francisco's Protectors. Sax FnXscisco, Nov. 21. The battery of dynamite gang, which stretches along the bluffs south of Fort Point for nearly a mile, ia now ready to deal oat destruc tion to any invading navy that may ap pear within three miles of the Golden Gate. The great guns stare up at the blue sky from behind steep bulwarks. They loot not unlike great froga ready to spring into the ocean. Lieutenant Miley, who has charge of the battery, says that this battery which defends the chief harbor of the Pacific coast is the largest battery in the world. There is another located at Sandy Hook, new the entrance to Now York harbor, bat it contains only one eight-inch and two 15-inch guns. During the past two days experiments have been made with the guns. No shells have been fired, and only a limited amount of powder used, in order to tst the air-compressing plant by which the projectiles are hurled from the guns. Daring the first week in December an official test will be made of the guns be fore General Graham and all the officers stationed at the Presidio and neighboring military posts. Sheila will be used and the guns will be tested as if in actual warfare. Decrease in Revenue. Waeuingtox, Nov. 21. The internal revenue commissioner's anual reports, issued today, gives the receipts of the last fiscal year s& 1143,246.077, a decrease of $3,992,371 from ths previous year. Released From Custody. Dxsveb, Nov. 21. A special to the Times, from Cheyenne, says: Judge Biner, in the federal court, today, re leased Race Horse, a Bannock Indian, arrested for violating the Wyoming game laws, upon a writ of habeas corpus. The court decided that Indians have the right to hunt in Wyoming under their treaty. Result of the Storm, Caskville, Mich., Nov. 21. The barge Superior is ashore three miles from Case Tille, and the scow Tycoon ia stranted six miles beyond. Both crews are safe. The tug Ssgatuck had in tow the Mikado, Superior, Tycoon and Cilly May, bound for St. Ignace. Hal f way across Saginaw bay, daring the severe northeast gale, the line o! the Tycoon parted and left the Tycoon, Superior and Lilly May adrift. The Sagatuck and Mikado reached Al pena and the Lilly May was towed to An Sable. From Spanish Sources. ITavaxa, Nov. 21. There have been several skirmishes in the province of Santiago de Cuba, during which the in surgents bad (15 killed, four wounded and lost one prisoner. The troops lost ore killed and 13 wounded. Gomez Victorious. Havaxa, Nov. 21. General Maximo Gomez, the insurgent leader, baa cap tured Fort Palyeo, on the the river Zara, in the province oi Santa Clara. While the train conveying General Suarez Valdez was nearing Santa Rita, in' the province of Santa Clara, today, insurgents fired a dynamite shell at it, blowing up four wagons and the engine. Two soldiers were seriously Injared, and 12 slightly wounded. The car in which the general was riding was not injured. He went on horseback fo Esperanza. Rivalling the Turks. Taota, la Nov. 21. Colonel Fernan do Fuergedo, the Cuban leader of this city, is in receipt of a letter from Havana giving details of atrocities committed by Spaniards in Matanzas province. Colonel Melino, who commands a Spanish regiment, recently encountered the advance guard of Gomez' -army In Mantanzas and was defeated. While the soldiers unoer Melino were in re treat, they met a group of women and children near a little town called Cayop ino. As the soldiers passed one of the women made a sneering remark about the Spaniards. The remark was over-, heard by the soldiers, and bo enraged them that they fell upon the women and children and butchered every one of them. There were 10 women and about 12 children. The letter says the Spaniards, .after shooting down their)victims, stabbed them 'with bayonets, inflicting most hor rible wounds. One baby was killed at its mother's breast and the bullet that passed through the infant also killed the mother. Colonel Melino made no report ot the butchery, but it happened that the women were wives of Spaniards engaged in'tbe sawmill business in Mantcnras. When the husbands learned how their families had been butchered, they went to De Campos, informing him of the' affair,-and asked that Colonel Melino bo punished. It is said that Cani03 or dered Melino court-martialed, and it is thought tho butcher will bo sentenced to death, as tho massacre is condemned as bitterly by the Spaniards as by the Cu bans. Property In Jeopardy. New Youk, Nov. 21. A special to tho World, from Havana, says: American-owned sugar property in Cuba worth $20,000,000, is jeopardized by General Maximo Gomez' recent order to destroy every estate whose owner tries to make sugar this winter. Consul-General Williams, who has been in the sugar business in Cuba, or in close touch with it for more than 40 years, thinks that the estimate is not too high. The .bulk of, the sugar property in Santa Clara is owned by foreign capital ists. The Spanish holders are in the minority. The Cuban owner hold more than the Spaniards. Such great estates as Caracas and Los Aermanos are owned by Cuban. The tirst-mentioned, the largest in the world, belongs to the Terry heirs. Here are some .of the extensive American interests involved: The Soledad estate, near Arcmio, is owned by Edward A. Atkins of Boston ; the Honniguero estate is owned By the Brothers Ponvcnt of New York; the Constancia estate is owned by Perkins and ; Welsh, of New York; the San Augustine and Le Quietieto estates by an American syndicate of which Colonel James S. Murray is the manager. Those are in the Cienfoegos district aud repre sent a value in good times of $7,000,000 In Trinidad there is the great property owned by the ilavemeyer of New York; in the Sagnajdistrict is the'George Thorn dike estate, and those of Hemroingway, of Boston; the Santa Ana and the St. George. The Victoria estate is an American property and Perkins and Welsh of New York control a large sugar estate. The value of the American interests in Sagua is about $2,700,000 in good times. In Puerto Principe priccipe province Americans bold sugar estates worth nearly $1,000,000, and in .Matanzas prov ince the Madden, tho Terry and tho Heydigcr properties are extremely valu able. The owner of one, after a brave strug gle, is about to abandon the fields, rep resenting the toil of many years. Many of the American sugar-properties on the island will be forced into bankruptcy if they are not permitted to make a crop tke coming winter. Five Millions in Gold. NxtvYoEK, Nov. 22. Lazard Freres will ship $1,230,000 in gold tomorrow; W. H. Cossman & Bros., $1,000,000; Heikelbach, Icxelbeimer &Cc, $750,000; Fuller Schall & Co., $500,000, and Von Hoffmann & Co-, $500,000, bringing the total for the day up to $5,000,000. One million fire hundred thousand dollars iu gold has been withdrawn from the sub treasury for account of the shippers. This amount includes $500,000 for Baring, Magoun & Co., and $1,000,000 for W. H. Crossman & Co. Heidelbacb, Ickel beimer&Co. and Lazard Freres will ship gold bars instead of coin. Bullion for Export. New Yokk, Nov. 22, The aaaistant treasurer and superintendent of tho assay office has been authorized by tho treas ury department to sell to gold exporters gold bars at 1-10 of 1 per cent premium. This covers tho cost of melting bullion into com. Old Soldiers Win. Dra Moines, Ia., Nov. 22. An impor tant decision has been rendered by Judge Hitodman In the district court at Mar shalltown. The couit sustained and makes perpetual the temporary injunc tion issued last Juno reinstating tho Sol diers' Home management from withhold ing any part of the pension money, of in mates for the support of the institution. This is the outcome of a case that caused more bitter feeling in the Sol diers'-Home, in Grand Armycircles and ex-soldiers generally than any other dis turbing factor since the home was erect ed. There are two classes of capitalists, viz: Those who loan money on gilt edged security, and those who borrow of tho former and speculate on the money thus borrowed. The first class takes no chances. The latter tako chances, hop ing to make their pile in a few years and then enroll in tho first-class. Some political expertBin Washington declare that Cleveland will try to put for ward something in the way of a vigorom foreign policy in his next message for the purpose of giving Olney n boom as a Presidential candidate. NO exclusive:riqhts. Contracts of the Western Union Com pany are Void. Tho long-pending case of tho United States against tho Union Pacific Kail road Company and the Western Union Telegraph Company was settled Monday by tho unanimous decision of the Su premo Court, announced iu an opinion delivered by Mr. Justico Harlan. The decision if one of tho moBt import ant that has been made by the Supreme Court affecting Uio relations of tho gov ernment and tho Pacific railroads, de claring as it does that congress has the right to add to, amend, or alter tho acts of 1862 04, granting aid in bonds and land to tho company for construction of its line. The proceeding involved in tho present decision was brought by tho Attorney-General in pursuance of provis ions contained iu the Anderson act of 1SS3, which required all companies en gaged in operating railroad or telegraph lines which bad been aided by the gov ernment to maintain and operate, through their own respective corporate offices, telegraph lines for all purposes, and to exercise by themselves all tho telegraph franchises conferred upon them. The suit was brought in the Circuit Court for the Eighth Circuit and origi nally heard by Aesociate Justice Brewer, who declared the agreements between the Western Union and the Union Pacific Telegraph Company, by which the former held exclusive rights to oper ate the telegraph lines along the railroad of the latter, to be null aud void and of no effect, and directed tho Union Pacific to at once put an end to all relations be tween it and the telegraph company and to operate its own line of telegraph. The case went to the Circuit Court of ApjeaU and Judge Caldwell and Jndgi Thayer reversed Judire Brewer in a modi fied decree, but holding generally that the end sought by the government could bo secured only by other legal means, and dismissing the bill for want of juris diction. The Supreme Court by its decision to day reversed the decree of tho Court of Appeals, and affirmed that of Judge Brewer. Justico Brewer took no part in the consideration ot tho case before the Supreme Court. In his opinion, Mr. Justice Harlen said, in reference to the object and scope of the Pacific railroads acts, that the first eight sections of tho acts of 1S62G4 are wholly inconsistent with the idea that the Union Pacific rail road Company could have fulfilled its obligations to the government by simply constructing a railroad without making any provision whatever for the construc tion or operation of a telegraph line, thereby leaving all communication by telegraph ulcus it 8 route to tho absolute control of private corporations deriving no authority from the National Govern ment, and whose operations would not ordinarily be subjected to national super vision. Aa to the power of congress to alter or amend the acts of 1S62 61, after discussing their provisions at length, Justico Harlan said: "We perceive no escape from the con clusion that it is entirely competent for congress to add to, alter or amend those acta so as to require the Union Pacific railroad Company (haying tho rights and exerting powers of its constituent com panies), to maintain and operate by and through its own officers and employes telegraph lines for railroad and other purposes, aud to exercise itself and alone all the telegraph franchises conferred up on it. It is enjoying the bounty of the government, subject to the conJition, among others, that it would perform those duties whenever so required by congress." The opinion further holds that since tbo passago of tho act of 1803, no tele graph company can, by contract with a railroad company Joperating one of the powerful roads of the United Stales, over which interstate commerce is conducted, acquire an exclusive right to such rail road for telegraph purposes. Tho cause was remanded to the Circuit Court, with instructions to make a sup plemental decree enlarging the period in which tbelrailroad and telegraph com panies may make such arrangements, adjustments and changes as shall become necessary by reason of tho annulling o the contracts between them to carry out tho provisions of tho final decree of that court. When Harrison retired from the presi dency tho interest-bearing debt of the United States was $585,034,260. Under Cleveland's administration to July 1st, 1895 it was $710,202,000, thus having in creased tho national interest bearing debt $131,107,800. At the present aver age rate ot increase, about five million dollars a month, the debt at the end of his term will bo not less than $800,-000,000. MASQUERADE BALL. Prizes Awarded by Business Firms of Roseburg., Below we give a list of the prizes to be competed for at the grand masquerade ball, given by tho Roseburg orchestra on Thanksgiving night: Best dressed lady, set of fruit knives, donated by Churchill, Woolley fc Mc- Kenzie. Best dreseed gentleman, pair dancing pumps, bv Jay Brooks. Best sustained character, by lady, a lamp, by J. F. Barker. Best sustained character, Tiy gentle man, gold pen, by Novelty Store. These handsome prizes are on exhibi tion at tbo stores of tho respective don ors. Call and see them, and then resolve to secure ono of them for yourself. From Friday' Dally. John Hartin of Looking Glass is in the city today. J. 11. Auderson of Portland is stopping at tho McClallen. I. L. Chenoweth of Wilbur was in town j ester day on business. M. Lemmer of Edenbower made us a pleasant business call today. J, A. Keid and C. W. Sclierr of Port land are guests at the Van Hoateo. James Velzin of Civil Bend, one of the zealous populists is in tbo city today. H. L Engies, postmaster of Peel, was registered yesterday at tho McClallen. W. F. Crow of Tacoma and S. J. Sutherlin of Oakland are at the Van Ilouten. S. M. Seelysohn of Philadelphia and W. D. Shaltuck of Boston aro registered at the McClallen. Judge Fullcrton returned last night from CorvallU, where he has been hold ing court for the last week. Wm. Tbiel ot Yoncalla, a practical surveyor, is doing business before his honor, Judge Stearns today. Mr. O. S. Goodnow of Co creek mines was in the city yesterday shop ping for her winter's supplies. Lawrence Dyer of Bandon, M. A. Boh- ti. of Lei and and J. C. Brown of Grare creek are registered at tho Van Ilouten. Married, at the residence of E M. Law, November 19, John Paqnett and Miss Priscilia Pluard, Rev. J. L. Stratford officiating. Married, at the residence of William Uoval, November 13, .'ohn Morris and Misj Ada Thompson, P. V. Rhodes, jus tice of the peace, officiating. Sheriff Cathcart has gone to Portland as a witness in the case of Pool and Case, on trial for robbing the U. S. mail last July on the S. P. railroad in Cow creek canyon. Artie Benson of Grants Pass ia visiting his uncle, F. W. Benson, of this city. It is his first visit to Roseburg since 1SS3. He left here a kid and now he is a fine, well-developed young man. The bandit, Jack Brady, who killed Sheriff Howard, while robbing tho Ore gon express, has been found guilty. Ibe punishment ia imprisonment for life. Geo. Mack, who was brought to town yesterday by Constable Nels Rydell, has been discharged cn a writ of habeas cor pus before Judge Stearns yesterday eve ning at 6 p. m. No sufficient cause was shown to hold him. A number of Council 22, A. P. A. of this city, went to Looking Glass Tuesday night and assisted in organizing a coun cil there. Tho charter members num bered. All, says our informant, are quite enthusiastic in the cause. Holders of policies in tho State Insur ance Company of Salem, can have them exchanged for policies in the Sun ot Lon don, tho Continental of New York, and others. So says M. Senders, the agent of those companies. On what terms he does not say. A sect of religionist styling themselves "Holiness to the Lord Christians" are having a week of prayer in Grange hall, where they importune tho Almighty to convert this city to tbo faith onco de livered to the saints. Elder Hudson, tho one armed evangelist, is leader assisted by Elder Pue. Thos. E. Corbett began suit tho 18th against tbo Drain Natural Gas Company oi Drain to recover $1500. It is claimed by plaintiff that the stock-holders had paid up only 50 percent of their stock. They are therefore severally holden for the balance of thoir stock. There wore 800 shares taken. The 800 shares then will bo hold for the balance yet unpaid, which will be $1600. Programme of The Wouions' Christian Temperance Union mass meeting, to be given Monday evoning, Novembt r 25th, at tho M. E. church: Chorus, Whito RiWion Vibrations ; prayer and scripture reading; solo, Homo of tho Soul; recita tion; reading; select reading by Mrs. Shambrook; chorus, prohibition music, all around; recitation by Miss Laura Smale; The Oregon Builder, a general rally ; music, a selection. A goodly number of the prominent women of the city met at the residence of Mrs. Child yesterday and took steps to organize a woman's club, for literary and social culture amongst themselves and the young women of the city. This is a good move. Thero is nothing so human izing in society as the cultivation of our social natures. This is best done by fre quent meeting together and discussing the merits of authors and their works and in social converse among themselves. From Saturday's Daily. R. A. Woodruff of Melrose is a guest at the McClallen. S. W. Lowentbal of Seattle is a guest at the McClallen. John Hartin of Looking Glass, is in the city on business. Hon. P. Cooper of Roberts creek is in town today on business. W. C. Winston, the fruit zrower of Winston, ia in the city. G. A. and S. M. Cobb of Dillard are registered at the McClallen- Stephen Staats has returned from his visit to his old heme in Independence. Stephen Van Houten, the horse fan ner and sportsman is in the city today. W. E. Collis of Wardton and David Fate of Canyonville are registered at tho Van Houten. J. H. Whitsettof Robots creek and Mr. and Mrs. John Banks of Oak creek aie at the McClallen. R. J. Fraderof Portland, F. Webber of Seattle and Wm. Callahan of Medford are guests at tho Van Houten. There are now enrolled in the Rose burg public Echool 182 male and 209 fe male pupils, a total to date of 391. Mre. La Rant of Garden Home, Mrs. Sprague of Marsbfield and J. S. Laird of Silkura are registered at the McClallen. M. Sumner and W. E. Cochran of Looking Glass, E. W. Ewart of Winches ter, I; J. Monroe of Wilbur and W. B. Shehan of Portland are at tho Van Hou ten. The city ia full ot yeomanry today trading. They take advantage of this fine weather to get out to do business at tbo county seat and trade for the week. Artie, sou ofH.L. Bsnion of Grants Pass, stopped off yesterday to visit his uncles, aunts and cousins here. He went cn home this morning on.the over land , rejoicing. Tho Roseburg Fruit Growers Associa tion wiil hold their regular monthly meeting next Saturday, November SOth, at Gjarge hall. A fnlh attendance ii de sired F. A. McCall, Secy. There 'were tire corporal punishments in our public school last month, and no action at law has been taken to tine or discharge the teachers wha inflicted it. The parents and wards of Roseburg un derstand that if the rod is spared the child 18 spoiled. T. K. Richardson, our enterprising dealer in musical instruments and the famous Crescent bicycle, has leased grounds on the Mcshcr place in West Roseburg, and will construct a quarter mile bicycle track thereon for use this winter. This will be good news for riders of the bike. Heard From. S. J. Risenstein our pupular lestuar antuer, has received a letter from August Niendorf, alias "Mickey," long of this city, from his home at Madison, Wiscon sin, stating that he is well and enjoying himself with his family of that city. He sends greetings to his many friends here. Mickey has straightened up and is himself again under more favorable circumstances. His many friends here rejoice in his restoration to health and send him their congratulations. Special Prize. T. K. Richardson offers as a special prize at the Thanksgiving masquerade ball, a due bill of $5.00 for tbo best rep resentation of th Crescent bicycle. The due bill is transferable and will be re ceived in part payment for a Cresee nt wheel. For Rent. A five-room cottago with hydrant and convenient out houses, three blocks from postoffice. Enquire at this office or at iuj Washington street, west side ot rait road track. Notice. Grain bags and twine for sale by So Abraham, and tho highest market price in cash will be paid by him for grain, delivered at his warehouse at Roseburg. Subscribe for the Plaixdealek. TheJTorrens System. Illinois has adopted a system of simply recording transfer of real estate and da; ing away with the old'method of copyist deeds. It also does away with the nsea of procurinz au abstract of ti tin arv time a sale is made, asthe state guaraa tees title. This law was adopted by the leziila- ture last winter but the change was to radical that it was submitted to the else! tors of the state at'tho general election last week. A'Chicago paper says of it : "An impression has gained eronni that it is hard to be understood, exespt by lawyers. This is a mistake. Th new systemis neither intricate nor difi" cult to know.It is simplictity itself when compared to the present deed re cording. The salient features may be presented briefly. "Instead of registration of deeds there will be registration of titles After toe. first registration abstracts of title will be no longer necessary. Having once reg istered the title of your property arm, vacant lotsor. house and lots you are then able to sell at a moment's notice. The intending purchaser can ascertain by a gjance at the register just how the title stands. Yon make a deed to him and he knows there are no "clouds" upj on his title. He can.be sure that be is the absolute owner of what he pays far. He cannot be ousted by the discovery et moth-eaten and ancient crams or datSt. nor will there be the haunting possibility of a long lawsuit with an unexpected claimant. "If the owner of real estate wishes to make a Ioan,ecured by bis property, it will not be necessary to pay a lawyer from $25 up for a voluminous examina tion and report on the title. The last record on the county registration office will be final. The apparent owner will be th3 actual owner. It is all so siropli that the wonder is that this country and this city have done without it so long." fix. English "Rights" in the United States What do British trade-journals mean when they say that "the new tariff in the United States gives England these rights of which she was deprived by the McKinley tariff?" Do they mean that England has any inherent "rights" iii the United States, by virture of which she is entitled to smash capital, to glut markets, to starve workmen and to brias about general bankruptcy and beggary ia this republic? If these are the views that underlie recent British utterances concerning tariff and industrial matlars in the United States, it will be well for Britons to prepare their slow moving ia-. tellectuals for a regular billion-volt check, in 1896, for our capitalists and laborers are at last awake to the truth that th interests of the United States ara slaughtered by the tariff now in destruc tive operation, and they will move for a change in 1S96 and 1897. Armenia, a small division of Turkey in Asia, lies south of the Black sea and in the eastern part of Asia Minor. It is a small province situated as above on the headwaters of the Euphrates rivsr. It ia a country full of interest to histori ans and readers of Old Bible times. It is perhaps the most noted country in the world except Egypt and Palestine. "The troubles there now growing out of the conflict of the two antagonistic religions in Turkey is engaging the attention ef all the Christian world. Francis Schlatter, the Denver Messiah says "my father has taken me." Upon myestigatian it is found he has taken to the mountains to avoid being taken by the authorities of the law. Christ of Galilee, said "I o to mv Father." Christ of Denver says : "My father has taken me' and then skips out for a hid ing place to escape arrest. Oh, humbug, thy devotees are many. The Boston Herald, a democratic p per, says Hill, Gorman, Brice and Cam den have emasculated the party. Now they are trying to emasculate the presi dent. After they have succeeded in that they ought to emasculate themselves. If they lail the republican party will do the job for them together with the rank and file of the whole outfit. Congress meets Monday. December 2d. Thos. B. Reed. "Czar Reed,", will be elected speaker and democrats will have to toe the mark. Dodging into the cloakroom or saloon will uot let them off. The Review says "everything goes" with republican papers now-a-days. That is so. Even several bourban demo cratic states have gone with the republi cans lately. "I cannot tell a lie," said John Sher man; "I wiote my book with a hatchet."