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.,,, ,. tt4 ........... j IF YOU DOfi'T READ IF YOU SEE IT Ifi ....... ............ The Plaindealer j The Plamdealer r i You Don't Get the News. IT IS SO. Voi,. XXVII. ROSEBURG, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE i, 1896. No. 26. y M. CRAWFORD, Attorney at Law, Koom S. Musters BulMlnc, - ROSEBURG, OR. arBuslriC53 bo tore the U. S. Land Office and mining cases a specialty. Lato Receiver U. S. Land Office OKOSGS X. BEOWX. rsin. rjiai-TciTiM. JgROWN & TUSTIN", Attorneys-at-Law, Rooms 7 and S T & Wilson Block. ROSEBURG. OR. Yy R. WILLIS. Attorney aud Counselor at Law, Will practice in all the courts of the State OI See la U Court Houw , DonjUj county, Or. Q A. SHHT.BREDK, Attorney at Law, Koscbttr, Oregon. Office otct th FostofSeo on Jacaaon atrect. W. CARD WELL, Attorney at Law, ROSEBURG, OREGON. La Fayette Lane. JCOCE L. LOCCIUET JANE & LOTJGHART, Attorneys & Counselors at Law JCoaclnrv, Oregon. V ill practice in all the courts of Oregon. Of See in the Tarlur-Wilson block. F. R. OOFFMAN, Phy sician and Surgeon (U. S. Examinlns Sargeon.) OFFICE. Rooms C and T Maulers' BulMtnr. Residence. First door South of Mrs. Currier Boarding Ilooe. Of Special attention to Surgery and tfa Diseases of Women. J. OZIAS, HI. D., PIrysician and Surgeon, EOSE3DRG, OR. Office in 3. Marks i Co-'s Block, cpsUln. Calls promptlj asnrcred day or night. J Lu TiTTTiTiKR, M. D., Surgeon and Homoeopathic Physician, Roseburg, Oregon. EfTChrmiit diataaa a pccUlSr. w ILL. P. HEYDON, Coit 11 1- 59 urvoj'or. and Notary public Orrscr: In Court House. Orders lor Sarreyiap and Field Notes should be addressed to Will F.llcydon, County Sur. Teyor, Eosebnrg, Or. JF. BRIGGS, TJ S. Deputy aciacral Harvey or " sad Notary Public. Orrici: County JsilBuQdlng.npsUirs. SF Special attention paid to Transfers and Conveyances. Address. ROSEBURG, OR. JERRY J. WILSOtt, Watchmaker and Jeweler, 411 Jackson Street, At Luerssen's Cigar Factory. ROSEBURG. .All Repairing- entrusted to my care trill be PROMPTLY and carefully done. PRICES REASONABLE. WOODWARD THE BUSTLED ROSEBURG Does Up ALL COMPETITORS ! We are always in the Lead, and mean to keep there. The Golden Harvest is upon us, and farm era are trailing because Woodward loois to their interest. Full Trimmed TEAM HARNESS These are all Leather and Warranted. SADDLES V 1. At Reduced Prices. Consult your purse and be euro and see woodward bcloro buying. W. G. WOODWARD To the Public. On and after this date, I wish it under stood that my terms for all undertaker's goods are cash with tho order. I find it impossible to do business on a credi basis, and belive that I can do better by my patrons and myself by selling strictly for cash. I'. Benedick, Undertaker. Roseburg, Ore., April 12, 1805. A. SALZMAN, (Successor to J. Practical : Watchmaker, : DEALER IN WATCIIES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, AND FANCY GOODS. MoiM&al.aai am. SxC3JlaS.-C;y Gouuinu Brnzilitiu Eyo A COMPLETE STOCK OK Cullory, Notions, Tobacco, Cigars anil Smokers' Articles. Also Proprietor and Manager of "WE SELL Charter Oak AND COOK STOVES. The Best Stove is Always the CHEAPEST. CHURCHILL, WOOLLEY & MCKENZIE'S Roseburg Hardware Go. Closing t Out Having decided to retire (commencing Monday, April 20th) I will offer my entire stock of Dry Goods and Clothing, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, CAPS, FURNISHING GOODS, FANCY GOODS, ETC., AT COST. Remember these are New and Fresh Goods, direct from the markets of Chicago who take advantage of this sale will save money. lESf Also, Store Fixtures for Sale. . Yours Truly, T-uT BBOOZIS. A.C.MARSTERS&C0. j WHITS gj Wall Paper A Choice Collection, at Prices that Sell. LIME PLASTER AND CEMENT. A FULL LIfiE OF WIfiDO W GLASS ALL ORDERS PROA1PTLY FILLED. JASKDLEK.) Jeweler : and : Optician. GIuhhch nil d Spectticlos Ilosuburg's Famous Itargnin Store. THE FAMOUS Superior from business in' Roseburg, aud New York, and those .DBUaG-ISTS. TELEGRAPH NEWS A Scene of Ruin. St. Louis, May 28. When the sun roso on St. Louis and vicinity this morn ing it showed a scene of horrible ruin and disaster. Wind, rain and fire bad com bined in tho mission of destruction. Two hundred lives were lost in this city, and as many more in East St. Louis, while thousands were injured, many so severely that they cannot recover. The exact number will not bo known for many days, perhaps never, for the debris of ruined buildings all over the city cov ers hundreds of human bodies. The damage to property will aggregate many million;, but tho exact amount cannot be estimated with 7aoy degree of cer tainty. The terrible tornado that caused this destruction etruck tho city yesterday af ternoon at 5:15 o'clock, and all parts of the city and East St. Louts felt the ef fects. The greatest damage on this side of tho river was inflicted within a three milo strip along the mighty stream. Many buildings totally collapsed, others were unroofed, whilo very few escaped injuty. Big strong buildings fell before the wind like houses made of cards. From where it entered tho city, out in the southwestern suburbs, to where it left, somewhere near the Eads bridge, there is a wide path of ruin. Factory after factory went down and down and piles of bricks and timbers mark the spots on which they stood. Dwellings were picked up and thrown in every direction. Business-houses were flattened. There was no chance for the escape of the oc cupants. The ruins covered bruised and mangled bodies that will not be uncov ered until a systematic search is made. Thousands of families in South St. Louis are practieally homeless, and tempor ary hospitals shelter scores and hun dreds. Wires are down all over the city. Ligget & Myers' big factory in Crompton Heights is in ruins, and many were killed and injured in the wreck. Ele vators were blown down, beats were sunk, and churches and schoolhouses were demolished. After tho wind and rain had done its work, fire added to tho destruction. Retzel's mill was the first to burn and it was totally destroyed at a lots of 150,0C0. Down wires, wild currents of electric ity, crushed buildings all contributed to this tlement of destruction. The alarm system is paralyzed. A $200,000 confla gration on tho St. Louis side was sup plemented by lesser fires. .In East St. Louis a mill was burned, and other con aderable l083 s weie snsulnea.' liitne total of the fires must bo added at least 1500,000. Another such night of horror tn the city was never known. Victoria's Awful Bridge Disaster. Seattle, May 27. The steamer Rosa lie, arrived from Victoria this afternoon. Captain Amea, speaking of yesterday's disaster, said: "People there don't seem to know anything more about tho accident than they do down here. An old building, formerly calleJ tho market Equaro, and m a useu as a center lor miners coming in from tho country with produce, has been turneu into a morgue and as last as bodies aro taken from tho water they are carried to the ioclosure. Up to the timo we left, about 9 o'clock this morn ing, forty-uino bodies had been identi tied. A seine has bteu stretched across the river to keep the ebb tide from carrying out bodies, and lhay are using the steam power of a pile driver to work the drags. There are any number of bodies yet to be recovered. Estimations made by Un people there place the number remain ing in the water all the way from sev enty-hvc to 100. It will probably be some time beforo all tho bodies arc taken out, and probably some of them will never be found. "Tho people are very indignant over tho accident and some action will be taken right away. In every survey that has been made of the bridgo for the past liireo years, it has been condemned. The car that went across is an exeep tionally large and heavy one, and has not been allowed to run for a year, as was considered too heavy for the bridge. The bridge has long been considered unsafe and a number of times duriug the past three years (he common council has agitated the question of tearing it down me knowledge mat it was ungate was common property. The Work of Rescue. St. Louis, May 29. Tho day opened clear and cool. Evcrywhero could be seen men delving in tho ruins for buried victims, wires and general debris, repair ing tho damage dona to thousands of buildings and relieving the injured and Homeless. It became more ana more evident that tho tornado was the worst that over visited this or any other city on the North American continent. The horrors multiply every hour Moro than 130 dead bodies have been reBeuetl in st. J.onis, and ovor iuo per sons are known to have boen injured Mangled cadavers are found in innumer able places along the path of the storm and aro being taken to improvised morgues. It will bo weeks beforo i complete list of those killed can bo made but tho list of ileud is climbing to tho 200 mark. Only moro guosseB can bo made as to tho properly los3 on both sides of tho river, but tho mercantile agencies eay it may reach $50,000,000 in this city alone, while in East St. Louis it will be Eoveral millions. In East St. Louis tho disaster was complete, the western section of that railway town being ono vast charnel house. Only a single dwelling is left standing on what was called ' The Is land," and COO families are homeless. Citizens estimate the dead at fully -'CO on tho east side. In the wake of the tornado came grave problems, one being the protection of tho city in absence of electric lights. The First Missouri regiment has gone on patrol Eervico and the polico commis sioners will add 15 men to the force. Beside this all previous calamities of tho kind seem trival in cost. Manfully, business men of St. Louis have taken up the work of relief. An earnest meet ing on 'change yesterdsy was tho begin ning. hue there aro thousands who can pull themselves out of this trouble, and there are other thousands who lost all and must be helped! A partial re sumption of street car service has been effected. The southern division of the Scullin system was the most badly crip pled, owing to the destruction of the power-house, and the officers venture no prediction as to when the cars will he running. A partial restoration of the electric light service is promised in 4S hours, but it will bs a couple of weeks before all the circuits are in order. The destruction of piles and wires along tho path of the storm was complete. Inquests on 42 of the slain of East St. Louis have been held by Coroner Waile, and that work continues. A verdict of shock and injuries accidental was ren dered in each case. East St. Louis has issued a touching appeal for aid. The committee which prepared the manifesto, estimated that 209 persons ore killed, and that the in jured number thousands. It i known that a number of persons are stiil buried in the debris of the southwestern end of the island, and in the ruins of the Ilal lesy hotel, Martell house, Relay retreat and Darant house. Many not seen by families sinco Wednesday are supposed to be stopping with friends cr detained from returning to their homes by injur ies that may not prove fatal. The street car traffic, telepbono and electric light facilities are entirely suspended. All business is virtually tuspended. Every one agrees that months will fail to reveal the extent of the tornado's de vastation in Illinois. Weyler's Petition. Madrid, May 29. General Weylerhas csSed-the SpsslrSOTemineat'fonUiet liberty of action in political and military affairs in Cuba which was prjtnised to him when he accepted the command and which was granted t-j all his predeces sors. He plainly put it that he has been crippled by the repeated interference of the home government, and broadly hinted that he is not disposed to remain in office much longer under such condi tions. Premier Canovas and the ministers of war and of the colonies cabied to him and also wrote at length, urging the ne cessity of forbearance and patience, on account of tho government's awkward position between the public in Spain acd Havana clamoring for a mo'C vigorous war policy in Cub3, with a more resolute attitude toward America and the imper ative necessity of avoiding perilous con flicts with the United States. The government pacified We lor with promise that he shall be furnished with all the resources he may deem ne cessary lor active operations next au tumn, after the rains, and full scope to act as ho pleases against the rebel?, as long as takc3 proper steps to furnish no pretext for American demands. The Grand Court Ball. Loxdox, May 23. A Mosco.v dispatch to tho Chronicle says: The gran i court ball at the palace began at 9 o'clock in tho evening. Its brilliaucy baffles de ecription, with the uniforms of every na tion from China to Peru, the Uiusian ladie3 with their magnificent costumes. which have cost thousands of roubles each, and the scarcely less striking toi lettes of many English and American ladies. The czar and czarina, with all their royal guests, entered and made the round of the ballroom, tho czar in a sim ple scarlet uniform with silver facings, and his breast ablaze with decorations, and the czarina with an amazing tiara of diamonds of priceless worth. Dancing was next to impossible owing to the crush, and to the fact that there were threo times as many women as men. A Brilliant Scene. Moscow, May 2S. The czar and czar ina today received the ambassadors, the special missions, the military ollicers of exalted rack, tho Asiatic deputations, and tho mayors of tho provinces-, in Standing rows in the thronc-reoui. 'Iho function was one of tho most brilliant it is possible to imagine. Tho czarina was dressed in pulo blue silk, with a velvet train richly embroidered with silver and studded with diamonds. Tho United Statos minister, C. H, Breckinridge, aud a full representation of tho American missiou participated in tho ceremonies. There was an endless diversity ot cos tumo among tho 700 deputations from ' tho rural cantons. Kucli receivod 11 present oi the traditional bread aud null ' on a carved and inlaid silver platter. Ikons adorned with jewels were pre sented to tho Asiatic deputations. Tho Siberians wore costly fnrs, and tho rabbis of St. Petersburg, Moscosw and Warsaw wore sacerdotal robes of pure wbito silk, donned specially to mark the first occasion of Jews being re ceived at tho Russian court. The Uprising in Crete. Constantinople, May, May 28. Tho conflicts between the troops and the people on the streets of Canea, island of Crete, have ceased, but the fighting con tinues in the country adjoining that port. The arrival of the foreign man-of-war at Canea, Crete, has cowed the Turts and the town is again becoming calm. The disturbances, however, con tinue at Relmio, and Mussulman bands tin eaten Haraklione. The funeral of the Christians massacred at Canea, was conducted under the protection of the British warship Hood. Tho relatives of the victims did not dare follow their dead to the graves. Three thousand armed Cretans have arrived in the town to protect the Christians there. The Victoria Disaster. VicToniA, May 2S. The work of rescue at the Ecene of the bridge disaster was completed this afternoon, when the last of the bodies was recovered by divers. The death roll includes 55 i.ames, and it is feared that two or three strangers may yet be missing. The Fisherman's Strike. Astokia. May 2S. The fishing situa tion remains unchanged, but it is safe to say that arrangements for a settlement of the strike will be perfected by Monday or Tuesday nf xt. It was rumored today that M. J. Kin ney was about to draw away from the combine and begin packing tomorrow, but investigation proved the rumor to Le without foundation. An effort is being mado to bring about a settlement on the basis of 4,l cents per pound, but the fisherman will accept no compromise offer. Many of them have asked for withdrawal cards from the union, and will seek other vocations until such time as they can return to fishing. THE ST. LOUIS HORROR. Commenting on the St. Louis horror, the Portland Telegram S3ys : The cyclone that left death and deso lation in ita wake yesterday at" St. Louis was the first visitant of its speries to a big city. It was also the sixth wind storm of a series that within three weeks hasiplay edi Eadiha-vocHrmvarious "parta of the Middle West between the" southern line of Texas and the northern boundary of Minnesota. There is no assurance that it was the final and crowning cy clonic disturbance of the vear. "While the sultry season bsts theie can be no feeling of security from sudden and shocking death among the residents of the prairie region between the Great Lakes acd the Rocky mountains. With the tbriii of horror created by a percual of tho details oi the St. Louis catastrophe is mingled a renewed feeling of wonder that people who have the means oi deserting such a country should continue to live in it. There is difficulty in crediting with ordinaty wisdom a per son who rersis'ently cling to an inferno while a convient paradise invites his residence. One cannot easilv grasp the philosophy which sustains the Missour- ian or the Ulinoisan or tho Kansan or the Iowan or the Xebraskan or the Da kotan or the Minnesotan in his evident belief that he is acting for the best by continuing to keep himself and his fam ily and his beasts of burden and his other portable property at the mercy of fjeeze-up3 and blizzards iu winter snd drouths and cyclones in summer and e!einental discomfort in all ssasoas. One might be able to grasp such reason ing if ono cculd only forget that on the western slope of the Rockies, freni the summit right down to the Eea, there is constant-exemption from such meteoro logical menaces to life and property and that more particularly in this favored coast region there arc millicni of untitled acres awaiting settlement and natural re sources of incalculable value inviting de velopment. But realization of these facts cannot be avoided, end battles the attachment of logic to the attitude of the praine-dweilers, if it does not mar to some extent tho sympathy which at first impulse is extended to those who sur vive each recurrent boreal violence. Uregon's gentle rains never seem blessed ns wnen sucu appalling nows as that from St. Louis tcday is received Their persistency i3 forgiven aud their irkeomeiiess is forgotten in contempla tion of the greater elemental burdens that beset overv other state in the Union. About 2,000 miles of railway aro under construction iu Japan, and the London "Tunes" says that there are si 'ns that American engineering and materials will be preferred to English hereafter by tho Japanese. Our Oriental neighbor will make no mistake when they order their railway iron, locomotives and warships in this country. Tho Pacific coast can furnish the latter, and sie has all the r.iw material in abundance for the rali wav hou and tho lo-. omottves. Vr. Price's Cream Baking Powflej kl-TiU's Fair llizhest MeJalnnJ Dlclona. THE ELKS. The First Ladies' Social Proves a Decided Success. The B. P.O.E. Ledge, No. 320, ct this city, gave one of their grand enter tainments at the Odd Fellow's Temple Thursday nignt, in honor of the ladies. The liberality, fidelity and generosity of this order has become proverbial. So ciability and gocd cheer are the distinc tive features of Ihe Best People On Earth, except the ladies, who it appears cannot be Elkf, although they can te sociable with, and .smile upon the Elks with their most bewitching smiles. Nothing can prevent them from that but unchivalric conduct towards them by the Elks ; a thing improbable and almost im possible, foi a moro chivalrie people do not exist they challenge the galantry of the age of chivalry, a3 was demonstrated at their entertainment last night where youth, adolescent age, as well a3 Leauty, met acd enjoyed the social features cf tbis noble order. Tho large and commodious lodge rcom of the Odd Fellows' Temple was taste fully decorated with the insignia and colors of the order, with a large placard, "Welcome to the Lauiee," emblazoned upon tho walls. A large convocation of ladies, and gentlemen other than those in the order, were in attendeace, there being not less than three hundred pres ent. The programme was observed to the letter throughout, and highly enjoyed by all. The music was excellent. Tha presentation to each guest of souvenirs, Eprigs cf forget-me-nots tied with pur ple ribbon, was attended with jocularity and sallies of wit. rne initiatory ceremcnies of a dude .ie were unique and veiv ludicrous, illustating that old saw: "A liitle nonsense now aud then, Is relished by the wisest men." But whether the ladies relished the goat riding episode ia a matter of con jecture, unless (should tha order change their constitution allowing them to join the order) they will provide for such oc casion a sidesaddle cr bicycle. The order might go back to ancient forms ot trans-substantiation and have a bicycle substituted for the billv coat. That would be undoubtedly an improvement. It weald abviate the necessity of requir ing a Etalwart Llk to drag the goat around the lodge room while the candi date was thinking of fcinins: the 'So ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals." The quartett, sang bv Mrs. Jamieson, Mrs. Livingston, Dr. F. R. Coffman and F. M. Zigler, wa3 fine and hugely en joyed. .The address of welcome by Elk eeoMrBrownva3 brief tfu pointed, and referred more to tha dears than the Elks. The piano solo bv Miss Jennie Wollenberg wss exceLcnt, elieiuu pro longed applause. The baritone solo by R. E. Vearch was vry good and highly appreciated. The recitation by Miss Iula Bradley was oae of ihe highly ludi crous and fun provoiing episodes of the evening, rendered inher inimitable sUIe of elocution Miss Iula marking luve to a grccer, who sat as iaiperturbale as a New England stouhton bottle, and was a sidesplitting affair. The soprano su!o by Miss Belle Willis wa3 encored, and Miss Willis bad to exhibk her musical powers the second time. The m-mdolin and piano duett by Mifs Ida Porter and Jay Goald was very finend was encored also. AuldLang Syne bv a band of Elks was sung with much zest and was received with much eclat by the guests. The music by the orchestra wa3 up to its usuat utcrco 01 excellence, ot which all Roseburg are conizant. During the evening exercises there were many fun provoking inci lent?, interlarded as a sort of condiment to a regular Mil of fare. The refreshments served were such aa would delight an epicure. De!ui:us cakes of several styles of the culinary art, cthey were not made by Eiks, you bet), lemonade with a straw in it ( not a "stick," as formerly.) was served, and to one looking on it was a iadicrous sight to see three hundred ladies and gentle men sitting with straws one end in a glass, the other in the mouth, and when the last fewdrops cf th2 acid fluid stot up the straw, to hear that peculiar sound we hear when eating soup it was not a little amusing. But it was fine nil the same. One episode not oa the program was an exhibition oi the wonderful pow ers of Prof. Tyndall. the mind reader. After the exercises ia the lodge room the guesls were invited to the opeia room below, where a large number engaged in paying homage to Terpsichore, and from 12 to 3 a.m. the giddy dance to the time of bewitchin:ly inspiring music was enjoyed by many 1 ids and lassies, and not a few whoso locks showed "sil ver threads amoi'g the gold." The entertainment by this brother hood was one of deiuht from start to finish and will long bo remembered as one of the p!easant03t of pleasant affairs in the history of Roseburg. Here men ot" all shades of opinion mett and lay all their ilillorences aside and unite ia hav ing a good sociable time. In sociability wo all ouiht to agree; in fratenal greet ings we all should unite. These feel'nis, the Eiks have a special office to culti vate, and are doing 11 jl!e ivork in allay ing sociable acerbities. Long live tho Elks. i)v. Price's Cream CaKing Powefet Forty Years tho Standard.