r,iMmM.MMl. I i'iiiu'ihhimiii IF YOU SEE IT Ifi ir iuu uun i rtcnu The Plaindealer The Plaindealer i You Uou't Get the News. IT IS SO. Vol.. XXVII. ROSEBURG, OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 24, i8g6. No. 50. r. v A. SAL2MAN, (Successor to J. JASKULEK.) Practical : Watchmaker, : Jeweler : and : Optician. DKALKR IS vrcans, clocks, jewelky. and fancy goods. (.;ouuiue LlrirUlnii 13yo GIiimmcs nxitl Spootiiolos A COMI'LKTE STOCK OK Cutlery, Notions, Tobacco. Cigars and Smokers' Articles. Also Projiriolm- niul JLnnatrer of Itoseburg's Famous JJarpain Storo. . r ... -j. -- - i STKTE SCHOOL- l-:iccatli Vcar ueslnsi September 7th. 1896. Three Distinct Courses: Normal, Academic and Music. liute diplomas, conferring the decree ol Bachelor of Scientific Didactics, awarded to those bo complete the Normal course, and pay the required feo. Diplomas from the school to those who finish the other courses. Thorough work and teachers training department. Expenses low. Adimited amount of work will bo given those who wish to thus pay a part of their wav throach school. Driin is a qniet, healthful little.town, situated 3G miles north of Roseburg, and has no saloons or other places of vica. The people are moral and tru6 friends of the student. The vear iast closed has been a prosperous one for the school. For fnll rurlicniarit send for new catalogue, which will be promptly mailed to vou. - Lot" 1AEKE, 15. President. S H. T. BLUMB, ,uu"f FropSetor ol The City Meat Market, And Dealer in PRIME BACON, HAMS, LARD, AND FRESH MEATS OF ALL KINDS. Roseburg, Or. Orders taken end Delivered Free to any part of the City. A.C.MAR5TERS4Co aHM ii!;: Tlie new year opciiH Sept. 14. formntlou nddrcHM, SOUTHERH OREGON in hum AHHI.AND, OK. The onl jr Normnlcbool south of Monmouth which has a four year Xormal count of ttuda and cranta unlimited StateKormal School Diplomas good tor life. Graduates of this school arc allowed 62 credits by the Uni versity of Oregon and are ad mitted to Uiu Freshman class without examination. srjt 1 1 1 1 ., . irauuiiK w;uuui lurouguoui the year in charge of mem bers of (senior class and critic teacher. Other Courses: Col lego Preparatory, Business, Music. Art, Teachers' Bcvlcw Classes, Tuition Jo hall board 11.75, family board liM to 3.00, lodging in dormitory SO cents, student furnishing bed-clothing. Fine winters, nure water. and good society. For new Catalogue or special In W. T. VAN SCOY, President. PAR(fBR0S. Sacrifice Sale Now in Progress nrs f A COMPLETE LINE LEADING PERSCR1PT10N DRUGGIST, JicVicn Street. Roseburg. Oregon. OF TELEGRAPH NEWS A Rape Fiend Is Lynched, Lkwibton, Idaho, Aug. 20. The quiet town of Asotin was tho ecene, on Tues day night of a lynching, whereby Frank Biles, a notoriously tough half-breed In dian from the Nez Perce reservation, was swung into eternity at the end of a rope, by indignant citizens, for the brutal crirflu of rape, which hu committed upon the person of Miss Mary Richardson, a girl 17 years of age, yesterday afternoon at a point on the road between Lewiston and Aeotiu. Miss Richardson resides at Enterprise, Or., but has lately been visiting friends in this vicinity. Yesterday she started to ride from here to Asotin on horseback, unattended, and on her way was over taken by threo Indiahs. also on horse- bad k, one of whom was the brute Biles. They passed her but in a short time Biles camo back alone and, riding along side of the young lady, ho Beized the horse's bridlo and tried to lead him into some bushes. Miss Richarsdon sprang from her horse and ran screamiug down the road , but Biles soon overtook her and, flour ishing a revolver, threatened to kill her. He then drained her into the bushes and accomplished his brutal purpose after which he mounted his horse and rode away. Miss Richardson was found a little later by a man who look her to Asotin, where Ehe told her story. OQicers im mediately went in search of Biles, who they soon found and placed in the jail at Asotin. Meanwhile angry men had been form ing a plan of action, and at 11 o'clock thoy went in a perfectly orderly manner and demanded of the jailer that he sur render the keys. The jailer refused, and the keys were forcibly taken from him. The men then went to the paisoner's call and took him out, relocked the jail and returned the keys to the jailer. They then proceeded to a corner of the jailyard, which is surrounded by a high board fence, and lam a stout pole across the corner, over which a rope was thrown and one end attached to the prisoner's neck. He was then drawn up and left hanging, while the crowd, after being satisfied that the wretch was dead, quietly dispersed. There is no clew to the identity of the lynchers. n otivo plant from this port on Saturday to Nijnu Novgorod, Russia, lhe plant will be erected iu connection with the Karraova works, and will have the capac ity of erecting 200 locomotives a year, about one-fifth of the capacity of the Baldwin works in this city. Most of the railroads in Russia are under govern ment control, and the czar has prom ised to support the new venture. Contracts for the machinery amounted to $500,000; and tho bulk of it was enp lied by Philadelphia manufacturers. Tho complete machinery lor the works will be put on the La Leham at Port Rich mond Saturday. All the foremen and engineers of the new works will be Americans. About 1000 hands will be employed. Populists Are Hard Up. Washington, Aug. 20. The executive committee of the populist convention has adjourned subject to the call of the chairman. It was decided that G. K. Sovereign should be assigned to the Chicago headquarters, which will be under the management of Washburn, of Massachusetts. Chairman Butler will be in charge here, assisted by Secretary Edgertou. Butler said today that the committee is embarrassed for lack of funds. "We chinned in." said Butler, "to pay expenses thus far. I expect we will have ta make a campaigu such as we made in the South, where we have managed with little money." Butter will enter into correspondence with the populist and silver leaders in various parts of the country to effect an adjustment of existing difficulties, which will bring the supporters of silver and Bryan into harmonious action. The silver party and populist party are to- dav movinc into headquarters of the democratic party in the Wormley build ing. Vice-Cbairraan Stevens, of the silver party, said today the silver branch headquarters in Chicago would have charee of the campaign in the Western states. THE VALUE OF A DOLLAR. Patent Medicines, Perfumeries. Toilet Articles. Hoiliday- Goods FOR g Gentlemen, Ladies m and Children, mt ZIQLER & PATTERSON,. Depot Grocers DEALERS IN ALL KINDS OF a-STAPLE AND . FANCY . GROCERIES. COUNTRY PRODUCE BOUGHT AND SOLD. Give us a call. Goods delivered to any part of the City in Ehort order. Corner Lane & Sheridan Streets. KOfcbUUKG, OKhUW. "Wall Paper. A Choice Collection, at Prices that Sell, LIME PLASTER AND CEMENT. A FULL LIME OR WINDOW GLASS ALL ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED. Real Estate Bought and Sold Farms, large and small, to Rent, AND IMMEDIATE POSSESSION GIVEN. Stock Rallies, Timber Lauds and Mining Properties Prune and Hop Lauds of best quality, in choice locations in auautitics to suit intending purchasers, at reasonable prices and easy terms. Inquire of 3D. S- K. BTJIOK, -oeltM-JCdU CJmH..y, OVoffcura The Collins House Flrt Huect vat of Depot, one block north, First Class $1.00 per Day House. Km iitly remodeled, renovated and refurnished. l-i:i:i A?il I.IVI5KV STAI1I.H IN CONNECTION. WYLIE PILKINGTON, A Deluge. Mogollox, N. M., Aug. 20. A terrible cloudburet occurred here at 4 p. m. yes terday. John Knight, a miner of George town, was drowned. Twenty others are reported missing, but only two bodies, those of Knight and an unknown Mex ican, have been recovered. About 100 families haye been rendered homeless, and 30 houses washed away. The prop erty of the Colonia Mining Company, of Boston, Mass., suffered to a large extent, the assay otfice, millhouse, powder- bouse and blacksmith shop being washed away. It is feared the mine is filled with mud and water. The manager and assayer had ajnarrow escape, being as sisted to the bank by ropes- The Deep- Down Mining Company, of Kansas City, lost its main office and assay office. This place is situated in a deep canyon between high mountains, lhe water in tho streets was eight feet deep. The storm was general in this section of the territory. Advices from ursliam state lliat a cloudburst on the mountain side caused a flood at tlio Confidence mine, belonging to the Helen Mining Company, of Den ver. 1 fie nooa carneu away mo enop and supplies of the mine. Nino horEes loaditig ore for the mill were washed over a steep precipice and killed. Men working at the mouth of the tunnel barelv escaped witu their lives. It is feared treat damace was done on the other side of the Mogollon district Nothing definite can b? learned on count of telephone communication being broken. Theie were at least 20 persons, mostly miners, living right in the track of the great fall of water. They occupied, for the moBt part, adobe dwellings. These have been swept away, and tho occa pants have not been heard from. Successor to U. W. XO.VH.l General Blacksmithing rROTTING AND RUNNING PLATES A SPECIALTY, UKl'AIUING OF AI.1. KINDS PROMPTLY DONE. HIioi on Corner WnHliliiirton mid Kane HtH., RoHcuurn. ROSEBURG Marble and Granite Works. I W. AGH1S0N k CO., Props. Dealers iu nil kludsof Murine and Granite Monuments and Headstones, Portland Cement Curbing .if or Cemetery JLols. Estimates Furnished on all kinds of Cemetery Work ORIce and Hnlettrcom. t7ii Onk Street. How It Looks. London, Aug. -0. Tho Daily News, in an editorial this morning, contrasts the enthusiasm and unity which it says was manifest at tho meeting Tuesday nicht when Bourke Cockran opened the campaign in the interest of the gold' standard democrats, with the discord, it eays, was apparent at the meeting when William Jennings Bryan was noti ficd of his nomination. The Daily News applauds Mr. Bryan's cynical frankness as to what the result would be in case bimetalism should be adopted. Con tinuing, the Daily News says : "Cataline, with his Lovao Tabulae, waa not moro detiuile than is Bryan with his wot sponge. If, our New York correspondent says, Cleveland throw his immeiiBO intluenco against him, Bryan is certain to bo defeated. In any case, tho election of McKinloy will do nothing to revive the old McKinloy tariff. Me Kiulev's watchword must be ' sound money and national honor." Will Build Locomotives. l'uiLADiaruiA, Aug. 'JO. The British steamship La Lebam has been charteied to take machinery for a complete loco At a time when every body else is talking, and a few are thinking, about the money question, it would seem "lonesome like" for the L. A. W. Bulle tin to keep still. What is a dollar? What is it for? Why baa it value? Money is a memorandum, nothing mote. 1 on have it because you nave rendered a service to some one, and you part with it because you want something that is possessed by another. (Thia re fers, of course, to the honest and legiti mate use of money.) If theie were but two men in the world, money of some sort wouldfstill be necessarv, but for no other reason than it would be more convenient than book' keeping. The volume of money should be pro portioned to the number of people and the amount of business done, for most obvious reasons, but the purchasing power of a dollar should remain the same, if possible, so as to maintain the basis upon which present and past bus! ness is and has been conducted. No change either way in the value of money can be made without working a serious iniustice to larce numbers ol people. If the mere issuance of money by the government could add to the general prosnertv. then we could all be made wealthy in a week. The effect of money on business is wholly in the mind, purely imaginary but the effect is there, nevertheless. Business is made by the supplying of human wants. When people get scared they stop buying, and there is a ''panic," "bard times," "commercial depression," etc., etc. When people are confident and hopeful they indulge themselves in many more of the comforts and luxur ies of life, and then business "booms." Who is to blame? Most emphatically it is the cheap poli tician and calamityi8t8, who care for nothinc beyond what fodder they can get out of the public manger, and who would be willing to precipitate any sort of a panic for the sake of winniug paying political positions. The sensational newspapers are much to blame, though they usually act as re flectors for the politicians. Gold is of less value intrinsically than iron is, but owing to its limited quantity and the fact that the supply cannot in crease suddenly, about twenty-six grains of it has been taken to represent a dol lar, and for the last twenty years the prices of goods which have nn intrinsic value because they are usejult have been fixed with relation to that standnrd gold dollar. Whether wages are higher or lower, or whether the price of wheat is higher or lower thau at some timo in the past, taking the dollar as a standard, is of no consequence It is only the 'i-ftoire val ues of things that should be considered, and thesocannot be permanently affected by tho supply of money. The Jonly con dition that can for a term of years modify the price of auy standard article of com merce is the supply of that article and its relation to the demand. "Boards ol trado," eo called, may affect prices tem porarily, but only as any other form of camblinc may for the time affect the condition of these engaged in it. "Times were good during the war," is otten said to prove that plenty of money will make .good timjs, foritwastruo that the enormous issues of greenbacks at the time put in circulation a large volume of that sort ot currency. The greenbacks, however, bad as little to do with the business boom of those days as column of mercury in a glass tube haa to do with the weather. It is an i mportant fact that the war at once furnished employment lor all tho workmen in the country. Many a man who never saw fifty dollars before in his life was paid a "bounty" of several hun dred, and, rigged np in a bright new suit of blue, he proceeded to "blow in" his new found wealth. This created an enormous demand for all sorts of goods, which in turn mads a .demand for more labor than waa to be bad, and as mora than one employer waa ready to hire the workman, he in turn naturally came in for advanced wages, The wages were still further raised (t. , taking the dollar for a unit) because the dollar, so-called, waa not a real dol lar, but a "promise to pay" a dollar. Everybody knew that the government couldn't pay except with more promises, as there wasn't enough gold in the coun try to pay with, even if the government had owned it all, which it didn't. So the question came as to the soundness of the government md the probability of its being able to pay "some way." There were really two governments, and each had its sympathizers. The southern dollar finally became so cheap that fifty "dollars" were paid for a loaf of bread. Now did the man who sold that bread really get any more for it than if the price bad been seven cento in gold? Probably not. People who had gold held it at a pre mium, and at one time a gold dollar waa worth over two dollars and a half in greenbacks. The greenbacks were an admission on the part of the United States government that it had no money, bnt expected to have money some time, and in borrow ing from corporations and individuals who bad money it issued its promises (greenbacks), which were circulated among people as money. Immediately the price of goods "went up." lhe new demands made by the war decreased the supplies, and hence would have raised prices some, for the time being, even on a gold basis; bnt the most startling part of tho increase in prices was dae to the fact that money money bad been cheapened, how ranch was shown by the enormous premium at once quoted on goU. Business was good daring the war simply because of a very large demand for men, not only to go as soldiers, bnt to work in the shops at home supplying equipment, and on the farms raising food; bat the country is still in debt on account of it. It may be very funny to spend an evening in unseemly debauchery, bnt we should not forget the morning headache. Nature demands fall payment for all ab normal "cuttings up." Supply and demand settle everything. We may only hope to enjoy what we earn. Let us, then, insist that the "memor andum" which represents our earnings shall be as unchangeable as possible, so tbat the dollar we earn today will be worth a dollar tomorrow. The L. A. W. Bulletin is in favor of the gold standard dollar, less politicians, and more good roads. L. A. W. Bulletin. Deafness Cannot be Cured By local applications as they cannot reach the diseased portions of the ear. There is only one way to care deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed con dition of the mucous lining of the Eusta chian tube. 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