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MltllatjaJ dvertising ob Printing i t ; In busy seasons brings you yoor'share of trade; Is a very important factor in business. Poor printing re advertising m dull sea sons brings yon your share, and also tbat of the merchant who "can't af flects no credit on a good business bonne. Let cs do yon r Job Printing we gnarantee it to be in ord" to advertise. Published on Mondays and Thursdays Established 1868. 0 every way saiiBiactory. . HMM4S4AMMMA4AAMUAAU Vol. XXXIII. ROSEBURG, DOUGLAS COUNTY, OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 6. 1902. No. 77 i A i nn 8 ooocooooooxoooooooooxoooooooexoo R. A. BOOTH. A..C.MABSTERS, H.C.GALEY, President. vice President Cashier Douglas County Bank, Established I883. Incorporated 1901. Capital Stock, $50,000.00. BOARD OP DIRECTORS F. W. BEXSOS. R. A. BOOTH, J. H. BOOTH, J. T. BRIDGES J. F. KELLY, A. C. MARSTERS, K. L, MILLER. A general banking business transacted, and customers riven every x aecommrvt.it 5 Bank open from nine to twelve and from one to three. 0 ooooooooeooooooooooooooooooooooooooo HEATING STOVES l x I he place to nnd STRONG'S FURNITURE STORE i A complete line of Blankets and Comforts that are excellent in quaht y and Just recieved a new line from small up to 9xi2 and in Our store is V1 f good Sup your home complete and I you buy ot us. Bring- Us Your ... FOR CASH J. F. BARKER & CO. Kruse & First class Groceries... Our Also a full line of... dever's DTzesla. coffee "C::3:fcSeed-s Highest price paid for Produce. Give us a call OUR MOTTO IS TO PLEASE J-x Kruse & Newland and Edwin Clapp Shoes for Men SOLD ONLY AT FLINT'S POPULAR SHOE STORE. Opposite First National Bank Hints to Housewives. Half the battle in good cooking, is to have good fresh Groceries, and to get them promptly when vou order them. Call np 'Phone No. 181, for good goods and good service. C. W. PARKS & CO. IB II. 1 -AND- (AM 1 I x'i ? tha Rxiih ir, Mir.sh i ! I ;i Spring Hack leaves Eogeburg Every Moruing at 6 o'clock. o them is at reasonable in price. of rugs ranging in size price from Si. 25 to $30. things and we can fit it will be up to date if Remember the place B. W. STRONG, 32g Jackson St. CHICKENS. EGGS. BUTTER. e OR TRADE .8 Newland prices are alwa)s right and stock complete For... Style ...and. Comfort ...buy the... WALKOVER P 1 1 -EMPIRE LiYei Feed ui gale J&aMes C. P. Barnard, Prop, Saddle Horses, Single and Double Rigs at all hours Transient Sto: even very best of care Kates always reasonable Line' for all points on kw Bay. (iool THE FINAL SIMMONS. Ex-Govcrnor Whiteaker Dead at Eugene. HIS LITE CLOSES PEACE FILLY The End of a Remarkably Active and Busy Life The Funeral Saturday. ErtiKNE, Or., Oct. 5. After two years of intense suffering with paraly: is and a general breaking down of the system d ue to old age ami infirmity, Ex-Gov-ernor John Whiteaker passed away at his home in this city at 7 :45 o'clock Thursday night. Uo had been in an unconscious state for two days and had lieen unable to take any nourishment since Thursday morning. His aged wife attended him to the last, his earnest desire beiug that she should be con stantly at his bedside. His last moments were calm and peaceful. The ex-Governor suffered a stroke of paraly sis two years ago, and about three weeks ago was. the victim of a second stroke, from which he never recovered. He leaves a w ife, two sons and one daughter. He was a member of Eugene Lodge A. F. & A. M., under w hose auspices the funeral was held Saturday. A REMARKABLE CAREER. John Whiteaker was the first Gov ernor of Oregon under the state consti tution. He was elected at the June election in 1S38, and inaugurated on the Sthof July of the same year. He-held office until his successor was inaugu rated in 1ST,2. He was born in Dearborn County, Iu diina, on May 4, 1S20, came West in 1S49, and remained till 1S51, when he returned to Missouri. The next year he came to Oregon with his wife'and settled on a farm in Lane County in 1S53. In 1S50 he was elected Probate Judge, and the next year a member of the Terri totial Legislature. In 1S5S he was elected Governorof Oregon and served a full term. In the contest for this honor hereceived 5134 votes to the 4213 cast for E. M. Barnum, his oppenent who had already been high in office in the territory. His term expiring in 1S62, he retired to Eugen. He wa elected to the Oregon House f Rep resentative in IStifi, 1S6S, ami ls.O. In thia last session he was made ieaker of the House. In ISTft he was again called upon to serve the people of Lane Count as State Senator for a term ot four years, being elected president of the Senate at Doth sessions of the Legisla ture. In 1S7S Mr. Whiteaker had the hnor of representing Oregon in tlie rorty sixth Congress, and after the expiration of his term, he again retired to private life, onlr to resume public office in when he was appointed Collector of InL-mal Revenue at Portland under President Cleveland' first adminietra ion. At the close of his term as col wr.r. he went back to Encene. where he sient his remaining days. Governor hiteaker was always an ardent and consistent Democrat in n litics. and had "a large number of admirers and friends, who looked upon hint as one of jt he fathers of the Dem ocratic party in this state. Aa Governor of Oregon, Mr. Whiteaker issued what is suposel to have been the first Thankgiving proclamation in the Northwest. At the time he was severely criticised by the denominational journals for setting w hat they consider ed a bad precedent. Gocd Roads Convention. 1'o.tland, Oregon, Oct. 2, 1902. To the Plaisdealer: The tiovernment Good Roads Conven tion (nnder the direction of the office of Public Road Inquiries, I'nited States Department of Agriculture, Martin nodtre. Director, R. Y. Riclianlson and James W. Abbott, Commissioners) wil iKi held in Portland, October Hth and 15, PJ02. Every citizen of Oregon, should be interested in th s matter of good roads, a subject of vital import ance to allot us. County Judge and Commissioners, Road Supervisors, May ors of Cities, Civil Engineers and others interested, are resjiectfully urged to co operate with the Government experts to make this event one long to be re emliorcd and of lasting benefit to Ore Krn. There w ill be practical demonstra tions with road making machinery. Bo sure to come to the Convention and get the benefit of years of experience by exjert road makers, and you will carry home ideas and information which will certainly improve your com- nmnitv and hein vour neighbors. You must realize the importance of good roads. The time for opening the Convention, and the ball in which itwill be held, will be announced in the papers later. The Portland Chamber of Commerce. America's Famous Beauties Look with horror on Skin Eruptions, Blotches, sores, Pimples. They don't liave them, nor will any one, who uses Bucklcn's Arnica Salve. It glorifies the face. Eczema or halt Rheum vanish before it. It cures sore lips, chapped hands, chilblains. Infallible for Piles. 25c at A C Marsters drug store. Fortune Favors a Texan. ' "Having distressing pains in. head lack and stomach, and being without appetite, I began to UBe Dr. King's New- Life Pills" writes V P Whitehead, of Kennedale, Tex., "and soon felt like new man." Infallible in stomach and :iver troubles. Only 25c at A C Mar (ers drug store. TITI.K IS IKRFi:CT. Notnlng; to Prevent a Convey ance oftiie Pnunina Caual. New York, Oct. 2. William Nelson Cromwell, general counsel for the new Panama Canal Company, who has re turned from Paris, says he delivered to Attorney-General Knox, in IV.ris, every conveyance, decree, concession or other doinment relating to the proierties of the new Panama Canal Company, and its unquestionable jower to convey the the canal, the plant, concessions anil other pnqierty to the United States, fret ami clear of all liens or claims of any kind. To Mr. Waldeck-Rousseyu, who has just resij-rcd t lie Premiership of France to resume the practice of his profession, is submitted, he said, "a 1 the docu ments and questions, and have received his elalmrate opinions indorsing the same opinion, and in addition giving his conclusions that the title to the prrqierty in ertVct, and that the I'nited States will acquire a complete ami valid title thereto, tree from any p,siLh complications from creditors or stock holders ol the old company. "The conveyance of the new Panama Company will be supplemented by the official oecuranees of the liqui I i!or of the old company, and by the representa tive of the bondholders of the old com jany who have been fully assured by degree of the court to grant such con currence. Thus there is left no one to question the conveyance. "In my judgment it only remains to conclude a treaty with Colombia to fully satisfy the provisions of the Sjxioner law. That treaty has nearly been agreed upon, only three or four points being still under discu.siou. In my opinion this is only a matter of time and skill, and I believe it will end in the United States acipiiriug and completing the Panama Canal. THE GREAT ROCK Grand Central Railroad of Oregon a Transcontinental Road. Empire City, Roseburg. 5alt Lake City and Denver to be Connected by If our readers ill tak a map of the, United States, they will nnd a direct line of railroail fr-mi Philadelphia t Memphis. Teiin.. and ra.liating in even- direction hke the okesof a whe-l from Memphis an-to U fmnd a immlvr of railroad- "f which the liiisville ami Nashviiie and others the recent Rock Ulami purcha-e. The riads diverge fo as to take in every j.iint 4 interest in the south, Hmth-ea.-t and noith-ast u far as Philadelphia. So f.ir as kn-iwn, the Lehigh Valley railroad, the Iuis vilie and Nashville and theChm-taw Route front Memphis Tenn., to A ma r ille, Texas, have been gronel together by the great Rock Island system and whatever may le the standing of the Lehigh Valley and Louisville and Nash vill it is well known that the Choctaw has become indeed and in fact a part of the Rock I.-Iand system and operated as such. The Rock Island officials are now engaged in getting together material tc construct the Choctaw road from Amarillo, Texas, to a point or settlement known as Tucumcarri in north-eastern New Mexico, on the main line from Chicago to El Paso, and work is being ruehed on a line from Tucumcarri to tlie coal mines in Colfax county, New Mex ico and from thence to make connections with a road recently purchased, thus making a direct connection from El Paso and all Mexican points, as well as all points iu Texas and the south and south-east with Denver. By looking at the maps w ith the Choctaw, and all Rock Island railroads, it will be seen that this is a most jiowerful combine to control the f reizht nnd passenger traffic in the territory indicated. At Denver, Colorado, there is a new- road being built directly through the mountains to Salt Lake City. This is known as the Moffat road, and this entornriso is backed up, not by the Burlington, Santa 1-eor Lmon racine interest and capital, but by the Great General News. The greater part of the prunes grow n it the v:ciuity of Milton, Oregon, were ihipped fresh tuis year. Potatoes w Inch are now worth 50 to 05 cent per sack in Portland are probably about down to bottom figures. The Oregon" synod of the Presby terian church will hold its annual ses sion in Grants Pass this .w eek. Fire damp caused an explosion in the Black Diamond coal mine near Seattle Friday. Fourteen minors are known to have been killed. Macedonian Turkish troops have captured the town of Mitrovita in Servia. They massacred hundreds of tbo help less inhabitants and destroyed many miles of railroad. The oiien season for upland birds be gan Oct. 1st, andjgood sport is now being onioved among the quail, grouse, etc., in Southern Oregon.- The jury in the St. Louis boodle cases has lieen completed and the testimony is being taken. Many sensations are looked for before the trial is over. Crop bulletins from the Government; officers at Manitoba show that 00,000,000 bushels of wheat'will lie available for ex port. The yield of oats is 0,000,(K)3 bushels, and of barley 8,000,000. The Glacier reoi ts that George- Booth of Hood River, had no difficulty in find ing buyers in Portland for hid crop of I'NDKRWOOD Ut'IlrY. Jnrj'a Verdict I. Harder lit the Second Degree. Seattt e, Oct.- 2. Yesterday eveniug the jury In the case of Paul Underwood brought in a verdict of murder in the set'ond degree. Underwood was accuse J with his wife of drowning their infant child in Salmon Bay, after having ad ministered to it an overdose of chloro form. Tlie case has leen on trial for several days and has attracted much attention. Arguments were complete.) yesterday afternoon, the jury retired, and afteran hours' deliberation, brougnt in the verdict as stated. Throngh the several days of the trial the young mat) has maintained the greatest stolidity, though he was surrounded by his sorrowing parents and friends. S-eues in his early married life, and events connected with the closest and usually dearest memories of his child, were constantly recalled. The crime was committed on the last day May, and Underwood was C3p',iVl--cfter a chaw of two weeks through the southwestern nut of the state. The ualty is front 10 to 20 years imprisonment. Beets Instead of Wheat Spokane, Wash., (Vet. 2. Several hundred farmers in Eastern Washing ton and Oregon are finding it more pro fitable to raise sugar beets than wheat. They are turning an increased acreage from wheat raising to beet culture, with lanre i-rohts in sistit. U;e average in come er acre for this season's crop of sugar be U, is estimated at !1 50 Farmers are now pulling t e crop, They sav beet raising ts three times as nrotitahle as wheat growing. Inside re quiring less extensive machinery and apparatus to handle the crop. ISLAND ROUTE Bands of Steel. Rock Island railroad ; and when the Moffat line icnitructd and iu running order to Salt I.ake City, without otli-r connections, it would only I a feed r fur existing lines. Within the ot ten weeks the w ritr of this article saw in the office of a Chief Ensrineer of one f the roabi mentioned, a snney of a riad to connect this vt ; system of railroads with ail the various I ramilirations ami feeders in a direct 1 line from the Atlantic to the Pacific ftcean. This line commenced at Silt I-alo Cilv and running south of the I jike in a nortii-wr-terly direction t a point about one-hundred miles from the south-east corner of Oregon and thence pnceelel westerly, crosetng theCascule Mountains at a Hiint, (if we remember aright) where the elevation was 4.S00 feet, and from thence through Ruseturg to Coos Bay. . This is all the writer knows, hut he received a little advice which has been acted on in part and w ill lie carried out in full, for lie believes that within the next fouryears Rosebnrg w ill be a rity of 10,000 inhabitants and also be one of the most imoilanta railroad centers tn the north-west. Regarding the various rumors of who is backing up this or that railroad pro position, all we have to sav is this: out side of the actual extention of main lines, the Rock Island system Korks through other corporations, and when the various roads or extensions are built and ready for business, they are then absorbed into the svstem and their identity lost. In another column will lie found some interesting readir g, re garding the Grand Central Railrcad of Oregon, aud the writer is prepare! to l?t his last summer Panama against three plugs of Kentucky twist that the Gran 1 Central Railroad of Oregon is either bluff at the Great Rock Island Route or tbat tlie officials running the enterprise arc doing so for the Rock Island Svs tem of railroads. (Jraven; tein apples at $1.00 per box I ilivered at the Hood River dejmt. Governor T. T. Geer has appointed D, II. Stearns, D. M. Dunne and'A. King Wilson, delegates to the Natioual Irriga tion Convention, which meets at Colora do Springs, October 0th to lth. The Butte Creek I .and, livestock and Lumber Company sold 200 heud of 3- year-old steers to Dillon, Nye A Dillon, of Umatilla County, w ho took delivery of the cattle in Fossil Wednesday- The price was $44 per head. A flour and breakfast food plant is to lie the latest addition to Portland's man ufacturing establishments. An East ern investor has promised to put up such a plant in or in the vicinity of Portland. The Board of Trade is in strumental -in bringing this nlsmt. Southern Oregon, famous f r its line apples, is saul to have the Uvu crop in its lustory this year that in lest in quality and appearance. The unusually heavy rain fori this tiortion oi" the state which Mi about the middle of August was just what was needed to bring the ruit to the, highest degree of perfection. A big fight is on against Die combina tion of western puckers knifwn as the meat trust. The National Livestock Association and Western railways, it is said, have guaranteed a bind of two million dollars, or so much ns mav be necessary, to le used lighting the trnst. The legal machinery of govern men t will be bet in motion against the trust, DEPOT SITE SECURED: Bushey Tract to be Used for This Purpose. LOCATED IN NORTH ROSTBtRQ. Railroad Yard to be surveyed and Improved. ROMbnrc to become l'e-,enl Headquarter, Renewed local interest in the great Cjos Bay, Salt Lake Railroad project wa. awakened last Thursday by tlie con summation of a real estate transaction in which representatives of this new railroad company secured an option upon the large tract of land adjacent to lUeburg known as the Bughey place, which comprises a fraction over 1000 acres and affords an admirable site for dent grounds, railroad yards, ronnd house and machine shops. An option on tins tract has been liei.l lor some time bv C. E. Gaddis. of Rowburi. with pthotn the rt'tremtativeg of the Great Central have been negotiating and with horn, late Thnrsday afternoon apers were signed transferring the option on this tract to the raihoad representatives f r a consideration of f 'Mt a forfeit of iieing -ai.l down, the remaining f 2.j00 to be paid in thirty days. Negotia- tions were then entered into with the omnerofthe tract and its acquisition ;ffccled for a consideration of (13,000 the whole transaction involving 1 13,000. It in furl! ht announced that it is the intention of Chief Engineer Kiunev to come here1 within a few days and opan offices on the ground floor of the Van I Ion ten house and make Roseburg bust nes headquarters during the iieriod of construction work west of the Cascade Mountains and possibly, his ienuanent Western headquarters. It is pretty generally believed that the announce ment as to the beginning of active opera tions on the new rrd at thia place will be made sxn after Mr. Kinney's arrival. A herd of "5 horsea to le neJ i construction work is now in pas ture on the A. E. Moler place a short distance east of this city, and grading tools, etc., are leing accommulateii. In the above transaction and movements the matter of bringing or building the new nd via RoseLurg seems now de finitely decided. Giod Price -for Wheat. September wheat sM on the Iard f Trade, Chicago, last week, at ! cents. hich is the big lie! prk-e on that cereal since the great iveiter oeai in isvs. Tlie caue of the hih price wss the fact that all of the available snp4r was prac tioailv cornered, and it was rumored that Armour x to., held the greater (art of i:. There lias been great anxiety among snorts in yeptemiier wneai lr the past two week, but it was snpjosel that all of them had roverel durs.ig tlie scare of last week. However, when trading ojned Tuesday, it was seen that there was still a considerable uamber who had not made g"od their contracts. Bids Wanted. Notice is hereby given that the Board of Directors of tin 2nd Suit hern Oregon District Agricultural Society will receive bids for the exclusive right of saloon privileges ; also for pool selling on Fair grounds during Fair week. Each bid must le accompanied with a deposit of 25 per cent of the amount cf bid, or it w ill not be considered. Bids to be de livered to tlie Secretary on or before Sept. 25, 1902. The Roard reserves the right to reject any and all bids, by order of the Board of Directors. F. A. McCall, Sec. Catarrh of the Bowels. Causes bhMiting after meals and large quantities of gas which cannot be ex pelled, cause diarrhoea alternating1 with constiuation. S. B. Catarrh Cure has a tonic and curative effect on the bowels and restores them to a natural and healthy action and condition and removes the cause of that dreadful di sease, catarrh of the bowels and consti-1 nation. For sale by all druggists. Book on catarrh free. Address Smith Bros., Fresno, Cal. Smith's Dandruff Pomade Cures dandruff, eczema, itching 8( alp and stops falling of the hair. One ap Dlication stoiw itching scalp, three to six applications removes all dandruff. Doctors and druggists regard it as the standard remedy for Uan.lruu anu ail -tching, soah-y skin diseases; price 50c, U all druggists. Book on Catarrh free. Address smiu. Bros. Fresno, cai, For salebyMarstersi-rug vo. $ioo Reward $ioo. The readers of this paper will be nlensed to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that sience has been nble to cure in all its stages, and tttat is rt:irrh. Halls Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh Iieing a constitu tional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. HaU'sCatarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blx?d and mucous surfaces of the system thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, ami giving the patient strength bv building us the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers, that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimoni- Address F. J. Cuknry aCo., Toledo, O. SoM by Drngirlsls, 7.V. Halls Family Pills are the tiest. if yuu want to go to Coon County joints, take the Rosebnrg, Marshfield route. Spring hacks leave Rosebnrg every day at 0, A. M. Inquire of C, P. Rtunard, agent. tf, Are yon particular about your IF YOU ARE CALL AT CURRIER'S AND ASK Price is no higher and Currier's, a STORE CLOSED - -v. " ' f Saturday, Oct. n, 1902 'Jewish-Day of WOLLENBERQ BROS. !iPEC,All3ES- I A. X ftfarsters & Co. Physician Pnmcriptioas and Family Recites, "tyZTTI ...... Rubber Gokv Toilet Drags, Medicines, Cfteniccls., Articles, Lime and Ce- " nnt, raiuta, Oils and JjniflTfl ;tu, PerfaD.ty. Truss- l' A smitatoEtc, n liiinuio i o Rambler Ii crc.es and Sundries. S-1k1 Sep- piies. Stationery -School Books W.VAVwVAAWAV.V.V.V.VAV.V.V.V.W.VAVV..W Drain Gardiner! COOS BHY STHGE ROUTE ! i Cmmen in with M.jnday, Jaaaary 20. "02, we w charge .50 for J thefare from Drain t- Cooa 3jt. Eag.'Ae allowance with each fuU fa . &J pounds. Travelling men are sllowed 75 r-wods when the J have i pcKiadi or more. All excess ba?k-arre, 3 cu. per pound, and no al 5 lowance will be made for round trip. DAILY T.U,E. For further information addre&i S Jr Sarrycrs, Proprietor, Drain, Oregon KODAKS! They've gone and done it again Done away-with the dark-room in developing. A little machine to de- , ' oi VeiUUC 111111 UCgiiUlVW XIX UciJ 1111 U .. . . without going to a. chllu cuiii upciiiLtt derful invention Churchill Cause and Effect. Responsive to the touch, and perfect in tone and action, the Yose piano has secured a hold on popular favor accorded to none other. It is a standard instru ment, of the highest grade. Unexcelled in a single feature of merit. No better piano made. Not high priced, either. Sold at exceedingly low figures for cash, or on easy time payments. Everyone warranted. V. A. BURR & CO. Coffee, Tea and Spices GROCERY FOR every can guaranteed R5 ug's Lead ng Attonement h Fs!i ionablc Attire. Your laundry is the most conspicuous feature of your apjvirel. Therefore re quires more auention than other arti cles of wea . We'll do it np for yon in a style that'll give you comiort and pleasure. We're experts in the art f laundering, and da work of the highest grade at lowest rates. Shirts, collars and cuffs Lunderel to- perfection. Sj-ecial attention given to fine linen. First class service. in sin linr a." J 1 ; "U . JT a a darkroom. Any Z. C ii. ,co mia vvuu at our store. & Woollev. v