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-The'T wice-a-Vttk Rosebarg Plaindealer Pnbliahed Mondays ud Thtarwlaya. PLAINDEALER PUBLISHING CO. H. II. BROOKES, Editor and Publisher Twk-a-Vetk Plalodcakr. per year, $100 Entered at the Poet Office in Rosebarg, Ore., u second class mail matter. Advertising Bates on Application. January 23, 1903. LEGISLATION A OA IN ST LAZINESS. Down in Mississippi they adopt dras tic methods in dealing with the labor hating negro. While lazy, the negro is ingenious and cotton planters have no ticed his deration to the national game whenever the picking season draws near. When his services are needed in the field the negro applies himself as siduously to baseball. To checkmate him the whites are now trying to have the legislature enact a law making base ball a jail offence during the cotton pick it season. As that means hard labor without remuneration on the rock pile the ramedy will doubtless be as effect ive as drastic Here is a valuable ex ample by which farmers in the corn and wheat belts may profit. A law making tramping punishable in the same man ner during harvest would doubtless im pel the Weary Willies and Dusty Rhoades to give preference to profitable employment rather than labor for the good of the community. After 'harvest their chronic indolence will be a matter of indifference to the farmer. Nothing but legislation of such heroic character will abate the tramp evil. Last Monday three special trains from St Paul, Minn., brought 1500 home seekers to the Pacific coast. The one way rate of (23 "will be the means of bringing tens of thousand a of people to Washington and Oregon, and Roseburg should make up her mind to secure a few hundred out of the total of the lo cators. When the cheap transporta tion rates from the central and southern states are put on we will have another chance to boom Douglas county. The Naval bill as it passed the House provides for three new battleships and an armored cruiser, two steel train ing ships and one wooden brig for train ing purposes, in addition to the sub marine boats discretionally authorized. The increase in the personnel of the Navy went through as reported by the committee, an effort to limit the in crease to two midshipmen for each Senator and Representative for the period between now and 1911 having been voted down. Senator Marsters has returned to Roeeburg after the arduous labors at Salem and looks just as much of a poli tician as he ever did, even though he did experience the misfortune to have that "by request" bill lost in committee of the whole. In the election of the Hon. Chas. W. Fulton we believe that Oregon will have a senator true to every interest in. the state. Boseburg will have three congres sional candidates for the dear people to choo-je from, Fullerton, Sehlbrede and Hermann, so rumor says. So far there are only seventeen candi dates to fill Oregon's vacancy in con gress. Willamette Valley Prune Association Salem, Ore., Feb. 20, 1903. Editor Plaisdraler: An interested prune grower has forwarded us a clip ping from your paper of the 9th inst. The Douglas County Prune Company is evidently greatly alarmed lest the Grow. Sir of Douglas county should make the very serious mistake of associating themselves for mutual protection and informatieu in reference to their own business interests. Since you have pub lished an article which is full of mis leading statements in reference to the Willamette Valley Prune Association and is a direct effort to influence action against the Umpqua Valley Prune Asso ciation recently organized, we believe that in justice to us you will gladly set matters right. The article referred to to states that "the organization is main' tained for the purpose of obtaining a higher price than the market affords. We wish to brand this statement as ab solutely false. This Association elects a sales committee to co-operate with the directors and manager, and where ques tions of change in prices arise these men either decide it or call a meeting of the stocKnoiaers, as tney deem best: no fixed law as to value for the season can tie eetauiisnea in advance, as all mar kets must be subject to the law of sup ply ana aemana. However tne ques tion as to the price the market affords can be very materially influenced by good business in reference to feeding or supplying the demand. If the two or three million pounds of prunes in the Douglas county district must in the future, as in the past, be turned over to the representatives of one company of buyers, the presumption is easily reached that they will very likefy name the price which the grower wi!l take for his prunes, and with so large a quantity of prunes dumped into the stores and warehouses of a comparatively small sized district in the East, the inevitable result follows that the supply in that district is too great for the demand and that market becomes "dull snd inact ive" and from that point prices for the whole country are soon influenced. lour article states that "The plan contemplated by the Willamette Prune Association has another feature which does not admit of the grower ever get ting out whole when once in" and re fers to the method of payment as the MnBtallment rlan.M That is a muttfr under the control of the directors of the Association to be arranged from year to year as they may think best. The Wil lamette Valley Prune Association this OREGON'S NEW Charles W. Fulton, of Clatsop County, Chosen on the Forty-Second Joint Ballot. - At Salem last Friday night on the' forty-second joint ballot of the Twenty-second Legislative Session, and the eighteenth of last night's joint Legislative session, Charles W. Fulton, of Clatsop County, . was elected United States Senator to succeed Joseph Simon While the result was accomplished at Friday night's joint meeting, the last oi early Saturday morning, for Hall of Representatives pointed to seventeen minutes past 12 when the official announcement of the result was made by President Browne 11. The first ballot taken cally as had the one taken Multnomah delegation voted 33 votes being cast in his favor. and there was no excitement. On the second ballot, Representative Hume, who had been voting variously for minority candidates since his ar rival on the scene of conflict two weeks ago, changed to Geer. On the third ballot there was no change, except that Fulton cast his -first vote. It was for Frank I. Dun bar, Secretary of State. The fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh ballots witnessed no changes. On the eighth bal lot Senator Mays joined the majority of his delegation in voting for Geer. The ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth were featureless. On the thirteenth, Orton of Mul nomah cast his vote for Geer, making the total 30. The four teenth ballot was featureless. On the fifteenth, Senator Smith, of Multnomah, placed H. W. Scott in nomination, Representative Malarky seconding. Mr. Scott received 28 votes. Kay went from Geer to Fulton, making the latter's total 34.' On the sixteenth ballot Mulkey spoke in advo cacyofMr. Scott's candidacy, and voted for him, making his total 29. On the seveuteeth ballot Hobson went from Geer to Fulton. On the eighteenth ballot Notting ham of Multnomah changed from Scott to Fulton, and this started the long-looked-for Hume, Hayden, Johnston, Mulkey, Steiwer, Eisher, Daly, and Sones of Multnomah following his lead in the order named, giving the Clatsop His election was then announced by President Brownell, amid a perfect stcrm of cheers and applause. And so ended the contest. year, in addition to the first payment on .delivery, which is considered as a loan or advance, paid on Dec. 1st two cents per pound regardless of size, and later in December paid another one and one-half cent per pound. (This made as much or more than the representatives of the Douglas County Company paid outright for fruit of ordinary average size at their prevailing market value.) Final statements are now being made and balances wQl be paid on the 20th inst. Theee statements show that the members of this Association receive as the average price for this season 4.S9 net for 80s to 40s, H.0S for 40sto 50s, etc. Growers who sold their prunes at mar ket prices in the Douglas county dis trict can draw their own conclusions as to whether the members of this Associ ate n have got out whole or not. The season of 1901 netted them (4.66 for 30s to 40a, $4-04 for 40a to 50s, $3.71 for 50s to 60s, etc. This association should not be com pared . with the associations of Califor nia, as it has not the least resemblance to the organizations referred to, and in stead of dissatisfaction and loss on the part of its members, the Willamette Valley Prune Association has made thousands of dollars for its members on their product alwve the rpeculative price obtaining. For evidence of this, read the "Oregon Agriculturist" of the 15th inst. The articles contained there in are spontaneous expressions not in anjr way influenced by the Association. And this is not all. The Willamette Valley Prune Association now has a rep utation for its brand of prunes that ii world-wid. This reputation the mem bers value more than any other asset connected with the association idea. 'It now remains for the growers of Dougias county to determine whether they will build up a reputation for fine fruit packed under their own brand, or whether they prefer to take the market price dictated by foreign buyers and furnish the fruit with which the for eign buyer can make a reputation for himself in which the producers have no direct interest. We do not hesitate to predict that if the Umpqua Valley Prune Association is managed upon lines similar to that of the Willamette Valley Association in less than three years every grower of importance will either be. a member or wish he was ; and further, that the man who identifies himself with it from the beginning will be ahead in dollars and cents to a very marked extent by that time. Yours very truly, Willamette Van, et IirE AttK. The prospects are very flattering for a large fruit crop the coming season. The extreme cold weather -coming so late in the year has bad a tendency to keep the buds from swelling as early as in most seasons and, again, there is not so much danger of a late frost. Most of the orchards in this section are younji and are now just coming into full bear ing, and it is hoped that the many or chardists who have been at so heavy an expense for the past few years will now reap their just reward. An orchard un til it comes into full bearing is a heavy bill of expense, but when it has reached its maturity it is a dividend payer. The orchard of Messrs. D. W. Stearns, A. J. Dear, and E. C. Stuart on the Chen oweth Fruit Park, all of which are lo cated near Oakland, are in fine condi tion and if the climatic conditions are what ui usually expected after the kind of winter we have just experienced, the fruit crop will be abundant. Oakland Owl. . Wanted. A ladywifilies a jKwition ae nurse, has 20 years experience. Apply to Box 44, Roseburg, Ore., or at the residence of Judge Thompson. 2tp. U. S. SENATOR tne present session, it was the hands of the clock m the Friday night resulted practi Thursday, a majority of the for Geer, and Fulton's alloted There were no speeches, landslide, Banks, Croisan, County candidate 46 votes ' - New Board of Trade. There was a very enthusiastic meet ing of the prominent citizens of Rose burg held in the lower floor of the .new bank building Saturday night for the purpose of re-organizing the Board of Trade. Upon motion F. W. Wooley waa elect ed chairman and Roy McClallen secre tary. After considerable discussion pro and con, it waa resolved to re-organize on a solid basis and use the Roeeburg Lum ber Company's office tor the Board of Trade headquarters. It-was the sense of the meeting that the monthly dues for membership be placed at $10 per month for one year and that the mem bers I allowed desk room and adver Using space in the building during the time of membership and that a perma nent secretary be employed to give his whole time and attention to the bus iness of giving ia formation to home- seekers and othei 8 and to thorou ghly advertise the town. Upon motion the following committee, F. D. Waite, Louis Barzee and Lee Wiroberly, was appointed to see the business men of Roseburg and solicit membership and give to all full informa tion regarding the object of the reorgan ization and to make a report at the meeting ahich has been called for eight o'clock tonight in the Roseburg Lum ber Company's office, and it is hoped that every public spirited citizen of Roseburg will turn out and participate in the meeting. Edenbower Residence Burned. At eleven fifteen last Friday night the citizens of this city were startled by a bright light in the direction of Eden bower, and later learned that the resi dence of Henry Berks had been totally destroyed by fire, the family escaping, but very little household furniture or clothing were saved. The fire or iginated by one of the boys accidently knocking a lamp from off the stand, by strickina it with a garment while dis robing, the lamp immediately exploded and spread the burning oil around the room, the young man tried to smother the fire m ith the bed clothing, but as the wall paper took fire he was unable to do anything but save himself and the rest of the family. The loss is es timated at $1000 with $HO0 insurance in the Oregon Fire Relief Association of McMinnville. Mr. Eerks will re-build immediately. Lecture by Prof. McKinlay. Prof. A. P. McKinlay, of the Univer sity of Oregon department of Latin, will give an address in the High School assembly room, Wednesday; evening, Feb. 25, at 7:15 o'clock. Subject, "Julius Caesar, His Life Character and Writings." Adults 25 cents, students 15 cents. The City Water Case. . In the case of Erockway vs the City of Roseburg, which was tried at Jackson ville on change of venue, Friday, ren dered a decision to the effect that the contract made by the City of Roeeburg to the new water company was null and void. ' . f Stock holders' Meeting. - A meeting of the tock Holders of the Umpqna Valley Prune Association will be held at the Court House in Roseburg, Douglas County, Oregon, on Saturday, March 7th, at 1 o'clock, P. M. for the purpose of electing a boarjl of directors and transacting such other business that may come before the meeting. R. C. Bnows, F. A. McCall, Chairman of meeting. Secretary. PROGRAM W. C. T. U. . Institute to be Hold at Myrtle Creek February 25, 26, s7. WEDNESDAY EVENING. 7:30 Devotionals Fifteen - minutes praise service. Introductory re marks Ida F. Marsters, Coun ty President. Recitations boys an 1 girls of Myrtle Creek interspersed with music. An nouncements. Benediction. - THURSDAY MORNING. 10 :00 Business Session of County In stitute as arranged by County Executive. . AFTERNOON. 2:00 Music. Invocation. Organiza tion of Institute. Announce ments of Secretary. Reporters. Committees. Courtesies. Ac cessions to memlershir. Sub scription to Periodicals and other Literature. 2:30 Paper Mrs. C. J. Armitago "Mental Culture versus Physi cal Culture." Discussion. Reading Miss Bessie Cain "Stepping Stones oftheW.C. T. U." Music. Announce ments. Frayer. Adjournment EVENING. . 7:30 Music. Devotional Service Led by County Corresponding Sec retary, Mrs. H. R.Ferguson. Recitation Mrs. Viola Sackett "Patriotic Sins of Tcmir ance." Music. Address Kev. G. W. Bennett, of Roseburg. Silver Offering. Music. Ben ediction. FRIDAY MORNING. 100 Devotionals Mrs. K. W. Miller. Round Table on Devilment Work. Department Superin tendents each to give a ten minutes drill, or otherwise pre sent their work. Discussion to follow each presentation. De . partment" Evangelistic, Fran chise, Mothers' Meetings, Anti Narcotic, Parlor Meetings, Flower Mission, Medal Contest, Literature, L. T. L. Work, and Y. Work. AFTEBSOOX. Devotionals Mrs. Zadie Bishop. -A Model Mothers' Meeting" Led by Mrs. Louis Barzee. Discussion. A paper by Mrs. Eishop "The Other Woman's Daughter." Consecration. Prayer. Music. Announce ments. Benediction. CONTEST EVENING. 1:30 7:30: Music. Devotional Services, con ducted by Mrs. C. J. A.rmitage. Sjiecial Music. County Orator ical Gold Medal Contest. Invi tation to audience for member ship w hile judjs prepare their report. Awarding the MedaL Special Music. Eenediction. Admission 15 cts. The New Military Bill. The Dick Bill having become a law it remains for the various states to re-or ganize their state troops. This requires that the regiments be made to conform to those of the Regular Army three batalions of four companies each. There being twenty companies organized in this state, it will be necessary either to organize from new companies, and thus form two reciroenta, or to disband eight companies and thus reduce to one regi ment. ' - The sentiment of the people seems lo be strongly in favor of the former plan. but the new Governor and his advisers are said to be in favor of the latter pro position. The most important question amongst guardmen at the time seems to be as to which cornanies are to be retained in the new organization in case the one regiment plan is carried out and which shall be retained. Roseburg has maintained an efficient company since June 1S93, and furnished her full quota of officers, and no men in the recent Spanish-American War, in fact the three officers now serving in the Co. "E" were charter members of Co A, Second Regiment, and served in the Sceond Oregon in the Philippines.- We believe that our Company Co. E. 4tl Regiment is worthy of a place in the new organization. Goat Raising in Oregon. Oregon now ranks fiist in the number of Angora goats and in the quality of the mohair produced is a successful rival to that of Turkey, a.nys the Med ford Sue cess. .Now that Oregon moliair lias made for itself a reputation in the mar kets of the world, coatraising has be come one of the most profitable branch es of stockraising in this state. Goats thrive on land where other stock would starve, and being -hardy and very free from disease, they have advantages that commend them" to farmers in this sec tion. There aro now a few bands of goats in the Rogue River Valley, and they have been so profitable that it is now certsin that their numbers will be increased and that goatraising will he come one of the leading industries of Southere Orcgoo. The Poetry of the Orange, "It appeals to you when the fruit hangs ripe and sweet on the tree in February or early in March. Then the blossoms break out, and the trees are yellow with golden globes, and white with orange flowers. It may be that a flurry of snow has whitened the moun tains tops, snd then you have an artistic back-ground for a tropical forest. The air is full of sun-shine, and heavy . with fragrance as night comes on, and then, if the moon be shining, you may hear at midnight throuyh open windows, the song of the mocking-bird in the scented grove, and it never seemed so melodious before. An experience like this Is pof Bible any 'winter, and it fs worth a journey a thonsand miles while you have it, by taking the scenic Shasta Route through the grand and picturesque Sis kiyou and Shasta mountains to South ern California. Complete information about the trip, and descriptive matter, telling about California, may be had from any Southern Pacific Agent or W. E. Cohan, Gcn'l Pass Agent. S. P. Co. Lfhes in Oregon, Portland, Oro. Editorial News Notes. Mark IlannaV ship subsidy bill will undoubtedly bass the House next week. . Senator Quay last Friday tried to block consideration of the Panama treaty bill in the interest of the Statehood bill. The British government has warned Turkey to koep the trooi out of Arabia under threat of seizing all the Red Sea ports. - ' . ..... - It is said that the opponents of the Panama Canal treaty are demoralized and admit ibat the ratification will pass this week. Ex-Lieutenant Governor Tillman of South Carolina, has been refused bail for the cowardly murder of Editor Gonzales. If there is a demand for that kind of junk in Corea we see no good reason why the United States should not sup ply the demand. At Newark, N. J. an express train and a street car hnd a smashup at a crossing and ten children were instantly killed and fifty wouudod. A 13-inch shell exploded in the naval storage magazine at Fort Ia Fayette, N Y., on Thursday and four men were in stantly killed and five horribly mangled. A mad dog on Broadway, New York, bit nine persons, scared a score iuto fits and terrified hundreds more before a policeman put an end to the dog's troubles. Morris Weber and wife and Geo, Weber of this city, attended the dedi j cation ceremony of the new reading room of the Christian Science Society at Grants Pass last week. The Russian Ambassador at Washing ton has paid over to the United States $1(35.315 in full for three separate awards of damages done to American sealers in claimed Russian waters. Idaho has passed a bill giving one cent per pound bounty for manufactur ing beet sugar within the bounds of the state for the first year and one-half cent per pound the second yaar. Alaska, it is said, will be formally ad mitted as a territory of the United States, and President Roosevelt will be, by the passage of the bill, authorized to appoint the first delegate to Congress. The President has threatened to call an extra session of Congress and this has caused quit 3 a number of Senators and Congressmen to give up bush whacking and allow'necded legislation to be passed. If the charges in the appeal male to President Roosevelt by the mother of Private Edward C. Richter, who was given the water cure in the Philippina by order of Lieutenant Sinclair be true, that worthy ought to be electrocuted. On Friday at Rome was observed the pope's jubilee. He has occupied the Roman Catholic pontificial chair for twenty-five years. It is said that pres ents valued at hundred of thousands of dollars were made. The gold tiara alone cost $25,000. The joint committee appointed to in vestitfate affairs at the penitentiary, and especially that convict woman scandal case, have used a barrel of whitewash ana placed all tlie Ma me on the inse curity of the room in which she was kept and all that kind of rot. Portland has a real live issue at last and the dogs of thai city get a r. gular roast in the Oirgonian. The fact in the case is : There are more dogs in Portland than should be found in a city ten times tne sue. v nen we cm vis ited Portland we thought the name should have been Dogvill. Congressman Cushman is trying hard to secure the passage of Lis bill through the U. S. Senate allowing Pacific coaft ship-builders a differential in bidding for the building of war ships. The ship builders trust however has soaped prominent members of the Senate and a desperate fight is being made to defeat the bill. Two new counties in New Mexico are to be named respectively Roosevelt and Quay. Portales will be the cotintvseat of Roosevelt, and Tncumcaeri (it ought to be in honor of the town, Docomecaraie) of Quay.- Tncumcaeri is about the tougheet proposition for a town between purgatory and the hot place. Under-Foreign Secretary Cranbourne, replying in the House of Commons on Friday to Sir Edward Sassom, liberal Unionist, said that, so far as Great Britain was concerned, there had been no exchange of correspondence on the subject of the Mexican and Chinese pro posals to the United States for tha es tablishment of a fixed relationship be tween the moneys of silver-standard and gold-standard countries, adding that the British government had not yet lxn in vited to participate in a conference on the subject. It is said all that all the powers of Europe decided to warn the bloodthirsty Sultan of Turkey that he will be held responsible in the future for the slaugh ter of Christians. He has been warned so many times before that he only lauchs at them. The fact is, there ia not a power in Europe, Christian as they profess to be, that is brave enough to call the Mahomedan to time. Every one wants to get a slice of the Tu rkish territory or some advantage, and the slaughter of thousands of Christians cuts no figure in the case, hacli power is afraid of the others and if any power were to call the Sultan to time there would be a general European war. This the wily turk knows and he simply thumbs his nose to the whole layout. In Philadelphia the ministers and missionaries according to a telegraph dispatch are shocked over the announced contract entered into by a Philadelphia fir 111. to ship Buddhist idols to Corea. They denounced the plans as an outrage against ruligion and decency. Mrs. W. H. R. Corlies, a returned missionary from China, jaid eho was appalled at the idea that poople in a Christian country would consent to manufacture idols for poor, unenlightened heathens to worship. Rev. Frederick Tool, also a returned missionary, said tlio affair showed tho pirit of commercialism of the ago ami tended to put money-making above re ligious decency. Bishop Cyrus D. Foss, of tho Methodist Episcopal Church, said he did not think it as bnd as the British scndiLg opium to India or tho United States sending beer and whiskey to tho Philippines or other colonial possessions." Cattle Note. The editor of the Plaixdsaleb was for fifteen years the editor of a successful livestock paper on the grazing grounds of the south west And believing that the livestock industry' of Oregon eon be doubled by breeding up and taking rare of the stock. The Plaibdrallh will from time to time publish articles uJong that line as fully forty per cent of our readers are interested, and we desire mat the l laindealsr shall do a paper of value not merely for politics, religion and news but for the "IIomefoM" and all that word implies': ' ' PRIME STEERS. W'hen the word prime is used to desi gnate the quality and condition of cattle we should understand ft is the very best grade of the class unless possibly we were to except a few fancy cattle of show yard merit that occasionally reach the market. Prime steers are taken largely by buyers for tho eastern markets' and by packers for the dressed beef trade, the former taking the bulk of such cattle. Such steers are practically above criticism both aa to quality and condi tion: Prime sWcrs weighing from 1,200 to 1,400 pounds are wanted by shippers, by packers, (and bv exporters. The de mand for steers of these weights of good, choice, and medium quality is greater than for steers of any other weight: hence the market is least likely to be overstocked with these grades and es pecially is this true with tho steers of choice and prime quality. choice. STEERS. If a steer i not quite right either as to quality or eowlition, but still pos sesses to a marked degree the charac teristics most sought by packers, ship pers, and exporter, he is called a eLoice steer.- To lie choice, a steer cannot be much short of prime either aa to quality or condition, in other words, it takes outstanding quality an J condition in a bullock to grade as choice.' As the term indicates, he is choice, yet fails short of the finish and quality characteristic of a prime bullock. A few prime or choice heifers in loads with steers of the same trade often sell with the steers at a uni form price. ' GOOD STEERS. Good fat steers may be of very good quality, but noticeably lacking in con dition or in finish ; they may be finished or in prime condition, yet lacking in quality ; or they may be noticeably de ficient in both quality and condition. but still good enough to be above the average grade of fat cattle reaching the market. Bv far the largest number of steers belonging to the good grade may be spoken o? as being a little on the coarse order : they are quite fat and of good weight, but rather plain. VEDrrx STEERS. Steers of the medium grade areola; bout average quality and condition lacking to a marked decree that finish and quality demanded in m prime steer. Steers of this grade are usually of light weight. Medium steers are generally too paunchy and too lacking in condition and quality to dress a hih percentage of beef or show a good proportion of fat. The bec-f from such steers is not good enough to meet the demands of dealers in beef of the best quality, nor is the proportion of the high priced cuts large hence, packers, shippers, and exporWs cannot afford to pay the price prevail ing for prime, choice and good steers. eoMxox RorcK steers It would seem more consistent to class common rough steers as butcher stock. and they often are, although not in variably, so classed. A great many common, rough, fat cattle are bought by packers and by shippers for third rate markets. Such cattle are often called "pluggy" n the market, weighing from 900 to 1200 pound. They lavk both that quality and con dition which characterize the better grades of fat cattle, being especially de ficient in quality. As ia indicated by the name of the grade, they are rough and coarse. They are not capable tl taking cn a high, smooth finish like Steers of good quality. EXPORT CATTLE. The bulk of cattle exported belong to the good and choice grades of steers and weigh from 1200 to 1500 pounds. As compared with the total number of beef animals exported, comparatively fe prime cattle are bought for export. lneir relatively bigh pries In our mar kets is prohibitive, or at any rate rend ers their exportation less profitable than that of the good and choice grades. For the Christmas marcet there is an active demand for a limited number of prime steers of strong weights, say about 1300 pounds. At other seasons the lighter weights, from 1200 to 1400 pounds are preferred. While 1200 pound steers are a trifle light in weight to meet tho de mand of exporters, they are often taken in preference to steers weighing 1500 pounds or more, provided, of course, their quality and condition are satis factory. If a weight were to be fixed upon as being tho most desirable for export at the prevent time, it would be 1350 . pounds. Exporters neither buy the best nor yet the cheapest grade of fat cattle. BABY BEEF. Baby beef is a term applied to a grade of steers, choice or prime in quality and condition with a conformation that ac companies steers of good killing quali ties. To grade aa biby beef such steers should be between one and two vcars of age and weight from 800 to 1000 pounds. Such cattle grade as choice or prime and are quoted as such in market. Music Lovera Music lovers will have a rare enter tainment by simply calling at Burr's Popular Music House and inspecting our splendid array of musical instru ments. Our display 01 pianos are sim ply maguificient. Here are found the world renowned Chickering, the won derful toned Kimball, the many toned Crown Orchestrical and the beautiful toned colonial stylo Victor. We have others like the Singer, Kingsbury and Needham. Then hero is dur mammoth stock of snmll goods, such aa S. S. Stewart and Washburn mandolins, gui tars, banjos. Our immense line of vio lins range in price from $2.50 to $50. Wo are sole agent for the Columbia graphaphono and supplys. Remember we are running no concert hall with 50 cents admission, but our doors are alt ways open to tho public. Roseburg Oirl Weds la Nevada. The San Francisco Examiner of Feb ruary 18th announces tha marriage of a former Rosebarg belle as follows : "Miss Bertha Evelyn Estes, of this ity. aadDr. E.N.W. Davis, of Tono- pnh Nevada, were nnited Id marriage at Carson City, Nevada, last Monday by the Rev. J. DamelUe, pastor oi St. Peter's Episcopal church, of that city. Mrs. Davis is the daughter of George Estes, president and organizer of the United Brotherhood of Railway Em ployees, ami one of (he best known rail road men on the Purine coat. Up to th.-lime of her marriage she resided with her parents at 408 Golden Gate avenue, hhe ts a talented and accom plished young woman, having finished her education at the Girls' High School and Notre Dame College. Dr. Davis was graduated from the dental department of the Affiliated Col lege in I'JUZ, and baa since been prac ticing his profession in Tonopah, where the young couple will reside in the future.'' Mrs. Davis is an Oregon girl having been born at Junction City. She re filled in this cj'.y with her parents and is a graduate of the Roseburg public schools. Tha P lai hi alee joins the many friends of Mm. Davis in extend ing congratulations. Circuit Court Proceed lf$as." In the CircuitOurt for Douglas Coun ty, in vacation : Ann Com p ton, plaintiff, vs. I. F. Rice, akninistrator of the eetate of Aaron Rose, deceased. It ia considered and adjudged that plaintiff, Ann Com p ton, have and recover judgment from the es tate in tlie tarn of $.'900 with costs. C. R. Potts vs. N. Selig, appeal from the justice court of Myrtle Creek. Judg ment for (2 si aild costs reversed and the case remanded. Co how tk Sheridan vs. nenry D. Laughlin and Edward B. Leih. Judg ment for $1047.17 and cost of action. C. E. Bogue vs. Cloyd Chaney, dis pute over fence line dismissed at plain tiff's cost. W m. U. Ladd, Admin, of the estate of A. n. Jackson, deceased, vs. W. L. c. Miller, suit to quiet title. Judgment for plainCff and cloud from title re. moved. Explained. It was this way : The evening of th e Roseburg game, Ronald saw one of the young ladies home, .and promised her his heart and a photograph, so. of course. the next morning he took her to the train, and when it came in, showed hew to a seat. He forgot, however, when it came to caring goodbye, and before be realized it the train was speeding south, Rushing to the front platform be turned hurriedly for Jast oce more took, and then jumped. "Slowly, ruefully, where he lay, Ronald just turned and looked our war, Aa be sail; "Well, Roseburg girls are good enough, But tliere aint such a thunderin' sight O fun in it when yoa come to I.ghC That the Roseburg High School girls are a jolty lot. That Poorman wislied lie didn't hare his Lands full so as to make a hit with the R. H. 8. girls. Salen Ginger Can. Notice. Ia the County Court far Dou4u Oaoaty Stale at Orwrnn. la Um tnucr of ttnrflif nf nm of Gtmtf Kotw im bby rlrea tat ctdtr of Ut UT iuBd mart duly euhl u4 cotrv4 on the Sh day ol Juauj 19CO. lii aaoevl tsovtai (oatafaoa. baa beca canfol v Oaataie u. .rcreu. Attest. D. E.8HAMB8OOC. WP toe my ciexfc. RESIDENT Best References. All Work Guaranteed Leave orden at Bur r'sMujicS to ' oooooooooooooooooo Trespass Notice. All persona are hereby warned not to trespass, hunt, fish or camp on the land of the Curry Karate. iViTmtis doing so will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Estate of X. Ctrrt, (55tf.) RivenaJUla Farm V. uclao (Successor to W. L. Cobb, Mrs. (Bora's old staad .-Solo Auvnta tor... j C li a s e & Sanborn's Coffees V Reel HUIlUms. Ralph Langdon waa in Oakland last Wednesday. Clarence Smith was up the Hill the other evening. Ralph Cockeram baa beed to English Settlement since last issue. S. A. Langdon la expected home from South Dakota soon. Frank Green was transacting business on the Hill one day last week. IL W Cocker am made a professional call at Oakland, Saturday. Marquis Leeper, of Isadora, was on the Hill Sunday. Come again Marquis. Miss A. Cockeram waa a guest of 51 mi Cenia Jones of Rice Hilt, Sundajr. Mias Anna Cockerara has returned from Engliab. Settlement, where she has been staying with Mrs. H. J. Green. 8om people seem to think W . Opal Cocker am is going to take bis departure for Eastern Oregon to be married soon. But Opal says he isn't on the marry. Ray Langiloa and R. S. Cock era m were all off the Hill that attended the birthday party at George Thieles Satur day night. We notice tlie Plaindealer still con tinues to give its readers good news. Great success to our new EJklor and Publisher H. II. Brookes. While driving a sleigh, II. Langdon nearly wrenched his hands. So to be prepared for tlie next snow storm he bought tpir of the "daiey brand' gloves. A carious event took place in Yoncalla a few days ago, while B Thorn psoo found her brolhet's diploma in th lining of her hat. We are elad to bear this, aa Mr. Elmer will not have to attend school here at present. ML Mattie Trump returned ho 010 rom Roeeburg a few days ago. While there she passed tlie examination, and now ia counted as one of Douglas Coun ty's teachers. Success is extended to Miss Trump by alL . Dan. PR SALE. At a bargain, a country the rear and npetaira. Blacksmith shop and buildings ; 12 acres of land ; good business point fox a blacksmith or shoe maker, with trade which justifies carry ing a fair stock of general merchandise. Address Wat. F raize, Cleveland, Ore- on. itl Sheriff's Sale. la the rtirail Oon oi laa Stale tot InMiira cuuaty. J. A aiacr 1 FUioiis; I ve V Lola May Wrmr. I tkrtrtwlaat Kotir ia bft ciTra that by Tjtae ef aa tini!a duly Iaue4 et el and bimVt IM ana) ol Um aoove u4 cnar ia Use abort taUtd nnar u peflaiy :rerwO aad daw-t ia 2n-i 4y nt Trvrwj, apa a aicavr-.t iattm4 asd eatrmt ;b aak! eoutat t&e 1-ia day ol Juwrr, rA, la tarar ol Lain May Lmmm, l 'Jnt. aed amiat i. A. BMCBalaiifT, tor taenia 04 IUM ema aad ulimitau aitl Itunx liawt a I a-r mt per aaaaa Iraa the tea day of iaaoary. ljit. aod UftvmtM el and apexa tkix an-v, 1 did ea. Uw a day ef Febraary. 13. daiy Int. apaa the ftklavls dncf.bol mat proper'y. to-wit: f ranflir-n r at IM Jaeckea tA booglaa aa4 Biwry atrwU ia tee lity ol RaaeSan. Iooae wb;t. ( Tnr 'm. ea UM aorta avle el Ica.ae aad raat ia oi jtrev ery strreta raaaia tcrac aorta as etnta K I fee eaw xic ol R-ewrr-r coe one -drd h) !- (are abatn 1 lr4-re K n asy rt ft;) fwt uuau 3 drtee W aa aaa-lrvd trri lo Loariaa ww, thcare aorta i drcraea W ainac tiva aorta ai.te of tieorlae nrvn aiaety-ama T) feet to tace of Kiaiae-.aU of aal pmatcra are aitaa.:d la fextrk U, ia the dm ol fcoaaoarr. i ceicnty. Oraxa. aererdia to the orll psat of eaid City, of amrd In tee Mil cTr vf Iwqx a rnnn'r , (woe. r.bc w-0 a.3 aa a aiaavlar the uteenu, br!:luMaa asal a -parseaa ante thetvaate aeiort-Bf er la aayeue aPrta;ala. Jio ihereitjre. ky rirtae of wavl lirruuoa 1 wiil oa Saturday the 7th dav of March. 1S. at oa o cork p. aa. of aat 1 day a coart aon.e boot drwr. u Koarharc. IXxit a eoastr. Ora ru,awl at pa&w ewma. eubjert 9 rr-tc-na-fcoa, to th htbt bvMer. fcw I S r,4 raaa ia haod.aU tj rtii. totie ast tat of la iiaia aaaw4 piaiaudTia aal o trw a or davrrihed real property, or aay pojt tauL. M aaualy aai4 execU08, iaxereat axl artraiac ooau.. Dated Koatbarf. Grrcaa. re. . q K U f ARROTT. Sheriff af Lao-ia ecaaty. Oreroav Administrators Notice. Xatir la Wnrby riTa that rh aadrrUcaeJ aaa eeaa by it Caaty oort. ef tx'.aa owa ty State ef l'rr. auiy ar-P-al lr mtmta ireiorof the ate el acta las . lawra. d AU permae harts rAiata anltrt aa4 estate href.y regain be pmaerl the earner Ta y iu-l. lo the BB.teraciMf at feoofcere. lw,t la count j. sae f Orra ttl ati stoat imied at Swl Janiary. 13. rbarc Orcoa thi Jsta 4a j ef I , H.T. MrrXAU-RC. Raiaioiotrator el ifceeatata U Erta Me Title Ciuarantee&Loan U EOSUCB9, OEIOO.X. Haa-TLTO. O C. RaaTTLToa. f-rerideal Swy. aad Troa J. D. 0e la the Court Boeee. Hare th ea com of a (-! bouts ta DrarHtraatt Abaa-artaeuJ t-rrueou of Tiue lumiW to iMwia'.aaonaxty laiad asd BiiBiBC cltuaM. Bar alao a nu (!- - Traotoca o' a.i awme!p Plata la ti Raeebora, lrroa. V. (. Lea d i- tln'C til ataAe h.ae pricl eepteaef aay to a ahlp sin, Extend a cordial invitation to the public and the many friends of tht old firm to call and examine their new line of Staple and Fancy Grocer ies, Queens ware; Etc. : : : ! BHng Ui Your Butter, Chickens, f cos.