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Vol. XXXIV. ROSEBURG, DOUGLAS COUNTY, OREGON, MONDAY. MARCH 2.. 1903. No. 1 00000CXCC0X Famine in Sweden. I F. W. BENSOS, Prisident, A.C.H1RSTER3. Vice President. H.C. GA.LEY, J Cashier Douglas County Bank, EteUUariecl I883. Incorporated 1901 Capital Stock, $50,000.00. ' BOARD OF DIRECTORS r. W. BENSON, R. A. BOOTU J. H. HX)TH, J. T. BRIDGES J. F KELLY, A. C MABSTKRfl K. L MHXER. A ecneral banking business tranacted. and customers given every accommodation consistent with safe and conservative banking. g Bank open from nine to twelve and from one to three. O00000000000000000 OOOOOOOO VV5V50VVVDVVVVOVWVVC Sjohnkikg.. d.h.bemext JOHN KING Q BEMENT. Farm and Timlw I andc Office Opposite S. P. Depot 1 iuiwvi ivuuuf VOVOOVOVCA o OV'V,0VVAOVVVVOS List your Property with Us ! Ill, I h. ui iiiiiu m 1 U! Ill fi! 2 ATe von aware that Sprine "will soon be here and k 5 . that Stroxg. the Furniture Max, is going to show you the finest Une of Carpets In All Grades J them have already arrived? Also The Largest Line of Mattings, I Our store is well filled with desirable goods and more are arriving daily. W KKMKMRKR. we carrv a full line of URMTIKE, CARPETS, WU1 PAPER, STORES, and all you need to 5 Katitifv vnnr home. If vou can't come to see" ns S write us and if goods are not as represented you need V It lit 1 1 B. W. STRONG, ROSEBURG, ORE. J Bring Us Your ... 1-4 CHICKENS. EGGS. BUTTER. FOR CASH OR TRADE J. F. BARKER & CO I Drain Gardiner f J COOS BHY STRGE ROUTE Commencing with Monday, January 20, '02, we will charge 0 for thefare from Drain to Coos Biy. Baggage allowance with each full fare 50 pounds. Travelling men are allowed 75 pounds baggage when they have 300 poundjor more. All excess baggage, 3 eta. per pound, and no al lowance will be made for round trip. DAILY STAGE. For further information address J. R. Sawyers, " Proprietor, Drain, Oregon 2S3S New Arrivals Krippendorffs for Women - Excelcior Shoes for Boys . Hagan Shoes for Children Call and See them FLINT'S POPULAR SHOE STORE Hints to Housewives, Half the battle in good cooking, is to have good ' fresh Groceries, and to get them promptly when ou order them. Call up 'Phone No. 18 1, for goorl goods and good service. C. W. PARKS & CO. Iff 111 I S - -AND 1 1 STABLES -EMPIRE LiVerj, Feed and Sale Rallies C. P.Babvard, Prop. Saddle Horses. Single and Double Rigs a: a. I hours iransient 5tar gven very be' -t Rates always reasonable Sweden's Jwo most ' northerly prov inces are now' white with, snow and rav aged by famine. lor three months death by slow starvation has faced near ly 109,000 inhabitants, and a third of the population of the extreme north has had to be fed1 by upecial relief measures. Suprenie efforts are being made by the peasants to obtain food for them selves and fodder tor the cattle, many traveling as much ae 200 miles by sledge over the trackless snow, across moun tains and through forests to the relief stations. One peasant walked ISO miles in snow-shoes from village to village in search of food, but none was obtainable. Finally he reached the railway after sev eral days, worn out with fatigue and hanger. He was given a bag of flour and can ied it home on his back. Many others on a eimit r errand broke down by the war, and those who went en horseback found their mounts too weak to travel." Cases are known of small landowners having sold their timber-cutting rights for years to come for a mere f ong, and by this means many well to-do inhab itants have been reduced to poverty. Three thousand children are now being cared for by the relief committees in these two northern provinces. Others from the remote uplands have been brought in by sledge to the towns and boarded out, or housed in special hotels, where they are being taught and ied. Two thousand railway truck loads of food, clothing and concentrated fodder have already been rent by private char itv to the stricken districts. Damp Foolishness. Rev. Linden Jones, a disciple - of Powie, who last Thursday took Mrs. Tilda Sperry, of Hartford, down to the banks of the Connecticut river and im mersed her iu the almost frozen water, after cutting a hole through the ice may, if Mrs. Sperry dies, be charged with murder. He told the innocent and deluded young woman that Uuless she was baptized before her babe waa born she and the babe would die. Mrs. Sperry, days before she was im mersed, begged and beseecbed of Rev. Jones to postpone the service until after her babe was born, but he was obdurate and insisted, and the mother-in-law, Mrs. Sperry, Sr., was on the minister's side and she literally, with the aid of tke so-called minister,, dragged the young woman to the river's bank. ' The girl was compelled before leaving home Sunday afternoon to don a very thin w hite dress with low neck and short sleeves, and given only a flimsy shawl to keep out the cold blasts of winter. When the party reached the liver Rev. Mr. Jones took about three-quarters of an hoar to preach a sermon and say prayers. The little band was composed of the minister, Mrs. Sperry, Sr., Mrs. Sperry, Jr., and six converts to the Powie faith, which is within two of the entire num ber of converts in Hartford. Mrs. Sperry was immersed and kept in the water, according to the statement of eyew itnesses, for fullv fifteen minutes and when she was taken out she was unconscious. Then the ones who were to blame for this foolishness ' became frightened and picked up the almost lifeless form and carried it in their arms to lira. Sperry's home. ' The young woman was laid on her bed and before nijjht her babe was born. It was dead. The mother next 'day had n acute attack of pneumonia. ' ' . ' Don't Fool With These Girls. The unmarried women of the ancient town of Guildford, England, the county seat of Furry, have leaped into fame suddenly by an action which has caused London's laughter to lie echoed on the Paris boulevards. They have formed a ! "society for oromoting man inlifference among women,", secured -headquarters which they have named the Spinsters' Retreat, and have pledged themselves to assist "young women and those older in years to withstand temptations to enter the marriage state."' They scorn such a simple device to at tain their object as the making of them selves unattractive in the eyes of. the male sex. They stipulate' fn their first rule that all members must have attain ed the age of 17, must wear long skirts and dress their hair in a becoming man ner. Tbey also say: "Members are in vited to render their appearance as at tractive as possible, but they mnst be manly in their conduct. The rules of the order compel the men bers to have a wholesome contempt of love, t o abhor marriage and to display t'?e society's badge at least one day a week. Never theless, members are not debarred from conferring their friendship upon the op posite sex, but this friendship must be absolutely free of sentiment and every thing appertaining to that very undesir able etate af being." If the members only carry out that rule which says they must dress their hair in a becoming manner, the town of Guildford will provide an attraction to men which is not now supplied to much extent in any town in England. Mexican Bubonic Plague. - The bubonic plague has broken out at Maz.atlan, Mexico, and forty persons have died and 250 persons are afflicted and all the houses in the village of Oso, near Culiacan, where the entire Aguir- reverez family from Mazatlandied of the plague, were burned by order of the health authorities. All the doctors of Mazatlan will attend a meeting to con sider the best methods of combating the epidemic, and studying the effects of treatment with the Yersin serum. The charity commission has spent over $125, 000 for the relief of those who have suffered by reason of the plague and for sanitary improvements, and still has nearly 162,000 on hand. The Arc of the Covenant. A large force of' workingmen are ex cavating the top of the famous hill of Tara, Ireland, in the hope" of discover ing traces of the ark of the Convenient, which members of the- local historical society claim was ' buried there.' The idea is based on tins reasoning": - During the stay of the Jews in Egypt many of them fell back into ;j idolatry,' and this so annoyed the prophet i Jere miah that he fled, with a number ef others, to ' seek refuge in due. of the Israelitish colonies of the tribe; of Dun I (Denmark). This is concluded from the last verse of the . forty-fifth Chapter of Jeremiah. He carried with 'him the ark, containiHg the two tables of stone upon winch the commandments were inscribed. His ship was wrecked on the coat of Ireland, w hose youthful king fell iii love with one of the king of Judea's daughteis,, who acconipanuxl Jeremiah. The "prophet allowed the king to marry her upon the condition that he should establish a college at Tara and promote learning and religion This the king promised to do, and, upon the death of his wife he raised a cairn (the hill of Tara) over her and buried with her the ark and other relics. After Reed SmooC Republicans Against Trust. It is announced that Mr. Knox, the attorney general, will begin operations at once under the anti-trust laws that have passed a republican Congiess. His first step in this direction will be the filing of a motion to have the case against the Northern securities company advanced on the docket. Authority for such motion has been granted in the bill passed by C ngress and signed by the President to expedite' "causes pending or that may be commenced under the Sher man anti-tnist law. The suit to dissolve the Northern Pa cific merger is now pending in the Min nesota court. Testimory has been taken and the attornevs have their briefs ready for presentation. The at torney general will ask that the case be advanted on the docket, S3 that a de cision mav be reached without dvUf. Under the ordinary method of procedure the cae would not be reached fujc a year, and would then follow a circuit ous route to the United States Supreme Court, where a decision vcnld hardly be expected in less than t wo years. By fhe operation of the Hoar bill, it is expected that the case will be bronght to the at tention of the United States Supreme Court withi.i few months. Thfc attor ney general will then ask that 'the case be advanced on the ilccketof the Su preme Court. It is probable that similar action will be Liken w ith reference to the' beef trust cases, m soon as '; they have been pasted upon by the.' I Hi wis courh, where they are' now pending".. It Is ex pected that some -of" these" cajes wiH be ready for consideratioa by the Supreme Court at the October. session wlteo the constitutionality of the laws in question w ill be passed upon. This will pave-the way for broader ( legislation, . f any is needed, looking to more com plet con trol of the trust. . . , !"."- Sent-tor-elect Reed Istnoot, of Utah, and 'the chairman of the Senate com-. I mittj on privileges and elections, has presented to tlu Senate a protest, signed i by Rev. J. L. Leiliteh, representing the Ministers' Association of Salt Lake, I against the tearing of Reed Smoot. The ' statement, which is sworn- to, declares that Smoot s,a polygamic artd now has a plural wife. - t The polygamy charge against Senator- elect h:iioot was received w ith the ut most! surprise in Salt Lake, among Mor mons ai.d Gentiles " alike." President Joseph Smith, of the Mormon church, was shown a copy of the charges of po lygamy brought against ' Senator-elect Smoot by Rev. Leiliteh.' ' - ' "I wish to deny in the most emphatic terns possible," said President Smith, "that thi - it any truth whatever in these cbtyr. M. Smoot l.n only one wife and never has had another either before or after Utah enteted the Union. There is no such record of plural mar riages kept in the Temple, therefore there can bo no such .record of Mr. Smoot's' plural marriage as charged by Rev.' Leiliteh. I wish to rejieat tho Mor mon Church does not now sauction plu ral marriages, nor has it since Utah en tered the Union. The charges against Mr. Smoot are absolutely false." . If there is the least chance to throw Smoot out it will be done by a lot of sen ators in Washington who have an army of wives kepUup at public expense, in the various departments: When the trouble came op over 'another Mormon in Congress, for effect,' the vilest men in Congress were loudest in their denun ciation of a man who, bv his labor wnd good business methods, was enabled to support four wives. Now, we have no sympathy' with Mormonistn, but we do ltate to sec a man st down on by a lot ol hypocrites. Washington is wonder fully improved in morals or there are both in ConreM and in the Senate maay men whose lives would be a dis grace to Mormonism in any atre or place. Drain News. Wilbur Items.: . .' Clarence Leonard spent 'a 'ivy 'in Roaebnrgt '.' . . Jno. Paeon, of Jaln 'Vallev, spt-nt-i few davs in torn., . - - " . Mrs. John McKdy, ot Winchester, spirfat a day liere with .relatives .," Mrs. G. W. Short, w ho ban been visit ing io Portland and Salem, has returned home. " ' ' --' Mrs. Harbit and daughter, Ada," .are spending & few days in Edenbowervisit ng friends. ... , ' Mrs, Beeson has been called to Indi ana on account of the illness , of her mother. .' . ... Mrs. Chcnoweth is in Ashland, at the bedside of her mother, Mrs. 'Hall, who is very sick. - . ' Miss Bertha Lamb has resumed her position as teacher in ' the ' primary de partment. '- Mrs. Mattie Reed and Bon, . Byard, have moved down to 5Tr?T-I McKav"s for the summer. - . V - - Stephen Short, has" returned home from Salem w here' M! served asl clerk' during 'the Legislature.-1 - ' , ' ,' Barbuda '. Oak Creek Acorns. .- e Our " streets F. A.' Finley is doing some' good .work on the road...r ..' S. F. Smith was seen' 'on one day last week;' - - Valentines are qnite plentiful in. -our burg. 1 ' ' r ; ' .";'.' :-' Mrs. W.- F. Price has commenced school at this place. M. B. Hughes is assisting F A Finley with the road , work. , ', , Pera Wright; of Glide; passed through our city on his way to.Hosu.bjirg. ' Miss Myrtellah. 'Williams 'returned home from Oakland where she has been attending scliool.' . -. ' . . J.'i' Miss JoKsfe Talbert jassed '.thrptigji our burg one ddy last week on her - way to Mt. Scott to teach a terhi of schoo). John. - i Necdham pianos are coming to the front to rapidly, that musical people, like the DeMoss- family, and others, want to know iii advance, if they can bo supplied with, a Needhanr piano -and make statement, that, , "they seldom have the pleasure of using such a fine Piano." Prof. Frazier, Jso endonics the Needham . piano,' , Thereftj'o , the Needhim is proving itself to. bo one of tho best pianos manufactured. For cat alogue and prices, address T. K.vRjch , ardson, Rosebnrg, Oregon. . - tf. Cincinnati has just enjoyed the lux ury of a $2,000,000 fire. Benton Mires, who has been in Salem, has returned home. . Rolo Drain returned has to Portland io resume nis studies. : . k - 'Jesse Vann, of El It ton, was a recent business visitor in Drain. ' 1 Al Kent, recently of Rosebnrg, has been greeting Drain friends. ' t - ,4 iizer jteckicy, me cattle dealer, wa in - Drain last week en route to Oakland. ' Temple Brown, of the Boarding Hall, wentj to Roseburg the first of last week. "Grandpa" Ostertag, who has been ill .tyf some time, has recovered suffi ciently to be out again. G.V. Ross la miry have taken -op their resideticehi. tUe'house recently va cated by Mr. Lynch. " '. M iss .lEthel Putnam, one of the Nor mal -'tfdtiate -expected' to open the Hardscrabble school today. Mr. and Mrs. John Wilsoncroft, of Ir win, Mo., are friends of Mr. Hoover and family, and are recent arrivals in Drain. Mrs. Abe Mattoon has beeu very ill with pneumonia, but has improved to a sufficient extent to be able to sit up. Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Young have' left for their home in Coos county, after aisiting with relatives at Leona, Lorane, vnd elsewhere. Many friends of Miss Sylvia Clements are glad to learn of her convalescence from the illness which bai confined her to her home for the past few weeks. Jaa. A Sterling has resigned the poet mastership at Anlauf, to be snCceded by J.M.Walker. Mr. Sterling has been appointed deputy assessor for Comrtock precinct, in which Une of work he is no new hand. Success to your labors', Jinunie. &rv coffee, Tea and Spices IF YOU ARE CALL AT CURRIER'S GROCERY AND ASK;xOR ORIOrJOFOt,E BXIAPJD Price is no higher and every can guaranteed Rosebur ' Lead rig;. Grocer vovoycvv VOWV.OVOVCVOV " -" J Currier's, Fences Must Oo Dowa. Compulsory Indian Education. Something entirely novel, at least (or the Indians (if it become m law), is the meaVure introduced by Senator Webster, in I lie Oklahoma legislature, providing a compuhAry education law for Indian v outh: The measure was drawn by 8. M. MeCowan, superintendent of the government industrial school for Io- dians at Chiloeco,- Okla., where there are '. 00 - little red bovs and girls in at tendance, amfby John II; Seger, agent for the Cheyenne and arapahoes at Colony, Okla., the etrongwt advocate among ants of making the Indian work. It is patterned in irreat trt af ter the' measure - which has been in force" in I-Jjho fur the- past ten .years, and Which L'as-recently been adopted in Oregool ''-'.' T)e bill provides. that .'whenever the government bf the UniujJ States or the territory of 'Ofcfchuaia sha'l maintain a'r school ftT ceneral educational pur- pt-, w-herWa.theexpeiise. of - tuition, clothing, lodiririjyfand food of the pupils M borne bv the" United States'. or the territory," it' shall be' eonpulMry on the parfc of parents -or 'guardians to send children betweett .tiwagee of 5 and IS to eurji schocl for peri.xl of nine months in each year.-' j JKUn? " itn. Electricity. tNikola .Ttta' is busy putting up a st-rango'.anil'coftV I'lant t Warden' Clyffe, L. I., that promisee to make nec romancy, anj every day affair. To the fertile blind ( the Servian," when his wireleas plant is nnistieu tiiere wui ue nothing impossible. ""From the buildings thre he pceroisea-'to run, the busy wheels of industry in thiscity, to make wirelca telephoning easy and certain, toi qperate an' electric launch far at sea', or t6 run;sutonK'bile8 any and everywhere, oufy that their, electric aitachmenU be , attuned to tha jioweir at mysterious Warden Clyfle., ". ' " j Though tbe inventor will not go into details regarding his plans, lie will talk of them in a general way, It is known ( unliniitetl capital is behind him, and the apparatus he is installing resembles nothing ever seen before. If the dream of talking to Mars v to. . be fulfilled in this age, one n.ight. .well believe the first step is beinf taken now. by Tesla at Warden CI yffe. . . ; . i ; .'- . ' ! Schley's Pacific Coast Tour. St is ahptiuhced- that. Admiral ScL ley will vit the Pacific, Coast, and will stop atj all the principal, citivs fi-om Ios Angeles tii-Seattle.' Thus will be afford ed the citizens of. Oregon an opportunity to see the only cownrd that tho. Unltetl SiatcS lias producei.1 to control : a vessle' in the history 'of this 'countiy.. lie did not stop ti fire a shot but made a loup and got his vessel 6ut of action and let brave Americans fight the naval battle at Santiago'. Had the offense octure t in an English, Freuch.'Italian or ' German vessel, he could hae been 'disgraced at the V"ne by haying bis 6W'ord. broken in two.over riis" back and" drummed out to the tinTe'of 'the rogues inarch. As it is he is a very valient, lirave and astute Admiral with according to' one party vIjws, but he is' branded as an: umn Itl gat'ed coivaid by another; and nothirig but the cry of persecution because, he was a dqiuorat ect saved the man from a public' contempt and disgrace. Congress will adjourn without taking any action upon any of the numerous bills introduced since December 1, 1901, rel tting to the leasing of pat lie lands for grazing purposes. It is equally cer tain that the coming rammer will be busy one on the public ranges, as the officials of the interior department are determined that all unlawful fences on the public domain most be removed at once. The administration has been remark ably patient with the cattle owners of the West and Southwest in this matter. More than a year ago the president took the question into bis own hands and gave emphasis to an order of the secre tary of the interior that the fences should be removed at once. As soon as Congress adjourns the officials of the in terior deartment will take np this ques tion and continue consideration of V. un til all of the unlawful fences have been removed. Genera! News Notes. ThcMrs;Clia8. L. Faipestite has lost a valuivlHe Mr mantle valued at f 4,(XW. it seems "that somehow during the inspec tion and col Tent toil of jevenue tax either irr the ' United - States or in Fra'.iee, a garment Valued at $ 270 was left in the place of tho more costly one. Asa con sequence therustoms officials of both countries are doing the utmost they can td prove Mint the rolo was not stolen in their respective customs offices. Ihe burden of proof, bow-eve'1, seems to clearly establish tho fact that the theft was committed in France. For Holidaj' Presents I have no famous bargains to pan off old stock and out-of-date goods, I simply give you honest goods at fair prices, and marlc them in plain figures. Call and inspect my goods and piices before purchasing elsewhere. O ROSEBURG, IT D 8 oregox. J. i. tryan oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooor, Albany ii to have free delivery of mail matter oo Jane 1. J. J. Gatling, the inventor of the gat ling fun, died at New Nork hut Thurs day Near Heppner, Oregon, 600 sheep were cremated in a burning shed. The loss waa tl.fiOO. Colorado has voted $10,000 for the par pose of moving the St. Luis exhibit to Portland. In the Illinois Senate a bill passed to appropriate 13000 fo- a life Fue statue of the late Francis E. Willard. The Portland Evening Telegram is slightly off in geography, "t places Rronsudt, Russia, in South Africa,. Count Bcni, the bony Frenchman who was married by one of the Gould girls, wants the United States and France to form an alliance. The United States revenue Launch Guard is now guarding Puget Sound to p event smuggling of opium. The Chinks saigle in tons of the drug every year. The citisen of Indiana, Pa., after a shotgun play in which a prominent citi sen was wounded by a negro, organized a force and drove all the colored people out of town. It is' currently reported that the Southern Pacific Railroad wQI in the near future put on another through passenger train from Portland to San Francisco. The police of St Louis are partners in the traffic of bringing young women from the country into the city for un moral purposes, at least that is what the Circuit Attorne ' said when he took the matter before the grand jury. Lest Friday night at a dance at Alle- ghaney man was so badly used op in a fight that he' lay unconcious in the mud for t wo hoard and it took a doctor three hours the next day to sew and patch him up. It seems toliave been a case of too much "galivant al!." The Coquille City Bulletin winds up an edit oral by saying: "verily, Coquille sieepeth," 'It is evident, to the Puux dbalcb that the Bulletins arm pressure was not very great or the - old maid would not have "stilled" and pretended that she was sleeping. It seems to be s case of "dont do it some more." : It begins to appear that the Bohemia minimi district will take front rank for the output of precious metals. An in junction has been filed in the court by Mrs. Ella Wall, of Cottage Grove, owner of the Evening Star mina, to restrain the Ore iron Seouriliea company from stealing ore from her property which she declares is worth $(i0 pe rton. It is stated that a vein ten feet has been struck and that there ' are millions in sight. ' Little Ranch for Sale. A goe-.t tttle home lor sale ; 17 acres adjoining fair grounds, lVT mLes east of Roseburg. Good buildings, 150 good bearing fruit trees, 10 acres in cultiva tion. Price $1225. For particulars in quire at Milikin's shoe store, Roseburg al tf V, R. Buckingham, (Successor to W. L. Cobb, Mrs. rEoyVs old stand) Soie Agents tor. Chase & Sanborn's Coffees Extend a cordial invitation to the public and the many, friends of the old firm to call and examine their new line of Staple and Fancy Grocer ies, Queens ware, Etc. : : : Bring Us Your Butter, Chickens, Eggs. J. M. Weatherby T. A. fury D. L. Marti Roseburg Real Estate Co. Farm and Timber Land Bonght and Sold Taxes Paid for Non-Residents. Timber Estimates a Specialty. List your proper ty with ns. . A. C. MAESTERS Q CO. DRUGGISTS. We Want Your Patronage - and as an inducement we offer U. S. P. ' Standard Drugs, Fresh Patent Medicines, Iligh Grade Perfumes, Soaps, Toilet Arti cles, and Specialties. .... JtCo sea Ctlmuc am swtcce "", '-! ytt MMM rum. with wot a 1 ,TTOa THAT WW 0TWJLAT UI f tuna Mnama M wiwit ecr TIM M PM SKC2N .am rY CXPCKHWC V.v sue Pitmen TM MA MMC Spraying Mixture should be put on with good pressure EAN POWER Outfit will do it. see them at Churchill & Woolley's