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ROSEBURG, DOUGLAS COUNTY,' OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 12.' 1903.
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Vol. XXXIV.
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F.W. BENSON. A.C.MARSTEBS. H.C.GALIY,
Freatdent,
Vies President.
Cuhier a
Douglas County Bank,
BatabllAried I883. Incorporated 1901
Capital Stock, $50,000.00.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
f. W. BENSON, R. A. BOOTH J. H. BOOTH, J. T. BRUMES
J. . KKLXY.A.C. MARSTERfl K. L MILLER.
A general banking business tranacted. and customers riven every
accommodation consistent with aafe and conservative banking.
g- Bank open from nine to twelve and from one to three.
madh A M C fOR flNE CONFECTIONERY
lMUKi IAlw and ICE CREAM PARLORS
fruits, Candies, Cakes, Pies,
Doughnuts and fresh Bread Daily
Portland Journal Agency. Hendrick's Block, Opp. Depot
1. J. NORflAN & Co. Props
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Rules Governing The
Timber.
Cutting of
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S Are you aware that Spring will soon be here and
w that Stbokg. the Furniture Man. is eroing to
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show you the finest line ci Carpets in All oraaes
ever shown in Southern Oregon and some of
them have already arrived? Also
The Largest Line of Mattings,
Our store is well filled with desirable goods and
more are arriving daily. k
REMEMBER, we carry a full line of I LRMTICE, V
CARPETS, tt'AU PAPER, STOVES, and all you need to j
J beautify your home. If you canH come to see us
write us and if goods are not as represented you need
leUer B. W. STRONG, ; j
ROSEBURG, ORE.
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CHICKENS.
! EGGS,
BUTTER.
Boles governing the cutting of timber
on Indian allotments of the public lands
made under the fourth section of the
General Allotment Act:
Where an allottee desires to reclaim
a portion of his land containing valuable
commercial timber, his allotment con
taining sufficient amble land to support
an Indian family and being on the whole
suitable for a home for the allottee, per
mission may be given, for the cutting of
timber, by the Commissioner of the
General Land Office, under the follow
ing rules :
I. He shall file an application in the
form of an affidavit, corroborated By two
parties, in the local office, stating that
he desires to reclaim for farming pur
poses a specified portion of his allot
ment containing valuable commercial
timber and asking permission to cut the
timber on such portion, with the inten
tion of using the land rerlaimed ' for
farming purposes, and to sell the sur
plus commercial timber cut which may
not be needed for the construction of
improvements on his land.
II. The affidavit must set forth that
there is no portion of his claim not cov
ered by commercial timber which has
not been or could not be rerlaimed.
II L The area of commercial timber
which may be cut during the year fol
lowing the allowance of the first appli
cation is limited to five acres in each case.
IV. Upon a second application in
the following or any subeeqnent year
permission may be given for the cutting
of commercial timber from not more
than fifteen acres, upon the allottee
showing by affidavit corroborated by
two witnesses that the lands from which
timber has been cut nnder the former
pplication have been brought to a state
of cultivation, and that the proceeds
of the sale of the timber therefrom has
been need in the improvement of the al
lotment, and the purposes for which ex
pended. On a like showing as to the
disposition of the proceeds of timber
previously cut and the reclamation of
the bind from which it waa removed
permission may be given for the cutting
of twentv-five acres of timber on the
third application, and a like amount fot
each succeeding application. Not more
than one application by the same allot
tee shall be allowed in any one year.
V. No authority shall be granted to
cut timber on an allotment not approved
by the Department. Timber not com
mercial may be cut without limit upon
the making of a satisfactory showing.
Any violation of these rules will ren
der the guilty parties subject to the
usual penalties for the illegal cutting of
timber on Indian allotments.
Approved, March 1, 1903.
W. A. Richards,
Commissioner,
Taos. Rtav,
Acting Secretary of the Interior.
MANY CREMATED IN BURNING OIL
Ability to
Fatten Cattle
ill Qlft.
Rapidly
The ability to fatten cattle rapidly and
profitably is a sift, to be increased and
A Train of Oil-Tank Cars Breaks in Two and Then tj;
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MnZd Travelling men are allowed 75 pound, baggage when they
Lpound'Tormote. AD excess bagjge, 3 cUr pound, and noal
lowance will be made for round tnp. DAILY STAGE.
For further information address , .
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On Mo-? lay night at Olean, New York
morag i mrJP score of people were killed
and a larj'number injured by an ex
plosion of oil.
A freight train on the Erie, made op
principally of oil-tank cars filled with oil
broe in two near that city about 9
clock. The two sections of the train
came together with a crash, and one of
Uk- oil tanks was demolished. Fire
broke out almost instantly, and the sky
was lighted up for miles.
A large crowd of people left that city
for tU iscene of the fire. While they
were lined up along the tracts a terrific
explosion occurred. The flames com
municated quickly with the other tank
cars, and a second and a third explosion
followed each other in rapid succession.
Sheets of flame shot out in all directions.
Scores of persons were caught within
the zone of fire and enveloped in flame.
Men and boy ran screaming down the
tracks with their clothing ablaze. Others
fell where they stood, overcome with the
awful heat. Just how many were killed
is not known, as many of the bodies
were incinerated.
The number of dead is known to be at
least 18 and some estimates place it as
high as X. More than two score were
more or less seriously burned. Some of
them will die.
A prominent business man who saw
the terrible sight said : "I was attract
ed to the fire between 9:30 and 10
clock. When I was within a quarter
of a mile of the wrecked train there
was a terrible explosion.
Flaroea shot outward and upward
for a great distance. I saw several per
sons who started to run away drop on
Deatb-ICnetl at Strikes.
The Wabash officials have by injunc
tion proceedings restrained tne em
ployees from striking because of the in
terstate character of the business tne
lines transacts and if the railroad com
pany can sustain its position, the death
knell of strikes on interstate railroads
has been sounded. This is the opinion
expressed in financial circles in. New
York on President Ramsey's aggressive
action in obtaining an injunction res
training the - workmen's ' organisation
from ordering a strike on his system.
It was pointed out that the obligations
of carrying companies to the interstate
commerce commission has never before
been interposed as a legal bar to strikes.
Should the injunction be made per
manent, a blow would be struck at labor
organizations similar to that which oc
curred in England when the TaS Yale
railway company waa awarded substan
tial damages against the workmen's as
sociation for ordering and maintaining
a strike to the detriment of the com
pany's business.
Gamble rs Qalore.
the railway tracks. They never moved
again. . Others who had been standing
close' to the wreckage were hurled
through the air for hundreds of feet.
The scene was awful.
"Ualf a dozen young boys ran down
the tracks with their clothing on fire. I
could hear their agonized screams dis
tinctly from where I stood. They ran
some distance down the track and then
threw themselves to the greund, grovel
ing in the ditch in their efforts to extin
guish the flames. Then they lay still,
soine of them unconscious, others dead.
Jo not know how many were killed
but I counted 20 bodies before I came
away."
Word was sent at once to Olean police
headquarters by telephone. Every doc
tor and ambulance in the city was sum
moned. Grocery wagons and carriages
of all kinds were pressed into service,
and everything possible was done to
take the injured without delay to the
hospitals for treatment.
At midnight the first of the injured
arrived at the hospital. They were four
boys. Their injuries are frightful.
Great patches of flesh were burned off
and hung in shreds from their bodies.
It will be difficult to ascertain the
names of a great many of the dead, as
their bodies were burned to ashes in the
intense heat. A canvass is being made
of the city as rapidly as possible to find
out the names of those missing. There
is great excitement in the city, and the
streets are thronged with people.
Large crowds gathered at the hospital
and the faces of the injured were anx
iously scanned as they were brought in
on stretchers.
A TERRIBLE FIRE IN PORTLAND
$750,023 Cone Up in Smoke-rVictoria Dock and Con
tents, and Mflch Other Property Destroyed.
ability
six months'
once getting him "off feed" is possessed
by many stockmen, but how this faculty
is attained is something that he cannot
always impart toothers. In general.
when the steer has reached full feed, all
the grain he will readily consume should
be supplied, but any left in the feed box
to be breathed over, is worse than wast
ed. Scouring, the bane of the stocic
feeder, should be carefully avoided,
since a single day's laxinesa will cut oil
a week's gain. This trouble is general
Ig induced by over-feeding, by unwhole
some food, or by a faulty combination
in the rations. Overfeeding comes
from a desire of the attendant to push
his cattle to better gains, or from care
lessness and irregularity in measuring
out the feed supply. The Ideal stock
man has a quick discernment which
takes in every animal in the lot at a
glance, and a quiet jadgment which
guides the band in dealing out feed
ample for the wants of all, but not a
pound extra. Cattle of the same age, or
at least those of equal size and strength
should be fed in the same enclosure.
Weak animals, and those usable for any
reason to crowd through to the feed and
get their share, should be placed where
they could be supplied in quiet.
The droppings of the steer are an ex
cellent index of the progress of the fat
tening period. While they should never
be hard, they should still be thick
enough to "pile op" and have that nnc
tous appearance which indicates a
healthy action of the liver. There is an
ordor from the droppings of thritty.
well fed steers known and . quickly rec
ognized by every good feeder. Thin
droppings and those with a sour smell
indicate something wrong In the feed
yard.
The conduct of the steer is a further
guide in marking the progress of fatten
ing. The manner in which he ap
proaches the feed box ; his quiet pose
while ruminating and audible breathing
when lying down, ' showing the lungs
cramped by the well filled pauch ; the
quiet eye which stands full from the fat
tening socket, the oily coat, all are
points that awaken the interest, admira
tion and satisfaction of the successful
feeder.
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J. T. BRYAN'S.
For Holiday Presents
'
,1 have no famous bargain s to pan off old
' stock and out-of-date goods, I simply give
you honest goods at fair prices, and mark
them in plain figures.' Call and inspect my
goods and piices before purchasing elsewkere.
oregon. - J. 1. Bryan
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Hints to Housewives,
Half the battle in good cooking, is to have good
' r,. Groceries, and to get them promptly
-I,..,, - on order them. Call up 'Phone No. i8i,
for gor goods and good sesvke.
C. W. PARKS & CO.
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The State of Washington has passed
law making it a penitentiary offense
upon conviction by a jury, for a aian to
gamble, and as a consequence the gen
tlemen who "toil not nor do not spin,"
but are "arrayed in fine linen and dine
sumptuously every day," are leaving
that State and settling in Oregon and
the first place of importance to catch
the "exodusters" is Portland, and that
city from this time on to the closing of
the proposed Lewis and Clark Exposi
tion will be the hottest proposition of a
wide open city this side of sheol. And
as some preachers say, that the gates of
heaven are closed to certain persons and
the gates oCthe hot place are everlast
ingly open with a warm welcome to vis
itors, so Washington has closed her doors
to the sporting fraternity and Portland
receiving all the bums, toughs, vags,
gamblers, and prostitutes by the scores
It is stated that if the law is enforced in
Washington it will drive ten thousand
persons out ol that state wno are av-
rertlyor indirectly interested in the
gamblers' spoils. The city of Seattle
was nothing more nor less than a Sodom
and Gomorrah, and the better class of
citizen proposed to clean op the town
and, be it said to their credit, they made
an heroic fight. If Portland wants to
make a first class success of the Fair the
is encouragement is given by the city
to citizens of the gambling fraternity
and their ilk the better it will be for the
fair.
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Saddle Hors. Single n4
Double Rlz at all hours
Transient 5toc' tven
very be care
Rates always reasonable
Six boys at Albany who threw stones
at a Chinaman were fined $5.00 each and
costs by a Justice of Peace. That is the
way to make an object lesson.
At Baker City, the sheriff and all the
deputies are confined at their homes
with small pox. A case of small pox
developed among the prisoners confined
in the County jsil with the above result,
A special from the Telegram of Toes-;
day says :
Victoria dock is in ashes as the result
of a fire which broke out at 10 JO a. m.
today, and, fanned by a high wind, de
fied all restraint and swept everything
before iU With this dock went all of
its contents, grain and salt, mostly
fifteen cars all loaded with grain, and
the residence of Charles E. Kelson, of
the Portland Shipbuilding Company.
The total loss will be fully $'500,000, and
it is probably considerable more than
this. At 2 JO p m the fire was reported
under control. A fire which broke ont
at Mississippi avenue and Eussel street
at five o'clock this morning destroyed a
dozen two-etory and three-story stores
and lodging houses and one residence.
The damage will aggregate 125,000. The
splendid new residence of William Fe-
ber, at Eleventh and Market streets,
was completely gutted and ruined by
fire at an early hour this morning. Its
contents were- completely destroyed.
The loss is $6,000.
The Victoria Dock, with its contents,
consisting of 10,000 tons of wheat, 20 car
loads of flour, 500 tons of barley and two
carloads of machinery, waa totally de
stroyed this morning, inflicting a loss
estimated at upwards of $600,000.
The disastrous conflagration is the
direct result of a firebug's third attempt
to destroy, if not all, at least a portion
of the shipping interest of Portland.
At 2:20 this morning smoke waa seen
to issue from the lower end of the Vic
toria Dock. Almost immediately a tiny
flame burst through the ronzh weath
er boarding, and five minutes later the
entire rear end of the dock was a mass
of flames. Fanned by a strong south
east breeze that caught the docks in a
quartering direction, the fire soon gained
such complete mastery of the situation
as to defy human effort, be it ever so in
telligently directed. And it may be said
at this point that the Fire Depatrment,
ss a whole, worked well, though there
were one or two unaccountable delays
that brought ruin and disaster to several
homes. As for the docks themselves it
is not going too far to say that it was be-
vond the Dower of man to combat sue-
J - - a
cessfully the fiery element.
WORK OF INCZNDIABY.
Certain it is that the despicable mis
creant could not have selected a more
opportune time for his dastardly work
Three times has this same man attempt
ed to destroy other docks in the city,
namelv the Mersv and Columbia, but
finding bis efforts futile in that direction,
he, this morning turned his attention to
the Victoria dock. Almost simultan
eous with the first dark cloud of smoke
a tall, heavily built man wearing a derby
hat and with a long black overcoat was
seen to walk hastily from the rear of the
dock, passing out of the second entrace
way up stream. After going a lew
hundred feet he broke into a run, finally
disappearing around the curve. When
last seen he was going In the direction
of the old brickyard situated about a
mile and a half up the 0. R. A N. track
Captain of Detectives Kerrigan and
Snow, Immediately started in pursuit of
the man, and while a suspect has been
arrested, it is quite likely that the real
culprit has escaped, as he had at least
25 minutes start of the officers. The
man under arrest does not answer the
general description of the man seen to
issue from the dock immediately after
the discovery of the fire. The first a
larm was sent in at 10 o'clock by tele
phone, but it la claimed that the call did
. not reach Chemical Engine No. 3, te
which it waa sent. Twenty minutes
later a second alarm was sent in the
usual way, followed by a general alarm
in five minutes.
niEMZ SID WELL.
In justice to the Fire Department it
must be said that they never worked
more valuably, and that they did not
succeed in stopping the flame when
caught in that first blush waa due entire
ly to the wind, which waa blowing at a
gait of 20 miles an hour. In addition to
this, it aeemed almost impossible at
times to get a full supply of water, and
through this fact is doe solely the de
struction of Nelson's bouse, with its
contents.
In less than a half-boor after the fire
started it waa seen that Victoria dock
must be burned. The firemen therefore
directed their attention to the bouses
situated immediately in the rear of the
blazing furnace, on a bluff some 70 feet
high. The howling wind caught the
sparks and cinders and with extrava
gant hand scattered them broadcast
over the surrounding homes. Only by
the most heroic efforts did the brave
fire laddies save from total destruction
at least a half-dozen homes. So intense
was the heat and dense the smoke that
it waa impossible to reach the threat
ened booses except in a spasmodic sort
of way. The long tongues of flame
reaching far op the hillside, like some
mighty octopus, eager for its prey,
licked the very faces of the men who
sought to conquer, forcing them back,
black, scorched but determined. Be
tween the coming and going of these de
stroying darts the firemen rushed, only
to be driven back again. This unequal
combat lasted for more than an hour
and the furnace below having consumed
all that was above it, became a molten
fire, which, while shedding an intense
heat, was bereft of the blinding, heart
breaking smoke which seemed to choke
the best efforts of the men who sought
to gain a mastery over it.
BOCSKHOLDBBS FBAKTIC.
Ko more distressing scene has been
witnessed than that occurring in more
than a dozen homes threatened by the
devouring elements. Women ajid chil
dren rushed frantically about gathering
up their little personal effects and con
fusing those who sought to do them
good. As rapidly as possible the homes
were stripped of their contents, the
damage thus done amounting to several
thousard dollars. Including Nelson s
house, which was valued at $5000, cov
ered by an insurance of $2500, the loss
to private parties will approximate
$6000. As stated before, this is mainly
due to reckless handling and promiscu
ous use of water.
Gardiner News.
Dr. Tatom has gone to the Willamette
Valley, on business.
Gardiner is to have a brass band.
Our bora have organized and are prac
ticing without an instructor.
W. P. Reed,' accompanied by a num
ber of men and bors left for Smith River
to look after Mr. Reed's stock.
Misses Blanche snd Myrtle Parker, of
Loon Lake, have returned to their home
after a pleasant visit with Gardiner re!a
Uvea.
Will Daily, of Sulphur Springs and
Will Lyster, who have been attending
school at Corvaliia, returned home last
week.
We understand that the Palmer prop
erty at Scotteburg, including the hotel
ranch and stock, have been sold to Will
Fisher and Paul Wessela.
The many friends of Rev. and Mrs.
Beckman, tendered them a donation
party at their home one evening last
week. The many useful things were
greatly appreciated.
Oak Creek Gema.
Gardening is in order.
Sunshine and showers with a little
snow makes up the regular March weath
F. A. Fin ley has repaired the slide at
the u pper e nd of the district.
Rev. W. E. Thornton and Eider Hurd
preached to an appreciative audience
at this place last Friday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Fin ley entertained
a large number of their friends last Fri
day night. They were assisted in re
ceiving the guests by Miss Emma Fin ley
and lion. R. 1. Dixon. Games of all
kinds were played until midnight, when
a very delicious lunch was served. After
lunch they resumed their games until
the wee small hours, when the happy
party left for their homes all expressing
themselves as having had a good time.
A few of those that were present are Mr.
and Mrs. M. B. Hughes, Mr. and : Mrs.
F. A. Finley, Misses Ida Erikson, Anna,
Emma and Suaia Finley, Messrs Hon.
R.B. Dixon, Claud Whitsett, James
Dixon and Otto Erikson.
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IF YOU ARE CALL AT
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AND ASKOR
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Price is no higher and every can guaranteed
Currier's, "
V, R. BucMnghani,
(Successor to W. L. Cobb, Mrs. (Boyu'a old stand)
Sle Agents tor
C h a s e
Sanborn's
Coffees
Extend a cordial
invitation to the
public a nd the
many friends of
thfc old firm to call
and examine their
new line of Staple
and Fancy Grocer
ies, Queens
ware, Etc. : : :
Bring Us Your
Batter, Chickens, Eeos.
J. M. Weatherby
T. A. Bury
D. L. Marti
Roseburg Real Estate Go.
Farm and Timber Land Bonght and Sold
Taxes Paid for Non-Residents. Timber
Estimates a Specialty.
ty with
List your proper
ns.
Amazon's cuosa call.
Only the fact that the wind blew with
the velocity of a gale saved the barken
tine Amazon from total destruction.
Moored to the dolphins about 60 feet
south of the Victoria dock she was in
danger of Igniting every moment from
the very heat sent out by the roaring
fire. The ship's pumps were put into
play as quickly as possible and word for
assistance was telephoned to the O. R.
A N. Co. Steamer Harvest Queen which
had just arrived in the harbor and she
was dispatched to tow the barkentine
into a place of safety. By the time she
had reachad the barkentine, however,
the wind was so fierce that to cut loose
from the moorings seemed more hazard
ous than to leave her to take chances
with the fire, and the Harvest Queen
Concluded on second page.
Utah has passed a bill donating $10,
000 for a display at the Lewis and Clark
fair. Governor Wells is anxious for a
rood disolav and will sira tbe bill at
O a w
once. (
In a fight to the finish between a do
tective and an unid entitled burglar in i
store at Seattle, early Tuesday morning!
the burglar was shot twice and instant
ly killed.
At Colorado Springs, Colo., a strike Is
on at the leductioa plants which are
guarded by the State troops. The sen
tries have been fired on by unknown
parties who were secreted in the sur-
ounding hills.
At Waterbury, Conn., on Monday,
striking street car employes fired on a
moving car, a policeman was killed and
the conductor and motorman received
gnn shot wounds. Over $5,000 in re
wards is offered for the arrest and con
viction of the assassin.
Portland pugs and sporting men had
a foul treat on Monday night when Jack
O'Keefe, of Chicago, during the sixth
round was awarded the battle over Jim
my Britt, of California. Britt struck
O'Keefe below the belt. Up to this time
Britt had the fight all his own way.
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