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ciety TWICE A WEEK ROSEBURG PL AI ND E ALE R. (HOW my ROSEBURG, DOUGLAS COUNTY, OREGON, Titg-ROEagy, AUGUST 3, 1903 Vol. XXXV No. 5? So THE CONVICTS CIVE BATTLE. CONVICTS KILL THREE MILITIAMEN. 150 MEN NOW ON THE TRAIL OF THE ESCAPED . CONVICTS A lispa -Ji sent from Placerville, Calit, i.- ca Saturday night says: A desiv te fight between a band of i five of lae escaped Folsom convicts and a party of six militiamen, who were following a fresh trail of the convicts, took place this evening just J at dusk on a hillside near the Grand J Victory mine, and, as a result of the j conflict, two of the militiamen, named Rutherford and Jones, were killed, j and a third member of the posse, a j man named Dill, will probably die of 1 his wounds, as he was shot through ' the lungs. The convicts were hidden in the thick brush which covers the hill, and the man-hunters happened upon them most unexpectedly. The convicts, j herd, they suddenly ran into one that who were well armed with rifles, did not heed the warning of the rum fired a volley into the posse, with the j bling train and he was killed. The result above stated. Ihe other members 01 xne posse opened fire on the convicts, and the survivors of the little band are fiim in their belief that at least two mem bers of the convict gang were wound - ed. The news of the conflict soon j highway robberies in the past sixty spread, and messengers were dis-jdays with no arrests. The mayor, patched to this place for reinforce-: council and police force are at logger ments. ! heads, and footpads and murderers A posse under the leadership of 1 get in their work. It may be that Sneriff Bosquit is now on the scene of .the conflict, but, as it is dark, it is impossible to locate the convicts, who have the advantage of position, and could pick off the members of the posse if a concentrated attack was made upon them. Sheriff Bosquit and .his advisors are considering the feasibility of setting the brush on fire andiorcing.the convicts to surrender or at Jeast disclose their exact posi tion. Sheriff Bosquifs posse now num - .bers 150 men, but the situation is so critical that no one will approach close enough to the supposed hiding place of the convicts to ascertain the offViin; 5n foi-tlio.! -AAlit MMUIblUU Ul.OUOUOt UV feUl bodies of Eutherford and Jones, who were membere of Company H, Second Infantry, N. G. C, have not been re covered, though it is positive that the men are dead. Crusade on Gambling Halls. Three additional warrants were is- sued this morning by the city re - corder for the arrest of the propri etors of the Reception, Manhattan and Oregon saloons on a charge of allowing illegal gambling in their places of business. The former arrests ordered were for the dealers of the games and no actions were taken against the pro prietors of the houses. Today's step is 2 continuation of the crusade against gambling started several days ago and the warrants is pied are for offenses conunitted prior to this week. The warrants were served and 10 o'clock Monday morning set for time to plead. The proprietors of the places, Mac Somerville, Geo. Berger, J. J. Rude and Tom Gilliam, are to answer on their own recognizance at I that time. There is talk of fighting the cases. Eugene Guard. SUICIDE AT EUGENE. It is now an established fact that . the young man by the name of 1 Griffin, who was found drowned at I Eugene, committed suicide. He had j been ganbling the night before and i had issued checks for large sums of ' money wnicn was won oy the gam blers. On Sunday morning in a spirit of despondency and remorse he drowned himself. Four or five gam blers were arrested and fined $50 each as a consequence and it is now given out that the famous gambling i hells of Eugene are to be closed. Fresh Venison. Engineer Bartlett and nreman W al-1 ter Denny were going north at 2:30 a. m. pulling a train. At the end of the Condon Power Company's dam across .Rogue river at Tolo, is a "lick," and a herd of eight deer took up the railroad track enroute for their morning nip. The "choo-choo of the engine got ihem off the track and on the banks oi the cut without killing any, but about half a mile ; further on, after the engineer and nreman thought they were out of the ! train crew that followed fed on ven ison. Eugene Guard. PORTLAND'S RECORD. ! Portland has a record of fifty-four j Mayor Williams and all the other offi-; cials are capable men and patriots! but they could prove their patriotism ' by resigning and let other men less j , capable run Portland affairs for a i . time, i rom reports published in the 1 papers of that burg it seems that a person going there on business, tuallv takes his life in his hands. vir- On Friday the Oregonian contained the announcement that Senators l Mitchell and Fulton had agreed to J recommend the appointment of John I H. Shupe to be Register of the land ! office to succeed Mr. Bridges and Henry Booth as Receiver for re-ap- nointment. This news is a Bnrnrise - 1 to Mr. Shupe and his friends as he was not a candidate for the office. Mr. Shnne ocennied the office of Reir - kter vears atro and his record was record was strakrht and the nublic as well as iiuuacxi to w uc k.uugitii,uuicu ii oi collusion or irauu is cnarged up to th no ; Th t,1., . ..-. .1 . 10 """''' was also a surnrise to Mr. T?rir)fAR Bridges and friends as he has made a goodidiride up with this extraordinarv I 1 Register and was a strong supporter of Mitchell, Fulton and mann. . Binger Her- San Francisco daily papers are wasting their otherwise good, com mon sense when they write about the birds in the penitentiary as "poor fellows," and make martyrs of them. The man who has been sentenced to the penitentiary and is found to nave arms in bis possession, or who has used arms or force on the guards, should be shot down like a rabid dog. The men expect to kill and plan to kill and no mercy should be shown them in order to deter others from making such attempts. RUNNING THE LAND OFFIGE. UNCLE SAM IN THERQLEI OF A GRAFTER. CHILDREN'S BREAD j I BE FED ! TO TO THE DOCS BY HITCH COCK'S MAN FRIDAY. The Plalndealer has the unpleas ant duty to perform of stopping a most iniquitous and damnable system 0f rrraftiw the Dublic bv an insnector C D C " I of Secretarv Hitchcock of the In- terior Department of this govern-: ment, A man has been stationed in Rose burg ostensibly to protect the timber lands from fraudulent entrv, but the man is working entirely in the inter est of the land monopolies and com bines and for the direct oppression of the true and honest citizenship of this country desiring to take advantage of the United States laws and to in- j vest in the purchase of 160 acres J Uncle Sam's timber domain. of t ii .... i e J ' ij . burg Is oppression, abuse, vilification, j extortion and slander are mild words ' to the actual state, of affairs if re- ports are true. To say that the man it guilty 01 such practices deserves ... . .,T . , . , ., r , , , ,, , . , , . maae ov persons wno nave oeen in r . , high cock-o-lorum are true, we would expect to hear a mass said for the repose of the soul of said cock-o lorum. We have been told that he asked one woman from the states, who is a widow and the mother of children this question: Are you not a sporting woman? and another: Do vou not know that vou are Deriurinir yourself? and still another: Who was the man who furnished vou the j money? Now we have no intention ' of doing this individual anv harm. He is a public official and we simplv j attack his official conduct He is the j servant of the people and the lowest j American man or woman who walks on the face of the earth coming be - i fnm Mm i rmrtYivr UlIU lj UUlUil VI bUUllCvU biCUk" j ment, for he is their sen-ant and 1 : not merelv Hitchcock's lick-skillet. i ' . Tfc m-m J mn.u w Then again, the charges made bv i the man to take down the evidence , 0 mon f ,l-o An :ntn tn nnnrirf !. w i.,t,i ;f, , . 1 me viciim 01 inis unjust extortion on,! ft crAniiap :r Un t- 1 and the stenographer, if he does not m 1 1.1. ii x ai" 'I " , JtZ I Tu . T. . : , . ,1 . a aay. 11 is tne oest graic mat we know of in a small way in the state. But this envoy from .Hitchcock is not merely content by questioning the honor, integrity and virtue of the ( Now we want to know what interest women who go before him when 1 Mr. Hitchcock's representative has in everything else fails and seeking! slandering the timber land of Oregon? to make a record, he stoops to 1 What reason has he fcr attempting to the position of a falsifier if the fol- j persuade men and women not to pur lowing affidavits have any weight or j Chase timber lands? Why does he an are to be credited. We give them i entire stranirer. when he cannot find for what they are worth: Roseburg, Or,, July 31, 1903. Personally appeared before me the undersigned authority, Mrs. Lillian Cram, of Duluth, Minn., who depots 1 and says: The special land exam iner and inspector took me aside pri i vately in the hall in the U. S. Land office, in Roseburg, July 30, 1903, I and said to me: If I was you I would give up that land. It has cost J four hundred and twenty-five more. I For the last three vears there was not an acre of land in Oregon that I would take as a gift. He did his utmost to persuade me to relinquish my timber claim to the government and he assured me that he was so advising me as a personal favor. Mrs Lillian Cram, Witnessed by Sadie I. Hatfield. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 31st day of July, 1903. Frank E. Alley, Notory Public for Oregon, United States of America, State of 1 I, W. F. Hartfield and C. M. Hansen, I of Amity, Oregon, being first duly sworn say upon my oath that I was a witness for Olof Palm on his final proof before the United States Land Office at Roseburg, Oregon, on the 30 and 31 days of Jnly, 1903. That at a conversation at the boarding house of Mrs. Hadley, in Roseburg on the said 30th day of July, one Chas. A. M. Schlierholtz told the said Olof I i aim m my presence ana in tne pres- sought to be entered T 1 1 :J Tli as a timber I ciium uy iue sam rami, was no good and that the timber was punk, and hnf Palm Trnctinrr ma mnnor f A buy bnd and this monev offered, in pavment 01 said claim if the same was rejected, ev in pavment of the same, but that ' , , . . , 1 he could make payment at some fu ture time and that such future pay ment would be just as good as if made at the time of entrance. W. F. Hartfield, C. M. Hansen. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 31 day of July 1903. Leonard S. Hopfield, Notary Public for Oregon. Personally appeared before me the undersigned authority, Mrs. Julia Spaulding, of Los Angeles, California, who deposes and said: The Special Examiner at the Land Office in Rose burg, on July 23, after I had told him repeatedly that I had applied to pur ! , , 7 fi. " . 7 v 1 chase the land for my own personal , . 11.1 attempted in every manner to entan- I Bie me m m statement ana cause me i ii i j 10 conirauict hqwu. ne aiso i a- l j" i. ir tt- -i i.n me thafcthere was not 311 acre of ,m Oregon for timber purposes for ' ., , ., .. , I the past three years that was worth . , '"e cruslng ees Mrs. Julia E. Spaulding. i " ltness, i Vivian Jewbtt, Zelia Zigler 1 Subscribed and sworn to before me this 31st day of July, 1903. John H. Shupe. Notary Public for Oregon. any just reason to reject an application stoop to do the work of a Benedick Arnold or Judas Iscariot by pretend- Continued on Page 4. THE FIRST BALLOT. THE CARDINALS AS POPE MAKERS. IT IS EXPECTED THAT A POPE WILL BE ELECTED MONDAY OR TUESDAY. Rome, Aug. 1. The first day of the conclave has ended, and no pope has been elected. Both this morn ing and this afternoon the members of the Sacred College, except Cardi nals Herro y Espinosa, Cretoni, Lan genieux and Coullie, who were con fined to their cells by illness, entered the Sistine Chapel, where, after the solemn ritua prepared especially for the occasion, they dropped their bal lots in the chalice. That these gave to no candidate the necessary 42 votes was made known to Rome and the world by the smoke of burning ballots, which issued from the Sistine Chapel. Tomorrow the cardinals will vote again, both in the morning and afternoon, but what the chances of their arriving at a decision before Mondav are none can telL RampoIIa Party In Ascendancy. It was reported this evening that the Rampolla party was in the as cendant, but this cannot be taken as any indication of the final result, as the vote of Tope Leo's secretary of state may be split up or given in its entirety to some other cardinal. The result of the first ballot given below is on apparently reliable information, but owing to the secrecy surrounding the balloting it is impos sible to verify it. First Ballot on Pope. Rampolla 20 Nannutelli 12 Gotti 7 Oreglia 5 Di Pietro 4 Capecelarco 4 Agliardi 3 Carbinals not present 2 Scattering 5 62 The college of cardinals consists of 70 members, but there are now eight vacancies, which the new pope will fill. Portland has a record for holdups and thugism racy enough for the most depraved city in this country without the Journal getting up fake stories of highway robberies and stuff of that kind. It is indeed an ill bird that befouls its own nest. By the largest and most destructive fire in the history of Linn county, the business section of the town, of Halsey was almost complotaly de stroyed, Friday evening. The. losa was immense and is variously esti mated between $60,000 and 3100,000, the general estimate being $70,000. With the exception of one store and warehouse every business house on the west side of the S. P. track was destroyed. One large warehouse, the postoffice, ten stores, several smaller business houses and one splendid resi dence went up in smoke. There were no serious casualties, only one man being slightly injured.