THE
Rose burg Plaindealer
Fnbllihed Monday and Thursdays.
PLAINDEALER PUBLISHINQ CO.
I.H.H. BROOKES, Editor.
MARY K. BROOKES, Proprietor
Entered at the Post Office in Roseburg,
Ore., as second class mail matter.
Subscription $2.00 per Year.
Advertising Rates on Application.
AUGUST 17. 1903.
NOTICE TO TIMBER LOCATORS.
The Semi-Weekly Plaindealer
will publish your timber location
notices for $2.50, cash with notice.
THE LAND OFFICE REGIS fER.
So far there has been no confirma
tion of the report published in the
Plaixdealer from the Oregonian
that John H. Shupe was to be ap
pointed by President Roosevelt It is
reported that Representative Riddle
is to be the man and that he made a
political trade with Mr. Fulton for
the office. We know that the matter
tras discussed during the session of
the legislature and afterwards, and if
Senator Pulton did make a trade of
this kind he should stick to his man
to the end. If this is so and it ever
gets to President Roosevelf s ears he
will be very apt to enquire into the
matter and make a thorough report
for if there was any kind of trade,
Hr. Riddle should be the last man in
Oregon to be made Register of the
land office. The republican party has
something else to do than to stand in
with political rottenness and corrup
tion the same as the case would indi
cate if the trade was made.
-ANOTHER WAVE OF SYMPATHY
4.X
President Roosevelt
has written
the governor of Indiana a letter com
mending his action in preventing the
lynching of a negro. The letter hav
ing been published in every state in
&e Union has caused a wave of
megro sympathy to vibrate from the
Atlantic to the Pacificloceans. This
is right and proper and especially so
is that part of the president's letter
twhich dwells on the demoralizing
effect brutalities practiced on the
megro ravishing fiends has upon the
lynchers, themselves. The Plain
dealer also commends the speeches
made by many of the learned divines
rat the gi at discussion of the sub
ject in the 1- '.2 of New York, but
"cthe editoT is a white man through and
tfhrangh; he knows the negro thor
oughly, having lived among them for
ver 25 years, and while we sympa
hize with every effort made by them
or their own advancement, yet at the
ame time we remember that we are
of the white family and our sympathy
is first with our own kind and stock;
and in all our experience we never
saw a white man who ever saw the
lody of a white woman the victim of
a niggar's lust who did not seem to
be filled full with the spirit of ven
geance. We have seen men in all
the professions and avocations of life
and the effect was the same on all.
Lynching of niggars will never cease
until outrageous crime ceases. The
black brute who assaults a white
woman has no more right to expect
to live than a rattlesnake.
Healed by Prayer.
last spring the Plaixdealer and
the Rev. Bennett had quite a little tilt
regarding the effacacy of prayer vs.
pills from a Christian standpoint. The
brother wanted more pills in the church
of God and the Plaixdealer wanted
3iore fervent prayer "Have faith in
God," The Eugene Guard of last
Saturday evening says:
Dr. L.W.Brown was called by tele
phone to Cottage Grove last evening and
he went down on the 1:15 train.
A Mrs. Hunnicut had been troubled
with a blind eve for some time and she
and ber friends decided that she would
"be better off without it. In accordance
Dr. Brown was summoned to perform
the operation.
He went to work this morning. All
arrangements were made for the opera
tion. The woman is a very religious
woman and had spent the night in
prayer, asking the Lord to restore her
sight to her. She had been blind in one
eye since she was two years old 35 long
years. She made a final prayer to God
just before going on the operating table.
Just as the surgeon touched his instru
ments to her she shouted that her eyes
were well, and that the Lord had cured
her. The company about her was as
tounded. It was a fact, however, for
there were half a dozen witnesses. Her
good eye was covered and she was shown
all kinds of objects which she called by
name and demonstrated that her sight
was perfect.
The physicians are unable to explain
the mystery."
The Eugene Register prints sub
stantially the same statement as the
Guard, but ends with this scientific
explanation:
"Physicians give a scientific explana
tion for this phenomenon as follows :
Intense religiousexcitement coupled with
dread of the operation developed an ex
treme tension of the nerves which acting
upon the deposit over the crystaline lens
ruptured the growth and caused it to
pass to one side, thus clearing the vision.
This may be the true solution, but one
thing is certain, whatevercause contrib
uted to the restoring of this lady's
vision the case savors so strongly of the
miraculous as to give scientists and
theologians much food for speculation."
If the account of ' the blind receiv
ing sight was a miracle as recorded
in sacred story this case is also a mir
acle. "Have faith in God" and "God
is able" is just as potent a factor to
day in temporal blessings as two thou
sands years ago. If miracles could
be performed then the same power
can perform them today. This is the
Plaixdealer confession of theology
and in opposition to it, the Reverend
Bennett's theory of miracles were per
formed by Christ and the Apostles,
but the power has been lost today.
Brother Bennett the columns of the
Plaixdealer are open to you to ex
plain away in a theological manner
the above recorded miracle.
REFUSED.
Last October the Plaixdealer
was ordered to send two copies of
the paper each week to the Great
Central Railroad Company at Port
land. Todav the account and the
subscription was settled by receiving
a card from the Postmaster at Port
land with the legend written on it:
Your paper addressed to the Great
Central Railroad Company, Portland,
Oregon, "Refused." Thus do our
fondest hopes decay. However we
still have courage enought to say:
Hallelujah for the Coos Bay and
Wichway railroad.
When Balaam Could not Speak His
Ass Spoke for Him.
The Junction City Times says.
"The Roseburg Plaixdealer attacks
Chas. A. M. Schlierholtz who is in Rose
bure as special agent of the Interior
Department. The Plaisdealeb denounc
es his course and says he is working in
the interest of land monopolis and com
bines and for the direct oppression of
the true and honest citizenship of this
country desiring to purchase of Uncle
Sam's domain. This is a pretty serious
charge and is populistic to tbe core
The Plaixdealer is trying to make i
record as a denouncer and is succeeding
most admirably. The land office officials
have no objection to the investigations
of'the Enecial agent, and in view of the
numerous charges of timber law viola'
tions throughout the state, they court
investigation. If timber purchases are
honestly made, the entryman has noth
ing to fear from the investigations
the special agent."
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ARE THERE LAND FRAUDS?
The Editor was in Portland a few
days ago and among other things
mentioned to him was a statement
made to the effect that the Miss
Marie Ware episode had been planned
and operated so as to run her out of
the country. Our informant stated
that it was known that she was con-
sidering the adversability and had
' practically decided to make a confes-
- sion and the confession would lmpll-
cate a certain Lumber Company and
that a lot of the land the company
had acquired had been through fraud
practiced on the government and the
same company learning that she had
been giving the snap away to a gov
ernment official, changed tacties and
keeping in the background, have been
enabled to persuade her that they
were her friends and are protecting
themselves by keeping her out of Oregon.
U. B. R. E. Meeting in Roseburg.
Roseburg Division No. 1, of the United
Brotherhood of Railway Employees will
be honored with a visit from the Chief
Executive of the organisation, George
Estes, in the near future. The local
officers are busy arranging for the com
ing of their president, which will be
this month. The many friends of Mr.
Estes and the railroad boys will be
pleased to know that two days of his
visit will be spent here at Roseburg.
The following will be his itinerary in
the jurisdiction of Roseburg Division:
President Estes will address a mass
ineetine at Glendale on Friday evening,
Aug. 21, to which everybody is invited.
He will be in Riddle, Saturday, the 22,
and the evening of the same day at
West Fork. From there will come to
Roseburg on No. 16 that night and re
main here Sunday, the 23d, and Mon
day, the 24th.
On Sunday, the 23, President Estes
will address all wage earners at 1 o'clock
p. m., and 7:30 p.m., places of meetings
announced later. Each meeting will be
followed with a closed session for U. B.
R. E. members. Monday, the 24, at
2 oclock p. m., there will be another
meeting for laboring men and in the
evening at 7 :30 o'clock there will be
a mass meeting to which the general
public is invited. A cordial invitation
is hereby extended to all labor organ
ivations of the city and all wage earners
to attend the open meetings on Sunday
and Monday afternoons. Everybody
(ladies and gentlemen) are hereby in
vited to be present at the mass meeting!
on Monday evening, the 24th.
Mr. Estes will visit ,whh relatives at
Drain on Tuesday, the '25, and address a
public meeting there in the evening.
Everybody invited.
Wednesday, the 26, he will, be at
Comstoek and at Eugene in tbe evening
where a mass meeting will be held, to
which all labor unions and tbe public
are invited. Thursday evening, the 27,
Mr. Estes will hold his last public meet
ing in this division, which will be at
Junction City, after which he goes to
the Portland Division.
This is the first visit of any note that
the president has b.en able to make tbe
Local Division since the U. B. R. E. was
organized Jan. 27, 1901, here in this
city. Since that time the organization
has grown with wonderfnl rapidity
spreading north, south, east and west
till today its members number way up
in the thousands.
The president will hold secret session?
with members of the division wherever
he stops.
Our many friends and members will
please watch the papers for further an
nouncements. Bv order of the division.
Wm. M. Mooke, Agent.
Miss Bertha Sehlbrede Entertains.
Miss Bertha Sehlbrede entertained a
few of her many mends to a Flinch
party, in honor of her guest, Miss Pearl
Skiff, of Salem, who has been visiting
with the former the past week. i
At S:30 the guests began to arrive and
in a short time the beautiful home was
filled with a young and happy crowd.
Music and games were indulged in un
til 11 o'clock p. m., when the guests
were ushered into the dining room
where ice-cream and Tarious cakes wero
quickly disposed of.
Pianola music and conversation were
indulged in for a short time, until the
guests again went to the dining room
and were treated to water melons, after
which the merry crowd left for their
different homes, each voting Misses
Skiff and Sehlbrede royal entertainers
Thev were assisted by Misses Elsie
Benedick and Lilith Moore.
Those nresent wero: Misses Pearl
Skiff, Kate Fullerton, Lillian Stanton
Gertrude Rast, Yell Barker, Edna Pars
lev. Willetha Reed. Elena Reed, Lutio
Sncrey, Marjory McDougall, Neita Ka
bat, Lona Kabat, Dale Harmon, Maude
Sehridan, Myrtle Fitzwater, Mrs. Sehl
brede. Messrs. William Gognon, Wil
bur Rosa, Thomas Townsend, John
Townsend, Ainslie Johnson, Nelso Os
manson, William Landon, Samuel
Josephson, Julian Josephson, Irving
Oihsnn. Stoll Zieler. Von Casey nnd
Elmer Wimberly.
How Can They Increase?
Some idea of the newness of some
parts of Oregon is shown in the fact
that Lake county, a territory approxi
mately 80 miles square containing 6400
square miles of territory has only 659
residents of school uge, or between the
ages of 6 and 21 years. Several other
counties are under the 1000 mark of
school population showing conclusively
that Oregon, with all its splendid re
sources and delightful climate has room
for millions where thousands are now
found The people are coming however,
and at 50,000 a year additions we will
make a decent showing of population.
Between now and the close of 1905 at
least 250,000 should be added to our
number. Eugene Register. All very
true Mr. Register, but how is Lake,
Crook and Klamath counties going to
get much more emigration when at
least 75 per cent of their best land is
now held in the reserve, under and by
the authority of Commissioner Richards
who imagins that this portion of Oregon
is now settled thickly enough. Prine
ville Review.
New Drain Sawmill.
Early this week work commenced on
the erection of the new sawmill of Wm.
J. Kelliher, on Billy creek, a few miles
southwest of Drain. A complete equip- j
raent of up-to-date machinery has
already been purchased for this millj
and some preliminary work is already j
being done. The plant has a guaran- j
teed dailv capacitv of 60,000 feet of
lumber in ten hours, and the power ;
equipment is much in excess of present :
needs, so that the matter of increasing
the output of the mills can be readily '
attained at anv time it mav be desired. :
About Prescriptions
The best of medicines are none too good for
sick folks. The best materials and thorough
equipment are the prominent features of our
prescription department.
f .:gate & Co.:
I ii to come to
; Toilet Requ
our store
uisites.
Fullerton - Richardson
Phone 451. ROSEBURG, ORE. Near Depot,
An important feature of this new enter-1
prise will be a lumber flume running
from tbe mill into the town of Drain,
which when in operation will deliver
the lumber at the railroad track with
out the usual expense of hauling. Lead
er. The Quarterly ol the Oregon Histor
ical Society for June, 19CG, has been re
ceived. As usual everv article it con
tains is of vital interest to every student
of Oregon History, as the following
table of contents indicates: "Oregon and
Its Share in the Civil War," by Robert
S. Piatt; "The Great West and the Two
Easts," by Henry E. Reed; "Social and
Economic History of Astoria," by Al
fred A. Cleveland ; "A Pioneer Captain
of Industry in Oregon," by Prof. James
R Robertson. In addition a number of
documents relating to Dr. Marcus Whit
man, the emigration of 1S42-3 and the
earlier conditions of the Oregon Country.
Copies of the quarterly may be secured
by applying at the Society Rooms, City
Hall, Portland, Oregon.
Resolutions of Condolence.
Resolutions adopted by Lilac Circle
No. 49, W. 0. W.
"No one hears the door that opens,
When they pass beyond our call;
Soft as loosened leaves of roses
One by one our loved ones fall."
Again mo wmie-winged messenger
has entered our Circle and taken a link
from our golden chain to be added to
that immortal chain in the Grand Circle
above, where death never enters and tho
links are never broken.
After nn illness of a few days, Neighbor
Charles McGowan passed irom tneitie
on eartii to that above. With him, in
deed, was there a realization of the
truth, "In the midt of life we are in
death," for hia sun went down as a star
at night falls from heaven, while his
life was in its full activity and the future
promising of many days.
Eaolrtd, That we, as a Circle, extend
to the bereaved parents our sincere
sympathy in their sorrow, and commend
them to Him "Who doethall thing,
well."
TXttohtd, That tbie memorial be enter,
ed on the records of our Circle, a copy
be sent to the bereaved family and to
the city papers for publication.
COBA WlMBEKLY,
Doha Rcxrno,
R. J. Preble,
Committee.
Drain Nonpareil New.
Editor Williams, of the Gardiner Ga-
' zette, was in town the first of the week
to meet hu mother.
Mr. PhilBrownell came up from Gar
diner Tuesday on his way to San Fran
cisco to vifit relative.
Mrs. F. L. Kenney, of Roseburg, is
visiting relatives at the McCallister ho
tel. Ijst Saturday evening Grandpa Gar
hail a Mroke of paralysis, hut
hopes are entertained mat ne wiii recov-
er from the effects of it.
Mrs. Irtarrett passed through Drain
Tuesday eur ute to her home in San
Francisco after several months' stay with
Gardiner friends.
Mrs. Ella Burt, of Portland, is the guest
of her mother, Mrs. H. Wilson, this
week while attending to butiness mat-
ters here.
Born, Monday, August 10, to Mr. and
II H
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s Bath soap is a winner. Don't
and see our fine line
Mrs. Chas Momincstar.a daughter.
At Albany August 12, Miss Ona Cotfin
and T. E. Wilson, were united in mar
riage. The bride is a granddaughter of
Mr. S. Harlan and is well known here
having taught school near here several
years ago.
Miss Verge Hutchins, of Leona, was
the guest of Miss Minnie Barker the first
of the week.
Mrs. Jim Johnson and daughter came
home Tuesday, after enjoying the coast
breeze for a week.
Paul Sterling is acting as warehouse
man and mail-carrier for the S. P. Co.
at the Drain depot.
Reports from over th stain tn ii
effect that the grain crop this year is
iuiuiuk oiu quue wen, tn some places
much better than is expected. Taking
the country as a whole the crop is con
sidered a good one. Threshing is in full
mast every where and consequently the
farmers are very busy.
Probate News.
In the matter of the estate of Ellis
Blackwell, deceased. Ben E. Le.t.r h.n
heen apjKMnted administrator and W.
F. Peck. Frank Wliint-
4WJ If J.
Reed, appointed appraisers of said
estate,
In tho matter of tho guardianship of
Mrs. Hattie Denne, insane. J. W.
Wright has been appointed guardian of
tho estate and person of said insane
person.
In the matter of tho eshito of Samuel
Dailoy, deceased, it is ordered that
Henry Wiley, Jacob Miller and W. C.
Bates, be appointed appraisers of tho
said estate.