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About The Plaindealer. (Roseburg, Or.) 1870-190? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 17, 1903)
Sheep Business. There'is always danger in a boom on aiiy.articlo of purchase and sale, and this is just as true of live stock as of any other tiling that goes to make up the business of the country, says Wool Markets and Sheep. We do not need to go far back in the history of the sheep business in this country to find the place where the lutt boom collapsed. It is not necessary to even name the breed that was boomed Every sheep man renu-mbeis how the excitement went up; how speculators bought and sold sheep at ever increasing prices, and how finally grades were bought, shipped to Texas, or the AYest or Northwest, and sold as pure-bred animals by unscrupulous swindlers. It was good times for every man own ing a sheep of the breed. Then came the end and it brought destruction in a way that threatened to put at least one breed of sheep out of business for a long time to come. 'Whole docks were sac rificed at prices that were ridiculously below the coat and very much below the real valne of the stock. It was the swing of the pendulum to the other ex treme. That which goes up rapidly comes down just as rapidly. This is an inex orable law of nature. Give anything an impulse that sends it high in air and it will come back at the same high speed It is an example of the old saying, "Fly high and light low." The sheep business is in good condi tion. It is on a money-making basis. Prices are fairly good and will no donbt be fairly well sustained. We have not enough sheep in this country to glut the market. There is room for hundreds of thousands more, and the demand for wool and mutton is an ever-increasing one. Our brethren yonder in Australia have seen their flocks die from lack of water and feed, while they looked help lessly to brazen Ekies and sun-baked plains, hoping for the relief that did not come, that has not yet come. The wool clip of Australia is diminishing on ac count of the years of drought, and the demand for wool is as insistent as ever. Argentina has had no misfortunes, but the flocks of that country can furnish no more than usual, and American sheep This startling stateim lit was made by Pr. 1. Lango an X-rj'V exiert, who was one of the pioneers m the . -. of the Roentgen ray in Cliim . Ii ua ap ropos of the disastrous- olfts-'s f X r..ys upon Edison and bis ntstw . 1 muho English physicians. Dr. W. C. Fuclis ww- one of the first physicians to us-f the X-ray in the United States. Br nitwit of it he lias explored the interior, he declares, of most of Chicago's niilliuii'utcs. He was caiiea to. iiiut&io to 'octietne ussass-nrs bullet which struck down President 31c Kinley. He has been f associated with Edison in laboratorr work and is an expert on X-ray practice. But for four years his hands have been covered with appar ently incurable ulcers, prdnced by con stant exposure to X-rays. "X-rays are dangerous when used by those who do not understand their mys terious power," said Dr. Fusch, with an emphatic gesture of kis bandaged hand. 'The injurious effect of the rays upon I human flesh is progressive. My hands have been exposed many times daily for long periods and injury was inevitable I think accidents are falling off, be cause practitioners are learning to use brief exposures. TheKind pfames Pirate Band Harries Shore. New England A novel and new plan of operation by organized theives has come to light off the Connecticut shore. Officials of Greenwich, Conn., are looking for a biack auxiliary sloop yacht which has appeared off the shore at Sound beach and Belle Haven during the past few months, and whose appear ance each time was followed by some robbery. It is believed that there is a gang of organized robbers abroad, such as were formerly called pirates. Xot onlv have residence and hotels been en tered and much of valu stolen, but boats have been taken from the shores of all the resorts from Xew Rochelle to to bo used is very much a matter of taste. It is import ant, though, that the frames set properly on the nose, and at the right distance from the eyes. That the lenses be perfectly centered, and how nre you to know when some one is guessing. WE NEVER GUESS Glasses Bight, Good Sight, R.F.WINSLOW Je5e'efai Optician MRS. H. E ASTON J ib iiojireu iu wui upuu uiu J and newcuetomersandfrienda with a full and complete f stock of x GROCERIES All fresh and of the very beat quality. Teas aad coffees are specialties. Your patronage solicited. I 1. Cl o.-k.. BEST MEAL IN THE CITY FOR 25 Shippan Point, Stamford, and tents and CENTS. awnings carried away in the night. At the Sonnd Beach inn a week ago more than $ 1000 worth of jewelry was missing from the guests' rooms, and THE NEW REIUI Cor. Washington and Main Streets Mrs. Belle Collins REDUCED All Colored Summer Goods Reduced to COST We must maKe room for New Goods WOLLENBERG BROS., Phone 801. A GREAT COHPANY thought employes were searched no trace men have reason to look forward to good of the jewels could be found times and to reasonable returns from i Constable their investments. Xlie Xcw-York Life . The way to win in any business is to lay out a plan of campaign and stick to it. Three times within the memory of the writer there has been a boom in sheep, a wild scramble to buy stock, the rise in prices that comes from such com petition, and in the end a collapse that worked disaster to thousands. Our advice is to stick to the the sheep tTimnc?Ti thirk and thin. T.pr nn fpnr nf disaster cause anv one to sell needlesslv ! vb.ion of the Chicag0 and. E.a8tern ?U Xbe public is hereby cantloued Xedlev and Policeman ! aKa,nBl aoinc baainess Tkltb the Schleichtwig of Stamford visited the I above concern, it ban a fncalty Sound beach shore yesterday to locate ofdead-toeatins: tt Jaat bUln nno the boat if possible. They were evidently i any company dolnc so will bent seen br those on the sIood. which was i 118 patrons 11 It Kett a cbance. anchored in the cove a half mile from shore, for when the officers jumped into a rowboat the sloop moved off. Ban on Flirting For 1 reintnan. Trainmaster on the Terre Haute di- Tlita company Is represented by W. J. Moon, Agent. Roiebnrs Ore Of your life if you buy a buggy, hack or road wagon before 3ou inspect our stock of John Deere vehicles. We Are After You Haven't missed a sale since car arrived. Finest lire & spring goods ever brought to the count'. CHURCHILL & W00LLEY Title tiuarantee&Loan Co. r. d. B05KBURG, OEEGO.V. D C. HaXXLTO. I nois were much surprised to find , bulletins posted at stations in which I some of the men are accused of flirting. The bulletin is as follows : Haxtltox, President r &ecj. and Treu If every one will do this, collapse cannot ' come. As a meat producing animal the cuccp n lie naai. j.uc nuui isiui auB . - r ri ' aiuonai.fcource oi revenue, cneep are h, vn mnH thnt ; also a complete .etol Tracings b' all township better than cattle, because they give , Complaint has been ma de that some ; ta, f Eobure. Oregon, n. s. Un d Di, rv , ' J v-..-l ,t. I ofonr trainmen especially thoseemploved W?t. wu make blne-prlnt copies of any town uuutc uuui tu ruuitcs, icuci iuuu f .... , snip 09ce in tbe Court House. HaTe the only com rUete tet ot abstract book! In Donelai CountT Abstracts and Certificate oi Title furnished to Douglas countr land and mining claim. Hate j hogs, because they not only give returns from meat and wool, but they are not so liable to deadly and wide-reaching epi demics ; better than any other kind of farm stock, because they are easily kept within bounds, will consume with profi; all kinds of farm crops, and at the same time enrich the land. ! on the Terre Haute division locals, are ; in the habit of flirting with ladies resid ing near our tracks at West Montezuma and Hillsdale. The offenders are liable to get themselves into serious trouble if the practice is continued. A word to the i 01 ?v?rJ llescytn wise is sufficient. (Signed) S. Hcffmax, "Trainmaster. Stock Killed by Poisoned Air. One of the most remarkable atmos pheric depressions is reported from Oacoma, S. D. Following the hottest day ever experienced in the South Da kota town occurred an atmospheric con dition, lasting only a few minutes, but fatal to livestock and greatly distressing to human beings. During the day nearly every kitten less than 6 months old in the vicinity of i N. A. FOSTER & CO., GOVERNMENT LANDS Farms and Min eral Lands. Oregon, Washington and OAKLAND. OREGON Minnesota U'23) "The Conquest" a novel recently writ ten by Miss Eva Emery Dye, of Oregon City, has been dramatized by her and will be pat on the stage this fall bv a companyof Eastern people, thecompany being officially known as the Clement Keefer Dramatic Co. Dr. Frankenfield, now of tbe weather bureau in Washington, but for a long time weather observer at St. Louis, is preparing a special report on the floods Oacoma died, apparently from Jthe i 01 tne -Missouri valley wnicn created such effects of some gaseous matter in the air. j havoc recently. The report has already A bunch of eighteen head of cattle in i progreesed to a point where he is able to one drove was seen coming down from I s3? at the property loss was in excess the flats and eight of them fell to the ground. A farmer living near by ran to them and found e5s of the eight already dead, while the other two jumped up and ran frantically away. John Marrin, a stockman living on of $7,000,000, making all due allowance for exaggerations and for the duplication of reports by tbedifferent agents engaged in the work. A splendid example of the country's financial prosperity, says the Ashland Abstract of Title to Deeded Land. Papers prepared for filing on Govern ment Land. Blue Prints of Township Maps showing all vacant Lands. FRAME. ALLEY Architect, Abstracter. Plans an4 Estimates for ail Build ings. Special designs for Office Fixtures Office in new Bank Building. 'Phone 415 ROSEBURG. OREGON White river, reports the lots of six head I Tidings, is given by the late flurries in the same day. No losses have occurred i Wall street and the complete absence of since and none prior to that time, and any effect they had on Hie rest of the it is generally believed that the copious rains which have fallen since have neu tralized whatever poison to animal life may have been in the air. It was a phenomenon heretofore unknown there. Hundreds Injured By X-Ray. "Many hundred persons have been seriously injured by unskillful applica tion of the X-ray in Chicago. About 500 X-ray machines are in use in the city. Of tbe practitioners using the X-ray not more than ten are competent to apply it to patients without danger." country. Stock quotations dropped to figures representing a billion of dollars of loss. But all the commotion caused thereby was what has been aptly charac terized "a richman'8 panic." Stock speculators on the bull side saw their wealth melting away like ice under the fierce rays of an August sun. The whole line of prominent stocks slid down J tbe quotation lino like a toboggan. But I when the bottom was reached, as seemed 1 evident to magnates of Wall street, the ' latter came upon the scene and picked i up stocks on the rising market because they were cheap. THE PACIFIC HOMESTEAD The Greatest Farai Paper of the North west. Published vreeklv at Salem. Ore con. Edited by the Farmers of the HS'orthweBt. Twenty Pages. Illustrated. A WESTERN PAPER FOR WESTERN PEOPLE 51 Papers for $1.00. Less than acts each Publication began March 1, 1000. Novr has o.aoo subscribers. Phenomenal growth Is due to Its being tho best farm paper pub lished. YOU SHOULD READ IT HOMESTEAD AND PLAINDEAIER $2.75 A YEAR. A. C. MRSTERS rl CO. DRUGGISTS. We Want Your Patronage and as an inducement we offer U. S. P. 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