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. THE Roseburg Plaindealer PnblUried ilondcy na TtmrwUjB. PLAINDEALER PUBLISHING CO. H. H. BROOKES, Editor. MARY K. BROOKES, Proprietor Entered at the Post Office in Roseburg, Ore., as second class mail matter. Subscription f 2.00 per Year. Advertising Rates on Application. The Editor ol the FxaIsdeilxb hat no Inten. tion of matins a false statement reflecting upon the life or character of any person, officially or otherwise and any statement published in these eolums will be cheerfully corrected if erroneous and brought to our attention by the aggrieved arty or parties. Our intention is that every article published of a personal or political cfik-Ul nat jre shall be news matter of general bite est and for the welfare of the State at large AUGUST 31. 1903. zens party man. We are told that the citizens ticket scientific medical man to do the 'emasculating act.' ' This is a sure is to be backed up by republicans who 1 method of converting a bad niggar want to down this or that man in the ' into a respectable colored coon and is THE CITIZENS' TICKET. The Plaixdealer has been asked this question: Will you support a citizens ticket under any considera tion? Our answer was: We are a Republican and under no considera tion will the Plaixdealer support a citizens ticket. Those are our sentiments and up holding them the Plaixdealer will either live or die, But when we come to analyze this citizens ticket business, what do we find to be the object in view? Nothing but a desire on the part of a few democrats who want to be elected to office and control the pay ing offices, while a few disgruntled republican renegades who want office at any price, even to the disruption of the party are willing to stand in with them because they want office also. So far as we have been able to find out, it has been talked republican party. Well, the Plain dealer never knew anything about such a breed of political monstrosi ties. The Plaixdealer man, if he had any grievances or saw anything he did not like in the party, would com mence a fight for what he believed to be principle, first in the precinct and then in the county conventions and would keep on fighting. He might get beat and lose the case but he would keep on fighting in the party and attend every convention. If he went into a convention and got downed he would vote for the man who downed him until the next con vention, when he would fight for the principle again or get out of the party and so announce. Every republican should rally round the standard and frown down the citizens ticket which would be neither republican nor democrat, nor this nor that, only a mongrel kind of vampire bat, a cross between an illegitimate republican and a democratic beast with the howl of a pop thrown in. SERVED THEM RIGHT. The various ring, rule or ruin news papers in Oregon that are regarded as the special official hurdy gurdys of Fulton, Mitchell, Williamson and Her mann, are tearing their linen and howling mournfully because President Roosevelt through Secretary Hitch cock has turned them down: and right here the Plaindealer wants to register its "Bully for the President." The case stands as follows. A political pot house and gambling hall boss about ' wanted a government position. The far ahead of the rough and uncouth method the writer has seen put in practice when only a sharp pocket knife and a handful of salt was re quired to convert a son of Ham from the error of his way. We are glad that the Universal Peace Union has decided upon the humane conversion of the colored race. The old Hebrew sacrament of circumcision was per formed on the Sth day after birth, and about that time or just asquickly afterwards as will insure perfect safety in the conversion act is the proper time to nrevent the sins that doth beset the colored race. Rnr Trouble with Tu.key. If Turkey does not promptly comply with each and everv demand of the Washington Government, Hear-Admir al Cotton will be instructed to seize one or more ports and hold them until the American demauds are granted. Minister Leishman's withdrawal will shortly follow in case Turkey refuses to comply with the American demands. In that event, the American Legation will be in charge of the British Minister. Roseburg this evening for treatment. Later: the yonng man's name wo learn "is William Simmons, and image 17 years. A pleasant surprise party was given Earl Strong at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Strong, Friday, bv the yonng ladies club known as the C. F. Cs At eight o'clock the rooms were filled with a merry crowd. Vari ous games were indulged in until a late hour, when ice cream and cake was served, after which they departed vot inir the evening very pleasantly spnt. Those present were: Misses Ella Black, TWsi. Kid.lm. Elsie Benedick, Auna Wharton. Emma Sehlbrede, Ada Cal kins. Vivian Jewett, Mary French, H.l .fpwott. Lilith Moore. Delia iri- Mpcm. Flovd Ramp. John Townsend, Leonard Hopfield, Ray Moore, Dallv Bell, LeNoir Ragsdale, Vivian French, Earl Strong. We understand there are to be two weddings in the near futuie. One being a prominent voung bnsiness man of West Rosebure. alout the middle of September. Mr. Adam Weaver and Alio Wort' iug- ton, of Canyonvili'. are in town toJay on business. They report everything all right at that pin- . sub rosa, that the democrats will not make nominations for the next elec tion but that they will fall into line Kith "we, us and company," who have mo actual standing in the republican party and by giving a few nomina tions to the recalcitrants they hope to control the election. But this is delegation because of the political pull the man had stood to him through thick and thin. The President had sent a special inspector to enquire in to the man's fitness for the position,, and the report was exceedingly sensa tional. The President notified the delegation that he would not appoint all talk ami it will be found that the the man because of the revelations democrats are basing their expecta tions on a delusion and snare. made to him and requested that the name of some other applicant be sent In the first place the republican ' in so that an immediate appointment admimstration of county affairs has j could be made, as the affairs of the been most commendable and in spite ' office was at the breaking tension, of all schemes the republican officials ' The delegation to force the President have good, clean records and the J to take their man of an unsavory rep dpmfvrats cannot noint the finrer of . utation refused or failed to send in scorn to z thev know t- jle transaction and far as gulling the the name of sufficient time another man. After had elapsed, he took Washington, Aug. 29. Minister Leish man has cabled the State Department that he called at the Foreign Office again last night and presented the American demands for an immediate investigation of the reported assassina tion of Vice-Consul Magelssen at Beirut. The Minister for Foreign Affairs, while denying all knowledge of the affair and attempting to discredit the report, on the insistance of Mr. Leishman promis ed that an immediate investigation would follow and the Turkish (iovern ment would take immediate steps to fiud out and punish the guilty parties. Mr. Leishman states that Macedonian conditions are growing constantly more acute and the situation in that section is grave In his cablegram to Minister Leish man last night regarding the report of the American Board of Missions that an attempt hud been made to burn the Euphrates College bui'dints at Harpoot, Acting Secretary Loomis instructed him to demand of the Turkish Government that it take immediate steps for the pro tection of the lives of all Americans. The Wlfe'a florae. An imnosltlon that l often practiced on the woman-tbe fanner's wife esp. dally-ls If then la an old. ringboned. spavined, crippled horse that U utove up generally nna pxu ui u use It U kept for tho women to drive, while we arguo that in these modem days a woman should demand a bortw that when she starts for a given point her clothes won't get out of style be fore she gets there. Farm JournaL Lire Stock Condlllona. Of the total uumber of horse on farms and ranges on Jan. 1. 1003. 2 per cent are reported n having died from disease. Of cattle a mortality of 2.4 per cent from winter exponure and 2.4 per cent from disease Is reported. The losses of sheep t"in exposure amounted to 5.4 per cent and the from disease to 2JS per cent, and the losses of swine aggregated 5.S per cent. Miss May Roberts, one of our most successful teachers, is visiting her sister, Mrs. James Merriman, and attending the Insrtute Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Brown are in town todav from Deer Creek. In he Ober-THorr. Every one lias a right to know what lie eats, and no one has any moral right to prevent his knowing. The time Is not far distant when there will be no legal right to d-oem- people as to what they are cntlns. Every office bulldim: & earth Is con gested with hollow eyed prisoners who are planning to Ik gentktnen fanners, about nest year or yr after, away from the burly burly and nothing to do except raise chickens. To ! a pxl cattle feeder B" " that one mut have an Inborn Vi for the work, and combined with this must be a high form of intelligence One of the moU unfortunate of men tal habits U a persistent and chronic disposition 10 perceive only the dis agreeable things of lift About Prescriptions The best of medicines are none too good for J iie1- ;nks. The best materials and thorough vt. pment are the prominent features of our prescription departineut. peogfe by any clap-trap, that, that is 1 the bit between his teeth and the Sjpefe "case. But thev want band wagon just rolled over Mitchell, -See and want it bad, and we never Fulton et. al. to such an extent that jw a democrat in our life who was , mey aon i Know exacuv wnere tney ot afflicted with the microbe of j are at. See. but in order to propagate, ori Hoorah! Hoorah for Roosevelt, i other words to fructify the mi-j Give it to them again Mr. President, erobe eerms. it is necessary to get a j if they will notnominate men of good, Jew, poor, fool republicans, or pro-'pure records and public life. Constantinople, Aug. 29. The news of the assassination of United States Vice-Consul Maselssen at Beirut, Syria, while he was driving homeward Sunday, reached here yesterday morning. The assassin is unknown, and there are no further details. United States Minister Leishman, on hearing of the outrage, proceeded immediately to the Foreign Office to confer with Tewfik Pasha. Lack of proper protection for the public in Beirut has been commented on for some time. The porte has even sent a Commission of inquiry, but nothing has resulted. SEE Colgate & C'o.'s Ji .t'i s .ij i- n vw: li... Don't "ail to come to our store and see our fine line of Toilet Requisite?. Ftiiierton - Richardson Phone 451. ROSEBURG, ORE. Near Depot. James Cluggage .McCully Dead. Give us men of sterling worth and integrity and not wirepullers. Give us true Republican citizens and not brawlers and bums. And now the Register and Guard of Eugene are having "a hot time in the old town." The Guard had some thing to say about the Booth-Kelley Lumber Company, and the company's paper the Register, is red hot on the Guard's trail. The la est news dispatches say that the Vice.Consul was not killed. Only shot at by Turkish troops. Bryan Stands by His Cleveland. Criticism of A CURE FOR LYNCHING. fessing republicans, in order to warm up the democratic germ patch, but as the democratic microbes while they are in a quiescent, comatose or mum mified state only want a little of the get there principle of a political rene gade to cause them to go forth and tattle for office; and the democrats -will see to it that the renegade re publicans are taken care of by the promise of election to inferior offices the same as they deserve. The only thing that the republican party has to fear from such a com bination is the-fact that there are one The great meeting of the Universal or twojprominent republicans who are Peace Union held at Mystic, Conn., to . . u-r 1 jl i i i 1 1. P Trilling to stuiiiiy tnemseives anu protest against lyncning ui negroes i nve aid and secret support to this , and other persons is over; and the ' - - l scheme because they fear that they ; eminent divines and most emi cannot be "floated" without the aid of jnent jurists passed a set of reso- few democratic mugwumps. Now i lutions which are Jim Dandies. Well, i fir. dnfcv of all true reDublicans we do not exactly know how to crive whose name we could not learn fofnrd Runnnrt th nartvL svrmnsk of th resolutions to ftonJ driving cattle into the mountains about ku 7 7 L r-y --v r- ------- - . twenty mHea from Rojebarg. Tho Vin- or principle sake. The man who lsjvey tne plan m chaste and elegant ( cent waa mtrylag a pun and was a republican because he aspires to ' form, but it is a better one than the walking in the rear of the young man. nffice or wants to be elected to office Egyptians had when they ordered all The gun exploded by some unaccount feapoor man. to nominate for any ! the Hebrew male children to be fed 'able manner and the bullet passed .i t, Tcho will mvA r,irl I to tho Nil Priori,! Th nkn is ' through the oung man's thigh and tho """" " " . b ; rT causeofmuch trouble in this world. and encouragement 10 a citizens pany. to love me niggar anu convert ma The V0Une man was left in the moun- ticket is not a republican but a citi- sinful propensities by employing a . ta;ns an n:gDti ami he will arrive in Referring to'criticism of his Urbana (Ohio) speech wherein he called Grover Cleveland a bunco-steerer, W. H. Brvan lays in his Commoner. "Will anyone deny that Mr. Cleve land had a secret understanding with a few Wall street magnates to carry out a policy which he would't have dared to advocate during the campaign? Shall we condemn the petty offense of the man who lures the unsuspicious into games in which they lose a small amount? Shall we do this and condone the treacherv of those who trifled with the confidence of the people and who used the hichest office in the land to reward those from whom ho had received favors It will do no harm to have Mr. Cleve land and his friends know the feeling of i the Democratic voters toward him." Bad Accident. Yesterday afternoon, a son of Billy Vincent, about 15 years old and a young man whose people live at Ten Mile, were James Clucgace McCully, a forest ranger of the Fort Ilamath district. who was found unconscious at his camp a short time since, and whose remains were brought to Jacksonville Wednes day night, died at Klamath, August 24, 1903, aged 49 years, 11 months and 27 davs. Mr. McCnlly is reputed to be the first white child born in Jacksonville. He was the son of Dr. J. W. and Jane Mason McCully, who were among the earliest pioneers of Jacksonville. Young McCully was a graduate of the Willamette University, a man of spark ling wit and humor, fine native ability, pleasant and genial disposition and had a host of friends. He is survived only bv a sister, .miss isa, wno resides in Jacksonville. S. C. Bartrum Eugene. Mr. Pruner, of business todav. left this inorninz for Riddle, is in town on Mrs. Clarence Gazely this place this week. is a visitor at if s KaU.rene Weaver, of Ca! yon- vtlle, arrived here thW morning t-j at tend tiit; institute. Mrs. E. It. Hannan and daughter, Myth, Mrs. Jameson of Portland, and Mr. Forrest Bartrum have returned from Ft. Klamath. Capt. John A. Freeland, wife and son, of Bethany, III. on their wav from Pomcna, California, where thev had been visiting with relatives, stopped off at Roseburg for a day to see their old friends W. A. Frater, wife and family, whom they have not seen for nearly twenty-flvc years. They were Wtil pleased with what they had seen of Ore gon and especially Roseburg. Thev left on Friday's local for Xanton, Alberta, Canada, where they go to visit their daughter who resides there. Miss Pearl Beales, of Days Creek, is a Roseburg visistor today. Mr. Willis, of Myrtle Creek, is trans acting business in town today. Misses Vera Phipps and Anna Salr man left today for Mt. Angel Academy, where they will attend school. The little daughter of Mr. Frank Pickett is very ill at tho family homo on Pine street. The fnther is in Cottage Grove, and ho was called by 'phone to return home tonight, for the doctor did not think the child will live more than two or three hours. For Sale. Gold coin winter wheat, white Rus sian side oat, vetch seed, Siberian oat yielded 549 bushels per acre 2 years ago, also pure leghorns and plymouth rock fowls, and Scotch Collie puppies, the finest in tho land. Address E. A. Krcse, Roseburg, Oregon. CG-lm. Farmers Attention. The Board of Trade desires to mat.', an exhibit of agriculturial and horticul tural products at the State Fair, and request the farmers to bring in speci mens of fruit in its season, and grain samples, not exceeding 10 pounds of each variety, up to Sept. 10th send at our expense, and oblige. RosEBCita Board of Trade. CC-4t.