Oregon llltoricaJl!, mbm 0 ROSEBURG, DOUGLAS COUNTY, OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1903. Vol. XXXV No. 76 fOR fiNE CONFECTIONERY and ICE CREAM PARLORS NORF1ANS' Fruits, Candies, Cakes, Pies, Doughnuts and fresh Bread Daily k7 Portland Journal Agency. Hendrick's Block, Opp. Depot g I. J. NORflAN & Co. Prop. Si FARMERS' CASH STORE, Q. A. WOOD & CO, Props DEALER IN Staple aiie Fancy Groceries. Highest Price paid for country produce. Fresh bread daily. Your Patronage is respectfully solicited. Private Free Delivery to All Parts of the City TROXEL BLOCK OPP PASSENGER DAPOT ALASKAN BOUNDARY COMMISSIONERS CAN'T SETTLE QUESTION. THEIR POWERS ARE SO LIMITED THAT QUESTIONS ARE ONLY ANSWERED. HELLO 8 r Bring Us Your GH1GSENS, BUTTER, FOR CHSH OR TRHDE. J.F. Barker & Co. Heating Stoves Cook Stoves, Stove Pipe Stove Boards. AT S. K. SYKES9 Roseburg, Oregon Hints to Housewives. Half the battle in good cooking is to have good FRESH GROCERIES And to get them promptly when you order them. Call up Phone No. 181 for good goods and good service. C. W. PARKS & CO. A London dispatch of last Friday's date to the Associated Press says: Sir Edward Carson, the Solicitor-Gen eral, consumed the time of the Houn- dry Commission today in endeavoring to refute the arguments of David T. Watson and Hannis Taylor, of counsel for the United btates, especially pro testing aj;.kinst Mr. Taylors conten tion tliat the term "trend of the coast" could only apply to the politi cal coa?t ii :e and not to the physical coast line. tie also maintained that tne pnnci e of acquiescence was not applica e to the present dispute, and some what surprised the audience by de aling that under the powers of the treaty of 1903, the Commissioners :iad no authority to define questions submitted to them, and that they could neither lay down the boundary nor decide what constituted the coast All the Commissioners could do was to answer questions submitted to them in the treaty either negatively or affirmatively. If they gave certain answers they might make matters more confused than ever and open up new series of diplomatic tangles. The Solicitor-General concluded with an eloquent reference to Great Britain's unwillingness to give up any f her subjects into the control of other nations. He declared he thought the public mind might think the Com mission was slow and that counsel were wasting time, but no time and no money would ever be wasted if the ong-standing dispute between the two great and friendlv powers could be solved by the tribunal. When Jacob M. Dickinson, of con- sel for the United States, rose toccn- ude the arguments, the room was filling up with spectators. He com menced by belittling the minute ex aminations of maps and the bicker ing over words and details, declaring that the case could only be settled by grasping the central idea animating the original negotiations. J. M.Weatherby T. A. Bury D. L. Martin Rosefourg Real Estate Co. Farm and Timber Land Bought and Sold Taxes Paid for Non-Residents. Timber Estimates a Specialty. ty with List your proper- us. WAWV.VmV.V.VA"WAWmWWiVAWAV i Drain Gardiner ! COOS BHY STHGE ROUTE 5 Commencing with Monday, January 20. '02, we will charge $7.50 for tbefare from Drain to Corn Bay. Baggage allowance with each full fare 50 pounds. Travelling men are allowed 75 pounds baggage when they have 300 pounds or more. All excess baggage, 3 cts. per pound, and no a lowance will be made for round trip. DAILY STAGE. For further information address J H. Sawyers, J Proprietor, Drain, Oregon WA'AWAS". VAV.V.VA'AVA V.VAW.VA"AW.VA '.W I i a. u. riMtto i nno a uu. DRUGGISTS. We Want Your Patronage and as an inducement we offer TJ. S. P. Standard Drugs, Fresh Patent Medicines, High Grade Perfumes, Soaps, Toilet Arti cles, aud Spicsa'ties Thouirhtful parliamentarians are wondering if the king is slowly fool ing his way to autocratic power as his nephew, the kaiser, has done. Cer tainly in the present chaotic condition of politics in England the king is the strongest and most influential man in the seats of the mighty. Desert Wheat Farms. . ' iuii muuin nuuiu nub uu wauling, illJU A Military King. The growing political and diploma tic power of the King of England and his obvious desire to be more than a figurehead in the constitutional mon archy is attracting the attention of the thinking classes of England. It is now stated that the king is ambi tious to become commander in chief of the army when Roberts retires from command. Until five years ago this office was always held by member of the reigning house, 'ive years ago the duke of Cambridge was ousted from the commandership after a bitter struggle by the Lib erals, led by Campbell-Bannerman, then minister of war. It was de- deciareo hopeless to expect necess- sary reforms until the command of the army was arrested from the royal family. Tne public regards the kmgs am bition to regain commandership of the army listlessly. After the Wolseley- Roberts failures at reform in the army they are convinced that the king could not be worse. The veter an parliamentarians are openly criti cising Lansdowne for his unconstitu tional conduct in allowing the king practically to become his own foreign minister. The king has met on for eign soil and conversed on politica subjects with nearly all the rulers of Europe during the past six months in the absence of the British cabinet minister. Since the days of the Stuarts no such unconstitutional con duct has marked the career of a Brit ish minister of foreign affairs. The king undoubtedly is a more able diplomat than Lansdowne, and has done more for Britain in six months than Lansdowne could have done in a dacade, but, nevertheless, many members of Parliament regard with alarm the fact that the strong ambitions of the king and the weak minister have between them complete ly altered the accepted constitutional practice of the nation. The real powers behind the are not Lansdowne and Balfour, but Because Mr. Wilson, secretary of agriculture, has succeeded in making arid regions of the West produce an excellent quality of macaroni wheat, a native of Algieria, to the extent of 10,000,000 bushels this year, ho has brought upon himself the condem nation of the millers of tho country who have not yet matured the pro cess of milling this hardy grain. While the department of agriculture is not inclined in any sense to adopt an antagonistic policy toward the millers the simple record of the de velopment of this crop from 75,000 bushels three years ago, when it was first introduced, to 10,000,000 bushels this year, is believed to be sufficient indorsement for the introduction of the wheat. Especially this the so when the fact is considered that the land which produces this enormous wheat crop was absolutely unproductive up to the time of its introduction. Secretary Wilson is not altogether discouraged at the protest of the millers, but looks at the matter simply as a campaign ef education. The new wheat has a much harder kernal than that to which the millers of this country have been accustomed. Because they can not readily adjust their machinery to the new wheat, is believed by the secretary to be no adequate reason why the Western deserts should not produce a good crop. There is no complaint against the new wheat after it has once been ground into flour. Extensive experiments have been conducted by the department in breadmaking with this flour. The hundred loaves of bread made from the macarcni wheat and properly labeled as such were recently sent out, together with 200 oaves made from the best spring wheat from the Northwest to experts in varous parts of the country. Opinions were asked as to which was the best bread, and the result was entirelv in favor of the new flour. 10S responding with hearty indore- ment of the macaroni loaf, while seventy-four answers favored the old-! flour. When the fear of the millers is analyzed it seems to be simply a dread that the new grain will eventu ally become the universal crop of the country. Just whv objections should be made to this condition, if it should really be the case, is not clearly de fined. Secretary Wilson congratulat ed himself three years ago when enough seed was brought over to produce the 75,000 bushels. He was somewhat astonished the next vear to find that the crop was over 3,000,- 000 bushels, and he sees anything but a disadvantage in the present splendid crop in sight when he considers that it is all grown in the arid region, which extends practically 100 miles on either side of the 100th meridian, embracing the western sections of North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and Texas and the eastern section of Colorado and Wyoming. The whea will grow with an annual rainfall of but 10 inches. Hereto fore it has been produced only in the arid regions of Russia, and its impor tation into thi3 country for growth was made only after a careful study and comparison of the climate of our Western desert with the conditions prevailing in the native section of the wheat. MACEDONIA BROKEN. REVONUTION IS N EARING THE END. CHRISTIANS SLAUGHTERED BY HUNDREDS BY THE BLOODY TURKISH TROOPS. no European out of reach of the guns of warships would be left alive. The End of Bryanlsm. A dispatch from Sofia, Bulgaria, of last Saturday's date says: Accord ing to advices received here this aft ernoon the backbone of the revolu tion in Macedonia is broken. The Turkish troops are gaining the upper hand everywhere. Several insurgent chiefs have been killed or wounded, others are abandoning the struggle and fleeing to the frontier. The re volutionary bands are sustaining heavy losses, and are seeking refuge in large numbers, and the Turks oc cupy every important point along the routes of retreat to the frontier. Fighting is reported to have taken place throughout the districts of Razalog, Melnik, Demirhissar and Nevrokop. The Macedonia revolutionary head quarters assert that they have posi tive information that the whole Christian population of the town of Mehomia, Province of Seres, was massacred September 23, with the exception of ten men, who escaped with the news. Mehomia is an important town, and the seat of the local government. The population numbered 3200 per sons. According to the fugitives, when the general uprising was declared in the Razlog district on Sunday, the Turkish troops in the Pirian Mount ains hurried to Mehomia and surround ed the town, rendering the escape of the Christians impossible. The Bul garian people were prepared to join the rising, several insurgent agents being in the Bulgarian quarter of the town at the time. Desperate fight ing occurred in the streets, bombs and dynamite being freely uswl. After fighting for five hours the Turks gained the upper hand and proceeded to massacre even Bulgarian thev ncountered. European Benevolent Assimilative. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. No one who is acquainted with its good qualities ran be surprised at the great popularity of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It not only cures colds and grip effectually and permanently, but prevents these diseases from resulting in pneumonia. It is nleo a certain cure for croup. Whooping cough is not dangerous when this remedy is given It contains no opium or other harmful substance and may be given as confi dently to a baby as to nn adult. It is also pleasant to take. When all of these facts are taken into consideration it is not surprising that people in foreign lands, as well as at home, esteem this remedy very highly and very fow are willing to tako other after having onco used it. For sale by A. 0. Marstcrs and Co. Notice. At a regular meeting of the directors ol school District No. 4, tlio clerk was authorised to open books for subscrip tion to warrant loan of $20,000, said books to bo open Oct. 1st. Subscribers can subscribe for amounts of (50 or mul tiplcs thereof. Warrants will draw in throne nowadays terett at tho to of 4X I)0r cunt an j uuiu uuu win uu utjuuiu ua iimuna i Sz.lKKl on oh Riirrmwimi' vnur until nil nrn Lord Rothschild and bir hrnest bas- pa5(1. For other information apply sel. I 75-tf Clara Dillahd, Clerk. The Iterlin correspondent of the Daily Mail says he learns that an agreement of the leading nations of Europe was reached weeks atro in re gard to the policy to be pursued in the Mediterranean. France is to have a free hand in Morocco; Italy is to have Tripoli; the British protect orate over Egypt is be recognized and strengthened; Spain will receive some concessions from France, while Germany will get commercial privi eges and the open door. The reported intention of France to establish a protectorate over Morocco has been much canvassed in the last few days. The story, which was first launched by M. Jaures, the well-known French Socialist leader, and has since been repeatedly denied, is reasserted today. The Paris correspondent of the Daily Mail claims that he is able to confirm the story on unimpeachable authority. He says an arrangement has been made by France and Eng- and, with the acquiescence of Spain, and, it is believed, with the know- edge of Italy, for the establishment of a French protectorate. A strip of land along the coast will be declared neutral, thus avoiding the possibility of any international complication over fortified ports. The British government is in full possession of tho facts, and is quite satisfied. There is a good deal of reason to believe that tho visit of King Edward to Paris brought about tho inception of the scheme, ureat lintam, in re turn, will receive a quid pro quo elsewhere, possibly in the direction Marion Butler, formerly senator from North Carolina, and about the only man who remains of the old Pop ulist organization who retains any prominence, announced on Saturday that he would retire from the chair manship of the Populist committee after the next convention was organ ized. Mr. Butler, in making his an nouncement, speaks of the party with which he has been so long identified as still in existence, and gives as a reason for his retirment the fact that his business interests make it necessary. Mr. Butler says the Populists will again put a ticket in the field and ex presses the belief that they will poll more votes at the coming election than they did at the last. What he S3ys about the power of the Cleveland wing of the Democratic party is par ticularly interesting. Mr. Butler was asked whether the determination of the Populists to run an independent ticket and to decline to fuse with any party, as determined upon at the last meeting or the National Populist committee, was not En acknowledgment that the Eastern Democratic leaders would have charge of the national Democratic conven tion, to the exclusion of the Bryan wing of the party. "There is no doubt that the gold men will control the Democratic party," he replied. "It will be the Cleveland influence. Of course, it will not be possible to tell whom these forces will nominate, but that will make no difference. The candidate and platform will be such that the Populists who voted for Mr. Bryan will not go for them. I can not tell whether Mr. Brvan will stav with the Democratic party, but I am sure of one thing whatever may be his in fluence in the Democratic national convention when that convention has acted he will not be able to keep his following in line for the Democratic candidate." Continuing Mr. Butler said: "Tho great feature of the Populists' plat- lorm win lavor tne national owner ship of the means of carrying on com- merce. We will advocate the sobsti-: tation of public money for bank notes j and will urge government ownership of railroads and the facilities of transmission of intelligence. These ! are the great means for the creation and upbuilding of monopolies, and when they are owned and controlled by the government the backbone of monopoly will be broken. "There is but one set of men band ed against government ownership of the railroads. They are the highly paid officials who are paid for run ning them. They would resist thi3 movement, but they will not be sup ported by the stockholders when the movement is fairly inaugurated. Stockholders in the railroads have told me that they would be glad to exchange their holdings for govern ment "bonds." R W- FENN, CIIL ENGINEER. (Lately with the government gsographical and geological survey of Brazil. South America.) United States Deputy Mineral Surveyor. ROSEBURG, OREGON. Ofllce over Postoffice. Correspondence solicited go to THE ROSELEAF for CIGARS, TOBACCO HND SMOKERS' SUPPLIES, Jackson Street, - - Roseburir. Ore,, Attention Rheumatics!! Why pay the Rail Road a lot of money to carry you to Springs of unknown medical properties when you can be guaranteed a cure at BOSWELL SPRINGS near home. ELATEHITB la Minora! Rnbber.l VOL' J1AV INTEND BUILDING or Qnd It necessary lo REPLACE A "WOBLX-OTJT HOOF ELATERPPE ROOFHEG sold on merit. Guanatted. It will jy to ak tor price and Inforeurtos. 'vamaxlucon' THIS ELATERITE ROOFING CO., "Worcester Baililinc. IOKTXiA2'JO 1 LADIES!! Have you seen our line of Jackets and Furs. We do not claim to do all the busi ness, what we want is the pleasure of showing our line. The Goods will do the rest. We are confident that vour Jacket or Fur will be bought of WOLLENBERG BROS., Phone 801. i For City Recorder. I hereby announce myself a candidate for tho office of City Recorder, subject i to the approval of the lepal voters of the city of Roseburjr, on the 5th day of Oct 1903. John T. Lono. 74 tf Cause of Lockjaw, lockjaw, or tetanus, is caused by a bacillus or germ which exists plentifully in street dirt, ltia inactive so Ion;; as exposed to the air, but when carried be neath the skin as in the wounds caused by percussion caps or rusty nails, and when the air is excluded the germ is roused lo activity and produces the most virulent poison known. Theso germs may bo destroyed and all danger of lock jaw avoided by applying Chamberlain's Pain Balm freely as soon as tho injury is received. Pain Balm is an antisepic and causes cuts, bruises and like injuries to heal without maturation and in one third the time required by tho usual treatment. It is for salo by A. C. Mars tors' and Co. Of your life if you bu y a buggy, hack or road wagon before ou inspect our stock of John Deere vehicles. We Are After You Notice to Contractors Scaled Bids will bo received by the Board of School directors of Dist. No. 4, Roteburir Orecon. until 2 o'clock p. m. I Nov. 2, 1903, for tho erection and com Diction of a Hich School building ac- ' cording to plans and specifications, pre of Egypt, bpain will also receive I pared by Chas. Burggral, Architect, certain advantages. It is thought 1 Albany Oro. All bids must bo accom tho remodelinr of influence on the ; hy a certified chock payable to Moditerranian will chiefly affect Germany, who is belioved to have had intentions regarding Morocco. The only point at issuo is when tho schemo will be put out into effect. It may ho carried out at any moment. Tho Franch, at any rate, are ready. It can not bo established whether tho schemo meets tho acquiesceno, albeit unwilling, of tho sultan of Morocco. Ho may make a virtue of necessity, in which case ho would be supported on tho throne, but under any circum stances the religion fanaticism of ' school District No. 4, Rosobnrg, Oro gon, for tho sum of ?25U. As a guaran tee that in tho event tho contract is awarded, tho contractor shall furnish an approved bond, equal to 75 per cent of the contract within ten days after tho awarding of tho contract Proposals for tho samo, plans and specifications, may bo seen at S. C Flint's, Rosoburg, Oregon, or at tho architect's ollko. Tho building shall Iks completed by Soptember 1st, 190 The board resorvos tho right to reject any or all bids. Signed S. C. Flint, Chairman, Board of Director Dia. No. Claiia. Dillaru, Clerk. 75-N2 rlaven't missed a sale since car arrived. spring goods ever brought to the county. Finest line o CHURCHILL d W00LLEY A. SALZ MAN, Pratical WatchmaKer, Jeweler, Optician. Watches, ClocHs, Jewelry Diamonds and Silverware Watch Repairing a Specialty. rXXXOOCKCCKX0000003 CKXXKXKXKXKX) OOOOO F. W. BENSON, A . C. MARSTERS, II . C. O ALST, President, vice rreiident. Cah!r Douglas County Bank, Established I883. Incorporated 1901 Capital Stock, $50,000.00. BOARD OF DIRECTORS F. W. BKNSON, 1U A. BOOTH J. II. BOOTH, 3. T. BRIDQKS J.F.KKLL7.A.C.MARSTKRS K.L MILLER. A general banking business tranacted, and customers given ovary 2 accommodation consistent with safe and conservative banking. a Bank open from nine to twelve and from one to three. 6 OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOO oooooooooooooooooo