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Oregon Historical Socio! y POilT.ilir. ... . tbut - Vol. XXXV ROSEBURG, DOUGLAS COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1903. No. 77 00 1LI 1T1T1TI PUT (PF' - 1 MODriAM' FOR HNE CONFECTIONERY g 1 1NUKU and ICE CREAM PARLORS 1 I Fruits, Candies, Cakes, Pies, Doughnuts and fresh Bread Daily Portland Journal Agency. Hendrick's Block, Opp. Depot I. J. NORflAN & Co. Prop. FARMERS' CASH STORE, G. A. WOOD & CO, Props DEALER IN Staple ane 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 PASSEHGER DAPOT ring Us Your FOR CHSH OR TRKDE. J. F. Barker & Co. I Heating Stoves Cook Stoves, Stove Pipe Stove Boards. AT S. K. SYKES, 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 8l GO. 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. List your pioper ty with us. rain Gardiner ; COOS BHY STH.GE ROUTE Commencing with Monday, January 20, '02, we will charge $7.60 for J ttefare from Drain to Coo? Bay. Baggage allowance with each full faro 60 pounds. Travelling men are allowed 75 "pounds baggage when they f have 300 pounds or more. AI! excess baggage, "3 cts. per pound, and no a S I" lov.-ance will be made for round trip. DAILY .STAGE. For further information address '. J H. Sawyers, Proprietor, Drain, Oregon " uumAut Dodglnp tho It sue. The Boanl of Trade is in receipt of a letter, through Senator C. W. Ful ton, from Hon. W. A. Richards, com missioner of tho General Land Office, relative to the forest reserve protest sent to the government officials tho forepart of August. From this let ter it is apparent that the Interior Department does not desire to meet the issue presented in tho protest, which is "a restoration to the public domain of the withdrawn lands." A portion of these lands are unsurveyed, and the protest recites that fact. This statement seems to afford a loop hole of escape. The commissioner's letter entirely omits to mention the matter of "protest," but goes off on a sidetrack and discusses tho ques tion of a "survey." Of course it is necessary to have the land surveyed as an incident to acquisition of title; but it is a far more important matter to have the land subject to entry af ter a survey thereof has been made. The commissioner advises that an 'application of surrey be made," in order that the Department may pass on the "bma fides" of the application. This is th " flimsiest kind of a subter fuge. Who is going to make appli cation for the survey of a forest re serve? Why should a citizen care whether or not the land is sun-eyed, if it is not open to entry? It is cer tainly of no interest to an intending homesteader to know that land is sur veyed if ho is precluded from enter ing it. It would be quite convenient for the department to hare "applica tions of survey" filed at this time, which would require from two to a dozen vears for an examination of bona fides," during which time the mind of the public being diverted from the real issue, to that of a sur vey, would afford the scrippers ample opportunity to examine and select all the valuable lands within the with drawal. No, Mr. Richards and Mr. Hitchcock, we want you to revoke the order of withdrawal, or say you will not do it, and we wiil then know how to act. Your "bona tides" have already been examined and the people of the West have you pretty well sized up. bo far the larceny is complete and you have the goods, but your po sition is too strained to stand the ten sion for very long. All the Willamette towns drawing their water supply from that river are afflicted with diseases directlv traceable to the impure water, con taminated by animal sewerage. Sa lem alone has over two hundred cases of typhoid or typhus fever and be cause the Health Board has charged directly that the water supply is the cause, the citizens have seven kinds of fits caused by kicking so lustily at the Board's report. The various towns believe in their water, on the principle that, while the microbes do not fatten, they fill up a long felt want in the denizens' anatomy. DYNAMITE The lawyers who represented I. Harry Stratton, of Colorado Springs, Colo., in attempting to break his father's will, have been awarded by a jury $od,UUU lor their services. Harry Stratton was regarded by his father as a ne'er-do-well, and was practically disinherited of the millions which ought to have been left to him if he had behaved himself. When the father was a poor man the Editor knew him welL He was then a just man and we think he carried out principal when he disinherited the young man who secured $350,000 on a compromise and would not pay his lawyers until forced to do so. r A. C. MRSTERS & CO. We Want Your Patronage and as an inducement we offer U. iS. P. Standard Drugs, Fresh PatentMedicines, High Grade Perfumes, Soaps, Toilet Arti cles, and Specialties In Germany on Tuesday an electric car on the Marienfelde-Zossen ex perimental line reached a speed of 125 4-5 miles per hour today, or a kilometer more than the highest previous record. The machinery and roadbed were unimpaired. The cur rent was between 13,000 and 14,000 volts, capable of driving the car at the rate of over 200 miles. The lives of all on board the experimental car were heavily insured. The body of the late Ambassador Herbert was burried at Wilton, Eng land, on Tuesday. Memorial services were held the same day in St. John's Episcopal church in Washington, which was attended by the President Roosevelt, wife and family and all tho members of the Cabinet. THE NORTHERN PACIFIC IS THE VICTIM. RAILROAD CAB BLOWN OFF OF ENGIN THE BLACKMAILERS DEMAND $50,000 FROM THE COMPANY OR GREAT DAMAGE WILL BE DONE. The Chicago city council has de termined to employ special detectives to watch officials suspected of dis honesty." Chicago is setting the pace for municipal purity which other cit ies would do well to follow. The King of Italy is to officially visit France in tho near future. For several weeks past the officials of the Northern Pacific Railroad have received threaten ing letters that unless $50,000 was paid that the road would be destroyed or great damage done. Several dynamite explosions have occurred and several have been prevented by the watchfulness of the employes. The railroad company refused to pay the money and the dynamiters have gone to work in earnest as tho following reports show: Missoula, Mont., Oct. 6. A report leached here early this moruing that an engine pulling an an east-bound freight train was blown up by dynamite at Avon, on the Northern Pacific, last night. The cab was blown off the engine, and the fireman and engineer narrowly escaped serious injury. Helena, Mont,, Oct. 6. Engineer Reilly, of the Northern Pacific freight engine, which was partly wrecked by dynamite, arrived in Helena with his train early today. The engines was badly wrecked. He said it seemed to him as though there was an explosion of dynamite on each side of the eugiue. It was his opinion that dynamite had been placed on the track a few moments be fore his engine was wrecked by the explosion. Helena, Mont., Oct. 6. Detectives Mc Fetridge and a party of officers aud detectives re turned this morning from the scene of last night's dynamite outrage, eight mileb west of Helena. It began to rain heavily soon after the explosiou that wrecked the freight engine last night, and by the time the officers arrived ever' trace of the black mailers had been washed away. Bloodhounds were unable to gain a scent, and the party re turned to Helena. Helena, Mont., Oct. 6. A posse composed of Northern Pacific detectives with bloodhounds returned to Helcua this morning, after an unsuc cessful attempt to locate persons who placeddyna mite on the track aud blew up ancngiue last night. It had been raining during the night, aud water stood everywhere. The dogs were unable to fol low the scent. That the dynamiters have not given up at temps to extract money from the Northern Pacific was evidenced by last night's explosion, which oc curred under a freight train uenr Bird's Eye, about eight miles from Helena. Dynamite was again placed on the track by a man who rode up on horseback, and it was fastened to the rail with a with a piece of wire. It was placed there some time after 5:40 o'clock yesterday afternoon, as a train passed Bird's Eye at that time. The roadbed was badly torn up by the ex plosion, and trains were tied up until repairs could be made. A piece of rail about three feet long was blown out and the pilot of the engine, to gether with the headlight, was blown off. The news was received in Helena at 2.30 this morning, and a posse composed of Detectives McFetridge, Captain McQueen, W. Queeusburg, F. H. Franklin and Dan Boyle, superintendent of the Northern Pacific, together with six blood hounds, loft for the scene in a special traiu. j Postmaster General Henry C. Payne has illegally opened a letter, accord ing to a Washington telegraph dis patch, which says that he was stand ing at the open window of his private office late this afternoon, talking to a friend, when something darted out of tho sky, brushed Mr. Payne's cheek and fell in a heap on the floor. After a moment of Btartled surprise ho picked up a panting and very tired carrier pigeon. Around one of the bird's legs was a tiny silver band, engraved with the initals "F. J. T." and a number, "219." The other leg carried a tiny metal cylinder. Mr. Payne gave the pigeon a drink from the engraved silver tankard reserved for visitors of prominence and unfastened the little cylinder, thinking that he might be able to re turn the valuable bird to its owner. The cylinder contained a tightly rolled sheet of thin paper, which the postmaster general spread on his knee, feeling, as he expressed it, as if had "robbed the aerial mail." Mr. Payne nearly fell out of his chair when he read his own Christian name at the head of the sheet. The note was dated "Atlanta, Ga.f Friday, October 1," and was not ad dressed nor signed sufficiently for purposes identification. It read in part as follows: My Darling Henry: I hope you have shipped the crate of birds as promised, for this is the last one of the dozen. I don't want to write to you by the ordinary mail. It would seem so prosaic and modern, and I care, as you know, to think that our love is not of the twentieth century, but a stolen bit from the romantic days of long ago. I love you, dear, but if I can not just whisper it to you and send it through the air on what I choose to think are the very wings of love, then I'll keep the secret to myself." Mr. Payne put the note back in the cylinder and fastened it once more to the carrier pigeon's leg. There was something else in the note, but Mr. Payne said that was nobody's business but that of "darling Henry's." W- CI1ZIL. ENGINEER j graphical and oath America.) (Lately with the government OffrapMod and geological survey of Bnuil, United States Deputy Mineral Surveyor. Office over Pbetofllee. ROSEBURG. OREGON. Correspondence soliciUd go to THE ROSELEAF for CIGARS, TOBACCO HND SMOKERS' SUPPLIES. Jackson Street, - - Rosebud Oreo-fin O 1 KL.ATERIT5 la Mineral Rubber. VOU MAY INTKNIJ IICILDI3MG or flna It necetmarj to REPtACE A. WORXCT ROOF ELATERITE ROOFING Takw te pUce of ihlnglt, Un, iron. Ur ad m-el cJ ill prepared rooSnn. JYrIta! iteep mtux,. gotten, thWji tie EwytoUj-. Ttnrertd forifi citaiteKeSibtetal eSt. doMoanertt GannUd. It will rj to u tor prteei nd JntoraiUon. 0?HJE ELATERITE ROOFING CO., "Worcester Bniltling. PflRTTT. A"srr The Flume. Work on the flame is nearing the end, and the finishing touches will soon be all that is left. The first work on this undertaking was begun the first of last March and has been going on most of the time since then. That flume is the property of the W. P. Johnson Lumber Company and will be used to float lumber from the com pany's mill six miles up the stream down to the town. It has been no infant piece of engineering to con struct it, and the cost is estimated at over $25,000.00. It has taken 3,000, 000 feet of fir and pine lumber, and is a trifle more than five miles long. In its highest places it is fifty ftet from the ground, and is built in a strong, lasting manner. It runs along South Myrtle creek, and will form a connection with the spur from S. P. railroad. It extends ten rods beyond the mill site, where ex tensive platforms are being built to pile lumber on to be put on cars. The water-way has three foot sides, and is four feet 3 inches across the top. Fred Fisher is superintendent of the construction work. He has had considerable experience in this kind of work before coming here. It is estimated that the cost of trans porting the material by means of the flume instead of by teams will be 90 per cent cheaper. The volume of water that can be put into the flume will allow good sized timbers to be floated,, and later on a flat bottom will be put in which will give a bet ter shape to it so that all tho water can be put to use. A walk-way ex tends the full length of the flume. Lumber will be right at- our doors now, for the lumber that is sawed to day will be piled on tho dock in town in the evening. Myrtle Creek Mail Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. The new British ministry is regard ed in England, as a makeshift. No ono who is acquainted with its good qualities can bo surprised at tho great popularity of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It not only euros colds and grip effectually and permanently, but prevents these diseases from resulting in pneumonia. It is aho a certain euro for croup. Whooping cough is not dangerous when this remedy is given. It contains no opium or other harmful substance and may bo given as conQ dently to a baby as to an 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 I willtnt. in tnlrn ftMinr nffnr linvint. Anna used it. For sale by A. C. Marsters and Co. Notice. At a regular meeting of the directors of school District No. 4, the clerk was authorized to open books for subscrip tion to warrant loan of 120,000, said books to be open Oct. 1st. Subscribers can subscribo for amounts of f50 or mul tiples thereof. Warrants will draw in torcst at tho rate of )i por cent pr nn num and will bo payable as follows $2,000 each succeeding year until all aro paid. For other information apply to i Chairman, Board of Director Dis. No. 75-tf Clara Dillahd, Clerk. I Clara Dillard, Clerk. 75-N2 Notice to Contractors. Sealed Bids will bo received by tho Boanl of School directors of Dist. No. 4, Uoseburg Oregon, until 2 o'clock p. m Nov. 2, 1903, for tho erection and com pletion of a High School building nc conling to plans and specifications, pre pared by Chas. Burggral, Architect, Albany Oro. All bids must bo accom panied by a certified check payablo to school District No. 4, Rosobnrg, Ore gon, for tho sum of $250. As a guaran tee that in the event tho contract is awarded, tho contractor shall furnish an approved bond, equal to 75 per cent of the contract within ton days after tho awanling of tho contract. Proposals for tho same, plans and specifications, may bo seen at S. C Flint's, Uoseburg, Oregon, or at the architect's otlice. Tho building shall bo completed by Septombor 1st, 1904. The bcanl reserves tho right to reject any or all bids. Signed S. O. Flint, .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. 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 your Jacket or Fur will be bought of WOLLENBERG BROS., Phone 801. Of your life if you bu y 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 line o spring goods ever brought to the county. CHURCHILL & W00LLEY A. SALZ MAN, Pratical WatchmaKer, Jeweler, Optician. Watches, ClocHs, Jewelry Diamonds and Silverware Watch Repairing a Specialty. 000O0XXX)OXXKCCXKOOXXX3O00 OOOOO F.W. BENSON, A . C. MARSTERS. H.CQALKT, rresMent, Vice resident. Cashier Douglas County Bank, Katabllariecl I883. Incorporated 1901 Capital Stock, $50,000.00. BOARD OP DIRECTORS F. W. BENSON, R. A. BOOTU J. H. BOOTH, J. T. BRIDGES J. T. KELLY, A. C. MARgTKRS K.L. MILLER. A cenoral bankinc business transacted, andlcustomera inien everr accommodation consistent with safo and conservative banking. Bank open from nine to twelve and from one to three. oooooooooooooooooxoooooooooooooooooooooo