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THE with tne lax provisions of prevailing ROSCbUTQ P 1 3 i II d 63 1 6f ttetthwv we'those who have taken advantage of the bad laws to Published Mondays and Thursdays. PLAINDEALER PUBLISHING CO. H. H. BROOKES, Editor. MARY K. BROOKES, Proprietor be punished for making the most of a golden opportunity offered through the medium of land laws that have left an open causeway for all who de sired to acquire lands without strict conformity with the real intent of the timber and stone act, a measure capable of almost any kind of an in terpretation even to that of a new Entered at the Post Office in Roeelrarg. Ore., as second class mail matter. Subscription $2.00 per Year. Advertising Rates on Application. The Editor ol the ri.AlsDKii.KR has no intcn the life or character of any person, officially or version by the secretary of the into- JTSX rior on the word "speculation" as ap- WiuiuonMiv . J - I -.1,1 and brought to our attention by the aggrieved peanng in the law. party or partly Our Intention is inatcv.ry j ft fa beeR article published of a personal or political nffluial nature shall be news matter of general made at Washington about the land Interest and for the welfare of the Mate at large. FIGURES FROM LATEST REPORTS SHOW THAT $86,603,938 HAS GONE INTO SOUTHERN PACIFIC AND UNION PACIFIC LINES WITHIN THREE YEARS. OCTOBER 22, 1903. A LITTLE PLAIN TALK. After eight weeks of trial the Plaindealer Publishing Company is able to state that the Plaindealer is today on a more solid basis than it has ever been since its first issue. The en tire plant is clear of incumberances and it is one of the first in the state business in Oregon the only case yet to reach the stage of investigation is that of the former local commission er at Eugene who is yet to bo proven miiltv of anv crooked work while in o J office and who, if guilty, is not guilty through any collusion with local peo ple in getting claims nor with any Lane county citizen in violating pro- visions oi tne law. in iact me chanre lavs at the door of Horace McKinley, a timber locator, whose in torocfc lio mirsiifo nf i-me countv The equipment consists of one large and crookednesS( if an does not incriminate local people who, for themselves, sought to acquire claims. The people of Oregon will await, with interest, the outcome of land matters as now before the Federal jrrand iurv. If anvthincr is wrong it o will involve a few speculators and not the settlers. Eugene Register. two revolution Cottrell newspaper press, two first-class job presses, six horse nower casohne enenne. one water moter, belting and shafting, paper cutter, new newspaper and job type and a daily growing list of sub scribers of which we are proud, for during the trying time our subscribers have stood by the Plaindealer closer than a sick cat hugs a hot brick; this is a homely and trite expression but it suits the case in hand. We could give our readers an insight real facts in the case, The man Hitchcock is of about the caliber of a man who would jump on mi . 1 a woman, the real uueves are uemg into the protected by the Interior Department, but now that whose action Is to raise a howl for the difficulty is over we draw the Hitchcock and thus protect the graft- mantle of charity over a man who was ers. well born and bred but got down to Bculdugging scalawag methods and as a republican he got the democrats to do dirty work of which they are todav ashamed. So far as the finan- Russia Had Better Look Out. New York, Oct. 20. The Russians are very indignant witn tne unuea States government for concluding a cial standing of the paper is concern- treaty for opening Mukden to the ed, our home in Roseburg is paid for commerce of the world, cables the or rather the last payment is provided cheef oo correspondent of the Herald for, and every cent of indebtedness Tw he asserts, that the St. on the office has been wiped out. We Petersburg Government will protes make this statement to refute the and maintain that the opening of this statements which have been made in new treaty port will never take place. Douglas county by a what is if wno The Port Arthur Russian newspaper is in the employ of the Review to Xovoe Krai has published a strongly blacken the character of the Editor hvorded article on this subject. of the Peaindealer and to tear down declares that the treatv is proof our business for which we have the the aggressive nature of the policy of "what is it's" own written statements. United States. This policy, the paper We have no quarrel with the Review declares, infringes the rights of Rus- or its Editor while it is manly to re- sia founded on her construction sent wrong-doingjt is godlike to have the Manchurian Railway and the con charity and forgive the offense of cessions by China to Russia of the something beneath you mentally, sole commercial exploitation of Man- morally, spiritually or physically, and churia. when such an affair as the Review The Russian fleet has returned from when enobled by a holy Dalny. The garrison there and 20,000 thought, takes a full view of itself Chinese laborers are building bar- in the glass the size of its self right- racks for 0ver 10,000 men. The de- eousness dwarfs into pimgy propor- fenses to the north of Talien Wan tions and its'malevolent, cowardly and are being strengthened cringing nature stands forth and it sees the shadow of a thing so low, so vile that it would strike amoving par ent a blow by attempting to hold him responsible for the indiscretions of a ATown up son. To carry such a It o: 1ARRIMAN SPENDING MILLIONS TO BETTER HIS RAILWAY SYSTEM. HOW THE SALT LAKE CUT-OFF WILL SAVE TIME FOR TRANSCONTINENTAL TRAVELERS ENOUGH NEW FREIGHT CARS TO MAKE A TRAIN 128 MILES LONG-NEW DEPOT AT ALEMEDA MOLE TO BE BUILT SOON-LOCOMOTIVES FOR MOUNTAIN CLIMBING.1 Evidently, President Harriman meant what hn said when ho told tlio mer chants of San Francisco dining hid hist isit that ho proiiosed to make the Southern Pacific and Union Paeilic sys tems second to none m the world, lie inav not have said just tho-o words, but lie pave that impression, .ludn'mi (it in recent reports taken from official rec ords, this new moving jower in western railway alhurs tloes not propose nv any means to distribute all his prollts in dividends to the stockholders, iliese figures show that during a period ol less than three veara up to June 30, 1903, the aggregate expenditures tor betterments and equipment on all lines in the Harriman system were f I04,.Mb, 309. Some idea "what this means is gained by noting that this amount is more than the total estimate" uiicnui t,ure necessary for the completion of the Panama Canal. k has been coins on steadily for about three years on all the lines of the system between Omaha and San FrnniMciD as well as between here and Portland and between here and cw Orients. Into all these main lines as well as upon the branches, some of these millions of monev have uone, all the expenditures being with the idea of es- tnli isliini? a railway svstem onuai to anv ever constructed". Tut the present plans of the directors will not stop liere for the work now actually under way will increase the figures above stated by several millions. The rapid develop ment of the Pacific coast and western territory, and the remarKauie awaKen intr and increase of Pacific commerce, are the causes of these expenditures which put the railways on the footing demanded bv the possibilities of the traffic, and the outlook, in the judgment of the far-seeing officials, warrants eveiv confidence in the future. 'I he combined lines concerned are the South ern Pacific, the Union Pacific, the Ore gon Short Line, the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company, Chicago ana .Al ton and the Kansas City Southern. In the following detailed statement it i9 to be noted that the proportionate ex pendituies for new equipment on the Southern l'acihc are lar greaier man on anv of the other lines. , bridged bv the Southern Pacific engineer- iko is tenty-8ix ami . ing department. attire. The distance across the two arms of the Great Salt I one-half miles. Hast of Promontory the inadbed is embanked except for one opening of six hundred feet, provided for the outlet ot Hear river, wcstol Promontory the work is being embanked except eleven miles out of a distance of nineteen and a halt miles, metres tling here is substantially done, und the : ..l mi :.. 1:1 i. i-..ucu.n........ . .... ... .l.;i,..,-.i.,m.wl.itf,.rlv.fniirln.-ninntiv..1. iii2 a permanent embankment long be-in, .. " 7 , ' ,. t.... LOS ANGELKS MACHINE SHOPS. Other Itcttcruients within three yuan include the new steel and brick machine I shop at Portland; the new rolling mill, I hammer shop, paint shop and other ! buildings at Sacramento; the machine ; shop at Ogden, the new yard at Los I Angeles, with a brick round-house that fore the piling begins to show signs of age. ith the completion ol this Ugiien Lucin cut-off, railroad men say that the saving in time on tne mam ovcrianu line will be such that the traveler in iv leave here at fi o'clock in the afternoon, instead of 10 o clock in the morning as at present on the Overland Limited, and arrive in Chicago at the same time, thus effecting a saving of fully seven hours in the overland travel. In other words, the Harriman interests have expended very close to five millions of dollars in order to save the cros-contj-nent traveler seven hours of time in his journey. lVsides saving time, th trip across the Salt Lake will le attractive for travelers. The breeze being of re freshing coolness after the wind and sun shine of the dry region on lmth sides. OLD TRACK ABANDONED. Upon the main central overland line, besides the Ogden-Lucin cut-off, much of the track has been rebuilt, amount ing between Keno and Lucin to 201.' miles of new road. This is actual new construction, not merely relaying of modern SO pound steel on old grades, but nearly all of the old roadbed through this section amounting to fully 3li0 miles has been abandoned. More than over 13.000 decrees of curvature have C'.m out of this line of road and 3100 feet "f grade, ascent and descent, has Ken cut out, grade amounting to as mm:; as the famed climb over the IV l i p; mountains irom .nuenie mi IVhaviiapi in fact the Tehachapi grade is not as great as the total rcJiicti-ui made in this rebuilding of the line east of Keno. This construction work on the central line has included also thirty-six new steel bridges with tnaonry abut ments requiring over eight million Union Pacific . Orvgon Sbort Una Oregon lUliway Jfc Navigation Co. Betterment. Cbangecol Unci. I t!.670 Total Union Pacific System J15,S12W 2) l6',Jls t.ioo.we JlO.lWi Southern Pacific Expenditure for Construction Uuen taauiciaAA of Total Union Pacific Sricm and Soulbem Pacific Chicago i Alton Ry Kansas City Southern Ky. Co ... Total all lines 7.497.101 3,t. J)6,ll&.te7 in,.: IU.S32.2i: ttjutpnient 1 .?MWM .MS.1 rsj7,iu ij7.i;t HJ.4.H.MJ rhese improvements at Ixa Angeles are being made for the future of this fast growing section of thu country. The machine shop measures 109x500 feet; tuo boiler shop, KiOxJoO; car repair shop, 170x200. There are also paint shops, office building, material shops, sand houses ai d other appurtenances, demanded by the growing traffic of that region. N KV DEPOT AT ALAMEDA MOLE That big aggregate extendituro that figures up int $101 348,309, will he greatly increased by appropriations already made for the work now ti der way, and not least in appreciation bv San Franciscans will be the construction of the new deot at Alameda mole There is no question but that this is go ing to In; built and built soon. It will cost fullv tlM.OOJ according to the projected plan.-, and will consist ol an elaborate frame and sU-el structure with a steel dome. This will le welcome news for Alameda residents. Another project of interest to cross-bay residen'B is the projwsed brick and terra cotta depot at the loot ol first s.rect, uat laud, to cost 110.000, which will be cou structed during the coming year. The widening of all tunnels on the narrow guage line, between Los Catosand Santa Cruz has already been begun and will continue as rapidly as po&tiblc, thus fitting this attractive bit of railway for ' carrying coaches and freight cars of the standard guagc. The new freight cars, numlierin IS.ttlG are most of them forty and fiftv i tons gross, longer and higher and caKi hie of carrying twenty per cent more I freight than the old equipment. LOCOMOTIVES AND FREIGHT CAKS. The larger numtwr of the Mi new locomotives are designed for th freight sen-ice, weighing 100 tons each or. with tender loaded .with water and cval. about 325,000 tiounds. The orde includes also many of the Atlantic type i of locomotives with Si-inch unvin W.ra.ra 1 wheels for passenger service. Therj i t locomotives carrv 110,000 pounds o.t four drive wheels, and are guaranteed by their builders to draw ten or twelve passenger co.iches at a speed of seventy live miles an hour over average track The new locomotives also include some of the ten wheel, high-steel passenger lotal tijO.tC OLIVER WALKING Are the Best PLOWS No waiting for Extras when plowing is good. The best stocK of Plows and Repeirs in the County. CHURCHILL fi W00LLEY with their lead pipe cinches, are held in California. It takes two or three years sometimes to influence an organization to come westward, but more and more the lure of California with its :harm of sky, sea and air, more readily wins in competition with older countries anu climes. Wreck off Blanco. The Store That Does The Business FISHER & BELLOWS COMPANY Bandon, Or., Oct. 20. The steam er South Portland, bound from Tort- land for San Francisco, struck Cape Ltfanco reef at 5 o'clock yesterday af ternoon and sank within a few min utes. Ten of the fourteen passen gers and 21 of the crew of 2-1 arc drowned or missing. Captain Mcln- tire is among the survivors. Two lifeboats and a raft were launched af ter the vessel struck and before she sank. Itoth of the boats capsized, Seven persons succeeded in regaining one of the boats, and these are the persons saved. The raft was seen in the breakers this forenoon with twelve people on board. Efforts are being made to rescue these, so it is possible the list of missing may yet be reduced bv this number. The raft is now obscured by fog and mist. 12U52 ! giants for the mountain service. There liflijtaw i monsters carrv upon their drivers a Kote Expenditures for Southern I'aciCc Company are lor llirec jears to JunS0. UM; others Unce acquisition of property. i weight of 144,000 pounds. There are ' also a number of very heavy switch en gines for the principal terminal joinU, j u Inch carry upon their drivers 130,000 . r . i .i. . : :i i w poumIs. ft is interesting to note that ponnds of steel, the principal bridges 1 , . r n-imvt King those S i :iVu tilf drivcTs'Ss UietS nini U olwr tivits llfftweon Keno and . . .. . of ' i .,;; ; Jv Vww.n n,.-! l"'n: Known ,n locomotive construction. , ' UUVIII, "U v . iii.li .... Extra Session Called. Washington, D. C. Oct. 20 President Roosevelt today issued a proclamation calling an extra session brutish spirit is in itself its own pun- Pf C0es3 for Monday, November 9. .v-u 1 u o ff fr. rl The Jfresments proclamation re- than the old Roman method of chain- Cltes in? a slave who had murdered a slave "Whereas, by a resolution of the to the corpse of the dead so that Senate of March, 19, 1903, the ap- the living man would inhale the Prral by congress of the reciprocal fumes of the dead to such an extent commercial convention between the bi bodv would hft noisonftd and Unitea ctates ana cuDa, signeu in w ji-l i nj t, December. is necessary to oe- lr I III t-f I M II 1111 r 1 1 rrilll L,f L11C nLl Ui I ' ' de it would be a veritable mass of come enecuve, ana living yet dead corruption. Every MILLIONS IN IMPROVEMENTS. These fkures are interesting as figures, but Californians and all residents the country tributary these railroads j j wjti, all a!:crepitevl 10,100 feet or are likely to be interested in knowifm i nenriv 2 miles; these tunnels liei.-s iu just what these figures mean. Where j lencth rtectively 1900. Ji00, 3000 and has all this money Rone, amounting on ; 1700 fct. Tlie principles of molorn the Union Pacific and Southern 1 aciuc 1 milnid encineenng have ruled here. time that the Review strikes like it did in last Tuesday's issue it only binds the'spiritual nature to that of a "Whereas, it is important to pub lic interest that said convention be come operative as early as possible. Now therefore, I, Theodore Roose- of the power vested 1 1. . dpad virions powardlv beincr and ve,t virtue when it looks in the class and in rae by the constitution, proclaim nn the situation no wonder that and declare that an extraordinary oc- the appearance of the Review upon the casion requires the convening of both streets reminds the citizens of the houses of Congress on November 9th, f nf hodv cnatoW or trhonl. atnoon, to determine whether ap- We know of no good reason why proval shall be given said convention.' should be so small, the Review should be so small, for since we assumed charge of this pa per we have never referred to it In any manner, but all the time it has been pluming for a newspaper fight, but we will not oblige it because there could be no credit to a man for spanking an infant because it yelled Burglars in Roseburg. On Tuesday night Roseburg was vis ited by a burglar or burglars who en tered two houses and altogether secured $83.50 and a piece of pie. A. D. Thompson who lives on Mill street, beard a noise about 1 o clock and at first thought it was the cat but as the for Widow Wlnslow's Soothing Syrup noise increased he got up and went to PhVWa TMtoria. sold at Fuller- he window and there found a box up or ton & Richardson s drug store, near the passenger depot. If the Review is cutting itsj teeth we are now able to against the house where somebody had entered, and as he went back to bed, discovered that his pants were gone. Wednesday afternoon the pants were supply it with a rubber ring and found man alley back of his house with kiddling bib, and if it has the colic nounng iaKen except ...0 p.bu a..,, we are quite willing to donate a few tTLrry was at the resi- A - V I 1 1 I w m yards ol diaper. 11 its neaa itcnes dence o JaBper wilkins, who resides on we still have ten cents to purchase the same street and about half a block fnr fho hnt. n finfi r.nmh. and if it is distant from Mr. Thompson. The first internal parasites causing the trou- evidence Mr. Wilkms had that he had ble, draw on us for the price of abot- discovered that somebody tie of venmtuge; ye3 ior anytmng had teken lliB pie o wlich jasper i.-i as 10 detuiis systems alone to $S'j,C03.93S? As noted above, it has cone into various ramifi cations of the system under heading of 1 improvements as follows: Betterments, $40,115,587 ; changes of lines, 1 14,532,237 ; equipment, $43,200,545, making the total above noted of $104,343,3rl. SIXTY MILLION TONS OF STEEL. The chief railway construction work involved has bee'n what is generally known as the Salt Lake cut-off. Re sides there is the cut-off on the coast line at Chatsworth Park, the renewal of steel bridges and steel rails and the pur chase of a vast quantity of rolling stock, construction of new railroad sheds, round-houses and depots. The 0den and Salt Lake cut-off, which will be completed and over which cars will be' running bv the nrst 01 the year, nas cost todate M',-100,102. Over sixty million tons of steel has lecn put into the lines of the Southern Pacific system, making a continuous string of first-class steel bridges, capable of carrying with the greatest security, the heaviest rolling stock all the way along the lines irom Ashland, Oregon, to Houston, Texas, and from San Francisco to Oden. MILES OF FREIGHT OARS. The new passenger coaches numler two hundred and forty-live, including one hundred and tweni live moueru chair cars, each of the seating caiacity of between sixty-four and seventy pas sengers. Jew freight cars numhering 15,016, have been purchased and deliv ered, an increase of fully fifty percent of the freight car rolling stock. These cars, if strung together, would mako one train 12S miles in length, and the 337 new locomotives upon one track would form aline four miles long, fifty-three new small depots and station buildings have been built at Redwood, Niles, East Oakland, Capitola, and other points, each coating all the way from $1200 to $4500. These depots do not include the up to-date brick and steel structure at San Antonio, which cost with yard and uradine boinethiiii' like $100,000, the iiew train shed at Houston, Texas, cost im J4J.0O0. or the projected depot at San Hern rdino which will cos- $10,000. CUTHNii OUT CURVES. Curves haw Iicon str.iiuhtened, and 011 all the main lines of the Southern Pac li.- 75 and SO pound steel has re- ; la I the old raile, all the rail deliv eri-d iIim veur lx 'iiu 01 dcrmaii manu- faclurn thirty-three h-el in length, of standaid sections. I here have been 1521 miles of rail betterments, weighing 100.100 10ns. 492 h-comotives have been chained to oil burners; 5U miles of MdiuiH have eone in; and 38 miles of doubli- tuick: over 277 niiiou have come under thu iiro'.ccM'.i wmics of the block sys eni, whin- the u.t-l increased mile- Hio is i0 bo mud. ljr bumniary; now the railroad no longer seeking the best urade, involving the least exjenditure, but the most direct and most level grade; modern railroad science no long er corkscrewing its way a 1 tout the hill, but plunging boldly through the moun tain, in order to tret the trick on as nearly a water level basis as jKsible. A railroad official, speaking -f the new construction on the central line, said the other day that the curves of the new track were niade to accommodate the heaviest rolling stock moving at any SICVaI CHATSWORT5I PARK CUT-OFF. The mot important consttuction work. iKisides that Ik-voiiiI Reno, is the Chatsworth Park cut off, shortening the coast line between Sail Francisco and Ixs Angeles. This cut-off will save much time in the constantly increasing traffic between the two cities. It in cludes three tunnels near Chatsworth Park, and save-" much curvature and grades. There is a new tunnel here, 7309 feet in length 100 feet longer than the present t-an rernaniio mnnei other similar tunnels 01 wj or everything except for the stripes very fond, and a little later upon putting from a birch rod to be applied on the his hand into his pocket, he discovered malicious fool's back. OREGON'S LAND FRAUDS. Tf there are abuses of the timber land business in Oregon none are that his purse, which contained $70 tho evening before, was empty. Investiga tion then showed that the burglars had forced an entrance through tho parlor window (leaving plain tracks of grass and mud upon the floor) r.nd had then gone up stairs, with the result that Mr. Seeral hoboes around town havo been searched, but so far no clew to the thieves has been found. more anxious than the Register that wilkins is now $70 poorer they should be stopped. If local commissioners have been guilty of forgery and other irregulari ties while serving Uncle bam they ofcnnld. and bv rricht ought, to be properly punished for so doing. But the larger question arises, Photographer Bradford left Monday morning for the mountains where he will take views 01 some umnei ciaims . - reducing curves and cutting (ir onmn Hmhpr mm. He will be cono I ? . ,,.5'f 11.." 1 .1 . about a week. THE 0- DEN LUC IN CU -OFF. Tin cut-off between Og ' 11 and Lucin by which about 103 miles of crix ked and back-number Ira k was thrown oat for the direct ur.nle mid Irestlii'g of a little over forty-four miles across two arms of the great S.dt like, was n big under taking. It involved all sorts of curious engineering frenks, and it is no wonder the engineers and otlicials now feel proud as a hen with ducks at having tho satisfactory completion of this great work. Latest rejiorts show that the work of construction is all closed except nine-tenths of a mile of trestling. This cut-off lino takes out all tho stoop grades, running as high as ninety feet to tho milo and leaves no grade greaier than twentv-one feet to the mile. There is practically no curvature, tho new en and such locomotives were considered flue types of their class. The average capacity of this new power is fully thirty-two jer cent greater than the average capacity of t-.e old power. OIL BURNING LOCOMOTIVES. Oil tenders and burners have been added to 492 locomotives, a change. which, it is claimed has the virtue of economy, as well as the comfort for the passenger riding Iwhind such locomo tives. It If estimated that it takes lfS gallons of crude oil to make one ton of coal. Oil costs one cent a gallon ; coal over fl.00 a ton; hence the economy The comfort is claimed because of the lack of cinder from the 1 il. Farmers welcome the oil burners because no cinders come to set fire to grain fields or grass near theiailway. MAKING THE TRACK DUSTLE-S. In Arizona, over two hundred urles of track are now oiled. The original expense of this oiling has been about $5 a mile, but the second year it is claimed the expense will lie but half as much. It is planned to oil all the sandy and dustv track through California, Ari zona and New Mexico, and also to oil the grounds about the stations where there is so much travel as to make dis agreeable dust. This oiling of station grounds at various points upon the and GOO feet in length, respectively. In coast line has proved most satisfactory addition to tho work near Chatsworth Park, the const line has been practi cally rebuilt, all the way from hlwood to San Buenaventura. Here, where the railroad skiits the picturesque leach, tons of masonry have been piled, to prevent the inroads of the sea, and not only to prevent Kssiblc disaster, but by the showing 01 strength, to overcome any possible fear 011 the part of travelers over flits picturesque section 01 tne line. Much of the light rail has leen removed and the work of removal is still 111 pro gress, and when it is completed all of the coast division will bo laid with at and 80 pound steel. Over 40 miles of double track has been built on thu coast line and many new stations and new- depot buildings. NEW BRIDGE AT SALINAS. The new bridge over the Salinas river near Bradley will cost over $100,000; while that over tho Morocojo river on the Monterey division, near Castrovillo, will cost over $75,003. A new double track bridge over thu San Francisquilo creek, near Palo Alto, is being con structed. Between San Francisco and Ashland, Oregon, thirty-five or more steel bridges have been put in new or brought up to date, and the same is true of tho western division and its branches, including tho lines between Sacninonto, San Francisco and Fresno, .1" M il as along the coast division and :!, i.e San Joaquin valley. Doublo ir. 1 'iridges over tho Los Angeles river, uix.-i and below the city of Los Angeles, an- lieing completed, and tho entire Tucson division from l.os Angeles to Kl Paeo is being brought up-to-dato by tho bridge building department of thu system. NEW BRIDGES IN TEXAS. Several olaborato steel structures arc going up on tho Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio branch of the system, from El Paso to Houston, including those crossing tho Castle canyon, Devils river. Seminolo canyon, Kim creek, Fagles Nest canyon and tho Brar.os river. East of Houston, between Hous ton and San Antonio, ttwo-swing-span bridges are hearing completion, crossing tho babtno river, on the boundary be tween Texas and Louisiana, and cross ing the Calcasieu river. New bridges cross Dcs Allemand mid Trinity rivers, and structures have aleo been built at Nueces. I.cona. Honda and Medina. It Ib interesting to nolo thrt during tho last three years, one hundred and seven ty-six rivers and canyons, involvin one put fully four thousand degrees of curv- Luudrcd and lifty spans have been SAFEGUARDING AGAINST DISASTER. About 279 miles of the Southern Pa cific system are now protected by tho automatic block signal system. All ob scure ami dangerous mints are guarded This system now covers tho line be tween here and San Rruno, and will bo extended all the way to San Jose. It covers also the line between West Oak land and Port Costa, between Rockhn and Truckeo, and between Santa Mar garita antl San Luis Obispo. The present plans contemplate tho adoption of this svstem wherever tho congestion of travel demands this protection for tho safety of travelers. During the past two voars eighteen modern steel turn tables have beeu placed at various points 011 tho system. DEVELOPING THE STATE. But not only in construction and those improvements, which railway reports usually hide under, tho term of better ments" does the new Southern Pacific policy demand expenditure. In making known tho opportunities of California and the country tributary to tho vast system, more money is being spent than for a long time. Phaniphlets with such titles us, "What a Man with $500 Can Do in California." "California for the Settler." "Tho Prune Primor," "Call fornia Big Trees," "California for tho Sportsman," and a lot of miscellaneous literature calcinated 10 lure anu icau the man who likes to travel and see thini's. aio being printed and sent broadcast throughout the world. Elab orato plans are in progress for tho dis nlav at the St. Louis Exposition next year. Development, promotion and "publicity are three terms which compel a largo amount of tho burning of tho midnight oil on tho part of railway writers, illustrators and talkers. The chnan fares known -as colonist rates, now in effect, are drawing this way crowds of interested sightseers and iney are iioiug snnnlied bv tho corporations with all sorts of picture books nnd general litora turn No small part of tho railroad expenditure, present and prospective, is that involved in securing for California the various conventions of semi-public bodies, which are held annually in tho various cities of tho country. It is largely duo to thco corporate interests that such assemblies ns that of tho Grand Army, of the Knights 'lem plar, of tho foregathering 0f thoso men of might and money, the Ameiiean Rankers' Association, of the Epworth Leaguers, of tho American Plumbers R.vndon, Or., Oct. 20.-3:45 P. II. A raft carrying 11 survivors of the wreck was towed into Port Orford thus afternoon. Assistant Engineer Huson was among those on the raft. He died just after being landed. An other raft with six people has just been sighted. Marshfield, Or , Oct. 20. In a blinding fog the steamer South Port land, bound for San Francisco from ortland with a cargo of grain and carrying a crew 01 jla men ana 14 passengers, struck Cape Blanco reef at 5 o'clock p. m. vesterday, while steaming at the rate of seven -knots. The South Portland struck bow on, and her forward parts were lift ed hieh out of water. Then she set tled aft, and later slid off the rocks and immediately becan to fill with water. The captain, seeing that all hopes of saving his ship were gone, gave orders to man the boats with all pos sible haste. Two were lowered, as also was the life raft. One boat carrying the cap tain and 17 others capsized as they were getting away from the sinking steamer, and onlv seven of the IS were able to get into the boat again The other boat also capsized, and was seen drifting away in the thick fog without a living being in sight. The seven survivors of the ill-fated steamer reached Port Orford last evening, chilled to the very bone from exposure to the cold winds and waves. They have little hope for the remainder of the passengers and crew. Tne survivors are: uapiain Mclntyre, John Reamer, a sailor, MEM'S CL0THI1G 1 1 doesn't require any considerable ex pense to wear good clothes if you exercise goo.! jmliiti'Ut in selecting from thor ough' reliable and correctly priced stocks such as onr?. The Fall and Winter dis play is at it s best. Styles and materials t. please the most critical. Prices 25 per cent less than you will pay at other stores. We call particular attention to our line of Oregon Cashmeres, fancy Worsted, Fan cy Cheviot and Thibet suites. All our suits from $12.00 up have non-breakable front. Hand padded Shoulders and Hand Tailored Collars. All are Union Made and marked at from $5 to $18 MEKS' OVERCOATS. A remark able line of the leading styles in all the newest mixtures and plain materials, $7.50 to $20.00. MEWS RAIIff GOATS. We have everi'thing that is good and that will turn rain. $2.25 to 15.00. Boys' Suits, Boj's' Overcoats and a com plete stock of General Merchandise. Phone 721 Write for Prices and Samples B0YCE BENGSTON The ONL7 up-to-date Merchant TAILORS We also do the test work in Gleaning Scouring and Pressing. Call and see us. Opposite Post Office. of San Francisco: Emanuel Pasomem sis, chief cook; William L. Wilson Jr., of Baltimore; L. Baker, of Ala meda; Guy Bent, aged 12 years, of Nora Scotia; Al Bailey, of North Da kota. A heaw foe hung over the scene of the wreck nearly all this morning. It lifted sliehtlv at one time, when tho South Portland's life raft, wit 12 people on board, was seen in the breakers. The Simpson Lumber Com pany's tug has gone to the rescue of these people, l)ut the raft has disap peared again in the fog. The South Portland was an iron steamer, 1S5 feet in length, and was formerly known as tho Caroline Mil ler. She was owned by W. A. Scan nell, of San Francisco, and sailed from Astoria October IS with a few passengers and a cargo of grain. Bandon, the point where she went ashore last night, is a remote place on the Southwestern Oregon coast. Remember the Location Of our Drug Store Down Near the Depot A handy place for every one in the lower part of the city and not so far from any pari but that it will pay 3'ou to come to us. If you have a telephone call 451, give your order and we'll deliver what you want promptty. Sad forYoncalla. Tho efforts of tho enemies of right and decency havo been crowned with auc cess, nnd tho fnir natno of Yoncalla is blotted and stained with tho record that alio has a saloon. Tho city council refused to licenso a saloon, but our Government gavo a li conso to sell in certain quantities in spite of tliia and tho efforts of tho best people in tho neighborhood to keep tho nbom inahlo thing out of tho town. Wo beliovo it is horo in tho sliapo to create sentiment in favor of a dramshop, thoso who like to havo n convenient place to satisfy thoir depraved nppotites hoping tho citizens will say "Wo had butter give him 11 l'nenso ami gut tho money." You who are opposed to this Fullerton - Richardson thing stand firm and oppose it in every step of the way, using all means in our power to rid tho town of this curje. J. W. Knowles in his letter regarding his turn down in tho land office case, asks If a man is to bo debarred from otlice for having affiliated with saloon men in politics? We think he should be and that tho saloon man should bo treated as anv another immoral being. Tho sa loon-keepor is no more respectable as far as his business goes than any other mur derer. Because the law legalizes the sa loon it does not make it right. If the leg alizing of the wrong mado it respectable, tho woman from whom good women turn In disgust would bo as respoctnble as tho truo lady. We are Rind that our President be lieves that clean men should hold the reins of the Government. Had wo that kind of men in ofllco in Oregon, Yon calla would havo no saloon. I'koiujutiox. Tho above communication is very se vere and our observation is that such harsh words make few votes for prohibi tion but creates sympathy for saloon keepers. Editor Pl.undknLkr. Stabbing Affray at Camas Valley. Yesterday about 1 o'clock, while changing horses at Camas Valley pre paratory to returning to Myrtle Point, Geo. E. Brown, a stage driver, became engaged in an altercation with Sheridan Croy and wife, and as a result is now lying at deaths door. It appears that a few days previous to the fight above noted, while Brown was driving along the road that one of Croy's dogs rushed at the stage horsa and that Brown struck tho dog with his four horse whip. This made Crov angrv and ho began at ouce to abuse "Brown. Brown then told him that he coald not leave his stage and that he would settle with him later. Yesterday when Brown's stage ar rived at Camas Valley and Brown was assisting the hostler in changing horses preparatory to returuing to Mvrtto Point, Croy and his wife arrived on the scene armed with a fence rail and a razor and began at once to settle the business. Of course fighting against both the man and the woman, Brown, was soon overcome. At latest reports he had six largo slashes and was badly cut up about tho bowels and body in general. Dr. Hoover was called' last night to the scene but eo far 110 word has been obtained as to Brown's coditiou. Lvtkr. Dr. Hoover has just returned and taya that although Brown is badly cut up about the head and f ce he will revover unless something unlooked for occurs.