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PORTi.AND 3 IIE' 0 ROSEBURG, DOUGLAS COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1904. Vol. XXXVI No. 4 H ttv- rvn a ivt ? FOB FINF f.flNFFf.TIflNERY INUKl lr antJ ice CREAM PARLORS Grants Pass A Closed Town. Fruits, Candies, Cakes, Pies, Doughnuts and Fresh Bread Daily Portland Journal Agency. Hendrick's Block, Opp. Depot I. J. NORHAN & 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 Ail Parts of the City HELLO TROXEL BLOCK OPP PASSENGER DAPOT Reports from Grants Pass say that Mayor H. L. Gilkey and the new Coun cil have taken chanre of the munici- 35 pal affairs of Grants Pass, and from I .1 ? At. .. ail appearances a new era in uie ouy business will begin. Consternation reigns among the saloons and gamb ling places of the Pass, as Mayor Gilkey's first order was that given to and all saloons to be closed on Sun day. As a result Sunday was a very quiet Sunday in the business part of town, as saloons were locked both fore and lift, and there was no possible means of entering them to buy liquor. Even' saloon in Grants Pass obeyed the Mayorjgjorder with one exception. This one remained open Sunday, and also refuses to stop its card games or shut its slot machines. It is being done, very probably, to make a test case. In every saloon in Grants Pass there 3re one or more slot ma chines, and these have been an im portant source of revenue for the proprietors of these places. Now the machines have been turned with their "faces" to the wall, and not a nickle can be dropped in the slot. In many of the saloons card games and gamb ling have been in full swing for some time, and these have all been closed, and the police given strict orders to see that they remain closed. Card games played for credit chips have been in vogue at a few of the cigar stores of the city, and these, too, have been placed under the ban, so that even the old-timers who have been spending their idle hours play ing solo for 10 cents a corner are now deprived of their favorite amuse ment. Mayor Gilkey Is simply earning out the policy he declared he would follow before his election. He said he would with the aid of the Council, enforce all of the ordinances of the city without favor or special privi leges. This will mean that there will be no gambling, no slot machines and no Sunday opening of saloons in Grants Pass while Mr. Gilkey is ilay or unless the law is found defective. While the present policy is met with great disfavor by the saloonmea and gamblers and the patrons of these, the vast majority of the citi zens are pleased with it. The out come will be watched with great interest. RUSSIA NO BETTER ! THAN BAdlL BKIuKb SENATOR DEPEW GIVES OPINION ON EASTRN SITUATION - Bring Us Your GHSCKKB2S, EGG-S, FOR CHSH OR TRHDE. J.F. Barker & Co JAPANESE EMPEROR AFTER LONG CONFERENCE SENDS FINAL REPLY TG-GZAR WHICH HAS ONLY ONE MEANING New York, Jan. 13 In an inter view today Senator Chauncey Depew is quoted as saying that Christian civi lization must take the .place of the barbarities of the Far East awl that while Russia is attempting to wrest territory from rightful possessors of ancient Asia, she figures without her host, as the Czar's government is not, in progressiveness, much more ad vanced than the heathens who are re puted to have built several stories on the Tower of Rabel. "They are Babel's bricks.'. c3 gy; A Full and Com plete Assortment of all kinds of TOYS, Etc, EtcjtjtJjtJt YOU'LL FIND THE PRICES SATISFACTORY HAVE PUT IN PLACE A stocK of HOLIDAY GOODS so com plete, so meritorious, that we Know we can please the purchas ing public Our stocK is large and embraces the latest and newest in Carving Sets Silverware Burnt Wood Novelties Cuticry Sporting Goods 5. K. SYKES. Hints to Housewives. Half the battle in good cooking is tc 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. Under Cover of Business. J. JLSWeatherby T. A. Bury D. L. Martin Roseburg Real Estate Co. Farm and Timber Laud Bought and Sold Taxes Paid for Non-Residents. Timber ever, that a response which was drafted early this morning was ap proved and that it will soon be deliv ered to Baron De Rosen, the Russian minister. This answer of Japan is j regarded as the final step in the ne trotiations. Public interest in the outcome is at fever heat, and devel opments are anxiously awaited. Day Is Night at Chicago. Hundreds of passenger on trains going into Chicago Tuesday evening were startled by a sudden plunge into midnight darkness. The transition from broad daylight aeemed immedi ate and complete as if rushed into a tunnel under a mountain. The black ness extended in a circle from the center of the city, the radios being several miles. The duration was over an hour. Unusual atmospheric con ditions aggravated by smoke were generally accepted as the cause. The phenomenon was accompanied by a fall of snow, while a pall of im penetrable appearing sable cloud en veloped all thoroughfares and build ings. Street-car and wagon traffic wa3 considerably hampered. lEven greater difficulty wrs encountered by the throngs of pedestrians who strug gled a3 best they could along the slip pery walks in the absence of street lamps. To Empty Theaters. A simple but most efficient method for quickly emptying theaters and preventing panics in case of fire has been invented by a prominent the atrical manager in New York. It is proposed to carefully survey the house and then to print on the coupons retained oy seat-noiaers no tices reading: it is to No. on your right (or left). J Please leave the house by thi3 exit at Ft. W- PENN, ciil. engineer: (Lately with the government'gographical and geological anrveyfof BrajiJ South America.) ' United States Deputy Mineral Surveyor. Office over Poatoffice. OSEBUJG, OHHGON. Correepondencewllcii go to THE ROSELEAF for CIGARS, TOBACCO KND SMOKERS' SUPPLIES.. Jackson Street, - - Roseburg, Oregon Tokio, Jan. 13. The final confer ence before the throne of the empire to decide upon a response to Russia becan at 2 o'clock yesterday after noon and was attended by all members New Chwang and will of the cabinet and five of the elder statesmen. It terminated today at 4 p. m. Admirals Ito and Ijuin and General Kodama were in the body. Previous to the conference Admiral Yamamoto, representing Premier Kat sura, who is indisposed, had a private audience with the emperor. Foreign Minister Komura ami Marquis Ito also conferred privately with the mikado and the formal conference before the throne was of long duration, and al though its result is unknown, belief PEKl.v, Jan. 13 Authentic infor mation has been received by all lega tions here that two divisions of Rus sian troops are coming into Manchu ria by the Siberian railway and that a the end of the performance. Russian-force has occupied the ter minus of the new branch of the Shan Hai Kwan- New Chwang railroad, re cently completed by the Chinese. This terminus is 100 miles northwest of be an impor- war. I C A S H T R0SEBU8G JUNK AND HIDE CO. Pays the highest Gash Price for Hides, Pelts, Furs, Wool, Tallow, Rubber, Metals and Scrap Iron of all kinds We also sell Second hand Furniture of all kinds at Prices to suit the Times. Corner of Oak and Rose Sts. Opp. Empire StaHe. Minister on Trial. The trial of Rev. R. H. Kennedy began in the Circuit Court at Hilis- boro Tuesday morning. Judge Mc Bride last month adjourned court un til the 13th. and ordered all jurors on font atfirr? Vinca ?n OT.n f rf . the regular panel to return tomorrow Foreigners at New Chwang, fear- . . . . , nannHFTt,e. ing that the town may become scene of hostilities in case of war on account of the presence there ol a Russian garrison, are urging consuls to secure action on the part of their governments to maintain a neutral line of New Chwanir. asserting that business will be seriously impaired, and adding that as Russian occupa tion is not recognised by China or by any of the powers, all civilised gov- BLATERITE 1b Mineral Rnbbor.1 YOU JUYaNTESD IXCILDIKC or flncj It necessary to REPLACE A WORX-OCT HOOF E-LrATBRITS roofing imc lae pu.ee ol tcirgla. uc, iron, tar &ad enre! and til prepered roofiseu Terfitad tou tujwuet, KuwHh iiu.-ji, cit. uijiauy. iccjpema jgt mil cuEZAXeC com on zaenu unuunta. 1: win piy 10 nt tor price aa3 lalornitloo. Seuoa&Ue la eect. THE ELATEKITE HOOFING CO.i Worcester SoUdins. X'OfglXiAS'! is for war at once. It is said, how-1 ernments have ground for action. He Says Oregon Should Advertise. Legislature in Richmond last Satur- for the Kennedy trial. Deputy Dis trict Attorney Tongue, for the prose cution, and S. B. Huston, for the de fense, have been busily engaged for the past week getting witnesses and otherwise preparing for the most noted trial ever held in Washington county. There have been several murder trials had here and many other cases of importance, but never before in the history of Washington countv has there been a case that has attracted so much attention and beea civen so mack notorietv. Ken-. nedy, it will be remembered, is GREAT REDUCTIONS IN LADIES' AND MISSES' JACKETS ahd GAPES Estimates a Specialty. ty with List your procer us. A LARGE LOT OF SPRAY MATERIAL At Marsters Drug Store S A CAR LOAD OF ULPHU Of Superior Quality If you If you If you If you if you If you want to buy a farm want furnished rooms want to buy a house want to rent a house want to build a house want to move a house e The Chicago papers print a story to the effect that 6000 of the employ es of the citv and of the United States Government located in Chica go have hit upon a plan which will give them all the advantages of be longing to a labor union without in fact becomine members of such an organization The story in effect i3 that 10,000 acres of land have been acquired in the Province of Chihuahua, Mexico, and are at the present time held der an option. This land is tne pro posed property of the corporation which was to be formed. Of this corporation, which is ostensibly to landholding organization, policemen, firemen and postal employes are to be the shareholders, and all the de-! liberations of the body.are to be held behind closed doora. Lest any mem ber shall acquire undue power, and in order that the desire for profit shall not induce the general public to en ter the corporation, one of the chief rules is declared to be that no one member shall hold more than ten shares of the stock, the par value of which is $1 per scare. With the money thus gathered, which mav be increased -by assess ment, whenever the directors so de cide, legislation is to be influenced. In this city an organization of the policemen was broken up after a hard fight, and within the last six weeks Mayor Harrison and Chief Musham, of the fire department, have been com pelled to issue a strong order against the formation of a labor union by the firemen employed by the city. At present neither the firemen nor the policemen in this city are allowed to. be members of a secret organization, which carries with it any other allegi ance than that of the city government. ' Aav Knin &cnra1 that Virmrttn I Yinf-cra.-3 Tr-if i hrAAlrirur ?nti nrA Hnrcr. ti.i:. ... u .li., ..,, , Jw. I-" 1 o ,.i,-nnthrrmrf for Orwon idi will appro? riate $10,030 for an ex- laming the Warren residence on th. Portland. C. K Wautland ot Donver, hibit at the Lewis awl Uark Lenten- nignt o fceptemoer i. ine tnai win Colo, lawl agent for the Union Pacific : nial Exposition. Portland's bill is al-1 no doubt last three day3 railroad, wlw is attendms ttio big roona SQ the solid support of the nP in Portland sara: -There Virginia delegation in Congress movement ol the settlers from Iowa, 111- j b b , inols, Vi isconnn and .Minneeoia lo u.e, CoMtrtr w;tl.i,.n fi;nnor Trrv,nn;a fi, hum lwon nWcwi to the Uf.kt..rn lAt Thedeen iilotnnz and I ...... I .. ... . , I lIT.,I,;nnrtnn In mAn I "I,.,,;.- llnmnnnl ZrutnT? ' nTTl i ..i :i l mis ekciiiuu in n iUuiuuiuu iv mcm-i uuuuuu jicuiuiui uwivt. vuiu- Ol . - .1 ..... ... what was hitherto considered arid dea- bers of the Lewis and Clark exposi- posed of relatives of tee ert land, in ihc last eix months wo tion committee now in W ashington. The announcement was made at a have sold 6,000,000 Rcres of land In Eaet-j . additional cuests he will enter- meeting of the committee on perma- Unlimited funds to aid in prose cuting the persons responsible for the If you don't know PAT Cill on or address . . . F F.paftenson, Contractor asd Builder Roeeburg Oregon. Found a Cure for Indigestion. List Your Ranches and Timber Lands with me. : : : ' R. R. JOHNSON, I use Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets for indigestion and find that ther suit my case bettor than any dyspepsia remedy I have over tried and I have used many dmerant remedies. I am nearly fifty-one years of aeand era Colorado alone. The country is fine j for stock raising. Owing to the favora ble climate tlio stocxinen raise but little feed for winter uee. "Oregon's population should be much larger than it is. Tho trouble liei in lack of advertising. If the state were better known it would receive 1000 set tlers where it now gets one. The Lewis and Clark exposition and the conven tions held hero will be good advertise ment for the state and city, and it is up to the 'Webfooters' to keep up the good impressions." A writer in the Tribune Farmer says, regarding farmers attending church: "It seems to me that too ittle thought has been given to that subject. Eggless cookery and trying to fill our cupboards with the best of things to eat have occupied our minds, and the church has been crowded out. And with what result? ' We see our neighbors, and perhaps our own families, go out to the fields or woods to work on Sunday morning without the least regard for the Sab bath day. And how many times do j we Bee them take the small boy of the household with them, when often lie would rather attend Sunday school? Thus the seed is sown for the rongh, unprincipled man in after years. If you do not go to church yourself, dear reader, do not make a practice of visiting every Sunday, especially when tho members of the. family vis ited would go to church themselves had you stayed away. Sometimes, in Rl.iad of workincr or visitine on Sun day, we see men take their guns and dogs and travel through the fields and woods for tho purpose of robbing tho ' wild creatures of their Uio. Thflrfl is ao much to be Baid on this subject that I will draw my little ser mon to a close. I do not wish to of- fAnd anv one. but it makes my heart ache to see tho Sabbath day violated tain a number of senators and repre-lnent organization. Arthur E. Hull sentives and the opportunity will be stated that the offer of funds had taken to discuss informally all expo- J been made by ' a firm with a financial sition matters. I backing of more than a miUion dol lars " The committee decided upon ... . I favorable report was made to tne ft following recommendations: To Senate Monday by the committee on 4 a suitable memorial to com- expositions on benator ilitcneiis memorate the names of the victims Lewis and UarK Din. ine report was f th. firA. render assistance to those made destitute through the los3 Mitchell's The report was approved by all the members of the! committee in Wasmncton. sio ma terial changes are made. The North Pacific Rural Spirit has issued .1 souvenir edition on account of the National Livestock Associa tion meeting, which is handsome and instructive. of relatives in the fire; to devise and cam out methods to prevent similar occurences in the future; to assist in and compel the enforcement of the existmir and future ordinances and 0 statutes enacted for the purpose of safeguarding human life in public as semblages. Congratulations. .Mr. John H. Cullom, Editor ol tho Garland, Texas, News, ha? written a let ter of congratulations to the manufac turers of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy ua follows: "Sixteen years ago when our first child was a baby he was sub ject lo croupy spells and we would bo very uneasy about him. We began by I using Chamberlain's Cough Remedy in 1887, and Sliding it such a reliable remedy for colds and croup, wo havo never been without it in tho house- since that time. We havo five children and and havo given it to all of them with good results. One good feature of this remedy is that it is not disagreeablo to take and our babies really liko It. An other is that it is not dangerous, and thcro is no risk from giving an overdose. I coneratulato you upon tho success of Vourremedv." For salo by A. C. Mars- tcrs it Co. lit &i$od There te a great need of xnotncriy watcn- fulness an.l care. A growing gm nw: all her strcagtn, ana it $15 00 now $11 25 $10 00 " $7 50 ,14 00 " 10 50 7 50 " 5 65 12 50 " 9 40 6 00 " 4 50 11 00 " S25 500 " 375 $-1100 now $3 00 WOLLHRG BROS., Phone 801. A. SALZMAN, Pratical WatchmaKer, Jeweler, Optid Watches, ClocKs, Jewelry Diamonds andSilverware W&tck leytirimg a Specialty. 00X00XC0XX0XXXK00OCOX)0OOOOOOC F. W.BEKSOK. A . C. 3U.BSTXB3. H.C.GALXT, PraUenr, Vie President. Caakl Douglas County Bank, Satablistied IS83. Incorporated 1901 Capita! Stock, $50,000.00. 0 O BOARD OP DIRECTORS 8T. W. BESSOS, K. A- BOOTH 3. H. BOOTH. J. T. BRIDGES J. T. KELLY. A. a MABSTEBS S. L, MIT.I.RR. 9 A general banking bnsinesa transacted, andjeostomera gives every O accommodation consistent with safe and conservative banking. a Bank open from nine to twelve and from one to three. O00000000000000 she is nervous appcute there The Marshfield Coast Mail has put out a special illustrated edition whieh is verv handsome indeed and one which would, be a credit to 1 HAVE EASTERN CUSTOMERS AND CAN SELL OFFICE IN MARKS BLOCK, ROSEBURG, OR. havo 8ufTorod a great deal from indigest-. much larger town tuan marsnn eiu. . i it ! T I - ion. 1 can eat aimoat anywnug i wau ... . . t . I . tTF'll ...1 Ta to now. Gi:o w. emoky, kock .bhiib, , Representative wimamsun aim jui AJa. For sale by A. C. Marsters & Co. fGrgon Mvers. who wore before the Notice. Stockmen who wish to crazo stock within the Soathorn division ol the Cas cade Range Forest Resorvo during tho season of 1004. aro reouosted to mako application for this privitogo at once to tho Forest Supervisor nt Roseburg, Ore gon, aa all applications for this privilege must be on file in his office not lator than February 10, 1001. S. C. Babtbum, Forest Supervisor When you want a pleasant purgativo try Chamberlain's Stomach Tablets. They are easy to tako aud produce: no nausea, griping or other disagreeable ef-, lag fitter erety day. feet. lor salo by A all her strcagin, ana u s and melancholy, and loses is surely something wrong. This is espe cially true as the young girl approaches riod of change when the woman ly function fa es- taDiisneo. iime- ly care and pro; treatment at t period may save much after suf fering. The best medi cine for young girls who are nervous, melan choly, and irreg ular of appetite, is Dr. Pierce's Fa vorite Prescrip tion. It cures nervousness, diz ziness, and melan choly, promotes the appetite, and gives the body robust health. There Is no alco hol in "Favorite Prescription " and It is entirely free from opium, co caine, and all rvtTipr nnrmtlea. ti .iincMrr ma troubled with dizziness and constipation and was very nervous for five yearn. writes Mrs. M. Carter, of IMS U Street, N. W.. Washington. D. C "t tried several doc tors but they cave ntr no relief. At times she would eat nothing, had green and purple circle tinier n?r fYM. nna was meiancnoiv. a iroama friend of mine told me to try your 'Favorite Prescription 'and rieosaut rellets which I did. a f. vtn am tin! 11 nf each she htffiran to f m prove und Is still improving. People said she fw na i hAfitvH Oie wrre poinir Into a decline. Bhe is twelve years old. There are no circles Mt-rMinrt i.r v fim nnd slie is healthv and roDQsc. Call as muca as uay wuu, nun b 1 w " !c.Mar8ters& Co Dr. Pierce's Pellets regulate the bowels. XMAS SUITS OVER GOATS We maKe then aa rikt S guarantee satisfketiea BOYCE&BENITSON The Up-to-Date Tailars Flowering1 Bulbs Stock is now in from Holland, and it is time to plant them. Write today for onr new catalogue, which tells all. The same catalogue tells about our ROSES, TREES and PLANTS. PORTLAND SEED CO. PORTLAND, OREGON. NOTICE! Call at the office of the' Roseburg Water and Light Co. and pay your water and light bills, on or before the ioth of each mouth, and take ad;antage.of thejdiscount..