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lotnkder Vol. XXXVI ROSEBURG, DOUGLAS COUNTY, OREGON, MONDAY, MARCH 7, 1904. i No. 19 0J3C tt1T0 C lVTAnni AMQ iJKI Fruits, Candies, Hi Doughnuts and fresh Bread Daily 9S Portland Journal Agency. Hendrick's Block, Opp. Depot EES tyi ffi I. J. NORflAN & Co. Prop. m m S8 FARMERS' CASH STORE, E. 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 HELLO Bring Us Your CHIfJKEKS, EGGS, BUTTSR, FOR CHSH OR TRHDE. J. F. Barker & Co. NOZZLES ETC.,' Our lines of these goods represent the BEST there is and our propositions at all times will be foutd de serving tne careful attention of all buyers who want goods of merit. S. K. SYKE'S. 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. J. iLIWeatherby T. A. Roseburg Real Estate Co. Farm and Timber Land Bought and Sold Taxes Paid for Non-Residents. Timber Estimates a Specialty. List your proper ty with us. A LARGE 1 SPRAY MATERIAL At-Mafsters9 Drug Store I A CAR LOAD OF i U LPHUR Of Superior Quality I List Your Ranches and Timber Lands with me. R. R. JOHNSON, I HAVE EASTERN CUSTOMERS OFFICE IN MARKS BLOCK, AND CAN SELL ROSEBURG, OR. . . 52 TOR NNE CONFECTIONERY and iCE CREAM PARLORS m SB Cakes, Pies, S3 TROXEL BLOCK OPP PASSENGER DAPOT..... Bury D. L. Martin LOT OF Tried To Restrain Japan. Paris, March 5.-To the gratifica tion of Franco better relations be tween Russia and Great Britain are promised as the result of the visit of Count Benckendoff; the Russian Am bassador to Great Britain, to St. Pe tersburg. From authoritative sources it is learned that Count Benckendorff not only carried verbal assurances of the absolute neutrality of Great Brit ain in the war, but that he was the bearer of documents establishing the facts that the London government did not want war, and had used deter mined efforts to prevent it, urging on Japan that facts that the British press did not represent the attitude or wishes of the British government. Official advices from St. Petersburg show that Count BenckendorlFs repre sentations cleared away many suspic ions entertained by the Russian authorities. Russia does not desire unfriendly relations with Great Brit ain. She therefore met the British government half way and it is under stood that Count Benckendorff was charged with most conciliatory meas ures by the Czar. This new phase of the situation which has been the subject of con versation by Foreign Minister Delcasse and the Ambassadors accredited to France, has given rise to a feeling in official and diplomatic circles that it will be possible after all to confine the Far Eastern war to Russia and Japan. The regretted action of various European countries in arming is not considered as having any other bear ing than preparing for eventualities, which in the present optimistic frame of mind of the authorities are not likely to come to pass. There is doubt in official circles re garding the policy of Germany toward Russia. Advices received here in dicate that Germany assured Russia that France inspired the recent note of Secretary Hay regarding Chinese neutrality, while France claims and Russia is satisfied that Germanv made the first suggestion to the United States. . Muchly Married. Washington, March 4. In the ; Smoot case today attorneys for the ! protestants in the investigation said they intended to prove that defend ant is associated with the organiza tion which practices polygamy and connives at violations of law and that his very vote as Senator of the Unit ed States is subject to the wish and command of the Mormon church. President Joseph F. Smith confessed that he himself had continued to co habit with plural, family since the manifesto of 1890, and that he real ized fully that he was violating the state laws. President Smith also testified that Reed Smoot had to get the consent of his associate apostles before he could become a candidate for Senator. President Smith Confesses,. The confession of President Smith was the sensation of the proceedings today before the Senate committee on privileges and -elections. Mr. Smith said that the manifesto of 1890 had left him and others with plural families in the unfortunate situation of being compelled to defy the law or desert their families. For himself he had preferred to "take chances with the law," rather than disgrace himself and degrade his families by abandoning wives and children they had borne him. He admitted that he had children by all his five wives since the manifesto, and said he had acknowledged them openly without interference or disturbance from the people of Utah, whom he spoke of as liberal and broad minded. The de fendant will take the witness stand tomorrow. Chicken SteiHng and Jail Breaking. On Friday morning a bricklayer by the name of Miller, who has been ly ing around the saloons for the past week, stole a lot of chickens from somebody and sold them to Kohlha gen'meat market. On Friday night he made a haul on D. P. Fisher's hen roost and stole a sackful of his In dian game chickens and took them to Kohlhagen's and sold them. When Fisher's chanticleer did not make any music around the house, Fisher sought for him in vain around the premises, but in the morning he found the chick ens at the place indicated. Mr. Kohl hagen had questioned' the man close ly when he bought the chickens, and was satisfied that everything was right, but when Mr. Fisher tcld him of his loss, he gave all the informa tion necessary to catch the .man, which was done at about ten o'clock, by Marshal Jarvis, who confined him in the city jail, but not in a cell. The hearing of the case was set for one o'clock, but Miller wanted no hearing, so he climbed to the top of the cage and in a few minutes dug a hole in the wall and escaped' to liberty. THE DRAKE (jASE IT LOOKS MOR LIKE MURDER FOREMAN PATTON OF THE S. P. R. R. MAKES A STATEMENT WHICH CREATLY COMPLI CATES THE SITUATION Monday's isane of the Ro?oburg Plain dealer contains a long article on the Drake case, tho writer ol which makes a cowardlynnd dastardly attempt to throw suspicion upon a neighbor, B V S Folk, tho goat raiser, as having beon responsi ble for the disappearance of A X Drake, who was lost in tho mountains near hie home on Dadds creek on Jan. ISth. A peculiar feature about it is tho fact that there is not one word of trntli in the entire article, according to the opin ion of those who know the facts in the case The people of Glendale and Southern Douglas county, -who assisted in the search ami know all the circumstances, are very much incensed at the ridicu lous assertions made by the Plaindealer. whose editor has evidently" been shame fully imposed upon by lying and mali cious informants. These informants no donbt have an object in trying to throw suspicion upon an innocent party sup posing there had beon foal play, as the Plain lealer infers. Bnt ol the scores of honorable men who assisted in the search for the body, not one of them be lieves thatDrake was foully dealt will: but all feel confident that whenthesnow goes off, the body will lie found in some secluded spot iu the mountains, where doubtless the unfortunate man died from exhaustion or heart disease, with which he had been troubled for a num ber of years. Mr. Folk was in Glend&io yesterday ami from him we learn the following facts in the case, which arc fully corrob orated by oar bwineee men and citizens who were or the ground ami know' the facta: Last Jane when Mr. and Mrs. Drake came here Irorn Mankato, Minn., Gil bert Gilberteon agreed" to locate the new comers. lie learned from Mr. Folk that there was an excellent vacant claim ad joining his (Folk) place on Dadds creek, and as Mr. Folk was anxious to have neighbors, lie persuaded Drake to take this claim as a homestead, which he did. A good log cabin was bnilt on the nlace. bnt no fencing whatever had been done yet, although the Plaimicafcr saya the 100 acres had been fenced. Mr. and Mrs. Folk, assisted the new settlers in many ways, and both families coald not have been more neighborly or on more friendly terms. Not a, word had ever been said concerning any desire to in duce Drake to movaaway. On the con trary every inducement was made to en courage them to stay. Tho first intimation Mr. Folk had of Drake's disappearanca was about 7 o'clock on the evening of Jan. 18th, when Mrs. Drake informed him." He started ont immediately in a blinding snow storm, alone, and kept up the search until 11 o'clock that night, firing : off his shotgun every few minutes in or der to attract the attention of tho lost man, should he be alive and within hearing distance. Nest day ho was joined by several other men, and for fourteen days he spent nearly ail his time in tho search, along with a num ber of other mon. This does not look much liko ho had been coaxed for sever al days to go ont, and gave all manner of excuses for net going, as the Plain dealer states. John Patton, tho section foreman at Tunnel 5, is iho man who shot tho deer on Jan. 17th end hung it on a tree about five miles distant, and which Drake started out next morning to get, Mr. Patten having told him ho could have, it if he went after it, as he had shot two deer and brought one in himself. Tho Plaindealer states that it waa Sir. Folk who had shot tho deer, which that pa per terms a "deluDiou." It appears that tho searchers were un able to find the tree where Mr. Patton had hnnd the deer. Upon a report that this tree had been found, tho hunters believed they might bo able to find eome ovidenco that Drake had been thero, and in that ovent find the body. Acting upon this belief, Geo. Wood, of the Victorv mine, took with him two gunny sackB. so that if tho body wero found, a stretcher could be mado with them, on which to carry it out. No stretcher was made, and this is nil there is to tho sensatuml stretcher story in the Plaindealer. Mr. Folk iB a very honorable gentle man of excellent character, and natural ly resents this uncalled for stigma on himself and family. His many friends also feel justly indignant over tiro Plain dealer's cowardly attack upon him. Tho largo number of searchora who left here the first of lost week to search for the lost man wero obliged to return homo again, owing to n heavy fall of snow in the mountains at that time. They left their tents, etc., anil lust as soon as the suow goes off thoy will re new the search. Glenualo News. MORE -i j The above is reproduced from the ! Glendale News to show that the j Plai.vdealer has no intention of do ! inc inmstice tn nnvhnriv in fl nnaa CJ W With all the light before us and all the reports coming to this office, we have tried faithfully to give the news without cbloring of any kind. Just as soon as a mistake was brought to our attention it was corrected, and so far as tho statements made in the Glendale News and the Roseburg Re view are concerned and the imputa tion that we have made "cowardly as saults," "malicious assaults" or the editor is a moral coward or that we could be intimidated by the covet threat of violence the same as a fel low by the name of Quine intimated in the Review must pass for what it is worth. The men writing such stuff do not know what moral courage or cowardice is. The Plaindealer believes that a murder, most foul and damnable, has been committed by whom we know not. lire. Drake believes her hus band was murdered but can give no cause for the crime if crime there be. The missing man Drake was an Odd Fellow and a very prominent Odd Fel low high in the order has made an in vestigation into the disappearance of Drake aad he with all the b'ght be fore him, believes that Drake was murdered. There are scores of men in Roseburg to whom the'storias have been told, and they believe Drake was murdered. Since the attacks made on the editor of the Plaindealer have appeared, we have been told of direct circumstantial evidence point ing to murder. The witnesses can be produced, but we know the law: unless the body or part of the body is found a charge of murder cannot be sustained in the courts 'of Oregon. Has the Plalvdealer done any man an injury? Has the editor attacked any man in a cowardly manner? Has the effort been anything else than to publish the news and expose what many believe to be cold-blooded, premeditated murder? While ' the public press has been appealed to to besmirch the editor of the Plain dealer and to abjure of what the Plaindealer believes to have been a wanton, malicious and coward ly murder, by whom we know not, the Plaindealer has a duty toper- form to all the people to publish- the news, and no appeals to us in anyway as an editor, citizen or fraternal society member, will avail where such a case of momentous importance is before the public. Now we are will ing to admit that if there was a piece of possum pie going around and one brother got two pieces where he ought not have had any, wo might remember brotherly weakness, close one eye and wink the other. We have done so and might do so again, but we draw the line where human life is con cerned. Has the editor stepped out side of legitimate journalism? Has he stepped outside of his duty to the public to villify and abuse? We think not. Do the correspond ents and newspapers want to go to the bottom of the transaction whore all the evidence pro and con can bo submitted, and where the widow can tell her heart rendering story in her own words: where everything can be brought out and made clear as tho noonday? If so, the parties who feel aggrieved and rush to other newspapers for ex planation instead of to the paper where the claimed damago to their character and standing was done and could be undone, can have the columns of the Plaindealer free of- charge for any thing they may want to say, for the following notice stands at tho head of tho editorial column and ha3 stood thero for months past: "The editor of tho Plaindealek has no intention of making a false statement reflecting-iipon tho life or character of any person, officially or otherwise, and AND any statomeni published in these columns will bo cheerfully corrected if erroneous and brought to our attention by tho aggrieved party or parties. Our intention is that every article published of a personal or political official nature shall be news matter of ceneral interest and for tho welfare -of tho state at large." It is possible that all the suspicious and ugly circumstances believed by lira. Drake are only the work of imagination. It is possible that the men who were found with the stretch er were not the men who acknowledge that they were found hunting the body carrying gunny sacks. It is possible that the gunny sacks had not been converted into a stretcher by running too pol-.-s through them, and that two difT.rjnl sets of men were encountered, one with a stretch er and the other with gunny sacks It is possible that there are two neighbors and different people al together and that the one outfit is perfectly innocent and the other mixed up in the affair. It is possible that when the Roseburg parties went to one of the homes and accompanied by the wife of one of the neighbors that she did not take a gun with her when urged by the Roseburg men to show them the way, and that she did not Sire off the gun and that two men came to her and the Roseburg men, and the Roseburg men may have been deceived about the stretcher. It is even possible that the above may be absolutely true or false or that en tirely different parties may have been engaged in the transaction, and we only mention the above to show how the case is or may be mixed up. And right here with better information about tne matter, we state: m our last tasue it was stated that it was the trackwalker who after killing the deer and hanging it up, was found in company with anotner man witn a stretcher in the neighborhood of the place where Drake was supposed to have been. It was not the track walker but a man whose name is well known. The trackwalker on the S. P. Railroad was at first mixed up in an ugly manner by the various re ports, but by running down the rumors and getting to the bottom of the affair bos been the means of giv ing him a thorough vindication, the same as we heartily desire will be given to all parties concerned. ThatJ part of Douglas county is spacely settled and is very wild by nature, and reports coming from there colored with rainbow hues should be accepted with moderation; but one thing is certain, there can be no multipli colored rainbow without a shining sun and falling moisture, and there cannot be so many reports and coun ter reports without there being some truth even though there is avast preponderance of fiction. If Drake came to his death by accident or in a natural manner, and that fact was es tablished, the Plaindealer would re joice to publish the fact, not that we have any object in Drake's death, but to remove the onus now resting on that part of the county and to vindi cate innocent parties. If Drake came to his death at the hands of assas sins we hope the proof will be pro duced by the finding of the body and would then like to know that the assassins had their necks' broken in the penitentiary. Personally the above is all the interest the editor has'in the mysterious Drake case. Since the proceeding was in type, Mr. Patton, the foreman of the South ern Pacific railroad construction force in Cow Creek Canyon called at this office accompanied by three other gentlemen. Mr. Patton stated that he killed the deer and hung it on the limb of a tree; that he told Mr. Drake and also his neighbor the same Sunday evening. After Drake had disappeared ho stated that he went to the tree and found that the deer had been lifted up and taken down from the limb and that no animal could have taken it from the treo and that no evidence of a struggle was to be found at tho tree. He also stated that Mr. Drake knew the country well and only a fow days before, that Mr. Drake had killed a deer with peculiar horns, and as it was near nightfall Mr. Drake did not find it. That he, Patton, when ho was hunting Drake found the deer killed by Drake noar to tho place where he, Patton, hung up tho deer he killed on the tree. This fact was mentioned to show how woll Drake knew the country. He stated that the neighbor did make an effort to find Drake after he was lost but tha.t he does not know tho truth or falsity of many reports connected with the case. With all tho light before tho Plaindealer it states: There are two suppositions which may be con- sidered in Drake's disappearance. The first is: Drake may have taken dvnj Ft. W- FENN, CIVIL. ENGINEER) Cutely with tho overnmente?AhicaK geological Jsorveyjof Bzuil, United States Deputy Mineral Surveyor. Office over Postoffice. frOSEBUfiG, 0HGOfl. 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