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u?ftorical SocieU 10 Vol. XXXVI ROSEBURG, DOUGLAS COUNTY, OREGON, MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1904. t No. 21 fidbttttl t MAO FOR fiNE CONFECTIONERY f lVIl ant! !CE CREAM PARLORS miits undies, takes, nes, Doughnuts and fresh Bread Daily Portland Journal Agency. Hendrick's Block, Opp. Depot I. J. WORflAN & Co. Prop. TWO KILLED, SIX INQURED. Snowsllde in Cornucopia District Wrecks Queen of West Mine. 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 55 TROXEL BLOCK OPP PASSENGER DAPOT XT; gfci Bring Us Your CHICKENS, EGGS, BUTTER, FOR CHSH OR TRHDE. J.F. Barker & Co. MAKE YOUR BREAD WITH Pride of Douglas Flour, $L1S Per Sack, For Sale By Any Grocer in Town. Cheap enough for -such rattling good Flour Yes and a sack of it makes three to five loaves more of bread than any other flour j'ou can buy. Why, because it is made from the very best selected wheat. DOUGLAS COUNTY FLOUR MILLS. Roseburg Oregon. a tv 1 awMJw tt vj 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. MJWeatherby. T. A. Bury D. L. Martin 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. Baker City, Or., March 11. Two men were killed in a snowslide last night at the Queen of the West mine, in the Cornucopia district, 60 miles northwest of here. The dead are: H. W. Holland, C. W. Cox. The injured nono of them fatally are: G. W. Estes, Thomas Smith, T. H. Mills, John Hunt, Frank Lari mer, Nels Lundstrom. The crash" came at 5:30, when the miners were coming off shift. It razed the building andbunkhouse, and swept the occupants down almost to the bottom of the canyon, hundreds of feet below. The dead and injured were recovered with difficulty from the debris. The mine is located in the Bonanza Basin, one mile from the spot where Superintendent Fred C. Dobler, of the Cornucopia mine, lost his life in a slide a year ago. The snow in the basin was from 10 to 100 feet deep. The slide started midway between the Queen of the West and the sum mit, gathering mass and momentum as it thundered down the precipitous escarpments of the mountain. With a tremendous roar the avalanche struck the surface plant of the mine and in the twinkling of an eye all that was left to mark the spot was a tiny office occupied by Superintendent Bert Smith. Below the mine the mountainside is less steep, and the slide partly lost its momentum, to which fact is attributed the saving of the lives of 12 of the 14 who made the wild ride on top of the slide. Every winter an avalanche in Cor nucopia country claims victims. The heavy snowfall and steepness of the mountains make the safety of the miners impossible. The Last Chance miue is prepared for such emergen cies, having constructed it surface plant so that slides will pass over the sloping roofs of the buildings. All over the Blue Mountains this year slides have occurred, with heavy property loss, but yesterday was the first loss of life. C. M. Cox, more familiarly known as "Cam" Cox was at the time of his residence in this county, one of its best known and most reliable citizens. During the years oflSSO and 1881 he was marshal of this county, and was known as a most efficient officer. After his retirement from office he returned to farming, his previous oc cupation. He ha3 been absent from this county for the past 15 years, most of which have been spent in the section of the county in which he met his death. At the time of his death Mr. Cox was about 57 years old. He is survived by two sons and two daughters, Loren Cox, of Wilbur, Merton Cox, of San. Francisco, Violet Cox, of Albany, Ore., and a married daughter, (nee Alta Cox) of Baker City. He was a brother of Jacob and Geo. Cox, of Deer Creek, Mrs. F. W. Dillard, of this city, and Mrs. S. W. Barker, who lives in California. Mrs. J. W. Strange, of this city, is a niece of the deceased. If it is possi ble to bring the remains to this coun ty, they will be laid to rest in the family burying ground at Civil Bend. America Will Take Leading Role. A LARGE LOT OF SPRAY MATERIAL At Marsters' Drug Store A CAR LOAD OF SULPHUR Of Superior Quality j List Your Ranches and Timber g Lands with me. I HAVE EASTERN CUSTOMERS AND CAN SELL R. R. JOHNSON, OFFICE IN MARKS BLOCK, ROSEBURG, OR. William Grueno, editor of Die Grenz- boten, of Leipsic in analyzing the play of international interests in the far Hast, says the late Field Marshal von Waldersee, after his return from China, often talked with his close friends on the certainty that the United States would have a leading role there. Hi3 solicitude for the future interest of Germany was also connected with the United States' po sition in far Eastern affairs. Herr Grueno does not say where Von Waldersee's utterances leave off and the editor begins, but the article continues: "The United States' attitude to wards Japan is understandable be cause of her commercial relations with Japan and in Manchuria, and by reason of her aspiration to the hege mony of the Pacific. If the United States should maintain her claims to predominance in the Pacific, she must reckon with Japan, either as a friend or an enemy. For the moment the United States' interests require friendly relation with Japan, taking into consideration the limited Ameri can Navy and the British-Japanese alliance. For the time this allowance will check American hegemony on the Asiatic side of the Pacific." The editor regards an American-British-Japanese alliance a possibility. For Sale. HAS J. C. CO DatesJPIxed. KL LED HIMSELF MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEARS AT SILVER CITY SILVER GREEK HAS BEEN DRAGGED AND DYNA MITED BUT NO TRACE OF M1SSSING MAN IS FOUND. A letter received from Silver Lake, La'-c Count', Oregon, by Major Buick, in substance says: On Fri da' morning, March 4, J. C. Conn, (known in Roseburg where he was born and raised and whose relatives live around Roseburg,) was seen by one of the clerks of his store at Silver Lake to leave the store and go in the direction of the Silver Creek bridge. This was early in the morning and Mr. Conn did not take with him his overcoat although it was bitterly cold at the time. As he ueared the approach of the bridge he was seen to stoop down as though he was tying a shoe string or rolling up the bottom of his pants and was seen to turn around as if to return but a few minutes afterwards he was seen on the top of the bridge and that was the last seen of him. The absence of Mr. Conn from the store during the day alarmed the clerk, and as evening approached he made his fears known and a searching party went to look for him, when someone said that, early that morning, ho had heard the report of a gun, and the sound proceeded from the neighborhood of the bridge. The creek was rather high at the time, and the ground "frozen, and the party returned without finding a trace of the missing man. The clerk said that at first he supposed that his employer had goneirshftfstaricT' into the country, on business. When it was stated ' that the report of a gun had been heaid that morning, a search was made, when it was discovered that two guns of modern pattern were in their proper place in the drawer, but that one revolver of ancient make was missing. . As Mr. Conn had left no instructions about the store or business, his disappearance caused consid erable alarm, and on Saturday morning Frank Pa3'ue, the clerk, sent out two men on horseback to seek in formation from the ranches around Silver Lake but they returned without bringing any information of any kind. On Sunday and Monday Silver creek was thoroughly searched and dragged, and dynamited to see if the supposed dead body would float, but not a trace of the missing man could be found. It seems that while Mr. Conn's business was in a most flourishing condition that he has had quite a number of reverses lately. Early in the winter three heavy freight wagons burned up and a few weeks ago one of his best horses died and he had appeared to be meloncholy over the loss and it is supposed that in a fit of despondency he went to the top of the bridge and there shot himself and the body falling into the swollen stream has been carried into Silver Lake about ten miles away. If this theory is true the body will doubtless be found. The only hope the Silver Lake people have that he is alive is the theory that he has wandered into the country and is at some ranch honse for the ground is covered with show and the cold is so intense at night that nobody lightly clad could live through a single night. If Mr. Conn in a fit of de spondency, wandered into the country and perished his body will be found just as soon as the snow melts from the range. At the time o( writing Monday noon the relatives of Mrr Conn in Rosebnrg have received no news from Silver Lake except that furnished by Major Buick in a letter from his son, whoilives there, and in finishing the letter it is stated that the creek is swollen and a thorough search has been made of the surrounding countiy and mountains and not a trace of the missing man was found. The Democratic County Convention will bo held in Roseburg, April 1C. There will be 125 delegates. The precincts and tho apportionment of delegates on the vote cast in each for Governor Chamberlain, including ono delegate at largo, are as follows: Bohemia 1 Camas Valley.... 3 Perdue 2 Cometock 4 Kellofig 2 Gardiner 5 Scottsburg 2 Mt Scott.. 2 Coles Valley 3 Cow Creek. .... 3 Looking Glass 4 East Utnpqna 3 Calapooia C Oakland 5 Elkton 3 Millwood 2 Wilbur 4 Civil Bend 3 Olalla 3 Glendalo 0 Myrtle Creek 7 Pass Creek 7 Riddle 4 Cauyouvillc 4 Yoncalla ft West Roseburs. ..9 Unirxiua li Deor Cm ..,..'6 Roeeburg 0 Dm Cre k ...l Hayhurst. Misst liable Wilson, of Yoncalla has been engaged to teach our spring term of school. Lee Allen is moving his family to his ranch near here in order to send bis children to school. Mrs. Kittie Francis and little bov re turned to their home in Tinpot, after a few days visit with relatives here. Messrs. Oholsons and Davie, who are cutting railroad wood near Leona, were hers over undav. Wm. Cook of noar Fern Ridge was a xoncalla vhitor last Saturday. Grandma Bridge who was quite sick a few days lat week, is about wall once more. W. C. Bridges and Ben Huntington of Yoncalla came over for a hunt on Bally a few days aso, but owinc to stormv weather were unsuccessful. John Wagoner was greeting old f riccdt here last Mondav. Rocoe Andrews and nartr came over with their hounds last weak and'eaucht and Killed a large coyote that had been killing sheep. Wo regret to krn of the death ol Grandpa Standby, father of our neigh bor Chas. Stanley. Wm. Wilfan left several davs ago for his home in Glatgow, Scotland. Mr. Wilson had many friends here who wish him a pleasant voyage home. Hayhurst is gradually toting its repu tation as a bachelor community. They are about all "t sapped up" as we pre dicted some time ago. And the last two who were left single left as recently. Cosmopolitan. Ft. W- FENN, CIiZ:iL. ENGINEER) .CUtely with the bg goologiealeyjof Bra,, United States Deputy Mineral Surveyor. SOSEBUSG. OSEGOfl. Correspondence solicited Office over Postoffice. GO TO TRP PHWT 17 A T7 JIlLLuJTUl FOR CIGARS, TOBACCO HND S70KERS' SUPPLIES, Jackson Street, Roseburg, Oregon r r. a ROSEBURG lUNK m s T CO. Government Timber Land. A Favorite Remedy for Babies. Four mules, 2 wagona, harness, buggy, ' etc., at Kelly & Banks livery stable See J. A. Buchanan. Its pleasant taste and prompt cures have made Ghamborlain'a Cough Rome dy a favorite with the mothers of small children. It quickly cures their coughs and colds and prevents any danger of pneumonia or other serious conse quences. It not only cures croup, but when given ns soon as tho croupy cough appears will prevent tho attack. For sale by A. 0. Marsters & Co. Articles of incorporation havobeon forwarded from Salt Lake to Boise for tho Shoshono Falls Power and Lighting company, which will launch a power enterprise said to bo one of tho greatest in tho country oxcept that at Niagara. A power plant la being built on the Snako river from which electricity will bo transmitted to Salt Lake and intormedi alo cities. Threo power plants in all will bo orccted with n total capacity 80, 000 to 100, 000 horao power. Tho capital stock of tho company is f 2,500, 000 with a bon 1 issuo of equal amount. All the stock and half the bonds are sub Bcrlbed. Prominent men of Idaho and Utah aro promoting the company. It fccmslo be a general idea araon? the people that all the valuable vacant government land has been taken. Such is not tho cite, as I c&n show yon 23 quarter sections of government land that will cat frem 3 to 0 million feet per each quarter of Sugar and Yellow Pine. Cedar and Oregon Pine, in very desir able locations for Umber claims and homesteads, close to town and the rail road, with good roads leading to them. If yon intend taking a timber' claim or homestead, first let me "show you some claims and then before riling, so and see what others will show you. Uwant you to get all the timber and in the best lo cation that you can for your money Maps and pamphlets furnished on an plication. My location fee is $125. W B. SncaSAS, Rooms 10 and 12 Masonic Temple, Grants Pass, Ore. Long dis tance phone 731. lrn Excursion Rates. Commencing March 1, 1104 and con- tinning daily to and inclnding April 30, 1904 colonists tickets will be on sale from the East to points on Oregon lines via. Portland, rates from some of the princi pal points as follows: f33 from Chicago, 111; 31 from Peoria, 111; $30 from St. Louis, Mo; $25 from Missouri River Points, Omaha and Council Bluffs to Kansas City inclusive; 2G.90 to Sioux City, 6top overs not to exceed 10 days at oncpoint will be allowed between Port land and destination of ticket on Oregon lines. 19 tf " I enjoyed cood health until about two ytar? fo wlAn I noticed my back began to ache fre quently; It became sore ami lame, and btadacb toon added to my misery, also found that my general health diminished. I became thin ana weak and nervous, having severe pain at regu lar intervals," write Mr. Augustus Emory, Treasurer New Century Club, J4 Dean Street (Roxbury), Boston, Mass. She continue : My work which before had seemed an easy task soon seemed like a heavy burdn, I decided to try Dr. rierce's Favorite Prescription, which - - -, r l . ; . , . several ui iuj incuua piai9ci fru nigmv. 4 icu cameuaccme relief within a week. mvantxtlte pain gradually decreased and I enjoyed sound sleep. Within fourteen weeks I had completely H AND HIDE Pays the highest Cash 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. ick rorner of 0ak and Kse ss. OPP. Empire Stable. fELATEKITE la Mineral Robber. I VOU MAYUXTEXn HTJII.ni.XO or flxm it necessary to REPLACE Jl TSroiUCOTJT HOOF ELATERITE ROOFING SOU oa merit.' GaZ&3i.' It'wlUo forprtcSSi' THE ELATERITJE ROOFING CO Wotwater BuUdirUE. PORTUVN'D New Arrivals Every da brings something now in Spring Goods. viuiiD die latest unng in dress goods for suits Skirts and Waists. v Also the "Cotton Crepe" we are the only ones in the city who have imported this goods direct from Japan. It comes in all colors and will sell for 20cta per yard. WOLLENBERO BROS., Phone 801. A. SALZMAN, Fratical WatchmaKer, Jeweler, Optidaa. Watches, ClocKs, Jewelry Diamonds and Silverware Watch Repairing a Specialty. IV my pulse, which had been weak became nor- - i , l . , I xuai, sou new mv nuiiumm uiy fuuic uviu. I gladly endorse your medicine. " Doctor Pierce's Favorite Prescription restores weak nnd sick women to sound health, by curing the local wotuanjy dis eases which are generally responsible for the failure of the general health. A wom an's entire balng i centered in her wom anly nature. When the delicate womanly organism is attacked by dlsef.ic; when. there u irregularity or a disagreeable drain ; when, inflammation burns and ulcers gnaw the general health will reflect the progress of disease, in increasing weakness, nerv ousness, backache, headache, less of appe tite and sleeplessness. So sure of it is the World's Dispensary Medical Association, of llutlalo, N. Y., pro metors of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prcicrir who cannot be cured of Lcucorrben. Ft fion, that they offer $300 reward for wor male weakness. Prolapsu3, or Falling of ' "Womb. All they ask is a fair and reasona ble trial of their means of cure. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regulate ihi stomach, Hvtr and bowels. 0000OCK50 5 r.W.BKXSO.S-. A.C.JtAKSTKBS. H.CGJLLRT, iimucnL 1 a p, im Vice President. Douglas County Bank, Batablislied I883. Incorporated X901J Capital Stock, $50,000.00. BOARD OP DIRECTORS r. W. BENSON, R. A. BOOTU J. H, BOOTH, J. T. BRIDGES J. F. KELLY, A. C. If ARSTERS TT-r. MTTT EP A general banking business transacted, andjeuatomera riven every 0 accommodation consistent with safe and conservatite banking. O Bank open from nine to twelve and from ono to thrp. 2 OCOOiX000000000000 XX00XJOOOO0000000 Get one of our 1904 Diarys and Keep Tab on Yourself BOYCE & BENGTSON The Up-to-Date Trilors I WE BUY ANYTHING 5 And sell everything at a low figure.? A big store full of just I what you need. All kinds of furniture. Buy, sell or exchange Har- ess, Saddle Fr and Oak Wood, Buggies, Wagons, most anything t you want at tho Second Hand Store. 414 Jackson St., Rosebnrg. Second Hand Store 414 JacKson Street Rosebsrg, Oregon NOTICE I Call at the office of the Roseburg Water and Light Co. ami pay your water and light bills, on or before the 10th of each month and take advantage of the discount.