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Jim TliSj i lie Church that respect and honest DnCDhWPn PlainfiPaiPP 'foalty to the Republic was demanded KUdtfUUl lj I lalHUeaiCl )by a majorjty of Frenchmen; and the DURTON THE UOODLER. Published Monday an3 Thursdays. PLAINDEALER PUBLISHING CO. H.n.BROOKKS. Kditor. MARY K. BROOKES. Proprietor Entered at the Poet Office in Roseburg, Ore , as second cities mail nuttier. Subscription $2.00 per Yew. Advertising Rates on Application. The Editor of the Plaindealk haine iDtn tion of making a Uiae rUtaotat rellecMo-upon the life or character of any perean. officially or otherwise and any itatencat published in tbvre columns will be cheerfully conuetert if erroneous and brought 10 oar attention ly the agsrieved party or parties- Our intention U tha- cvt ry article publMied of a penoual or pxlithwl official nataio shall bo news waller of get rl interest and tor the wUre of the state at large, . MARCH 31, 1904. war has been waged to such an ex tent that on Monday night the French Chamber of Deputies by a vote 316 to 2G9 voted to suppress secular teaching of any kind by religious orders in the Republic of France. Call for Primary and Convention. County HERMANN OR HARRIS. The friends of Hon. Ringer Her maim never started in to claim the result of the primaries as a for that gentleman's renomination The Salem Statesman came out Tuesday morning in its headlines and local report and editorially claiming the primaries had been carried for Mr. Harris, of Lane, for congress. In the absence of Mr. Prescott, Joseph Ralph Rurton, United States Senator from Kansas, was on Monday, in the federal court of St. Louis, con victed on five counts with receiving bribes from the Rialto Grain and Se curities Company of St. Louis to pro tect that swindling concern by using his influence with the postollice de partment at Washing! ju. The com pany was one of those concerns which should have been excluded from the use of the mail because it was a fraud victory run on a gigantic scale. Rurton's attorneys immediately filed a motion for a new trial and Federal Judge Krum has the matter under advisement. The maximum sentence is 2 years' imprisonment on each count or a line of 10,000 on each, or the double sentence can h Sheriff Storey, of Portland, has started petitions to havo his name daced on tho ballots aB an independ ent republican candidate for shenlf. The Exchange Telegram of Paris earns that Japan nas tiecuieu to again forbid attaches and correspond- nts to follow operations. As in the ormer case this is regarded as signi ficant of coming actiuns. Persuantto a call of chairman, the Republican County Central Committee met at Roseburg on March 12, 1904, and Bet the 2nd day of April for the holding of the primary elections and the SUh day of April at 10 a. m. for the convening of the County convention at the court house in the city of Roseburg and pro portioned the representation at one del egate at large and one delegate for every teen votes or niaior portion thereof cast for R. T. Bean candidate for mi preme judge on June- 2nd, 1902, and make the following suggestions that all proxies should be represented in the convention by a resident of the precinct so far as practicable, and each precinct select a Central committeemen. The various precincts are entitled to the fol lowing number of delegates : Roseburg 10 E Umpqua 3 Deer Creek 10 Looking Glass.. 3 Umpqua 7 Cow Creek 2 West Roseburg. -12 Coles VaHey.... 5 - Yoncalla 9 Mt Scott 2 ConiEtock 4 Scottsbnrg 5 Riddle 6 Gardiner 9 Pass Creek 11 Camas Valley ... 3 Mvrtle Creek ... 7 Bohemia 2 Olendale 5 Canyonville . . . Olalla 4 KeHogs: 3 Civil Bend 4 Days Creek ... Wilbur 3 Perdue 4 Millwood 3 Elkton G Oakland S Calpooia S K. L. MILLER, Chairman-, J. A. BUCHANAN, Sec'y. Roseburg, Oregon, April 15, 19W. the regular Oregonian reporter, a imposed by the Judge, at discretion great Harris victory was also tele- The law under which Rurton was con- graphed to the Oregonian, presuma- victed was passed in 1864 and this is bly bv some one of the Statesman of- the first conviction under it, althouj fiff wWa Mr. Harris snent the eve- several previous attempts have been ning. made to convict under its provisions, Under these circumstances it was The heaviest part of the verdict of natural Republicans from all over the conviction, however, does not lie in county, and from adjoining counties the sentence, which will undoubtedly should telegraph and telephone The be only a fine, but the sentence causes Journal askinr if it was true, and a vacancy of his seat in the United The Journal denies the claim What could be done in the face of such a false claim made in the inter est of Mr. Harris, and to .the detri ment of Mr. Hermann, and to the in jury of Marion county men? The Journal emphatically that Mr. Harris has any following in this county, and has carried no county any stronger than he has Marion, he has no con gressional aspirations to boast of. Let us be fair and admit that Mr. Harris has some warm friends in Ma rion county, and he may have some delegates, the way delegates are se lected in this county, by throwing precincts together. States senate and prohibits the man from forever holdinsr an ollice of trust under the federal government and this is just. If we are not mistaken, this man Rurton, twenty-five years ago, was denies poor boy with a great passion for large riding race horses, and he won sever- if he al lanre purses by his skill as a horse man. He saved up enough money to pay his way through college, and set tled down as a lawyer, but he was al ways "hossy." His ascension in poli tics was like a sky-rocket, but now he is flattened out for all time. The highest ambition of his life was to hold power, so that he could acquire boodle. It is to be honed that the federa CANDIDATE'S ANNOUNCEMENT. Being authorized the Plaindealer announces that M. L. Moore is a can didate for the office of treasurer of Douglas county, subject to the nomi nation of the Republican party at the County convention on April 9, 1904. Being authorised, we hereby an nounce that George M. Brown is a candidate for re-election to the. office of Circuit Attorney of this district, a and of the United States senators representatives who accept or giv bribes, to the penitentiary. What the Hnrrlmnn Lines foi Oregon. Are Doing lican nominating convention. THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH AS THE ENEMY OF FRANCE. But precinct after precinct was judge will sentence the man to prison carried at the primaries where it is and thus set the pace for sending impossible to find any but Hermann men, and the outcome of the county convention will show that Hermann has the largest following in Marion county. It is unwise, and not good politics, to put Marion county in the attitude of fighting Hermann, when it is well known" that he will come to the con vention with the largest following of any candidate. It is a pity that Marion county must be put in the attitude of trying to turn down a man with as large a following as Mr. Hermann ha& in Western Oregon. It is foolish poli tics. So far as Mr. Harris is concerned the journal admires him and respects him as a candidate, and wishes him well, bat it is not supporting him be- rhe Plaindbalhk is in receipt of the following letter, which will show tho irood work being done by the larriman Lines: Tiiaitio Di:r'T Oiikcon Links, Pohtland, Ore., March 29, 190 1. Referring to conversation regarding the statement made by my self that 47,000 people settled in Oregon in 1903; Beg to say that at present, I can not give you exact hgures, as same was an estimate, based on reports rom various sources, but principally through the different Immigration Bureaus. Mr. Craig, of the O. R. & N. Co., estimates something over 30, 000, while I have taken the immigra tion of 1902. which was 44,600, and using this as a basis, estimated that at least 47.000 people came to Ore- iron in 1903. s you know, the Harriman System Immigration Bureau was established in 1902, and as it is a well known fact that immediate results do not follow advertising, it follows that the better results must necessarily have come later; this together with re ports to which I liavo alluded, leads me to believe that the immigration was much greater in 1903 than in 1902. The exact fnrures will be ob tainable later on. The following is a tabulated state ment of immigration for 1902 locat ing in the various counties named; Baker 750 Grant COO Benton 1000 Harney 100 Clackamas 2500 Jackson 1000 Clatsop 40d Josephine 2000 Columbia 4d0 Klamath 500 Coos 1500 Lake 100 Crook 1000 Lane 2200 Curry 50 Lincoln 800 Douglas 1500 Linn 1250 Gilliam 250 Malheur 300 Marion 1200 Umatilla 1000 Morrow 400 Union 1750 Multnomah 16000 Wallowa 500 Polk 500 Wasco 1500 Sherman 300 Washington 2000 Tillamook 200 Wheeler 50 Yamhill 1000 Total 44,600 As a matter of information which may be of use to you, I submit the following; In the decado between 1890 and 1900, the population of Oregon in creased 99,769; 44,041, or 41 per cent, locating in Portland. During the year ending June 30, 1903, 857,046 aliens landed in the United States; 31,709 of which came to the three Pacific Coast states, Ore gon, Washington and California, and of these but 1996, or two-tenths of one per cent, located in Oregon, showing that we are drawing our population from the better class of American citizens located in the Eastern and Middle West states. Trusting that this will answer your inquiry, 1 am, Very truly yours, TH03. MC&JSKEK. Commencing with the overthrow of Napoleon HI and the establishment of the French Republic in the fall of 1870 the majority of French citizen snip has regarded the Roman Catho lic Church as the enemy of the Republic- Previous to 1870 and while France was enjoying the Restoration period of from 1814 to 1846 under the Monarchial reign of Louis XVHI and Charles X and after the brief second Revolution period from 1848 to 1852 when Napoleon HI ascended the throne as Emperor and until he vacated it in 1870 by being taken a prisoner by the victorious German army at Metz, the government educa tional institutions had been under the control of the Catholic Church. After the fall of the Empire and under the form of republican institu tions it was found that the church in its teaching in the public schools in doctrinated into the pupils, that obedience to the commands of the church and fealty to the church was to be observed first and the duties as citizens of the Republic of France were to be subservient. That the God of gods speaking through the church came first and must be obeyed and the voice of the Republic and obedience to the laws was only a sec ondary consideration. It became clearly apparent to the French government in the early years of the Republic that the teaching of the church tended to the destruction of the government and the restora tion of imperialism or a monarchy, for the church teachers" and priests and prelates taught prejudice to the ! government and inculcated into the pupils anything but respect and es teem for republicanism. Year after year the government of France urged moderation and obedi ence to the enacted laws of the Re public and all the time the church worked most assidiously against the Republic; and during the past ten years the struggle for supremacy whether the Catholic Church should control by its teaching the Republic, or the Republic by its public schools control its own affairs has been inten sified. Last year hundreds of Roman Catholic schools were closed in France for inculcating treason to the Repub lic by teaching French boys and girLs to disrespect the temporal power. Thousands of the teachers, nuns, monks and priests "who wore not citi- zens were expenea aim wie swnwis closed. But that lesson was not sufficient to teach the Roman Catho- fore the convention, him heartily if he is leni Journal. It will support nominated. Sa- CALLED UP HIGHER. W. E. Coman, the General Freight and Passenger Agent of " the S. P. Railroad in Oregon has been appoint-1 ed to the same position on the con solidated lines of the O. R. & N. Co., and the S. P. Railroads. A. L. Craig who occupied the posi tion on the O. R. & N., has been trainsferred to San Francisco to a higher position than he occupied. In the case of W. E. Coman we have the proof that merit will win its way to the top of the ladder, but this responsible position has been reached bv Mr. Coman by rapid bounds as he is only a young man, but he is full of fire, snap, energy and vim. He knows the railroad business by heart . and when it come3 to talking Oregon re sources, advantages and opportunities for investments he can do more to locate immigrants than any man in the state. The Plaindealer con gratulates Mr. Coman on his advanced position, and congratulates the state because he is an exceedingly fair and square man to do business with. - ALL FOR BINOER' "THE REASON why we talR quality so persistantly is no one can af ford to hide his light tinder a bushel. In drugs the most IMPORTANT POINT is QUALITY and we want to thoroughly impressjipon you that we give our GREATEST ATTENTION to that point. We earnestly solicit your patron age because we Know we can serve you in good faith. I F ullerton Phone 451 jchardson oseburg, Ore HERMANN'S FRIENDS CONTROL MARION CONVENTION. tuc umnv urmncD im 10 i err niiT m The Capital Journal is the authori- I" L "I" " I fTUIIULIl FIU IU LLI I UU I III tv for the statement that Marion UULU IU rtbl) UN b'AWUUSi INSTEAD THE county wants umger nermann re turned to Congress and that county will send a Herman delegation to the congressional convention.- tne re port also comes from other counties in the north end of the district that, although last year they favored another, are now for the Douglas county man. The complete vindica tion of Mr. Hermann m all matters on which he and Secretary Hitchcock disagreed anu tne iact tnat it was Mr. Hermann who had championed the ngnts oi tne actual settler as aitainst the greed of the big lumber and railroad corporations has made for him many friends and his renom ination is now practically assured The names of none of the men, who last year were opponents of Mr. Her mann in the convention, will bo pre sented this year thus showing that there is a unityof feeling through out the district for Mr. Hermann. Lebanon Criterion. Citizen &' Mass Meeting. auoui ;uu citizens oi itoseunrg as sembled at the court house Monday evening in answer to a published call for the purpose of protesting against the proposed new water and light rates. which tho Umpqua Water. Light & i'owor Co.. of this city propose to put inio eneci. Aiinougu me meeting was called for 7:30 p. m. it was near o clock before the restless spectators were called to order by Attorney John Long, who briefly stated tho object of the meeting and called for nominations for a chairman aud secretarv. Mr. Long was elected chairman and J. A Buchanan, secretary. V. V. Cardweli was placed in nomination for secretary. but declined., stating that ho hail been gathering statistics on tho water and light rates in the various towns in Ore gon, for the past week and had prepared a statement bised on an Interview with Mr. Blakely, which he wished to parent lateral the meeting. After the officers were elected there was a long pause broken by a voice from the assemblage asking for the reading of Mr. CnrdwelPs report. Mr. Card well ma 1c a few remarks be fore presenting his report, which, with his recommendations and views, were jested by the company. In his report of Mr. lllakley's interview the rates for water and lights were as follows: For one or anv number of faucets used Tn aliou.-ie, exix-I'tlni; In bath and toilet per month, f 1.50. For bath and toilet, 50 cents each ror irrigation, according to the area on which water is tn be used. ror lights, 25 cents apiece np to the number of 10; all over 10 at the rate iu cents t-acti. All houses using six lights or more can be out on the meter system if desired, in a few weeks. meter can be rented at the rate of cents per month or bought for $10. Mr. Cardweli said "we must deter mine whether the present rates are rea sonable; if not, we must register a kick big enough and long enough that they will take some recognition of it. The following was alio presented by Mr. Cardweli in support of the company to show that at the present time the company has only COO water and light consumers and are operating their plant at the present time, al a loss of $50 per month. This report was prepared by Mr. Cardweli upon the statement of Mr. Blakely. MONTHLY EXPENSES. Interest on bonds ." $1000 00 Current exjwnses -100 00 Maintenance and repairs 50 00 CLOSING OUT SALE Cmm encing March 7 the W. C. Hildebrand Stele f Merchandise will be CLO REGA SED RDLESS OF OUT COST The balan ce f sfccK left will be shipped to our new store in Washington. This offer will not hold good for any definite length of time. ASH & ATTWELL Wo will capture e'en tho wind god, And confine him in a cave; And then, through our patent process We the atmosphere will save ; Thus we'll squeeze our little brother When he tries his lungs to fill, I'uta meter on his windpipe And present our little bill We will syndicate tho starlight, And monopolize the moon I -Claim a royalty on rest days, A proprelary noon ; For right of way through ocean's spray We'll charge just what its worth ; We'll drive our stakes around the ! lakes In fact, we'll own the earth. Mr. Cardweli arose to deny the asser tion that the business men were assist- .1. . ...i . . , - ug inu company, wneu Jtr. iong inicr- 1 rupted him as follows: "Mr. Cardweli, so that the people here may understand you, I wish to ask, are you representing Mr. Blakeley hero as his attorney?" Before Mr. Cardweli could auswer he was greeted with the jeers and hisses of a portion of the audience. Mr Card- ell remained upon his feet and after Mr. Long had quieted the audience. Mr Cardweli repudiated, the statement of Mr. Zimmerman by asking the audience if they believed that "such men as (here ho named a number of the prominent . merchants on Jackson street) are trying j to rob you?" A voice replied "It looks likeiL" "Oayou be'leve it?" asked i Cardweli. "W'c do" answered a voice. "Then vou are bigger fools than I i thought you were," said Cardweli, "for tho profits of tho merchants busint-s ! comes from you and yon are the on-s he will assist, if he assists at all." ' Further discussion as to rates, meter. etc., tero heard from -Mr. Cunnienn.-t.i, , Mr. Buchanan, Mr McCoy and .r. ! Bellows. On motion of Mr. Zimmerman the following committer; was appoinlfd he Store That Does The Business FISHER & BELLOWS COMPANY loig 25 Total... A $H50 00 MONTHLY INCOME. 300 water consumers averaging $1.75 $525.00 300 light consumers averaging $1.50 . 450.00 Business houses, power etc.... 225.00 City lights and water 200.00 Cardinal Del Val, papal secretary of state, emphatically denies the re port that a plot against the pope's 'life has been discovered. There hra ' been no increase of police guards. OF PAP. (Special dispatch to the Roseburg Plaindealek.) Salkm, Ore., March 31, 1904. 3:30 p. 111. After caucussing all the week by the political enemies of the Honorable Iiingcr Hermann to organize in favor of Mr. Harris, the Republican County Conven tion of Marion comity organized this morning by electing the Honorable J. J. Murphy, chairman and C. A. Mnrphy, secretary. The committees on organization, apportionment and resolutions arc controlled nbsolutelj' by tho Her mann delegations. It will be late this afternoon before count' candi dates are nominated. Indications point to a solid Hermann delegation" to the Congressional convention. Mr. Harris has been on the ground, making a personal fight, since yesterday afternoon, but Iias accomplished very little to stem the Hermann floid Total $1400.00 "If this statement is true," said Mr. Cardweli, "wo have no kick coming. Mr. Blakeley has authorized mo to say that the plants aro for sale at tho same price paid for them." Mr. Zimmerman spoke: "I havo it on good authority that the company bought those pjants for $125,000. They must havo let tho stock la' out in tho rain until it was watored and swelled up to $200,000. Of conrso thoy are perfect ly willing to sell the plant and make $76,000.,, "I understand," continued Mr. Zim merman, "that tho company is offering the morchauts of this town specially low rates to keep thorn out of tho fight. If t hat is truo thoy aro no better than tho corporation and thoy should bo boy cotted by all workingmon, because tho workingmou will havo to mako np tho difference in tho rate" At tho suggestion of Mr. Zimmerman tho following poem wns road by tho sec retary : TIIK OWN KIM OK TUB UXIVKRSB. Let us corner up tho sunbeams Lying nil around our path; Get a trust on wheat nnd roses, Give tho poor tho thon.o a ul chaff. Lot ub find our chiofest pknauro Hoarding bounties of today, So tho poor Bhall havo scant mo.isuro And two prices havo to pay. Yes, wo'll reservoir tho rlvors, And wo'll levy on tho lakes, And wo'll lay a trilling toil-tax On each poor man who partakes ; We'll brand his number on him That ho'll carry through his life; Wo'll apprentice all his chllldren, Get a mortgage on his wifo. draft resolutions asking for the com- gH uanv to crant a new sclR-dule: F. M. j& Beard, A. J. Bellows, K. Zimmi'rmnn j and A. N. Orcutt. ! nesourrioss a doited. We, your committee on resolutions, j would report as follows: ; llevltl. ay the citizen ol Kosetmrj: ' i 111 uia?s im.t:iiii as-vmuivu ; That inasmuch as wo feel the rxttt 1 for water and lights proposed by the.', new company are unnecessarily high ' and burdensome to the people of Koc-; burg, and unreasonable as compared 't with what the service sho lid Cv.tt the company to furnish it; and that while: a we are not opposed to paying a fair and . reasonable rate for the service, we are , opposed to paying cxhorbitant prices, j Jk it Utfotml, That we believe the J following rates would" be amply Miffi-' cient to comensate the company, aud woutd be reasonable and acceptable to J the people. i WATER RATE. ! For household purposes, pur month $1 00 j J For tub, per month 50 j For toilet " ....fcO'J For lawn ' (one lot or less-) 50 noirrs. By meter, 10c per thousand walls. Flat rate $1 for five lights, or les-s; for lamps over five, 20c each up to ten ; for lamps over ten, 10c each additional lamp. The nbove rate for lfi candle power or above or lwlow that in proportion. Respectfully submitted, F. M. 1KAK1, K. Zimmerman, Jack Bkixows, Committee. The resolutions were adopted. Upon motion tho chair also app tinted tho following genllemen to canvass the number of water andJight consumers: First ward P. M. Matthews and Dan Fisher; second ward Maurice Moore and Sam Rast; third ward L. D. Carle, G. W. Kezartce; 4th ward 11. J. Wil kins and V. S. Patterson ; West Rose burg, A J. Bellows; North Roseburg Britt Nichols. The meeting adjourned. NErt'S CLOTHING It doesn't require any considerable ex pense to wear good clothes if you exercise good judgment in selecting from thor oughly reliable and correctly priced stocks such as ours. The Fall and Winter dis play is at it s best. Styles and materials to please the most critical. Prices 25 per cent less than 3'ou will pay at other stores. We call particular attention to bur 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 MSNS' OVERCOATS. A remark able line of the leading styles in a.l the newest mixtures aud plain materials, $7.50 to $20.00. MEW'S KAIIff GOATS. We W- everything that is good and that w 11 turn rain. $2.25 to 15.00. 9 Boys' Suits, Boys' Overcoats a -d r. com plete stock of General M rchandise. Phone 721 Write for Prices and Samples A COMPLETE STOCK OF GROCERIES STAPLE AND FANCY Albany Batter Every Day 2 per cent of the amount of all pur chases we give oar customers in coupons to buy beautifully decorated porcelain dishes. Fresh. Eggs and FREE DISHES C. P. DAVIS Successor to J. M. Fletcher Near the Depot Private free delivery to all parts of city aud suburbs HANDS OF. As the boiling of tho political pot be gins to bo in evidence, tho Mail will suggest that tho Republicans of Coot county manage their own affairs this trip. There seems to bo no good reason why tho Republicans who "have always been Republicans," who aro Rcpuili cans " from principle aud not from pol icy," should not bo ahlo to 1111 n:go the affairs of tho parly without very much assistance from ex-Democrats or ex Populist, whoso conversion lies under tho suspicion of having boon mainly dictated by self-interest. Tho assist ance and votes of all converts are wel come and are highly appreciated, but when it comes to tho management of party affairs, let them bo attendo I to by tho "tried and true." Wurshtiold Mail Tho Mail gives a barrel full of good political advico in the above few lines, but wo would like to add this small quota to it. .Beware of tho republi can who boasts that ho has scores of democrats who will vote for him for oflice for he is either a fake republi can or n fool. HEATH & MILLI.GAN Best Prepared P;inf -vw, X dill 1, RAILWAY WHITE LEAD OILS, YARNISliES, BRUSHES S. K. SYKES, Roseburg, - Oregon W. C. Tipton is again co.dincd to his bed with a severe iittnck of rheumatism Have you a friend 2n Chicago or Kansas City or Texas or any where else, for whom you want to buy a ticket o this city? If you have, call at this office and let us -range matters for you. You deposit with us enough money to cover transportation, as also incidental expenses of the journey; we do the icst. k B. r)RHAM, agent. 0 Third Si, vontand. Ore