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Kooebtira ROSEBURG, DOUGLAS COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, AWilL 7, 190-1. Vol. XXXVI No. 28 MAO PI AMC' FOR FiNE CONFECTIONERY lUii IIi and ICE CREAM PARLORS fruits, Candies, Cakes, Pies, Douohnuts and fresh Bread Daily Portland Journal Agency. Hendrick's Block, Opp. Depot I. J. NORflAN & Co. Prop. FARMERS' CASH STORE, E. A. WOOD & CO, Props DEALER IN Staple ane Fancj' Groceries. Highest Price paid for country produce. Fresh bread daily Your Patrouage is respectfully solicited. Private Free Delivery to AH Parts of the City TROXEL BLOCK OPP PASSENGER DAPOT The Wonders of Irrigation. Bring Us Your 1 BUTTER, FOR CHSH OR TRHDE. J. F. Barker & Co. $ MAKE YOUR BREAD WITH Pride of Douglas Flour, $1.10 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 yon can buy. Why, because it is made from the very best selected wheat. DOUGLAS COUNTY J LOUR MILLS. s Roseburg Oregon. 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. G. W. PARKS & CO. f HAVE YOD VISITED few Store . A- Fine Line of Watches, ClocRs, Jewelry, Silverware, etc. Prompt & Neat Repairing In The Pacific Monthly for April, W. P. G. Thacher draws this picture of the miracle wrought by irrigation: Picture a desert sea of achimg waste, hot under the brazen sun. No green thing is there. Only the sap less sagebrush or the ghostly grease wood can extract sustenance from the parched earth. A coyote howls hungrily, and a hideous bird wheels in' concetric circles, each awaiting the death of some hopeless thing that has been trapped in the desert's maze. Eaters of carron of living things these alone the desert nourishes. But, in the course of time, men come, with tools and engines and docile beasts. Busily they delve and toil, and from a far-off river a chan nel is dug. From it, lesser veins are made to ramify, until the face of the desert is seamed with furrows. Then the water is admitted from the dis tant brimming stream. It surges through the main channels, and steals gently down the lesser ways. My riads of life-giving fingers tough the seed that men have sown in the hot, pulverized soil. Man has accomplish ed his work, and willing nature takes up the task. Heat, moisture, a soil rich in nourishment: to these the seed responds, and sends its tendrils up into the sunshine, covering the naked earth with a garment of ver due. Cattle feed upon the succulent grasses. The heavy grain bows its head to the harvester. Fruit trees attain a magic growth and yield their luscious burden. Houses and barns are built, and group themselves into villages. Roadways reach out to other settlements. The railroad stretches its steely length across the earth. The hum of industry arises and, lo the miracle is wrought. The lean coyote slinks back toward the further waste, and the buzzard seeks a new hunting ground. The desert is reclaimed. HIS FATE A PRISON Burton, the Disgraced Senator, Trembles When Sentence Fails. Beckham is Asked to Pardon or Se cure New Trial for Caleb Powers. Resolutions requesting Governor Beckham, of Kentucky, to interefere in the case of Caleb Powers, convict ed and sentenced to die for the mur der of the late Governor Goebel, of Kentucky, have been passed at a meeting of evangelists and Christian workers conducting services in Chica go under the auspices of the Presby terian church. The resolutions requesting Govern or Beckham to make use of the par doning powder, either setting Powers free or securing the convicted man a new trial. The meeting was called by certain evangelists whose sympa thies had been aroused by a know ledge of the alleged conditions sur rounding and causing the conviction of Caleb Powers. Letters are being sent by the com mittee to the Governors of all the states and territories in the Union re questing co-operation and formal re monstrance on the part of those of ficials. Plot to Aid Mrs. Watson. A LARGE LOT OF SPRAY MATERIAL At Marsters' Drug Store A CAR LOAD OF SULPHUR Of Superior Quality Chicago, April 5. Strange circum stances attended the removal from Chicago of Mrs. Emma Watson, the remarkable woman under indictment in Oreeon. Two revolvers formed a part of the equipment of Deputy Marshal Middleton, who had Mrs. Watson in custody, as the result of information received through Secret Service officials to the effect that powerful friends of the woman were plotting to attempt her rescue en route to Portland. The woman waived examination and offered a cash bond of $4000. This was refused. Mrs. Watson was chic in appearance from an expensive ly trimmed hat on her head to her patent-leather boots. While she was packing her be longings in the jail it was learned that a red automobile, in charge of a man and a closely veiled woman, stopped at a fashionable boarding- house, where Mrs. Watson was stay ing when arrested, and. took away a trunk filled with gowns and laces. A chamois bag intrusted to the man wa3 reported to have contained $40,000 in uncut diamonds. J lai i i i iii mill wi i MP 1 1 1 iiinnnniTmi i List Your Ranches and Timber Lands with me. : : : R. R. JOHNSON, I HAVE EASTERN CUSTOMERS AND CAN SELL OFFICE IN MARK BLOCK, ROSEBURG, OR. How's This? Wo offer Ono Hundered Dollars Re ward for any case of Catarrh that cannot bo cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. We, tho undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for tho last 15 years, and uo- lieve him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations mado bv bis firm. Wammnq, Kinnan & MaRViN, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internal ly, aclinc directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of tho system. Testi monialB sent free. Prico 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipa tion, t Kansas City, Mo., April 6 A special to the Star from St. Louis says: United States Senator J. R. Bur tou of Kansas, recently convicted of receiving fees il legally from the Rialto Grain & Securities Company as their attorney, was given a sentence of six months in jail and was fined $2500 by Judge Adams, in the United States District Court here. St. Louis, April 6 Senator Burton, accompanied by his leading attorney, Judge Chester H. Krum.came into the United States Court at 12:30 o'clock. A case was being tried and Judge Adams granted a recess in that case to take up the Burton case. Judge Adams summoned Senator Burton to stand up, and then spoke of the motions that had been filed for a new trial and for arrest of judgment. The court, after briefly reviewing the motions, overruled them- both. Tho court then said to the defendant: ' Have you anything to say as to why sentence should not be passed upon you?" Trembling and evidently suppressing his emotions with a strong effort, Senator Burton stood leaning both hands on a chair back as he said: "Your Honor will please allow me respectfully to decline saying anything." The courtroom was almost empty with the excep tion of a few persons interested in the previous case, and had remained out of curiosity, and the silence was almost oppressive as Judge Adams, in lo.v, modulated tones, began delivering the sentence to be imposed. The court said: "After a fair and impartial tii.il by a jury of ex ceptional intelligence, you have been found guilty of the offenses charged in the indictment-ag.ihist you. "A motion for a new trial in your behalf has af forded mean opportunity carefully t xcview and cou sider the evidence. As a result of this L am sa'isfied that the jury reached the just and true res:ilt. The evidence abundantly warranted their verdkl and I fiud no reason, either in the law governing the case or in the proceedings attending the trial for distuibing it. "Your conviction necessaiily results in your pun ishment. Its importance, in my opinion, in no! con fined to its effect upon you. Your exalted station iu life and the character of your offending give unusu al significance to your conviction. It demonstrates that the law of the land is equal to any emergency, and that it cau be administered regardless of the per sonality or station of the accused. It also demon strates to all the people that phblic office cannot be prostituted to self-serving purposes, and that public office is not a sure and safe passport to private thrift. "The humiliation attending your conviction aud the statutory disqualifications resulting therefrom which forever incapacitate you from holding any office of honor or trust under the Government are in them selves a heavy punishment for your offense and leave little in the way of severity which could be added. "It is neither my pleasure nor purpose to impose any unnecessary punishment. I think the majesty of the law will be sufficiently vindicated and the welfare sufficiently safeguirded by imposing a siugle sentence, warranted as it is on any one of the six counts of in dictments on which you were convicted. "This sentence will be that you beeoufined in the Iron County Jail for a period of six mouths, and that you pay a fine of $2500. : At the conclusion of tho sentence, Senator Burton who had not taken his eyes from the court and who had scarcely moved, as he. supported himself by the chair back, turned and sat down, with head bowed aud his eyes on the floor. Attorney Judge Kruni immediately filed a bill of exceptions iu the case and offered a bond for $10,000, which was accepted, and court took a recess until 2 o'clock to resume the previous case. Senator Burton and Judge Krum theu hurriedly departed from the courtroom. In the corridor Senator Burton stopped long enough to light a cigar aud then walked to his hotel. He declined fcxdiscuss the sentence, but said he would depart tonight for his home in Kansas. The case will now be appealed to the United States District Court of Appeals, the highest tribunal In the matter. Senator Burton, who is senior Senator from Kan sas, was convicted, after au exhaustive trial, in which vasious letterslfrom him to the Rialto Grain & Securi ties Company, the checks which he received iu payment for his services iu behalf of the concern before the Postoffice and the testimony of numerous agents of the Government, were introduced. Senator Burton's defense was that ho was acting merely in the capacity of an attorney, and did not employ his Senatorial in fluence iu the work. Bartenders to the Rescue. A state law makes it a misdemean or to keep a saloon open on Sunday. A now city ordinance requires the front doors of Baloons to bo closed and tho blinds drawn on that day. Nobody thinks of enforcing tho law, and the effect of the ordinance is a mystery of the future, comments the Chicago Record-Herald. Now comes, however, the bartend ers to the rescue. They aren't desir ous of enforcing either city or state laws. It i3 a little law of self-preservation, or rather of self-advancement, that concerns them. They do not want to work Sundays. Their union has voted to demand regular Sundays off. Ifthanin is strong enough it will succeed. Their success will mean, neverthe less, a distinct reduction in the amount of Sunday liquor selling. Where a saloonkeeper, doesn't want to tend bar himself, or where he feels that his receipts will not justify the hiring of extra assistance, he will close his place tighter than such tri fles as laws or ordinances have ever made him close it in this part of the world. The Bartenders' Union will have the earnest sympathy of many men and women who never would have be lieved heretofore that they could possibly come to sympathize with any proposal made from a saloon source. The commissioner appointed by President Roosevelt to carry out the recommendations of the second inter national American conference, held in Mexico, two years ago, with re gard to the Pan-American railway, has submitted his report to the State Department, by which it will be trans mitted to Congress. The second con ference created a permanent commit tee with headquarters in Washington, of which former Senator H. G. Davis of West Virginia 13 chairman, and Andrew Carnegie is a member. The other members are the ambassador from Mexico and the ministers from Peru and Guatemala. Commissioner Pepper spent a year in visiting the various countries, and his inquiries covered the general subject of trade opportunities that would result from railroad building, as well as actual railway construction. The report says that the general project of an inter-continental line, which ultimate ly will place New York and Buenos Ayres in through railroad communi cation, is receiving much encourage ment. At the present time about forty-eight hundred miles are lacking. and the estim-itod cost of coastrnc-1 tion is placed at one hundred and fitfy million dollars. Ft. W FENN, CIIL- ENGINEER) " Lately with tho sorjm.njntraphual and geolo3ieai:SarTOyIof Bnufc South America.) U. S. Deputy Mineral Surveyor Office over Postoffice. nOSEBG. OREGON- Correspondence solicited FOR 60 TO THE ROSELEAF CIGARS, TOBACCO HND SMOKERS' SUPPLIES. Jackson Street, - - Roseburg, Oregon I C A' S H I ROSEBURG JUNK AND HIDE CO. 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. Corner of Oak and Rose Sts. Opp. Empire Stable. EIiATfSKI'm la Mineral Bnbbor.1 YOD MATUNTEXD BVILDIKG or Ond It necenHiry to RJEILACK A. WORX-OCT HOOK EIiATBRITE ROOFING lalcrmitioa. THE ELATERITE ROOFING CO., "Worcester Bniltlinjj. POKniAjri) a New Arrivals Every day brings something now in Spring Goods. VIOLE the latest thing in dress goods for suits Skirts and Waists. 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 20cts per yard. WOLLHRG BROS., Phone 801. Between seven hundred and one thousand miles of railroad is Secre tary Taf t's estimate of the needs of Luzon, made before the House Com mittee on Insular AfFaics. The annu al charge of four per cent on the cost of this would be onlv about one million dollars, which, he thinks, the islands could handle easily with the increased business that would re sult and the increased value of the property to be taxed. It was onlv two vears aco that Japan's first university for women was founded. It began with but a few students, but it already numbers over einht hundred students. Wo- 1 a men from all parts of the country, both married and unmarried, and varying in ages from twelve to thirty five years, are there matriculated. Application has been made to the, Comptroller of currency at Washing ton for a charter for the the First National Bank of North Bend. The bank is to have a capital stock of $500,000 and J. L. Simpson is said to be ono of the main stockholders. The city -of Havana is to contract a loan of twenty-eight million dollars for paving and sewering tho city. Nothing Equal to Chamberlain' Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for Bowel Com plaints In Children. A. SALZMAN, Pratical WatchmaKar, Jeweler, Optician. Watches, ClocKs, Jewelry Diamonds and Silverware Watch Repairing a Specialty. F. W. BKNSQX. Piwident, A. C. HA ESTERS, Vice Prer ideas. Douglas County Bank, Established I883. - Incorporated ioox Capital Stock, $50,000.00. BOARD OP DIRECTORS F.W.BKSSON.R.A,BOOTH J H. BOOTH, J.T. BKItMlKS JOS.LTOKS, A.C.MAESTERS K. L MILLER. A general banking business transacted, and customers Riven every jeeonunodation consistent vitli safe ami conservatiYe banking. Bank open from nice to twelve and from one to three. t 4 : : t i Get one of our 1904 Diarys and Keep Tab on Yourself BOYCE & BENGTSON The Up-to-Date Trilors "Wo have used Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy in our family for years," saya Mrs. J. R. Cooke of Ncderland, Texas. "Wo have given it to our children. We have used other medicines for tho tamo purpose, but never found anything to equaL Cham berlain's. If you will ueo it as directed it will always euro." For salo by A. O. Mnrstcre Co. A CnnyonlllYo Item. For thirty days, commencing March 10. I will sell AT COST, lor cash, mrm- turo, hardware, tinware and granite ware. Come early to secure good bar gains, for this offer will hold good only i for the length of timo nlc-restated. 20-m 1 oiln i. Love, WE BUY ANYTHING And sell everything at a low figure.' A big store full of just what you need. All kinds of furniture. Buy, sell or exchange Har oss, Saddles, P r and Oak Wood, Buggies, Wagons, most anything you want at tho Second Hand Store. 414 Jackson St., Roseburg. Store c Second Hand 414 JacKson Street Roseburg, 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 month and take advantageof the discount.
