0r"WnHiatorIcal30c, Pnnn i ... mmm$ Vol. XXXVI ROSEBURG, DOUGLAS COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1904. No. 34 1 P fat ttiteitter MHDri A fOR FiNE CONFECTIONERY lyKJSKJ. and iCE CREAM PARLORS fruits, Candies, Cakes, Pies, Doughnuts 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 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 Liquor Fight Waxes Warm. JUST RECEIVED 2 CAR LOADS 2 Mitchell Farm Wagons Eoad Wagons Surreys, Buggies, Hacks Champion Binders, Mowers, ' Reapers, Hay Rakes Etc. We can save rou money on anything in the Wagon or - Implement line.- Give us a chance to figure with 3Tou and you won't i egret it. J. F. Barker & Co., Grocers, Phone 201 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. - ! HAYE YOU YISITED Winslows ;iNew Store A Fine Line of Watches, ClocKs, Jewelry, Silverware, etc. Prompt & Neat Repairing f A LARGE LOT OF SPRAY .MATERIAL At Marsters' Drug Store A CAR LOAD OF SULPHUR Of Superior Quality f 1 LI Your Ranches and Timber Lands with me. : : : R. R. JOHNSON, I HAVE EASTERN CUSTOMERS OFFICE IN MARK BLOCK, AND CAN SELL ROSEBURG, OR. With local option staring them in the face, the liquor interests of the state are bestirinR themselves to their might oat efforts. This resistance, well known in the camp of the anti-liquor element, lias a stimulatini; effect, and so the war pro and con of the proposed local option law is waxing fierce and warm. Under tho auspices of the Stato Pro hibition Alliance, four speakers are scour ing tho state, declaiming tho merits of the local option bill from tho rostrum as did the Greek orators from tho forums of old, says tho Portland Telegram. Rov. E. L. Tiffany, of Now York, is now holding forth in Polk County; R. W. Kelsoy, of Newberg, J. M Glass, of California, and R. D. Snyder, of Wash ington, are also in tho state at largo speaking under the auspices of the Alli ance, which also provides such specie as is necessary to carry on the campaign. The alliance was organized at the Stato Convention of the Prohibition party for the express purpose of conducting a cam paign against the liquor business and on behalf of the proposed local option law. Besides that advocates of tho local op tion law are holding a series of Tuesday meetings, where there is exhortation on behalf of tho measure. Three or four of these have already been held, and there will be another this evening in tho Cen tenary Methodist Church, on the East Side, where several speakers will deliver addresses advocating the passage of the law. A big crowd and plenty of enthu siasm is looked for. Other meetings are be ing held for the same purpose, and friends of the measure are talking hope fully of its passage at the hands of the voters at the Jnne election. Now that the campaign is on in all its fury, a managing committee of promi nent Portland citizens is to be selected. The committee is expected to have a membership of about 50. Of these some thing in the neighborhood of 25 have been obtained, but the personnal of the' committee will not be announced until there is a full complement. This com mittee, say those who are promoting ita organization, will be composed of prom inent men of all political and religious faith?, and its personnel is expected to be made up of such men as will appeal to the voters for support of tho measure. liut one Mat refusal has been made to those who are organizing the committee so far. There is a strenuous campaign against the local option sentiment being waged by the liquor men. The Brewers and Wholesale Liquor Dealers' Association is loading the mails with literature on the tract order to the saloon tnen.of the stato. A movement is on foot to effect an organization of the retail liquor deal ers into some kind of protective league which will coalesce with the whole salers, and thus present a strong front. This has been done in the Dalles, as is shown by a letter received by saloon men in Portland. This organization is known aa the Wholesale and Retail Li- uor Dealers' Association. This letter advises the addressee that if the local option law goes into effect there will be prohibition election in November and 'yon will bo cutout of business." It advises also that if the law is not de feated in June, "it will cost us lota of money to defeat prohibition in Novem ber." Saloonmen are urged to get all the votes against it that they can. It is learned further that the liquor dealers of Lakeview and Med ford have organized and offered to raise money to be turned over to the wholesale dealers to carry on the fight, according to re liable report in saloon circles. More over, The Dalles saloonmen raised $2100 from its 21 saloonkeepers to fight the local option law. The campaign fond now on hand is understood to be quite large, but not so much as is indicated by current reports. Liquor men denounce the pending local option law as a delusion and a snare. "A wolf in sheep's clothinir." mey say. it is ciiaractenzeil as an in sidious measure purporting to ho an in nocent proposition to enable the people to go on record as to the sale of liquor in communities, whereas, they sayt it is an iron-clad prohibition measure, calculated to destroy tho liquor traffic of the state. They say it was drawn up by Earl C. Bronaugh to suit tho Prohibition party. Here is what W. J. Schuyver, presi dent of tho Brewers' and Wholesale Liquor Dealers' Association, has to say about it: "If tho local option law, which the Prohibitionists of Oregon and the anti Saloon League are attempting to foist upon the people at the election next June were really a local option law, the wholesale liquor dealers would support it heartily. As it is, however, it is not local option at all, but would bo abso lutely prohibitory in its effects. "It purports to give the voters in any community the right to say whether the sale of liquor shall be continued thero or not. But as a matter of fact tho law is nothing more than a measure to en able the Prohibitionists to hold a prohi bition election in every county or pre cinct in the entire state every yoar. "The disastrous effects of this law up on general trado and the present pros perity which this state is enjoying, can not be well described in few words. A similar law which was recently adopted in Texas has already put moro than two-thirds of the counties of that stato under prohibition rule, and the commu nities which did not at the timo realizo the radical and deceitful nattiro of tho PRES DENT CITES FOMiEVEMENT: FEELS THAT ADMINISTRATION CAN WITHSTAND CRITICISM PANAMA CAKAUNORTHERN SECURITIES, "OPEN DOOR" AND ANTHRACITE SETTLEMENT SHOW THE POLICY. The President has discussed during the last few days with leading members of his party the issues which will be put forward during the coming national campaign.- The President believes the record of his administration can not be successfully criticised. Four great events of the adminis tration as outlining his personal attitude as well as the 3tUtude of his party, will be put forward as ones about which the party can rally and challenge their opponents to a combat of criticism. One of these is the handling of the Panama canal matter; second, the prosecution of the Northern securities case; third, the "open shop" order in the Miller case in the government printing office, and fourth, the settlement of the anthracite strike. Of the- first of these issues the administration has made public all that pertains to it. Canal Issue. The President has given all the story to the Congress and to the world. The party leaders are convinced that what the people of the country wanted bad was a canal, and now that the adminis tration has given .it to them they are not disposed to take a criti cal view of how it was brought about But even if they are, the administration welcomes any criticismor close scrutiny which it is proposed to make either by the democratic party or the people at large. In the Northern securities case the republican administration has stolen all of the democratic antitrust thunder. With laws enacted by a Republican Congress and on the statute books through two "Democratic administrations, yet never enforced, the administration has conducted a successsul antitrust prosecution against the strongest combination of capital the country has ever seen. This will be held np a3 an example of practical antitrust on the part of the administration, which ask3 for the further indul gence of the people and of the party maintaining that administra tion. Open Door Order The "open order" in the Miller case in the government print ing office established in the mind of the administration leaders the conservatism of the President in questions involving labor and capital and shows his great impartiality. It shows to labor as well as capital that the laws of the land must be respected and that the President, while in'sympathy with organized labor in ita legiti mate channels, will give no countenance to its violation of law or the disregard of the rights and interests of employers or of invest ed capital. In the settlement of the anthracite strike the Republican cam paign speakers can find an illustration of the moral courage of the President. He took steps toward the settlement of that great strike with most of hia advisers shaking their heads in disproval and fearful of the outcome. He summoned the coal operators be fore him all in an angry and resentful mood. Against their will he forced arbitrationkand in doing so established principles for the future guidance of the relations between miners and operators which will endure for generations. These are the issues which will spring from the acts of the administration in which the personality of the President is strong est. There will be other issues which will come from the plans and programme of tho dominant party in both branches of Con gress. Tariff and Good Money One of these will be a declaration against any tinkering with the tariff. Another will be a declaration for the maintenace of our prestige abroad where the dominant party accepts full re sponsibility for extending our commercial relations aa an incident to our sudden acceptance of a position as one of the great world powers with broad international duties and responsibilities. Another issue to be put forth is that of the maintenace of a sound financial system. There will bo a promise, if the leaders in Congress can bring it about at the national convention, for fur ther financial legislation strengthening tho treasury in meeting any conditions of stringency which may come in handling the gov ernment's monetary affairs. Whitewashed to Shield Society. HAif Josit, Cal., April 20. Coroner Kell held an inquest this afternoon over the remains of Albert P. Thorndyke, tne amateur bandit and society man. who was killed after fie had held op the vei Monte Club at an early hour Sun day morning. From tho evidence Intro dnced at the inquest the Jury was satia- nea that Thorndyke waa insane at the time of the sensational raid, and the verdict was as follows : "That deceased came to his death from gunshot wounds inflicted by par ties unknown, or by said A. P. Thorn dyke during temporary insanity, the re suit of gambling, and we further recom mend that the officials of this city and community should suppress the same.' It baa developed that Thorndyke planned his crime with considerable cunning. Every detail of bis escape was provided for, but so quick was the pursuit that his plans went awry and he was obliged to trust to his heels for safe ty. The bandit had borrowed from relative a horse and baggy and hitched it in front of the Bristol Hotel on Sec ond street. Thorndyke'a aim waa to dash through Fountain alley and make his escape in this conveyance, but he was thwarted by the quick formation of the pursuing posse. Intimate friends of the dead man as sert that the robbery was first suggested 10 inornuyKe oy nia a-year old son. who dreamed several days ago that bis father had turned robber and had been aliot. The child related bis dream to the family, and the father ia said to have brooded over the revelation. Thorndyke'a mother resides in Stock ton, and the remains will be taken to that city tomorrow morning for inter ment. The dead man waa a native of this state, and waa 20 years of age. The Mississippi Flood. St. Locu, April 27. The Mississippi has passed the 30-foot danger line. The water is creeping up at the rate of an inch and a half an hour, marking the most rapid rise ever recalled by river men. The water is backing up in the creeks around East St. Louis, but May or Cook, who last year directed the forces in constructing dikes, declares that the city will be able to withstand the highest stage of 35 feeL The great est danger is said to be about 20 miles north of East St. Louis, where the levee broke last year. At Madison, Venice and Granite City, the Tri-Cities, located just north of East St. Lonis, dikes have been built con structed by large forces of men. Many people bar left their homes. There was a heavy fall of rain in SL Louis last night and it continued today. At St, Charles the Missouri River ia out of its banks and people have been driv en from'' their homes in the bottom lands. Ferry-boat service at St. Louis has been abandoned. The first serioos effect of the high water was felt today when four railroads refused to receive outgoing freight with out restrictions. R. W FENN, CIVIL ENGINEER Lately with the gowmmeatWpMcal and geoloeaflrveyfof Bnufl. U. S. Deputy Mineral Surveyor Office over Postoffice. Correspondence solicited 00 T THE ROSELEAF m CIGARS, TOBACCO HND SMOKERS' SUPPLIES. Jackson Street, - - Pnh,, n wwvru MAKE YOUR BREAtflWITH Pride of Douglas Flour, $1.11 Per Sack, For Sale By lay Grocer ii Ttwi. 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 you can buy. Why, because it is made from the very bestelected wheat. DOUGLAS COUNTY FLOUR MILLS. Roseburg Oreeon. & Has bad spells does it? We have had over twelve years experieace Is Your Roof SicK? curing roofs. Suppose yon write as for nartienlara ahnnt Bf itfwitp Tnnx?Tvr t. will go on over Un. corroi!ated iron, shakes, shingles or any other roofing material It makes the best roof you ever saw. It never wears out. THE ELATERITE HOOFING CO.. Worcester Bnilriing. PORTLAND Eighth Grade Baal ExiBalaattoa. One hundred and seven applicants were examined. Mnety-eeven submit ted manuscripts. Sixteen passed in all branches and are entitled to diplomas. Thirty-three passed in seven or more and are entitled to complete at next ex amination, in May. Forty-six failed to make seventy per cent in seven branch es, ihe successlui ones are: Lulu Hawn, Archie Jackson, Alex. II. Ferguson, John Rast, Eugene Jew ett, Jack Wharton, Roseburg. Arthur Whittaker, Oakland. Alfred Woodruff, Mabel Woodruff, Cleveland. Victor Shaw, Days Creek. Carl Uill, Wilbur. Clay Moody, Leah Brawn, Julia Bish op, Harry urawn, Kum neiiiweii, Yoncalla. Maude Nail, Glendale. Phelura Gilliam, Canyonville. Via .5 Texas Democratic Rule Makes tor Elective. Sena- The decision of the Texas State Democratic executive committee that the names of candidates for the Unit ed States Senate shall be submitted at the nrimariea on .Tulv 9. and that law are now crying loudly for relief fc fe fa fl , n6minated "Tho business interests of the liquor , ' traffic are not opposed to reasonable M tne 8tto convention, makes it cer legislation. They are opposed .to prohi-. tain that Senator C. A. Culberson will bition. And this law which will be sub-' succeed himself. Under the commit- mlital to a popular vote of the people at teo plan Mr Culberson will not have the coining election in Juno ia nothing , , , ... , .... ...... . , . . to bother about the make-up of tho urn. lroinuiuun mw, uresseu up in a new dress and labeled 'local option.' " Hnve yon seen that olegant lino of laco curlaiiw? Wo ore showing also full line ot (Kirtiers and window shades B W. Strong. to bother about the make-up of legislature, as the convention will in struct tho legislature to elect him, The new rule makes thej office of sen ator practically elective in that stato as the Democrats control tho entire Btate government. Under such a rule it will never be possible for the gov ernor to oust the senator before the latter is r.waro of his danger, aa was done when Culberson succeeded Rog er Q. Mills, the latter not being r.waro that he was to be ahoved out until the fight was over. Sciatic Rheumatism Cured. "I have been subject to sclutic rheu matism for years," says E. 11. Waldron, of Wilton Junction, Iowa. ".My joints were stiff and gave mo much pain and discomfort. My joints would crack when I straightened up. I used Cham berlaiu'a Pnin Balm mid havo been thoroughly cured. Have not luul a pain or uclirt from the old trouble for many m nth. It is certainly a most wbmljr- ful liniment." Fornlo by A. C. Mats era A Co. Tne Fair Route Chicago or New Orleans to St, Louis, ia the one that gives yon the most for your money, and the fact that the ILLINOIS CENTRAL offers dxsub imsskd sxkvick via these points to the WORLD'S FAIR, and in this connec tion to all points beyond, makes it to your advantage, in case you contemplate a trip to any point east, to write us be fore making final arrangements. .We can offer the choice of at least a dozen different routes. B. II. Trumbull, Commercial Agent, 142 Third St., Portland, Ore. J. C. Lindsey, T. F. & P. A., 142 Third St, Portland, Ore. P. B. Thompson F. & P. A., Room 1, Colman Bldg., Seattle, Wash. Methodist Episcopal Conference at Los Angeles, Calif, On account of above Conference, the Southern Pacific Co. will make reduced rates on tho certificate plan from main ine points in Oregon south of Portland, Passengers will purchase tickets to Los Angeles, for which tho agent will collect the highest one way rate, giving a spe cial receipt. On presentation of this receipt, duly executed, by original pur chaser, the Southern Pacific agent at Los Angeles will sell return ticket at one-third fare. Sale dates from Oregon points will bo April 10th to May 7th iu elusive, also May Oth, 12th, 16th, 19th, 23rd, 20th and 30th. Tho last day on which certificates will bo honored for return at reduced rates from Los An gelea will be June 5th 1004. Serious Stomach Trouble Cured. I waa troubled with a distress in my stomach, sour stomach and vomiting spells, and can truthfully say that Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver tab lets cured me. Mrs. T. V. Williams Lainsburg, Mich. These tablets are guaranteed to euro every case of stomach trouble ol this cimractor. nor A. C Maraters & Co a salo by fa 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- WOLLENBERG BROS., Phone 801. A. SALZMAN, Pratical Watchmaker, Jeweler, Optidax. Watches, ClocKs, Jewelry Diamonds and Silverware Watch lepairimt' a Specialty. r. W. BXXSON, Praldcnt, A.C.XABSTEBS. Vice PrecMcBU Douglas County Bank, Established IS 83. Incorporate! 1901 Capital Stock, $50,000.00. V BOARD OF DIRECTORS F. W. BK.N90X. R. A. llOOTU J. H. BOOTH, J. T. BRIDGES .10S.LTONS, A.C.MARSTKB3 K.USULLKK. A general banking business transacted, and customers given eterj T flrrnmmndtlinn Mn?otaM K r -J .. i T nitu euiU ii--HfvimiT rtTTlfriny. Bank open from nine to twelve and from one to three. 1 WE BUY ANYTHING And sell everything at a low figure.; A big store full of jast what you need. All kinds of furniture. Buy, sell or exchange Har ess, Saddles, P rand Oak Wood, Buggies, Wagons, most anything you want at the Second Hand Store. 414 Jackson St., Roseburg. : Second 414 Jackson Street Hand Store i Hosebarg, Oregoa A COMPLETE STOCK OF Fresh E2s GROCERIES STAftE AND FAKOT and Albany Batter Every Dav FRFF niOUCQ 2 per cent of the amount of all pur I II L L LmOIILO chases we give our customers in coupons to buy beautifully decorated porcelain dishes. CH T A Successor to J. M. Fletcher i. UJy lO Near the Depot Private free delivery to all parts of city and suburbs