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Oregon H i n t.or i ca 1 Society ixfjnv k Tr. toebttrg illl? Pteittkder; ROSEBURG, DOUGLAS COUNTY, OREGON, MONDAY, MAY 9, 1901. Vol. XXXVI No. 37 TOR FiNE CONFECTIONERY jr. 3? 5" lVFM irkiw and ICE CREAM PARLORS Fruits, Candies, Cakes, Pies, Doughnuts and fresh Bread Daily Portland Journal Agency. Hendrick's Block, Opp. Depot I. J. NORi lAN & Co. Prop. ' ' t FARMERS' CASH STORE, E. A. WOOD & CO, Props DEALER IN Staple aue Fancy Groceries. Highest Price paid for county produce. Fresh bread daily Your Patrouage is respectfully solicited. Private Free Delivery to AH.--Parts of the City TROXEL BLOCK OPP PASSENCER DAPOT ju RECEIVED CfiR LOADS 2 Mitchell Farm Wagons Road "Wagons Surreys, Bug-gies, Hacks ; Champion Binders, Mowers, Eeapers, Hay Rakes, Etc. We can save 3ou mouey on auythini; in the Wagon or Implement line. Give us a chance to figure with you ami 3'ou 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. HAVE YOU VISITED Winslows i I New Store A Fins Line of Watches, ClocKs, Jewelry, Silverware, etc. Prompt & Neat Repairing T .i Portland's Wheat l:ports Lead All Other Ports. OIHcial figures completed by I he bureau of labor and statistics show that for the month of March Port land exported more wheat than was shipped from any other city in the United States, no other port aj proaching within 50,000 bushels of the Oregon metropolis. This city not only had a good lead over all other American ports for the month, but it also showed the small est decrease from the corresponding month last year of any of the other ports. The falling off in wheat ex ports from Portland in March, 1904, as compared with March, 1903, was but fifteen per cent, while from New Orleans, which stood next, in the per centage list, the decrease was over 00 per cent. New York showed a decrease of 90 per cent and Puget Souiid more than S5 per cent. The total decrease for the month for the entire United States was about 7f per cent. The advance sheets of the monthly report Jof the bureau of labor and statistics also present the figures for the entire nine months of the cereal year to April 1. and here also Port land makes a remarkable showing, but three other ports, Galveston, New Orleans and New York, leading this city in wheat exports for the period named. The totals show that the wheat exports from this city for the first nine months of the current cereal year were greater than the combined shipments from all other Pacific coast ports. Puget Sound, which for a corres ponding period last season was in fifth place, has this year dropped back to eighth place, and San Fran cisco, which stood fourth on the list hist season, this year shows up in the ninth place. Portland has already shipped this season more than three times as much wheat as was shipped from Philadelphia, anil is only about -100,-000 bushels behind New York. The figures do not include 9SS.OO0 bushels of wheat that has been sent coast wise from this port to California, and which is included in the amount credited to that state. If this wheat was credited to Portland, where it properly belongs, the showing would be even more favorable. r A LARGE LOT OF SPRAY MATERIAL At Marsters' Drug Store s L A CAR LOAD OF ULPHU Of Superior Quality R IB3S2 IList Your Ranches an! Timber Lands with me. : : : R. R. JOHNSON, HAVE EASTERN CUSTOMERS AND CAN SELL OFFICE IN MARK BLOCK, ROSEBURG, OR. To Invei-tigate Postal Frauds. RUSS ANS HELPLESS JAPAN HAS NEARLY A QUARTER OF A MILLION MEN IN FIELD In diicrtnininz to order a further in- vestigition of the jostal scandals Presi dent Roosevelt is doing just what the country Imd a right to expert, pays the ilobe Democrat. A pretty thorough iiliiiry into ihe matter has already been made, and the wrongdoer? have been exposed and some of them convicted. But the inquiry is to be pushed farther. Tne President is to order an investiga tion hime!f, and everybody who kuows him knout- it will be thorough. The postmaster general hag alt-o lieen enlist- 1 in the work, and these officials will arrange plan under which the inquiry will be conducted. Some of the Democrats in Congress thought a little capital could be made for their side on the poatal scandal. They will quickly discover their mistake, f they have not already discovered it. If any party c pita) at all U made it will be mad - bv the Republicans. Demo crats an well as Republicans have been implicated in such wrongdoing as has been traced out. The Republican party is the one which has been doing the in- es.tigatinj ami punishing. This is the itiution which presents itself to the country. Inquiry whjch is about to be ordered bv the President Democrats will undoubtedly be found mixed up with Republicans among the culprit?, if any urther wickedness be disclosed. Thus the tables have been completely turned on the unhappy Democrats. The irregularities, such as have been found, will aid and not impede the domi nant party. Crookedness has no poli tics. It is found among all parties nnd under all administrations. The Repub icans however, have greater energy in tracing out the wickedness, where any is committed, and they have more cour age and intelligence than the Democrats in proceeding airaiust it. President Roosevelt is quick in grasping the nec essity for the preservation of honesty in the public offices. Crooks got no quar ter from the head of this administration. They expect none. Tho investigation which the President is about to order will, it is safe to say, cover tho entire ground. If there is any further crooked ness in the post olfice department it will bo brought out, and the perpetrators, regardless of their politics, will be pun ished. The party of civic honesty, cour age and efficiency is the Republican party. The Fair Route PORT ARTHUR BLOCKED BY LAND AND SEA MUST FALL TO JAPANESE-RUSSIANS PUT TO FLIGHT IN SECOND BATTLE. Via Chicago or New Orleans to St j Louis, is tho one that gives you the most for your money, and the fact that tho ILLINOIS CENTRAL offers unsuu I'ahskd 8KUVICK via these points to the WORLD'S FAIR, and m this connec tion to all points beyond, makes it to your advantage, in case you contemplate a trip to any pjiuteast, to write us be fore making final arrangements. We can offer the choice of at least a dozen different routes. 11. II. Tkusimjix. Commercial Agent, 142 Third St.. Portland, Ore. J.C. LimWy.T F. & P. A., 142 Third St., Portland, Ore. P. R.Thompson K. & P A , Room 1, Colman Uldg., Seattle, Wash. London May 7. Dispatches from the far cast to day indicate tho most startling advances in Japan's sensational land campaign. She has captured Feng Wang Cheng. She has again put the Russian forces to flight. She landed troops at Takushau, 40 miles west of the mouth of the Yalu. She has completely blockaded Port Arthur. Ad miral Toga reports wouderful heroism on the part of his men that manned the fireships. Japanese troops have thrown up fortifications across the Liao Tung peninsula aud have mounted guns. Japan now has across the Ya'u river and into Manchuria almost 200,000 men. She has more than 100,000 men within sd' miles of Mukden. Peng Huang Cheng Captured. St. Petersburg, May 7. Feng Huang Cheng was captured by the Japanese troops Wednesday. The losses on both sides are reported to have beeu heavy. The Russians officially coufirm a retreat, declar ing that the Japanese pressed the retreating troops though with few losses to either side. The Japauese have destroyed the railway at Port Adams, blowing up the bridges. The ominous sileuee of General Kuropatkiu since the battle of the Yalu is causing uneasiness and filling the air with wild rumors, one of which is that of Gen eral Kuropatkin's aimy, in a rapid movement on Feng Haung Cheng, met the Japanese in a disastrous en gagement, Kuropatkiu beiug wounded. This report is officially denied, but the public is uneasy and expecting the worst Reports from the palace declare that the czar is greatly depressed over the recent reverses at the front. The emperor has telegraphed to General Kuro patkiu and Viceroy Alexieff demanding in their re ports the absolute truth of the conditions at the front, under pain of severe punishment if they continue to deceive him. The result of this warning is that the emperor has recived two distressing reports. The palace version of Geueral Kuropatkiu's re port is to the effect that the officers defendiug the Ya lu positions permitted themselves to be surprised, not saving a single guu, horse or trausport wagon; that the flight to Feng Huang Cheng degenerated into a rout, aud that General Kuropatkiu informed the czar that he believes it is impossible to hold the Liao Tung peuinsula and Manchuria. Alexieff's report is declared to be equally de pressing. ' General Kuropatkin's Plan. A St. Petersburg official" asserts that before Gen eral Kuropatkin left St. Petersburg he proposed to the czar a plan of campaign entirely different from that which he was obliged to accept. Geueral Kuropatkin informed the emperor that it would be impossible with 200,000 men to hold all the strategic positions, and advised the abaudonmeut of Liao Yang, Mukden and Harbin, in order to concen trate in the Traus-Liaokal. Disembark loo.ooo Men. Chefoo, May 7. The Japanese have disembarked more than 100,000 men on the Liao Tung peninsula aud 25,000 more will arrive there next week. The commander of Port Arthur has recalled all the garrisons. It is rumored that the Japanese have occupied Dalny. General Kuropatkin has ordered a general confer ferenco at Liao Yang. He intends to march 100,000 men against one of the two Japanese armies. Gener al Kuroki is hurrying with his special army toward Liao Yang, covering 30 kilometers daily. Reforming the Fourth of July. The City Council of Chicago has de cided to try a novel experiment to re form the celebration of the national holi day by sanctioning the organization of a corporation with a capitalization of f 1,250,000 to take sole charge of the demonstration. The latter will consist of magnificient displays of lirewoiks on the lake front and in the public parks. Hundreds of merchants favor the pro ject. Tho funds of the corjxjration are to be raised by the issuance of 250,000 f5 shares, non-assessable ami non-dividend paying. The object of the move ment is to s-ive life and property which an indiscriminate and an unregulated Fourth of July demonstration always produces. At the same time the Coun cil unanimously pastod an ordinance prohibiting the sale of toy pistols aud dynamite crackers to small boys and providing for its sttict enforcement by the police. The only protectant against the ordinance is the small boy, who is deprived by it of the opportunity of maiming or killing himself through the use of the forbidden weapons. Chicago has set the whole country a good example. Every city will do well to emulate it. It would be a good idea to bar out all big firecrackers and bombs and to suppress not only the ir repressible small boy and his dangerous top pistol but also the shooting of all kinds of pistols within the city limit on Indejiendence day as well as at other times. Through the toleration of the explosion of redheads and bombs the celebration of the Fourth of July has de generated largely into a noisy nuisance, which is intolerable to most citizens and makes the annual recurrence of the national holiday an event to be dreaded rather than - one to excite the inot natriolic and pleasurable emotions Beside:!, these missiles' are highly dangerous and are annually responsible for the maiming ' of many human beings and the des true- j tion of much valuable property. The toy pistol is to be condemned as a dead ly weapon of the most dangerous type, and in the hands of the irresponsible small boy is a menace to his own safely and to that of evr body else in his vi cinity. The community wdl breathe freer on the Fourth of July when the sale of the toy pi-tol is prohibited and the discharge of other firearms in the public streets is put under a ban. R. W- PENH ENGINEER Lttely with thegornm-ntWaphicaland geoloealjjarveyo Bnuil, bouth America.) ' U. S. Deputy Mineral Surveyor Office over P.ffice. OSHBUG. OREGON- Correapondenc solicited MAKE YOUR BREADIWITH Pride of Douglas Flour. $1.10 Per Sack, For Sale By Any Grocer in Towi. 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 best selected wheat. DOUGLAS COUNTY FLOUR MILLS. Roseburg Oregon. Is Yniir Rnnf SirK ? Haa bad apeHa does it? i 1 uur nuui oicn. i We bave had over twelve yearg eiperienc8 curing roofs. Suppose you write ns for particnlars about ELATEKATE BOOFISG. It will go on over tin. corru3ated iron, shakes, ehingles or any other roofing material It makes the best roof yoa ever saw. It never wears out. THE ELATEKITE KOOFING CO.. "Worcester Btiildiruz. ORTiAJSr.D rtie Southern Pacific Buy Engines. 130 New Portend. Mav 5. Julius Krntt- schnitt, director of maintenance and operation of the Harriman system, left this city for San Francisco toniuht after having spent several days in examining the Harriman lines in Oregon. Relative to the tronbh? alone the ootlterii Paci fic line last year, onin to the lack of motive power Mr. Kruttschnitt staU-d that there will be no luck of engines this year. He says 130 have been ordered. of which fortv have alreadv been de livered ami the remainder wilt be de livered by the first of August. When asked relative to the LuiMinc of the Lewison-Kiparia road Mr. Kruttschnitt sahl he could say nothinc- He stated that it wrs not a matter for his consideration. New Arrivals Every day brings something now in Spring Goods. YIOLE 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. I WOLLENBERO BROS., Phone 801. Engines For Corea. If reports be tru; the steamer Trem ont, now loading in Seattle will carry a contr.iliand carao. A part of h-r caivo consists of seven railway ennines saiJ to be intended for a railroad in Corea. In a dispatch from Japan it is said that the engines are for a stub line mu ning from Kobe to some coal mines, but well informed mariners claim that this is a blind ; that, in reality, the equip ment is intended for the new Japinese railroad in Corea. The engines are large, first-class ones of the latest pat tern, aud it will be no light task to un load them in anv of the Oriental ports. where scows are used to take cargoes. A. SALZMAN, Pratical Watch.ma.Ker, Jeweler, Optician. Watches, ClocKs, Jewelry Diamonds and Silverware Watch Repairimg a Specialty. A Strange Story. Victoria, R. C. May t. A gentleman of business who claims to have been the last passencer to co over th Trans- Siberian Uailwav from Port Arthur after the declaration of war, is Richard Ches ter, of Tanegashima Island, Japan, who is now in this city, awaiting the sailing of the Empress of China to return to his Oriental home. Mr. Chester is a con tractor to the Mikado's government, and has control ot tho immense timber re serves on tho Island that he denominat es as his home Tanegashima being the extreme southern island in the Japan ese archipelage. "When the history of this war is writ ten," said Mr. Chester, "it will be found that at least 10 per cent of the Japanese soldiers in the field were women in the disguise of men. Should the Mikado issue another call for troops, every re maining man, woman and child in Jap an would certainly respond. The Jap aneso women, more particularly the coolie class, are on the average stronger than are the men at least so I have found them in some of the largo con tracts in which I have had occasion to employ them." Mr. Chester says he is one of but three Kuropeans who have m ado the journey through Asiatic Russia since the war began. Ret ween Dalny and Harbin he passed over 100,000 Russiau soldiers in military trains, which were then leing hurried to tho several mobil ization centers. Tho Czar's fighting men did not impress Mr. Chester favor ably, although he had ample opportuni ty to Bee the best of them. Registration Notice. County Clerk Shambrook states that the registration book will be kept open at the clerk's office on the evenings of Thursday, May 1-', Friday, May 13, and Saturdav, Mav 14. from 7 o'clock p m. to 9 n. in. This is for your benefit Register now. I F. W. BEXsOS, A .C.UXRSTE2S. Vice Preudent- Douglas County Bank, KtalWtied IHS3. Incorporates! 1901 Capital Stock, $50,000.00. BOARD OF D1KECTOR5 F. V. BK.NSON. R. A BOOTU J II. BOOTH. J. T. BKI W1E3 JOS. L OXS, A. C. MAKSTERS K. U MIIJ.KR. A general banking business transacted, and customers given every accommodation consistent with safe and conservative hanking. Bank open from nine to twelve and from one to three. M UANXNNJV V. J ri f 7 When the Mists have Cleared Away You will want to make quick work with yvv garden. We carry the finest Hue of the ebrated Planet Jr. Tools in tho county t $v for cataloguo, or better, cull mu CHURCHILL & WOOUEt ROSEBURG, -