THICE-A-WE EK PLAINDEALER
Published Mondays and Thursdays
Roseburg, Douglas County, Oregon
THE PLAINDEALER PUBLISHING COMPANY
W. C. CONNER, Editor
F. h . ROOEKS, Manager
Office--Corner Main and Oak Streets.
Just now the Portland Journal is succeeding admirably
in making itself rediculous, in its desperate, but futile at
tempts to in somewise connect Hon. Binger Hermann
with the appointment of Henry Meldrum as surveyor-general,
or his irregular official transactions. Mr. Hermann
had about as much to do with the appointment or trans
actions of Meldrum as the man in the moon, but no one
has any particular objections to the Journal man making
a fool of himself.
THE SAME
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The Eugene Guard says it has obtained from a reliable
source the information that with a little effort on the
part of Eugene business interests the extention of the
Albany local train service to Eugene can be effected, but
the officials of the S. P. Co. have an idea that the busi
ness interests of Eugene do not want this service. Why
not endeavor to have the service extended through
to Roseburg?
Land
Office Officials Unmoved
by Late Sensational
Charges
MONDAY, NOVEflBER al, I004.
ELECTION FIGURES.
Conceding seven of the eight Maryland electors to
Parker, the electoral vote will stand Roosevelt 336, Par
ker 140. This gives Roosevelt 32 states and Parker 13.
In the 32 states Roosevelt's plurality figures 2,895,362;
in the 13 states Parker's plurality is 592,866, showing
Roosevelt's net plurality to be 2,302,496, as compared
with 859,984 for McKinley in 1900. Of the popular vote
Roosevelt received 8,401,248 and Parker 6,098,752. It
is noticeable that Parker ran behind Bryan's vote of 1900
over 250,000.
Another feature of the election is the fact that from
31 of the 45 states there will be no democratic Congress
man in the House of Representatives. The House will
stand republican 250, democrats 136. Senate, republicans
59, democrats 31. The republican majority in both hous
es on joint ballot is 142.
These figures compass in small space the unparallel ed
popular victory of a Presidential candidate, his plurality
being almost as great as the total vote polled by Lin-
The hon n antintr boom is on in Orecron. n nether or
not this greatly increased acreage will have a tendency
to reduce the price of hops in a few years remains to In
seen. However, it has been fully demonstrated that hops
can be crown materially cheauer in Oregon than in New
York or England and the result will be a permanently en
larged market for Oregon hops.
THEY COURT A
FULL INVESTIGATION
Eastern Oregon newspapers report that a large num
ber of homesteads have been taken up in the country-
tributary to Condon since the building of the railroad
from Arlington to Condon has been an assured fact.
The same thing will happen in many other sections of the
interior of Oregon when railroads penetrate that isolated
region.
Rumors Based Upon Testimony of
Self Convicted Land
Sharks
THAT INTERSTATE HIGHWAY.
WASHINGTON, D. C Nov. 19 In
vestigations of the Roseburg land of
fice by direction of Secretary Hitch
cock has disclosed conditions which
make it probable that new officers
will have to be appointed. It is prob
able no action will be taken until
Senator Mitchell arrives next week.
Just what the nvesUgationftn dis
closed cannot be learned.
Smasumai, Nov. ID. TbeJapsaaffl r
MMd their attacks on I'ort Arthur 011
Nov. 17, making 1 fnrioiiN assault which
resulted in their occupation o( under
ground chant hernia important peaMoat.
TIHNOKR Of BITOT
St. PhTmsm k;, Nov. 20 The Wai
Office announced at a late hour b n ylo
that it hail no further dispatched re
giirdiug the lighting near Mukden. 1 1
the absence of otlicial dispatches, press
telegrams are regarded aa evidei ce that
important developments are 111 progress
and it is not improbable that a genera
engagement is going on. I he War Of-
tice admits that the activity nil along
the line indicates that hotli armies are
ready, the Kussians. according to lien
Kuropatkiu's report, are preeeiag the
Japanese left, while a very significant
mov meiit of the Japane.-c is reur'cd
at Sintsintin, 4.r miles east of Mukden.
A special corresp indent, telegraphing
uuiler last night's date, says the t attle
has tiegnn ami that the thumb r of the
guns is increasing.
FRUITS : PROVISIONS
There is no vandalism among the Japanese soldiery.
All valuables and trinkets found by them on dead Rus
sians are forwarded to St. Petersburg. There is honor
even in war. and in this contest it lies chiefly with the
Japs, a fact that pleads for justice of their cause.
The men who own valley lands in Douglas, Josephine
and Jackson counties. Oregon, should look out for irriga
tion rights. The time is coming when irrigation will add
immensely to the productiveness of much of the valley
lands of these counties, says the Rural Northwest.
The Portland Telegram says: County Judge L. R.
Webster will go to Salem this week to attend the Good
Roads convention, and while there will probably make an
uldrHK in faprir nf a t.hnroncrhfarp from Portland fn t.he
Califontfa line, and of inducing the California authorities j his exses11 cotributed to
"S . j - , m c c . committee, were 134.300. He can t m
This project, which was first broached by Judge Webster
last summer, is received with approval in nearly all the
counties in the Willamette valley.
The idea is to build a mecademized road 60 feet in
width, so that an automobilist, a bicyclist or a teamster
may journey to the Golden Gate without having to travel
on a railroad train or be inconvenienced by bumps on a
jerky road. Each county, according to the plan, is to
build its share of the road, so that the state at large will
not have to pay for the work. It's a good move.
stiibsski. s ntarAicn
St I'ktkr.siu B;, Nov. 1! neral
Sloesse!, in a dispitch In the Emperor,
dated Nov. 2, says :
"I am happy to report to Your Ma
jesty that all the assaults from O t -"
toNov. 2 were repul-i-d hv our l.oroic
troops. The most desH-rate assau' t ot -c
irred Octoler 'M. hut thanks t , the
hivoiiets of the teeerwe and the hi ivery
of the volunteer shsrilnsitcrs, the cm
my was repulsed at all points. The Jap
anese did not return to the attai k the
aameday. nl left a rival nnmU-r of
The above dispatch reads very
much like those which were published
just prior to the reappointment of
Messers liridges ami Booth as regis
ter ana receiver oi tne Koseimrg land dead unWied upon the field.
office last Spring, when all kind of "On October SI the enemy aaroadaad,
sensational developments and dis- ,,ut each ,ime ' repulsed at the point
closures were promised, none of which,
however, materialized. A full and
complete investigation of the re -
were courted by Messrs. Bridges
hand grenades.
and men were
of the hajonet an 1 by
a I ,n .
.eerai ui our wncn
woundti 1.
"The spirit o! the troops is aacvUearf
It is dilli. tilt to eetahlirh in tlistinr
Governor-Elect Douglas of Massachusetts declares th3t
the campaign
make nearly as
much legitimately as governor, but he may sell more
shoes.
Germany has joined the happy family of peacef ul na
tions now composed of the I'nited States, Italy and
France, and has agreed to enter into an arbitration
treaty.
One of the campaign yarns published prior to the elec
tion was a statement that only 22 per cent of the farms
in the United States are owned by the farmers who oc
cupy them. The last census showed that 64 per cent of
the farms in the United States were farmed by their
owners in 1900. This is bad enough but it is in large
part due to the condition in the Southern States in most of
which considerably less than half ef the farms are farmed
by their owners. This condition there is due, of course,
to the fact that most of the land was in large plantations
prior to the war and is now in s large proportion rented
in subdivisions to negroes. In most of the Northern and
Western states 80 per cent of the farms are farmed by
their owners.
New York item: A new lawyer has settled in our burg
and hung out his shingle. He is Hon. Alton B. Parker,
and he hopes to build up a paying practice in our midst.
As usual, the Democrats claim that the Trusts bought
the states for Roosevelt. Will they be so kind as to
expl .in why they bought so many more thaii they needed?
An Indiana man was paralyzed while talking over the
telephone. The conversation is not known but it was
probably his first news of Roosevelt's majority.
We have forgotten just what side of the Shakhe river
Kuropatkin is on, but he will probably cross again in a
few days and report it.
The mention of the name, Binger Hermann, has about
the same effect on the editor of the Portland Journal,
that the waving of a red flag has upon a mad bull. There
is this difference, however, the editor of the Journal does
not bellow he brays.
New York is planning another horse show for the pur
pose of giving the Smart Set another privilege of show
ing their fall costumes.
Said Joaquin Miller: "When Rome wished to conquer
a country she first built a good road to it, then through
it; tad the conquest was complete and lasting.' There is
no Alexander the Great as great as a good road."
There is breakers ahead for the Cottage Grove Leader
man. He had the audacity to publish some truths in the
last issne of his paper concerning the local municipality.
It made interesting, yea, sensational reading.
The Portland Journal is the Hearst "Examiner" of Ore
gon. Bnt there is a good many people who seem to en
joy reading fiction even in Oregon.
Douglas should have the best county exhibit at the
Lewis and Clark Exposition. Get busy, ye county Com
mercial Clubs.
Latest reports from the east show nothing is falling
around Port Arthur except shells and city lot prices.
It was reported that accommodations were impossible
for all the applicants for passages up Salt river.
Well, we will forgive the Judge for the mean things he
said. He has been punished enough.
After all Judge Parker shows up pretty well with the
rest of the "also ran" class.
The world moves. A daily paper is to be started in
Grants Pass, by the Herald.
Musings.
The turkeys are on their last legs.
The fall of Esopus was a little ahead
of Port Arthur.
Oar Democratic friends mistook Gen
eral Contentment for General Apathy.
David B. Hill's retirement came a lit
tle bit sooner than he intended ; bnt its
juat at well.
Carl Sehurx says there are two Booee-
velta. The country evidently wanted to
elect them both.
Hon. Henry Gaasaway probably
thinks he could have had more fnn for
hie money by playing poker.
An Albany girl can stand on her head
lour minutes Albany Democrat. How
do yon know, Brother Nutting''
A wealthy woman in Indianapolis left
her entire fortune to her coachman. f He
unit have done some effective "coach-
Gov. elect Douglas of Massachusetts
is thoroughly convinced that bis state
la the most thoroughly cultured in the
country.
Everyone baa good cause for Thanks
giving this year. Can you remember
the names of any of those "doubtful
tetoar
It baa been hinted that Oy Swallow
baa invited Judge Parker to join his
party, for fear Parker's defeat will drive
him to drink.
No wonder Democracy was opposed to
the big stick. It will remember that
whack it received on November 8th for
a 1000 years.
The country now understands Gen.
Grosveaor's reluctance in giving out his
lection forecast. He was ashamed to
name the figures.
We will wager a moss agate that if
old "Cy Pettigrew" ever visits Cottage
Grove again he will be set upon violent
ly. Kb.Bro. Gage?
The best use to put the big catalouges
of eastern mail order houses to is kind
ling paper. Deal with people who keep
your home town going.
Democrats tried to "kid" Vice President-elect
Fairbanks for being an ice
tank. Jnst think what be would have
done, had he become warmer.
Gardiner went "dry " at tne election
and Scottaburg; "wet." The Gardiner
saloons will probably move to Scotts
burg. Bcottsburg will thus not only be
the head of navigation, but the "end of
navigation" for some.
Those Geisha Git la who have been dis
porting themselves at St. Louis for the
edification of the people who wanted to
see them will in turn now be deported.
Well, the refusal of permission of their
tonring the country will aave many a
baldheaded old sinner the necessity of
racking his brain for some excuse for
staving out late.
You can tell a successful farmer by
looking at the wife's fruit in the closet.
You ean tell a slouchy woman by look
ing at her hair, you can tell a dry goods
box statesman by the patches on bis
pantaloons. You can tell the poisonous
serpent by the bluntness of bis tail. But
the easiest thing of all, you can . tell the
enterprising merchant by a glance at the
local papers. This is not divine revela
tion, but business and gospel truth.
Cabinet Nettles Free.
The Journal will send free to any
reader of this paper a cabinet of needles
all siaas and kinds, who remits 60 cents
for the Daily and Sunday Journal for
one month, or the Bunday Journal for
four months, or the Semi-Weekly Jour
nal for five months, or the Weekly Jour
nal for six months.
Address The Journal, Portland, Ore,
Hatpin a Dangerous Weapon.
Monday afternoon a ''nng nun trav
eling north on the overland train from
Ashland as a passenger sat in a seat
with a yonng lady who had her hat in
her lap. Playfully, to emphasize some
conversation, she pointed the hatpin
toward him, moving it in his direction,
and the swaying of the car caused it to
inflict a wound in the left side under
the arm. The young man's arm is now
in a swollen and disabled condition in
consequence.
Georgia Harper and Company
in "The Power of Love."
Georgia Harper, who will he remembered for her ex
cellent production of Kast Lynn here several years ago
will appear tonight at the Roseburg Opera House in the
popular drsuia, "The Power of Love." The star is s p
joried by Joseph Detriek and an excellent company of
fourteen peojle. All special scenery will be used and
Manager J. O. Harper promises a first-class performance.
Positively all special scenery used by the company.
No Opera House scenery used at all
2le hoop the largest and
best assortment of Staph
and Jancy Sroccros, &rosh
bruits and &arm Produce
in the city, and can snpply
your wants at as cheap or
cheaper prices than can be
had anywhere.
ZTtemomber that we haep
the S&est.
KRUSE & liEWLAND
Forest Rocrve Scri p
BoUisn! AMwwial Scrip
Military I. a n ! Warrant
anil other kinds of
LAND SCRIP
. ..FOR klLE...
I j on want lior rn ncni Timber
LanL. gel a tlta by local tax
Laud Script W-tle for Price
R. H. PEALE, SprmffkUt Mo.
r
I
Mfe W!u m
:
:
W.M. HODSON & GO.
711 OAK STREET
MACHINE
WORK
Of ALL KINDS A SPECIALTY : BICYCLE
warns utKHmmi . cmmk.saw cumhiic
GOOD HARNESS
Everyone who ha orrau.on
t ctil jvw-i m-'tiry iir hnx
new WlOU fo-l birDM for
that monrT. That iea:nl
we tell fiver v article thai
Ch- out of our afhawj u hand
mate and rja-:.:ei to fix
entire ati!a- n That
a much aa fwj can exprt.
WACONS AND BUGCIES
n-'e in1 wfro!, hand furni
ture. helf har.aare and a
thouaand and nr other ar
ttrlea to be f rn 1 in a tre
like our ae tn a posi
tion to make U m "ur finan
cial Interea: to tra le with
BRADLEY
JACKSON ST BLOOuETT'S 0L0 STAND
To Put Out Large Orchard.
Merchant L. B. Brown, who, a few
weeks ago, purchased the Manle tract of
land, lying east of Medford, and com
prising 156 acres, has decided to put
seventy-six acres of it into orchard and
has ordered trees for planting the same.
He will pot ont fifty acres of pears of the
Bnerre Bose, Commice, Winter Nellie
and Bartlett varieties, and twenty-six
acres of apples ten acres Newtown, ten
acres of S pi teen burgs and six acres Jona
thans. Urants Pass fferald.
Newspaper Man Weds.
On Thursday, Nov. 10, 104, Mr. Ar
thur Conklin, of the Mining Journal, of
Grants Pass and Miss Louis Marion
Charch were married at the brides
home at Cleveland, Ohio, and will be at
home at Grants Pass after the 15th of
December.
Albany is to have a poultry show.
A fine artistic iron fence is being built
about the court house gronnda. It is
stated that lea Rice, administrator of
the Rose estate, seeks to enjoin Judge
Thompson from building this fence
across a ton foot strip alleged to have
not been deeded to the county, bat the
Judge will proceed to build his fence regardless.
Booth at that time, which was ntade,
but the promised sen.athmal disclos
ures continue to han fire.
As when the Portland Jodmf was
seized with its former nightmare.
Bridges and Booth continue to pursue
the even tenor of their way and
stand ready to submit to the fullest
personal investigation as well as a
careful examination of the land oCce
records during their administration.
The self confessed irregularit ies of
a few unscrupulous timber cruisers
in Southern Oregon has evidently
been taken as evidence of wholesale
fraud and the Portland Journal anil a
few newspaper correspondents seem
to have based their late allegations
and "findings" principally upon the
testimony of these self confessed
swindlers and timberland sharks.
Mom a regards bravvry All are he
r1. The bombardment of the fortre8
eoutinnes without intermission."
General BtOSSSs) praised the work of
the amhnlnace and hospital corp., men
tions a number of officers for distin
guished bravery, and concludes;
"The Japanese losses were enormous.
I estimate them at 10.00J "
Court House News.
ALRIGHT FOR ST. LOUIS
BUT TOO BAD FOR US
Washinoton, Nov. 18 The Secretary
of Commerce and Labor, on behalf of
the Bureau of Immigration, today sus
tained the finding of Commissioner
Dunn, at St. Louis, ordering the depor
tation of the Geisha Girls after the
Wotld's Fair. Their manager had
planned a tour of the United States
with them alter the close of tho fair, and
a season at the Iwis and Clark (air.
Seasoned Body Fir Wo d
Two-hundred cords of good season -d
body fir wood for sale in car load loti,
$2.50 per cord, f. o. b. cars. J. H. Ha v
ey, Divide, Douglas Conntv, Oregon.
A. K. 1'.- ..mi has filed suit in the cir
cuit court here against Asa Cole, et al.,
asking for lbs foreclosure pi a mortgage
given to secure payment on a promis
sory note.
I'KOBATB OROKR8.
Thos. Williaine appointed administra
tor of the estate of Peter Turner, de-i-ease
I, said estate being of the estimate
value of $3111.
Marie ltrant, admx of the estate oi
Barry Itrnnt, diceased, authorized to
sell re.il property of said estate.
COMBINATION
GAME BOARD
55 Interesting and Instru. tive
Gam s can be riaved on it
A heaniifnl orniment for the
home as veil as an endless m SSwa
of entertainment and amust'iu.nt
COMPLETE EQUIPMENT AND STAND
$2.50
Goats asd Shetj. for Salt.
80 head of gouts 34 nannies and '4
wether, kids. Price 2 75 per had.
UK) hea I grade Cotswold stock sheep,
alioiit Rood mutton at l.0Q per head
.1. II Ha win.
Divide, Oregon.
Attorney C. A. Sehlbrede wan greeting
Rosebarg friends Friday and Saturday.
He was on his return home to Marsh
field from Portland. He anticipates
much litigation as a result of the success
of the local option measure in Coos
county.
What are the ' somelhiiigs" that Os
teopathy will enre? See jour Osteo
pathic I'livsiei m, and get reliable in
formal n regarding it.
FARMERS' NEEDS
1 1
GRASS SEED
Now is 'he time to sow your field seeds. I have just
receive a lare supply of Alsyke. Red and Wiiite
Clover, Alfalfa, Timothy, C,,yluC Grass' jjj
HARROWS
Buffalo Pitts, Pan American, Spike, Spring and Disc
Harrows, and Syracuse and Steel (.'hilled Plows.
SAWS AXES SLEDGES
Simmons. Webfoot, Chinook, Eclipse, Hoo Hoo and
Pacific Coast pattern Saws; Keen Kutter, U. S. A.
and Wk'cntx Axes
Q 1 QVICQ GENERAL
0. I. 0 ! fL0 HARDWARE
(jet Your Supplies at
McNAMEE'S GROCERY
Selling 1 he Entire Stock at Cost for CASH
if
if
rf
if
it
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Cil
yon
you
you
yrm
you
you
want to buy a
want furnished
rant to buy a
want t
wart to
want to
farm
rooms
::rU5r
rem a asg
build a bonsc
move a h'use
n ! l t.tow PAT
F F. "at?S3i
i. it Le
koeetaii
MOD AI A U0' ice cream parlors
jWjUfjHnO ; FINE CONFECTIONERY
HEHDRItt'S BLOCK OPPOSITE THE S. P. RAILROAD DEPOT.
t I Tr..niral Fruit
0 I Cigars. Pastries
The Best Ice Cream Soda
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry,
DIAMONDS AND SILVERWARE
Watcli Repairing a Speci fty
A, Salzman, jewetlerl -
WATCHMAKER
OPTICIAN
HOLIDAY PRESENTS FOR ALL.
DO YOU WANT
To Buy Bonds?
II so, you wnt those thut py
the tH't dtvMcaet a beawaai
egeaeAtea ean aetier dr Meatfi
than any bnii'! The ln-sl IT
to gel a business tMucatton I
Garland Business College
SILVERTON. OREQON
We have a Correspondence
Couraa in Shorthand In
vestigate : : : :
J B. GARLAND. Principal
CUT GLASS
WARE
1
The
time
will srOn
be here when
jrm wi.l have to
select foot holidav
atfts. The cFM-eet
wrry is the dilhculty of
electing suitable gifts swith
hat money you want to spend
hut we believe we can help yoo
out of both liificul;iee. What to gj e
becomes an easier matter when you have
to ample a stpek as out to ch ose Iivm.
VTe have the most desirable gift. Thev
pose,-b U Uie nualiti.-a that gifta should hare,
newness, usefulness, beauty, novelty and ntrinsic
worta. then t tie jvices are just r;.. tit 1
be beaten. We are in a position to fe. ow thnt
n anssv "e helivrp the more jn p inspect our
"r-" ' ' . K .. mber too, tha
iMrertn rt'MMil the quality oi everythiuit. Real
bugaiu
prices
on t . : .
ofwtrthv
ua I i tr
are what
We pmnd--
OPTICAL COODS
JEWELRY
m not
mav
xnl the
e are
H I J
vort
MRS. H. EASTON
is prepared to v.ut 1111011 old
and newctihti'ii!0"SBui friends
with a fnl! and ironiplte
stock of
GROCEHIE
All fresh ai;il f Uie very let
quality. !!-. u-d coffees are
specialties V on t patrouage
soliciUnl.
Roseburg
J. T. BRYAN
THE JEWELER AND PRACTICAL WATCH REPAIRER
205 Jackson St.
a - -SVSV
Jos. Martin is ntni'.ing a new hack
ne between Boeel tiiy aud Myrtle Point
making regular trips each week. Those
desiring to travel between litest poiuts
will do well to addseca him nt Kosehnnj
it Myrtle Point. tl
REVERSIBLE rARA?EfRS
VV e also carry a l ne of Brad-
DISC plows
ARE THE HARDWARE
A fine hue of Stoves and Gen-
fU V Cral "ardware, Hand Saws,
P, 1 Harness. Tinware and Guns
U U I at Bed Reck Prices.
BEARD & CULVER