Jtogiw An Independent Paper, Devoted Especially to the Interests of Southern Oregon. r * ! C S *•**•* hoes r fcf^ C hudin ' s pk $ ano S hoes fOR ^ ssisano their , brother ^- S hoes ^ hat fit as smooth as WRiyitRs, PERFECT KjAOE. Qy Ct^fORT J'B'L^ws C°* Bot/jofJ Sold Only at the Red Star Store. ■■■■■■ —— 11 ■ w j WOLFF & ZWICKER IROS WORKN [INCORPORATED] Oregon .... Portland -----MANUFACTURERS OF----- Hydraulic Pipe And All Kinds of Machinery for Mining Purposes. ---- ALSO----- BRIDGE WORK BOLTS RODS IRON SHUTTERS CELLI WINDOW GUARDS. DOORS. AND Cast-Iron Structure Work. CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. ------------- ----------------------------- ESTIMATES FURNISHED . w ■■ w'. Ln GroceriesI First-class goods kept in stock and sold at the lowest prices, quality considered. Staple and Fancy Groceries ! HARDWARE, TINWARE, TABLEWARE. •¿9- I-' " ex L_ A dl»j-4»teh frawt Cw* Town, •teuth Africa, wyr dual the leazRag officials of th© Transvaal sp««4t openlj’ of war with EnglanU as taavsLabie aud aver that It will be (WTfti cqfht up fa Table bay. Ad rices from the PhiMppiov islai>4s slates lhai IM # rebels have surrend­ ered thulF artna. The rebellion is practically ended. Jiin Jones, a uegro, was arrested at Trenton, Mo., charged with brutally murdering A. G. Wilson. The steamer Yaqu na struck a sand bar while approaching the wharf at Hueneme, Cal., and sunk. It is fearfld »he will be a total loss. A biu row is in progress at Golden- dale, K’.ckitat county. Wa.-h.. >>< tween the county cornmissionem and the *heep men from Wasco and Sherman counties, Oreg«», over the refusal of the couimtsMonars to grant the sheep men a prsmit, as required by a new law, to pasture sheep in Washington. The commissioners claim the sheep will ruin the cattle ranges. Three prisoners effected their escape from the Flagstaff*, A. T., prison by cutting a hole through the iron roof. Jndge Bethune has been appointed to the Arizona commission for securing uniformity of legislation. There is likely to be still another beet sugar factory in Southern Califor­ nia. The draughtsman of the Chino company has been ordered to New- York for several months’ work, and is conjectured that he goes to draw plans lor the factory which the Oxnard» have been proposing to erect in Hueneme. Two ten-inch, 110-ton cannon arrived in Ran Francisco this week. They are to be used to strengthen the coast de­ ft* uses. A private detective played a clever game on a young woman named Jean Young, who calls herself Mrs. D. M. Del mas, and who has been a thorn the side of a Ran Francisco attorney by that name for some years past. Del- mas wanted to got the woman out of the country, and secured the aid of a detective, who represented himself to the woman as a German baron, and very wealthy. After a two weeks’ courtship they were married and start­ ed for “Germany,” but the “baron’s” trip was cut short at Ogden, where he was arrested and returned to stand trial fer obtaining money by false pre­ tense. The Fredonia mill of the Ramps®« Cordage com [»any, at tfMri«y, Mskflw, was destroyed by ftro Net Bear Clvae 1 uteatigat’ou When Our Turn Cornea, the Merit»«*« Will Ke»el lu Schemes Vntlrranied of Now. Whilo it tuny not be quite true, it if Very nearly true that the lnaturical novo) i. entertaining entirely oo account of iti improbabilities. We poasoas a amuttar lug of general lnfcrniatiou. At least wt to flatter ourselves. History is for ui not quite a closed book. We know Cweai and Hannibal and Napoleon and Olivet Cromwell and Henri yuatre and Riche lieu and the Man in the Iron Mask, perhaps even a few others. And whet in company with the hero of the his torical novel we are ushered into th« royal presence, we bow and smirk and grimace amazingly and knowingly. ‘‘Charles I? Certainly. His majesty and we are old friends. We posaeaa secrets which his majesty would give his crown and kingdom to know. M Posterity has confided to us stories that would cause his majesty’s royal hairs to stand on end like quills upon the fretful porcupine. Don’t try to gull us with appearances. We know all about what's coming. The gracious smile which now illumines bis majesty’s kingly lips is, oh, so drolll How about Whitehall and the block and the ax? Ha, ha! We are delighted to see his majesty in such excellent spirits. ” It is to this faculty of making the reader feel knowing, of impressing upon him his own superiority and the correct­ ness of his own retrospective surmises and decisions, that the makers of his torical romance owe in a great part their vogue and popularity. Then out at the elbows soldiers of fortune—nay, even the wine drawers, the innkeepers and the scullery maids whom we meet in the historical romance—somehow manage to plot and scheme and hobnob with the very greatest personages of all times. If a mysterious figure is introduced, of course there is a great personality be­ hind it The exigencies of the trade make thia imperative. From a muffled cloak we will accept a great duke with fairly becoming grace. A disguised voioe and steal thy, overcautious demeanor de maud a king or a hero who, in his­ tory's pages, looms up as mighty or mightier than a king. Wonder might justly be expressed that a simple soldier of fortune of the Quentin Durward, D'Artagnan ilk should be of such supreme importance to the welfare of nations and the Bafety of kings To deny either the Scot or the Gascon would surely tie outright heresy. They embody old Caledonia and old France—as we see them. But the col­ lective possibilities that are necessary to give tlie historical romance tire and go, make in the end it must be acknowl­ edged, a pretty strong chain of improb­ abilities To thoroughly appreciate this one would have to read the historical romance that is to deal with our day and to bo written 12 score years hence. This, alas, we cannot do I What a screaming farce it will be when it comes! Will it not read like the ravings of a madman? How ludicrous will bo the complications! What ail extraordi­ nary age our own will seem! But the drollest feature of all will be the sub­ lime gravity, the supreme sincerity with which tlie whole w ill be accepted by the reader of that future day. How is it that, in an age like our own, when there are a publisher and a market for every literary conceit and absurdity, no one has thought to anticipate this the historical romance of the future. Surely it would not be all bnrleaqua. What marvelous things those scribes w ill be telling of our age and civiliza­ tion! What stiange and darkling events will lie uuule to take place at our very d'.irs! T>i mysteries that are to be cleared up are as nothing to thoae which are to be invented. Our nights and days will be given over to tragic intrigue« and fell deeds. Murder will stalk our street«. Bworda will leap and cross, knives will gleam, pistols will crack along Broadwuy, or. if we prefer, Re­ gent street, or the Ringstriuw, or UDter den Linden, or the Boulevard dm (Japu- ciiie«. The gnet a peurwill be supreme. All this will come to pass when the srnbes of the tweuty-Beoond century sit down to the task of writing their his­ torical novels. And then—other heroes. H< w mum they are keeping theuiselvesl Why don’t they come out of the dark­ ness and rnysti-ry ami shadow and amuse the age with the narrative of those thrill­ ing and soul stirring adventur«« with which the romancers of the future will credit them? We know that when the arbitration question la settled and both the United Btates and England are freed from the possibilities of a hideous and devastating war, it is not her majesty, the queen of Great Britain and «mpress of India, or tlie president, or the prime minister, or the secretary of statu, who brought it about. Gh, no! That might do very well to gull and beguile and ca­ jole tlie poor, ignorant mas* « The real power behind the throne u> the impov­ erished soldier of fortune, of whom the romance of the historical novelist« of the future will tell us. What nets he will spread! What strange and unholy influences he will bring to bear! What ingenuity, cunning, valor, patience, will ho employ lx fore the gn at scheme is consummated and histury is made! What dangers he will encounter! What fearful odds he will overeomet We know he Is here. Gould wa doubt the histor leal romance of tlie future? We see the result, we reap it« benefit, but the cause, the ooloasal nobody whose machinations j brought it all about, whore is be? Let him stand forth that the age may do him hmor!—New York Advertiser. THE ARTIST A PROPHET. So Suggr»t««l the Director of the Metro- polituu Museum of Art. It is uot merely «he priv«t« collectors who are practiced on by the trafficker, in bogus * ‘old masters. ” Sometimes they fly higher und sometimes they may be deceived themselves. In the latter class, perhap«, was the woman who vr de to General di C-esnola, director of flu MetTOjs Etan Museum of Art, with the informato n that ahe owned a treaa ere which she wished to realize upon at cuce and would dispose of at a sacrifica. Thia treasure, she said, was a celebrated pe.uiting of St. Michael carving the dragon, according to the legend of the early Christian church. It was a very old subject, but the canvas was in a ges-d state of preservation. Her great­ grandfather had dug it out of the ruins of Herculaneum. General di Ccanola at once dictated a reply, in which he said in substance: “Madam, if the facts are as you state, you are holding the painting at too low a figure. It is worth millious if it is worth a cent. Herculaneum has (men lying under the lava of Vesuvius for 2,000 year«. That the canvas should have escaped destruction when the mountain poured forth its firry contents on tlie towns at its base is indeed re­ markable; that it has further resisted the disintegrating hand of time is no less remarkable; that tlie artist should have show n a spirit of prophecy ami de­ lineated an incident of the Christian re­ ligion long before it happened is more than remarkable. It is miraculous You should keep the St. Michael!'' In a day or so the director received s second letter from the woman. It ran thus: “If the picture is really so valu­ able, I don't see why you won’t take it at $f>00. ”—New York Mail and Ex­ press. SHE HANGED A STOVE. Th. Woman W«. Arreted. However, Koi Trying to Kill Her 1 lu*band. To intend to hang one's husband and ta find instead of a body a «tove at the other end of the rope is oalcnlated most certainly to Huqirise the would be mur den r, and to such surprise, in a case re­ lated by a French paper, must be added the unpleasant fact that the woman who hanged the stove was arrested on the charge of attempted assassination. She disliked her husband, who had an unfortunate propensity for strong drink, and, on his returning home one evening intoxicated, resolved ta kill him in such a manner as to suggest that he had com­ mitted suicide. The inan went to bed in his tipsy condition and was soon sleep­ ing soundly. His amiable partner thought this to I mi the favorable mo­ ment for dispatching him to another world, and accordingly set about mak­ ing her arrangements. In the ceiling, just above the bed, there was a hole capable of allowing a stout rope to pass. The woman went up into the room above, lot a rope slip, through the hole, and, returning to Uiv chamber in which her husband slept, at­ tached it by a slip knot round bis neck. This done, she went up stairs again, drew the ropo tight through the hole in the ceiling und attached it to a b««am. Then, when she believed the job had been done, she rushed, weeping, into the street, tolling the neightxirs that her husband had just committed suicide. On entering the house, what, however, was their surprise to find a portable stove in the place of a corpse! The husband, who was less drunk than his wife imagined, had released himself and substituted the stove in the nick of time. Blryrle In African War. One would scarcely expect to find bi- cycleM and u bicycle club in the heart of Africa and 600 miles from any railroad. One club in Bulawayo, Matabtleland, South Africa, is in a flourishing condi tion. having 26 membcni out of a popu­ lation of 2,500. During the lat« war in Matals lehtnd th»*s» bicyclers all rendered valuable service to the English. By them scouts were often able to “locate the enemy’’ or to deliver a message where a man on horseback would not have dared to go, for a Kaffir ran outrun a horse every time—Unit is, such horses as they have in Africa. In one instane« a bicyalcr put to rout a whole imp! (a camp) of Kaffirs, who evidently never had seen a bicycle be­ fore, and thia man, who came nearer to the camp than he had had any int» ntion of doing, and who was much alarmed for his own saf' ty when he realized w here hr was, txxjk heart again when he saw these Kaffirs throw up their hands as if in consternation, and, utter mg savage* aounds and noises, jump to th' ir feet and run for thrir lives. They evidently thought the flevil was after th» in.—New York Press. AN OLD ENGLISH LETTER. NOBODY HEEDS THEM. Lady Moutvoae of Two Hundred Yearn Ago Wn* a Foor Speller. TabUe Indurerrnt 1» Nl,iu Knt I p Fur IU Con vvnl.uc- Then' in bad spelling and there is bad spelling. Artemus Ward and Jmh Bil­ lings did some of it prvfeaai«uially, and many school children and some grvwn men and women do some of it even unto this day Bnt neither of them* dia- tingnished pormniH and no school child or grow n up man or woman, even in his or her wildest dream of revenge against Webster et al., ever came within a mile vf the spelling of a noble Scotch lady of 200 years ago. bhe w as personally Christian Leslie, daughter of the Duke of Rothes, and wife of the third Marquis of Montrose, and later of Sir John liruce of Kinross. According to custom, having been a peeress she retained her peerage title. Thus it came about that Sir John Bruoe lived with the Countess of Montrose with all propriety. But this was what she wrote: K ikqhosk , July 4. lflUS. M adam —I render yuw a thowiiunt thank««* for your piny, which In very good, and I haw ret- t» mead iti with the bearer, and if your lady* •hip* have vatber enay mor iilmk I playw or novella which you h«ve read, and will I m pleaded to loan them io me, 1 ahull be ver« fathvfouell in rvatorenge, and ieke it a nr««a1 faver, for they are vere deverttng in the coun tvry. Your lord did me the honouer to dayn hear yesterday, and waa vere well herUdy winhed your ladytthipe hed oomu along««, for itt wold have bin bolt a devertiaemvnt in thia i engine bouses when descending from th« dormitory floors to the street flcxir about their ordinary affairs jnst ns they de when hustling down for a tire. It is tin* quickest und easiest way to go, and nat urally they go that way always. To >i man not u fireman, however, and so un accustonnd to it, th«< commonplace use of the sliding pole s«*vms at first strange. Ho has seen it usually, perhajw only, from below, and the use of it is iUMOoi- atod in his mind with the sound of the gong, the pounding of the horses’ hoofs, the snapping of harness and the generul bustle of preparation. To see the fireman come dropping down the sliding poles into this scene of activity noma all right. It s«her tell us that the I»ndon edition of 1855-7 was tlie "first,” and that th«' N« w York edition exists not at all?—Book Buyer. An the tobacco, $24; brushes and paints, $10; community nt large in v>. w of the fact, gl .in., f \ - which hiw Hr tlie treatment give to the man the separation h<*. asked of meat tn make it hannl<**e to the com­ for. Yet th«« defendant calmly ass«*rt« d munity at largo The safi st plan la, of ' that there was not a pur« hase made in course, the di-etructlon of such diseased * that list but was alwdu«dy eas«*ntial to meat. i h« r comfort. Thisguilch*sa young worn A famous German scientist han, how­ an positively prided herself on the fart ever, propoind that tutsTcnlowi meat that extra vagan»« was one sin of which should be divided into at least two she was absolutely guilthva*.—Detroit clasw-s, and only that deeply impreg­ | News. nated with the germa of rtt»ea«e ahould i>e condemned ateolntely and irrevoca­ ’ < iMsirlaDi and KoRMintieiatn In Mualo. Classi» al compos« rs are those <»fne«tle Woo. beauty, paire and simple, over emotional of the guidcfi at the capital harl bo potted. Thia operation is to lx performed at a content, refusing to sacrifice form to an ainuNHig A ouuntrjmaD Romantic very high temperature and under steam characteristic expression. wm a 1 k /WU th' woijdbni ot the whUpfW- pressure, which would hsve the effect Componer* are those who have sought nig galkry and th»- rtotw which deaden* of completely killing these hardy gt-rtnt. their ideals in other ng ions and striven all «cvnd. to give expression to them, irrespective After the uwtial experiment wan com- In this way much meat which would be w asted ran be rendered fit for human of the restrictions and limitations »»f pletwj, he artatnahed the guide by «ay- ford, and it may be taken with impu­ form and the conventions of law—com Ing: "Minter, kin a body git a atone nity. tientiment will no doubt declars posers with whom, in brtaf, content out­ like that thar hyar in Washington? Yo' against the use of diseased meat tn spite weighs manner—“How to Listen to aee, my wife git* (;antank»'rouJi at thu««, an ahe kin talk ¡x^w ful hard when ahe of the assunaee of scienr*.—I'esuwm'a Music,” Knhbnd. _____________ giu wtartod. If I could git on® o’ them Weekly. Th» First HlantarU. things ter stan on rrat in our kitabex), After Hinly. the greatest orange and In the reign of Edward III there were I’d be willin ter pay well fer it’’— lemon producing center of southern at Bristol th re** broth* rw who were «mi Waahingtx>a Star. Italy is the Hurrentino peninsula and oent clothiers and w«xden weavers, and Bodi, - f which the former is the more wh niple«k. HENRY L. BENSON, One of the moRt viilunbl«» and intercut ing piece« of furniture in Philadt'lphia in own«*«! by Dr. Roland (4. (hirtin an«i him a place of honor in bin office, at 22 South Eighteenth Htreet. It in Benjamin Franklin’ri dewk, the very one he uned for 20 or mor«» years, and at which he did moHt of hiw writing, und in which he kept nioNt of hiN imperii. It is big and broad, with a fiat top and two tieni of ample English oak drawcrw and two drawen in the middle. There are two front#, making both Hides alike. Th«’ w«*od is th«» finimt solid ma hogany, the braMNwork is handmade and th«’ d«*»WHpu[M*r clippings tall th«’ Htory of the denk. After th«’ death of Dr. Franklin it came into the jmihh « HHion of the well known Philadelphia exchange brokers. One h tter in v« ry curious. It is from Rev. Edwin Town, to who* uncle it was be«pieathed by Mr. Whel« n. That letter i« to William Bradford, a member of councila in 1857, after th«» «task wan jilared in Indeiiondenc«! hall and attract­ ed great attantion. In it, aftar ex plod mg the theory that Dr. Franklin and Mr. Wh'ltn had private triuiHactionH which led to the paaieMion of th«« d«*«k, Mr. Town says: “I ahull continue to Im iieve, hm I have for th«’ lnNt 40 years, that th«* desk wiih absolutely the proper ty of Dr. Franklin and that Mr. Whelen, Sr., came into ¡NiHHcMHion of it«*ither be­ fore the doctor’ll death or noon after. wh«*n a part of biH effectH were disposed of, including tlm old deuk, which JoHeph Carr, formerly of Bartram’s garden, the errand boy of Dr. Frunklin at the time of hiN death (1780), im ¡Mmitive he r» inemU-TN hh occupying a plac«i in the chamber on the right of the entrance hall of the doctor’» mamrion, which ntood at that day on the ground now < jc - cupied by Franklin place.” Dr. Curtin got the desk from one of th«’ present membi iH of the Town fam­ ily. It han bo n eutimatod that it inay h«i 160 year» old.—Philadelphia Timea Attorney-at-Law. GRANTS PASS, OR. Ornca—Over th»' Hank. Practieaa ia all Court« of the State. ARTHUR I*. HARTH, Doctor in Dental Surgery Ornea ova« Tin Granfa Pa«», B ank ... Ora,an EAST and SOUTH ----- VIA THE ----- Route Shasta — of the — Southern Pacific Company. Eiere»» Train» lxn ' , . Crenwell, Drain, and all atationi frei Roeeburg to Aabland incluiive. Roteburg Mall Dally « .V ia . a U '¿Vr. a A:‘A> r. «. LV. Portland lv . Albany Ar. KexeburK AT I V LV. 4 40r.a. I tir». » UO a .«. Salem Pa»«engar Dally. 4 no r. ■ Lv. I'urtland ÿ.l.', r. ■. i at IWaa DINING CARS ON OGDEN ROUTE- Pullman Buffet Sleeper« — and — S econd C lass S leeping C ars Attached to all thimigh traina Wanted llnmage«. Of thorn* would be litigant» who, like i Hotspur, “in the way of bargain,” will '‘cnirl on th»j ninth part of a hair,” a 1 K< ntucky Liv.;,« r (»11« in th«* Louisville (Jouriei Journal this good story: I was in my partn« r’s office at Brown­ ville on«* day, v. hen a tall, lank nativ«*, about 50 yearn of age, came in. After he ha«l wiini.ol himself we inquired of him his busim hm . To the inquiry he re- pUad: “I want tar bring nuit ng'in old man H.'» ♦•state. During the war he drafted in«- for service, and when 1 showed up I m * said he didn’t n««-d me. Ef 1 hu«i ’a' went in, 1 would have been a-drawin a |M-nsi«)n now, and I want tar sue him fer damages fer ktepin me from drawin a pension. ” When wo told him that his cause for action was no g«xid, he shumbled out of the offi< <* and remark««! that “there wkh do ji stice in law nohow.” West Side Divisioi bet«etu Purtludud Corvdlis. MAIL THAIH 1>AILT (BXCirT iCMDAT. 7 SO a . m . I i». Portland lï .ift r. m Ar. t'orvallia Ar. I 6 20r.«. |l »5r. ■ lv . Al Albany an.l Corvallis connect with trainvol Or. central * Kaitern Ry. Kirau» TaAia daily ( bicbty acaaAT.) 4 45 r m . | iv. Portland Ar. | 5 25 a . a. 7 l’>r a Ar. McMinnville lv . I SAO a . m . Direct ronnrttion at San Franciaco with Occidental an»i Oriental and Pacific Mail «teamahip line« for JAPAN AND CHINA. Sailing dates on application. Rates anil tii'ket» to Eastern point« and Euron»-. Also I »PAN. CHINA I HoNol.l'I.U and Al'STRAl.lA. Can lie obtained from J. S. Piirdoiu. Granta Pass. Merton's .Memory. K.P. ROG IRS, An Englishman named M«»rton could R KOEIlf.KK. Asst I'. F A P Agl h-peat from memory any dim ourwe he Manager. Portend. Or. bad emee listem-d to, While Sehenkel, th«* inventor of one of the "Arte of .KI T Memory, ” could r« p»*at 890 arbitrarily ronnwt**«! words «nd over 200 s»in- teucea, all in th«’ exac t order in which he had heard them. A Sussex man named William Woltou had a marvel­ ous memory When a child, h«j could For Sale at the COURII'TR Office. remember almost any sermon he h»*ar«l and once repeated ta the biflhep his ser­ These paper tare |u«t the tiling (or lining cabins, wr vpping bundle», putting mon word for word, lb* Usik his B. A. under carp -ts making cur) paper« at Cambridge when only 12 years and 6 lighting Area and a ho«t of month* old.—Huuaehold Words. other uses. Awful cheap. OLD NEWSPAPERS! John Bunyan fought on the Round­ head si da during the civil war in Eng land This has bet n definitely flattWI by the dim«/very of his name in several I place« on th«* muster roll» of the parlia­ mentary garrison of Newport PaqnealL I Some ¡M*«»pl<*, it H««nis, thought John 4 1 f >ught for King Charlea i Wanted An Idea ¡£zS Protect your id»**«. may brlug y 'U wjahh WrUa JollN wxdde KBVRM » CO p*«»at Aitor- Ua Wa-hiuflUM.. D- <’». for the» P^fl» ud lUtol two huaorwi I uvmi U om waniwk