want ■ ’ ' J I Li An Independent Paper, Devoted Especially to the Interests of Southern Oregon. THE NATION’S FLOWER. O columbine, O columbine, Columbia’« flower of fair design, Ti... tr uupct tunguaa, rvd, white aud blue, btng freedom'• «ong each year anew. And, ranted about the central abaft. Forever on the breeaee waft, **£ piuritua unuin." for each alate. Thus centered, make« the nation gnaL 0 «mgle flower, forth from the rock Thou aprtugvat after winter’« «hock And with thy talon« flying clear In strength and beauty lead'st the yesu*. America's bread land thy home. From mountain peak to ocean*• foam. Eagle «nd dove tn one, the sign Of our fair country, columbine! — Jd 8. Metcalf in New Y-* < >«•» Summer Delights An exquisitely dainty hue of Summer WASH FABRICS. Tasty effects which we wish every Lady to inspect and compare styles and prices with those offered elsewhere. WOLFF & ZWICKER IRON WORKS [INCORPORATED] Portland Oregon .... -----MANUFACTURERS OF----- Hydraulic Pipe And All Kinds of Machinery for Mining Purposes. ---- ALSO----- BRIDGE WORK. BOLTS RODS IRON SHUTTERS CELL« WINDOW GUARDS. DOORS, AND Cast-Iron Structure Work. CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED HATS IN PAHL.AME IT They Are Important Factor« In the Brit­ ish Ix»wer Hooee. Of all the customs and traditions that still cling to the bouse of commons, oven in tins matter of fact age, the hat plays the most important part. In the last century one of the speakers permit­ ted the introduction of orange«, and even nuts, if they were not loudly crack ed, on the plea that they were not “tan giblo articleaof food.’’ But, soma yeair after, this decision was reversed Fy an other speaker, who, on high medioal au­ thority, declared that as It would be possible to support life on either of these two vegetables they must be considered tangible products, and their public con­ sumption would, therefore, not be per­ mitted. Out of this decision a custom arose, which, not being checked, slowly deepe ned into a tradition. The dey^r^y which Bobby Lowe exhibited tea* furring a packet of sandwiches -**•"'5 one of the side pockets of the rexnarL*».ble coats be used to affect to the Interior of his hat and the way in which he would use his headgear to conceal the process of mastication were, it is said, sights tc behold. The ocoupanta of the ministerial and front opposition benches are able tc moisten their thr<»ats during the delivery of a speech with a little liquid, but, al though the private member is not ex presslv excluded from the participation in this privilege, no provision is made for the consumption of any lubricant he may require. The traditions of the house alluw him to conceal a tandwich or s biscuit iu his pocket, but nut a bottle. Any honorable member may have a glass of water, but, while the leading members of the opposition have the great central table on which to deposit theii glasses of water—which is not supposed to be qualified by the introduction of any other liquid, ahem I—the private member is expected to hide his glass In his hat. It la really as ton ie hi ng what an im­ portant feature the hat plays in the de liberations of our legislators. As no pri vat? member can claim by right any particular scat in the house, except in s few - ben, who mysteriously disappeared. One of the Hibbens has just been found alive and well in a prison. The citizens of Liverpool, Eng., pre- sented the retiring United »States con­ sul, James E. Neal, with a silver sci- vice of ¡date. They also presented Miss Neal with a handsome dressing case. “Billy” Birch, the old-tiine ninstrel, died at his home in New York, a few days ago. The United States government will not support the demand for indemnity upon the British government of Ed­ ward Ivory, who was for some time in prison in London on suspiciton of being concerned in a dynamite plot The »leiith sentence of James B. Gen­ try, the murderer of Actress Madge Yorke of Philadelphia, has been com­ muted to imprisonment for lifb. Senator Morgan of United States congress offered an amendent to the sundry civil appropriation bill ap pro­ printing $50,000 to complete the im­ provement of l’earl harbor, Hawaii. J. C. Adams has been nominated by the republicans as candidate for mayor of Phoenix, A. T. According to the latest order of Gen­ eral Weyler, the Spanish commander in Cuba, every house and plantation in the province of Santa Clara will l>e destroyed. This district is the richest part of the islan»! and is largely owned by Americans. An instrument has been invented which is capable nf sending by tele­ graph 3U00 woreen matche»! to fight twenty- five rounds near New York, about the first of June. I Thirty-six house« af Pottersville, Pa., and their contents were destroyed by fire. They were the homes of working­ men emploved at the Carnag e com­ pany. A bill La» been paoed by the Iowa legirature permitting the manufacture of whiskey in that state. While Tom bar! *.a of Weaver creek, Ky., was abMiut in Virginia chopping wood, his mountain home burned and hi« wife and four children were roasted rince Alphonse < himay, husi#end of notoriona •rio princess who has been nf a «» eoestion throughont Europe Fair WarBlag. piment and doings with an y nuDiiian, and M. Clemenceau, He—Do you think your father would f /a Freud« foutUt a dual off**r me perwicial vi »>1»- im » if I were k> hr Par s. m which the editor was in« u oak him for you? I painfully. The trouble arose Rb»—No. bet I think b** WiU if y« priaee'a family. LMier President Dias of Mexico has issued a decne establishing a naval school at Vera Crus, to be opened July next. Saturday night a serious cloudburst occurrvul at Kufaula, Ind. T., and ex­ tended over about a hundred square mile» of territory. Farm houses, fen­ ces sod croj»a uere washed away to an extent amounting to a calamity. Secretary Gage of tho treasury de­ triment has started ta discharge “snap” officials m the employ of the government. It is either ‘work or quit the service,’ hereafter. Charles Mahoney, a government de­ tective, was shot and fatally wounded while attempting to capture two negro burglars at Belle river, O11L Tresident McKinley has appointed (’. M. Barnes of Guthrie to be governor of Oklahoma. The Uawes commission has reached an agreement with the Chotaw and Chickasaw Indians for a division of their lands in Arisona. All coal and and mineral interests are reserved for the respective natlona The injunction asked fur by the Citi­ zens’ Street railway of ludiannopolis against the enforcement of the 3-rent- fa re law has been granted by the Unit­ ed States court. The town of Whitney, N. Y., suffered a lews of $250,000 from fire. Thomas F. Marrou has brought suit in the justices’ court at San Francisco, against Dr. P. M. Jones for $299 dam­ ages, sustained by the plaintiff at the hands of the defendant through the use of the X-ray. Japan is going to spend $40,(XX) in putting twelve young Japanese stud­ ents through a three years’ course of study of naval architecture and marine engineering in England. Robert Loring is in the city prison at San Francisco confined until the offi­ cers determine if he is responsible for the death of his wife and infant by his crudity. A tramp German band of seven pieces is hoofing and hooting It down the Willamette valley just now, headed for Portland. Gessopj>e Hoot to, for years a peanut vender uf Santa Monica, has fallen heir to fortune of millions of dollars, through the death of an uncle in Italy. The flagship Baltimore is to take the place of the Philadelphia in the Pacific squadron. The Philadelphia will re­ ceive an extensive overhauling at Mare island. The prison directors have decided that they have no power to act in the matter of Theodore Durrant, the mur­ dered, w ho is to be executed in June. Mrs. Durrant went to Sacramento to make a personal appeal to the gover­ nor. The vessels of the United States rev­ enue cutter fleet will leave for Berliing sea May 5th. Albert Barthold, a wealthy farmer of North Yakima, Wash., committed sul- I tide becausM a handsome young widow thirty years his junior would not mar­ ry him. ¡¡¡Three brothers, Ben, John and Wil­ liam Higgins, prospecting near Rands­ burg engaged in a quarrel, when Ben shot William, killing hlin instantly. He then committed suicide. Eastern men have put up $100,090 to be use»! for erecting a huge rasin-seed- ing plant at Fresno. It will have a capacity of three carloads per day. A double tragedy was enacted at the Union de|M»t at Ogden, Utah, when John Rose of Hamilton, O., shot and killed Mamie Evans of Salt latke city, and then blew out his braina No cause for committing the deed is known. Samuel Colgate, the wealthy soap and perfume manufacturer, died at his home in New York, a few days ago. The military p»mt at Little Rock, Ark., will hereafter l»e known as Fort Ix»gan H. Roots, In honor of the late brevet lieutenant-colonel of volunteers of that name. Henry L (lark, a young stationary engineer of Pants Monica, Cal., was removal from the train at Pueblo, Col., suffering from a severe attack of df- mentia. He was so violent that it re- quired five men to hold him. The federal grand jury at New Or­ leans has indicted four officials of the Southern Pacific railroad company for a violation of the interstate commerce regulations. The indictments are against Third Vice-President J. C. Stub!« of San Francisco; Controller William Mahl of Now York, Traffic Manager C. W. Bein of Houston, Tex., aud General Freight Agent H. A. Jones of Houston, Tex. They are charged with controlling the traffic department of the company and are indicted on two counts. The eastern oysters planted at Va­ guina bay fail have survived the win­ ter in good condition, the mortality being light. F. K Merritt has accepted th» men- Hgement and superintendency of the Palo Alto rsnch of Mrs. Iceland Rtan- fvrd at Palo Alto. bis men and five women were bap- t sed in San Francisco bay, by a Baptist evangelist. The athletes of the Berkeley Univer­ sity defeated the Stanford men at the intercollegiate field day exercises, held Saturday. The Stanford debating so­ ciety defeated the Berkeley debaters at the fifth annual debate held that evening. General Kelley, of Industrial army fame, a« arrested at Oakland twice on a recent evening for making street speeches. The police regard him as dangerous. The hot wave of a few «lays last week did considerable damage to standing grain in the interior of Alameda county Henry Lammers of San Francisco is hovering between life and death, and his aged wife is dead, as a result of the gas having l»een left turned on in their beeroom, accidentally. Gottlieb Strum Jackson, Cal., com­ mitted suicide April 13th by jumping overboard from a steamer on which he had taken passage from Germany fur New York. The contract has just been let for the erection of a jail building for Kings county at Hanford. The building will cost about $15,(XX) w hen completed. Fifty Chinese were taken ta Alami- ♦<»s, Orange couyty, to work in the beet fields, but were promptly ordered to leave or suffer the consequences by an organization of white men. Six Riverside boys were sentenced to be »¡tanked for laying in a supply of fireworks f*»r the fourth of July. Thu trouble was that the youngsters ap­ propriated the fireworks in a burglar­ ious manner. Henry Seidel was shot and Instantly killed by George Bartiuvss at l»a Grande, Or. They had a dispute over the lease of some property. l’hilip Rohrbacher, supreme arch of the united ancient order of Druids, died suddenly in Stockton, Sunday. Harry Riff!«* of Walla Walla, Wash., is lying at the point of death from the result of a knife wound, receive«! from the father of a boy he was unnecessar­ ily abusing. Andrew Braaten and Miss Clara Gillispie of Monroe, Snohomish county, Wash., started in a baggy to Everett to get married. On the way the young lady was accidentally thrown from the rig and killed. Grain ships at San Francisco are hav­ ing duller times at present than for many years. Kid Thompson, convicted of train­ robbery at Loa Angelos, was sentenced to imprisonment for life in the Folsom ;w*uitentiary. John Strong of Santa Rosa purchased all the property of the Central Street Railway company of that city, which was sold by the sheriff to satisfy a : mortgage of $2400. Work has commence«! on the toll roa«l that is to connect Humlioldt and Trinity counties. The California .Northern Railway company will immediately commence ithe construction of a railroad from Kramer, a ¡»oint on the Atlantic and Pacific railroad, to Randsburg, a dis­ tance of twenty-five miles. Richard H. Straub was hanged at New Whatcom, Wash., last Friday for murdering Leon Dauterman, on Blake­ ly island last August. The annaul department encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic was was held al Falinaa Iasi week. General N. P. Chipman of General J. J. Mans­ field Post, Red Bluff, was elects«! de­ partment commander. The supreme court has affirmed ths decision <»f the lower court of Alameda county, which pronounced the death penalty against Benjamin L Hill for the murder of his wife on January II, 1896. The Jumper Mining company haa offered a reward of $1000 for the arrest mik I conviction of the murderer of Night Watchman W. S. Gillar«!, who was shot to death nt the company's works in Sonora county. As a result of the failure of th? Ran­ dall Banking compftny at Eureka, the Humboldt Tanning aud Manufacturing c«»inpanv has mad« an aaslgnuicnt for the benefit of its creditors. Edwards. Farrow, formerly a lieut­ enant in the United Plates army, is under arrest in New York charged with inaurance frauds. Judge Bellinger of the United States circuit court at Portland has decided that sheepmen have no right to pas­ ture their flocks on serve. Frank Valbrz, a lad 17 years old, is under arrest at Los Angeles fur the murder of Mike Ixjring, the Caladasaa stor»-k»•«!p«T, who whs found dead last w» »-k. The hoy says ha killed him in self^drAms«». Redding will shortly be connected by telephone with Weaverville, Trinity county. Gustav H. Braunschweig shot and killed John H. Rsap, at Chicago, and killed himself. Rasp accused him of vmb«*r.rioin« nt, and mu offitar had come to arrest him when the trsdegy occur­ red. The Ohio, Pennsylvania ami New York sewer-pq»e mHiiufacturcrs have McCoy Pyle, a constable of Fillmore, f< rated a trust. Ventura county, was shot to death by Frank ( Klorado whom he was trying to h sleeping man, Widiaiu Deady of Kan • rresL The murderer escaped. Francisco, wl. »had ?»• ver harme-1 him, The trial of Mrs. Hoover for the was hanged at Han Quentin Friday. murder of her husband at Arbuckle, i ' o ! ii .4S county, resulted in her acquit­ BEN FRANKLIN'S BIG HEAD. tal. How He Wore HI« W!g In III« Peeket at The third brigade of the national the I rmich I ourL guard of California, numbering 1200 The difficulties encountered recently men, will encamp at Santa Crus In by the linwtJ deacendanta of that gTeat A ug'ist. man. statesman patriot and everything Nelson and lx ster Cook an»l Charles e|»e flint men proj»erly h«»l«l in eafima* Wilkinson vr«re arrested at Eureka lion Benjamin Franklin in having charged with stealing a band of twenty themaelvrs enrolled among the ( oUmtal head of rattle. A trial resulted in the Dames, rerali an anecdote of him, says remanding of the C xxjms and ths dis­ the Washington Punt, embalmed in charge of Wilkinson. the faioily record» of th» sag»- of Mon- An inspection of the Ukiah insane ti* ello, but which, no far an t)«r writer asylum last week, by the state board knows, hae never lieen published. When of health, prove»! the institution to be atjout to ¡»resent himself for the first time at the court of Versailles he waa in an exrsllent e»n«lition. '»formed by the niMU r uf ceremonies A large number of worthies« bank that a w ig wan a sine qua non. Now, note« belonging to a Canadian bank his head waa large that no ordinary are being circulate»! in California. w ig would begin to fit it, an»! the situ- The woman’s congress is In eaasioa at ation wv- emlMrrassirig in the extreme. Kan Francisco. 1s< However, one was found sufficiently Herbert I>avif, a young man of Oak* large to ¡*u»s him through the ante- lxr.4, coteialttsd auhlde last se^k, cl*aiboint of view, taken in its direct opposite- i thc flat foot. In a great number of in­ stances tint feet are the occasion of considerable keen suffering, generally resulting fix» in the breaking down of the arch that is, the displacement of seme of the many little Itonea of the foot, either from overstrain or some dincuse of the muscular structure. As the weight of the Issly constantly rests upon, the foot there, is no opportunity tor the bones to get back to their proper places. The result is that these little bone» keep rubbing against each other, and the ¡min gets more and more severe. Commonly the persons afflicted in this way think that he or she has rheuma tisni and let it go at that. Until re­ cently the only remedy was a steel- soled shoe tluit was clumsy and heavy. The new device is interesting. It m an “insole,” curved to tit the foot, made of a bent strip of steel and acting .is a spring. It is covered either with leath­ er or with vulcanized rubber Io ¡»re­ vent rusting, and, needing no fasten­ ing, but simply to be ¡»laced in ¡»oNition, it can be changed from one shoe to an­ other at will. In position it acts simply as a sup­ port, literally holding up the ls>nes, and giving them an opportunity to slip back into their proper places. While any "insole” of the approximate shape will give relief, the l»est results are reached only when one is especially made from a cast or impression of the foot. A great proportion of the peo- ple troubled with Hat feet come from the north of Eur<»|»e, many of them from the lowl&nds of Germany. The inhabitants of the south of Europe, strangely enough, are seldom troubled with anything «»< the sort. Their in­ steps, especially in the case of women, are nearly always highly arched and finely formed.—N. Y. Tribune. gets to ths it where has to is- the dead* xtracts of opium under the skin in order to gut rest and sleep, the grave is not far distant The time to Uke care of health Is before it is utterly and irretrievably gone. The man who works on and on, utterly heedless of health and too busy to occasionally take a little necessary medicine, is • " committing suicide as surely as if he turned a pistol on his heart. Such a man dies by little degrees First a little indigestion and a little neglect. Then loss of appetite. The bowels get clogged and the blood receives noisons instead of healthy nutriment Ola, inert tissues in flesh, muscle, nerve and brain are not re­ placed by new The whole body gets stale. The very sleeping room of a man in this condition is filled in the morning with un­ wholesome odors as if it had been occupied by a decomposing corpse. It has been oc­ cupied bv a man half dead The poisoned brain refuses to sleep and hates to work Then comes the resort to the hypodermic injection of morphine and—speedy death. All this may be prevented by the use of Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. It corrects all disorders of the digestion, makes assimilation perfect, fills the blood with the vital elements that make new tis* sue, builds healthy flesh, firm muscles, strong nerves and active brain cells. It drives out impurities and disease Thou­ sands of men in all walks of life have testi­ fied to its wonderful merits It's an insult to your intelligence for a dealer to attempt to palm off upon you a rubsiittttf for this world famed medicine. You know what you want. If« his buaincMi to ■/ i Kiver Fame. Practice, in all State and Federal Caorta Orricx in B ank B liloimu . The death of ('apt. “Tom” lanitber« WILLARD CRAWFORD, "Old Piiahkiinaha,” aa he liked to be called, ufter one of bi« early friends, ATTORN EY- ATLAW. a Choctaw chief removes the last an«mt captains and «doses tlx* final Orrica at R bsidixcb T hird S t . N obtm . ¡»age in that ¡»art of the history of Notary Public. the suut liwesL kh . vs Harper’s \\ cekly. It was 60 years agx», during tJie “fluMh” t imes of river IMxita, tihat Ca.pt. HENRY L. BENSON, Leather« went into the stcainlMiat busi­ Atto rney-at-Law. ness t.lie era of big and fa**i steamers a.n«l of gay life on the river, and Ute GRANTS PASS, OR. «•ra, also, of river gamblers, and racMti, Ornes — Over the Bank. Practices in ail wrecks and explosions. Courts oi the State. From tJie very stjtrf lie wan “the big man” on t h«* river, the builder of Helen sieninhoatx. all mime»l Nateli»*/, Mini ARTHUR P. HARTH, u«di grander than its predeviwtirr. A firm believer tluit the M bsissippi river Doctor in Dental Surgery afforded (Iu* l»?Nt na*ans of trnicl and trans|M»rtnt.ion for th? entire “Valley,” Orriix ovxB th » B ank he Ktuck to his lamt, likt* “Jim Blud- Ortgan soe,” to the very end. It was a brave Grant’. I’a.a, fight, but very much like that the pluck) Texas hull ¡»ut up agidnat the first loriiinotiv? t.lint invaded the state. and ( apt. MiitlierH ran his Ismta agviinet ---- VIA THE ---- l lie railroads long after it van a forlorn hope an«l when it ineamt a steady I»**«, Sliiistii Rotate -»eason after w*aMm. lie gave tJie mil- — of the — '«»ails a great deal of trouble, fought wry proposit.ion for a brid,'*e over a Southern Pacific Company. nav igabh* st mini anil every other fran- "hiRr asked for by them, and sunk most Ex urrai Traimi lx.»vn Portland Dally »( his moiwy in th«' struggle. %> u H i T Anti so. when he was killed by n fl nu p s. lt . Portland xr. i ‘scorcher” t he other day there were 25 H U5« m LV. Urani» !’».. lv . I 7 HiTiagrMof palTGuu ers at the funeral, a m *r. H»n Fruì'co lt . | XiOOr.a. for every man who hod cvct Iwen in Al>ove trains stop at all stations be­ 'the river trail?” turiu'«! out to honor tween Portland and Baleni. Turner, him. « Marion, Jefferson, Albany, jny, Coti Cottage w Greys Halsey, Harris* Tangent, Shedds, THE GREAT BUSTARD. City, Eugsus, . burg, Junction ,, Brain, Oakland, and all stations frem lt H m B« wii Eitlnet in Englaud for More Roseburg to AnbUnd mchisive. EAST SOUTH Than Fifty Years. The great, bustard formerly haiintrj •d all the. level countie« of Eng'land, (ind was particularly common on Salue l-ury plain. From the reign of Henry . 111. repeated measures» were passed n order to protect it; and it in exj»r»*n- !y inclue miM M of the <1 isapjwarance of the buje tnrd arc, firstly, the sport they t»f- fonhtl, for they were hunted with greyhounds a* well uh «hot; M»<*<»udly, the in« r« iir--» in the amount of cultivated land. This largest of Eurojiean birds, weighing <»e much ns 30 ¡» ouik I h , could no longer find any sufficient support <»n the cl<»iely rropjied plain« of Eng land. THE MIKADO NO GOD TO HER. Kmpr*M <»f II»* • «llii<1 of llsr Own. Mf»<1 WIU Roseburg Mail Dally S .V' a m 12 25 r ■ 8 2n r m LV. Portland tv. Albany *r. Kowburg Ar. 4 IO».«. 12 ftll» ■ LT. LV. 1 7 »«.a. DINING CARS ON OGDEN ROUTE. Pullman Buffet Sleepers -- and — S econd C lass S leeping C ars Attach?«! to all tlnough trains West Side Divisisi between Porlludud Corv allu. 7 80 a ■ LT. Portland 12 15 r m at . Corrallli ar. | 5 ’M)». M. lt . | 1 he is distinctly «lull «nd h»*nvy, both physically an her superior intelligence and influence. To her in«»re than anyone else belongs the < redit f«»r th«’ extraordinarily rapid »«Ivanee of Japan in the ¡»ath of west­ ern civilization, and in her effort« in behalf of her pi< turvsquv country she Is greatly y asslAted assisted I by the advke of Em press Frederick of Germany, with •egnlar weekly cor- responden?? Ind« «»1 many <»f th? new departures in Jnpa ■ ? life <»f the pres- •nt »lay may b»* ti •rd to the rcconi-. ifKii» 1st ions of the eldest and by far tine most areompliahcd «laughter of Queen Victoria. OLD NEWSPAPERS!