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. GRANTS PASS, JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER to, 1901.; No. 46 VOL. XVII. 50,000 Shares Ot $1 . per share, or $50,000 . of the Capital Stock of the Oregon Nat ural Gas, Oil & Alining Company, is now offered for sale to the general public for 10 cts, on the Dollar or 10 cts. a Share. This money will be used in drilling an Oil well on lands that are controlled by this company, which is in the center of the Oil District known as the North Grants Pass Oil district. This company has contracts on the following well known ranches in this District. They have all signed a card similar to this, Mrs Mary I Jordon, James Deveny, G M Savage, J J Fryer, John Deveny, B B Ochiltree, W J Savage, Mrs Jessie Deveny, BBOcheltree, Dr V H Flanagan, W M Bishop, J G Dotson, . J S Harvey, J N Carter, The above ranches embrace .several thousand acres of land of the best indications for OiL.that our scents could find on the Pacific Coast and thev have been from Washington to Mexico. You know that if Oil. Natural Gas or Artesian Water is found in Josephine county it will more than double the value of all property and for that purpose alone you can encourage the prospecting for Oil, or Artesian Water by taking a few shares of stock. Cut this out and send it, with $2.50 to Scott Griffln. Oregon Nature.! Gas, Oil and Mining Company. To Scott Griffin, Secretary, Grants Pass, Oregon. Vnrlnced nlease find the sum of $2.$o to secure option on looshares of stock in the Oregon Natural Gas, Oil and Mining Company, of Grants Pass, Oregon, of the par value of $i per share, I to have the option of paying 35 cents a share on or before you begin dtillitig; or 50 cents a share on or before 500 feet depth has been reached; or thereafter $1 par value until a well is completed to the depth of 1000 feet; the amount paid herein is to be credited on the stocks accepted. It is expressly understood that you are to commence drilling on or be fore six months from date or refund to me the amount piid. Please forward receipt for amount en closed. Dated this 190 Name of Sender P. O. Address ..day of A Gain ot 240 to 1. Th following tahle eihihits the in treaee in the market value I the oil locks of ten different companies: Price of Stock Before drilling ..$ M .. 1.00 .. I to 50 .. 20 .. 3 00 3S ! .. 100 Alter drilling I New York Oil Co..... Union Oil Co. Kern Oil Co., San Joaupuu.. Peorles Hanford Thirty 'Hire Oil Co ,. Sterling Oil Co ,. . .. Taent Kieht Oil Co., Kern River, $ 200.00 1501.00 37 60 10 (X) 8.02 moo 13 60 3 40 2 15 20 00 8.00 1U26.17 Each of these companie was organ aed lea than two year ago. $8. 00 tnvested in these ten companies would have realiieil a net sum ol 15:. 17, gain of over 240 to 1. Buy tocss in the Oregon Natural lias. Out and Mining Company at 10 cent hare for $1.00 ahares, uon a.sessabli tock. Buy before they drill. For further information call on SCOTT GRIFFIN, Secretary, The Natural Gas, Oil; Mining Company. Grants Pass, Ore. R. R. E. SMITH, PHYSICIAN and SURGEON Office, Room 2 over Tost Office. Residence Booth House, 7lh and A. GRANTS PASS, - OUEOON. DR. CLIVE MAJOR, General Practitioner of MlOICINE AMD 8UKOEBV. Office iu Williams Block C. HOUGH, ATTORN KY-ATLAW, Practice! in all State and Federal Courts Office over Firet National Bank. Grants Pads, - - Obegon. JJ C. PERKINS, U. 8. DEPUTY . . MINERAL SURVEYOR, (JKANTS PA8B, Oksoon Willis Kramer MANIFACTI'REH OF Myrtle Creek Extra Family Floui And Everything that goes with First Class Milling. For sale by Ciiii.es, Delematkr, Wadb and Cornku.. Call (or It; same price as other brands QEORGE II. BINNS, ASSAYliR, OmceopiKMite Hotel Josephine (Jhahts Pass, ' Okkion. N. E. McGREW, PIONEER TRUCK and DELIVERY Furniture and Piano Moving. GRANTS PASS, OREGON. The popular barber chop Get your tonsorial work done at IRA TOMPKINS Ou Sixth Street Three chairs Hath room in connection II. II. BARTON, WATCHMAKER and JEWELER. Full assortment of Watches, Clucks, Pib rerwear and Jewelry. A Cieod Assortment of Bracelets and Heart Itanglus, Clement' Drug Store. J. M. CHILES GROCERIES HARDWARE TABLEWARE Fine Butter a Specialty FRONT and FOURTH STS. SWEETLAND & CO. FRESH and SALT MEATSGd" Tuom 21 D rSS' jlin si $r$&m& MARBLE AND GRANITE WORKS. J. B. PADHJCK, I'koi b. I am prepared to furnish anything in of MARBLE or GRANITE. Nearly thirty years of experience in that I can fill your orders in the very Can furnish work in Pcotch, Swede Marble. Front Street Neil lo Greene' Gur.sliop. rue GEMPMOPIHl&PJE Prices 5 to 150 ijjlil COLUMBIA PHONOGRAPH COMPANY 125 Geary Street, SAN fRANCISCO, CAL. FIRST NATIONAL 33 .A. IK op SOUTHERN OREGON. Capital Stock, - - $50,000. Receive droosits subject to check or on certificate parable on demand. Sell suzht draft on flew Tork, San Fran cisco, and Portland. Telegraphic transfer told on all point In the United States. Special Attention given to Collections and general busineae of our customers. Collections made throughout Southern Oregon, and on all acoesaibla points. R. A. BOOTH, President. J. C. CAMPBELL, Vic President. II. L.GILKEY, Cashier. Grants Pass Banking and Trust Go. CAPITAL STOCK $50,000. Transacts a general Banking business. Receives deposits subject to check or on demand certificates. Our customers are assured of courteous treatment and eveiy consideration con sistent with sound banking principles. J. Frank Watson, Pres. Ecus Pollock, Vice-Pres. L. L. Jkwei.l, Cashier. WHAT SHALL WE HAVE FOR DESSERTT Ihia question arise in the family very day. Let us answer it to-day. Trv Jell-O, a delicious and healthful dessert. Prepared in two minules. No boiling 1 no baking 1 simply add boiling water and set to cool. Flavors: Lem on, Orange, Rasberry and Strawberry. Met a package at your giocera to day 10 cts. County Treasurer' Notice, Notice ia hereby given that there are funds in the county treasuiy, for the re' deroptiou of the following warrants, pro tested to April 7th, 1X113. Iuterest on same will cease from this date, Heplera ber 11th. 1P01: Nua. 3 411 00 10 12 210 m Nua. Nos. 35 S 77 91 202 152 ' 40 3-9 1U0 15S 237 238 31 245 J. T. Taylui, . County Treasurer. NOriCE TO CONTRIBUTE. To.Arche L. I.ee Lewis: Notice is hereby given by the under signed, your co-owners in the placer minimi claim situated on Kogue river, in Josephine Co'inty and known as the "Horseshoe" mining claim, located ty Charles II. Kwing, .May 21, 18DG, the notice of which is rec rlud at page 410 Vol. U, of the Miscellaneous Mining Records of Joeeuliine County, Oreiron that unless you contribute and pay to aid uiidersluned co-owners wittiin ninety day from the data of the first publication of this notice, the sum of Seventy live Dollars, ($75 00) the aam being your proportion of the cost ol anR'uri!' tt&or dono nn said claim in order to protect the title thereto during the years 18:, lttOD, HIOJ, your one-fourth intcrrst tlieiein will be lurleiled to your co-owners. W. E. pECKweH, E, U. Francis. S.pt. 2H, 1901. NOTICE OK INTENTION TO WITH OKA W INSURANCE DEPOSIT, In accordance with the requirements of the laws ol the Stale of Orenon, rela live to insurance companies, notice is hereby given that The Lancashire Insurance Company of Manchester, England, desiring tt cease doin business within the Btatt ol Oregon, intends to withdraw its de- posit w ith the Treasurer of said State and will, if no claim ihall be filed with the Insurance Commissioner within si months from the 2.'ul day of July, l'.rOI withdraw its druosit from the State Treasurer. Tiik Lascabiii K Insikanci ConrAxr . ltV M ANM & Vi IWON Managers for Hie i'arilic Coast D.ileil at Ssn Fraucisco, this 15lli. day ol July, 1SKH. the line ol Cemetery work In any kin the Marble business warrant my saying best manner. or American Granite or any kind o I. B. rAUDOCK, ENTERTAINS EVERYBODY ( EVERYWHERE, Latest NEW PROCESS Records SEND FOR CATALOGUE 36 PACIFIC COAST NEWS. ITEMS OF INTEREST PICKED FROM THE WEEK'S DISPATCHES. KlllrxJ ami Kftten hy m Grimly I.In ( Clipper Ship llvtweea Vancouver aatl Urarpool Leader of th "Home' Colo a j of Anarch Ut ArreaUd. Fresno, Col., is to have an electrio railway system 23 miles long. A uew schema for supplying cheap labor to the Klondike i being carried ont in Vancouver, II. O. Some huu dreda of Japanese contract laborers will go north and work iu the niiues of tho Yukon for wages of about $1 a day. Mrs. J. A. Slater, residing at 269 North Second street, Los Angeles, whtlo eating mussels found a enbstuueo coutninod In the bivalve of unusual appearanoe. It proved to be a b'.ack pearl, estimated by local jewelers to bo worth $150. A new line of railroad is projected from Bukerstiold, Col., to Port Harford. The road, which will comprise about 140 miles of track, ia intended as au outlet for the oil and grain ot tho lower oau Joaquin stctiou. Tho Pacific Coast Oil compauy has in contemplation tho building of a pipo ue between the Kern river oil Hold ami Point Richmond. ' Kuarly $1,000,000 will be expended ou the work and thou sands of uieu will bo employed. A new line of sailing vessels is to be put ou between Vancouver, B. O., and Liverpool, England. It is Intended to put ou. fonr clipper ships at first aud others will theu he built in aucouver, They will all be steel ships, and ns largo capital is available fur the venture it is expected that it will boa big success. General cargoes of cannery supplies. ment .nnd other products will bo brought out hero mid return cargoes ill bo of euliuou uud lumber. At a special term of tho United States district court ut Unaluskn, Fred Ilundy was found guilty of murderiug, ou Uuimak island, last Jund, Con and Floceuco Sullivnu, brother and sister, of liutte, Mont., aud It. J. Hooney ot Seattle. Handy was sentenced to be hanged at Nome Duo. 6. The first telegraphic message, which was one of congratulation, over the uew lino to the Klondike, was sent by Gover nor lions of the Klondiko, while at aucouver, 13. O., to his legal repi-own- tative at Dawson. Tho line, which is 200 mil. H long, touches at Atlin, White Horse, Dawson and Fort Simp son, aud connects at tho Alaskan bound ary with the projected American gov eminent Hue from St. Michael. Two men journeying dowu the Col ombia river iu a skill recently went over tho Rocky rapids near Meyers Fulls, about five miles south of Kettlo Falls. About half a milo below th rnpida was found the bout, iu which wore the luou a huts and coats. Iu the pockets of ouo of the coats were found letters indicating that one man's uaiiio was Svlby A. Louuuburg ot Spokane. The examination of Dr. O. L. Wood- worth before Judgo R. A. Hall, ut Long Beach, Cal., for tho theft of deeds to John Kompley's farm In Iowa resulted in his beinir held in $10,000 ball. Mrs. Wonder, Kouipley' dnughtur, turned state's evidence, and confessed to the plot to rob her father. Her shuro was to be one-ninth of the $JD,000 w hich was paid for tho property. Tho woman's husbuud aud Cvo children rcsido ut Staples, Minn., but sho has bucu at Long Reach with her parents since March 2(1. Tho steamship Oregon, after an event ful voyage from Nome, which port she left Sept. S, arrived at Seattlo with 500 pusseugera aud $750,000 In treasure. Three day out she rau luto a ternflo gale, and hur rudder and rudder-post were curried away. For teu days, Iw foro the rudder could bo fixed, the Oro gou flouuderod in the trough of the sea at tho mercy of tho gulu. The steam ship Kmprcs of China, on her way out, truualcrrcd a supply of provisions to tho Oregon. Orlando Stevens of Snn Joso and Colonel Cot fill of Oakland, Cal., have gone to New York to hasten tho in aim fucturo of automobile which have been ordered by a company which they repre sent. Their order includes teu passen ger basses, ouo largo touring machine, iz dos-a-dos and six parcel delivery wagons. Passenger routes will boostub llshod between Suu Joge, Campbell and Lo Gatos, Sun Joso and baratoga, ami Ban Jose and Alvlso immediately upou the arrival of tho machines. The $100,000 endowment fund for the university of Southern California, to which fund Mrs. Anna Hough, a sister of thelate Jny Gould, iibs.-ribed $':6,000, subject to the condition that the uul versity authorities rali tho tnlaneq by Nov. 1, is Dow complete. Mrs. HutiKU ha further promised to give $10, OA) toward a seooud $100,000, subject to similar oouditioua as the first. Tin sum, tt isoxiiected, will be raised withm the next few month. I" cannot live without you," declared Anson Goodman as he placed u revolver to his temple and pulled the trigger. He fell dead at tho feet of his sweet heart, Ella Shaw, who had just told him that she no longer lov d him and could not become his wife. The bhaw aud Goodman families live 111 Umutilia county, Oregon, IS mile southwest of Walla Walla. A few weeks ago Good man aaiu or uiu something tuut dis pleased HU Shaw, aud after that she treated him ra'her coolly. The break finally came wheu ho was Informed that she no longer loved him. At Eureka, Cal., the jury Iu the case Of Albert liiancbain, a "squaw man. who 1 charged with the killiug of La goon Charlie, a chief of the Tr.nidul Indians, ou Jan. IV, wo dlnchargod. Tbe jury remained out all ulglit with out reachiu au agreement. This 1 Illanchaiu' second trial. , , Many physician are now prescribing Kodol Dytprpsia Cure regularly bavi s found tint it is the best prescription they cin write because it is the one prei a a- tloo nhich contaiua th eleineoU nncet ary tid ,t not only a ima kin la of fxiJ but all kinds and it therefore curt indigestion and dyspepsia no n.aler hat it cause, fir. Krrmer. Maiarl Maasi knpur Blood. Grore's TasUslt Chill Tonic ctfrt Mslsri. 60c At a bum meeting of oitiaons in Ex- Ur, six miles from Visalla, Cal., Editor T. W. Baker of The Penny Pros was denounced for having sympathy with anarchists. Thecitizeuaof Exeter woro offended with Bokor, it la said, bcoansa ho printed nothtug about the assassina tion of President MoKiuley. A weather observatory, more than 60 foet iu height, for observation purposes, will soon be constructed at Point Reyes, Cal. The observatory will bo placed ou tho eztroino edge of the seaward ter- miuutlou of the bluff above tho light, and will command the water for a aweep ot 800 degrees. There was a shootlug aflrny between strikers aud special policemen, in which many allots were fired, aud several men more or less seriously wounded, iu Kearny street, between Geary and Post, San Frauoisco. Tho names of the in jured arc: H. F. Beehler, speciul police man, shot in lower left leg; Walter Miller, striking teamster, shot ia lnngs; George Woisel, drug clerk, shot in right knee; Eddie Fuller, messenger boy, shot iu left calf; James Boyuc, badly beaten and hit with rocks. Four of the striker were arrested. George Suesser, who shot aud killed Sheriff Farley of Monterey oouuty at Salinas, Cal, ou tho evening ol bept. IS, 1SH9, was fouud guilty of murder iu the liist deegreo. Tho deatlf sentence will bo passed npon him ou Oct. 11. This was buesser's second trial. Flunk Krdinau was arrested at Sua Francisco on the charge of stealing brass boxes from Southern Pacific locomotive in tho roundhouse at Sixteenth street. Ho was taken to Sacramento and there lodged iu jail, as a prior warrant was out ut that city for the arrest of Erdmau ou a charge of grand larceny. It t said that withiu tho lust 13 years Erdmau has stolen lurge (luautities of pig tiu and brass from tho boutucru i'uemu com pany. Orange-growers iu Arizona aro milk ing nu experiment in their orchards, which consists in tho covering ot each tree with a canvas tuut. This scheme, it is believed, will protect tho fruit against tho extreme heat of tho midday summer suu nnd agaiust frost. . Tho cost will be about $000 per acre. Threo of tho leaders of tho "Homo" oolony of anarchists, near Tucoiua were arrested ou a chnrgo of sending ol'sccuo literature through tho. mails, The basis of this oharge is a newspaper called Discontent, issued by tho colouy, This publicatiou hus contained numer ous uitioles defending both free love and anarchy us practiced ut tho "Homo" colony. Tho men arrested uro Cliurlo Govun aud James Lai kens, contributors to Discontent, nnd James W. Adams, a printer employed ou tho pajior. An in dictment was ulso found against John Moriuig ot Bostou, another contributor to Discontent. Charles M. Hays, who has for soma time been president of tho Southern Pa cific company, announced that his com uectloil with the company would ceaso ou tho 1st of October. E. II. llarnmall is to bo tho next president of tho South' era Pacific company. Ho will reside iu Now York, but will select uu ablo rail road man to go loSuu Francisco aud fill the positiou of assistant to the president, Edward 1). Stanton, who lived with his biido of onu month ut Sixth street. Sail Francisco, was shot and killed by Jiunes w. Duuphy ou tho sldo walk iu front uf l-H Miuuu street. The murder wiib admittedly premeditated by Duuphy, bvciuse, ha says, Stanton be trayed his Id year-old sister. Stanton was a member of Company L, i'nsl California regiment, and since his re turn from tho Philippines lived nt Vul lejo, where ho made thcaciruuiiitutiou of Miss Duuphy. A charge of murder was booked ngaiimt Duuphy. Daniel Rice, a mining man and hun ter of K.islo, In tho Kooteiiuy country, was killed und eaten by a grizzly beur early this week while hunting near Aiunworth, II. C. His body uud sur rounding brush wore covered with blood. Rice's skull wus fractured, hot It anus Were broken mid his face and brcoot hud been eaten uway by the bear. Ouo fiot was almost completely severed uud his coat und cartridge case wore In tatters. Sir William Ward has been appointed British consul general ut San Fiuncl:o In place of tho lato W. C. Piokcrsill. Thu uew appointee is ut present consul general ut Hamburg, Germany, and ho been 40 years iu the service. A cat b longing to Mrs, MoUoruia.nk, who resides ut the Corner of Seventh ami Keyes streets, Sail Joso, gave birth to tlvo kiltcns recently. I he cut carried In r kittens off to tint bain uud placed th' iu ill a hen's nest, thu sitting beu having Ueii frightcnod awuy by tho feline intruder. The eggs wero almost ready to hatch, and thu luut from tho bodies of thu kittens was better than au incubator, tor seven littlo clin ks broke th'irhheils a.i I Micie I lite nest witn tiie kiliens. 1 ue old cut (slid no att. it lion to iur curious l.muly and thu chicken were found nef.t.ed among thu kittens. l'tud Lai ouo, u wining uuui wul known In Vancouv. r, II. C, was found, i.i an emaciated condition, by souii WullTsolm bay logger und brought into- camp, lie hud, while lost IU the woods, sull'-red from tliu pangs of hunger for 40 days, uud had sub. Mod ou berries and bulk just to keep In in aiivu. After lij days of wandering Lurono caught a porcupiue.and for tour day tie lived ou the raw meat, which undoub edly saved his life. I.arouu ubout two months ago weighed 210 pouuds, but wheu rescued he weighed buruly 1 10. A fire wus started by a curtain being ignited by a pit lump in the Intension mines near Ladytiuitti, B. C, and 15 muu who entered tliu luinuto light tud flames perished. James IJiiiismuIr, the pieiuier, president or the Wellington t-o.il emu-, jsiny, which works the minis, turned bis back upou I he reception to thu Duke and Duchess of York at Victoria uud burned to Ext. nsloii. Great destruc tion of smp-rtT is feared. Henry Ilraydon, Harris. N. ('., sayi ' I look medicine 20 years for astlin but una little of One Miuute Cough Cure did me more good Ihsii any thing wise during that tiuir. llest Cough Cure. Ir Kreuier. , 'l)o ,'t wa t until you become chronical W coiistinsteil but tali e I e Will's Little Early risers now and then. They ill kep y ur liver an I bowel in good ol der. Easy to Uke. Hafe pill. Dr. W. I. Krmr. . NEWS OF TIIE WORLD. HAPPENINGS OF THE PAST FEW DAYS FROM ALL QUARTERS. 1'IU of the tt FrvsMrnt MrKlnley. Lrs Contribution to the "Con tele nc o Fund" Government HtMJOveni Largo Aniouut of KaibsKled Mouey. Iu the naval court of Inquiry Mr. Rayner succeeded, as chief counsel for Admiral Schley, Judge Wilson, who diod suddenly last week. At the Crystal Palace, Loudon, Arthur A. Chase out the world' cycliug record, covering SO mile lu 77 miuute 44 sec onds. At the end of the sixth mile lie was 10 8-5 soconda inside the record, and from that point he put all records iu the ahado. The marriage of Mnjor-Oonoral II. O. Cor bin, adjutant-general of tho army, aud Miss Edytho fatten will take placo lu Washington city at the rosldenco of tha brido ou the 6th of Novotnber. The sum of $'.1)0,000 lu cash, and real estate- valued at many thousands of dob lare, held by relatives of former Cnptalu Oherliu M. Carter, have been aoized by the government. Securities, worth oy. erul hundred thousand of dollars, dis covered hidden lu Chicago, bavo also been confiscated. Cnptalu Carter, while au engineer (illlccr iu ohargo of the river and harbor improvements at Savnnuuli, Ga., embcszled $1,800,000. Tho depart ment of justice is not certain that it will recover the entire amount embezzled, but It ho clews which may establish where tho money was placed before do- toot lou came. Tho will of the late President MoKIn ley was tiled for probate at Cautou, O. Secretary George IS. Cortolyou and ib limit K. Day were appointed a admits istr.itors. Tho entire piopurty of the luto nresident is beoueathed to his widow, with tho exception of au annuity of $1,000 to Mr. McKinley' mother. It said that the Mckiuliy estuto will total $I1',000 to $'j.0,000. O. W. Rom, promiir of the province of Ontario, has been absent two mouths iu England, uhd baa concluded urruitgo- nieuts for a scheme of assisted Immigra tion. The plan will, it ia understood, coino luto etVect next spring, and it will first be tried with farm laborers, who ruo scurco iu tho province. They will contract to remain lu the province aud pay back their passago money within a upectlled time, llio province will pay the shipping compauy. Spain, Bcoording to tha New York World, is at present placing extousivo contracts for railroad material aud ma chinery in the United Stutes, About 1,000 curs have been ordered fiout uu American car and foundry company. which are to be used by thu Coinpaiua del Norte, the principal Spanish trunk line, and the llilbao-bautnnder railroad. Tho government gun factory is to be equipped largely with Yiinkeo machines. tools, etc. Largo electrical order are ulso being placed In this country. Thu Duke and Duchess ot Cornwall wero entertained nt Culgary by Indians, cowboy uud mounted polioo, who plo tnreil northwestern frontier life before them with nil possible dash uud color. They count tins ouo of tho most Inter, euting sights of their Cuuudinu tour. Tho athlete of Yulo and Harvard met j-epieseiitallves of Oxford nnd Cambridge universities nt ltorkoley Oval, New York, iu track And Held events. Tim llaivaid una Xulo men defeat' d tltcir English oppoueut by u score of $ points to U. Tho annual inspection tour ot thu board of tnniingors of the national sol diers' homes was completed nt Mil waukee General Mc.Mkhoti said: "The board has decided lo maintain canteens nt all 111 homes ior the good uud sulll eieiit rctuou that cxs'ib ucu hus taught u that It is lienor for thu vuleruu mid for tliu people In the community iu which thu homes uru located. The can teens are properly conducted ut these soldiers' homes, and tho Result Is that thu veterans do not squander their money lu cheap saloons, uor do they drink too much." A Cuuiou dispatoh aays that Guard Di prend, stationed in tne rear of the vault in which the br.dy of tliu latu Presi dent McKinley lies, was attacked by a mail uud cut slightly. Guard Depruiid saw a man behind a treu ubout 7: lo p. 111. lie requested tliu man to halt, hut the fellow dodged from his first position to a second Iroe about ten feet nearer tho ktuurd. Sentinel Depreud theu raised his gnu und tired, Just us ho did this a tennud man, masked, who had stealthily approached, knocked thu gun from Its (viiii. At thu same time thu soldier wus struck a heavy blow uu tho b.u k, and wus as-aulu d with some sharp Inslru ment. lie was knocked luto a small ra Tine lit the vanlt. Guard Depreud says the man l elnud tliu lieu carried u pack are of white and seine Instrument in his ha:i I w.ilcli show.) 1 a glint. Tuo men escaped despite thu prompt rush of the oilier of tliu day, and other soldiers to his assistance. Military men say they believe it was uu attempt to blow up the vault. Secretary (lag'i of the treasury du purtiiieut received by mail, as a contri bution to the "conscience fund," the sum of t'M'iO iu bills. This is probably tiio lurgest amount of cash ever sent through thu mall without registration. The communication cuulosud, apparently In the handwriting ot a feublu old man, explained that "duties weru not fully pisid us desired." Nu name was signed. The remuiiisof President Liucolu were removed and taken to what Is lutoildud shall be their Una) rusting place, a bed uf irou uud masonry, IS feut below thu buM uf the uliatt of the national Liu colu monument at Spriuglield, Ills. Iu tno presence; of a small asseiubiugo of ir.ru aud Women the Metallic casket was forced open, and to the surprise of all, th features, when tliey were ex posed, were as white us chalk. Ltkdie Can Wear Shoe One sun smaller after using Allen' Foot Eae, powder to b shaken luto the short. It make tight or new alio fceltaay; gives Iutlaut relief to corot and bunions, lt'a. the greatest comfort discovery of the age. Cuiea and pre vent awollsn feet, blisters, callous and sor spots. Allen' Foot Ease is a cer tain cur for sweating, but aching tnt. At all drugipst and shoe store, 2bt. Trial paikage Free by mail. Addreaa, Allan S. Olmsted, La Hoy, '. Y. Thomas' New Iron Ucil5- More Bed Lounges ropular Frices. Wall Papers In Immcnao Variety and Beautiful Colorings. Artistic Table Coverings 3oi up to $2.50 all tho between prices. CiirpetH From tho very best looms iu tho world. Quality and Tri ces to suit tho ; most exacting and economical. Furniture lleadpapfGPS. HOUSE FURN'ISHINGS, Furnlluro Carpets MattiiiKS LaeeCurtaius Matressns Pillows l.ipeolillins 1IO SIXTH STREEY IN THG PHILIPPINES. ' Ninth Infuuti'V Hurrlsil by FI1IiIbos null 4 Slain. Manila, e'ept, Hi), A disastrous fight betwoeu Uulteil States troops and Insur gent occurred yesterday lu tho islnud of Kumar, near Ilalunglga, A largo body of lusnrgenta attacked Company O, Ninth infantry, only 21 member of tho oompauy escaping. All thu other nr reported to have been killed. The com pany was ut breuklust when attacked aud mado a determined resistance, but tho overwhelming number of thu liisur gents oouiDolled them to retreat. Of the survivors, w ho have arrived at liasey 11 aro wouud, Acoordlng to tho latest returns the strength of the company wa 74. The survivors inoludo Captain Thomas V. Counull, First Lieutenant L heard A. llumpus and Dr. U. B. Luis wold, surgeon. Cnptalu Ldwlu liook miller of tho Ninth infantry reports that General Hughes Is assembling a force to attack tha insurgents. The iiisurgeutH captured ull the stoles uud ammunition ot tho company and ull tho rillea ox oept Captain Lawrence J, Ileuru ot thu Twenty-first infantry reports a bovoio eiigiigeuiuut with Insurgents near Can dehiria, thu Americans losing unu lulled nnd two wounded. The liisiirguut loss bus not been ascertained. Tliu Ameri cans captured UU.OOO ruuu.ls of rieo uud sever il rounds of umiiiuuiliou. SOUTH AFItlCAN WAft A force of l.fioi) llixrs, commanded by Ueii. ral llotlui, iiiiulauu attack which lasted all day, tiept. W, ou Fort Ituliu, ou the border ot Zululuiid. Thu Hours weru repulsed with a loss of 200 killed and inoru than 8oh) wero wounded or captured. The Lritish uro sold to huvo lust Hi) men. A pamphlet has been published nt I'retoiia under Lord Kitchener's author ity containing notice of tliu i in.inoiit banishment uf several liner 1 ii'U rs c.ie tured si lieu H pt. 1.1, ..nd also a long letter from Kilclieuur replying to a com munication from Acting l're.,idut ttchalk-liurgcr, received tiept. IS. iji.l'd Kitchener proluls- s to sfiidftlio Sell. ilk. llurgur lelt'T to tho Imis rlal gov. i n ment, which, ho s.iys, reciprocate thu floer statemaii's d.iro for peace. Lord Kitchener thi'ii proceeds to explain that the responsibility for the war rests with the burgheis, "whoso Invasion of un protected lalll.-ll territory opened th'i saddest iae in hotitii Afiieau lust-ay," He iUote4 a lull ur from a men. ber ot the vo.k-ruud to a lueiuber of too C.u Colony usKeiiibly decl.ir.ii'f that "till tune is ripu to drive the Hi Ll-il from houih Afuca," lu cuncaiiou Lud Kit. hem r declare that, having iiuiivaud the two n i.ublh 1 to tlreat l.rit.iin, In) cannot lire tic f it'll wit 1 tti i p . ip.o wh.i have h1,owu loyalty to tho new re;;,iue. A proclumatloii lias be. d I sued pro viding lor the sale of tliu piojici ties of thu bntathci still In th" It. 1. 1, in accord ance w ith the t rills of Lord i'iilcheuvr's previous pro' l.iiiiL.kioii. A L'lidou .li-i'.io li sav that perhaps one of thu l -s i.s liiat the lhitisli, who are so freipi. ut:y r. 'polled as Is.-.n in ....Southern Oregon Htrong Academic course, rrofesnlonol training ol the highest excellence1. Well equipped labora tories, t irst class tiaiu- lug depa r t in en t. He mand lor trained teach ers exceeds the supply. (iradiiaUs easily tecum good positions. Beautiful location . Most delightful climate ou the coast. Expenses (120 to (led per year. Write (or catalogue. p7 ;'' , I, W. M. New Colorings, New Ef fects, New Trices. Watl'" Taper Crockery lilasswar Lamps Timviuo (;riinlieware vYoo.li'iiwaxe 'fools Mirrors pursuit, fail tj ovcrialiO the Loer in tioutli At'riia, is fouud ill n remarkable iirmj- order recently is.-.ued by Lord Kltclicm r, as follows: "The coin uuiiider iti chief in tioulii Africa dosiic.l t ) im press oilleei'S ill cnmuiaud of mobile columns tnat the ol j.'i't of such column is uiobilliy, and that, ho has learned that such forces carry with them t'uruituro, Kltcbeii raiiircs, piancM and harmoniums, which nullity that object. The so orti cUs imiut be hauded over to thu nearest store." Lord Kitchener reports that id Doers wero killed, Id wounded uud ooU taken prisoners and that 41 surrendered be tween Sept. 10 uud Sept. 23. Tho ollleiul return just Issued show that tho South African cencoiuratiou camps in August contained 1117,811) per sons. Tho deaths numbered il.lilo, of which number l,b,1 wero childreu. WASHINGTON NOTE3- ' Secretary Cort dyou ntiuounced that frosident Koo.-.evelt would uot hold any oliieial fniictions ut tljii White) Houso until thu cllleud receptiou ou Huvr Year's duy. Alt. r tli at dam they will take p'.ace an oriuei'iy. Formal calls of orgauixatloiis and olheials 111 a body will bu deferred until alter 80 duy a Ireiu tho date of tho luto president's death. John Unorj'O Nionlay, private leora tary to 1'iesiueiit Lincoln, and w idely known us the author of several Isjukaou tho hfu of thu greut war president, died ut his resldoiico at Washington, aged 70 years. A warm personal friend ship existed between 1'resldeiit Lincoln und Mr. Nlcolay. His work that lua attracted thu must attention Is the his tory of Lincoln, on which Mr. Nicolay oolluborutcd with Colonel John Hay, tha present secretary of statu, Oeorgo ll. Cortelyoii, secr.-tary of tho latu l'resi I. nt McKinley, wiil act lu the iii.ii capa ii v', at leust for thu present, to fiusident L.Mwovilc. William Loeb, Jr., was uppoiiiied ussisUut secretary. M, 1,-iK.i In. I N,.t al.l tloiuml.us. All linporUint wor!:, whiuh throw a fn .li Iii;lit ou the .b. cov. ry of America by Columbia', has be.u written by Henry Vigunud, first secretary of the United Mules einb assy tit Paris. In nil tut. rviuw wit h a com sjio.ulotit Vigutiud s.ud: " The present work ia intended to show that lor tin) last four canaries wo have beui ilmcivul by u fraud which hides lioui us tliu r.'td be;;iiiiiiugs of Columiiiis's irtijects, and I lint tho fa in, in document a. ribed to Toscaiielli, the famous l'l .rentine nsrotioinei, wero fabneatiil, 1 sebiu't ef. Kent rousoua for b. IiMIU'.; llial, Ti.-fauolll never mp.i.j the i. 'i.f uf HTl lo Km..; Alf. us ,.f l'..rtL,;.l uud never t,ac. d ti.e uart I .,-, d to i.'s .1 leull1!.: I,il.l npaiiedu. Coiuui- f undo I ou any poll pos.l.ve con nice of l.vudv Hi the WIS i, Itlll tlimati m i.i to r.l." N.'rris Siiv.-r, North Stra'f'T.I, N, II.: "1 purchased a bottle of One Minute C.ii.h Cine when sulferiug aith acouli doctois to'.d uiu as inciiriihle. One bot tle relieved m., tlie second a id third al most cued. Tu-.ljy I am a eil man." lr..V. P. Kreieer. State Kcrmal Scliool.... ASHI.ANL), OKKdON. 7"" i -' ; -i 1 1 - H i ''i-i- CLAYTON, Pres.