VOL. XX. GRANTS PASS. JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1904. No. 1. A HORSERADISH GROWER CLEAN UP BACK ALLEYS UNSU RVEYED ROADS 4444444444f4 . High Grade Piano Free To be Given to the Most Popular Young' Lady In Josephine County, Oregon. The decision will bo made by vote of the subscribers of the Rogce Riveh 'Courier Eacli subscriber may have a part in the choice. The following plan for decision has been adopted : An; young woman in Josephine coouty may be a candidate. The instrument may be for herself individually or she may be the representative of a church, society, or organization, and the piano may go to the church, society or organization which she represents. Every cent paid in to the Courier office on subscrip tion! will represent one vote, which may be cast for any one of the candidates, and the one having the most rites when the contest clows will be the winner. For instance, a new subscribei who pays (1.50 will bo entitled to l."0 votes for any one of the candi dates he prefers. Money paid on back or future subscriptions by those who are already taking the paper will entitle the one so paying to oue vote for each cent paid in. Voting con pons will be issued when the money is paid iu. There will also be found in each copy of the Conricr printed between April 1 and October 1 a coupon entitling the holdor to five votes. As a special induce ment to securing new subscriptions we will give an extra coupon - entitling the holdorto50 votes, to encli new subscriber paying cash. Tho votes are to bo deposited in a ballot box prepared for this purpose, which will ba located in the Courier office. In order to tend interest to the contest from the start we will offer these special prizes: - To the young lady receiving the largest vote when a total of 6000 votes shall have been cast, we will give free a fTi.OO Kodak. To the young lady first receiving a total of 5000 votes, we will give free a $17.60 Folding Pocket Kodak. Who Will Get the Piano? You Are to Decide. Contest Opens April 1 and Closes October 1, 1904. Rogue River Courier Grants Pass, Oreg'on. 1 lSss4sSTOMfil24S9mliis SEWING MACHINE FOR $1. (I.E. A. WADE I have Sewing Machines ranging in price from $1.00 TO $15.00 These machines are all in good running order and include the standard makes White, Singer, Domestic, Davis. I will sell them on trial. If you have anything to sell or want to bny any thing call on me. ::::::::: : IKE M. DAVIS SECOND-HAND South Sixth Street, DEALER Grants Psss, Oregon BUFFALO PITTS Double Gvlinder Steam Road Roller Makes Good Permanent Roads with Gravel or Rock. No road can be made lasting without Steam Road Rollers. Send for catalog. Buffalo Pitts Company, Portland, Oregon. DRY GOODS, UNDERWEAR, NOTIONS, Etc. Front Street, west Palace hotel GRANTS PASS, ORE. PRED'K D. STRICKER, M. D. HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. Masonic Temple, Rooms 2 & 4 Grants Pass, Phone 633 . Okkgoi. Shipped Four Tons of HorseRevd Ish to San Francisco. R. T. Blackwood, the Phoenix horse radish grower, reports to the Medford Mali that he has shipped this season nearly four tons of horseradish, to San Francisco, Portland and Seattle. Mr. Blackwood is making a crowning success of his venture in this line aud he is going to do better hereafter, as he has ordered a large grater and will from now on utilise the smaller roots which are too small to ship and are therefore a total waste. These be will grind and will supply the towns of the valley with the prepared artiole. Mr. B. has a lead pipe cinch, as it were, on this product in this locality as his seems to be the only land which ill successfully grow horseradish. There are but two other localities on the Pacifb coast which will grow a first class, marketable article. Oue of these is in Washington aud the other in Northern Oregon. ) Ca.ll For Republican County Convention. Grants Pass, Ore., March 21, 1904. Notice is hereby given that a regu larly called meeting of the Republican County Central Commito: held March l'.Uh, 1904, Saturday, April 2d, 1904. was fixed for the date on which to hold the Republican primaries iu the various precincts in Josephine Coun ty, and at 2 o'clock P. M. was rec ommended as tho hour of holding said primaries outside of Grouts Puss, aud 8 o'clock P. M. was set for the hour for holding the primaries iu the three Grants Pass precinct a. At said time the Republican County Convention was called to meet iu the county conrt house iu the city of Grouts Pass on Tuursdoy, April Tth, 1904 at 2 o'clock P. M. for the pur pose of nominating candidates for the various offices to be voteii for at the regular election to be hoH on Moudty, June Mil, 1904, to-wit: One representative. One sheriff. One clerk. One treasurer. Oue assessor. t One school superintendent. One couuty commissioner. One coroner. Also justices of the penoe and con stables for the various precincts. There will also be elected seven del egates to attend the Congressional con vention to be held tt Salem on April 18th, 1904, and seven delegates to at tend the state convention to be held at Portland on April 14th, 1904. Following is the apportionment of the number of delegates to tho county convention each precinct is entitled to, apportioned on the vote of the Hon. W. J. Furnish for governor at the lust election : Mayor Gllkey Give Soma Good Advice. The Necessity for Proper Grades and Surfaces. N Grouts Pass. S Gransl Pass . W Grauts Pas Sclnia Willitims Lulaiid Lucky Queen. Mt. Kouben Waldo ... Althouse Kerby ... Murphy . . 1111 C. E Call Met Wolf Croek Galice 2 W. H. Hampton, Chairman. Maybee, heoretary. Assuming there Is no method of reaching the eye or ear of the public so universally as through the medium of tbo press, I offer this as my only reason for writing this article. A servant of the public can accom plish but little for the benefit or wel fare of a community unless he has the morai and material support of Its citizens. Realizing that this tofcn Is no exception to the rule, and a large majority of our people would like to see better streets and sidewalks, cleaner alloys, back yards and gutters; safer bridges and fewer obstructions upon the walks, as woll as many Im provements that must necessarily come slower, we venture to offer a few suggestions. To accomplish all this it Is not necessary that you should wait till your attention has been called, by the officers, to your sldowallc out of repair, that your alley should becleaned, that you are allowing filth to aooumu ate on your premises, In the street or alley, to the Inconvenience of the public and a menace to the health of our citizens, but we should have self respect enough to keep our own prem ises iu such a shape there wonld be'no need of an officer notifying as to rem edy the evil or to invoke the law that his instructions be enforced. All these matters jnsi mentioned must be remedied at the expense of the prop erty holder or agent and there is no gaiu in waiting for an officer to take action, for in so doing the person is subject to a flue. A threat Is an un pleasant method of securing obed ience to a righteous law aud an officer should never be compelled to resort to such, except iu extreme cases. The ordinance .prohibiting stock from ruuning at large is looked upon with indifference by many but must be more carefully observed. If one permits his cow to run at large, why not allT Whore wonld it end? Sta bles adjoiuing the pnblio streets are a nuisance that should certainly be abated. In short,' if oach individual takes' it upon himself to see that as fur as he is able a bettor condition shall prevail, there would be but little dif ficulty Iu bringuig about a cleauor and better governed town, ouo to which we can invite the stranger with pride ins! end of an ajralogy for its appear ance. Trusting that we may have a united and harmonious action In this movement, I am your obedient servant, II. L. Gilkey, Mayor. Tragedy Averted. "Just in the nick of time onr little boy was saved," writes Mrs. W. Wutkins of Pleasant City,' Ohli, "Pneumonia had played sad havoc with him aud a terrible cough set iu besides. Doctors treated him, buA ho grew worse every day. At leugth we tried Dr. King's Mew Discovery for consumption, and our darling was saved. Everybody ought to know It's the only sure cure for coughs, colds aud all lung diseases. Guaranteed by National Drug Store and Grants Pass Pharmacy. Price 6O0 aud 11.00. Trial bottles free. County J) P. LOVE, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office in Williams Bros, block, over Grants Pass Grocer. Residence Phone 414. (iaASTS Pass, . . Oikun For Democratic Convention. At a meeting of the Democratic County Central Committee hold opon the call of the chairman, the Demo cratic County Convention for Joso phiuo County was called to meet at Grauts Pass, Oregon, on Suturday, April lrttli, 1904, at the hour of 1 o'clock P. M., at the conrt House for the purpose of nominating county offi cers to be elected at the ensuing elec tion, and for electing five dolegates to the Democratic State Convention to be held in Portland, April 18th, 1904. The committee deci led that the con vent on should bo composed of 45 niemtvrs based upon the vote cast for Geo. E. Chamberlain as governor in 1902, and under the apportionment each precinct wonld be entitled to one delegate at large and one delegate for every 25 votes or fraction of 15 or more thereof cast fur Governor Cham berlain as aforesaid. The numlier of delegates to which each precinct shall be entitled will be as follows: Preciuet. Votes Cast C. HOUGH, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, f. art ices in all State and Federal Courts Office over First National Bank, uaairrs Pass, Oixoost. SWEETLAND & CO. FRESH and SALT MEATSs- Puosi 21 Courier and Oregonian $2 a year N. E. McGREW, PIONEER TRUCK and DELIVERY Furniture and Piano Moving GRANTS A&, OREGON. The popular barber shop Get your tonsorial work done at IRA TOMPKINS On Sixth Street Three chairs Bath room ia connection w protection oy insoring your property with John Minor Booth, room 9, Masomc temple. The World's Fair Koule. Those anticipating an Eastern trip, or a visit to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St Louis, cannot afford to overlook the advantages offered by the Missouri Pacific Railway, whicl on account of its various rontes and gateways, has been appropriately named "The World's Fair Route." Passengers from the Northwest take the Missiourl Pacifio traiut from Duuver or Pueblo, with the choice of either going direct through Kansas City, or via Wichita, Fort Scott and Pleasant HilL Two trains daily from Denver and Pueblo to St. Louis without change, carrying all classes of modern equip- ment, including electric lighted ob servation parlor cafe dining cars. Ten daily trains between Kansas C'ty and 8L Louis. Write or call on W. C. McBrido, General Agent, 124 Third street, Portland, for detailed Information aud illustrated literature. No. North Grants Pass. . . 97 South " " 119 West ' "... . SO Kerby 47 Iceland itl Williams fill Merlin 2 Slate Creek 40 Murphy 44 Wolf Creek 20 Althouse . . fl Waldo , Galice Lucky Queen .... Mt Reuben Seluia 2i .11 . a 11 83 Dole, gates. S n 4 8 4 II 8 8 8 3 3 Total 45 It is recommended by the commit tee that primaries be held In their re sped ire pracincta on Saturday, April 9th, 1904, at 2 o'clock In the after noon of said day at the usual polling place where convenient. The chair man and secretary of the primary meeting are requested to certify to the election of delegates. Dated at Grants Pass, March 5, 1904. II. D. Norton, Chairman of Democratic County Cen tral Committee. But Rcmtdy for Coast IpatioA. "The finest remedy for constipe tion I ever nsed Is Chamberlain's .Stomach and Liver Tablets," says Mr. Eli Butler, of Frankville, N. Y. "They act gently and without any unpleasant effect, and leave the bowels in a perfectly natural condi tion. " gold by all druggists. In his ulntb annual report the com- tnlBaloner of public roads of New Jer sey says: The United States government ex perts say on the subject of uusurveyed roads: Many roads of this country were orig inally laid out without any attention to general topogrnpro, rennileaa of grades or direction. Most of them remain today wher they were originally located and whero untold labor, expense and energy hve been wasted In trying to haul over them. It Is a great error to continue to follow theas primitive paths with publio highways. The proper thing to do la to call In a good engineer, and havs the loca tion so changed as to throw the roads around the enda or along th aldea of the ateep hills and rldgos Instead ot continu ing to go over them. The question Is, Are we following the "primitive pathsT If we have not changed them we are certainly doing To Illustrate the enormous extra cost of hauling over such unsklllfully placed ronds and to get an Idea of the obstruc tion that these old highways plnce In the way of progress and prosperity one may observe the accompanying cut showing the consequences of tho bills of these unsurvcfed roads. It will be seen that what one horse can pull on a level requires two horses to draw when a hill rising two feet to n hundred Is reached, requires three horses to draw when a hill rising four feet to a hundred is reached, four horses when rise of six feet to hundred Is en countered and requires six horses to draw when a hill rising ten feet to a hundred stands In the road. The enor mous excess cost of hnuling on these roads over roads on a level Is therefore apparent Tho legal rate In many sec tions Is 3 to 4 per cent maximum, be yond which a grade Is not allowed to go. Grades of even this steepness arc tho exception, roads being kept to 1 or lMi per cent as far as possible Ily tho most ordinary surveying the ronds of any section outside ot mountain dis trict can be brought to reasonable grades. The government and all other authorities urge sections using these 'primitive paths" to correct them by proper surveying. General Roy Stone of the government service said several years ago ot what he called the "hill tux," "The people have paid this tax for a hundred years, and yet they wonder why they are poor." It Is apparent that It Is the duty of the thinking people ot this section to bring about a revolution Iu the systems of public highways ot the section here about without which we cannot expect Working Overtime. Eight hour laws are ignored by those tireless little workers Dr. King's New Life Pills. Millions are always at work, night aud day, cur ing indigestion, bilouanesa, constipa tion, sick headache and all stomach, liver and bowel troubles. Kasy, pleasant, safe sure. Only 25o at National Drug Store aud Grants Psas Pharmacy. Biuce the first of March colonists tickets have been sold Iron) Chicago to points on the Oregon lines at f-'IS. From Bt Louis, 8-11 ; fiom Ou.ih Kansas City and Missouri river points at -5 and from Soolx City, 127. Stop overs not to exceed 10 days at any one point are allowed between Portland and destination on Oregon lines. These rates will continue until April 80. R. K. Montgomery Is promineutly spoken of for the republican onniiua tion for one of the two representatives for Douglas county. It appears that the leading politicians of the county agree that this portion of the county is entitled to recognition In the coin log canijailgn, aud as Mr. Montgomery is well qualified for the position, It safe to assume that he will receive the nomination. This portion ot the county Las never yet had a candidate for any county office. Oleufale News K. Wallace St Sons' silver pUted and sterling silver ware suitable for wed ding presents at Letcher's. 4444444444444444444444444444 t vw. vu u-. v.i. U.VIUIUU ii The W. C. T. U. held thoir regular semi-monthly meeting Friday, March 35, at the home of Mrs. Lee Calvert. An enconragnlg interest in tho work was manifested aud two new members were enrolled and it was suggested we meet each week whon the weather becomes more favorable. MKt ehhiti yon rnoinn ohivux. great If Indeed but little progress. This Is of as great Importance as ever the matter of railroad development was. We have seen the terribly excessive cost of hauling luiiKMcd In this section by the bills which cngluccr have never been employed to go around. Now let us look for a moment at the matter of surf ii ces. A horse can pull 0,770 ponnds on level macadam rond, and It takes five borses to pull the same loud on tho sur face ot an ordinary dirt road anil ten borses to pull tho load In loose snnd or mud. In other words, It takes five and ten times the power and Investment In stock and therefore costs from five to ten times In this section to du tho same amount of hauling that Is done on the niacadum surfaces provided In many portions of the Vtilted 8tates Iu New Jersey, for liisttince. This is only con sldcrlng the matter of surfaces. Now put together the excess cost ot hauling on the public blghwnys on account of the hills and the surfaces, and the enor mity of this cost aud the drain npon the section are apparent. Apply the same principles, the sitina excess of cost, to railroad trunMirtatlon, and the enor mity ot the thing from an Industrial point of view Is seen. Tho combination ot a bud surface tip a steep hill such as we have In the hill regions furnishes tho nemo ot Industrial ferocity, being enough to totally prevent agrlculturu profits, which It does accomplish coin pletely In some districts. Ilnsluess is competitive, agrlculturu and country business as well as any cither. Tho products of these section are sold at the world's prices, and It Is plain that these sections cannot com pete In raising crops-cotton, corn, hay, grain, meat. In lumbering, milling, dnl rylng, etc. or In the offering of nttrne tlons to settlers with sections provider with Intelligent, modern road systems. EalarprUlasT lews Varasers. The farmers along a certain road in Scott county, la., finding that the ordl nary road tax was only sufficient to keep the mad In Its normally bad con dltlon, volunturlly entered Into an agreement to tax themselves sn amount that would tnske It possible to perms nently Improve the rood. Landowners were to pay 23 cents per sere for all the land within one mile of the rond, 1 cents for land within one or two Dill1 way and 10 cents for Isnd between two and three miles sway. This Is Stralghtforwsrd, self helpful American wny of Pes Hug with the problem. Proper Treatment of Piwumonis. Pneumonia is too dangerous a dis ease for anyone to attempt to iloct himself, although be may have the pror remedies at hand. A physi cian should always be culled. It should be borne in mind, however, that pneumonia always results from cold or from an attack of the grip, and that by giving Chauibeilain's Cough Remedy the threatened attack of pneumonia mar be warded off. This Dr. W. J. Smith, of Sanders, Ala., who is also a drngglst, says of it: "I have been selling Chamber lain's Cough Remedy and prescribing it in my practice for the pest six years." Bold by all druggists. I'ALL pPEg NEWS are you interested? Along with our superb line of wall papers aud for a limited time only we shall with every House order of Wall Paper give PASTE FREE OF CHARGE You know the trouble you have getting paste right well we have settled that trouble for you. When figuring on Wall Papers remem ber our prices are for the papers delivered in your home; this means a great saving to you in addition to our unrivaled paste offer. All Ready with BABY CARRIAGES and GO-CARTS. Dou't forget our Great Discount Sale on Lace Curtains. THE IIOUSEFUKNISIIER GRANTS PASS, OREGON THOMAS III Memoilam. Words cannot express our sorrow on learning of the death of Mrs. Alma Terr ill of Leuts, Oregon, a former resident of Grants Pass aud an earn est, active member and oflluer of our local onion. Wo extend our loving sympathy to tho bereaved parents, devoted husband aud four dear little children. May ho who rules the storms of life speak peace to their sorrowing hearts, is tho united prayer of the Womnn's Christian Temper ance Union. The Se-loon Devr. The bar of a saloon Is certainly a ar to that which is good. An ex change priuls the following charac terization : A bar to heaven, a door to hell Whoever named it named it wollj A bar to manliness and wealth, A door to want and brokuu health ; A bar to honor, pride, and fame, A door to sin and grief and stiame ; A bar to hopo, a bar to pruyur, A door to darknnss and despair; A bar to honored, useful lilo, A door to brawling, senseless-strife; A bar to all that's true and bruvo, A door to every drunkard's grave; A bar to joy that homo imparts, A door to tears and aching hearts, A bar to heaven, a door to hell Whoever named It, named It well. Mothors, Mrs. Schoff, preisdent, and the National W. C. T. U. have boeu and are endeavoring to bring to the United States Congress the opinions of the people at home npon this great home questiou concerning the iin- poiativo necessity of unseating Mr. Smoot. National Press W. O. T. U. tnflamatory Rheumatism Curd. William Shaffer, a brakeman of Denniaon, Ohio, was confined to bis bed for several weeks with inflam matory rheumatism. "I nsed many remedies," he says. "Finally I sent to McCaw's drug store for a bottle of Chamberlain's Pain Balm, at whicn time I was unable to use hand or foot, aud in one weeks' time was able to go to work as happy as a clam. " For sale by all rlrngglsts. DAVENPORT -CARTOONIST Will Talk e.nd Dreww Picture In Grants Pas April Sth. Menace of Mormonlem. Whatever may bo tho diversity of opinion among respectably good peo ple concoruliig the best ways and means with which to deal with some moral questions, there is practically nnaiilinltr (outaidn tho Mormou church) relative to polygamy Polygamy Is uumistnkahly at variance with the high principle of family life, therefore It teuds to undermine the foundations of state and nation, Many sins have beeu committed ouder the cover of religion, and oftentimes so adroitly that to touch them calls out the cry of fanaticism and religions persecution. Mouths ago when Ihu National W. C. T. U. resolved to do all in Its power to prevent Mr. Smoot from be lug received as a Uniteil States Sena tor, wo were told lucre couni no no discrimination on account of religions belief. Wo were, howover, well in formed in regard to tho requirement of the Mormon religion, and believed that tho teachings of the Mormon church were higher authority to tin Mormon than any stnte or national law. and that Mormon low would be observed by Mormons In duliiiiice o any other law. Tho testimony fur nlshed by President Smith ami other Mormons through the congressiona Investigation now going on couclu sively shows that the position taken l.v the National W. C. T. U. Ws warranted. Mr. Smoot umy be sent home as was Arlghaiu Kobrrts, but this will uoi i,-i i l.i the unestinu. Were tho Iu famous practice coiillued to Uta alnuethe case would not hi so serious. but the growth of Mormouism other stutes and the oVgreo of iu fluence already gained by the Mor mon church Is alarming. In view of all this it is apparent that the only sure way to secure permaueut relief i through an anti-polygamy aiuoudiueut to the constitution ol the Culled State. Tho General Olllcers of the National W. O. T. U., In accordance with the sentiment expressed at the National Couveutlou last November and the previous year, have resolved to Immediately and vigorously push this movnmeut, and we believe it will meet with a hearty response from the people, now that their consciences are touched and their interest fully aroused. Women' organizations, notably The Iuterdeuomiuatioual Council of Women. Mrs. Darwin R. James, president, Tho National Congress of Mr. Homer Davenport, whose fame world wide, is announced for lecture iu this city on April 6. In comparatively fuw years he has come to be recognized as the most original and forceful cartoonist in American i(iurnalisu), aud so grout Is the popu larity of his work that his original drawing are eugorly sought for by all sorts and conditions of people. At the height ot tho adverse criticism on the candidacy of Ailmira' Dowey for president, Duvunport drew a picture of the gallant old admiral standing on the bridgo ot the Olynipla, and with the luioko of the battle of Manila Pay Hying thick about him. Beuenth it wore tho words: "Lest We Forget. " Tho effect of the car toon was Instantaneous. It brought Dowsy letters from hundreds of ad mirers all over the country, and so grout was the attention it attracted, that Its anthor was requested to tend It to Washington to be placed on 'ex hibition. The request was com pi ltd with and the picture drew snch a crowd, that the police finally ordered It taken from the window In which it was displayed. John R. McLean, hrother-lu-htw ot Admiral Dewey, af terward offered for it a price that sur prised Davenport into agreeing to part with it although it had been his in tention to keep it iu his collection. Other cartoons have brought him no less renown, aud even the publio men whom he has most ofteu impaled on tho point of his keen pen have sought for his pictures to koep as mementoes of the campaigns they have gono through. Davenport will bo at the Grauts Pars opera house on Tuesday, April fi, under the auspices ot the Woniana Club. He will talk on the "Value of a Cartoon" and illustrate his talk by drawing cartoons on the stag before the audieiico. The pictures will be listrlbuted to those in the audience. Cattle Grower' Convention. There will Iih a Convention of the Cat l lo Growers of Oregon held in Portland, April 10th, beginning at 10 A. M., and continuing in the eveniup. The people Interested in this great industry are earnestly requested to be present, as subjects will be discussed of the greatest Importance to cattlo men. The meeting will be held at the Auditorium, between Taylor and Salmon, on Third St GKANT MATS, Secretary. IT ISA MATTER OF HEALTH Absolutely Pur THERE IS JiQ SUBSTITUTE ixsvr