ROGUE RIVER COURIER. GRANTS PASS, ORKSU.n, makih , - I , r- . i nnn iinnnrkiikino . I ,Vv --. :r. jp--- THE. BUSINESS P0INIytKU mt. wj.nMrruuo. t. -: . i A Chicago Alderman Owes His Eclction to Chamberlain s Cough Remedy. "I can heartily and conscientiously f ..... mmiixi! I ' I i I - . I vwuiiunuii uamucriain Lough Remedy for affections of the throat ana mugs," says Hon. John Sheuick, 320 So. Peoria St., Chicago. "Two years ago daring a political cam paign, I oaoght cold after being over heated, which irritated my throat and I win finally compelled to stop, as I conld uot speak aloud. In my ex tremity, a friend advised me to use Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. I took two doses that afternoon aud could not believe my senses when I found the next morning the in flamuiation had largely subsided." This remedy is lor sale by all drug gists. The Colonel's Waterloo. Colonel John M. Fuller, of Honey Grove, Texas, nearly met his Water loo, from Liver aud Kidney trouble. Iu a recent letter, he says: "I was nearly dead of these complaints aud, although I tried my family doctor, he did me no good. So I got a 60o bottle or your great Llectno Bitters, which cured me. I considor them the best medicine on earth, and thank Uod who gave you the knowledge to make them." Sold aud guaranteed to cure dyspepsia, biliousness aud kiduey disease by all druggists at 60o a bottle. Cured Hemorrhages of the Lungs. "Several years siuce my lungs were so badly affected that I had many hemorrhages," writes A. M. Ake, of Wood. Iud. "I took treatment with soveral physicians without auy beue. fit. I then Bturted to take Foley's Houey and Tar, aud my luugs are now as sound as a bullet. I recom moiid it iu advanced stages uf luDg trouble." Foley's Houey and Tar stops the cough aud heals the luugs, and prevents serious results from a cold. Refuso substitutes. For Balo by II. A. Rotermuud. Grants Pass Banking & Trust Co. PAID IP CAPITAL STOCK Transacts a general banking bu.-iness. Receives deposits subject to check or on demand certificates. Our customers are assured of courteous treatment and every ' consideration con sistent with sound banking principles. . Bafety depo.it boxes for rent. J . FRAN K WATSON, l'res. It. A. UOOTH, Vlee-Pres. L. I.. JKWKI.I,, Cashier. The First National Bank OF SOUTHERN OREGON. CAPITAL STOCK Receive deposits suhieet to cheek or on eertilii ale pavahle on demand, m-lis xilit dmfts on Hew York. San r raneieo and Portland. Telegraphic transfers sold on all point in the I nited Stales Special attention (riven to collection and' general Imsitu-s of our cusainierr. Collections made throughout southern Oregon, und on iu cessihle poeuts. K. A. HOOTII, l'res J C. CAMI'HKI.L. Vlee-Pres. H. 1.. (ill.KKY, t asliier Bert Barnes, Reliable Watchmaker Z At Clemens' Good Leather AND ood Work In what everyone wants put into their Shoe Repairing. For this class of work tr W. KEENE and you will be getting what you want and saw muuey. Hoots and Shoes Made to Order. R. L. Bartlett's Shoo store. THE NEW MEAT MARKET GUSTAV KARNER. PROPRIETOR Manufacturer of all kinds of foreign and domestic Sausages. Pork Packer and dealer iu all kinds, of First-class Fresh, Salt and Smoked Meats, Wholesale and Retail Main Street, West of Ptlsce Hotel TELEPHONE .Wi MAIUJLE AND GKAXITE WORKS J. U. I'ADfXX K, I'ruprlclor. I am prepared to furnish anything in the line of Cemetery work in any kind of Marble or Uranite. Nearly thirty years of experience in the Marble business warrants- my I tying that I ran fill your orders in the very best manner. Can furnish work in Scotch, Sede or America. 'itanite or anv kind of Marble. Front street, npxt to Greene's liiinslin;-. Give the new meat market ou 1 1 waut to look after your timber in South Sixth street a trial ordur. i terests, W. B. Sherman, MaaQUic Patillo'f is the place. Teniplo, Jrunls Pans, Oregon. . Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. The great success of this prepara tion in the relief and corn nf hnul complaints has brought it into almost universal use. It never fails and when reduced with water and sweet ened is pleasant to take. It is equally valuable for children aud adults. For sale by all druggists. Death Rite In New York and Chicago During November and December, 1103, one fifth of the deaths iu New I iork and Chicago wore from nneu mouia. Foley's Honey and Tar not ouiy stops the cough but heals aud strengthens the lungs aud pravouts pneuuiouia, so do not take chances on a cold wearing awav when Folev's Houey aud Tar will euro you quickly ana prevent serious results. For sale by H. A. Rotermuud. Startling Mortality. Statistics show startlimr mnrtalirv. from appendicitis and peritonitis. To prevent aud cure these awful diseases. there is just one reliable remedy, Dr. King's New Life Pills. M. Flannery, of 14 Custom House Place, Chicago, says: "They have no equal for cou etipation aud biliousness. " 25c at all druggists. Gives Health, Vigor and Tone.' Ilerbiue is a boon for sufferers from aueamia. By its use the hlood .is quickly regenerated aud the color be comes normal. The droopiug strength is revived. The languor is diminish ed. Health, vigor and tone predomi nate. New life aud harnv activitv results. Mrs. Belle H. Shirel, Mid dlesborough, Ills., writes: "I have boon troubled with liver complaint aud poor blood, aud have fonud nothing to benefit me like Horbine. I have wished that I had known of it iu my husband's lifetime." Mo. at Rotermuud's and Model Drua Store. $'.25,000.00. $50,000.00. 3 Grants Pass, Ore. A At Kcasonablc Charges (it'll II tH I'llMM, Ori'KOII, - JUDGE SCOTT'S ADDRESS Delivered Before the Good Roads Convention. i I cannot now recall a single thing that is fully developed when it first comes iutoexisteuoe Every thing re quires some time and attention to bring It Into a full and aud perfect de velopment We are ever striving to develop the individual physically, mentally and morally beginning witli the small babe aud continuing through life. We must develop our resources that are around aud about us before they are fit for man's use, therefore I wish to spend a little time iu talk ing about good wagon roads as devel opers. No oue will deny that railroads in this day aud ago are Indispensable in the best development of any coun try. The question of transportation by water and rail have, in the past, re ceived a good deal of attention by our whole people. It is not of snpereine importance how much we can produce, as it is how cheaply we cau market our products. However, better public roads are uot only necessary from a commercial polut of view, but they are a neces sity from educational aud social points of view as well. We shall not be able to develop our country fnster than wo develop the individual. The ability to develop auy country might largely be measured by that degree of intelligence and moral standing that is found among its poople who resido therein. There is a great effort being made throughout this country to raise the standard of citizenship of the in dividual. The greatest good can not come from our efforts towards individ ual development unless we havo free access to mingle one with tho other. It is human nature to be sociable and to desire the companionship of nun's fellows. Deprived of thin pleasure, as many are who livo in the rural dis tricts, they become dissatisfied with country life and move to tho towns and cities. Is it to be wondered that so many boys and girls leave their country homes and go to the city as soon as they become old enough to break away from their family tiesV There has been an unhealthy flow of our boys and girls from the farm to the cities with the desire to bettor their condition in educational, social and financial ways. Many of them do not do as well financially as thry could have done had they stayed upon tho farm, and they have in many instances fallen by tho wayside, not being able to withstand the increased temptations aud vico that are fonud iu our cities over that to be found iu country dis tricts. Our bad roads prevent the women and our young people from driving out and mingling together ns they should iu order to develop the social side of their natures, that is to essential iu forming the most useful and well rounded life: If the women who lives in the country were to wait for their husbands to take them calling, their calls would be few and far between. The long winter evenings should be the most pleasant time of the year up on the farm ; it should bo the time for social and metal improvement. Liter ary aud social gatherings should be had, adding both pleasuro and im- j provemeut, that would do much to j make our young people content with' couutry life. Our bad roads prevent, 1 to a largo degree, this being done. Jf the people in tho rural districts wi-mi i , . , . - ... together frequently, contentment and piosperity would come to many a farm home that is now ruined by discord aud poverty. Our young people who live iu the couutry, must have better social relations iu order to prevent this unhealthy flow of our best boys and girls from the farm to the city. We should gut away from tho errone ous idea that anybody can farm II'" i time is coming wheu our luiyo farms will be cut up and a family sup ported from the products . of a small farm. This raunot ho done in the haphazard way that is now in vogue among many of our fanners of today; but will have to be done upon scientific prin ciples that are uow followed by some of our fanners. For this reason, we need to retain upon the faun uiauy of our best hoys and girls that now go to the cities, seeking other employ ment. Our ugrieultuiiil colleges nr doing much to develop our country aud iti resources ;they teach the young lnru and women how to work und how to g't the best results from their effort! aud capital eijs tided in a bo lide way The young man or young woman who gels the impression f'at it is a disgnioo to work, or that he or she is too nice to do farm work, is in danger of goiug wrong Such an im pression should be met with discour agement whenever possible. It lias been wisely said "that the schoolmaster and tjod roads uio the two most essential features of civiliza tion." Wh should instil iu the minds of our young people, that each of us has a duty to perform ; that we owe a duty to ourselves aud to each other, in that we should always endeavor to de velop the individual anil mold charac ter that will make the best citizen and help to develop the district where we ,. ,n 0f ,,jH BU1 might 1 saved if reside, and uot live for self alone. Wl, w,.r ,,, ,aV(, ,j0(j ra,i, ovr Unless our young people have an op- 1 1 t country. . Hueh a sum thus isved portuuity of mingling together in a!WOUld defray the expenses of con social way, they will b-conii; elhsh htru, tmg Lhout 2i0,us) miles of good and narrow, and will uot develop intoirim,, e: , T,.d.. , wua,i defray the i that broad minded citizen that is di - j sired for a full aud speedy develop ; meut of this country, j We should, as far as possible, get! . away from that tctt) selfishness that, 'often prevents o from making the; ! must out of our lives, aud is so often uoticeal,le ' Improvement AH of the roads cannot be made good at once. Why not help build a good piece or road in one section of your county and not refuse to work If that improvement does not happen to be right along by your farm? We must. necessarily, begin somewhere with permanent road Improvement If wa ever expect to have any. Oue reason for the- prevalaiice of bad roads throughout this country is lack of agreement aud united action among the advocates of highway improve ment. Everybody prefers good roads to bad. Everybody knows that the roads can be improved only by the expenditure of money aud labor ; but here the agreement cuds. There is a great va riety of ideas aud schemes for seouriug the desired object; some people would rather travel through mud than to havo the road improved by any othor plan than their own pet schome. Holding couveutions of this kind will uot iu themselves build good roads. Wo must unite in support of a few geueral principles aud go to woik upon soiiio geueral plan. With a united effort we shall be able to ac complish much good iu highway im provement. But iu order to unite, some of us will have to give up some of our pet projects as to how the work should bo done. Better roads will enable us to have better schools; if we wore to have bet ter ronds wo could have larger school districts, better school houses and Imve our schools better graded and run for less expense per capita, than we now do. One or moru school districts might be consolidated aud have two or more teachers iu the same building. Such a plan would lessen the number of classes for ench teacher and would give them more time to devote each class, than they now have. Better schools will cause cause our state to fill up with a belter class of ieople aud at a much more rapid rato than it will without them. Many good peoplo conio hore from the East with a view of locating and investing capital, but on aooonnt of our bnd roads some of them becomo dissatisfied and return to the East. They will uot stop to consider the fact that the peoplo of the East hare had a great many years to bring the condi tion of their roads to what they are now, while iu this section, the settle ment of which dates back but (10 years, road building has but just be gun. They have been accustomed to seeiug certain conditions in the state from which they came, aud they materially measure conditions iu this state by what they have been familiar with there. Of course, this is not fair, but it is simply a condition that wo have to contend with ; aud while we shall not be able to make good public highways at once, if we begin right away and make a good start lu that direction, many of them will conclude that the time is uot far dis tant when our main thorough-fures will be well improved. An improved condition iu our roads will cause an increase in population, and with it will come electric rail ways aud the development of onr num erous water powers and various re sources that will not he developed until wo got more peoplo. As to whether or uot many of our industries will live or die, will deiend largely upon the cent uf transportation from our fauns to our shipping points by water and rail. The tax of bad roads becomes constantly harder to bear as the people of this state and nation are brought into closer competition with ..i .....1 ......I....... ...I.... . iii-ai iuiiui unit iiiuituoiH ui utiin states and nations on account of tho continuous improvement ill transporta ; tion facilities, by water and mil The I people living iu our sinter states upon : the north anil south are making greater advancement In the Improvement of ! their public highways than we are ; making iu this state- Whatcom coun ty, Washington, hits already construo- ! ti.il r I I, ,,,!, .,,1 .,,ll., I ....... ...... . ... ; . ' ; ami fuaottniiMj roann; uioy navn vuieu a ti n mill special road tax each year for the past ten years, aud are forging ahead of us iu highway improvement. What will he tho result of aU this? Unless we keep pac) with these statos ill the improveim lit of our public highways, tin v will soon be shipping product aud supplies to our citizens who live upon our railways and water ways and sell tin in cheupi r than our fanners can market a similar product and haul it over our had roads; and the money that shall he paid for such products w ill go out of our slate and our farmers aud our merchants will alike 1 1 come poor. (live our la boring clasrv'inplnyiuciit. As soon as tin V shall Met money they will spend it w ith tlio merchants and everybody in pleated and we say "times are good." If this class of people fail to have emplouient with us, they must gn elesi-where in search of it, and our merchants lose the opM,rtunity of sup plying tie in with good and clothing. iifl' il a stringency iu money markets is due to our bud roads. If the traffic upon our public highways were to be Htnpicd for thiity days throughout tins country there wculd be tho great est pinic known in history. The gnu- ral g ivcn incut has estimated that it costs shunt '.iiK),oi,oisi annual ly, to transport our products and sup plies over our common hiuhways. It has, also, le en estimated that at least 0f eoristrncting good roads throughout nix -tat 'H like that of Or egon. (quoting from P. A. of tho O. Mr. A. I. Craig. O. It. & N. Co., as fob lows : "lam informed that about Hie great- We Have Just Received Two Cars Loaded With MOLINE WAGONS From tho Colebratod John Dooro factory , " And consisting of a full assortment of . Light Wagons, Busies and Carriages Another car of Heavy Farm Wagons is expectod about April 5. Farmors who arc contemplating IRRIGATION BY PUMPING PLANT will find it to their interest to call aud get our liguros on the Pumping riant and galvanized pipe. Wo can refer you to now iu successful operation in Sawmill mon will find - Grants JOS. est distance the farmers cau afford to haul w heat over existing wagou roads to the railroad is about 20 miles. If the wagon road can be so Improved that with tho same number of horses aud with the same wagon two tous can be hauled where one is the present limit, it will also be found that the extreme boundary of the profitable wheat area would' be 40 miles, or double what it is now. That is, a far mer under the improved conditions of wagon roads 40 miles distant from tho markot could produce wheat with as much profit for hi one If as tho farmer, who today is but one-half that dis tance from the buyers at the railroad statiious." 'If an additional strip of only five miles could be brought within reach of the market by good roads, contigu ous to the entire line of tho Oregon Railroad aud Navigatiou Comiauy, aud ouly every other section oould be made productive, ovor three aud one half millions of acres would he added to the productive area of the Pacific Northwest, which on the generous basis of H10 aores to each family would support nearly 320,00 families. Yet live miles is not a great dis tance to extend the profitable produc tive belt if you go at the good road proposition in the right way." "Have you, who live from 10 to 20 miles from the railroad, ever consid ered that iu addition to a great re duction in the wear aud tear of horses and wagons, as well as yourselves, good roads would iucreaso tho valuo of land itself by, as it were picking it up bodily and plaoing It nearer the town?" The iucreaso ill the price of haullpg actually done Is by no menus the oost ouly on account of bad roads. Tho loss of Jiorishnhlo products from want of access to market, the failure to reach markets when prices are good and the failure to raise products that would bo marketed if markets were always accessible adds many millions of dollars to the tax of bud roads. Wo havo in the past laid great stress upon the importance of building moru railroads mid improving our water ways, but we ha vo done very little to improve our common highways. Tho general government, feeling the need of having cheaper modes of trans portation gave to the railroad oom- iianies of tli its country U70,(HXl,()oO of acres of public laud as an inducement for them to build railroads through some of the sparcely settled parts of this country so that It might ho more rapidly developed. It has al.o ex ponded about ff." i0O,oO0,KH in the im provement of our common waterways. Iu one session of Congress iu recent years, it appropriated i0(), 000,000 of dollars for river aud harl or improve ments; and not very long ago it appro priated :ii,(SKl,(Ki() for that purpose. When we consider that the cost of transportation by water and rail is now about to the minimum mid that it costs morn to transjiort our farm products from the farm to our shipping points by - water or rail than it costs to curry thein from said points to the markets of the win Id, Grants Pass IVIusic House Has rciDovcil to tlio Courier Building, Ground Floor Wltcro you can liml u full aHuortnicnt of Violins, Guitars, Mandolins, Banjos STRINGS, MUSIC AND SUNDRIES. vSHeet Music 0 1,avo u lai0 stot'k of ,atlH to dpct from uoarly 16. 0 I'icecH of vocal and iiiutruitierital music. If wo do not ha to in stock just what you want wo will order for yu. Slmot Music Bold at half prico and ud low as 10 cents. Mail orders given jironijit utteufriuu. tho county. it to thoir advantago to call on Pass Hardware WOLKE, Mgr., J. L. CALVERT, Treat. it is time lor ns to turn our atteutlon to acquiring a cheaper transportation over our common highways. We are in a great commercial coatest. Not with one nation alone, but with all of the progressive nations of the world. The prize is the world's market, and the couutry, state or nation that shall win will be tho one that cau reach the market the cheapest. Many of the states iu this couutry aud mauy of the foreigu countries that aro our warmest competitors are much more active iu highway Improvement than we aro in this state. Franco, Iudia aud Russia, three of our close compe titors in the production of fruit aud wheat have and aro building some of the best roads iu tho world. Oregon Is a great stuto for the pro- ductiou of potatoes. If we wnro to have roads so that our crops could be moved during the rainy season of tho year, the time that they are usually tho best price, our farmers could become wealthy, From the In crease in tho price that they would often receive by being able to market them when tho price was best, they could soon build good roads. Our rainy season frequently sets iu so early that the roads are muddy be. fore we cau get our prunes to market iu the fall, causing us to haul very small loads while our French competitors haul over their good roads several times as much per load as we can with the same horse power. If we ire going to develop the state of Oregon, why uot begin to do the most essential th'ng first that will cause such develoment ; that is build good public highways. Huppose every farmer throughout the country would put in ou an average one month's time every year in road imrovemeut, would he not be amply repaid for his services? I dare say the majority of you fanners would reap a benefit from a high road tax if yon were to receive but a small beue lit from the bettered condition of your roads, for the reason you would get to work out the tuxes that would be assessed up on the property in your tow ns und upon the pinperty of non resident property owners. I don't believi, however, that the funnels should defray all the expense of Iroad construction ; it is just us important for the business men who live iu town to have good roads leading to it as it is for the farmer to have them. If it were not for the farmer coming to towu occa sionally most of our towns would soon ceasn to oxUt. Ho I contend that there should be a mutual interest betcweeu tlio farmers and the men who live in town, In making better public roads; wo should, therefore, eo-operale iu support of some general piuu or roan iiiniiagement and con struetlou and go to work construct lug them us rapidly as we can. If the people of the city and the country would unite in an elfort to this end, it would n t he long until wo would have a strong home force In support 01 the cause, aided to some degree, at least, by the general government. I urgu you to not become dis ...Remember... IS he Fairbanks Gasoline Engim 12 or moro irrigating plant i us and get prices on supplier Company couraged because roads are not b throughout your county at one , This cauuot be; it will take m-.oi time and effort to bring this abou', but it will oome soouor or later, and tho sooner we begin the Jwori the soouer we will have good public roads, a thing that is absolutely nec essary iu order that our state be ful'v aud rapidly developed. L tharo- fore, especially urge you to take op the work with a greater seal and energy than ever before. Orgaiiitw your home foroei aud niakeaitadr of the highway problem as it preseuts itself today, and stand ihoaldnr t) shoulder with othor good roads . il vooates throughout this state a - I nation aud make an earnest dem it for national aid. Wbeo this iu, have beeu done, there will be a great impetus iu highway improvement to the end, that our eutlre state will be oome rapidly developed along various lines of enterprises tint oaunot be pat Into opuratiou at the present time on accouut of our bad roads. Houvenir Postal Cards Courier. building. E. A. WADE DRY GOODS, UNDERWEAR, NOTIONS, Etc. Front Street, west Palace hotel GRANTS PASS, ORE. FARMERS FEED STABLE J. E. KERI.EY, I'aora. Last stable south on Sixth street. Room under oovur for IM hnrum aeil 40 wagons, box stalls, t'orrali I n luoso stock. (Inly tho bust hav, elsan grain a d alfalfa fed. Rolled barln and nth. g la i u. No diseased horses allowed. Pi- -c running water, and trough cluaueU every day. vt aiiiug room and lollot room when ladies can leave wraps aud amuse their Intuits. I'ricca reasonable and beak narM ult.m stock. J. A. SlIiHETS, Teacher of Music Practical Instruction In Violin, Via: Cuitar, Clarinet and Cornet. Must cai ful attention given to beginners. Lea a orders at Music More. N. Ii. McGKLW, PlONEKR TRUCK and DELIVERY' Furniture and l'iano Moving GRANTS PASS, OREGON. The I'opular Birber Shop Oct your tonsorial work done t 1UA TOMPKINS' On Sixth Street Three chai.a liatb liooin In oouneutlou