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ROGUE RIVFR COURIER, GRANTS PASS, OREGON. FEBRUARY 2, 1906. I Buy and Sell Real Estate COYOTES AND DOGS KILL SHEEP AND GOATS WHEN EDWARD DINES Splendid State ObMrrtd t King's Formal Dlnnart. TKma I.AMi Milfn This Industry Unprofitable in Rogue River HOW IS THIS? 1. A. . 1 (Continued from first page.) Valley. ITS DOLLARS SAYED If you attend our First An nual Clearance Sale. Its out of the ordinary. Jan. 15th to Jan. 31st If the ladies of your family liaven't driven you into buy ing a new suit, now's the time. MEN'S $ 8.00 Suits and Overcoats $6 .40 10.00 Suits and Overcoats 8.00 12.50 Suits and Overcoats 10.00 15.00 Suits and Overcoats 12.00 16.00Suits and Overcoats 12.80 18.00 Suits and Overcoats 14.40 BOS' $2.00 Suits for $1.70 2.25 Suits for l.'JO 2.50 Suits for 2.10 2.75 Suits for 2.35 3 00 Suits for 2.55 4.00 Suits for 3.40 Bovs Knee pants, special cut price, 2flc to 75c. Boys Patent Leather Caps, regu Jar price 50c, special 35c. Blankets, the finest and cheapest ones, all at 20 per cent off. Special wholesale cost price on all our Leather Corduroy Coats, Duck Coats, Mackinaw Coats, Trunks and Suit Cases. The store that saves you dollars. lieo.S. Calhoun Co. Outfitters to Boy and Man. Pointers for Voters. It should also be explained that pe tltloiiH (or nomination for district officers, moll as circuit Judge, district attorney, joint souator ami Joint rep resentative, must be Died in the oflloe of the secretary of state, aud not in j the offices of county clerks, and the j dates govornlng uauiinatlotiH for state offices are applicable. The following Hit ooutttlui all the dates of iutoroat to the voters and tlio candidate for office: Registration Registration books opound by comity clerks, Tunsdny, January 3. Registration books olosod for pri mary election, April 10, S p. iu. Registration books ojiened after primary election, April 25. Registration books closed for gener al election, May IS, fi p. in. Initiative petitions Number of signers required to initiate laws or ameuduiuuts, 74H0. Last day for flllug initiative peti tions, February 8. Last day for filing pamphlets advo cating measures December 80, 1106. Last day for flliug pamphlets oppos ing measures, Fobruay 6. Direct primary election County clerks give notice of prl- .try election not later than March i. Last day for flllug petitions of plao lug names on ballot of state, con gressional aud district offices, March ao. Last day for flliug petitions of county offices, April 4. Pate of primary electiou, April 30. OanvaMsiug of primary election for state offices, May 6. General election I-Hut day for filing certificates of nomiuatiou for state offices by assem- bly of electors, April 11). F. Enapp, general wreck superintend ent came up from Portland and took charge of the job. The mail car was the first to be extricated, and as it was able to travel on its own wheels it was brought to the depot so soon as the track was completed aud it could be bronglit around the wreck. The mail was transferred to mail car on No. 12, and Wednesday the car was sent to the 8. P. shops in Portland for repairs. Boon as it was daylight the dynamite was removed from the wrecked car and stacked in a field ad joining the track. Fully oue-nrtn oi the dynamite boxes bad been biokea in the crash. These were repaired or new boxes provided and the sticks of powder were all repacked and dur ing the day placed aboard another car and Wednesday started again for Burke, Idaho, where the dynamite was billed for. Wreck Master Kuapp brought with nlm from Portland eight expert wreckers and these with 60 men under Section Foreman McCarthy have worked early aud lute at the wreck. The two freight cars were able, with a little repairing to be moved on tbtir own wheels, but there was nothing 1 eft of the caboose, but the smashed trucks. The tenders to the two en sines were wheeless aud had to be plaoed on flat cars. The second en giue was hauled out of its earth bed and onto the track Wednesday at 6:80 p. m. The earth was .shoveled from in front of it and the head held np br jacks while rails could be shoved under the forward trnoks and drivers. Then a mounter oahls, running through seven-sheave blocks giving tremendous power, was attached to the dead engine and made fast to one of the biggest engines on this divi stou. When tlio big engine began to strain at the cable the wrecked engine began to slowly come up out of its earth bud and was soon on the track. All being gotten out except the en gine in the ditch the work of putting it ou the track was begun Thursday moruiug. This engine was burled in the mud ou its side and to get it buck the track requiru't all the skill aud the powerful machinery at the com mand of Wreck Master Kuapp, but be is an expert aud a veteran at such work aud he expects to have it ou its wheels by this Friduy evening aud Hnturduy it will be put iu Butllcieut order to enable it being taken with the other wreckage to the repair shop at Portland. The track will be then replaced ou the roadbed aud the hint trace obliterated of a 10,000 wreok. Tuesday moruiug Kugiueer Crocker, who resides in Ash land, was seut to the railroad hoxpltal in Portlaud. Ills wfu came down ou the early moruiug train aud was with him here, lie is expected to be able to return to his homo iu a mouth. Mr, Crocker lias been ruuuiiig out of Ashland sinoe 18U4 aud he is oue of the most oxpurieuoed engineers on the road. The body of John P. fiargur, ttie dead flreuiau was seut to Eugeue Tuesday where the burial was made in the family lot lie was 83 years old aud was born iu Cohurg, Laue county aud had been in the employ of the Southern Pacific for the lust Ave years. It is reported that he had bid iu a ruu ou the Hpriugtiuld branch, aud thiswas to be his last ruu ou this division. Mr. Barger rr I l. d in Roseburg and leaves nwit. .iiid two little daughters, i go I 4 .n i ears, lie is said to vtty 4 fi.x. lue insur ance. He was it uiember of the Brotherhood of Luooinotive Firemnu aud of the Knights of Pythias. No imprest was deemed advisable br Coroner Flttiiagau, so none as hold. The wreck was viewed by T. W. Younger, master mechanic, and by (1. C. Morris, asistnut miporlutou deut, who were on this divistou ou le.M M IM Nnut mmm sa Orew ot inustaS BtMH Hew RiUi on Pro4m s4 Last day for a filing nominatiug petitions for sUte offices, May 4. Ijut day for filing certificates of nomination for couuty offiooa by as sembly of electors. May 4. Last day for flliug uomlnating peti tions for county offices, May 18. Oeueral election, June 4. Ursxnts Peas Leads Trade. By a ooiucidouce of the good luck that falls to a newspaper that is held to be a first-class advertising medium the Courier is able to present to its readers this week the half page adver tisements of A. K. Churchill and Roy L. Bartlett representing the two ex elusive shoe stores iu Grunts Pass, aud of R. L. Coe A Co., who hnve a department for shoes. These adVer tlaeuieiits came without special iu documents aud show the confidence that Grants pass business men have in the Courier as a paper able to give them full value ou advertising ex penditures. As to the Grants Pass shoe trade it cau be in truth said that this city has by far the largest and best stocks of shoes carried In any town in Southern ' Oregon. Aud Grants Pass also leads In correct nric.a ml In th hi oh rlui Eualgo A. P. torey. who will con- 0f food., for shoes are carried here duot special services at the Salvation j Umt are s.Wom to be had except at Army, Saturday, ponuay, mouuaj uu a Dig city snoe store, and the rrtoes r tours of inspection and were iu Grunts Pass Tuesday When King Edward and Queen Alexandra give a state dinner ths fol lowing is the form of invitation: "The lord steward is commanded by the king and queen to Invite Mrs. Vanderbilt to dinner Thursday, the 15th, at 9 o'clock. Full dress." The guests assemble in the drawing room and there arrange themselves in a crescent to await their majesties' entrance, which is made without ia nouncement. With the ladies only is there handshaking ceremony. Guests invited to a private dinner find their royal hosts in the drawing room to receive them. The guest of honor sits on the king's right hand and the royal family on the left. The precedence at state dinners is as follows: Foreign ambassadors take precedence of English nobles; archbishops rank with dukes; bishops with earls; foreign counts and barons take no precedence, but rank with English baronets or great landed proprietors; and In entitled prece dence an earl's grandson, or near relatives of the aristocracy, precede the esquires or country gentlemen; next come wives of country gentle men of no profession; then barristers and their wives, naval officers and their wives, military men and their wives. Physicians are ranked in the royal household as next to baronets. At private dinners usually some mem bers of the royal household ere pres ent. The royal household numbers about 200. Apropos to King Edward's new rules on precedence at his coronation, presidents will rank with kings and emperors. His argument is that he desires to honor the state and not the man. No distinctions will be made, except perhaps in the case of near relations of the royal family There is no race prejudice in England and had not King Howard issued a de cree to the effect that widows of peers who had married commoners hud forfeited thereby their preroga tives as peeresses of the realm, there would have appeared among the lat ter at Westminster Abbey on corona' tion day e negress of the Hottentot typo. On state occasions there is splen did display of silver and gold, crystal and fine porcelain being more in evi dence at private dinners. The dishes which the ilunkies carry about must be deftly balanced on three flngvrs. One dinner set of pure gold will dine I'M guests; in another set there are 400 silver plntes. The sideboard is decorated with a lot of golden trophies, some captured from the Spanish nrmnda; on the walls of the banqueting room of Bucking hum pal' ace are displayed many gold shields, mounted on scarlet; a peacock of precious stones, valued at 1100,000; tiger's head with a solid gold tongue, and diamonds for teeth. The value of the royal plate, including services for every function, is over $H,0O0,0OO, To pay his yearly household expenses about $500, COO is necessary, says London exchutice. To return to the state dinner, there are three servants to six guests one to puss the food, one to take away the empty dishes and one to go for the food. Each roralty has his or her servant. The king is always waited on l;y ths same footman, and he is always served first; the queen has her special servitor. The men lire printed on beautiful curds, surmounted by the royal arms and with a picture of Windsor rustle lluekiugham palace, or whichever royal residence may be the scene of the function. The menu is headed "Their Majesties' linner;" this is followed by the date, and after that the French name of the various dishes potage, joisson, hors d'oeuvre, r' leve, entrees, sorbet, roti, unlade fromage, dessert, fruits, varies, cafe noir. The usual order is two kinds of soup, two kinds of fish, in fart, two kinds of each course, with three different desserts and a side table o various cold meats. King Edward drinks but little wine; nor are long menus popular, an hour at most be ing the limit of the dinner hour. The Shoe j Ro(.ne River Valley has the advan 4 tages in its mild climate and the nun I dredg of tbonsands of acres of open rauge in ttie lulls and mountains to become one of the great goat and sheep districts cf .the Pacific Coast, but these great ranges are vacant and there are not to exceed 50 bauds of goats and sheep in the entire Valley, which has an area as large as the state of Connecticut This unusual condition is not due to the fact that there is no profit in goats or sheep. With mohair at 30 to 84 cents a pound and goats selling at from $4 to $10 each, and wool 24 to 26 cents a pound aud sheep $3 to $6, and the oak brash bind supplying free pasture 12 months the year to the goats, with bat the expense of a little feed daring stormy weather, and the open laud affording the sheep feed for the tak ing, with only .a Bmall expense for pasturage aud feed daring the Winter months, makes certain big profits iu these kinds of stock. But there is not a farmer in Jose phine county, who bid experience, that, even with all this encouraging showing, are enthusiastic over goat and sheep raising. All have the same statements and complaint to make that there is big money in the busi ness were it not lor the loss caused by inroads of the coyotes aud the dogs in the flocks. The farmers that keep sheep or goats, for the angora goats are so finely bred and have Buch heavy coats of mohair that they.have neither the pugnacity nor agility of the old- time scrub goat, are compelled to bringthem in from the range each eveniug, Winter and Summer, and pat them in a high-fenced corrall to protect tbem from the coyotes and dogs. This expensse, together with the loss of the goats cause during the day time, for these marauders are abroad by day as well as by night, is so heavy that the industry yields but a small profit beside what there would be were conditions more favor able. While tlio coyotes aro getting more numurous each year aud more bold in their attacks ou sheep, goats, pigs aud poultry, yet there is uo doubt thut dogs kill many sheep and gnats that the coyotes get the blame for. Uu the depredations that dogs do, the Pacific Rural Spirit of Portlaud has the fol lowing to say : Due of the most annoying losses on the farm is caused by sheep killing dogs. 1c is said that some states cou- taiu more dogs than aneep; tnat augs are protected while the sheep are not. In some sections of the country there is a maudliu sentiment in re gard to dogs that should be corrected. A good dog is a vaiuaDie animal. Dot not one dug iu 10 is worth its board aud lodging. Apparently there is only oue solution to the aog problem, and that is to recoguiziug a dog as the legal property ot us owner so long as it remaius ou its owner's premises, but if caught away Irom home the tog's right to further existence is for feited. A dog's pluce is at home, it is of no value to its master auless it is taught to stay at home. Dogs that are taught to mind seldom or never kill sheep, but tew dogs are so edu cated. It is the worthless cur, mon grel or otherwise, that does the mis chief. Few men are capable of training a dog. The average man can no more make a dog mind thau be cau make his caue fly; usually in the effort the cane flies toward the dog, then fur ther discipline is out of the question. one and a half story bouse wun two iota Tuesday, aud at Bethany Presbyterian church Sunday at 11 a. m. like the quality, are the duplicatefof the oily shoe stores. How var cm. The king receives 803 In lieu of duty and butterage on wines import ed into the duchy of Lancaster; the prince of Wales receives many thou sands a year for ths loss of duties on tin in Cornwall, and ths house keeper of the crown office receive C 13 a year because the house of lords, in an impulsive moment. years ago, abolished her post nd left her with nothing to do. In the dav of its early manhood. England hi an officer of the pipe, whatever th may have been, and the officer of th pipe had a salary of CM 8 ahillim-s 8 pence a year. The pipe ia broke ami the last o mcer is dead, out no body seems able to stop his wages. They have been paid since the days of Charles II., And they seem likely to be paid unt.l the Stuarts come again. St. Jnm?s i.arette. $1250 takes good 6-room, on north side of railroad; easy terms q 18 acres of river bottom land about one ana a city; price, $1250. Plenty of other good snaps. Youry for bargains, Joseph Moss, The Real Estate Man 516 Hello 393 Office. 611 Residence. E Street Grants Pass, Ore. PLUMBING - HEATING We are prepared to do all kinds of Plumbing, We use first efass material and employ ex perienced workmen. Come to us for estimates on Sewer Con nections. : : : : Mining and Irrigating Pipe, Tin and Galvanized Iron work. Furnace Heating a specialty. Hair-Riddle Hardware Co. WHOLESALi: AM) RETAIL Hay and Grain Fruitgrowers of Rogue River Valley tind the Courier of special interest. Itch Ringworm. E. T. Lucas, Wiugo, Ky. , writes, April 3ft, 1903: "For 10 to 13 years, I had been afflicted with a malady known as the ' itou. ' The itching was most unbearable; I had tried for years to find relief, having tried all reme dies I oonld hear of, besides a number of doctors. I wish to state that one eiug e application of Ballard's Snow I.iuimeut cured me completely and permanently. Since then 1 have used ttie liniment on two separate occasions for ring worm and it cured com pletely." 35o, 50o and 1.00 at National Drug Co., aud at Roter-moud's. strings Courier Build- Viol Iu, etc. iug. r.rla F.lrrtrle Poll A remarkable innovation is about to be made in Taris. The policemen on night duty are to have electric I light on vrioua parts f their uni- forms and at th ftr -u'-Vs of, their batons. These will le vorked by pressing a waistcoat Kuttoii ana the object ia the regulation of the street traffic. N. Y. Suu. Afraid of Strong Medicines. Mny pePle suffer for years from rheomatio i ains, aud prefer 'o do so rather thau take the strong medicines nsuallv iriveu for rheumatism, not knowing that quick relief from pain mav be nad sluiplv by applying Cham berlain's Pain Balm aud without taking auv medicine internally. Rev. Amos Parker of Magnolia. North Carolina, suffered for eight years with a lame hip, doe to severe rhenmatio rains. He has been permanently cored bv the free application of Chamberlain's Pain Balm. For sale by all druggists. We have bought the teed store and good will of F. M. Wickman, cor. 6th and J Sts., and will continue the busi ness at the same stand. We will appreciate the patronage of Mr. Wicknian's old customers and as many new ones as possible, guaranteeing to you honest dealings, courteous treatment and prompt delivery. We will handle all kinds of hay and feed stuff in car lots thereby enabling us to give you the lowest possible prices. We are headquarters for all kinds of Poultry Food, Stock Food. Young Chick Food. Try our Olympic and Virgin's Best Flour, every sack guaranteed. , We are permanently located in Grants Pass and will be glad to have you come and see our stock or phone your wants to No. 513, Wickman's old stand. REDVINE & BRANCH. GET A A. E. Voorhies Groves Tasteless Chill Tonic has stood the test 25 years. Average Annual Sales over One end a Half unr Kadoxrf wteh evry tottle ia a Ten Cent, padmst of Crovs's Block lt.oot. LW PmT