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ROGUE RIVER COURIER. GRANTS PASS OREGON. JULY 26, 1907. PROFESSIONAL CABDS ,l t C. FINDLEY, M. D. Practlc limited to EYE EAR, N08E and THROAT. Glasses fitted and furnished. Office hour S to 12; 2 to 6; and on ap pvlotmsut. Telephone 261 and 77. tiaxrra Pane, Ohsuo J)R. J. C. SMITH PHYSICIAN AND BURGEON Phones, OHloe 35.1; Red. 1181. Ketildenoe cor. 7th and D streets. Offloe at National Drue Store. Valuta Pass, - - On koi m LOUGHRIDGE, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND HUKUKON Rob. Phone 714 Oity or country culls attended ui''ht or day. Hixth and 11, Tuff's building. Oltioo Phone 201. GRANTS PAHS - . OkKOON. , D. NORTON, ATTOKNEY-ATLAW, Practice In all State and Federal ConrtH. Office In Opora HouHoJIluUdtng. Obants Pahs, - Okkooh Jt C. HOUGH, ATTORN EY-AT-LAW, Practices In allHtateand Federal Courts 04 oe over Hair-Riddle Hardware Co. Obajtm Pass, Ohkoon Q LIVER & BROWN, LAWYER. Offlos, upstairs, City Hall J rants Pahs, Orkooh. Q S. BLANCHARD, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Practice in all State and Federal courts. Banking and Trust Company's Building. OaiXTS Pass, Orkooh. H. B. IIENDRICKS CODN8ELLOK8-ATLAW OItII and criminal matters attended to to all the oourta. Real estate and Insurance. Offloe, 6th street, opposite Poetoffloe. WILLIAM P WRIGHT, 0. 8. DEPUTY SURVEYOR MININO KNOINKKR AND DRAUGHTSMAN U) St., north ol Josephine Hotel. Gaum Pass, - Orkoon. Charles Costain Wood Working Shop. vYeat of flour mill, near R. R. track Turning. Bcroll Work, HlsirWork, Hand HasruiR.Caliiiirt Work, Wood Pulleys, bsw Mfcug and KUiiuuInK, Kspsinns; all kinds fakwa right. Ttie Populsr Bsrber Shop Cet your tonsorial work done at IRA TOMPKINS' On Sixth Street Three chairs Itath Room In connection Palace Barber Shop BATES t MOSIElt, lVopra. Shaving. Hair Cutting Haths, Etc. F.Ter thing nest and clean and a work UrsK'litM. N. E. McGlUnV, PIONEER TRUCK and DELIVERY Furniture and Piano sieving GRANTS PASS. OREGON. J.E. PETERSON (I'lONKKK) fire, lite and accident insurance REAL ESTATEIAGENt"" j U11 doing- business at the old stand. Cor. Sixth and D streets. tiu Pass, - Otnnoa. j F. G. ROPER IriiMti tomtit tr Oourier Bis, upstairs SUITS MADE TO ORDKB Promptly ai rl he bwO material i and tu l..m hi mi atvi I CLEANING AND REPAIRINO KENNBY PAYS GASH Ho BUTTER. EGGS 1 auJ FARM PRODv CE. Fall stock of Groceries mid Provisions' Candy, Nuts, Tobacco and Cigars. KLXNE"S CASH STOKE Sixth ttrstt bet. I and J. tAFT PREPARES FOR FUTURES. War Secretary Orders Department Estimates Made for Fiscal Year. Washington. July 24. The est!' mates of the fiscal year ending June 20, 1909, are being prepared by the various bureaus of the war depart ment. This Is being done In accord ance with Instructions from Secre tary Taft, who Intends to prepare bis annual report. Including his rec ommendations for appropriations for the needs of the war depart ment for the fiscal year 1909 before he loaves Washington on his trip to the Philippine Island. The secre tary hri3 u number of engagements to Hpeuk In the wc?3t beforo sailing for the Philippines early In Septem ber, und he will lave Washington soon ufier Hie middle of August and will not return before he sails. The secretary Iiiih In mind various recommendations which he Intends to make to Congress, and tlio putting of them Into shape and considera tion of the estimates for the fiscal year 1909 will occupy most of his time during the short period which will Iniervene between his return to Washington from Murray Hay, Canada, the first part of August, and his departure later for the. west. RAILROAD EARNINGS NKVADA - CAUIOKNIA . ORKOON IIAILWAY'H Nl'ItPLVM FOR TIIK YKAH IS $U,SU.,U Sacramento, July 24. In Its re port to the State Hoard of Equaliza tion the Nevada-Callfornla-Oregon road gives 115.70 miles of mala track In California, valued at $17,950 Its rolling stock la valued at $14,780. Its gross earnings were $253,218.81, Its operating expenses $114,052.85, leaving a net Income from operation of $129,165.96. Its miscellaneous Income amounted to $161,683.82, giving a total net Income of $145, 849.78. Deductions for Interest, etc., left a surplus on December 31, 1906, of $52,614.33. The Sierra Valley's railways, oper ated under the same management, have 36.48 miles of tracks, valued at $37,915. It has two locomotives on hand unfit for service, one passenger coach, five box cars and two flat cars, and a value of $4 80 Is placed on its rolling stock, the rolling stock of the N. C. & O. being used on this road. Its gross earnings from operation were $62,823.11. Its operating ex penses were $26,563.74, leaving a net Income of $36,269.37. The balance of the road's financial statement shows a deficit of $87,956.97. If the amount of interest that has accrued on $300,000 of 6 per cent bonds from 1895 to 1901 were added, the deficiency would amount to $10$, 000. None to Claim a fortune. St. Louis, Mo., July 24. All ef forts to clear up the mystery of Mrs. Nannie I.. Long, a wealih woman, who died of heart disease at the Mon tleollo Hotel July 5, have proved un availing Public Administrator Troll can fl lid no trace of h.-r relatives or heirs, though she is said to have u son and to have be mi the owner of a big estate In New Orleiuu. Mis Long bad ninny friends among wealthy and fashionable people. In St. Louis, but she kept the sis-ret oi her faintly connections no well that none of her acnaln!amvs are able to give any Information of value about hor. French lnccnwd mi (Jerniiun. Paris, July 24. The French newspapers are greatly Incensed over the decision of the iiurtuan authori ties to suppress the teaching of French In the common schools of the "lost provinces." Alsace and Lor raine. Statistics are cited to prove that along the frontier four-fifths of the children are born of French par ents and speak nothing hut Frsnch. Kxplodlng (Inn loe Deadly Havoc. New London, Conn., July 24. Private Hammond of the One Hun dredth company of artillery, was killed and two members of Company K, Third Infantry, and a sergeaut of '.he One Hundredth company were severely Injured when a six-Inch gun exploded at Fort Terry yesterday. After Ki press Coniuintes In Nebraska Omaha, Neb.. July 24. Decause of the activity of the five express companies doing business in Nebras ka lu opposition to the SUIley law. which reduced rat.-j 5 per cent, the State Railway Commission held an open hearing today with the avowed Intention of reducing the rates. The session is tu accordance with the law, which permits no reduction without an open hearing. OF WRECK IN FORT RF-SCrEO VICTIMS OF MARINE THAt.F.DY ARK ISROVGHT TO POF.T IJY THE POMONA, Survivors Reach Eureka on the Elder, mill :(1 Keach Sun Fran cisco From the Wreck. P.m Fran-isco, July 24. Ninety cigli' men, women und children are on the death roll of the Columbia. Of ih'.se seventy-five were cabin passengers, nine were In the steer age and fourteen wero officers and seamen of the ill-fated .vessel. One life-raft and five boats are still un reported, and It Is possible lhaj when these come ashore the number of the dead will be lowered. Thirty-one survivors of the terri ble disaster reached this city at half past 10 o'clock yesterday morning on the steamer Pomona, from Eu reka. As the survivors of the Columbia came down the gangplank and were recognized by friends and relatives In the crowd there were cries of greeting and many scenes of joyful reunions were witnessed. Women became hysterical and many a man to whose eyes tears had long been strangers made no effort to conceal the fact that he was moved to tears by the pathos of the moment. Those of the survivors whose friends were awaiting them on the dock were as soon as possible hur ried away to hospitable homes, where they told again as best they could the horrors through which they had so recently passed. Of those thirty are members of the Columbia's crew and the other Is Mrs. Ottilia Lledelt, a music teacher living at 1325 Larkln street. Mrs. Lledelt Is the first passenger on the lost steamer to return to this city. She tells a harrowing story of the awful scenes aboard the doomed steamer, and Is herself so overcome by the shock of the ei perlenc that she will not soon re cover. Mrs. Lledelt pays a high tribute to the wisdom and coolness of Cap tain Doran. She describes the mad scramble for places In the boats and tells of her own horrible experience for three hours on a life-raft, where a woman perished before her eyes. She says that after she and others had been taken aboard the San Pedro a number were drowned when the mast snapped off, and still others when parts of the decsload were swept away. Second Officer H. Agerupp and Third Officer Robert Hawse of the Columbia were among the officers of the Columbia who arrived here on the Pomona. Hawse is was who res cuend heroic Maybello Watson of Berkeley after she had battled in the water for two hours to save a helpless woman's life. C'ilief Engineer J. F. Jackson of the Columbia was also a passenger on the Pomona. He denies em phatically that the vessel's boilers burst, and states that all the men in the engine-room were saved. A story of the high heroism that consists In the performance of duty when duty looks like death Is that told by A. Marks, the second steward. Marks awoke his men Immediately after the collision and sent them about the vessel arousing the sleep ing passengers. They strapped life preservers on them and sent them to the boats. Marks says It was impossible to Induce some of the women to leave their cabins, ho overcome were they with fright. The particular hero of the stew ards' mess Is C. Murphy, who strapped eight women Into life pre servers and afterward Jumped Into the water with three women and a child clinging to him. He saved all of them. This child was 13 years old and was the only little one saved from drowning. The crew had many stories to tell, but always they returned to the hero ism of their captain. They say that he did not try to leave the doomed vessel, and that as he sent the passengers and crew awav In tht boats aud rafts his last words were: j "Wetl, boys, I did all I could for j you, and I can do no more. She's a goner. Good-by." Further details of the Columbia disaster are coming In slowly, owing to poor communication. The total list of known survivors numbers 1S4. Of this number 11) were brought la by the steamsr Csorge W. Eldsr, and remaining (Utet came Ir ald- nlght, having made a landing with their raft near Shelter Cove. Bo far as known only one child was saved. How many were drowned li problematical as the emshlp officials Irvpt no record of them on the register. The Elder has left for Portland with the majority of the survivors. Conservative estimates now place the number of lost at ninety-six, pas sangers and crew. There were 190 passengers on board and sixty crew on the sailing list. This leaves ninety-six to be accounted for, and it Is thought very doubtful that any sur vive who have not yet been picked op. Few bodies have been recovered. Acting under orders from the San Francisco & Portland Steamship Company, Purser J K. Hyrnes of the l'.l-fated steamer Columbia (3 having the survivors tared for. Such as wish to return to Sr.n Francisco will do ho on the City of Topeka. Reports from the seen? of tho wreck are that few bodies have been recovered. Relief parties are being snt along the coast to pick up possi ble survivors of the wreck and to recover bodies. Coastwise vess'ls have akio been notified of the tragedy and will keep a sharp lookout for llfvrafts and boats. Not all of the life-saving apparatus of the Colum bia has been recovered as yet, and there Is some hope that more sur vivors may be found, but It Is a rather forlorn one because of the condition in which the rafts were launched, the hurry allowing but lit tle time for proper equipment. RUSHED TO SLAUGHTER NEW MILITARY COURT SCHEME IX RUSSIA MORE BLOOD THIRSTY THAN EVER. St. Petersburg, July 24. The new regulations concerning the mode of procedure In military district courts Introduced July 20, have now begun to bear fruit, and the results consti tute a close approach to the notorious reign of the drumhead court-martial, which was abolished by the late Dou nia. The Innovations shorten the entire course of the inquest and trial, al lowing only Beventy-two hours be tween Indictment and execution, In cluding the appeal of the prisoner to the military court of cassation, and the decision of this court. The form er regulations allowed a fortnight for this procedure. The new military courts are now obliged to hand down sentences without waiting to hear the testimony of witnesses, who may be absent. They also enjoy Juris diction over a wider area than the former drumhead courts, whirh only operated In the provinces that had been placed under a state of extra ordinary defense. The number of ex?clutions under the new rulings show a sudden In crease. At Kiev yesterday five sap pers were executed and today an other sapper was sentenced to death. Three peasants have been executed at Moscow, and at Warsaw and at Yekaterlnisluv thre workmen have been put to death under decisions handed down by these new courts. At Riga a young man named Rer lan went Into a clothing store, select ed an overcoat and started for the door without having paid for It. When asked to settle ills bill he drew a revolver, covered the clerk and succeeded In getting away. He was later captured and sentenced to death. Another young man, named Dam be, was sentenced to death at Riga for tho theft of five dollars, and two girl accomplices, aged 12 and L'O years, were sentenced to exile and hard labor for life. Rullets Riddle Farmer's House. Hopklnsvllle, Ky., July 24. A hundred nlnght raiders surrounded the home of Stephen Moseley. a farmer, at 2 o'clock this morning and riddled the house with bullets. Moseley was shot In the face, ear and hand. 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