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. His wife's eye was
pierced with wire from a screen door
which was shot out by bullets. A
hundred shots were fired. The
raiders carried Moseley from the
house and warned him to quit talk
ing. Moseley has been a strong anti
tobacco association man.
Submarine Nolls for Vessels of Xary.
Washington. July 24. Admiral
Cowtes, chief of the equipment
bureau of the Navy Department, fol
lowing the lead of the Uc.hthou30
Serrtce, yesterday gave orders for
tha onntnmpnf nf eva .
-- "' uamrsuips, icq
coiners, six torpedo-boat destroyers,
i. ,vu jmui .uaynpwer ana
the dispatch-boat Dolphin, with a ays
tern of submarine bell signals t
assist In difficult aaTijatlon.
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