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ROGUE RIVER COURIER. GRANTS PASS OREGON, AUG. 2, 1907. P HOFESSIONAL CAUDS C. FINDLEY, M. D. Practice limited to EYE EAR, NOSE and THROAT. Glasses fitted and furnished. Offloe hours 9 to 12; 2 to 6; and on ap point m en t. Telephone 261 and 77. Giaits Pass, Obeooh J)R. J. C. SMITH PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Phones, Offloe 365; Res. 1181. Rexidence cor. 7tb and D streets. Office at Nationul Druir Store. Grants Pahh, - - , Ohkgon S. LOUGHRIDGE, M. D. FHYHICIAN AND SURGEON Res. Phone 714 Oily or country calls attended night or day. Sixth and II, TufT's building. Office Phone 2(51. Grants Pass - . Obeoon. , D. NORTON, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Practice In all Stutoand Fedorul Courts. Oflloe In OjMjra HouHo'Hullding. Grants Pass, Okf.uon A C. HOUGH, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Practices In all Htateand Federal Courts Otlioo over Hair Kiddle Hard ware Co. Gbants Pass, Owtooi QLIVER S. BROWN, LAWYER. Oflloe, opstairs, City HalL Grants Pass, Orioon.' Qt S. BLANCnARD, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Practice iu all State and Federal courts. Banking and Trust Company's Building. Grants Pass, Orkoon. II. B. HENDRICKS CODN8ELLOR8-AT-LAW Oivll and orluilnal matters attended to in all the courts. Real estate and Insurance. Offloe, 6th street, opposite Postoffloe. ILUAM P WRIGHT, ' 0. 8. DEPUTY SURVEYOR MININO ENGINEER AND DRAUGHTSMAN 6th St., north ol Josephine Hotel. Grants Pass, Orkuon. i Charles Costain Wood Working Shop. West of flour mill, near R. R. track Inming, Horoll Work, Htair Work, Hand hawmg.Cablnet Work, Wood I'ullevs. haw filing and gumming, Kepaimig all kinds, j Pnwi right. ' The Popular Barber Shop Get your tonsorial work done at IK A TOMPKINS Ou Sixth Street Three chairs ' Rath Koomln conuuctlon Palace Barber Shop BATES &.MOHIEK, Proprs. , Shaving, Hair Cutting Baths, lite. Ever) thing nnut and clean and a work Hi'Ht-t'luHs. n. e. McniuTw, PIONHHR TRUCK and DELIVERY Furniture and Piano Moving GRANTS PASS, OREGON. J.E. PETERSON (PIONHKK)J FIRE, LITE AND ACCIDENT INSURANT! REAL ESTATE! AGE'nt Still doing business at the old stand. Cor. Sixth aud D streets. (ibants Pass, Okkoon. F. G. ROPER llMlktoiWltl 'V JLT L.O It r IV O Courier lilk ,op stairs SUITS MADE TO ORDF.B Promptly snt h Iwi material and ,u .. latest style. CLEANING AND REPAIRING J. M. FISHER. JunK Dealer Highest prices paid for hides, wool, pelts, rubber, iron, metals, grain j sacks, aud all kinds of junk. Red Front, 6th st. bet. I aud J. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy Cui w CoMs, Croup sim w hooping Cuuj k. ' . I rtt old reliable Ths Wkly onrsolaa. I NO ACTING FOH EVELVX THAW Harry K. Thaw Hays His Wife Will Not Return to the Stage. New York, July 31. According to a report circulated , Evelyn Nesblt Thaw Intends to return to the stage this fall, despite the objections or her husband and bis lawyers. The fol lowing signed statement was made by Harry K. Thaw at the Tombs to day regarding the report: "This story, like many others. Is absolutely false, and has been start ed, I believe, for one or two reasons, either to give a false Impression of my wife's character and steadfast ness, with cowardly Intent of Injur ing us all, or simply to fill Bpace. "H. K. T." DON'T WHIP CHILDREN FKOFKSNOIt JOIIX ADAMS C,IVK ADVICK TO IMKF.XTS ON C'FK.M.VG I'UIIJHtK.N. Berkeley, Cal., July 31. Profes sor John AduniH, who Is lecturing on education at the university Bummci school in a lecture yesterday ex pressed himself as not In favor of corporal punishment as a rule, either by teachers or parents. He said: "There are many parents who, much to their dislike, punish their children because tbey really think It necessary for the child's own good But they would do better to expend the same energy and care that the do in punishing, in looking out be forehand for the causes of the child'! badness. You may whip a child lnti doing something or not doing some thing, but he Is not convinced, hit will Is not conquered, and the onl; effect Is to make him want to dlsobe; all the more the next time. It woulc be better to let him do part of wba be wants the first time, and avoid th punishment and stirring up bis an ger, and then the next time you wll bave more influence on bis will. "What we want to do Is to mak' the child think he Is standing on hh own will. When you have gottei him to do the right thing, let bin think he baa done It because b' wanted to himself, not because yoi made him do It. He will do the rlgh thing easier next time." Will Determine Huntington's Sanity Versailles, France, July 31. M Hlrsch, the examining magistrate be fore whom the Huntington case ha been brought, decided today tha Henry Huntington, who on 8unda night shot and wounded two sister and two brothers at the bedside o bis dying father, should be examine, as to his sanity. M. Hlrsch told th Assoeluted Press that the prisoner who at times was strangely agitated told such conflicting stories that h was convlnoed he was suffering neur asthenia, and furthermore, the mnt! lstrute considers that Henry Hunting ton's wife Is similarly affected. Mrs Huntington admitted today that he husband had twice bi'di undor treat ment for nervous disorders. HI I'dlth Hoot to Marry I'. S. (.ram Washington, July 31. Announce ment wuh nuule today of the engH.ni menl of Miss Kdilli Koot, only daugh ter of Secretary of State ami Mrs Kllhu Koot, to Lieutenant IT. S Oranl 111, son of Major (lenera: Frederick Dent (IruM, commanding the department of the East, am! Grandson of the late president (Iran! No date has yet been set for the wedding, but it probably will occur In the autumu. Lieutenant Grant has been one of the military aides to PrriM'nt Kooaevelt and the socle I ' duties of that position first brough about the ucnnalniai.ee with Mis. Koot. An I'ncllmbed Mountain Surmounted Geneva, July 31. Another hither to uuullmbsd mountain has been sur mounted by Slgnor Castelnuovo, a Milanese, who ascended the highest of the three peaks called the Dames Angelalse In the Mont Blane range It Is 11.400 feet high, the last fen hundred yards being smooth and practically perpendicular rock. Near ly all the most celebrated mountain climbers In ICurope. Including the Duke of Abrutil. bave vainly at tacked the peak, which had come to be regarded as insurmountable. Sli nor Caatelnuovo was twtve hours in making the ascent. Roosevelt to Visit Newport, Newport. July 31 A pleasant morsel of gossip in society here is a reported visit of Mr. and Mrs. Roose velt. They have accepted. It Is stat ed, an Invitation to visit this city August llth. where tsey will be the (wests of Commodore nd Mrs. Cor aetlus Yanderbllt for several days. ALASKAN GOAL TO BE GVCOEXHKIMS AND OTHER IV IEJIKSTS WIM, EXPIXHT BICU FIELDS IX FA It NORTH. Bteamslilp Company Will Put on New Ships to .Market tlie Product In California. San Franelr.ro, July 31. Alaska's great coal fields, said to contain enough fuel to supply the Unityd States for twenty years, have falloc Into the handH of a giant syndicate of American corporations rivaling in point of wealth the great Standard Oil Company. This combine, which consists of the Guggenheims of New York, several financiers who are backing the Pacific Steel Company, the Pacific Coast Steamship Com pany, Dr. H. Bruener of the North Alaska Coal and Petroleum Com pany and local capitalists, will com mence operations the first of the year. The establishment of a line of steamers to carry coal from the North to San Francisco will be one of the first steps In this great enter prise. In anticipation of the opening up of the fields, the Pacific Coast Steam ship Company has been reaching out In all directions to get vessels which can engage In the trade and at the same time will Increase passenger traffic accommodations to the North. The new fields, from which the combine will ship its coal are situated In Alaska, close to the dividing line between American territory and Canada, and extend from Mount St Ellas up to Copper river. Fourteen miles of railroad extend ing over a level stretch would put this coal to deep water and a good harbor. The syndicate has already lat dplans for shipping Its coal from the Martin Islands, a group about half a mile from shore, and the Ke nuck Island, about two miles and a half over a mud Oat from the Bering river. At a cost of a million dollars a system of Jetties are to be Installed In the near future, according to pres ent program, and harbors are to be made at both places. Already work has been com menced upon the railroads which are to run to the Martin islands and to Kenitck, and considerable track has been laid. In the opinion of surveyors and ex perienced coal miners there Is more coal In this section of Alaska than in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Vir ginia combined. The 1'nlted States Government has already mad a report to the effect that the coal to lie found In the Far Nqrth is better than the Pocahantaa coal of West Virginia. Cuptures Man Who Eats Grass. St. Charles, Mo., July 31. After a desperate strnggl- lasting two hours, Sheriff Mines and a posse of deputies yesterday captured a power ful Insane man who has terrorized inhabitants of Harenne Island In the Mississippi river for more than a week. The man Is over six feet In height, weighs about 225 pounds and wan nude when raptured. Ills body Is covered with long, black hair. When found he wus lying In the water with only his head visible. The deputies declare that when placed In a strait jacket the man rolled over on the pround and ate grass like an nnlm.il. An effort Is being made to discover his Identity. Will Give Railroads to Htnill. New York. July 31. The syndi cate of New York and Canadian capi talists consisting of Sir William Van Home. Perrlval Farquhar, William Lanham Bull and Minor C. Keith and others, which has been engaged la traction and harbor undertakings la Bratll, will extend Its operations to steam railroads. It is understood. The syndicate is said to be planning the construction of 1,000 miles of railroads in Braill to connect and ex tend present lines. Its ultimate pur pose, It is said. Is to connect Rio da Janeiro with Montevideo, capital of Uruguay. Result of Qood Reads. The other day the owners of serrlee stock lu Fayette county, Pi., hid their animals In Fayettevllle on exhibition, and some very fine ones were there. The time was when they would have been exhibited under the saddle, but our r-od roads are ringing the knell for the saddler, and now every man wants a roadster that can "step soma," says the Fayette Obeerrtr. Every horse on display was shown between shafts; not a saddler was to be seen. M NED IS GTVEX DEATH PE.VALTT. Sentence Imposed by Coart-Martial on Conspirators of Ecuador. Guayaquil, Ecuador, July II. A. court-martial has sentenced fifteen Midlers Implicated In the recant poli tical plot against the president of tha republic. General Alfaro, to death by hooting. Eight of the men were xecuted in this city yesterday, tha remainder probably will be shot thli afternoon. Nine other soldiers have been sentenced to penal servitude for life on the same charges. The Government has discovered a new conspiracy at Quito and the leaders of this movement, fleeing from the capital, have arrived here. AFTER POWDER TRUST gov::kxme.t commences an action to dissolve com- liIXE OF lTEUit. Washington, July 31. The Gov ernment today filed In the United States Circuit Court at Wilmington, Del., a petition against the E. I. Du pont de Xemouss Powder Company of New Jersey and twenty-four other corporations and seventeen Individu als connected with twenty-six corpor ations which are made defendants In the petition. The petition relates that all of the defendants are engaged In interstate trade and commerce In gunpowder and other high explosives and are violating the Act of July 2, 1890. known as the Sherman antt-trust Act. It seeks to prevent and restrain the unlawful existing agreements, contracts, combinations and conspira cies in restraint of such trade and commerce, to prevent and restrain the attempts upon the part of the de fendants to monopolize such trade and commerce and to dissolve the ex isting monopolies therein. Pettlbone Is Denied Bail. Boise, Idaho, July 31. Formal ap plication was made- in the District Court today to have George A. Pettl bone admitted to ball. The motion was submitted without argument and was promptly denied by Judge Wood. It was announced that bond for Chasles H. Moyer would be ready later In the day. It Is In course of preparation and will be signed by Timothy Reagan, president of the First National Bank of Boise. The bond Is guaranteed by 125,000 cash on deposit by the Butte, Montana, local of the Western Federation of Miners. Man Leaves His Fortune to Employes New York, July 31. The will of John C. Wilson, the hatter, who was shot down In his office last Wednes day by Frank H. Warner, the man who had previously killed Esther Norllng, has been filed In the office of the Surrogate. The document wag executed by Wilson after he was shot and while he was dying in the hos pital. Wilson directs that his busi ness and llun.OOO personal estate be divided, share and share alike, to seven of his employes whom he nnnirs, and to a life-long friend and customer. Got Hint Again, Central City. S. P., July 31. Mrs. Mary J. Cook was married to John Dick, a well-to-do Black Hills miner, a Kw days ago, and Immediately afterward created a sensation by confessing to him tbut she was his former wife. The wife twenty years before had obtained a divorce from him In Mon tana. Dick had not suspected that the woman was his former wife. They are now on a wedding trip on the Pacific Coast. Planned to H4w I'p Prison. Odessa. July 31. By a narrow margin authorities today frustrated a plot to dynamite a crowded politi cal prison here. Arrangements were completed for firing a mine laid In the prison. A hundred lives would have been lost, l.arire quantities of dynamite and sulphur were found In several cells. The plotters are now In solitary confinement. German IVgree for a Chinaman. Berlin, July St. The degree of Doctor was conferred by the Univers ity of Berlin upon Ma Do Yuan, a Chinese student. This Is the first time a Chinaman has received a de gree from a German university. War Ilalloon a Success. Berlin, July SI. A military bal loon started over the principal streets today under excellent control. After a flight of one hour It returned toward Tegel at the rate of twelve miles an hour. TVc Courier it a clraa. family paper. FREE CONCERTS! At any time you wish you can have a free concert in your own borne not a concert of one instrument or voice alone, but a con cert of banA and orchestra music, vocal solos, grand opera as well as comic opera anything you like. The world's greatest artists are at your command if you own a new 1907 model Edison Phonograph, and you don't have to pay fancy prices for a one night's entertainment, but can have free concerts as often as you desire. few srrr. 'r'.....V.'.,?i mil "! vTftr V 5i xilD Nr. Edison aayst "I want to see a phonograph In every Amerlan home." . . 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