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ROGUE RIVER COURIER GRANTS PASS, OREGON, AUG. 30. 1907. HIT w NELSON MORRIS DEAD HIS HEART ON Show Is Mt Everything, But it is Something. . . . Our Motto ... Quality Is the Best Policy Oregon State Fair SALEM, SEPT. 16-21, 1907 This Year the Best Ever New Attractions New Buildings New Ideas. Fun by the Ton Amusement Galore Even ing Entertainment Beautiful Camp Grounds. "It's a Health Resort." roc nnn.n: i i n WORKS B L E DIES AT CHICAGO OP HEAR DISEASE AXD OTHER COMPLICATIONS. NOP THE WRUNG SiD I jvj,uuu iui mspiayaiiu nacus I W. H. DOWNING, President. F. A. WELCH, Secretary. : OUSItlESS TENTH AND MORRISON STREETS, PORTLAND, OREGON t j A. P. ARMSTRONG. Ll a. PRINCIPAL Educates for lucceM in ihort time and at imall expense, and sends each stu dent to a position as soon as competent. Quality is our motto, and reputation for thorough work brings us over 100 calls per month for office help. Individual In struction insures rapid progress. We teach the loose leaf, the card Inder, the , toucher and other modem methods of bookkeeping. Chartier is our shorthand j easy, rapid, legible. Beautiful catalogue, business forms and penmanship free Write today. References: any merchant, any bank, any newspaper in Portland. BUY YOUR. Drug's and -AT MODEL DRUG STORE FRONT STREET, Opposite Depot GRANTS PASS Are You Interested In Fencing? If so let 11s figure with you. We sell Page Woven IF YOU ARE IN Cattle. Sheep, Goat, Poultry, or Hog Fence, Buy the PAGE and Start in R ight We buy direct from factory and our prices are right. 80 miles of Page Fence sold in Jackson County since January l'J07. G ADDIS (Si DIXON tX6 P&ge Fence Men Of Jackson, Josephine and Klamath Countie4. Main Office - Medford, Ore. -School We can make the exchange at BBEg Sel" BE "J We Have Buyers . . FOR Small Residences in Town On easy payments. What have you? GILLETTE REALTY CO. Ground Floor, Oonklin I licit?. 10LLE6 Medicines THE - Wire Fence NEED OF ANY Lawn, Garden, Cemetery, or Wrou ght Iron Fence or Gites . . Books TWO MEN ARE KILLED WHEN KITROGLYCERIN BLOWS CP THE WORKS. . Oakland and Berkeley Are Shaken by the Force of the Explosion at the Town of Giant. Oakland, Cal., Aug. 26. Two heavy explosions a few mtnutei apart blew two men to fragments, wrecked a part of the plant and started dangerous fires on Saturday at the Giant Powder Company's works at Giant, Contra Costa county, fifteen miles north of this city, on the bay shore. William Thompson, 26 years old, foreman of the separa tor house, and William Doane, 80 years old, a helper, lost their lives in the disaster. Joseph Haddock, a foreman carpenter, was Injured by flying debris. Nils Johnson and Peter McClellan, employed In the nitro glycerin house, the second building blown up, escaped with their lives, though they bad a rough experience when the concussion took them off their feet as they were fleeing from the danger tone. Following the explosions the acid tanks caught fire from the burning debris, which was scattered far and wide. The flames broke out In a dozen places In the dry grass and -...m. in the fields around the works. shocks of the explosions were unusually heavy. They were severely felt all along the bay shore. Win dows were broken and crockery ware and other movable objects were Jolted from their resting places fn many dwellings. Houses were shak en like reeds and the effect had all of the concomitants of lively seis mic disturbance. PANIC IN A CANNERY MEM AND WOMEN MISTAKE EX PLOSION FOR EARTHQUAKE AND FLEE TO SAFETY. San Francisco, Aug. 26. Believ ing that the explosions at the giant powder works in Contra Costa coun ty were the forerunners of another earthquake, more than 700 panic stricken men and women employed In the North Beach Branch of the California Fruit Cannors' Associa tion at Montgomery avenue and Leavenworth street stampeded for an exit on Saturday, and In their at tempt to escape from the building fough like so r any wild animals and trampled th6 weak underfoot, with the result thai thrtu women are at the point of death, four others are seriously hurt ami scores are suf fering froi.1 bruises and wounds. In the wild scramble to a place of exit the frightened mob abandoned all semblance to humanity and fouKht like ferocious beasts. Knives that hiul been usod for peeling fruit freely plied. The small size of the V(iiiio..j ai .ue ,ii(.'v'i ii.eil ail uipa. ling death list. As it was, one mun was seriously cut in the shoulder by a knife whose blade was no longer than the rest, and a half dozen others were shipped to their homes after the stampede, nursing cuts and scratches of moie or less sorlousness where they had been Jabbed by their fellow workers. Horse Ilunge Over Embankment. I'etaluma, Cal., Aug. 28. George KlIpplnRer, an employe of Mr. El more, while driving a double team near here met an automobile on a narrow road. The horses became un manageable and went over a twenty foot embankment Into ten feet of water. Kllpplnfter, who went down wl'h th.' wagon, made an heroic ef fort to save the horses and succeed ed In rescuing one of them after he had been struck repeatedly by the struggling animals. The driver of the auto never stopped to see what happened to Kllpplnger and his team. San Joir Prohibit llojlng. San Jose, Cal., Aug. 28. An ordi nance designed to abolish any and all forms of boxing exhibitions was given final reading before the City Council last night and was passed. Loui.ttille Carmen Vote to Strike. Louisville, Ky., Aug. 27. I-ouls-ville employes of the Louls(!le street railway voted unanimously last night to strike. Chicago, Aug. IS. Nelson Morris, head of Chicago's great meat packing concern. In which Armour and others are Interested, died yesterday of heart disease, complicated with kid ney trouble. Morris was a native of Germany. He landed at Philadelphia penniless on arrival in this country, working his way to Buffalo on a canal boat and thence walked to Chicago, where he worked In the stock yards for f 5 monthly the first year. He has been a leading meat packei since the busi ness began in 1S62. Mr. Morris leaves a fortune estl mattd at $25,000,000. WAS ONCE A SOCIETY LEADER. Poverty Compella Woman to Earn Her Living by Hard Work. New York, Aug. 23. Shorn of the social prestige and the Independent financial status which once was hers, Mrs. Bertha K. Gresham, whose as sociation with Dr. Raoul Amador, son of the President of the Republic of Panama, attracted the attention of three continents. Is practically Indi gent. The woman who, In the days gone by, took trips to Panama with Con gressional parties, danced In the ball rooms of Washington, hobnobbed with diplomats and wore gowns of splendid texture and workmanship Is now forced to seek even the humblest employment. Though costly Jewels were once her playthings, she Is now scarcely more than maintaining a meager ex istence In this city. The Hague Tribunal Arrange Judge The Hague, Aug. 28. Th United States delegation announces th will ingness of all countries on th Am erican continent, Including the Unit ed States, to have fear Judges of th new International court to be ap pointed for th twenty-one countries of the continent on the understand ing that this will redute the number f Judges to fifteen. It Is understood that the Americans hope that Asia will be allotted two Judg aad Europe Bine. BATTLE AGAINST PEST TEVI8 STOCK DALE RANCH OTEAR ItAKERHFIKLI) HA8 BEEN FUMIGATED. Bakersfleld, Cal., Aug. 24. After laboring for almost one week the entomologists under the direction of Edward K. Carnes of the State Com mission of Horticulture have almost completed the fumigation of the citrus trees affected by the white fly on William S. Tevls' Stockdal rancn near this city. The ground under the trees fumi gated Is now white with the thou sands of Insects which have been killed. Two fumigation tents have been kept busy ever since the enact mologlstg commenced their work. Unless the eggs hatch out a new generation of the Insects, or other trees are found to be affected, the work of the horticulturists will be over for the time. Mr. Carnes leaves for Marysvllle, Where he will continue the campaign Rgalnst the pest In that section. Ste phen Strong, an expert on Insect eradication, recently returned from study In Florida, has been detailed to remain In Bakersfleld to guard against an outbreak. L. Woglum of Washington, D. C, with Commls slners Cranes, Cooper, Ehrborn, Pearse and Mosken compose the lo cal quarantine camps. Investigation has failed to find that the pest has spread In any direction to date. Stockdale Is thoroughly quarantined. Km! of Strike Is Not in Sight. New Yorkr Aug. 28. Prospects mutually satisfactory for a settle ment of the telegraphers' strike are no more promising than a woek ago. The strike leaders say that they have aerepted the companies' statement as final, and are prepared to prolong the strike until the business Inter ests force Congress to act In the matter. Hanged Twice In One Day. Indiana, Pa., Aug. 2S. Recause the rope broke the first time Carmine K'-nzo, Hed 4 3, was hariKd ec" ond time here today for Hie murder of his sweetheart, Marian Bearno, ag-d 15, two years ago. Renzo weighed ITT, pound. Half dead after the f rt drop, lie was carrlfid back to the (j'-:-.!ToM and the trap was sprung a second time. MAN WITH A FREAK ANATOMY ACCEPTED FOR UNCLE SAM'S NAVY. With His Heart, Liver, Spleen and Lungs on the Other Side of His Body, Man Is Accepted Terre Haute, Ind., Aug. 28. Ira C. Salyards with his heart liver spleen and lungs on the other side of his body from their proper positions, has been accepted as an able bodied soldier In Uncle Sam' army after six months of examinations and de liberations by army surgeons. He has stood all the tests they could In vent to discover If his transposed viscara made him Incapable of per forming the duties of a soldier. Although not frequent many cases have been resorted of the heart be ing on the right side of the body, but It is said that there are only forty cases In all medical history of such derangements of man's "Innards" as the X-ray disclosed In this stalwart Interurban motorman. Whan six months ago the depart ment at Washington was asked for Instructions the department declined to pass on the case and the recruit ing officer seat Salyards to the bar racks at Columbus, O., where he was tested In many ways. He was given long fatigue marches and stood them a well a could be expected of any able-bodied man. He was kept on duty all night, and the strain had no more effect on him than It would have on a normal man, and so It was with many tests. Salyards, who Is 34 years old, re cently became widower and this led him to decide to enter the army. He had known from his boyhood that hi heart was on th right side, but the X-ray disclosed that his lungs were so disarranged that the arteries ent ered from the wrong side of hi body and that his spleen and liver had been specially placed for htm, earn as a surprls. He 1 6 feet tall and weighs ITS pounds. He was reared on a farm in Sullivan county. Physician Acenaed of Murder. Stockton, Cal., Aug. 14. Th Grand Jury which was recently called to Inquire Into the death of Mis An nie Ray, aged 22 years, returned a verdict of murder against Dr. C. L. De Vlnny. Miss Hay died from blood poison ing and the Coroner's Jury found that death had been due to a criminal op eration which the Jury charged that Dr. De Vlnny had performed. The court fixed ball at 18,000, which was furnished by the accused physician, who was here watting the action of the Grand Jury. Dr. Do Vlnny practiced here for many years, but some time ago moved to Santa Crus, and made periodical visits to Stockton. 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