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FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1900. THE ROGUE 1UVEK COURIER. IMG 13 THREES None Better Crescent, Stearns and Princeton $22.50 up Second II nd Wheels $5 up For Bridge t Woodville. The work of obtaining a bridge across the Rogue at Woodville has been agitated to a great extent of late and during this week the county judge, accompanied by the commis sioners, Is expected to visit Wood ville and look carefully Into the mat ter. There is nothing that would more materially aid Woodville than the construction of such a bridge, for there is no bridge across the Rogue between Rock Point and Grants Fass. Southern Oregon Wheel Works South 6th St. Below Bottleing WkS New Tailoring' Establishment I extent to the citizens of Grants Pass an invitation to call and inspect my line of Spring and Summer Suitings, I guaran tee honest material, excellent workman ship, good fitting clothes and satisfaction in every respect. J. E. Bodg'e 6th St Oppo. Webtern Hotel Garbage Cans for North Bond. The North Bend Harbor thinks they are excellent and thus speaks of the garbage cans: "The new garbage cans placed at the Intersections of the principal streets of the city of the Beautiful America Club are having an excell ent influence over the citizens to ward keeping Sherman avenue free from debris. It H not hard to form such a haMt to retain the wrapper of the paper, the envelope, the news paper, whatever it is you are about to throw away until you can come to one of these cans and throw it in there." They might be tried In this city, and would undoubtedly work equal ly as well. RUSH OF HOMESEEKEPS BREAKS ALL RECORD! Over 40.00U New Settlers In North west, and Oregon Will Get Half of Them. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars re ward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the laBt 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable In all business transactions and fin ancially able to carry out any obliga tions mnde by his firm. WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN. Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, 0. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken In ternally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 75c per bottle. Sold by all druggists Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup tastes nearly as good aa maple sugar. It cures the cold by gently moving the bowels and at the unii tlmo It Is soothing for throat Irri tation, thereby stopping the cough Sold by all druggists. Just Received Another Car Load V . - H . I I . - . 4 -- -J - r El:1 . rrE 1- 1 I : ::, 1, t fair AMEe C ill p FEEE There arc MORE IILES of AMERICAN FENCE lu use than all others combined 80 Per Ct. of all Woven Wire Fence Sold is AMERICAN When a man buys AMERICAN FENCE in any design, he gets the best fencing material that money will buy or that skill and experience can produce. The PRICE of AMERICAN FENCE quality, weight and service considered, is much lower than any other fencing on the market. IN AMERICAN FENCE you buy STEEL the best that can be made. It is not too Hard nor too Soft. A highly carbonized wire (so called steel wire) will not hold the galvanizing as well as a softer wire and is more apt to break in cold weather. AMERICAN FENCE is not too hard to hold the galvanizing or make it liable to broak in cold weathor, still it ii stiff enough and will remain tight under all conditions of temperature and use when properly erected. We Have the Best Rabbit Fence in the AMERICAN that has over been brought to Southern Oregon. It is 19 wires high (43 in.) has stays every six inches and weighs 11 J lbs. to the rod, the four spacings at the bottom are only 1 J inches wide, the next 5 are 2 inches, tho next 2 are 2 J wide and bo on up, and sells for only GOc per rod. CHICAGO, April 13. The colonl zatlon of the Pacific Northwest, which was halted by the general business depression and by the tears of the financial Interests of the country, Is again In full swing. The first month of the spring coloniza tion period has just closed, and the railroad managers are astonished at the results shown by the net fig ures of the returns. These figures, as compiled by both the Ilarriman and the Hill j lines, show that the present yeai bid j fair to surpass all previous years n the numbers who will seek homes In the land of golden oppor tunity which Lewis and Clark open ed in the Northwest. This belief Is the result of the first four weeks of (o'onist travel ended March 31. The returns are not all in as yet, but enough have been recorded to con vince the railroad men that there will be at least twice as many people set I led In new homes this year In the Pacific Northwest as there were last year. If records are not broken In this respect, there are a number of colonization experts who will be sad ly disappointed. During the first four weeks of the colonist travel the Harrlman lines carried almost double the number of people carried during the corresponding period last year. The eagerness with which the homeseek er Is looking toward the Northwest Is shown by a table of one-way col onist tickets sold by the Harrlman roads for the month of March, the sales being for the states of Wash ington, Oregon and Idaho. A sign! fiennt fact in the table Is that more than CO per cent of all the tickets sold wero to Portland and other points In Oregon. The future sales and the estim ated sales for the remainder of the month of April over the Union Pa clfic, tho Southern Pacific, the Ore gon Short Line and the Oregon Rail road & Navigation Company bring this total up to 15,000. This Is over double the number who settled In the states off the Harrlman roads during March and April, 1908, and that figure gives promise of between 40,000 and 50,000 new settlers for the year 1909. Over ftO Per Cent of Colonist Travel Cornea to Oregon. The following figures for tho month of March, given out by the Harrlman lines, illustrate the ex tent of the colonist travel to the Northwest, compared with last year. It will be noticed that more than 50 per cent of these tickets are to Port land and Oregon. Point 1909 1908 To Portland 1673 810 m - A I A I A 4 4 A ft m 9 io omer urcgon roinis nan ii To Puget Sound Points 854 327 To other Wash. Points 300 503 To Idaho 1346 730 A" I A. lTifilT r GRAPES, from their moat health, ful properties, give ROYAL iU active and principal ingredient Total 5371 3123 Bolting Powder jupsoitiieijrjnm It is economy to use Royal Baking Powder It lave labor, health and money. Where the best food is required no other baking powder or leavening agent can take the place or do the work of Royal Baking Powder. -.A'.u.H...,.rfAi,.,'. :,..,t,.tA.. ANOTHER INVESTOR IS! VERY MUCH PLEASED T1MBERMEN ARE MAKING MINERS MUCH TROUBLE Wildes (Jood Letter to (ierinan Pub- ' licatlen nml 15ouMs Hogue River. William Korb, who on a trl; through the west Btopped off at Grants Pass about a month ago and bought the Lee 10-acre tract a few miles down the river through H. L. Herzinger, has written a letter to the Gelfugel-Zechter, published at Hamburg, Wis., which appeared under the heading "Grants Pass, Oregon," and is translated as fol lows: My Dear M. Fout, Editor Gefluger Zuchter: To get a through understanding of this country I went there In per son. I have looked around and must say as to climate and fruit culture 1 have not seen a better piece of earth than the Rogue IUver valley, known as the Italy of America. The Rogue, Applcgate and Illinois rivers drain the valleyB and the slopes are Irrigated. . The apples grown In the neighborhood of Grants. Tnss are sold at a premium lu foreign mar kets such n) London and Hamburg, even Japan mid China use whole shiploads for the consumption of Europeans there. In fact, the de mand Is greater than tho supply, because they are the best keeping apples In the world. I have seen Newtown Pippins and Spltzenborg apples In pack this month of March as good and solid as when taken from the trees. Also old people find this country a paradise because of Its balmy climate and the mild win ters. Yours truly, WM. KORI1. Milwaukee, Wis. After Practically All .Mining Claim in Southern Oregon That Have Any Timber. DON'T BUY FENCE Sold Only By until you have Feen and gotten prices on AMERICAN Hair-Riddle Hardware Company DougliiN County Holler ut Work. Demonstrations with the big ten ton steam roller received at Rose- burg last Thursday, for use In road building In Douglas county, show the big machine to be In excellent working condition. Any district In Douglas county can thus have its roads put in first class condition by supplying the teams to haul the rock to and from the crusher and distribute It on the road in the proper place. There It will be rolled down hard by this big steam roller, making a good road that should cost but very little to keep It In good condition at all seasons of the year. Of Course, the roadbed must bo properly graded and drained and rolled down solid beforo the siirf.i'o rock Is put on, but when this N done th" result will well rcpny I ho tlmo and expense re quired In doing the work. Review. New Phone Hook. The Pacific Telephone & Tele graph Co. has issued a new telephone directory dated February, 1909, for Josephine, Jackson and Del Norte counties. Thin directory shows that Josephine county Is becoming cov ered with the telephone Bervlce, hav ing In Grants Pans 385 phones, the Applegate Valley Telephone Co. 88 phones, Frultdale 10, Kerby 62, Merlin 21, Red Bluff 12, Wlldervllle 2G, Leland 2, Waldo 5. The Trlbuno says: A concerted effort seems to have been Inaugurat ed on the part of tlmbermen to put the mining Interests of Southern Ore gon out of business. Locators, pre sumably for lack of suitable claims elsewhere, have been busy placing in vestors on mineral claims on many of which paying mines have been worked for years, and on others of which assessment has been regularly done. Tlmbermen are after practically all of the mining claims In Southern Oregon that havo any timber upon them, and by Its rulings so tar tho Roseburg land office has held that the land Ih more valuable for Um ber than for mineral. In one catte suit has been brought to set aside a mineral patent issued eight years nga. Miners are much worked up' over the contests Inaugurated to take away their prospects and mines. Not only are efforts being made to grab the mineral lands In the Rlue Ledge district, several of which have been decided In favor of the tlmber men and appeals taken from the Judgment of the Roseburg officials,, but contests havo been entered for many mineral claims upon which famous placer and quartz mines have been worked for years, In the? Gallce district, on Jump-Off-Joe creek, on Jackson creek, on the Ap plegate and near Grants Pans. Those Interested In mining claims must watch their properties, or they will find the timber men gobbling; them up us a speculation to stand undeveloped until tho distant years, when timber shortage renders prof itable the cutting of sparsely tim bered areas aud mining a thing ot tho punt. Fence that Is made of highly ear boolied (spring) wire la apt to break during cold weather, The American Fence It neither too bard nor too soft, but Is Just right, and li the best and cheapest fence that science and kill can make. It Ii told only by Halr-Rlddle Hardware Co Itrli k HcIiooIIioiimo for Woodville. Dy the overwhelming vote of 37 to 1 Woodville district voted $16,000 In bonds with which to erect a new schoolhouse at that place. The bonds will be negotiated as soon as poss ible and the building erected. It will be two stories In height and team heated throughout. Wood ville Is doing her part In keeping up with the general spirit of progress throughout the county. Grants Pass, Oregon Kodol digests 'l the ff"l Ton If you will take Kodol for a little while you will no longer have indi gestion. It la pleasant to take, acta promptly. Sold by all druggists. The lsnt number on tho entertain ment course occurs Saturday and Is the best number of the course. Do not fall to be present to hear the Dunbnrn. Concealed Weapons Lose Favor. A new law passed by the Cali fornia legislature requires that mer chants In making sales of plstola be required to register tho number of the pistol and the namo of the pur chaser. The state of California ap parently la going to keep track of those who buy thla pocket Instru ment. It may bo also that tho gov ernment of tho United States will do something In the same direction and even more radical. A southern congressman has Introduced a novel Idea which ho has proposed as part of the new tariff bill. It would provide that every pistol bo taxed tho aum of two dollars at tho fac tory. Ten million pistols a year would thus furnish a rcvonue of twenty million dollars, not an Item to bo sneezed at exartly. The Courier supplies many mer chants with thels sales books and we would like to supply you. Iloots-Kulrliwell. A pretty wedding took placo Easter Sunday, April 11, 1909, at the home of the brldo's parents In this city, when Carl Hoots, of Ash land, and Miss Vale Satehwell, of this place were united In the holy bonds of matrimony by the Rev. Robt. McLean. Quite a number of Invited guosta wore present, In cluding the groom'a mother, of Ash land, and Mrs. Clara Orr, of Med ford. The Satehwell home was beautifully decorated for the occa sion. Tho parlor decorattona were of whlto and green and the dining room was beautiful with pink and white curuatlona aud pink cherry blossoms. The ceremony waa per formed at 10 o'clock a. tn., and the wedding march waa played by Miss Eva Wlmer and W. A. Newoll. The bride wore a beautiful dress of blue messallne and carried a bouqet of whlto carnations. Immediately after the coroinony a dainty wedding breakfast waa served and In thla also the prevailing color scheme waa car ried out, among other tempting viands being pink and white Ice cream and cake. Many beautiful wedding presents were received by the young people aa tokena of the high esteom in which they are held by their many friends In thla city and In Ashland. The bride baa been a resident of thla plnre but a rtiort time, for tho past several months holding a position in the telephone office. Mr. and Mrs. Hoots left Sunday afternoon for Dunsmulr, Cal., and after a ahort visit at that pi a re will go to Coram, Cal., where Mr. Hoots will go Into business. They are fol lowed to their new homo by the hearty congratulations and beat wishes of a host ot friends.
