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Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1903-10-08
DIRECTORY
JOSEPHINE COUNTY oFFIcERs,

JOSEPHINE COUNTY OFFICERS.
Judge. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. q. Booth
Commissioners ........ ic ion% + Ioveisas wrlis
Clerk. .........-. ....... II. l.. Bartlett
Deputy Clerk ........ T. P; .ludson
Sherln .....................G Geo. W. Lewis
Deputy Sheriff. ............. Ernest Lister
Treasurer er.........:.......... j. T. TAYLOR
school Supt.....-. ..-.... Lincoln Savage
Assessor. or..........-......... w. IL. Fallin
Surveyor r....................H II C.. Perkins
Coroner. .....................W. +. Kremer
CITY OFFICERS.
Auditor and Police Judge j. ]. jenninUs Us
Treasurer ..........~,...Col. W: Johnson
City Attorney. Z. Il. Maybee
Marshal John Lockhardt
street supt.. .........-..-- Henry knutsen
Councilmen. ........ Geo. II. Binns
J. l.. Calvert, J. A. Rehkopf. WillC.
Smith, Herbert smith, ii. G. Perkins.
FRATERNAL SOCIETIES.
Grants Pass Lodge A. f. IL A. NJ. No n
regular communication first and third
Saturdays. Visiting brothers cnrdiaIly
invited b, W. RIGGS w. NJ
A J. PIKE, Sec'y.
ROYAL Arch Masons. -Reames Cbapter No
% meets second and fourth Wednesdsy
Masonic hall. Ii. Z. BoBzIEN,
J. e. PETERSON, Secy. H p
Eastern Josephine Chapter, No. 20
meets first and third Wednesday
evenings of each month in Masonic
hall. Mrs. I. b. CORNELL, w. NJ.
Mrs H. ZoLLER Sec'y.
(. 0. o. F.,--Golden Rule Lodge No. rs,
meets every Saturday night at |. o. o.
+. hall. q. ii. MARSHALL,
T. Y. DEAN, secy. N.G.
Paran Encampment |. o. o. f. No.
meets second and fourth Thursday at
Loo r. hall, FRED SCHMIDT,
T. Y. DEAN, Sec'y. C.P.
Rebekahs-Et Rebekah, No. 40, meets
second and fourth Monday, l. o. o. f.
hall. ELSIE GREEN. n. q.
NJ. JENNIE DAVIS secy.
United Artisans Grants Pass Assembly
No. 40, meets alternate Tuesdays in
40. U. w. nall. Mrs. y. A GRIFFITH,
FRED MENsCH, Master Artisan,
Secy.
woodmen of the World-Rogue River
Camp No. 50, meets second and fourth
Fridays at Woodman Hall.
+. X. CoRoN. c. c.
c. Z. MAYBEE, Clerk.
Women OF Woodcraft-Azalea Circle, No.
1S2, meets first and third Mondays at
Woodmen hall.
GLEN Patrick, u. n.
w. f. DEAN, Clerk.
Modern Woodmen of America-Grants Pass
Camp No. SU07 meets 2nd and 4th Wednes
day Evenings at Woodmen hall at 1880.
| la
W. T. Goulder Clerk.
- -
No. %, meets each Wednesday except
the first at a: o. u. W. hall.
Il. n. Bolt, +. >. }. J. HALE, Z. X
;, ~,
meets in A. o. U. w. hall, Dixon build
ing every Monday evening.
f. W. HuGGERTH, M. W.
B A. STAHARD, Recorder.
- -, .,
u. W. meets every alternate Tuesday
evening in A. o l. W. hall, Dixon
building, Mas. A MCCARTHY Col H.
MRS. LYDIA DEAN, Recorder.
Kni,hts of tho Naccaboes- Grants Pass
Tent No. Il meets first and third
Wm, % Alfred r. p CHEsurRE.
Record Keeper. Commander
--
Ladies' Of the observation-disclosures Pass
Hive No tx LnIds rsoular .RaviawSn
VrS' bI AMI 'nIJu v,in ihurS'ays AZ a. d;ai; Al, H.
invitad o tsn,,ia CboSbira
Worv Si,,,roro Tad,. ,i't'1 To,nn,andar UrT
EenSSrd I'' KnaDnr' ''"N' Oo''''''"'''e''
-'eoolu nv
Knights of pvthios-l -l'hermonvlae No 20
| IN AZ a
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1903-10-08

American Order of Steam Engineers, Ore
gon Council No. l, meets first and
third Saturdays, at A. o. U. w. hall.
WM. H. KENNEY,
Benz. f. MYRCK, CHIEF Engineer
Corresponding Engineer.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1903-10-08

Order of Pendo-White Rock Council No
1866, meets in WoOdmen Hall Saturday
nights,
C. L, MAYBE, Secretary.
j. l.. HUNTING, Counselor.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1903-10-08

Knights Of hiaS-lhermopylae No. so,
meets each Tuesday night 1880 w. U.
W. Hall. NJ. T. Utley, q. &.
Tom WILLIAvs, X. OF X and S.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1903-10-08

Ladies of the Maccabees Grants Pass,
Hive No is holds regular Reviews"
first and third Tharsdays at A. o. U.
W. hall Visiting sisters cordially
invited. Jennie Cheshire
Mary simmons, Lady Commander.
Record Keeper.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1903-10-08

Grand Army of the Repub blic-Gen. Logan
Post No. 80, meets first Wednesday at
A. .. u. w. hall. q. 5. EVANS.
j. L. PETERSON, Adjt. Com
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1903-10-08

Royal Neighbors OF Amerca-Edi;h c.
Stipe Camp No. 2gO9, meets LIST and 3rd
Fridays at A. U. L. w. hall
NJ. Jennie DAVIS, Oracle.
Henrietta Zoller, Recorder.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1903-10-08
Day light trip through the Cascade
and Rocky Mountains.
u. DICKSON, era
J. " PHALON. IRA
l22 Third Street, Portland.

A. b. c. DENNISTON, e. w.P.A
u rlrst avenue Seattle, wash
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1903-10-08

Knights OF the Maccabees-Grants Pass
Tent. No. 13 meets first and third
Thursdays at WoOdmen hall.
VIM. Alfred, X. +. CHESHIRE,
Record Keeper. Commander.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1903-10-08

Women of Woodcraft-Azalea Circle, No.
lS2, meets first and third Mondays at
MoOdmen hall.
GLEN PATRICK, g. N.
W. L. DEAN, Clerk.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1903-10-08

Modern Woodmen of America-Grants Pass
Camp No. SU07 meets 2nd and 4th Wednes-
day Evenings at Woodmen hall at 80.
Ike NJ. Davis. V. G..
W. T. Goulder, Clerk.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1903-10-08

Hawthorne Lodge, No. q, ID. of H., A. o.
u. W. meets every alternate Tuesday
evening in A. o L.. W. hall, Dixon
building, Mas. A. MCCARTHY, c. OF IL.
MRS LYDIA DEAN Recorder
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1903-10-08

FRATERNAL SOCIETIES.
Grants Pass Lodge A. f. IL A. NJ, No "a
regular communication first and third
Saturdays. Visiting brothers cnrdiaIlv
invited. b. w. RIGGS w NJ
A j. PIKE, Sec'y.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-05-26
The War is Not Over.

Columbus. O.. May 20.-Relative to
the action of the Hill Top Improve
ment Association in refusing to par
tcipate in the memorial exercises at
the confederate cemetery at Camp
Chase, near. Columbus, Clement A.
Evans, commanding the Georgia divi-
sion of the United Confederate Veter~
ans has written to President w. 2
Potts. Of the Hill Top Association
saying:
Il write merely to say to you that
this action and the infammatory
speeches made by some members of the
association do not lessen the apprecfa-
ton by the surviving soldiers of the
c~onfederae army of the fraternal at
tentlons which nav been nua
shoWn to the graves of the confederate
dead at Camp Chase, nor arrest the
nigh purpose Of the southern soldiers
and people to maintain the terms Of
honorable surrender and to unite with
all true patriots of our country in all
efforts to achieve its greatest glory.'
Mcpherson, KaS., May 20.-The G. A
X department Of Kansas, the 22nd or
campment of which is in session i'm this
city, has passed a resolution protesting
against the proposed action of the
state Of Virginia to place a statue OF
robert T.. Lee in the rotunda of the
capital at Washington. The resolution
protests against the placing in said 70
tunda, n stateue Of Robert E. Lee.
OF any other person who has been dis
Ioyal 70 the government of the United
oldceS ana mas voluntary borne arms
against US.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-05-26
Awful Casualty.

New York, May PA score or more
persons We're injured by the explosion
of d leaky gasoline tank Of a burning
automobile owned by Thomas D. De-
Witt, a wholesale coal dealer. today.
All the injured. among whom were a
policeman and three firemen, were
burned by the shower of blazing gaso-
line which followed the explosion
While. several were taken to thte hos
pital none was fatally hurt. Three or
four hundred people gathered close to
the machine. The firemen a scarcely
turned on the water when the gasoline
tank exploded. The burning fluid from
the tank scattered in all directions and
those in the front rank of the crowd
caught the full force of it. The scene
that followed the explanation was ap-
palling. a score of men rolled on the
ground and shrieked with pain, women
tainted and the fire for a mOment was
forgotten. The firemen dropped the
hose and running for their rubber coats
and blankets extinguished the burning
clothing of many.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-05-26
SPONSORS BALL.
Brilliant Conclusion of the Great
Reunion at New Or
leans.

New Orleans, Louisiana, May 21.-
rum tonight in honor of the visiting
veterans, their sponsors, and maids Of
honor, was an affair Of exceptional bril-
lance. There were many prelimina-
ries and they were heightened to such
an extent that it was u o'clock before
the actual dancing was commenced
The ball was opened by an elaborate
quadrille containing many complicated
measures which necessitated much
marching about the hall. Sixteen griz-
Zled veterans in company with sixteen
young ladies, each of whom bore on
the BOSOM of her dress the blue cross
Of the confederacy, took part in this
portion of the programme, and the pre-
cion n accuracy of the various evolu-
tons which were all performed to the
airs of Dixie" and "The Bonnie Blue
Flag" called forth great applause from
the many thousands who were crowded
into the hall.
Following the quddrille came the
grand march in which the Memphis
bugle corps was the bright particular
feature. The striking uniform and eX-
cellent marching of the corps made a
decided hit and they were cheered again
again and again. A lance programme
was in order after the grand march and
it was well into the morning before it
was finished.
The crowd that attended the ball was
enormous. At II o'clock fully ten thou
sand people were in the building and
people were coming even faster then
than they were in the starting. At the
height of ball over 1000 dancers were
upon the floor at one time.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-05-26
CUTTING DOWN POLES AND WIRES.
Last Phase of the Famous Fight Be
tween the Pennsylvania Railroad

Philadelphia. May 21.-The last OBJ
in the litigation between the
PENNSYLVANIA railroad and the Wetern
Union Telegraph Company over the
poles and lines of the latter company
ION the railroads right of way having
been removed by the United States cir
court today at Pittsburg, which
refused the injunction asked for by the
Western Union. President Cassatt, of
the Pennsylvania railroad, issued an
IOrdar for the removal of the poles and
wires. The order was issued in the
forenoon and by night fall many miles
iof wires had been cut down.
Every section hand in this territory
was impressed into service to help IN
the telegraph company's
property. The wire after being cut was
.coiled UP and left lying along the rail-
road with the poles awaiting disposition
by the Western Union company.
There are about $4,000 miles of wire
land about 20. 900 poles covering a terri
tory of about 500 miles. belonging to the
Union. on the Pennsylvania's
by President Cassatt's removal
'OIuGI. II VIII ldht several Gays 10
|complete the work.
Pittsburg, May 21.-Hundreds of men
began today the work of cutting the
Union poles on railroad prop
'erty in this division. In a very short
time miles of poles, holding hundreds
'Of miles Of telegraph. telephone and
electric light wires e down with a
crash between Pittsbug and East Pitts
burg. kilograms tonight showed that
the action in Pittsburg was general all
along the line of the Pennsylvania be-
tween Pittsburg and Philadelphia and
las Il consequence many smaller towns
were without Geographic connection,
while in the Immediate vicinity Of Pitts
burg there were d number Of bOroughs
that were without electric light or tel
|ephone service
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-05-26
The Widows Cow.

At the meeting Of bankers In Clay
Centre. Kan, last week, says the Kan
sas City Journal. E. P. Blake, respond
ing to the toast. "Securities,' told Of /
pretty young widow who got into hnan-
cial straits and borrowed from his bank
$40 on the security of a fine Jersey COW.
1t nearly broke her heart she said, to
pledge the animal, which was almost
as dear to her as her children. Then
came a long period i'm which she re-
newed the note. time after time, some
times paying interest and sometimes
not, and always distressing the bank
officers with her sorrowful talk. lone
day." proceeds the story, "she showed
up in a more sorrowful frame Of mind
than usual. and with more tears and
wetter tears thar usual, announced thai
she lac given up the struggle. The
COW was lead and she was wearing
her life out under the weight of a deR
unsecured n which she saw no pros
pect Of ever being able to pay. She
wanted it discharged.
The cashier too to the woods, tell
ing me that it was no use for the bank
to monkey longer with that ape to
treat the woman as nicely as 1 could,
making her burden as light as posi-
BILE, dry up the fountain of tears, then
go over to the register Of deeds office
with her and lave the mortgage re-
leased. All of which I did in my
smoothest and most gentlemanly way.
Just as we were coming out of the
court house curiosity got the better Of
me, n more as a space filler than
anything else. I said:
Madam, now that this is all set
tied, when did your COW die and how
did it happen?'
She had wiped her tears away by
this time and was radiant and smiling,
a poem in contradictions. Turning to
me. she said:
MY dear boy, you tell that sweet
cashier Of yours that the butcher killed
the COW two years ago."
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-05-26
TERRIFIC
Five Barrels of HydrO-Carbon Ex-
pIOdes in New York festerday-One
Man Killed.

New York, May 21.-As Il result of
the explosion today of five barrels of
h~ydrOcarbOn in the Mott HaVen yards
of the New York Central railroad. one
man is lead and two others are in the
hospital suffering from severe burns
and other injuries The estimated dam
age Was 100000. The shock of the eX-
plOsiOn was terrific and the windows
in all buildings within a radius of 800
feet were shattered The neighborS is
inhabited mostly by Italians and the
greatest excitement prevailed.
a tank used for the storage of gas for
q Illumination blew up, setting fire
to everything in the vicinity. Sections
of the tank were blown in all directions.
An adjacent building used as a factory
was destroyed, as was a repair shop
nearby. Al least 500 cars We're in the
yards. They were pulled out TO a place
of safety.
The twentieth century limited for
Chicago. which vas beng made up was
stalled by the fire hose laid across the
tracks. but the firemen b~urrowed I'M
der the rails, n the train left Oh
schedule time. The origin of the fire
which caused the explosion, is not clear.
Report says it started in some tar bar
reIS and communicated with an oil car
whence it spread to tke Dig tank.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-05-26
CURE SICK HEADACHE.
DEATH OF Mr.. REM PREMPERT
Passed Away at the Bonitz Hotel
Amidst the Loving Care of Rela-
tiVes and Friends.

This morning at $50 o'clock Mr.. Rem
l.. Prempert entered from this life to
the beauties of the Great White Be-
yond. The announcement of the pass
ing away of his universally popular
mar Will cast a pail of gloom and al
most uncOnSolable sorrow over the
hearts of many This sadness will not
be confined alone to Wilmington. but
will reach many other cities and even
many states III the Union, where Mr..
Prempert had Travelled and where. as
traditional with him., he had made
scores of true and admiring friend
He had been sick for a number of
months and received treatment at the
James Walker Memorial Hospital, this
city. and the Johns Hopkins Hospital,
Baltimore. At one time it was thought
that he was on the rOad to
but He, who doeth all things under
s~tandingly ana wisely. deemed this not
best. Two days ago he commenced to
sink rapidly; hen Inconsistencies
came, when even hope was forsaken,
and this morning at 2:30 o'clock, sur
rounded by loving relatives and loyal
friends of this city, he breathed his
last.
The deceased was a man of generous
impulses. He lived IN a world of
brightness and always desired and tried
to make those around him live in his
world. He vas loved by all who knew
him. and his many deeds of kindness
constantly left a path of admiration in
his wake. One of his greatest traits
one pure white in nature-WaS his de-
votion to his aged mother. To her his
loss will come with a shock and a per-
petual sadness that is indescribable.
The deceased vas 43 a of age and
was a son of the late Henry c. Prem
pert, of this city. His mother, Mrs.
Lisette Prempert, also Of this city, sur
wives him, as does also two sisters,
Mrs. L. A. BonitZ, of Washington, D.
c., and Mrs. j. H. w. Bonitz. of Will
mIngton, and two brothers, Mr.. Arthur
Prempert, of Winston, and Mr.. Albert
Prempert.
He was 4 member of Central Lodge.
knights of Pythias, of Raleigh, and
Augusta. (Ga.), Lodge of the Benevo-
lent and Protective Order of Elks. For
many years he had been n of the
best known and most valued repreSen-
tatives of Uri & Co., of Louisville.
The funeral will probably be held to-
morrcW and will be conducted by the
ElkS, of Wilmington.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-05-26
THE SOLDIER WITH LEPROSY.
His Identity Has Leake.- Out-He is
Confined in the Hospital on Tybee
island.

Washington, May 21.-The identity of
the soldier who is suffering from lepro-
sy at an isolated camp in Georgia, but
whose name has so far not been made
public, was disclosed today by the &C
ton OF the comptroller of the treasury,
who passed upon a question connected
with the drawing of the soldiers pay
without signing vouchers for the same.
The soldiers name is Charles G. Mix.
first sergeant in the fifth of
the coast artillery corps. Mix is now
in a hospital at Fort Screvin, Tybee
Island. Georgia. In view of the fact
that il would not be safe for Mix to
sign pay vouchers the war department
asked whether written authority would
De necessary in order to draw the SOL
dier's pay and disburse it according to
his direction. The comptroller held that
the secretary was authorized to make
a regulation which would meet the case.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-05-26
Three Men Lynched.

Barlow, Fla, May 21.-Following the
murder of Barney Brown, reported yees-
terday, three men were shot to death
this morning, about daylight, at Null
berry, a phosphate town eight miles
west of Barlow.
The dead are Amos Randall, white.
and Don Kennedy and Henry Golding,
colored. guards about the formers
premises.
The negroes were questioned before
Justice ain court concerning the
death Of Brown. Their professed ig-
norance of the crime was not believed
and they were taken out into the dark
ness by an armed crowd which de-
manded the truth.
Golding then broke down and told
how Amos Randall had followed Barney
Brown down the road Monday night
and shot him through the head. There
were probably % men in the mob that
raided RandalIS bar this morning and
perhaps 200 shots altogether were fired.
The bodies Of the three men were liter
ally riddled with bullets. Randall re-
turned the fire but SO far as known
without effect.
Sheriff Tillis took charge of the bodies
and had them buried. In all probability
no arrests will be made. Fully half a
carload Of Whiskey was seized by the
officers in RandalI's store.
Randall came to- this country several
years ago from Pennsylvania Wher it
is said he has a wife and daughter.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-05-26
SENSATIONAL MURDER TRIAL.
Woman Being Tried for Her Life for
killing a Young han-PecuIiar
Case in PittSburG.

Macon. Ga. May 21.-The trial of
Mrs. Fife Carson, charged with the
murder Of Robert A. Rigsby of Bow
ling Green, Ky, a student in a busl
ness college here. will begin tomorrow
The homicide occurred January 18th
in the law office of NJ. c. Bayne. to
which the parties resorted in an effort
to adjust a trouble growing u Of
Rigsby'S alleged reflections upon the
character of Mrs. Carson h was a
teacher in another business college.
The attorney left them alone in his OF
office to ak the matter over. One OF
them locked the door. Shots were heard
within a few moments and Mrs. Carson
then opened the door. Rigsby was dis
covered dead with a pistol near him.
She at once surrendered to h sheriff.
crossing the street, revolver in hand.
Subsequently she was released on BAH.
1t i ~sexpected that the trial will de-
velop sensational features.
Pitsburg, Pa, May 21.-The end Of one
of the most sensational cases ever tried
in the United States circuit court came
today when the jury in the case Of Is.
Robinson against Robert S. Stephenson
defendants.
Liz NlS0 ""S ~
property in Wood street, worth about
800, 900 and involved the paternity of
a child. The plaintiff claimed title
through a child which he alleged was
born to his wife, who was his cousin
Miss Catherine Vera Robinson. They
were married December 1896, and it Is
alleged thai the child was born In
March, 1897, in Omaha, where they had
gone to avoid publicity. Robinson and
his wife were accompanied to Omaha
by Mrs. David Gregg Metheny, sister
Of Mrs. Robinson. The family came
east after the birth of the child and In
the summer Of 1898 they spent several
weeks at Fair Haven, Vermont. One
day Mrs. Metheny was seized with con-
vulsions and died very suddenly. The
mex morning Mrs. Robinson and the
child were dead, both having been shot
The suicide or murder of the woman
and the murder of the child were testi-
fled to during the trial OF the case.
The defense was nat the child was
not the child of Mrs. Robinson, hut
was the child of Mrs. Metheny. Meg,
heny is one of the defendants and the
verdict gives him the title through the
child born to his wife.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-05-26

Measures to Compel the Anthracite
Coal Carrying Companies to Pro-
duce Documents

Washington, May PA vigorous ef-
fort is to be made by the Interstate
Commerce Commission to compel Pres
ident Baer, of the Reading Goa and
and officials of other anthracite Goa
carrying roads, to answer certain ques-
ton and to produce certain documents
which they refused at the recent hear
ing before the commission in New York,
to answer and produce.
The particular documents, the Origi-
nails of which are demanded by the
commission are alleged contracts among
the cSal carrying roads limiting the pro-
ductiOn of coal.
After considering the refusal of the
railway officials to present the on
tracts to the Interstate Commerce
Commission, the members Of the COM
mission requested Attorney General
Knox to direct General Burnett, district
attorney for the Southern District of
New York, to present the case to the
United States circuit court and ask
for an order to compel the officials Of
the coal carrying roads to appear before
the commission, answer the questions
and produce the documents.
This request was made May Sth. The
same day Attorney General Knox gave
the necessary directions 10 General
Burnett. In cooperation with the at
torney for the complainant in the case,
William r. Hearst. General Burnett
has prepared the petition watch will be
presented to the circuit court probably
mex Monday.