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Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1906-07-06
Costly Government C,.shs.

Scattered throughout the various
Washington departments are hun
dreds of clocks and chronometers.
which cost the government annually
thousands of dollars. The chro-
nometers are the most expensive
clocks in existence, and they are to
be found on board every warship of
the United States. These timepieces
cost $500 each. The ones most con-
suited are those in the marble room
of the senate and in the speakers
lobby of the house. Hundreds Of
people daily correct their watches by
them.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1906-07-06

During the Summer months the
library will be open ON Tuesday and
Saturday evening.
JENNIE II. JUDSoN, Sec'y.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1906-07-06

Posters, placards. dodgers, all size:
uni kinds, printed at the Coulter Office
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1906-07-06
Get acquainted with
~SM|TH'S~,

gIf SMITHS MAGAZINE
and you are strangers we will send
you the magazine three months
free that you may get acquainted.
q SMITHS is the biggest Illus.
trated magazine in the world-l70
pages Of reading matter and pic
tues, the same size page as the big
standard magazines like Harpers S
and Century.
g SMITHS is made up Of the
best Of everything-best stories
that can be obtained, best llustra-
lions that clever artists can draw.
and the best special articles. written
by writers who know their subject
thoroughly and write as entertain
ingy as they are instructive.
g SMITHS also prints every month a
score or more pretty portraits. in colors. Of
beautiful women. Taken all in all. there
is no better magazine than SMITHS
in fact. none nearly as good. no matter
what the cost.
q Write to-day. A postal will do.
Address Dept. F, Smiths Magazine,
85 Seventh Avenue, New York City
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-25
Greeley Starch Factory.

Five million pounds of potatoes have
been made into starch during the last
two months by the Colorado Starch
factory and the factory owned by the
Greeley Ice & Light Company here,
says the Greeley correspondent of the
Denver Republican. Two hundred tons
were made by the Colorado factory and
100 tons by the other, which began
grinding potatoes less than six weeks
ago.
Over $50 tons of starch has been
shipped to Eastern cloth and print
mills, to be used in sizing cloth.
The starch is made from Gull pota-
toes, heretofore merely waste product.
Greeley potatoes run fourteen per cent.
starch under normal conditions. The
freezing weather in October cut down
the per cent. considerably. Better re-
suits will come from the dugout pota-
toes, which were stored before the
freezing weather and which will soon
be sorted, the inferior stock going to
the starch factory.
Two shifts are working and will con-
tinue operations until June list. The
Greeley Ice & Light factory will build
a large warehouse during the summer
in which to store the starch, to hold
the product for good market prices.
The experiment of fattening 1000
sheep on potato pulp and alfalfa is be-
ing tried by the Colorado company
with excellent results.
The sheep were placed in the pens
December 1st and will be ready for
market by February 1st. The potato
pulp is pumped into the feed pens
directly from the factory and is
warmed by passing over steam pipe.
The sheep relish it and require no wa
ter with it. Some declare the potato
pulp is preferable to beet pulp as a
fattening food and predict that twenty
per cent more sheep will be fed here
next winter
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-25
THE FARM AND RANGE

According to the United States Agri-
cultural Department, the region best
adapted to macaroni wheat is a strip
extending about 200 miles each side of
the one hundredth meridian. Flattering
results are obtained in Kansas, and
especially the western part of Kansas
and into the eastern section of Colo
rado, as in this territory the higher
grade of the products is found.
Two thirty-lve horsepower pumping
plants have been installed near Rocky
Ford for the purpose of obtaining water
for irrigation. If these plants prove
successful it will give great impetus
to development of pump irrigation else
where in the Arkansas valley and par
ticurlarly in western Kansas. Uncle
Sam has been taking notes to deter
mine how much horsepower can be
developed, the amount of coal con-
sumed, the quantity of gas generated
and the amount of water pumped at
these stations.-Field and Farm.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-25
Pays to Breed Good Cattle.

The following from the Pacific Rural
Spirit, published at Portland, Oregon,
will apply on the ranges of Colorado
as well as on the farms of the Pacific
coast. A large number of the progress
sive stockmen of this state are infus-
ing better blood into their herds and
thereby getting much better results for
their labor and investment, but there
are still some who persist in using the
inferior breeding stock The Rural
Spirit says:
"The introduction of choice blood of
any standard beef brand into the cat
tie of any section means economy of
feed and far better results in weight
and quality of the beef productions of
that section when ready for market 1t
is process that permits marketing
prime beef cattle a year, or even two
years earlier than the old-fashioned
methods. 1t is money-making busi-
ness proposition that no set of pro-
gressive farmers should fail to take ad-
vantage Of at once. Every year that
the use of inferior or ordinary breed
ing stock is continued is time, feed and
money lost. The increased demand
for high bred stock will come and with
1t prices must advance. The fortunate
man will be he who clears his farm of
inferior stock and establishes himself
with herd Of good blood at the fav-
orable prices now prevailing.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-25
District Attorney Released.

Denver.-George Stidger, district at
torney, was given his liberty Monday
night on writ of habeas corpus issued
from the State Supreme Court. Mr..
Stidger had been held in the county
Jail since 10 o'clock Saturday night on
his failure to pay a fine of $500 i'm
posed upon him by Judge Frank T..
Johnson of the District Court because
of the refusal of the prosecuting Off
Ger to file certain information in the
Johnson division, instead of the Grim:
inal division where they belonged, un-
der the rule of the District Court itself.
On February Sth, or as soon thereafter
as possible, a hearing will be granted
on the return of the writ, at which time
the whole issue will be reviewed and
the position of the district attorney in
relation to the judge of District
Court set forth, as we'll as some i'm
portant finding regarding contempt Of
court.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-25
Deadly Utah Snowslides.

Salt Lake.-Snowslides in the Wa.
satch mountains, east of Salt Lake,
killeu seven men Friday night. six be-
ing lost at Alta, in Little Cottonwood
canon, ard one at the Wyoming mine,
in American Fork canon, on the other
side Of the range. The six men killed
at Alta were in saloon when the
building was overwhelmed by a terrific
slide which came without warning.
The men now lie buried under
twenty feet of snow and rocks at the
bottom OF the gulch. The wet snow
was sufficient to suffocate them in a
few minutes, even if they escaped
death in the crushing of the building
in which they were.
In American Fork canon, George
Tynge. lessee of the Wyoming mine,
was carried away by slide which
came a few hours earlier than the one
at Alta. Tynge was in his Office near
the mouth of the mine. The building
was broken into fragments and car
ried away.
In another building which was de-
molished by the same slide a man
named Kruz was cast to the top Ct the
slide and rode to the bottom of the
canon without injury further than a
few minor bruises.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-25
CONDEMN RUSSIA
FOR CRUELTY EXCEEDING THAT
OF THE DARK AGES.
A HUNDRED THOUSAND SLAIN
Mass Meeting at Washington De-
clares These Crimes Must Be
Stopped-Terrible Arraignment BY
Representative SuIzer,


Washington-A mass meeting of
citizens of Washington was held in
Belasco's theater Sunday night to ex-
press sentiments on the atrocities on
the Jews in Russia. The theater was
crowded. Resolutions which were
adopted endorsed speeches made at
the meeting and denounced these ter
rible atrocities as great crimes against
common humanity that must be
stopped at once, and for all time to
come by the Russian government"
Representative William Sulzer pre-
sided. He said:
1--WE have met tonight to protest
against wrongs and conditions and out
RACES in Russia. We arraign the gov
ernment of the Gar tonight before the
bar of civilization for great crimes
against a common humanity. The civ
ilized world is stunned and shocked
ana grleved by the inhuman barbara
ties and appalling atrocities which
have been going on for the past two
years in Russia.
During this short time am reliably
informed by those most competent to
testify, more than 100000 innocent
Jews, peaceable Catholics, Poles, inof-
fensive Lutheran Films and law-abid-
ing Christian Armenians-helpless and
defenseless men and women and chill.
dren-absolutely guilty of no wrong
have been cruelty, inhumanely, pitt
lessly and barbarously murdered and
butchered to make Russian holiday.
There has been nothing like it in all
the history of the world, not during the
horrors of the dark ages. All the hor-
rors of the Inquisition, all the bigoted
religious prosecutions of the middle
ages, pale into inSignificance.
Official Russia is responsible for
these awful atrocities. / charge on my
responsibility as a member of Congress
that it is solemnly alleged, and not de-
MED, and there is a widespread and
prevalent feeling throughout the world
that it is true, that these terrible
crimes of rapine and pillage and de-
vastation, that these brutal atrocities,
and that these monstrous murders of
the helpless Jews and Firms and Poles
and ArmenianS in Russia, are secretly
connived at by the Russian govern
ment, that they have been melted by
the Russian ruling classes-the grand
dukes-and that they are instigated,
directly and indirectly, by high officials
n Russia for religious and political
purposes.
Il hope what we do here, and what
we say here, will reach the ears of the
| cringing Gar and his corrupt cabal of
| grand dukes. 1 believe that our pro
| test, our condemnation and our denun-
citation will be heard in ST. Petersbskg
and that the Russian government will
see to 1t that the wholesale butchery of
the innocents be stopped"
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-25
FOLLY OF THE RICH.
Millionaires Paid Large Sums for Full.
some EIattery.

New York.-Col. w. d. Mann, editor
of Town Topics, testified at the Hap
good criminal libel trial Monday that
he had borrowed nearly 100000 from
j. P. Morgan, James r. Keene, w. X.
Vanderbilt, William c. Whitney and
other prominent financiers. Many of
these loans were repaid, so far as Col
onel Mann could recall, and others
were paid in stock of the Town Topics
Company at $1,000 share. The larg-
est single loan was obtained from
James X. keene, who loaned the town
Topics editor $4,000.
From w. X Vanderbilt, Colonel
Mann obtained $25,000: from j. P.
Morgan, s2,500; from w. C. Whitney,
$4,000; from Coils p. Huntington,
$4,000; frcm John w. Gates, $40 900;
Charles NJ. Schwab, 10000; Thomas
F. Ryan, 100000
When Colonel Mann testified that
many of these loans were paid in Town
Topics stock at $1,000 share James
w. Osborne, counsel for Mr. Hapgood,
asked il the par value of the stock is
not $40 per share, Colonel Mann re.
piled that it was.
A contract was produced showing
that $4,000 was paid by William J.
White of Cleveland for a subscription
to "Fads and Fancies," the book which
was issued under Colonel Mann's direc
tion.
He replied that he did not know, and
that, learning that Mr.. White was a
prominent Cleveland man. he had APP
proved his subscription. The price OF
d subscription to "Fads and Fancies"
was $1,500, and Colonel Mann was
asked what Mr.. White paid the extra
$1,000 for.
He wanted four pages instead OF
two," Colonel Mann replied.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-25
Bureau of Plant Industry.

The activity of the bureau of plant
industry of the Department of Agricul-
ture in its efforts to improve agricul-
tural conditions throughout the coun-
try. is set forth in the annual report
of the director, Dr. ID. b. Galloway.
Cooperative work with the agricul-
tural experiment stations of the sew
eral states and territories has been ex-
tended. School garden work has been
assisted in many ways, and 175,000
packets of seeds have been supplied
to schools. The work on cotton
has included the conducting of ex-
periments to secure early and weevil-
resistant types. Single germ beet
sugar seed will soon be produced in
quantities sufficient for field demon
strations. New varieties of hardy
oranges, new pinapples and new races
of corn and cotton have been devel-
oped in the laboratory of plant breed
ing. Valuable strains of tobacco have
been obtained by hybridization. 1t
has been shown that heavy seed pro
duces better plants than light seed.
The growing of winter wheat has
been extended in the southern por-
tions of North Dakota and Minnesota,
and new cereals adapted to the south
efn states nave Deen ueVelOpeu.
new date garden has been estab-
lished at Yuma, Arizona, especially for
the cultivation of varieties from the
Persian gulf. The planting OF grasses
as sand binders has produced impor-
tant results.
At the seed laboratory 1894 germina-
tion tests and 1,415 tests for mechani-
cal purity have been made. or 1,220
samples of seeds obtained In the open
market, 23Q were found to be either
adulterated or misbranded.
The foreign explorations have re-
suited in the securing OF many valu-
able varieties of dates for the govern
ment date gardens In Arizona and Cal
ifornia. and also many important dry
land fodder plants.
The results achieved in combating
diseases OF orchards have been especi-
ally gratifying. Remedies for the dis
ease Of orange trees. known as "die
back" have been discovered, and the
proportion affected in n region where
ten years ago fifty per cent. Of the
trees was diseased has been reduced
to one.tenth of one per cent.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-25
Charge Of Intimidation.

Washington.-B. S. Rodey, former
delegate to Congress from New Mex
leo. created a furore at Fridays hear
ing on the joint statehood bill before
the House committee on territories by
announcing that corporate interests
in Arizona had suppressed public opin-
ion in favor of joint statehood and
declared that popular vote on the
question would show decided major
ity in favor of the admission of Ari-
zona and New Mexico as one state.
There has been intense persecu-
tion in Arizona" Mr.. Rodey declared.
Special interests have perpetrated out
rageous and scandalous suppression of
public opinion for the last six months
do not dare to say So"
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-25
LAW OFFICER IN JAIL.
District Attorney Stidger of Denver
Committed for Contempt.

Denver.-The News of Sunday
morning says: District Attorney
Stidger spent last night in Jail and
will have to stay there until Monday.
He was arrested at 9 o'clock last night
upon an order signed by District
Judge Frank T. Johnson, charging him
with contempt of court. The order
committed him to the county Jail until
he had paid fine of $500 into the
court treasury. Sheriff Nisbet served
the order. He was accompanied by
his attorneys, Willis Elliott and Rod
ney j. Bardwell. Before acting he
had asked their advice and was told
by them to serve the order, as the only
safe thing to do. They reserved their
judgment on it's validity.
The district attorney was given a
cot in the warden's quarters in the
basement Of the Jail. He went to bed
about IL o'clock. After he had been
made fairly comfortable he gave out
the following statement:
Il was taken completely by surprise
when l heard from Judge Johnson's
lips that l was on trial for contempt.
He had given me no intimation that
he had any intention of bringing such
a charge against me. 1 believe the
conspiracy to get me before him and
have me testify under oath that had
purposely transferred cases from his
division to the criminal division of the
District Court.
ITO say that 1 was surprised when
he informed me that 1 was fined for
contempt does not explain my feelings.
At the most, any action that l took
was but constructive contempt. l
committed no contempt in his pres
ence or before the court. And in cases
Of constructive contempt the accused
is entitled to due notice and to trial
by jury. To my mind his action
throughout has been entirely outside
the pale of the law"
The case is the result of an attempt
by Judge Johnson to enforce the laws
against gambling and Sunday liquor
selling. Persons arrested by direction
of Judge Johnson, instead of being
brought before his court, were
taken before Judge Palmer's di-
vision of the court by District
Attorney Stidger, where they prac-
tically escaped punishment. Mr..
Stidger claims that his action was in
accordance with rules of the court,
while Judge Johnson holds that the
district attorney was guilty of con-
tempt in removing to another division
of the court cases originating in his
division.
The case will no doubt be carried
to the Supreme Court of TIE State for
a final decision.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-25
Brazilian Warship Sunk.

Rio Janeiro.-The Brazilian turret
ship Aquidaban has been sunk at Fort
Jaca Spagua, south of Rio Janeiro, as
the result of an explosion on board. 1t
is reported that 800 of her crew per.
ished and that only one officer was
saved.
Four rear admirals perished on the
Aquidaban, which had been used for
the accommodation of number Of
supernumery officers and men attached
to the flotilla escorting the cruiser
Barroso. The Barroso had on board
the minister of marine and his staff.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-25
Apostle Smith Makes Denial.

Salt Lake.-Apostle John Henry
Smith makes vigorous denial Of pub
lished reports alleging to quote him
in relation to the Woodruff manifesto.
Apostle Smith says: my attention
has just been brought to the fact that
I have been quoted as saying In an in
terview with one Professor Wolfe that
the manifesto issued by the late Pres
ident Wilford Woodruff prohibiting
the practice Of polygamy was only a
trick devised to beat the devil at his
own game
with reference to the above I
simply desire to say that never ut any
time or place did make such state
ment to Professor Wolfe or any other
person.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-25
British Labor Party.

London.-It is now believed that the
Labo. party will muster about forty
members in the new Parliament, di.
vided into three groups. The largest
group, composed of twenty-one indc.
pendents, will act and vote together.
The next group in importance includes
John Burns, William Randall Cremer,
Henry Broadhurst, Thomas Burt and
other Moderates. and this group is
likely to cooperate with the govern.
ment. The third and smallest group Is
composed Of extremists Of Socialist
typo.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-25

Tho agricultural department has
discovered that barbed wire rusts be-
cause 1t is left ont in the rain The
prudent farmer will hereafter watch
the weather predictions and bring in
his barbed wir1 when . storm is
threatened.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-25

The good die young, sometimes.
That is the reason why certain mil
lionaires wait till they have passed
the dangerous years before they be-
gin to be good things.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-25
New Patrick Evidence.

New York.-Former Judge William
X. Olcott of counsel for Albert T. Pat
rick, will, on or about the first Monday
In February, make application for a
new trial. The application will be
based on the claim Of newly discovered
evidence.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-25

II Carnegle's business required him
to get up at s o'clock these cold win.
ter mornings 1t would seem small
matter to him whether he was arous-
ed by the soothing strains Of pipe
organ or by an old-fashioned alarm
clock.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-25

The father of the New York woman
who could not struggle along on $780,
900 year was prophetically named
Work. A good man; American faith
ers belong to the same family.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-25

Uncle Russell Sage, when last heard
from, was in a fair state OF health
and loaning money to friends on good
security and as mark of special
favor, at only 100 per cent.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-25

Russell Sage, though ninety years
of age is able to make $4,000 a day.
Yet John D. Rockefeller thinks old
people should be pensioned
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-25

James ]. Corbett has been pro
NOTED to playing in Bernard Shaw
play. "Fitz" ought to counter with Il
special production of "Spartacus the
Gladiator" These are great days for
the Drahma.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-25

Lots of men find it hard to keep
their good resolutions in regard to
using only parlor language when the
bills begin to come in.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-25

While Ecuador is not large coun-
try, it can manage to squeeze in three
simultaneous revolutions without feel.
ing Uvercrowded.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-25

The Grand Duke Cyri, and Fathei
Gapon were seen sitting opposite eacl
other at the same roulette table Al
Monte Carlo few days ago. The.
might both have been in better bust
ness.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-25

Bourke Cochran says no man worth
$10,000,000 can be put in jail. Some
trust magnates now under investiga-
tion may wish they were as sure Of
this as Mr.. Cochran seems to be.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-25

Heroes are quickly forgotten. In Or
der to get his name in the papers
again, Togo may have to get run over
by a trolley car.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-25

The pot may call the kettle black
but il she is a female pot she will
argue that black is becoming to her
anyhow.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-25

King Edward is going to bestow the
Order of Merit on Togo and Oyama.
So any doubt about their merit is
finally disposed of.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-25

In one factory in New York three
employees have been employed for
thirty years, and three more for
twenty-five years. This speaks well
for both employers and employed.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-25

The army Of Santo Domingo was
sent after the fleeing president, but
one of the soldiers got tired and the
other one had to stop to take care of
him.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-25

Mr.. Corey's Miss Gilman is lyric
artist" not a chorus girl. And she
also spells her name "Mabelle." So
there!
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-25

OF course the Cincinnati millionaire
who took the street-cleaning job de-
serves credit. Still, think of the un-
dying fame of the man who makes
Cincinnati clean!
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-25

The old idea was that mans
house is his castle. Many a mans
house never gets beyond being cas-
tie in Spain.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-25

Russia is large empire, so there
are still other places for trouble to
break out
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-25

OF course it is only coincidence
that all this talk about DAnnunzio's
divorce comes simultaneously with the
news that he has just completed a
new book.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-25

The population of Berlin now ex-
ceeds 100000. in spite of the fact
that the kaiser now owns eight big
touring cars and King Alfonso of
Spain visits him occasionally.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-25

Since we have seen that snapshot
picture of Marie Corelli we under
stand why she has always been SO
unwilling to be photographed.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-25

Mrs. Coils p. Huntington paid $10,-
900 for her copy of "Fads and Fan
cies.' Counting, or averting, public
fly?
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-25

George Herring of London. has Civ
en- half a million dollars to the Saliva
ton Army. Odd fish, Herring.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-25

What shall we eat?" asks the
Philadelphia Inquirer. What! Has
the scrapple given out?
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-25

, New Jersey wants s35O,0OO to fight
mosquitoes with. One way to get it
is to incorporate a few more trusts.