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Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1907-05-10
All Things Come
to Those Who Wait.

Will thisaxiom apply to trader
TIM! think not. We will apply
a little
BLOWING
IN the form of a breezy ad,
with fair share of pluck and
perseverance as a
PULL,
to solicit share of your
patronage, which will be the
PUSH
to keep the ball rolling along
our way.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1907-05-10
CALL ISSUE FOR
COUNTY WARRANTS
County Treasurer Has Funds on
Hand to Pay Many Out.
standing Warratns.

There are funds in the treasury to
pay all warrants protested to January
/, 1904.
Interest will cease from this date,
April 10th, 1907.
j. T. TAYLOR. =.
Treasurer of Josephine Co., Ore.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1907-05-10

Legal blanks at the Courier ofie,
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1907-05-10
WE ARE OVERSTOCKED! |!

Anticipating the rise in prices (Which has proven ue)
bought prrg goods early and heavily than DOUBLING
our orders on some lines Good business policy it
It's opportunity buy what you need for the
right in the height Of the season. prices usually asked only
Midsummer Clearance Sales.
The items below hint Of the savings but only hint To profit
you
No l4O0-Organde 20 pieces in this lot Big line patterns
The Oc quality in this Mill End Sale per yard Tee
Magod Baste 32inch CLOTH 25 different patterns and
worth 5c. For this sale per yard.
Big line Of high grade goods Mercerzed Tissues
silk Organdies Embroidered Lingerie Cloths OF these
may be what want for the gira graduating gown
........ ALL at 25 per cent discount
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1907-05-10
Wool Dress Goods Remnants

After two months Of selling from immense stock finds
with numerous Of wool sungs from " yards the
piece in pieces enough for skirt These you
buy from Is to Il less than the regular price
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$4,000 BARRELS BURN.
Serious Oil Fire at East Butler, Pa,
Threatens to Spread, Causing
Immense Loss.

BUTLER, Pa, June 22.-Twenty-fvo
thousand barrels of oil are burning at
the plant of the Nalvolinc Oil company
at East Butler with no possible chance
of stopping the fire and with the gravest
danger of its being communicated to 9TH
er tanks.
Shortly after noon a terrific storm,
accompanied by sharp lightning passed
over this section and large tank fun Of
oil was struck and ignitcd. 1t is located
on Il hillside above the Nalvoine and
Wilburine rctncries and below and
around it are nine other tanks ranging
from 10000 to 10000 barrels in sizes
all containing oil Below the tanks runs
the BonnybrOok branch of Connouucs-
Messing creek. 1t is two miles from the
tanks to the manufacturing center of the
city and property holders along the creek
are alarmed for the safety of their prop
crty, as ii is but n matter of n few hours
or minutes until the surface Of the stream
will be covered with burning oil Half Il
dozen lumber yards are located on the
banks of the creek The loss is ut pres
ent estimated at $4,000 and may reach
100000 if other tanks ignite
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THE MULE WAS CURED.
Drop of Forty Feet Ended His Stub
bOrncss.

bOrncss.
1T was twenty years ago when l
was In the building and contracting
business said the man with two
watch chains, that l took mule as
part payment of debt. 1t was soon
reported to me from the lumber yard
that the animal was the meanest and
most cantankerous specimen Of his
tribe. Ilitched to a wagon 10 one could
do anything with him. II yelled at to
go he would back up and stand there
with his feet braced. We bothered with
him for couple of weeks and then he
was labeled For Sale. Cheap
at happened that at the time | was
building a chimney for a factory, When
we had run the brickwork up forty feet
high we got out of material and had to
lay off for few days. 1t was during
this interval that little IriShman in
my employ came to me one day and
asked:
Mr. Blank, do you want that mule
cured of his ways|'
eff it can De done.
"'Give me leave and l will either
kill or cure him
Go ahead
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All sound But the Hull.

The energy of some men seems I'M
conquerable. AS the body wcakens It
burns all the brighter frctted only by
its narrow confines and inadequate ser
vice. OF such a nature was John Quin-
cy Adams. Mr.. Seward in his Auto
biography quotes Il comment made on
him by an old captain which Is most
apt in its technical expression.
Mr.. Adams is very great man, but
he is getting Old remarked some one
who had just listened to an grafton by
the exPresident.
The response Of steamboat captain
with whom Mr.. Adams had Travelled ex-
pressed the popular feeling
"Yes, perhaps, but OH If you could
only take the engine out OF the old
Adams and put It into new hull r.
Youths Companion.
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POWER OF PULLEYS.
Five Blocks VIII Enable "a Man to
Lift Sixteen Hundred Pounds.

Five Blocks VIII Enable u Man to
Lift Sixteen Hundred Pounds.
If you We're commanded to lift 1000
pounds when your normal lifting
strength was equal to only 100 pounds,
how would you go about it? How
would you Increase your strength six
teen times2
1t can be done easily. Have you ever
studied the effectiveness of pulleys do
you know that the average man may
equal Sampson simply by employing
a rope and few pulley blocks?
AS early as the sixteenth century
methods of augmenting power through
pulleys was demonstrated, Since then
this wonderful mechanical aid has
proved Of vast benefit to man.
The man, then, who would rival the
feats of Samson must call the humble
but powerful pulley to his aid.
OF course, he can do a great deal
with the lever, although he may not, as
Archimedes believed could be done,
loosen old Earth from her moorings.
SlIll, lot an eS.ulpIe Oh SrduuallE out
powerfully augmented strength he
would turn to the pulley.
Suppose that by the use Of two pull
leys you were able to lift 100 pounds
from the floor, and you wished to lift
twice the weight. Were you to take a
double block and use It above one single
block, you could lift 200 pounds.
By the use of'two single pulleys the
load Is Supported by only one rope: by
the use of double pulley, thus doub-
ling the rope back on itself, its lifting
power, as well as your own, Is in
creased.
If you used two double pulleys, you
could increase the lifting capacity to
800 pounds by doubling the lines
around the pulleys. In proportion to
the number of ropes supporting the
load you can increase the weight.
To lift 400 pounds you would merely
have to double your blocks. In draw
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DIAGRAM ILLUSTRATING THE POWER PULLEYS.

ing the rope man pulls 1t in an oppo-
the weight. Were you to get above the
pulleys and pull upward, the weight Of
the rope-however slight-would figure
in the calculations.
No doubt you have often seen men
lifting great loads and immense boxes
by means Of pulleys and wondered how
1t could be done.
In building, the pulley is one Of the
most valuable pieces of mechanism.
While looking AT skyscrapers have you
not wondered how the great iron beams
were lifted to the dizzy heights?
Here, again, the pulley has done al
most incredible work.
Still another way of using pulieys is
to increase the NUMBER instead Of
doubling the winding capacity of single
blocks.
By using two pulleys you will lift
possibly, 200 pounds. If you add anoth-
er single pulley, you will be able to lift
400 pounds. twice the weight, without
extra exertion.
By the use Of four single pulleys you
could lift 800 pounds, and with five pull
leys 1000 pounds
OF course. the facility of lifting a
heavy weight and the ease Of lncreas-
ing it depends upon the bearings of the
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A Sahara Telegraph Line

The desert Of Sahara will soon be
traycrscd by a telegraph line All III,
dctils Of the scheme have been worked
out aud il is matter of only few
months before the project will be il
operation. The work IS being done b,
the French government. which purpose,
to connect all its possessions in North.
eru Africa by wire.
The poles will be Of metal aud viii
br placed TOO meters apart, supportin,
the wire ut distance from the ground
sufficient t. permit Of the passage os i
man % camel back.
1t viii be necessary to maintain d
guard along the line and regular in
Spectian will be made every two weeks
In the mean time guards are 90 be hel,
in readiness 70 20 ont on a tour of in
spectinu in ease any Interruption 70 I'll,
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pulleys. 1t is important that these be
delicately adjusted and we'll oiled.
From purely mathematical stand
point the fine elements which enter into
the facility of increasing weight with
out the necessity of additional lifting
force are numerous.
A great deal depends upon the elias
ticity Of the rope. With a stiff rope you
would find much more difficulty in lift
ing weight than with a flexible one.
Even the friction Of the rope as it
glides over the pulleys must be taken
into account.
TIE use Of pulleys was demonstrated
by Seyins, a Dutch engineer and physi-
cist. who was born in Bruges in 154S.-
PHILADELPHIA North American
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the work was taken up by the girls and
carried on from where the brothers had
left it. Today the farm is the envy Of
many Of the neighboring farmers, and
not only is this true because Of the mir
of neatness which prevails but Of the
stock to be found on it, These farmers
aim at quality instead of quantity in
their stock raising, aud as a consequence
no higher grade Of horses, cattle and
hogs are to be found in northern Indi-
ana than on the ''oln maids farm.
1t is not the lighter work which IS
done by the sisters, as can be seen from
the woodpile, every stick Of which was
split by the female farmers the trees
being felled by them and hauled home.
All Of the planting and harvesting Is
denc by the 'Branuan girls aud no ore
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What he did was to get help and
hoist that mule to a platform on top of
the chimney. The animal made no OBJ
Jections. When up there he gazed
around as If he really enjoyed the land
scape. After about FIVE minutes the
lrlshman calls to him:
Gee-up with ye, We lazy, good for
nothing son of a gum
The mule laid his ears back and
commenced to retire his body to the
rear. When he had backed three feet
over he went. Those on the ground
said he turned about six Somersaults
before he landed on his back on a soft
spot. He lay there 81 minute and then
he got up and began to canter about.
When hitcbed up to the wagon he want
ed to pull the whole load, and from
that date on he was the most indus
trious and ambitious mule In the State
of Ohio. We had to fairly beg of him
not to kill himself with hard work
don't know how it would work In other
cases, but If | was q poor man I'd 90
into the business Of backing perverse
mules off the top Of forty foot chin
neys Ten dollars a mule, and no cure
no pay" -Cincinnati Enquirer.
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BAD AFFAIRS IN NAVY.
Grave Irregularities Discovered by En-
glishmen-Defect on Vessel Was
Secretly Patched Up.

LONDON. June 22-"Gravc irrcgu-
larities" is the term the parliamentary
committee on public accounts gives the
conditions in the navy on which it issued
ITS report today. The committee finds
the established custom was the accept
ance of commissions from contractors by
petty officers but the report adds that
severe disciplinary measures hive been
adopted To- suppress the practice The
committee finds that the builders Of the
battleship King Edward VII. secretly
patched up "A effectively cast ruddrr
which the government was obliged 10 re
place. The builders gathered together
a few Of their employees on certain
Sunday and by electric Welding concealed
n huge fault in the ruddor.
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YANKEE KING IN AFRICA.
Rules Over Settlement with II Pop
uIatton of 400.

Rules Over "a Settlement with II Pop
ulation of 400.
4 New York capitalist who has re-
Gently returned from n trip to the Kon-
go Free State, where he is interested
in the rubber business, told an inter
American exile in that faraway 2oun-
try, who is the boss OF a small kon-
so settlement, says the New York
Times. After describing a visit to
Buma, the capital of the Konko Free
State, he continued:
with my party we took the steam
boat and started up the Kongo River
toward the center of Africa. The
scenery was never monOtonous. Now
we come to high, white cliffs, now to
low, sandy shore. Here were found
heavy forests, whose edges ended ap-
parently in the midstream, and there
the low bush, which only half hid
treacherous swamp land.
soon we reached station on the
French shore of the Kongo and landed
by way of giant tree trunk in the
midst of a fairy settlement The first
thing to welcome us was Il gorilla, who
turned three somerSaults and then cX-
tended a hairy, long-naied paw. At Il
swinging gait the well-trained ape led
us over barren hllock to little set
Element called Maar.
THE sight of the place | shall never
forget. We walked beneath an avenue
of carefully planted trees, and aroInd
US we saw signs Of civilization not 70
be witnessed in any other corner of
the world. Neither America nor Eu-
rope can ever hope to produce such a
settlement Orange trees, heavy with
fruit, scented the cool air; great
white fountain. half hidden by clouds
of tluttering doves, splashed lazly in
an open square All around were avla-
rieS. walled with wide-meShed wire
and filled with huttering. chipping
birds. Occasionally, instead of birds,
we found monkeys, apes, leopard or
snake.
The settlement had a population Of
some 400 Kongolese, and you can Judge
of my surprise when | found that a
Yankee was the king of the settle
ment. He said his name was Alexan-
der Fisher He had made a collection
of the countrys birds and animal life,
so that we could see them without trou-
bling to hunt
THE bungalow in which he lived was
clean, roomy and well furnished. Tie
well-upholstered furniture was comfort
able and duh moments were enllvened
by first-rate graphophone and music
boxes.
Mr.. Fisher beamed with hospitable
joy. He dined us and showed us all
over his settlement The place is a
trading store. Fisher said that bust
ness was dull, but he did not sigh from
his luxurious exile. He loved his birds
and apes and live stock more than he
loved Nankeeland and his wish was 20
be buried beneath the shadow of an
orange tree, facing the river, in the
center of the open square of his little
kingdom.
HE told me he was born In Texas
forty-eight years ago. By few re-
marks which he dropped l imagined he
had got into some serious trouble in
Texas and fed the country It's not
likely that Fisher is his real name.
He was a man of fine physique and
appeared to be we'll educated. He had
complete control over his black sub
jects and could speak their language
perfectly
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ACIDFOR NEAR JUMPERS
Citizens of Alliance, O., Use Squirtguns
on Members of Gift of Tongues"
Society.

ALLIANCE, O., June Business
men and students numbering about thr-
ty, attacked the Gift of Tongues" reli-
glous camp late last night and scattered
more than 800 worshippcrs with acid.
The camp, which was objected to by
many persons is run by Rev. Levi Lup-
ton. The attackers were armed with
squirt guns loaded with diluted sulphuric
acid. When the crowd reached the camp
Rev lupton and many Of the more de-
vout d the worshippers were knccling
on the "mourners bench At signal
the acid was thrown all over them and
especially Rev. LuptDu, who was Gov
cred from head e. foot with the iluid.
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icont moisture to keep the cigars in eX-
celent condition. | discovered the
thing quite accidentally. Am fond Of
apples, you know, AID like to keep
some around my desk for nibble or
two occasionally. Generally | kept the
fruit on top of my desk, but one day
the dust was so bad that | resolved to
place the apples in drawer. There
wasn't a drawer sufficiently empty for
the apples except one IN which l had
cigars. 1t didn't look Ike a good COM
bination, apples and cigars, but into the
drawer went the apples
"A couple of hours later | felt the
need of Il smoke The delicious flavor
the cigar had surprised me- 1t was a
make | had been smoking for years.
but | never had noticed that flavor be-
fore, and | enjoyed the smoke SO much
that | hit it up with another from the
same drawer The result was the same.
and then the presence Of the apples
with the cigars suggested solution of
the mystery.
From that time on | have kept my
cigars with apples, and have smokes
that are distinctive and real delight.
furthermore, the cigars never get dry
when they are with the apples and, at
the same time, never get too moist.
Some of my friends to whom | have ex-
planned this thing have tried other
kinds Of strong favored fruit instead of
apples. One man insists that he gets
the most delightful results from or
anses; but apples suit me best and
stick to 'cm."-Youths Companion.
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ITALIAN DRUNK,
SHOOTS Up TRAIN.
CRAZED FOREIGNER KILLS ONE
MAN AND WOUNDS TWO
WOMEN
WILD NIGHT ON ROCK ISLAND.
John Bells Dashes Through Chair Car
Taking Deliberate Aim at Sleep
ing Passengers
WILD NIGHT ON ROCK ISLAND,

DENVER, Colo. June 22.-In a shoot
Ing ARRAY that occurred in a chair car
Of passenger train No. >, wcstbouud ON
the Chicago, Rock Island x Pacific rail-
way, late last night between Dresden
and Seldon, in western Kansas, 4. Is.
Topp, Il tailor Of Minneapolis was killed
and Mrs. Morris Olsen of Marshall,
Mimi, bride, ana her sister were
wounded. The shots were fired 10y John
Bells, an Italian barber cnroute from
Boston to San Francisco, who had
boarded the train at Chicago Thursday
night.
Before the shooting began most Of the
passengers were doing in their chairs.
They were awakened by frantic yclIs
and pistol shots. Five shots were fired
in rapid succession by Bells as he walked
through the aisle from the front to the
rear Of the car, taking accurate aim
at one passenger after another,
Murdered While Asleep.
The first shot struck Mrs. Olsen, the
bullet passing through the jaws and COM
mg on, on the left side. Mrs. Olsen
sister, Mrs. Harry Blakcsey, of Arida,
Colo, sitting opposite her, was hit in the
right shoulder with a second bullet.
Their wounds are not fatal. After be-
ing shot both women rushed to the smuk-
ing car ahead and Il majority of the male
passengers followed as quickly as pos
sible, tumblins over one another IN their
haste to escape.
Bells third bullet passed through Mr..
Tops heart. lie WdS found dead later
III his seat. His facial expression was
calm and from his position it seemed that
lie was sleeping when shot
Fights Like Fiend With Razor.
BY this time only two other men re.
manned in the car. Charles \. Gilliat of
Denver and II. X. Slawson of Pueblo,
Colo. Gilliat closed in on Bells and
wrenched his revolver from his hand,
but not before two more shots had been
fired, neither of which, however, hit any
body. Before being uyerpOwcrcd Bells
drew a razor and with this he fought
desperately. A negro porter from the
tourist car, armed with billy, finally
succeeded in knocking the razor out of
tho Italians hand and Bells was then
seized and bound by Gilliat, Slawson, the
porter and others.
Two Italians Locked Up.
At Goodand Kan, Bells and travel
ing companion, Patsy lcganbradi, also
an Italian were removed from the train
and locked UP III Jail. Bells was ac-
companied by his wife and four children
and Leganbradi by his wife and five
children, The women and their children
continued their journey to San Francisco.
Mrs. Leganbradi said the two men had
been drinking vcrmouth all day ycster-
day. About o'clock they fell asleep.
At 1880 Mrs Leganbradi said Bells
awoke and began to protest wildly that
some one was trying to rob him. Then
he rushed up the aisle and began shoot
ing.
The body of Topp was left at Good
land and tho two women were taken to
the hospital there. Mrs. Olsen's hus-
band was not on the train, having gone
on ahead to Arriba, Colo
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Payment for knowing How"

As to the adoption Of n profession.
with view primarily to service of the
public. ii is to be feared that men in
general, and professional men in partic-
ular, are not constructed Oh such self
sacrificing lines Probably the millen-
NAL period is not sensihly nearer now than
when n certain professional of lang syne
submitted a bill of so to one Of the long
suffering public he served. the said bill
being thus tented: 50 for services
rendered. so for knowing how. Yale
Alumni Weekly.
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and left his wife and FIVE small children,
two sons and three daughters, the young
est child Of . years. to run the farm
and make their own way in this world
as best they could. Of the family there
now remain on the home place but these
three daughters
Much of the sturdy self-reliance mani
Tested by them today, writes Ham
mond correspondent of the indianapolis
Star, can be traced back TO their plncky
little mother, who, instead of waiting
for something to turn up," started in
and not only made home for her little
ones but gave them an enviable start
in this world before she quietly slipped
away TO the other
The two sons drifted away from home
before the death of the mother aud
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car of two rapidly revolving hywheels,
which. like the spinning top, resist be-
ing moved out of their plane Of mo-
ton. Louis Brennan, who is known as
the inventor Of a torpedo which the
British government bought for 5000
600, has set up an experimental rail
way in miniature, with cars large
enough for children to rid In. Brcn-
nan predicts that the future railway
carriage will be much larger-two or
three stories high, and wide In pro
portion; that speeds viii be from two
} three times greater, and that acct
dents will be almost Impossible.
The thought occurs that If the
gyroscope should stop gyratlng that n
terrible disaster would occur to a
coach laden with passengers How
ever, the inventor says that the gyro-
scope will be rotating n Il vacuum and
therefore will not run down for sey-
eral hours after the power IS lost, so
there would Re plenty Of time to seek
safety or make repair.
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TAFT BETTER; BREAKFAST $2.e5.
Secretary's Restaurant Check Indicates
Improved Digestion

ST. LOUIS. Mo, June 22-Secretary
Taft apparently has almost recovered
from the attack of indigestion which was
said To be the cause of his recent illness
nj Minneapolis. Ills breakfast bill at a
Union station restaurant was $50. He
allowed the waiter who served him to
keep the 80 cents change out II the So.
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A Peculiar nfcgunrd.

you needn't be afraid, my friend,
the hotel will not burn"
why, it isn't iircproof, Is it?'
mo, 1t isn't ilreproof."
Then why do you say 1t will not
burn?'
Because there is no insurance on
t."-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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WOMEN SUCCESSFUL FARMERS.
Three Sisters, Who Do All the Work on
Place, Have Fine Indiana Farm.

Three miles north of Lowell, Ind. is
one of the best tended farms in this part
of the state. This is one of the places
to which Lowell points with pride, as it
is not only owned by the "Brannan
girls" three sisters, now long past the
odd maid mark as years are counted.
but all the work of the farm is done by
them. No help Of any kind is hired
on the place.
OF course there is n beginning to the
story, and it all starts about twenty six
years ago. when Tom Brannan, n farm
g, 'oft Ills county for Uarts unknown