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Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1908-09-25
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Department of the Irterior.
Roseburg. Ore Jolly 7, 49,
Notice il hereby gwen thai
ETTA T. WATTGlIAI

NOtlCe i htItuy gwen tHo'
ETA Z. WAUGhTAL
of Grants Pas, Josephine Co, Ore
aou. who. on July 7, 1908, made
Timber and Stone Application No
ora, for VIZ of SW1i and SEA Of
SWA Section 6. To~n.hi "a South,
Range 6 West, Willamette Meridian,
as filed notice of Intention tn make
Final Timber and Stone Proof, to es-
tablish claim to the land above de.
scribed. before Joseph Moss, U S.
Commissioner, at Grants Pass, Oregon,
on the 9th day of October, 1908.
Claimant names as witnesses: George
Il. Aiken, of Grants Pass, Josephine
Co., Oregon; George W Kearns, OF
Grants Pass, Josephine Co., Oregon
William c. Smith, OF Grants Pass,
Josephine Co., Oregon; Oliver Brown
of Grants Pass, Joepbine, Co., Ore
gon.
BENJAMIN.. EDDY,
Register.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1908-09-25
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Department Of the Interior.

Roseburg, Ore, June 10. 1908.
Notice is hereby given chat
MILBURN KNAPP.
Of Woodville. jackson County, Oregon.
who on June 10. 1908, made Timber
and Stone Application No 1ol6l. for
SWA, being lots and and the EN-
of SW4, Section 8. Township SO
South, Range 4 West, W., NJ. has
filed notice of intention to make
final Timber and Stone Proof. to estab-
lisn claim to the land above described,
before Joseph Moss, U S. Commits
sioner, Grants Pass, Ore, on the Goth
day Of September, 1908.
Claimant names as witnesses: John
G. Aitken, of Woodville, jackson
Co., Ore, Oren W. Train, of Wood
vile, jackson Co., Ore, George W..
Megerle, of Woodville. jackson Co.,
Ore, John d. G. Haubsrd, of Wood
vile, jackson Co., Ore.
BENJAMIN L. EDDY,
Register
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1908-09-25
NOTICE. FOR PUBLICATION.
Department of the Interior.
u. s. Land Office,
Roseburg, Ore, April "a, /

Roseburg, Ore, April "a, 1905
Notice is h reby given that
JOSEPHINE HOLGATE
of Olymnia, Washing on. who on Sep
tember 3, 1907, made Tlmb r Appn-
cation No. 1868, for SWA, Section 30,
Township 81 South, Range Z West,
Willamette NJ, rinian, hss rlled notice
OF intention to maze Final Proof to
establish claim to tie land above de-
ribed, before the Register and Re
ceiver at Ros burg, Oregon, on the
2Sth day of October, 1903.
Claimant names Ms witnesses
William 7 Turnham, Of Grants Pas,
Oregon. Charles n. Jones. Of Graut'
Pass, Ore, c. W. Craig. of Selma,
Ore, Louise Aver, of Olympia
Washington.
BENJAMIN L. EDDY,
Register
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1908-09-25
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Dep ,rtment Of the Interior.
u. s. Land Office
Roseburg. OIe, ApIiI 70, lOOl


Note Is hereoy = ven that
FRED II WHITFIELD
of Port aud Oregon, who, on January
8 1908. made Timber Application
No 9s42, for SW4 Section IL, Town
ship 80 Sluth, Range 8 West, Will.
am tts Meridian, has filed notice Of
intention to make Final Proof, to
st ,bl sh claim to the land alb we de-
scribed, before the Register and Re.
oeiver at Roseburg, Oregon, on the
23d uay of November, 1908
Claimant names 10 witnesses: Will
lis d. Palmer of Portland, Oregon.
Arthur D. Dabney. Of Portland, ore 4,
james A. Bennett, Of Portland, Ed.
ward II. Sutton. Of Portland, Ore,
J S. Bal-y of Ashland, Ore, Harry
Silver Of Ash aud Ore.
BENJAMIN l.. EDDY,
Rsgiste T
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1908-09-25
CAROLINE SEXTON.
Administratrix.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Timber Lind, Act June 3, 1913.

Lfhdf n Y ~ AN'Os
Rosebutg, Ore. Nav 2, 1908.
Notice is hereby given that in com
plisnce with the provisions Of the
Act of CONGRESS of June 3, 1878, EN-
titled AN Act for the sale of timber
Lands in the States of California,
Oregon, Nevad., and Washington
Territory, as extended to all Pub
lie Land States by an act of August
4, 1892,
DAVID KURATLI,
of 6lS Pettygrove ST., Portland
County Multnomah State of Ore
gon, filed in this Office on January 2S,
1908, his sworn statement No. 1856 for
the purchase of the VIZ Sell, seq
SE4 Section IA, lot 3, of Section No.
% in Township No. 40 South, Of
Range No. s, West, W. NJ, Ore, and
will offer proof to show that the land
sought is more valuable for Its tim
Der or stone than for agricultural
purposes, and to establish his claim to
said land before Register and Re.
ceiver of this office at Roseburg,
Oregon, on Friday, the 4th day of
December, 1908.
he names as witnesses: ]. s.
Bailey of Ashland, Ore, Harry Silver
OF Ashland, Ore, Ira A. Martin of
Portland. Ore, Adolf Schulz OF Port
land, Ore
ANY and all persons claiming ad-
versely the above. described lands are
requested to file their claims in this
Office on or before said 4lh day Of
December, 1908.
BENJAMIN l.. EDDY,
Register.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1908-09-25

Placer blanks At the Courier ofbee-
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-07-29
Republican Headquarters.

COLORADO SPRINGS, July 2l.-The
intermountain republican conference
came to a close tonight by a dinner
given by Frank H. Hitchcock, chair
mar of the republican national COM
mittee, to the members of the national
committee and state chairmen, who
have been here for the past three days.
Most of the westerners left for their
homes on late trains tonight. Mr..
Hitchcock and his immediate party
will leave for Chicago tomorrow.
just before the close of the meeting
the committee voted to establish head
quarters in Chicago instead of New
York. The motion was carried unani
mOusly.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-07-29
A SUICIDES HAND.
The Queer Superstition That Used to
Prevail In England.

The Queer Superstition That Used to
Prevail In England.
In former times it was a common no.
ton that If a sick person could only
touch the hand Of a suicide he or she
would be cured. This superstition was
especially common in the west of Eng
land. In Cornwall touching a suicides
hand was said to have once cured a
young mar who had been afflicted with
many tumors from his birth. A SIM
liar superstition regarding the touch
of executed criminals has been widely
prevalent and has often been recorded.
Robert Hunt in his "Romances Of the
West Of England says that he once
saw a young woman led on to the
scaffold at Newgate in order to have a
Wen touched by the hand Of a man
who had just been executed.
At Northampton of old the hangman
is said to have had a regular fee for
according a similar privilege" to suf-
ferers from like disorders. Even the
coffin Of a suicide may have curative
value. There is a Devonshire belief to
the effect that if any one suffering
from disease can manage to throw a
white handkerchief on such a coffin
at the time Of it's interment the disease
will vanish as the handkerchief decays.
Much supcrstitious value has also been
attached to the knots Of the rope used
either by a suicide or in the execution
Of a criminal.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-07-29
ALABAMA STRIKERS.
Clash With Deputy SheriHs and One
Striker Is Killed.

BIRMINGHAM, July 2l.-A clash be-
tween deputy sheriffs and negro min.
ers in the Blue creek region, twenty
miles south of Birmingham, on the
birmingham mineral division of the
Louisville & Nashville railway today
resulted in q negro being shot and
killed and two deputies, Newsome and
Whatley. seriously wounded. The
deputies we're guarding the hill over
looking the mining town until they
saw armed negroes coming along the
road.
The deputies called to the negroes
to stop, but they offered fight. Two
OF the negroes raised their guns with
precision. The deputies appeared to
pick out one man for aim and he was
literally filed with lead.
The shooting created much excite.
ment. There was q general distribu.
ton of troops throughout the distric.
this afternoon, following the trouble.
A gatling gun was placed at Republic
and q at Blosburg. and troops have
been distributed 80 they can be mobi-
lized in q very short time.
The eviction of miners from com.
pany houses began at No. I mine,
Pratt division today. There was no
disorder. Two carloads of strike
breakers were sent out from Birming.
ham today and no interference was ex.
%perienced. W. r. Farley, Alabama
member of the United Mine Workers
in charge of the strike, today issued
a statement in reply to the operators.
in which he says that the union miners
are anxious for peace and enforcement,
of the law.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-07-29
Work Of the Farmer.

The countless millions of our popula-
ton are fed and clothed by the Alneri-
can farmer. The grain waving in
golden beauty upon the great plains Of
the west, the cotton drifting like sum-
mer snow upon the fields Of the south,
freight the fleets Of nations and loose
their sails, thread the continents with
track Of steel. fill the earth with the
"a Of trains and heap for trade and
commerce and useful art those stores
that make a nation great. Where are
the sinews Of u strength if they are
not found in our great, diversified agri.
cultural products? What victorious
hosts ever waved as joyous banners as
those that float above the tasseled
maize from the SHOWS of Maine to the
spicy groves of California? What spirit
Of beauty hovers above southern fields
when feecy hollis to crown
liking Cotton"-Hon. Ezekiel S. Can.
dler, Jr., Of Mississippi in House OF
Representatives.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-07-29
MEXICO CITY. FTcL,.:.
Street Lanterns That Keep Their v;s;-
lant at Night.


when | visited Mexico said al.
artist. Il found iln':..vrab!e th.;-s OF
interest, but that which .:,i:..u ~;
notice particularly wls the police Sys-
tenn. In the City of Mexico the police
at night are stationed at short inter-
vals apart in the street. Each police
man has a lantern, which is placed on
a stand in the center Of the street. 1t
is his duty to remain in easy striking
distance of this lantern at all times,
30 that he will be on hand in case Of
an emergency.
"Any person who is able to reach
the lamp and lift it from it's hook be-
fore the policeman in%terferes is entitled
to a reward of $500. Any policeman
who loses his lantern is subject to in
slant and dishonorable dismissal. This
is to insure constant vigilance on their
part and to require their presence at
a certain point at all times. At first l
regarded the thing as a joke. and 1
tried to get possession Of the police
lantern. But then l found that l was
greatly mistaken. Not once, although
I exercised extreme caution, was l
quick enough for the policeman on
watch.
The City Of Mexico is n Of the
best policed communities in the world.
Policemen are always on hand when
one requires them, and 1t is virtually
impossible for desperadoes to operate
In the open."-New York Telegram.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-07-29
w. F. Of M. Resolutions.

DENVER, July 21.-After a fight
lasting all day yesterday and until
nearly noon today the. convention Of
the Western Federation of Miners
reached an agreement upon a resolu-
ton reatflrming the faith of the or
%ganization in industrial unionism and
pledging>the members to it's support.
The substitute resolution was intro
duced by Norman Cameron of Silver
ton, Col, and was adopted almost
unanimously. Its text is as follows:
I'VE, the Western Federation of
Miners, in convention assembled,
reaffirm our allegiance to the prin-
ciples of Industrial unionism and
pledge ourselves to do everything
within our power to bring about unity
and solidarity Of the working class"
The constitution of the order pro-
vides that withdrawal cards shall
not be issued unless the person is
going outside the jurisdiction of the
Western Federation, but some of the
locals have issued them where the
person was only leaving the jurisdic.
OF the local. This enabled the persons
receiving one to hold it as long as
desired and join another local upon
the payment of 81, whereas he should
have paid all back dues. A resolu.
ton was adopted calling upon all
locals to obey the constitution.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-07-29
VIZ Can Always Borrow Trouble.
uusbAndmAn.

uusbAndmAn.
The majority of humankind live in
the glorious present, and this seems
to US to be the ideal life. Those who
deal ia futures are more or less
doomed to disappointment. Human
affairs are prone to miscarry. The
present Is as it IL, and that is all there
is to it. There is always opportunity
to borrow trouble II we are SO dis
posed, for every n with any expert
ence knows that fully one.half the
calamities which seem possible fade in.
to nothingness. 1t is also true that
many occurrences not anticipated
happen, and that the plain sailing Is
only to the individual who lives in the
glorious today and makes the best Of
things as time develops. We might
worry ourselves half out Of our wits
about the seasons if we felt SO in
clined. Yesterday, as it were, there
were rains and floods and today our
hopes Of u big crop wane beneath the
glare Of a parching sun, but it may
rain again, In which event things will
look better again. Today the skies
are bright and there Is the assurance
OF a big grass crop on MQntana's ter
thousand hills. Meadows are fine,
the first cutting Of alfalfa Is being
made and all is we'll. The floods have
swept away thousands OF dollars
worth Of railway tracks, bridges
wagon roads and wagon bridges
drowned out field crops, ruined mea
dows, carried away fences and farm
buildings, live stock, pigs and poul
!. try. but it might have been a grea
deal worse.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-07-29
SCIENCE AND FARMING.

Encouraged by the success OF Iowa
agriculturists and those OF other EN-.
terprising western state in their efforts
to improve the grade OF corn through
better seed aud methods OF farming,
the Pennsylvania railroad, with the
cooperation Of the state authorities,
has run a special instruction train
through the Keystone state in an effort
to revive interest in the growing of
corn and alfalfa. Much interest was
taken in the movement, and it Is Ger.
tain that its influence will be felt at
harvest time. The experience Of other
states would leave no doubt Of the
economy and benefits of such q cam.
paign of education. Pennsylvan ia
farmers are celebrated for their thrift
and when shown how to increase the
revenues from their lands, while at
the same time improving their pro.
perty, may be counted upon to take
adv antage of the opportunity.
Science and its relation to farming
is no longer a subject laughed at by
the average American farmer. Time
vas when the man who tills the land
only smiled when shook learning
vas suggested as a means for better.
ing his condition. The professors, it
was declared, could not improve upon
nature. Later the farmers learned
Oh Of thn man ~ Srinr,a rara not INV.
ing to Improve upon NATURE but
were aiding that consistent old dame
to make the most Of her opportunities.
Secretary Of Agriculture James Will
son was interested in scientific farm
ing long before he entered the cabinet
and his broad knowledge and interes'
in the subject led to extend govern
ment aid in that line wherever it wa.
possible to do so. AS q result tn,
government experiment station,
throughout the country are doing
work that adds millions yearly to th,
of the farmers and stock
growers.
In Montana u own experiment sta
ton is doing a splendid work. 1t ha
demonstrated, among other things
that dry farming is practicable il
many sections where it is not possibl
to irrigate. 1t has shown the value Q
crops practically unknown to Mon
tana a score of years ago. Its wor
is only begun, but already it has &C
complished much. Science and farm
ing will new grow apart, for with Ii
advance of the one, the other is sur
to proft.-Inter Mountain.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-07-29
To Resume Work.

St. LOUIS, July 20.-More than l5,.
600 men will be re-employed within the
next thirty days in the large factories
and foundries of southern Illinois
which have been working shorthanded
following the financial depression Of
last year, according to data just made
public by the East St. Louis Com
mercial club. More than 1900 mer
were put to work in this district last
week, many large firms resuming op'
e rations with q full force. 1t is be,
lieved conditions in East ST. Louis
| will have resumed a normal tone by
the end of August.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-07-29
The Quebec Celebration.

QUEBEC, July 2l.-All the prepare.
lions for receiving the Prince of Wales
on his arriva al aboard the battlesship
Indomitable tomorrow have been
made and tonight the city is on tiptoe
of expectation over this momen,ous
event in its history. The city is in.
vaded by 1000 to Is, 200 soldiers. re
presenting the regular and militia
strenth OF all parts of the Dominion,
with hundreds of official visitors, and
the titled nobility Of England and
other countries aud thousands of in
terested spectators from American
cities and from Canada.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-07-29
A Mole Catcher,

A farm manager at Fodderty, Ding
wall, Scotland, watching a mole catch
err Mt work, saw sea gulls lowering
over and occasionally alighting upon a
turnip field in which the observer and
others were at work. A particularly
large and handsome bird attracted his
attention by the graceful way it floated
slowly owe the drills, intently scan
ming the surface Of the ground. Sud
denly. steadying itself n moment, 1t
dropped. dug it's bill into the hcaving
ground and rose with a mole for its
prey. Resting a few minutes. it grace
fully began again a further search for
prey. In n few minutes n second mole
was unearthed.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-07-29
immigration Falls or.

WASHINGTON, July 2l.-Immigra.
ton from all countries, particularly
Russia and Japan, showed a marked
falling of for the month of June as
compared with the same month of 1907,
according to figures made public to.
day by the bureau OF Immigration and
naturalization. The total immigra.
ton aggregated 3l,94,. compared with
l54. 1913 in 1907, Il decrease OF seventy.
eight per cent.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-07-29
THE REAL SQUARE e A

One of the leading pictorial weeklies
has for the central cartoon in its cur
rent issue a simple but effective repre-.
%sentation of q huge carpenters
square" at one end of which is an
employer and at the other q laborer.
The special forcefulness of the picture
lies in the accompanying legend,
which reads: "a square deal for cap.
ital is q square deal for labor" II
laboring men and the demagogues who
exploit them could be brought to see
how absolutely true this statement is
and how it is the keynote of any pros
perity that lie to have any degree OF
permanency there would undoubtedly
be much less u~nressoning antagonism
toward employers.
1t may be admitted that many EN-.
ployers do not lie awake nights trying
to give their men the best of the labor
deal. But there is q fundamental dit
ference between the relation of capital
and of labor to general prosperity,
says the Kansas City Journal. Capt.
tai can go longer without dividends
than labor IA 60 without wages.
The employer who refuses to give his
workingmen a square deal" Is as de.
serving of condemnation a. the labor
union which pursues its selfish indi-
vidual and class advantage to the
door of the bankrupt court for the EN-.
ployer. Labor's idea of the ''sQuare
deal" too often is the largest amount
of pay for the smallest amount of
work, with no regard whatever for the
prosperity of the employer, labor's
only consideration being not to push
matters so far that the job will stop.
Any special prosperity on the part of
the employer, is considered as just
that much taken from the ''produc.
ton Of the worker, transferred from
the pay envelope to the dividend check.
The enlightened view is that labor
and capital are inseparable: their in.
terests are interdependent, and what
ever affects in%juriously u similarly
affects the other. "Wage slaves
and Economic chattels' and such
terms SO glibly banded about by
wild.eyed agitators are absolete In
these days Of growing individualism.
They are merely the can and catch
words of a propaganda which is the
worst enemy the cause of the laboring
man has today. This is an age of a
quickened conscience in all lines OF
thought and activity and nowhere
more so than in the industrial world
Labor will have learned its greates'
lesson and secured its ''squarest'
deal when 1t learns that justice toward
the employer is the surest way of get
ting justice for the man who tolls
when it fully realizes that it must worl
with capital, not against capital.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-07-29
Tho White Evening Waistcoat.

Anything that breaks through the
gloomy, funcreal, waitereal aspect Of
male evening dress Is to be commend
ed. But practically. as a general rule.
the white evening waistcoat cannot be
effectively worn much after the age Of
twenty-one. Black, it is we'll known,
diminishes the proportions. but white
undoubtedly increases them. l see men
whom l have hitherto considered to be
slim appear in white evening waist
coats and look absolutely corpulent.-
London Graphic.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-07-29
CAMPAIGN DUTIES.

Another Presidential capaign il on.
The parties have named their candi-
dates, the newspapers are taking their
positions, the orators will soon be in
the field. On every rostrum in the
country, earnest men will be declaim.
ing to the listeners that will gather
around them, that q certain man be
endorsed and o certain man be elected
or the great Republic will be halted in
it's course, and the beginning of the
end will be in sight. This old planet
of ours has been churned by earth.
quakes and rocked by storms for
thousands, possibly for millions, Of
years, but it has kept on its course
it has suffered mighty disasters in
places, but 1t has held its way in
space. its evenings and mornings
have never failed. its seasons have
followed each other in steady process
sion, the laws that ordained its pro-
gress have been in force through all
the ages.
So from the beginning we may o
clude that while this or that admins
tration may add to, or take away
some Of the benefits which are our ma.
tons due, it will hold steadily on its
course, for when the work of the men
of rs was finished, that work bore all
the marks OF divine direction, and the
events of the succeeding years more
and more impress that belief upon
thoughtful men. There was a time
when the great war between the north
and the south was at its height when
timid souls feared that the end q
near; but the end revealed that God
was watching and the lesson it taught
was that mistakes are costly and that
wrongs must be atoned for. So no
matter who may be elected in Novem.
Der the Republic will continue to sail
on, the questions for the voter must
be, "who will make the fewer mis-
takes:" which policy will result in
most good for the greatest number of
our people:
And this should cause every man,
no matter what may be his calling to
review the nations history, to note
what measures have seemed to en-.
nance and what retard prosperity and
mako up his " mind how to vote.
Gould this be done by every man, the
high and humble alike and then could
each man honestly vote his sentiments
the result could not but be for the
good Of all, for the honest ballots OF
a nation like ours come nearer being
the voice of God than aught else can
be.
There are many weak men, some bad
men, some who 60 to the polls with
more passion than patriotism in their
hearts, many are shamefully ignorant
of the principles on which our Gov
eminent rests, and some overborne by
a superstitious fear, will dare to lay
slave hands upon the free American
ballot and cast it as they are instruct
ed to. To such we would recommend
a study of the rebellion OF 1861 and
the causes that led up to it, its re-
suits, and then to have once more i'm
pressed upon them the fact that when
any considerable number of citizens
neglect their duties that neglect has to
be paid for, and If the wrong is too
great the payment has to be made in
money. in tears and In blood.-Good
wins Weekly.