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The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-01-04
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CHIEFS REQUEST
Muscatine's Official Asks Gov.
ernor Carroll for Chance to
Meet Charges.

Des ,Moines, Ia, IAN. 1.-Governol
Carroll received a letter from Fred
Hoffman. chief of police of Muscatine,
in which he makes specific denial OF
all the accusations made against him
by labor leaders with reference to con.
duct of police in the button workers
strikes, and he joins with the labo,
leaders in asking hat the governor
direct the attorney general to file q
complaint against him so that the is.
sues may be tried out in court.
The chief declared that his sole pur.
pose has been to preserve the peace
and that he feels the city Of Muscatine
has been aggrieved and injured by the
false stories. The chief denies every
thing and says he will be able to dis.
prove all afhdaVits.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-01-04
VESSEL WILL SEARCH
FOR LUMBER SCHOONER

Seattle, Wash, Jan. 2.-The barken-
tine ]. w. Turf, leaving Port Town
send southbound today, will make care
ful search for the lumber schooner
Ruth e. Godfrey. which left Tocopilla.
Mex. for Seattle 26 days ago and has
mot been since seen. The schooner G.i
Nv. Watson on November is. passed a,
'dismasted vessel with hull awash,
abreast OF the Columbia river and ship
ping. expert believe this derelict was
the Godfrey.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-01-04

CENTRALIA, WASH.-The young
bandit who shot and killed Lawrence
Barr. president OF the Farmers and
Merchants bank, of Centralia. in an
unsuccessful attempt to rob the bank
Saturday. talked freely to the police
and reporters, but pe~rsistently refused
to give his name. He said his home
formerly was in Syracuse, N. Y, and
that he came to the Pacific coast a
year ago. A cIew was found in q silver
watch he carried. On one side war en-
graved the word Ernest" and Or, the
other sRibblett."
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-01-04
TAKES CARBOLlC ACID, BUT
RESTORATIVE SAVES LIFE

Luverne. Mimi, Jan. Mrs. Alice
Beaman, of this city, a widow, who a
few nights ago attempted to commit
suicide by drinking carbolic acid and
was given a powerful antidote by the
attending physician, Is now on the road
to recovery. A substantial contr1bu-
ton was raised here for the benefit of
the unfortunate woman, and the future
looks more hopeful for her.
There car be no prosecution under
the Jaws of this state for attempting
to commit suicide, as our last legis-
lature wiped off the statute book that
old relic of barbarism making it a pen
itentiary offense for a person to at
tempt to take his own life.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-01-04
CARD BALLOT
SHOWS TAFT I'M LEAD

New York, Jan. Ia postal card
primary undertaken by the republican
leaders OF a large election district In
the Fifth ven residence section
shows that President fat is the choice
OF so per cent OF the voters. Justice
Charles E. Hughes comes second, with
IS per cent: Colonsi Roosevelt get Ia
per cent, and Senator La Toilette S
per cent,
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-01-04

FATAL SHOOTING AFFRAY.

Z, New York, Jam. 2~.-Joseph Sauer's
mild objection to the revelry of a New
Years party in an east side apartment
early today started a shooting ARRAY
and when the police broke in they
found James Dunbar lying dead under
a table. with his brains scattered
about, and two other men seriously
wounded. One of the wounded will die.
Sauer was held by the police.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-01-04
FRANK NOVAK'S STORY
ADMITTED BY WARDEN

Des Moines, Ia. Jan. Warden
Sanders, of Fort Madison, today mailed
an explanation to the state board of
control in which he states that the
report that Frank Novak, the famous
convict, recently discharged from Fort
Madison, was beaten up by a negro
look, is true. He says that Novak used
abusive language In the presence Of
Mrs. Sanders and thai the cook came
to her resuce. knocking out two OF
Novak's teeth.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-01-04
WOMAN EDITOR OF
PROMINENCE DIES

Columbus, Kan. Jan. 1.-Mrs Ma
nette Allison, who as Nanette Mar
tien was widely known as a Missouri
educator through three decades, and
who latter attracted national attention
as the only democratic woman newspa-s
per editor in Kansas, died here today
from burns received while lighting n
gas stove. Ssh was 81 years old and
was the daughter of DIR. James Mar
ten an early day physician OF st
Louis.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-01-04
A RECEIVES.

Champ Clark received New Year cal
lers today at the headquarters his
friends have opened for furtllering
their plans to have the speaker re-
ceive the democratic presidential
nomination. Speaker Clark's friends
issued a statement which said that the:
Clark boom Is receiving fresh impetus
daily. They denied that there Is "a
possibility thai the speaker will with.
draw from the race for the presidential.
nomination.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-01-04
La TOILETTE SPEAKS
In TAFT'S HOME CITY

Cincinnati. Ohio. Ian. From thu
same platform in Music hall from
which President William H. Taft de-
livered his opening address in the cam
pai2n for the presidency in 1907, Sena-
tor Robert NJ. La Toilette, of Wiscon-
SIN. last night spoke to a large audi
nee OF Cincinnatians.
1t was probably the most trying or
deal of La Follette's trip through Ohio,
tnasmEch as his voice, made husky by
his strenuous journey thus far, did not
carry to the walls of the immense au-
ditorium, and as a consequence he was
repeatedly interrupted by cries OF
louder"
AS at Dayton last night the Wiscon-
sin senator's necktie and collar
bothered him early. 1t was only a few
moments after he began speaking that
he removed these troublesome articles.
At Music hall he attacked the judicial
construction which brought labor union
combinations under the restriction of
the Sherman antitrust law.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-01-04

Observation-Disclosures of the
House of Representatives plan to elm
inate from the next sundry civil appro-
priation bill the s225. 900 appropriation
for the presidents tariff board, the S75.-
900 appropriation for the com
mission, and tho s25.00O appropriation
for the presidents travelling expenses.
Democratic members of the appropria-
tions committee are understood to be
unanimously in favor of this elimina-
ton program, and they believe the cut
ting iSut ef this expenditure OF 1925. 900,
all of which Is under the direction Of
h president, will meet the approval of
the majority party in the House.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-01-04
& ARE INJURED.

Marshalltown, la. Jan. 2.-Ter
persons sustained slight injuries
when northbound passenger No.
81 on the Chicago & Great
Western railroad was wrecked
near Luray, la, late last night.
The wreck was not reported I'M
til today.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1912-11-29
POSTAL TELEGRAPH
LAYING MORE CABLES.

Workmen have been busy for a
week or more digging trench
across the railroad ground along
Sixth street and on Saturday they
laid cable from the Postal telc-
graph office ON sixth street to con-
meet with the companys through
lines ON the poles ON + street A
new switch board is also being
placed In the office and when all
work is huishcd the Grants Pass Of
acc OF the Postal company will be
connected with an the Posto, wires
and will have long distance tele-
phone service installed and it is
claimed. with tolls much less than
now effective with the other come
pany.
NJ will require about tvo weeks
for the completion OF the work
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1912-11-29

telephone stations are erected, and
at each q forest ranger is kept dur
ling the season when danger of for
est fires Is greatest. Each morning
at earliest daybreak this ranger
must call rp the head ranger to
show that he is ION the job" At
uishl-lall Inc again reports, and at
any hour OF the day he must be
within hearing OF the bell. His duty
is to scan all parts Of the forest that
can be seen from his elevated posi-
tion, and the first appearance OF an
ncipient blaze Is to be reported to
the head ranger who will dispatch
men within an hour to fight it and
save the endangered timber.
AZ each station a telephone box Of
the police model is installed This
telephone is both fire, water and
bullet proof, but can be opened at
any time by the traveller and the
operator at central called The wires
are hung with sufficient slack that
falling trees will not break them.
Work upon the Rogue river trail
is to commence within a few days by
the forestry service For the inn
proyement of this old highway into
The mountainous country the coun-
ty of Josephine recently appropriat-
ed $500 and the forestry service
will add $1,000 more, making to-
tai of $1,S0O which will go a long
way toward building a trail that will
turn the trade of the lower Rogue to
this district Among the more inn
portant Improvements contemplated
is the cutting out of the switchboard
at Bunker creek, the bridging of
Kelsey creek, and the taking of the
II All Ou btu lbNh. III buulilOu ~
this the service is putting up metal
signs at all places where trails di-
verge distances being given to
points in each direction Each mile
is likewise marked by a metal num-
her, the distances having been ac-
curately determined by means of a
bicycle wheel with cyclometer at
tachment
The Siskiyou reserve contains
some Of the grandest hunting
grounds of the west; the streams are
filled with trout and the lower
Rogue has scenery that rivals Amer
ica's best The improvements which
the forestry service is making in the
interests of conservation have a
value equally as great in that they
make available to a greater num-
Der of attractions that have hereto
fore been open to the few only
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1912-11-29
RELATIVES KILLED
IN MEXICAN REVOLUTION

KAMLOOPS, b. C., Nov. 20
Twelve relatives murdered in Mexico.
including father mother, three
brothers and three sisters, is the
horrifying intelligence conveyed in
a telegram this morning to Miss Ger
rude Book, a millionaire of this city.
The massacre was perpetrated by
Mexican rebels and occurred October
- on the ranch occupied by Mr..
Book at Pleasant Valley. a short dis
tance from Mexico City. He was an
American citizen and the authorities
have been trying to locate the daugh-
ter for a month. The young woman
is prostrated at the terrible news.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1912-11-29
ECHOES FROM ASHLAND.
Ashland Happenings Always Interest
Our Readers.

After reading of so many people
in our town who have been cured by
Doans Kidney Pills, the question ma
turally arises: is this medicine
equally successful in our neighboring
towns?" The generous statement of
this Ashland resident leaves no room
for doubt on this point.
H. Powell, 263 oak ST., Ashland
Ore, says: Il suffered a great deal
from kidney trouble and backache
and sometimes l could hardly get
around On arising in the morning
| was stiff and lame and the kidney
.secretions annoyed me by their ir-
regularity in passage. AS soon as
commenced taking Doan's Kidney
Pills, l improved and l am now IN
good health. l still use Doan's Kid
'ney Pills occasionally, but more as
preventive than anything else. | al
ways insist upon Doan's Kidney Pills
for no other substitute could be as
effective as they"
For sale by all dealers. Price oV
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doan's-
and take no other,
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1912-11-29
o. A. G. BAND WILL
VISIT TEN CITIES.

OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLI
LEGE, Corvallis, Ore, Nov. ga
schedule of a dozen concerts, besides
the approaching home concert, has
been announced by the director Of
Tie ,aie, military band of the Ore
son Agricultural College.
Capt Harry Beard has arranged
for the boys to visit TEN cities OF
western Oregon during the Christ
mas vacation. Leaving the clmpus
on Christmas eve, they viii 60 first
to Cottage Grove, where the. will
play both afternoon and evening on
Christmas day in the moving picture
theatre. The next day they go to
Grants Pass, where they will give a
concert under the auspices Of the
high school. There, as in Medford
and other cities. they hope to assist
the high school boys in organizing
their own bands.
On Friday, Dec. q, they will play
in Medford, and after playing in
Ashland under the auspices Of the
National Guard Saturday night, they
will return to Medford for a sacred
concert Sunday afternoon. The next
weeks programme begins with a con-
cert at Roseburg Monday night un-
der the auspices of the national
guard. On Tuesday the same organ
zation will have charge of the con-
cert at Albany. Then the boys will
cross the river to the west side for a
series of four concerts at Dallas, Nc
Minnville, Hillsboro, and Newberg.
The band will include thirty pieces
and all of the men are players of eX-
perience. As they have furnished
all the music for the Saturday mat
inee dances. at the college, to which
their programs have given the name
Band lnformals,' and have played
at several convocations also, as we'll
as for military drills, they have had
much practice together, and expect
to offer their audiences excellent
mUsic
They are to give their first concert
of the year in the Corvallis opera
house December 13, and are plan
ming for their college audiences some
classy college stunts"
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1912-11-29
IDAHO SUGAR FACTORY
BEING MOVED TO UTAH.

NAMPA, Idaho, Nov 25.-Work-
men are busy today preparing for the
demolition of the million dollar sug-
ar factory of +. p. Dyer & Company.
said to be the largest in the state.
The plant is being moved to Spanish
Fork, Utah, where the machinery
and structural work from the Idaho
factory will be shipped The Idaho
factory was built in the summer of
1906 and has been closed for the
past three years
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1912-11-29
FOREST SERVICE Is
\ CNILlZlNG AGENT.

Uncle Samuel with hls forestry
service has destroyed much OF the
romance that has always attached Co
the silent place." A trip to the
mountain Businesses has about lost
that afr Of mystery that formerly en-
shrouded it, for now everywhere in
the "wilds' one sees the evidences
Of an encroachmg civilization 40
longer can the hiker return with
tales OF the great number of miles
covered, miles measured In his
mind and tailed in blisters on his
toes, for uncle has marked each mile
along the trail, and the number COW
cred by our hero between suns has
diminished accordingly And then
too the nimrod in the hills can re-
port to the folks at home each even
ing, for the network of wires now
carries the telephone TO the larthest
mountain top.
The portion OF the Siskiyou for
est reserve in Josephine county will
be the playground of the people for
generations TO come and it is becom-
ing at once accessible aud conyen-
lent. Supervisor Macduit has re-
Gently returned from a trip into the
reserve where the government has
completed miles of telephone line
and made plans for many other
miles one line now connects
through to the coast at Gold Beach,
situated a, the mouth OF the Rogue.
\ line was already built as far as
The Rand, a placer mine that Is op-
Grated by the Almeda Consolidated
Mines Co. below Galice, and the
government wire continues from
there on to lllahe. az the Big Bend
OF the Rogue, forty miles below
where Il ties on TO line that fol-
lows up the Rogue from Gold Beach,
completing the wire TO the sea. The
service will a little later build a line
from Tlahe to Agnes at the mouth
of the Illinois river
A second line will be strung mp
Mule creek to Eden Valley, a dis
tance of eleven miles. where it will
be connected with the wire of the
Coos Bay Fire Patrol association,
and the extensive system operated
by that company From Eden Val
ley the forest service wire will be
run to West Fork on the southern
Pacific railway.
These miles OF wire are not hung
for the mere accommodation of
sportsmen and cutters, however but
are part OF the complex system
through which the government Is
now conserving It's natural resources.
On all the highes, mountain peaks
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1912-11-29
"Our Personal Guarantee
TO all Skin Sufferers"

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90 Judge.
Again and again we nave seen how a
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permaueut
d. ID. ID. Prescription made bv the
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composed of thymol Clyceriue. ol Of
vintergreen and other healing .o0thing
cooling Ingredients. And III y0l are
iust crazy with Itch. you win feel
washed away the moment you applied
this ID. ID ID.
We have made faft friends cf mora
than one family by recommending Ills
remedy to skin sufferer here and
there and we want you 20 try II now
on our positive no-pay guarantee.
drugs.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1912-11-29

We have been I'm business IN ms toWh
Cor some time and we are looking 10
bnild ur trade bv always advising our
patrons right.
So when we tell YOU that we have
found the eczema remedy and that we
stand back of it with the manufacture
iron clad guarantee backed by ourselves
Won can depend upon IL that we give our
advice not I'm order TO sell a few. botJlc'
of medicine 10 skin sufferers hut ue-
business If we help our patrons.
We keen I'm stock and sell all the well
l.rovr skim remedies But we viii say
this. III YOU are suffering from any
kind of skin trouble. eczema. psoriasis;
rash or letter we want YOU 70 try a tull
size bottle of j.. ID. ID. Prescription.
And. if it does not do the work. TINS
tfau.aue cnlfs
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1912-11-29
SAMUEL GOMPERS
THREATENED PNEUMONIA

ROCHESTER, ~ Y, Nov. %
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor is SER
iously i'll here today, threatened with
vanced age, Gompers friends are
vanced age, Gomper's friends are
greatly worried over his condition.
The convention of the Building
Trades department of the federation
opened today. The general conven-
tion ended Saturday night with the
reelection of Gompers and other old
officers of the federation.
You will be surprised at the quick
results of a classified want ad.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1912-11-29
ANOTHER MEMS
PAPER FOR SEATTLE.

SEATTLE, Nov. 25.-E. II. Wells,
former editor of the Seattle Star, is
completing plans today to start an
other evening paper in this city.
Wells and John Z. Hartman, well
known attorneys, have organized the
sun Publishing company and an
nounce that the first copy of it will
be issued in February
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1912-11-29
CORVALLIS WOMEN BALLOT.

CORVALLIS, Nov Returns
from the bridge bond election show
that 81 women of this city consti-
tuting over half Of those voting, cast
their ballots. The total vote was
less than 600 and practically all OF
the women voted affrmatively.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1912-11-29
SALAZER MARCHES
TOWARD CASAS GRANDES.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.-That
the Mexican rebel leader General
Salazar. is marching toward Casas
Gran les. is stated in a dispatch re-
ceiyed today from General E. 2.
Steeyer, commanding the Unitel
States troops on the border.
Steever states that Saazar has
boasted that he will occupy the city
within five days.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1912-11-29

OAKLAND, Cal, Nov. .25.-Oak-
land harbors a burglar who does not
go by halves He drove a four horse
team to the home Of Mrs. Danziger
and was gathering everything from
hot stove to the jewelry when the
owner appeared. The police have the
team but not the burglar.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1912-11-29
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PORTLAND, Nov. 25.-Frank
Hillman got up in a car to give his
seat to a woman passenger. Just
then the car gave a lurch, throwing
Hilman to the floor. Dislocated
shoulder and minor bruises.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1912-11-29
Former Resident Seriously Ill

Mrs. Jos. Moss was called to Port
land Monday on account of the ser
ious illness of her father, DR.. VIII
Jackson, one of the pioneers oil
Grants Pass, leaving this city IL
years ago, and for 10 years past
practicing dentistry in Portland
He has been i'll for a year or more
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1912-11-29

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 2j.-Follow-
ing a trail Of 45 calibre cartridges
and black powder, police expected to
find another dynamite bug. Six boys
age Z were in an alley coal box They
were playing hare and hounds. The
powder was their trail.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1912-11-29

PORTLAND, Nov. 26.-Jimmy
Dunn, aged six, was gathered in
while towing a big double barreled
shotgun down Washington street
What you doing with the gun, kid?"
the officer asked. Gonna blooey-
blooey big boo-dog" was Jimmy's CO.
herent response
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1912-11-29

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 26.-"He
threw can of chloride of lime at
me- said Mrs. Van Heekern who
wants a divorce. The court is delib-
Grating