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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 23, 1908)
11 This income awaits YOU Seize your opportunity TODAY NOW. Others are making this money NOW from ten acres of less productive land. Fruitmen admit there is no better land in Oregon than . . ROSEBURG HOME ORCHARD TRACTS TIIE SUNDAY OliEGONIAN, FOItTLAyD, AUGUST 23, 1903. $25.00 A MONTH WILL DO IT Let us prove it. Call and see us. You owe it to yourself and yours to look into this. INCLUDES COST OF PLANTING and GROWING W. Office open evenings this week until 9 o'clock. Mount Tabor Land Will Be Sold Reasonably. PLANS FOR FINE DRIVEWAY Citizens Will Hold Meeting to De termine Vpon Recommenda .N Hons to Be Made to Park Board. On thl pare Is reproduced a blrdseye view of the 124 acre of land in Mount Tabor which the park committee of the Mount Tabor Improvement Association recommended for purchase by the city, to be devoted to a park. This area embraces a number of scenic attractions and Is well adapted for the desired purposes. After a careful can vass among; the owners of the various tracts of land, the conclusion was reached by the Mount Tabor Park Committee that the properties can be had at an acreage cost of not to exceed J11O0 an acre. It Is believed at the present time that tnis can be done at no greater expense to the city, providing condemnation proceedings are Instituted. The proposed area has a frontage on West avenue of 621 feet, as well as an opening from the corner of Eask Yamhill and East Sixtieth streets, connecting with the winding road back of the Portland Sanitarium. An opening from the end of the Mount Tabor carline on Tabor Heights, and another on the County road east of Mount Tabor, now known as East 8event-first strt t. will ma the property accessible from the south. By a circular driveway connecting with the Water Com pany's right of way from the Section Line road, the proposed park can be entered from all four sides. This tract Includes the 168 acres recommended by Olmsted Bros. A meeting Is to be held In the near fu ture to discuss the question of a park, and a definite conclusion will be reached at that time as to what will be recom mended to the Park Board. Frank J. Perkins Is secretary of the Mount Tabor Park Committee. FARMING PROJECT ASSURED Half Capital Stock In Realty Board Plan Subscribed. About half the - capital stock of the Realty Board's intensive farm plan, proposed by Whitney L. Boise, has been subscribed. At the last meeting of the board the capital stock was authorized In the sum of HO.OOO, -to be divided Into shares of tlO each. So far nearly every member of the board has subscribed for shares, and Information has been re ceived that railroad companies, mer chants and business men generally are Interested in the proposal and win be glad to take shares. The board, how ever, d-aires that the stock shall be subscribed! by Its own members to as great extent as convenient, and has ap pointed James O. Rounuree and Whitney It. Boise a committee to present the mat ter to the remaining members and close up the subscription list. At the next meeting of the board the subscription committee will report, and St la expected that a committee will then OWNE RS WANT PARK C. HARDING 204 Rothchild Building, Fourth and Washington, Portland, Oregon be appointed-to consider and. recommend a tract for purchase and subdivision. The plan has attracted the attention of those Interested In colonising the state with additional desirable classes of im migrants who will enter heartily into the development of the resources of Oregon. BARBERS EXPECT VICTORY Union Representatives Wage Strong Fight Against liow Schedule. Members of the Barbers' Union are sanguine of victory In tile vigorous war fare they are waging against several shops which formerly held union cards. The union Is directing Its. fight against three of these shops in particular and was gratified yesterday to see one of the shops post a sign announcing "any service in this shop fbr 15 cents." Ever since these shops withdrew from the union, the organized barbers have directed a strong fight against them. Pickets have been posted and men, carry ing placards announcing the shop to be unfair, have been patrolling the street In front of each establishment. Not less than 20,000 boxes of matches were dis tributed on the streets yesterday by members of the unions. Each box is labeled with the name of one of the three shops and sets forth the fact that it employs non-union help. On the under side of the box la a suggestion that all frtenda of organised labor patronise only shops that employ union labor. BUILD NEW WASCO LINE Construction Soon to Begin Into Rich Valleys. Active construction of the electric rail road planned by the Wasco Electric Light ac Power Company Is promised within the next few weeks. The Portland Construc tion Company, which has the- contract. Is awaiting the completion of the surveys from Condon to Mayville, when work will Cream of Umpqua Valley EARLIEST Fruit Belt of Oregon Soil lays right has proper elements for fanciest fruits rich, no early frosts perfect drainage, water in abundance We Plant the Trees and Develop Your Orchard You come and LIVE on it as soon as you wish This Will Establish Your Future Investigate We can't tell you all about it here as space is limited. Gall at our office in the Couch building and judge for yourself. Others are taking advantage of this. Why not YOU? No occupation is more delightful than fruit culture. Gall and look into this, call promptly be started. A second surveying gang left the city yesterday to assist the first party In completing the mapping out of the pro jected lines. The railroad will touch Fossil, ' Day ville, Prlneville, Madras, Detroit, beside a number of smaller places. It will open up 14 valleys to the outside world. The company Itself has mapped out five town sites. It Is planned to have the road com pleted by the end of next year, so that crops will be hauled out'to market. The project Includes the development of the mining Industry throughout the country to be traversed by the line. There is a large mineral district to be entered and a big reduction plant will be operated by the electric company. Power will be generated by plants located on the Des chutes and John Day rivers. It Is expect ed that sufficient power will be forthcom ing In excess of that needed by the rail road to operate the ore reduction plant and enough left over to distribute to power consumers throughout the district served by the railroad. Coal mines In the vicinity of Fossil and Mayville will be opened up by the road and a great Intensive development of the whole section is planned by the promoters of the trolley system. Church bell ringing In London has become such a nuisance In some quarters of the eity that the bells are muffled on week days. ?IRDSEYE VIEW OF . . I f Kg. r -r -r " ' ' '' Successor to Harding & Engen Branch Office Roseburg, Oregon GOOD YEAR FOR PICKERS HOP VIXES ARK UXU5UAL,Ix FREE FROM LEAVES. Conrad Krebs Says Those Working In Yards Will Make More Than Ever Before. Hopplckers in Oregon will make more money this year than ever before, according to Conrad Krebs, the owner of two big yards at Independence and Brooks. . - "I believe that the individual earn ings of the hopplckers will this season average the largest sum in the history of the industry In Oregon," said Mr. Krebs yesterday. "I base my predic tion on the fact that, there are hardly any leaves on the vines this year In fact, they have not been so leafless in years. This will make the picking easy. "We have decided to pay Jl a hun dred for picking, notwithstanding the PROPOSED PARK ON T)?E SUMMIT . ' accATfpr ' N5 i .... AND co. low market. Most of the growers have reduced their picking price to 80 cents a hundred, but we feel the pickers are entitled to receive good wages for their work." The Krebs yards will require 1000 pickers this season, and most of them will be secured in Portland. Mr. Krebs opened an office in the Worcester building yesterday and has already en gaged a considerable number. LINEMAN GETS BAD FALL Fred Von Rossum Meets With Acci dent In Courthouse. Fred Von Rossum, a lineman, was painfully bruised by falling a distance of 14 feet in the upper part of the Courthouse, early yesterday afternoon. He was placing wires in the vacant space above the second floor when he fell, striking the ceiling of the second floor. The plaster gave way but he was supported by Joists. Otherwise he would have fallen 80 feet additional and might have been seriously hurt He was taken from the jolets, where he had become pinioned. At first it was thought his injuries were serious and' a carriage was called in which OF MOUNT TABOR CITY and COUNTRY ALL IN ONE Lies Close to Roseburg. "The Rose Burg" Delightful Neighbors. Schools, Churches. ' Social Advantages. A HOME FOR YOD and YOUR FAMILY he was' taken to the Good Samaritan hospital. Here he was able to walk Inside. A wrenched ankle and bad bruises seemed to be the extent of his hurts and he will be out in a couple of days unless Internal injuries de velop. SCIENTIST JAKES RABIES Chicago Man Inoculates Himself With Hydrophobia by Accident. CHICAGO, Aug. 23. Antonio La Gorio. founder of the Pasteur Institute and con queror of hydrophobia, has . become in oculated with the disease he long has fought. The lamous specialist became In fected with the hydrophobia germ while experimenting on a rabbit In his labora tory. He now Is a patient at his own in stitute under the care of his assistant. Dr. G. D. Bruno, and testing the efficacy of his own treatment. Although the dis ease has reached an acute form, the phy sician said last night he was not at all alarmed. Dr. La Gorlo in dissecting the animal's brain, ran a sharp piece of bone under the nail of the index finger of his right hand. He thought nothing of the inci dent at the time, but later felt slight symptoms of rabies.. Dr. Bruno was called Into consultation and an examina tion showed that Dr. La Gorio had be come Inoculated. HIGHWAYMAN IS ROBBED Farmer Beats ' Off Assailant and Keeps Watch and Money. NBW YORK, Aug. 22. Raymond D. Tut tle, a farmer of Lincoln Park, N. J., was "held up" by two highwaymen, and In consequence one of them is poorer by a gold watch and 825, which Tuttle will hold as the spoils. He was returning Office open evenings this week until 9 o'clock. from Paterson when the two men leaped Into his wagon and commanded him to disgorge the contents of his pocketa. In stead, the farmer struck one of the men, knocking him over the dashboard, and the horses trampled on him. As the ani mals continued to speed along, Tuttle , continued to fight the other one. Within 100 yards from his home he tore most of the highwayman's clothes off and hurled him into the road. s ' Later Tuttle searched the clothes and In a waistcoat pocket found the money and watch: The latter Is worth $60. Wine Merchant Suicide. NEW YORK. Aug. 22. Francis B. Hill. 42 years old, of Bloomfteld, N. J.. Junior partner of the firm of Henry C. 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