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11 TIIE SUNDAY OREOOXIAy, rOItTLAXP. OCTO'B'E'R 5, 1913 THREE SISTERS, PIONEERS OF 1852, RESIDE IN JACKSON COUNTY. J. G. Mack & Co. Fifth and Stark J. G Mack & Co. Operations in Eastern Oregon In just a few weeks this store will announce the re sumption of business with entirely new stocks of Furniture, of Drapery and Upholstery Fabrics, of Carpets, Rugs and Decorative Materials. Practically speaking, it means a new and better store, with a stock fresh from the lead ing makers of dependable furniture, the very newest and best things from the looms ol America's foremost carpet and rug factories, 'and all that's correct and distinctive m drapery upholstery and decorative materials. A few of the new selections, especially in floor coverings, have alreadv arrived and are on display. Our various workrooms Upholstery, Drapery, Carpet, etc, are now in operation and better equipped and prepared than ever to care for all such work. Show Much Progress. OUTPUT GAINS ARE MARKED Production In Baker, Grant and Malheur This Tear Will Amount to $2,819,000, and for State More Than $3,000,000. GOLD US WORKED . - .V--; : GREENHORN, Or, Oct. 4. (Special.) Gold mining In the Greenhorn district of Oregon Is picking up wonderfully this year, as Is the case throughout Eastern Oregon. Where a year ago the United States Geological Survey reports showed gold production of the entire Btate of Oregon to have been 1770,041, as compared with $633,407 in 1911, the production of Baker, Grant and Malheur counties alone In 1913 will approximate $2,819,000, or more than $3,000,000 In gold and sliver values for the state as a whole, when the precious metals pro duction of Coos, Curry. Douglas. Jack son, Josephine and Lane counties Is added to the tremendous increase in Eastern Oregon, due largely to the In troduction of electrical- power and re opening of bona fide deep mines within a twelvemonth. The estimate of $2,819,000 Is based on the known output of six deep mines, one gold dredge and various other prop erties for the first eight months of 1913. Four of these deep mines and the dredge have commenced operations dur ing the year. Probable Output Computed. Exact figures showing the probable gold and sliver production for 1913 fol-. low: Rainbow. Mormon Bain $ 850.000 T?n Hrrlnn Whitney 300.000 Cornucopia, Cornucopia 230.000 Columbia. Sumpter 240,000 Highland. Haines 180.000 Humboldt, Mormon Basin 120.000 Powder River dredge 48S.000 Placers and small quarts mines. . uio.uou Grand total $2,819,000 In the Greenhorn district 20 miners are employed at the Bonanza on one shift. The mill Is dropping 15 stamps on ore which Is yielding most satis factory returns. In the Granite district the Ben Har rison employs 60 men on two shifts, la dropping stamps and doing much de velopment work underground. This mine Ib six miles from Greenhorn, Or, In an air line. Mormon Basin Active. In the Mormon Basin district the Rainbow and the Humboldt are both big producers, the former being owned and operated by the United States Smelting, ltefinlng & Milling Company, of Bos ton, Mass, and the latter by the Oregon-Idaho Investment Company, of Baker, Or. More than 100 men are em ployed on the two properties. In the Cornucopia district the Cornu copia and Last Chance mines, owned by a New York company, are Jointly drop ping 20 stamps dally, and amplifying their scope of operations .constantly. Sixty men are employed. In the Bourne district the old Colum bia, with 49.000 lineal teet of under ground workings, is the same steady producer it has been for 17 years. Just below Sumpter, Or, the Powder River dredge Is placerlng out from $7000 to $16,000 in fine gold weekly. - In the Baker district the Highland, above Haines, Or, Is operating a 60-ton daily capacity plant. In commission since June 1. 1912. PRISON EXHIBIT SECURED Walla Walla Prisoners' Work Will Go to Whitman Fair. COLFAX, Wash., Oct 4. (Special.) By special arrangement with the Governor the Walla Walla prison ex hibit will be brought to the Whitman County fair at Colfax, October 6 to lL Attorney Charles Hill was In Walla Walla this week completing arrange ments whereby Frank Vollendorf, a former Colfax resident will have charge of the exhibit and he will be accompanied by some of the trusted Inmates who will explain and show the exhibit, consisting of a section of the Jute mill, sack-making, farm ex hibits and prisoners' curios. Manager John Bloom, with the as sistance of the Colfax Booster Club, will give a purse of $200 for a five mile auto race for five days of the n, Pnllnv Carnival Com Dan V ,i v. -iron T2iiint Carnival Comnanv will have nine big shows and about 30 concessions on tne coirax streeia. Tuesday, the opening day, will start with a htv nrnmmmA for it Will be Colfax and Pullman day. Wednesday Is Moscow and Palouse day. Thursday Spokane and Rosalia day, Friday chil dren's day. Saturday, everybody's day. Frank Bryant will give an aeroplane flight each day. The management has arranged more special races and better programme than in lormer years. RHODES TEST BEGINS SOON Examinations for Scholarships Will Be Held' at Albany College. ALB ANT, Oi Oct 4 (Special.) Rhodes scholarsnip examination iu choose a representative from this state n nrfnrii University, under the schol- nrahtn nlan established by Cecil Tjhrfo. will ha held at Albany Col lege on October 14 and 15. It Is ex pected that six young men will take the tests, and It is assured inai ropur ...tatlvH rpnm thm TTnlversltv of Ore gon, Willamette University, McMlnn ville College and Albany College will compete. This committee of selection consists of P. L. Campbell, president of the Uni versity of Oregon, chairman; Fletcher Homan, president of Willamette Uni versity; C J. Bushnell. president of Pacific University; I W. Riley, presi dent of McMlnnville College, and H. M. Crooks, president of Albany College. COUNTY MAYHIRE FARMER Clarke Expects to Increase Products by Employing Expert. VANCOUVER, Wash, Oct 4. (Spe cial.) That the services of a farm ex pert who would pass his entire time In Clarke County for the benefit of the farmers, fruitgrowers and livestock men, would Increase crops and farm products $50,000 to $100,000. a year la the opinion of A. O. Hathaway, a farm er of Wasbougal district and other farmers, who met at the Vancouver Commercial Club today. The meeting was called that farmers and County Commissioners might con fer with Ira D. Cardiff, director of the experiment station and head of the bureau of farm experts of the State College at Pullman. The meeting went on record as favoring the employment of a farm expert AT LEFT-MRS. MARTHA L. GIttETTE IW CBWTER MRS. AlfK H. RUSSELL! AT RIGHT MRS. MARY M. DUNN. ASHLAND. Or.. Oct 4. (SpeclaL) Three pioneer women. ters of Isaac Hill, pioneer of '49. are charter members of the First Presbyterian Church and are all residents of Ashland, where Mrs. Russell Is still actively engaged 1 n the occupation of marble cutting. The three sisters came to Jackson County In 1852. LAWYER IS ACCUSED Crawford Declared Misled Dallas Saloon Case. in LICENSE BANNED; BAR RUNS Attorney-General's Opinion Favoring Liquor Shop, Given Through In complete Statement, la Charge In New Chapter. Into the Willamette River, died at the Corvallls nospitai at s:au o ciota . - n . i V.V.V luff a. note. In Id UO) SUV. ...UB. - - ' . .i.ih k .iii,ui.H thu division of his property between two sisters In Ger- arA amnnfr hta fffftm VU fOUnd evidence that he feared going Insane, hence tne seir-aestrucnon. mct" owned a homestead In North Dakota, had $1000 In a Corvallls bank and $50 was due him from the mill where he was employed. The Productions of the Leading Furniture Concerns Berkey & Gay of Grand Rapids and Cowan of Chicago, Will Continue to Be Shown in Portland on Our Floors Exclusively Specials in Furniture These and Others Are Noteworthy DALLAS, Or, Oct . (Special.) An other chapter in the famous saloon in junction case, which has furnished the newspapers of this city and the state subject for comment, has Just come to light It is in connection with the opinion of Attorney-General Crawford, on which the city permitted J. V. Chltty to open a saloon here without the formal license being Issued, and in face f the Injunction Issued by Judge Galloway. It is said that before Judge Galloway had ruled on the demurrer to the plaintiff's complaint asking for the In junction, and before he had passed on the motion to dismiss the Injunction order issued, G. O. Holman, one of the o. nr r.Knrii for- the city, but said to be in reality attorney for Chitty, by autnonty or mayor " OrsdeU wrote the Attorney - General setting forth a presumed statement of facts, and asking for an opinion. On the statement oi iacis nem. w Mr. Crawford handed down his decision holding that the saloon could open without the Issuance of the mere formal license; and, oaaing its on this decision, the city permitted Chltty to operate the saloon, though the oity and the Auditor and Police Judge of the city are restrained from issuing a license. ttittt tim MtsLtement OI 1L 19 ILUH Dv facts sent to the Attorney-General by Mr. Holman was not a complete state ment and that Mr. noiman BD . . . w ...n.oor, 1 in understand that the matter was not In the courts. Judge Galloway since has handea aown a uh- cislon wherein ne overruled mo . it tn tha Dlalntiffs niurrei nw w. complaint and overruled the motion to dismiss the injunction. It Is further reported mm. mo .......n.n.pai lpArninff- of the true HJl lllJ c status of the matter, has written to Mr. Holman asking lor a return ui u. written opinion, but that Mr. Holman has lgnorea ine It is said that steps will be taken to tha ronsnn nhi the citV re- fuses to abide by the decision of Judge Judge Coad, City Attorney, says that the city will appeal to tne oupremo Court from the homing oi juage umiu way. K'GGINS TO SEEK OFFICE ex-mayor op tancocteb to op pose: henry crass. UNION HAS SCHOOL FAIR Exhibit Will Bo Taken to County Show at- La Grande. school fair was held at the high school building In this city yesterday. The ..nuar! a, all AXtlACtAtlonS and the exhibits ranged from the prod uct of the farm ana garaen to tuuj ual training and domestio science departments of the school, some cnoico upotmicua v. pigs and poultry were displayed. From here the exhibit will be taken to La Grande, for the county fair. ' jrAAt T..nha a tnrii.nt of the senior class of the Union High School, met with a serious- acciaent wniie pruu lng at football on the High School cam ... .a..-av Tn thn scramble for a punted ball he collided with another nioV.- .mi foil. In the fall his left arm was broken at the wrist His comrades assisted mm to ms noma, where a physician was summoned. It Is not believed that the mishap will cause permanent injury to mo arm. ROAD BIDS CALLED SOON Jackson County Will Begin High way Work This Fall. MED FORD, Or, Oct 4. (Special.) After a meeting between State En gineer Bowlby, Assistant Engineer . W. Klttrldge and members of the County Court today It was announced that as the survey over tne tsismyous has been, completed bids for the con struction of two sections of the re cently authorized permanent highway will be requested at once. The IS miles from the southern county line over the Sisklyous will be graded this Fall so that the road will have time to settle In preparation for the hard surfacing next Spring and the present road from Medford to Cen tral. Point will be hard surfaced before Winter sets In. The latter announcement came as a pleasant surprise to Medford people. who supposed that only tne preliminary work In the Siskiyou grade would be done this Fall. - i MORTON STATION REPAIRED Town Growing' Real Estate Seals Are Recorded. Only One Democrat Aspires to City Job- Progresslre Also FUea Hour Before Booka Close. TT A WPftTTVPP Wh- Oct. 4. (SDO i i v i'V...a hnnni hfnrA the books closed John P. Klggtns today filed his declaration of becoming a nepuDucui candidate for Mayor of Vancouver to Ilnn.i. ProM R anil hliCS.n. WllO filed several weeks ago. Mr. Klggina thrice has Deen Mayor oi mis civy, us ing defeated by Dr. Charles S. Irwin wt ...ii ra atrrt ATi TTlfTina filed aSTain last year but withdrew his name the day before the primary election. a the general election he filed for County T,.aaiirAF hut wa defeated bv William r Fletcher, incumbent At the last hour E. M. Swan filed for Mayor on the Progressive ticket Others who have filed for municipal office are: Councilman-at-large Christ Engle man. incumbent; Charles' F. Gtrard. Councilman for Fourth Ward W. L. Moore, Incumbent and Harry Steel. Councilman for Fifth Ward G. R. Percival, and Roy N. Wilkinson, ln- Councilman for Sixth Ward George B. Stoner, lncumDem iur vwu iciuio, and Edward H. Mackey. rM t ittnmAT G. M. Davison and D. E. Hardin. Republicans; and George B. Simpson, wno nas mo uiouu.uuu v being the only Democratic candidate for city orrice. I-.., an,.r lumen P. Geoerhesran. In cumbent, employed by the United States National Bank, where the City Tr.. ii i. innotaii. o F. ZumBteif. em ployed by the Washington Exchange Bank, both Republicans. City Clerk Charles A. Hasson, In cumbent and C A. aicuonan. Corvallls Suicide Feared Insanity. rnTfVAT.I.Ta. Or- Oct 4. (Special.) iih.pt m.v.p who slashed his throat and wrists with a razor aad Jumped MORTON, Wash.. Oct 4. (Special.) -Extensive Improvements have been made about the Tacoma Eastern sta tion and grounds. i The town Btill grows. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Grant Stilt ner, and a son to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Collett this week. Local mills are cutting thousands of railroad ties. J. P. Bucher has sold his Davis Lake farm to O. A. Edlund. Mr: Bucher will go to New Mexico at once on account of his wife s health. Dr. Albrecht of Tacoma, has pur chased F. M. Broadbent's home at West Morton and will reside here perma nently. CASE TAKES TEACHER JOB Ex-Snperlntendent Becomes Village Schoolmaster at Center-tile. CORNELIUS. Or Oct 4. (Special.) From County School Superintendent to master of a little country school with less than SO pupils Is the position of M. C Case, who this week began teaching school at Centerville, three miles from Cornelius. Mr. Case for many years was School Superintendent of Washington County, and, stepped down the first of the year. He Is one of the best-known educators in the state. Last Monday Mr. Case took up his duties at Centerville, and for some years he expects to preside at the village school. MRS. DUKE WANTS DIVORCE Hills boro Woman Complains That Spouse Only Bathes Annually. HILLSBORO, Or, Oct 4. (Special.) Ida B. Duke, of North Plains, mar ried to J. H. Duke In 1911, Is suing lor divorce. One of her grounds Is that he has bathed but once each year since their marriage. North Plains has waterworks and a good-sized stream flows within a quarter of a mile, Duke is a brlckmaker and the wife says she advanced him $956 to start a yard at the new town. She asks res toration of her maiden name, Maringo. $6 All-Metal Springs, A Aft for wood or metal beds p-vv' $3 Coil Springs, all metal, for wood or metal beds, for $9 full-size Iron Bed, Cfi ftft .in Vernis Martin finish V""' $10 full-size Iron Bed, in best cream enamel finish, jg gQ $12.50 Heavy Iron Bed, in cream enamel, full size, now $11 Cotton Felt Mattresses, cov ered in Art Ticking, Sjg)() $12.50 Brown Eeed Arm foS'..TS.SO eds, Jje 7C $15 Brown Reed Arm Rocker ipOeO or Chair, now J?Q ttf Jed. ff for ipU.OU MMpf Note These Final Prices in Fine Rugs $65 Seamless Chenille Rugs, size 8 ft. 3 in. x 11 ft. 6 in., 2 aKacth..:!M.e.$35.00 $60 Hartford Saxony Rugs, size 9x12 ft., 3 t 07 Cfl only, at, each F ov $65 plain Chenille Rugs, size 0x12 ft., 3 only, tfJ0 7 CA to close, each P- ' mKjKt $18 Library Tables, in solid oak, either golden Q 7CZ or fumed finish V17 $13.50 Floss Mattresses, cov ered in fancy $1 ft Kft Art TickingPUou $18 Brown Reed Arm Chair for..E.?.C.k".$11.75 $22.50 heavy oak Library Ta ble, in either golden or .'.$12.50 $20 Cotton Felt Mattresses, with roll edge, covered in fancy insr. f $20 Floss Mattresses, covered in fancy Art Q1 5 Cfl $27.50 oak Library Table, in f u m e d o a k, $95 00 fumed or gold- P1 A 7C for............P-vy en finish, for P $63 full-size and massive $24 Continuous-Post Brass Brass Bed, with3-inch con- Bed, 5.$15;50 fo1!!.. !!!?:. $39.75 $23 Brown Reed Arm Chair, with tapestry seat cushion and back, now EJ 7 $27 Brown Reed Rocker or Chair, with tapestry uphol stered seat and $1Q ff back, for pii?.VrU $35 full-size, Continuous-Post Brass Bed, now 0 1 7C for fiile0 icy Art Tick- $1 Q Cfl $4 Post-btyle Brass lied, ;for J13.0U full size, now COO 5Q $40 massive Library Table, in quarter-sawed, golden or Drapery and Upholstery Materials Have Reached Their Lowest Prices 60c yard Art Cretonnes, new goods, to close at, $1.25 to "$1.85 yard Sundour Fabrics in five col- i Q ore, to close at, yard. JL tC $1.25 yard Moroccoline, the best grade imitation i A leather, to close, yd. A C $4 yard Green Drapery Silk, 50 inches wide, to H Q close at, yard UtC $3.50 Crinkled Kep Tapestry for drapery or upholstery purposes, green only, to close at, yard....OOC A Few Squares of Various Fabrics, suitable for pillow tops or chair seats, formerly priced from $1 to 1 $3.50 yd., now, each X UC Fifth and Stark Co, Fifth and Stark OVER-MOIJXTAIN ROAD AVOKK TO BE READY FOR 1915. State Engineer Bowlby Says Fine,, Hard-Surfaced Pavement Will Be Ready for Iair Traffic. MEDFORD, Or, Oct. 6. (Special) Ts.M.k .vi lacnnniMi of county war rants to pay for the grading of the new trunK nignway over mo work toward the construction of a ..nnui navAmpnt from the south county line to the north county line. 62 miles, autnorizeo. oy mo road bond election September 9. has . an a th first 12 miles DCgUU III l'1' ii'- " - , over the Sisklyous will be graded and ready lor me nara uriaimi the Spring. It has been decided to start the work at the California line near Hilt and build the first unil over ine dioijuu Kaon laM Ollt bV J. S. Howard, the father of Medford and Its first Mayor, tne man wuu c,.,r Pnrifln rieht of way over the same pass many decades ago. AWWiuniB . neer Klttrldge this will be one of the finest scenic uouioYnrua State if not on the CoaBt. For two miles at an elevation of 4000 feet this hard-surfaced highway Will run along the sky line, giving the autoists and tourists a wonderful birdseye view of Mount Shasta and the California val leys on one side and Mount Pitt and the Rogue River Valley on the other Where the present toll road grade now reaches as high as 80 and 35 per cent the new road will have a maximum ol 6 per cent and will have no curve with a radius of less than 150 feet. This portion of the road will be completed in time for the travel In August. 1914. The state highway commission has already aided the County Court bj agreeing to pay for the expense of th survey over the Sisklyous and from now on the actual road construction will be In the hands of State Englneet Bowlby who declares the entire high, way will be completed early in 1916 to take advantage of the Increased tourist travel during the Panama Exposition. BISHOP 01A WINS OUT SUPREME COURT ACTS ITT MAGNUS ON "KIDNAPrXG" CASE. heard In the San Francisco Juvenile Court and the third for J2500 for airing the case in the Tacoma.' Juvenile Court, the Jury finding that It constituted persecution also. The case arose out of placing Mar jory Rilman in the care of the Cath olic Sisters. The mother contended she had a right to the custody of her child. The defense was that Marjory wished to be taken care of and that the mother, who after the divorce from the girVs father, married Magnuson, was an improper person w uo m little one. SHERIDAN FRUIT TREES BIG Pear Tree Is S S Inches Around and an Apple Tree 6 1 Inches. SHERIDAN. Or Oct. 4. (Special.) Some of the largest fruit trees in Ore gon are located here, accoraing to measurements Just taken by Mrs. M. Cole a resident. The trees were planted by A. B. Falkner In 1848 on what was then the Falkner homestead. In J. E. Brown's front yard is one apple tree measuring 61 Inches in cir cumference and 42 feet spread, 40 feet high and loaded with fine fruit. In Mr. Sargenfs yard are two cherry trees, one 62 and one 65 Inches in cir cumference; three pear trees, one 72, one 77 and one 83 Inches In circum ference The one measuring 83 Inches is 60 feet tall. All are loaded with fine pears. Morton Shipments Increase. MORTON, Wash., Oct. 4. Agent Bourke states that September was the biggest month In the history of the Morton depot. Shipments the past week were good, a Bummary being as follows: Outgoing, two cars of stock, five cars of shingles, five cars of ties, one car of broom handles, four of merchandise and one mlscellaneons. Two cars of household goods were re ceived, one of cement, one of coal, two of feed, one of flour, 13 of merchan dise and three miscellaneous. Kan Hit by Train Dies. ASTORIA. Or, Oct 4. (SpeclaL) Edmond Hagerup, who was struck by a Spokane, Portland tt Seattle train a few days ago, as he was crossing the track at the rear of Ross Iligglns & Co.'s store, died today. Hagerup was a native of Norway, 64 years old and re sided at Knappton. He had been a fisherman on the Columbia River for several years and his only known rel atives are three brothers, also residing at Knappton. QUALITY PRICE TERMS See Graves Mnslo Co. Piano Removal Sale ad. Page 1. section 4. Adv. Centralla Court Opens Monday. CENTRALIA. Wash., Oct. 4. (Spe cial.) The October term of the Lewis County Superior Court opens Monday. There are four criminal cases on the docket and many civil cases. Passlom and Prejudice Stows fc Prose entloa of CatfceUe Leader New Trials la Otaera Ordered. OLTMPIA, Wash., Oct 4. Directing hat Bishop' Edward J. 0"Dea, of Seat tle, be dismissed as a party to the suit, the Supreme Court handed down a de cision today In the case of Lizzie Mag nuson against Edward J. O'Dea ana also against him as Bishop of Seattle, the corporation of the Catholio Bishop of Nlsqually In the territory of Wash ington, George C. Vangoethem, Mary Haniger, sometimes known as Mother Camlllus; Agnes M. McHugh, known as Sister Aloyslus; Lovis L. Lefebro and the Sisters of the Visitation, a corpo ration, appellants. The decision says passion and preju dice were shown In returning a verdict against Bishop CDea, and that that alone would Justify a new trial. The court orders a new trial of all other parties to the action, against whom damages In the sum of $23,033 were awarded on three counts. The first was given Mrs. Magnuson for the alleged kidnaping of her daughter, Marjory Rilman, then be tween 16 and 18 years of age, the damages being $19,030. The second count was for $1500 for alleged mali cious prosecution In having the case u apis COOL EVENINGS AND CHILLY MORNINGS ANDIRONS FIRE SETS FIRE SCREENS SPARK GUARDS BASKET GRATES MAKES A FIRE FEEL COMFORTABLE THESE FALL" DAYS. LF YOU HAVE NtT ALREADY SUPPLIED YOUR SELF WITII A GOOD HEATING STOVE WE INVITE YOU TO INSPECT OUR LARGE LINE OF "WOOD AND COAL-BURNING HEATERS THAT WE ARE SHOWING IN OUR STOVE DEPARTMENT IN THE BASEMENT. WE HANDLE BRIDGE, BEACH & CO.'S MAKE A GUARANTEE OF QUALITY AND LONG LIFE AT PRICES THAT ARE NO HIGHER THAN YOU WOULD HAVE TO PAY FOR AN INFERIOR QUALITY OF STOVE. H0NEYMAN HARDWARE COMPANY FOURTH AT ALDER 4