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lite WEEKLY EDITION vol. xxvm TOKAY FESTIVAL HELD ANNUALLY FIRST ( 'FIGURATION IN HONOR OF GRAI'K ON TODAY. MOVING PICTURES MADE Parade Includes AiiloiimltileN hiiiI Trucks, W'ttlt the Fruit I m1 in Decoration. V The Tokay grape will be ktug la Grants Fas Friday, and on one day annually hereafter our people will do honor to the fruit that la born to the purple. The Grants Pass Annual Tokay Grape Festival has been inaugurat ed, and the first celebration of the event will occur Friday, when the occasion will be especially marked by the presence of the official photog rapher of the Southern Pacific rail way who will make moving pictures of the. event for exhibition through out the east. A meeting was held Wednesday afternoon at the office of the Uigg's l.ucas Land Co., at which the idea of the festival was first broached, and bo popular was the Idea that tlK organization was effected within a short time, mid Friday was selected as the most available date because of the development of the grape, it now being ready for harvest, and lo calise of the presence of the city of Mr. Welster, the photographer, who was desirous of photographing the event. It Is proposed to have an automo bile parade at 2; 30 o'clock with the machines decorated with the grape, or in other ways made, representa tive Of the Industry. The school children and other organizations will also be asked to participate, and a moving picture of the parade will be made. L. L. Merrick was appointed i to see that all the autos in town were In the parade and properly dec- j orated. j It is also desired that the business j houses decora tj?, using the Tokay as j largely as possible in the decorative j scheme, and Messrs. N . u. hnerman. E. L. Churchill, it. K. Kroh and Joe Calhoun were appointed a committee to boost the matter of decorations. Th. parade of the school children ' will be looked after by Messrs. H. C. Kinney, H. I,. Gilkey and Jos. Mos-. The Odd Fellows and Kehekahs of southern Oregon will be here in con vention Friday, which will make it doubly a day for celebration. The moving pictures to be made will represent all phases of the grape industry, Mr. Welster being In the orchards and vineyards today mak ( ing pictures of the work there, as well as picturing the bearing vines. Friday, October 11th, at 2:30 o'clock. Remember the number, and help start something that in the years to come will be the big day of the year, a new independence day. for a Tokay vineyard properly cared for In the Rogue river valley will bring independence to you. FUAL SUFFRAGE MFFTING MTOP.FR IS. On Saturday evening. October 12. there will be an equal suffrage meet ing at the opera house. George H. Parker will sik on "Plague Spots Along the Trail of the Serpent;" "The Cancer Upon the Breast of the Body Politic." will have the X-ray treatment given it: "The Serpent on the Hearth." he dis cussed in all Its loathsomeness and menace to the spiritual, mental and physical nature by Mrs. Nicholas; and Mrs. Prescott. at one tin, mis sionary teacher among the Mormons of Utah, will give an aaaresa "Mormonlsm versus Americanism. Mrs. J. E. Coffey, who b?' visiting her slster-ln-law, Mrs. Win. Cheshire, left Thursday for Go.d mill. GRANTS StJl'AW I1AMX ( l)U. KXCFI.I.FNT FOR MklN O. L. Hilles, of Coos county, who recently accompanied M. R. Catup-i bell, chief of the coal department of j the United States Geological survey of Washington. D. C, Prof Roberts. I neaci or the school of mines of the Washington State University at Seat tle, Hiid Mr. Powell, a coal expert of note, in their examination of the new coal fields of Squaw Basin, 40 miles west of Grants Pass was in the city Tuesday. lie reports that these experts were very enthusiastic over the coal which they coked on the forge and otherwise experimented with, and that It was tlu? common opinion that this was the best body of high grade bituminous coal found In the west; or as one expressed it, west of the Mississippi. The import ance of this to southern Oreron, which only needs coke to Btart its smelters, can hardly be appreciated. The proposed railroad down Rogue river to the cast will pass di rectly through the coal measures mentioned above. The time will soon come when Grants Pass will need a large amount of coal. The price is now excessive. This new road will make better coal available at half the present price. We repeat, that the people of Grants Pass should not overlook nny opportunity to assist In bringing about direct communication with these coal fields, which are only 40 miles away. The efforts now being made are meeting with success, and the com mittee appointed by the Commercial club, Messrs. II. C. Kinney, E I.. Churchill and A. A. Porter, deserve great credit. 1 VALLEY iionom lu planter to mk wit: ('has. Meserve, who is in charge of the Interests of W. K. Ituchanan, the Honolulu sugar planter, in this region, has just been instructed by Mr. Huchanan to proceed this win ter with the dear hi g and planting of the property purchased last fall in the Savage creek district. Mr. Uurhanan, who is a well-to-do citizen ol tnai territory, owns a iou 'acre tract or me oiu savage uouauon j claim located at the rapids, w hich he ! proposes to develop into a modern Uountry seat to which will remove ! i ii two or three years, or when It has J lie. 'ii developed und'f the expert di 'rertion of Mr. Meserve. It Is the plan to i lear some twenty acres this winter, and to plant it out to fruit or seed to alfalfa. The place will be I irrigated by pumps, electric power Hieing used tdi lift the water fiom.the Rogue, and no expense will be spared to make a model home place of It. An oak grove of several acres on the banks of the Rogue will be trimmed on and landscaped, and the resi dence and other farm buildings will be erected there. All varieties of fruit will be planted out, as there are parts of the farm that aw espec ially adapted to the culture of all the various kinds that come to such perfection in this valley, and pears, apples, grapes and apricots will each be grown. Wil l; HUL LUMBER FROM SWEDE HASIN H. B. Eaton, who has been hauling lumber from Schmidt Bros.' saw mill on Evans creek to Rogue River dur ing the past season, has completed his contract there, and has brought the engine and trailers to Grants Pass and will commence hauling from the Swede Basin mil., that mill having cut more lumber than its present tractor can haul. This will give the Swede Basin mill two big outfits for bringing its cut to this city, the Immense engine that has been doing duty all sum mer has hauled In Its load of four great trucks each loaded with ten thousand fe?t of lumber in the njuah. or forty thousand at each trip, completing a trip every other ,dil). The new outfit that will now in getting the product of this slst -:!!! to market will rtnjlst of the en- j Dr. Shaw eald that the United gine and four trailers, each trailer States, which purported to be a re with a apacity of five thousand feet, i public, was not a republic at all, .he distance to the mill Is about jand would not be till all the people twenty miles, and the outfits require ere a party to its government. , a-,v for the trip cacti way. PASS JOSEPHINE COINTY, ORKtiON. FRIDAY, OCTORKH II, 1DI2. OH. ANNA HOWARD SHAW TALKS IN GRANTS PASS Noted Woman Lecturer Seems Confident That .f Oregon Will Join Coast States in ' Giving Woman Ballot. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, the lead er of the woman suffrage movement in the nation. Is confident that the state of Oregon will take its place along with its coast neighbors, and at the coming election give to her women the right of franchise. The great mlnlster-physlcian-ora-tor advocate of woman's cause was listened to by an audience that filled j i the opera house Friday night, and a more attentive audience was never brought, together, and a more force ful or logical plea for any cause was never presented In the city. Dr. Shaw handles her subject In a dignified and scholarly manner, yet her speech Is punctured with wit and sarcasm that serve as the seasoning to an Intellectual feast of the high est order. Upon the wall at the rear of the speaker's stand was a map In which Oregon was shown In black surround ed on the three sides by states that had already conferred upon the wo men the privilege of the ballot. In voicing her belief that Oregon would he next, Dr. Shaw said "If Oregon does give the women the ballot she will lv following In the footsteps of Washington. California, Idaho and Colorado, but she will be simply catching up with China just think of It. When the constitution of the new Chinese republic was framed a few months ago, It included a pro vision putting women on the same plane with men In governmental af fairs, with educational qualifications. "I'll tell you why the great west is adopting woman sunrage ami the east Is not. It Is because the virility of the nation, the flower of the man hood and the womanhood of the na tion, and the higher class of the foreign immigration are living in the west. In the east we have the dregs of that foreign immigration, while it was the progressive citizen ship that came here and people the Pacific slope. In the east we hear of Oregon through the Oregon ap ple and the Oregon system. The Ore iron system has come to stand for progression in those things political that go toward the betterment of the condition of the human family. Woman suffrage is the next step In the development of the Oregon sys tem. Not Like Grandmother's Time. "Industrial and commercial con ditions have changed," said Dr. Shaw, "and with them woman's por sltlon has likewise changed. The average man today wants to ride in an airship and his wife to ride In an ox-cart, like grandmother did. The women couldn't do that if they want ed to. The hand of progress moved by man'B desire for financial gain, has taken from the home the spin ning wheel, the loom, the preserv ing kettle and other ancient house hold facilities and (substituted labor-saving machinery. And now if a woman wants grandmother's Job she must go into the store, the fac tory or the sweatshop. "In the olden days grandmother could regulate the hours of her la bor according to her personal wishes. She was supreme In that. Her grand daughter of today can't do that. She has nothing to say about man-made laws that force her into the eommer merrlal world, and that's why she de mands the ballot. Woman does not want the ballot simply to vote; she wants the ballot because It's the only medium by which she can ce cure social and economic Justice. She does not want the ballot simply for (the sake of voting, but does want What the ballot will bring her." ! I nitr,l State Not let a Republic. i omen sre people tne same as OE EQUAL SUFFRAGE men." she argued, "and a govern ment Is simply itsi'ople. When you make laws In which only one-half the people are represented you have not placed the country In the class of a republic; you have simply ex erted the power of sex aristocracy. You have an insuperable barrier against one-half of your citizens and as long as such a coudltion exist your claim of being a republic is false. Who will dispute that If n new constitution were to be framed for the United Spates today that there would be no hesitancy In granting suffrage to women? "Woman's right to the ballot Is now generally recognized all over the United States, and the politicians can not much longer deprive ua of that right. . And three of the presi dential candidates are having n sorry time trying to conciliate the elements of their parties who are divided on the question. Mr. Taft has been ordered to favor equal suffrage west of the Mississippi and to oppose It In the east; he Is obeying orders. Mr. Wilson has been ordered to keep still about It, and all we heard from him so far on the question is that he has been debating It for the past nine months, and he Is still debating". Mr. Roosevelt was ordered to come out and shout boldly for it all over the country and he, too, is obeying. Four years ago he was afraid to ex press an opinion on It. None of these men are fooling us a bit. They are all out for office, and they'll have to reckon with female voters soon er or later. If all the western states give women the ballot . which they are sure to do, it will give those states such a powerful Influence In national elections that the east will be forced to fall In line." The woman who did not want to vote was taken to tnsk for her dog-in-itjie-inanger attitude. and Dr. Shaw thought that because some might not want to vote, those who wild should not be deprived of the right. "Along with this antiquated argu ment we still hear such assertions ns hnr,s" hold quarrels and neglect of family In event equal suffrage. Mv friends, married couplea who am prone to quarrel will quarrel wheth er they discuss politics or not. And such persons usually quarrel about the most trivial things on earth, when a little patience would avert such unpleasantness. This has been my observation in my 2!i years of traveling as a lecturer, during which time I have been In thousands of houses and some homeB. As to a woman's neglecting household duties If she were to vote, that Is rank ab surdity. Do you think a woman can not take a few minutes' time two or three days out of each year to drop a piece of paper in a box, after work ing the rest of the year for several hours a day, without injuring the welfare of her family? "I only ask the men to put them selves in our places for a moment If they can, and see themselves govern ed by Chinese, negroes, Dutch, French, Italians, every race and col or, without an opportunity to say what the laws which govern us shall be; paying our share of the bills without saying what the bills shall be. "Some people argue that women do not want the ballot because It would not be safe for her to go Into the madly excited rabble about the polls on election day. Is It possible that men who are so amiable and pleasant and civilized 364 days of the year that we are glad to live with them, will become on election day such raving bi-asts that we dare not walk the streets? Do we o'k our doors and hide ourselves away on election day now? No; It Is merely the old unreasoning fear of the unknown, and a false conception of man of what government really Is. The government lies neither in the gilded dome at Salem nor In the men who sit beneath It, any more than the kingdom of God lies there alone; like the kingdom of God,' It lies within ourselves. Take us away, and all the other 'uses.' and there would lc no government. "Woman suffrage was defeated lu Oregon In the past chiefly through the floating vote that Is the vote of unmarried aud childless men, and men who had no permanent place of residence. The home owner, the per manent resident and the fathers, the class who are doing the most i build up the community, are with us. Give women the ballot and the float ing vote will be outnumbered. Its Influence will go. "The men know lots of things tin women do not; tli women know a lot of things of which the men are Ignorant. Rut the men and the wo men together know everything. It them vote together as they live, and you'll take a tremendous stride to ward the betterment of government. "In the old colonial days of the United States a man had to be a member of a particular church he- fore he was allowed to vote. The church, not t lu man voted. I.ntir the revolutionary eraser was applied and the religious qualification win displaced by tne word 'tax-payer;' the money, not the man voted. Sub sequently the revolutionary eraser was again used and the word 'white' was placed before the word 'male.' After the civil war the eraser struck out the word 'white' and left the word 'male' unmodified. Now, at this date the woman ask the men to use the eraser once more. Stilke out that word 'male' and subst:.ute the words 'good citizen 21 yenrs of age or over, otherwise qualified.' This would not be revolutionary; It would be evolutionary; It would be the last step In evoking an ncrunt re public out of a monarchy ruled by sex nrlstocracy." VIC SMITH WRITES OF KILI.IN MOUNTAIN BEARS. Columbia Falls, Montana. Editor Courier. Dear Sir: On September 'IS, Bert 1 1 ii hIi of your city, and your humble servant took to the mountains in search of big game. Wo went up the north fork of the '.Mat head liver, wlibh Is the eastern boundary lino 'of the Glacier peak. We hud u cook, two saddle horses and three pack i . horses. On the first of October Mr. IIiihIi succeeded In killing n flue 12 polnt elk which weighed 780 pounds. The next day we went to puck in the elk und found a good sized Muck hear lunching on the carcass. The bear dog that 'Mr. Hush brought with him from Grants Pass proved a hummer and promptly nipped the bear at the haunches. The underbrush was very thick and Mr. Bush followed dog and bear nearly half a mile before he could get a shot at the bear, which, in the throes of death, seized one of the three dogs and ripped It so severely that Hush was obliged to shoot the poor animal to put It out of Its agony, as It could not possibly live. Two mountain goats and three mule doer were killed on the trip; also several fool hens and ptarmagln. When the hunt was over there was over one foot of snow on the ground. Silver tip bear tracks were plentiful as also were those of black and brown bear. It has been snowing more or less for several days here. Just shoot us up a little Gran's Pass weather If you please. Mr. and Mrs. Hert Bush will re turn to Grants Pans next spring and I will follow. I am going out with a party of English tourists on October 12, who wish to secure one head each of moose, elk, goat, sheep, deer and bear. Tliere Is plenty of game here, but as the season for game does not open until October 1, peek-a-boo un derclothes, as one can wear In Jose phine county at this season, won't do to hunt In. VIC SMITH. Oct. 6, 1912. C. F. Forh of the Tom East Mining Co., at Placer, spent Thursday In the (it on business. NO. 1W. ERECT BIG MILL AT CHETCO MOUTH SAN UEHXAKDI.NO COMPANY TO COXSTRl T GREAT PLAXT. CAPACITY 125,000 DAILY Ci-t'Ncent City Co. Will AUo ImrwM Cutting mid Tut lit Cable to ret Water. Another great lumbering Industry Is to spring up on the coast to the west of Grants Pass, and this, with the extension of the Interests already engaged lu lumbering In that direc tion, will witness an activity that will have a direct and Immediate Influence upon the prosperity of the coast coun ties of Josephine, Curry, Coos and Del Norte. Messrs. II. P. Welter, Geo. Henry, ; Court Wright, Frank Cnssou and J. " I). Weed ma ii. the two first named ac companied by their wives, arrived In the city Thursday morning, and left a little later for the' coast by auto, where they will be In charge of con struction work on a mill of 125,000 dally rapacity to be erected by the Brookings Lumber Co. of San Ber nardino, Cal., at Harbor, at the mouth of the Chetco. This company has already built a Hinall mill on the Chetco, with which It Is cutting the timbers for Its de velopment work for the building ot tne big mill, houses for employes, etc. It Is proposed to build the mill on the north side of the Chetco, where the output can be loadod on the boats direct from the mill by the use of a cable to bo erected out to deep anchorage. Tim Brookings company has hold ings of 30,000 acres of tlmlier lands In l ho Chetco and PlMtol river dis tricts, with many other thousands of aires contracted for, and to reach tlif'se bodies, railroads will be built up both the Chetco and Pistol rivers. The plan for the Immedluto future calls for a roud of ten or twelve miles ui tho first named creek, and later a road along the coast through the great body of timber there will con nect the'Plstol district with Harbor. The lumbering road up the Chotco will ultimately reach nearly to ttua head of that creek, tupping the tim ber within twelve miles of Kerby, but on the west Hlopo of tho mountains. Development at Crencont City. Abmg with the other lumbering that Is lu view along the coast, tn Hobbs, Wall & Co. people are making extensive additions to their plant, at Crescent City. Heretofore it has been possible for only medium sized coast ers to come Into the bay to load, but the company Is planning to erect a cable, anchored to one o( the big rocka out from the beach at the edge, of the deep water, and to load the larger vessels by means of this cable. Tho span will be half a mile long and the slings will carry a car load of lumber at a trip. This company Is also planning to Increase Us cutting capacity, and be prepared to put Its great bodies of redwood and fir oi the market with the opening of the Panama canal. The starting up of these lumbering industries, together with the larger work that is to he accomplished with the building of the roadrom Grant Pass to Port Orford, and the lumber ing that will follow will bring about an era of prosperity for all the In terior country. It will mako marketi for the production of the soil, glvo employment to labor, and cause land values to rise. Shipping From Merlin- Fred N. Robertson was In from the fruit ranch near Merlin Tuesday af ter box material for the boxing of the apple crop. A number of cars of apples will bo loaded out at Mer lin this season, the yield and quality both being excellent. J. E. Walker and family left Wed nesday for Los Angeles.