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About The evening news. (Roseburg, Douglas County, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 8, 1919)
1 1 ! kJ . VsocvoOBE WEATHER Pull for a bigger, better and more prosperous Roseburg and Douglas . , County. :' SATT.y,:miBht Sunday, Ruin. w' ,1, ', manual ismn, yosteraay......58 7 ; Lowest temp, last nfsat..,..:..46 The Only Paper in Roseburg Carrying Associated Press Dispatches VOL. X. ROSEBURG, DOUGLAS COUNT!, OREGON SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 19i0 NO. U BACKBONE OE SEATTLE SYM IS ONLY A MATTER OF A FEW Car Operators Preparing to ' Return to Their Work ; This Afternoon. MAYOR HANSON FIRM AU Union Exemption Cards Are Tom ' From Street Cars By Order of Mayor Olo Hanson. Labor I .' Unions Are Ignored. ' ' . (By Associated Press.) STILL IN CONFERENCE. STRTITTLE. Feb. 8 The street ir officials mado the statement Q this afternoon that they believed that it was only a matter of a few hours until the backbone of the sympathetic strike which has had a grasp on the industrial activities of Seattle, will be com- pletely broken. The car opera- tors are preparing to return to their work, they declared today, which is the first real disposi- tlon shown that the union forces are weakening. Union carmen are still In conference at a late hour thia afternoon with the general strike committee. , , - . - Troops Ordered Hold. SPOKANE, Feb. 6 The com- manding officer of Fort George A. Wriiflit Dnnnnn(R(l late this afternoon that he had received ' orders to hold troops In ream- v ness to move to Butte to quell disturbances which are. expected 4 there. 1 SEATTLE, Feb. 8. No action had been taken at eight o'clock this morn inw hv th strike committee on the ultimatum of Mayor 'Hanson Issued yesterday to the effect that he would take a firm hand in conducting the affairs of Seattle unless there was a decided change in the attitude of the Btrike leaders. There were no street cars operating thlB morning and the officials were Btill undecided when an attempt would be made to place them at the disposal of the public. The. city-directed jitney service, how ever, has been inaugurated under the , mayor's orer, who states that un less the trolley companies put their cars in operation at once ,the city cars would be sent over all lines. "I have ordered all union excemp tion signs torn, off the street cars," Mayor Hanson stated today, '"and we are going to operate without the con sent of the unions." Not a single case of strike disorder had been ire ported up to noon today. Soldier guards are stationed on all the prin cipal streets, while several more rest aurants resumed business today. The only newspaper issued was the Seattle Star, which was done under police guard. At Tacoma the stike situation has greatly cleared, the street cars being In operation, barbers have returned to their work, while all teamsters and chauffeurs are back at their poBt of duty. . . . According to authentic information received at Seattle today, the Gov ernor of Washington has the promise of the War Department that all neces sary co-operation in coping with the possible strike troubles in this city as well as at Tacoma, will be given the state andity officials. The local union nawsnaner at Spokane, in an editorial today, urges the Spokane workers not to join the sympathetic ' strike. President Coates, of the Cen tral Labor council, is the editor of the paper. ORDERED BACK TO WORK. SPRINGFIELD. 111.. Feb. 8. J. P Noonan, acting president of the In ternational Electrical Workers, in a telegram today directed all tne elec trical workers now out on a sympa thetic strike at Seattle to return to their work at once. TAKE REFERENDUM VOTE ' EVERETT, Wash., Feb. 8. The Trades Council has voted to take a referendum vote on the question of a general sypathetic strike, 'lne re turn from this action will be mode known next Wednesday. REVIEW STRIKE SITUATION. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 8. The announcement that L. C. Marshall, of the Labor Adjustment Boards, is here to "review the whole strike situa tion", was made at the office of the sniping board today. BRICKLAVKRS WILL STRIKE. 'NEW YORK, Feb. 8. The union bricklayers and hoisting engineers the country over will be called on a sympathetic strike Monday in an ef fort to enforce the demands of car penters, who are asking for a dollar a. day increase in their wages, accord- MERCHANT MARINE Eddy Introduces ' Memorial Asking Congress to Get Into Immediate Action. CALIFORNIACOOPERATES i Necessary Foreign. Markets Be Readi ed and Only Way, Is Through A ' Substantial Government Merchant Marine. . (By Associated Press.) SALEM, Ore., Feb. 8. Oregon has taken the first steps in joining other Pacific Coast states in urging upon congress the establishment of a mer chant marine on the Pacific coast. A Joint memorial has been introduced by Senator iEddy, asking congress to get into action and a conference was held in the governor's office between Secretary Quayle, of the Oregon chamber of commerce, President Vin ton of the senate, Speaker Seymour Jones of the house, Senator Eddy, chairman of the senate reconstruction committee and Ben Sheldon, chair man of the house reconstruction com mittee. Data was submitted to show that 400 ships are necessary to carry to the markets of the world" the lum ber output of this state, aside from the marine needs of other industries. Washington ' and California are participating in the movement and Governor Withycombe believes that joint action by the three coast states will awaken congress to the know- ledge that aotion is Imperative. If we -are to do our utmost foi reconstruction", said the- governor, ''it is necessary that foreign markets be reached and the only way this can be done is through a merchant mar ine. Our network of railroads halt: at the shores of the Pacific, henci the rallroadB do not build up a for eign trade- . Congress mUBt act, if we are not to fall behind' Japan, England and other foreign countries." FIX SALARY RATES. SALEM, ORE.,, Feb. 8. In urging the passage of the house bill placing $75 per month' as the minimum sal ary which may be paid school teach ers, Mrs. Alexander Thompson, re presentative from Hood River, and Wasco counties, made an impassion ed speech. She said: "Gentlemen, let us take the schools of Marlon county for example. In 1914 and 1915 the average wages was $58.18. In 1918 and 1919 the average wage Is $64.78. The increase In pay has been $6.60.. In living ex pense the increase has been $9.78. Gentlemen, these are facts. ' An illiterate foreigner may come to America and! earn $7.00 a day. An American girl, a college graduate, in the most exalted of professions, Is paid less than $3 a day." The house passed the bill. RESTORE DEATH PENALTY. SALEM, ORE., Feb. 8 The senate committee on judiciary haB reported favorably Senator Dlmmtck s joint re solution to restore the death penalty for persons convicted of murder in the first degree or for treason. The committee added the amendment that juries lnsteadi of the court shall de termine whether the penalty shall be death or life imprisonment. WEYERHAUSER AGENT HERE. W. G. Marshall, tax agent for the Weyerhauser timber Interests, was in the city for several hours yester day conferring with the county court in regard to a few minor matters. The Weyerhauser Company has the largest holdings in this county of any other single corporation. He ir traveling through Oregon and Into Northern California, where his com pany holds interests. ing to the announcement today or William Hutchinson, (president of the Carpenters Union. WILL TAKE STliDCE VOTE. OAKLAND, Feb. 8. The Oakland shlDvard laborers' union, with a mem bership of 3,000, voted next Monday a holiday at which time a strike vote will be taken. Wages of $6 a day has been proposed. MEN TURNED BACK. BUTTE, Mont., Feb. 8. Hundreds or armed striking miners turned back men who were trying to go to work today. Mining in the district is almost suspended. FINISH WORK TODAY. ' PARIS, Feb. 8. The peace con-, ference commission on the Society of Nations expects to finish Its work at today s Besslon. REPORTING BOL8HEVIKI. LONDON. Feb. 8. The British eovernment is quietly arresting and deporting vndeairable aliens, who are believed to be Bolshevist propagand - Ists. OREGON BOYS GET E Philadelphia AccordsTremen ' dous Reception to Boys of 65th Regiment. :' PEOPLE i ARE INJURED Onrush of Sightseers So Great Thai Five People Wore Injured by ttie Welcoming Crowds Lining Piers Along the River, j .! A reception such as haB never be fore been accorded returning soldiers waB given the boys of the 65th Coast Artillery, as they landed In Phila delphia, according to reports from that city. The following is taken from a Philadelphia paper, a number of which have been Bent home by the Roseburg boys: . ' "The Haverford rode on a stream so transformed by the mighty impulse of a righteous war that even the few Pennsylvanians on board had diffi culty in recognizing the Delaware River. For miles upon miles every wharf was black with human figures. Every boat's length of the way was attended by shrieks of rejoicing from the iron throats of whistles- and of sirens, the thudi of saluting cannon and the music of brass bands and welcon.ing human voices. At the Washington Avenue pier so many thronged to see the men that five per sons were injured in the rush. The men were taken from the ship ind they were marched thence to their railroad station, a mile and a quarter away, through a multitude only too eager to express its grati tude and its homage to the youth vhose knightly spirit, whose courage, yhose tenderness and whose sacrifice lad enfranchised once mere the Bouls of men and brought into the world something more than the hope and the promise- of s new and a mightier day. The iron discipline of the soldier's life forbade the hand of friendship to go out to ,tho men only the voice might avail. So great was the de sire of the government that the men should fulfill their high purpose of protection, not destruction, to those among whom they lived andi had being, that those who received them into the city were not permitted to approach the brief line of parade, but : forced to see them froira an invisible barrier as rigid as a steel wall. . Not a score of Philadelphia soldiers were among those on the great ship, and this fact made the men them-l selves inclined to marvel at the wel come which awaited them. They ex pected as so often had; been their portion, to steal up the stream in silence, to debark- in silonce and to proceed In silence through the sllont streets to 'their next station. Many of them had been more v or 'ess torn and war-battered, many were convalescing from illnesses of .var camps which they declared, had carried with them more suffering and torror than the military front Itself. Many had grown accustomed to pass ing through communities where hap piness and hope alike had been ban ished, in many cases forever, from the faces which greeted them In their Long vgo had in many ways .hanged the men from the light hearted American youths they had leen, on setting out. They were re turning war-stiffened, experienced men, accustomed to weighing action -md Impulse alike, and- accustomed 'o bearing with dt cavil the actual burdens of the weak and Inept. But when after the "Thraclan ships and foreign faces," they first beheld and heard the Bights and Bounds of Home land, saw the shores and heard the speech of America, the men changed back to their youth, gave cheer for cheer, and shout for shout to those who thronged awaiting them. - There was a whole artillery regi ment the 65th aboard. These men had gone to the French front, and had been used to pound, with their heavy 9-Inch howltzerB, one fore- nost after another of the advancing German front. They had gone Into the vacant theatre of Hell at Verdun where the pride of the German Crown Prince was crushed, at the cost of many thousands of faithful lives. They had given back shot for Bhot against advance posts, the hidden ammunition depots, working for long hours by day and night, and depart ing Bwlftly under the cover of-dark-l ness, until word had come stealing back through the Infantry lines that the German power was done. And this news came to them, of all places where retributi n might seem sureet est.at the very fortress of Douau- mont. The men, in all their fight ' bad never seen a German, except those who came as prisoners; but SIXTY-FIFTH TO -LEAVE MONDAY Portland Planning Mammoth Celebration Fpr Boys of Oregon Contingent. . WANT ROUTE CHANGED Telegrams Have Been Sent to Oregon l Senators In An Effort to Huve i the Organization Routed . ' . Through the State. OSTH LEAVES MOXDAY. 1 (By Associated Press.) CAMP DIX. N. J., - . Feb. 10th. get home. Boys all anxious to PORTLAND FEB. 16 AND 17 PORTLAND, Feb". 8. The Sixty-fifth, Coast Artillery, will be In Portland Feb. 16 and 17, according to word received by the Soldiers' Reception Com- mittee today. A special train carrying 952 officers and men will leave Monday enroute for Camp Lewis, Wash.,- for demo- bilization. The above telegram received this morning caused a thrill among local residents, when it became Known that the Oregon regiment is sceduled for onriv .tart hnnm. Leavlne Canin Dix on the 10th, they will arrive in1 PnwinnH nn tho lath, the dnv antl- einatart and for witch the gigantic celebration has been planned. Port-; innrt in maklne nverv effort to erlve the boys the welcome which they de- serve and It is a certainty that there cimsiuerauuu, vu uo leuumue me m. will be no lack 'of nthushnnWwhen. sired), end--of -good 7oads,-but-such the troop trains pull into the -Union I appearances are deceiving, and in the Station.: The city is already being final accounting the work will amount donnrntod and a committee has boon to naught. We are endeavoring to appointed to see that there is not a bare flag pole within the metropolis. L A movement has been set on foot to give every city in Oregon a chance to welcome the returning heroes and telegrams are being Bent to tne Ore gon delegation in congress In an ef fort to have the routing changed so that the -boys will pass through over the Southern Pacific Lines. The fol lowing telegram was dispatched today from this city. . '"Please use your best efforts to have the Sixty Fifth, Coast Artillery, now at Camp Dix, routed the Sou thern route, so that the boys of this regiment can pass thru their home towns. We want to show, the en tire regiment our appreciation. Ash land, Medford, Roseburg, Cottage Grove, Eugene, Salem and Albany, have mothers looking forward to the homecoming-of this splendid bunch of men, and are entitled to this con sideration. Many California men also In this regiment. (Signed:) Citizens of Roseburg." Copies of this telegram have been sent to Senators Chamberlain and Mc- Nary and it is hoped that the organi zation wil be eent over the Southern route, so that relatives, who are un able to go to Portland, will have a chance to meet the men near their homeB. ' MORE TROOPS ENROUTE. (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. The battleship Kansas and 5 trans ports, bringing five hundred of ficers and nearly eight thousand men, has sailed trom France to the United States. The 1 16th Engineers and many Oregon troops are on board these boats. '' ' ' .. 4 their heavy shells had gone to tholr appointed places, over miles of In tervening land, until Imperialism. beaten beyond hope, had sighed out Its lire and the new civilization be gun In earnest. No one paid the least attention to the order that the Haverford should pess up-river without the blowing of whistles and similar acknowledg ments. Not only the civilian dodu lation disobeyed It, but even League Island navy yard let Its tradition "go hang" for a moment and cut loose with guns. When the quarantine boat greeted the Haverford, the first question ask ed by the men was: "When do we eat?" "Is this city dry?" "How rar is it to Camp Dix? "and when do we demobilize?" ROADMASTER FILES Been Endeavoringto Organize - Road Work Tending For ; System of Highways. : LOCATION IS ESSENTIAL Lateral Roads Favored as Benefits ; To Greater Number oi i-eopie Derived Result From That Method of Construction. The following is the first annual re port which ,has been- made by the County Roadmaster to the county court. It contains an account of the policy followed during the past year and also the plan under which tho work in the future will be governea lsnuzlas County. Oregon: Gentlemen: In presenting here with my first annual report, it is in tended as a statement to your board and to the citizens of Douglas County, of what we are spending, how we are spending it, and where it 1b spent, and Is not a treatise on road con struction or road engineering. This report covers the flBcal year of ,the county from February 1, 1918, to De cember 31, 1918, and shows the pro gress wo have made in the work of building highways, bridges and cut verts in Douelas County, and their the first year we have been in this office to organize the road work. We have worked .towards the desired end of getting a plan of road building and road maintenance which, if carried out, will eventually give Douglas County a first-class Bystem of high- ways. Anything short of a definite plan of road work Is bound .to fall, A haphazard method of construction and maintenance may appear, at first formulate a definite, workable plan which, if adhered to year after year, .will, result in giving good roads to all. The essential features of this plnn are as follows: 1. Good location. No more roads In Douglas County shall be conctru'et- ed except on the best possible loca tion. We are looking ahead for all time In this matter, and are placing our new roads where they will not be changed and where they can be economically constructed, economical ly maintained and economically used. Individual Interest does not enter Into this part of road building. Our motto has been and will be, "We have no interests to serve but the public Interest" In rond location. To my mind, location is the essential of road building. A good many men can build a roadi on a good location, but no man can build and maintain a good road on a poor location.' Get the proper location and all other road essentials will follow. ' 2. Construct to a standard. It Is our plan to build all roads on a stan dard of grade, croBS sections, drain age and alignment. Whatever we havo built has been Intended to be a part of a finished product, and as money .and' labor bocomes avnllable those finished .parts will be joined together and we wil get a complete whole that wil be built to a standard dos.lgn. - ,:. r . S. Construct main lateral roads first. It Is our plahl to place our of- rorts upon the main lateral roads In each district of the county. It appears to us tnat whon one rood is improved Into a certain locality the benefits derived are equally distributed among the people living near by, while If a second class or a feeder road Is 1 proved, the benefit Is only for a few who live on this cortain road, or In Its near vicinity. A community that has Its main highway in good shape can say that it has a permanent Im provement tnat is of benefit to nil 4. To build from the market or. communit center out to the more out lying districts. It has been our aim to Improve the roads lying near tho murKei una community corners n stead of those In the out-lying dis tricts. Almost everyone necessarily travels the roads to their market and community centers; therefore If such roads are Improved the beuoflt Is equally distributed to all people llv lng In that district; while If an Im provement is made upon nn out-lying road first, tho benefits acrud to only a few; therefore, unions otherwise Instructed, we will place our efforts on the roads near the mnr.tet and communit centers in each district, Rev. J. P. Yarboro loft for Myrtle Creek this, morning where he will occupy the pulpit of the Raniiuf ' church at the Sunday services. Mrs. Alice Moore Enjoys the Honor of Being Oldest Resident. of City.. ,. CAME -ACROSS - PLAINS Has Been Associated With Roseburg From die Time That It Was a Tiny VUlage Until Use Pros- , , '-. ' ' ent Time. : Who is the oldest rosldent of Rose burg of Douglas county? These are questions which havo been asked frequently of late, for there Is a deep er interest now than over before in our pioneers those people who fought and overcome, who Baw and conquered, and made for a land un surpassed in all the world. Through their work, which cost them much in the way of toils and hardships, a country, the wealth of which will probably never be realized, Is com ing into Its own but few of them re main to see what their hands cre ated. Few of ub realize what it haB cost to win this country from the wilderness and it is not until we talk with one of these sliver haired peo ple, who have spent their lives in the struggle and are now contentedly resting, viewing the success that has crownedi their effortB, that we be come thrilled with the spirit that has made Oregon the great state that it now is. , , : Two women, Btill active and full of intorest in the affairs of th com munity, share the distinction of be ing the oldest residents of Roseburg. Not the odldest in nge, for the years have passed them lightly and they are not old;1 they came here aB children j having lived in this city longer, pos sibly,, than any other resident. They are Mrs: Nancy A' Party andi Mrs. Alice E. Moore."' Which one has been here for the greatest number of years we are not certain, but both have spent almost their entire life in Rose burg or its immediate vicinity and are still able, to tell of -the early settlement -of what they have seen grow from a village to a modern city. ..- Mrs. Allco Ellen Gaylord Moore, who shares this distinction, comes of the Revolutionary stock which typi fies the true AmerlcanlBm. She was born In Magnolia County, III, on tho 7th day of January, 1846, the dau ghter of Orange Gaylord, whose name has been linked closoly with the .pro-g-ross of the state. . . In March of 1860 Orange Gaylord, with a party of friends, crossed the plains to Placervllle, Calif., arriving at that place August 1 of the snme yoar. From there he went to San Francisco, then in the throes of the threat gold rush and embarked on a sailing vessel for Portland', Oregon, landing at Astoria October 6, the voyage just taking 37 days. He then wont to Portland and remained in Oregon over the winter, returning to Illinois by way of Nicaragua in the summer of the year 1861. He re mained there for about a year and on March 7, 1853, with his wife and 7-year-old daughter, and a party of rolatlves, started again for the Pacific coast, arriving In August of that year and settling nt Oregon City. After several months at that place the fam ily took up a donation claim at Fern Hill, near Molalla, and after a short rosldence there made a pioneer trip by way of Portland around the Cas cades to what Is known as Eight Mile Creok where they made tholr home. It was while living here that the fam ily purchased the Poter Wllllnm place In Looking Glass, Douglas county, and thero thoy arrived April 2, 1861. Here a few monthB later, Alice Gaylord, 15 yonrs of ago, became the bride of Edwin. M. Moore and moved to the home built In thlB city in tho year 1858, and which still stands at the corner of Washington. and Hose streets, h monument to the efficiency and' durability of tho carpontry of those days. At that time Mr. Moore conducted a harness shop facing Main street on the lot now vacant, immediately north of the S. K. SykeB hardware atorv. Later he moved to a place now occupied -b .the Wilder and Agee establishment. tn 1854 a disastrous fire wiped out the entire village with the exception of the Moore home, the brick store building owned by H. C. Stanton and a small building on the site now occupied' by the Churchill Hardware store. Tho fire started In the Metropolitan ho.el and spread rapidly obliterating all habitations md business establishments with the exception of those mentioned.' Since that time Mrs. Moore has seen Rose burg grow from a dwelling and two store buildings to a city of Its pres- Tl No Representation Is Present From ! Local Consumers -; ;, At Hearing Today. FIGURES-PRESENTED Cost of Production Has Increased Un til It Becomes Necessary to Close : Plants Unless An Increaso ' In Rates Are Granted. ... i Practically no opposition develop ed today to the application of the Oregon Gas ft Electric Co. at the hearing which was held at the court house bofore the Public Service Coni miBBion, which was represented by H. H. Corey, Fred Williams and W.. P. Ellis, an Utility Engineer Fred -A. Rasch. ' J. F. Kathrena, seoretary of the gas company with headquart. . era at San Francisco, presented the application. . ? : . Mr. Katherna stated the conditions , with which the company Is contend- ing and quoted figures showing that, the Roseburg plant Is being run at . a loss and 'alBo that unless the in come of the local company is- in creased the plant will have to be shut down and quit business as the stockholders are not willing to con tinue pocketing the loss. Attorneys I. B. Riddle and Carl Wlmberly represented the city which holds a franchise under which - tho company is operating, but it will be the policy of the city to only protect . itself and let consumers who are willing to. pay the Increased rates -continue to use gas in the event the commission sees fit to allow the ralso. Mr. Kathrena Introduced reports showing that from July 1,-1918, to Dec. 31, 1918, the total plant oper ated with a loss to the owners of . $842.49. During that time the com- . pany here produced 3,027,000 cubic feet of gas at. a .coflt .ot $.U.88..por " thousand.-The gas Bales for the same r. period of time amounted to $4861, 90, or an average return of $1.60 per thousand, a?, loss of 28 cents per thousand feet of gas. This shows that the company Is not fully fall ing to pay for Itself but the oxpenses listed does not include returns on the investment, intorest on bonds or salaries for of flclnls. ' s The coBt of manufacturing; the sec- , rotary says, has Increased more than .100 per cent. Oil alone haB jumped from 3 to 6 cents per. gallon, tho present contract for the year's sup ply being at six and a quartor cents which 1b the samo as the open mar ket. He says that It was considered . the best policy to secure oil on con tract as there 1b very little possibility of the price being lowered for many months as there 1b a great oil short age while the demand of the oll- burnlng boats, which have been con structed during the war, will use up the supply almost as fast as 1b 18 produced. ..... . During the yenr 1917 on cost in . contB per barrel while now It costs $1.60 in the field while the freight rate to Roseburg adds another dollar to this cost making the total cost of oil per barrel F. O. B. Roseburg -$2.60. He also stated that none of the 3nn Francisco officials have receiv ed salaries or any renumerntion for the money expended In the invest ment, the only amount bolng used outside the local office being $25.00 sent to the home office for the pur- . pose of auditing tho books. The number of consumers, It was stated, had fallen from 276 to 260, since the former increase made in July, 1918. - . During the month of Decembor, 1918, the amount of gns production wns 478,000 cubic feet and was sold at a deficit of $195.46, tho expense account having no Item of deprecia tion or returns on the Investment. Mr. Kathrena was cross examined by the attorneys for the city and -he willingly placed facts and figures at their disposal.1 Thero was no repre sentation of local consumers nnd pub lic opinion seems to favor the appl catlon or the gns compnny. ' Mr. Rasch spent the day checking the bonks and records, noting opera tion expenses undor which the com nnnv In laboring. ' ent size. She has one daughter, Miss Lillian M. Moore, .who resides with hor. , Another daughter, the wife of George W. Kimball, died many years ago. , . Who Is the oldest rosldent of Roseburg of Douglas county, spoak Ing In terms of the longest number of years spent as a resident of tho com munity? The News would like to know. Are thore any who havo lived hero longer than Mrs. Moore? If so, lot us hear from them. . 1 i;S M 1