SUPPLEMENT
Jacksonville Post
OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY OF JACK
SONVILLE, OREGON
PROHIBITION PARSON
PAYS A FINE
KEEP YOUR MONEY HERE.
You Should Patronize Home Mer
chants and Help the Town.
Enterprise, Or; May 22.-Because he
it necssary.
Think it over, and see if your trade
would not be some help toward bringing
about these new conditions. Remember.
Jacksonville merchants and bankers put
lots of money into our advertising and
“boosting” fund, and paved streets,
so its up to you do your part of the
"boosting” by spending your money in
Jacksonville.
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began his prohibition campaign with his
fists and a pair of brass knuckles, Rev.
Why do you patronize mail order
Published every Saturday by the Post Pub Moore, pastor of the Presbyterian
houses and send your money out of
lishing Co.
church at Wallowa, wasforced to contri town?
J. B. Barnes, Editor
bute $10 to the public treasury today.
You say “to save money” but do
Admitted as second-class matter at 'Jacksonville,
M. Withered of Wallowa, the recipient you?
Oregon.
of the love taps from the ardent anti
Every dollar put out of circulation
saloon worker, appeared as complaining here at home make it just so much har
SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1908.
witness.
der to find another to take its place.
SUBSCRIPTION
Two months ago Rev. Moore entered
Is that “saving money?”
One year, by mail..............................................$1.50. a dispute with Witherell over the liquor
Your home merchant extends you
question. Their ideas on the subject credit when you need it and you know
j were different and the advocate of pro how often that occurs and for how long
EVIL OF PROHIBITION.
hibition proceeded to decorate his op you “hang him up” —but when you do
ponent’s face with sundry cuts and your cash buying you send your money
The evil of prohibition is emplified in ' bruises.
to some distant city, because some
Linn county, (dry) where boys, mere
Witherail started an investigation in things, on which the regular price is
children, can be seen on the streets in
a state of intoxication. In is very to the cause of the minister’s easy vit- widely advertized, are sold for a few
easy for boys to get liquor in dry pre ory and learned that a pair of brass cents lower than the price at home.
To be held in
cincts. They send by mail to some knuckles had been used. He reported
And the mail order house “makesup”
wholesaler for a case of liquor to be
shipped by freight to their address. the affair to the grand jury and had on something you do not know about—or
The wholesaler not knowing the con Moore indicted.
on the quality of the goods.
signee ships the goods, but if the
The case was called before Judge
When you buy of a home merchant
county is wet the wholesaler will ship Crwford in the circuit court. Moore
and
you find your purchase is not sat
the goods to his agent, who is the
Will be the most brilliant
saloon man, and there it stops, the boy entered a plea of guilty and was fined isfactory, you can go to him and he
$10.
can’t get it.
will (most generally[ make it sat
Aside from putting 200,000 idle men
isfactory. Can you do that when you
on the streets, the farming interests GRAZING TRESPASS
make your purchase in Chicago?
will suffer. F rmers engaged in hops,
You may argue, if a farmer, that you
barley and corn raising will be obliged
BY
DRIFTING
STOCK
ever held in the Pacific
to raise wheat; oats and fruits, thus an
do not sell your products in this town.
Northwest
oversupply and the prices will go to a
Perhaps you don’t and perhaps you do,
starvation point, This is the cause of
Portland, “The Rose City,” will be a
On
February
3,
1908,
at
San
Francis
but
couldn't
you
do
so
always
if
the
so much distress in dry states.
scene of splendor and the center
co, the United States circuit court of town was larger and more prosperous?
of world-wide interest
appeals for the ninth judicial circuit
for one week.
Do you think this town will grow if
Salmon Agan Scarce
rendered a decision of far reaching you persist in sending to out-of-town Several important conventions to L.
held in Portland on that occasion
importance to the National Forests and firms for your goods, for which you
have to wait for their delivery, and also
Ten days of salmon fishing in the to the stockmen of the West.
In December, 1904, one Thomas pay express or postage charges?
Columbia River show the salmon sup
If the millions of people sending their
ply still on the wane. This is the sea Shannon allowed his cattle to drift up
son of the finest salmon of the river— on the Little Belt National Forest in orders to big mail-order houses would
the best of the world. Soon these fish Montana. To put a stop to this, suit spend the same amount of money in
will be an extinct breed. They are the was brought by the United States and their own town, these towns would be j
fish that make the Columbia River on March 18, 1907, Judge Hunt, in the growing just as the larger towns are
Will Sell Special Tickets
On This Occasion From
famous. The few remaining specimens United States circuit court for that growing. There would be a larger de-
should be protected with closed sea State, rendered a decision in favor of I mand for merchandise, a demand for a Medford to Portland and
son. The open season should be put the Government, and issued an injunc larger force of clerks to handle the in- :
Return for
off from April 15 to May 15. After tion perpetually restraining Shannon creased trade and a demaud for houses
that there should be the closed Sunday from allowing his cattle to drift upon for the new clerks to live in. There
and rigid regulation of all kinds of the Forest. Montana has a fence law would be a larger demand for farm pro-|
gear—gillnets, traps, seines
and by which landowners must fence their ducts for them to live upon, a larger
For particulars call on
lands before they can obtain redress demand for the “produce” that the
wheels.
A. S. ROSENBAUM
from
stockmen
whose
cattle,
feeding
average
farmer
raises
and
is
willing
to
Master Fish Warden Van Dusen
WM. McMURRAY,
Local Agent.
upon
the
open
public
domain,
range
raise more of, if the demand makes
quits his office May 1. leaving the in
General Passenger Agent
Portland, Oregon.
dustry in a bad plight. It is too much upon and injure the private lands.
Shannon’s counce) argued that this
to say that he is wholly to blame for
this condition of affairs. But the fish State law should apply as against the
faction with which he has been allied United States, but Judge Hunt held
is as much to blame as any other, and that the power of Congress over the
none is more grasping and none has public lands, including the National
defeated as much remedial legisla Forests, is complete; that Congress has
All kinds New and Second Hand
tion. From the Oregonian, April 27th, awfully delegated to the Secretary of
Agriculture the authority to make
Goods bought and sold. Want
1908.
The U. S. Bureau of Fisheries has regulations to protect the Forests; that
to
buy Junk. Old copper and
for a long time been endeavoring to the secretary had properly made a
Rubber
bought.
secure just such remedial legislation as regulation that cattle must not range
is being objected to by the lower river upon the Forests without permit, and
interests. A short time ago Secretary that consequently Shannon was a tres
Strauss, of the U. S. Department of passer when he allowed his cattle to
Commerce and Labor, set forth a list drift upon the Little Belt Forest, al
of things necessary to save the indus though it was unfenced.
Harness Goods for Sale. Sole Leather for Sale.
Shannon appealed from this decision
try. Inititative bill No. 318 X Y es
and
as
Montana
is
in
the
ninth
Feder
was framed to carry out their ideas.
Ryan Building
Opposite U. S. Hotel
We commend it to your favorable con al judicial circuit, his appeal was heard
by the United States circuit court of
sideration.
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appeals for that circuit, sitting at San
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Francisco. The court has now affirm
The City Lunch Counter is now pre ed Judge Hunt’s decision, and this
pared to serve fresh clams in any style- judgment is binding upon all Federal
For general blacksmithing, go where courts in the circuit. Similar questions
you can get the best of work and ma have arisen in Colorado and other
terial. There are many grades of iron parts of the West, and this decision ¡3
I am now prepared with a new Fairbanks Morse
therefore of the highest importance to
and steele, but Eddy uses the best.
Gasoline
six-horse power Wood Sawing Outfit to saw
every stockman who uses the National
$25,000 for a short time only. If you
Forests.
wood in any quantity.
Prices are as follows:
can handle this you can make a bunch
Four Foot Wood, Once in Two.
.40 Cents
of money easily, 1408 acres, 5 houses,
Low rates to Newport and Yaquina
Four Foot Wood, Twice in Two
.50 Cents
200 acres in cultivation, 2Vj miles from
for the coming season. Excursion
Pole Wood........
..
. . By the hour
town.
D avis & S exton .
tickets to Newport and Yaquina and
I will have plenty of wood for sale shortly at my
The University of Oregon is a part of return June 1st to Oct 15th the S. P.
card
on North Oregon street, on theT. J. Williamson place
the public school system of the state Co. will sell round trip excursion tickets
and should be properly supported. Vote to the above named points good for six
"yes" on the appropriation billon elec months at $10.00 Full information at
tion day.
the depot.
Portland
Rose
Festival
Portland, Oregon
JUNE 1 to 6, 1908
Floral Fiesta and
Civic Jubilee
The Southern
Pacific Co.
$13.20
T. L. De Vore, Jacksonville, Ore.
Shoe and Harness Repairing
Announcement
C. A. Norton, Prop.
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