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VOL. IV.
JACKSONVILLE, JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, JULY 23, 1910
lieved of the drudgery incident to
PORTER
j making butter on the farm. Where TRY, TRY, AGAIN
formerly the cream was ripened and
ARRESTED ■ churned into butter under conditions County Committee at third
FOREST FIRE
were up Little Applegate Sunday.
Ralph Jennings was up to the mill
after a load of lumber Wednesday.
Fred Coppie and wife were visiting
Mr. and Mrs. John Cantrall Sunday.
Irvin Bostwick took a load of berries
to town Monday for Wilber Cameron.
John Dunnington and a number cf
friends spent Sunday on Little Apple­
gate.
B. Wetzel and wife of Jacksonville
were out in the Applegate country
Sunday.
John Cantrall and Ralph Jennings
made a trip to Jacksonville Monday
after a load of brick.
W. R. Garrett has had a number of
men building a new bridge near Purseis
and is now completed.
C. C. Pursel had the bad luck to
lose a fine b,ig mare which was fright­
ened to death at an automobile.
Mrs. Lulu Loomus of Medford ac­
companied by her sister Miss Beulah
Garrett was visiting home folks Sat­
urday and Sunday.
Alarm turned in Sunday
not conducive to fine quality in the
I finished product and in the majority of
afternoon--Fire in brush
On train near Grants Pass- cases by unskilled hands, now the trial names delegates to
I most of the milk or cream is delivered
State Convention.
on Britt’s hill.
Accused of entering berth to a modern creamery where conditions
are suited to the purpose of making
of young girl.
butter, and the result has been a
Ten members of the Republican
An alarm of fire was sounded at
wonderful improvement in the quality county central committee met at Med­ about two o’clock Sunday afternoon
of oui' dairy products. As the quality ford Saturday afternoon and selected which roused many of our citizens
The following is from a news item
sent out from Grants Pass Tuesday. has improved consumption has increased themselves and 31 others as delegates from their afternoon siestas; columns
The parents of the little girl are well and the progress of dairying has been to the state assembly at Portland, of thick smoke were seen rolling sky­
making 41 in all.
ward in the western edge of town
known to many of our readers, having remarkable during the past decade.
The perpetuity of the country’s
This was the third meeting of the causing some excitement for a time.
been former- residents of this city.
greatness depends upon increasing the
“This morning S. M. Reynolds, a production of farm products from year committee called for this purpose and Investigation revealed the fact that a
porter on train No. 15, was arrested! to year, a result which not only the small attendance at these meetings forest fire was raging in the brush and
for an alleged attack on Josephine] furnishes our people with food but shows that the Republicans of the small timber ou Britt’s hill.
A number of willing hands, by back­
Moss, the 13-year old daughter of I maintains the prosperity of our farm­ county take but little interest in the
Joseph Moss, a prominent citizen of ing communities. Increase in product­ assembly, the direct primary being firing and other means usual in such
good enough for the majority.
cases, succeeded in staying the ap­
this place. Miss Moss was returning ion can only come through improved
proach of the destroying element after
from a trip to Portland alone, and methods of agriculture and soil im-
it had burned over 40 or fifty acres
when she alighted from the train she provemeni. When it is considered
THE NEW DA/LY
covered with dry grass, leaves, etc.
was crying and stated that the porter that the dairy cow is the foundation
It is said that if the wind had been
had got into her berth during the for soil improvement and farming
night. Officers immediately got on prosperity, her importance is best At Medford-Number one ap- blowing from the fire toward the town
instead of the direction it was, nothing
the train, but it pulled out. About understood, and interest in her should
could have prevented the flames from
BIG STRIKE
two miles out the porter was found not be confined to her owner. She is
peared Tuesday.
reaching the buildings and a shocking
locked in the toilet off the drawing an important factor in the development
disaster would have been the result.
room. When he finally opened the and prosperity of our country.
The origin of the fire is unknown.
No. 1, Vol 1, of the Medford Daily
On Grand Trunk railroad in Can-
door the first question he asked was
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Sun appeared Tuesday, and judging
if he was going to be lynched, and all
Summer Colds
by the size of the initial number (te n
ada, 4500 miles of road
Has Come To Slay
the way to town begged the officers to
pages of seven columns each) and the Are harder to relieve than winter ones
protect him from a mob.
tied up.
matter contained therein, it will be an
The little girl is still so frightened
An editorial article in a recent important addition to the journals of but they yield just as readily to treat­
ment
with
Dr.
Bell
’
s
Pine-Tar-Honey.
that she has not been able to make a number of the Sacramento Bee, in
statement, and Reynolds does not discussing the direct primary law, Jackson county. If the management Sold at City Drug Store. Look for the
Toronto, Ont., July 19.—Thousands
can retain the advertising patronage Bell on the Bottle.
either deny or admit the assault.
of men went out today in one of the
sa.vs in part as follows:
shown in the first number, its finan­
biggest railroad strikes Canada has
“Let no one be misled by efforts to cial success is assured.
ever known and no trains are running
make it appear that the direct primary
LANDS
NOT
TAKEN
We have been of the opinion that
The Dairy Industry
over 4500 miles of the Grand Trunk
plan of nominations is losing ground. Medford was not large enough to sup­
railroad.
The fact is just the opposite. It bids port two daily newspapers and that
The men struck simultaneously and
fair
to
be
adopted
in
every
State
of
Nearly
half
the
claims
on
Coeur-
According to the last year book of
better service would be given if only
the road is completely tied up. Yard­
the Department of Agriculture, there the Union, and wholly to do away one was in the field, but perhaps we
d’ Alene reservation are
men, trainmen, conductors, baggage­
are 21,720,000 milch cows in the with the old system of convention were mistaken the future will tell.
men and shopmen quit work and with
nominations.
Many
States
already
United States, and these are worth
The Post has no axe to grind and
untaken.
a defense fund of more than a million
$705,945,000,00. The magnitude of have it, and others are likely soon to entertains feelings of the utmost good
dollars a month are ready to fight the
the industry can perhaps be best follow suit.
will toward the publishers of both
Of course the corporations and the papers, the old and the new, and wish
understood when it is considered that
Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, July 18.—The officials of the road to a finish.
More than 4000 yardmen, conductors,
these cows produce yearly about bosses do not like the direct primary, both unbounded success in their chosen lands on the Coeur d’Alene Indian
$1,000,000,000.90 worth of dairy pro­ ! which deprives then of the power of field.
reservation that remain untaken will trainmen and baggagemen are out and
| naming party candidates through the
ducts.
be subject to selection and entry by 5000 shopmen are affected.
There is no other branch of diver­ machinery of nominating conventions.
the last half of the 3000 number hold­
Pacific & Pastern
sified agriculture so important to the All the opposition to the change comes
ers, who obtained their numbers at the
WOMAN ASSAULTED
progress of a community. The fer­ from such sources.
reservation draw ng held here last
Jn
California
the
chief
faults
of
the
tility of the soil can best be main­
August, according to a statement of
With the arrival of six additional Judge James W. Whitten, superinten-
tained by the liberal use of barnyard nominating primary law are those
By Italian on her wedding day
manure and the dairy herd not only created by its enemies in order to i cars of steel for the Pacific & Eastern i dent of Indian reservation land open­
railway,
making
eight
to
arrive
of
the
j
makes this possible, but dairying is make it unpopular. Expensive petit­
ings. The first 1500 of these 3000
at Medford
also more remunerative than other ioning should be done away with, and 40 on the way, work has been resumed
,a i ! names were called last April, but over
laying
track
on
the
road,
and
it
the
choice
of
party
candidates
for
branches of farming when properly
... . _ . ,
J? i half of them failed to respond to their
United States Senator be made bind- believed now
a
y ep em er .> | namea or ma|{e a selection of land to
Struck down with a club, beaten and
carried on.
trains will be running in and out of which they were entitled under the kicked into insensibility in the Chinese
Dairying has made wonderful pro­ ing and not merely “advisory.”
Butte Falls.
gress since the advent of the modern
law. Nearly one half of the 1250 restaurant, formerly the Ivy Leaf on
Chronic Sore Eyes
creamery and the consumer of butter
The track laying force has been claims originally on the reservation North Front street, by an Italian who
has not only been benefitted by being Are easily cured with Sutherland’s largely increased and there will be no remain untaken and these remaining gave the name of John Wanto, Mrs.
furnished a more wholesome and Eagle Eye Salve. It is painless and letup until the work is completed. 1500 number holders will be given a A. Lampshire, formerly Mrs. Young,
palatable article of food, but the harmless and guaranteed. 25c a box. The contractors will have the line to chance at them, beginning September spent a rather strenuous wedding day,
Butte Falls graded soon. — Mail-Tribune. 1. On that day 50 numbers will be for she and her husband had just re­
wife in the farm home has been re- Sold by City Drug Store.
called, on the next day 50 more, and turned from Jacksonville where they
on each succeeding week day 100 names had secured a license and had been
will be called until the entire list is married.
The Italian who perpetrated the deed
exhausted.
is said to have accosted the woman as
she entered the restaurant, where she
Help for Those Who Have Stomach had been employed and is thought to
Trouble.
have become angered at her response.
After doctoring for about twelve The woman was unconscious for over
years for a bad stomach trouble, and two hours, Dr. R. W. Stearns being
spending nearly five hundred dollars called to attend her in the backroom
for medicine and doctors’ fees, I pur. of the restaurant. Later in the eve­
' chased my wife one box of Chamber­ ning she was sufficiently recovered to
lain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets, walk about the streets with her hus­
which did her so much good that she band. She is badly bruiBed about the
continued to use them and they have head and body where she was struck
done her more good than all of the and kicked after being knocked down.
The Chinese proprietor of the place
medicine I bought before.—Samuel
Boyer, Folsom, Iowa. This medicine put the Italian out of the place after
is for sale by all dealers. Samples the assault and he took to his heels
and was pursued by officers Hinton
free.
and Memsic. He was caught at the
corner of Eighth and Central and
locked up and will have his hearing
Buncom Reports.
before Judge Canon this morning.
The Italian, who, it is believed, did
Correspondence to the Poet.
not give his true name, is evidently
Ed Saltmarsh was in town Monday. planning the defense of irresponsibility,
Elmer Lewis is working in Medford. for the officers say that he is trying to
Jake Parks was in the city Monday. create the impressior that he does not
Carl Cox and wife are still on Little know what all the trouble is about.
The woman has been employed in
Applegate.
Ernest Foreman spent several days the restaurant for some time and was
a widow with three children. Details
in town last week.
of the assault are in doubt as it was
Gage M. Pierce was a caller at the witnesbed only by the Chinaman in
j Post office Tuesday.
place and they are too badly scared to
Miss Ester Pursel was visiting Miss talk. Daily Sun.
j Vivian Crump recently.
, Charley Garrett is staying in Med-
Inter-State Canal
! ford with his two sisters.
Hollis Parks is working for John
Cantrall at this writing.
Gray’s Harbor people are talking
Wilber Cameron was on the sick list over the project of building a canal
| the forepart of the week.
J from that waterway through W illapa
A. S. Kleinhammer spent several I Harbor to the Columbia River, thus
giving a deep water, dependable chan­
days in the city last week.
W. E. Wren of Ashland has taken nel to the sea. One meeting has al­
ready been held and the people are
a homestead near Buncom.
considering it seriously. It is said
Miss Ella Parks was visiting her
such a project will .cost not over
sister Mrs. M. Buck recently.
, $1,000,000 and in addition to its aid
Mrs. C. C. Pursel was visiting her to navigation, will drain a territory
I daughter, Mrs. F. Silva recently.
covering 10,000 acres of marsh land,
Billie Anderson and Florence Taylor now practically worthless.
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WRECKED
On S. P. four killed—-21
cars in ditch—Trains 21
hours late.
A disastrous wreck occurred on the
Southern Pacific, at Gibbs, near Duns­
muir, Calif. Sunday morning, in which
four of the train crew lost their lives
and twenty-four cars were piled in too
ditch.
A broken rail is said to be the cause
of the wreck, the cars bumping over
the ties and tearing up the track for
a quarter of a mile, then piling up in
the ditch.
Traffic was suspended for about 24
hours, trains due Sunday evening not
getting through until a late hour
Monday,
MEEKER AT GREELEY
Old pioneer of Oregon Trail ar­
rives in Colorado.
Greelev, Colo., July 18.—Ezra Meek­
er, one of the few surviving ’49ers
and who attracted attention by driving
an ox team across the country to New
York last year, is here in the interest
of having the old Oregon trail ap­
propriately marked with monuments.
An appropriation for this is now pend­
ing in Congress-
Mr. Meeker is traversing the old
trail which began at Kansas City and
ended at Tacoma. He is 80 years old.
“Uncle Jimmy” Twogood
The followiug, from the Evening
Capital News, of Boise Idaho, July
12, will be of interest to many of our
readers. “Uncle Jimmy” is a regular
reader of the Post and keeps in touch
with the happenings in Jackson County.
The News says:
“Uncle Jimmy” Twogood is today
celebrating his 84th birthday and is
receiving warm congratulations from
his many friends in honor of the event.
Sixty years ago Mr. Twogood crossed
the plains and located in the west and
has ever since been a conservative
booster for the northwest. He now
ranks as one of the veteran pioneers
of the Gem state and knows much of
the early history of the state which
has not been published.
He is in good health for one of his
age and expects to live to see Boise a
city of 75,000 people.
HIDDEN DANGERS.
Nature Gives Timely Warnings
That No Jacksonville Citizen
Can Afford to Ignore
DANGER SIGNAL NO. 1 comes
from the kidney secretions. They will
warn you when the kidneys are sick.
Well kidneys excrete a clear amber
fluid. Sick kidneys send out a thin,
pale and foamy, or a thick, red, ill­
smelling urine, full of sediment and ir­
regular of passage.
DANGER SIGNAL NO. 2 comes
from the back. Back pains, dull and
heavy, or sharp and acute, tell you of
sick kidneys and warn you of the ap­
proach of dropsy, diabetes and Bright’s
disease. Doan’s Kidney Pills cure sick
kidneys and cure them permanently.
Mrs. Leda Powell, living at 250 Ash­
land St., Ashland, Ore., says: “I am
so grateful for the great relief I have
received from Doan’s Kidney Pills that
I gladly recommend them. I suffered
from severe pains in my back, head­
aches and was in a generally run down
condition. I was told to try Iloan’B
Kidney Pills and decided to do so. 1
felt much better from the first, and
almost befcre I knew it I was free
from the trouble. I have not had any
pain since and can conscientiously re­
commend Doan’s Kidney Pills as a
remedy that acts up to its representa­
tions."
Plenty more proof like this from
Jacksonville people. Call at The ( ity
drug store and ask what customers re­
port.
For sale 'by all dealers. Price CO
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo,
New York, Sole Agents for the Unit­
ed States.
Remember the name —Doan’s, and
take no other.