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JACKSONVILLE POST-:-\
Official Paper of the City of Jacksonville, Oregon
A weekly newspaper published every Saturday at the county seat of Jackson
County, Oregon. D. W. B agshaw , Editor.
TAKEN TO SALEM
Hunts
FEATURES GF fi. 0. 1310
lulian Mock Slayer of Smith, and
Milion Carter Removed
Monday
Entered as second-class matter June 22, 1937, at the post office at Jacksonville,
Oregon, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
Julian A. Mock, who was convicted '
at the recent session of the circuit
S4 TURBA Y, DECEMBER 31, 1910
court of murder in the second degree
for the killing of Jesse Smith at Med I
SUBSCRIPTION: One year by mail $1.59. Advertising rates furnished on ford, last September, was taken to the
application.
state penitentiary Monday evening.
Mock was sentenced to imprisonment
for life and will commence serving his
THE NEW YEAR.
long term at once.
Tomorrow is the beginning.of a new year, 1910 will Milton Carter, the alleged “wild
man, ” who received an indeterminate
then be a thing of the past, its triumphs and its failures sentence
to the penitentiary wa3 taken
alike becoming matters of history.
along with Mock, Officers Shearer
The year just closed has been one of progress and and Sandry were in charge of the
prisoners.
Political Events In United Kark Twain,TûJstoyJiiüa Ward
States, England and Mex
Kawa and Edward Vil.
ico Also Cut Impor
. Notable Among Death
tant Figure.
Lisi oí Year.
By JAMES A. EDGERTON.
scientists who say that a comet's head
is as gaseous as a political platform
promise, while Its tall is as thin as th*
average campaign speech.
t
A twin performance to Mr. Halley'S*
false alarm was Dr. Cook’s confession. |
Either tlie flower garlanded doctor,
was tired of hiding or he needed the
money for which, it is said, he sold
this latest of his literary masterpieces. |
At any rate, he is not now certain
whether he reached the north pole,1
but wants tlie world to forgive him
the purple snows story, the wreath of
roses and the good American dollars
showered on him during his lecture
tour.
I
Cook Controversy Renewed.
In this connection it is worthy of
note that Professor Parker returned
from his Mount McKinley expedition
without having climbed the mountain,
but bringing back photographs of tha
peak twenty miles away that Cook
scaled and on which he took his fa
mous pictures of the “top of the conti
nent.”
Other notable miscellaneous happen
ings of tho year were Carnegie’s ten
million dollar gift to peace, followed
by an American war scare the next
day; tho census which showed that wa
have nearly 92,(XX),DOO people in tho
United States proper and over 100,000.-
000 including the outlying possessions,
the pnn-American congress, the con
servation congress addressed by Taft
and Roosevelt and the labor strikes In
Philadelphia and New York.
There were the usual number of
fires, storms, eruptions, explosions,
wrecks and other horrors. Among th»
most Important disasters were th»
flooding of Paris and Tokyo, the twen
ty million dollar fire in the “White
City” at the Brussels exposition, th»
In the history of aviation. It witness-
HEN compared to its prede ! e.l the flr.-t flight over the Alps and
cessor 1910 was only one of has broken altitude and speed records
the common or garden vari ! so often that the fragments are scat-
ety of years. It did not dis ' tered all over two continents. Flights
cover the north pole, it did not have a
the English channel have be-
prosperity especially in the United States. The reports
cluster of centenaries, and it did not i ucro.s
come so common that they call for
drive
Abdul
Hamid
from
his
throne.
of the Census Department show great increases in pop
Yet It saw the advent of the Portu I only n four line item in the newspa
The Dairy.
ulation, wealth, manufactures, etc. the increase in the
guese republic, gave the house of lords pers. Some comparison between 1910
a solar plexus blow in England and and 19 •!) may be made on the basis
western states being especially noticeable.
that tho highest flight last year was
The production of oleomargarine in- | put tlie standpatters to sleep in Amer something like 1.000 feet, while this
Our own state has made rapid advances in popula creased from 92,282,815 pounds in I ica. These events and others entitle it , year the record is 10,498 feet. As for
loving regard.
tion but the progress most marked in Oregon has been 1909 te 139,755,425 pounds in 1910. I to It our also
flew high in aviation—some I speed, B ‘Hanger, a French aeronaut,
Of this latter amount 3,491,978 pounds’
IdO miles at a rate of eighty-six
along the lines of municipal improvements; the year just were taxed at ten cents per pound. | thing over 10,000 feet, to be exact. It flew
was an industrious year that did not miles an hour.
closed has, we venture to say, witnessed a greater outlay It will thus be noted that over 97 per | aspire to be a big noise and yet got Aviators’ Great Achievements.
of all the oleomargarine manu quite a little done. To put it in classi
for municipal improvements than any previous five year cent
factured during the last fiscal year| cal language, it was not much on dress I Cross country flights between cities
period in the history of the state, and all indications at was taxed at only one-fourth cent parade, but was “a good booger to 1 have been the feature of 1910. These
, were led off by Paulhan going from
'present point to still greater progress in this direction per pound. These figures are issued work.”
London to Manchester. Then Curtiss
the federal internal revenue com
Deposing of King Manuel.
I flew from Albany to New York, mid
during the coming year, in fact 1911 bids fair to be the by
missioner and are authentic. They
In the political world the big event Hamilton sped from New York to Phil
most prosperous year ever seen, for the Pacific Coast, at clearly demonstrate the fact that the I was, of course, the driving of King adelphia ar.d returned In one day
oleomargarine business is not working I Manuel out of Portugal and the estab
least.
under such a burden as many people lishment ot a republic. Compared to
Of course mistakes have been made during the year think. People have heard so much the magnitude of the event tills trans
was accompanied by a little
both by individuals and by communities at large, but the about the ten cent tax on artificially formation
colored oleomargarine that they have bloodshed. The affair had its spice of
wise man will profit in future by mistakes of the past and naturally associated this tax with all scandal, as do most royal perform
ances. It appears that a Parisian
failure of undertakings in 1910 should be incentives to oleomargarine.
dancer of the name of Gaby Deslys
As a matter of fact less than three | took the youthful monarch's eye, with
greater efforts in 1911.
per cent of the total product is taxed] the result that Manuel spent much
at ten cents per pound, the remainder ■ time in Paris and Gaby sojourned not
Not Good
being taxed only a quait;r of a cent i Infrequently in Lisbon. Ordinarily this
Light Spatks.
for everything. Sutherland’s Eagle
might not have excited comment, be
per pound.
Eye Salve is good for nothing but the
An effort will probably be made by ing quite the usual thing among kings,
n>
our
Associate
Editor.
eyes. If you use it and are not satisfied
the oleomargarine manufacturers to but inasmuch as Portugal was tired
Is there no way for the federal
monarchy anyway the gossip played
come back and get your 25c. You be
secure the repeal of the ten cent tax of
the judge. Sold by City Drug Store. government to stop that Texas county at the present session of Congress. its part. As a result Mlle. Gaby will
go down to history as the highest kick
from making war on Mexico?
These statistics indicate that the er on record, having kicked off a king's
I HE COURT HOUSE
One million pounds of hair were claims advanced that the present law crown.
Items of Interest to Jackson County imported into this country from China is a “burden upon the poor man be-
The year beheld the accession of
and Japan last year and yet it is cause it taxes his butter ten cents per George V. in England, an event that
Tax Payers
claimed that “rats” are the cause of pound” is not founded upon fact.
had no influence politically and but
little in any other way. Of far greater
Bubonic plague.
MARRIAGE LICEN8ES
Yours truly,
Importance were the two British par
The
National
Dsiry
Union,
“
A
Massachusetts
man
has
inherit
William Erastus Wilson and Ina M.
St. Paul, Minn. liamentary elections, both resulting in
Goodale.
ed a farm, with the provision that
Liberal coalition victories by practi
he is to forfeit it if he gets drunk.”
cally the same majorities. The first
Martin Perry and Addie Plymale.
of these forced through the house of
Clifton T. Smith and Mary E. Finley. Considering the aridityof the average
Free Scholarships.
lords the single tax budget, and the
Massachusetts farm, he will probably
Jamas Leslie and Mary Beatrice decide to forfeit.
second practically sealed the fate of
Hunter.
the peers and decreed some form of
“If Chicago succeeds in checking its
The Philadelphia School for Nurses, Irish home rule. Taken together these
Thornton S. Wiley and Lucy Bachtell.
wave of crime as it has now started 2219 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, two victories constitute the most sig
Roy Weeds and Maude Gault.
out to do, when it finishes we should announces that enrollment for the nal triumph for the progressive side
CIRCUIT COURT
like to borrow the check for a while,” Spring classes will shortly begin. witnessed In England since the adop
says the Indianapolis News. But the This institution is recognized and en tion of the reform bill.
NEW CASES
Charles E. Wickstrom vs Herbert chances arc unfortunately that the dorsed by by leading physicians every
China Also Awakened.
where. Free Scholarships in the Two
Williams, et al. Suit to foreclose lien. check will have proved “no good.”
Perhaps the third event in impor
Complaint filed. Geo. W. Trefrcn,
The horses attending the New York Year Course are available and provide tance in foreign politics was the meet
attorney for plaintiff.
show never saw society looking so room, board, laundering, incidental ing of the Chinese senate, definitely
expenses and railroad fare home on marking the beginning of parliamen
Helen M. Page vs. W. E. Page, et fine as it is this season.
completion
of the Course. A Heme tary government in the Celestial King
al. Suit for divorce. Complaint filed.
“The Chicago Tribune and the New Study Course and a resident Short dom, tlie last great nation that had
Wm. G. Martin and Geo. W. Cherry, York Mail are seeking a definition of
Course also provided. The School pro held out against the rising tide of de
attorneys for plaintiff.
exactly what a “man about town” is. vides full instruction under safe and mocracy. When China has a parlia
Ira J. Dodge vs. John A. Tourney. Not infrequently he is a loafer whose wholesome conditions and opens the ment and quits wearing pigtails the
Action to recover money. Complaint room would be better than his com- way to almost immediate financial millennium will be waiting just around
the corner.
filed. Affidavit and undertaking for pany.
betterment for those who need to in .Other notable political happenings
TWO NOTABLE EVENTS OF 1910. THREE DEMOCRATS WHOSE GU-
attachment. Gus Newbury, attorney
Oklahoma rejected female suffrage crease their earning power.
abroad were the establishment of the
BERNATO1HAL SUCCESSES MAY HAVE NATIONAL EFFECT AND
for plaintiff.
A special Short Course Class opens bandbox kingdom of Montenegro, the
at election, but a new aeroplane
TWO AUTHORS OF WORLDWIDE RENOWN WHO WERE AMONG
H. R. Allen vs. G. A. Hover. Suit deisgned and built by a woman soar February 24th, 1911. This class is fight to separate church and state In
THE YEAR'S DEAD.
to rescind a contract. Complaint filed. ed over Long Island last Sunday.
formed at the request of leading Spain, the Mexican uprising and the
Injunction bond filed.
Injunction
physicians who are anxious that some swallowing of Korea by Japan. The
As there have been three White provisions be made to meet the in Land of the Morning Calm is being Later Brookins covered the distance blowing up of the Los Angeles Time«
order and summons issued. A. E.
House cooks within a few months, creasing demand for nurses in all given such a touch of high life by the from Chicago to Springfield. The am and the frightful forest tires in the
Reames, attorney for plaintiff.
bitious efforts to conduct a race from northwestern part of the United
perhaps
the spoiling of the Republican sections. This is an opening which Japs that she Is now the Land of the Chicago to New York and from St. States.
Joseph R. Bristow vs. George Carter,
Morning After.
broth
is
now
accounted
for.
will be appreciated by those who need
et al. Action to recover money.
The death roll of illustrious men and
We have also bad some politics at Louis to New York were abandoned,
women is a long one. The most cele
Complaint filed. Colvig & Williams,
The King of Belgium is fortunate to quickly prepare themselves for home. It is almost brutal to write although large purses were offered.
Neither did Walter Wellman fly brated of the list were Mark Twain of
attorneys for the plaintiff.
in that his more violent subjects hurl self-support and nursing duty. An about the elections of 1910. but It is
across the Atlantic in n dirigible. That America, Tolstoy of Russia and King
illustrated
number
of
the
School
Bul
Impossible
to
give
a
full
blown
re
pamphlets
at
him
instead
of
bombs.
PROBATE COURT
was another case of too much wind, Edward of England. Two members of
We are told, the New York Sun letin, which is sent free to interested view of the year without them. Dem although Wellman himself blamed it our supreme court. Chief Justice Ful-
ocratic and progressive victories were
In the matter of the estate and has postponed changing its name to persons, gives all the details.
generally the result. The progressives on tho equilibrator. His balloon Amer ' ler and Justice Brewer; four United
guardianship of Grace Brien and Carl the New Nationalist.
practically doubled their representa ica started from Atlantic City In a States senators, McEnery of Louisiana,
Brien, minors. Inventory and ap
tion in both houses and elected gov fog, beat it up tho coast to the neigh Daniel of Virginia, Dolliver of Iowa
A day of lively bull fighting would
praisement filed.
Estray Notice
ernors in California, Kansas, Mich borhood of Nantucket, then got to go and Clay of Georgia, and one senator
do more to settle present difficulties
In the matter of the guardianship of in Mexico than anything else.
igan, Nebraska, New Hampshire, ing south, and after traveling about 870 elect, Broward of Florida, were among
South
Dakota, Tennessee, Wisconsin miles and being aloft seventy-two those taken. Of men formerly prom
Joseph Welch, an incompetent, Re-
Came to my place at Provolt, Ore. and Wyoming, although in the last hours the crew was picked up or, inent In our public life Thomas O.
Stand still there. Though the prices
port of guardians sale of certain real
are falling, they won’t hit you hard on or about Nov. 1st. 1910, one Jersey named state the progressive Repub- rather, picked down to the north of Platt, David B. Hill and John G. Car
property.
heifer about 1 year old. No marks or dienn candidate ran on the Democratic Bermuda. Another notable balloon lisle were the most noted of the year’«
enough to hurt you.
voyage was that of the America II. dead.
brands. Color yellow.
In the matter of the estate and
ticket
The Star-Eyed Goddess of Reform
The Democrats carried the national in a flight from St. Louis to northern
I have taken up said heifer and have
guardianship of John Penninger, an
Famous Women Die.
her in mv possession at my ranch near house by about sixty, made such gains Quebec, a distance of 1,355 miles,
incompetent. Petition for the remo val now rises o’er the battle storm.
Two
famous
American women, each
breaking all records.
of the present guardian and tho ap
Get your round-tnp tickets via the Provolt, Ore. The owner of heifer is in the senate that the progressives will
about ninety years of age, were claim
Considering
tlie
widespread
activity
requested to call at said ranch, prove have the balance of (lower nml elected
ed in the persons of Julia Ward How»
pointment of a new one.
Panama Canal route for 1913.
governors not only in the southern In aviation the dcalh list was small, and Mary Baker G. Eddy. Other well
property,
pay
charges
for
pasture
and
Clay
Charley,
deceasod.
Estate of
states, with the exception of Tennes yet nt least four famous bird men gave
Senator Beveridge is also giving us
advertising and take her away, within see, but In Colorado. Connecticut Ida their lives to the sport. These were known Americans who passed away
Petition for the appointment of ad- the silence treatment.
six weeks from and after date of this ho, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Delagrange. Johnstone, Rolls and Cha were Louis James, the actor; John La
ministratrix filed. Petition granted.
The
news
that
there
are
enough
notice,
otherwise she will be sold New York. North Dakota, Ohio, Okla vez, the last named being dashed to Farge, the artist; O. Henry, the short
Order appointing Emogene Charley
story writer; Solicitor General Bowers
homa and Oregon, This was the first death Just after his thrilling feat of and Octavo Chauute, the man who in
as administratrix and fixing bond in i Republican Insurgents in the Massa according to law.
a crossing the Alps.
time
the
Democrats
had
won
such
chusetts
Legislature
to
defeat
Lodge
|
Dated
Provolt,
Ore.
Dec.
9,
1910.
sum ot $1.00.
structed the Wright brothers in avia
victory in nearly twenty years.
for re-election is almost too good to
H. MESSINGER.
tion.
Many Sporting Records Upset.
In the matter of the estate and be true. Lodgeism is ns bad as J
American Politics Likely.
Besides Edward VII., two foreign
In the world of sports the Philadel
gnardianshio of Floyd S. Charley,
Cannonism and they defeated the I Dr. Bell’s AntisepticSalve
rulers
that died were President Montt
Political
events
during
the
year
lead
phia
Athletics
won
from
the
Chicago
Claus C. Charley, and Iceland Charley, Republican party.
ing up to the election were the Bal Cube In the world's baseball champion of Chile, who had just finished n visit
Good for all Skin Diseases.
minors. Order appointing guardian
linger investigation, resulting In a di- ] ship. Barney Oldfield broke the world’s to this country, and King Chulalong
vided report; the dismissal of Pluchot; | automobile sliced record, going a mile korn of Siam. Two other foreigners
MARRIED
the forcing through of theTaft program In 27.33 seconds. Two boxing cham famous In fields of learning were Gold-
For that Dull Feeling after Eating
WILSON-GOODALE - At the house
in congress, the two chief items being pionships were settled. One of these win Smith of Canada and Dr. Robert
I have used Chamberlain’s Stomach
the railroad bill and postal savings was for th? lightweight belt, in which Koch of Berlin.
of William Gregory, Sunday, Dec.
banks; the insurgent revolt In con- , event Wolgast defeated Battling Nel
Even with this extended list the nat
25, 1910, by Rev. A. C. Howlett; and I.iver Tablets for some time, and
of onr Straight Kentucky Whiskey ’■ gross, resulting in removing the speak
ural deaths hardly kept pace with th»
son.
and
til?
other
was
the
dashing
of
Wm. Erastus Wilson and Ina M. can testify that they have done me
will tie aent/ree to the first man in I er from the committee oil rules, en
the hopes of the white race when the political fatalities. As a solace, how
more good than any tablets I have ever
Goodale.
your locality sending us 25 names. ■ larging that commltttee and making it
ever. we have In place of the fallen a
mighty Jeffries could not come back.
used. My trouble was a heavy dull
PERRY-PLYMAI.E
At Medford.
elective by the house: the return of
Thi‘ advent of Halley’s comet was cluster of brand new or freshly elect-
Four full quarts KNTUCIT
$4
feeling aft er eating. —D avid F reeman ,
Roosevelt from Africa amid loud ac not exactly a sporting event, in fact, id governors, among the number being
*011 WHISKY (Two stamped) "fr
Oregon. Saturday, Dec. 24, 1910, by
Kempt, Nova Scotia. These tablets
claims and his subsequent disastrous this eighty year visitor was anything Woodrow Wilson. John A. Dix. Simeon
No other mail order hoaaa has an oqual to It.
Rev. W. E. Shields; Martin 4’erry strengthen the stomach and improve
venture into the campaign, the trip but n ajiort. since It lamentably failed E Baldwin, Eugene N. Foss, Frederick
Four full quarts of PERFECTION $3
and Addie Plymale.
the digestion. They also regulate the
of the president to Pnmiiua and the to live up t > Its opp< rtunlties. if it W. Plaisted, Judson Harmon, Chase S.
LESLIE-HUNTER
At
Medford. liver and bowels. They are far sup
practical reorganization of the United had l>een on the job It might have Osborn. Walter Roscoe Stnbbs and ni-
MERCANTILE CO.
Oregon, Saturday, Dee. 24, 1910, by erior to pills but cost no more. Get a WBROWN
States supreme court due to two knocked the earth halfway across the rani W. Johnson. Who knows but that
7 th ano B urnsiob S trikt «
Rev. A. A. Holmes; James Leslie free sample at all dealers and see I PORTLAND.
CWKOON
deaths and one resignation.
solar system and so have prevented some of these may be names to conjure
and Mary Beatrice Hunter.
The year has been the most nctable | the Democratic victory. Yet there are ’ with tn coming years?
what a splendid medicine it is.
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