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üríV'ii Historical So-fety I'ity Haft Oregon VOL. V JACKSONVILLE, JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, JULY 22, 1911 SHOT FOR COUGAR Judge Kelly cf Medford made a1 by Schell & Schell for tho Wan e .: trip to Watkins in h'.s auto last week. , Construction Company for haulin Willie—What iemeant by conservation rotlt for >he street paving. Suspici< . policy, dad? has fastened on u man picked up 1 Dad —It means my son, to preserve York near Medford named Halley the underbrush, until there is a suffi- Wilke, is, 28 years old, weight 150, fiv cient supply to burn up all the timber, leot 8 or 9. He had blue eyes, i E. W. Anderson of Hutton escorted flamed eyelids, red face, was srnoo; a party of pleasure seekers to Cinnibar shaven had dark hair and a reddis . casto of countence, apparently a drink Springs recently. irg man. He had stoop shoulder--, This end of the line is beginning to I wore dark clothes, a dark shirt and a receive its quota of summer campers. black soft hat. We have excellent fishing, and good I hunting when the season opens, but whether there will be any shooting, I TO CROSS OCEAN or the savory cdors of fried trout, is another question. A. E. Collings is rusticating at the t ditch camp on Whiskey creek. In a 50-fcot Launch is Feat 0* Fort McKee and Oren Haskins have Five Hew York Men. been fighting fire on Beaver creek. uia ^ him ovciviy City Ball NO. 12 PORTLAND LETTER ize the incurring of indebtedness for1 THE ASHLAND ROAD building highways, which indebted-; ness would be in the form of warrants Judge Prigmore of Seattle, Shot to any amount which warrants being Oregon Products to Be Ex legalized, could find a ready sale in Is Completed. Bad Stretches by Partner Dies at Bel money markets. Afterwards, in Medford, Phoenix, Talent hibited in East. Colonist outside when the bond statutes have been lingham, Wash. enacted, these warrants could be re and Ashland. Gittes Sept. 15 to Oct. 15. deemed with bonds, if desired. ■ .. . • I Bellingharp, Wash., July 19.—Judge Oregon’s Climate is a Such was the announcement made The completion of the ’county road by County Commissioner Geo. L. R- W. Prigmore died yesterday on Great Asset. Davis in a talk made Saturday even from Medford to Ashland marks A Mcunt Baker aa a result of the ac ing to the Medford visitors at Pros forward stop in the betterment of thé cidental wound inflicted by his friend pect. He stated that the several at highway#. and legal partner, R. H. Evans, while Portland, Or., July 5« (Special) — torneys he had consulted held that the With the construction of the csphall on a hunting expedition. Wjllamette Valley counties will com constitutional amendment adopted last macadam road from Medford to Central Judge Prigmore and his partner be bine to make splendid exhibits at the fall reading that “debts for permanent I’oint underway, anil sixteen of Uirce came seperated by a screen of dense State Fair at Salem and later the roads shall be incurred only on ap miles of road along "Millionaire High underbrush, and Evahs, mistaking fruits, vegetables, grains and grasses proval of a majority of those voting on way” and sixteen miles of road how Prigmore for a cougar, blazed away grown on Oregon soil will be sent east the question” would permit the county completed in the Prospect and Lerby ' with his 30-30 rifle, the buffet tearing to be exhibited at five of the largest court to call an election and submit | district, there is abundant cause for away his friend’s breast. land shows in the country next fail. the question of incurring such in congratulation among good road en The first news of the accident was I at a meeting at Albany during the indebtedness to a vote of the people, thusiasts. brought to Concrete by the guide who past week, representives from Linn, and that such indebtedness being ap But it is one thing to build a good had accompanied Judge Prigmore and Put in Printing Plant New York, July 17. — Five men in ‘ Benton, Marion, Polk and Lane coun- proved by a majority of those voting, road and another to keep it up. It is Evans oh the expedition. the 50 foot launch Romania, have ties agreed to the program and Yam- no question as to the legality or one thing to have good county road# Judge Prigmore and Evans were as started on the first trans-ccean trip of hill county will join in 'he plan also. validity of the warrants issued in pay and another thing to have poor city sociated in legal partnership with John Orenco, Or., July 19.—H. V. Meade, a craft dependent alone on gasolir. The Willamette Valley exhibit will be roads. ment could be raised. B. Hart, with offices in the American formerly in the joT> printin business for motive power. shown at New York, Omaha, Chicago, The road just completed to Ashlandi Mr. Davis pledged his support to Bang building at Seattle. Judge Prig I at Medford, will soon have a new Captain John Wetter, who has cros Knoxville and St. Paul. for example, has about a mile and a such a movement, and stated that he j more was deputy prosecuting attorney plant in operation here. An equipment sed the pond more times than he ha- The Hill interests will spend $25,- would do all in his power 1 to submit j half which in the rainy season would of King county under George F. Vande- has been ordered and is expected to flngarg ami toes, „ , is commanding the 009,000 in extensions and betterment the question speedily to the people make the highway practically in veer, a jiositipn now held bv his part arrive this week, a new building having vsssel; Antan Madora is pilot; Rob to tfie properties in this state, accord Attorney Evan Renmes is now at PassaLle. These stretches belong to ner, Evans, under Prosecuting Attor-j I been especially built for the purpose. ert Meyer, engineer; William F. Smail opinion Medford, Phoenix, l’alent and Ashland, ney John F. Murphy. The new plant will tie given to the and Henry Struckmeyer make up the ing to advices received from the east. work preparing a written I* has been announced that Ashland This sum will be made available for upon the subject for guidance of the printing of nursery catalogues, liter crew. has already taken action to improve more mileage, aiding in the develop county conrt. ature, stationery, etc., and ¡3 assured The Romania will skirt the coast to County Judge Neil stated that he its l,ortion °f the eour’t>' highway; WATKINS WIRELESS. the business of about 10 companies St. Johns, stopping’ at several points ment of the whole state. The Uniteii was in favor of spending a large sum ! Medford. Phoenix and Talent should Railways and the Oregon Electric will already, among them being that of the and then strike straight across the sanie. Oregon Nursery company, located here. Atlantic fcr Ireland. It is expected be extended and other feeder lines of for permanent highways and would , A the road like a chain is nd stronger Correspondence to the Post. the North Bank road, the backbone certainly do his share in submitting * This wi l be the only nursery plant on the trip will be made in less than two than its Weakest link. W. W. Moses and J. A. Shotwell the coast, very nearly all the work weeks. Hie launch is equipped with of the Hill system in the northwest, the proposition to the people speedily; . The thousands of dollars that have ' Count.v Commissioner Owens stated spent several days in the Donimore ¡formerly beiigdcni in the east. —Ex. a 37 horsepower engine and carries will be pushed. been spent by the county, on the Ash that he favored submitting the question Beard has finished u The State Land country looking over their mining in 1500 gallons of gasoline. She is stocked trip through the Lakeview region, to the people and if a majority voted land road, are little better than thrown terests. with provisions for two months. 1 away when there are three stretches inspecting lands there under state for incurring the indebtedness, he THROWN IN RIVER J. P. Harr is busily engaged in log would most 'certainly work' to give the .in the highway which are in bad cor.: I control, and upon their return members ging for the Penn Mining Co. I of the Board expressed themselves as people what they wanted. Ho be. i dition. —Sun. James Arnold formerly of this place, Grants Pass Man Murdered. enthusiastic over the future prospects lieves thoroughly in good roads, but I Installation oí Officers. but now of Sterling, spent a few days of that section of the state. In fact 1 did not went to plunße the county into j Agriculture as a Science Log Chain Tied to Body. here last week renewing old acquain- thoy were surprisee that any public debt on his own responsibility without tances. being authorized by the people.” ■ i After the close of the regular meet- land remains in that part of Oregon. Washington, D. C., July 18, 1911.— | ing last Tuesday evening the followin'; Mining men, capitalists an 1 bankers Roy Welch and son, and George Hail to the tiller of the soil. He ha# Grants Pass, Ore., July 18.—The : officers were installed by Mrs. Nettie of the southern part of the state have Irwin of . Kelso, Wash, are visiting won the respect of the world. Perhaps A LARGE BRIDGE discovery was made last evening about Thompson. formed the Southern Oregon Mining with the formers brother M. M. ¡you have noticed that it isn't so com- Past Master Artisan Mrs. Pnrffinej Buren», which shall gather and dis- 6 o’clock that tho bod'- of a man had W elcb. ' mon to decry his occupation as it used been found in the Rogue river about Hines, Master Artisan, Oscar Dunford, I Harve}' Hobson of Jacksonville, who one hundred yards above the city park Superintendent, Mrs. M. E. Abbott, I I semipate aut entic information on 111 Course of Construction at San to be before Uncle Sam discovered it has been working in the wilds of on the south side of the river. The Inspector, Mrs. M. Taylor, Secretary, i I Oregon mines. Men who have the to be a science. Now young men are Middle Fork departed for his home body was found ' by Geybert Harvey , Mrs. Nettie Thompson, Treasurer, I confidence of the public have charge Pedro Ha bor, Calif. I flocking to the agricultural schools I of the organization, which will publish recently. ! and col'eges and many of them are and other boys while bathing in the C. D. Abbott, Senior Conductor, Nellie . a book telling of the state’s mineral David Dorn is now a resident cf river. The body was later brought McIntyre, Junior Conductor, Sidney I graduating into professorships, or into of invest- resources for the guidance Work on one of the largest single Steamboat, where he is doing some ashore and ¡(identified as that of John Abbott, Master of Ceremonies. Harry j i ors. ■ positions as experts with the goveri a span uplift bridges over to be con-i contract work oh a mining ditch. I E. York. He has a three quarter inch Lewis, Warden, Chas. Thompson. ment. One of tho latter has just rt-> At the close of the Installation, the ' Colon.st rates to Oregon will again strutted has besn started by the [ turned to Washington after spending rope around the body, about the feet, The genial merchant of Hqtton, | jn. j be in cifect this fall, from September Southern Pacific Company in San two months in Spain and Sicily ¡ m members and a lodge Frank Edwards and family have been and also a heavy logging chain, fifteen and j 1® 1° October 15, on a basis of $25 Pedro harbor, California. The length vestigating lemon growing. He is G vited guests, among them Dr. camping beside a snow bank on the feet long around the neck. The boys ; - | [ from St. Paul and the Missouri River of the bridge is 187 and one half feet. ! ! v. ere attracted by the sight of a Jfoot Mrs. Golden and Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Harold Powell, whose work for the head waters cf Joe creek, enjoying I sticking ont or ¡he water. j Whittington, were invited to the i to any point in this state, or $33 from The bridge will carry a double track | Department of Agriculture in the cool weather and mountain scenery. York was probably murdered last I home ot B. M. Collins to a lawn social. | Chicago. Railroad traffic officials ex- and will be operated by electric power, a , investigation of causes of fruit decay ° P. F. Swayne is harvesting a very- Thursday night. July 16. He came The committee furnishing ice cream ! peel there will be. a heavy movement capable of lifting the ponderous mass in cold storage and in transit attracts I heavy crop of grain hay, but has been here July 2 from Shaniko, Oregon, and cake, spiced with some of the | to the Pacific Slope this fall, for of steel in fifty seconds, affording a such wide attention. The citrus fruit much inconvenienced by the scarcity I where he had been hauling freight, I latest vocal music. Everyone present ; there is u heavy inquiry about the clear channel of 185 feet for the growers of California held his talent# passage of boat traffic. I rales. of local labor. i After coming here he was employed pronounced it a succefs. in such esteem that they tried to get The new bridge is what is known as The Commercial Club of Vancouver, him to go out there. When they git 1 Wash., has the right idea. It will the Strauss trunnion type, differing up to an offer of $10,01)0 a yoar salary ; foster closer business relations be- from the Bascule bridge of the Salt I he succumbed, and he is now secretary i tween the business men of that city Lake Railroad, also at San Pedro, in. and manager of the Citrus Protective 1 and the farmers throughout the coun- ! that the latter is lifted on a rocker, j League of California, a model business . ty. Frequent visits to each part of | while the Southern Pacific bridge will i organization of agriculturists, which j tte county will be made by the city be lifted on a tall pin or hinge. It is has been fighting for a tariff on lemons men olid every possible assistance I also to be double tracked.. A latch that will permit the industry to wiil b? given those of the outlying loperated by a motor wili hold the survive. Having secured that tariff, I country. Cooperation in building j bridge in place when it is down. I the organization is now combuting the roads and other matters of mutual This new bri ige will replace the j organized campaign of the Sicilian benefit wiil be the result of this policy. present Southern Pacific and Pacific I importers to have it reduced. The ' Electric trestle bridges. latter have raised a big fund to in Oregon has a climate that is a great The Southern Pacific Company made nssot but this fact is not generally ; application to the War Department a fluence public opinion to this country recognized here at home. It was im year ago for permission to biild this and to effect legislation. pressed dui i ig the past week, how bridge, which was granted on the ever, when the national convention of first of December, lajt< on condition Christian churches was in session here. that the suructure would be completed R. A. Long, millionaire lumberman of within a year. Tho Southern Pacific Kansas City, who pledged a gift of engineers have been working all $1,090,10 • to carry on the woik of tho these months in making tests for pier Jacksonville People Have Found church, said the Portland convention foundations and studying the various That This is True. was the best in the history of tho designs ot bridges. Test wells bored organization, and was due to the to a depth of 100 feet found nothing A cold, a strain, a sud ten wrench. favorable ¿weather which made it more solid in the harbor bed than sand. A little cause m iy hurt the kidneys. comfortable for the delegates at all Three cofferdams are now being con Spells of backache often follow. times, so that the sessions were not structed. They will be bound with Or some irregularity of the urine. fatiguing nor were the speakers tired | concrete and sunk to a depth of forty- A certain remedy for such attacks, and dull, as is so often the case when I four feet after which piles will be A medicine that answers every call, the conventions ¿are held in eastern ’ driven to a depth of eighty feet. In Doan’s Kidney Pills, a true ape- cities in midsummer. Following the construction of theie ciflc. ' cofferdams the Water will be pumped Thousands of people rely upon it. out and the interior concreted and Here is one case; TO BUILD ROADS reinforced. Upon the base thus M. Powell, 2d! Oak St., Ashland, 1 formed the concrete piers will be , Or., says: ‘‘I suffered a great deal erected to a height of ten feet above Without any Bond Issue is ine | low water mark, the superstructure to < from kidney trouble and backache aid sometimes I could hardly get aroun I. be built upon these piers. On arisii.g in the morning, I was stiff Plan Proposed by Some The largest of the piers will bo 22 and lame and the kidney secretions x55 feet and will enclose 185 piles. annoyed me by their irregularity in Enthusiasts Our Prices are Right Thirty-live hundred yards of concrete passage. As soon as I commenced will compose the three piers. The taking Doan's Kidney Pills, I im The following is part of an article King Bridge Company of Cleveland is ' proved and I am now in good health. i appearing in the Medford Mail Tribune, building the structure from designs I si'll use Diar.’s Kikney Pills occa Monday. As the county warrants are furnished by the Strauss Bascule sionally however, but more as a pre- selling at a discount now, the wisdom Bridge Company. The parts will s-xin ventive Ilian anythin' ig else. I alwnvs of the plan is doubtful. be shipped to Sun Pedro and in insist upon Duan's Kidney Pills, for I | "A way to build a good road system stallation will probably begin about| no substitute could be as effective as of highways in Jackson county with the first part of September. The I they.” out a bend issue which is impossible work is being done entirely by the For sale by all dealers. Price 50 I without a special session of the leg Engineering Department of the South- Leading Merchants cents. Foster-M '.burn Co., Buffalo, islature to pass needed laws—is be- 1 ern Pacific Company. New York, sole agents for the United ' Moved to have been 'found, attorneys for the county court having advise» MINERS NOTICE Notice of Location States. Renumber the name —Doan's and it to the effect that tho people can at both Quartz and Placer, for sale at this . u general or special election, author- i office. i take no other. JACKSONVILLE POST. ANSWERS EVERY CALL We wish to caii your atten tion to our fíne line of lunch goods of every description Special Attention Given to Campers IÍ h Ulrich ro lh