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JACKSONVILLE, JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, AUGUST 5, 1911 VOL. V f NO. 14 hibit, and it may include not only FIRE AT MEDFORD Mrs. Frank Zell who has been in- j 'WILL BUILD BRIDGE PORTLAND LETTER those things grown but things taken disposed for the past week went to | ! from the soil. The show will be more otwn to consult a doctor Monday. We than a mere instrument for the use of Monday Night Destroys Home To Vole Upon Bonding County | h°Pe t0 hoar of her speedy recovery, j At Main St. Crossing of Bear Grain Crcpa are Large. the land man in selling land. It will J. Spiker is busily employed this of W. F. Delano. show graphically what can be produced < To Build Roads. week in putting a coat of paint on his Creek. Cost $30,000. Elk From Wyoming. Old on lands in the territory west cf the I new bungalow, which promises to be a I Twin City, what it costs to producej “thing of beauty” when completed. Oregon to Lead Fleet in the crops and the profits. With his wife lying ill, W.i1’. Delano of At a meeting of the county court 1301 North Central avenue was burned Misses Maud and Grace Harr are Bids for the new Bear creek bridge business held Thursday, it was decided to call a St. Paul and Minneapolis 1915. special election for the purpose of spending the week at their brother’s at the Main ftreet crossing of that interests have pledged their co-opera out of house and home last night. The stream in Medford wil1 be opened in submitting the proposition to issue ranch on Elliott creek. tion on the theory that every man and fire was probably started from a lamp the county court at 10 o ’ clock on the A few of our folks attended the bonjs for raising of funds to construct Portland, Or., Aug. 3 (Special) - i every dollar put to work in the states in the kitchon and the entire room roads, to a vote of the electors of dancing party at Deb. McKees on the morning of August 28. An ordei for Bankers and business men generally interested, will be a direct benefit to was ablaze before any of the household awakened. Mr. Dolanodiscovered the the new structure was made in the expect marked improvement in business the local markets. 29, and report a fine time. Jackson County. fire, going into the kitchen to find it a- court Wednesday afternoon. All ob The order and necessary legal papers ' conditions throughout the Pacific blaze and the room full of smoke. stacles to the building of the bridge are being prepared by A. E. Reames FOREST FIRES Closing thedoors of the house he turned I have been removed, the last being re Northwest as the result of the bumper Buncom Reports. of Medford. The amount of the pro crops the farms are turning out this I in the alarm. When the tire engine moved by the purchase of the poition posed issue is limited to a million and year. It is believed the distribution | reached the place the entire house was of the proposed approach which was a half dollars, the interest not to ex State Forester Desires Prompt ablaze A week ago last Monday we had the privately held by Mr. Williamson and of the crop money among the farmers and flames were shooting ceed six per cent per annum. will mean renewed activity in all lines largest thunder and lightning storm 1 through the roof. Fred Page. This property has been Reports on Forest Fires. While the limit is fixed, beyond and in none more particularly than in j The fire was discovered about 11 o’ which the commissioners cannot go, in this community for some time, I deeded to the city. the lumber industry. A reawakening clock and after making a record ran they are not bound to sell the entire several trees were struck and blown j Wednesday was the latest date at I 1 of the lumber business will bo widely down by the wind. The State Forester is constantly for the distance, the tiremen got thj which the bridge matter could have' issue at once, but it is the intention to beneficial by reason of the money it getting notice through the daily press blaze under control in a very few min Mrs. L. Taylor of Ruch was in town been determined by the county court to ■ dispose of such parts as may be I distributes among a large number of and from residents of the state of fires utes. The loss is well covered by in make certain the construction .of the necessary to pay for the roads con last week. people. having gotten beyond control after surance. After closing the doors of structed from time to time. Vern VanDyke and his aunt Frances j bridge this season. If there had been The grain harvest, now in full swing, 9evera) days fighting, that have not The exact date for holding the wera over on Litt!» Applegate visit-1 1 further delay, the work would have run , is the most satisfactory feature of the I been reporteci t0 his office until after the kitchen a number of men took the furniture out of the other rooms an.l election has not been yet fixed but it ing Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Kleinhammer. into the rainy season, which means 1 that the bridge would not have built un-1 whole situation. The yield of the. becoming a menace to the neighbor- the loss from this source will not ba will probably be the first week >>' Mrs. Laura Ryan and family of three Pacific Northwest states is fixed ho(x) He wi8hes to urge upon all great. October. Jacksonville have moved on the till next year. at better than 60,000,000 bushels and state fire wardens the necessity of re Mr. Delano is a young man and pur It is estimated that the new bridge ' Johnson place near Buncom. prospects are favorable for high prices. porting to him all fires as soon after chased his home only a short time ago. will cost a sum near $30,000. It will be Fruit, hops, salmon, and all the varied being discovered as possible, instead His wife has been ill for some time. Mrs. Sale of Ashland has been visit the largest in Jackson county. WATKINS WIRELESS. resources of the northwest states wil of waiting until they become dangerous ing her daughter Mrs, Elden Jennings. The bridge will be 239 feet long, will Mr. and Mrs, Leslie Stansell spent | have n thirtv-six foot roadway with contribute their share to the continued to life and property. One such fire Saturday and Sunday with Mr. and fortv-foot approaches and there will prosperity of this section of the country. has just been brought to his notice CorrestMndvnce to the Post. SAWMILL BURNED | Mrs. .loe Goldsby. Elk from Wyoming will be shipped after having burned three weeks, I be two walks eight and one-half feet in Wm. Louden who has finished White of Medford spent the clear,making the entire width fifty- to the mountain districts of Union and that might have been controlled and contract of logging for the sawmill, i Gargeld , Wallowa counties during the coming probably entirely extinguished if re | three feet. returned to Little Applegate Wednes-I^un ay 8 uncom- At Spring field, Oregon. Loss winter. The animals are hard put to ported earlier so that proper assistance day W. R. Garrett has commenced work could have been given. it during the severe Wyoming winters ! on the road near R. J. Cameron’s $300,000. May Rebuild. Every State fire warden, or other; M. Wotnack; accompanied by a piace Cold Water or Hot Air and many of them starve each year. mining man spent a couple of day., Dr andMrg Warren Cameron and The Government is determined to save persons, in case they are unable to j here last week. They have bonded at Q ,8 Fire destroyed the Booth- Kelly the Wyoming herds from extinction get in touch with a state warden, That cold water instead of hot air is atid the Oregon mountains offer ideal should telephone or telegraph (collect) Company’s sawmill at Springfield. one of Frank Zell s claims 'and will |, J . last week. start operations soon. needed to irrigate desert lands in range for therm F. A. Elliott, State Forester, Salem, Oregon, Friday night entailing a loss The picnic we had two weeks ago Oregon is more than a smart Oregon, informing him of forest tires estimated at $399,900. Mrs. W. E. Finney of Jacksonvillb The suggestion of Representative before they get beyond control. saying, It means that the tricks of the The fire started from an overheat j 1 and Mr. and Mrs. H. ¡F. ¡Watson of was a success. It was enjoyed by a Foss, Illinois, farmer chairman of the —-------- »4b »------- — large crowd. boomer, practiced in earlier years in bearing in the mill. In a few moments Medford are at Watkins this -week, the Hoiise naval affairs committee, GRANIS PASS TIN the entire plant was afire and the da n Ernest Forman was at Ruch the states farther East, have no place in that the Old battleship Oregon lead guests of Mrs. K. Byrne and family. Oregon. There is plenty of opportun forepart of the. week. ‘ which held the water supply for t‘i» On Saturday they made a trip to the the fleet of battleships from New ity for investigation by the Easter,, mill and the town went out. Hollis Parks did trading in town re Penn, mine, where Mr. Finney is em buyer before he plants his money. Nev York to San Francisco when the Matter to be Determined by The property destroyed consisted of cently. ployed.- They report work progressing ertheless, it is up to the state to see Panama canal is finished in 1915,. will the sawmill, planing mill and abi r. fine at the mine under the direction of Otis and Ernest - Buck are busy ir that its good reputation is not stained, meet with the hearty approval of every Assayers and Professors. ; four million feet of lumber. Insurance E. C. Faucett, who informed them rigating their crop which looks fine. This famous fighting nor any outsider bunkoed by some dev Oregonian. I $100,000. that piping will begin in a couple of ship, that made such a splendid record Byron Johnson and Harry Ryan are ious gentleman with acreage for sale - It is reported that the company wid weeks. during the Spav.sh war, deserves re I The shakeup in “tin ore” circles working on the road. a Fx. rebuild the mill at once. cognition. | caused by the statement at the recent Miss Beulah Garrett was visiting Mrs. If. Watkins and daughters 1 mining congress of two professors of the friends recently. The Portland Commercial Club is Mamie and Pearl, as also Frank fathering a new plan for the develop state school at Corvaliis that they , Edwards and family of Hutton, who License Bachelors Mrs. M. R. Buck and daughter OPENING OF ALASKA ment of the state that has for its could not find tin in samples alleged to have been camping for a week up Grace were visiting Mrs. John Cantrail contain that element, has not caused object the use of Oregon products by near Eileen returned Saturday. last week. the champions of that metal to subside Atlanta Ga.,JuIy 31. Georgia bache Oregon people. This doctrine has Assayer D. L. Johnson, who declares Measure by Pinchot to Licerne Wm. P. Reid who has been residing lors are waist deep in gloom today fol been preached before, but there has on the Middle Fork for the past year When a hot wave takes its departure lowing the announcement that State never been greater opportunity for that the ores from certain prospacts all Coal Prospectors departed Monday for the Bouth, he it leaves few mourners. ! building up home industries than now. located down the river are tin, that he 1 Senator Sinler proposes to introduce a made many friends while here, and we assayed them for tin, and got tin in re- I Do not let your insurance policy lapse bill in the legislature which imposes a A campaign to extend the use of turns, now proposes to take samples of ! Washington, July 31. Broad provii- hope to see him again in the future. Oregon-made goods here as home is this dry weather when danger from tax of $50 annually on bachelors. Un P. J. Sullivan who is employed in loss by fire is so great. 1 can write less the batchelors are minus an eye, j now under way and the co-operation the ore to Corvallis and assay them un- ¡on8 for the development of coal d«?- .................. in Alaska and the prevention of doing assessment work on his property it for you in first-class companies at or a leg, or can flout dire poverty as of commercial bodies of the state will der the eyes and the noses of aforesaid 1 1 posits doubting profeesora. In fact the prof- i monopo |y ara made > ir a bill prepared on the Cask and Green was down reasonable rates. an excuse, they will be forced to “come b? enlisted. essors invited this test in this way and bv OifTord Pinchot and introduced in among his friends Sunday. D. W. Bagshaw. across” with $50 bones.—Ex. Interest in commercial club circles declared to Mr. Johnson that they | the senate today by Senator Works of of the state is now centered on the would aid him in his work in their lab- ' I alifornia. IWI «mual convention of the Oregon oratory; Under the terms of ths measure * |i| as—Ji it w > q ¡Development League in Astoria Aug- lhere are many in Granta Pass who , license* may be obtained to project for |j| , ust 14, 15 and 16. The program, now deride the idea of an ounce of tin in coa| during a term of two years an I ; being completed, includes the leaders t Josophine county. Many tests have secure a lease of about 5900 acres of in development work in this part of been made and no tin found in any of, coal |anda for 30 veara. ¡The inter- the United States, as well as a number the alleged tin ore samples, lhus the a^ate commerce commission is author- of speakers of national prominence. tin war rages, and if it keeps up much ■ ¡Iod fix the maximum selling pricj Coming as it does while the Astoria longer the governor will be compelled to | of thc coa| mined an(] to regulate t'l > I Centennial celebration is in progress, send tin soldiers here to stop the tin ratea of transportation. All app'- I delegates wil! be entertained by the din. Courier. cations suggesting attempts at mon<- Astorians in royal fashion. ! poly may be rejected. Coal producers Recognition of good work done, as Two Progreslive Communities. are to pay a royalty of 25 cents p r _____ I ton during the first year, 50 cent« , unusual as it was gracious, was Oregon Agricultural College, Cor-'d“rin\the ,«cond *‘”*r !a,’d » Per Vm evidenced during the past week at Sublimity, where women of the Wahi vallis, Ore. Aug. 1.—Oregon has dem-' 1 *rea ter' Club gave a dinner to the convicts onstrated, through the oradication of who have been building roads in that fire blight at Hood River and the i precinct. Such appreciation is almost excellent work in control of pear ONLY ONE “BEST” j unheard of, yet it is instances such blight at Rogue River, the fact that I as this that probably do more to help -> she has at least two of the most pro- I the uufortunate regain their seif re- gressTve fruit growing sections in the Jacksonville People Give Credit ; spect than anything else. 9 entire country,” said Dean A. B. Where Credit is Due Cordley of the O. A. C. school of agriculture, discussing recent pest LAND SHOW fighting work done in these districts. People of Jacksonville who suffer “Some tour years ago, when 1 first with sick kidneys and bad backs w.nt the presence of pear blight in a kidney remedy that can be depended • ■ To be Housed at St Paul Audi- detected the Rogue River Valley, the fruit upon. The best is Doan’s Kidney Pills, growers of that section immediately a medicine for the kidneys only, made tori urn for Twelve Days inaugurated an energetic campaign from pure roots and herbs, ant1 the for its eradication. Upon being in only one that is backed by cures in From December 12 to December 23. formed that, owing to a lack of funds, Jacksonville. Here’s Jacksonville I inclusive, the Northwestern Land Pro- this institution could not place a man testimony: ■ ducts Show will be held in the St. Paul in the field, they al once applied to Frank Kasshafer, Applegate Road. Auditorium under the auspices of the i the Department of Agriculture at Jacksonville, Ore., says: ‘‘For years Washington for assistance. The re Northwestern Development league. I was a miner and no doubt this work These dates were announced today suit was that Professor O’Gara was caused my kidney an I bladder trouble. after advices had been received from sent to their assistance. The first symptom was pain and stiffness “Professor O’Gara organized the the various Western states and the Our Prices aré Right in the small of my back, especially dates of other shows and expositions work so successfully, and gave such severe when I first arose in the morn- satisfaction, that when the Govern- 1 had been considered. The date* se- | ing. I also had much trouble from the , lected give those who will exhibit in merit decided to withdraw him from 1 kidneys, but it did not take Doan’s the field, the fruit 'growers themselves I I Chicago an opportunity to bring their ! Kidney Pills long to bring me relief. I exhibits here. The Chicago show raised the necessary funds to retain | ' Whenever I catch cold an.l feel any i closes December 9. I , his service*. slight recurrence of my old complaint, “He has been in complete charge < f The entire enterprise has but one I take Doan’s Kidney Pills and they i objec t in view, according to official* of the work ever since, with such , relieve me.” of the league, to aid in the develop- success that, notwithstanding the fact , j ment of Washington, Oregon. Montana, that hundreds and thousands of acres 1 F°r 8a'e by nl1 dealer*. I rice j I Leading Merchants 4 Í Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota, of orchards have been completely des- cents. hoHter-M ¡burn Co., Buffalo, ■ troyed in other fruit growing sections, New York, sole agents for the Unite«! i Minnesota and Alaska It is more than simply a land show, the losses in Southern Oregon have States. I hence the incorporated name will be been insignificant, though the disease! Remember the name— Doan's and the Northwestern Land Products Ex- | has not been wholly eradicated as yet. ’ ’ take no other. WILL CALL ELECTION in CAMPING and PICNIC PARTIES iti I it I iti I I Èili I I «s We wish to call your atten tion to our fine line of lunch goods of every description Special Attention Given to Campers I I I I ill Ulrich Brothers IM In t
