Jacksonville post., January 18, 1913, Image 1

Oregon Historical Society
City Hall
PROPERTY CHANGES HANDS Malarkey for the presidency, have
“The Portland & San Francisco Rail­
MEDFORD CITY ELECTION
road company contemplates the ex­
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penditure of about $14,000,000 in con­
Gold Hill Ranch of 280 Acres,
Bold Thefts in Southern Oregon Daring Attempt to Hold-up struction work,’’ said Mr. Chester this W. W. Eifert Elected Mi yer.
morning. "I am not at liberty just
Sold to St. Louis Man.
now to say who is backing the proposi­
Oregon Committed by Man
Preacher and Depotmaster
2200 Votes Cast.
tion, though it is largely eastern capi­
and Woman.
at Phoenix.
tal. An order has been placed already
Frank Parent of St. Louis, has pur­
By receiving 37 per cent of the vote
for a spring delivery of steel, aud pre­
chased through Huntley & MacClatchie
cast, W. W. EifertJ fi r many years a
liminary
surveying
and
clearing
lor
a 280-acre ranch near Gold Hill. The
Chief of Police Hittson Monday af
Opposing his umbrella to revolvers the new road is under way. There are member of the city council and long
ranch is on the Gold Hill road between
ternoon received a telephone message and bullets of four highwaymen who billions’ of“’f«t” of" standing timber Prominent in the growth and develop-
Tolo and Gold Hill and belonged to the
from Roseburg that the theives who attacked him Sunday evening on his tributary to the. company’s right of "ent of Medford, was Tuesday elected
Gold Ray Realty Co. Mr. Parent, who
have been robbing various postoffices way home from the depot with the wav, and the handling of this product I miVor Xv a Pl“™>itv of/,»" vote? over
hails from St. Louis, is associated in
in the Rogue River valley for the past day’s receipts upon him Station Agent will be made a teature of the road’s i C’ E' Ga,ci'
lfea*‘at cMhPetitor;
the venture with his father Frank Par­
fortnight, were captured there Mon-' Leonard of Phoenix made a gallant and operations.
,,n the ">«yoralty tree for all. J. W.
ent, Sr., and his brother, George Par­
day afternoon. They prove to be al successful fight though struck over the
“The branch line into the Blue Ledge • Mitchell was third, J. E. Watt, fourth
ent. The sale brings three or four
and woman, traveling togeiner.
together, nead
head repeatedly with revolvers, blinded > minjng country is aiso p.
man ana
planned btmause i afld John R«*r.’ 's,’ciali8t> fifth. It
families to the valley and no doubt
Plunder of all kinds was taken upon ] by the blood from his wounds, and his ; op
apparent returns i which would i was ttle
eæetiüq in which women
f them, _ as ...„11
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t. , . to . pieces
___ . by a bullet. As
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• ’ opening' and development of Pa 11 'ticipMed.
more will follow. The ranch has ex­
ticipaied.
well as .. a ----
complete
outfit ..f
of [ .. umbre
Ila . shot
the
‘
ceptionally fine Boil for fruit or grain
George w. Porter Svas eleitetl coun­
skeleton keys and railroad switch keys. the shooting attracted a crowd, the I
country" wh«7 transportation fdc-
and will be developed into a show place
cilman in the first ward by 37 plurality;
The watches secured at Rogue River bandits
l»~ii*« fled into the brush, leaving the .....
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¡tit.ies are offered
it.”
RAILROAD NEWS
of the valley.
J.
E. Stewart, cJtffieilman in’ the
as well as other plunder secured in ! aged depot master with the mbnsy still
Mr. Chester says that the San Fran­
Mr. Parent has already started a fine
second ward by 122 p'luraity, 'and G.
their series of burglaries, the marked upon him.
cisco
&
Northwestern
line
running
bungalow and will soon start two more
$2 bill, and the stamps and pennies
A few minutes previously, the same | from Trinidad south, is within 80 miles H. Millar, coun'cilmah in ihe"'tW»d
.l-i r
One feature in connection with this Letting Contracts For Grading stolen were found in their possession. - men held up Rev. J. K. Baillie, on his
of San Francisco, so that completion ! ward by ¿»'plurality:
sale which speaks well for the valley
webe'
cast.
For
'mrfyor,
2200
votei
Tribune.
way to church, but the approach of of the proposed Portland line and its
of Grants Pass Line.
is that on account of Mr. Parent's poor
citizens frightened them off, while the connection with the San Francisco & ■ The registration was 2274. There were
health he has traveled extensively dur­
minister was arguing with, them ti e Northwestern road will give practically 250 vot’e's sworn in. The feaifiy closing
SNOW 40 FEET DEEP
ing the past year through Mexico,
Grants Pass, Ore., Jan. 13. —Clear­
absurdity of trying to rob a country direct coast line connections between of the polls, 5 o’clock, prevented many
Arizona, California, Colorado, and ing the right-of-way on the Pacific-In­
frdm casting ballots. The etectiori Wfts
parson.
Portland and San Francisco.
Oregon looking for a place to locate terior .ailway is progressing rapidly,
a quiet one, the principal :*rbrkerS Be­
Early Monday morning, threé hoboes
Mr.
Chester
said
that
the
proposition
Rail­ two of whom answer the description
and after a stay of several weeks here and Camp No. 1 has been moved across In Cascade Mountains.
is being undertaken independent of ing the candidates themselves, Some of
decided to go no further.
Allen creek and the men are now work­
of the robbers who hi>ve burglarized .any of the large railroad corporations. whom did not hesitate to¿pchlyViolate
roads
Blocked.
Mr. Parent has been aprominet hard­ ing to the west of that stream.
the corrupt practiced act ' by ' their
five postoffiees in Southern Oregon
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ware man of St. Louis and is i a
activities, ‘
The engineer and those in charge
during the past fortnight, were pulled
thoroughly modern business man. He have been considering the advisability
•Women exercise r their n^4i1 Frghtr,
Seattle. Jan. 13. —At dark tonight off a southbound freight by rail.rpad Charged by Daughter with (.rime
is already a strong booster for the of letting a contract to local parties the Northern Pacific cleared its wreck­ detectives, and' Sheriff Singler with
nearly half the ballots biing ei/St /by
valley. The household goods for the for the clearing of a three-mile stretch age east of the stampede tunnel, where the victims of the Phoenix hold-up
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I tlnf’fair sex.
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three families have been shipped and of the right-of-way, and bids were the North Coast limited ran into a went to Ashland Monday to identify
District Attorney E. E. Kelly wen}
TWo'yiars ago, 1171 votes were*‘<4st
the families are expected soon. —Tri­ asked for that work. Saturday after­ rotary plow early today. The trains the men, who are believed to bé re­ to Grants Pass Monday to probe a cast in the nTaj’oralty contest, Cahtdri' re­
bune.
noon twelve separate bids had been are now running, but not on schedule. sponsible for the attempted robberies of incest brought against Wm. F, ceived 4441 Eifert 408,' WoH.urs‘(socii..-
Fettitt, of Merlin, arrested Saturday ist) 235, Bittner 97.
filed with the engineer’s office, all The snow has ceased falling in the there.
.
Close contests occUred id' the’ first
from local people. The clearing cover­ mountains.
Sheriff Singler was notiffed as sopn upon complaint of his 17-year-old
COMMETTES APPOINTED
ed in this contract will be that extend­ The Great Northern is still tied up as the attempted robberies occurgd, daughter Julia and his bed-ridden and third wards- for court ilmen. Por­
ing to Jerome prairie, a point 6J£ miles on its mountain division. The Mil­ j and left at once for the scene, spend- wife who is being cared for by the ter defeated Berrian by a' narrow mar­
gin in the first. In the second. Stewai t
from this city. To Allen creek the waukee had ten miles of track covered | ing the greater part of the night seek­ county.
Jackson County Men to Serve right-of-way has been cleared the full with slides today. The Milwaukee ing the bandits. As impromptu posse The mother admits knowledge of the easily defeated the 'field, an I in tl.e
one hundred feet in width, but from has established a wireless telegraph was organized and the region between father’s unnatural crime, and the girl third Millar, incumbent, socialist, si-
oi Various Committees.
there on the clearing will be only of service.
Phoenix and Talent scoured. On ac­ says that it had continued during the cured 25 more votes than Hili6n. cwiih
such width as will be necessary to the
The snow is piled forty feet high at count of the rain, the sheriff’s blood­ residence at Merlin, but that both the Demmer third.
mother and the daughter feared the
The socialist vote showed a surpri -
making of the grades and the moving altitudes where the railroads cross the hounds were not put on the scent.
Salem, Ore., Jan. 14.—Dr. T. L. of dirt in the cuts and fills.
A good description of the men was father’s wrath if they made the situa­ ing falling off, Refer receiving but 251
mountains. When the thaw commences
Perkins of Multnomah county was to-
voles, including both men and Women.
From the city out across Jerome there will be a more serious enemy secured by the Rev. Baillie, as it was tion public.
day placed at the head of the ways and prairie very little grading will be nec­ than the snow to contend with. ’ The not quite dark when he was he)d-up.
Pettit is a man about 50 years of age Two years ago, Wolters received near­
means committee of the senate, the essary, there being no cuts of depth. weather in western Washington i is Two of them answer the description and has worked off and on at day labor ly as many from the men alone. Mil­
committee that will pass on all bills The engineering department is there­ warm and rainy.
Under lar ran far ahead of his ticket wi h
of the post office robbers. All were in the Merlin neighborhood.
appropriating the money of the tax- fore contemplating the letting of a
roughly dressed and had holes bbrned the Oregon statutes the crime with 257 voles against 98 cast for the head
payers.
great Bumber of individual contracts,
'in their coats, which had evidently which he stands charged is punishable of the socialist ticket in his ward. —
President Malarkey announced the each of a few hundred feet only, to
Balkans Massacre Turks.
been hung up to dry before fires. The by imprisonment in the penitentiary Tribune.
complete list of committee appoint­ individuals at a stated price per yard
suspects arrested at Ashland also had for from one to three years, or in the
ments. Gus Moser of Portland, be­ of earth moved. Much of this grading I
county jail from three months te one
holes in their coats.
Berlin, Jan. 14. —A dispatch from
comes chairman of the judiciary com­ is shovel work, and by taking a con­
Mr. Leonard has been station agent year, and a fine of from $200 to $1000. Lire Crab Sent by Parcels Post.
mittee: Geo. Neuner of Douglas tract in this way men can work as Rome quoting an unnamed diplomatic for many years at Phoenix and is —Tribune.
county is chairman of revision of laws; they please and know tnat they are representative of an Oriental power, nearly 70 years of age.
A Portland man sent the first lim-
C. F. Lester, of Clatsop county, heads being paid according to the effort they who, referring to the alleged atrocities
Sheriff Singler at Ashland Monday
burger cheese through the parcels post,
the fisheries committee; R. R. Butler ; put forth. By this method more men committed upon defenseless Turks in rounded up all the hoboes in the freight 2000 Homeless in Ohio Valley.
a Gold Hill man sent a leaky can of
the Balkan states, declared:
of Wasco county will preside over could be put on the job at once.
yards at 2 o’clock. 12 men were in the
varnish, but it remained for a Medfoid
“The number of those massacred is Ashland jail booked as suspects.—
banking affairs; W. H. Ragsdale of
Louisville, Ky., Jan. 14. —As a result man to add lhe final touch by sending
estimated at 210,000. I consider this Tribune.
Wheeler county is chairman of Agri­
of the flood in the Ohio river here, a live crab through the mails. Tie
cultural and Forestry, and H. Von der
The American Bonding Co. of Balti i figure is not too high.’’
more than 2000 families are homeless crab was sent by the local Fish Market
Hellen of Jackson county will be at more will go on your bond and write I
today.
Many houses in the lowlands and was consigned to Gold Hill. As
the head of the roads and highway.
For the next sixty days, 25 per cent
APPOINTS DEPUTIES
burglary insurance.
the package was insecurely bound the
are
inundated.
Joseph and Kellaher, who fought
off
on
all
wall
paper.
Fred
J.
Fick.
I
D. W. B agshaw . Agent.
crab had an oppoitunily of gazn g
about causing no end of commotion
E. M Wilson and ‘‘Curley” Cincinnati, Ol.io, Jan. 14.—Much of among
the postal clerks. Articles of
the suffering following the flood of Nothing, egg cases, implements, fru t
Wilson to Aid Sheriff Singler. the Ohio river is being releived today.
boxes, and dry goods; are among the
The register was at 61.9 feet early this parcels post shipments of the past few
Sheriff Aug. Singler this week ap- morning.
days — Tribune.
| pointed E. M. Wilson of Medford as
chief deputy in place of W. R. Coie-
Cincinnati, Jan. 14.—Five floors of
; man and “Curley” Wilson of this city the building occupied by the Standard Heavy Rains Sends Streams Up.
as second deputy. It is understood Extract company here weakened aa a
that these appointments are satisfact­ result of the floods, collapsed today
An inch an a quarter of water either
ory to the county court. The new while 35 persons were in the building. ank in the ground or was carried aw.' y
chief deputy, E. M. Wilson, is ar. ex­
So far as the police have learned all by the creeks and rivers Sunday night,
pert aceou ntant and will look after the the occupants escaped from the ruins. »ringing the total precipitation for the
office and tax collection work. A num­
reason, from September 1, up to 9.35.
ber of people have confused him with
1’he total normal precipitation for this
J. H. Wilson of Corvallis who recently Lounsberry Case Goes to Jury. period is 12.81 inches, showing that
experted the county’s books. Al­
this season is yet 2.46 inches below
though of the same name the two men
.lormul.
Kansas
City,
Jan.
16.
—
The
trial
of
are in no way related.
Three quarters of an inch of bunday
“Curley” Wilson, who received the Wells Lunsberry in the federal couri night’s precipitation war rain tie
in
Kansas
City.
Kan.,
for
the
robberx
appointment of second deputy, is
nher half inch being melting snow.
voung, energetic and well-liked. He of a mail car on the Union Pacific trail Had the rain and warm weather ex-
near
Lawrence,
Kan.,
last
August
is hail considerable experience in
ended tri the hills where the snow is
different offices at the court house and will go tc the jury late this afternoon. h yp, a flood would have been lookid
Mrs.
Lounsberry,
wife
of
the
accuser
is in every way well fitted to fill the
for but it is not thought this was the
tiosition to which he has been appoint- man, was present in the court roon case. Bear creek is now higher than
when the evidence was presented. Tw<
small children brought here from Ore it any time this year but Monday, af­
gon, have not been allowed to learn ternoon had not r< ached a dangerous
Another Proposed Railroad.
the nature of their mothers mission ii ■tage. Rogue river is also raising and
Kansas City. She left them at a hotel a continuance of th» rain and melting
weather may yet mean flood waters,
while
she attended the trial.
Portland, Jan. 14.— Articles of in-
Lounsberry's defense was insanity l he snow in the <ity has almost entire­
corporation have been filed for the
The
government in rebuttal placet ly disappeared. Predictions are for
Portland & San Francisco Railroad
specialists
on the stand who teatifiet. more rain with no change in tempeta-
company, the expressed purpose of
ture. Tribune
the
accused
was sane.
which is to build a stretch of railroad
from Marshfield, Orc. to Trinidad,
Minney Co. Files Check.
California, connection to be made there
AppleCrop, $6,43t,O0C.
with the San Francisco & Northwest-
ern Railroad company.
Monday aft mom M. T Minney fib d
The incorporators are E. N. Chester
Oregon’s fruit crop was worth $6,- md acceptunc« of lhe franchise re-
Portland, representing eastein inter- 130,000 to producers during the las. ■ently granted by the city an I filed a
Leading Merchants
at»; H. N. 'linker, president First year. It was the greatest fruit cro; ertifud check with City Recorder Foss
Trust company, Portland; J. G. Rigg.-, by far that the country’s premie
• >r $2500 on the Fi st State Bank , f
banker, Grants Pass, Oregon; Hemy growing state ever produced. It wio ■iu'heriin, Oregon.
A. Mavis, attorney, First Trust com- ikewise worth more money, ever
Mr. Minney and associates will i.sk
pany, Portland. '1 he new company is though prices obtained w re unusu..y lor a franchise patterned alter tie
c pitalized at $2.009,000, stock be.ng >w everywhere this siason. —Sun.
Medford francl is», from the Ashla'd
divided into 20,000 shares, of the par
•itv council this week. W. I. Vawter
value of $100.
| will appear for the company before ti e
Incoporation articles al o provide for
Don’t be surprised if you have an attack I Ashland council.
a branch line road from Grants Pass of rheumatism thia spring. Just rub the
Mr. Minnev left Tuesday for Port-
affected parts freely with Chamberla’a'e Lin­
up Applegate river to the lilue Ledge iment and it will soon disappear. Bold by | land and says the company proposes
[ mining distil' l.
all dealers.
J to start
m iuedlvru suoii, — Sun,
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been stowed away on two harmless
committees.
Jackson county fared well in both
houses in committee assignments.
Senator Von der Hellen is chairman
of the roads and highways, and on the
following senate committees: Penal
institutions, fisheries, banking, county
and state offices.
In the house C. L Reames is chair­
man of the railroads and transporta­
tion committee and also on the judiciary
and fish committees. Carkin is on the
important ways and means committee.
Westerlund is on the roads and high­
ways and horticulture.
Howard of
Douglas, a former Medford man, is al-
so on fisheries.
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