Oregon Hiet.rieal Society NO. 47 JACKSONVILLE. JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, MARCH 29, 1913 OHIO AND INDIANA FLOODED Indiana as well as in the adjoining states. Miami River Levies Break and Dayton Ohio is Flooded with Great Loss of Life. Kokomo, Ind., March 25.- Eight feet, of water are on the streets in the low­ lands here. A thousands homes are submerged and their inhabitants arc perched upon the roofs of their dwell­ ings, waiting for aid. Practically all boats in the city were swept away and the people in the flood district are mar­ ooned and foodless. Damage to the extent of $1,000,000 was done here. Enormous damage was done by the floods in Peru, Indiana, nearby. TRUE BILL AGAINST MILLAR 200 people K illed Indictments Also Found Against In Omaha C',clone Sunday night. the Medford Saloons, Properly Many Injured. Carpenter of Phoenix to a married daughter, now absent from the state, on the ground that the deed was se­ cured through fraud. Mrs. Carpenter is 78 years of age and is paralyzed. She lives with her son, who is also paralyzed and unable to move. Through a pension from Uncle Sam and a monthly sum from the county they are able to live. A few months ago, when Mrs. Car- penter was first paralyzed, a married daughter is said to have induced her mother to sign a deed, pretending it was something else. The matter was recently called to the attention of County Judge Tou Velle, who will have Mr. Kelly take up the case.—Tribune. BLAZE AT MED'rO.W Robert Fryear Loses Proper'y in Night Fire. Loss $10,000,000. A blaze started late last night at the residence of Robert Fr.vear on Van­ Councilman George Millar, facing couver avenue, which resulted in the immorality charges brought by Chief Columbus, Ohio, March 26.—Fire is rtestruation of the house by the flames Omaha, Neb., March 24. — Two hun- of Police Hittson, was indicted by the sweeping Dayton this afternoon and which had gained too much headway grand jury Saturday morning on a I dred dead and <10,000,000 loss in Omaha its residents are meeting death in the by the time the fire department h id alone is the toll taken by the worst count charging selling liquor to minors flames, according to information re- arrived to save the building. Indictments were also returned against tornado which ever visited Nebraska, ceived by Governor Cox here. The residence was a two-story con­ according to declarations at 11 o ’ clock the proprietors of al! Medford ’ s saloons At 3 o’clock this afternoon the gov­ struction and had just been occupied today by Mayor John Delhman, Gover ­ on counts alleging violations of the ernor announced his determination to by the Fryear family only a few weeks. liquor laws. Upon this work the nor Morehead and Commissioner Ryder. reach Dayton with state troops and No one was at the home when These predictions were made after the greater part of the last week was con ­ Terre Haute, Ind., March 25. With assistance, regardless of cost. He blaze started, and how the the three officials had toured the devasted plans to send a train to Cleveland, and the Wabash river already three feet sumed. fire started is unknown, The i loss sections in an automobile. It was also Grand Jury Report. As witnesses against Councilman over the danger line and raising at the from there to Toledo, hoping to reach ! was estimated at $500. Piqua or Troy from that city. He r»te of six inches hourly, Terre Haute, Millar were a number of high school admitted that these figures might be Considerable delay was made by the hopes to send the militia and supplies barely recovered from Sunday’s cy­ boys, the back room and pull­ ing of children and the abolition of joy hysterical persons assailed every source and filing cases, ample desk room, and the police in patro’ing the streets, and ! rides and ragtime dancing were advo­ waters in Indiana and Ohio will be ed the trigger. a new counter that adds greatly to the cated as the rem ‘dies for the social of information today for assurances service of the office. Apparently there their offers were accepted. All the augmented by continued rains, accord­ that relatives and friends are sate. Following a muffled report he stag- I evil at the bearing today conducted by public schools have been turned into ing to the forecast issued here this gered into the room, saying: Two babies were picked up and blown is a place for everything, and every­ hospitals. ‘Mr. the Illinois senatorial vice commission, afternoon by the government weather thing is in its place. The recent clean ­ Reports received here today say that Eifert, I’ve shot myself.” He then which came to Washington primarily away from the Child Saving institute, bureau. on the west side, where foundlings are ing of the walls has added to the at­ i many were killed by storms in Heath fell face down upon the floor. to interest President Wilson in a na ­ Reoorts received from Pittsburg say cared for. This institution was in the tractiveness of the rooms. Vigo county. While it w.is reported Recently Wolgamott has been under tion-wide vice crusade. that the Allegheny river there is rising “We have also visited the County ! there had been fatalities in Perth, later storm’s path. Others were found dead the guidance of the mayor and Prose­ The commission secured the promise at an alarming iate. cutor Kelley, and has been making a of President Wilson to consider the re­ piled in heaps on the floor. One child, Treasurers’ office and the Assessor’s advices say no one was killed. Prairieton, a village of 400 persons gallant and successful effort retrieve quest for him to call a conference of called Thelma, was found dead a block office and find everything apparently in first-class condition. six miles from here, was destroyed 1 y Indianapolis, Ind., March 25.—Ten prestige he lost in boyish pranks. He governors and Representatives of t.b.e away. The other, a little girl named “In the wood house we find many thousand families are homeless in In­ feared that the accidental stabbing of vice commissions of various states to Cynthia is still missing. Nearly every­ old records, some of which are of vital cyclone. It ¡8 impossible to learn the body in the institution wan injured, . fatalities there as the roads are im- diana today as the result of the worst his boy friend would hurt his stand'ng study the social problem, the confer­ importance to the affairs of the county i passable. flood in the history of the state. The with these two men and it preyed on ence to be held in Washington as soon I some seriously; others escaped with and which should be better cared for. j slight bruises. property loss runs into the millions his mind. Wolgamott was proud of | as possible. Omaha’s telephone girls proved them­ “The toilets, both ladies and gents, I I and all industry, including transporta­ the record he was making, and during ' At the hearing attended by prom­ New Giand Jury Selected. the last two or three months has been * inent women and men interested in selves heroines. Not a girl deserted we find in a deplorable condition. We ! tion facilities, is suspended. recommend that these be kept clean i Four persons are known to have industrious and painstaking. social welfare the low wage question i her post, remaining with the receivers The bullet struck in the left shoulder as the caus s of girls going wrong was glued to their ears, sendi"g all calls and sanitary. drowned. Other large sections of the The March term of the Circuit court “The woodwork and walls of the and is merely a flesh wound. Unless discussed, several witnesses descrying for assistance and doing yeoman ser­ state are effected. vice. So far as known none of the court room and some of the offices opened in this city Monday, Judge F. Some of the largest cities in the complications arise he will recover such an idea. ; would be much improved by a coat of M Calkins presiding. A large amount state will be in darkness tonight, the shortly. Jirnmy Collins, over whom he Under the questioning of Lieutenant op: raters were injured. of criminal and civil cases are to be 1 paint or calcimine. ” Linemen are busy today repairing flood waters of various rivers putting worried to distraction is also on the Gover O’Hara of Illinois, the witnesses disposed of. the wrecked lines. The Webster tele ­ road to recovery, though weak from electric light and water plants out of admitted that higher wages for work­ The first business to come before the commission. The floods follow a two loss of blood, the knife severing the ing women would better equip them to phone exchange on the north side was Ashland Visited by Fire. court was the selection of agrand jury. the center of rescue activités, physi ­ femoral artery. — Sun. days’ downpour which was general in resist evil. The following men were chosen: W. cians, army officers, nurses and soldiers M. Petri, Joseph h ayfiel I, J. C. Cal­ receiving duty calls from there. About Fire of unknown origin completely 1 175 girls were at work there when the destroyed the two story Throne room­ vert, Geo W. Dean, Frank Schuette, i storm struck. They continued at their , ing house and one story Wilson clean­ J. T. Dodge, Frank Nichol. The grand ! post while windows were shattered ing establishment at Ashland Monday jury immediately adjourned until Oc­ agd while they themselves were show- night. Had it not been for the fact tober 20. They are subject to a call of the court however. ! ered by broken glass. that there was an inch of snow on ti e The grand jury which completed its One hundred and sixty-nine buildings nearby buildings it is thought the tire were "azed in Omaha, divided as fol­ would have gained dangerous headway. work last Saturday investigated 33 lows: Houses 15J, churches 11, and As it was the flames mounted high in matters and examined 76 witnesses at the last. term. They returned 25 true schools 8. the air and attracted attention from bills and five not true bills. More than 201) other houses were all over the countryside. badly damaged. The Throne rooming house was own­ At a SDeeial meeting this afternoon, ed by Henrv L. White, who carried Pioneer of Applegate Dies. Mayor Dahlman and the city commis­ but $360 insurance. A Mrs. Mahan had sioners appropriated $25,001) for the been running the place as restaurant i relief of the sufferers. and rooming house and her loss in fix­ Albert. W. Sturgis, aged 78 years, 3 A’ thorough inspection this afternoon tures is quite heavy. The smaller months and 5 days, died at his home, confirmed the report that the property building, in the rear of which the fire one mile west of Ruch, Saturday after­ damaged here would reach $10,000,060. is believed to have started, belonged noon at 3:15 o'clock of heart trouble. The storm area here was six blocks to E. I.. Hacket and was occupied by He was a native of New York and had wide and nearly every house in it» path M. D. Wilson. Quantities of gasoline been a resident of Jackson county for was razed or badly damaged. and benzine stored there are supposed sixty years, crossing the plains when a Bodies of vietms were found today to have given the fire added headway. boy with ox teams. He was one of the hundreds of yards from where the The Van Sant rooming house, next »Idest pioneers of the Rogur River wind struck. The cries of injured door, several times was ablaze and was valley and had lived for years on his persons drew rescuers to many differ­ slightly damaged by water. The blaze ranch on the Applegate. ent points simultaneously. was discovered at 8:30 o’clock Monday He leaves a wife, Pauline Sturgis, The cyclone caused many freak ac- evening. —Sun. two sons, Fred of Els creek, and Riley cidents. Some houses were unscathed of Harney county, Oregon, and one while others adjoining were crumpled daughter, Mrs. J. J. OssenDrugge of Kills Wild Cat With Hat Pm like eggshells. In one section of the Ruch. city the lower story of a house was The fureral services were held Tu