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, <vho testified, it is said, before increased later in the day. The esti The grand jury in its report submit fire department in reaching the place, mates above do not include the dead the grand jury on the conduct of the and newspaper men into Dayton by clone, today faces one of the worst ted the following regarding the re owing to the long run which was made floods in its history. The flood waters Manhattan cafe. These witnesses led at Ralston, a suburb, or in Council corder’s office: boats from Troy. around by the Jackson street bridge, Bluffs, Iowa, just across the Missouri the way to the bringing to light of the already have driven 2,000 persons from “The recorder is very much cramped by reason of the non-paving of the river from here. other evidence and resulted in the in their homes at Taylorville, a suburb. Latest reports from Council Bluffs for both office and vault snace. His ! Bear creek. The house was a mass of Columbus, Ohio, March 25.— “The dictment of all. Bonds were furni hed say that four more bodies had been vault is narrow, possibly 5x10 and 9 to flames when the department arrived.— deaths in Dayton may reach 2000. It for the appearance were returned. is the worst calamity since the Galves Medford Boy Attempts Suicide. The return of the indictments against taken from homes in the storm’s path. 10 feet high. One side is fitted with Sun. ------ --------------- ton flood.’’ This alarming message the saloons was a complete surprise This brings the list of known dead book racks. Every bit of space is fill ed. Twelve or fifteen volumes of deed was received here this afternoon by and unexpected. Coming on the eve of there up to 12. 33 Killed at Terre Haile, Ind. It is now believed that the tornado and mortgage records lying on the j Governor Cox from George Burba, the the city election, they were used to floor; also several large volumes of governor’s private secretary, who wir Lloyd Wolgamott, a sixteen year old advantage by the opponents of the went further east than vas at first re ed from Springfield. boy attempted to commit suicide Mon I administration. City Attorney Boggs , ported, causing more fatalities than I plat records standing on edge, the Terre Haute. Ind., March 24.—Up to covers becoming warped and broken. “The river at Dayton,” the message day afternoon, because of worry over is blamed in some quarters for the re earlier advices indicated. noon today twenty bodies had been re A canvass of every tornado insurance The vault does not appear to be fire-1 moved from the wreckage wrought by added, “is four miles wide. I cannot the condition of Jimmie Collins, a boy sult. Liquor men announced Saturday get anywhere near the city. It is aw friend, whom he accidentally stabbed that they would fight the indictments company here leads to the belief that proof.” yesterday’s tornado, and it is now es Regarding the sheriff’s office the re timated that the total de id here will the $10,000,003 loss is covered by only ful. The water is up to the second in the leg while engaging in a friendly to the highest courts.— Sun. $50,000 insurance. This is partly due port says: story of rhe Phillips House.” scuffle Sunday. reach thirty. 150 were injured and 130 “In the sheriff’s office we find great homes wrecked. to the Indian prophecy that Omaha was Wolgamott isv employed by Mayor At 2 o’clock this afternoon Governor immune from cyclones. The residents congestion of work, caused principally , The cyclone took a northeasterly Cox was notified that Zanesville, Ohio Eifert in his tailor shop, and to make Joy Rides Condemed of the city had placed great confidence by the work incidental to tax collec course against Terre Ilaute, razing is in danger of immediate destruction. the attempt it was necessary for the in this prediction, and carried but little tion. The jail is clean and sanitary, buildings and putting the electric light The situation, the message said, could lad to wrap a piece of leather around a and is a credit to the present manage- plant out of commission. The city was not be wor»e. Frantic appeals for aid I .32 shell to make it fit in an old .38 Washington, March 24.—The whip insurance. The city frequently has were included in the telegram. calibre revolver. This he did without ping post for white slavers and se been visited by high winds, but never I ment. in darkness after the storm last night “We find that Mr Gardner has a but very little looting was reported. detection, and while Mayor Eifert, A. ducers of women, more careful train before suffered serious damage. More than 100.000 grief-stricken and large fine room and vault with desks Hundreds of citizens volunteered to aid A Flynn, and Dr. Porter were talking Washington, March 26.—The flood j he slipped in*a> 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<s- demolished, the upiier part settling in Santa Monica, Cal., March 23.—At dav afternoon. Burial in the Jackson its place. Trees were wrenched up by tacked by an enormous wildcat it ville cemetery. the roots and driven through brick Topango canyon, near here, Miss Alm ■ buildings. Judah killed the beast with a hatpii After the storm, throngs of people “Pori of Rogue River.” after she had sustained severe laccra- stood on the streets and wept as they : tions of the fa :e, arms an I body, ac- watched firemen and the police bearing 1 cording to information brought here Marshfield, Ore., March 25 Plans out corpses of ot relatives from the 1 today by a doctor who attended her. are being discussed for the formation debris. In one part of the city four After her buttle with the cat, whir) of another porf district in Curry members of one family were buried in 1 ended wheh she rammed the hitpit county by the people of the Rogue river burning wrec age but all were saved through its eye into its brain, Mis. for the purpose of improving the mouth by the firemen. Judah fainted. She was found hii hour of that river. The plan as proposed s Leading Merchants A heavy rain whiih followed the cy later by companion«. to take in a arge territory of tl e clone saved many buildings threatened with destruction by fire. ' country aroir d Rogue river. It is Nearly Sing Hcsai -na probable that a special election will soon be called to let the people vote on Acco ’ ding to word received here, Will Endeavor to Sei Aside Deed the subject. Sing Hosan, the Beaver Hill Chinamat A port district was formed at P< rt pugilist and Will Gaffney, formerly if Orford some time ago, but little was County Judge Tou Velle announced* North Bend, fougnt a fifteen round done as it was fought by some of the Wednesday that he has issued instruc- draw at Pendleton, Oregon, thi< week. timber owner" whose property was brought within 'he territory of the ti< ini to Persecuting Attorney E. E. It ¡3 stated that Sing Horan almost <11- 1 < let. and the < ■ r rs elect, d Kelly to bring suit in th" circuit court ! P'tt Gaffney out in the tenth round.- represent the faction which is not in r -r JÄ'. .*•« favor of mak.: g any improvements. o set ¡.side j :ecd gi*en bj Mrs. Marj ’ MarohlkiJ Record. I I I U rich Broth Di' Jacksonville A- «