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Oregon JACKSONVILLE, JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, APRIL 25, 1914 VOL. VII. WAR IN MEXICO U. S. Lands Force of at l/eva Cruz. Marines Warships and Troops Rushed Southward. War with Mexico has at last broken out notwithstanding the ’‘watchful waiting” policy of our government. The refusal of the Mexican president Huerta to salute the (J. S. flag as rep aration for insulting the United States by the arrest of a paymaster and men who had gone ashore from one of our ships for supplies, was the straw that broke the camels back, resulting in ac tual war. A “peaceful blockade” was attemp ted Tuesday, but in the attempt to take possession of the customs house, cable office, etc. at Vera Cruz four A- merican marines were killed and twelve wounded, the Mexican riflemen having taken refuge in houses and other build ings the guns of an American ship were trained on the buildings ana a few shells quickly uncovered the sharp shooters who then retired. The loss to the Mexicans during the first day’s encounter is estimated at 150. The fight, if so it could be called, continued all day Wed-esday, result ing in the occupancy of the customs house and entire city by the American forces. The total list of casualties re ported up to Friday morning are: A- mericans 15, Mexicans 250. Congress passed a joint resolution Tuesday authorizing the president to I use the army and navy of the U. S. in compelling Huerta to make the apolo gy in the manner demanded and the government while deprecating war, is determined to proceed to the end. All available warships and trooos are be ing rushed south as fast as possible and in a few days every Mexican sea- I p irt will be completely blockaded by our forces. A dispatch from Mexico City, Thurs day announced that Huerta had hand ed the American representative his passports, ihus cutting off all diploma tic relati ns between the two coun- tries. Tr z ties. The first was founded in 1900, and since then 26 million trees have planted, more than 2 million having been set out last year. In many parts of the west snow is leaving the mountains earlier than us ual. Foresters say that this may mean a bad fire season, and they are mak ing plans for a hard campaign. New Jersey is said to have the great est proportion of railroad mileage of any state in the country, or one mile of railroad to every three sauare miles of territory. This makes an unusual risk of forest fires set by railroads. The heavy storms in southern Cali- sornia during the past rainy season wiped out many miles of trails in the national forests of that part of the state. They are now being rebuilt for the coming summer, for use in fire protection. They are also of great use to tourists, campers, and prospec tors. Requests from Oregon Washington, April 22-Senator Cham ber! tin submitted to the Sicretary of War today the application of the Ore gon Spanish War Veterans to organize a regiment of experienced men for ser vice in Mexic» and the request of Gov ernor West for permission to organize foul additional companies of Coast Ar tillery for service with the eight now organized to serve as infantry. This latter request was denied, as the War Department desires to keep the Coast I Artilleuy intact for coast defense where they are, but suggests that new com panies may enlist in the volunteer ar- my. '•h Ask IVar Department for Pro tection From Huerta’s roused A- Forces. Washington, April 22 The War De partment received hundreds of requests today from towns along the border where no troops are stationed, asking for protection from attacks which they feared might result after the spread of the news among the Mexicans that Vera Cruz had been seized. It was said however that no new orders would be issued unlil a general policy had been defined. Registration Open to May 2 To all persons registering Voters: In view of the fact that there is no definite time fixed by law for the clos ing of the registration for the coming Primary Nominating Election, and it appearing to me that it would be con venient for a large number of those living away from the various cities and towns if they might register on Saturday the 2nd day of May 1914. I will therefore hold the registration books open to all those that art* regis tered up to and including May 2nd, and you may inform those affected in any way you may see fit. Hoping this will be of benefit to all concerned, I am Yours very trulv, G. A. Gardner County Clerk. Ordered to Coast New York, April 22 American mis sionaries in the interior of Mexico I have been ordered to proceed with all Roseburg, Or., April 22—Morrison I possible “peed to Vera Cruz. This or Campbel), who killed John Becker last ! der was contained in a cablegram sent week, is being kept in the steel cages 1 by the Board of foreign Missions of of the county jail, to make it impossi the Methodist Episcopal Church in this ble for any of Becker’s friends to city to Dr. J. W. Buller, the board’s reach him. It was fear of personal representative in Mexico City. A reply violence for Campbell from the friends i received from Dr. Butler lati yesterday of Becker that caused the officers to | stated that large numbers of American re: use to permit Campbell to testify at i missionaries already were en route to Cleveland before the Coroner’s jury. the coast. F.eling is said to have run high in the ----------- -»T, ♦----------- f aiming neighborhood. Campbell’s attorney’s are Elbert Herman and C. L. Hamilton. They will put up a strong i ■ defense on his story, and the fact that •» China imports wood pulp from Great Becker was a young man of large size Britain, Sweden, Norway, and Germa wl ile the defendant is past 60 years ny. ¡old. The highest mountain in Montana, ---------- »i»> - ------- Granite Peak, with an altitude ofnear- FOR SALE at a Bargain—House and I.V 13,000 feet, is in the Beartooih na- i lot on Cretan street, near City Hall. tional forest. Must be sold soon Call on Rogue Norway has 144 tree planting socie-, Realty River Co Making Own Furniture Monmouth, Or., April 22—The school at Falls City, 12 miles west of here, has a department for turning out fur niture, and is placing various articles on the market. Benches, bookcases, cabinets, writing tables and chairs are among the output for the past Iwo weeks, which were sold to business men. The school has been aided finan cially by the new work. « ?! u 19 y I! Fishing Tackle 2 1-2 Per Cent Discount for Cash Trade ULRICHS 7 he Pioneer Store V •V UM* NO. 51 some good at burying treasure for it els. Nor wer«' the embrakilLes al) from ’ remains hidden to this day. within. Here find tl ere a great ga| - Clearing Fortune Island with our ing hole was torn in the solid wall», Strange Landsand People Meet black pirates on board we steam awav wh, e some of the sentry boxes wet e for the windward pass and Cuba, pass completely shot aWay; a grim ti.kon of cn Voyage io the Isthmus ing another light house on Anagua Is-j the prowess of American shells whi. It land with the customary wreck in her the Cuban government has taken no as Recorded by the front teeth, and twelve hours later we ' pains to repair. I Under the great rock on which Moro sight Cuba. Editor of a Week- To the traveler who has read much castle is reared is a subterranean cham and seen nothing of this Pearl of the ! ber open only on the ocean «hide large ly Newspa- Antilles the first sight of Cuba is dis- | enough to admit a row boat. The sto ry is told that some Americans ventur per. appointing. One may look in vain 'or ( ed beneath and lost tbe’r lives in the the tropical verdure, the Royal palms «nd gorgeous beauty associated with j conflicting currents which race through these winding a id mysterious corrid this imagined isle. What one really Coral on the Panama Roadway ors. If castles could talk the srory sees is a ragged, mountainous coast, I of old Moro would be one worth while. denuded of verdure, and apparently j Stories of Spanish rule at.d misrule, The landsman enroute to Panama unwatered and uninhabited. For a j piracy, rapine and revolution. A sto hundred miles we skirted this coast ] finds so many new and interesting, ry always of blood, as ihe tides of con things that it seems to make little dif- | and with one exception we failed to j quest swept back and forth,_4oyer the find a human habitation although twen ference whether Par-ima is reached to old world and the ebb tide swept to day, tomo.row or next week. In fact ty pairs of glasses searched a- | l the shores of a new continent where the touch of the tropics pervades even mong the recesses and along the coast | ’ no law obtained other than the point the first islands in the West Indies and line. The mountain ranges as we I of the sword. With the tropic su'i the everlasting present seems suffi neared Santiago reached higher and j pouring down on the ruins tipping each higher until in places the clouds hung , cient. The first islands sighted after j battle-scarred rampart in beaten golc. leaving New York group is the posses about the higher peak?, but always to- I with the blue waters of the Carribei ii sion of the British Governme"t. The ■ w ards us they presented the same j i . lapping gently at her base, we slipped seamy, ragged, age market! exterior. first really sizable island is the island | I gently past this silent sentinel of a of San Salvador, generally conced'd In places the iron ore showed in brok past age and we fell like saluting, out en crevices and land slides red and rus- 1 to be the first land discovereu by Co- ! of respect to the men who first lai 1 lumbus. This island boasts a light ty, like the sides of an old wreck. | those stones; for with all 'heir faults, i It was outside Guantanamo Harbor 1 house and a few inhabitants. It Js a j all their cruelty, and all their wanto , low lying island some 20 miles long on the southern coast of Cuba that w ■' | wasteful barbarity, they nev.rthc- with a lake in the interior. At the saw the first American flag. It was a j ' less were white men and some * >rt north are several small islets, of coral supply ship returning fro n the flee: of Christians and their coming pav- formation sticking up from the sea, | of battleships which we lat»r saw hit', i ed the way for a new world, a new glistening in the sunshine like icebergs, i den away behind the headlands, som | San Salvador like most of the islands | twelve or fifteen in number. I wi.. ambition and ultimately a new pvo- pie. in this group is surrounded by danger mention here that though I travele' Lou D. MacWethy ous reefs ard like most of the islands four thousand miles, and saw shippin had its wrecked boat on its front steps. from every Ian 1 I never saw the A Wherever we sighted a lighthouse we merican flag again except in a moving aiso sighted a wreck. The deep water picture show i t Jamaica. Permit m ? passage among these island is neces to digress This said picture show, sarily narrow and in time many boats remember was in Kingston, on Brit have come to grief. On Crooked Is ish soil. This particular film was on“ Corn Shows Next Fill Thirteen *. patriotic ’ land reefs was a large steamer going common to us at home. Carloads of Household to pieces and off the point of Cuba western play where the Indians cap within a few cable lengths of the Cure the beauliful maid with the blonde Goods Received at light was another. On [San Salvador wig and which winds up with a thril ling capture an! red river of red man ’ s reefs was pinioned a large sailing ves Bend. 0:egon blood, while the hero stands in the ex sel. Flagpole 2k6 The Bahama Islands are sparsely act center of the film and unfurls the settled, mostly by negroes. They raise American flag. I was interested to » Feet Long. enough for a living which as living note that the sight of the American flag in this land of England ’ s rule ex goes is not much. The islands abound in wild horses, cattle and hogs. Along cited exactly the same kind of applause Portland, Ore., April 21, the shores one can find flamingoes, ai- that it would here at home, an ap next Plans for corn show s to be gret heron and various other wild plause that would have made George I Fail and Winter are now being made fowl. It ought to be a hunter’s para Cohen proud of himself and the flag he I by offi rials of the O. W. R * N. Ry. dise as ihe natives are too poor to own made theatrically famous. I at the sain“ time the seed corn is tie ■ firearms. If a wild horse is captured Guantanamo harbor is the present mg distributed am mg the farmers of one must pay the British crown one naval base for the Panama canal and I lhe state. Cash prizes from $5 to $2<> pound and as much more to get it as we passed, five miles at sea we I wii) be offered, the entries to vat y tamed, and then the problem of get could see the fighiing tops of over a I from lhe best single eai of corn to the ting it out of the country is a matter dozen leviathans lurking behind the en product of the best acre, with boy of some concern. The best way would trance, waiting waiting with the wire j growers given speciul inducements to be to smuggle it in as I understand less tower frowning down on their j I compete. It is staled by those in these so called horses are about the turrets and Mexico only a few hours a- I charge of the project that this year’s size fo a shetland pony. The aigret way. acreage will be ten limes that of lari heron is a profitable shooting provid Guantanamo harbor I as 25 square year. ing one is successful in smuggling the miles of sea room and is used by the U- The Port of Columbia Commerci I airgrettes into l he United States, al nited Slates as a coaling station and Club has recently been organized at though it is a serious matter ii naval base. caught. Leaving Guantanamo we steamed on Astoria, taking the place of the Astor As a hunter’s paradise there is but towards Santiago, passing more moun ia Young Men’s Booster Club, tempor one drawback. The country is in ma tains, ragged and emanciated, suggest arily formed some time ago. The pur pose of the club is to promote the ny places entirely without water. The ing some wearv old hack horse with commercial, industrial, agricultural natives catch rain water for domestic protruding ribs and razor back. About and social advancement of lhe Lower use, but out in the interior this would sundown we were off Santiago with i-v Columbia. “Nothing less that 40 feet be rather dangerous for it might not frowning Moro castle. As we leaned rain. Surrounding these island and in over the rail and surveyed this lonely where rail and waler meet,” was a- side the protecting reefs is the most coast someone remarked that this was dopted as a slogan. beautiful submarine scenery In the a long wavs to come to start a presi Bandon business men have subscribe 1 .vorld. Lo clear and transparent is the dential boom. ..nd another remarked money with which to purchase a pas water that one may look down on U.v that we must not overlook the con senger and freight carrying boat to tie bottom of the ocean and watch the gressional career and the senatorial put on a regular run between that pot I fish play at a depth of 20 aspirations of the effervescent Hob and Portland. The present Volume of traffic between the two cities is now feet. Beautiful sea foliage grows in son. As we neared the harbor entrance sufficient to in ike this a paying ven natural gardens and along the coral paths vari-hued water creatures wend and passed under the frowning Moro ture, ard toe business men mav claim their wav unscared by the presence of castle, now dismantled, but looking «mat the business will be more than men, for man is a negligible quantity dangerous even in its decay not one of doubled by the service which “'ill be us but paid mental tribute to the dar given by a boat making direct and reg in these latitudes. As we sail 'hroug the channels of ing of that young man who went in un ular rues Much business which has the Bahama group we sighted many der a hell fire wnich poured down and f.irmely b en done Willi San Francisco ships, the first seen since leaving port. sunk the Merrimac. As to the ques will now 'mine to Portlai d. Thirteen car loads of household goods The wide track of the ocean here nar tion of good judgment and expediency, rows to a few miles and naturally that is anothei story, but here is no rep'esen.ing ihe belongings of tiftein brings all the sea craft within sight of j question of courage. families, tiave been received at Bel. 1 each other. Fortune Island is tilt first I As we passed Moro the Cuban army within lhe past few weeks. Six car- stop which is for the purpose of taking came out and lazily watched us go by. loads w.-re received in February, and on deck hands for the balance of the We counted carefully and all agreed accoitli ig to present indications Aprd trip. These lean, lank, Fortune Island upon the count. The army mustered will breaa all recoins. The newcom . laraics are said to be better workers four able-bodied men not one of them ers are all inmiiies in good circunisl.u - han can be fou ai around the ports of under five feet in their eight stock ces, with complete outfits of farming J arnaica and Colon and so they are ings, providing that they had stock I implements and supplies. One farmer booked for the balance of the cruise 1 ings I brought hm own well drilling outfit, and i.Topped on the return trip. For i Moro castle was he most romantic an 1 among their other possessions is this they receive the magnificent sum and picturesque relic which fell under l some of th-' belt stock seen in Cential of fifty cents a day, half in real cash my observation. Commanding the en Or. gon, and half in Rtore credit. Fortune Is trance to the inner harl-or, a narrow Plans are being made to erect the land is ruled by one white man, the on tortuous channel, and sweeping the i mommolh flagpole donated to the Pan ly white person on rhe island He has outer harbor, it looked menacing in ama Pacific Expositi m during the la r.is own sioop .md occasionally visits deed. Crowning the lop of a rock with ter purl of the month when the Rose i the neighboring ports where he regales turret and battlement, built in medie Festival Queen and her maids vis «. aim elf in splen lor at the best hotels val style, old Moro was both pictur San Francisco, l lie tiole is of Doug n the country. He is married, and esque and formidable. On the lower las hr, 246 Let long. 5'-- feet at the while there may be • o shadows over levels battlement« and towers of solid but, ana we gns 93,000 pounds. I ’ is d imestic bliss, there is ucverihe- masonry with their sentry boxes ut ' less several shades over the queen of each angle, the turrets overhead and Fortune Island for rhe evidently de- the very business like e ubrasures WANTED -Forty or fifty young pigi, 1 rives her title from a famous hand in where once brass cannon bade the pir weaned. H. K. Hanna, Jacksonville ates of the Spamah Muin to “kee,. whist known as a Spade Royal. Oui baker-, iine is complete, we ca - off the grass, ’ ’ all were there .11 F rtune Island is known to romaine »• rv >■ futl < <" m - t. fresh everyday — s the hiding pace . 1 < apt-in Kain’s ..ome dr, am of tbv past, of a IJ"V- J ucaiidivilk tlakvi y. vtTui.e but. it >1 w na.ly true he w«,# ¡.vtii-nw taacn Hum ” FEAR OUTBREAK ON BORDER COUNTRY EDITOR IN PANAMA Held in Steel Cage Forest Notes H -lorica! Jacksonville, Ore. ft'l ¡I ii lÿ PORTLAND LETTER