Oregon Historical Society
VOL. VIII.
JACKSONVILLE, JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, AUGUhT23, 1914
NO. 17
The Central Oregon Irrigated Lands MEDFORD MAN MURDERED.
INDUSTRIAL REVIEW
re,!on’
,*
PUGET SOUND WRECK
project was started under private
The Hoke cannery at Medford is put
supervisisn in 1902, but funds for carry-
ting up a large pack of tomatoes.
Medford Man Killed While > ing on the work gave out, and in 1913
Miny'actur/nff
Enterprises
and
The Eugene high school will be built Passenger Steamer Sunk Near
Going
to
Dance
Wiih
Girl
Near
the Oregon State Legislature voted
of the local brick finishel with the
Fighting Fire Sunday After
$450,000 toward the completion of the
Improvements
Providing
i
Seattle. Ten Dives Lost
Willamette product.
Reno When Tragedy Occurs.
project. Early in 1914 the Desert
noon.
An
injunction
was
granted
by
Judge
Land Board opened part of the land
Payrolls and Promot
Eakin to restrain the collection of the I Seatt'.e, Wash. Aug 26-Elev n
under what is now called the Tumalo
Word was received yesterday of the
ing Development
’0 % penalty under the new tax law live, were+ost when the steel paten
Project. The rest of the irrigation
Charles A. Brown, manager of the ■ district wa3 opened later, making a murder of John Krutzler, 22 years old
die after Sept. 1st.
gor ghip Admiral Sampson of the Pae-
Medford lc»Co. was electrocuted by total of 200* acres now open for entry, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Krutzler!
of Oregon
Linn county citizens want to do away ific Alaska Navigation company w ..s
coming in contact with a live wire
with the eight-hour day on public work I rammed and sunk by the Canadian
The new lien on this land has been | of Medford by a highwayman in Reno, 1
while fighting a fire on South Front j
and establish county rock crushing [ Pacific passenger steamship Prince s
fixed
at between $38 and $40 an acre, I Nevada, Tuesday night. According to
Eugene
gets
a
big
box
factory.
street, at Medford Sunday afternoon.
the message young Krutzler was going
' Victoria off point No Point, twenty
,
to
be
fixed
permanently
at
some
time
plants.
Mr. Brown, it seems was using the
I to a dance with a girl friend when; Warrenton gets a elam cannery.
The Eugene Guard argues that the miles north of Seattle, at 6:3') o’clock
Ice company’s hose in attempting to during the fall. The settler may ac- I stopped by a highwayman. Instead of
Parma gets Dairy Products factory.
$15,00 tax exemption will shift the I this morning during a fog and thick
puc out the fire and was well saturated I quire the land by payment of 10 per- ■ complying with the request to hold up
Springfield sawmill starts Aug. 29.
i
cent,
the
balance
to
be
paid
within
ten
j
burden of taxation from the cities au(j I smoke from forest fires The Prine ss
with water when he accidently grabbed
his
hands
Krutzler
hesitated
and
the
i Victoria brought the «urvivors to Seut-
Salem, O.'e. Aug. 24. The European towns to the farms.
hold of a live wire which had been years, with 6 per cent interest on un j highwayman fired, the bullet striking
paid
installments.
If
the
settler
im-
j
I
tie. Eight of the lost were members
war
is
boosting
prices
of
Oregon
pro
burned from its support on the pole,
Krutzler in the left eye killing him in-
-.Ty*-
of the crew and two passengers.
and before the current could be broken proves one third of the irrigable area I stantly. The robber then fled and the j ducts and wifl stimulate many industries
The Princess Victoria, reporting the
received the full current (said to have each successive year for three years, j young lady drove back to Reno giving I One new industry, manufacture of
HEAT WITHERS FRUIT
accident, said she was proceeding to
pepperment
oil,
will
be
established
on
been 2300 volts) through his body no installment of principal will be r«- I • the alarm.
•
Seattle with most of the passengi rs
causing almost instant death. His quired for these years, the deferred I i The dead man whs well known in a large scale.
payments
to
be
apportioned*
over
the
|
,
and
crew of the Admiral Samp-on.
Portland has awarded ten paving Douglas County Suffers from
right hand was burned to the bone, and
I this city, having resided here the
The Admiral Sampson was bound from
contracts
aggregating
a
quarter
of
a
it is stated that his back was burned seven remaining years.
1 greater part of his life. Hg left the
Seattle to Alaska. She had fifty-six
The lands are described as slightly city three years ago for Portland j million. Warren Bros, and Oregon
Heat, Smoke and Dust.
black.
passengers and a crew o' sixty-five.
An inquest was held Monday after-1 rolling, for the most part covered with where he worked as engineer for the I Independent Paving Co. getting the
-
noon at which a verdict was rendered a natural growth of juniper ana sage / Jacobsen-Bade ditch digging company I jobs.
Roseburg, Or., Aug. 26—With nearly
stating that the death was accidental | * brush, 900 acres of the project bearing for a year and then went to Reno. He . Columbia county reduces valuations
70 days without rain, a part of the fruit
and that neither the California-Oregon j merchantable yellow pine] timber. visited his parents in Medford a month J one million,
Power Co. nor the city of Medford are i There is some settlement on the project ago. The body will be shipped to | The new Booth-Kelly sawmill at crop has been damaged in this county.
Apples on some trees are shriveling
in any way responsible for tht death at the present time, dairying and hog Medford for burial. —Sun.
j Springfield, operated entirely by elec and withering. Some trees on the low
raising being the principal industries
tric power, will be started from Port land are affected as well as those oij
followed.
land by President Griffith of the Port the benches. Pears seem to be surviv 0 egon’s Minera1 Ou'p it i i-
KILLS DEER WITH CLUB
The project engineer, O. Laurgaard, War Affects Copper Production land Commercial club touching an
ing the drought in splendid shape.
creasiag
has offices at Laidlaw, in the district,
elertric button, Aug. 29.
Melons are said to be affected on the
and
has
been
empowered
to
make
con
Buck Started by Hound Beiry
Ashland capitalists will build a fifty bench lards.
tracts for the state. On the Tumalo
i With the possible exception of the room apartment at Marshfield.
Streams are very low, and wells
project
are
59
claims
of
40
acres
each,
Portland, Ore. Au r 25 (So",:il)-
Pickers Trophy.
silver industry, the copper industry
throughout
the county that have nev r
will
be
Riverside
Drive,
Portland,
now open for entry. Non-irrigable
will probably feel the injurious effects paved with Warrenite. Cost $19,342. beendiy belore are without water. The Unite I Scutes J; >1 > tic il -> i-v • ,
land may be had for $2.5n an acre.
at Washington, D. C , h is rec .mil/ li «-
! of the European war more seriously
Clatskanie, Or., Auer. 25. —A few Settlers desiring information concern
Bids were opened Aug. 26 for the The country is full of smoke and the i ished compiling th j figur-s regarlin;
j than any other of the leading Ameri
roads
are
dusty.
In
some
spots
the
days ago a party of women on a black ing private lands for sale will be place I lean metal industries. During the last construction of the Hood Kivei high
Pacific Highway is so dnsty that the I Oregon’s yield cf gold, silver, copper
way.
berrying trip in the hills near this place in communication with the owner of
’ live years approximately 50 per cent of
running boards of automobiles scrap» and lead daring 1 >13, aid the sta ••
secured a fine buck deer in a peculiar the land.
Roseburg commercial club has en he roadway. Many tourists are travel ment shows an increase of more th m
the copper turned out by American re
manner. A hound with the party i On the Oregon State IrrigationCom-
fineries has been exporte 1, in large dorsed the bill to pension and retire ing at nighttoget lhebenifitof thedew. L0l> p -r cent over .he product of Ili »
started a deer out of a thicket, and as , mission are—Oswald West, Governor
part to the countries now involved in civil service employes?
W. J. Lander, chief of the stale previous year. Tie to il yield was
the animal was about to le ip a fence of Oregon; Thomas C. Burke, F. W.
The state highway campaign through fire-fighting forces in Douglas Count;', valued at $1,716,1)2, in 1913, as com
the European war. according to tl.e
he fell over backward. Mrs. Caroline Lonergan, W. E. Conan, John M.
pared with $349,386 in 1912. G-id, sil
central Oregon will turn travel through
Waisanen, aged 65, one of the party, Scott, Marshall N. Dana. C. C. Chap* j United States Geological Survey, the great interior to the loss of the says that all fires in the district have ver and lead showed a marked increase,
i
Some
of
this
copper
has
been
imported
been
reduced
to
smudges.
The
last
with rare presence of min i, picked up man and J. W. Brewer.
| for metallurgical treatment, and the Willamette valley countries
fires started on the Caiapooia Creek an I copper an extraordinary falling ff,
a stick of wood and Knocked the deer
j imports will probably be somewl at re
above Oakland, bat did not prove seri the 1913, produeti onof th; latter m.-til
Astoria
municipal
docks
will
take
in the head. It proved to be a fine
being only 41,319 poun I- as compared
stricted on account of shipping condi- two and a ha.f million feet of lumber ous. The state force is also patrolling
buck with ten prongs, and dressed
I with 266,429 pounds the previ >u.s yea ■.
I tions.
Eugene
Light
Rates
Lowered.
the
railroad
and
of
the
County.
from
the
local
mills
—
giving
them
about 150 pounds.
In the production of gold Baki r
Dining these five years however, do preference.
County led the procession wi ll $1,37 1,
Eugene, Or., Aug. 25.—The Eugeni mes’, ic consumers have taken only
A large summer hotel is to be built
480; Malntur County w.is second with
MAY DECIDE CONTEST.
Commission Issues Booklet. Water Board yesterd iv announced th i’ about 63 to €7 per cent of the copper at South Co<s river
i $82,041 and Grant County third with 6!,
a further reduction in electric light ai d ; produced from mines within the United
Salem iiseud $41,000 building permits
¡652 The gold output in these three
power rates would be made at once. I States, so it is evident that there must
last
week.
For the benifit of homeseekers and The old rate was 9 cents a kilowatt for ; be a material curtailment of produc-
Th.own Out in One Curry Coun- 1 counties in 1J13 tho v ■ 1 in incre ue
S. A. Buck starts work on alargebox
$972,706. Josephine County led the
prospective settlers in Oregon, the lights and 5cen’s for power, but under I tion while present conditions .prevail,
,y Precinct Because of Error ¡state in the production of copper wit i
Oregon State Immigration Commission the new schedule the rate will be 8 j ' Considerable copper is of course con- factory al Eugene this week.
32,558, about <80 percent of the total
and the Oregon Developement League cents for lights and 4'2 centsfor power. ( sume 1 in munitions of war and for
$15,000 is to be expended on the
yield. Lane County produce I them >st
have issued a booklet of information When the municipal plant began to I other military purposes, but the con Clackamas hatchery.
Salem, ( r., Aug. 26.-According to ¡lead, 59,201 pounds. Taere were fewer
describing the irrigated lands of the oper ite in December, 1911, the rate1 structive arts of peace are far more
The conatitui ional amendment to take
state open tor settlement, including a for lights was 15 cents a kilrwatt, but favorable for the copper industry than over by th« stale submerged lands or i an announcement made by Governor j mines n operation in Oregon in 191 1
West, 15 ballots in Sixes Precinct,
list of privately-owntd lands for sale the reduction was met by the opposition ! the destructive art of war.
navigable waters wou.d unsettle the Curry County, were not counted at the ' than in the previ»us y»ar, ore th» t> i-
on the Tumalo Irrigation Project and company. After all operating ex-
American producers have already title to a great deal of sawmill property j
I I nage from the deep mines was init.-i.-
the Oentral Oregon Lands The two 1 penses, maintenance expense and in- greatly curtailed their production, ami and prevent investments on such londs. recent primary election because those | ally enlarge.! while the olu.-r mines,
projects are located in Crook County, I terest are deducted, there is a balance it seems almost certain that the output $2100 bridge going aci oss Cairas swale, casting them had voted for more than |including one new dredge property,
one candidate for Governor, and it is : made a recor 1 year.
in Central Oregon, near the towns of on hand of over $25,000, according to must bo materially restricted for ai
Lane county.
. arely possible that this erroi will
A recent repirl fro n S in Francis ■ >
Terrebonne, Redmond, Deschutes Bend the semi annual report of the boaid indefinite period, dependent 1 rgely on
finally settle the contest now pending states that the 1 ist giant log in th i
Linntun gets a $3500 bungalow.
ard Prineville.
just filed.
' the European conditions.
Portland First National bank build between justice Charles L. McNary colonnade suiiouiiiung the Oregon
and Judge Henry L. Benson for the building for the Panaii t-Pacifi.- Expo
ing is to cost $06,000.
Ast n i l has opened bids on $35,000 Republican nomination for the Sup sition has been put in place. The Or
reme Court.
egon ou I ling is a reproduction of tn i
ewe. contra t.
The Execut ive was advised yester
One paper call» the proposed univer day afternoon of the error, through a Parcheuo '. with gre it logs replacing
sal eight-'..our bill a law to stop the telegram from W. II. Meredith, Dis the in rule column* of the original.
clock, destroy employment and ruin the trict Attorney for Curry County. The Fifty mgs suriound the building, re
presenting the different kinds of trees
empl y«r.
Message reads:
found in the forests of this state, ’ll e
A finished deed to transfer the locks
“The messenger who brought the last log put in place was a section < *
and canai to the United Slates has now j polloooks from Sixes Precinct in fir weighing 23 tons. Motion pictuiis
ieen s- nt to ihe law department and it formed Clerk Stannard that 15 votes in of this event will be shown throughout
s
s believed the property at Oregon City that precinct had been placed among Oregon by the Exposition commission
may finally be turnedover touucle Sam. the spoiled ballots, because voters ers for the state.
A force of men have resumed con- voted for more than one candidate for
The O. W. R. & N. Co. has issued
Iruction work on the Western Union Governor.”
the premium list for the Corn Show to
clegraph line between Eugene and
be held at tValla Walla, Washington,
Mapleton on the Siuslaw.
November 25-28. At that show com
No
10-Hcui
Law
for
Laundries.
$'¿5,000 is to be expended sinking oil
petition will be open to everyone in ti e
aid gas wells at Astoria.
territory uibutary to ihe company's
A fo.ee of twenty men are at work
Salem, Or., Aug. 26. Attorney-Gen lines in Oregon, Washington and idal.o.
on a new high way from Alsea bay east. eral Crawford has informed Labor One person may compete for two or
Cottage Grove Electric Co. secured Commissioner Hoff that laundries du more prizes, but separate exhibits
not come within the purview of the 10- must be made loi each entry, aid all
the mu licipa! contract.
prizc-wiiiiiing exhibits are to bci-umo
Rebuild ng of Bandon will be financed bour law. This law, sayB the Attoi-
the property of me company anil wi 1
ney-General
in
his
opinion
to
the
Com-
_____ __
with Wi.lamette Valley money.
be used for exhibition ano se jd purposes
missioner,
covers
only
factories,
mill^
The Star Packing Co. of Chicago is
Prize lists and entry blanks may tie hud
and
manufacturing
institutions,
and
a
J
putting a large clam cannery at1
laundry cannot be he'd to belong to by addressing: O. W. R. & N. Coin
Warrenton.
bhow, 701 Wells-Fargo Building, Port
either class.
The boycott for the destruction of the
In an opinion rendered at the request land. Oiegon.
Salem public market is being establish of State Superintendent of public In
In addition to the list of state and
ed on a large scale.
struction Churchill the Attorney-Gen- privately owned hinds now open for
Portland firm got the 2,500,000 gi 1- ' eral holds that a temporary permit settlement on and near Tumalo Proiect,
reservoir contract at Eugene.
' does not allow a tsacher to teach in a ! the Oregon Slate Immigration Cvm-
| miss'on is now collecting duta fiuin ail
One vessel took 22,000 cedar ties and high school of the state.
| parts of the slate and in a short lune
poles to San Diego.
1 w ill issue a similar list covering avail-
Parme, in the Snake .iver country,
3 Tim is Divorced, Tries Again. I auiu lauds ii prucli/aily every c.'U. iy
gets a dairy product* factory.
in Oregon.
Newport is installing a pumping
An in:e1 national Congress is to lie
plant to increase water supply.
Pendleton, Cr., Aug. 25. —Not yet 3u
belli
in Calgary Canada, October 5 to
Bids for the new $100,< 00 University years of age, Mrs. Ruby Aug Mi
9. it is a s i.j ctof nation-wide im
building will be opened Sept. 10 Port Freeze has a're dy taken unto her, Il
portance un.l Oreg n should be, and
land Labor Council has made a fight to her fourth husband. The venture oni<
piobably will be, well represented.
employ only union labo’ and many con the matrimonial sea is ma e with
tractors refused to bid on that basis, Bascom Doan, a local youth, whogive.
his age at -1 yea z. The bride staled
lot knowing what labor would cost.
that her age was 29 years. She separ
7 he Pioneer Store
Schools Optn Sept. 7
Jacksonville, Ore.
Establishment of independent meat
ated from her .h ee foim.r husband-
packing plants in various parts of the
by way of tha divorca court.
state are being encouraged by the
Ata meeting of the School Board
farmers as the only solution of the
held Monday Aug. 24, it was decided
growing abuse of the meat and food ! Dy« nter; Is alwsys ei.m.s -nd often I to open the Jacksonville School, Mon
Imigeroii.i .liwa-e, but :t can tie euren day September 7, 1919.
products trust.
liamlierlain'.i Colic. Cholera and pia.rlio»
The Pacific Power & Light Co. is <'e>.ieilv lias cured it ever. «lien nini igni.n
C. Florey.
’ Clerk.
dvr».
prep i. n„' to extend service tv
ar- u..' —■ • • .ai'o. For sale bv
KILLED BY ELECTRICITY
PORTLAND LÊTTÊ2
Hl
Look at This
Hi
No War Prices
At This Store
in
1!
Ill
II
$1.35 per Sack
Lewis Ulrich
IM
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