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ve¿on Histor.eal ¡society VOL. Vili. JACKSONVILLE, JACK ON COUNTY, OREGON, NOVEMBER 21, 1914 ACCIDENT AT GOLD RAY W. c. Long Killed While Cleaning Gun W. C. Long an operator at the pow er plant of the California-Oregon Pow er company at Kay Gold, was acciden tally shot and killed shortly after 1 o’ clock Wednesdy afternoon, by the dis charge of a shot gun he was cleaning. The tragedy occurred at the Long home There was no actual witnesses to it, but it is presumed a screendoor swung against the gun causing it to explode. The entire back of the head was blown off. Long spent the noon hour at the plant, and left Superintendent Farrar in a jovial frame of mind. His wife called up the latter and informed him of the tragedy. Death was instantan eous. Long was about 24 years old and leaves a wife and child. This is the second violent death Chat has occurred at Ray Gold within a year. In Prohibition Column Roseburg, Or. Nov. 17—The County Court has declared the towns of Oak land and 'Jlendale dry as a result of the election, W. T. Coburn, of Glen dale is fighting the order in the case of his town. His attorney took the case to the Circuit Court, but Judge Ham ilton ordered it back to the County Court. Further effort may be made by Coburn. Thanksgiving for Homeless To Teachers of Jackson County:- As Thanksgiving Day approaches it is » 1 opp irtuiu time for you to call the attention of your pupils to the great work that is being done for the homeless children of our land by the Boys and Girls Ail Society of Oiegon and to give them an opportunity to lessen the burden of those less fortu nate than themselves by sending some- tning in the way of money, food, cloth ing, and other good cheer as a Thanks giving offering to the boys and girls who are so unfortunate as to have no home. The Boys and Girls Aid Society is a non-sectarian organization existing on ly for the cause of humanity. Its busi ness is to rescue the homeless, neglec ted or abused children of Oregon, and provide for tham until suitable homes can be found. At Thanksgiving time the Society is beneficiary of the public schools and were it not for the dona tions from tBe boys and girls of the schools, these homeless children would ___ I have to forego many of the necessi ties of life, to say nothing of the lux uries. Anything the children of your s 'hool have to offer in the way of mo ney, cast-off clothing, or non-perisha ble food of any kind will be gladly re ceived. The railroad companies, I un derstand, carry anything billed to the Boys anc Girls Aid Society, free of charge. Address “Boys and Girls Aid Society, East 29th and Irving Streets, Portland, Oregon.” I have furnished the Superintendent of the Society with a list of the teach ers of the county, and you will perhaps receive a communication direct from him. Most sincerely, J. Percy Wells, County School Supt. Emergency Measure Effect Nov. 1. JFenf Into Manufactures Enlerprises and If Not Paid Providing Payrolls and P:omat ty Per Cent Will ing Development be of Oregon Added The emergency war tax passed by congress went into effect November 1. If you don’t have your tax paid by November 30, there is an automatic increase in the amount you will owe the government. I Milton A. Miller. Collector of Inter —■■■ ■1■ — nal Revenue for the district of Oregon Victim of Footpads is busy sending out blanks to the dif ferent industries affected by the law. These must be returned accompanied Eugene, Ur.. Nov. 16-A. Gotthelf, by the money fur thp _______ „ __ __ tax __ . . If you a hide-buyer was beaten and robbed by “ VAVzli don’t V get nr.e vl of these blanks, that UL HliC lllC'C MlCXlttvö, Lil ¿XL two men across the river from Eugene Joes not let you out, it is up to you to at 9 o’clock this morning. He was get it. The following is a list of the struck on the head with a large rock more important industries on which and then kicked in the face. A purse the tax is levied with the amount on containing between $95 and $100 was each. The taxes must be paid for 8 taken. Gotthelf was unconscious for months (the remainder of the fiscal a few minutes from the blows and year) or until June 30, 1915. The fig kicks, and was found in that condition ures given in the following table are by a farmer who brought him to for one vear, the amount that must town. be paid this month is two-thirds of the Gotthelf met these two men in the given figures, since it is two-thirds of Eugene Coffee Club. They represented a year until June 30. that they were farmers, and told him Pawnbrokers. $50. Theaters and they had hides to sell. They made an m >ving-picture houses seating up to appointment with him to meet across 250 $25; houses seating 250 to 5<»0 $50; the river, and when the hide-buyer ar houses seating 500 to 800 $75: houses rived at the appointed place, the men seating over 800 $100. Bowling alleys pounced upon h m assaulted and robbed and pool halls, $5 for each alley or ta him. ble. Commission merchants, $20. Banks $i for every $1000 of capital, surplus and undivided profits. An ad Propose Sale of Timber ditional tax of 50 cents a barrel is add ed to beer, with a corresponding in crease in the levy on wines and cor The Forest Service will probably of dials. fer for sale within a short time a tract Every cigar stand an 1 grocery store of 332 million feet of timber on the that sells more than $200 worth of to Crater National forest in southern bacco a year is hit by the war tax. Oregon. They must pay $3.20 for the next eight The timber is located on two units,— months. one contain ng 85 million feet on the “It has been estimated,” said Mr. west side of Klamath Lake, and the Miller, “that the state of Oregon w 1 other containing 2)7 million feet just produce almost $500,000 by this tax. 1 east of the Crater Lake National Park. think that figure is tooligh. The point I’he stand on both units is practically we wish to especially emphasize is that pure yellow pine. the tax must be paid by the end of this Interested parties who may wish to month, under penalty of 50% increase. examine this timber while weather When we receive the money from each conditions are favorable, can obtain person, or company, stamps showing detailed location and other information that they have paid their tax will be from the district forester at Portland, furnished.” Oregon. «<»:*■- - - ---------- »x«---------- Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Bailey of Eu- Engineers are planning an irrigation gene, arrived Tuesday, having been project for Silver Lake Valley. called here on account of the accident Gresham cannery and evaporator of their son W. P. Bailey who was will handle cabbage and potatoes this seriously injured by a horse kicking month. him Monday morning. li II Ji H ii Loose Muscatels in Bulk Thompson’s Seedless, in Bulk Raisins and Currants in Car tons. All kinds Dried Fruit. rand New Goods. LEWIS ULRICH 7 he Pioneer Store Improvements by Last of Month Fif- New Crop Raisins Cur rants, Citron, Orange and Lemon Peel, Lie. llU INDUSTRIAL REVIEW THE NEW WAR TAX Jacksonville, Ore. JI ÍI NO. 29 aud iriles in the month, or approxi 10 FlGhT FLIES mately fifteen hundred miles a day, which represents about 127,000 ear miles. The detentions, therefore fig- Social Biology Class Ikjll Help I ure 63,(528 miles per detention, or one minute’s detention for 3,181 ear miles in Eugene’s 1915 Spring run. Cimpaiçn This showing was mr.de by what are popularly called the “Big Red’’ elec tric cars of the Southern Pacific that University of Oregon. Eugene, Nov. run a hundred miles in either direction up one side of the Willamette valley 16—Seventy five State University stu dents are taking social biology, and and down the other. The cars are of steel, finished in ma one of their tasks nexV spring «¡ill • be • hogany and seat sixty people. The to organize an anti-flv campaign in Fu- forty-six now in use, five of which ate gene. The city of Eugene as a result motor and eleven trailers, cost $18,000 of an early summer fly campaign was and $10,000 each, respectively, or alto | comparatively free from the pest until j late summer, when relaxation of ef gether about >750.000. Power is generated at a plant thir forts permitted the flies to get the upj ty-eight miles from Portland on il e per hand again. In social biology Clackamas river and delivered to the classes, the students learn how to main power line at 60,000 volts, The make lives more comfortable by the ex trolley voltage is 1500 except in the ercise of elementary scientific know congested'district of Portland, where ledge. 000 volts are used. Amount paid to public School teach ers in Oregon for la. t year was $3,631, 210. Houlton is to have a better depot. The Hill System will operate motor cars between Portland and Clatskan ie. J. A. Almiral, a New York Capita list, will start work in the spring on a big irrigation project in the Powder Valley, Baker County. Farmers Week Feb. 1-6 The Nevada, California and Oregon railroad is to be extended to Surprise Valley, from Ravendale, Calif., next Farmers’ Week exercises have been spring. scheduled for Febirdary 1 to 6, 1915, A. L. Hili of Neodesha, Kan., has Tumalo Protect Opening. Hog and placed in charge of the Extension bought out the Wood Lumber Co., of division. The character of the exer Medford. cises, modified to suit thechaliged con- Raising Contest For Boys. | ditions, will he largely that of congres- A thirty mile road is to be built from ses| conferences and conventions ot HorticultureJists Meet Prairie City to Long Creek. ! representative of the leading agricul The Interurban Telephone System of tural industries of the state. Among at Medford. Silverton has been authorized to raise the conventions already announced i.ru its rates by the state railroad commis » those of the -lersey, the Holstiei and sion. the Ayrshire Breeders' Association, Portland, Ore., Nov. 17, (Special) Marshfield is planning a drainage The opening of the Tumalo irrigation and it is expected that an organiz.iti n and sewer system to cost $65,000 to project, the first in the United Stat s of the Guernsey breeders will tie afTe ’C- ted at that time. 'Ihe State Dairy- $75,000. to be financed by a state, has been of E. E. Morrison is building a ware ficially announced. Seventeen thour- man’s Association will meet ii t the house for explosives, three miles from und five hundred acres are thrown op College during the week. A confer- ence of county agricultural ageins Springfield. en to entry under the terms of the Ca from the eleven Oregon counties nma - Geo. Orr, a Modoc Indian is building rey Act a* $4 ) an acre. The terms are taining the work will be a highly im up a large industry at Hood River in one-tenth cash, the balance in ten years portant feature. Leading representa Detailed information may be had by tives of the various rural interests, the manufacture of Indian wampum. Portland people are planning the es addressing the project engineer, < . social as well as industrial and e<-n.- tablishment of another fruit evapora Laurgaard, at Laidlaw, Oregon. mercial, will bo in attendance from It is stated that the lands under this Oregon, from other states and from tor at Hood River. project are excellent for grains aid the U ited States Departments Agr.- Warrenton, Hammond and Flavel hardy vegetables, and stock raising is will have electric light and po ser by 1 also successful. The high altitude ren ■ culture. January 1. ders this section subject to frosts in Nov. 21 bids will be opened for a late Spring and early f. II and frosts Forest Notes concrete armory at Eugene have been known to occur during the Dr. Dunham proposes to erect a hos summer months. It is expected that pital at Rainier. this condition will improve to some ex The town forest of Baden-Baden, I Germany, yields an annual profit of North Plaine has voted to erect a rent as the land is cultivated, but pec- $5.25 per acre, or a total net profit of ple desiring to locate on this land are $3000 school. nearly $67,001). Cornucopia is now the largest gold advised to make a personal inspection Outside of ils use for fence posts, instead of trusting to any unofficial re and silver producing camp in Oregon. black locust finds its principal utiliza ports. The People’s Transp »rtation Co., <>- Every boy and girl in Oregon will tion in insulator pins and brackets fur perating boats between Portland and telegraph and telepone line». The Dalles, is building docks at Lyle, have a chance next year to take part One hundred shade trees will bo in a hog raising contest to be backed Mosier and Hood River. by the Portland Union Stock Yards, planted by the Massachusetts foies try Europead war may revive the flax the State Bankers’ Association and association in cities or towns of industry in the Northwest. other organizations interested in the population classes which win prito With Glendale for ucenter three dis agricultural development of the North tests fur excellence in street tricts will unite in building a high west. It is planned to permit the planting. school. Experiences with forest fires on the young people to borr >w money on the Bandon ship yards will have a new security of their parents or school prin national torests this year show that wharf 40x100 feet. cipal which will enable them to buy automobiles, where they can be used, The Western Coast Mining Co. have their hogs for cash at current market furnish the quickest and cheapest trans been taking out $100 a day in their Bo rates, the money to be repaid when portation (or crews of fire fighter. Mi - the stock is sold. The boys and girls tor rates arc higher than for teams hemia Mine. Contract has been let for hard sur will be required to keep an accurate for th actual time "inpioyed. bat thu facing Pacific Highway from Woodland record of all their expenditures and to total cost p.r distance traveled and in submit a complete report of their op wages paid to men in getting to fir.s to La Center. is niu< It less. The time-Baving is self- erations at the end of a year. There are 95.756 million board feet evident; trips which ordinarily requite A meeting of stock holders in the Douglas Fir in Washington, Oregon Co-operative Creamery was held at two days time by team have been and Alaska forest reserves. Junction City recently and attended made by automobiles in a few hours. Al) forms of Washington public debt by 450 ranchers. The secretary’s re Although there were an unusual num total $05.000,000 or $76 per capita. port show-d that during the two years ber of f .re t fires on the national for New Masonic Temple at Morton neur- the plant has been operated 231,9381 ests of O. eg<Ki and Washington this ly completed. pounds of bu ter have been made, va- I year, ihe I iss of merchantable limber Pendleton retailers will boost pro- lued at $67,035, a-id the sales of by has bee i relatively small. products has brought the gross receipts The prooellers of aeropl mes such as ducts of Pendleton manufacture. It is deplorable that in the liule up to $68,531. The average price of are use! in the present European war city of Orenco there was more hooi- butter for the two years has been 33*/:i may lie made of selected .>sh, which is lumism reported on H diowe’en than cents fer pound, the lowest price hav both strong and light and will not split ing been 25 cents and the highest 40 under vibration or shock, or of built- anywhere in Oregon. up layers of spruce with mahogany Portland Catholics have booght a cents. $16,0)0 site for a new church at Lau On December 2, 3 and 4 the 29th an centers. The frHm -work of the mti- nual meeting of the Oregon State Hor chines, t»»,is 'eijraliy mile of w iod, relhurst. ticultural Society will be held at Med spruce being used on account of its “Blanket” orocs for lumber are be ford. A program of great interest straight grain and freedom from hidden ing placed through the Douglas Fir has been prepared for the event and defects. Sales Co. at Portland, at better pric- fruit growers from all the northwest A surprisingly large number of sub ern states will be in attendance. It stances, ranging all the way from the The new library building at the is expected by the officers that this condensed fumes of smelters to the State University will be ready Thanks meeting will be the best ever held in [ skimmed milk of creameries have been giving. the history of the organization. tried or suggested as means of preserv Grants Pass is ambitious for a feder- Forest Supervisor Merritt at Bend ing wood from decay. Most of them, building. has just received word of the final de however, have been found to have lit cision of the Secretary of Agriculture tle or no value for the purpose. Cer regarding an area of 28,500 acres in tain forms of coaltar creosote and zine Electric Cars Make Record the Deschutes National Forest along chloride are the most widely used wood the Metolius River. The Secretary ■ pieservatives. During the thirty one days in Aug has decided that the land is chiefly val It is said that the German invade s ust, fo which the final compar ative fi uable for timber and is not subject to of Belgium, wh ilevvr else they tn iy gures are furnished by E. Sears, sup entry as agricultural land. Thu yet have destroyed, have been careful not ; erintendent of electric equipment there low pine timber on this acreage is es to injure park tree. The calvrymen, were but a total of two avoidable de timated to amount to about 500,000,- so a.report goes, are forbidden to tie tentions in train movement to passen 000 feet. Eight)-fine persons have their horses to trees for fear that the ger traffic on the Southern Pacificelec filed applications for land in this sec animals will gnaw the bark. Germany tric loop interurban cars in and out of tion and under this decision of the sec was the first nation to apply forestry Portland. And these two detentions retary their claims will not be allow on a large scale, some of the crown 1 forests having been Under scientific totaled only forty minutes. ed. ---------- »<»>« —-- — management for over a hundred years. By detention is meant a failure in The Russian government has placed train movement due to disarrange- ment of running gear, electrical appa an embargo on all kinds of lumber, to Elmer Quigley, a wellknown cattle ratus, line wiring, or source of oowe*. prevent its exportation; wainut lum- There were none of these on the sixty Der, including Circassian walnut much man of Walker, California, tiansacted prized by American furniture makeis, | business in this city Wednesday fore- trains daily for twenty nine days. > I1O1 n> The trains ran about forty-six thous- is specifically mentioned PORTLAND LETTER