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
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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
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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
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a hide-buyer was beaten and robbed by “ VAVzli
don’t V get
nr.e vl
of these
blanks, that
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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.
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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.
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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.
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INDUSTRIAL REVIEW
THE NEW WAR TAX
Jacksonville, Ore.
JI
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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.
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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