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VOL. Vili.
JACKSONVILLE. JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, MARCH >7, 1915
PROMPT WORK
possibly it has concealed its real war
intentions from itself.
Portland proposes bond issue to hard
surface 70 miles of highway.
A. L. Foxley will establish brick in
Would the contending countries be
House of Ralph Jennings Burn very angry if the rest of the world
Portland
Engineer is
The Some Vacant Lands in Jackson dustry on Coos Bay.
pulled them apart and told them to be
Portland votes April 14 on $1,250,000 Celilo Canal To Be Tested in
ed Wednesday, Insurance
County, but Mostly in
have themselves for the sake of civili
Choice, But Appointment
road bond issue.
April. Live Stock Shows
zation?
Paid Saturday.
Changes in election laws expected to
Forest Reserves.
Is
Deferred
This Fall. New Tour-
save taxpayers $10°,000 a year.
That officer who says the United
States will have to fight tjie winner of
City of Portland will manufacture
The farm house of Ralph Jennings, the European war may overlook the
¡st Book.
A circular issued by the U. S. Land concrete lamp-posts to cost $16.
Salem. March 22—Unless something i j Office at Roseburg, gives the follow-
near Buncom, was destroyed by fire fact that the winner will be a bit wind
State Fair Board will erect a rest
unforeseen should change present ■ ing as the number of acres of govern-
Wednesday of last week, together with ed and bruised up.
cottage at Salem fair grounds.
Portland, Ore., Mar. 23, (Special!
a large part of the contents, aggrega
plans, the state highway commission 1 ment lands in Jackson county;
According to Walpola, "All men will naxt week appoint Herbert Nunn
Unless there is a rearrangement of
South
Portland
gets
a
3-story
brick
ting a loss of about $3000. The house
1
Unreserved (open to entry) 56,346 j
present plans, the Celilo Caral will
and contents were insured in the Equi have their price.” but probably it of Portland, as successor to State 1 Unsurveyed (open to settlement) 2,240 , budding.
would
have
troubled
even
that
gifted
table Fire & Marine Insurance Co.
Highway
Engineer Bowlby. The —total unreserved lands 58,586 acres. { Corbett—W. Knight to erect a $4000 be opened for the passage of boats for
five days in April, probably between
through its agents, the Bank of Jack cynic to know how to buy the woman commissioners had intended to meet Reserved l«nd, surveyed 239,340 acres, . store building.
the 10th and 15th, and it ia expected
sonville, and on Saturday last, three vote.
today and make the appointment, but Reserved land, unsurveyed, 166,240
L. M. La Rue of Salem will move • hat a number of steamers now on the
days after the fire, the adiuster for
Secretary
of
State
Olcott
had
to
In view of the increased importance
acres. Total reserved lands in county step-ladder factory to Eugene.
upper river will be brought to Port
the company paid Mr. Jennings $2000. of bread now might be revived after leave for San Francisco on the early 405,580 acres. Total government land
Portland —West Park and Tenth land for overhauling and two or more
that being the full amount of the poli. man years in the authorship of “The morning train, and at his request ac in Jackson county 464,166 acres.
Streets to get a $40,000 bachelor apart boats will carry freight from Portland
cy tarried.
tion was deferred until he returns.
Bteadwinners. ”
For the information of intending set-
to Pasco, Kennewick and other pointB.
Assigning as a reason that his a I- | tiers we volunteer the information ment.
This is about the quickest settlement
In European affairs an expanded war ministration had not been satisfactory
Construction of Hermiston-Umatilla Construction work on the canal is prac
of insurance ever made in this region
|
that
of
the
government
land
open
to
zone necessarily means a contracted and that it was preyenting the legisla
tically finished, but little remaining to
for h‘Bhway partly hard surface, begun.
and speaks well for the company car
entry very little if any is l suitable
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food zone.
ture from passing road legislation, the cultivation. The reserved lands are in
rying the risk and its local agency in
St. Helens considers paving main be done except to clean out an accum
ulation of refuse and to build a few
The income tax should have the ef commission during the legislative ses timber and can be homesteaded only streets.
this city.
bridges for the accomodation of own
fect of enabling mathematical genius sion asked for the resignation of j upon satisfactory evidence that is
New laws require publication of
ers of fish wheels and two for the pas
to keep pace with American art and Bowlby. Afterwards he was indefi suitable for farming purposes. The budget by all tax-levying bodies.
Electric Sparks
sage of teams. The canal is being fin
nitely continued in office to complete : Land Office will furnish copies of the
literature.
Warrenton—bids opened Saturday ished several weeks earlier than expec
road
work
under
construction,
Since
i laws and regulations governing the en for $25,000 schoolnouse.
Agitation in Italy is developing to a
ted, and it will probably be opened per
(From off our Wireless)
degree that may make riots almost as then the commissioners have been try of lands within the Forest Reserves
Roseburg merchants encouraging manently for navigation on May 1.
searching for an engineer to succeed i upon request.
Well it was some satisfaction to much to be dreaded as military opera him, and though there were many ap
Kendall Bros, to erect sawmill at that
Owners of high grade livestock in
know that Congress really could ad- tions.
place, with logging road into timber. ( this state will have a number of op
plicants for the position, the contest
Good
Roads
Noles
journ. We feared it was a lost art.
Conservation in Germany is now ad a few days ago narrowed down to H.
Coos County buying steam shovel portunities next Fall to show their
Mr. Taft advises us all to stand by dressed even more carefully to the po Nunn and E. I. Cantine also of Port
for road work.
prize animals, lour very important
I land, and today Nunn seems to lead
the President and the Flag. Right! tato patch than to the forest.
State Highway board received bids events being already on the list. Ear- •
No other eitizen realizes the ’ value
This is no time to show partizanship.
to authorize construction of one mil» ly in November will be held the Wes
Neutrality may require moral cour and his appointment seems to be 'as- of good roads as does the farmer.
Bock Beer signs are out and they age to as great an extent as war may I sured.
of Columbia highway in Hood River tern National Dairy Show at Seattle,
A community can safely be judged
ought to be as convincing in their pro require physical courage.
to be closely followed by the Cascade
county to cost $5O,0OJ.
by the kind of highways it maintains.
phecies of Spring as are the other reg
International Stock Show at North
Combining
city
and
state
laborator
An effective embargo on iron crosses
The greatest chasm batween the pro ies will save Portland $1000 a year and Yakima. The first week in December
To Keep Sheep off Land
ulation harbingers.
would be an awful blow to Gen. Von
ducer and the consumer is the mud the state $2700 a year.
the Northwest Livestock Show will be
At last accounts Carranza was weep
Hindenburg.
hole.
held at Lewiston, Idaho, while the
ing for capitalists to conquer.
F. F. Patterson of Roseburg has
Salem, Or., March 22—Declaring
Production must cease when the formed a company to build a commer Fifth Annual Pacific, International
The difference between the Darda
pro-
Livestock Exposition will be held at
they
have
been
advised
that
prepara
transportation costs eat up the
nelles and the price of wheat is daily
cial fruit drier at that city.
Portlond, December 6-11. Breeders’
Now
is
the
Time
to
Swat
Flies
tions
are
being
made
by
large
sheep
fits.
becoming more strained.
Springfield hopes to get Eccles sugar associations in the East and Middle
owners to graze their herds on unsold
There
is
something
radically
wrong
I
In passing up the hall of fame, Ger
West are taking great interest in these
segregated Carey act lands and that with the farmer who is opposed to factory.
man Reservist Stegler has apparently
Salem City Council accepts reductioi events and are making unusually lib
this would work a serious injury to good roads.
figured out the advantages a live quit
Uncle Sam is waging a relentless
in water rates for private users but eral appropriations to help jut on the
settlers, the members of the state
Without good roads, there can be no
ter has over a dead hero.
var on the deadly housefly and in late
desert land board have transmitted
1
a development that will be permanent rejects raise on hydrants by State Util premium list.
Europe’s cops are best, says the bulletin prepared by the Department letter to Louis Sharp, chief of the
ity Commission.
In order to induce a great number of
Rockefeller report. How they must of Agriculture, valuable information is field division of the United States and enduring.
Glendale to have United Evangelical I tourists to visit Oregon this year, au
given
on
the
best
means
of
combating
Rad
roads
keep
children
away
from
deteriorate after coming over.
Church.
land office in Portland, , urging him
tomobile clubs and the various busi
All that Villa needs is enough cur this deadly pest. The most effective to take action to prevent it. They school and impair the efficiency of
ness organizations throughout the
way
of
exterminating
the
fly,
accoid-
church
work
in
a
community.
Ca'if. Geographic Diversity
rency papers and a hand press, and he
declare that if sheep are allowed to
Northwest are planning to send invita
ing
to
the
bulletin,
is
to
eradicate
his
The elementary principles involved
will conquer the world.
graze on these lands the settlers, who
tions to similar associations through
breeding places. The breeding season
highways are social and domestic hap
out the East and Middle West to in
With a Union Station Chicagoans of the fly begins early in March and depend on the raising of cattle for a
California,
with
an
area
of
158,000
will suffer greatly as piness and business economics.
will no longer be constrained to meet continues throughout the spring and livelihood,
square miles, is the second largest clude Portland, the Columbia Highway
they
will
have
no range for their
so many visitors with an apology and a summer months. All dirt should be
State in the Union. It exhibits wire and the Pacific Highway territory in
stock.
INDUSTRIAL
REVIEW
closed conveyance.
removed from the premises, stables
geographic diversity, for it includes their itineraries. The Portland Auto
cleaned
and
decaying
vegetables
des-
the lowest area in the United States— mobile Club is preparin a new tourist
If one cared for scrambled meta
troyed.
Death Valley, 276 feet below sea level book for general distribution, which
phors one might say that some theater
Raymond Biege and Mabel Pullen
ano — and the highest—Mount Whitney, will contain a vast amount of descrip
The fly has rightly been called the
Manufactures
Enterprises
man igers are scalping the goose that
undertaker’s traveling salesman, and who had been reported missing at Med
14,501 feet above the sea. Similarly tive matter and will be illustrated with
lays the golden eggs.
ford a week ago have been located at
Improvements
Providing
in addition to his regular line of ••ty-
there is a great diversity in scenic ef cuts of some of the m <st attractive
America is continually discovering phoid bugs,” he carries a side line of the home of the girl’s grandmother
fects, climate, and vegetation. Re scenery within reach of the motorist.
Payrolls and Promot
additional countries that it is glad not tuberculosis, Asiatic Cholera and other near Centra) Point, by the police and
The Portland Commercial Club has
cords obtained at meteoroiogic stations
to be.
just received from the press advance
disease germs. Now is the time to it is reported have been turned over to
in
the
Salton
Sink
indicate
a
maximum
|
ing Development
temperature of 130 degrees in the copies of the new Oregon Almanac, a
Italy is so extemely secretive that “swat the fly.
the Juvenile court.
shade, the highest recorded within the volume of statistics and information
of Oregon
continental United States, while it is regarding every community in this
probable that minimum temperatures state. These advance copies are be
Industrial Accident Commission in- on the higher peaks, like Mt. Whitney ing sent out as rapidly as possible to
augurates economy. Finds Commis and Mt. Shasta, approach the mini all papers and periodicals in the state,
sioner Marshall can do work of a Sec mum within our boundaries, a total also to commercial clubs and similar or
difference of nearly 200 degrees. Rec ganizations. In about two weeks the
retary and save $2700 a yaar.
Newburg—D. J. Matthews has been ords of rainfall in the mo3t arid sec- | main issue of about 300,000 copies will
tior.s of the southern deserts of the be off the press, and will be sent out
re-emploved to run the cannery.
in response to written requests from
Silverton —contract let for new Unit- State represent the extreme of aridity | individuals anxious to secure reliable
in the United States, showing an an- |
| ed Luthern Church.
nual average less than 3 inches and data on Oregon.
Many counties protesting against ex- periods of 12 months or more with <,n-
"Farm Lande in Oregon,” is the ti
, travagance of State Highway Engi- ly traces of rain, whereas the precipi tle of a booklet just issued by the Farm
| neer. Some counties charge work tation in northwestern California is (
Land Bureau of the Oregon Devemp-
1 cost thirty per cent more than neces- very hea^, an annual average of close ment League. It contains a list of
I vary.
to 100 inches being recorded at a few several hundred farms and small pieces
Hood Rivcr-A. W. Peters will build stations in Mendocino and Del Norte | of land for sale, with prices and terms.
I
CO-ton silo.
counti-. a. U. S. Geological Survey
It is designed to bring together own
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ers of land and prospective buyers
Eugene council buys garbage cans
without the intervention of middlemen
made in that city.
Land is Opened
or
age its. Copies will be mailed to
S. P. Co. will erect new depots in
those interested.
I Oregon —one at Coltage Grove.
Vale, Or., March 22—After making
Lambing on in Eastern Oregon and an investigation of the Warm Springs
Hoto U. S. Rose From Ocean
shearing begins April 5.
reservoir site and irrigation project
Government dredge Mitsche under the government has released the land
withdrawn from entrv under the pro
An Interesting exhibit which w’li be
going $25,000 repairs at Portland.
ject and this will be open for settle shown by the United States Geological
Last two weeks of February cost ment from and after April 26, accord
Survey at the Panama-Pacific Exposi
mills exported 30,655,000 feet of lum- ing to the report of the United States
tion, in San Francisco, will be the illus
ir.
land office at Vak. The investigation tration of the development of the sur
Bandon is to get harbor improve showed that the project, with the face features of the U. S. and adjoin
merits in spite of bill failing in Ct n high-line ditch, which would have to ing lands the gradual rise of the conti
be cemented for about twenty miles, nent from the primal ocean and the ac
gross.
would cost approximately $105 an companying development of life a pic
0. W. R. & N. Co. to be extended
too torial story of progress from the earlv
from Juntura into the Harney Val acre and this was considered
high.
fish and huge half-reptile creatures
ley.
known as aaurians to the higher mam
Conner Creek mine Baker County,
The Pioneer Store
mals such as the great saber tooth l-
Jackson ville, On
You'h Sentenced
leased and will be operated.
ger and the giant hyena.
Siuslaw will get $112,600 from Con
gress for harbor work.
San Francisco, Mar. 22 Burnham L.
Killed on Road
Three new buildings are planned at Coe, a 17-vear-old boy who pleaded
guilty to a charge of using the mails
state university oy board of regents.
to defraud and admitted responsibility
Lebanon, Or.. Mar. 25 As the re
McCoy Frank Linn will build a I for the Weed Lumber company fire at
round $5000 barn.
Weed, Cal., March 4. which caused a sult of a team becoming frightened at
a motorcycle between Foster and Sweet
Vein of good-burning coal found three loss estimated at $100,000, was sen
tenced today to four years in the Ida Home a few days ago, the wagon in
miles from Klamath Falls.
ho industrial training school at St. An which Ralpn Ge lney and temil? were
Oregon City —atter long struggle.
thony, Idaho, in the United States dis driving was upset, and Mr. Gedney's
Main street to be paved with bitulithie
little girl, aged 5 years so badly injured
trict court.
two-inch wearing surface on a concrete
Coe was charged with a demand for that she cied the next day. All oth
base.
$2500 from C. E. Evans, at Weed, er members of trie family, consist
A county that lets a cannery die cre under threat of starting more fires ing of Mr. and Mrs. Gedney, Mr.
‘Gedney’s mother and son were injured.
ates the office of fruit inspector.
there.
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