Or°i’'”’ HiB‘orieal Society
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JACKSONVILLE. JACKSON COUNTY,
VOL. IX
BRIDE’S
ASSAILANT
COMMITS SUICIDE
Evan B. Kemp Leaves Let
ters to Public .; And
Mother, Express
ing Remorse.
VOLUNTEER OFFICERS FOR
ARMY
AVAILABLE.
BRAKEMAN LOSES ARM
COLLISION.
IN
OUR OWN STATE
.ALASKA’S BEST YEAR
NO. »36
INDUS!RIAL REVIEW
Some Recent Happenings Advance Statement of Min- Manufactures, Enterprises and
liVar Department Compiles Lisi Misreadin? of Meet Order
eral Production for
Improve n? .Is Providng
in Various Parts of
of Men Who Have Had
Is Claimed Responsible
1915
by United
Payrolls and Promot
Oregon
Military Training.
For Wreck Near
States Geolog
ing Development
Girl
Struck
by
Jitney
is
Dead
Roseburg.
ical Survey
of Oregon
Washington, Jan. 4—The number of
Roseburg, Or.. Jan. 3—Miss Helen
young men available for service as jun
R >bertson died yesterday as the result
Roseburg,
Or.,
Jan.
3-
Train
service
Porland, Oregon, Jan. 1916.----- ior officers in the volunteer army was
The Alaska mining industry as a
Washington County pruned $13,590
of an accident two m< nths ago, when
With a bullet in the right temple disclosed in a recent war department was resumed yesterday afternoon on she was struck by an unknown jitney whole was more prosperous in 1915 from 1917 budget.
the body of Evan B. Kemp, who shot . report,
__r_ .. Already the department has the Southern Pecific after a 20 hours’ aid thrown to the pavement. Alike than in any previous year. This is in-
Redmond raises water rate from $1.75
and brutally attacked Mrs. Mabel My- ’ the names of nearly 70)9 men possibly blockade caused by a head-on collision time of the accident she managed to dicatsd by the value of the total miner- for 500 feet to $2 for 300 feet.
ers in his lonely cabin near Gresham available for this purpose- Of th it of two freight trains at Winchester save and protect a baby she was car ' al output, which is estimated to have
Banks Herald his made a hard fight
I ite Tuesday afternoon, was found near number, 37 have been duly examined Saturday evening at 6:40. Engineer rying. She was 35 years of age, and been $32,000,n00, compared with $19,-
Stanley station yesterday afternoon by and certificates issue I to them. Four Henry Ryan an 1 Conductor Howard i< survived by a sister and two broth 061,963 for 1914. The highest value for I for tax reduction.
Railroads placing big orders s -nds up
Garfield Haynes, 529 Churchill street. teen were former enliste I men in the Weichlein misread their orders to meet ers.
a ly previous year was in 1996, when
freight No. 22 ) at Winchester siding,
On the body Sheriff Hurlburt and De regular army.
Alaska produced $23,378,428 worth of I price of lumber and shingles.
puty Sheriff Phillips at 3 o’clock found
minerals, but this was at a time when
Rogue River Courier—Too much red
Recomm .nidations for certification it is claimed, and after having passed
a note confessing the crime and also a have been received in regard to 1400 the station met the other freight near
the bonanza placers of Fairbanks and I fane is finding its way into public af
State
Broking
Department
letter to Mrs. Hannah P. Kemp, moth- others, students at schools where mili the end of the trestle over the North
j Nome were yielding their greatest re fairs, and regulation and control fr< m
of the dead man.
turns.
an authority “higher up" is impairing
tary training is given, and additional Umpqua bridge less than a quarter of a
Needs no Appropriation.
Kemp killed himself shortly after 6 applications for appointment have mile from the siding.
The high value of the mineral output rather rather than increasing efficiency
o'clock Wednesday night, according to reached a total of 5000.
in 1915 was due in large measure to tne in many lines.
Glen Patrick, fireman of train 229
the note to his mother, dated 6 o’clock.
Salem, Or., Jan. 3—Statement of the extraordinary amount of copper that
During the school year of 1915 there lost his left arm when he was thrown
The Coos Bay Harbor sensibly says
Hunted, cold and penniless, Kemp left were 32,313 students in the schools with under a telescoping box car. H rror receipts and disbursements for 1915 of ; was "lined Preliminary estimates in- r small factory that runs all the time
the home of Mrs. Elva C. Dallam, at military courses and in the preceding was added to the situation by a < ar the state banking department, issued ( dicate this to be 83,850,090 pounds val- and makes a steady employer and nets
Errol heights, a mile and a half from 10 years 39,430 had been graduated, all loaded with matches which took fire by S. J. Sargent, superintendent of ued at $14,400,990. In 1914. 21,450,628 a return to the own r is better than a
Stanley station, after 4 o’clock Wed of whom would be still available in time and a car loaded with tobacco which binks, gives tin. department a balance poun Is of copper were mined, valu'd big concern idle a large part of t e
nesday afternoon. He told Mrs. Dal of need.
was soon destroyed, Two cars of stock o ' $415 over the amount paid out, and at $2,852,934. The gold production al year.
lam he was going through the woods to
were barely saved from the fire and a s lows that none of the $15,000 appro so increased in 1915, when the value
Congressman Hawley promises ti e
Oregon City.
part of the trestle was also burned.
priated by the legislature for maintain was about 116,900,009, against $15,625,-
people of Crescent City a breakwater
Mrs. Dallam did not know she had Cjxey of Idle Army Fame
813,
for
the
output
of
1914
This
is
ing the office for two years, has be< n
and jetty.
fed the criminal unt'l an hour and a
expended. This is the first time the de the largest gold production since 1912,
is in Politics.
LX CHANGE ON GERMANY partment has made such a record The when the output was valued at $17,- North Bend —Archie Cruse puttii g
half later. She at one notified Sher
iff Hurlburt. While the sheriff and a
diversion of the annual license fee paid 145,951. As the production of silver is in « box factory plant here.
FALLS; BRITISH GAINS
squad of 17 deputies were scouring
Port of Portland will have 2500 horse
by the banks of the state, from the incidental to gold and copper mining,
Columbus, O., Jan. 6 —“General Ja
the woods near her home Kemp kill cob S. Coxey, wealthy manufacturer
corporation department to the state this als > increased. It is estimated power drdge finished by Jan' 10.
ed himself. The next morning Depu
that $409,000 worth of silver was min I Kruse & Banks, North Bend have
of Massillon, O., who ted the “Army German Money Reaches L:w banking department, enabled the
ty Sheriffs Phillips and George Hurl
office to leave untouched its appropria ed in 1915, as compared with $218,327 i contract to build 220 foot vessel t- r
of the Commonwealth’’ to Washington
burt passed within one hundred feet
tion.
worth in 1911. The output of other San Francisco.
Value Recoid in New
in 1834, outlined to lay plans for his
of the blind road on which the body campaign as an independent candidate
The department collected $10,591.58 minerals, including tin, antimony, mar
Public utility assessments in Jose
lay.
York
Market.
for making 318 examinations of banks ble, gypsum, coal, and petroleum, in phine County are reduced $43,323.23.
f >r United States Sen"tor from Ohio
1915 had a value of about $309,«00 com
With two of the six shots fired, the
during the 12 months.
to succeed Senator Pomerene next
.32 caliber revolver with which Kemp
pared with $222,8)2 in 1914.
, Coos wav is cooperating with the S.
year. He said he would run on a plat
New York, Jan. 4—Exchangeon Ger
The developments made during the P. Co. in developing that section,
•hot himself and the girl was found
form demanding that congress author many t slay fell to 75'», the lowest quo
year give assurance of continued large ! Home contractors to be preferred on
near the body. The body is now at
ize issue of $1,000,010,009 legal tender tation since the outbreak of the war Gopher and Mole Scalps Redeem operations in both copper and gold lode new Baker $125,000 schoolhouse,
the morgue. Mrs. Kemp is said to be currency half of which is to be used in
and probably without precedent in the
ed at Court House.
mining. Placer mining has been less 1 Pittsburg capital developing Rose-
too poor to care for it. It probably
creating a merchant m irine an 1 half
will be given county burial in a pau for naval equipment or coast defens financial relations between this center ; Salem, Or., Jan. 4—Yesterday, the prosperous, for this industry has not burg and Iowa capital dew-loping Suth-
and Berlin.
per’s plot.
i first legal day of the New Year upon yet reacted to the stimulus of the Gov- | erlin Portland capital has not even
es'
The unit of exchan-e on Germany is
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’ which gopher and mole scalps could be ernment railway, which will make opened an Oregon stone quarry. The
four marks, so that today’s quotations redeemed under the (Tom) Brown scalp availab'e for profitable exploitation new First National Bank building is
Peppermint Growers oli
lusband and Wife Die In implies a value of only about 18% cents bounty act of 1915, County Clerk Gehl- large bodies low arade gravels. The is built of eastern stone.
for marks, as against the normal value hur and his force of clerks were kept same is true of the coal mining indus
Valley are Organized
Reodsport—Railroad men putting in
side of 24 Hours
of about 23% cents.
I busy taking in scales and issuing war try, which also must await railway 250,000 fishing and cold storage plan*.
On the other hand, remittances to ! rants. Over 29,009 scalps, of both spe transportation.
Oregon wheat, corn, oats, barley, po
Albany, Or., Jan. 6—Peppermint
The annual report on mineral resour
Scapdoose, Or., Jan. 3—Samuel Ad London attainel their highest rates in | cies of rodents, were redeemed, at 10
tato
is, rye and bay net $28,059,000 in
month
“
,
demand
sterling
being
quoted
growers of this section of the valley ams, aged 76, and Julia, his wife, aged
cents each, and it is believed that the c s and production in Alaska for 1915
1915.
were in session at the Conmercial club 75, both died of pneum >nia within 24 at 4.74%.
tot’I appropriation for the year, $13(0, is now in preparation under the dire, -
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Roseburg—With new machinery Dou
rooms yesterday, and formed a tempor hours They came to Scappoose about
will have been exhausted within the tion of Alfred H. Brooks of the United
glas Countv flour mill starts Feb. 1.
ary organization with I. B. Copeland, 30 years ago an J took up a homestead
States
Geological
Survey.
next
few
days.
Claude
Harris,
a
14-
Aberdeei Has Heavy Sncw
chairman, and A. O. Condit, a Salem in the timber west of town, and by
The first gold mining in Alaska was
Roseburg Sand & Gravel Co. will en
year-old boy of this city, turned in 1456
attorney, as secretary. Steps will be hard work and industry had accumulat
scalpsand received $115.69 in coun done in 1380, and since that time gold large plant at once.
taken immediately to incorporate the ed a valuable property. They leave a
to the value of about $291,050,000 has
Aberdeen, Wash., Jan. 3 -The freez ty-
Work is being rushed on Oswego,
association and put it on a sound oper family of 10 grown children and numer ing of last week was fol owed last night
been produced. Of this about $186,- Dallas & Roseburg Ry. to furnish ma
ating basis. There will be about 200 ous grandchildren. The funeral and and today by a heavy fall of snow. It
2“0,000 has been won from the gold terial for factory at Oswego by March
more acres of mint put out the coming interment will be held in Fairview ceme was over six in hes on the level at noon
placers. Copper mining began in 1901, 15 if possible, 59 men at work.
Asteria Council Says Punch
season.
and the total copper output of Alaska
tery this afternoon.
today.
Machinery purchased for Canby
boards Must i ' o .
is now about 217 250,000 pounds, val ehe se factory.
Astoria, Or , Jan. 4 —1'unch boards, ued at $34,150,0 >0. The value of t.ie
Coast guard station to be biilt near
dice an I other forms of gambling for total silver production to date is ab u
mouth
of Siuslaw.
cigars or candy must go, under an edict $2,650,090. Coal, petroleum, tin, leal,
New shingle mill to be built at Acme
issuidto the chief of police at last quicksilver, antim my, m trble, gypsum
night’s session of the council. Games and other minerals have been produced at once.
Hauser is new town on railroad in
are operating in violation of the state to the value of about $2,159,0 X). There
1 iw, it is claimed. Councilman Kaboth fore, the value of the total mineral pro Coos County.
declared it the duty of the chief of po duction during 36 years of mining in
County has installed gravel plant at
lice to act, since the sheriff has not Alaska has been $300,0)0,009.
Albany.
done so. E. M. Houghton has been re
Southern Douglas Co. is witnessing
appointed chief of police by Mayor
considerable mining activity.
Grazing
Homestead
Bill
Io
Johnson.
Newport is to have up-to-date hospi
Provide For Roads.
tal,
Roseburg is to have new fireproof
News Dealers Obey Law
concrete
warehouse.
Washington, Jan. 4 Followings con
Eugene, Or., Jan. 4—News dealers
Lakeview Nitrate deposits 25 per
ference
between
Representative
N.
J.
of Eugene are complying with the pro
cent pure discovered in Goose L ike val
hibit! n law in regard to advertisements Sinnott of Oregon anrl Chief Forester ley.
Graves,
the
forestry
bureau
is
recom
in magazines ai d newspapers published
Worn is progressing rapidly on Pen
o n - ine of Oregon, and yesterday be- mending an amendment to the grazing
i gan to tear out the advertisements of homestead bill provisions for the pro dleton’s new library.
$25,00') hotel planned for Woodburn.
liquor in per dicals kept in stock and tection of roads and trails so that
each ¡ninth they will go through them stockmen may have access to the na
The Dalles Diamond Flour mills
tional forosiB for their livestock. Mr. making extensive improvements. Mill
as they arrive.
Sinnott believes the enactment of the is now running night and day.
grazing homestead law will practically
Ri ports say Bandon mills will soon
Work on Valley & Siletz Road absob the remaining public lands.
start.
The Dalh-s Work on new evapora
is to be Resumed.
Over Million and Half in Tieis tor for Dri-Fresh Co. progressing rap-
Independence, Or., Jan. 3 —A large
ally.
ury of Oregon
number of men have been ordered to
Ro eburg Drager Fruit Co. may en
report for work on the Valley & Siletz
large packing plant next year.
railroad, at Hoskins this we-k. The
Salem, Ore., Jan. 5. According to a
men are to complete an unfinished
report issued today by State Treasurer
Yoncalla, Or., Jan. 3 —Yoncalla had
part of the work on the south end,
Kay, for the three months ending tie first fall of snow on Saturday when
then be transferred to the north end
December 31, there was a balance of four ir.ches fi ll the heaviest snowfall
to construct the rai road into this.
$1,527,560.79 in all funds at the end in four or five years. The thermome
city.
of the period. The balance in the ter dropped to freezing on Friday nignt
general fund was $1,107,410.95. Dis- thia being tie hint of winter weather
bursem -ntH for the period totaled $1, for this season.
Pendleton .Mayor and Friend
558, 481». 20, the receipts $2,251,642 58,
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are Injured.
ar d there w is a balance 'if $.834,400 41
Early ilop Grower Die«
Pmileton, Or., Jan. 1 —Mayor-elect i on hand at the beginning of the peri id
J mis H. Best and Dave Graybeal, an
Dali-s. (ir.. Jan. 1- Lycurgus C. Hill
it suranee agent, w< re injured yesler-
who pasbed iiway in Ibis city yesterday
Mulkey’s Successor Named.
d <y near Holdinan when their automo-
wi- oi e of tl.e early bop gri wers of
1 he Pioneer Store
Jacksonviile, Ore.
bi.e str r -X an obstacle, overturned and
Medford, Ore., Jan. 5. At a special Polk < i itti, sitllii p in Dalli a ar.d
rolled into the diiso Dr Best was un- meeting of the M-.-dford scho- I b . aril
a i ng h >• t i t yard n« r this city in
C' .iseious for several hours, and Gray- list evening J. W. B rrian was ilei’te-l 1-84 Mr. Iti I w» be ili near Km xville
bralhal two ribs broken, and it is a member of the board to fill the VI- 1< nn.. May 23, '833. He ih SLrvivtd
i,l, d \ "io in
ed there are other internal
nal injuries.
injuries, It
it c rncy
incy enured by the resignation of
it not thought that Best is serioudy Attorney B F. Mulxey, who h<s re ami Mrs. Scott Campbell, both of th a
injured.
[ moved to Portland.
city.
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OREGON. JANUARY 8, 191(5.
Start the
New Year right
by giving us a share of
your business.
II
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ill
We will appreciate it very
much and try our best to
please you.
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If
ill
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Lewis Ulrich
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