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About Jacksonville post. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1906-19?? | View Entire Issue (June 10, 1916)
Oregon Histórica) Society Citv Hui VOL. X. JACKSONVILLE, JACKSON COUNTY, THE COUNCIL MEETING PRESIDENT OF CHINA DEAD NE1 P'0HI3IT>0N BILL IS Reported Poisoned president Succeeds to Amendment to Constitution Would Cut Off All Ship- Office. men’s I - j D- Frai k Simon Convicted of Steal- Hillsboro, Or.. June 6—A suit for setting aside a divorce decree rendered iag Eight Horses. in 1892 in this cninty, in favor of J. W. Shute, a retired banker, as against North Yakima, Wash., Juno 6—A Elizabeth Shute, was filed here this week. Mrs. Shute, who lives in Port i verdict of guilty was returned Sunday land, is the plaintiff ar.J she . '.Ivgcs morning against Frank Simon, char -d that she did not know until November : with grand larceny, and today Simon 15, 1915, that the decree had been ren and his alleged accomplices, Ben and dered, alleging that when the papers I Dud Geary, were placed on trial on an in the old suit of 1892 were served on other charge of the same nature. The her, her husband told her that he had state in the fiist case showed that Si changed his mind and would not press mon stole eight horses belonging to the suit. She also alleges that the de Charles Wesley, of the Yakima reser cree is invalid because the records are vation. Simon’s divorced wife was siient as to the authority of the presid murdered in this city in March by ing judge at the trial, Judge L. K. Frank’s brother David, who is now in Stearns, of Multnomah county, to hold the penitentiary. court in Washington county: and that Riverside —Malheur county land own I the decree ib not signed by any one. J. W. Shute has re-married since the de ers voted to create 25,003 irrigation district here. cree was granted in 1892. I We carry a full line of Fishing Tackle M Lewis Ulrich 1 he Pioneer Store INDUSTRIAL REVIEW Some Recent Happenings in Various Parts of Oregon. Manufactures, Ente’prises and Big Three Day Event July 4, 5, 6. Improvements, Providing Payrolls and Piorno’- mg Develcpment Liquor. Ashland p'ans to entertain at least Needed Supplies Unloaded of Oregon. thirty thousand people on July Fi urth. Marshfield, Or., Jun? 5— fi e II- Fifth and Sixth—the occasion being Salem, Or., June 5 —Secretary of State Olcott today approved, ns to form shorem -:i to I i.' gave pe -.niisi >n to a the form d opening of a magnificent L >ga iberry in lustry b losted by adop a petition for the initiation of nn im nid- commtcee fr >m the Marshfield and ' p irk w hich has cost the city over a tion of j lice on Pennsylvania R. R. ment to the constitu’ion prohibiting Noris Ben 1 Chambers of Com ncrce to quarter of a million dollars and which Crown Columbia paper mills increas the importation of liquor into the state 1 design'to what g «> Is might be taken provides he setting for Ashland’s fam es wages amount to $39,000 a ye ir— fr >m sh ps, an 1 6) tons of necessary ous lihia and s da and su'phursprings* for beverage purpose«. The Oregon prohibition state committee is backing stores were taken off the Tillamook no.v highly developed and placed at third alvaic? this spring. Astor a Lumber shipped from lower . and Yellowstone. disposal of the public. the measure. ---------- ♦<*.'>---------- The park is a splendid naturally scen Columbia i i May was 26,453,860 feet. The mills here are on the verge of Newport —New survey has been ord There is no more dock sp ice ic tract, right in the city, with Ashland Po'ato Alcohol Much Cheaper 1 ! closing. for lumber and the boats are not load creek carrying the melted snows from ered of Yaquina Bay and harbor. Mount Ashland through it, with water ing. St. Helens—Another contract receiv Than Gasoline falls and lake and fountains and drives, ed hole for a deep sea vessel. free auto and team camps with modern Gardiner Seventeen miles of new conveniences and sanitation, children’s Good u e for distilleries and brewer- . Wholesale Bakery for Sa/em telephone line to be built from here. ies’v. hich are being put out of business | Salem, Or., June 5—Secretary Mc playground, rustic seats and tables, Umpqua hr.lbi r to be improved at ex by the “dry” vote Mid prohibition: Daniel of the Commercial Club, said to shade, greensward, comfort, enchant- Make potato alcohol, denatured, for day that he had assurances that a merit. To celebrate the opening of pense of $200,009. Marshfield—Waterfront street to use In I he arts and industries and as ] wholesale bakeiy would be built in the this splendid resort park a three-day North Bend to be hard-surfaced. fuel. There is an unlimited market city to c >st $30,00:), and with a pay program h is been arranged. The big feature is a reproduction of Bandon The Moore mid will resume for potato alcohol in place of gasolin- roll of approximately $2000 a month. the Pendleton Roundup a $10,000 at- opeiations, having secured ships. for automobiles, trucks, tractors, sta t-acti .n under the name of the Rogue tionary and movable engines, and all Gresham —Another section of county other fuel purposes f .r which gasoline Madras Mtn Reported Lost | River Rourdup. A splendid tract of highway to Fairview let, construction I uid adjacent to the city has been se is employed. There are many other Bend, Or., June 5—T. B. fucker, of cured for the race track and arena and I to be 18 feet wide of bit ulit hie. industrial ways in which potato alcohol Albany cheese factory starts with a may be employed, as in paints, varni li Madras, was drowned yesterday after a vast amphitheatre is being prepared, run of 300“ lbs. milk per day. noon in the Deschutes riyer, near that a four-hour show will be given daily. es, etc. Roseburg —Methodist church north The federal law permits denatured place. The reports c ining here are Tnis great attraction is in the hands of and south to unite on a building. alcohol to be manufactured and sold that Mr. Tucker was working on a boom men who plan to perpetuate it as an near Madras and fell in. His so1’, Pearl annual event, and they are staging it Portland —Strikes of longshoreman with hardly any tax compared to that has been employed in Bend tor several this year on a strong basis with that in and tunnel workirs put several thous which is imposed upon alcohol proper. weeks. and men out of employment. view. The denatured spirits are of such a Three stupendous parades are under Portland—Censua bureau shows capi character that it is impossible for them way. On July fourth “Queen Lithia” tal in manufacturing increase I in Ore to be used as a beverage. Several Curry County Sheriff Weds will pass through the streets in triumph gon in fiv • years 56 percent, salaries 49 breweries in the Pacific Northwest al Go’d Beach, Or., June 5—The friends with a resplendent train of patriotic percert, products 18. ready are making loganberry juice, a temperanc ■ beverage which is becom of C. H. Bailey, the sheriff of Curry and industrial floats and Wild West at Itosebuig Sand & Gravel Co. will ing deservedly popular wherever intro county, and Miss Kite L-hnhe,-r, the tractions Queen Lithia is now being manufacture cement tile. duced, as is the unfermented juice of Democratic nominee for county treas chosen by ballot from among the beau Eugene Fruitgrowers Ass’n. enlarg the grape. The potato can be grown urer, were surprised on S iturday to ties of Ashland. On the second dav, ing fruit drying plant. everywhere in enormons quantises. learn that a marriage license was is i July fifth, tribute will be paid to the Enterprise gets a new brick luilding Breweries and distilleries can afford to sued by County Clerk Stannard for i Pacific Highway in a magnificent par- this searon. pay a price for potatoes that will make their marriage. Both are lifelong resi 1 ade of decorated automobiles, for which Timber countries are still building this crop compare with wheat in profit dents of Curry county an 1 are well and I autoing visitors from far and near are favorably known. They will enjoy a expected to come prepared. July sixth steel and concrete bridges. to l he grower. Tillamook gets a new concrete ga Northwest Farmstead believes this short honeymoon trip, after which they ' “King Sulphur” will turn out in a hi- matter is of the largest importance to will be at home to their friends at Gold ( larious iroiic that will fill the streets rage. i with an astounding aggregation of the farming and manufacturing inter Beach. Springfield man has invented but tor i comic fl ,ats and features. ests of the northwe’t; in fact, tie i mold and will make 20u per day. A gorgeous phase of the celebration whole country. For if breweries and Pendleton adding $6)00 school facili Salem Wants Modern Station is the pyrotechnic display. Th“ Hitt distilleries which heretofore have turn ties. Fireworks Company of Seattle, who ed out intoxicating liquors can be uti Salem, Or., June 5-Piin’ing ojt Riddle to get an electric light und lized as a market for a greatly increas that the present passenger station of furnished the fireworks for the exposi ed potato crop, producing therefrom the Southern Pacific in this city is in tion at San Francisco all last year, have power plant. St. Johns gets an addition to Hie IÎ.U- fuel spirits which can be sold profitably adequate and unsuitable, the executive I been employed to furnish and stage the in competition with gasoline, it is one committee ot the Salem C » nmereial ! display. To these attractions will be nicipal dock. of the biggest things that ever struck club has written Assistant Ganrral | added a continuous concert by some of Astoria —County wid hard surfacc the Northwest. Man iger Campbell, of Portland, urging i the best bands of Southern Oregon. In part of road to Smith’s Point. that th .• cinpuiy provide a iniiern I addition there will be water sports at Amitv Nut A Fiuit Co. to erect Monmouth will spend $7,917 for pav structure. When the company contem j the M.neral Springs Natatorium and frame hotel. ing its business street. plated the electrifi cation of it.» v.ill y Heimm’s White Sulphur Baths. Dan La Grande Grocery Co. to build large 1 nes it acquired a block situ ited al ces and confetti battles and scores of brick building this summer. most in the heart of the city and should minor attractions will give the popu Baker Oregon-Idaho Investment Co 0 the comp my comply with the reqti st lace three busy days and nights. will operate I’oorman copper mine. Following the big three-da* celebra of the committee, the now building Marshfield struggling for $399,000 would probably be erected on the new tion the Southern Origon Chautauqua Association opens its twenty-fourth coal briquet plant. site. Portland Sisters of the Good Ship annual session, which rune from the herd to erect $125,000 parish struc seventh to the eighteenth inclusive. Wire Thieves goto Prison ture. Coos and Curry telephone system be Pe'roleum as Locomotive Fuel ing largely rebuilt. Oregon City, June 6—After being Salem Fruit Union contracts for confined in county jail ter several weeks on a charge of tearing up and destroy Figures just made public by the Uni $150,00“ deliveries. ing a railload, in the theft of wire from ted States Geological Survey disclote a Sellwood— Plans completed for rail 'he tracks of the 1*. R., L. & P. com marked increase in the use of petrole road from Ardenwa'd to Pleasant Val pany’s system in this county, Joseph um as a locomotive fuel by the rail ley. I Grey and John Brooks pleaded guil ty roads of the United States in 1915. The Detroit—Corvallis & Eastern track late yesterday afternoon before Judge data at hand show that the quantity of to be extended 12 miles eaBt. Campbell in the circuit court and were oil fuel so consumed las, year was 36,- Baker—Paymaster copper mine in each sentenced to the State peniten 648,466 barrels, an increase of 5,555,- Eagle Mts. to be operated. tiary for from six months to 10 years. I 200 barrels or 18 percent over the simi Marshfield and North Ber.d City They were taken to Salem this morn- lar consumption in 1914. This increase Council consider purchasing Coos Bay is ascribed to the relatively low prices Water Co. plant at price fixed by Pub prevailing for fuel grades of oil during lic Service Commission. the last year and a half as the result Youngest Patient Sent to Asy of the increased production of low- Harriman -Construction of highway grade crude in the Gulf Coast States to Bendire Mountain started. lum But Eight Years Old - —------ •, i and in Mexico and of the augmented Salem, Or., June 5 Richard Smith, output of suitable residuals from refin 1’ostmistreHS Retires eight years old, has been committed to eries operating in ever-increasing num Philomath. Or, June 5-After 18 the insane asylum here, and he is said ber in Oklahoma and Kansas. to be the youngest patiint ever receiv The total distance covered by oil years of continual a id faithful service ed at the institution. He is said to be burning locom dives in 1915 was 124,- as postmistress of the the Philomath subject to epilepsy. Recently he stray 255,525 mik s and the average distance postoffi e, Mrs. S. S. Keezel is succeed ed from his home, appropriated during covered per barrel of oil fuel consum ed by James Watkins of this city. his absence a team and delivery wagon ed was 3.39 miles. Oil fuel is now used Though Mrs. Keezel was urged by a I and traded it for another team and bug- to some extent on 40 railroads in the great number of the patrons of the of tty. United States, having tracks sn 21 fice to continue here, she was obliged by reason of failing health, to give up states. the work. Mr. Watkins is a former Wont Try Case by Telephone mayor of Philomath. The fish are biting! Prices Right of BIG CELEBRATION AT ASHLAND Vice- Peking, June 6, 12 noon—Yuan Shi Kai, president of the Chinese republic, The regular meeting of city council died today. Premier Tuan Chi Jui im was held Tuesday evening. Present mediately advised Lai Yuenhung, the Mayor Britt, Councilmen Bagshaw, vice president, of his succession io the F.orey, Hartman and Neil, Recorder presidency. Stansell. Yuan Shi Kai bad been ill for several Minutes of previous meeting read and days with stomach trouble, which was approved. Th; street commissioner followed by a nervous breakdown. was i:;s‘runted to ha il some gravel on Quiet prevails today in the capital. streets to fill holes at crossings, etc., The death of the president apparently also to"repair Jackson creek road west solves the heated, political problem, j Lai Yuen-hung’s succession to the of town. Communication of John A. Perl in i piesidency meets the demands of the regard to cemetery roads was read and rebel leaders in the Southern provin- J ces. placed on file. j Yuan Shi Kai was reported May 28 Bills for salaries of recorder and mar" ill. ‘ At shal and for some supplies were read ! to have been taken seriously ■ that time dispatches from China said it and orde ed paid. Application of con tractor for water to use in repairing | was believed in Pekin that the presi- I dent had been poisoned, but this report county road was read and on motion he was allowed water so long as dam re I was denied by the Chinese ambassador mains full, at the rate of 30 cents per i at Washington, who insisted the presi dent was not even ill. thousand gallons. Yuan Shi Kai died while the storms Jim Eaton appeared before council of revolution were gathering in increas and asked for rebite on charges for ing strength. The revolt broke out in h >gs impi unded. After some discus December 1915, when the president sion the rebate was allowed. W. H. announced his intention of establishing Johnson, agent for Surety Co furnish a monarchy and ascending the throne ing treasurer’s bond, asked for official as the first emperor of a new dynas certificate showing condition, of books ty. His coronation was set for early at beginning of term. Recorder was in February of this year, but was post- instructed to prepare same. | poned indefinitely owing to the extra- Ordinance regulating the holding of j ordinary rapidity with which the re municipal elections was passed final volt spread through Southern China. reiding by unanimous vote of the coun Several attempts were made upon cil. the president’s life and a bomb plot — ' was discovered in the imperial pal- ace. Ill ObR OWN STATE TO GO ON BALLOT Held Tuesday Evening Mostly Routine Busi ness. Election Or- dinance Passed S lit Filed to Set Aside Divorce OREGON, Jacksonville, Orc II I! 31 II H li II II II Innes Given Seven Years --------------------- Oregon City, Or., June 6 —Because Parker Tries Io Secure License Atlanta, Ga., June 5-Victor Innes, their automobile broke down while on i their way to Oregon City to answer of Eugene. Or., convi'-ted here of lar Salem, Or , June 6 “Painless" Par- • the charge of fishing within the dead ceny of $19)0 from Mrs. Eloise Nelms line of the Willamette in this city, A. Dennis, of Atlanta, who with hersis-lker, of Portland, who was refuse I a II Geit and Edward Nyden, of Port- i ter, Miss Beatrice Nelms, disappear«! certificate several years ago and who I md di not. roach here to hear the ■< n from S <n An' nio, Texas, two years since has waged more or less of a war tence Justice Sievers expects to mete ago, was sentenced to sever; years' im on the »tale board of denial 'xaminers, out to th‘ tn. They tried to plead ov prisonment. Innes and his wife, Mrs. is among th se taking th-den’al exam er the telephone Monday morning, Ida Lines, were acquitted in San An- ination here. The examination began but the court refused to accept the tTJnio some months ago of charges of yesterday, and there are 50 applicants for licenses. | murdering the sisters. plea.