Orc »on Historical Society
City Hal)
VOL. X.
JACKSONVILLE, JACKSON COL MY,
CARANIA SENDS PEACE NOTE
OUR OWN STATE
OREGON
INDUSTRIAL RzJiE.V
F JR COLVILLE I AN 35
Way Is Opened For Peaceful Some Recent Happenings
Settlem ?nt of Differences
2500
in Various Parts of
Between Two Nations
Oregon
Manufactures,
Enterprists and
Intpiovemer.ls,
Providing
Nine Hours fcr Drawing
Payrolls and Promot
of July 27.
ing Devel paient
I^Tteirjni
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Washington, July 5.—The crisis be Labor Comtn ssioner O.i
tween the United States and Mexico
Visit To Eastern States.
virtually came to an end today when a
frlenily and conciliatory note from the
Labor Commissioner Hofi returned
de facto government was handed to yesterday from an extended visit in the
Secretary Lansing and promptly com east, having stopped off in 13 states.
municated to President Wilson.
The purpose of his visit was to make
High officials were much impressed an investigation of the administration
by the complete change in tone showed of the offices by the several labor com
by General CaranzVs new note. There missioners in the east wiih a view of
seemed to be no disposition to doubt improving his own department, He
that the United States on its side will visited 26 towns and 102 oactories.
arrange for the early withdrawal of the
expeditionary force from Mexico.
With more than 150,000 regulars and
Pioneer Buried At Damascus.
national guardsmen soon to be ready I Oregon City, July 4.—The funeral
of
for border patrol work, the necessity Samuel Johnson, a pioneer of Clacka
for keeping General Pershing’s column mas county, who died at Gresham sev
any great distance beyond the border eral days ago, was held at Damascus
has lessened, according to many offi yesterday. Deceased located in this
cials. Ample forces are at hand to con county in 1852.
trol the situation, even if the Mexican
troops now assembled in Northern
Mexico are unable immediately to guar-
Newberg Celebrates.
antes protection from raiders.
Newberg, July 4. —Newberg is the
Formal statement of the attitude of
the Washington government must a- only town in Yamhill county to cele
wait the President’s action, but there brate the Fourth today. Judge Grant
is no doubt in the minds of officials that B. Dimick was orator of the day. in
the wav has been opened for an amic the aftemoon a baseball game between
able adjustment of the dispute as to McMinville and Carleton wa3 the at
the border situation which brought the traction. The McMinnville Elk’s band
two governments to the verge of war. and the Fernwood band furnished the
all danger of which now seems remov music.
ed.
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Oregon.
Spokane, Wash., July 5. —Registra
tion for land claims on the south half
HE power of a nation in time of need is the pro
Salem—In rec ms'r t'ting pa iter.
of the Colville reservation began with i
ducing power of het industries.
a rush litre toJay. From 12:01 o'clock : | tiarv building-', all Oregon building m.*-
America must find out whal this producing power
this morning, wnen the registration h - , terial will b.> used.
is and then develop it. I he capacity of every plant
gan, until 9 o’clock, 2o00 persons ha 1 I : Chem.iwa Government Indian School
must be gauged. I he ability of every man must be known
registered. Sixteen notaries were em | will expend $12,50) on enlarging au li-
For War is Mechanical. It is Electrical. It is Chemical. It
ployed taking affidavits of persons reg i torium, $2,0U>) on new sewers and $12,-
is Mining, Manufacturing, Transportation. It is EVERY
phase of Engineering fused into a smg'e industry—
istering. The regis rati- n books will I on new building.
“THE NATION'S 'DEFt X SE "
be open here and at Wilbur. Colville,
Marshfield —509 sawmill men idle on
Thirty thousand Engineer» today are serving YOUR COUNTRY
Republic, Omak and Wenatchee until Coos Bay owing to longshoremen strike.
without pay. They are making a survey of YOUR COUNI RY S Indus
midnight July 22. The lira virg wil
trial Resources. They are helping YOUR COUNT RY’ to I IND 1 I SELF
Florence — Survey reports Siusluw
take place July 27,
— and Yout They are chart.ng the channels of commerce
Sounding each
! bar sho ' ed 16 teet of water al low tide.
source ol supply. So that, ihoulJ the Day break when War mull com*—
YOUR ARMIES in the field will fie but the crea ol a Wave oi In
i Marshfield Experiments conducted
Registration at Other Points.
Justry, as wide as the American Continent and as deep as the American S. ml.
here show b ack sand rich in platinum
That YOUR COUN 1 RY may know what tile En.pn ers are do.ng,
Wenatchee, Wash., July 5.—Four and go d.
the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World have f lodged tlielr services to
teen hundred persons bed registered
rhe Piesidenl of the United States. And this adv-rtisenienl. pub rshed (ree
Covuille—67.2 pounds of butter fat is
by
this parrel, is part of a nation wide senes to secure YOUR co-operation
here up to 11 o’clock today for lar.d in
record for one cow in month of Mav.
with the Engineers.
CAN I OOf"
the Colville Indian reservation. A de
B iker—Muddy Creek district voted
I his is, doubtless, the question you are asking yourself. Here ia the
layed Great North .>:n ttain brought 950
answer: If you are a manufacturer co-operate lolly with the Engineers so
land seekers fiom Tacoma, Seattle and $15,0 )0 to build new school at once.
they can do theft job rjuickly and efficiently, if you are a working man
Springfield—S. 1’. Co. puts on special
other coast cities. Up to noon 311 had
help your employer to help the Engineers and be prepared, il so needed, to be
a Soldier tn industry, behind the firing line, which is |ust as n.ipoit ml as being
registered at Colville, 2 ¡7 at Wilbur, train ’o handle increased log output
a
soldier on the bring line; if you are a business man or a professional man,
from Moha.vk valley.
147 at Republic and 450 at Omak.
or whoever you aie. help mobilize “GOOD WILL behind this patriotic
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Eugene Careful survey of flax crop
task of the Engineers in behalf of National Defense and International Peace.
by State University shows profit o'
COMMITTEE ON INDUSTRIAL PREPAREDNESS OF THE
Dry Measure Receives
$36 50 per acre.
NAVAL CONSULTING BOARD OF THE UNITED STATES
in co-operation with
The American Society ol Civil Engineers
1 he American .Society ol Mecham« al Engineer»
Signatures in Plenty. Eugene company to manufacture
The American Institute ol Mining I ngineer* I he American Institute ..t LI U al I’.uginceis
hand made sport and outing shoes for
The American Chemical Society
F nsincenna Societies But! ling
2*1 West 39th Street New Yo
men and women.
More that enough signatures have
Roseburg Brewing Co. to reorganize
been secured for the petition to place to operate soft drink and cold storage
on the November ballot an amendment plant.
to the present prohibition law making
Echo’s r’ity Hall Accepted
Teaching a boy or girl to work, learn
it unlawful to bring liquor into Oregon
Call Money Reaches
Echo. July 4.—Echo’s $11,000 1 city ar,d thus rendering the state absolutely ing a business, or mastering an indus
SA1/AÛ5 SUBMARINE
BIG YEAR FOR MINES
try gets them farther than two-thirds
<
dry.
4 1-4 Per Cent in East hall has been accepted by the city coun
WARFARE IS PRFDIC1ED
of present day schooling.
cil and Mayor Hugh D. Smith after the
J. Sangar Fox, state secretary of the
inspection of the building on Saturday. Prohibition party, announced Tuesday
St.Helens—John Phillips has contract Geological Survey's Mid-Year
New York, July 5.—Call money rose The auditorium will be used tonight for that 22,420 names had been received at to get out 100,000 saving blocks.
Unrestricted Campaign to Force
Review Shows General
to
% on the stock Exchange today. the Fourth of July dance.
Milton's new Carnegie library to cost
headquarters in the Bohnke-Walker
This is the highest quotation for call
building. This is in excess of the re $9500 — work started.
Britain io Observe In-
Prosperity.
loans since the opening of the stock ex
quired 21.136, but it is expected that
Astoria Flouring Mi*ls Co. wil) build
change in December, 1914. The ad
Horse Buyer At Hood River
iernational Law.
by the time all petitions are in the to warehouse 80 by 120.
vance was attributed to the heavy mid
•'The a'-complishment of the mining
Hood River, July 5. —W. N. James, a tal number of names will exceed 25,-
black
Marshfield
—
Reported
85
lbs
year payment of interest and dividends. horse buyer from Portland, has been 000. The names were gathered in 21
industry in the six-month period jeat
sand produced $17 platinum and $2.70
Copenhagen, via London. July 6.'-
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I completed warrants the forecast that
here for several days da"s to purchase days and the work is said to have been gold.
Refering
to the announcement of the
I 1916 is to be a record breaking year.”
horses for the United States army. He done by volunteers.
Little Girl Fatally
Donald co-operative cheese factory I With this statement the Director of the abandonment by Great Britain of the
has just returned here from White Sal
increasing plant.
■ United States Geological Survey sums declaration of London, Captain I. Per-
Burned By Fireworks mon and Trout Lake, Wash., and at A. Giebisch Secures
Astoria’s Chinatown being rebuilt. I up his official mid-year review of the i sells, naval expert of the Berlinear
the latter place purchased a half car
Gresham’s main street to be paved mineral review as reported to him by I'agblatt, declares in the newspaper
load of army horses.
Umpqua Jetty Work. with
Helena, Mont. July 5.-Helen Bel),
the Government geologists and statis that the German government purposes
bitulithic.
an 8 year old child, daughter of E. L.
ticians
covering the different subjects. to begin a “new and unrestricted sub
Roseburg—Contract let for construc
“Active demands and good prices have marine war,” in order to force Great
Bell of this city, died today from injur
Returns from all the districts so far
Marshfield, July 4.—A. Giebish, a ting of amusement park.
furnished the mine operators with full Britain to follow the rules of interna
ies received while she was playing with heard from show that tiie naval victory Portland contractor, is the successful
Silver Lake—Railroad to Klamath I <>■ portunity for success in working de- tional law.
firecrackers in celebration of Indepen is still in doubt.
bidder for the Port Umpqua jetty work. Falls being surveyed.
Captain Perseus states that German-
' vcloped properties, and this in turn has
dence day. Fireworks she was explod
The greatest defeat England seems His bid was $151,698. Out of 11 bids
Lumber mills of northwest restrict I given added incentive a id available y h».s now such a large number of sub
ing set fire to a drees she wore and she ti have suffered was in letting the opened, nine were from Portland. Gie
fundB for exploration, prospecting, and marines that they will be able to haim
was terribly burned about the body and Germans '‘beat her to the telegraph bish has 1C days to qualify and 30 days output—lay off one clay in the week.
face.
experimentation
with new processes. British trade considerably and prevent
Sheridan
rebuilding
burned
cannery
wires.”
to begin the work.
The
mining
man
is having his innings.” munitions reaching France. He pro
and installing fruit juice factory.
Summarizing the special reports now poses that Germany should ask the A-
Vale—American Nirrate Co. has 45
being made public, Director Smith con merican government certain questions
men at work in Lake county.
as io the attitude it intends to adopt.
tinues
his interview:
Marshfield —Menasha Wooden Ware
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The
returns
for
six
months
furnish
a
Co, of Chicago interested in plant here.
basis for tl.e belief that 1916 will set up
Roseburg—Agreement reached be a new record for the soft coal mines. Blast Buries Two Men
tween city and Pittsburg holders of Every coal mining state is sharing in
In Cascades Tunnel.
large timberland on North Umpqua. this prosperity and of course this de
Under terms of agreement, Kendall mand for coal is traced back to the in
Brothers will lease the railroad for a creased business of railroads and of the
Seattle, July 4.—An unexpect«?«l fall
term of 30 years. Sawmill will be er steel and other large industries.
of rock from a blast in the new Great
ected as soon as actual work is begun
Drilling activity throughout the oil Northern tunnel at Embro. on the west
on railroad. Mill will have capacity of producing states has brought about a slope near the summit of the Cascades
250.000 feet of finished lumber daily.
gratifying increase in production of last night buried two laborers under a
Willow Creek —Community irrigation C ’ude oil that promises to make 1916 a mass of rock and seriously injured two
record year for marketed petroleum. others. It is supplied that the men
district of 10,000 organized,
Grants Pass—Takilma smelter not Already production and consumption buried are dead. The others were not
used since 1908 to be put in commission. are reported by the Survey’s specialist seriously hurt.
as essentially in balance east of the
The men were in the employ of tl e
Port Orford wharf to be reconstuct
Rocky Mountains, with a tendency to contractor who is building the tunnel,
ed by S. F. lumber company.
which is part of the work being done
lower prices.
The I’ortlan I cement industry has had by the railroad to prevent interruption
a busy six months and the manufactur by winter snows.
Forest Notes
The explosion covered the main line
ers are optimistic. It is predicted that
in both production and shipments of track and trains will not be in opera
Application has been received by the cement this year will show a gain over tion until this afternoon.
A lari e
Government, fiom the mountaineers in la» t year, if indeed it does not establish number of men are digging out the bur
the Southern Appalachians, to buy all a new record for cement.
ied laborers and uncovering the track.
of the black birch bark in one of the
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Among the metals copper ¡3 contin
National Forests of that region. The uing the steady increase in production
bark is used to make sweet-birch oil, a which began last year, and the fore Tailor-Made Suit Decks
substitute for Wintergreen oil.
cast for 1916 indicates not only the
Centralia Soldier Giant
The market value of "silk” socks largest output ever known but also the
manufactured fron sawdust in the U.S. largest profits.
during 1915 was equal to the total ap Shipments of iron ore from Lake Su
Centralia, Wi.sh., July 4. — Members
propriation for administering the Na perior points for five months of 1916 of company M, of this city, have taken
I
tior.al Forests.
exceeded by more than 80 per cent un a collection to furnish Big Bill Mc
i Oregon consumes 217 cubic feet of those for the same months in 1915, and Cowan, one of the recruits with a uni
I wood per capita annually, compared the indications for the year are favor form. McGowan needs a suit two sizes
with 100 cubic feet per capita for tne able on a new high record on iron ore larger than any government uniform
| whole United States . This high rate production, and of pig iron as well. made and he would have been discharg
| in Oregon is due to the fact, that 85% Higher prices with a steady demand | ed if his fellow soldiers had not come
' of the consumption is for fuel purposes. are stimulating the mining of mangan to his rescue with a tailor made suit.
I The manufacture of tanks, silos, ese, with the result that this years out Big Bill is ti feet 5 inches in height and
I wood pipe and conduits ranks third a- put of ore is expected to surpass the weighs 230 pounds.
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mong the wood using industries of Or large production of last year.
The Pioneer Store
Owing
to the high cost of lumber,
Jacksonville, Ore
egon. High grade Douglas Fir is the
The lead and zinc mines are produc
chief wood serving the needs of this in ing ore at a rate even exceeding that platform planks are not as numerous
| this year.
dustry.
, of last year and the prevailing prices
The National Forests of Oregon and have made possible the working of
yield or last year, but silver, the one
Washington contain thousands of de j quantities of low grade ore.
sirable summer home sites that may
Most precious metal mines are run metal last to bet e it by the general
bo leased at reasonable term» for a ning at full capacity. The gold prcduc- prosperity, is expected this year to
p;riod of years.
t on will prqoably fall below the high break all previous records.
Campers
& picnic parties
will find their wants well
taken care of here
Everything in lunch
goods at the lowest pos
sible prices.
Lewis Ulrich
ck
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