Jacksonville post., October 21, 1916, Image 1

Oregon H storicsl Society
City Hf 11
VOL. X
JACKSONVILLE, JACKSON COUNTY. OREGON, OCTOBER 21
THE WAR GERM
KENTUCKY MOB
LYNCHES NEGROES
Yet
No Ferret or Serum
Discovered That Will
Kill It
KILLS MAN IN YARD
INDUSTRIAL RcVitVV
Manufactures,
Suspected Victim of At­
Six Thousand Persons in
tempting to Wreck
Crowd. Bodies Thrown
Home-Slayer Sur­
in
Fire
renders.
Enterprises and
Improvements,
Providing
Payrolls and Promot­
OX TEAM PIONEER ASKS
GASOLINE
O R OWN STATE
ROAD
Some Recent II ippeningi
in Various Parts of
Ezra Meeker Here to Get
Oregon
Aid for Proposed Trans­
continental High«
Falling Horse Injures Him
way
With thiee toes of his right foot bro­
ing Development
Medical science has increased in pow­
er and wrought many miracles during
of Oregon.
the past few years. As the ferret is
introduced into a building to destroy
Paducah, Ky., Oct. 16—Two negroes
Klamath Falls, Or., Oct. 16-Ed W >y,
the rats that infest it, science now in­ were lynched by a mob here today and
ken, John Klippel, United St ites cus­
Bandon —Sixes River placers and lo-
a woods foreman for the Algoma Lum­
jects into a sick man’s arteries a germ their bodies burned. One was charged
Portland, Oct. 16—To interest the toms inspector at Portland, is at the
ber company, was shot and killed Sat­ [ cal black sand mines purchased and will
to fight and kill the other germ that is with attacking a white woman and the
home of his parents at Medford. He
urday afternoon at 2 o’clock by Henry i be developed by New York capitalists. people of the nation in the construction
feasting upon and fast destroying the other was accused of voicing approval
Tillamook will try to add 125 square of tha proposed “Pioneer Way,” a na­ met with the accident near Klamath,
Hobbs, a homesteader, who suspected
life of the person who it inhabits. Thus of his action.
October 8, while spending his vacation.
Way of aatempting to wreck Hobb’s , miles territory to the part district to tional highway from Washington, D.
diphtheria is not much longer feared
One was taker from the county jail home. Hobbs met Way before t^e secure needed money for improve­ C., to Portland, Ezra Meeker, the fam­ He was out horseback riding. The
for the ferret hes been found to kill its and the other was was seized on the
ous pioneer, is making another trans­ tooting of an automobile appn aching
Hobbs house and shot hirn with a shot­ ments.
venom.
behind him caused the animal to run
streets. Followed by a crowd estimat­ gun at a distance of six feet, blowing
Roseburg—Sugar beets from this continental trip, and will spend several
In other cases a serum introluced in­ ed at 6000 persons, a large part of them
through a wire fence. Soon afterward
off Way’s head. Hobb’s wife and half 1 county shipped to Grants Pass sugar days in Port-land. Mr. Meeker arrived I
to the circulation stands always on in automobiles, the negroes were taken
here from the North yesterday and the Oeast fell. When it went down
I factory.
guard to kill the germ thatmiy be in- to the home of the woman, about two sister were the only witnesses.
the foot of Mr. Klippel iv is caught in
The
slayer
then
came
to
Klamath
I Bandon—Contract let for construc- will confer with the Chamber of Com­ s ich a way as to fracture the bones in
toduced through the water drank or miles away. While one of them was
merce
and
the
Automobile
club
officials
foul air breathed. This kills the germ held for identification the other was Falls and surrendered to thesheriif ana : tion of another lumber sh.p here.
the toes. An account of the affair wi s
to get their active support.
of typhoid, and another gives to small­ taken to a tree, a rope thrown over a is now in jail awaiting the coroner’s in­ Astoria—Big paving contract has
received at the customs house this
Mr.
Meeker
just
completed
a
trip
quest, which will be held tomorrow. ' started construction work.
pox infantile paralysis.
Agiin the limb, his neck encircle 1 in a noose and
across the continent by automobile. He morning.
caises of ceriain diseases have been an automobile hitched to the other er.d. He refuses to talk of the affair, and
Wedderburn—Salmon pack on Rogue left Washington, D. C., May 5, and
and the only two witnesses, the slay­
t aced out and people are warned to As soon as the other negro had been
I River largest in 35 yeais.
reached Tacoma September 12. The Sugar Factory Starts Mon fay
give these no food to fatten upon, and identified as the assailant of the woman er’s wife and half sister, are also silent
Brookings —Lumber company erect­ purpose of the highway is to give a
as
to
the
tragedy
and
the
circumstanc
­
also to sffiother them so soon as they he was led to the same tree and the
Grants Pass. Jr , Oct. 16—The new
ing twenty additional cottages. Has in- hard surface boulevard across [the con­
dre born. This h is about removed the process repeated. After assuring them­ es leading up to it. Hobbs recently i vestad $1.500,900 in its plant. Every­ tinent to be used for military and plea- beet sugar factory will start making
cjrnplained to the district attorney that
fear of yellow aril Pananria fevers.
selves that both negroes were dead the Way was trying to force his attentions body at Brookings is looking forward s ire purposes and to commemorate the sugar a week from today, everything
Lord Bryce wants, when the present members of the ffiob lowered the bodies
now being in readiness. Several car
on Mrs. Hobbs. The slayer has two to the completion of the Southern Pa­ pioneers.
viar is fought to a finish, such a peace and buried them on a blazing pile of
loads of beets have arrived in addition
cific coast line railroad between Coos
srqall
children.
Way
lived
in
Klamath
j
piide as will insure the world against brush.
to those brought in by wagons.
Bay
and
Eureka.
Falls and leaves a wife and children
fdture wars, and wants the United
Per Capita Taxation Must
The lynchings came after five hours
St. Johns—Shipyard here building
. States called in to assist in the adjust- of labor to enter the cells in the jail here.
motorship for large cannery firm.
Come Down.
ment. It is a generous thought; we and were the outcome of an Attack
Nitrate Fields Examined
Donald —Williams Bros, install gas
are sure our government will respond made Friday upon Mrs. George Rose at Saif Evaporation a Big Indus'ry
Vale, Or., Oct. 16—Hoyt S. Gale, U.
tractor for plowing.
to sum a call, if it does not first inau­ her home in the suburbs.
A chart prepared by the Tax Com­ 8. geological survey man, an expert in
North Bend—Largest wooden vessel
gurate a plan for peace, but, really,
what Lord Bryce wants is as vet impos­
In the production of that indispensa­ ever built on Pacific coast has just been mission of Wisconsin shows the total nitrates, has just completed an exam­
Sugar is io Advance Io $8 ble condiment, salt, the United States launched. Vessel is 235 ft. long and per capita tax by states, counties and ination of the nitrate fields in Harney
sible, for no serum has been found that
for all the states in the union to county, near Wagon Tire mountain.
can kill the fierce germ of war in the
is happily independent of all other has a capacity of 1,250,000 feet of lum- ' cities
1^ \ (J? $35.73
Of— 4'z. for
■— each man, woman and
J He came here at the request of Con­
Hundred
Pounds.
be
hearts of men: no preventative that
countries. The 38,231,496 barrels of ’ | her.
gressman N. J. Sinnott. His report
can meet it and smother it in its in­
salt produced in 1915 by 14 states, Por­
Coos Bay Harbor—The Southern Pa- child.
has been withheld.
This
would
make
the
average
family
ception.
Portland, Oct. 17—Sugar will be ad­ to Rico, and Hawaii constituted 99 per ’ cific is doing its full share for Coos
As medical scientists hope eventually vanced another 10 cents tomorrow in cent of the salt consumed in the Unit­ ■ Bay. This road is a branch in its pre­ of five pay $178.65 per year, and in Cali­
to subdue or prevent all diseases, so the local market lifting the price of ed States, and much more could easily sent form, and is the only branch road fornia where the average per capita is
good men read their bibles and believe cane to $8 which will be 45 cents under have been supplied had the demand re­ the S. P. Co. has given a through j highest the average family would pay Ice Company Elects Its Officers
$391.95 per year, or $78.39 per person.
that the time will come when the na- the record. This makes a recovery in quired it, according to the United train.
Ashland, Or., Oct. 16—The Ashland
The next highest states are als > in
tions will learn war no more, But the tie market of $1 since last September. States Geological Survey, Department
Springfield will ship 100 carloads late - the west—Oregon, Nevada, Washing­ Ice & Storage company operating large
nations are not yet prepared for that
The advances have been as follows: of the Interior.
potatoes.
ton, Nebraska and Montana. Idaho ice and storage plants both in Ashland
time—the wild beast in the souls of September 15, advance of 25 cents; Sep-
Salt occurs naturally in two distinct
Douglas
county
has
developed
grape
,
an(j Colorado are a little lower than and Medford, hes elected officers for
men is still in its full strength
: tember 22, advance of 25 cents; Octo­ ways —as rock salt in beds or associ at- industry to shipping large quantit'es. | New Yoik, and Utah is just, below the the coming year. G. S. Butler is pres­
It has been found that many of the ber 3, advance of 15 cents; October 4, ed w th bedded or sedimentary deposits
ident; J. H. Simpson, vice president,
Malheur Gazette—If this state can i average $34.40.
most virulent diseases have their germs advance of 10 cents; October 12, ad­ and in natural orlncs. The larger part
and H. L. Whited, secretary. J. G.
originate and nursed to full strength vance of 15 cents and tomorrow, ad­ of our salt is obtained by converting make a Sunday blue law and ¡Congress | The fault for the constant increase Hurt was elected treasurer and mana­
by filth.
rock salt that lies deep below the can reduce the hours of labor to a mi: - [ does not lie with administrative officials ger. Ashland and Medford are both
vance of 10 cents.
It is in the filth of ignorance, super­
earth’s surface into artificial brines, imum, Utopia will have been reached ] or assessors or collectors although they icing stations for the Pacific Fruit ex­
stition, hatred, envy, malice and the
which aie Dumped to the surface and and we will abide there for a time. The j have to bear the criticism in part, but press.
74 Aerop lanes Shot Down
lust of power and avarice, that the
there evaporated. Some idea of the time will not be long, for these and oil.- . with legislative bodies yielding to de­
germs of war are hatched and brought
quantity of salt evaporated from natur- er proposed laws, if enacted will raise mauds.
In One Month,
State, county, city and school legis­
t > full growth in the hearts of nations.
ai brines may be gained from statistics the cost of living and time of idleness
Stabbed 11 years ago. She Now
At this stage of the world, nations
of the output of New York, Michigan, to the point of starvation, the point lative bodies provide more offices, raise
salaries,
multiply
boards
and
commis­
where
no
one
can
afford
to
work
and
should strive to keep their hearts free
Berlin, Oct. 16-(By wireless to Say­ and Kansas alone, three large salt-pro­
Asks for a Divorce
sions, order improvements and extrava­
from that filth that they may give no ville) Seventy-four hostile aeroplanes, ducing States, for the calendar year none can afford to buy.
Portland,
Oct. 16—Gertrude L. Le­
Coos Bay may get a large wood-cre- gances that must come out of the tax­
offense. At the same time they should of which 21 were French and 53 were 1915. In Michigan, 6,708,261 barrels of
fever waited 11 years after her husband
payer.
are that their shores and their people British, were shot down by the Ger- evaporated salt, having a value of $3,- osoting plant.
Cost y commissions created at the stabbed her in the back with a knife
are provided with the best known pre- m ins during September, according to 635,692. were produced; in New York,
Coivallis—State conferencs held her#
’
demand
of plausible reformers have before she filed her suit for divorce.
ventatives to keep the germs of war an exact list compiled by the German 3,443,464 barrels, valued at $1,720,434; at Agricultural college tn have state i
The stabbing charge is one in a divorce
a vay and combat them in c»se they ef- military authorities, says an Overseas I and in Kansas, , 1,901,756 barrels, val­ acquire limestone and go into lime in­ heaped up and multiplie! burdens until
complaint file! by Mrs. Lefever, whom
the
people
of
the
state
groan
and
cry
fee1' a landing.—Goodwin’s Weekly.
News agency statement.
|—
J -*•
ued
at $696,060.
dustry.
out for relief and legislative bodies she married in El;.ria, Ohio, June 10,
Paisley adopts plans for $30,000 pub­ should let up
1905. Mrs. Lefever charges her hus­
^■T)
OU») < W>
8» 99S CVS *
lic school.
band frequently kicked and beat her
The
trouble
is
that
for
ten
months
in
cam? (MW .ßWMy
’.«■D
.a»
Sellwood will fight location of a tu­ the year the reformer, the educator, from the day of their marriage to De­
berculosis hospital in that city.
the philanthropist at public expense cember 1, 19(5, when she left him and
Portland—1200 men in yards here are busy calling for public expenditures went to live with her mother. She
and only for two months in campaigns alleges he stabbed her in November,
building ships for Norway.
1905.
Wilsonville—Floral firm to build $8,- is there any discussion of the need of
retrenchment.-Pacific
Coast
Manufac
­
000 greenhouse near here.
turer.
Oswego cement plant to resume op­
Hardware Store Raided
erations at once.
Roseburg,
Or., Oct. 16 The hard­
Efficiency and Overhead
Judging from sentiment expressed
ware
store
of
S. K. Sykes was raided
by voters over the state, the L ind and
Saturday night, un ler the direction of
Loan measure, (single tax) will be
A number of educators conventions District Attorney Neuner, and two-
snowed under deeper this election than
and conferences of parents and teach­ thirds of a case of beer was fonnil, ad­
ever before.
ers are being held in several parts of dressed to a woman of this city. A
It costs more to conduct the affairs
charge will probably be filed against
the state.
of the city of Portland than it costs
Most of the work is directed along a Sykes for having in his possession a
for the state of Oregon. Yet the state
single line, to get new laws for levying package of liquor to which he is not
has 809,000 people and the city 250,000. more taxes, raising salaries and mak­
legally entitled, or if this should be sat­
Eugene issued permits for seven new ing jobs.
isfactorily explained a charge of con-
houses in September.
It is a fact that public school expen­ ducting a nuisance may be brought
Hillsboro-Carnation milk condensery ditures in Oregon, including higher ed­ againBt him. Locked doors delayed
ucation have increase 1 300 ner cent in the raid for 10 minutes, and in that
II ad ling $50,000 unit to plant here.
time the Women and men, who were
Baker —September building permits ten years.
II total $11,200.
The state has not increased in wealth said to be drinking and carousing in a
or population in that time 100 percent, rear apartment, escaped by a secret
ii Donald get lot of new houses.
neither have incomes of citizens or wa­ passage through a Chinese restaur­
Hermiston apple industry yielding ges increased.
ant.
carl >ad shipments.
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The crusade to raise salaries of all
Grants Pass —Plans secured for new teachers, regardless of efficiency or ex­
court house to c ist $60,000.
Shortage of Coal is Feared
periences, and to pay women the name
Wheeler county to vote on $80,000 s men, has been largely responsible.
The fact is, in no other occupation
r.iad bonds.
New York, Oct. 16 A shortage of
are women paid as much as men for
Bend -Work starte! on new threc- the simple reason that forty jobs are coal is in prospect for this city th s
story hotel.
winter, according to dealers, who de­
open to men for one to women.
clare
their bins are being depleted their
The
state
organization
of
educators
Conservative estimates place value
shipments delayed and that the outlook
of Hood River Valley agricultural pro­ has put oyer arbitrary rules for their
own benefit that doubles the cost of for immediate or eventual relief is po r
ducts at $1.501,000.
overhead in schools without correspon­ The shortage applies to both hard and;
Stanfield—Standard Oil Co. to erect ding efficiency.-Pacific Coast Manufac- •oft coal.
Failure to receive the usual enraurt
distributing system here.
turer.
of coal is attributed to a scarcity of la­
The esteemed N iw York Herald is bor at the mines and lack of cars for •.
Î0 Killed in Railroad Accident now
printing its quadrennial series of traniportation.
- ....
. - r—
•’straw” votes-for the pleasure of its
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Elwood, Neb., O t. 16 Ten men were readers.
However,
th-
’
narrow
Mack
strip on
1 he Pioneer Store
Jnckaomille, Ore
ïil
killed an 1 11 others seriously injured
These sensible Otto r a i troops will the western front acquired by the’al-
when a train on the Burlington railroad doubtless understand how it is if their lie» doesn’t assure a Berlin dinner n?xt
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crashed into a freight caboose, 12 miles beloved Sultan is not able to m ike ma Christmas.
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east of here Sunday.
ny visits to the Riga front.
Another reason for keeping evange­
All the victims are residents of Ne­
Roumania ia reported on the offen­ lists away from the border is th it some
braska, most of them farmers or stock- sive while King of Greece aontinuis on milit mt might start ut> “Onward Chris­
men.
* the fence.
tian Soldiers."
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Lewis Ulrich