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Oregon Historical Society Citv Hatt JANUARY 6. 1917. VOL. X. INDUSTRIAL REVIEW BURNS TO BE ON OUR OWN STATE I CHIHUAHUA MAY BE BRANCH RAILROAD GIVEN UP TO VILLA Some Recent Happenings Manufactures, Enterprises and Production of Past Year Regular Meeting Tuesday in Various Parts of Strahorn Announces Plans Improvements, Providing Night. Only Routine I Report From Mexican City Wonderful Record, says Oregon Payrolls ani P o not With Regard To Har Is That Bandit May Business Transacted. Secretary Lane ing Development ney Valley Systhin. Force Troops To Higher Amo Tax Opposed The mines in Arizona paid $35,000,- I The regular session of the city coun of Oregon. Evacuate Roseburg, Jan. 1.—Douglas County 000 in dividends during the past year. cil was held at the city hall, Tuesday R. METALS OF THE U. S TIIE CITY COUNCIL Announcement has been made by Grange has passed a resolution against E. Strahorn, president of the Oregon, the proposed measure to tax automo Buhl —Alfalfa sec 1 industry reaches California & Eastern Railway company El Paso, Tex., Jan. 3. -Francisco biles $1 per horse power. 121,000 bushels for 1916 here. Villa was reported to have been at that Burns will not be located on the Salem to get $60,1'0 > inere ise t > fed Concho, 60 miles south of Chihuahua through east and west line from Crane City, on Friday, and was moving north to Bend, but will be served bv a branch eral building- line. Insurmountable grade difficulties toward the state capital with a force of 50 Bend Elks Will Vale —Western Pacific Co. v.ill sink a 5000 men, a Mexican mining man who Petition For Charter influenced the decision. Harney valley well here for oil an 1 gas. arrived on the delayed Mexican Central will be served by a north and south Oregon legislat >rs plan ;"1 \0‘iJ bond Ben i, Jan. 3.— Before the en 1 of the line. train early Sunday morning reported issue for rural loans. upon his arrival on the American side week, Bend Elks who have been back “The project is being systematically Portland $1,750,000 Portland Vancou ing u campaign to secure a charter for of the river today. the members of the antlered herd in organized and worked out as a whole.’’ ver bridge over Culumbia river com- The mining man said General Nur- this city, will forward their petition to says Mr. Strahorn, “rather than in a I plete. guia has fewer men in the Chihuahua national lodge headquarters. More local way, as I have always desired, for Pendleton—$30,009 roadshow th.utre garrison th m had been reported, and than 50 names of active members of I contend that the benefits to be deriv planned here. said there was a strong feeling in the the order, residing here, will be »pBend- ed by each community from tne comple Marshfield-Smith-Powers Ct. n«k tion of the entire system will be vastly capital that the Carranza commander ed, although only 25 is required. greater than they can be by giving it franchise for railroad from Bunker Hill might be forced to evacuate the city A minimum city population of 5000 only some desired local relief.” to Summit. and come north toward the border. is one of the most rigid requirements Salem -Attorney General demands - — and, based on the recent school census, $38,320 to conduct his department. when nearly 1300 children of school age Washington Woman Forest Notes Flouring mill at John Day to operate were enumerated, the Elks feel safe in after Feb. 1' Wields Horsewhip. making their request at this time. Oregon City—Woolen mills here to The National Forests of Oregon and share profits with 1 )0 employees. Washington are being protected, not Walla Walla, Jan. 2. Armed with a only from fire but from the ravages of | KLAMATH FALLS FARMER PortlandAlbina Engine and Machine horsewhip, Mrs. C. E. Montgomery, Works has contracts for two 3300 ten insects. Occasionly barkbeetles be VICTIM OF HEART TROUBLE wife of the city physician, went to the and four 3300 ton Stell steamships. come so destructive on certain areas Klamath Fails, Jan. 3. —E. R. Wil- i that the infected timber must be im liams, for over 30 years a resident of court house this morning and administ North Bend- Large dredging improve mediately cut and burned to prevent I Klamath county, died Saturday from ered a severe beating to Guy Allen Tin ment to be undertaken on Pony SI >ugh ner, county treasurer, prominent in further damage to valuable timber. I heart trouble. Mr. Williams was first musical circles here. Turner made no North Bend—223 fool lumber iarri«.r The work of classifying and opening i stricken last March and has been una I resistance and Dr. Montgomery w is a Florence Polson launched here. to nomestead entry such lands in the ble to leave his be 1 since. A change witness of the affair. Oregon valuations as equalize I $51,- National Forests as are chiefly valua to a lower altitude was advised but his 481,512 be low 1915. The horsewhipping was the culmina- ble for agriculture are progressing rap weakened condition made the change Cushman — Loggin; railroad to p? idly. Already over seventy million ac impossible. He was 54 years old, and j tion of rumors that have coupled the built up Bernhardt creek. names of Turner and the woman, the res have been covered by field examin had made his home in Klamath basin Salem -Spaulding Logging Co. pur« ations a'id the final reports acted upon. for many years, being engaged in dair latter alleging that she had been sland ered by the county treasurer chases South Mill water power .1 Investigations by the Forest Products ying and farming. He is survived by MOONSHINE PLANT ---------- ».*>•----------- site for manufacturing plant Somme Drive Cost L ibratory, at Madison, Wis., have re the widow and seven children. Lane county budget t ut 231,000 be FOUND AT CANBY sulted in the use of spent tanbark m Power Behind Throne of British 520,017 Min low estimates. the manufacture of asphalt shingles to Russia Reported Killed Prarie City Flour mill here to bo the extent of 160 tons per week, The ASHLAND IS ORGANIZED I TO CLOSE ROGUE RIVER Men Under Arrest for Bur- operated next year. value of the bark ha3 therefore been I London, Jan. J.—The total casualties increased from 60 cents to $2.50 per I Ashland, Jan. 2.—With the primary Coos Bay coal num < being developed reported in the published lists from 1 London, Jan. 2.—Dispatches from the glary Thought To Be Its ton. aim of securing the closing of Rogue I Reuter and other Petrograd correspon ns S. P. Co’s new line has opened new December 1 to December 23 was: offic There were cut from the National river to commercial fishing which is dents say that Gregory Rasputin, who markets. ers 815, men 36,350. No lists were pub Owners Forests in the fiscal vear 1916, 604,910,- now conducted at the mouth of the riv is reputed to have exercised great in- Reedsport—S. P. Co. making exten lished during the holidays. 000 board feet of timber. Of this a- er, th : Ashland Fish & Game Protect i iluence over Emperor Nickolas, is dead sive improvements here. The effect of cessation of the Somme Oregon City. Jan. L—Searching for m.iunt, 119,483,000 board feet was cut ive association has been formed with j Correspondents say that Rasputin was La Grande has largest packing pl r t offensive with the advent of unfavora men who had been stealing from farm under free use privilege by 42,055 in 100 members in this city. The local or assassinated under peculiar circumstan in eastern Oregon. ble weather conditions is shown in these figures, which give a daily aver ers in the neighborhood, officials last dividuals. In all, 10,840 sales of tim ganization will affiliate with other like ces. Twice before Rasputin has been Haines—Work on chloride mine on reported to have been murdered. age of 1548 casualties for the 24 days week located a whiskey distillery on ber were made, of which amount 97 organizations in the valley. Rich Creek to be resumed. per cent were under $100 in value, in the banks of the Willamette, four miles i covered by the report. Bend, the boom town of eastern Ore west of Canby. On Saturday Sheriff dicating the extent to which the home In November the daily average was 1 W. J. Wilson and Deputy District At steader, rancher, miner, small millman LIVES 58 YEARS AFTER gon, has two daily papers. Oldest Bridegioom On 2188, and in October was 3452. The torney Thomas A. Burke visited the and others in need of a limited supply First railroad, then sugar factory, HIS BACK IS BROKEN losses reported in December bring up place and destroyed the still. They of timber draw upon the Forests. New Years is Aged 91 now smelter, and the Grants Pass snow Eugene. Jan. 2.—As the result of the total British casualties since the be brought back with them 25 feet of lead ball of progress rolls on. ---------- ---------------- trusting numerous customers in his lit ginning of the Somme offensive to 520,- pipe that had formed part of the ap Salem erecting two brick stores. Portland—Oregon hotel to be raised tle store on the McKenzie river 26 years Los Angeles, Jan. 2.—Charles R. paratus. to 15 stories—cost $50,000. Albany Furniture factory is in m ir- ago, Jackson Brown, an inmate of the Post, 91 years of age, father of C. W. Lane counly poor farm, who had lived Post, of Battle Creek, Mich., was the ket for 80 carloads of Coast abler, ash 58 years with a broken hack, failed and oldest bridegroom recorded in the coun and maple. Proposed Oregon freak law, bill to went to the poor farm where he died ty today, following the marriage yes •Saturday night at the age of 7J years. terday of himself and Mrs. Nellie J. make lazy husbands work. Brown came co the Coast nearly forty Moore, 55 years ol 1. Ontario $14,000 street lighting sys years ago. Having broken his back in ---------- ««>♦---------- tem to be installed here by Idaho Pow a rock quarry at the age of 21, he lived er (to., which is also given 10 year No Discharge From in a wheel chair. lighting contract. ---------- ♦-------------- Army For Students CARL SHOEMAKER SELLS I Eugene Woman Found I1IS ROSEBURG PAPER Waseington, Jan. 7, —Senator Cham- Dead in Hath Room Roseburg, Jan. 3.-B. W. Bates and! berlain is advised by the war deDart Eugene, Jan. 1. Mrs. A. W. Lilly, ton, Bertram Bates, of this city, have inent that no applications fordischarge bought the Evening News, the paper frorn the national guard will be f ivor- wife of County Supervisor II. W. Lib of which Carl D. Shoemaker, game1 .tbjy considered in cases where uppli- by, was found dead in the bathtub of warden of the stare, was the principal cantg desire to return home to resume the family home here yesterday morn ing, and the attending physician pro nwni-r . l . • a owner, and will rnnfiniip continue thp the nuhlir»« publica J their studies. nounced it a possible case of drowning tion as an evening daily and as a semi ---------- ---------------- after a stroke. She had apparently weekly. Mr. Bates founded the paper been stricken and had fallen over in an Punch Boards Are In Bad several years ago. attempt to pull the stopper and was found face downward. Her husband is VETERAN IS BURIED Vancouver, Wash.. Jan. 2.—On or seriously ill in the hospital and she had Roseburg, Jan. 3.—A. II. Lozier, a ders from Judge R. H. Back and Pros attend*d him the evening before. Civil war veteran, was buried this af ecuting Attorney J. O. Blair, all punch ternoon at the Oregon Soldier,s Home, I boards and other games of chance in where he had lived for many years. J Vancouver have been put on the taboo Sugar Goes Down 10 He was 76 years old, and entered the list and Sheriff Biesecker threatens a Cents More And Is institution from Grants Pass, He Í3 cleanup of any stores found using them Not Yet At Button The order was issued last week, No survived by a widow. longer will the youth of the city be al Portland, Jan. 3. —Effective this mor lowed to play the board of chan"e tor ning sugar prices came down another boxes of candy and other articles of dime. The result is cane sugar now Plan To Consolidate merchandise. wholesales at $7.30 a hundred pounds, ------- -- State and City Election. and beet sugar ot $7.10. These are the lowest prices to prevail here in several Salem, Jan. L —Estimating that city Japan Io Put Guns months and bid fair to go lower still. elections are costing the people approx On Merchant Ships It would not be surprising if they con imately $50,000 annually, Secretary of tinued to dr >p until they had reached a State Olcott, in his biennial report, re point at least $1 under their present commends that the constitution be so amended that they can be held in con Washington, Jan. 3.—Japan through level. At such a figure the marked junction with the regular state primary the ambassy here, has notified the state would be considered normal. There is and general elections. Such an amend- department of her intention to prm her no excuse for high prices in the h igar men. would necessitate the lengthen merchant ships defensively and request market now. ing of the terms of a number of munic ed information as to whether any spe The Pioneer Store Jacksonville, Ore ipal officers, he declares. cial rule.“ had bien made by this gov All Newfoundland Is Dry ernment for passage of ships so armed tnrough the Panama canal. St. Johns. N. F., J.n 1 At midnight there are no canal regulations impoa- L g ape ill r".“ti i t ions upon vessels ar- last night the whole a uruhibition ; • i d pur ly f . d fi'ii ive purposes, a foundlHiid b ame Ion Clute.; Saud i.ol .« nUch arilialll mi act becoming ell live, A long list of proprietary medicines 60 per cent ov.r the same time last does not deprive a ship of her charact has been plaied under the ban. i year. er as a peaceful merchantman, 1 Adding Utah, Montana, Nevada aud evening. Present- Mayor Britt; Coun- Idaho dividends to those of Arizona we cilmen Bagshaw, Florey and II 'rtman; have a total of over $100,000,000 in div Recorder Stanselp-absent- Neil. Minutes of previous meeting read and idends paid out of the mines of these approved. Bills for officers’ salaries, five western states in a single year These are some of the impressive labor, supplies, etc. were presented facts brought out by the report of the i and ordered paid. A proposed ordinance granting a new Geological survey just made to Secre tary Lane just made. “Never before, ” franchise to the Southern Oregon Trac- said Mr. Lane, “has so large a draft | tion Company was presented but no ac- been made on the natural resources of I tion taken at this time, pending fur- our country as during this year, and 1 thur consideration. D. H. Croncmiller never before have the metals been ex was present and asked for a contribu- tracted from these ores with less waste ' tion to a fund for purchasing instru- or utilized to better advantage in ad I ments for the new band. On motion vantage in advancing the general pros ! $10 was appropriated for this purpose. ----------- perity of the country. Even as writ ten in the figures of 1916 production the wonderful record of our mines sets Lessening of Crime Is forth a degree of national industrial in Credited To Prohibition. dependence only hoped for a few years ago Tacoma, Jan. 5.—There is less crime “Again copper stands out as the best illustration of how American mines can business here in the courts than for meet a world demand. The output of merly and the court officers credit the nearly 2 billion pounds of the red met prohibition law with the improvements al is double that of ten years ago and in conditions. its value is twice that of the copper In 1916 there were 210 criminal and ptoduced in 1915. Add to this the facts 1450 civil eases started as against 222 that in value copper now contends with criminal and 1800 civil cases during the iron for first place among the metals previous year. The major share of the and that together the amount of these ciiminal prosecutions this year were two metals produced last year had a for violations of the prohibition law, so value of more than one billion dollars the figures would indicate that other and we have a measure of what this phases of the criminal business had de country can contribute in useful met creased greatly since last January. als. Sloppy Weather! Let us fix you up to keep your feet dry? Shoes, Boots, Rubbers Rubber Boots, etc. for the entire family at lowest prices Lewis Ulrich ÌI ii ft
