Oregon Historical Society
Citv !’•"
J UCKSONVILLE, JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, JANI ARY 13. 1917.
VOL. X.
ORGANIZED MILITIA SOLD TOBACCO
I I WILL PROFIT BY
NOT FOR STRIKE DUTY
TO MINORS.
LESSONS OF WAIi
OLE OWN STATE
i Monmouth Woman Is
Victim Of Measles
NO.
INDUSTRIAL REVIEW
Some Recent Happenings Monmouth, Jan. 8.— Mrs Paul Tach Manufactures, Enterprises and
exon, of near monmouth, died Su day
Improvements, Providing
Measure Planned To Have Three Portland Merchants Army And Navy Authorize
after being ill with the measles for
in Various Parts of
several weeks. This is the first death
Payrolls and Promot
All Able Bodied Men
Fined $15 Each
Latest In Aeroplanes
Oregon
from measles since the breaking out of
the epidemic in December 1916.
ing Development
Called In Emergency
And Fighting Ma
Portland, Jan. 10.—Three tobacco
National
Prohibition
of Oregon.
chinery.
merchants were fined $12 apiece this
i Is Urged
TT j By »-.JJ
? Salem, Jan. 8.—Every ablebodied morning in Judge Langguth’s court,
Eddy Boy J Lies With Broken
man between the ages of 21 and 45 will for selling tobacco to minors They are
be eligible for strike duty and members I. D. Driver, 775 Union avenue North;
of the national guard will be relieved Lewis Mitchell, southeast corner ot
from such duty, if a bill to be introdu Fifth and Burnside, and Tom Raptor,
ced at tnis session of the legislature is Sixth atd Burnside. Judge Langguth
passed. The bill will be soon present told the defendants that he was impos
ed in the senate by Senator Orton, of ing an absurdly small fine because this
Multnomah county, or Senator Wilbur, was their first offence.
of Hood River and Wasco. Both are
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interested in military affairs. Behind
the bill are the the labor interests and Amount Of Damages
professional men, it is understood. The
Unlimited, bays Court
reasons for making the national guard
the last body called for strike duty are
said to include the fact that many
There is no limit to the amount of
members of the guard would have to
move directly against their clients and damages a jury may award in a person
friends. A lawyer belonging to the al injury damage ease, even if the one
guard, who had fir his clients working injured is a member of the public and
men, would find himself in an embaras- protected by the employers liability
sing position. A working man in the law.
This was toe ruling of Circuit Judge
guard would not find his lot a pleasant
one. The militia of the state consists Gantenbein yesterday when he oven ul-
of every ablebodied man between the ed the demurrer ot the Portland Rail-
ages of 21 and 45 and it is planned that 1 way, Light & Power company in the
these shall be subject to the first cal) case of Mis. Edith J. Branin against
by the governor and, if they are not the company for $75,000 damages for
able to cope with the situation, the or j the ieath of her husband who was run
' over and killed by a street car two
ganized guard is to be called.
(years ago.-Telegram.
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Neck By Side Of Road Southern Pacific Co. calls for bids fur
Salem, Jan. 9.— Memorials to congres
Wushirgtun, Jan. 9.— Ordnance and
aircraft innovations designed from lines ¡similar to those provided bv the house
Pendleton, Jan. 8. Martin Brant, ! 1000 freight cars, to be built of woed
developed by European beligerents are yesterday afternoon, were introduced j aged 16, son of a wellknown Nolin far throughout, both under frame and su; -
authorized by by the war and navy de in the senate by Senator Eddy this mer, was found lying with his neck ' er structure.
morning. One petitions congress to I broken by the roadside three miles
partments.
Oregon Power Co. plans expenditure
They include Zepplin type airships, submit a national prohibition amend south of Nolin on Saturday night, und of $300,000 in Willamette valley.
large caliber mobile rifles and howit- ment to the states, and the other asks died Sunday morning. Several persons
Eugene —Eastern capital represented
zers to be mountad on railroad tracks for the banishment of liquor advertise- ; passed the youth but thought he was a here to develop Coos Bay fisheries.
ments
from
the
mails.
drunken sheepherder and paid no atten
for coast defense or hauled by tractor
Port of Bandon plans $40.000 dredge
tion to him. A woman at last went to
engines over country roads.
where he was lying, found him uncon j to maintain 12 foot channel between
Secretary Daniels announced today Traveling School For
scious and called her husband from Bandon and Coquille.
that the "Zepplin” would be construct
Fall City Logging & Lumber com
their home near bv. The boy was
Bend Logging Camps thrown from a wild horse he was rid pany to resume operations after idle
ed at once. Determination to build the
cratt was reached after an exhaustive
ing to a Nolin church to attend a liter ness of two years.
study of the question of rigid airships
ary program.
Salem —Corporation Commission cuts
by a joint committee of officers repre- j Bend, Jan. 9.—To provide for shift-
from $37, b 68.84 to $33,853.80.
senting the aeronautical branches of lug population in the logging camps
Salem Fruit Union distributes $50,000
both services, the general staff of the | adjacent to Bend, plans are being pre Gill’s Father Obtains
Verdict to loganberry growers on last half of
army and the general board of the na pared for a school house, which it is
of 1916 crop, making total of $100,000
vy, which recommended that construc thouget, will be unique in the history
A gainst Young Man
paid for fresh crop and more than$10J,-
tion be undertaken at once,
of education in this state. The school
000
for dried crop.
The recommendations have been ap will have its foundation on a flat car,
Salem, Jan. 7.—The jury in the case
Additions
and betterments tentative
and
wiil
be
moved
from
place
to
place,
proved by Secretary Daniels and Sec
of Samuel Shaffer against Earl Gardner ly planned by O. W. R. & N. Co. for
retary Baker, and the cost will be e- as the cutting of logs progresses, an 1
late Sarurday returned a verdict of 1917 call for an aggregate expenditure
qually divided between the army and the camps are moved further into the >■<862 for the plaintiff. Shaffer was su
of approximately $4,000,000.
timber.
navy.
ing as the father of Fannie Shaffer, an
Oregon metal output past year shows
The
interior
wiil
bj
the
duplicate
of
Army ordnance plants are already
18 year old girl, who appeared in the great increase. Silver twice and cup
buil.:>iig at the Watervliet arsenal, N. any small school room. According to courtroom with her year.old baby in
per twice as much as proceeding year.
Y., pilot guns of the 16 and I2-incb present plans it is to be ready within her arms.
two weeks.
It is to be hoped that the legislature
howitzer.
Plans
are
practically
com
Villa Reported On
The defendent’s wife also was in will not kill an industry such as salmon
I
pleted for a 14-inch high powered rifle
court with an infant child. The Shaf canning on the Rogue river simply for
Cars Crushed By Boulder
His Way To Juarez
with carriage for mounting on railroad Forest Guard Missing
fer girl charged the defendent with se the benefit of a few ‘sportsmen. ’ Such
trucks.
duction and with being the father of action would be a disgrace tuthe whole
In Timber Near Bend her child. Heart balm to the extent
El Paso, Jan. 10.—Government ag-1 ; Kennet, Cal., Jan. 7.—Five cars of a
state.
moving
freight
train
were
knocked
off
Bend,
Jan.
9. —Up to late last night of $20,000 was asked.
ents here received a report today which
Portland—North Bank road gives
Lawyers
Want
Change
the
Southern
Pacific
track
at
Smithson
no word of success had been received
was accepted as authentic that Fran
wage
increase, dating from January 1,
from a rescue party which is combing
cisco Villa had sent 3000 of his troops near here, today by a great boulder
lowest paid help getting larges, in-
In Court Procedure the
|
that
suddenly
released
its
grip
on
the
country
in
search
of
J.
R.
Christ
Klamath Plans District Fair I crease.
north from Parral to operate between
enson, forest guard of the Deschutes
Chihuahua City and Juarez, with mountainside and shot like a comet to
Klamath
Falls, Jan. 9.—A movement
Pendleton 1600 acre farm which at
the intention of occupying the state the valley below.
Salem, Jan. 8. —A number of Salem national forest, in ihe Crescent section. is on foot to arrange a discrict fair for I one time sold for $73,000 so.d recently
Two of the cars were almost entirely attorneys will introduce a bill provid He is believed to have been caught by this year, comprising Klamath, Crook
capital and Juarez while Feneral Mur
guia was in Southwestern Chihuahua. destroyed, and traffic was delayed 12 ing for judges in the various courts to the blizzard while making the rounds and Lake counties in Oregon, and Mo for $36,00'».
Bend makes arrangements at once to
give instructions to juries prior to the of his traps, and, with his tracks oblit doc and Shasta counties in California.
The report was confirmed by foreign I hours. No one was injured.
purchase
terminal site for Oregon, Cal
erated,
to
have
been
unable
to
make
arguments by attorneys. The conten
refufiees arriving at the border today.
ifornia & Eastern R. R.
his
way
back
to
his
cabin.
tion
is
that
under
the
present
system
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SISJ« '
Gypsies Are Accused Of
Copper found oi ‘.v.ako river on Ore
Indians To Eat Prunes
He is known to have left on Christ
the attorneys address juries before in
Congress May Make
gon side just oelow Innaha.
structions are given by judges, and mas morning, with only a light lunch
Liquor Sales in Salem they infer what the instructions will be in his pocket, but due to the isolation Roseburg, Jan. 9.—The U. S. Indian
Oregon City —Woolen mills here plan
agent has purchased 55.000 of prunes
Alaska Dry As Bone i
while, if a change was made, they could of his home, his absence was not notic for distribution to the various agencies addition 80x250 ft., which will increase
capacito of mill 50'.
1
Salem, Jan. 8.—Liquor purchased base their remarks and arguments up ed until last Sunday, according to a and schools.
Washington, Jan. 10.—At a hearing > from gypsies had a kick that put Wil- on the law and instructions given telephone message received here by
Mt. Scott Herald has been, sold to
Forest Supervisor Hastings.
of a drastic prohibition bill for Alaska ■ ban; McIntire in a highly intoxicated from the bench.
Messrs. Fox & Dunb ir.
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before the house territories committee, I condition last night and gave the new
Asks Funds for Crescent City
Suryey of proposed railway from Gap
it was developed that there 385 retail police administration the first oppor-
Salem,
Jan. 9.—Senator Smith of to Bur1 is has been completed.
Mrs.
George
Morgan
Is
Dead
25,000
Gopher
Sculps
Are
liquor dealers and six brewers in the ' tunity to make an arrest since Chief
Josephine county, introduced a resolu
Roseburg—Broccoli grower near here
Forest Grove, Jan. 9. Mrs. George
territory. Chairman Houston indcated E. E. Cooper and his force took office
tion memoralizing congress to appro I receives $3400 check for 17 acre cron.
Presented
for
Bounty.
Morgan,
aged
67,
died
here
suddenly
the committee would rpport the bill fa- * January 1. McIntire staggered when
I
Salem, Jan. 9.— During the last six priate $390,000 for tlie improvement of Douglas county will ship 15 ) carloads
vorably and that its effect would be to j walking near Patrolman Wright and last night. She had lived here about a
the harbor at Crescent City, Cal. Ac this coming season.
days 25,000 gopher scalps have been
year, coming here from Gales Creek.
make the territory "bone dry.”
was taken to the city jail.
cording to the resolution, the improve
La Grande —Hot Luke Sanitarium
brought to the county court house and I
ment of this harbor woukl save the sold to Dr. W. T. Phy.
the sum of $2200 has been paid in boun
fruitmen of the Rogue river valley vast
ties. The fund for this purpose be
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Marshfield-Oregon Power company
sums in freight rates and prove of ben
came available last week. The entire
efit generally to a country af 00 miles stringing wires across bay to east side
fund appropriated for bounties totals
to light town and furnish power to in
square.
$4155 for the entire year and this will
dustries.
probably be exhausted in a few days.
Yamhill county has eliminated two
Will Cultivate Fewer IIopj
offices, roadmaster and agriculturist.
Department of Weights & Measures
independence, Jan 8. A decrease of
Blow At Alcohol In
200 acres in the acreage of hops is ex to be merged with Dairy commission.
Patent Medicines pected in this section. Nearly all the Salem tax levy reduced * of a mill.
Oregon supreme court took in fees
Salem, Jan. 9.—A bill striking at bit large yards wiil have their usual acre
ters and patent medicines containing age, but many smaller growers intend for 1916, $13,280.
alcohol was introduced in the house to to quit
Oregon elections for 1915-16 cost a
day by Representative Lewis, of Mult
total of $476,961.
nomah county. It makes the sale of
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Skunk Farm Near Albany
patent medicines containing more than
Albany, Ian. 9.—Two farmers living Centralia Cuts Interest
one half of one per cent alcohol unlaw
ful, save upon the prescription of a six miles north of Albany are develop
To Four Per Cent
ing a skunk farm as a fur industry.
physician.
They received 20 skunks from Pennsyl
vania yesterday to add to their native
Centralia. Wash., Jan. 9. -This morn
Rancher Found Dead
stock.
ing the city commission passed an ordi
nance reducing the interest rate on the
Near Yankton Cabin
Forest Noies
city’s current expense warrants from
St. Helens, Jan. 8.—Clifford L. Cox.
On about two million acres of Nation 5 to i per cent. The new rate will be
aged 42, who recently bought a tract
effective on the warrants issued Feb
of land near Yankton fur the purpose al Forest lands grazing by domestic ruary 1. Tiiis makes the fourth re
stock
is
either
entirely
prohibited
or
is
of conducting a Shetland pony farm,
duction in the interest rate since the
was found dead near his cabin Friday greatly restricted to provide range for present commission assume ! its duties
elk.
morning. The last seen of Cox alive
a year ago, and effects an annual sav
It is estimated that in 1915 about 40-
was Thursday night at 6 o’clock, when
ing in interest of $800. Mayor Galvin
000
torest
fires
occurred
in
the
United
iie tol I a neighbor that he was going
stated yesterday that with each re luc-
to start fires under son-e stumps he had States, which burned oyer about 5,900- ti >n the demand for the warrants has
blown out. Heart disease was the O00 acres and caused a damage of ap increased. It is expected that the cur
proximately $7,000,000
cause of death.
rent expense fund will be on a oash
Revised estim«tes place the amount basis by the end of the year.
of standing merchantable timber in the
Exemption From Speed
United States at approximately 2,767,-
Brakeman Drops To Death
000,000,0t)0 board feet. Of this amount
Laws For Physicians. 53 per cent is in California Oregon, Id
Ranier, Jan. 10.—Jess Staid-y, a
aho and Montana.
brakeman on the Noyse <S- Holland I ig-
During
the
past
fiscal
year
there
ging
tram, while attempting to board
Salem, Jan. 9. -A bill intro luced this
morning by Senator Smith, of Jose were constructed on the National For an engine after making a switch, yes
phine county, will exempt physicians ests 227 miles of new road, 1,975 miles terday afternoon, slipped and fell un
I and ambulances from speed laws and of fire lines, 81 lookont structures, 40 der the engine and was caught in the
7 he Pioneer Store
Jacksonville, Ore
traffic regulations, when on emergency bridges, 322 miles of fence, 545 dwell gearing and ground to ptfeces. Mr.
| calls. Senator Smith, who is himself ings, barns and other structures, 17 Stanley was 35 years old and leaves ii
i a physician, contends that in many in- corrals, and 202 water improvements. wife and two children at Mayger, Ore.
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Since th“ passage in 1912 of the act
j stances it is necessary to ignore speed
! laws and traffic regulations when going providing unds for land classification, j Alabama has a population of more
1 on emergency calls. Senator Smith and a direct result of the classification I ' than one trillion, but the to al vote
stated that he bad the support of the work, a total of 13,477,781 acres has cast in the state. Novcn ier 7, was on-
i majority of the physicians in the state been eliminated from the National For- ly 126,41». It Io >ks as if some of tt e
negroes didn’t vote.
i in securing the passage of the measure ests.
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
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