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Oregon Historical Society City Half JACKSONVILLE VOL. X. NO. 39 OREGON INDUSTRIAL REVIEW POSTAL CARD BILL IS OLR OWN STATE BAKER COAL ALL GONE S. P. WILL BUILD CARS RIBsUSED TO ONLY FOR MULTNOMAH MAKE UNGERS Man.ifaclures, Enterprises and Use Cancels Parcel Post Orders In Its Own Shops. AND THUMBS Some Recent Happenings Committee Changes Meas Improvements, Prc.iding in Various Parts of Lumber Along Its Lines As Postage Would be Payrolls an J Piomrl- ures For Public Notice German Finds New Way To Oregon. $83 A Ton Announcement that the Southern mg Develop r ent To Delinquent Replace Lost Digits Pacific company has adopted the plan Valley Physicians Baker, Ore., Jan. 20.—Baker’s coal of building all its wooden freight cars, of Oregon. Taxpayers And N o Longer shortage situation became more serious such as box or flat cars, at its own Favor Sterilization today when the dealers’ supplies were shops and will make them from lumber Uses Toes Goshen—S. P. (' >. purchases parcel Salem, Jan. 22. A resolution calling Salem, Jan. 24. —The committee on exhausted and they announced that produced along its lines, has been made upon the senate to pass the Farrell Berlin, Jan. 22.—German medical pa steriliz ition bill now before the judic pers report a striking innovation in iary committe, was received this morn surgery that has bean tried by Dr. ing from the Medical association of Neuhauser in one of the army hospit Polk, Yamhill and Marion counties. als a new method for growing fingers The resolution stared that the maj ri- ty of the members favored th! meas to replace amputated digits. The earlier method was to graft a ure. Senator Farrell moved that tne toe upon the amputated linger, but Dr resolution be turned over to the judi- Neuhauser has successfully used a | ciary committee for consideration, be piece of rib as material for fingers and fore an unfavorable report was return thumbs, getting at the same time a ed from that committee. covering for the ne .v members in a flap of skin taken from the breast just out Livestock Breaks Record side the ribs. Portland, Jan. 22.—Livestock prices soared this morning at the Portland Record Price Paid For Union Stock Yards to points not attain ed before in years and, in one instance, Clarke County Spuds never before reached here. With the opening of the market hogs shot up 25 cents to a new top of $10 85, the high Vancouver, Wash., Jan. 22.—Clarke est price paid here since March of 1910. county farmers are getting the biggest At the same time lambs jumped 50 price ever paid for potatoes in this re to 75 cents, sending that market to $12 gion. On Saturday several sales were for east of the mountain stuff, estab reported at $2.26 a hundred, an advance lishing a new record The previous of 20 cants over the prevailing price top was $11.50, reached last Thursday. early last week. Three or four cars Cattle were quote 1 steady to strong daily are being shipped from Vancouv but it was not believed cows would Corporations Dissolved er, while shipments are being made bring over $7.50 and steers over $3.50. from other points. There was a rush of buying at the -------------------------- Governor Withycombe has issued a openining of the market and prices proclamation dissolving several hun climbed at the start. Man In Tacoma Jail dred corporations on account of their having failed to file statements and to Claimed By 6 Wives pay the license fee required by the laws Curry Buys Rock Crusher of the state Marshfield. Jan 26.—Curry county Tacoma, Jan. 22.—Fred Carpenter, Among those of local interest we note the following; Butte Falls Sugar alias Ernest E. Carpenter, Fred E. has contractei for a Fort Wayne rock Pine Lumber Co., The Applegate-Wil Roson, Ernest Roson, Fritz Zimmer crusher of from 10 to 15 tons daily ca liams Creamery Co., Crater Lake Co., man and other names, who is now in pacity. The crusher will be utilized Medford and Crescent City Railway the county j-il awaiting trial for alleg I almost wholly in the northern part of Co , Medford Mining & Milling Co., ed perjury, is shown by the correspon j the county, where there are no gravel Medford Realty and Improvement Co.. dence records of the jail to have at ' deposits. The county commissioners Medford Warehouse Co., Nuera Mining least six wives, all living, and who de decided it was incumbent upon them to & Milling Co., Sterling-Applegate Co., nounce the man, though he acknow- maintain the gravel roads already con structed, and add to them yearly what ledges only three. The Sterling Mining Co. the special and legular levies will war ——i i »t ty--------------- rant. they did not know when they would by President William Sproule, who re have more. One dealer said he might turned from New York and other east have a carload in by Monday but there ern cities. is no certainty when any of the several “The p'an,” said Mr. Sproule, “is in cars ordered will arrive, because no furtherance of our policy to favor home trace ef them .could be obtained tod ay. industry and will provide a good mar Another dealer said that he could 500 ket for a great deal of western timber. cars in this city and had telegraphed The construction will be done princi an order for 400 tons to the mines. He pally at our Saeremento shops. We made an effort to get the fuel bv par plan to build as soon as possible 2000 cel post, but stopped when he found box cars, 450 stock cars and 500 flat the postage would be $83 a ton. I ears, these, added to the 2700 new re- i frigerator cars just ordered by the Pa- ciflc Fruit Express Co., of which about B'ue Sky Laws Of 1000 will be built in California, will Three States Valid I give us 5650 new freight cars for the ! coming season, enough to ward off the hardships through the shortage of rail Washington, Jan. 22.— Blue sky laws road equipment experienced during of three states—Ohio, South Dakota this season, provided we can get our and Michigan—designed to curb sale of cars returned to us after they are un fraudulent securities, were upheld as loaded at destination. The Southern constitutional today in the supreme Pacific is half owner of the Pacific Ex court. press.” The court held that authority exer Mr. Sproule said that the prosperity cised is not in excess of the state’s po- of the east and middle west is not lice powers and that the law is not a merely coming here, it is already here. burden upon interstate commerce in a -♦«V sale of stocks and bonds. Attempt Made To Kill 425 Miners Butte, Mont., Jan. 22.—What min ing experts estimates were six sticks of dynamite were discharged early Sunday in the alley of East Broadway, behind the Florence hotel, in which 425 miners were sleeping. The damage is estimated at $1000. The hotel is own ed by the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. No one was injured. Girl Of 14 Gets Radio Permit For Northwest Tacoma, Jan. 22. —Miss Winnifred Dow, of Tacoma, is the first girl to re ceive a federal operating wireless li cense in the Northwest. Only one other woman on the Pacific coast has a similar permit. Miss Dow is aged 14 and her license is a second class ama teur permit. Alleged Bad Check Man Jailed Judge D. L. Watson Is Dead At Age of 75 Pendleton, Jan. 26.— Alfred Franz, Marshfield, Jan. 23.—Judge David L. Watson, a pioneer Oregonian and for mer collector of customs here, died at his home in this city yesterday, from Bright’s disease, following a prolonged illness. He was 76 years old, of Athena, is in the Umatilla county jail on a charge of passing a number of bad checks. The checks are said to be issued upon an Athena bank and it is reported that 25 or more checks were issued to merchants in Athena and in Pendleton. 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. 11 J! liil ID B h U M o U Lewis Ulrich The Pioneer Store IB* Jacksonville, Ore. Cheese Output To Be Big Bandon, Jan. 23.—Fully 2,000,000 lbs of cheese will be handled during the coming year r>y the newly organized Coos and Curry Counties Grcamery As sociation, according to their sales ag ent, Claud H. Giles, of Myrtle Point. The product of the C'>os Bay section will be shipped north via the Coos Bay : Line and that of the Coquille Valley i will be transp rted to San Francisco I and San Diego via the port of Bandon, j The markets will include the western territory between Spokane and L oh Angeles. Mrs. John Tigard, Aged 90, Is Burned To Death Tigard, Jan. 23.— Mrs. John Tigard, aged 90 years, who was found burned to death by her husband on Sunday, was buried by the Tigard grange yes terday at the Crescent cemetery. No one witnessed the aged woman’s death as she was alone at the time. Her bo dy was found seated in a chair before the fireplace and her clothes had evid ently caught fire from sparks. As she was almost helpless due to the infirmi ties of age she could not save herself. Owing to the fact, that the house was tightly closed the fire did no other damage. Breaks Shingle Record ' assessment and taxation today report of lan I to county highway eliminating ed the senate bill providing for notifi dangerous crossings. cation of delinquent taxpayers by post North Bend —Preliminary work he al cards instead of through the news gun on paving waterfront high vay. papers, with the amendment that it ap Astoria-Port commission to build ply only to Multnomah county. new dredge. Will improve Skipanon The origin!’! hili applied to the whole river. state and its introduction way the sig Eugene will have cheese factory if nal for the appearance of members of I quantity of cheese is availabl ?. the country press. An effort was made Portlan 1 — Improve™ tits on North to amend the present law so that the notification would be printed in one Bank, Oregon Electric, Oregon T“unk, Portland paper, but this failed, Pros- and United Railway lines for past year pects for the bill passing both houses have totaled $500,000. Vale-Stockraising Homestead Act »re good. -------- ------ causes big rush for lands. Will a<i I millions to tax rolls. Toadstools Poison By adding the Convenience and Ne- Sheep Near Rosebuig cessity measure to the powers of the I Oregon Public Service Commission, the legislature would do much to encour- Roseburg, Jan. 22.—Toadstools have I age investment of capital in the state. been found to be the cause of death a- Roseburg City will control jitneys, mong sheep in this vicinity by W. I . i owing to several recent incidents en Cobb, who owns a large ranch in this dangering citizens lives. vicinity. He has lost nine sheep re Southern Pacific Co. adopts plan of cently from eating poisonous toadstools building all wooden freight cars at own in one of his pastures. Other sheep owners have reported like symptoms, shops and from lumber produced along and it is probable that many deaths a- its lines. New Era—State to provide $15,000 mong sheep in the oak-clad pastures for highway here in addition to Clack have been due to the same cause. amas Co’s $16,000 and Federal aid of ---------- •'»>•----------- $30,000. Divorce Low Proposed Umatilla county income taxpayers to show big increase on account of past Eugene, Jan. 26.—The Lane County years prosperity. Bandon —Fertilizer factory suggest Bar Association has gone on record as favoring a “flat” basis for fees in the ed to utilize fish cannery waste. justice courts, similar to that of the Deer Creek —California company to circuit courts. Suggested fees are as start cheese factory. follows: $2.50 for filing, $1 for appe tr Grants Pass -lit ih-Idaho Sugar Co. ance of defendant, and $1.50 for trial. lets contract to quarry 2,000 tons lime A resolution was adopted advocating stone annually for five years a law which would permit the securing quarry 18 miles from factory, of property of persons residing outside haul with auto trucks. of the state in cases where divorce has Coquille —Dollar mill, idle since 1912, been granted, such property to be used for the support of the family of the di- to again opetaie and employ 40. Baker—$60,000 paid for 6500 Wain. a vjrcee. County sheep Gold Beach—Curry county buys rock Family Row Leads To crusher and equipment to improve tl e Near Shooting Scrape roads in northern part of county. Roseburg May build fruit juice plant here. Grants Pass, Jan. 23.—The sheriff Falls City to have new depot soon. left yesterday for Holland to bring in Gi ants Pass—New brick garage to be M. W. Gates, who yesterday tried to kill Stewart Johnson. At the last built. Albany - Peppermint growers of state term of court Gates applied for a div orce from his wife on the grounds of perfect orgnniz ition. cruel and inhuman treatment, but as Eugene—Cooperates to urge highway yet the decree has not been granted. from this point. Sundav Gates found Johnson in the Myrtle Point ships carload of cheese barn with his wife and tried to shoot directly to New York. him, but the gun only snapped, so it is Oregon is given $628,111 from tbc claimed be beat Johnson over the head with the barrel until he broke it. At Forest Road fund. first it was thought Johnson was dead. Umatilla county has increased in wealth nearly $1,000,000 past year. Parent-Teacher’s Association Meets The Parent-Teacher's Association of Jacksonville met at the schoolhouse in regular session at 3:30 P. M. Jan. 19. Good music was furnished by pupils of the seventh and eighth grades. After the regular business was dis posed of a reception of welcome was given Superintendent and Mrs Ager. Addresses of welcome were given by Principal Mrs. (¡alligar and Rev. Gam mons, which met with appropriate re sponses from the guests of honor. At the close of the reception refreshments were served and a pleasant hour passed during which those present got ac quainted with Mr. and Mrs. Ager anti others who have recently come to this city. — ■ «or?------ Portland, Jan. 21.—That Portland posesses a shingle mill with the larg est ¡dividual output in the United Stat es is proved by figures cited in the cur rent issue of the timberman. In 1910 the Menefee Lumber Company at it’s Austria To Take Over Portland plant produced 280;000,000 red Properly Of People cedar shingles, setting it at the head of all the shingle mills in the United Rtates. Second place is held by a Ray Paris, Jan. 24.—Austria has decided mond, Wash., plant, which has 125,311- on an extraordinary measure to stave (XK) as its mark for 1916. off ‘‘imminent bankruptcy,” according to the Petit Journal’s Geneva corres pondent. The correspondent says that Universal Military a decree is about to be submitted to Service Is Favored the emperor whereby a fourth part of Salem, Jan. 53.—Senator Wilbur, a all the real and personal property of democrat from Hood River, an officer all the subjects and inhabitants af the in the national guard and chairman of empire is to become the property of the senate military committee, is pre the state in exchange for a kind of a paring a memorial to congress urging mortgage bond. immediate passage of a federal law for This bond, the correspondent nay*, universal military service. It will be the state binds itself to redeem when introduced some time this week. i the financial situation permits. Pendleton-West end chop mill changed hands. Will erect large w house. Molalla $100,000 company organizes to work fireclay deposits near here. Portland -Columbia Engineering Co. increasing facilities to handle six ships. Total Oregon mineral output in 1916 was $5,500,000. McMinnville —Milk condensing plant to enlarge. Portland—Cereo Mfg. Co, moves here. To employ 25. Roseburg—95,000 lbs. Douglas Co. prunes go to England, Oregon City and West Linn plan joint municipal paving plant. ----------- »<!,♦---------- Civil War Veteran Dies At Roseburg At The Age Of 91 Roseburg, Ian. 24. Peter A. Hall, aged 93 years, was buried today at the Oregon Soldiers’ Home, He passed a- way suddenly. lle served as a private in company II, 1421 New York infant ry, during the civil war. For many years he lived in Ji.senhino county and in Medford. He is survived by his wid ow. Snowfall Saves Grain Echo, Jan. 23. The three inch blank- i et of snow which fell here on Saturday averted the threaten d danger of the dry, freezing weather to the fall sown grain. The snow is wet and packed, and means thousands of dollars to the | farmers of western Umatilla county.