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Oregon Historical Society JACKSONVILLE, JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON. FEBRUARY 2*. l!)b VOL. X. IND.UT. JAL RUIEW CONDITIONS IN MEXICO U U II OWN STA I h GEN. FUNSTON DEAD BAKERCOUNTY PEOPLE ---- I ASK COURT’S RECALL __ ¡Some Recent Happenings Leaders Are Braggarts and Manufactures, í’iífrprü ,¿. ,u±. Largest Office Building Overwork and Heart Dis- Improvements, Prov.di ig Judge and One Commission- in Various Parts of ease Was Cause. West of Chicago. Loafers Says Judge > : < ■ Payrolls and Piomo'- er Are Accused of Ex- Oregon Goodwin. San Antonio, Tex., Feb. 19—Major The new Southern Pacific building in rng Devetbpvem— travagance and San Francisco, which when competed General Frederick Funston, command n ; a OfiC 1 -A íe NM Early Settler Serves Big Fine What of Mexico? The more serious at the close of 1917 will be the largest i er of the southern department. United of c Oregon. Mismanagement. office structure of its kind west of Chi States army since February, 1915, died NEW S. P. BUILDING cago, is beginning to assume shape. suddenly at a hotel here tonight a few Visitors at the Ferry Building, at the minutes after he had finished dinner. foot of Market Street, can now get an He collapsed while seated in the lobby idea from the steel framework, of what of the hotel talking with friends, and was playing with little Inez Silverberg it will look like when completed. The building which will house the of Des Moines, la., a guest, with her San Francisco general offices of the parents at the hotel, when he fell un railroad, will be ten stories in height. conscious. Death was almost instan It will require 20,000 cubic yards of taneous. General Funston was 51 years concrete which would require about 80 old. Ever since March, 1916, when he was cars of cement. It will need 3500 tons of steel, 40 tons to a car—and 500 tons placed in command of all United States of reinforcing steel besides 20 miles or forces on the Mexican border, General thirty carloads of piping and piles, each Funsten had worked at an unusual 115 feet long. The building will weigh pace. At critical times in border de when completed, 55,000 tons, the steel velopments he frequently remained on averaging 3500 tons and the piling duty twenty-four hours of the twenty- four. The handling of regulars dispos 63°0. Looking after the piling, incidentally ed of at various stations on the border, has been no small job when it is con the Pershing expedition and of late, sidered that the new structure, itself, re-arrangement of regular troops while calls for 50 miles of piling besides an pravlding for the return of national additional 10 miles under the Buckley guardsmen have entailed an enormous buil iitig; according to Engineer-in- amount of detail work; probably ex- Charge C. F. Harrington of Ass’t En | ceeding that which fell to any com gineer J: Q. Bai low’s office. The 2236 manding general of the United States piles Under the building, proper, are army since the Civil war. 118 feet ldng and reach 130 feet beloW sidewalk to hardpan, making the big Important Tungsten Deposits gest deepest and heaviest foundation of Inyo County, Cal. in San Francisco and, probably, on the | Pacific Coast. There was difficulty en- i countered in getting these piles because of the increasing demand for long tim- tim-1 The great demand for tungsten has birj but they were finally obtained recently led to an extremely energetic from the Douglas Fir forests of Ore- development of the tungsten deposits gon, and each 16 piles required three 8 miles west of Bishop, Inyo County, freight cars to haul them to San Fran- Cal. The deposits were discovered in cisco. They are clowned with a cap 1913 but remained practically unknown o' concrete, 5 feet thick and 16 feet until the spring of 1916. On April 7 square, full of reinforced steel roos. the Standard Tungsten Co. began work There are 151 of the caps or piers, va Trails and roads were built, ore bodies rying accoruing to the weight they are were opened up, a mill was erected, to support from 4 to 40 piles beneath and electric power was brought in On them. F'or the driving of this timber June 7 the mill began to crush ore. two mammoth drivers, the largest ev The Tungsten Mines Co. started work er set up on the Pacific Coast, were on May 1 and by the later part of July J35 feet high and the hammer of one had completed a mill of 300 tons daily of them weighed 16,000 pounds, hitting capacity and was rapidly opening its 60 times a minute, or once every second main ore body, disclosing a lode as in operation, with a 7500 moving part. much as 60 feet wide. This activity To be sure ot the foundation of the has greatly stimulated prospecting, and tungsten has been found in a belt 15 building, test piles were driven before miles long. the regulars were pounded into the The ore bodies, which have been vis earth and they were loaded with pig ited by Adolph Knopf, of the United iron from the Company’s Sacramento States Geological Survey, Department of the Interior, are remarkable and in foundry to assume the required weight fact are of a kind not mentioned by the the regulars would be called upon to recognized authorities on ore deposits support. as a commercial source of tungsten. EÍ Roseburg, Or., Feb. 19-B. S. Mode news from Europe and J he s ibmarine an early cttler of the K llogg country, attacks on merchant ships on the At- Roseburg E i tern (•apipjlists lease B»ker, Or., Feb. 19 —At a mass I is serving a fine of $250 in jail here for litntic and Mediterranian have diverted 320t) acres . f hin.[ n ■ir.h re t > drill ex Baker county taxpayers assault. The sheriff has informally attention from Mexico, meeting of B»kv> held here Saturday afternoon, it was summone l some of the mm’s relatives, But the reports tell us th it the poor perimental wells for oil. Florence Vancouver mpn: ta^eop.», decided to hold a recall election against I in an effort to have them pay th? fine. wretches from that distressed country County Judge J. B. Messick and Coun Mi.de w< pt bitterly as he entered the i ' by hundreds are streaming over the I tion on large amount ofc • lag juiir. bery . . . •* J I tlf ty Commissioner J. P. Ritter, as soon ■ ounty jail. • jine into Arizona and New Mexico, to | I and pl m t > ere 't shiu^e mjll. as lhe law permits it. William Duby, Grants P.ia -Bert growing.is b.conu For the 21st time the grand jqry hjfE ^escape the bandits that are fighting a prominent cattleman of Baker, was condemned the county jail, as unfit for each other at long range and living off ing the popular ir.dilstrU 1’erK' TfM named to run against Judge Messick, human habitation. tne poor who have nothing left to land can be made to produce from $75 and Judge John Fraser, of Richland, i to $100 per acre undJit eosrect. treat ¡give. _______________ . v if was nominated to run against Rit i ■ Sometime there will be acomprehen-, ment. ter. sibn of the real facts which are that Heavy Snowfall in South- Portland—'faeomi ship yards 'place I-. I those poor creatures must be given a rush order foh 4,000,000 ft.flumb«r. * H'» ern Counties. -u 1 Fhance to earn a living in peace, and I flood River-Mt, lid >d R. R. will’ 40c PAID FOR WOOL Canvonville, Or., Feb. 19—Sotitherli' 1 {'Liat the merciless blatherskites who build two-mile extension tSWttl'd Lost Douglas ant Northern Josephine cpun-,,ii|-e making a hell of that region must Lake. ■' I , ties had a heavy fall of snow y.este^.(fbe supressed. The further fact must Montana and Utah Sheep day, and it was reported to be live ;4 bo be recognized that there is not one Independence — Valley and Siletz R. R. reported ready to beg n et^ctioh of feet in depth at the head of (Ioffe*; • honest thought on the part of those men Are Getting Re creek shops here soon. •< X and Elk creek and one font at -murderous loafers except to raise ha With the danger of war hanging ovey r! des and live on the earnings of the Tiller. cord Prices for » i. the country, we are brought face to , £#>or. ■• .. • • :.-iu u>. iinr *•* This applies to Carranza as much as fwith 'lie value of our in lustrial Their Product. ila’sey WantB Creamery to Villa They are all of the same plants and rnilr >a s to' the goverhm ' t class, and are simply iat heart brag- Gonservitticci legislation for their p"c- Halsey, Or., Feb. 19—J. F. <4 linnv Great Falls, Mont., Feb. 19 —Several garts and loafers and looters. They tection should be the o-det*of'■‘tltb r'lAyif 11 wool growers in this section have sold of the Northwest Creamery Supply ,aje as unfit to direct the affairs of the The Dalit’s $460,(K)0 to bespent heiW • their 1917 clips to Boston firms at 40c a Company, of Seattle, adilre.-lSed a pub government of a state as so many buck this year tin building Wittenber-Kiiig' ul lic meeting of dairyliifen at the city pound. Indians. Their right place is in jail or Co's, new plant to cost $60,0(i0 -Catht - •*lr .iinnil rooms — . ...I.. Saturday C .. I > > r. I •> f 1 . > fl-i ciuncil afteihobrf tih on a reservation, for they have proven lie boy’s school will be ere‘led ai cost . the question of establishing agi^amery that they have not the first element of of $12,5’10 Libby, McNeill & Libby to n Salt Lake City, Feb. 19- Contracts at II ilsey. It is estimated then,. Teal enlightenment and progress in construct dormitories for • employs s — V for nearly 80 per cent of the April clip 700 to 800 dairy cows tributary, t,o.)I^lr ttteir depraved souls. new garage worth $35,0n0 to-go mmpd^ of Utah wool, which will amount to s -y and that a creamery will pay ¡well It would be a real mercy for the addition of another is started, 15,‘'00,000 pounds have been signed and St this point. United States to take the nortnern tier Bandon —More than $1,000,003 t* t- show prices ranging fiom 30 to 38 cents <if Mexican states under control, estab goods shipped over bar here last, yeir.^ a pound. The prices represent the order and give the poor wretches Port land Shipyards here are huh - Training Bill Passes Senate lish highest market ever offered for wool there a chance to earn a living in ming. Big steam schconer to he buil*’ i in Utah. Salem, Or.; Feb 19-Representatiye pteace. owned and operated by Portland picn. In Idaho and Wyoming a better grade Crandill’s house bill 454, providing for- of wool is commanding prices from 36 military training in the high schools of Toledo-Lincoln Co, pl ins buying por <>1 to 40 cents a pound and, in some instan the state, passed the Benate with but 10,000 Acres of Klamath table sawmill to cut lumber for planl!“ i* h ces, 41 cents a pound has been contrac two dissenting votes, those of Senators ed. diari Lands to be Sold. I ted for. Barrett and Steiwef. Senators Wilbur j’o'edo— Packing herring is - now in ■W- and Orton, members of the military dustry here. 85 foot lumber carrier ■ >w committee. spoke for the bill and urg Klamath Falls, Or.. Feb. 20—Ten being built at Taft, fishing schootieri Hcbbs hiry Disagrees After ed its passage. thousand acres of timber anti grazing I Fneemont and passenger n>at Newport land, consisting of 120 different tracts ; |„.|ng put jp commis ion it Hansen 28 Hours’ Work. on the Klamath Indian reservation, are I ship yard here. Orchardists Are Buying Mater to be advertised for sale soon, accord-1 i Grants Pass will experiment- with ing to II. H. l’incks, of the Indian ser New Zealand flax in this district. Klamath Falls, Or , Feb. 19—The ju ials f r Spraying. vice, who is in Klamath Falls, lhe' ry in the ease of the state against Hen Coos Baj—Keel laid for si ;th large Hood River, Or., Feb. 19.—Because land belonged to deceased and to aged ry Hobbs charging the murder of Ed vessel in local shipyard. 1 ■* win C. Way last October at Algoma, of the possible curtailmsnt of supplies Indians, the latter now in need of the i Roseburg Chinese start big truck money for their support. Much of the to the car shortage, Hood River due disagreed and was discharged from further consideration of the case late orchardists are now engaged, earlier lard is under the irrigation project on fai-ni of 250 acres. Bandon—Woolen mill to operate and Saturday night. There is an uncer in the season than usual, in laying in the reservation. employ 20. tainty as to another trial of the case. their supplies of lime-sulphur solution Toledo —Farmers are working for n The prosecuting attorney will decide and other spray materials. Purchases Explosion at Tenino Blows of sprays and power spraying ma the matter within a day or two. cheese factory. chines have already this season reach Off Three Roofs. fcoos Bav - North Bend Mill & L'im- ed a sum in excess of $25,000. the her Co. to build 14 mile logging rond heaviest figures in the valley’s histo- up Davis slough at once. Centralia, Wash., Eeb. 19 Fire that Lebanon expects to establish a fruit started early Saturday morning in the cannery. Sullivan building in Tenino, occupied The wonderful potential possibilij.it s by Joe Kring, destroyed the interior Illegal Killing of Deer of the building and an explosion that of western waterpowers still await the Roseburg, Or. Feb. 20—Section Fore- occurred during the progress of the pleasures of eastern millionaire conser ijnan Goff, of the Uuion Creek section fire blew off the roofs of Newell Bros, vationist, (so-called) and log rolling In the Cow Creek canyon, is charged confectionery store, the pastoffi -e and politicians. with having fresh deer meet in his po- H. S. Barclay’s furniture store. The Indepence—Electric service on S. P. session. It is alleged that he was feed latter establishments were badly dam to be inaugurated as far as this city by ing his boarders on the meet. Goff is aged by smoke and waler, the fire loss March 1. in a very mountainous district. being confined b> the Sullivan build Portland—Eccles interests’ order ing. fhe cause of the explosion, $125,000 worth of new equipment for which was a terrific one, is not Sumpter Valley Railroad. Public Dancing is Stopped known. Southern Pacific, ot, its own expense, —————• 1 — is knirntaining complete patrol system The Golden Egg fof tunnels and bridges as well as its Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 20—Public stores of supplies which might be des dancing last night was ordered stopped troyed and hamper operation of road in all Kansas City cabarets, hotel, grill Mary had a little hen, when needed for rapid transportation and dining rooms, and police officers Its tufts were speckled gray, of troops anil supplies. were instructed to prohibit serving of And everywhere that Mary went drinks in all such places except with a t'oledo—Schafer Bros. installing That hen was sure to lay. full meal. ihlngle mill on upper Siletz. It followed her to school one day. Klemath Falls—Box factory to be The principal was nice, started at once will employ 50. raise the mortgage on his house, Lawmakers Ask for More To That Vale to have new brick business hen did lay the price, buiilding. Pay ai d Mileage. When Mary went to buy a hat a Something for Nothing With each 1 lb tin of ROYAL g CLUB Coffee you purchase, you liM receive FREE 1 two oz. can of pepper. Supply limited Lewis Ulrich lhe Pioneer Store ÍÍ1 Jacksonville, Ore. Salem, Or., Feb. 20—A rcsolutioi passed by the legislature, providing for submission to a vote of the people the matter of raising the pay of members of the leggislature from $3 a day to $6, ind from $3 for every 20 miles traveled I to $6, The measure also limits the l number of hills each member may in— I troduce at. one term to five; all the sen- ite committees to 30. and all house j committee* to ‘X). Sugar Beet Acreage Assured Independence. Or., Feb. 20 Airead, e o gh acreage for s- gar beets has been sec ir- d in thi« s- cion to jtfstify the Ulan Idaho Sugar Beet conipany ir. placing a representative here to rn- sist the growers in getting beet cu li ration started. The hen was at the door, And when it cackled, madame cried: “An egg! Here, take my store!" It followed Mary to the bank, It wasn’t Mary’s fault When clerks by force obtained the egg An locked it in the vault. Poor Mary wished to take a trip; She didn’t have the fare, But Biddy huddled on her nest As if she didn’t care. 1 hen Mary sighed: "I can not go; The distance is loo far.” But Biddy cackled sweet and low — And Mary bought a car! Selected. All Pacific Coast Boats and Yachts Are Listed. San Francisco, Feb. 19 -All vessels or the Pacific const, from the largest Ht amship to motor boats and yachts, are being lis»sed, it was learned last ni (ht at headquarters of the 12th na- v¡ 1 district, and classified according to their possible uses in the time of w kr. Umifilla Pa'e’fs Ordered President Wilson. Other reasons are always assigned, ¡ (out probably the real reason why Vida Washington, Feb 19 The president abanlo sC:.i hahu , ity every time I . : .1 l ■ l.- he capture? it is that he wants to cap , ture it again, when it gets more to ii ce of patents to purchasers of Um»- i la Indian lan Is. loot.