Historical Sog*? Hn1, JACKSONVILLE, (01 MY, OREGON, Co JACKSON VOL. X. EIGHT HOUR LAW CONSTITUTIONAL. THREE AMERICAN SHIPS SUNK. ALASKA COAL FIELDS M VRCH 24. 19A7. NO. 17 ASHLAND VOTES BONDS Plots of Coal Lands In- Soma Recent Happenings Will Buy Park. -$25,000 Manufac'utes, Enterprises a id Improvements, Providing Auditorium to be elude Half the Survey­ Various Parts of Chief Justice White Deliv Germán Submarines Destroy Payrolls and Promot­ I ed Lands in the Memphis, Vigilancia, Oregon ers Majority Opinion, ing Develop r ent Territory and Illinois, 24 Men Upholding Action Ashland, Or., March 20 Construc­ Express Building Improved I of Oregon. tion is to begin at once on the new civ­ are M/ssing. ot Congress. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 1 Klamath Falls, Or.. March 19 The ic auditorium and chautauqua building 1916, all field and office work in connce-1 Wells Fargo comp my here is remodel- as the result of the two-to-one vote in Ben i h is opened the new $80,000 Pi­ London, March 19—Three American tion with the coal areas in Matanuska, [ ing and improving its oliices here. Last favor of a $15,000 bond issue at the Washington, March 19—The Adam­ steamers—City of Memphis, Illinois Bering river and Nenana coal fields j .ar a handsome office building of special election here yesterday. The lot Butte inn. son eight-hour railroad law was held and Vigilancia -have been sunk by was completed in time for ooening the stone was constructed bv the company new building will cost in the neighbor­ Rasmussen & Co. will build a $00,030 constitutional and valid in all respects German submarines. The destruction c >al lands under the leasing act. Plats near the depot, and this is being chang- hood of $25,000 and is to seat 450), paint warehouse at Purtian I. teday by the supreme court. of the ships was announced yester­ of township surveys, approved by the I ed. J. F. Goelier & Son have been with provisions for later ad litions to Salem State buildings am Minting to The decision makes eight hours the day. surveyor general and sent up for ac­ awarded the contract for the improve­ seat x600 more. The walls will be of $150,000 let to architect». standard of a day’s work and wages c increte-and thestage sufficiently large Fifteen men from the Vigilancia are ceptance amount to over 350,000 acres, ments. Portland organizations have initiated for men in operation of trains and le­ now listed as missing. The American which is about one-half of the total} t i accommodate the largest attractions an anti-picketing law to pritect busi­ galizes the wage increase which went embassy learns that the submarine area of surveyed land in the territory, j i i visiting the coast. The building will ness against conspiracies and boycotts into tentative effect on its passage. ! be used for the chautauqua sessions in of any kind fired two torpedoes at the Vigilancia. The secretary of the interior, in his | Not Company Investments. The Immediate temporary wage in­ The first missed by a considerable dis­ ! last annual report, recommends that! Salem, Or., March 20—Stating that summer and will be ready for the as­ Oregon City gets $10,000 hospital im­ creases won by the railroad employes tance. It was followed immediately an appropriation of $50,000 be made for gifts and donations may be included in sembly next J uly provement. The proceeds from bond issues will affect 400,000 trainmen as of January 1 by the second, which found the mark. the continuance of the policy of group the valuation of railroads for a rate East Portland to get $20,0 X) bakery. ahd are estimated to total between Captain Borum and the eight men surveys under the present system of making basis, Public Service Commis­ be used to purchase seven acres of park Eugene—Farmers creamery will add $40,C$0,000 and $50,000,000. who formed the complement of his boat investigation, selection and execution. sioner Corey in a letter to the mayor from ti-e Southern Oregon Chautauuua i a 300 lbs. a day cheese f i’t ry. association, and the association will use of Klamath Falls suggests that East ­ Formal announcement of the open­ Federal Judge Hook’s ruling in the are among those missing from the City Gold Hill -Cinnabar mines in Sums Missouri, Oklahoma & Gulf railroad of Memphis. Four of the eight sailors ing of the coal fields of Matanuska and ern Oregon municipalities contemplat- funds In the new building and turn the Vailey being worked for quicksilver. building over to the city except during bondirg to aid in the construction of test case, enjoining enforcement of the are Americans. The boat was picked i Bering river to leasing privileges was Oswego cement plant will receive Adamson act and holding it “unconsti­ up at 10 o’clock Sunday morning emp­ ■ made May 8, 1916, resulting in six ap­ raihoads accompany the donation with the sessions of the chautauqua. The tutional, null and void,” was reversed. ty and it is hoped that its occupants 1 plications in the Matanuska and two in a proviso that it shall not be considered new park system extending from the 1,000 tons lime rock from Gold Hill. heart of the city to the forest reserve. Swift Livestock Co. has bought bank The decision was five to four. Jus­ were rescued either .by a patrol boat I ‘ the Bering river fields, proposing a by the rail.o ui in fixing rates. An amendment to the charter per­ at Bend to promote cattle industry. maximum investment of nearly $3,- or by a vessel carrying tices Dav, Pitney and Vandevanter an­ mitting re-assessment in case of tech­ 1000,000. . nounced their dissent from the bench and landed at some out Lebanon has subscribed nearly $10,- nical errors, and an amendment provid­ Wealthy Rancher Disappears port. and later Justice McReynolds announc­ Under section 10 of the leasing act, 001) and seems sure to get a cannery. ing for the care of the new park also The crew of the Illinois landed safe- which authorizes free permits to mine ed his. Roseburg, Or., March 20.—R. M. passed. Two measures, instructing Ho d River O>igon-Wa-h nglon coal on small tracts for domestic use, ! Lums, 50 years old, a well-to-do ranch­ the council to repeal ordinances prohi­ telephone company shows lo.-s for 19 0 In dissenting, Justice McReynolds ly. i The City of Memphis, in ballas1, 15 permits have been issued. The es­ er here, came to town yesterday after biting minors in billiard parlors and of $4087.51. held that congress did not have power to enact the law, but thet the majority from Cardiff for New York, was sunk timated annual output under these per­ 1 spraying materials, left his i.orse in a enforcing Sunday closing, were defeat­ To merely parallel main line railroads mits is 142,700 tons. - I livery stable, his money in a bank, and ed. decision now gives it authority to fix bv gunfire. with hard surface roads ctipples the The Illinois, from I ondon for Port disappeared. He lett a bride of two The new United States map shows trainmen’s maximum and minimum former and helps develop the state very wages, “and to require compulsory ar­ Arthur, Texts, in bal’ast, was sunk at the extension of public surveys during I years. He is a former Klondiker, and 11' tie. The Awakening of the Bear the fiscal year to an area ot 8,855,724 made his money in the Far North. A bitration of labor disputes which may 8 o’clock Sunday morning. Corvallis —Electric trains to be run. The Vigilancia was torpedoed with­ acres. The issuance o' a genera) map neither ot the man, years ago, disap-1 R riously jeopaidize movement ot traf­ ning here in 60 davs. fic and to take measures effectively to out warning. of Alaska during 1917 is announced by peared in the same way, and was never It has always been predicted that Marshfield-Kruse & ¡Banks soon to --------- protect the free flow of commerce the commissioner of the general land again heard from. Burns bought r.o the time would come when Russia would launch another ship. against any combination, whether of office, which will show all recent work railway ticket. awaken from her sleep of centuries, Freight Charges on Sheep op tatives, owners or stringers.” in the public and coal land surveys, al­ d Gladstone Brick factory plano ] shake off the shackles of ignorance and so the line of the government railroad here. Justice McKenna concurred in the Are Too High. superstiti in. and take up the long-con ­ and the several towns located there­ A. N. Bush Builds Fine Home templated march for a “place in the majority opinion, but on slightly diff er­ Silverton-Chaese factory opens on. ent grounds. Justice Day read his own here. On Beach at Newport. sun.” Washington, March 19—The inter- dissenting opinion and Justice Pitney That time has come. The bear is Union Pacific railroad carries on biff Newport, Ore,, March 19—A new delivered the other dissenting opin­ state commerce commission in the case wide awake, but the situation is vastly campaign to colonize European im mi- Demands Shells and Coins $400!) cottage is being erected here by j of the American National Livestock ion in which Justice Vandevanter join­ A. N. Bush, the Salem banker, for a different from what men anticipated. grants on idle land of the west. association against the Oregon Short ed. From Carranza Salem—Associated Oil Co. summer home. The cottage will con­ Think of if: An imperial ukase ignored Line holds not unreasonable the freight by the duma at a time when the whole $30,000 distribution plant here. tain a dining room 10x60 feet, circular rates on cattle from Oregon points to nation was under arms and the tzar at i Eugene Creamery plans to establish Hindus in California Can­ El Paso, Texas, March 20—An Amer-' in shape, and will have a pane ramie the head of his army. Then in swift Los Angeles. It holds unreasonable the rates on sheep in double-deck cars ¡can arriving from Chihuahua City to­ view of the ocean. The site is on Ag­ succession came the revolution, the cheese factory. not Return to Asia to the extent that they exceed the day brought a report that General ate Beach. Springfield Favorable decision ren- mutiny of the soldieis, the flight of the rates on cattle. The present rate on Francisco Murguia, commander in chief j royal family, the addiction of the czar, | dered in favor of S. P. Co. in unmerj.- Sacramento, Cal., March 19—The sheep is $3 a car higher than on the of the de facto troops in the north, had and the reorganization of the govern­ ing suit undoubtedly means building I. O. O. F. Plan Celebration British consulate refuses to issue pass- cattle. The railroads are directed sent a message to General Carranza re- j ment all this happened within the large car shops at Springti.-ld. questing money with which to pay his to establish joint rates on hogs from Brookings -1200 foot wharf to bo Roseburg, March 19 — The I. O. O. F. pirts to Hindus wishing to return from short space of a few days. It is too this coun.ry to India, according to lead­ Oregon to Los Angeles not in ex­ troops and munitions with which to lodges of Douglas county will hold a early to discuss the the details involved built here. ers of the Hindu colony here. This cess of 90 per cent of the rates on cat­ eonduct his campaign against Villa, celebration here on April 26, the anni- i with any degree of accuracy. The Linnton— Citizens here suffer by jit­ threatening to resign unless the request veisary of the order. There are 12 available dispatches simply tell of the ney tactics fare raised at rush hours, prevents the return to India to Hindus tle. was met at once. The report was in ---------- ---------------- i bare facts surrounding the overthrow releif is sought. Portland laughing lodges in the county. naw here, as no steamship tickets can general circulation in Chihuahua City, be bought by them unless they show stock of Pacific coast for failure to re­ of the bureaucracy. Tillamook to get two-story $12,000 the American said, but could not be passports. Does this shake-up mean that Russia gulate jitneys. theatre. confirmed. Marion County Farmers Will has finally liberated herself for all time Eugene cannery to try packing pork to come; Win knows but what she & beans. Raise Bean Crop. h is at last found her “place in the Cottage Grove cannery expects great Salem, Or., March 19—At a meeting sun,” not by having her hordes overrun year. on an expedi- her neighboring nations held here Saturday afternoon Marion $60,000 road being surveyed acro-s county farmers sign 'd an agreement ton of conquest, but by providing with to plant 500 acres to beans this season. in her own vast domain for the com­ Morrow county. Oregon City Woolen Mills running The crop will be handled by the Ore­ plete emancipation of her millions of gon Fruit company, which agreed to down trodden people? -Goodwin’s Week­ double time. furnish the market, and grade and ’ ly. Pacific Coast Defense League organ­ clean all the seed on a 10 per cent com­ izes with primary object to obtain con­ mission basis. struction of military highway from Ca­ State Authorizes Siski- nadian to Mexican line. Will ask Con­ you Road Work gress for appropriation. Honor Lodge at State Prison If the Adamson law is de‘ide 1 in fa­ Salem, Ore., March 19 What has Fiftv-nine thousand dollars is availa­ vor of railroad unions alright, if against been designated as “the honor lodge” ble for further construction work upon them, they will pay r.o attention to it. is being perfected among the prisoners the Siskiyou grade, and the State high­ What would happen if an in iivdual * r at the penitentiary. More than 300 way commission in a meeting at Port­ a corporation took this st ill 1. have already signed, and it is expected land, Thursday, authorized earlv pro- Coquille Reynolds mill starts on 12,- the lodge will elect officers this week. . secution of the work on the Siskiyou The objects of the organization is to I highway. Work will be started as soon 000,000 foot spruce order for Great Bri­ promote the mental, moral and physi­ | as weather conditions permit, which tain. Coos Bay S. I’. Co. lets contract f called con- . Tidings. Roseburg, Or., March 23 - James M. ---------- ---------------- servationests have hindere I waterpow­ Reese, aged 76, a Civil war veteran, er development at this critical time, Civil War Veteran Is Dead was buried here today, He has been and congress fails to pa s remedial le­ an inmate of the Soldiers’ home since Baker, Or., March 20—G. W. Math­ gislation. 1694. Levi M. Reis was buried today is, aged 77, a Civil war Veteran and a The Pioneer Store Jacksonville, Ore. Canyon City Sumpter Valley Ry. at Yoncalla, He, too, died at the Sol­ member of the G. A. R. post here, died to expend $150,00*) on improvements. age of 62 dlera’ home at the advanced yesterday of pneumonia. He had lived The Dalles Wittenmirg Kuig Co. to years. here 36 years. One son and three enlarge plant at cost of $1.>,000 d tughters survive. Gervais working tor cannery. Portland will put $3,000,000 bond is- West Linn proposes *11,000 school. < jo for grain docks and elevators up Lakeview Project on foot to Irrigate up to vote of the people at next elee 54,0)0 acres between I.awlen and Coqi.illa—18,000 of paving to be laid i ticn. here in business section. Crane. 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