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
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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
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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
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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<r
cal standard of prisoners and to bring ’ will not be for at least a month yet.
rip-rapping new bridge piers. Wil
18 about better discipline.
At present the highway is gr ided
take 10,60'1 tons of rock and employ 30
from the foot of the mountain, seven
miles east of Ashland, io the California men 1 months.
Timber Thefts on Land Grant line and the road in California is grad Ros burg— Broccolli shipments to be
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ed on through to Yreka. From Bar gin soon. Several carloads to be can
Found by cruiser.
ron’s ranch to Steinman an eight-foot ned thia vear.
Roseburg, Or., March 20 Gus I.ove- cement pavement has been laid and
Donald citizens installing numerous
gren, head cruiser on the O. & C. land this will probably be extended to the electric motors for cheap power.
grant, is investigating alleged illegal summit. Last fall the outer half of
Baker -Stoddard Lumber Co. to
timber cut tings on the railroad lands the road was laid with crushed rock and
make $25,000 improvements.
near Myrtle Creek. The timber is topped off with fine rock from the sum-
Salem to have a $75,000 hospital.
being soid for wood, according to re j rnit toward Ashland and several miles
Coos Bay to start $3 iC.OJU road
port.
i finished before bad weather er.ded ’he
work.
work for the winter. The inner half
Lane
i of the road will be paved. With al-
at
Rose-
Two Veterans Die
( most $6n,0ii0 available, good progress growing
Waterpower development means ev
should be made this year.—Ashland
burg Soldiers’ Home.
erything to the west. S > called con-
. Tidings.
Roseburg, Or., March 23 - James M.
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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.
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