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About Jacksonville post. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1906-19?? | View Entire Issue (March 31, 1917)
Oregon Historical Society 23,000 MEN ARE ED no . -;s JACKSONVILLE, JACKSON COI NIY, OREGON VOL. X. WANT COLONIZATION AND I FIRST ARMED SHIP INDUSTRIES. FOR NAVY. INDi/SM/AL REVIEW RUNS BLOCKADE. VALUABLE MINE SOLD O. R GV; N SIA ï'L ■ Enterprises and Gold Hill Property Chang Some Recent Happenings es Ownership and Will Various Parts of Improvements, Providing .Manufactures, Starts Re- Greatest Need is to Pul American Steamer St. Lou- is, Carrying Guns, Families ot Working cruiting Campaign; Reaches Destina- People on Unpro- Two New Army De tion Safely. ductive Lands. partments. Wilson’s Order Payrolls and Promot be Developed. Oregon ing Development | Gold Hill, Or., March 26-A deal of i considerable importance to the Gold | Hill mining district was closed a few days ago when the ‘‘Nellie Wright” Independence -F; rmers and citizens i quartz mine changed ownership. The are working here to secure sugar fac ! consideration was in the neighborhood tory. I of $25,000. The former owners were Coos Bay -Standard Oil Co. plans Dr. Donovan and associates, of Winni $80,000 expenditure for storage tanks peg, Manitoba, and the new owners and equipment here to handle this ter are Salt Lake City people who are rep- ritory. | resented by R. M. Wilson, an experi- CorvaPis—Southern Pacific Co. wish I enced mining operator, formerly of es to m ke $60,(00 improvement here— that city, who will develop the proper- • ty. The property consists of 40 acres franchise pending. Marshfield—100,000 ton eoal order ' of patented land, situated two miles east of Gold Hill, in the Blackwell dis- bid on by local mine operator. trict, within a half mile of the Pacific Port Orford—40 pounds of ambergris highway. found on beach, part sold at $14.00 an ■ ■ ounce. DECLINE OF 25 CENTS Eugene- Machinery shipped for shin gle mill on North Fork of Siuslaw. IN SUGAR. Sublimity to have cheese factory. of Oregon. Klamath Offi ers Sign Bonds Klamath Falls, Or., March 2(> —The 300 bonds for the sum of 330>,IO0 have been signed b Mayor Crisler and City Recorder L avitt- These bonds are for the construction of the Strahorn ■ railroad from this city to Dairy, and were provided for by a city ordinance,: recently passed. Washington, March 26—The Ameri The greatest need of the state is Washington, March 26—Naval re- I more producers to go up-m ths unused can liner St. Louis, first armed ship to cruiting officers throughout the country lands anl make them productive. cross the Atlantic, has arrived safely under orders from President Wilson, To bring down the high cost of living at her destination. Secretary Daniels to lay redoubled their efforts to bring ' to produce more of the necessities of announced today. the navy up to its full authorized ■ life, we must encourage families to Information as to the arrival of the strength of 87,000 enlisted men. steamer came to the navy department make homes on the land. Meantime regiments of national , To accomplish this result an l devel- from the offices of the American line Stockmen in Search of Feed guard troops in various states were re I op the state industrially speculative in Naw York. The company wished to make known the fact to relieve the assembling to act as national police in prices of land must be eliminated. Cove, Or., March 26 —Stockmen anxiety of those having relatives or important districts. and about Cove, hard pressed fi r feed To get colonies of five or ten or twen are skirmishing in likely sections for Arrangements also were being made ty families to locate on land near towns friends on the vessel. hay. The price is from $13 to $20 a to create on May 1 two new military the land must be productive and the ton. departments on the Atlantic coast. price must not be prohibitive and terms The St. Louis, owned by the Ameri- About 20,000 men will have to be en easy. can line, left an American port on rolled at once in order to bring the na Real estate speculations in lands at March 17, with 31 passengers, of whom $200 Taken From Vault in vy up to the required strength. The at two-hundred to five-hundred dollars 14 were American citizens, Among men will be used to man the reserve an acre with big commissions and high her crew of 391 were 131 Ameri- the Sheriff’s Office. shins. rates of interest and taxes m^ke this cans. Roseburg, Or., March 26 —Sheriff McKenzie pass over Cascades to be Following is the executive order impossible. George Quine’s safe deposit vault was first road improved connecting eastern Wholesale Quotation Now bringing the navy up to war strength: broken into last night and robbed of Applicants Can Save Trip Land is only worth, from the stand and western Oregon. ■‘By virtue of the authority vested point of production, what a family can Down to $7.85; Fail is over $200 cash. Several hundred dol Marshfield—S. P. Co. to put in steel I in the president by act of congress ap produce out of the soil by labor, deduc To Land Offices. lars in tax funds in checks was left draw bridge at Coal Bank Inlet, Re-1 Unexplained. proved August 2, 1916, entitled ‘An ting taxes, interest and cost of upkeep untouched. The burglar used a laying Myrtle Point line with 80 pound ; art making appropriations for the na on land and improvements. sledge hammer and punch to gam Washington, March* 27—Regarding steel. val service for the fiscal year ending entrance to the vault, which was.in There should be l«nd open to coloni the opening of the Klamath lands Con Portland, March 27 — A pleasant sur J une 30, 1917, and for other purposes, ’ Sodaville—Eugene man to build hotel the sheriff’s court zation on these terms in [he vicinity, gressman Sinnott was today informed prise for many people will be the an it is hereby directed that the author here. house. or in marketing distance from every cy Commissioner Tailman that it was nouncement of a decli e of 25 cents in ized enlisted strength of the navy be Roseburg—$22,500 hospital to be the price of sugar, effective this morn ' city and town on the Pacific coast.— not necessary for applicants to go to increased to 87,000 men. —Woodrow Pacific coast Manufacturer.—There are Lakeview or Sacremento to file appli erected here. ing. This lowers the wholesale quota Wilson.” Roseburg Man Drops Dead Oregon City—$10,000 hospital to be tion to $7.85 for cane and $7.65 for several large tracts of good agricultur- cations or attend the drawing. A com ------------------w — — ■ 1 al land in Jackson county which are missioner will be stationed on the Cali erected here. beet. The drop was entirely unexpec Roseburg, Ore., March 27.—Sam Eugene Chamber Would Change now almost totally unproductive and fornia side and another likewise at Florence—Portland & Eugene men ted, as nothing has happened recently Swickard fell dead just after lie enter which if sold at reason ible Drices would Klamath. Applications may be mailed interested in shipyard here. to lead to the belief that a lower price ed a butcher shop here yesterday af ! soon be occupied and cultivated by sev to the respective land offices and in Name of County. Portland—Federal commission to in was about to rule. On January 2, the ternoon. He was 50 years of age, and X eral families of working people. case of conflicting appli< ations the land vestigate power site on Columbia river price of sugar was $7.30 and advanced is survived by an aunt in Portland. I „ to $7.30 on January 15. The next officials will conduct a drawing without for government nitrate plant. —————♦ ------------------ Eugene, Or,, March 27—By unani- j change came a month later when on the presence of the applicants. Pendleton — North Main St. to be im mous vote the Eugene Chamber of Paralysis Ends the Life Of February 15 a 25 cent advance lifted Old-Tima Eugene Dentist is proved with 18 foot bitulithic drive at the market to $7.60 and then on Feb- Commerce last night authorized the ap Handbills Opposii g War cost of $86,000. Lane County Minister pointment of a committee to take steps ' Victim of Pneumonia. : ruary 17 it went up 50 cents to $8 10. to change the name of Lane county, Salem—Oregon Packing Co. will sur This is the first change since that Eugene, Or., March 27 —Dr. John C. Star! Trouble. “inasmuch,” the resolution recited, pass 200-carload of 1916. date. Gray, for 35 years a practicing dentist i “as Senator Harry Lane, of Oregon, ! Eugene, Or., March 27-Rev. I. N. offers Eugene — Philadelphia firm in Eugene and a native of Lane county Mulkey, an earlv resident of Lane coun has brought national discredit on the Roseburg, Or., March 27—Officers $840 a tor. for long Oregon flax fibre. died at the Mercy hoep'tal in this city “ Hias Chuck ” & “ Hiyu He He ” ty, died at his home at Pleasant Hill name.” here are searching for the distributors yesterday at the age of 61 years, He Albany has plans fora cannery to op last night after a long illness. Two Eugene is the county seat of Lane months ago he was stricken with pa of circulars, scattered over town, call erate this year, had been ill only a short time of pneu county, which was named for General ralysis and, although he partially recov ing on the working classes ‘ to rise ana . “Hias Chuck” and “Hiyu He He” monia. Aurora — Oregon Electric expend $65,- Joseph Lane, the grandfather of Sena ered, this malady was the immediate use their influence and might against 000 on trestles to bridge across Willam has been selected by the general cele tor Lane. General Lane was also a cause of his death. He was aged 77 the capitalistic class, which is attemp ette. bration committee as the official per senator from Oregon, holding office dur years. He is survived by the following ting to draw the United States into manent name for the Ashland celebra Two Prospectors Are Killed Grants Pass —Encouraged by large tion. It is hoped to make the Iliasj ing the troublous day preceding the, children: ~B. F. Mulkey, Jan attorney war.” Yesterday several fights threa returns to be made through beets hop By Snowslide. tened on the streets when Socialists Civil war. of Portland; Elbert Mulkey, of Monta started to argue and speak against the growers in this district ars digging out Chuck as distinctive as is the New Or-1 I leans Mardi Gras, so that whenever Grants Pass, Or., March 27 na; Jonathan Mulkey, of Palouse. government. District Attorney Neu hopyards and will plant. I anyone hears Hias Chuck they will bodies of E. E. Lautzenheizer and I). If Holland becomes really aroused Wash.; Philip Mulkey, of Arlington, ner investigated the situation, and Roseburg —S. P. Co. has cut car over submarine outrages to her ships, Or.; Mrs. Ella Parks, of Pleasant Hill gave out the impression that the bills shortage from 283? cars needed Nov. think of Ashland. “Hias Chuck” is F. Stearns, two miners on Canyon from the Chinook jargon of the Indians creek, in the southern part of this coun Queen Wilhelmina may yet set the ex and Mrs. Veda Dickson, of Fort Klam were put into the hands of the distri 25 to 445 cars on Mar. 22. I and means very good waters or big ty, were found yesterday buried undir ample for President Wilson to follow. ath. butors by German sympathizers Ho xi river has move for public mar- waters. “Hiyu He He,” which is a snowslide which carried their cabin more likely to become the “yell” of into a gulch. The men were found in McMinnville has voted $90,000 bonds the roundup and celebration, means their beds indicating that the t ide oc “great big goixl time” or lots of fun.” curred at night. They had been miss to improve city water works. In advertising the two expressions ed since March 17, and on Saturday Ashland to Klamath Falls highway j will be used and together make a ryth searching parties went out to look for to be built by state. mical slogan which rolls off the tongue them. The men came to this section Baker—Idaho Power Co. plants tile like water bubbling out of the lithia last season, and from letters found in mortgage for $18,846,000.; spring. —Ashland Tidings. the demolished cabin, Stearns has a Portland— Gambrinus Brewery plant wife in Arizona and Lautzenheiser has to be utilized by large milk, cream and relatives in Ohio. The bodies are be Tongue Point Urged for butter syndicate. ing held until relatives are heard Ashland gets ice and cold storage from. Submarine Base. plant with 10,000,000 pounds capacity. Shedd—Cascade Contract Co. putting Embargo Is Placed On Washington, March 26.—Senator in big ballast plant for crushed rock at Chamberlain has a letter from Chair Saddle Butte. 2J4 miles from here. Grain And Flour. man Stone, of the Port of Astoria, ad Dufur—Farmers organize to build vising that the port commission has $20,000 grain warehouse. taken charge of all negotiations with Buenos Aires. March23 A presiden Grants Pass —Utah-Idaho Sugar Co. reference to a naval base site on Hie tial decree just issued forbids the ex will use 400,000 feet lumber building lower Columbia. Mr. Stone reiterates portation from Argentina ot grain and beet-loading stations in this valley the statement that $75,000 asked for flour. The object of the measure is Acreage will be tour times that plant the Tongue Point site is not excessive, to assure stocks necessary for the coun ed in 1916. | as it includes 800 acres with a water try. front ige of 12,000 feet and is an ideal Salem —State Highway Engineer has site. The port commission strongly plans for three wooden lift bridges for recommends that the Tongue Point site Interned Germans Are Be- Coos county, and a concrete arch be selected. ing Taken to Forts bridge at Moody over Des Chutes. ---------------- Fancy Early Rose II II Seed Potatoes Earliest and best Oregon City —Government engineers will resume their annual summer diver sion of “fixing up the locks and ca nal.” Eugene —Fruit growers to build ad dition to association building. Linnton—Contract let for $181,923 to finisn highway to Columbia county line in bitulithic. ♦ 'T h Lewis Ulrich 1 he Pioneer Store Jacksonville, Ore u. S. Not To Fortify Coos Bay, Says Baker. Washington, March 26. —Senator Lane has a letter from the secretary of war stating that it is not necessary to fortify Cooa bay. He says the pre sent plans contemplate fortifying only localities on account of commercial strat"gic importance, deemed to be the object of of hostile attack and these conditions do not obtain to Coos bay. Indian Chief Offers to Raise Regiments. Kansas City, Mo., March 27 Wil liam Harrison, a Sioux Indian chief, passed through here on his way to Washington where he will ask permis sion to organize the Sioux tribes into regiments in case of hosilities. He said he could recruit 25,000 or 30,000 Indians for service. ----------------------- One Year in Jail and Fine Philadelphia, March 26—Several hun dred members of the crews of the tier man auxiliary cruisers Kronprinz Wil helm and Prinz Eitel Friedrich, intern ed at the Philadelphia naw yard since last October, started today under a heavy guard of marines for Fort Ogle thorpe and Fort McPheron, Ga., where they will be kept until further ord ers. England Will Save Day light This Year. Of $1 Given Spy. New York, March 26 Sentence of a year and a day in the United States penitentiary at Atlanta and a fine of $1 was passed in the federal court here today on G iorga Vaux Bacon, Arneri- c m newspaper man, who pleaded guil ty to going to England as a spy fcr I Germany. London, March 26 All clocks in the United Kingdom will be mow d forward one hour at 2 o’clock in the morning of Aprils.—The clocks will be moved back again September 17. In Italy all docks will be moved forward one hour between April 1 and September 30. France also will move its docks for ward one hour beginning March 24. 1