Oregon Historical Society
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JACKSONVILLE, JACKSON COI NIY, OREGON
VOL. X.
WANT
COLONIZATION AND
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FIRST ARMED SHIP
INDUSTRIES.
FOR NAVY.
INDi/SM/AL REVIEW
RUNS BLOCKADE.
VALUABLE MINE SOLD
O. R GV; N SIA ï'L
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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to $7.30 on January 15. The next
officials will conduct a drawing without for government nitrate plant.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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