'.-JACKSONVILLE POST:
German Airship Hunt
meri:: ns
Official Paper of the City of Jacksonville, Oregon
Ameri n Training Camp in France.
German aerial squadriilas
A weekly newspaper published every Saturday at the county seat of Jackson July 24.
appar ntly have persistently sought to
County, Oregon. D. W. B acsiiaw , Editor and Publisher
lo< co tie Anglican troops since their
Entered as second-class mutter June 22, 1907, at the post office at Jacksonville arrival here, but without the slightest
success to date. Co”nter squadriilas
Oregon, under Act of Congress of March 3, 187u.
lluve been so watchful and energetic
’ that th.' Germans have t>een unable to
SATURDAY. JULY 28. 1^17
approach the encampment and have
SUBSCRIPTION: One year by mail $1.50. Advertising rates furnished on been beaten off each time they crossed
application.
the French line.
The store who’s aim is to serve as well as sell.
One of these aerial batHes took
The store where courtesy is a motto and good cheer an asset.
yesterday evening and another
New Rites for Lighting.
English Channel Is Clos I i place
this morning. Both were at points at a
The store that makes few mistakes and rectfies them cheerfully.
considerable distance apart and far
ed To U-boats,
removed from the American encampj
The findings and order of the Public
The store in which all Departments offer Values that will be of
ment. They were witnessed by chance
Service Commission regarding rate»,
by
American
officers
who
were
touring
Across
the
Eastern
mouth
of
the
Keen interest to every customer.
rules and regulations for electric ser
vice in Southern Oregon have been re English channel there still stretches the country in automobiles. Some 15
ceived at this office where anyone in the great barrier which is one of the planes were engaged in the first fight
Wash goods, Ginghams, Dress goods, White goods, Linens Silk
terested may examine the report which principal defences of the allies’ vital and a dozen in the latter.
Both the battles wer- conducted
channel traffic against the visits of the
comprises 51 typewritten pages.
thousands of feet above the ground.
and cotton fabrics, Domestics, Draperies, Suitings, Staple and fan
The commission sets out schedules of German submarine.
"The barriage,” they call the bar The sky was cloudless and the fighting
the cost of the service to the company,
cy notions, Women’s ready-to-wear goods, Ladies’ and children’s
its receipts under the present rates, rier in naval phrase. That consists, in was plainly discernible. The German
etc. and finds that present rates return general terms, of a series ot "ob airmen were forced to turn and make
underwear, Trimmings, Handkerchiefs, ribbons, laces,embroideries,
huge for home without having spotted the
less than 5 per cent on the investment. structions,” stretched from
The commission denies any intent to buoys, shore to shore, 20 odd miles. American camp.
hosiery, men’s and boys’ furnishings.
raise rates at this time but claims that Any craft which strikes one of these
obstructions
straight
way
explodes
a
the present rate is discriminatory and
Alleged P. 0. Robbers face
revises them, in fact sets out in en group of mines which spells finis to
Groceries, Flour, Feed and Grain.
the intruders.
Many
Charges.
tirely new schedule.
In so far as we ¡have examined the A whole fleet is constantly engaged in
n?w rates the revision is entirely in maintaining and patroling the great
Space forbids further enumerations but we furnish what you need.
i W'lliarn Collins and Sam Rubber, who
favor of the large user and against the barrier. Its existence is no secret to
'
yesterday
were
convicted
of
having
multitude of persons using a small quan the Germans for they are constantly
Give us a chance to show the Big Values at
tity of the juice: for instance the rate sending over airplanes to chart the robbed the Dostoftice at Riddell,Or.,
for residences is now $1.00 for the first buoys and mark any changes that may last May, today were placed on trail
19 kilowatts: the new schedule makes have been made since their last visit. : for robbery of the Phoenix, Or., post-
it 90 cents for the first 7 and 10 cents And changes are constantly being I office. This afternoon they were to be
I tried on another count charging them
for each of the next 43 k w, making made.
Here and there along the line are | with conspiracy ’o rob the same post
first ten kilowatts cost the consumer
On the latter count Donald
$1.20 instead of $1.00 as at present. secret openings through which naval office.
Matheson
will be tried also. The gov
The People’s Store.
Phone 142.
pilot
may
guide
legitimate
crafts
on
After using 50 kilowatts the consumer
gets a rate of 7 cents. The same dis their way, but these opening are ernment alleges they are professional
crepancy appears in the schedule for frequently altered and not even the office robbers. Assistant United States
"Commercial Lighting,” Combined airplanic eye of the German '•an tell Attorney Rankin is directing the pros
Lighting, "Cooking & Heating” and which buoys mark safe passages and ecution. ---------- xa,»-,.., —---
“Power,” in fact in the latter class which marks destruction. If his mine
the rate varies from 8 cents for the laying submarines wish to enter the Barbers at Eugene on Strike
first 200 k w to 1% cents for the ex channel they must take their chance.
They must cross submerged, for the
cess over 3000 k w used.
Eugene, Or., July 25. —Eugene has
(The minimum charge in each case patrol boats are on constant duty, and
Men Who Don’t go to War
weather Report.
is high enough to allow for the cost of if they escape them while submerged, a strike of its own. Every journeymen
barber
in
the
city,
numbering
about
20
it
can
only
be
said
that
anothtr
installation, etc. and for each k w ovt r
Must go to Work.
walked out this morning because the
the minimum the same rate should be miracle has happened.
Following is the report of U. S. Vol
bosses
refused
to
grant
them
shorter
charged whether it is one kw or
i one Such miracles seldom happen. Some-
unteer Cooperative Observer, E. Britt;
hours.
They
demanded
that
they
be
j
twice
a
week,
sometimes
oftener,
Baltimore, July 24—Governor Har
thousand—the cost is exactly ’ the
¡Jacksonville, for month of March.
explosions are heard at night from the allowed to go to work at S a m., in- rington has issued a proclamation re
same. Editor)
Latitude 42 deg. 18. min. north; longi
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great barrier, indicating that “some stead of 7:30 a m., and that they be quiring unemployed able-bodied men
tude 123 deg. 5 min. west.
allowed
to
quit
earlier
on
Saturday
thing has touched off a group of mines
between the ages of 18 and 50 years in
The Fuel Famine.
Immediately the patrols hurry off in night. The employers were firm in Maryland to register on or before Au
Date Maximum Minimum Precipita
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the direction of the exDlosion, what their refusal and today none but the gust 20. The governor is determined
proprietors of the shops are on duty, | that those who do not fight shall work.
tion
they
find
there
is
a
well
kepi
secret.
RHEUMATISM
It is not yet too late for the Federal
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They are rushed and at each shop there
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and NEURALGIA
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Government to avert the threatened
is a long waiting list.
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fuel famine in California, but relief Philadelphia Shaken by Blast
Poison Beans Found.
Dennis Eucalyptus Ointment
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legislation must be enacted quickly if
AT ALL DRUG STORES
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Bootlegger
Freed
Until
Jail
disaster is to be avoided This is the
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T ubes 25 c
J ars 50 c
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view of well informed captains ot
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Bismarck, N. D., July 23—Twenty-
Philadelphia, July 25. —A bon1400,000
Can Be Emptied
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industry in the Golden State who say gallons of gasoline were destroyed by
one sacks of burma beans, declared by
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that consumption of crude oil in Cali fire as a result of an explosion in an
E. F. Ladd, State Chemist, to be dead «5» *** ‘ »* V *♦***• •** ***1
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fornia is now 600,000 barrels a day oil still at the plant of the Atlantic
ly
poisonous,
were
condemned
by
Dr,
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Klamath Falls, Or., July 25.— Joe
H
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above production.
Refining company there. For a time Josephs, the bootlegger, who was ar Ladd at a local wholesale grocery here
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The recent testimony of W. A. the entire plant was threatened with rested by a woman rancher while bring and ordered returned to a St. Paul con
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Scott,
vice-president and general destruction. Six employes are missing. ing two casks of whiskey to this city in cern from which they were received.
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manager of the Southern Pacific The explosion shook the entire city. a boat, was sentenced to 3d days in Dr. Ladd asserted the beans contained
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Company, to the effect that his road The cause of the explosion has not jail and to pay $300 fine. The jail being enough poison to kill every Derson on
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would have to discontinue some of the been determined.
full at this time Josephs has been al the Red River Valley slope.
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trains within a short time unless the
The fire caused a loss estimated at lowed to go free on his own recogniz
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•ituation improved, has caused many $200,000.
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ance.
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Can You Beat It?
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large industries to wake up to the
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A. W
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(Boston Transcript)
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seriousness of the problem. The South
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rath-
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“Jack, dear, which would t
End Of Grays Harbor
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ern Pacific is usiug 45,000 barrels of Forest Receipts Used For
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er lose, me or my money?”
fuel oil a day, which is nine to twelve
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Strike Is Predicted.
Roads
and
Schools.
“You, dearest.”
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thousand more barrels a day than it
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“Oh, Jack!”
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can buy or produse. Its entire reserve
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“But I would. Because,
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will soon be exausted, and the reducV-
Twenty-five per cent of the total
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Aberdeen, Wash., July 26.— The dear, If I lost you 1 would have the
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ion in train service must then follow receipts from National Forest business strike situation on Grays Harbor today
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money to offer a large reward a id get
.03
of necessity.
will go to the counties in which the shows decided improvment. Several you bark again.”
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Meanwhile the richest oil fields in Forests are located as part of the road are operating, and others advertize
“You darling boy!”
Temperature —mean max. 79.66; mean
the West are denied to producers on and school funds. Ten per cent more they will start tomorrow, issued a call I
mir, 45.56; mean 62.61. Max 93. on 14.
the theory that a navy to be built will be used in theconstruction of roads for men. It is stated tnet a majority I
Minimum, 32, on 12. Greatest daily
five years from now may need the and trails within the National Forests. of the employes are anxious io work
Her Part,
range,
45. Total precipitation .03
supply. Transporation men point out In round numbers this amounts to and
will
respond
when
the
"John,” whispered his wife, “I’m
inches. Greatest in 24 hours, , .03 in.,
that the need five years from now 159,000 and 63,000, respectively. The whistles blow tomorrow. A general thoroughly convinced that there is a
Number of days with
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01.
on 9.
could not be greater then that which states of Oregon and Washington resumption of work is expected Mon- burglar down stairs.”
1 clear,
inch or more precipitation, 1,
exists now with the country at war further in the sums of $127,000 and i day.
"Well, mv dear,” replied her hus-
27; partly cloudy, 3; cloudy. 0.
at war and. America industries striv $92,000, respectively, for Forest roads,
band sle.-pily, "I hopeyou don’t expect
Total snowfall
inches
ing to supply half the world.
under the Shackleford Act
Anvway, as a flippant person might me to have the courage of your convic
Precipitation for season,
As a simple war measure, the Gov
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remark, Germany did not find Brazil an tions.”
Precipitation for last seaeon
erment could hardly do less than
He knows what THIS TOWN
easy nut to crack.
Seasonal average
Silver
from
Texas
•> wants.
permit the Southern Pacific to supply
Just now the bear that walks like a
E. B ritt ,
I
Electric Sparks
its fuel needs from its own lands pend
He knows your INDIVIDUAL
Cooperative Observer.
ing litigation. Every barrel of oil The United States Geological Survey, man begins to talk like a democrat and
wants.
(From Off Our Wireless)
which the railroad buys in the open Department of the Interior, reports to fight like the dickens.
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He is anxious to please.
Another German date for the end of
market by offering ten cents above the that the Presidio silver mines, in Texas
Forest Notes
♦>
He wants you to call again.
the
war
with
a
German
triumph
has
going price, means that some Cali- was in continuous o peration during the
Lens is likely to fall soon. Save the •> He GUARANTEES his goods.
fornis Industry will be short that first six months of 1917, that mining passed. It is cruel of the allies to un pieces.
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fix the dates as regularly as Germany
He'll exchange them if they do
amount of its fuel oil needs.
The gross receipts from the National
was also carried on during that period fixes them.
Don’t bemoan the fact that you were
r.ot
please.
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Forests of Oregon, Washington and
in the Van Horn and Sierra Blanca
not among the first to land in France. ■>
Alaska for the fiscal year ending June
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districts and that several shipments of
I Take the next boat.
Want To Go To France.
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Manin’s Bid For Fams.
20, 1917, were $644,937.57 This is $150,
coppper ore were mane from deposits i
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It may be that the Germans, having
‘‘It Is barely possible that bad there
000. more than the receipts for the
in the “ Red Beds ” of Foard and I
removed troops from the Russian front
El Paso, Tex., July 25. Lacking a few , Knox counties. The result was a small I been no Mellin there might bave been
| preceding year
are having less men captured than
men to fill up an artillery regiment j output of copper, lead,and zinc hut a no world war. for It was at the siege
The members of the Forest service
of this little Belgian city In 1794 that would otherwise have been the case.
for foreign service. General Greber production of silver for the six months the Hanoverian army officer. Scharn-
in
Oregon, Washington and Alaska are
Having come to supply Americans i
today called for volunteers from two of fully 340.000 ounces
raising a fund to buy an ambulance for
; horst, won Ills first distinction. Sub- with all information that may be lack
regiments of other branches of the
1 seqtiently be wrote a military paper on
military use
service, choosing that mathod rather
the escape of the Menin garrison, and ing as to Roumania and its people, the
Auto Accident Injures Eight | Eagle Creek Camp and picnic
Sixty
Days
for
I.
IF.
II.
'
Roumaian
mission
probably
will
be
in
than arbitrarily designating the men
this brought him to the attention of
Corvallis, Or., July 24—A small au grounds on the Oregon National Forest
staff officers of various Gorman stntes. i this country a good while,
needed.
The plan failed, for on the appeal
Chehalis, Wash., July 23-Eight and lie was offered several commis j It is understood that von Bethmann- tomobile carrying eight persons collid attracted 2200 visitors on July 4.
for volunteers, every officer and en members of the I. W. W. were sen- sions. He accepted service under the Hoilweg will make no attempt to reply ed with a jitney Sunday evening and
Forty tourists, traveling under the
listed man of the two regiments stepped fenced to 60 days in jail by Judge Rey king of Prussia. and from tills time to that part ot Mr. Lloyd Geoige's overturned. John Ulner, driver of the auspices of the .Massachusetts Forestry
dates the beginning of activities that
forward.
nolds. of the Lewis county superior eventually resulted in the establish speech which bluntly announced that jitn-y suffered a broken nose. F. L. Association, are visiting the National
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court. The men will break rock at the ment of the Prussian military system j the German army had burrowed out of Burley, station agent at Crabtree, one Forests and Parks of the West.
| of the automobilers sustainei a broken
which was tile genesis of the holo- sight.
For camp cooking, use a small fire.
Eighty Men Are Reported Kill Meskill quarry.
oust of nations It was Seharnhorst.
Why not call the Associated Press rib. An infant in arms escaped unin- It requres less fuel, is easily approach-
I the liero of Menin. who induced Ills man home to be Secretary of the Navy Jure^-
ed In Coal Mine.
, ed, and can be readily put
ont
sovereign to put aside the Prussian and give Josephus a colorful job as war
' before leaving camp
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Tacoma Box Factory Burns
professional long service army which
, The report that the Germans i are
had been shattered at the battle of correspondent?
Timber sa'e business on the National
Halifax, N. S. July 25.— Eighty work
The British have captured, as it were stealing French church bells to i make Forests of Oregon, Washington and
Jena
and
to
Inaugurate
the
policy
of
men were killed in an explosion at No.6
Ticoma, Julv 23- Fireyesterday des
•
shells
rings
true.
the outer rim of the Lens.
Alaska amounted to $450,000. in the
mine of the Dominion Coal compny at troyed the Hague box factory, causing universal service Tills was not order I
ed. however until after the origins-
Somebody in Congress seems to have fiscal vear
A private band is too oft-rn merely
New Waterford. C. B., according to a loss of $50,000. The plant has not tor’s death from u wo nd Inrti. led at
pnt an embargo on common sense.
advices recieved here from Sydney. been in operation for everal weeks the buttle of I.nt ell in ISI.’i National capitalized personality
Receipts for grazing on the National
I Even the great war shows a tenden
Intoxicated Russia may have to Forests of Oregon and Washington
Twelve bodies had been recovered at and the origin of the fire is a myste- Geugraplu So.iety Bulletin.
I clamp a prohibition law on Liberty.
noon.
cy to take the week ends off.
were $168,000 for the fiscal year 1917.
Hot Weather Merchandise
at the Coolest Store in town!
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Taylor- Williams Co.
Jacksonville
Oregon
Home Marchant
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Why Net Trade
at Home?
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