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Andrew Ctuitral JACKSONVILLE, JACKLCN COLNIY, OREGON VOL XII BLUE BOOKJIS WANTED TO TEACH CITIZENSHIP GOLD PRODUCTION BRITISH ARMY NOW DROPS BEING DEMOBILIZED OUR OWN STA I E ! toe headed by Hennan Jennings, gold | mining engineer, which was appointed London.—Demobilization of the Brit I by Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of tht ish army is now in full swing. Up to i Interior, to investigate gold production the present time a total of 8 1,000 men ' in the United States, has male a re- have passed through the six dispersal ' port toat indicates a decline in pro- stations in England an 1 Scotland, and i duct ion. skilled workers are being returned to The committee was appointed s aver i idustry in rapidly increasing numbers. al months ago when tile secretary's Soon 15 dispersal stations will be in ; attention was called to the increasing operation, each of which will be cap cost of gold mining and a consequent able of dealing wirh 2000 men every 24 decline of output. hours. The report just made says “gold min According to Major-General B. F. ing has been seriously injured by the Burnett-Hitchcock, directo r general of war and has been discriminated against demobilization, wheat Camp Wimble- for the benefit of the Treasury in that t >n explains 1 to a represent ative of ; the exporting of gold an I even the in the Associated Press the details of the ' ternal free trade in the metal was in- work, it will be a long time before the I teruppted. ” demobilization limit has been reached. Stating that prices of all commodi The quesiion ot the number of men ties have advanced in terms sf the Gov each of the associated governments is ernment’s paper money except that of to It ave in the enemy countries for oc an ounce of gold, which has a fixed cupation purposes will be determined price of $20 67, the committee says; at the peace conference. The purchasing powtr of gol 1 has The following classes are being de decreased in proportion to the increase of other commodities which in one way mobilized en bloc here: Miners, sick and wounded soldiers, or another are factors in the obtaining convalescents, men over 41 who were of new gold. “The present decrease in gold pro c filed up in the last draft, “pivotal”, o ■ leading men in industry, students duction is serious, as the maintenance of a sufficient gold reserve is essential and teachers. Many physicians have been released to the security of our National finances and credits. The United States is the b it a sufficient force will be retained most favored nation in regard ¡to gold tn care for the 533,0 0 sick a id woun 1- reserves, holding more than $3,000,000- el now under treatment. 000, or nearly one-third of that of the Those that will not be demobilized world, but it has contracted debts on a for the present are the railway person gold basis many times that existing be nel in France, men having to do with fore the war.” transportation generally, and those in charge of horsts. Streets. Famine Relief Bill Agreed Upon. Washington, Jan. —An agreement on Centralia, Wash., Jan. 25.—The work the administration bill appropiating of repairing the damage to streets done $100,000,000 for European famine relief during the high water was started was reaceed today by the senate and house conference after a brief session. yesterday by the citv. The firm of Terk Bros, was one ot All of the senate amendments were the heaviest losers from the high water adopted, including that by Senator in the business section, water that Penrose of Pennsylvania, republican, flowed through the store ruining about providing the wheat derated should be $1000 worth of household furnishings. brought as far as practicable in Amer- The town of Galvin, west of Centra ica. l's, suffered from the flood, a torrent Prohibition added by the senate of water pouring through the main against distribution of food to enemy stree Thursday. peoples also was approved by the con Railroad traffic on the main line was ferees, but the provision was re draft- considerable improved today, although ' ej so as to insure that Armenians and service on the South Bend line was other frienly people in enemy territory still suspended. ‘might be assisted. IMMIGRATION BA: OMM ÙNDEI 'Jj/Ki Manu.’uAurgf, Snn ? Recent Happenings In Various I’ar-A Miners, Sick Men, Doctors, Special Probe Discloses that Naturalization Officer want Secretary Olcott ’ s Pub of Oregon Decrease is Serious. Students and Teachers lication as Text First to Get Dis Book. Circuit an.l County Court I Washington.—The special commmit- charges. Centralia fixes 1 jan lu House Committee Reports? Bill io Protect Ameri can Labor. I. Enter pris’s ad I; n p r o v ? <n e J s, Pm v. ding Payrolls and PrnmS- ing Deimi:pnient of Cfc*,on. Washington, Jan. 28.—Legislation F es D. fiurd pr. hibitit g general immigraii .n f .r a Salem, Or., Jan 27.—John Speed Jan Salem, Or., Jan. 23. -The ho ise yes period of four years following the ¡go Smith, chief naturalization examiner, terday unanimous y passed Repre ing of the peace treaty was approved c intemplates h iving the Oregon Biu'e sentative Barnau.h’s bill concerting tentatively today by lhe hou ■ inrm Book us.'d in the schools of the state fees of circuit and county courts in gration committee. It is understood th" committei is d as a text book for persons applying counties of lets than 5'),0 *0 inhabitant*. for admission as citizens under the The bill, according to Mr. Burn .ugh, viced seven to two for the 1?, slat in new regulation whereby they are to does not change the am >unt of tees, With six members absent. Prohibition receive instruction though tiia schools. but merely makes definite certain am of immigration during the pe.-'e r - construction perio I has bee 1 strongly He has recommended this t> St ite biguous passages i' the existing law, Su; erintendent Churchill and to citv 11. B 13, by Sehueb -I, also call d up urged by ¡representatives of organized . > i superintendents. He has written Sec for third reading, was ¡.gain referred labor and others at hearings before t .■ ( rval sG z tte-Times; While warei retary of Stato Olcott to ascertain if to ttie committee of assessment and committee. I paid 1 r niak.ag thing we li .vo to buy ihe required number of 3030 to 50)0 taxation. Another bill to be re-re The bill woul I permit an alien res. . stay where th y .ire, lhe cost ut making extra copies can be supplied. Secretary ferred was Siller's measure providing uietit to bring his wife and childt' n i cannot come down. Labor is entitled to Olcott has replied that publication of for the recording of boo ls and for ac- (expect boys over 18 years old) into fair wages, to good wages, bit not to' mother blue book a i l the number of ceptance of the record us evidenc* in the United State orphan nephev ' profiteering wages sueii as war has copies wiil depend upon whether the case the bo-’d itself is lost. under 18 and nieces of any age also forced on us. legislature allows the appropriation. may be brought into the c untre, Salem Journal: Consolid it on talk h. a I To iris-ls would not bo barred from 1 begun in lhe Legislature and it will - nd entry for temporary stay. : in tile accomplishment of abolatel. Attempt to Murder ■ nothing, j .st as il always does. It Warren, Or., Jan. 23.- The bin has The decision on the four I commissions are con olidated it mig.it Made Extreme Crime. been lifted from this section and all was made on the question social events and public gath; ings are committee should adopt thot pr tvisirn I be necessary to abolish a number of again permitted, The death toll was or one providing for only two year.,’ j offices and this will never be do .e ill Salem, Ur., J m. 27.—Any person not very heavy, considering the nuin- prohibition. j Oregon. guilty of intent and attemp to murder ber of cases of influenza. No new Umatilla county to spend $1,50(),0')J will lay himself liable^to the extreme cases have been reported for over a in two years on permanent highway pen dty, if H. B. 36, which pissed the week. Schools have resumed work with 300 000 Yanks Portland will build school houses to house by unanimous vote is adopte 1 by a normal attendance. to be Transported employ returning soldiers the senate. Representative Gallagher is author of the bill. Oregonian—“Keep the'home fires <f Home Monthly. Attorney General Brown Oregon Industry burning.” “The w ty things Btand now” he said, “a man may go gunning for an- Again Confined at Ilomt*. Wa.ai.it gton, Jan. 27,—General March Oregon wooden shinyards have drop- other, fin 1 him an I shoot him do vn in Salem, Or., Jan. 28.—Attorney Gen chief of stalf, informed the s naie pel 5,800 men since N w tnber. his tracks, yet escape paying the pen Two Oregon railroads and three Co >s eral Brown is confined to his home i military committee toiay tha* sh oping alty for murder should his victim re with illness. It is reported he is suf- i arrangements had been male by which . Bay lumber companies in hands of re cover. fering from an attack of influenza. 390,000 men might be transported home ceiver. “I maintai > that the technical dis 1 monthly and that all of the American I 1 Heppner h is pl ms for a $3fl,09). tinction should bu removed and the expeditionary forces could be returned ' hotel. courts allowed to impose the life sent Dry L ike Bed Wanted ' home and demobilized witbin six Highway commissi >n to give employ ence on such men at their discretion. ” by Silver Lake Man. months. ment to 1000 returned soldiers. ---------- »a«----------- How many Americans will be Hood River-valley 1HI.8 lumber out Salem, Or., Jan. 27.—Silver Lake, in abroad in the army of occupation i put reaches >5,1'47,70) fret. Lako County, threatens to go dry Curb Sale of i again, and C. I). Porter, who desires ■ be determined by President Wil R. ;■ burg 892,560 appropriated fi r Bitters and Tonies to farm in the bed of the lake, has ; General Man'll stated, but Ameri< paving Roseburg to Winchester rO'd. written Secretary of State Olcott, .Ire aly have been designated for Albany to Jefferson road to be hard asking how ownership of the l..ke b -.1 ’ turn home than original!r proposed l y Salem, Ore , Jan. 27.—,A bill prepar lands is determined. A supreme evurt Mm h d F .ch. He indi utid that 10 stirfin 'll at cost of ab >ut $700,000 pro ed by the Anti-saloon League of Ore opinion, written by Justice Burnett, divisions had been suggritei as Ameri vided by highway commission. gon, with the approval of Attorney holds that the .ivner ship of lands bor- , can's contribution to the army of uecu- Prairie—No relief yet in sight f< r General Brown, to curb the sale of dering oa lhe banks of bodies o '| pafion- chrome industry. “bitters” and “tonics” now bring held water extends as far as the water re Ther • are still about 785,000 Salem—Legislators will be asael to in Oregon, it is alleged, as substitutes cedes. A similar opinion h m emanat-1 camp in the United States and care for .state de.'lciepcies of $525,38'. for liquor, was introduced in the legis ed fr .m the United States Supreme be demobilized within a mon'li Portland Wooded shipyards will lature by Representative Elmore. It court. This indi ates that the rights day except those retained for “over attempt tooporntd Saturday afternoons would give the state board of pharmacy of persons who own land abutting on head duty,” General March a ided. Up notwiihstan iog declared intentions of power to prohibit the sale of any the lake will debar Mr. Porter from to noon last Saturday, he said, IOI. c O ii union workers to take half day off. alcoholic mixtures or compounds in farming in the bed or the J ike. The men had arrived from overseas. P. rtbind —Another boost for Or -gon tend ud or likely to be used as bever bed of Silver Lake is said to be excell Oregon shipyards expected from ages. SOO,000 Talent Irrigation Scandinavian count!, s soon. ent farming an 1 grazing land. Norwegii Bonds Sold by Thomas. interests will place orders. Signal Changes Proposed. Salem Contracts now being signed with farmers for 1919 flax crop by Marshfield, Or., Jan. 25.— The South Salem, Jan 28. Shortly after arriv rn Pacific Railway Company has ing in Salem Senator C. M. Thomas warden al State penitentiary. fouud its autom itic and electrical sig made a trip to Portland where he sold Astoria newspapers tell of RCtiv? nal system at the bridge across Coos the $60,000 Talent district irrigate n building operations in 1916. Bay can be improved, and a recent bonds to the bond house ot Freeman, Owing to scarcity ¡of farm labor survey of the system decided Engineer Smith anil Camp. It is expected work Oregon importa millions of dollars A. H. McKean oil millin' several will start m a few months on the West worth of vegetables. changes that will require the expend Talent project which has been approv Ro eburg review: (best editorial < f iture of approximately $1799. ed by the slate engineer and others. the year so far) “Local in lustries bring The most important change will be This will place water o i 3,500 acres. Wealth. B'lilding up local ¡industries is that of moving the derail away from The east unit has not yet been de consid' red one of the prime requisite! the draw.-pan to a distance of 509 feel, cideri upon, as sufficient data h is not of the community at this time. whereas it now is located within 160 been secured as yet, regarding the Or gon has seven Supreme Judges. feet of the draw. The signal system storage of water. I he choice lies be- warns approaching engineers of the two n Beavercreek and Ilv.itt Prairie Other states with rn ire wealth and presence of trains on the bridge, or of an I it is expecte 1 data S'CU-ed during pnpulati n get along with three to fiv the drawsran being open. A nnmber lhe winter will determine which sourc e Oregon judges ask salary increase from of minor changes of a technical nature is the better,and wh.lt work must be S1500 to $5i)0(). The old gag of creating the office of are to be made when the remodeling is done to insure sufficient water, water. The Lieutenant Governor is again bef< re Jone. rur. off last year in the Beaver B aver creek the legislature -a more useless offl e district was far below normal and than vice president. Vast Tract to ba Opened. necessitatied a readjustment in figures Salem—Campaign inaugurated by^the The Oregon-West Colonization Com previously compiled. Pheasant Northwest Products Co. for The water from the West pany will open up 10,(J00 acres in the purpose of encou-aging the planting of project comes fr .m McDonall Malheur Vallew, from Ontario to Vai", a large acreage to Or., April 1, and is waging a campaign which is a project similar to the berries. z Bear creek project of the Rogue River to -ecure settlers, including stock and Oregon farmers experience unusual canal company. dairymen. prosperity in l.)18; 15,321,0)J bu. wheat The land is included in the Warm . compered with 12,-'ll,'ll) bj’h.l in German Cannon Springs Irrigation Project and I 1917. under the ditch in the near for Medford. I Roseburg Umpqua friil t. men get un- Twelve thousand acres alreaey ¡$40,000 for 1918 apple mid I p ar crop. der the di'ch in th • valley. Wa liington, Jan. 27. —Corigre smin Hood River—Work or Coluino.U II iwley introduceg in the house of River Highway between M 1 r-ier a ,d representatives, January, 18, the foll No Influenza at (Inion. owing bill, which wa:t referred to the tl.i pl ice to start at once. Union, Or., Jan. 27. -Trie local phy committee on military affairs: , Mosier—Material enroute here for sicians have announceJ that there is A bit! authorizing th i secretary of ' construction of concrete bridge owr not a case of .Spanish influenz i In war to donate to th • city of Medford, i Rock Creek. Union now, the first time tines early in J ick ton cointy, in the stat .' of Ore o>.i Port. Umpqua Electric light plant the fail. >n» Germ m cann >u or fiel '.-piece. j to be establi-hed here. B _■ it enacted bv the senate and Eugene—¥.80 >,0 HI corporation formed Roosevelt Day Proposed. houae of representatives of the United for purp >s..' of building large sawmill | State’, of America in congress assembl- with I'l l O KI ft. - in icpy at this place I ■ ’ th t th" «err< ‘ ". of w r h Miner’s Ball Brand Rubber II Boots Absolutely Guaranteed 1Ï u We have them Lewis Ulrich Ill III l( !Í gì General ! -i i il I’ ip Jacksonville Merchandise Oregon T . o- ...e . >a. liai <>. 1', oí Nv ve. .,, refere i to the House judici iry commit imperial German govern neat during for >. >, m ig of Callahan coal mine bsyohd Melrose. the present war. tee.
