Jacksonville post., April 13, 1923, Image 2

MINIMUN WAGE LAW ILLEGAL
District of Columbia Law Is Upset by
U. S. Supreme Court.
REAL ESTATE
I
Washia^on, D. C.—Wages cannot be
Reedsport.—Pile driving began
fixed by law, under the constitution as
day on the site where will be built
City residence property and vacant lots at very at­
Umpqua Mills and Timber compt
it now stands, the supreme court,
tractive prices. Alfalfa and stock ranches for sale
lumber mill Incorporated by Wi
Brief Resume Most Important dividing 5 to 3, held Monday in a case Three 8-Hour Shifts Run to Fill a ington
men with Washington cap:
and exchange. See me if you want bargains.
brought to test the constitutionality
Daily News Items.
Increasing
Demands.
Eugene.
—
Notwithstanding
lrreg
of an nA jit congress fixing minimum
f
ities in levying special road ti
wages for women and minor girls in
throughout Lane county, the taxes
the District of Columbia.
NOTARY (PUBLIC.
be collected and the money expet
The decision was delivered by Jus­
on the roads, according to the coi
tice Sutherland, Justices McKenna,
court.
Van Devanter, McReynolds and Butler
Reedsport. — The steamer Be
Events of Noted People, Governments joining with him. Chief Justice Taft Building Activity in California and Hanlon arrived at the Winchester 1
and Pacific Northwest, and Other
Reopening of Northwest M’nes
dock Friday afternoon. She will
delivered a dissenting opinion for him­
THE
loaded with 400,000 feet of lum
self and Justice Sanford, while Justice
Things Worth Knowing.
Big Boon to Market.
for
California
points
and
left
here
1
Holmes read a dissenting opinion
night.
which followed in its main features
Grants Pass.—A corporation to b
Fifty persons were killed and 20 that of Chief Justice Taft. Justice
Portland.—For the first time in the
wounded by an explosion at Anking, Brandeis did not participate in the history of the lumber industry in Ore­ known as the "Oregon Caves Resort
has been organized by ten local bus
o. C. DOROTHY, Proprietor
Anhwei province, China, incidental to decision.
The majority based its position gon mills located in the Columbia ness men and these will take
the removal of ammunition from a
broadly upon the right of contract, river district have found it necessary of providing accommodations at
COUNTRY CLUB AND ROYAL CLUB
powder magazine.
insisting that while laws could be to operate 24 hours a day in order to caves this year.
BEST
COFFEE ON THE MARKET
President Harding lias purchased enforced to regulate working condi­
his birthplace—a farm in North tions, the employer and the employe keep up with the demands for timber
Philomath.—At the monthly se
Fresh Eggs, Bread, Meat Products, Cereals and full line
Bloomfield township, Morrow county, must be free of legal restraint in de­ products. For the past week the In­ of the Philomath college exec
of canned goods.
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Barber shop in connection
Ohio—where, as a barefooted boy, he termining between themselves what man Poulson Lumber company here board, the Guy Frink residence
The place to go for soft drinks, Cigars, Candies,
passed his childhood days.
has been operating three daily eight- purchased for the use of the co
wages are acceptable.
Nuts, Ice Cream, Etc.
The minority contended that there hour shifts. The Westport Lumber president, H. Dixon Boughter.
A serious peasant rebellion against
the soviet government has broken out was no greater police power in con­ company on the Columbia has been home is one of the finest in the
in south Russia, according to advices gress and the state legislature to regu­ doing likewise.
Corvallis.—The city council Frida:
received by the Ukraine representa­ late working conditions than to regu­ Both of these mills sell the majority night voted to issue bonds up to $50
late wages, and that as there had
tives in Berne, Switzerland.
000 for the extension of the Fillmore
been wide uniformity in holding that of their products to the export trade.
William Frizzell, 82, and Emma Bar­ working conditions could be prescrib­ Orders from the orient, Australia, street sewer westward to the clt;
limits. This will bring building lot
rett, 65, widower and widow, both of ed by law-making bodies, it followed,
Cascade Locks, were married in Hood in their judgment, that wages were South America and other points have into service covering an area of 1:
been so large and have continued to , blocks.
River, Or., Rev. Gabriel Sykes, pastor also a proper subject for legislation.
“SLATS” WILSON, Prop.
of Asbury Methodist church, officiat­ Justice Sutherland pointed out in increase to such an extent that it has
Albany.—Due to the success of t
ing.
the majority opinion that the mini­ been impossible to fill them with­ few broccoli growers in this secti<
Judge William E. Dever, running on mum wage law was “attacked upon out employing an extra shift of men. many more acres will be planted
All kinds of repairing done—satisfaction guaranteed
the democratic ticket, was elected tlie ground that it authorizes an un­ Other mills in the northwest are run­ this vegetable next year, and wi
mayor of Chicago over Arthur C. constitutional interference with the
the bottom lands that are availal
All kinds of Auto Accessories, brake-lining, etc.
Leuder, republican, by a plurality of freedom of contract included within ning extra shifts.
near Albany quite a broccoli center
Yard stocks are exceedingly low in prospect.
103,748, according to complete unof­ the guaranties of the due process
Coils Tested and Adjusted.
ficial returns.
clause of the fifth amendment.” The everywhere and lumber moves out to
Salem.—Dentists front all sections o
Good Service and Square Deal is our Motto.
right to contract “about one’s affairs,” purchasers almost as fast as it goes the state have been called in Salem foi
According to reports in Hutchison,
he stated, “is part of the liberty of the through the plants. Other mills may the past few days holding their an
Main Street,
JACKSONVILLE, ORE
Kan., a tornado struck Partridge, this individual protected by this clause.’’
find it necessary to employ additional nual convention and treating the in
county, at 5:30 o'clock Monday even­ The fact, he asserted, was “settled by shifts. Many are now operating 16 mates of the state penitentiary,
lug. Half of the village is reported the decisions of this court and is no hours a day and at that have to re­ banquet was one of the features
to have been blown away and several longer open to question.”
ject orders due to inability to fill the convention.
persons hurt.
“Within this liberty are contracts them.
Seaside.—Cannon Beach is exper
Last week the production of lum-
Robert G. Goldie, British vice-consul of employment of labor,” the opinion
iencing
its greatest building boom, ac
at Naples, died Saturday of injuries continued. “In making such contracts, her by the mills of the northwest was cording to A. T. and A. M. Himes
generally
speaking,
the
parties
have
greatly in excess of normal and at the merchants, who were here Saturday
inflicted by a man who attacked the
official while he was visiting a grotto an equal right to obtain from each same time there was a demand that More than 25 residences have been
BY E. R. JONES
near the city in company with his other the best terms they can as the was greater, by far, than production. or are being built this spring, in addi
wife, according to a dispatch from result of private bargaining.”
Shipments were in excess of orders, tion to several business blocks.
Legislative authority to abridge the thus indicating that the problem of
Naples.
right
of contract can be justified, Jus­ transportation, either by rail or by
St. Helens.—Lumber shipments from
Two aged sisters lost their lives in
a fire which destroyed the Interior of tice Sutherland stated, only by the ex­ water, is no longer a worry of tta- St. itebogs for the week ending Sat­
their home in St. Louis Wednesday istence of exceptional circumstances. manufacturer. However, there is very urday night were light as compared
Leading Horseshoer of Southern Oregon
and two other sisters were burned Among the exceptions to the broad little excuse for freight cars of any with the previous week when close
HORSES FED
rule
which
had
been
sustained
by
the
type to be on sidings and idle these to (7,000,000 feet was loaded and dis­
severely. The dead are: Miss Eliza­
courts,
he
said,
were
statutes
fixing
days
—
they
can
find
domestic
ship
­
patched.
However,
the
shipments
beth Nicholson, 91 years of age, and
rates to be exacted by business im­ ments at the several hundred mills amounted to more than 3,000,000.
Mrs. Lucy Lindsay, 95.
pressed with a public interest, those
Secretary Hughes has Informed the relating to contracts for the perform­ that are operating to capacity in the
Pendleton.—Little market road con­
British, French, Italian and Greek gov­ ance of public work, those prescribing northwest.
struction work will be done in Uma­
A new demand for lumber has been tilla country this year owing to the
ernments, in identical notes handed the character, methods and time of
felt
recently from the copper mining overlapping of the 1922 program on
their representatives in Washington, payment of wages and those fixing the
districts. Due to an Improvement in tills year’s funds, and the average of
that the American Red Cross will ter­ hours of labor.
the copper market many of the mines
minate its emergency relief work in
Justice Sutherland declared the law that have been experiencing little pros­ : 30 miles annually of new road con­
The banner county of Oregon A modern town of 600 people,
Greece on June 30 next.
under attack was not one "dealing perity for a long period of time are struction will not be met this sea­
—
which captures nearly all the is the county seat of Jackson
son.
Tho Earl of Carnarvon died peace­ with any business charged with a pub­ now opening. They are calling for
prizes
at the state fairs—has a county and is situated in the
fully at 2 o'clock Thursday morning. lic interest or with public work or to heavy timbers for construction and are
Sheridan.—Final drive of the city to
He was conscious almost to the end. meet and tide over a temporary em- using much rough lumber. The
population
of about 25,000 hap­ most fertile and productive por­
clean
up
its
street
Improvement
in
­
re­
His death was due to blood poisoning ergency.”
cent report of the federal reserve debtedness was begun this week with py and prosperous people and tion of the famous Bogue River
through the bite of an Insect with the
agent at San Francisco shows that 15 the posting of notices to delinquent enjoys the distinction of having Valley—correctly termed the
l iter development of pneumonia. Death
big copper mines of the intermoun­ property owners. If payments are not the most delightful and health­ “Italy of America.” The town
occurred at tho Continental hotel in Three Months' Building
tain country are now operating, where­ forthcoming within the legal limit ful climate in America—not is beautifully located in a cove
Cairo.
Costs $1.250.000.000 as in 1920 at about the same tliue after the notices have been sent out
the city will proceed to foreclose on even excelled in Southern Cali­ at the base of magnificent pine­
James V. Martin of the Martin aero­
only eight were open.
the property.
New York. — One billion and a
plane factory, Long Island, alleging
» fornia. No county in the west­ clad mountains and is sur­
conspiracy to destroy his business, quarter dollars’ worth of building per­
Woman Burns Herself.
Albany.—On July 12, 13, 14 Albany ern country is richer in re­ rounded by the finest irrigated
filed suit under the Clayton act in mits, the greatest amount for a similar
Miami, Fla.—Crazed with pain of will be the scene of the annual en­ sources—the principal ones be­ alfalfa farms and fruit orchards
Washington, D. C., Wednesday to re­ period in the nation's history, were
campment of the Spanish War veter­ ing farming, stockraising, dairy­ in the entire country. The town
cover $51.510,000 from the Manufactur­ taken out throughout the country dur­ long illness, which three operations ans, department of Oregon. Prepara­
had
failed
to
alleviate,
Mrs.
Helen
ing, fruit, alfalfa, lumbering, is five miles west of Medford, a
ers’ Aircraft association, Inc., 27 other ing January, February and March, S.
tions already are under way to care
Simms,
46,
of
Miami,
drenched
her
­
gold,
silver and copper mining, modem city of 8000 people,
W.
Strauss
&
Co.
announced
Tuesday.
corporations and 38 individuals.
self with kerosene Sunday night, lit for between 400 and 500 vets. A dele­
All
records
for
March
alone
were
cement,
marble, lime, etc. This with which it is connected by a
Max Bachman, CO, former wealthy
a match to her clothing, screamed once gation numbering 250 from the largest
post in the United States, Scout Young county, which lies in the south­ steam and electric railroad and
director of the Boston symphony or­ broken, $420,851,343 worth of work be­ and was dead.
chestra and leader of his own orches­ ing authorized in 205 cities, a gain of
western part of the state, ad­ splendid highway. The altitude
Police at first worked on the theory of Portland, is expected.
tra at the Panama-Pacific exposition $161,357,012, or 62 per cent over March that the woman had been murdered
joins
California and is a happy of the town is 1568 feet and
Roseburg.
—
William
Horn,
trapper,
of last year.
at San Francisco, died in the county
These figures, the company esti- and because of her smallness of sta- hunter and prospector on Middle medium between the extremely there arc no extremes in heat
hospital in Fresno, Cal., Tuesday, prac­
lure believed her to be but 16 ycars creek, in the south end of Douglas
wet climate of the north coast or cold. The annual rainfall is
tically friendless and in poverty, hug­ mated, indicated u total of $600,000,- old.
county, was in Roseburg Saturday
000
throughout
the
nation
for
March.
and
the dry desert climate of about 22 inches—there being
ging his favorite violin to his heart.
after filing on a gold and silver strike
The gain in the eastern states was 41
California
—being the most per­ little or no snow in the valley.
Coal
Strike
Is
Over.
which he made near Silver peak the
Fourteen persons are known to have per cent, central 75 per cent, southern
been killed In a tornado which curly 64 per cent and Pacific western 171
Cardiff. Wales.—The striking miners first of the week. This is reported to fect climate found on the west­ A more healthful place could
not be found.
Wednesday struck Pineville, La., and per cent.
in the Rhondda coal fields held a be the richest gold strike in Doug­ ern continent.
vicinity, across tho Red river from
meeting late Sunday night and settled las county for many years and much
Alexandria. At 10 o’clock a train ar­
their differences. Work, therefore, interest is shown in the find.
Two Slain in Memel Fray.
rived bringing the bodies of eight per­
will be resumed tomorrow. The mines
Salem.—The frequent rains during County Official Directory Jackson County Lawyers
Berlin.—Two Germans have been employ about 46,000 men.
sons killed at Pineville and a sawmill
the past two weeks has had a detri­
killed
during
disturbances
in
which
settlement a mile east of that town.
It was stated at the meeting that
mental effect on the fruit crop in Mar­
the German and Lithuanian factions
State Senator—Geo W Dunn, Ash­ D W Bagshaw, Jacksonville.
Dr. W. Edgar, president of tho Cen­ in Memel were involved, according to practically all the non-union miners ion county, according to S. H. Van land.
MEDFORD
now
had
joined
the
union.
tral sanitarium, and Bruno Suderman. special dispatches to the Berlin news-
Joint Representative—Chas F Hop­ C. M. Thomas, Clr. Judge, M F & H Bldg.
Trump, fruit inspector for this dis­
M
Purdin.
M
F
& H bldg.
kins,
Roseburg.
who says ho is the discoverer of a papers Tuesday.
trict. He said considerable damage
Newberry, M F & H bldg.
Revenues Beat Costs.
County Representatives — John II Gus
treatment for tuberculosis and dia­
E H Hurd. M F * H bldg.
had resulted to the fruit buds in the Carkin
Machine guns are alleged to have
and Ralph Cowgill of Medford. Lincoln McCormack, First Nat Bk bldg
Washington, D. C.—Wyoming had an
betes, reported to the New York police been brought into play by the Lith-
Shaw section and that the blossoms
J6hn H Carkin, First National Bank bldg.
Circuit Judge—C M Thomas.
excess
of
$7.82
per
capita
of
revenue
G M Roberts, Medford Nat. Bank bldg.
Tuesday that they, with Mrs. Edgar, uanians in dispersing a German meet-
Pros. Attorney—Rawles Moore.
brought out by the recent fair weather
Rawles Moore. District Attorney, Medford
receipts
over
governmental
costs
for
County
Judge
—
G
A
Gardner.
National Bank bldg.
were hold up in their automobilo by ing held in protest against the in­
have been blasted by the heavy rains
James F. Fliegel, Old P. O. bldg.
1922,
the
census
bureau
announced
Commissioners
—
Victor
Bursell
and
outlaws. The robbers took the only corporation of the Memel region into
of the past week.
Porter
J Neff. Medford Nat. Bank bldg.
Geo Alford.
Saturday. The state's net indebtedness
E E Kelly. Medford Nat’l Bank Bldg.
copy of Suderman’s
Lithuania.
Clerk
—
Chauncey
Florey.
W
S
Crowell,
Medford Nat. Bank bldg.
was $18.37 per capita, compared with
Salem.—Contracts for the construc­
elry, they said.
H K Hanna, Old P. t>. Bldg.
Sheriff—C E Terrill.
F.
M.
Calkins,
Old P. O. BTdg.
56 cents in 1917, the increase having tion of state highways and bridges ag­
Assessor—J B Coleman.
F. P. Farrell, Jackson Co Bank bldg.
Car» for West Sought.
The federal farm loan board called
been due largely to issuance of high­ gregating a cost of $362,469.50 have
Treasurer—A C Walker.
T W Miles, Jackson County Bank bldg.
for redemption May 1 of ' all outstand-
F J Newman, Palm bldg.
Washington. D. C.—Steps to build way construction bonds.
School Supt—Susanne Homes Carter N
been awarded by the state highway
W Rorden, Palm bldg.
ing bonds of the 12 farm banks issued up transportation facilities for the
Coroner
—
John
A
Perl.
Winfield
R Gaylord. Palm bldg.
commission, and actual work on the
Health Officer—Dr W P Holt.
F XV Mears, Liberty bldg.
May 1, 1918. The total of the issue next harvest in the west will be taken
Soviet Frontier Fixed.
project will be started within the next
E A and Charles Reames, Liberty bldg
by tho 12 banks Is $55. ,032,000. Tho nt a meeting here Tuesday of rail­
O C Boggs, old postoffice bldg.
Riga.—After two years spent by a few weeks. Blds for this work were
Frank De Souza, Liberty bldg.
action of the farm loan board in call­ road officials with the car service divi­ mixed commission of Latvians and opened at a meeting of the commission
City Directory
Glenn O Taylor, J P and City Judge,
Federal bldg.
ing all of the 1918 issue of land bank sion of the American Railway asso­ Russians in demarcating the Russo- in Portland on March 27, but award­
Mayor—Emil Britt.
H A Canady, old P O bldg.
Councilmen—Chester Wendt, Peter B F Lindas, Jackson County Bank Bldg.
bonds for retirement was accepted as ciation. Efforts will be made, the asso­ Latvian frontier, the final agreement ing of the contracts was deferred be­
Fick, G W Godward and Frank Lindley W E Phipps, Clarion office.
foreshadowing an early issue of new ciation announced today, to formulate was signed here Saturday.
ASHLAND
cause of the agitation looking to the
Recorder—D W Bagshaw.
Nellie Dickey.
bonds nt a lower rate of interest than definite plans for assuring whatever
Treasurer—J N Cronemiller.
This is said to be the first definitely referendum of the gasoline tax law
L A Roberts.
Briggs * Briggs.
the 5 per cent rate carried by the rolling stock is needed to meet agri­ fixed frontier agreement signed by enacted at the last session of the leg­
Marshal—M D Jones.
W Trefern.
Council meet* first Tuesday of each G
obligations which are to be retired.
cultural and industrial requirements.
W J Moore.
soviet Russia.
islature.
month.
C B Watson A A E Kellogg, Gold Hill.
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