EXPECT VALUATION REPORTS'
Commerce Body Likely to Act Thia
Summer on Railroad Values.
NOW IS THE TIME
TO BUY REAL ESTATE
I
In Jacksonville. A new era is here and all desirable prop
Washington, D. C. — Valuation re
erty will soon be taken at the very reasonable prices now
ports fixing the final values of import
prevailing. List with me if you have property for sale.
ant railway systems of the United
The demand will be good this Spring.
i States are expected to be issued by
the interstate commerce commission
Surety Bonds Furnished
Convention Hail, Cleveland, O. — Lowden, ex-governor of Illinois, and
this summer. The valuation work has
progressed to the stage where a num President Coolidge was nominated he had refused to accept the place.
ber ot reports on large systems may Thursday by the republican national The convention was later adjourned.
President Coolidge's nomination
be completed in the next few months. convention in a proceeding which was
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Justice of the Peace.
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was accomplished with only a ripple
The field work ot the bureau of actually a ratification meeting.
Only dissenting votes from Wls of dissent from Wisconsin and North
valuation, involving investigations
Office in Roe building,
Jacksonville, Oregon
made in the field by engineers, land consin and North Dakota prevented Dakota, but the nomination of his run-
appraisers and accountants, has been the president’s nomination by acclam I ning mate came only after the con
vention had once chosen Lowden and
ation and making it unanimous.
Events of Noted People, Governments i practically completed.
Nominated by his personal friend. I had been forced by his declination to
Records of the bureau of valuation
and Pacific Northwest, and Other
show that the underlying reports Dr. Marlon Leroy Burton, president choose another—the “Hell-and-Maria"
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Things Worth Knowing.
which are made the basis for tenta of the University ot Michigan, the ! general.
tive final valuations have been com president received solid blocks of
After a short race with Herbert
pleted as to approximately 95 per votes from all the states on the final Hoover, who came into the ballotting
The engagement of Miss Margaret cent of the total steam railway mile rollcall except from those mentioned after the declination ot Lowden,
Before the first and only rollcall Dawes galloped off with the nomina-
Watson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. age in the country.
O. C. DOROTHY, Proprietor
Tentative valuation reports have was half completed the story of his ' tion.
Douglas S. Watson ot San Francisco,
and Herbert Hoover Jr., was announc been completed as to 22 per cent of victory had been told, as state by
COUNTRY CLUB AND ROYAL CLUB
Motions to make it unanimous and
the mileage.
state the votes of solid delegations by acclamation were disturbed only
ed Tuesday.
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Valuation of railroads began in 1913, from east, west, north and south were j by the dissent from Wisconsin and
President Coolidge does not feel when congress made an initial appro thrown to his support.
Fresh
Eggs, Bread, Meat Products, Cereals and full line
I North Dakota.
that an extra session ot congress was priation ot >100,009. In that year the
of canned goods.
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Barber shop in connection
In a brief and spectacular fight in
made necessary by the failure of the commission had 31 employes in its
CALVIN COOLIDGE
which William Butler, President Cool
The place to go for soft drinks, Cigars, Candies,
senate to pass the deficiency appro- bureau of valuation and expended $1U,-
idge's campaign manager, had said to
priation bill.
372.91 for valuation work.
Nuts, Ice Cream, Etc.
Senator Reed of Pennsylvania, “It
Uy 1915 the expenditures had in
FRESH ROASTED PEANUTS AND POPCORN
Isaburo Yoshida, formerly coun
■
seller of the legation at Pekin, has creased to >2,183,296, and the num
her ot employes had increased to 1291.
been named counsellor ot the em
Expenditures and the number of em
bassy at Washington, the Japanese
ployes
increased until 1919, when ex
foreign office announced Saturday.
penditures totaled >3,560,098 and the
General Archibald Jack, general number of employes totaled 1530.
In 1920 expenditures decreased to
manager of the United Railways of
$2,989,021
and the number of employes
Havana, the employes of which are
on strike, was shot and wounded late dropped to 990. The following year
Monday as he left his office in the the expenditures were $2,733,000 and
the number of employes 926. In 1922
By G. F. COLLIE
central station.
expenditures further decreased to $1,-
Second Lieutenant Harold I). Hail 595,000 and the number of employes
and Corporal Rulph W. Lehman of the declined to 585. At present the bureau
marine corps were killed Tuesday in of valuation has approximately 250 em
an eirplane accident in Stafford coun ployes and congress has authorized an
ty. V’rginia. Hqil was from Crockett, appropriation of >647,000 for the fiscal
Tex. Lehman was from Mayodan, year ending June 30, 1925.
N. C.
Valuation of the railroads was start
GIVE ME A TRIAL.
ed
in 1913 with the general expecta
ini»
x
The Rome chamber of deputies Sat-
L
tion
that
it
would
be
completed
in
urday by a vote of 361 to 107 adopted
CHARLES G. DAWES
a resolution expressing full confidence about three years. The magnitude of
must be Hoover,” and Senator Reed
in the government ot Premier Musso the undertaking was not realized at
Convention Hall, Cleveland, O. — had replied, “I can’t be done, it must
lini “for the work it has accomplish that time. The work is now in its
ed and in its program for the future.” tenth year and it is estimated that Charles G. Dawes of Illinois, the “Hell- be Dawes,” the Dawes supporters,
The speech from the throne was also two or three more years will elapse and-Maria” general, was nominated for after the declination of ex-Governor
before final valuations have been made the vice-presidency by the republican Lowden ot Illinois, marshaled their
approved.
on all the railways of the country, al national convention Thursday night forces and put the general across for
Relief that the peak of the agitation though officials directly in charge of after it once had nominated Frank (). the nomination.
at
in Japan against American enactment the work decline to give an estimate
ot an immigration law barring Jap at this time as to just how much long
be given any theater showing Amer
anese had passed, was expressed in er it will be before final valuation re
ican films and have warned "patriots,”
well informed circles in Tokio, Mon ports have been completed.
as tlie most active supporters ot th
W. A. BISHOP, Prop
day. The active phase ot the agita
When the reports have been issued
boycott term themselves, not to use
at the
tion, it was agreed, cannot continue tlie final values found will have to be
intimidation as a weapon for gaining
San Pedro, Cal.—Two premature ex
brought up to date, the final values
the assent of the theater owners to
more than two or three weeks.
Moving and all kinds of
plosions killed three officers and 45
being fixed as of June 30, 1915, 1916 or
plans to bar American pictures.
men ot the battleship Mississippi
The house of delegates of the Amer
freight handled.
The leading Tokio theaters plan to
1917.
•
Thursday and injured a score of
;
ican Medical association in conven
Many of the final values fixed by
continue using the American films.
tion in Chicago, Tuesday adopted a tlie commission will be contested in others, and the menace of death still
resolution calling for the repeal of the courts by the railroads and lit! hounded the crippled dreadnaught as
Tax Refund to Be Prompt.
“those sections ot the national prohi gation will delay the final establish she left her dead and injured behind
headed out to sea to protect har
bition act which interfere with the ment of value as a basis for rate mak- and
Washington, D. C.—Taxpayers who
'
bor life and shipping from the peril paid the full amount ot their income
proper relations between the physician
ing.
of a third and imminently expected tax on March 15 will not have to wait
and his patient in prescribing alcohol
medicinally.”
blast.
until December for the refund ot one-
Japanese Seek Entry.
The banner county of Oregon A modern town of 1000 people,
The first explosion occurred at 1
Seattle, Wash. — Immigration in P. M. while the Mississippi was en fourth of the amount, as seemed like —which captures nearly all the is the county seat of Jackson
The first ot a dozen or more in-
ly as the result of the failure of the de
vestigations to be conducted during spectors examining 238 Japanese who gaged in target practice oft San Clem
ficiency appropriation bill in the re prizes at the state fairs—has a county and is situated in the
the recess of congress opened in arrived here Monday aboard the Ad ente island, 45 miles from here, spread
population of about 25,000 hap most fertile and productive por
cent session of congress.
Washington, 1). C. Tuesday with the miral oriental liner President McKin ing death among the 88 men in No. 2
Director of the Budget Lord has ap- py and prosperous people and tion of the famous Rogue River
resumption of hearings by tho house ley with passports front Japan, found turret. Officers said the premature
proved an arrangement by which the enjoys the distinction of having Valley—correctly termed the
committee investigating the shipping scores who claimed long years of resi blast might have been due to a sailor
treasury will pay the refund out ot
board. There will be practically no dence in this country could not speak giving the signal for the electric flash
| “Italy of America.” The town
another appropriation. The deficiency the most delightful and health
let-up in the committee's delibera a word of English, according to of igniting the charge in one of the tur
ful
climate
in
America
—
not
is beautifully located in a cove
bill carried an appropriation ot >16,-
tions during the entire summer and ficers of the immigration station.
ret’s 14-inch rifles before the breech 140,000 for refunds to those who paid even excelled in Southern Cali at the base of magnificent pine
Advices received by the department
fall.
was properly closed, or it may have the entire amount ot their tax on
fornia. No county in the west clad mountains and is sur
in Seattle asserted that 2700 Japan resulted from a “flare back” caused
March 15 in advance of the action of
Plans for expenditure during 1925 ese will seek entrance to the United
ern
country is richer in re rounded by the finest irrigated
when a fresh charge was being loaded congress in the new tax law granting
of >4,500,000 tor new construction and States through tills port before July
sources
—the principal ones be alfalfa farms and fruit orchards
into the breech.
a 25 per cent cut on taxes on incomes
repairs on the Great Northern rail 1, when th* Japanese exclusion act be
As the stricken ship reached the of 1923.
Congress in the annual ing farming, stockraising, dairy in the entire country. The town
road between the Rocky mountains comes effective. Dozens ot brides and goal of its race for surgfeal assist
treasury, department appropriation bill ing, fruit, alfalfa, lumbering,; is five miles west of Medford, a
and the Pacific coast were announced bridegrooms were among the pas ance—the hospital ship Relief, just in
appropriated >105,000,000 for tax re gold, silver and copper mining, modern city of 8000 people,
in Spokane Tuesday by Ralph Build, sengers.
side the breakwater here—a second funds in connection with the settle
president ot the railroad. He said it
Warship Hits; Floated.
blast rocked the vessel. The charge ment of disputed tax cases. Under cement, marble, lime, etc. This with which it is connected by a
would include rebuilding ot the Colum
county, which lies in the south steam and electric railroad and
Norfolk, Va. The battleship West in the damaged turret’s second 14-inch the arrangement which has now been
bia river bridge at Wenatchee at a
pro made the treasury will draw upon western part of the state, ad splendid highway. The altitude
rifle
exploded,
hurling
the
steel
soon
Virginia, which went aground
cost ot >1,000,000.
the >105,000,000 fund in refunding joins California and is a happy of the town is 1568 feet and
after leaving Hampton roads for jectile out to sea.
amounts due to taxpayers who paid medium between the extremely there are no extremes in heat
Immediate conversion ot an initial France Monday, was pulled off the
Embassy in Japan Acts
in full on March 15.
group ot 12 shipping board cargo ves mud bunk, where she had lield fast at
wet climate of the north coastj or cold. The annual rainfall is
on
American
Boycott
high
water
and
proceeded
to
Lynn
sels to Diesel propelled typos is plan
and
the ilrv desert climate of about 25 inches — there being
Two
Bombs
Shake
City.
Tokio.—The boycott on American-
ned by the board whose experts have Haven roads to anchor for minor re
California
—being the most per little or no snow in the valley.
made motion picture films, due to re
Harrisburg, Ill. — Two dynamite
been studying for several months a pairs.
fect
climate
found on the west A more healthful place could
sentment
because
of
the
recently
en
Mine sweepers and tugs pulled the
bombs exploded early Sunday, shaking
program which eventually will involve
acted
exclusion
of
Japanese
immi
ship
free.
Aboard
were
members
of
ern
continent.
not be found.
Jhe
entire
city,
and
causing
the
partial
an expenditure of >25,000,000, author
I
ized by congress for this purpose. tho navy contingent of the American grants from America, has been brought destruction of two houses and break
President Coolidge has signed the bill Olympic team, whose departure has to the attention of the Japanese gov ing the windows of several other ail
now been delayed through the crack ernment by the American embassy Jacent homes. No persons were injur
providing the means.
ing of a condenser head and tho los here.
County Official Directory Jackson County Lawyers
ed by the explosions.
Nino persons are reported to have ing of a tower when the West Virginia
The direct cause of the embassy's
The bombs were thought to have
State Senator—Geo W Dunn, Ash
action was a complaint from repre been sent by persons opposing re
beeu killed and a score ot houses struck in a dredge channel.
land.
MEDFORD
sentatives
of
the
American
film
com
cent
liquor
raids
in
Saline
county,
111.
washed away in Mercer and McDowell
Joint Representative—Chas F Hop C. M. Thomas, Clr. Judge. Medford Bldg.
panics at Kobe, who reported that tin
Stolen “Treasure” Lead.
counties. West Virginia, Monday by a
kins, Roseburg.
M Purdin. Medford bldg.
boycott movement was progressing in
County Representatives — John H Gus Newbury and son Donald, Medford
Isabel, S. D. — A tornado which
flood following a heavy rain storm
Reno, Nev. Six bars ot bullion,
Carkin
and
Ralph
Cowgill
of
Medford.
Bldg.
western
Japan
and
asked
assistance
in
struck Glad valley, in Ziebach county,
that reached the proportions ot a stolen last Friday from a railroad at
Circuit Judge—C M Thomas.
E. H. Hurd, Medford Bldg.
west of here, late Saturday, caused
cloudburst. Sections ot Norfolk & Gerlach, Washoe county. Nevada, and combating it.
Pros. Attorney—Newton W. Borden. Lincoln McCormack. First Nat Bk bldg.
At the same time the boycott here probably a score of injuries. Property
Western railroad branch lines and supposed to be worth >6000. were
County Judge—G A Gardner.
John H Carkin. First National Bank bldg
Commissioners—Victor Bursell and G M Roberts. Medford Nat. Bank bldg.
sidetracks to a number ot mining really 97 per cent lead, according to was breaking down. The police hav< damage may run over >100,000, ac
Rawles
Moore. Medford Bldg.
announced that full protection wi cording to word received here today. Geo Alford.
operations were washed out.
James F. Fllegel, Old P. O. bldg.
a dispatch received from a special
Clerk—Chauncey Florey.
Porter J Neff. Medford Nat. Bank bldg.
Sheriff—C E Terrill.
E E Kelly, Liberty Building.
Following the unanimous passage of agent by Chief Kirkley of the Reno
Baby Drowns in Pail.
Storm Leaves 12 Dead.
II K Hanna. Old P. O. Bldg.
Assessor—J B Coleman.
police. One man. under arrest here,
F. M. Calkins, Old P. O. Bldg.
an emergency resolution presented by confessed the theft of the “treasure”
Treasurer—A C Walker.
Albany. Or. — The nine-months old
Johnson City. Tenn.—Twelve known
T
Mlles, Jackson County Bank bldg.
School Supt—Susanne Homes Carter I- W
the New York delegation to the Gen and’ it was being searched for in San. . baby of Mr. and Mrs. J. Fitzwater ot dead, four seriously injured, more than
J Newman, Palm bldg.
Coroner—John A Perl.
I’?r<’en- District Attorney. Palm bldg
eral Federation of Women’s clubs’ Francisco. Sacramento and other Stayton was drowned Saturday after a dozen houses, barns and mills de
M Infield R Gaylord, Palm bldg.
Health Officer—Dr W P Holt.
E
A
“
n<1 Charles Reames, Liberty bld«.
17th biennial convention in Los Ang- places. The value of the bars is >60.
noon when it fell into a pail of water molished and thousands of acres ot
O C Boggs, old postoffice bldg.
eles. Cal., Monday, telegrams were
Frank
De Souza, Liberty bldg.
setting on the porch.
farm crops ruined, constitute the toll
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G. £.n" °, Taylor, J P and City Judge,
sent to chairman ot all political con-
Mayor—Emil Britt.
St. Taul. Minn.—Magnus Johnson.
Mrs. Fitzwater left the house to ot the most disastrous cloudburst ever
Federal bldg.
Councilmen—Chester Wendt, Peter B. F. Piatt. 30 Laurel Street.
ventions urging them to include in Minnesota's "dirt farmer" senator, was attend to some duties in the yard recalled in this section. It appeared
their platforms a plank indorsing renominated on the farmer-labor ticket The child crawled after her until to have its center near Hunter, on Fick. G W Godward and Frank Lindley W E Phipps, Clarion ofilce.
and Justice of the Peace
ASHLAND
America’s adherence to the world by an overwhelming plurality in Mon it was attracted by the pail, The Little Stoney creek and Blue Springs J. Recorder
I.. Roe
Nellie Dickey.
court and further urging all parties day's statewide primary, returns avail infant fell head first into the con creek, where a house, in which two
Treasurer—C. C. Chitwood.
L A Roberts.
Briggs & Briggs.
to provide tor all possible co-operation able at 10:30 P. M. showed. He de tainer and was dead when its mother families lived, went to pieces, taking
Marshal—M D Jones.
G. W. Trefren.
Council meets first Tuesday of each W
with other nations for world peace.
feated two opponents.
I returned to the house.
nine lives.
J Moore.
month.
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