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THt PORT o»ro«D n „ m , por, okfobd . eotr^ . e>Ig0N wT.B»«BÀr. am ,,. a, ,m Scouting Engineers Go Thru J. IWtKES BOOTH Curry County in Advance of m S KILLED JIIST State Highway Commission AS HISTORT SflTS REPEATED RUMORS THAT HE + + + 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 -^ 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Macleay Estate Co. to Charles Wakeman, et ux, lot 1 in sec. 1 two W irranty Deeds. 36, S R. 15, W. W. M., a l s ó k t ^ ; Chn« Paulsen, to Wm. Holl, et ux T ' . 2I’ 35’ S’ S- R‘ R- 14> 326.79 acres in Section 16 twik 39 K Wd W M W 2’ ’ »T”’ 7 tWP’ t,Wp’ 35, 14’ W. W R Wm. X « T c h r i s Pauls^, R26i73’ w ; w . inM“ ? ; z twp- 89 s ’i Wm. J. Paulman, et ux to Mildred « “w . m ., ss b twp Clau.UH. Giles, to T. J. J Gihhs part of block 93, of the town satisfying that certain mnrt ’ * Believed Their Recommendations on Route From Pistol River WAS ALIVE UNTIL JUST RE- of I. Maloy, Port Orford, Oregon, $10. bearing date the 6th ,lav of O ^ k ^ C E N T L Y W E R E ALL Um. Paulman, to Sarah L. Paul- 1919, and recorded in the offic° of p part of block 93, of the town ot County Clerk of Curry countv bi to Brookings Will Be Accepted Before State Body Visits HOAX—BURIAL UNDER Port Orford, Oregon, $10. j book 7 of Mortgages on page 150 ’ P R IS O N . Right-of-Way Deed. Chattel Mortgage. This Section-May Let Several Big Contracts at the May Edward J. Lawrence, to C urry! K»nnetJi Perkins, et ux, to First County, Oregon, 3.83 acres secs. 29, Natl. Bank, Bandon, 110 head of cattle A few weeks ago the daily dis- Meeting-Year’s Outlook. m ’ $580.60. twp’ 38,S- R‘ 44> W- w - gSS e" gine ai?d waK°n> etc., $1. patches carried a report of the death M. Mining Notice. of the purported John Wilkes Booth ^ Christian Jocher located a claim Deed. assassin of President Lincoln, and a Ignatz Weil, et ux, to Jerome L. 10O by 500 feet on the north bank of strenuous effort was made to cause Drumheller, undivided one-forth in- S S UeJ " z 5 ?1V T ,e r’ ' “ on Brushy Slushy creek, i„ ?f°^ in a doubt to exist in the minds of the terest in Sec. 19, twp. 31. S. R. 14 I “ Ul<\ „ k Mining District, Curry people as to the death of Booth at W. W. M. ’ | County, Oregon, on the 20th day of the hands of the posse that took up Mary A. Colebrook, to Clayton!* “ c*’ 1925’ Said elaifn to be known companied by two or three former, This trip is said to be for the par- from E u c h re C r e t t * t ” tCh his trail immediatly following the Mark, a right to take w ater from S Starve Out Claim.” members, and possibly the governor ticular purpose of selecting the route through Col I R k , gU<L nver' shooting of the Civil War president. of Oregon, Hon. Walter Pierce, S t a t e t h e Roosevelt Highway between ^re e k and C h L H ? ° J * " " ? ’’’ Only the skeptics and those always O’Brien creek flowing through sec Portland-B ehnke-W alker business Highway Engineer Roy Kline and Pistol River an,I Brookings, three sur- riv e r’ It l^ k n n tV .t ° „ 'Vlnchuck known as doubting Thomas would 32, twp. 34, S. R. 14, W. W. M„ $1.00. college will build $250,000 headquart- Mortgages. District Highway Engineer W. E. veys having been made for th is 1 Sects’a r 4 ,known that these pro- have questioned the authenticity of Robert G. Walker, et ux, to H. J. Chandler, the latter from Marshfield, stretch. Kline and Chandler w il/g o t h o u g h t f u l , the ear" est and Booth’s death over half a century ago, were in Gold Beach Tuesday night ,1 over these routes thoroughly T nd R 1 ndssfon ,11C°" S,derat!°n of the and the following Associated Press’ Walker, section 26, twp 39, S. R. 13, Subscribe for The Tr ' nr despatch under date of March 28 and Wednesday morning in confer-ps quite possible that the commission' coming meeting th® ence with Resident Engineer B. O. will act upon their suggestions and 1 so44e imnnrtaot Q be*y See from Springfield, Illinois, ought to Johnson, and left early on the latter recommendations, and make a choice forth announcements put be sufficient to convince even these STAFF that Booth has long since been made Miss Berths Schmid, R. N. day for the south as fa r as the O re-: even before they make their trip r to pay the penalty for his crime: gon-Califomia state line. Neither here, which will not likely be now un-' ,rry, county people can rest as- Russell C. Keizer, M. D. Superintendent gf itleman inclined to commit him- til after their April meeting on r i , tilat the year 1925 will most Mrs. Carol C. Hons, R. N. Phil J. Keizer, M. D. P t n g ’ on likely see the greatest era of highway self as to the state highway commis Thursday of next week. Head Nurse i - ------ - SPRINGFIELD, III., Mar. 28.— Ira B. Bartle, M. D. Mrs. Doris Nichols sion’s intentions through Curry coun Five alleged skulls of John Wilkes W. D. Butler, M. D. Pathologist ty, but it is a well-established fact Its March meeting that if the Curry gon. Oregon, out in all Ore- Booth, assassinator of President Lin that the county will be treated rather handsomely during 1925 and 1926 in ^ " 'b e tw e e n R • ' the nght8' of‘ The commission will let the con- coln, are on exhibition in the United States, and 20 “Booths” have died the m atter of new highway work. I , , ,nKS and tlc Win- tract at its meeting next Thursday ..............» .u c c Wells »veus ra v cus- according to ..c Herbert Fay, cus It is believe lt ic r-elieved that Messrs. K line!C uc* rlver’ that the former would for surfacing with broken stone the todian todian of of Lincoln’s Lincoln’s tomb tomb here.’ here. Re- Re- and Chan idler .. are _______ n as the ovlz acting scouts contract for this stretch at its m^es Mussel Creek-Euchre ^um’ner reports that Booth lived 38 38 for the Highway commission, which! whicb Anril ad Cre? section- whicb has been under |y ears a fte r President Lincoln’s death April meeting. But it has not ad- neil a trip through C nrrv' ertlsed for bids , f .. tr this . . purpose, ami sm grading — Planned Curry m Z construction construction since late l a s '! an<4 and latter committed suicide ____ are char acterized by Mr. Fay as wild. STORE CLOSES ITS DOOBS--WB “Those who wish to make money (H IT NEW SPA PER ADVER- * V O IT R H P U m u I k T ek *' ° f typeS ° f th is infecti°" out of the hoax or to create cheap Corner Virginia and McPherson + iU IJK HEALTH J but there are certain cardinal symp- notoriety are the only ones to dis U S IN G ” GIVEN AS ? + * + > + 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 -M -4 4 4 4 * * 4. i oms, fever f®V'er of °f. SU(l,len onset> genera! sudden fluent n.aM nw .,1 REASON * * * + | 1' preSKlon w,th or without pains in pute the historical record of Booth’s death in a barn at the G arrett farm ,” MEN INCHES. the back and neck, drawing back oi Mr. Fay asserted. “David E. George CAMPAIGN, Apr. 2.—Withdrawal The fact that there were four'*1*’1” 1 f,eJiriunb or coma. The treat was only one of 20 different men of all advertising n - several ~ J years > Cl I c Telephone 2371 and 2361 -.....-- W W VI from the Champaign News-Gazette a^° is deaths from J meningitis of till an | who have claimed to be Booth. Re- , 1 . in Oregon O 1 _ rnent 1 • J . ^ le disease » . . consists blamed as the chief contributing cause dutine, the past week makes it neces- 0,1 • ejection of anti-meningococcus cently while lecturing on Booth’s ______ death at the tomb, one of my audi of the failure of Murduck Brothers, sary to call the attention of the pub- Serum* We know something about the ence, who gave his name as Wil lor IS years a leading ladies’ ready-to c ki° 1 *7 infecti.ous nature of this __ ’‘Khiy disease. Preventive l causo °f meningitis and we can guard -wear store in the University city. fatal liam H. Regan, said he embalmed the NORTH EEND OREGON < This blame is assumed by E. L. are clearl-v indicated a l- a »?a>nst this to certain extent but body of George. Asked whether he they “ re very (iiff*oult to carry there are still many unknown factors. thought it was Booth and whether Murdock k jn in a signed letter published „?,*Ugh th<? in the News-Gazette, following th e ,° U ' Prevent meningitis by: the dead man had any proof of his voluntary closing of the doors of the . Meningitis has come down to our 1. Avoiding x. nvuiuiiig a lowering of the re re- idenity, 1“eniuy. negan Regan said he believed not not. concern, to avert being thrown into c*me through the centuries like many sistance by over-fatigue, loss of sleep I Nevertheless, George’s em- --o — body --".i was »»Mo em anv kind I balmed ___ _... kind. bankruptcy. j of the other infections but it was not and excesses of any balmed and and shnum shown over the country The part of his letter touching up- '< recognized until 1805. Outbreaks have 2. Avoiding contact with cases of in a commercial show scheme.” 1 on his inability to hold the public’s , been Ported almost every year in meningitis. We have more than one hundred F irst P p » Official Version. trade without using newspaper space jtbe United States. It is a very fatal 3. Avoiding contact with cases sick ferred Stockholders who have never failed to The version of Booth’s death ac follows: disease as the mortality is over 50%. with other communicable diseases. cepted by the custodian of the vic receive the 7 per cent quarterly diridend since ‘Another contributimr .« a R was a serious disease in a army ................ _ _ ... .„ ty 4- Avoiding places where there is tim ’s tomb is as follows: contributing eauoo cause, and camps durin,r during the WorI(l World Wl W ar and was | overcrowding such as public gath-'r- perhaps the greatest ” contributingiCampS S;videan “ L c e 1 v ^ k- the “John Wilkes Booth eluded his pur ------’ cause, is the fact that four years our 8® cond on|y “ 10 pneumonia. Mening mgs, crowded street cars, moving suers for 11 days. He was fed by firm, because we thought the’rate was ltis t,as its £ reatest prevalence in Thomas A. Jones in the meantime 7 PER CENT PREFERRED STOCK too Ui~1 high, ’ . withheld .................. all advertising in W.‘nt7 , and sPrinK- It is a disease EDW ARD P. FA R LEY in a grove along the Potomac. Lieift. the News-Gazette. For two ............... years we °* children and young adults. The Baker of the secret service, who had were out of the paper. We were with disease is caused by a double round often seen Booth, and his men were out proper means of getting messages organism which occurs in tissue cell As Permanent and safe as the counties it serves. watching the fugitive. When he about our store into the homes of our and is culled on this account the crossed the river he was suspected and friend.- and buyers. The result was , diplococcus intracellularis mening chased to the G arret farm. they soon forgot us. We tried other itidis. Thehe are other forms of Barn Fired. forms of advertising to supplant the meningitis but the epidemic form is Baker and l.is men surrounded News-Gazette, but wo found none that caused by this germ. the house and after some parley was as effective. Our business con The germs leave the body with the they ascertained that Booth and Her tinued on the ilowngrade. discharges of mouth and no.^. In no old were in the barn. They demanded “A fter two years we saw the error other disease have carriers been <le- several time.-- that he com? out. Col of staying out of the News-Gazette.; monstrated in such great numbers in onel Conger’s men were surrounding A Home-like Place for A rramrements were made again with proportion to (lie number of cases. th? bam. They threatened to set fire the News-Gazette to carry Murdock The disease is transmitted by con- to the barn and Herold emerged and B ios, advertising into the homes in , tact witu a carrier or with a person , surrendered. Booth refused, saying this community. The business began who has the disease. Individuals de he would ‘die in the last ditch.’ The to thrive—hut it was too late. Seem velop into carriers by contact with barn was set afire. with every accommodation possible. ingly our I riends had forgotten about carriers and they occur usually when Boston Corbett, a sergeant, saw Splendid Meals us. The fault was ours. For too long there is close contact and bad ventila j Booth through a crack and disobeyed, Comfortable Rooms. a time we had failed to remind them tion. Carriers can be cleared up by j orders by shooting him. He was WEDDERBURN about the splendid merchandise and having plenty of frosh air and avoid OREGON j brought out by Conger’s men and died values in our store,” ¡ng overcrowding. j in three hours. The body was brought ------------o----------- — —---- _ The disease is usually preceded hy to Washington and identified by var Salem—United .states National chills, depression, headaches, pain in ious men who knew Booth. One Dr. Bank will rehuil its bank building back limbs, but suddeness of onset is John F. May, identified the body by a t cost of $73,000. the most striking feature. There are an ugly wound on the neck from an operation performed some time be fore. Againrt his physicians adv Edw ard P. F arle y .f Ch.cago, for- Booth insi: " ' n acting and reopen m er vice president of the Emergency F leet corporation, has been selected ed the wound, which healed badlv v n, lonely is the even-tide G ra c e £» L'; .'ied Under Prison to succeed A. D. L asker as chairm an W h e n T ho u g h t alone Is hy m y side, of the shipping board. He is at the “Booth was buried under a federal head of several large shipping Inter- , prison and an accurate, detailed A n d T hought is sad and weary!; eats. I port made of the position and v„„- ■ dition as required. Later Edwin Booth. SavZ F Y0UR ,n’°ney iS Worth workin* for il is worth saving I d travel far to seek a store I actor-brother of the slayer, obtained PRO F. ELTO N R. DA R LIN G Saved money, deposited in this bank works for vou. Open vour ! an order allewing him to see the O f gems upon a mystic shore— _______ mayUforeetOitr 4 (D<;partnlent‘ Do R »«‘lay, tomorrow’vou body, hoping that a mistake had been may torget it--th e next day you may regret it. I made. He viewed the body and identi- But kite night is dark and dreary. ■ Start a Bank Account for your bov. One of the most vital 1 lied it as his brother. He also called B“ k D~ k- ' U in ’n dentists who identified fillings tn the teeth of the body, which made identification positive. Edwin Booth T here is a sobbing in the pines claimed the body and buried it in the K ly soul repeats the dismal Funes family burying ground at Baltimore in an unmarked grave. In whimpers lov?; f * ......... .............. KEIZER BROTHERS HOSPITAL ..... . , , , I , U J JOIN! COOS & CURRY TELEPHONE CO. Wedderburn Hotel Tourists, Fishermen, Hunters Make your money Work for Y O U ! ReiNuivcicilioiv T here is a note o f hidden pain W here joy is wont to ring and reign T h e bleak winds bloxC. There is a lovesong ¡ „ m y But I must bid it to depart ~~ I dare not sin« ’ O h , lone'y hen fu _Bids H ope the even tide 'n, a relentless guide, e vfing! ■vrrtehg Dodd, M»d & C«, U* Prof. Elton K. u arlin g Molli ken university, Decatur, III., here seen w orking In his laboratory, has per- fected a process fo r m anufacturing a synthetic wood from the pulp of com cobs. picture theatres and badly ventilated schools and churches. 5. Keeping the hands clean. Wash- , ing the hands before eating. 6. Sterilize all eating and drinking utensils before being used by others. The following precautions are necessary to prevent the spread of this disease: 1. Prompt reporting of cases upon suspicion. 2. Placard house to keep visitor)- away. 3. Isolate patient in a room with a trained attendant. 4. All the discharges should be im mediately disinfected. 5. Everything that comes in cnrtac: with patient should he sterilized h boiling or other effective means. B ank Bandon BANDON OREGON The E O Z Y FOR CIGARS, T< JBACCO AND LUNCH GOODS Confectionery and Pool Room R- R. SMITH, PORT OR!