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
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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
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t,Wp’ 35,
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twp- 89 s ’i
Wm. J. Paulman, et ux to Mildred
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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
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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
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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
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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
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iU IJK HEALTH
J but there are certain cardinal symp- notoriety are the only ones to dis
U S IN G ” GIVEN
AS
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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
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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
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...
.„ 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
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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
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_
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!