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'GOLD H ILL JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26.1911
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NO. 42
Governor Sustains Voice of People By Vetoing Hume Fish Bill
Al FAI FA VFA<JT
ALFALFA
YEAST
FROM UNCLE SAM
Fred Riedel Receives Bottle of
Beneficial Bacteria
P E A R S O N S STI
S T / ! L H
AC
I'--
PEARSONS
HAS
DUCA TS TO DISBURSE
Or. Daniel K. Pearsons, the non­
agenarian philanthropist of Hinsdale.
III., haa discovered some proiarrty that
baa not been given away, ao he la
making plana to donate it quickly. He
annotmeea tha/ he prii,smeH '‘to get
ahead of my friends, Rockefeller and
Carnegie, and make provision for a
complete cleanup liefore dying.”
The philanthropist has given away
»Ujsst.issi to forty-two colleges In
twenty four stale» Now he haa dis
posed of the residence near Chicago,
when» he and bla wife lived for thirty
years. Although tne property, with
Oregon Legislative Session in Review
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x x x x x x ~ y y
Concise Summary of Twenty-Sixth Meeting of Law-Makers
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LITTLETON ENTERS
RACE FOR SENA TOR
ROGUE CLOSED
TO ALL FISHING
New York.—Martin W. Littleton,
newly elected Democratic member of Except With Hook arid Line-
Na
Congress from Theodore Roosevelt’s
Fish May Be Sold
district, announced his candidacy to
the United States Senate to succeed
Chauncey M. Depew, and supplement­ GOVERNOR KEEPS PROMISE
ed his formal statement with a verbal
declaration that be would take his Not to Interfere With Popular Legtslotioei
cause before the people. He chose
- Eggleston Wes Author of Bill Pre­
to mike known his candidacy through
venting Sole of Rogue fish
a letter to Lieutenant-Governor Con
way.
Salem, Feb. 24 —Governor West this
afternoon vetoed tbe Pierce fist, bill,
which nullified the iniliative law passed
by the people last November closing
Rogue River to commercial fi-hing Tlie
veto was in lulflilln.ent of his promise
j not to interfere with popa'arly enacted
legislation. The merits of the measure
vetoed or the hardship» worked by the
initiative measure closing the river to
commercial fishing were not considered.
Tbe governor today signed Captain
Eggleston's bill prohibiting the sale of
steellbeads and trout taken from Rogue
, River or its tributaries, and also pro-
I hihiting tbe sale of salmon during the
! closed season. Tbe initiative bill make«
I the entire year closed season, so the hill
| prohibits the sale or shipment of fish,
no matter how caught.
Salem, Ora.—H e twenty-sixth aea-, Banks. The only bill to be forced
alon 01 the Orcg n Legislature passed through the legislature over the veto
Into history aa the meat expensive tbe of Governor West was that abolishing
state haa ever seen. The taxpayers the whipping post.
Seleses (om es Io Aid of tlp-lo-
will be called upon io face appropna- i
Elsotlen Laws Amended.
OMc term er Melting Rcgoe Rlvrr
Gone approximating »6,100,000, or | A bill requiring electors to deelg
Valley More Branlif ul SMI
about »1,000,000 more than the pre­ ■ate their second choice In primary
ceding session. While chargee of ex­ nominating elections for every office
Frwl Riedel lies received «throe-ounce
travagance have been freely made, for wnlcb there are more than twice
viol of alfalfa bacteria front tb« depart­
when the growth and development of the number of candidates for the of­
ment of agriculture at Washington, D.
the state le considered, perhaps the fice to be filled, other laws amenda­
which la enough to treat two
appropriations should not be consid­ tory of the election laws of the state
buiihole ol «cod, which will sow eight
ered extremely excessive.
were passed also. One provides for
aero». Three ounces la not a very large
All of the Institution* fared well tbe rotation of names on tbe official
amount, hot that three-oourn iicttlecoii-
and the University of Oregon and ballot In all primary nominating «lec­
teles several millions nr billions of the
Oregon Agricultural College fared bet j tions
,
mtenamyir iaiiects that are alwate found
ter than ever before, the only cut In I
While a reapportionment bill, re-
where alfalfa ia growing luxuriantly.
tbe main requests of either being dlstrlctlng the state Into senatorial
Fsre.it«» though they are-and what
»12,000 from tba estimate of the uni­ and representative districts, was not
living thing ia not a parasite in the
versity. Then that Institution re- !
passed, the Legislature did redlstrlct
strictest sense of the term?—their pres-
celved 5503,252 and the Oregon Agri tho state Into Congressional districts,
•oce i nd lea tea that the land la in good
cultural College »410,000 from actual i making Multnomah the Third district
ahape for alfalfa, henna, pea« or anv oth­
appropriations aside from the corn nu- ' First Congressional district under this
er leguminous crop. If they are in the
ing appropriations.
and, goral alfalfa .‘eaulta, like good yeast
bill, consists of the counties of West­
Principal Bills , Reviewed.
ma tee good bread—provided of course
ern Oregon, excepting Multnomah
that both the farmer and the housewife
Among the Important legislative en- ’ alone, while the Second Congression-
act incuts were the good roads taws, j ■a*l district is made up of all of the
know their hnaineaa. If they are not in
the anil, the alfalfa will not grow, and
extension o t the powers of the Rail- I counties east of the Cascades.
when the bacteria beootner killed 00» It
road Commission to all public utility
With a few minor omissions the fol­
corporations, second choice in prl- I lowing la a list of bills filed by Gov
ia time k>r the farmer to plant hi» alQitla
Week’s News in Brief
awoe plate »tan or do aa .Mr. Riedel did,
mary nominations, placing the State ernor with the secretary of state and
As a result of complaints made by
awad to Unde Ham's scientific faro i<»ra ■
Printer on a fiat salary, providing a which will become law:
at Washington, who have a patch of I
t steamship companies, Congress will
«tale purchasing board, prohibiting a
House Bills.
I be asked to remove the wreck of the
g»«wad where they raise bacteria by the
salaried state officer from furnishing
1. Libby—To protect women and
eqatrmtng quadrillions and ipiinllilioua,
sunken Merrimac from the mouth of
supplies to the state, creating the girls from being enticed Into white
MARTIN W. LITTLETON.
and get a little bottle of them to mix
Santiago harbor.
ottlce of Atslatant Secretary of State, slavery.
with hia seed, ae the housewife mixes
DH da hi at, g. r ka astiaa.
A seven-story hospital exclusively
providing a method for creating new
Mr. Littleton said he came forward
3. Cole—Declaring October 12 a pub­
yeaat with her breml.
Its five acres of lawns and fruit tree», counties and appropriating »20,000 to lic holiday.
bow because he had become convinced i for the treatment of measles is to
Mr. Uuudai is aa excellent example of la worth.more than »30.000, Dr. Pear­ be disbursed by a state Immigration
6. Buchanan—To protect fraternal neither Mr. Sheehan nor Mr. Shep­ be built in New York City this sum­
the modem farmer who enllata the aid sons decided that was a fair price and agent In exploiting offlclslly the re­ orders.
ard could be elected. They had been mer at a cost of »275,000.
of the lateat scientific method« in hia arranged that the sum should 4a> do sources of the state.
The Russian government has asked
10, Clemens—To exempt legislators the leading candidates when the leg­
nated
to
Chicago
charities.
Being
(arming
It ia the aame with hia orch­
the duma to vote »60,000,000 for the
islature
convened
and
hitherto
he
had
The
state
banking
law
has
been
from
Jury
duty
during
term
of
office
ard. and It la hard to find a man better without a home or family. Or. Pear amplified In many Important respects,
13, Abbott—Appropriating »40,000 declined to dispute their pre-eminence. construction of four battlesb<’>g by
sous has spent the winter at a sanl
lafermed on fruit*growing than he I*. tarlum.
1916.
guaranteeing to depositors greater for topographic maps and lavestlga-
Behm- he plants either corn or Hpltzen-
Because of the attacks on the
He first liecame Imbued with the protection. It provides that all pri­ lion of state's water resources.
T ro u b le E n d s in Shooting.
harge, lie know« egactly the ipialltiea of Idea of aiding struggling educational
Albany.—Aa the result of enmity of church by popular magazines, 'the
vate banks shall be examined by sx-
46. Neuner—To protect waters of
the soil selected for planting. He haa Institutions In IA«». when Mary Lyon
■ band of Greeks toward American first presidency of the Mormon Church
perlenced bank examiners under the North Umpqua River.
some of the finest young Spits. treea in was scouring New England for funds
workmen, who displaced them aa sec­ forbade the proposed visit of the tab­
direct
on
of
the
Superintendent
of
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Hoathern Oregon.
They were three with which to start Mount Holyoke
tion
hands on the Albany section of ernacle choir to New York next falL
Or. Pearson»
years old last year, and produced the College For Womec
Followers of box'ng throughout
the Corvallis A Eastern Railroad, a
was
then
working
to
obtain
an
edu­
iaigest and flueat apples that were shown
shooting affray occurred at Niagara, California are rejoicing over a report
cation at Dartmouth, but be m anaged
in Gold Hill last fall. He would have
to help Mlaa Lyon a little and later
In which John Webb, an American, that the legislature would recom­
ewtared them at the Hpoknue apple show built a dormitory for the college.
shot and seriously wounded George mend 20-round bouts In the state.
w»th rea-onable certainty of their being
"Another thing I want distinctly un­
The Colorado Senate adopted a res­
Lapias, a Greek, and also fired on his
prixr-wlnnera hut for the fact that all derstood by every one Is that I am
olution requesting President Taft to
brother, Lem Lapias
the exhibition apace« were taken liefore not benevolent," says he "To call me
The shooting is the outgrowth ot call an extra session of Congress to
ks> sahth<l arrived. If» not only liar benevolent la to make a great big mis­
racial
trouble here four months ago correct “Kknown inequalities" of the
take.
I
am
not,
positively,
once
for
the hefp of the government on Id« farm-
tariff law. Democrats voted for and
iag and Secretary Wilson ia always all. I haven't a spark of lienevolence
Quail Dying by Thousands
In
my
makeup.
I
atn
a
hard
hearted,
Republicans
voted against the meas­
willing and ready to furnish advice and
Klamath Falls.—Farmers coming ure.
tight flated old curmudgeon without a
awistanre to those who wiali to raise trace of charity. 1 nm giving my mon­
into town from south of this city In
At a meeting of the San Francisco
better crop« (mt lie corresponds with ey away because I want to he my own
the Lost River section declare that Labor Council, resolutions denounc­
the stale agricultural college before lie executor. I want to know Just where
the valley quail, of which there are ing the government of President Diax
Biatea a move in any ol Ida campaign« my money goes and what is done with
thousands in that section, are dying of Mexico, and endorsing the insur­
to make Mother Nature give up the lies! It. I want to see It really doing some
off by the score owing to the cold and rectionary movement In that country,
_
eta» has. Kefore he plant« hia peacnea good.”
snowy weather.
rectionary movement in that country
or hia pears or hia apple« he haa the,
This
Will
Be
Story
of
were adopted.
►oil in which he plants them analysed
Gold Hill Real Estate,
The proposal to construct a great
Gold Hill City Lots in
by the agricultural college chemists, so
International highway between New
that he can make na mistake. Ami
City
and
Ranch,
Shows
Ten Years From Now
York and Montreal has received the
he makes no miatakea, or at leaat re­
Brisk Spring Symptoms approval
of representatives of the
duce» the liability of mistake to a di-
While delving through the old files
principal municipalities on both sides
iwinlahing minimum by hia system of In the Southern Pacific depot thlR
Things are beginning t * happen in of the boundary line.
scientific agriculture.
morning, Agent A. 8. Rosenbaum un­
Gold Hill real estate. Not only is the
It ia such men as he that, by the wis­ earned letters of InRtrurtlon, dated
New York is the largest Catholic
sale nt city lots brisk, as witness the fre­
dom born of experpluce, in days gone 1900 and adjreased to J. S. Howard,
avch-d ocese in the world, according
quent transfers in the Dekura addition,
by, made the deeert to blossom as the then agent here, placing the values
to figures recently given out. One-
but ranch property is on the move. The
wee. And it ia such m en aa be, 11 eu < 11 the Iota comprising tlie O. At C.
•eventh
of the 14.600,000 Catholics in
sales of two fine ranches occurred this
who overlook no lesson, either ol ex­ townslte.
the United States are under the Juris­
week,
and
many
otKer
deals
are
iq
the
perience or of scientific research, who
This pi iperty, which now com­
air. S. W. McClendon, who knows that diction of Archbishop Farley, tha ex­
are transforming the Rogue River Valley prises the entire downtown portion
Gobi
Hill is a city of destiny, is about act number credited to New York be­
into one of the garden spots of earth. It of .Medford, could have been bought
the busiest man in town, meeting home- ing 2,760,000.
ass the Eden of I he West when men ■' en for a sum which would not now
About 2000 delegates, representing
seekers
and showing them the fine bar­
•ike C. C Mei lendou ami Judge (ia touch many of the blocks within Its
practically every Presbyterian church
gains
which
this
district
has
to’offcr.
meandered across from Missouri hv ox bnundarlea.
From now on ranch property in this dis­ in the United States, attended the
express and found it in the forties ami,
According to the document, lots 10
trict
may be expected to change hands fourth annual convention of the Pres­
beautiful as it was then, it is yet to lie and 1 I In block 78, upon which the
rapidly.
Prices are low—lower than byterian Brotherhood of America at
smre I k - hii tiful- and many times mori new Medford Hotel la being erected,
St. Louis this week.
they ever will be again.
wselul because of tlie greater prialucllvi were priced at »110 for the two. The
Twelve thousand dollars was the price
p*wer that is lieiog given it bi farmers present valuation of them s some-
A G enerous Ju ry .
paid Wednesday by O. E. Blackington,
m tin- Riedel t»,ie
A certain sergeant charged with kill­
• ’hero above »15,000.
of
Bo»ton,
for
Fred
Riedel
s
120-acre
Heeaiise t ie sold Ids Gails creek rand
Two lots on the corner of Central
Galls Creek ranch. Ten acres are in ing a man was tried for murder. Aft­
tills wiek M r. Riedel w dl use neither
er the evldeni, was in nnd the speech­
avenue and Fifth street, recently of-
Spitzenberg
and Newton apples and
the bacteria nor th e a lia fa seed, so lie
es mnde the ,':iry n tired to deliberate.
ered to tho Federal government ng
twentv-five in alfalfa The balance will Presently w<-r.l came that the Jury
»'hl iliem Io a neighbor who wul, ami
» -lie for the new post office bulld-
lie planted to pears by the purchssei* had agreed an 1 h <1 framed a verdict.
thus ll.e good work g es o i l .
lt g f r the sum of »12,000 were pur-
who ha» ’-pen in Southern Oregon for The Judge on!"ed the Jury into the
useable In 1900 for »350.
about two y;-ars. and who haa almost courtroom and asked for the verdict
t i r l c a d of Sheep Goes Out Over Ore­
Think of a young m i n i -eighty years old—riding a spirited horse about completed a course in horticulture at
Three lots west of the present
“We find," re»d lhe foreman, "that
gon Trunk
a for residence could have been lie street« of the City of Mexico with the agility of a cowboy! That's Diaz. the Oregon Agricultural College at Cor­ the defendant Is guilty of murder and
1'hluk of 11 man of fourscore, stalwart, alert, every fiber of body and of tnlnd
Madina --'1 . |. r . 1 e iiip u irn t 01 l'v .
m ight then for »100. while now It tingling with life and verve and determination! That's Diaz. Think of an vallis. The sale was made by S. W. assess his punishment nt ninety-nine
sleek
1 Mndins took place when <s not likely that »0,000 would hand octogenarian, for a quarter of a century the president of a republic, wearing McClendon.
years and life luiprlsonmenL”
“Ho back nr.d write another ver­
a carload ol sheep belong ng to Frank Io them.
Seventeen and one-fifth acres of
still the cares of state and bearing still the burdens of sovereignty like a youth!
-<
Gcx of I' nevllle was routed over the
I >ck 7. upon which la now locat- That's Diaz. Think of this same old man being Inaugurated for tbe eighth Kanes creek land were sold by A. Es dict." ordered t!: judge.
Preseittly tho ' iry r»»turned with
Oregon 1 rhnk line.
I the Watt residence, could have time president of Mexico and tripping the light fantastic at Ills Inaugural ball Stevens to David Brown, late of Ten­
A repi entntlve stoekmnn of Crook been purchased for ».'¡00. This parcel with the most charming of the señoritas and señoras of his capital! That nessee, Wednesday. A portion of the the verdict of l!*e !*uprisou;nent.
The sergeant 1 shook hands with all
rounty, d ir ng hlR attendance at the Is estimated now ns being worth too. Is Diaz It Is reported that President t»lnz has a revolution on Ills hands, place is in young pear-trees. The price the
Jurors.
but
one
never
would
know
It
by
seeing
him
these
days
Down
In
tbe
state
of
r:,'roeii
ii hrntlon, was assured by about »5,000.
was »fifiOO, Ti e place, while one of the
"He seems pleaded." said a bystand­
Chihuahua and perhnps here and there In other states battles nnd skirmishes
Preside
-'evens that all shipments
besx small ranches on Kanes creek, will er to the bailiff. "Why Is he shaking
The I’an-Amerlcan railway from are being fought every day or so, according to the reports that couie up to this be greatly imi »ved by the new owner, hands with the men who convicted
would''
11 tended to promptly and
country.
And.
according
to
other
reports,
battles
are
not
being
fought.
Gen­
him?”
»sion in few days.
Itnt Mt* I 'iii'ds would he constructed Washington to Buenos Aires will be eral Diaz himself has engaged In a revolution that Was a revolution, ao per- who takes p»
10,211 miles long, of which B.Otf miles
here to fu illtato the shipments of miles have been constructed and 4,109 lis ps he Is Inclined to belittle these guerrilla engagements In Chihuahua.
“Why," was the reply, "he 1» thank­
“Diaz Is Mexico now," recently said a dose observer who has traveled In that
sguck
Hold Hill
pretty good nan e for a ing them for taking ninety-nine years
miles are to be constructed.
off his sentence,"—
-
country, "aud after Dlax—what?"
city.
INSURES A HEALTHY CROP
Dictator Diaz Spry Old Villain at Eighty
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