Every Saturday at Gold Mill
Jackson to u o n , Oregon
IT is perhaps safe to say that Oregon’s system of direct legisla-
■ tion, involving the initiative, referendum and recall, is the
biggest single piece of favorable advertising that this or any
Kn terrei at «he Gold Hill p<wtoffirv Mr ir a n n o h other state ever had. Magazine after magazine has sent its bright­
•ion through the r a ile d State* maila
est writers to Oregon to study the Oregon system -a system which
aa adon ti daw* matter
is causing adherents and beneficiaries of the old “system" every­
Sub«option $ 1 .5 0 Per Annum, in Advance
where to tremble with well-advised fear that it will take the
country completely.
“ In Oregon the people rule" has become a political by­
All Over Oregon
word. It is significant that both of the leading democratic;
Representatives of 130,000 acres of aspirants for presidential honors, Wordrow Wilson and Judson !
privately owned timber lauds In Jack- Harmon, have made the Oregon plan prominent in the array of
son county met and organised the
principles with which they hope to catch popular favor and cap-!
Jackson County Forest Fire Protect ve
ture
the nomination. Roosevelt hits endorsed i t Many states i
Aacoratlon
have
already framtxi laws modelled after Oregon’s.
Three Umatilla county postmasters
And what of Oregon? How do the people of Oregon like1
share in the sntary Increases recently
announced by Postm aster-G eneral the idea of each man being his own legislator? The answer was,
Hitchcock. They are those at Free­
given at the last general election, when the “assembly” scheme,;
water, Hermiston and Milton.
Park Corn, who struck Ed Louis devised to circumvent the direct primary and restore in effect j
with a bottle at North Powder, from the old convention system, was given a decisive turn-down.
which shortly afterward death fo'-
One of the most comprehensive articles dealing with the
lowed. will go free, for the grand jury
Oregon
system that has appeared in any magazine is one written
at La Grande has returned a not true
by
George
Judson King for the Twentieth Century Magazine,
hill.
Work has been completed on virtu­ published at Boston by B, 0. Flower.
Mr. King writes as one
ally a reconstruction of the historic
who has come to Oregon to gain information first-hand. He en­
suspension bridge connecting Oregon
City and W est Oregon City. All the dorses the Oregon system at every point, having found that the
woodwork of the structure was re­ people of Oregon have tried and found it good. The fact that
newed
the Oregon farm er can and does take time to study measures
As the result of an altercation be­ submitted io him by the initiative and referendum is proven by
tween members of the Roseburg Fire
Department and the city council, the the intelligence of the vote on the thirty-two measures submitt-1
Mr. King found that the people were I
members of the former organisation ed at the last election.
held a special meeting and disbanded not worrying much over the big ballot.
It was the politicians!
♦he organization.
and those who were being separated from the public crib who
The delayed report of the United
States Geolog cal Survey on produc­ were the most disturbed over the wreckage of “representative” i
tion of gold, silver, copper, lead and government.
Mr. King intervewed men who were opposed to
sine during the year 1909, shows the the Oregon system as well as those who favored it. One lawyer-
output of these live metals In Oregon
politician of great prominence—who is this year retiring to
aggregated J827.001.
Condemnation proceedings by the private life by invitation of the primary —summed up the opinion
state against President Homan or of his class when he remarked, “To hell with the whole business.”
Willamette University at Salem ma
But, slyly adds Mr. King, “none of them seem to be able to
be Instituted in a few days to com
evolve
a safe method by which to accomplish the desired rel­
plete possession of a block of land east
egation.”
• f the capital building.
be
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RfX M. IAMPMAN
Health Beauty Wealth
1 HE f IRST is most essential —maintained and protected by the
pure and wholesome groceries which you buy and eat.
THE SECOND is nature’s gift. It something to lie proud of,
and is sustained by thè pure products of nuture
on which you sulisist. •
THE 1 HIRD—wealth, this is what helps to make the world wag
. along. It is accumulated by buying where you can get
the best goods at the lowest prices,
B el ore buying ta k e a look at our m odem , u p -to -d ate stock of
Fancy Groceries
For instance:
,
Pure Orange M arm alaila
S I'a » berry and tU ack'w riy Jelley
Aaaurted Preoervea, Mnnopole,
l>el Monte Preaervee
Suioked Itouelex» H e rrin g
Beechnut lia m ii lu glaae
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per jar 30c
per Jwr SIX;
, ar 30c
• per jar the
l.rcniirt a Paria MualirtMinia
Pellia Poi> E x ir a F lu e Pena
Canton Pre-erv«i (linger
Bureau
36«
p e l can
36c
L a n c e &. C o m p a n y
44'
‘The Big Store’
A
N O T IC E OF C O N TEST
Department of the In te rio r,
United States Laud Office
Medford, Oregon, May 17, 1911.
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S w eet Spuds J 5 cents p er can
V. L. Coltraan, rear-admiral at the
testees:
Bremerton Navy Yard, has notified
DON’ T DISTURB THE ESTABLISHED ORDER
You are hereby notified that Maurice
Governor West that the cruiser Bos
M. Jenks wbogivea Sams Valley, Oregon
ton. for the Oregon naval m ilitia, will
as his postofflee address, did on March
be la readiness to be manned by Ort ^E N O U N C IN G the direct election of senators as wrong, former
14th, 1911 file in tb it office bis duly cor
•o n officers on June IS.
Justice Shiras of the United States supreme court made the roborated application to contest end
Whether the methods of making
secure the rancelation of yonr Home
atock shipments on the O.-W. R. A N. following statem ent to the press in Chicago the other day:
stead Entry No. 06404, for Wtg SE'a
“The direct vote on United States senators is entirely and C l* 8 W X Section30.Township 338,
Unas are reasonable and adequate will
be the subject of a bearing called by wrong. One reason why I oppose it is because it changes the Range 2W , W illamette Meridian, and
the Railroad Commission to be held established order of things.”
as grounds for h it contest be alleges
at the Union Stockyards at Portland
It would be interesting to know how and why Mr. Shiras that tbe said Nicholas Graber died on or
June 29.
was ever allowed to escape from the supreme bench, where he eboot April 13th* 1910 That since that
It has been announced that
date neither the heirs of Nicholas Gra­
will be run regularly ever the Mount was doubtless as stanch a servitor of “the established order of ber or any other person has reaided upon
Hood road as far as Oresham In about things” as the men President T aft has been appointing to that or cultivated said land ; that said land
six weeks. The fra t service will be body.
has been abandoned for one year last
given by two lecoaaotives sad a gaso­
The supreme court is the last bulwark of privilege, and passed.
line motor, making hourly trips from
You are, therefore, (ifrther notified
when congress refuses to protect the “vested interests” it may that
Portland.
the said allegations will be taken by
The Commercial Club ef Baker oom- be depended upon to either declare unconstitutional any law which this office sa having been confessed by
plained to the Interstate Commerce may be passed inimical to those interests or to read an interpre­ yon, and your said entry will be cancel­
Commission that the Oregon-Washing­ tation into the law which alters or even reverses its original in­ ed thereunder without your further
right to be heard therein, either before
ton Railway * Navigation Company, te n t „
thia office or an appeal, if you fail to file
the Oregon Short Line and the Pacific
Perhaps the other reasons which Justice Shiras intimate s in this office agitbin twenty days after
A Idaho Northern Railroad were dis­
that
he has against the popular election of senators are all con­ the FO U R TH publication of this notice,
criminating against Baker In joint
shown below, yonr answer, under
rates to points In Idaho and Oregon.
tained in the reason which he gives, th at it destroys the establish­
oatji, specifically meeting and respond­
State Tax Commissioner Eaton has ed order of things.
ing to thsse allegations of contest, or if
left for Eastern Oregon, where lie
yon fail within that time to file in this
will investigate the complaint made
office due proof tiiat you have served a
SUNDAY DINNER IN HOT WEATHER
to the tax commission by the legisla­
copy of your answer on the said contest­
tive committee of the Baker-Union
either in person or by registered
Woolgro .vera' Association.
In this T H E following timely suggestion from the Condon Times is ant
mail
complaint it was declared that sheep
If
this service is made by the delivery
■ particularly applicable to Gold Hill inasmuch as the town is
were being assessed out of propor­
of a copy of your answer to the contes­
tion to their market value and that fortunate in having both a hotel and a cafe whose cuisines would tant in person, proof ot such service
the sheepmen of Baker have been do credit to a much larger place, and both of which make a must be the copy, showing the date of
paying more than their proport on o special effort to please the inner man with their Sunday dinners: its receipt, or affidavit of the person by
taxes on the county and state.
“Remember, Mr. Man, that the hot weather will tax the whom the delivery was made stating
The eighteenth annual assembly of
and w here tbe copy.was delivered ;
strength
of your wife. Take her away from the hot stove on if when
the Chautauqua at Gladstone will con
made by registered mail, proof of such
Sunday and try a hotel dinner. We are not pulling altogether services must consist of the affidavit of
vene July 4 for a two-week session.
About 100,000 bushels, or less than for the hotels, but we like to see some women that work from the person by whom the copy was mail­
ed stating when and the portnffire to
3 per cent of last year’s wheat crop week’s end to week’s end get a day off on the Sabbath. The which it was m ail-«1, and this affidavit
in Umatilla county, is yet held by the horses and the hired man get a rest sometimes, but woman’s must he accompanied by the postmaster's
growers.
work is never done, and the only plan we see just now is to let receipt for tbe letter.
You should -tate in yjur answer the
Out of 80 applicants for admission the fire go out on Sunday and get the meals somewhere else or
n a m e« I. the post office to which you de­
to the bar who took the examination go without. The m atter rests largely with the women.
Why sire future notices to be went to you.
before the supreme court, 73 passed not go on strike and let the old man do the cooking Sunday?”
Date of first publication May 27, 1911;
successfully.
date of second publication June 3, 1911 ;
date oi third publication June 10, 1911 ;
Prison-made brick will be used in
*O
date of fourth publication June 17, 1911.
the construction of new buildings for
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THE END OF TUBERCULOSIS
Benjam in F. Jones,
the state Institutions, announces Gov­
Register
THE HALL OF FAME,
ernor West.
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ta
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In
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8ch
oola.
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More than 1,000,000 pounds of wool
:
ELI WHITNEY Inventor of
has been sold at Ontario In the last
■
the cotton gin. Born Westbor­
By
GEORGE
F.
C
ANFIELD.
’•n days and as fast as cars ca 1 be
ough, Jdass.,
obtained it is shipped.
Tbe school is probably tbe most
Dee. 8, 1 7 « ;
hopeful field for our labors against
Definite plans have been made for
died
New
tuberculosis
For
Immediate
prac­
the construction of the water pipe
H a v e n ,
tical results In lowering tbe death
Conn., Jan.
Tne from Cline Falls to Redmond. The
rate the hospitals, dispensaries
8 . 1 82 5 ,
work will cost about >25,000.
IN APPLE LAND
and visiting nurses are perhaps
U r n limited
The fourth annual convention of the
By
Walter V. Woehlke
more important, but for tbe
• f r o m Yale
Oregon Association of Title Men met
achievement of final victory the
Beautifully illustrated in four
and went to
In the governors' room of the Com­
school offers the best opportunity
Georgia as a
colors
There we can apply ourselves to
mercial Club at Portland last week.
t e u c h e r ,
THE BIGGEST JOB IN THE
forming right habits Instead of
Appointment o f 12 supervising fire
where
h e
trying to change bad ones. There
WORLD
found a gen­
wardens in the state has been made
we have the best chance to ar­
erous patron In the widow of
By Frank Savile
by State Foreeter Elliott. Between
rest the germ before It starts on
Oeoeral Nathanael Greene. While
20 and SB wardens will be appointed
The present status of the
Its deadly work There through
here he was asked to devise a
On Monday morning the Pendleton
the education of the children we
Panama Canal
means to separate cotton from
postal savings bank opened for bust | can most thoroughly and effec-
the seed and set to work, mak­
THE SPELL
aeas. bat the postm aster does not an I lively educate the whole com
ing his own tools. His gin rev
olntlonlzed the cotton Industry
By the Williamsons
tiolpate much business for Ute pres- I munlty
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|>ar Mr g ,,,
per ar 26c
Cherries, Apricots, Pineapples and S traw berries
Snider’s & P re fe rre d Stock Catsup, Chili Sauce, O yster Cocktail.
To Nicholas Graber or his heirs
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A s k y o u r n e w s d e a le r
The Celebrated Free
Sewing Machine
Call in and see these machines before making your
purchase, and you will never regret having selected
a Free Sewing Machine. I have in my stock of
Harvesting <>oods, which is as complete a stock as
there is in southern Oregon.
Hayfork», Pulley», Rope, Pitchfork»,
Scythe» and Snath»
R EM EM B ER T H E P LA C E
D. H. Miller
Gold H ill
71
Alphabet o f Thrift
G
ET something ahead.
Remember it’s the dollar
you do not spend that
does it.
The Gold Hill Bank
MORALE PtLION
President
IYNN W. SMITH
(«shier
A Pleasant Place to Stop
The Gold HiU_ Hotel
Meet Your Friends Here
The house ha» been thoroughly renovated
and
newly furniahed throughout.
R a te » $ 2 . 0 0 p er d ay . S p e c ia l ra te s by the week.
J- W.
Gale, Proprietor
Uhe G o ld H ill C afe
M r« . W . W . T rx a *
P r o p r ie to r
ALWAYS HOMRTHINO u n n n
MM.1?«1**
ih a ili
«SrkW
«'lb«U nll»l food, and
the flneat horna made delicada«
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