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About Gold Hill news. (Gold Hill, Jackson County, Or.) 1897-19?? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 30, 1912)
r I)C (yjsxfò filli V VOL 15 GOLD IH LL, .1 CK SO N COUNT Y, OKßGON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1912 ------ - ------------------------------------- -— -- ----------------------------------------------------------- NO. 30 Are Hill Interests Now Enro* te to the Sea Via Rogue River? NAZIM PASHA Speaking of Bands--H, ,e Was One to be Proud of Surveyors Outline Route from Eagle Point West THRU VALE OF SAMUEL Thence to Bandon on the Sea-Coast ---Perhaps A lt- N a ilm P ath«, T u rkis h M in is te r of W a r and com m andsr-lnchief of the T u rkis h troops In the Balkan war. BIG ROW IS IMMINENT Powers Deny Prep aration for War While Arming Do You Remember Them? People in the News Has Almanac Yellowed by Four Score Years That Jamah J. Hill, the mighty ohl man of steel and ties, will n».n U p tin- valley of the Rogue with a line to the sea, is tie- belief of many who are d o ed y watching the trend of affairs in railroad circles, For the pa-i two weeks a gang of surveyors repn- nting the Hill interests have Isen hu-y -nri-ey- ing down Rogue River from this point, - have completed a preliminary -nrv y from | Eagle Point through Rams valley to this i city, and are now working above Grants j Pass. Tlie diminutive Hill line known | as the Pacific A Eastern, which runs | northerly from Medford to Butte Falls, iiaa long been recognized as the strah-gic point for the next move of the Hill lines in Oregon, and the survey from Eagle Point, on that line, to this city and down the Rogue, is u k en as an indication of the completion of the line to the sea. It is underst-xxi that the surveying crew will return within a short time to make a more complete survey of th»- route throogh Sams valley to this point. The anticipated route, with nothing to confirm it save hearsay, wifi he down the river from this city to Grants Pm*», through the Galioe country, and thence W ashington Notes in to Coos county, following the Coquille rivei to Bandon on the coast. Further confirmation of the report is Fifty million dollars for improve ment of American harbors and rivers provided by the fact that a crew of six Is the mammoth appropriation facing hundred men is even now laying track congress this winter in the annual nut of Bandon along the rout»- indicated. - Word has been given out that this is rivers and harbors bill. Panama-Pacific International exposi merely the construction of a logging road, tion stamps will be ready for »ale by but the construction is of a nature so per- all the post offices in the Uaited manent as to scout the contention that States on January 1, 191$, according I tlie line is merely of a temporary nature, to an order issued by the postmaster I and iron and steel culverts and bridges of tlie best type have been installed in the general. The half million dollars appropriat work completed so far. Meantime the citizens of Grants Pass, ed by congress at the last session for improvement of roads will be distri weary of the wait, have announced their buted among states, on the basis of intention of constructing a line to be $10,000 to each state that agrees to known as the Pacific Interior, which will link that plate with the coast town of spend $20,000 ot Its own funds. As a result of the announcement by Crescent City. The city of Grants Pass the Carnegie corporation that a pen will shortly vote upon a $200,000 bond sion of $25,000 would be offered each issue to start construction of this road, (x-presldent of the United States, a ! and the matter is being pushed with re strong movement is expected in the solution and dispatch. Residents of Southern Oregon will not coming session to induce congress to quarrel with the prospect of two lines to provide a pension. The appointment of Theodore Mar the coast in any event, and the eomple- burg, of Baltimore, as minister to Bel • tiou of either one will bring on tlie gold- gium. was announced by the state de en era so long deferred. partment. Mr. Marburg will succeed Larz Anderson in the Belgium post, Less than two weeks after the right Mr. Anderson having been made am of equal franchise was granted in Ore bassador to Japan. gon, between 40 and 50 women cast President Taft has approved the their first vote at the city election in choice of the fine arts commission for Dayton, Yamhill county. Edward Ha the design of a gold medal to be pre thaway was elected mayor. sented to Captain A. H. Rostron, of the Cunard liner Carpathia, for his E. F. DUNNE heroic services In saving the surviv ors of the Titanic disaster. In New Ydrk the nrst cnna was born to Jarno* B. Duke, the tobacco txmflon.—The extreme anxiety mao- magnate, in hla 57th year. Ifeeted by all European governments Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Is not' Fifty or sixty years ago the receipt of the dead past. Aside from the customary to deny reporta at warlike prepare- golng to shake th* dust of America the annual almanac and calendar for the resume of the months and weather fore tlona and to represent the political from his shoe* and make his future new year was a household event. It was casts, it contains a verbatim account of altuatloo as peaceful and satisfactory abode In England. Stories from New a symposium of fact and fancy—the fam adventure in soutiiern Africa, rhyune for la In Itself an Indication on how sleo port said he was, but Vauderbllt says ily magazine—-replete with weather pre tire “ better recollection” of the A BC’s, der a thread the Issue* of peace and BO. diction, moral advice, anecdotes and copies of letters from Thomas Jefferson -war In Europe now hang. Advantage la being taken of the more or less inaccurate observations of and good old Ben Franklin, the father of The danger arises not alone from -the conflicting Intoreata of Austria. comparatively good weather for th* customs in strange lands. Owing to the American almanacs, and judged by the Servla and the other powers, but from prosecution of th* grading on th* fact that each issue became valuclcm with standards of the time must have been a the possibility that Turkey, following Portland. Eugene A- Eastern line be pie succeeding year, hut few copies of rather pretentious publication. Mute tes them- quaint old publications have been timony to human progress is the old the traditional policy of profiting by tween Eugene and Corvallll*. Guy H. Clark, 40 years old, former preserved to posterity. George W. Al wood cut which ushers in the month of the embroilment of the great’ powers, may adopt an Irreconclluhle attitude director and cashier of the First Na bright, an ohl time resident of the valley, April, in which a happy-faced husband tional bank of Earlville, a small town now visiting at the borne of his daughter, man is depicUsi sewing grain broadcast In the peace negotiations. In the diplomatic field the moat 1m In central New York, was arrested In Mrs. R. H. Moore, in this city, possesses behind a single-share plow. The copy is portunt reports are that Servla de Portland on a charge of embezzle A copy published in the year 1831 by entitled "The New American Mechanical clined to reply to the Austrian de ment of funds from the bank he found Johann Ritter A Company at Reading. Almanac” , is without a single loose, de Pennsylvania. Mr. Albright is a native faced or torn page, and is altogether a mands until the war Is concluded and ed. SIdnn Allen, leader of the Allen clan, Pennsylvanian of the ohl Dutch stock. relic worthy of continued preservation. that Germany has not undertaken to w** *M,rn <*t Allantown in January of Mr. Albright lias also a hammer which mediate between Austrin and Russia. which shot up the Carroll county court Fighting continues around Adrian at Hillsville. Va., last March, result- j ,*,Bt Y*’*r- There were a goodly number never paid toll to the steel trust, pur Albrights, brothers and sisters, and cliaacd by him in 1852 and continuously- ople, where the besieging forces are ine In the death of five persons, was kdvent of each it was the family j used since that time—and having seen reported to have drawn their Invest found guilty of murder In the second ing circle to within two-thirde of a degree and the Jury fixed the penalty j custom to secure an issue of the current service in tacking bolting cloth on the at 16 years In the penitentiary. almanac, printed in German, and pre- reels of the old flouring mills at Phoenix mile of the town. Gideon C. Bantz, connected with the ¡serve it as a birth memento. The copy and Jacksonville, where he was employed The losses to Turks and Bulgarians have been enormous, but the demora treasury department for 4ft years, re- | •" Mr. Albright’« possession shows little twenty year» ago. Until recently Mr. As in four-tilths the natomi of vellowingof , llzatlon of ihe main Turkish army has signed as assistant treasurer of the sign, of the save lively a century age. Jim, ! , b • r , g h . t h , . s . hwne not extended to the garrison at Adrt United States at the request of Secre anople, which dally displays desper tary MacVeagh. He will be succeed it lias endured, but in tin- odd old wood j " ashington, but throughout tile coming ate gallantry. It has succeeded sev ed by Christian 8. Pearce, chief in cuts, perculiar typography, and senti- , winter will remain in this city with his eral times In winning back lost the division of bank«, loans and po»- Im entof contents, It is part and parcel of 'daughter, Mrs. R. H. Moore, ' .. . ■. — . ----- ---- . ground, especially on the right bank tai saving«. Sir Edward Grey, the British for of the Marttza river where the sev enth division, under the Bulgarian eign minister, has declined to ap general Khlrkhoff, has retired font proach Russia with a view to secur State Preserve I* Donated miles, and on the left hank, where a ing the withdrawal of the restrictions Medford.—M. J. McAllister, who Servian division has sustained heavy placed on British Jews In that coun- , try, on the ground that such action Rogue River, Or., Nov. 2I>. LouisSiv- pound, and there is every appearance owns a 640 acre ranch on Nall Creek, losses. on the part of Great Britain would en’’ wizard ot tin-Evans valley, that lie will dispose of tlie whole crop at has decided to present it to the state lend to the termination of th* Russo- was in Rogue River today on his way to ! the same price. This will make the as a game preserve. Under the terms Vienna.—A rumor has spread that Grants Pass with a load of onions rang- gross earning of this acre of land at least of the agreement Mr. McAllister binds British treaty of commerce. the Austrian Consul at Urlsend, Pro ing from one to three pounds apiece in $1 GOO. himself not to bunt or permit others -Chaska, had been killed by Servian weight, firm, of perfect shape and smooth, j Mr. Rivers has taken the first prize at to hunt on the property for the next TH E M ARKETS troops. There Is no confirmation to These onions are strictly of a soutiiern all local fairs whenever lie lias had an five years. In return the state will this. The military journal says the Oregon origin. ‘ They have been develop- exhibit, and thia summer attracted the stock the place with game birds, es Portland Austrian squudron In Turkish water* eil by Mr. Rivers, for years an earnest attention of the officials at the Oregon pecially China pheasants. Wheat—Club, 77c; bluestem, 81o ; has been ordered home. student of onion culture. By crossing Agricultural college at Corvallis. Twice red Russian, 75c. and recroasing many of the most popular during the growing period men were sent Famous Indian Dies Suddenly, aged 90 Oats—$26 per ton. varitics lie has produced an extra largì- from the college to observe his work and Pendleton. — Tam- ut- sla-kootch- Hay—Timothy, $17; alfalfa, $12. Clubs ;ar, being organized to light globe onion that possesses all the qualities get information firsth an d , and by re-I kootch, a famous Indian scout, who Butter—Creamery, 36c. the proposed division of Clackamas of tin- best of the small varities. quest Mr. Rivers is sending tile college a was better known as Red Hawk, died Eggs—Candled, 43c. county and the formation of a new Mr. Rivers had nearly an acre in onions box of average sized ripe onions that the ! suddenly at his tepee on the Umatilla Hops—1912 crop, 19c. county to be called Cascade county. Wool—Eastern Oregoa, 18c; Wll- this year, and the yield from this plot students may have a chance to see the reservation. He was past 90 years of The trial of James, Frnnk and Clay was between Sdil and IHH) sacks, average- possibilities of onion raising in Oregon. age, was present at the Whitman Buckland nt Burns for the killing of lamette valley, 22V4c. ing It*) pounds to the sack, making a to massacre and always declared that Mohair—32c. Z. II. Stroud resulted In the acquittal tal yield of between 80,000 and 00,000 llie. with his own eyes he saw Marcus 3 Slight Quakes Felt In 8eattle of i-'rniik and a verdict of manslaugh- | In spite of this great yield Mr. Rivers Seattle ter for the other two. Seattle. — Three separate earth Whitman slain. has all the orders that lie can possibly fill. Wheat—Bluestem, 80c; club, 78c; shocks were felt in Seattle. None was Brownsville Is exultnnt over the fact For nearly ten years he has supplied the of sufficient force to do any damage Suffering from a nervous ailment, that the community was ngaln sue red Russian, 76c. lpading merchants lien- and at Grants but all were noticeable, the first two Whitcomb Fields committed suicld* Eggs—43c. cessful In carrying off the Hill silver Pass with onions. Butter—Creamery, 35c. in different parts of the city at 7:20 at Medford by shooting himself. Fields cup and 125 cash prize at the Albany The pi he received by Mr. Rivers for his and 8:35, and the third at 9:06 was was a graduate of Harvard, an exten Edward F. Dunne, ex-Mayor of Chi Hay—Timothy, $17 per ton; alfalfa, apple show for the best community onions at tlie present time is 2 cents u felt all over the city. slve traveler and owned considerable cago, elected governor of Illinois bj $12 per ton. exhibit of appIcH. fruit land near Medford. the Democrats. Fortune in Big Onions for W izard of = = = = = Evans Valley = = = = =
