J Gold Hill
(Salii »Ul
C r e a te li N a tu r a l R eto ureee
o f S ou thern O rego n I I O n
b e a u tifu l H ague H iver
O ne C o m m u n ity o f O p p o r
tu n ity --R o g u e R iv e r V alle y,
w h ere th e a p p le g a in e d fa m e
GOLD H ILL JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1913
VOL 16
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Jackson Co.
NO. 1 ^
GOLD HILL TO CELEBRA TE FIRST INDUSTRIAL FAIR
S. P. Agent Short
in Accounts and
Vanished
MARSHA WARRINGTON
In connection with the School Fair and Eugenics Contest to
be held on Saturday, September 20th, the citizens of Gold Hill
have decreed a more general observation of the products and re
sources of this district, to be known as the first annual Industrial
Fair of Gold Hill.
Fanners and ranchers generally are invited to participate
by bringing the finest fruits of garden and orchard, the prize pro
duce of a prize district, to compete for the liberal awards which
will be offered.
A program of entertainment that will leave no dull moment
is now being prepared. Athletic sports, street attractions, free
auction sale, free salmon supper, vaudeville entertainment, and
a grand ball, are merely a few of the features to be provided for
Gold Hill’s guests.
The Gold Hill Industrial Fair is for home folks —for the
credit of the district and its resources. It is your fair, and we
want you to be present at your own party.
Programs and posters, complete in detail, will be issued as
soon as arrangements are perfected. Watch for them.
OREGON CITY, O r., Sept. 2,—C. I..
Howe, freight a n il ticket agent l o r
the Southern Pacific »1 thia city, haa
(MM strangely missing Iron» Ilia ollice
i «Ince a week ago last Saturday night and
«|M«vial agent« (or the company are m ak
ing a warcii lor him .
A lew daya fallowing Hnwu’s iliaap-
p/'arance, W . I*. Harriaon, traveling an-
I dltor (or tile company, checketl over Ida
account«. Although the traveling audit
or*« reports will la- forwarded to San
Franciaco, it la unofficially reportixl to
Southern Pacific olliclala in Portland that
Howe ha« laa-u found abort in Ida ac
count« in an am ount varioualy ratiinated,
4 .
and rumored to la* a« high aa ("INI,
Howe liad hern ugeut here only thn*e
month«. Hi* was promoted to thia ata-
tion Imm lla* otliw* at Tillamook. i’re-
vioualy he had been iinployi'd in the
» district amt general olliia-a in Portland,
working hia way up tlmuigli the rank«.
Before he went to Tillamook In* was tele
M arth a W arrington, one of the
graph operator and later car diatributor chief witneeeee In the famous Olgge*
in the office o( L. It. Field«, superintend- j
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Cam inetti w hite slava tria ls at 8 a r
cut, In Portland, lie ia alaiut 28 yeara ' Franciaco.
All
qualified
voters
may
vote
at
thé
special
good
roads
elec-
<>( age and unmarried.
t
tion
on
Tuesday,
September
9th,
whether
registered
or
not,
ac
Howe clowd his office on the evening '
<«( Saturday, Augu«t 23, a« usual, ami |
cording to an opinion recently delivered by attorney general A.
presumably went to Id« l<oarding liotna*.
M. Crawford at the request of county judge F. L TouVelle.
T h at waa the last seen of him. When he
<lld not return to work the following
The attorney general states that those registered under the
M outlay otlloUUa oi th«* company I nm - uiiic
old registration are entitled to vote, as well as those who have
HiiMpiciouM. T h e traw ling auditor a t
registered under the new, and that any who have not been reg
once waa went for. lu hia |Mwition mm
istered may be sworn in and vote by signing “blank A” on elec-
iigciit lie handled and wm* ai countahlc
for all th«* money rv<viv<*«l at thia ollice
Eugene.—Fraudulent homestead lo j tion day.
for (he Male of ticket* mm well mm freight cators are at work In the Sluslaw
MhipmentM.
forest, according to Assistant Super
A ll Voters Qualified; is
Opinion of Attorney General
Land Locators are
Adept at Evad
ing Law
('. I.. Howe «erved a« relief agent at
tin* Gold Hill station, during tin* abn*uu>
of r gular agent Rice in N*«veml«*r and
December of last year
Friend« in thia
. i l l y ure confirmed In the belief dial a
«ati.faetory explanation of hi« ulisnn*,
and the apparent «hortage of funds, may
yet I k * furniahed by the miwing agent.
Legal Light« Meet.
Muntreal.—The jtddress delivered
by the laird High Chancellor of Eng
land. Viscount Haldane of ('loan,
formed the prlnclpa. feature of the
opening moating In tho American Bar
Association. Viscount llaldatie held
|*n audience which completely filled
the I’rlncess Theater and ncluded
many of the great legal lights of the
western continent nud sevetaJ fro»"
Europe.
Legislators Called to Sulzer T ria l
Albany.—A formal call for the state
legislature to assemble here at noon
September 18 for the Impeachment
proceedlnge ngaltmt Governor William
Sulzer, charged with malfeasance In
office, has been Issued.
Notwithstanding the efforts of Rep
resentative Sinnott and other mem
bera of the Oregon delegation to get
some relief for aettlers on Innds un
surveyed and unopened to entry there
seems to be no relief for them. The
general land office has ruled that the
statute governs and that If they leave
claims they must do so at their own
risk. This ruling affects a large num
ber of Oregon entrymen.
Grants Pass Railroad Bonds are
Illegal; City Will Amend Charter
visor Flttom. Theae professional Io
cators, one of whom nccordlng to Mr.
Elttom. bus an agent In Portland to
aend prospective settlers this way,
take the unwary homeseeker to a
piece of agricultural land that is sub
GRANTS PASS, O r., Sept. 2,—A new
ject to entry, and the victim, after
paying a fee of front 85 to 85U, returns election will la* required to validate tlie
to the forestry office in Eugene only Grunt* Pa«« bond issue* oi $201»,000 voted
to find that a dozen or more other last December for the purpose <d con
persona have already filed on this structing a railroad Pi the Applegate val
ley. This was made certain Pslay when
pnrtlculur tract of land.
Tho fraud Is possible because the the .state supreme court reversed the low-
official surveyors are behind In the e,r court, and lielil th at the charter would
work of running lines on lands that have to I k * aineinlcd to make it so.
The decision was based on tlie city
ure being homesteaded. The "locat
ors” are careful to show thetr cus charter which the court holds forbids
tomers tracts of land that are Indeed iKiiiding to build a railroad outride the
subject to entry, but they neglect to city limits, but it is lielil that under the
any to how many other penions they law passed by tin* Inst session of the leg
have ulreudy shown the same land. islature the city can amend its charter
The fact that these "locators" show and by holding a new election vote bonds
renl vacant land makes it difficult for that ure valid.
the officials to make a charge that 1 I'bairniHii Gilkey of the public utilities
commission, slated that it was evident to
would stand In court.
Regarding the foil wing new« item which
appeared in recent issues of Portland ami
Medford papers, T. H. Benton, of the
Benton Lumber company, denies the au
thenticity
the published report. In a
letter to R. H . Moore, of this city, who
was largely concerned in the prom otion
of the deal, Mr. Benton states th a t he
has not purchased the Fowler tract a n d
owing to the failure of hia associates to
meet certain requirem ents will not do so.
Further th at tlie statem ent of purchase
was published witbont his knowledge o r
confirmation, and that he has given up
all intention of developing tlie tim ber
tract in question:
F. B. Harriaon, tho Now Yo rk Con
gressman who was named Governor
General of the Philippines.
Oregon Building is
First Erected at
Exposition
Eugene.—"Oregon first,” In the let
ting of contrat* and erecting of a
building on the grounds of the Pana
ma-Pacific exposition, is the reason
for a meeting In Portland of the Ore
gon commission, the state officers
who picked the commission, and two
score representatives of the various
industrial, educational and other in
j terests of the state. Six architects
. are to present their ^»lans for the
proposed building, and it is expected,
« out of the multitude of counsel, to be
' able at that meeting to select the de
sign for the Oregon building.
its decision ii|mn the city’s charter, and
th at before the bonds can lie legalized the
charter m ust I k * am ended by vote of the
people, and a new vote taken n|s«n the
botnling proposition.
It is believed that
this can I k * done at a single election, and
that the election can I k * had thirty «lays I
Extracting Gold From Sand.
after it is called by the city council.
Marshfield.—A machine for the ex
Chairm an Gilkey said that lie has not
investigateli this phase of tlie question, traction of gold and platinum from
hut that Jie thought not more than 00 I black sands, which has been operated
days would be required to remedy the de on the beach near Coos Bay. has been
fects and make tin* homi issue available. largely perfected by the Inventors.
That some system should be devis
ed to postpone the first payments of
settlers on government reclamation
projects until after the land has be
him from the wording of the bulletins gun to produce and that their burdens
• Portland.
reis-ivisl fn«in Salem that tin* defects were should otherwise be lightened, is the
Wheat, New Prop—Club. 79c; blue- not serious ami that the only effect of the opinion of Will. R. King. ex-Justlce of
stem. 88c; red Russian, 79c.
adverse tieeision of the supreme court the Oregon Supreme Court, now chief
Hay—Timothy. 81«; alfalfa. 813.
would I k * to delay the work <«n the munic counsel for the United States recla
Butter—Creamery. 32c.
mation service.
ipally owned portion of the railroad.
A power and water system covering
Eggs—Candled, 28c; ranch, 22c.
At the ’¡me of the voting of the bond
Wool—Enstern Oregon. 16c; Wil ing last December there were many who towns from Stayton to Salem Is being
promoted by Idaho and Spokane men.
lamette valley, 19c.
questioned tin* legality of the point upon
The proposal Is to bring water from
which
the
supreme
court
has
decided
Seattle.
the North Fork of the Santiam with
W heat, New Crop— Bluestem , 84c; against tin*city, though others considered
i which to supply Salem, Stayton. Aums-
that
the
action
of
the
legislature
in
pass
club. 79c; red Russian, 77c.
j ville and the state Institutions, also
Hay—Timothy. $17 per ton; alfalfa, ing the bill last February perm itting cities
they are promoting an electric light
to I miik I for building railroads outside the
>13 per ton.
ing system and trolley line through
city lim its would cure the defect. It is
Egga—28c.
Stayton and Aumsville to Salem.
B u tter—C ream ery. 31c.
Foots Creek Tim
ber Deal Denied
by Benton
F. B. HARRISON
They declare that It is the only ma
chine which will successfully save tha
precious metals from the sands. The
machine uses centrifugal force in
stead of gravity as a means of sep
arating the gold and other metals
from the sand.
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Oswald West, governor, and A. M.
Crawford, attorney-general of Oregon,
have bpen summoned to appear In the
United States district court at Port
land September 16. to answer a com
plaint in the suit of E. J. Barnes and
58 others against the Southern Ore
gon company and themselves as offi
cials of the state of Oregon. The 59
complainants are people who desire
that land granted by congress in 1869
to the state of Oregon be disposed of
according to the terms of the granL
evident, however, th at the court based
“ The Benton Lumber company of Red
ding. Calif., has purchased the old Dr.
Fowler traet of 4500 acres of tim ber land
on Foots Creek of M. J. Rougban, of
Chicago for $100,000 and will begin the
construction of a $25,000 fruit box factory
in tlie near future. The factory will be
located in Rogueriver and a lum ber rail
road 7 miles in length will he constructed
from the town up Foots Creek to the heart
of tlie timber. Tlie transaction involves
$150,000.
Tlie tract has been on the m arket for
some time and a t one time a sale was
nearly consummated when Rogueriver of
fered a bonus of $10,000 to tlie purchaser
if a mill was constructed in that place,
hut it is believed th at this bonus does not
apply on the present sale.
For several years the need of a box
factory in the Rogue River valley has
been urgent and a num ber of promotion
schemes have been started w ithout result.
The Benton I^ n n lsr company is a weal
thy concern in northern California ami
their purchase of the -tract is definite as
surance that the box factory will he con
structed and reaily far operation at tlie
earliest possible moment. I t is announc
ed th at construction on the lum ber rail-
roSil will start early tins month anil w ill
be in operation by next spring.
There are about 250,000,000 feet of tim
ber on the property, fir, pine and some
spruce.”
Thaw 's Weapon is Used Against Him
Sherbrooke, Quebec. — Harry K.
Thaw's favorite, though ineffective,
weapon In the New York courts—the
writ of habeas corpus—was turned
against him by his old prosecutor.
William Travers Jerome, as a means
of forcing Thaw into court here Tues
day in order that the immigration au
thorities may deport him to Vermont
in what Jerome hopes will be the first
leg of the return to Matteawan asy
lum.
S. P. Appeals Big Land Case.
Portland, Ore.—Appeal was taken
by the Southern Pacific company in
the federal court here from the decis
ion of Judge Wolverton rendered July
1 whereby 2,300,000 acres of land in
the Oregon and California grant were
declared forfeited to the government.
The case now goes to the United
States circuit court of appeals at San
Francisco and from there, however It
may be decided, it will be taken to
the United States supreme court.
JACKSON COUNTY FAIR AND PEAR SHOW j
M E D FO R D , SEPTEM BER 9 th to 13th
$6,000 Premiums and Prizes
$1500 Premiums on Fruit
$300 Premiums on Pears
LIBERAL PREMIUMS on all kinds of Stock, Grain, Poultry, Fruits, Products of Kitchen and Pantry, Fancy Work, Fine Arts, Floriculture, Minerals, Articles manufac-
tured in Jackson County, Etc, Also big list of Special Premiums. GET A PREMIUM LIST from Secretary S. I. Brown and make an exhibit.
TROTTING, PACING AND RUNNING R A C ES-TH E WILD HORSES AND BUCKING BULLS
Used at Elks’ Rodeo at Klamath Falls, July 4 and 5, have been secured; also several of the best riders in the west for this attraction
Two-Mile Ladies’ Relay Race—a Purse o f $200 Insures a Big Race
Ladies Change Horses Every Half Mile
S. I. BROWN, Secretarv
J. T. SULLIVAN President
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