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INCREASED
Pam Completedby Rogue Riv.r P u b l i ^ ^ - O ^ . - » "
1 5 0 0 h . P. READY
FOR FEBRUARY 1 st
SECOND UNIT TO
BE BUILT SOON
Work to Continue as Power Is
Contracted, Until Dam Curbs
Entire 2 0 foot fall
Bolin* the 1st of Fuliruary three tnr-
bfaea, of MX) h.p. each, *¡0 be turning
U the local power house ol tbc Hogue
River Pohllc Hervlc* corporation, and the
capacity ol the plant Uiereby increased
Irom lie praacal total ol 600 h.p. to 1600
h.p. Not only thia, but every ounce ol
energy to be manufactured at that time
baa already bwii ountrartwl lor, ami will
bo in uac. Gobi HUI ha* much to be
thankful for. It 1» taking the firat step
toward an industrial development that
will make It tlw foremost manufacturing
and inllllug city of the Rogue river valley.
For more than two montlis a force of
Gold Hill workmen, supervised by en-
gincor F. W. Ihalge, local manager for
tlie com,»any, baa been continuously oc
cupied In the construct’on of the Aral
concrete unit of the power development.
Tills MwH.ni. aow within a few feet of
NICHOLAS LONGWORTH
O fficial F ig u r« * of Oregon Elsctlsn
Ralem. O r.— James
W lth y c e m W a
plurality over J. C. Smith lor gover
nor was «4.»« and George K. Cham
berlain'» plurality over R. A. Booth for
United State# aeaator wae »»,44«, ac
cording to complete official returns
received by Secretary of State Olcott.
Dr. Wtthycoinbe's total vote was 11»«"
S37 and Dr. Smith'«, »4.694; Senator
Chamberlain'» was 111.746 and Mr.
Booth e, M.297.
Allies will Purchase 62,000,000 of Wool
New York.—Agent* for the British
ami French governments announced
here they were In the market for
1,360,000 wool »wester«. 600,000 wool
atoinach band«, 1,600.000 wool glov««
ir M
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her»* buyer»,
have oeutracted far 600 head of horse»
LONG WAR LINE
la vartou* sectfojf of MTtlMO M*h
hear eouaty, «TafUey idtthty, Orant
couhty, Union oounty and Baker coun
ty, especially la the Burnt River and
Mermen Beala eectloBO. These horse»
will be sent fer li leotleS to BakoT,
where a French a: Z officer will go
over these and aboi 10« other», which
wUI bo aaaemWed -ere from aearhy
points for Inspection.
_
Robert Jonea, agent for tho French
government, who made tho contract
with Turner Bros, now la going
through eastern Oregon getting addi
tional horses for the French army. He
•s poets to assemble about 6600 horses
for final shipment from Baker.
Southern Oregon’s Shortstorics
News Brevities of the Week from Rogue River Valley Cities
SHIVERS IN COLD
Winter Settles Down
on Tired Troops
in Europe
CAPT. VON MUELLER
|
____*.—Freezing weather has set In
throughout the length of the battle
sone in France and Belgium, the tem
perature varying between 25 and 28
degrees above zero, Fahrenheit.
Snow la falling, especially in north-
arn France, and in the Vosges moun
tains and also at Marseilles.
French forces have captured the im
portant heights at Ornes near Verdun
and silenced two German batteries,
according to official press dispatchea
to the French embassy.
The armies seem to be enjoying a
long-deserved rest, for the only re
maining evidence that the belligerents
are facing each other ts an occasional
bombardment with heavy guns.
An eyewitness with the British head
quarters in a long statement gives of
ficial confirmation of the reported
heavy losses the Germans have suf
fered in their attacks on Ypres. He
speaks of decimating battalions, of
hundreds of dead left before the
trenches and of batches of bodies
found in farmhouses.
The casualty lists of British officer»
show that the British forces have also
suffered severely in the fighting.
Tlie pa veil Pacific highway connecting British Attempt Daring
Raid But Are Repulsed.
Ashland, Medford and Central Point,
Frledericbshafsn, via Barlin. The
was formally opened for traffic the first of
die week. Work upon the connecting Hague and London.—Elaborate pre
unit between Central Point and Gold Hill cautions which the Germans have ta
will lie commenced early bi the spring ken for an emergency were responsi
according to county Judge F. L. Tou\ elks. ble for the failure of the raid of three
British aviators who swooped down
The splendidly representative irrigation
congress <>( Jackson county ranchers and on this city to drop bombs upon the
fruit growers, held ut Modfor I last week, > Zeppelin balloon works.
Anti-aeroplane cannon and machine «
niianimonsly endorsed tlie plan to create guns adapted to high angle fire de-j
a Jackson county irrigation district.
rented the accomplishment of the dar
Committees were appointed to assume
ing exploit and succeeded In bringing
charge ol tbe preliminary work.
down one of the hostile machines and I
1 M. M. Higgs, t h e Southern Pacific putting the others to flight.
• brake nan who lost his right arm between
Capt. K a rl von M ueller, com mander
The Englishmen circled above the
iole» ^ . o ngw orth.
Roosevelt's car couplings at Grants Pass in 1912, has
of the Germ an com merce-destroying
balloon
hall
for
some
time
and
drop
again represent ' instituud suit against the company in
ped six bombs, two of which came cruiser Em den, which was fin a lly cap
ionvoas.
| die amount ol »27,000. Higgs was well near the buildings. Two other bombs
turad. '
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kpowu in .Gobi Hill when employed by struck houses in the city, damaging
lor 1600 h.p. development. Work on tiw
tie, rai
London.—An official communication
them eeverely and killing a man and
lam will necessarily be halted by tho Horanson, a
Proceedings of Gold Hill
be Central Point man wounding a woman.
given
out In Petrograd, according to
fore*.
Hood waters of winter.
tlie local inys-
One of the flyers then made a fear
To Gold Hid. destined to
City Council for October an Exchange Telegraph dispatch, an
Sometime after the first of tbc year,
less* attempt to cross the hall at a
nounces a German retreat in Poland.
wbt'u tins river drops to a normal bright, important power stations of a gr
j
height of only a quarter of a mile.
enlerpriM
that
will
ultimately
benefit
tlie
The statement follows:
operation« upon tlie second unit, to ex
Council met in regular session, called
| Bullets from the guns mounted on the
‘‘Between the Vistula and the Warta
tend two-third« of the way across tbc entire lower portion ol Bo*ue river val llo will return
ips of buildings, however, pierced the to order £»y Mayor Moselock. Members the Germans have retreated from the
river, will be resumed Coffer-damming ley, the advent ol tlie rejuvenated Rogue to bis family.
oplane's gasoline tank, causing the present: Adams, Cameron, Kell, Pat line running from Strykow to Zgirx,
|iidi,:i!ii,ii- "f rabies w _
la tlie method resorted to 111 reaching River P u b l i c Service corporation is
il to escape and forcing the pilot rick, Redfield, Mrs. Truax.
Szadek, Zdunska, Wola and Wozniki.”
lied rock, and .......... .. a-rion« problem* fraught with satisfactory significance. examination ol the herd of w>
Tlie minutes ol t h e October meetings
to attempt to glide to earth.
The line from which the Germane
of tlie project have already been over Not only di»-« the bxalion of u plant at recently executed in Ashland,
were read and approved, and the follow have retreated, according to the above
come. Official« ol tho company state this point mean a perinäni nt bwal pay of health of that city has ordered'
ing bills ordered paid:
dispatch, runs from the northeast of
that the wore « 111 cover a construction roll, but, something far more vital as well m auling ol all canines for a period ol
New Lighting System for
J. B. Pankey, building fence
Lodz, down past that town, and to the
p >riod ol several years, with a force of —the encouragement ol manufacturing sixty days.
Wardens of the state game service are
local artisan» and laborers almoat con enterprises, the opening of mines, and a
City Soon to Be Installed for tile...........................................fi 2.60 southwest.
W. 8. Cook, handling sewer tile . . 1.50
stantly employed, and will only be com general stimulation of business. Even insisting that land owners in the Eagle
W. L. Van Houten, 1 tier w ood... 2.00
Petrograd.—Not only a victory but
pleted when tlie sturdy reinforced con tually, and within a lew years at the Point district place adequate fish screens
City lighting, whereby Gold Hill is to B. G. Harding, salary for October. 16.00 a decisive one was reported here be
crete dam, with a |«»u ullal force equal most, It is certain that the company will In their irrigation ditches.
to that of the Ament dam or 5000 h. p,, direct attention to the irrigation ol soil
J. Otto, a rancher ol the Central Point emerge from the sliades of evening as Ben H. Lampman, p rin tin g ......... 8.30 tween the Vistula and Warthe rivers
completely throttles the swift Hogue at that Is second to none in the valley—the district, suffered the fracture ol three ritis brilliant as the best, was tbe topic of L. W. Smith, six 60 watt globes .. 2.40 by the Russians over the German In
wonderfully fertile dirt of the (¡old Hili
much spirited debate at the council hall J. W. Hicks, installing fountains
vaders under General von Hinden-
lllIn addhion to the three turbines of 600 district. With this accomplished tlie old in a runaway mix up at Medford last Sat Monday evening when tlie city Ixiard of
and fixtures....................................33. li
berg.
urday.
councilmen met with the committee on H. T Pankey, salary and extra
h. p. each, now awaiting shipment ut prophecy of those whose faith has never
The kaiser's forces were declared to
(altered
will
be
fulfilled—and
the
prettiest
w o rk ............................................... 44.50 have been repulsed everywhere and
lighting and the representatives of com
G rants Hass, an alternator or generator
British Say Raid Was Successful.
Homer Wyatt, cleaning reservoir.. 1.25 one account was that they were cut
ol 750 k. v. a. or HMM) b. p. with new city of southern Oregon will enter upon
peting companies.
■wltchbeard end eariter, will lie installed an era of permanent and substantial
London.—It was announced official
Represented by C. W. Marlin, the Cal W. P. Chisholm, health officer---- 0.00 in two, one body retreating to the
before February 1st. The turbines will prosperity.
ly that the British aviators who, Sat if irnia-Oregon Power company made a R. E. Cook, sharpening tools for
northwestward and the other to the
go in place within the next month.
sewer............................................... 6.70 southward.
urday afternoon, raided Frledrlchsh.x- bid for the city lighting on a ten-year
On August 27 last tbc receivership ol
fen on Lake Constance, report posi contract, specifying eighteen three-duster O. U. Newell, work on sewer ........ 10.50
Two German regiments were said to
the Golden Drift properties at (¡ranis
Washington.—Turkey has voluntar tively that all tbe bombs thrown by lights of the type now in service at the J. E. Bolt,
”
” ” ........... 5.00 have been captured bodily.
Pass and else* here was lifted, and tin ily explained to the United States gov them reached their objective points, News corner, thirtyflve single lights on F. M. Snyder, ”
” ” ........... ".50
Hogue River Public Service corporation, ernment through Ambassador Morgen and that serious damage was done to neat wooden standards, sixteen lights on T. E. Pankey, ”
” ” ........... «-25
Berlin, via The Hague.—The war of
with a capitalisation ol 62,000,000 sue tbau that the shots fired toward the the Zeppelin airship factory.
”
” ” ........... 6-26 fice continued to insist that the situ
iron standards, and one large cluster of Ed Wyatt,
cccded to thirteen sulisldaries and iudiv launch of the American cruiser Ten
.........................
7.50 ation in the eastern field of war was
three lights at the bridge, to lie completly A. Lewis,
idnal companies, aggregating n capital! nessee last week were Intended mere
” ” ........... 6-25 favorable to the Germans.
installed and maintained at a cost of »55 Alva Walker, ”
satfoa of »14,710,000, merging the various ly as the customary warning that ihe Want Irrigation In Rogue River per month, the system to tie in operation
It was admitted that the czar’s army
Medford.—At a mass-meeting of the
adverse Interests that bad hitherto mad« port of Smyrna was mined and closed
173.5' in Russian Poland had received rein
Total
land owners of Jackson county. It was within th in y days.
the power development of the lower to navigation.
The petition of Dr. R. C. Kelsey, ask forcements and this, it was said, was
F. W. Dodge, engineer of the Rogue
Hogue river valley more or less a vexa
Although the explanation wae In decided to launch a campaign for the River Public Service corporation, which ing that a sewer he authorised, work to delaying the end, but every con'ldence
lions joke. The trausfer included all of formal It was generally admitted at establishment of an Irrigation district
is now developing an extensive power be done by him under tlie supervision of was expressed of a final German vic
the extensive real proja-rty, franchises the White House, state and navy de In the Rogue River valley.
project at the city limits, agreed to dupli the Sanitary Committee and with pipe tory.
A
committee
appointed
at
the
meet
and irrigation rights of the former partments that all danger of serious
“Certain strategic movements,' it
cate
tbe rival company’s bid of specifica furnished by tlie City, to lo t 2, Block 6,
owners.
complications over the Incident had ing will confer with the county court tions, eonstrueling an entire new pole was granted. Motion m a d e by Adams, was explained, were necessary.
and
aak
for
an
election
to
vote
bonds
Among the several properties acquired been removed.
bile throughout the city, at a cost to the seconded by Cameron.
by the new company is tbo Ament or
Ambassador Morgenthau reported for an Irrigation system.
□e Wet’s Sons Surrender.
The payment for the Raedel sewer was
city of »50 per month for service. On be
Golden Drift dam, three miles east of that two members of the Ottoman cab
London.—The Cape Town correa-
half of his company Mr. Dodge further voted by the Council, upon motion by
Rabbit Bounty 8ought.
Grants Puss, a valuable and picturesque inet, the ministers pf Interior and war,
pondent of the Reuter Telegram com
Silver Lake.—Petitions asking the offered to tarnish a surety bond to the Redfield, seconded by Cameron/
power-site completely baruessed but never had fully explained the occurrence to
T h o matter of enforcing Connection pany says that two sons of General
•tale and the several counties Inter city in the amount ot »5,000.00 for tlie
operated, owing to the troublous cameT him and high officials here said his
ested to put a bounty on Jackrabbits construction of the system and its satis with tbe city sewers was left with the Christian De Wet, the rebel leader,
of litigation In which the constructing messuge was filed before the instruc
have surrendered to a magistrate In
probnbly will be circulated In Lake, factory operation within sixty days, ex Sanitary Committee.
company became Involved. Here also tions sent from Washington to discuss
Propositions for furnishing street lights Cape Town. Several of General De
plaining that tbe additional delay would
Harney,
Crook
und
Malheur
counties
Immediate Improvements and alterations the subject officially with the Grand
be ueevesury to permit tlie completion ol for the city were presented by representa Wet’s chief officers, together with
have been planned and are now under Vizier could have been received by within tbe next few weeks.
tives of both the R. R. P. 8. Corporation most of his supporters to the w est ot
work upon the d im now bnilding.
way. On the north Hank of the big Mr. Morgenthau.
Tbe debate which followed waa jovian end the O.-C. Company. The proposi the railway line, surrendered at the
Britain Insists on Embargo on Wool.
structure the decking has been cut down
with
vertial thunderbolts, and terminat tions were turned over to tlie Lighting same time.
Washington —Great Britain has de
and sloped to take cure of flood waters.
THE MARKETS.
Committee for investigation and report.
clined to modify, In favor of American ed only in the call for a vote to accept
Irrigation lines already constructed water
Portland.
Motion was made by Patrick, seconded
War Saves Eugene 62000.
one
of
tbe
two
bids
offered.
Councilmen
manufacturers, the embargo on expor
several thousand acres of Josephine coun
by Mrs. Truax, that the provision ot tbe
Eugene.—The present European war
Patrick,
Redfield,
Cameron
and
Adams
tation
of
wool
from
Australia
and
oth
ty soil and are but a small part of tbt
Wheat—Club, »1.14, bluestem »1.17,
City ordinance providing for payment) of
er British dominions. It had been voted t o accept the California-Oiegon all licenses In advance tie enforced. Mo has saved the city of Eugene, through
system planned.
red Russian, »1.09.
its power plant, approximately »2000.
proposal,
Cora
J.
Truax
voting,
“
No”
.
In the suburban district of Grants Paa
Hay _ Timothy, »16.60; alfalfa hoped that after the need» of the Brit
tion carried.
A carload of copper wire was received
At the Monday evening meeting the
ish nrmy had been satisfied Ameri
■the company has platted a new addltloi »13.50.
A motion to adjourn carried.
here which was purchased when the
cans might be permitted to buy the contract was not officially signed, but will
which will I* placed at the disposal ol
Butter—Creamery, 35c.
—B. 0 . H vrdino ,
price of copper was at its lowest ebb
Australian
surplus,
giving
guarantee
come
up
for
final
enactment
and
signa
homebuilders next spring. Orchard and
City Recorder. on acc nt of the war, »2000 under the
Eggs—Ranch, 40c.
that neither the wool nor goods made ture at tlie first meeting in Decemtier.
vineyatd tract- will lie Inq roved fo. tin
price quoted before war was declared.
Seattle.
accomodation of those who desert sterner
from It would reach Austria or Ger Tbc proposal to adequately light the
Wheat—Bluestem.
»1.17;
club
»1.14;
many,
but
the
state
dspartmént
was
climes for llie welome clemency of Oregon
No household is complete without a The price has risen since so that the
city Is an extremely popular one, and the
Informed that for the present, at least, anticipation of this important, improve good hot water bottle. Worth it’s coet carload would cost »300 more If pur
red Russian, »1.09.
climate.
chased today. Copper is cheaper than
Hay—Timothy, »16 per ton; alfalfa, no exceptions would he made.
The headqu irters ol the company for
ment is marred by few objections from for one single emergency. Get next, at
it has been for ten yearB.
the valley Is located in Or nuts Pass, when »13 per ton.
Bowers’ Pharmacy.
I tlie taxpayers.
u n ite r— Cream ery. 35c.
a suite of offices Is occupied by George W .