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GOLD H IL L JACKSON COUNTY, O RIG O N, SATURDAY, AUGUST 21,1916
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GOLD HILL GETTING READY FOR FINEST FAIR
SCHOOL ON
SEPT. 6; TO
BE BETTER
Than Fine Record o f Past;
Faculty Well Qualified to
Train the Young Idea
Boise, Idaho.—Revised figures on
the abstracts of the 37 counties in the
state as complied by the state auditor
and placed before the state board of
equalisation show the total assessed
valuation on all classes of real prop
erty for ISIS a t »300,842,0««. An In
crease Is shown in this year's values
over last year's of 13,937,041.
ADMIRAL CAPERTON
Ths school year open* on l-*bor Day,
Monday, Brptenilwr Oth. Gold Hill face«
th s coming term with ronflilenoti in the
ability ol the PtWpS of Instructors ungag
ed, and in the superior equipment of Ita
model school structure.
NEW FEATURES TO
ENLIVENJPROGRAM
September 17 and 18 Selected for Fair
Weather; Growers Urged to Exhibit;
Roaring Camp Once More
“ Of thee, J. Pluv., we fervently Implore,
Kain not on Fair Day—or by gosh,
we’re sore!”
Superintendent Milatu will open hla ot*
The Third Annual Industrial and School
Hue at the high school building one week
Fair will be held in Gold Hill on Friday
Iwfora tlie term lisgin«, and may be found
and Saturday, September 17 and lit.
•ihen- each day from V to 12 a. in. lie
You remember that rain ruined a re
«late« his dndre that all high school pu
coni for the second annual Gold Hill In
pils who may conveniently do so, call at
dustrial Fair, h id last fall? Threatening
tlie office during that time and talk over
weatlier and showers kept fully fifty per
tlie work In pros|M-ct. Parents are also
cent of our prospective guests at home,
requested to call for the discussion of
invoking maledictions on J. I’luvitis, tlie
school tiusineMM. Grade pupils an* urged
Weather Man, or who and whatever was
to appear ami take left-over examinations
responsible for the disappointment. Even
before school commences.
so, the most conservative calculation of
Tlie Gold Hill schools, witli every edu
attendance placed the number o l very
cational advantage required, and more,
pleased vi-iton at 3,000 -ome said 5,000.
issue an invitation to all pupils of Ollier
■ districts, who have completed tlie Stb
grade course, to enmll as students at the
dural high school. This tender is freely
made and no fw«t or tuition charges am
Admiral Caperton, the American
attached.
naval officer who has been placed In |
From a g nut number ot applicants, the
charge of affairs In Haiti.
school Isiard has selected a faculty of ex-
<‘e|4i<>ual promise and auemnfnl previous
experience. The |s*r«ouiiol is as follows:
■G, W Milam, superintendent, mathe
matics; Victor Flint, commercial; tola*
yet supplied, English; Helen Van Doyne, •W ater Fete and Sw im m ing’
Latin. The Junior high school will have . Races; afternoon Ball Game . j
tile same teachers as the high school.
Itertha Eliaaon, 6th and dill; Edua Pnat-
tor, 3d and 4tli; Myrtle Davis, 1 st and Refusal to Audit Cantm e’s pills May
2d, also music.
Result in Test Suit.
Salem —Pending a decision by Sec
The iicci«siary school books are as fol retary of S tate Olcott as to the legal
ity of claims Incurred by Deputy State
lows:
First Grade—Beginners or I It: Wheel Highway Engineer Cantlne, hostilities
e r’s Primer ; pencils, tablets and drawing between the majority members of the
material as directed by teacher. I A state highway commission and State
tirade: Wheeler’s First Reader; pencil, Highway Engineer Lewis over the j
tablet and drawing material as directed question as to whether he or Cantlne
is highway engineer are suspended.
by the teacher.
Should the secretary rifuae to audit
Second tirade—Wheeler Second Read
the
claims on the ground that they
er; |s*ucils, tablet and drawing material
are not indorsed by Lewis, the ma i
as directed by tlie teacher.
Third tirade— Wheeler’s Third Reader; Jority members contemplate mandam
Hick’s Champion .Spelling Book; Nuin- us proceedings to determine whether
ls-rs Step by Step; pencil, tab l't and Lewis or Cantlne Is highway engineer.
ilrawing material a s directed by th e ; Should he audit the claims. Ix-wls will
have legally either to assert his title
teacher.
Fourth Grade—Wheeler’s Fourth Read- to the office or cease to exercise juris
e r ; Numbers Step by Step; Kimball’s diction over highway work.
Recently Lewis asked tlie commis
Elementary English, b o o k I; llick s
Champion Spelling B o o k ; penholder, sion to rescind an order putting Can-
pencil, tablet and drawing material as tine, hiB chief deputy, in charge of
the highway work, or institute suit to
directed by the teacher.
Fifth Grade—Wheeler's Fifth Reader; | determine whether he or ('am ine was
Numbers Step by Step; Kimball’s Ele entitled to the position. The commls
mentary English, book I; Hick’s Cham Blon did not comply with cither re
pion S p e l l e r ; Introductory American quest
Hiitory, Bourne & Renton; dictionary,
Pork Held Not Infected.
is-nholder, pencils, tablets ami drawing
Portland.—Portland’s recent hog
material as directed by the teacher.
Fifth A Grade World Geography by cholera scare was without foundation.
Tarr A Mc.Murry in addition to books Bacteriological tests of four hogs con
flscated by the health bureau on sup
for 5th B.
Sixth Irade— Wheeler’s Fifth Reader; position that they were slaughtered
Complete Arithmetic; World Geography; i while Infected with cholera showed
Kimball's Elementary English; Hick's under tests that the real trouble was
Champion Speller; Krohn’s Graded lx*s I overfeeding and overheated condition
sons in Physiology and Hygiene; Intro- I when slaughtering took place. The
dnetory American History; dictionary, outward appearances of hogs slaught
Street Scenes at Last
penholder, pencil, tablet and drawing ered under these conditions and hogs
suffering from cholera are similar.
material as directed by the teacher.
This year it isn’t going to rain on Fair
The hogs were shipped to Portland Day.
S e v e n t h Grade— Elson’s Gratutner
School Reader, book 8{ Complete Aritll- I from Yamhill by a farmer.
In support of this prediction we have
inetie; Hick’s Chuinpior Speller; World |
the statement o( the Kanes Creek weather
Geography; Mace’s II. S. History; Agri
Big Osin In Licenses for Autos.
wizard, Prophet Foster, that it will. As
culture by Burket and Stevens; Kimball's I Salem.—Secretary of State Olcott tin* weather always hedges on tlie Pro
Elementary English, Issik 2; dictionary, I has Issued 21,660 automobile licenses phet, Gold Hill Inis issued its bulletin for
penholder, pencil, tablet a n d drawing so far this year, an increase of 8110 a fair Fair Dav, and is confidently pre
material as directed by the teacher.
over the same period in 1914. Three paring for a 10,(XX) attendance.
Eighth Gradi— Elson’s G r a m m a r thousand motorcycle licenses have so
Tlie first. Industrial Fair held in Gold
School Reader, hook 4; Complete Arith ; far been Issued, as compared with Hill was merely a timid experiment. Yet
metlc; Hick’s Champion Speller; Mace’s i 21R0 in the corresponding period a tlie guests of that occasion were pleased
I S. History; Agriculture by Burket A | year ago. Chauffeurs’ licenses show a and told their friend» so. They demand
Stevens; Kimball's El mentary English. rem arkable increase, there being 3350, ed the second Fair—and it wasn’t so bad,
Isiok 2; dictionary, penholder, |K*nctls , while last year at this time the total at that. For a good time, people said, it
tablets and drawing material as directed ' was 1533.
relegated the con ity fair and the rose
by the teacher.
festival to (lie uncut timothy. Hence,
Eighth A Gradt— Reinsrh’a Element
tlie management of the third Industrial
State of Washington Wins Medal.
of Civil Government in addition to bool; j
San Diego.—A gold medal was Fair approaches its task with a goisl deal
lorHlh B
awarded by the Jury of nwards of the of assurance, and in possession of invalu
Panama-California exposition to the able experience.
('ill mil tin- lee bill. The íceles« n-frit-
Tin program of previous years will I k *
State cf Washington for general re
«•nitor will do It
For «ale by Gold IHN source.«
improved and enlarged, while retaining
Implement Go.
tlie several features that have hitherto
proven m o t popular.
I Completion of the Pleasure Pavilion a<-
' fords an Ideal staging for amusement
features of the day, and will be used in
the reproduction of “ Roaring Camp In
’62“ , tlie Gold Hill spectacular enter
tainment that gave such satisfaction this
spring. The management has been fre
quently entreated to again stage this
pleasing historic recurrence of tlie old
days, and “ Hearing Camp’’, as a reply
to many requests, will lie in full swing
<>n Isith evenings, the 17th and lKtb.
Another stunt that will please the big
drowd is tlie “ High Line Trail” , modest
ly adapted from tlie famous Pike and
id way of more pretentious fairs. Both
nip ami Trail will lie under the direct
are, o f course, secondary to tlie success of
the exhibit hall, as the occasion is, first
of all, designed for the encouragement of
industry and the producing of actual evi
dence of Houthern Oregon’s superiority.
None can possibly be more interesv-d in
this connection than the grower, who by
hir representations in tlie exhibits is ac
tually adding value Io tlie acres that grew
his produce.
THOMAS
A. EDISON
TA-TA HIS
FAREWELL
TO PRISON
Bandit Hooper Outwits O ff
icer and Breaks Jail at
Pass; Armed and Lost
„X 1
Jailors ol J ilin Austin Hooper, bandit
and bad man of various varieties, think
they know why he whistled ami sang
during his incarceration at Grants Pass.
John Austin wasn’t worrying.
Sunday morning Hooper broke jail
with artirtic ease. He is still at large,
nor have any clues been received to hie
subsequent travels. When Sheriff Smith
ente re* 1 the bandit’s cell with a dinner
tray, Tony Brccko, prison companion ot
Hooper, pinned the officer’s arms behind
him. Hooper secured his gun. Tlie pair
bound Smith securely, took his keys, lib
erally supplied themselves witli ammuni
tion and walked out.
At tlie point of a pistol they compelled
the owner oí a buggy to loan liis proper
ty. and drove to tlie north. Half an
hour later the plight of Sheriff Smith was
discovered, and a posse went in pursuit.
Brecko had been ’ ditched’’ by liis clever
& 1913. by A m e r ica n F rees A sso c ia tio n
companion, and was easily recaptured.
Thomas A. Edison, noted inventor
That evening, at 9:00, Hooper reap-
who has accepted an invitation to head | peared near the Pass, this time comman-
an advisory naval board of civilian |(leering an auto and its owner, E. Kroh.
inventors.
¡ With liis, or t h e sheriff’s automatic,
waving directions the party proceeded to
j Rogue River. Hooper «a.- very pleasant
; to Kroh and to his family, who were with
i him, explaining that “ he hail never—yet
it necessary to kill a man.” Pass-
■ Opening Dance at Gold Hill’s • ¡ —fonnd
ing through Rogue River the liandit i-all-
. new $1,000 Pleasure Pavilion . , ed attention to t h e (tank, which, lie
• stated, wee a job that hail been credit, d
to him. Tlie bank was robbed tw o
Lumbermen T ell of Business Ills.
i months ago under dramatic circumstan
Portland—Untoward conditions con ces. Tlie evidence strongly indicates tlie
tributing to present stagnation in the guilt of Hooper.
Beyond Rogue River, a t the bridge,
lumber industry absorbed much atten
tion at a hearing of the federal trade Hooper hade his unwilling escorts fare
commission held here. Mill men, lum well, and disappeared in the brash. Since
ber exporters and bankers gave their that time lie has been as mysteriously
views as to causes of the troubles of missing as the old man of the mountain—
the lumber trade, and unanimity of whom nobody ever saw. Special agents,
view was noticeably lacking. Over detectives, sheriffs a n d under slwriffs
production, overspeculation in stump- | have been as plentiful as cainjiaign candi
age, shortage of available tonnage for dates since t h a t time. Monday night
export and general financial stringen , Gold Hill was under strict watch, lest
cy were variously assigned by those | Hooper might fiel inclined to raid tlie
who spoke as being, in their respec local bank. Officers say that In» ba« the
tive opinions, the chief cause of the requisite cold nerve and love oFhravado
to dare anything.
dulness.
The theory that is generally. accepted is
Evidence also was taken regarding
conditions in the grain business, and that Hooper had a cache of coin from the
other speakers explained to the com Rogue River robbery, somewhere in the
mission the difficulties th at Oregon hills near that town. It is argued that he
fruit growers and shippers have re had n o other reason for alighting there
cently encountered in finding profit and taking to the woods. In northern
California there are many halt-breed and
able markets.
Indian friends of Hooper, to whom he
has endeared himself by gifts of guns and
S. H. Friendly Dies.
Eugene.—S. H. Friendly, pioneer ammunition, and it will not he «uprising
business man, and for 22 years a mem if be has made directly for that district.
Hooper lias an extensive criminal re
ber of the U niversity of Oregon board
cord for a young man. He is a paroled
of regents, died here.
No other death in the history of life term convict of Folsom, Calif., prison,
Eugene has produced a shock so gen bank robber, street - c a r hold-up and
eral as that of the man who 50 years clever crook.
Postmaster R eedítales that Hoopei at
ago came to Eugene a poor boy, with
out acquaintance, and left a fortune one time this sprinft received mail, under
of more than $200,000 and hundreds another name, from the Gold Hill office;
while W. H. Miller states that, from an
of friends.
Mr. Friendly'8 death came unexpect examination of the badm an’s photo, he is
edly. Apparently recovering from an equally certain that Hooper purchased
illness, he had engaged a drawing supplies in this city several, times, just
room on the train to go to the exposi prior to the Rogue River robbery.
T h is N ig h t
T om orrow
Year’s Industrial Fair
tion at San Franylsco.
management of tlie Greater Gold Hill
Glnb.
Serving thousands of hungry guests
with savory baked salmon, salad and
java is a titan task—successfully accomp
lished on two previous occasions. Al
though it is considered necessary to pre
pare for twice as many p irtions as were
served last year, there is no intention of
abandoning the free salmon hake. The
.salmon will be served—plenty for all—
together with a dray load Jof potato salad
and other appetizing edibles.
Exhibits are now in prospect that will
eclipse tlie showing of l a s t year, whin
much of the produce was considereil of
sufficient merit- for shipment to the state
Fair nt Salem. That this portion of tlie
Industrial Fair he a success, the managers
ask all ranchers, farmers andftruck gar
deners to plan their exhibit« now and to
present them for entry on the first day of
the Fair.
The amusement features o f the day
Given Full Authority to Suppress All
Disorder« in Haiti.
Washington.—Admiral Caperton, lu
charge of American forces In Haiti,
has been clothed with full power to
curb malcontents who rebel against
the newly elected president of the is
land and marines will be kept in Haiti
for months If necessary to bring about
oomplete order there.
It is understood th at France, whose
financial interest in Haiti is large, is
in sympathy with the steps taken by
thls government to check the revolu
tion.
T hat the revolution has left hun
dreds of natives in want was reported
to the Red Cross by Admiral Caper
ton. In response to an urgent request
by the American commander, the Red
Cross sent $1000 through the war de
partm ent to relieve famine.
Hop Crop is S h ;r \
Springfield.-MThe Oregt .i li3;j crcp
for 1915, which has been variously es
tim ated at from 140,000 to ISO.COO
bales, will be less than 100,000 bah a,
according to J. L. Clark, vice-presi
dent of the Oregon Hopgrowers’ asso
ciation, who has com plete! a.i spec-
tion ot 600 hop fields, representing the
greater part of hop acreage in Oregon.
Copperfield Hit by Blaze.
Baker.—The business section of
Copperfield, which came into promin
ence when Miss Fern Hobbs closed
the saloons there under orders from
former governor Oswald West, was
practically wiped out by a fire be
lieved to have been of Incendiary ori
gin.
The three undertaking parlors of
Salem have agreed to hold no funer
als on Sunday after August 16.