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VOLUME NU. SI
COLO H IL U JACKSON COUNTY, ORIG ON. THURSDAY JULY It, 1*28
Glendale Business
Section R azed By
Afternoon Blaze
Rogue Steelhead Corey Opposte*
Furnish Plenty o f
P k t $ 1 5 .0 0
Fun for Anglers
Auto License
NUMBBR I t
Miner Loses Life
In Explosion at
Mining Property
Pr. Win C. Johnson of Bakersfield
Approval by Ihe voter* of Senator
anil accompunied by hi* brother U Dunne's initiative measure which
C. Johnson unit S. A. Kager two eliminates the tax on motor stages,
mcilirul .student» from Jefferson based on seat capacity, and substi-
.Medical College of Philadelphia lute* a flat license fee of 815 annu
A large portion of the business section of the city to were camped on Ihe Hogue the past ally on each stage operated on the
ENTIRE HEAD TORN FROM THE
day lie* a mass of ruine as a result of conflagration which week enjoying the splendid steel state highways, would result in a
BODY BY THE EXPLOSION—
1 In-ail fishing. The men are just com heavy loss to the state by reduc HOOVER SAYS COUNTRY
started in the Meat M arket and soon spread to the nearby i pleting a ten thousand mile trip to ing this source of revenue.
WAS WORDING ALONE WHTN
OWES HIM NOTHING
buildings.
ACCIDENT HAPPENED
ull the best fishing streams, includ
This was the opinion expressed
ing the Brule river where Presi here today by H. H. Corey, member
'I'lie w eather has been so dry and the buildings being dent
In a telegram to the Republican
Coolidge is disporting this sum
the public service commission, Convention that haij nominated him
for the most part fram e structures m aking ready fuel for mer and they say they have found of
George P. Biancnin, 48, a miner of
which administers the state trans
the flames it was hut a short time until the entire town nothing that compares with the fight portation law. He estimated that for the Presidency, Mr. Hoover Central Point, was instantly killed
as follows:
at the Bill Nye mine near here Tues-
seemed afire. Every available man was rushed into action of tin- Bogue River steel head. They the revenue from motor stages, bas wrote
“My
country owes me nothing. It dijy by a delayed powder! blast,
iu an attem pt to corral the flames hut in vain and before intend to return to this city nent ed on a flat annual license fee of gave me, as it gives every hoy and which completely decapitated him.
I.. C. Johnson told the 815, would not be sufficient to pay
the fire fiend was put to flight five blocks of dwellings, summer.
writer that he had read of the Bogue the administration costs of the rom- girl, a chance. It gave me schooling Funeral services were held yester
independence of action, opportunity day afternoon at 4 o’clock at the
business houses and outbuildings were but charred heaps. river in eastern magazines and in niiwiion's automotive department.
for service and honor. In no other grave in the Medford I. O. O. F.
article«
in
Field
and
Stream
as
S tartin g in the City Meat Market at about 6:45 P- ,n- well as the works of Zane Grey. Figures in the offices of the pub land could a hoy from a country Til- cemetery, with Hev. F. W. Black
and w ithin two hours every building 1 n main street west However to Bill Isaacs of Medford lic service commission show that age, without inheritance or influ officiating. No inquest will be held.
receipts from the seat tax levied ential friends, look forward witli
The blast is believed to have taken
of the Glendale Pharm acy was in ashes entailing a loss of goes Ihe credit for sending the men the
against motor stages during the year unbounded hu|M-.
place yesterday forenoon at 11 o'
<»r more in slock and buildings, much of which to the Gold Hill waters for the great aggregated $150,000. Mr. Corey said
“My whole life taught me what clock when residents of that sec
esl of all fresh water fishing. The that under Senator Dunne's plan.re
was uninsured.
men outfitted themselves with |>oles ceipts from stage licenses would America means. 1 am indebted to tion beard the explosion, which
Toduy finds hut four business
and s|>oons anil other taekle at the not exceed 840,000 or 845.000 a year, my country beyond any human pow was the last they heard for the day.
houses on Glendale's main street,
Gold
Hill Suppy Co.. Manager Walk which is less than the amount re ei to repay. It conferred upon me Blanchin apparently had set a
FIFTY FIFTY FOR SEXES
The Glendale Pharmacy, Goehrend
er assisting them in choosing the quired for administration purimses. the mission *•> administer America's charge of powder in a pit three feet
A Smiths General Merchandise, Cos
response to the appeal of afflicted deep and hail come back to ascer-
Philosophic observers have long proper lures. Mr. Johnson caught
Senator Dunne, in statements nations during the war. it has call- tain why it did not explode. He was
tello's Barber Shop and a pool hall
two
nice
steel
heads
Saturday
morn
as a result of a quarter million dol realized Dial one of Ihs-se days men ing and from then on it has been made in favor of the license reduc- ed me into the Cabinets of two in the pit when the unexpected ex
lar fire last night when a raging fin- would he rising up to demand their hard to keep him off the riffles so tion on motor stages, contended that Presidents. By these experiences I plosion occurred, blowing his body
swept every building on main rights und now it has come. Male well did he enjoy the sport. They much of the loss in license fees have observed the burdens and re- out of the hole to a point approxi-
street west of the Glendale Phar Britishers are alarmed at the pros plan on coming later in the season wouhl be offset through the pro- 1 sponsi hili ties of the greatest office ■■lately 15 feet away. Despite a long
pect of facing them s* all women
macy to till- high school campus.
next year when the steel head be posed increase of the gasoline tax in the world. That office touches search. Coroner Conger yesterday
from three to five cents a gallon. the happiness of every home. It afternoon could find only one piece
The fire started at the City Meat arc enfranchised at Ihe age of 21, gin taking the fly.
Mr. Corey said that the increase in deals with the peace of nations. No of the dead man’s scalp, and it was
market ns the result of u hot bus giving a feminine majority of 2.IHMI,-
1100 voli-rs. So there is agitated talk
the gasoline tax would fall far short man could think of it except in over 30 feet away from the scene
on a refrigeration machine. The
CRATER LAKE TRAVEL
of making up the deficit resulting terms of solemn consecration.”
of the blast.
111 a it- had already gained ronsider- of a "sex war” and the most agi
OVER SAMS VALLEY ROAD
tated mi-iiihi rs of (lie male sex have
from the drastic reduction in stage
ah'e headway before the alarm was
The body was discovered by Rob
IS ON RAPID INCREASE license fees.
soundr.! and the i.rid condition of organized what they call u "Fifty-
ert H. Moore of Central Point, for
OREGON DAIRY HERDS
the old I aide buildings which coin, fifty League.”
TOP NATIONAL LISTS mer Gold Hill merchant, who had
The idea is to scare women into
posed the greater part of Ihe bus
hiked from this city to the mining
A remarkable increase in the trav HUMAN SKELETON INSPIRES
iness section were easily ignited and submission by threatening them el over the Crater Lake route out
property to ascertain why Mr.
CHOPIN'S FUNERAL MARCH
Oregon
with
172
dairy
herds
in
sparks and heal from the raging in with all (lie public responsibilities of Gold Hill via Sams Valley is
improvement associations for ,920- Blanchin had not met him with the
ferno spread destruction over an heretofore assumed by men, and de becoming very noticeable. The road
The dramatic circumstances under 27 made the highest record of the 31 car as agreed. A search of the prop
priving women of all the special is in good condition, we are told anJ
area of five city blocks.
which
Chopin was inspired to com states engaged in such work accord erty revealed, first the victims hat
I privileges and prerogatives of their many tourists from the north arc
pose the Funeral March of his Son ing to a report received from the lying near the pit, which is over
Water pressure ill the city water sex.
being routed over this highway. A ata in B minor are recounted in United States department of agri 200 yards from the main mine. An
mains was very low making fire
Thus they demamt thet women be saving of nuiny miles to the motor
Ernst Decsey’s collection of music culture by N. C. Jamison, extension other glance around the pit revealed
fighting very difficult.
made liable to military conscription ist is the result.
ians' anecdotes, "Die Spieluhr” (The specialist in dairying at the state the headless body 15 fee, away.
Blanchin arrived firs, in southern
In the truck of the flames were just like men: that “laws und prac
Music Box.)
college who is in charge of the
Oregon
in 1911, hut returned ,0
The Glendale State Bank, Kafer's tices which relieve women of the ec KINCAID NOW IN CHARGE
Adolph Zieni, the painter, had de work. Of the Oregon herds in the
Shoe Store, Harvey's Hardware, The onomic consequences of their acts”
OF GOLD HILL PAVILION rided to present his admired friend, improvement work, 06.2 per cent av France with the outbreak of the war
Glendale Log Office, Conifer Lum he annulled: Ihut the marriage laws
Chopin, with a new grand piano and eraged above 300 pounds of butter ! to serve his country as an army cap
tain and as a result of the war, he
ber Go. office, Moreley’s Dry Clean and customs and usages connected
Lucius Kincaid of Eagle Point has for that purpose invited the master fat a year.
lw ore a silver plate in one side of
ing Shop und Barber Simp, Hi'iining- with them which specially safeguard
to
dinner,
together
with
two
other
Idaho was next in the list with his head.
nnce more assumed charge of the
ers Grocery, Henson Hotel, Kafer's I women he rectified.”
Gold Hill puvilion and lust Saturday Parisian artists, Prince Polignac and 63.2 tier cent above 300 pounds
Let
the
seared
men
look
out.
It
Blanchin was an accomplished
Kosy Kafe. Dewey's Pool Boom,
night gave his opening dance in the painter Bieard. Chopin arrived while next in order were Michigan,
Posl Office. Wunsrh's (iari ge, Meis- would lie just like British women to the local hilll since acquiring pos late, as ever, after dark. As he Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana and musician and very well educated in
the universities of France, where he
ner's Garage, C o | h * o Offices, The take them at their word, help abol
session. The same splendid crowd seemed more depressed than usual, Nebraska. Wisconsin led Ihe states
old Glcpdiile News Office, the old ish all feminine privileges, assume was evident again a good time was the three jolly Bohemians tried to in number of herds in the associa is believed to have a sister surviv
school buildings, Fred Hilke's Tail- ,hcir 0,11 milllarj anil political re-
cheer him up by playing one prank tions, having 2,904, with Michigan ing him in Paris. Her address as
yet has no, been learned.
or Shop. Insides Ihe residences of 'I'onsiliilities anil then start govern- enjoyed by all.' Mr. Kincaid ex- after another.
second. Oregon is fourteenth in
The dead man is said to have been
Chub Harvey, Chas. Austin Alice
''emhling Englishmen as lied s Io redecorate and remodel the
Finally Polignac conceived th e! this list and Georgia last,
hall at a very early date.
Bedfield. Karl Williams. Geo. Oium
*-»’ «1 i»Iiir.en have ever been gov-
grotesque idea of dragging a human j The average for the United States more or less careless when handling
besiiles making homeless the fainil- '"•med before.
skeleton from the adjoining studio' of 11,370 herds in these improve- powder, and always smoked a pipe
handling high explosives. A
ies of Chas. Kafer, Alvin Henninger,
Men, especially Englishmen, can't POSTAL RATE CHANGES
and with ludicrous ceremony seat- j ment associations is 7410 pounds of when
’fi-ineh fiis» wh'c*' w-« bum**'',
REDUCE MAILING COST ing it at the pianoforte. He grasped
J. S. Benson, Walt Meisner, Dr. seem In gel it through their heads |
4 per cent milk per cow or 295
bore mute evidence that the pipe did
that men always have been govern
Fawcett, and L. C. Basye.
the bony hands and ran them over pounds of hutterfat.
not cause the blast, but that he had
ed by women anil always will be. A 1 'Always put your return address the keys, now softly then louder.
Mrs. L C Basye who has been al '"i n is bossed first by his mother 0:1 first class mail, for it will cost The others extinguished the candles
0
clambered down into the pit to find
most invalided since a recent sick then by his wife.—Wallace Press >ou three cents to get it once it goes 1 and listened to the gruesome per- MEDFORD BOND
out w hy his powder did not explode.
spell suffered considerable from Times.
ELECTION TO BE DELAYED He had told Moore that he planned
to the dead letter office and is re- forniance in breathless silence,
shock, Claude Humphreys received
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usual kiiv pt 1 m * vei ui wee&s ago.
turned,” is the advice from the local
Suddenly three dull blows rever
hums and an u.iidentifieif woman
The city council and chamber of
postofficc in announcing a number berated through the darkness. Bi
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
injured herself in u fall, were the
___ commerce jointly have decided to GOLD RUSH NOT NECESSARY
STILL AFTER SWINGING BRIDGE <>f changes in postal rates that be card had i>erpe,rated the lurid joke
only casualties as far ns we were
TO MAKE TOWN GROW
of kicking the chest on which he*sat. dvfer ,hc holding of a special $100,-
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came effective Sunday, July 1.
able to learn.
000 bond election for Medford’s new
While
the
others
laughed
,0
ease
the
Bates
of
first
class
sealed
mail
A, Ihe meeting of the Chamber of
A town does no, need a gold rush
The entire hurude over district is Commerce, Monday evening the re will remain the same, although post nervous tension., Chopin -dashed ,0 airport until late full or early win
within the fire district and when re port of the Swinging bridge com- cards which have required two the piano and dragged from the ter when the Hosehurg tes, decision or an “oil gusher” to attract new
built will undoubtedly he construct mi,tee was heard and plans and cents will go for one under the new chair the skeleton, which he pas of the supreme court on Roseburg's residents and new business. Many
bond issue for a new airport will be towns have sprung into the limelight
ed of fire proof mcterinl.
estimates for the construction of regulations, and rates on first class sionately embraced. He then sa,
known,
and other details relating overnight by the discovery within
down
and
began
,0
play
without
his
all
sen,
with
postage
due
have
rais
Many of the buildings swept hv '!M,rae are rounding up well und it
,0
the
local
issue will have been their portuls of some natural re
friends remarking that it was he.
the flames were old structures dal- j *s expected that by Ihe next meet ed ufter the third ounce.
ironed
ou,
and
no, hold i, at the source luring men in the quest of
The
sadness
and
sweetness
of
the
One change that is material to us
ing hack Io the early days of the *n8 concrete plans will be ready for
same
time
as
Medford’s
special elec wealth; they have come from all
music
gripped
the
three
friends.
Ab
City.
j Ihe club. Several matters of civic ers of public libraries is the de-
tion ,0 vote $100,000 in bomte for corners of the world ,0 places that
ruptly
the
flow
of
melody
ceased
A, 1 appeal for fire figldin« equip- ' '"'pm lai’i c were discussed including ! creased rales on books sen, ,0 and
repairs ,0 streets which will be held seemed ,0 offer them opportunity of
ment was made Io G rants Pass hut " h<,,cl- I ’1" ' 11" « " f trees on Ihe high from the libraries,
a change tha, is with a glaring dissonance. The
building fortunes.
• « . _
Still
S' ik.S.I
ilk..
. dust
I k • St I •» situation.
•8a««*8k —
- m I How-
, . - j estimated ,0 amount ,0 a saving of three friends rushed ,0 the piano on September 10.
I
way
and
the
none was available.
But a ,ow n may have other as
and
picked
up
Chopin
who
had
fal
II ver no ilrfnite action was tak- : bout $3,500 ,0 patrons of the Ore-
sets
than oil wells or gold mines. If
Before the flames were exlin
len
from
Ihe
chair
in
a
swoon
RETAIL COSTS PUBLISHED
en. A request for scenic pictures 8°n State Library alone, and was
the information is broadcast that in
guished word of the disaster h. <1
When
several
months
later
Chop
in and about this eitv were asked brought about by solicitation of li-
a town can be found good wages,
been received on Ihe nuts'de anil de for by the Pacific Highway Asso- hrgrians of the Stale of Oregon,
in played his B minor sonata for the
“Operating costs in Retail Mer prosperity, good business and Indus-
mand* upon the telegraph office by
firs,
time
in
public
the
third
move
chandising”
is
the
title
of
a
new
fiction of California and Fred Guy t Newspapers can now be mailed
the larger newspapers of the state
and C. .1. Si.orb were appointed by at the rale of one ceil, for each two ment contained the improvisation
nnd press association were made for
Chairman W alker Io furnish Ihe pic- ounces or 11 fraction thereof, where heard in Zeini’s studio tha, eventful Extension service which service ulous, despite the fact tha, it lacks
particulars.
night. And the first person ,0 be which contains the reports submit
lures.
formerly the cost was two cents.
carried ,0 his grave ,0 the strains ted to the five sections of the Ore Ihe lure of gold says the Snoqualmie
Parcel post rates will remain the
of this march funebre was— Chopin. gon Retail Merchants association a, Valley Record.
ROCKNE TO RETURN
MANY CHANGES TAKING
same for the firs, three sones, the
Thus each town has its gold mine,
their convention a, Corvallis last its own oil gusher; community pros
PLACE AT OMARS AUTO PARK charge being one cent lower in the
GOLDEN
RULE
RUMMAGE
SALE
Following negoGatio” n...-,.
February.
Results
of
surveys
in
! other zones.
perity always produces “pay dirt.”
mediately upon Conch K. K. Bock-
The past week, workmen have
cluded in the reports were compiled The world will come to a town
B is now possible ,0 insure a par-
The Grants Pass Golden Rule by the schools of commerce and
n r s a r r iv a l th is summer, Ihe f. 111-
busy installing shower hut, s cel for 81000 instead of 8100, the
tha, has what the world wants, be
ous . otre Dame mentor agreed to a, Ihe cabins in Ihe Omer’s Auto registration fee remaining the same Chain Store is prepared ,0 launch a pharmacy for the divisions of de tha, gold, oil, or merely good living
leturn Io Oregon next year fir his Park.
Pesi les the new shower except thn, it is placed on 11 sliding huge rummage sale, Saturday with partment stores, furniture stores, conditions.
r f'K nt”’"') 1 fenll-r.'!
baths at (he cabins showers are
scale. Be.les for special delivery their usual splendid bargains. This grocery stores, drug stores and
Community advertising will at
nt Hie state college summer session so being installed in Ihe house. A nkhl and special handling special store is noted for its splendid prices hardware stores ami general stores. tract prosperity! Without advertis
id Corvallis. Coach Hocknc says lie new Septic tank is being built an I delivery have been changed some- nnd when they advertise a sale it is
ing, a town may have many virtues,
always looks foi ward ,0 his wester,, Cement floors were built in all the what, according t0 the announce- a sale. Glance over our advertise
H. A. Bailtke C. J, Shnrh nnd Torn Ini, no one will know of them.
ment of this store and see what they Shaver were Medford visitors Tues
trip with reel pleasure.
si.ower baths.
inent.
Boost the town to the world and the
say for themself.
day afternoon.
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world will boost the town!