VOI.I ME NO. 31
THE GOLD l l l l . l . NEW S, JACKSON COUNTY. OREGON
DRAIN WINS TROPHY
IN ASHLAND TOURNAMENT
U p -rilin g the dope <>n the last day
«if Ihe tournament nt Ashland Iasi
week m il, D rain »ueeeeded In w in
ning III«' in v ila y oiiid to u riia im iA
fro m Coos R iver 16-11, w ho was
doped to w ill by till- fans .Powers
won Hie »Inals in the roiixohdion
event against Gold H ill 25-13, who
was favored Io w in that end o f the
honors.
Coos If ver elim inated Malin in
Ihe send llo iil, and D rain defeated
Central Point in tile seine series
und were then matched fo r tile tin
ids Gol'l H ill won fro m Sums V a l
ley nn.l Power» from Talent in the
jn n ii final,, in Hie eolisotnl on event.
The fo llo w 'e g was the schedule
of gam, and the results:
lAiminutiun
Port O rfo rd . 38; Riddle. 17
(a os R iver, 31: (odd l l i l l , HT.
Sams Valiev, 111; l( verlon. 29.
Rogue R iver 17; M ilin . 4(1.
M e rrill. 21: Glendale, 12.
Dr: in, 2(1; Powers. 12.
Kerby. 8; C entral Point, 21.
Bnlle ITills, 21; Talent. 20.
Ih ltle I alls, (1; Pluenix 2a.
F irst Round Champs
Port O rfo rd . 28; Coo» Itiv e r, 29.
Malin, 24; IV« ertn„ 17.
C entral Point. 28; Phtenix, 20.
M e rrill, 1«; D ra in , 23.
First Round Consolation
Iti.’ lie, 28; Cold H ill, 21.
Sams Valle«-, 24: Bogue It ver, 23
Pow er». 21; Glendale. 19.
Keel.' . I t; Tnlent. 21.
Ja il Register Ends
Services A] ter 48
Years Usefulness
THURSDAY, MARCH 21. 1929
TELL YOUR MERCHANT WHERE YOU SAW HIS
AD WHEN YOU DO YOUR SHOPPING—
IF YOU DON’T BUY THE ARTICLE ADVERTISED
TELL HIM YOU SAW HIS AD ANYWAY—HE
WANTS TO KNOW IT IS READ.
Jliek Dempsey is prom oting a
A11 hi nigh the tr ip o f F u lto n ’s
light-w eight title Night w h ic h he ex-
I ''C lem ont” from New York to A l-
1 |H'ets Io stage in the near future
; tiany in 1807 marked the b e g n n in g
I at either D e tro it o r New York.
I o f the first regular steamboat ser-
(vice, it was not. as many believe,
Salem high school was banished the first practical
dem onstration
fro m entry in to spurts w ith schools | of the steamboat.
The American
in th e ir conference, duF to the con i in ve n to r propelled an e a rlie r boat
duct o f the students o f th a t school Ion Hie riv e r Seine in Paris fo u r
fo llo w in g a defeat o f the Salem I year» e arlier, p o in t, out Richard
school by Ihe Chemawa
Indians, ! Le (ialtienne.
recently. The re strictio n remain:,
No good Amer'can ean look upon
in effect the rest o f Hie school year. i the Seine w ithout th in kin g o f Hint
Conditions is Mexico tend tow ard
a decisive battle in a short time
between Hie rebel and national
troops. The battle of T orreon,
w hich apiM-ared im m inent was a-
verted when Ihe rebel forces re
treated. General Escobar o f Hie
rebel troops gave as his reason fo r
evaenlation that he d id not w ent
to expose Hie people of the city
to the h o rro rs o f an a ir raid.
Maliel Normand, movie actress, is
very ill w ith a lung affection.
The people o f the South are busy
gathering funds to fight the possi
>' eond Round ChainP
FISTIC NOM DE FIA MES
b ility o f disease fo llo w in g the floods
that have ravaged that section re
Co.
lliv e r, 23; Malin, 12.
Boxers as w e ll as w rite rs amt cently.
D rain, 24; Centrul P oinl, 19.
screen stars choose high-sounding
Second Round Consolation
names. Such names are usually as
Ira C. Eaker failed in his second
sumed fo r sim plification and b u .i- attempt to make a dawn to dusk
Gold H ill, 211; Sam» Valiev, 25.
n< s reasons. How many light fans tr ip fro m Panama to Texas.He was
Powers 31; Talent, 17.
know Hint Jack Sharkey's real name forced dow n at Tampico, Mexico.
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iv John Joseph Cucoshay o r that
NORTHWEST APPLES ARE
Jin kie Fields in real life is John
FAVORIT ES OVER COUNTRY
, Ex-Governor Al Smith and Mayor
Finkelstein? For thr.t m atter Jack
Jimmie W alker are expected Io en-
Dempsey’s fu ll m onicker is W illia m
1 ter the contest fo r a successor to
N early one ha lf of the w o rld cron
Wholesalers o f gasoline had th e ir H arrison Dempsey, Benny l.eonard
j Olvany as head o f Tammany H all.
o f apples is pro hired in Hie United truck drivel»-. w o rkin g most all answered Ihe Ihe name o f Benjamin
The re tu rn o f Smith to New Y ork
Slates, i c o r d iiij to a b u lle tin 0,1 night, Tuesday in o rd e r Io take ad l.einer. Jack B ritto n was know n to
| was looked upon as a move to pro
apple production, price.» and trans vantage o f all Hie orders o f gasoline his fa m ily a, W illia m J. Breslin.
tect his interests i n the coming
portation coals.
w hich hil l p led up simultaneously Johnny Dundee is Joseph C arrora.
Apples from the Un led Stales art* d u rin g Ihe day. The cause o f the Jack Delaney is Oviln C.hapdelnine choice o f a new leader.
d istrib u te d •" all p a ils of Ihe w o rld , rush was the announcement o f the end Babe Herman i s Herman Sousa.
Senator H e flin , fiery Senator from
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reaching 72 d ilfe re n t countries d u r a 'v rn e e in prices o f six cents on
Alabama, w a , stoned i n Rrockton,
lag Ihe «ear ending June 30. 1928. gasoline. F or n rq rly a month the IN L A N D TOWNS OPPOSE
Mass., when be went ihere to de
Till' I itn l Kingdom was Ihe largest price had fallen c o n tin u a lly u n til gas |
RAISE IN RAII. RATES liv e r an address, March 17. The
■ua'rket fo r fresh mid canned ap reached about tw enty ce n t, in this
Senator's anti-ca th o lic
tendencies
ples exported from Hus country, pari o f the slate and then come Hie
Southern Pacific representatives are given ns the reason fo r the at
w h ile Germany was Ihe largest end of Ihe price c u llin g and Hie gas declared, at an interstate commerce
tack.
market fo r d rie d apples.
market took a sudden advance. The commission hearing, that a rate
Over 93,000 ears <>f apples were public w ill p o 's ih lv never know Ihe w a r between ste: uiship lines op
T w enty o r more people lost th e ir
shipped by ra il from Ihe producing reason fo r Ihe m aipulation of Ihe erating from C a lifo rn ia po rts to
lives in a Hood w h ich swept part
urea» Io markets in this country priee hut they w ill a ll have some *»' I'tte has eomiK'llesI the Southern
of Southeastern United States last
du rin g Hie same year. D is trib u tio n th in g Io say about it. The raise Pacific Io make rates fro m C a lifo r
week end. Airplanes w ere used to
w ith in Hie United Slates was w de this week is Ihe most radieid raise nia Io Seattle as low and sometimes
ca rry food and re lie f articles to
spread, apples from Ihe Northwest in Ihe priee of gas fo r many years if low er, than the rates from C a lifo r
the stranded victim s.
reaching a ll o f Ihe stales w h ile not fa history. It i, predicted Hint nia Io Portland. The hearing open
those from Ihe Eastern and Central livers w ill lie paying th irty cents ed today before I., II. F lyn n , I. C. C.
A man near Denver was caught
stales cached p ra ctica lly the entire fo r gas before Ihe middle o f sum examiner, and is a continuation of and held in a bear tra p fo r four
te rrito ry cast of Ihe Rocky Moun mer.
the one held al San Fraeiseo Nov days. He had gone out Io trap
tains,
ember 30 to December 15.
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smaller aninuils and he him self be
F igures covering 110 most im p o rt
Idle Southern Pacific and other came the victim o f Hie large trap.
ENGLISH W R ITER HOLDS
ant market.» in Ihe country show
ra il c a rrie r., ineluding, it is said, He succeeded in fretting him self
PESSIMISTIC F IN A N C IA L VIEW
th ill apples from the style of Wash
Hie Santa Fe. is seeking to low er after fo u r days o f to rtu re .
ington reached all of these markets,
rates between ports of the Pacific
The gravest financial crisis in the co. st, and Io increase them at in te r
those from Oregon reached 55, and
A huge celebration w a , sponsored
those from Idaho 54. in view- of w orld'» history wav described by mediate inland points.
in Portland by the sevgi.il veteran's
the Ion
hauls involve 1, the dis | S ir George Paisli, economist, as
The proposed readjustment, ho w organizations to mark the dedica
te tuition of apples from Hie West- .threatening modern business. Sir ever. i , being fought by various tion of the govenment hospital at
eiH slates i s signifleant. Apples .George sla rlle d his auditors al the ports w h ile a 'l the
interm ediate that place. Several d ru m
corps,
from W nshlng'on, Oregon and Idaho national free trade conference here cities are up in arms against the hands anti speeches were features
traveled over 2,500 miles Io market. ¡w ith his prediction.
contemplated change.
of the day’s entertainm ent.
I peak w ith the highest n itlh o r-
T his is fu rth e r emphasiz.nl when
Representatives o f P ortland to
i ity. and I challenge anyone to deny day opposed the proposed Southern WEST CELEBRATES
| it. when I say we are threatened Pacific ra il rales to Seattle because
•LANS BEING MADE TO
RAMONAS RETURN
CLEAR ROGUE RIVER w ith the greatest financial Hrlsis il was said ra il rates to the Puget
(the w o rld has ever seen because Sound io tropolis from C a lifo rn ia
Ramona is re tu rn in g Io C a lifo r
Steps to elim inate
Ihe muddy Hie governments of the w o rld hav ■ t'i ids w an'd in some ease., I>c lo w nia. In the valley o f Hemet and
w ater from the Rogue in time fo r follow ed the p olicy o f trade re er than rates from the south Io San Jacinto, where Helen Hunt
the spring (Idling, are being taken striction, prevenlili ; debtors from Portland. In many other eases the Jackson first heard the story o f this
by I). 11. F e rry, manager of Hie Bo paying th e ir debts. S ir George de- California-Seattle rate w ould he the Indian g irl, plans are being made to
gue It ver Gold company's dredge el red.
ime a, the C a lifo rn ia P ortland entertain thousand, w ho w ill flock
id Fools creek, according Io Bain-
We are face to faee w ith this rale.
to see her.
bow Gibson, o f We vku Inn
¡crisis The greatest authorities io
Portlanders declared this w ould
Dwellers in Ihe valley have con
U n til n io i” satisfactory arrange this co u n try and in the United
ive Seattle an u n fa ir advantage verted her story in to a second Ober-
ments can lie made Ihe muddy w ater St: les expect il Io come this spring in P ortland te rrito ry .
animergau, a pageant enacted by
w ill he impounded an I relea' ed anil unless this p olicy o f safeguard
I.os Angeles, too. Is fighting the them against a background o f rug
du rin g Ihe night, w lic li w ill leave iog o r protection is cheeked, it I,.le schedule. w ith especial refer- ged mountainside. It is th e ir g ift
the Bogue clear during Ihe day means d is ir ter to the w o rld .
( nee to automobile rates. I.os A n to C a lifo rn ia and Ihe w o rld .
lig h t hours. Mr. F e rry is also plnn-
I am not exaggerating, lie eon- geles said the new rides w ould give
The pageant w ill he held’ in n
J tiin .j Io install a lilinip w ith w hich eluded. I w ish I were. He blamed Oaklnnd and San Francisco a dis natural amphitheatre
tw o
miles
1 w ater w ill he pumped from the politicians who had pursued w rong tin ct advantage over the southern
southeast o f Hemet on three sueees-
dredge pond through a gravel bed polieie» since the w a r fo r the Ini- ( ity in the d is trib u tio n o f autoino sive week-ends— A p ril 20-21, 27-28,
. I Io settle it.
. pending crisis.
[biles and parts.
May 4 5.
Gasoline Price
Jumps to New
High Levels
MARSHALL FOCH ANSWERS
LAST CALL WEDNESDAY
ill Mark Fish High Places in Fulton's Steamboat
M ight Have Saved
In Rogue River Nation’s News Napoleon's Crown
To settle a controversy regarding
a
question o f how long fish that
F o llo w in g a continuous service
fo r 43 yeurs, Hie old county ja il sp: wu remain out of Ihe Bogue
register ha, at last outlived It» use before re tu rn in g und w hat percent
fulness mid was recently replaced age o f them do return, Ihe state
a
w ith a new hook, in w hich 25 imin gi me commission is m arking
l
uge
number
of
steelheads
before
es have arleady been Inscribed.
The old register, frayed w ith the Hn y are liberated from egg taking
m ark* of lime, w a , first used Feb stations. The w ork is being carried
ruary li. 188(1, when E M Hopkins on hi Ihe Lear creek, Antelope and
taking stations. The
was place I in ja il on a burglary L ittle Bulle i
left
ventral
(In
is cut from each
charge, o n ly Io la1 released w ith o u t
being sentenced Io Ihe si lie peni fish a fte r it lias spawned and is
ready fo r lib e ra tio n .
Sportsmen
te n tia ry.
are lu in v asked to co-operate w Ih
A strange coincidence is Hie I st
e n try made by J a ile r O»eHr Dun- . the eoiiunission and report catches
ford February 23, when It. C Sp.irr of any o f tin- marked fish. It is
wav iiiilg. I in ja il also on a burglny believed that this experim ent w ill
charge
W hile Hopkins had num-. .id a .'eterm ining what nereentage
tier one, Sparr had iiu iii I h t 2542, or of Ihe (lsh return Io the Bogue riv e r
just 2541 pri«nners liehind. The after spawning
The commission w ill mark sever
m ajority o f this num ber was record
al Imus.mil fry as they ere liberated
e l at Hie j il in com paratively re
cent years and since July 6. 192(1. in coast »tre ins lids season ,o that
when Ja ile r D unford
began hi» .a', d i iif the m igratory habit of
Each
duties, there have lu'cn 974 p riso n the llsli in. iv he formed.
s're
in
w
ill
be
assigned
a
d
is
tin
c t
ers, w ith a large share incarcerated
on slate and national p ro h ib itio n ive m arking w hich w ill In- reg'ster-
ed at Ihe eoinnission’s office and
charges.
sportsmen w ill he asked to report
when they catch a marked llsh.
NUMBER 49
Wednesday afternoon marked the
la-t o f the great A llied Commander
o f the W orld W ar when Marshal
i Foeh uttered the famous battle cry
I o f the Poilu and layed back upon
! bis couch in eternal slumber.
, Marshal Foeh was one o f the great
est strategist, of the W o rld W ar
I period and as such was chosen to
. marshal the a rm ie , o f the allied
nations in th e ir effort» to repulse
! the German advance.
Today a ll France mourns the loss
f this great leader and other a llie d
nation , bow in reverence .fo r h im *
and in sympathy fo r his country.
T ile body of the great w a rrio r w ill
lie in state fo r a few days that his
countrym en and the legations o f the
other nations m ight pay his rem ain,
th e ir respects and then be la id away
¡A m list 9, 1803, when it ^ banks w ith the other great soldiers of
were black w ith spectators w atch- France.
, ing Hie young American dream er
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making the first t r ip ever made in CO.MICE PEARS ARE
! a steamboat. For fo u r hours the
SOLD IN LONDON
' strange c ra ft puffed and belched
1 along the stream. And so Paris
A h a lf car lead of Cornice pears
and the w o rld became acquainted
from the L. M. Fisher orchards in
w ith R olicrt Fulton.
Sams V alley, was sold recently in
Naiwdeon had said of Paul Jones London, fo r $1,001), b rin g in g w hat is
that if he had lived France w ould said to be the highest price paid
have had an adm iral. But bad he I fo r pears th is season.
only been able to give closer con
T lic pears were sent to London
sideration
to tw o
propositions it great expense about tw o months
w hich Fulton put before him— that ago, and were placed in storage,
o f tra n sp o rtin g troops across the there being no sale fo r them at
B ritish Chaqnel, accompanied by that time. The o w n e r, had about
submarine torpedo boats, w hich he given up the idea o f ever disposing
had already brought to a state of of them when a check was received
considerable efficiency— there might
Mr. Fisher has been a resident of
'have been no St. Helena.
Sam» Valley fo r about 15 years and
ha, the reputation o f gow in# some
o f the finest fr u it i n th is section,
p a rtic u la rly Cornice pears.
New Law Will
Make of Dog
a Real Luxury
I RGB ORCH ARD1STS HURRY
TEST OF THERMOMETERS
Good new's fo r tlie fr u it grow ers
o f the Bogue R iver valley brought
hack front W ashington state by
Floyd Young, the fro st expert, w ho
arrived here yesterday fro m a v is it
: of a week o r so in the Wenatchee
and Yakima sections, is that those
sections, w h ich had a bumper fr u it
U nder a new state law , a penalty crop last year, w ill have a 25 per
attaches to dog Iieenscs if they are c e n t pear crop this year, especially
not purchased before March t, De- o f Bartletts.
T h is is im iio rta n t, in view o f the
lilia Stevens Meyer, county cle rk,
fact that the pear fr u it belts o f
announced yesterday.
The law was passed w ith the em Washington are coming more in to
ergency clause and no notice given [com petition w ith the Rogue R iver
the C a lifo rn ia
o f it, :.he said. It raised the license valley fr u it than
fee to $2 00'Tor, males and $3.00 fo r pear sections.
Tin» big tilin g here now, Mr.
females. In addition, there is a
$2.00 penalty if the license i , not Young said, is fo r a ll orchardists,
j w ho have not yet «lone so. to h u rry
purchased before March 1.
Because dog owners did not kn o w ' th e ir therm om eter, in to the county
o f the provision, Mrs. Meyers said ageijts office fo r testing. He and
she w ould not start collecting the [ Hoy Rogers, his assistant, are here
penalty u n til after A p ril 15.
A ll to do th e ir p a rt, but th e ir complete
licenses issed u n til then w il he at frost w a rn in g program w ill neces
s a rily be held hack u n til a ll the
$2.00 and $3 00.
thermometers have been tested and
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tlie smudge p o ts placed in the o r
HOOVER OWNS 1313 ACRE
chards. A lready a number o f or-
FARM EMPLOYING 200 chi.rdists have placed th e ir smudge
pots.
Now that it ean he told, w ith o u t
any suspicion of gunning fo r the
agricultural vote, it is of interest to
narr.de that Herbert Hoover is an
honest-to goodness farm er, w rite s
Frederic V illia m W ile.
The new- pres'dent ha» owned a
1313 acre farm in C a lifo rn ia since
1920, and has operated it not o n ly
as a business enterprise, but also
as a base fo r practical a g ricu ltu ra l
experiments.
Hoover’s acres are an otijeet les-
's o „ in diversification
o f crops.
They contain vineyards producing
i'c n varieties of grapes w ith a yearly
output of 600,000 pounds; some 300
| acres in cotton; 200 in a lfa lfa : 150
in potatoes; 100 in co rn ; 130 in
peaelics; 90 in waterm elons and
muskm elon*; 90 in Spanish onions;
50 o r 00 in sweet potatoes; ami 70
acres l n apricots.
In addition, Hie Hoover farm con
tains 2.500 laying hens, 200 sows,
and 150 cows. D u rin g peak lia r
vesting seasons, as many as 200
hands are employed; the annual
¡p a y ro ll I, about $75,000.
EGG TAKING TO START
AT BIG STATION
A tw e n ty-m ile tr ip on snowshoes
confronts the men from the Oregon
Slate Game Commission to whom
ha, been assigned the task o f taking
eggs fro m ra in b o w tro u t at the
Diam ond Lake station. In a few
days a .squad of fo u r men w ill tram p
Io the station, where equipment and
food was delivered last fa ll before
had w eather set in. E a rly in May
o r a, soon as the w eather perm its.
Matt Ryekman, sperintendent o f
hatcheries, w ill break a tra il to
the egv taking station.
By that
time the eggs w ill be “ eyed” and
ready fo r d istrib u tio n to the hatch
eries of Oregon. Last year the D ia
mond lake station w h ich is one o f
tlie largest on the Pacific coast, sup
plied almost 17,000,000 eggs to the
department and this season it ¡s ®*-
pected that the take w ill exceed
that figute.
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Most of us get a kick out of life —»
hut from behind.