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Some who favor the organization ot such a -body would model it after the Royal Northwest Mounted Police an efficient Canadian organization which keeps order In the Yukon Ter ritory, 'Alaska's neighbor on the east. Governor Thos. Rlggs Jr., in his recent annnal report to Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane, re commended the establishment ot a federal police organization. Secretary Lane in has yearly report Included the following paragraph re garding police protection In Alaska: "Outside of the incorporated towns there is but little police pro tection except as afforded by various I wardens and special employes for the suppression of the liquor traffic among the natives. The marshal's offices are hemmed around with re-i etrictlons concerning' expenditure for the detection of crimes, which makes it almost impossible to prevent crime j or to run down lawbreakers after a crime has been committed. A recom-! mendation is made for the establish-! nient of a federal constabulary to enforce law and prevent crime." The American Red Cross sent 3,000 tons of condensed milk to the children of prisoners in Archangel, Siberia, and 2,000 pounds of powder ed milk to the children of France. PAYROLL money does more for a community than any other kind. The more payroll money put In circulation In Oregon, the better off we are all of us. Buying Oregon products, in stead of Eastern products, is the way to BUILD UP and to KEEP VP Oregon's payrolls. USE HOME PRODUCTS. Home Industry League of Oregon Medford Auto Top Co. 30 Ji. Grape Street MEDFORD, OREGON All kids of Auto Top repairing. Old tops recovered to look like new. Auto curtain lights of ell kinds. Satisfaction guar anteed, both work and prices. Give us a trial. Ftate Glass Light a Specialty JBjplPlf GALICE MINER MARRIES mfiSMg POM MERLIN GIRL TERRORS OF THE DESERT The United States Geological sur vey, department ot the lutertor, has surveyed and signposted a great area ot the most dangerous desert region of the United States. The 39th annual report ot the topograp hic division of the survey. Just made public, describes the method em ployed of making the desert safe to the unwary traveler. The region surveyed occupies about 60,000 square miles In south ern California and southwestern Ari zona. In California it Includes the southern part of Death Valley and the region between this valley and the Mexican border; in Arizona It In cludes the region west ot Tucson and Phoenix and south ot Wlckenburg and Parker. This region was select ed because it is the driest, hottest, and least explored part of the desert region, and also because ot the stra tegic Importance of obtaining infor mation on the water supplies along the 350 miles ot national frontier that it includes. The field work was done by four parties, each of which consisted of one geologist and one nontechnical assistant outfitted with an automobile and light camp ing outfit. Practically all watering places In the region were examined, about 160 samples of water were collected and shipped to the water resources laboratory at Washington, D. C, for analysis, and a general exploration was niadeJof the geog raphy, geology and I ground-water conditions of the region. The maps prepared and the data obtained were made available to the army engineers for Incorporation in the progressive military map of the United States. Guides with maps are being prepar ed for publication. Signs directing travelers to water were erected at 167 localities in Cal ifornia and 138 in Arizona. The signposts are galvanized Iron, 1.9 inches in outside diameter and 12 feet long. Each post is anchored in the ground with two redwood blocks. The signs are 18-gage steel, galvan ized, are white, with dark-blue let ters, and are substantially bolted to the posts. They are of two sizes, 18 by 20 Inches and 9 by 20 Inches. Most of the larger signs, ot which 470 were erected, give the names, distances, and directions to four watering places: most of the smaller signs, 165 of which were erected, give the names, distances and di rections to two watering places. The work done last year Is a part of a comprehensive plan for mapping and marking the watering places in the entire arid region lying east of the Sierra Nevada and Cascade moun tains and west of a line running ap proximately from eastern Oregon through Salt Lake City and Santa Fe to the mouth of Pecos river. At the M. E. parsonage at C p. in. ; Tuesday, December 24, James N. Dean, of Grant3 Pass, and Mattle C. Guild were united In marriage by Rev. Melville T. Wire. The groom Is well known In Grants Pass and is engaged In mining at Galice. The bride Is a popular young woman of Merlin, and is in charge of the post office there. They will reside In Merlin for the present. They have the congratulations of a host of friends. E i Don F. Wilson, Rogue River mer chant was In the city this afternoon on business. Mr. Wilson states that he shipped one car of 85,000 pounds !of white beans to the government December 24, and tomorrow a car of 65,000 pounds of pink beans will be shipped. The Evans Creek Bean Growers association has contracted 240,000 pounds of white beans, all for government use. These beans are to be shipped before January 15, and means about $35,000 distributed among the farmers of that valley. The crop Includes about 100,000 pounds of beans outside the govern ment order, which ' was handled through 8. C, Dalton & Co. of Port land. Legal Blanks at the Courier. PERSONAL Pane" Talcum. Sabln has It. 48 Lewis Stlnebaugh, ot Portland, Is visiting relatives In this city. Electric work Paul's Electric store, phone 10 Medford. 61 Harry Hull, ot Portlaud. spent Christmas with his parents, Mr. mid Mrs. H. T. Hull, la Grants Pass. Patronlie home bakery. Fresh, clean good. Moore Flaking Co. 49 Radiator Antl-frleze. C. L. lio bart Co. 51 Sum Bowden stopped off here this morning, from California to speiul a few days. All orders tor hemstitching mid plcoting promptly filled. Haudl craft Shop, Medford. 54 Miss Wilna Smith, of Wapato, Wash., Is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ora Smith, at Kerby. .Radiator Antl-frlezo. C. I llo bart Co. 51 Miss Marie Edwards spent Christ mas with her paronts, returning to Medford last night. Ten pound sack ot whole wheat flour 50 cents at the Rochdale. 49 Hemstitching and plcoting at 10 cents a yard All work guaranteed The Vanity Shop, Medford, Ore. 27tf Goorgo E. Howlnnd. former Grunts Pass resident, arrived this morning from Oakland, Cal., for a tow days on business. Rich, brown crisp waffles with but ter and maple syrup, and at up ot de licious coffee for your breakfust at the Oxford Cafe, 25 cents. 49 Mr. and Mrs. Alvln Wheeler, of Wapato, Wash., are spending the holidays with Grants Pass and Kerby friends and relatives. Ladles telephone A. Lavlgueur, chef at the Oxford any time you want a rich cake or pudding as he Is an expert pastry cook. 49 Mrs. Harold Johnson, of Roseburg, Is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Stlnebaugh. Mr. Johnson, who Is an employe ot the S. P. company, is expected here today. T. M. Stott and family went to Medford Christmas day, returning home this afternoon. They were ac companied by Miss Dorothy Boozer, who will spend a few days bore. Dr. Spark reports one frozen bat tery this morning. If your battery Is in a run down condition, consult Dr. Spark immediately. 50 Radiator Antl-frleze. C. L. Ho bart Co. 51 First Lieutenant Wade W. Wil llans is spending the holiday season with his brother, Fred A. Williams. Lieutenant Williams, who has been discharged from the service, was with the 47th machine gun battalion at Fort Kearney, Cal. Hemstitching, 10c a yard. Han dicraft Shop, Medford, Ore. 49 You and your friends will enjoy eating the meals prepared by A. Lav lgueur, the new chef at the Oxford 35 to 50 cents. 49 P IN WOOL AND SHEEP Dillon, Mont., Dec. 26. State Sen ator E. O. Sclway, a prominrnt .Mon tana flockmaster and a member of tho National Woolgrowerg associa tion, expects a short and early de cline In tho price of sheep and fays wool Ik very likely to follow. "The little fellow, the man who runs a few sheep," says Selway, "v. HI he the heaviest loser. If he bouzht iewes last year ho stands to lose from 7 to $8 a head." Selway thinks wool, now 75 cents a pound, will go 30 cents below be fore the decline turns. Resumption of trade with Australia, New Zea land and South America will have damaging effect, on the American grower, Selway believes. COMING EVENTS Jan. 1, Wednesday .Pomona Grange meets New Years day at 10 a. m., at the W. O. W. hall. Jan. 11, Saturday Civil service examination for postmaster, vacancy at Leland. THREE DEAD, MANY HURT IN EXPLOSION IN X. 3. Watertown, N. J,, Dec. 24. Three people are dead and 50 are wounded, lany seriously, as the result of an explosion which destroyed the shell loading building at the J. B. Wise munition plant. All kinds of Commercial Printing at the Courier OBoe. Printing that pleases We do itl Courier Job Department. iUB LOCAL 3 Xo Donee The flu has flown down our flue. Murphy files for "Safety First" so the New Year's ball goes flule. 49 SiHHiol of A. F. AS A. M. Hlue lodge of Installation ot offi cers, Friday, December 27. Owing to absence of the O. E. S. officers-elect there will be no Joint Installation an nt first contemplated. 49 Mercury Drti 141st night proved to be the cold est In this part of the Rogue river valley this winter. Tho mercury dropped to 22 above zero, tho next coldest night being 28 above. Starr's IeAve for Portland Mrs. H. N. Starr and two daugM era leave Friday morning for Port land to Join Mr. Starr, who has a house-position with the Marshal Wells Hardware company. Mr, Starr hns booh with the company tor the paHt 14 years as southern Ore gon salesman. They havo rented their home on 1-uwnrldge avenue in Mr. Starr's successor, Mr. Fulken ha son, who with his wife and two children have been here for soveral days. LSHEVI E I-unUoii, Nov. 30. (Correspon dence ot the Associated Press.) Russian workmen and peasants are by no meuns united In a movement to perpetuate a dictatorship ot the proletariat, according to a traveler who recently arrived here from Itus slu. Pretense that such Is the situa tion In Russia Is one ot tho efforts ot the Bolshevik propagandists. For many months, he says, the Moscow government has been al most wholly without peasant sup port for the peasants have learned that Bolshevlklsm In theory and Bol shevlklsm in practice are as unlike as day and night. The pcoplo or the Russian villages and country districts are declared to be so bitter against the Bolshevlkl that work men who are forced to return to their native villages for food dare not voice Bolshevik doctrlno for fear of being killed by their relutlves or former friends. To tho countrymen In Russian Bol shevlklsm now means nothing but food requisitions. To him a Bolshe vik Is an outsider, armed with a rifle, who takes grain at prices far below the market price. The peasant's ear Is no longer open to Maxlmollst theories. He cares nothing for skillful Maximalist arguments setting forth beautiful social and economic doctrines. He has tried Bolshevlklsm for a year. He has had much of his grain and other foodstuffs wrestd from him by Bolshevik grain crusaders. He knows th;tt tbe only remaining poas nnr Rnlhvlkl urn siiiftloas ne'er-do-wells nnd will havo nothing to do with them. As thl peasants mako up S5 per rent of Russia's population their at t'.t'ide eventually may shape Russian policy, says the Informant. They control food production, and bread Is tho hnsls of the present struggle. From Its Inception the Bolshevik Government depended upon traveling commissars, who were shipped all over tho republic In special trains and provided with armed forces which clubbed city nnd village gov ernments Into line. When commlfi sars fell under local Influence and became less drastic In their methods tho Bolshevik authorities at Smolny Institute withdrew them and sent others who would be moro brutal In their methods. These methods worked for a time, but decreased In effectiveness In di rect proportion to the distance from Moscow. When the disbanded army returned to the villages carrying army and ammunition the peasants began to Inltate Bolshevik methods. They resisted with ma hlne guns and Inaugurated the movement which has limited soviet Jurisdiction to less than one-tenth of the old Rus sian empire. NKW TODAY " TO iRENT Three nice, warm house keeping rooms. Ten dollars a month, 656 North Sixth street. 60 STRAYED There came to my place December 18, a yearling Jer sey without brand or marks. Own er can have same on paying charges. Alonzo Jones, Rd. 4. 54 Major General Gorgas Hl'IUiKON GKXKUAL. V. H. ARMY Hays that oiir Uveas may lie prolongtHl oil an ycxars if we tat pnMrly that In, enough fotxl Wo aj-e doing our part nt Oil" store. Wo are nelllng you it pure lirtvle of ipamls In every cane, and wo are making the price ao low tlutt any permm ran afford to wit enmiuh. It will pay to keep In mlmV the fuet that your future IihikU greatly Umii the food you rot, THE ROCHDALE TIIK HTOKIil OF GUARANTEED OOODH C. 1L FIFIK1.D, Manager W. T. Ilreen, I'ropr. Grants Pass & Crescent City Stage Co. Big, Easy Riding office Old Observer lllk. Center Seventh ami O alrecC Phone 80 Telephone aaa-J and 10.1 GREAT ACTIVITY mi MINING BELIEVED NEAR San Francisco, Cal., Dec. 21. Mlulug, the Industry which has played bo vital a part lu tho wlnnlug of tho war, will assume a position of sreater Importance following tho ces sation of hostilities, thun ever be fore, according to Fletcher Hamilton, state mineralogist. Development of now mining fields Is essentlully a pioneer enterprise evidenced In the periods after tho Important war ot the world. Tho Independent, open air "do-and-dare" spirit Is engen dered In tho hearts of tbe soldier and sailor, and thousands ot loo Ameri can boys who are soon to coiuo home from France will never again be satisfied to sit at a desk through the day, and go homo to a slufTy room on a city street at night. Min ing Is the type of Industry which will attract theso men. Three contributing factors, suld Mr. Hamilton, will ussuro the truth of the statement Hint mining, par ticularly In Cullfornla, Is on tho eve of a great revival. 1. Thu demand for metals, struc Ur.tl materials, petroleum products und heavy chemicals which will ac company tho reconstruction, rehab ilitation and reorganization of the entire clvllked world. 2. Tho existence of all kinds of mineral deposits, both developed and undeveloped, In evi ry one of the Tim counties of tho state, which will make possible partial satisfaction of that demand," ut leant. :i. The accessibility of labor and brains trained to tasks of the neces sary character, and the energy and initiative to carry on tho work, as represented In tho presenn; of tho re turned soldiers and others who will flock to tho west for a field In whleb to begin Ufa anew. The mining laws of the stato and nation aro so framed. Mr. Hamilton y Theater q MKT TI.MK Norma Talmadge In "The Safety Curtain" FATTY ARBUCKLE "Oh! Doctor" FRIDAY and OATUtDAY Bessie Barriscale in "THH WHITE MB" MITT AND JKFFlJf "HKIiPINO MoADOO" average of Uilrtaon of the right kind. II. Oldillnga, Agent Pierce Arrow Cars. said, as to Oder every encourage ment to tho prospector and pioneer. When a mineral deposit Is discovered .on public lands and there remain I large tracts of government land yet ,opim for location In California tho staklng out ot a claim and recording I of that act In tho state or local (county recorder's office gives tho lo cator possesutory title lo tho ground. Ono hundred dollars worth of "assessment" work annually per formed maintains such title Indefi nitely. OBITUARY I l'. I Miindinll C. P. .Marshall was horn ut Rud muth, Knglund, Jumiury IV, I S3 4, and died at his home, Itl Rogue lllver avenue, Grants Push, Decem ber 23, l'.US, having been a long sufferer from asthma. In 1S39 he came to the United Stutes with his parents and settled In Pennsylvania. In 1S40, when a lud ot 12, he went uboard a mun-of-war and was at Veru Crux on tho sloop of war Ven slnso during tho Mexican war. Ho bad vlsjted all Important parts of the world, Including tho Holy lund, und while there visited one of the seven churches In which Christ preached. When hu quit tbe sea he was first mute on the good ship Aqulllu, which was later sunk In San Frunclsco bay. In IS.'iC he enguged In mining and In lHl'.'J engaged In stork rulsing In Modoc county, California. In ls":i ho took his stock with hi 111 to Silver l.aku valley, where hu resided many )ears. On February 22. iss". he married Mis. Krancls A. Brown Anderson, daughter of one ot the Oregon pio neers of lslii. HU wife passed away November 2t, llMHl. lie Is surWvcd bv two steu lUiich lers, Mrs. Mary Taylor, of Klan, Ore., and Mrs. Annie ('. Hough of this city, with whom he made his homo for tho pant 1 1 yours. Tbe re mains were taken to Cottage (irove by V. O. Hough to be placed beside his wife In Iho I. O. O. I' cemetery. TONKiHT Also