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SATURDAY, JAXITART 85, 1910.
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. OREGON WEATHER. -
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f , Rain in west; fair in east,
$ with Increasing southeasterly
4 winds.
. , THE SAILORS' BOXDS
' There will be tales of the sea to
suit the imagination of everybody,
when the full story of the war Is
printed. And the claims coming from
'tea disaster! will be among the most
difficult to settle, for the sea does
strange things.
Among the interesting questions
now before congress Is the decision
as to what course should be pursued
with regard to $100,000 worth of
Liberty bonds lost by the men of the
tT. S. cruiser San Diego, when that
Tessel was Bunk off Fire Island while
engaged in convoy duty.
- There is no provision of law au
thorizing the issue of duplicates in
lieu of lost coupon bonds, and unless
congress makes some provision these
officers and sailors will lose the
money they have invested In the
.cause of liberty.
They agreed to take the bonds
through a San Francisco bank, and
payment was taken from their sav
ings. Then ensued a year of wan
dering, and it was not possible to
deliver the bonds to the men until
the San Diego entered New York
harbor 12 months later.
Convoy duty is exacting, and the
men performed It so faithfully that
not one attempted to go ashore to
deposit his bonds. Nor could they
be- mailed safely, for the ship had
no registration service. For six
months the bonds were carried on
board ship, and then came the thleft
in the night. A submarine or a float
ing mine got the San Diego. Down
she went. Six brave men paid toll
with their lives, and the rest lost all
their belongings, including the
bonds.
Now, unless congress comes to
the rescue, it will have cost these
men $100,000 for serving their
country well In her time of need.
Of course the necessary legislation
, will prevent such a catastrophe, but
vit should come soon. There 1b too
. much talk right now about what the
nation owes its soldiers, and too lit
tle concrete evidence of Its intention
to pay.
MAUDE
The American army mule has been
mentioned In the British war records
and honorably mentioned, too. His
staying powers, his courage, his
phlegmatic performance of duty
though stormed at with shot and
shell, hare all been comemnted upon.
There Is an epidemic of awards
for faithful service, as there should
be, .for this war has been character
ized not by single conspicuous acts
of bravery but by thousands of them.
We honor our soldiers, our sailors,
our officers, our privates, our civil
ians, our boy scouts, our airplanes,
our guns, our horses for heaven's
sake, why not our mules? Why not
give these sturdy defenders of their
country's honor a decoration and a
title worth of the service they have
performed? A leather medal, say,
From 1 Pound of Our
Best Grade English Breakfast
Use It While Coffee Is High
Real Economy
KINNEY & TRUAX GROCERY
QUALITY FIRST
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neatly stamped with a design of a
lifted hind leg and hoof, and embel
lished with the motto "Nobody shall
pass," might be appropriate.
. The mule has been derided too
long. He Is considered the acme of
stubbornness, yet he shares that
quality with the bravest men in the
world, for at what point does cour
age become stubborn determination?
Ask the Belgians, the French, our
own marines of Chateau Thierry.
The peace conference Is to right
many an ancient wrong. Perhaps It
will rescue the noble mule from the
stigma of that Ignoble motto "Hee,
Haw" which loads him with unde
served derision, and bring him into
his own, where all the grateful na
tions should point to him with pride,
and cry, "He Hauled!"
inyrv.su
Potash? Who said potash? Of
course the farmers need it, but the
blockade does not have to be raised
to enable them to get it. Utah and
Wyoming capitalists are going to get
It for them.
Near Green River, Wyoming,
their plant is located. An article In
the Salt Lake Tribune says, "A com
bination of brains, money, material
and the spirit of enterprise cannot be
beaten, and if we. are not mistaken
the United States will no longer be
under the necessity of buying potash
in Germany or any other country."
Here is good news indeed, and In
looking over the qualifications for
success mentioned In the above list,
it seems as If nothing was lacking.
The shortage of farm labor will
make small and Intensive farming
most important for some time to
come, and this must depend for its
success upon an ample supply of fer
tilizer. Here at our door Is the sup
Ply. If the war had lasted Just a little
longer, our industries would have
been developed to a point where Ger-j
many could have been completely I
forgotten. The rise of the Ameri
can potash aristocracy Is one more
result of the downfall of German au
tocracy.'
and referendum ballots almost from
time Immemorial.
The bill proposes practically elim
inating Bolne fishing below the
mouth of the Illinois river, and uro
vldes for gear with nothing less than
a slx-and-one-half-lnch mesh In the
fall and elgbl-and-one-half-lnch In
the spring. Nearly the same measure
was passed by the last legislature,
referred to the people by referendum
and voted down.
It also Is understood that addi
tional legislation relative to fishing
on the Rogue river is In contempla
tion, although the exact nature of
the prospective bill has not been
disclosed as yet. The bill Introduced
today came from the committee on
fisheries and the additional legis
lation is now being considered by
that committee. It Is understood, and
will come out next week In the shape
of a bill. .
Proponents of the measure assert
that seine fishing on the mouth of
the Rogue practically kills fUnlng
above, and that tons of small fish
are thrown up on the banks of the
river on the lower waters because
they are useless for commercial pur
poses. Other legislation along the fish
ing line causing smaller local tights
Includes a bill to close the Umpqua
river dam, still another to close the
Siuslaw to seine fishing, and yet
another to close the outlet of Silt
coos lake between the lake and1 the
Pacific ocean.
If past sessions may be used as a
criterion, the Rogue river bill should
stir up a hornets' nest before the
session Is very far advanced. Last
session it proved to be the rock up
on which the house and senate split
for a part .of the session, and for a
time virtually tied up legislation.
COSUXG EVENTS
Feb. 3, Monday Annual mpetlng
stockholders of the Grants Pass
Fruit association at 2 d. m.
Feb. 3, Monday Second semester
High school opens.
Feb. 26, 27, 28, Wednesday, Thurs
day, Friday State examinations
at the courthouse.
OLD ROGUE RIVER FISH
BIIL BOBS OP IN HOUSE
State Capitol, Salem, Jan. 25.
An old friend bobbed up in the house
wis morning In the shape of a
Rogue river fishing bill. This bill
Is said to be directed at the MacWy
fishing Interests at the mouth of
the Rogue and practically duplicates
former efforts which have shaken
legislatures and adorned Initiative
OF
Honolulu, T. H., Jan. 25. If An
gus McPhee, well known stockman
of Hawaii, had the usual dream of
adventurous boyhood, sole and un
disputed possession of a tropical Isle,
that dream has come to realization.
Mr. McPhee has leased, for n
period of 21 years, the entire Island
of Kahoolaws, of the Hawaiian
group, from the territorial govern
ment. The Island contains about
30,000 aeres.
For seven years the annual rental
will be $600 and appraisals will be
made then and every seven years
thereafter to fix the rental for Hip
later periods. Mr. McPhee will run
livestock on Kahoolaws.
Battery Shop Bargains
Rrunswlck tire, guaranteccd 5,000 miles
Willard Batteries "None as flood'
Champion Spark plug 75c
PorcUtin Spark ring . 40c
Hex Spark Plug $1
Money refunded in they break
H & I) double arm shock $7
Two'"IJz2j(" good a new
Dr. Spark
THE BATTERY MAJf.
The Fashion Garage & Machine
Shop has tukeu over the l.lurkhnltar
feed stnblo which Is 75x100 feet,
and this will bo added to the prusent
floor space- of 50x125, making this
the larKfxt aud host equipped garage
south of Portland.
We are putting In a now weUllug
plant of the bent quality, also a bat
tery plant and a competent man to
do the work. Wo will also do all
kinds of tire work and repair work
at reasonable prices and will con
tinue (be sale ot Overlonils in this
county.
Wo wilt also carry a big line of
automobile supplies for the different
cars, such as springs, axels, bear
lngs and gears.
Our buslnes will be run on strictly
cash basis.
74 J. F. BURKE ft SON.
JESS WILL AUD RlfiNS TO
MFtST ALL COM KIM
Chicago, Jan. 25. A ' purse of
$100,000 drew Jess Willard. the
heavy weight champion out of retire
ment today. Tex Rlckard, promo
ter of the Joe Gans-Battling Nelson
fight and the heavyweight cham
pionship battle between Jatferles and
Johnson, obtained Wlllard's signa
ture to a set of articles to fight any
opponent selected for him. He
agreed to box any number of rounds
up to 40. The match will be decided
next July, probably the Fourth. Wil
lard will receive 1100,000, win.
lose or draw.
The champion came to terms with
Rlckard after two days of argument.
TEACHER BEATS Fill
BAN BY USING PHONE
Montrose, Colo., Jan. 25. The
closing ot public schools because of
the epidemic of Spanish Influenra
did not prevent the school children
of the Maple Grove school, near here,
from continuing their education. The
teacher seated In her room In the
boarding house, assigned lessons and
heard recitations over the telephone
and the plan worked nicely. The
only obje-tlon was that It Interfered
with morning visits of neighbor
women.
AMERICANS USE BOX
.CARS FOR RESIDENCES
With American Forces on the
Vologda Railway, Nov. 25. via Lon
don Dec. 30. (Correspondence of
the Associated Press.) When oper
ating through this thinly populated
forest and tundra region along the
railway leading from Archangel to
Vologda, the American troops fight
lng the Bolshevlkl In the North Rub
slan front are living, when free
from trench and blockhonne duty, In
tiny Russian freight cars.
In this they are Imitating the Rus
sian soldiers, who, since the revolu
tion, have commandeered freight
cars wherever they found them and
remodeled them for dwellings.
When the box cars are fitted up
with stoves, they are known as "top
luchkas." They are not particularly
warm In zero weather, but a wel
come change from the cold trenches
In the snow.
The forests here are dotted with
small blockhouses, built almost on
the model of the blockhouse forts
of the old American wars with the
Indians, but have the added ad
vantage of being fairly shrapnel
proof.
The fighting down along the rail
way line from the north has been,
since its beginning last August, a
combination of modern warfare,
with trenches and modern arms, and
of bush fighting wherein surprise at
tacks in the weeds figured promi
nently. .
Famous Wash
Heals Skin
J). D. D.. the treatwt of akin remHI wffl
If"'0" "km amictlom that hav. madJ
four life harden. That Intolerable itchinr.
fcumln and I dl-corofort will disappear ondS
themaglooftl.li reme.Ir. IthaicSreU man J
cue pronounced incurable and will reach
ED. ID). Bo
Al1 Clemen, Druggist
Hpme the Conquering
Heroes Come!
My! but we're glad to welcome you
back again. There hasn't been a day
since you left that we haven't thought
of you and the manly, courageous,
"regular American" way in which
you stepped up to do your duty.
War and its effects will sooner or
later be forgotten. Time with its
changes will be calling you back to
the pursuits of civil life. As we
served you "Before the War" so will
we consider it an honor to again
await your commands!
Of roiir!, you'll vwml to
ueirJii civilian life mtiilii
with nil entirely new out.
fit. ItWnit no ilinvrt'iit
liliyxirall), the clothe
yon wort before tli twir
re now out. of tUfHtlnii,
To Ncrura Hint auix-rli.
reunite fit which you no much dittiro, nmy we
Hiigtcmt hnt you have um imiVMire you, at your
early convenience, mi Unit your new milt ink)
overcoat, tullorcxl-to-ottlcr liy K. V. Price & Co.,
will be rlKlit at hand the tiny you take, off your
uniform for good?
GEO. S. CALHOUN
l.ocal Dealer far Eil. V. 1'rtce Co.. ChicsKQ. I'. S. A.
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HARDWARE
Many lines of hardware, run into inoncv,
and that is one great reason why you should con
sider and investigate before you buv.
lfcmeniber that we always invited investi
gation and comparison, for we KNOW that tin?
result win be favorable to us and to our hard
ware. Farmers especially will need so'iie for
their spring and sunnner'work. Their best in
terests will prompt them to buy here, lor we
guarantee what we sell,
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WE DO FINE SHOE ItKPAIIUNG
Jewell Hdw. Co.
Help do your ownCarRepairing
Now g the time to bave your car looked over and put In
Bhape for the Bummer I hav. had 14 yeun, garage exper t
which enable, me to locate you car trouble. d fix it a. H .h5
should want to help me work on your oar I .hall be Lrt . V. "
you 8nd it w, give you a a
the future. Drop . in and see me.
E. A. ADAMS
608 South Sixth Street.
Opposite Oxford Hotel
W. T. Hreen, Hropr.
Grants Pass & Crescent City Stage Co.
Big, Easy Riding Pierce Arrow Cars
'. Office-Old ObrTee Blk. Coroer Se-.mh .d O .Xrtl2n '