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About Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931 | View Entire Issue (June 12, 1920)
I IRRIGATION WORK FOR ACCEPTABLE TO YEAR IS COMPLETED Tide Turns lor Dark Horse After Deadlock: Lowden Del egates Released: Republican Nominee Popular in Home State AMERICAN FEDERATION CON DEMNS CONVENTION EOK NOT GIVING IN Shattuck Construction Company Finishes Contract; Mules and Equipment to be Hired Out For Clearing and Leveling Lands For Water I In an effort to familiarize the peo . Chicago, June 12. Senator War group. The leaders, worn and sleep ren G. Harding of Ohio was nomi less. were late in reaching the con ple of the city with methods of life nated for the presidency late today vention hall. Chairmau lanlge call- saving and first aid, some* very good on the tenth ballot, receiving a frac led the session tb order at 10:26. films are to be brought here for ex-' Roderai Action on Alleged "Unspeak able Outrage»" Demanded In tion over 520 votes In a dramatic Nicholas Murray Butler released his hlbitton next week. The pictures are being sent by the northwestern divi Resolution session In which Governor Lowden delegate« today. sion of the American Red Cross at of Illinois released all bls friends, <>r- Al 10:15 the fifth ballot was and his delegates turned to Harding derad. When Kansas was reached Seattle Tlie first picture to be shown in rapid succession Harding's land Wood had lost seven and Harding will be "Amerlcp, Junior,’* which Montreal. June 12.—Amid tremen- slide. which started with a gentle | had gained six. When New York shows various methode dl first aid. dous applause the American Federa movement early In the morning, i threw 13 to laiwden. a great roar The pictures are being shown as the tion of Labor in annual convention steadily and leirely became great and swept the hall and Isiwden support swimming season will soon be here here today adopted the report con resisted all attempts of Wood and ers went Into a loud demonstration. and It is hoped that the season may demning the republican convention be [vassed without any serious acci Ixvwden people to check It If they Lowden passed Wood on the fifth dent. Thia lhethod Is being taken at Chicago for "turning its back up had the disposition to do so 'ballot, the prediction by the Wood to minimise the dangers The shows on labor" in adopting their platform. Warron G. Harding has always managers that Wood would gain A congressional investigation in- been a resldont of Ohio, which state I votes not belnx fulfilled. Johnson will be free to everybody. The first , to the alleged "unspeakable out show will be given at the bregon rages" inflicted upon mine workers h<> has represented au United State« fell to loan. theater next Tuesday, June 15. at by the "coal ihterests’ of West Vir senator since 1911. In private bus iness life he Is publisher of the Mar ' a »Michigan's solid 30 which had 2: SO and will be continued as long ginia was demanded In a resolution ■ been standing solid for Johnson, as the attendance warrants. lon, Ohio, Star unanimously adopted here today by broke on the sixth ballot. 11 going Other pictures to be shown Tues the convention. He was born on a farm near the ito Wood, one to Ixjwden and the re- village of Blooming Grove, Morrow 'tnalnlng 18 standing pat for John day will be "Making the Desert County. Ohio. November 2. 1865. the son This was the first break In the Bloom " a film showing the results eldest of eight children. His father. solidly instructed delegations. Call of irrigation In the west "In the George T. Harding, was a country ing the roll jogged along until Geor Footsteps of Florence Nightingale" doctor whose forebears came from gia was reached on the sixth, when Is said to be a very Interesting pic "Amid Archangel Snows' Scotland Before going to Ohio, the a poll was demanded Wood lost one ture, shows the territory in which many Havdlngs were residents of Pennsyl by an absent delegate, but regalned United States troops spent a year do vania. where some of them were I it. on a later ballpt ing police duty and fighting the bol- massacred by Indians. Others The sixth ballot, like all the pre- j shevlkl. It le hoped that later the fought In the revolutionary war. Children between the ages of six The mother of Warren. Mrs. Phoebe ' decesaors, failed to produce a nomi- ¡ picture* "Every Swimmer a LI fesav months and six years may be entered Wood, lx>wden and Harding er'' may be secured and this will he In the children's health conferences Dickerson, was descended from an nee Old-time Holland Dutch family, the all made gains, taking them from the shown also free of charge. to be held under thé auspices of the field. The Ohio lineup became Van Kirks. Ladies Auxiliary and the Home sixth, some Harding strength going Demonstration Agent. The first of In his youth Warren Harding lived to Wood. these conferences will be held June the life of a farmer boy attending The convention went Into the sev 4th at which time the children will the village school until 11 years of be weighed, measured and given phy ago. when ho entered Ohio Central enth Inning with the score tied. sical and mental examinations. college of Iberia, from which he was Wood and !x>wden both stood at graduated As editor of the college | 31 1 ly. Wood made a gain In Michi The results of these examinations patter he first displayed a talent for gan In the seventh. On the seventh will be sent to the Oregon congress journalism, He was obliged to atop Lowden's anil Wood's positions were of mothers, Portland, for scoring if Chicago. June 12.'-—Senator Len- the mothers desire. The congress of school now and then and earn the scarcely changed. while Harding root of Wisconsin. Governor Allen of mothers charges the small sum of money with which to punite his col- made all the gains Wyoming cast her entire six votes Kansas and Governor Coolidge of 25 cents for doing this work and lego course, At one time he cut corn, at another painted barns and for Harding In the eighth, taking Massachusetts were nominated for mothers who wish the score comput nt still another drove a team and three from both Wood and Ixiwden. vice president and balloting Is now ed should bring this amount with underway. helped to grade the roadbed of a new them at the time of the examination. Senator I.enroot was nominated rallwny. At 17 he taught a'district Chicago, Juno 12.—Eight ballots The place of this conference has school and played a horn In a village and a nominee Is in sight. That was for vice president by Senator McCor not 1'een decided upon. Watch the brass band. the record of the republican national mick and seconded by State Chair columns of the Courier for a defi At odd tlmeif he worked In the convention at 1 o'clock. By Its ac- man Hert of Kentucky. Delegates in nite announcement. village printing office, in time Be tlon the convention surpassed the the Wisconsin group voted against One-third of all the children exam- coming sn expert typesetter and later l<>ng-dietan<e convention record of making the nomination unanimous ined in the United States Are found Judge Wallace McCamant of Oregon a linotype operator. He Is a practical 1888 which nominateti Harrison. to be at least 7 per cent under ■ — « nominated Governor Coolidge of pressman and a Job printer, and as weight. This conference will afford a "make up man” Is said to have few Chicago. June 12. I amt minute Massachusets for vice president. the mothers of Grants Pass an op Coolidge's nomination was second equals. The luck piece he has car maneuvers before the convention met portunity to find out how their chil ried as a senator Is the old printer's to resume- balloting, included a de ed from North Dakota. Michigan and dren rale In this respect. rule he used when he was sticking cision by Pennsylvania leaders to many other states. There was a The aid of competent doctors will ! type. cast their votes for Sproul then Join groat burst of enthusiasm for Cool be asked. As the number of doctors idge and delegates fairly fell over In 1851 Dr. Harding moved illa the movement for an adjournment needed will depend upon the number family to Marlon. A short time at until Monday. It was stated at themselves for a chance to second of babies to be examined, those in terwnrd the fnther purchased tor Johnson headquarters that the sen» him. charge are asking mothers to send General Wood Issued the following their names, addresses, and name Warron Harding The Star, then a ator had directed that his coh or^s continue to fight, The recesa was statement before the official vote was and age in months, ef child to be ex small [wilier. On the paper Warren Harding per forced by a threat from the Johnson announced "I congratulate Senator amined to the home demonstration formed every function from devil to camp to throw his strength to Wood Harding on his nomination." . agent not later than June 19. managing editor. In all the years unless time was granted for a con This will be followed by other con the senator has owned It there has sideration of the situation. ferences, at which time child feeding At the end of the eighth ballot, never been a strike or a threatened and child care will be studied with Just as the tide for Harding was one. the Idea of bringing under weight Senator Harding la closely Identl- rising throughout the hall, a recess children up to normal weight and ed with many other large business was taken until 1 o'clock. Just be maintaining the health of those chil enterprise« In Mnrlon and other pnrts fore the recess Missouri attempted dren who are not under weight. of the state. Ho Is director of a to change her vote to throw all 36 This is an opportunity which no bank and several large manufa'ctur- voles to Harding, but was delayed. mother with a child of eligible age A meeting of the guarantors of should miss. Be sure to list your Ing plants and In a trustee of the Friends of Senator HaYdlng con Trinity Baptist church. ferred with Senator Johnson during the Chautauqua association was held child before June 19th« Mr. Harting has twice represented the recess with a view of inducing In tho Chamber of Commerce rooms tho 13tih senatorial district of Ohio Johnson to accept the vice presiden- Thursday, June 10th. Reports of To Visit Old Home— tn tho state legislature and served (Ini nomination, standing committee« were given. The Mr. and MrsT L. M- Mitchell and one term as lieutenant governor. At Colonel Proctor, one or the Wood financial report showed a balance of baby, Mr. and Mra. J. W. Leith and tho 1911 election Harding was elect- mnnngors, held a protected confer- $72.96. baby. Mrs.a J. W. Gilmore and Mrs. ed United States senator by a tun- enco with Lowden during the recess. The following officers were elected Thomas I^elth will leave tonight for Jorlty of more than 160.000, running It was reported that Wood and for the coming year: President. u two months’ visit at their old home 73.000 nhoad of the next highest on lxtwden advocates were planning to Mr». T. IM. Stott: 1st vice president in Dade county, Missouri, They will tho ticket. In tho annate he is a pool their strength temporarily for Mrs. Sant Baker: 2nd vice president. visit Mrs. I«eith's sister and brother memlier ert the committee on ’nrelgn the purpose of "back firing" the drift M rs. Will Scoville: Secretary. Mrs. in St. Paul. They will atop at Ix>s relations. Senator llsrdlng married to Harding. J. E. Hair; treasurer. Mrs. Geo. Sa \ngele«. Avalon. Grand Canyon and Miss Florence Kling In 1891. hin. Albuquerque on the way to Missouri, The ladies wish to thank everyone They will return by the Canadian Break in House— Collsetini, Chicago. June 12. A half dozen young boys from who helped make the Uhalitauqun a Pacific. It has been 15 years since launching Int > the fifth ballot today Wlldervllle wore brought up In the auocoaa, especially the Borland * Mr. Mitchell has seen his birthplace In search of a nominee for the pres Juvenile court todny before Judge Thomas Lumber Co., who donated I and it Is expected that there will be Idency, the republican national con Gillette on a charge of stealing the lumber and made it possible for a reunion at his father's ranch in vention was prepared to have some strawberries and doing damage to us to have a Chautauqua this year. July. further tests of strength between the house belonging to Luther lloh- Mrs. C. F. NUTTING. Tztwden, Wood gnd Johnson, then If Inson. After n hearing the case was Sec. Pro Tern, t necessary, turn to the string of dark dismissed with tho condition that horses. , the lads pay for the damage done, Miss Jeanette Cramer returned Ail night conferences nmong lead !»vn windows, a mirror, fruit Jars I last night from Corvallis where she Cairo, June 12.—iAn unsuccessful ers had put Senator Harding, of and a telephone transmitter were hr» !W»en attending college at the attempt was made today to assassin Ohio, at thA head of the dark horse , : d to hate been broken by tbnm. O. A. C. ate the Egyptian premier by a bomb. I • I OFFICERS 1921 SEASON Water was turned into the Tokay canal of the Northeast unit of the Grants Pass irrigation district pro ject at 5 o’clock Friday evening, this marking the near completion of the 1920 program of work, and placing all five of the pumping plants of the three units in successful operation. All canals were receiving water, and only the completion of some of the lateral systems and the putting in of some of the take-out boxes and crossings remained to complete the construction work now in hand. The Shattuck Construction company, which has been in charge of the work since It was undertaken in March, is closing its operations, and will take its team equipment off the job ea^ly in the week, and is now offering the use of its dlLqipment to land owners for the clearing and levelling of land to make it ready for the water. The first of the canals to receive water in the 1920 irrigation plan was the Riverside lateral on the North west unit, but all canals on that unit are now ready, and water flowed through the Hillside lateral to the Noble ranch Friday. This ditch is nqw ready to serve the" land owners under_ it, the land served by the Riverside lateral having been soaked up with tl# water from the Rogue till the farmers have no more use for it at the present time and are now busy getting the first cutting of alfalfa under cover. < I’nmi* Work Satisfactorily city of Grants Pass to water th» lands of the lower valley, the mala canal of the project to follow th» Southside, cross the river below town, and so eliminate expensive construction through the city. Theee changes of engineering plans, scat tering the work over a wide area, with bad weather conditions in April, delayed the time of putting the pro ject into commission and cost some thing in efficiency of the work, bat many more acres are now watered than was planned at first Part of Permanent System AU of the canals and ditches of the present season construction are part of the permanent development of the gravity project. The only work of the past three months that can be considered of a temporary character is the purchase and installation of pumpe and motors to get water into the ditches untH^ the diversion dam and main canals can be constructed. The large pipe line In the Northwest unit is in place where it will remain when water is siphoned across the river. The laying of the other pipe lines is temporary, bat all of the pipe in these lines will be used in the main project without loss except for the cost of laying thia season With recent advances in the prices of pipe, however, and in view of advan tageous purchases, this loss will be offset by saving in having the pipe on hand. The motora, pumpe and transformers purchased for the pres ent season will not be needed after this year with the building of the main project, and can be salvaged with little loss. This is also true of the electrical equipment necessary to purchase tor the carrying of the cur rent to the various pumping sta tions this season. Part of this equip ment will be employed in the water ing of Jerome prairie, where the only pump operated by electricity will be used. The pumps are all working satis factorily, and are throwing the full volume of water. It took some time to get the RJverside lateral “season ed," as it is’built largely through a district with a sandy soil, but no serious trouble was encountered and the ditches now carry full to the top without cutting. The predictions of trouble in getting a full head of wa ter through the Hillside canal, built through granite Boil, were not met, and no breaks occurred when water Will Hold Election was put into it. A special election will be held on On the Southside unit, the water is now delivered as far as the Cres Saturday. June 19th. when the land cent City highway crossing, but it owners of the district will vote upon will be several days before these the proposition of a further bond is crossings can be completed to carry sue for the completion of the gravity the water to the lands below. The prject. This proposed issue Is in the crossings being put in at this point amount of $60000. there still be are reinforced concrete structures I ing available $131.000 of the orig designed as part of the main pro inal bond issue of $290.000 voted in ject, and will carry the entire flow 1917, these bonds now being in the of the main canal of the completed hands of the county treasurer. The cost of the completed project Is esti gravity project. With water in all the ditches and mated at under $70 per acre, and the practical completion of the work the purchaser of the first bonds, to outlined under the present contract, whom air of the first issue is under a new era is entered upon for the contract, has agreed to take the is Granta Pass district. This assures sue to be voted next Saturday and that for the 1920 season the lands to finance the project through to lying under the ditches within the success. The Schneeloch company, three units of the project will have purchaser of the bonds, is giving plenty of water for their crops and close attention to the progress of the production will be increased accord work, insisting that the cost be held ingly. It also means that with the down to the estimate. letting of new contracts for work At the election next Saturday the following the special election to be voters will also pass upon the ques held next Saturday, the work upon tion of authorizing the state guaran the permanent gravity project can tee of "interest upon the bonds for be carried forward, and another sea- a period of five years. This will re son the canals now served by elec- lieve the land .owners of the payment trlcall.v-driven pumps can be carrying of interest upon the bonds for that water from the diversion dam to be period of time. constructed at Savage rapids. The engineering force has about Project Was Extended completed the plans for the main When the Grains Pass irrigation gravity project, and they will be pre district was first organized it con sented to the state engineer for ap templated only the construction of proval within a few days. Follow the Southside project. The plan was ing this .approval. and the authoriz later extended to include the North ing of the bond issue at the election, east unit, and it was upon this basis the board of directors can then ad that work was undertaken this vertise for blds for the building of spring and assurance given that wa the dam and the other construction ter would'be in the dit hes early in work, which can proceed during the May. The contract was no sooner low stage of water this season and so made, however, than the engineering be ready for next year. plans were changed after consulta tion with the best engineering talent of the coast, and the Northwest unit LA GRANDE .MAKES GOOD construction, not considered In the GROWTH IN io YEARS first plan, was decidod upon. It was also found that the most efficient and c onomlcal construction of the ulti Washington, June 12.—Today's mate gravity prelect would he served I census figures include La Grande. by abandoning the plan of carrying ¡Oregon, with a population of 6913. a main canal of "pipe line through the i an increase of 2700, or 42.7 per cent.
