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JOSEPHINE COUNTY IRRIGATION NUK^ZTí.... Courier raids SECTION 1—Page« 1 to 8 I YOB* X„ No. 207 GH.YNTN PAHH. J?>HEI*HINE (XH’NTY, OREGON. NATI RDAY, JI LY 2-1, HPJO. WHOLE M MBEK 8081 I Twenty Uve Mile Southwester Mak«« Contest IinpoKsilile—Will He Run Monday Night and Day Crews Will be Put to Work to Rush Dam to Completion; Preliminary Work is All Com pleted at Site; Right of Way Being Cleared « ( I TO NEGOTIATE PEACE • „ ..................... Armistice Proceedings Ordered; Crisis May be Ended; i Sandy Hook, July 24. Tbe fifth Bolsheviki Start Thrust at Sokolka; Grodno ! International yacht race upon which han<s the fate of America's Cup was Fort is Battle Field in Fierce Fighting declared off by the regatta commit tee The reason given wss heavy wrather. As the yachts started back to shelter, tbe committee signalled London, July 24.—The soviet gov which is swinging the reda towards First construction started this This will leave clear the north 126 George H. Parker recently received .that the next race will be held on ernment of Russia today notified Po Poland's capital, but In many places morning on the 500-toot concrete di feet of river lied, which will ba pre- from Pontenx Ira Forges, France, a Monday. land that the soviet army comman the tired Poles are compelled to with version dam al Savage Rapid* for the pared for foundation. set of three photographs taken on The first hint of the postjx.nement ders had been ordered to begin Im- draw, without much resistance in the bl* gravity project of the Grants The excavation for the P°wer Memorial day. 1920, one of them * l*u«a Irrigation district Work will house on the nortb bank Is already showing a section of the American came when the sloops were noticed mediately, negotiations for an armis face of overwhelming number« of fresh bolshevik! troops. returning from the Ambrose Channel be prosecuted from todsy under the 60 per cent completed, and by the | C()Uletery aI1(j the grave of Edward lightship in the direction of Sandy tice, It is announced in a wireless highest preasur«, with day and night time the north half of the river bed |>arker. who died in Franc«. The Paris, July 24.—A wireless mee- Hook* With a 25 knot wind from Moscow today. crews working the equipment on I* cleaned off. will be complete. other photographs were of the school blowing, the observers ashore infer- • sage from Moscow says the Hav«« hand 24 hours In the day In order to All preliminary stork on the Sav-|an(l »cholars celebrating the day and ' Agency announces that the Ruasfaa accomplish tbe necraaary construc- age ruplds site has a been done, Russia's reply to Poland's applica done. wlthL| ot f the the Memorial day parade rtxl that the skippers did not care to with L],, ao o o soviet army is falling back on th* take the chance of being dismasted tion for armistice negotiations brings tton during the low stage ot the ,«he establishment of machine shops, \„ Had<sl a(|,M| by French lads carrying shop«.% order of the soviet commander. and wrecked in the heavy seas and in sight the possible solution of one river... (the big ramp with bunk houses and American flags and followed by squally blows. of the most serious crises which The first operation* In tho building i boarding house, all necessary ma-|„ ther lads with the tricolor of “)•• I other Warsaw, July 24.—The Poles and Europe has had to face slnoe the con of the dam Included the cleaning off ichlnory, suit a force of 50 men on 1 France. bolshevik! foroee are ftrhttng for th* clusion of the armistice with Ger of the site to bed-rock, and thia I the job and bunkers already com- Mr and Mrs Parker have been cor poeseeslon of Grodno. In a counter many In November, 1918. mornlng'a work consisted of hjidrau- pleted for handling the concrete ma responding regularly with Mr. and attack (he Poles captured two Grodno living off all soft material from the tt-rial Concrete work will be under Mrs. Donrthe. teachers of the Pon forts* and the southern part of the solid rock on the site of the dam. a way during the next five or six days, tenx schools, and a recent letter from Warsaw, July 24.—The bolsheviki town, the latter being taken In hand head of wator being obtained for thia according to Mr Carrillo Mrs. Dourthe tells that a portion of thrust in the direction of Sokolka. to hand fighting. purpoa«- by pumping into a tank on The entire work Is to be lighted' one of Mrs. Parker's letters was in-1 West Grodno, has carried them past f tho mountain side above Contem at night by powerful electric arcs, corporated In the principal Memorial the Polish boundary line set by the London. July 24.—The occupation plating finding gold deposits on the and construction work will be prose- day address, council of ambassadors. Along the of Grodno was announced In an of- John S. Crawford, a retired mer- bed rock Superintendent Carrillo of cuietl day and njght. * . .Mr. Parker has written the author railroad in this region the Poles are Bial statement on fighting opera Advantageous location of a gravel ities at Pontenx that the remains of chant from Crookston, Minn., who reported to be fighting to stem the tions received by wireless from Mos tho Shattuck Construction Company with his sisters. Misses Mary and has built sluice boxes through which pit 3000 feet downsteam from the his son are to remain in France and Margaret Crawford, spent the past momentum of the southwesterly drive cow today. to send the run-off and equipped with dam site, will prove a great saving are not to be removed from the spot month with his brother. George to the district, according to the state where they now He. riff lea to catch tho chunks of gold. Crawfcrd. at "Top o’ the World” Following th«< hydraulic operation* ment of Superintendent Carillo. He ranch near Three Pines, is a great today on the Mouth 250 feet, the rock estimates this saving as between booster for Southern Oregon and Jo- will be drilled for the foundation of $20,000 and $25.000, over the alter sephlne county. He pronounced the the concrete structure by the use of natives of hauling by truck from a ¡scenery as being unsurpassed by any compressed air. This south portion , pit near Grants Pass or one near 1 he has yet seen, the cherries and lo- will be pushed in construction a* Rogue River. gan berries the finest in the#world Since the awarding, by the direct rapidly a* possible, a* th«» flow of An experimnet in - -------- potato a---- growing ¡and the Tokay grapes shipped him —---‘.3 Tokio, July 2,4.-—The police an Irrigation ors of the Grants I ’ ara ' the Mroam doe* not Interfere with last fall are something that he never with and without irrigation has nounce the arrest at a Kqrean named It. anil fo[in* for th«- main'buUreas District of the last contract to the talking about. The proved to one man. C. A. Drolette of Jo-So-Kan. of Tokio on the charge of Irrigated lands in Josephine tires w of will be In place on bed-rock within a Shattuck Construction company, the ¡Crawfords came by automobile from in acreage by county are increasing team-camp.has been reorganized, and Fruitdale. that' irrigation means having made preparations to assa^ short time leaps and bounds, and the promise of Crookston to Iz>s Angeles, spent the sinate Prince Yi, of Korea on the oc While this excavation for the south one mile of ditch has been completed winter there, coming to Oregon in money in his pocket. the future seems only to begin with casion of his marriage to the Imper half I* proceeding, th«- temporary on the high line canal, which will be 1920. This year sees over 6.0Q0 June. They leave for Portland Mon-' Mr. Drolette planted potatoes on ial Japanese princess, Nashimoto. It bridge across th«- river, already un from 80 to 100 feet above the old day and will return to their home by his farm on April 5, and in order to is alleged that the Korean plotted to Seven miles acres added to last year's totals, and der construction will be flnlshol. and main Fruitdale ditch . next year promises even greater ad the northern route. find out whether all this-noise about kill tbe wedding couple on their way this trestle-work will mako for effi I of this high line have already been ditions. which will carry the 36,014 — the need for irrigation had any foun to the imperial palace at Tokio in and cleared cient handling of the concrete work. 'slashed ' irrigated acres of 1920 well toward April, as well as Baron Saito, t^ie gov RESERA ’ ATION HEAD Kit.I.ED About three-quarters i of a mile has allowing pouring directly Into the dation. he grew one plot without ir ernor-general of Korea and other the ¿>0.000 acre mark. * ItY SI R-AGENT HE DISMISSED forms without additional lift to the 'been cleared on the main gravity rigation, but with the other neces notables. That the plan was not The 36.01 t acre« of total Irrigated canal from the diversion dam. and concrete. sary care, and the rest of the pota- executed, say the police, wgs due to land in Josephine county is divided Missoula. Mont.. July 24.—Major Durjng the time this work on th. the steam, shovel, which is to handle roughly In three districts; Rogue the vigilance of the authorities. toes were irrigated. Theodore Sharp, superintendent of most of the ditching on this line, has south half I* progressing, a brush river watershed 13.892 acres, in the Flathead Indian reservation was In his preliminary examinations, On July 21st Mr. Drolette “cashed wler 4s to be constructed so as tò arrived, and as soon as assembled cluding for our present purpose, Jo-Sg-Kan admitted, it is said, that temporarily deflect tho stream to the will be put to work excavating on Evans creek, Jones creek, Txtnse shot and killed at Ravalli today by in" on his potatoes, to find what re- IN. J. Perkins, his sub-agent whom turns he got. Two sample hills were he Is an advocate of the Korean in middle channel where the flow will the main line. It Is expected that creek. Jtiinp-off-Joe creek. Quartz dependence movement and that he he confined to a width of 30 feet. the shovel will tear out most of the creek. Grave creek. Wolf creek. Coy Sharp had dismissed, charging that chosen, The un-irrigated hill pro- he wan in sympathy with bootleggers, duced five potatoes weighing up to was a firm believer that the wedding ote creek. Taylor creek. Pickett according to the report received here one pound and a half. The irrigated of Prince Yi to a Japanese princess creek. Shan creek. Limpy creek. Jer i by l^cal authorities. Perkins gave bill alsff produced five potatoes ag of the blood would be a telling blow ome Prairie. Fruitdale, Green creek, ‘ hi^nself up late-. against any hopes that the country gregating five pounds. and Savage creek, as well as smaller might ever have of gaining the right One and one half irrigated potatoes streams not here noted; Applegate of self government, He planned the equal the five unirrigated potatoes river watershed. 16,898 acres. In TRI NK MYSTERY IS SHIFTED wholesale .killing* in order that he TO THE DETROIT SLEETHS leaving a' clear profit of three* and might eluding the following creeks. Slate. rekindle hope in the breasts one half potatoes per hill; or fur Cheney, Bull, Murphy, Powell, Wil 1 of his fellow Koreans. New York. July 24.—The mystery ther. one and tone half acres irrigated liams. Thompson and a large num Detroit, Mich.. July 24.— Import of distributing commodities and In- ber of small streams; the Illinois surrounding the death of the uniden is equal to five acres unliTigated in BABE Rl TH GETS 34TH potatoes. ance of opening the upper St. Law iTease returns to the producer. river watershed Including Deer. tified young woman whose mutilated HOME BI N OF THE SEASON The added production on one acre ."It is necessary that these prob Chapman, Sucker, .Althouse, Elk. i body was found yesterday in a trunk n-lice river to ocean going vessels as in an express company warehouse or ten acres.at this rate can be fig lems shall be handled in a definite a means of enhancing the world's Rough and Ready creeks, as well as New Fork, July 24.—“Babe" Ruth food supply was pointed' out in a: and coordinated manner, that a posi the East and West forks of the Illi here, has been shifted to the De ured by any one just as Mr. Drolette telegram from Herbert Hoover, for tive policy be outlined by the govern nois. and a great number of smaller troit authorities for solution, the did, and let his own figures prove knocked out his 34th homes of the homicide bureau here announced to- what Irrigation means to him tn dol season in the game with Cleveland mer food administrator, to the Great ment extending over a term of years streams, will total 6,224 acres. lars and cents. today. 1-akes-St. Isiwrence Tidewater con for their accomplishment and that gress and read to the congress today, they be taken out of partisan politics small growth, and can be used on Mr. Hoover hnd been urged to attend and placed In the hands of competent, the larger growth. to n great saving the congress but was unable to ap- managers." In cost of clearing. I Charles Evans Fowler, of New .>pr. One crew Is at work blasting a “ "There Is absolutely no question York, representing the American So working basis for the shovel along that requires so definitely a construc ciety ot Civil Engineers, told the tho bluff on the south side of tive program as our whole transpor Tidewater C<w grass here tonight river near Pierce riffle, where tation problem." the telegram said. that construction of a Great Ijikes- anal must go. By the first of "Both Railroads and waterways are St. Law ,-s. r v -.7■ j -vay was certain neek all construction on both far behind the productivity of our to be seriourly uT^ertaken. lie ile- dam and the gravity canal will be in and general In- olnr.uiWhat upward of 50.000.0(H) per- full swing. country. Agriculture _ ' dnstry are embarrassed by tack of >ns on the North American contl- Tho Shattuck Construction Com- transportation and tho margins be »nent who heretofore had regarded puny which has tho contract for the tween producer and consumer are ocean commerce ns of little personal construction of the project has head widened extravagantly by failure to concern» would find their lives link- quarters in Los Angeles, but has big I with the *ea. obtain proper distribution. s ale operations In three states. Ore “With completion of tho proposed gon, California and Arizona. In Ore "In tho years to come the country will find that proper outlet for tho >V: tcrw.iy Toronto. Buffalo, Cleve gon alone, this company has under hulk of Its commodities will lie by land, Toledo. Detroit, Windsor, Chi- ■ontract $7.0110.000 Iti^ construction water, rather than rail. We need a engo, Milwaukeo, Duluth and other work. During tho past two years national study and a national pro lake cities will become ports, and they have handled ■’’> protects In the gram of transportation development, the vaAt areas of their hinterland will three states named, aggregating over and such a program will embrace not ' jo territory fro*m which to draw di $20,000,000, and they have under only Improv« iffont of interior water rectly for ocean commerco,” Mr. construction nt tho present time four ways. hut development of tho St. i Fowler said. big operations. Including »the loca' The speaker emphasized the need protect. • T.n.wreqee. "That the ports of the Groat latkes of studying shipping and i>ort condl-i The Shattuck Construction com can be put. effectively on seaboard tinns on tho part of all those affected In represented on tho worl. MU with a comparatively moderate ex nd reviewed at length development I hero by E. J. Carrillo, who Is auner i .. . «>f ex service men Scili«- «ni boni'ii . penditure I h unquestioned and such a if world porta during recent years. Int«nd»nt nf local oacrntions i anr -'limici! iu ti .. «■ .«■•I v;t tiny all voted S r Thomas "A Ili.Ailiir Good fellow.” stop will Improve enormously the lore osno Mlv during and s'nea tho whose force hn-P rnnristR nf Rh” 150 men and 8 7 —...l«« • prosperity of IB states, decrease co.it Tb.*. OVER 36,000 ACRES Lipton Entertains Wounded Soldiers
