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Grants Pass — Gateway to the Oregon Caves
GRANTS PASS, JOSEPHINE COUNTY. OREGON.
YOU XIV., No. 7.1.
WHOLE NUMBER XMiM.
MATURDAY, DECEMBER 1.1, H»23.
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TÄX LEVY RAIE
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Salem. Ore., Doc. 15.—(A.
P. I— B. O. Roberts, star wit
ness In the Reedsport rum bri
bery, was conditionally pardon
ed last night by the governor.
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LOWER CALIFORNIA AH »»KM
EXI’l I.HION OF < IIJNEHE
ENDORHEMENT Foil NOMINA
Mexico City, Dec. 15.—(1. N. 8.)
TION BY PHOPOMAL COMVKN-
—A« a result of the recent decision
TION APPRECIATED
FRANCE MAY FUND DEBT
OWED TO THIS COUNTRY
FEDERAL AGENTS FIND
ALIEN SMUGGLING PLOT
Malone, N. Y., Dec. 15.— (A. ♦
♦ P.)—While aearebing tor boot ♦
♦ loggers along the Canadian bor ♦
IS 67.7 MILLS
Paris, Dec. 15.—(A. p.)—
The possibility of an early
funding of France's debt to the ♦
United States is being consid ♦
ered in French official circles. ♦
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der, federal agents and state ♦
“Black Horse Troops'* stumbled ♦
oil a gigantic plot to smuggle' ♦
aliens Into the United States. ♦
ARTHUR CRAMER IH
So far this month 50 aliens ♦
ELECTED TO HIGM.A T.AU
have been caught along the ♦
TIE-UP
APPARENTLY
HOUSE
frontiers of northern counties ♦ FRENCH AND GERMANS MAY ÜN
GAGE IN IHSCUHHION OF
WILL BE < CONCLUDED
Oregon Agricultural College, Cor
of the state, it was authorita ♦
POLIVI EH
vallis, Dec. 15.—(Special)—Arthur
BY APPOINTMENT
tively learned today.
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P. Cramer, of Grants Pass, senior in
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civil engineering, has been pledged
MRS. MOSH HAÍI.H FROM
to Sigma Tau, national honorary en
HAN FRANCISCO WEDNESDAY
gineering fraternity. Cramer wL.
be initiated next week.
San Francisco, Cal., Dec. 15.—
Membership to Sigma Tau is ob
(Special)—Mrs. Jennie Moss, of German Government Asked to Furn. tained by invitation only and is Outcome in Upper i'hamlier Doubt-
isti IJst of Questions It De
ful—Insurgents Gain Place on
Grants Pass, Oregon, was an out
based on a high scholastic standing
House Rules Committee
sires to Have Taken Up
bound passenger on Wednesday's
in courses pursued in the college,
steamer “Maui” for Honolulu. She
good moral character, and an ex-
plans to spend some time in Hawaii
pressed interest in the engineering
Washington, Dec. 14.—(A. P.) —
(Paris, Dec. 15.— (A. (P.)—Herr profession.
and will visit Kilauea volcano while
in the Islands, besides enjoying the Von Hoesch, German Charge D'Af
An agreement, which may end the
delights of winter bathing at Wai faires, in a half hour interview to
. house tieup over committee assign
kiki Beach.
ments, was reached today by the
day with Premier Poincare, asked
republicans and insurgents. Negoti
it the French government is willing
to engage in conversations with the Harding Association Will Start Work ations to break the senate organiza
Next Week
tion deadlock also were renewed,
German government regarding the
but the outcome is doubtful. Under
occupation
of
the
Ruhr
and
matifi
High School Club to Give “The
Funds for the Harding Memorial the house agreement, a republican
cations introduced into the Rhine
Christmas Carol" on Wedn'xday
land occupation affecting the rail Association will be sought in Grants insurgent will be placed on the rules
roads.
The interview was of the Pass during the coming week, ac committee which directs tha bouse
The Dramatics club of the high
cording to J. N. Johnston, recently
school has been working for some friendliest nature. Premiere roin- named Josephine county chariman of legislative program and the detno-
crats will be denied any addltlonal
care
asked
the
German
government
time on “The Christmas Carol”
the asscoiation.
The association representation.
to
furnish
in
writing
a
list
of
the
they
will
produce
Wednesday
which
plans to take over the Harding home i
evening, December 19, at the high questions it desired to have dis- as a place for safe-keeping of all j
school. They have chosen this play cussed.
relics, records, writings, etc., of the I
because Dickens’ story, by the same
late president and maintaining same,
name, is so well known and so pop Show Was Appreciated—
to establish a chair in statesmanship
¡A show of any kind can be judged and kindred subjects and maintain First Ih'grre (liargc Upheld—Ufe
ular at this season of the year.
William Madison, as Scrooge, will by 1st reception by the audience. By ing the same perpetually, the insti
Tenn - Recommended
make one think that the cranky old this criterion, ‘'Hello, Prosperity,” tution not yet being named, and to
miser has actually come to life. All can be said to have gone over big in build a memorial monument with a
Coquille, Dec. 15.—(A. P.)—Al-
will like him, though, as they view Grants Pass when it showed here mausoleum for the president, includ ton Covell today was convicted of
the change brought about by the last night. Although there was not ing resting place for Mrs. Harding, murder in the first degree for killing
visions presented by the three spirits as large a house as the show would and maintaining same. Three mil Mrs. Ebba Covell. The jury was out
of Christmas. Scrooge's transforma merit, the attraction drew a fair lion dollars will be raised, 350,000 45 minutes and recommended life
tion is brought about through the sized crowd. The audience was ap being Oregon's allotment, half of imprisonment. Tho victim, the boys'
assistance of about thirty other char preciative of the merits of the differ this to come from Portland.
step-mother, was strangled to death
Mr. Johnston states that on Mon with ammonia soaked in a rag, Sep-
acters who. although their parts are ent acts, those which seemed to get
minor,’ have been working just as over best being the dancing special day he will name the committeemen tember 3.
ties by the pair that designated from the different organizations and
faithfully.
This play will be proceeded by a themselves as •'US”, and the comed communities to help carry on the
short phantasy by Oliphant Downes. ian. E. Guy Rarick. Rarlck seldom work. All organizations whose mem-
In this, the popular characters failed to draw a good laugh with his . bers contributed a sum equal to or
••Pierrot” and “Pierette", assisted by jokes. The other singing and danc exceeding one dollar per active mem
the “Maker of Dreams,” will present ing acts were good, the costumes ber, will receive an engraved certifi Rebels and Fédérais Claim Successes
in Minor (lashes
a skit not only Intensive 'but beauti elaborate and the stage and electri cate of associate membership in the
ful. Much time has been spent on cal effects above the ordinary of the Harding Memorial association and
the costumes and stage effects in or road shows. The show was clean ■ each individual contributor of one
By the Associated Press—Both
der that the true spirit of this phan and free from any objectionable , dollar or more will receive a smaller sides of Mexico’s revolution are
engraved certificate of associate claiming minor successes, Decisive
matter.
tasy may be portrayed.
membership.
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struggles have not yet occurred. The
This next week hax been set aside operations are between Mexico City
in Oregon as the Harding Memorial and Vera Cruz and wept of Mexico
week through a proclamation of the
City.
governor and during the week the
attempt will be made to raise the
money for the memorial.
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ASSESSOR
HAM ROLLS
FAR ♦
ENOUGH AIXtNG TO ARRIVE
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AT FIGURES
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of the penul Judges of Mexicp that
deportation Is tho only effective
! method of putting an end to crime
in the republic, the labor unions of
Ixtwer California have petitioned the
Federal Government to put into mo
County ami Stati* is 22, School 10,7
Dor« Not Hcal<- If Coolidge Will Kl»'
tion (Article 33 of the Constitution
and Road I Mills—Is Kiiluclion
1er Primaries of Minto—Workers
of 1917 and request that the same
From I diet Year
WUl Meet on Monday
be applied Immediately to the Chl-
' nose of that territory, “as their hab-
| Its are not only detrimental to na-
Assessor D. O. Hayes has the as
Washington, Dec. 15.—(A. I’.) — tlvo labor, but also to society.” Ar
President Coolidge has written a let ticle 33 provides for the expulsion sessment rolls far enough along to
ter to Hamuel Elrod, former governor from Mexico of all pernicious for determine what the levy in the city
of Grants Pass will be for the com
of South Dakota, expressing his ap eigners.
ing year. There is a reduction
preciation of the action In the recent
brought about by an increase in the
South Dakota republican proposal
valuation of public utilities of 344,-
convention In endorsing .him. The
076, also an increase by the assessor
letter was more or less personal, and
of
valuations of approximately 350,-
Earthquake
Causes
Change
in
Area
not
(he text was withheld. It does
000, a decrease in the state taxes
of Country, Is Re|»ort
state whether the president will en-
and a reduction by the supervising
ter the Buuth Dakota primaries or
Toklo, Dec. IS.— (A. P. 1—Japan's and conservation commission of prac
not, but Coolidge workers will meet
the South Dakota leaders here Mon area has been considerably extended tically 320.000. The levy is divided
day to arrange for a formal appllca- as a result of the earthquake. There as follows;
has been a marked change In the
City of Grants Pass, 22 mills;
tion.
shore line of the Miura and Izu pen county and state, 22 mills; school,
I insulas which form Sagumi Bay, the 19.7 mills; road, 4 mills; total 67.7
icenter of the disturbance.
mills.
According to experts tho bay is
This is a reduction from last year
I many fathoms deeper and along the of 2.9 mills. However, the levj* has
Joaeplilnr Association Hhows Bal shores rocks heretofore immersed t been coming down for the past
are showing, forming small Islands, three years. In 1921 it was 73.«
ance After Paying Expenses
while residences built on the sea mills; in 1922, 70.6; and In 1923,
The Josephine county fair asso shore huve considerable stretches of «7.7.
Last year there was a reduction of
ciation had a most satisfactory year, land between them and the sea
as shown by the financial Report filed which, when reclaimed will be of three mills over the previous year,
this year’s reduction being 2.9 mills.
with the county clerk. The associa groat value.
The admiralty boats have been out
tion paid off bills from the 1922
fair and still has a 1«lance of 381.55 for some weeks now preparing new
in the treasury. The receipts for the charts of Sagml Bay and surround
year amounted to 37885.51 with tho ing waters. The new charts of Toklo
disbursements amounting to 37793.- Bay also have been completed.
The metereologlcal officials find 'Companion of Promotion Wanted by
93.
that the land rose to the extent of
Chicago Officers
The source of income was as fol nine feet on Miura and parts of Boso
lows: Balance In bank June 25, peninsulas and at Choshi, at the
Chicago, Dec. 15.—(A. P.)—The
1923, 358.79; gate receipts, includ mouth of tho Tone River, north of
police today are searching for a wo
ing season tickets, 32211; entry Tokio, and about eight feet at Oiso
fees. 374.32; advertising In premium on Izu peninsula. On the other man with whom Jjeo Kortez. fugitive
book, 3745; stall rent, 3 4 4 8.50 ; hagil the earth has settled at Ina- premotor of 35,000,000 Panama bub
dance hall, 3145; concessions, 3755; tori. a village at the extreme south ble is thought by Investigators to
county tax, 31017.90; state tax. ern end of Boso peninsula, and at have posed at “Mr. and Mrs. i AI
32000; millage tax. 3408.70; grand Osliina or Vries Island, Just opposite Bronson" for the last four years.
stand, 341; total, 37885.51.
Inatori.
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Disbursements were as follows:
Labor and 1922 bill, 31 132.24: sup UHRIHTMA.H ORNAMENTS
plies, 31024.14; salaries, 3546; re
ARE R1XIWN IN BUBBLES
turn of taxes overpaid, 35.88; amuse
New York. Dec. 15.—(I. N. 8.) —
ments, 3524; Sam Baker for real This is the busy season for Santa's
estate, 3400; Mrs. Beveridge for real assistants, the workmen who make
estate, 3500; old 1922 notes and in the fancy glass halls so essential In
By Zane Grey
a released sapling. Gone! He waved
terest, 3308.65; premiums paid, decorating the Christmas tree.
Reprinted through the Courtesy of a sorrowful hand at us and began to
3291«.05; racing association, 3540;
The balls are made just as a child
reel in. R. C. waded back as far as
The Country Gentleman and
expenses of Manager F. S. Ireland, blows soap bubbles and, like the bub
he dared into the swift heavy cur
the Author
3100, total, 37793.96. Balance in bles, pass Into obscurity after gleam
rent and began again to cast, quar
(Continued from, last Saturday)
bank, 38155.
ing for a brief period In all their
tering across the river, so that his
Yuletide glory.
Five o’clock it was instead of four line bagged and drifted down the
To manufacture the ornaments a when we arrived at Pierce Riffle. current, dragging the Bpinner.
glassblower heats the end of a glass Dusky and hot lay the somber smoky
Lone Angler and I waded in at the
tube In the flame of a gas lamp. glare over the river. But the water head of the great pool. Industrious
Photographs Taken Over Fire Pit of When the end of tho tube is at red would be like ice.
ly I plied by fly, cast after cast,
Great Crater
heat he blows on the other end until
No fish appeared to be breaking. sometimes executing a good one, un
the embryo ball has attained the de Possibly the steelhead had moved til in half an hour I grew tired and
Hilo, Island of Hawaii. Dec. 15.— sired size.
upstream. We were told that they discouraged. Steelhead began to
(A. P.)—Airplane photographs of
After the balls have cooled off they arrived in schools, tarried at a riffle leap in the shadow of the willow
the fire-pit of an active volcano nre covered with a coat of silver
or rapid and passed on during the bank just opposite me. I waded in
were taken recently by United States nitrate, giving them a shiny, spark night. But any day might bring a to my hips until I had difficulty In
army pilots, who successfully per ling appearance. Then they art»
keeping my balance in that swift cur
new and fresher school.
formed this daring feat over Kil dyed in the bright colors.
We were on our own hook, so to rent. and I cast desperately to reach
auea, the largest continuously active
speak, this afternoon and therefore the coveted distance. But always I
volcano in tho world.
more leisurely, more Independent and fell short several yards.
• A group of four planes did the
Presently a newcomer appeared on
less keyed up. R. C. was at the
work. In a sudden descent directly Daws and New York Bunker Named
head of the riffle In less time than the scene, a little man in farmer
over the inner qrater they went down
As IT. H. Representatives
It takes to tell it; Lone Angler took garb, with an old straw hat and a
to within a few hundred feet of the
a long while to get into new waders; pointed beard. He had a cane pole
roaring Inferno of lava within the
Paris, Dec. 15.— (A. >P.) The re- and I wasted a good deal of time over fully twenty feet long. At the butt
encircling walls.
parations commission officially ex- my tackle. This afternoon I wore he had a reel attached, and I saw
Heavily buffeted by the up-rush of
tended an Invitation to General hobnailed shoes over heavy stock the big shiny spinner dangling from
super-heated air and gas fumes aris
Dawes, former director of the Ameri ings. dispensing altogether with rub his line. Some rods above me he
ing from the pit, the aviators drove
ber, and I was rather loath to enter labored out on a rocky point and
their planes straight ahead, while can budget, and Owen B. Young. that Ice-cold water, Still the day thrust the enormous pole out over
New
York
lnwyer
and
banker,
to
lie
tho daring photographers leaning
had been so hot that 1 should have the river. It seemed as thought It
far outboard, took a Berles of rapid- the unofficial American representa welcomed the coldest of water. My might reach across. The • spinner
tives
on
the
German
investigation
fire photographs of the tumultuous
brother started out with a spinner, floated down the length of line he
molten lava directly beneath them, committees.
and he had not made a dozen casts had out, about as long as his pole,
according to witnessus of the feat. A
and sank front sight. Then this na
before he raised a fish.
series of unusually graphic views was
We did not need his yell to gather tive fishermen stood motionless, like
taken.
that he had apparently hooked a Ajax defying the lightning. I won-
Those who participated In the Mrs. Adelaide Manila Hughes Kills moving avalanche under water. His der#d skeptically and disdainfully
flight were Lieutenants J. M. Mc-
Self In Indo-Chini»
rod jerked down and shook like a what he imagined he was going to
Culloch. W. N. Armls, and Ned Sch
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buggy whip swinging a heavy lead. catch.
ramm; Captain R. G. Hoyt, commu
Los Angeles, Dec. 15.—(A. P.) — I could not hear his reel, but I did
Then in about two minutes he
nication officer; R. C. Wrlston, pho Mrs. Adelnldo Manila Hughes, 39, not have to hear It to know his line gave a Jerk, and his long pole bent.
tographer, and three enlisted men. wife of Major 'Rupert Hughes, auth was flying off. Floundering out with Something was pulling mighty hard
or, has committed suicide at Hlap- great strides he began to run down on his line. But he made short
Mrs. Lester Sutton, of Klamath hong, ilndo-Chlna, according to a the gravelly shore. Right even with shrift of that fish, dragged it ashore
Falls, arrived Wednesday to spend cablegram. She had been despond us then we saw a black, thrashing and up on the bank, a steelhead of
the holidays with her parents, Mr. ent on account of Illness and went fish split the white water and dis about five pounds. Again he thrust
and Mrs. W. C. Flxley, of Williams. on the tour to recover her health. appear. R. C.'s rod sprang up like the huge telegraph pole out over the
CITY LEVY ALONE IS 22 MILLS
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INTERVIEW IS FRIENDLY ONE
TO DEADLOCK
STILL
DISAGREES
ALTON COVELL
CONVICTED
Tn SENATE
MEMORIAL FUNDS ARE SOUGHT
DRAMATICS CLUB IS ACTIVE
JAPANESE SHORE IS EXTENDED
FAIR IS FINANCIAL SUCCESS
POLICE ARE SEEKING WOMAN
BOTH SIDES CLAIM VICTORIES
FISHING THE ROGUE*
U. S. AVIATORS FILM VOLCANO
AMERICAN EXPERTS ASKED
river. Fascinated. I watched him.
Amarillo, Texas, Dec. 15.—(I. N.
Just as I feared, pretty soon he had S.)—Because her husband said she
another strike. I saw the pole jerk was crazy for accusing him of giv
and curve. The fish was heavier ing money to other women and her
and a fighter. I saw it smash the own sister prouounced her crazy for
current and scoot through the water marrying her husband in the first
like an arrow. The anglqr endeav place. Mrs. Mary Blackbum was tried
ored to be as ruthless and violent as before the county court on a charge
with his first fish. He tried liter of being crazy.
ally to drag the steelhead out. I had
She was adjudged sane, The hus-
hard work to control myself, to keep band, a teamster, had asked the
from yelling to him to play the fish. court to place her in an asylum.
But he bent the huge pole double,
dragged a big white tumbling fish in
among the rocks in shallow water
and floundered after it. Disaster at
tended his awkward and too risky President Grants Freedom to 30 Held
attempt. The steelhead broke the
For laiw Violations
line and got away. Then the old Ore
gonian exhibited some peevishness.
Washington, Dec. 15.—(A. P.) —
He looked and acted as if a shabby President Coolidge today ordered
trick had been played upon him. I the release of all remaining Impris
was tickled.
oned violaters of war laws. About
He disappeared in the willows and 30 are to be released. They were
I went back to my own fishing. But convicted in Chicago. Kansas City,
presently I heard a sousing splash and Sacramento.
The action was
near me and looked around, to see taken upon the recommendation of
another native standing in the wa a special committee appointed to in
ter above me, holding out a cane vestigate the question of amnesty.
pole fully as long as the other fel
low's, What was more and worse,
that pole ■was bent. This native had
hooked a fish. Suddenly I felt the
line rub along my legs. Amazed and McNary Introduces New Policy In
Bill Submitted Today
angry. I waded back. Then I heard
the well-known swish of a taut line
Washington, Déc. 15.—'(A. P.)—
cutting water
The man waded down and back, The first steps toward the forma
lifting his line over my head, and tion of a national reforestation pol
went ashore. He followed that fish icy are provided in a bill Introduced
along the shore and presently pulled by Senator McNary, chairman of the
it out on the sand, a fine steelhead. special committee which studied the
Then he approached his former posi question. Funds would be provided
tion. I saw him stick some kind of to meet the expenses of determining
bait on his spinner. When he got what lands should be purchased by
to his place abovo me he cast this the government to protect Important
out and let it down and held his rod water sheds, to procure and distrib
stationary.
I could see his line and ute forest tree seeds and for fire
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protection.
WAR PRISONERS ARE RELEASED
REFORESTATION START MADE
SODATOLTEST TO BE MADE
Demonstrations of Explosive Will Be
Held Next Week
Farmers who have been waiting
for an opportunity to learn more
about the cheap government explo
sive sodatol, by watching it work,
will have the opportunity next week
when three blasting demonstrations
with sodatol will be carried on in the
county. These demonstrations will
be given as follows:
Wednesday, December 19, Wil
liams creek, near Carter’s store, 2
p. m.
Thursday, December 20, farm of
C. D. Brooks, on Crescent City high
way, about three miles from Grants
Pass, near Junction of Jerome
Prairie road, 2 p. m.
Friday, December 21, farm of C.
C. Brown, Sucker creek, Illinois val-
ley, 2 p. m.
At these demonstrations orders for
the balance of the car will be taken,
and those present will be shown that
this explosive, made of surplus war
materials is equal of good dynamite
for stumping purposes at a cost of
less than 50 per cent.
Sodatol will sell direct to the
farmers, who get their orders In im
mediately for the pooled car, at 38.70
per hundred pounds delivered at
Grants Pass. The reception farmers
all over the state are giving this
powder is good and the interest in
land clearing has been greatly stim
ulated. Farmers in Washington
county near Hillsboro have secured
two cars of the powder, amounting
to 72,000 pounds, and are ordering
more. In other counties it is prac
tically the same.
These demonstrations are being
conducted by the county agent for
the extension service, who is also as
sembling orders for cars.