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About Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 11, 1924)
Grant» Pau Gateway to the Oregon Cave» GRANTS PAM, JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON. VOL. XIV., Mo. IMI ' PORK CAUSES ILLNESS OF FIVE PORTLANDERS BETTER SPIRIT T. E. McCROHKEY hays TOWN AND COUNTRY SHOULD HE FRIENDLY CALF CLUB PLAN SUGGESTED Utiugtng of High tirade Block Into Josephine County Needed Hay lax-al People Better understanding between tho people of the city and those of tho adjacent territory was emphasised as a necessity by T. E. McCroskey, of Salem, today in his talk before the Chamber of Commerce on "Com munity Federation.” Using some of ♦ Portland. Ore., Feb. 11.— ♦ (A. P.)—Five persons, Iliein- ♦ burs of two families, are ser- ♦ lously ill here of trichinosis ♦ from eating Improperly cooked ♦ pork. ♦ 444444444444444 ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ JAPANESE PROTEHT BUILDING OVER ■ odimi <>i \i< ina Yokohama, Feb. 11.—(A. P.) — Relatives of earthquake victims wjiose bodies have not been recov- ered have protested against tho con struction of buildings on grounds under which bodies are supposed to be burled. Only temporary build ings are being permitted by the gov ernment pending the completion of the reconstruction program. The protests ai4 being made be cause of the traditional Japanese custom which makes It a duty to have at least a por.lon of a relative’s body for burial. SENATE IS AFTER DENBY IH-iiiaiiils Resignation of HerrHnry of Navy R<-M>lutlon ■ 111 I, KING HENRY IS THOUGHT TO HAVE DONE MIRACLES —'■ TWO OFFICERS KILLED WHEN CONVICTS RIOT London. Feb. 11.—(I. N. 8.) 4 Proponents of tho plan to re 4 vise the Church of England 4 prayer book to Include King 4 Henry VI among the saints has 4 ■ 4 brought forward an ancient 4 4 manuscript from the British 4 i 4 museum which credits the mon 4 i 4 arch with performing 174 mir 4 BREAK FAILS AFTER WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE I 4 acles. Among the miracles set 4 JAIL SENDS IN REPORT ON TAX MANY WOUNDED IN FREE I 4 forth In the document, between 4 CUT FOR ALL FIGHT 4 1481 and 1500 are: Restoring 4 life to a man who bad been 4 hanged for an hour, the victim ♦ 4 saying afterwards he suffered ♦ 4 no discomfort; restoring speech ♦ 4 and sight to a priest whose ♦ Slash of 25 Per cent In Federal 4 eyes had been put out and 4 “Four Horsemen" Were at Bottom 4 tongue cut off; restoring to 4 of Trouble With Outside Help. Taxes for 1023 Income« May Bo 4 health and plumpness a woman 4 Made Into Ix'glslation Police Were Asked to Aid 4 who had been mashed "flat as a 4 4 pancake by a cart.” 4 4 4444444444444444 Pittsburgh, Feb. 11.— (A. P.) — Washlngton, Feb. 11.—(A. P.)— — The revenue bill was formally re UNIVERSITY HEAD IS Two prison officers were shot to ported to the house today by the SUDDENLY TAKEN ILL death, and a number of convicts we’e wounded in a riot here today. After ways and means committee. It will be taken up on Thursday, with about Portland, Ore., Feb. 11.— (A. P.) an hour's fight, during which riot a month of debate expected before —Dr. R. Coffey of this city left last guns, tear gas bombs, clubs and Its passage. Lt provides for the com night on the midnight train for Eu- bHcks were used, the prison guards, plete revision of federal taxes, in gene to attend P. L. Campbell, presi assisted by the Pittsburgh police, suc cluding a 25 per cent reduction In dent of the University of Oregon who ceeded in quelling the disturbance, the 1923 personal Income taxes pay was reported to have been taken sud which started when the convicts used explosives in an effort to dyna able this year. Three other reports denly 111. were made, the differences center Dr. Coffey said that he had been mite their way to freedom. No pris ing on the surtax schedule. called by wire to make all haste to oners escaped. The warden re ported Eugene. It was feared that Presi the plot was engineered by “The dent Campbofl was suffering from ap Four Horsemen,” bed men recently pendicitis and.the illness was appar transferred to the prison here from an eastern penitentiary to be disci ently of a serious character. Medford and Grants Pass Rattle to plined. They had outside help. * SENI TO HOUSE WHOLE NUMBER .MIA. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, liWJ .'J1 4 4 4 I 4 I 4 TRIED TO BLAST WAY OUT COMPLETE REVISION PLANNED the results of his work In this line In Marlon county as examples of whst Washington, Feb. 11.—(A. P.)— can be accomplished. Mr. McCroskey showed that there 1s no reason for A resolution asking the president to any feeling between tho country and call for Secretary Denby's resigna the townspeople. tion was adopted today by the sen Rome communities become self ate. centered and think only of the ter ritory within the city limits, stated ---------- J 22-22 Tic on Saturday Mr. McCroskey. who added that the Washington, Feb. 11.— (A. P.) — action of tho local chamber in spon There will be no cabinet changes. Tho girls basketball team of the soring a calf club was proof that Secretary Weeks announced today high school held their own Saturday Orants Paso was not of that typo. A night when they met the Medford Four Children Are Among Victims in dengerons falling In many localities while the senate debated the Robin girls In a contest at the armory. The New York Fire son resolution calling for Denby's that the community la not built on a final score stood 22 to 22 and was firm foundation. Such communities, resignation. one of the best games of the season. Rockville Center, N. Y., Feb. 11.— he held, are destined to be short members be located along the Rod The girls showed much speed and (A. P.)—Six persons, four of them lived. It Is action that counts, not the wood highway, the building of which skill against the Bear Creek team. children, were burned to death and Tho game was a preliminary to the several others badly injured Sunday passage of resolutions. Hero the has received tho whole-hearted sup speaker went Into an ««planation of port of the chamber. An Invitation MedlortVRoseburg game which end in a lire which destroyed an old Long the processes by which a man trans to visit the annual meeting of the ed disastrously for Roseburg. The Island inn which had been converted formed eensatlons into an undur- Ashland chamber was also presented victory went to Medford, however, on into a tenement. etnndlag of the fundamental laws fo and several Grants Pass members the slim margin of a single point, the ! Larry Camarana, a laborer, four the universe. There are five senses may attend. Ashland will probably game ending 23 to 22. A crowd es of his five children, all under 10, by which Impseaslons are taken to a be Invited to nttend the annual meet timated at 2,000 saw the game, the | and John Santilana, a boarder, aro , ' the known dead. man's mind. There the sensations ing of tho Grants Pass chamber in armory being filled to capacity. The girls' team is composed of Camarana's fifth child, a baby, bocome Images, are classified and March. Tho matter of bringing In better Virginia Rengstorff, Nettle and Dos and Mrs. Camarana were burned ideas are formed, leading to an un dairy cattle to the county was sie Coover, Bessie Sirls, Marjory about the head and face and suffer- derstanding. Snider. Edith Spalding and Norma ed severely from 1 havlng inhaled The city limits of Grants Pass ex brought up by W. B. Lindsay, who tend to the place In which the most showed that the average production Trumbly. The game was refereed by , smoke. Ted Cramer. The next games will be When the polioe automobile ar- distant farmer who trades in the city, of butterfat in Josephine county Is played in Grants Pass on Friday rived Mrs. Camarana, clasping her resides. It la essential that help be 160 pounds per cow while 240 night, the event being a double baby in her arms, was standing on given the farmers by the townspeo pounds must be produced to' meet header between Myrtle Point and the window sill of her second-floor ple. He also urged that the farmor the expense of keeping the cow. This, Grants Pass. | apartment. and the buelneas man of the city get he said, can be increased to 300 The police backed their car against on better relations as the farmer Is pounds by building up the dairy she wall of the burning house and usually a lonosome man in his own stock in tho county, H. D. Norton shouted to her to Jump to its can* home town. The farmers should be then suggested that a number of met often, ho urged, and every pos business mon of the city contribute IxM'al Fighter Will Meet Easterner vas top. She threw the child first nt Portland on Friday and followed him. » sible opportunity taken to promote enough each to buy a calf and let — good relations. The organisation of some boy in the country raise it, pay Portland, Ore., Feb. 11.— (A. P.) community clubs In the various parts ing back the purchase price when of Marlon county was explained as a tho calf reached production. He also —Mike Dundee, aspirant for the successful means of getting the whole advocated placing of this money In featherweight championship of the a revolving fund so that the work world, will fight Joe Gorman ten Jack Stone Meets Big Cat and Fights county on better terms. A membership drivo for the cham- could bo continued. A laTge number rounds at tho armory next Friday Without Weapons her will be undertaken soon. A of those present signified their desire night In the main event of a' box ing show for which 36 rounds of fist committee was named to look after to assist and Stanton Rowell was ap- From the South Fork of Smith the acquisition of new members and pointed chairman of a committee ,tq swinging are scheduled. river comes a tale -of an encounter It is the plan of the boxing com the suggestion was made that* new look Into tho the matter. with a giant cougar in which Jack mission to show the fans a lot of new Stone took the leading part. In the faces this month. To start with monthly report from the forest ran Mike Dundee was signed up for three ger at that point to the forest super fights, tho first of which was last visor's office in this city is contained Friday night. The hard-hitting, a story of the meeting with the huge quick-moving feather from Rock cat. Island easily defeated Lakey Mor "Jack Stone, a man of renowned row and showed a deal of class in veracity and who worked on the dis doing so. Dundee will take on Gor Colon, Panama, Feb. 11.—(I. N. cipal reason attributed to the in trict last year,” reads the report, man next Friday and If he wins will B.)—The Panama Canal, from a crease In business is the big oil boom then go against Danny Nunes the "was coming down the South Fork commercial standpoint, pays—or In California. of Smith river and had Just crossed week afterward. rather is paying—while at the same Hurdy Gurdy creek when he heard Tho month of December, 1923. was time proving Itself a good investment a record breaker. Five hundred and something in the brush and turned HUBERT D. STEPHENS In national defonse and national pres six commercial vessels made the | Just in time to see a cougar making tige. a spring at him. He sidestepped and transit of tho canal In that month. Commercial traffic through the This exceeded the previous high re the cougar hit the ground and Jump canal In the calendar year ending cord, July, 1923, with 474 ships, by ed back about eight feet, then pre December 31, 19X3, exceeded that In 32 vessels—over one a day. pared to make another Jump. Now any previous year and, consequently, average per day in December Jack had only a pocket knife, so he tolls paid to Uncle Sam were great 16.32. stooped down to get a rock and the er than ‘ever. cougar made another spring and The average dally collection The number of commercial vessels Jack was not so fortunate this time. making the transit through the ca tolls for the month on all traffic The cougar caught one of his hands $76,348.11 — tho highest record nal In 1983 was 6,037. Their ag and cut a gash to the bone from his gregate net tonnage was 24,737,437 any month since the canal was wrist to ‘the end of the third finger. operation. tons. They carried 26,160,546 tons "When Jack came up, he came up The Bhips coming through the or cargo and paid $22.966,838.18 in with a rock and said rock connected nal fly the flags of many nations, toll«. with the cougar's head which stop Compared with 1922 the traffic in American and British leading. ped him for a moment. Jack then The Panama Canal cost the United 1983 Increased as follows: Number took to the Murdy Gurdy up to his of ships, 66.07 per cent; tons of car States government about $375,000,- neck in the cold water. The cougar go, 11.11; tolls collected, 82.66 per 000. It Is paying from a commer did not have the nerve to tackle it so cial standpoint, making a big profit cant. Jack went back to the Alms place BueineM fa steadily becoming bet over current expenditures, and is ex to get two dogs and two men. They ter. In faet, the canal bnslnoss of pected to pay more handsomely as Hubert D. 8t«ph«ns, new senator got the cougar but not without a the lsst two years showed a phe the years go on. In addition Its value from Mississippi, succeeding 8enator fight as one of the dogs was put in nomenal growth and the most opti from the viewpoint of national pres John Sharp Williams, was a member the hospital for some time. The cat mistic will make the prediction that tige and as a means of national de of congress for four terms. He Is a na measured seven feet and six inches tive of Mississippi. puch gains will continue. The prln- fense Is regarded as incalculable, and was very poor.” GIRLS TIE IN BASKETBALL SIX DIE IN TENEMENT FIRE GORMAN TO FIGHT DUNDEE HAS ENCOUNTER WITH COUGAR AGGIES AGAIN LOSE TO VARSITY QUINTET University of Oregon, Feb. 11.— (A. P.)—The University of Oregon basketbail team repeated its per formance of the night before and de feated the Oregon Agricultural col lege Saturday night, 27 to 20, in a roughly played contest. The varsity easily outplayed the visitors" in every department of the game, and by us ing Reinhart's famous five-man de fense, kept the Aggies from com pleting most of their attempts to rush their basket. The University of Oregon wrest ling team was overwhelmingly de feated by the Oregon Agricultural college Saturday afternoon by a score.of 44 to nothing. The varsity wrestlers failed to win a single point, while the visitors took six falls and four decisions in the five eVents. None of the matches were closely contested, the O. A. C. men clearly showing an advantage over the Ore gon grapplers in the way of coaching and training. THIBET FRAMES DEVIL IN ROLLING FOR LUCK London, Feb. 11.—(I. N. S.)— They use "crooked” dice when they shoot craps with the devil In Thibet. Sir Charles Bell, former political of ficer in Thibet, revealed this In de scribing the annual ceremony of the gaming with the devil for "the luck of the year.” The devil's opponent pickB the dice, and his pair shows nothlug but sixes. The.4evi.rs shoot er gets dice with nothing but defcces. "Big Dick” always wins'over "Little Joe.” ’LAST VICTIM OF FOOD POISON BURIED SUNDAY 4 Albany, Ore., Feb. 11.—(A. 4 4 P.)—Little Horst Ruehling, the 4 4 12th poison victim, died yester- 4 4 day. He was burled this after- 4 4 noon with simple cemetery cere- 4 4 mony. Tie was interred above 4 4 his mother’s casket. 4 44444444444444444 ....... RELATIONS Î0 OOHENY HELD IN GOOD FAITH WILLIAM GIBBS McADOO SAYS EUROPE'S CIVILIZATION THAT HE IS NOT CONNECTED COLLAPSING, SAYS WELLS WITH OIL LEASE London, Feb 11.—(I. N. S.)—Civ ilization is collapsing in Europe, says H. G. Wells. The famous British writer says the decadence has been going on nine and a half years. "The cash and credit system is breaking down.” Wells declared, Matter Transcends Parties la Belief As Expressed by Democratic Pos "and soon all Europe may find it sibility for President self hurrying into the rapid which has swept away th* educated and middle classes in Germany and Rus Washington, Feb. 11.—(A. P.)— sia. All the nations must get togeth er in reconstructing currency and re William G. McAdoo emphasized be ducing debts to avert disaster.” fore the senate oil committee today that his professional relations with E. L. Doehny, recently terminated, were "in good faith” and had noth Was Sworn in as Foreman of Cor ing to do with the leasing of the oner's Jury—Is Arrested naval oil reserves. Appearing at his own request be Herrin, Ill., Feb. 11.— (A. P.)— Former Mayor Pace was arrested to cause of testimony given by Doheny day on a warrant charging murder as to his employment in connection after he had been sworn in as fore with the Mexican oil matters, Mc man of a coronor’s jury to investigate Adoo declared "I think it may fair the killing Friday night of Caesar Cagle, dry raid leader. Pace is charg ly be presumed that if my name was ed with complicity in Cagle’s death. not prominently mentioned in con nection with high office my private practice as a lawyer would be of no interest to thia committee or the pub Details of Big Installation Are lic.” Asserting that the faith of the Worked Out at Meeting people in their government is shaken because of the oil inquiry develop Details for the big jamboree at ments, he declared “This question Roseburg with the Umpqua Chiefs as transcends all political parties and the victims of the Cavemen and the partisan considerations,“ and that Pirates were worked out at a meet “the first duty, the imperative duty ing of the three organizations on of the hour, is mercilessly to uncover Saturday night at Roseburg. Five and bring to the public view and members of the Cavemen and a like scorn ancK punishment every one who number from Coos bay met at the has betrayed the public trust or has banquet of the Chiefs and made the been guilty of wrong doing in this arrangements for the installation of humiliating and dangerous affair.” the latest member among the booster He said it would be a crime if drag clubs of the state. The Pirates at ging innocent people into this affair first requested the Cavemeu to take should divert attention from the over the greater part of the show and guilty. put on the installation much as was In answering questions, he said he done at Marshfiel^. This was re resigned as secretary of the treasury jected by the Cavemtg and a plan on December 16, 1918, and quit as worked up whereby botfc organiza director general of the railroads Jan- tions will have an active part. The uray LI, 1919. After three months work of the Pirates will be shown rest, he entered the law firm of Cot mostly in their drills while th». Cave ton & Franklin. He did not begin men will pull some of their stunts^! his service with Doheny until No The installation will take place on vember 30, 1919, and had no agree February 23. Most of the member ment with Doheny before he quit the ship of the Cavemen will be on hand cabinet. to do their part and the Pirates also promise a full representation. A Almost Got Frost— banquet, parade and public initiation The mercury almost dropped to in the armory will be big events of the freezing point Sunday night. It the evening. registered 34 during the night with Those going to Roseburg Saturday a maximum of 61 today. Rainfall were James T. Chinnock, Clarence during the past 24 hours amounted Winetrout, Niel Allen, L. M. Mitchell to .09 inch. The weather report is and A. K. Cass. for rain. IS NDT A POLITICAL ISSUE FORMER MAYOR IS HELD CAVEMEN VISIT ROSEBURG RESTORATION OF THE OLD STONE CLIFF HOMES IN MESA VERDE DISTRICT TO BE UNDERTAKEN Harold Lundburg spent the week end at his home in the city visiting 11- with his mother, Mrs. Sallie Lund Washington, Feb. lip— (I. N. S.) when excavating, abandoned in 1922, burg. He has returned to the Uni —Restoration of the centuries-old versity of Oregon where he is attend stone cliff dwellings of the aborig is resumed. When funds are available from ing college. inal Pueblo Indians in the Mesa congress Dr. Fewkes hopes to restore Verde district of Colorado is planned MISS CUNNINGHAM a typical Pueblo village. Several by Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, of Smith sonian Institution, and international famous cluff houses and a structure christened the "Pipe Shrine House” ly known ethnologist. In making public his development will be rebuilt or restored In the project Dr. Fewkes said that during , Mesa Verde National Park. Under the project the ruins would the coming summer he would resume excavations in the mysterious Pueb be converted Into their condition of lo ruins, believed to hold secrets of a eight centuries ago, a museum of queer race that settled there before Southwestern Indians relics would be established and Indian com plant the thirteenth century. "What we shall find this summer ed throughout the area, so that the is a matter .of speculation,” Dr. settlement will represent a Mesa Fewkes declared. “The dusty, hum Verde village In practically the drum work of excavating may go on same environment as in prehistoric for days without startling discovery. times. Then suddenly may be found some Additional studies of the religious relic of prehistoric man frt>m which ceremonies of the cliff dwellers are page after page of history may be to be made this season. Dr. Fewkes read. j has already discovered subterranean “Anything of archaeological value shrines below some of the rock may be dug up. Undoubtedly these houses, where strange rites were per ruins are rich in remnants of a civ- J formed. The priests of these tribes llization long since vanished.” smoked tobacco ceremoniously, it It is expected that one or more ' was disclosed, tobacco pipes having Miss Dorothy Cunningham of Indi heretofore undiscovered villages of I been found on the shrines. Mountain ana Io an associato member of tho Re the sun-worshippers of antiquity may Hons were held in much esteem by publican national committee. be uncovered during the summer, these ancients.
