Grants Pass—Gateway to the Oregon Cave»
GRANTS PAHS, JOHEPHINB COUNTY, OREGON.
VOL. XIV , No.
MONDAY, MARCH »I, HrJI
WUOl.F. NIMBER »4.17
■?
BRITISH AVIATORS ARE
FORCED TO LAND PLANE
HOI TRAIL IS
BRITISH NAVY TO HAVE
LARGE CRUISER QUOTA
Athens, Mar. 31.—(A. P.)
Htuurt Mcluiren's around-the-
world plane was forced down
on Lake St. Matthew. Island of
Corfu. None were Injured. The
flight is to be r e a u m « «I to
Athens. _ .MclJiren Is bead of
the llrltsh parly.
♦
♦
Washington, Mar. 31.— (A. ♦
Ixindon, Mar. 31.—(A. P.) ♦
♦ P. > — The army around-the- ♦
♦ The British navy will have al­ ♦
♦ world flyers are to start from ♦
♦ most as many cruisers as the ♦
♦ Seattle at 6:30 Wednesday ♦
♦ combined fleets of the United
♦ morning. Major Martin has tel­ ♦
States and Japat/ when the Are ♦
cruisers on which bids bave ♦
egraphed the air service.
♦
been asked have been built.
♦
♦
Answering questions In tbe ♦
SCHELL LOWEST BIDDER
♦ house of commons recently, the
WOMAN'S CUB HAS CHARGE OF
MANY OF MAJORITY WHICH WAS
FOR JACKSON HIGHWAY FEDERAI. COURT DECIDES THAT
FOUR CONVICTS NOW REMAIN ♦ parliamentary secretary to the
RASTER HERVKTS AT Hl'NItlSF.
PROGRAM AT NOON
FOR HIM
ARE NOW
INITIATIVE MEASURE IS
AT LARGE AND < AITIRE
♦ admiralty said the number of ♦
FOR AU,MM) CAI4FORNIANS
MEETING
OPPOSED
V NCONHTITl TIGNA L
IS EXPECTED
♦ cruisers and light cruisers In
Medford, Mar. 31.—Bids for the
♦ the world's great navies was at ♦
Jacksonville-Ruch and Medford-Jack­
lx»s Angeles, Mar. 31.—(A. P.) —
♦ present as follows:
British
sonville roads, held in abeyance by a
Preparations are being mad« by civic
♦ empire, 48; United States, 29; ♦
stipulation
signed by attorneys for
organizations to hold a great sunrise
♦ Japan, 28; France, 16.
♦
the county court and taxpayers were
Easter service In the lx>s Angeles,
♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦
brought to Medford by County Judge
Coliseum which morn than 50.000 1
Npeakcm Point Out That Joaophlnr persons are expected to attend.
Roseburg Prlooner Captured lout DEMAND FOR AMERICAN GOODS Germany Must Pay Debt Io Get Illi! Gardner, who returned from Port­ Will Re Carried to Unlterl States
land after attending the state high­
H im Many Articles of Consump-
of Sottile nt—Premier Interrupted
Supreme Court by Pierre-—-
Night—Men Believed to Htill
The first California Easter sunrise
GIU>WS HTRA1N1.Y’ IN GERMANY
way commission meeting there.
ti<X>—4 oniudlteea Named
Repeat
«Il
y
Ixtrgr Crowd Hear* Dec ision
lb*
In
Stayton
Country
service was held, on Mount Rubidoux,
The lowest bld for both jobs was
In Riverside, 60 miles southeast of
Berlin, Mar. 31.—(A. P.)—Ameri­
made by Contractor Sam Schell, who
bore. In 1909. Tbe idea was the out­
can made producta such as typewrit­
Paris, Mar. 31.—(A. P.)—indica­ offers to reduce the amount *1000
Homo products week was started growth of an Informal gathering of
Portland, Mar. 31.— (A. P.)—
Salem, Mar. 31.— (A. P.)—A hot ers, adding machines, machine tools,
off hare today with tha weakly lunch­ national figures at Riverside. One trail was pick«-«! up this morning in automobiles, hardware and similar tions that Premier Poincare has lost if awarded both bids. For the con­ Oregon’s compulsory public school
eon of the Grants Pass Chamber of such group Included Theodor«» Roose­ jibe search for the tour escaped con­ products are greatly In demand the sympathies of many of the major­ struction of the road from Ruch to law was declared unconstitutional
Commerce.
Only those product« velt, Dr. Henry Van Dyke, Jacob Riis victs remaining at large, following among German Importers, according ity which supported his previous gov­ the summit of Jacksonville hill, a today in an opinion rendered in the
which were grown In Josephine coun­ and Bishop Conaty.
th«- capture late yesterday of Clive to trade reports of the American ernment w««re seen in the Chamber of distance of foul miles, the bid, says federal court by Circuit Judge W.
Deputies today, when he announced Judge Gardner, is »78.557.50, for a B. Gilbert and District Judges C. E.
ty were served, the Grants Paas Wo­
The first service was attended by Weekly, at Stayton. The informa- Chamber of Commerce in Germany.
road 16 feet wide, two inch surface, Wolverton and R. 8. Dean. A crowd­
man's club having charge of the pro­ lets than 100 persona, but In late , tlon was received that a man wear­
“In addition to these industrial his policy for the reconstituted cab­
gram which followed the meal, as years Mount Rubidoux has attracted ing sho«<s Ilk«- those stolen from the products, agricultural products are inet. He reaffirmed all the policies | with a three inch base, material to ed courtroom heard the reading of
wall as outlined the menu for the upward of 40,000 Eester pilgrims. Aumsville store, tried to enter a also desired," say the reports. of the late government, and said the be black asphaltum. The bid for the the decision by Judge Wolverton,
lunch. The home products week Is Tbe Idea has spread, and now there house In the outskirts of Stayton "American apples, for example, find French soldiers would remain in the Jacksonville-Medford road is »78,175
The decision made it plain that
which will be black asphaltum, built the court acted on the proposition
bslng sponsored by the women of the are many such Easter morning ser­ I last night. The trail from tbe woods a ready market In Germany, and also Ruhr valley until France is paid.
city and during the week an intensive vices In various parts of California. I to the house and back was found. grain, flour and canned goods in There was a lack of warmth, with 18 feet wide, four inch depth. The that the constitutional rights of he
total of the two bids is »155,732.50. parents had been contravened by
campaign will be carried out.
The search is also on near Jeffer- larger quantities than imported at approval only on rare exceptions. Re­
tbe law Just aa much as the rights
|son, where three men attempted to present. It is generally hoped in peatedly the premier was interrupted
Mrs. C. H. Woodward, preaident of
of the complainants, the Hill Mili­
¡steal an automobile.
German trade circles that the new with manifestations of mirth, sur­ GEORGE BOOTH GIVEN
the Granta Paas Woman's club, had
prise or disappointment, a« the depu­
SCRIBE LOVING CUP tary academy and tbe Society of Sis­
charge of tbe program. She outlined
| Clive M. Weekly, one of the six commercial treaty between the Unit­
ties compared his declarations with
ters of the Holy Names of Jesus and
the work of the club and tbe pur­
convicts who escaped from the state ed States and Germany will remove
the
personnel
of
his
cabinet,
which
Mary. The court held it had a right
Office
la
Swamped
on
I»at
Days
on
some
of
the
existing
barriers
and
Oregon
Agricultural
College,
Cor
­
poses for which it waa formed. It
i penitentiary hero Friday morning,
Includes
several
opponents
of
the
late
Which
Payable
vallis, Mar. 31.—George Booth of to enjoin the state law which de­
now has 201 paid-up members. The
1 was captured aa he attempted to open the way to a free exchange of
ministry.
merchandise.
’
*
work of tbe club Is divided Into seven
Grants Pass won the loving cup of­ prives a citizen of his constitutional
cross the Slayton wagon bridge over
Salem, Ore., Mar. 31.—(Special) the Santlani river. Weekly refused
departments. These are the legisla­
fered for the first time by Scribe, rights or a corporation of its prop­
D. Head, df Applegate, was in the women’s Journalistic society, for the erty without due process of law. It
tive, civics, public welfare, mualr, —More than 6000 state Income tax to discuss the whereabouts of tbe
city yesterday attending to business best feature writer. Competition for enjoined tbe defendants, Gov. Wal­
art. educational, athletic, and home returns were received at the offices other tour men or bis movements
»
— 1
matters.
Of since bls escape from the prison.
economics. The legislative depart­ otf tbe tax commission Sunday,
i thia prize was keen. Booth is a jun- ter M. Pierce. Attorney-General Van
Winkle and Stanley Myers, district
Industrial
Planta
at
Pittsburgh
Lose
re-
these
approximately
2000
were
ment Is under the direction of Mrs.
j ior in civil engineering and is sports
The
capture
of
the
fugitive
up
­
attorney
of Multnomah county.
—
13
Uves
Are
Lost
W. W. Canby. Mre. J. F. Burke Is reived from the Portland branch, To
editor of the Barometer, the campus
sets all of tbe theories advanced by
The law. which requires children
head of the civics department. The handle the eleventb-hour rush all
publication. He is also editor of the
prison officials, peace officers, posse
between 8 and 16 years of age to
Pittsburgh. Mar. 11.*—(A. P.)—
publlo welfare department has Mrs. msa employes of the department
•Technical Record, an engineering
meu and others since the man-hunt Flood waters are receding after
aQ^nd a public school, waa adapted ' i
George Seeback for Ila head. Tbe were on duty.
1
publication.
.
’
>.«.
n
started. That all of the eonvicts causing much damage in industrial Lake Rack of Savage Raphia Dani I
by the initiative bill in the general
home economics department Is In­ Earl Fisher, state tax commiasioner,
1 >
««’■ •« election in'1922,' after a heated cam­
I *
1
J l
were out of the Aumsville, Stayton plans. Eight deaths occurred in
Now Fill«!—-t’unip to Start
cluded with thia. with Mrs. A. B. estimated that »325,000 had been re­
and West Stayton sections was western Pennsylvania and five at
paign. fn which the Ku K4dx Klan
Brownell as head. Mrs. A. 8. Barnes ceived by thp; department and that
taken aa truth here, following th«, Kitzmiller. Md., from the floods.
supported
the bill.1 • •
The waters of the Rogue are now1
is in charge of the music department approximately 70,000 of the total of
i T ' ' f •
... .. j
« •
•
t
receipt of Information that others
Floods
In
Pennsylvania.
West
Vir
­
pouring
over
the
crest
of
Savage
I
and Mrs. J. C. Hair of tbe education­ 85,000 returns had reached his of
.of the convict gang had attempted ginia and Maryland, caused by warm Rapids dam, having filled up behind
Salem, Mar.1 '31.—(A. PJ—Gov­
Demand Removal as Assistant Sec-
al department. Miss Mae Uum flee.
. to steal an automobile at Jefferson. rains and melting slows, devastated
ernor Piefc»' said Yhe compulsory «'
the darn this morning. It IS expect­
heads tbe athletic section and Mrs.
rotary of the Navy Now
The time for filing returns expires
public school law case would be ap­
toll
of
13
a
wide
area
and
took
a
ed that the south side pump will be
George Eaton tbe art department. tonight at 5 o'clock, but all returns¡ Weekly was captured through the
pealed to the United States supreme
The purpose of tbe club Is to develop placed In the mails today will be ac­ efforts of Janies Dalt and Harry Ilves and caused millions of dollars' started tomorrow morning, though
Washington, Mar. 31.—(A. P. )-— court.
the most of the water will be re­
the Individual and by this method to cepted by the department without) Roe. who noticed a ragged etrauger damage to property.
* - ■ ■
...
demand for the removal of. Theo-
A
After having flooded an area of turned to the river at Green creek,
headed for the bridge. They im­
develop the community. Mrs. Wood­ penalty.
NEW FOOTBALL COACH
dore
Roosevelt,
assistant
secretary
ward elated that tbe club has the
Not all of the 85,000 returns sent mediately notified local officers, 175 square miles extending from its no demand for the water for the ir- , of the navy, was made by Senator
AT O. A. C. IS ‘CHOSEN
community building as one of Its ob­ out will be received by the tax com­ who hurried to the bridge and ar­ headwaters at Gorman, Md., to Har­ rigation of crops having been noted, i Dill, Democrat, of Washington, in. a
Portland, Ore., Mar. 31.—The
pers Ferry, W. Va.. with the great­ and probably no water will be used
jectives and that a large sum Is al­ missioner prior to the expiration of' rested the convict.
P. J. Schisaler, now
est damage done at Cumberland. until the weather becomer warmer. resolution Introduced in the senate selection of
ready out on Interest for this project. the filing date, according to Mr.
Weekly was unarmed and offered Md., the Potomac river was rapidly
today. The resolution declares that coaching at Lombard college, Gales­
With the starting of the south side
Mrs. A. M. Slegrist explained the Fisher. This will be. he said, because no resiatance — in fact, he seemed returning to ita channel.
In the pump, the district will be ready to Roosevelt, before his appointment, burg, Ill., to become football coach at
a
large
number
of
corporations
have;
Clad to be recaptured. Dressed in
reason for the home products week.
western Pennsylvania district the18|uice out thp m)nor 8ildes ln the was a director of the Sinclair OU Oregon Agricultural college was rati­
company, and that he personally fied at a meeting here last night of
She stated that few people really requested extension of time in which ragged clothing, wet and footsore,
Monongahela and Allegheny rivers, i main canal, and so get that waterway
carried to the president, to sign, the alumni of the school. The ratifica­
know what 1» being grown In their to file. Under the law these corpora­ he was escorted to a residence and meeting here to form the Ohio,
own valley and that an attempt will tions will be required to pay tbe state had his supper before being started swept over the lower sections of ready to carry a stream. These slides order transferring the naval oil re- tion of Schisaler came after the mem­
be made to educate them to the use Interest at tbe rate of 12 per cent! bark to the penitentiary. He ate their valleys, and tbe Youghiogheny are handled by hydraulic methods at | serves from the secretary of the bers of the college board of control
of home grown produce. Mrs. George starting at midnight tonight until the ravenously, declaring that it was his river, coming down the Allegheny a small fraction of the cost of other I navy to the secretary of the in- had made it clear that he was their
means.
first real meal since leaving the pris­
. terior.
choice for the position.
Eaton told of the possibilities which remittance Is received.
mountains, flooded a section extend­
____________
i
Rogue river is now flowing about
on. A crowd of about 500 curious
exist In tho use of local clay. Tbe
ing from Connellsville, to McKees­ 2000 second feet of water, and a
deposits at Wlldervllle were declared
K. R. Williams has been visiting persons, on hearing that the convict port, a distance of 40 miles.
small increase is anticipated during
was
recaptured,
swarmed
about
the
to be of exceptional value. Tbe wo­ here for several days at the home of
Whole Family Drowned.
May and June. With the recent hea­
men of the club bave been working bls parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Wll- street in front of the house where
The Ohio river here reached a vy fall of snow in the Crater lake
for several years on the clay and|nlm> having come down the last of Weekly was eating.
stage of 29.2 feet, seven feet above districts, a normal flow of the river
the week from Portland.
MRS. £RN£ST'S£TON~ the flood stage, but started reced­ is
(ConUnoed on Page Two.)
expected all summer.
ing last night at the rate of one-
T
tenth of a foot an hour.
Ix>ndon, Mar. 31.—(.1. N. 8.)—The a great bootlegging gamble without
KILLED HIS FAMILY
halcyon days of quick fortunes made.BUCCeM-
,
.
.
projects
which appear
safe
in rum-running
to tho ..
I nited j c.
States I Even \
*
*'*'
. and sound fail to attract British cap-
appear to have passed.
| itallsts. One plan recently drafted
In London hotel lobbies there are provided that British money should
Warrant for S1O.8A1
Received By
sleek, prosperous-looking men who buy whiskey and shjp it to Holland
Treasurer FYom Auto Idcenet-s
Key West, Fla.. Mar. 31.—(I. N. wood for knees and bows. Bolts of
are -pointed out as men who have for transhipment to the United States
these
woods
join
the
parts
of
the
ves
­
6.)—Traveling 6,300 miles over the
A warrant for »10,681.82 has been
tal.
made fortunes iu rum-running, but .with the purchase price paid down in
rough and stormy waters of the Pa­
either Hamburg or Rotterdam prior
received by County Treasurer George
The Interior of the vessel 1s decor­
there are very few who are pointed to its shipment and delivery on the
cific, Captain George Waard. a mod­ ated with hand-painted scenes of
Calhoun from Sam A. Kozer, secre­
out as men who are making fortunes .high seas. Even this apparently safe
ern Viking of the sea, breezed into Chinese lite about 2,000 years ago.
tary of state for Oregon. This
in the business at present.
I plan la understood to have been re­
amount
represents
one-fourth
of
the
thia port the other day In bis little The work, Captain Waard explained,
English bankers and capitalists are jected by British capitalists.
money received from this county for
thirty-foot Chinese "Junk". Captain was done by famous Chinese artists,
said to have turned thumbs down on
Several British business men of
automobile licenses, operator’s li­
Waard made the trip from Shanghai, who used their fingertips, The plc-
rvm-running schemes during the last good standing have personally gone
censee, chauffeurs’ registrations and
China, to Victoria, 'British Columbia, turmquo backgrounds for the palnt-
few months, and it is now most diffi­ to New York to investigate the liquor
other sources. The period covered by
ln 87 days. Then he came down tbe Ings were put on with tho palm of the
cult
for the adventurous to secure market and Its prospects, and while
the warrant Is from September 16,
eoast and through the Panama Canal, hand. Handworked draperies about
capital for their ventures. The dis­ they have found little or no difficul­
1923, to 'March 15 of the present
hit little boat being the first of Its the small windows and low doors
appointed blame the American boot­ ty in getting orders they have not
year.
kind ever to -make the trip through give the cabin a home-like appear­
leggers for this state of affairs. They been able to arrange deals of suffi­
The total amount turned over to
ance.
that channel.
claim that had the bootleggers paid cient safety to attract the British
the
state
reasurer
from
this
county
The vessel has a crew of fiv
Captain Waard's staunch little ves­
the piper and played the game square capitalists.
amounted to »44,11-8. The Joseph­
sel bears the name of Amoy, after tbe Captain Waard, Robert, his son, who
that the business might have gone
Weird tales of the American boot­
ine
county
share
in
the
administra
­
Chlneae town In which It was built. acts as quartermaster; Mrs. Waard.
along making fortunes for everyone, legging industry have been brought
tive expense amounted to »1,390.71,
Jt is thirty feet long and has a his wife, who is mate of the vessel,
Vi
but the consumer, for years, but as back by these investigators, one of
leaving a net receipt of »42,727.29.
draught of four feet. It files three and two deck hands—Alfred Nelson
soon
as bootleggers began hi-jacking whom, though refusing to disclose his
A fourth of the net receipts were re­
flags—the flag of Holland, because and Benjamin Whiting. Robert is a
on the high seas then English capital name for publication, declares that
turned
to
this
county
and
the
remain
­
of
ten,
robust,
jolly,
full
of
life,
its master is a Hollander by birth, boy
Frank McDowell, the nlneteen-year- tightened up and was no longer avail­ he at first had great difficulty ln get­
der, »32,045.47 was turned over to
although a Canadian by adoption; and a good swimmer. Mrs. Waard,
old youth now In jail In St. Peters­ able for this enterprise.
ting access to the real facts concern­
the state highway fund.
while at the foremast flies the Brit­ dressed in her native Chinese cos­
burg. Fla., where he confessed to hav­
The tragic death of Sir John Stew­ ing the business, but eventually, In
Throughout the state, a total of ing shot his parents to death recently
ish flag, because of the ship's regia- tume, is a large sea-faring type, ju­
Mr*. Krneet Thempeon Seton of New »3,694.262.74 was collected.
The and also admitted that he set the Are art, baronet, who shot himself at an exclusive New York cafe, he was
try; and the American flag floats bilant, and speaks English very flu­
York city and Qreenwleh, Conn., has administrative expense amounted to
ently.
which resulted In the death of his sis­ Fingask Castle, Pertshire, Is said to Introduced to a number of men who
from tha other mast.
pone to hunt tlgore In India. Mrs. Se­
All five can speak English, and all ton, who waa formerly Grace Gallatin | »116,358.»», leaving net receipts of ters, Marian and Wllllamateen, a year have been largely due to the bottom posed as judges and attorneys and
This o tri qua craft was built entlre-
ly by band and Is the work of the were ready and anxious to relate —e’f one of Now York’e eldeet and IM74,»1».41. After a fourth had ago In Decatur, Ga., where the family falling out of the rum-running indus­ who, while they sipped Illicit whiskey
-la "the wife been returned to the counties, the then lived. Ills explanation of the try. Sir John is reported to have gave him much information and ar­
captain. No nails were used in the their harrowing experiences over most prominent famllli
murders indicates that be Is a reli­ spent the last few weeks of bis life ranged for him a meeting with the
construction. Tbe wood used I» Chl- 5,000 miles of rough and merciless of tho well-known naturalist and state highway fund received »2,681,- gious maniac.
in endeavoring to secure capital for alleged "Bootlegger King.**
197.06.
writer.
peso fir and hardwood, with camphor tea.
LOCAL PRODUCTS USE UR6ED
FRENCH TO STAY IN RUHR
CLIVE WEEKLY IN CUSTOOY
GOVERNOR TO APPEAL CASE
INCOME TAXES ARE PAID
FLOODS DO MUCH DAMAGE
WATER POURING OVER 0AM
ROOSEVELT IS UNDER FIRE
COUNTY RECEIVES FUNDS
¡
L.
I