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VOL. XX.
GRANTS PASS, JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1905.
No. 52.
BETTER HIGHWAYS FOR SOUTHERN OREGON
Oregon Good Roads Association Holds Southern Oregon
District Convention in Grants Pass,
Able Talent Present and a Greater
Interest in Good Roads
Aroused.
To Grants 'Pass was given the
honor of having the first district con
vention for Southern Oregou of the
Oregon Good Roads Association,
which began its session on Monday
of this week and meetings were held
that afternoon and evening aud on
Tuesday forenoon, afternoon and
ovening. The convention was held in
the Grants Pass opera house, which
had been decorated in an artistic
manner oiider the direction of the
Grants PasB Womana Clnb, the stage
being bright in festoons of the olub
colors, white and green, with the
dark green of Oregou graper foliage
and the white of sarvice bnsh flowers
giving added beauty to the effect.
The Grants Pass Miners Association
had the general charge of the local
arrangements for the convention and
of entertaining the distinguished
visitors to the city. The credit for
securing the convention to Grants
Pass, is due to Judge J. 0. Booth,
who as a vioe-president, aud also
member of the executive committee
of the Oregon Good Roads Assoocia-
tion, exerted his influence in having
this city designated as the place for
holding the district convention for
Southern Oregon, and to bis iudefati
gabla work was due in a very large
measure the success of the convention
and the inauguration of a good roads
campaign that is oertain to lead to
Josephine county taking up road work
under modern methods aud to eventu
ally have a svBtem of highways that
will be one of the large factors in the
development and prosperity of the
couuty.
The convention was called to order
by Judge George H. Durham, Who in
a few well chosed words, stated the
object of the meetings. A song was
then given by the Grants Pats Mens
Qonrtett, composed of H. 0. Kinney,
T. P. Cramer, A. . Voorhies and
G. P. Cramer aud so well did their
selection please the audience that an
encore so hearty aud so persistent was
given that they had to respond with a
second selection. Dennis H. Stovall,
ou behalf of the city of Grauts Pass
aud of Josephine couuty, then made
au exceedingly apt address of wel
come. After giving the distinguished
guests a greeting to the city, Mr.
Stovall spoke of the immense re
sources in minerals, timber and agri
culture that were as yet undeveloped
and would remain so, to lorg as Jose
phine oonuty was blockaded winter
and summer with roadless roads, as
he tersely called them. Good roads
would be the means of bringing a
prosperity to Rogue River Valley as
no other one factor would do. O. L.
Mangnm, president of the Grauts
Pass Miners Association, under whose
auspices tho convention was held,
then greeted the men who had come
such distances to carry the gospel of
good roads to a regiou that is as
sorely in need of highways as any
other section of the United States.
The mining industry, destined to
make of Southern Oiegon one of the
most prosperous and wealthiest sec
tions of the Pacifio Coast, was handi
capped most heavily by the heavy ex
penditures that were necessary to get
communication from the mines to the
railroad. The miners had contributed
subscriptions of thousands of dollars
on road building and they would
willingly pay any tax the oonuty
court might levy for road purposes,
provided only that the money woold
be spent on load construction under
modern methods aud not by the patch
work system of the past that had
brought so little improvement to the
highways of Josephine county.
The response to the addresses of
welcome was made by Judge John II.
Scott, of , Salem, persideut of tho
Oregon Good Roads Association.
Judge Scott expressed tho pleasure ol
himself and associates in visiting the
progressive' youug city of Grants
Pass, and of being able to assist in
giving a renewed impetus to tho good
roads movement iu Southorn Oregou.
Of the work of the convention,
Judge Scott stated that the direct re
sult would not be good roads for
Josephine couuty at once, but that as
its work was eduoational, it would
bring the business interests of the
county to realize that roads were
good investment financially, socially
and educationally, for communities
that have good roads are prosperous
and have a high state of moral and
intellectual development. He hoped
that the work of the State Associa
tion would bo supplemented by local
good roads leagues and by special
committees of boards of trade aud
other like orgauizatious for there
was yet much to be done iu the educa
tional line before popular sentiment
would be aroused aud a unison of ac
tion be had by every resident of
Rogue River Valley in the work of
building good roads.
Judge Scott, as prosidont of the
Association, was then called to the
chair by Judge Durham and Judge
T. F. Ryau, of Oregon City, was
made secretary pro tern, the secretary
of the Association, Hon. H. R. Thiol
son, of Salem, being in the East.
An address was then given by Hon.
A. H, CarBOu, the largest vinyardist
of Southern Oregou, aud member of
the State Board of Horticulture, on
"Bud Roads as au Indlreot Tax on
Agricultural aud Horticultural In
terests." Mr. Carson's address was
made up of faots aud figures, theories
beiug loft out entirely, aud he showed
conclusively that the iudirect
tax that farmers wore subjected to by
reason cf the oost of gottiug their
pioducts to market ovor bad roads,
was many times more than all the
state, county, school and road taxes
W. B.
ial Estate Men
SHERMAN,
The following are some of the transactions which have been made through our office:
Two acres aud a nine room house iu Lincoln Park, H.
O. Mcintosh to A. li. GuunelltUld Telford Place).
Lot 8 in Block 13, O. T. with a live loom cottage, Ell
Mitchell to A. C. Hough.
Lrts 8 mid 7, Block 24 O. T. with a lire room cottuge,
H. A. Corliss to H. G. Rice.
All of Block 8 with a 6 room house in R. R. Add. H.
A. Corliss to Williams Bros. Door and Lumber Co.
All of Block 0 in B. L. Add , H. A. Corliss to Will
iams Bros. Dnur and Lumber Co.
40 acres iu section V. It liyrd to J. O. Saudhnrg.
One lot and cot lace Iu Lincoln Park Add. F. Heck to
Geo S Calhoun aud L. L. Jewell.
Five room cottage aud 1-2 acre of grouul on South side
ot river. H. C. Mcintosh o J. P. Hale.
Lot 3 in Block B. Lincoln Park Add., A. Coukliu to
A. 11. Guuuell.
WE WANT YOUR PROPERTY TO SELL.
HO.UK OF1 XII10 llA.ltCJA.INH 3NOW ON OUK LI!"iT!
W. L. IRELAND.
$500
25 acres of unimproved river bottom
loam soil or $.00, if taken soon.
$650
)4 acre of river loam soil aud a
good rive room cottage and a good
barn, close in for only $oo0 if taken at
ouce.
$1100
7 room honre well finished within
two minutes walk of Post Ofllce for
ouly tllUO. Oulv a small cash pay
ment required. Must go quickly.
$4000
280 acres, 100 arces in cultivation,
flue hay farm, fences good. Close to
excellent stock range. Good market
for everything raised ou place. Price
ouly 4000.
$1600
V-i acres with a good fl-rooui house,
work shop, cellar, 3 chic-ken houses
aud paik for each. 2 ncres in flue
orchard, good windmill and tank.
House Is well painted aud in excel
lent condition. (No. 273.)
$5000
2H0 acres 100 under funoe, AO acres
under irrigation, most of which is in
alfalfa. Finn stock range adjoining
place. First water right ou creek.
Price $j000.
$2600
28 acre HOP FARM close to town.
Good team, new harness and wagon
and numerous farming implements go
with the place. Five room cottage
and a good barn. Ou bauk of Rogue
River. A snap at t'itiOO.
$1000
40 acres of orchard and vineyard iu
flue location. Crop never fails.
Trees in excellent condition. Small
cottago aud a good barn. All well
fenced. Au excellent bargain at I10OO.
Terms easy.
$1450
A fine 12000 foot capaoity saw mill.
Almost new. Everything ready to
tin, This is a fiue bargain.
(No. 282).
$225
Two fine residence lots for (22S.
t25 down and (10 per mouth, without
interest, a fine speculation.
" $1000
Two acres with a 9 room, hard finish
ed house, good barn, fide well,
chicken house aud park. Nice shade
trees. H cash, (No. 8'Jtl).
$2500
II-acres of black loam soil. 5 acres
in Spitzeuberg appies, trees in good
healthy condition and fiue bearing.
Torms oasy. (No. 2M).
$750 i
8 aores of excellent river bottom
land. All in cultivation aud well
fenced. Fiue location for residence.
(No. 207).
$650
Two choice residence corner lots,
50 xlOO each, in fine location, sewer
in. (No. 821.)
$2500
83 acres river bottom loam soil ou
bauk of river. NearW all in cultiva
tion. About 2',i acres iu fruit. Trees
7 vears old, is well fenced. Terms
easy- (N'o. 270).
Houses for rant. Collection mado. MONEY to LOAN.
Your correspondence solicited.
SHERMAN & IRELAND
togehter. And what made this In
direct tax, mud tax as, he also called
it, the more burdensome was that it
gave back not one penny's worth of
benefit to the struggling farmer. As
instances of the burden of this indi
rect, or bad roads tax on the orchard
ists of Josophino county, he mention
ed the experience of Eastman Bros
These orchardists marketed 7000
boxes of fruit last year. Their or
chard was six miles from Urnats Pass
aud on the preseut roads by putting
in loug days, their teams were able
to make two trips a day and to haul
50 boxes at a load. On a macadamiz
ed road the same team would have
more easily hauled 100 boxes at a
load. The iudirect bad roads tax
woull thereby be as follows: 7000
boxes at 60 boxes per load, would
make 140 loads, which at 2.00 per
load would make the cost of market
ing (280. At 100 boxes per load,
there would be but 70 loads aud at
(2.00 per load the team expense would
be (140. Thus a macadamized road
from tho Eastman Bros larm to Grants
Pass, would give them an addod profit
of (140 on each fruit crop, a sum that
would be cousidered by the average
tax payer enormous and ruinous if
levied each year as a good roads tax,
but as a road tax it is borne as one
of the burdens co-incident to farming.
Mr. Carson gave other examples
equally as conducing. Of the wear
and tear on vehicles the bad road
tax amounted to 15 per cent,' while on
a macadamized road the wear and
tear was but 2' percent. Mr. Car
son stated that Josephine county had
no season of good loads for the dust
and dried-up onuck boles of the sum
mer mails hauling all but asexpeusive
aud as hard ou a man, horse aud
vehicle as was the mud of winter,
The address was a most couviuoiug
presentation of the burdou that bad
roads places upon the farmers cud
orchardist of Josephine county aud
if all farmers realized this unneces
sary burden as does Mr. Carson, this
indirect tux would soon he changed to
a good roads tax and the money there
by put to a oso that -would yield
profitable returns Instead of beiug as
completely lost as though thrown into
tho mudholes that are the cause of
this, the greatest handicap to the far
mer's prosperity.
Tho next speaker wsa Judge J. C.
Treuchard, of Astoria, aud his topic
was "District Road Tax." Judge
Treuchard said the policy of Clatsop
couuty, of which he is couuty judge,
was to encourage the districts to levy
their owu road tax and the towns to
do likewise. The good feature of this
was that it euablod progressive oom
munltiles to have good roads and not
be held hack by the solflsliness of
the towns, or the towns inability by
reason of other expenses to pay a big
road tax. In districts, where a school
house was being built or other large
expense incurred the tax payors could
reduce their road tax for the year.
Clatsop county being very heavily
timbered aud the climato very wet,
plank roads were being extensively
built, thougth where the travel was
extra heavy crushed rock was
used. Judgo Treuohard advocated
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New Iron Bods - $2.65 to $39.00
Regular value $3.75 to $50.00
New Couches - $0.75 to $30.00
Regular value $9.50 to $40.00
Now Rockers and Easy Chairs
$1.50 to $45,00
New Carpotinga
New Laco Curtains
New Wall Tapora
40c to $1.25
45c to $5.00
10c to GOc
Beautiful goods at prices suro
to pleaso.
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Guaranteed Range, regular value
$45.00, for this salo $37.50
Cook Stoves, regular value $12.00,
sale price $9.20
Water Sets, regular value $1.50,
salo price $1.00
Vases, regular value 25c, sale
prico 10c
Decorated Water Pitchers, regu
lar value 40c, sale price 20c
Baby Carriagos and Go-Carts,
new-lines, .fold up close, big
variety, $1.50 to $25.00
HOUSE FURNISHING
Furniture
Carpets
Muttlngs
I-ace Curtains
Mattresses
Pillows
Linoleums
Pictures
Picture
Mouldings
Watch for these signs on Front street opposite the flag pole.
We extend you a most cordial invitation to visit our new store.
You will find it the largest store south of Portland. We are located
near the depot. Our stock is the best for the money that can be had,
jtir Monkv Back If You Want It,
Thomas Sl O'Neill,
X5hQ Housefurnishers
ll'ouiit Halo of Framed PlctureM.
Homes Furnished Complete on the Installment Plan X
Furniture
Wall Paper
Crockery
Glassware
Stoves
Rungus
Lumps
Tinware
Woodenware
Mirrors
THE REAL
Rooms 10 and 12 Masonic 1 emplc,
ESTATE MEN
Phone 731. Grants Pats, Oregon
CLEMENS
Sells Drugs k Books
GRANTS PASS, ORE.
ELECTRICAL DEVELOPMENT
Timber,
OREGON
Mining &
COMPANY
nvestment
Successors to
Josophino County Heal Estate Co.
Courier Building,
GRANTS PASS. OREGON.
Oregon to Be Gridironed With
Electric Railroads.
Improved Farms In
Jackson, Josephine, Douglas
and Linn Counties.
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In Large and Small Tracts
iu Washington, Oregou and California.
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' Placer and Quartz in Southern Ore
gnu, developed aud undeveloped, rang'
iug iu price from t-'AM ui fV),000.
CITY PROPERTY
Vacant lots and Residences; Busl--.css
Hooscs; Grocery, Hardware,
Feed, General Merchandise aud Meat
Market.
Uue, Two, Three, Five aud Ten
Acre Tracts in any part of the City.
31 I
Flour aud Lumber.
Below we give some of our bargains.
Ko. 211 ISO acres placer land, "o.
1 giant, 800 feet pipe, ditch and res
ervoir, good buildiutfs, land well tim
be red, easy terms. Price $0000. Mice
now in operation.
No. 219 Quarts mine, vein 11 feet
wide, said to assay to $10 per ton. 1 Price filOU.
No. 117 One acre, fi-room house,
all kinds of frnit, good engine pump
ana tank, all piped, chicken house.
liaru, and other out-buildings.
Pnoe, fl2O0.
No. 33 Two lots, 6-rooni house,
pantry, woodshed, good well, nice
shade trees. Price $750.
No. 825 IfiO acres farming laud,
WO acres bottom land, balance bench
land, good irrigating ditch UK) inches
water will cover hu acres of the bot
tom laud. Good house and barn,
good well, creek running through the
place, 20 acres in cultivation. Price
iii'iOO. 1000 down, balance on loug
time. 18 head of cattle at market
price if desired.
No. ail I acres good garden or
fruit land, one house 14x18, one house
Ix24 with L, lfix2I, 1 W story, three
living springs, barn, chicken house
aud woodshed. Good fireplace,
grapes, apples, proofs, peaches, pears
aud berries of all kinds. Uind in
closed with picket fence. Price 15'J0.
No. 023 10 room house, 6 acres
good land, good out-buildings, good
well, big tauk, good fence, for the
small sum of $30uu.
No. 821 U acres good bottom laud.
all in choice bearing, fruit trees.
No. 827 One lot on Sixth street,
new 3-tooui house at 1400.
No. U3710 acre good rich river
bottom land, 2UO bearing fruit trees
all varieties. New 6-room Loose,
hard finish, S wells, tank and wind
mill, small barn, 2 chicken bouses.
Oregon is ou the eve of a great
electrical development, says the Ore
gouian. This is the opinion of those
who have been studying the happen
ings of the past year or moro, as well
as of those who by their business and
association are familiar with what is
doiug or going to be doue iu that
direction.
Everything points to the fact tliut
iu the immediate future the railroad
coustructiou of tho state will bo
electric, and not steam, aud this Is
admitted by the men represeutatlvo of
both steam aud electrio proiiertioa.
INJURED BY GIANT CAPS
Messrs. Melts and Leigh Have an
Exciting Experience.
SEWING MACHINES from $22.o UP
NEW COODS ! NEW PRICES !
Prices: $22.00, 23 00, 24.00, 2S.0O. 28.00, 30.00, 32 50, 33.00, 40.00, 43 00, 50.00.
I,., nn ...in f la ll riirM-t tn the fiMinl And MftV von the ielit (Vtmnii.
slon. t all at the -lor or write for catalogue. Hexl'iuarteni lor Needles and parts fur
all macUitH. w e pay tiie tri-wil.
C. B. CAKDINKM P. O. Bus SOU, Ashland, Oregon
But what is more interesting thau the
tuple indication that the state is
soon to be grid Ironed with electrio
snburbau aud iuterurliuu lines Is the
lmost self-evident fact that one set
of men is back of the greater number
or at least that set of nieu is interested
in nearly all of them.
Every day fresh notice cf activity
in the field of electrical investment is
brought to the notice of the public
by articles of incorporation filed for
power stations, or fur small exten-
ions to systems now in operation or
projected, or by the announcement of
intention ou the part of some man or
agent of men to build at an early date.
Kven the railroad men ho repre
sent the big lines agree that it is the
electric line which will do the most
for the development of the state.
There is not population enough aud
the rural districts are too Siaraely
inhabited to admit of profitable
steam railway branches which are
costly In operation. These com
panies cannot afford to build branch
lines Into the valleys aud side dis
tricts to serve the people found here
snd there In the straggling villages.
But It Is different with the electric
line, which has power from Iu cen
tral stations prodaoed by natural
sou roes. These lines can afford to
build into new country and wait foi
the development caused by their
advent to make them productive of
dividends.
I A. U. BANNARD UNDERTAKER.
F. V. Metts and O. L. Leigh, the
mauugersof the big project of opening
the Silver ereek basin for placer opora
t ion. were in towu several days this
week iu consequcu of a somewhat
exciting accident which occurred at the
Lias In ou Saturday. They had gone to
the blacksmith shop In order to sharp
en some anils fur the work in the tun
mil. Iu the shop ou a shelf was box
of giant caps, which must have been
uncovered. As Mr. Metts struck the
red hot steel with his hammer,
spark flew iutu the box aud exploded
the caps, the fragments of which
flew In every direction with terrible
force. At first it seemed as though
the men must lie completely riddled
with bits of shattered copjier bat,
strange as it may seeui, no very
serious injuries resulted. Mr. Lcigli
was less thau two feet distaut from
the box when the caps exploded and
his shoulder was severely jarred, cut
aud bruised. The faces of both men
were badly cut about the eyes, many
small fragments of the caps embedding
themselves beneath the skin and I
seems almost miraculous that the
sight of neither was impaired. One
piece struck Mr. Leigh iu the side of
the uos-i, drilling a hole through the
nostril and the middle cartilage ami
stopping against the skill on the op
posite side. Another piece stroc,
Mr Metts In the thigh aud buried
Itself to a depth of au inch or more
They weie obliged to come to Graut
Pass iu order to have the bits of metal
extracted.
Work ou ho tunnel is proceeding in
a satisfactory manner although some
what slowly recently on account of
bad air, the tunnel having such
depth that the air clears very slowly
Ou that account only one shift of mi
is beiug worked but arrangements s
now beiug made to remedy the bad a
evil and to provide oupply of fresl
air to the workmen. When this
done another shift will be added an
the tunnel will ha rapidly pushed
completion.
Eastmau Films Courier building.
slug as little money as possible on
tlaying roads, but to confine the
bulk of tho road work to the maiu
ghways leading to the marketing
points. Ho would have no work doue
xcept oudor the supervision of a com
petent roudmaster. He was decidedly
iu favor of having road crews made up
f men hired by the month and with
tents to give tlte men and teams qnar
tors wherever their work may tako
them. In previous years his county
had bonght shovels, mattocks, eto.
to be lost as regularly each year and
new ones again purchased. Under
tho new system aud a road master,
the latter is charged up and held re
spnsible for all tools belonging to the
conuty.
Hon. W. K. Newell, of Dilley. mem
ber of the State Board of Horticulture
and a representative from Washington
ounty in tho last legislature, was
the next speaker. Iu his opening
remarks Mr. Newell gavo a sketch
the progress of the good roads
movement iu Wahiiitgnu county and
the applicatlou fits Josephine couuty
so well that the Courier gives the
paragraphs which are as follows:
For a naiuhr of years pant we real-
ents of Washington county have
regularly each wiuter been seized
with a burning desire to build good
roads. The fever usually stnkes us
bout January I, at a time whsu
the roads are beginning to get Im
passable, aud the weather Is so bad
that it is impracticable to do any
thing uinrli to better them. We
gather about the stove in tho village
store aud denounce the comity cdurt
aud the Dad supervisors in uumeasur
ed terms, aud air our superior
knowledge as to how the thing ought
to be doue; we writo long letters to
the local papers telling how things
could all bo fixed op iu splendid shape
if other people would ouly do their
duty, aud so 00. But some way
about March t, the fever seems to
have run its course, and when the
sopeivisor comes around and asks for J
a little help to fix op those bad mud
holes, in front of our own gates it may
be, we tell him we woold like aw
fully well to do it bot Just now we
are so confoundedly busy we just
simply cau't spare tbe lime. And
if perchance the county court should
have added an extra mill to the road
tax levy, we raise a great roar and
swear the country Is going to the
'bow-wows' and that if this thing
keeps op we will s. 00 all be bankrupt.
However, things are gradually im
proving. Oregon is wakiug op, thore
Is a spirit of Improvement abroad in
things that will receivo oar first
attention iu the matter of improve
ment. Though the criticism is just
that we sometimes talk too much and
do too little, still I am sure that we
will accomplish a great deal as tho
final result of our talk. At tho
Stite Good Roads meetiug held at
Salom in December, Washington
couuty hail several representatives
pieseut, of which number, I had the
pleasure of beiug oue. On our return
homo those of as living at or near
Forest Grove oouceived the idea of
oalltug a local meetiug on a Saturday
atfornoon to see what we might do to
ward starting the good work at home.
To our surpriio, there was a hall fall
of interested men preseut, where we
had expeoted at most ouly IS or 20.
After discussing local matters a little,
it was suggested that we call a
oounty good roads meetiug. Ihls
Idea was Immediately adopted and we
arranged for aud later held a county
meeting at which we bud the court
house filled to overflowing with repre
sentative men froas every preoiuct.
There was a groat deal of enthusiasm
manifested aud as a result, resolutions
were adopted udvlslug tho county
court to purchase a complete, up-to-
date outfit of road machinery aud to
levy a ten mill road tux. The court
has levied the ten mill tax uud will
purchaso thu machinery as needed.
As a further result of Ideas suggested
at the meeting, the court culled tho
(uporvtsnrs together aud gave them a
course of Instruction in tiieir work so
that now all of thorn are working ou a
uniform plan, and I can already seo
great Improvement in the work being
doue in my district."
THE LOCAL RAPPENINGS
Brief Notes .nd Items of Interest
and Importexnce.
( Conliniud m Smmii 'uy )
A. F. Lock wood, of the Galice
drill team aud oue of the champion
drillers of Southern Oregou, left Sou
day to be gone a mouth on a visit
first to relatives In Belliugliam,
Wash,, after which lie will go to
Washington, Michigan to to spend the
remainder of his vacation with his
pareuts.
Capt. Htaynes and Llent. Fiudloy
who have for some time past beeu in
charge of the Salvatiou Army at this
place have beeu trausfoircd tn Saluni.
They will hold their farewell meet
ings at the Salvation Army bali
Saturday aud Sunday, Maroh 25
and 3U. Capt. Brown and Lieut
Lamar of Ceutralia, Wash., will suc
ceed iu oharge of tho local corps.
II. II. Giduey possesses a valuable
cut io iu the way of a banjo. Send
lug to a firm back Last for a grand
upright piano, they, beiug
them, sent something liko
betweeu a fiddle and a dry goods box
iu place of tho piano and hoped he
would be pleased with it. He culls
it a banjo. When it goes off it sounds
like a juioe harp. Canoyuville Echo.
S. C, Swagerty, formerly of Grauts
Pass and now of Jacksonville where
he is omployed at the nlimlug mill of ! E- B- Hwkln
the Iowa Lumber & Box Co.. was the ,i"18 "lh II(,1t
victim of a serious accident lust week.
His left hand was caught In the edg
ing saw and severely mangled. All
tho tendons on tho back of tho liiiud
were severed and also tljo middle
finger. It Is thought that the hand
cuu be saved.
DROWNED IN ROGUE RIVER
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Dunn Loses Mis Life
Hell Gate Kaplds.
at
out lit
a cross
Miss Hemeuway, oue of the charm
iug youug ladles of Eageue. Frank
Is a son of Ex-Judge Hale, of Grants
Pass, and a young man of good habits
aud ability, He is now employed as
amalgamator at the Opp mine aud
they will make their home at this
place. Jacksonville Sentinel.
W. B, Sherman is the man to look
after jroor timber interests.
The Oranta Pass Mosio House is
now ulcely located on the ground
floor of tho Conrior building which is
thu headquarters for musical instru
ments, sheets niasio, sundries, and
photo goods. The A J leu Sc Qllbert
lUmakor Co. has their piauo sales
room iu the same building. The
business ofllce of the Rogue River
Courier also is ou the grouud floor.
the land, and oar roads are oue of the
J. C. Dunn, a prospector, who has
been for some years in Southern Ore
gou, was drowned at tlell Gate
rapids oil Rogue rivtir oil Thursday
evening of last week.
Dunn, iu company wihlh J. M.
Suudford of this place, was ou the
way to the mines at Whiskey creek,
011 Hogue river below Galice, aud the
men were attempting the trip down
the river from Grants Pass iu a boat.
All went well until they reached the
place kuowu as Hull Gate, about a
mile below Crow's pluce on the
Galice road, whore, there is a narrow
canyon and dangerous rupids. A sug
gestion was made by Sandfoid that
they let the boat down with a Hue,
but it was finally decided to shoot the
rapids iu the boat. The rapids them
selves were passed safely but the boat
was swauiiMid iu the rough wntel be
low, beiug tilled with water from
the waves which broke over thu sides.
The boat being rather heavily
loaded with provisions and toe Is, sunk
uuder tho leet of the nieu. As the
boat went down, Dunn, who bad a
long paddle iu his hands, started as
though to make an effort to reach the
shore, but sunk buueath the surface,
A valise floated ou the water uud
Uuuu, as he sank, reached to it for
support, pulling it beneath the water.
Ho 1111 not seen to rise agaiu. Suud
ford stood In the submerged boat uutil
it sank beyond his depth, when he
swam ashore with the support of a
roll of blaukots. Duuu was encum
bered with a cautas coat and a pair of
heavy boots aud had a large revolver
strapped to his belt. The uieu were
some 40 or tiO fnet distaut from tbe
shore when the boat sauk. At last
accounts the body of Duuu had not
been recovered.
The W. O. T. U. will meet on
Friday, March 21th at tho home of
Mrs. O. V. Henklo at 2 p. 111. A
month has now jwssed since our last
regular meetiug. Tho mothers meet
ing of March loth being postponed on
account of the revival services. Here
after we expect to have our regular
meetings every two weeks and a unci-
lug of the executive committee eery
ulteruute Friday.
Frank Hale returned from his trip
to Lane Co , last Friday, bringing
with hi 111 his bride, who was formerly
An Applegata Birthday Party.
G. W, Wiuetrout, a prosperons
rnuohor who lives near Applegate,
had a birthday on Wednesday, March .
15. He has a birthday every year
uow. Iu order to make the 1U05
nutal day one to be remembered by
"the old man, " Mrs. Wiuetront aud
daughter. Miss Marie, planned -m
surprise party. The surprise came.
Progressive whist was played by tho
surprisers. Whou the smoke of the
curd battle had cleared away, it was
aiiuouucod that Mrs. Nullle MoCrack
eu and Riohard Rock wore victors ;
Mrs. Rook aud L. Rose were the
booby winners. Duriug the evening.
of San Francisco,
City," "Bedella."
and other liymus. Cake, sausago
sandwiches and American and
Gorman louiuuadu wore served. The
guests: Mr. aud Mrs. II. Kubli, Mr.
aud Mrs. L. Roie, Mr, aud Mrs. R.
Rock, Mrs. N, Pemoll, Mrs. T. Her
riot t, Mrs. Nellie McCrackeu of
Redding. Cul., John Hcrrlolt, Henry
Peruoll Mr. and Mrs. Grover C. Maus
fleld uud K. B. Hawkins.
Embroider a Pillow.
You will Tnjoy the occupation and
unthing else will so improve the ap
pearance of a b,re corner. We have
pillow tops iu many designs put up by
Klchardsou Silk Co., In special out
fits to sell at SO cents. Each envelope
contains stamped I'illow top and
back, four skeins Grecian floss, em
broider hoops and lessou sheet Get
them at E. A. Wade's.
1
-CLOSING OUT
Fishing Tackle
at
Paddock's SicyGlu Den
Lat of Depot
Grants Pass,
Oregon
Buy now nnil save nionoy.
Just reccivetl some fine jioles.
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