VOL. XXI.
GRANTS PASS. JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1)0S.
No. 17.
Sell Heal Estate
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A W. L. IRELAND, The Real Estate Man
BIG RED SHOP
Moutli Kixtli Kt root, coruor J
S. C NEAS, Proprietor
I IofMcwliociiii; done by one of the best shnerg ever in Grunts Puss.
Volileloss Iteimli-!, Painted, Varnished and Trinimed and made
practically as serviceable and well upi)earing as new.
nf1oi Tiros 1'Mtlocl by the only ninchine for that purposo In
Grants Pass.
On Hpooijil OrIer vehicles of ull kinds and for all purposes built and
which are stronger and more durable than those made at factories.
i(flit Prlcew given on all my work.
Grants Pass Banking & Trust Co.
PAII l!P CAPITAL stock
Transacts a general banking business.
Receives deposits subject to chock or on demand certilicates.
Our customers are assured of courteous treatment and every consideration con
sistent with sound hanking principles.
Safety deposit boxes for rent. J. KKASK WATSON, Pres.
1!. A. HOOTI1, Vice-I'rea.
I. I,. JEWELL, 1'a-drier.
Bert Barnes,
Reliable Watchmaker
Al Clemens'
Announcement by
G. A. Cobb Real Estate Company
We wish to announce to the jmlilic in General (rich or
poor) we can sell you a home at present, on terms to suit
you if you haven't cash by you to make full payment.
We can arrange it all satisfactory about that. II you ure
rich, we can find you a good bargain for your cash. We
not only sell nice homes but have other speculations on
hand constantly, that a conservative man can sometimes
double his money in properties of all kinds, mines, timber,
ranches, houses and lots, stock of all kinds, wood, Hay
and grain etc.
We also buy and seli second hand goods and can outfit
all homes cheap.
cull and let us get acquainted.
Our best bargains this week are 5 head of horses that we
bought at our price and will be sold at your price.
BLACK
LIVERY
and SALE STABLES
DEAN & DICKISON, PROPRIETORS.
II St. hot. :th and ;tli, (JIJANTS PASS. OltMiOX.
CLEMENS
Sells Drugs L Books
GRANTS PASS, ORE.
The Dismond Curt.
The latest news from Paris, is, that
they have discovered a diamond cure
for consumption. If you fear con
sumption or pbeumonia, it will, how
ever, be best for yon to take that
great remedy mentioned by
W. T.
McGee. of Van leer.
Tenn. "I had a
,i. tr.r ii er. Nothina helped
me, until I took Dr. King's New
n,r fnr ("iinsnmntiou. Coughs
and Cold's, which gave instant r. lief,
and effected a permanent cure, for
Throat and Lung Troubles at all:
druggists. Price 5c and 1.00, guar -
anteed. Trial bottle free
BAN nard UNDERTAKER.
A. U.
Rent Houses
Negotiate Loans
Write
FIRE INSURANCE
You are Invited to investi
gato my larjo list of City and
Country property.
Ground Fioor, Courier Building.
$2(1,000.00.
Grants Pass, Ore.
HORSE
F E E I)
Bent tier Double.
"I knew no oue, for four weeks,
mlien I was sick with typhoid aud
kidney trouble," writes
Huuter, of Pittsburg,
Mrs. Anuie'
P " nrt
when I got better, although I had oue:
of the tx t doctors I could get, I was
bent double, and had to rest my bands
on my kn.es when I walked.
From
' this terrible artliction I was rescued
by Electric Bitters, which restored
j my hta th and strength,
and now I
can walk as straight as ever."
Guaranteed tc cure stomach, liver and
; kidney disorders , at all drug store ;
price 5Uc.
Calling Cards-Courier Boilding.
CONCRETE BRIDGES
BEING PUT IN
Grants Pas Doing Away With
Wooden Bridge Much
Street Work Done.
Street Conimissiouder R. H. Gil
fillan completed this week the work
of replacing the wooden bridge across
Gilbert creek, on A street with a
cement arch. This arch is 13 feet
wide and 10 feet high and has wings
extending back into the oreek bauk
both from the upper and the lower
ends of the structure. The founda
tions rest on the bedrock and the arch
is so larg-) and well bnilt that it will
afford ample passago for the waters
of the biggest flood aud it will last
as long as time shall be. Owing to
the great depth of the creek at that
point the top of the arch is six feet
below the surface of the street and
this space has been filled with earth,
which was taken from the summit of
the hill above the creek. The re
moval of this earth has greatly im
proved the grade of A street west
oi First street.
Tha new bridge is 18 feet wide and
the end walls are carried np to the
surface of the street and gnard rails
are provided to keep teams from going
over the grade. These rails are sup
ported by iron posts that were placed
in the concrete wall as it was being
constructed. The cost of the con
crete arch and the wings for protect
ing the banks was $139, and to com
plete the fill and the grading on the
street brought the total cost of the
work to toOO. While the first cost of
this concrete bridge is larger than
that of a wooden structure, yet it is
ohcaper in the end foi thnie will
uovor be the continued expense foi
repairs aud rebuilding that there is
to a wooden bridge. It is an econom
ical undertaking on the part of the
city in putting iu these concrete
bridges and culverts for it will roally
be a saving to the taxpayers. It
would be equally wise on the part of
the county if, on such roads as are
really permanent, all small bridges
were built of conorete or stone.
The wooden structures are a constant
cost for repairs and hare to be re
boilt at least every 10 to 15 years.
Street Commissioner OilQllan has
done this summer more street im
provement than was ever rioue iu but
oue previous year for he lias graded
and drained more than a mile of
streets, aud an equal distauce of roads
that are in the citv limits. There has
also been nut down more than a mile
of granite sidewalks. Many cross
walks have been put iu aud tiling
drains at crosswalk and street cross
ings. With the large amount of im
provement that has been done to the
streets iu the lesidouce districts it
will be but a few years until Grants
Pass will have a system of streets
that will equal that of any town iu
Oregon.
There is oue change in the method
of street improvement that could be
made to the decided betterment of the
streets aud that la to discontinue
dumping ouscreoued gravel on the
streets. The gravel used is largely
made up of boulders of all sizes, and
these become a decided nuisauce for
they roll about the surface to be
bumped over by every vehicle and
fur horses to stumble ou, and to be
the special provocative to violent
language on the part of of bicyclists
aud automobilists. Many of the
streets would be smooth, handsome
driveways were it not for these
boulders that disfigure the streets
aud disturb tho comfort of persons
driviug over them. All gravel should
be screened before being placed on
streets aud roads aud it would be a
move In the right direction for the
city and county to jointly purchase a
gravel screen, for oue machine would
screen all the gravel that would be re
quired ou tiie streets of Grants Pass
aud the roads of Josephine county.
$100 Rcwvd, $100.
The readers of this aper will be
pleased to learn that there is at
least oue dreaded disease that science
has beeu able to cure in all its stages,
and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh
Cure is tho only positive core now
known to the medical fraternity.
Catarrh being a constitutional di
sease, requies a constitution! treat
ment. Hall's Catarrh Core is taken
internally, acting directly upon the
blond aud mucons surfaces of the
system, the ruby destroying the
foundation of the disease, and giving
the patient streugth by building up
the constitution and assisting it in
doing its work. The proprietors have
so much faith in its curative powers
that they offer Oue Huudrwd Dollars
for any rase tnat it tails to cure.
Send for list of testimonials. Ad
dress F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo.
O. Scld by all Druggists, 7,jc. Take
Hall's Family Pil.e tor constipation.
ChsmbcrUin'l Colic, Cholera sad Diarrhoea
Remedy The Beit re Exittenc.
T. M. Wood, manager of tha White
County News, Beebe, Ark., is ,
representative southern business man,
m,n .1.. nnl hesitate in rim-Muinir
his good
remedy.
opinion of
He says,
'It gives me
pleasure to reoommeod Chamberlain's
Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Kemedy,
having used it myself aud in my
family with the best results. In fact I
believe it to be the best remedy of the
kind iu existence. " Sold by all
druggists.
Tr. eiranik. Rlul UVf. .ml I l.fc
Try Strausky BU1 Ware and Ll.k
Anti-Rnsting Tinware at Ciamer
Bros.
Lumber Operations on Evans
Creek.
O. E. Wickstrom, who is a miner
by winter and a logger by summer, is
operating a paying placer mine on
Pleasant creek each winter and each
summer he hauls logs at the various
mills in the valley. For this season
Mr. Wickstrom is hauling logs with a
four-horse team and trnck at the up
per mill of Silsby & Kestorson on
Evans creek. Mr. Wickstrom was in
Gants Pass Friday and he stated that
the two mills of Silsby & Kest arson
on Evans creek were belug run on
full time. At the tipper mill fonr
trucks, each drawn by four bcrses, are
nsed for hauling to the mill, while at
the lower mill three trucks are nsed.
The yarding out is done by other
teams.
Mr. .Wiokstrom stated that the firm
has 25 teams hauling lumber to Wood-
ville and later in the season will in
crease the number so as to get all the
lumber to the railroad before the
roads are rendered impassable by the
ruins in the fall The lumber cut
this season is sugar pine aud is of a
flue quality. The larger part of it is
shipped to Eastern factories.
WILLIAMS CREErT"
MARBLE DISTRICT
Jones Bros. Operating Six-S&w
Marble Plant Have Big Ledge
Blue Mottled Rock.
W. A. Jones, who with bis brothers,
O. C. and G. W. Jones, are developing
a nrarble quarry ou Powells oreek, a
tributary of Williams oroek, was in
Grants Pass Monday Mr. Joues was
taking orders for marble work of
various kinds, embracing monuments
of all kinds, mantels and other marble
for house finishing. He had samples
of marble with him that was re
markable for its beanty and polish.
The sample was white, variegated
with markings of a delicate shade of
lead color giving it a most striking
appearanoe.
The Jones Bros, have been operat
ing their marble works for the
past four years, but in a small way
by hand. Last fall they put in a mill
for tawing and polishing marble. It
is fitted with a gang frame carryiug
six saws and operated by au overshot
waterwheel. The water is from J.
N. Gotchor's ditoh and there Is ample
head to afford good power. As to the
extent of their ledge Jones Bros, are
not able to say for they have made so
little development ou their property,
but there is every indication that
they have a very large deposit and it
is so think and of such uniform tex
ture that blocks and slabs of auy size
can be gotten out.
This great deposit of marble is but
33 miles from Grants Pass, which is
the nearest railroad shipping poiut,
with a good wagon road to afford
transportation by team from the
quarry. This marble has been
pronounced by experts to be the equal
of the best Eastern, or imported mar
ble for decorative purposes and were
it introduced Into Portland, San
Francisco and the other Coast cities
there is little doubt but what it
would soon become popular with
builders and a large demand would
be had for it. For tombstones and
monuments it is equally flue and its
wavy timings of dark color give it a
far handsomer appearance than has
most of the colored marbles. The
Jones Bros, are handicapped for the
iack of capital, but they have made a
good beginning in the inauguration
of an industry that is capable of
largo development and of being the
means of giving employment to many
men and or adding greatly to the
wealth of this county.
Cured of Bright' Uiscsic.
Mr. Robrt O. Bsrko, Eluora, N.
Y., writes: "Before I started to use
Foley's Kidney Core I had to get up
from 12 to 20 times a night, aud I was
all bloated np with dropsy aud my
ey sight was so impaired I could
scarcely see oue of my family across
the room. I had given up hojie of
living, whru a friend recommended
Foley's Kidney Cure. One ftn cent
bottle worked wondeis aud Del ore I
had taken the third bottle the dropsy
had gone, as well as all other symp
toms of Bright's disease." For sale
by H. A. Kotermuud.
C. L. Manguu retnrned Tuesday
from Portlaud, where in coorpnay
with Mrs. Mangntn and daughter,
Miss Lacosta, they had spent a week
viewing tire beauties of the iair.
Mrs. Manguu, and Miss Lacosta went
from Portlaud to Texas where they
will spend six weeks with relatives
iu Fort Worth aud Dallas. Mr. and
Mrs. Mairgum were residents oi
Dallas before corning to Graifte Pass
Mr. Maugum says the success of the
Lewis aud Clark fair exceeds the
highest expectations of its Portland
promoters. The fair Mr. Maugum de
clares is very complete and is well
worth one's time for a week for it
trill take that length of time to view
its many interesting and instructive
features. The Josephine county ex
hibit, Mr. Mangum found, Is attract
j lug as inocn atteotiou as any county
"'" ' large crowas
. view it ecn oay. 1 lie wors DOW
well known'"'" 06 pushed to make the exhibit
more 'complete especially in agricul
tural products, which are now attain
able.
Forced to Starve.
B. F. Leek, of Concord, Ky., says:
"For 20 years I suffered agonies with
a sore ou my upper lip, so painful,
sometimes, -that I could not eat.
After vainly trying everything else, I
" . - .........
Blre. if, Kret tut bonis, cots:
.ud wounds. At all drug stores.
'Only 2oo. I
INTERESTING NEWS OF
APPLEGATE VALLEY
Crops Good Harvesting Begun
Water for Irrigation Sea.
To Hold Big Campmeetlng.
L. Loescb made a trip to Grants
Pass the first of the week on business.
Mrs. Kate Hyde of Laurel Hill spent
Sunday here visiting relatives and
friends.
J. T. Lavton, the well kuown placer
miner of Applegate, made Grants Pass
business trip Tuesday.
H. Rehkopf was at Grants Pass
this week making arrangements to
leave for Crescent City 011 a visit.
J. Pernoll, the Applegate post
master aud merchant, passed here
Saturday with a load of freight for
bis stere.
Rev. E. Badger, pastor of the
Christian church at Provolt, left
Saturday for Talcut, aoooiupauied by
J. Clark, where he will hold meetings
this Hojday.
Jack Dokey, a well kuown fanner
of Williams oreek, left Saturday for
Heppner, Oregon, accompanied by his
wife aud children, where they will
make their future home.
The new baler of Paine & Swiudeu
arrived this week. They will start
on the baling Monday. The capacity
of the baler is 80 tons per day.
They have two men and fonr lioraus.
The baseball game at Murphy, July
18, was qnite interesting. The score
stood t to 18 iu favor of Murphy.
The defeated niue were all miners
and captained by Wood Geeder of the
Michigan mina
Harvesting season has opened aud
many are at work cutting, hauling
and stacking. The grain crops are
unusually heavy this season and the
yiold will be large of that sown dur
lug the fall but the spring sown grain
will not he so good, but is an average
ouo with the grain crops of other
seasons.
The picnic party returned from their
trip to the Gray hack mouutaius, ex
hausted aud covered with dust. Their
trip was greatly enjoyed. They had
poor success bee hunting. They toll
of drlukiug water at that camp that
was cold as ioe. Their camp was
located in a beautiful fir grove just
below a bauk of suow, 40 feet wide
100 feet long and is almost 80 feet iu
depth. There are other banks they
did not mention, which can be seun
from Williams oreek. Their next
trip will be to the Oregon caves.
Samuel Provolt was so fortuuate as
to fall heir to the amount of f 12,000
and a fourth of all property owned
by his sister, Mrs. Jane McCully, of
Weiser, Idaho, who recently passed
away. Mr. Provolt is getting old aud
he has a handsome property of his
own and will now retire from all
work aud take the pleasures of life
which is dun to htm. He is 70 years
of age and is In very poor health nt
present. Mr. Provolt has resided at
this place for almost 40 years.
Harry Pel kins and Hen George left
Saturday for Little Shasta valley,
where they will spend the remainder
of the summer. Mr. Perkins will stop
off at Moutaguo where he will tend
bar in a saloon for his father. If he
likes Iris position he will make that
place his future homo. Mr. Perkins
has made his home heretofore with
his grandfather. Frank Baldwin, of
this plaoe, since a child, and attended
the public school at Williams for a
period of Ave yeais then moved to
Provolt whore he graduated from the
eighth grade at tho Provolt univer
sity. He is a well accomplished and
a business-like young man aud he is
well liked and carries a good recom
mendation. Johnnie Knutooii, of Thompson
creek, was a visitor burn Friday 011
business. Mr. Kuutzeu tells of light
crops In that vicinity on account of a
scarcity of water for irrigatiirg this
seasou. He says it has been a long
time since water was so scarcu as it
is now Iu Thonipaiu creek. The
farmers op that valley have organ I ed
a company and will supply the
valley with water from the O Bryan
fork oi Applegate, which flows
through Steamboat, for irrigation.
This should have beeu looked after
before, but it was like the valley
which surrounds Provolt, tire farmers
couldu't see the need of water until
It was forced upon them. They have
been farming this valley siucu IH&H.
The farmers are taking great Interest
now to make it one of the biggest
hay growing valley's iu the state.
Berry crops are large. KaxpiWrics
are almost gous and blackberries are
now ripening. Apple, jieaches, pruuea
aud plums are average this season.
Peais and are very light aud the crop
will be small in many orchards.
Hot are more than average and hop
I line are disappearing very rapidly
1 during the present hot weather.
: Friday and Saturday July 7 aud 8,
the thermometer registered 108 and
110 which was the wainiest ever known
in his vicinity. At Provolt it was
too warm for work and many laid off
until Monday, the 11th, which was
rtucb more enudrable for work, but it
Is what makes ths hop man rejoice.
Many farmers grumble who have 00
waUr for irrigation. Tbe second
crop of alfalfa is being harvested,
which is some two weeks earlier than
that last year and a much larger yield.
Hay Is selling iu the field at i' and
. baled pi and pi; clover, timothy
BUQ B11II gOO el III Seine IJMCv.
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Tbt 00008! campmeetlng of the
Bogus Klvvr Baptist campmeetiog
association will be held at the
grounds at Provolt, commencing Sun
day, August I'.'tli aud ooutiuuiug until
Monday, 'September 4th. Prominent
preachers from all over the state will
be present aud among those who will
take part in the meeting will be Rev.
F. W Carsteus aud Kev. 1. O. Austin
of Medford, Kev. J. B. Travis of
Grants Pass, Rev. F. N. Baker of
Ashland, Rev. J. Merley of Centre!
Point. Camping privilfges aud
wood will bo furnished free. The
musio will be -under the direction of
Rev. Austin and the rhildrcns' meet
ing will be led by Mrs. Mildred Aus
tin. Daily services will be held at
8 p. m. On Suuday the day will
open with a sunrise prayer meeting
a t 5 a. ni. Union Suuday school at
10 a. in. Preaching at 11, basket din
ner at 12:80. Children's meeting at
2:80, preaching at 8 :80 Prayer ser
vice at 7 aud preaching at 8 p. m.
Everything possible will be done to
insure the comfort of those attending
and a cordial invitation Is extended
to all. These grounds are just op
posite the Powells oreek sawmill on
Powells crecs, 1 miles from Pro
volt. This will be the first camp
moeting held here for some time.
Lot all cotun and pay a tribute of re
spect for their preseuce while at Pro
volt. RIPE STRAWBERRIES
ALL SUMMER
Williams Creek Grower Supplies
Grant Pas Market With Fine
Berrlea-Fruit Land Cheap.
E. N. Proiolt, a well knowu fruit
raisor and miner of the Williams
creek dlsrtict, was in Urauts Pasa
Monday witli a load of strawberries,
raspberries aud other fruit. As the
ordinary strawberry has been out of
the market for some weeks Mr. Pro
volt is able to get good prices for Ills
berries, which nru of the Oregon
Evergieen vatiety. These berries,
wheu ou rich loam and given plenty
of irrigation, will bear a continuously
all summer aud until well along into
the rail.
Mr. Provolt owns a flue placer tract,
but ho has bonded that to a dredger
company aud if they take it, he will
dovoto his entire attention to fruit
raising, as he thinks it is less un
certain In returns than gold mining
aud much more profitable than is the
average gold mine. Mr. Provolt is a
strong advneuto of the promised fruit
growers union and ho will be sure to
ho present at tho fruit growers meet
ing thut Is to be held at tho Courier
ofllce in Oranta Pass this Saturday
afternoon. In a union Mr. Provolt
sees the solution of the problem of
nrofltuhlv marketing tho fruit of
Josephine county aud he thinks every
grower should Join the union. With
tho growers getting the prices that
tho market will afford and freed
from the payment or big profits to
commission men, uud by having
shipments mudu III car lots, Mr. Pro
volt is of tire opinion that tire time
will soou come when the fruit crop of
Jo'ophine county will exceed iu value
the output of all its gold mines.
In the Williams aud Applngate sec
tions are thousands of acres of line
apple, pear, peach, grape and berry
laud that is yet to brush and Unit can
bo purchased at a very low price
When this land is put Into cultivation
that section will becomo one of tire
lamest and best fruit districts of
Southern Oregon. Mr. Provolt says
thu lack of a good, tun adaini.od road
to Oranta Pass, which is their market
ing point, is the greatest need for the
Williams dixtrict und such a road
would aid very greatly in the rapid
sett lenient ami development of that
part of the county. Mr. Provolt de
clines Hurt the Met tiers of his sell loll
feel that they have not received the
recognition fn in the county court Unit
they am entitled to, as one of the
largest hoily of taxpayer in the
county. 'J'liey contend that the
county neglect their loads anil puts
the bulk of the road funds on the
Kcrhy road and oilier mails of no
greater importance than is the Applegate-Wi
Ilium rouil.
Kjiokaue, which has been huilt up
and made iut'i ouo of the most pros
perous cities of the Wi st, is the bond
quarters for a large number of mining
men, who for hustle and business
ability 1 1 u vi few equals. Having
made money In the district alKiut
their city, these hu-tler ure now
seeking new fields of investments, and
Southern Oregon having uttractcrl
their attention as a promising mining
dls'rirt many of them are now
visiting tins section in their
tours of investigation. Nr.t a week
goes by tlii summer hut what there
are Spokane men in Orant Pas le
vestigatiug opportunities for mining
investments. This week Hroka-iti has
been represented by Henry White,
who has been out in the Kcrhy dis
trict look lug over thu mines of thut
part of Josephine county.
Burtull Playcn and Foot Kaccri!
Louis J. Krogi-r, ei-chaiuplou
long distance 'foot racer of Oermauy
and Holland, writes October 27th,
1V01 : "During my training of eight
weeks' foot races at Halt Lake City,
in April last, I used Uulhird's Know
Liuiiueiit to my greatest satisfaolii u.
Therefore 1 highly recommend
Know Liniment to all who are
troubled with sprains, bruises or
rheumatism." oc, Sl.tK) bottle
at Koteruiuiid's anil Model Drug
Store.
If you want to sell vour prox-rtv,
list it with W. L. IHtl.AM), Tllh
liKAI. KHTATK MAN, (iround
floor, Courier building.
Immense
Lot
New Iron Beds
$2.25 to $39.00
All the between prices.
Regular $2.50 Screen Doors for $1.98 all complete
Others iu proportion down to $1.10.
TENTS buy them now, prices -away down
$2.75 to $10.50.
Camping Outfits and Bedding, full line.
This week we put up 2 CoUCHeS
The prices aro $3.95 and $4.80 Today
the date this paper is mailed.
They will be reduced 25: a day until sold.
' Who gets them?
Got your BABY CARRIAGE now.
Thomas O'Neill
X5ho Housefurnishers
CITY POUND DOING
THRIVING BUSINESS
Country Stock Raids Town Yard
-Grants Pasa Discarding Vil
lage Devy Fence.
The Grants Pass pound is now
doing a thriving busiuess and hardly
a day passes but what it becomes the
destination of some oow or horse that
has strayed iu from the couutry. The
ranges have so dried up that farmer's
stock that have to rustle for a living
are tempted within the forbidden
limits of Urauts Pass by the green
grass aud plants iu the lawns and the
suculent feed in the gardeus. Not
withstanding the fact that the police
round up stock almost every day, yet
it is a common oscurrnuce for irate
citixous to be seen, generally at night
and in brief costume, with thu stars
and uls neighbors as silent witnesses,
while he gives vent to his feelings in
language more foroeable than polite
at fouie luckless oow whish has en
joyed a fine supper of corn, beans aud
other garden stuff with au appetizing
desert of carnations and -other choice
flowers and plants from the front
yard. One citi.eu, whom the
munching of a cow brought from his
peaceful slumbers at an hour when
daylight is putting starlight to a
lively hike over the western hll's,
was fully five minutes devoting him
self to ar oratorical effort before he
could open warfare with au aggrega
tion of stovewood, rocks, etc, on a
hungry cow, which was enjoying a
feast iu his frout yard. Grants Puss
being uo longer a country village that
uses its streets for a cow pasture is
discarding fences about yards, as is
the custom of progressive, Eastern
towns. 1 he old-fashioned Idea of
having a handsome yard marred by a
fence or hidden by a hedge Is being
suppluuted by the more modern aud
the more sensible custom of having no
enelo-ure about town premises. Many
yards iu Grants Pass are now without
fences and all the fences will disap
pear with a vigorous enforcement of
tho stock ordinance. It Is a low esti
mate to plaoo tho value of the yard
fences now in Grants Pass at f 10,000.
Interest ou this Investment, and the
cost of keeping np these fences Is a
big tax on tne property owners and
that and the first cost of the fuuee is a
direct financial less for which there
is no adequate return. Could the
amount that has been each year ex
pended ou fences iu Grants Pasa he
spent ou a park this city would soon
have a pleasure ground that all
could he proud of aud which would
add more to property values here than
all thu fences that could he built. It
is hard on the farmers to pay for
getting their stock out of the city
pound, hut it is a greater burden if
llr.i town residents are to be roiupell
d In fence their premises.
Dairymen can get cow bells 5 ceuts
and up, wooden howls t cents and up,
butter mollis, milk puils, at Davis'
fanner supply house. An Auinu bar
rell ohr.rii almost new tut f!.
Old
Talking' Machines
and
Records
taken in part payment
for new ones
at
...Paddock's Bicycle Den...
l 4 1 V'. Itlliltst V 11 tl 4 a i
. . . Just
Arrived
A ROAD SUPERVISOR
WHO DRAINS ROADS
Supervisor Centner Doing Good
Work i Murphy District
Favors Cash System.
O. F. Gentner was in Grants Pass
Mouday. Mr. Goutuer has a flue farm
on the divide between Rogue river
and Applegate vallios, his place being
located In the pass that can be seen to
the southeast from this city at the
foot of Greou mountain, but It is over
tho divide aud cauuot be seen from
towu. Mr. (leutuer holds the position
of road supei visor for the district on
the Applegate lying between Orauts
Pass and the Williams district and he
is credited with being one of the
most praotical road men in the
oouutry.
Ml. Gentner has done some excel
lent road work in his distriot this
year, and he has made a good showing
for the small amount of money he
had to expend. The drainage of the
roads which is a matter so seriously
ueglected by most road supervisors is
carefully attended to by Suiiervisor -Gontuer
and ouo of the first thiugs he
does on Improving a section of road is
to thoroughly drain it. Mr. Gentner
Is a strong supporter of having a
larger road tax and then have the
road orews hired by the month aud
under the direution of competent
foremen aud all work to be supervised
by an engineer who should establish
all grades aud sue that the roads were
built so that they would be substan
tial aud permaueut.
Sleeping Accommodation.
As an accommodation to visitors to
the Kxpositiou, aud others a IB-section
tourist slactmr will be placed in ser
vice between Ashland, and Portland,
ou trains IS and ltl commencing May
atltli. Sections B, 10, II, and 12 are re
served for this statiou and cau be se
cured at the depot. G.P.Jester, Agt
Doctor Slid lis Would Not Uvs.
Peter Fry, Woodruff, Pa., writes
" After doctoring for two years with
thu best physician iu Wuyneuurg, and
still getting worse, the doctor advised
me if I had any business to attend to
I had belter atteud to it ut once, as I
could not possibly live another mouth
as there was uo cure for me. Foley's
Kidney Cure was reooiumended to me
by a friend, and 1 Immediately sent
my son to tho store for it aud after
taking three bottles I hgan to gel
better and continued to improve until
I was entirely well." For sale by
II, A, Kotermuud.
Buy It Now.
Now is tho time to buy Cham
berlain's Colic, Cholera aud diarrhoea
Iterniidy. It Is certain to be needed
sooner or later and when that time
comes you will need it badly yon
will ueed it quickly. Ilur it now
It may save life. For sale by all
druggists.
HOUSES FOIl KENT by W. L.
IUKI.AN1), the Ueal E-tatu man.
Ground floor Courier building.
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