VOL. XXI. GRANTS PASS. JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER IS, 1905. No. 37. Sfill Kfial Fstatfi t DOCTOR WITHYCOMBE OUT FOR GOVERNOR ?eit Houses Negotiate Loans Make Collections and Write Fire Insurance. Call upon or writ W. L. IRELAND, "The Real Estate Man. f Ground Floor Courier Bldg. Grants Pass, Ore. t t t t t Announces Hla Platform Is Pop ular With All Classes and Hill Be a Strong Candidate. -WATCH MY WlNbOW TOR UMBRELLAS The kind you don't lose because every one remembers a QOOD Umbrella. Bert Barnes, iml. jewEt- W. B. SHERMAN Ileal Estate and Timber ROOMS110 A. 12, MASONIC TEMPLE GRANTS PASS, OREGON PHONE 731 If you want a good, pure, wholesome SALT that will not pack or clog in the salt shakers, buy Leslie's Sterilized ES ALT! TiTJIVIN IINO Use the Velvet Grain for general kitohen use. kinds on sale at Both THE ROGUE RIVER COFFEE MARKET, 420 Front street. POWER and Electric Light We are now ready for business. Do not make any contract until you have seen our solicitors. Pat ronize and encourage the com pany which has already fokckd L"W THICKS, AND WHICH WILL AID AND HELP BUILD UP YOUR TOWS AND cocNTiiv. Judge us by what wo have done and are doing. Condor Water & Power Co. Dr. James Withy com be has formally announced bis candidacy for governor of Oregon and In an interview pub lished in the Orrgcuian of last Friday he states the leading Issues cn which he proposes to make his cauipaigu, and if elected to the povercorship, to strive to have enacted into laws. Dr. Withycon'be, while having been promineut for years in the iudostrial affairs of Oregon, has taken no active part in political matter, oibrr tlmu that which ahoold be taken by every true citizcen of the state by voting conscientiously fcr the measures and the men that best conserve the in terests of the publio gord. The Doc tor has never allied himself with either the Mitchell or the Simon fac tion of the republican party, and his candidacy will not be handicapped by the opposition of either of these factions. It is concedid by promi nent repnblicaua that Dr. Withy combe could more nearly nnite his party than any of the other caudidates that are aspiring to guberarteual hon ors, aud that h would be the most formidable opponent that the re publicans could put up against Gov ernor ( baniberlain w ho is certain to be the democratic candidate. The Drctor has jrobably the largest ac quaintance of any man in Oregon with the farmers of the state, aud he universally respected by th(tn and he will poll a big vole in the rural disticts. While his acquaintance not so extenisve In the towns, yet he is known by many business men, who have found him to be a bread- gauged, progressive man, fully abreast of the times on all efforts to develop the vast resources of the state. Dr. Withyeombo was for yenrs a successful farmer in Washington county, whore he yet owns a tine farm. lie was one of the first farmers of the Witlamette Valley to abaudou wheat raising as the cue crop grown, and which was putting more mortgages on the farms thau wealth to the growers, and to tako up diverHitiul farming. In his work in the Stale Agrcoltural College and in the farm ers iuntitatei he hus iluno more than auy other man in Oregon to give im petus to the movement now on for the advancement of agriculture to a higher stuudard aud to a more pro ductive couditiou. Dr. Wlthycombe is in the prluie of life, a man of fine personality, and His life, both private aud public, tins been manly aud clean. He is a man of strict iutegrity and broad business capacity and as governor he would bring a business man's training and extwrieu.e in the din- charge of the multitude of duties that pertains to that oflice, which is really that of business muuager for the state. Dr. Withyconibe has been iii all sections of Oregon and he is fullv posted on the conditions and needs of the entire slate aud as governor he would be able to act uu auy measure that would be submitted to biin, with a full knowledge of all the conditions bearing upon it. Dr. Withycooibe's candidacy has beau known for some time in this part of the statu aud it is generally con ceded that he will carry the South ern Oregon counties by a very large majority at the primary electiou in April, aud by a greater majoiiiy at the June election. The following is the interview in full that the Oregouiau secured from Dr. Withycoiube, relative to hit sl tion ou questions of interest to the taxpayers aud people of Oregou : A farmer aud a farmer candidate for Governor of Oregon is what It. James Wlthycombe, ol Corvallis, call-; himself. And the Doctor is proud of the title, for he thinks lartniug the best ocou- pation on eaith and among Oregon days past? He says nay to both questions. And as Dr. Withvcoinbe was the first republican to become a candi date, so he is now the first to make kuown the issues on which he will make his campaign. As stated by him in an inteiview with The Ore gonian yesterday, they will be in part as follows: Taxation of franchises and other in tangible properties that now, escape the assessor. Unifoim as-sesnnfnt aud taxation of railroads in the various couutics. A state beard of control for state institutions. A law to regulate state baukg. One board for management of nor mal schools. A gross-earnings tax on telegraph, telcplune and express corporations. Improvement if the Columbia River aud coast seaports of Oregon. Purchase of the locks at Oregon City by the National Government Liberal aupfort by the state of agri cultural fairs and farmers' institutes. Auietduieut to the constitution so that the governor and the peoplo may veto items in appropriation bills. A square deal for every person. A greater aud a united Oregou. "Talk politics?" lie rrspruded, after making known his platform, for he was asked to tell what he thought cf matters aud things as they affected himself and his rivals. "Now, see here," he went on, apologetically, "if yon were to ask me about a bull, or a' cow, cr a sheep, or a hog, or vetches, 1 might be ablo to give some information, but when it comes to politics. I dou't know much. "I aui not a candidate of any oliqne or faction, and if there are any bosses I expect tin-m to work against me. I am a candidate, not before the bosses, hut before the people, and if i can't be nominated by the people', I don't want to be ueminalcd at all. I don't consider myself a politician at all, for I am ignorant of political manipulations, uever having doue work in that line, and never having been a candidate for political ofllca before. It gives me pride to say that I am a farmer candidate, for agriculture has been my lifework. "But look here," he interjected, as he saw his- remarks going down on taper, "am I not nsiug a lot of I's? They're all right on potatoes, hut too many in politics are a bother. One of the worst forms of social in justice," he resumed, getting lack to his discourse, "is that which comes fiom nueveu burdens of taxation. I'nder the present system, farms and livestock and ho nes of the many poor in cities and towua are taxed higher than their rightful share. "To alleviate this, franchises ought to be taxed, railroads ought to be uniformly assessed aud the gross earnings of telegraph and telephone and express companies should be taxed. To bo sure, the Assessor of Multnomah has assessed frannchises ill Portland, but Ins authority under the law Is uncertain, aud the state should have a specific law. "The time has come when our state institutions should lie managed by a hoard of control. This would secure economy of administration aud more ellicieucy of service. "And the time has also come when the people's treasure on deposit III private tanks should be safeguarded by regular inspection of their nuances by a stale examiner. The people of Oregon have lost large sums ot money through careless aud conscienceless banking me hods, aud many have been brought down to poverty. Announcement for Sheriff. I time this opportunity to announce through the press to ui friends of Jo lipine cuuuty aud the republican party of said county that I am a can didate for the oflice of sheriff of said county. My name will be before the Primary nominating eleotiou April 20, l'.Ksi, as a candidate fur nomina tion to the oflice of sheriff by said re publican parly. J. P. MoOONNELL, Merlin, Ore. REDUCED RAILWAY RATES BEARS, COUGARS, FOXES, WILD CATS IN TROUBLE Warden Makes Havoc With Big Came Coyotes Destroy Pheaa ants and Farm Stock. The S. P. Co. Reduces Kales for the Holidays luduatrie the most he coucedes that if or a manufacturer c might be satisthd. valuable. Vet he were a miner r a merchant he too, but s a MARHLE AND GRANITE "WORKS J, B. PADIMM.il, rroprniur, I am prepared to furnish anything in the line ol C.metery work in any kind ' MNH."hitT' r'i" rbl ba,inM' m"noXM ny'"" ti,e I ran fill vour orders in the very best manner. . . Can furnish work in Scotch, S.ede or American Granite or any kind of W"Fwnt street, next to Greene's Gunsbop. tiller of the soil aud a glower of live stock he Ihiuki lie is hi Nature's best uotch. Dr. Withyconibe was In Portland yesterday getting ready the agricul tural remark which he was to make to the Evening Star Grange at Mount Tabor last night. Ibis was the real purpose of his coming from the Ag ricultural College at Corvallis, where he is director ol the cx runout station, but he allowed Inuiseir to Hike a trip through the political highways' aud byways when asked how lie was roouiug for governor. Dr. Waliycouioe was first of re publicans to announce his cauilluacy. That was way hack last Spring. Since that time C. A. Johns, lawyer of baker City, has siiel his color into the ring, and T. V. tieer, of Salem, is beiievtd to be about to do the same thing. Between the two is I)r Withyconibe, whom both factious disown, but who hopes to be the means of uniting them in the election. Is Dr. w ithycorube d sconcerted by the word that Mr. Um-r luundaiu run for Governor? Is he alaru.ed by the candidacy of Mr. Johns, for whom J W. Hcriber, of La Grande, has been working in Portland, several On DcceinW M, 21, 2.',, !I0, 81, 1IKW aud Jauoary 1st, 1UIH1 tickets will be on sale to all isiiuta on Oregou Lines at out and one-third fare with a mini mum rates of lifty M)j cents, Children of half fare age, half rate with mini mum of 2.r cents. lie torn limit January 'Jud. Stop overs will not bo permitted. A. L. CHAKi, U. P. A. Heart Fluttering Indigested food and gas in the stouiacli, located just below the heart, presses against It and causes heart nalnitation. Wheu vour heart troubles yen in that way take Her- bine for a few days You'will soon be all right. 50c at Modal Drug Store and at Hoteriuund's. Cured Hit Mother of Rheuir.atlim j " My mother lias been a sufferer for I many years from rheumatism," says ' W. II. Howard of Husband, Pennsyl vania. "At times she w a. unable to move at all, while at all times i walking was aiiifol. I presented her ' with a bottle of Chamberlain's Pam Palm and after a few applicat ons she I decided it was the most wonderful pain reliever si e had ever tried, in fact, she is never without it uow aud is at ull times a hie to walk. An oc casional application of Pain iialiu keep away the pain that she was for merly troubled with." For sale by all druggists. Wood-$I.2S. Cook stove and heater wood for sale at tl.2i a tier delivered Harry Smith's sawmill. Leave orders at H ugar Pine Store. Joseph A. Conner, of WiUlerville, deputy ame wardeu for Josephine county, was in Grants Pass Monday. Mr. Conner stated that the state game law was being fairly well observed in thUcoiiuty. He has only heard cf one gang of deer skinners. They began killing deer on lower Rogue river for their hides but they learning of his coming look over the mountains into Coos couuty aud gave up their nefar ious work, at least iu this section of the state. Most of the residents of tins county, who desire to hunt have taken out licenses aud there is a geueral disposi tion among prospectors, stock men aud fanners to obey the law. The town men usually have a license as they run the chance cf being informed ou by some irate rancher. The country people are learning that the state game laws are really a benefit to them iu that skin hunters aud professional hunters who kill doer for the market are driven out of the (xiii n try, or put into jail. thus protecting the game for the use of the fettlels. The (mall fee of a dollar for a hunter's license, that goes to make up the fund to pay the agme wardcus, is a profitable expen di'ure to the residents of the country. As to destruction of deer by cougars aud coyotes, Mr. I (inner Is convinced that oue cougar will kill more duer iu a year thau a dozen hun ters. Coyotes also kill many deer, running down the fawns, and also catching grown deer when they can frighten them aud chase them iuto the snow, during the winter season. A bounty paid for tho killing of cougars, especially, from the game fund, Mr. Conner thiuks, would be a profitable investment to hunters. Mr. Conner last month took a 10 days trip to the Lower lll.nois valley to learn if there wore hunters there violating the game laws. While on the trip hi did some hunting himself and had flue success. He was ac companied by Dick Lindsay, of Cheney creek, aud Jim lirinegar, of WiUlerville. They had au outfit of pack horses ntid dogs aud had their horses loaded ou the return trip with pelts and meat. While on Silver creek they killed nine bears, one being a cub, all the others being large, two weigh ing over 400 pounds each. The.- brought considerable boar meat home with them for when it is cured it is equal to the best of baoou. They also got UO'gallous of oil from the. bears. In other game tiny killed while ou the trip two large cougars, three wild cats and two foxets. They shot at a coyote, but he was too far to get him The coyotes are considered the most difficult of game to kill, tor they are too sly to be trapped and they are soch adepts at aueakiiit, through the brush that they seldom can be seen. While good hunting dogs will put a bear or a cougar up a tree In a snort chase, but when the dogs get oil the trail of a coyote, that wily brute is not so loolish as to climb the llrst tree he comes to, even if he could, as (loos a bear or a cougar, hut he immediately starts ou a hike across the lulls that lasts as long as the dogs see fit to stay iu the race. Once iu a chaparal or luanzailit thicket the coyotu Is lost to the dogs aud the hunteis for it cau mate far bettor spewed 111 the brush thau call auy dog. With plenty of food and little danger from hunters the coyotes are increasing iu Southern Oregou aud have beome a scourugu to the farmers. Chickens, pigs, sheep and goals are their chief dependence. Hut when drivel, by hunger a lone calf or a hog is readily attacked and killed. Deer aud rabbits are favorite game for the coyotes aud quail and pheasant eggs ami the young that are unable to tty are delicacies that no coyote lets pass. The great decrease ill ouail ai.tl pheasant ill Southern Oregon is attributed to the great ill crease of coyotes, and though China liheasauts have been introduced in Kogue Hiver alley for a number o vears aud it is a heavy penalty to shoot theiii, they have increased veiy slowly and are but little more plenti ful than they were five or six years at.0. As them phea-anta iucreasa veiy rapidly in every other section win re they have Is" n introduced it Is quite likely that the coyotes pre vol t their Iucreasa iu this Valley, by eating the eggs and the young. AN APPLEGATE FARM THAT IS PROFITABLE Mr. and Mrs. Erlckson Make Monsv Off Stoek. Hay. Fruit and Poultry. That hos, by reason of the gamb ling proclivities of the big dealers, will yield the grower mote to Die aa a fertilizer than if sold is no concern to Mr. aud Mrs. E. Ericksoo, who have a flue faim a mile above Wilderville on the Applet ate, for thty have crops that are salable at living prices and which are not of a class that gamblers can manipulate to their profit and the growers ruin. Mr. Erickson devotes his attention to stock, hay and frnit and has made money out of these products. He ex pects to do more daiiyiug aa he has found that a ready sale at a good price can always be bad in Grants Pass Icr cream and bntter. His frnit growing has been fairly profitable, but he finds that the profits are gieutly cut down I y bis having to ship in small quantilier, the freight and the dialers commission taking much of the pro ceeds. And theu souu times he fares even wolse than the hop growers for he loses a consignment entirely. This Fall he sent a shipment of flue apples to a Stockton, Cal., commission niau and he has not had the remittance yet. Mr. Krlckiou is In favor of a fruit growers union, and weie one organized he wonld plaut nore fruit trees. He has seine very choice poach land and brought to Grants Pass this Fall fome of the largest and finest peaches ever iu this niaiket. Mrs. KrUkson is eveu more fortu nate thau I or husband in her market ing experiences, for the has more orders at all times thau she cau pos sibly fill for eggs and looltry. When iu Grunts Pass Tuesday she brought in 14 dozeu eggs fot which she got 40 cents per dozeu cash, and she could have told a 1000 dozeu at the same price had she had them. Mra. Krlckiou has sent to Grants Pass from nine to Iii dozvii eggs each week since iu July. She uses an incubator for hatching the eggs, w hich ia doue eloring Feb ruary and March. Hy the middle of July the pullets begin to lay. and they ktep up their laying all F'all and Winter. She uow has 4fi hens that are laying 8't, cents apiece eggs, ou a cost for food of less than a cent au egg. Mra. Kricksou only keeps about 70 fowls, she finding that a small flock well cared for yields more profit thau larger number. Mass Meeting Called. A Balance ( f Power Maaa Couveu tion for Josephine county will be held at the Court House ou Monday night at H p. m, for the purpose of organiz tug the county for a good citizenship movemeut. It will be strictly uon partisan and every preoinct ia request ed to appoint special delegates. The State Chairman, Dr. (. L. Tuffs, of irtlaud, and other speakers are ex pected to address the meeting. Let every one in sympatithy willi good government anil clean polities be present. About one-third of the counties of the state are already or ganized along this same line. GRANTS PASS, DENVER OF SOUTHERN OREGON Such Its Possibility. Is the Opin ion of a Denver Min in g Man. Repairing Chairs and Rockers Have you a chair or rocket that the rounds aud legs persist in coming loose? ('all in aud let ns show you how it can be fixed for keeps. We have opened a repair shop. Phone 2:i.r Tlimnas & O'Neill. F. A. Viokery, mining man of Denver, ia making Grunts Pasa his headquarters while looking over the mineral resources of Southern Oregon. Mr. Vickrry has given a thorough ex amination of the ores iu the exhibit room of the Grants Pass Miners' As- social ion and lie aaya that the samples indicate that there ia seme very prom isiug mining pioperty in tbia district. He thinks if GiautsJPsss has an am bition, which lie thinks attainable, of brocmiug the Denver ofSotithern Oregon, that itf. mineral exhibit should be enlarged in scope andfem- brace every district from the Blue River to the Northern California dis trict. These exhibits should be ar ranged in the display bv sections. Miuiug men over the conutry would roon lea in of this exhibit aud if it were complete and inde up of honest em plea, it would draw many investors here and they would thus he led to uiake Granls Pasa their headqiiaitctia while lot king ever the districts. Mr. Vickery alatea that Southern Oreguu and Northern California ia at. tiactlng much attention in the other great milling sections and if the dis trict as propetly advertised a large s mount of capital could be attracted here for investment. And If Grants Pasa would display the same energy that Denver aud S(iokaue did that it was quite possible for this city to be tho headquarters aud a big city for a mill ing district fully as larger aa the dis tricts that niadi the Colorado and Washington towns two of the largett and most prosperous cities cf the West. Mr. Vickery atatea that until the last year or two Colorado capitalists have had ao uiauy profitable invest ments iu their own state that they have l ad no inclination to aeek out- aide iiivesuiouta. While Colorado is steadily pouring out its mineral wealth iu increasing quantities, yet it doea uot offer the iiidiiotmeuta for the ground-Moor investments that it did iu the period of Its first develop ment, aud the big mining men of that slate are now la ginning to lcok up what other districts have to offer them. The Nevada hooiu of last year attracted many of them ,'aud a large amount of ('(dorado capital waa in vested Iu that state. Southern Ore gon and Northern California la at tracting considerable attention iu Colorado and Mr. Vickery ia of the opinion that if this district was well advertised that many Colorado capital ists i-oiild lie induced to come here and Invest. Aa to the outlook for mineral wealth Mr. Vickery thinks the suiface indications of Southern Oregou are aa good aa that of any dis trict he has ever lawn in. George Ilerriott of Applegate waa at Provolt Friday with his newly Invented sickle grimier. It is one of tho handiest farm Implements ever gotten up. It is a combination aud cau lie list d for many purposes. The price la 113. Fanners get one and rave time ou the farm. Curtis A Co. Gold Kings and for Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, flue watch No Catc ol Pneumonia en Record. We do uot know of a single Instance where a cough or cold resulted in piieiiiunuia or consumption when Foley's Honey ami Tar had been taken. It cures coughs and colds per fectly, so do not take chances Willi some unknown preparation which nuiy contain opiates, which cause oict- Istiiialion, a condition that retards re- repairing, engraving. Moods sold at covory front a cold. Ask fin Foley's reasonable prices. Come and see us. Honey and Tar and refuse any sub I. O. O. F. liuilding, Grants Pass, ! stitule offered. For sale hy II. A. Oregon. lioteriiiuiul. ' ft 0 "Music hath 1 fUilUllll, fit S" llnlil luibilinp YMli'A I WILL SELL TSASI MARK Caughintj Spell Cauiid Death "Harry Duck well, aged 2"i years, chocked to death early yesterday morning at his borne, III the presence of liis wife and child. He contracted a alight cold a few days ag i ami paid but little attention to It. Yesterday morning lie was ei.ed with a lit of coughing which oiitiiiueil for ;some time. His wile sent lor a pnysiciau but before he could arrive, another cou gliiug Kpt-11 came ou and Duekwell riled Irom sutlcs-ation. St. Ixiuis Glolat Democrat, Deo. I, lliul." Hal lard's Hon hound Syrup would have saved him. 2-, M. and 11.00 at Kotxrniund s and at Model Drug Store. $1 Records for 60c W. A. Paddock, Agt. HAST OF DKl'OT. Ml-1 ' ' -sy i v :. i vf