VOL. XXII. GRANTS PASS. JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON. FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1906. No. 1. GRANTS PASS MAY HAVE AUTOMATIC TELEPHONES facitic Mates Company Mevke no . Contract With the County In dependent Company The movement to secure a complete system of telephones in all sections of Josephine county and with free witching between all these rural lines and with Grants Pass is making highly satisfactory "progress. The undertaking, which was began some time ago I y the Coarier, is receiving the hearty . encouragement of the farmers, miners, millnveu, merchants ud others of the country and of the business men of Grants Pas and it is now' certain that Josephine county will be the first ia Oregon . to have free switching on lines to all parts of the county and, Grants Pasa will be the central for a larger number of telephones tbaa has any other town of its size in the state. And what is of special interest to the business men it will insare to the city the latest improved and the cheapest telephone service of any town in Sootbern Ore son. It ia the plan to have four rural telephone companies to handle the telphone business of the districts within the trade zone of Grants Pass. The organization of the first of these companies was completed last Satur day at Provolt when the stock was igued op and the offic.-rs elected for the Applegate Valley Telephone Com pany. Jadge Geo. H. Durham, who had contributed his services in prepar ing the articles of incorporation and the other papers req aired in perfect ing the legal organization of the Com pany, accompanied Mr. Meserve to Provolt and attended to the signing on of the papers and the swearing in of the board of directors- in electing the board of directors they were chosen so as to represent the various districts that will be covered by tht telephone system of tha Company. There was no contest for the positions as the di rectois, as do the other officers, serve without salary. The bord chosen were E. Badger and E. N. Provolt, for Provolt, C. O. Biglow and B'. 8. Sargent for Williams, J. W. Pernoll or Applewate, W. B York for Mis aouri Flat. J W. Gilmore and O. C. English for Murphy and Charles Me serve fur Grants Pass. E. Badger was elected president of the company and C. O. Bigolw vice-president, J. W. Pernoll treasurer and Ellis A. Irnbler secretary. G. O. Oinm of Grants Pas9, county manager for Josephine county for the Paoifio States Telephone Company was present and submitted a contract which had been prepared by J. H. Thatcher, general manager of the Company. The terms were too indefi nite as to the service to be rendered and too binding on the Applegate Valley Telephone Company so the contract was rejected. Charles Me serve submitted a contract, which he had prepared, that more equably bound both companies and definitely stated all the terms of the contract, the main points of which were similar to that submitted by Mr. Thatcher. The proposition was that Ih i Pacific States Company lease to the Appl gate Company its wire from Grants Pass to Williams for five years, reut free other than that the latter com pany was to pay the taxes on the line, about f 12 a year, and keep the line in repair and return it in as good con dition as when taken ; rent telephones at 60 cents per month, payabl i six .months in advance and keep them iu Grants Pas and all independent lines that enter this city nsiug Bell tele phones. The, Applegate Company to buildlts own branch lines. Mr. Oium stated that Gaueral Manager Thatcher would not siga the cont-ack submitted by Mr. Meserve aud as the board of directors would not gien Mr, Thatcher's contract negotiations were ended for the time being. The mat ter though was placed in the hands of a special committee composed of Charles Meserve, E. Badger and C. O. Biglow with full power to act. ' In compliance to the request of a large number of the business men of Grants Pass negotiations have bten opened, with the Atutomalio Tele phone Company, of New York, the giant rival to Bell Telephone Com pany. A contract will be entered in to with either the Pacific States Tele phone Company, which is a branob of the Bell Telephone Company or with the Automatic Telephone. Company covering Grants Pass and the entire oonnty, and the Company offering the lowest rates and the beat terms will get the business. No contract will be signed up though until the companies now under formation are organized and can be a party to the deal. The Lower Rogue River Telephone Com pany will be organized first The articles of iocorporatiou and stock have been prepared this week nndnr directiou of Judge Durham. Miss Grace Good, stenographer for Josenh Moss doing the typewriting work free of charge, aa she did for the Apple- gate Company. A meeting will be held this Saturdav eveuins at I.p school house to begin the organization of the Company, when four men will be chosen to be directors to represent this section of the territory to be covered by the Lower Rogue River Telephone Company. The other five directors will be chosen at a meeting to bB held at Merlin on Saturday next at 2:30 p. m. At the mnvtino tha legal formation of the company will be effected and the directors and other offloes elected. The stock will be $1000 and the shares 15 each. So soon as the Lower Rogue River Tele phone Company is in working order Mr. Meserve will take up the orsaui zation of the Illinois Valley Telephone Compitny and a meeting will be held iu Kerby. on Saturday, April 28, at whioh he will he present and assist in the details of the formation of this Com pany. At as early a date as possible the formation of a compauy will be effected embraoing the territory in the trade zone of Grants Pass lying- np Kogue Kiver from this citv. The Antomatio Telephone Company is the owner of a new telephone evs tern that is rapidly coming into use in all sections, of the East, and in Cali fornia, Washington and it is now be ing introduced in Portland and Salem. In this Tstem there are no girls to do the switching, that being done bv electrio devices. The telephones are small affairs and have no batteries, all the current coming from the maiu sta tion. On their front is a dial on which there are Dumber aud a hand. To make a call this hand ia moved to above a figure at a time of the num bers of the telephone wanted, the baud 1m pressed down on each of these fig ures to mate the electrio contact and then a button is pushed and that will ring the bell of the telephone of the person wanted, aud it rings the bell of no other telephone. These telephones are being introduced at a rate so fast that the Company ran hardly supply the demand. The competition created has resulte I in a lowering of rates and improvement of strvice by the Bell Companies in the places where the Automatic is being introduced. At Salem the Paci fio'States Company ha' MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP WINS IN EUGENE The Typhoid Fever Epidemic Stirs thm City to Put in Their Own Water Supply. repair, the subscribers to furnish the ' male a cut, beginning with this batteries. Free switching with 'month of city phones to tl.OO per 1 1 Sell Real Estate t BUY NOW while PRICES - LOW they are SURE ADVANCE Call and see me about some good investments I now have. W. L. IRELAND. "The Real Estate Man" & " Ground Floor Courier Bldg. Grants Pass, Orb. & Muniolpal ownership has at last won a sweeping viotory in Eugene. Last September the city voted on the issuance of bonds to put in a oitv owned light and water system aud the propositions were carried by a big majority. The oounoil after delaying and opposing munioipal ownership again submitted the question to vote iu January when it again carried And still the oouncil refused to obey the publio demand. ' Then came the typhoid fever epidemio whioh threatened to depopulate the city, for during January and February there were frequently as high aa fOO cases at time and deaths wero numerous The disease ia yet in the city, thouirh the oity and state authorities have adopted stringent measures to eradi cate it. Au investigation proved that it was the imbore water innolid hv ilm water company that had caused the typhoid fever Tbe water company showing no disposition to brine in mountain water to replace the Will- amette river water thev are surmlvmir their customers and the oounoil still refusing to obey the vote of tbe pre vious elections, a municipal owner ship league was formed and a ticket was nomiuated on that platform. At the election Monday t'.eir entire ticket was elected by a very large majority. Unless the new couucilwen are bought up Eugene will have pure water from the Cascade mountains within THE BRADEN MINE TO BE EQUIPPED J. W. Opp W ho M&de the Opp a. Paying Mine Haa Bought the Brekden Properly. a year or so and owued light lint. also have a city STREETS BEING GRADED AND CLEANED UP The Braden mine, located three miles sooth of Gold Hill has been bought by J. . W. Opp. who is now in San Francisco purchasing machinery with which to equip it. The Gold Hill Newt states that a force of men will be pnt at work so soon as Mr. Opp returns and that Jim Dawson will be foieman. The Braden is one of the most promising mining properties in Southern Oregon and it is probable that nnder Mr. Odd's management it will become a big gold producer. Mr. Opp is well known to Southern Oregon mining men aa the former owner of the Opp mine, near Jackson vine. Mr. Opp on comins to South ern Oregon a few years ago from Mon tana bought the mine, then a mere prospect, for $37,000 of O. C. Beekman the Jacksonville banker, and J. k Huffer, well known pioneer miner of that plaoe. With the three stamp mill that was on the Property ha demonstrated that it was mine and selling an interest in it to Dr. Reddy and Fred Perry of Jacksonville they a year ago put on a stamp electrio pTwer mill. Last Fall they sold the mine through Foster & Gunnell to New York capitalists. Tbe new own era are now adding 10 stamps to the mill and will add 20 more this FalL It was currently reported that Mr, Opp realized ISO, 0(H) for his contrail mg interest in the Opp mine. With this large sum at his command Mr. Opp will be able to fully equip the braden mine and develop bis new purchase into a profitable property R03UE RIVER WATER DE CLARED UNWHOLSOME Is Statement of State Board of Health Council Orders Sec lions of Sewers Retard. Surface Left Loose to Be Must In Summer and Mud In, Winter. Street Commissioner Gilflllan has begun bis Spring campaian of street cleaning and improving. With the grader be put the top coating of mud and refuse, that bad accumulated on the business streets during the Win ter, into a windrow and then with a teams hauled it away. Hh is nsina the grader to good purpose to fill up the mudholes and crown np the streets in the residenoe districts anH ha will grade several streets that are re quired to ! e improved by reason of the growth ot tha city. Grading of the street aim in brines op the necessityof having a larire strain roller to pack the loose earth. Were a 15-ton roller run over theso newlv graled streets while' the grouud is dsmp and toft the surface would be made so compact that it would not become the dust banks as is now the cise so soon as this loose earth be comes dry. It will take a year for these newly graded streets to become settled so that during the Soiuiuur months clouds of dust will not follow each vehicle to stifle both man anil horse, and in the Winter months to be one mass of mud. But ueither the city northe county has a roller so those using these newly graded s'reeta and the residents along them may eipect the usual sequence of ust and mod for tha i-eur tn month and to 3 per year for tele phones and free switching for their rural subscribers, while independent coratames nsing other make of tele phones are given switching for 11.00 a year, i his nerce competition is cer tain to affect the profits and the aala- nrs of the Bell Company. President F. P. Fish, of that companv vets a salary of. 100,000 a year and in hi an. nuai report submitted at a rr-Pnt meeting of the directors showed that (he recepts of Bell Company for last year were $100,440,204, aud gross expends were 74,110,795, leaving a net profit of 2,330,4fl9. With this enor mous profit tbe dividends were not high aa the stock is capitalized at 1334, 634,000. Of this amount fully ii60,000,0uu is watered stock the other $150,0000,00 representing the actual value of the property of tbe Company. Rheumatic Pijat Relieved. Tbe quick relief from rheumatio pains afforded by Chamberlain'. Pain Balm haa surprised and delivhtMt thousands of sufferers. It makes rest and sleep possible. A m-aat man have been permanently cored of rheu matism oy trie use of this liniment For by M Clemens. TWO GOLD HILL MINES TO BE EQUIPPED Flectrlc Both Power to be Ved Highly Promising Properties. The following mining news from the Gold Hill News will be of interest to the mining men of this section t The Bill Nye people started np their mm last Iriday with the new electrio power furnished by the Uold Hill Canal Co. Thoy report operations under the new power very satisfact ory and ' have ore enough on the dumps and blocked ou to run the mill steadily for a full year to come. All of their inachinrry is onmplete ex- CHpt a motor for the shaft whioh is now on tbe road from the east, as soon as this arrives they will resume work in sinking the main shaft. The Millionaire shaft on Blackwell Hills has now attained a depth of 150 feet. This is a double compartment shaft 0x10 feet in the clear and is in tended for a deep shift. The Gold Hill Canal Co. has a power line et tablUhed to the mine, aud new aud extensive machinery will soon lie on the gronnd to sink this shaft to the dep.li of (100 feet without stopping. Reduced Round Trip Rates East ern Points Season 1906. On July 3d and 3d, August 7th. 8th and tfth aud September 8th and 10th. 1D06, Round Trip tickets will boon sale to points named nnder the fnl. lowing conditions Both ways through Portland, to Chicago. $8045; St. Louis. $76.45 Milwaukee, $78.65; St. Paul and Minneapolis, $(18.95; Omaha, Council Bluffs, Sioux City, St. Joseph. Atch- inson, Leavensworth and Kansas City, $08.95. One way through Portland, and one way througn California, to Chicago, $85; St. Louis. $81 ; Mil- waukee. $8.1.20; St. Paul and Minim. apolis, $81.40; Omaha, Couucu Bluffs, Sioux City, St. Joseph. Leaveusworth and Kansas City, $73.60. Tickets will be sold to Milwaukee. only on August 7th, 8th and Vtb. Limits: Going, 10 days: ticket must be used going on date of sale : final return limit 90 davs from date of sale but not beyond October, 81, 1006. Stopovers: Stopovers will be eraut- ed in either direction within tha transit limits, west ot Missouri River, St. Paul, and M lnnea Dolls. also New Orleans, wheo through that point, except that no stopovers will be permitted in California on going trip. A. L. CRAIG. O. P. A. Thebpera House will be crowded on Thursday April 19th. to hear th. Dixie Jubilee Concert. Secure vnnr tickets early if yon wish to get good ones. At -the council meeting Thursday eveniug au ordinance was passed pto viaing for a broad of examiner f.n- plumbers and for au inspection of plambing and fixing lieensrifeea nn.W this ordinance, which am tin nn J- ror piumning shops and $5 for Journey men piumoers. Property owners to pay $1 for a permit to have new or innair plumbing donet the inspection to cost meui uomiug. street Commissioner Gilflllan was appointed insnector and TJI rm ' - - r. i.. iorao and w. B. Rannie were appoluted as the board of examiners for plumbers. A report was read from the bacter- ologist of the state board of .health of an analysis of Rogue river water that snowed that water supplied Grauts Pass was unhealthy. The samples of water had been sent to the state board at ineir request by Dr. Love, county neaun omcer. The contractor was ordered to relav tbe upper section of the 8eventh street sower and pot it down to the required grade at bis own expense. The tr., oommmfssloner was ordered to relav 400-foot section of the Second straet sewer that has the grade toward town instead of to the river. The none win have to be borne by the city annd will ue aoout i5o. On motion of Council man Hall tbe city attorney was -authorized to prepare an ordinance . quiring property owners to pave those eotious of Sixth and G streets within the business district of the city. Lights were ordered at Fifth nH "A and on B and E streets at the Oilhort oreek bridges on those streets. FINE PERCHERON HORSE FOR ILLINOIS VALLEY Imported From France and Costs $4000 and Is One ot the Best Animals in Oregon. T. Q. Burrows and Nicholas Saner returned this Friday morning from the East whore they visited the stables of McLaughlin Bros, at Kaunas City and Ogden to select a Porcheroo horse for the Kerby Breeders Association. Jn the Ogden stable they selected a horse and landed him to Grants Pass iu per fect condition and as full of life as though he had not taken au eight day trip on a railroad. The horse will he three years old May 18. and wni.,1.. 1800 pounds. He is jet black of perfuot from aud has unusual good action for o large a horse. Messrs. Burrows aud 8nr win t. the horse as far as WildervIIe this Fri- oay and on to Kerby Saturday. The horse will make the season in the II- liuois Valley and the farmers of that section of Josephine county iu buying this $4;)00 Percheron have Bhown a progressive spirit that is commeuda blo and a confidence in au investment that ia sure to bring them very profit ale returns. 24 stamp Stndio. pictures 2to at Miller State of Ohio, City of Toledo, ) Lucas County ( M- Fank J. Cheney makes oath that be is senior partner, of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co.. doina business in the City of Toledo. Cooutv and Slate aforesaid, aud that said firm will pay tne sum of ONE HUNDRED DOL LARS for each and ever nam nf' Catarrh that cannot be cured by the nse of Hall's Catarrh Owe. FRANK J. CHENEY. . Sworn to before me and anncm-ibed in my presence, this 6th dav of IW cember, A. D., 1886. (SEAL) A. W. GLEASON. Notary Publio. Hall's Catarrh Core la taken In tor. nally and acts directly on the blood and mucuous surfaces ot the svstem. - Send for testimonials free. F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo O. Sold by all Druggist, 75o. Take Hall's Family Pills for con. stipatlou. Don't foriMit on Saturday, April 7th. Tbe justice of tbe peace for Grant Pass ranks next to the oountv 1urlu in the amount of buisness had in his court aud in the difficult and varied legal points that are tried by attor neys that reqmre the jnstioe to give ruling on. It is thus an important matter that the justice h avA a thorough knownledge of the law. A justice who is oot well posted on law will have many of his cases ap pealed to the circuit court that would have been allowed to stand had his ruling been based on the provision of the statute, thus making more liti- -gation and more court expenses forthe taxpayers to meet. Should the oiti- zeua of Grauts Pass elect C. H. Clements as their justice of the Peace they would have an official who has a good Knowledge of the law and who would, thereby be less likely to en tail needless expeiise on the taxpayers and the litigauts by his erroneous rulings than would an inexperienced man. Mr. Clements haa In tha .1. months he has held the office made a oomtnciidabla rennril f. ir hi man If In the diwliarivfi of thn duf.iita nf Hnufi, of the peace. Don't m I hi April lth. the jubilee singers on Caught Cold While Hunting s Burglar. Wm. Them. Lannrira countable at Olmpleau. OnUrlo, AAYH I ' I nanirhk & auvnra M ntl.ll.. , , P v vwiu nunc hunting a burglar in . the forest swamps last Fall. Hearing of Cham berlaiu's Remedy. I tried it. ami fter uslnir two umull h.,itl., r completely cored." This remedy is iuteuded especially for convlis and coins, it will loosen and relieve a severe oold In less time than by any other treatment and is a favorite wherever its superior exoelleuoe haa become known. For salo by M. Clemens. You'll be sorry if yon do not hear the Dixie Jubilees on Thursday, April r New Goods Arriving Daily. WALL PAPERS . Not an old one in them. 1 Over 100 NEW PATTERNS ' That for quality and price cannot be surpaucd. PASTE The kind you will be pleased with-no fuss or dirt House Linings Best qualities. TACKS At bottom prices LINOLEUMS Beautiful new patterns. Dressers New styles at popular prices; 27 kinds. ' a doctc-0' thC V"y latMt and t81 IK)ssibIe construction, n c Designs hard to equal; quality the best. DISHES The regular hotel ware; another lot just in. GRANITE WARE An immense variety. TINWARE Wagon loads of it. GO-CARTS The newest and latest improvements, better than ever at lower prices. CAMP COTS. STOOLS and CHAIRS-Extra strong and dur- able, fold up in very small compass, can pack anywhere. 1 TENTt All sizes; 5x7 to 12x20; popular price. I ION BEDS A lot of new patterns just received. The Spring Goods are coming in a rush. Saw Mill Camps, Mining Camps, Prospectors - We are better prepared than ever to furnish out any kind of a camp complete-SATisHACTiON Guarantied. Let us demonstrate to you our ability to save you money. Thomas r O'Neill V' Ths Urjut MeaMhimlihlas Ceacara ia SoguWa Ortf.