T VOL. XXII. GRANTS PASS. JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1906. No. 3. EARTHQUAKE WRECKS SAN FRANCISCO Hundreds of Building Fall and Fire Adds to the Loss Thous ) " nds of People Killed. Earthquaae and fire Wednesday all bat annihilated San Francisco, and brought a low of lives and property " not equaled in modern times to any '"- '-"city so afflioted. While the number of "W persons killed is not known yet the I estimate is placed at 2000 and it may 'Ji be far greater when the wreckage is cleared away and the bouies are all secured. The property damage is es timated at close to $100,000,000 while the loss of business to the city will be as much more. And this frightful earthquake will place a permanent handclap npon the city's growth for people will fear to live there and cap italists will not put money into vast business blocks and sky scrapers that may be demolished in moment by the f jroes of nature. As summarized in the press dis patches., of Wednesday and Thursday accounts reads as follows : The city is practically mined by the earthquake and fire. The Call building:, a skyscraper is v,' burned out entirely. The Examiner, another skyscraper JuBt fell in a heap. Fire is all around (n every direction, and away out in the residence district. The destruction by earthquake is something frightful. The City Hall dome is stripped, and only .the framework is standing. St. Ignatius Church and College are lowered to the ground. ' The Emporium, on Market near Sixth street, is gone, as are also the ' old Flood buildinR, on Market aud 4 f Front streets. Mechanics' Pavilion is being used as a morgue. Three hundred dead bodies are reported already gathered at that i place. The wind is blow ing a gaie, f and the fl uns are said to be making headway. The shock of the earthquake was felt as far south as Santa Barbara. The fact that Uaklaud and San Jose nd other bay cities have uot been able to pommnnioate with Los Angeles would indicate that they, too, have suffered from the shock. There is a jam of panic stricken peo ple at the ferry in San Francisco seek ing to cross the bay to Oakland. Fires are raging everywhere, and the firemen are using dynamite. The Palace and Grand Hotels have been destroyed. Mayor Schuiiitz has sent to Oakland for more dynamite. Fires are reported at Oakland, Ala meda aud Berkeley. The Call and Ralto buiildings are ablaze. The lofty Call building is swaying, 'and expect ed to topple over. The Southern Pa cific building, next door to the Postal Telegraph Company, is afire. The Postal building is almost an entire wreck, bi t communication is main tained with Los Angeles on a single wire. The Sunset Telephone building, on Bush street, and the Western Uniou, at Pine aud Montgomery streets, are entirely wrecked. Up to 11 o'clock, Wednesday about 400 dead had been brought to Median iocs' Pavilion, and others were coming In all the time. The soldiers are maintaining ord r as far as possible!, but the population has no thought of anything but escape f from the city. Shocks continue at in " LerraU. At P:20 ana at 10 o'clock Sphere were heavy shocks that did fur ther datnape and brought increased panic. "sVsVsVsVsVsV'arBV! 1 1 Sell Real Estate j 9 -'SN Call and see me. about some good investments I now have. W. L. IRELAND. "The Real Estate Man" 0 . Ground Floor Courier Bldg. Grants Pass, Okk. 0 The NevadaBank block and Western Union buildings at Pine and Mont gomery streets are utterly demolished. A lodging house at Second and Stev enson streets buried mauy victims, six having been taken out It is said buildings were destroyed at Salinas, about 100 miles south of San Francisco. It is reported that two ships at an chor in the bay were sunk. The first shock of the earthquake was felt at 5 :15 a. m. on Wednesday and lasted for a minute and a half. It was so violent that it seot great buildings to the streets a mass of ruius and cracking the earth in many places broke the water mains leaving the city without water with which to fight the hundreds of fires that started with the smashing of the buildings. The electrio light wires went down as did the telegraph aud telephone wires. No communication could be had with the oity all day Wednesday bnt by Thursday the wires were put In order. The railroad tracks were damaged and Southern Pacific trains have been de layed. All the neighboring tewns were damaged but only to a limited extent. The earthquake shocks continued dur ing the day doing additional damage and still more terrorizing the people. The shocks were felt as far south as Los Angeles and all Southern Oregon experienced the earthquake. The shock ws felt here in Grants Pass at 6:15 a. ui., the time it shook San FraocUoo. It shook houses and caused open doors to swing. It was so light though that it awakened but few persons, it was the heaviest ever experienced here since the settlement of Rogue River Valley. doraTennings " second trial begun Jury Secured and They Visit Scene of Murder Court Adjourns to Monday. Circuit court was convmed Monday by Judge Hanna aud the second trial was begun of Dora Jennings, the 19-year-old girl, for complicity with her brother Jasper in the murder of their father, N. M. Jeouiugs at Granite Hill mine last September. Colvig & Dur ham, who defended her in the first trial in which the jury could not agree, are her attorneys while the state is represented by District Attorney Reames. The entire day was pat in in selecting jurymen and only five were accepted. Judge Hanna then dis charged all the regular panel and is sued a veuire for SO men and Sheriff Lewis and deputies put in Tuesday summoning the required number of persons. Wednesday all were in noort aud out of the 50 the other soveu jury men were selected, the full panel be ing as follows: J. B. Baructt, Alex George, C. L. Epperly, W. F. Grim inett, Roy Crag, Samuel Alderson, Joseph Connor, L. W. Carson, T. Mott, J. F. Sparlin, J . R. White and M. W. Gates. Judge Hanna then adjourned oourt until Monday as It would require all day Thursday for -the jury and the at tornev to visit the scene of the murder and Friday, being election day is a lugal holiday and court cannot be heM. The attorneys wishing to begin the trial on Saturday it was decided to take up the case Motday morning. Judge Hanna has two sons and a daughter residing in San Frtocisoo in the part of the city destroyed by the earthquake and setting no word from them he left Wednesday evening for his home at Jacksonville ud may go ou to San Francisco this Thursday. Will you bs there? Big Wonder Discount Sale, 9 o'clock, Saturday, morning. Silver Medal Contest under the in structions of Mrs C H. Clements will be given in the Woodman Hall April 27, 1906 BUY NOW PRICES - LOW they are SURE ADVANCE CHEAP IRRIGATION FOR ROGUE RIVER VALLEY Less Expenne to Operate Pumping Plant Than to. Build and Use Ditches. Editor Courier; Irrigation aud how to irrigate suc cessfully at a minimum of cost is the problem that is now engrossing the time and attention of the farmers and gardeuers of this beaotiufl Rogue River Valley of ours. Irrigation no longer Is a theory, bnt an established fact and as such we must accept it, if we. who look to agrionlture for a basis of our standing as a community and prosperity, are to remain in the running. Therefore, it behooves us to look into and carefully examine minutely every irrigation project or problem that might present itself in order that we may take advantage of the beat systems and apply 'them to ourselves. Foi Irrigation, to us, is in its infancy, we might say, new born, and from personal knowledge acquired by the writer in our immediate neigh borhood there are almost as many systems spoken of and adocated as there are farmers and gardeners. California today, of all the Btate", stands pre-eminent in point of suo- o ssful irrigation, and has set a pace for production of agricultural pro ducts that has put a hustle on the ctber states, and noticeably our state of Oregon, to keep in the markets in very many lines. It has uot been caused by the fact of having any bet ter soil than we have, in faot far from it. One acre of Southern Cregon aud especially of Rogue River Valley soil 1, in thw writer's estitnttion, worth for quality and productive quantity, two and one-half acres in any part of agricultural California. But the chief reason of the recent agricultural success is owing to irrigation by scientific and economical methods. In view of government experiments of individuals irrigating by flooding the land is worthless, in fact, injur ious. The proper definition of irri gation is to insure having moisture or water when needed aud not to water at any or all times because one may have it at their command ; therefore, users of water must be edu cated either by esprienoe or instruc tion. Is there any excuse for the use of nine feet of water in one locality and only two in another where conditions are similar, and where the man using only two feet produces a larger and better crop? The only excuse 1 negligence, lack of intelligence or laziness, aud the man using nine feet will find, when too late, that his laud is ruined and his efforts tor naught, and he must seek a new location aud damn the country he is leaving, when there is no one to blame but himself. Irrigating by ditches while success ful still has many drawbacks. It is wasteful. It occupies or tak?s upland that could be profitably worked. It is always a snurca of cars and annoy ance aud it is expensive in baildiug ditches and maintaining them, for they muBt be permanent aud expensive in oot pet aunum for water. In ad dition they are iwstileutial, becoming breeding places fcr mosquitos and malaria. Io localities where there is no oi her method of procuring water, however, ditches aud their attendant evil must be endured. We in the Regno River. Valley therefore are blessed two-fold, first, in the fact that we have no nuiversal system of ditches aud that we have under our feet an immense body of pure water, the finest in the laud, and at almost any place we wished to dig can strixe water in auy part of the valley at depths varying from 10 to 40 feet. Iu addition to having more water than we know what to do with, we are uucommonly blessed in th fact that it is soft; that it cooruins no calcareous deposits or formations nor alkali aud can be adapted to any use. This property of softness for irriga tion purposes li a valuable one, for uo matter how cold it may come oot of the well, even though it were pumped right into the garden, it would not injure the delicate teudrils or roots of vegetables or grassvf. Theie is not a man, woman orjehild, hardly residing in this beautifol val ley bnt what is aware of these facts concerning oar wells and water, but what troubles us the most, is the method, or the means of distribu tion. The irrigation of laud by means of pumping is now receiving marked attention and people are beginning to realize that the vast areas, where ditches do not exist or are not pos HIGH COMPLIMENT FOR ROGUE RIVER FRUIT From President E. L. Smith of The State Board of Horticulture. At the meeting of the State Horti cultural Sooiety held in Portland last week, President E. U Smith tendered his resignation as presiding officer and a . member of the board. On severing his connection with the board President Smith delivered a short address outliniug the conditiion of the fruit industry in Oregon, and among bis statements he paid a high compliment to the possibilities of grape growing in Josephiue county, aud of the splendid quality of grapes grown by A. H. Carson of Redlauds Vineyard, and who is a member of the State Board of Hortionlture. The following is President Smith's address : Commissioners, Oregon State Board of Horticulture: The relation which I have borne to the State Board of Horticulture for the past six years, that of commissioner at large and chairman of the board, ceases today, aud I am gratified to state that the horticultural interests of Oregon were never in more promising condition than at . present ' It is indeed true that the number of orchard diseases and pouts have . not materially de creased, but we have more well known specific treatments that regu late aud control them. My recommendation to our Legisla tive Assembly, embodied in the eighth bieunial report of this board, that a law be enacted providing for the ap pointment of county fruit inspectors, met with approval and sooh legisla tion was enacted. The beneficial re sults which hae followed the ap pointment of the county fruit inspect ors are too wll known to require fur ther mention here. Our State Horticultural Society has blossomed into new life aud large auxilliary societies havd been organ ized in different portions of tt:e Btate. In the Willamette Valley a cam paign of reclamation of old orchards is being vigorously waged and an in. creased planting of young trees over previous years is reported. In ail the principal fruit growing sections of the state a vast area of young orchards will come into bearing v ithiu the next three or four years. In - Hood River aloue there are about 8000 acres of inch orchard, all of which aro Yel low Newtowns aud Spitzeubergs, esti mated to produce three years later 400,000 boxes of fanoy fruit. Jackson county, however, is now aud likely to remain the leading fruit county ot Oregon. Jt is first in ap ples, first in peaches, first in pears and I believe first in grapes. Its or chards are large, well kept, and its growers are up-to-date in all that re lates to their industry. Immense planting of young trees has been going on for years past and in a few years the output of apples aud pears from Jackson county will exceed any estimate we dtre miike. Josephiue county in a less degree produces most excellent fruit. The grapes shipped to Portland last season by Commissioner Carson, where not to be excelled by same varieties Cali fornia grown. Douglas county has almost limit lets possibilities for fruit growing and her prune orchards are among the best in the state. East of the Cascades, Union, Uma tilla aud Wasco counties must be classed amoug the great fruit growing counties of the state. Oregon has so many counties admirably adapted to fruit growing that it i unnessary to specialize farther. It is a matter of congratulation that this Board after this date will be o happily constituted for effective work. Your chairman is a man of ability, a practical horticulturist, aud of many years service as a mem ber of this board. Our new Commissioner of the First District, the most important of any in the state, demonstrated, while county inspector of Clackamas and Multnomah counties, that be was fully competent to enforce the statutes made for the protection of our fruit growers. Gentlemen, 1 approach the conclus ion of this brief report with no little leluctance. For six years I have shared the councils of three members of the Board, Commissioners Carson, Newell aud Geer, and for a briefer period Commissioners Weber and Park. Dnring all this time not the least disseution has arisen, but all the characterized by harmony and courtesy to its ihairiuan, for which he tenders his appreciation. It is the earnest desire of your re tiring president that your future councils may be characterized by like unauimity aud your labors of still greater value to our fruit growers and the state. To the fruit grower of Oregon whose servant I have been f'-r the past six years, I desire to tender my thanks for uniform courtesy and many complimentary expressions of the value of my work. My only re gret is that these services were not .of greater value. EUREKA MINE SOLD . TO PITTSBURG MEN A Company With Big Capital to Operate The Fsxmoua Soldier Creek Property. There is every likelihood that Jose phioe county will have another big produolug gold mine for the Eureka mine has been sold to John W. Bolleaa and assooiates of Pittsburg, Penn., who will at once put the mino in op eration. The sale was made by C. L. Manguui, president of the Grants Pass Miners' Association, and it is one of the largest Jlie has made, among whioh were the Granite Hill and the Old Channel mines. The amount paid for the mine is not given out but the first cash payment of 130,000 was made through the First National Bank of this city on Tuesday and the other payments are to be made in the near future. The - purchasers are all wealthy men, some of Mr. Boileau's associates being among the big mill ionaires of Pennsylvania, thus making it certain that the company will have ample capital to equip and operate the mine on an extensive scale. There are 18 claims in the Eureka group and development work has been carried for several years past on them and a large amount of shaft and tuuuel work has been done, one of the shafts being to a depth of S50 feet. Folly $250,000 worth of ore has been blocked out and ready to be broken down aud hoisted to the ore bins. The mine is now equipped with a 10-atainp mill, two wilfley tables, cyadine plant, two hoists, electrio light plant, business and assay office and mesdbouse and other build jngs. Steam power is now used, but electric power will be installod by another year. Eleotrio power can be readily had as the mine is sitoated on Soldier creek, a tributary of Briggs creek, and bnt one mile from where the latter stream enters Illinois river. Just below the mouth of Briggs creek there is a natural site for a dam in the Illinois river where fully 8000 H. P. can readily be developed. As not over 1000 H? P. will be required at the mine the remainder will be trans mitted toother parts of Illinois Val ley for mine and other purnofes. The Eureka mine is now reached by a sled trail of 17 miles from He I ma, but is only six miles op Briggs creek and across the divide by a good route Tents, Camp Furniture, Cots Now's the time, let us quote you. Couches More new ones. Go-CartS Another lot new patterns and prices. Carpets Closing out some remnants at great reduction. Stoves and Ranges $9.20 to $50.00. New Glassware More like Cut Glass than anything you ever saw. Popular prices. The 10c Cour ter Is still doing a big business, the va riety is far too large to specify, we name a few to give you an inkling of the many good things to be had. More New Dressers All prices. Quality first Lowest possible prices always and money back if you are not satisfied, our maxmiutn, and a house to tie to if you want satisfactory dealings. Thomas & O'Neill Th Largest tlouMfuniiihlnJ Concern In Southern Orrgin. to the present terniiuus of the wagon road from Loves Station to Swede Basin. It is the plnn o build this road this Summer, which will shorten the distauce betweeu Grants Pass tnd the mine from 87 miles to 91 miles. As it is expected to get the railroad from Grants Pass to Illinois is Valley completed this Fall as far as Loves Station the mice will the be with uew road completed, in easy freighting distauce from railroad transportation. So soon as the machinery can be de livered by freight teams the mill bnilding will be enlarged and addi tional batteries will be installed of possibly 40 or 60 stamps. C. L. Ken ney of Pittsburg, who exported the property for the purchasers, is now in charge of the mine and will at once put on a force of men and begin extensive development work. A. F.' Nelson, who has been superintendent of the mine, will go to California, ' where he has property interests that require bis attention. The mine now known as the Eureka was discovered about 10 years ago by William H. Miller, a veteran pros pector. In the next two years Miller took out a large quautlty of gold, generally credited at from $10,000 to 15,0O0, wbioh he mortared oot, so rich was the rook. Hs had several offers to buy the mine, but would not sell except for cash and eight yean ago he sold the property to a company of Eureka, Cal., men for ,128,000. Miller was a queer old fellow and in sisted on having the gold coin counted out to him, but when he saw the bulk and the great weight be relaotantly consented to take a draft for the greater part of his easily acquired wealth. He soon after went to Alaska and has not been heard of since by bis friends in this seotion. The Eureka company equipped the mine with a fine 10-stamp mill and operated It awhile, bat legal difficulties arising the mine was shut down. The size aud formation of the veins and the known high values that are nn- covered make it certain that the Eu reka will become one of the great gold producers of ths faoino Coast Woodvllle to The Front. J. H. Bagley, was iu Grants Pass . Monday from Wood vi lie. Mr. Bagley and his oousin, E. E. Bagley, a large capitalist of Janesville, Wis., have undertaken extousive land and town development at Woodvlllo. .In addi tion to buying the greater part of ths townsite they have purchased about 2uxj0 acres of land adjoining Wood ville. They plan to put this land under irrigation and then sell or lease It in small tracts. Woodvllle II on Rogue river at the ooutluence of hvaus creek aud the valleys of the streams contain much rioh agricul tural land and already a considerable acreage is under onltivation. Hay ' lias been the cblei product, but fruit raising is now reoeiving attention and apples, poaches and grapes are being grown in considerable quantities. With irrigation made possible tbis section will be one of thn best fruit districts in Rogue River Valley. With the development of the adja cent country will come a rapid growth to the town and. it is the plan of Mesxrs. Bagleys to push Woodvllle and to offer such Inducements as will make it one of the most progressive, prosperous towns in Southern Ore Ron. More New Wall Papers More New Lining Papers heavy greens and blues 5c to 75c Roll Paste Tacks House Linings tCon:inu d oj Pago Two.) ceixra'toji of ibi brarl wtrs