Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, April 27, 1906, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text0$m VOL. XXII GRANTS PASS. JOSEPHINE COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1906. No. 4. P WHEN THE EARTH TREMBLED AT FRISCO Gi sxnte Pass People Tell of Their Experience in the Stricken City. Cbas. D. Mowers: My wife, baby nd myself arrived in Grants Pass on tbe delayed train Sunday morning; wo lost everything except tbe work ing clothes in which we are clad. You people can form no part of an idea of the situation in San Francisco, of the thousands who have lout every thing, who last week were millionaires and today they are wearing clothes provided by strangers. At the first shock we got up and rushed oat of the boose, bat later went in and dress ed. The ho use was a wreck and had sank eight feet. Later in the day we started for the ferry and had to make oar way over several blocks of the burnt district in the dense smoke and with danger on every side and we finally reached the ferry, my wife and baby getting a ride on an express wagon and I banging on behind. One of my neighbors just escaped from their house aa it fell in bat another neighbor lost his wife and child and he escaped with one arm orushed. We, saw three men' shot down by the soldiers for looting, and in the park where we were sleeping one of the richest women in the city was sleep ing wrapped in a blanket the same as the rest of as." Qeo Merritt, who with his family left Grants Pass for Oaklaud, writes friends iu this place that they are safe but had ru experience which they hope never to have repeated. Their bouse was rocked like a boat, dishes in the pantry, pictures on the walls and everything portable was thrown down; the chimney also falliug, iuauy of the bricks goiug through the roof. Thousands of homeless people are in the city with no earthly possessions more thane in be carried in a small grip or tied up in a handkercief. Many children are there who Jlo not know where their parents are whether they are alive or not. It is a ad experience for California. He .says that Ed Payne, a former Grants Pass resident, lived iu Sun Francisco, but they have not heard a word of them. Mrs. F. E. Willet, formerly of this place, but who has been iu the hos pital in San Fraucisco for some time past, writes in a private letter to friends in this city that sue escaped foui the hospital after the tint shock of tbe earthquake, with a skirt and a man's coat as her only clothing. She is at the present time cooking her meals over a fire built in the street', bat hays it seems good to still be under the old flag. Miss Delia Price, who was attending the university at PaloAlto, writes that they were badly shaken up, all tbe chimneys were kuocsed down, and plastering oracked and falling. The university buildings are badly dam aged. Mrs. Mary B. Wadsworth, who spent thi winter in Gruats Pass but left for California several weeks ago, writes that she was not in Sao Francisco, as some of her friends thought but was at Fowler when the shock occurred. At first she rather enjoyed the' sensa tion of uu earthquake experience but the enjoymeut was of short duration. Mrs. Wadxworth expects to reach her India r 1. 1 home early iu May. Miss Ethel Palmer re.uroed this week from San Francisco and has a thrilling story to relate of her exper iences in tile doomed city. At the first shock sue was thrown on', of bed; she arose and mude for a door but was aain brought to the floor, hi'iug hit on the head and shoulders by glasswaie and crockery which fell lroiu shelves that had been torn from the wall. She finally retched the street and put on a bath robe whicii she had secured in h -i flight. Later she entered the house and procured clothing bat felt a greater sense of security in preharing her toilet in tbe street than in tbe house Carl McCtoskey, who roomed several bock from Miss Palmer went t her rescue and t ig ether they sorted over the belongings of both, packing their most valuable articles in one trnnk and decided to turn their at tention to the saving of the trunk. Carl secured a pair of roller skates and mounted the trnuk upon them. Miss Palmer loaded some articles on a Mor ris chair aud together they started foi a place of safety, he pushing tbe trunk mounted on skates and she, palling the chair with ropes over her shoulders. They gave oat many times but finally with the friendly help of Fred Rose, formerly of Josephine county, they reached the J. W. Howard house late in the evening after having spent the whole day saving their effects. They offered greatly owing to lack of water. The sight of the dead lying in the streets and the utter desolation wrought by the shock and the fire let an imprint on (heir minds that will take years to efface. P. H. Harth arrived in San Fran cisco only a day or two te ore the shock and it was several days before any word was received from him. Ha returned home Wednesday evening ccomanied by Mrs. Dean and Phil Harth. Henry's store was destroyed by fire but the. borne was saved. J. W. Howard was in Grants Pass and his family iu San Francisco. He left for that place immediately and found his family all safe. Their house was among the number of tbe saved. OFFICIAL RETURNS PRIMARY ELECTION FOR JOSEPHINE COUNTY APRIL 20, 1906 CANDIDATES r a i 188 102 82 22 H 13 98 84 72 TAX DODGERS TO BE HUNTED UP JeLckson County to Mewke All Pay Their I axes And No Escblp,. Jackson county has undertaken an active campaign against taxdodgers and has adopted the plan in vogue in many Eastern Btates of giving a per cent of the tax collected for the year on property that is not on the tax roll. To encourage this detective work the county will give to the in former 10 per cent of the tax that shall be collected on unassessed prop erty. It is expected that considerable securities, personal property and cash will be reported to the county. In diana has suoh a law and it has proven a success and has greatly in creased the taxable property of the various county. The liberal reward given has caused men to devote their entire time to hunting up smuggled stocks, bonds aud other taxable prop erty easily hiddeu from the assessor. They are known as "lax ferrets" and travel from county to county and so tboroagb are they in their detective work that very little property is now untaxed. There is a penalty on per sons who fail to give iu all their tax able pro.erty aud this increase to their taxes pays the per cent that goes to the tax ferrets. Though .the law has been in effect bet a few years it is said to have pnt on the tax roll goodly amounts to the credit of persons pre viously on for very small suiub. Such a law for Oregon would be certain to greatly increase the tax roll aud there by more nearly equalize the burden on tbe taxpayers. REPUBLICAN U.S. Senator (fill vaoancy ) Fred W. Mulkey, Multnomah U. S. Senator Jonathan Bourne, Multnomah H. M. Cake, Multnomah. . . . Stephen A. Lowell, Umatilla K L. Smith, Wasco county . E. B. Watson, Moltnomab . . Representative, 1st Dist Willis C. Hawley, Marion. SamuelB.Hnston, Washiug'n Walter L. Tooze, Marlon Governor Harvey K. Brown, Baker. . . T. T. Geer, Marion county . Charles A Johns, Baker Charles A. Sehlbrede, Coos.. James Withycombe, Benton Secretary of State Frank W. Benson, Douglas Claud Gatch, Marion.. Lot L. Pearoe, Marion Frank T. Wrightman, Marion State Treasurre John H. Aitkin, Baker E. V Carter, Jaokson. Ralph W. Hoyt, Multoomah Augustus G Jennings, Lane Thos. F. Ryan. Clackamas Geo. A. Steel Clackamas Supreme Judge Robert Kak in, Uoion . . Attorney General A. M. Crawford Douglas. .. . George H.Durham, Josephine hnpt. of Public UMtrOOCIOt) J. H Ackerman Multnomah 214 1 IT Siate Printer Win J. Clarke Marion Willis S. Daniway, Multuo J. R. Whitney, Linn Couiinisaiouer of Labor O. P. Hon", Multnomah Representative, Josephine E. E. Dunbar L. L. Jewell County Judge F. W. Chansso T. B. Cornell Joseph Moss Sheriff Charles A. Crow Ed Lisier J. P. McCounell W. I. Sweetland A. Umphlett Count Clerk S F. Cheshire Treasurer Eclus Pollock Surveyor D. J. Lawton Ill 81 Fred Mensch 1B9 Coroner T. E. Beatd 228 Commissioner A. F. Knox 78 W. H. Simmous 27 M. A. Wertz 186 Total republican registration 306 22 18 97 "'I 50 20 7 V 81: 43 ISO 98 71 24 10 81 7 12 25 14 107l 52 42 24 16 12 28 26, 85 12 211 124 66 30 181 108 4. 26 146 6 58 42 200 118 1271 58 HH M 69 36 51 x - 2 2 a' s) H a- ce X p 3 9 2 44 25 6 Bl 45; 18 81 82: 88 1 246 142 229 120 82 198 50 M 116 9 5(1 14 n 85 108 99 62 .-,(1 96 27 16 71 187 V 9: Sell Real Estate j BUY NOW DEMOCRATIC U. S. Senator- John M. Gearin, Multnomah 40 49 Representative 1st District P. A. Cochran, Marion . 16 20 ('has V. Galloway, Yamhill 25 21 Governor Geo. E Chamberlain, Mult. 44 51 Secretary of State P. H. Sroat, Marion 41 46 State Treasurer J. D. Matlock, Lane 42 48 Supreme Judge T. O. Hailey, Umatilla. 44 49 StBte Printer J. Scott Taylor, Klamath. 41 49 Attorney General- Robert A. Millcr.Maltuouiah, 42 46 Representative J. H. Austin 12 20 Robert G. Smith 82 M County Judge Stephen Jewell I 41 39 Sheriff Lou Heberlie i 22 12 Milton Reynolds ! 6 5 W. J. Russell I l 35 Treasurer J. T. Taylor I 47 49 Surveyor H. C. Perkins ... I 41 4h Corouer W. H. Klauagau 80 82 W. F. Kremer 15 19 Commissijner E. N Provolt 44 491 Total democratic registration! 56 68 42 13 82 26 48 4 34 48 81 20 81018 21 8 12 4 5 21 3 1 5 28 12, 5 4 3 5 1 7 14 t 3 316 5 16 82 36 17 7 5 7 6 131513 9 7 9 6: 8 10 8 2 3 5 1 1 40 19 10 21 81 15 7! 41 4 2 2 2 4 8 6 1810 1 6 .. 1 50 35 21 7:13 8 2 2H 40 30 25 49 32 24! 29 5 2 1799 16 9 5 6 44 34 19 15 I? 14 3X21 18 C 23 21 9 6 38 21 3 2 1 .. 1 7 6 4 1 8 8! 3 6 2 5 8 16 19 5 8 I 11 630 4 .. 2 6 9 14 21 19 2 5 1 2 2.. 4 1 2 1 1 9 m 8! 8 1 . 2 2 4 5 6 3 11 4 10 8 1 8 . .1 1 7 20 28 . 1 $: 18 12 6 4 4 2 4 2 18 24 22 9 5 17 26 11 U34 20 16 1 3 II 10 81810! 7 4 4217 4118 31 14 II 4 111.', 15 6 4 6 24 4 66 30; 22 28 6 1 2019!18 13 18 4 10 7 116 7 14, 9 13 12 8 I a 28 36 6118 26 23 I5i 262l! 5l8333l 16 27 99 4 1 9 24 22 16 26 34' 5 18 25 33 6 22 . . 3 5 10 6 IS 24 12 : 2 ll 8 2 53 87 26 51 85 23 21 11 6 4 4 3 1 15 20 17 9 5 2 4 3 1 17 27 17 20 6 9 2012 4 18 7 4 11 6 8 518 1 11 5 607 10 895 .! 81 8 205 1' 2..! 60 2 7 3.141 3, l ll 61 ll 6 1' 249 2 14 12 293 3 12 4 321 410 ' 7 2 1 13 321 11 4 ! 3 18 8 ' 1 9 3 3 . 6 4 26 76 31 I 138 46 ?98 665 144 68 66 105 350 130 69 93 5 120 1 18 9 4 17 8 7 14 8 6 6 3 1 14 81 1 1 6 7 9 6 3 1 7 12 7 10 8 3 . 4 19 27 22 12 30 28 19 13 30 20 11,17 17 10 2 34 20 16 54 36 25 14 711 8 6 1 33 36 16 81 61 39 8 18 14 9 1 19 23 20 9 4 14 9 3 H 3 2 III in I J 25 39 88 26 19 96 96 ii l B 2222 16 3419 13 23 33 14 4 28 I 6 1 13 312 4 22 3 10 8 9 . 17 3 4 2 9 2 3 3 11 1 7 29 10 4 30 5 10 4 18 4 26 1 8 I 4 3 3 20, 7 6 58 39 14 38 9! 2 7 10 3 18 9 D;1U1V18 0 34 19 717'35 23' 5 111.. 14 6 r 25 7 23 7 7 13 2 2 12 6 11 3 8)0 214 19 27 19 23 14 17 5 19 1 6 11 1 13 4! 24 5 19 6 16 7 3 Sljai! 7 19 20 23 6 43 42 13 34 4238 2'1 4 23 10 2 3 3 7 4 1 1 18 6 1 8 4 23 12 2 3 4 28 18 2 3 4 23 10 2 8 4 23 13 2 8 4 22 11 2 3 431 12 2 8 2 9 4 1 2 16 10 1 8 4 17 10 2 8 14 12 9 11.. 120 12.. 8 4 26 12 2 8 4 99 12 1 8 1 16 6 1 8 8 10 6 1 3 22 1 1 2 3 8 13 27 6 6 6 11 3 6 2 4 747 212 600 736 166 491 184 700 419 451 871 237 293 73 318 185 196 130 835 769 458 403 763 367 118 461 1190 8 277 7 129 8 140 5 12 13 WJfi 5 10 li 283 5! 9110 292 6 10 8 293 5 1110 286 6 10 8 284 DORA JENNINGS IS ACQUITTED OF MURDER Jury Out But Two Hours Women vnd One Juryman Kisa the Girl. The second trial of Dora Jennings closed this Thursday evening and went to the jury. Public opinion is divid ed as to whether the jury will disagree as the one on her pre ious trial did or wilLoonviot her, which will likely be for murder iu tbe second degree or manslaughter. The jury after being out two hoars, at midnight, brought in a verdiot of not guilty. Judge Hanna was sum moned to the court house aud Dora was brought to tbe court room from the jail. On hearing the verdict read she shed tears aud thanked the jurors and her attorney. A number of women had remained in the court house, among them being her mother and her sister, and they all rushed forward and kissed Dora as did one of tbe jnrymeu. She then left the court house in the company of her mother and friends. It is the opinion of many that she was guilty or at least knew of the facts connected with the murder of her father, but the evidence was not sufficiently stroug to convict her, at least that was the opinion or two juries. Her acquittal may have an important bear ing on the case of her brother. Jasper now in the penitentiary, under a sen tence of death, awaiting the actiou of the supreme court on the application of his attorney, H. D. Morton, for a new trial. If a new trial is not grant ed a petition will quite likely be pre sented to the governor asking that the death sentence be commuted to im prisonment. BIG MULE TFAMS BEGIN SEASON'S WORK Mclntire Transportaion Co. Has Large Contracts Takilmev Smslter to Start. Oapt. J. M. Mtlutire, president of the Mclntire Trans, nation Comjiany, tbe largest freighting company iu Southern Oregon, anticipates that this will be one of the best seasons he has yet had iu freighting in this sec tion. Ha has taken the contract for hauling the supplies for the contract ors on tbe Klamath irrigation system now being constructed by tho govern ment. The contractors now have 200 meu and a large number of teams em oyed and will put on 400 more men in the near future. All the vast quantities of supplies for this army of men and teams have to be hauled from the railroad terminus at Po kegama to the camps near Klamath Falls. 1 'apt Mclotire sent two eight mule teams to Pokegama three weeks ago to begin hauling and thN week he sent two more eight-mule teams. He is also hiring a number of team sters having tennis to haul on this i-outnu't as his own beams cannot meet the demand. Oapt. Mclntire has the contract again this ysajt to haul the ore to the Takiltna smelter and to haul the matte to Grants Pass aud coke from this oity to the smelter. He lirtB had a force of men improving the mile of road between the miues and the smelter and this Friday he will put two six-mule teams to hauling ore to have the bins Oiled by the time the smelter starts about the 10th of May. So soon as the smelter starts be will put on six or eight big teams, eaoh hauling three wagons, taking oat coke and bringing iu matte for shipment to the refinery. Oapt. Mclntire also has a number of other smaller freight ing contracts and to do all his work he will require a large naipber of ad ditional teams, a part of whiob he will purchase and hire the others. Of the road between Grants Pass and Takllma Capt. Mclntire states that it is now in the best condition that it has been in the Spring of any year since he b'gan teaming over it. The work that has been pat on it last Summer and this Spring has been of a permanent character and where bad places have been fixed the road has been pot in good shape for heavy traffic. Tbe road though Is far from being a modern highway. It has many unnecessary heavy grades that could be avoided, by a change of route or by cutting down the hills. Favors Accepting Government Offer. E. N. Provolt one of tbe most suc cessful fanners in Applegate Valley, and whose place is near Provolt post office, was in Grants Pass Wedensday. Mr. Provo'.t is a strong advocate of the good roads movement in Josephine county and ou that issue he has been nominated foi commissioner on the democratic ticket. Mr. Provolt re cently made a trip to Talent in Jack son county. lie traveled in his bug gy so be had good opportunity to ob serve the roads of that county. Jaok son is one of of the few counties in Oregon that is building modern roads and doing the work with a road orew under the foremauihip of a roadmaster and expert, aud it was to thete roads that Mr. Provolt paid particular no tice. The road bewteen Talent and Medford is oue of the Jackson county roads that has been maoadamlzed and though it is a part of the mala thoroughfare through Rogue River Valley and had heavy hauling over it all Winter Mr. Provolt found It as smooth as a paved street and in suoh condition that a two-horse team could chsiIv haul a two ton load over It It was free from mud iu the Winter and dost in the Summer and was an ideal driveway for light rigs. The comfort of driving over suoh a road and the ease with which his team could travel made Mr. Provolt a stranger advocate thao ever of Josephine county adopting the modern system of road building snd of as fast as the finances of tbe county will permit constructing sec tion after section ol permanent Highway Gf the offer of the government to furnish the machiuerry and to have an expert supervise tbe construction of a half-mile of sample road for Jose pme oountr snd 01 tne user 01 the Southern Paoiflo to give free transpor tation to the machinery and for the rook for macadam Mr. Provolt strongly favored the acceptance of the offer. He thought the best aud most needed section for this improvement was the half mile of road from Rogue river bridge at Grants Pass to tbe forks of the Waldo and Williams stag roads. As this is heavily traveled and in a very bad condition and its im provement would benefit Grants Pass as well as the connty, he was of the opinion that the city and the county should jointly bear the expense of providing the labor required. 6 6 124 7 7 188 8 8 356 6.. 91 3 58 5 14 177 11 12 305 11 12 285 6 5 186 ! 5 7 181 6 - 7 9 870 3 23 18 490 COMMERCIAL CLUB FOR GRANTS PASS while PRICES LOW they are SURE - ADVANCE Organization Effected and Active Promotion CrxmprMgri Begins Call and see me about some good investments I now have. m. L. IRELAND. "The Real Estate Man" t Ground Floor Courier Bldg. Grants Pass, Obb. m A second one of the meetings to 01 ganize a commercial club for Grants Pass was held Monday eveniug at tbe j City Hall. O. S. Bianchard acted as , chairman aud R. S. Wilson as secre Itary. A constitution aud by-laws were adopted audr the membership fee j flexd at $10 and tbe monthly dues at ' Thirty-five members were secured and H. L. Gilkey, B. G. Smith and j Geo. S. Calbonn ware appointed a committee to secure additional mem -1 hers. , Cio. a. Cult b on, uuauioaa of the I Medford excursion committee, au- nounced that the railroad company had grai ted a rebate of 656 ou the I charter of tbe train used, which amount wss turned over to tbe club. A committee of 10 was appointed to attend the meeting in Ashland Friday to organize the Rogue Klver Development League, the commit teemen being O. 8. Bianchard, Geo. E. Good, H. L. Gilkey, R. L. Coe, Geo. S. Calhouu, W. B. Sherman, R. G. Smith. F. M. Sooth. H. C.Kio ney, C. A. Dlokisou and R. S. Wilsou. Tbe Club will meet again next Mon day at the City Hall. As we go to press It is learned that , the San Franoisco disaster will not de lay the Californi a and Oregon Coast railway project more than a few days. Ool. Draper wrtes his attorney that the capital is turuleheu by Kastern riuan clers and the work will be poshed with, all possible apeed. More New Wall Papers More NewLlling Papers heavy greons and blues 5c to 75c Roll Paste Tacks House Linings Tents, Camp Furniiurc, (Jots Now's the time, let us quote you. Couches More new ones. Go-Carts Another lot new patterns aud prices. Carpets Closing out some remnants at great reduction. Stoves and Ranges $.2Q to$so.oo. New Glassware More like Cut Glass than anything you ever saw. Popular prices. The 10c Courter 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 nnny good things to be had. More New Dressers ah prices. Quality First Lowest possible prices always and money back il you are not satisfied, our maxmiutn, and a house to tie to if you want satisfactory dealings. Thomas & 0 Neill Tat Largttt flmusfurniihisg Coactrn in Southern Orrgon. 7)