Rogue River courier., May 04, 1906, Image 1

VOL. XXII.
GRANTS PASS, JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON. FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1906.
No. 5.
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FOUR SCHOOL HOUSES
FOR GRANTS PASS
An Eight-Room Brick Building
lor the Fourth Ward-Bond
Election to Be Held.
Were President Rooseve't to visit
Grants Pass be would surely ejaculate
"de-lighted" when be saw the great
g number of bright, healthy children
that are to be seen in this city, and
waAhose Eastern sociologists who have
iAtely been asserting that the Ameri-
cau home is rapidly becoming childless
, found in the pioneer homes of this
country, are now only to be seen in
the homes of the foreign residents of
America, would have to take back their
statement in so far as it applied to
7 Grants Pass, for this oity, though
made np almost exclusively of Ameri
cans, has a very high percentage of
children to its total population. This
large and fast increasing number of
children keeps the school board at their
wits ends and the taxpayer paying out
with a free hand to provide au educa
tion for these boys and girls that they
may grow to be useful men and women,
and not a nobo or a dissolute oharacter
to be of their number.
There are now 20 rooms in the Grants
Pass schools and so badly crowded
are they that at least four or live ad
ditional rooms will be necessary to
, enable the number of scholars to each
- teacher to be brought down to a limit
. where the most effloieut work can be
done, and to accommodate the unusual
large increase to the school population
that the growthof the oity is giving for
this year. In anticipation of the need
I of the fourth school building' for the
city the board last month purchased a
two acre tract in the Third ward for
the location of the new structure.
This tract lies ou the south side of M
street between Seventh and Eighth
streets. One acre ot it belonged to 0.
E. Smith and was purchased for $750
and the other was bought of Ernest
Lister for f.iOO. The location is ideal
for school purpotes. It is all level
with just enough grade to give good
1 1 jell
MY RECENT SALES
Peter Brener to Ernest Lister,
Addition.
Jos. Moss and J.
H. Williams to
Riverside.
C E. Smith to School District No.
Addition.
Jos. Moss & J. H. Williams to H. Dannanburg lots 4, 5, 6 block 92
Riverside.
E. H. Lister to School District No. 7, aore lot No. 3 Block U Bournes
Addition.
Jos. Moss & 3. H. Williams to Jos. Hill lots 6, 7,8, 9, 10, 11, 12
block 92, Riverside.
Mary White to M. N. Longbridge lota 1, 2, 8, 4, block 31, R. R.
Addition, with 4-room cottage.
E. H. Lister to E. T. Thompson lots 11 and 12 block 94, Riverside
Rehkoppf & Ranch to L. M. Williamson lots 19 and 20 block 89 O.
T with warehouse.
Robt. Howser to C. R. Ray two business lots on Sixth St.
Geo Draper to S Loughridge lots 7 and 8 block 84 O. T.
Jacob MoDanlel to J S Buck lots 6 and 7, block B, Jodson's Addi
tion with S-room cottage.
Joho Richards to O. E. Smith lot'l block 94, Riverside Addition.
Frank Mee to C. E. Smith, lot 3, block 94, Riverside Addition.
SOME EXCELLENT BUYS FOR
QUICK DEALS
An almost new 4 room oottaga and one lot close in, which is
rented for $96 per year for only $ 600
A six room house, good barn andulne acres of good land one
mile from town for only 1500
230 acres 10 miles from Grants Pass. 150 acres of floe river hot
torn loam balance red bench land which is first olass for
fruit 20 acres in altalfa, balance in oats and wheat Nearly
all of the place could be irrigated by an electric pnmp.
Power line runs through place. Two large barns, dwelling,
granary and several other buildings on place. If taken
toon, all of the farm machinery and this years crop go with
the place at the remarkably low price of 15,000
1 NEED MORE PROPERTY TO SELL.
I do not ask for a Contract or the Exolosive sale all I want is
A PRIVILEGE TO SELL.
W. L. IRELAND, "The Real Estate Man"
v Ground Floor Courier Bldg.
drainage. The front part on which
the building would be erected is all
open ground, while the rear acre is a
handsome grove of oaks and madronas
making a perfect playground. The city
is rapidly growing up Rogue river and
the Third ward is greatly in need of a
school building.
The locating of; a school building in
the Third ward is in accordance with
a plan of the board to provide each ot
the four wards with a good school
building. The First and Second wards
each have large briok structures and
it is proposed to give the Third Ward
a fine eight-room brick building. The
Fourth ward has only a three-room
wooden building, but as the oity is
growing in that section it will be not
over two years nntil a brick building
will have to be erected in that ward.
One of the finest farming sections in
Rogue River Valley lies to the weBt of
the Fourth ward and it is being cut
up into tracts of one to 10 acres with
a family on each. This section is
embraced at present in the Dimick dis
trict the one room sohool building of
whioh is but a little over a half mile
from the city limits. The need of
having a graded school will cause that
district to be annexed to the oity and
that will bring about the sale of both
the oity and distriot old wooden build
ings and the erection of a large brick
structure at a location near tne present
city limits, where it would be central
ly located.
To provide funds for the erection of
the eight room brick building in the
Third ward the board has called a
special election for Grants Pass school
distriot to be held Monday, May 28, to
'vote an issue of $15,000 in bonds. The
distriot has had two rooms this year in
rented buildings and with no new
building would bave to rent three or
four mora rooms for next year. It is
both economy and prudent business
judgment on the part of the taxpayers
to have a new building erected and
there is every certainty that the bond
issue will be carried by a handsome
majority.
There will be u special examination
for rural mail oarriers held in Grants
Pass, May 2fith. All applications
must be filed in Washington by the
16th.
Real Estate
BUY NOW
while
PRICES
LOW
are
they are
SURE ADVANCE
acre lots ,2 and 3, block U Bournes
M. E. Butler, lot. 1, 2, 3, block 92.
7, acre lot No.'
'1, block U Bournes
Grants Pass, Ore. d
GRANTS PASS TEACHERS
ELECTED FOR NEXT YEAR
School Attendance Rapidly In
creasing and More Rooms Re
quired for Scholars.
The school board at their meeting
Tuesday evening completed the list
of teachers for the Granst Pass school
for the next school year, that will be
gin September 1st.
Of the present corps of teachers the
following have been re-engaged : R.
R. Turner, oity superintendent; A.
E. Harrison, prinoipal High School
and Miss Nona S. Bridge and Miss
Ada E. Walker, High Sohool teachers,
J. A. Bish, principal East School
Grade teachers, Miss Adell ' C. Mul
key, Miss Blanche Crane, Miss Lillian
Peck, Miss Calla Heslin, Mifs Wini
fred Guthrie, Miss Lucie M. George,
Mrs. Bessie Merritt. Miss Ernini
Rathbon, Miss Nellie M. Ames, Miss
Minnie L. Tuffs, Miss Sadie G. Ag
new. Five of the young lady teachers
were not put on the list again, for
reasons of their own, but which are
construed by the knowing ones that
they may quit teaching and take np
what now appears to them a more
congenial occupation. These young
ladies are Miss Lillian Hogan, Miss
Alice Poole, Miss Amy L. Cherry,
Miss Elizabeth Holgate and Miss
Mazella Mulkey.
Six new teaohers were engaged, they
being Miss Maud Kelley, of Cottage
Grove, Oregon ; Mies Nellie Dement,
of Gold Hill Ore. ; Miss E. A. Rod
ney, Independence, Iowa ; Miss Nellie
M. Eaton, Aitken, Minn. ; Miss Alice
M. Horton, Emporium, Pa. ; Miss
Anna Thompson, Sherwood, Ore.
There are 21 teachers now in the
cHy schools, including the superin
tendent and the list for next year
will embrace 22 teachers. It is ex
pected though that at least four ad
ditional tnachors will be hired to take
additional rooms that will be opened
to accommodate the increase in
scholars and the overflow from the
present rooms In many of the rooms
there are from 60 to 60 scholars which
is a larger number than any teacher
oan handle, and the growth of the
school population is expected to be
greater this year than in any previous
year in the history of the city. For
several years past the schools of
Grants Pass have grown at the rate of
one room a year, but this year the
growth is expected to be two rooms
and possibly three rooms. The schools
of Grants Pass rank with the best on
the Pacific Coast, in fact it is oon-
oeded by prominent persons famil
iar with educational work in Oregon
that there are few schools in towns of
6000 people that have schools of the
thoroughness and high standard as
those of this oity. The High School
has a high accredited standing and its
four yer work will fit a student for
entrance to any of the colleges. It
has three courses of studies, practical,
scientific and classical and it is elec
tive with the students which they
take.
As the county oontribntes $1000 a
year toward the maintenance of the
High School it is tree to all residents
of Josephine county. The number
of students from out of the city is
steadily increasing eaoh term and it is
expected that a larger number of
graduates of the various village and
districts schools of the county will be
enrolled at the opening of school this
Fall.
CITY COUNCIL HOLDS
ADJOURNED SESSION
Take Vp Consideration of Paving
City Streets Accept
New Sewers.
An adjourned meeting of the con noil
was held Thursday evenine of lt
week.
A liquor license was granted to F.
W. Schallhorn to conduct
he place lately vacated bv A.
Leropke. The lioense is yet at $400 a
year, the raise to $00 a year not going
inio eneci until July 1st
Lateral sewers were ordered for
block 16, original townsite. and for
block B, in Bourne's addition.
The ever recurring project to have
the business streets paved with mar.
dam or other material was considered.
la order to secure an estimate of the
oost of the work the oity engineer was
ordered to make a torevy and plat of
Sixth street from Rogue river bridge
to A street, and of G etret from
Seventh street to the Gillm
bridge. -
S. K!ov?da'il,con'rc:or for the
Second and Seventh street sewers, re
ported that he had bota sewers com
pleted and the sewer committee hav
ing carefully examined them and
found them to meet all the require
menta or specifications, the sewers
were accepted by the city aud the
balance due on the contract price was
ordered paid.
The mayor was given power to put
on a seoond night policeman if he at
any time thought It was necessary.
A new ordinance was rassrd fixing
the salary of the oity attorney at $60
per month and of the city engineer at
$4 per Jay for such time as he may be
employed.
HOBO TAKES LEG BAIL
FROM THE CITY JAIL
Pal Priea off Lock Violator of
State Law Will Be Put
in County Je.ll.
The Grants Pass city jail is not a
diffloult place to escape from if a
prisoner has a friend to give bim a
little assistance. Only a few weeks
ago a hobo arrested for a robbery
committed in Roseburg and put in
the city jail awaiting the arrival of
an officer from that place, escaped and
disappeared. He had a confederate,
as those maorauders always travel in
pairs, and in the night the pal climbed
in at a window into the jail room and
with a steel bar, that he had stolen
from some blacksmith shop, pried the
olasp out of the padlock on the cell
door and released his partner and
they stepped out of the window and
op the alley and left the city.
Sunday night another burglar was
let out of the jail in exactly the
same way and be too has gone to
again resnme his robbing. This fel
low had gone into the dwelling of J.
L. Pierce, who resides near the Dry
Diggings mine while Mr. Pierce aud
his wife were planting potatoes, and
stole a rifle, watch, money aud nuggets,
and left without being seen. Mr.
Pierce suspected it was a hobo and
came to Grants Pass and getting no
trace of the thief be took the train for
Medford, getting there Saturday
noon. Early that evening while
standing by the depot watching the
crowd he saw a man enter a saloon
with a gun. He followed at once and
found it was his gun aud had been
sold by the hobo to the bartender.
The Medford marshal soon bad the
fellow under arrest and notified
Constable Randle, who went up on
the 10 :30 p. m. train and brought the
prisoner back to Grants Pass the next
morning. Sunday night the fellow
was released from the oity jail by his
pal and they have not been heard of
since. Night Patrolman Wooldridge
states that he was in the jail room that
night at 2 a. m. and that the prisoner
was then there so he must bave made
his escape In the early morniug hours.
From the manner that the fellows
broke the look and made their escape
it is certain that they are old jail
birds and knew how to procoed to get
clear of the officers.
Hereafter, by order rf Mayor Good,
only persons violating city ordinance
will be put in the city jail and all
persons arrested for state criminal
cases will be sent to the county jail.
The cells in the city jail were only
built to restrain drunks and ordinary
law breakers and there is not the need
for an expensive steel cell, though
probably one will be put in some
time, though for the present the oity
finances are at such a low state that
the strictest economy has to be main
tained. As the county has four steel
eells that would require a day's work
with tools for a prisoner to make his
escape and a new secure jail building
there is no likelihood that hobo.'pris
oners will be taking leg bail if put
there. Both the men who escaped
were oounty prisoners and were put
iu the city jail, pending their exami
nation before the justice of the peace
ai a matter of convenience ti the con
stable, who made the arrest.
Commercial Club.
The Grants Pass commercial club
elected officers Monday night asfol
lows: Presdent, O. S. Blanchard ; 1st.
vice-president, L. B. Hall; 2d. vice-
president, 'J E. Maybee ; 8d vice-
president, H. O. Kinney; 4th vice-
president, H. L. Gilkey.
Tne vioe-presldents are chairmen of
this Industrial, Muuicipal, Agricultur
al and Improvement committees re
spectively. Roy Moore, while performing on
the bar at the A. A. C. gmynasium
Saturday night, fell and broke bis
right arm.
CIRCUIT COURT
ADJOURNS TO JULY
Divorce Cases Occupy a Large
Part of the Court's
Attention
Judge Hanna adjourned the April
term of oironit court this Thursdiay
and Monday he will convene oourt at
Jacksonville.
The Dora Jennings case came to a
close last Thursday when at midnight
the jury brought in a verdiot of not
guilty. She was at onoe released aud
is now making her home in this oity.
Her brother, Jasper, is in the ceni
tentiary under sentence of death on
the charge of murdering his father
N. M. Jenuings at Granite Hill last
September. His attorney, H. D. Nor
ton has secured a stay of proceedings
and asked for a new trial and the
matter is now with the annrnmn
oourt. If he does not secure the new
trial then the governor will be asked
to commute the sentence to Imprison
ment. The following oases have been dis
posed during the week :
Julia Obenohain vs Maldoren Oben
chain, divoroe. Decree granted.
Sadie M. Hyde v Geo. A. Hyde.
divorce. Decree granted.
Timothy Hopkins vs E. M. Albright
et ai. Dismissed.
Timothy F. Hopkins vs Calumet
and Oregon Mining Co. Dismissed.
The Cal. & Oregon Coast R R Co.
vs Walter Everton. Dismissed.
O. O. RockBtadt vs Henry J. Olson.
Default and judgment.
T. K. Anderson, et al vs Galice
Consolidated Mines Co. Judgment.
F. R. Ogle vs Eftie May Ogle, di
vorce. Decree granted.
Chas. E. Phillips vs Lucv Maud
Phillips, divorce. Decree granted.
Catherine Eeenan vs. D. Eeeuan.
divoroe. Decree granted.
Lizzie Burke vs John O. Burke di
voroe. Decree granted.
Henry K. Miller vs Samuel Howard.
Default and judgment
Isaac Custer vs Sarah Custer, di
vorce. Decree granted.
State of Oregon vs Loren Butler.
Dismissed for lack of evidence.
State of Oregon vs Grover Mont
gomery. Dismissed.
California and Oregon Coast R R
Co. vs A. M. and Alex Jess. Verdict
for plaintiff. Damages assessed at
$487.60
State of Oregon vs John Jarvey.
Plead guilty to petty larceny j sen
tenced 80 days in ooonty jail.
R. P. George vs George Mathewson.
Judgment.
Light Wanted
To the Spiritual Advisers of Grants
Pass:
Editor Courier : Will you please al
low me a little space In your paper f
Will some of you please explain Mat.
11 :11 why the least io the kingdom of
heaven is greater than John the Bap
tist. We read, "Born of woman there
hath not arisen a greater than John."
JOE SANDBERG.
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 $20 tojso .00.
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 many good things to be had.
More New Dressers au prices.
Quality First Lowest possible prices always and
money back if you are not satisfied, our maximum, and
a house to tie to if you want satisfactory dealings.
Thomas & 0 NeilF
The Largest tltWurnlthln j Ceactra la Southern Oregon.
HOBOS AND TOUGHS
FALL UPON HARD LINES
Pay Big Fines and Do Street Work
to Meet Expense They
Are to City.
The mouth of April was a trying
period to the drunks, hobos and pugi
listic element that reside in Grants
Pass or that drift into the city from
other places, for their fines yielded
the city $339.60. This money was
oontribued by 17 persons and their
fines were from $3 to $30 eaoh. 8even
other men not having the ready cash
at their command, contributed from
five to 10 days labor each in doing
street work and cleaning.
This police court revenue la the
largost the oity bas ever oolleoted In a
single month. It shows both a tight
ening of police regulations on the
part of the authorities and that
Grants Pass is beoomlng a oity and
thus is a gathering point for the idle
and the vicious. And that this class
were made to meet the expense they
entail on the taxpayers is a oompli
ment to the' energy and attention to
their duties of Polios Judge Clements,
Marshal MoGrew and Patrolman
Wooldridge.
GRANTS PASS NOW HAS
EIGHT MILES OF SEWERS
Is the Largest and Most Complete
System of Any Town in
Southern Oregon.
Grants Pass sewers now embrace
nearly four miles of mains and about
the same length of laterals and this
oity can successfully claim to have
the largest and most complete sewer
system of any town in Southern Ore
gon. During the past Winter main
sewers have been laid for the greater
distance on Seoond street and on
Seventh street having a total length
of nearly three miles, lhe work was
compleed last week by the contractor,
S. Elovedahl, and was accepted by the
oity. Saturday Mr. Elovedahl loadi d
his two ditoing engines. scraDera and
other tools and shipped them back to
uugene where he resides.
Both sewers, as does the Fifth street
sewer, empty into Rogue river below
town so as to not points the water
and make the river bauk nnslirhtlv
and unhealthy in front of the city.
All three of these main sewers have
sufficient size and with the perfect
grade that the townsite has given a
fall that will give them a capacity to
oarry off all the sewage that will ever
come from the districts thev cover.
Garrett Atchlnson, the 16 vcar oM
son of G.P. Atchlnson, manager of the
Miners Association's exhibit room,
was operated on Sondav at the Grants
Pass Hospital for appendicitis. He
rallied Well from the operation and
is making a rapid reoovery and bids
fair to be enjoying good health within
week or two henoe.
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