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ROGUE RIVER COURIER, GRANTS PASS, OREGON, MAY 25, 1906. PHOFKSSIONAL CAUM.' C. FINDLEY, M. D. Practice limited to KYE, EAU, NOSE and THROAT. (;iaHMM fitted and furnished. Olllco hours it to 12; 2 to 5; mid on ap pointment. Telephones 261 and 77. Ubakth I'amh, - - Oregon J)RS. DOUGLAS & DOUGLAS, o. h. noi uLAH Phwicmn and fcurgeon. Phone 631. ANNA B. DOtOLAB, M.D. Diseases of Women and Children. Reg. 1051. Cor. Sixth and E streets. Obamth Pahs, Obegon J)R. J. C. SMITH PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office at National Drug Store. Phones, Office 366; Res. 1045. Residence cor. 7th and D streets. iKANTS Pahs, - - Oheoom J)R. W. F. KREMER PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office In Courier Building. Office phone 911, residence 413. Eyex tested and glusses lltted. Chants Pass, ... Okkoon. J)R. T. E. BEARD. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office over Hair-Riddle Hardware. Kea. cor. 4th and B Streets. Phones, Oflice 354; Res. 321. Grants Pass, Ohkuon. LOUGHRIDGE, M. D. THYSICIAN AND SURGEON Res. Phone 714 City or country culls attended night or day. Sixth and H, Tuff's building. Oltice I'hotio 201. Grants Pass Ob boon. J)R. A. J. WILLIAMS OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN Offloaat Western Ilotul. Hours: 9 to 13 A. M. and 1 to 6 P. M. Consultation and examination free. To the Voters of Josephine County My motto is: The government for the people and by the people; and if elected I shall consider it ray duty to support the people's choice for United Stales Senator. Also our senators should be pledged to work for and support any measure for the election of senators by a di rect vote of the people. If elected: I shall favor the repeal of the act requiring hunters to pay $1.00 annual license fee. I hall favor the repeal of the law requiring a license of fish at retail. I shall favor a law to give fishermen on upper Rogue river the same equal rights and open season that is enjoyed at the mouth of the river. YOURS FOR A SQUARE DEAL. L. L. JEWELL. THE TOLL ROAD A RELIC OF PIONEER DAYS Farmeii W&.M Barlow Road Made Free to the Public State to Buy It. JJt B. HALL UNDERTAKER, FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND LICENSED EMBALMER. orth 0th st., near Court lloune. Otlloe Phone 751, Hon. Phono 717. Gbants Pakh, ... Okkoon. JJARL V. INGELS ASS AVER AND CHEMIST. AM work guaranteed accurutoand re liable. Ollloo opp. P. O. Phone 1003. Grants Pass, - Okkoon. II, D. NORTON, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Practice la all Stuteand Federal Courts. ORloe In Opera House Ilulldlng. Grants Pass, - Oheuon T. C HALE, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Office over First National Dank, Grants Pass, Okkoon. Qt H. CLEMENTS ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Practice In State and Federal Courts. Office on ttth and C Htreets opposite Court House. Phono 10(11. Grants Pahs, - Okkoon A. C. HOUGH, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Practices In all HUteand Federal Courts Office over Hair Kiddle Hardware Co. Grants Pass, Okkoon J. II. AUSTIN, The Courier is la receipt of the following communication, a copy of which has been sent to each of the papers in Oregon, that is being sent oat by a committee of farmers livina along the Barlow toll road, who are seeking to have the state boy the road and make it free to the public. To that end they have secured the sub mission of the question at the June election for the voters of Oregon to de cide as to whether this one of the last toll roads in Oregon shall be opened to the public or remain a barrier to traffic between Eastern and Western Oregon : Welches, Clackamas County, Ore., May 15, 100ft. Editor Rogue River Courier. Donrtfir: There has been uo dis- otisflioQ in the Oregon press of the law which is to be voted on next June, abolishing the Barlow Toll Road and providing for its purchase by the state and its conversion into a free pablio highway. The farmers who live along thi road and who have to pay the tolls circulate the petitions to get this law on the ballot, but have do money left with which to make a campaign. We mast, therefore, rely upon the newspapers of the state for a discus sion of the matter, and believe that the entire community will lympathlze with as in our effort. We therefore write yon an explanation of the situa tion. The Btrlow Road orossei the Cas cade Mountains just sooth of Mt Hood. There is no other road be tween it and the Columbia river on the north, and not for 100 miles to the south. If you want to cross the Cas cades you rount travel over the Bar low road and pay toll. The Barlow road is a strip of land 00 fiiet wide and nearly 70 miles long. The owners hold it nuder a grant made 40 years ago by the federal government. Their right to charge toll has been upheld by the supreme court The farmers in Clackamas and Wai co counties who live in the country ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Union Building Kerby .... Oregon yiLLIAM P WRIGHT, U. S. DEPUTY 8PRVKYOR Ml NINO ENGINEER AND DKAUUUTSMAN 0th St., north of Josephine Hotel. Grants Pass, . Ohkuon. FRED MENSCH U. 8. DEPUTY SURVEYOR Surveys promptly aad accurately made. Leave orders at Courier office. J. E. PETERSON (pionkkk) flrl, life and accident insurance ireal" estate A, rout Big Horn Basin Laud Co., V jomlng. Anchor Wire Force, j Charles Costain Wood Workiiig Shop. West of flour mill, near R. R. track , Tmrmu. Bcroll Work, Hlair Work, Hand Jtawing.tfebioet Work, Wood Pullers. Saw J PlUnaad Jtuiuwing, tUpairiug all kinds. Price right. ! tributary to this road, have to pay toll on every head of sheep or cattle they drive to PortlanJ. They have to pay $3 every time they cross the moautalns in a wagon. There is uo other road crossing the Cascades. Every immigrant wagun must pay 3. Every settler driving from the Willamette Valley to settle in Eastern Oregon (and there are lots of them) must pay f'i on his little grist of fur : uiture. The owuers of the Barlow road did not initiate the law abolishing the ! tolls and providing for the purchase of : the road. They did not even know ; it was to be done. They agreed a year ago with onr representative to sell the road for a certain price. Wi tht-u initiated the law ourselves and i rained the money to circulate' the p- i titious. The owuers of the road, I nudorxtand, do not want now to ael the road at the price agreed ou, f34, 000, but they will be compelled to sell if the law passes, as we 'hold their : agreement If the state" does uot boy I the road next June, we "will uevar have another chance to boy the road for twice this aiuonut of money. Nor could it be built over again for lUXl" 000. There is uo" way to get rid of this toll road exoept to boy It. i As the Brow, ii wm Decooie an Im mensely valuable piece of property. Is Ave years when this country is thickly settled It will he worth a fortune to own the only pass across the Cascades and to have the right to charge toll on it And the state will have to buy it sooner oi later. The farmers cannot buy the road themselves. There is no reason why they should. The road is a great state highway the same as the old Dalles wagon road was. The legisla ture appropriated several thousand dollars to build the Dalles wagon road. No one would complain if the state were to begin to build a new highway over the Cascades at a cost of at least $100,000. We hope the Oregon press, which is usually ready to help the common people, will help the unfortunate farmers oat in this matter by publish ing this explanation. We have got to get rid of this toll road. Its existence is a hindrance to the growth of all central Oregon. The state should help us and it will never have a bet ter chance, nor as good a chance, as now. We have no money with which to make a campaign, and will have to depeud entirely on the merit of our case. Yours respectfollv, O. W. KERN Chairman of Farmers' Committee. The Other Side. Oregon City, May SO. Editor Courier I would like to submit some facta concerning the proposed sale of the Barlow toll road to the State of Oregon for $24,000. I believe it should be voted down because : It is not worth the money. The promoters have an option on the road from the owners for fSOOO and will make $10,iKHi, if they cau sell it to the state. No farmers in Clackmag county are obliged to pay a toll to get their products to market. Very few farmers live near the road. The seven miles of toll road between the mountains and the end of the public road was offered to Clackamas county as a free gift about three years ago and refused. No provision is made in the law for an examination of the title of the alleged owuers, nor re quiring the title to be free from in cumbrances. Ihe-e is very little travel on this road. I drove over the road across the mountains and back seven years ago and did not meet au average of one team a day. lours t'uly, W. 8. U'REN. A NEW OREGON RAILWAY & NAVIGATION CO. TRAIN Upper Columbia. River Given Service Tha.t Is Appreciated. The new looal Upper Columbia River Train pot on by the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company, May 30, will do much toward attract ing tourist to points along the River between Portland and The Dalles. The new train, leaving Poitland as it does, at 8:15 a. m. and arriving at Portland at 6 p. m. the aame day, glvea one an opportunity to spend the day at some of the delightful places along the Upper Columbia River, and permits them to return home the same day. The train is made op of baggage car and oaohea, and stops at all poiuta in both directions so as to ac commodate looal travel as much as possible. The lightneM of the train, however, permits it to run at a high rate of speed between stations, so that even with the stops, good time is had. There are many beautiful places aloug the river, such as Rooster Rock. Latourele, MultuoinahFalla, Bonne ville, at which a day's outing and picnio oan be enjoyed to the nttermont and this new service make it possible to take such outings, whereas, in the past, when the service has been per formed by the heavy through trains, it has not been possible to do this. Columbia Southern passengers in tead of waiting at Biggs, which is unattractive, are taken to The Dalle promptly where they await the train for Portland, coming in on Mo. 1, as at present, or taking the local as they may desire. 1 NEW LAWS THAT ARE TO BE VOTED ON AU Good Measures Except the Proposed Amendment on Local Option. 1 he secretary of state has prepared the form of the ballot for the state tli ction June 4th, as far as state and district nominees and initiative and referendum measures are concerned. A large number of the latter will be np for consideration and the voter will do well to study them up if he would vote intelligently. They will be printed ou the official ballot as follows: Proposed by Referendum Petition. "Shall Act Appropriating Money Maintaining Insane Asylum, Peniten tiary, Deaf-Mute, Blind School, Uni versity, Agricultural College and Normal Schools be Approved? Vote Yes or No. 300. Yes. 301. No. Proposed by Initiative Petition. For Equal Suffrage Constitutional Amendment. Vote Yes or No. 302. Yes. 303. No. For Amendment to the Local Option Law giving Anti-Prohibitionists and Prohibitionists equal privileges. Vote Yes or No. 304. Yes. 305. No. For law to abolish tolls on the Mount Hood and Barlow Road and providing for its ownership by the state. Vote Yes or No. 306. Yes. 307. No. For constitutional amendment pro viding method of amending constitu tion and appying the referendum of all laws affecting constitutional con ventions and amendments. Vote Yes or No. 308. Yes. 309. No. For constitutional amendment giv ing cities aim towns exclusive power to enact and ameud their charters. Vote Yes or No. 310. Yes. 811. No. ror constitutional amendment to allow the state printing, binding and printer's compensation to be regulated by law at any time. Vot4 Yes or No. 812. Yes. 813. No. For constitutional amendment for the Initiative Referendum on local, special and municipal ltws and parts of laws. Vot ) Yes or No. 814. Yes. 815. No. For bill for a law prohibiting free pass discrimination by railroad com panies and other publio service corpo rations. Vote Yes or No. 316. Y'es. 317. No. For act requiring sleeping car com' panies, refrigerator oar companies and oil companies to pay an annual II cense upon gross earnings. Vote Yea or No. 818. Yes. 819. No. For an act requiring express com panic, telegraph companies and tele phoue companies to pay an annual li ceuse upon gross earnings. Vote Y'es or No. 330. Yes. 821. Roll of Honor. Roll of Honor for Pleasant Orove school : Leona Uale, Erio . Thoss, Mabel Anderson, Mae McCalllster, Earl Mo Callister, Roy McCallister, Lloyd Johnston, Loid Smith, Glen Ander son, Julia Dungey, Mamie Johnston, Charlie Dungey. Number enrolled, 80. The Richest Man In the World The richest man in the world can not have his kidneys replaced nor live without them, 81 it is Important not to neglect these orgnus. 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