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p i ROGUE RIVER COURIER, GRANTS PASS, OREGON, AUGUST 17, 190. I ROGUE RIVER COURIER GRANTS PASS, OBEUON. COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER. Published Every Friday. Subscription Rates: One Year, in advance, Six MonlliH, Three M on tin, Single Copies, $1.60 .75 .40 .05 Advertising Races FaraiHbed on application at the office, or by man. Obituaries and resolutions of con dolence will be charged for at 6c per line; card of thank 60c. A. E. VOORHIES, Proph. Entered at the pout office at Grants Pass, Oregon, as second-class mau matter. FRIDAY. AUOUSi.' 17, 1906. IRRIGATION THE NEED OF ROGUE RIVER VALLEY Government Helping Other Dis tricts But Not This Valley. Editor Courier: As the National Irrigation Congress meets In Boise, Idaho, the first Monday in September it lis very neoessary that Josephine county should be prepared to reoeive anything good that may be handed oot to the public. This congress is to bs composed of representatives from all parts of the West. The government will also be represented. This is the one oppor tonity of the Rogue River oonntry to get the recognition to which we are entitled. Senator Fulton has prepared a statement of irrigation expenditures by the government, in which it is shown that Oregon is receiving 'less in proportion to pnblio lands sold than any other state. This, too, in the face of the fact that our needs are about as great as those "of any other state. The reason of this discrimination is plaiu. We bare not nrged onr claims as other states bare doue. We have given too much attention to the interests of capitalists and not enough to tha interests of onr own, people. The government officials . at this convention" will necessarily gather ancb information as will be used in making disbusremeuts of reclamation funds. And if no one is there' to present onr claims we may expect to receive no aid. A careful survey of onr situation hows that a ditch approximately two hundred feet above tbe river at Grants Pans will Irrigate abont foity thous and acres. This means two million dollars added to our taxable wealth, to say nothing of the real comfort to boee wbo 'must be cared for in the future, Ws should have at least two dele ates at this congress. The entire expense ot each delegate will be abont fifty dollars. The railroad tare is a few cents over tweuty four dollars for the ronnd trip. The comity aud city can well afford to send a delegate each. In fact we cannot afford !o neglect tnis opportunity. STEPHEN JEWELL. Combine Pleasure With Business. One of the many amusements to l had at the Johu Ranzau Imp yard this season will be a large dance platform and good ninstc, Tiiis will be a draw ing card for deriding fu which hop yard to pick, an a great many people take their vacation in September and wish to blend amusement and recrea itou with a profitable day's p eking. The John Hanzau hop yard this sea sou will give employment to three hundred fifty pickers, and owing to the cluster formation of the twenty two foot high trellis it will make the picking fifty percent tiettir than in former years. Iu the Calhoun Clothing store bop picking content of last pick ing season, a boy under sixtocu years of age, picked urarly five hundred pounds at the pickiug price of one dollar per 100 pouud In the low trellis. The high trellis this season far ex ceeds last year's low trellis for pickiug. Tents for rent, good water, wood, gro ceries at Grants Pass prices and shady camping grounds are to baud at the yard. G. A. Lindblown, manager of tl e Lindblown Grocery Company, of Denver, Colorado, arrived in Grants Pass, Monday morning aud remained over unt'l Tuesday when he resumed bis journey homeward. Mr. Lind blown was the guest while here of President R. A. N. Reyniers, of the Fruit Growers Union, they being neighbors when both resided in Kan sas years airo. Mr. Llndblowji'sfiriu handles a large amount uT fruit eacTj year aud one object of his visit, to Grants Pass was to investigate 'the fruit of Rogue River Valley jtTa view of buying here for "shipment to Denver. He was well pleased with the apnt'MUce of the fruit here and-! the valley in general. SIX FRUIT GROWERS MEETINGS TO BE HELD Under Auapicee of Stfvi Agrlctil tural College and Fruit (irowers Union. The orchards that can be seen la num bers in Josephine connty in which the trees are diseased and dying and tbe fruit inferior and fall of blemishes and worms and covered with scale is proof that the farmers of this county are badly in need of education in tbe art of horticulture, that they may be able to make their orchar Is a r'oflt to tbemelves instead of a loss as so many are. With this end in view the Grant Pass Fruit Growers' Union baa arranged in connection with tbe State Argiculture College to bold a series of farmers' institutes and fruit growers' meetings in Josephine county the first week in September. To a'range and have charge of the de tails for these meetings the Fruit Growers' Union appointed a corn mittee of three at each place. The following is the schedule of the places and date of meeting and the names of thn committeemen : Grants Pass, Monlay, September 8, in the Opera house; committee, H. C. Bobzien, Charles Meserve and Joseph Moss. Provolt, Tuesday, September 8, in the churcb building; oommittee, E. N. Provolt, E. Badger and R. F. Lewman. Murphy, Wednesday, September 4, at the school boose; committee, A. H. Carson, J. W. Gilmore and H. S. Wynant. Wildnrville, Thursday, September 6, iu the church ; committee, J. H. Robinson, R. M. Robinson and C F. Lovelace. Lee District, Friday, September 7, in the school home ; committee R. A. N. Keymers, Samuel Christie and H J. Reed. Merlin, Saturday, September 8, in Roseubaum's hall; committee. A. S. Rosen ban in, Charles Crow and Clias. Dora. These meetings will have the beat array of talent ever at a fruit grow ers meeting in Rogne River Valley and the instructions that orchardists will receive on all phases of their business that embraces selecting the right soil for an orchard, choice of varities, manner of planting, cutliva ting, pruning, spraying, tbiuning, picking, grading, packing and market ing will be from specialists, each thorough in his line of work. It woould pot be possible to gt the practical pointers on fruit raising that can be had at these meetings at the cost of but one day's time spent in attending, even though a person should spend 28 for books and paper and spend 30 days in hard study. From the interest that is being shown and with the effort that is being made by the Fruit Growers' Union these meetings promise to be the largest attended of any farmer gathering ever held in Southern Oregon. At Grahts Paw, Provolt, aud probably Murphy, Wllderville and Lee diatrlct eveuing sessions may be held in additiou to the morning and afternoon sessions. This mattir will be decided in the near future by the local committees. At Provolt, Murphy, Wilderville and Lee district, basket dinner will be had, so that farmers aud their wives may attend the full hours of each sessiou. Then it is the plan to have a social hour at noon that the far mers and their wives may know each other better ar d to talk over the points thev have heard iu tbe meeting A question box will be a stroug fea ture iu the program. How Hood River has become so famous as a fruit district as to lie better known to some people tu the East than the state of Oregon and its frnit laud should sell from $'.'50 to f 1000 au acre is a matter that Rogue River fruit growers are interested in. Two of the leading Hood River or chanlists have betn secured aa speak ers at the Josephine county meetings. E. H. Shepard isthe malinger of Hie Hood River Growers' Uuion and v. ill tell how they conduct their anion, one of the most successful in the United Slates, and bow they market their fruit iu New York, ' London and other big markets at prices that (win fabulous to farmers who have ouly dealt with commission men Mr. Shepard is also one of the pub lishers of Better Fruit, published at Hood River, conceded by orWisr dints to be the best all around fruit paper in the United States. A. J. Mason, the other speaker, will tell how they grow the famous Hood River frnit, aud as their method are thoroughly op to date and Mr M son a practical orchardist the fruit grow ths here will find his addresses of gtvat value. The Agriculture College will be represteuted by Dr. J aires Withy combe, director of the college ex perimental station, Prof. A. B. Cord ley, entomologist aud Prof. C. I. Lewis, horticulturist. Dr. Withy comybe, well known to the farmers of this county as practical man, np-to-date on all farm methods, will talk on the specialist as exemplified in the unsuccessful frnit raiser and be will also HI of the world's markets that ever expanding will take all the fruit that ever can be raised in Rogue River Valley. Prof. Cordley is author ity of national reputation on froit pests, will tell of all the latest meth ods, in fighting these destroyers of the orchard, and bo will tell of the new pests that have appeared in the United States. Prof. Lewis is author ity on soils and on the work connected with growing an orchard and his ad dress will be of great value to every fruit grower. It is expected that Prof. A. P. Stover of the bureau of irrigation of the Department of Ariontlure, will be at them meetings to tell tbe farm ers how to get the beat results whsn Irrigating thin lands and bow to make the water do the greatest ser vice possible. Prof. Stover is an irrigation expert of national standing and he ia an authority on all that pertains to irrigation. Colestin Coala. Rah for Colestin ! 16 men arrived Saturday and still coming. Landlord H. B. Cole went to Ash land Tuesday, returning Wednesday. Clarence Presley went to Grants Pass j Tuesday returning to Colestin Thurs-; day morning. j Mrs. O. Neil of Ashland came apj Monday to visit with her nicee, Mr. 1 C. O. Presley. Mrs. Osenburge and daughter of Medford who have been spending a few , days at Colestiu returned to theit horn" Wednesday. j Mrs. Albert Coe and Miss Pauline! Coe came up from Grants Pass Wed-' nesday to spend a few days of camp j life at the Newell-Russell camp. j There was a dance at Colestin lust Saturday night. Good time reported J by those attending. Ice cream aud dauoing 50 ceuts, soda water free. J Will Fry of Ashland and his brother Tom of Grants Pass, were in Colestin j Monday, Will returning Tuesday morn, while Tom will remain for a; week. Mrs. Jas. Patrick and mother-in- ! law and little daughter Marjorie re- j turned to their home at Ashland Mon day after spending a week camp- J ing here. i Miss Laura Nottage of Scottsburg, Oregon, who has been visiting Ash land friends came up to Colestin Sat urday, remaining till Monday with friends here. I Mr. and Mrs. G. Miller and little ton ' of Medford arrived her Wednesday, j Mr. Miller will remain but a short j time but Mrs Miller and baby will ; camp for a few weeks. j Ralph Dean, Vallard Truax and Parley Proctor were at Colestin over j Sunday 'and spen' the early morning hours fainting the Grants Pas' camp-1 erg by rocking their tents. ; Jos. Wolke, who has been spending some time at "Klamath Hot Springs stopped off at Colestin between trains Saturday o shake hands with old 1 friends, returning to his home in Grants Pass on last section of No, 1(1. Wednesday's south bound train had an accident at the first tunnel south of Ashland . The engines bad (oafed through but the coaches were still in the tnunel when the last car became ; derailed and a di lay of several minutes was cccasioned. The experience was not especially pit a-nut to the passen-: gers, as the windows were up and the smoke was sufforaing in the tunuil. A star game of croquet tooi place Tuesday evming between the little Misses Pearl Newell aud Charlotta Russell, which was very amusing to the spectators. All went well until the ball driven by Ms Charlotta cir cled around the wicket for the sixth time, uttely refusing to go though it, then the mallet flew though tneair and the little Miss drawing herself up to her small height, walked scornfully off the ground saying it was too hot to play croquet. JA party composed ot the Misses Lna Casey. Kate Newell, Vn Reyruer, Claudiue Coran, Myrtle Babe', Maude Raber, Pearl Long, aud Georgia Coron walked to Coles, Cal., Wednesday. The girls left Coletaiu at 11 o'clock a. m. laden with lunch baskets and Kodaks and arrived at Coles, a distance of six miles, at 1 :15 p. in. Arriving at the station they went to the picturesque old hotel where they were most cor dially greeted by the landlady and in vited to eat their lunch and spend the afternoon on the green lawn under the trees. The girls returned to Colestin on the afternoon train, feeling well repaid for their long walk. So well pleased with their "footpad" excursi on that the conductor had difficulty in keeping them onthe trian goiMg'back they wanted to get off and walk" They are thinking of walking to Horn brook on their next trip. CLASSIFIED ADS. FOR SALE. FOR SALE Firstclass Water fan, cost f 12. Sell for fo. Courier office. MANDOLIN A f30 Washburn roan dolin for tale at $20 Call nt the Music Store. 8-10 tf FRUIT JARS 2-qaartB 65o perdoz; 1 -quart 60o per dozen at Moore's Second hand store. 7-27 tt FOR SALE Heavy pair of work horses and heavy harness and a Stude baker wagon, nearly new. A idrers P. O. box 195, Grants Pass. 5-25 tf. FOR SALE. Secondhand motor cycle, good as new will 'sell for one-third actual oost. For informa tion apply to Carl Gentner or Pad dock's Bicycle den. 8-10 4t FOR SALE New five-room house and two lots, fence and outbuild ings, good residence; oorner Walnut aud Pine, No. 204, price $650. M. J. Young, P O. box 178. 8-10 tf FOR RENT. FOR RENT The only hotel in Cen-! tral Point, OregoQ. Address Dr. C. R. Ray. Tolo, Oregon. 8-17 4t TYPEWRITER Almost new type writer for rent by the week or month. A. E. Voorbies. 8 10 tf OFFICE ROOM for rent Conner building. Apply to A. E. Voorhies or J. W. Howard. 8-8 tf FOR RENT The McDonough ranch of 600 acres, theO'Hsra ranch of 280 acres and the Bardeo ranch of 804 acres, also smaller ranches. These ranches rank among the best in Southern Oregon and are adapted for alfalfa, grain and general farm ing and stock purposes. Address Dr. O. R. Ray, Tolo, Oregon. 8-17 4t WANTED. WANTED Grain Sacks, Tools and other second-hand goods. Harrison Bros., Second haud-store, corner Sixth aud J streets. 2-9 tf C. L. MOEL of Odessa wants loggers aud timber cutters to deliver 2,000, 000 feet of logs to mill by contract before euow flies; short haul, levl roads, one 4-horse team, two trucks, chains, etc. furnished. Also left hand 3-gang etiger wanted. Write or call at mill Odessa, Ora. 8 3 tf PERSONAL. DEARIE Buy a copy of Clare Knm mer'a latest product ion" Dearie, "the song that is now being snng all over the East one of the most popular songs of the season. Price 80c at the Music Hcusc. Many of the other late popular pieces in stock. HELP WANTED. HOP PICKERS WANTED Weidman &. Holloway yard, 2 miles down the river road. 810 3t HOP PICKERS wanted at my yard three miles west of Grants Pbbs. R. A. N. Reyniers. 8-3 it 1 HOP PICKERS WANrED-40pi(kers at the Rehkopf yard. Address J. T. Payne and Berry, Aplegate, Ore. j 8-3 6t ! HOP PICKERS wanted at i y yard six miles west of Grants Pass, Yard in prime coudition and 100 acres. John Ranzao. 8-3 tf HOP PICKERS 100 Dickers wanted at my yard, six miles down the river. Picking to commence Sept 1. Address Mrs. M. Ranzau. 8-3 5t SAw MILL and lumber yard laborers, 13.25 per day. Voodruen $2.25 to 8. Steady work. Apply to Booth-Kelly Lumber Co., Eugene, Ore. WANTED First class farm hand who also undeMands the care of orchard; good wages and steady job to right mm. Dr. C.R Ray. Tolo. Ore 8-17 4t SITUATION WANTED. FIRST-LASS nursi) can be found ou Chancellor St. 7-27 4t ANY SCHOOL BOARD desiring au experienced gentleman teacher, a1 c!res Hex fiti.i. Napoleon, Ohio. 8-10 2t FOUND. POUND On street, gold rim specta cles. Owner prove property and pav for ad 8-17 tf 6 FOUND Boys and girls coats on streets of Grants Pas. Call at Ovurie" office, describe property, pay for ad and get them. 8 13 tt TO EXCHANGE. TO TRADE A flue hore, of ItioO pounds, for sheep or go.its. Address J. A. Preotiss, Grant Pass. P. O. j Box 613 8-17 tf MISCELLANEOUS. FRANK BURNETT-Upholstering, mission furniture made to order. STRAYED. KSTRAY Six head of hogs came to my rauch, known as the Chansse place on Jerome prairie, about July ; 25. Sow marked with crop on left ear and double cut on right ear. ' Owner nay charges aud damages. Lee Simmons, P. O. box 66, Grants ; Pass, Ore. 8-10 fit; TKe Opportunity of Your Life. Special attention is invited to tbe unprecedented offer of the Ashland Commercial College. All students who enter on September 4th and secure a 9 months' scholarship for t& will be en titled to attend until July . 1st, 1907. This gives ample time for the bright, intelligent student to complete the combined course, commercial, short hand and English, and as a business training is unsurpassed. The graduates of this institution aru employed and more demanded than can be supplied. 8-17 'it A WATCH FREE With purchases of BOYS' and GIRLS' SHOES One Pair Will Bring You Back for Another. R. L. BARTLETT Howard Building Sixth Street OE LJUMP-0 -OFF-J Mr. Cherry has sold part of his place to Mr. Payne of Colorado. Mrs M. E. Pollock and daughter have been visiting her son Henry. MrB. Ora Hood was visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs Uorham last week. Bert Graham had a pleasant party last Tuesday eveuing. Ice cream and cake were the refreshments, T. E. Lacy of the Gopher mine is moving his family on the old Dous tener place near Grants Pass. For Fire Insurance The O. F. R. A. of McMinnville are the cheapest and have 13 years standing without a peer in Oregon for settling fire losses. That tells the tale. Don't be deceived by other agents who have selfish motives. In no event will it cost you more than tbe standard stock companies charge per anrum. H. B. HENDRICKS, Agt Grants Pass, Ore. 7-27 tf ASHLAND Commercial College Ashland, Oregon Complete and thorough training in the Commercial, Shorthand and English branches. Every New, Up-to-date Fea ture. Individual Instruction The expenses are the lowest and the advantages the best. Our graduates are employed and more demanded. Note Our Special Cffer 1 Students who enter Sept. t, and secure a nine months' scholarship for 5.".0vl will he entitled to at tend to July 1, 1907. Address, Aihland Commercial Colltge. flRI SCHOOL OF GRANTS pISS Conducted by Prof. Geo. O'Brien Thorough course of instruction in all branches of Fine and Industrial Art, according to the methods in vogue In the large Eastern Academies. Drawing Paiutiug, Modbluig, Architecture, etc. Class Tuition 25c and Upwards. Fcr further particulars apply at Room S. Masonio Temple, from 9 to 12 a.m. Coolest 18 via Pupet Sound, -uiuneapons ana St. I'aul, theu over the Burlington's picturesque Missis sippi liiver Scenic Line to Chicago or St. Louis. There is no better summer route, no matter where you are going east! Information as to rates, routes. n?l?- ro.nte' PinU of Merest, etc . will be given free of charge by m .Thrift, When your purchases for Girls and Boys Shoes amounts to $10.00 we are giving you a nickel watch. BESIDES the Watch we ate giving the very best values in Children's Shoes that can be found in Grants Pass. It is said that many campers have already gone into the big huckleberry patch in the upper Rogue river moun- . tains. . A good crop of berries is reported this season there, and they are also earlier than usual. This huckleberry patch, which is believed to be the largest one in Southern Ore gon, and comprises thousands of acres, aud is visited annually by hunderds of residents of Jackson and Klamath counties. Ashland Tidings. 30-30 and 25-35 Winchester Rifles at Cramer Bros. House Moving If you have a building that you want moved, raised or leveled up, call on or address A. E. Holloway. Residence 2 miles west of city, north side of river. Prescriptions THREE THINGS Honesty Accuracy Intelligence Are a part of every prescription we fill. The doctor doesn't write them down with the other ingredients because of tacit understanding that they are to go in always, and he knows that they will go in when you bring his order to us. Model Drugstore Front Street. Route East any direct line to R. W. FOSTER, Passenger and Ticket Agent. Burlington Route, Cor. SrdA Stark Sts., Portland. Ore. t