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No. 51.
HOOD RIVER METHOD OF
FINE COMPLIMENT FOR
SOME POINTERS FOR
COMMISSIONER CARSON
ROGUE RIVER FRUIT
SHERIFF BELIEVES HE
HAS MURDERER
MISS GEORGE LEADS IN
TELEGRAM CONTEST
FIGHTING FRUIT PESTS
ROGUE RIVER YALLEY
GROWERS TO MEET
Inspector Burns $1000 Worth of
President Newell of Sta-le Board
A Keplv to His Unmanly Screed
svnd His Inefficiency
Shown Up.
In Greets Pe.es. March 30-Ad-dresses
by Noted Horticul
tural Experts.
Man In Custody Answers Descrip
tion of Murderer of Deputy
Sheriff of Chlco.
Imported ScaJey Tree. Los
Fe.ll or Nurseryman,
Heads the List in the 10-th Dis
trict But Needs the Support
of Her Friends.
of Horticulture Encourages
Fruit Growers.
' viutuvii, x-n.iim, iuAa,rl mm, iyJl
Bood River after having made a
vigorous fight for the past Ave years
,nj has almost completely exterim
osted the pests from the orchards of
tbat famous mountain locked valley
foond themselves threatened last
week with a new invasion of San
Jose scale brought in on a shipment
of fruit trees received from a Will
amette Valley nursery. But with
the thoroughness that the Hood River
JelTardists give to the fruit industry
their county fruit inspector promptly
seized the diseased trees and ordered
tbem burned. In this protective
measure he was sustained by the Hor
ticultural Board commissioner for that
district and a bonfire was made of the
teres.
The following from the Hood River
Glacier tells in the incident :
"By a decision which was arrived
it Tuesday by Commissioner Weber,
of The Dalles, and County Fruit in
ipector Castner, about $1000 worth of
nursery stock belonging to N. B.
Harvey, of the Milwaukie nurseries
tod which is said to have been in
fected with San Jose scale was
burned. The trees were being
bandied br Rosiger & Guignard and
were at their ; place when the dis
covery was made that they were in
fected. "Mr. Harvey made no objection to
oomplying with the order for the de
struction of the trees and said he was
willing to abide by the decisiou al
though it was about the same as bur
oing up a 11000 bill to him. He said
tbat he did not waut to send anything
but clean stock to Hood River
growers and tbat be supposed the
oondenined stock was all right. He
siites that it had been examined by
tbe inspector for the district in whch
the Milwaukie nurseries are situated
ud bad been pronounoed by bm a
lit for sale. Traoeg of scale bad been
tonvfirer in it hafnrn it whs shinned
to Hood Rver, bat it had been dipped
ud was thought to be in a perfectly
iesltliy condition. A letter which
Mr. Harvey had with him from Presi
dent Newell, of the State Board of
Hortieultur, said that in his opinion
the trees would be all right if they
pre redipped and kept two weeks
before being planted, but commis-
siooer Weber and inspector Uastner
mled otherwise aud said tbat they
must be destroyed, as it would be un
wise to take any chances of propogat-
.ng scale in the valley.
Their authority is said to be abso-
late iu the district which they repre
sent aud the order to burn the trees
was complied with.
The sUick was Newtown and Spitz-
-n!eigs and is tiid to .have been above
be average in appearanoe aud growth
Mr its age. As there is a great
demand for these varieties for the
Spring setting the matter is looked
apon by growers as unfortunate.
Iiey do not however, attach any
Same to Mr. Harvey or Mr. Guig-
oard, and say that) it is an incident
Q the fruit growing business that is
table to happen and which calls for
rrompt action."
Arrow Braud Collars sizes.
'o. S. Calhoun Co.
80 Acres
Price
$1600
W- L IRELAND
THE REAL ESTATE MAN
Ground Floor, Opera House Block
The Rogue River Courier, realizing
that the mere chronicling of news
events was not all that a newspaper
should do to be a helpful factor In a
community, devotes much of its space
to articles dealing with the develop
ment of the" fruit, dairy, mining,
stock, timber, manufacturing and
other industries in Rogue River Val
ley and which will give to Grants
Pass and Josephine county a prosperi
ty that will be permanent and make
this section one of the most pro
gressive in the state.
To let prominent persons at a dis
tance know of the progress of this,
the most favored of Valleys sample
copies of the Courier are sen t from
time to time. In a letter acknowled
ging the receipt of copies of the
Courier Hon. Wilbur K. Newell, of
Gaston. Oregon, president of the Ore
gon State Board of Horticulture,
commends the work of this paper and
also pays a high tribute to tbe horti
cultural possibilities of this section of
Rogue River Valley in a statement
that "The country tributary to
Grants Pass was adapted to growing
more kinds of fruit to perfection than
any othet part of Oregon." That he
did not make this statement as mere
Battery is known to those who have
bis acquaintance for Mr. Newell is
most conscientious man and one of
the most progressive and practical
farmers and fruit growers of W ll-
amette Valley and he is broad-minded
enough to concede the merits tbat the
various sections of Oregon possess.
Hhe following is Mr. Newell 's letter
in full :
Gaston, Ore., May. 14, 1907.
Rogue River Courier,
Grants Pass, Ore.,
To the Editor I wish to thauk you
for tbe many copies of your excellent
paper received during the past few
mouths I appreciate your kindness
in sending them, and also wish to
commend the ' splendid work you are
doing in enoouraging the Horticult
ural industry in your vicinity. The
power of the press is miRhty in this
Hue as in others. Speaking from a
knowledge of all parts of the state, I
have often said that the country
tributary to Grants Pass was adapted
to growing more kinds of friut to per
fection than any other part of Oregon.
Sincerely yours,
WILBUR K. NEWELL.
Dtafncsi Cannot Be Cured
by local applications, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the
ear. There is ouly one way to cure
deafness, and that is by constitutional
remedies. Deafness is caused by au
inflamed condition of tbe mucous
liuing of the Eustachian Tube. When
the tube is inflamed you have a rumb
ling sound or imperfect hearing, and
when it in entirely closed, deafeuss is
the result, and unless the inflamma
tion can be takeu out and this tube
rstored to its normal condition,
hearing will be destroyed forever;
niue cases out of 10 are caused by
Catarrh, which is nothing but an
inflamed condition of the mucous
surfaces.
We will give $100 for any case of
deanfess, caused by catarrh, that
cannot be cored by Hall's Catarrh
Cur. bend or circulars.
, F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, O.
Sold bv all Druirifists. 75 c.
I Take Halls' family Pills for con
'stipation. Sheet Music Sale at Music Store
Saturday afternoon, March 30.
4 miles from Grants Pass, 20
acres cleared and fenced, 4
acres in alfalfa and 2 acres in
timothy. Good 4 room cottage
2 barns, wagon shed, chicken
house and woodshed, a fine
well and good spring. One
mile from good school. There
is an abundance of Oak, and
Pine wood on the place and a
down hill pull all the way to
Grants Pass, Will give TERMS
on a portion of price.
A. H. Carson, member of the State
BpardofHorticnltore for this, the
Thirdd8trict, aiidwho has ffad'tlie
posi'tion and "the salary for the past
six years during which period his in
activity aud neglect of duty has been
in inverse ratio to that of the orchard
pests which have so increased as to
all but destroy the fruit industry in
Josephine county, has a blaBt iu the
Observer of this week accusing me
of several short-comings. He states
that I have Ignored the aw and have
failed to take orders from him and
to report to him a I should. As to
obeying aud enforoing the law I
thought I was doing my duty and
making very good headway in having
the pest law enforced as is proven
by the very large amount of pruning
and spraying and the digging up of
old, diseased trees that ia being done
all over the county, in marked con
trast to the very little that was done
to check the spread of the pests last
year and for the previous years tbat
Commissioner Carson had charge of
this work.
Iu enforcing the law to com
pel all to eradicate the pests from
their fruit trees, vineyards aud throb
be! y I have been as lenient as pos
sible and been first trying tbe
efficiency of a campaign of edocation.
In this line I have secured 138 sub
scriptions to Better Fruit, tbe famous
fruit paper published at Hood River,
that the orchardists of this county
may learn of the methods that have
practically freed Hood River Valley
of pests and enabled tbat district to
get the highest price paid in the
world last year for apples. I have
distributed all the bulletins I could
secure and have bad published in the
Courier a large amount of horticul
tural news. Of the 10 fruit growers
meetings that have been held in
Josephine county during the past
two years I have arranged for them
ail and Mr. Carson only attended
four of them. But after the first of
April I shall chauge the ctnipaign of
education to one of action aud all
who have not made a vigorous effort
to eradicate the pests from their or
chards and vineayrds will get a call
from the sheriff with he sequence of a
big cost bill to pay that will be a
lien upon their property. Aud this
rule will he applied to Coniiniiwiouer
Cirsou as well as to the humble
owner of a half a dozen diseased trees
and he will have to make more of an
effort than he has in the pat to
put his vineyard aud fruit trees in a
healthy condition.
There are two reasons w!:y I have
not reported to Commissioner Carson
as yet. One is that he takes so little
interest 10 having the pest law en
forced that I took it that he did nut
care for a report, and the other and
ohief reason is that I had no report
to make until the county court meets
in April when as is required by law I
will make a Report to the county
court aud to the commissioner for
this district.
As to Oommisixoner Carson going
before the couuty court and demand
ing that I be put out of office there
is no likelihood at all of his doing
that, he will only talk about it as
he has iu the past talked about raving
the pest law enforced. His fling at
my business capacity is in keeping
with the methods that he praetic'dju
selling fro it trees to the farmers of
Jospehine couuty. And his scornful
allusion to tbe Grants Pass Fruit
Qrowes Union but shows his opposi
tion to that organization. Had it
not been oganized he could have en
gaged in fruit buying, as he cure
planned to do. It is only jealousy
that prompts him to make the false
statement that the Union made a
failure in marketing fruit. The truth
is that the fruit shipped through the
Union brought the growes from 25 to
50 per cent more than they had ever
received before and this profitable price
was had in a market that was flooded
with tbe biggest fruit crop ever grown
in the United States. And further-
more the members of the Union got
the returns for their fruit promptly
and did not lose on their sales as did
some of tbe farmers who sold to deal-
Commissioner Carson has uuwit
; tingly started the movement that will
result in he being deposed from office,
There will be a fruit growers meet
ing in Grants Pass on Saturday, March
30, conducted under the auspices of
the Oregon Agricultural College iu co
operation with the Grants Pass Fruit
Growers Union aud the Grants Pass
Commercial Club. The speakers will
eaiorico some of the best horticul
tural talent iu the state among them
being Dr. James Withyoombe, director
of the Experiment Station of the Ore
gon Argicultural College, Prof. A. B.
Cordley, entymologist at the Agricul
tural College, one of the best posted
men ou fruit tree pests on the Pacific
Coast, Prof. Claude L Lewis, horticul
turist at the Argicultural College,
late of Cornell Univergsity and thor
oughly posted in the problems on tbe
successful growing of au orchard, E
H. Shepard, manager and secretary of
the Hood River Fruit Growers Union
and Mrs. Clara Waldo, state lecturer
for the Oregon Grange. Mrs. Waldo
is the most talented woman speaker on
th-j Pacific Coast and ' her address on
"Tbe Betterment of the Farm Home"
will be well worth bearing. The
profitable marketing of fruit is quite
as important to the orchardist as is its
growing and all interested in the Rogue
River fruit industry will find Mr.
Shepard's address of the greatest value.
Mr. Shepard has for the last four
years been manager of the Hood River
Fruit Growers Union and he has built
it up to be the strongest union on the
Paci Bo Coast. This Union has se
cured the highest prices ever paid
growers for applet in the world.
Their prioes for this last year ranged
from f J.25 to 3.15 a box f. o. b. Hood
River. Rogue River orchardists have
the advantage of as good soil aud cli
mate as Hood River and when tbey
have the thorough knowledge aud as
strong a uniou as have the Hood River
growers they will get as high prices
for their fruit.
The meeting will be held iu the
Opera House and the sesslous will be
afternoon aud eveaing. No forenoon
session will be held for the reason that
so many farmers live at a distance and
getting into town late and then likely
doing some trailing will not be able to
attend until after dinner. The after
noon session will be devoted'to the
technical part of fruit raising and will
be of special imprest to the farmers
and tbey are expected to be present
promptly at 1 o'clock. An imp rtant
feature of the evening will deal with
the fruit industry as a factor iu the
prosperity of Grauts Pass aud it is ex
pected tbat the business men will
have that interest iu the welfare of
their city tiall attend for if the.fruit
industry is not developed Grants Pans
will come to a standstill aud soon too.
The office of county fruit iuspcetor,
yielding little honor and less salary
pud much hard work and the bitter
criticisms of the moss back fruit tree
owners, is not being sought after to
any gieat ei'eut in many of the
counties of the state. The strenuous
life has been too much for several of
theiu aud a number have resigned
this Winter and .Spring. The latest
resignation is that of E. "P. Drew,
fruit inspector for Douglas county,
who announced that the office took too
much of his time for the salary that
it paid. Ex-Couuty Judge . W.
Kidille ha been appointed by the
county court to fill the position.
Judge Kiddle is a leading fruit grower
of Riddle and announces bis inten
tion of enforcing the law airainut fruit
tree pests to the full extent aud
make it possible for orchardists of
Douglas county to grow perfect fruit.
Judge Riddle is the father of Cieorge
R. Kiddle, the well known hardware
dealer of this city. j
for he has roused the iruit growers of !
t.11 Rogue River Val ey to Ins utfr iu"- j
competency as au officer aud they will i
make such a demand on the Governor
that the latter will appoint a new
commissioner for the Third district.
CHARLES MESERVE,
Couuty Fruit Inspector.
Free of charge Buster Dr"wn pus
tal cards, new ones every mouth.
Send us your name and we will mail
yoo one or call at the store and get a
I supply. Geo. a. Calhoun (Jo.
Keep in mind tbat Patton's Sun
Proof Paints are sold only by Cramer
I Bros.
The county jail now has. another
occupant, a mau giviug his""uaiuo'as
Jim Licy, but who is supposed to be
Jim Kiohardsou. who is wanted in
California for the niuider of Deputy
Sheriff Joe D. Price at Fresno on
March 13, and or whom a reward of
1000 has been offered. Lacy uilys
almost perfectly with the description
of the man wanted with the excep
tion as to heiirht. which diff..n
about two iuches. """
Lacy, wheu captured here by the
city marshal was traveling in com
pany with another man who has been
detained and is now languUhiug in the
city jail. The two men claim to have
been working together for the past
two years but each has a different
story as to where their time has been
speut and their occupation during the
past months.
The California authorities have
been communicated with and will
probably arrive as soon as rail com
munication is established. In Mie
mean time the suspects are being
held and a charge of carrying con
cealed weapons will be brought
against them. ' '
RAINFALL OF FIVE INCHES
Kailro&d Traffic Demoralized
and Malls Uncertain.
Southern Oregon was treated to a
rain storm this week, the storm
oommencing Saturday night and con
tinuing almost incessantly until
Tuesday night and during that time
ne rainrau at urants Pass amounted to
five inches. This is "imnd , run ,r.i
I ir
even for this country where the raiu
doegjiot fall i n gentlenTiHuTThe
rivers aud small streams throughout
the.county have been iwolleirbnTso
far as can be learned no damage to
any extent has been done. California
howeverjs uotsu fortunate. ThTex
cessive rains have caused damage
amounting tomiUlousand suffering
and loss of lift, "whole towns being
submerged aud the inhabitants es
caping with difficulty.
Tbe Southern Pacific 'tracks have
been greatly damaged ami traffic is
demoralized. Fifty iuil oftra"ck
have been washed out betweenDiTii7
m airland Sacramento mill trains will
not beable to run over that sect ion
for'auumlwr ofdays yet. ThTraif
road bridge at Winchester, Douglas
county was swept away and traffic
northward delayed. At present but
two trains a day are running, one
from the north and one being made
np at Ashland aud running to Port
land. This schedule will continue
nntil the tracks are in good condi
tion from Porltaud to San Franoisco,
which will take a week or moro.
You will never regret it if you
buy a Petaluma at Cramer Pros.
Let us make your picture we
guarantee to please you. Hammock's
Photo and Art Studio. ;t
Get Ready
" OUSI2 I",IX.rriJ1M2SS
Have on a tew prices that will very much reduce
the cost of making the IIOMIi look new. Xoko these
reductions for they are not ordinary, aud aro for now
Wall papers, regular 35c values for 25c
it nr-
, 2Sc " 18c
A few special numbers in choice
patterns of carpets, regular 75c for.... 52V3C
Regular $1.25 values for j)c
U yard carpet rugs worth $2.50 for $1.75
Comforters, regular $1.50 for i.'oo
Go-Carts new 1907 Patterns Just in
I
Thomas O'Neill,
Headquarters for things for the Ilpuse
Miss Luoie George of this place, a
teacher in tbe Riverside school, is a
candidate in the Portland Evening
Telegram's'JauKstownExpoBltion Tour
contest, which has been In progress
since October 23 aud will continue
nntil the 23d of April. At the
present time Miss George heads the
list with 231,418 votes, being nearly
2t00 votes ahead of her closest com
petitor, Miss Maude Robertson, of
Dallas. Miss Gaorge has been up
toward the lieid of the list in tbe
10th district since the beginning of
the contest, greater portion of the
time occupying first place but at
times falliug back to 'second place,
and as the contest Dears the olose
the outcome will be awaited with
great Interest by Miss George's friends
who are all anxlon tsbat the win.
The prize to be won is a free trip
to the Jamestown Exposition as a
guest of the Evening Telergam which
paper pays all expenses for 13 yonng
ladies who are to travel by special oar
and will have all the travel necessi
ties and conveniences provided. The
trip is one which is looked forward
to by many young ladies of Oregon
who wish to make a trip to the East.
Voting coupons are secured by paid
in advance subscriptions to the Even
ing Telegram, 200 votes for three
months, 60V for six months, and 1600
votes if paid one year in advance.
Single coupons may be cut from each
daily issue of the Telegram. Mow
is the time for all Josephine county
people to show their loyalty to a Jose
phine oounty candidate and those who
are now regularly receiving; the
Telegram should send Miss George
5 for a year's subscription and it
will enable her to add 1500 votes to
her number. There are now bot four
weeks In which to work for candi
dates.
Miss George- has speat the greater
part of her life in, Oregon and it a
Booster" for ber borne county and
it is certain that if she goes to James
town with the Telegram party there
will be hundreds of Eastern Deonle -
who will hear about Josephine oounty
and Souhern Oregou, possibly for the
first time.
All believers in Christian religion,
regardless of denomination, are In
vited to come aud hear 'a discourse
delivered by Paul S. L. Johnson, the
converted Hebrew. Subject "The
First Hell and The Heooud Hell."
Meeting to be held at the Modern
Woodmen hall over L. B. Hall's uu"
dertakiug store, North Sixth street,
March 39 and 30, at 7 :30 p. ni. You
I are cordially invited. No collection
i and seats free.
Ohirkea Pie Wednesday April 8,
after 6 p. m. at the hall abovo Hall's
by ChrixtUu church ladies. They
make pie good for the pious aud im
pious alike. 3.23 at
Hammock, the photographer now
has two young lady hnliwrs aud can
attend to any amount of work
promptly. Come and tee what we
havo for you. Opposite post office.
For Spring
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