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VOL. XXIII.
GRANTS PASS, JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 19. 1907.
No. 16.
PORTLAND COMMER
CIAL CLUB LETTER
Colonial Rates Will Be on Again
in a Few W eek and Con
tinue For 60 Day.
Portland. Ore.. July 15, 1907.
' Tin banquet tendered tD the Hon.
James R. UarSeld, sacretary of the
interior, at the Portland commercial
club Saturday evening, was a most
tepresentative affair. Judge George
H. Williams presided as'toat master
and talks ou behalf of Portland and
Oregon were made by Gov. Chamber
lainSenator Fulton, State Senator
Haines,of Fore8t"""Grove, J edge
Lowell, of Pendleton and others,
while Secretary Garfield, Commis
sioner Ballinger of the general land
office. F. H. Newell, director of the
reclamation service' and others re
sponded on behalf of the visitors.
The trip of.these high officials of the
interior department at this time is of
especial importance to Oregon, a
shown by the any prominent people
from over the state who attended the
banquet.
The successful organization of the
Portland Country Club and Live Stock
Association is assured. Nearly $100,
000 of the $150,000 capital stock of
the corporation has been subscribed.
One of the crying needs of Oregon has
been a permanent live stock associa
tion and the stock is being rapidly
taken up.
All Oregonians will be gratified to
learu of the organization of the Port
land Rose Festival Association, assur
ing an annual rose show and the wide
oublioitv to be given future events
will be of great benefit ro the state
generally.
In sis weeks more the colonists
rates to Oregon will be in effect
again, continuing for 60 days. In
order to get the full benefit of them,
every commercial organization should,
get busy with their correspondence
with prospective settlers. During
this vacation period the boys and girl
have the time to write their friends
"back East" and tell them about the
Oregon country. As an illustration
ot what can be accomplished by this
means, the school children of a single
distriot in one of onr coast counties
doubled the school population of that
distriot merely through correspon
dence, necessitating t!:e conHtrncion
of an additional school building.
A citj can prosper only as the
oountry which supports it prospers.
The wonderful prosperity of Oregon
is reflected in the building record of
Portalnd for the six months ending
June 30th. This city led the 34 prin
cipal cities of the country in the per
centage of increase in building over
the ssrne period of last year, with a
gain of 78 per cent.
Coffin Tacks Barred.
No more cigarettes in Washington
after September 1. The law forbid
diug the trafficking of the little sub
stitutes for cigars passed by the last
legislature, will be operative in a lit
tle over two months. It was the
outcome of the work of the committee
on publio morals, Representative
Byera, chairman, and is as follows:
"That it shall be .unlawful for any
person, by himself, clerk, servant,
empoye or agent, directly or indi
rectly, upon any pretense or by any
device, to manufacture, sell, ex
change, barter, dispose of or give
away or keep for sale, any cigart ttes,
cigarette paper or "cigarette wrappers
or Lny paper made or prepared for the
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land to sell
THE REAL ESTATE MAN
Ground Floor, Opera House Block
purpose or being filled with tobacco
ror smoking; and any person, for
violation of the same, shall be guilty
i misaemeanor, and; upon convio
tion shall, for the tint offense, pay a
fine of not less than fI0 nor more than
50 and cost of prosecution and stand
committed in the oounty jail until
such costs of prosecution are paid;
and for the second and each subse
quent offense, shall pay, upon convic-
tionjthereof, aflne of not less than
f 10 not more 'than'loOO ""aud'co"st8 of
prosecution, or be imprisoned in th9
county jail not to exceed fix months.
Provided that the propositions thereof
shall not apply to the sales of jobbers
doing an interstate business with cus
tomers outside the state."
MEDFORD TO HOLD
BIG CELEBRATION
State Horticultural Society and
Business Men Carnival
Slated for Aug. 9 10.
Medford is preparing or the greatest
celebration ever held in the Rogue
River valley next month, when the
State Horticultural society and the
business men's carnival bold forth in
the growing metropolis. Several
thousand dollars have been raised by
the oommittees in charge of the cele
bration, and Dr. D. R. Ray, a lead
ing citizen to Medford, is now in
Portland securing attractions for the
show. In speaking of the celebration
Dr. Ray said :
"We will have one solid week of
entertainments which will be along
social and educational linns. The
horticulture society will be in session
August 8. 9 and 10, and delegates will
attend from all parts of the state.
The evenings the society is in session
will be devoted to publio meetings at
which notable men from all sections
wlli speak. We expect a crowd of
fiOOO people and will provide enter
tainment for all classes.
"The carnival feature will be varied
and the attractions will be the best
we can seoure. There will be rock
drilling oootests, baseball and other
sports. Fireworks will form a por
tion of the display.
"Medford will be brilliantly illu
minated at night. Three large arches
with more than 1000 electric lights on
each will be erected, while nearly
every business house in the city will
decorate the.r buildings with electrio
al displays. No expense has been
spared and the people are determined
that the carnival shall be the most
elaborate ever held in Southern Ore
gon. "Medford has doubled In population
in the last year and a half and will
quadruple in ttie next few years. This
will be due to the great strides that are
being made in the fruit industry.
Between 3000 aud -1000 acres of fruit
nave baen laid out each Tear for the
past five cr six years. The care of
tliest orchards and the handling of the
fruit requires a small army of men.
Ciunerirs are going up and few cities
offer Inducements to newcomers that
we do. " .
Prussian
Brcs.
Poultry Tonic at Cramer
A prospector by the name of An
drew Button was arrested in a saloon
here la-'t Friday on information from
Rufebiirg. Saturday morning Sheriff
MeClellan of Rosecorg came and took
the aocofed to Roseborg where he was
arraigned before the diftict attorney
ou a charge of robbing a fellow pros
pector near CanyouvilK
Wanted
PROMISING MINE
IN LITIGATION
Title to Galice Property Which
Shown Good Prospect Ha
Many Claimant.
A mining case which will be
watched with a great deal of interest
by mining men of the Galice district
is the title Robertson vs. Mitchell aud
Mattison. This is case arising out
of the district where there are now
many mines upon a paying basis and
where many more are about ready to
make shipments of rich ore; such
mines as the Alameda, Golden Wedge,
Copper Eagle, Goldfinch, Sanders
Mine and others being in the'imme
diate vicinity. As is usual in a min
ing camp where a mine of great rich
noes has been discovered unless great
precautions have been taken, concern
ing the title, claimants arise from
many quarters who believe they have
au interest worth fighting for. Rob
ertson, the plaintiff in June 1901, ob
tained a deed to a claim called the
Commonwealth, from a man who
went upon the publio domain in July
1893 and posted a notice. It the
affidavit of Edward Friday and
others can be credited, thin locator
never set stakes, marked the bound
aries nor did any assessment work
either in 1898, 1899 or any subsequent
years. In January, 1900 Friday
went upon this ground and posted
notice for another man, but no stake
were set, nor were the boundarioa
marked nor was the assesrment work
done. The first locator deeded not
his own location but the location of
the seoood locator who never had
transferred to the first locator. This
deed was made to the plaintiff who
now asserts au interest in the mine.
In January 1902, after knowing that
all prior location were invalid,
Mattison one of the defendants went
upon this ground and located'same.
Acoordiug to bis aud othtr affidavits
he marked bis boundaries, stiked bis
claim and filed his notice for record,
aud called it the "Oriole." He
went luto possession and reuiainedin
peaceable and quiet possession , until
the commencement of the case refer
red to. He states in his affidavit
that rich ore was not struck until
late In 1906 and that prior to that
time he did not know whether lie
ould strike rich ore or not and that
the plaintiff had never at any time
made any claims to ownership in
the miue but had expressly advied
the defendant Mattison to stop
throwing his mouey away, because as
he said there was nothing to jnstiy
him in going ahead The plaintiff
also, according to the affidavits told
the defendant Mattison to go ahead
and locate the claim; that it was no
good aud that unless In; got it funitonn
else would as it whs subject to loca
tion. It appears also iu affidavits, that
the plaintiff bad told various people
that he would wait until the defend
ant made a mine of it tnd then he
would claim his iuterest. Almost six
years elapsed before plaintiff made bis
claim to au interest.
It appears that the miue is a very
rich one and the rntcomenf the case is
watched with considerable interest.
The attorneys for the defendants are
H. D. Norton and O. S. Blamhaid.
The case is referred to a referee and
testimony will be taken enrly iu
August.
TO ORGANIZE AGRI
CULTURAL ASSOCIATION
Meeting Called la Take Prelim
inary Step Toward the
Couty Sept. Fair.
There will be a meeting of the
Giants Pas Fruit Growers Associa
tion on Wednesday. July 2t. at 1 :.'i0
p. m. sharp to attend to several im
portant matters.
One is to elect a member, as re
quired by law of the board o! com
missioners of the Rogue River Fair
Association, to serve with five other
members, one each to bs elected by
the fruit growers associations of Jack
son county and three to bs appointed
by the governor, two for Jackson
county'and one for Josephine county.
This boarJ of commissioners will
have power to draw from the state the
11200 that baa been appropriated for a
dsitrict fair in Rogne River Valley.
ibis appropriation i available for
aoh year for an annual fair that shall
be held alternately in Josephine and
Jackson oounties.
The first of these district fairs will
be held in Grants Pass on September
10, 11 and 12, under the aupsiocs of
ttie Grants Pass Fruit Growers As
sociation and the Grants Pass Com
mercial Club. These dates are the
same as those of the annual meet
ing in Grans Pass of the Oregon Irri
gation Association. The promise
has been given Secretary Meserve, of
the Fruit Growers Association, that
the Medford and .Ashland Fruit
Growers Associations aud the com
mercial clubs o Ashland, Medford,
Jacksonville, Central Point and Gold
Hill as also the other citizens of the
county will fully co-operate in making
tnls fair a splendid succoss aud the
pledged both a large attendance at the
irrigation convention and many ex
hibits for the fair.
MR. PERRY LOSES
VALUABLE SUIT CASE
Stolen on Train Between Aah.
land and This Place
Thieve Captured.
O. H. Perry got back Saturday
from a trip of a mouth to Arizona and
Southern California. Mr. Perry has
large property interest in Arizona
and to attend to business matters wa
th object of bis trip. He states that
business is lively there as it Is in all
other sections of the Pacific Coast.
Mr. Perry since coming to Grant
Pass last Fall from Michigan has be
come interested in the fruit industry
and has bought a large tract of grape
laud on the Applegate near Murphy
and will begin this Winter the plant
ing of a vineyard that is to eventually
embrace 10 acres. He is a strona
hacker of the Grants Pass Fruit
Growers Association for he is a firm
believer in co-operation and that it Is
through these associations that the
fruit grower can market their fruit
to the best advantage and the most
profit to themselves. As Southern
California, Arizona, New Mexico aud
Mexico is a profitable market for all
the common kinds of red apples, such
as are not profitable to ship to New
York and other Eastern markets, Mr. j
Perry at the request of Manager Me
serve, of the iruit Growers Associa
tion, called on a uninber of the fruit
dealers iu that section and arranged
for those whom h found sirictly re
liable to correspond with Manager Me
serve relative to their handling Rogne
Kiver apples this Fall. Mr. Perry,
while on the trip narrowly escaped
oina 127,000 In securities aud other
valuable papers, which he had in his
suitcase. He was unable to get a
deeper from Sin Fraunieoo here aud
had to ride if a chair car. Dropping
off to sleep as ho pased Ashland aud
ou awakening at Medford he found
tliat his suitcase was gone. Sue
picio Intf two young men who sat be
biud hiiu and who had li ft the train,
Mr. Perry loft the train at Medford
and jiave their description to the
police at that place and by telephone
to the officers ot the other towns of
the Valley. He returned to Ashland
at once aud he aud Marshal Irwin of
that place b gan an euergetio search
for the thieves. Suspecting that they
had gotten off the train at Talent or
Phoenix, Mr. Perry and the inaiahal
kept a waich of the railroad track and
nxm the young men came walking
aloug. They protested their inno
ceuoe and objected to being arreste I
but Marshal Irwin soon got tlatida
out their heads and a pair of hand
coffs on each of their wrists. On
being searched the valuables were
found and they confessed and told
where the suitcase was bid. On re
covering it, Mr. Perry found that the
thieves had destroyed it in opening it.
The culprits were given a hetring a
Ashland and not being able to give
bonds ware lodged iu jail at Jackson
ville to await trial in the circuit
court, the result of which will be at
least a five year's term in the peulten
tliry. Mis Harriet Bcoville. editor of the
Canyon v ills Echo, spent Sunday and
Monday in Graats Pas vUiting her
parents. The entire Sooville family
with the exception of Mis Marjorle
sent Sunday -together for the first
time in several years. Miss Roth is
aud has been for the past several
months postmistress at Placer, with
Miss Marjorle as assistant.
TO VISIT OUR
HUSTLING NEIGHBOR
Urant Pa Business Men and
Fruit Men Will Visit
Medford Aug. 8.
The Fruit Growers Association and
the Commercial Club Jiave arrauged
for an excursion to Medford on
Thursday. August 8 .to attend the an
nual midsummer meeting of the
Oragou Hortioultural.Socioty.. As
special low rate has boen grauted by
the Southern Paolflo there will be
present a IJarge number of fruit
growers and others interested in the
fruit industry from all sections 'ot
Oregon as well as many from Wash
iugton and California who will take
advantage of the .occasion to see
Rogue River Vallsy, of whioh they
have beard so tnuoh.
The Medford business men and
Jakson oouuty fruit growers are mak
ing extensive preparations to enter
tain their gusets. The sessions
the Oregon Horticultural Society win
continue for three days, Thursday,
Friday and Saturday. The forenoon
of each day will be devoted to inspect
ing.the many fine orchards about Med
ford, some containing as large asiu0
acres. The visitoi will be taken in
automobiles, of whioh there are
some 60 owned by business'' men aud
fruit grower In and about Medford,
to visit the orchards aud to view the
many attractions of that section of
Rogue River Valley. The after
noons and.evenings will be devoted to
the seslsons of the Hortioultura
Society. The program will embrace
addresses by specialists from the
Oregon Agricultural Collee and by the
leading fruit grower of Hood River
and other seotious of Oregon. '
Every fruit grower in Josephine
oouuty who expects to make money
out of his orchard should attend this
meeting of the Oregon Horticultural
Society. To pot In the three day in
listening to the addresses, asking
questions and in 'inspecting tho fine
orchards about Medford will make it
equal to a salary of not less than 26
a day to each fruit grower of this
county. Fruit growing is a science
and 18 a box can not be grown by
merely sitting on a spring seat like
rasing 90 cents a bushel wheat or
I2 a ton hay, the one yielding a return
of 1 1200 an acre per year and the two
others f 25 to 75 an acer. Any fellow
with plenty of muscle can grow
wheat or hay but it takes as much
brains to grow fruit as it does to
CDiiduot a bank or a store or operate
a railroad. The farmer who attempts
to grow fruit aud will I ot read and
attend fruit grower meetings bad
better out down his true and thereby
KEEP
OTHERS WILL BE C'"" gahlc
This summer by means of the many
PLANS and nice GOODS we are
showing. Why not at least know
what thoes goods and plans are
YOU CAN BE co1 anJ Comfortablc
This summer by fitting your porch
with the rtgrffi M porch
equipm- If U M Mm ent we
can show what they are
A Few July and Aug. Coolers
Tents.
Lemon Squeezers,
Camp Stools-Chairs,
Refregerators;
Cot for Tents,
Ice Cream Freezers,
Vudor porch shades,
Folding Camp Tables,
Adj. Screen Windows,
Porch Rockers,
You Need our Coolers
this Summer
Furniture and Car
pets, Linoleums,
!.' Curtains, Por
tieres, MattresMs,
Pillows, Cots, Wall
Paixr, Clocks,
Mirrors, Window
Shades, Picture,
Picture Moulding.
R. H. O'Neill
THE HOUSERJRNISHER
front St.,
avoid bankruptcy and a call from the
sheriff.
Then the business men of Grants
Pass should go on this excursion to
Medford. It is to their interest to
heartily co-operate in the devlopineut
of an Industry that will bring in so
much 'cash trade to them as will the
orchards. And then they should take
a trip to Medford and look over the
three flue buuks, the stores crowded
with customers, aud take their turn
with the crowd at 'getting a meal at a
restauraaut or a bed at a hotel, and
note the activity and general pros
perity of the town. A trip to Med
ford would do more to arouse the con
servative elemeut .and uiossbacka of
Grants Pass than all the boosting that
the Commercial Club aud the news
papers can ido. Then it will do the
huBtlers of Grants Pass good to tike
the trip to Medford aud see how the
hustlers of that live town get a move
on aud what they have accomplished.
PITCHER PERNOLL
JOINS PORTLAND TEAM
McCredle Get Buaher From
Grant Pa to Try Out
on League Diamond.
Peruoll, the star twlrler of Grant
Pass, Ore., who pitched the 14 inning;
game agaiust Medford Sunday and
lost, 9 to I. joined MoCredle's team
Wednesday to have try-out on the
slab for Portland. It was announced
in the Telegram two mouths ago that
he would join the team in July. He
oomea with an enviable reputation lor
work in bush league and wa recom
mended to MoCredla by Virgil Gar
vin.
Pernoll fannned 21 men in the game
Sunday and wa only touched for six
bit in 14 innings. He was also the
star batter of the day. He 1 a left
handed batter and wa pitted against
a "southpaw, but managed to get a two
bagger in the fourth, "a home run in
th seventh and a single in the 12th.
In the 10th he got to bass on erora and
stole around to third when there wa
only on out, but hi team mate
could not bring him in.
Of course, all his performances havs
been in bush company, but Garvin
said a year ago he was a coining man.
MoCredie has been so well satisfied
with Hartman, whom he picked up
from a similar leugue, he will give
Pernoll a foil chance. Telurgara.
J. Wokle went to West Fork the
fore part of the week to 'prepare camp
about 13 miles from the station. On
Thursday Mrs. Wolke aud daughters
and Miss Laooita Mangum joined him
and took np camp life for several
weeks.
COOL
Screen Doors,
Lawn Setters,
Hammocks,
(Built for Two)
Hammock Chairs
WHAT?
W Havm Told You I
Htove and Ranges,
Oranitewar,
Agtewara, Tinware,
Woodenware,
Willowara, Cutlery,
Crockery, Lamps,
Glassware, Fancy
China, Oo-Carta,
Baby Carriages.
bet. 6 and 7