VOL. XXIV.
GRANTS PASS, JOSEPHINE CODNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1908.
No. 9.
WE CAN NOW
BRINK WATER
Fountain Was Formally
Dedicated Wednesday.
WAS LARGELY ATTENDED
Le.dles ol W. C. T. V. Present
tha City With a Splendid
Improvement.
The drinking fountain erected in
the northewest corner of Railroad
park lait week by the leaders of tbe
W. C. T. U. wa formerly dedicated
Wednesday night. The services began
with a rendition of the "Whirlwind"
gallop by the Rogue River baud after
which he. Lovett delivered the in
vocation. Mrs. Weidman, in behalf of the W.
0. T. U. gave the dedicatory address,
which was attentively pistened to and
elicited hearty applause. A bevy of
Sunday school children also aug
mented the occasion with a number of
sours, and the services closed with a
temperance lecture by Rev. Glass, in
which he pointed oat the terrible
effect of the ram traffio and said that
he believed that Josephiue oosnty
won id vote out the saloons neit
Monday- The park was nearly filled
with those who came to attend the
service and most of them enjoyed a
coolj dranght from thejnew fonntain.
The fonntain is an ornament to the
park and tbe city and a nionunieut to
the nutiring effort of the ladies of the
W. C. T. U. who are always doing
something for the betterment of man
kind and tha elevation of the home.
Alderman Kinney, in the absence of
Mayor Smith, responded in a pleasant
way to Mrs. Weidman in acceptance
of the fonntain by the city.
EXAMINATION FOR EXPERT
LUMBERMAN AND SCALER
The First Ever Conducted
State of Oregon Last
Week.
In
Respite the fact that Oregon is
among the prominent lumber states
of the Paciflo Northwest and that
the forest reserve service has been es
pecially efficient along the Oregon
coast, not nntil Wednesday and Thurs
day of last week lias there been in the
state an examination for expert lum
berman or scaler.
Supervisor of Forest Reserve N. B.
Andi-rseu of this city condocted this
examination at Hall's hall and seven
applicants for the position of scaler
and three for expert loniberman were
in tbe class. Practical experience in
tbe timber was one of the principal
considerations in this examination.
For lumberman there was one appli
cant each from Grauts Pass, Lake
view and Crescent City.
Though these examinations will
Fourteen Questions for the Thoughtful.
1. What have the saloon keepers done to improve the condition of
the working class
3 Have you more comfortable homes through supporting the
drink-suller?
8. Have vou fewer iailers nnd magistrates through supporting the
saloon keepers'?
4. Are your taxes lews liocause drink-sellers are kept busy?
5. Is bread cheaer heoxiiie nearly forty millions of bushels of
grain go to the maltster instead of the miller?
Is trade improved because money is spent at saloons instead of
in clothes, furniture and food?
. Are the articles manufactured by brewers and distillers worth
the money that is paid for them?
8. If drink-sellershad to keep all the paupers.luuatics and criminals
they nuve how manv of them would be able to keep out of bankruptcy?
Is the health of these drinkers of intoxicants better than that of
Peo: le who don't drink? "
' Are the neighborhoods most orderly and prosperous where the
saloons ae the most numerous?
.11 Would your sons and daughters be improved if they were
triined np liehin'd saluon-bars?
12 I'ou't saloon keepers generally vote for those candidates who
promise to rotect their trade, regardless of every other trade.
13 If one law authorizes bishop and clergy to preach the
of th- Sabbath, is it right that another law should authorize maluters
and drink sellers to violate the Sabbath?
, 14 If a church were composed of nothing but maltsters, bwmrj,
distillers, saloon-keepers and their assistants, what influence would it
exert on the drnnkeness of the country?
not be passed on by the department at
Washington for perhaps a month,
Supervisor Anaergon feels sore, judg
ing from practical experience of the
men, that Oregon men will be elected
to fill these positio-ig. The remuner
ation for lumbermean is 1800 per
year and expenses and for scaler $1400
and expenses, with excellent opor.
tooity for promotion and raise of
salary.
Mr. Anderson, accompanied by the
forest reserve inspector, Jas. D. An
derson, of Portland, left Friday even
ing on an inspection tour down on the
lower Bogue river. Mr. Anderson
returned home yesterday.
Assistant Supervisor N. F. McDuff,
Forest Guard R. A. Dean, and
Forest rauger J. A. Oaslin, left here
last week to survey out tbe Oregon
caves which were last fall withdrawn
from entry as a national monument
They were compelled to abauaon
tbe work for the present, however, on
account of heavy suow lu the moun
tains. The Oregon caves are one of the
wonders of the Paciflo coast and are
said by those who have seen them to
rival th Mammouth caves in Ken
tucky. Their importance may be
suggested by the factthat the South
ern Pacific railroad Co., specially em
ployed no less a genius than Joaquin
Miller to visit and write them np for
the edification of the readers of tbe
Sunset Magazine. There are four en
trances to these caves and 29 room
have thus far been explored. While
in any other localit their fame would
have bten worldwide ere this, there
are many, many people in Oregon who
do not know of them.
Messrs. G. O. Oinm and R. W.
Veatch of this city are now negotiat
ing for a permit from the government
to erect a hotel near these caves and
light them lor .the convenience of the
public. As yet thes9 negotiations
have not reached a consummation.
But it seems that within the next
year it is highly probable that the
Oregon caves will be made a more ac
cessible and that their numerous
rooms which have been christened by
Joaquin Miller, may soon become a
popular spot in Oregon and their
grandeur a sentiment of the people.
Judge Award the Prizes.
At a meeting Wednesday night the
judges in the commercial club letter
writing contest reviewed the letters
of the various school children who had
participated, and awarded tho prizes
as follows :
First prize, t5 Hellen F.Hall, Rita
V. Brown, Harold Perrv.
Second prize. $1 Helen Wither-
spoon, Marie Farrell, Helen Meade,
Howard V. Jeter, Marie Edwards.
The judges were O. A. Martin, C.
A. Campbell and W. S. Coutaut.
J. A. Murphy, presenting the
Sunset Magazine, was in the city
Wdnesrtv taking subscriptions for
that excellent western periodical.
He stated that the Sunset has a crew
of seven . subscription solicitors iu
Southern Oregon which will be iu
this city within a few days to make
a thorough canvass. Mr. Murphy
says that this crew is adding new
names to the list very rapidly aud
that when the preseut ianvaB8 is over
the poblithers expect to have a lis' of
at hat 150,0011 subs risers. The
caovassicg crew will be in charge of
F. M. O'Meara and is bound for the
north aud east, as far as Chicago.
MEMORIAL DAY
SERVICE SUNDAY
Rev. Lovett Delivers a
Splendid Address.
THE CHURCH WAS PACKED
bcoration Davy Services Will
Held Tomorrow Afternoon
The Program.
Be
Tbe Memorial services held at the
Newman M. E. church last Sunday
completely filled the churoh and were
listened to with marked atteutioo
throughout, while the sprinkling of
old veterans made the sceue most Im
pressive. Th sermon was delivered
by the Rev. F. O. Lovett of the
First Baptist church, aud the general
verdict seeniB to be that it was an
excellent memorial address. Mr.
Lovett took for his text. Exodus 13 :14.
And this day shall be unto yon for a
memorial. Mr. Lovett said in part:
The memorial day bare recorded for
the i great event in Jewish history.
Like our Declaration of Independence
it marked a beginning of a nation.
Like tbe close of the bitter Civil War
in '65, a race of slaves were liberated.
The Jewish memorial day combined
our May 30th and oar July ,4th. It
marked also the beginning of jt march
which lasted 40 years, a march not
alone of an army of 600,000 men, but
of many more of men, women and
children. It was tbe journey of the
people 10 times the number of the city
of Portland against enemies and
through deserts with but a few day's
provisions in store. Such an event
naturally was an epoch in history and
must not be forgotten.
Tne observance of that memorial
day was nniqne. No marching of
uniformed men grey of bead and bear
ing marks of thestrife. No laying of
flowers over the graves of men who
have gone before; instead a quiet
home gathering with a feast. A spot
less land must yield its crimson life
blood, the flesh be roast entire and ia
turn eaten with bitter herbs in un
leavened bread, The observance of
this inenioral was nnder Divine di
rection. H. nee there was a purpose
in it as in all of God's acts. The
bitter herbs iu symbol reiuiud them
afresh of their grievous bondage
and the never to' be forgotten night
of deliverance. It pointed to the
paBt. The unleavened bread looked to
tha nresent and told them that
National puri'y was ever the condi
tion of continued freedom. The
lamb with life taken pointed to the
future and foretold tne death of a
Bootless lamb the Son of God. May
not our national flag in embelui re
these three thoughts, the
red the bloody price pid for freedom
the white the natioual pority tbe
God oidained condition of coutinued
friiom aud the blue, tbe eternal
ramose of God for oor future well
beiuir. May not this Memorial Day,
..i.mi and friends, be as broad in
its scone as that instituted of God in
the early dawo of Jewish history.
What a wonderful thing Is memory.
It is a kind of storeroom where all of
tne treamres of life are garnered If
we were to blot out memory, we j
would staud like a mass of iuiots lost
aud helpless. Memory is the cas
ing power of the soul. Without it
the miud would be like a sieve, let
ting all that came into it leak out.
You veterans today can go back to
the old battle grounds. You cau.vish
agaiu the teuted he ids and flaming
campQte, the hot dusty road, and
bridgslees streams and hear tbe sick
ening roar of the cannon and S'iare
the high excitement of toufiict, or
perhaps the quiet place among the
wounded and dying. It is well to do
iso. X our remaining uays wiu oe
richer and more patriotic.
We do well to look back and esti
mate tbe price paid for the liberty we
enjoy. We do well to erect monu
ments in memory of those who paid
for oor blesiings with their own
blood. While we paose to review the
thinning ranks and look over Snlloh,
Vicksborgb, Cbicamaogua, Bull Ron
and Antietam and follow Sherman to
the sea and Grant to the Wilderness,
and gather in thought for the final
tltanatio struggle at Gettyaburgh, let
ns reverently pause and thank God
that the strife is over. Let as gather
each year; let ns express gratitude to
tbe noble men living and dead and to
ths heroic wives snd mothers who
through their love suffered equally
with the soldiers. It is not mine
today to raise again the dividing is
sues of the past ; with ns here are men
who were uo mean foe. To accept
defeat without bitterness' and to'euter
with unfeigned loyalty into future
national duties is noble. Thank
God, that now with magnanimity
of miud there is do division.
Personally I feel like taking off my
hat to the Southerners of today. If
we of the North were first to abolish
slavery, they of the South have been
first in emancipating from a greater
slavery cursing white and black
alike the liquor traffic Of the 20,-
000.000 Southerners 17,000,000 live
under a flag prohibiting tbe death
dealing liquor system.
No one need to pat his ear to the
ground to discover pressing problems
unlike those met by our forefathers,
but requiring eqaal devotion and
sacrifice. In our industrial life, in
onr politioal life there are issues to
be met. I will but suggest two for
your further thought and determina
tion. Men who live in oor country
with no thooght of giving, but only
of getting are dangerous ; men who
with greed wonld sell for peraoual
comfort are not patriots. There is
a demand for men of; principle for
men who cannot be bought; for men
who will sacrifice personal interests
to national well being. One other
great national qoestioo I will men
tion, the liquor traffic. Great pro
gress has been made, especially in the
lat seven years but it Is still one of
oar mightiest problems; no greater
foe of the Grand Army is yet among
us. In the conflict for its overthrow.
Shall we hesitate to meet the issues
with equal sacrifice and strength of
purpose.
The Civil War began by the sur
render of Fort Sompter by Major
Anderson in 'SI ; the war virtually
ended by the restoration of the same
flag by the same hand ia the same
Fort in '65. Our party says, Dr.
Cuylar went over to Fort Sumpter in
a steamer commanded by a negro,
who was an emancipated slave and
later became a member of Congress.
The broken walls of Sumnter, brown.
battered aud lonely in the qoiet wave
were hopelessly scarred and all around
it ou the narrow beach lay the
stratum of bollets and broken Iron
several inches deep. A great crowd
of distinguished people were preseut;
Dr. Storrs offered prayer and Henry
Ward fieecher delivered the oration.
When the speech was cenoloded
Major Anderron drew ont from a
mail bag the identical buntiug tha
be had lowered four years before and
attached the flag to the halyaids aud
when it began to asoeud Gen. Oil
more (ira'ped the rope behind him
and as it came along to our part of
the platform sveral of as grasped it
also. Such a volley of cauuon from
ship and shore! The scene inside of
the fort beggars description. The
handclasps, the shoots and hugs and
tears mads it tbe greatest day in most
of oor lives. What will the consum
mation of the purposes of God mean
what brain can picture the future
that is before his hand? Let ns link
oor live witli his ami enter Into his
plans. Most of vou veterans will not
have many more days to live; may
they tie bright with faith iu the might
and love aud sure pur pones of God and
1 ke the old soldier when life was at
'U last ebb aud tbe memory of the
r 11 call in the army was in his mind,
answer present m tbe dual roll call
at God's rignt hand.
DKCORATION DAY, MAY 80
Members of the O. A. R. and W.
K. C. will meet io their hall at 1
o'clock p. m. and march in a body to
tbe opera boose where City Attorney
Clem-nts will deliver the Decoration
Day address.
After tne exercises at the opera
house the memberi of the Post and of
the Relief Corps will form in liue on
Sixth stre-t and march to the Rogue
River bridge where the closing exer
cises will be conducted by the Relief
corps.
The School children and all the
varioos civio societies of the city, and
. exconfederate soldiers are cordially
invited to participate in these exer-
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Refrigerators at Cramer Bros.
AUTO AGAINST
RAILROAD TIME
Runs from Vallejo, Cal.
to Portland.
A DISTANCE OF 740 MILES
Mi
Lke the Trip In Forty-Two
Houre Strike Bad Roads
In Siskiyous.
Unosoal interest aud exoitement
were occasioned here Wednesday
morning by the arrival of a party of
four men in a 80-horse power White
Steamer touring car, en route from
Vallejo, OaL, to Portland, Ore., in an
effort to beat the time of the passeuger
schedule of the Southern Paofio be
tween these two Paciflo ooast cities,
and for tbe purpose of stimulating in
terest in the construction of better
wagon roads through the ooast
ooontry.
The party consisted of Fernando
Nelson, a prominent building con
tractor of Vallejo, and owner of the
car, his son Frank, Harry Johnson,
and "Billy" Slimmon, the latter.belug
the chauffeur. They left Vallejo at
4:15 a. m. Tuesday morning, bat
missed their guide 'at Redding and in
attempting to make the trip wlthoot
him, encountered some very Dad roads
during the night and lost some four
or five hours time.
At Medford they took on another
golds In the person of W. M. Hodson,
who accompanied them ai far as Ruse
burg, from which plao they were
piloted on to Portland expecting to
reach there Wednesday night at 10 :80,
making the trip of 740 miles io 42
hoars.
In the Siskiyoa mountains they
struck unusually heavy roads and
necessarily made very slow time ontil
reaching Ashland. The party reached
Grants Psss at 10:!i0 Weduesday morn
ing, having traveled 464.7 miles iu
18 hours aud 18 niinotes. They were
somewhat travei-ataiusd and dost be
grimmed bot in good spirits aud had
not had a break down of aay sort on
the trip from Vallejo to this point.
They spent SO minutes here iu oiling
op aud taking on water. They were
iJO minutes ahead of their rnnnlug
time on arriving at Grants Pas.
During their brief tarry here they
were surrouuded by about 300 of the
populace eager to see the oar and to
learn of tha details of the trip. Mr
Nelson aud his chauffeur were most
courteous and cheerfully auawered the
questions of reoorters and others,
The party left here at 11a. in. aud
were escorted three miles out of the
city by Roy Wilson in his Tourist car
containing a bunch of the news
paper boys and Elmer Shank, the real
estate man aud his Maxwell loaded
with a coterie of friends.
LATER Mr. Nelson aud bis party
had a break down at Gleudale and
did not reach Portland as scheduled
when they were here.
Make It Unanimous,
Just now there appears to be little
Summer Is Here!
So is O'Neill with his large line
of warm weather necessities
PRICE TALKS
House cleaning is oh, that hard laborious work which every woman
hates, O'Neill will beln vou make it easy with the many things he has
for that purpose SEE THEM.
Hammooke-the largest and best selected liue ever shown in Grants
Pass.
Refrigerators Hard wood, mineral wool lined, will keep longer and
food better than any other make.
Window Screens the kind that kwp the flies ont.
Screen Doore Stained or natural finished, varnished.
Furniture and Car
pets, Linoleums,
Lace Curtains, Por
tieres, Mattresses,
Pillows. CoU, Wall
Par, Clocks,
Mirrors, Window
R H. 0 Neill
THE HOUSEFURNiSHER
Bhadea, Picture,
Picture Moulding.
doubt hut that it is Senator Cake o
Oregon. Once the campaign started is
was speedily seen that the oft-boasted
personal popularity of George the)
Governor, was not so almighty stout
as it once was. Various thinas thak
some lolks have kuowu about our chief
exeontive have come to light, and s
lot of folks are today doubtful i
George was sooh a whale of a maa
after all.
The nearer Oregon makes it unani
mous fur Cake the better for Oregon.
There are a few places here party
politics still count; they don't
usually in oity, couuty and district
affairs; but they do in national
affairs, especially In the upper lions
of Congress, where the major ity party
gets what it wants and the minority
sits tight and waits. Oregon wants
a lot of things from congress; it can
never get them throngh a democrat
senator.
Between the men personally tha
issue is not drawn ; it is not a per
sonal campaign ; if it was Mr. Caka
would not be on the defensive.
It is also remembered that Cakej
was one of tbe republicans who had
the nerve to stand on a , Stateineut
No. 1 platform when it looked as
though that meant defeat: he stood
for the popular eleotion of the United
States Souator whether It profited
him or not; Chamberlain has stood
for It because It was" bis sole chaooei
of ever landing the place.
The vast difference between being;
good because you hope it will pay.
and because it is right, represents the.
difference between the stand of Mr.
Chamberlain and Mr. Cake.
Mayor Smith, Attorney Hoogtu
Ooonty Clerk S. F. Cheshire and M.
L. Opdyke went over to Kerby last
Saturday afternoon to do things po-
litcally.
BENJ. HARRISON BRINGS
IN NICE LOT OF GOLD
Cashed Five Hundred Dollar
Worth of Dust From Williams
Creek Thie Week.
Benjamin Harrison,' of Harrison
Bros., who made the rich discoveries
on Williams Creek this spring, cam
in from the diggiuga lat Thursday
night with something over $A00 worth
cf fine gold which he had refined at
Ingles' assay office Tuesday of thi
week and cashed at the First National
hank. The gold was much finer than
the Harrisons had anticipated. They
had estimated that it would ran
about $16.60 per ounce, whereas It'
turned out 18 to the ounoe.
For the past 10 days ' work has been
shot down on the Harrison Bros,
property pending survey of the
groond, as it had been reported that
they were on railroad land. A sur
veying party went oot last week to
run tbe lines. One of the land agent
of the Southern Pacific road arrived
here one day last week and a romor
soon gained currency to the effect
that tbe company had enjoined th
Harrisons and others from further
operations. This rumor, however,
was not verified.
The surveying will In all prob
ability be completed this week and
oiioiug operations will be resumed
within a few days, and from all ia
dlcatlous tdere will soon be a lively
camp on Williams Creek.
H loves and Ranges,
Oraniteware,
Agteware, Iwiware,
Woodenware,
Wliloware, Cutlery,
Crockery, Lamps,
i Ulaaswere, Kancy
Chlaa, Ue-Carts,
Baby Carriages.
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