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J1. VOL. XXIV. GRANTS PASS, JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON, PHI DAY, DECEMBER 25, 1908. NO. 39 m rr rf 111 r.IABEL DARNE1LLE WINS CONTEST Maude Reynolds Comes in For Second Place CONTEST WAS A SUCCESS 183 New Names Added (o the Cour ier's Subscription List by The Contest. The Rogue River Courier's Gold en Eagle Coutest, which has been of 'Absorbing interest to readers of the Courier, came to a termlnaion Tues day night at 10:30 when the ballots were counted by County School Sup erintendent Lincoln Savage and DrugglBt J. W. Moore, and they awarded the $60 to Miss Mable Dar nellle and the $20 to Miss Maude Reynolds, The vote on the highest four stood as follows, there being change in the figures of the other candidates from those published last week: Mable Darneille ..61,195 Maude Reynolds 40,365 Don Calvert 38,115 Ruth Smith 15,405 Miss Darneille made a record of which she may well be proud as she secured 58 new subscriptions to the Courier. She commenced work the first day of the contest and kept it up until the closing day when she brought In some 30,000 votes. We congratulate the young lady on her ability for continuous work. It Is worth much more than the prize money. Miss Maude Reynolds started in 'after the contest was fairly well along but by earnestness and persistence he succeded In bridging nearly 35 new subscriptions and won for her self the second place. Don Calvert made a good race and was beaten by only a little over 2000 rotes. He did not win the first prize but the experience he has gained in this contest Is worth more to him twice over than the amount of the prize money. Miss Ruth Smith worked only a short time in the contest and quit, finding that it Interfered wih her school duties, but while Bhe was at It she worked with a will and brought 16 new ones Into the office. Had she been able to continue her work we think she would have been well along toward the top. Since the opening of the contest 185 new paid in advance subscribers have been added to the Courier's sub scription list, many of these are new new residents who have Ived in the county less than one year, while some are prospective settlers who sent their subscriptions to the office, stat ing that they wished the paper that they might learn something of South ern Oregon, as they expected to come here soon. Right here we wish to mention to the advertisers that the value Of their advertising in the Courier is greatly Increased and they will be as much benefited by IN JUSTICE TO YOURSELF LOOK! Your Last Chance Everything Going SPECIAL PRICES UN ALL GOODS off on every pirce of China and Glassware. 10 o on a ' 'urnuure. iiy now while the chance is given, or 19U9 may toll the death knell of a lost opportunity. With best wishes for a Merry Xmas. R. H. O'NEILL K Houeafurnieher this contest as Is the paper. The various candidates in their canvassing, secured,' in addition to the new subscriptions, hundreds of renewals, and the Courier today has by far the largest circulation ot any paper published In Josephine county and we think ot any in Southern Oregon. One thing certain, it is a welcome caller each week in almost every home in this city and for miles around in all directions. We chose the contest method of adding to our subscription lists rather than to employ a solicitor, as we believed that our own boys and girls would do the work equally as well as a solicitor brought here from one of the larger cities and at the sauie time we would be following out the doctrine always advocated by the Courier, of patronizing home Industry. This policy paid this time as it invariably does. We wish to express our thanks and appreciation to the workers in the contest and to all who helped in any way, for the good work done. We will try to show it by publishing the best paper possible tor the amount ot support given. STRINGENT MEASURES MUST BE TAKEN It would appear that our nation is the midst ot a carnival ot crime. The night riders have Kentucky ter rorized and the courts are almost powerless to protect the Innocent. Men and women are taken from their beds and whipped, hanged and shot. Witneses dare not testify and Jurors dare not find for Justice. From all parts of the country come' dailyreports of holdups, burglaries, murder and lynching. Hardly a day or night passes that some one of these crimes is not committed In the principal city ot our state. Tramps cooly exact tribute upon the indus trious and Just as cooly declare that they do not intend to work; and it would seem as if they had the drop on, whole land. It would seem as it the centers of population with their strong police force' would be able to cope with the evil; but the evil doers make for the principal city as the safest place In the state. We are not so pessimistic as to be lieve that everything is going to the dogs, nor do we for a moment think that Justice will not eventually, triumph; it takes Justice longer than It does the kitten to open her eyes. People continually ask: "What Is the cause of all this crime?" and so far as burglaries, trampism holdups and negro outrages are concerned, all Investigation invariably leads to the saloon as the prime cause. From that one source flows the stream of idleness and crime that threatens the subversion of all law and Justice. few yecrs aco two young fel lows had spent all In the dives In the North Enu of Portland. "Let us go over to the east side and hold up some fellow," said one. The other agreed and within an hour a fine was worth more than the whole North End fraternity, was lying dead upon the pavement with a bul let In the brain. A reward of $500 was offered, and the companion of the one who did the shooting turned states evidence, thinking to gain the reward. That the two were hanged for the crime did not undo the evil. T)arh! F)ere Santa Comes!" te a&$ MUM 4 tet fc i tew m LOOKING TOR "Be Merry all, be With holly dress the festive hall; Prepare the song, the feast, the ball, . To welcome Merry Christmas." The Courier establishment, with it's modern priming plant extends to each and everyone of its patrons the compli ments of the season; wishing one and all a Merry Christmas ' and a Happy New Year. A. E. VOORHIES, Publisher fanisH!asmicnnii To checK the bubonic plague, war has been declared on rats, and a bounty has been offered for each one taken. Why, then should not the state offer a bounty for each one taken in the act of spreading this plague of lawlessness? Every vio lator of the law Is a greater me nace to the community than Is a plague patient at large, and every officer of Justice who connives at the violation of the law is as culpable as would be a captain of a vessel who would deliberately evade quar antine and land a plague smitten crew in a populous port. The in- ii'lious poison of disregard for law that Is Instilled into the young mind i lay to day by the open viola tion of law Is ten times as dangerous as any physical disease that can threaten us. And the greatest danger Is In our small towns, for from the small towns come the men of business and the politicians who mold the des tinies of the nation. Every drunken man seen on the streets is a lesson In lawlessness. Every saloon with its drawn curtains behind which are heard the clink of glasses and from out of which float profanity and the odor of alcoholic drink Is a teacher of crime. The tolerauon of these things In a small town like Grants Pass exerts a greater Influence than would the same toleration In a large city. It Is the fashion of the day to concentrate the condemnation upon the great corporations as the cause of disregard for law, but all the corporations together do not exer cise one tlth of the influence for evil in their effect upon the rising gene ration that this one evil the drink traffic does. Like rats their very existence is a menance. j We have the law; shall we have It i trampled under toot or shall we kill the rats? K. SANTA CLATJS. Merry all, FREE TIMBER KAY HAYE BAD EFFECT View of Well-known TIihImt on The Proposed Tariff Change. Man Ever since the Committee of Ways and Means of the House ot Kepre sentHtlve began their hearings on November 20th regarding the ques tion of the removal of duty now Im posed on foreign lumber entering the United States, the timber men of the country have been greatly lu tereHted. W. II. Sherman, the well- known timber man of this city, when Interviewed (his morning In regard to the effect of the removal of the tariff, said, that In his opinion, the only timber that would have any Irn mediate effect on our Interests would be that from the dominion of Canada. Were the tariff taken from the Canadian lumber, no doubt the lumber yards of the Central and Prairie slates, where a large propor tlon of the output of the Coast has heretofore been marketed, would be rapidly flooded with the Canadian product. If so the Parlflc Coast would have the Pacific Coast only for her market. This, no doubt, would rinse down many, not only small. but large mills, and would depre ciate the value of our hundreds of billions feet of standing timber quite materially. lie gives as his reason for this statement that the Canadian govern mvnt has disposed of Its tlmlier in an entirely different manner from that adopted by our government. That, Intead of having sold It to ber subjects in lGQ-acre tracts, at $2.60 per acre, as our government has done, the Canadian government has allowed the weyernaeuser, ana otber large timber companies, 10 go In and stake off not only tens, but hundreds, of thousand of acre of their primitive forests. Instead ot charging them so much per acre tor the lands, they have let them have them for practically nothing, but charge a fixed amount per acre annu ally tor allowing the timber to stand on the ground. This arrangement presumably waa made to force the development of the country. Now it the tariff were taken oft wouldn't It be decidedly to the ad vantage ot our large operators to practically discontinue operating In the United States where they have their lands aud timber bought and paid for, and go Just across the border lines, to the locality where they are paying what appears to be a high annual rental for the use nf the lands, operate the Mmber there. and slough it off to the markets ot the United States, thereby stopping the rental charge of the Canadian government, and, in the meantime. so depress the lumber markets ot the United States that it would bring the price ot standing timber to a price much lower than the pres ent one? Our market in the prairie states even with the tariff on. finds the ICanadlal lumber a competitor, and, with the tariff off.would give an ad- vantage that the Coast would not be ablo to cope with, owing to the fact that we have two ranges of mount- tins over which to ship, while they would have a down-hill pull to the market for their lnmber. "This would be true, not only of the Prairie States, but we would find Canada our competitor In the San Francisco and other California mar kets, and the lumber yards ot the State ot Oregon would also be filled with their products. This lumber would be handled, a a rule, by water transportation, as there are billions of feet of timber on the tide waters of the Western coast ot the Dominion. "It would appear that this would afford the Weyerhaeusser and other large operators and holders of tlm ber, a grand opportunity to work hand In hand with a movement of this kind, to the extreme detriment of the small holders and ot the sin- gle entrymen. If the Canadian tlm- ber is all sloughed off Into the United 8tate during the next 10 or 15 years a timber claim that It now worth 1(00 can probably be bought In five or six years, for half that amount. Since the large holders now have the controlling Interest, If they are sucesful in removing the tariff from lumber, it Is reasonable to suppose that they can, during the next five or 10 years, gobble up the remainder of the standing timber of the United States at their own prices. "We seem to be In an age of mo nopolies, and It It reasonable to be lieve that. In view ot the success ot the Standard Oil Company, In view of the United Steel Company and of other large Incorporations, we are now on the eve of a gigantic timber monopoly. We should take no leaps In the dark along these lines." Itejolce and Sliout for Joy! Good Tiding of Great Joy! This is the Christmas Greeting where with one resident of Grants Pass grees bis neighbor, and the fruit In spertor shakes hands with the fruit shipper and says: "Shake; we are going to have clean fruit next year! The cause of all this congratula tion is the fact that A. II. Joy of Ashland has come to this city to re side with his $350 spraying outfit and will commence the work of spraying within the city limits Jan uary 1, Calhoun & I)oxle, who have heretofore done something In this line, having gone out of business. Few cities of this alx nave as many fruit trees In their town lot as ha Grants Pass, but In the past these trees have been a detriment to our reputation rather than a credit, but now we are to turn over a new leaf, With a fruit Inspector who means limine; with a modern spray manu facturing plant right in our own town supplying the bent spray; with a competent spray man and complete outfit ready to begin business; with county court In sympathy with the fruit Interests, and ready to stand back of the I rj pec tor and enforce the Inspection law, we are assured that every neglected orchard will either be cleaned or cleared out, even If It has to be done br the county and the Mp,nM ,,eed as taxe against the property. Calling ca.-ds at the Courier. FRUIT SHIPPING NEARLY OVER Our Exchange Is Success and Iknclits Growers AFFAIRS WELL MANAGED Gnu,u v ,,u" "I'portunlty to grow More Fine Apples than any Other Section. The most successful season taken all In all, ever experienced by the fruit grower ot thla valley. Is draw- ln( to a close. Prom early in the ummcr the warehouse and packing rooms or tne Grants Pass Fruit Ex- change have been as busy as bee hlve and vast quantltes of the finest frult ever grown has been sorted, neatly and carefully packed, loaded lnt0 refrigerator cars and sent on Its way to the cities where good fruit Is In demand. Fruit from that part of the Itogue River adjacent to Orants Pass has been sent to all the large cities in the United State and to many foreign countries. But two cars of apples remain In the ware house and these will go next week, one to New Orleans and the other to New York. After this Is out ot the way the ware room will be closod for the winter. Our fruit growers are to be con gratulated on the auccess with which the affairs ot the exchange have been handled, and Manager Will Srovllle is certainly deserving of thanks for his close attention to the business of the exchange, and for the working out of a system for hand ling the fruit In a manner which pays our fruit grower well. Now that the beginning has been made to- ward a successful fruit exchange, the progress will be rapid, and In the course of a few years fruit from the Rogue River Valley will be the moat sought after of any In the world. The excellent organization which the fruit growers of Hood River have, has done more than any thing else to bring the apples ot that section to the front and make the people of the United States, London and elewhere wherever apple are eaten willing to pay the highest price for them, for the apple grower union sees to It that nothing but perfect fruit goes Into the boxes, and hencver a box of apple bear their label, It Is a guarantee that every apple Is perfect, hence people do not hesitate to pay the highest price. The growers around Grants Pass can not move the Hood Hirer Apple Grower Union down here, but they ran perfect their own roganlxatlon and make It stand for all that the one at that place does, and there 1 every reasou to believe that they will do so. Our climate and our soil will raise Just as perfect fruits, and there are 100 acres of the finest fruit land In this section of the Itogue River Valley to every one acre in Hood River, so there is no reason why Grants Pass should not furnish the largest number of perfect apples of any other section In the world, and from the Increased acreage being planted to apple of the finest grade each year, It I plain to be sen that It lutenda to do so. Let ourgrowor continue to put out the best tree ob tainable, and after they are put out let them tend to them In the most aproved way; and at the same time let them keep up their work of per fecting their Fruit Grower Ex change. With the best applo on earth and an organization equal to any on earth, prosperity cannot but come to the Rogue River Valley. Placer blank at the Courier. Bo far only one warehouse ha been painted since the Commercial Club determined to take that matter up. The Rogue River Fruit Ex change made a good showing with a little whit and green paint and If the owners ot the other warehouse in the city will do the same they will add much to the appearance of the city and receive the thank ot the Club and th cltizon of Oranta Pass.