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VOL. XXIV.
GRANTS PASS, JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON, PHI DAY, DECEMBER 25, 1908.
NO. 39
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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!"
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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.