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About Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 6, 1909)
' - , i . -v . . . VOL. XXV. "" GRANTS PASS. JOSKPHINK oni'N TV." nil innv viMTiV4i nr'PirT IT PWMI.WMMWW-WMM-i It) A II MONTHS TRIP IN CAL. MAYOU H. C. KINNEY AltKIVED HOME SUNDAY NIGHT A VERY PLEASANT OUTING toinobile During the Two Months' Visit in the Sunshine Stute. Mayor H. C. Kinney and party, who left here on their California tour on May 31, arrived home on Sunday evening, having traveled more than 4000 miles In an auto mobile during the time of their ab sence. The party consisted on the start of Mr. and Mrs. Kinney, their sou Paul, and Mrs. Mary E. Dodge, and on the return, Miss Mar jorie Kinney was added. The story of the itinerary of the auto travelers covers a period of more than two months travel through a beautiful, as well as picturesque country. On their way south they made short stops at Ashland and Duntsmuir. At the latter place they shipped their machine to Redding on account of rough roads. Then from Redding they ran to Arbuckle the first day and the next to Oakland. After some little delay they went on toward the south, passing many beautiful places, finally reaching Pasadena, a dis tance, the way they traveled, of prac tically 1000 miles from Grants Pass. They made the longest stay during the trip at Los Angeles, visiting the small towns mar tliut place for some time. They were fortunate enough to be able to attend the commence ment exercises of the Pomona col lege at Clalrtnont, at which time Miss Kinney, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kinney, graduated In vocal and piano music. After this they covered a largo part the the South ern California country, going as far as the borders of Mexico. They pass id through a land of sunshine day after day, which showed the effect of capital, knowledge and energy in the way of making beautiful towns, ciiies, Hardens and farms. Mr. Kinney says that Southern Calitornla offers it fair Illustration ofcvhnt can be accomplished by unity of the people of both town ana cm. !:. Kvuy householder, he says, is n boomer for the country and pub lic and private Improvement in the city. He Is greatly i i,i!. ! . . t.i way Southern California!! do things, and the thorough-going style in Willi h they boom their section. The party not only enjoyed the nutiiiu, but all are looking the very picture of robust health. Paul ran the big Wlnton car all the way from Grants 1'ass through California and back to this city managing it with per fect skill, and from first to last os l'cd accidents of any kind. Con sidering his years, it was in ull p- Carpets Carpets O'NEILL, the House Furnisher, is selling CARPETS Carpets 35c Values GET IN! Sa!e Onlv n few ran iM Have WO yards to si cati'il nt al'ovo price tot in w liil" thev BE A PROFIT PICKER spects a triumph worthy of an ex pert runner. Time for Final Spraying. Fruit growers are hereby notified that now is the time for final spray ing with arsenate of lead for codlin moth. Not later than the 15th of August spray all late fruits such as will not mature until after Septem ber 1. Merchants have been notified not to buy or sell infected fruit. There Is n penalty attached for selling m- offering for sale diseased fruits in Josephine county. Growers who desire 'to market thetr fruit chni.i ....... ouiuiu ust- (.'very precau- tion to insure themselves Mt loss. i nave been rnmimii..,! -'. (.v. in U IU I Wll- fiscate some apples tnis month in fected with both scale and worms and parties bringing such fruit to town to sell are again warned as to their liability to fine. There is no use in having laws unless they are enforced. J. p. BURKE, County Fruit Inspector. SIX BIDS FOR REMOVING THE OLD BRIDGE The county board opened propos als on Wednesday for bids for tak ing down the old bridge across Rogue river at the foot of Sixth street.' There were six bidders and below we give the bids of each under the specifications given in the ad vertisement In last week's Courier. The propositions are as follows: First, to remove the entire struc ture and place all of the material on the north bank of the river. Second, to remove the main span and place the material on the north bank of the river. Third, to throw the main Hpan of the bridge up stream and then drag the material to the most convenient bank of the river. Xoa of the bids to include tli ii ,nc Tli,. i success! ul bidder will be required to give an Indemnity bond in the sum of $2'0,(i00. The bidding was as follows: ('. YV. Tripplett. and Henry M. Axtell, Grants Pass, ( 1 ) $j;!ou; j) $1 i:,n. J. H. Tlllittson, Portland, (11 $.1141; (2) $2Si:5. .1. T. Megan and V. K. Yound (.'!) $.',000. ;'. c, I-.,,., ham, (II $4S.".0; ( j I $ I unit, m Jliinii. Grants Pas: Works (li $;; do; ( $:;.oio. Iron - Si eel ) $l".i. Mi; C! Injured W hile Pulling Sunups. Will Wheeler was brought to the South I'm it ie hospital last Friday wiih both bones In his left leg broken and oilier paris of his body badly hrui.-eil, lie was pulling stump- j W III) ,1 teat'.l on 1 piuee oil ,le(ie I Prairie w lien a part of I lie harness ! broke, the wlilll'lelree f lying back ,11101 ni i living him a teiriMe blow. Mr. I Coffee, of Portland, and Mr. l-.iimh-; rhino attended the man. and for a j time it was thought he had su-tuln-j ed Internal Injuries also, but he Is 'now gaining strength and no eoni i plications are arising to cause anxiety. Mr. Wheeler has been a resident of ibis place only about a vcar. ! j 'JO Per cent discount on l.cfrlgem Kum at Il.iir-Klddio Hardware Co. CHttlWillWfl,!y 25c per Yard lasts 10 days only in uii tlii? Stipfiiil al'. cannot i"1 ui;'t wastf i 1 1 1 j j l- t T III"". last. A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY IN DEPTHS OF BU CAVES Frank Ellis, One of Grants Pass Most Popular Young Men, While Leading a Party Is Accidentally Killed. A few minutes after the hour of noon last Sunday an accident oc curred at what are known as the Oregon Caves In this county, which resulted In the death of one of the most popular young men in Grants Pass. It had been planned by Frank Ellis a former clerk in the National drug store, who was married a little over three months ago, and Arthur Vln yard, a clerk in the grocery of T. B. Cornell, married less than a week, to go on a camping trip to the caves and they left here on Thursday of last week and arrived in the neigh borhood of the caves on Saturday, on the Williams Creek side. They were accompanied by their wives and a sis ter of Mrs. Vinynrd, also a sister of Mr. Vinyard. On Sunday morning they started for the caves, being sup plied with a ball of cord and some candles. Ellis had taken with him from camn a 3S calibre revolver. Near the entrance of the caves they met two strangers who told them they were from California and had been In that neighborhood for some time. These strangers showed some curlosltv or Interest in tbe nartv nnd I - asked them manv questions nnd among others where their camp was located. After leaving, the. strangers were l ie sumocr or commcm iv the uuiv. Some one ventured the"'"' m'cume convinced mar in opinion that they wore bandits and there were ot tier Idle spi -t.l:ill.i rn. gnrdlng there and other mn w1,0 had, or mluht have, occupied the caves. Then they talked about cou gars and bears Inhabiting the caves. The speeulat ions nnd stories were certainly calculated to make the women, all of whom were extremely young, decidedly nervou, but they entered the caves at the upper on- I trance using their ball of cord o jiruhl" lliem out of the dark tavern ;en their return. K1IN went ahead I with a gnu, and, as he evpro.-xod II, ready for any enierireney. Vinjnrd ie;irrled the canil'e. Prom the en trance they slid down an Incline fee !a tew f"et and then followed wind in'.' i;vs't !:, pawing throv.h a number of chambers. At one pb , i ! about a hundred and fifty feet from j I p rptruree, Kills climbed a pirag' 'several feet above the floor of tie1 i room thev were leaving. Suddentv j i shot rang out mi th" cnnl'iu'd air I of the eave and Kills fell back at the feet of Vinyard, who was nearest to him. I he women s' reamed In terror. Three of them wit h Vinyard started for the entrance but one girl stopped and wanted to go back nnd not have Mrs. Kills. Hut Vinyard went on calling upon the girl to fid low or sh" would be killed, and taking the candles with them they all fled leaving Mrs. Kills and her dying husband In the dark cavern where not a ray of light I penetrated. The wife groped her way to the side of her husband and taking two matches from his pocket, struck a light and by this means and the si'iise of folding, found that the ball had entered the left eye and I from that wound the blood wax flow jltiL'. She tore up her undergarments i with which she endeavored to 'stautuh the flow of blood, and sit tltiu: down she took hi s load In le r lii'. calling M I in loving names nnd pleading with hltn to speak to her, but he had been unconscious from the very first. She pressed the ( lotbs she had provided to the wound and felt his lieait and found It beat ing weakly, but n moment later she Imagined the throbs grew stronger and attributed It to her stopping the tiicv of blood. Finally after what Mined to her hours, the heart beats .; . ! and that he was d became convbii ei ad. but still she pillow- h' ad "f tbe 1 r v d ori" 'n le ' . ,' I !!'! to do Mtrll the ' . , ' old and th" r! 'ln'S f '; i a t' on; t hi n It was .he are -' i . ,. , iff oeir.' of her "a '. !'. ' and placed them as a pillow under his head and then followed the string to the entrance of the cave. Once outside she went up the hill for more than three miles to the Fetzner camp where she arrived about four o'clock, a most pitiable sight. She was covered with blood and her clothing reduced to only her outer garments. When It was all over she broke down in her agony of grief. The balance of the party who had fled from the cave ran all the way to the Fetzner camp, where they told a story of being attacked by robbers and reported Ellis killed. They claimed that numerous shots were fired. Mr. Fetzner at once went to a telephone office some miles away, and called up the sheriff's office, but that officer being absent, Deputy Sheriff Cheshire took charge of the matter and notified Dr. Strieker, the coroner, and these gentlemen, accom panied by T. R. Cornell, went out to the foot of the mountain with Mr. Oldlng In his nutomoblle. They went within 0 miles of the cave nnd walked the balance of the way, reaching the Fetzner camp at four Monday morning There they halted 'for Information, then pressed on to tbe cave, which they entered nnd 'found the body of Ellis. The roron- c made a careful study of the situa dl'i,(1 ,a '' ,,l'on accidentally kill I'M HV II SDOt I Com HIS OWI1 fCVOlVI T He found the weapon above the rocks and it bad a single empty chainbei which told from whence had conn , the messenger of death. The body was taken out and carried to the 'road while Pndertaker Hall's wagon met the party and conveyed the re- i mains to the city, arriving here 'about S o'clock. The body was at ome prepared for shlpptuent .and taken on the night train to Dallas, this state, where It was burled on Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Smith and Kdward Clantun, the brother-in-law of Mrs. Kills, I d! here on Sunday to look after .Mrs. Kills, reaching camp at I :Hii a. returning with 'ot on Tuesday. Mr. Klii' the father of Frank, ."r ' rived here on Monday morning and 'tool; (bari'e of affairs and ai'coui Ipanlod the remains to Mallas. The jvoung wbluw and her sister and Mrs. jClanton also nenmipnnled the father. Mr. Kills, senior, formally lived iu ! Grunts Pass nnd some years ago be- came the pun baser of the National drug store and still owns the es tablishment, but It is run on a lease by J. A. Slover. Fiank Kills was born April 20, 1N8, nnd was married on his 21st birthday to Miss Vlctorlne A. Pol lock, lie was a young man of many sterling qualities, an active member of the Christian church and was re sbe ted by nil who knew hjm. He was a reliable druggist nnd was soon to become the head of a business of his own In another city. Ills life was Insured In the Massachusetts .Mutual Life Insurance company for $!i(i0 on favor or hlH wlf", Mrs. Kills wan a popular Grants Pius girl of a pioneer family of this county. She only a few months ago lot t a brother, who met a tragic death In a mine at Gullco. Her sad experience In the Oregon caves will be told by the future historian of Josephine county. The story of her (b votlon was stronger than threat ening death. When called upon to flee from danger, love and duty held her to the spot; others might fly from the supposed attack of the bandits, but she remained to stop the How of blood of the one she loved, j Truly nil the world Is a stage, nnd O'l It II'" cnaeled the tragedies f,f 'i an life. foil. tier Sttl. ef .H We l-Oll- In "I if the a Id. ntal death of h by Lis own band that be did not dee,,, It re cesary to hold an ln - '!'m. Vliiiind has bun tli'M li bhuned for hla craven, cowardly con duct, and bitter Invectives have been hurled at him, but Coroner Strieker says that it is a well knowu fact that this young man is nervous to such an extent as to make him, cm such oc casions, totally irresiionsiMo Thia he says, is called by the harsh name of cowardice. The Courier believes that the criticism of the public has gone to that extent that It is onlv fair now for them to hear his story of the tragedy and it has secured his statement, which follows: He said: "We left camp that morning, Frank and his wife, mv sister, my wife's sister, with myself and wife, and when reaching the caves there were two men, strangers to us. They told ns Mint tiiev ,n.i been running wild In the woods for the past two or three weeks, nnd questioned us about various mat ters relative to where we wero camp ing, and whether it was better to go in the cave In the upper or the lower entrance. I then suggested that they go in through the upper end, which they did. When they wore gone, Frank and I and the girls talked about the men and we all thought they might bo bent on making us trouble. We went to the upper en trance and while we wero getting our Btrlng ready to take in the cave with us In order to find our way out again, these men came up and went on In the caves and were in there but a few minutes when they came out nnd we started In and they watched us until we were out of sight. I suggested thnt 1 go ahead, ns I knew the cave better than they and the girls seemed to he afraid nnd Frank suggested that, he go ahead as he had the gun. After lenvlng the fifth room, going Into the sixth room, wo heard the report of n gun nnd Frank fell backward, dead. The women were naturally frightened so had that they came to the con clusion at once that some one had shot him, and begun screaming nnd calling for help nnd ran from the enves with the hope of getting help. While leaving the cavn Mrs. Riiia ('ailed out to me, 'Arthur! Arthur don t leave me for Frank Is shot.' My wife called to tue to come ns they might shoot us nil and began screaming for me to come and get tbetii out. 1 called Mrs. Kllis to come but she refused to leave the bodv o Frank nnd while she staved there tool; the remaining ladles to Mr Fotner's (amp, three miles away I told the storv to Mr. Fet-Mier nc.l he stalled for the valley nine miles away to .( t help and asked me h slay at bis camp with his family un til h" returned. In (he meantime, Mrs.' Kills appeared at the Fetner amp and we stayed there until help arrived In the person of Hick l.ew- man and Pester liullev I iter m. a larger number (lf men arrived upon the grounds, who rennheil (i tli.. scene of (he accident. "My reason for leaving Mrs. Kills at this critical time U Keve.,,1 power of expression, as we were all more or less of a degree so bewilder ed at the sudden shock that we could hardly be held accountable for what, strange things we might have done. There was no desire to desert Mrs, Kills, hut fear overcame me to such nn extent that before I knew what I was doing I had left the cave nnd taken the other ladles with nie." A, M. VINYARD. GETTING READY TO PAVE SIXTH STREET ('oinmlMei. of Five Appointed by Property Owner to Ito. present Them. The committee chosen by tho property owners on Sixth street to Investigate the question of tho kind of pavement wnnted had their sec ond meeting on Thursday night last at the rooms of the Commercial Club. Chalrtnnn H. I,. Coo called tho meeting to order nnd the regular secretary, Joseph Moss, rend the re port of tho previous meeting. Chair man foe explained the work iiccom- pllshed by the committee nnd whnt remained to be done In order thnt the paving of Sixth street bo com tneiiccd, After considerable dls eusslon J. O. Month moved that n Ollllliltlee of five propeitv owners. f u i,, I, il. , i,,.i, ..,... -I i.i i :,l0 .,, ,i. i ,o , hair to confer with t lie i ty on ,e II a ml do nil o her m . CLUB TO DISCUSS IMPROVEMENTS TIIK SIIUIXT WILL Ull TAKKX IT MONDAY KVF.MXO AT TOE REGULAR MEETING Investigation of Opportunities to Ituii ltonls from (Jranls Pass to Anient Dam. The Commercial Club has given notice that the subject of Improving the river for boating purposes from White Hocks to Anient dam will be taken up at the regular monthly meeting on Monday evening AugiiBt 9. The subject generally will be talked over and If It Is thought best a committee will be appointed to make an examination of the river and decide on the practicability of removing the obstructions so as to permit gasoline launches to go over the two or three riffles on that part of the river leading to the dam. This will permit the use for boating pur poses of a distance of three mllea up the river nnd a round trip of six miles, which would bo of great ad vantage to the citizens of Grants Tass who are fond of boating, be sides being of service to the people living here, nnd It will bo an attrac tion of great Importance to the honieseekers, many of whom would choose Grants Pass or Its vicinity as a place of residence when It has been demonstrated to them that wo hnvo boating facilities of tho greatest value, which no other town In this valley has to offer. This Is one of the Important mat ters In which the Commercial Club enn ho of real service to this city nnd county. The facts are thnt If this slight Improvement In tho river Is made nnd boats nro permitted to make the slx-mlle trip, this fact f alone will bo a great advertisement lor iirants Pnss and will draw hun dreds of people annually lo this city. There are already more than a doon boats of all Horts, Including a gaso line launch on the river nt. this point, ut they can only go up an far as the White ltocku, a distance of ono mile. When this Hinder comes up before e club next week It must be kept mind (bat no Hum should he lost In doing the work of opening chan nels for boats through the obstruc tions. There can be no trrent eimt making these Improvements and the benefits will be very great, The scenic attractions of the dis tance between this city and tho Anient dam will draw crowds when boats can go above the present limit. When these Improvements aro mnde nnd boats nre running every advertisement Issued by the club re- gnrdlng Grants Pass or Josephine county must of necessity Mention tho hontlng ndvantngea. It will ho found to he tho drawing rnrd; and tho one thing that will Induco people to come to this point Instead of going to localities thnt nre on a dend, common level and are lucking In natural ad vantages. cessary things In regard to paving tho street. He cxnlnlned thnt ha would bo entirely willing to have any five business men act for hltn for his Intorest would be their Inter est. Such a committee, ho nld. would bo enabled to act promptly and It would not be necessary to call property owners together again If this meeting would Instruct tho com mittee as to tho wishes of thos pre- etit. There wns considerable dis cussion and mnny questions asked when tho motion to appoint tho com mittee rnmo up for action and wan cnrrled unanimously. Tho chair then explained that he wuild not like to appoint the committee with out giving tho matter some study ns ho thought It proper, to have rach section of tho street represented. The following Is the committed appointed to take charge of the pav ing of Sixth Klleet; U. I,. Coe, ,f. Fry, L. n M'.H. f p fitr mini. - - -ilMtr T---.i.rn&J-i; I