Rogue River courier., November 04, 1910, Image 1

VOL. XXVI.
GRANTS PASS, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1910
No. 31
if
$102,557 SPENT
FOR STREET IRK
FORTY THOUSAND YARDS
RITULITIUC PAVEMENT
OF
TWO MILES CEMENT WALKS
I Eleven Thousand Square Yards of
Standard Macadam Being
Iiiiltl On I-wer Oth.
may be extended so as to accommo
date the rapidly increasing popula
tion along North Ninth street.
The old wooden bridges crossing
Gilbert creek at C and D streets will
be replaced yet this fall by concrete
arches the entire width of the
streets, at an estimated cost of about
$1500 each, for the concrete and fill
required to bring the crossings up
to grade.
Upon the entire amount of im
provement for the year the adminis
tration has kept the cost of engin
eering and advertising below"" 4 per
cent of the actual cost. Records
show that the same items of expense
in neighboring towns have cost from
7 to 11 per cent of the total costs
for similar improvements.
RAILROADS HAVE
NOT QUIT IRK
OREGON TRUNK AM) DESCHUTES
ARE ROTH WORKING.
address in New YorK city, when he
charged Roosevelt with wilful false
hood and misrepresentation.
"Never," said Dix in his address,
have we had so much to cause one
to blush for the conduct of a man
who was once the first citizen of our
country." Roosevelt was thorough
ly aroused over the attack when rep
resentatives of the press interviewed
today. "I shall answer Dix when I
return to New York," said the ex-
presldent.
HILL GOING TO THE COAST
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1
I
The present weather conditions
have made it exceptionally favorable
fnr the completion of the various
street Improvements under contract.
T'he Warren Construction company
has completed, the paving of nearly
forty thousand square yards of street
surface with bitulithic pavement.
Within a few days the same company
will have completed the laying of
about, two miles of ten and twelve
foot wide cement sidewalk. The total
cost to the' property owners along
thse improvements, togethter with
the necessary drainage pipes, Inlets,
catch basins and man holes, Is $102,
557. The total of the city engin
eer's estimate upon the work was
$337 more than the actual cost,
which was an exceptionally close es
timate. The grades and lines as finally
lnid out have been closely followed
throughout the entire work, with
only two exceptions, which are to be
rectified by the contractors before
the job Is finally accepted. It was
hoped by those interested that the
block on E street, between Fourth
and Fifth streets, would be Included
In this work, but it was found impos
sible to get the owners all signed up
for the bonding privileges in time
! to begin work before the plant is
t shut down, so this block will have to
go over until the early spring, when
I . t.. thnt several other
I streets will be ready for a similar
I Improvement.
I Contractor Oilfillan has about
I completed four thousand feet of eon-
4 rtP curb and gutter along aixm
.... .-, t. tn thp Roeue river
S bridge
NEAR BEER DEALERS
ARE ARRESTED
Fears That Roads Have 'Adopted a
Policy of Strict Economy
Are Unfounded.
PALETHORPE, Md., Nov. 3.
The events In the big aviation meet
here planned for this afternoon were
postponed because of rain and high
wind.
o eoi.nti arp finishing the
i i. -i eivMi ctrppt frolll
t r.suu-eraue aiuus i
the end of the pavement
ih'1 1
f
to the
bridge, preparatory to laying eleven
thousand square yards of standard
macadam a width or 56 foot. That
is from gutter to gutter. The es
timated cost of thinM)vovemrnt
a little move than $1 4,000 and w...
K completed within 30 dny.
To complete the work as rapidly as
possible, the contractors are running
tr-.-t.- own c-i-.bi"5 f-lnut f n(1 nlJ"
one" belonging to tV city .h of
town. Schell & Schrll also have t h"
contract and are finishing P
slxtpen-foot roadway iil"i!'
street. whi-'h has h,:v- '"
source of much inconvenience
i- TVirt nvfSPiit contract
HI Ml n . ' ' . .
put this fit reel In as pood .roni.i.ion
n U nosstble, considering that '
width Is only six" feet. ThU end
of A street , will iKr 1,-as It th-.-.U
until the city or th pro-.. i'ty o v -make
some provision for "i"'"" ' "
nnd fill the larse. ugly dlMns
oilier side of the roadw:.v md i "
.,. i, 9j.ii wld'h. 1 tr-t ad "i
I ' 1 II ' .1 ( J . 1 1 1 1 lie
.I. t-nll 91 I- f"W
IIP II" 1 1 " 1
done.
Th- Tltv eenpeil has ..rd-n-rt
-t rleanii"-' mamme ,
wLbr. will
Like a bolt from the blue came
the news Thursday afternoon about
two o'clock that the proprietors of
six cf the near beer places In
town had been arrested on warrants
charging them with selling liquor in
prohibition territory. Following Is
the list of those dealers who
were arrested: M. F. Hull, G. D.
Williams, Dan Hearn, Fred Pilkin
son, Jack Whitsett, Fern West.
Three complaints were filed against
G. D. Williams charging him with
selling liquor on October 2, 14 and
24. There are two against Hull and
two against Whitsett.
In addition Len Martin, of Galice,
was arrested on a similar charge
preferred by the district attorney
himself.
The complaints against Whitsett
and Pilkinson are sworn to by Mrs.
T. C. Booth, of this city. She said
that she asked William Scrogglns
and George Barrows to buy the li
quor on which the complaints are
based, while she remained outside.
The Anti-Saloon league has had
half a dozen detectives working on
these cases for the past six weeks.
There are four, whose names do not
appear.
All the complaints are for selling
beer. Not one of them is for any
thing stronger.
The district attorney states that
more than a dozen bottles have been
analyzed by local chemists and they
have been found to contain from four
nnd one-half to five per cent of al
cohol. Thp warrants were served by the
sheriff's office between one and two
o'clock this afternoon and the de
fendants were brought before County
.Tudge Jewell as committing mngls
' ate. where their preliminary ex
amination will be hold.
All six of the defendants waived
"Mttnltmtlon nnd were bound over to
tl-' it;" d jury In th- s;im of $200
That the stories to the effect that
both the Hill and Harriman lines
are shutting down on construction
work In Oregon are not true Is the
positive and emphatic declaration of
G. Misch, of Redmond, central Ore
gon, who la here In the Interests of
the proposed county of Deschutes.
"The Oregon Trunk and the Des
chutes railroads are both actually
working on their lines today and
they have no intention of stopping
work on the projects," said Mr.
Misch today to The Courier.
"It is true that they are not upend
Ing money with the abandon they
did when the roads were first Btart
ed and when the two rival Interests
were fighting. At that time It was a
question of who could first get the
rails laid on disputed territory nnd
cost was not considered. As every
one knows, this condition has
changed nnd the companies have
reached an understanding as to
rights-of-way and fliey both have set
tled down to building the roads on
economic and business basis.
"It is exceedingly expensive to
haul rails and equipment and provl
sions 160 miles by wagon. So In
stead of attempting to lay rails at
the lower ends of the extensions, the
companies arc devoting all their
energy to building the first part of
the road so that supplies and mateii
al may be shipped by rail to this
end of the line.
"I have seen much of the officials
of both roads nnd know something
of their plans. The people of Grants
Pass can rest assured that Hill Is go
ing to the const. There will be a
competing line from , the Rogue
river valley to the ocean as sure as
anything can be.
"In Hill's articles of Incorporation
Crescent City is named ns the term
inus. It would be absurd to suppose
that he would stop at Medford. I
know that It Is within the plans of
the Hill interests to strike the coast
by the easiest and most feasible
route and then go down the coast
to California.
I "I understand the Harriman inter
APPLES OF ROGUE
WIN AGAINST ALL
YELLOW
NEWTOWN
CAPTURED.
PRIZE IS
TWELYE SECTIONS COMPETE
Tins Valley Also Gains Third lu the
Sweepstakes lrlw for
Ull Varieties.
nexatlon Is not being considered by
President Taft. Other questions are
first to be taken care of.
'reports that annexation Is the
only solution of the Panama problem
are erroneous and not founded on a
careful Investigation of the facts."
President Taft will leave for the
Isthmus after he casts his vote In
Cincinnati November 8. He will
make the trip on the cruiser Tennes
see, escorted by the Montana. Re
ports that the trip was for one of
two purposes either the annexation
of Pnuama or the extension of the
anal zone to 25 miles on either side
of the big ditch, or fortification of
the canal by Uncle Sam were wide
ly published and generally credited.
LAY L0YERS DELIGHTED ,
WITH VIRGINIA HARNED
A good house greeted Virginia
Harned last evening at the opera
house. A fair appreciation of the
actress would have put the S. R. O.
sign out early in the evening. Very
few cities of the size of Grants Pass
have an opportunity of seeing stars
of the rank of Miss Harned.
The play was a powerful one and
was a most realistic treatment of an
interesting situation. Virginia
Harned needs no comment, so much
superior to any acting that has ap
peared In a long time In Grants
Pass, was It.
The whole cast was good and the
star was ably supported, which is un
usual also. Paul Harvey as Jules
Marston, the artist, was admirably
fitted for the part he played and C
Lester Paul portrayed the perfect
cad In Hon, Cecil Armsby.
A wayward son Is disinherited by
a ricn rather ror marrying a iaiy
who had been mixed up In vaudeville,
living pictures and the like, much to
the disapproval of the father-in-law.
The young man Is engaged In writing
a play, but Is so harassed by credit
ors that he Is unable to collect his
thoughts and center them up his
dramatic dream. The family larder
Is very much depleted and the devot
ed wife in order to replenish the
aforesaid larder arranges with a fam
ous artist, to pose as his model In
what Trilby calls "The Altogether
The husband discovers the mnnner
In which she has been supporting the
family and enters his protests, where
upon the audience Is supposed to
think him a brute. Rut It all comes
out In the wash, so to speak, In what
wns a very pretty last act, In which
the wringing of hands nnd the "My
God, Jacks" were all cut out.
Ibsen has a situation somewhat
similar In his "Doll's House." Norn
Helmer Is accused of forgery by her
husband, but Ibsen's heroine In her
defense rises to a dignity that makes
one proud of all womankind. Hut
are two dlffer-
i;:n 'i is i' he
Oi 1.1 T.I.I SS FROM NOW OV
i I'
the
w IT
SAN' FKAXnSM), Nov. In a-
nlrme wl'h (lie Imperial cdi't
mil the thro!:", Chinese of this
their queues nnd
. . n.'iuhffii'it ntiil Ibsen
cst are now surveying a road ironi
., i. i, .. r r-i... Timvicni men.
lili'lIUS IHSM III vn-mi-iii VI',).
will have to build to protect them
selves. Besides the Harriman peo
ple have another incentive. They
INVESTIGATE DISXSTER
NEWPORT. II. I., Nov. '!.- Naval
' ! y have doffed
uv p:irt their
Uncil'in: fhior
C'ors'il C,ene::!
red I N person. 'i !
'a! jmis with Us
i ,.;,!:, v rt-.l li
ar
tin
VI I.lir: V.ew s v
n n tl diplomatic re-
pitr'nil at 3 p. in.
:an c 1 'brat In -i 'hA
, .1- l i r. r. ...I
ir.i now ii ill linn imo imiickii i
i,v iHiiidlnir from here to connect , off leers ate ,:pe,te( t,jav to c.r.KT
with that extension It dve them n-nn Ivest lotion of the nrc id-nt to the
., .i. ...i .i. i:.. ,.iti.i 'submarine Octopus., uhhh inltilit
Oilier norm lUI'l to inn- mm .
Inates the srad-s over the Siskl-ihave resulted In tb" d-ail. -.
Itennnt Baldwin nnd tin crew or i z
nieti. v iioKitr-r mines oi suipnurie
acbl filled the lltt!. craft while she
vvnn submerged. The O'tupus was
the remark
v
m or
b' if
-tl
; modern strec
j, th? paved streets,
tlnn within ii f
V Is nipetilr the cnti-e piv'-i i
I til-1 can be made Perf-tly -!ran i"
;, three hours time;
-.. 4l. imnwWni'Mlt Will' !
remaps me ..mil-;
will he most appreciated will
i ... .a i n -iiire . '
alleys In Works nun
i the 'heavy traffic durlne the wirt-r
months has kept the alleys fl""
1 Impassable. Now there U a
tecn-foot driveway of paver-tit. "' "
Hiree feet of sidewalk oa" 1" '
tho concrete curb, and nl! '1mVV'
1 snn-tn and roof drains nr e-'-''h
. into tb" c'rs i""1 'h11 p!""""' v '''
t cnr-lim t Kn ce-'
j In nddl"ei 'i-- "
r f r -i ' ' i
l,nni rn'lV'
-.- a'en:,' the thor-
:,,-,. rf cliinaiiiv n and soon the
y, 1 I ,1 With I'Vl ite,
h's and the a if fil'ed with ( lion
v,, ab.ilary ' -ina the new
voiu'er- a Chlnie ivl'liont fjif .e.
Yj.w was apnareritly pleaded v.ith
.1,,. o. n ,-,t'.... 1... r..nl, ,t
V.-i; ! a ' , (1 w t at b" Ir.fndod do
'!,. with the s"Vi-.e, n !",.. Li turn
ed to bis Interpret." with bland, In-
r-:t.i' b' f t e. irutti ring a few
'Him sav. i:ii-sivei- trans
iiim think lii m have him
' yous"
i l'or "evernl weeKs
1 h.'H been current on .the rtreeM of
'(irapts Pass that the railroad. In
; c,,i t v;i 1 O' e'.'on have ntnpiieil con
! i-n' t luti v.-re li. This has been used
j to fortify the nr-."itneiit that tb'-re
v no hope of railroad construction
.nut of Grants Pass in the near fu
ture. Mr. Misch comes dire't from
! 1 1,0 u-cif. of railroad otierntlons ntid
knows whereof he sprnks.
Mr. Misch Is mi enthusiastic bmint
irr for Redmond. hl'h be nays I
(lulckly raised to the surface, but
liefor'! nlr could bi' admitted five fif !
tbe tiH'ti bad been rendered uncon
s' ions. It U thought the electric
b."tterea aboard the vessel wer de
fiv tlv
Id it U Mjihi.ii lias ii lull.
Shortly before noon Tin hday, J. II.
Andes, one of the bilik mason cm-
Vancouver, B. C Nov, 2. (Spe
lal to The Courier) That the
RogiH river valley is the premier
apple district of the world Is further-emphasized
by the fact that
the valley won one first on Yellow
Newtowns and also the third prize
iri the sweepstakes prize for all varieties.
A carload from the E. Renshaw
orchard, one of the best known or
chards In the valley, won the first
prize for the best Yellow Newtowns
at the fair at the Canadian Apple
show, open to the whole world, The
Yakima valley won second prize for
this exhibit and the Wenatchee
third.
nut this was not the only prize
won by the Rogue river valley. Al
though It had no contestant for this
prize, that valley won the third
prize In the sweepstakes exhibit.
In this exhibit there were twelve
districts competing. Okanagon, R
C, won first with a cnrlond of Jona
thnns. Somerland, R. C, won second
with a mixed car and the Rogue
river valley, with no real contestants,
won third with Its car of Newtowils
from the Renshaw orchard.
The Rogue river valley, us against
all the npple-growlng world, won
two of the capital prizes, aggregat
lug $7.10, without any particular ef
fort. This valley went In for the
Yellow Newtown prize and won It,
nnd tho third prize In the sweep
stakes, although It was not a con
testant for thai hotioi
Last year the Rogue river valley,
with n car of Spltzcnborgs, won the
sweepstakes at he Spokane National
Apple show for the finest car of fruit
grown In the world. Some few
months later another exhibitor won
first for the plate display of New
towns at the apple show held nt Denver.
This year the Newtown exhibit of
the valley won first nt the Canadian
Apple show, In which nil the prin
cipal fruit gi owing districts of the
northwest were entered. ,Thls vic
tory makes this valley the winner In
the two iiiohI prominent varieties of
commercial tipples.
The cash value of 1ln prizes won
by the Rotme river vally at the Can
adian International Apple show is
tTVi.
Tills vbtory of the vally has Riven
heart and i-iieonrageinent to the ex
hibitor! at the National Apple nbow
at Spokane and the display of ap
ples at tin- Cblcn ;o Land show.
The fart tint these Morl'S have
been won ngalnsl all the world Is
what makes them significant. These
awards will b" chronicled by the
bvnlliii; newspapers t hrou'-'boiit 1be
nation throitrli the mediums of tin
crcat press unsocial Ions, The I'nlt -d
Prev.( and the Aoe,'itcd Prei'S. rie
til, n thf'io tlieii' will bn special nr
.I' p s, Hill ttrrited, by special write '
-if the big tiers miners nnd inim.i
'Ids. All told, this victory wlil be
f l:ii'ri rife benefit to ihn part of
,l -tali'.
EX-MAYOR LANE
, SPEAKS IN CITY
"You have one of the most beauti
ful and prosperous valley In all the
world here. . I have often thought
that when I have made my stake and
want an Ideal place to live where I
can enjoy myself to tho fullest, I
would get me a Rogue river valley
fruit farm. That has been the am
bition of my life," declared Dr.
Harry Lane, ex-mayor of Portland,
last evening during the course of a
speech which he made from an au
tomobile In front of the opera house.
Dr. Lane's speech was devoted
mostly to an arraignment of the as
sembly. He doclared that the as
sembly movement presupposed that
the voter was not Intelligent enough
to Belect tho proper candidate for
himself.
He grilled Ilowerman as a man
opposed to tho popular government
measures and chargod him with be
ing an .enemy of statement number
one. He said that Oswald West would
mnko a good governor becauso he
was a friend of the people and his
record as railroad commissioner
showed that ho was efflclont as well
sh believing In right principles.
Ho criticized Congressman Haw-
ley nnd urged the election of Bob
Smith and outlined his views on
many of the Issues before the voters.
Dr. Lane was well received and he
kept, the attention of his hearer
during the course of his remarks,
lie speaks this evening at Roseburg,
SIX BILLION FEET
OF TIMBER BURNED
. , ... I , ..t tl... I, I, . in, ut llttlr
""""" '" " " '"' ""- 'ploved on the Paddock and Calvert
fill.. In nrpi'on In a few years, nnd '
for the county of Deschutes.
SETTLES CASE
building on Sixth street, was Injured
'by fulling from tin' scaffolding.
i The board on which he was stand-
ROOSEVELT IS EXCITER . ,Iuk slipped from Its supports and let
j AIMU'T IU.X Sl'LEtll'tMr. Andes fall to the cement Hlde-
i , i walk, a distance of about fourteen
....... YORK' Nov. 3.--riy laying ON HOARD ROOSEVELT SPE-jfeet. painfully, ir not seriously, in-
Conld wn able to fet-;('.L TRAIN, ALLIANCE, O . -ov. jpinng tin naK. nr. i-ouuni iuk
rt the suit of lss;r.. "Mr. Ilx Im-coiih's nreeedlnnly , was summoned and after adtnlnl iter-
for allege,! vnloroiis iitKmt ice the mrti-i rn. i ; int? t no iwensary resioniiiM's. nie ni-
It una b-arned h sve (be state of New Yoik. naMijnred Mian was mken to ins on i
flO.nn.1 Praf
ii.- n-'t of i
!n.Vo for f:
' i I. ..f i.i-o'i'Ue
I . .... f...,M ,.ff,.! t, ilntirer !'"'i1one ttrio-nve't ti1("- abound h'VHtreef. liere Dr. Lough rid if follow
lift for lb rct'Tti of r.rtiln l.'t.;MTlnl train, while wbllll'.tc w.t l'j''l to as-ertaln the extent of his In-
i'trlcs, whl'-h are not Known ai uu
SHIPPERS OMPLl
WASMINiiTON, Nov. 3. HuhIiichs
men of tin' Wlllamitt" valley. Ore
gon, ( iitllpl.llned today before the In
ler.st.nte Commerce coiilllllsidoll of
i ate, charged by Southern pacific.
snworn h""0 b"e"
tennn. p':
iml that Mix DV'" r-t''l"'l i tn'o part Iti tb c!o of tb" ram
i, it h bad bypotlie-nfed the l"t- i-clgn In low. Tb" rn'onel r' f-rred
,.-s for s Inrtn. dould then douhV-l ;r. t.tet"'T: n'n by John A. DIt.
It Is ald. ni't rerciV'" I I r -n''n'" ,r,.,,, ,.,r ,..,..,,.,
time.
i . i j
fr r
f,f y,, Yor'-, f1:-t 'niitisltn
if vonr opiw plvs our trouble
r- C'lviT, S'd'l b'' f'ratner ni'iv
TAI'T lOKH NOT WANT PANAMA.
WASHINGTON. Nov. .' - IMhllsb
"d tepnr's Oiiii PreHliletil Tuft's visit
to Panama portended the annexation
by the I'nlted States of the Isthmian
republic were detil"d today by C. ('.
Aroseniena, lnltilster from Puiianiu
to the Pulled States,
"The Integrity of Panama Is guar
snteed by l ho Hay-Hinnti Varllln
treaty," sail tin inlnlitir, "and n- two months
A rough estimate of the fire loss
upon the national forests In Montana
and northern Idaho, upon which the
forest officers of the I'nlted States
department of agriculture have been
engaged since the fires worn put out,
puts the total amount of timber kill
ed or ib?;;troycd In this one district
at fiver nix billion board feet, while
the area burned over Is put at over
one and a (piarter million acres.
Forester d raves believes that, as
le-iually happens In the case of big
fires, there will be found to be con
siderable areiiH or living timber
within the regions now mapped
entirely burned over. Of necessity,
the figures given are tentative, for
H has l.i en Impossible to examine
all I he burned arena thoroughly. As
fast as possible, however, the forest
oll'li-ers arc locating nnd cut I mat Ing
the bodies of timber killed but cap
able of being lumbered, If taken In
time. There will lie an enormous
itantlty of f lre-kl!b'd timber, both
on the national forests and on priv
ate lands, t'i lie rllHposed of ns soon
as possible, hlnco If not marketed
(nliltlv It will not be worth cutting
at nil.
Slice th amount to be disposed of
i doubtless greater than can be mar
jl.eteil In any event, ami since It Is
better for the counts that tb tim
ber should be ullll.ed t tin II that It
should go to waste Jn the woods, the
price at which It will he sold will
be lower than would be asked for
I he timber under ordinary clrcuin-stances.
It is believed that last summer's
fires either burned up or killed be
tween line ami two per cent of tho
toial Htand of national forest tim
ber, At the present rate of cutting
from the national forests, six billion
fed are 1'iual to 12 years' supply;
but It Is less than one-sixth of a
single year's cut In the entlro conn
try, or enough to keep all of our lutn-
t...M ...111. t....u f..M ,.tv,f! i I n it unite
i l'i"l 111 J 1 1 n imip i.'i n'liii'. . iii.'h iiii-.'.t
I
l. I iV,. b'Mrrs
t, now ht-?h "bon "wc-