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About Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927 | View Entire Issue (March 24, 1911)
Mtdm VOL. XXVI. GRANTS PASS, JOSEPBIINH OOVNTT, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1911 Now SL STREET IMPROVE MENTS AUTHORIZED FIRE ESCAPES ORDERED ALL HOTELS FOR CLEN-UP DAY APRIL 3RD Three New Fire Hydrants Are dered Placed AVhere Much Needed. Or- An adjourned meeting of the city council was held Tuesday night and a good batch of business was at tended to, mostly in the nature of the passage of various' ordinances relating to proposed street improve ments. Report of the proceedings follows: Fire and water committee recom mended that hydrants be placed at the corner of M and Sixth streets, at the new high school building and at A and Tenth. The report was adopted and the hydrants will be put in. .Monday, April 3, was designated by the council as the day when the city will furnish teams for the pur pose of carrying away rubbish. All brush and litter "that can be burned must be disposed of by owners. Ordinance 46, requiring all doors of public buildings used for public purposes to open outward, and pro viding for violation a penalty of not les3 than ?10 nor more than $100, or from to to 25 days in Jail, or both, was passed and goes into effect in 30 days. Ordinance 466, providing that hotels and lodging houses within the corporate limits be provided with proper fire escapes, rope and other safety appliances, was passed. This ordinance carries the same penal ties as Ordinance 465. Ordinance 4b, providing for an alley in block 2, In Miller & Com pany addition, was passed Ordinance 468, relating to the im provement of A street, beginning at the end of the macadam and extend ing east to city limits, was read twice and referred street committee. The ordinance provides for an expendi ture of $5244.96, but the same may be modified, as there Is objection to the cost. ' Ordinance 469, providing for the opening, laying out and establishing of an extension to Foundry street, was passed. Ordinance 470, relating to the Im provement of Seventh street, begin ning on the south side of M and ex tending to Rogue river, by grading and establishing granite sidewalks, the estimated cost to be 1548.40. An ordinance relating to the Im provement of Eighth Btreet, begin nlng on the south side of M and ex tending to Rogue river, by grading and providing for granite sidewalks, at an estimated cost of 11619.90. The council adjourned to meet ou Thursday, March 30. , m;s beams damage citv park property Some vandals entered the city park a short time ago and did a large amount of damage to the public swings. Eleven of the Iron pipes which form a part of the Bwlng were torn loose and twlBtcd out of tthape nnd the swings put out of commis sion. Five of the "see-saw" boards wore carefully sawed on the under side in the center and thrn the par ties who perpetrated the crime sat on the ends of the hoards and broke them In two. The damage done is In Ing repaired at a cost of $40 or $T.n. Captain Boynton has an Idea who did the mischief and they will b? arrested and prosecuted to the ll'iiit If thy ran he proven guilts', i lv rlty authorities will do their Urt to hrrak up the gang of over grown "hoodlums" who Intent the : '! ard tin a young scoundrels will i taught a lesson that they will not t inn forget.. I. n. Williams and family went to Mi tin Thursday, where they expect n cM'iie perms nct.tly. REALTY BOARD HOLDS INTERESTING MEETING The regular monthly meeting of the Grants Piss Realty board held Tuesday evening in the Commercial club rooms was well attended, all the larger firms being represented. The board Is already proving a great help to real estate business In many ways. By far the most Import ant thing accomplished Is the adop tion of a plan providing for the ex clusive listing of properties by one agent at a time. This la a custom which is In successful operation in nearly all of the large towns and cities on the coast and In other parts of the country, xhe plan is working out here with general satisfaction to all parties concerned. Persons de siring to sell run. no risks of dis putes about commissions, and agentB feel much more free to incur ex penses of advertising and showing property. Property owners as a rule have taken kindly to the proposition, real izing that they can expect better ser vice from an agent with a compara tively small list of saleable property than from one who fills his book with everything which comes in for sale and Is never absolutely sure, especially in times of activity, of be ing able to deliver any particular piece of property. A special and very Important meeting is called for next Tuesday evening, to be held at the Commer cial club rooms, and it is urged that every firm be represented. H. C. Sparlln, of Williams, was a business visitor to Grants Pass Wed nesday. A. E. Harris and wife and son, S. A. Harris, were among the home seekers who were looking over this part of the country Wednesday. The family comes here from Pipestone, Minn., and will spend several days looking over Grants Pass and the surrounding country. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Stewart and son are also spending several days here for the purpose of viewing the Rogue River valley. They come from Akron, Colo. ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING OF Al'TOMOItl l,E CLIB Pursuant to the call published in The Courier the members of the Jo sephine County Auto club met in the parlors of the Commercial club yes terday afternoon in an enthusiastic meeting that was well attended. ... ports from several working commit tees, were read, among the most in teresting of which was that of the membership committee, which re ported reported 27 new members, making a total membership of some thing over 33. The matter of an em blem for use on cars' of the club was taken up and decided upon, the same bearing the inscription "Jose scphlne County Auto Club, 1911." A Joint meeting of the local club with that of Medford was arranged, for the purpose of consulting with the county courts of Jackson and Jo sephine counties In an endeavor to have the respective courts of these two counties put in good Bhape the roads along the Rogue river run ning from Medford to Grants Pass. Next Saturday It has -been ar ranged to have a sort of old fashion ed road making bee. with the auto enthusiasts of tuls city all In evi dence. A trip will he made over the roads In this vicinity, all ruts and ditches filled, stones and other ob structions removed and the roads so far as posslu.e put In fair shape for travel, 'itie members of the dub will stort early In a body and keep the good work up till their en i mulasm gives out. J. T. Tuffs, treasurer, resigned on account oi mstness turn would take him away from. the city a great part of the summer and Dr. bunker vns' elected to fl!l the vacancy. J. E. Piatt, of Clark, S. I)., presi dent ol the Security bank ut Clark, Is. visiting his sister, Mrs. Geo. C. : t i n . and will probably spend sever oi weeks here. This is Mr. Piatt's i. ond visit to Grants Pass, and It l: need'eps to say that the climate appeals tn him. 8. T. Scott earn v fri Glendale Wednesday to spend th? day with fr'i'tulH. Mfl returned In the even ing to his homo. TW0-ST0RY REINFORCED CONCRETE FOR GARAGE F. B. Oldlng on Wednesday started work on the foundation for a garage on the lot adjoining the rear of the Bannard furniture store, and facing D streets. The building will be 48 by 82 feet, two stories high, and will be made of reinforced concrete, with handsome front. The lower floor will be In use as the Oldlng garage and will have a capacity of 25 machines, besides repair shop. The upper flat will be fitted up as high-class bachelor apartments. Fred Smith, who recently came to Grants Pass from Sand Point, Idaho, has the contract for putting up the building and he Is to have the lower floor ready for occupancy in 60 days, and the whole work completed in 90. Cost of construction $8000. In the past three and one-half years Mr. Olding has made the Max well car very popular, first by his superior skill in driving, and later when he placed a number on the market and each one of them proved trustworthy. This season several Maxwells have already been delivered and there are others on the road. FORMER OMAHA MAN ROOSTING FOR CITY Geo. J. Fox, of Omaha, Neb., is one of the recent arrivals here, and after six months of investigation in Wash ington and Oregon has concluded that Grants Pass and Josephine coun ty come nearer containing all of the good features that make life worth living than any place he has visited. Mr. Fox spent five months in Wash ington and fully investigated all of the leading fruit districts there, such as North Yakima, Wenatchee, Lake Chelan and Spokane projects; also Oregon from Portland to Ashland, but Grants Pass looks best to him and he has already shown his faith in the city by Joining the Commercial club, and with R. L. Burdic, of Ash land, has purchased the E. L. Blanch ard place of nine acres on North Tenth street, which tney expect to put on the market soon in acre tracts. ..if. liurdic Is a canltallst and old riw f i.hi.. .-j strongly Impressed as to the futun of urants Pass and may conclude to move to this city. RKXE HARRIER ECLIPSES AVIATOR Met IRDV'S RECORD HAVANA, Mar. 23. Eclipsing the time recently made here by 'Aviator McCurdy, Rene Barrier today flew from Camp Columbia to Mono castle, In competition for the Aero club's $3000 prize. He did the 13 miles In 15 minutes and 31 seconds, a full minute and a half faster than the time made by McCurdy. W.' B. SHERMAN ANNOUNCES PLAN ILAR TO THE HOMESTEAD LAW W. R. Sherman, in his ten years of residence In Grants Pass has In augurated a number of booming plnns which have been of untold val ue to this Hccllon In the way of dev elopment, and he now comes forward with-a plan which seems to outclass all the others In Its effect toward the development of the lands which' are now covered with brush and are not only unprndiu tlvc but a draw back to the community. Some of the features of his plan are as fol lows: No payment down and no payment until the end of the sixth year. The owners will furnish abstract, showing good title and give warranty deeds and take a mortgage for the full value of the punhue price due on or before six years, with In - terest at 6 per cent, payable quarter - ly. Thesn lands will be divided at)(j iold mostly In ten-acre tracts. Each purchaser will be required to expend $1,000 on hU 10 HTcs during the, first year. In cb in Intr, plowing, plant Ir. fern Ing, leveling fr Irrigation,; building, etc. These are the only re- i 11. t. .' . ui.... (i u i re hi en i n. i m FVHieiii (t KeuniKi -m I.- ..i. ., v.ImI,..,. "III lC 1(1.11..- nillllliai Hr M"' irnmn of the government homestead law. Mr. Sherman started lure In ihe COMttIT DEPREDATIONS AT THE HIGH SCHOOL School boy pranks have been in dulged in at various times during tn present school year, but on last night the depredations at the high school reached a point wbich the authorities class as the acts of criminally In clined hoodlums. The first thing to meet the eye of the janitor as he opened the school house this morning was red paint in the halls and on the stairs. Further inspection disclosed red paint on the blackboards, on the walls and windows red paint every where. In the high school assembly room books and papers were scatter ed over the floor. When the stu dents began to arrive there was con sternation and the task of gathering books and restoring them to their owners was made almost impossible by the quantities of red pepper which had been sprinkled through the books and in the desks. Not alone were the pupil's books molested but the teachers' books received the same treatment and some of the records were destroyed and other records stolen. It is stated that there must have been not less than five gallons of red paint smeared throughout the building and several pounds of red pepper. To repair the damage done will cost the district a considerable amount, at least one or two hundred dollars it is' figured. The paint when discovered was thoroughly dry and the walls and blackboards will have to be repainted, and to remove dried paint from a hundred or more panes of glass Is no small task. A meeting of several members of the school board was called and the whole situation was gone over and It Is the oplnlon'of members that the perpetrators of the outrage, If caught, should be punished to the full extent of the law. There are at least three counts, It la claimed, on which penitentiary offense can be charged house-breaking, defacing a public building and destroying and stealing property and it is Intended that those who had a hand in last night's deviltry will feel the strong arm of the law. CONSPIRATORS TO FORM COTTON POOL INDICTED NEW YORK, Mar. 23. United States Judge Noyes this afternoon overruled demurrers Interposed by attorneys for James A. Patten, Eu gene Scales, Frank Hayne, William Brown and Robert Thompson, who have been Indicted for conspiracy to monopolize Interstate trade by con ducting the cotton pool last summer. A motion to quash the Indictments was denied. The Courier job-print shop classy job printing. for real estate business over six years ago. In 1905 he established the Grant a Pass Bulletin, a paper which has done much towards starting the things moving in this locality. He has been a student In his line, look ing for the wants of the hoineseck era and the rhanceR to dispose of our uncultivated land In a way to make It possible to develop them. A few years ago he found that he had many applications for Investments by peo ple who could not move on to and develop an orchard or vineyard. In order io supply this demand he con ceived the Idea of organizing a large developing company, He purchased and got under option several thou sand acres of hind between Grsntx I'nsH and Merlin and organized the jHoguo River Orchard -company, ) which company has already cleared 'hundreds of aires of brush lands, planted them to orchards, has built about len miles of automobile boulc- wire feiie. Ing. installed a domestic water r-ys-ten;, ii iid Is row building modern and up-to-date bungalows on the tracts, and Is selling small tracts on easy pnynienls, planted to orchard and i rnr,,'l for tnr five yep pi A trip over j tills tract would lotnln'c the most (Continued on Vnv 4.) GREAT ACTIVITY IS MANIFESTED IN MINING This spring, It reports are true from all mining sources, the activity in mines, the development and gen eral Interest In large undertakings along these lines, is quickening Into a big movement that is drawing cap ital to this section and promises to bring Josephine county prominently to the front as a mining district of vast wealth. A representative of The Courier on the round for news this week dropped into the office of Ear, V. Ingalls. Mr. Ingalls has but recent ly moved Into the Calvert-Paddock building and has an assay office and chemical laboratory that Is extensive and complete in all details. He has recently added a lot of chemicals and laboratory apparatus, among other things an appliance for testing ce ment and asphalt. In discussing the future of mines in this district, Mr. Ingalls was very optimistic and states that there Is great activity in this lmporant In dustry; that good ore bodies are be ing discovered and that, judging from the enthusiasm of the miners and the large number of old proper ties being reopened, the outlook for a fine season's work has not been better In years. If the general pub lie could see ie large batches of gold that are cleaned up and melt ed into bullion in this particular of flee the fallacy that Josephine coun ty has ceased Jlo have heavy pro ducers would soon vanish. Mr. Ingalls' office is but one of several In the city, all of which are having as much as they can do. Mr. Ingalls said: "Since the early forty-niners tra versed the hills of this vast country in a wild rush for the hidden treas ures oi the mountains, the Grants Pass country has been known as a great storehouse of mineral wealth. The search then for gold was of a superficial nature, as has been gen erally conceded, and today the min ing industry in this part of the state Is in fact just in its Infancy, so far as real development is concerned. This Is becoming more and more an established fact." BANQIET TO HIKER AND TELEGRAM PARTY The Telegram hiker, Godfrey Rodrlgues, walking from Portland to Medford, about three days behind his schedule, having lost tlmo on ac count of the 'bad condition of the roads and having been lost and walking about 30 miles out of bis way and losing many hours of time. On reaching this city the walker and the Telegram party, In their E-M-F path finder car, were met by mem bers of tho Jewell Hardware com pany and Invited to a banquet with the mayor and council, newspaper men and owners of E-M-F cars, Dur ing the early part of the evening all who cared to ride were taken for a spin about the city. It was at flrBt announced that "Rod" was asleep at tho Omuls Pass hotel, and as ho vas quite weary his manager thought bcBt not to dis turb him, but a few minutes after 9 o'clock he appeared at the Jewell hardwnre store, having been routed out by an Irate lodger who had bought for the remainder of the night the cot ho had been occupying. 1 ne guests were taken to the "Good Eats" cafe and about 40 sat down to tho banquet. Mayor Myers and Rodrlgues at one end of the long table and Toastmaste'r A. C. Hough and Mr. Hazen of tue Evening Tele gram at the other. At the end of the last course Mr. Hough called on the mayor, who In a few words wel comed the party to Grants Pass. The Hollander was then called upon and he spoke very Interestingly for a few moments of his trips through the various countries of the Old World and the United Mates. Mr. Hazen then told of tn trip from Portland and the condition of tho roads along the route of travel. fe seated that In Mi'l'noinnh county the roBds ap proaMg Roveburg and for about 10 lull's before reaching Grants Psks were the best on the route, but through the Pass Creek canyon and between Drain and Oakland they were the worst that could possibly be linaglnod. They tarried with them ropes fend pulleys, Baw and axe, and all had to be used, besides fence falls) and old trees, to puil the car JAPAN TO WITH DRAW FROM MEXICO !l 111 HEREAFTER TAKE NO PART IN MEXICAN AFFAIRS CONTROLLED THE ISTHMUS In Consequence of Mobilization of Troops Secret Treaty Is Abrogated WASHING i ON, Mar. 23. Sweep- Ing assurances that Japan will with draw entirely from Mexico and here after will take no part fa Mexlcai affairs, It la said here today In dip lomatic circles, were given yeaterdaj to President Tatt at his conference with Baron Uchida, the mikado's ambassador to the United States. Dispatches received today from Mexico City confirm this. They stats that, 'as a consequence of the naval and military mobilization, a secret Japanese-Mexican alliance has been abrogated. ,It Is definitely known that Presi dent Taft and Ambassador Uchida agreed upon what statement, of the Imbroglio was to be made public and, naturally, each announced friendli ness for the other's country. In spite of this parade of attach ment, it has been learned that a secret Japanese-Mexican treaty, the existence of whlen officials of both nations publicly denied, was framed last April by a special Japanese agent and that the United States has since that time' been watching the course of events with Increasing dis pleasure. Under this agreement' Japan practically controlled the isth mus of Tehuantepec and all the ports of western Mexico below Guaymas. Finally, ten days ago, tho Pacific Mall Steamship company, realizing the futility of competing with the Japanese on the coast of Mexico, an nounced Its withdrawal of ships from Snlina Cruz, the terminus of the Te huantepec Isthmus railway. The secret Japanese agreement, It ' Is said by diplomats, related chiefly to trade relntlons, and through them opened the door of Mexico to Japan. The pact was such that It could easi ly have been made the basis for a stronger alliance. This was what the United States feared and It was the prospect which Induced Presi dent Taft to smash all precedent and order the mobilization which block ed Japan's scheme. out of mud holes or to make "roads pussable. Ho also Bpoke of the need of accurate sign posts. At Borne placeB the signs pointed In exactly the opposite direction from that h tended. Mr. Blssell, trtaff photographer, spoke of the scenery along the route and stated that th most magnificent Wows coujd bo had between tilendale and this place, Geo. A. Gibson, of Detroit, driver of tho car, stated U.at ho has drivon puthflnder cars in all sections of the union, but on this trip he encoun tered roads that fur badness out clusBed anything he had ever before seen. . Dr. Smith, membor of the legisla ture from this county, told of the good roads movement and the work of the legislature passing the good . roads bills which the governor after wards vetoed. L. L. Jowell, to whoso euterprlso tho banquet was duo, N. O. Pike and Auditor Opdycke were called upon and made appropriate remarks. A flashlight picture of the gath ering was taken and the guests de parted, Rodrlgues to secure a few hours rest, Hazen to write bis story and BlHsell to develop the picture, and then to make a 2 o'clock rtart on tho last stretch of the 330 mile hike. Ihey arrived at Medford a short tlmo beforo 10 this forenoou, when it wa found thut the boys hud made a mistake, as they were said to be headed for tho metropolis of South ern Oregon and dldnt find out till they reached Medford that they bad been banqueted In the metropolis along about nine the evening before.