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FRIDAY. OCTOBER 13, lB11 WEEKLY KOGIX RIVER COURIER PACK FOUB Weekly Rogue River Courier GRANTS PASS, OREGON. AT E. ,VOoiuiIES, Pub. and Prep. C. O. COl'TANT, Editor. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1011. OPERA HOUSE MEETING. The opera house good roads meet log Friday night was tho most en- business men that has taken place In Grants Pass for a long time Ft was an assemblage of strong and determ ined men who had resolved to look after one of the most important In terests of Josephine coanty. They were In happy accord from the very first, resolving to bring about -suits. Those attending the meeting had do quarrel with the Southern Pa cific railroad, and yet they felt that their own Interests must be protect ed against the extortionate chtuges of that corporation. To them it was a matter of business and their pur pose was to find transportation which would save from the double tribute In iho way of freight rates charged by this company. An auto tiuck road from Grants Pass to the ea was the slogan of the hour and to bring this about they wero resolv ed to build to the California line where they would be met by our Crescent City neighbors, who are as anilous as ourselves for a perman ent road from that place to the me tropolis of Josephlna county Not alono did the nioremen: fav,r this Important road but It mean: tho opening of trunk lines through our cmnty from north to south and from east to west uad besides these main lines there will be u network of icads connecting with ihe mala highways. Judge Jewell of the co.iity court, who was present, gave the Information that there are 400 miles of road In the county and that it was these highways which were to be changed from their present condition Into permanent roads to enable the farmer to haul four or five tons on a wagon where only one can be hauled now. In this matter, the people of the county will with out doubt unite to bring about the Important results sought by those In attendance at the opera houBe meet ing Friday night. The Idea seemed to prevail that It will require the bonding of the county In the sum of $500,000. This Is not an extrava gant amount and, If It will give us money enough to build the needed roads, It will be an Investment which will pay good .Interest. By what method of flguVlng sum mention ed waa determined, we are unnble to say, but when we ask for the bonds, we should get enough to do the work In the most thorough man ner, as the Investment Is o-,e thai will give general satisfaction to all the property owners In tbv county It Is not out of place to suggest that, If the half million mentioned Is not enough to meet the dennadi of the work, more should bo added. KIND OF FARMING THAT PAYS, likewise of a highly beneficial char School teacher, after all know! "ter, that Is. on the road to mine, some things outside of their profe COUDt' ftnd 11 out travel to crescent cjij. it wo C8n have rock and gravel roads, It will be of great service in the devel opment of the mining, farming and business interests generally within this county. The satisfaction which govd roads give will we hope Induce the county board to go on with the work, but business methods must be observed always. The county will get better result, if the board will let all work by con tract, placing an engineer In charge who knows what Is to be done, and how it Is done. Other states have found this a great saving. The Courier favors permanent work in the many places where the winter rains and the heavy travel cut up the roads. The county has good ma chinery now and can make roads of a better class than it was possible to do It a year ago and if practical men can be secured to do the work, per manent roads will occupy the places which have heretofore ' been mud holes. In these matters The Courier is in favor of making haste slowly in order that mistakes may be avoid bIod. The newspapers ure telling jobout one who quit the schools and j went to farming and has made a wonderful success, a thing that most 'anybody else could do if proper at tention was given the subject. The man was E. U Brewer or menaus county In the state of Washington. At a country fair he was induced to tell a newspaper man his story, which 1b as follows: "Without kiting checks, but with credit that was good, I bought 182 acres upon the Installment plan, al though I bad $60 less than nothing, which Is the amount a school teacher ought to have. Jersey cattle were my hobby, and upon a scientific bas is I have managed to breed a herd of Jerseys with 'character.' There Is one three-year-old in the exhibit herd here that brings me as high as $40 a month in pure cream alone. She averages $400 a year in profits, and I can f -" (he herd at a cost of $37 a year average. I'm now milk ing 30 bead of these three-year-olds, i I have about 60 head, all told, beside 100 hogs and a dozen or more horses. "When I started in, I realized that It required 'charactei in stock to make it record-breaking, so I be cbaracter of my cows. I started by gan by developing the individual trying to have calves as well born as It Is possible to have them, by studying the needs of the Individual cow. One feature is in that fact that I keep close tab on the feed, weighing the cows frequently, and keeping them so that the food ele ments do not feed off the bodily v eight of the animals." This is the dairy part of the story. Now comes the mixed farming ex perience of Mr. Brewer. It Is report ed that from 100 acres of his farm there was a yield of $10,000 and this was not his whole crop. Now here is mixed farming to an extent that will prove there is no busi ness In the world, not even a gold mine, that will equal farming when it is carried on In a scientific man ner. A herd of Jersey cows on a farm under Irrigation near Grants Pass will make the right kind of a farm er rich every time. Fruit Is a good thing, but It Is putting "all your eggs Into one basket," and there fore, Is, to some extent, risky, when you have to buy hay and grain. But dairying and general farming is a business that can be depended upon for results; In short, is a money getter and there Is little risk to run. We need both the fruit grower and the mm who can grow feed for live stock. Doth of these will find abun dant opporunltles In Josephine county. The election reports from Califor nia which have been unfavorable to woman's suffrage up to yesterday, are now changing, and it is thought that there Is still a chance that suf frage will win. Our United Press leased wire reports today show that the back counties In the mountain dis tricts are likely to offset the antl majority secured in San Francisco. It may be that It will require the official count to determine the result. DESIRABLE PEOPLE COMING. There are many visitors coming It was pleasing to thus present ito GrantB raM dur,D 111,31 lho at the opera house meitln to note ,ter Part of the tllu? colonl8t rate are that the county court was In happ : ou and u can be 8ftld tnat t0 nU ai" accord with the spirit which pre- Poaran.es these are of a very dosir- vallod. We should go Into this mat- able cla88 nd u ,8 to be hIK'(1 lnnt Ar with a full and fair understand-1 n,nny ,u lofate ,n thla )Brt of tht Ing ax to the responsibility Incurred , K8,ie Rlver Tney l0U,e by tho taxpayers of both city and from U'lnc-'8. Iowa, Missouri, Kau- eounty. They should know Just whati8""' Nebraska, North and South Da roads are to be built and their char- j kola ani1 80nie few from Colorado, atter. Everybody will be favorable . 0ur rpnl t8late men ar do,nK when they can feel that It Is t j part In receiving and entertaining square deal all round. It will be!tnese Bod )0llle and already some Just a well to have all these mat-; l"Mortant sales have been made mid ters understood at the outs-t so thnt ' doubtless more will follow. Our de v may avoid entanglements as,811'10 ,ands wh,rn w,u bp U,U,,M well ns explanations. Of course no , Irrigation and our ' promising' mines election can take place until It Is ptfT opportunity to all who may determined that the people of a county have the right to vote bonds such as contemplated. This will be known, It Ih supposed, at no distant day, as It Is understood thnt Jack- BE SURE YOU'RE RIGHT. Bonding the county for the pur pose of building good roads is a mat ter of the highest importance to our taxpayers at this time. That we need the improvements is a self evident fact and that, if we could build them at this time, the money that would be distributed In the county would approach a real bles sing But we must not forget this is a business proposition and there fore should be treated in a business manner. First. It must be deter mined whether or not we have a legal right to vote road bonds at this time. We cannot afford to incur on expense of something like $2500 in holding a special election, to find out afterwards that the bonds were illegal If Issued, and that bond buy ers would not, as a consequence, pur chase them. The Courier said editorially last Sunday: "Of course no election can take place until It Is determined that the people of a county have the right to vote bonds such as contemplated. This will be known, It la supposed, at no distant day, as It Is understood that Jackson county will have this matter up before the supreme court." The above contains the whole matter In a nut shell and should be the policy in treating the matter of Issuing good roads bondB. Any other method would be unbuslne!! like. Better take the advice of David Crockett: "Be sure you're right, then go ahead." F-; la. ril T . J urn . al t j-J"i : imp . mm : ri,vrl.ht H.rt XrhilTner & Mrx WATCH the Clothes-game in this town; notice the fellows who look like winners ; you'll find a lot of them wearing Hart Schaffner & Marx , olothes. You may not think it's easy to be a winner; but we'll show you how easy it is to look like one. Suits $18 and more Overcoats $16.50 and more ' Other suits and overcoats $10.00 to $16.00. i CALHOUN'S OUTFITTERS TO BOY AND MAN. CLASSIFIED ADS FOR SALE WE HAVE several thousand feet of good sound dimension lumber which we will sell at $8.00 per thousand. 2x6, 2x8, 2x12, etc. ' We desire to clean up the yard hls month. Grants Pass Box Co. East end of J St 10-13-lt come. Ol'R ROADS BEING IMPROVED. There Is no policy which we can .adept thnt will pay better lu Joseph- ion county will hnv this matter up . I county than the making of good bf'cre the supreme court The tt . romli. Some Illustrations have been thing In order Is a campaign of edu- Riven ulmm this line during the ration so that the people of the en-'l-'esent sea.ton. The Improvements tire county will fully understand the i-n th' rond to dallco have been of good roads movement and the prop- sm'h a character as to Increase the oxltlon upon which they will he ask- amount of travel to that prosperous ed to express their lsht st ttw mlnlnu .district and the work now ballot box. The beautiful weather which w,- are now enjoying is greatly In con trast with that repotted from quite a number of the Rocky Mountain states. Visitors who come from thus section! are charmed with the clim ate of Josephine county and many express a determination to locate here. Curbing, mittoilni; and pavlnt; are going along most satisfactorily and much work will he completed before the season end. It did look at one time as If there would be 1 It lo or no public work done till fall b 't good sense prevailed In a ti'tmber of quarters an 1 the result U tr.at tbe vrar 1911 will not be a blank In FOR SALE A young, first class milk cow, fresh late this spring. Inquire of D. Bennett at old pow er house. 10-13-2t WE PAY cash for any Oregon ses sion laws before 1866. Also want senate journals 1862 and 1864. Also codes, 1851, Journal of coun cil, 1851, statutes of 1854, 1855, and code of civil procedure and Also code of civil procedure and general laws 1862, and archives " 1843-49, Write Geo. A. BRteson & Company, Inc., Portland, Ore. 10-6-4t A FIVE STAMP MILL for sale at a bargain; also, a Scotch marine boiler, nearly new. Some gold prospects. E. B. Hawkins, Apple gate, Oregon. 9-24-4t FOR SALE 45 acres, one mile from Murphy, three-fourths mile from school; unimproved. Enough wood on place to pay for It Price $25 per acre. Terms can be had. E. Loughrldge, Wlldervllle, Oregon. -8-6t STRAWBERRY PLANTS for sale Several varieties of each. Inquire of C. R. Brechtblll, North Tenth street. 9-15-81 Shipped Direct From England We Import our por from the maker In B It here, but we save t Big shipment just In. design. It's plain whl celaln and semi-porcelain direct ngland; takes us six months to get he purchaser the middleman's profit new patterns, rich and elegant 1' te with dark lino and rich GOLD BANDr, It's an elegant thin England- hou know 16-Inch platter to b so Jon can fill your so In the window. g, made by J. & G. Meaklns, Hanley, what that means. Anything from utter chip. It's an open pattern, so ts, if any piece la broken . See It HALL'S ART STORE GermsSpreadinSIdn . '.j mi 'n the iVma country si('.rstt Pass VOH SALE Timber claim, NWfc Sec. i4. Twp 17, 7 West. Jose phin county. For particulars address H. Walter, conductor, 3 re and Townsead streets, 8. P. Co., San Francisco, Cat. -S-u 1 1 ' K I. LA X IX) I'M ka.vmk, tiiu plumber, ts ready a njr nitnut to relr your pluuil "- M Mirot Teleuhon. 4-j-r Ecxema, Psoriasis and other skin troubles are cauned by myriads of frtrms at work in the skin. Vnlean ttiese germs are promptly destroyed they rapidly multiply, gnawing their way deep Into the nennltive tissue. This is what causes that awful Itch, and what seemed a mere rash may grow worse and develop into a loathsome and torturing skin disease With Its years of misery. ron't take any chances! Destroy the Terms at the beginning of the trouble with that soothing and cleansing wssh, the r. D. 1). Prescription for Kciema. A Ua bottle will prove this to yuu, We have had experience with many remedies for akin trouble but have never seen euch remarkable cures as those from I). D. D. Prescription. In etent relief from the very flrBt appli cation. We are so confident that D. D. v. will reach your case that it will cost you nothing if the very first full sire bottle falls to make good every claim. If you have skin trouble of kind, we certainly advise you to drop In and investigate the merits of. D. V. anyway. We know that D. V. U will help you. M. Clemens, opp. Opera House. l'lfll I'ht'l.im ,ih, MI!., a'h'i.i, i i. 1 1 1 r . umniMir fltit.t I'-.' '"in ". sh. i, .', at 2 ' 1'li ." ,, jf,. Classified ads. wcrk wotnl. ru ELECTRIC TRT8TS CONFESS II. .E(lr. COMIUNVriONS TOLEDO, O., Oct. 12. The Gen eral Electric company ( the trust) I'l d i her supplies eompnnles ap peared here In th U. S. rourt today and withdrew their answers to the government's suit alleslne they were an Illegal combination. They1 threw themselves on the mercy of the court. Judo K. lilts held that numerous acts of the defendants were Illegal !"d crdered the Gnersl Electric pauies to dissolve. He also laid down rules for the future conduct of the companies. LICENSE FEE AGAtXST MERCHANTS K1M- I TACOMA, Oct. 12. By a decision yesterday by Federal Judge Hanford merchants using g'reen trading" stamps' are relieved of the payment of the $100 license fee levied by the city. Judge Hanford sustained the trading stamp concern's contention thaf the fei was exorbitant, and con- 'not and its subsidiary com- fVatorr. 1