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FRIDAY, Jl'XE 28, 191J WKEkLT ROQHC RiVER OGIRIKR PAGE THREE The Best Bib Overall Two Horse Brasid 1 A Hew Fair If They Rip LEVI STRAUSS & CO. VFBS., SAN FPANCISCO WOULD Bl'ILD ROAD TO CAVES; ALSO HOTEL. CHICAGO-RUOIE KlVUt COMPANY IX nAXKKlTTCY. Dr. Maxlnie Shuniann, a Portland capitalist, was at the Josephine Fri day. The doctor was one of a party interested In building an auto road to the Oregon caves and establishing a summer resort these; but the plans were blocked by the refusal of the government to issue a permit, on the grounds that it was Impossible to decide what department of the government had jurisdiction in such matters. He will make a personal Investigation cf the caves and sur rounding country during his visit in Southern Oregon and is anxious that all obstacles to his plans be removed. This is a matter of importance to Grants Pass and an effort should be made to Induce the president to change by proclamation the Oregon caves from a national monument to a national park and by this action make It possible to open this great natural wonder to the people. If this could be done, it would add greatly to the prosperity of this city as It would be the means of bringing Grants Pass to prominence before the public, as It would be the ;olnt where the travel would leave the railroad for the marble caves. The Courier understands that Dr. Shu mann and bis associates stand ready to furnish the necessary capital not only to build a large hotel at the caves, but to construct an automo bile road from the main county high way at Holland to that point. This matter is of such great importance that It would seem that it will pay the business men of Grants Pass to Interest themselves to the extent of assisting Dr. Shumann In securing the change required from a monu ment to a park. The doctor Uft the city on the motor to visit the eastern part of the valley, but will return In a few days. The Chieago-Rogua River Co., through :ts president, A. J. Wither al, filed a leti'-lon in bankruptcy in the United States district court at Portland Friday, and Jidgi J. N. Johnston of Grants Fass, has been ap pointed the referee In bankruptcy. The order of the court was received by Mr. Johnston yesterday. The petitioners gave their liabil ities as $77, 79$. $7, which consists of secured claim amounting to Ur 974.20, and unsecured claims of $27, 824.67, the latter being largely owed the merchants and laborers of the Grants Pass district. The assets of the company were represented as ap proximately $380,000, Including real estate valued at $70,000; stocks and negotiable bonds-of the Golden Drift Mining Co., $299,378, and unliquidat ed claims $5,040. Referee Johnston states that a meeting of the creditors will be held on July th, at which time he will appoint a receiver in bankruptcy, the receiver first to be designated by the majority vote of the creditors. This receiver will then be In charge of the property of the Rogue River Co., and make such disposition of U as the court may order, with the view of realizing to the best possible advant age for the creditors. WOMAN, BALLOT AND ventlon tome valuable hints. "In all due rBDeet to th nrarnra thv A t PROPERTY RIGHTS not make votes, so you should not be so concerned about them," was his fi.ixx says taft will re pi:fktki. The question as to whether the en- ;dvUe, but for us to "get the sympa- franchlsement of women should be!lh" of onj old line, grafting polltl- granted Is not a question of personal clan and he would do more for votes cago convention opinion of prejudice, nor Is It a de- PITTSUURG. June J5. Home from the stirring times at the Chl- Wlillam Fllnn. sr- for women than several preachers, dent Roosevelt man aud erstwhile Tell them If they refuse to help you member of the republican national tow, you will work against them la- committee from Pennsylvania, today ter." There Is no argument used by heatedly declared that "Taft will be the anti-suffragists that will stand defeated." the test, aud the only reason that While Fllnn himself refused to dls- U is even an organization, Is that it Is cuss the. third party movement, it backed by money, put up by big cor- learned from a close friend that iporatlons which do not want the eight should the democrats at Baltimore hour law for working girls, who do nominate a progressive candidate for not want the minimum wage law president the chances are all in fa passed, nor rigid enforcement of pure vor of the Roosevelt progressive wing food lawa. "When a woman opposes 0f the republican party swinging over suffrage for women she refuses the to support the progressive democrat, only weapon with which she can ti-.. STRAW HERRI t.S 1'AY RATE OF $SOO PER ACRE. fense to the antl-suffraglst that cer tain laws are well founded. The right to the ballot should be consid ered by all sound thinkiug persons as an Inherent right to womankind as citizens of an equality with man. Some one says "women are not citi zens." Nevertheless, we have the following In the constitution of the United States, article 14 of which reads in part: "All persons born or naturalized In the United States and subject to the Jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside." Again we read in section 20, ar ticle one, of the constitution of Ore gon, that "No law shall be passed , granting to any citizen or class of jOregon. citizens privileges or Immunities,' Xlr- Latvia, president of the men's which, upon the same terms, shall Q al suffrage club of Portland to., not equally belong to all citizens." ,of te splendid work lelng done "by. After considering this question, It their club, which claimed lu Its mem-' seems to me there Is but one way to ibershlp niauy Influential men who are deprive the women of this state of In favor of amendment No. 1. their right and that Is by wrongful A vote of thanks was extended Dr. and prejudicial Interpretation of the Chapman of the Oregonlan for his law. many forceful editorials endorsing While property rights In this state , this movement. are somewhat more favorable to wo- A large sum of money was raised men than In many of her sister I to meet the necessary expenses of commercialized vice, the very back bone of the anti-suffrage movement." Mrs. Ehrgott gave a brief history of the beginning of equal suffrage in CHARGED WITH Ml HHER. WOMAN RELEASED OX HAIL. SPOKANE, June 25. Mrs. Delia Olds, young and beautiful wife of Dr. W. H. Olds, a pioneer physician, with whooj murder she Is charged wUb having committed May 28, will be re leased from Jail tonight on $5,00 J tall. She will be given her liberty' ihat she may recover from the nerr o.is collapse from which sh Is suf toring. Attended by her sister, Mrs, Frankie Yeon, the defendant st trembling in a cushioned chair today and watched the proceeding in her trial. SPECIAL EXCURSION TO CO LB STEIX AX1 RETl U.N. Southern Paclilc company will run special excursion next Sunday, Juue 80, 1912, to Colesttln Spring! and return for exceedingly low rate of $1.95 for the round trip. Leave Grants Pass 6:30 a. m., arrive Coleutu 10 a. m., returning, loara Colesiolu 7 p. m. Take your lunch or secure hotel accommodations on the grounds. No better place to spend a quiet day. For further par ticulars telephone J. M. Is'aam, agent. LOCAL FLORIST RUILDS A NEW GREEN Hot SE. E. Mayer, proprietor of the Grants Pass Foral and Nursery Co., Is con structing a second greenhouse on his property on South Sixth street, jus', across the steel bridge. The new house will be 18x110 feet In size, modern in all particulars as regards construction and heating ar rangement, and will be b lilt espec ially for the production of carnations. It will have three rows of benches. TIub average farmer would be well satisfied with a net return from land of $800 per acre. Not always so, however, with the farmer of rich Rogue river bottom lands. H. M. Webb, who Is tilling a tract within the city limits of Grants Pass, has made an eighth of an acre of strawberries pay him, net, right at $100, so near Is the figure to the century mark that Mr. Webb quotes the round number. Still, he does not wear the smile of satisfac tion, for he says, "I can maloe It pay better thai that, and I'll not rest content, till I get all the value there Is out of tt. The Webb strawberry patch con tains three varieties of fruit, the August Luther being grown for the earliest, while Dunlap and Brandy wine are mldseason and late. The Oregon everbearing, c;rown so large ly in this Btate, Is not favored by Mr. Webb, as he finds any of the others mentioned more profitable. if or-tinf-ri ujv-mvaarea Is dis posed of in the local markets and prices have at all times been satis factory. In quoting the a?t return from the patch, Mr. Webb has deducted the cost of picking and of boxes. NEW DEPOT FOR TOWN OF ROGUERIYER The year 1912 is bringing great changes for Woodvllle and at the pace that this enterprising town is making It will be well to the front of the 18 other towns In Rogue River valley hy the close of the year. Startlug out in nioneer days under the classical Mr. Meyer will have the house j name of Tallhold, later to re changed ready to fill within a few weeks, and t0 Woodvllle, In honor of John Wood, expects that next winter's demand the flrst p08tm: 3ter, and having this for carnations can be fully supplied 8pring installed a municipal-owned with home grown beauties, and not , water Bygtem, rut in electric lights, states, there la still vast room for Improvement. Especially Is this so In regard to personal property. If a married woman wishes to claim certain personalty the law says she must do so by making a de scriptive list on oath that the prop erty and rights therein described be long to her at the time of marriage, or that she has acquired the Bame by bequest or Inheritance, or by gift of some person named other than her husband; then said list shall be re corded In a register kept by the coun ty clerk for that purpose, and shall be prima fade evidence of the facts therein stated, and property not so registered shall be deemed prima facie to be the property of the hus band rather than the wife. See sec tions 7051 and 7052 L. O. L. In speaking of the laws being more favorable to women th?.n In many of the sister states I do not mean to infer that any of our laws grant any women any special privi leges, for they do not; if so it would In entravntlnn. to h ennatitu- tlon of our state. Women are needed In carrying on the governmental affairs, not to take the place of nuen nor to crowd them out, but to fill an unoccupied place which has been calling for her for ages past; In other words, she has a place to fill In the political life to corresuond to the place she fills in i the home, in the church, In the lodge room, in civic improvement work, etc. Her gentle nature and purity especially adapts her for an officer of the juvenile courts, a place which it seems nas wen saaiy neg.ecieu throughout the nation. If it were Bending out literature and speakers. Among other plans discussed for fur thering the work was that of forming a stenographers' laague. , Mrs. Ringer of California, a mem ber of the Catholic church, asked for volunteers to distribute literature written by leaders of thought among the progresblve men of her own de nomination as the Catholic priests and writers are authors of much of the best literature on this subject. Miss Whitney of California Is lend ing her valuable assistance to our work In Oregon, and urged that the gap be filled between our progressive sister states, California and Washing ton. MARGARET N. LOUOHRIDGE. ! IN MICHE Quick Detachable Clincher COIWCII. PASSES ORDINANCE, SUSTAINS MAYOR'S VETO. W. F. Wessen, who rides on the Grants Pass water wagon is tired of his Job and wants to resign, unless the council will construe the contract more llberallv tr.ariv in thn aurlni itie city council advertised tor bids for keeping the streets sprinkled during the summer months, and Mr. Wessen was the successful bidder, his offer of $3.95 per day being ac cepted. For this sum he was to fur nish and care for his team, the coun cil to supply the wagon, tank and water. Nine hours was specified as a day'B work, with overtime at fifty cents per hour. When not sprinkling streets Mr. Wessen was to do other work for the city at the same rate. He had been laid off a number of however, and at a special ses sion of the council Friday night h L ROUND SHAM &'4: J II STRONG " Yi RESILIENT lit DURABLE . Easily Fits Any Quick Detachable Rim No Tools Required IN STOCK BY FASHION ; lit IKK AMI MACHINE SHOP, offered tn restirn If tha council would possible for good, conscientious wo- I . , . . . ll 1 ' nav Mm fnr atrntirril Mm ulne h with flowers Imported cities. from other Eastern Lumber Men Hen- Messrs. John S. Owen and C. W. built sidewalks and cleaned the streets, prohibited hogs and other stock from running on the streets, (and developed from a grove of native I oaks and other trees one of the hand- Lockwood headed a party of five ; aomeai parhs ... u..- u. ... arrived hero SaMir-l'W berf-me 80 minfoa wun "rp tressiveneps that they changed tne gentlemen who day from Eau Claire, Wis., to In vestigate tracts of timber lauds in which they are Interested. They left by stage for Crescent City. C:i!.. no'.r which place they have hold ings of redwood adjoining the Hobbs-Wall tract. The visitors are name of their town and now call It Roguerlver, and the name has ben accepted by the postnfflce depar'nior' tr.d by the Southern Paclfl: railroad And now t!iey are to have a new depot, that having been recently men to take care of the various de partments of the Juvenile courts of this state fnr a time, It would soon be discovered that crime would le materially lessened. -If more time could be spent on the bringing up of the children of the state, less time ,and money would be required to lie used In placing criminals behind the bars. Oh, if the many women could only see the good they could do by stepping outside the four walls of their home and letting their light ahino hpvond this narrow confine. I i am sure they would do so. It Is nnly by the ballot that woman can hope to yield an Influence fnr igood that will be far-reachlne In re sults. VIOLET A. CLEMENT ir,'w Pa??. J'ino 24, 1912. ftll engaged in the lumber and log- promised by the Southern Pacific of plr.g Industry in northern Wlscou Bin, but believe that there will be a gieat revival of lumbering on the we-.t coast with the romple'.lJti of the Panama canal. Artistic Job work at Courier office Aiitt,fiecr."t-lu,' !. k ! .r-r.i'r:i f V , 1 I A'itt 1 ' 'r.j ar.J Mm n m!',.' S.".t U copy. (rrt. f, T p., o,, ii it,i' w: r'tjix fiHICHESTER'S PILLS W-- 1 ME ltMMO'U IIUAM. A , . ..,...,. III rli-lf r' Diamond Ttra4V , I'lllt II Mr fcM Bf lilaAV 'MS L'll . .f I ita h'ua liil. V 1lklar. I.uf r rmf v flclals In appreciation of the enter prise of t'.e town and of la irnpera ttve need for larger and defer trans portation facilities. It will ';e of wood, but will be a handsome I'.tn.f t :rc and largo e.ough to a'- omi.v. dafe the grow'h of traffV- for years " come. And It will hr-o the f-irt-advantage that It will t located :: thr same flJe of the tracks as the town ?o that people will not be pre- ,. '. from rea-'hing It n a 'rain is In as I now the rape 'vlth the ;t mt ifpr-t. And It will not t'l'Jfl; -r. main street of the town a-t dot-s ;h n-n rr.T in "'. tiM' wl'.! be plarel o Fide cf the Fre't. It ! !'.:! rvcrk on the new de;ft will r i r.-ier.'Td within the r.ct 00 )'r e ready ue part? mi i.Tir; r At. SUEFR.lt; had commenced work, and also re turn to him the $100 cash bond which he put up when awarded the 1 contract, hla resignation to be ef fective uuloss he could be glvj?n con- i tlnuous work. A special committee composed of Councllinen M Lean, , Caldwell and Daniels will Investigate and report. ! Sewer Will be f 'oimtru ted. The petUlon of Herman Wester- i held for the construction of a newer In the alley between DurgeaB and, Brlggs strrets was granted, and tin city attorney was Instructed to pre pare an ordinance providing for tin Improvement, the cost to tie aHHenHci against the benefited propcrtv Onliiianci'M An? PiihM-d. An ordinance providing that wa ter cnmpnnles shall make no hai-c for the Installation of water meter-' was passed. Under tlm n'v ordinance the cost of the metr will have to In; borne by the weter fomprmy An or dinate prohibiting the maintaining of nuisances was passed. This new law Is especially aimed at the man who allows dead animals, old hides or othpr foul sin lllng find unsaiiltarv if The Crank Hanger does It makes the IUicjrcle run one fourth eanler than any other bicycle. Quality mean ECONOMY, Racycle means btli. MILErt M. IM YRE, Agent. 111! FIRST NATIONAL BANK GRANTS PASS, ORE. CAPITAL, - $50,000.00 SIFFIIS AM) LM1V1DED PROFITS, $50,000.00 A "ROLL OF HONOR" BANK. RANKS NINTH IN STATE OF OREGON. Adequate capital and surplus, combined with conservative management, show this hank to he a Ml Drntft-t. A f MM in .TF!r III MI Mi l.'l t l I'll l., Ii ti lin),li 1.1. Mnt, Alvt krlna "tork certificates printed at Th i; k;i i-:. The Oregon State Knj.al Suffrage league met for its state convention ;:i the spaelous parlor of the Hotel I'o Hand. Owing to the Illness of Its ir. sldent. Mrs. Ablgal Scott Inuia w ,y, the -vice president, Mrs. Henry "' ldo re, presided.. Mrs Militant objeeta to lie around the alloys and uf IJend, Ore., gave the report from tack yards. An ordinance repealing Crook county. Their league had Just nie , ty j,nrt( ordinance was passed, been organized. Miss Ship of Trine -rls action was authorized at the vllle repor'oj a strong l'fi ;ue there )aB( fi(,Shon when it was voted to and many men were not only !n s:vm- (vc (he J.adiV Auxiiiarv o . r pathy with but working for tne cause month for the enre of th four par !'... Mrs. Washburn of Kugene paid a hish , The nnyor returned an ordinate tribute 'o Mrs. Ablgal Scott Duna- providing for the handling of pu' llc way, ho d spite her age and Illness, -funds, passed at the last session, is directing the grrat campaign for without his approval He pointed equal suffrage. out several defects In detail in the lir. Chapman, who Is on the editor- ordinance, snd after unanimously lal staff of the Orego:ilan, and who tustalnlng the veto, tin council ln glves such good articles through 'hat irncted the city attorney to draft a 'paper, gave In his address to the con- new one with th defect, eliminate! strong institution. WHEN YOU HAVE $50.00 $100.00 or $1,000.00 Or any other amount for which you do not have immediate use, place it on deposit in our hank, where it will be safe. You will then not need to fear burglars or fire. Nor the man with nails in his shoes who is prowling around. JOSEPHINE COUNTY BANK, Grants Pass Oregon: SOID BY DRUGGISTS tYIRYMERF