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tmt WEEKLY EDITION VOL. XXVIII GRANTS PASS JOSKPH1XK CIIIMV, OKllliOX. FKIHAV, OCTOHI K -J.y SENATOR BOURNE NO. 2H- IN GRANTS PASS shmou miimhfk of r. s. sr.x. atk ii i:i:k wfkmsiiw. INFORMAL RECEPTION HELD Parcels Post, Federal Aid , !oa(, Itiiihling, ami Many t.r ;. Icis OiM'iisMMl. by lust 1 total passed upon by any "bor member of either house of ; ' wi:: IV:.-.. ! 'i mention these committeo po rtions because the state is interest ed in them. There is an unwritten ''ile of the senate, established by bng-continued custom, that no sen '"r appointed to membership on a j committee must begin at the bottom jand he secures advancement when "u.ei senators above him on th committee leave the senate or retire Him ttie committee. The longer a , man is in the senate, the more im- ,l'"i'tant his committees and the high ;; his rank on the committees. "So far as a senator is personally comerned, he would be better off If be had no important committee ap pointments, for In that case his work would be light. Important commit tee places mean hard work, but also mean desirable results. The fact that I have the best committee ap pointments ever held by an Oregon senator is due partly to my own ef forts in seen r Inn desirable assign ments and partly to the retirement of other senators who had places above me on Important committees. If I should be re-elected my commit tee places will be much better than they now are. within another four vears, for there are several senators vim have announced their intention to retire. "Oircninstanrps have favored me as they have favored no other niom- I er of the senate and no new Senator Bourne was fleeted the largest number of citizens ..!!. tl, .. . iMb"i w" me vnirision oi t lie informal reception at the Hotel Josephine that has greeted any candidate who has yet appeared In the city during the campaign. The lobby of the hotel was well filled with business men and others, and nearly three hours were spent in a discussion of measures be fore congress. The situation regard ing the Oregon caves, located in this county, was also explained to the 1 senator, and he pledged himself to i give immediate attention to having 1 certain details arranged whereby the ' great natural wonder could be made I more available and accessible to the j public. To this cud it is desired that concession be grati'ed 7y the ' government for the onsiruitiou hotels and roads, capital being i.ady to develop the caves as soon as this ! is done. The caves have been set ' aside as a national monument, and j authority is required from the gov- i eminent before buildings can be erected witnin the noundarn s. Senator Bourne also stated that he had been over the situation as re- j gards the local postofhYo, and 'SENT TO TRAINING SCHOOL. the business transacted lu re would ; warrant the building by the govern- i ment of a postoffice building, and h- ENGINEERS' REPORT IS FAVORABLE TO GRAVE jflEEKWATER PROJECT Estimated Cost, Covering Installation of Plant for Municipal Water Supply, Irriga tion and Power, $500,000 it hat the Orave creek water pro position Is a feasible one Is the re port made by Knslntrs llobson and Hall, who recently made a pretty thorough investigation of the sources of the water supply, and the. engi neering features Involved In bringing the water to Grants Pass. The engineers have made formal report to the city council, under whose authority the work was done, covering; all phases of the proposed work. While there are many of the details that could not of course be definitely reported upon, enough was done to establish the practicability of the plan. The engineers decided that a point on Grave creek. In section ti of township la Jackson county, of fered the most available site for damming the creek, and that the drainage area lies within that portion head of Jump Off of the Rogue mountains along the divide between that stream and the ,nan i headwaters nf t rilm r :i ..t ii,., ouiu none to get ttie places 1 have within a period of ten or n dozr-i ca I'S. "A- I view it. the question is '!" I." w b.'ther the people of ire--"t: wish to throw away the advant age they have by reason of my ex perience, acnnaintanc( and commit tee position. Xo man in his private business would do so, and 1 do not think they will in their public busi- i ties-". South I'mpqua. The elevation of the water shed Is from 2,5iin to ,'1.111111 feet above the sea level, where the precipitation is the maximum uv the 1 oast district. The plan advained Includes the construction of the dam, the build ing of ditch and pipe lines, of Irriga tion canals, and subsequently of the development of electricity for light and power. Constru tion would Involve the building of a dam to a maximum Height of 17 l.ol 2 feet in than will be shown by actual guag Ings, would mean a supply from the natural drainage alone of thirty thousand acre feet, with the possi bility of Increasing to twice this amount. This whole area or water shed no doubt, would be set aside by an act of congress for the protection of a municipal water supply, and pos sibly as n national park reserve. This volume of water How lug con tinuously from the first of April to the first of October, the extremes of the Irrigating season, would be an average flow of 112 second fee for the six months, which being reduce 1 to theoretical horse power available for power purposes before being turned Into the Irrigation canals, would l'e an average of 10.1S2. Hy the conrtructlon of an auxil iary canal leading from near the Joe creek, as shown by the contour map, and brought to the head of the delivery pipe on Horse creek divide, It would be made possible to maintain this amount of power the enr round should the demand tit any future time require all of the storage avail able on Crave creek for other pur poses. Summary. From the plan as outlined It Is shown that there may be developed a supply of pure mountain water suf ficient for municipal purposes, water for Irrigating 30 to 40 thousand .teres of land and to supply a hydro- feet, whic h would bo 1 electric power plant of ten thousand ength on the top, and 1 horse power capacity. oyd Overstreet. the lifteeti- 'ear- placed three years as the limit byjoM buy who was arrested for break-j which time it would surely be roll- jing into a box car on the Southern : structed. j I'ucilb track in this city and stealing 1 Other matters that were disd;ss ! 1 a ie.'ket of tsunly. eleven quarts of were the panels post law ami t!ie jwisis ;. ami two pairs of shoes j question of federal aid for roadjtliat ha would have a storage capacity of forty thousand acre feet of water. The report sas that it appears that all the material for tin earth fill dam. approximately of 500.00. cubic l ist limited ( is). Purchase of Him acres of land In reservoir $ 1 . 1 1 0 0 .'iIiii.imiiI cubic ards earth llil in dam 1 O0.0O1) bunding-. "Team work is necessary for tic be.-t accomplishment of results in Washington," said Senator Jonatiian Bourne Jr., in an interview at the Hotel Josephine hist ev. nils-. "There were same 4o,io'ni Mils introduc ed in the last congress, touching .von ev ery phase of national le;P!a::"n. Be sides that, there werj iiiinn.erab matters of heal interest fur tli" members of the Oregon delegation to look after. Xo one man can at tend to all the subjects that come up. An effort to do so would result in duplication and waste of effort. "In order to avoid simh il'iplba tiun. Senator Chamberlain and my have an undemanding that h" will take the lead in looking- af ter matters that properly come be fore his committees and 1 will look after matters that come before mine We always co-operate, however, re gardless of which committee lms matter in charge. "As everybody knows, congress is done almost entire:)' through committees and committee appointments are of utmost import ance not only to the member him self but to the state he represents. "Between us, Chamberlain and I have places on practically men iiant sellte. e s lu)"l. been 1 unsigned to local , was given an indefinite to tin1 st.-ue industrial ca lied the The reform Jewell. 1 to b.e Judge yards of earth, can be secured wP h- ; Outlet tunnel ami gates. .. in a distance of I'.ouo feet of the up- ' Permanent spillway ; st ream side of the dam. and that It I Clearing t'.Oi) acres in reser- Uan be put in pla e by 1110, ins of voir : races and flumes at a nominal cost. ' 1! miles of canal from res j In dealing with the physical fca- j ervoir to power plant ... 'tines of the work, and of the prob- , 1" miles of pipe line able cost and the revenues th.it . jcouhl be derived, the report has the I following; ! Transmission of Water. 1 S.lliH) 1 ;,oon ro noi) 4 V'OO N.'p .0 0 11 Total In addition to thb t here Is to be taken . . $32vnno Initial cos. Into cou-ddera- 1; iacri luvel.iV Judge w as talvi 11 to Sab ;. in the insti'utiou I .lew ell Wednesday evening. Overstreet had at first claimed that other parties were interes'ed in the burglary with him. but later he s.iiii that he had taken the goods nn-:is-i.-'l and of his own volition, lie rved a previous term in the ... e 1 t T 1. L n A ... M . . . t 1 1 . . - I , ,.1 Keen In ln'r 01 ,iiuui wn joe oieei. nni'n a .11 ic.im .1'; nines 111 noun ennuis ior repeatedly. nas nalniiss ! Leading from the dam there ni.iyjtlon the building and repairing of j be exiavated along the south side of j wagon roads, engineering am! nt 1 Grave creek a canal of any desired ' toruey fees, risks and Incidentals ! capacity, and extending to the divide I which would bring the total up to 'at the head of Horse creek, a tribii- ( $HC.".000, with yet to be constructed i r (,(VI llNoll lT IT.ot I, AIMS. work in SAI.K.M. Or.. Oct. 4. - Governor V..sr :"!. iv issued a proclamation of vrnu a reward of $ln for informa tion lending ) the arrest and con vietioi; of any owner, 'esse, lessees. ,. !e-.."r in the state of any build ing niid'ic'ed as a disreputable !.,..,. This startling edict, al though expected for some time, is ex ,,H(t.d to send hundreds of person again.t whom it f,,r cover. Icanal would be through a dense ; Irrigation, and the Installation of the Igrowth of timber affording excellent j power plant nn, transmission line. protection against evaporation the The power plant of course w ould be entire distance. At this divide the ; installed by the unit system so as to elevation is sou feet above, and t" j avoid the Investment of capital ex niiles distant from the point of thejcept as the market for power should proposed location of a power plant demand. Suppose the first unit to directed seurry- JOHYW FA FKS MAN AG III! oF Till: CHICAGO 1 Its. men, Johnny Kvers. 1 10 )" mau- . f .t.e . lib ago 'ins ii'-! ,"'io to reliable information All is arranged except swing of the contract, and te- to his home in will have age aci ording her- to'lay a11 t!,,! CHICAGO. O.t. 2 4 -Although committees in which Oregon is par- j ,)Ivsi,Mllt Charles V. Murphy will ticularlv interested. He Is a n;ein-;n . e ()Ut with a positive state ljer of the committee? on v'w lands, Indian affairs, military af fairs and on Irrigation. My Prin r'pal committees are appropriations, postnfflces and post roads, com merce, public buildings and grounds. j..vm returns 'The commerce committee passes, Tro;. N Y thi4 detail upon the river and harbor 1U1 !.n attended to In which Oregon Is most tut'1-1 wh(.n t;(1 ,,f Kv-rs" ested. The postoffiVe committee, m hl h I am chairman, r""' "I)0'1 lhe largest of the appropriation bll. the amount being more than a Quarter of a billion dollars per year. Taking all committees into consid eration, the total appropriations Vtr& upon by nie ex eeds by I'"-" appointment, Frank 'h.n e fabl. 1 F.vers is going to have . . . 1 . 1 .. f . ,r I t mi v ' a f. ith it- ' " I1-'-1 ' " v will give n: tne nppor- tucpy. He must sena n tract before March 1 to hold m- 1 am g.a'J the J"b. ! If Murph near the junction of Jacks creek and Jump Off Joe. From this point liti gation canals may bo constructed along the 1,"00 foot contour in eith er direction so as to cover the en tire area of Irrigable land In the Jump Off Joe, Louse creek and the nogue river vallies, approximating 30,000 acres. Also from the location of the power plant water for municipal supply my be conducted by a suit able pipe line about fifteen miles In length and with a fall of 400 feet to the level of the present city reser voir. Transmission of Power. The transmission line for power to the city would not exceed 17 miles In length, and It la probable that the present line extending to the Greenback mine might be taken over at a nominal cost.' This line Is In good condition and is well located for the purpose. Water Supply. First. The natural dralnaze area tributary without development, is approximately 15,000 acres, which may be doubled by the construction of drainage canals. Second. Afg'imlng the annual run-off to be only 2 4 lnrhe. which It Is believed Is considerably less be of one thousand horse power ef ficiency, and that 17 mlleg of trans mission line would reach the present market for power, and that there h-n constructed 30 miles of main Irriga tion canals, there would be added $1 42,000 to the Investment, bringing the grand total up to $:07,000. This amount Is assumed to complete th? entire project which would furnish a municipal water system for 23. 000 people, deliver nearly 10.000 horse power of electric energy, and supply water for Irrigation upon thirty thousand acres of productive oil. I'okhIIiIo Itevcnui-w. Supposing that only twenty thousand acreB of land, which Is less than GO per cent of what would actu ally be available under the plan, should contract for perpetual water supply, at aa low a cost as $40 per acre, the revpnue at the end of say ten ypars would be $SOO,000, or $SO,000 per year. The Inhabitants of the city and surrounding communities woull consume electric energy amounting to a revenue, of $1,500 jier month, or $18,000 per year. The annual consumption of water within the city, aside from the (Continued on Pa K ght ltlH ami GUAM'S I'Ann ijv. IXCOUltUJA HID. Incorporation papers for the Handon and Oregon Hasten) railway were filed at Salem Wednesday, the Premier Con struction Co. being the Incorpor ators. The corporation Is capitalized at $100,000, It gives as Its ol- Ject tho operation of railroads and steamship lines. The railroads are to have ter- initial at Handon and Coos Hay und at Grants Pass and Tort Orford. These lines are to op- erate- through Jackson, Jose- phlne, Coos and Curry counties with the principal place of bus- Iness at Marshfleld. The ter- minus of the steamboat lines will be at Handon. The Incnr- porntors are T. A. Thatcher, George V. Wenner, William H. Acton uud D. It. Morgan, of California, and Henjamln II. Ohler, of Oregon. PUGILIST JOHNSON MAY GO TO PRISON CHICAGO, Oct. Testimony which Is believed eel tain to send Jack Johnson, heavyweight cham pion or the world, mi the penlteiii buy for a long term, was gieu to the federal grand jury beie today by Charles Johnson, the fighter's broth er. Much of '.bis testimony was cor roborated by a mulatto girl, Charles Johnson's sweetheart. The cvldoino adduced Irnin t llarles Johnson is said to be suffi cient lo send not only the negro pug ilist, but a score of other blacks to jail on numerous white slave charges. Jack Johnson's brother is report ed to have told the grand jury that the pugilist took white girls with him on bis private car w bile making theatrical trips, ami surrounded himself with girls In bis training camps before lights. lie furnished natiies and addresses. Government official are said to have discovered a series of love stor ies here which weave romances of Improper relations of while women with negroes. "Love knows no race" Is a sampb of one of the titles and ".My affair with a golden brown man" Is anoth er. It Is asserted by officials of the government that these letters were written ami distributed for the pur pose of Interesting white girls In ne groes, the blaks p!a. Iim such liter al 11 re before the girls they wished to Interest. It Is declared t,;lt ,n,,.Ht of their victims were girls of foreign parentage who do not draw the color line as (losely as Americans. On emerging from the grand Jury room, Charles Johnson admitted that Jack had been expecting trouble, and two day before he was arrested, deeded to bis mother $2on,oou worth of property. Charles Johnson dei hired that bis brother recently appeared to be anxious to remain on friendly terms with him. Herbert Dean, Johnson's white cnaufTeur, was next railed and de scribed the automobile trips with white kIHh accompanying the negro. Attorney Hrbsteln. representing Lucille Cameron's mother, and gov ernment officials have received sev eral threatening letters. It Is said. The postoftlce department Is Investi gating this report. Johnson recently had his brother diaries arrested for embezzlement. SAN' KKANCISCO, Oct. 23 The fighting days of Jack Johnson, the colored heavyweight champion boxer of the world, probably are over. Dis gusted by the flaunting boast of the negro that "All white women seem to 'fall' for him, and that he could win any of them," Johnson Is barred today by leading fight promoter from appearing In any of th fight centers of the world, with the pos sible exception of Paris. IIEGISTUN IN COUNTY 2481 MOKi: VOTHI5S yi AI.IFV TIl.W FA IK lllll OKI: IX COfXTV. 1015 ARE IN GRANTS PASS Of Total uiuln-i' 1107 Are lUionletl an UfublU'Miis; 350 as Item (M i nts und '2;H Sot liiliMs. The total number of Josephine county voters who have qualified aa electors for the genera! election to be held November utli Is 2,481, of which number 1,015 come from the four (irutits Puss city wards. Or the. total registration. 1,407 appear on the books as republicans; ."."U as democrats; 23S as socialists; 2 1 as progressives; 1!) as prohibi tionists; 103 as Independent, and HO who registered as mm partisan, suffragette, populist, etc. Tho pro gressive vote was not generally reg istered under that appellation, but will bo found largely in tho repub lican column, so that the registration really tells but little from this point of View, The registration by precinct with in Ihe county Is us follows: Orants Pass, ward 1, 2S0, Orants Pass, ward 2, 293. Orants Pass, ward l! 1S L Orants Pans, ward 4, 238, Cratilto Hill, til',. IMmlck, 71. Flilltdale, (11, Murphy, 130. Williams. 131. Slate Creek, 101. Selma, S4, Kerby, 142. Allbouse, 1 3 Ti . Waldo, SS. Merlin, S. (iallce, 131. Lucky Queen, (IS. Leland, 72. Wolf Creek, (II. Placer, 35. SALKM, Or., Oct. 2 I. - Nine coun ties in the statu have made their final registration returns for the Novem ber election to the secretary of Btate. They are: Columbia, total registration, 2, 2l!t; Sherman, 778; Oriint, 1,645; Lincoln, I.I12S; Klamath, 2,041; Morrow, Hsu; Kenton 2,415; Oll llaui, 74s; Final Ilia, 4,tJ23. Iteglstrulion was heavy through out the stale, running somewhat over 15 per cent of tho number registering before the primaries. m i. i' cat 1 1.1 : st Aitt 1;. POHTLAM), Oct. 24. --For tho Hist time in the history of tho north west a scarcity of cuttle prevails In the interior of Oregon and Washing ton, and the packers there, are com pelled to .replenish their supplies from the Portland markets. The Walla Walla Meat und Cold Storage company pun based two car loads hero today, tho first time In the history of the local market that such a transaction has occurred. Portland draws on Montana for the supply, Wol'Mi K.XTIIAIUTK CAMPA. HOCOLAS, Arl.., Oct. 24 Mexican government In tho state of Sonora is making a determined effort today to securo the extradition of Oeneral F.mlllo Catnpa former reb el chief, who Is held In the county Jail at Tucson. A number of Mexicans have been at Magdalena during the past few days, giving testimony against Cam pa and the Sonora authorities are preparing to lay a strong case for criminal action before- the I'nlted States government. -The W. B. Myers Is registered at Ho tel Portland from Orants Pass. I C. N. Hrantner arrived recently jfrom Asotin, Wash., to locate in the 'city. His family will arrive later.