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1 miter WEEKLY EDITION vol. xxxm GRANTS PASS JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY -1. 1913 NO. 43 ESTABLISH CAMP NO. 2 ON NEW HI CONTRACTORS COMM ENCE CLEARING RIGHT-OF-WAY. TO THE APPLEGATE RIVER Bid of UO H Mado (by Ohio Finn, is Rest OfftT Vet Received for Bond Issue. Camp No. 2 on the Grants Pass Crescent City railway will be in op eration Wednesday, camp now being established at station 380 on the right-of-way. This tamp will be the headquarters for the outfit that will clear the right-of-way from station 279 to the Applegate river, the con tract for which work was awarded to C. C. Hamniersley. The first camp, No. 1, will remain where it is on Allen creek till the grading is under way, when a grad ing camp will be installed there. 'Mr. Hamniersley will undertake the clearing of the three miles for which he has contracted with teams, the donkey engine having discon tinued work for the present. There are no new developments in the bond selling situation, the best bid yet received being that of the Ohio house that offered 96 1-2 cents on the dollar. Based on a five per cent bond, this bid is considered good by many, though it is expected that a much better one will be made be fore the end of the week. The ac ceptance of this bid would he the equivalent of paying a little less than 5 1-4 per cent interest on the Issue for the twenty-year period, and in the closeness of the financial mar ket this is considered a reasonable rate of interest. Dr. Iteddy arrived In Chicago Sun day, and will reach Philadelphia during the course of the present week. In the latter city he will meet Mr. Hotchkiss, and developments in the financing of the road to the sea are anticipated In a short time. SAYS THAT BOOZE IS INFLUENCE AT CAPITOL SALEM. Feb. 1 9.Menibers of the senate are today smarting under the sting of a verbal castigatlon admin istered by Senator Joseph who had been criticized for his alleged efforts to clog the business of the senate. Joseph declared on the floor of the senate that liquor, and not him self, is what is responsible for the slow progress being made. "Why, it is known, hi the hall of the capitol, all over the city, and all over Portland what a farce this leg islature Is. Now, there Is a report that liquor is in evidence through out the capitol and that it is In the committee rooms where the mem bers have access to It. I have also heard that some of the senators have used it and have been more or less Influenced in their work. This is why the legislature is held up." HOME TALENT IX A GRAND IIOTCI1 POTCII. There Is to be something novel and original for our pleasure lovers at the opera house Friday, February 28. Under the auspices of the Re bekah lodge and direction of Prof. Merrill of San Francisco. Prof. Merrill comes well recommended from many different cities and towns in this state. He is an instructor of great merit, having made a name for himself in several states In the Onion. There will be CO home peo ple In the cast, and judging from the rehearsr.ls the show will eq;:al th? work of any show that has rri'l, Grants Pass in n.anv a month. Watch for farther announcement. Charles Rummage went to Port, land Thursday with his two HtMe daughters, who will regain and in tend school In the ciy. FELIX DIAZ IS NOW THE HERO IN MEXICO MEXICO CITY, Feb. 20. General Felix Diaz is certain to be the next president of Mexico. He is extremely popular with the people who welcome a return of the methods which Por flrlo Diaz exercised bo successfully over the republic for more than a score of years. The campaign to make General Diaz president will start soon and he probably will be elected without op position. The Diaz following is de manding the execution of Francisco I. Madero and his fate is uncertain. The capital was quiet today with business rapidly resuming its normal condition. DOUGLAS, Ariz., Feb. 10. Pre dicting that another revolution will sweep the Mexican states of Sonora and Chihuahua within thirty days, Madero adherents at Auga Prieta. Sonora, declared today that tele grams have been sent to Governor Maytorena of Sonora from Nacozarl, Cananea, and other border places of fering to raise as largo a volunteer force as the governor can equip to take the field for .Madero. Three thousand men, they assert, are avail able. News of the execution of Gustavo Madero stirred Agua Prieta today. It is asserted that any summary action In the cape of Francisco Madero will result In Immediate action there. MEXICO CITY, Feb. 19. The Mexican senate this afternoon for mally acceptdd the resignation of Francisco I. Madero as president of Mexico. It then considered the se lection of a provisional president. It was not know whether General Felix Diaz, who inaugurated the success ful revolt against Madero, or Gen eral Victorian Huerta, the federal commander, would be nominated by the senate. There was some discus sion among the members regarding the advisability of inviting Huerta to address the senate. It Is generally understood that whether Huerta or Diaz Is finally se lected as the head of the government, Francisco De LaBarra, a former pro visional president, will be the next foreign minister. Colonel Augustine Ilretlne was named chief of police of Mexico City today and ho immediately started the work of cleaning the city of looters. It developed this afternoon that Rodolfo Reyes, who was reported to have committed suicide when his father, General Bernardo Reyes, was shot and killed on the first day of the battle In Mexico City, 8 still alive. He was wounded during a battle and since has been a patient in one of the Red Cross hospitals. Reyes is likely to be minister of justice in the new cabinet. EL PASO. Tex., Feb. 19. Private dispatches received here today say that Gustavo Madero, brother of the deposed president, has been execut ed in Mexico City by order of Gen eral Diaz. The report is uncon firmed. Gustavo Madero was declared to be the most hated man in Mexico and was accused of having induced his brother to repudiate pledges to dis tribute large tracts of land in Mexico. It is charged that he depleted the national treasury, while the wealth of the Madero family greatly In creased. Later dispatches say that Gustavo Madero was executed near the arsen al and under the "fugitive law." This gives a prisoner freedom to walk about within certain prescribed lim its. While he is taking advantage of the privilege to exercise the pris oner Is shot by a guard, the latter usually reporting that the victim tried to escape. It was also reported here that Fran'lsco Madero was imprisoned In the arsenal of Mexico City today. A message confirming the execu tion in Me!"o City of Gustavo Ma dero. brothtr of the deposed presi (It, win roe,,'t,1 Wre today by S;iperborn Hokin?. leal sdvh"r to FrPrrlsco Vsd'ro d tvz Ms rem I -tlnn acainct Forftrlo Diaz. J. M. Kemp left Thursday for Lo Angeles to spend several months. SAWMILL WILL FOLLOW HAILROAO TO BK HUN IN CONJUNCTION WITH BOX FACTORY, TO EMPLOY 40 TO 50 MEN Have Applied to Public Utilities ConmiUsli.il for Site on (i. p.. C. C. ROAD. Some of the best known sawmill men of the Rogue valley are plan ning the establishment of a mill in this city as soon as the Grants Pass Crescent City railroad is well under process of construction, the mill to be erected and run In conjunction with the Grants Pass box factory property alongside of the right-of-way of the new road. At the last meeting of the Public Utilities commission a request was mado for a twenty-year leaso on a tract three hundred feet square fronting on the P.-I. track or switch, connecting with the box. factory. The parties behind the move in clude Messrs. Edgerton & Adams, who have a mill down the Rogue below Merlin; Wm. Spauldjng of the Swede Basin mill; W. R. Nipper, and others, all mill men of exper ience. The mill which they propose put ting in here is to be of from thirty to fifty thousand feet dally capacity, and will employ from forty to fifty men. In addition It is expected that the box factory will be taken over 'and operated, this giving employ ment to many more people. The commission was asked to make a rate for the hauling of logs to the mill, the rate to be based on the mileage of haul. Switches at points where 500,000 or more feet of logs are available for loading are also asked. The application stated that the company was now In process of formation, and that the names of the stockholders would soon be ready for the public. The commission has filed the appli cation, and will take action upon it at a later date. POLICE INSPECTOR MAY TURN' STATE'S EVIDENCE. NEW YORK, Feb. 20. Offers to turn state's evidence against Tam many politicians Jiave been made by Police Inspector Dennis Sweeney, ac cording to reports here today. Swee ney is under indictment on a charge of levying tribute on vice resorts. District Attorney Whitman thinks that large sums of graft money were distributed among Tammanyltes. WASHINGTON, Feb. 18. When bids for the construction of the new dreadnaught Pennsylvania were opened at the navy department hero today it was found that the Newport News Ship Building company's bid of $7,235,000 was the lowest of all other proposals. "RAHIIA ROUS MEN- ICO" AUTHOR WAS TAKEN' FOR A SPY. MEXICO CITY, Feb. 20. John Kenneth Turner, author of Barbarous Mexico," Imprls- oned for two days at the Citadel here under orders of General Felix Diaz, today persuaded his guards to liberate him. He Im- mediately fled to the American embassy where he begged for protection. Terror-strl'kcn, Turner said he early planned to leave the o.iiitry. He de'lnred he had !'r threatened with death fcv- rnl ti-: s a spy. ' !: ;: ' I ' CHICAGO-ROGUE RIVER CO. MAKES AN OFFER Local creditors of the Chicago Rogue River company, representing about $10,000, met Wednesday night at the office of Attorney Norton to consider a proposition made by Geo. Sanders for a settlement of the ac counts, I if order that the litigation may be ended and matters cleared for the operatiou of the new company which proposes to take over the hold ings of the Chicago-Rogue River com pany, the Golden Drift company, the Gold Hill company, aud other inter ests. The proposition of Sanders was that the local creditors of the com pany sign an agreement to accept 20 per cent of thoir account in cash, and 6 per cent bonds of the new company for the balance of the account, the cash to be paid by April 1 or as Boon as alt accounts are In escrow. The sentiment expressed was to the ef fect that there was no desire to put anything In the way of the company's operations, and after considerable discussion the matter was left in the hands of Attorney Norton, represent ing the Grants Pass creditors, to deal with the company. Mr. Norton ad vised those present that a number of the larger outside creditors had agreed to settle on the basis offered. liOSES SEVENTY PLUNKS OVER THE JAG ROUTE Short seventy big round cart wheels and plus the recollection of a full grown jag, with a night in the city bastile, was what a personal In ventory disclosed to Charles Howard when he "came out of It" Wednesday morning. Howard had come to this city from the Gallce district where he had been engaged In mining, and In a round of the saloons the $70 he brought with him melted away like dew before the morning sun. He told the court he knew where part of It went, but he believed that he had been "rolled" and "frisked" for the bulk of the coin. Police Judge Creager pro nounced judgment in the sum of $5, and Howard will liquidate when he can raise the dust. Meantime the police department Is on the trail of parties suspected of having done the "rolling" act. ERSKIXE NEW BRITISH CONSUL AT PORTLAND. PORTLAND, Feb. 20. Thomas E. Ersklne, Drltlsh consul at St. Louis, has today been appointed head of the British consulate at Portland to fill the vacancy created by the death of James Laldlaw, January 5. Ersklne Is 53 years old. SUPREME COURT AFFIRMS CONVICTION OF SEE SPRINGFIELD, III., Feb. 20. Af firmation of the conviction of Evelyn Arthur Seo of Chicago, on tho charge of abducting Mildred Bridges, a young Chicago girl, was mado here today by the BUpreme court. Sec headed a freakish organization known as the "Absolute Life" cult. CON V UTS ESCAPE FROM SALEM. SALEM, Feb. 20. Prison guards are today searching for Junlon Thompson, and Jack Clark, two long term convicts who escaped from the state penitentiary by prying open the lock on one of the outside doors while out of sight of the guards. Thompson was committed from Clat sop county and Clark from Union county. MARINES SAIL FOR CUBA. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 20 Carrying 1,400 marines, a thousand rounds of ammunition for -a'ii mMi and three months' provisions, the federal transport Meade left League Island for Guantanamo, Cuba, to day. ROMEO COLLAPSED. jnnunepment has been made here to- SALT LAKE, Feb. 20. After col-; day that President-elect and Mrs. lapsing upon facing the firing squad i Wilt-on will retain the tnr.Jorlty of Frank Romeo, murderer, was strap-ithe present employes of the white ped to a chair and shot to death In! bouse proper and the executive of the state prison here today. fles. POULTRM FIND GOOD MARKETS GET PREMIUM FOR GUARANTEED STOCK. MARK ALL EGGS SHIPPED AsNK-iatiou Will Replace All Ship ments That Do Not Come Up to Quality. The Grants Pass Poultry associa tion is making progress in Its effort to find and maintain permanent mar kets for the poultry products of this district. J. D. Hair recently visited the cities to the north, und his re port on his return Is that there is outlet In that direction for all the eggs and poultry that will be pro duced here for years to come, and that the consumers are willing to pay a fair margin over the going price for guaranteed eggs such as the association proposes to supply. At a mooting of the committees from the association Thursday night action was taken to hold the market that Mr. Hair had looked up in Portland. A largo number of uni form crates for shipment to the northern market has been ordered, and these will be labeled with a dis tinctive label, the design to be se lected by a committee composed of Messrs. Upson, Harris and Parsons. Each crate will also bear the legend, "Grants Pass Poultry Association. Strictly fresh, selected eggs." Each egg will have the name of tho town and a number placed upon It with a rubber stamp, the number to corres pond with the number of the mem ber of the association from ' whose yard the egg cam!. If there Is any complaint regarding an egg it can bo traced, through this number, to the producer, and It will bo made good under the association guarantee. Messrs. Hair, Stlnebaugh, Williams and Harris are continued as a com mittee to keep in touch with the markets and see that there Is always a place to put all tho oggs of tho dis trict. E. S. Veatch is to frame ruled and regulations for the gathorlng and packing of eggs, and all eggs aro to bo candled by an agent of the association beforo they leave tho city. Under theso restrictions a mar gin of several rents a dozen over the market prlco Is being obtained In tho Portland market. An attempt will also be mado to get a reduction of tho express rate on eggs Bent to the Portland market. At present It costs S3 cents per case of thirty dozen to ship to Portland, with a ten cent return charge on the empty case. Fill EDM A NX IS COMING TO THE UNITED STATES. SOUTHAMPTON, Eng., Feb. 19. iJr. Frederick Franz Fiicdmann, dis coverer of tho turtle serum which is declared to be a specific for tubercu losis, arrived here today on board the Kron PrlticesHln Cecelle, on his way to the United States. "J expect to treat several hundred children in New York for tubercu losis of the bone," said Frledmann. "I sliiiH also Investigate the offer of Mr. Flnlay to pay $1,000,000 for a cure for tuberculosis which will aid 9.1 per cent of Its victims. "While I am In America I hope to Bud a proper method of Inditing my j treatment and arrange for the proper I Instruction of physicians in order to 'guarantee the safe handling of iiiy ! serum." J W HITE HOUSE EMPLOYES REMAIN. I WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. An- BID OF 96 i IS MADE FOR RAILROAD BONDS The rejection of the propositions for the bond Bale last Saturday and the throwing of the Issue of $200,000 upon the open market Is already bear ing results, and today a bid of a half cent better than that submitted by Mr. -Bell Saturday night has been re ceived by the city from one of tho leading firms of the east. With the rejection of the Bell pro position Saturday night, the various houses were notified that the city would make Bale of the bonds at pri vate Bale, and they were Invited to either enter negotiations by wire or to send their representatives here personally. The first reply came from the eastern house, and read as fol lows: "For straight twenty-year bonds, principal and interest payable In New York, delayed deliveries as money needed, earlier our option. willing to pay ninety-six and half for city railroad bonds." This telegram was signed by one of the leading firms of bond buyers in Ohio, being the same house that has purchased nearly nil the street Improvement bonds Issued by this city, and shows that even in the face of the closeness of the money market the Issue will be bid upon during the next ten days, the period of time the council has given for negotiations. The proposal of the Portland peo ple for tho acceptance of bonds at par for rails and equipment for the railroad is before the commission tor consideration, and the equipment of fered will bo thoroughly Investi gated before action Ib taken. A bid of accrued interest and 96 per cent of the face value was made for the $200,000 bond Issue by Sey mour Bell, of Portland, Saturday night when bids were, culled for by the city council, the bid being sup ported by a certified check of $2,500 as evidence of good faith. Mr. Bell offered to take $100,000 or all of the bonds nt that figure, delivery to be made at tho rato of $50,000 every thirty days. Propositions were also made by A. J. McCabe of Portland, who offered rails and equipment, payment to be made with tho bonds at par. Telegrams were read from three different bond buying houses stating that they were not prepared at this time to bid par for the bonds, but expressing n desire to consult with the council concerning tho sale, and to Biibmlt propositions. One firm stated that it would ho In n position to offer a better bid following the passage through tho legislature of the public utilities bill Introduced by Mr. Blanchard, and which measure has already passed tho house. In order to glvo all tho buyers an opportunity to come In If bids of par or below aro to bo considered, tho council voted to reject tho Bell bid and to refor tho equipment proposals to the commission, and to enter Into direct negotiations with tho bond buyers to tho end thnt the best pos sible figure bo obtained, ten days time being given for that purpose. Tho council approved tho nctlon of tho commission In accepting the bid of C. C. Harnmersley for clearing three miles of tho railroad right-of-way nt the rate of $41 per acre, and authorized tho closing of the con tract. NAVAL MIHUIIA UNCHANGED. SALEM, Feb. 18 The senate ha today defeated a house bill Intro duced by Representative Dlmmlck abollshlne thu Oregon Naval militia. The militia will remain the same as formerly. PLAN NON'-PARTISAV COUNTY ELECTIONS. OLYMPIA, Wash., Feb. 2n Friends of the plan to make county elections non-partisan feel optimistic today, as the result of the skirmish In tho senate yesterday, when nn at tempt to postpone tho bill Indefinitely failed. Opponents of non-partisanship, however, succeeded In killing off the plan to make state offices, as well as county offlrcs, subject to non-partisan elections.