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FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1913. PAGE TWO WEEKLY KOGCK KXVKR COURIER PERSONAL AND LOCAL. Harold Caldwell went to Hilt, Cal.. Monday. H. S. Wooley left Sunday night for San Francisco. Mini Frona Sauer of Medford ipent Sunday here with her parent. Mrs. Geo. Franks, who has been rlsltlnf Mri. W. M. Hsory, returned to Medford Sunday. Bert Furrier and Jim McClalr left Sunday night for Bandon to work in the logging camps. I. I. ticoneld, dentist ut herby, re turned Sunday night from a visit i Eugene and after a few days' stay I town wit "turn to Kerby. Mrs. Inez McGhaney littl child returned to their home a Eureka Monday after spending si weeks with Mrs. McGhaney's parent Mr. and Mrs. Lera Trask C. II. Eddy arrived Saturday from Cleveland, Ohio., and will spend some time In Grants Pass and Le land. Mr. Eddy was In this county Inst fall and became considerably tn terested. ' Mr, and Mrs. Bert Phillips return ed to Hilt, Cal., Sunday after visiting Mrs. Phillips' parents, Mr. and Mrs Mark Armstrong. Miss Mary Coe returned to Grants Pan last week after spending three months with her slitter, Mrs. Dr. De Puy, at Frultdale, Cal. Dr. Ileddy la now In Los Angles and San Francisco, and will return to Grants Pass before the end of the present week. Judge John L. Chllds arrived In the city Sunday from Crescent City, and left Monday for Portland. He will roturn from the northern city Thursday. "FOFESSJONAL CAUDA M. C. FINDLEY, M. D. Praotlct limited to TE, BAR, N08I and " IIROAT Olauea fitted and furnished. OMee boura t to It; I to I; ui by appointment. Phones 62 and III ORANTfl PASS, ORIOON. V. L. DIMMI0X.D. M.D. DENTIST Corner Ith and 0 streets Phone 103-J. Orewa, Bridge Work and fllllags of AU Kinds, a Specialty. OJflce boars, to II ra.; 1 to I p. m. All Work Positively Guaranteed GRANTS PASS, OREGON. E. 0. MAOY, D. M. 5. DENTI8T looceeeor to Dlion Bros., DeatlaU First-class Work. 101 H South Sixth, OranU Pass, Orv H. D. NORTON ATTORNET-AT-LAW Practice la all State and Federal Courts. Office, Opera House Block. V .11. dements V. A. Clements CLEMEN rS & CLEMENTS Attorneys and Counselors at Law, Practice In all State and all State Courts. Federal Offices Svhnll!u.rn Dulldlug. J. D. WURTSBAUQH Attorney and Counselor at Law Notary Public In office, Offtce In Howard Block. Phone otW Q RANTS PASS, OREGON. D. L. JOHNSTON ASSAYCR North Stairway, GRANTS PA83. ORCOON. Rooms 6 and 7, Opera House Block. M. C. II. DAY CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. Residences a Specialty. Dsns and estimates furnished. Residence, East A a. rtone lll-J GRANTS rASS. OREGON. G. H. B1NNS EstatllsheJ 1 rears 607 E st;eet, i posits folonU1 hotel. Grants Taw Ore Mrs. M. C, Klett left on Tuesday for 8eattle. Mrs. F. O. Wilcox left Tuesday to Join her husband In Portland, where they will reside. Mrs. Maud Miller arrived from Eugene Tuesday, w here she has spent the past six or eight months nursing. Tom L. Wallace, of Paradise Bar, on the lower Rogue, Is In the city on buiilneHS, Mr. and Mrs. Charles lioyce wen to Portland Monday night to spend t ho Easter season. Ktrley Johnson, of Portland, ar rivd Monday night to visit bis grand father, J. E. Kerley. V. A. Bishel, proprietor of the Gold Beach hotel at Gold Beach, Is spend Ing a few days in the city. He ex ports to drive an automobile home, Miss I.Ida Fy field went to Glendale Monday to spend a few days with his sister, Mrs. Clark. L. Sumpey left Tuesday morning for a trip to Topeka, Kansas. C. It. Myers, of Union, Wash., is the guest of his old friend, Rev. J. L, Green. Mr. Myers Is looking for t location. J. J. Gillespie, of Eugene, la ex pected to asHlst Itev. J. L. Green In the Church of God evangelistic meet ings held at their church at Third and J streets. James Lindsay arrived Monday night from Klamath Falls to spend a tew days with his mother, Mrs. David Lindsay, who Is seriously 111. V. U. Sherman hat returned from business trip down the Rogue rlv er, having gone afoot and on horse- bnc't as far ns Aprnexs. where he went to see some mining property. Mrs. It. W. Young returned to her home at Weed Monday after visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. n. F. Ha ii kg, Mr. Young Is now foreman of the box department of the Weed umber Company. Howell Builds (inriiui Ktanton Howell is building a gar- go ut bis residence on K street to accommodate his new Studebake ar, which will arrive here the last f this week. MlnneNoUn Buys lUmli Clyde C. Brown, a recent arrival from Minnesota, has purchased the C. Jones ranch on Williams creek, the purchase price being In the elghborhood of 14,000. oiik Trip to (rtll Itcflcli Wesley Miller of Gold Beach ar rived In Grants Pass Monday from oseburg driving a new Maxwell car which he will operate at the mouth f Rogue river, but In order to get It there will have to drive to Crescent City and up the count to Gold Beach. .rretl For Wife Desertion Constable Handle- has gone to Oak land, California, to bring back Will Del'ew, who has been arrested there on n charge of non-support made by his wife In this city. It Is not known whether Del'ew will come Ithout requisition oV not. Imlrtimii Co-opvratlon Committor I loir. E. E. Blanchard has been no fled of his appointment as chairman f the co-operation commlttco of thj Ktate grange. Mr. Blanchard snys that ho Idea of working In harmony Is econilng the prominent feature In farm operation, and his commlttej 111 put in good hard work in pro motlng complete co-operation II oro From Low or Rogue Mr. and Mrs. V. H. Corwln ar rived here from Marlal Monday to look after business matters. Mr. Corwln Is superintendent of the Red River Cold Mining and Milling com pany, which Is operating on the lower Rogue. They have a valuable hydrau lic property and are now working seven men with two six-Inch and two four-inch giants. They also have n group of seven quarts claims on j which SOrt feet of prospecting tunnels ihave been driven. Mr. Corwln will j return to the mine Wednesday and 'remain until the cosi of the season. I Mrs. Corwln. who arrived from ln tflanapolls only a few months ago. has i had enough of the wilderness, and will spend the remainder of the win ter In thl city. N AME UTI.K lV IXilt I VHHiKI EN STATE. OLYMPIA. March 19 Governor 1. 1ter ha toil ay Issued a proclama tion scttiiic aside Vnrll ' as "Stpie Atvile Dav." All iltlt'ii are urr.ed to e.'ti the fruit in e tx!c on that d.iv. HM!r Jcb work at Courier office Want Ibifteburg Job R. R. Turner, superintendent of the Grants Pass city schools, is an nounced as an applicant for the Job of receiver of the Roseburg land of fice, be being the only one of the faithful yet in the race fur that par ticular position. Fined For .Wault Clifton Taylor was charged with having assaulted W. A. Ruramel, and when he was brought before Judge Holman he acknowledged the corn, and paid a fine of $5. New Auto Trucks Arrive Two new auto trucks of the Feder al make arrived In the city Friday from Portland, being brought down In a Southern Pacific box car by M. Dunn. They are for J. M. Tetberow, who will equip them for the passen ger traffic between Crants Pass and the Illinois valley. Supplier for County Home j The county court has adopted the policy of making purchases In quant Ity for the supplying of the county home In the future, and Is now adver Using for bids for a large variety of provisions. The policy In the past had been to buy groceries meats, etc., at retail, and It Is expected that saving can be made In the expense of conducting the home by adopting the competitive system of purchases. Cunnerymuii in Town J. Broder, of Nanalmo, B. C, is in the city Investigating the cannery proposition. Mr. Broder la propri etor of two canneries In the northern country, one for the handling of fruits and vegetables and the other for the canning of clams, and he has been contemplating selling there and coming farther south where climatic conditions are better. He has today been Inspecting the defunct Grants rass cannery that Is to be opened by a co-operative company. JOHN JACOIISON HAS SEAXCE WITH COUGAR. John Jacobson emerged from a tun nel at the Jewett mine on the south lope of Baldy Saturday night to meet face to face the giant cougar that has terrorized that neighbor hood. JacobBon had been prospecting n the tunnel during the day, and as u stepped out at about six o'clock the tawney beast crouched within a ew feet of him. The cougar emitted few stanzas of his latest grand opera selection and decamped, leav ing Jacobson tn full possession of the dlgglngB. For several years a cougar has had his habitat on the various Blopes of Baldy, and from the few glimpses that have been' caught of him, and the dimensions of his tracks, he Is nown to be of giant proportions. He has killed many deer and some do mestic stock, only recently the re- mnlns of two deer and two calves that are charged to him having been found the woods. There la now talk of getting a pack of dogB together and making a hunt for the animal. M. J. ItAKIvI K RACK FROM NAVAL SERVICE. M. J. Darker, sou of John Darker, residents of Grants Pass until about 13 years ago, has returned to this city, and is visiting his uncle, B. W. Rlggs. Mr. Darker has spent the past (our years In the United States navy and I for the greater part of the time sta-j tli mod in China, on the Wilmington and Cincinnati, going Into the Inter or as far as Canton, 1,000 miles from the coast. He was In some of the fighting between the Chinese feder als and rebels In the recent Chinese rebellion. Mr. Darker enlisted as an apprentice seaman and was promoted to ordinary seaman, and then f0X. . . ... swam, n position ne nem wnen disiharced. He thinks he has bad enough nf navv lif.. anl will nrohahlv t ion te here. ' I NMKIUilVG PLAN FAILS K lI.ROPS FORFEIT MILLION. NEW YORK. March 18. Follow ing the refusal of the California rail-roa-1 commission and the United States district iivrt In St. Louis to re osnlie the llnrriman unmerglng plan, the Union Pacific underwriting syndicate Is In possession here today of $1, T.oo forfeit from the rail nvtds he-aus of the failure of the plan. The forfeit represented one per cent of the par value of $i:.65O.O0O of the. Southern Pacific stork which the underwriters would have been oMicod to take had the plan been successful. TO Hl'XT HEAR AM) COUGAR OX LOWER ROGUE. A big game hunting party is now being organized to follow the noted bear pack belonging to Jacob Fry into the Rogue river hills. The party will Include State Treasurer Kay, W. D. DeVarney of Portland and Wil liam Derate and L. Gamble of Stan ford University, and will be under the guidance of Lee Emerson, well known as a successful hunter of bear and cougar, and authority on all j matters pertaining to the Rogue bills. Mr. Emerson is now in this city j making arrangements for the hunt, ; the party to leave West Fork on the 27th of the present month. A hunt on the lower Rogue river with the Fry hounds is the edition de lux of sporting events, and a number of the local big game hunters are talking a trip down the Rogue about the middle of April. Old Happy, the leader of the Fry pack, has a great reputation tn running bear and cou gar to tree, 11 of the former and 16 of the latter having been killed in front of him during the past two sea sons. He was in at the treeing of four cougar all In separate treeB one day In an hour and 35 minutes. MRS. CASEY ASKS FOR RELEASE FROM JOHX J. Ester Casey has asked the court to sever the matrimonial bond that holds her to John J. Casey, and to grant her In addition to the full separation, the custody of the three little children that have been born of the union, and 45 per month alimony for their sup port. Complaint was filed Monday, and alleges that the wedding that occur red In Redding, Cal., In 1905, did not result In a happy married life, and the wife accuses the husband with having contracted gross drunkenness since that time. She also says that he has beaten and slapped her, called her vile names, and compelled her to onduct the hotel at Selma to make a living for the family. kino gkohge of greece ASSASSINATED TUESDAY. LONDON, March 18. Messages received tonight by King George at Windsor Castle confirm the assassin ation of King George of Greece. LONDON, March 18. The dis- patch telling of the assassination of King George of Greece was filed at Salonika by a correspondent of the Greek semi-official news agency. In the absence of details It Is believed jOjeda and his little band of federals that an official censorship was imme- are facing destruction today. Stung diately established after the first dls-1 by their Ignominious defeat of Satur patch. 'day, Colonel Cdlles and Perfect Pedro It was exactly 50 years ago today that the assassinated monarch was elected king of the Hellenes. i toward Naco. From Nogales, on the LONDON, March 18. King George east- two detachments are coming to of Greece was assassinated today at 'the 8ur,port of Calles and Brace Salonika, where he was at the head mnte. One of these, comprising 600 of a division of the Greek army, ac-0 th Obregon command, which cap cording to news agency dispatches. !t"red NBales, are proceeding by rail News of his death reached Paris, Ber-;alonS the border and 100 YaquI In lln, Rome and other capitals slmul-jdlan8- recruits from the tribesmen taneously, but confirmation still Is wno nave not been Impressed for fed lacklng. King George had been at ieral "lce, are timing their march jSalonlka since December when the iiu.v siiiienuereu to me uaiKan iorces, Queen Olga had been in the field much of the time with King George. An attempt to assassinate the king in 1S98 failed. . The heir to the throne of Greece is Crown Prince Constantino who is now at Janlna. commanding the Greek troops there. WASHINGTON, March IS. Up to 3:43 o'clock this afternoon the Greek legation here hid received no offlelal advice of the assassination of King' George. The Greek charge d'affairs. la mnat ttnvtnm anA la mnlilnn f..n.l. I jts to get some definite word from Athens. i-UMJON. March IS. It was stat led at nucklngham Palace tonight that I King George has had no Information of the reported assassination of his uncle, Klnst George of Greece, at Sa lonika. SILVER TIP REAR LEADS WAY TO MINK. DENVER. March 18. By tracking: a Mg silver tip tar to his lair, i Jack" Lynch, a resident of Eaie. Colo., has located fabulously rlrh sil ver deposits nesr Eagle today, ac cordin: to word received here. Lynch came upon the bear while prospective He chased the animal into a hi ih cave and while waiting for Bruin to come out. saw traces of ! the silver In the rocks at his feet. 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PRESIDENT HUERTA CALLS OX AMERICAN MINISTER, MEXICO CITY. March 18. Dls - regarding all precedents, Provisional President Huerta paid a visit to Henry Lane Wilson, American am bassador to Mexico, to discuss the standing disputes between the United States and Mexico. Huerta's action Is causing considerable comment here today, as it la the first time a Mexican ruler has called upon the reprcsenta- jtlve of a foreign power. Huerta was accompanied by Minister of Foreign Affairs De LaBarra. NACO, Ariz., March 18. For the second time within a week, General Bracemonte are gathering their scat tered forces south of Agua Prieta, land before tomorrow will move gain to arrive near the probable battle field simultaneously with the other reDel "oops, it Is rumored here that the YatD'is f th federal garrison iwi11 desert the rebel ranks and !oln ne attacking force. i ' CTMPAS HL'ASAPAS, Sonora, Mex- March 18. General Rojas withdrew his federal troops from the vicinity of Cumpas Huasapas today to await reinforcements before his ex- pected attack i f"""" Rojas command com- SOMETHING NEW The Autocycle Washer !( washes. riiist-s. starches h it uocs the work thoroughly. Of all the other washing machines Invented, you have to resort to the old rubboard to finish such as real dirty collars and wristbands of shirts, streaks in 'under wear or bottom of dralibled skirta. This machine will dean anything that can be washed on the r.,bottrd with but very little labor. Child 10 years of age can operate It. Free washing at your home. Call at our local office and lot us know when to come. Your washday Is ours. ROYAL LAUNDRY MACHINE CO t ONSTANTINE, MICH MM-.U0KKItK.1Wi, T. IJ RANTS PASS, ORE. prises 600 well armed troops. He has two field guns. The rebel garrl- 'son Is 525 strong. ; AGUA PRIETA, Mex., March 18. One hundred rebels under Captain Cortez left Agua Prleta today to re inforce the rebel garrison at Cumpas Huasapaa. RUINED TO DEATH. ASTORIA, March 18. The body of C. II. Murphy, a fireman on the gtpanier General Hubbard, Is In the mnrmie here today. Murphy was burned to death In an explosion re sulting from the bursting of an oil feed pipe on board the steamer while enroute up the coast from San Pedro. A fire caused by the explosion was ex tinguished with little damage after an hour's fight. OYSTER COMPANY SUES PAC. WHALING CO. ADERDEEN, Wash., March 18. a suit to recover $30,000 damages was begun here today by the Grays Harbor Oyster Company against the American Pacific Whaling Company, which operates a plant near the har bor entrance. The complaint alleges that the whaling company is destroy ing their beds of oysters by deposit ing offal In the waters of the har bor. nrsixFss pointers Dr. Flanagan, Physician and Surgeon. J E.Peterson.l'lonerTnsurauceMaa. Rexall Remedies at Clemen. lis I rugs. Alfred Letcher, Registered Opto netrlst and Jewe'- In Dixon's old snd. Front at Eves tested fre.. : HAVE YOU SEEN IT? and irons. It a . j.