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WEEKLY EDITION
VOL. XXUL
IUMSPASS JOSEI'HISE COIXTY, ORKGOX. FRIDAY, SKIT. 19, 1913.
NO. S3.
PUBLIC MARKET
OPEN WEDNESDAY
PHOBI C EH AM) COXSl MLK
DKAIi AT FIRST HAM).
TO
AT 211 NOR. SIXTH STREET
Will be Maintained on Each Wed
nesday and Saturday, With H.
K. W'llmot Muster.
The Grants Pass Public Market
will be opened promptly on time next
Wednesday morning, the committee
of twenty which has the enterprise in
charge having completed all prelim
inary arrangements. The building
at 211 North Sixth street, next to the
Grants Pass Bakery, wag rented by
the committee for present quarters
tor the market, and the remodeling
of the interior to make it available
tor the purpose Is now in progress.
It. E. Wilinot has been engaged as
market master, and wili have charge
on Wednesdays and Saturdays, the
two days during which the market
will be open. To meet the immediate
demand for funds to open and start
the market, each member of the com
mittee of twenty put up $5, and
pledged a dollar a month to see the
enterprise through till some other
method of raisin!? the fund can be
devised. However, donations from
other sources will not be refused.
The first day of the Josephine
County Fair is a-most propitious time
for the opening of the Public Market,
and it should be given such a wel
come by the consuming public that
there can be no room for doubting its
success. The price for "stalls" with
in the market will be placed at 20 or
2" cents for each market day, and i
is expected that there will be a good
representation of producers on every
day that the market Is open. To as
sure its success, however, it is nec
essary that the housewives be there
with their market baskets ready to
purchase, and that after the opening
of the market the peddler be discour
aged, and that all producers bring
their goods to the market place.
Portland has her Rosarlans; Sa
lem her Cherrians, Eugene her Radi
ators, and Grants Pass has her
"Rogues." Boosters all, and what
the Rosarlans have done for Port
land; the Cherrians for Salem, and
the Radiators for Eugene, the
Rogues will do for this metropolis
of the Rogue.
The "Rogues" are the committee
appointed by the president of the
Commercial club, the committee of
twenty, to find ways and means for
doing things for the betterment of
Grants Pass and for the improve
ment of local conditions. The first
meeting of this committee was held
Monday night when ten of the score
met the obligation imposed upon
them and after a lively meeting left
the wheels of progress well greased.
The committee decided that It would
start out after one thing at a time,
and that it would stay after that one
thing till it had it landed.
The public market is the first
thing the committee will go after,
and so determined was the commit
tee noon the necessity for the market
DR. REDDY SECURES
CASH FOR RAILROAD
Dr. Ueddy made arrangements
while in Spokane recently for cash
with which to continue the grade
work ou the municipal railroad to
Wilderville, and that $10,000 are
available in blocks of $2,500 as
ueded, with another $10,000 when
that is used, these sums to be put
up on warrant issued by the coun
cil, the first $10,000 having been al
ready issued by that body. A wire
to Engineer Harmon from Mr.
Heddy stated that the arrangements
for the funds had been satisfactorily
completed, and that he waa leaving
for Pendleton en route home, but
would atop in the Round-Up city to
see the big show. This $20,000 pro
vided by Dr. Reddy will continue the
work till the bonds have been re-vot
ed and the funds made available
from that source.
The graders on the right-of-way
are making excellent progress, about
25 teams and forty men now being
employed dally.
VFTKUAXS WILL (UMK TO
GRAMS PASS IX 1U.
The veteran soldiers and sailors of
Southern Oregon assembled in au
nual reunion at Talent on Wednes
day selected Grants Pass as the loca
tion for its 1914 encampment, ac
cepting the invitation tendered by the
local G. A. R. and W. R. C, backed
by the invitation of the Commercial
club. When it came to balloting for
location this city received 87 of the
102 votes cast. The election of of
ficers held Wednesday resulted in
the following selections to head the
organization for the next year:
Colonel Henry Met?., Medford.
T,leut-Col. Chas. Danlere, Ash
land. Major H. J. Gardner, Central
Point.
Q. M. John Patrick, Grants Tass.
Chaplain Mrs. Myra McVeal.
Ashland.
SECOND ANNUAL JOSEPHINE
COUNTY FAIR SEPT. 24, 25 AND 26
Display of Exhibits Will Be Large, With Special
Interest in Dairy Cow and Driving
Team Contests
The directors and department man- greatest interest in the approaching
agers of the coming Josephine coun
ty fair are active in making the nec
essary arrangements for the big
contest, and that all classes will be
well filled. The beautiful silver cup
donated by the Southern Pacific rail-
show to opeu on Wednesday, the road company for the best individual
24th inst., and to continue over exhibit of fowls has been received
Thursday and Friday. The location land is now on exhibition In the city,
of the fair will be the same as onj.Mr. Rafferty, a Roseburg poultry ex
last year, the use of I street, east of pert, will judge the show.
Sixth, having been obtained again. 1 n,e Art lfc-pai-tment.
Temporary sheds and stables will be special interest is also
erected, the location and the ar
rangement being satisfactory except
that it Is temporary, entailing much
expense and work in getting ready
and in tearing down aagln.
Interest In Milk Cow Contest.
What promises to be the premier
contest at the fair, occasioning the
greatest interest at this date, is the
milk cow contegt. The fair manage
ment had offered premiums of $20
for the first prize winner and $10 for
the second, but the business men of
the city have raised a fund to add to
these prizes, making a cash prize of
$50 for the first and $;io for the
second. The dairy herds of the
county have been largely added to
during the past year, and there are
many pure bred specimens as well as
grades of the various breeds and the
competition among them will be
keen.
Annuul Poultry Show.
The poultry association has de
cided that no show will be given ex
cept that In conjunction with the
fair, this taking the- place of the an
nual association show. J. H. MetRie
is in management of the poultry ex
hibition, and. states that there will
be more varieties exhibited than at
any previous county show. He says
that the poultrynien are taking the
L. ItAKLOW HAS
SOLD II IS (i ILK i: si oiti:.
being
aroused in the art department, and
the list of exhibits will be even larg
er than last year. Mrs. A. B. Cor
nell is superintendent of the art de
partment, and has aroused much en
thusiasm with the result that com
petition will be keen. The exhibit
will be absolutely of new articles
never before shown in the county as
one of the rules is that exhibits to
be eligible for competition for the
prizes must not have been shown at
any previous fair given by the asso
ciation. Competition Is open only to
amateurs, and for the purpose of this
exhibition an amateur is 'defined as
one who has not given lessons or who
hat followed the. work of any of the
classes of art for profit.
Lectures on Kugenics.
A slight change has also been
made In the rules of the Better Bab
ies contest, and the age limits of
the first class has been put between
six months and two years, it, hav
ing been announced in the premium
list as between one and two years.
Mrs. Arthur Conklln, who is superin
tendent of this department, has made
arrangements for the holding of lec
tures by the physicians who will
judge the contest, the lectures to be
some day during the fair to be an
nounced later.
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OA.M.SSION PKOIILS
LOCAL WATLl; RATIOS.
C. E. Barlow, for the past
years a leading citizen and mer
chant of Galice, has sold his general
merchandise establishment at the
mining town down tho Rogue
to i
The members of the state railroad
commission, Frank J. .Miller, Thomas
K. Campbell and Clyde li. Ailchisou,
accompanied by Secretary R. 11.
Corey, stenographers, attorneys uud
chambers al ihe city hall hearing evi
dence in the application of tho
Rogue Hiver Water Co. lor permis-
Thotuas Towns, late of Seattle, who t.,urk are iu 6t6Hlou ia VUe council
is now in charge of the store, the
deal having been closed Wednesday
morning. The sale includes both the
stock of goods and the store build
ing. Mr. Barlow will retain the ac
counts due the store at the time of
the transfer, and will occupy him
self during the next few months In
closing up his business affairs. He
will retain his residence at C.aH.e,
and will be found on the Job as
county commissioner more effectively
than ever, having more leisure to
give to the public's business.
( ALII OHM.WS AD.MIUE
CLIMATE OF THE HOME,
Messrs. A. M. Montgomery, of
Santa Monica, and F. C. Sharp, of
l.os Angeles, are in the city enroute
to their homes after a trip to the
Peck placer mine on Cave creek, the
gentlemen being interested in the
property. "While our trip was es
sentially one of business, it has
turned out to have been one of the mnn
DEATH OF WALTER S.
COUTANT, OF FRU1TDALE
Only a few abort days removed
from health and vigor, (rout associ
ations with friends and neighbors,
Walter S. Coutant auswered the final
summon early Wednesday morning,
on of nature's noblemen, a dutiful
son, faithful husband and enduring
friend and respected citizen having
passed from life when his spirit
winged Us flight. Stricken severely
only Sunday after a tew days of ail
ing, Mr. Coutant waa taken to the
hospital in this city where physicians
operated upon him. (or appendicitis,
other complications also being
found, and it was known then
the suffering man had only a Ogtttlng
chance for recovery. Tuesday morn
ing following the operation he seem
ed to be holding his own against pain
and disease, but Wednesday morn
ing at two o'clock the soul waa re
leased from the stricken body, and
death had won the unequal contest.
Walter coutant was born In
Wyandotte county, Kansas. on
August 29th. 1SS0, the son of
Charles G. and Mary E. Coutant, be
ing at the time of his death 33 years
and 18 days of age. The family
moving to Wyoming, Walter spent
his boyhood days in that state, and
completed his education at the Wyo
ming slate university, lie was pri
vate secretary to Congressman Mon-
dell of Wyoming for four years. On
April 12th, 1901, at Laramie, Wyo
ming, ho was married to Miss Cora
Belle Gray, who, with one child, a
little girl, survives him.
Six years Mr. Coutant spent in
Alaska at the time the north called
so many of the progressive and ad
venturous citizens from "the. states."
serving as deputy clerk and later as
reporter and stenographer for tho
first division of the court of Alnskn.
Ho later owned and edited tho Jnn
eau Uecord-Mlner nnd the Ketchikan
Mining Journal, coming to southern
Oregon when he sold out his newspa
per interests In March, 1 90S. Here
he invested In f:um property, nnd
for the past four years has devoted
his energies to tho development of a
farm In tho Fruitdale district. Ho
was a life member of tho B. P. O. K.,
holding membership In Lodge No.
4 20 of Juneau. He was also a mem
ber of the Arctic Brotherhood and
of the Knights of Pythias, nnd wns
nn active and Interested worker In
the Frultdalo and the Pomona
granges.
Besides the wife and baby girl, a
widowed mother, three sIsterR nnd
one brother are left lo mourn the
enrlv passing of this well beloved
S. P. CO, OBJECTS
TO ASSESSMENT
FILKH tXM rii.il XT WITH HOARD
OF F.l ALIZATIOX.
CLAIMS DOUBLY ASSESSED
F.ight Auea, In Center of City, Val
ued ut VU 1,235, Listed a Nou
OpontUug Property.
A It A IIS KILL ITALIANS.
Rome. Sept. 17. General Torelll
and two other officers and 28 pri
vates were killed at Benghasl, Afri
ca, when Arabs attacked an Italian
column, according to a dispatch re
reived here today. Seventy-three
Italian soldiers were wounded. The
Arabs, it Is seated, were repulsed.
siou to raise its rates for service to j greatest pleasure as well," said Mr. Tne fnnPrni flPrvces will be held
its patrons in Grants Pass. The Montgomery to the Courier. "I like'nt TTall's undertaking parlors at two
railroad commission has jurisdiction i to nHh an(1 to hunt, and I like the j n'rloi-h Thursday afternoon.
over all public utlities within the outdoors, and the outdoors In the
state, and questions of rates and of J Rogue certainly all that one could
service must come before it. 'desire. We have seen the most per-
This present case was precipitated ! ff" t climate while here though we
when the city council last winter at-j"' frorn l,,nr whm rllmntftls
tempted to make radical reductions ; supposed to be made. But there,
i ....., .!,., ,!. ..,.,,,., ,,v near the seashore we have high
l,,w ,all l"ai "alc' ' 1 ' ; . . oriJ . n. o'clock Thursday afternoon, the ho.
:lu i.i.ririii!F it nHtri.iiB Thu nr. i winds, and the absence of wind is '
dinance did not become effective, the .one of the things that makes the
citv being enjoined from making the'ftogne climate delightful. We spent
ordinance effective. The water com- j tbree hours In the Josephine caves
yesterday," continued Mr. Montgom
ery, "and were delighted with the
wonders underground. Yes, we are
sure coming hack."
From Thursday's Haily,
The funeral services over the re
mains of Walter Coutant, who died
early Wednesday morning, were held
at the Presbyterian church at two
pany then made application to the
commission for permission to deter
mine upon a Just schedule for the
local service.
The present rates charged by the
water company Include a charge of
$1 per month for water for ordinary
household use for drinking, cooking
and washing. An extra charge of '.'"
hoi If aat Wndnesda v
ii ! ,inv nf the Jose- selected, but Will ne wunin a aay or city tnrougn us ordinance Hiieiiipieu
I lie w'v-u'.
I cents per month Is made for hath
ssentemiier ' lirst public market has not yet been, tub, and of .o cents for toilet. I t;e
24th,
phine County Fair, as the opening
day for the Grants Pass Public Mar
ket, the market to be maintained for
a time upon each Wednesday and
Saturday,' whim will be official mar
ket days. A committee, composed of
Messrs C. L. Hobart. F. M. South,
W. P. Quinlan and A. E. Voorhies.
Washington, Sept. 1 X. Former
Governor Joseph Folk of Missouri is
to be appointed Holicltoi for the state
department. It Is understood that
bin nomination will mi to the senate
either this afternoon or tomorrow.
was selected from the main commit
tee to go to Medford, attend the mar
ket day there, and report back at a
speilal meeting to be held at the Ho
tel Oxford at G:3u o'clock this even
ing. This committee left at seven
o'rlock this morning in Mr. Ho
barfs automobile, and will study the
problem cf producer and consumer
and outline a plan for the opening
day here.
Tho place for the ho'dini of -he
two. It IS Itrge.l Iliai ine larmein hi imukp win HOMBeuuifi ihic. iiusmi :iniin HIP coy (luring J.. wie iicfi
make arrangements to bring In their upon amount of water used, flltv v,.;,r t ,a, ,.Ver had. was $ fi.1 '4.0.
produce on Wednesday, the 24th. cents for the first 5,000 gallons, it sayB that the fixed charges during
not only for the fair but for the pub- eight cents per thousand above that, the year were $ I 3.49.3 2, leaving a
li" market ns well. There should be , The company in Ps petition asks per- net profit of 1 2 . r, S . 7 7 . and that It
showing of everything raised on mission to increase tne nousenom is entitled to at least S 1-2 percent
the f;irm in th" fair and nn ofTr!ng rates to $!.r,o for general use. :', upon its Investment for Interest, de-
of evervthlnz produced in the valley cents per month for bath tub, and ' preciatlmi, etc.
at the market. There should he f,o rents per month for toilet. Other Kvliene Is being taken by the
frui's nnd vegetables, poultry, ees rates In the schedule are !n' rented ' commission to find the present value
In proportion. of the company property, and lo ar-
The company bases jt request for; rive at th reasonableness of the
a
wood. et'v. and when the farmers
have done their duty hr providing
the stuff 'o op!!, then it Is to the
twvi!e of Grant Pass fn hp thero to
hnv The housewives must tie on
hind with thplr market baskets and
v.'ert the produce on display hv the
rnd'-.cpr. C.pt it at first hand, fresh
r id r!cin. and mnke of the firs? mar- vestment of : I
; n- dn' a erand S'trre11!" Its gross Income
mon being preached by Uev. Win, It.
Jeffrey Jr., pastor of the local Meth
odist church. There was a lurge con
course of the friends of the man who
had passed present, and the floral of
ferings were many and beautiful. The
Klks Indue at Juneau. Alaska, of
which the deceased was a member,
wired to have flowers on the bier In
i's name. Interment was by the side
of the father who hnd preceded Wal
ter to the Oreat Beyond by less than
a year
PAVKIM liST NOT WOKHVIVd.
Paris. Sept. Hi. "I am Ignoring
the absurd stones that when I iret
to merli n I will be detained at Ki
lls Island," said Mrs FmmeHne
I'ankhurs. who reo!ned her daugh
ters, f'hrlstabel and Sylvia. In a ho
tel here today.
The militant suffrarefto lender
said she preferred not to say nnv
thlng further at present.
the increased rales upon the con
tention that It Is not new making a
re-i-etiable Income from its Invest
ment, and that the In'rease Is de
vanded as a business proposition. It
contends that It has a property In-
2TTi. and that
from water ren's
ra'e fixed by the council, that asked
by the (onipanv. or at some point
between that will do justice to all
part leg concerned.
City Attorney Colvig Is represent
ing the Interests of the city, nnd At
torney .1. X. Teal of Portland Is ap
pearing for th" wafer ocripiny.
Portland, Sept. l!i. When I vorson
Wesi grieved so Mrontfly over his In
ability to Slav on the water wa'-'oli
that lie tried to i-nd V all at a rope's
end on the Mont nomerv dock, Judge
Stevenson allie to lis rescue by ulv
Ing him rt liquor cure season on the
rorkp!e.
Not mauy complaints of dissatis
fied property owners have come be
before the Board of Equalization for
adjustment, only eight havlug filed
formal notice that the assessment ot
their property did not meet their
ideas of what was fair and equitable.
Action upon these complaints haa not
yet been taken, though a number ot
property owners have been cited to
appear before the board at ten
o'clock Saturday morning.
Southern Piuillc Objects.
The Southern Pacific railroad
company has made the most strenu
ous kick to date, wanting aa assess
ment of $91,255 set aside, claiming
that It la a double assessment. Un
der the law of the atate tho operat
ing property of the railroad com
pany would be assessed by the state
nubile utilities commission. But the
Southern Pacific, company owns
eight acres of land In the very cen
ter of the city that the county as
sessor does not consider a part of the
operating property of the road.
These eight acres include the parked
strips lying back from the rlRbt of
way, and abutting on Sixth street, as
well as lands occupied by lumber
yards, warehouses, etc. This was
assessed by the county as business
property alongside wns assessed, and
tho company has enterod formnl pro
test, nnd claims that the assessment
levied by the state commission upon
Its operating property should cover
this as well, the assessment by the
county being what It terms the
"double, assessment." Assessor Pol
lock mnlntnlns that the property
should be assessed by the county the
same as property held by the com
pany In any other part of the county
and not "operating" property. The
attorney for the company In his
communication to the board makes a
veiled threat that If the demand Is
not acquiesced In by the board, that
the case will he carried Into the
courts. The eight acres assessed on
the basis of business property which
It adjoins waB valued by the asses
sor at $91,2r!.
(innge Commit Ion lnetlgiiles.
A committee of 14 taxpayers from
Itogue Itiver grange has been inves
tigating the question of assessment
values, and Its report Is now on file
with the Board of Kquallzatlon. The
report, which Is signed by II. Wood,
"representing fourteen taxpayers,"
s'ates that while It does not question
the desire of the assessor of Jose
phine county to make a Just and
equitable assessment, that examina
tion of the rolls shows many Incon
sistencies, nnd that property values
as they appear upon the assessor's
books are far from fair or equitable.
Tho report also says that the com
mittee iIooh not think that "position,
social or otherwise," should Influ
ence the living of property val'ies for
the purpose of assessment, though It
doi'H not go so far as lo say that such
Influence ha: been exerted to bring
about the "Inconsistencies" of which
It complains. The committee quotes
certain assessment values on well
I iiutvn properties to support its con
tention. It Khowa that values In the
lower Rogue district, from which tho
members of the otnmlttee came, aro
much higher than In other portions
of the county. It gives as Illustra
tions the Klsmanii orchard of 72
acres, asiesseil nt S I T T per arei
Hull's I.NkesHi orchard. 27 acres,
$l."2 per a'Te; Pr. I.oughrldge, 40
ai res In alfalfa. $100 per acre; Flan
nagnn A Cornell, O0 acres hons and
alfalfa. $100 per acre; Dixie Ranch,
(Continued on Pngj F.'.-ht
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