Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, December 12, 1913, WEEKLY EDITION, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textmite WEEKLY EDITION VOL. XXIX .RANTS PASS JOSmilXE COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. Dl( EMBER li, 1913 Xo. 33 BILL fill! CAVES il INTRODUCED IX CX)XGRESS BY MR. HAWLEY CHANGE FROM MONUMENT Action by National Legislature Xecessarjr to Provide for De velopment of Caverns Washington, Dec. 10. A bill cre ating the Oregon Caves National Park and setting aside 480 acres in Jose phine county for that purpose was In troduced la the house today by Con gressman Hawley. The movement toward the creating of the Oregon Caves National Park was Instituted some time ago by citi zens of this community, and It has the Indorsement of National Forester Graves, who went thoroughly into the question at the time of his visit to this city last summer. The ad vantages of the creation of a national park rather than of the maintaining of a national monument are many, de-! velopment of the monument being impossible. Created a park, appro-' prlations would be available for the building of roads,, and for making the great natural wonder more accessible to the public. Hotels could also be erected at the caves and other provi-' slon made for the entertainment of visitors. Two years ago parties were, ready to spend thousands of dollars In developing the caves and building, a modern hotel, installing electric lights, etc., but the government could give no term lease privileges In na-' tional monuments. Every effort should now be put forth to assist In having the bill in troduced by Congressman Hawley en acted Into law. ! TO I'KXAMEXT HY GUX CLUR OX DECEMBER 31 The local gun club is arranging for a shooting tournament on the 21st inst., when a number of events will be shot off, with prizes numerous enough that all can go home with full hands Fifteen matches have been arranged, each to consist of ten bluerock tar gets, and In each a fat gobbler will be the first prize; a chicken second prize, end merchandise prizes for third place. The merchants have con tributed goods from their stocks for the merchandise prizes, and great sport Is anticipated. The grounds of the club are to be moved across the river to a point near the end of the railroad bridge, where the tourna- ment will be held. There will also be rifle shooting during the day, numerous valuable prizes being hung for the eagle-eyed shooters. ' MYSTERIOUS GRAY AUTO APPEARS IX INDIANAPOLIS Indianapolis, Dec 10. The mys terious gray automobile from which strikebreaking teamsters here have previously been fired on made an ap pearance again early today. The ob ject of attack was Ed Dain, a non union motorman. The automobile contained five men, who, running It alongside Daln's car, began shooting at him. Daln returned their fire, and after a brisk Interchange of shots the automobile sheered off and disappeared down a side street. Dain was unhurt, and, so far as he knew, none of the bullets hit any of the automobilists. Two men were already under ar rest In connection with the gray car's previous appearance. RORBED OF $1,172 IX MOXEY AND JEWELRY San Francisco. Dec. in. Jewelry and money to the value of $1,172 were stolen today from W. C. Clai borne while he slept In a Four'h street hotel here. The burglar en tered Claiborne's room with a rnss key. NAIIONA rm XO CONTRACT LET YET FOR NEW BRIDGE The county court adjourned Mon day evening without having taken action iu regard to the building of the bridge over Williams creek at i'rovolt, the various bids having been continued over till the January ses sion. The board is still unsettled as between steel and concrete in the construction of the bridge, each ma terial having advantages. The dif ferences in price are not as great as -the figures submitted by the bidders at first glance indicate, the bids for the concrete structure being for the bridge complete, while there must be added to the cost of the steel bridge the expense of approaches and piers to be constructed by the coun ty. This will add troni $1,200 to $1,500 to the figure for the steel structure, bringing it up nearly to the cost of concrete. The main protest to the concrete bridge was the obstruction to the channel of the stream, and to obviate this plans were presented by Con tractor Anderson for 'an arched bridge of S8-foot span. This would add to the expense but would make unnecessary the building of a pier In the channel. The board will consider all these features before formally awarding the contract. CONTRACTORS SHIP HOUSES TO THIS CUT A carload of heilvy horses that have been used by Twohy Brothers, railroad contractors, in their work of building the new railroad at Eu gene during the past year, was ship ped to Grants Pass. from Eugene Wednesday morning and will be held at the Twohy farms in the Illinois valley during the winter, the north ern contract having been completed. iXCOME TAX LAW CASE IS OUT OF COURT Chicago, Dec. 11. United States Judge Laudis this afternoon sustain-, ed the demurrer tiled by the Coutin-! ental and Commercial Bank against! an attempt by Elsie De Wolf to col lect $750 alleged due as interest on' bonds issued against the institution j and threw the suit out of court. The! court did not rule directly on the j constitutionality of the income tax law, as advanced by Attorney Bourke- Cochran, but held that the amount involved was too small for the court to take cognizance of. The constitutionality of the in come tax law was attacked In Feder al Judge Landis' court here today by Burke Cochran, the famous attorney and orator, while arguing a demur rer filed against the Continental and Commercial Bank by Elsie De Wolf. Miss De Wolf is suing for $750 in terest on bonds issued by the bank, but it refused payment until she presented a certificate of ownership as required by the institution. foresters of America ELECT Til El It OFFICERS Court Josephine Xo. 27 held their regular meeting Monday night with a full attendance. A number of can didates were voted on and will be Ini tiated at the next meeting. The court also held election of officers, with the following result: Chief ranger, John Sauer; sub chief ranger, Sam K. Kienlin; treasurer, J. H. Ahlf; financial secretary, F. D. Strieker, recording secretary, Roy Dunlap; Sr. Woodard, O. W. Finch; Jr. Woodard, Albert Evenson; Sr. beadle, S. G. Sauer; Jr. beadle, Aug ust Schallhorn; court doctor, F. D. Strieker; deputy grand chief ranger, Frank Pimperl. The canvas by the sta'e organizer, which will end this week, was very successful, as it has been the result of a laree Increase In membership. The balan-e of the offices will be elected at the next meeting. REPORT THAT REBELS MEET DEFEAT AT TORREOX Mei o Cl-y. Pec 11. -That a de ,,PraTe Inttle bad been fo-ight at Tor reon. Midln In the recapture of the rl'-y ,v the federals, with rebels l;i!Vd w.i s stated in dispatches re vive here 'his afternoon. It was c, tV feht started yesterday and r-n in-ed all of last nlsht. fill IT Will VOTE . 80i BifJ ISSUE DECEMBER 31 SI Commissioners Call Election to Vote Funds for Improvement of Josephine Highway System Josephine county will vote upon the question of the issuance- of $225, 000 road bonds for the building of county highways on Wednesday, De cember 31, the county commissioners having set that date In response to the petitions that had been presented to them asking for the calling of the election. The plan under which the money provided by the bond Issue Is to be expended has been prepared, showing the amount of funds apportioned to each district in the county. This plan will be available to the voters that they may know what Improve ment will be made before they vote upon the Issue. For the purposes of this election the regular election boards will serve. Voters who have not registered under the 1912 registration will have to swear their votes. This means that all women will be required to swear in their ballots. From the issue of $225,000 about $125,000 will be required to refund the present Indebtedness Incurred In the building of roads, leaving the balance for the construction of new roads. Bonding for the construction of a system of roads throughout the county has been the subject of great est discussion before the commission ers at their session, and the final de termination of the question of the calling of the election has been put over till Monday. The members of the board seem agreed to put the matter up to the voters, and have discussed the date upon which to hold the election, and have been go ing pretty thoroughly Into the dis tribution of the fund raised by bond ing upon the various roads of the CALUMET STRIKERS 1 Kill! I OK HOURS Calumet, Mich., Dec. 11. Barri caded in their federation hall at South Range, a strong party of strik ing miners was resisting an attempt today by a small army of deputies and members of the Citizens' Alli ance to break in and arrest them. The battle began at 2 a. m. and was still raging at 9:30. The miners, believed to number about 40, and heavily armed, were making so ef tective a defense that the attacking party had to call for reinforcements and at 5 a. m. a special trainload of members of the Citizens' Alliance left Houghton for the scene of the en gagement, followed by another train load at 9 o'clock. The federation hall was surround ed, but the rain of bullets from with in kept the besiegers at a distance. Deputy Tom Driscoll of Houghton was fatally shot in an attempt at a rush and it was reported here that others were wounded. ESTIMATED FLOOD LOSS IS 7,0,O Houston, Texas, Dec. 11. Dam age by the now subsiding floods In the Brazos, Trinity and Colorado river valleys was estimated today at $7,000,000. Losses were much the heaviest in the Brazos valley. At Roseburg were 1.000 refugees, shel terless, without food and still unre lieved, owing to the railroad tie-up Incidental to the flood. Missing in dividuals and families continued to be heard from, but so many remain ed unaccounted for that euesses as to the number of dead varied all the way from 250 to 1.000. Bodies re covered numbered 190. H FRENCHMEN" DIE IN RATTLE WITH THE Ml KIRS Moa, Moroo, Dec. 11. Fifen Fren'hnieri ver. k!l!M t"dv and 22 wo-inderl. incl'idin? a enra'n anl lieitennr.t. !n a 'lash In which a French co!;imn cattured the town of Alnaalaka from the'Moors. on county. As outlined the plan will be to provide for the Improvement of the main thoroughfares through the county, especially the Pacific High way and the road from the California state line near Waldo' to connect with the Pacific High-' way at Grants Pass. Appropriations! will also be made for the improve-! ment of the laterals from the main roads. It is necessary that this plan be prepared before the matter Is put to a vote so that all the taxpayers can know just where the money li to be spent. The plan will call for a resurvey of the roads where the- pre sent survey can be Improved and the grades reduced or the curves straight-! ened. The plan of Improvement will j be the count met Ion of grades and, roadways according to the most ap-j proved road-building methods, andj the gravelling of the roadway. j The election will have to be held: not less than 20 nor more than 30 ' days following the call, and as Itj will be necessary to have it in the present year to get it under the pre-J sent registration of tho voters, the commissioners have considered call- j lug It for either the 30th or the 31st l of this month. Should It go over the first of the year it will have to be at a date distant enough to allow of the 1914 registration of voters, whlcu would probably carry it over till March. The petitions asking the commis sioners to call the election have been verified by tho clerk, and more than the sufficient number of signers were found upon them after those who signed Improperly had been elimin ated. Signatures were held Improper If tho name wag not written Identical ly as the voter had signed It In registering. ' WOMEN OF tlliCAGO DENOUNCE THE MAYOR Chicago, Due. 11. Mayor Harrison in particular, and Chicago's govern ment in general, were denounced in unmeasured terms today at a meet ing of the Chicago Women's Club, called to protest against conditions which compelled the resignation yes terday of Mrs. Ella Flagg Young as superintendent of the city's schools. "Mrs. Young is one of America's leading educators," said Jane Ad danis, "and yet she was sacrificed, evidently to satisfy a clique of petty politicians. It Is too early to discuss the possibility that she will be the women's candidate for mayor at the; next city election, but there Is no tell ing what may develop from this sit uation." Mrs. Young, the first woman to become school superintendent In a city of Chicago's importance, was generally considered to have per J formed her duties with an efficiency j never known In a local school super intenden' before. FHie was so hamp ! ered In her policies, however, by members of the board of education, all of whom are chosen by the mayor,' that she offered her resignation a few months ago. There was such an outcry against its acceptance that Mayor Harrison prevailed on her to withdraw it, promising her a free hand in future. East evening, when the board took up the matter of hpr re-election for another term, the vote was n hc Paying she could not permit her name to be voted on again unless assured of unanimous support, Mrs. Young Immediately reskned. DOG EATS GSTOVS GOAT Pomona, Cal., Dec. 10. Fifty dol lars Is the amount which W. A. Gas ton of San Dlmas claims Is due him from Charles Page, also of tha' place, because a dog which Opston 'lalmed belonged 'o Page "got Gaston' goat." The goat was a real live one. ftrn Ishin? milk for the On'on farm. Pn disowned th dog. Gaston sued, and tha Jtidie I now welghin? the evl- MINIMUM WAGE FOR WOMEN" TO RE $8.23 Portland, Dec. 10. Tha enianel. patlon of the woman workers of Oregon from the Ills attendant upon low wages and long hours is accom plished here today by tho adoption of a ruling by the Industrial Welfare Commission providing that women shall not be employed In Industrial pursuits at a salary less than $3.25 a week and shall not be employed more than 54 hours a week. The ruling also establishes an apprentice period of not more than one year, the nilnimiura wages of apprentices to be $6 a week. The hour of dismissal was fixed at 6:30, with the exception of women employed In telegraph and telephone offices, confectionery and hotels and restaurants. The ruling, which will have full legal authority at the expiration of 60 days, was adopted on the recom mendation of a conference committee composed of three representatives each of the house, the employes and employers, which mndo a state-wide Investigation of wages, hours and conditions of labor for women work ers. lHG FIGHT POSTPONED ACCOUNT SORE NOSE ban Irauclsco, Dec. 11, With his noise, swollen out of all proportion, Willio Ritchie today bemouued tho misfortune that befell him on tho eve of his proposed battle with Tommy Murphy, while unconvinced thous ands of boxing fans declared the champion is nfraid of tho challenger nnd for that reason refused to ngreo to Promoter Coffroth's suggestion that, after last night's postponement, duo to rain, they fight it out tonight under the same conditions that would have governed last night's bout. Jim Buckley, Murphy's manager, declared that Ritchie is afraid of the Harlemlte and that the sore nose ex cuse was nothing but a plain run-out. "I never felt better In my life," said Ritchie today, "until my nose begun to bother me Tuesday night. Yesterday morning It was so sore that I went to see Dr. Charles F. Mc Carthy, lie told me that nn abscesB was forming and that It was nocos sary to have li lanced. I suffered grout pain, but by using an Ice pnek tht? swelling went down to some ex tent. I made up my mind that I would go Into the ring If the fight was held as scheduled. I did not know what would happen If Murphy hit mo on the nose, but I decided to stand the pain." Many fans were even disinclined to placo faith In Ritchie's promise that he will give Murphy a further chanco, but the rhamplon and Manager Foley stoutly Insisted today that no other fight will be considered until Mur phy's claim Is disposed of. Ill lit I AXD ( WKHAXZA IX DEAL 1 OK PEACE (By a United Press Staff Cor respondent.) Mexico City, Dec. 10. What seem 'ed to be partial confirmation of re ports that President Huerta and Gen eral Carranza were carrying on peace negotiations, was obtained today from reliable- sources. The statement was seml-offlclally made that Carranza would be given a voice In an attempt, at the July elec tion, to choose a president satisfac tory to all factions. GERMAN' STEAMER AGROUND Washington, Dec. 10. Wireless dispatch- received here today from the revenue cutter Seminole stated that the Herman steamer Elckenberg Is aground off Frying Pan shoals. REWARD FOR RECOVERY OF JESSIE McCAXX WITHDRAWN New York, Dee. 11. The police were without a definite iew today concerning the whereabouts or Ming Jessie McCann. daughter of a wealthy wholesale gro'er, w-ho disappeared from her home here Inst Friday. Members of the family, however, withdrew the reward of $1,'00 offer ei for her recovery, but denied re reiving any word from the girl. A report that MIm McCnnn w:,s e''n recently In Philadelphia was being further Investigated today by her brother. RATE OF till HX LEVY CRITICISED COMMERCIAL CLUB DISCUSSES LIVE TOPIC COUNCILMEN IN SUPPORT Cluirge Mndo by Senator Smith That Reduction Was for Political Pur poet The question of the rate of tu levy within the city of Grants Pass was the subject of lively discussion at the meeting ot the Commercial Club Monday evening. The discussion was precipitated by Senator Smith, who volcod a doubt as to the suffi ciency of a 6i mill levy for general purposes, and charged that It had been purposely reduced to that figure by the outgoing mayor to handicap nnd discredit the administration of Mayor-elect McKInstry, who will as sume tho reins of government on the first of the new year. Mr. Smith was free In his remarks concerning the levy, opposing the half mill provided for library purposos, attacking the plan for tho free public library. The administration was taken to task by the senator and by other speakers for not having taken the public Into Its confidence In municipal affairs. CouneUmen Anderson and Porter, who were present, took issue with the speaker, and uphold the sufficiency of the levy for the conduct of the city during the year, quoting the figures to support the statement that there would be plenty of cash in tho various funds. Mayor-elect McKlnstry clonr ed the atmosphere by announcing that Mr. Norton, who is to be his city attorney, would meet Tuesday with the finance committee of the council, and tho finances of tha city would be thoroughly considered, and tho ndequacy of the levy would be arrived at. He also agreed that un der his administration he would seek to give the public full knowledge of the municipal affairs. Rogue river fishing was a subject of some Interest again, the mainten ance of a federnl hatchery at the Golden Drift dam being the Issue. Discussion brought out much opposi tion to the, conduct of a hatchery on tho river hero, the penning up of the thousands of salmon and the conse quent holding back of the game fish destroying much of the sport value of the stream. The sentiment of the speakers was that the hatcheries should be maintained on the upper river. NEW OFFICERS OF THE M. W. A. ARE ELECTED The Modern Woodmen of America held their annual election of officers last night in M. W. A. ball, the fol lowing otllcers being elected for the ensuing year: Counsel, L. A. Ham mond; advisor, Claude lllldrutb; banker, W. H, IlodkliiHon; clerk, F. W. Reynolds; escort, T. Iteddlck; watchman, I loll is Xutt; sentry, F. O. Isham; manager, A. Shade, Notice was also given that State Deputy G. W. Simmons would be In Grants Pang December 11 and would address the members at an open meeting held In the M. W. A. hall Thursday evening, at which time a general social time will be had, end ing with refreshments. SEN OTA II ROOT GETS lUlii NOIIEL PRIZE Christiana, Norway, Dec. 10. United States Senator Ellhu Root of New York was designated today for the Nobel peace prize of 1912, and Henri LaFontalne ot Brussels, ex president of the permanent peace bureau, for the prize of 1913. Root was honored on account ot his work as pacificator of Cuba and the Philippines and In settlement of the Immigration dispute between the United States nnd Japan. No prize was given last year, ac rounMng for today's dual award.