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About Central Point herald. (Central Point, Or.) 1906-1917 | View Entire Issue (June 11, 1914)
OUR 4 s V CENTRAL POINT HERALD MERCHANTS 02 K 5 L S ïîî? « 1 safety E stablished A pril 26, 1906 SUBMIT PEACE PLAN TO BOARD C entral P oint , J ackson C ounty , O regon , T hursday , V E R A C R U Z PR IC ES SOAR Euston May Open Army food Market to Restore Normal Costs to While Earl Keller and Alfred Gillette were out hunting last Sunday in the Beagle district the former was accident ali shot in the muscles below the knee o f the right leg and though the bone was uninjured the flesh was terribly Events Occuring Ihroughout the State torn and mangled by the charge o f shot During the Past Week and Mr. Keller will be laid up for a long time with the wound. * Little On-t Has Miraculous Escape. In telling o f the accident Mr. Gillette Portland.—When a seven-passenger says he is unable to understand just how the gun happened to be discharged automobile driven by Mrs. William E. as he does not remember having his Frazier became stalled while crossing finger on the trigger. He stood a few the railroad before an approaching back of Keller who was trying to get a train at Clackamas, near here, Mrs. shot at a digger squirrel with the rifle Efuzier, who was driving, and four he carried. Mr. Gillette stood holding ; Passengers leaped out, leaving three the shotgun in a natural position with year-old Lois Frazier alone in the ton his left hand grasping the b arrel. with neau. The locomotive struck the automo muzzle pointing toward the ground. With his right hand he held the stock bile and smashed it to kindling wood, when suddenly the gun was discharged parts being hurled 50 feet. When the and the shot tore through K eller’s leg. train was halted a quarter of a mile Help was secured and a physician farther on, little Lois was found on summoned who dressed the wound and > the engine pilot clinging to the rods. Monday morning had the patient re- Her right leg was broken, but this moved to the Medford hospital where was her only injury. HUERTA RESCINDS ORDER TO BLOCKADE T ango •IN- Roman Strip A n d New Plaids The Old Reliable, Cranfill & 11. 1914 OREGON NEWS OF GENERAL INTEREST Earl Keller Accidently Shot in Lea Vera Cruz.— Brigadier-General Fun- ■ton announced that he contemplated South American Meeiators appointing a commission of Mexican residents and American army officers Niagara Palls, Ont.— The United to Investigate the increased cost of States government, through Justice living in Vera Cruz since the occupa Lamar and Frederick W. Lehmann, tion. Complaints have reached the gen presented to the thi4e South Am eri can mediators a complete plan for the eral that wholesale dealers and im porters have been squeezing the retail pacification of Mexico. It is the same in principle as that dealers and hotelkeepers. Several im presented by the mediators and al porters are known to have considera ready agreed to by the Huerta gov ble stocks on hand, but they are forc ernment. It contemplates establish ing up the prices. It is said General Funston may seek ment, at the earliest date practicable, of a new provisional government in permission to sell army subsistence Mexico City, which would conduct to restore normal prices. general elections for a permanent gov Deputies Guard John D. ernment. Tarrytown, N. Y.— To guard against No other internal questions are in cluded in the peace plan, as recom molestation of John D. Rockefeller mendations and suggestions with ref and his son at Pocantico Hills, erence to agrarian and educational re thought to be possible due to strike he is getting along as well as could be forms are phrased in such a way as developments in Colorado, 16 deputies expected. Keller has been employed at the to constitute advice rather than dicta from the White Plains county jail were placed on the Rockefeller estate. Modoc Orchards and is married. tion. The plan includes provisions for general amnesty, the payment of WILL S E L E C T S U F F R A G E BILL claims, the withdrawal of the Ameri Meeting Called to Concentrate Sup can forces from Vera Cruz and kin port for Measure Before Congress. dred subjects which would develop Washington.— In an effort to con when General Huerta retired and a centrate support for a suffrage meas new provisional government was in Washington.— General Huerta later ure In congress, suffrage leaders Is stalled. suspended the order to blockade Tam sued a call for a meeting of all lead Indictments Found Against Plumbers. pico against the delivery of ammuni ers In the movement In the United Des Moines.— Indictments were re tion by the steamer Antilla to the States at O. H. P. Belmont's Newport turned against 36 officials and mem constitutionalists and averted a new home, Marble House, July 3. Tw o bills, one by Senator Shafroth bers of the National Association of crisis between the United States and Master Plumbers and officials of state the Huerta government, which had and the other by Senator Bristow, are organizations in Illinois, Wisconsin, threatened mediation of Mexican af before congress. The suffrage lead ers are divided as to which measure Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Neb fairs. Although the Washington officials 1 b better, but they hope to settle all raska and Iowa by the federal grand Jury. The indictments charge con expressed satisfaction over Huerta’s difficulties at the meeting. Suffrage spiracy in restraint of trade in viola action, it was persistently suggested workers from nearly all states, and tion of the Sherman anti-trust law. outside of official circles that the representatives of the congressional It is specifically alleged that the Na blockade had been suspended only union and the national American wo tional Association of Master Plumbers conditionally as a result of confer man suffrage association will partici has been operating in violation of law ences between the South American pate. mediators and the Mexican and Amer ever since its organization in 1884. Metcalfe to Make Race. ican delegates at Niagara Falls, and Omaha.— Richard L. Matcalfe, vice- that the Antilla's cargo of arms might 10,000 Workmen Strike. chairman of the committee to arrange Pittsburg.— Ten thousand workmen not be delivered at Tampico at this the formal opening of the Panama time. employed by the Westinghouse inter canal, has decided to accept the peti- ests in the plant of the Westinghouse Washington.—A new crisis in the tion filed in his behalf for the demo Electric & Manufacturing company, Mexican situation was brought about cratic nomination for governor of the the Westinghouse Machine company by President Huerta ordering gun state of Nebraska. and the Pittsburg Meter company, boats to blockade the port of Tampico struck. and to seize a cargo of ammunition Tw o Oregon items included In the Efforts will be made through the en route there for rebels aboard the sundry civil bill which will be report Oregon delegation in congress by the Antilla, from New York, flying the ed to the senate are $100,000 for Cra Portland chamber of commerce to se Cuban flag. Huerta notified the pow ter Lake and $15,000 for the improve cure an amendment to the homestead ers of his Intention to blockade the ment of the Clackamas salmon hatch act which will reduce the amount of port and that he proposed to seize ery. clearing necessary on the part of the the cargo consigned to the belliger Professor V. I. Safro, assistant in settler on a homestead in the coast ents against his sovereignty as con the entomological department of the counties of Oregon. traband of war. Oregon agricultural college has ten Determined to win for Portland the tatively accepted a position as ento 1915 national convention of the Amer Church Music Denounced. mologist at the college extension sta ican Osteopathic association, members Bloomington, Ind. — Pipe organs, tion in Montevideo, South America. of the Oregon association will con pianos and kindred musical instru The secretary of the Interior has vene Friday and Saturday. Osteo ments have no place In a church, ac awarded to W. E. Mason, of Klamath paths from all over the state will be cording to a report adopted by the Falls, the contract for the construc in attendance and the Portland con synod of the Reformed Presbyterian tion of the Lost River diversion chan tingent has arranged its affairs to be church of the United States and Can nel of the Klamath irrigation project, present at all the sessions. ada, at its meeting here. at a cost of $19,922. United States Draft Presented J une Robnett j Official's Removal Asked. Salem.— Charging that O. C. Gibbs, district attorney, is not enforcing the laws regulating the sale of intoxicat ing liquor, D. W. Thomas, a saloon owner of New Pine Creek has asked Governor West to remove the official and appoint another man. Governor West has asked the officials of the county and the state pharmacy board to make an investigation of the charge made by Thomas that a druggist of New Pine Creek has been selling li quor without a license. Red Ochre Bed Found. Sherwood— Discovery of a red ochre bed is reported on the farm of P. C. Knecht, three and a half miles south and west of Sherwood. Mr. Knecht has 220 acres, and about 20 acres are believed to be henvtly underlaid with the valuable paint component. Preliminary investigation shows that the bed starts about 16 Inches from the surface and gets better as it goes down, eight feet already having been explored. Tests have been made, with the result that chemists say It Is of extra fine quality. Hood River Cherries Sold. Hood River.—A. W. Stone, manager of the Apple Growers’ association, an nounces that the entire crop of Royal Aline cherries of the valley had been sold for 5 cents a pound f. o. b. Hood River. The lruit will be preserved and canned at The Dalles. The cher ries will be hauled by the growers to the association warehouses in apple boxes. TH E ¿$5 $!> HERALD Will co-uperate with you on any proposition for the betterment o f Central Point ami its vicinity V olume N ine NEW S fR U M NATIONAL CAPITAL T „ Administration Trust Program Bills Passed. Are Now Up to Senate N umber 7 Holmej-Brophey Miss Marguerite Holmes and Vernon o. Brophey were married Saturday, June6, in Roseburg near which place Miss Holmes has been teaching during the past school term. The bride is the accomplished daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Holmes o f this city and thegrootn is the son o f N. D. Brophy o f Medford. He was part owner o f the Union Livery barn which burned at Medford a few months ago. Both of the young people have a large circle of friends who will wish them unbounded success and happiness in the years to come. They will be at home in Talent after July 1. Washington.— All three bills on the administration trust legislation pro gramme passed the house and were sent to the senate for action. Opposition melted when the final test came, and the voting went through quickly. The Covington in terstate trade commission bill was passed without a record vote; the ; Clayton omnibus anti trust measure received 276 votes to 54 against it, and the vote on the Rayburn railroad I capitalization bill was 352 to 12. Marshdll-Rocca I The Covington trade commission bill would create a commission with Miss Lillian Marshall and Virgil Rocco broad inquisitorial powers over cor were married Wednesday at the home porations engaged in interstate com o f the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Martin Marshall, in this city. The merce. weeding was a quiet one with only the Senate May Segregate Bills. immediate relatives o f the contracting The Benate Interstate commerce parties present. committee voted to report out only The bride is one o f the well known i the trade commission measure of the and popular young ladies o f Central trust bills. The action was construed Point while the groom is a prosperous by many as an indication of limita young dairyman o f Eumclaw, Washing tion of the administration’s pro ton. The young couple left immediate gramme at the present session of con ly for their home in Washington. They gress. have the best wishes o f a large circle There was no record vote. In a gen o f friends. eral discussion some senators opposed the motion and others declared them selves opposed to the bill at the pres ent time. Chairman Newlauds said the committee later might take up supplemental legislation and Issued this statement: "Th e committee determined to seg London.— Suffragettes, for the first regate the trade commission trom the time, Sunday invaded Catholic supplemental legislation and author churches and created scenes by at ized me to present an amendment in tempting to harangue the congrega the nature of a substitute for my orig tions. Worship was disturbed in both inal bill for a trade commission. The Westminster cathedral and the committee concluded to name the Church of the Oratory, Brompton. trade commission the federal trade Father Bernard Vaughan had just commission, instead of the interstate taken his place in the pulpit in West trade commission, in order to clearly minster cathedral at the evening serv distinguish it from the interstate com ice when a woman, well-dressd and merce commission. apparently of refinement, rushed up MILITANTS INVADE CATHOLIC CHURCH States Secondary in Rate Question. A long step toward placing railroads under "one master instead of many” was taken by the supreme court In upholding the power of the interstate commerce commission to strike down state rates that discriminate against interstate commerce. The case arose out of complaint by Shreveport, La., merchants that the Texas railroad commission had shut them out of all Texas business by compelling the railroads to reduce Texas state rates far below what the interstate commerce commission al lowed the railroads running from Shreveport to Texas cities to charge. The court decided that congress had power to control Intrastate charges over an Interstate carrier to the extent necessary to prevent Inju rious discriminations against Inter state traffic und held thut congress had conferred this power upon the interstate commerce commission. the steps Into another pulpit, and, waving her arms, shouted: "In the presence of the blessed sacrament I protest against the forcible feeding of women." A band of militants interrupted the midday mass in the Church of the Oratory by chanting: “ God save Em- maltne Pankhurat and all our noble prisoners; open the eyes of this church and of the priests to put an end to the torture; in the name of the blessed Joan of Arc, hear them in their hour of need.” The growing hostility on the part o f the public was shown by assaults Sunday on several open-air meetings. Speakers were mobbed, stands were torn down and two men were saved by the police from duckings or heat ings. Hopmen Join War on Drys. Aurora.— At a meeting at Aurora the growers of that district Joined hands with the Hopgrowers’ and Deal ers’ association of Oregon In its fight The department of commerce has against prohibition. About 250 per notified Senator Chamberlain thut it sons attended the meeting, and it was has requested the treusury department the consensus of opinion that state to detail a revenue cutter to patrol wide prohibition would put an end to Greatest Wheat Crop E v e r In 8lght. the course of the regatta at Astoria, the hop industry of Oregon. _____________ j Nine hundred million bushels of July 2 and 3. State Forester Elliott announces wheat, almost a half of Che average W O U LD ABOL ISH O F F I C E S of the world’H wheat production, and that be will appoint at once about 350 P. George of Salem Submits Copy a new record for the Unite«! States, la road supervisors and about 100 other of Initiative Bill. l the prospective total yield of the persons fire wardens to work In dis Salem.— A copy of an Initiative bill farms of the country this year, the tricts which are not patroled by regu for the abolishment of the desert land department of agriculture announced lar wardens. The Grants Pass commercial club board and of the office of one of the In its June crop report. has asked for advice on how to pro state water commissioners, for the The enormous crop will be 137,000,- , reduction of the salary of the state 000 bushels more than ever was grown ceed In case the lands In the Oregou engineer, his office to be filled by I before In the United States In any A California grant suits revert to the government. The persons Interested appointment by the state land board, one year. besides a number of other changes, There also will be large yields of are appealed to. was submitted to the secretary of oats and hurley, probably second in Notice of Dissolution of I’drlnership state by VV. P. George of Salem for size In the history of the nation. approval as to form. The measure, To whom it may ernrern: National Capital Brevities. which covers the recommendations Notice is hereby given that the firm President Wilson requests that, for o f Farra & DeVore was dissolved on made by Governor West, Is being ini sentimental reasons, the Lincoln mem the Sixth day o f March, 1914, when tiated by Mr. George. Governor West declares that the orial highway pass through Washing Fred D. Farra withdrew from the busi measure, if enacted into law, will cut ton. ness leaviug same in the hands o f J. U. Few senators expect debate on the DeVore who will collect all accounts the expenses of the desert land board, state water board, and the state en trade 'commission bill to end In less and be responsible for all bills contract gineer’s office in half. Appropriations i than two months. At present the pros- ed from that date. Signed, for these departments by the last leg- pects for adjournment before the mid- — Fred I). Farra. Islature amounted to 110,000 for the die of August, or even later, are not A party was given Tuesday evening desert land board, $40,000 for the state bright. There are Indications that the in by Miss Laura McDowell in honor of water board and $14.1,800 for the state engineer's office. The appropriations quiry into the affairs of the New York, the boys o f the Oregon National Guards for the state engineer Include the $60,- New Haven & Hartford railroad by who leave today for Fort Stevens for 000 for the water power surveys, $15,- the Interstate commerce commission g ten days sojourn o f resl soldier camp 11/#. A very delightful evening was 000 for Celilo Investigation and $45,- will be completed this week. President Wilson went through the sp»-nt in playing games, music ami 000 for topographic and hydrographic evidence on which the Indianapolis fori ns o f socisl amusement. An elabor- work. dynamiters were convicted A million ate I unch was one o f the feature« o f Desplte threatening weather condi laboring men have petitioned him to the evening. Thoee present were: tions the crowds at the Lebanon extend executive clemency. 1 MisseM Laura McDowell, Martha Ramey strawberry festival were greater on Narratives of the bravery of enlist- Bertha Welch, Fern Abbott, Rose the closing day than on the first day. ed men of the navy and marine corps Neale, Bessie Randall, Clara Grim. Auto parades were better than ever during the fighting at Vera Crux on j Dorris Cowley, and Mildred Hawk. before April 21 and 22 were Included In Rear- Messm. Ren Ramey, Alvin Williams, Misses Mary and Eleanor B. Bloom Admiral Fletcher’s report of the Mexi Jesse Ingram, Bob Winningham, Hugo field, daughters of Sir Arthur Bloom can port s seizure, made public by Lang«:, J im Ross, and Lowell Grim. field. managed to get Inside of the the navy department. Royal Palace, London, and offer up Two measures are to be pressed as Through the courtesy of Dr. E. Davis a plea for woman suffrage to the king. quickly as the appropriation bill Is we have a le tter from the secretary of They were ejected. out of the way. They are the Moon the (»rants P. >»• Commercial club g iv Automobiles may be bought for an postoffice bill, providing for railway ing full inform ation regarding the pro average of $500 each and the upkeep mail pay readjustments and opening posed trip to the Oregon caves next will be about $10 a month, within the up the assistant postmast erahlps Monday. The I. ttter is so long and was next ten yeers, according to Dr. C. P. throughout the country to competitive received so near our time o f going to 8tefnmeltz, In a statement at the Na examinations, and the general dam Prexs that we are unable to publish it tional Electric Light association, Phil bill, which is before the bouse for but any one plan ning on making the adelphia. action on a moment's neUca. trip can see the let ter at this office. »