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PAGE TWO CENTRAL POINT AMERICAN An In d ep en dent W eekly P np er PublU hed a t C en tral P oint, O re fo n , and E n tere d T hursday of each w eek in th e P o ato ffiee th ereo f a t S econd Claaa M a tte r JOHN B. SHE LEY and NETTIE B. SHELEY, Editors CLARENCE SHELEY, Business Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES .................... » 1.00 Six Months ............. .......... » 2.00 One Year All Subscriptions Must Be Paid in Advance A dv ertisin g R ates G iven on A pplication THURSDAY, JULY 8. 1926 Oregon News Items of Special interest « ( B rief R esum e of H ap p en gins of th e W eek C ollected R eaders THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1926 CENTRAL POINT AMERICAN fo r O ur Oiling of the Mount Hood loop high will be succeeded with the commis way has been completed. sion by A. F. Harvey of Portland. Clackamas county had 29 divorce« A total of approximately »218.000 In Juae, according to reports on file. will be distributed to employers who contributors to the state industrial At a regular meeting of the Newport are accident through the annual city council Mias Ada Ford wai elect dividend of fund 10 per cent declared by ed city recorder. the accident commission. The refund Building permit« Issued In Salem will be based on the contributions during the first six months of 1926 made by each employer during the aggregate »1,468,020. year. All firemen and lookouts In the San- That the railroads affected by the tlam forest are now at their stations, recent order of the interstate com according to Supervisor C. C. Hall. merce commission covering railroad Plans for financing and reopening construction in central Oregon, are the Sumpter smelter are being develop not complying with the terms of the ed. It Is planned to begin operations order, but are deliberately side-step October 1. ping the issue and postponing action Oregon finished 16th among the to the great detrim ent of the entire states of the union In the nation-wide state of Oregon was charged by the membership contest conducted by the Ot'fegon public service commission, In American Legion. a telegram sent to the interstate com With the termination of the cereal merce commission. year June 30, there had bedn export A total of 928 accidents, including ed from Portland 17,269,538 bushels of three fatalities, were reported to the wheat, valued at »25,690,254. state industrial accident commission A revision of the Oregon game code for the week ending July 1. Workmen will be sought when the legislature reported as losing their lives were convenes In January, according to E. Irwin E. Keith, car loader, Pengra; Arthur Connelly, lineman. Grants F. Avertll, state game warden. Forty-four dentists have been ad Pass; Albert H. Lewis, electrician, mitted to practice In Oregon as the Portland. result of recent examinations conduct Senator Stanfield indorsed an ed by the Oregon state board of den amendment to the Chamberlaln-Ferris tal examiners. act to strike out the apportionment of Collections In the Oregon customs 40 per cent of the proceeds from sale district for the year ending June 30 of the timber on the Oregon & Cali were »1,258,162, establishing a new fornia grant laipis to the reclamation high mark. Receipts for the month fund and divide that portion between the state of Oregon and counties in of June were »139.645.. The Interstate commerce commis which the lands lie. sion has granted the Central Pacific Threshing prices have been fixed In railway an extension to November 1 in Linn county by the sack as follows: which to construct its proposed Eu | Oats. 15 cents; barley, 18 cents, and | wheat, 22 cents, and by the hour, »12 gene Klamath Falls railway. Forest fires which have menaced j for six-team, »14 for eight-team and millions of feet of white pine timber »16 for 10-team outfits. Wages will be adjacent to Klamath Falls are now | paid as follows: Three dollars a day under control and fire fighters have for sack man, »2.50 a day for laborers, and »4 a day for man with team. nearly all been relieved from duty. Mandamus proceedings to compel The right of the city of Portland and Secretary of State Knier to Include the validity of an ordinance giving the water power bill initiated by the the right to construct the Front street housewives council of Portland, on the Intercepting sewer and drainage sys November ballot are to be Instituted tem and a sea wall at a cost of about »2 068,620 were upheld in an opinion of at once. supreme court in the case of the Consolidation of the first and sec the Pioneer Real Estate company, appel ond Portland districts, corps of engi lant, against the city of Portland. neers, U. 8. A., has been carried out under date of July 1 and the future de The Stanfield bill refunding taxes signation la to be Portland, Oregon. on the ex-Oregon & California Rail road company grant lands since 1916 Engineer district. by the senate under unani In a telegram to the Prairie Power was passed consent. It will reimburse 18 company at Canyon City the public mous In Oregon and one In Wash service commission gavo that corpora counties Ington to the extent of about »5,000,- tion 24 hours in which to Install emer according to advance estimates. gency equipment to relieve electrical 000, The same bill has already passed the power shortage there. house. The validity of a Salem city ordl- Authority to construct an overhead naace levying a tax against stages, crossing at Sixth street In Klamath taxicabs and busses operating over the Falls over the tracks of the Central streets of the city was attacked In an Pacific railroad is sought In a petition Injunction suit filed In the circuit court filed by the city of Klamath Falls and by the Oregon Stages. Inc. the Central Pacific railroad with the Roy C. Hogan, 45. at Eugene, shot public service commission. The city. and killed his wife. Mrs Clara C. Ho It Is understood. Is ready to finance gan, 40, fatally wounded her brother. one half of the construction cost, esti Chester D. Edwards. 54. and then turn mated at approximately »62.000. ed his revolver upon himself and klH- initiative measures, including ed himself Instantly by sending a j two Four on Income tax. one on fishing and bullet through hta brain. j one on bus and truck operation, will Twentyflve acres of wheat were be placed on the November election burned near Vansycle from fire which ballot, five failed to obtain places and Is thought to have been caused by a the fate of another was In doubt, when cigarette falling In a hay wagon The filing time for the petitions closed at farm hands Jumped from the load and Salem July I. The measure In doubt the frightened horses raced through was the water larwer bill sponsored the field, spreading the fire. by the Housewives Council of Port Harvest of winter wheat, oats and land barley la becoming more general, with Irrigation projects In Oregon are yields varying from very poor to ex 1 fhced with the most serious water cellent, saya the weekly crop summary shortage In the history of Irrigation of the weather bureau. The extreme la this state, according to Rhea Laper. heat caused rapid ripening of winter state engineer The only projects grains and was unfavorable for grain which still have an adequate supply of not already fully developed. water are those with storage facilities. F. J Burns, who has been on the Virtually all of the shortage Is being staff of the Oregon public service com experienced by projects and indlvid mission for the past five years as ex uals depending upon the direct flow am iner and rate expert, has resigned to of streams, such stream s In Oregon accept a position as traffic manager at this time, being at an unusually tor the Oregon sjtage Lines, lac Burns | low stage Two new gold strikes have brought REAL ESTA TE TRANSFERS fhe gold fever at Grants Pass to a higher pitch than ever. The Brittany | (Furnished by Jackson County Ab mine strike, eight miles west of Kerby, stract Com pany) was made on a vein five feet wide, J. W. Sargent et ux to J. • L. carrying free gold in quarts resemb I Yantis et ux W. D. »10, W Vi of lots ling the Robertson ore at Gallce. The I 3 and 4, EVi of lots 5 and 6, Blk second strike was in the Afterthought 4, SW V4 of lot 5 Blk 5 Pierce sub- mine in Jackson county, near Apple- ; division. gate postoffice. The ore Is not as rich as that of the Rrlttany or Robertson F rank Saulsberry e t ux to Julia strikes, but carries free gold which W illiams W. D. 10, Lots 5 and 6 owners state runs seyeral hundred dol Blk 35 Jacksonville. lars to the ton. Taking a ladder which was being Jam es A. Sargent et ux to Jacob used on construction work at the rear L. F ryer e t ux W. D. »10, Lot in of the state flax plant and working Riverdale tracts. within view of at least thre6 guard E. W ynkoop to H. E. W irth towers, four convicts scaled the'w all et Perry ux W. D. »10, P t lot 1 Blk 3 of the state prison at Salem, cut their B arr’s Add to Medford. way through the wire entanglem ents surmounting the wall with a hatchet John Thomas to Wm. E. M aynard and escaped unseen. The four are: e t ux Q. C. D. »10, Ld in DLC 69 Richard Moore, sent up from Mult nomah county; W alter Fisher, sent up Twp 37 S, R 2 W est from Jefferson county; Elliott Mitch- J. W. Lindsay et ux to R A. ener and Richard Franzien, sent up Peeh et ux W. D. $2400 lot 2 blk 1 from Multnomah county. Newtown Add to M edford. Oregon monthly pensions have been granted as follows: Portland: William Andrew H. Fisher e t ux to W. McIntosh, »25; Fred L. Cowles, Adolphus H. Houston W. D. »10, »20; Leon W. Slattery, »20; Francis Lots in Phoenix. W. Huntington, »40; Percy B. Gibson, »30; Aaron Hart, »40; Ida A. Leigh- Adolphus H. Houston to Andrew ner, »30; Jam es H. Loshbough; Arch H. Fisher et ux W. D. »10, Lots in ibald R. W right, »25; Albert T. Ander Phoenix. son, »20; Alfred S. Johnson, »20; Vic tor Lindburg, »20; William H. Farring F. E. M errick et ux to E. M. ton, »30; Louis F. Rollwage, Tigard. Tucker W. D. »5500, lot on N. River »20; Grant McClellan Reedsport, »20; side avenue Medford. Charles W. Johnson, Oswego. »25; Wil J. C. Parties ct ux to Jackson liam E. Lamb, Roseburg. »40; Daniel county W. D. »1, Right of way over Conner, »20. land in Howard park. An lntei:sive survey of approximate ly «0,000 acres of yellow pine in the George B. Young et ux to F. H. country south of Bend recently tapped Dressier W. D. »10, Ld in DLC 84 by the Eugene-Klamath Falls line of Twp 37 S, R 2 W est. the Southern Pacific is to be made this J. H. Newton et ux to J. M. Knox lumm er under the supervision of Fred A. Matx of the district forest office. et ux W. D. $10, Lot on S. C entral He will be assisted by student forest Ave M edford. irs from universities and colleges in W. H. L everette et ux to A leta A. various parts of the United States. The primary purpose of the survey is to Nelson W. D. $10, lot 11 blk 58 Med ebtain accurate data relative to the ford. amount and types of tim ber in the area W alter H. Leverette e t ux to lust south of Crescent. The work If A leta A. Nelson W. D. »10, Lot 10 b start shortly. blk 3 Park Add to M edford. M. J. Estes et al to J. A. Hem- street et ux W. D. »10, Lot 3 Blk 3 Palm ’s Add to Medford. Claude M. Houston et ux to Robt. E. Shinn W. Da »1, Lot' 11 Blk 2 Palm Add to M edford. City of M edford to D«4ia Dallaire et vir W. D. $550 lot 1 B lk|73, Med ford. J. E. Wild et ux to F rank H. Bara- thouse et ux W. D. »10, N 43 ft of S 54 ft of Lot 4, in H. B. C arter Add to Ashland. C arolina Johnson et vir to S. S. M ontgomery W. D. »10, Ld in Sec 15 Twp 34 S, R 1 W est. H. H. Shaw e t ux to J. S. Kinsey W. D. »10, Ld in Sec 34 Twp 34 S, R 1 W est. Dollie E. Lanham to E. R. Barker W. D. $1, Lots in Gold Hill. N ear the north end of the Lake of the Woods, on the shore of Rain bow Bay there is a busy colony a t work. This color.;- is clearing and laying out the site of the new Lake of the Woods Chalets. There are to be a num ber of these Chalets, or Swiss m ountain huts. Each chalet will be furnished complete and dou ble floored to protect against cold weather. L ater on there will be a larger building, a lodge th a t will serve as a hotel. Mr. Gleason, who is prom oting and supervising this en terprise, is a man of vision and orig inality. His plan is to keep an all year round resort. Fishing, bathing, boating for the sum m er’s attractions with hunting, skating, ice-boating and skiing for the w inter’s sport.— Ashland Tidings. F o r H ir .----F o rd ro a d s te r tru c k — 75c day, 3.50 w eek. W ANTED TO TRADE— Good town property fo r small, improved tract of land near C entral Point. Inquire a t this office. 4p in. H ouse fo r R en t— F ive room s, d o te In q u ire a t th is o ffice. ,if U f U f /..V f SE R V W E LL Magneto Charging Station At the Independent Garage Central Point, Oregon Drive in and have your Ford Magneto tested F R E E A fully charged Magneto gives your motor more efficiency and saves gasoline. We have just installed the latest up-to-date Magneto Tester and Charger. Also Coil and Plug Tester. The only Tester and Re charger of this make in Southern Oregon. If you have electricity at your farm we can drive out. Test and Charge your Ford Mag neto and start your car. Charges at garage: Magneto Tested, Free Recharging - $ 1.00 Mileage will he added for country drives G E N Z E L rTxvnnTi g B ffli H ffl ¿vm fl» » gygfw m m~?ma