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MISDtfOIiD, OWKJON, TUKHDAY, AUGUST 29, 1911.
No. 186.
COUNTY COURT TO NAME ROAD BOARD
Permanent Highways to Be Built Under Contract System According to Approved Specifications, Sas Judge Neil
JUDGE NEIL DEFINES POSITION
' OE COUNTY COURT
REGARDNG
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ROADS AN
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Cost to County In Taxation of Ouml Issue Less Than Under Present Sys
tem of Unsatisfactory and Makeshift Highways Will Name Com
mittee of Five Lcndlnp. Citizens to Select Roads to Do First Con
structed and Specify How Thoy Shall Be Built Bonds Not to Bo
Issued at One Time, but as Needed In Actual Construction.
UnplIAT the interests (if the people in nil parts of .Jaek-
son county may he safeguarded in ovovy way, .1
agree that, if the good roads hond issue is sustained at
the coming election, that, (ho county court will name a
commiMeu of five citizens and taxpayers lo select (he
roads (hat should he first construc(ed and specify how
thoy should ho luiill and that the county court will proceed
lo Imil d.sai droads hy contract (o (he lowest and hest hid
dor."
This is a paragraph from a statement (o (ho people of
.faclcson couu(y from County .Judge J. H. Neil, discussing
the highway situation and (he proposed hond issue of
$ I .nO(),()00 for (he cons( ruction of a permanent svsfom of
highways. .Judge Ned covers (he situation thoroughly
from all viewpoints, as follows:
Mrs, Cleveland Fights. Fire
BOARDMAN IS
FREE: EVIDENCE
WS
ACKNG
Discovers New Pest
TO Till-; PEOPLE OP JACKSON
COUNTY';
It inny tic Htiperfloim to ndvnnri
(lull what .luckmiii futility, if not til
whole slide, probably need num
tlinn imylliiiiu' elmt in a y.ttin ol
jjrtotl j-mihIk Hint ill reduce the rout
if trAiijtrlUtliUvir II to u mini,
iiiiitn Id Mity nothing of Did tmtirifiiu
t i i i of tnnolinc over It if on pleas
urn liciit. Tli in in a buiM'M prop.)
xilion llint hurt inhi'iilcil itself U
every prosperous, wideawake !
inanity, and is ono that must nlv
be olved hy .IiicKhoii county. He
volution at ii fill u ro time would
uii'tiii liiinui'iitl Iom of coiiMiiloriililt
iniiorlioiiH lo (he mo)o at liuti'
ItriHit iiicoiiviininiii'iiH ami would rltu;
tho wheels of irngret mill hiiimum.
To orflnhlMi roitilH that will iiiih
wer every purMne, bo permanent and
require, lilllo repair after thoy arc
luiill, it h ni'i'iwiHnrv to provide Mif
ficienl means. Therefore at l!i'
Migonlimi of many of the taxpayer
of tho county, Hut I'liuuly emirl hns
enlled a Niri'ial oliMitiou, to ho hold
September .'lOJh,1 In deeidn whether
tho pitolo are in favor of bonding
Iho county in tho sum of .fl'fiOO.tlOO
piiyahlo in twenty yearn, to pay fir
hiu'Ii hnprovi'uiiint. II lm In-ui
I'oiiipufiil hv I'xperls in HiIh lino Unit
this hiiui of iiioih'v is none too big
to ni'i'oiiiplihh tho purpose for which
it in intended,
.liudjHon I'oimly Ik one of tho iiiohI
in immense ninnmit of work muht
lie ildno to Imild mh'Ii a hvstotn of
roads ax is demanded. There is no
intention to iw these ImmkIh at one
timo. It Mould lm entirely unueoes-
wiry lo ilo no. Tho construction of
tho rotitlh miller the prntord plan
wuiini ooiiHiiiiin lour or livo yearn
ami lho liomN will lio issued only ntj
iho money i required. Jleueo they
will not draw intercut until they
pnriH into tho hands of tho purchas
er. At five Mir cent iuterext the
ImiihIk would find ready huyern and
a Milistanlial preininin would ho oh
lained hiwidex.
There mjciiis to ho nit idea nre-
vailiut; Unit the immnuco of (Iicho
ImhhIh would inorease tnxaliou. Thin
in oorlainly without foiimlntioii.
Kven when all of tho ImuhIh are in.
niied-Miy fio yearn houcc-lho an
nual intore.st ehnrne lo ho raised hy
taxation would lie only ..7.ri,000. The
amount of taxable, property on the
auniwhinent roll for 101 1 will up
proximately ho $10,000,000 ami it
would reipiiro a levy of Ions than
two millx on the dollar lo meet the
entire iitno on Iho whole issue if
IiouiIh for ono year.
In round umiihcrH, it now reipiires
ul least $100,0(10 per annum to pur
sue (ho present method of road itu-
prnvei its which have proved so
unsatisfactory and this epens(, m
Hleailily hecomiiiK greater. At the
BUCKET BRIGADE
EIGHTS BLAZE IN
CLEVELAND HOME
ItcMiIentH of Tamworth, N II., aro
Htlll (IIhcubhIui; how Mra. Orovor
Clovolainl and her children formed a
bucket tirlRiido and nsHliited Wllllnin
O, Cook, ner caretaker or Mrs. CIovo
InadV eHtato, In Or.htliiK a flro which
munnced their liomo. Cook received
InJiirleH from which ho Jiiay dlo. Tho
flumcH woru In a Rtis Iioiiho a short
dli'tauco from tho homo.
Mm. Clcvehtnd and her children
rtiitiied froni the. hoime at lho Bound
of an oxplorton and Immediately set
to work. Mm. Cleveland carried bov
eral ImcketH of water to tho burning
building, whllo her children brought
freHh Hiipi'llcs by runnlug to and
fKi mthelr homo to tho gan Iioiiho.
Justice Taylor States That Court
Was Not Presented With Enough
Facts to Warrant Holding of Butte
Falls Man Accused of Settinrj Fire.
CASE BROUGHT BY THE
STATE BOARD OF FORESTRY
Iiiiiioi Imil counties of tho slain and1 (CmMnuoil Krom I'ago Two.)
PARCEL PD8T SERVICE
WASHINGTON, 1). C. Aiir. 20.
Parcels post service, increase of seo
oiul class mail rales and changes in
(he system of compeusaliiii; the rail
troads for mail transportation are
amouj; the recommendations which
Postmaster General Hitchcock will
include in his annual report to the
president.
Hitchcock's idea rojrnnlhif; the
parcels wst us evpluincd here today
contemplate the introduction of the
service on the rural mail routes firhl
and later gradual cNtcnsion to Mie
cities and railway mail service.
FOREST FIRES
EXTINGUISHED
Supervisor Erlckson Loslnii Worried
Look as Season Passes Without
Serious Blaze No Fires In Forest
at Present Time.
One by ono lho lit Ilo wrinkles
which depict worry aro disappearing
from Iho clushio brow of M. i. Krick
mni, supervisor of lho Ornlor Nation
al l'Vest, as lho days go by one by
one, drawing closer to tho time when
a fall rain bliull come, lo cud tlio
11)11 fotcst 1'iro hciikoii. Not u sin
gle, blao is burning now within the
courines of tho Cralet Nutioual l''or
esl and although forty fires have
Marled this season not ono has
caused any considerable amount of
damage, owing lo Iho vigilant wntoh
kepi on tho fotcst. hast year at this
lime i'lvo companies of soldiers were
engaged in lighting (ho fires in tho
forest.
While Mr. Krioksnu and his men
are not "out of tho woods" yol, onuh
day brings the end of tho i'iio season
nearer and lllifl in tho reason thu
aforesaid Hit lo wrinkles are, ailcnjly
olio hy one, imssiiifj away.
REFUSES TO
ENFORCE THE LAW
E. S. Van Dyko, Deputy District Att orncy Under Mulkcy Says He Has
No Intention of Preventing, lllcrjal Flshlnn In Roquo River
Can Uso Nets or Gaffs In Taklnn Salmon.
District Attorney h. v. Mulkoy Is
to ho naked to demand an explanation
or I-:. H. Van Dyko, doputy district
attorney of Grants Vn&a, for state
ments accredited to Van Dyko recent
ly during a trial of two men for (Mo
ral risking In tho Uoguo near Grants
Pass. Van Dyko Is roported to huvo
stated that ho "him no Intention of
preventing rosldojiita of this city
(Grants Puna) from taking salmon
from tho Iloguo and that tho way
thoy take thorn makes llttlo dlffor
onro." Further, Van Dyko Is said to
havo stated that tho law closing tho
Koguo river was not supposed to af
foet Grants Pass resldontH who socuro
Con(lauoil on I'nsn 6.)
CHAMP GLARK CALLS TAFT INGRATE
QUINCY, 111., Aug. anHojilylng
to Prealdont Taft's Bpeech dollvorod
at Hamilton, Mass., last week, Speak
er Chump Clark of tho Iioiiho of rop
reiieutatlves todny gavo tho oxocutlvo
a sharp grilling, saying that If It had
not boon for tho Iioiiho democrats Taft
would ho today a thoroughly discred
ited official.
In charging tho presldonl with In
'gratitude' Clark assorted that .tho
Hamilton sioeeh was a "bald mis
Htutdmojit gf hlHlorlcul facts,"
"I porsonally accept Taft'H on
slaught as a Imdgo of honor," said
tho democrat lo spoakor. "Ills attack
on tho democrats 1b ungrateful," In
stated Clark, "hucauso It It had not
boon for tho democrats In tho houso
of tho Gist and G2il enngressea In lin
ing up unanimously In favor of Can
adian reciprocity ho would havo boon
tho most thoroughly dlBcrodlted pros,
tdent filneo tho days of Androw Johnson."
Witnesses Against Boardman Showed
Themselves to Be His Enemies
and Weakened Testimony.
Justice of tho Peaco Glenn O. Tay
lor Tuesday morning freed B. B.
Itoardman of Hutto Falls and allowed
him to go. Uoardman was recently
arrested charged with setting and
threatening lo set forest fires in the
privately owned timber In the vicin
ity of Hutto Falls. Justlco Taylor In
mnklng his decision stated that the
caBO wan a close one, hut that enough
cvldenco had not been presented to
tho court to warrant binding Donrd
tnan over to tho grand Jury or to
pUco tho man under bond.
Tho caso was brought a few days
ago by K. C. Lewli. special agent of
tlio tnto boarder fqreatry, which
ook up tho caso on tho request of
Kdgar S. Hnfcr, manager of tho Cra
ter I.nko Lumber company. Scvoral
fires havo been set In the holdings of
ho company and recently Mr. Hafor
received n theatenlng letter through
tho mails In which much vile tan
gling owns used nud tho threat made
that tho writer of tho letter would
burn the company out. Mr. Hater
suspected Iloardnmn following evi
dence given him by Hoardman's
neighbors and It was Hoardman that
l4)wis started to watch. I.ater Lowls
hnd the warrant Issued and tho case
called.
Two of tho witnesses brought to
testify against Mr. Hoardman Bhow
ed cvldenco of being bitter enemies
of tho accused man, and this dam
aged their evidence. Justlco Taylor
stated this morning that tho caso was
n closo one, but that tho evidence
was not strong enough to hold Uoard-mnn.
STRIKE SEEMS
A CERTAINTY
Pcrslstancc of Employes In Federa
tion Plan Likely to Bring About
Speedy Tie-up of Southern Pa
cific Lines.
SAN FllANCISCO, Aig. 29. Flat
declaration of war If tho shopmen of
tho Harrlman lines porslst In tho
domund of tho system fedorntlon was
mado hero today.
Tho position of tho roads wns sot
forth by tho Hnrrlman Hues In n
statement hy F. G. Abeam, bond of
tho bureau of economics, tho princi
pal public vohlhlo of tho roads. It
roads:
"Lot tho shopmon present tholr do
mnnds through tho hoads of tholr In
dividual unions and thoy will bo con
sidered. If tho doumuds aro present
ed through tho officials of tho fed
oriiUonVhey will rocolvo no recognition."
Disguising hla declaration In a mazo
of words, Kruttschuttt states that tho
railroads under his control cannot
nud will not recognise any fedorntlon
of the unions under tholr employ. Ho
assorted formally that ho will cnufor
with J. W. Kllno aa prealdont o( tho
blacksmiths; J. A. Frankllu'liB pres
ident of tho hollormakors; M. F. Ryan
aa prealdont of tho enrworkors: M.
O'Sulllvnn na prealdont of tho sheet
metal workors and J. D. Duckalowl
as vlco-piosldoiU of tho machinists,
fc
.sifc
LIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIV'" 'LiiiiiiiiiK
NEW DISEASE
S FOUND HERE
CALLCONGRESS
OS
PPERS ON
Profchnor P. J. O'Gara, Pathologist,
U. H. Oep.irtnicnt of Agriculture,
and In cliarge of field rork In Jack
sou county.
ALL ARMY OFFICERS
TO BE VACCINATED
AGAINST TYPHOID
BYP.J.O'GARA
New Crown at Root Trouble of Al
falfa Which Has Never Before
Been Found In United States Ap
pears in This Valley.
O'GARA HAS LONG BEEN
MAKING STUDY OF IT
Department of Agriculture Confirms
His Suspicions Was First Dis
covered in Europe.
WASHINGTON', D. C. Aug. 29.
Beginning today every officer and en
listed mnn in tho United States army
must submit to vaccination against
typhoid fever except thoso over 45
ycara, or who have already been vaq
clnaicd or havo had tho disease. The
order is compulsory and was Issued
by tho secretary of war on tho rec-
ombmcndntlon of Surgeon. General
Terney.
Tho recommendation was made
only after cxbaustivo tests with tho
vlrua.
CUMMINS DECLARES
FOR BOB LA FOLLETTE
WASHINGTON, D. C. Aug. 29.
Senator Cummins of Iowa todny has
openly announced his opposition to
President Taft as tho next executive
nud -Jus support of Senator LuFol-
lette.
It is said that tho Iowa senator,
despairing of his own chances of se
lection us n compromise candidate'
and lingered nt tho president's at
tack on tho tariff record of the pro
gressives, has chosen LaFollotte.
Cummins, however, has becu careful
to leave a loophole in case tho un
suspected should happen. His en
dorsement of tho Wisconsin senator,
wbilo strong, does not definitely com
mit him.
Professor P. J. O'Qnra hns discov
ered a disease prevalent in the alfal
fa fields of this valley, which, co
far as is known by the government
authorities is the first time that it
has appeared in the United States.
During the past three months he has
been studying tho trouble and has
just hnd his suspicions confirmed by
the mycologist in charge in the de
partment of agriculture. Professor
P. J. O'Gara tells the story as fol
lows :
(By P. J. O'Gara.)
Sometime ngo several specimens
of alfalfa plants were brought into
the laboratory for examination. The
grower stated that there were larpo
patches in his fields where just such
plants had died; or, at lehst, had
failed to grow. A hasty examination
showed that tho trouble was some
thing new and systematic work was
begun to determine the causo of the
trouble. In tho meantime, a careful
survey of tho valley showed that the
trouble is more or less widespread.
The affected plant3 show numer
ous galls upon the crowns and
roots, these galls or tumors greatly
inhibiting tho growth of tho young
shoots which come from tho crown
Some specimens with tho roots very
well developed, but with a Inrge num
ber of galls near the crown, only de
veloped a few weak shoots not more
thnn six or eight inches high while
the healthy plants near by developed
shoots fully two and a half to three
feet high and in large numbers.
A careful examination of the dis
eased plants showed that tho trou
ble was indeed new; not ouly to the
valley itself, but fo tha United States.
In bulletins published by tho differ
ent stations no ( mention is rande of
it as occcurring in the United States;
in fact, these bulletins stnto that tho
trouble does not occur in the United
States. Wo have references showing
SEPTEMBER 28
Medford Traffic Bureau Asks Com--merclal
Organizations of State to
Send Delegates to Discuss Situa
tion and Formulate Program.
EQUITABLE RATES TO
INTERIOR POINTS SOUGHT
- f h .i A i
Initiative Bill to Be Presented
State Commission Asked to
Postpone Hearing.
(Continued on rase J.)
ACCUSED YOUTH TO GO ON STAND
Virginian to Take Stand in His Own Behalf to Try and Clear Himself
From Chargo of Murdering Wife Paul Beattle's Story
Implicate s Cousin.
CHESTER FIELD COURT HOUSE,
Va., Aug. 29 From Henry Clay Ho
attio, Jr., himself will oomo tho story
of his night rido with his wifo which
resulted in tho murdor for which tho
young banker is now on trinl.
Attorney Harry bnuth, clnof coun
sel for tho defenso, said this aftor
noon that lloattio will surely tako
tho stand nud attempt to set at rest
tho suspicion that has been woven
about tho ease. Smith says it will
bo much better for Beuttio to toll
from his own lips the conversations
nnd notions which many others have
boon testifying about.
That Heat tio will assail lho story
(Continued on Pace 4.)
PREPARATION FOR STRIKE IS MADE
ClIICACiO. Aug. 20. Preparing for
tho worst, comploto arrangomonts for
an Immediate striko will bo mado bo-
foro tha "systom todoratlou" officials
ropresontlng tho Illinois Control em
ployes ontor Into any conforonco with
tho railroad managers regarding tho
domnnds for recognition of tho federation.
Prolonged conferences woro hold
today hy union officials, but no stnto
mont will bo given nut until tonight.
Railroad officials likewise decline to
talk, but It is understood thoy firm
ly rofuso to rocogulzo tho fedorntlon.
Although 4000 only employes of
tho Illinois Central havo affiliated
with tho federation, union loadors pre
dict that all men will go out it n
strike Is called.
At a meeting of tho directors of
tho Medford Traffic bureau held Mon
day evening It was decided to call a
shippers' congress to meet at Salem
September 28 to discuss railroad
freight rates for Interior points and
agree upon concerted action In tho
matter of securing reductions and es
tablishing cqultnblo rates. Every
commercial or shippers' organlaztlon
in the stale will bo asked to send
delegates. Tho matter of Initiating
legislation to establish a maximum
disanco tablo of rates to bo applied
to tho. entire, .BtataP will, .also-Jt
brought before the congress.
Tho traffic bureau has requested
tho stato railroad commission to
postpone for GO or 90 days tho hear
ing made on its own initiative of the
rate situation scheduled for the lat
ter part of September, In order that
It may have time to properly preparo
and present Medtord'a case.
Secreatry B. A. Welch is today
sending out tho following letter to
the various commercial clubs of tho
stato:
Gentlemen: Wo enclose n resolu
tion ndopted'by tho Medford Traffio
Bureau asking your cooperation in
a campaign for an initiative bill es
tablishing a maximum distance table
of rates to bo applied for tho cntiro
state, and prohibiting any donation
from this schedule in tho granting of
lesser distance class rates. Equit
able rates for nil, ono schedule of
distance class for tho entire state,
will bo lho slogan, nnd wo ask thnt
your body adopt similar resolutions.
The Oregon shipper must dotcr
mino his own rates, and if tho stato
railroad commission does not attend
to this matter properly nnd mako
equituble adjustments, wo must ex
ercise tho initiative nnd in bo fur us
a uniform maximum distance tariff
is concerned, voto it into oxistenco
and make it prohibitive of preferen
tial system now in vogue and which
Portlnnd will seek to continue if not
to enlarge.
Tho ideal adjustment is found in
Illinois, nnd tho growth of tho in
terior cities of that stato oxemplify
its benefits nnd tho snmo adjustment
in principle should bo in forco hore.
Siuco tho passago of this resolu
tion, tho stato railroad commission,
which has failed to render decision
in cases pending boforo it for ono
year, brought by Medford, has an
nounced an "investigation" of rates
ou hs own initintivo on thirty dnys'
notice loo short a timo for any
city to prepare its caso. Wo hnvo,
thorforo asked a CO or 00-dny post
ponement of this hearing that wo
may properly propnro for it.
To tho end 'hat tho interior points
of Oregon may work togothor for
tho common good of nil, wo horo
with request thut vour bodv ntmomt
dolegntes to meet with representa
tives from other cities in a shippers'
congress nt Salem, Oregon, Sept. 28
1911, and tjiorcat formulato a pro
gram of notion,
Thoro is no politics in this a bus
iness movo by business mon for bus
iness purposes, Kindly let us hoar
trom you, whothor wo may oxpeot
your cooperation nnd whether you
will bo represented at tlio Snlem
congress of shippers.
Yours slncorely
MEDFORD TRAFFIC BUREAU,
By E. A. Weleh, Secretary.
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