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STEDFORD MATT TRTTSUXR MEDFOT?T ' OIIErtOW FRIDAY. JANUARY 10, 1917
K.U.KM, dr., .Inn. 1!). Semite
juiiU iiu'iiiortihl No, 'J, momoriuluiuu:
congress In rniit mi appropriation ul'
fji;t!l(),imil fur the improvement ol" the,
, lnu lmr nt Creseent City, Cnl., is not,
lit all pleasing to the Coos nml Curry
ileleiitions in the le;jiNlnture, wlio;
) up a ha Til t'iht auaiu-t n favor-
nhle lvpurt when it eame before the
Ihhim eoinmittee. As a result tlu-j
eommittee held it in its bosom to ejvej
tlie (tele.L'ation time to prepare tlataj
.showing why it .hnultl not be adoptel.
The memorial lias the united sup-!
prl of the .Jaekson and Josephine)
.flinty deh'pjilions, who emti-ml that
the improvement of the harbor would'
yive the Koue river section a direet
outlet to the sea and result in savinjr
rtt Minis annually in 1'reii-bt eluu-i;es.;
Adoption !s Ired, j
At the speeial hearing before the'
committee yesterday Senator,!. C.
Smith of Josephine and Dr. Sweeney!
and Mr. (lore went to bat for the
adoption of the memorial. They con
tended that their section of the state
is bottled np by the Southern l'aeifie,
that it is paying the highest freight
rates on the l'aeifie coast, and that
it means bread and butter to their
sections of the country to have an
outlet to the oeeaiywith resultant wa
ter rates.
They were favoring Crescent City,
they said, because "it bad been recom
mended by the war department that
the appropriation be made provided
that district would meet if half way,
which has been done in a preliminary
way by the authorization of $100,110(1
ef bonds by Del Xorte comity.
Vtnts am! Curry Oppeises.
Tichenor and iVck of the Coos and
r. Curry delegations fouirht t tie memor
f ial, contending that it was ajraiust the
interest of the fort Orfnrd and Coos
bay harbors and that if the federal
government made the Crescent City
appropriation it would result in
neither of the Oregon harbors beinn
i;iveu adequate improvement money.
They abo contended that the peo
ple of Coos mid Curry. counties would
bitterly resent the adoption of the
nieiiioiial. They contended it 'was
simply a question of whether the Ore
gon legislature was jrointf to legislate
' Tor "OreTOiiVinl e'rest or for the inter
est of California.
The committee continued its hear
ing until Ticheum- and Peck could
produce additional data in support of
their contentions. Kithcr wav the
report yoes, it will precipitate a fijjht
on the fhmr, by the Coos and Curry
people if the report is favorable, and
by the Jackson and Josephine dele
Rations if it i unfavorable. '
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UP TO PORTLAND
I'(HCn.ANI). .Inn. IllCousin.-,
tiim of thai portion of the proposed
Oregon, California & Kaslcrn railway
liolween Demi ami Klamath Kalis will
lie accompli-licl this year if Portland
docs hall' as well proportionally as
has Klninalh Falls, according to Rob
ert I-. Strahorn, projector of this
pioiiccrini; railway line for devclopini;
the yroni interior country east of the
Cascades.
Mr. Straliorn reinrned from Klam
ath Full-, where he finished the de
tails, so far as was possible, of the
line's enhance thai city. The peo
ple there, a-iile from voting a .i:lllll.
Hlto Loud i-ae to aiil the project,
,j,:lV0 pledged themselves to take care
of the tYeiit and pa-sender terminal.-
and the riht of way for twenty
miles toward lend. A freight term
inal -Win feet long and :iiMI feel wide
has already hceu obtained.
Committees of women have liraxed
the zero weather of the la-t few
weeks and have gathered in cash
snb-eriitt ions in InrL-e and small
amounts. Altogether. Mr. Stndiorn
e-limated tin-. nun:. Klamath Falls
is contributing half a million dollars
in ea-h, terminal .-iti s and rivlit of
wn v.
Announcement.
A public meeting of the Farmers'
and Fruitgrowers' League for the
purpose oC discussing the subject of
oil and other sprays for the ensuing
season, will be held nt the public, li
brary at 2 p. m. Saturday, the 20th
lint. Mr. Cute and Mr. Foster will
be present at this meeting and make
recommendations. You are invited
to attend. W. A. Sl'MNEK.
President.
A. l- nml .1. M.
Itcgulur eommunit atiou Med-
' forrl jAirei I OT Vrl.l'j,- ni-on.
r Ing. January, IS. By order
of the V. M.
SACRAMENTO, Cab. .Tun. 10. A
joint resolution embodying; a protest
by the. state of California analust the
enroaeliment of the federal govorn
ment upon sources of revenue hither
to reserved for purposes of state taxa
tion and proposing a congress of
states to consider conflicting juris
diction between the. states and fed
eral government with regard to taxa
tion was introduced today In the
legislature. The resolution, (which
originated with the state tax commis
sion, was fathered by Senator Frank
II. Benson and Assemblyman J. M.
ArKabrite, chairmen of the. revenuo
and taxation committees of the sen
ate and assembly, respectively.
Congress is asked In the resolution
to establish a Hue of division for oth
income and inheritance taxes, every
thing above such line to be reserved
for the federal government fcuid
everything below for the state gov
ernment. The congress of states
would be for the purpose of adopting
and urging upon congress a definite
policy in the segregation of state and
federal revenue. The legislatures of
42 states now in sossion would be
aslced to take favorable action on
similar resolutions, joining Califor
nia in the appeal to congress. Gov
ernor Johnson is asked to urge gov
ernors of other states to recommend
favorable action and to arrange a
time and place for such, national
meeting. Copies are to be sent, ac
cording to provisions of the resolu
tion to the president of the United
States senate and the speaker of the
house of representatives.
WASH PMOTOX, Jan. 1 II. Legis
lation to forbid importation of nur
sery stocks, except by the federal
department of agriculture for expert
mental purposes, was proposed to
the American Forestry association at
its conference on the pino blister dis
ease hero today, as the only means
of preventing spread of a multitude
of insect pests and plant afflictions
now threatening forests and farm
crops. iX'ursery men opposed the sug
gested legislation on the ground that
high prices of many fruit trees and
shrubs now imported, would result
from their propagation in this coun
try.
J. (I. Sanders, Pensylvania state
school, predicted that many plant
diseases heretofore unknown would
be imported from Europe unless a
federal embargo is established.
FIGHT UPON FINLEY
K.U.K.M, Or., ,Ian. 1!). A move
ment inaugurated a few days aio by
enemies id' State Hiologist Finley to
oust, him on an economy pica, has ap
parently been abandoned for the lack
of support.
Immediately upon lenrnintr of the
movement, (lovernor Withycombe and
members of the state fish and game
commission made it plain that Fiulcy
was "the right man in the right
place," and that they would oppose
any movenu'iit that would aholi.-h hi
office. This apparently sounded the
death knell of the movement.
F'inley's work has received nation
wide recognition. Citable to attack
it successfully, a few of his enemies
.-ought to start a movement that
woidd put him out of official exist
ence on the plea that retrenchment in
-tatc affairs demanded the abolition
of hi.- office.
LEPER MISSING
VAI.LKJO, ('jib, .Imi. I'l. Anton
(tnnntes, a leper assigned to an iso
lated sba'-k near the eonnty iio.-pital,
was mis-iny: I "day, and anxion-.
umther kept tln-ir rliihlrrn indoor.
N" man bunt, of'IViaU said, urndd
be "rjani.ed jn-t at this moment, bf-can-e
nn man coabl be found wlm
knew exaetly what he wnuld do if he
eneonnlrred the out.'n-t. Tin poller
department id" Viillejit -tood firmly on
the Mntement thai it had received n
official tintitiejiliitn b'a wa- at la rye.
A enw n which Hiinate; liw-d IW
a vi liili wa burned ln-t niu'it. lit
left hi -hack at the county ho-,pit.i!
::te vc-lerd;s.
CALKXICO, Cab, Jan. 10.
Search for two bodies reported seen
by Indians lyin in a pool of water
near Labium I'rieta, Lower Califor
nia, 20 miles northwest of the bead of
the (Julf of California, was planned
today by military aviators and the
scores of searchers, scckimr IJcuten-
ant Colonel llarrv (i. lbhoi and1
Lieutenant V. A. Robertson, who dis
appeared January 10 on their flight
from San Dieyo here. It was feared
the bodies might be those of the miss
ing officers, as the location corrc-
ponded with reports received so far
on the direction their fli"ht had
taken.
The three military airplanes will
cover thoroughly the district where
the bodies were said to be as soon as
lite weather will permit saccessl'nl
flying.
The Indians, accouling to the re
port, said the bodies were those of
two men stripped to their undercloth
ing.
Bishop and Hobcrtson were without
food or .water when they started their
flight, and in the nine days since
there has been no report of their
having landed at any place for sup
plies. In that time, it was believed,
the men would have been able to send
some word of their plight if they were
nlive. If alone on the desert wastes
of the unsettled country south and
southeast of here, those familiar with
the country said, it was probable the
men were dead. The intense cold of
the nights, the torrential rains and
lack of food, it was said, must have
fiuled their sufferings.
BILL FOR REPEAL
SAl.KM, Or., Jan. lib A bill for
the repeal of the mothers pension act
of was introduced i:i the house
this morning: by Y. Al Jones of Mar
ion county.
The bill simply provides Hint (lie
mothers pension net be repealed, cit
ing the chapter in the session law.
During the last- three years there
has been continual conflict in Marion
county over the ndmintst ration of the
mothers' pension law. County Jude
Hushey, who was vigorously opposed
to the law, refused to put it into force
until he was compelled to do so by
the supreme court. As a result of
this, the eonnty was forced to pay
more money than it otnerwise would
have done, for it was taxed with the
costs of the litigation.
The supreme court decision did not
end the opposition of Jude llu-hey,
however, and it is supposed that the
bill represents his view-, on the snb-
SAl.KM, Jan., I !. A inon-c Hie hill
introduced by the Noiilliern Oregon
delcmilmn are the following-;
11. II. 11!), by Thomas Making
failure to pay alimony 'contempt of
court.
II. 11. 120. by Thomas To prohibit
seining' ""'I set nets in Hogue river.
II. 11. 121, by (inte Making school
altcnd.-nn'c of children between 7 mid
11 years of aye compulsory.
II. II. 122, by (litre; Fixintr capital
stock of title tiaranty companies and
litle insurain-e companies ucconliiiir
to population.
S. IS. 82, by Smilh of Coos Direct
ing' tax collectors to carry forward
dclinipicm taxes.
MOTHERS, DO THIS-
When the Children Cough, Ru;
Mnetprnlp nn Throats
Musterole on Throats
and Chests
No telling how soon the symptoms rha
jevclop into croup, or worsc And tbens
when you're ulad you have a jar of Mus
rctolc at hand to give prompt, sure rc
'icf. It docs not blister.
As firrt aid and a certain remedy,
luslerole is cxccllcr.l. Thousands of
lo-.hcrs kno'.v it. You should keep a
ar in the liouc. ready for instant use.
It is the rcn:idy for adults, too. He
Icvis virc Hip-at, bronchitis, tonsilitis
rr:i;, h'iff no-k, asthma, neuralgia, .hcud
c!.' congestion. pUurisy. rbeumaM-mi,
imbo. pains and aches of back or
ints. spriim, sore muscles, chilblains,
rostcd tect and colds of the elicit (it
ftcn orcver.is ncumunia).
WASHINGTON. .Ian. 19. --A postal
censorship affecting deported Bel
gian workers, was established by the
Hermans, recording to a cablegram
received from i he l!et:ian govern
ment in IIa,vre, Fiance, by Pierre
Mali, the Belgian consul here A
translation of the message was made
public today by Mr. .Mali. It rea ls
"Official German record of the
military zone in llelgium under date
of December 15, publishes a set of
regulations for the postal service of
the deported workers, prohibiting
their mentioning to their families
their places of work, this seeming to
indicate that they arc working for
the German army.
"A new batch of deported work
ing peop'o from Ghent were returned
to Ghent, sick ami several dying.
They relato unheard of sickness on
the German Trout in France. Con
siderable mortality owing to exhaus
tion from forced labor."
These stoics employing lady clerks
will close on Saturday nights begin
ning .Inn. 20, nt S:3U: The May Co.,
and J. C. Mann. These .stores will
close at 9 p. in.: The Toggery, Dan
iels for Duds, The Model, M. M. De
partment Store, Heilbronner, Kidd,
Schmidt, Golden Hale and Bohllng.
2.-7
It Is To liUUKli.
Come to St. Mark's hall this, Fri
day evening at 7:30 for a rolicking
good time. A sock social will be held
under the auspices of the Uaptist
Sunday school, evcry one come and
bring as many pennies as tbo size of
socks you wear. Old fashioned games
will be played and many amusing
stunts pulled off. I(e there and re
new your youth. .
Mstrny Not ire.
Taken up Red 2-year-old steer,
branded double TlKUro six, ono in
verted. Kar mark Is crop and under
halt crop, left ear. D. K. Cottrell,
Beasle, OreKon. 261
i! LET
mm LIVEN
LIVER AND BOILS
Don't Stjiy Headachy, (onstiimtcd,
Sik, With Hreiith Bad and
St'miui'h Sour,
Oct a lQ-cent box now.
You moil and wonum who ran't Ret
feeling right who liavo hradnvhc,
coated tongtip, had tasto and foul
breath, dizziness, can't sleep, are
bilious, nervous and upset, bothered
with a siik, BasK.v, disordered stom
ach, or have a bad eold.
iAre you keeping your bowels clean
with CaseareU, or merely forcing a
passageway every few days with Ralls,
cathartic pills or castor oil?
C a bp a r e t s w o lit while you si ee p ;
cleanse tho stomach, remove the
and foul gases; take the excess bile
from the liver and carry out of the
system all the constipated waste mat
ter and poison in the bowelM.
A Casearet tonight will straighlen
you out by morning- a 10-ccnt box
from any drug .stnre will keep your
stomach -sweet, lm-r and bowels reg
ular, artd hfad char for months.
Don't forget the children. They love
C'anarets brcJitif-e they taste good
never gripe or sh ! en.
Your Breakfast
as well as every other
l
meal will be highly
appreciated if you use
Medford Creamery'
Butter
It is made from Pas
.teunzea cream, the
modern method. In
sist on having your
'grocer send you this
ibrand.
' READ THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE
It Cost .0 to Print It, Because Both Local Newspapers Kefused the Use of Their Col
umns to the Association Your Contribution Will Be Used to Further the Cause of
the Common People of Curry, Josephine and Jackson Counties.
T. 10. DAX1 ELS, CUIUS GOTTLIEB, R. L. EWIXd, W. V. ISAACS, ,
Executive Committee.
Oold Beach. Ore. Jan. 7, 1917.
Editor Port Orford Tribune:
In the issue of your paper for Jan
uary 3rd npepars an editorial in
which you express views upon fish
ing legislation so utterly at variance
with tho ideas and beliefs of the peo
ple general- in this section that I
foci constrained to ask you to give
publicity throuKh your columns to the
foliowini? lines:
Your sudden espousal of Mr. Mae
leay's cause might creato consider
able surprise in tho mind of ono un
acquainted with tho persuasive pow
ers of Manager Tom Carey of Mac-
leay s Wcdderburn store. Knowing,
however, as I do, that just before Mr.
Carey made his visit to you last week
ho called at tho office of tho Gold
Beach lteporter und laid hoforo the
manager of tho latter u proposition
that tho lteporter should declare it
self In favor of tho continuance of
seining on ltoguo river, and knowing
also of tho newspaper campaign
which is being conducted through
the medium of tho llnndon World,
the Coos liny Times, the Med ford
Mail Tribune, and other papers with
in tho scope of Mr. M'acleay's per
suasive arts, I do not consider your
sudden outburts at nil surprising.
But it does seem that you should
have assigned slrongei reasons for
your chnngo of heart on tho fishing
question. If the 123 copies of the is
sue containing your editorial, which
I presume .Mr. Cnrcy ordered for dis
tribution among members of the leg
islature, are to have tho niaxiiuuin In
fluence with tho law makers, tho ar
gument for the seino should hnvo
been presented in a better light than
it is in your editorial. For Instance,
you should havo urged, as Mr. Mac
leay does, that to lake away tho sein
ing prlvilego would be take away a
thing lor which bo paid a great sum
of money, and would bo to destroy n
vested right. Of course the trifling
fact that tho river was entirely clos
ed to commercial fishing when Mr.
Macloay bought tho Hume properties
must be glossed over and forgotten
in such an argument, as must the
further fact that under our laws no
one can buy any fishing rights in the
navigable waters of this state, and
that the supremo court of Oregon has
said in a recent case that "nn exclus-
ivo right of fishing in a navigable
stream cannot bo granted to any per-
son by a state, under a constitution
llko ours, forbidding the creation of
a monopoly In the pursuit of a lawful
undertaking."
You say "several factions are at
work with proposed changes one
would close the river entirely; nn -
other would eliminate set nets nml
seining, and a third would leave the
law as it !h, which the Tribune be
lieves would bo the most satisfactory
solution to a majority of the people
of this section."
I do not believe there is a man in
Curry county today who believes
ltoguo river should be closed to all
forms of commercial fishing, or who
thinks such notion would be right or
just. It Is true that during the heat
of tho Indignation over some of the
acts done by the Macleay company
during tho past two fishing seasons
(fencing up tho harbor, preventing
the erection of range signals to guide
Incoming Independent vessels, elc.) a
number of disinterested citizens ex
pressed the belief that It. would bo
better to close the river entirely than
to allow such practices to continue,
but such hasty utterances wrro not
expressions of sober Judgment nnd
should not be considered as such.
Nor is there, as yon state, a faction
"which would leave the river as it Is"
unless the group of people financially
dependent In some inanne or de
gree on Mr. Macleay -.,e considered
such, nnd If the members of this
group were free to express their real
opinions tho result might lie surpris
ing. I do not believe you can name
a dozen men familiar with present
conditions on ltoguo river and not
connected In any way with the Mac
bay enterprises who favor tho reten
tion of tho seine.
You further stale that, 'if much
wrangling is Indulged in over the
changing of Hie present law, there
is danger of the closed river advo-
cutes w inning out. and this would be j death, to adopt a famous expression
fo palpable an injustice that nrgu-j'ife used In similar circumstances,
ment Is unnecessary to show why It i" greatly exaggerated. It lias sur
shouldn't be." Now why should It vived severe huUctlugs In the past
Increase the danger of a closed river i but It Is a tough uld bird nnd In spite
for the citizens of tills county to f H age seems to thrive on hard
make known to the up-river legls-' knocks.
lalors their desire to have the seine' Illinois Tichenor nnd Smith have
eliminated? Common honesty com-1 promised it liberal doses of a leju
pels us to admit that the seine does
kill ateeiheads and thus causes tho
agitation for n closed river. Will not
tho removal ot tho seino put nn end
for all time to the agitation for a
closed river? On tho other hand If
tho closed rlvor advocates nro lead
to believe, as your editorial would
havo them to believe, that Curry
county is opposed to any change, and
is indifferent to tho weiraro of Cur
ry county and becomo confirmed in
their hostility to all forms of com
mercial flshliiK without seek Inn to
discriminate as to tho various modes
of fishing and without Injury as to
which modes nro actually Injurious
to their sport? If wo approach the
up-river sportsman in a spirit of fair
ness und show them thut the seino,
and solno nlone, destroys their ganio
fish, can you doubt that they will
moot us halt way, join forces with
us against tho seine, and cease their
fight for a closed rl,ver
In defense of tho sofne you say,
"then again, to eliminate seines and
set nets Is to put tho Macleay estate
company, with an investment of over
a quarter of a mllion dollars In our
county, on an equal footing with any
carpet-bag concern that may seo fit
to come in to exploit our resources
with scarcely a nlrkle's (sic) Invest
ment here and not being iudentlfied
with tho interests of the county 1n
any way." Pursuing this lino of
thought further ono would assume
that because the Standard Oil com
puny, for Instance lias an enormous
investment In Its industry you would
say that it should not bo compelled
to compute "on nn equal footing'
with any other concern, "carpet bag
ger" or otherwise, "which seems fit
to exploit natural resources'' In Its
particular line, hut thnt it should be
given Bomo special privilege to its
advantago nml to tho liaudicup of In
tending competitors; or, coming
nearer homo, you would nrguo that
tho llrookings Lumber company, on
account of Its largo Investment in
this county, should be given a monop-
oly of Curry county timber, or allow
C(' to buy nt Its own price without
competition. If you nro n timber
owner it Ib difficult to bellovo that
you would relish tho application of
your idea in thnt manner,
Hut In your statement lust quoted
'ou havo uniutenllouuty stated ouo
f tbo iniiny good reasons for doing
away with the seine. Kvoryono knows
that llio seine is the strongest weapon
I" Mr. Macleay's arsenal for keeping
independent fishing concerns out of
I ltoguo river. Take away that weapon
all(l bo will havo to compete "on an
equal footing" with any concern that
isees fit to operalo on Itoguc river,
I With thnt weapon in his possession
! competing concerns w ill hardly have
tho temerity to venture into the for
bidden waters and when ono occas,
Inaly does try to break in, It will find
to lis cost, iih has been limply demon
strated during the pasl two seasons,
that It would better have stayed
away.
lint perhaps there Is some doubt
In your mind as to whether compe
tition In the fishing Indiislry Is ben
eficial to tho fisherman and the com
munity. If so the fishermen them
selves will tell you of tho benefits,
and the figures as to tho prices paid
for fish before and afler the Beaborg
company commenced operations are
more eloquent than words. During
tho 1911 season fifty cents was the
highest price paid for cblnnook sal-
nion
Onring the seasons of 1015 and
with competition on tho river.
1911
tho price rose as high as a dollar and
a quarter a fish. Xo one has yet
contended that Mr. Macleay canned
fish at a Iosh during tho two last
seasons, and if he made a profit at
a dollar and a quarter a fish it Is ap
parent Hint when he buys at fifty
cents he Is simply transferring sev
enty-five cents a fish from the fisher
men's pockcis to ids own.
You say that the abolition of sein
ing Is a dead Issue. Leaving out of
consideration the fact that your edi
torial on the subject Indicates that
there is some measure of vitality
left in the corpse, H you will come to
Itogue river you will find that It Is
not only ullve, but in a surprisingly
lusty state of health. Your obituury
Is premature, for the report of Its
venated tonic which Is warranted to
bring about wonderfully satisfactory
results.
Mr. Macleay is not to be blamed
in tho least for seeking to retain bis
seining privileges. Although it mny
not bo right In the strict sense ot
the terms, yet It Is human nature for
ouo enjoying a profitable special priv
ilege to seek to retain it even at tho
oxpenBo of the whole community.
Most of us would do the same under
the same circumstances. Hut while
it Is good business from the Macleay
standpoint to retain this privilege,
if ho can, It is very bad business for
the rest of us to permit him to do so
if it Is In our powor to prevent It. It
Is simply tho old story of the private
Interests of ono conflicting with tho
public welfare of the many, and soon
er or later tho solflsh private Interest
must glvo way to the groater good
ot tho community.
There nro numerous ronsons for
treating the seine as a relic of earlier
days which has overstayed its tlmo
and should be retired from use. To
avoid occupying undue space the rea
sons may bo briefly summarized as
follows:
1. It keeps competition off Rogue
river.
. 2. It keeps down tho price of fish
to the enrichment ot one man and to
tho Injury of a whole community.
3. 11 reduces the number of men
who can find profitable employment
In drift net fishing on Rogue river.
4. It causes constant litigation
and trouble. '
5. It creates expense for the tax
payers or Curry county.
G. It destroys stool heads and
causes agitation against all commer
cial fishing on Hogue river.
And In spite of those facts you say
that there Is no evidence that If fos
ters a monopoly or is detrimental to
tho public welfare In any way.
COUIillOK II. I1UKK1NCITON.
Tho tibovo article, written by
Mr. Colllor II. Ijufflugton, the newly
elected district attorney of Curry
county, and addressed to the editor
of tho Port Orford Tribune, In reply
to an articlo tiiut appeared In the
Port Orford Tribune relative to tho
continual wrangling and fighting be
tween the Macleay combine and tho
Independent commercial fishermen
at the mouth of tho ltoguo river
throws considerable light on tho ques
tion of commercial fishing in ltoguo
river as practiced the past two years.
The article proves boyond donubt
that the people's Interosts as far as
commercial fishing is concerned are
not protected nt the mouth of Hoguo
river but Hint the rlvor Is practically
controlled by tho vested Interests of
tho Macleay cannery, and that tho
people of Curry county have express
ed themselves as preforrlng tho river
(dosed to all commercial fishing rath
er than to hnvo fishing continucdun
dor tho present conditions which havo
been more of a detriment to Curry
county than a benefit.
The M ml ford Mall Tribune is re
ferred to in tills nrtlclo probably bo
causo Kditor Putnam was largely in
strumental In having the river closed
to commercial fishing several years
ago at which lime he Impressed upon
tho people tho fai t that Rogue river
was too small for common lnl fishing
and that the interests 'or the people
would bo served to better advantage
by a' closed river famous for its fly
fishing from Its source to Its mouth
rather than by the benefit reaped by
a concern that took practically all
tho fish at tho mouth ot the river and
was steadily denuding the river of
both salmon and steelhead. Perhaps
the strongest editorials ever written
bv Kditor Putnam, whose editorial
ability is widely recognized, were tbo
editorials reciting the well known ar
guments for tho closing of Rogue
river to all commercial fishing.
It commercial fishing could bo so
regulated at tho mouth of Roguo riv
er that Its benefits would be derived
by tho people or Curry county, at
least on nn equal basis with the com
bine that dominated the fishing un
der present condition';, and nt tho
same Kino preserve tho fame of
Itogue river an the greatest fly fish
ing stream In the world, then the
sportsmen of Southern Oregon would
feel well satisfied. If, however, theso
results cannot be accomplished with
out the closing of the river to all com
mercial fishing there Is no doubt the
people of Oregon will be asked to
close tho river by constitutional
amendment nt the next general elec
tion. (Paid Adv.) ' , ;