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MEDFORD, OliKdON, Sl'NDAY, .ll'l.Y 120. 1 !);!().
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OLD IRONSIDES READY FOR SEA DUTY AGAIN
Minister To Egypt
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LARGE PORTIONlFIRST UNIT OF
PLAN BQR
PROFESSIONAL
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UMPQUA ROUT
PETITIONERS!
PUT ON GRILL
Bulletin Issued Telling of
Alleged Abuses and Mis
uses of Oregon System
Notions Costly, and Gen
erally Defeated.
OREGON LANDSITRAIL HIGHWAY
OFF TOLLS
Federal and School Lands
Total 96,669 Square
READYJN FALL
'Old Oregon Trail' Construc
tion Work Speeds Apace,
and Route Widened and
AS SHORT CUT
Highway Commission Ex
pects Work May Start
Next Year to . Shorten
Distance to Coos Bay,
and Eliminate Heavy
Climb.
SALEM, Ore., July 19. (Fu
rious for construction of a 1300
foot tunnel under Hancock moun
tain, east of Klkton, Duncan coun
ty on the Umpqua hiRhway, have
been revealed by the state high
way department. Cost of the pro
ject is estimated at $1.10,00". Al
1 hough construction of the tunnel
is not to begin this year, and pos
sibly will not he undertaken next
year, Kuy A. Klein, state high
way engineer, Bays it Is on the
program for "future development"
and will he started just as soon
os po.wible.
HI nee the UnipMua highway ex
tending from Drain to Keedsport
Is not n slate road the state does
not participate In the cost of fu
ture construction, or improve
ments now in progress, but the
stale department furnishes the
engineering as It is required by
law to do. Cooperating, in the
cost nre the government, the I'mp
qua highway improvement district
and Douglas county.
At present the highway crosses
Hancock mountain, 400 feet high.
The tunnel will eliminate the I00
feet rise and fall and will save
motorists a mile and a half. It
will be at the site of a tunnel
proposed by the Southern Pacific
company when that railroad began
conMruction of a line to Coos Ituy
a long Klk creek and Umpu.ua riv
er in l:0T. At that time the pro
posed tunnel was opened into the
mountuin about 100 feet at the
east portal.
The highway department an
nounced the grading contract for
the ten-mile unit of the Umpu.ua
highway immediately west of
Drain 1 about 00 per cent com
plete and It should be entirely
finished by Sept 30, this year.
This work will cost JlfiO.OuO, and
is being done by Peck & Einer
son of Hotruiam." Wash. The sur
facing of this unit, a crushed rock
Job. is tinder contract to A. S.
Wallace of Itoseburg at a contract
bid of $IO.r,OoO. The contractor
has set up his plant and will be
gin spreading rock about July
Kurlacing will nut ho completed
until July ::o. urn.
Kuyl of Scottsburg on the same
highway a contract was let last
March 21 to Harmon & Tittle of
Eugene for the grading of a 4.4-inll.-
s;ret( h at a contract cost of
$15,000, This will be completed
by Oct. 31, 11130. On this unit a
separate cuiitrncl was awarded to
C. A. Catching of Itoseburg for
constructing of a number of small
bridges and culverts at a total
cost of $22,10 1. These will be
(ompletcd by August 31, this year.
A lii-nille nection between Heeds
port and Scottsburg kns graded
and Hill-fared a few years ago as
a fin-st highway project and a
bridge across the Umptia to re
place the old ferry was completed
last year at a cost of $'18,000.
The I'mpqua htehway is 65 miles
long, connecting the Pacific high
way and' the Roosevelt coast high
way. When completed it will
give practically a water grade be
tween the i'aclfic highway and
the coast, since it will not he nec
essary to- cross the Const Hang1'
mountains at any point.
The rnipqun highway la Inter
esting both historically and scen
Ically. Tidewnter on Umpqna riv
er extends ns far as Scottsburg
which has the distinction of hav
ing been the third postoffice es
tablished In . Oregon. In early
day Fmnll boats came up the
river an far as Scottsburg where
supplies for mining camps and
settlements of southern Oregon
were transferred from boats to
park horses. It was nt the mouth
of the Cmpnufi that the Jededlah
Smith party wah massacred by
Indians.
A. W. Petmeekv, Justice of the
pence in Oillespie county. Tex., for
40 vrirt, eeks reelection.
L. C. SCSAFER
Basement Medford Bids
The only Exclusive 'getrle Motor
Repair Shop In Southern Oregon.
PHONEO-J-2
Electric Motor Repairing
Rewound motor f$ sale or rent
laxctatc1 l're fhvte
William M. Jardlne, former sec
retaryof agriculture, waa appointed
as minister to Egypt.
T
W A SI II NO TON, July 1 !) .The
United States government is going
tn have HlG.346.ROO or more pounds
of mail carried an average ocean
voyage of 34f0 miles in the next
ten yearn at a cost of less than
three-ten thousands of a cent per
ounct per mile. It is one of Uncle
Sam's biggest bargains and at the
same time is a guarantee of the
hnllding of a merchant marine that
will again make the American flag
ascendant on the north Atlantic
ocean.
The arrangement was effected by;
three contracts with the United
States bines, the premier American j
pnssenger, cargo and mall line ofj
the north Atlantic. One of the t
contracts is for five years, with an!
option to renew for a second five
years. The other two contracts
are f o r ten y er. r. ea c h . All co n -tracts
have been signed. One is al
ready In operation The other two
are -held up 'perdinc 'tb comple
tion of present mall carriage agree
ments. Figures dance in a mystical way
when one contemplates them in
gross. Kor iusttince the total feo
for the mail carriage will be in ex
cess of $30,nn.000. The total mile
age If each outward voyage of each
phip were addtd to the preceding
would be 4,240,0(10. If the return
voyage were counted the amount
would he doubled. The rates nre
on the mileage brisln and vary from
$4 to $ 1 2 a mile, depending on
the speed of the jdilps.
In order to fulfill the contracts
it will he necessary for the United
States Lines to build six new shlpp.
Two of these ships have already
been approved by the United Stales
Shipping Hoard at Washington.
Contracts have been let and work
is in process. Ship are 70r foot
ers of 30.000 gross tons. They are
sisters and are the largest ships yet
built in the United States. They
wilt he followcdhyt wo super liners
of a Hpeed of 2S',6 knots, designed
to be the fastest and the most
luxurious on the ocean. The two
super liners will be followed by
two more 7 0.1-foot era.
The maltsa re to be carried to
Plymouth, Southampton and Lon
don in Urcat Britain. Cherhough in
France imd Hamburg in Germany.
In making the deals for the mail
carriage the Government Is a close
bargainer and gets Its every cent's
worth of service. The American
ships in mail carriage ore given a
prepfrenee of 24 hours as Amer
ican ships and where they carry a
aea posta'l service they are given
a supplementary 24 hours. The sea
postal service means the taking of
mail clerks to work the mail into
Kuropcin delivery districts while
COUNT
THE
MAIL TRIBUNE
YELLOW
BOXES
ON COUNTRY ROADS
AND HIGHWAYS
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It's A Good Way
To Check Country Circulation
PORTLAND, Ore., July. (&)
A (ireuter Oregon Association bul-'
letin. calling attention the alleged j
abuses of initiative and referen-j
dum measures, stated since 1 !t0!t, !
when the corrupt practices act 1
took effect. $!M 2.!Miii has been
spent for an against measures. J
Mow petition peddling has been
conducted in Portland is familiar
the bulletin says, and In regard
to it:
How petition peddling as been
reeled against the activities of '
professional petition circulators !
which have developed to a point !
where they are becoming burden-!
some and annoying. They station
themselves on prominent corners
in cities, importuning shoppers on i
the public market, stopping work
ers going to and from offices and
industrial plants with urgent re
quests to sign various petitions.
"Usually the information given
by the circular is extremely mea
ger and often correctness Is ques
tioned. If not constituting actual
misrepresentation. Signers hur
riedly affix their signatures to pe
titions frequently on the state
ment of the circulator the signa
ture la not a vote for the bill but
Is merely tn get the question on
the ballot," the bulletin said.
Tabulation of 14 general and
seven special elections from 1902
until 1!28, aside from city, coun
ty nnd special direct legislation,
show that an average of C2 per
cent of the registered voters have
expressed t h e m w e 1 v e s on 2(18
amendments and laws either by
initiative, by referendum or by
reference by the legislature.
Prior to 100!) there was no cor
rupt practices act. Since then the)
amount expended, ns reported to i
the secretary of state, amounts to
012. !iti. Of this sum, 9412.123
was expended for and against 36 of
the 80 amendments nnd measures
that passed nnd $.100,843 was
spent for and against 83 of the
1 4 r amendments and measures
which failed to pass. Liquor pro
hibition nnd local option In four
amendments nnd measures wns
the chief Item of expenditure,
S172.S44. The income tax wi.s
Meeond with seven hills, normal
schools and education third with
eight bills and single tax fourth
with seven bills.
nAI.HAUT. Tomb, .Tuly 19. VP)
Sheriff fipnrKn W. Alexander of
Pallas eounty and Lon fJillinKPr
were killed In n Run battle near
here today. Ode (lllllnKer was
prolmlily fatalfy wounded.
The shooting look plate at the
flillinKpr home five miles south
of here, where Sheriff' Alexander
nnd two of his deputies. II. K.
Poust nnd Karl TJamron. went to
serve felony warrants on the S 11 -linper
brothers.
en route so that on arrival the
aeks are In readiness to bo sent
at once to their destinations In
stead of being worked up after
their arrival. '
The famous frigate Constitution after three years of reconstruction Is ready for sea duty again.
Gov. Frank G. Allen of Massachusetts is snown placing a sliver uonar unoer m ncn of the mam mast
before It was stepped Into place. At right Is Rear Aclm. L. M. Nulton, commanding officer at the
Charleston navy yard, Boston, where the ship Is being reconstructed.
DAPPER KING OF
TALY RULES ON
AS OTHERS PASS
IKy AXDlirU 1H0K11N;
It O M K. July 19. P) Italy's
dapper Kin's Victor Kmanuel III
will celebrate the thirtieth year of
his reign July 2H.
Thinly years ago. on that day
King Humher fell before an nssas
sin'rf bullet and Victor Kmanuel
stepped Into his father's kingship.
His formal ascension took place
A UKUst 0 and 1 1.
King Victor Kmanuel is one of
the longest ruling monarch In Ktt
rope. Only the .Scandinavian kings
approach him.
He has ten years' seniority over
Oeorge V of England. While royal
houses of derma ny, Itutisin, Aus
tria, Clreece and Portugal wero
swept aside and tho former rulers
of Spain. Rumania and Bulgaria
died, he has gono on. j
Irfivetl By Nnhjccls j
Today, at 61. he Is in prime
health an indefatigable horseman
nnd an extensive yachtsman. I
He has survived many diffieul-!
ties and his figure ,n enshrined in
the hearts of 43,ono,OiHl subjecls.
After the war thero were two!
chaotic, communistic years when j
the House of Savoy seemed about
to fall.
Then came Mussolini.
In eight years of Fascism, Victor!
Emanuel has admittedly occupied
.second place, olincured by the dy
namic Duce. . j
Hut it is said that the king ac
ceded to Mussolini's demands
through a desire to preserve his
people from further Anarchy.
Kiiricil Kstrnngenient
T,ast year, the king ended tho !0
year estrangement between his
house and the Vatican.
The next month he saw hl,s son,
frown I'rlnco Humbert, married to
Princess Marie Jose of Helglum.
Victor Emanu! is essentially ft .
soldier. He is practically never
seen except in uniform.
A very littel, man physically, he
appears to best advantage on horse
back. Ills Montenegrin wife, taller than
ho by well more than a foot, tow
er) over him. He does not like to
stand alongside tall people nnd re
fnwd to permit A photograph to be
The
Fruit
Of Your
Dollars
You nre losing Dollars nil
the thru; your inoiicy is
idle you are producing
dollars when your Tumls
and fiiriiinnH arc here, nt
('niiiiiHii$ iiilci9s(. O
'Partners in Community
Development"
published because '.t showed him
beside a talL farmer.
He was never happier than dur
ing the wedding ceremonies of his
Bon Humbert, for his partner was
nlwny.s ijueen Elizabeth of Hei
ght m, who Is just hi height.
Dislikes Pnhlictly
He is quiet, shy. ICe dislikes
publicity, avoids appearing n
crowds except on military occa
sions such as for reviews.
His table i.s td tuple, ho enter
tains very little, receives vinitors
very seldom, and does not relish
social life.
He spends much nt his lime with
his superb collect ion of old Italian
coins, and Is n reeognlwd expert
numismatlMt.
When news movies of the King
nre shown, audience snicker and
giggle at sight of his little legs pat
tering along. I Hit they love him
newrltheless, for- :heyi cheer fu
UPSTATE ELECTRIC
RATES SLASHED
SA HEM. re., J uly 1 . (Pi
Over an area, extending from the
north city limits of I 'nrtlund to
and including Salem n reduction
in residential a n d commercial
lighting r a I e m of the Paciric
Nnrthwest Public Service com
pany Is made in nn order of the
public service commission Friday.
All territory In the Portland area
Is affected except that in Mult
nomah county West of rhe WII
lemette river nnd north of Port
land's north city limits.
Vancouver, Wash., Is In the
Portkfnd nrea, but the Oregon
commission Is without Jurisdiction
outside of Oregon.
The aggregate reduction will be
about j:t:M0.)inn a year. The or
der becomes effective August Hi.
Twenly-nine cities, the census
shows, gained more than 1 0(1 per
cent In the past ten years. The
difficulty will be to find sufficient
annexable territory to keep it tip
until lit 10. Pittsburgh Post -;. -elte.
Brevity
Is the Soul
of Wit
It Ih too waim In read
lengthy ads. If you have any
tonlli trouble come lo my
nice cool offices and receive
the 1,Ot dental Q re that
money can htiy.
Dr. I. H. Gove
Dependable o
Dentistry
235 Eait Main, Upaulra
Phone 872-J
DR. I. H. COVEq
Bi COOPERATION
Portland's new milk ordinance
has revolutionary effect In im
provement of dairy barns and
equipment near the cfly, according
to a report .lust made by J. H.
Jennings, chief city milk Inspector.
He Kiiid:
"More than KM) barns and milk
hmi.seH have been remodeled or re
placed with new oneH since the
adoption of the standard milk or
dinance by Portland In February.
I The ordinance put the dnlry Indus
try on the grading basiH or merit
sytdeni. -' :'- -''
"While tho dalrvmen have been
I put to considerable expense many
have been repaid through the In
creased price paid for graded milk.
"The dairymen who havo com
plied with the provisions of (he or
dinance now receive approximately
$: (1,000 a mout h more than m
equal number of dairymen who
have not complied.
"XI ne hundred and twenly-nine
dairymen have complied with tho
ordinance.
"They have been under no com
pulsion no do so, hut have found
It dcHirable because under Ihe pres
ent plan quality pays from the cash
viewpoint.
"The public Is the enforcing
agency In demanding 'drado A'
milk. The dairyman has the con
sumer lo Hntlsfy. The people of
Portland demand clean milk. If
the dairyman doe not deliver 'A'
milk he puts himself nut of busi
ness for lack of a market. Inci
dentally this saves enforcement ex
pense through the courts.
"The dairy Industry has co-operated
with t he city In a splendid
manner, the dairymen having been
given credit for what they have
done tn protect the milk supply.
I'nder the terms of the ordinance
which grades milk from 'A' to '13'
the good dairyman does not have
to compete wit h the one who is
lftX."
Of course you don't
know it, but you may be
sitting on a volcano 1
Title defects come to
light most unexpectedly
and when they do there's
trouble a-plenty for the -
property owner if his
title not insured. If it
is insured the company
handles any litigation
and makes good any loss
which may result.
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Jackson County
Abstract Co.
121 E, Sixth St. Phone 41
Miles, Tax Commission
Report Shows No Bene
fit to Public.
SALEM, July l'.. V) About 47
per cent of Oregon's total area of
tui.Cil!) square miles is untaxed land
owned by the federal government
or the state, the slate commission
revealed. Of this untaxed area
about 14, 403, -II I acres are federal
timber lumls and Ctil.MM acres are
owned school lands.
The only financial benefit accru
ing to the public from the federal
owned lands Is l!ii per cent of tho
government's revenueB from rentals
and grazing feea paid by stockmen
to whom some of the lands are
lea.sed. This cut is allowed the
state, and In turn the state appor
tions the entire 25 per cent to the
counties in proportion lo tho area
of government land In tho respec
tive counties. Iist year the 25 per
cent amounted to $265,000.
j The public does not benefit fr"om
I the state owned lauds until such
time as they nre. sold, when tho
proceeds go into the Irreducible
school fund which now aggregates
around $7,000,000. The interest
from the invested school fund Is
apportioned to tho counties accor
ding to their populations of per
sons of from four to 20 years of ago
which is considered school age.
Originally the school lands, com
prising the 10th and 36th sections
of each township, ceiled to tho Htate
by tho government for school pur
poses, aggregated 2.677,822 ncres.
Hales since- the state entered state
hood In isr!l have totaled 2,016,228
acres.
Other untaxed lands are those
of public parks, colleges, churches
and hospitals.
FOR YEAR HEAVY
PORTLAND. July lit. (VP) The
chamber of commerce estimated
Oregon's Income from tourists
traffic last year at $25,000,000. It
the volume of travel Is no greater
than last year, the Hum left by
(he tourist travel means a substan
tial block of new wealth, they
said. It Is pouring In, with tho
summer just well started.
Last week .150- Inquiries came
into tho chamber of commerce
louriHt department for Information
concerning Portland and Oregon.
Tho branch bureau maintained
by the chamber for issuing per
mttH for earn from out of state
issued ,14 permits In a week. A
total of 147 permits have been Is
sued by the chamber since Janu
ary 1.
When Habe Iluth. the Yankee's
$H0.00u a year man. Is Injured In a
flame, players of both teama run
frantically to hi aid.
From Clark Griffith, president,
on down, nil "bosse" of the Wash
ington Senators nre former pitch
ers. If You
8
on your
Investigate Our
and keep your
Medlbrd Investment Co.
Phone 1224 o 125 E. Sixth St.
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OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS
H. 8. DEUEL, Prealdent
FRED U. HEATH, Sr., Vics Prei.
HAMILTON PATTON, 8ec'y-M()r.
Straightened.
SALEM. July lD.rV-With the
completion of Improvements now
in prosress on tnfc old Oregon trail
between Kariu-iu at the summit of
the Blue mountains, and La
Orande, that stretch of highway
will become one of the favorite
pleasure drives in the west, both
from the point of view of scenery
lojnd comfortable travel, Koy A.
Klein, stale highway engineer, said.
The curliest of the projects to be
completed on this high mountain
road will be the 14.(i-mlU widen
ing and regradlng job between Ka
mela nnd Hllgard. Kamela la In
Umatilla county, but near the
county line, llilgard Ih In Union
county so most of the improve
ment Is In the latter county. IS. L.
Oates, contractor, began work Hep
t ember 1, li)l, and the project will
be finlshe dby August 31, this year.
It wa 75 per cent complete on
July 1.
The width of the highway 1a be
ing extended from 20 to 33 feet and,
numerous sharp curve straighten-
ed out, so the drive will be one of
the fastest moutain roads In the
country. Unusual difficulties have
been enocunterod by the contrac
tor, Klein said, for the reason the
railroad and telephone and tele
graph lines parrallel the' highway
mni of the distonoe. making
"shooting" a delicate business, yet
not a train has been delayed by
blasts. At present the contractor
Is working 40 men, one sbvel and
two tractors on the job. The cost
of the project to the state will be
$172,000. . . ;
Am thlH work nears completion it
Is being followed over the same
stretch by another contractor's
crew resurfacing the highway with
macadam, 20 foet wide. This con
truot wafl left to Homer O. John
son, February 27, last, and will be
completed December 31, 1930 nt a
cost of $108,000. The Job required
73,000 cublo feet of crushed rock.
This in being laid at an 'average of
400 yards dally and 4000 yards bad
been placed July 1. The road will
be oiled netx year. '
Between Hllgard and La Grand.
6.6 miles of resurfacing and main
tenance material work In In prog
ress to be completed August 15.
The. resurfacing ha been com
pleted and the crew Is crushing
rock for maintenance. The road 'a
being wldoned by a maintenance
crew. Later It will be oiled. Clyde
H. HoltiG Is the contractor, end the
contract price Is $20,600. Septem
ber 30 Is the date for completion
of a reinforced concrete bridge over
the Orande Ronde river near Per
ry that will cost $26,710. It will
replace an old narrow bridge on a
bad curve. O. N, Pierce Is the con
tractor. Between Meaeham and Emigrant
Hill In Umatilla' county the mate
Rome time ago acquired 600 feet of
timbered ground on each Bide of
the old Oregon trail over a distance
of about 15 miles. The highway de
partment han cleared unsightly
brush from among the trees and the
scenic effect Is said by Klein to no
highly pleasing. The long distance
view from the top of Emigrant HHt
during the summer season. Klein
said. In one- of the most beautiful -In
the state.
Want
money
Preferred Stock
fundi at home
J. H. COOLEY
B. R. ELLIOTT '
W. H. LYOIARD
W. W9 ALLEN. .