Jacksonville sentinel., January 29, 1904, Image 3

cssary to net the lime when certain variet­
once for Baker City where they have
HOOD RIVER TO HAVE FRUIT
bought the Quten City furniture store.
ies of apples ahouitl Ire shipjred. They
TRAIN.
Mr. Welch and Ernest have many friends
were
la-ttcr
able
to
do
this
than
the
indi-
Hood
River
never
miss«-«
tn
opportuni
IHHt’EI» ON
in Medlord who while regretting their
vidual grower, Irecause reports are recei tv to secure an advantage whenever removal wish them the largest prospt rity
FRIDAY OF EACH
WEEK. veil by the manager by mail and tele- even the least opportunity presents in their new location. .Messrs. Hollis
graph as to market conditions in all parts Their latest jxiint to gain is th it of secur­ and Butler are live business men and
CUAMI.K» MINKMVK
EniTo* of the world.
F ut he rm ore, to insure ing a s|iecial fruit train to lie run during have done much toward building up the
Medford Furniture Company to one of
the union an
honorable rating in their strawlierry season. It will be but the largest establishments of the kind in
Entered In the ¡¡out oline of Jsc knoll Ville,
the commercial world, the directors a few years until there will be fast fruit Southern Oregon ami that the trade of
Jn< k*on County, Oregon a» second claim matter
must I m - in a position to deliver the goods trains sent out daily from Rogue River. their firm will continue to increase under
when they contract with a dealer for the It is not uncommon during the height their efforts is a matter of certainty.
Hi hm airrtoN K a tvs
The suit for divorce brought by Her­
One year
.....
fl Ml sale of a carload of upples.
of the shipping season, for six to eight
His mouths
.....
bert Darling against his wife Anna Darl­
.75
The above is a part of the proceedings refrigator cars loaded with fruit to lie ing was l>egiin Thursday before Judge
Three mouths
....
of the annual meeting of the Hood River sentout daily. How the Hood River Hanna and will probably not Ire finished
Ct-CHHiatl Tuna
Apple Growers Union as taken from the Fruit Growers Union secured their spec­ before Saturday. The ptrtie# are resid­
The Hrntinrl nu<l the Weekly Oregonian will
Horxl River Glazier, and it is of special ial fruit tram is told in the following ents of Gold Hill and their trouble has
lx- sell! tn our ucltlir*« lor
n year. The Hr till
divided the town into factions and has
nd given the )ackaon connty new* ion! the Ort-
goutati give» tlie »tale, imtional nini world new«, interest to tin- members of the Rogue from the Hood River Glacier:
aroused considerable feeling, and more
(h i. u ruder i a'».c Io cover the entire new» River Fruit Growers Union, for this Un­
E.H.
Shepard
and
G.
J.
Gesslingof
the
than 311 witnesses were at court about
fid,I ui U..1.III the , . he of but one i>«|>rr.
ion has been nearly wrecked this post Fruit Grower»' union did some effective half on each side. Both are young peo­
Darl­
I miai . H vhm ao-rroNs The Jacksonville Hentluel year from the same causes that gave ser- work among the railroad people during ple and have two little children.
is illlw »mi io any addir»», ut uny postofhcr in
ing, charges his wife with adultery and
thè Urliteli Htstc», lor tour wrrk» lor IO ernia. ions trouble to the Hood River Union. the association meet at Portland last asks for the custorlv of the children. Mrs.
All ... i».
a , rr-iular or trial, wlll Ireprompt- The H«xxl River fruit men found that a
week. They made »uch a showing to the Darling vigorously denies she h is been
l> »l<>.<,«•<. » , r < .orni rK|>ltallon, unir»» a rr
rimai I i u ve ,v< d
mere “confederacy” was of no practical railroad ,x-<>| 1e that they agreed to give untru • to her vow» and on that ground
value to them and that only through a the fruit shipper* a strawberry special out resists the divorce ami alleges that Mr.
Darling is unable financially and other­
Friday, January 29, /9U4 “union" in all that the word implies of Hood River during the height of the wise
to provide for the children. Mr. Darl­
could they secure the full benefits of co- sea-on, running it on passeng-r train ing is a well known working man of ('»old
PR I IT<. H <)WERS ”C< >NFEI >ER AC V”
I ojieration. This “confederacy” idea is lime, the shippers to furnish the railroad Hill vicinity ann Mrs. Darling i> a daugh­
<»R “UNION.“
the rock that lias well nigh wrecked the company with on estimate of the number ter of J. B. Morelock of Gold Hili.
The annual meeting of the ll<x>d River
Ex-Sheriff Alex Orme, of Gold Hill,
Rogue River Fruit Growers Union and if of cars in the morning and they will
Apple Growers'union kept the mem ta r»
I it is not abandoned it will prove its total start a light train out of Portland with now mining Miperintendent for the
busy last Saturday from II o'clock in the
Condor Power & Water Company, came
| destruction. As this union is now car­ just enough cars so that the strawberries to Jacksonville Wednesday evening ai d
morning until 3 in the afternoon. While
ried on its members are not bound to heed will complete the train. This was Mr. remained here until Thursday ev< ning to
there was some sharp difference of opin­
j any order of the union ami they can sell Gessling's suggestion, and after the rail­ greet his many friends, when he return- <1
ion as to methods of union operations,
to his home. Mr. Orm - h is lately lx-< n
their fruit through it or not as they see road jieople had it under consideration
sick with a severe attack of the grippe,
yet there was a general feeling that the
| lit. The result of this loose system is that for a day, they came to the conclusion but he is now gaining streng’h and ex­
majority should rule, and that by all
the directors ami manager are completely that this would be the liest solution of pects to resume his work next week.
means the union must be supjrorted. At
Mr. Orme stated that the Condor Comp­
j handicapped in carrying on the business . the difficulty.
the close of the meeting, E I. Smith de
any would in about a month commence
i of the union, f <r on the vrrbal promises !
livered a short but able sjieech admonish­
the work af installing a 21) stamp mill at
Some Locals.
1 of uiemlrers to supply fruit they may go
the Braden mine to lx- operated by elec­
ing the apple growers to stand by the un­
Kraut at the Boss.
tric power from the Gold Ray station.
I ahead ami make contracts that they may
ion. “If we don't,” he continued, “the
Fred I.uy, a Jacksonville boy whose The line for poles on which the heavy
j I m - prevt nted from filling by reason of the
other fellows will pick our Irones clean.
barlxrr shop in Medford is given the cred­ copjier wires to carry the current will la­
growers changing their mindsand refus­
Th< luture success of the apple business
it of being one of the finest on the Paci­ st rung has been surveyed. The line will
ing to let the union have their fruit. It fic Coast, has recently had built a line re­ be four niiks in length and the poleswill
in Homl River de|reu<ls on the success oí
i
is up to the ftuit men to stand by their sidence in that town and from this week be set for it during March. Electric
this apple growers' union."
i union loyally and give it their united on he ami Mrs. Luv will make it their ¡lower will lie used to operate the drills,
A. I. Mason, president of the Ixtard of
hoisting anti other machinery about the
home.
directors, presided. Mr. Mason read a , support, or go it alone ami then fall vic­
mine. Several thousand tons of rich ore
P.
A.
Bender,
residing
near
Central
tims of the other fellow s who will pick
short address, including a list of recoin-
Point, who was ojierated upon three is now blocked out and thousands of tons
tlieir
bones
clean
as
Hon.
E.
L.
Smith
months
ago by Drs. Gale and Pleasants, more is to lx- had that will m ike this one
memlatioiis prepared by the directors.
told the Hood River growers. There is for the removal of a cancerous growth of the best producing mines ir. Southern
Those of the recommendations accepter)
in the region of the" groin, has almost - Oregon.
by the union and mark a part of the by no half way j oint in unionism ami the fully recovered from the operation, not­
Dr. E. B. Picket was in Jacksonville
■ Rogue River fruit growers will find, as
laws are:
withstanding that he is an aged man, the Saturday in consultation with Dr. Gale
1. The annual meeting of the union have tile II' mw I River and the growers of operation being performed on his 72nd. on the serious eve case of Chris Keegin.
other sections, that they must stand to­ birthday, and he ts now in good health The Doctcr had the honor not usually
shall tie belli the first Saturday in April.
The Indians may lx dying out but the given of having been the nominee on
gether, work together, and trust each
2. The Iroard of directors shall not lx-
Redmen
certainly are not, al least here in both tickets in the recent municipal elec­
clecled in full each year, ut least two of other and make their organization a Jacksonville, for they have been gather­ tion in Medford anti was elected without
solid union and not a loose confederation.
them holding over.
ing in the Palefaces at a lively rate of a dissenting vote. I)r. Pickel is a strong
But to accomplish this they must first late, 21 having been put through the advocate of good roads and contributed
3. This organisation, through its board
overcomi the traditional distrust that gauntlet to prove their worthiness to be­ /Bion his own offering to the fund now
of directors, shall have the exclusive and
come braves in Oregonian-Pocahontis being raised by the Jacksonville board of
farmers have for cat h other.
unqualified power to market all apples
Tribe No. 1, and neatly half as many trade for the improvement of the Jackson
Creek road. As mayor of Medford the
grown by any of its nietnlrcra. A con­
A compl-te system of Macadam roads more are working up their courage to the Doctor states that he shall use his best
|»oint
of
trying
the
ordeal.
tract lx>t ween mt h individual ami the for Jackson county would add not less
endeavors to have the streets and the
G. A. Dyson arrived Irack from Eugene
board of directors will lx- required.
: than jdti an acre to the value of all farm­ Wednesday where lie lias Ix-en since the roads leading to the town put in the best
I. The manager of the ninon will Ix- ing 1 md in the county. To gain this in­ holidays with bis family, and left the Condition possible. He will favor for
this year but expenditures of the road
placed on a flat stile rv.
creased value to th” farmers of the coun- next «lay for the Yellow Jacket mine on fund but for next year he hopes to have
5. No union label shall Ize placed
tv would cost not to exceed 45 an ucre Forest creek, which he and other Eugene Seventh street and the Jacksonville road
parties are opening up. The work of
all apple Ixrx, except by the manager
vet a very great numtrer of farmers are driving a tunnel, which is now in 180 made into a fine macadamized street,
the warehouse, just lx fore shipping.
' strongly opposed to having the levy for feet is being doue by \V. I, McIntyre and from the S. P. depot to the limit of the
6. Each packer will Ire held responsi­ road t.ixrs raised and are content to hv- M. A. Gorder and the tunnel will be con­ Medford road district, which is a mile
beyond the town limits and half way to
ble for his own work by a system of fines. bernate on their farms during the winter tinued until the full extent of the ledge the Grove school house. With the mile
is
known.
The
prospect
is
tine
that
the
No fruit will Ire received unless put up only getting out and wallowing through
to be built by Jacksonville this spring
Yellow Jacket will prove to lx- a mine of and the two miles to lie built by Medford
by a pa< ket employed by the union.
i quagmires, called roads, when necessity much value.
next spring then would remain but two
7. The union will have no ¡picking com ¡ads them.
C. R Welch and his son Ernest have ami a half miles of the Jacksonvil e-Med-
house foreman, except those employed
sold their interest in the Medford Furni­ ford road to macadamize, which when
It lias been a year since Jackson Creek ture Company to their partners, F. W. completed would make one of the finest
by the union.
H. The 3h and US tier pack is to Ire road was damaged by the flood in Jack- Hollis and J. H. Butler, and will leave at <1 rive ways on the Pacific Coast.
discontinued, ami the diagonal pack en­ son creek and it has been a year since
the contest Itcgan between the progres­
couraged where possible.
II. Apple box material must be bet­ sive element ami the tnossb.tck elem-nt
in Jacksonville as to whether this road
ter than that furnished last year.
should be rebuilt or li ft as it is, and the
12. Co-operation with the Hood River
Fruit Growers'union is looked ujxm as contest is not |>et ended.
JACKSONVILLE SENTINEL
MILLER &
worthy of consideration.
W in n tin 3d resolution came up for
adoption it roused a spirited debate; C.
11. Sprout was very much opjxrsed to such
a ruling, declaring it took the control of
the orchard out of the owner’s hands. B.
R. Tucker opposed the measure. F. C.
Sherrib supported it, declaring lie l ist
the difference between fl.25 and !>5c a
box for his Baldwins liecause some of the
union members refused to help fill a car
when the directors considered it best to
ship.
It remained for Mr. Mason to close the
argument and turn the tidt in the mo­
tion’s favor. The directors, in their ex­
perience of the past season, found it nec-
The emblem of the mossbacks of Jack­
sonville is the owl, the bird of ill-omen
that will hoot in the empty houses of the
town after the mossbacks have succeed­
ed in stifling every movement for the
upbuilding of Jacksonville.
Grants Pass is getting interested in the
good road movement and a proposition is
now under consideration for that town
and Josephine county to go partners in
the purchase of a rock crusher.
The Native Daughters are actively en­
gaged in preparations for their Leap
Year ball to be given Friday evenig, Feb.
12th. Committees have been appointed
and Hoffa’s orchestra engaged.
DAVIDSON
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