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Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1903-05-14

In lhc circuit court OF Inc state Oi
Oregon For The County of Jose
hinc
p. \. Smith, j. +. Cass, MI
j. Cass, l.. $. Cass, Il. l..
Cass and G. ID, Cass part
ncrs doing business under
the firm name OF Bank of
Sumcr Plaintiffs,
VS.
A. j. Sherwood as admins
traitor of the estate OF w.
b. Mudd, deceased, Sarah
j Rogers, Laurena J. Rog-
crs, Lodie l., OvorbaCker,
Lula NJ. Collins, William
Kelly Mudd, Thomas Ed
ward O'Bricn, Mollic r.
Ellis, Thomas Grenel
Ursula Gronel, Robert
Grenol, Susan Uigdon.
Maggie L, Mill, Jennie
L. Corhott Emma G. Gre
mel, William Eloctus Gre
uell Theresa Gronoll and
Richard c. Gronell
Defendants.
summons to the above named defon.
uuutS
In the name of the State OF Oregon:
You are hereby required to appear
and answer the amended complaint
filed against You I'm the above en-.
utlDd suit within six weeks from the
date of the first publication hereof
and II You fail 50 to answer, for want
thereof, the plaintiffs will apply to
tho court for the relief demanded in
their amended complaint namely;
That plaintiffs have Judgment
against the estate ot W b. Mudd,
deceased, for the sum OF one Hundred
aud Fifty Dollars with interest there.
ON from December 2S, 1899, 40 the rate
of ten per cent per uunum ANA for
the sum ot Fifty Dollars attorneys
foes, and tht costs ANA disbursements
of this SUIT
For decree forcclosiug plaintiffs
mortgage executed 10y ". b. Mudd.
deceased upon lot in block \ in
JudsOu's addition TO the town OF
Grants Pass, Josephine county, Orc
gou, and for the sale OF said premises
to satisfy plaintiffs Judgment
That tine defendants, and each OF
tbom, and all persons claiming or 90
claim through them or W. b. Mudd,
deceased be forever harrod and fore.
closed of all right, title and interest
in and 20 said promises
The first publication OF this sum
mons is made on May IT, 1903, and
the last publication hereof will be-
made ON June %, 1905
This summons is published by order
OF the Hon H. H. Hanna Judge Of
the circuit court for Josephine
county Oregon, and is dated May .,
l9o& W. c. HALE,
Attorney for Plaintiffs
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BORN

WlSEMAN-m Grants Pass, ore.
May l3 1902, TO Mr.. aud Mrs John
g. Mlsoman, daughter.
CONGER-Noar Wilderville, Sunday.
May 3, 1908, to Mr.. and Mrs. Martin
Congor, daughter.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1903-05-14
Josephine Barber Shop

The Hotel Josephine harhor shop I-
one of tho most up.to-doto and well
conducted institutions ut it, Kind aud
is presided over hy two of tu. MOST
efficient hnrbors iu Southern OrrEUu
The excellent quality ui thr tou,orial
work of Nate G.. Bates. is we'll known
aud his companion baIhur is w. E
Marriott, late OF san Francisco They
have lately added tho Mtc,t NpW York
tad, facial massage, with rns, md
ruhhor bulb used profossiOua ly. Two
evenings of each week viii ba ry.
served for ladies.
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FOR SALE.

FARM FOR SALE-two miles from Mer
lin, 100 acres about so acres of good
bottom land, 2j acres In cultivation, small
house and barn and about 30 acres under
fence, balance OF land suitable for orchard
or pasture. For further particulars adj
dress W. NJ. Grow, Merlin Oregon.
2fO acre fruit and stock ranch, 3is mile,
WV from Grants Pass. 100 fenced. 80
cleared lOin Orchard, fair buildings. good
fruit soil, plenty of water and timber and
the best outside stock range in Josephine
County. Price s. % per acre, part cash.
Call al ranch ON Jones creek or address
A. II. CheSsmOre Grants Pass, ore
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1903-05-14
SUMMONS

In The Circuit Court of The State of
Oregon For The County of Jose
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1903-05-14
WANTED.

Girl wanted to do general housework
Apply at this office.
PEAL ESTATE to buy real estate in
Ia towns on line OF s. z. Railroad
Write or call at room T. Masonic Bldg.
Grants Pass
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1903-05-14
\. E. VOORHEES,, PRopR. & MNGR
THURSDAY. MAY "A, 1908.

Entered at the post Office at Grants Pess,
Oregon, as second-class mail matter.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1903-05-14
BOARD AND ROOM.

TWO nice furnished rooms with board
in private family. Table the best
Inquire at this office
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CLASSIFIED ADS
WORK WANTED.

A VI 70 years Of age and willing to work
N at anything about the office for 500
a week. Inquire at this Office.
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with 1t went to Europe, where he sold the
! wonder to the Dresden Museum.

with it went to Europe, where he sold the
wonder to the Dresden Museum.
Later the ingenious doctor made out of
mastodon bones similar monstermastodon.
To heighten the effect OF the beast he in
serted the tusks laterally 30 that they
projected sidewise at right angles to the
head. ..i
With this work OF his. rich fancy, which
he named the Missourium, he astonishedI a
guileless European public. Whom at last
II did not draw any more he sold the bones
to the British Museum, where they are
still.
About half of mastodon skeleton was
found on the farm Of F. E. Schaeffer. three
miles west OF Newburgh, in 1900. This. now
restored, is in the Brooklyn Institute. Two
years ago almost as much of another skele-
ton was dug out near Monroe in Orange
county by the State Museum experts.
This shows the finest tusks Of the lower
Jaws of the American mastodon probably
ever observed. The State Museum IS
also in possession Of n famous mastodo don
found in 1855, in digging foundations for
the Harmony Mills at Cohoes.
The fact that mastodon bones are fire.
uuently found near the surface shows
that tho animals existed in q quite recent
period. In the western district Prof.
Clarke made an especially interesting
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that the curved tusks Of these pachyderms
may have originally served for cutting
One Of the problems about these huge
animals, the mammoth and the mastodon.
which inhabited such vast territories only
relatively short time ago. 10 how they could
have become extinct SO quickly and COM
pletely.
Frequently the glacial period is blamed
for it, But both M mmoths and the mas
todons were well adapted to cold climate
and they could have withdrawn from the
slowly approaching glaciers into more
favorable regions southwark.
Indeed, it was proved long ago DIR. Clarke
says, that both mammoth and mastodon
survived the glacial period " me msntodon 6nn
the glacial period and it lived here long after
the withdrawal of the waters which arose
when the glaciers melted.
Then it has been supposed that the woolly
climate of the glacial period that when
the warmer climate returned. they were
unable to endure the heat, But in that
case they could have found in the high north
of America all their old conditions of life.
1t is hardly possible that primitive man,
with his crude weapons of chipped stone
could have been able to extinguish the
amin ais from the enormous areas they
inhabited Just as little would the Indians
alone have been able to eXtinguish the
bun alO. ABOUT FuOSOn Day CleTe are Stlll
immense herds of caribou peacefully pas tur-
ing unmolested by the scattered Indians;
| so surely the mammoth, which once roamed
| the same regions, could not have perished
| by human hands.
One theory is that in the post glacial
| period the waterways were so enormously
| swollen and the country was SO covered
| with swamps that whole herds OF mas todons
may have been overcome by the flowing
rivers or have perished In swamps. The
| rivers of Siberia have rolled such enormous
mum bers Of mammoth bones and tusks
| into the Arctic sea that the islands lying
! eff the north coast are described as con-
| sisting Of mud, sand and mammoth bones
and Siberian fossil ivory has long been a
| regular article Of commerce.
There is some support for this theory
! In a discovery here. l.. W. Beehler has du 4
| out in a small area at kimmswick, about
| twenty miles south of st. Louis, mastodon
| bones belonging to several hundred beasts
| some very young. others old fellows. The
place where all these bones were found
| lies at the foot of bluff where two small
rivers unite 1t is possible that the bones
were piled up here in an eddy by the spring
| floods and came from animals which had
perished in winter.
But in spite of all this Prof. Clarke hardly
believes That these dangers would have
| sufficed TO extnguish the mastodons in
| the whole of North America and in the
| whole north Of Eurasia, both in the plains
and on the high lands.
They didn't die, either, because the plants
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on which they fed had persisted, for in the
mouth Of the first mammoth carcass found
in Siberia and between the ribs OF the
Warren mastodon we're found the remains
of spruce and hemlock needles, which had
served both beasts rs food, and the stomach
Of the mammoth brought last year from
Siberia contained masticated grass, and
there is no lack Of conifers and grass in the
areas formerly occupied either by mammoth
or mastodon.
So far as is known, also, there were no
rapacious animals to whose continuous
attacks such well armed giants could have
succumbed So there you are.
1t is practically the same riddle as is
presented by the disappearance Of the horse
In America, which had exi ted here in pre-
historic times, yet had vanished COM
petely from this continent at the time of
the discovery of America, though the con-
ditions Of living were SO extr emely favorable
for the horse that horses which had escaped
from the Spaniards multiplied with great
rapidity and soon roamed over the entire
West.
In the same way many other large ami
mails, evidently excellently adapted TO
their surroundings, often disappeared sud-
denly in the course Of geologic history.
1t really seems, says Prof. Clarke, as II
whole races Of animals have lost their
vital power and died Of old age e,exaotly as a
single individual might do. And probably
that was the case with the mastodons and
mammoths that New York once had.
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the mammoth Probably 1t was one OF
the mammoth's ancestors Its name, mas
todon, or nipple tooth, comes from the
peculiar structure OF the teeth.
On the whole the differences between
nastodon and mammoth are slight, and re-
searches In India have brought to light
skeletons which show plainly the transit
ton from the older mastodons to the
Younger elephants. An expedition sent
out by the British museum this summer
has also found in Egypt interesting ances-
tors OF the mastodon
There was the paleomastodon.th the bones OF
which are found there in old beds Of the Ter
tiary period. This ancestor had small tusks
and small trunk. In fact this grandfather
Of our elephants had longer skull and
looked on the whole like a gigantic pig.
Scientifically considered. the mastodon
was a more remarkable and stranger ami
, NAL than the mammoth, and the skeletons
and parts of them found in this State and
, further west and south indicate that the
mast todons once swarmed in great num-
bers over the whole breadth Of the United
States.
II is an interesting fact that there should
be any skeletons at all. or the enormous
herds of buffalo which forty years ago were
still grazing on the Western plains few
bones have been left because Of the dry
air and arid ground
But the watersoaked ground Of the more
humid New York has helped to preserve
the remains of it's masto todons, Their bones
have usually been found in swamps and
bogs lying in bottom lands which were
inundated in the high floods following the
glacial period. and later became occupied
by vegetation.
The skeletons are found chiefly in two
we'll defined areas. One of these lies along
along the lower Hudson and comprises
Sullivan, Orange, Ulster and Greene
counties. There are recorded thirty-four
finds, most of which belong to Orange
county OF the region to the west and south
west Of Newburgh, which has also furnished
the most complete skeletons.
The other region comprises Monroe,
Ontario. Genesee, Livingston, Orleans and
, Wyoming counties. or the territory to the
south and west Of Rochester. In other
parts of the State but few remains have been
found, though there is by no means lack
OF swamps in which an obliging maspodon
could have become mired. Apparently
the mastodons we're particularly attracted
to these two regions, either by specially
! good places for feeding or for breeding.
The first mastodon discovered was found
not far from Albany as early as i7o5. At
that time two honest Dutchmen, as Gov.
Dudley writes in letter, brought him a
tooth and several bones which they had
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.ceoLLEeE GRADUATES no OLDER
Figures That Upset Recent Comparisons
Between Old Times and Now.

Figures That Upset Recent C0mpaTisOhs
Between Old Times and Now.
Prof. W. E. Thomas of Columbia Uni
versity has recently completed an eIhaus-
tive examination Of the records OF eleven
colleges and universities, representing all
parts OF the country except the extreme
West, with view Of finding out what
changes have taken place In the age OF
college graduates.
1t was found that In 1870 years at part
mouth College the average age at gradua-
ton has fallen three months, while In q
hundred years at Middlebury College the
average age has risen four months.
In the decade extending from 1880 to 1850
the median age at graduation at the various
colleges studied was 20 years 90 months.
In the decade from 1890 to 1900 the average
was 22 years rs months.
1t therefore appears that the recent
statements about the increased age OF col
lege men at graduation were not we'll
founded. The average age OF graduates
during the years 1850 to 1850. as opposed to
the median age. was % years i.s months
The corresponding figure for the ten years
1890 to 1900, was % years 10 months.
In these calculations, each college or
university was considered separately In
making up the averages. II the graduates
be punched the averages are, for the
former decade above mentioned, 23 years
and 8 months. and for the latter decade
% years and is days. That is the greatest
change any OF the possible calculations
point to--a lowering in 50 years Of the age
OF graduation of just about two months
and half considered from this point OF
view.
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found on the bank Of the Hudson. Cotton
Mather sent an account Of the relios to the
Royal Society, expressing his belief that they
were the remains Of giant men.
In 1901 Charles w. Peale dug out, IN the
neighborhood Of Newburgh, fairly com
plete skeleton, the first of its kind. This
was exhibited in London and subsequently,
brought to Peale's museum in Philadelphia
There It was destroyed in fire
The largest and most complete skeleton
found 40 far was also obtained in the neigh
borhood of Newburgh, In 1s45. The bones OF
this skeleton, as hero pictured, were still in
their natural position, the fore legs stretched
out, the hind legs drawn up toward the
body.
This was acquired by DR.. John c. War
rem and taken to Boston. where 1t now Ia.
DR.. Warren deliberately described 1t in a
beautifully illustrated volume, and this mas
todon Is now known among scientists as
the Warren mastodon 1t Is said to have
cost DR.. Warren 5000.
In 1874 there was discovered, near Otis
vile In Orange county, the incomplete mas
todon now in the Peabody Museum at Yale
Most OF the bones in the skeleton now
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There were elephants In New York once
outside of tlle circus and the geological
marks in days when there were no enter
prisjng showmen to exhibit them. Sclen-
tific folks all know that and great deal
more about the two species, the mani
moth and the mastodon. which fourished
here during and after the glacial period.
II isn't 80 we'll known to the average
citizen, but this and much besides about
1Aese prehistoric denizens OF the State ID
1o,d by Prof John M. Clarke, the State
paleontologist. in compilation contained
in his annual report; and very interesting
things they are that Prof Clarke tells,
General attention has been attracted to
these large woolly coated coevals OF North
ern mon by the stories OF the discovery OF
IN entire body OF mammoth In the tun-
dras of Siberia, and further finds OF the
same character are hoped for in the cold
North II il hardly expected that entire
bodies OF the mammoth will ever be tound
In this State, for the climate is too warm to
preserve them
But the brown wool Of mastod on has
been turned up in an Ulster county swamp,
and it is probable that up in ALASKA entire
mamnioths are still to bs discovered. The
remains OF one we're recently uioCoNoiou
on tho Yukon River with masses OF fat 30
fresh that the natives used it to grease
their boats,
OF mastodons New York State has
furnished the best preserved skeletons
found thus far. Prof. Clarke says that
since 17O5 no fewer than sixty such finds
have become known in this State, 10 say
nothing of the many which have not
reached public knowledge
The two species were quite distinct.
The mammoth E'ephds primi1eHiuo, vas
a genuine elephant which inhabited dur
ing and after tho eacinl period. northern
Europe, Asia and America. 1t was similar
to the present Indian elephant, but seems
to have been larger
It had more powerful tusks and still
more complicated nolars. and it had
thick coat of gray brown wool. This was
known from sketches OF the animals left
by contemporary nan, even before the
finding Of two frozen "a lrcasse5 in Siberia
The mammoth, though, was by no means
tn, giant it has gradually become In the
public mind. 80 that to-day anything
especially big gets It's name. In fact, the
animal was not called the mammoth h on
account Of ts huge size.
The name comes from the Russian word
namantu, which means ground dweller,'
this in turn coming from the Tartar word
mamn;a earth" The Tartars, finding
only the bones and tusks Of the animals
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From Europe the mammoth spread over
northern Asia and from there by way OF
Behring Sea reached North America. where
the beasts once lived in great numbers, but
did not go further south than the fortieth de-
gree of latitude, that is about the latitude in
which Philadelphia Is.
The rnastodon, whose skeletons are found
so frequently in the swamps OF New York,
looked like the mammoth, but it had some-
what shorter legs. relatively heavier
body, a fatter head and longer jaws. In
these differences and especially in the
different structure OF its teeth, it shows itself
to have been more antique animal than
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IN the ground. concluded that they had
lived in the earth ike giant ,moles.
Jumbo was, ii feet high. The biggest
discovered mamrnot b reA ohed q height OF
about thirteen feet: Not infFsquently
African elephants u fset high have been
shot. no it is quite posi- iple thAt those
which attain fuff growth reacxfthe size
Of the extinct mammoth
The tursks of the mammoth appear also
no. to have grown much larger than those
Of living Gle ephants Tho largest mammoth
tusk thus far measured came from
Alaska. I, was IL feet 10 inches long
and weighed 1870 pounds. Another was
il feet long and weighed 200 pounds.
The biEele phant tusk which used to stand
in Fulton street was almost nine feet long
and weighed lSt pounds and Tiffany had
three Years ago an elephant tusk on ex-
hibition which came from Zanzibar and
measured 10 feet and weighed e24 20 ounds'
An old elephant bull Of to-day, therefore,
would hardly have to hide himself from
the vaunted mammoth
Thes w:re other elephants, now extinct,
which grew bigger than the mammoth.
There was the Eiephds meridionalis, which
was appro ximately a coeval OF the mann
mot h, but lived around the Medite rranean
Sea, and whose skeletons have been found
in the Valley of the Arno near Florence;
and the American elephant, EiephGa
Columbid,,ts, which inha bitcd the South and
West of the United States at the same time
the mammoth roamed over the North
Each of these elephants reached 10 feet
In average height,
The home OF the mammoth seems to have
been id western Europe. when the region
of the German Ocean was still dry and
England Was connected with the Con-
tinent- From the bottom OF the German
Sea, travis have brought up thousands of
mammoth teeth.
From western Europe the monsters spread
over the whole of Europe north OF the Alps.
There their bones were found frequently
In early times and gave origin to many
myths like that OF the giant King Of the
Cimbri called Teutobochus, who is said
to have had the remarkable size Of nineteen
feet. r',
ancient Greeos and Rome as the remains of
heroes and finally adored as the bones of
saints. The Church Of Valencia had a
tooth which. for long ume did service as
that Of st. Christopher In 1889 the
thigh bone OF a mammoth was carried
along as the arm bone Of saint in process
sions to pray for rain.
The notion even lasted till more recently.
Not mspy, years ago a large bone was dug
up near monastery in Bavaria The
monks. who knew q good thing when thes
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Anxiety Shown In Christmas Faces
Ero,, ,be pLiI1deIphiu Record


Now, look at those Christmas faces.
remarked the dyspeptic over his morning
newspaper. as the trolley car sped toward
the centre Of the town. You don't ses
anything peculiar about them3 Look again
Are they any thing like those worn by tho
women who go in town every day? Nay.
nay. Outside Of their clothes and manner.
they show the greatest anxiety. They nave
Christmas faces. Look at the maiden in the
big hat She's II suburban belle ! bet you
anything you like she's going. to buy mamma
a pair OF gloves. papa muffier and her best
beau a frame for her own photograph
for her dear ones, while mamma though
proud as a. peacock OF her daughter. has =
that she fears shes going to have the deuce
Of a time stretching her purse until 1t encon-
passes the little list she has up her sleeve
to be actually trying to look natural BUY
they can't. It's shining out all over them
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mounted in the American Museum OF Nat
ural History here were found at Salisbury
Mills, nine miles southwest Of Newbursh,
in 1870 This skeleton has been somewhat
restored. The hip bone and three ribs are
from Hangman's Creek in Oregon. the
tusks came from Hoopston ILL.,, some foot
bones have been restored and the tail has
been modelled after Jumbo's.
Where such careful record as this made
by Prof Whitfeld) is kept Of the restora-
ton, nobody objects to such restorations,
because only by such means can an entire
skeleton be presented to the public. Deal
ers, though, are not so conscientious.
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discovery. ...... ...,
Diysctiy under some mastodon bones
found there in a small swamp exposed In o
street Of Attica Wyoming county, In 1887.
was q quantity OF charcoal. This shows
that II Is quite probable that New York
eyes have actually looked upon the living
inastodon here,
The mastodon did not reach extraor.
binary size in spite Of the assertion, still
found in the latest textbooks. that 1t was
even larger than the mammoth The fact
seems to be that it was rather smaller.
The Warren mastodon had skel
II feet high, so that the animal may have
been IL feet high. Its tusks, though. were
10 feet long, Of which two and one-half feet
were inserted In the jaw
These tusks were Of peculiarly variable
shape. Frequently they were bent semi
circularly. In the Warren mastodon they
run first straight down and are bent only
at the lower end. In the skull which Koch
had on his fake Missourium they ran
originally straight forward and were
but slightly bent.
It is an interesting fact that the earlier
species of mastodons show an outer band
OF enamel running down the upper tus ks
as in the incisors of rodents, which consist
OF soft dentine or ivory supporting hard
plate of enamel. just as a chisel bears q
hardened tempered steel face with back
ing Of soft iron. Possibly. therefore,