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Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1909-08-06
GETTING READY TO
PAVE SIXTH STREET
A Committee Of Five Appointed by
Property Owners 20 Re-
present Them.

The committee chosen by the
property owners on Sixth street to
Investigate the question OF the kind
of pavement wanted had their Sec
ond meeting on Thursday night last
at the rooms OF the Commercial
Club Chairman K. l.. Coe called the
meeting 10 order and the regular
secretary, Joseph Moss, read the re-
port OF the previous meeting. Chair
man Coe explained the work accom-
pllshed by the committee and what
remained 10 be- done in order that
the paving Of Sixth street be- CONE
menced After considerable dis
cusslon ]. o Booth moved that a
committee Of five property owners.
Of which the chairman should be one.
be named by the chair 10 confer with
the city council aud do nll other nc.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1909-08-06
MAYOR II. c. KINNEY ARRIVED
HOME SUNDAY NIGHT
A VERY PLEASANT OUTING
Four Thousand Miles Made by Au-
tomObile During the Two Months
Visit in the Sunshine State.

Mayor H. c. Kinney and party,
who left here on their California
tour on May 81, arrived home on
Sunday evening, having travelled
more than 1000 miles in an auto
mobile during the time of their alb
sence. The party consisted on
the start of Mr.. and Mrs. Kinney,
their son Paul, and Mrs. Mary E.
Dodge, and on the return, Miss Mar
jorie Kinney was added. The story
of the itinerary of the auto travellers
covers a period of more than two
months travel through a beautiful.
as well as picturesque country. On
their way south they made short
stops at Ashland and Dunsmuir. At
the latter place they shipped their
machine to Redding on account of
rough roads. Then from Redding
they ran to Arbuckle the first day
and the next to Oakland. After some
little delay they went on toward the
south, passing many beautiful places,
finally reaching Pasadena, dis
lance, the way they Travelled, of prac-
tcally 1000 miles from Grants Pass.
They made the longest stay during
the trip at Los Angeles, visiting the
small towns near that place for some
time. They were fortunate enough
to be able to attend the commence
ment exercises of the Pomona col
lege at Clairmont, at which time
Miss Kinney, the daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Kinney, graduated in vocal
and piano music. After this they
covered a large part the the South
en California country, going as far
as the borders of Mexico They pass
ed through a land of sunshine day
after day, which showed the effect
OF capital, knowledge and energy in
the way of making beautiful towns,
cities, gardens and farms.
Mr. Kinney says that Southern
California offers fair illustration
oeShat can be accomplished by unity
of the people of both town ana conn
try Every householder, he says,
is boomer for the country and pub
lie and private improvement in the
city He is greatly onthasad gl On.
way Southern Californians do things
and the thorough-going style In
which they boom their section The
party not only enjoyed the outing
but all are looking the very picture
OF robust health. Paul ran the biz
Winton car all the way from Grant.
Pass through California and back tc
this city managing It with per
lect skill, and from first to last es
capped accidents OF any kind. Con
sldering his years, It was in all re-
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1909-08-06

cessary things In regard to paving
the street. He explained that he
would be entirely willing 10 have
any five business men act for him
for his interest would be their inter-
est Such a committee, he said,
would be enabled TO act promptly
and II would not be necessary 10 call
property owners together again II
this meeting would instruct the COM
mlttee AZ TO the wishes OF thos pres
ent. There was considerable dis
cusslon and many questions asked
when the motion to appoint the COM
mlttee came up for action and was
carried unanimously. The chair
then explained that he would not
like to appoint the committee With
ont giving the matter some study as
he thought II proper. TO have each
section OF the street represented.
The following ls the committee
appointed to take charge Of the nav
Ing OF Sixth street r. l.. coc !. D.
Fry, T.. n Hou. Z u A"t r'eus
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1909-08-06
THE SUBJECT WILL BE TAKEN
UP MONDAY EVENING
AT THE REGULAR MEETING
Investigation of Opportunities to
Run Boats from Grants Pass
TO Ament Dam.

The Commercial Club has given
notice that the subject of improving
the river for boating purposes from
White Rocks to Ament dam will be
taken up at the regular monthly
meeting on Monday evening August
g. The subject generally will be
talked over and II 1t Is thought best
committee will be appointed to
make an examination OF the river
and decide on the practicability of
removing the distractions so as to
permit gasoline launches to go over
the two or three rifles on that part
OF the river leading to the dam. This
will permit the use for boating pur-
poses Of distance of three miles
up the river and round trip OF six
miles, which would be of great ad-
vantage to the citizens Of Grants
Pass who are fond OF boating, be-
sides being of service to the people
living here, and It will be an attrac-
tion Of great Importance to the
homeseekers, many Of whom would
choose Grants Pass or It's vicinity as
a place Of residence when II has been
demonstrated to them that we have
boating facilities of the greatest
value, which no other town in this
valley has to offer.
This Is one of the important mat
ters in which the Commercial Club
can be Of real service to this city
and county. The facts are that IL
this slight Improvement In the river
Is made and boats are permitted to
make the six-mlle trip this fact
alone will be great advertisement
for Grants Pass and viii draw hum
dreds of people annually to this city.
There are already moro than a dozen
boats Of all sorts, including a gaso-
line launch on the river at this point,
but they can only 30 mp as far as
the White Rocks, a distance OF one
mile.
When this matter comes up before
the club next week II must be kept
In mind that no time should be lost
in doing the work Of opening chan
nels for boats through the obstruc-
tions There can be no great cost
In making these improvements and
the benefits viii be very great
The scenic attractions Of the dis
tance between this city and the
Ament dam will draw crowds when
boats can 20 above the present
limit. When these improvements are
made and boats are running every
advertisement issued by the club re-
gardlng Grants Pass or Josephine
county must OF necessity mention the
boating advantages. II will be found
to be the drawing card; and the one
thing that will induce people to come
to this point instead OF going TO
localities that are on dead, common
level and are lacking in natural ad-
vantages.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1909-08-06
A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY IN
DEPTHS OF OREGON CAVES
Frank Ellis, One of Grants Pass Most Popular
Young Men, While Leading Party
Is Accidentally Killed.

and placed them as a pillow under
his head and then followed the string
to the entrance of the cave. Once
outside she went up the hill for more
than three miles to the Fetzner camp
where she arrived about four o'clock,
a most pitiahle sight. She was
covered with blood and her clothing
reduced to only her outer garments.
When it was all over she broke down
in her agony of grief,
The balance of the party who had
fled from the cave ran all the way
to the Fetzner camp, where they told
story of being attacked by robbers
and reported Ellis killed They
claimed that numerous shots were
fired. Mr.. Fetzner at once went to
telephone office some miles away,
and called up the sheriff's office, but
that officer being absent, Deputy
Sheriff Cheshire took charge of the
matter and notified DR.. Stricken, the
coroner, and these gentlemen, accom-
panied by T. b. Cornell, went out to
the foot of the mountain with Mr..
Olding in his automobile, They
went within 9 miles Of the cave and
walked the balance of the way,
reaching the Fetzner camp at four
Monday morning There they halted
for information, then pressed on to
the cave, which they entered and
found the body of Ellis. The coron-
ep made careful study of the situa-
ton and became convinced that the
dead man had been accidentally kill
ed by shot from his own revolver
He found the weapon above the rocks
and it had a single empty chamber
which told from whence had come
the messenger of death. The body
was taken ont and carried TO the
road where Undertaken Hairs wagon
mot tbe Marty and conveved tba ro.
mains IN tbo cltv arriving horn
about o'clock The body was at
once prepared for shipment and
taken on the night train to Dallas,
this stote whore If wos bpriod on
Tuesday afternoon
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Pass girl Of a pioneer family Of this
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1909-08-06

blamed for his craven, cowardly con
duct, and bitter invectives have been
hurled at him, but Coroner Stricken
says that 1t is well known fact that
this young man is nervous TO such an
extent as to make him, on such oc-
casions, totally irresponsible. This
he says, is called by the harsh name
of cowardice, The Courier believes
that the criticism of the public has
gone to that extent that it is only
fair now for them to hear his story
or the tragedy and II has secured
his statement, which follows:
He said. I'VE left camp that
morning, Frank and his wife, my
sister, my wife's sister, with myself
and wife, and when reaching the
caves there were two men, strangers
to us. They told us that they had
been running wild in the woods for
the past two or three weeks. and
questioned us about various mat
ters relative to where we were camp-
ing, and whether it was better to go
in the cave in the upper or the lower
entrance. then suggested that they
go In through the upper end, which
they did, When they were gone,
Frank and | and the girls talked
about the men and we all thought
they might be bent on making us
trouble. We went to the upper en-
trance and while we were getting
our string ready to take in the cave
with us in order to find our way
out again, these men came up and
went on In the caves and were in
there but few minutes when they
came out and we started in and they
watched us until we were out of
sight. | suggested that | go ahead,
ms | knew the cave better than they
and the girls seemed to be afraid and
Frank suggested that he go ahead
as he had the gun, After leaving the
fifth room, going into the sixth
room, we heard the report of n gun
and Frank fell backward, dead The
women were naturally frightened
so bad that they came TO the con-
clusion at once that some one had
shot him, and began screaming and
calling for help and ran from the
caves with the hope of getting help.
While leaving the cave Mrs. Ellis
called out to me, Arthur Arthur,
don't leave me for Frank Is shot
My wife called to me TO come as
they might shoot us all and began
screaming for me to come and get
them out ! called Mrs. Ellis TO come
but she refused to leave the body Of
Frank and while she stayed there. /
took the remaining ladies to Mr.
Fet2ner's camp, three miles away
| told the story to Mr.. Fet2ner and
he started for the valley nine miles
away 10 get help and asked me to
stay at his camp with his family un-
til he returned. In the meantime,
Mrs. Ellis appeared at the Fet2ner
camp and we stayed there until help
arrived In the person Of Dlcl, Lew
man and Lester Bailey Later on
a larger number Of men arrived upon
the grounds, who repaired to the
scene Of the accident.
my reason for leaving Mrs. Ellis
at this critical time is beyond my
power Of expression, as we were all
more or less Of degree so bewlder-
cd at the sudden shock that we could
hardly be held accountable for what
strange things we might have done.
There was no desire to desert Mrs.
Ellis, but fear overcame me to such
an extent that before | knew what
] was doing had left the cave and
taken the other ladies' with me"
A, NJ. VINYARD
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1909-08-06

20 Per cent discount on Refrigcra-
tors nj Hair.Riddlc Hardware Cos.
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Religious Arguments.
JOAQUIN MILLER is to establish

JOAQUIN MILLER is to establish col
ony OF poets in Fruitvale. Cal.
Mr.. Miller. discussing this colony re-
Gently, said:
we poets will. of course. argue and
SGuabble. That viii be delightful Ar
Euments and squa bibles over Matthew Ar
mold. Swinbune. Tennyson and Keats are
pleasant and sensible things, you know
they are not like political or religious
arguments, which in their bitter rancor
always make me think of three Maine di-
vines
While three Maine divines were sup
ping together. two of them began to ar
que about the comparative religious merit
of the royal houses OF Stuart and Or
ange. The argument became heated. The
divines grew excited and angry.
William III was a great rascal
roared the first as he struck the table
with his fist. A great rascal, and i spit
upon his memory.
The second divine. turning very red,
shouted:
No it's James II that was the ras
cal. l spit upon his memory"
AT this point the third divine rang the
bell. and said gently to the waiter:
Spittoons for two, please.
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AN ATfErPT 10 Ci1An1Gc APPEARANcE
TIE SArE TArr)

in Greater New York at least \ man
stung to the quick with this terror was
one Samuel Levine, arrested some time
ago in Brooklyn tenement, where the
police believed him about to commit
arson. with benZine. They locked him up
lice Headquarters. where he was brought
to the mugger's studio, on the sixth floor
Levine took one terrified glance at the
mugger's camera and jumped through
ment below. where group Of pedes-
TRANS gathered around his quivering
body. And right in this same city of
Brooklyn has just been brought to a close
another muggng case which has brought
things TO an issue for the gentle art in
question.
Have you ever wept over the plight
of Dickens little Joe"-the poor. inno-
cent street urchin Of BLEAK House."
whom the police were forever logging
and bounding and prodding to move
on Mugging was an art as yet I'M
discovered in those days. but poor lit
tie Joe's innocent face became known
to the police as that of a suspicious
character. and forever after that there
was no rest in London for his weary
head
But that was dim picture Of grim
times out of date. Let us turn to our
own glorious twentieth century-age of
reform and of personal liberty.
TWO years ago. or, to be more ex-
plicit. June 16, 1907. the Brooklyn po-
lice arrested lad on the streets They
mad no warrant for his arrest and they
let him languish all night in a stuffy
cell Next morning he was taken to
this same dread chamber whence Levine
mad left by the sixth-story window, and
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because he would not remove the impli-
Gated officials, although he did return the
pictures. negatives and measurements TO
the father of this boy, George Duffy. The
made in the world of politics eclipsed the
real import of the incident-the asSur-
ance that the New York police may no
longer exhibit the mugs of innocents,
albeit they may still enjoy ad libitum
the gentle art of sweating false testi-
mony out of suspects subjected to the
psychic cruelties OF the third degree"
But the police could still be muggins
away at innocent men, women and chill
dren to their hearts content had il not
been for an agitation sprung a few years
back by Roland b. Molineux. About 1903
State Senator Riordan offered at Albany
a bill for the return of all rogues' gallery
material of persons who have been ac-
quilted or have died. The bill passed
both houses and came up to the then
Gov. Ben Odell for signature. But the
police authorities persuaded him to veto
it. Not only were they unwilling to let
an innocent man get up once he was
down. but they could not condescend even
10 let uD on unfortunate after the
angel of death had wiped his record clean.
The day following the veto Molineux, hav-
ing peeH acquitted OI the poisoning OF
Mrs. katherine Adams. applied to a judge
for an order requiring that his rogues'
gallery pictures and measurements be ex-
plunged from the state records and re-
turned to him. He argued that his ac-
quittal made his status the same as
though he had never been accused. and
that the keeping of the pictures was an
invasion of his right Of privacy. But the
application was denied on grounds of
public policy and MolineuX lost also on
2DDeaf Then ASSaro hI,-rnan n ole
another bill through the legislature re-
nuiring the return of photographs and
measurements of person. and all copies
Of the same. when criminal proceedings
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But Tor the benefit of the uninitiated
let me first explain that the ''mugger'' is
a gentleman who conducts Photographic
studio at which only complimentary sit
tings are given and where the sitter, ie
the ''mugged.' is guaranteed two differ
ent poses, as well as real notoriety and
the honor of having his portrait study en-
tered in the municipal salon. otherwise
known as the ''rogues gallery"
II is the terror of having to choose be-
tween exile and merciless, amending
bounding by the police that has made the
chair Of "mugGer" loom w well nigh as
black and formidable as the electric chair
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here the boy was ''mugged. Not only
that. he was stripped and measured
subjected to all of the indignitiss of a
felon. And what monstrOus crime had
this youth committed to warrant such
indignitieso Next day when taken be-
fore "A magistrate no complaint what
ever could be made against him and
he was discharged. Yet, nevertheless,
and notwithst anding this discharge. his
mug was hung up in the salon of
rogueS and his name was entered in
the index of felons
But after this boys release new vicis-
STUDIES commenced to cross his path 1t
got noised about his neighborhood that
he was rogues' gallery exhibit, and
this was enough for the denizens Of the
gutter. So whenever the marked lad
now appeared he was hooted and ieered
as rogue from street corner to street
corner. But this was only the beginning
of his tribulations. The police, who study
every new portrait entered in their gal
iery of felons, now had the boys face
craven on their memory, and on pas sing
him upon the street remembered him as
criminal of some sort and either or
dered him to move on or arrested him
on sight The youths outraged father
after futile appeals to the police officials
to have the boys picture removed from the
gallery. took the matter to Justice William
J. GaynOr Of the New York supreme court,
who, on investigating the matter. pre-
ferred the charges against the p,lica au-
thorities which resulted in the mayors
order upon Commissioner of Police Bling
ham to remove the innocent boys pho
tographs from the rosues gallery: to hand
these. together with the negatives and
the youths Bertilon measurements, over
to the latter's father. and to dismiss the
officials implicated in the lads persecu-
ton. 1t was over this affair that Mayor
Mcclellan and Police Commissioner Bling
ham fell out, the latter being dismissed
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not speak such words. realizing the pow
er they have for good? We expect them
from d stranger. but how much more
do We expect them from the loved ones
round the hearth at home.
There in that most halowed of all
places the accents of love and encour-
aSement should fall from every tongue
as balm to the heart, to soothe il into
contentment and rest as lotion to the
soul.
When the effort costs nothing why
should any member of the household be
sparing of kind words. knowing the pO-
tentiality of their utterance?
A parent by loving word Of encourage
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ten to her. She was mighty frail lookin'
and worried When We told her how Sam
had been carryin' on She went straight
from the bed lent to the side snow.
The little woman walked like she was
in trance past the Albinc. the Bearded
Lady and the man with the india rub
Der skin When she came L Sans cage
she Just Sorter stopped aud sobbed
Th' sobhin disturbed sam and h
srunted and reached for them letters.
MS Sam she stepped up. opened the
door O that cage and stepped inside
When Borneo's eyes fell on her there
was more OF glare than WAS made hy
III: phosphorus and with i smart not
in like he'd ever mad. before he iumpea
straight at her.
One o the cnnvasmen had been ay-
pectin' somethin' o that sort and before
Sam could harm the little woman he
was cracked over tn head with a pole
the barker used [ prod him with. He
was stark starn' mad
''IV course We couldn't keep him witt,
the SHOW after ttat. and as quietly as We
could We had him shipped to an asylum"
The eX-wild man didn't say any more
for a long time. and just sat slipping his
beverage
One night growlad little TOO loud.
quit the job tn next day
But even if the wild man stunt don't
come TO a tragedy it's mighty unpleas-
ant business, and if a man don't get to
thinkin' permanently he's just what the
barker says he is. there's times when he
almost believes it,
stranger. just think what il is to have
t growl an grovel an whine. dress IN
and fakin' a beast that never existed If
your face is hidden under the grease
paint. tn dirt and tn 1air" the man con-
tinued in self-pity. you know you're
there.
An there's lots uh little petty annoy
ances, such kids sneakin' behind
around yuh a-stickin pins into you an
THROWN pebbles at yuh, an pokin things
eat through the bars that wouldn't
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really be half bad if yuh was Wild shore
nuf
1T wuz plain necessity that made me a
wild man for a while 1t was one summer
we was shown in the middle states an
j IVES pulin' q little too hard on 4 guy
rope one DAY when II broke 1t let me
down SO hard that / stra ned my shoulder
50 that I couldn 90 back at canvasin'
for while. Bein short OF wild man.
the manager told me ] could he the goat
or go broke.
why. stranger. it's wonder t me
that more Nv them wild men don't 10
Eighty. An them drinks came in right
handy too