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Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1911-05-12
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ph..bohAL AND LOCAL

Fred Colvig, county recorder OF
Jackson county, has been visiting MS
parents, Mr. and Mrs. @. W. Colyig'
Of this city, during the past week
NJ. Colvig is taking a much needed
rest and vacation.
Mccormick mowers are the light
est running longest life and most
satisfactory mower on the market
Look them over at the Rogue River
Hardware Co.'s Store, (The Big
pod Uront 51-2-2tl
J. s. Pardee, Of Gold Ray, was vis-
iting friends here Sunday.
F. E. Bigalow arrived this morning
from Medford on business.
Mrs. M. G. sturtevant and Mrs. M.
r. sturtevant went to Fruitdale to-
day to spend the day with Mr. ana
Mrs. Robert Huck.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. W. Wood and MISS
Agnes Elene George came In from
Kerby Saturday evening. Mr.. and
Mrs. Wood went to Ashland on the
late train. but Miss George will spend
several days here with her sister, Miss
Lucie, and will later go to Portland
20 visit friends
County Superintendent Lincoln
Savage went to Kerby Monday to look
after business matters pertaining to
the public schools at that place.
Clifford jenkins, OF Medford, spent
Sunday with Grants Pass friends
Attorney Fred Williams went to
Glendale Monday morning on pro-
fessional business.
e. r. and e. B. Crouch went to the
, Cold Note mine on Grave creek this
morning, where they go to Install a
stamp mill It is expected to have
the mill in operation by the first OF
, June
w L. Babcock went to Corvallis
this mormning to attend a state
, grange meeting in session at that
, place this week. He will return the
latter part OF this week.
4 II. Croisant, NJ. Hudson and j. NJ.
' Chotka left Sunday for Denver. They
{ &c to engage In mining in Colorado
b Ma Lawdon left Sunday for Cen
: tralla, Wash, to visit friends.
Z Miss Pearl McDaniels arrived here
o Sunday from Portland to spend som(
G time with her brother, L. E. McDan
k icls. and his family.
8 Mr.. and Mrs. w. Soloman were Wis
ting with Grants Pass friends satur
= day afternoon and returned to thel
l. home at Hugo in the evening
d II. n. Starr returned Saturda.
& evening from Klamath Falls, wher'
d he had spent the week on business
e C. II. Reichsteln returned Satur
e day evening from business trip t
y Medford
II. C. Heller, Of Medford, was
Is Grants Pass visitor Sunday
n The new Big Four McCormic
1t mower will run easier and last lone
81 er than any other mower made. TIL
s. principal reasons for this are--long
Is er drive wheels--wider distance be
d tween drive wheels and highe
Ie speed of knife This machine Is es
l. pecally adapted to rough grount
le The Rogue River Hardware Co, cal
r ry a large stock of the Big As
'e stock at the Big Red Front. 5-12-l
Rodney Calvert spent Sunday
'e Glendale
Mrs L. w. Smith returned to he
home at Hugo Saturday evening, a
ID ter spending the afternoon wit
Grants Pass friends
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1911-05-12

Sick headache results from a dis
ordered condition OF the stomach, and
can be cured by the use OF Chamber
lain's Liver Tablets. Try t. For
sale by all good dealers
Misses Lenore and Made Baker
and r. NJ. Rice, Of Hugo, were Grants
Pass visitors Saturday.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1911-05-12

Mrs. George Young and tSo chill
dren returned Sunday afternoon from
few days visit with relatives at
hugo.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1911-05-12

A wan, ad campaign Will rent
that house to tenant who has .
conscience--and a bank account
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-29
SEEING HONOLULU" IN A NEW WAY

Local health authorities do not pro
pose to miss any opportunities to
learn new wrinkles in sanitation and
health matters. Just at present DR..
]. n. Mccormack, the prominent lee
turer of the National Medical Associa-
ton who arrived yesterday to lecture
on preventive medicine before the local
medical society, and to the public at
the Opera House tomorrow night, is
being pumped with all diligence.
The distinguished visitor was under
the wings of Secretary Mott-Smith,
President Pratt, and DR.. Hobby most
of yesterday, in a sightseeing trip
about the city. The itinerary differed
a little from that usually recommended
to the tourist in that it included many
of the unpleasant places Of the city,
from which visitors are generally kept
apart. Today he is being entertained
in much the same manner, and DR.
Pratt deplores the fact that the emin-
ent doctor cannot be kept here for an
indefinite period
DR.. Mccormack is more than a mere
theorist concerning sanitation matters,
it is stated, and that he is familiar
with conditions in the tropics through
many trips through Cuba, Central
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-29
COMING HERE TO BE A NUN.

NEW YORK, August 21.-Sister
Mary Aida, a real Princess in the garb
Of a nun, is in New York city today on
her way to Hawaii, where she will en-.
ter the house of the Sisters of the
Scored Hearts in Honolulu. She is a
born Hawaiian of royal blood and has
been studying in France for six years
Her mother, a Princess only two steps
removed from the Hawaiian throne,
married Wong Leong, a wealthy Chi
nese. Their daughter, who was re.
garded in Hawaii as a great beauty,
decided, on becoming of age, to 80
into the church. She is a talented
musician and artist and speaks eight
languages.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-29

from the skies and he said:
ooh, how do you dots a girl"
Which explains it all.
1t happened at the Roosevelt home
at o'clock yesterday morning. 1t reg
istered eight pounds and is we'll.
The Roosevelts returned last week
from their cottage at Carmel-by-the
Sea to prepare for this great event.
A message was promptly sent 20
grandfather Roosevelt in Oyster Bay
and according to New York dispatches
the former president celebrated by
knocking off work and declaring the
day a holiday.
He probably would have issued a
proclamation on the Thanksgiving Day
order if friends had not restrained him
During the day hundreds of mes
sages were received from friends in
different parts of the country and the
house probably will be deluged with
presents in few days.
Last evening both mother and baby
were reported as getting along nicely
by DR.. A. J. Lartigau, the attending
physician.
Theodore Roosevelt Jr was married
to Miss Eleanor A. Alexander in New
York June Goth of last year.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-29
IT'S GRANDPAPA ROOSEVELT NOW

SAN FRANCISCO, August 49,
Theodore Roosevelt Jr., has been build
ing reputation in San Francisco for
a year or more as an extremely modest
and friendly young man. He establish
ed a home here and went into business
and walked bravely among his fellow
men and impressed his associates as
one who was not spoiled by being the
son of a president of the United
States.
But he spoiled it all yesterday.
When he walked out of his house at
1912 Pacific avenue it was plain to be
seen that he was the most conceited
young man in all the great city. He
looked as though he had done the
most valorous deed in the world and
mad been knighted or given the cross
of the Legion or Honor or been left
unnumbered millions or something that
set him way above his puny fellows.
OTIS a Girl" He Says.
Theodore" said friend, approach
ing him in awe, may I be permitted
to say good morning to your high
ness?"
After some minutes Roosevelt
seemed to gather that someone was
talking to him His head came down
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-29
Intoxioation Led to Trouble.

BREMERTON Wash, August 21.-
Formally charged with being intoxi-
Gated while on duty, Lieutenant Com.
mander Leland F. James, executive Of.
ficer of the United States cruiser
West Virginia, was placed on trial be-
fore a general court-martial at the
Puget Sound Navy Yard today.
The court is presided over by Rear
Admiral w. H. H. Switzerland, and is
under orders from the Navy Depart
ment at Washington to try James on
charges preferred by Captain J. NJ
Orchard, recently retired from the
Navy, but who was in command of
the cruiser on July 9th, when the al
legged offense was declared to have
been committed
Although formal in character, the
offense of which James is accused is
declared to involve fragrant violations
(Cotinued on page ten.)
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-29
ARMY AND NAVY

BOSTON, August 2O.-Lieut. Will
liam A. Whittier of the United States
revenue cutter Androscoggin died at
the Relief Hospital this afternoon
from injuries received at the hands of
seven thugs, who attacked him and
three friends in the North End Satur.
day night.
With Assistant Engineer c. H.
Roach of the Androscoggin and Frank
Gleason and George S. Farwell, both
of Dorchester, Lieutenant Whittier
was returning to his ship.
An examination of the body tonight
revealed a blood clot on the brain, the
result of a blow from a blackjack
The police arrested three Italians this
morning, but they proved alibis and
were discharged.
Lieutenant Whittier was 81 years
old and leaves a widow and a nine
year-old daughter, who live at North
Berwick, Me. He was graduated from
Arundel Cove School in Maryland in
1900, and Immediately entered the
revenue service as an ensign. Captain
George M. Daniels of the Androscog-
gin says Lieutenant Whittier was an
ideal officer.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-29

America, and our own southern states.
He yesterday pointed out the analog-
GUS conditions of a part of Honolulu's
low-lying districts with those of New
Orleans-a city which with the past
decade has raised itself from pesti-
lential swamp city, without other than
surface cutters for handling sewage,
to one of the best kept cities in the
world today.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-29

Chicago from st. LOUIS iii ais biplane
at 6:19 o'clock last evening. Having
arrived, he circled aviation field on
the lake front before alighting, to the
cheers of thousands. He is flying to
New York for prize of $4,000.
He completed the aeroplane dash
across the Irairies of Illinois in five
hours and fifty-seven minutes of fly
ing time, the distance travelled be-
tween dawn and nightfall being 2S2
miles. The average speed of the jour
ney was 1855 miles an hour.
Atwood will delay starting on the
next step in his try today until the
opening of this afternoons program
at the lake front. He will leave at
1920 O'clock, Immediately after the
opening salute. He intends to follow
the Lake Shore railroad tracks to Elk
hart, Ind, where he will stop for the
night.
Atwood stated last night that if he
is successful in his cross-country flight
to New York he will attempt the ocean
to ocean fight, from San Francisco to
New York, for which a prize of $4,000
has been offered.
Applause at First Glimpse.
The widest enthusiasm since the
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-29
NEW FEDERAL SHIPPING BOOK

the sailing dates from principal ports
of the United States TO foreign ports.
Aside from the schedule of sailing, the
bulletin will contain many general
facts of interest to the shipper and
business man. The new publication
will be issued by the Bureau of Sta,
tstics Of the Department OF Commerce
and Labor,
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-29
BY j. A. BREcKoNs.

Especial Corresp ondence of the Starr
WASHINGTON, August 19.-The
government has let a contract for
eight fourteen electric cargo handling
cranes for the Balboa pier, at the Pa
cific entrance to the Panama canal, at
a cost of $91, 72O.56.
The difference between high and
low tide at Balboa is about 20 feet
The cranes must move along the face
of the dock and handle cargo from
ships through the legs of the cranes
into the covered portion of the pier
and were designated to meet these
conditions. They consist of struc.
tural steel framework and hinged
vertical swinging steel boom. They
must be able to hoist a load of tons
40 feet from center of crane to center
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-29
BY j. A. BREcKoNs.

BY j. a. BHECkONS.
Especial Correspondence of the Starr
WASHINGTON, August ia re.
vival of the old line and staff con-
troversy in the navy is imminent.
Parties at interest are making efforts
to obtain legislation during the Sixty
second Congress looking to the desig,
equivalent rank. Such a movement
will of course meet with the determin.
ed opposition of the line officers of
the navy.
1t is believed by some of those
backing the movement that it would
alleviate, if it did not wipe, out, this
source of continuous irritation. For
several years all staff officers of the
army have been designated by the
rank they hold both in the official
correspondence and in the official
register. 1t is possible that similar
action will be taken with the navy
The navy department and the line
officer have always opposed any
movement which gave to the staff Of
ficers an equivalent rank.
The question was actively agitated
several years ago, when Surgeon
Stokes was placed in command of the
hospital ship Relief on the Pacific
coast. Line officers felt that only Of
ficers of the line should command a
naval vessel.
A New Army Hat.
WASHINGTON, August ia new
campaign hat has just been adopted
for the army. 1t has a three-inch stiff
straight brim and a five-inch crown
with the Montana" peak. The selec-
ton was the result of a compromise
between two different types recon.
mended by the infantry and cavalry
boards. Distinctive features of the
hat are the stiff brim and the Mon.
tana" peak, the latter being produced
by slight indentations on each side of
tthe crown just below the top, giving
the headgear a pointed effect. A
standard sample hat is being made
for the quarteTmasters department
which will be used as the basis for
specifications for its manufacture by
private bidders.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-29
HUGE CARGO CRANES At PANAMA,
WHERE THERE IS A 20 FOOT TIDE

of ship, through a maximum height of
80 feet, at a speed of 300 feet per
minute, trolley it along the boom at a
speed of 500 feet per minute, and de.
liver it upon the wharf within one
minute from the beginning of the op-
Grafton. The tower must be able to
move along the dock at the rate of 100
feet per minute against a wind pres
sure of 80 miles an hour.
These cranes will be delivered with
in eight months of the time of sign
ing the contract, and will be erected
one by one in order that the cranes
which they replace may be used as
much as possible during the erection
This installation is part of the effort
to increase temporarily the handling
facilities at the Pacific terminus of
the Panama Railroad.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-29

wood and paraded in their aerOplanes
behind him past the grandstand. At
wood came to the ground hundred
yards south of the judges stand.
There followed a foot race between a
half dozen of the field officials of the
meet to be the first to welcome the
daring air man. Harold F. McCor-
mick Frank X Mudd, ]. S. Stevens
and Jean Wilmer pulled the flyer out
of his machine saddle and bore him
on their shoulders back to the judges
stand, while the crowd cheered
Bud" Mars was flying when Atwood
alighted and he steered his big red
devil" toward the alighting spot and
landed within twenty feet of Atwood S
machine.
"Congratulations--iS was a dandy
flight" he shouted at Atwood, whose
nearing had been affected by the six
hour motor concert on mis- aeroplane
lie shook the Boston man by the
hand.
Atwood "GIad He's Here"
Glad to be here, Atwood said,
"and | had a fine trip l<ot a mishaI
of any kind. The machine came
Continued on page twelve)
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Atwood-st. louis to chIeaao.

Atwood-st. Louis to Chicago.
$3.50 a. m.-Left city of st. Louis.
9:O7 a. m.-Reached alton, 26 miles.
9;37 a. m.-Reached Carlinville, SO
miles.
1901 a. m-Reached Girard, ~
miles.
1890 a. m.-Reached Springfield, 81
miles.
12:45 p. m.-Started from String
field after hours and Is minutes
rest.
1902 p. m.-Reacned Funk's Grove,
LAG miles.
2:59 p. m.-Reached Pontiac, 1870
miles.
4:9O p. m.-Left Pontiac after re-
newing his gasoline.
5:9S p. m.-Reached Joliet, 245
miles.
6:19 p. m.-Arrived in Chicago, 2S2
miles.
Total time of trip hours 40 min
utes.
Actual time in airs hours 81 min
utes.
Average speed-4L56 miles an hour.
CHICAGO, Aug. 15.-Harry n. At
wood, the Boston aviator, flew into
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-29
REMARKABLE STORY OF A CASHIER
WHO HIREO A SAFECRACKER

ants by regaining consciousness and
talking
Walsh gave his right name and ad-
dress in Newark. lie said his step.
mother was a sister of Edward Ken
NY speaker of the New Jersey Assem-
bly,. The police have learned that
Walsh has been estranged from his
family for many years. His sister in
Newark did not know whether he was
alive or dead
Walsh's statement that he wandered
into the Long Dock Milling Company
office and fell asleep with a lighted
cigarette in his hand did not sound
reasonable to the police, especially
as the door of the safe had been
blown off and the building had been
wrecked by an explosion. After con-
sultation with the officers of the com
pany Brown, the cashier, whose home
is in West 18th street, Manhattan,
was sent for.
Brown, who is 35 years old was tut
on the defensive as soon as the Jer-
sey City police got hold of him He
kept his nerve until told that Walsh
was dead, and then he broke down
and made the following statement:
Il am short S2500 in my accounts.
The firm was getting suspicious and
experts were to have been put on my
books today. l had covered up my
stealings in entries in two ledgers, but
experts would dig them out.
Yesterday l came over to Jersey
City, desperate. They had changed
the combination Of the safe and |
couldn't get to the books, In Cavan-
augh's saloon, on Provost street, met
man named Timmins, friend OIL
mine, and told him the hole l was in.
told Timmins the books must be de-
stroyed. We talked about it a while,
and then Timmins said it could be
fixed without much trouble
I'm the afternoon we met this man
Walsh, said to be an amateur with eX-
plosives. l didn't talk much to Walsh.
Timmins took him off to one side and
fixed up the deal l don't know what
kind of an agreement he made, but 1
know Walsh promised to open the
safe, get out the books and fix it so
they would be destroyed by fire.
Il left Timmins and Walsh at 8
o'clock and went home. Walsh said
he would fix it so that not trace of
the books would remain and it would
appear that safeblowers wrecked the
building and set it on fire.
Il knew the scheme had gone
wrong as soon as I was SEM for. At
first l thought Walsh had been caught.
When | heard the truth, that the poor
devil had been killed and that the
books were still safe, with the evil
dence against me waiting to be dug
out, / concluded | had best tell the
whole story"
Browns version of the affair is ac-
cepted by the police as true in many
details, but they are not certain about
a man named Timmins having en-
gagged in the plot. Nor are they GER
tain that Brown was not one of the
two men seen by hotel proprietor IN
the vicinity of the office of the Long
Dock Milling Company at 10 O'clock
last night.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-29

NEW YORK, Aug. Tn their eff
forts toward solving a puzzling safe
mystery in the office of the Long Dock
Milling Company the Jersey City po-
lice today found themselves face to
face with details of a supposed plot
rivaling in its dramatic details any
thing which writer's of dime novels or
similar. yellow fiction ever turned out.
The desperate act of a cashier, ad-
mittedly behind in his accounts, cost
one man his life and would have
wrecked a business building in all
probability for the sake of burning a
few books, had it succeeded.
A mere accident SPOILED what the
detectives say was one of the most
amazing schemes ever tried by a dis
honest employee to cover his tracks
when the police found a man last
beside an exploded safe at the milling
company's office. Had the safe blower
succeeded in his attempt the books
kept by the cashier would have been
burned to ashes.
The man caught, though fatally in
jured by the explosion, would not tell
on his principals The police, suspect
ing an inside job, arrested the cash
Ter, Tut him to question, and this aft
haI ft,1I
signed confession, admitting that he
and his fellow employe, Timmins, who
lived in Newark, hired a burglar to
break in, destroy the books and set
fire to the place.
The cashier is Samuel Brown. The
man who died in executing the orders
of his employer was Frank Walsh.
Walshs idea was to have it appear
that the fire was the result of an eX-
plosion. He first made his prepare
lions for the fire and then got ready
to blow the safe.
The charge of nitroglycerin was too
heavy. 1t blew the door off the safe,
but also blew Walsh's eyes out, hurled
him against . wall, the prey of flames
ne had started himself. His clothing
was burned off and his body was a
blackened hulk when the fremen
found him, but he lived until this
morning, regained consciousness long
enough to tell his name, and, game to
the last, declared he had wandered
into the Long Dock Office to sleep and
had set fire to himself with lighted
cigarette.
The books for when Walsh sacri-
feed his life were found uninjured in
the safe today. Brown is under ar
rest. The Jersey City police are look
ing for a man named Timmins of
Newark, who is implicated by Brown
in the latter's confession.
The office of the Long Dock Milling
Conn any is near the Erie railroad sta
ton. There was an explosion IN the
office at 1O:45 that rocked the neigh
borhood Persons near rushed to the
street, and saw the interior of the Of
flee was on fire. An alarm was turned
in.
The fremen had little difficulty in
extinguishing the blaze When they
entered the Office to investigate they
found Walsh on the floor near the safe
He was hurried to st. Francis Hos
pital, where he surprised the attend
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HOW ATWOOD DROPPED IN" At
CHICAGO; HIS OWN STORY
OF HIS WONDERFUL FLIGHT

beginning of the Chicago aviation
meet was manifested when Atwood S
machine was first sighted. He was
five miles from the city, near the oiu
drainage canal. The thousands who
had been watching the contests at the
flying field throughout the afternoon
turned their attention to the twink
ling speck in the southwest sky, which
marked the approach of the aviator.
Atwood, Atwood" thousand
shouted in concert with such a vol
ume of sound that the flying men over
the field heard and shifted their air
machines so they could get better
views of the coming aviator. 1t was
6:10 when Atwood was first seen. In
five minutes more the spinning pro
pellers could be distinguished as the
machine rushed toward the goal. At
6:19 Atwood crossed the south line OF
the aviation field, and as the shouts
of thousands reached him, the cross
country pilot inclined his head and
smiled.
AeropIanes Parade by Stand.
Directors of the meet rushed out on
the field to receive him, but he did not
alight until he had circled the fielu
twice The aviators who were in the
air when he arrived fell in behind At
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-29
BY ]. A. BRECKoNs.

Especial Correspondence of the starr
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2O.-A new
government publication designed to
aid the business of those connected
with foreign commerce and ship ing
in general is to be issued monthly, be.
ginning with September It will give
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Continued on page twelve.)
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CHICAGO, Aug. 15,-Harry N. At
wood, the Boston aviator, flew into