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Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1911-08-04
W. A. STRONG KILLED SATUR.
DAY AT BOTTOM OF SHAFT.
MINED FOR MANY YEARS
Leaves Wife and Four Children
Noble Character and Highly
Respected.

Walter A. Strong of Takilma, who
was killed Saturday in a shaft on the
Deep Gravel mine, was buried yester-
day at Kerby, where other members
of the family rest.
Walter A. Strong, pioneer OF
Josephine county, miner, and whose
home is at Takilma, where his wife
and four children reside, was kill
ed Saturday morning at Waldo.
Strong was mashed to death in the
shaft on the Joe Smith diggings OF
the Deep Gravel mine. The shaft is
about 100 feet in depth. The cage
was at the bottom of the shaft, and
Strong, who was below, was standing
in a drift at the shaft and gave the
signal to raise. The engineer re-
sponded, but the cage stuck, and
men went below, where they found
Strong dead, and his body lying hall
on the cage. 1t is believed that just
as he gave the signal to raise he fel
half on the cage and half off, and al
a result his body was caught. liz
was fearfully crushed, all the ribs be-
ing broken. Strong was subject tt
lumbago and it is thorghI that one
of the attacks seized him at the mo
ment the cage started upward. Hi
age was AZ years.
DR.. Stricken, as coroner, was mott
fled of the accident and went to Wal
do. The physician did not return un
til near midnight, having been de
tanned several hours until a black
smith could patch up two broker
springs on his auto.
Walter Strong was born in Iowa
and came when boy to Oregon and
to Waldo. AS lad the first work
hC uiu Wdo Ill luC DSSp 0iafCl hiihV
Mr.. Winner stated to The Courier
Saturday that Strong had worked II
the Deep Gravel mine through all thu
years since, under Mr.. Winners man
agement and under all others WHIT
had operated the property, and tina
when the present corporation tool
over the property, with Col. Frank NJ
Leland in charge that he, Mr.. WI
mer, recommended Strong to tn
colonel as one of the most proflcien
placer mines, and especially in pipinI
work, that could be found in south
ern Oregon.
Mr.. Winner stated that Strong wa
a noble character and man highl
respected by every person who eve
knew him.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1911-08-04
STEEL BRIDGE WILL
SPAN SLATE CREEK

p. S, Easterday, representative of
the Columbia Bridge company, last
week closed deal with the Of
ficials of the county court whereby
the county purchases steel bridge
to span Slate creek where It crosses
the Crescent City road. The purchase
price was $2,650.
Williams creek and Galice creek
people respectively want bridges, and
1t Is possible that these demands will
be supplied at not a distant date.
Judge Stephen Jewell and Commits
sioner Barlow made an examination
of roads in the Waldo region.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1911-08-04
FRUITDALE DITCH NOW SEVEN
MILES IN LENGTH.
ELEVATION OF 1898 FEET
Plans for Wide Distributing System
Over Valley to BE Car
ried Out.

The Chlcago-Rogue River COM
pany's system of irrigation will have
at the opening of the coming irriga-
ton season, May 15, 1912, about
thirty miles of main bitches In opera
tion. The Fruitdale ditch now sew
en- miles in length, will supply water,
above and below 1t, to about 1000
acres, and is nearly completed and
now in operation This ditch has
an elevation of S3S feet above Rogue
River and is connected with the
pumps at the power plant by a 20
inch pipe line. This pipe line Is bur-
led in the earth 80 TO 96 inches deep
The ditch is four feet on the bottom,
feet on the top and three feet deep,
and is built without fumes. 1t has
waste gates measuring 4x5xl2 feet
al every natural guich or creek. This
ditch is now supplied by four step
centrifugal pump, having capacity
OF $500 gallons per minute.
For the coming season the 110
feet ditch, called the Applegate ditch,
covering the big flats between Rogue
river and Applegate river, will be
connected at the diversion dam with
a 30-inch pipe line and will be sup
piled by low lift centrifugal pump
with capacity Of $4,000 gallons O
minute. This ditch will be feet on
the bottom, is feet on the top and
feet deep. It will supply about g.
900 acres. About four miles from
the intake will be installed a four
step pump driven by electricity
which will pump to second ditch
that will cover all the lands around
Jerome Prairie and between Grants
Pass and Murphy. This triangle ol
land between the rivers, now unpro-
ductive, will be one of the most de.
slrable In Oregon, as 1t will be trav
ersed with the railroads to the coast
and now has the best wagon roads Id
Josephine county. These dltches are
on the south side OF Rogue river.
On the north side of Rogue river
the Grants Pass ditch is now In op
Grafton for a distance of six miles
BY the opening OF next season It will
be heightened to about 10 miles ant
supply about four thousand acres
This ditch Is now connected at thu
dam with 22-lnch pipe line abou
1000 feet long II Is four feet OF
the bottom, eight feet on the top ant
three feet deep. IL now supplies thu
city Of Grants Pass and adjacent lane
and has an elevation OF 200 fee
above the river. On this ditch, jus
| north OF Grants Pass, will be locate,
, a two step pump driven by electrlcit.
: generated at the dam, and which will
, put water in a second ditch 200 fee
higher and cover all OF the Grant
! Pass basin OF Rogue River valley, an,
go through the Merlin divide and GOV
er the high lands Of the Merlin dis
trict.
From the dam there ls nov alread
constructed a gravity ditch thre
miles long which measures IL fee
on bottom, 1 8 feet on top and fee
deep. The first 1000 feet OF tn
ditch Is solid granite and concret
with two steel gates, 6x9 feet, lead
ing directly into the river. Thl
ditch Is now nearly completed to tn
east side OF the city by the begin
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1911-08-04
Popular Couple Married

WI. Mahoney and Miss Eva WI
mer, both of Grants Pass, were mar
ried at Jacksonville Monday, July 81
1911. No particulars of the wed
ding have been learned as the event
was a surprise to relatives and the
many friends Of the bride and bride
groom. Mr.. and Mrs, Mahoney are
spending several days on their wed
ding trip, but will return TO Grants
Pass to make their home.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1911-08-04
CONTINUED on page T.

Word was received Wednesday that
a stubborn blaze in the timber near
the Almeda mine and smelter ia
creeping toward the mine and doing
considerable damage. The Almeda
buildings are safe, as back firing had
been resorted TO in anticipation OF
forest fires.
Something like a half mile wide
had been burned up to last evening
said the report, the flames coming
from the Mt. Reubin country.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1911-08-04

change would give a good road In
stead Of the bad ono in use, and
without increasing the distance.
II certainly is the duty Of the coun.
ty court to change this piece Of road
at once (the blame lies In not having
done It long ago., and thus get rid
OF bad and expensive section Of
mud. hill, rocks and flood-water road
The survey marks can be seen leav.
ing the main stage road in swal'
Just south OF the corner OF the Welci
field fence. bearing westerly.
w. J. wIMER.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1911-08-04
SMALL FRAME RESIDENCE
BURNED ON WEDNESDAY

Fire on Wednesday at 4:10 o'clock
destroyed small frame building at
los Foundry street, The building
was the property of oliver S. Brown
and was unoccupied. A fireplace in
the house was probably convenience
last night for tramps. and shoulder
ing embers possibly blew out on the
floor today.
Mrs. II. e. Moore occupied a small
building next door east, and she,
with the aid of others, hurriedly got
her belongings out of the structure to
the rear, beside the Southern Pacific
tracks. Her home was soon ablaze
but stream of water quickly quench'
ed It.
A tall pole carrying high power
wires stands at the front of the
burned building, and this pole was
given particular attention by the noz
zle men, as fail would have beer
Of grave danger to human life, as th'
live wires would have been entangl
ed for some distance In the street
The blaze, though from a small
building, was an intensely hot one
and drove several hundred onlooker
back some distance. .
A few lawn mowers at 10 per cen
discount at Cramer Bros.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1911-08-04
Visitors From Alasks---

Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Alkens and lit
tie daughter Of Treadwell, Alaska,
arrived Tuesday night and are visit
ing the father and mother OF Mrs.
Aikens, Mr.. and Mrs. c. q. Coutant.
They will remain in town a month or
more. This is the first visit to the
states OF Mr. and Mrs. Aikens In three
years.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1911-08-04
BATElIAM SECURES BAIL
THROUGH BONDING COMPANY

II. Q. Bateham, indicted by the
grand Jury on a charge involving
girl, last evening about O'Clock was
girl, has at last secured his re-
lease from the county Jail. Bate
satisfy the $1,000 bail In which he IA
held for trial.
A surety company went on the
bond, and Bateham, In addition
20 the fec paid for this service. turn
cd over certain real estate TO secure
the company for his appearance when
his trial IL called.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1911-08-04
Buy hose at Cramor Bros.
Ice cream freezers at Cramer Bros

o. o. Bunch has purchased one Of
the pretty bungalows recently com
pleted In Westholm park, and as
soon as water and electricity are sup
piled that tract, will move TO the
park.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1911-08-04
Death Of Miss senedict's Father.

A. H. VOORHEES, received word Mon
day OF the death at Marlctte, Mich,
OF hls uncle and the father OF Miss
Lulu Benedict, who spent the win
ter in Grants Pass and who went TO
Michigan on account OF the condition
of her father.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1911-08-04

$3.50 values In fishing tackle for
5000 at Cramer Bros.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1911-08-04

A few lawn mowers at 10 per cent
discount at Cramer Bros.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-02-02
PROPOSE BAND CONTEST.
Ford County Bands May Engage
in a Great Musical Event.

Dodge City, January 26.-The
proposition has been made by
the Spearville band, following a
challenge from the band at Ford,
to hold a contest to which alr
bands in Ford county will be
eligible.
II the contest is held it will
likely occur here, and the bands
of Dodge City, Bucklin, Ford and
SpearvIlle will participate.
The Spearville band has issued
a statewide challenge to any
band in any Kansas town of
under 5000.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-02-02

ed in the southwest before the
middle of May and in favorable
seasons, good yields have been
secured from planting as late as
June 18th.
1t should be cultivated shallow
and often, needing as frequent
and thorough cultivation as it
needed in the corn belt for a
large yield of corn.
It can be cut with a corn
binder and shocked and stacked
like corn, or the heads may be
snapped off and stored like ear
corn in a crib.
SELECTING MILO SEED.
Large increase in yields OF
grain is secured by going into
the field before the crop is har-
vested and selecting the heaviest
and most compact heads of milo
for seed. Plants from loose,
open heads do not stand the
drouth nearly so well as those
from the more solid heads. Like
ears of corn, the best yielding
heads become so heavy that they
turn down, hanging on goose
neck.
Seed in the bin or sack is likely
to heat, so that it will not grow
and it is best to keep the heads
selected for seed in a dry place
until the planting time. Just at
planting time take washtub and
place a board in 1t slanting from
the top on one side to the bot
tom on the other. Place a head
OF milo on the board and scratch
off about half the seeds with a
common curry comb. The first
seeds to shell off will be the
plumpest and best.
lConcluded.)
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-02-02

lips. He will spend an hour
licking it off and chewing it. In
few days he will. in this way,
acquire a taste for the milo meal,
and then the meal can be given
him dry in box. The calf will
spend a great deal of time chew
ing small quantity of the dry,
fine meal. Give a pint at a feed
at first, gradually increasing the
quantity as the calf needs it to
keep in good flesh.
MILO FOR HOGS.
Milo, in the head, may be fed
to hogs when they are first put
on feed. For the final finish,
when hogs are being tattened,
the milo should be threshed, the
grain placed drv in the troughs
at the time of feeding and enough
water poured over it so that a
quantity will be left in the trough
after the grain is eaten. 1t is
doubtful if it pays to grind milo
for hogs.
Much larger gains can be made
by feeding with milo a small
quantity OF skim milk or of green
alfalfa hay. From seven to eight
pounds of alfalfa hay should be
fed with each bushel of milo, or
thirty to thirty-five pounds Of
skim milk. The hay should be
fed whole, the same as to steers,
and the hogs should be given
enough so that they will eat the
leaves only.
Stock melons will yield from
ten to twenty tons per acre or
the plains, and stored above
ground and covered with straw
and dirt can be kept through the
winter. They add materially tt
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-02-02

reduced throughout the summer,
no matter how good the summer
feed. Dry cows kept in good
flesh with milo will yield, after
calving much more milk through
out the season.
MILO FOR SKIM MILK CALVES.
When milk is skinned before
being fed to calf, the fat is re-
moved and some cheaper mate
rial must be substituted, which,
when eaten, will perform the
same service in the calf's body
as would the fat in the cream.
The cheapest substitute for fat
is some grain rich in starch, as
starch, after being digested, per-
forms the same duty in the body
as fat, much greater quantity,
however, being required.
Milo, ground, is an ideal grain
feed for calves having skim milk,
1t not only supplies the food ma
terial necessary to take the place
of the cream, but it is mildly
constipating, and, properly fed,
overcomes the tendency of the
skim milk to cause scours. The
ground milo should never, be
mixed with the milk, but should
be fed Immediately after the cali
has finished drinking the skim
milk. When mixed with the
skim milk the ground milo is
bolted, being chewed little or not
all. 1t remains undigested and
has an irritating effect on the
stomach and intestlnes, otter
producing severe securing.
After young calf has finished
drinking his skim milk, take q
handful of ground milo and rut
it lightly upon the outside of his
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-02-02
CHAPTER II.
MILO FOR DAIRY COWS.


MILO FOR DAIRY COWS.
Milo takes the place of corn
in feeding dairy cows. An eco
nomical way to feed is to snap
the heads from the stalks and
feed them whole. A COW has
to chew a head a considera-
BILE time before she she is sati-
fled to swallow it, and the more
she chews it the better it will
digest. The whole heads may
be ground without threshing, or
the threshed grain may be
ground. 1t does not pay to feed
the unground, threshed seed, as
the COW chews the small seeds
but little and a large proportion
passes into the manure undi-
gested.
Laxative feeds should be given
with milo, such as green, cured
alfalfa hay, early cut sweet clover
hay, stock beets or stock melons
or sorghum hay made from plants
cut when IN bloom. Milo and
alfalfa hay make a good combi-
ton for producing good flow of
milk cheaply.
Many dry land farmers let
their cows become very thin
while dry during the winter.
When cows are emaciated al
.calving time the milk yield is
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-02-02
We've Cut it Out

The News will appear next
week as six-page all home print
paper. The ready-print feature
was not as satisfactory as we
Imagined and the order was
cancelled last week. We could
not carry the amount and class
OF advertising necessary to Sc
cure this feature and will, on
on account of the change, have
more room to handle home news.
New subscribers are being add
ed every day and we are going
to do our best to make them glad
they subscribed. Plenty more
room for new names on our book
and we hope to continue to add
to the list.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-02-02

the gains made when milo is fed.
Milo makes good, firm pork,
with the fat of good white color.
MILO FOR POULTRY.
Many poultry men prefer milo
to cora for feeding poultry. The
seeds are of convenient size for
feeding poultry of all classes.
The heads of milo may be
snapped off the stalks and fed
without threshing. 1t gives the
the fowls good exercise to pick
the seeds off the heads. Milo
has a stem with a crook neck,
and some poultry growers place
wire or slat along one end of
the poultry house and hang the
milo heads on it by the natural
crook. The heads are hung at
such a height that the fowls have
to use some effort to reach them.
When threshed, the grain should
be scattered in a litter so that
hens will have to scratch hard
for it.
Milo has an excess of starch,
and where large qualities are fed
to fowls protein should be sup
piled by feeding wheat or some
form of meat or both. Some sue
culent feed, such as pulled pota-
toes, stock melons, stock beets
or green cured alfalfa hay should
be fed to poultry that is given
milo.
HOW TO GROW MILO.
Plant milo in rows three and
half feet apart, dropping single
seeds three inches apart in the
row. 1t may be either listed in
shallow burrows, or drilled on
the surface in the well prepared
ground. 1t should not be plant
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-02-02
What Others Have Done, You Can Do
Mr.. ]. A. Graham, Sec'y..
Commercial Club.
San Benito, Texas, Nov. 16, 1910.

Dear
Bento
for and
family like this better than have lived We like the climate and
have picked 81 12
including
garden, that cleared SIPS
perac acrefo four month
country the United States there
knowledge this valley feel
Land
ton plenty everybody Labor
plentiful We lemons fruit and all kinds OF berries
$3.50 bushe for them and the potato
countries Yoursve truly ERNEST MATZ.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-02-02

A demonstration of a new oil
burner is being held at R. A.
McGuire's store this week.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-02-02
Rio Hondo ark
New Pleasure Park of the Rio Grande Valley

The only point in the Valley with salt water frontage
railroad service and ample for irrigation and do
mestc purposes This proposition absolutely unique
1t be duplicated in the Lower Rio Grande Valley
The time get in is now, and pay three
prices resale purchase year hence.
We have 1000 acres divided into townsite lots,
frontage lots and small acreage blocks for fruit farms and
gardens.
The climate is perfect; below 80 in the winter
and never above 95 in the Where you put
in three crops on the same land in one year Where
you raise anything that California will produce and
are 1900 miles nearer the market
San Bnio land will produce from SIS $500 The following
will of the Carload of cabbage, carload of
bale of 40 bale and half of broom SO
rs bushel of
This
soil, silt thirty Plenty The
20 81 miles There 100 which
Of
iec in the world
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-02-02
TNIIANAOANAVAU
MILO: THE SUREST
DRY LAND GRAIN
BY H. NJ. COTTRELL

Agricultural Commissioner Rock Island Lines,
In Southwest Trail, in two chapters.
The weekly Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1911-1922, 1911-09-07
TO RETURN TO MISSION
Miss Nancy Barts Will Soon Go Back
to Her Work Among the Negroes
in West Africa

Miss Nancy Barts, who has been
spending some time with her people
in Marshall county, will leave Amer
lea September seventh for her work
among the negroes in West Africa.
Miss Barts will return to the people
among whom she has labored for y
years. During this time she has
learned to love these people and when
a reporter suggested she would be
lonesome with but one white person
near her. she affirmed cheerfullv that
she would not be lonesome. She en-
joys her work and is too busy with
her preaching. nursing the sick and
answering calls of the distressed to
have time to be lonesome.
Miss Barts has been put in charge
of the Macumbo Girls School at Free
town. 100 miles back from the West
coast of Africa. She will be assisted
by one white woman and several ma
tive workers. The Macumbo Mission
School is home school where about
twenty-five girls are receiving their
education. The school Is IN session
all Of the year except for short va
cations between terms or at the
times when there is rice famine
and the girls have to return to their
parents.
The weekly Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1911-1922, 1911-09-07
BACKED BY NO PARTY
Is Entirely independent, He Says
Shows How Liquor Interests Al
ways Control the
Elections.

The lecture of Mr.. Larmore at the
Methodist church was listened to by
only about two dozen or less people
Thursday night. Those who were
there say it was the strongest speech
on the subject ever heard in Plym-
euth.
Mr.. Larnore said he was backed
by no party. 20 person, no organiza-
ton. He was a free lance in politics
and was telling what he Thought was
the way to clean ont the liquor busi-
ness. It will never be done. he says
by any state law. There never was
any probition and never will be until
tht National Government takes hold
OF tho subject and kills the root of
the thing.
He opposed state prohibition OPP
posed the option laws and all other
treatments. saving thew were only
like a doctor easing the pain Of a
cancer and prolonging the life of the
ratient for a time. They did not
strike at the root of the disease and
could do little good.
The liquor interests always control
elections. he said and always would
until the temperance people would
learn to stand together regardless OF
their party affiliations. The republi-
cans of Indiana opposed the liquor
interests hyj passing temperance
laws and the state went dem'N 'ratic
the republicans of Ohio opposed the
liquor interests by temperance laws
and the state went democratic; the
democrats of Kentucky passed tenn
perance laws and the state republi-
can at the next election: the demo-
eratS of Missouri opposed the liquor
interests by the passage of temper
ance laws and that state went. re-
publican at the NEXT election. Al
ways this is the case. said the speak
er. I could cite dozens of just such
cases. he declared The liquor inter
ests always stand together to GET
what thew want and they hold the
balance of power in all elections.
About forty years ago the people
of this country reconsumed five gal
Ions per capita of beer and whiskey
but now they consume twenty-five
gallons per capita! SO that all the
was passed have not had much eff
feet in stopping the progress of the
traffic.
Mr.. Larmore declared that either
we must stop the liquor traffic or the
Government would 90 down. That
crime is increasing at such fright
full rate. caused mostly by the liquor
traffic. that the government could
not live and tolerate such violation
of It's laws. He believed that the
National, Government would take up
the question and save its own life
by wiping out root and all the liquor
traffic.