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I, MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDffQRD, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1910. Medford Mail Tribune Ceaplto Series: Thirty-ninth Year: Dully, Fifth Year. rcBUSXEB DAIJ? SXOSPT SATUR BAT BY TKJ3 MEDrORD FRXHTXHa 00. A ronaolldatlon of tho Medfonl MM), Mt&blialied 1889: th Southern UroRon- KOHQK PUTNAM, Bdttor and Manner Bccond-clais AN ATTORNEY'S PROTEST. Enteral nil Tmbr 1. 1909, at tho Hdronl. Orceon, under March J, 1879. Official Paper of the Cltr of Medford. matter No- postofflce at tho act of suBSCRxrxiozr hates t One year by mall Ctntk mnnth liv mall. ... .. ....... Per month, delivered by carrier. In .15.00 .60 by carrier, in Jnckaonvttle. Gold Hill and Woodvlll .80 unday only by mall, per year.... 5.00 Weekly, one year Tuil XKtaitS Wix TTnlted pitches. Pre Bli the AN ATTORNEY, garbed in tho usual mantle of lawyers' infallibility, protests against arbitration of the water question, writing as follows: "Your fears of the law's delay has some basis, in the fertttra experienee of Mediord, but where you say that it ean fettSfebuntb"Subulha isnod.u" Mhlj be delayed for a year you are trenching on the domain of dangerous prophecy. Under the. laws ot this state, IS. to C. Code, See. 5103, an appeal from a condemnation proceed ing docs not nnd cannot stay proceedings. You will see from this that if the case is tried and a verdict rendered, as the jury must, fixing the damages, then the eity ean proceed, notwithstanding an appeal is taken." If this is the ease, why has a year been wasted in liti gation, and nothing accomplished? If no delay is to be feared, why has there already been a year's delay? Can anyone point to a lawsuit that has not involved delay? Every lawyer has a different conception of the law, and none can guess in advance the decision of an Oregon court. Consequently business men hire lawyers to keep them out of lawsuits, instead of plunging them into litigation. The best proof that the city's case can be delayed is that it already has been delayed. Lawyer's told the editor that he couldn't be put in jail, hut he was, and they told the city that construction of the water s'stem couldn't be delayed, but it was. Small wonder, then, that the lay man shies at litigation, and views with distrust the alluring promises of lawyers. The city is against a condition and not a theory. It needs and must have the water supply settled at once. Every day's delay is a loss to the city and an injury to its prestige. The newly laid water main is deteriorating, and the public health of the community, may be at any time endangered. The extra "water secured through a com promise will be needed within a few veal's and will be worth double its cost. Lawsuits without delay, and delay without expense, are irridescent dreams. The Mall Trlbtmo on aalo at Irry Newa Stand, S?-n lYanclsco. Portland Motel Newa Stand, Portland Sewman Nowa Co- Portland. Or. Sr, a 'Whitney. Seattle. Vah. Hotel Spokane Newa Btand. Spokane. Poataro Bat est f to lS.pace paper II to S4-pR paper 34 to SC-pago paper .10 .:o .10 BWOSV CXRCTCAXXOHI XTemtre Dally for November, 1909 J.JOO December. 1909 M January. 1910 J.MJ yebruary, 1910 asarob Circulation l X J.SOO 17 S.3S0 18 10, 21, 22.. ......... IS 3.SS0 2.300 1,150 2.160 3,300 3........... ,300 3 3,3X5 3.225 C X399 T 3.250 2,350 9 2.350 10 2.350 11 3.350 II J... 3.300 )..., 3.359 t 2.350 la S-3X0 Total . 80,810 Lea deductloaa , 150 34 2.250 25 2.350 3T 2.J00 38 3.350 39. 2.250 304 2.250 31 2.350 Net total 89.100 Average net dally 3.20 vatBTOxa, oasaox. Metropolis of Southern Oregon and orthern California and faateat-Krow-l city In Oregon. Population. April. 1910, 8800. Banner fruit city of Oregon Rogue Iver applea won awecpatakea prize and jtie or "Apple JUngw of tae World" tt National Apple Show, Spokane, 1909. AoruR ltlver Dears broucht hlcheat price In all markets of tho world dur- tag the past flvo years. Write Commercial Clnb for pamphlets. Medford real Investment. C3tate is a superb . And still the underground slaugh ter of miners goes on. . Oil , U human money by litigation "or lose lives by typhold?- Better a few more dollars now tban a few funerals later in the season. MARK TWAIN. t COMMUNICATIONS. . f 4- When, pray when, will tho Amor lean people awaken from tholr great lethargic atnto ot Bleep um forovor dlstard tho hyperbolical doluslon ot innklng slaves ot ourselves, and not only ot ourselves, but ot our chil dren's children, for generations yot to come, by continually begging for bonds, bonds, bonds, nnd thon more? Yes. ito Issue more bonds nnd draw tho cords ot slavery tighter and tight er. Halloo, there, please! In what wny, kindly, would you have us dot Kor wo muiit Imvo money, Yes, wo must have money and plonty ot mon ey, and I would Instead ot selling tho bonds to tho moneyed power, have thorn nationalised. I would have tho city, the county, tho state or all three, issue the bonds In .sufficient quantities to make all necessary Im provements. Suppose, for Illustra tion, that our Jackson county agents would Issuo a few million dollars ot bonds, say five millions, have them nationalized; with that amount Mod ford could conclude arrangements with our county agents tor tho amount ot tnonoy wo need. Then wo could afford with tho county's co operation to build a good wngon and auto road to Crater, Lake, together with a good electric carllno alongsldo tho wagon road. Wo could afford to would be Worth billions where It Is now worth millions. Say, will you kindly tell uh tho difference thero la In Helling bonds to cnnltnllotn or to have them natloimllxed? Tho differ ence Is this! to Illustrate: Supposo you wilto up two $10,000 bonds to run 10 years, drawing 0 percent Interest, payable every six mouths. It you sell one of those bonds to a capitalist you have the other bond nationalized. Now In having tho one bond nntlonallted you would he required to pay tho comptroller of tho currency trifle, perhaps ono twelfth per cent for printing your $10,000 worth ot bills, ready for you toslgn. They would then bo money, with tho same medium ot oxuhaugu power as the capitalists' money would have. Now at the end ot tho first six mouths you would hnvo to pay flio capitalist $312. ftO; you would also have to pay the comptroller ot tho currency $312,00; you vould also have to pny $312,50 on each bond every six mouths for sixteen years; at the end ot slxteou years you would find that you had paid tho capitalist $10,000 In Interest; you would also learn that you still owed him $10, 000. But stop a little, please. I would In tho sumo time have paid tho comp troller ot tho currency $10,000 nnd would I not still owe him $10,000, so where Is tho difference? Hold on there, It you pleaso. Each time you pay In to tho comptroller ot tho currency tho $312, GO Is can- PAY YOUR DILLS with a olioolc IiihIoiuI of oiimIi. Thon you will Imvo bolh n roonnl of your imymonl ami u receipt us well. Chuoku on lliu Kiiiiiioim' ft FniltKroworH1 Hunk are good uh jjolil. You oiiii Hucure u hook of thorn by opening nu uuuouut (lieru, You avoid lots of trouble and dignify your ImimIiiosn ly tlielr uho. FARMERS & FRUITGROWERS DANK. discard tho nresent water avstotn ami bring the wato- from Prospect Falls' coUod n,,a thon burnt- nml wlum ou ot from Duck creek, In two pound m" ,n tho lWt I"'t t'o entire foot, or two, four and a half toot W.000 ve boon cancelled, so you steel pipes, run them one-fifth or 800 thnt fou W t0 tho capitalist one-fourth the distance, thon roduco. 20,000, whllo you only pay tho one each plpo one-half foot In diameter, then reduce them again ono-hnlt foot, when one-bait tho remaining distance was reached, thonco on to Medford. With that amount of grav ity nnd tho Increasing of the prcssuro j in reducing the size ot tho pipes would bring tho water from tho bend minutes. Hence wo could hnvo tho you hnvo bad nationalized $10,000. Now, friend, come bo honest; which way would you prefer to dis pose of your bonds! O, certainly, I would have thorn nationalized; I would have them na tionalized by all means, Out I do not .understand, nnd you of Prospect Falls to .Medford n 30 fwouW not ,mvo toUl mo llow wo cttn have them nationalized. The city's new' wooden' water mala la In danger because it is unfilled 1 with water. ' Blind Boss Brayton says that Ald- vilch's succescor will be a man of the Aldrich typo. He deserves his title. . The physicians may not call it that, but the "Joy ride" is a sort ot auto- f- Intoxication. . Jacksonville protests she real estate agcit, world to know it. . tise. has a But how is the They don't adver- Thcre being no state speed law "limiting tho speed of cities in build ing operations, Medford has nothing to fear. People have been freezing to death back in Ohio and almost melting in Kansas City. It you live in southern Oregon, join in singing the long me ter doxology. Twenty-three hundred and seventy-five dollars an acre for Rogue Itivor orchard land! The highest price ever paid in the northwest. But i's worth it, and a "bargain at the price. Albort Woltr, a New York pro curer, Is on trial for murdering a vic tim. Dr. C. B. Hydo of Kansas City is on trial fo; poisoning Thomas -Swope. Noithor of these' mon are prominent. Both are accused of atro rclouo, vulgar ciJmes, yot the stories tof tholr tials are featured by all press 'associations and newspapers as the moat important newa of tho day, and the sordid details unconsciously In fluenco millions ot minds and help augment the rapid increase ot crime in America, County commissioners at Seattle "have passed a resolution requiring all jilats hereafter filed to mako pro Vision for 00-foot streets and 16-foot .ftlleys to conform to adjacent plats The further requirement Is made that all plats all bo provided with ac ' eess to county roads. Plats that do sot meet theso conditions will not bo accepted by the board. This action is taken becauso It has been tho custom ,for plats to be located out in the woods, without adequate access to eounty roads. Settlement of these - flats Is followed by an onslaught on ' the county board to provide roads, which means the county mu?A buy .right of, way. It i a good rule and , sWeuld fc adopted, la Jaeisoa eounty. , Mark Twain 's death removes from the international field of letters the creator of American literary humor, and one of its most distinguished litterateurs. With his passing the people of the world the militant . and persuasive doers of things alive have lost a gentle, sjTiipathizing friend and fearless champion. For almost 1 75. years he livqd, and for two-score he numbered his ad- j luu'ty-s uv xigiucs mat nvai uie census or xue enngnieueu world. ' He drew, his personal friends from every condition of life and held them steadfastly by his engaging, wholesome personality and'earnest understanding. Snatched from the obscurity of his gentle birth by! fickle fortune and reared in the universit3r-of the world, to become the master of wholesome humor, Mark Twain' retained, to the last his delicate distinctions of light and shade, giving to the world its dearest smiles and drawing from it its most willing, sympathetic tears. For withal his humor the public eye has seen no happy life punctuated with deeper sorrows. He had known every travail of the soul, and few there are whose spirit of sound humor would have survived so-many onslaughts of a whimsical and cruel i fate. I It was the same man who gave this messacre to an anx- i ious world: "Rumors of my death are largely exaggerat- j ed"; who subsequently described his health. as "not rug-; gedly well, but not ill enougn to excite an undertaker."! and who on return from Bermuda, two days prior to the sudden death of his favorite daughter Jean, the day before last Christmas, confirmed the belief of the newspaper re porters wno met nun at the gangplank, with his discour aging statement : "My active work in this life and for the world is rlnnrv I shall write no more books nor attempt new work." jus mimor seems to have been something nmrt from himself, for he has reiterated many times that he was born inwardly serious. The humor was but thr froth of hiR deeper thought. It bubbled out in quaint, irresistible; piirases witnout eirort. The character of his philosophy has never changed. Whether he has fought in the buoyant certainty of victory or in the resigned expectation of defeat, hp has always been on the same side. He has been the consistent enemy of injustice and oppression. The fighting spirit endured to the last. Although sad ness dissolved the humorous note in his familiar drawl, the author lent his voice to the cause of woman's suffrage only two days before the death of his daughter Jean. In fact, it synchronized his message to the world that his work was done. V . 1 . t... It Alt pure, cold mountain water right nt' 1 nm 8,w.' m,w- u,u ' w 1011 our doors, easily distributed. Fromi0" ll0W ,n uxt nrtlcIo 80 1 w,n Medford tho water through a system ju,u " nu,oa; oi smaucr pipes can oo convcyou to, each and ever) house in tho valley, so wo could all enjoy drinking tho' puro.cold mountain water; at the. Kindly. D. II. IlEAMH Western Near Syracuse. PALMYHA, N. Y.,prll 22Ed- sarao time, with a few well construct ed reservoirs wo would Imvo suffl- ward Payaon Weston, who Is walk clent wator for domestic and Irrlgat- lng from tho Pnciflc to Atlantic loft lng purposes. In a very fow years all for Syracuso yesterday. . Ho Is still our waste land and partially waste ahead of his schedule. land could and would bo mado to, bloom liko the roso. And our valley "Masklns for Health." Excursion Ratesto the East DURING 1910 PROM ALL POINTS ON THE 3outi$li6iiik Pcicilic (LINES IN OREGON) TO . RATES Chicago ; $72.50 Council Bluffs ,.$60.00 Omaha $00.00 Kansas City ..$00.00 St. Josoph $00.00 SJ. Paul $00.00 St. Paul via Council Bluffs ..: $03.90 Minneapolis direct $00.00 Minneapolis, via Council Bluffs $03.90 Duluth, direct $00.90 Duluth, via Council Bluffs $07.50 St. Louis $67.50 Tickets will bo on sale May 2d and 9th; June 2d, 17th and 24th; July 5th and 22d; August 3d; Soptombcr 8th. Tho abovo rate3 apply from Portland only. Prom points south of Portland, add ONE WAY local rato to Port land, to mako through rato via Portland. Ono way through California, add $15.00 to abovo ratos. Ten days provided for tho going trip. Stop-ovors within limits in cither direc tion. Final return limit threo months from date of sale, but not later than Oc tober 31st. Inquire of any S. P. Agent for comploto information, or WM. McMTJRRAY General Passongor Agent, Portland, Orogon I LEONARD SELLS INTEREST IH CEMENT COMPANY . 'J., Seaman of Seattle has pur chased the interest of O. tt. Leonard in tho Medford Cement & Paving Co. The operations of iho concern will he greatly extended and enlarged. A new Bcreeninir plant is beinr installed and modern equipment is ordorcd. Haskins for HwHti. " - Notice. Tho Ladies' Aid society of the Presbyterian church will 'meet on Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. H. G. Wortman, on South Oak dale avenue. All ladies are request ed ' to be present at this time, as there is important business to bo transacted. DaskiBq for Health, You Can Be Independent Buy An Orchard Tract Eden Valley Orchard Subdivided This famous bearing Orchard has been sub-divided' into small tracts and sold at reasonable prices. If you are looking for positively the best thing in the northwest in a small orchard, tills is your chance to got in right Most Profitable Investment TO BE POUND IN AMERICA Well informed business people from all parts of tho United States and Canada are looking to tho Roguo River valley for safe investments. Years of experi ence in buying and soiling orchard land fits us tho better for su'ino- investments that will yield largo -returns. Our properties have proven worth. Wo can assure you that you take no risk when you purchase one of the 30 to 100-acro orchard tracts located in the famous Eden Valley orchard. Wo sell tracts to suit, planted to the best commercial varieties of bearing trees. You aro assured of a splendid incomo tho first year. Wo can stato positively that this is the best chance for .solid, sound investment to bo found in America. A high-class bearing orchard of proven worth is cortainly a moro profitable investment than waiting for trccs to grow on land that novor produced fruit. You aro sure of big roturns almost at onco, either as a grower or by ro-solling. Oomo and lot us show you. 1 Secure an Income At Once PROVIDE PLEASANT EMPLOYMENT I You can buy as many acres as you desire, build a homo on ground commanding a view of the entiro val leyenjoy the electric light and power, telephone, daily mail, and livo within easy roach ot tho business and social life of tho metropolitan city i climate unsurpassed anywnoro. Magnficerit Homesites ALL MODERN IMPROVEMENTS A small bearing orchard, planted to tho best com mercial varieties of trees, will provide th.o most fas cinating as well as healthful and profitable omploy- of Medford. mont, and insures an incomo of from 500 to $1000 per aero each year. Horo is solid investment, and tho income or profit from sale is sure. John D. Olwelj EXHIBIT BUILDING MEDFORD, OR E G O N HUMMM4MIMMMMMMMMIMinilMIMMMOMHHMMMMHMIIMMMMMIUM M 4 r V 1